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Now, here is the podcast, Metal Heads Podcast.

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Hello and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast.

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My name is George.

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This is Jay.

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This is Will.

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This is John.

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This is Matt.

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This is Marcuson.

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We are joined today by our friend and brewer of tasty beer, Warren Hendrickson.

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While Warren has appeared in some of our field recordings, this is his first time on a studio episode. I'm sorry we neglected you for so long. In fact, we wanted you on in November, but we had to bump you for Phil from Chemist. But at long last, here you are. Welcome, Warren. Thanks for having me, guys. So, starting out, Warren, why don't you give us a little background on yourself? Where are you from? What do you do? Right on. So, yeah, I'm from New York.

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I started my brewing career about nine or ten years ago at the Lake Placid Pub and Brewery, way up in upstate New York, like almost in Canada. I was there for a couple of years. I moved down to Maryland about seven years ago, started brewing at Flying Dog, and then kind of bounced my way around at Maryland breweries. I worked at Black Flag. I worked at a brewery in Pennsylvania for a little bit, and now I'm at Four Brewing in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Nice. How did you get into making beer in the first place? You know, what made you say, I want to make beer? I'm just like cooking beer on my stove. When I graduated college, I didn't know what I wanted to do for a living. I was a history major and I had no clue what I wanted to do with it. A lot of money in history, by the way. Yeah. That's kind of weird. I was a substitute teacher in inner city Philadelphia for a year. And that kind of convinced me that I didn't want to be a teacher.

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So I just started making beer on a stove, essentially, and then got so obsessed with it that I decided I want to do it for a living. So I got hired by the Lake Placid Brewery up in upstate New York, and then kind of got my start there. You know, Warren, I think I've known you for probably about five years now, and I've learned more about you in the last five seconds. I didn't know you were a teacher in Philadelphia. Yeah, this is a lot of news to me.

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I mean, I've known you almost as long. Yeah, I was wondering the other day, I was like, how long have we known Warren? At least, I would say at least four or five years. And I was like, I'm assuming we met you through Will, because Will's kind of like the Blake Harrison of the podcast. You know, he knows everybody. Warren and I met on Grindr, so yeah. It's perfect sense. Well, that's why he's got to be on the podcast. We can find out. Exactly. I'm from upstate New York, so that was an interesting one.

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Yeah, that's further up. I grew up in Westchester, so not that far up.

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Oh, yeah.

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So where did you brew in Pennsylvania?

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Hanover, PA, the warehouse bistro.

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It's a tiny, tiny little nano.

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Hanover is like practically Maryland.

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Yeah, it's like on the Maryland line.

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So warm.

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I was there for a couple years.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, no. So I was there for a couple years and then I got hired at Black Flag in Columbia, Maryland. And now I'm the head brewer at Forward Brewing in Annapolis, Maryland. Is Black Flag still around? Yeah. Yeah, they're still there. Okay. I see them every once in a while and I go, ah, fuck them. Warren doesn't work there anymore. Yes. I have the same attitude, for sure. I have the same feeling towards any place that Will has previously worked. Warren's worked at a lot of places. Do you say fuck those places? Every time I see Warren, I'm like, where are you brewing now? Yeah. Yeah.

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I've been to a few. I think I'm on my sixth brewery now. Yeah. Trail of alcoholic destruction. And you will know us by our trail of beer. All right. I think I met you the first time. I think you just came to a show at Atlas. Yep. Yeah, that was what I met. Yeah, and then we just started BSing and you're like, yeah, I brew beer and I like metal. I'm like, I'm going to marry you. Hey Warren, I had a lot.

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I have a really important question to ask you. How many times do you think Will has slapped, grabbed, or pinched your ass at Atlas? Well, statute of limitations have expired. Anything happen pre-COVID doesn't count. I'm just curious because Warren's been, I say that just because he's been to a ton of shows at Atlas and every time that, you know, your night's not complete until that ass gets hit. It's like you're rounding third

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In more ways than one.

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How many shows have Atlas had?

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Because then I could figure out.

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Oh, we've had like 150 or so.

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So time is like five.

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Yeah.

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Once is not enough.

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All right.

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So how old were you when you got into music?

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And what did you start off with? Was it metal? Was it not metal? What was it? So I started getting into, I'd say, heavier music when I was a senior in high school. But what did you listen to before that? What did you start on? Come on. It was shit. It was shit. Well, that's what we're digging for here. We're digging for shit. We've already ripped Matt a new one every episode about his Limp Bizkit and Korn. Yeah.

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I'm going to be 35 in a couple weeks. So I was right in that new metal kind of thing. Tell us about the Nookie. Yeah, I got your back on this one. So yeah, I think my first my first album I ever bought, I want to say was Significant Other, Limp Bizkit. It's pretty bad. You're going to feel good about this when you're done. It's going to be out in the open. It's like therapy, man.

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Yeah, so it was very firmly like M&M, Limp Bizkit, Korn, all that stuff. I think when I was a senior in high school, I started getting into slightly heavier stuff. And then, yeah, like I would say my first real like entry. Like Nickelback and Chevelle. What do you mean by heavier? You need to be a little more specific. I was just going to ask that, Matt. Yeah, I was down with the sickness. Yeah.

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My first real entry, I would say, was Nine Inch Nails. That was my first band that I really... That's respectable. That's respectable. And then, yeah, I would say this was my first really significant music venture, I guess, I would say. I have the downward spiral tattooed on my arm, actually. I don't know if you knew that. Oh, wow. Did not know that. But yeah, that's very... Listen, I don't look at your arms, buddy. Just...

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Yeah, that was like my first like really big foray into heavier music. And then from there, I kind of made my way into like Tool. I really got into Lateralis was like one of my favorite albums growing up. Yeah, it's a great one. It's my favorite. Yeah. And then I think my first real metal that I really got into was Opeth, which I'm, of course, still into today.

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So I would say, yeah, Blackwater Park was really my real awakening watershed. Yeah. John just got out a popper and a lube. He's ready. I knew all this already, but I knew this part of Warren already. Yeah. Hey, Warren, did you get into that? Did you know about the tattoo already? No. I'm telling you this. I need cliff notes for Warren tonight. Warren, did you just real quick? Did you hear Blackwater Park when it came out?

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catch on to it afterwards. It was later. Yeah, it was. Just trying to get the timeline of when all this is happening. Yeah. So this is like when I'm when I was a freshman in college. So I would say this is, let's see, 08, 09. So yeah, a little bit later. Cool. But yeah, that's when I really got into metal. And then from there, I would say, enslaved were really the band that I really caught on to.

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And yeah, to this day,

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I would say Enslaved are really the kind of,

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probably my favorite metal band and the one that I really,

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really dig the most.

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Do you have a style for them, right?

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Yeah. I was actually supposed to go, they were,

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they were doing this festival out in the grand Tetons a couple of years ago

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that got canceled due to COVID,

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but I'm considering possibly going again.

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Is that fire in the mountains or whatever?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, Ivar is the curator for it this year, isn't he? Yep. That's awesome. Is he doing the dark folk thing with the other guy? With Einar from Varjuna? Yeah. So I hopefully might go to that this year. We'll see. Cool. So do you have a particular style you like or are you just kind of a general metalhead, general practitioner? I would say, yeah, like progressive.

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I think that's probably my favorite subgenre.

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Cool. I have a really important question. This is super important. Are you allowed to blast metal while you're brewing beer?

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Absolutely, because I work at a very small brewery. We're just a seven barrel brewery, so it's pretty much just me. I have a part-time assistant who kicks ass, but it's 90% of the time I'm just by myself.

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So I get to play whatever I want. Do you have one of those little chalkboard stickers on the fermenters and you can write it down? Yeah. You do? Nice. Do you post that stuff? No, no, but we should. Yeah. Starting tomorrow. Yeah. What's your favorite beer? My favorite beer, I would say, is Allagash Currio. Oh, that is so good. For the fucking wind, man. Yeah. I love that.

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that beer. I actually have so many stories that I don't remember about that beer. I wonder why, Will, right? I fucking love that. That's a great choice. Have you ever had that snake venom? Yeah. That's awesome. George, you couldn't even drink it. I had to drink yours. No, that would be somebody else. I drank somebody else's. I drank somebody else's, too. Are you guys talking about the beer? I think I drank John's. They had a little snake venom, then they started drinking something else. Anyway, hey, tell

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Tell us more about this favorite beer of yours. Yeah. So yeah. Allagash Curio. So it's like their Belgian triple. Allagash kind of specializes in Belgian beers, mixed fermentation beers. And this is their Belgian triple that they age in a whiskey barrel. I actually have sort of my own clone that I do at forward brewing. We have the regular triple on tap. And then I have a version that I age in a whiskey barrel that will be ready in about a month or so.

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So what's your favorite beer that you've personally created? Oh, right on. My personal favorite, I would say I did a Baltic Porter that I aged in a gin barrel for about six months, and I loved it. It was like probably my favorite beer I ever did. Wow. I love Porter so much. That sounds great. I don't think I've ever had a Porter in gin barrels. Yeah, how does gin, you know, how does that flavor it?

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It kind of dries it out a little bit

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because it's like a Baltic Porter.

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It's almost like a bit of a thinner like Imperial Stout.

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You get a little bit more of that sort of rye.

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I brewed it with a good amount of rye.

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I also put, I'm trying to remember,

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it's like what they put in rye bread, the spice.

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I can't think of it right now.

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Carraway?

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Yeah.

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Carraway?

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Yeah.

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Carraway, yeah.

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So I used carraway season it also

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because I really wanted to make it like that rye kind of bread.

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Yeah, the Silent Neighbor,

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at Atlas was used to be called pumpernickel, pumpernickel style, which has all the caraway and the rye and molasses and all that stuff in it. Yeah, exactly. How strong was that one? I was 9%. It was 8% going into the barrel and I'm kind of guessing it was 9% coming out. Warren, you do a lot of brewing with rye? Um, not a ton. I'd like to do more. Um, I love like, yeah, I do too. Please do.

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I love rye too. Make a rye IPA. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Then I could see you through the glass. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Yeah. It's kind of a, it's like in brewing right now, it's like, it's almost like you have to make a hazy just to like appease people. Yes. Well, you should use a rye whiskey to age it in because I love rye whiskey. Yeah, absolutely. I got one for Warren. Hey, Warren, what was the best show you went with or went to with John in Baltimore?

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Oh, Aransi Bizzuzu. And who else? Who else opened? Do you remember? Mirandous. Yeah. I bring that up because we always, every time we see each other, that comes up somehow in conversation. It was just an un-fucking-real night. We saw him at the Metro Gallery. It was a tiny little place in Baltimore. I've still never been there. I know about it, but I can't be bothered to go there for some reason. Actually, it's probably one of the easier venues to go to for parking.

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and everything is just got to drive through Baltimore to get to it. Compared to like Silver Spring or DC, a lot of, well, not Atlas, but you know, a lot of the. Atlas is super easy. Actually for you now, you just go right down 50 and you're there. Oh my God. Yeah. It's super easy. Yeah. Now they could just keep that garage open behind Atlas at the old Hex building past midnight. Then it'd be all right. You just have to get there five hours early and park out front. Wait a minute. Get there five hours early. Have a few beers. Go eat breakfast.

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Come back, have some more beer. Then go back and drink more beer. Oh, yeah. Now the first band's coming on. Exactly. Are you going to MDF, Warren? I am. Yeah. I'm going to Friday and Saturday, Edison Lott, possibly Sunday. I'm not sure yet. We'll be there. No, no. Not possibly. You're going Sunday. I think literally all of us are going. If you're going to be there, I'll be there. Well, can you make us that porter? Yes. Bring it to us. Yes, I can. Bring us a special Warren beer. Yes.

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For the parking lot beers. I'll only be there Saturday, Warren. So that'd be great. If not, no big deal. I'm sure I'll see you a million times before and after that. Maybe. If there's no pandemic. Which there always will. Yeah, it's never going away. I'm looking forward to that show. How has the pandemic affected you as a brewer? You're there alone in the brewery. Has it changed anything about your job or how you perform it? Yeah, I mean, we actually opened literally right when everything shut down. Oh, shit.

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So we were actually just serving beer kind of like an ice cream shop, like prowlers out the window basically when we first opened. And then later that year, we were finally able to open up outside and outdoor seating, standing, what have you. But now we're actually open indoors and outside. But yeah, it has been something you definitely have to kind of work your way around.

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And then can releases also help. We started canning our beer early last year. So that also helps. Warren, I heard you like big cans. I do. Well, Will and John and I should do a field trip up there once it's reasonable to go outside again and, you know. Absolutely. Spend an afternoon, evening, whatever. Yeah, I mean, it's only for me, it's like, I don't know, 45 minutes. Yeah, that's about probably.

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about this maybe an hour I don't know 45 an hour something like that do you want to do any collabs with with metal bands since you're so into metal absolutely yeah I'd love to who um if you could if you can mention or whatever like the owner forward are they just open to you just kind of doing your thing for the most part we have like a couple like uh core brands but outside of that um the thing I really love is that I kind of get left alone to do whatever I want which is

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Yeah. Nice. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Do some claps. Try and George, I talked to George the other day and he was mentioning like, hey, you should do something for Metal and Beer Fest. MDF, actually. Sorry. MDF. You're right. Maryland Death Fest for the uneducated or the unknowing. For the Slipknot fans in the audience.

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I just didn't know but I brought the idea up to the owner of Atlas and he's like yeah dude we can make it happen let's happen we don't we stop distributing in Baltimore County though because I think it's a different county I forget what county because Baltimore Maryland is really messed up with their beer district distribution laws yeah because it's county by county and it's run by the counties yeah so we're in Anne Arundel Anne Arundel is relatively okay it's not as bad as Montgomery

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like distribution as far as I know.

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What's Baltimore?

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It's Baltimore County.

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Just Baltimore County, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so we don't distribute in Baltimore anymore.

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I guess whatever distributor we're using, just whatever.

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So we'll have to get a special license, but I'm going to talk to the – I think I have contacts with the guys who make MDF,

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so I'll see what I can do about getting some more Atlas there.

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Nice.

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Yeah, I was like, you know, most of these – you go to MDF and stuff like that, there's a lot of shitty beer.

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I mean, obviously, if you're a decibel, there's good beer, but I was like, dude, you know, instead of Will's trunk beer, let's like have some real beer here, like inside the fest, but let's still bring the trunk beer. I was going to say, if we're going to do that, I think the main thing to do this time is to bring a big giant garbage can and put it outside the car. Yeah. I think that would be helpful.

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to whoever's car has all the beer in it this time as opposed to last time. Will, give us your keys. Just saying. Yeah. Well, this is the first year the Edison lot's back, right? Yeah. Yeah. I've only been once and that was a couple of years ago. It was the last year before COVID and there was no Edison lot. It was just. Yeah. There were two or three years of no Edison. Yeah. Yeah. And what's funny is we all complain about the Edison lot. It's basically a giant parking lot and there's no shade.

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And there's like one giant, I'll never forget this, I'm sure I have a picture somewhere, it's like one light pole, or one or two light poles in the middle of the parking lot, and it casts just the little bit amount of shade, and you just see this line of people behind that pole, like trying to get that slim little piece of shade. Or you can do that, or just go on the underpass, I mean, whatever your prediction is. Yeah, well, supposedly, there's going to be more seating and more shade this time, that they're making improvements for that, so.

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Maybe there'll be two light poles. I don't know. Yeah. What people know is that people say, oh, it's Memorial Day weekend. It's not that hot. Not in this area. For some reason, it goes from spring to like fucking dead summer on that weekend. It's just so freaking hot. And when you're standing on, you know, a parking lot, pavement, it's just, yeah, it's just reflecting off of that back at you. And it's only noon. Yeah. Fuck. You've only had six beers by noon. Six beers already.

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I will bring a parasol. Yes. I love that. Speaking of weird beer laws, I saw that, well, not beer, but alcohol in general, I saw that Virginia is thinking about getting rid of the ABC stores. Yeah. I mean, it's such a relic to like, just get rid of them. Cause Pennsylvania has the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Maryland is sandwiched in between two stupid States. So Jay in California, you can walk into your grocery store and you can buy, uh,

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beer, wine, and liquor, and Twinkies. But in Virginia and Pennsylvania, you cannot buy liquor unless you go to a state-run store that sells liquor. And they call them ABC, Alcohol Beverage Control. Yeah, you know, it's funny. I was in Pennsylvania for like a week once, and I did have to go to one of those stores. And I remember thinking, what? Okay, so for anyone who has a hard time understanding this, I'll make it really simple for you to understand. Tax dollars. That's exactly why they do it.

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That's the only reason they do it. I grew up in Michigan where you could go to Meyers Thrifty Acres and buy yourself a pound of ground beef, a parakeet, some winter tires, a bottle of Jack Daniels and some beer and some ravioli and you're good to go and you're one-stop shopping. That's going to be the happiest parakeet ever. You got yourself a weekend in Vegas there, George. They had everything there, man. I moved to Maryland where they didn't have shit. Nothing was over there.

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in 24 hours. I was like, what? Yeah, that's the only reason. I mean, it's dumb. I get it, but that's the only reason they do it. We're in Virginia. We're in the Bible Belt. We're in the South. Well, now, for instance, but just as George, technically, you know, I lived in Jackson, Mississippi for a while, which is where have you not lived? Yeah. I lived in, I think, 14 states. I counted enough. But in Jackson, which is not an officially dry county, though, there are dry counties in Mississippi.

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But there's no bar that can sell hard liquor. So what you do is you can go and buy beer and it's like lower percentage beer. And if you want hard liquor, you bring it in a paper bag and you pay them for cups of ice. Wow. And it makes every bar look like the most low class bullshit fucking thing. You know what I mean? Because it's just a bunch of people sit around paper bags. It's drinking King Cobras and Schlitz. Yeah, I remember when I was in the Marine Corps, my sniper partner, he got he got off active duty a little bit.

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me went to Clemson. So me and a whole bunch of the guys who were still in the

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platoon, I went to go visit him in Clemson. And on Saturday night at midnight, all the bars closed. Do you know why?

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Because it was Sunday and it was church day. It was Sunday. You do not drink on Sundays in South Carolina. I know. I mean, this was back in 1994 or five. Well, it's still a problem because like, you know, Barb and I'll go down to like Myrtle Beach.

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Well, Myrtle Beach is a good example. Sometimes we go further, but Myrtle Beach is in South Carolina. And, you know, we'd like leave on Sunday morning, get there Sunday afternoon and be like, what? No beer? We've learned now you got to stop in North Carolina and pick up the beer before you get to South Carolina. Yeah. South of the border. It's a good place to go. Yeah. No, it's not. Yeah. No, no, no. I have no desire to go to the south.

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But my wife's from Kentucky. That has nothing to do with the South. It's like that in Utah. Utah's not in the South. Utah, if you go to a, it used to be, you couldn't even go to a bar. You had to actually get sponsored by someone who was a member of the bar club. That's the only way you could get in. And then when you got in, you got, you were, you were lucky. The beer might be like 3.6% on tap if you were lucky. Okay. So I can update you on that, John. Oh, I know. I used to work in

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So I know the changes all because of the Olympics things have slowly progressed. Well, no, but they're still weird. So now if anything over. I want to say a bottle is right. Anything over a certain percentage of that I don't recall, but it's not a high percentage. And the other one is it's illegal to order a beer. If you're standing, you have to be sitting down in a chair or at the bar to get beer. What if you were sitting on Will's lap? I don't know how much dated four step part though, to be honest with you. I don't know. But yeah, I literally took a picture of that sign.

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Yeah.

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Or better yet, sitting on Will's lap, yet standing at attention.

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I like Salt Lake City, though. It's nice.

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But I went to the...

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They have a ton of good breweries there, too.

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Epic was great.

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Epic is Baptist.

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Yeah, and it was weird. I remember even just buying...

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And that was weird, too.

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That you had to...

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Has to be in a bottle to get...

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Yeah, but then it was also...

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The way you bought the beer was weird, even at the tasting place. I can't recall what it was. It still changed a lot, but it all changed because of the Olympics. They were like, how can we have the Olympics if we won't allow people to drink? People will claim it has to do with whatever from the past, but what it really has to do with is what's going to make you more money. Speaking of which, it always comes down to that. It's always money. Literally 20 minutes before the podcast, I finished watching Don't Look Up. Have you seen that shit?

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Yeah.

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That's pretty fucked up.

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That's all I'm going to say.

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That's pretty fucked up.

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All right.

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Well, welcome to the Beer Heads podcast.

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We're going to take a break and talk about things that aren't beer.

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But we have not one, but two brewers.

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I know.

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I don't care.

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I mean.

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Actually, I want to know more about beer.

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They are intertwined as far as I'm concerned.

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I'm not complaining.

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I want to know what Warren's working on now.

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Like, what do you want to create next?

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So right now I have sort of like a New Zealand themed IPA in the tank. So I try to keep it. So it's Kiwi? Yeah. So there's actually, there's Kiwi in it. There's New Zealand hops in it. And we use this. Sheep fur. Sheep fur. You use the sheep fur to filter. There's hobbits in there. There's this yeast called Cosmic Punch right now that's supposed to,

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Basically transform thiols into hop compounds. Without sounding too nerdy and technical, it's basically supposed to turn things that normally you wouldn't taste into tropical aromatics, basically. You know, it's not too technical, but halfway through that explanation, I wanted to say, fuck off. Is it wrong that tropical aromatics turns me on? Not in Hawaii.

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That sounds really good. Wait, is there actually real kiwi in it? Are you putting kiwi in it? Yeah, I did throw some kiwi in it. Are you chopping up kiwi dudes and put them in there? No, no. No, it's puree. Yeah, I just use puree. Puree dudes. Soylent grain, essentially. Puree greens. I mean, I like an IPA that has a fruit forward, like a citrusy taste for sure. That's basically what I'm trying to maximize doing that kind of. Wait, Warren, did you brew it yet? Yeah, it's in the tank right now.

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What did you listen to when you were brewing? This is a very important question. I listened to the new Immolation single, Apostle. That's five minutes. You probably brewed for like six hours. I listened to it on repeat. Twelve times an hour for six hours. So 72 times. The rest of that was Limp Bizkit. Immolation is so good. I'm trying to call you out, but at the same

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I'm ashamed to forget. There was a band from New Zealand that is this phenomenal thrash death band that we all love and it was super high on my list and I cannot think of the name of the band right now. Too many bands. Somebody help me out. Thrash? It's mostly death metal. Only band I know from New Zealand. Ulcerate? Ulcerate? Ulcerate. Yes, that's it. Ulcerate. Their last album was amazing. That's what you should have been listening to.

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I have blasted that in the brewery several times. Okay, good. All right. All right. You are redeemed. Death Chasm is from New Zealand. He was making an Australian themed beard when he listened to Ulsterite, though. Yeah. Now you need to make an Australian beard that has like... Death Chasm. You saw the movie Death Chasm, right? That's so good. Oh, it's your favorite movie and you haven't seen it? Shit. You gotta see Death Chasm. Trust me. You know what I did see last night, which is a phenomenal movie, the new Ghostbusters movie. Okay, cool. I was thinking about seeing it.

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If you have not seen it, it is awesome. Nice. Cool. Yeah. Don't say anymore. I haven't seen it. But actually, I got to tell you on Death Gasser real quick. If you haven't seen it, it's awesome, dude. It's about these two kids sort of who, and they find, they go and find this like lost black metal musician in his album and basically open up a rift and reality and stuff. But it's a comedy. It's so fucking funny, dude. Is it all based in the woods? No, but they do a very good version of the immortal video for,

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My Mysticism

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Okay, then. So. Deadly silence. I was just waiting to see if anybody had anything else to say before I moved on. Well, I mean, so in fairness, I mean, three of us know Warren fairly well. So it's almost like this is normal to just talk about this stuff. So I can't why that would happen. Yeah, no worries. But we just did our top 25 albums of 2021.

