EITM: The 20 Greatest Grateful Dead Songs 1/15/24

Of all time.

Episode Transcript

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No, Tyler, please stop,please stop. I know how much you
loved when the crowd did it,that goddamn Taylor Swift video dancing in the
Box. I can't take it.It's gotten to the point where it's like
I love watching the fat kid godown the slide and buffalo as opposed to
that. The videos enough, thevideo was enough anyway? The oh you

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know what, nothing against fast lifeyoungsters. The no, No, it's
just something against Swift overkill, whichreminds me of the icy Hot stuntes from
when I saw the name of theartist, I was like, oh yeah,
I remember the icy Hot stunts.I was reading something about music over

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the weekend, and the guy whowrote it even said he was hesitant to
do it, knowing the problems thatit could cause, but he did it
anyway. And I'll be honest,I read through it, but I didn't
read all the reasonings behind all ofthem. But I'll tell you this,
My list in his list did notmatch up. So this is a ranking

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of some sort. Yeah, it'sa ranking of songs by an artist,
an artist you like, oh yeah, very much. So I think it's
an artist that everybody likes. Likethere are some artists that are dividing,
but then there are some that areunifying. This artist is definitely unifying.
So like if I said to Diane, list for me your twenty favorite Tom

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Waits songs, it's a list ofTom Waits, no no, no no.
But I'm saying that is dividing.Oh, that would be dividing.
I love Tom Waits, Diane doesn't. If Diane said to me, Elliott,
write down your twenty favorite Real Housewives, that would be dividing. Okay,
I know Teresa, Judy check.But this is back to music,

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Okay, And the writer's right.It's really hard to figure out the top
twenty. Why with this act wasthe writer so apprehensive backlash? So people
people don't want to say it.Art is better than enough for this specific
Is it a band or a solar. It's a band. It's a band.

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So it's very subjective as opposed toobjective. Like a lot of times
I'll tell you like I'm trying tothink of a of a of an artist
where like there's no question it istheir best song of all time. You
do that with the Beatles, Othe Beatles absolutely absolutely. Of course,
John Lennon or well, he wasa beatle. No, but I'm saying

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right, he's solo. Oh yeah, no, no, I mean,
imagine, come on, it's noteven close the greatest song written of all
time. Pardon me. This oneis really subjective because it does not have
say again this man. No onewould say this man has like their best

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song. See I would tell youthat. Well, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you two things about thelist. I there's a lot of people
that will go it's not cool tolike the popular ones, which isn't true.
If the popular ones are the bestones, that's okay. And then
there's some people will go if youinclude this song on the list, it

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shouldn't count at all, which Itotally disagree with. And I'll tell you
this. The person who did thislist put this song on the list,
didn't put this song on the list, And I couldn't disagree more. I
find myself a little confused. There'sa dan at some point get accused of
selling out. No, no,no, I mean they've made a ton
of money. Why including some songsbecause people will go, oh it was

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it was too commercialized, it wastoo popular. It's you know, you
know what it is. Here.Let me give you an example. Sometimes
there are diehard Kiss fans that'll gough not beath because it was a very
popular song, right and obviously verydifferent. Then you have other Kiss fans

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who get more upset with like Iwas made for Loving You, right,
oh, because it was during thedisco era. But it's all it's all
their music. And then you haveeven more Kiss fans that hate all of
the crazy crazy nights exactly right.So this is somebody. So for this
band, they had a very verythey listen, they had a ton of
popular songs, but they had onethat was a massive hit. But if

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you say you like that, you'renot supposed to like it. Are we
supposed to guess the band? Oh? You want to know? I've been
trying to. I have no ideawho we're talking about, Dane, What
band am I talking about? Ihave no idea. Everybody loves them?
Now are people going to argue thatpoint? They can, but they're dumb.

