The Hungarian Meat Whistle

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We love some Jake, yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that means I gotta pretty myself up for this shit.

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Me too. So that's going to take a lot of work.

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We don't have all the time to fucking day for that.

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Because I'm a passive aggressive petty bitch.

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And that's OK.

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Son of a bitch, I have to cancel it.

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If you're born stupid, you don't know.

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You don't know any fucking.

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Yeah, it's like being dead.

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That is fucked up, Jake.

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Get real close to that mic.

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Oh, Samantha, that was kind of porn-esque.

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So the three of us motherfuckers.

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So much violence.

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Fucking up the pop shield.

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Made out of swamp ash.

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I didn't say swamp ass.

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God, I'd hope it's not made out of swamp ass.

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I identify as a woman who's been pregnant.

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I'm Jake Jacobs, and you're listening to What the Fuck.

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OK, hey, we are back.

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And the gang is all here.

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Samantha and Don are both here.

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Welcome once again to the shit show.

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And Don, Samantha has never heard of the legend

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of the Hungarian meat whistle.

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So the Hungarian meat whistle.

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I'm not sure who.

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Maybe I named that maybe years ago.

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I don't know.

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But Mitchell Fletcher is one of the greatest fucking voices

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in all of music as far as I'm concerned.

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His fucking guys just and his brothers are awesome, too.

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James and John and they have this sibling harmony

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to fucking die for.

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Mitchell fucking loved it.

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There was two things that he would hang his fucking hat on.

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One was the Hungarian meat whistle.

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The other was sling blade sling blade.

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Yeah, you got to eat my car.

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Oh, my God.

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You get him doing that.

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Holy shit.

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And he can do that voice and just make shit up.

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He'll make shit up on the spot.

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And you're like, fuck the boy.

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Yeah.

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So the Hungarian meat whistle.

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It sounds like this metal guitar.

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I can't tell you.

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I can't imagine how many national records that that

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is embedded on somewhere.

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My God.

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Just dumb shit.

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I could open up all of my Pro Tools sessions

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and just look for a track that's labeled HMW or Don.

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And I guarantee you that Hungarian meat whistle

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will be buried in the track somewhere.

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Yeah, you might be listening to a little Dirt Road anthem

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and I was like, what the fuck?

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You're like, I think that's Don's big mouth on there.

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If I got nothing else, I got that.

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A couple of years ago, I fancied myself an audio book narrator.

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And after a lot of my customers would tell me

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that I should do that, I had one guy say, are you on the radio?

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I'm like, what do you mean?

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He's like, no, are you like a DJ or something?

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I'm like, no, why do you ask?

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He goes, you have that voice.

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About two years ago.

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And Don actually bought the first audio book I did.

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I did.

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And it's about working internet or side gigs or something.

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Yeah, side gigs.

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It was a totally AI written book.

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But it was my first one and I wanted to get my feet wet.

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So then I was doing other auditions.

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And I was doing about 10 auditions a day.

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And that sounds like a lot, but it's really not.

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Because when you audition for audio books,

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you only give them two minutes.

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They can send you a whole fucking manuscript,

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but you only send them two minutes because.

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They're not going to listen past that.

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After the first 15 seconds, they already

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know whether or not they're going to pick you or not.

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So two minutes.

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Do 10 auditions a day.

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That's really not that much.

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Up until that point, I had been sticking with nonfiction.

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Because that just, to me, seems, maybe it's

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taking the easy way out.

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But I'm using my voice.

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You don't have to put on a character.

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There's no characters.

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There's no dialogue.

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So on this one particular day, it was at the end of the day.

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And I had done maybe 15 auditions.

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And I was just tired.

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My voice was shot.

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This book came up.

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And I'm looking at it and it's an autobiography.

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And I'm like, OK.

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So I pull up the audition script.

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And the very first thing is a word of dialogue.

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It was a shootout scene.

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It was a DEA agent in an action scene.

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That's what he wanted to hear.

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So I did it.

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And when I tell you I didn't put a whole lot into it,

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I really didn't.

