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In this episode of the Worst of the Best Podcast, hosts Ryan and Ruban dive into the top 20 best-selling artists of all time, from Van Halen to The Beatles. With 20 minutes of laughs, music memories, and hot takes, we’re picking the worst of these chart-topping legends.
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Join host Ryan Rebalkin and his rotating guest hosts on The Worst of the Best Podcast, where they dive into the flaws of the best in pop culture and more. Covering genres like films, music, food, true crime, historical events, celebrity culture, and quirky societal trends, this podcast delivers a humorous, irreverent critique of the finest’s shortcomings.
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welcome to the worst of the best podcast
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you wanted the best well they didn't
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freak him naked
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so here's what you get from Canada Ryan
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and Reuben
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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hey welcome to the worst of the best
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podcast I am your host Ryan and same
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over here except Rubin ribbon he's the
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other host welcome to the show we're
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really excited about this one because
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Rubin and I love music love it and when
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you love music you're gonna love a lot
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of different bands a lot of different
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artists sure yeah and Reuben you haven't
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seen this list yet have you no I have
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not you're at the wrong I just as fall
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in mine I click on the link just follow
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my closure screen just follow your your
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older brother okay here we go you ready
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yes am it's never got a cute up here for
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the top 20 so what we're doing today hey
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I guess we're not gonna go to the top
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100 no no no you know why cuz this is
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the worst of the best and we're just
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going out for the best look for the best
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so we are going to choose who is the
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worst from the top 20 best-selling
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artists and/or bad in the world and in
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history sure for those new to the show
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we don't decided what the best is
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usually maybe ticket sales or album
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sales or Moo ticket whatever that will
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decide what's the best we just say what
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is the worst of that best that's right
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and we try to keep the episode to a
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quick pace be done in about 20 minutes
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and so we're gonna top 20 top 20 spend a
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minute on each one sure of Van Halen Van
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Halen I've seen Ben Halen once live and
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then also the Sammy and Dave tour okay
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so did you see van Hagar no no I saw van
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Halen with Diamond Dave we saw it
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together 2006 did we see that Shore
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together yeah okay okay yeah it's coming
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back to me now yes I've seen Diamond
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Dave with Van Halen twice myself as well
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okay so I've seen Diamond Dave with Van
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Halen once and then the Sammy and Dave
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tour okay with you as well yes I saw the
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Sammy Dave tour with you so we saw Gary
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Cherone didn't open up any other three
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things available on iTunes stuff okay
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but it's not on streaming really okay
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you and I are both fans of Van Halen oh
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so he just kind of gives it away sure
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well yeah I am huge fans but it doesn't
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mean they might they still could be the
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worst yes they could assure that yeah
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there's nine together
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the best yeah there's 19 artists who are
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the top 20 there oh
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he's gotta be late fifties early sixties
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you know Sammy 70 yeah I know well
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diamond doesn't sing the way he used to
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he never was the singer he's a performer
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hits a frontman he's just and he's
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fantastic you know he does the dance
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worse the crowd does a twirly twirl
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yeah he's not Frank Sinatra you're not
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going there to watch he's dying with
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Dave I love him yeah it should be noted
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here that now that Roth is back that
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they haven't released a new album since
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2012 different kind of truth which would
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had David Lee Roth on it it's a great
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heavy rock oh boy it is okay you know
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what I wasn't it okay I don't know it
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right my son's love it my other sons
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love it good night interesting just bare
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old yeah I it's true it's harder for us
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again because it's time energy to listen
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to music where my boys who are teenagers
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are once 20 now but definitely dude they
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listen to musical I remember like living
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papers and listening to one Jon Bon Jovi
