4 Guys from Liverpool pt. 1

We're sure this going to end up being a 3 or 4 parter. Ren and david dive into all things Beatles. Come on back to the 60s when the Fab Four invaded US shores on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

Hosts:  Ren Harris & david mills
Executive Producer: InterWest Concepts
Sound Engineers: Lauren Harris
Photographers:  Angel Florez
Music beds written & performed by: Eric Campbell

Transcript

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It's another episode of Wake Up Call.

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Your Sunday morning will never be the same. You're listening to the Wake U Call on KSJE or Farmington.

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And now, Wren and David.

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What was that look?

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Which one?

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You gave me like puppy dog eyes.

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Oh, because this little thing that you made is freaking. I I I I don't know. I just like it melted my heart.

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Isn't it wonderful?

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Yeah, and I even like the colors. It's like purple and and then it changes to green.

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Yeah. Blue, it's very mermaidy. Yeah. For those sit home wondering.

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It's scaly too, like.

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I have a little hand purse thing that is made out of that scaly sequin material that changes color depending on how you swipe it. Yeah, rub it. Dave is in entranced. I am. That was my exact response when I first saw it.

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Hi, Ren.

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Hi, Dave.

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How are you?

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I'm doing pretty good.

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You know, it seems like a forever that I've seen you, but it's only been a week. Has it just been a week or two weeks?

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We did it last week.

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Did we? Oh my god. I don't. No, I was in. I was on Thursday. No, Thursday. I don't know why.

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I have completely lost track of time. I feel like I've been thrown through a wormhole. Last week uh could have been a whole month.

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Yeah, I think we were off a week. I think we were. Yeah, uh, but it doesn't matter. We're back.

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We're back now. We have our grounding.

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It's the K SJ E Sunday morning wake up.

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11 a.m.

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You know, um I just had my hip replaced, and so I feel kind of like the bionic well, not quite yet, because I'm only uh four days up post op. But um today I've I've felt the best I have since the uh surgery. But uh, you know, they put a titanium hip in there. I mean a titanium, whatever that thing is.

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A titanium something or other do doohickey.

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Yeah, exactly. In your body. It looks like a it's got a ball on top, the the X-ray. I should have brought the X-ray so I could show it to you. But it's a ball on top with a spike down it. So that's why you know that they would use in Night of the Living Dead or something. Yeah, yeah.

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Use it as a stake.

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Yeah, so so if worst case scenario, if I'm, you know, be under attack, I can cut it out of my legs.

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During the eventual zombie apocalypse. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you'll have bigger worries than your hip work and if you're prepared.

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I'm ready to roll. Uh I guess I don't yeah, I'm kind of curious whether I will be able to go through airport security now.

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Oh, good question. Yeah. You might have to just warn them ahead of time. Or I think it they have those full body scanners, they can actually like see it.

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Oh, yeah, probably so.

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I'm not 100 on that.

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I'm I I'm not the only person that's had a hip replaced, so I'm sure there's several people that fly. But I will say this I wish I'd have done it. I've been crippled for two years. I wish I'd have done it two years ago.

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Oh my gosh, I'm so proud of you.

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Even though I've got to move around with a walker four days post. But uh yeah, I feel pretty comfortable.

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Hip replacements are tough, so be nice to yourself. Like you there's your um while you're healing, your movement is totally limited because so much movement comes directly from the uh hip joint.

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I I can tell you that the movement that I have, even though it is limited, is I want to say a thousand times better than it was.

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Yeah.

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Because I was very, very limited in the way I could get around and do things. Um but I I yeah, I feel great. I can't wait till I can walk without a walker or cane or anything. But yeah, it definitely I've got to catch myself around the house because I want to take off. I'm like, oh hold on, hold on.

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Don't return to the city. Get your walker, yeah.

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Get your walker, relax, relax.

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That's the most important thing, is yeah, not because my mom got her knee replaced a couple years ago, and she she was really gung-ho right away to to getting up, and she would push her limits sometimes, and it's just no need to do that, no need to go in for another surgery.

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No, exactly.

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My mom didn't either, she calmed down, but yeah.

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Well, and my oldest boy is he's been so good with me, and the he came, him and his family came up. So he's like, Dad, chill. Relax, Dad. I got it. What do you need? Oh, son, I hate to have you wait. Dad, I'll wait on you hand in foot. It's gonna cost you later, but right now I'll take care of you.

