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Toby Howell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

I hear we're talking about acting today.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

In fact, Noom found users lose on average eight pounds in 30 days on their microdose protocol.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

My winner of the weekend is a guy named Adam Jacobs, who has secretly recorded over 10,000 concerts spanning four decades, creating a heck of a music archive in the process.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

This story went viral over the weekend.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Jacobs started this side project in Chicago back in 1984, and a few years later snuck a Sony cassette recorder in to go see a little band from Seattle play their debut show, his surreptitious recording of Nirvana.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

predated their global breakthrough and set Jacobs on a path towards becoming an unexpected music folk hero.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Over the ensuing years, Jacobs amassed a enviable archive of indie and punk rock, recording concerts from R.E.M., The Cure, The Pixies, The Replacements, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, and more.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Along the way, he became known in the scene.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

In the beginning, some venue owners gave him a hard time for sneaking in increasingly complex recording devices, but after a while, seeing that his intentions were that of a pure music lover,

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

He became the taper guy, and venues started letting him in for free.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Now his archive is being digitized and hosted for free on the Internet Archive, preserving the giant catalog of his live shows for future generations to enjoy.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Neil, so far, about 5,500 tapes have been digitized, with thousands more to go.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Volunteers across the world are still hard at work doing just that.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

There's something in the way that this is bringing the music community together.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

It is very interesting, those capes that he got, the concerts that he got on tape.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

There's a 1990 Phish show that was unreleased to everyone.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

And now that it's on the line, Phish devotees are going crazy for it.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

There is a 1988 concert from Boogie Down Productions that people had never heard before.

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US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

So people are literally going crazy for the findings that are unearthed in this collection.