Gen Z vs. Vinyl Records

Talissa experiences a vinyl record for the first time.

Episode Transcript

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Mmmmm, shut up. You don'thave to be mean, man, I

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feel like woman. Let's go,girls, get every single episode plus video
and talk to us in the commentsand daughterpod dot com. Welcome to Daughter
Issues. I'm standing up because thingsare a little bit different today. We

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have a little bit of a uniquesetup. And I have something to share
with Melissa, and she has noidea what it is. She's sitting in
front of something and has no ideawhat she's sitting in front of. And
he guesses as to what you're aboutto see. An old prince. Sure,
oh that's behind you. Yeah,but older. We've had that one,

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haven't we. We have had anolder printer. Yeah yeah, but
this has like it looks like there'sa like a few different blocks on here.
So there are a few different blockson there. It looks like the
outline of like an old printer ormaybe a computer, because that's how they
have big they used to be right, it could be used to be an

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old computer, big blocky. Here'swhat I do want to say. For
those of you watching the video,you see my T shirt Chasing Desolation.
That's the name of a band thatis the Daughter Issues theme music. So
if you like that music. Checkout Chasing Desolation. They're Chasing Desolation band.
They're on TikTok on Instagram. Lookthem up. They're amazing and they're

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very very nice humans. I wasgonna say they're just good people in general.
Do they're really cool? Okay,so that's being covered right now with
a Dallas Cowboys blanket because they rockthe Giants forty to nothing. That was
crazy. Get on our level.That's right. We're from Texas. Sorry,
we don't talk about sports a lot, but damn that was fun to

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watch. All right, to listen, you can go ahead and pull the
blanket off carefully. There there there'sa piece to the side that could fall
off, this piece towards your righthand that could fall off, So I
want you to be very careful.Yeah, I can look at it now.
Go ahead, all the all theway go it is all at once.

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Just let it fall off to theside. There's not an instruction manual,
Okay, just like describe what yousee it immediately. Just looks like
the inside of a car is sittingin front of me. The inside of
the like the the music part andall the dials, an older car that

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takes the Okay, the physical music. The physical music, you know,
you push you push it into thecar. Deck A and deck B.
Okay, there's a that's not thetime stand by standing. There's some type

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of clock on it. This lookslike nice wood, though I don't know.
This isn't old. This doesn't lookold to me at all. Who
is this? This? This isa new This is a new version of
something old, a new version ofsomething old. Yeah, okay, so
this, this black wood isn't supposedto be like this, right? This

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is These are speakers, Yes,there's two speakers. This looks nice.
This doesn't look old. Okay,I'm nervous to press anything. Okay,
there's function a timer sleep album preset? Is this for? What is that?

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Is this music? That's I don'tknow what this time? Take this?
I need you to hey, Iknow him. I need you to
play that. Who is that prince? Yeah, he's got purple one.
I need you to play the song. This is a record player. I

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need you to play the song.Let's go crazy and go. This is
the song, yep, go.Why'd you tell him? Just go?
This is just one song? Justgo? Oh, you open it from
the top. Okay, So there'sa record. I don't want to mess

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it up. I feel it.Hold on Before I commit to that,
I want to figure out where itgoes. Hold on you normally, Hey,
now that's gonna stay up by itself. I didn't know they made new
versions of old stuff. They okay, and you can break it. I

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know this. That's all I knowfrom TV's that you gotta lift up the
pointy end. And that's right.I know that part. Okay, Okay,
I'm gonna try it now. Allright, I'm gonna move this out
of the way. Can I moveit? It's got a little place to
put it places the place, itsplace? Where'd it go? Which?

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Wait a minute? Which what?I'm trying to figure out which side I
needed. It's gotta because it's gottamake someone's backing up in a Kia outside
that for some reason, they liketo be like a Kia backing up.
Shut up, we get it.Warner Brothers Side one, forty five rpm.

