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1[[AC:John Flansburgh]]
2
3->[Judy is your Viet Nam] "''did start as a Christmas song, and then sort of veered a hard left.''"
4-->--2011 WXRT Radio Interview
5
6->'''Interviewer:''' There's something I find vaguely disturbing about some of the songs on [Music/FactoryShowroom].\
7'''Flansburgh:''' The songs we recorded in the nude, you mean? You figured that out?
8
9->"''...frankly, I was a terrible science student in high school. My last memory of the periodic table was right before I lost consciousness.''"
10-->On why They hired a consultant during "Here Comes Science".
11
12[[AC:John Linnell]]
13
14->''It wasn't a "get rich quick" scheme - it's a "get rich really really slowly" scheme.''
15-->--Discussing Dial-A-Song
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17[[AC:Other]]
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19->'''Gloria:''' What do you think--what do you make out of that recording?\
20'''Guy on Phone:''' I don't know, Gloria, I just do--\
21'''Gloria:''' Some kind of singing. They sound like all kinds of people, right?\
22'''Guy on Phone:''' Yeah.\
23'''Gloria:''' And then it says, "Another child is born in India every time you call this number," right?\
24'''Guy on Phone:''' Yeah, right.\
25'''Gloria:''' Does that make any sense to you?\
26'''Guy on Phone:''' No, it doesn't make no sense to me.\
27'''Gloria:''' Bu--and the guy that spoke--I don't know who he is.\
28'''Guy on Phone:''' Yeah.\
29'''Gloria:''' But that--that--it doesn't sound like no answering machine, right?\
30'''Guy on Phone:''' No, it ain't an answering machine because they're not saying anything; they just--\
31'''Gloria:''' But what does he get--how does he make money on this? Whatever he's advertising in the paper. This is the part that don't make no sense.\
32'''Guy on Phone:''' Oh, he's advertising this in the paper you saw it.\
33'''Gloria:''' In the Village Voice, yeah. They got--that's where the Kiss Clinic, but they give you another number if you wanna join it. Then I got the "intellectuals meet with other intellectuals..."\
34'''Guy on Phone:''' Yeah.\
35'''Gloria:''' "...speak another language."\
36'''Guy on Phone:''' Yeah. Oh.\
37'''Gloria:''' They meet at La Met--La Maisonette restaurant. They give you the price. Then they give you another number to call if you're interested. This guy... all you get is this here recording, but u-w--I don't see how he makes money.\
38'''Guy on Phone:''' Yeah, yeah.\
39'''Gloria:''' You know what I'm saying? It's just.... They got the craziest things in that paper.\
40'''Guy on Phone:''' Yeah, yeah.\
41'''Gloria:''' They come over with all--they got the craziest things. But this one here-- "There Must Be Giants," it's called. And it says "call machine," and they got the phone number.\
42'''Guy on Phone:''' Yeah.\
43'''Gloria:''' But what kind of money does he make? It don't make no sense. Well, he don't make any money, right?\
44'''Guy on Phone:''' No.\
45'''Gloria:''' But, that's--then he's a nut, right? Do you see--do you see any sense to that? "There May Be Giants?" That reco--that recording I have on. The new one. Did you hear it? I changed it. I took off the intellectuals. I put on There May Be Giants.\
46'''Guy in Background:''' What?\
47'''Gloria:''' Who's They May Be Giants?\
48'''Guy in Background:''' What are you talking about?\
49'''Gloria:''' That's what's on my--the phone, There May Be G-- well I can't explain it, 'cause I don't know what it is.\
50'''Guy in Background:''' (unintelligible muttering) you could make sense once in a while.\
51'''Gloria:''' Look in the paper! Don't blame me if the guy's a nut.
52-->--''Untitled'', off the ''Hotel Detective EP''

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