Yeah, so I guess I should preface this by saying,

um, I took some psychedelic drugs over the weekend and kind of went down a rabbit hole

long after my travel companion had gone to bed and he was like please leave

me alone I was on my phone reading about the strokes reading about 9-11 and

making connections so there's this article in Noisy that I found.

Fice Noisy. Remember them? Vice, Lull. And the title is,

after 9-11, we wanted the old NYC.

Instead, we got the strokes sub headline

how a group of greasy-haired rich kids

ushered in a renaissance the New York rock scene

by larping its iconic past.

Ooh, spicy, spicy.

Let's have at it, that's good.

So basically the thesis is, the strokes only hit it big because 9-11 made people want to support New York.

And you know the strokes were like a fucking I love New York shirt in the form of a band as they said on that

podcast your favorite band sucks or whatever your favorite song sucks.

But I want to know would the people with Never Forget stickers on their cars

really romanticized the era of New York City punk that the strokes did or perhaps

maybe were the strokes leaving a little trail crumbs for the weird kids to find that we're here.

I don't know that's going to be a live question as we go okay

keep it in mind so all right I'm summarizing it because it's long I'll read some

quotes you know you know how this works all right so in the late 90s and early 2000s right we remember the city was

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