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Because I was already tired.

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And I was like, I don't do these kinds of books anyway.

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I'm not going to get picked for it.

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But fucking, I'm just going to do the audition just

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for the practice.

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So I did it.

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Next day, I get an email through ACX.

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And they're like, the author of The Noble Experiment

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by David Gaddis wants you to produce this book.

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I'm like, get the fuck out of here.

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Well, I had to go back and look and see, which one was that?

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Which one was it?

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That's the one with the fucking, god damn it.

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You're like, I got to do dialogue?

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So I went back and looked at the book.

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And it's a fucking 10-hour book.

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It's a 10-hour read.

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So I reached out to the author.

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And he responded fucking right away.

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He's like, you were one of 10 that I had it narrowed down to.

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Your voice just captured the sarcasm.

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No other person captured.

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Because during that scene, there was some sarcasm in there.

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Just the way that he writes it, he's like me.

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It's our second language.

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He said, you saw it and read it the way that I wrote it.

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That's why I had to pick you.

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So David Gaddis, he was high up in the DEA.

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He's retired now from the DEA.

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Is this a segue into he's coming on the show?

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Yes.

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He started listening on YouTube, which, by the way,

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is fucking blowing up right now for whatever reason.

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For whatever reason?

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What do you mean?

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I mean, look at this.

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We're hilarious.

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We're funny as fuck.

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What the fuck?

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We're hilarious.

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This is the god damn Seinfeld show of fucking podcasts.

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We just sit here talking about whatever.

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So Dave reached out to me.

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And he said, hey, man, I absolutely

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love what you guys are doing.

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Can I be on the show?

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I'm like, absolutely fucking literally.

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You know what, Samantha, I've been dying to ask you.

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Driving for Uber, have you had any what the fuck moments

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since you started?

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So I don't drive.

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I only do food deliveries.

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But I have had, yeah, no, I don't want people.

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First of all, my car is a hot ass mess.

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I just do food delivery.

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But I will say it's been nice doing it, one,

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because I'm getting to know different businesses.

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When I lived here in my hobbit hole of never going out,

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I was very restricted on what I knew of my area and places

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and stuff like that.

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So I've been picking up from places that I'm like, damn,

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I got a Cajun seafood, but it smells delicious.

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But no, some of them, it's funny.

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Because I've had a couple repeat people that I'm like,

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as soon as I see the address, I'm like, all right,

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I got you, girl.

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And so I've started doing sticky notes.

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But one of the things was we had an order the other night.

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And we went to go buy Taco Bell.

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And the order was literally just like three or four

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just straight bean burritos.

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I was like, somebody, somebody's trying to, woo.

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I mean, that's one way to keep your house heated.

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I mean, shit.

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And it's just funny, because you see these orders for people

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and you're like, and I think it's funny,

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because my daughter laughs every time I do it.

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I'm like, because I do the same thing

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when I get food delivery.

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Like you wait for them to leave,

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so you can be your little gremlin self,

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run out and grab your food.

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Nobody sees you and you go back to your house.

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So I dropped the food off.

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I'm like, that's right.

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Get your food, you little gremlins.

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I think it's so funny, because I'll literally,

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I'll sit there for a second sometimes

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when I'm going through the app or whatever,

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and I'll notice they won't come out right away.

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I literally, as I'm driving away, I'll check my rear view

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and see them finally come out.

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And they're like, yeah.

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And they're like, right.

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So I'm like, the little gremlins got their food.

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Here's a what the fuck moment for you folks.

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I am a trained and well-educated electronics technician.

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I was an IT guy.

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And for four fucking straight weeks,

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since Jake has invited me to start doing this show with him,

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I have had some sort of fucked up,

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shit wouldn't work, I was using these fucking head,

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these, I was using these EarPods by a famous rapper

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that a large company purchased recently.

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I love them.

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They're great for flying on airplanes.

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And then I put on another set of, I don't know,

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they're fucking super, these fancy schmancy headphones.

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The first thing I didn't have was a microphone.

