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Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show.

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Speaker 2: Some of you ask for more Ramone, which I think

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Speaker 2: is a terrible idea, but occasionally he does contribute something worthwhile.

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Speaker 2: So this little bonus podcast is some things that Ramone contributed.

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Speaker 3: And I will I will leave them here for your enjoyment, aggravation, avoidance,

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Speaker 3: or whatever else emotion they elicit.

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Speaker 4: Hey it's Ramone. Hey, let's go to the things that

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Speaker 4: interest me files and that would be opera. No, no,

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Speaker 4: not necessarily that kind, more like this. This is a

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Speaker 4: famous French opera named William Tell. It's French, that's how

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Speaker 4: you pronounce. It's written in four parts, and I promise

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Speaker 4: you didn't know that you knew. This one in last

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Speaker 4: twelve minutes and paints a musical picture of the Swiss Alps.

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Speaker 4: The composer was Joe A. Keene. This is part one,

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Speaker 4: called Dawn. You probably don't recognize this, right, Okay, Let's

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Speaker 4: go to part two. It's called the Storm. Recognize this

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Speaker 4: probably not all right? This is part three and it's

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Speaker 4: called rendezvouche. You'll forgive my French, but that translates to

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Speaker 4: call to the cows. Here it is see, you didn't

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Speaker 4: know you knew a one hundred and ninety year old opera.

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Speaker 4: So next time you hear this song, you'll know it

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Speaker 4: as the Call to the Cows. The third part of

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Speaker 4: the fourth part classic opera written by Gioquino Rassini called

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Speaker 4: Gieme Tel. Well, thanks for dropping in for a few

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Speaker 4: minutes to talk opera. I hope you got a little

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Speaker 4: knowledge out of it, and I hope to see you again.

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Speaker 5: Nick.

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Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah. The fourth part, well, that's called March

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Speaker 4: of the Swiss Soldiers, and the third part you'll remember

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Speaker 4: the name called of the Cows, ways right into part four.

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Speaker 4: I bet you didn't know that that song Graham Tell,

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Speaker 4: or as it's pronounced in English, William Tell, is the

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Speaker 4: epic conclusion of an eighteen to twenty nine French opera.

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Speaker 4: So next time you request a song, you'll need to

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Speaker 4: be more specific when you say, play the William Tell overture,

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Speaker 4: Ask for March of the Swiss Soldiers, or if you

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Speaker 4: can't remember that, just ask for the theme to the

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Speaker 4: Lone Ranger. Hey, it's Ramona. Say what you will about

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Speaker 4: the French, Well, go ahead, say what you will. I'll

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Speaker 4: give you a second. Okay. The French are passionate about

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Speaker 4: everything from movies, art, food, and especially wine. France produced

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Speaker 4: almost fifty million hecta leaders of wine in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what a hec de leader is,

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Speaker 4: but that's second in the world, only to Djibouti. What

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Speaker 4: oh no, not Jibouti, I meant Italy. Here are some

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Speaker 4: more facts about French wine, Much to the French's chagrin,

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Speaker 4: they didn't invent wine. It was brought over by the

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Speaker 4: Greeks six centuries before Christ. French chemists Angelo Marianni, intrigued

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Speaker 4: with health virtues and economic potential of coco, started marketing

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Speaker 4: a wine called vin Tonique Marianni that combined Bordeaux wine

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Speaker 4: with cocoa leaves with wines ethanol, extracting the cocaine from

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Speaker 4: the cocoa leaves. Vin Marianni was said to provide health

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Speaker 4: and vitality. Popular among Queen Victoria, Pope Pious a tenth

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Speaker 4: Thomas Edison in US grant for its energizing qualities, vin

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Speaker 4: Marianni inspired American John Pemberton's Coco wine drink recipe in

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Speaker 4: eighteen eighty five, forced to change his recipe due to

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Speaker 4: the passing of prohibition legislation in Atlanta. Pemberton responded by

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Speaker 4: developing a non alcoholic version of his French wine, cocoa.

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Speaker 4: It was eventually renamed Coca Cola. Unlike foreign wines, which

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Speaker 4: are labeled according to the grape used, French wines are

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Speaker 4: labeled following the soil on which they are produced. This

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Speaker 4: is why the same grape variety that is planted in

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Speaker 4: different regions can produce wines so different from each other.

