Today's slow drag is with 20% Amnesia. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name.

Show Notes:

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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson

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“20% Amnesia”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ljVEbHw2mg

Elvis Costello Wiki Resource Page: "20% Amnesia": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/20%25_Amnesia 

Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.weebly.com/podcast-transcriptlinks/episode-8-the-word-she-wanted-was-destination-a-slow-drag-with-20-amnesia 

References:

Strip Jack Naked: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/rules-card-games-beggar-neighbour 

“Beggar My Neighbour” Marc. M. Paulhus. Source: The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Feb., 1999), pp. 162-165 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of the Mathematical Association of America https://www.jstor.org/stable/2589054

Boot Boy definition and examples from the Cambridge dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/boot-boy 

A Hundred Years of Windsors but Still the Queen is partly German: https://www.ft.com/content/b80a9dde-f1f0-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608 

Tramp the Dirt Down: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Tramp_The_Dirt_Down

How to Be Dumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q7sFEe_H-o

Rich Hall QI quote: https://www.quotes.net/mquote/833502

The difference between destiny and destination: https://wikidiff.com/destination/destiny

Elvis Costello continues to sing “Tramp the Dirt Down” the-dirt-down-elvis-costello-defends-decision-to-continue-singing-anti-thatcher-songs-8706270.html"> https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tramp-the-dirt-down-elvis-costello-defends-decision-to-continue-singing-anti-thatcher-songs-8706270.html

Glastonbury Festival 2013 “Tramp the Dirt Down” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZ8PormR1w

Gorbachev and Cinderella and Major: xpm-1991-07-17-1991198031-story.html"> https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-07-17-1991198031-story.html 

Pick up the phone! (90s adult sex chat line ad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdlb5yv5xo

So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo

"20% Amnesia" Lyrics

"What is your destiny?" the policewoman said 20% amnesia The word that she wanted was "destination," I'm afraid 20% amnesia This is your future boy, this is your fate 20% amnesia And you're obsolete and they can't afford to educate you 20% amnesia In his bed-time boot-boy jersey Ringing up some fantasy tart Give me strength or give me mercy Life intimidates art Give me strength or give me mercy Don't let me lose heart From rage to anaesthesia 20% amnesia Were you passed out on the sofa? 20% amnesia While justice was bartered by a drunken oaf? 20% amnesia This is all your glorious country thinks of your life 20% amnesia Strip-jack-naked with a Stanley knife 20% amnesia So the German Queen went home again But she couldn't find forgiveness They made a fist of the hand of friendship But it's only business Give me strength or give me mercy Don't let me lose heart From rage to anaesthesia 20% amnesia The wine you drink has never seen a grape And now your sci-fi suit has lost its shape But its a dangerous game that comedy plays Sometimes it tells you the truth Sometimes it delays it Think back, think back if you still can When the trumpet sounded and the world began Somebody said "We must have won" So they started burying the bogeyman Mister Gorbachev came cap in hand 20% amnesia From a bankrupt land to a bankrupt land 20% amnesia Mister Gorbachev and some other fella 20% amnesia Were taken to a show called "Cinderella" 20% amnesia It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mystery 20% amnesia It was calculated and the rest is history 20% amnesia You don't have to listen to me That's the triumph of free will When there are promises to break And dreams to kill Give me strength or give me mercy Don't let me lose heart From rage to anaesthesia 20% amnesia