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What were some of your favorite albums from last year, Warren? Now this shit's getting serious. So my number one album from last year, it's a really epic, folky black metal. If you miss Agaloc like I do, it kind of scratches that itch. And the album is Breasts of Elder Dons by Wynn Farrer. I've heard of the band, but I don't recall seeing that. That is funny because it's like,

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I didn't hear that band until after we did our top 25. I think I bought the vinyl and it would have made my list had I heard it is fucking good. Hey Markisan I think you and I because I noticed it was in your band camp and it was on mine too I listened to it also after the top 25. Yeah yeah I have it in my what we're listening to when we get to that section. That's funny. So spoilers a great record. I think I have a friend of mine I think my friend Serge I haven't seen him in years he lives

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I think he knows those guys or somebody in that band so nice what else you got

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my number two lab from last year not huge surprise with this one but it would be a panopticon and again to the

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light one of the very few shows besides atlas that I've been to last year was I got to go to the

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shadow woods fest and saw them play at it and it was really cool it was like in the middle of the

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with like a bonfire playing uh behind the band it was very like i thought they played it like the

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clarion hotel and frederick was that the year before the shadow woods oh oh that was like they do that they do the

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winter one up there okay gotcha yeah yep i had only gone that year too that was like the only the only time

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i've been to it so they've actually done shadow woods a couple times then yeah because john and i saw him

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Yeah, because George and I saw him too. In the woods, was it in that little like... Where you had to sit on logs? Yeah. Yeah, that was awesome. Sweet. Yeah, same thing. A different year, of course. Say no more. We know exactly what you're talking about. All right, number three. Yeah, I guess number three... Oh, sorry, go ahead. Oh, you. Oh, for me? Oh, okay. Hold up, let me pull up my list here. Usually we go backwards, but we'll go forwards. That's cool. Yeah.

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My number three, okay. Future Briser, Chemist, Deceiver. What else were you going to say about it? Nice. The Metalheads podcast number one album. No complaints here except from Jay. Who Jay'd it? Jay, you need like a truck horn that you can pull whenever something like that comes up. No, it's who blew their nose the last episode. It was Jay. It was like epically loud.

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And then Marcus just kept doing it.

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Marcus blows the whole fucking thing up.

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It was like that.

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That's what it sounded like.

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That's what it sounds like.

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Somebody forgot the mute.

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Every time.

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Did you notice though on this podcast, Jay has been muting a lot.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Zach from chemists is like a hero of mine.

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I'm actually wearing a true, true brewing hat.

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He's the head brewer and owner of True Brewing in Denver. He's awesome. I almost wore one of my True shirts today. I wish they did more than Sour. Have you met Zach? Yeah, you introduced me when they played at that horrible venue, but it was a great show. Songbird. Oh, fuck yeah, that's right. It was like 352 degrees at that show, wasn't it? Yeah. So it's just slightly cooler than the shows at

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Oh, huge, huge, huge news flash, by the way. So Warren, when we were there the other night, you heard the news the same time I did. They're going to start putting some air conditioning in there in the actual brewing space. Warren, you heard that, right? No, I didn't hear that. Oh, this is maybe before you showed up. The director of operations for Atlas, Corey, great guy. Him and I were chatting back in the brewery when Warren showed up because Warren and I were supposed to meet to give me some beer. And anyway,

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But yeah,

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they're going to put a,

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some sort of air conditioning,

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something in there to cool that place down.

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Nice.

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So you mean,

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we won't have to stand with practically our asses hanging out in front of that big old dusty fan,

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that industrial fan.

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Every time you let one rip,

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everybody in the room gets a taste right now,

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man.

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Guys,

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you're really selling this.

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Like it's a great place.

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It is a great,

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it is the greatest place in DC.

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Yeah.

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Cause you get free butt slapped and beer.

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My name is George Washburn. I like free beer and free butt slaps. Come for the beer, stay for the butt slaps. Leave because the butt slaps hurt after a while. If your butt's tender. Are there any albums that you're looking forward to this year? I'm really looking forward to the new Immolation album.

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here's they don't cancel it but i'm supposed to see them in richmond on the uh 18th uh it's actually my birthday of january february wait february 18th did you say that was your birthday yeah nice yeah 36 you're gonna be 36 36 yeah i hear a baby yeah it could be it could be my kid us old fucks i know well speak for yourself you're on the other team now wait i'm on the other

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I'm in the official Grey Beards over 50 club. Silver metalheads. Greyback. Silverback? Silverback? Silverback like the gorillas. Yeah, Silverback, yeah. All right, well, unless there's any other questions, I'm going to hit you with the one we always ask at the end. Hit them. What three albums would help people understand you better

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as a person.

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All right.

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So I might have already said earlier.

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I don't remember.

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But yeah, Nine Inch Nails.

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That was the one that really got me into heavier music.

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Before that, I was listening to Absolute Garbage.

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So that was the first time.

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I've never heard of that band.

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Garbage?

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Yeah, they're pretty cool.

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Garbage?

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Their first album was pretty cool.

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Yeah.

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I'm only happy when it rains, you know.

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I think he's talking about the band Absolute Garbage.

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Oh, a grandcore band. Right. Yeah.

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Hey, gee. Yeah. All right. What's, what's next? Um, after that, uh, Opeth Blackwater Park. Um, I think that really got me into heavier music and, uh, you know, growls, uh, more like complex, um, instrumentals, things like that. I mean, it's, I have to say that's a great one because it's got a little bit of everything. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's got the death, it's got the progressive, it's got,

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you know some of the clean singing like it's the melodic like it's it's it's it's got

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everything yeah that's a good one oh by the way that was not john saying that that was will

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it's probably their best record what i think yeah after still water yeah still water still life sorry

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still still water i just watched the movie still water we all have different ones because they all

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sound good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would, it's tough for me in between that one and still life. It's a toss up. Now we're talking. Yeah. Um, and then number three and then third, I would say, uh, sort of transitioning of how I am now, I would say, uh, I mean, you look, I mean, your transition is going great. I mean, you look really good. I mean, his name's Catherine. Not. Yeah. I mean, are we starting to call you Catherine now? The voice is convincing for sure.

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What's the name of your doctor? Probably I'd put Enslaved Ugard. Cool. Wow. Love that record. That's a ballsy choice. Yeah. I mean, like, I love all their albums. It's hard to pick one, but I'd just say, like, is what the type of music I'm into now. I think that's a good example of it. I'm guessing that's not your favorite Enslaved album. No. I don't know. I'd probably toss it up between Below and

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Blow the Lights and Rune. It's hard to say. Good choices. Blow the Lights for me, for sure. Yep. Blow the Lights. Rune for me. I'd take Rune. I mean, the Rune's great. But they're both in close running, yeah. It's 1A and 1B for me. Oh, yeah. Very cool. I feel like I know you now that you've said those three albums. Yeah, exactly. Any other questions before we move on? Obviously, Warren's just going to keep talking throughout the episode, but anything Warren's specific

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you wildly want to know before we move on. When am I going to see you again, buddy? When's the next I will show? Is it like a couple of weeks from now? Yeah. I got to look at my calendar. Oh, you know what? I do want to make an announcement, though. So you guys, well, you guys know, and maybe some of the listeners know. So we are dear friends in a joint theory brewing company out in Percival, Virginia, which is literally

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Bumfuck Nowhere. Half an hour from Virginia. About as north of Virginia you can get without being in West Virginia. They have an anniversary show every year. Mark Osborne, who loves metal, they're always at the LA and Philadelphia Metal and Beer Fest. Whenever they have an anniversary party, Mark always entrusts me to curate a heavy metal show for the anniversary.

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For your anniversary party. So in years past, we've had, we've had Ilsa, we've had Fohammer, we've had Basilic, we've had Inner Arma, Horrendous. Yeah, Horrendous. We've had some really great bands to come on. So this year, mark your calendars. By the time you are listening to this, it will probably already be announced, but we finalized almost everything today, this afternoon.

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So it's March 26th at the Adroit Theory Brewing Company. And the headliner, well, it's going to be Loud Night, who's been on the podcast. They're going to open the show. And then my good buddies in Genocide Pack, they're going to be direct support in the middle slot. And then the headliner is going to be full of hell. So if anybody wants to get some plane tickets, whatever, come on out. So it's going to be. I'll be there.

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A little bit of everything. It's going to be a little bit of the grind noise thing with Full of Hell. It's going to be straight up death metal with Genocide Pact. And then you just have this like full on speed thrash kind of music that you can play. Absolutely trash out of your mind falling off your drum stool. Per Jonah. Just like Jonah told us. Hopefully you're not trash out of your mind for the first band. Well, I'm hoping despite John not being into most of that,

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that he's still going to come and hang. Yes. Although I may actually be on the road. I don't think I will be. I think I'll be here. Good. We're planning on possibly doing a trip. Don't plan on it. Be here. It's more than just a trip. Gotcha. So. All right. Sorry, Will. I cut you off. No, no, no. So anyway, that's. Yeah. I'm pretty excited for this one because I like how diverse the lineup is, which is cool.

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A little bit of everything for everybody. Looking forward to that. Nicely done, Will. Nicely done. And weirdly enough, I get an email out of the blue from Integrity. If you know Integrity, they email me out of the blue and like, hey, we heard about this show. Can we get on it? I cannot afford it. It's not me. We can't afford you guys. We love you. I fucking love Integrity, but like we just can't afford it. Yeah. That's too bad because that would be. It would be amazing.

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You already have a great lineup. It's literally practically the decibel pre-show where Will got his arm like mangled. Yeah. By James. All right. Let's do it. Warren. Come on for that one. Yeah, man. Oh, yeah. I will be there and I have to get a hotel room because I can't drive back. Well, yeah. You did that last time. Last time was a little rough. I got a hotel room. That's right. Yeah. That's weird. I remember that.

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Yeah. All right. I mean, because there's no beer there that's under like 13% out. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, let's do a t-shirt and beer check before we move on. Warren, what are you wearing? What are you drinking? So I am wearing Unendlich. This is a local Baltimore black metal band. Really awesome. They played at the Shadow Woods Fest this year.

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I really dug them. So I got a shirt. And I'm also drinking a Space Station Dream Lab from Equilibrium brewing up in New York. Nice. Nice. Cool. Cheers. Cheers. Markisan. I am wearing, this is very unusual for me. I don't really wear colors that much, but I make an exception for red. It's blowing my mind, you and red. Yeah, I look really good in it. It's high on fire.

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And it's based on Dungeons and Dragons. So I had to get the red version because I remember, you know, all that Dungeons and Dragons stuff, the rule books and everything in red. It's this heavy battle metal on it and it's got a dragon. It's pretty. I think that was the basic set. The original red boxed basic set. Yeah. Yeah. And I actually got two of these shirts. They have this one in red and they have the same one in black. So I'm like, I'll just get both.

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And I bought them a while ago and they don't ship to Hawaii. So I had them ship it to my brother in New York. And when they sent us the Christmas gifts, they put them in there. So it'd been a while since I had ordered it. So it was kind of cool to get it. So I just got it not too long ago. And then I had a highball drifter from Founders, which I really like. I wasn't sure that I was going to like this thing. It's got a, the description is,

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There's a new sheriff in town. Meet highball drifter. A barrel-aged sipper inspired by her favorite bourbon-based cocktails. And it's pretty good. It's 11%. I'm done with that. And now I've moved on. I can't even pronounce this. I should be able to because I've been in Hawaii for two years. But it's Pohala, I believe. And the beer is called Coco Banger. And it's an imperial...

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The Ho-Hala Coffee. Imperial Stout with coffee and coconut. It says a banging Imperial Stout bread with coconut and a Cotura coffee from Costa Rica. And it is 12.5%. I've never had this brewery or any of their beers, but holy shit, this thing is thick. It's a Hawaiian brewery? Yep. And they got coffee from Costa Rica? Yeah, apparently. It's like, do you get the coconut from the Philippines? Like, come on! Oh, wait, no, I take it.

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It's not actually from Hawaii. It says it's a product of Estonia. Oh, hey, I'm big in Estonia. Well, it's close. I thought it was because I saw the name and I was like, oh, it sounds Hawaiian. I grabbed it, but no, it's from Estonia. But yeah, holy fuck, that's good. I've never even heard of this beer. So your first beer was 11%. Your second beer is 12%. Do you have your rope to tie in your chair? No, I mean, I'll need a few more beers before I get buzzed. I can take the high percentages.

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If you ever want to, you can take a jet ski from Helsinki, Finland, and go all the way to Tallinn, Estonia. But why would you? Have you done that? Almost. Was it a night op? It was just me traveling around Europe. It's a long story. Can you just lie and tell me it was a night op? Yeah, it was a night op. It was a night op. It was Call of Duty Black Ops. He made it a night op, quote unquote.

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I did have a night up on time where I left Munich, Germany, and I woke up in Prague and don't remember much of it. And that was definitely a night up. I was like, you might have the early twenties. Yeah. Yeah. 1998. So like a hundred years ago. Anyway, Matt, go Matt. I am wearing a long sleeve temple avoid sported shirt. Um, and I am drinking.

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It is called the Double Bladed Axeman by Surly. They have an IPA. It was called Todd the Axeman. And then after Todd left, it was just called the Axeman. And so now they've kicked out Double Bladed Axeman. It's fabulous. And it's 10.8%. So unlike Markisan... So it's a double version of Todd the Axeman. Yeah, totally. And unlike Markisan, I cannot hold my alcohol. So expect my speech to slur soon. Yeah. You mean error right now. My speech to spur soon. I'm headed...

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All right, John. Snuggies abound, Matt. Snuggies abound. Oh, there. I can see him from here. So my shirt, Opeth, I grabbed the first one in the drawer in Convinium. I don't know if this is a tourist shirt or if I got it with an album. I have no idea. I've got so many of them. I don't care anymore where they came from. I've drunken my standard Zombe Dost. Wow. Nice.

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That's weird. When's the last time I had that? And then I'm just going back to the original damn good beers. I don't need something to be cloudy and full of I don't know what. So I'm drinking a big-ass High Life from Cigar City tonight because this beer is so fucking good. Is that one of those little 21.7 ounces? No, it's only 16 ounces. This is 16 ounces. And it's only 7.5 percent. Oh, yeah, it's true. But it's a great beer.

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So quick story. I saw that you were drinking that on untapped and I was like, fuck, that's a great beer. I gotta go see if I have it here. So I bought a six pack of it and then I started drinking and put it on untapped. It was all because of you because it is a great awesome fucking beer. I will say if you ever, ever get the chance to go to Tampa, go have high. This is this goes with every brewery, but go have highlight on tap in the Scar City Brewery in Tampa and it will you will. It's hard for

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for me, because I've done that, it is hard for me to drink it in a can. It's the same with Bell's Too Hard. I've had Bell's Too Hard at the brewery. It's such a better, amazing beer. Everything for Sakari City at the brewery is just so freaking good. They've got things that we'll never see up here, down there. They always have so many. I was there in March one time, and it's like, oh, here's five different flavors of Hanapu. Yeah, I know. What do you want?

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Well, I guess we're not going anywhere today. And it's a huge place. It's really nice town. I love Cigar City. They just got bought, by the way, by Monster Energy Drink. Do you know that? Weird. Yeah. So Monster Energy Drink, based out of California, I think Coronado or something like that, just bought Canarchy. Canarchy is a collective of Oscar Blues,

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of Cigar City and a couple other breweries, like smaller name breweries. So yeah, now they're all owned by Monster Energy. So now when you go to like a Monster Truck event and you have, or like a motorcycle, like what do they call it? Yeah, Motocross or whatever. The Motocross, you get your Monster and a drink, and we have a nice supply of Cigar City or two. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would have made the Monster Festivals better if you guys ever came in with us. Yeah, now they might start showing up all the time.

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How funny would that be? That's the reason why they did it. Will. So my turn. I am wearing the literally the exact same shirt as Matt. I have my and this is by pure coincidence. I have my my Temple of Void black long sleeve t-shirt or shirt on. How embarrassing. And then so you heard us talk earlier that I Warren and I just met on Thursday.

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afternoon, early evening at Atlas because he wanted to drop off some beer for me to drink on the podcast. I was going to try and drop some of this off for John, but when my daughter tested positive for COVID this morning, all my plans changed today. Anyway, so I am drinking the Silent Is The Night, which is a double black IPA from Ford Brewing Company that is the creation of

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of Warren. And I have to say, and I'm not kidding this, I'm not kidding at all. This is probably one of my favorite black IPAs I've ever had. And I've made some. And this one is phenomenal. And I think like your use of the, I'm not going to have my glasses on, but the debittered black malt is, and just, it's the way to go. You just, you want to be black, but you don't, you don't want it. There's two ways to make a black IPA. You can either make a hoppy stout,

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or you can make an IPA that's just black in color. And Warren chose the latter, which is let's make a black. Let's make an IPA that's just black in color. And you nailed it. Like this is so like a lot. Some of them have that like bitterness taste. So it's not like you don't have all the other malts in there, like a stout to round it off. And you throw a ton of hops in it. Like you've you've this perfect balance of that. It's not bitter from the malt. It's just has this nice, smooth, hot flavors in it.

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and the smooth malt flavor like man you know i'm not kidding like i'm not blowing smoke up your ass

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this time um like this this is really this is because he has done it before oh yeah literally thanks man i

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appreciate that no i mean this is really good silent is the night and then after that name too oh warren gave me two cans of it uh well he gave me four i gave two to the taproom staff uh because you know at atlas because you know as you should um and he gave me two cans of this i was going to

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I'm going to try and message you to meet up at some point earlier today to give you a can so you could drink it however when Evelyn tested positive for COVID this morning it's like all my plans are right out the window so anyway so now I'm gonna be selfish bitch and I'm gonna drink both of them however I also have I'm gonna be bitchy understandable I would have done the same thing and then there's COVID on the can so I gotta drink it yeah so so we also Warren also gave me a barley wine

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a special release barley wine which has the maple bishop. It's 13.5%. That was a barley wine that I basically added five gallons of straight maple syrup to the barrel and then racked the beer into it. I hope you like maple syrup. It's so nice to hear that somebody is making a barley wine. I absolutely love

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I love barley wines but you don't see them as much I think well you and I have lamented over this a couple times has one on tap I think yeah the first but the first brewer I worked at yeah we have one and then the first brewer I worked at I made some I made some small batch ones for mad fox's barley wine festival yeah so every year I would make a small batch but the issue is like I always made it like like a couple months before it really needs to age and mellow out but anyway yeah nice it's good to hear you doing that more I see a lot of

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Yeah, how's your coffee today, Jay? What I don't see a lot is Doppelbox. I like Doppelbox. I don't see them very much. I actually have one in seasonal. What? You're the man. Doppelbox. I wish I had brought you one. Man. Actually, Will, I'm going to go get my coffee in a minute, but you'll be pleased to know what I just had was what my version of supper today, which was two tortillas with peanut butter and jelly rolled up inside of them because even when you're not eating a burrito, you can still eat a burrito. Hell yeah. That is awesome.

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You know what's funny, Jay? I was craving something today, and I don't know what to eat. I literally got some Ritz crackers, and I got peanut butter, and I put on this maple bacon hot berry jam on it. I literally was eating peanut butter, peanut butter, and jelly crackers today. I bet you enjoyed it too, right? You were like, Oh, it was fucking awesome. I love it. Hey, Will, are you pregnant? He almost sprayed that one.

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Was there a nickel involved somewhere? He did sound like he was making love to Warren's beer. Oh, no, dude. Yeah, I got it. Warren, if you still have this beer at MDF in May, bring some of this because I want them all to experience the mouthgasm I just had. Hey, Warren, we'll meet by the passenger side of Will's car. Remember that Iron Maiden show? That was a good time. Yeah, you were

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We don't want to bring up, we don't want to bring up all the intricacies of that night. Hey man, you can't see Iron Maiden together. What's your problem, man? Oh, that was one of the first times you guys met Warren. I think that may be the first time you guys met Warren. No, no, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No

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in the parking lot.

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And they're like, oh, you got to put that in your car.

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You can't just like pump that in the parking lot.

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We'll put it in the car.

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We're good.

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We'll make it better.

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Make it better and say you met him on a night op.

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Wait, hey, Ward, did we do two things with you?

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Didn't you also have another cake?

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We were on the side.

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I thought there was one that was in your car.

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Then you also had one that we were out on the side knoll.

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Yeah.

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We got to the fence that one time.

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About 10 of us standing there.

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That was Maiden.

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Right. That was Maiden. Yeah. I thought you did another one where we were also just at your car. I think that was just later. That night. What? Remember you met a Marine that night. You guys started. Yeah. Oh, cause this guy. Yeah. So we did it twice. Weirdly enough. I can't really tell the story, but yeah, him and I knew a lot of same people, but it wasn't through the Marine Corps was through some other thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, you're, you're, we had two. I almost forgot about that. Yeah. Yes. It was just you, me,

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and George the second time, but the first time the Metalheads Butler was with us at that show. Metalheads Butler. I miss TR. Yeah. All right. You notice how hard a t-shirt and beer check should be something that takes like 30 seconds and takes an hour. All right. Wait, Jay, what are you wearing? Oh, yeah. I don't think we even said it. It's my Merciful Fate Melissa long sleeve.

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That's a black one, Jay. I love this shirt, dude. It's not yellow. It's not yellow. Oh, different album. Damn. Oh, yeah. One of the things I love about King Diamond's merchandise is that he actually has a picture of himself on the tag. Yeah. Really? Yeah. It's classy. Yeah. Did you see the Z2 comics as Abigail thing? Did you see that? Yeah. I'm going to order it. I kind of want to see what it looks like first for some reason.

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All these pre-sales that were kind of expensive. I've got so much shit in my house at this point. I know, look at that. They did. Well, they also did a Dio Holy Diver, which was awesome. It was a graphic novel that made a story based on the album cover, and it was actually really good. I liked it quite a bit. You know what's funny, Markisan, is I remember lamenting it, because I have it. It's right up there. And I remember lamenting, because I started about a quarter of the way through. I'm like, this has nothing to do with Holy Diver. And I remember you saying, you said,

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to me. You have to wait till the end. Wait till the end. And it is like when you get to like the second half of the book, you start actually seeing like the D.O. Holy Diver references to it. And when you take the whole story together, it's much better. Well, the cover is basically the end of the book, right? So they build everything up until you get to the very end. So that's why like you're reading, you're like, I don't know what this has to do with anything, but it does work. It works well. There's a Screaming for Vengeance one coming too, which. Yes, I did buy that.

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Well, I want to buy it just because you can get the little metal hellion that I really want. That's what I want is that little metal hellion thing. I need to contact Z2 because I want to write these. These people that are writing these comics are not as metal as me. Oh, by the way, Mark is on. So Evelyn's birthday is in two weeks and I ordered her by the horns seven and eight for her birthday. Oh, nice, nice, nice. Well, if you want anything for her birthday.

