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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing that makes you feel like Bob Costas like

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Speaker 2: listening to that music. That, of course is roundball rock,

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Speaker 2: a sound, a music, a moment that you'll start to

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Speaker 2: hear once again on NBC and joining us is the

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Speaker 2: man behind the music. John Tesh, good evening. I promised

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Speaker 2: that you would be on with us this evening, and

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Speaker 2: here you are on KFI AM six forty. Buddy, I

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Speaker 2: gotta tell you, I ran into you a KTLA and

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Speaker 2: I just the memories kept flooding back, and I hear

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Speaker 2: that sound, I hear that that melody, and it just

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Speaker 2: gets me so pumped, and it takes me back to

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Speaker 2: I guess the early nineties when things were things were

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was. It's it can only be

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Speaker 3: described as supernatural because this song is thirty five years old. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I wrote it in nineteen ninety. You know this story,

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Speaker 3: you know, on my Answering Machine. I was in Europe.

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Speaker 3: I had an idea. I called it in to my

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Speaker 3: answering Machine. When I do this story on stage, when

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Speaker 4: The on the screen behind me from what I'm talking about,

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Speaker 4: you know, right, and yeah, I mean the funny thing

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Speaker 4: for me is that when I heard it was coming back.

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Speaker 3: When when Rick Cordela from from NBC Sports said hey,

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Speaker 3: we want to bring it back, I just said, Okay,

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Speaker 3: going to get an orchestra and I'm going to do

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Speaker 3: little bit. So I did it, spent some you know,

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Speaker 3: spent some cash, and tested it out on the internet

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Speaker 3: and everybody said, nope, we want the OG version. So wow,

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Speaker 3: it's on the shelf. Yeah, you know what they want,

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Speaker 3: the original, They want the original.

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Speaker 2: I told everybody last week or I was here on

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Speaker 2: Monday and I was saying, Tesh is coming in on Thursday,

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Speaker 2: and the word got around the studio here. Everybody was

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Speaker 2: very excited, and I told everybody then, you know, hearing

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Speaker 2: that that sound, at least the beginning a round about rock,

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Speaker 2: just that when it just comes in, it slaps you

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Speaker 2: listen to this. In the same way that it felt

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Speaker 2: like when I was a young boy, a young man,

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Speaker 2: and I saw like Kurt Cobain or I saw James Dean,

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Speaker 2: where you just are forced to pay attention because something

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Speaker 2: lot of things, and I wonder for you, did you

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Speaker 2: know that this was a different song? Did you know

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Speaker 2: that it was going to be this level of a catchiness?

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Speaker 2: I mean truly, since I saw you on Monday, I've

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Speaker 2: had the song stuck in my head NonStop, and it

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Speaker 2: only it took thirty years for me to get it

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Speaker 2: out of my head, so now it's going to take

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Speaker 3: Well, it went on the shelf for like twenty years

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Speaker 3: And I get that because the team was so synonymous,

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Speaker 3: I was hired out of I was working for CBS

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Speaker 3: and you could do the music. And and that's why

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Speaker 3: of this new record of mine called Sports, That's why

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Speaker 3: that record and also round Ball Rock has an eighty

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Speaker 3: the alias sound of the of the the the orchestra hit,

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Speaker 3: I mean one of the combination of orchestra, but also yeah, like.

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Speaker 2: There's a prog element to it. And we were talking

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Speaker 2: last week and it's like I do TV. You did

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Speaker 2: TV as well. And I think that there's an assumption

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Speaker 2: that people like us might uh when we'd have our

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Speaker 2: side projects. Sometimes they're vanity projects. I cannot say that

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Speaker 2: not as not as accomplished as yours. From even from

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Speaker 2: You know, were you surprised when we were people surprised?

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Speaker 3: Oh oh for sure when I left. When I left

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Speaker 3: entertainment in nineteen sixty, everybody made fun of me, and

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Speaker 3: you think you could probably do both? John? You could

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Speaker 3: probably stay at entertainment tonight? And I did. I can't

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Speaker 3: remember who the explorer was who burned his boats, but

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Speaker 3: that's was the metaphor for me. Is I just no

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Speaker 3: I don't think the guys that Billy Joel's label wanted

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Speaker 3: was public television. I had seen I had seen Yanni

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Speaker 3: We we we put up the money TV money, right, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Amazing. And is it true that you've you've sold eight

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Speaker 2: That's unbelievable that.

