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My name is Scott Bertram. Find me on X at Scott Bertram, S-C-O-T-B-E-R-A-M. My tag team partner, standing by, as always, is Jeff Blair. Jeff, how are you?

Not good. I'm sitting in a darkened basement, staring lasers into the wall, fulminating about my broken heart and writing incredibly catchy guitar riffs.

Well, the world needs more pop songs. You're going to fill that hole. And we'll fill it with

our conversation today. Jeff is on X at Esoteric CD. Our guest on today's program is a writer

who also works at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

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He spent the entire decade of the 1990s listening to an awful lot of our featured artists today.

Matthew Sweet.

He is Joshua, thanks so much for joining us.

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