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The last thing I'm going to say is this.

There is no light at the end of the tunnel.

There is no light.

There's a song Metallica has no leaf clover and it says, man,

when it comes to the soothing light at the end of your tunnel,

it's just a freight train coming your way.

So if you're seeing a fucking light, it's a freight train.

Just put your head down and go to work.

It's about to be fun, man.

It's about to be fun. You know, I never felt comfortable around the Metallica kids growing up.

When I was in junior high, in elementary school, they were the Tufts and the provocative tour and album t-shirts.

My mom would never let me wear.

In high school, they were the teammates on the baseball team who never smiled.

There was a general intensity and worldview that intimidated me, so I stayed away.

Classic adolescence defense mechanism, stay away, and they can't hurt you but then i watched dan campbell in the

hard knocks premiere all the emotion pouring out of that man all the layers and i'm starting to think

maybe i was wrong to try to put the metallica kids in a box. Maybe I had the Metallica kids wrong this whole time.

Well, some of them.

Welcome to the first ever Hard Knocks podcast.

I am Dan Hansus, and for the next five weeks,

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