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You know how when you go to a live show...

Oh gosh darn it. That's me. Robin. Go meet the kids at the bus stop.

Are the kids waiting for you at the bus stop right now? We gotta go.

All right, well it was gonna be a good show, but thanks. I'm Robin Hilton along with Tom Hiesinga on a Maria Sayer.

See you, Robin. Thanks. This has been a really nice show.

Great, that was great.

No, you know when when you go see a band play, like especially like a loud rock band they come out on

stage and they come out hard right and you know the energy level is high I remember one time I saw

Pink Floyd play live and you know they come out on stage and you're like oh my

God what are they going to open with it's going to hit so hard and instead they

open with Shine on You Crazy Diamond Parts 1 through 5 which if you don't know

that it's from the album

wish you were here and it is this super quiet dreamy scint heavy you know almost ambient sort of piece that slowly builds and builds and builds over many, many

minutes.

And the crowd was losing its mind by the band doing the exact opposite of what you would expect a band to do when they

come out on stage. So I thought we would do the same thing with this week's show and

start with something super quiet and beautiful. But it kind of kicks it out in its own special way, Robin. It's

Lavinia Meyer playing the harp. You know, it's got way more strings in the guitar,

47 strings altogether. They all have to be tuned separately and she's

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