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send you anything because everything's packed up yeah sorry you've already been very kind so i write comics warren i you

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might not know yeah no i've checked out by the orange is awesome dude oh thank you so good yeah oh by the way so if you guys remember i may have to actually talk about this on the podcast so for for christmas i ordered evelyn the chemist deceiver album i ordered myself like hoodie i got a flag and all this because marcus and i were talking about you should get her a flag and i got her

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It just now shipped. And I ordered it back in October. Your final ship is what you're saying? Finally, yeah. I think what they do is they wait until they have the entire order until they ship. I haven't got my way on the final. They haven't shipped my way on Friday. There's been a lot of weird, well, I mean, you guys know too well. There's too much supply chain shit. I just got this in the mail. And I'm not ashamed to say I spent my way on this. That turns out to be one of the coolest boxes I've ever bought.

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This thing is so fucking cool. Does it have a metallic sheen on it? Yeah, but it's got Stephen Wilson surround sound in here, John. But more importantly, it has the coolest books and shit. I'm not like a Kiss fanatic, but I'm still going to buy this. I mean, I hate Kiss. It's like six months to get here. That is a cool looking product. But it was way put off for a long time. Is that the 5.1? Is that only on the DVD or do you also have it on CD?

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It's on the DVD, correct? DVD? There's no one who does it better than him. Yes. No one does it, but... 5.1 surround sound, which means there's five... So this raises an interesting point, and it comes up with one of you guys getting something free, because when I ordered this, I pre-ordered this months ago, and it does have CDs, so I wanted the vinyl, too, so I ordered the vinyl, and then I bought the vinyl from Amazon, so I have a whole free vinyl if anybody wants it. Yes, please. Yes, please. Hey, I'll tell you what, Jay.

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I will trade you you send that to me and I will send you the Igor. Okay. Young Frankenstein. I've been looking for it in the place I saw it before. I didn't have it. So I've been searching around for it. You're my man. Okay. Cool. I have a t-shirt for you too. Cause I got a creator endless pain t-shirt and it's too big for me. I'll just throw both in the bag. What are you saying, Jay? Hey, Will, send them a 10 pounds.

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in the last six months. Will, send him a chemist vinyl. You're my own personal paper doll. I like dressing you is what I'm saying. You did send me the Porkin shirt, which I wear quite often. Anyway. Nice. I digress. Actually, I digress one more time and say this tsunami stuff really did hit us. Did you see Santa Cruz, John? Yeah. No. How big was the wave? I fucked up the harbor and some other stuff. So there's like four feet or something like that? There's videos you can watch. I was just about

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to text Markisan when he wasn't showing up. I'm like, dude, did you get tsunami or what? Where are you? Yeah, there wasn't Hawaii, but then it just went away. Like there was a big warning. And then all of a sudden they just like, oh, yeah, there was a there was a happens all the volcano that exploded off of Togo. Yeah. And yeah, we get a lot of warnings for things, but shit doesn't hit Hawaii because Hawaii is very fucking small in the middle of the ocean. So for anything to hit it,

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It's like, it's almost like a miracle for it actually to hit it. To be honest, it probably hits California more than it would hit. Yeah, sure. I mean, Mendocino just gets pounded constantly. Which, by the way, but you guys did get a warning for a missile attack. That was before you were there. Yeah, I was going to say, like, you guys did a North Korean missile attack warning. So you choose. You want a tsunami or a missile attack? At long belatedly here, George, what is your beer and t-shirt chicken? So tonight's beer is brought to you by the letter John.

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with some Three Floyds zombie dust. What? Who does that? Oh, yeah. John gave that to you for your 50th. Yeah. Oh, yeah. By the way, in case nobody knew. Yeah. George turned 50. George is old. I'm old. I know, yeah. Half a century. You joined the club. You turned 50 last year, by the way. Yeah, which was like two weeks ago. Fucking old. How old are you, Warren? I'll be 36 in a couple weeks. 36? Now he's a baby.

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I was like his dads six dads that's Warren's new podcast my six dads I gotta do something George is 50 I'm 50 John is 64 how old are you no no no I'll be 54 get it fucking straight when I'm 54 how old are you 49 he's coming out 50 this year 50 this year you're gonna you're gonna

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You're gonna bring the balance our way. Wait, let me think. I don't remember how old I am. We're tied right now. 46. No, wait. Is that right? What year were you born? It's 2001. Yeah, Marcus likes talking junk about us being sold. Yeah, you're 46. Coming up on it soon, too. John, you're like eight years older than me. It's like a lifetime. Well, trust me. Marcus, when you get to be this age, then it's like we're happy we're all in the same relative number of years. Matt, did you say 43? Yeah, I'm 43.

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Yeah, he's a fucking baby. Oh my god. He's also our child. Yeah, I'm literally waiting to start puberty. That's why we swaddled him every episode. Yeah. He swaddles himself and his snuggie. What is worth the point of that exercise is that there's 291 years worth of metal experience. Damn straight. All right. If I may carry on. Yes, continuing the John beers.

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I am currently about to finish off the main beer company lunch. Oh, yeah. John gave you that one, too. And then I'll shortly be moving on to a non-John. But back to Three Floyds with the permanent funeral. No, permanent funeral, the pig destroyer. Permanent funeral is good. I just had that at a bar, actually, up in Ellicott City. What beer? Or I mean, what in Ellicott City? I just had that permanent funeral.

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I know. I mean, I ask because my in-laws live in Elkett City, so I'm like, what's in Elkett City? Oh, yeah, at Judge's Bench. Don't know that, but I'll have to look for it. Oh, shit. I got a guy I work with that used to hang out there all the time. Great bar. Really great. He absolutely loves it. Him and his wife used to be there all the time. I'll have to remember that. That's a terrible name for a bar, though. I know. Hey, John, do you still get Permanent Funeral at Dominion? Yeah, when they get it. They get it probably the most in this area. Okay. Dude, when we go to... We need to meet up there.

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At MDF, I will bring a bunch of Chicago beers for sure. I'm sure Three Floyds will have something else great at that time. I will bring a bunch of Atlas beers because it's cheap for me. Atlas beers are still good. I'm wearing my Decibel Medal of Beer Fest Philadelphia 2021 shirt because I am sad that I will not be there this year because they love to schedule it on my wife's birthday.

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and our anniversary, this year's anniversary. But as you've probably heard us mention, we will be at MDF, Maryland Death Fest, and the Edison Lot Friday through Sunday, most of us. Because three of us couldn't really go, we couldn't go to Decibel. I couldn't go to Decibel. You know what, dude? There's no, with all due respect to, what's his fuck? Albert? Albert, thank you. Or what's his fuck? He goes by that too, I think. I mean, Albert is really getting,

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Closer and closer to simply inviting bands who have one record that he liked 10 years ago. He asked them to play that record. And that's cool. Unless it's a record I don't like. So all I mean to say is I'm not picking a decibel, but MDF is off the hook this year, dude. I would choose this probably anyway. I mean, we're going to see so much cool stuff. So you're Jane decibel. Hey, Jay, if you could produce a massive beer and music festival and it was your job, you could pick any bands you want, guess what? You would probably pick

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some bands that people are like, huh? And you're like, I can do whatever the fuck I want. No, no, no. It's not a criticism. I just want to reemphasize. Think of the power you would have. You can do whatever the fuck you want. Like, hey, I like this. It's called the Decibel Metal and Beer Fest, but Clutch is going to play anyway. I support him in this notion. He's had great lineups this last one. But I say get MDF is off the hook and MDF releases. So MDF is bringing it this year.

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Yeah, they always felt like they made that lineup knowing full well they wouldn't get like a third of those bands. Yeah, as long as coroners there. Yeah, I can't wait to see corner bloodbath for me bloodbath not just corner but corner November's doom and trip to con and triumph of death of death, which is yeah, that's that to get the chance to hear that stuff is fucking great. Yeah, I'm gonna be super ignorant was triumph of death.

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That's the name of an album. That's a Hellhammer album? No. It's sort of like Black Sabbath became Heaven and Hell because, you know, I don't know, maybe they couldn't use the name or why he didn't do it. He created a new name to play the old stuff. He's a firm believer that he can't ever do Celtic Frost again because Martin's dead now.

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And that's why I think he honestly believes, like, I can't call this Hellhammer because he has, like, all this, you know, I don't know. Fair enough. I got no problem with that, to be honest. They played at Valken the last time I was there. It was very good. Very good. Definitely looking forward to that. Yeah, fuck yeah. Hey, I mean, we saw Trypticon at Decibel, and they were great. That was awesome. Oh, by the way, he did also say he was open to doing some Celtic Frost shows, so to speak. I want a new Trypticon album. Yeah. Please. Please.

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It'll happen. You should have grilled Hannes on that. Maybe you did. We talked about it. He said it was going to happen. It just was hard for them to get together because of the pandemic. Once Downton Abbey wrapped. Yeah. My guess is he probably couldn't say much about it. Oh, of course. None of us even mentioned Carcass is going to be there. Hellhammer, Coroner, well, Hellhammer, Tray of Death, Destruction is going to be there.

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I like destruction. I mean, not so much these days, but it's just a fucking fucked up lineup, man. It's freaking awesome. I'm actually glad it happened this way. So we get to go to a, well, I get to go to a different festival and it's outdoors. I want to go where you guys are, you know, but it's nice to be able to go to someplace else to see some different bands, a different lineup has a different vibe, a different. You're just excited to be the big spoon with me. I know. I don't know why I agreed to this, but no, no, no, no.

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I did. I did. I did. Directly. This is not like, you did not throw it out there like, who wants to be my roommate? You directly texted me. I didn't say anything about spoons. Well, I did, and you said big spoon. You're like, okay. Well, I'm always the big spoon. This is the way it goes. Somebody's got to be the alpha. Actually, I have to throw one more name out just because we said like all these really cool ones and stuff. I can smell your chest. We left us like, Morbid Angel's going to be there too, dude. That'll be fucking cool. Are they?

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There's so many good bands there. It's crazy. I'm sad John's only going to be there one day. Hey man. I got it. It's the craziest. From that day, that Saturday through the following two Saturdays or Sunday, this is the craziest time for me. I'm going to see so many shows in that three or two weeks period. At least we get to see you on Saturday though, so that's cool. And the reason I can't go, and I have no problem saying it's the reason I can't go to

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because I already booked to take Jen to see the Doobie Brothers and I'll be damned if I don't go see them at least once in my life. This will be your first time? First time. And it's this weird lineup where Michael McDonald's playing like the opening set then he's also playing with them and I don't like the Michael McDonald Doobie Brothers shit but you know it's weird is like I think if the Rolling Stones came around you know I like the Stones but like it's sort of like you want to be able to

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I saw the stones before they're done.

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It's like when I saw my kid.

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Yeah.

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My kids are gonna be like,

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yeah,

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I want to see Iron Maiden before they're done.

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Yeah.

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It's like,

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it's one of those,

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like,

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you know,

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it may not be my favorite,

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like Elton John,

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like,

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you know,

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I should go see Elton John.

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Right.

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Before he's gone.

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Like,

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because they're iconic to go see it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah,

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exactly.

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That's why she wants to go.

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And then I had another show the next night.

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I'm seeing Symphony X and this all happened.

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And then they said,

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Oh, we're going to do decibel that weekend. Well, I can't go because I'm going to the Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremony. So they haven't done it in the last two years. They're going to induct three years worth of boxers in the Boxing Hall of Fame. And you're going with your dad, right? And I'm going with my dad. I haven't gone to something with my father like that since I was a kid. Who's going in? Who's going in? Roy Jones Jr. is the big one for me.

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because he was a huge boxer when I was growing up. Yeah, I mean, there's just a lot of great boxers that are going in the Hall of Fame. But for me, that's the big one. But yeah, so they're never going to have a night like that again because they usually just do that, you know, one ceremony. It's three years worth of it. Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah, I'm not going to miss that. So I'm glad we parried and, you know, switched off and didn't.

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and they're going to do MDF because now I'm super excited about that. So Marcus, I'll give you a little hint, a little suggestion for MDF since I won't be there the whole time, but you'll be with these fucks. Yeah. So yeah. Well, my suggestion, just knowing you on year end episodes. So it's going to be hot. I would suggest just going slow because it's a fucking grind in that parking lot. I mean, we, I don't

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I don't think we were half in the bag when we went out

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I think did we November's two I think

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was the first band we all saw it wasn't it

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at like noon but man by

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three I think we were all just fucking oh yeah

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that's sun kills man

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that was the first day yeah you know

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what's funny though is like I I usually

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pace myself really well I'm very good

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at it it's like the year-end

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episodes here in the Netherlands I get

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so excited I drink a lot although

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this year was fine it was just that last

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But the point I'm making is that it's gonna feel like it's 110 degrees and it's humid as fuck. And there's gonna be a bunch of drunk assholes running around screaming. I live in Hawaii. There'll be some other people there too. Yeah, we've got Justin's coming. Jeff is coming. Nick is coming. And who knows how Catherine is gonna react to MDF. I have no idea. And the franchise says he's gonna try and make it. Oh, the franchise. We gotta get the franchise there.

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I remember the last time we saw the franchise at MDF. Never mind that. We saw him at MDF. Actually, we saw him at MDF indoors. Yeah, it was soundstage like the next year or something like that. Actually, that's the video that's up on the Metalhead's podcast Facebook page. The one video that displays is a picture of George and the franchise inside Ram's head, and it's like a blurry picture. Yeah, it's all like his phone video.

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You guys have these funny expressions and I remember when we filmed that. Yeah. He does not live that far from us, John, but I just never, I never. Yeah, but see, he's on the, he's outside the beltway. So he may not be that far as well. And I know that's really far traffic wise. It's not that far. Yeah. I love how we're still on t-shirt and beer check. No, we're not. We are now on to year end stats. All right. So if anyone. Try it out the Wilsons. Yeah. For whatever reasons, I like statistics. I don't know.

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at work in that field. But it's kind of fun to see the things that, to see our trends. Every year is different. And I say that because this year was by far the strangest year for releases. Because there was like 352,000 albums that came out this year. And it seems like almost all of them were on our list. It really does. Yeah, yeah. So there's what, six of us and we have 25 albums. So what does that equal? 150 albums that you could have total.

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on the list. And there were 101 different albums.

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Yeah, exactly. We didn't agree on shit.

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Actually, we didn't. Yeah. So I'll go through these real quickly. I don't want to take too much time and you guys stop me with any questions going through it. So we like to look at these by countries, you know, what countries, not that it makes a difference, but it's kind of fun to see where we're getting albums from. And then we do it by labels.

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Then we do this thing, you know, where it's like our brotherly love who likes each other, who hates each other, who's sucking each other off, who doesn't want anything to do with each other. Apparently we all don't like each other this year, which is kind of interesting. I'm shooting for the America. Fuck. Yeah. I hope for Wilson. Yeah. So there's, we have an America. Fuck. Yeah. Award, which is the most albums from bands that are from the United States. We have the global whatever traveler.

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whatever you want. I don't even know what the fuck we call it. Yeah, whatever we call it for someone who hates America. The World Wilson Award. Then there's a Wilson Award. We don't know what to call it, but we all like hearing Tom Hanks yell Wilson for the volleyball out on the beach. True it, George. Wilson! There it is. Yeah, there were a lot of those this year. All right, and then we do the infamous Jay Award, which I think Jay's gotten like one since we started doing this. It should be the John Abarda.

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We'll see how it goes. All right, so let's roll. We'll go right in the countries. So 22 countries got represented. That means we had albums from bands that were in 22 different countries. First time ever, six continents. Those penguins in Antarctica are making music now? I said six, not seven. Yeah, that's the one place that... You didn't say which six. It's the one continent we don't have any listeners on. I'm waiting for that.

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map to light up one day that somebody in Antarctica listened to us. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. We had, yeah, we had still a chance. Still a chance. Obviously we had it for North America and Europe. I believe we had one from Africa, but I can't remember who it was. Crescent. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. I couldn't remember. Kind of, they're kind of from there. They are. Well, I, I, I put them there from there. Cause that's where they originated from. Yes. So I gave credit there. South America, obviously Australia.

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And Asia. So yeah. It was fun. All right. So as usual, the United States always shows up the most for us. We had 39 albums from there. This year was England and Germany with 10 each. Okay. Sweden as usual. And there were seven. And Canada had six. What? I had a couple of Canadian albums online. So and that was the number of just individual albums. We also look at the number of total albums.

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That's all of us, you know, each picking the same albums there. So, all right. So by, by podcaster, we'll start with Markisan Markisan, I believe. And I could be wrong on these two. I did these last week. I didn't go back and check them. Marcus. I had 11 from the U S it's the most 10 different countries. He got the America. Fuck yeah. I'm just saying what you got so far. Just blow your rolls, man. No, I thought you said the most,

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Most. Just have it queued up. The most countries. He has most. His most countries. Okay, got it. All of our most is the U.S. So, okay. Right, right, right. Anyway. We're the mostest. Yeah, we're the mostest with the hostess. The hostess with the mostest. Marcus, your big country was England this year. What? Really? Yeah. Interesting. So, for the record, I stated this last time. I separate England out. It's not United Kingdom. Fuck that. England and Scotland and Wales play each other in world football. They're not one big

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They fight each other on our list too. Where does Northern Ireland fall on this? Are they part of Ireland? They actually have their own team too when they play in world football. They're part of the United Kingdom? They're part of the United Kingdom. That's a good call because they get the whole Ireland fight thing going on there too. I don't know. I'll have to talk to some of my Klansmen and ask them. Matt, America was your big one too. 13, same for everyone.

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Six countries. Yeah, when you're making them up, you can choose. Well, yeah. Well, it's just weird that you'd pick America so many times. That's kind of weird. I'm cocky. Again, for you, too. England, five. Wow. So for me, obviously, same U.S. I had 10. So, so far, Matt is the America fuck, yeah, up to this point midway. The tattoo's coming. It's not going to last. Trust me. And I actually had. Yeah. Just keep your dick in your pants already. Jesus.

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You can't. It doesn't fit. I love sausage. I'm trying to get one of Warren's beers. I'm hard. I had 12 countries. Apparently, I couldn't decide what was my favorite non-U.S. country because I had two each for Finland, Germany, and Sweden. Will, flop that donkey dick. You are America's Fuck Yeah Award winner. Damn it. America.

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America. His long sleeve just became a no sleeve. Wait, you just said he had 12? Yeah, hold on. We got to go back and check. I thought you said Matt had 13. Semper Fi, bitch. I got to go back. Hold on. Give me one sec. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't go back. You just gave me the award. Man, this is like the time the Oscar wasn't wrong. I've got the scissors right here. I can cut these off. No, sorry. Well, take it away. Give it back to Matt. Oh, my gosh.

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It's just like the Oscars. You're a bitch. Look at these guns. How are you employed? How like why do you have a job? None of you guys do this. I do. All right. And I do it when I have time. Well, not very well apparently. So so Matt wins the America. Fuck yeah. Word. Yep. Am I at least a runner up? I don't have any more stats. They're all. No, no, no. They're all trash. John, we're fucking. Keep going. Keep going. I'm kidding. I know. Yeah. Well, you

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We had a lot of different countries. Canada, England, Italy, Sweden, all had two each. Sorry, I took your America Fuck Yeah award away. God, you fuck, dick. Jay, you were the global citizen again, as you always have been. Lots of countries. You had seven bands from England on your list. That seemed like I had a lot. Hail, hail to England. And George, you had ten in the U.S., nine different countries, and England was your favorite.

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Big Country 2 with 3. So England, for some reason, the last couple of years, a lot of bands, a lot of different genres, I think. Yeah. I mean, there's like a lot of doom, a lot of black metal, and some death metal now, so. All right. I'll try not to screw this part up, Will. The labels. I'm kidding. We had, we seem to have a lot of labels because there seems to be a lot of labels. 54 different labels this year. And I think it was the same as last year, too.

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Metal Blade and Nuclear Blast were big ones this year for total number of albums. We had 14 total from those two labels. But in terms of individual albums, like just one album from a label, 20 Buck Spin, Metal Blade, and Season of Mist all had six. So last year, I think we had like two from 20 Buck Spin. This year we had six. So real quick, Markisan Love Transcending.

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Obscurity. Had three from them. Matt had five from Seize and Miss. I had three from 20 Buckspin. Will had three each from Nuclear Blast and Profound Lore. Jay was a Metal Blade guy with four. George was a Metal Blade Nuclear Blast guy with three each. All right. Hopefully I got this right. You want to give me shit for this one? That's fine. This was a little hard to do. This is the podcast matching. This is the brotherly love. There was zero this time.

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No Love.

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No Love.

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No Love.

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Jay and I had like at least two.

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Well, actually, that was the only one.

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So you're saying there was no love lost.

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Well, here we go.

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All right, so Marcus, apparently you and Matt matched the most for each other with six.

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Your least was with Will and Jay, three.

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But the ironic thing was, I think those three were all the same number, or at least two of them were.

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Yeah, I think so.

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You had like two or three of those, yeah.

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Like we had the same record for number 17 or something. So we got extra points for that, Will. Yeah. So there's going to be one big match and it's this next one. And then literally it's crazy. So Jay and Matt apparently matched on 10 albums. Wow. So Matt, your lease was with Jason George with five each. So for me, my most was with Matt also seven. My lease was with Will three. So Matt's the everyman. Yeah.

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So far.

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Or as I want to be known as Lee Greenwood from now on.

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So,

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uh,

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well,

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you matched the most with Jay with eight.

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So those were the two big ones,

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eight.

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That does not surprise me.

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Yeah.

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And then your lease was with me and Markisan three each.

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That doesn't surprise me either.

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Yeah.

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But yeah,

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I'm very sure.

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Yeah.

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Uh,

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Jay,

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we were mentioned that your,

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your most was with Matt with 10 and in your lease was with Markisan three.

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But you notice all these lease numbers are really low. I mean, three, that's not much for 25 albums. 25 records. I'm actually surprised it's three there. Well, the one thing I have to say that I like about this is that even though we have a running chat that is, you know, sometimes I get out of work, I'm like 67 messages. I can't, I can't read all these. That's a slow. We are, we are in constant contact with each other all the time. We have a podcast at least once a month. We are, we have the same demos or not demos, but.

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Yeah. Promos that we are listening to, but still between the six of us, the tastes vary and it's not group think. That's what I kind of like about this. We can go our own way. I kind of like that. I think some people may think like if you're a casual listener, like, oh yeah, they're all going to pick the same stuff because they're friends. And they're like, no, we all, we all love metal, but we all love different styles of metal and different.

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you know aspects of it and even though we get a lot of the same music and we pass around a lot of the same STDs albums. That's the same for everyone. That's why I think it's cool. That's why I think it's really cool. So Will, that's a little prophetic because the next two sections coming up will be all about that. But we got to do George last here. Of course. George, you and Will made out the most with each other with six. But she didn't like Markisan or myself.

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We had four. So, but that's crazy to think that the most albums you match with a person was six out of 25. Yeah. So that just goes to show you the year. All right. So those, those were interesting, not fun. Now we get to the fun stuff, the volleyballs. I'm confident I have this. I got it. And so Matt can't take this from you. I don't know how accurate this is. I also added some decibel awards. I'm not going to lie to you.

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There's some comments made about us at Death Doom. James. I absolutely love James. How can you not love James? Exactly. But he did make a comment about us being like 80% Death Doom. I don't know about that, James. Come on, James. I'm cool with that because that's my favorite genre. I know. I just thought it was really funny when he says like, what? Anyway, here we go. Wilson, a.k.a. Volleyballs. Marcus Sun.

