Stereothematica
Welcome to Stereothematica, a podcast where two women geek out over music.
When Christina moved from LA to Texas, Christine suggested a weekly challenge to stay in touch: pick a song that fits a chosen theme. This game opened them to new perspectives on each other while deepening their own understanding of the music that shapes their lives. Each week Christina and Christine recreate the magic of their song exchange on a broader scale, deconstructing their thematic picks, providing personal anecdotes and historical insights, and sharing transformative tracks rarely spotlighted on the Billboard Hot 100.
Stereothematica
Rediscovered
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The feeling of rediscovering a song you once loved but forgot about is better than a cold breeze on a hot day. Well, almost. This week we dive into some once-forgotten jams and reconnect with the people we were when we originally discovered them. Join us on a trip down memory lane!
SONGS:
NRBQ: Magnet (1972)
Plastilina Mosh: Boombox Baby (2000)
RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:
Get that Gasoline Blues (YouTube)
NRBQ - Music Museum of New England
Unscripted: NRBQ continues to inspire after a half-century
Various Artists - The Q People: A Tribute To NRBQ
The Q People - A Tribute To NRBQ (Discogs)
Little Floater's Wild Weekend (YouTube)
Little Floater’s Wild Weekend (Fandom)
Plastilina Mosh: Mr. P Mosh (1998)
Plastilina Mosh: Human Disco Ball (2000)
Plastilina Mosh: International Stereo (Bassass) (2000)
Plastilina Mosh: Peligroso Pop (2003)
Plastilina Mosh is Having So Much Fun It Hurts (LAT, 1998)
Plastilina Mosh “Juan Manual” Astralwerks (LAT, 2000)
Molotov: Voto Latino (1997)
Y Tu Mamá Tambien (2001)
The Avanzada Regia: How Monterrey Changed Mexican Rock (2024)
Kinky: Cornman (2002)
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I'm Christine. And I'm Christina. In 2024, I moved to Texas from LA. And to keep in touch, Christine and I started a weekly game where we each pick a song that fits a chosen theme.
SPEAKER_02This game deepened our understanding of each other and the songs that shape us, inspiring the podcast you're listening to now. Each week we share our pics, swap stories, and dig into tracks you might love. And a lot of the time have never heard of.
SPEAKER_03Welcome to Stereothematica, your favorite atypical music podcast. Christine, how's your memory? Oh God, why do why do we have to talk about that? For some reason, I feel like you have a better memory than I do.
SPEAKER_02You know, it's not so much that, and I know what you're getting at. I think that sometimes these episodes thinking about music will jog my memory. But I forget so much. Names of people, words, names of movies. I'm really bad with that.
SPEAKER_03I get that. I think my struggle is like I can remember the lyrics, like every lyric to a song that I first, you know, heard when I was 13. And yet I can't remember like large chunks of my childhood and adult life.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Well, the lyrics thing makes sense, and I have that definitely where I'm like constantly amazed when I find a song that I haven't heard in a long time and I know the lyrics almost perfectly. But I think it's because like, especially when you're younger, it's your brain is just like absorbing all that. But then to your point, why aren't we absorbing all those memories? Then like we know these lyrics to these songs, that why not like a vivid image of what happened at the well, I was gonna say at the dentist.
SPEAKER_03Hi, you're in Dentist. Oh, this podcast is gonna have a lot of dentist fans at some point, anyway.
SPEAKER_02But but also I think the thing is with that, is that music makes things stick.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's true. So yeah, I literally I was at an event once where they were using 45s as centerpieces, like they had put like the little 45 down and then put stuff on top of it. And I picked up the one at my table and it was Mr. S Sings. And this was a record that my me and my sister and my cousins would put on in the basement of my cousin's house. And I still, I was like, I know what this is, and I could remember the words before I even heard it. And I went home that night and put it on. It was that freaking it's from like the 70s or something. Yeah, like anyway, that's not what we're talking about today, but weird thing. I picked this theme last year a little after I had come back from my friend's birthday weekend, where I had heard a song, and it had been so many years, like over a decade, since I had heard that song. And oddly enough, or probably like appropriately enough, the people who I was spending the weekend with were the ones who introduced me to the song in the first place. And so we're listening to so much good music at this birthday weekend, and like that's one of the things I love is having friends like you, but like a lot of my friends who have excellent taste in music or like musicians, and they can not only play great music, but then introduce you to good music. And so my friends, Kelly and Travis, it was their, you know, Kelly's birthday weekend, and they are both musicians, and I hear this song, and like I'm bopping around to it. I'm just like, oh my gosh, I love that song, whatever. Before I have time to shazam it, the song is over. Like it's already changed to the next song. And I don't feel like it's my place to go back and like skip the phone or whatever's playing. So I go up to Travis and I'm like, hey, what's that song that's like me, me? And since I'm not very good at it, why don't we just listen to it together? Here's Magnet by NRBQ from their 1972 album, Scraps.