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Oh, he he's doing it gladly. He's building up that debt. That's right. Gonna cash it in later.

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Exactly right. Well, listen, I you know, we were kind of tossing back and forth. We did stay uh in touch via text, and we have talked about this on past past shows, and which I think it was your idea to begin with. But um, I'm really I'm kind of excited because this will take me back to my youth as well.

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I was just about to say, um, speaking of hip replacements and old people, well, and I guess being hip too, that's the nice way. Yeah, let's talk about uh a band that is for me uh stayed the test of time. The Beatles.

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You know, um John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

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Yeah. The Beatles.

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And you know, I had a story that and we'll and I'll probably try to find it before the show's done, but I'm thinking to myself, we're gonna have to do a duel. I mean, we're gonna show Carter. Yeah, at least, maybe more. Because I am such a library.

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Yeah, I am just i infatuated with the Beatles. That's the best way to put it because I know they have their faults, and I know they're what, almost 50 years old now? The band? The 1964.

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Yeah, the band itself would have been.

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Oh, 60 years old? Yeah. Yeah, the band itself would be 60 years old now. Um I I adore them. They were their music was there for me during some tough times, and uh, it's my soul music.

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You know, lost probably Well, they were all talented. I don't I don't want to uh downplay Paul or Ringo, but you know, lost George Harrison and lost uh John Lennon way too soon. Of course, John was was killed. I think George is cancer.

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He had cancer, yeah.

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But uh Paul and Ringo both are going strong, and there's some kind of rumor which we might dwell off into about Paul being early day, the the first Paul McCartney was uh killed in a car wreck.

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Oh yeah.

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There's some kind of BS going around with that. I want to look a little bit further into that. Paul is dead. Paul is dead, and he was walking barefoot on the that uh yeah, the Abbey Road cover is all just clues.

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Yeah. That's the original like crazy conspiracy theory.

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Yeah, yeah. Way, way back then. But they were big back then too. They would just took the world, not just England.

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Yeah.

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But they took the world by storm with I want to hold your hand.

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I mean, I know. It's okay, so now I like the music, but that's just because I like that style and era. But it's hard to think, like, there were girls fainting.

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Oh my god.

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Going insane, looking at them, and it was like, What what is this? Yeah. Why?

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Um They didn't make your heart pit or patterate?

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George did.

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Oh, did you like George? I I have to admit, I think John was my favorite, although, you know, that whole BS with him and Yoko kind of turned me off.

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He was a damaged man.

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Yeah, he was.

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And he he did a lot of bad things in his life. Um, it's really a shame that he didn't get to live long enough to redeem himself.

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Yeah.

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Because he uh, you know.

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Well, he was starting to make up with them all.

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He was starting to make up with them and talking about doing a reunion. So it makes me want to uh throw this table across the room, Dave.

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I understand, and you know, and I don't know what part Yoko Ono played in all that, but they blame her for everything.

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It she was more of a representation that John was moving on, from what I heard. You know. They're grown men. They don't need some lady to tell them what to do. They're probably already gonna break up, and Yoko just happened to be there at the same time.

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Yeah, I think I think that too. So I don't know what you got chosen for. I mean, we kind of tossed around there. I don't think there's a song that the Beatles do that I don't like.

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Yes.

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So uh what you know, and it I told you this before, but it warms my heart that we connect in this way through the music.

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Me too.

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Um, so I just said, you know what, Ren? I don't think you asked me what I wanted, I'm like, whatever you want.

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I was like, okay, yes. I'm on it. This is one that I always describe when I think of how much I love the Beatles. It was kind of a love at first listen. Um for my twelfth birthday, my dad got me just a bunch of CDs. I had asked him for classic rock because that's what he liked. I wanted to get into it too. He got me um uh revolver.

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Oh yeah.

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And that was my first ever Yeah, my first ever Beatles album. And the first ever song I heard on my my little portable CD player was Tax Man. That like beautiful opening riff.

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Yeah, I love that.

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So uh I'm gonna I'm gonna try and recreate that moment for it.

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One, two, three, four, one, two. Let me tell you how it would be.

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So that blew my my mind when I was a kid.

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Yeah, I I loved that too. I I I like that riff on that one, but I think the riff I like better is the one on Revolution, the way it starts out. Ooh.

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I'm gonna have to play Revolution now.

