Hey, Peter.

Hey.

Do you remember that show designing women from a long time ago? No. No, I'm a little younger than that, sir. Great. Do you remember that character on that show? His name was Anthony, and he was played by an actor named Meshach Taylor. Oh, yeah. Meshach. Meshach Obendigo. Today we're talking about Meshack's cousin, Rorschach melody. Any relation to Horshack on good Mr. Cotter?

I think, I think so. Yeah. Okay.

I'm Adam Manus.

And I'm Peter Martin.

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Well, you can check out all for it.

Well, hold on.

I can do the full grand version if you'd like. Whatever you like. But you're like, go to. These aren't just lemmings, our listeners. They're just going to jump off a cliff because you tell them to. Well, you could go there for a jazz lesson. No, we make courses over there all about things like we're talking about today. You know, nerdy jazz piano stuff. So you can go over there. And you can also... Hey, who you call a nerd? Mostly me, but you too, buddy. You too. You're not too big for that. You're not too. I love that band. So what's up with all the Meshach Rorschach stuff? Right. Well, you just put some paper in front of me that is not an inkblot, but it's maybe the musical equivalent. I don't know. That's exactly right. Yeah, yeah. So can I paint a picture for folks? Please, please. Okay, we're in the pod suite. Here we are. We are here. There is a, as usual, a giant piece of plexiglass because we are still deep in the pandemic. That's right. That's right. COVID-19, even though it's 2021, this thing is two years old now. This is ridiculous. No, we're not as deep as we were, but still deep. Yeah, we're still deep. We're not totally drowning, but our head is not above water. Not even close. True. Big shout out to New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Must be nice over there. In China, just dancing and partying. Went out to restaurants. Although, there are some places in this country where that's still happening as well. Yeah, big shout out to all the small communities that have their heads buried in the sand. Excellent. No, okay. So we're in the studio. There's some lights. we're set up for video. I don't know why, because this is audio only. That's okay. But Adam has in front of him some printed music, some score that he's very gingerly touching. So, I have some in front, wait, can I finish? Yeah, sorry, sorry. I have some paper too. Adam has the spin drift, and I do too. And and I do too and we have some espresso cups that are finished and he has here's a clue because I don't know what's going on here I like the spring stuff on you yes Adam has a giant hourglass like the sands of time on ABC in the 70s. Yeah.

He has a big hourglass.

So that's, I just painted the picture.

Thank you.

Yeah.

No, it's not a whole hourglass.

It's a five-minute egg timer.

But it is like an hourglass situation where there's blue sand.

And this is what I used on my... This is the egg timer used for my five-minute ear training. So I'm getting some repurpose out of it. That's right. So what I thought we do today, the name of this episode is called Rorschach melodies. And you're familiar with the Rorschach test, yes. Well, I wasn't until you reminded me. You said inkblot, I said, of course. Yeah, these are the famous inkblot tests where there's sort of this mirrored inkblot image. It's like a serial killer test. Well, it's like a psychological test. It's not even a test. It's just like an exercise. And then you say the first thing that comes to mind. I suppose there's probably things that the psychologists from,

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