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["The Dog

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Days of Summer"]

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Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this

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is Griffin McElroy. And this is Wonderful. Thanks

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for listening to Wonderful. It's a show where we

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talk about things we like that's good that we're

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into. It is the dog

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days of summer. And

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I don't know about you, but I'm feeling my

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summer vibe. So right.

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I don't actually even know if it's officially summer

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yet. It's officially summer. Okay. It's

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so hot outside. The beaches are

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bumping. How hot is it? Like

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84 degrees. It's not

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actually that bad. But the beaches

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are bumping. The babes are going

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to the beach. And all the

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bros are playing volleyball

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on the beach also. We

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got suds and buds by

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the poolside with big watermelon.

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Sometimes I worry that you're AI. You're

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not, right? You'd have to tell me if you were. I

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watched this video just before we started recording. And

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it's this game that somebody built. It's my small

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wonder. And

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it's like a Turing test in reverse

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where and it's in VR.

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And so it's four AIs, different AIs

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sitting on a train and this one

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guy who's a human. And they're impersonating

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different historical figures. And all the AIs

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have to guess who the human is.

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I think I would beat ass at

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this game. I think I

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would absolutely smoke those fucking robots. Where is

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this game? It's like this one dude made it.

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It's not a thing that people can play. But how do

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you enjoy the game? You

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watch a guy play it on YouTube.

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Okay. Yeah. I don't think it's available

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for everyone. But it was like Aristotle

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and Cleopatra. And he was Genghis Khan. And the

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second he opened his mouth, it was like, that's

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a human right there. Wow. Look at you. Well,

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it was from his perspective. so it wasn't

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that hard for me to tell, but all

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the robots clocked him. Not me though. I

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feel like, you know, a decade

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of listening to Munch Squad press

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releases has embodied within

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me an ability to speak at

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length without saying much of anything at

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all. Yeah, it's true. What's your small

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wonder? Is

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it how the beaches are bumping and the babes are

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going to the beach and the

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bros are all playing volleyball? Surfing

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the foam. That reminds me

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of like the house that Jack built, like the way

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that you're phrasing that. I don't know what that is. It's

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like the cat

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that swallowed the mouse, that swallowed the cheese,

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that lived in the house that Jack built.

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No, I don't know that one. Anyway, it was like the...

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Is that your small wonder? The beach and... Is

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this old ass nursery rhyme? No,

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no, my small wonder, of course, is... We

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got this like inflatable pool

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bouncy thing last summer. H2O

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Go is what it's called. I would recommend it to anybody with children.

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It kicks ass. Yeah, I mean, it's one

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of those things that you attach

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a big fan to in order to keep it inflated. Yeah.

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And it's definitely for small children. Yeah,

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absolutely. Like Henry is already approaching the

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like way too big age and size,

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but it's got a little bouncy

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platform, a little tiny slide, and

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it's... A little sprayer. You just fill it with

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water, yeah. And

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whenever you buy those things and

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then put them away for the

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winter, fall, spring, you

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worry that you're gonna unroll it and it's

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going to be a monster. Yeah. Like

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be a fuzzy, black, mold monster. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But ours held up pretty well, and we've been

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using it. I will say when I dragged

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it from our storage container to the place

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in the yard where we usually inflate it,

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a little mouse came out. I saw a

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little tiny mouse hop out and scamper off,

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and it was gross. but

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it was also like really cute because he was like

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a little guy. I hope the other

4:04

stuff in the little storage thing is-

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Oh, I didn't even think about that. Yeah, our crimist

4:09

tree is probably- Eating. All

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at, by this one little irascible

4:13

mouse. Anyway,

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it's coming real handy because

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again, small sun, tremendous amount of

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energy. Yeah. And it's

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really saved our weekends, just

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filling that thing up and having another

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location to let him

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bump around. It's so slick. I

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go first this week. I'm going to talk about

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something. It's not gonna be much of a surprise

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to you. I've been talking about it all week

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and I feel like you come to expect that

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when I focus, when I fixate on a thing,

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usually it's gonna be my thing for wonderful that week.

