Didgeridoo Adventurer Pitz Quattrone

Digeridoo Player and Creator Pitz Quattrone joins Chris Cordani in The Outhouse Lounge Pitz has been an entertainer, musician, sportscaster and an all-around renaissance man throughout his career. One day, during a very rough period in his life, he discovered his fascination for the ancient Aboriginal instrument, the digeridoo. From then on, he learned to play, learned to make them and took his new-found talents around the world, where he plays and entertains. He also teaches the digeridoo throughout his travels. There is quite a bit that goes into playing the digeridoo and Pitz shows us how. Pitz also tells us about his other performance personas Enjoy the conversation in the Outhouse Lounge, where we relax and talk about s**t.

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Episode Transcript

(00:05):
Welcome to the outhouse Lounge. Whyrobax and talk about stuff? You know?
You know what I mean with metoday is a man who plays and
ten creates a rather cool ancient instrument, the dig Reto. Pittz Quatron has
been on national television, played afront of large audiences and credits the aboriginal
wind instrument for saving his life.Welcome to the outhouse Lounge, pitts Quatron.

(00:30):
Thanks Chris. Great to be withyou. It's great to have you
here. And might I note thatyou have quite a few of the ones
you hand created behind you. Ido, yes, I make instruments among
many other things with the dig youdo I know with the great Rolf Harris
played that instrument. I am abig Rolf Harris guy. Fun fact about
him. He played the didgerido onKate Bush's very Cool The Dreaming album.

(00:54):
Ooh, I did not know that. I know. He had the big
hit with Timey Kangaroo down Splot,one of the great classics of all time.
Mind you, He also had aclose kind of haircut to Gary Glitter,
but he had his first different storyfor a different day. You're an
entertainer for quite a while. Pitsbefore partaking in the Ditcher redo. What

(01:15):
fascinates you about the instrument before yougot into it? Well, the sound
number one. The sound it grabbedme and I saw it in either The
Coca Cola Kid or The Crocodiles onthe movies in the eighties, a couple
of films over pretty close apart,and I was like, wow, there
that sound. It just grabbed melike a magnet and I needed to know

(01:38):
more about it. You say onthe very cool website that you have,
that's this one here pits on ditch. I like that, pits Quatrone dot
com. The instrument itself or playingthe instruments saved your life? Yeah,
well, the instrument itself, itsaved me. The Dijurdue came to me

(02:01):
in a dark period in my twenties, and it gave me a healthy path,
an alternative direction to where I washeading, which was bad, bad
things. So luckily I was awakeenough to jump on on this journey with
the Dijury Do, and it's givenme a healthy life, It's given me

(02:23):
missions of sharing it with as manypeople as I can, and in turn
all that just evolved into a successfulcareer. So I'm one lucky guy.
And I owe a lot to thathollowed out tree branch. Not only does
the dijury do have a calming,perhaps meditative effect, it does fit in

(02:44):
rather cool at least, I notethis listening to your demo reels and listening
to some of your music. We'regoing to get to that later on.
That it fits it with rock andjams bands as well. Quite a versatile
instrument, You're right, it is, you know, I really believe that
the Dijury dues is one of thetop versatile instruments on the planet. And
now it's I like to blend itin a lot of different things and West

(03:07):
African stuff, jazz stuff, funk, soul, R and B, rock
and roll, psychedelic stuff, anda lot of that is included in my
original music. But yeah, Ireally think the dig it's it's then it
can be a nice foundation, theglue underneath everything. And it's also you
can play any kind of rhythm withthe dig as well. Most people look

(03:30):
at the dish and they hear theone set of wow, wow wow,
that's the one they're familiar with,but they have quite the range. In
fact, they're made in quite therange too, kind of like saxophones are
Yeah, that's right. It's thedig like any other instruments. The long,
wider ones are going to give youa deeper, bassier tone, and
the short, higher pitch ones aregoing to give you that those high notes.

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And for the dig too, basicallymake the correct sound, it needs
to be about four feet long.If it's any shorter than that, there's
not enough length inside it's a hollowtree branch for the sound to resonate properly.
And as far as length, I'veseen some seven or eight feet long.