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Yeah, and you know, some of their early stuff. Did you like any of their stuff in the 60s, like I Wanna Hold Your Hand or Oh yeah, oh I I had to grow to like that.

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Because as a kid, mostly what got me was the swinging, rocky, rockin' stuff. Um but as I got older, I love the just um the melodic, the beautiful harmonies and and uh the way they orchestrated it, you know, just four of them.

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Freaking genius, yeah.

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And the way they played around in the studio.

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Um I know that uh Pete Best uh was the original drummer.

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Yes.

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And uh I read some articles about I guess that didn't go well.

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After his uh when they threw him out and brought Ringo in, but they wanted that different kind of beat that Ringo Yeah, from what I heard, they had always wanted Ringo pretty much, but Ringo was caught up in another band. Because they grew up in the same area, they knew each other, and Ringo was the best drummer to them. And uh Yeah, they took on Pete best and then Ringo was free, and I don't remember exactly how it happened, but they were like, okay, Ringo's here, bye Pete.

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Yes, yeah, well, it's yeah.

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Yeah. I think they left on okay terms, but that's from the Beatles perspective.

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Yeah, no, I I think Pete has since published some stuff that he just a little P.O.'d.

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Yeah, who wouldn't be? I mean, in their defense, once again, they always wanted Ringo. Pete was just a villain.

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Now that I did not know. I did not know that that was the case. Ringo is such a unique drummer.

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Yeah. Um You know, he only has one drum solo in their whole discography, the Beatles.

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Right. He was not a solo guy. He was more of kept the melody, the beat, what you needed to make it feel good and right.

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Oh yeah, and it sounded incredible. That's why you still don't get the same sound from anyone else.

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And there's not a lot of there's not, I don't know that there's many drummers out there that did what Ringo did. He was like a half-beat I don't know. I I've I've heard different stories, but he was not the typical drummer.

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Oh yeah, and you watch him play too. It's just and so many people give him a hard time. I'm Ringo. I'm the one who doesn't write all the songs. I'll just drum. But uh it's extremely important to be such a fundamental part of an important band.

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And yeah, that's the heartbeat of the band. Yeah. Really, when you stop thinking about it. Alright, what else you got? What throw something else, throw something at my I don't know. Oh, I see magical mystical tour.

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Magical mystery tour. I don't know why this one caught my eye, but it's maybe because we're just rolling in the downloads, we're rolling in the money.

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You know what?

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You know what, baby? You're a rich man.

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Yes indeed.

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I'll have to do it out of people. What do you want? I'm not gonna do it.

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You know, you say you go fifteen minutes, I'm like, wow, I didn't realize that song was out there. Wow, man. There's a lot of things. Did you pick the long version? I never heard the extended 15 minutes of that song.

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The panic.

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Why why do you like that song?

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Um, fun, groovy beat. Uh there's like weird noises in it at one point where it's like.

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Yes.

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Um, I love the way John's like almost whispering into the mic. How does it feel to be? It just feels like an artsy song. I don't know.

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You know, they had there was little subtle things in there like that, and and I would like, not for this show, but maybe for the next show, to look into more about that playing the record backwards that said Paul is dead. Oh, I would love to. Yeah, we'll do that on the next show. We'll do a little more research and see. Because that was a big thing I can remember in the 70s.

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Oh, I believe it. And it's so funny, Dave. I follow, I'm on Reddit, and I don't know if somebody listening just groaned, because Reddit can kind of have a negative reputation of being a really nerdy hardcore nerd website. So I guess that is me, but um there's a Beatles community online. I won't say the name of it, but it's I swear it's all run by like teenagers, like modern-day teenagers, and they're making memes and jokes about the Beatles that are just so funny and so weird, and they love to make fun of the Paul is dead. Um, so like whenever news about Paul drops, Paul McCartney, they're like, wow, disgusting to see that fake Paul is still running around, you know? So that it still has gravitas.

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I will say that the Paul, who if it's the fake or the real Paul, the guy that's out there now, I've seen him on James Corbin. Uh he is, I just I love him. He seems so down to earth.

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Fake Paul, they call him Fall.

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Fall.

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So whether he's Paul or Fall, I like the guy.

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Yeah, I I love him to death. And uh, you know, it was one of my bucketless things to meet John Lennon.

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Oh, absolutely.

