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Speaker 1: The Club is the production of I Heart Radio and

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Speaker 1: Double Elvis Media. Jimmie Hendricks was born on the day

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Speaker 1: of November, and he lived a life of risks that

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Speaker 1: would sometimes pay off and other times land him in

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Speaker 1: hot water. I can give you twenty seven reasons why

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Speaker 1: that statement is true. Eleven would be the number of

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Speaker 1: hours he'd spend most days playing a guitar, whether on stage,

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Speaker 1: in the studio, in his bed, or just lounging about.

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Speaker 1: Seven more would be the number of days that passed

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Speaker 1: between when he first landed in London and when he

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Speaker 1: upstaged God himself at God's own show, and God would

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Speaker 1: later describe his upset ter as buddy Guy on Acid.

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Speaker 1: Another seven would be the number of English cops that

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Speaker 1: harassed him on the street for what he was wearing

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Speaker 1: and for the white girl on his arm. God may

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Speaker 1: have dominion over the stage, but on the streets of London,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy was on his own. And two more would be

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Speaker 1: the number of years he'd have to live after two

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Speaker 1: women stopped him in traffic in Chicago to ask if

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Speaker 1: they could plaster cast is Hampton Wick all totally on

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Speaker 1: this our sixth episode of season one, upstaging God Plaster

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Speaker 1: cast at Hampton Wicks Harassment on the streets of London,

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Speaker 1: and they always searching Jimmie Hendricks. I'm Jake Brennan in

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Speaker 1: This Is the Seven Colossa. Eric Clapton was searching for

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Speaker 1: a light. He's it against the wall at the back

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Speaker 1: of the room at Regent Street Polytechnic in London, away

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Speaker 1: clinging to the last bits of spit on his dry lips.

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Speaker 1: He was sweating, heart pounding wheels, burning rubber inside his head, crestfallen.

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Speaker 1: What the hell was that? What did he just see?

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Speaker 1: Chas Chandler casually walked up next to Eric Clapton, dwarfing

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Speaker 1: him with his big frame. Everything all right, mate, chass asked. Clapton,

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Speaker 1: held up the empty matchbook. Words escaped him at this moment.

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Speaker 1: Chess noted and handed clapped in a matchbook from inside

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Speaker 1: his jacket pocket and clapped and plucked the match impulsively

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Speaker 1: His hands continued to shake as he ran the match

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Speaker 1: Tried again with another match, this time catching a corner

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Speaker 1: of the black strip. Still nothing, God damn it, I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to fucking smoke. Okay there, Eric Chazz asked again,

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Speaker 1: taking back the matchbook and lighting clapped in cigarette for him,

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Speaker 1: the jungle of his thick mutton shop and scratched. He exhaled,

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Speaker 1: Is he really that good chass? Then he tried to

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Speaker 1: piece together what he had just seen. He had been

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Speaker 1: on stage at the Polytechnic with his new band Cream

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Speaker 1: Eric Clapton with his gold top less Paul hanging like

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Speaker 1: sounded like a classic cocktail, but it looked like a

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Speaker 1: post war biker gang. And Sir t of your girlfriend's

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Speaker 1: finest drunks. The papers called him a supergroup of power Trip.

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Speaker 1: The Cream and the Trio closed their first set with

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Speaker 1: He'd been in London and was getting aunty. He was

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Speaker 1: Clapton was God. Nobody asked the jam with Cream, especially

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Speaker 1: The balls on. This kid, the Chas was a friend

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Speaker 1: and Clapton thought, what the hell. It's not every day

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Speaker 1: they shook hands. Clapton felt something hot and electric surge

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Speaker 1: sprang up his arm, wrapped serpentine heat around his bicep,

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Speaker 1: His hand went numb. The next thing clapped anew. Jimmy

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Speaker 1: I know it? Got it? And then Jimmy started playing

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Speaker 1: It was far more chaotic than anything cream play, Jack

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Speaker 1: He held the note within an inch of its life.

