Well, hey everyone, it's Nate here, and this is episode six of The Vinyl Guide,

which was originally an episode titled Why I Can't Stand Roger Waters,

which was a 20 minute or so rant about the life and career of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd,

focusing on his foibles and just overall me venting and disrespecting his career.

Now as an episode I originally released on November 8th of 2015, I was five episodes into the podcast,

perhaps feeling the pressure of how to come up with material, and I chose to make an episode

on my feelings towards Roger Waters.

Now, no surprise here, it was very negative and now several years and a few hundred episodes later,

I like to think that I've matured and grown beyond the frustrated person who used my platform to rant and disrespect an artist.

And I simply found myself over the years really just regretting this moment, that episode.

Whenever I thought of low points in the show, that was always the one that stuck out for me.

And so now, several years later, I've got more

experience in podcasting, I've met and interacted with literally thousands of listeners over that

time. And I really just find myself not needing or even actually wanting to use the vinyl

guide as a vehicle for negativity. I'm a positive person. I want to be in a positive

environment and I especially want to be supportive of artists and music lovers. So I've made the

decision to remove this episode on Roger Waters as it no longer represents the person that I am

or the show that the vinyl guide has become.

And I have no doubt that the original version of this episode with the Roger Waters rant

will pop up online somewhere. Some listener will pull it from their phone cache and post it

somewhere and it really won't go away. But that's fine. There are my words.

I have to own them.

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