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Is it hot enough for ya?  We take a break from the heat and smoke of MN to hunker down in the dojio for your entertainment.

• The Swa episode recap
• Happy Birthday Renee! 
• X-Golf in a pinch
• Ace and Gary get sushi
• World Cup Final
• British Open
• Pan O Prog recap
• Budweiser Clydesdales
• Errors & Omissions
• Newt's misses you!
• Data center vs light bulb
• Song of the Week:
  • Easy Rider--Taj Mahal
  • Lucky Night Billy Johnson's Roadshow
• Payton, Brady or Barkley?
• Angus Young?  More like Angus Old
• Original artist or tribute band?
• Kids who listen to classic rock

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Taj Mahal - E Z Rider

Lucky Night  Billy Johnson's Roadshow

Barstool Saviour  Bonus Billy Johnson

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Jim's guy Swa joins us on this one. Opinions abound. Buckle up.

• Avid listener
• House shows
• An album a day
• Listening process
• Beatles controversy
• Metallica--One
• Bohemian Rhapsody / Wayne's World
• Life before the internet 
• Liner notes / Album art
• Song of the Week:
  • Industrial Disease--Dire Straits
  • Love Song--My New Band Believe
  • Creeque Alley--The Mamas and The Papas
• God Only Knows controversy
• Joe's Garage
• Swa gets mystical

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#MarkWasntHavingIt

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Dire Straits - Industrial Disease (1982) HD - YouTube

My New Band Believe - Love Story (Official Video)

The Mamas & The Papas "Creeque Alley" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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Hope everyone had an awesome 4th of July!  Today we learn how much more cool Mark is than Jim (as if we didn't already know).

• Decorated Combat Veteran
• USO
• Newt's--Say hi to Cory.  Or else.
• Still the best country on the planet
• Iceland came in second
• World Cup
• Mr Worldwide
• The Rock
• Errors and Ommissions
• Where you from, boy?
• Song of the Week
  • America F#&* Yeah!--Team America
  • Can't Fix You--Red Clay Strays
• King Mark
• Golf adventure
• Dick
• Mark's Mediocre Movie Musings

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AMERICA F#K YEAH! MUSIC VIDEO Team America World Police THEME SONG

The Red Clay Strays - Can't Fix You (Lyric Video)

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Fresh from seeing the Guess Who and Don Felder at the new Amphitheater in town, this one is primarily a music podcast--finally.  Pretty good rant toweard the end.

• Grandpa Jim
• Mystic Lake Amphitheater  
• $20 Beer Night!
• Shoutout the best sponsor ever--Newt's Apple Valley
• Great Seats, huh?
• Senior Citizens 
• Shuttle Shit Show
• Don Felder stole the show (spoiler alert)
• Hotel California
• Restroom review
• Song of the Week:
  • James Dean--Eagles
  • Rock On-  David Essex
• Guess Who--literally
• On stage Kleenex
• Randy Bachman
• Percussion Guy rant

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David Essex Rock On (music video)

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We recorded with Jim's guy Swa last weekend.  My man can talk, thus requiring some extra editing time.  Therefore, we grabbed this one from the shelf recorded just a few weeks ago.  Enjoy

• Beer or Bourbon?
• Falling Knife
• Tell us what you think--really
• Pun of the Day
• Aging perspective
• Mr Seeds
• Yet another Shark Tank idea
• Who turns down Indy?
• RIP Kyle Busch
• No Ragrats
• Tommy Lee Jones projects
• Courtship of Eddie's Father
• Song of the Week:
  • One for My Baby--Frank Sinatra
  • Take Me--George Jones
• Jim's linguistics rant
• Nice name, Hugh Jackman
• Er no?
• Celebrity sightings
• Banned content

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Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (Live At Royal Festival Hall / 1962)

George Jones- "Take Me" from "A Poem is a Naked Person"

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We had to go into the pantry to pull this episode off the shelf.  From April.

• Cheez-It rehab
• Safety off
• Serious Rush conversation (Mark even says something nice)
• Song of the Week
  • Ordinary World--Duran Duran
  • The Things We Do for Love--10cc
• Lost Boys rant and a half
• Movie Fight!
• Cracker wheels
• Rod & Custom Show
• Expensive hobby
• 1993 hit list

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Duran Duran - Ordinary World (Official Music Video)

10cc - The Things We Do For Love

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No real topic on this one, but we cover a lot of ground.  pretty easy listen.  Enjoy.

• Long Pants Theory
• Kevin Nealon
• Agree to agree
• Kevin Harlan and Trent Tucker
• Brady vs Romo
• NYC
• Horse nap
• The Breadwinner
• Mr Ed
• Old sitcoms & Spinoffs
• Song of the Week:
  • Possum Kingdom--The Toadies
  • Sea of Joy--Blind Faith
• Chili talk--The Loon
• Toadies show review
• Shoutout Mike from Montana and Randy
• Knee Job

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We revisit an unending topic with cover tunes this week.  Fair amount of hazing to go along with some laughs.

• Song Sung Blue
• Cock-eyed
• Side effects
• Golf recap
• Mark's new Motorbike
• Pressure cooker
• Pun of the Day
• Get on over to Newt's
• Inverted golf course
• Song of the Week
  • Sugaree--Jorma Kaukonen
  • Love Hurts--The Everly Brothers
• Cover songs
• VH did it right
• Grammar meltdown
• Bill Shatner
• Pearl Jam covers Pink Floyd
• Black Crowes guy covers Velvet Underground
• Foo Fighters cover The Doors
• Joan Jett covers The Arrows
• Pearl Jam and Post Malone cover Jay Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers
• Hot or hideous (nothing in between)

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Jorma Kaukonen -- Sugaree

Everly Brothers - Love Hurts

(AUDIO RESTORED) William Shatner "Sings" 'Rocket Man' 1978

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We're joined by Jim's wife for this one.  We cover a bit of ground and have some laughs.

• Big Whack
• Money back guarantee
• Incense
• RIP Wolves and Wild
• Victoire'
• MN sports futility
• Dystopian
• Facial recognition
• Schlitz
• Yungblud concert review
• The opposite of David Lee Roth
• Mark's Green Day connection
• Songs of the Week:
  • Vascular--Pierre
  • Love Removal Machine--The Cult
• Happy Birthday Mark!

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Pierre - "Vascular"

The Cult - Love Removal Machine HD - YouTube

YUNGBLUD - Hello Heaven, Hello (Official Music Video) - YouTube (the good part starts at 2:50)

Dillinger Four - Doublewhiskeycokenoice  (You be the judge--did Green Day rip them off?)

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Get ready with us as we talk about places we shop...  No, really, it's a decent episode.

• Big box bourbon
• Costco virgin
• On to Aldi
• Gator Roll
• RIP Dave Mason
• Golf smack
• Careful in traffic
• RIP Joe Senser
• Songs of the Week:
  • ETI-- Blue Öyster Cult 
  • How Can You Mend a Broken Heart--Bee Gee's
• What if they were hot?
• Watch the Bee Gee's documentary form around 2020
• Chest hair

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Blue Öyster Cult - E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) (Live) 10/9/1981 [Digitally Restored]

Bee Gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (Live in Las Vegas, 1997 - One Night Only)

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