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this episode. All right. So for this week's B-side, we had a couple episodes recently where we were

diving into the importance of the classic MTV show Unplugged. I'm thinking of our Mariah Carey series,

where she had an iconic moment on Unplugged. And of course, our Nirvana episode a couple of weeks

ago, where Nirvana had some argue their best moment ever on MTV Unplugged and of course our Nirvana episode a couple weeks ago

where Nirvana had some argue their best moment ever on MTV Unplugged and it got me wondering about Unplugged and I know there's a lot of people that grew up with Unplugged who listened to the show. I know there's plenty of people that did not experience MTV's heyday and maybe don't understand the context and importance of Unplugged. So in thinking about that. Russ and I recruited Craig

Marks and Rob Tenenbaum, who

wrote don't understand the context and importance of Unplugged. So in thinking about that, Russ and I recruited

Craig Marks and Rob Tenenbaum, who wrote the book, I Want My MTV, an incredible tome about the

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