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"text": " This is the BBC."
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"text": " Hello and welcome to Podcasting House."
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"text": " And if you're with us for the first time, you're especially welcome."
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"text": " And this is what you need to know."
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"text": " We choose a couple of podcasts for you every week."
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"text": " And then if you like it, well, you can find it and subscribe wherever you"
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"text": " subscribe to your podcasts. I am Rian."
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"text": " And with me, I have Eli."
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"text": " Hello."
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"text": " Eli, what have you been listening to this week?"
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"text": " Today, we're listening to episode one of Evil Genius."
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"text": " Sounds good."
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"text": " With Russell Cain."
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"text": " It's a podcast about brilliant bastards in history."
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"text": " People who contributed something special to the world,"
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"text": " but whose private lives undercut their brilliance through"
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"text": " spitefulness, abuse, or just plain vanilla."
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"text": " So it's a new show."
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"text": " Episode one is about John Lennon."
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"text": " This is Evil Genius with Russell Cain."
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"text": " Genius."
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"text": " Genius."
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"text": " Hello. Welcome to Evil Genius, the BBC podcast where we take legendary"
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"text": " achievers from history and ask, were they actually any good?"
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"text": " I'm talking stellar figures who were also rather rowgish."
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"text": " Icoms who were sometimes bang out of order."
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"text": " Sometimes even revealing lovely stuff about people you thought were vile."
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"text": " Make your own list in your head, people."
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"text": " Can you still respect a vision?"
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"text": " Revere the art or thinking once we've reflected on what utter"
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"text": " dastards they were or not?"
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"text": " Here, I'm interested in agreeing on only one thing."
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"text": " Were they Evil?"
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"text": " Or Genius?"
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"text": " I took less fee to make that sound happen."
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"text": " No grey areas in this studio, apart from my tragically just for men covered here,"
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"text": " we'll be sticking the subject in one of those boxes by the end of the show."
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"text": " And helping me be reductive to the point of light entertainment and"
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"text": " cutting at the other end is Rachel Paris, comedian, musician, actor from Lester,"
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"text": " you might have seen her absolutely smashing the masher report,"
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"text": " doing brilliant series too. I'm absolutely loving it."
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"text": " Also, your vintage dresses are here."
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"text": " And you enjoy a long walk on the beach."
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"text": " Were you being ironic when you said that?"
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"text": " I was being ironic about the last one, but I'm really"
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"text": " into vintage dresses."
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"text": " Oh, glad to hear it."
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"text": " And you've got a genius or evil fact about yourself?"
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"text": " Well, I suppose on that topic actually."
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"text": " So I am a genius definitely with charity shops."
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"text": " I can walk into a charity shop."
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"text": " It doesn't matter if it's like high end low end and I can spot a bargain and amazing things."
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"text": " I can just go in and sniff it."
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"text": " I'm sorry, now where they are."
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"text": " Bargain radar genius, very, very useful."
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"text": " We've got Sean McLaughlin, a stand up, a veteran of Edinburgh."
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"text": " It can take pain to an almost unbelievable level, like all of us."
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"text": " Yes."
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"text": " I went to Edinburgh for nine times."
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"text": " twat go away written on."
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"text": " That's when it's time to leave."
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"text": " And I've apologized so often."
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"text": " I know, but really awkward when I explained I wasn't Nick Grimshaw."
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"text": " So anything genius or evil you'd like to reveal?"
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"text": " I just remembered actually me and my friends."
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"text": " This is quite evil."
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"text": " When we were in secondary school, we stole the props that were needed for the GCSE art students."
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"text": " What?"
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"text": " For them to draw in their exam."
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"text": " But it was all, it didn't mean to steal them."
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"text": " It was, they were drawing chocolate."
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"text": " And we went into an art room in a break and there was just no to kick out to me, ain't them?"
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"text": " Ironically it led to the most genius bout of hand painting ever seen."
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"text": " Finally, helping me evaluate evil or genius is novelist."
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"text": " Genius or own right, Kaz Freer who grew up in Coventry,"
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"text": " done loads of weird or wonderful jobs."
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"text": " Waitressing, headhunter."
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"text": " Is that right?"
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"text": " Yes, which makes me sound like a wrestler."
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"text": " Very old, isn't it?"
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"text": " And you're also a manic arsenal fan,"
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"text": " a normally shout-out at the telly when they're playing."
