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Thank you so much for listening.

You think you know me, you don't know me well at all, at all.

You can't know me, you know,'t know anybody

until you talk to someone.

Please note at the time of this episode's release,

Kevin Elliott could not be reached for comment.

Hello, my name is Jimmy Imperial. I'm from Los Angeles. I'm a musician. I met Kevin Elliott back in 2017 around, through a mutual friend musician.

We met through the local bar scene slash music scene in downtown LA.

Around that time, they provided probably one of the best local live shows for local punk rock bands and garage rock, fuzz rock stuff.

It seemed like a normal dude, your average punk rock kind of guy, someone who wanted to drink and play music and have a good time.

Everyone was still acting like teenagers in their 30s.

There was very little maturity around that time.

My first impression of him I really didn't think much other than a nice, awkward guy who seemed very eager to meet people in

L.A. because he had only been in L.A. for a year at that point, so he didn't have too many

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