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Rumble Strip

Fifty. A Phoenix Moment.

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A show about turning 50 and recording Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rumble to Rumble Strip. This show is sponsored by Honey Road, my favorite restaurant in Vermont.

0:05.2

They serve Eastern Mediterranean small plates at the corner of Church and Main Street in downtown Burlington.

0:11.2

They're winning awards hand over fist and even though they win all sorts of

0:14.8

awards they're still really nice people. Now on to the show.

0:20.0

All right. So wait, is it, uh, turn around?

0:27.0

No, no, I know, but...

0:29.0

Oh, really? It's that hot?

0:31.0

That's where it lies?

0:32.0

Turn, turn, turn, turn. Oh really it's that high? That's where it lies.

0:33.0

Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn,

0:35.0

turn around.

0:37.0

Yeah, it's low.

0:38.0

Okay, yeah.

0:39.0

For many years, I have privately loved the song Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler.

0:46.0

I started to love it when it came out in 1983 when I was 14.

0:51.4

This month I'm turning 50 and for some reason every time I think about turning 50, I think about singing this terrible

0:57.9

song that I've loved for over 30 years and making other people listen to me sing it.

1:03.0

I guess in a way it's a kind of Phoenix moment I'm hoping for

1:06.6

that I'll burn up and I'll be born again into the second chapter of a century.

1:11.4

So I asked my friends Mike and Brian and Told. Chapter of a Century.

1:12.9

So I asked my friends Mike and Brian and Tobin to record the song with me.

1:17.3

We met in the East Callis Community Center in the back of the post office.

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