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With your host, Clint Wells.

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Welcome to Metal Up Your Podcast. See you to the line. Lime.

Welcome to Metal of your podcast, episode 429, continuing to explore the magnificent, the wonderful, the beautiful load box set.

Today we're going to be talking about what it might be one of the more valuable items in these boxes, which is the book,

which is filled with essays by people that were around the load time. We got your Jason

Newstead, your Bob Rocks, you're Paul DeCardley's, your Anton Corbynes. And I have gone

through the book meticulously, and I have basically just highlighted things that are

like really interesting about the book. I'm going to be reading excerpts from some of the

essays and all of this stuff. And we're not going to be doing much housekeeping today because I don't

have time. But here's the deal. Your boy, Clint Wells is home from tour. Finally, the rock gods

were done torturing me and they said, you can go home and

heal, which is what I need to do. I need to heal. I am drinking whiskey right now. One second.

As many of you know, I've basically been on the road since, I don't know, God damn, maybe March, February or March.

The summer, three weeks with Shinedown and Beartooth, then I had two weeks off, or maybe a little longer than that, but then that was spent producing records and working.

And then my family and I went to Hawaii for 10 or 11 days. Then we did six or seven weeks with Shinedown and working. And then my family and I went to Hawaii for 10 or 11 days.

Then we did six or seven weeks with Shinedown and Bush home for about 10 days.

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