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Speaker 3: Most of it is is because of of of public television.

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Speaker 2: But but you know, John, I got to tell you

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Speaker 2: that you're calling us.

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Speaker 3: That's too extensive anyway. The answer question about Rob moll

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Speaker 3: Rock was that's not a typical song for me to

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Speaker 3: to to write because I was writing these big, bombastic,

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Speaker 3: these television trucks for so long. I understood that I

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Speaker 2: Because it's like you're kind of coming around a little bit.

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Speaker 2: You're reflecting on the accomplishments and now here we are,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what we got to take a break.

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Speaker 2: Can you stay with us for the next segment or

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Speaker 2: do you have to run?

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Speaker 3: Sure? I'm good?

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Speaker 2: All right, John Tesh with us. I'm Andy Reesmyer in here.

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Speaker 2: I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Good evening. Joining us via the telephone is mister John Tesh,

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Speaker 2: the author and the musician behind that wonderful song you've

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Speaker 2: been hearing, round Ball Rock. Thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 2: You got a new record out as well. It's called Sports.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't come up with another name.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's good. Huey Lewis did a little bit,

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Speaker 3: It's actually a workout record. Really. I mean, I my

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Speaker 3: son Gibb said to me. He goes you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: in the studio. And it had been you know, a

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Speaker 3: been a couple of decades since I'd written new music.

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Speaker 3: We were just always touring with the old music and

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Speaker 3: just I just said, you know what, I want to

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Speaker 3: It's eleven new songs. Eleven new songs, and it's the

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Speaker 3: stuff that I think you like, which is a lot.

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Speaker 3: It's all instrumental and a lot of odd time signatures,

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Speaker 3: Sinnowiog playing guitar, really Hendrix reborn, Tim Landers on bass

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Speaker 3: so it's it's it's a mixture of eighty sounds and

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Speaker 3: always looking for a playlist to work out to, so

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Speaker 3: I said, well, I'm just going to create this.

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Speaker 2: So awesome it is I just there. There isn't a

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Speaker 2: just create it. That is very It is very Walker

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Speaker 3: You but but but and it's very funny because my

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Speaker 3: and then she walked the other way and come back

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Speaker 2: How many? So I'm so curious about the lore also,

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Speaker 2: and what are teesh groupies known as? Are they? Are

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Speaker 2: how do you how do they how do they define?

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Speaker 3: For for a while when I was younger, it was

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Speaker 3: Tesh heads but now but now my my daughter who's

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Speaker 2: Hey, that is that is a beautiful story. I didn't

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Speaker 3: Thank you. And when I walk into when I walk

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, goes all right, buddy, Well, thank you so

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Speaker 3: What a guy.

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Speaker 2: Catch the new album Sports by John Tesh and you

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Speaker 2: The last comment on the Reddit page where they posted

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Speaker 3: How about that? I agree? I agree, Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Mandy Reesemeyer Robert. What do we think of Tash? That's

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Speaker 2: Now, Oh absolutely, yeah. I think that's a that's a

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Speaker 5: I'm curious what his life is like. Because you talk

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Speaker 2: I want to know, you know, if he's living near

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Speaker 5: I didn't know that either. So your next job, Andy,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can you do this? I'll do my best budday,

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Speaker 5: No no, no, no, you got a buttonhole them much

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Speaker 2: It's a crowd sourced basically just put on by a

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Speaker 2: Hello, Thanks for being a part of this. I got

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Speaker 2: Magnolia Park just is transformed into Halloween Town.

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Speaker 6: especially at Magnolia Park, you're going to barely be able

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Speaker 6: Not Yeah, it's pretty amazing, and it's everybody is. The

434
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,160
Speaker 6: map's totally crowdsourced. Everyone in Burbank just puts their their

435
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,959
Speaker 6: houses on the map, and even outside of Burbank too,

436
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 6: And the people here really like I mean, they're like haunters.

