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You know what? We set a standard last hour. It's going to be hard to meet that standard this hour,

top that standard this hour. Name that Metallica tune.

You know, I think we rewrote radio history last hour with Eddie Garcia, Chris, and

Coup just crushing it with Metallica knowledge, you know? So I don't know that we're going to

meet that standard going forward but we will try

we will we will give it our best effort here um but i'm going to lower expectations a little bit

because that was groundbreaking stuff last hour by the way uh do you ever just say or do things

to see how people react to it?

I've got a bad habit of doing that from time to time.

Most of the time it's harmless.

There's nothing sinister involved.

But I'm going to fill in with Rob Parker on Wednesday with the Odd Couple Show.

Very much looking forward to it.

I did radio with Rob for about half a year.

Rob Parker.

That's right.

Love Rob Parker.

And I'm tempted.

I'm tempted like when we're putting the show together and we do the pre-show call,

Rob will be like, anything you hot on, anything you want to discuss?

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