SPEAKER_01I'm like a magnet. You're like a piece of wood. Take it together. Don't make me feel so good.
SPEAKER_02Christine, did you know this song? I remember when you shared it, I'm like, oh my god, I've I don't think I've ever heard this. I love it though. Oh but oh good. But as no, and and as since you've shared it, I've been listening to it more and I'm like, I feel like I do know this, but I don't know how.
SPEAKER_03Weird, right? Like it's kind of like one of those ones where you're just like, how do I know this song? Yeah. And this is where, you know, luckily, when I hummed my horrible rendition to my friend Travis, he knew exactly. Oh, thank you. I mean, that was kind of spot on, right? Listener, way in. Yep. But it I truly, I can't be sure, but I don't think I've ever heard this song outside of that friend circle. Wow. So when I discovered it again, I saved it, of course, and my Spotify likes. And I've I've been putting it on from time to time when I want a little dancing around. Yeah. But it seems like a little bit of a deep cut. So that's what I wanted to talk about, a rediscovery, especially because this was one I do not think it had probably been over a decade since I had heard the song and then heard it again. And I wanted to learn more about this band and what's up with the song because the lyrics are a little bit funny, right? Yeah, silly. Yeah. So anyway, NRBQ comes from New Rhythm and Blues Quintet, which they were originally called. Although I feel like they always had four members. So I don't know, maybe that was a joke. I could be wrong as well. And the band formed in 1965 in Louisville, Kentucky, where a lot of my family calls, oddly enough. And while this band appears to have a cult following, they never really made it big. They had one song that made it to number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it's really bad, in my opinion. It's not Magnet, you'll be happy to know. It's a song called Get That Gasoline Blues. And it's basically a parody of Danny and the Juniors at the Hop in the wake of the OPEC oil embargo.
SPEAKER_02Oh no.
SPEAKER_03And I will link to it, but again, it's not very good. And I think the one thing that I've picked up on a little bit about this band is that they're kind of maybe a little bit cheesy, if you can imagine the get that gasoline blues. Yep. So that's where I was like, what is it about magnet that draws me in? Yeah. And why couldn't I remember it like enough to have it in my my music awareness, my catalog after you know, so many years? I do like the the humor and the lightheartedness of this tune. Very you, yeah. Oh, you think so? Oh, yeah. It's got that, you know, dancing around. Yeah, very jaunty. Yes, very jaunty. The lively piano rhythm, a little snappy drum beat. And then I think the thing that seals the deal for me is his funny singing style.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03All of it together makes me just sway along to the music and just the way that you are you're intimating. And I think there's a special lyric for you, Christine, that you might like. Oh, yeah. I wonder if you caught it. I did. I'm like a robot. You're like the Queen Mary.
SPEAKER_02I like how he breaks up Mary too. Sorry.
SPEAKER_03No, it's perfect.
SPEAKER_02Thomas' probably gonna cut that.
SPEAKER_03No, he shouldn't.
SPEAKER_01I'm like a robo. You're like the Queen Mary. I play the tango. You play the tangle.
SPEAKER_03He also mentions the tango. Oh perfect. Is the song his favorite? Yes. I know. It is funny that you're because wait, have we mentioned you getting married on the Queen Mary? Um, or did you actually not get married there? Well, okay, we we got yeah, with the reception.
SPEAKER_02We got married in in a church. Well, in Long Beach, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Can I just ask? Yeah. Was the Queen Mary like a national thing back then? Like, what's not not like you were getting married in the 70s, sorry. Yeah, I'm not saying that, but like, okay, why do people know about it?
SPEAKER_02Because it was like used in the war.
