Beck Did It Again! Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison ReRelease

[00:00]what were you showing us there rob what did you have there oh my god the dog oh well thanks my my dog died today so thanks for bringing up your dog oh man i'm sorry oh no i'm kidding that's the cutest little dog in the world did your dog pass away today yeah we had to put her down well you're not kidding then that's a double kid you tricked us twice that's terrible oh my god i think it was 17 yeah i have to say like on the instagram pictures your wife posted i was like that dog looks old like i know old dogs that dog

[00:34]is looking right well you know we've been saying for three years that the uh you know this last cabin trip for lou dogs yes to lula lou the last cabin trip last cabin trip and then she made it twice this year and we're just like man we are rolling the dice so she took a lot of extra pictures just thinking that there's no way she can make it to next may or june or whenever we get up there and here it is we got back on saturday because the kids started school today and last night we got back on saturday and we got back on saturday and we got back on saturday and last night was not a good night so yeah i'm sorry to hear that man that's such a bummer for

[01:02]those of you just tuning in welcome to back to the better this is your uh this is your number one place where one of us gets a dog when the other one has one die that has happened now twice twice two times it's not only that but but holds up the dog proudly on a zoom call yeah 100 showing the dog how cute my dog it is it's a lion king listen everybody we are talking about johnny cash we are re-releasing now listen we can't get together we're busy adults okay who have stopped texting each other like a week before and now we're trying to plan like two days before but

[01:34]we are going to have a little bit of gaps here coming up we do we are busy busy busy this is our busy time of year i mean guys don't i'm not even gonna get started what's going on in my life i'm just gonna say i mean you're actually working again right i had to put on socks today can you imagine can you imagine what that's like for me to have to go find my socks anyway i've got matt here from minneapolis matt how are you doing did they go past your ankles or not like what are you talking like gym like no i've been to the gym or like you had to like cover up an ankle no i've got matching i get the like the the cheapest

[02:05]matching fancy colorful socks on amazon you know they come in the blue box i think all the guys are gonna take your headphones off all right russell you tell me this foot freak all summer doesn't have put socks on just to have his kids take them off sometime he goes three full months without having socks on are you kidding me he might not wear he might just wear crocs for three months legit so then he saves up all that yeah pleasure yeah for when he okay all right rob come on back uh listen i've got matt in his

[02:36]basement minneapolis matt how are you doing tonight for a quick or a quick introduction to johnny cash re-release just lovely rob my dog died i'm doing great oh my god i forgot about that already i'm such a bad person and i've got russell coming from his workplace now russell i did not realize you work in an upscale i don't know how else to say but it's an upscale pornography store uh i can see all the posters on the wall of my some of my favorite vivid movies from the past

[03:00]now russell i just have to ask this what is in the back gate yeah what's in the back room at an upscale pornography store like that doesn't seem that like it should have a back room like it's like a swinging gate yeah like it kind of blocks the view what's in there and you tell everybody oh if you want the good stuff it's the back behind the gate is that what's going on rob i can't forget the day i shot this bad podcast down i love it now russell you suggested because we were saying hey listen we can't get together and record aaron something about aaron i don't even know what it was but we you said one of the things we should re-release is johnny cash yeah uh johnny cash

[03:36]could i share could i share some of the and why yeah yeah so i i saw this article august 26 this day in music history 1969 rob oh nice on this day quote unquote this is from the current.org quote unquote on this day in 1969 johnny cash performed for the first time at the minnesota state fair wow joined by the tennessee three opening acts june carter the carter sisters

[04:03]scattler brothers these are all the these are all the best right yeah played a 19 song set all the ones you think about ring of fire walk the line blah blah blah boy named sue it was significant in minnesota state fair history because it was the first time ever a grandstand show had been sold out to a standing room only crowd of more than 26 000 people wow that's pretty amazing isn't it so 26 000 people is that that's more than 26 000 it was

[04:31]significant it was the first time they had sold out standing room only and the minnesota star tribune at the time reported a fair publicist said there hadn't been a night like it since the depression days when a car was given away at every concert and that police were called to the grandstand after a bookseller's booth by a ticket cage was nearly destroyed by the surging crowd trying to get tickets to the grandstand wow pretty amazing turns out he also that was his first show at the state fair he'd go on to perform

[05:02]five more times 1970 76 78 and 80 and then he also played in 1991 with willie nelson wow that's a that's a pretty hardcore lineup right now we had john for me dying to slide into our dms here on the call john how are you doing tonight gentlemen fantastic i i take it you're talking about the on that write-up that's fantastic he he had the first sold outward oversold show at the minnesota

[05:30]state fair in 1969 john that's fantastic can i admit something to you guys i'm gonna admit a sick this is one of my i have two shames of minnesotan okay three shames as a as a human but two as a minnesotan and one is i cannot ice skate very well okay i know looking at me you're right away you're thinking i bet this guy's like frozen no i'm not my other shame is i have never been to a concert at the state fair and i hard i bet i've been to the state fair overall three times in my whole life i it's something embarrassing rochester and when the football season would

[06:04]start we just were not a state fair family and it just seems my my sister took her kid to megan trainer this year as a surprise concert and she said the state fair at night is like a whole different creature what's your guys's state fair experience john what's your state fair experience well it's funny because you you think you're far away in rochester we're growing up in rochester and uh ever since i was born we came over to the minnesota state fair oh my god i've been to 45 well 43 when i lived in arizona i missed those two years but uh it's an annual

[06:34]tradition uh with my my family now my extended family um we actually just did our our annual visit on on saturday at a fantastic time and speaking of concerts uh we're gonna take the kids to go see the avid brothers on friday wow that's great now john if if if one thing was just blown up at the state fair just a terrible tragedy it just blew up what would make you feel the worst like if something disappeared from the state fair what would

[07:02]be the worst thing for you to disappear i don't know why i said oh that's kind of depressing you know john's gonna say that princess k of the milky way he's butter my toast uh honestly uh so primarily it's the food that's what we go for i love going to the free music stands and going to the linies band shell um the west end has a great bluegrass and folk music and i love going to the music over there but honestly guys i'm addicted to there's a corn dog stand oh yeah this is what