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Speaker 1: When it was about to die out, he bent it up,

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Speaker 1: it was pain. It was a piece of him. It

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Speaker 1: coursed with blood pumped directly from his own heart. Eric

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Speaker 1: Clapton stood rigid, eyes darting around behind closed eyelids, lips first, tight, body,

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Speaker 1: completely disengaged from the movement in his hands. He tried

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Speaker 1: he was hexed. Maybe he was both. He should have

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Speaker 1: quit you long time ago. Clapped and stepped down from

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Speaker 1: the stage, while Jimmy continued to wail away, with two

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Speaker 1: Chas Chandler had delivered on his promise to hold court

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Speaker 1: with Eric Clapton. A week earlier. On September sixty six,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy sat in first class on a pan Am flight.

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Speaker 1: He was going to London for an indeterminate amount of time.

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Speaker 1: He packed light, his guitar and extra pair of clothes

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Speaker 1: Eric Clapton right off the stage. Chazz couldn't have made

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Speaker 1: it happen though without Michael Jeffrey, the Yang to his Yang,

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Speaker 1: The two would co manage Jimmy. Jeffrey had been managing

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Speaker 1: the animals already. He was the perfect amount of shady

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Speaker 1: And they grease some paw sporged some documents, told some lies,

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Speaker 1: negotiated with immigration staff for hours. Jimmy Hendricks was a

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Speaker 1: fate sealed. They were gonna make Jimmy Hendricks the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing the rock world I've never seen. They get people

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Speaker 1: to notice. He'd stand out. You couldn't miss him, Jimmy Hendricks,

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Speaker 1: he couldn't miss. Jimmy and Cathy etching him, were trying

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Speaker 1: on a blustery December evening when the blue lights came

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Speaker 1: Nothing was fucked. They hadn't done anything wrong. The cops

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Speaker 1: was it. Honestly, The fact that it hadn't happened yet

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Speaker 1: here in England had surprised Jimmy. He had been singled

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Speaker 1: hallard at Jimmy as they made their approach. Boy, your jacket,

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Speaker 1: it's British. Jimmy and Cathy had been walking back from

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Speaker 1: at richard Odon. Richard was happy to see him, but

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Speaker 1: he wasn't given Jimmy any money. He forfeited that money

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Speaker 1: fair and square when he missed the tour bus. Have

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Speaker 1: a nice fucking life, Jimmy Andricks. And Jimmy looked at

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Speaker 1: It was a Hustlers military jacket, late eighteen hundreds, black

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Speaker 1: with tasseled gold rope and knots on the sleeves, a

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Speaker 1: for the Royal Vet Corps, the guys who looked after

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Speaker 1: It was just this sort of far out fashion statement

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Speaker 1: like no one else, he dressed like no one else.

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Speaker 1: The Beatles were inspired a dress in similar fashion the

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Speaker 1: oddly fascist extreme in the nineties. Jimmy was expecting his

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Speaker 1: He looked back up and responded, calmly, Yeah, that's British.

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Speaker 1: You're not supposed to wear that jacket. Men fought and

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Speaker 1: was about what, Jimmy responded, laughing. Men died in the

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Speaker 1: to lighten the tone, but the cops took offense. Was

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Speaker 1: to see his passport. They had Nam repeat himself speak

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Speaker 1: and they were about to release their first single, Hey Joe.

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Speaker 1: He explained that he had served in the U. S.

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Speaker 1: Army himself, that he respected uniforms, that he really wasn't

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Speaker 1: People noticed. None of it mattered. If some smartass American

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Speaker 1: wearing that jacket, he was sorely mistaken. The cops wouldn't

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Speaker 1: took the jacket off, draped it over one arm, and

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Speaker 1: Her breath hung in the cold February air, outside her

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Speaker 1: open window, like it was her scandalizing offer itself. Bated

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Speaker 1: breath come to life, and Jimmy blushed. Nolan Mitch laughed

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Speaker 1: and Nol lacked Jimmy on the arm. At the absurdity

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Speaker 1: of it all. Jimmy was intrigued, always intrigued. Car horns

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Speaker 1: blared all around them. Jimmy waved them on to follow behind.

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Speaker 1: His traffic broke up and limos started to move forward

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Speaker 1: and the experience. We're headed back to the Hilton in

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Speaker 1: Chicago after playing an afternoon show at the Civic Opera House,

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Speaker 1: their jam packed American tour. They had hours to go

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Speaker 1: was plenty of time for distractions. Then, as usual, Jimmie

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Speaker 1: the hotel. Both cars pulled up to the valet area.