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"text": " Anything evil or genius you want to tell us about that you've been up to?"
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"text": " Or do?"
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"text": " I think I'm fairly genius at."
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"text": " And this was before I started writing crime fiction to be fair."
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"text": " Since I was a child at just being able to spot who done it in any sort of,"
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"text": " any novel, any TV show."
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"text": " People don't watch things with me because I'm just well known for getting it within five minutes."
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"text": " I think we really like literary,"
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"text": " especially if they took into the police."
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"text": " That would be a good character."
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"text": " Like a novelist, do they take into a police station?"
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"text": " I love you."
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"text": " And he has to write, it goes into like automatic writing and writes the crime down."
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"text": " I like it."
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"text": " Have that one on me."
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"text": " So how are we going to do this?"
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"text": " I've distributed envelopes amongst my panelists."
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"text": " Periodically, we'll open an envelope and reveal a curveball fact about today's subject."
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"text": " Okay guys, this is evil genius."
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"text": " You probably want to know who we're going to be talking about."
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"text": " John Lennon."
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"text": " Now I know what you're thinking."
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"text": " I know what you're thinking."
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"text": " Where's the evil?"
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"text": " Yeah, you might not like the music,"
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"text": " but come on."
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"text": " It's part of our history as Brits,"
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"text": " made amazing songs, changed the face of rock and roll pop music, music forever."
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"text": " Where's the evil guys?"
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"text": " Around sunglasses."
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"text": " Round sunglasses."
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"text": " They never existed before."
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"text": " Yes."
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"text": " Any thoughts on John Lennon?"
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"text": " Initially any fans, any haters?"
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"text": " Never heard of him."
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"text": " I'll be honest."
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"text": " What you're talking about."
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"text": " Great."
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"text": " You're going to be really useful, Sean."
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"text": " As always, Rachel."
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"text": " I know some of his songs."
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"text": " I've seen him on a bed with Yoco-O-No."
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"text": " I have read a bit about him in a book called The Wallrus was Paul,"
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"text": " which is about Paul McCartney being dead, which is a great read."
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"text": " But no, they sent it to my knowledge of home."
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"text": " Okay, let's come on."
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"text": " What type of music do you listen to when you're not listening to Stormzy's Child Bear Troops?"
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"text": " Just tragic stuff."
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"text": " What is your musical taste?"
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"text": " Come on, we all want to know now, guys."
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"text": " Oh my god."
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"text": " Nazi marching music."
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"text": " No, just like 90s indie, trying to be like 18."
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"text": " But 90s indie is the child of Lennon's vision."
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"text": " I probably would have said he was a genius then,"
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"text": " but then you grow up and you get older and you get wise, I don't you."
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"text": " So you're musically, you'll probably have the taste closest to knowing a little bit about Lennon."
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"text": " Because I'll admit, it's not my cup of tea."
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"text": " I kind of, I never really know which songs he wrote or which ones he sang."
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"text": " I know the Beatles, but when people go, that wasn't Lennon, that was McCartney."
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"text": " And sometimes they say that was a George Harrison or what I'm like."
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"text": " They don't go into the third one, they go into the third."
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"text": " Never ring day, they poor, or ring day."
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"text": " No one likes Thomas the tech."
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"text": " Well, let's crack up in the first envelope."
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"text": " Alright, envelope one."
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"text": " Just says Beatles."
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"text": " Yeah, so we're already sort of there."
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"text": " This is the first fact revealed by Shorzeze Genius fact."
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"text": " He created the Beatles."
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"text": " Come on."
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"text": " I don't know who he'd this guy in."
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"text": " No, he created the greatest rock band, the planet, as probably ever seen."
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"text": " smashed America."
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"text": " We can be proudly say you were British because we had the Beatles."
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"text": " I mean, okay, this is from the spectator, one of my favorite magazines which I subscribe to know."
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"text": " Love me, dude."
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"text": " It was number 17 in the UK late 1962."
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"text": " But I'm musicians, neck hairs, tremble, nevertheless."
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"text": " They already had the four boys, the luscious out of tune,"
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"text": " your in tune, unison singing sound."
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"text": " There's a perky melodic lyric chemistry in their work."
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"text": " I'm genius, right?"
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"text": " I do think the Beatles' music is quite incredible."
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"text": " Which is a favorite track."