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So Jake said, here, you need to buy this microphone.

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So I did.

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And I like it.

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But now I got these high-speed, low-drag,

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I don't even know what the fuck they are,

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Audio Technica headphones.

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And they were about 39 bucks or something like that.

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I got them off Amazon.

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And they seem to be very good.

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But the what the fuck part of that is, I could not,

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today, I should, today's episode should be called,

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I might get my shit together one day.

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Well, today was almost that day.

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To start it off, I got on, very first thing,

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I came in early, I downloaded fucking Chrome,

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because Riverside does not play well with Firefox.

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Or Safari.

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Or Safari.

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I got everything lined, I got in here early,

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got my studio early.

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We get on, and I see their lips moving,

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and I don't hear a goddamn thing.

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And I'm just like-

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I don't think it was just you though,

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because when I first came in, he couldn't hear me,

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but I could hear him.

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But then it eventually kicked in.

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Y'all could hear me.

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I could sit because Jake-

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I'm gonna blame Riverside today.

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I'm gonna blame Riverside for it today.

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Jake's waving his cell phone at me.

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So what you guys don't see is that we're looking

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at each other via video for continuity of this conversation.

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And to kind of fuck with Samantha just every now and again.

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For sport.

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But Jake's got his phone, he's waving his phone at me like,

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ah, text me.

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But anyway, I figured it out,

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that was my what the fuck moment for the day.

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And I realized it's not a giant,

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it's not an earth shattering what the fuck moment.

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Like me living here in St. Augustine,

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and having to drive with North Easterners.

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That type of what the fuck moment.

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Like, where did you people come from?

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Go there, go back.

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But yeah, for today.

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That was my same thing when I first came in.

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He could see me talking, but couldn't hear me.

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And I literally was sitting there,

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I was like, oh, I'm the fucking problem this week.

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Yeah, so I've been the fucking problem for the last month.

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And then today I was like, I got my shit together.

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I bought all this new stuff.

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In fact, I didn't just mimbley-mimbley buy that shit.

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I asked the engineer on this show, Jake.

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What should I do?

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Give me, shoot me a Reco.

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So I sent him, like I literally just Googled

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cheap over the air wired headphones, right?

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So the first one that came up was like,

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it was like a $17 pair or something.

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I said, here, something like this.

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Something that has a wire on it,

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that doesn't have a built-in microphone.

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It doesn't have to be anything fancy schmancy.

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Something like this.

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So here's a fun part too about that.

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If you ever decide to get into podcasting out there,

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the biomies do that.

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Here in the 21st century, technology,

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nearly dictates 100% that every fucking thing

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is overly engineered.

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And so trying to find a headset

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that did not have a microphone in it

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was a pain in the nuts.

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So what you have to do is you have to put in

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studio monitor headsets.

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Gotcha.

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Because even the $17 ones have fucking microphones in there.

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They're gamers and all this other stuff.

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Well, this has a built-in mic,

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but it can flip up and it meets itself.

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Yeah, see.

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That meets, I wanted something.

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I didn't want to take a chance.

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I was like, I want something that is in no way 21st century,

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that is 19th century, if possible.

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And that's what these cans are.

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I mean, these are fucking cans.

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That's it.

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There's no noise canceling.

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There's no nothing.

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You know what?

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They work and I love them.

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It's nice.

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Welcome to What the Fuck, where we talk about gear.

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That's right, yeah.

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Sometimes you gotta do it.

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So I have a heartwarming what the fuck.

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I was perusing YouTube after I got done cleaning up

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what I don't want to watch.

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Then it gives you more recommendations.

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So obviously I'm a music guy.

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So obviously there's a lot of music recommendations.

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And I love, love, love those reaction videos

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where you take somebody who's completely

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on the other side of it reacting to a piece of music

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they would never ever listen to in their lifetime

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and you'll watch them react to it.

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I love those because you'll see people

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hearing a piece of music

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that they would have never listened to before

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and just watch their reaction.

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And you could see that they're like,

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holy shit, this is actually really good.