SPEAKER_03Oh, is that right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. I think it's historical, I think it's it's a monument of some sort.
SPEAKER_03I think you are right. Yeah. Listeners, sorry, because this is Thomas, sorry. Yeah, Thomas. Thomas knows about the Queen Mary. There is a big ass ship down in Long Beach called the Queen Mary, and just the fact that they mentioned it in this song is funny to me because it's I don't know. To me, it feels niche, but I guess it's like people should know about big boats. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's a historic retired ocean liner functioning as a floating hotel, museum, and tourist attraction located on Long Beach.
SPEAKER_03Queen's Highway. Yep. Yep. So well, I want to go. I've ridden my bike down there. Oh. Anyway, back to my song. I guess it's probably no surprise if our listeners aren't familiar with NRBQ, because like I said, Magnet's the only song I know, and I've only ever heard it from one source. But again, this band has a cult following. While the band's membership has changed many, many times since their formation, according to Wikipedia, there are 14 past members and four current members, of which only Terry Adams is a founding member. The band is known for their live shows, which they perform without a set list. Do we do we think that's impressive?
SPEAKER_02I mean, don't you think they actually maybe it's not an actual paper, but that's they know what they're gonna play.
SPEAKER_03They know what they're gonna play. It's kind of like, you know, if there's a house band. Yeah. They're not probably writing down a set list and being like, This is what we're doing tonight, bros. No. Anyway.
SPEAKER_02How many songs do they really even have?
SPEAKER_03A lot. They have a lot of songs. But you know, there's probably the faves that they perform live. I always like it when you yell out a song at a show and then the band plays it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's like right when, like, of course, they're gonna eventually play it, but at that moment when somebody calls it, that they do play it.
SPEAKER_03Fun.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Have you ever been to a show where they play a song twice?
SPEAKER_03No, I haven't either. I think that would be really funny. Okay.
unknownWait.
SPEAKER_03Did I ever tell you about the time that I went to a show? And this is so embarrassing. I probably have talked about on the podcast, but like it was a it's like a folky Canadian, like really low-fi band, which I loved, but I got fucked up and then yelled out for them to play a song that they had already played.
SPEAKER_02It would have been funny if they played it again for you. I know, right?
SPEAKER_03And they'll be like, let's do a reprise. It's gotta happen from time to time. I wish it would. And I wish everyone would forget that I just shared that. Anyway, I don't think you've shared that one before. That's good. Yeah. So some of the most famous followers of this band or celebr celebrators, celebrities who like the band are Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, the replacements, Yo La Tango, and more. While a tribute cover album of their work was released in 2004 with such heavy hitters as Jay Maskis, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earl, Los Lobos, and more. Unbelievable. You're not gonna believe this part. On said cover album, there was a 17-minute Spongebob SquarePants audio cartoon. And okay, that part I actually believed. Well, that's what's so odd to me. So apparently, it was the Spongebob voice actors who did like a essentially uh a riff of four of NRBQ's songs. Again, an audio cartoon, which is insane to me. But this band was also like the Simpsons house band for several years. I don't even know what they did.
SPEAKER_02How did you not know that?
SPEAKER_03I mean, you I know because I'm the one who went to see The Simpsons like live from Springfield at the Hollywood Bowl. I wonder if they were there. I'm gonna have to look that up. Yeah, but I will link to the Spongebob song and then like a little bit of an explainer because I listened to it today and I'm not really a Spongebob fan, but it was surreal. I'll just say that. Okay. And speaking of Dylan, there's some internet lore, aka Reddit, that says NRBQ served as his backing band for some unreleased songs from under a red sky sessions. So I don't know.
SPEAKER_02I pretty much everything after 1980, I was not that into. I don't even know that one. I've never heard of it. And it's it's whatever it's like later, it's like around 1990.
