Hey everybody, you know what I purchased today?

I purchased something which I have not purchased in quite a long time and this purchase was significant.

Well, it wasn't significant but it was significant when I realized how long it had actually been since I purchased this very particular item.

I bought a symbol bag. Now those of you that know that I play with you, Philadelphia Funk Authority,

know that I carry all of my gear and on my car and amongst that gear, of course, are symbols,

the plates, the dishes of brass upon which I claim so wholeheartedly.

And I have had the same symbol bag since high school.

I realized today that I have had three times as many cars as I have had symbol bags.

Now the symbol bag is just a big nylon, nylon, I don't know, nylon bag that holds your symbols.

And the thing is that the symbols are stored on edge so that edge is slowly over, let's say, brr, I don't know, 20 years.

Digs in and sort of tears through and the inside of this thing has just been shredded to pieces.

So I have this nice black pizz, which is the technical term.

I have black pizz all over my symbols and just for years I've just accepted the fact that that bag has black

pizz in it instead of buying another bag. Well, since the whole much like the crack in the current

season of Doctor Who, the whole in my bag is just appearing more and more often and it just

finally came time for me to buy a new symbol bag. And it was like, oh, okay, I'll bite the bullet

and I'll spend 20 bucks. So like I said, I have had since high school what, four cars and one

symbol bag. I don't know, it must be like, you know, how guys refuse to throw away underwear.

It's the same kind of a thing, I guess. All right, let's start the show, shall we?

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