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solo album yeah cuz he had time let me
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what time I had the times yes into
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anyways Whitney Houston number 19 oh
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we've got Sammy elbows I sold sorry one
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sec 165 million thing was worse no six
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five million fifty six point five
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million records not too bad not too
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shabby I'm surprised they look that low
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that's pretty good though it all was
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amazing so Whitney Houston so when he
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used to beat them just by half a million
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I'm surprised she's not hired well she's
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doing pretty hard she has been pretty
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high yeah I thought she'd be higher
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know her crew is kind of you know down
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the drain
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yeah it's really kind of sunk to a new
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low it's hard to get your voice out
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there when you're just drowning in and
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everything else Jeepers Creepers
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[Laughter]
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Waiting to Exhale yeah I got that oh
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yeah she's waiting exhale okay all right
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well yeah I mean she exhaled and anyways
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much like Bobby Brown yeah her life is
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got a pretty poopy so we need a very
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popular The Bodyguard single which is
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fine if her biggest single was a cover
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song my dolly partner wow I'm Dalene you
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off there enough to pay for another boob
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job all right okay are you all right my
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foot yeah they're natural I apologize I
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apologize
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Metallica coming in at number 18
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Metallica comes in at number 18 that's
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number meeting him that's right rib and
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I met Rob truly old and heard their
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bassist for the last two albums we saw
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Megadeth and suicidal tendencies lie the
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1993 great show I
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love that show suicidal tendencies with
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I will say with their gold team lineup a
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very deep Dicky I Ament know if any of
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our listeners know who's suicidal is but
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you had a mic mirror rocky rocky George
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truly Oh Mike Clark and I forgot the
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drummer always forget the drummer anyway
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so truly so we the tour bus was leaving
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the show after the show's over so we
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were in a little crappy car and I was
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driving yeah and I was like let's follow
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this tour bus or not we thought it was
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negative we did but lo and behold it was
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suicidal tendencies and they signed our
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ticket stubs everything that really cool
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I remember truly was signing my ticket
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yeah it was so cool yeah that's so cool
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so the tackle we're big fans I've seen
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Metallica live six times Wow yeah twice
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it amazed me just three okay last tour I
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mean yeah and we actually have on or
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worst of the best episode the good
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Metallica fan go check out that episode
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where we covered our latest time seeing
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them all right probably not gonna make
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the worst list yeah Mariah Carey she's
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got a healthy set of lungs one time I
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bought one of problems by accident well
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I wasn't bought up I had it and I
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remember I somehow got into it and I had
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it cranked a little high like in the car
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stereo and I was driving down University
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Heights parking lot and someone's like
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hey
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somebody's laughing at me and and do you
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know what they're right yeah but I had
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that moment of like you know enjoying
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the jam sure so Brian she beat Metallica
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by a little bit thereby 1 million copies
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64 million she's a pop princess who rose
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to fame thinks a large part to MTV of
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course sure she's the singer that gets a
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really high squealy pitched voice yeah I
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think it's due to her healthy set of
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lungs that she's able to get that
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high-pitched voice out there it's a very
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buoyant voice
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keeps the audience afloat
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you know what I love about her
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now look at this picture of Madge before
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I know we all have to get older I'm just
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gonna say it's not sorry because we've
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talked about this in our previous
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episodes this is what plastic surgery
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makes you look like and that's all I'm
