MUSICOLOGY 101 DO THE WORK

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This is the Outlawed Day Show onKPRC Nineth D Good Morning, Class,

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Wow, Muser College, one toone, somebody wanting ever and somebody passled

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by. I'll be working in Peridaat least the dinner, din Am if
you do, damn I can don't. I'm supposed to get a risk that
we can do that when I won'tworking for a living wagon, working for
the damn vagon. But the damnI'm working. I'm taking what they're given
because i'm working for her. Left. You can I completer because I really

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don't need to work, but mybody's got to feed. An a journey,
but a dollar cond or two hunta red, I can't have taken
Friday. But it's already slave work, you little wagon, working for a
leve laggon, but never don't work. I'm taking what they're given because I'm

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working for her. Left fucking takingwhat they're given. Bucking card bus Boy

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by ten, the Ladies of theNight, Grease, Munkey Eggs, Junky,
Winner of the Franks, Walking onthe streets. It's really on the
same sellers, all racking roll,any other game, working for the La
bag, But damn word, I'mtaking what they Getner does it? Would

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it Bunny, I'm taking what theyGetner doesn't would be for living, but

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good evening everybody at his eye itis he, it is meat is professor
al with your musicology one oh onefor the outlawed Dave's show coming at you
and scrambling to get this show overto the studio. And as I am
still reeling and recovering from working fora living, I was out last week

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at the INFO Com Expo in Orlando, Florida, which is a convention of
integrated audio video and Lighting, whichis just a fancy term for basically all
the audio video and lighting that youwould use in professional environments but not necessarily
on stages, so everything from airportsand sports stadiums to school districts to concert

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venues to art exhibits and oil andenergy companies, if all of that integrated
communication and technology is part of whatI do when I am not on here
doing musicology one on one with you. And and this was my twenty fifth
year associated with this industry. AndI did leave the industry for a little

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while, or at least I've triedto, but it was in my blood,
and I returned and it felt good. It felt almost pre pandemic in
the energy and the amount of peoplethat were there. Although it was it
was interesting to be in a roomwith sixty thousand people. And I said
that to someone and they said,oh, but you go to the football

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games and there's a lot of people. It's different when you have sixty thousand
people all in one room and there'snot a giant field in the middle of
them, and you're not in assignedseating and you're walking by, and it
just felt good again to have thatkind of energy and to see the manufacturers
and see the dealers. I mentionedthat I've been doing this for twenty five

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years in one way, shape orform or another. And it was funny
because when I got into this industry, I didn't know that this industry existed.
I was living in Austin at thetime, and I was a musician
and I was playing gigs and Ianswered an ad that said salesman needed drumming

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experience a plus. I thought,well, I'm a drummer as well as
other instruments. But I'm a drummer, I'm a salesman. I can do
this. And I went and Ifound out that there's this whole world that
I had never thought about. It'sthe world that happens between the manufacturers and
the stores, or between the manufacturersand the consultants. How does a stadium

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like energy stadium decide on which videoscreens and processors and the TVs or the
display screens that are all over thestadium the speakers? How has all that
decided? And that would be yourconsultant driven jobs. But there's this whole
industry that I guess we just takefor granted and it's kind of in the
background. And I got embroiled inthat industry, and like I said,

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it's just in my blood and I'vedone it for twenty five years and I
love it. And so between workingon the music side, meaning you know,
with bands and artists and producers androck stars and all that other stuff,
to the commercial in corporate side,where I straddled and wear both of
those hats. In this industry,it's offered me a lot of opportunity to

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grow and to learn. But italso got me thinking of all the other
industries and all the other people thatI've met over the years that do things
that I just guess we take forgranted that this stuff happens, and we
never think how does it happen?And I'm sure a lot of you out
there work in some standard industries,but I bet you a lot of other

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people work in industries that we don't. We don't really think of it.
You know. Uh, there's veryinteresting industries like freight forwarding and stuff where
large quantities of product, you know, it doesn't just arrive on a boat
and then go straight somewhere. Someonehas to accumulate this product and handle any

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tariffs and fees and and and there'sthere's a whole process. There's a whole
world to a lot of our industries, oil and gas, energy, education,
you know, education, literature,music, pro audio, video,
whatever it is. There's a lotof things that go into how the product
actually gets to the consumer. Andthere's a lot more steps than we think

