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Welcome to episode 551.

This is about musicians who died tragically.

And I think we were just going to do this as a segment.

And Eddie and I were talking about it

and it ended up being like super interesting and yeah it's tragedy but man there's one of these

that we talk about that because we recorded this like a week ago and we really had no plan

to release it on Halloween which is kind of what happened but Eddie and I've talked about it

basically every single day since we did this you and I've talked about it basically every single

day since we did this. You know I'm talking about which one? Yeah, he went on a deep dive after this.

Crazy. I know. So remembering those whose lives ended in tragic accidents, sometimes just straight

up murder. Buddy Holly, Patsy Klein, Alia, artists who left us too early,

but can live on forever in their music. Here we go. Episode 551, Musicians who died tragically.

We're going to talk about musicians that died tragically. Now, this is one of those where I have

the entire list that I made and you have nothing. Yeah. Nor did you know what we're going to talk about. No clue. So what comes to mind? Musicians who died tragically. Richie Valens. Okay. Buddy Holly. Tell me that story. Man, they played the surf ballroom in Iowa. They were riding a bus, but the bus had broken down. So the heater wasn't working on the bus. So Buddy Holly was like, you know what? I'm going to charter a plane. And three of us can, or four of us can fit in there. And so it was Buddy Holly, the big bopper, Richie Valens. I don't know who the fourth

guy was but I know it was between him

and Whalen Jennings

and so Whalen Jennings

and that guy had to flip a coin to see who was going to

ride the plane and Whalen Jennings lost

the coin flip. But one because he

lived. But one? Yeah, one because he

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