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Uh but now I think it's a bucketless thing. I would love to meet Ringo and Paul. And Paul. Now I know I can't do LSD with Ringo, but I might be able to smoke a doobie or something.

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An herbal jazz cigarette. Yes, that's right.

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There you go.

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You know, Paul does a lot of like late night comedy shows in the U.S. too. I know he always used to do stuff for Saturday Night Live.

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Yes.

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He would be on that a lot, and I oh appreciate that, because I'm a big SNL fan too.

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Yeah, me too. All right, so what do we got next? What do you got?

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I know we just talked about Paul, but we're gonna focus on my uh crush, my big beatles crush.

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I like George, too. George. Yeah.

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And this is from my favorite album, the White album.

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I I love the guy, but I always thought he was so ugly. And I and I think John's ugly too.

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Okay. I've always thought George is beautiful, and I can't tell you why, but as a teenager, I showed a picture of him to my friend, and I was like, I think he's cute. And she went, ew, him? It scarred me. So I can't tell you what you see, but I think he's beautiful. I love his crooked teeth, I love his big furry eyebrows.

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Yeah.

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It's more in the later phase where he had like the long hippie hair that I think he was cutest.

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Yeah, I I would agree. When they when they started the bob cut was okay, but I didn't think George it fit George. But in the long hair, really, and I loved his stuff after the Beebles, uh, you know, The Beebles? The Beebles, the Beatles, I've got my mind set on you. His stuff like that. That was some of my favorite stuff.

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Sorry. From the Beebles.

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Yeah.

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From the Beebles. I just love that. Oh my gosh. But uh, yeah, here's one of his his like first really big originals, I'd say. While my guitar gently weeps.

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Oh, love this. Great!

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Like a gentleman. See the love of that sleeping. Well like it all gently wheels at the floor, and that's it, need sweeping. Still like it all, gently we don't know Nobody tells me. I to run for your life. I don't know how someone controls you. If I saw you I look at the world, and I know this is turning. Why might guitar gently wheat? Where we mistake, we must show least be learning. Still my guitar, gently wheats. No one left it. See the love where that's sleeping. Why my guitar just weeps I look at you all Still my guitar, just to weep.

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And you know, we have our best conversations during this song. Julie comes over, Julie's like, Oh, I love the Beatles. And we were discussing on who the her who was her favorite. Her favorite was George, my favorite as well. Same as yours. I don't know why. I just like John. Maybe because And not to take this the wrong way, but he wasn't the prettiest of the four.

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No, he he wasn't even bad looking either, but no, I know what you mean.

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He's different.

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To me, George and John George and Paul are like pretty boys. John has like a long, thin nose and his like long face and these like piercing kind of eyes. Almost beady.

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Yeah, yeah, you're right.

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But not like yeah, no, I know what you mean. He he looks like the kind of guy you think he is, you know?

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Yeah.

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Tormented and artistic. We were just having a George Fangirl Club moment over here, but John um John is a really uh interesting person.

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They were extremely talented individuals.

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And they were flawed. John Lennon, you know, is pretty good known for his domestic abuse. He was a tormented guy and a time. And like I said, it's really sad that that's the only part of John Lennon we ever got to see. We never got to see him get better and improve and make a man.

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You know, I I know that John Hinckley comes up for parole all the time, but I think he never gets out.

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That's why I don't really have anything against Yokohono, because I I think I've said this before. Every time his parole comes up, he goes, I don't feel safe with him in the world. I don't feel safe with him and my kids being in the world. And they send him back into jail.

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Yeah, you know, we can probably do a show on his kids too. I mean, or at least Sean. Sean I know has got some recorded records after it.

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I've never really delved into that.

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Yeah, me neither. I I I don't I've not listened to any of his music, so that's something we could look at later on.

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We'll look at it during uh during this next song. Oh, okay. Sounds good. This one was your pick.

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Was it? Oh, I love this one.

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See, this one has a great opening riff. Ticket to ride.

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I think it's today. The girl that's driving me my head is going away. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care. Yeah. She would never be free when I was a ride. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride. But she don't care. Don't know why she riding so hard. Jonathan God, Jordan, right, by me. But she gets a send the bad. Jonathan black, jotta ride by me. I think it's today. Yeah. The girl that's driving me mad is going away. Yeah. Ah, she's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride. But she don't care. I don't know why she's riding so high. Jumping quite, jump to ride by me. But she gets to stay in the past. Jumping quite, jump to ride by me. She would never be free when I was a ride. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride. She's got a ticket to ride. But she don't care.