SPEAKER_03And you know what? I think that the joy of this song, Magnet, is that it's one of those things where I heard it and I just was like, this is for me, because I listened to the rest of Scraps, the album that Magnet appears on, and for the most part, it's not for me. It's kind of goofy and not really my style, even though I know I'm a goofy goofy. But there were a couple of songs that I did like on there, one of which was only you, which is sweet, and kind of reminds me of The Beatles, and then Boys in the City, which reminds me of Paul Simon, and then maybe like almost a little on the nose, because like what city, New York? It reminds me of Only Living Boy in New York, which I love. Anyway, I wish I could have learned more about this band. They're, you know, a little bit mysterious, but I would have liked to know more about their heyday because it seems like they had a really big impact, but so much is either like behind a paywall or just simply not available online. So I did a little on-the-ground research. I texted my aunt and uncle who live in Louisville to ask about them. And my aunt said they were a big local band in her teens and twenties. But honestly, based on those fans, it seems like the reach was much further.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So that is my rediscovery song and a little bit of a discovery about a band I didn't know anything about. Can't wait to hear about yours, Christine.
SPEAKER_02Well, first of all, I am curious, but even as much as I liked the song when you shared it, I wasn't that curious to learn more about them. Because I'm like, this is just a nice song. But I'm kind of glad with what you're telling me because I felt like, oh God, how did I have a like miss this gap in RBQ? Like, geez, this is like me not knowing Steely Dan. And for the record, I know Steely Dan. I just I'm not sure. That would be Steely Dan.
SPEAKER_03Fine.
SPEAKER_02But no, that I mean, sometimes you just want a great song. You don't need to have like the whole, like, I don't know, collection of officers. Totally agree. Yeah, totally agree. So yeah, it's a starred song for me. Thanks. Yeah, thank you. Okay, so before I get to my rediscovery, I'd like to go back in time to my discovery. Is that wordplay? Yeah, kind of. Disc C D. Okay. So um, way back in the year 2000, I became a member of the iconic LA radio station, KCRW. And I credit that first donation to KCRW for today's rediscovery and really so much more.
SPEAKER_04Damn.
SPEAKER_02So I was 27 and I had just moved back to LA. I was in the process of breaking up with my boyfriend, and KCRW was the soundtrack to my few months of being quasi-single. I say quasi-single because we were technically together, but I just had moved out from our place in Huntington Beach. Nice. Anyway, so today, of course, anyone anywhere can listen anytime to KCRW from their computer, phones, whatever. But back in the early 2000s, it was like an extra special experience. And you'd have to tune in at a specific time to hear your favorite DJ. We've talked about Garth Trinidad before, but just curious, do you have any other favorite DJs at KCRW?
SPEAKER_03Remember when you were like traumatized by the Bookworm uh theme song? Yeah. I really loved that segment, and of course, I loved Bookworm. Yeah. The song by Sparks, in case anyone was wondering what I was talking about. I actually I would just listen to KCRW mostly on my commute, like home. Like on my way to work, I would listen to KXLU, and then on my way home, I would listen to KCRW. I don't know why. Did I ever tell you about the fight? It wasn't a real fight, but did I ever tell you about my thing with Steve Chiatecas? No.
SPEAKER_02Wait, yes, yes. But tell tell me.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, if you know who that is, you will know. He was a little bit snappy with his co-host, and the woman's name is escaping me. But I basically spoke truth to power and I called him out on it. But I was a little bit drunk.
SPEAKER_02Oh man. I feel like you mentioned this in yes, you have mentioned this. Like, I I want to go back and find the episode.
SPEAKER_03We'll have to we'll have to do a deep dive. Yeah. Maybe Steve will come on the show.
SPEAKER_02I know.
SPEAKER_03Maybe not.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03But no, that's my answer.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, I I uh over the years, I mean Chris Doritas, Tom Schnabel was another one. Oh, Cherry Glacer, obviously. Yeah. And then today, like, there's Novena Carmel is really good. That's right. Jeremy Sowell. But anyway, it's just they play a lot of good music. Interestingly, though, Morning Becomes Eclectic with Jason Bentley, who's like big DJ. I used to call it Morning Becomes Boring. Because it is boring. It's boring. Snooze Faz. Right? Reach out, Jason. Sorry. But anyway, but I I always loved their fun drives. Well, especially back in the day, not so much now, because you can get free CDs when you donate a few dollars, usually more than $30, I think it was. But yeah, you could like pick your premium. They had coffee mugs, they had t-shirts, tote bags, maybe, but I always went for the CDs. Nice. Yeah. And I still listen to a lot of the music from those days. Do you listen to them on CD? You know, I imported most of my music to iTunes, like it was 2004. So I I got rid of a lot of CDs. I kind of wish I did.
