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this is the best email i have ever received.

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amazing. thanks. i gotta use this as a testimonial!

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Matt,

That's awesome that you were in a band. It's awesome that you got to travel. I was rofl laughing when you wear wearing those platform shoes and fell. I wrote you earlier about the date i went on and she ended up being 6'5". I am only 6 feet tall. I was definitely shockdd about her height and wish I had some platform shoes. I kind of felt like deuce bigalow when he went on a date with Tina who must have been 6'11". What's crazy is that i noticed her hands and feet were bigger than mine too. We had dinner and i felt like I needed a booster seat. Jk. I definitely agree that I think taller men get more respect. I noticed people stared a lot because I was with a 6'5" woman.

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Hey, 6 feet is pretty good! You're above average so that's something haha.

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Have you ever seen deuce bigalow male gigalo? Would you date a woman who is 7 feet tall?

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need to stand on a lot of phone books for that to work.

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Yeah we would need too. Could take her to a basketball court for a date. It'd be awesome to see her dunk!

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I have to confess. I am only 5'11". I wish i was 6 feet lol. She had 6 inches on me bro.

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It's clear that you don't know me at all, Matt.

It turns out I *did* want to hear about your band. Also, I *did* choose to play the bass. It was after hearing Les Claypool's bass playing in Primus and I thought, "You can do *that* with a bass guitar?"

I just wrote a (much less in-depth) piece about my own band experience. It was a very different experience than yours but ended up the same, more or less. https://lyle.substack.com/p/now-i-know-what-ive-been-missing

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Ha, that's so cool! Great writeup. You might dig this book: https://www.amazon.com/Wanna-Rock-Roll-Star-Machine-Gunned/dp/0767914716

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