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You're listening to the wake up call on ninety point nine FM and one oh three point three FM, KSJE, Farmington, New Mexico.

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This is some exciting stuff, huh?

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Take in the easy we have.

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She's a big team. She's a bit less. She's a big team. She's a bit less.

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And was why it was on the radio at a KIQX in Durango, Colorado. And I delivered uh donuts to different businesses. And they would play name that tune with me on the phone as I was leaving the business, right?

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Okay.

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I had to guess the tune.

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Yeah.

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And Kristen, who is still there, she started this song, just the part. That was it. Yeah. That's all I needed. Yeah, exactly. Oh my gosh, it is that I got it. Something about driving around in the mountains with your top off. Not my top, the Jeep top.

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The Jeep top.

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Yeah, in the springtime. And that song blurring through the speakers is like. Yeah. Yeah, it was.

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Heavenly.

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Yeah. People gave me strange looks because I sang it at the top of my lungs driving down Main Street in Durango, Colorado.

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Those are no friends of yours. Yeah, no. If I saw somebody doing that, I'd be like, that's my personal. That's my tribe.

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I absolutely loved it. Alright, so we're doing a tribute to the Beatles. It's the KSJE Sunday morning wake-up call. I'm extremely excited to be on KSJE. I want to give a shout out to Scott McClin and his whole crew. They're nice bunch. So I'm not having you can't. We've decided we've got we've got to do this a two-parter.

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It is a two-parter.

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Maybe even a three. We'll see how it goes. How many, how many records did they have?

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They actually don't have that many. I think uh Yeah, but they're albums.

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Almost every song on an album that they produce.

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Oh, um, they have they have so many number one singles, they made a whole album out of it. Remember The Beatles one?

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No, I don't.

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No, you don't? Oh, that's all I've got. Oh, that's what you're getting ready to go.

SPEAKER_02 35:41

I love this song too. It has kind of the same riffs that we just listened to.

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You we we played your favorite opening riff. Now we're gonna play my favorite opening.

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Oh, it's close to the same.

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Yeah, it is. But if they're both good.

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Yeah, I'm ready. Let's let's do it. Let's do it. Right, wrong, or indifferent.

SPEAKER_09 36:13

You know she's happy as can be, you know she said so. I'm in love with her and I feel fine. Babe said she's mine, you know she tells me all the time, you know she said so. I'm in love with her and I feel fine. I'm so glad that she's my little girl. She's so glad, she's telling me. She's in love with me that I feel fine. You know what you tell me all the time, you know what you said so I'm in love with that I feel bad. I'm so glad that she's got a little girl. She is so glad you still fade if I'm the brain, you know it. If I'm a ring, you know she said so. She's in love with me and I feel fine. She's in love with me and I feel fine.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

Boy, you are one of the you you're like Johnny on the Rennie on the spot.

SPEAKER_04 38:13

Rennie on the spot. You used to call me that back in the day.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

I I know because I I I have had you couldn't count the number of sound engineers that I've had in my lifetime on two hands. And two feet.

SPEAKER_07 38:29

On your extremities.

SPEAKER_02 38:31

Couldn't count. No. Not enough. And I've had good ones. I've had some really good ones. And I I would I'm not afraid to say or ashamed to say that you were probably the best I had ever had. But now let me don't let that go to your head.

SPEAKER_04 38:47

The thing is it doesn't, but it always surprises me too, because I know how many.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

Well, here's the deal is that yes, you made mistakes, but you were like Rinny on the spot.

SPEAKER_04 38:58

Rinny on the spot. You know, if I made a mistake, it was very, very rare that I made it again.

SPEAKER_02 39:03

No, and very rare, and then you always fessed up because I would have I didn't do that. I'm like, well, I don't have the control to do it.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

Yeah, and then I'd be like, yeah, that was me.

SPEAKER_02 39:13

I'm sorry. But you were so and then I think I finally told you at one point, quit apologizing. You're doing great.

unknown 39:21

You're fine.

