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stick at the beginning i didn't already well folks let's watch this drive Welcome to Mike Lenoss. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always with.

Luke Savage. And I got to say, I'm feeling a little bit flustered because I'd seen it in my peripheral vision on social media earlier today, but I only just played the promo for the new Eric Clapton song right before I joined you here in the Gore Lieberman Studios. And at first, you know, for the first five or six seconds, I just thought, oh, Eric Clapton's released a new single that's part of his kind of, you know,

shitty, easy listening latter career. But no, uh, people in the video, like, like silhouettes of people

holding signs say Liberty. And I realized that the song's refrain. This has got to stop. Uh, I think

it's referring to masks and lockdowns, folks. Well, yeah, like as you say, the song isn't all that good, but the video is excellent.

It's like not since Michael Jackson's thriller has the art form been taken to such a limit.

Well, you know, you do have to separate the artist from the art, although at least in the case of Eric Clapton, one thing you can say about him is that, you know, this is the only problematic thing he's ever said. And, you know, it's very disappointing the first time

Eric Clapton has expressed reactionary political opinions. I mean, I in the past have complained

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