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You had 15 volleyballs Wow! Yes! Not bad Pretty good 15 volleyballs And you called it early on You said when the decibel list came out You said I don't have shit on this list Yeah You were correct Yeah I know I think it was five I think it was five for you Yeah That's a low year for you Five out of 40 Because you said last year you thought was low Yeah And yeah Five this year 15? No man I think you're going to get the Wilson Award I'm kind of disappointed I kind of won it

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Let's just hold on. All right. 15 is a lot, but I don't know if that's a lot. There's only 10 Elbs. Yeah, I know. Matt, you had nine volleyballs. Corporate. Well, you're not that corporate. Corporate motherfucker. The word is sellout. You're on decibels. Now, I base this on the top 25 of decibels. Our 25 and their 40, I think I based it on. You had 11. I think I paralleled their number one and two for sure.

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Yeah, you did. We did too, but we flipped ours because we didn't want to be like them. Yeah. No, for me, it's all about the sponsorship. They tell me what to do. Underwateraudio.com. Actually, the magazine comes out and Matt's like, well, all right, what can I go on this list? I can do this. I can do 11. Who's advertising on this page? That won't stand out. Matt has an I love Albert Mudrian tattoo. Panopticon's a little bit low, but that's fine. Okay. All right.

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I had 13 volleyballs. And I only showed up on Decibel's list with six, which is not any. Yeah, that's probably a lot for me. So, all right, Will, 13 volleyballs. Oh, I predicted 16. Yeah, we know. You were close, though. There was a couple that you and Jay matched on. Yeah, Jay, you motherfucker. You Jade, man. Will, Jade Will. I calculated really low.

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for my list.

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But that is an interesting category.

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Who can J somebody else's

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volleyball list?

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That's getting weird.

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Yeah, but J, not only volleyball

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on their list, but I'm going to

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volleyball on that exact pick

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with the same album.

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Yeah.

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No, we had two, I think, J,

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that we matched.

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It was a two.

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Yeah, it was maybe 1914.

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And then you had some with Matt,

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I think.

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That's right.

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I think I have some coming soon. All right. Keep going, John. Sorry. Will, you had nine albums on Decibel's list. Sellout. So Jay's reading some lists because he only had seven volleyballs. That's it? Only seven and ten on Decibel's list. Yeah, he had a lot of, I remember that. Yeah. All right. So now we need to find out. Is Markisan walk-in with the volleyball this year? Yes, he is.

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He's not. What? He's going to share that volleyball with George. Oh! Wow. All I got to say, Marcus, is we got a lot of balls. We got all the balls. We got two balls. One for you, one for me. Yeah. We share. If you need the balls tonight, I give it to you. If I need the balls, you give them to me. We got a full sack.

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I'm coming out on ABC. All the balls. Completely. It's a full sack. That's our new show. So John, are you literally, are you saying there was 30 albums that were only on one list? Well, no, that'd be impossible. Our lists are only 25 each. Across all the lists. Yeah, individually you have. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yes. So this goes back to my point. Like what about my decimal number? Constant contact. We have different tastes. Yeah. And I didn't match up at really at all. The albums that we had that nobody is for very unique. I have another way to put that. Well, even though we're in constant contact, we don't listen to each other at all. Yeah. Yeah. Will ignores everything we say because he's 67 messages.

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Jay, what that translates to is somebody posts an album and you're like, fuck that shit. I'm not listening to that. Fuck that. This album is so good. Like, I can honestly say like, no, Jay, in a weird sort of way you hit on the head. Like I get out of work and there's like 85 messages unread. Sorry. I don't have the time. You know what you do though? Then you read the last three and you just make sure nobody's going like, Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. You know what I mean? Just to make sure you didn't miss like something important. Nobody died. Crazy crap. You know,

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I think one time, Will, I think there was a lot going on. And I think somebody, I don't know if it was me or George, or somebody put like a Will message in the middle just to see if you'd read it. It was a whole conversation. Somebody just put something like, this is for you, Will. It's actually the worst for me because I'm five hours behind you guys. So if you have a shit ton of messages, I have to go through all of that stuff when I wake up. I'm conscious of both you and Jay's earlier time.

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I'm going to say something that I want one of you guys to see. I save it to later in the day. So it's not further down the. When I tend to talk to George individually, it's usually maybe nine o'clock at night. Yeah. Well, Jay, you post at night a lot because I'm usually the only one who sees it. I see it like five in the morning. But I mean, I see it in real time when Jay posted, but I think I'm the only one. Everybody else is in bed. Marcus, you get it. Interestingly,

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because I'll be talking with you at 5.30 in the morning when I get up. And then we'll have a conversation and somehow it continues and then you get it again like six hours, seven hours later. Well, it's weird because I'm usually up to like three or four in the morning. Yeah, and I'm working. So everybody's getting up then. Yeah. Or you've already started your day. I'm going to bed. That'll change soon though when I get back on Central Time. Yeah. All right. Remember Warren? This is it. The last, the J.A. Warren.

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is like, what's going on here? Can we move on? No, no, no, no. Sorry, John. He's like, what award do I win? You win the Patience Award. It didn't take us an hour and a half to do this part. All right. So the Jay Awards. There was only two. What? Jay gets one for Chemist. Only two. I got one for Carcass. What? Yeah, it was on my list.

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I disliked it. It just didn't make my list. So, and then Jay finally got an award because he didn't have chemists. Which, by the way, was the birth of the Jay Awards was because of chemists. Full circle. That's like an extra, I get extra points. I'm so shocked you didn't have chemists on your list because the thing with the chemists with you was the lyrics and they like double down. It's not the lyrics that have been through this, but I will say this.

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It's not the lyrics. But that stated, just because of my sheer cussedness at this point, they're going to have to make remaster, make Master of Puppets over again somehow for me to be like, come around and somehow not drop this like deep-seated hate I have for them. No, I'm joking. It's not hate. But no, this is a grudge match at this point. You've just painted yourself in the corner you can't get out of. That's exactly what I'm saying. That's going to happen. We're going to see like a chemistry.

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album in the back behind Jay's head in his vinyl rack. But he won't tell us because he's not giving in at this point. Exactly. He's like the secret. Secret. I mean, they're kind of like the poor man's pallbearer. There you go. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. You guys remember that? I will say this. Paul Bearer is now the poor man's kind of so I'll give him that. Paul Bearer is, you know, what's weird? Weird. Weirdly enough, I was driving to work the other day and Worlds Apart came on from Foundations of Burden. I was like,

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It was on Sirius Satellite Radio. It was actually on Jose Mangan's channel. That's weird. It wasn't playing Ginger or 12-foot Ninja? It was bizarre because I just had favorites plugged in. I never, ever, ever put on liquid metal because it mostly blows. 99.7 blows. But every now and again, and so the Foundations of Burn came on. I'm like, God, I love that.

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I love that album. I remember I taught Evelyn to play Foundations of Burden on the guitar. And anyway, it was just, it was this like awesome moment of like how great this album was. And then shit, everything else after that sucked. Yeah, I totally agree. I shouldn't say suck. It just, it's, I really liked the last album. No, dude. No, no. Can we hang up on Warren?

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I like the one before it. I can mute him, I think. Yeah, I can mute him. Sorry. Hey, for everybody who's interested, you guys might have seen this, but especially I think this would be George and Will. I put a link in the chat and it is Sludge doing a Napalm Death cover of Twisted Ice. I saw that today. It's just really fucking cool, dude. You're going to want to listen to that. I'm going to want to. I've been listening to a lot of Time Waits for No Slave this last week.

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So is that all the stats, John? That's it. We only had two awards. You always get a Wilson Award for that, don't you? For what? For not having an album that everybody else has. Yeah, usually, but you saved me this year with Cannibal Corpse. Oh, right, right, right. Wait, you did not have Cannibal Corpse on your list? No. I like Cannibal Corpse a lot, but I don't know. It's like the same.

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That's what's great about it. Think of your favorite band in the world. I don't need the same album. They put out just another great album, just slightly different. And you're like, yes. I don't think it's different, though. I don't even care. I think they're great. But they're not offering me anything new. I'm going to give that spot to somebody who's doing something new. I don't give a shit if it's anything new. And that's fine. Hey, guess what? Metallica started putting out something new. Do you like it?

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They've been really new for the last like 30 years. Do you like it? It's not. Well, it's not just that it's not just being new. It's new and effective. Hey, that's cool though. Hey, it's cool. I'm not faulting you for it. I'm just saying that's that's my parameters. I listen to it. I like it, but it's not enough to make my crack my list. That's all. You know, everyone.

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Isn't Cannibal Corpse like number four on our overall list or something like that? Yeah, probably. I mean, if you put anything at number one, it's making the list. Because it's so disparate after that. For this year, for sure. Because we had so many different albums. If you put something at number one, and even if somebody had it low, like say for So Hideous was my number one. Nobody had it on their list.

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Yeah, George had it. I don't know where he had it, but you know, it was like 10 or 11. Right. So it went pretty hot. Actually, I think it was 11 on our overall list. So you called it exactly George. All of our number ones were on this time. Yeah, that's what I mean, because we had so many different variations in our list that if you put something at number one, it's going to get a high score. Yeah, I figured I my number one would not be on another list. And then I had to split a little early during our year end and I get a

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message like a half an hour later from jail. I just want to let you know

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your number one's on my list also, which I didn't realize.

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All right. Well, should we, uh, thanks. Thanks for doing that, John. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

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Uh, always fascinating to see. I think we're going to be closer this year. I don't, I have a feeling

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that there's not going to be as many amazing albums this year. Are you kidding? Have you seen the release schedule for the first three months?

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It's crazy. It's insane. I'm on a record now. I'm just going to give Will America a fuck yeah right now. He just gets it for this year. I mean, I don't even know right now. He's got a full void. Well, Creator's not America a fuck yeah, but Creator. They sound like they're from America. I just listened to that Falls of Roros single. That was really good. The Pike thing's coming out. I have my hopes for that one. The Corpse Griner is saying

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I'm like,

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it's probably not gonna make a list,

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but it'd be fun to listen to based on the first single.

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We'll see,

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I guess.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean,

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there's probably a little bit too much Jamie Joster involved in that,

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but yeah.

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Well,

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let's move on to the news.

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Yeah.

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Wait, do we do t-shirt? I'm kidding. Warren's a trooper. He's like hanging in there, man. You can change a different t-shirt if you want. Or just take it off. We like zero t-shirts. It's fine. For our earlier conversation about barley wines, I'm having this. It is the Firestone 2021 Tequila Barrel Sunrise. Shout out to Metalhead's Butler. Metalhead's Butler!

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wine aged in tequila barrels. So if you don't see me at some point, that's because I passed out. Or you're an old lady. So what's Metalhead? Shout out to you. He posted something on Untappd from Firestone Walker this week, and I just said, like, you cannot go wrong with Firestone Walker ever. And this is another example of that. Their stuff is so good. Yeah. That's not Tsukaba. That's something different because Tsukaba is their barley wine.

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Oh, just straight up regular by the one. It's called Tsukawa, which it used to be called the thing Abacus, didn't it? Originally, way back when. So this one, this says they use our signature Helderado. Oh, it's the Helderado, okay. In extra something tequila barrels. Yeah, it's awesome. I prefer Firestone Walker Texas Ranger. Hey. No. Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun. I think I have a Firestone Walker. That's good.

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One of my favorite was when Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't push himself up. He pushes the earth away from himself. Every Chuck Norris joke is funny. Do you know why Chuck Norris, when he has sex, is never on the bottom? No. He never fucks up. So I have to say this. When I was in the gazillion times I was in Baghdad, there was a...

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the embassy there's a hlz uh helicopter landing zone washington which was like you know

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where a lot of people um came in and left off of if you had to go to the green zone the embassy or

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whatever and inside so there's a little like hut in there and inside this little hut there's an entire wall where people just use sharpies and or sticky notes or whatever they had and the entire wall was just um filled with like chuck norris memes and jokes and

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and stuff like that like it was amazing i'm pretty sure you could google this and it will appear somewhere um what's it what was it say the name of it again so hlz washington okay uh helicopter landing zone washington you just put it put in baghdad green zone chuck norris i'm sure you'll find something with something okay hey well just i'll add real quick to only take a second greatest shirt i ever bought i bought for my dad it was a chuck norris shirt it was like 12 different the emotions of chuck norris if you guys

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seen this. It's like 12 different emotions. It's all the same thing. It's the same fucking Chuck Norris picture for every emotion. Yeah. Yeah. It's just him looking like he's going to kick your ass. I give it to my dad. He's like, this might be the greatest thing I've ever gotten in my life. I'm like, yes. When? All right. So news. Right. This is going to be a bizarre set of news items. Yeah. Yeah. One of them's been updated since I wrote it. I just like how we all thought, oh, this is going to be a short

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We're still, we're in good shape. Yeah, we're a little over two hours. This is regular. Come on. So Wendy Dio says that a documentary about Dio's life from beginning to end, unlike his recent book, will be out later this year. I'll be watching that shit. Do you know who's directing this or who's behind it besides her? Like if it was... I read something, but now I can't remember because it was a few

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Yeah. If it was like Sam Dunn, then I'd be like, fuck yeah. It's not him for sure. I know that. I don't know who's directing it now. I was just curious. Yeah. Only reason I say that is because if it's 100% her directing this thing, then I'm like, she's not directing. I knew that. No, I'm not directing it. Meaning she's just directing the whole project of where it's going. I don't think so. I don't think so. Cause I remember seeing a quote saying they watched the documentary and it like really,

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affected them in a way that they didn't expect. So I think that she's not that. I mean, she's probably involved, but not super involved where she's micromanaging everything. That's what I was concerned about. Yeah. But yeah, I read that there's going to, I mean, they're going to have a lot of great people from metal in the documentary. Rob Halford is going to be in it. Jack Black. Tony Iommi. Geezer Butler. Lita Ford. Right, right, right.

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It's co-directed by Don Argot and Demian Fenton, who I've never heard of either of them. But they did work on Rock School, which is not School of Rock. A different school. Will also incorporate elements of the autobiography. Okay. Yeah, I like that it's going to be his whole life, because that's the thing with the autobiography, which is freaking awesome. But it only goes so far. I think it only went to like 86. Sick at heart, yeah.

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So, I mean, it's going to be nice to get a complete story about Dio, which I mean, they definitely should do that for a documentary, but I'm very excited about it. Wait, by the way, does anybody need a copy of Rainbow in the Dark? Because I have two. I'm not sure how I... I don't have a physical copy. I do. Does anybody want a copy? Catherine wants one. It's hard. It's hard, Tad. I think I actually have two copies, too.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Rainbow in the dark. I have two of these. Send one to Catherine. He's the guest. Warren, I will bring it to the next time I see you. Or whenever. I might have two actually too because I think I bought one and then I got another one that was signed by Wendy Dio. I don't know now because everything is freaking packed up. Well, if there's another one, I can take it. I've got the digital, but I don't have a physical copy.

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Okay. I'll send it to you if I have another one. Or bring it with you. Or I'll bring it with you. All right. So next news item, which has changed since I wrote it, says Judas Priest kicks Andy Sneap to the curb and carries on as a four-piece. Until they don't, which they announced today that they will be keeping on, keeping on with Andy Sneap. Keep the Sneap. Keep the Sneap. That was the campaign, I believe.

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What a story. You know, I, among others, was speculating that this was the doorway through which K.K. Downing would walk through Sneap gone, Downing back, but apparently not. It's just so weird because they're like, oh, we're not going to have you on the tour. And then they change their mind and he comes back like, this guy's just okay with it. Like, Sneap's like, all right. Well, no, he was cool about it. I mean, like, he was just like, oh, I'm disappointed.

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They took that out of context, though, with the headline. He was the one who was booked elsewhere to produce stuff. And I don't think there was no acrimony. They were just like, look, we got these tour dates. We got to go. And so I think he's the one who then turned around and somehow made it work. Because he's a busy guy and he was booked. At least that was the original story. No, because he said that he didn't know that they were going to kick him off. So he didn't know anything about that. It wasn't his choice. That's what he said.

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No, it wasn't his choice. But again, I think they had a tour book he couldn't do and they were like, we're going without you, motherfucker. So, but that stated, he's not a member of the fucking band. I mean, honestly, they don't know anything Andy Sneap. I don't know. I don't understand where all the controversy came through. Well, it's more of the Judas Priest sound is very much a dual guitar. Yeah, there are five piece. So if you're going to go down to four, it's not the right sound for Judas Priest. I thought it was going to be interesting.

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to see him with just Richie, to be perfectly honest. I thought, well, this will be interesting. Here's what's strange about it, because it just reeks of a management decision that went bad really fast. You're going to bring a guy on that just had major heart surgery, who was already busted. I mean, I've seen tons. I've seen them twice with Andy Steep, and I've seen tons of videos. He provides everything they need on stage. But Richie busts his ass on stage, too, because he does all the soloing. It's not divided up.

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I think Andy Seep only gets a couple solos during the show. You're going to have to get a major heart

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surgery who literally powered through a show not knowing he was having a heart attack and then you're going to bring out a guy who can't even literally hold his guitar for two or three songs every few nights. That's what we want. Yes, that's what we're doing. We're going with these guys and it just reeks of okay, you're going to have a guy backstage playing. Is this going to be one of these deals? It just the whole thing stunk from the very beginning. I don't

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care if they moved on to somebody else jay to be honest with you i my issue was

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they've always had two guitars they're one of the original twin guitar metal bands that's true

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and then i started thinking is this some weird way of them like getting the fans all riled up and

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now they'll bring kk back well yeah they brought someone back but they brought back the guy that was in

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the band already to begin with so it's just and i've heard this about them that they've had bad

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management for years. They've made weird decisions. Can you imagine when Adrian left? Well, fuck it. We're just going to go with Dave on guitar and that's it. Actually, you bring up that priest should get Yannick Gers. Yeah, well, yeah. It just was weird how it went down. That was my issue. Well, remember Rob's book famously when he quit. He didn't fucking quit. He really didn't. Rob was like, I'm going to do this solo thing, blah, blah, blah.

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I think they have management issues. Yeah, I do. I really do. I think they have the same people. Yeah, I mean, look at how the whole KK thing was just completely mishandled by everyone across the board. They're turning into Queensryche, Fleetwood Mac, you know, all these fucking infighting. It's like, oh, God. I'm actually surprised they didn't invite KK back. He burned that bridge himself. Yeah. I know he did, but it's like, come on, they're old now. Like, why not?

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Bring them back and because you know what they're not men those fences you know if based on reading KK's book and also the stuff Rob says about KK which is limited in his book KK is kind of a little bitch dude it's like he had a problem with everything and there was one the one great thing and this is so British to me that Rob Halford said in this book about KK and this was like when they were getting ready I think to do the anniversary tour for British Steel

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And he was like, yeah, we're getting ready to this. And somebody was mad about this. And he goes, and Ken, who's KK, he goes, Ken was mad about. And then he pauses literally in the book and he goes, well, how much time you got? You know what I mean? Which is always true. Cause KK dying was always pissed about something. And that's clear. If you read his fucking book, you know? So I think they were just tired of dealing with them. I love them. I love that guy. I think he should be in priest. Oh, I want him back too. Yeah, I agree. I just, when I went to the four piece, I was starting to wonder is, is Ian going to start?

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I realized nobody's a pedal. You wouldn't know he's playing. No lights ever hit him during the show. He's back there. It's just the rumble coming out of the darkness. Now their response is really weird. Well, we've decided to go back to five piece. I don't know. I think they're just better as a five piece.

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the scenes is, but if they're going to do that, then great. Yeah. I wouldn't even care if they decided to move on to another guitarist because they couldn't do it. I would have been fine with that. I wouldn't care. As long as they have the full band, they can play all the parts. I mean, that's what matters the most. So in the end, Andy makes out the most because now like, well, we want you to come back. Oh, well, hold on. I'm going to need a little more money. Oh, and my production fees have just gone up too, by the way. That's right. He'll surely produce the next record. You know, I will say this though too. I'm, you know, that was,

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That show got canceled, I think. When did he have his heart attack? God. So I just want, believe it or not, there's a video on YouTube right now of the, I don't know if it's Virginia Beach or Norfolk. Yeah. Have you seen that? It's great. Yeah. And it's from a week before his heart attack in September, I think is when he had it. The whole show is there. The whole show is there. And if you actually, if you go back and watch it, I'm curious to see what your opinion is. I was looking at it now that I know everything that happened. I'm like,

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It looks like it was coming. It must have showed up in the same Facebook feed or whatever. I think. Yeah. I watched part of the show. Well, I'm excited for the show. That's a killer set list. Rob sounds great. As far as I'm concerned, I think it's gonna be a fun killer. So yeah, all's well that ends well. Yeah. Right. So our last news item, I'm just gonna tee this one up for Jay. Oh, yeah. Bruce Dickinson is working on a new solo album. Take it away, Jay.

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I'm just glad that Andy Sneap is working again. Because he is producing said album. You know what, you may find this shocking, but I'm not expecting much out of this. The one that I liked the least was out of the group that he did most recently was Tyranny of Souls, which was the last one he did. The two before that were exemplary. But I'm also convinced that Bruce needs to be recorded by a different producer. So I'm hoping Sneap gets the right.

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So does Maiden.

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Yeah, because I was listening to... Yes, yes, yes. Not only did that... Yes, never will happen. Well, I have a very specific thought about that. Not only did that Priest video show up in my feed recently, so did one of the Maiden shows for some reason. And I watched a bunch of it, and I swear to God, it went straight to Where He Goes There, John, and I was going to send it to you, Just Be a Prick, but... Oh, I should have waited so long for that moment. But Bruce sounds so much better live than he does on the album.

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these days. And I'm starting to think that's Kevin Shirley's fault. Yeah, I think so. Oh, I wouldn't doubt that. Yeah. He's been around too long. He's like, he's like Fleming Rasmussen, you know, he's overstayed his welcome. You got to get somebody else, preferably not Bob Rock, but, um, he'd sound better with Bob Rock. I mean, he's, he is quite literally, I did go listen to him saying where he goes there on the last tour that we also, and he sounds off the charts. Yeah. And then he sounds kind of strained and buried on the album a little bit.

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Comparatively speaking, and I'm fucking wondering what's up. So long story short, he is doing it with Roy Z. Everything Andy Snead touches turns to gold. So maybe we'll get lucky on this one. So it's Roy Z then? Yeah. So he's going to have a decent guitarist at least, you know. Roy Z was the driving force behind Accident of Birth and Kevin Paul Wedding. He wrote that shit, you know, and he's also the driving force behind Helford's best solo material too. Yeah, I don't, I mean, I don't think

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this thing's gonna come out this year because he was saying he's gonna he's planning on finishing the record after he completed the the spoken word tour that he's doing and he's got demos but they have to you know organize them he's got to work on some more tunes yeah so i think it's probably not till next year at the earliest but i'd like to add a new story though and that is related in a related matter they've already got the legacy of the beast tour set up again to do and bruce has now come out and said he's

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He believes they'll do something possibly in smaller venues after that where they come out and play all of... Atlas. That'd be fucking awesome. No, but where they're going to come and play sinjitsu from start to finish. Well, that's probably why they're playing in smaller venues. It's a decent hour. You don't need to do that. I did. So anyway, but we'll see. I will hope for the best out of his follow-up.

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I imagine it will be fine because

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there hasn't been many Bruce

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influenced songs the last few albums

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like on Dance of Death, Mon Seer

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was definitely a Bruce song

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Empire of the Clouds

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Empire of the Clouds

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yeah, but I mean, that was something

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I'm talking about the shorter kind of power

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packed punch songs that he

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is known for in his solo stuff

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I think your chances are good you're going to get some of that

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fingers crossed, yeah

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I really hope so, Tyranny of Souls I'll say again

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It didn't blow me out of the water, though. I did go back and listen to it about six months ago, and I was like, this is better than I remember. But anyway, Bruce, you got a level. Yep. Got you. Yep. All right. New releases. First up, this is a band that we just got the promo for like, I don't know, a week or so ago. Can I pronounce this one, please, George?