SPEAKER_04 39:23

You were always so nice to me. You you really helped me out with that job because you know, it's always been a dream to have a radio job, and uh you encouraged me when I felt like I wasn't doing good enough. And it made the di world a difference to hear that this is Rand the best board op I've ever had. I almost wanted to cry every time you said that. It made me so happy.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

Well, it's you know, I wouldn't say it unless it was true. And I've had good board ops, and I don't if any of you are listening, I love you too. Um but later on it just, I don't know, this your willingness to just go that extra step. And it wasn't just all about getting your paycheck and walking out the door. It was what I was making sure the show sounded good.

SPEAKER_04 40:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

Anybody that's trying to make me sound good, I'm gonna love you for I'm gonna love you long time.

SPEAKER_04 40:07

Yes, I'll make you look good, babe. And that goes for anybody who needs a board out.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

Folks, if you're looking for somebody to do sound engineering for you that makes you look good, trust me, uh, this is the lady.

SPEAKER_04 40:19

Ren Harris, yes. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

I will, oh, because you can email us at the general's wake-up call.

SPEAKER_04 40:24

Maybe it's with the performer in me, all the plays I do, but it's always about making the show good for the audience to me. Um, all the like petty drama that gets in the way, it's not about that. It's about uh the audience having a good show and the performers feeling good about themselves.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

Yeah, the final product.

SPEAKER_04 40:40

The final product.

SPEAKER_02 40:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:41

And I'm passionate.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

Yeah. Yes, I will give you that. You're very passionate. All right, we're doing a tribute to the petals here on uh Sunday morning, the Sunday morning wake up call on uh K SJE.

SPEAKER_04 40:53

Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_02 40:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:54

And uh did you know, Dave, do you know the the documentary series uh what's it called? The Beatles Anthology.

SPEAKER_02 41:03

I have heard of it, and I don't think I've watched it.

SPEAKER_04 41:07

I have I have the entire box set and I've watched it multiple times, really.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

Because I was a huge Beatles fan of movies. DVDs.

SPEAKER_04 41:15

It's DVDs, yeah. And it's actually really fun. It used to be my like uh I'm sick today, what do I put on? Beatles anthology movie. And it's from their perspective, so I'm sure it's biased, but uh yeah, I loved it, and always seeing how much time and energy they put into sound editing was a big deal to me.

SPEAKER_07 41:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:32

Because we take those the the leaps and bounds they made in the studio for granted, but they were just making stuff up as they go along.

SPEAKER_02 41:41

You know, it's funny because we were talking about Did you ever have a turntable when you were younger?

SPEAKER_07 41:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:49

Uh there's something about those 45s, those old 45s, and the in the not being digitized and just that crack and uh the crispness of the whole, the highs and the lows of just and the bass. Oh, and the Beatles had that dialed in. They had I I don't know if they had just a great sound engineering department, but they had the ear for that dial in.

SPEAKER_04 42:14

Why can't I remember their engineer's name right now? I'll look it up during this next song.

SPEAKER_02 42:18

But yeah, the same way I'm like, I know who that is, but I think he's a huge part of that documentary series, too.

SPEAKER_04 42:23

Oh, good. So like you get a lot of his perspective. Um for now we're gonna do uh we're gonna do another one of Dave's picks.

SPEAKER_02 42:31

Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. I'll just I'm I'm here I am on pins and needles.

SPEAKER_04 42:35

This is for all the people who want to change the world out there, who want a revolution.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_09 42:46

You say you want a revolution. Well you know, we all wanna change the world. You tell me that it's evolution, well you know We all wanna change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out? Don't you know it's gonna be alright? Alright Alright You say you got a real solution, well you know We don't love to see the plan Yes, we call the contribution Well you know

SPEAKER_05 44:00

We all do what we can But if you want money for people with minds that All I can tell you is bother yak Oh my no We don't want to change your tell me to Jill's John Wow No You better free your mind But if you go carrying pictures of Jamaica make it with anyone Oh somewhere in the black mining Hills of Dakota there lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon And one day his woman ran off with another guy Hitting young Rocky in the eye Rocky didn't like that He said I'm gonna get thy boy So one day he walked into town booked himself a room in the local saloon A Rocky Raccoon checked into his room only to find Gideon's Bible Rocky had come equipped with a gun to shoot off the legs of his rival His rival it seems Had broken his dreams by stealing the girl of his fancy Her name was McGill and she called herself Lil But everyone knew where as Nancy Now she and her man who called himself Dan were in the next room at the holdown A Rocky burst in and grinning a grin He said Danny boy this is a showdown But Daniel was hot he drew fast and short and Rocky collapsed in the corner doom Now the doctor came in Speaking of gin and proceeded to lie on the table He said a Rocky you make your match The Rocky said dark is only a scratch And I'll be better I'll be better dark as soon as I am able And now Rocky Roccoon He fell back in his room Only to find Gideon's Bible Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt to help with good Rocky's revival Oh yeah yeah come on rocky ball starkin I I'd like that so I I probably was not a fan of that, but yeah it's okay.