[07:30]it's corn dog not pronto pop corn dog it's right on the corner across from the live birth and all you can drink milk stand so if you if you're familiar with the area you can play maps with this but they have the greatest crispiest corn dogs you'll ever have and you imagine a busier set of porta potties than what's by the live birth and free milk stand if i was drinking all you can you know you're drinking too much milk and then you're watching just live birth after live birth that's gonna get you loosened up like crazy my god that's crazy i uh i would it would be crazy

[08:04]if you went by the live birth place and they were like lightning crashes and you'd be like damn i should have seen this coming and look how much milk they're drinking it makes a lot of sense it's crazy how much milk they're drinking man what's your relationship with the state fair i was 39 for 39 and then covid stuff hit and i i think i've been back once since and a lot of that has to do with having a cabin up in the middle of north dakota and so you know i ended up going up there for labor day with everything so usually

[08:34]ends up that we're up there so like we got back on saturday and i'm going back up on friday so uh my my window to go to the fair has been decreased immensely so i don't go but yeah if uh if there was no more sweet martha's cookies so my my play is sweet martha's cookies and then you go to the all you can eat milk booth which is just awesome with sweet martha's cookies there's some there's some turkey there's a turkey sandwich right there that i get every single time you get

[09:04]a turkey leg there and then obviously the cheese curds which whatever reason are the best cheese curds in the world kind of a thing so don't and then you know for whatever reason minnesota yes for whatever reason you know the yellow slide if that blew up i think that'd be a tragedy i think that's just kind of a giant slide the giant slide yeah the giant yellow slide um that blew up that'd be a tragedy and then you know i love going to the

[09:31]grandstand and just looking at all the trinkets and trash i just i think that's super fun to do and i can't take my kids through it and my wife could care less to go do it but i try to send them off and just go by myself and just watch all the carny barkers uh trying to sell did you ever buy a a mop or a salsa maker or a yarn hammock did you ever buy one of the last thing i bought there was like a fancy shower head at one of the stands you know they've got the shower head guy he's got 70 000 shower heads that's all my wife wants for every birthday i don't know

[10:03]man is that what you're calling your bidet these days hey check this out if we can hey where'd you get that i actually got it at the state fair last year you should try it out yeah i saw some live births and they were using this and it went really well hey and by the way aaron we're talking about food at the state fair and you're not here to talk about it so go ahead and check it out and i'll see you next time when i when i text out 10 minutes before we have an emergency meeting and you're doing stuff with your family this is what you're missing out on right here

[10:31]now i've this is i mean are we getting announced that john's officially part of the podcast and he's on every episode and then no because then you're gone switch off you're gone john we're having some scheduling issues right now so the text chain has been the text chain i've had to be therapist a little bit i'll tell you what i'm al newman i'm just your utility guy i'm here when you need me denny hawker i'll tell you what guys i'm going to be your utility guy i'm going to be i went to the vermont state fair when i was there thinking it was going to be at least similar to the minnesota state fair and the vermont state fair would be great if you wanted to see pregnant

[11:04]teens smoking in icp t-shirts kind of sounds like north dakota state fair they had uh yeah who do they have uh who's the down with the nookie group uh limp biscuit limp biscuit was the headliner up there this year limp headliner at the north dakota state fair how about that red durst what a guy this year they've got they've got they've got they've got they've got atmosphere this year we've talked about them recently haven't they got but then they had the far side they got a whole cypress hill cypress hill that would have been awesome to see i think

[11:32]it was a couple days ago yesterday man what do you think is in the grandstand at north dakota state fair just like hey big this is a big cigarette i took a bunch of cigarettes and i made a big cigarette and everyone's like damn yeah russell you gotta get going so he gets back russell i thought you were gonna come on and say that today was the 50th anniversary of bruce springsteen's run 50 years ago today it was i didn't see that that's amazing you would think uh you would think a website that has like this week this day in music would probably cover that bad i might need

[12:04]to find a new website for matt from northfield 50 years ago today august 25th 1975 was uh born to run came out wow technically matt technically matt we released on the 26th so there's a reason for this i see what's going on yeah it's russ you want to talk about your state fair experience or do you have to go back is somebody trying to buy no i mean so many penthouses why would they need to make lunches russ is working at a high-end pornography store just in case you're wondering

[12:32]real quickly i used to go to this i used to go to the state fair all the time as a kid we would go every year just like you guys would we would go for a different reason i had two cousins that were in 4h yeah so we would go see our cousins show their pigs show their cattle do all that stuff so we had to do we spent a lot of time in the animal barns when we were kids at and you know what it kind of ruined me i don't go as an adult anymore and and part of it you guys i'm a sweaty guy i don't want to be walking around the state fair on hot asphalt for like three hours

[13:05]aimlessly with nowhere to go other than food lines it just doesn't appeal to me i don't get it russell i know it's so hot there but let me let me just say this yes all you can drink milk now does that does that bring you in hot day live verse all you could drink milk if you don't drop in the uh anchor man into this right now then you're so damn hot milk was a bad choice so hot oh man i have to say before we go i did watch happy gilmore too

[13:38]yesterday yes i liked it and my kids liked it and so i was wrong you were right yeah i mean it's good there was some dumb stuff they did it so far to the one side of like bringing back all of the references and doing and just playing it up that they didn't try to it wasn't a dumb and i'm not gonna lie to you i'm not gonna lie to you i'm not gonna lie to you i'm not gonna lie to you but my kid now wants to watch the original happy gilmore so i was like oh success yeah you know there you go and there's not too much like stuff i can't show my kids i gotta go cry now rob sorry

[14:04]oh my god bring that dog up again what are you doing the dog matt's dog passed away today so oh no man i'm sorry yeah and this dog is just so young and full of the dog and what is he doing it's biting my cord so i love the state fair as a kid here's the things i loved one was the uh the dnr building with the big wooden like man-made pond with all the big fish in it that was one of my loved it yep i agree and then i think one of the last years i went was about

[14:33]senior year of high school we did the haunted house oh and you guys know i'm not a scary i'm not a schedule like horror the scary guy but we had um someone jumped out and touched one of my it was not one of the complimentary movie guys but one of my buddies kind of did like a swipe at the monster and they they stopped it turned the lights on came out said you know these are these are kids and whatever that are doing this please do not hit the monsters in the haunted house i mean was he surprised what did he think