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That's fast. Okay, hold on, we'll get to that. Hold
on. I know it's the rigidside, but they're both rigid. I'm
gonna do it's the rigid side.Read there's probably different songs on each side
to Lissa. Why would that,Oh, because you could buy one record

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and get two songs. So wewant to do the song that we want
facing up, which is Let's GoCrazy. It's not working. Oh,
I'm gonna scratch it. What is? Oh? Okay, So move the

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needle off, get the needle off, put it back over. What you
want to do now is look fora way to turn that on. What
you have there is a mull thefunction. It's a it's a you have
a tape player, a CD player, record player, and an AMFM radio

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or FM radio. So all theold stuff in one new new steps.
Right, It's gonna be many episodesfor us, which is why I got
the one thing. So today we'redoing records and I just want you to
play Let's Go Crazy by Prince.Now, nothing on this thing would ever
indicate what the power button is,but everyone my age would know what the
power button is. And it's difficultto show because we're on camera and I

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have to be on and you haveto be on. But do you see
that big fat knob in front ofyou? Yeah, just push in on
it card, so that is you'reon the you're on the card function.
I thought I was asking for mycard. So press you gotta pay to
play your own records. Yeah,listen, there's no card. It's telling

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you there's no card. Also playsSD cards, which is a newer function
card. No, it's saying nocard, but it said card no.
Well, because you selected card asthe function. Oh, there is no
SD card, so it's telling youno card. So press the function button
and you can cycle through the differentfunctions of this device. What's next fun

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that's phone, there's no E.That's not that's I'll leave it there because
what you have there, I'm sorry, Just keep cycling through. Tell me
which one you think their records are? One one slash minus fourteen. Hold
on function phone. Oh that's ohthat's a v v V yep exactly.

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So what do you think phone means? There's no phone over here, so
you can't This isn't bluetooth. Youcan't connect a phone, right, I'm
asking you what you think it meansphone. This is for you to tell
me phone is. Well, there'san OX so you can plug your phone

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in, right, But there's so, so cycle through hit function again.
Tape OX tune tune would be theradio eight eight nine C D USB card.
Yeah, phone, there's no there'sno record record. I guess there's

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no way to play it, guys, tape. Thanks so much for tuning
into this episode. Stop it no, I know which one tune that's for
the How are you playing it withoutits spinning? Is it coming from here?

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Stop this one? Stop the music. I didn't know I started it.
I just turned it off to listen. The record is phone for phonograph,
so it's not phone. Press iton, pressed till it says phone,

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fawn, all right, you're there. It's not playing it can How
can you get it to play?Oh? What? What? How does
it know something? Something sounds alittle weird about that, doesn't it.

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I just figured that's how it sounded. See a little knob next to the
needle. Turn the volume down,just not all the way. What knob
the big main? No one?Yeah, maybe this one. Yeah.

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No, that's the size of theneedle. And that's the height of the
needle. Look at it. That'snot a knob. You can speed it

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up. Turn it up. That'sbetter. No, No, I don't
think I know the song that didn't. I think it's the middle one.

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I didn't know there was a middleSlow it down, slow it down.
Go to the middle. I can'tthere it is. Now start the song

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over. That's at the beginning ofLet's Go Crazy. Can you start the
song over to Lissa to listen,To start the song over to listen.
That's for tape tolts. To startthe song over. Pick it up?
Am I gonna mess it up?Pick it up? That's how you do
it where Nope, start at thebeginning. You can do it on.

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Start at the beginning on the ridge. You can't do it? Then watch,
just watch? Did you hear it? It's it's literally playing the sounds
from those ridges. The songs arethe song. The sounds are pressed on

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vinyl. I don't approve. Idon't understand. Isn't that amazing? I
don't understand. Yeah, So isthere a big speaker down there listening next
to the needle? No, ifyou turn the volume off, you can
hear it just from the record.Turn it. I want to turn it

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off. Turn the volume down.I'm gonna cry. That's so cute.
You can hear it coming from justthe record. What put your mic on
it? How is it doing thatjust with a little with no speaker?

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No speaker? So is this thevolume they had to listen to it with.
No, we had speakers. No, they were always speakers. Yeah,
we were just really close to ourradios. Well, because how is
it I don't know. So evenwithout I'm talking to the mic, So

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without, how is it doing that? Because it's literally making the sound.
The sounds are printed into the vinyl, the sound of the metal needle in
the vinyl. That's the sound it'smaking. Crap, that's what it is.
It's like a little man, isn'tthere's like, yeah, it's a

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very little man. His name isPrince, one of the greatest musicians of
our lifetime. Turn it up again. You can hear both. It's amplifying
the sound. So there is alittle speaker in there listening it bigger.