437
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,919
Speaker 6: They dedicate most of their year to building these sets.

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00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 6: And everybody who you know lives in Burbank, the majority

439
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Speaker 6: of people they work in the industry.

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Speaker 2: And is that the reason that Burbank just became the

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00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 2: Halloween destination in La County. I mean, I know Tim

442
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,199
Speaker 2: Burton grew up there. I heard that might have been

443
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 2: part of it, but it really just feels like Burbank

444
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:38,880
Speaker 2: is the place for Halloween.

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Speaker 6: I think it's a couple of things. I think also,

446
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 6: you know, people moved to Burbank. All the creatives moved

447
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 6: to Burbank when they have families, So we have everybody

448
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 6: has families who lives here, and then they just end up,

449
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 6: you know, all the studios are here, so they're these

450
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 6: creatives with families, and they end up building gigantic literally

451
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 6: like movie sets on their front laws.

452
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Speaker 2: And what made you want to put all this together

453
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 2: in an app or a map rather and have a

454
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 2: social media account. I mean, it's it's really helpful, but

455
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Speaker 2: I don't know that I would have thought of that

456
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 2: to be helpful. I wouldn't have thought of it, you know,

457
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:13,679
Speaker 2: kind of just like blew up.

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00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 6: I started it in twenty twenty, and it was actually COVID,

459
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,280
Speaker 6: and you know, like me and my family would drive

460
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,719
Speaker 6: around and for something safe that you just look at

461
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 6: the houses, and I was like, man, I bet other

462
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 6: people would think this would be cool too. So it

463
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 6: started off as like a Facebook group and then it

464
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,399
Speaker 6: grew to a map like overnight, and you know, the

465
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 6: last couple of years, it's just it's it's really blown up.

466
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Speaker 6: I would say, like last October, I think my map

467
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 6: got one point seven million views.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

469
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,479
Speaker 6: And people are coming from everywhere to come see the houses.

470
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Speaker 6: I mean a lot of these houses have live actors

471
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 6: in their front yards as you know, like the Clownhouse,

472
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,640
Speaker 6: you know that, and they put on such an incredible

473
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 6: show and there's something for everyone here. It's like, we

474
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 6: have so many Disney houses too that are so kid friendly.

475
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 6: I can tell you the holiday fantasies come to Life

476
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 6: House that's over on North Valley Street, Like they have

477
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 6: Disney characters there every single night for your kids to meet. Wow,

478
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 6: and you can go and take photos with them. It's incredible.

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00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. So we're talking with Jen Spinsik, who is the

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00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 2: creator of Halloween Inburbank dot com, the Halloween Burbank Map,

481
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 2: which is also an Instagram account that has a great,

482
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 2: great collection of I would say diy, but that almost

483
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 2: like under sells the incredible craftsmanship that goes into the decorations.

484
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 2: People obviously walking all around Magnolia Park. There's other parts

485
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 2: of Burbank as well. You've got places beyond Burbank proper

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00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 2: on this map also, I do.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah people, because like the hont community is so big,

488
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 6: people are now adding their houses everywhere. I have so

489
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 6: many houses in like Santa Clarita, Glendale, Pasadena. People are

490
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 6: adding their houses everywhere. It's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 3: Jen.

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Speaker 6: I know what and what I like about it is

493
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Speaker 6: it's like it's inclusive, right, Yeah, anybody can have their house.

494
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 6: It's not even just the huge houses, Like even the

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Speaker 6: smaller houses can be a part of it and add

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Speaker 6: themselves to the map.

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Speaker 2: Now, Jen, I know, we had a huge rainstorm on Tuesday.

498
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 2: I mean we were barely hanging on. I think that

499
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 2: there were some concerns that were people were going to

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00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: start moving out of the city because it was so serious.

501
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 2: Did you see any casualties as far as the Halloween

502
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 2: haunts go in Burbank.