[15:04]was gonna happen i don't know oh well i just i just hope the war on terror here is gonna first they're gonna start with these haunted houses i mean yes now listen we're talking johnny cash we're talking live at folsom prison blues and just like a prison i've had you guys trapped on here for longer than you wanted to as you knew i would do you know i would get you out of here for a long time but thanks so much for coming on we are doing johnny cash and i think russell this is the one that starts out with thank goodness his name is

[15:30]johnny cash and not nick the quick hit dipshit or whatever so folks you're gonna find out right now as you're listening to us whatever episode this was whatever came out johnny cash live at folsom prison blues we will see you listen we don't know if we're gonna see you next week we're trying to figure some shit out we'll see you at some point okay but guess what just text us everybody who phone number so just if you want to hear my opinions on things just let me know all right all right sleepover update it is 1 12 a.m my time they are watching a movie still outside

[16:01]there's a sound machine in the bedroom next to me so nobody cares about audio fidelity these days it turns out in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums is decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a tech chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you're a fan of the podcast then you're you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better guys that one was so easy for me to read that means i need to up my game a little bit here we go we are up to album

[16:35]we are up to album 164 and from 1968 hey you do me and all you want uh we had the man in black at folsom prison with johnny cash wow we're really here we really did it how long have we been saying there's no johnny cash on this list and here we are here we are we made it i'll tell you i'll tell you what it is so lucky that his name is johnny cash because that hello you know hello i'm johnny cash sounds so much better than hello i'm i'm

[17:05]little dick nick the quit hit dip shit like that would not sound good if his name was little dick nick the quit hit dip shit yeah i mean you're not wrong it'd be tougher it'd be i just can't clang our cups against our bars okay and let's let's let's ask the warden to please put on the prison radio let's turn on the radio and see and don't say anything about prison errands i'm gonna

[17:34]bum us out right now okay please i'm begging you okay i beg you try try your hardest you think they forgot now you have to think about what's something that we talked about in the last two weeks that would just get stuck up my head and clang around okay and i would say even maybe we didn't talk about it it was just kind of implied right and so i'm going to turn on the radio and right but it's been clanging around and then what if you made one of your longest parody songs of all time okay because it was just such a bountiful harvest of things to talk about okay aaron would

[18:02]you like that or would you not like that i would love it i think well then hey happy valentine's here we go well i'm back to it better russell comes home and does his night routine he makes the tv reads his whole hogan magazine yes and drinks a martini made of espresso but he can't figure out how to get the right amount of phone has to do it quick because rob didn't edit it fast he goes upstairs and he brushes his teeth

[18:38]he has to move eight pillows to get beneath the sheet sits in the bed doesn't have much to say he's lying there listening about her day he's going to tell her about an email he typed but when he began to talk then she turned off the light they are lying there and they're getting to sleep to the other side russell starts to creep

[19:08]then he thinks that he has a shot when she turns to him and she says i'm getting hot russell smiled and he said all right looks like it's going to be one of those fun nights as soon as he started getting close to her when she said i said hot i

[19:30]meant the temperature then she looked at him and said can you move a bit i need to stretch out i need to stretch my hip then russell laid back he began to snore she poked a man she said could you move a little more he looked at over and he said hey the way we split the bed well it doesn't seem fair she looked at him and then she said i agree i think

[20:03]i should get the whole bed come on russell you need to listen to us the key to marriage is a nice when you want to hear about the greatest of all time i was proud of that i will say we did we've got an extra room in the upstairs we did buy an additional bed like a guest

[20:31]bed for that room there was no bed there before and i knew what was going on this was like the first move towards you're gonna have to move to that it's better that room at some point when you're annoying me right no you russell russell you know you know how like you're just silent aaron knows exactly what i'm talking about no no no russell you know how when you're about to get broken up with you know how when you're about to get broken up with you know how when you're about to try to break up with them first you know what i mean it's like quitting before you can get fired it's that kind of thing you have to send her to that room before she sends you you need to

[21:00]preemptively say uh you're not sleeping in this bed tonight get over to that other room just try it just try it see how it goes great advice just i think it's gonna be fine all right i'm here with three guys uh who want to talk about johnny cash they want to talk about fulsome prison blues i think for all of us this is a big time album i've got three guys here i've got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing uh good rob uh i just wanted to say just make sure you're always being a good boy don't ever play with guns okay wow usually aaron makes the gun jokes right i'm gonna clip

[21:34]that uh i've got uh russell in minneapolis russell how are you doing i'm good well his mustache is very handsome to look like look at he's shaggy and he eats ice cream like a hog and he's famous for choking his chicken that dirty old cadbury egg sucking rob can you hear the dog coughing as he walks behind me that's so good um listen i've got and i've got aaron out in california aaron a lot of people don't know this he recently won an award for being

[22:04]the most uh secretive guy at the office they don't know yeah yeah he can't tell you how much it means to him uh i've got aaron in california aaron how are you doing i just got back from walking these hills in the long black veil let's talk about johnny cash's wholesome prison oh now guys which one of you would say you're my best friend uh i'm watching you okay arms of my wife i don't think so uh let's get into the voicemail

[22:34]we have all these bits that are only funny if you've listened to this album one million times and you know every lyric to this album it's like do you guys ever wonder like if you're if if nobody claims you as your best friend like the the world can't be a perfect where it's a one best friend there's got to be people who are like oh oh there's probably 10 people that think rob is their best friend for sure but then there's other people where nobody they're like no i guarantee

[23:02]no one thinks i'm their best friend wouldn't that be weird that would be that's sad my friend suzanne and i have this conversation all the time because suzanne and i we openly declare that we're best friends right but she also calls her friend out in california her best friend and when she said it she was like i don't know and i said listen best friend is a tier it's not an exclusive thing we can all be best friends it's a tier if you're a best friend that's right up there it's zero sub game it's one

[23:32]or the other russell no way it also depends on how many downloads she's made who is suzanne who is suzanne gonna pick between the two of you that's the question oh me comes down to it i mean me for sure i mean that's that's the thing is it is me okay it is a tear but that other one can hit the bricks if she thinks she's the real best friend because i actually agree with russell that's totally right all right there are so many children wandering around rob's room right now on the back line 802-277 that's 802-277 i need to say something but can you guys just check your

[24:08]chat real quick oh no um you fucking old lights russell's legs god damn it i got these track lights in my in my basement yeah if they're on for like more than like a day i'm gonna be like five six hours they just fucking shut off in the middle of the night oh no russell i was wondering why you were running a 400 earlier it's the track lighting you know what that means rob i get to put

