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I'm your host John Karamanica. on it. Yeah. get hurt by the worst people say and the things that they do when we're picking on you.

Did you ever get sad by the thingingle they pay when I'm making you feel like a rusty old wheel?

Some people just don't know when to quit.

And some people quit, perhaps too soon.

I was thinking about this a lot in the last couple weeks.

When we came in, you were listening to your boy famed Con West Collaborator, Paul McCartney.

And that was a song called Who Cares, off of his new album, which is called Egypt Station.

And I was thinking about that because Paul was on the cover of GQ. We talked

about this last week on pop cast in our Celebrity Profile episode. I thought Paul was

like very loose, but also here's a guy who like doesn't need to be making albums, doesn't need to be releasing,

to be interviewed for the cover of any magazine. He could just happily or easily rest on his laurels for the rest of time and have a great life.

But here he is still out here doing the work.

And so that was all my mind.

And then John Perellis, our chief pop critic, wrote a notebook about the Farewell Tours of Paul Simon and

Joan Baez to people who have said enough.

And I thought, well, let's have a conversation about who sticks around and why and who leaves and why.

So JP is here.

What's up, man?

I'm still here.

You're here.

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