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Now Kmele’s old enough to go to the proctologist and sing Moon River a la Fletch.

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Aug 7, 2022Liked by Matt Welch

Just ordered a “Is this Heaven? No, it’s Iowa” bumper sticker for the pod. #iowanice 😉

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Aug 8, 2022Liked by Matt Welch

An oldie but a goodie, James Earl Jones' Field of Dreams dialogue put over Star Wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvzZ-HBdKm8

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That was damn good Kmele.

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I listened to Matt's argument about Field of Dreams and likd it. Thought I was only one who liked baseball but didn't like that movie. Also, the book, if memory serves, had much less of the treacle that Matt disliked.

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Can one of you please go on Real Time and point out to Bill that Democrats have been denying elections since at least 2000 and the madness that has subsumed the GOP is recent AND just playing by the same rules as the fucking left?

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One of the few redeeming qualities of Field of Dreams is that it launched the career of Gaby Hoffmann; so good in Winning Time.

Another, of course, is James Earl Jones, despite the lines he has to speak. If I could have access to that fancy time travelling technology in Field of Dreams, it would be to go back a couple of years before the film came out to see him on Broadway in Fences, a good dramatic counterpoint about regrets, baseball and the past....

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Fun fact #1: Our first dance at our wedding was to Moon River. Unfortunately it was not the Kmele version.

Fun fact #2: Matt Welch is 100% wrong about Field of dreams. I listened and found your arguments unconvincing. sad!

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I am swooning after listening to Kmele sing. Thank you for that!

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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes to Kmele singing!! Matt & Michael, if videos of you guys performing also exist, I insist upon them being posted 🤣 (though, I suspect they won’t be as great as Kmele)

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You heartbreakers at The Fifth Column...just know...wherever you go, I’m going your way 🎶 ♥️

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I now feel even more of a kinship with Karaoke Kmele. The only time I have ever sung by myself in public was at a dive bar in West Duluth, MN. Way too drunk to be by myself, I sang Strangers in the Night and got a standing ovation.

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