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Sam and Mike pop open bottles of Uivo Renegado and Huaso de Sauzal, breaking Sam’s yearlong streak of champagne. After they wax poetic on the beauty of magnum bottles and wonder whether that one time they actually a magnum by themselves, they turn towards a discussion of how people’s music tastes come to be. 

Sam, the self-identified 60-year-old dude from Manchester, talks about how her secret listening of pop music on Z100 while growing up was a rebellious act against her parents who wanted her to play violin and listen to classical music. Mike, speaking as the dance music nerd who still loves the hits from 07-13, contrasts that with his parents who were not music at all (and in some cases anti-music in general) growing up. Then they discuss what music became their north star, which set them on the path to their musical tastes today.