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Speaker 1: Double Elvis. Blood on the Tracks is a production of

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio and Double Elvis. Brian Wilson was a

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Speaker 1: He caught melodies like they were waves. He bottled good

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Speaker 1: vibrations too. He broke down, he tripped hard. He didn't

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Speaker 1: those voices by making a teenage symphony to God called Smile.

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Speaker 1: But somewhere along the way, Brian Wilson lost his mind instead.

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Speaker 1: This is his story. H Hello, this is Rhonda Masson.

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Speaker 1: I'm a recording engineer who has been working with the

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Speaker 1: legendary Beach Boy Brian Wilson since around My current project, however,

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Speaker 1: is rather unique. I've been tasked with trying to reconstruct

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Speaker 1: tapes the ideas that will compile the songs for a

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Speaker 1: a it's gonna take a while. There's over a hundred

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Speaker 1: tapes of Brian's recorded material and not All the stuff

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Speaker 1: some are just his thoughts. There's an array of usable

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Speaker 1: microphone right into the flames. Make sure we really hear

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Speaker 1: we rolling? Great? Great? Great? I want it all in

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Speaker 1: this session. Everything. Let's get the fire on the songs.

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

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Speaker 1: Let's get in blood on the tracks. Chapter one, Brian

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Speaker 1: Wilson is burning up. This is one oh five point

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Speaker 1: from the Temporal Loo to an audience of one. We

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

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

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Speaker 1: expanded that 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: ever watched that slip away right in front of your eyes?

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Speaker 1: all began, but Brian didn't want to talk about his dream.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to talk about what he had asked Arnie

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Speaker 1: Brian pulled off his toy hat and put his head

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Speaker 1: in his hands, crying, What have I done? He muttered

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Speaker 1: to himself, I told you it's voodoo. This is voodoo.

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Speaker 1: Arney tried to reassure Brian that it was just a

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Speaker 1: what was happening in the real world, but Brian wouldn't listen.

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Speaker 1: He knew what he had to do next. He grabbed

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Speaker 1: control room. He snatched one of the buckets, say it

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Speaker 1: used to burn wood it, and as he looked at

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Speaker 1: the charred oak at the bottom of it, his mind's

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Speaker 1: eye pictured the Chicago barn and the burning cow from

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Speaker 1: his dream. He closed his eyes and shook his head

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Speaker 1: violently to cast the images from his head. His pace

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Speaker 1: and Brian threw the tapes of the Curve Song into

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Speaker 1: the bucket, ripped the cap off the whiskey bottle with

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Speaker 1: he pulled a packet of matches from his pocket and

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Speaker 1: struck one straight away. But before we went any further,

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Speaker 1: he stopped. He listened. He heard something firetruck siren, faint

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Speaker 1: to Arnie. You hear that, he yelled. Ernie looked worried.

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Speaker 1: It's a coincidence, he shouted back, A coincidence, Brian. Brian

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Speaker 1: took a deep breath. He had to finish when he

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Speaker 1: had started. He tossed the lit match into the bucket

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Speaker 1: and took a step back. His flames erupted from it.

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Speaker 1: The heat rushed past his face and smoked course up

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Speaker 1: concrete outside gold Star Studio staring at the flames engulfing

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Speaker 1: the tapes, and then at the hollowed remains of the

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Speaker 1: building across the street that had caught fire only a

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Speaker 1: few days before, and the sight of that burned out

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Speaker 1: building sent the chill down his spine. He closed his

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Speaker 1: eyes and he couldn't look anymore. He started to talk

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Speaker 1: to himself, and at first Arnie couldn't make out what

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Speaker 1: he was saying, and Brian's lips moved fast as the

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Speaker 1: nearby flames painted them orange and yellow. It sounded like

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Speaker 1: something about fire or tracks, and then suddenly it was

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Speaker 1: more intelligible. Arnie could swear that Brian was repeating, you

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Speaker 1: can't erase Blood on the Tracks. Blood on the Tracks.

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Speaker 1: Produced by Double Elvis in partnership with I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's hosted an executive produced by me Jake Brennan, also

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Speaker 1: executive produced by Brady sath Zeth Lundy is lead editor

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Speaker 1: and producer. This episode was written by Ben Burrow, mixing

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Speaker 1: and sound designed by Colin Fleming. Additional music and score

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Speaker 1: elements by Ryan Spraaker. This season features Chris Anzaloni is

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Speaker 1: the voice of Brian Wilson. Sources for this episode are

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