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me To... All

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whole.

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the gold be your supporters.

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May the earth

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others far away.

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Lift the veil and

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dwell on the hope

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you're seeing. Happy

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feet lift the

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veil. Follow

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me. Heart.

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I'd love to see

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you grow in

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your face, you're

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not losing anything

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all this time,

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no one will

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find me, no

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one will find me, no

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one will find me. Bye

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feel their core rocking, so

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that you're cracked

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your breath andeb

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upfront into

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as cats. Z

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I not

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you you

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you Beautiful

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that is glass are live here on

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ke xp The

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new album is called crux, and

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we love it and thank you so much

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for taking the time to do this It's our

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pleasure. Thank you so much for having us.

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Yeah, you just sent me to a different planet

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right there kind of coming

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back. Just for our listeners, there's

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only two people in this room.

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Well, two musicians. There's lots of camera

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people, but two musicians and

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there's several instruments I've never seen in my

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life in all the years of music. What

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is going on here? Wow,

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it's such a fantastic voice. Obviously, it's

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taken you all over the

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world and we got to talk about

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Robbie's town. Robbie, Robbie, where would I

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be without Robbie? I'm like, is there

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anything he cannot do? Let's not find

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out. I don't even know what kind of flutes

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those are. There's like a

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digital one, there's an analog one, there's one

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that looks like what I thought was a

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saxophone, but apparently it's a flute. Then he

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walks over to the piano and just that

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I was astounded. Yeah, he's

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something. How did you two find each

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other? We met through another

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musician, Hisham Barucha, who's in

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a band called Kill Altars

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in Brooklyn. He's

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also a fantastic person and

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artist. I asked

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him if he knew anyone who played flute.

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This is like 2016 around.

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Actually, it was pre-Trump. It was pre-Trump

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2016. But then I mostly ended up

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playing the miniature medieval pipe organ.

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That's right, that's right. He plays a

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thing called a portative organ that is

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really... I mean, yeah, so we

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met each other. He was like, oh, I

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know exactly who you should meet. Now

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we're very, very close

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friends and we're

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doing this. I'm

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so lucky to have him. Love it.

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Well, speaking of the new album, the

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music video for the song Easy. How

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did you find someone that could do

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all those jet ski stunts? I have

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to know. Oh, that was me. Oh,

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the whole time? Yeah. That's me. That's

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what I've been doing for 10 years.

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That's why you haven't put an album out. Learning how

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to back I was learning how to do

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a big old flip on a jet

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ski I

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mean, it's kind of worth it. Yeah, right just

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these are videos turned out pretty good. Yeah. Well,

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good job I commend you on

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that but now you're back to music now

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back to music Actually, this is kind of

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the second show for crux and I have

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to admit I was kind of nervous Yeah,

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I was yeah, I haven't really been doing

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this. I just did something else in LA

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We did something else in LA and

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yeah, it's a very different thing to

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be out there again doing

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songs and In front

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of people and yeah So

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going back to the beginnings your

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parents were involved with music in

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one way or another and you

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started to find your way Into

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music through electronic music and I'm

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curious who those electronic artists

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were that helped you find your path Oh,

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I mean Actually, well,

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there were lots of electronic artists that helped

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me find my path but truly I wanted

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to be in a rock band and

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so I found electronic music

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out of pure frustration At

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that like every boy that I knew would not

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let me be in their band I

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know so I didn't really intend

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to be an electronic musician but

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it was where my language was

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like most naturally and I

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just you know, I I

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was given garage band and

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Thank God because it saved me.

