The Worst of the Best Podcast

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welcome to the worst of the best podcast
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you wanted the best well they didn't
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freaking make
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it so here's what you get from Canada
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Ryan and Ruben
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oh oh what just uh no no we're live I
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know we're
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live all right
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just what's a Frey can at the
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sh uh
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I was creamed and lock
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down not up to
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St I
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you all right welcome to the worst of
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the best podcast live recording Ruben we
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haven't done a live recording no not for
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the worst of the best not for the worst
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of the best in quite some time the
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reason being is uh I don't know life
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well we've done recordings but we
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haven't done a live recording in a long
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time yeah so we want to welcome already
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our three viewers hey guys I am
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committed to this episode I got my
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Michael stype haircut and I've got my
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Michael stype haircut when he was in
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grade six so he had beautiful long hair
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yeah he did girls which album was the
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center fold or they airbrush his face
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because he has acne acne scars yeah yeah
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oh I didn't know that yeah yeah I love
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Michael St Michael stypes great not to
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be confused with Jack White of the white
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stypes I don't know okay so if you're an
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RM fan I am you're gonna probably like
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this episode oh our brother Jason just
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chimed in hey Jason welcome to the worst
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to best podcast glad you're here glad
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everyone's here I'm a huge RM fan and I
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know rib and you are too and I would
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like you to tell your story your first
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experience with RM that you can remember
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I was on a road trip with my friend Russ
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beside me was a guy named Mike and he
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was a big RM fan I I knew who they were
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but that's when I became like immersed
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in RM you know road trip you're stuck in
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a backseat you're listening to something
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and fell off with the green album oh
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though out of time had already came out
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so I knew it right that's when I became
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like oh they're more than just a
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mandolin song right the real band then
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after that summer that happened I
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started like listening to them a lot and
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then Christmas happened and I was given
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automatic for the people as a gift by my
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brother Ryan that's right I had Ruben
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for Christmas gift buying I believe you
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didn't own anything at the time of RM no
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no when I bought you the RM disc I
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wasn't even that big of a fan no I Ruben
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always kind of liked music that not
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necessarily the other brothers liked and
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not not in a bad
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way guys the Green Day yeah don't Pilots
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sure yeah yeah well that's the whole
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thing you guys interest in bands you
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know he is the same thing pretty boring
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yeah so Ruben I gave you that gift
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automatic for the people and then I
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remember such a good album great album
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we're going to get to it is it the worst
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out of their best is it their worst
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album out of the best album so the best
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albums the best selling albums of RM
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before we get to that so I started
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listening to automatic for the people as
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well then I fell in love with the band
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and I saw the more as just the mandolin
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song and that was very famous without
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further Ado here are their five top
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selling albums now it probably won't
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come as a surprise and we're going to go
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in order of the release not in we've
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done it before where we're like you know
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least selling the best selling we're
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just going to go chronologically the
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order of release Ruben and I we got to
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be fans of the band and I still am of
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course even though they've retired
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during this time we were teenagers young
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adults during this time we're teenagers
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at the very least so it's a really
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exciting time to be an RM fan during
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these best-selling album era yeah them
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retiring to me was like if you're a
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Catholic the Pope's retiring it was hard
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it was like Dari doesn't retire you're
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like no that can't be I forget what he
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said he being Michael styes there's only
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so many times you can go and tour in
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Oklahoma right you know I guess at some
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point you're just done he still does
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like performances though he'll like do
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like coffee houses and bars just kind of
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show up do a little right he's kind of
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like the David Letterman of of singers
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he's got the big beard yeah and does
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these weird uh one-offs sure yeah their
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first best selling album that they kind
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of broke was the album green I remember
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this album when I became a fan of RM
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during their automatic for the people
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era I went to their back cataloges and I
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had a harder time not today anymore I
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their early stuff of course I love old
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their stuff but I love each era that
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they've been through yeah I remember
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listening to this album thinking oh this
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is the album that has orange crush R has
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sold 85 million records that's that's a
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very impressive feat so they have 15
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Studio albums so if you're and actually
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did the math believe it or not so if
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you're actually were divide each album
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it's about six million copies an album
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they have the Indie Spirit they still do
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we're talking about them you know who
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they are but they never they never sold
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out no though some people think they did
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with we'll get to that get to that so
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green I'm just looking up here give me a
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second boys so the track songs on this
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are pop song 89 get up you are the
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everything stand world leader pretend
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the wrong child oh so good so good
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orange crush Turn You Inside Out hair
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shirt I remember California and an
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Untitled track at the very end of the
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now I see ribbon's having some
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concertation here about picking the
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worst song from this album I actually
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had a fairly easy worst pick out of this
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album in fact R's really good about that
