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Speaker 1: Taking a walk. When you know you've got something, go

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Speaker 2: Keep going because we all worry about what other people think.

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Speaker 2: But if you know in your heart there's something great,

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Speaker 2: you keep going moving forward. And that was a great

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Speaker 3: Well, welcome to the Taking a Walk podcast and we

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Speaker 3: have Adam reed Or, the Professor of Rock. We are

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Speaker 3: going to break down the amazing led Zeppelin documentary. But

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Speaker 3: before we get started at him, you know, since the

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Speaker 3: podcast is called taking a Walk, I do want to

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Speaker 3: ask you, could you tell me if there was someone

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Speaker 3: you could take.

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Speaker 4: A walk with, living or dead, who would you like

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Speaker 3: And where might you want to walk with them?

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Speaker 2: You know, thinking about it, there's three names that come up,

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Speaker 1: But the three of them meily come to mind are

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Speaker 1: Dan Fogelberg, Prince, and Elvis Presley.

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Speaker 2: Then Frank Sinatra just came into my head. But you know,

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Speaker 2: Because and I think I would take a walk with

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Speaker 2: him honestly on the grounds of Graceland. I've been there

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Speaker 2: It's interesting. We're very blessed to be able to do

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Speaker 2: at Laurel Canyon. Sometimes you feel like you're interviewing somebody

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Speaker 2: and it's like you know, or like Brian Wilson the

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Speaker 3: And as we're going to talk about led Zeppelin and

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Speaker 2: So Robert Plant talked about Little Richard, you know, on

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Speaker 3: So what stood out to you most about the approach

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Speaker 2: I I loved the origin story. I mean I start

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Speaker 3: I think I loved how there really was no external commentary.

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Speaker 3: How do you think that choice that they made in

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Speaker 1: And I loved how they let the music also.

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Speaker 3: I wondered the same thing, and I wondered whether it

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Speaker 4: I think they left us wanting more.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, I would love to see you know, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I love how Jimmy Page talked about his specific decision

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Speaker 3: After watching Becoming Led Zeppelin, did you come away with

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Speaker 2: Gosh, I probably haven't had enough time to reflect on

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Speaker 3: It's great advice for all of us, great advice for me.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more. Highly recommend Becoming led Zeppelin a

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Speaker 3: great documentary, and I highly recommend you check out The

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Speaker 3: So Adam, thank you for being on Taking a Walk Buzz,

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