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Yeah, I mean it is amplifying. So now put it, put the
needle back back on its spot.Oh, here you go, Heavy D
and the boys play this record.It's the same. Wait it, Wait
a minute, we're gonna do itright. I don't want to mess it

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up. I thought it like,I thought they didn't have these anymore.
What do you mean you thought recordplayers were just not a thing anymore?
Well, I didn't know they.I mean I thought they had them.
They were just old No, no, no, they make new ones.
I got these records from their recordstore by our which yeah, I didn't

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know they had I thought they wereall old ones though. Nope. What
did you do with that other record? Put it back in its spot?
Good? Okay, because it didn'tfantastic. No, that's great, which
which I don't care. Just playit whatever you want. Probably all the
girls they love me, the thewait the boys girls they love me.

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Okay, this is the same songethis the same zone? Maybe how it
can't be the same one both sides. Sometimes it was just go ahead and
place. You just said it wasdifferent. Well, it depends. There
could be a different version. Lasttime I picked it up a spin on

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the zone. Nope, you pickedit up and moved it. You moving
the needle over activates the turn up. No, I want to listen to
it by itself. It's like alittle mini parties happening slow down by the

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way with a cison that she wouldshe says, oh that's better, candlelight.
It literally just shows been faster.Yep. So here's what I want
you to do, Wow, withoutmessing up the record. I want you
to just touch it and pull itbackwards and let go. Just stop it

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from going. Let let yep,let it still go. Just stop it
from moving. Don't pull it back, don't touch the needle. Just put
your hand on the record and moveit backwards, backwards. What do it
again? Now move it a littlebit? Do what it writ What?

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What? That's so cool? Wait? There's something on it? What's on
it? What do you mean?What's on it? There's something on it?
No? No, no, doit? Do a little scratch again?
Another scratch? Yeah, that's sofun. They could do that instead

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of bleeping. But can you imaginehow hard it was to get the timing
right and to go It's just me. It's like they get it on beat.
Oh, go ahead, there's somethingon it. Oh hold on,

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I want to get that. CanI stop it from spinning? You could
be rough with it? What Ido? This is part of the song?
Oh? I started yelling at me. I was like, who do

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you want a whole song of justI want to get the cramb off?
All right? You can just takethat record off and put it back in
this thing. It's trying to spin. It's not it won't stop spinning.
There's a crime. That's not thesame thing. What is this that's a

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different episode? Why because we're doingrecords today and what is this? I
guess a baby record that looked likea giant CD. There's a sticker.

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You can't do this one. Whatis this? This is? This is
a circle? Show your camera,take it out of the plastic. I
did the plastic and my camera andthe lights were bouncing off too much.
It is a baby, baby record, show your camera, baby record.
All right, so play it.I can do it the same Yep,

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different songs. I want to dothat. This song. Look at it
spinning by itself. So what happenswhen it's done? Let's just keep playing?

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Nope, get it to the endof the songs. Where's the end?
Yeah, right there, it juststarts raining. Don't go, don't
go quite that far right there,right there? Leave alone. What would

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happened on the good ones is itwould get to the end, it would
know it was at the end,and the needle would pick itself back up
and move it back over to itsplace. Oh that's weird. Yeah,
it would just move over. Butthat one's not this one. I want
to know that with the ending.It's so weird like it's nineteen nine,

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didn't nine? I know that song? Now, why do you take that
off? Why would he Why wouldhe say, let's party like it's nineteen
ninety nine, because it's probably notnineteen ninety nine. He said party like,
so it's not nineteen ninety nine,right, But why was he saying

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party like it's nineteen ninety nine.Didn't they think everything was gonna die exactly
in two thousand. Yeah, theybasically thought the world was gonna end.
So it was like, party likeit's nineteen ninety nine, like there's nothing
to lose. Men created the year. We didn't create earth. Oh mean
people in general, the men,human mankind, mankind. We'll probably men

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too, probably, yes, Likewe need to start counting. We only
started able to do stuff recently.So this is crazy. Do you have
another one do? How do youmake it stop spinning? Don't look,
how do you make it stop spinning? I'm not sure why it's not stopping

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when you put the needle back,Oh, don't stop it from spinning.
Take it off? How do youtake it off? I'm trying. I
don't know why it's not stopping.I'd have to come over there and see
why is everything at the top?God? Okay, okay, Oh,

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I don't know they did that,they still do it? What Billie Eilish?
Oh this is a thick one.This is a thick one. Oh
my gosh, that's crazy. Ohoh this is heavy. Oh that's cute.
Look at it's brown. Show showthe camera. Yeah, that's pretty.