(04:15):
They're very unusual. So the mostcommon common sizes are between four and
a half and five sometimes five anda half feet, tween four and a
half five and a half feet.They're the most common ones that you see.
The only instrument that can be usedas a quarter staff dual purpose Pitts
quadron is with me on the outhouse lounge. Playing the instruments rather interesting

(04:40):
as well, because you have toyou have to keep the tongue. I've
understood that there are some as longas ten feet, but you don't make
them short. I see. Sothere can't be one of those Kenny g
soprano digeridus. Could there be well, yeah, I mean, like I
said about the short as she cango is me eb three and a half
feet. But they're they're the highpitched ones. It's like a high f

(05:04):
But if you like to hear one, I can play one real quick for
you right now, Chris, I'dlove to hear. I'd love to hear
something. Which one are you goingto pull out? There? This one
I'm gonna pull out. It's Imade this from this. I live in
Vermont and there's this local weed thatgrows near the ponds and streams. It's
called cow parsnips, and it's it'shighly toxic when it's alive. So at

(05:27):
the end of the year, whatI'll do at the end of the growing
season, I'll wait till a firstcouple of frosts hit, and then even
then I harvest it with gloves onand long pants because if the leaves touch
you, it has these burning oils, so it's like poison ivy times ten
for those who are for those whoout there listening just now, we're kind
of skipping around here. He's notharvesting weed. It's harvesting weeds so we

(05:53):
can get you don't smoke this oneoh it's toxic. You say. Cool
thing about this? It's cal barsnip is a nickname. It grows totally
hollow, makes a great sound.Thing. Did you red? So?
I harvest it, bring it inside, let it dry out all winter.
The following spring is when I startedworking with it. But did you red?

(06:14):
Harvesting season? Let's hear something that'squite fun again. You don't hear

(06:35):
just one tone. You hear alot of tones in one. How do
you breathe when you play that thing? Yeah? Well you breathe while you
play. And there's this technique calledcircular breathing, which is the most difficult
aspect of playing the did you redo? But to get started, you
don't have to circular breathe. Youcan do some nice, basic, rudimentary

(06:58):
sounds in one breath. Later onyou can glue it together with circular breathing,
so you can play for as longas you like. Circular breathing what
it is in a nutshell. Solet's back up to how do you get
the original sound? It's your lipsflapping inside like that resonates down the digerid

(07:19):
to create that drone. That's yourfoundation of sound on the instrument. Once
you get your lips going and yourdrone happening, you forget about it and
you're just on autopilot. So whenI'm playing, eventually I'm gonna need some
air for my lungs so I cankeep going. So what I do circular

(07:40):
breathing in a nutshell. So I'mplaying, I catch some air in my
cheeks on its way out, andwith my cheek muscles alone, I squeeze
in to empty my mouth full ofair. So I'm not actually breathing out.
I'm just emptying my mouth with thecheap muscles, and that split second

(08:01):
as my cheek muscles are squeezing in, I breathe up my nose for my
lungs. So when I'm playing,I'll have to do that two or three,
maybe four times in a row becausethat little burst of air it's really
not a whole lot. So Ineed to refuel my lungs with air,

(08:22):
and I'll do it repetitively three fourtimes. I've played the baritone in tuba
throughout my life, as well asa trump bone and other instruments, but
the tuba's kind of like that.You have to breathe through your nose while
you're trying to play. The thingis though we were always told never to
puff our cheeks or pull them out, But that's imperative for a digury do
player. I'm understanding is that whatyou're telling me, it's imperative for circular

(08:43):
breathing. So yeah, and Iunderstand the instruction behind that. Don't puff
your cheeks out when you're playing abrass instrument. It's the same thing on
the digury do because if you wantthe real clean tone, your cheeks are
in. But when you go tobreathe, you have to puff out your

(09:05):
cheeks. And then as your cheeksare squeezing, the air's going up your
nose, but your cheeks are alwaysfirst like that. Do you have any
special techniques? I understand that someof the players have techniques you do change
the tone, but how do youplay at the most optimal level you can?