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some songs are real Duds they has a real
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Duds they really do this is a very
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strong album um it is hair shirt I just
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love that song are you picking that just
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calm down holy cow what you I can't
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believe we're already doing
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this oh well I saw you get excited about
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the wrong child and I was torn between
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the wrong child and hairshirt and I
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knowing Ruben I think I know which one
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he's going to pick may I remind you
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before you make your pick may I remind
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you we're doing their greatest hits
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album that's all I'm going to say okay
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you're going have to do a worst pick on
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that doesn't mean you can't pick a song
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twice cuz I got a feeling I know which
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one you're going to pick I do have a
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feeling but here's a sample of hairshirt
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just so people can understand what
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Ryan's talking
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about well sure it grows on
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you okay it hasn't grown on me in 30
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plus years do you know what a hair shirt
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is you know that brand cleia song yeah
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good boy this name is the hair I wear
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this hair is holding from your
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brown and this hair shirt I wear was
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woven from yes and let me guess I I
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don't know if I officially know what a
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hair shirt is but by the title hair
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shirt I assume it's a shirt made of hair
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but the purpose of it no okay no I don't
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it's a torture device oh wow itchy yeah
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okay all right I didn't know that okay
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so hey uh Tanya Murray saying hello than
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thanks for joining so here we go that's
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my pick for worst RM song on green is
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hair shirt pop 89 yeah okay it's a very
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age song It Doesn't when you put the
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year of the song in your title uh let's
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get a sample that for the audience too
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it's a fair pick Ruben I
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agree now granted anytime the
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somethingone goes no to a song it makes
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it sound bad hello how old saw you I
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know you don't want me to sing but I
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don't turn it off except for right now
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the reason why I picked hairshirt over
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pop songs because it's just a little bit
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more fun I'm sorry it's a funner it's a
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funner song It's a funner song dad would
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correct you on that he would okay so
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that's our two worst picks for green the
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next fantastic album fantastic these all
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these five are good the next one in
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order so the top five selling albums
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were from green to new adventures and
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highi so that's the order we're going to
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go in order of release of course out of
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time was their major major big hit I
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remember seeing the video is a very
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impressive video which video is that a
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Losing My Religion I have a story about
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Losing My Religion okay the
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song before I was an RM fan of course I
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knew the song it was a big hit at the
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time 1991 I was actually in grade 11 I
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was dating a young a young girl and I
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was young too I was it was the story
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sounds terrible but she was actually my
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first girlfriend and Paula yeah Paula
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she's a great great person we we slow
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dance at the school dance with this song
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so I got did she go to your school dance
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I went to her school she was in junior
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high and I was in high school she the
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same grade as me yeah was I at the dance
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I don't know I didn't dance with you I
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was there for her it's a childhood
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memory or well I was 16 and she was 14
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memories of your memories of my youth
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yeah anyway youth so Losing My Religion
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has a special place in my heart for an
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early you know youth memory so I always
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think of that when I hear that song
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actually so corny as it sounds
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interesting songs on this were radio
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song Lose You My Religion low Near Wild
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Heaven endgame Shiny Happy People belong
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half world away Tex Cara country
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feedback and me in Honey great album
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Strong album of course their biggest
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their biggest selling album of all time
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I believe no actually I'm wrong
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automatically the people sold more
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really yeah automatic people sold 32
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million approximately good for them yeah
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it's very rare that a quality album is
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their bestselling album oh wow good for
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them yeah such a great album question
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before we get into the pick
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okay do instrumentals do they count
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we've done this before where
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instrumentals is kind of a weak pick but
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if instrumentals count then it's endgame
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for me for my worst pick on this okay
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what's the rules other rules we have
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cover songs cover songs Don't Count
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which AR doesn't do too many okay let's
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take out instrumentals so my my worst
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song on this album is endgame it's an in
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instrumental it's kind of a nothing song
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for me tell that to Peter Buck to his
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face I dare you so the song that is kind
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of then my least favorite song is that
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this no
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well it's my le no we've had this
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problem every time we do the a music
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artist doesn't mean I hate the song in
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this particular case it's my least
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favorite song on the
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album now I I have a feeling which one
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you're gonna pick but go ahead Ruben
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which one you g to pick it's clearly
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radio song I you know radio song and pop
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song
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they both are kind of throwaway songs
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but again it's just a little bit more
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fun hey what's down the radio yeah yeah
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that's a horrible intro that a pretty
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good impression I did
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though it's not a bad song no it's not a
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bad song it's better than pop song 9
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this is they were the first people to
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combine rap and uh Rock right it's a
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good Baseline coming up here
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who is that guy who is that guy that
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sings in the background oh my
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goodness that's a great thing to
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Wikipedia if we had more time yeah we're
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doing live so we're doing live so we
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can't Google and edit it out later well
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we no I don't turn off radio song no I
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wouldn't turn that off I like a not all
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instrumentals do I get like a jam on I