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of. And for all of you, this is a musicology one on one
with songs about working for a livingfor all of you who do those things.
So the rest of us probably don'tknow exist. The Outlaw Nation lives
here. Jogi your buddy out LawDay, flying the Mothership through the evening

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sky, the nine one one Garage, Dark Service, dot Com Studios,
replete with all the accouterments needed tomask communicate with you, brothers and sisters.
Assembled here in the circle of learning. It is another lesson of musicology
one oh one, How music reflectslife and life reflects the music that inhabits

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our world. Good morning, Class, Class User College one oh one with

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Professor A Outlaw Dave, he's yourfriend on Kittie or c. Ninth fifteen.
It's a big job, just gettingby nine kids and a wife.
But I've been working man danger allmy life. I don't keep on working

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long's my two hands are fit touse. I'll drank my fear at tavern,
singing it a bit of the workingman blues. I keep my nose
on the crimestone, work hard everyday. I might getting it a tight

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on the weekend. After I drawmy paper car go back work again.
Come Monday morning, I'm right backwith the crew. I drank a little
beer of that evening, sang alittle little these working man blues. Sometime

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I thank about leaving you a littlebombing around. I want to blow my
fields out the window. Hat youtrain of another town. I'll go back
working. Gotta buy my kids abrand new pair of shoes. I drank
a little beer in the tavern,cry a little bit of these working man

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blues. Here comes out working man. Well, hey, hey, working

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man, working man like me.I ain't never been on will there at
one place I won't be. I'llbe working as long as my two hands
are fit to you. I'll drankmy beer in the tavern singing he's working

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man blues. Its songs with aworking man. Good evening, everybody.
It is I as he its meet. As Professor Alan, we're back with
Musicology one oh one for the OutlawDave Show, talking about the working men,

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women and people out there in particularlythose in the jobs that most of
us may not know exist. Inmy world, there's many, many different
positions, and I guess a hundreddifferent ways to skin the cat, if
you will. We've got a lotof people that wear multiple hats from design
to actual install. We have whatwe and I think it's a misnumber.

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We call it unskilled labor. Butthe unskilled labor that runs the cables and
hoist the ladders and lifts up theboxes to the chain hoists and stuff.
But there's a skill to that.I mean getting getting cable looms wired through
a hospital network or whatever in away that someone after the fact can can
come back and trace. You know, ten thousand lines of information is a

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skill. Um. And if you'veever gone up in your attic and seeing
what the cable company does with allthe splices and drops, we're not talking
about that, Sorry for all yourcable people, but we're talking about people
who put these things on dedicated loomsvery you know, through conduit labeled redundancies,
etc. And that in our industryis what we even call unskilled labor.

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The skilled labor goes into programming,programming languages and control protocols like Dante
and Maddie and all the different asprotocols. And while all of that is
nothing to the average person, itis something to everybody who uses it and
doesn't realize it. I always jokethat the majority of what happens in my

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industry is not really sexy because youthe end user hits a button and it
works, and they don't realize thatjust thousands of hours of effort that goes
into programming it and all this otherstuff, but they do notice when it
doesn't work. And so the factthat it that we don't have as many

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failures that we have such a lownumber of failures in this as a testament
to the amount of research and engineeringand stuff that goes into an industry that,
compared to other industries, is nota very large industry. And I
am but a lowly territory salesman inthis industry and have been for a long
time. But I love it becausethe variety of people that you get to

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meet when you travel a lot,you know, you get to you get
to just see a lot of cultures, subcultures and meet people. And along
the way you find a lot ofpeople that, again do things that you
didn't know existed, whether it betheir hobbies or their actual jobs. You
run into people who have applications andneeds for product that you never would have

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thought of. And I get todo this a lot, you know,
all over the country, mainly inmy specific territory, but for different various
trade shows and things to go aroundthe country, and I get to meet
a lot of these people. Andit definitely in times where we seem a
little bit frustrated, angry and scaredby everything that we see on the news

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and on social media, going aroundand meeting all of these people and seeing
all of these people and seeing allthis work in action, it definitely rejuvenates
the faith in us and it andit takes the staying off of all the
stuff that we see on the nightlynews and we and the reason that it

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works is because of all the hardworking people that do it in my industry
and in all the others out therethat keep us rolling forward. I'm looking

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at you yours. That's the wayyou're doing. You play the key tar
on you TV. That ain't workingstars the way you do it money or
nothing, and you choose to flee. No, that ain't working stars the
way you're doing. Let me tellyou, damn guys, ain't done.

