Yale Brothers Podcast

Episode 42 - "Our Pal the Parking Meter"


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The twins run the gamut from Father's Day to misheard lyrics to tripping in Hollywood, sobriety, books, stolen Ray-Bans and much more - including an unearthed and digitized song from a 1989 gig at what became The Viper Room in Hollywood.

Above: Twins at LuLu's North Myrtle Beach

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 - "I Call Your Name" by Chris Yale - live at The Central (Viper Room) Hollywood, 1989

3:13 - Greetings and about the song / Kirby and the Gators / More about The Central

5:40 - Tempo and live performance / Playing in the moment

7:13 - Misheard lyrics / "Sweet Caroline" / Neil Diamond / J. Cole / R.E.M. / Michael Stipe

11:54 - Being misunderstood / Roger's blog post about that

12:43 - Father's Day, again / Our adult children / Chris' son-in-law / Chris' grandchildren Elijah and Miles / Dad Carl Yale / Dead Dads

15:00 - Dad taught us how to read / "We Three" & "We Three and Scottie" / Dad sang to us / Tap lessons

16:30 - Sobriety

17:58 - Tripping in Hollywood / Our friend the parking meter

19:41 - Dad died on our 21st birthday / "Man's Search for Meaning" / Viktor Frankl

21:07 - Loaning books that were never returned / Joe Smith, "Off the Record" / "South Carolina: A History" by Walter Edgar

22:29 - The stolen Ray-Bans / The almost-stolen Walkman / Good money after bad

25:27 - On taking action

26:28 - The baby twins at LuLu's North Myrtle Beach / Twin life / Dad would be 106 / Superstition, pseudo-religiosity and flawed thinking

30:15 - "Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s" by Frederick Lewis Allen and Guy Foster / "Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner / "The Letters of Noel Coward" edited by Barry Day / Book Buyers Charlotte / Cats in bookstores / Blue Bicycle Books Charleston / "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s" by Joe Boyd

34:00 - Digitizing

34:09 - Being foiled in dreams

35:48 - Andre De Shields

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