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You may. Mole, mole, mole, mole, mole, mole. That's Austin Powers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mole, mole, mole, mole. He's trying not to look at the mole on somebody's face. Except I want Mexican now. Thank you, Marcus. I'm thinking of mole. Chocolate sauce. Oh my God. I think it's mall though. It's like M-A-U-L-E, mall. And it's their self-titled first album. They're a Vancouver, like sort of new wave of British heavy metal style.

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like Maiden-esque kind of band.

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And I dig it.

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I mean, I got the promo, and like a week later, I bought it.

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The first thing I thought of, is this Cam Pipe, some Three Inches of Blood?

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Sounds a lot like them.

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I hadn't thought of that.

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I hadn't thought of that.

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Just saying.

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In America, we call them Ma'ule.

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Ma'ule.

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But yeah, I like it.

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There's a lot of Maiden worship on it.

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So when I listened to it, I sent George a message after what, like three songs, like, holy shit, this could be from the first two albums. But as it went on, I got more just 80s metal as the album progressed. I moved a little bit from the Maiden. And there's a lot of thrashy aggressiveness on it, too, that's not Maiden-esque, you know, so I like that part of it. But those first three songs, like, holy shit, what was my comment, George? Is this the third Deano album? Yeah, which is funny, because when

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I heard the first song I said this is like Bruce. But I understand because it just sort of morphs as it goes. It got a little punky from the early. It's thrashy. I mean, there's a lot of thrashiness on it. I like it. The songs are bouncy and fun. There's nothing new on it. They're not reinventing the wheel here, but they have good solos. It's definitely an album that makes you want to fucking rocket a fist into the air, which is pretty good for the new year. You know, we got a

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2022 is here and that's it's fucking a nice fun out in the listening usually january is kind of boring so this is nice yeah by the way you just heard mark us on say he wants to rocket fish somebody no i don't want somebody just you come on you roomie rooming together all right next up we have necrophages in chaos us and sorry didn't mean to go down when i meant to go up

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Does he?

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It doesn't look like it.

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He's like, shit, was I supposed to listen to this?

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Moving on to Decrofus.

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That's cool.

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That's quite alright.

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Quite alright.

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Warren, you did not miss anything.

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Well, he hasn't said anything in a while. I just want to make sure he's still engaged with the podcast.

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I appreciate that.

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Yeah, I mean, we've gone off on tangent after tangent after tangent.

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That's what we do.

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Well, if we get through the news before three hours, come on now. It's a new year. We're about two and a half. Yeah, but we're already done with the news. Sorry to interrupt you, George. We decided to do a top ten of... Yeah, but you can do two at once. You're just like blah, blah, blah, blah. You're done. You don't have to fucking explain each of them. I can't just blah.

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Yeah, I like the album. I mean, it's just, I guess it's like a rampaging riff-crusted death. Really sick breakdowns on it. Yeah, it's solid, man. I don't know if it's like a lister at the end of the year, but it's pretty fun. You know, it's a good way to start, to start January, I think. Cool. Pretty good. I love the cover art on it, actually, too. Just so it looks like a Hydra, kind of. Yeah. Where have I heard that before? Side.

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I'm confused with a band that hasn't released anything in 30 years. That's not the same band. Yeah. That's necro. No, I listened to it and I was super confused because I'm like, so necrophagist, this is the like necrophagist that yeah, no different. Yeah. It's too close. You know what? Necrophagist should sue the fuck out of these people. Yeah, I don't think that'll work, but sure. Anyway,

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Did you like it though, Will? No, I did. But I also thought that I was listening to Necrophagists. Well, it's kind of funny. Unknown band, Sue's unknown band. So next up, let me do my best to pronounce this one properly. I'm going to go with Vigadood. Oh, let Matt do it. I feel like that, yeah. Vigadood? Well, I actually Googled.

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it and several websites said vegan dude.

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It's a vegan dude who doesn't eat meat and he's super vegan dude.

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It's a vegan dude.

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Let me spell it for you in case you're curious.

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Oh yeah, you vegan dude.

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Hey, how would Lee Greenwood pronounce it?

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Yes.

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Bless the vegan dude.

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America, fuck yeah.

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Yeah.

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Taste my ass and suck on my balls, America.

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So, W-I-E-G-E-D-O-O-D-D. Vigadood. And the album. I forget, where are they from, George? I'll get there. I'll tell you, no, they're not from Bandcamp. They're not on Bandcamp. It's not, because it's Century Media. Yep. Yeah, so the album's called There's Always Blood at the End of the Road. It's their fourth album. They're a Belgian black metal band on Century Media, so you can't get it on Bandcamp. I won't see it anywhere.

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Unless this band is so astronomically awesome, why are we bothering with Century Media Bands? Because it's a freaking awesome album. It's very good. Yeah, their prior stuff is on Bandcamp. Great. I couldn't find it anywhere. It's on Spotify. It's also on YouTube. I listen to it on YouTube. It's a fun name to say. Actually, in America, we say Wagga Doodle. Wagga Doodle. Yeah, music's fine. I think it's a little too frantic and odd for my taste. There's like some weird spoken words.

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stuff on it that annoys me and there's like this creepy pluck guitar on it but if you like dissonant mental

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patient black metal then you're probably gonna like this album this is your band thanks thanks for that i i dug the spoken word stuff it was definitely kind of weird and like i mean honestly like a little bit fucked up honest i'm really fucking mental

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patient yeah i was listening to like wait a minute what's going like i'm like i'm like is there something on the television that's like getting into my headphones what's going on with this but

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I've liked the prior albums which are on Bandcamp. I was a little pissed yesterday when I could not find this anywhere other than Spotify but I'm definitely digging it myself. Yeah I like it a lot. The whole album's on YouTube. I hate Spotify. I feel like every time I try to find an album I try to play it and then they just play something else which I don't like because I don't have a subscription to it or anything like that. Well that'll help. It's on YouTube. They play something else I like that. It sounded like you said. I hate that shit. Well that's like what's the other one?

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I don't want to hear what you think I'm going to like based on what's that other service that does that the free one uh uh Pandora Pandora yeah that's like yeah I won't use that I mean kind of like Facebook hey these are the posts we think you should listen to it's like fuck you I want to go most recent nah we don't think you want that we think you want this if George didn't put it on on this you know schedule I wouldn't listen to it because

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You know, it's not on Bandcamp. Exactly. Put it on Bandcamp. If you make me work for it, you're pissing me off. I don't want to work for it. I did. I did. Because we only had three albums. I'm glad you guys are saying that because I totally feel like a dick on a Friday. It's like, don't make me dig for your stuff. Because otherwise, I lose interest. Century Media and their own Sony music, it's never going to happen. Century Media is the worst. Man, I got fucking Rick Springfield on Bandcamp. People need to get with shit.

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All right. Again, Sony Music, one of the biggest music companies in the world, ain't going to do it. Yeah. Trust me. I know. I fucking hate them. Yeah. So our last new release. A Century Media release, by the way. Also a Century Media release. I bought this one, so it was a lot easier. Fucking assholes. Little band called Wild Run. I mean, Wilderun. Yeah. But how do you pronounce the fucking album, John?

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Is it Epigone? It's called Epigone. Epigone. I was going to go Epigone. No, it's Epigone. Epigone. All right. Yeah, yeah. I've heard both translations. It doesn't matter. I mean, it's there. Well, it's their fourth album of symphonic progressive folk metal? It's the whole kitchen sink. Jay heard the question, Mark. You're muted, Jay. You're muted, Jay. Still muted, Jay.

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I'm Ron Burgundy. That was good. I enjoyed it, George. Who put question mark on the teleprompter? That was for you. Do you have a party in your pants? We've been having the same party for 30 years and that depresses me in no way whatsoever. There's three burritos in his pants right now. I thought of him when I was in San Diego. I thought of Ron Burgundy. San Diego? That means no whale.

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So, John, you want to talk about this at all? Sure, I guess only because they've been my number one album, but in 2015 and 2019. Good reason. Yeah, they've got a new album, and like I said, it's a kitchen sink album because it's everything they've ever done all wrapped up into one big, massive bowl of will to run. Like you said, it's progressive metal, it's progressive rock, it's folk, it's symphonic,

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There's some harsh vocals. There's a lot of clean singing. There's a lot of acoustics. There's some synths. Oh, yeah, there's some symphonics again. We'll wrap around back to that. It's tons of atmosphere. No saxophone. No saxo boom either. Okay. Yeah, John, I think it's really cool. At least how I heard it, it's kind of like organized into three sections. It's like three sort of like slower acoustic sections, and then you have the heavier stuff and then the finish. I think it's

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I loved it. It's all over the place. Yeah. And I hear a lot of people saying they always make reference to Opeth because that's an easy reference. Yeah, sure. I guess some parts sound like them. And I heard a lot of people saying they sound like Devin Townsend now a little bit. I'm like, yeah, I get that. A little bit here and there. I get it. But not overtly. I'll be honest. And Marcus would probably recognize this. I actually heard a part in Distraction 2 that sounds like,

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Gravity Eyelids from Porcupine Tree. I heard that. There's the guitar intro. It's a little sped up. It reminds me of Gravity Eyelids a little. This is all over the map. But if you're looking for the folky Wilderun, that's gone. Not like the first album. They've progressed. And I don't want to use the word progressed. There's not a lot of folk on it. That's right. There's not a lot. There's a little bit. Tons of instrumentation. There's tons of different mandolins, guitars.

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And acoustic electric and

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but the review read George that you said it was like all acoustic and synthy I think they've mixed

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mistakenly said synthy when it's all orchestration there's some synth not much but

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that's just how I there's a lot of heavy parts on it though too there are there's some pretty epic shit

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do yeah this is a band that should be playing with a full-on orchestra and choir yeah and just let it

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I mean, you said it's all over the place. I agree. There's a lot into it, but it feels cohesive to me. Oh, it flows. Yeah. So I just want to point that out. It flows really well, even though there's a lot going on. And it's my favorite Wilder Run album. And it took me maybe six spins to get to get there because, you know, there is a lot happening in it. But there's a lot of very spare parts to it as well that I feel like I just had.

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I had to listen to it on headphones, like just really immerse myself in it to just get everything, all the dynamics that are happening on the album. Yeah. So, I mean, the last time was on my list and I think this is probably their best album. So, I mean, they're doing, they're already doing pretty well this year for me. I ordered on vinyl. I don't have any will to run on vinyl, but I ordered this one because I just, I can't. Where did you, where did you order it from, Marcus? That's a good question. I got one. It's like a

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version of it's like a really limited version of it so um i don't remember where i got if you order for

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century media it might come next year um i'm not kidding it's apparently they're not sending

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stuff out but i got a another copy from a vendor that i use all the time it literally i ordered it a

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friday came on like tuesday it fell off a truck i got it from a vendor i'd never purchased from

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before but they seem like they in the united states they feel like um do you remember who it was

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I don't remember now because I have never used them before but

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if it's I ordered from a place called laser CD I've been ordering that's what I got it from

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yeah there you go there it is that's it I can I can guarantee you they're legit because I've been

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ordering from Ken for over 20 years he's awesome I don't yeah yeah yeah yeah no I mean they look

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really I actually looked at them because like I don't know anything about this no laser CD that's weird no he's been around I first ordered from him I think in 98 it's the first time I ordered from him

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I got the dark lilac version from them. Hold on. Wait for it. You mean this one? Yeah. There was like a clouds version, which looked cool too. I just like the dark lilac version a little bit better. He's awesome. I may have it actually, John. I'm having everything sent to the house in Chicago, but I'm not there. It could be there already. I know it shipped.

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I don't mean to hijack this whole part of it. But I love it. All I want to say is I really like this album a lot. I love the album actually. I like the last album. I don't know where it fell on my list, but it was probably in the middle. I think it was just outside the top 10. But I think this is a better album. I feel like they experiment, but they also rein things in a little bit better in this one. I don't know how to describe it. I just like the dynamics on this one better than the ones I've heard before.

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Now, Ward, you contacted me about this and said, all right, so what do you think? And I was like, Markisan it first. I didn't dislike it, but I had a question mark. I was like, all right, I got to spin this some more. Has your opinion changed on it since we talked? Yeah, I've listened to it four times. And the first time I just played it in the brewery, like over speakers. And then I listened to it on headphones. And that's really where I kind of got hooked with it. And honestly, it's like, you know, again, like I hate to draw comparisons to Opeth,

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But it's the same thing with me with them. It's like I have to actually like sit through it with headphones and like get the whole experience of it. But I love it. I'm absolutely I'm kicking myself for missing their set. They opened for Swallow the Sun Baltimore a couple months ago and they came on super early. I didn't know they were coming out early. So I missed the set and I'm kicking myself for it. They only play three songs. So yeah. But I don't know.

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I love it.

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That's good.

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I'm glad to hear that.

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Did anyone else listen to it?

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I know George,

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you listen to it.

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Yeah,

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I liked it.

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I did.

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It was good.

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Yeah.

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But if you're thinking it's going to be more immediate,

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like the last album or even a sleep at the edge of the earth from

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2015,

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it's not,

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you,

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you have to put a little work in on this one.

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Yeah.

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Cause there's so much going on.

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Six times it took me,

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you know,

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yeah.

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And,

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uh,

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the headphones really matters.

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Now I could put it on the stereo.

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and because I know all the nuances of the album. But yeah, it took a lot of time just to really immerse myself in a quiet space to hear everything that's going on in it. It's fun, though. It's fun to do that when there's so many different parts to the music that you're just not sure about. How does this work as a whole? And then I like that. There's not a lot of bands where you do that. Usually it's pretty immediate for me, but this is a band where I feel

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They put so many different parts in there that I need to take my time with it and figure out how it all works together and how it works for me as a listener. If the idea of symphonic metal scares you away, it's not like European symphonic metal at all. It's not even remotely close to that. It actually sounds like a symphony, not that kind of piped in, like, let's have that two-minute intro that George skips over on albums.

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which I agree with on this. They pipe in that intro to build it up. It's actually the whole album flows with this symphonic sound. Yeah. Yeah. So. It's already a strong contender, which is unusual, I feel like, because we just started the year. But, you know, it's like, wow, this is an amazing album. I was really surprised they were releasing it this early, but I'm guessing that's the label wanted to get a jump on the ear. So. I never know how they work that out. I know. I don't. But that's two years in a row now. I was listening to somebody on YouTube talk about how

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There was another big release last year in January. It was a surprise. I mean, better than coming out at the end of December, right, John? Well, yeah, because it's not fair. But hopefully nobody forgets it. If you like this stuff, if you don't, hey, move on. Speaking of moving on. Yeah. Sorry, George. Let's get under three hours. Let's get on to what we are listening to.

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What a lesson to home

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What a lesson to home

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What a lesson to home

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What a lesson to home

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Is Will alive?

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We're doing another four hour episode, Will.

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We're doing it.

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We only have two more things to do.

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Wilderun, that's not American. Yeah, actually they are American. I know. That's what's funny. Oh, but if it was Cannibal Corpse releasing the same album for the last 35 years, I wouldn't have spent an hour talking about that. No. No. All right. What are we listening to? We are going to start with Warren. One band I found out recently was called Praise the Plague.

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them. It's kind of like if you took Russian circles and just put like black metal vocals over it. I think it's a really cool combination. Wow. That sounds good. That sounds cool. So I've been into them lately. What else are you listening to? I said really, yeah, the new Immolation single, very much looking forward to that. I'm kind of going back into the catalog of the Windfare,

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that band that I really, my number one from last year, I'm listening to there. I think they have like four or five other albums before that. So I've been really into that sort of folky, epic sounding black metal kind of sound. Cool. And you listen to Wilder Run too, right? Oh yeah, and I've listened to Wilder Run several times. All right, moving on then. Mark is on. Can't talk about them anymore. Yeah, I mean, in addition to the albums we just talked about,

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I've been listening to a lot of stuff that I missed from 2021. I'm actually kind of amazed by how much stuff flew under my radar. And it's not just ultra obscure stuff, but records that were released on labels that I actually like. So like Winfair, no joke, it is my number one here on what we are listening to. Breaths of Elder Dawns and avant-garde music. I like avant-garde music a lot. I don't know how I missed

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this record. But I'm bummed that I did because I really love it. It's grand black folk metal majesty. The drumming on this album is phenomenal. There's some really cool instrumentation on here. It's violins, viola, cello, even a gaita. There's a gaita on this thing, which is a Spanish bagpipe. So it's, I mean, it's very emotional.

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It's a

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It's great. I mean, their name

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Windfair kind of basically

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sums up the band. I really

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like this band. I wish that I would

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have heard it before the year end because it would have

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made my list.

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The other album

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I'm listening to a lot is called

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The Slow Death

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Sieges on Transcending

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Obscurity Records, which John mentioned

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I had like, I don't know, three or four

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on my list. Why this one is not my list, I don't know, because I do love Transcending Obscurity, but this is a gorgeous atmospheric death doom with a progressive edge to it, and it has this beautiful, mournful guitar groove throughout that sometimes gives way to these, like, I don't know, filth explosions of heavy sludge with slow growls. And I love,

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I actually adore the vocals of Mandy Anderson on here. So it has female vocals and it has growled vocals too, but they're just like very haunting, very doomy. And yeah, so that's another album I missed in 2021, sadly. Also, Abstractor, Abominion on Sentient Ruin Records. This is an apocalyptic harbinger of mantra.

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Black and Doom. Really good record. Also, I believe that was in 2021 as well. And then Restless Spirit, Blood of the Old Gods on Life's Blood Records. This is a Sludge Stoner metal band. I would say they have like a double injection of Sabathian Doom riffs on it. It's really riffy.

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All throughout the whole album. It's great. I don't know if I'm super into stoner metal, but this one I quite like. I actually ordered the vinyl for this one because I've been spinning it so much. Bizarre Invocation Codex. Also on Transcending Obscurity Records. They're kicking ass right now. That's another one I missed in 2021. I don't know how. But this is, I don't want to describe this one. It's death metal.

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That sounds like it got lost in a Lovecraftian horror dimension. And then it came back to share that experience with you. That's how I'd describe it. It's really great. Yeah, I don't know how I missed these albums because I love these record labels. So this year, I'm going to make a conscious effort to just visit the record labels band camps and just see what they've got going on there because I'm really shocked that I didn't.

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Yeah, good luck with that one. There's just so many fucking albums coming out. I know, John. It's crazy, right? It's crazy. Even on just a record company that I love, like they're just putting out so much. They seem like this was one of their bigger years. They cranked out a ton of new music this last year. Yeah. But I mean, just based on this, like I had, how many did I have, John? Three or four? I don't remember. You had a lot. That was, I think, your biggest one. Yeah. Yeah. If I had heard some of these albums, I have at least five on my list, I think.

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All right, so I have two more. Or, O-A-R, The Blood You Crave on Blighttown Records. I love this record. This is our first record. It's a fully armed warship of crushing post-black and doom vengeance. It's a really great record, and it'll probably, I mean, where are we? What date is it? The 15th. So we're halfway through the month.

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So, you know, it's right behind Wilderun for me for this month. I really like that record. Never really heard of it before. Yeah, they're really good. I think most of us would probably like it if you give it a spin. It kind of hits the sweet spot for bands. So, yeah, definitely try that one out. And then the final one for me is an old record, and it's Slough Feg Traveler on Dragonheart Records.

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The 20th anniversary edition of the vinyl was released last year. So I did not have this thing on vinyl. I don't know why. But I bought a copy of it and I just got it, I don't know, within the last week or so. And I've been spinning it a ton. And I forgot how much I love Slough Feg. Because the later albums I don't like as much as some of the, I don't know, maybe like the first four or five. Well, that's Traveler's the best one, I think. I agree with you, Jay.

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But yeah, just killer riffs on Traveler, amazing solos from start to finish, and songs that just, I think they expertly play with different genres, doom, thrash, traditional metal. It's all on there. It's all just infectious from beginning to end, and the new vinyl, I don't know if they remixed it or remastered it probably, but it sounds amazing.

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So that's what I got for you. You know, one of the things that you can do to supplement that, I wish Slough Fag was who they used to be kind of things with no offense to their new stuff, is to get the hammers of Miss Fortune albums from around that time. Because that was him too. And like the Bastard and stuff. They have the Bastard, especially such a good record. So anyway, I love those guys. Cool. Yeah, I love Slough Fag. And they're just, I mean, they're amazing live.

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Like, I do every year post year end. I completely detach from metal. So I spent some time watching that Beatles documentary Get Back on Disney Plus. How is it? I want to see that. It's 12 hours. It's like 10 hours.

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Sweet. It basically centers around the album Let It Be. And when you watch some of those songs come to life, it's actually pretty trippy and crazy. And so I spent some decent time with that album. And not so much Let It Be, because I've heard that a thousand times, and who hasn't? But there were some deep tracks on there that I really got into. Dig a Pony. That's my favorite song of the album. That is the one that rises to the top for me as well. I also really dug their performance on the roof and them singing.

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Don't Let Me Down. It was a song I've known my whole life, but just watching them play that. Well, and John is just, both John and Paul, but especially John in that. It was such a naturally good singer. And that rasp that he has on that song is just so good. I've always dug John Lennon, but after that, he just kind of raised up in my eyes. I'm a huge John Lennon fan. Yeah, so good. I'm always listening to a shitload of classic rock because that's a way for me to kind of pollute my kids' brains with rock.

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just kind of subliminally put things in their head that will be stuck in there for the rest of their lives. I was digging. I was just craving Mad Season. So I listened to the self-titled. I did not realize they had a live album, Live at the Moor. Yeah, that's great. And I didn't realize, like, I mean, listening to Lane sing and listening to Lane talk between songs, man, it just brought me so much warmth. I was like, fuck, I love your voice. Even just when you're talking, you know. I've got that on vinyl. Oh, yeah, so good. The other thing, like, of my list, there were three bands of my top 25 this year.

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that really were,

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they hadn't been on my list before.

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And they really struck me.

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That was Craven Idol,

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Crypts of Despair,

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and Woman is the Earth.

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And so I did a deep dive to the prior,

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their prior albums.

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And with Craven Island,

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Crypts of Despair,

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I found that the stuff that came out in 2021 to me resonated the most.

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But when I got into that Woman is the Earth catalog,

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man,

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they have got some really cool shit on their prior albums.

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I listened to that because of you.

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Yeah.

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I would,

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I would recommend like,

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I mean,

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some of it gets a little bit weird,

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but I would recommend all I would recommend that whole catalog to anybody you know what the what's a

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craven idol by the way I was sort of like previously because everybody liked their previous

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record and I was like I don't quite get it but this one I think it's just a whole better ball of wax so I

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totally agree with you is my point like the new one really hit home oh my gosh yeah it's it's it's amazing

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um I always go through the whole death catalog a few times that's kind of like my you know centering

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um of my access and then so newer stuff uh a band I really dig Abraham they are a

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They have an album coming out called The Mondes Purdue and they have a song out right now called Fear Overthrown. That's on Pelagic that comes out in February. That's the ocean label. Yes. Yes. Yes. Really dug that Vigadood. I'm going to spend some more time with it. And then the last thing I'll mention came out yesterday. A band called Nameless Mist. They're out of North Carolina and this is their second self-titled. And some really cool Atmospheric Black

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Right on.

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Who's it for me?

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John.

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I don't have much.