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kind of like it when there's an
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instrumental kind of breaks up the Alum
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makes it feel like more of an album sure
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there's like a texture to it but
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unfortunately RM for for out of time
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their instrumental endgame is not a very
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strong instrumental so that really is my
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least favorite song I will skip that if
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it's on I will skip it all right right
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but for the singing type song Low I
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won't skip but if I had to pick one I
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would I I would skip that one so that's
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the name of this podcast that's the
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worst pick yeah okay fair enough
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automatic for people as we mentioned
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Ruben's Christmas gift yeah I can tell
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you how I ruined this gift you ruined my
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gift that I gave you yeah we got robbed
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when I say we I live with Jason and
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Vancouver
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we got Robb but that CD wasn't taken so
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I'm like this is what you do you get an
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engraver and you engrave your your
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social insurance number in it okay but I
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didn't know that that would ruin the CD
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on the other side so you
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engraved so what it get stolen and I
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ruined the CD right well I engrave my
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social security number of my mp3s oh
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good smart smart smart all right the
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next best selling I'm automatic for the
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people welcome to everyone that's joined
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hello how you doing hello and uh Tanya
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says everybody likes Shiny Happy People
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yeah b52s what a good blend b52s
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RM they should tour together yeah they
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should tour together I think they're
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both retired as bands I think I don't
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know okay so Ruben do you have a worst
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pick for automatic for the people I'm
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not going to list all the songs I guess
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it's kind of redundant people can people
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that are I am fans know the
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songs yeah well here's mine it's called
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star me kitten this one's actually quite
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boring I'm sorry
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we're on my
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grant I don't mind it but out of the
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album I would
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say
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the
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yeah it doesn't change much more than
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that it's to me it's literally a song
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back when I first heard this album It's
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one that has never grown on me I don't
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find anything in it that builds or I
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will always skip it when I when I was
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listening through these tracks to
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refresh myself on my worst pick that
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came to me right away the moment I it
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I'm not really a passive listener I want
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to be engross in the song sure but an
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instrumental or boring song like Star me
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kitten I can do within the background
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sure if it's in the background I'm not
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gonna go but but if I'm actively kind of
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listening engaged you know you know it's
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not your candy that's for sure so after
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automatic for the people they had kind
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of a sound and a familiarity that people
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recognized as am like they really they
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had different great songs like man on
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the moon Auto for the people didn't go
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through their hits man on the moon Drive
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of course Everybody Hurts these are huge
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huge songs right then they came out with
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rem's monster now I will say for the
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record they double whammy of monster and
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Adventures and
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high-fi I know they hit their stri I
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those two albums to me are just it's
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everything that I love because I am I'm
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a rocker at heart I admit like so I tend
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to lead towards kind of rock music a
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little bit harder drivy music I love RM
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but when they did monster I was like it
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combined the love of RM that I had and
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electric sound and and they did it for
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two albums and I don't know why they
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stopped but two was still great because
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now I think when monster first came out
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it was much maligned I think the reason
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why yeah I know I know but now people
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really love it I think it's gotten
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better love as years have gone on yeah
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people have recognized hey this is
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actually a really good rock album well a
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lot of people will say about like YouTu
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Roa is a fantastic album they do now but
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they didn't at first what shows to me
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that like artst Integrity the real
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artists they're making art that moves
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them and if it doesn't they'll stop
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right RM never went for the hits there
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is no song on here except for one and
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legit there is one song on here that
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does I don't I don't listen to and
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thankfully It's The End song you it's
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called you y o you yeah you're the worst
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you're the worst
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you it it
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I do agree I do agree it's the worst now
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again if you put it like let's say we're
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driving the car and you put the song say
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hey Ryan we're listen to the song deal
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with it okay fine when you got all these
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other songs on here like for strange
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currencies I don't sleep I dream king of
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comedy Crush island in the opening track
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what's the frequeny kenth is probably
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the best rum song they've ever made I I
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love that song and I remember as a kid
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going like hey hold on a second did they
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slip the f word on the radio yes they
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did and they did Hearts they somehow
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like is that what happened so Ruben is
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that yours as well or do you got a
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different no no no I agree I I agree but
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I agree that's the worst on the album
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you genuinely really like it or yeah
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yeah absolutely okay fair enough fair
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enough and then they came out two years
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later with I remember this coming out
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for a lot of reasons but
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uh I think we've talked about that
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before maybe not why I remember this I'm
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not sure I talked about it recently to
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you okay but the album came out I
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listened to it like you should a FR
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album hey Paul another coworker Hey
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Brother how's it going I don't have any
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co-workers yeah well you own your own
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business you run your own show you know
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you you answer you answer to nobody
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answer to thousands of people I as well
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you have a lot of customers uh so ribbon