(09:28):
Do you have any and I'll askit again, any extra techniques or
any special techniques that he goes well. Number one is for everyone, you
must relax. You gotta relax toget that initial drone step one and mellow.
And if you play tuba, theambisher is very similar to what a

(09:50):
tuba player does or even a trombonewith the slide all the way extended.
So that's step one. Relax andthen the next thing you've got to really
be aware of is what your tongueis doing, because your tongue can move
forward and back inside your mouth tobend the pitch. You move your tongue

(10:13):
forward and there's less air inside,so you'll the sound will be higher,
less air, and then you moveit back and it goes back down the
low. Then the next thing wecan add is your voice. What wow,
you can so you've got the dronegoing, but now you can sing,
vocalize over the drone, so youcan harmonize, unison whatever you want

(10:37):
to do. And going back tothe Aboriginal traditional use is it's the dig
player's job to imitate the sounds ofwhat's happening in the story that's being told.
There's a singer or a person speakingthe story telling the story, and
then there's dancers imitating the movements ofwhat's in the story. And then it's

(10:58):
the dig player's job to you makethe sounds of what's happening. All nature
sounds what's happening in the story.It's the original sound effects machine as far
as making these things, you dothat. You don't just go to Walmart
and order thumb or Amazon order didgerydoes. I think you can do that,
not the Walmart don't they Walmart stillsdig redus not yet, maybe Amazon

(11:20):
does, or the Didgeridu store digredus r us. You don't just go
there and play and buy them andsay here here, here's like thirty nine
to four thousand dollars, I'm buyingit. You make them yourself. You
explain the one, how you madethe one. In general, what goes
into making these things? Well,Structurally, a digury do is a hollow

(11:43):
tube and it can be made outof any material as long as it's a
hollow tube three and a half tofour feet long, cardboard tubes, plastic
plumbing pipe. I don't mess withthose synthetic materials. I use any natural
material. Mostly one particular tree that'scalled polonia or a princess tree. And

(12:05):
that's this one over here that yousee, the one on the end,
the painted one, that one.It's a holiday out tree branch. So
the really nice thing about this particularwood is the first two or three years
of its life there is a naturaltunnel all the way in there because it
hasn't closed up yet. So whatI do is with a big long drill

(12:28):
bit, fifty four inch drill bit, I'll go in one end and then
flip the dig around and then I'llgo in with the drill bit from the
other end to complete that tunnel.So now we have the tunnel. Then
the next step is to shape themouthpiece end and also shape the bell end
or the flaring out end where thesound comes out of you. This was

(12:52):
this instrument was originated at least creditedto be originated by the Northern Austria average
where the Aborigines were located what wenow know is Northern Australia. There are
tribes in the western Hemisphere that I'vehad similar instruments as well. Yeah,
yeah, there are, but thedidre do is specifically credited to the Aboriginal

(13:18):
people, the original people of Australia. Those other instruments, they are a
little bit a wider mouthpiece opening andit's a different bombisher that you use to
play those like there's some in Haitiand South America there they look like a
dig, but structurally the mouthpiece isvery different in the playing technique is different.

(13:41):
A lot of people consider a lotof experts. Musical experts consider the
didred to be the world's oldest musicalinstrument, and no one really knows how
old it is. I've heard betweenfifteen hundred years and up to forty thousand
years old. So yes, it'sdefinitely an aboriginal instrument from Australia and it

(14:03):
comes from an area called arnhem Lands. If you look at the map of
Australia, ranked smack in the middleall the way up is the city of
Darwin. Just east of Darwin,you'll see an area called arnhem Lands.
That's what the didgerido is born.That's I've talked to people and with my
old show, The Revenge of theEighties radio show, how they bring that

(14:24):
back, that's a different story fora different time. I've I've often thought
that we should bring more bassoons andtuba's back into rock and new wave and
all sorts of great music and popmusic. You do that, you'll bring
it back in record, Yes,you do well. One thing I must
say, though, I don't knowif you're familiar with the Young Einstein movie