SPEAKER_04 49:33

Yeah the What's the message? The message is that Rocky Raccoon fell back in his room only to find Gideon's Bible. And Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt to help with good Rocky's revival. I think it's about don't do stupid things out of revenge because you have your whole life ahead of you.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

Oh good Oh wow, that's deep. You know, a lot of their music was extremely deep.

SPEAKER_04 49:57

I completely agree. Some of it was just like uh really heightened um basic ideas like Helter Skelter, which some people cite is one of the earliest examples of heavy metal. It's just about a slide. It's just about sliding down a slide. Yeah, but the white album is full of weird songs like that.

SPEAKER_02 50:15

It is. Oh, the white album. Let me just say I had an original master vinyl recording of the white album.

SPEAKER_04 50:25

I would kill for one of those.

SPEAKER_02 50:26

I lost it in divorce. Well, apparently my ex I lost it in divorce.

SPEAKER_04 50:30

Oh, she better be taking care of it.

unknown 50:33

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 50:34

She better have it in a like air-conditioned box.

SPEAKER_02 50:37

It was in it, you know, and I had in those days, in those early days, I had uh the old stereo systems before your time, you know, they were they stood about four foot tall, they were like a foot and a half wide or two foot wide, and you had like an equalizer that was a 32-channel equalizer, and you had a preamp and you had an amp, and you had it was a it was a whole hobby almost. Yes, it was. And then I had speakers the size of our kitchen table that we carted all over the country because I was a store manager for Sears at the time. Yeah. So I got transferred everywhere, you know, and I was like had to really keep an eye on those used to get so irritated with me, but I had thousands of dollars tied up in that equipment.

SPEAKER_04 51:20

What is it about? Okay, because my dad was obsessed with speakers too, but his thing was home theater. So he had a million jillion speakers. So I understand how expensive and fragile they can be. So I know where you're coming from. But what is it? What is it about men and their speakers? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 51:36

I I don't know. But I do know I always loved it when the when the wife and kid was gone, because I just had the one at the time. Because I would just go in there and crank that thing as loud. The neighbors could hear. I would have them knocking on the door going, Hey, can we come in? They weren't complaining, they just wanted to come and listen. Yeah, look, turn it off. Exactly. The cutest video that I have, and I haven't been able to find it for a while, is when my daughter was all, my oldest was all of about maybe a year, barely walking. Cute little red frilly dress on and the big booty diaper cover, you know. And you know, so she always danced in front of it. Well, I had and it had a glass cover door, and I had had it open, and she walked over there and accidentally turned it up. Scared the snot. I mean, she turned it up to where I listened to it at, you know. Yeah. Scared the snot out of her. But she still, a couple of days later, she was right back in front doing that butt bounce in front of it.

SPEAKER_04 52:28

One day she will want her music to be that loud, too. Or well, I mean, I'm sure she's more than adult now, but Oh yeah, yeah, she's older than you, Ren. We we all get to the teen phase and that's where we want to blare it.

SPEAKER_02 52:39

Yeah, she's 40 something now. That's when she was one. That was 39 years old.

SPEAKER_04 52:42

That was a while ago. Yeah. That's adorable.

SPEAKER_02 52:45

Well, I'm loving this Beatles thing, so we're gonna have to do it again. And I'm thinking we'll do it in a in a in a a two-parter, maybe even a I don't know, we might have to do three, but I'm thinking maybe next show because we had a great conversation about Elvis and the Beatles.

SPEAKER_04 53:01

They heavily influenced or he heavily heavily influenced them.

SPEAKER_02 53:05

I was gonna say, he, yeah, some people have said they thought it was the other way around, but it's not. Elvis came along first.

SPEAKER_04 53:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 53:11

And he really was influenced. Uh or the Beatles were really influenced by him.

