Todd Rundgren Rates Alien Abductions, Jimmy Buffett, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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I can't swim, actually.

I mean I can make the motions of swimming, but historically,

I was a very ectomorphic person, growing up.

And apparently I have very high bone density.

When I get in the water, even in the Aegean Sea,

which is saltier than the Atlantic

or the Pacific, I just sink.

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I would have to say that he was overrated

even though he's actually demonstrated

something very valuable which is

that you don't need the so-called record business

to survive as a musician.

But you do need to find some peculiar crowd of people

that is going to show up at all of your events

and drink wine out of penis-shaped bottles

and be 50 years old running around

with your shirt off.

I'd say more power to him.

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My theory is that conspiracies are overrated

because I am a student of human nature

and I know that people have a hard time

not screwing things up, and so the whole idea

that the Rothschilds are running the world

or the Illuminati or something like that,

and they keep themselves so perfectly secret

that nobody knows, no, somebody's gonna blab.

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Aryan aggression--

[Man] Alien abductions.

Oh, alien abduction. [laughs]

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Pee-Wee is definitely underrated.

I was one of the scorers of the original series

and I've known Paul Reubens

since long before he had the show.

You forget how brilliant that show was,

and what a unique character he created.

So I've always felt he was underrated

and that masturbating in a porn theater is overrated.

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I never took the Rock Hall seriously,

for any number of reasons.

There's a lot of just goofy things about it

that make it suspicious.

The secretive way that the nominating process operates,

the cabal of people that nobody knows

where somebody keeps saying, LL Cool J, LL Cool J,

[laughs] LL Cool J, year after year.

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Peyote is underrated, there should be peyote available

at little stands all up and down the streets

for people who need an emergency enlightenment.

I used to have a shoe box full of peyote

and I spent a month high on it

and look it didn't harm me at all.

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