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It's brown. So let me seethe album cover. Wait, is
there another one in there? Probably? I want to pick a song.
So, so do you know allof her songs? All of them?
Yeah, there's sixteen songs on thisalbum. So part of what I wanted
to show you here is there aresixteen songs on Billie Eilish's uh double album

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here. How can you tell whichsong you're gonna get to? So pick
a song somewhere in the middle andthen try to find it. Pick a
song so from the back of thealbum, pick a song and and and
just get to it. Happier thanever is it on that album? Yeah?
How far down is it? It'sspinning? Hey, listen to me.

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Fifteen Hey, out of all ofthose songs, what number is it?
What do you mean at fifteen?It's number fifteen out of sixteen?
Yeah, So it's going to benear the end of the record, so
it goes in order one, two, three, four. There's only five
songs. How about you just putit on the put the needle on the

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record and see I did it right? Think what I don't want to press
the pos. So you're actually hearingBillie Eilish directly from vinyl. Now,

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you can get better speakers, speakers, but the sound on vinyl is so
Chris. What I don't understand isthe technology that they had when they were
making the actual vinyl. What wasso sensitive to be able to hear a
voice that. Yeah, that's agood point. Like I maybe understand beats,
drums, guitar maybe, but vocalchange and even just like especially Billy

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with her like I'm gonna get thetechnology now, but back then, how
are they able to get Like So, I have actually a copy of the
very first ever recorded voice and it'she basically recorded it by scratching it into
some sort of material. And Iknow I don't understand that either. I'm

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not here to teach you about thatbecause I don't know. I'm just showing
you how we enjoyed music and mychild, Oh the lines are moving they're
not actually moving. Why are theymoving? There is a fly in here
and it is driving me insane.A fly, yeah, keep zooming right
by my face. This is howyou get stuff done fast. All right,

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that's awesome. I gotta get oneof these, all right. I
have for you to listen to later. I have the Beatles, I got
you Rocksanne, Queen Latifa, thesugar Hill Gang, Wow, and your

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favorite guy ever, Frank Sinatra.I bought this record for you. I
know you love Frankie Frank and theFrankie Bunch. So play one quick song
from Frank Sinatra. Actually, Iwant you to pick the song on there
and try to find it a songthat you know on that album. You
turned that on, which is autoalways on. Oh, this allows this

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to control it. Where's the record? It's not in here? What are
you doing playing the record should bein there? Did I get damboozled?
Oh it was hidden. I don'tknow. I kind of just want to

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let it play. And that's howwe listen to music. We listened to
albums. You started the first song, No, you're going wait too far
in the middle. Start at thebeginning, literally on that smooth path.
It will guide itself to the songyou're messing up Frank Sinatra. Come on,

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Tolissa, if Frank, if Frankwas a mouse. Wow, Okay,
I don't accept that because as science, how how does that even have?
Listen to him, Baby, Frank, You've got yours? Pretty cool?

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Huh it's weird, but yeah it'scool. So now I know how
to play records. I just likethe nothing's falling apart. I gotta kill
this fly's bothering you. He's he'sattracted to me. No, definitely not.

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He's attracted to all this old stuff, old new stuff. Well he's
like three days old. So sothat little one that I gave you,
yeah, that's called a forty fivethey want. They were mostly for EPs,
he said, forty five r rpm. Yeah, that's why they called
them forty five. Yeah. Differentrecords could spin at different speeds, but

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for the most part, the littleones were usually for singles or EPs,
and then big records were for albums. But then eventually people were releasing full
size records with one or two songs. I try to stop it. I
didn't take long. I need abathroom break. Okay, well, now
you know how to work a recordplayer. I do. I kind of

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want one now, just I don'twant speakers on that just to be able
to listen to the little Those arethe baby celebrities, and I like that
you can just because you don't doyou have to plug this in? What
do you mean you have to plugthis in? Well, to Lissa Clyde
Small, you have to plug thepolaroid in. I don't know it's got
batteries in it, but this maybehas a big battery. I don't know.