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I love that, right?

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I'll have to look up this kid's,

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I call him a kid, he's a young man.

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He's a producer, but he's really young.

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If I had to get, maybe he's 23, 24, I don't know.

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Someone wrote into his show or emailed him and said,

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we want to see a reaction video to Pink Floyd, The Wall.

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And at first I thought he was just gonna be

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like one of those like, oh, this is like above my head.

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So if you remember Don,

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the opening to The Wall starts out real quiet.

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It's got this real, I mean, you had to like turn it up

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and I'm watching him do this.

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And he's turning, he's like, I can barely hear this.

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And all of a sudden that first song kicks in,

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in the flesh, ba-dum, dah.

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And he like, it takes him back, right?

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And then he's like, wow, that was loud.

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And I'm like, that's exactly what Roger Waters.

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The response he was looking for.

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But what was cool about this is a lot of times

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they will sit there and they'll pause,

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they'll pause the song and then they'll talk about it.

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They're like, I don't get it and blah, blah, blah.

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I hate when they do that.

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This kid from that moment on, it caught his attention.

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He only paused it once halfway through the first album

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because it's a double album, just to make an observation.

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And then he had to split it up into two videos.

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As he's going, like, I think I understand what's going on.

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And for somebody to listen to that piece of music

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and to understand it and dissect it

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and somewhat understand it on the first listen,

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he was like doing some critical listening to it.

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By the end of it, he was just like, this was life-changing.

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He would have never ever listened to that in his lifetime.

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And now he's, yeah, that was cool.

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Jake, you're exactly right.

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I thought I was the only guy that went down those rabbit

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holes on that ship.

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And man, I think that's amazing watching people

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that have never heard of-

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I was getting goosebumps watching this kid

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just digest along.

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Why am I enjoying this?

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It almost felt like I was being a voyeur,

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like watching somebody in secret react to something.

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But it was really cool.

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I could waste so much time watching those videos.

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Well, it's not wasted time.

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It's educational time, really.

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I was an extra on the TV show Nashville

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on the second season.

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I think he told me about that at one point.

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The second season, the very first episode

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of the second season, there's a scene in a trailer park.

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I'm in two separate scenes, and if you look closely

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in the background, you'll see me wearing a bandana,

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and I got the torn up jeans going on,

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and I'm wearing a tank top, a white beater t-shirt.

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I have to scope you out on there.

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I don't even remember how I got that gig.

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I must have signed up for something,

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but I got this email, and at first I thought it was spam.

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And they're like, are you interested in being an extra

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on the show Nashville?

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So I said, sure.

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And I thought, well, it was probably a scam.

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It was legit, right?

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So we show up there.

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They kind of told you the scene

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and what they were looking for

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and what they wanted you to look like.

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But when you get here, we have a wardrobe department

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that if you're not wearing what they want you to wear,

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they'll put you in something.

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Right, they'll put you in what they need.

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So they described the scene, like trailer park.

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So I got it, right?

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So what does that say about me?

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So I show up, right?

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You're like, I'm good to go.

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Nice.

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All these people are here for that same part, right?

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So some people were like, okay, we're gonna put you in this.

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We're gonna give you this.

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They came up to me and they're like, you're good.

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You're good.

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I had it.

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You're like, oh shit, I'm too good.

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This is my everyday fucking work wear, man.

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That was a long fucking day,

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but I got $200 out of the deal.

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Very nice. Nice.

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And- Beer money.

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A catered meal for lunchtime.

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And what was really cool about that-

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Crappy. Is I forget who the caterer was,

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but the food was fucking out of this world.

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Like it was amazing. Nice.

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And the cast, including Hayden-

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Panettier. Yeah.

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And all the rest of the cast that were shooting that day,

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were all eating there with us.

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Like there was no separation.

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Cast, extras, crew, the whole nine yards.

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But we literally started at eight o'clock that morning

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and I didn't get home till 10 o'clock that night.

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So it was a long fucking day.