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for our local people ribbon runs tumble
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bums play center here in Victoria there
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there's a plug there's a plug for
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there's a plug why don't you sponsor our
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podcast we
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are what I earn pays for this podcast
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okay fair enough and I pay for the other
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one so it's
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even L adventures and Hi-Fi low
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adventures and high-fi high high
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definition I remember getting the album
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I remember listen to all the way through
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as per usual they don't print the lyrics
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so you just got to listen to it you know
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why they don't print the lyrics why why
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RM doesn't print the lyrics did not is
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past tense now RM did not print their
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why is that the whole no one thing was
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above the other oh it's like he might as
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well print the like the drum notes you
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might as well print like the guitar
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notes oh really yeah yeah yeah that's
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why sometimes he can't hear something
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sometimes he wants it to be in or want
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ineligible yeah yeah well he is
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ineligible in a lot of songs yeah that's
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that's on purpose that's funny what's
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your worst oh we got to go back to so
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what's your worst pick ribon I have mine
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again my my first worst pick on this
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album was the instrumental and that was
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uh I forget which one it was I think
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it's oh I forget which I forget which
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one is the oh uh I know zither is the
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instrumental zither Z let's listen to it
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it's not very
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good but but hold on second we're not
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doing instrumentals no I know I know I'm
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just saying but my worst pick on this
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album is actually the opening track
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oh oh
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is that is that an agreement oh no it's
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a terrible pick story is a sad one many
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okay I won't sing please
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don't okay that's my worst pick sorry I
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make no apologies it I remember when I
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first got he just said
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sorry I remember when we first got this
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album of course we played the first song
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on the track I was like whoa we're
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opening with this and I remember being
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sorely disappointed as this is open
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think about the the album previous
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opened with W the frequency Kenneth and
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this is their opening track no no no no
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don't you make that yours do you even
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know do I even know you're going to make
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that's
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crazy oh you're
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crazy I love it this can't be the worst
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you can't like I prefer how the W was
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one where it got us than be mine that's
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impossible that's insane this is where I
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put my foot down this is my Insanity I
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make no apologies it's a good song very
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monsterous it is very monsterous but I
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highly disagree with you I don't know if
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we do thisness you're not a music
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producer
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well let me just say I'm sortly
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disappointing you rub okay so that was
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your worst pick of aveng high if you're
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at a concert and that came up and you
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had to go bathroom you would go you'd
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rather just see oh yes I would
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absolutely I would be thrilled that the
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played be mine oh me I'll be thrilled I
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would be thrilled I'd rather how the W
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is w and where it got us
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well I would be thrilled okay so the
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last album we're going to go over from
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their career because we're already at
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the 20 minute Mark is uh in time the
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best of RM so this covers from 1983 to
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2003 or something like that the first 20
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years and we're GNA pick the worst song
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from their greatest hits album that sold
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the most it was like oops don't want
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that again probably frodi and slip you
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really do want it no no I don't their
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greatest hits album had man on the moon
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the great beyond bad day Kenneth all the
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way to Reno Losing My Religion EO the
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letter and 18 other songs so ribon have
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you looked over this yet do you yeah I
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know all the songs I don't have to look
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it over this was an easy pick for me it
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almost made my worst pick on the green
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album yeah we're the same we're the same
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okay there we go let's play for a little
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bit okay I had the of seeing R live they
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played that song I did it all potato is
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the compost check Sor he's just doing
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work rated stuff ignore him thanks Paul
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all right appreciate that all right ton
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said I like the one over the one you
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picked well which one who's you I like
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the one over the one I like the one you
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picked probably talking to you cuz
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you're co-workers okay so I like the one
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over the one you picked okay well thank
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you I think all right well that's the
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end of this episode that's all that's it
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we're actually recording three more just
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because we're so far behind so we're
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putting three more in the can so for
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those who are listening for the first
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time what we do is we record live and
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then I'm G to take this audio and then
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I'm G to edit it for iTunes but if for
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the odd person that watches us live this
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is what it's like when we record our
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show it's not very exciting but this is
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all we do we talk and then but if you
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like it or hate it great thanks for
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joining us you can rate it yeah you can
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surprised if Facebook takes us down oh
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she likes yours not mine
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St oh St Pier boy have a few co-workers
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here this is embarrassing what was I
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gonna say this episode's gonna probably
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be taken from Facebook because of the
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music so we did a backup recording just
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so uh oh so you can listen to this at
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another time you can listen to this
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another so if you want to listen to this
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again those who listen live I'm just
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saying I Facebook wants to hear those
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songs are going to probably block this
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feed so anyways once we hit end live
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video but all right remember in front of
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every silver wait no what is again oh
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yeah in front of every Silver Lining
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there's a cloud and we're here to help
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you find it thanks for joining guys
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