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I won't take much time.

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We've already talked about Marcason and myself,

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our man Marcason and our love for Mexican food,

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Mole.

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I listened to that album.

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Mole, mole, mole.

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Which is good.

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And then Wilderun.

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That's all I'll say about them.

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So the other two albums I got,

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I cannot believe I didn't listen to this album more during the year,

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And that's Bellacor Coherence. I like them. And I'm not a super melodic death metal fan because I'm not a fan of the traditional kind of the riffing they do in their songs and in the soloing, but they just do it better than most. Yeah, I like them. Yeah, I think I know I did. Maybe you did, George. I can't remember. I had Vessels on my, and maybe I don't know of anyone else. Vessels was on my 2016 list. And I went back and listened to this. I was like, fuck, I cannot believe I didn't listen to this album.

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during the year it's good the last track on that album is like one of my favorite

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melodic death in all tracks ever yeah and they don't do the melodic the traditional

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melodic death like i like insomnia but after a while i get a little burned out because they do that

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same intro all the time except for winter's gate which is fucking awesome but i i dug through their

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catalogs some more too and i'll probably be getting all their stuff i have two albums of the five so i really dug that

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And this one just showed up. And I didn't know about the cover. But I checked it out. It's a band called Riverwood. Shadows and Flames. They're an Egyptian progressive metal band from Alexandria. Not Virginia. Alexandria, Egypt. This was actually kind of a cool listen. It's a super long album. I don't know this. Yeah. I just showed up in my feed.

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Checked it out. I was intrigued by the fact that they're a Middle Eastern band playing progressive metal. I was like, okay, this will be interesting. It's got Middle Eastern folky vibe to it. Tiny bit of symphonic stuff. A little bit of power, a little bit of prog, a little bit of metal. It's all over the place. A little bit of country, a little bit of rock. A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

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That's a Donny Marie thing. I know George and Jay and Will remember that a little bit. Anyway, it's a really good listen. I just need to spend more time with it. But if you are interested in something that's got a Middle Eastern folky flair to the metal, it's pretty cool. Nice. Yeah, that's all I got. Literally, that's all I had for this month. Because while Will Leran dominated the month, there was a couple other albums that I spoke. But not much. All right. Well, we just started, John.

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Yeah, there's a few things coming up. I mean, there's an album coming up next week I'm looking forward to. But that's all. That's all gold. Will. All right, what I've been listening to, in no particular order, we got the promo for the Abhoria, Trevor's band, self-titled album. I've listened to a few of the songs. I skipped to the last song the last song I had.

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I skipped the last song and there was supposedly some Queen singing on there. Not that much. It's not too bad. He even mentioned you in his post. Do you like what you heard so far? No, I've said publicly. No, this album. I want to go back to what I said before. I publicly said before that Abhoria is my favorite project of Trevor's. That's good. I like it.

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because it's more straight black metal when they had that Mont Blanc or whatever the name of that single was. It was awesome. I loved it. And so I've only listened to bits and pieces of it here and there, but so far I like it. Even the last song that has supposedly clean singing on it, which is really not that clean. It's not that clean, yeah. And I got to the third song and there were some not harsh vocals, but they weren't clean.

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It didn't sound like some prepubescent teenage boy singing stuff. So I was like, okay, I can handle this. I was talking to Trevor about this because he had asked, hey, did you get the promo yet? Like a month ago. And I was like, no, I haven't gotten it yet. And then when we got it, I was like, hey, dude, we finally got it. And he's like, oh, great. And so I was giving him sort of an update. I was like, oh, yeah, this fucking bangs, dude.

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And then I got to the last song and I was like, oh shit, dude, clean vocals. I was like, dude, dude, what are you doing? You know, Will's going to fucking hate this shit. And he was like, dude, I'm, I'm, I'm, what do you say? I'm just adding the dudes. We didn't say the dudes. Yeah. I'm ad libbing the dudes. He said, you know, it's funny because I actually fought against those clean vocals in that last track.

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But I was overruled by the producer and one of the other guys in the band. So he fought against it for you, Will. Isn't he like the main guy? Like, can't he fire the producer? He was outnumbered, man. You know. I mistakenly thought that Trevor was shorter and you guys. Nah, man. He's taller than all of us. Anyway, I'm going to be short because I'm super fucking tired. But Ephoria, self-titled. That's what I'm listening to.

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My son is completely obsessed with the Twisted Sister Stay Hungry album. Very specifically the We're Not Gonna Take It song. So I listen to this a couple times a week whenever my son and I are driving the car, usually with one of his soccer buddies going to soccer practice or something. You're gonna burn in hell. Quick story, there's a guy at work whose name is Drew.

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a whole bunch of people who hate this guy and they call him Drusifer. And so every time I hear the name Drusifer, I think of the Behemoth album, The Satanist and the O Provis Lucifer song or whatever it is called. And I've listened to that song probably 20 times in the last two weeks. So Behemoth, The Satanist, I've been listening to that a lot. And my next two are my two and one as I go through the list.

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I still love these albums. I mean, they're fucking great, and it's only been a few weeks. Holy shit, I still love them, so I still keep listening to them, and that's my list. Cool. I'm glad you included those at the end, well, because I wasn't going to mention this, but you kind of gave me the courage, which is I'm still listening to fucking Persona Magrata a bunch, dude. It's just so good. I put that record down a lot, so that's still on my listening list.

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I am listening to, I'm doing some palate cleansers like the rest of you, which just really just means grabbing random old albums that I love and putting them on. My December album of the month and your December albums of the month, I always put everybody's albums of the month on my listening kind of track so I can see whatever he's listening to and see if I like it. So consider those five or six releases or whatever it is. And then the other one I'll mention, which I kind of looked the other way on,

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because it was an end of the year thing and I was like, eh, you know, there's no way this would be like on my list or anything like that, especially since it's a live record. But the truth is, is that maybe this would have been on it. And it's this, um, it's kind of rekindled my love for behemoths. So funny. We'll mention them too, which is they put out this in absentia D or day thing. And it's from the live stream thing they did. And it's basically a career spanning set. And it's fucking great, man. It is.

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So good. Like the live performance is so bitchin. It's produced so well. It's like one of my favorite behemoth things to come out in a while. So suddenly I'm listening to behemoth again, but in particular, I highly recommend for anybody who kind of looked the other way. If you don't pay attention to compilations or live albums, this is worth your time. There's fire and blood and thunder in every one of these tracks. So you also get to hear some of the older stuff brought up to the level of like the Satanists as far as production value goes.

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Now, I'm just waiting for them to release the video for purchase because they'd really like to own that. But as near as I can find, there's no way to get it yet. So hopefully it's coming out on DVD. But that is one of my regrets from last year's list. I honestly think it's so good, I probably would have made my list last year. It's that fucking great. And that's it. All right. My listening to relatively short, or at least compared to the olden days.

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As mentioned, I was afraid nobody was going to mention it, but Will did. The Abhoria album, first album featuring Trevor, our buddy from Ashen Horde. It's great. It's not out yet, but if you have the chance to get it, you should listen to it. Next up, this is probably my regret that I didn't hear it and it would have been on my list albums. And I'm going to butcher the shit out of this name. Dold Vorday

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Mordensnaven is the name of the band and Morkir is the album title.

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It's their first album, though they do have an EP.

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It's a Norwegian black metal band featuring members of bands you may have heard of,

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Doudheim's Guard, Knittinger, Ulver, and Ved Bwenzende.

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Is that right, John?

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Yeah, I just, like, I'll do a Markisan Ved end.

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Whatever.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this one, you know, I didn't know who was in the band when I listened to it. I just said, oh, let's check this out. And I was like, holy shit, this is really good. And then after I realized it was good, I went and looked it up and I was like, oh, well, duh, all these fucking dudes. It's like a, it's like a super group. Next up, one that hasn't been mentioned yet that should have been at least by Jay. Cause I think it was

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his album of the month for December, and that's Funeral Mist, Diaform. I kind of mentioned it, saying I was listening to my album of the month. I am still spinning that. Their fourth album, their Swedish black metal, One Man. So it's not a we, it's a they. It's a he, depending on your pronouns. It's a we in French. We. And it's the singer from Marduk. I knew these guys from this guy, from the last one, because

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Our friend Chris from Infero Brew told me about this band. And so I was like, wait, but this came out like right at the end. It was another one of those last minute albums. And I actually tried to get it on my list. And this was the one that like nothing would budge. I just couldn't get it in there. I really wanted it on there. Wouldn't, wouldn't, nothing would move though. Next up, this one's from Jay's list. This is Heavy Sentence. Heavy Sentence. If it's got sentence in there, you know, I'm good. The album's called Bang to Rights. It's their first

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album their UK maiden esque band featuring half of woad. I did not know that. Um, it's fucking great, isn't it? Those well-written songs. Yeah. Well, it's, it's kind of like the mall in a way, the mall album. It's, it's very, you know, new wave of British heavy metal kind of maiden stuff. And it's cool. I like it. So I bought it. Uh, second to last one, the necromancers union flesh of the dead. This is a one man project that's, it's not metal, but it's, it sounds like a mashup of Dan's

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meets Sisters of Mercy. It's very gothy. I really love the goth, George. I love the goth, especially if it's Danzig or Sisters of Mercy. Fuck yeah. So I bought this. I love it. And then I just, because of some concert tickets I bought yesterday, I've been listening to some Wasp and Armored Saint in prep for that tour, which is coming through this area next November. Playing at some fucking place in Leesburg in the middle of fucking nowhere, Virginia.

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called Tally Ho. I've heard of the place. Tally Ho! Mostly it's like cover bands. But I was like, what? I gotta go there. And Warren's laughing. Are you going to this thing, Warren? I'll try and make my way down there. Yeah. I'm like, wow, this is like half an hour from here. It's not populated at all. It's like easy parking and in and out. I'm like, I gotta hit this. And I've never seen either of these bands. It was crazy.

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The Spite is in Bumfuck Nowhere, which I 100% agree with you, George. It's $45 for a ticket to go see these guys in Bumfuck Nowhere, and then plus $15 or $16 in Ticketmaster fees. They're selling tickets through Ticketmaster. I paid $100 so I could get a seat, a VIP seat. Yeah. Because I'm old now. I'm 50. I'm fucking old. But also, the thing about this, though, Will.

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But not half a century media. I happen to know Will is a appreciator of a couple of Wasp albums. And I'm pretty sure they're not doing anything after Headless Children on this. And they're bringing back all the blood and thunder. Fuck yeah. But I hope my favorite Wasp album is actually Headless Children. It's a great album. Everything after that sucks. I think that's as far as this goes. But I will say this. If you love Wasp, never watch the

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Documentary Me Man. It's about Chris Holmes. Do not watch that because it will ruin Wasp for you. Blackie Lawless is an asshole. You want to ruin Wasp, but don't watch Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 with Chris Holmes in the swimming pool, man. I want to try to go with that, but I might actually be traveling to see my parents because that's the weekend or the week after Thanksgiving, isn't it?

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It is the week after Thanksgiving. Yeah, I might go. Hey, I got to say something real quick. I got it wrong. I said that that band, George, you mentioned that you couldn't pronounce their members in the woods. I was wrong. I was thinking of somebody else. So I got it wrong. Well, I mean, there is some overlap there. Just maybe not the way. Arturis, I think, is one of the guys that has associated with them. So I got it mixed up. All right. So that's it for me. We're going to move on to our top five. However, I need to take a break.

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I got to do a costume change for my top five. What? So just hang on. George. Cause exactly. Here comes Georgie. Yeah. So you're going to want to stay awake for this one. Well, so let's just take a quick. Quick pee break. I'll be right back.

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Oh my god.

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What in the holy goddamn fuck?

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This just became a horror movie.

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It's totally true.

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I was like well

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I got the hotel room

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like Matt's already room

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oh wow George what's

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going on holy shit

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welcome to the conversation

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exactly

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is he purple I didn't check that square

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why is he purple that blacky lawless

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meow

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what is

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I totally

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cheered you up for something and you didn't

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about the original members of Kitty getting back together for an interview. God damn it. I know. I saw that on either Netflix or Amazon. Listen, man, I'm fucking tired. Are they playing together, by the way? Are they actually going to record? I didn't watch the whole thing. I didn't know if I got into that part. George hasn't talked in a while. He's just staring at us. He looks like a fucking purple cyclops. I don't know what's happening. I don't know.

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I'm kind of getting turned on.

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That was my intent, Will.

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Let's do this shit.

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So here we are at our top five.

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And I got this one from our friend and listener, Nick.

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This is our top five songs you would sing at karaoke.

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And John and I were talking and we came up with the idea that we should do top five metal songs and top five non-metal songs.

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And so for each number, we're going to do one of each. If you have them. If you don't want to, yeah, go whatever. But so if you haven't noticed yet, there may be a theme for my non-metal top five. And that will be... There's no theme. This is audio. You are on visual. This is just for you. George has a feather boa on. And a wig and a mask.

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A lot of shit's going on here. It's 80s hair. This is my non-metal list is for the girls. My girls specifically. So but anyway, Warren, can you give us a top five? I will. Number five. Sorry. Number five. Yes. So I have done this karaoke before. It's it's kind of my go to.

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and it's Number of the Beast Iron Maiden. Okay. Do you have a number five non-metal or did you just do the one? That's fine. I do. Okay. I also, this is my also kind of go-to karaoke song. It's Here I Go Again by Whitesnake. Interesting. Here I go again. Hey Warren, the next time you see me, ask me to tell you my story

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about the song Here I Go Again. I'm not going to say it on here. Just remind me. I'll buy beers. I'll buy beers and I'll explain it and you'll love it. Which is code for John saying. Looking forward to this. Yeah. Ask me to see my white snake. You know what, Will? Since you brought that up, you can join the conversation. Oh my gosh. Well, and I expect Maiden to be on a lot less at various places. Of course. Yeah. Awesome. White snake. Didn't expect that one.

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I think you gotta dip into that land metal for the karaoke. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, those are good ones to sing for sure. For me, my number five is Black Sabbath War Pigs from Paranoid. And yeah, love singing that one. And then for non-metal for me is the band Live. Lightning Crashes. Such a good song. Yeah.

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I absolutely loved live when they were on top of the world. Me too. They just had some tremendous anthems. First two albums. Yeah, I like the distance to hear actually. Well, no, I mean, yeah, that stuff is good too, but the first two were my favorite. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. And I just, I love singing that stuff. I love belting it out and they're very good live. I mean, they're called live, so they better be a fucking good live band and they are. They are. Yeah. Yep. All right.

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I would say my top fives have a progression which would include alcohol so I would start with that's a given for all of these stuff that's more attainable and moving to less attainable without without alcohol so for metal I'm going with the song Wilma's Rainbow by Helmet I've literally sang live something off that album with my band in high school so I feel like I could sing that okay as far as non-metal I'm going to do not

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To Touch the Earth by the Doors. Definitely also attainable with my voice in a more sober fashion. That's really cool. Wait, so if I was doing Doors, I'd be Touch Me. So you had a band when you were in high school? Did you sing in this band, Matt? And I had a few bands back, you know, throughout the years. So yeah, we did a lot of Helmets, Smashing Pumpkins. I mean, 90 Rocks is going to dominate my list. But what did you do? I play guitar and sing. Failure. We did some Failure songs. I love Failure.

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Here's one of my favorites. Never did get that one, but I'll give it to you. I love failure. Well, then you love me. I love Helmet, and they're great live, and Paige Hamilton is really awesome when you go to see him live because he'll stay afterwards and just hang out and talk. I just got in the mail, maybe a couple weeks ago, Paige Hamilton offered to do lyrics from the band, and he hand-wrote

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I did that with Anvil. I gotta get this because I love Helmet so much. That's awesome. Very cool, Matt. Please. John. All right. So I got a couple things. I won't take too long. Matt, how fucking hammered are you on your number five pick if you're singing not the Doris song? What is it? Did you pick again? Not to touch the earth. I'm actually. How hammered are you at that point to do that one? I'm actually probably maybe starting a buzz. Okay, good. Maybe. Yeah. That's a venture. Yeah.

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All right. So real quick for mine. I had a hard time at first. I said it was easy to George, but then I realized I wanted to pick songs that I would sing, not that I'd want to cover. Big difference because if I'm covering, I'm playing. So and I tried to avoid obvious picks. So there will be no Priest, Maiden or Dio on my list. However, there are some adjacent band songs on here to those bands. Also, I have a Jen PSA here.

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She wants to know why we're doing this. If all of our songs that we listen to all go for the vocals. That's how she describes it. Interesting. She's like, I don't know why you're doing this. They're all sound the same. She also said, if we're going to do non-metal, we should have any money. I said, I would mention it. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Yeah. So, all right. So my number five metal, it's changed dramatically over the course of two days, but I came up with,

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All my songs were songs that I would want to sing that had cool intros and would be kind of not gang singing but choruses that you would recognize. So my number five was Def Leppard's High and Dry off the High and Dry album. I just think that's Joe Elliott as best. Then from all that after that it's not that good. And my non-metal no one will know this song except for me. It's a band called Marillion. It's the song Kaylee. Came out in 1985 off their album.

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I'd say it's the poppiest prog song you'll hear even though they were not a pop prog band but I think it's a really cool song if you want to take a chance and stay. I love Marillion. Oh big fan. You and I need to yeah when you're done spooning with Will you come spoon with me we'll do some Marillion. I would have spooned with you but you're only going to be there for one night. We'll make it quick. Well I won't last so long anyway. You might even be there a night you might just leave I don't know what's going on. I'm a I saw them on that tour.

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in 1985. Yeah, I love Brian. Awesome. That's what I got. The start. Nice. Will. Somebody mentioned this earlier. You got a bird in hell. That was me. Yeah. So my son, William, who's eight years old, absolutely loves Twisted Sister, Stay Hungry. He particularly, probably his second favorite song in the entire world is

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We're Not Gonna Take It. His first favorite song in the entire world is Iron Man by Black Sabbath. So my favorite song, because I've been listening to this album a lot, and we have it on vinyl now, thanks to Santa Claus at Christmas time this year, the Stay Hungry album, Burning Hell. Fucking love that song. And then my number five non-favorite, and I'm totally making this shit up as I go along. What'd I say? Non-favorite.

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Yeah, whatever.

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Because this is

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anyway, Rocketman by

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That's a good one.

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I like that.

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Got a rocket in your pocket.

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Rocketman.

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Okay, for

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my list, I decided to go with

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I'm picturing myself

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in like a bowling alley with a bunch of

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like old people.

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As one does.

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I'll fucking totally ball with you,

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Jay.

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So,

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all right.

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But I wanted to do the things that would most horrify the crowd.

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So my number five for all of us,

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my month,

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my number five for my metal song is animal.

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Fuck like a beast by wasp.

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Yeah.

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Great to shout at old people.

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And,

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um,

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for my non-metal song,

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I went country with She Thinks I Still Care by George Jones. Nice. Which I think I actually sing fairly well. And I think it's a beautiful song. Well, you can sing, so, you know. Jay, an actual singer. You've got that up on the rest of us. Apparently Matt is also a singer. Yeah, that's true. Years ago, in my past life. All right, here comes Bola George. All right. So it's funny because my number five medal,

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is not quite metal, but I shoehorned it in there, and it's actually been said. I didn't think anybody was going to say this thing, but Here I Go Again by Whitesnake. Wow. And that's because, and Matt knows this, we sang the shit out of this song during the pre-Infield cover songs at Valken, and I fucking cried my way through this song going, holy shit, I've never truly heard this song until now.

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And I was like,

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until you were with Matt.

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Exactly.

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And ever since now,

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every time I hear it,

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I'm like,

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I'm just fucking singing and crying,

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driving and crying.

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Love to do a dude at George.

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Hell yeah.

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And for my non-metal song,

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as I said,

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all my non-metal songs are for the girls.

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And we're going to start with Pat Benatar's

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot.

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Oh,

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nice.

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Hit me with your best shot.

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Hit me with your con shot.

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Fire away.

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I will fire away.

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We'll take it to the U-Porn.

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I do like the fact that, you know, obviously you're listening and you're not visually seeing what we are seeing on Zoom.

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Yeah, but I took a picture and I'm going to post it with the episode.

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But what I loved about what the entire time you were giving you giving us your pics, you were stroking your hair on black hair as if it was real.

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That's because I used to do this when I actually had hair like this. And I don't, I rarely get to do this anymore. It's a little distracting with the red feather boa and it's orange. Thank you. Do you like the black lipstick? I didn't know whether to go that far or not, but is that actual real lipstick? Yeah. God, this guy fucking disturbing. I'm not even drunk enough to look at

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each other right now. I feel like Vinny Vincent. Yeah. All right. Who's next? We are back to Warren for number four. Yes. Number four. All right. So I would have to work on my falsetto for this one, but it would be painkiller. Judas Priest. Nice. It would be difficult, but I'll give it my best shot. That's Pat Benatar. You know what I'm saying? I have done it in my car. I have not actually done it.

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That comes on the karaoke circuit is what you're saying. People are like, what's wrong with that guy in his car there? Why is he screaming like that? I probably get that a lot. But your non-metal warrant? My non-metal, and I have done this, is it's Funky Cold Medina by Colo. Funky Cold Medina. Nice. Have you heard that one? Yeah, of course. Oh, God, yes.

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That's a good one. Yeah, man. He's got that deep raspy voice. Also in Ace Ventura. Also starring Cannibal Corks. Yeah, exactly. Way to make it metal. All right, Markisan number four. Yeah, number four for me. I mentioned that Iron Maiden probably going to come up a lot and it does here for me and it's the Wicker Man from Brave New World. I've talked many times about how Brave New World is

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My Favorite Maiden Album. There's a lot of songs you can sing, but I just want to belt out Your Time Will Come over and over in the karaoke bar. Or Your Come Will Time. Yep. Weirdly enough, Blood Brothers was way up there on my list for a while because it's a gang singing song. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and I would love, and those are fun, especially if we did those together. It would be really good.

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But yeah, there's a lot of gang-type songs for Maiden, especially on that album. And then my number four non-metal is one of my favorite bands, actually, Stone Temple Pilots, Big Empty. That was on the Crow soundtrack and Purple. Yeah, I love singing the song. It's a great album. I mean, I love Purple, and I love the Crow movie.

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So I love the Crow comic. I have a signed Crow poster with Brandon. Brandon. Brandon. Brandon. Sorry. Brandon. Yeah. It's not signed by him though. It's signed by the comic guy. Yeah. James O'Barr. Yeah. I have a hardcover. He actually did an album for the Crow, the original Crow comic book with a band. And I have that and I have the hardcover signed.

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And then I got one of those like pop vinyl. I don't buy a lot of those pops, but I have the crow and he actually signed the crow. So that's pretty cool. Anyways, I love singing this song. I, I, I love stone table pilots and I love that husky voice cause I have a deeper voice. So it's easier for me to sing, but Weiland is deceptively tricky to master. He has a style. I think that just has a lot of nuance to his voice. So,

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I feel like this could be higher if I could pull it off properly, I guess. I mean, I think I can do it fine, but it's funny because when you hear these huskier kind of like, I'm saying grunge in quotes because it's just a dumb tag for all the bands that came out there because they're very different. But, you know, there's a lot of nuance in that voice and that's hard to pull off. But I do love a lot of Stone Temple Pilots song and this is like my favorite one.

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So I always, I don't know if I can do it great, but I always will try. I do like the fact that so far we've talked more about the non-metal songs than metal songs. It's because we know the metal songs, you know, when needs to be said. That might be true, but for me, if I'm going to do karaoke, it's probably going to be non-metal. Yeah, they're not going to have metal. I like is like growled. I'm not going to go up there and growl something. Nobody's going to get into that. Not with that attitude. You know, nobody's going to know what that is.

