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At the 2003 Hartford show, Joie related this story about the origin of this song (not a direct quote): Way back when, when they were first recording the Puzzle album, they had a bunch of songs they'd worked on and finished. They took the album to the head of IRS records, Miles Copeland. Basically, he told them he hated it. They were called dada, so he wanted it to be more fucked up, for lack of a better term. As in, add all sorts of weird stuff to it and make it artsy... By way of example, Joie was saying stuff like filling a room with animals and recording it, stuff like that. So they told him, OK, we'll try that, but we need more money. So the label gave them more money. Then they scrapped a bunch of songs, wrote new ones, and re-did some, and came up with Puzzle 2.0, or 1.1, or 1.2 (as Joie joked), the Puzzle album that we know today. So they wrote and recorded this song with the money, instead of adding weird stuff to their album (like they were supposed to).
Pop culture references: "Hef" is Hugh Hefner, creator and Editor in Chief of Playboy magazine. Jack Webb was an actor in TV's Dragnet. He starred as Sgt. Joe Friday.
During 99% of all live performances of this song, Mike Gurley changes the name "Tina" to "Dorina".
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