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This week, I would like to talk about the

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musical called Pippin. Oh,

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okay. It's about Scotty Pippin and

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his incredible career. Gotta be good.

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It's unlikely. That would be good.

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Why isn't there a whole musical about the 1996 Chicago

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Bulls? There's just a sad like, I'm

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Larry Bird. Yeah. I'm

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Larry Bird. Why would he be sad? Do

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you think Larry Bird was famously a sad man?

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I mean, from what I understand, and

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granted a lot of my knowledge is centered

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around Michael Jordan. But as

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I understand, he was a very good basketball

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player that got largely overshadowed by

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a lot of- Sure, but he also

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talked mad shit. He was a

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huge shit talker, Larry Bird was.

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Yeah, absolutely. No, I'm talking about

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Pippin the musical, which was

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a groundbreaking

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piece of theater for a young Griffin McElroy,

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for reasons I'm going to discuss later. Pippin,

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if you're not familiar, it is a fucking weird

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show. It is about Pippin,

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the son of King Charlemagne, who

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was a real guy, but basically

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everything about this is fictionalized. And

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Pippin goes on sort of this lifelong

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journey to find meaning

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and purpose. in life through

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a series of wrongheaded pursuits.

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Basically, that's the synopsis of

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the entire musical, is

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him bouncing around between these different pursuits

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that he thinks are going to make

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him feel satisfied or

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that he is living this exceptional life.

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And spoiler alert, none of them really

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pay out for him. This

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journey is presented as

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this constantly fourth wall breaking

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production from a theater troupe,

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led by a character called The Leading

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Player, who is the other main lead

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of the show. He or

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she in the more

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recent Broadway revival is just this

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really charismatic, omniscient entity that is

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there to help him along his

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journey until all of a sudden

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he becomes a terrifying,

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very manipulative

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figure towards the end of the

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show. The music and

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lyrics for Pippin were written by Steven

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Schwartz, who also

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did Godspell and Children of

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Eden and Wicked, as

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well as a shit ton of

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music from a bunch of different Disney movies.

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But when it arrived on Broadway,

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it was directed by

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Bob Fosse, who took the

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book and the music and was like, what

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if it was a million times hornier? And

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so that is sort of the way that it

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went. All of a sudden, this theater troupe that

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serves as kind of the Greek

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chorus sort of setting of the whole thing,

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there's so much bumping and grinding in this

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show. It's fucking outrageous. And a lot of

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like the little reaching hand

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twist that Bob Fosse, a

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lot of Fosse, a lot of jazz hands

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out to the side slow steps. My high

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school put this on. This is what I was

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telling Griffin. My

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experience with it, I think I was maybe

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a freshman in high school. and

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this was the fall musical they put

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on. And I remember sitting down being

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like, okay, high school, there's

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gonna be a love interest, there's

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gonna be some buds singing

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a song together. And

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I was like, as the musical went on,

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I just remember being like, wait, what, what?

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This is, what? I remember the opening

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song is called, We've Got Magic to

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Do. And it's like the truth, setting

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up what this show is going to be like, what you're about to

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see. One of the lines in it is sex

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presented pastorally. And sure enough, there's like

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a thing in the first act where

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Pippin's like, I'm just gonna get laid

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a lot. Yeah. And see if

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that is the thing that does it for me.

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But ultimately, of course it doesn't. But yeah, it

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gets wet and wild.

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Very experimental watching it. Like

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it almost feels like you need to

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read like a little disclaimer at the

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top. Right. Like, hey, like

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put away your dad's musical. I

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think that's what We've Got Magic to Do kind of does. So

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Pippin is this sort of directionless college

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grad at the beginning of the show.

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And throughout the course of the musical, he dabbles in, he

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goes to war and he has a

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lot of sex and he leads

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a revolution against his own father.

