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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome walk Welcome. It's time

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now for our community connection right here
on K one, the one you trust.

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And we've got a couple of very
special guests in the studio. I

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have Chris Coffin, who's a producer, a producer and listener. I've almost

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conflated the two words there. And
we have a legend in here. We've

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had Morris McCorvey in here before.
But Morris, it's great to have you

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back in the studio. How are
you today? Great to be back.

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Well, we got we got a
lot to celebrate here. We've got a

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new record coming out and we're gonna
we're gonna kind of set the tone here.

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We're gonna play this a little bit
of a musical party from the record

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right now, and then when Morris
comes in. Morris, you've got a

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thing, uh poetry, but it's
poetry all your own. Explain what your

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poetry is, Well, it's my
poetry. And using quotes from other poets,

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Dylan, I think you have on
this one in the way that jazz

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musicians quote other musicians they're playing.
Yeah, so you combine the hole boetry.

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Yeah, Yeah, let's play a
little clip of that here, real

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quick broken lines, broken strings,
broken threads, broken springs, broken idols,

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broken heads, people sleeping in dead, broken beads. Ain't no use

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jazz us joking. This is a
great collection that you've got to put together

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here, Thank you. Sounds like
you just had a lot of fun with

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this, so you get to you
get to think it's a lot of work,

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but it's also like a lot of
fun at the same time. A

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lot of work, a lot of
fun with both the same thing, yeah

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for me, and a lot of
magic. A lot of magic. I

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guess that some of that magic is
is Chris and Chris you're you're producing for

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very special record. Yeah it is. It is a very special record.

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You know. We started this about
four years ago and Morris brought over some

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records of you know, Dylan Thomas
and Robert Frost actually reading their poetry,

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and I'm like, hey, what
why don't we do why don't we do

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some of this? You know,
we had some YouTube we had some YouTube

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videos of his poetry and you know
Morris's poetry. Is it just seemed you

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know, even though it's accessible Internet, you know, YouTube videos accessible,

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this lends itself to something a little
more special, a little more permanent,

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and so I was like, you
know, let's let's let's let's do this

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record, you know. And we
had some really great friends, Donnie and

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Bridget would yeah, and they lent
their their studio and Red Cat Studios in

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great dog listening room, which is
special specially you know. Yeah, yeah,

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cats and dogs. Well they got
along that night. But so we

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have some of that night that we
recorded there and then some of uh I

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would say about hop the record is
recorded there, just live and some magic

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was captured. And then the other
half is things that Morse came over and

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we just recorded and it has some
uh conflict, uh complaint, how would

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I say it? Some music behind
his uh some soundscapes behind his poetry that

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lend lends itself to it really well. So Morris, you like performing live?

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Yes, I like to be alive. Performing live a little bit tricky.

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Yeah, recording is pretty good though, and I like to record.

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I like performing live because as feedback
from the audience that lends itself to the

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performance, you know, it becomes
a oneness that emphasizes the oneness that we

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all are. It always takes to
the art a little bit higher when there

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are people in sympathy with you and
empathy with you while you're doing it.

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So, yeah, I did it. You know, you do feel that

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they call it feeding off the audience, while the audience feeds off you and

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it becomes a very powerful sharing experience. Yes, and there's an exhilaration there

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that you really can't define, but
it's there. Now. Going into the

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studio and recording, you know,
that had to be a kind of fun

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too, a lot of fun because
we're working on a jam session and you

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have a lot of talented musicians,
a lot of talented technicians, a lot

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of talent in the room and they're
lightning flashing all the time, you know,

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so you have to find some partico
agreement and work together. And that's

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a beautiful thing too. Wow,
now I understand we're putting this on vinyl

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Fylly. Yeah wow. Now,
Morrison and I were talking a little bit

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about how vinyl feels just a little
bit. Maybe it's because we're so used

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to it. Yeah, yeah,
sure. But the thing is, you

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can read liner notes, you can
read more about the artists, you can

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tell the musicians who performed, and
just a variety of everything with as you

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said too, you have the intention
of listening, not just putting something more.

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Yeah, that's right, Yeah,
we had you know, you can't

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delete it. No, you can't
lose it on your hard drive. No

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you can't. You remember the r
l of you know where to go to

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listen to to it. So yeah, once you have it, it's yours.

