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My name is Chris Ryan.

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My name is Chris Ryan. I'm with my buddy Andy Greenwald, who I've known for 20 years.

And that is kind of what this podcast is about.

Ooh, this is deep. This is sort of an origin story. This is really Dawn of Justice.

Yeah, this is the Dawn of Justice. We're talking about The Year in Music 1996.

Now, what Andy and I want us to do is not really do a, you know, like a complete objective overview of that year.

Because that's not really what drew us to music in the first place isn't really to be objective.

I mean, obviously you get into it for the trans spotting stuff of being a completist and knowing about everything and, you know, feeling like you're discovering things all the time.

But music is really a tool, especially when you first get out of high school.

And this is 1996 was the first year. It was our first year of college.

And it was the year I met Andy. I actually met Andy in Philadelphia in the summer of 96.

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