[24:30]my spotlight back on oh no the spotlight yes now russell looks like he's on the episode of cops oh boy russell you're a little washed out it looks good now aaron if you're going to talk about my text chat message you have to read it that's the bit is that you can read it in chat because i can't see it in front of them they're here what rob said in the chat was that they're looking at me ray so rob's daughter's friends are calling him rob and he's freaked out by like he expects to be called mr what bleep that out my son calls me aaron all the time and he calls my wife

[25:02]anna and we've tried so hard to break him of it that we just gave on rob that is so funny we just write that down anna her name's anna the next time you forget aaron i wonder if this is like i wonder if single children or solo children are more likely to call their parents by their first name that might be it because he hears us call each other that i don't know and now like we've given up on it just like i i try and then it's like he

[25:30]reverts back to it i don't care and then we're like we're out of function tonight and he's like hey aaron and people are like whoa are you calling your dad by his first name and like i'm like should i be upset about this i don't know but i don't but when i was a kid i'd never called like my friend's parents like mr mr halter mr casey was it was tom and kevin and i don't really their first name ever i also didn't have a lot of respect for my parents because they were like for adult authority i i don't know maybe it's just because my best friend growing up they were big on like no i'm you know dr so-and-so like i think the rochester's a little more formal than

[26:01]most places it was like i'm dr so-and-so i'm dr so-and-so that i could never call i don't even know what to say to parents at school i tell them to call me by my first name and it sounds weird i kind of want them to call me you know mr stud the problem is you know man i think you're right though big john stud don't say my last name it is i i do think it's true russell i think kids they'll hear what your spouse calls each other and so they'll call you that and that's why my kids have been calling me uh little dick nick

[26:31]the quick hit dipshit so hard for me it's a long setup for that joke so big it's such a big setup okay so i'm just gonna say this there's a three minute voicemail that is a prior to this that i am not playing but it's a story it's a good story but i'm not playing it it's it's music mike went to see pearl jam they weren't doing big stadium tours that he had to go to boulder so he's hanging out with a friend he goes up to this place and all of a sudden they find themselves in a practice room

[27:00]with eddie vetter going to throw so what do you do when you find yourself in a in a room with somebody who you're like obsessed with wow okay let's let's listen to the voicemail because i want i have some opinions about this okay so any better seasons we see him in the practice room he's aware but we don't go over and bother him or anything so my buddy pulls one of the guitars off the the wall and starts playing a bunch of different program songs i think we played like a live i

[27:31]don't remember but the one for sure i remember that he played was black because that was the one that got eddie to come over and talk to us so then eddie came over and told my friend like hey you're an awesome guitar player i don't even know how to play that song um great job on learning it blah blah and talked to us for about five minutes shook our hands it was super super nice um you know thanked us for not for letting him come to us and not the

[28:03]other way around you know not loving him or whatever and yeah he was super cool so you know matt if you ever get the opportunity don't hesitate because he's definitely a good guy it's definitely not the don't meet your hero stereotype so um the question i have for you then is have any of you guys met anybody famous and who was it and give me your stories talk to you guys later bye magic mike what a guy what a great story that's a great legend am i

[28:35]wrong if i was with a friend and we saw eddie vetter and they started playing pearl jam songs on the guitar i would be mortified russell would you be mortified what else are you gonna play though it's it's a little more creative than just going up and fanboying out right at least you're trying to do it in a fun fun way and you know what if he wants to ignore it he can ignore it and you're not imposing on him that's a great point and that's the thing is i know i feel like i have social anxiety about that he wouldn't get mad right as long as you're not bugging him but oh you're right i think it is

[29:04]the best i think that's the best choice you could make i just would i would still give me the skeeves i don't know matt oh i i'm with you that i'm trying to put into like a sports you know analogy so like if all of a sudden steph curry is on the other side of a corridor four courts down or so and you just start shooting threes from all over the place and making it you know like you know maybe steph comes i don't know maybe that's cool or you start hitting dingers you know in front of some baseball players that would be more in the context probably but

[29:33]yeah you know so i i don't know maybe it's okay i'm i'm not a musician at all so i have no idea if that's cool or not but um no i'd be mortified it's his song man you know we gotta get out of here that kind of but then when he came over you would know it was like the perfect like i think russell's right you're giving him the option so yes yeah you know what i would do if i saw steph curry in the other room to get his attention what's that i would start pitching ftx and other fraudulent companies and get paid a ton of money for it but no one's gonna give me

[30:03]shit about it because i'm steph curry and they like me even though i'm committing securities fraud i would simply donate mostly to democrats and then they don't seem to prosecute you for that it's strange all right if you're on the aisle there right he's a spokesman for subway too it was subway okay one of our one of our saint olaf classmates told me a story that he was he lived out here uh mike l from kansas who i don't even know where he is now but he lived out here for

[30:30]a long time and steph curry showed up at his church and like nobody even batted an eye he was like yeah he sat right in front of me at church and nobody even did anything so i guess i don't know you just go to church if you want to meet celebrities and then you handed them lebron james cake he made or whatever that said oh and three on it or whatever he had at his party hey you i have met a couple famous people through my teaching here in the city like i had paul rudd come in and watch me teach and then he laughed when i told the joke i thought that was pretty

[31:00]awesome um and then i did meet a cast of a cast member of friends i can't say who it is because he was also at the school where i was at but it was we were meeting we were sitting next to each other at brunch and i mentioned that i worked at the school that his kid went to now did i know this yes did i bring it up because of this absolutely a hundred percent did he think then turn to me and we talked about kids dental work and then he wanted to set up a play date later yes now here's here's the real problem here was a smiley wife my wife tried to get in on this

[31:32]play date oh she was like hey i'll come to the play date too and i said i don't think so i set up this play date i get to go to it i'm gonna go hang out at this person's house because there is a not zero percent chance that jennifer aniston is gonna show up to this play date she might just be like oh hey how's it going and then now guess who's in friends you it's me i'm there hey we're a central perk it's me rob i'm one of the friends oh we're thanksgiving or whatever that

[32:07]shit was you know uh all those other great friends bits a lot of them what you watching out with your kids and you're like oh that's not nice for you guys i think i've seen less than three episodes of friends in my life wow wow i i know of the show like i know kind of like the stories of ross and rachel like i know like the pop culture stuff with it okay but i've never