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And he falls in love. And all of

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these things that he's doing is trying to

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live this extraordinary life that he believes, he

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believes that he is owed. And

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that makes him an incredibly, at

9:29

times, insufferable, self-centered,

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idealistic character. And

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that's really an interesting way to feel about the

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protagonist of the show. It's like, man, this

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guy fucking sucks kind of. But

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you kind of very quickly learn what he's all

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about. He's introduced with what is, I think probably

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the musical's most famous song, which is Corner of

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the Sky. Which is, here's a

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little bit of that. River's

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belong where they can ramble.

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Eagles belong where they can

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fly I've

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got to be where my spirit

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Every man has his daydreams every man has his goal

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so, the main characteredge is the leading player who

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played Ben Vereen in the original Broadway, Ron

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He's f gleanMatrix the leading

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player was played by Patina Miller in the 2013

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revival which

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is how the women are even more than a girl she

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also played the witch in the 2022 revival of Into

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the Woods which

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I bet was really good and I think

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that's what we're talking about right now as you

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said Ben Vereen who of course played a very

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similar role in Zubilee Zoo well,

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I don't know if in Zubilee Zoo the way you're describing this

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character like this charismatic like narrator

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I mean that's Zubilee Zoo that's kind

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of Zubilee Zoo eventually at

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the end of the show you realize that

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this whole story this whole production

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right that is happening

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around Pippin has been a means of

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manipulating Pippin to literally

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destroy himself climb in a

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box and

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immolate in order to

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achieve one perfect moment of like artistic glory and

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it is a genuinely

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chilling moment where

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you go like oh holy shit like

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this whole thing this person who you thought is like

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this guiding light to

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Pippin has actually kind of been trying to

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funnel it into the world and he's actually

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kind of been trying to funnel him towards

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this one terrible, terrible

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moment well did you see the last episode

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of Zubilee Zoo? Wow,

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I spiked both our microphones with that laugh, baby.

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That was a really good one. I'm

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just saying, Bill the Beaver, it does

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not end well for him. No, I guess not. The

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music in the show just slaps ass.

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I think Stephen Schwartz has

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done incredible work, obviously, I

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think this is his best stuff. There's

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a song, my favorite song from the

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show is right at the end of

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act one, where Pippin has kind of

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been manipulated into assassinating his dad, King

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Charlemagne. At which point

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like the company turns on its heels and

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all of a sudden everybody's like so excited

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that Charlemagne is dead and this new era

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has arrived with Pippin as the

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new King. And they sing a

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song called Morning Glow that I'm gonna

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play a bit of now. Morning

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glow, fill the earth,

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come and shine for all

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your worth. We'll

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be present at the

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birth of all faith, looking

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new. Morning

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glow is long past due.

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So I think this show

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is unique and fantastic, but I'm also biased

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because it was the

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first piece of adult theater

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I was ever exposed to because I was in

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the show in 1997 when

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Marshall University put it on. I was 10

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years old. There's a character in the show

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who is the son, his name's Theo, he's

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the son of like the main love interest

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that Pippin kind of in kindles this romance

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with in act two. And

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I got cast as Theo and I was the only

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kid in the cast. Everybody else was college students, right?

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And so like that was a major

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escalation for me going from, I'd done

13:48

like quite a bit of like community

13:51

theater stuff at that point, but

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it all had been in sort of the

13:55

like Rogers and Hammerstein sort of thing. And

13:59

so this was... It's not a show about

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country bumpkin falls in love with another

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country bumpkin, or princess falls in love

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with prince, or country

14:10

bumpkin falls in love with sophisticated

14:12

woman from the city. Or any

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mix of those different kinds of

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ideas. This is a grown fucking

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show, filled with grown

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folks as the actors, right? And

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it left this indelible impression on

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me. Because not only was I

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watching this show that really genuinely

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blew my mind, blew me away,

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I was getting this portal

14:36

into the future where I

14:38

was seeing these are grown

14:40

up theater kids, and

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they're a fucking mess. And

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I guess that's, it was great. I

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genuinely, the cast was all super, super sweet

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to me. The guy who

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played Pippin was a guy named Jeremy who I thought

14:54

hung the moon. He was like the coolest and real,

14:57

real, just so nice to me and everybody was great

14:59

to me. And I came back

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from that show like, what's

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up? I was like, I had gone and done

15:05

a semester in Paris. Well,

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in the theater. You see when the

15:10

grownups do it, I

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just, I have a lot of very fond memories from that

15:14

show and I think that contributes to it. But

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I honestly haven't thought about this show in a long time.