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So yeah, and this one has
uh is packaged in art. Yeah,

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it is includes gallery worthy uh by
Julie Elkins and Andy Andy Andy do

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Andy Dawson's photographs. Yeah yeah,
sure right. So yeah, so we

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have a photography that was captured that
day by Andy uh Andy do it and

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Jerine Elkins did the line work on
top of a very both talented artists here

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in Bartlesville. And we'll have this
printed up on the story on the internet

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to can please continue? Oh yeah
yeah, so yeah, they both worked

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on the art about So we wanted
to have this as a community, the

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community of artist. More said,
you know, let's not just make it

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about just the two of us putting
things together. Let's let's get the whole

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about it. Let's get the whole
community involved. And so we had some

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really talented musicians Chris Christopher, Papa
Foster and Tulsa and his crew, Dream's

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husband, Zach Elkin's saxophonist. Anyway, to a lot of people out here

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there that really made this happen,
may have pulled it together. So really

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probas that video. Oh yeah,
the videographer. Yeah we had yeah video.

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So yeah, we do have some
videos out there of the session.

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So yeah, any Lake, she
did the video that you actually see.

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It's actually on Kickstarter, so how
we're actually promoting this. It's a pre

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order, but it's on Kickstarter.
So if you go to kickstarter dot com

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and just type in Hoe Poetry so
h O B O E t R Y,

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you're going to find find the Kickstarter
and you can actually pre order it

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there. So for one record,
I think it's a there's different tiers,

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but for one record's twenty eight dollars
go out there. And yes, it

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helped support and that was a magic
I was talking about in the studio.

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We had Annie, and we had
Andy, we had Chris, we had

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Chris, we had everybody was doing
their thing at the same time, you

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know, and that's what the lightning
was flashing. You know. It was

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much more than my poetry ever would
have been all on its own. So

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it was a beautiful experience. Where
did you get the idea to mix your

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poetry with great music? I mean, where where did that come about?

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Well, you know, I've morew
up in Oklahoma City, near Deep Deep

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Deuce, and uh, I got
jazz in my blood. My poetry comes

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out of jazz, oh okay,
And so jamming was what I wanted to

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do. I just wanted to get
together with some good musicians and jam you

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know, uh eras and all.
And then I got lucky and got Chris,

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you know, willing to be involved
with me. And we'd been working

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on to record a poetry for a
few years anyway, and uh it just

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became something more than just a bunch
of ragged jamming, you know. Uh,

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let's tell le let's talk about Danny
too, right. So, yeah,

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my cousin Danny. I'd been playing
with him for many, many years

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back in in the s in the
city. You know, we used to

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hang around down on Deep Douce and
hang around and join some this and at

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the back to the jazz musicians who
would come in after playing dances downtown and

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just get together and play whatever.
Wow, you know, and they had

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battles and and it was uh,
you know, there was no mistakes because

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what you played next made what you
just played correct, and that it was

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the whole spirit of Jamin. You
know. That really had to be like

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magic, you know for a young
guy seeing all these people who were playing

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the big bandstands and just all of
a sudden they get back and there get

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real with each other and just having
fun cutting lows. Yeah, it was

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crazy because as a kid, I
was I was putting words in where they

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were improvising and and the elders usually
tell me there are no lyrics there,

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and the lyrics there, but I
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So this is an opportunity for me
to be an instrument among the instruments and

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to get some of those words out
of me. And Chris you capture that

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in the audio recordings and uh you
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whole, that whole well yeah,
yeah, absolutely, you know we're where

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he's talking about filonious monk and uh
and so that's big stuff. Yeah,

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yeah, Miles Davis. So I
listened to those records intensively and just listen

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to the production, you know,
on the production side of things, and

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so I'm like, Okay, let's
try to match up. And so I

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think we got pretty close to it. Yeah, And see, that was

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the thing about the Bob Dylan thing. Miles might be playing anything, he

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would quote any other musician, any
other song, you know, And that's

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how Bob just spontaneously came in there, and a couple of other quotes from

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poets you know. But that's what
jazz musicians you do. They play music,

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and if the music happens to have
been played by someone else, you

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know, it just goes into the
jam. And that's why they call it

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jams. Yeah, it's all jam
in there. Yeah. One thing I

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would also like to say about the
record. You'll see whenever you have the

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record that there's lots of QR codes
there, so they're definitely online content.