SPEAKER_03In my car. Like I love listening to a CD in the car. There's so many that I would still listen to.
SPEAKER_02No, I know. When we moved, I got rid of a bunch of stuff. But one of those early discoveries was the album Juan Manuel, and that's by the Mexican band Plastelina Mosh. And what I liked about the album was that it was all over the place. Like it was disco, electronic, kind of punk house, also very silly. I was listening to it a lot. So much so that in March of 2001, when I signed up on match.com, my username was Plastilina.
SPEAKER_03Wait, what does that word mean?
SPEAKER_02Well, okay, so they actually the band named themselves after the Spanish word for Plastocine. Kind of like Play Doh. Okay. Basically. And and of course the mosh mosh for mosh pits. So yeah, so that was my name. Match um yeah, at the time, like I think it was brand new. My longtime friend, Christina, she was like, hey, there's this new website. Maybe we should sign up. She was in a similar situation as I was in, trying to get away from a boyfriend. And we signed up on the same day. Obviously, at this time, online dating, uncharted territory. So naming myself after something that sounded like plastic felt appropriate. I also refused to put up a picture, partially because I didn't want to be subjected to the sadistic male gaze, but mostly because I didn't have a digital camera. Wow. Yeah. Dude, it's 2000.
SPEAKER_032000, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Now I know in other episodes I've talked about how I only went on one date and now I'm married to that person who is our editor, the infant Thomas Thomas.
SPEAKER_03Shout out Match.com for bringing this podcast together. I know, right?
SPEAKER_02I mean, it it is kind of.
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SPEAKER_02Yeah. And KCRW. So I will fast forward to last year when you proposed the theme. I immediately shared my pick with you because I had just rediscovered it. Not on KCRW, but through my Apple Music Station. And I was so happy when the song Boombox Baby came on.
SPEAKER_03What did you say when I heard it? You remember? No, but I did when I Was listening to it again for this uh episode. I felt like it was so of an era.
SPEAKER_02Yes, definitely. You said this song is death giving 1999-2005. Exclamation point three times.
SPEAKER_03Can I admit something embarrassing too? Oh, please. I thought they were French.
SPEAKER_02Oh no, that's not embarrassing.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Because it felt like very French. Yeah, it felt French and also like the, you know, they could have been hanging out with like Daft Punk. And maybe they were contemporaries of them.
SPEAKER_02No, I can see that. And and sometimes, honestly, I think they would sing English and Spanish, but also French, sometimes Italian. So you're you're not off. Okay. And they do have that sort of like Daft Punk, even like air. Like there's they're all in that same yeah, same boat. Same boat, tied. They're on the Queen Mary. Yeah. Exactly. So this is their second studio album. And even more than the song itself, I have just such fond memories of it because of everything surrounding it. And like between 1996 and 2000, I feel like I sort of had a musical reawakening starting with Ozomotli and then a lot of bands singing in Spanish, whether they were from LA like Ozomotle, or Mexico City, like Molotov, or Venezuela, like Los Amigos Invisibles. Are you familiar with any of these groups?
SPEAKER_03I do know Ozomotli. I've heard of Molotov and Los Amigos Invisibles, but I don't know that I like them super like I don't know that I can name any of their songs.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, they were, I think for me that they were like kind of rising in like the late 90s, and it was like, oh, this is so different. This is like so much better than the music they play on K rock. But okay, but yeah, and they were like all very fun to see in concert. I've I've actually seen all of them.
SPEAKER_04Oh, cool.
SPEAKER_02Ozomotli several times. Uh have you I I feel like that is very early 2000s, Ozomotli.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think I was probably learning about them later in the 2000s. Yes. I think. I mean, you were only 12 around 2000. I know. And you know that like when I moved to Houston is when I started listening to music in Spanish, like independently.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. No, it was. I remember like first hearing Osamatli and like, oh my god, this is so much fun. Like listen singing along in Spanish, and it was just like, I don't know, it they really opened the door for me.