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Everybody loves them. Yes, maybemaybe not love, but everybody likes
them. Most people love them.If you like them, you love them?
Is it rock? I mean it'sout of that genre stones No,
But that's I mean, that's agreat guess. Right, that's a great
guess. I don't know. Comeon, yeah, come one, grateful

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Dead. Not everybody loves them.Everybody loves the grateful dead. No,
that's not true. Everybody likes thegrateful Dead. Now most people love the
grape. Now, you don't lovethe grateful dead. If you like the
grateful Dead at all, yes,you do, you don't at all?
Not my scene. But yeah,okay, so you're not gonna like you're

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not. No, you're not adead head, but you not like them.
You can name their songs, youhave favorites. Hold on, if
you were tuning in to hear thislist that he teased, sounds like we're
not going to get to that.How do you not, Diane? Yes,
all these years, I've always beenI've always thought you liked them,
but you don't love them, likeyou're not traveling around with that? No?

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Yes, no, So you couldlook yourself in the mirror and go,
I see a young woman that doesnot like the Grateful Dad. Wrong.
No, you may go, hey, listen, Diane, No,
you don't hate, you don't lovethe Grateful Dad, but you like them.
No. I could go the restof my life never hearing a song
and be fine. Not true,not true, that is not true.

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See I was aware that Diane didn'tlike the band. I thought she did
like the band, but didn't lovethe band. No, she was so
adamant about her you would say,you can go the rest of your life
and not hear a Grateful Dead song, and you would be fine. Fine,
that's no. Grateful Dead is oneof those bands where it's like when
when you get asked that stupid question, Hey, so you're on a deserted
island, and you fod, yeah, you can only bring five you bring

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a Grateful Dead wreck? No,yes you do, Oh no, you
gotta bring bring Morrissey. If Ihad to, I bring his whole catalog,
even the sucky stuff before I broughtanything. By the great zero chance,
that's right. If I had tosay, a song of theirs that
I love, like like that,I like, give me your top twenty,

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I can only name one. That'snot true. You can only name
one great song that you want.I like? Right? Yeah, wait?
Can I right? Wait? Isthis going to be the one?
You say? That's what contros?So we know what it is? Go
ahead, Well I don't know whatit is. No, no, but
that's that's what I was thinking.No, I know the one that you're
going to say is controversial. Theone that I like, right is a

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ripple number two, number two,number two on that guy's list. Now
it's not number two for me,but but no, no, no,
no, but I'm fine. That'swhat I mean. You can't, really
you can't. You give a littleripple. I have give a little ripple.
Nipple. By the way, ifyou hear like a light sound of

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a bass drum, that's not adrum. That's Diane just slapping a tin.
You know it's illegal to wear abrob. Listen to this song.
Come on, this is great.Tell on you. This is a song
I like, right, and youwant to go the rest of your life
without hearing that, I'd be allright, no singing, Diane. If

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my words did globe god, thisis good with the cold, and this
is number two, this is numbertwo. I wouldn't have put it that
high, but it's definitely top ten. Did you read why I told you?
I didn't. I didn't read thereasonings behind it. Can I just
be because it's all it's all verysubjective, But yes, go ahead and

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maybe in the list somewhere do theyaddress whether these are studios. They tried
to avoid live versions. They triedto avoid live in some cases you can,
but they tried to avoid light waithold on please yeah, by the
way, Yes, this song Idon't know definitely top ten don't dream Please

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Please be the songs to fill Whatdo you want to know? How I
learned of this song. It wasn'tthrough a fan. It wasn't through a
fan. Wait, it wasn't throughit Like I was at a backyard party

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in Burke back in the day.This song was used, I believe,
as part of the end of themovie Mask and I remember hearing it being
like, oh, that's nice andyeah, what did the what did the
what did the author say? Thething about Ripple is that I do think

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that, ultimately it's the most beautifulsong ever performed. Oh god, wow
by anyone? Yes, wow?You know what? Sorry Whitney, what
you don't think? I want todance with somebody? How about I Will
Always Love You? Oh? ThisTrump's rack? No, it doesn't you

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drowned by the way, By theway, Whitney did it? That's not
even Whitney's song Your Steps? What'snumber one? Diane so we're just doing
the top two. No, no, well, Diane's not gonna guess number
one. This is the only song. What's the controversial one? Touch of

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Gray not in the top twenty.And I disagree because that was their only
song that actually charted. If thatis not true, are you sure charted?
Choose what chart to must? Thisguy well man and this guy's so
this week? None of this charted. I think they have other songs that

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charted. I do think they haveit, not as high, not as
high. That's that's fair highest chartobviously. And also that actually that a
video that played on MTV. Yes, and it lost over absolutely if you
called me this song isn't long forthe Dead, it's not actually so.