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Speaker 1: The woman with the long black hair and the suitcase

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Speaker 1: introduced yourself as Cynthia plaster Cast, a twenty year old

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Speaker 1: artist and leader of the Whip Dipping Gang. The admission

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Speaker 1: problem was they hadn't met in real rock stars yet,

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Speaker 1: and Jimmy laughed and then offered to be there first.

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Speaker 1: Noel immediately challenged and he goes second. Mitch wasn't sure

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Speaker 1: what to make of the whole ordeal, laster on his

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Speaker 1: dick a mold of his junk, he'd be the voice

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Speaker 1: of reason for that day, and politely decline. Inside the

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Speaker 1: the other plaster casters got to work on Jimmy's cock.

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Speaker 1: She had him pull off his jeans and sit on

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Speaker 1: the edge of the bed, and then she went to

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Speaker 1: town got him so hard he was ready to burst,

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Speaker 1: and Cynthia placed a Martini shaker filled with dental mold

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Speaker 1: gel around his unit and told him to hold it

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Speaker 1: there for a minute so the plaster could dry. A

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Speaker 1: minute later, it was dry, and as Dick was stuck

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Speaker 1: and Jimmy grabbed hold of the Martini shaker had started

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Speaker 1: to hump it and the door to the hotel room

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Speaker 1: opened and the experiences tour manager stuck his head and

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Speaker 1: with Jimmy boning and Martini shaker on the bed. No

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Speaker 1: one was getting his plaster cast set on the next bed.

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Speaker 1: A room full of half naked dudes being assisted by

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Speaker 1: women with wet plaster on their hands, and the tour

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Speaker 1: manager took one look, panned his head from one end

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Speaker 1: of the room to the other, and made no reaction.

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Speaker 1: Just another Sunday, Jimmy, It's almost time to get back

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Speaker 1: to the opera house. The show it must go on.

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Speaker 1: Dick out of that Martini shaker and let's go. The

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Speaker 1: plaster casters put Jimmy's plaster cast penis on a public

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Speaker 1: display at an art show Jimmy gallis Blessing, alongside casts

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Speaker 1: of the mc fives, Wayne Kramer and the Young Rascals

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Speaker 1: Eddie Brighetti. Jimmy's was not only the first cast, but

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Speaker 1: the most famous. The plaster casters always insisted it was

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Speaker 1: one of the largest molds they've ever made. One of

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Speaker 1: the newspapers dubbed at the Penis de Milo and the women,

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Speaker 1: women everywhere. Women love Jimmie Hendricks, and Jimmie Hendricks loved

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Speaker 1: them right back. They show up at his hotel room,

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Speaker 1: knock on his door, approaching before shows, after shows, make

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Speaker 1: eyes at him, during shows, make offers in the middle

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Speaker 1: of Michigan Avenue, the plaster casts Penis. They would buy

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Speaker 1: him guitars, feed him, give him a place to crash,

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Speaker 1: give him love and let him love them back, and

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Speaker 1: they were the newses for his art. The wind whispered

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Speaker 1: Mary Fly on little Wing. Jimmy answered every knock at

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Speaker 1: the door and let everyone into his world. Cathy, Devon,

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Speaker 1: Linda Cursed, and Eva. Jimmy's relationship with each girlfriend would

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Speaker 1: have a profound effect on him as he continued to

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Speaker 1: play to our record and continue to search for who

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Speaker 1: exactly he was and he's supposed to be. Some women

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Speaker 1: like Collette Memory would be his guide on journeys of

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Speaker 1: self discovery and exotic locales like Morocco. He let all

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Speaker 1: that fame baggage dropped to the ground, blend in with

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Speaker 1: the crowds and try to feel free. All that free

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Speaker 1: time to think and feel and just be would prove

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Speaker 1: to be a little too much, too much free time.

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Speaker 1: His mind would race, He would silently panic. The fear

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Speaker 1: of death would start to creep into his brain, nestle

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Speaker 1: into his bones. He would see things, mirages in the desert,

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Speaker 1: mirages in his mind, Dead People and Morocco. He pushed

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Speaker 1: his mind so far to the limit that he'd see

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Speaker 1: Brian Jones guitarists from the Rolling Stones. But the thing was,

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Speaker 1: Brian have been dead for weeks. I'm Jake Brennan and

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