(14:46):
from eighty eight. I believe itwas nineteen eighty eight starring yahoo, Sirius.
There was. There was the veryend of that where he comes he
comes back. Einstein comes back triumphantlyafter his patent and everything else, makes
a lot of money for his family. The whole crowd of his townspeople come
in and he sings, or atleast he lips. He lips sings mental

(15:07):
as anything's version of rock and rollmusic from the Beatles, That's what it
was. So it was like hewas like he was singing playing that guitar
he invented. Somewhere in the middleof that, there was an Aboriginal tribesman
that he know who played the digeridoand just like a r right in the
middle of it. It was justgreat, He's signaling to Einstein. I
loved that part. Unfortunately, andsadly they left it out of the soundtrack,

(15:31):
just keeping the original track in.Wow, I didn't know that about
that movie. I have to goback and uh and check that scene out.
I'd love to see that and hearit. It was the very end
where he was triumph where he wherehe played in front of everybody, and
it was after it was after allthe good stuff happened and all the bad
things, so you know, itwas. It was the end. It

(15:52):
was after the climax, if youwill, and brought brought Murray carry home
to meet his parents. Yeah,we're getting getting back to your question and
me putting the dig in different music. Yeah, that's that's one of my
missions. And above all, mymission is to share this instrument with as
many people as possible to help whoeverI can. Maybe it'll help the way

(16:14):
it helped me. But I'd like, I'm not an aboriginal guy from Australia.
I grew up in suburban Philadelphia,so that's my roots. But I
play this really old ancient instrument.So rock and roll, funk, the
motown, the Philly sound, allthose things are what I grew up with.
So what I do is I putthis old instrument in these new kind

(16:37):
of music or different types of music. I want to point out an injustice
here because you do record your ownmusic. I decided to go listen.
I enjoyed it. I did findout something that I didn't like it.
I'm I've been on record saying mostof today's late night took show hosts or
complete morons don't like them. ThereThey'll never be as funny as as as

(17:00):
Carson. Of course, it's veryhard to be as funny as Carson.
They're not even going to be asgood as Leno or Letterman is one of
them, and I forgot which one. Did He put your one of your
really cool songs on this awful songlist or something like that and said never
to be played. You know they'renever to be played playlist. It's called
electric ten. I happen to likethat song. I recommend anybody who listens

(17:22):
to this or watches this video getsit on band camp and supports Pitts over
here. But this is not onlydoes it have that rock and picture you
sport that did you we do withthe cool vest, but it's a great
song and it's also a public serviceannouncement. That's right, it's my skin
cancer prevention number. And I thinkdoesn't ever did you re do play or

(17:44):
have one of those? Yeah,hey, you know who else played that
song? Chris, so you mightreally dig This is doctor Demento. Well,
Doctor Demento is a genius. Heis one of the great DJs of
our time. I grew up listeningto him, I went to college listening
to him. I've played his programson radio stations I've worked with. Yes,

(18:06):
he is a superb genius and knowstalent when he sees it. This
was a great song. I reallyenjoyed it. You have a lot of
music and you do mixed styles.Tell us about your music, well,
my music, you know. LikeI said, I grew up outside of
Philly, so uh, and Ilike to have fun. I have some
serious songs to talk about, somedark issues, but mostly the bulk of

(18:27):
my stuff is positive and fun andupbeat. So and my musical heroes are
Spike Jones, Weird Al, FrankZappa. So those influences are all over
me and those are those are someof my favorites. I also liked A
kavanaughy Um. There are a lotof great there a lot of great talents

(18:49):
that you know. Who I likedwhat was his name of the guy from
the fifties, Tom Lera, Oh, static fifties and sixties. Tom Lera
was a genius. I played theold timey music. All all the songs
were fantastic, funny. I stilllisten to him to this day on a
regular basis. Me too. Irecently came across this really cool performance of