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Yes, touch of Gray was notin the top twenty, and Touch of
Gray is one of those songs.And even Deadhead, I should say Deadhead
dead fans will fight about whether it'sokay to like that song. I think
it's totally fine to like that song. I love that song. You do
oh, I love it. Ilove it, but I don't fall into
it. Listen. I like Ilike, I like beth By Kiss.

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It's a they wrote it, theyperformed it, they put it out there?
Why why? Why would I beembarrassed to like it even if the
band comes out like sometimes you havebands come out and go like, ugh,
I hate that we did that.Well, you put it out there
for me, and I like it. There's nothing wrong like Nicki Minaj,
Yes, the no, but youknow what I mean, like you can
if they if that art is outthere, you can like it. Listen.

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I'm sure Da Vinci had a paintingor two he didn't like. Just
stop talking. So I was lookingup the charting for you, and and
ripple was actually a B side.Oh really? Is the A side on
this list trucking? Yes, ofcourse it is. Wait, Diane,
did you just that is one ofthe greatest songs of all time? You're

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gonna tell me trucking is bad?Stupid? Harry out? Yeah, how
about gas? Someone smell, slapthat cho chuck in the chip statin,

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keep chucking number nine on the lapsof the man together, Oh lessing live,
Just keep chucking all Yes, God, is this good? There you
go? Whose tattoo is that?Billy? Silly? What's up? Dude?
You don't just smitherens tattoos like Dad'sthe street Chicago, New York,

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petre In and it's all on thesame street. Dian, you don't like
this? This is great? Thisis great, Hang up tomorrow. What
number was nine? Daddis? Guys? Who she now? I'll tell you
my favorite? God the ways,I'm just thinking of my list. Yeah,

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see I would have put it numberripples good, that's a top tenor
but my favorite one is a popularone. It's not Touch of Gray.
No. So Touch of Gray wentto number nine on the Hot one hundred.
I went to number one on mainstreamrock. Yeah as well. It
should have truck and is their secondhighest charting song at what number sixty four?

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Are you serious? Yes? Oh, come on, stupid charts.
That's why those charts aren't worth theass? Oh, Dane ass. I
think it was Rick de he saidbest. Yes, Christian, do you

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have a favorite? No? Okay, she's kind of bopping in there.
How can you not shots this song? Za by the way at a small
house in Clarksburg and Mark Crider alsotapping a titty the long strip. It's

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big. Yeah, baby, thissounds great. What in the world ever
became the Snagger life? She losthi Elliot in the morning and cooking.
Hello, Yes, sir, Igot yes, sir, it's it's me.

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Go ahead. Hey. After thedad had their favorite song, is
like after them their favorite breath ofair, the no, you're right,
You're right. No, And andeven the writer who did it was like,
I have any I mean he's amusic writer, right, He was
like, I have put off doingthis forever because I know all I'm doing
is inviting discord and hate and animosityan unsolvable debate. Right, So I

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get it. And that's why mylist would not be the same as your.
You're a grateful dead fan, right, Listen. There are two types
of people in this world, peoplethat like the grateful dead and people that
love the grateful dead. And that'sit. So yes, your list and
my listen, I'm a born andraised dead head that a boy got a
boy? Would it? Would Iguess? Number one? Yeah? Go

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ahead? Only because you said itwas considered controversial, is it? Casey
Jones Railroad? No? No,no, no, No. Number one
actually is not is not controversial.I was saying that their biggest hit was
controversial, which is Touch of Gray. Now you would be a perfect person.
Ass do you like or dislike Touchof Gray, I like it,

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okay, good, yeah, Iknow. But you know there's a lot
of dead dead fans that won't likeit because it was too popular, it
was too mainstream. Well, ifit happens, if you like the song,
it's not your fault. Other peoplelike it exactly exactly, by the
way, Uh, Casey Jones,Uh, number three on this list,

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which is a great song. Whichis a great song. Oh, here
we go, Diana, Hey,thank you sir. That drain Hi?
Okay, come on, Diane,how do you? Oh my god,
how do you not like this?Ahead? Diane? And you know the