[32:32]seen the show russell russell were they on a break i think they were what i'm talking about when he was he was banging like a nanny or something right so you also you yeah you get it then russell if it was thanksgiving and you wanted to entertain somebody what would you put on your head all right this is way beyond me the answer is a frozen turkey but that's a good nice try if if you couldn't get a santa claus costume what would you come as for is the secondary option easter bunny an armadillo it's

[33:05]you come as an armadillo now man of course it turns out man is the real friends here he should be at the phone can i just say this though the other day at school i was well i was telling the kids every halloween i'm dressing up as santa claus this year that's a good that's a good that's a good halloween costume so who are the famous people you guys have seen well i i tell this one and then people immediately get sad because like his ending was sad but the sad part is that i what i'm really sad about is that i played it cool but

[33:30]i didn't do what i like looking back i wish i played it differently so we were in new york at the hotel jane which is like i don't know lower east side or something and on a and you were sitting inside an unmade bed and we just went there to have brunch so we went there to have brunch and we were there and um philip seymour hoffman was there playing foosball with like what i assume was his kid and we were also there and like he was just playing foosball and so it was very like not very many people in there so i played it cool and just said you know just like gave him a nod and that was it but like now looking back what i really wish i had done is i

[34:04]wish i had just been like i loved your work and along came polly like that's the one like i so regret that i didn't go up and say to him like tell me everything about every choice you made and along came polly yeah or it's it's like hey people say i remind them of your character in that's who people think i am russell what about you what are all the famous people you've met i've got a couple the the one

[34:31]i've had most recently can i just say this yeah we don't all know the timberwolves dancers okay that's only famous for some people well let's just say what if your upstairs tenant has started going to the lifetime fitness at the target center and they said they ran into timberwolves dancers wow oh wow risk there i mean seems like yeah you're gonna have to figure out some logistics what if you saw crunch go by the area where you do crunches and say no thanks that would be ironic

[35:03]ironic i've got three that jump out the one that was most recent i think i told you guys about this i was at a conference and one of the kind of speakers that was there kind of doing some investment stuff was run our test or met a world piece oh that's a good one and i hung out with him like seven eight people we had cigars sat around the fire one night so sat with them for probably like two hours he was a really nice guy chatted basketball if you wanted but talked other things so were you at all were you at all tempted russell to hurl a cup with ice at him did that cross your

[35:35]mind at all no but i i did ask me we did talk a little bit of basketball stuff but you kind of try to lean off that like he's not there for basketball you kind of try to you know kind of like you were saying earlier rob you try to avoid just being a fan or i don't know how you put it but there was a guy there i think i told you guys this once that asked him well like he was asking like well what was the hardest part of your career and he said well it's when i got suspended for a year and the guy goes well what'd you get suspended for oh geez and because this guy's clearly not

[36:02]a sports fan and he goes well i got in a fight and i'm like yeah you got in a fucking fight you got the biggest brawl of the history most famous right yeah he's in he's in a sports fight that's so big yeah and if you say three words you know exactly what you're talking about no four words if you say oh little dick dick dipshit you know exactly what fight he was in really if you say malice at the palace there you know everybody knows what that is that's there's no other sports

[36:32]fight that's like that right well not the guy who asked him so that would got a little bit weird but it's uncomfortable maybe nolan ryan that's the only other one i can think of that's he was a really nice guy the other ones that'll jump out and matt i don't know if you would have been there or not but john from edina i i don't know if this is his wife now or not i didn't talk to me for 20 years but oh probably about 16 17 years ago a bunch of us went out on new year's eve and i believe it was to his wife or at the time girlfriends friends and there was a party with like 25 people there

[37:02]and doug chapman former viking running back was there and we played him in beer pong oh wow wow that man had some biceps right maybe his triceps were bigger that dude had some arms wow that's weird because russell's partner was amp lee we started playing darts scotty graham show scotty graham showed up for darts later on leroy horde yeah if you need three yards he'll get you three yards if you need one yard

[37:35]get you three yards isn't that the way it goes or something like that that's exactly it can i hang out with you guys a little bit david palmer is my ride yes that's a good one number 22 right yeah but you know it you know it the other one i had was a sports one and this was actually the day after rob's wedding i believe rob's wedding i think the reception was at st paul or somewhere in minneapolis or st paul rob right yeah somewhere who knows i was in st

[38:02]paul i think but at this at this wedding a bunch of us went back to this hotel afterwards people were drinking having fun and um the pleasure principle actually actually was out and he had taken his shirt off wearing a tie with just like an undershirt he almost got me in a fight which again this was one was not my fault either but he he tied one on pretty hard that night and couldn't show the next day but we had amazing twin tickets behind home plate one of our friends who worked for the twins got us like backs you know

[38:31]we could go back walk back in the office and everything so the pleasure principle was sick in the car on the way home and had to vomit into an algae bottle while i drove his car wow but big mouth or little mouth one it was a big mouth one that's good thank goodness so anyways he decides he cannot go home and he's like i'm not going to go home i'm not going to go home i'm not going to go to the twins game that day we're in the baseball playoffs right now it was johan santana versus pedro martinez at the metro and he couldn't go and after the game our buddy who worked for the

[39:01]twins took us in back we were walking around and harman killebrew was there he introduced us to harman killebrew we talked to harman killebrew for five ten minutes it was really cool you know what i thought you're gonna say for sure russell what's that it was gonna be that little guy they used to hang out with pedro martinez you know the guy i'm talking about hold on let me pull it up i have it right here you know what i thought you were gonna say for sure russell what's that it was gonna be that little guy just give me a second let me i got it is it a little quick hit the big shit is that it no do you guys know the guy i'm talking about that

[39:34]just with all the time oh okay i gotta look this up pedro i'm martinez i thought it was little guy no this is gonna come on now i do want to point out i spelled martinez m-i-r-t-i-u-n-w-z martinez and it's still gonna come up there it is nope see there he is this guy remember this guy he's holding them up he's got the beer goggles on he's holding them up i had no idea what that is