SPEAKER_03That's so cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um, but so Placellina Mosh came out of Monterey, Mexico in the late 90s as part of what was called the Avanzada Regia movement or the Monterey Vanguard. It's a wave of bands from Monterey. Regia is a person from Monterey. I didn't know that until researching for the podcast. But they kind of helped redefine Mexican alternative music. And it seemed to have all started with this band, Zerdok. Have you heard of them? No. Okay, so they kicked it off in 1995 when they were the first non-Chilango band to win at a battle of the bands in Mexico City. And non-Chilango, Christina, do you like someone from Mexico City? Yeah, so they were the first person, first band not from Mexico City to win. So that was kind of a big deal, got some attention.
SPEAKER_03Cool.
SPEAKER_02There's a few other bands. Kinky was another one from Monterey that I really liked. And and I'll share some of these links. So it's good stuff. It's like it's weird because I'm not listening to it anymore, but it's it's again for the time, perfect. So Placina Moshe is the duo Jonas Gonzalez and Alejandro Rosso. And they formed in 1996. Supposedly they met at a Walmart playing video games. But then they say that's not necessarily true. Anyway, yeah, they kind of just played around with funk and hip-hop, disco, bossa nova, psychedelic music. And as I mentioned, they sang in a few different languages. Basically, they were bending genres and having fun with it. And their first album, Aquamos, came out in 1998 and is probably their most well-known with Mr. Pimosh being their signature track. It's even used in the FIFA 07 video game.
SPEAKER_03Oh shoot. I do feel like I looked that one up after we saw this one. Or after you shared this song with me. And I was like Pimosh.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, a few of their songs got into different video games. But that first album caught the attention of Coldplay producer Chris Allison, who then produced this album in 2000. And then Money Mark, unofficially the fourth Beastie Boy, has a co-writing credit on Boombox Baby. And then he produced a few other songs on the album, but this is the only one with co-writing credits. But I just love how Boombox is so lackadaisically disco and funk. It's like you said, very like 1999 to 2000. Now I do think you need to listen to it alongside the other 12 songs to fully appreciate the band. It's like the song is good. I like it. I like it a lot, but it it's it's not life-changing. That's okay. Your s your song wasn't life-changing.
SPEAKER_03No, no, no, no, no. Just something to listen to.
SPEAKER_02A nice song to listen to. Yeah. And now when I when I do listen to Boombox Baby, I don't just hear the song. I hear KCRW in like 2000, and I can see myself getting ready for my first and only internet date. Oh. Yeah. That's so beautiful. So yeah. Anyway, I've enjoyed this having this time to like think about the song, bringing back these old memories. And I do think music has that like power to help jog your memory in a way.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, definitely. I know we've talked about like to another place and how music can transport us, but it's also kind of funny when you have a revived memory because of a song that you like here again. And then you're like, oh my gosh, this.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I love it. Oh my god, I love yours. Yours is so good. And now I'm actually really excited to go listen to the rest of the album. Yeah. Because I think you like. I think I would probably like it too. It's fun. Sweet. Well, thanks for going on a little rediscovery journey with me, Christina. Thank you. Thank you for taking me. Can I just give you and everybody else some unsolicited advice real quick? I'd love it. I'd love it, please. Try painting a picture this summer. I know, scary. Because maybe you haven't done something like this since you mix colors in kindergarten. But don't you want to unlock the creative part of your brain? See if painting might be the thing that sparks joy for you.
SPEAKER_02Dude, it's interesting how this idea is stressing me out. I might need a little more convincing, please.
SPEAKER_03I know, because I bet some of our listeners are sitting there and thinking, this feels weird. And I actually agree with you and with you, Christine. I haven't picked up a paintbrush in years, but I'm challenging myself as well. So that I might feel what artists feel. Creativity, wonder, a sense of accomplishment, a sudden urge to cut off my ear. Is that too much? Oh wow.
SPEAKER_02Um, no, but you know, I'm getting there. And I I do think the fact that I'm resistant to doing this makes me think I should probably give it a try.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you should. And if you do it and your painting sucks, that's all the better. I once took a beginner pottery class two times before I could even make a single mug. Failure is healthy. It's all about the journey to get there. And if you do it and your painting doesn't suck, or really, even if it does, send us a photo. We'd love to see the fruits of your labor. Advice over. Christine, do you have any hints for us for what we might be exploring next week? I think we're going to warm into our listeners' ears. Ew. Thanks for listening to Stereothematica. If you like what you're hearing, please consider a review, a rating, or share us with a friend.
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