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And then I just started listening to it

15:22

again this past week and it's just both

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the original and the 2013 revival. It's

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so good, it's so good. And it's,

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I don't think one of the like

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more well-known major musicals. And

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so if you've never really gotten into

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it, it's great. The

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Jackson Five did a bunch of covers of

15:41

songs from the show, which are fantastic. So

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that's Pippin, check it out. Can

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I see you away? Yes.

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right, can I tell you about my thing this week? I

18:32

would be so thrilled. It has

18:34

been ages since I have brought a musical

18:36

artist. And that is largely

18:38

because for me to get in touch

18:40

with current music, I have to do

18:42

some research. Right. So usually what

18:44

I'll do is I'll just look at like what

18:47

has come out recently. Do I happen to have

18:49

any context for this artist that like would give

18:51

me an advantage on like entry into their work?

18:53

That's all Rachel's all about is trying to... She's

18:56

always on her grind, in her grind set, and

18:58

she's always trying to get an advantage. What's my

19:00

angle here? This

19:03

one was easy though. Oh great. The

19:05

artist I am bringing this week is Brittany

19:08

Howard. Fantastic. And listeners

19:11

and me and you may

19:13

remember Brittany Howard from Alabama

19:15

Shakes. Yeah. Remember? Yeah,

19:18

sure. They're the one that

19:20

had that like super popular song called

19:22

Hold On, actually ended up winning

19:24

awards, I believe, although I didn't do a lot of

19:26

research on the Alabama Shakes. Oh yeah. But

19:31

Brittany Howard really kind of... I

19:33

mean, everybody in that band was

19:36

very talented, but she really stood

19:38

out. She's just a very powerful

19:40

voice in like this kind of

19:42

tremendous wisdom in like her performance.

19:46

So Alabama Shakes formed

19:48

in 2009 in Athens, Alabama. All

19:51

these members like met

19:53

each other in school. Athens, Alabama? Yeah.

19:56

I didn't know there's an Athens, Alabama. There is an Athens, Alabama. I

19:59

didn't know that either. I don't know anything about

20:01

Alabama if I'm being honest. Sorry, people who live

20:03

there. Actually, I've been to Birmingham, I think, once.

20:05

Anyway. Okay. So

20:08

their first album came out in 2012 called

20:10

Boys and Girls. They had

20:12

another album out in 2015 called Sound

20:14

and Color. They

20:17

opened for Jack White. They performed

20:20

at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. That

20:23

song I mentioned, Hold On, was dubbed the

20:25

best song of the year by Rolling Stone.

20:27

Hell yeah. So

20:29

yeah, and then just

20:31

nominated for tons of Grammy Awards,

20:33

huge, huge band. And then in

20:36

2018, they went on hiatus. Brittany

20:40

Howard, when she gives interviews, doesn't suggest

20:43

that they have broken up more that she

20:45

has decided to go solo. I don't think

20:47

bands break up anymore, unless they're Oasis.

20:51

I don't think bands, I think they always, I

20:53

think it's just always kind of leaving the options.

20:55

I mean, there are some things that end pretty

20:58

inhospitably, as I understand. Yeah, like Oasis.