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is. So there's, if I'm going to do karaoke, it's probably going to be rock. Yeah. That's, that's the thing is that if you go to a karaoke place, they're not going to have any metal songs. If they are, I mean, they might have Iron Maiden. I mean, I've never been to one, so I don't know, but you know, you figure it's probably mostly Brock stuff at best. So. Right. Right. Right. All right. Matt, number four. All right. From my number four. I believe that everyone as a rate of passage should sing this song.

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into a microphone that is ace of spades by motorhead the ace of spades and then for my non-metal it is these eyes but i guess who nice because these eyes are crying yeah venturing down into my world there all right all right then john my turn so uh my number four is not a metal song however it's been covered by a metal band uh but i think the

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The Non-Metal Version of this song is better. Jay, this is for you. It's got killer flute in it. Thought it might. And it's about a woman who can't see. Cross-Eyed Mary. I think that would be a fun song to sing. And obviously, it's a good enough song to be a metal song because Maiden actually covered this song. Damn fine cover. Name the B-side that it was a B-side of. I couldn't tell you, dude. Seriously. Peace of Mind is from Peace of Mind.

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There's only a few singles on that record. Oh, well, it certainly wouldn't be Where Eagles Dare because Bruce probably didn't show up to record it. It was the B-side of the Trooper. Yeah. Which I only know because I hung it at the time. But I think it would be fun to sing like Ian Anderson in his prime and then whip out a flute and do a little flute solo before Martin Bear came in for a killer guitar solo. Oh, that's another reference to Ron Burgundy. I love that. Yeah, exactly.

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They have a new album coming out this month. Yeah, the singles. Yeah, I don't know what I thought of that. It was a little. I love that George is in costume. It's so awesome. I don't know why he's purple, though. It's not. Well, it's I don't know. Barb got this mask. I don't know. It's like kind of a cat woman looking thing. I don't know. I see. That's the beer. The wig is from my

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My heavy metal costume that I wore to work a few years back. I put on this and like my battle vest and a Slayer shirt and like all kinds of stuff and I went into it. And the boa is something that Barb did for Halloween a few years back. I'm just sort of improvising here. And the black lipstick is from the heavy metal costume as well. You're awesome, George. Thank you. Well done. I love you. I love you too. Oh shit, I gotta do my non-metal song. Sorry. Do it. Do it, Joe.

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My Non-Metal Song. So I've loved this song for probably more years than I care to admit. It has nothing to do with the fact that it's included on the Guardians of Galaxy Awesome Mix Volume 1. Elvin Bishop fooled around and fell in love featuring Mickey Thomas, eventually of the Jefferson Starship and Starship, as well as the drummer. Awesome. I'm knee-deep in the hoopla with you, Joe. We built this city. Come on.

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No, that, fuck that album, man. No, I love that song. I love that album. Modern Times. It was my favorite from Jeff's The Starship. Anyway, I always loved this song. I always thought it would be a cool song to sing, especially if you're lit up and you're standing there and everyone else is just watching you lit up at the place. It's a cool tune. I think Devil's Rejects. I know that's on the soundtrack to it. Oh, yeah. Love that movie. It shows up in a lot of bar scenes. Yeah.

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All right, well,

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for number four.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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So my number four,

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the song called grinder,

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not to be confused with the app that I met all you guys on.

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Well,

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uh,

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or the sandwich.

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Yeah.

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Uh,

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by,

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by the local DC bands,

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like riff masters,

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borracho.

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So the,

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the borracho,

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borracho song,

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The Grinder. It is a song that I've seen them play live like five or six times. It is my favorite Borracho song. They've actually played Atlas a few times and whenever they play this, they actually give me a shout out. And then I sing every fucking lyric on this album. So every lyric in the song, like I just love it.

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If you haven't heard of Boracho, it means drunkard in Spanish or like a drunk or basically describes us just in Spanish. Songs Grinder. And then my non-metal song. This is a shout out to my son, actually, who is left-handed. So am I. Teletubbies theme song. No. So my son is left-handed.

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And all the guitars we have in our house. I like where this is going. Yeah. If you see all the guitars there and there's a little bass guitars over there that I just got from George. My son just basically takes all the guitars and basses. He just flips them upside down and backwards and he plays. And we have a Jimi Hendrix doll. And so my, my, it is all along the watchtower. I love that song.

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My favorite Jimmy Hendrix song. It's a Bob Dylan song, yeah. But his version is the best. I like the U2 version as well. The U2 version is actually really good too. It is fun to see my son take the guitar backwards, flip it upside down. And we did this a lot today because we're in kind of COVID lockdown. We did a lot of that today. We plugged in the bass guitars from George into our amps.

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I need to go buy a bass amp. You can't turn it up. Very quick. You'll blow that speaker. You go upstairs for a second. You come back. He's put lighter fluid on. He's lit it on fire. William, what are you doing? And he puts a headband on. It just starts staring at the ceiling for a while. Those are my number fours. Right on. All right. My number four. Sticking with my original theme of Horror Friday in Room with Old People, my metal,

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song would be by Gordoroth Procreating Satan so that I could shout at them for two minutes straight, Hail Satan, Hail Satan, Our Master's Return. And I'd expect a call and response. I'd be like putting the microphone in old lady's faces, assuming they would know the lyric, Our Master's Return. Jay, can you make sure you have a glass of wine in your other hand when you're doing that? Matt? Satan, Satan, Satan.

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That's my favorite record of theirs. My favorite song of theirs. But that ending part would be epic. In a bowling alley. And my non-metal track is ABBA, Dancing Queen. Nice. Beautiful. Wow. No, that's going to be stuck in my head all night. Until the next fucking person comes up with their song. Yep. All right.

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So my number four for metal,

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it's gotta be some Ozzy in there or Sabbath,

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but this is Ozzy.

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And this is like probably one of my favorite songs by Ozzy.

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And I know nobody's going to say this one,

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but it's bark at the moon because fuck.

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Yeah.

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Bark at the moon.

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You know,

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I sing that one in the car all the fucking time.

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Cause they do play it on,

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on a Boneyard.

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Jake Ely.

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Yeah,

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man.

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And my non metal is,

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is Joan Jett's I Hate Myself for Loving You. Wow. You know, I was talking about this one with Barb, and she was like, I thought you'd go, I love rock and roll, and I normally would, because that is a great Joan Jett song. But if I'm doing karaoke, I gotta be drunk. And if I'm drunk, it's gotta be I Hate Myself for Loving You. You know what I'm saying? That's a heavy song. It is. It's pretty heavy. So, that's my number four. Nice.

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Back to Warren for number three. My number three, we're sticking with someone familiar here. Break out your lighters. It's Mama, I'm Coming Home, Ozzy Osbourne. Nice. Nice. Written by Lemmy. Wait, is that your metal or non-metal song? Hey, now. I'm going to say it's metal. I'm going to say it's metal. Yeah, yeah. She liked that album. It was fucking fun. Jeez, come on.

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My Non-Metal One, this is probably one of my favorite, like, just straight rock albums of all time. No One Knows, Queens of the Stone Age. I love Queens of the Stone Age. Yep. And that's actually a good song. That's probably the best song on that record. That was also the last record I really liked by them. I agree. No offense to, you know, I'm not a huge fan, but that record I did like. Yeah. Songs for the Deaf.

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I'll be wondering.

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Markisan number three.

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Uh,

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yeah.

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Number three for me is,

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uh,

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a band.

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I always consider metal.

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We've talked about this before.

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Uh,

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it's Alison chains and,

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uh,

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the song is wood.

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Oh,

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you're giving me what dude.

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My all time.

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Favorite songs.

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That is a phenomenal song.

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That's my favorite.

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Also on a single soundtrack.

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I will say this Marcus.

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One of my non, weirdly enough, I was going to put this in my non-metal categories, Rooster. Yeah. Yeah. His dad in Vietnam. And I remember when I was in Somalia, we played that song a fucking lot. I consider Alice in Chains metal. I know John does too, especially Dirt. Dirt to me is a metal Alice. No, no, it's metal. It's not the metal I typically ascribe to. That's right.

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Alice in Chains is one of those bands that even though they kind of came out of the scene of the grunge and everything and they get lumped into that but I feel like they're the ones who can escape that and be in the metal category. Everybody always says they wanted to. Grunge in quotes. Those bands were very different. Everybody that knows them always said well they wanted to be a metal band. Jerry Cantrell only just admits yeah basically I'm a metalhead and half our riffs are Black Sabbath riffs. Yeah.

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So yeah, so would I love that. I mean, I love all the Alice in Chains songs, but that song. Great. Markisan great. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. It was when that single sound cat track came out and that that song. I just remember that video. I saw the fucking movie in the theater. Yeah. Yeah. And I love singing it. I mean, I've sung that song like I don't countless times. Me too. My number three.

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The Non-Metal Song is from another one of my favorite bands, and that's Radiohead. It's Creep from Pablo. I mean, I love Radiohead. There's several songs that I love singing, but I wanted to pick the first song that really made me fall in love with the band. So, and Creep is a song I've just practiced a ton, so I think I can do it pretty well. But I mean, I love singing.

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I'm going to do

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And then I'm probably going to do like a medley of Radiohead songs

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in the mix. But I wanted to pick Creep because that's the one

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that really got me into the band. And I just love singing it. Love it.

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It's very emotional, but it has that soaring part to it.

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See how we're learning things about each other here?

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Come on.

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You know, George, you keep making that sound. I will say I have done Suck My Kiss by the Chili Peppers for Kuroki. That's a cool tune. Suck My Kiss. I love Chili Peppers. Suck your what? Suck My Kiss. So we're on number three, and just FYI, if I'm doing Kuroki by song three, I'm like completely hammered. And so for my metal track, I'm going to do Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden. That's ambitious. I'm going to use that three-minute intro to kind of

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Yeah, three minute intro. Probably take my shirt off. Get my leather pants out. Was that Warren number five? He was number the beast, right? Number the beast. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I told you Maiden's going to come a lot. Oh, totally. Totally. Not at all anymore, ever. Sorry, I'm losing my outfit. For my non-metal, I'm going to get just down and dirty. We're going to go Never Going to Give You Up by Rick Astley. You fucking

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You know what's funny when I when I when I try to pick these non-metal songs

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and they have so much chorus in them it's like you almost get fatigued like I remember singing these

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songs but now thinking about them and trying to sing them and like just listening to the song

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There's so much of that one line, that chorus line that just keeps going and going. We should just make it a rule that you have to sing the chorus of your non-metal song. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. You wanna make that thread, I'll follow through on that. Never gonna ban you behind you. Awesome, that's really unexpected and fantastic, Matt.

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That's how I roll. It's true. Johnny. All right. Well, I'm going to say no because I couldn't sing to save my life. But this is pretending I can't sing. So number three is actually a Sabbath song, but I'm pulling this one way out of left field. I don't know why I chose this one. I just feel like it would be kind of cool to sing because I think it's actually one of his better songs. And it's an Aussie song. And that's Hole in the Sky off of Sabotage. I don't know what it is about that song, but every time

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It just kicks in. I just want to sing it every time. Yeah. If I was there watching this, John, I would be very mad if you didn't start it with. The first thing you hear there in that song where he shuts it up. Yeah. And my non-metal song, just a tiny bit of history. I was at a place. I don't know, Will, if you were ever at this place, because I don't know if it existed, but a place in Arlington called Whitey's. And it was karaoke. This is going back years ago.

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And it was a night. Was it near like Bardo's and stuff? Over in that area, yeah. Okay. And my buddy Rich, who's like a brother to me, I've known him for most of my life, was absolutely shit-faced and got up and tried to sing Runaway Train by Soul Asylum. That's a hard song to sing to begin with. He was like, run away on a one-way track. You gotta remember, he's drunk. And I was like, dude, you gotta walk. You gotta walk away from this one.

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I love Soul Asylum, period. There was a dude out there who sang this song, I think, three times that night or four times, and he sounded just like the guy who sang it. He kept singing it. Dave Perner. Yeah. I'm a pre-that album Soul Asylum fan. Yeah, I'm not talking about Soul Asylum anymore. But that's cool.

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I was saying there was this guy who sang this one song there that night the same night my friend sang solo song and I swear I thought this guy originally sang it he just kept singing it it was that awesome hey Matt we're going back to your Guardians of the Galaxy awesome mix volume one yes I'm dropping it looking glasses Brandy you're a fine girl how could you not want to sing that hammered in a bar one night because you don't know it I got up there

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He sounded just like the dude who sang the song back in 1972. Which is a feat. That's badass. That is a feat. Yeah. And literally nobody would remember that song if it wasn't for that movie. I love how Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack keeps coming up because it's such a great soundtrack. I have it on vinyl. All these songs before that came out and now everyone's revitalized these songs again. Yep, yep, yep. Because, you know, for those of us who are 75 years old, we remember these things. Of course.

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Will. Number three. Number three. Generals gathered in their masses. Just like witches and black masses. War Pigs. Black Sabbath. Yeah. So I think that's a repeat of George. Maybe. It's mine. That's my number five. Yeah. Yep. So good. And my non-metal song is one of Evelyn's favorite songs.

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She can play on the guitar and now she can play on the bass and the violin. Sweet. Seven Nation Army. Oh, yeah. So for my daughter, I will get up and I will embarrass myself and sing that song. Nice. After I sing War Pigs. After, of course. Yeah, because then you figure I can't go in. I'm good. I'd sing War Pigs. Right, right. Well, I'm not doing my metal songs looking like this. Hello.

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I'm still trying to figure out why you look like that. Because I thought it would be funny. Actually, this mask is driving me freaking crazy because I can't see through it and my eyes are really irritated. Is it a mask around your eyes? Why is your chin purple? I don't know.

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I guess. Alright, Jay. Fucking Matrix. Alright, first for John. Yeah. Is Jay playing? Yeah. Yeah. That was it. Mine. Hole in the sky. Continue to freak out the crowd as much as possible. I wanted to go just completely lo-fi and with no explanation to them.

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Transylvanian Hunger by Dark Zone is my metal track. Yes. That one's Standing on the Pool Table. And then my non-metal track will be If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley. That's the closing track, John, from that comeback special we spoke of last week. Fucking good. It really is. That's it. Just real quick, Jay, I just spun the revitalized

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version of a little bit of conversation.

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You know, with the whole kind of techno whatever stuff.

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It's so fucking good.

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Yeah.

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It's a fucking man.

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George.

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My number three.

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Iron Maiden.

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The Trooper.

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Oh, Iron Maiden again.

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Very nice.

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Very nice.

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Very trooper-y.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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That song just fucking gets me going

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and I would totally sing that

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drunk off my ass

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Well just that opening lyric alone

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would be worth it

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You take my life but I take

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I take his two

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Yeah you know

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Fire mostly but I'll run you through

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So when you're waiting for the next attack

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Take into consideration

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like can you actually sing the song

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No you're drunk who fucking cares

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No this is if I could

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Fucking hell no I'm on my mind

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No this is if I could

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Yeah, I mean, it's a given we can't sing. We're up here. We're just going to do something that fucking rocks. I'm picking things I can sing. I can't sing. I already admitted that I can't sing. Yeah, I can't sing. It's the trying that matters. Exactly. And my number three non-metal. This one's a bit more left field. This is Concrete Blonde and Bloodletting. Wow.

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I've got the ways and means to New Orleans. I'm going down by the river where it's warm and green. That's all I'm going to sing. Or try to sing. That's a lot more than anybody else has done, George. That's because nobody knows it. I had to give somebody some context. Right, right, right. I fucking love that song. Nice. I love Concrete Blonde, too. All right, Warren, number two.

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And number two,

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lay down your souls with the gods rock and roll.

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Venom black metal.

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Oh yeah.

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Nice.

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This is what I'm getting into my really intoxicated.

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Black metal.

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Time of the night.

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Yeah.

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Cause that's hard.

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Yeah.

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That's real hard.

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Yeah.

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My non metal.

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This is when I would sort of be dipping into my kind of goth kind of.

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Oh yeah.

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Attitude.

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It would be How Soon Is Now, The Smiths. Nice. Oh, my. Wow. Nice. Some Morrissey. That's some extremes there, those two different songs. Wow. Yeah. Woo. You gotta get that whiplash over here. You need that Morrissey crooning going on that song, too. Yeah. Morrissey's kind of a dick, but I do love his voice. Yeah. He's very distinctive. You can't not know Morrissey when you hear him. Yep. Cool.

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Sorry, something's going on. But yes, go ahead. My turn, I guess. So my number two metal song is from Chemists. Also our number one album of 2021. That's ambitious. But my song is Hunted from the album Hunted. I love this song, especially the end part. It's super emotional. I love singing it when they play live. I see him.

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He Comes Forth from Darkness. Love that part. So I like the whole song, but especially the end, I really enjoy singing it. And then my number two metal song is Bush Swallowed from Razorblade Suitcase. So I love Bush. I felt like Grunge kind of died and Bush kept it alive.

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a little bit, you know, and they don't quite get the respect of the bands that came before him. But I love singing their songs because they're just very tuneful. So Gavin Rosdale sings almost exactly in my most comfortable range where it's deep, but has that tuneful quality to it. So I always have fun singing the songs. But this particular track is also a monumental breakup song for me.

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So back in college, a hundred years ago, I was like, we were talking about with Will. Uh, uh, my very first girlfriend, cause I didn't have a girlfriend until I was in college. She left me after a couple of years of being with her. And, um, she told me in person in my dorm room, uh, when this heavy snowfall, I went to school in Oswego, New York. So very upstate central New York. And, uh, um, she told me that I held it together after she left.

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And then I ended up playing Razorblade Suitcase a few times because I thought singing those songs, because almost all the songs are really good to sing, would distract me. But it actually did the opposite for me because the lyrics to Swallow just kind of crystallized that experience I went through, especially at the end of them where Gavin sings, I miss the one that I love a lot. And so after a couple of hours, it just,

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playing this track over and over. I ended up trudging through a snowstorm to try to win that girl back, which of course was a fucking terrible mistake. Always is. But that song and that album in particular just had a very, just had a mark on me emotionally in that period in my life. That fucking breakup.

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For the first time. So whenever I sing the song Swallowed, it reminds me of what it was like to go through heartbreak for the first time. So I feel like I do that song really well because it was something that I experienced. Like when I sing it, it's not his song. It's like something that I went through. And I like that part of it. It's deep, man. Deep. Yeah, it was a long explanation, but there you go. All right.

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Matt. Nice. Nice. Okay. My number two. I mean, just to be clear, I've completely lost my shit by this point in the night. And so that's why I'm going to be singing rainbow in the dark. And I'm going to be air keyboarding on the bar with my hands. Who knows what I'm knocking over what I'm spilling. I probably hit somebody in the face on accident, whatever it's epic. At this point. Exactly. Exactly. And then I'm going to follow that up with a non-metal track.

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"Rockin' in the Free World" by Neil Young. I heard this track on a mix. I had a random thing set on my playlist the other day and this came up and it just brought me back to playing in bands in high school and how much I love. I love acoustic Neil Young. I love Harvest Moon, but then when you get into the Godfather of Grunge stuff, it's like, "Oh fuck, this is amazing." The solo on that song is so good. It's out of control.

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picked that is because rocking in the free world is like rotten in the free world by carcass. That is true. My boys. Matt does love some carcass. He does. I wake up and smell it. Smells like John F. Kennedy. All right then, John. Nice. Matt, I actually had after the gold rush as an honorable mention on my list from Neil Young. So,

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Not that my picks aren't already out in left field. I'm going to go even further out in left field here. I don't know how I came up with this as my number two. But I was just scrolling through my phone looking at all the albums I have on my phone. And I was like, fuck, I think I'm going to go with this band. And the band is Sabotage. And it's the song Strange Reality off the streets of rock opera. It has a cool chorus. It feels like a kind of show tunes, but it's got a

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really great riff on it and i don't know why but it just stuck so i went with it and i like

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sabotage so as one should well you don't have to if you don't want to but you know as one should not have to

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should yeah my number two it's a sabotage that'd be kind of cool too actually because that's heavier than

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Most Metal songs at that time. Number two, I'm going with one of the greatest singer-songwriters ever, at least in my opinion. He's written some iconic songs and iconic lyrics in those songs. But I went with Gordon Lightfoot, Sundown. I'm a huge Gordon Lightfoot fan, even though I'm not a super fan. I mean, I know all his major songs, but I absolutely love that song. It's got some kind of creepy lyrics to it.

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Yeah, it does. Yeah. And if you know anything about it, it's about an ex of his who I think was the same woman who ended up being the woman who gave John Belushi the drugs that killed him. Is that right? I think so. But yeah, Jay, you're right. There's that one part of the lyric that says, you're creeping around my back door. It's like, what the fuck is this about? Well, and then also there's something about going into a room where you do things that nobody sees or something. It's a little dirtier than that, to be honest. But then you listen to the song and it's quote unquote singer-songwriter folky.

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Acoustic. I've got like a 70s super playlist that we put on where, you know, adventure highway and stuff on it when we're driving down, you know, California roads. That song's on there. Yeah. He's written some amazing songs, but that's one that always stood out to me. So. All right. Nice. Nice. Sweet. Will. I was going to, I got inspired by Jay and I was going to try and play the actual song on the guitar when, when Jay started doing it.

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I've never heard you play. I used to be able to play this song the whole way through. But it's been a hot second. When I say a hot second, like 20 years. Slayer, South of Heaven. And, you know, when I was trying to go through this list, I'm trying to think of songs, like most of them, when I'm actually in the audience, and I'm singing

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along with the songs.

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And I can pick just to,

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I could have done five Slayer songs here easily.

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South of heaven is one of those where it's just like,

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when you just start screaming on and on South of heaven along with them playing it,

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you know,

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and I can,

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I can imagine myself doing this in karaoke sounding terrible,

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but not giving a fuck.

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That's the,

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that's the whole spirit of the thing.

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Oh yeah.

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And my non-metal song for my number two is I have no idea why this song is stuck in my head. If it's been stuck in my head, I mentioned in the last episode, Come On, Eileen. And I don't know the lyrics aside from, and now I know it's canceled, but it makes me look even more. I can just see myself being super drunk and singing that song. I want to see you in overalls singing that song. I'll fucking wear a tutu overalls.

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- High heels, whatever you want Johnny boy. No, it's in that video they're wearing overalls, right? Jesus. Oh, I have no idea. Oh my God. Sorry. I don't know. I just thought you were kinky. Back when we actually had videos before it changed. Remember those things? Yeah. Way back when. In the way back time machine. Yes. All right, Jay. Jay. All right, Jay. Yeah. Okay. Sticking with my original theme, who wouldn't want to stand in front of a group of

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people and shot the lyrics the fool's religion unprophets truth life

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destruction bad luck's your noose fury whip fury whip oh that's on my short list

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again stalking the crab uh and then just straight into my um yeah okay

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yeah i was gonna say you gotta say it's high on fire oh high on fire sorry he did say it did he

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I remember singing that song late at night in a bar in Chicago. In Chicago. Smutting Eggs at one of the biker bars. I forget what the name of it is. They do Smutting Eggs? Yeah, I love High and Fire, but like Frost Hammer, they really just belt out that Frost Hammer chorus. Frost Hammer! What's the name of the biker bar in Chicago that does the Smutting Eggs?