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And when you break it down,

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you're really only making maybe minimum wage at that point.

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But you're probably standing around most of the time,

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not really like using a whole lot of brain power

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for what you're doing.

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When I was in high school,

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we had a foreign exchange teacher from Sydney, Australia.

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Okay. Oh my God, Mr. Norris.

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I mean, the fact that I remember his name,

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he made an impact on me. That's awesome.

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It was junior English.

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So English three or whatever that would have been.

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He had an interesting project

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and it was for your final, as part of your final,

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but it was a 10 page something.

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But the caveat was that he got to pick the topic for you.

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In other words, he couldn't choose.

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So he didn't do that right away.

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Like he wanted to get to know his class

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before he would pick something.

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Like he wasn't- Right, kind of get a feel for everybody.

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I mean like, all right, I think this would be good.

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So knowing that I love music,

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he gave me the topic of Jesus Christ Superstar.

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Interesting.

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Well, that originated as a rock opera double album

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in 1970, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, right?

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So I'm like, oh my God, you gotta be fucking kidding me.

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You're like, why would you do that to me?

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So I went to the library, the school's library,

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and they had it on vinyl.

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So I checked it out and I took it home.

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When I heard Ian Gillan,

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who was the lead singer of Deep Purple at the time,

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he was singing the part of Jesus,

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I was like, holy fuck, this is good.

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Right, so I really got into it.

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There's been various different versions of it.

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There was a movie made,

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but Ian Gillan, he was the singer on the original album.

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And then he didn't go on tour with it.

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He was in Deep Purple.

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He's like, I'll do this, but that's not my thing.

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There are some songs on there where he hits notes

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that no other singer that has done that

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can match what he did on that original album.

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And there's a song called Gethsemane.

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He hits this note, like, it's not even possible to hit

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because other people were doing it.

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But where I'm going with this is right before COVID hit,

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right before the world fucking shut down,

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there was a touring company doing Jesus Christ Superstar.

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But they weren't doing the play per se,

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they were doing the original album, right?

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And it was just like a rock concert kind of thing.

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But they were dressed up,

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but they were basically staying true

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to the original album.

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And I got tickets to see it.

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I'd never seen it live.

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Oh, that's awesome.

510
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So I got tickets to it.

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And ironically enough, that was the last show.

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They were supposed to be in Cleveland the next day.

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They got to Cleveland and it shut down, boom.

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So I was lucky enough to get to see it, right?

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So the show is great.

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The cast was great.

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Everything was, it was everything that I had imagined.

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And it comes up to that song Gethsemane

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that I was telling you about.

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And on the original album, Ian Gillan,

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right before that note, he starts singing,

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but he's not on that note already.

523
00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,520
He starts like a couple of octaves down

524
00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,800
and kind of like slides up into that note.

525
00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,480
And when he hits that note, it's just like,

526
00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,120
fuck, like I'm getting goosebumps right now.

527
00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:50,880
Just thinking about that note that he sings, right?

528
00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,480
So this singer who was doing that part,

529
00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,080
he was really good throughout the whole show.

530
00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,760
Gets to that part, you're just about to fucking climax.

531
00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,640
And what he does, he hit the note, but he went right to it.

532
00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,640
He just went, bing, right to that fucking note.

533
00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,040
Like he didn't slide into it like Ian Gillan did.

534
00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,160
And I'm like, well, that was anticlimactic.

535
00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:10,000
Oh no.

536
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,440
He's still cheating now.

537
00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,680
I mean, he hit the note, but he just like,

538
00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:14,520
like he was-

539
00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,320
But not in the amazing way that-

540
00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:17,560
Yeah, it's almost like he was just showing off.

541
00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:18,880
Like he could go right to it, like,

542
00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,080
ah, whatever that note was.

543
00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,000
And I'm like, motherfucker.

544
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,080
That's some bullshit.

545
00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:25,520
These fucking professional singers.

546
00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,640
No grace, come on.

547
00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,240
This is gonna be a goddamn reach around.

548
00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:48,800
There's no way this is gonna go.