21:02

Yeah, there has to be a more recent

21:05

example though. I feel like it has probably

21:07

happened since, you know. Oasis. The

21:10

90s or whatever. So her

21:12

first solo album was 2019's Jamie. And

21:17

the song that came from that, that

21:20

was very popular, was

21:23

Stay High. Did you listen to that

21:26

song? Yeah, oh dude, yeah, yeah. That one is

21:28

very, very good. You sent these to me earlier today, and

21:30

I was bumping them. Yeah, I wanna play

21:32

just a little bit of Stay High, because

21:36

it will give you kind of a nice introduction to Brittany Howard,

21:38

if you're not familiar. I

21:43

already feel like doing it

21:46

again. Like doing it

21:48

again. Cause

21:55

once you know, then you know, and

21:58

you don't wanna go. The

22:00

music video is fantastic. Yeah,

22:17

it's literally just Terry Crews coming from his

22:19

job at the factory lip syncing to the

22:21

song in a car. It's very, very straightforward

22:23

and simple. Yeah, apparently it was filmed

22:26

in Alabama. She cast

22:28

a lot of people that she knew from the

22:30

town she grew up in. That's so good. And

22:34

it really presents her. It's

22:36

not too much of a departure from Alabama

22:38

Shakes in that it's a soulful, almost feels

22:42

like from a different era kind of

22:44

piece of music. I

22:48

listened to that song and I was like, okay, I know

22:50

what vibe song, I know what kind

22:52

of music she makes, I've got her pegged. And

22:54

then you sent another song that was not

22:57

like that. And so her

22:59

new album is called What

23:01

Now? And

23:03

it came out in

23:06

2024, the title track, which is the one I

23:08

sent to you, came out in 2023

23:11

as a single. And

23:15

that is actually the same year that Rolling Stone named

23:17

her as one of the 250 greatest guitarists

23:19

of all time. Fuck yeah. But

23:22

I want to play a little bit of that song too. So

23:55

fucking fresh. The music video for this

23:57

one is like Blade. It's like they just.

24:00

They made Blade. Yeah, I also

24:02

sent Griffin a live performance because I was like this,

24:06

the presentation is so like futuristic,

24:08

but in a very specific time

24:10

period. It's future goth matrix Blade

24:12

sword fighting. Like I had to

24:14

watch the live performance just to

24:16

kind of get my bearings in

24:18

the like, I know this woman,

24:20

this is different from her. Her

24:22

voice is a little bit disguised

24:24

by the like, you know,

24:26

effects they put on it. But it was

24:29

funky as hell. I loved that

24:31

song. Yeah, so she has

24:35

this great story. So unsurprisingly, she's

24:37

very influenced by artists like Prince,

24:40

which you can hear a lot

24:43

in that song. And

24:46

she actually got to meet Prince in 2015 when

24:49

she was still with Alabama Shakes. And I read

24:51

this interview where she tells this great story. And

24:54

I'm just gonna read it verbatim. She's

24:57

talking about going with her band to

25:01

potentially play on stage with

25:03

Prince at Paisley Park. And

25:06

she said, we walk into Paisley Park, this

25:08

big warehouse, and they're showing the film Madagascar

25:11

projected on the walls. We're

25:14

like, hmm, okay. There were

25:16

also some rules, no meat, no cussing, no

25:18

video. It was all a little strange. We

25:20

did a sound check, then his assistant said

25:22

Prince would like to meet you. And

25:25

I said, come on y'all because I'm not going by myself.

25:27

There were 15 of us sitting in this little

25:30

studio, Prince is in there wearing all linen. We

25:32

all smoosh ourselves onto the couch and he was so

25:34

nice and really funny. And he said, I'd like to

25:36

play Gimme All Your Love with You tonight. So

25:39

later we're on stage playing our set and we

25:41

get to the song and Prince is not showing

25:43

up. And she

25:45

said, I'm like, did he change his mind? Are

25:47

we not doing a good job? We just kept

25:49

repeating the bridge. It's getting a little awkward. All

25:52

of a sudden this guy in a green crushed

25:54

velvet suit with an Afro sunglasses and a

25:56

green guitar jumps onto the stage from

25:58

below. And the stage. He's at least six

26:00

feet tall. She's

26:03

like, he's right there and just starts shredding. And

26:05

I'm looking at him in utter disbelief. The crowd's

26:07

going crazy. And then we were double soloing in

26:09

harmony. We go for like five minutes finished. She

26:12

kisses me on the cheek and he leaps into

26:14

the darkness. I never saw him again. She

26:19

says literally he just disappeared like a fairy

26:21

would. I just. Every

26:23

story about Prince is like that. Of

26:26

all things, I realize this is

26:28

such a like, even

26:31

in his time, such an unattainable

26:33

dream. I think people

26:35

who have Prince stories are

26:38

the luckiest people in the world.