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one oh one with Professor er Hand. We're back. It is I heat.
His meat is Professor Al with yourmusicology one on one talking about the
working people and the jobs you mayor may not know existed. I was
looking up some of them, someof the lesser known jobs like interestimal therapist

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which works with people that have hadyou know, ostomies of some kind,
you know, diverting the bowels outof their body. Industrial psychologists that works,
you know, solving all these problems, operational research analysts, ethical hacker
which, by the way, ifyou haven't checked out scammer payback on your
social media, check them out.You will. I will, just I

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could just pop a bag of popcornand grab a beer and watch these guys
as they just destroy all the hackersfrom India and steal their money and destroy
their databases, genetics counselors, anda hydrologist, which is very important because
they track how water moves across andthrough the Earth's crust, so trying to

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solve problems of water quality and availability, and it's very important. Hydrologists have
very important roles in determining our infrastructure, our ecological impact for large infrastructure projects,
etc. And what killed me wasis I'm looking at all these salaries
and it's pretty good salary, prettygood salary, pretty good salary. But

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celebrity feng shui consultant and I'm notmaking that up, makes more money than
the people who help us determine ourwater quality and water movement in our infrastructure

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and in our land. Our geneticcounselors, and let's say, you know,
let's say an industrial researcher combined,the median salary is more than three
times higher than any of these othervery very important things. Now, I
mean, I guess you know howmany celebrity feng shual consultants can there be?

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But you know, when we talkabout money for nothing, I'm kind
of thinking that song may apply totalking about get every morning empty the girls

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titles and it's a sleeping chump andget your way. If you ever get
annoyed to give me himself a boy, I love to working nothing all day
and I've been taking down business everyday, to taking down business every week.

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I've been taking care of business peoplemind, taking down business and working
over time. Where else would bethe aspicion if to be a musician,

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if you have a make sound watermellow, get sacking guitars are your bar.
If you get even to ride byyour mellow people feeling having fund this
ali in a son, tell themmatter like in this way it's the work
to be afore they would all selfthe boy well if the working nothing all

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day and maybe taking care of businessevery day, taking down business every way,
we be taking care of business.It's all night, taking care of
business and working over time. Takecould away every day? Who she get

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every morning from the moms want totake a gamp me to the city and
the whistle of people washing, peopleshopping as the girls for titles, the
pready time to be get you overnight. It's not to saving shopping,

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get your baby. If you everget annoying nothing being one for working nothing
all day and I've been taking downbusiness every day, taking down business every
day. I take it down,taking down business, working time, taking

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care of business. Who taking careof business, taking care of business,
taking care of fistess, taking carabusiness every day, taking carathisines everyway,

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daking carathistes. She's on mine,taking carathistes time, taking care of taking
carath We be taking carabiusiness. Webe taking Carathisina. This is music collegy

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one on one, and we aretalking about working, uh, working for
a living, working for the wecan, taking care of business and working
for well, why do we work? I think no one said it better
than George Carlin. Well, that'sthe whole meaning of life, isn't it.
Trying to find a place for yourstuff. And when you leave your
stuff, you gotta lock it up. Wouldn't want somebody to come by and

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take some of your stuff. That'sall your house is. It's a place
to keep your stuff while you goout and get more stuff. Enough about
your stuff, let's talk about otherpeople's stuff. Someone else is on the
dress center. Have you noticed thatthe stuff is your stuff? That's the
first thing you do in a hotelrooms put away your stuff. I'll put
your stuff in here and put somewe're gonna have to buy more stuff.

