Uploaded September 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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"In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly."
- Janis Joplin

Interview by Howard Smith
September 30, 1970. By phone
TheSmithTapes.com

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Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales
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