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notion mad this that John makes iton town by the way, if you
go to like a lake party andthis comes on, everybody stops and just
tongues. No way, do youknow? Happy? Hold on one second,

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Here we go, Jagon that trainhigh on cocaine, remember the Remember
the pussy rock stations used to blowbleep out cocaine. Oh it's bad for
the kids, Oh rotten health.I'm sorry, Yes, Tyler, it's

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a bluesy, folksy and downray groovyof the guitar work. My goodness,
I could have. And again,this is not Diane. This is the
writer from the article. I couldhave the instrumental track alone playing on loop
in my head for the rest oftime. Can I go to line five

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that drain Hie on cocaine, hiEllie in the morning. Hi, yes,
sir, yes, sir. Numberone is Scarlet Begonia's number one.
Now, it's interesting that you bringthat up for number one. I will
tell you it's not number one.Are you a big dead fan? Well,

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you either like him or love them? Which category? I grew up
on? Classic rock? This isactually Ian. I'm from Okay. I
called you guys couple times this weekthis year. Yes, somebody. Yeah,
I grew up in classic rock,so it's kind of unavoidable. So
there's songs I love. I'm ona big deadhead. Scarlett Pogonias, though,
is my absolute favorite self. Iwill tell you this. It is
a great song, and I thinkthat I would have had it higher.

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Here comes Diane, She's already noodling. Scarlett Pogonias, according to the writer,
is number twenty. Fuse I hitthat post number twenty. It wasn't
number one. It was number twenty. Damn. I know, right,
but again that's the that is theproblem. Thank you. Sir. That

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is the problem with a grateful deadlist. It is so subjective. It's
hard to find a true number one. Go ahead, Diane, you get
saying no, you know what whatDian never had shoes and fells on him.

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Okay, well you know what.You never had a white wedding either.
By the way, I found anothersong on here that I know you
like. I'm trying to write downwhat we have so far and I've lost
track. But Diane, yes orno? Don't you weren't you a huge
fan? I'm being serious of SugarMagnolia. No, no, I'm being

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completely serious. Why do I feellike there are times that you would come
in in the morning when we're inthe office and you go, hey,
can we play Sugar Megan? I'mtaking my bra good peas are to fuck
that titty? No, I woreshoes today. Yeah, that's some that

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beepit down that the bit very soon. God, this is so good,
sweet blossom camera under the window.We didn't have high time to do the
five number this This is this isnumber fourteen, number fourteen? Uh?
Can I go to line three?Very good? Hi ell yeah the morning?

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Yeah? Hi? Who is this? It is from Frederick Dave,
greatest uh grateful Dead song of alltime. Please, I'm gonna I gotta
go with Fire on the Mountain.Fire on the Mountain, dude, that
is a great song. That isa fantastic song. Even people that only
like the Dead would tell you theylove that song. That song came in

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at number eleven. Oh yes,I know. Hold on, Dan's got
her big toes of wiggling much inthat bone. I feel like I need
a detox. This is great,writer, says Timeless and Bulletproof. Amen.

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First of all the bigger questions,why would anybody shoot it? Hi
elly in the morning, I guessthe song? Oh yeah, go ahead,
Yeah, so my ear one wasalready said Dominico with Dark Star.

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Dark Star Dark Star came in atnumber four. At number four, no,
no, good for you. Youpopped the top five. But yeah,
no, that's good. I don'thave that. I'm not like,
we don't have Dark Star? Areyou a great morning songs too? Like

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Toby said, no, she's moreinto widespread MF and panic. Oh,
widespread panics great? Wise, redpanics great. But you should be able
to like all genres, all genresexcept for smooth jazz, all right,
very good, thank you sir.Yes, from the right up. I
listened to Dark Star and I canhear a million dead heads being born.