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sorry like she's done worse for him boy
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she's got butt implants what is she
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doing she's literally 60 something she's
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if she says she's 60 and I gotta say as
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like this is a human I felt bad for her
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I know and that's what I got some type
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of body dysmorphia to think that somehow
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that this is important improvement
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that's weird to me I will say and I mean
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this with no misogynistic whatever you
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know is I'm so afraid the same thing
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nowadays the today's society but she was
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extremely
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attractive and sexy in there in her like
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from 1808 eighteen to forty five I was
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saying how long mirror yeah this
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beautiful how Mirren she's 72 Rail
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Street with its membership it's a lovely
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woman and these are people that don't
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touch their face though maybe they need
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a little bit lift here some but
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something very but when you get plastic
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surgery you don't look like I don't know
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what I'm looking at yeah anyways I feel
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bad anyway so Cofer Bruce bracing boss
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he's the boss I losing them once I've
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only see them once to during the rise
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into her yeah great to her great show
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again if you want to go back on a
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previous episode Ruben I cover episode
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we're dedicated to the boss Bruce
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Springsteen yeah keeps going by too fast
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six five and a half million Netflix
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special I have watched the first 20
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minutes it's two and a half hours long
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so I got to watch the kind of a
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piecemeal with the kids I just want to
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do one thing I understand is why I
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haven't watched it two and a half hours
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you had a car boat I know I was really
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cool a real sleep so he's got sixty five
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and a half million copies different yeah
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not too bad not too bad for an old guy
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yeah he's got plugs yeah I prefer if you
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didn't get plugs yeah that's not his
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real hair you always could tell that the
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hair line looks we're yeah it's just in
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this line that goes across love them but
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we're calling you out Bruce Aerosmith
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I've seen them think four times I've
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seen them three times I'm sorry 66 and a
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half million again if you want to listen
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to our previous episode we cover an
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Aerosmith episode on the worst of us yes
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no I've just seen three okay we
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mentioned on that shows we'll save it
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for that show you won't wash that
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they've had a career kind of like rocky
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they get knocked down to come back they
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can knock down they come back they fight
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like a few different comebacks and
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they're doing a Vegas great Vegas
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Regency I think the rest here a few
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presidencies thank you yeah I think they
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do that this year good yep the Rolling
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Stones there were all our stuff are you
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doing the top ten no that'd be some like
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some pop after that well good for them
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that's in there not officially retired
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yet are they no no though they're still
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warm it's crazy yeah fifty years plus
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well mix got like nine kids he's had a
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kid he has kids younger than our kids
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huh yeah that's weird good for him I
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hope he has enough money to take care of
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him Barbra Streisand Babs does she work
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for douchebags none kind of funny
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watching us some show with my wife a dry
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clean the Barbra Streisand comes out
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right of course yeah she's decent the
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drag queen is
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why they doing that I mean Lee why they
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were using her as a singer well they she
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was tricked faith didn't know that my
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wife did not know that Barbra Streisand
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was singer so I know that she's acting
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and it was and was the interviewer she
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got confused with Barbara Walters and
10:32
Barbra Streisand oh but didn't know that
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she was a real singer who's prettier
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Barbara Walters or Barbra Streisand
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Australians yeah oh please she was in
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that movie the star is born and the
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remake that we have today it's really
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good so yeah she's got 60s other
