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Ah, well, hello, everyone.

It's Nate.

Welcome to episode 402 of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds, and this week we welcome

back to the show, our dear friend, Bear McKinnon, and he's bringing a buddy of his, Danny

Hyfitz, both currently of the band Umlaut and both formerly of Mr. Bungle. And the three of us

today dive deep into the vinyl and recordings of both of those bands.

Now, before we get very far, I suggest each of you write this down or go directly to the URL.

Umlaut bearmikinnon.com.com. There's a link in the episode page and check out their new track every time.

There's two versions, the radio and the

album version, and at a minimum, follow that page on Bandcamp so you're updated the moment

that new tracks or Umlaut products become available. Check out the new track every time. And

great news, the Umlaut team have recently found some additional copies of the 2019

Arun Chala Easter Bear Limited Edition 7-inch vinyl. It's the only thing on the Umlaut Ban Camp site

that isn't sold out, so get over there quick, umlaut-Bear McKinnon.Bankamp.combe before that's sold

out too.

And I got to let you know, there is a mega super extended version of this interview available only to show patrons at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. A full extra hour of conversation,

bungle talk, rare recordings, and more just for podcast supporters. We absolutely

love every listener to our show, but at patreon.com slash vinyl guide, we slip our supporters some

tongue in the form of extra long interviews, commercial free episodes, high resolution audio files,

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