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So do we have we have four? We have two, three, four?
I'll give you five. Eyes ofthe World, Diane, I wouldn't
know if I've tripped over it.That is not true that do we have
it? You'll know it? Yeah, I'm looking, I'm looking. Oh,
there's such a gray. We don'thave Eyes of the World. That's

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you know what. That's a goddamnshame. That's a goddamn shame. You
know what. That is a crime. See, there were a couple more
mainstream ones I would have expected tobe Wait, they do they have my
favorite in there? It's not numberone. My favorite came in at number
eight. I don't know what yourfavorite. Grateful that song is Uncle John's
band. Oh, I know wehave that the here we go already?
Yeah, oh yeah, there's Diane'snamer You do love this song? That's

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my leg hair well the first daythe Day Shove Dolls. By the way,
I could listen to this song everysingle day for the rest of my
life. Done thing this THU withme. But there are people that will

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go too popular. Oh who wantsto get high? By the way,
yes, you start to share abrain with the writer, who explains,
if this list was based solely onpersonal preference, I'd rank it at the

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top. Oh really, oh wow, very good, Thank you. I
really would. But you do getthat that constituency that'll go not too popular.
You hear that crank sound with me? You come with me, Diane,

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A dance my lady. Okay,goddamn, have you seeing the like
that was a can? And docome grand to the time? Come with

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me all he's come to take hischildren. By the way, everybody is
on hold talking about all their favoritesong as there's not one person that's like,
yeah, I go, Dian,here you go from Nicky. Oh
this is good. I'm reading cold. Thanks Elliott for bringing this list to

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today's show. Monday Happiness. Hellyeah, that's for Nicky and Diane his
sun come and like the man yougo no time barely time too late a

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time go amen, just flying by? I live all right, let me
go cold big Hi Ellie in themorning. Ell Yeah, what's happening?
Hey, what's going on? Dude? Hey, this is Keith a clean
fish head. I haven't talked toyou like fifteen years. Oh whoops,
I'm sorry. Well you know what, fine, see what I mean?

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You play, you start talking,dead people come out of the woodwork.
It's been in fifteen years. Nevermotivated to pick up the phone since anyway?
Yes, to get through? Ohokay, that's fine. Uh yeah,
what can I do for you,dude? I was going to get
Terraffin station. Say again, I'mgoing to get Terraffin station number one grateful

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Dead song of all time according tothis guy's list, Terrafin Station. Here
wee buddy, Yeah yeah, buddyis right right. Look Diana's perked up
again. Now I sang the lastone coming, Thank you, thank you,
all right, very good, Thankyou, Keith. Talk to you
in fifteen years. See again,this isn't number one for me. But

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you cannot argue that I'm familiar withthe song Wow, fire Light so low,
strange shadows. You don't know thesongs? Now? Yes you do?
Oh, Diane's trying to cool evena minute sixteen minutes long? Maybe

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you know it, like when itswitches a little bit at minute twelve,
wins the thousand film do lovel Many? What does the writer say about let

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me see here, understands a masso. Hold, Oh, take your time,
It's fine with me. You couldtake fifteen more minutes for all I
care. Whether you call it TerrivinsStation Medley or Derman Part one. It
is the greatest track ever. Likethe Beatles Abbey Road Medley. There is
just something unbeatable in the formula.I agree, I agree. Suddenly,

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Hey, you got anything that Iwaked? I end up with. Not
too shabby for a bunch of psychrockers who godfathered the jam band era and
have reached astral planes the rest ofus could only dream of ever meeting.
That is true. That is true. Not too shabby. All right?

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I hate, I hate to dothis, but I'm not gonna make it
all the way through God. Wedidn't even hear Friend of the Devil?
Yeah? Was that on the list? I don't think so. I don't
think so. Franklin's Tower was.No. By the way, you know
what comes in? You know whatcomes in at eighteen, which I thought
would be Oh, you know what, Diane's right, Friend of the Devil

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is on the list. It camein at number fifteen, and by request,
now we're gonna make it through.Do you hear that knocking sound to
Diane's titty added up from you knowas trailed by twin head, didn't get

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to sleep. That match of morningcame around, set out my mother,
my time, a friend of thedevil who's a fan of my hand,
and I get home the moon daylightjust my gains sleep. Oh god,
I read it to the dep WhatI am? What? Somebody just sent

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me a great contenter femail? Ajoke? Go ahead? What does a
deadhead say when the high wears off? What this speaks? It sucks,
Diane, stop it, stop it? Thank you. That's funny to one
person. That is funny to oneperson.