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The 35 Minutes That Sum It Up Best: Motivational Karaoke, "Spring Training Eve"

Today while driving around South Austin, my iPod bringed me a blast from me past.  A 35-minute segment of Motivational Karoke, the WESN radio show that Chris Golwitzer and I painstakingly crafted from 2002-2005.  It wunt crafted.  It wunt no pain. Part 5 of "SPRING TRAINING EVE (2/22/04) just seemed to sum up what we were about. It starts with an interview with Ted Leo after he blew out his voice in Champaign and I finished the singing for him.  That ends with a clip of Babe Ruth with a fake swear word beeped in. We played Ted Leo quite a bit. A new song that's old now. A lengthy, lie-riddled microphone break, back-selling a lot of things that we used to play.  A tongue lashing of the DJs on before us. An explanation of what Google is and how to spell it, followed by the futile spelling of our very long impossible find website. We were doing Dream Warriorisms then because we were on from 12-2am at that time.  We went retro and pulled out a Motivational Karo

SLUMFEST '05

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Slumfest '05.  Slumfest was Dudestalk, but in the Fall and for the die-hards.  It was cold. (Courtest of Dylan Stanford/FlyTV) That's what Dudestalk '04 was for reference. There are certain staples of Dudestalk/Slumfest. 1.  Resinators 2.  Demolition Derby 3.  blacking out. You can usually count on some Indiana punk bands trying to move to a better slot in the lineup so they can get out before their IQ goes up. Legendary Lexington producer, Bill Spectre, records the madness.  I came across a few CDs from the evening of 10/22/05.  I not only have the RESINATORS set, but I have HANDSOME MICK ONE-MAN-BAND opening for them.  Not only do I have DEMOLITION DERBY, I also have DEMOLITION DERBY... the 2nd set. With no further ado... Choose your own adventure. HANDSOME MICK ONE-MAN-BAND! RESINATORS! DEMOLITION DERBY A! DEMOLITION DERBY B! Click to do damage.