(19:12):
his and I think it was inthe early sixties and he was in Copenhagen.
Have you seen that one. I'mnot sure if I've seen it.
I'm just I've seen a lot ofhis videos. I will say that it
was Doctor Demento that opened me upto him too. You can watch a
lot of this stuff on YouTube aswell. Yeah, so I got all

(19:33):
those wacky influences on me, andso I like and I have I love
food, and so I talk aboutfood a lot, and I talk about
like just weird fun stuff. AndI want someone to enjoy my music for
what it is, a positive message, have fun. Maybe forget about life

(19:56):
for four to five minutes and listento one of my tunes, or come
to one of my show and forgetabout the troubles of the world for a
couple hours. You can find thisoff your website pits pits quatrone dot com.
And I believe the collections in bandcampYeah, Element band camps, SoundCloud,
YouTube, I'm everywhere excellent. That'salways good. Here's something fun that

(20:19):
I read on your website. Ihave trouble believing this, but if I
ever get this, I'm not wearingthat machine. I'm buying one of yours.
Okay, the did you do supposedly, and again it's on your site.
So I'm going to take this atface value. Here. I'm a
long time broadcast journalist, so Idon't take things at face value. But
you're a cool guy, so I'mjust going to do it that way.

(20:41):
The didy do can help cure sleepapnea, Yes they can. And that's
not just my declaration. It's backedby hard science. And so you're a
journalist, you like that. It'shard science, not the science. Big
difference, Okay. In twenty fivethe British Medical Journal published a study that

(21:03):
a doctor in Switzerland did with twentyfive of his sleep apnea patients. And
what he did was he brought ina digre do teacher and the folks learned
how to play the ditch. Theyplayed for six times a week, half
an hour a day for four months, and at the end of that period
they're obstructive sleep apnea dramatically decreased.And it's been explained to me from healthcare

(21:30):
professionals. It's because in sleep apnea, obstructive sleep apnea, there's muscles in
the lower throat that tend to getloose and flabby and obstruct the airway.
So playing the Didgrey Do gives thosemuscles a workout that it's an internal workout,
so you get those muscles back intoshape eventually, and they're nice and

(21:53):
straight and taught, so they're nolonger in the way obstructing the air way.
You learn something new every day,and again, you don't have to
go through all this kind of machinerythat you have to put over your face.
Pick up a did you red?It's probably not even I wonder if
health insurance will cover did you do? If you have sleep after you that

(22:15):
would be a nice thing. Whatwe should call Oxford and United Blue Cross,
Blue Shield and people like that.How about that? That'd be great.
You know, hopefully that becomes somethingsomeday, but it's it's taken forever
for them to just I guess consideracupuncture, and acupuncture has been around for

(22:37):
thousands of years. And I don'tlike needles though, I'd rather play the
instrument. If that can help mewith with pain, I'm in. Okay,
there we go. You're you're alsothe did you Redo? Adventurer?
Okay, I want to get intothat too, because you travel around the
world and you play in conscious butyou show people how to play, you
teach people. I'm sure you've beento a lot of big concert halls,

(23:02):
but you also take time to goto third world countries. Yeah, I
do. Basically I go, Iget invited to these places. I get
contacted, Hey, Pits, youwant to come to Africa, Pits,
you want to come to Greenland.So the answer is, yes, how
can we make that? How canwe make that happen? So last week
I was in California and I visiteda couple of schools and went in elementary

(23:25):
school. I did a five dayresidency and what we did with the kids
is they make instruments out of acardboard tube and they decorate them and they
put beeswax sort of mouthpiece. Becauseit's a real wide instrument, you got
to shrink the end down for themouthpiece. So and then we learned different
songs throughout the week and at theend of that week, we do a

(23:45):
performance for the whole community. Andanother school I went to it was a
prep school, and I did kindof like a combination educational assembly slash performance.
So that was on time deal foran hour. I did that.
But getting back to your question,Yes, let's go to Senegal. Pits

(24:07):
I want to take you to Senegaland we're gonna perform with the top players
in the country, and we're gonnago around to different concert halls, schools,
retreat centers, and we're gonna Itwas so cool because I'm basically a
white guy in Vermont bringing this ancientAboriginal instrument from Australia to Africa. You're