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Speaker 6: That you're aware of, Yeah, there were actually. Like the

504
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 6: Pirates of Burbank, they build like a Pirates of the

505
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 6: Caribbean movie set on their front lawn and they have

506
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 6: a big krack in arm that they have a huge

507
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 6: pirate ship in their front yard with a krack and

508
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 6: that moved. And I know one of their krakens broke

509
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,879
Speaker 6: because a couple of water, but they've already fixed it,

510
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 6: like on top of it. You know, Circus of Nightmares

511
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 6: had something like that too, where like some other animatronics

512
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 6: got wet that they fixed it. So everyone's on top

513
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 6: of it. Like they got up and running again within

514
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 6: twenty four hours.

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Speaker 2: Amazing. So if people want to add themselves, if they

516
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 2: have a display in their homes, how do.

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Speaker 5: They do that?

518
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 6: All they have to do just go to www dot

519
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 6: Halloween a burbank dot com and then you'll see something

520
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 6: right at the top and I'll just say add yourself

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00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 6: to the map.

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00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 2: Awesome, and that's it.

523
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 6: It's super easy, super easy form they fill out and

524
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 6: I approve it same day.

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Speaker 2: So we talked about Clownhouse, we talked about the Pirates.

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Speaker 2: Are there any other special ones that you want to

527
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 2: shout out that you think are maybe in the running

528
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 2: because Burbank doesn't. Don't they give an award for best

529
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 2: best best display?

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Speaker 6: They do, Yeah, they're so. I one of them that

531
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 6: really blew me away this year. It's called the Burbank Haunt.

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00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 6: It's on eight fifty seven North Maple and they do

533
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 6: Beetlejuice and this year the owner of the house, John

534
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 6: you know the scene where they get possessed and they're

535
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 6: singing the song and the thing comes out of the Yeah,

536
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 6: so he built that scene in his front yard where

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00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 6: the skeletons are moving and dancing and the hand comes

538
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 6: out of the super Bowl and hit some It's incredible.

539
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 6: It's so really long to see that one.

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Speaker 2: There's so much creativity and and I'm so happy that

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Speaker 2: the community exists in Burbank. We were talking to the

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00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 2: clown guys earlier in the week and you know, saying, look,

543
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 2: La is not known necessarily for being a place and

544
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 2: has a ton of community, but if you look for it,

545
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 2: it's just right there. And what a great thing for

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00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 2: kids to be able to see and you know, fun

547
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: for the whole family. The thing that they wanted everybody

548
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: to know was that if you do go, it does

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00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 2: get crazy crowded, like you were saying, and just to

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00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 2: be respectful obviously of the neighbors, because you know those

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00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 2: are people's homes. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's the one thing is just you know,

553
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 6: sometimes people will park in people's driveways and things like that.

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00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 6: So just I guess my advice there is just you know,

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00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 6: if you can't like park a block or two away

556
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 6: like a Magnolia or a big street and walk in

557
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 6: and you know, and and and don't litter because a

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00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 6: lot of times, like the next day, the neighbors are

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00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 6: picking up. Everyone's trying.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 2: You don't want that, you don't want you don't want

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00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,479
Speaker 2: this to go away. This is such a cool thing.

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00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, no one wants it. Everyone loves it, and it's

564
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 6: it's it's so fun to see everybody out getting together.

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00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 6: They're putting like their differences aside in life and just

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00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 6: having fun and looking at houses.

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Speaker 2: Well, said Jen from Halloween and Burbank Map on Instact.

568
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 2: That's just Halloween in Burbank map on Instagram, or you

569
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 2: can find her online at Halloween in Burbank dot com.

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00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 2: Happy Halloween to you, Thanks so much, keep us posted

571
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll have a winner here and we can

572
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: celebrate him on the show for the best Haunt in Burbank,

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00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 2: the I think real capital of Halloween in southern California.

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00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,479
Speaker 6: Right. Thank you for having me on Andy, Happy Happy Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Bye there, she goes, you're listening to KFI AM six

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00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: forty on demand.