[40:02]russell nelson de la rosa nelson de la rosa let's speak his name uh russell that is a great person to meet now i will say after my wedding my i will say after my wedding a number of people were very drunk and i knew this because we had a little brunch afterwards for just the family and like my nieces and nephews and kind of people and we go out and it's right by the pool right well as i go down to the pool i start to notice there are a number of coors light scans all over by the side of the pool just all over the place and i was like oh i wonder this seems like a weird coincidence

[40:34]and then we go and sit down at our table and there's one person in the hot tub with their head face down and they look like they're about to die and it was joe from woodbury he was just so of her back with me so my parents knew exactly who he was he looked like a piece of beef and stew just sitting in the hot tub like gray and just like it and i was like oh my god meanwhile i was hungover but because we had eaten too much cake we had taken all the cakes back to our room

[41:02]and instead of having like post-marital sex i ate a ton of cake and then i was like this is terrible i gotta go to bed and my wife was like i guess this is the future i guess this is it like this is what i get meanwhile meanwhile i will say this she had stuffed a caramel down her bra at the beginning of the night that she wanted to eat earlier so as she is you know sexually it's freaky isn't it it's terrified she stuck a caramel down her bra so it's like you know

[41:32]wedding night it's like hey for the first time i'm gonna get to see nipples you know something we talked about last week and she takes off this dress and her bra has a giant brown spot right in the front then i started eating cake and i was like this night is up forget about it we don't eat it and i was like that was a rough night and then i went down and i saw joe and i was like actually my night wasn't so bad it seems fine you know what i've been to weddings too where they do this rob like you did where there's the brunch the next morning i think it's the most selfish thing that bride the grooms and brides do is make people stick around for

[42:04]another day and like oh you've got to come to this brunch you're super hungover we've got to hang out with you a little bit more we didn't have enough time over the like what the fuck people go home right with this with this ring i wed little dick nick the quit hit dip shit i cannot say it yeah you're good eric you should be a you should read audiobooks speaking of erin rolling going

[42:33]erin how's it going with you uh it's going great i've been thinking about time and life yeah it's not real yeah and straight i've been thinking about how things kind of go in cycles like i remember i don't like lance armstrong yeah just like lance armstrong um shout out toddy pagacha won his fifth monument today at lombardia third one in a row like what a phenom that guy is he's only 25 he's already got five money and you don't need to explain this to us

[43:03]okay we're not dummies but uh i was i've been thinking about how so i don't you know i know we've already done like tell old college stories but i've been thinking about how similar being a like freshman year of college because freshman year of college russell and i ended up with just like just a unpredictable group of like a group of dudes hanging out who you would never have put together in any other fashion but because we're there all living in the same dorm freshman year

[43:33]and we don't know how to find anyone to buy us beer we just end up with like the weirdest group of dudes down together now and can i ask you one question erin and i you know i hate to interrupt i hate to interrupt on the show i know but just the worst was there one because this seemed to be true of every group in a dorm was there a knife guy there a guy who had a number of knives in his room for some reason there is always a knife guy chris from lake oswego yeah

[44:00]chris from lake oswego was the knife guy on my birthday they got me a cake on my birthday and then he comes in and we're like oh we don't have any knives he goes i got a knife and he comes down with like a big ass it was ridiculous yeah so yes there was a knife guy uh so the first grade dad's so i've i now a couple weeks in a row have gone to trivia on tuesday night and there's nothing the rob like i think about you every time it's like 5 5 30 and then there's like a small age text chain now just like dudes i don't even know like dudes whose numbers are just now in my phone

[44:32]like i don't even know who they are yeah that little red that little flare goes up like who's in for trivia tonight and as soon as one guy's like in and he's like like dads doesn't matter like you're like i don't know who the rest of these guys are but yeah i'm off of bedtime duty tonight i'm going for trivia so you're like i don't know who the rest of these guys are but even if they were just like dudes you've never met before but all of a sudden we're on the same trivia team it's all good it's just like well oh you're leaving for dinner at the same time at the caf yep guess we're friends now so it's just like life comes full circle uh the next

[45:00]question is this famous woman's shoe aaron's like libaton libaton libaton i know it the dad's like wow you know a lot about those but i also i sent you guys a text i was really kicking myself because i we there's a music ground and i usually dominate the music ground and this week i missed three of which was the great napster win m classic she fucking hates me by puddle of mud and how i missed that one i was so frustrated what i've never heard this now i do spell puddle of mud so i know that

[45:34]she fucking hates me i mean this was on the win m for sure and i missed it at trivia i was so kicking myself this isn't the the phylum of songs that russ likes where the it's like self-hate where it's like uh this i hate everything by uh george what's that saga or like uh i'm an asshole dennis leary dennis leary that's right up my hell of george straight

[46:05]i hate everything these songs are all i love them yeah i was inspiration for pile of shit to yahoo dame right here yeah i know i heard this in your grocery store so many times i gotta say if you would have said this is the same band that did merry moon i would have said you gotta get to the chorus there you got it like 13 3.2 seconds i always do that don't i so good so i was sad to miss that one but that's what's up with me how's it rolling going with

[46:39]russell rolling going things are going well i actually went to a a block party today is at burrow it's a kind of a restaurant in uh in the north loop area and they had five bands it was called the burrow block party there and i went and saw a band and they were really good but i was realizing some things about block parties that i really enjoyed the first thing i really enjoyed is it wasn't too crowded the idea of like

[47:05]going and watching a band and you can kind of maneuver and see really well you can if you're your block party goer wants to dance a little bit they're not going to get anyone's way like is there anything better than a block party that is not overly crowded right it's like that's like going to a show where you can like sit down and enjoy it right yes yeah i went to one and you know who was standing i couldn't even see the band you know standing in front of me little dick nick and the dick shit no i can see

[47:34]over a little dick nick and the quick hit dip shit okay the person saying nailed it the person standing in front of me was dikembe mutombo and i was like wow this really is a block party and Who wants to fuck the house of Mutombo? Who wants to sex Mutombo? Who wants to sex Mutombo? Who wants to sex Mutombo? For those of you who aren't 40-year-old men, the reason that is funny is that one time Mutombo stood up in the club.