SPEAKER_04 53:16

Yeah, and the Beatles, I will say, they have a lot of influences that they are very excited to talk about. So I think I would like to talk about more of that in part two.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 53:25

Chuck Barry, the Isley brothers.

SPEAKER_02 53:28

Yeah, Chuck Berry was a big, big uh influence for them as well.

SPEAKER_04 53:31

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:32

And and you know, that's another there's another show right there, Chuck Barry. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 53:39

So they would only play to mixed race audiences, where blacks and whites.

SPEAKER_02 53:43

God bless them, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:44

Yeah, the Beatles played.

SPEAKER_02 53:45

Because back in that day, that was tough, man.

SPEAKER_04 53:47

It was a little different in England too, if I remember correctly. Like the culture I mean, you know, every country has its trouble with prejudice, but as far as I know, England I don't know. It wasn't the same back then as it was in America.

SPEAKER_02 53:58

Right.

SPEAKER_04 54:00

As it was in England.

SPEAKER_02 54:00

Right. From what I understand, next to uh not Australia, but Africa is where it was worse in America. That separation, that black and white separate. The apartheid, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:10

That was a big that was a big issue when they were I think I think they performed in South Africa. I might I'll have to check for part two. Let me do my research. I'll watch the documentary series again.

SPEAKER_02 54:22

Alright, so what do you got up next? Oh we're about out of time. I want I you know, there's so many more I want to do.

SPEAKER_04 54:28

This was one that it uh another my absolute favorite. Uh it's a little bit longer, so I don't want to start it too late, but a day in the life, baby.

SPEAKER_02 54:36

Oh, this is a great one.

SPEAKER_04 54:37

Does it even need an introduction?

SPEAKER_02 54:39

No. No, just shelter for it.

SPEAKER_04 54:42

Just the appropriate applause it deserves.

SPEAKER_02 54:44

There you go.

SPEAKER_09 54:53

I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who made the grave. And though the news was rather sad. Well, I just had to laugh. I saw the photograph. He blew his mind out in a calm. He didn't notice that the lights had changed. A crowd of people stood in the stair. They'd seen his face before. Nobody was really sure he was on the house. I saw a fulfillment today, oh boy. The English army had just won the war. The crowd of people turned away. But I just had to look having a red love.

SPEAKER_06 57:08

On the way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Find my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus and take on this flat. On the way up the stairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke, and I went into a dream.

SPEAKER_09 58:18

I don't know how many holes it takes to fill it out.

SPEAKER_02 59:58

I have to tell a story about that record because when my wife was home, I didn't play uh the records high. I didn't play my kick ass stereo very high.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:09

But that would be playing, and she goes, What's wrong with your record? Honey, I'm sorry, you just don't understand.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:16

You wouldn't understand the Beatles and their sense of humor. They're pranking you all these years later. Then we'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:23

Yeah, and I think for the next show, let's we'll dwell in a little bit further into their drug days.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:28

Also, let's start, we'll do about the beginning days. But for the next show, for our next show though, I do think let's dive off into Elvis. Because he's kind of he's kind of in the news. He's got a new movie out. Got a new movie. Well, he doesn't, but his family does.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:44

And he has a conspiracy around him, too, that he never died. Yeah. He's still running around.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:48

I don't think he has. And the reason I don't is because the his the name on his gravesite is not spelled correctly. I've been there.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:56

You've been in his house.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:58

I've been in his house.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:59

Break the break it to us straight, Dave. You you broke into one of the rooms at Graceland and saw Elvis.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:04

No, no, that I can't say. But they won't let you go upstairs. You can only stay downstairs.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:08

Because Elvis is up there eating cereal.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:10

I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:13

Yeah, and we'll get all into that in the Elvis show.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:16

In the next show. Alright, Ren. Well, listen, thank you. Uh appreciate you very much.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:20

Appreciate you.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:21

Have a great uh rest of your week, and we'll see you next week. And we're uh on KSJE, the Sunday morning wake-up call with Ren and David. And Stumpy.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:33

And Stumpy.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:35

Dumpy.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:36

Ren and Dumpy and Lumpy.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:39

Well, shoot. Over already? No need to panic. Ren and David will be back next week. Same WUC time, same WUC station. All right, I gotta say, all rights reserved. For K SJ E and W C. I'm Zeb McCluskey. And until next time. Excellent. Do each other.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:00

Are we going to clean it up?