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Handlebar. Handlebar. Yeah, it's right. Handlebar. I'm in Handlebar. They're blasting Frosthammer. I'm singing on the top of my lungs. Yeah. Non-metal track. I'm so lonesome I could cry by Nate Williams. Good tune. Actually, I listened to that not that long ago. Pretty little tune. Nice, nice, nice. You hear the lonesome whimper? Well, he sounds too

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You're too sad to fly. That's fucked up. All right. Yeah. All right. My number two, I'm fucking really drunk by this point, so I am getting busy with the Metallica Damage Incorporated. Ooh. Good one. I probably can't even keep up with those fucking lyrics at this point, but I'm going to fucking try. Nice. All right, patrons of O'Donnell's Sports Bar, let's wreck.

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What's your non-metal? Purple George. Purple George. Well... It simply has to be Madonna and Material Girl. Because I am a material girl in a material world. Oh, you think? Yes. Actually, girls just want to have fun would have been a good one, too. Oh, yeah, Cindy.

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I'm Cindy. Cindy Lauper. All right, Warren, we are here. I see your true colors shining through. See, I'm not alone in my. I love Cindy Lauper. I think it took me years to realize girls just want to have fun. It's kind of a genius song. You know, like it's great. She is genius. Warren, number one. Warren, do it. Final. Number one. So hopefully at this point, I would be so drunk.

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that I would think I was a Viking. And it would be Twilight of the Thunder Gods. Oh, wow. Nice. Hopefully I'd be able to come out on a whole Viking ship and, you know, have a horn and everything. Then you'd burn the ship when you're done. All you need is just a really big horn of mead. Or if you will, just a big horn.

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And my non-metal would be going back to my come-down of the goth mopey stuff, and it would be Fascination Treat by The Cure. I was wondering if you were going to do some Cure when you said goth. Very nice. I like The Cure. Quite a bit. I love The Cure. Especially Wish. Oh, you know what? Did The Cure do Why Can't I Be You? Yep. I used to like that song. It's really nice. It's their pornography album.

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This one is amazing. Disintegration. I love Wish and this year would be the anniversary. It's like, when did that fucking thing come out? It's got to be 92, so it's probably the 30th anniversary this year. Yeah, that sounds about right. I'm pretty sure. So I'm hoping they put out like a vinyl for that because they had a vinyl for it, but of course, you know, it's way out of print, so it'd be cool if they re-released it. Yeah. Awesome.

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All right, Mark's on. Number one. Yeah, I fucking love The Cure. Big time. Holy Diver. Stio. Holy Diver. Stio. Love it. You've been down too long in the midnight sun, George. Clearly. I love Dio. I almost put two Dios on the list. I almost put a song with Black Sabbath, Sign of the Southern Cross.

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Oh, that was heavily, heavily in my contention. The only reason I didn't put it on is because I already had Dio as my number one. So I was like, I'll give some other people some attention. But Son of the Southern Cross is pretty high on my list. It's probably the greatest Black Sabbath song in the Dio era. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, well, Dio to me is the best singer in Black Sabbath, but, you know. Oh, yeah, he is. Clearly. He's the best singer.

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I love Ozzy too, but Dio Black Sabbath is my favorite. Black Sabbath on their Ozzy has some phenomenal songs, but clearly Dio is a better singer than Ozzy. Ozzy would tell you the same thing. I've heard Ozzy say that in some interviews somewhere. He's like, I'm not a singer like Dio is a singer. Ozzy was, I mean, he is great anyway. So, I mean, it doesn't matter because you got both. But anyway, so my number one,

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One for non-metal, but also just overall, is U2-1, Aktoon Baby. I mean, this is always my go-to song whenever I do karaoke. Aktoon Baby is the first album I bought myself in one of those ridiculous cardboard CD-long boxes that came out. Yeah, that was so punks like us didn't steal them.

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Right. And they used to be long boxes and encased in plastic. That's right. They were ridiculous. Yeah. I wore that thing out from playing it so much. And I wore out my voice from singing this album from start to finish when I was a kid. I think we all wore it out by playing with it too much. Yeah. Well, you always do. Well, but Octone Baby is actually my favorite album of all time. I know all the songs by heart and I'm not actually a big karaoke fan,

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But I always look forward to doing this song when I do karaoke. I actually had a stranger in a bar request that I do it again one time. I don't know how drunk she was when she made that request, but I do know that I can sing this song pretty well because I think it's probably the song I've sung more than any other song. And yeah, I love doing it. I don't want to do karaoke, but if you want,

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Invite Me in Karaoke, I will do that one song for sure. But yeah, it's a, I love, love that record. And I love that song. Yeah, it's a good song. Matty. All right. Number one. So my karaoke career was about six months and it took place at the Eagles Club here in Minneapolis. I had a buddy who I hadn't seen in a while and we were going to get together for a drink. He's like, Hey, come to the Eagles Club. We do karaoke. And I went and I was like, I'll just watch. He's like, no, if you're going to hang with us, you need to sing. And I'm like, oh shit.

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And so I did a lot of Doors. I did a lot of Dylan. I did the Chili Peppers, 311. The one song that I always wanted to do but never got around to but practice the shit out of in my house, which also led me to the realization of like singing along to the music versus singing into a microphone or two different things. And I just did not have enough to drink to be able to do this. But that song would be War Pigs by Black Sabbath.

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That's amazing. And then I would

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I would gather in their muscles.

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And that sounds much better than I would have.

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No, absolutely not.

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My non-metal song, I believe that everyone in their life

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should sing into a microphone the line

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I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch.

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The eagles dare by the misfits.

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Nice.

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Just to be clear, John, if you were in the audience,

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Matt would just walk off stage and not actually sing that.

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You're not allowed to hear anybody

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saying a song called War Eagles Dare. I'm surprised no one has picked up Ted Nugent, Wang Dang, Sweet Peet Tang. That's because Ted Nugent is a fucking dildo. He wasn't always a dildo. He kind of was. I'm from Michigan. I'm allowed to say that. But I also like that there's 8 million songs in the universe and Will's like, how come nobody shows? How about how nobody shows a song by this?

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It's complete fucking asshole. Yeah. Where are we here? John, I think. Two things. Marcus, it's funny you should mention that Octoon Baby was your first U2 album. I still remember when October dropped. I saw U2 on the Octoon Baby tour. You're like 107 years older than they did. 106. Actually, I saw them on the Unforgettable Fire tour. It was pretty awesome.

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Jay, I'm a little disappointed that you haven't said these lyrics yet in front of your elderly crowd that's hanging out with you at the bowling alley. If you squeeze my lizard, I'll put my snake on you. I'm surprised I haven't heard that from you yet, Jay. Are you going to say anybody's song? I thought it was just Will's motto. No, but I think you would. If I'm the only one who can name that song, you're all off the podcast. Yeah. Does anyone know that song? Oh, really?

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Love me like a reptile, man. Well, that was my guess. No. Wrong. Yeah, too late. It's not. Wait, excuse me. And I'm a bad boy, too. There's a date. No big difference. Because I don't give a damn. What is it? Killed by death. Oh, killed by death. Fuck. Okay, I was wrong, too. You got to drive your motorcycle through the wall and pick up your date. I'm embarrassed by that. Well, at least I got reptile, right? I mean, you know, meaning that sweet lizard. At least we know now that Jay doesn't even

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I like Motorhead. I know, I'm embarrassed. Jay, it's not like you're wrong. I mean, every song was about his reptile song. I didn't get the chorus and it was a blank wall. You know, I didn't even get to mention yet on the podcast that I spent a couple days before Christmas at the Rainbow Bar and Grill in LA worshipping at the altar of Lemmy. It was my first time to the rainbow and it was like middle of the day. Nobody was there. It was raining in LA,

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which is an unusual thing.

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And so it was just me, the waitress, and the statue of Lemmy hanging out.

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And I drank some Jack and Cokes, more than a few.

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I don't like Jack, but I drank it for Lem because he was looking at me.

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And so I...

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He was looking at me?

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Dude, he's like everywhere there.

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Were you dressed like this when he was looking at you?

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Yeah, that might be why he was looking at you.

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No, no, it was just my normal, usual shitty self.

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And for the record, people, uh, back in the 1980 period, people would look like George walking down Sunset Boulevard. True that was legit. True that. But, uh, yeah, no, I mean, it was a, uh, it was a pilgrimage, uh, experience for me to be there. And, you know, like, especially with like dead fucking empty play with your hair. I can't help it, man. It's distracting. Like it's like, and I'm just saying that cause it's turning me on and just, but, you know, I walked around through there and looked at

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all the shit. And I mean, it's, it's hugely Lemmy branded at this point, you know, he's fucking everywhere. I mean, Lemmy's lounge is the, is the outdoor bar and, uh, but still it was fucking cool as shit. So I just wanted to talk about that. And, uh, where are we now? Will? No, I haven't even done either one. Okay. Sorry. I knew we said your name, but no, that's right. Your name. My, my number one here.

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This guy is like perfect for any kind of karaoke at all. And I'm not surprised no one picked him, but he seems like he'd be perfect for it. And that's the madman north of the border. Devin Townsend. There's like a million songs you could pick from him because he sings this way normally. But I went with life off of ocean machine. Just seems like that'd be a fun song to sing by him. And my non-medical

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I'm guessing nobody's ever heard this song before despite that it's off of probably one of the best rock and roll albums ever made at least from classic rock and roll and that is a song called Call of Cell 44 and it's off the album Odyssey and Oracle from the Zombies you probably don't know it but it's an amazing song you probably know the song Time of the Season by the Zombies that's the album but I think this song's actually better than that one

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Nice. I'm going to check that out. You might like it, actually. I might. I like it. I dig the other stuff. It's got boatloads of choruses, and it's got a very nice kind of punchy rhythm to it. Excellent. I'm now regretting not putting something off of Ocean Machine on my list, because I'll put literally the whole album on there. Hide Anywhere, Regulator.

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All right, Will, number one. My number one is a song that gets sung in my household quite a bit. Every time we have to line up, it just always seems that we are the last in line. Dio, the last in line. My son loves this song. My daughter loves this song. I love this song. We went and all got stood in a very, very long line to get COVID tests today. And guess what?

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We're the last in line. For about two minutes and then someone else was the last in line. But you know what? I took the glory in the fact that we're the last in line. The actual last in line. It's a good thing to remember when you're last in line. It's sort of like a... Anyway, but it is kind of cool whenever my kids are in any kind of line and they're the last, they will say we're the last in line and referencing Dio. Anyway,

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It's like a consolation prize. I can't sing like Dio, but if I have

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like 65 beers in me, I will pretend

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and I will convince myself. 65?

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All right, maybe 64. But anyway.

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And then my

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non-metal song is kind of

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a metal song, but it's not really metal

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according to this podcast, but it's

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one of my favorite songs of all time. Clutch

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the Regulator.

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You didn't comment on the picture I sent you the other day.

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I think that was one of those. Yeah, probably one of the. Yeah, probably. Yeah, I mean, I was probably 63 beers deep into that point. I don't know what I said to me or to everybody. It was a pic. I was in the car. Everybody. And I get out of work and I, hey, you have 75 messages to read. I'm like, skip. It was later losers. It was a picture of my car radio and it was on Ozzy's Boneyard and it was playing clutch. And I said, I said, oh yeah, I guess.

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Boneyard doesn't play metal anymore. Yeah, I did see that. It made me upset, and I cried a little bit, and then I drank 62 beers. Wait, you've gone from 65 beers to 64, 63, 62. How many fucking beers have you drank? 61 bottles of beer on the wall. 61 bottles of beer. And then he's going to fall asleep. That's how that's Wells M.O. He's trying to lose weight. 62. I did lose 15 pounds in the last couple months, by the way.

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I'm gonna like go on like on Tuesday onto the messenger and I'm just gonna literally put like a couple words and put like 65 messages on there just so you get 65 messages but you'll have to read each one to get the full message a message for each beer well yeah all right I'm gonna do mine well first off I just to mark us on for what it's worth always a metalhead but always listen to everything else I when Oxon baby came out I was so impressed with how that band reinvented

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themselves and I listed that record religiously for about a year and a half. That stated, ironic, that Warren went with track one off this album because I went with track one off of side B, which, total coincidence, but it is from black metal and it is the song Leave Me In Hell. Such a great song. I Don't Want To Be Born, Leave Me In Hell. Again, Bowling Alley, that would be wonderful. Last, going with a little classic rock for my

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I would do ZZ Top, Wait for the Bus, and then go straight into Jesus, Just Left Chicago, which is kind of how it works on the record. Nice. My number one metal song, it's kind of a song you got to sing with a bunch of people, but Manowar, Fighting the World. Blind Cloths, Unite. Exactly. At this point, I'm just ripping off the clothes, and give me a microphone.

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consider doing gates of Valhalla which is just like you know like the most amazing vocal performance and I just thought that'd be hilarious too of course and my number one is anybody's guess but you know that it's going to be Lady Gaga yeah we know bad romance nobody knows that it means you're on an island with this one George

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It's gotta be Gaga. Here anyways. Everywhere else. Sorry. Oh, hey. We're done with the lists. Hold on. Yeah, Jesus, man. You can take all that shit off. Oh, my goodness. He's so purple. Oh, my God. You have makeup and all kinds of shit on, dude. It's fucking Thanos. Now you look like a mugshot after getting arrested. I can't do anything about this. It is more disturbing to see you with blush. That's just beer right there. That's beer.

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Oh my god, you're so androgynous. I know. You're so androgynous, you're like amphibious. You're amphibious! We'll never go off the rails on this podcast. That stuff was killing me, man. It was so itchy. I'm like, come on! That's probably why he kept doing that. He's probably scratching his forehead every time. Seriously, I'm all itchy and I can't see and my eyes are irritated. It was a bad idea.

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But I thought it was funny, so I did it. Hey, you know this is an audio podcast. That's why, like I said, I did it for you. Though I took some pictures, so I'll post it along with it so people can get the idea. I took some screenshots, too, but... All right, let's finish this thing off. Album of the episode. Album of the episode. Warren. Warren, of everything that we've talked about, whether you discussed it or we discussed it, what is the album of the episode that you like the most?

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I would say I'm going to stick with my

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Breaths of the Elder Dons Wayfarer.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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It's my album of

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Wait, Wayfarer?

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Yeah, I was going to say

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Windfarer, you mean.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Windfarer.

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Not Wayfarer.

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Windfarer.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's my album of 2021.

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I think it's fantastic.

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Damn, I love my glasses.

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Anyway.

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Yeah, everything I want it to be.

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So yeah,

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that's the one I'm going to stick with.

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Awesome.

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It's a great record.

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It's a really great record.

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I can't wait to spin the vinyl.

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Hell yeah.

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Mark us on.

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Yeah.

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So,

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um,

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I'm going to piggyback off our karaoke lists and pick two for this one.

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So I'm going to do one metal,

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one non-metal.

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So for,

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for non-metal,

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I have to go with a U2's Octoon Baby,

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which I mentioned is my,

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uh,

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all time favorite record.

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I think it's a perfect,

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What's your favorite song on the album? Other than one, obviously. Wild Horses, I like a lot. I don't know. I like all the songs on the album, though. I think it's a perfect record. But it merges rock and electronics flawlessly. I think coming off of Rattle and Hum. Also a great album. Right. I mean, it got a little bit of criticism. But coming off that album, to reinvent themselves,

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this way was a huge risk because it was not like anything they did before. And it could have been a monumental fail, but instead it turned out to be this phenomenal marriage of electronic sounds and rock. You know, the band almost broke up over this album. Yeah. Because they did not, half the band did not want to go in this direction. I know. And then, and then they, and then they came up with this.

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Yeah, it's like a three-piece, right? No, it's four-piece. There are four people in the band. And then they came up with the song One, and everybody gelled over this song, and they were better. Yeah, so I love their record so much. So I think it's one of the best records ever. So that's my pick for album and the episode, but for non-metal. For metal, it's going to be...

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The Slough Fag Traveler. Because to me, this is another perfect record. The songs on here, they gallop, they rip with an inventive storm of rifts, and they tell a concept story about a space mercenary caught up in this scheme to splice human DNA with alien dog creature DNA. And it doesn't really get much better than that.

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It was really cool to rediscover that. I mean, I've always really liked Slough Fig, but it's been a while since I listened to it. So I'm thankful that these companies put out like anniversary editions because it reminds me to go back to some of that stuff that I really liked when I was a little bit younger and I get to enjoy it all again. So there you go.

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I have a quick aside question so where does Joshua Tree for you to fall into the like Octoom like was this before or after Joshua Tree is before yeah it's Joshua Tree then Rattle and Hum and then Octoom Baby okay so you had like I don't know the order but you had like Boy, War, Unforgettable Fire not in any kind of order but those three albums came and then Joshua Tree and then okay I'm just trying to

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That octuq baby. Yep. All right. I just remember in like junior high and early high school, it was all about boy war and unforgettable fire. Which are all great. I love war in particular. It's funny because Joshua Tree was like the big thing in high school for people, but not for me. And I was a huge anti-YouTube person when Joshua Tree came out. I was like, fuck these guys. Because I was so fucking metal at that point.

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I mean, so, so, so, so, so metal, some metal. And, and then like after high school, I went back and I was like, Oh, damn, that's a really good album. What was the big, what was the big single that came out on Joshua Tree? Which one? Where Streets Have No Name. With or Without You is probably the biggest. Still haven't found what I'm looking for. Yeah. Okay. I mean, Bullet the Blue Sky is really great. I mean, every single song. There's three songs off the side too.

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that were big that had ready to airplay. One Tree Hill, Red Hill, Mining Town. Yeah, they're all in God's country. Yeah. Yeah, they're all good. Anyway, sorry, just trying to. I went to Pittsburgh to see them play Joshua Tree in its entirety. We saw it at Heinz Field. Yeah, I love you too. I mean, I'll listen to anything that they put out, but there was that period of time and this album, I'm actually doing baby. Such a big departure from what they did.

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before.

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But even after, I really like Zoropa as well, because it's like they took the electronics and they just tried to push the boundaries with it.

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And it's not as celebrated an album, but I like that because they, I think they kind of almost accidentally stumbled on just like the perfect album with Octoon Baby, because never really done that before.

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And then Zoropa follows that and they kind of try to push the boundaries of electronics and how it works with rock.

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So I like that too.

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I always like bands who try to do something more with that sound and like kind of mine it you know even though if it maybe it's not as celebrated an album I like that I like how they try to work that out and create something new but there's very few bands that that come in there just completely reinvent themselves and then do it so successfully you know because like we're talking about Joshua he's like I mean it's a classic album right it's iconic different than Octoon Baby

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So, yeah. Anyways. All right, Matt. Sweet. I, too, am going to piggyback off of my Karuki list, and because I mentioned the song War Pigs, I'm going to choose the album Paranoid by Sabbath Noir. Nice. Literally probably the greatest heavy metal album ever made, ever. Yes. Oui. Oui, oui, mais j'en. I mean, c'est. Oui, oui.

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So, Gian?

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Que grande.

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Hey, Marcus, quick little U2 history.

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I was in San Francisco when they recorded all along the Watchtower at Justin Herman Plaza,

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and Bono got in trouble for spray painting some sculpture down there in the city.

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I find them big time, but we had gotten word that they were doing a secret show,

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and we were debating of going to class or going down there because we didn't know it was true or not,

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and they actually showed up and played.

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So I could have actually been down there to see them play for that part of the album because for Rattle and Hum, most people don't know that's not an actual album that they release. It's like a compilation of songs that were new and live tracks and everything. I could have actually gone to see them play that version of it. I actually like their version of All Along to Watch Tower. It's brilliant. All I need is a red guitar, records and the truth, bitches. Yeah. So my album of the month, or episode,

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which is basically still the album of the month because we won't be back till February

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is going to be Wilderun, Epigon, Epigon, Epi-whatever.

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Epigone.

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Yeah, Epigone, exactly.

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And I joke, is my year over for my number one, seven days into the year?

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And the short answer is no, because I'm going to wait and see.

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Let's enjoy the year first.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Quick question. Where did you find the album? I couldn't find it on Bandcamp. It's out because they're on Century Media. Oh, okay. So it is out? It's been released? It was released on the 7th, yes. It's on Spotify or something? Yeah. I will just say this, Will. Probably not your bag. No, I mean... If you want to do something different, you might, but I don't know if you'll enjoy it as much because there's a lot of clean singing. It's not my bag, Will. No, I don't mind.

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Yeah, I don't mind clean singing if it's all clean singing, but if it's all harsh, it's harsh vocals and they unnecessarily go into a type of clean singing that sounds like a castrated 12-year-old boy. Oh, no. Who's emotive about losing his Legos, then I don't like it. I mean, I can throw it in a box. I have it in Flack. Yeah, same. If you're interested, we can put it up there for you. I'll find it on Spotify. I'm good.

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Yeah, it's out there. All right, then. Will? To honor my son, probably the album I've listened to the most in the last few weeks is Twisted Sister Stay Hungry. Fuck yeah. I bought this for him on vinyl. I'm not, I can't, I mean, I'm sure, obviously,

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My kids learn all the music through me. They do have aftercare and stuff at school where they play some like pop and stuff. And every now and again, I hear my kids liking some crazy pop song, which I don't discourage them from. As long as you like music, I'm cool with that. But my son is particularly focused and obsessed with Stay Hungry and particularly We're Not Going to Take It.

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I listen to that a lot and as soon as we drop his little buddy off so I do a carpool for soccer and as soon as I drop his little buddy off I'm allowed to play you're gonna burn in hell because he's like oh he double hockey sticks no I shouldn't listen to that I'm like okay as soon as he gets out of the car we're gonna burn in hell you know down on me anyway yeah so love that album I think that came I listened to that

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I was in seventh grade. I loved it then. I had it on cassette. I wore the shit out of the album and I'm kind of wearing the shit out of it again now. Like I just, it's so great. Anyway, that's it. That's my album of the episode. Cool. I think for mine, I'm going to have to go with the, the unpronounceable band from Norway. Dold Vordeensnaven Morkir. That would you call us? Exactly.

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to know. Well, uh, sorry. I just, I've been listening to this one a lot. Uh, so, you know, it's cool. It's black. I like it. Okay. All right. Here we are. We are at the end. We did it. This is the, you made it Warren. You made it. You've been inducted into the hall of people that have made it to the end of one of our episodes.

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Usually I don't make it, so it's plenty of time. We're still here, too. It is not past midnight, so it's not too bad. We're still on the same day. Exactly. We are under five hours. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, we've gone much longer. It was awesome to talk to you, Warren, and man, I can't wait to try your beer. Oh, yeah, man. It is delicious. Hang out with you at MDF, man. It's going to be fun. Yes. Can't wait.

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Can't wait. Thanks for having me, guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. It's a long time coming. Yeah. And his ass is very slappable, by the way. Don't put your phone back there. You don't want to get a cracked case. I mean, I feel like I can't slap it because it'd be like sloppy thirds after you. But it might be nice and hardened because of all the beatings that have been taken seriously. He's built up a lot of muscle. Well, if you just, since you're rooming with Will, you just slap Will's ass and help pass it.

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Pass it on.

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Yeah.

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Tell Warren I said hi.

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Exactly.

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All right.

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Well, Warren, we will see you probably, some of us anyway, in March at the Adroid Theory thing.

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I will see you before then, buddy.

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And everybody else, we'll see you next time.

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Next time.

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Next time.

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All right.

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Until then, stay metal.

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See ya.

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Yo! Metalhead's podcast! I'm at the part in the year-end podcast where either someone blew their nose or Heimdall was fucking signaling the start of Ragnarok.

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What in actual holy fuck was that?