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I don't know. I don't know. The only thing that tells me
that it propped. That reason Iasked is because there's a big of I
overhear that says tells me the phoneon that Yeah, yes, it has
to be plugged in. So youcan't. You can't listen to this whenever
you're like all, when your electricityis out, you can. You could

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put a record on, put theneedle on and spin it manually and just
listen really close. You can rewindyou messed it up. That's that noise

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on TVs. Don't do that.That's a record scratch. Stop. Oh
my god, that's awful. Soa lot of times people would play things
backwards like that to see if therewere hidden messages and songs. So there's
what's known as the Satanic pan ofthe eighties and nineties, where they basically

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acted as though there were tons ofheavy metal records that if you played them
backwards it said terrible things. Andpeople would play these things for hours,
listening for words, and they wouldeventually find something that sounded like a word.
And because sometimes if you you know, if you really listen for it,
you could Okay, go ahead,come on, Frank, would you
leave us? Do it right?Do it in the middle, Do it

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in the middle. Okay, hesaid, move out. I want to
make gross Okay. I think that'sin Spanish. He said, I'm moving
up. I'm moving up. He'smoving up. What does that mean.

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It means he's going to Heaven.Come here. The mumu is under the
cabana. The mumu is under thecommand. That's what he said. Okay,

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that's enough. We gotta stop.Turn it down. We're gonna this
is gonna get copyright flags all overit. I want to let everybody know
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Tour. I'm going to Phoenix,Fort Worth, Austin, Atlanta, Saint

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Telissa, you might pop in onsome of the tours. We don't know.

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I might fly you out. Itmight be totally random, so you
might get to see Tulissa. Wedon't know. But this is going to
be a whole lot of fun.And I'm doing all of this because I'm
coming back to LA and probably aroundFebruary or March, I'll be filming my
full hour special right here in LosAngeles. So I'm getting ready while I'm
on tour. So I'm excited.I'm excited too, just gonna be so

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much hands on that. Thank youso much. I appreciative. So now
you know how vinyl works and howrecords work. No, I don't,
none of us do. Okay,I do have one more question. What
what are your thoughts on records?What are my thoughts on them? Yeah,
I think I'm more intrigued by itthan like Bluetooth, which Bootooth already

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blows my mind. I agree asis because I can't see it. But
this kind of blows my mind evenmore and kind of shows even now,
like we've gone so much further intechnology since this, and this was already
a crazy start, Like to beable to manually spin it with no electricity

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and be able to your voices andmusic is ridiculous to me. So this
is like just shocking, I guessmore than anything. But there it's a
lot of work. It's hard toIt was harder to find your song.
You'd be like, okay, asong number fourteen, Like where is that
you have? You had to getgood at like figuring out about where it
would be, and you have tolisten to the end of the last song
to get the new song. Somostly what we did we would just put

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a record on. Was that putyour record song, tell me you'll pay
favor. Yeah, you would justplay it, and you would enjoy an
album from start to finish. Likelistening to an album was like watching a
movie. You sat down and enjoyedan hour and a half, two hours
of someone's content. It wasn't likeit wasn't so on demand like it is.

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Now, that's what I was goingto ask me me forget my question,
and I remembered it. What isthis writing on it? I don't
know. Is that a date threeoh one slash three a minus slashes?
Ere? It looked like it wascarved into it. Oh, that's somebody
who's a vinyl expert probably knows that. I don't know. There's like it
looked like it looks like it wassome kind of serial number or something or

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a date. No, it lookslike someone like wrote on it though,
or like carved in Yeah. Ohno, this is something that the person
who owned the record did. Theseare all, you know, pre owned
records. Yeah, this is notthat's not normal. That's etched into the
vinyl. So I'm trying to figureout what is that. It probably devalued
the hell out of this Frank Sinatrarecord. To be honest with you,
it looks like it looked like adate at first. But well, I

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guess if someone knows what that is, let us know, because now they
won't because I mean, maybe somepeople did that. But yeah, all
right, I'm about to end thisone because you said you needed a bathroom
break fifteen minutes ago. I doall right, David Small dot com,
come see me on tour. Thispodcast that we do has ended every week.

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That's so much fun, all thetime has officially you have to stand
in frame or it's going to belonger. Why do I have to be
in the frame because you're part you'rea part of the show. You weren't

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in the last show. What doyou mean you weren't in frame? What
what do you mean your phone diedbefore? Yeah, my phone died.
That was external factors. End thepodcast now ended, it would have already
been in. It would have alreadyin the show. This is your fault
in the show. This is yourfault. The sooner you stop talking,

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I'm you're not good at following I'mfired. You're not good at following directions.
Stay in frame, stay in frame, go get in get in frame.
Four seconds that I'm leaving this podcastas officially, I'm out. I
can't ended ended