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#48: Musical Looper (Dean Delray)

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Ari Shaffir

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4.66.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2012

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

Dean Delray stopped by my apartment to talk about his days as a professional rock musician. He made his living from music for almost two decades and he had a shit ton to share about it. Eventually, we just diverged into talking about music we liked but even that was pretty fun. Listen and enjoy and check out Dean’s podcast on the Toadhop Network called Poolside with Dean Delray.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Ari Shafir Skeptitank for the week of Monday, February 26th, 2016.

0:26.0

This is Ari Shafir Skeptitank for the week of Monday, February 27th, 2012.

0:32.0

Hi everybody, how are you? Welcome to Ari Shafir Skeptitank, number 48.

0:38.0

Let's call it 48.

0:40.0

On today's episode, I interview my friend, fellow comedian, Dean Del Rey.

0:46.0

He used to be a musician. He made his living like a musician.

0:50.0

He just went into comedy a few years ago.

0:52.0

He toured all over the country and the world, I guess, with like some big people and then he went off in his own.

0:58.0

So I just sort of asked him to talk to him about that.

1:00.0

What it's like to be like a looper from music.

1:03.0

I have this version, I don't know where I get the word looper.

1:05.0

I think it's from like, I think it's from golf.

1:09.0

But just like people who just get by at whatever job they do.

1:11.0

Not like the movie stars, you know, it'd be like the working actor.

1:15.0

It wouldn't be like, if it's a fighter, it wouldn't be like Muhammad Ali.

1:19.0

It'd be like some guy who's like 18 and 12 for his career.

1:24.0

Those are loopers.

1:25.0

People would just get by and make a living at it for a while.

1:28.0

I like hearing what that's like.

1:29.0

Because those are most of the people in any sort of job.

1:31.0

Anyway, so we talked about that.

1:33.0

And then we got into talking about how I steal music all the time and how wrong that is.

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