26:40

I feel like having a Prince

26:43

story is the most powerful anecdote.

26:45

Because they're always like that. There's

26:47

always some like magical occurrence. Some magical

26:50

supernatural element to it. Yeah, but I

26:52

would really recommend checking out what

26:54

now there's all sorts of genres represented.

26:56

It's like soul, jazz, rock, R and

26:59

B. There's some house music

27:01

kind of present. She's doing

27:03

just tons of things. And

27:06

also Brittany Howard, as I was doing

27:08

research, Thelma the

27:10

Unicorn, which is a movie or show,

27:14

I'm not sure which, that just came out on Netflix about

27:17

a mini pony who longs to be a

27:20

star and her dream comes true when she

27:22

disguises herself as a unicorn. Brittany

27:24

Howard was just giving interviews about that last

27:26

month because she voices Thelma the Unicorn. Oh,

27:28

that's great. So yeah,

27:30

she's tremendously ambitious and

27:33

creative. And

27:35

every song she performs is a little bit

27:37

different. And it's

27:40

just, man, there's something for everyone. Yeah, I

27:42

love that. So yeah, I would really recommend,

27:45

it's just two albums at this point, as

27:48

I mentioned, Jamie, and then this new one called What

27:50

Now? So I recommend everyone check it

27:52

out. What a musical episode this has

27:54

been. Yeah, I guess so. Let's check

27:56

in with our friends at home. Micah says, I

27:58

recently started biking again. and after several years of

28:01

not being able to do regular cardio exercise

28:03

for various reasons. That's pretty great in and

28:05

of itself, but the really wonderful thing is

28:07

coming in hot and sweaty after a five

28:09

mile ride through the park, opening the fridge

28:11

and having a couple slices of delicious cold

28:13

watermelon. It's the most refreshing thing in the

28:15

world. Watermelon as

28:17

refreshment always fucking hits

28:19

for me. It's so funny. Watermelon is one of

28:21

those things that I forget about. Do

28:24

I like watermelon? And every time I'm like, oh

28:26

my God, I love watermelon. For me, if I

28:28

see it on a platter,

28:32

at a continental breakfast hotel bar,

28:35

or out on a table

28:37

at somebody's graduation party, I'm

28:40

not interested in it. But if somebody brings

28:42

out a whole ass watermelon by the poolside, it's

28:44

all I think about until I get that in

28:46

me. Yeah, I kind of learned

28:49

that trick because I was buying it

28:51

pre-sliced and the boys were kind of

28:53

somewhat interested in it. And then I

28:55

started buying slices, wedges and like cutting

28:57

them into little like long, what's

29:00

the word I'm looking for? Spears. Yeah. Watermelon

29:03

spears. Yeah, they almost look like a big watermelon

29:05

french fries. Yeah. And the boys went

29:08

crazy for them. That's great. This

29:10

one didn't have a name attached to it,

29:12

but I really liked it. My small wonder

29:14

is the post-sports game meal. My volleyball team

29:16

sometimes goes out to eat after games and

29:18

the rowdy, hungry post-game energy shared between good

29:20

friends makes for some of the best meals

29:22

I've ever had. I bet that's so good.

29:24

It's nice too. Kicking it with the

29:26

gang at the Alamo Freeze. Yeah.

29:29

After a big game against

29:32

our division rivals. I was never a

29:34

member of a sports team where this happened. Nor I, nor

29:36

I. Well, I was, like

29:39

when I played sports as a very

29:41

young child, it was like somebody brought

29:43

snack in a cooler. It wasn't like

29:45

y'all pile into cars and go. Yeah,

29:48

for me it was, baseball was the

29:50

game I played the most of. I

29:52

think I did two seasons

29:54

of baseball. Is that what they call

29:56

them? Seasons of baseball. Seasons.