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00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 2: Remembering the life and legacy of Ace Freely, the longtime

578
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 2: guitarist of course of Kiss, one of the founding members

579
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 2: who died today. A few weeks ago, his family said

580
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 2: that he suffered a fall a brain bleed. There was

581
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: a report that he wasn't doing well, and then a

582
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 2: confirmation today from the family. We are completely devastated and heartbroken.

583
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: In his last moments, were fortunate enough to have been

584
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 2: able to surround him with loving, caring, peaceful words, thoughts,

585
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 2: prayers and intentions as they left this earth. We cherish

586
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 2: all of his finest memories, his laughter, and celebrate his

587
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 2: strength and kindness that he bestowed upon others. The magnitude

588
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 2: of his passing is of epic proportions and beyond comprehension.

589
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 2: Reflecting on all of his incredible life achievements, Ace's memory

590
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 2: will continue to live on forever. Ace Freely died today

591
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: from the Bronx. Grew up as in a working class family.

592
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 2: I believe as a teenager started playing guitar. Would have

593
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 2: been in the sixties late sixties. Co founded Kiss with

594
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 2: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss in nineteen seventy three.

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00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 2: It's a band that when you think about them, and

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00:28:54,840 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 2: I said this earlier, like when Jimmy Buffett passed away,

597
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 2: who was sad, it was a shock, but it also

598
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 2: felt so counterintuitive to the emotion that you get from

599
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: listening to that kind of music. Prince same way. None

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00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 2: of these guys are about dying. It's about living and

601
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 2: living living loudly. You of course know him from his

602
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 2: rocket shooting les Paul guitar. They stuck a smoke machine

603
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 2: in one of the pickups, so when he would hit

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00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: a solo, just catch on fire. Of course, we were

605
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: just listening to one of the songs from his solo

606
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 2: career back in the New York Groove. And without Ace Freely,

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00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: not only would you not have Kiss, you wouldn't have

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00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: so many hard rock, glam, heavy metal, melodic guitar players

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00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 2: who came after. There is no Foo Fighters, there is

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Speaker 2: no Pantera, there's no Guns n' Roses without Ace Freely,

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00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: cool guy sad News taken too soon, was still making music. Nicki,

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00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 2: who was a producer on this show, I walked in

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00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 2: today and I said, oh no, because I know that

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Speaker 2: you're a huge Kiss fan.

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Speaker 7: Loved them. I saw them in like nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: And you had a Kiss shirt on recently, and you

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00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: told me somebody came up to you in the mall

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Speaker 2: and said, try to try to call you out.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they tried to gate keep. They pointed to my

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Speaker 7: t and said, what's your favorite Kiss song? Thinking I

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00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 7: wouldn't know that. I bought it at Hot Topic or

622
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 7: something or Urban Outfitters, and I said, sure know something,

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Speaker 7: and they went, oh, like, oh, they didn't think I

624
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 7: wouldn't know as any song.

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00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 2: It's a legit kiss song. It's not just some you know,

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00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: I love rock and roll. No, sure know something.

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00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 7: The the MTV Unplugged version is the best because they've

628
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 7: got like an orchestra behind them.

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Speaker 2: When I think about as Freely and I think about

630
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 2: that band, it's like, obviously they are a metal band.

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00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: They've got this glam rock thing, they've got this amazing

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00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 2: stage persona. But also the songs are so good. They're

633
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: these incredible dare I say, and I don't I think

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00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: this is I mean, this is a compliment kind of

635
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 2: power pop songs where there's blues influence, there's classic rock influence.

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00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: I mean, there's all of these things that are happening

637
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 2: that are making this kind of stage spectacle into this

638
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 2: very catchy, just hard hitting, pump you up, give you energy,

639
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: make you feel good kind of music. The Spaceman or

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00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: space Ace is what they called him.

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00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 3: That was the.

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00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 2: Character he created with that makeup and the stars on

643
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 2: his eyes. Another classic rocker passing away way too soon.

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00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 2: Another musician. This week, we're just talking about DiAngelo who died.

645
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 2: It's tough. It's tough stuff, but we've got a lifetime

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00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 2: of music to remember these wonderful people by coming up

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00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 2: in the next hour. We've got lots to talk about.

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00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 2: Coffee is so expensive. Where do you think the most

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