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Speaker 1: Okay, let's get the microphone right into the flames. Make

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Speaker 1: sure we really hear the sound of the crowd. That's it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're rolling. Great, great, I wanted all the session everything.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the fire on the songs. Let's get in

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Speaker 1: terror into the music, Let's get in let's get it

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Speaker 1: blow on the tracks. In nineteen sixty six, the Beach

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Speaker 1: Boys released Pet Sounds, an ambitious and sophisticated album. Let's

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Speaker 1: set a high watermark for pop music. But Brian Wilson,

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Speaker 1: the band's primary songwriter and creative catalyst, knew he could

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Speaker 1: make something that was even better. He planned to follow

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Speaker 1: up Pet Sounds with a teenage symphony to God. That album, Smile,

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Speaker 1: was never finished by the Beach Boys. Instead, Brian slowly

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Speaker 1: unraveled as the pressure to make something profound weighed heavy

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Speaker 1: on him. He worried that he wasn't good enough. He

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Speaker 1: worried that he was a failure in the eyes of

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Speaker 1: the record company, his band, his peers, in his own father.

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Speaker 1: He thought his house was bucked. He thought the experiments

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Speaker 1: he was conducting in the studio conjured some strange voodoo

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Speaker 1: that had a disastrous impact on the real world. He

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Speaker 1: became paranoid. He self medicated within phetamines, hash and LSD.

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Speaker 1: He held meetings in his swimming pool, He imagined people

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Speaker 1: who weren't there, and eventually, in ninety seven, he went

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Speaker 1: off the proverbial deep end. Did the real Brian Wilson

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Speaker 1: every surface. Blood on the Tracks returns with season four.

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Speaker 1: Brian Wilson's story Blood on the Tracks is part true crime,

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Speaker 1: part historical fiction, part spoken word, low five beating noir.

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by me Jake Brennan, host of the

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Speaker 1: award winning music and true crying podcast Disgrace Land. Things

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Speaker 1: are pretty calm around here at the moment, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: they get a little shaky. Sometimes they get to be

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Speaker 1: a little too much. You'll understand that soon enough. I

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Speaker 1: guess where are we. We're in my mind, of course,

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Speaker 1: the mind of Brian Douglas Wilson. It's a place that's

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Speaker 1: been expanded over the years. It's now huge. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's vast. There are a lot of things in here, songs, melodies, ideas,

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Speaker 1: but it's so big that there's a lot of dark corners,

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Speaker 1: corners for things to lurk in, for people to lurk in.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Blood on the Tracks The Brian Wilson Story

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Speaker 1: beginning August fifteen from the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Just like Brian Wilson,

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Speaker 1: this podcast contains multitudes because you can't live this many

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Speaker 1: lies without leaving a little blood on the tracks