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Speaker 4: A monk and an early advocate of organic wine drinking,

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Speaker 4: accidentally produced a specific type of sparkling wine, champagne. And

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Speaker 4: this is the meat of our story. In the late

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Speaker 4: seventeenth century, while experimenting new methods of wine making, this

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Speaker 4: monk found a way to make wine sparkle. It was

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Speaker 4: said he exclaimed, come quickly, I'm drinking stars. Indeed, during

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Speaker 4: the Middle Ages, monks preserved and developed wine making skills,

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Speaker 4: chiefly for celebrating mass So an important fact about French

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Speaker 4: wine is that the best vineyards were originally owned by

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Speaker 4: the monasteries, and their wine was considered to be superior.

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Speaker 4: Amen to that, and by the way, that monk you

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Speaker 4: know his name, Don perry On. And finally, let's look

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Speaker 4: at champagne you may know that there is a region

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Speaker 4: in France name Champagne. The French were so frustrated with

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Speaker 4: other winemakers around the world making sparkling wine and calling

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Speaker 4: that Champagne that they wanted to pass a law stating

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Speaker 4: that any sparkling wine made outside of Champagne could not

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Speaker 4: be called Champagne. But how could they do such a task.

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Speaker 4: How could a little region in France muster up enough

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Speaker 4: support and power to get such a law passed. Well, conveniently,

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Speaker 4: some people just outside of Paris were getting together to

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Speaker 4: make some changes around the region. The group from Champagne

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Speaker 4: convinced them to put this law into the books, and,

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Speaker 4: as history would have it, it was signed. However, when

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Speaker 4: and where this law was finally passed is overshadowed by

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Speaker 4: other laws written and passed at the same time, such

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Speaker 4: as creating Czechoslovakia and Poland, Bannon, the alliance of Germany

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Speaker 4: and Austria, the surrender of all German colonies to control

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Speaker 4: by the newly created League of Nations, setting up the

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Speaker 4: League of Nations, making Germany payback thirty three billion dollars,

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Speaker 4: setting up the trial for the former Kaiser and other

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Speaker 4: war leaders, and limiting in the size of the German

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Speaker 4: army to one hundred thousand men, with no conscription, no tanks,

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Speaker 4: no heavy artillery, no poison gas supplies, no aircraft and

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Speaker 4: no airships. The limitation of the German navy to vessels

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Speaker 4: under one hundred thousand tons and absolutely no submarines. But

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Speaker 4: perhaps the best thing for France was no sparkling winemaker

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Speaker 4: is allowed to call it champagne unless it's made in

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Speaker 4: the Champagne region of France. So it was written, voted

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Speaker 4: and passed in the Treaty of Versailles. Viveistan, I mean.

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Speaker 5: Shows shows, I mean I mean to discog.

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Speaker 4: Hit Ramone. It was the late nineteen sixties. A pop band,

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Speaker 4: once sowing with hit after hit, found themselves burnt out

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Speaker 4: and drifting apart. After nearly two years of separation, they

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Speaker 4: reunited at the urging of their record label. Their comeback

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Speaker 4: brought brief success, but soon the magic faded. By nineteen

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Speaker 4: seventy five, they were struggling, reduced to playing small clubs

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Speaker 4: to stay afloat, and facing the thread of being dropped

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Speaker 4: by their label. Meanwhile, a new sound was bubbling up

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Speaker 4: in Manhattan. They called it disco. Nightclubs were buzzing, and

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Speaker 4: record companies were scrambling to capitalize on this fresh sound.

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Speaker 4: But our band was still searching for a lifeline. Then

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Speaker 4: in nineteen seventy six, a phone call changed everything. Leave England,

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Speaker 4: come to Miami. The band, desperate took the leaping. What

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Speaker 4: awaited them was nothing short of destiny. The fusion of

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Speaker 4: their music with that Miami sound and disco ignited a

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Speaker 4: resurgence like no other. This band didn't just stay alive,

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Speaker 4: They dominated the Beiji stormed the disco era with hits

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Speaker 4: like Staying Alive and Night Fever and How Deep Is

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Speaker 4: Your Love, all from one legendary album. Their influence was unstoppable,

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Speaker 4: rewriting the charts and shaping an entire genre. But this

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Speaker 4: revival hinged on one phone call, one decision. Barry Gibb

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Speaker 4: called it Heaven sent. He was close. It didn't come

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Speaker 4: from Heaven. Rather, it came from four to sixty one

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Speaker 4: Ocean Boulevard in Miami, and it wasn't from God but

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Speaker 4: from a man often held as a guitar god. The

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Speaker 4: call that saved the Beg's and reshaped disco. It came

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Speaker 4: from none other than Eric Clapton.

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