30:02

and there was a concession stand there. So like if

30:04

you wanted to buy some stuff. I will

30:06

say when I was in marching band, we did

30:08

go out after the games a little bit. So

30:10

I guess in a way I've had this experience.

30:12

Well, yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong. I've been

30:15

to dozens of cast parties,

30:17

which is a rambunctious energy, not from

30:20

a physical place. We weren't doing

30:23

stomp, you know? We weren't

30:26

like physically acting very hard. So I

30:28

think you get a little bit of

30:30

extra from like this, like I'm exhausted

30:32

from all this physical exertion and the spirit

30:34

of competition, getting the adrenaline

30:36

pumped up. You don't get as much

30:38

of that in a cast party. You do

30:40

get some of it though. You know what

30:42

I think about anytime anyone mentions a cast

30:44

party is Lin-Manuel Miranda's performance of

30:46

Crucible Cast Party on when he was on

30:48

Saturday Night Live. Oh yeah, Jesus Christ. Oh

30:50

my God, I have to watch that again.

30:52

It was so good. I was thinking of

30:54

pin 15. Oh no,

30:57

I mean that's good too. The whole

30:59

like theater, high school theater arc of pin 15 is the

31:01

most blood curdling, just

31:04

bone chilling television I've ever watched. Thank

31:06

you so much for listening. Thanks to

31:08

Bo-In and Augustus for these for a

31:11

theme song, Money Won't Pay. Final link

31:13

to that in the episode description. Hey,

31:15

if you live in beautiful St. Louis,

31:17

Missouri, or what's it

31:20

called also the city where- Oh,

31:22

Chesterfield? Chesterfield. Or Kansas City. Or Kansas

31:24

City, but we're not doing wonderful at Kansas City.

31:27

Specifically plugging. It's St.

31:29

Louis, Chesterfield, Missouri. We're gonna be

31:31

doing wonderful opening up Mabimbam. And

31:34

that show is this Saturday. This week,

31:36

yeah. So come out and see us.

31:38

There's probably still tickets available. If you

31:40

go to bit.ly slash Maceroid Tours, you can

31:43

find links, but also Kansas City. We're coming

31:45

to you on Friday doing Mabimbam. And then

31:47

Tyson's Virginia just outside of the beautiful Washington

31:49

DC. We're gonna be doing Mabimbam there too on

31:52

Sunday. So come out and see us. And then next

31:54

week we'll probably put up that live wonderful show. Well,

31:57

don't say that. Well, I don't know when else we're

31:59

gonna record. I'm just saying like we need

32:01

people to feel like if they don't go to the

32:03

show. I mean, don't get me wrong. When you're

32:05

there in person, it's a totally different

32:08

energy. The energy is electric. The energy

32:10

is, it'll fuck you up. And

32:13

that's a threat. First five rows get wet.

32:15

First five rows may get

32:18

drenched. They will get wet. That's

32:20

a guarantee. And you'll never guess with

32:22

what. We say, what's your

32:25

small wonder? And then we fire hoses

32:27

into the. We shoot big hoses into

32:29

the crowd. Yeah,

32:31

Rachel's like my small wonder. I love mellow

32:33

yellow. And then she has like a whole

32:36

two liter mellow yellow and

32:38

she sprays it all over. So

32:40

come see our show and get sprayed with

32:42

mellow yellow. Money

32:45

won't pay. Work it out,

32:47

pay. Money won't

32:49

pay. Work it out, pay.

32:52

Money won't pay. Work

32:54

it out, pay. Money

32:57

won't pay. Work it

32:59

out, pay. Money won't

33:01

pay. Work it out,

33:03

pay. Money won't pay.

33:07

Money won't pay. Money

33:09

won't pay. Maximum

33:13

Fun.