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It's kind of a mismash of you
know, your your vinyl old type of

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experience in some of the new stuff. So we do have a channel that

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just has all of Morse's poetry on
it that's not on the vinyl. So

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whenever you scan that QR code,
you'll be able to go to that channel

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see everything. It's kind of like
a menu. Oh yeah, yeah,

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and we have a QR code of
you know what the album's about. We

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have a QURA code for the photography
that was taken that day by Andy,

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and it'll be all on that vine
and you could click on you know,

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scan your phone, go through it
and look at it all. So it's

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all interactive, it's not just with
perfect encapsulation. Well, this is really

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a great project and I'm looking forward
to get my copy. So you go

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to the Kickstarter or just use a
QR code. QR code on that Yeah,

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QR code on that post. They
can take you there. We're going

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to post this in a news story
a little bit later this afternoon, So

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if you're looking for a u R
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get out the camera. It'll it'll
take you there. Yeah, it'll take

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you. And if you don't know
how to do that, get your grandkids

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because they know how. That's right. Yeah, no shame in that,

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No shame in that. Bob over
here, Susie over here. Oh there

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we go. We got it,
absolutely got record. This is really a

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tremendous undertaking and just just seems like
a labor of love but also a labor

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of fun. Yes, the definition
of spontaneous spontaneity, you know, which

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takes away some of the onus of
labor and the definition once again of what

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can happen when when people get together
and uh and share lovingly and get that

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feedback from an audience. You know, that is just astounded, you know

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what was going on. You know, we we jammed in the afternoon and

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rehearse, so to speak, in
the studio, and some of what we

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did with the audience, you know, came from that, but a lot

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of it was just spontaneous. So
it's almost like having two different sessions,

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and it is having two different sessions
and two different spirits because in one it

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was just us the technicians and musicians
and all of that. But when you

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add the audience and and all of
that energy, it's something altogether different.

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You know, Well, let's make
this project the world class winner, folks.

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The production is already there. That
part's world class. Let's make it

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something that be a great holiday gift, something that you can treasure. Yes,

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show me something that you can share
with the with a lot of people.

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Yeah. Let me let me make
it clear that once it's funded,

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So the kickstart ends on December thirty
first, okay, and once it's one

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hundred percent funded and then we go
into the We just take what we have

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and send it to a place out
in California called Pirates Press and they actually

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do the records. So it takes
a couple of months, so it'll be

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about March timeframe that we anticipate the
records being here. So I love I

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love the fact that there won't be
but two hundred and fifty of them.

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Yeah, only two not an you're
not trying to selling me in records.

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This is two hundred and fifty periods. Yeah, oh yeah, one time

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minting is yeah, yeah, yeah, this has a lot of effen So

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yeah, it has like you know
what we talked, Felonious Monk and some

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miles stuff on there. So we
have mechanical licenses for those, and so

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those mechanical licenses only limited us to
two hundred and fifty vinyls. So that's

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why it's not going to be on
YouTube or streaming or anything. Well,

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this is this is the key here, folks, because there's only going to

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be two hundred and fifty. Get
it? Why you can because there's no

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two fifty one right, exactly correct, It's not two starry nights, you

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know, Well, put wors Butkorby, thank you for being with us Todayank

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you and Chris, thank you for
being here too. I appreciate it.

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Thank you very much. Thanks for
sharing with us. And we're going to

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get the story out a little bit
later today and folks over the long weekend

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to be able to enjoy a little
bit some pieces of this and of course

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get the QR code, enjoy the
art and a little bit of everything that

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goes with this project. Discover hoboetry, the dive into a sonic odyssey.

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I like that. That's pretty kind
of profound that Chris is poetry. Oh

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it is, you know, anything
to anything to capture the I right,

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or capture I'm bringing that upside down, folks. I got to thank you,

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gentlemen. We've got more coming up
right here on K one. Look

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at the news and we'll tell you
just now how cold it's going to get.

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I hear all that coming up and
more. It is eight forty eight.

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I'll never forget this. Called my
freshman roommate. His mother called one

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day and she said, Tim,
I can tell about her voice. Something

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wrong? And I said, what's
true? She said, can you get my