(24:30):
bringing the world together. Isn't thatimportant? That's it. You get what
everybody wants to do, bring everybodytogether. I want to hear about Greenland.
I've always wanted to go there.How was it there? I know
it's very obviously called, but there'ssome beautiful site, beautiful glaciers over there,
Yeah, no doubt. I wantto a small little village. It's

(24:52):
actually an island called Umanak, andyou have to go to Copenhagen and then
go to the bottom of Greenland andthen I took three helicopters rides to get
there. But anyway, I wasinvited up there to go to this children's
home. It's basically what used tobe called orphans and there's a lot of

(25:15):
native kids up there who have badfamily situations. And so this really incredible
Danish woman set up this home forkids, and there's kids from like four
years old all the way up toeighteen. And so I got invited there
to spend a couple of weeks withthe kids there, and I brought a

(25:37):
bag full of blank Degrey dues withme and the kids decorated them up.
We played, I taught him howto play, and then again at the
end of that time period, weput on a concert for the community.
So it was it's on top ofthe world basically, it really is.

(26:00):
Where I went, that village Umanac. It's two hundred and thirty miles north
of the Arctic Circle, so it'sthe further what the director told me,
it's the furthest north children's home onplanet Earth. And I hope you brought
a cold I guess you're you're usedto the cold weather living in Vermont anyway,

(26:23):
Yeah, I did, right,I live in Vermont, so I
did. I brought my best,my top level cold weather gear with me,
and I was fine. You know, we stayed in the house and
it's it's warm and everything, butgoing from building to building it's tricky.
And then we went out on dogsledge rides and you go out on the
on the sea ice for miles andmiles. It's really wild, and there's

(26:47):
eight to ten dogs just pulling you, and there's one a driver in you.
You know, that's really all theweight that all these dogs can pull.
But it's incredible because you don't hearanything except the dogs barking in the
sled rails crushing over the snow.I'm sure you had to befriended dogs by
bringing a load of milkbone with you. Story in the didgery dues for a

(27:11):
while, and then when you're alldone, but attend to get there,
it's all hollowed out again. Soyeah, always thinking of something. I
can launch the milkbones out the digby blowing the milkbone cannon there. It
is great. Ideas are always hurton the out house lounge. You got
it, Pits. You're an allaround entertainer as well, and I want

(27:33):
to get to some of the thingsyou do. Tell me more about the
guy I'm going to present right hereis the Inferior Lounge singer, if you
will. I like the mustache.The mustache is cool, very fifties.
Yeah, that's my alter ego.Harf Darvis Inferior Lounge Singer. Yeah,

(27:56):
the mustaches like I got it fromyou know what, I really I saw
a great image that fit what Iwas, had an idea in my head
and it was when Vincent Price wasyounger, he had that really cool stash
and that's what my wife drew iton. We had the picture of Vincent
Price and she drew it on forme, and then I was sinking back,

(28:19):
slicked back my hair and the eyebrowsand it's the whole scene. So
I was thinking more Santini from Shannanna. But I guess okay does work.
Well, that works too, youknow but the outfits great. That outfit
would have been perfect for the outhouse lounge and I can't tell you oh
yeah yeah. So Harve Darvis hasbeen evolving since I was a little kid.

(28:41):
One of my uncles who really turnedme onto music and changed my life
at an early age. For somereason, he had a nickname for me.
He called me Harve Darvis because Iguess Harve and Darv rhyme and rhyme,
and so he went Harve Darvis.So a few years ago, it
was during lockdown and I was like, what else can I do here?

