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Hey, hey, hey, hey, give me a quarter. I'll smear your windshield.

Bob? Bob, is it you? How you doing, man? Nice squeegee, dude.

What, you? Hey, hey, you leave me alone.

Dude, I've been looking for you. Everybody has. The band is getting back together.

Go away!

But there's this big nostalgia thing going on. Promoters are paying big bugs for old bands like us to go on tour again.

How big?

Huge, man. We can even make a new album if we want.

No one want to hear it, of course. I'll just want to hear all the old stuff. But at the end of it all, there's a lot of money for everybody. All we've got to do is pretend we like each other again for about six months. Uh, but I pawned off my guitar. I developed this little crystal meth problem after you stole my girlfriend on the last reunion tour. Yeah, but your girlfriend was actually my wife at the time.

Oh, did I ever apologize for that? No. Uh, sorry then. Yeah, that's okay. She was also sleeping with Fred at the time. Fred? I'll kill him! Oh, dude, he stroked out and died during the last reunion tour. Don't you remember? You wouldn't come out for that encore?

That's when you called him a pond, stormed off the stage,

and we never saw you again.

What about Simon? Ah, Simon died before the tour. We got that fry cook from Burger King to take his place. So, it's just you and me? Yeah. What do you say? Once more, for old time's sake? Uh, okay. but my screezy gets its own tour bus this is the ongoing

history of new music podcast with allan cross hi again i'm allan cross and this is part two of a series

on reunions we do this every couple of years to get caught up on who's back together and

why. I think that's the best part of these stories, the reasons and motivations for reassembling

something that somehow got broke and fell apart. So let's go over the rules again. Number one,

I've done my best to be as accurate as possible, but sometimes it's rather difficult to nail

down the exact date when a

band decided to break up and the exact moment when they decided to reform. So we need a little bit

of leeway. We have to estimate sometimes. Number two, we're not concerned with serial reformers,

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