10:48
roommate what you think I loved half but
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what didn't you like
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well Portage Lake this is feeling
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sentimental and I just think how want a
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better ending yeah there's nothing
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hanging a little too much the end yeah I
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really leaves he hanging at the end
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George Strait Wow 69 million copies wow
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I did not know that he had launched his
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career in the early 1980s it's really
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that's no no it's not too long not too
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long ago so 69 million boy country music
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is popular yeah it's something I've
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never really got into other than buying
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down both Chattahoochee Alan Jackson
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about Alan Jackson Evelyn oh wow I
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enjoyed it and that was it so George
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good job ac/dc ac/dc 72 we saw the life
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I've seen life twice you and I though
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yeah we're up in the wreck the press
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rafters the catwalk on the out of the
11:37
audience it was like ricky be up there
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hi remember that yeah I remember it was
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weird sure excuse me you know you know
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it's a good episode movie on it I have a
11:48
father your father called a we got a
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record a night yeah ac/dc and this is
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summary ace DC fans we got a dude an
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ac/dc ups on by the way that picture
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there is with x-factor Oh actually see
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yeah so some of our listeners who are AC
12:02
AC DC fans might be upset with this but
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I'm Soviet I thought you did a great job
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well he did duper don't ya Pink Floyd 75
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million copies amazing they're Moody
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psychedelic and progressive music pink
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floyd rose to fame of the 70s van
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released fifteen albums I don't know it
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was that many one of those studio or not
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or that's crazy what's your favorite
12:23
Pink Floyd album the one with the prism
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I have never listened to an album all
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with you know neither why I've missed
12:31
the boat it's pretty what happen
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sometimes so I actually can't speak to
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them and I can't speak to George Strait
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either she made it clear I'm probably
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almost I'm I'm just this much more
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familiar with Pink Floyd as I am to
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George Strait music I know you know
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brick on the wall oh yes then fishbowl
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there's just two souls swimming in a
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fish bowl wish you were here wish you
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were here that's that song I think oh
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that's a line from that song okay so I
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could probably listen to four or five
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songs and think ah that's how I know who
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they are but I don't know them I just
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don't it's not a Cylon them I just my
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universe is never connected to them yeah
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so I don't think I can put them in my
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worst because I don't know enough about
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her yeah we don't know we're not gonna
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judge them yeah you can't judge you if
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we don't know you but I know we
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definitely like I know them as well as I
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know George Strait so I'm say minus five
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songs okay they seem very happy here
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yeah very uh oh yeah point elegant job
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speaking of boys speaking of very happy
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Alton John 77 million I love Elton yes I
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think was on my bucket list of people
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with a seat and I thought that I saw him
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not before he died but he's done touring
13:38
he's just doing a couple venues that he
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likes to play after that's it his hair
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well who ever owned he is he owns it now
13:45
yeah what about that costume
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it looks pretty good it's the best buddy
13:51
can buy if you didn't know you wouldn't
13:52
know now those his sideburns well those
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are his right there you see that put the
13:57
mouse right there this part here that's
13:59
his that's not so this part here so if
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you think oh yeah ffs is down there
14:04
let's pour a plan so you see oh this
14:05
here could be yeah I know I promise you
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oh yeah look at that hey if you want to
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see me in a two page just googled the
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Rubin show that's right Rubin show
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toupee I got one fitted for the show is
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kind of funny number seven I
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was watching this is it with with my
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girls Dylan mate oh wow it was fun to
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watch Michael Jackson amazing performer
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yeah he died in 2009 that was 10 years
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ago wow so 10 years already so you'd be
14:35
60 is 60 something now 60 60 yes Donna
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Wow I wonder what Michael look like
14:42
right now it's almost better that he
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died
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what incredible talent incredible talent