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"text": " I know we're all pretending to be more ignorant than we are,"
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"text": " but it's one of those things, like sometimes on this show,"
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"text": " I might be talking about Evelyn or Einstein, right?"
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"text": " You have a no stuff or you don't."
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"text": " But every single one of us have grown up with some sort of Beatles music in the background"
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"text": " at some point."
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"text": " Did anyone's parents play it all the time?"
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"text": " Yeah, a lot."
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"text": " And what also you're just picking up by Osmosis in films and TV shut?"
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"text": " I mean, it's just everywhere."
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"text": " Yeah, mine really didn't play it,"
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"text": " but as soon as you hit the point where you start going to other people's houses"
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"text": " It was instantly, instantly like a classic."
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"text": " And I love that with the Beatles, like their transition for,"
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"text": " I love all their, when I was younger, I really loved their early,"
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"text": " Am I right?"
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"text": " What about you, can?"
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"text": " What's your name?"
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"text": " Diodes syphilis, total wanker."
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"text": " But what sounds?"
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"text": " Hashtag death of the maiden."
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"text": " It's Michael, I've had a tag."
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"text": " It's such a brilliant piece of music."
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"text": " Anyway, so let's not go down the Schubert."
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"text": " No, it'll..."
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"text": " It's time to vote, guys."
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"text": " Now, this show..."
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"text": " You could look at it as reductive"
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"text": " or you could look at it as courageous."
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"text": " Think of it as two scales."
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"text": " Not musical scales today."
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"text": " We can only be evil"
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"text": " or the lower register of genius."
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"text": " or a baritone of genius?"
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"text": " Kaz, I'm going to ask you to vote first."
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"text": " Didn't see it coming."
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"text": " And just..."
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"text": " I'm still feeling bit uncomfortable about evil."
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"text": " But, you know, if I've got to make a decision,"
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"text": " then the..."
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"text": " the scales are definitely tipping that way."
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"text": " Just a big fake, hypocrite, bad dad."
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"text": " Rachel, don't be influenced by everyone around you."
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"text": " You play music."
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"text": " You have to acknowledge the genius."
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"text": " But do you acknowledge it enough?"
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"text": " I don't acknowledge it enough."
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"text": " I think he's evil of the two options."
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"text": " I think that he did his best work in conjunction"
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"text": " And I think there's too much bad stuff."
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"text": " On the other side."
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"text": " That just leaves you shone, no pressure."
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"text": " Well, I just don't..."
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"text": " I have to call him evil"
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"text": " because I also think he's just infected,"
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"text": " Sick of him."
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"text": " You just don't know what perfecting is."
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"text": " When you think we've got the leg of the site of him on posters,"
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"text": " on books, some sick of documentaries about him,"
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"text": " films about him, I don't give a shit."
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"text": " Christmas you can't move without that song."
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"text": " Oh, okay."
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"text": " I also..."
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"text": " Just come back to the coloured round glasses as well."
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"text": " Exactly."
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"text": " Well, that's the vote."
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"text": " I'm afraid John Lennon is."
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"text": " Evil."
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"text": " And he goes into the evil box."
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"text": " Panel, thank you so much."
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"text": " It's some of the stuff that's come out in today's discussion."
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"text": " It went places."
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"text": " I didn't think it would go."
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"text": " It's been fun watching you wrestle your love of music"
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"text": " with your hatred of misogyny and beating."
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{
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"text": " So to be pretty standard."
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"text": " Do subscribe if you've enjoyed evil genius."
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"start": 1868.0,
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"text": " The topics are varied."
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"text": " If you want to hear a man struggling with the subject,"
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"text": " he's had a week to learn about."
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"text": " Three panelists who have been briefed properly."
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"text": " Click subscribe now."
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"start": 1879.84,
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"text": " Don't, if you haven't liked it,"
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{
"start": 1881.28,
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"text": " and if you leave a negative review,"
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{
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"text": " I will get your IP address and come and hurt you."
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"text": " Because I am evil and my comedy isn't that good."
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"text": " Bye."
},
{
"start": 1893.68,
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"text": " Nice to hear Russell Kane doing something different there."
},
{
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"text": " Yeah."
},
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"text": " Yeah, it was really good, wasn't it?"
},
{
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"text": " Yeah, I like him."
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"text": " If you like that, just search for evil genius with Russell Kane"
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{
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"text": " and subscribe."
},
{
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"text": " Thanks for listening."
},
{
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"text": " See you next time."
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