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We can't wait to introduce you to the man, myth the legend the super producer mr max uh track suit

bell bottoms williams shiny boy shiny boy williams you could not wait so you did not wait as i

had been introduced there he is uh that's noll brown you heard as well uh I am Ben Bowlin as well. And, Noel, we are very excited about this one. We've been working on it for a minute. A while ago... 60 of them, even.

A while ago, of course, we were talking off air as we do.

And I think we were all three of us just mystified.

But you know what it was?

It was one of our conversations about how strange things seem normal.

And you, in an earlier pitch meeting, you said, guys, do you think about disco balls?

Yeah.

And it's funny because that was a while back.

And it hadn't really occurred to me at the time that disco balls have sort of seen a bit of a resurgence.

A renaissance.

A renaissance. A disco ball

renaissance in the form of like TikTok's decor things and projects, art projects, crafts and

stuff like that. And also Pinterest even as far back as that. And little, little homemade disco

balls, you know. Mm-hmm. Yep. Etsy stores selling like fruit-shaped disco balls and anything kind of sparkly and mirrored.

And a lot of this kind of new disco ball boom times can be traced back to like a lot of things,

trends, to COVID times.

Yeah.

But even farther back than that, I think, you know, both of us probably pictured starting an episode about the history of disco balls. Yeah. But even farther back than that, I think, you know, both of us probably pictured starting

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