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No one said it better than George, but it's true. We tend to
accumulate and we tend to do things, and then sometimes people aren't happy.
But have you ever noticed that whenyou get that job, that the fire
is in you, that you feelit the job that you really like.
I don't subscribe to the do whatyou love and you never work a day
in your life. It's still work. But sometimes that is the reward is

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the work, isn't it. Imean a lot of us take a lot
of pride in what we do.I have a friend who's alignment, and
you know, every time these stormscome through and blow down the lines,
he's out there climbing those poles toput it up. And even though it's
hot and cold and thankless and dangerousjob that pays decently, But I wonder

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if it pays proportionate to the amountof risks that he goes through. I
don't know that I've ever met somebodymore proud of what they do than him,
And I've met lots of people likethat who do these jobs that maybe
other people don't understand where the prideand the job comes from, but they
do them, police officers, schoolteachers, and not all of them,
not all of them are good.But you know who I'm talking about,

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because we all know those people thatmaybe aren't good at their profession or are
just doing it and going through thepaces, working toward that retirement and check
are just making the mortgage because that'swhat they know. But then we all
also know those people that really liketheir job, and I would say that
those are the ones that help movethe needle forward and help us all toward

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progress, toward a happy day.Right. Those are the ones that the
good bus driver when your kid getson the bus, the people who are
stocking the groceries and have a smileon their face, the good teacher that
really pays attention to when the kidsneeded, the cop who doesn't just go
and start ha asking people, butmakes friends with the kids in the neighborhood.
The people who truly love their jobs. And I know that there's a

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lot of us out there that don'tlike our jobs, and there's a few
of us out there they are alittle bit luckier and like them. And
my suggestion to you is, eventhough it will always be work, and
don't let anybody ever tell you thatit will never be work. Find something
that you love as much as myfriend loves being alignment. Hell, Lord
Dave is your friend. On KPRC, hey Le's time for Professor Al to

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bring this musicology on home and thencoming up next an encore presentation of our
conversation with Robin Taylor Xander the Prodigyof Cheap Tricks Robin Zander Rock and Roll
Hall of Famer Musicology. What Iwant with Professor Al All things music,
all things that touch our lives andmake a smile and glad in our hearts.

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Good morning class Wow music Coology oneO one with Professor This is the
Outlaw Dave Show on KPRC nine fiftywas watching to see what waking I was

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wondering. We come out to nightsign to get it right, Get it
right. Everybody's working by my bodywants nobody's body good chance. You want

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to be some my eye your bestout hoo Stone. You want to be
in the show moments and looking tosee it be you and watch you do

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the blue every open, oh mygod waiting. Everybody's working for the weekend.

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My body man, he everbody,everybody is second chance. You want
to be fro my eye, youburst out? Who Stone? You want

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to be in the shot up?Tom, you want to be You don

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to start on the stock. Youwant to be in shil Come Ben,
It's good you want to be Thenyou didn't start the star. You want
to be in the shol Good evening, everybody, It is Eye, it

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is he, it is meet hisprofessor Al returning with you were Musicology one
on one for the Outlawed Dave Show, talking about all those hard working people,
the people in the jobs that maybethe rest of us don't know about,
but we really appreciate it. Eventhough we don't know, we need
to appreciate them, and those ofus maybe that don't like our jobs so
much and need to find it.Whoever you are, find the job you

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love, I should say. Butwhoever you are, these songs are for
you. This episode is for you, because we've all been in a job
we didn't like. Lucky few ofus have had jobs that we really like,
and I consider myself one of thefortunate ones than that, and others
maybe are still searching. They don'tnecessarily dislike that, they haven't found a
home yet. But all of usare out there working and we enjoy,

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you know, like the previous song. We work for the weekends or whatever
days years are off. We workto feed our families, We work for
those we love. We take pridein what we do, and some of
us work, as I did formany years just so that I could pay
the bills long enough to get tothe next gig, because what I really
wanted to do was just bang onthat drum all day until next time.

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It is high as heat as meatas professor al with musicology one oh one.
And I hope each and every oneof you not only finds or looks
for that job that it's still worked, but that you like. But I
also hope each and every one ofyou has a fantastic week. Don't kiddy,

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I don't need them to stain.I don't want your work. I
love your back in the holiday.I don't want to day I does on
your back in the monday. Whendidn't you just told me I just a

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school. She's got my pay onthe Disney to a joy teacher work.
I want back in Monday. Idon't want day I does a back holiday
when I'm gonna play down, don'twork. I love the back on the

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Monday my Ba does on the backon Monday and work. Being the man,
we must go through the ship.He don't work. I ndy's our

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gentlemen, that is our sow Fridayevening. Thank you for coming. Please
live by the accents and don't forgetthe speakers. Thank you.