[48:02]Now, this is Dikembe Mutombo, a famous NBA basketball player who's very, very tall, and his voice... And is now a great humanitarian and generally respectable dude. He has a very distinct voice, and to hear him stand up and say, who wants to sex Mutombo would probably be the highlight of my entire life. It's so good. Who wants to sex the big dick Nick and the quick-fix kid? The other thing I loved about this block party and this band,

[48:34]they had a female lead singer, full band, probably five members of the band. You know what I love about a band is when the drummer is smiling the whole time and having fun. Oh, I like that. Wow. When the band is having fun, that makes you have fun, doesn't it? Yeah, I like it. It's just like last week you talked about comics being down on themselves. That's why it's like if you're not having a good time, the people aren't going to have a good time. The drummer especially, though. I often look to the drummer to get the general vibe of the band. I think that's a good way to tell Russell.

[49:01]I think that's brilliant. The Russell theory. I love it. The two songs that I enjoyed most from this band, there was a hip-hop group that played later that was really good. It was called Nerdy. I don't know if you guys have heard of this group before. N-E-R-D? You know what? I'm not mad or no? No. No, it's the dude. He's the Minneapolis guy, right? Yeah, it was really fantastic. He's on, God, I think he just had his set. I think the Minnesota Orchestra or Minneapolis or some orchestra just played a bunch of his songs, and he was there singing with the orchestra, I think.

[49:32]But not like the Neptunes and the R.D.? Not the Neptunes. No, I was wrong. No, so like, yeah, let's see. I'm trying to. So I don't know if this guy's name is Nerdy, and then he was playing with another band. I had the band written down. Then you are. N-E-R-D. Yeah, N-E-R-D, but he was playing with the Freaky Neighbor Spider band was playing with them, and he had other members of the band come up and they would sing their own songs that obviously they're working on. He stayed up on stage saying backup for the other people. I love that. I don't like that. You guys know I don't like when the lead singer leaves

[50:01]when the other people are performing. I like that. I like that as well. Russell, I just got to tell you, because it sounds like this would be right up your alley. Nerdy was a Minnesota Orchestra April 5th and 6th, of 2024. He's playing with the Minnesota Orchestra April 5th and 6th of 2024. Hey, what's your friend Matt out? What's his name? Ben? Who? Your friend who's listening to the recommendations. You guys should check that out. Yeah. But here were the two songs from the band before Nerdy that played.

[50:34]I forgot this band's name, but a female lead singer. She was very good. The two songs that I enjoyed the most. Earl Had to Die by the Chicks. Great song. Classic. And then the other one I really enjoyed was Sk8er Boi. Ooh, Avril Lavigne. Also a great song. It was really good. People were into it. It was super fun. Yeah, fun tune. So those are some of the things I enjoyed about the block party. But one thing we have to do, we've skipped this a few weeks now, we have to go to the next part of the DVD tournament quick.

[51:02]These are all my DVDs. She won't let me move all of these. So I've got... All right, Russell, let's get into the DVD tournament. So we're in the other side of the Sweet 16. I think these might be some of our toughest matchups ever. So in the one region, the sports region, the first matchup is Major League versus Field of Dreams.

[51:33]Wow. Major League versus Field of Dreams. Now, one has something I love, which is movies where people choke on hot dogs. Yes. Oh. I got to go Major League, Russell. I got to do it. It's too funny. Yeah, I mean, Major League's the one I've seen the most, so I'm going to go with Major League. Field of Dreams is much more arty, artsy-fartsy as a better movie, but if I'm voting for what I'm going to keep as a movie of all time,

[52:03]I'm keeping Major League. Oh, I'm so glad. That's one of my number one all-time movies, so I'm glad you guys did not vote it out. Next up in the sports region is Slapshot, versus The Sandlot. Oh, man. Oh, wow. How did we get here? Wow. You guys know me. You know I'm taking The Sandlot. That's not even close for me. I said it before. To me, The Sandlot is one of the all-time gross movies. Okay? It's one of those movies I just think is gross. I just don't like it.

[52:31]The CPR scene, it's a gross movie to me. Absolutely fair. So, Matt, it is up to you. What are we keeping, The Sandlot or the other movie? Slapshot. Oh, Slapshot. Slapshot's a top three sports movie of all time. Definitely keeping Slapshot. All right. Slapshot gets a two to one. I will say, though, Rob, I'm wondering if part of the reason you don't like that is because of that night in Vegas where I kept making you call me the beast. The beast.

[53:00]Quiet. Yes, Russell. That's why I get upset. You wake him up. You really liked that other night where you made him put on the foil. Yeah. I was skating around in my underwear and Russell said nothing, so I don't even think he likes Slapshot. All right. The last region we have to do tonight is the drama region. God, we made out of foil. It doesn't even make sense. The drama region. The first one is, I think, a pretty tough matchup. It's The Godfather versus Good Will Hunting. This is the dumbest show. Wow, this is crazy. This show is so stupid.

[53:31]How did we get here? How did we? It's wild. Okay. I mean, I got to take The Godfather. I mean, it's so hard. If I was going to sit down and watch a movie, I'd watch Good Will Hunting, but if I got to pick one, it's The Godfather. Listen, guys. Okay. Let's take back our answers. Let's not be so hasty. Are we saying The Godfather? It's not your fault, Rob. Are we saying The Godfather because everyone says it's the greatest movie of all time? Like, are we watching The Godfather every year? Yeah. I haven't for a long time now. One and two every year. Every year? Especially two.

[54:00]Every year. Dude, it's a great movie. I got to say, I haven't seen Good Will Hunting in a long time. I mean, there's some funny parts. That part about his story, hanging out with his dad, that was funny, but there's some parts of that movie. I don't know. It's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, Hey, Rob, do you like horse heads? How do you like them horse heads? Oh my God. That is perfect. Okay, Russell. Because The Godfather's moving on. We'll say The Godfather just because otherwise we look stupid. Is that what you guys think, Matt and Aaron? Oh, I think The Godfather. Yeah, The Godfather. Yeah. All right.