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It's like saved me from I

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don't know the toil

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of maybe Not

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doing music whatever it was. I would have

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been doing. Mm-hmm. Yeah, awesome

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I want to talk about this one time you

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played a show in San Diego and Afterwards

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you went to the bar and you swore

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you saw Laurie Anderson. Yeah, and so You

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asked the guy sitting next to you at the bar if

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it was her and he goes I'm her bass player

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Yeah, he was like it is

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and I'm her bass player. He

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was Icelandic His

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name is schoolie schoolie. Yeah, he was

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like I was like I

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went to the bar and I was like Is

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that Lori Anderson? Just to

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the next person and he was like it is and

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I'm her bass player You're

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one degree from Lori Anderson. Yeah,

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and now we have the same management

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Oh perfect. Yeah, it's like

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a serendipitous. Yeah, I love

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Lori's music Yeah, I love

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all kinds of things. She does. Yes.

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What an artist. What an incredible artist.

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Yeah What does Meredith Monk

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mean to you? Oh so much incredible

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liberation just vocal

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Liberation. I love I love

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what she did. Yeah, and that is doing

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well You and I have something

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in common speaking of electronic music and finding

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our way when I was young one of

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my first Inspirations with a effects twin and

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we both have had an experience A

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fix twin. Yeah, well brought you into that

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wild world. Well, I was like friends

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Friends in high school who were fellow

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music nerds being like check this out

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You know, you couldn't find out about

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things as easily when I was a

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teenager So you just had to like

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rely on someone's older brother

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or sister to yeah to

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like say This is

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a thing Yeah, or or if they didn't

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if they were gatekeep II then you had

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to like sneak into their room and Steal

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it. Yeah, I had no idea who

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he was. I was interning in New

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York City at Matador Records in like

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1999 really and I was interning there making

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a whopping six dollars a day Not

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an hour Day,

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it didn't even get me home. But they

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called me. They're like hey and it was

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a VCR tape. That's how long ago They're

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like, hey, we have the new a effects twin

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video for this song window liquor We're all gonna

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go watch it. So all of us

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gathered in this room They shut off all the lights

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and I was like, where am I what because I'm

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from a small town in the Midwest and here I

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am in New York City watching an a fax twin

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video. Yeah, Matador off Window liquor.

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No, yeah, exactly It

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freaked me out and intrigued me all the

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time. Oh, it's so cool. Yeah, the coolest.

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I love it And

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so I was talking about your music

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video with all your jet ski acrobatic

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Yeah, and also your video from about

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ten years ago for marriage. Is that

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your? Mirage. Yeah, it had a

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black and white checkered floor and these red

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walls Of course, it looked kind of like

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the red room from Twin Peaks. Was that

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purposeful? Are you are you? Yeah, I'm a

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fan Actually the director chose all the

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things in there and the walls were

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they were they were like a radio

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a rainbow gradient, so

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not not just read but yeah, it

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was like a The

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red lodge goes psychedelic

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even in to

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a happy psychedelic place Not a not like

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a sad Bob world. Yeah Love

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it. Well, I'm so glad that you brought us

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this new album crux and Is

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there anything else that you want to say to everybody? Where

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should people what should people do? How

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how can I stay in touch

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with? I hope people laugh every

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day and Get

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to eat nice food and don't have

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to suffer. I

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don't know But if they

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want to listen to my record Jeez,

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I don't know because you know

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these days. It's all about these

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darn numbers I know and

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I really prefer the sound quality

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of Apple

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But I also or live seeing you live

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seeing me live But

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also, you know, you can you

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can get the CD you can get

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the vinyl but Spotify, you know also

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helps me. So I just say I hope

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that people listen and enjoy it. Yeah.

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Yeah. Vinyl people. Yeah. I'm one

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of them. Vinyl people. You're a vinyl

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person. I mean, sure. You know what?

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I'm not. I like, I mean, I

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think it's beautiful to like love a

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thing, especially materials. I really love

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certain materials, but I've

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moved enough times. Oh yeah.

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I really hate vinyl now.

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Moving in vinyl, don't move. Yeah. Yeah.

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Absolutely. Well, once again, thank you so

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much, both of you, for taking the

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time to do this. What a transport

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of experience that was. Thank you so

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much. And just beautiful, beautiful music. So

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thank you. Thank you so much. Yes.

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Once again, this has been Glasser, live

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on KEXP Seattle.