(29:03):
Oh? But a lot of reallybad ideas have been thought about in lockdown.
This is a good one. Ilike this one. I had a
lot of bad ideas during what Yeahso so Harve is uh. He's very
heartwarming guy, and he doesn't knowthe words to any of the songs that
he sings. So maybe he'll knowlike one line and then he'll just go

(29:25):
on a riff from there and hefinds his way into hearts worldwide, or
like maybe Enrico Palazzo would be veryhappy to sing with him. Nice pretty
here with Pritt Squadron, the didgyDo adventure of the man Who's brought the

(29:45):
Man who brought the didgury Do notonly to Africa but the outer reaches of
the Arctic Circle. That's just absolutelyamazing. I also note that you are
played by play guy for a while, and I like sports as well.
We're gonna talk a little sports ifyou'd like. But you're just kidding.
I'd like to call it sports.People call it sports ball. I don't
even know why, because I'm I'mwatching sports puck right now. Is that

(30:07):
Stanley kelp playoffs? SERRANI, where'sthe ball? That's right? George Carlin
says it's not even a sport.So that George Carlin had this whole routine
about sports. He said, there'sonly three sports baseball, basketball, and
football. He had an argument foreverything. He even said hockey wasn't a
sport. It was three activities goingon at once, fighting, playing with

(30:32):
the puck, ice skating. Therewe go. I think he said it
skating, playing with the puck,and beating the snider at each other.
That's what it was, Okay,Yeah, using a different word obviously.
And tennis couldn't be a sport becauseit's derivative of ping pong, I believe,
he said, And he didn't likeit, didn't say. And soccer
wasn't a sport because you couldn't touchit and there were dots on the ball.

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The man's brilliant. That's all Ican say. George. There was
only one George. He was thegreatest. I loved him. But you've
done play by play that sounds likea lot of fun. It is.
You know, two of my favoritethings are sports and music, and like
hockey and football are my top sports. And yeah, I've I've worked in

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a lot of radio jobs and onewas played by play guy for high school
ice hockey in this area of CentralVermont. I'm pointing out my window.
I don't know why, but inCentral Vermont, in hockey is taken very
seriously in Vermont, I'd imagine Icould imagine that. Oh, you're a
mere Philly guy, So I supposethat your team unfortunately missing the playoffs this

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year. That's yeah, Well,hey, my Devils are finally in the
playoffs at the time we're recording now. There are two and two now at
the time we're recording at against theRangers, so they could be out of
the playoffs by the time we're playingthis. But it's nice to see them
there for the first time. AndI guess it's twenty seventeen, right,
Wow, has it been that long. It's been a job for a team

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that was a championship caliber or atleast a great contender for fourteen fifteen years,
and on and off lately after that, they were they were kind of
ruined after for a while. AfterZach Paris left them, he wanted to
go home, home city or homearea in Minnesota. So I get that.
Yeah, I understand that, butthe fact is it did set them

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back for a long time. Ifyour Devils are hanging tough with the Rangers.
That's something because the Rangers are top, they're really tough. Well,
as you know, they're not dueto win a Stanley Cup until I believe
twenty forty eight if I'm correct,if the pattern goes right. Yeah,
well, my flyers, they've beenwaiting since seventy five to get another one

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fits once again. Your website andwhere people who are watching and listening to
the show can find more out aboutyou when your dig redos and maybe uh
where to see you? Where tosee you play? Yeah? Sure,
My site is my name and it'sa funky one, so I'll spell it
for you. It's p I tZ and my last name qu A t

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t r O n E. Pittsquatrone dot com. Or if you just
google U search around for didgur Do, Vermont, Vermont, Didge, Pitts
Didge, all those things. I'llbe the first one hundred and fifty things
that pop up for you. Andyeah, all that information that you asked
about is on my site. Thecalendar, different instruments where I'll be playing,

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and also different school educational stuff.So I do a lot of educational
things with the didgury Do and ittakes me to a lot of those places
that we described excellent and thank youvery much for being with those pits,
and thank you all for being withus on the ou Outhouse slouers. That's
right now house slows. By theway, if you're sticking with us,

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We have more coming to me.It's a small store now, but more
is coming. You want to checkit out by our March support what we

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do. That would be the outhouseLounge dot com soon to be the outhhouse
Lounge dot com slash shop because Iwant to change that over. But that's
a different story. So once again, thank you for being with us on
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