Violent Femmes Rate Banjos, Curly Fries, and Therapy Animals

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Banjos are underrated!

It's such a great instrument,

makes everybody happy as soon as they hear it.

In fact, I heard that Pink Floyd at one point,

when Syd Barrett was still in the band,

and he was going downhill,

they thought about adding a banjo player

just to perk things up,

but then they got David Gilmour instead.

I heard somebody say, What's the difference between

a Harley and a banjo?

Do you know that one?

No? Well, you can tune a Harley.

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That's marijuana extract or something?

It's not a drug, right?

Right, the little bits that I hear about it

sound like it's maybe still underrated,

or maybe because some people have had

great experiences of really helping them out a lot.

So I've been hearing things like that just from...

I've heard it's good for arthritis,

and all kinds of stuff. all kinds of things.

And I'm thinking about trying it for tendonitis.

We work pretty hard on stage, but I'm gonna try it out,

so we'll say a little bit underrated.

And I was telling somebody about it, it's like,

well, its just I'm always going like this as fast as I can,

and you're like, Are you sure

that's from playing the guitar?

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We like all kinds of music. We like all kinds of music,

but I like American music best.

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We have a very specific association with this term.

I have a very specific association,

is it the same one?

Maybe?

Probably.

Voot.

Yeah, one of our friends wrote a song called Butt Plugs,

so that song would be very underrated,

it's a masterpiece.

And I think of a song, and song lyrics.

This guy's name is Voot Warnings.

Kind of grabbed a hold of you,

when you're listening to it.

So, the song Butt Plugs is definitely underrated.

Absolutely, the song is just unknown,

it's underrated.

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Are those...

Underrated. [laughs]

I'm not sure what it is.

You're not sure what an anklet is?

That's cool.

What is it?

[laughs] I think I even know that.

At least, I just said they're underrated,

so now I'm hoping I know what I'm talking...

Is that jewelry?

Yeah, it's like, instead of a bracelet

around this part of your body...

Isn't that called an ankle bracelet?

Shortened is anklet. So they call that anklets?

Okay.

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Way underrated.

You can have little bells, too.

That's another way to take it.

That's okay, that's good.

There's not enough of that.

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I think underrated because I would believe

and think that that could really be an important thing

in some people's lives.

Overrated is very discriminatory.

If I wanted to bring a lobster on a plane,

and say, Live lobster,

this makes me feel really comfortable.

maybe it would make me feel comfortable,

because I'd be thinking when I get to my next destination

I'll have a good meal, but they wouldn't let me do that.

So, I'm going to go with overrated.

Deep divide, here.

It's a hung jury.

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Over, Overrated. [laughs]

Overrated, because it's not the shape of the fry,

it's how it's prepared, the quality of the potato,

those are the factors.

It's also one's taste, and what one's going for.

If you want to get a lot of crisp or crunch,

assuming that it's crispy and crunchy,

you can get a lot of that with the curly.

But, I prefer to have a little more of a softer potato,

balanced with the crunch.

So, the curly fries, and the shoestring fries,

and all that, just messes all that up.

I like the Belgian or Dutch style fries.

That should be the standard, that everyone is striving for,

and then the other ones should be the variants,

which is acceptable, but not the standard.

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I didn't know that there was a thing, is there a thing?

You mean breakfast food?

Yeah, with a celebrity.

And not just Wheaties putting who got the gold medal on.

I didn't even know about that.

They're underrated because we don't know they exist.

Exactly, they're underrated because hadn't heard about it!

Is it nutritious?

I don't think that's the point.

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Okay, we gotta go.

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