14:51
just another individual who's a genius
14:53
musically but boys might his life was
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tragic tragic childhood abused but in
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there was genius a musical performer
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genius you know what just kind of weird
15:03
because it just kind of happened to him
15:06
use this born to the family you go yeah
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just kind of fell on his lap DNA and
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luck hopefully no kids fell in his lap
15:13
you know I read about that recently well
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I've been on the fence kind of here and
15:18
there and now I totally but he is
15:21
innocent okay if he did if he if he did
15:24
some reading on it not like conspiracy
15:25
theory real reading on it he was bugged
15:29
followed bones tapped for 10 years solid
15:33
nothing came up from the State Police
15:37
the federal the FBI okay for 10 years
15:41
followed him right nothing okay alright
15:45
there's there's no evidence there was
15:47
just an accusation which was very murky
15:49
and think about nobody says he's died
15:52
has ever said anything yeah that's true
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that's true let's go play yeah forget
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about that now's the time to sign a room
15:58
in a way cuz ya know it's just a weird
16:01
guy in musical genius okay fair enough I
16:03
like it Billy Joel 82 and a half million
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like we're going to the big guns here
16:08
this is incredible amount of sales he
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beat Michael you know where he beat out
16:12
the John they're gonna Michael Jackson
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that's crazy he said 30 top 40 hits
16:18
and he can sell where he goes did he
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retire officially or no no he does a lot
16:22
of masters for garden shows it's amazing
16:24
yeah I like him I like him do have you
16:28
were ready to be working with them yeah
16:30
he's very entertaining yes well he's a
16:32
performer yeah a really good movie to
16:35
watch some Netflix is called it's a
16:38
puzzle backup pants okay yeah yeah yeah
16:40
anyways it's related okay what a jump
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number five the Eagles 86 million for
16:47
Billy why don't one for the Eagles
16:49
amazing that much money that is weird
16:51
people have a whole wish they had a
16:53
whole career of right there in between
16:55
that jump I'm not that familiar with her
16:58
music Beyonce with the Eagles I'm where
16:59
we agree to set sky sure I think that
17:01
was one of their bigger selling albums
17:02
what's the create I think the basis is
17:04
largest line element in the world yeah
17:06
all right which one's dawn there he is
17:09
yeah Wow look at that hair amazing
17:13
that's all real all right all their hair
17:15
is real here if you think he's high
17:21
yeah he might be sober yeah yeah Led
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Zeppelin Led Zeppelin number four one
17:27
hundred and eleven and a half million
17:29
little more just that much more boy it's
17:31
oppressive it's a lot of records sold
17:34
and they were only around like a decade
17:37
it seems into 70s yeah I had wanna know
17:39
you know alternate universe what would
17:41
happen if they didn't break up you have
17:43
gone yeah die I want to think would have
17:46
last longer have job on not died I
17:48
really hope the band I think the first
17:49
album since 69 which critics savaged
17:53
barely well increasingly new Elvis this
17:56
game is he really that high up there 136
17:59
million the king truly the king who's
18:03
more than this well you'll know when you
18:04
see it come on think about it for a
18:06
second right now I'm drawing a blank
18:08
okay oh okay you'll kick yourself oh you
18:10
see number one Wow wait I know what
18:13
you're gonna be like you can't believe
18:14
what you see number two is gonna blow
18:16
your mind number one you should be like
18:17
Oh course you've done Madonna so all the
18:20
Beatles yeah yeah well we could garth of
18:24
course Garth Brooks is number two
18:26
hundred yeah
18:28
I'm surprised I'm surprised by this and
18:32
you forget him who number one would be
18:34
140 million records sold
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see he's kind of lucky because his
18:40
audience is the type of bias right so he
18:43
didn't get savage by Napster I guess
18:46
your this is an album now there's still
18:49
people will actually go by via as albums
18:52
such a weird country started right
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through the states haven't you people
18:55
buy other albums at gas stations and
18:57
Walmart's that's true yeah I hear you
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and lassie Dorothy yeah it'll Sabido 170
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no that's a huge jump yeah how much was
19:05
birth thing is forty-eight watching 30
19:08
million more The Beatles are gone crazy
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and the Beatles weren't around that long
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no it was like one decade yeah that's it
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bands go a whole decade without
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releasing an album yeah so ribbond who's
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your worst pick match out of the I would
19:26
see yeah I've like some her stuff though
19:29
you know I like ray of light really it's
19:33
a great
19:34
version the music was music and relate
19:37
to see him out for tune of her no missus
19:39
different album it's a good music really
19:41
I have I actually enjoyed those early
19:42
nineties albums or label that's a late
19:44
late 2008 to the early 2000s yeah uh I
19:47
would almost have to say the I would
19:51
have to pick something but that
19:52
illegitimate have listened to fall and
19:54
even bought their CDs and I bought her
19:55
see so I think out of all those artists
19:57
that she's my lease she's the worst it's
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not it's so far just the plastic surgery
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no no no no and the other ones an Eagles
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I've never bought an albums I can't I've
20:08
bought Billy Joel yeah I I can't do the
20:11
country stores I've never bought their
20:12
albums I've bought every Michael Jackson
20:14
album so Elton John I bought music of
20:16
and enjoyed Pink Floyd I can't speak to
20:18
so yeah I'm gonna
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I'm just of all the 20 artists the ones
20:23
that I bought out was for or seen in the
20:25
concert she is one that could go the
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rest of my life let her listening to
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again she's gone from being interesting
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to annoying yeah that's true like I
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might interested to hear her sing
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anything no I I could care less yeah
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yeah too bad it's too bad it is too bad
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alright well I remember in front of
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every cloud know I do this wrong every
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time remember I'm remembering in front
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of every silver lining yes there's a
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cloud now we're here to help you find it
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thanks for listening and yeah but don't
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know you're the worst you're the worst
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Madonna sorry
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