[54:30]The last one, we've got kind of another gangster movie here, matchup. It's Goodfellas versus The Departed. Wow. The Goodfellas. Goodfellas movies, right? Versus The Departed. I gotta say, I don't know. I love The Departed. I think it's fun. It's like a gangster movie, but it comes with a quick 2000s pace. I love it. What do you guys think? I'm going Goodfellas. I mean, this is a tough choice, but I'm going to go Goodfellas. Yeah, this one's really close,

[55:00]but I'm Goodfellas too. Well, I reckon you guys Goodfellas advance. If Rob puts it up, we'll have confusion over the votes. If not, those will advance. Yeah. So at some point, at some point we're doing like Slapshot versus The Godfather. We're down to eight. This is where this is going. We don't have to discuss them. I'll preview the final Elite Eight here. It's going to be Dumb and Dumber versus The Uncle Buck Great Outdoors two for one. Okay. You know what? Dumb and Dumber might end up

[55:31]taking on The Godfather at the end. Yes. That would be the greatest tournament ever. Rob, I think there's a good chance because I think the weakest region is the action, which is Fight Club versus Kickoff. Kill Bill. I agree. And then today, you guys have Major League versus Slapshot and Godfather Goodfellas. Those are the Elite Eight teams right now. Wow. This show is very stupid. Now, Russell, can I tell you the last results from the last show that we did, what they were? I didn't know we were looking at this. Does this affect you?

[56:00]Now, I had to scroll past a bunch of pictures from what I've been posting lately for my Amazon account. Okay. I'll give you a hint. It comes with two keys. It's like, it's like Alicia and her twin sister comes in two keys. What about Bob lost to Dumb and Dumber 75% to 25%? Okay. Wayne's World loses to Uncle Buck Great Outdoor Combo Pack 61%. So the viewers agreed on that one. The viewers agreed with us. Karate Kid one, two, and three combo loses to Fight Club. They agreed with you guys

[56:30]there too. Kill Bill one beats Enter the Dragon 100% to zero. Oh, wow. Okay. Now, do you want to see how many people actually voted on that? If it's one or more, I'm happy. Okay. Not going to do that. Let's talk about how many people voted on that. Don't need that information right now. Let's move it along. Roll it. Move it along. Bat rolling. How was it going with you? Good. I did meet one famous person one time. Richard Keel. Since you guys

[57:00]just skipped over me, I just thought I'd use my rolling goal. Appreciate your battle. Wow. You guys are the worst. I cannot, I cannot think of anybody famous really that I miss. I don't know. I'm sure I have, but like the only famous story I got is when Sarah and I were on our honeymoon. We were in England and we were going to, I think. Yeah. We were going to some show and Richard Keel, I don't know if you guys know who Richard Keel is, but he was the boss in Happy Gilmore. Oh. Oh, okay.

[57:30]Mr. What's his name? Big tall guy, seven foot. I think he was in the James Bond films. James Bond stuff, yes. Yes, I remember this now. Yeah. And so, he could not have been I was going to meet you. Obviously, he's huge in the parking lot. Yeah. Thanks for taking me on the line, Rob. Have we talked about this? No. No. We have, yes. I've heard about it, but keep going. Okay, so went up to him, big dude, he's sitting on the edge of the aisle and I said, hey, do you think I could just take a picture with you? And he was very hesitant

[58:01]and he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, sure. I go, oh, I'm a huge Happy Gilmore fan. All my friends back in the States are just going to love it. And he perked up then and so he took the picture and then as I'm walking away, he goes, hey, you can count on me meeting you in the parking lot. Oh, my God. It was awesome. Wow. It was awesome. I saw him once, but I was playing Better Man on a guitar and he made no, he had no response to that. So that's on me. No response to that? Yeah. That's on me. So that's good.

[58:30]Is this guy not even a Pearl Jam fan? No. It's sad. The only thing down I have on my list is I've been watching a few new series and I think, you know, we used to talk about this a lot more, like books and stuff we were watching and I think it would be interesting to hear what you guys are watching and reading and stuff a little bit more. But I watched the new David Beckham. It's like a four-part series. Have you guys? I've heard good things. You like it? It's awesome. He's a great guy and obviously it's like, you know,

[59:00]it's kind of like the Jordan and it's kind of, you know, all these ones where the Florida football one, have you heard about that one? Yeah, I've heard about it. That's awful. That's awful, you know, so it's all spun based on whoever is doing it or whatever, but David Beckham, Posh Spice, seemed like great people and so it was great. I got to ask, is this documentary done by David Beckham and the Posh Spice? Because my kid is obsessed with the Kate Middleton one and it's so obvious that they are also producing

[59:30]the entire documentary where they're like, we tried to save so many orphans and the queen stepped on their heads. I was like, well, what? I think it definitely is, but I mean, they like bring in like his old manager when he was at Man U, you know, who basically like let him go and all this stuff. So they talked to him, so they talked to all these people and it seemed like it was a very therapeutic thing for him too, but he had ran into some shit. I did love the Michael Jordan one where everybody was like, yeah, this guy's a real piece of shit

[60:00]sometimes and he was like, yep, I like that. I mean, is that the greatest sports documentary of all time? That whole series, the Michael Jordan one? No, because when we were kings, it was better. Poop dreams, better. I still haven't seen poop dreams. I got to see that. It's on my plaques and I can't bring myself. I don't like sad stuff. Sad. Before we started recording tonight, I was coming downstairs and my block party goer, she was upstairs and she was going to watch

[60:30]this David Beckham documentary, Matt. And right before I came down, she explained to me, David Beckham is on my list. He is on my hall pass list, just so you know. I saw a great comedian the other day who said his wife, his wife came up and said, okay, who's on your, your hall pass list or whatever. And so she's going through, I think she said Brad Pitt, you know, Stu, Stu's, Stu's brother, Stu's cousin or whatever. And so the guy says, you know, his wife says, very nice. Well,

[61:00]who's on your, who's on your list? He goes, oh, you know, Jenny next door. You guys have lists like that? Rob, has your wife ever explained to you who's on your list? On her hall pass list? If she, if you cannot be dumb enough to fall for this ruse, this is a trick. They are trying to get you to admit something that you should never admit. You'd say, well, I can't even imagine. You'd say, you know, I, I just, who, well, who would it be? You know what I mean? Like it'd have to be somebody who's like you,

[61:31]who's, you know, reminds me of you. I mean, that's how I just think about you all the time. I could never be with anyone else. So I guess just be your mom. Maybe like that. I better bing this and see if I can get any tips. Or your sister. I guess it could be like your sister. Aaron, Aaron, I was waiting for you to say. That's actually, I was waiting for you to say. Aaron, you and your wife don't have a list like that? No, no. I just feel like that just leads to danger zone.

[62:01]Yeah. Man. No. What? It's just dumb. No. Yeah. No. My wife is like, my wife is like, oh, hey, who would you let me have sex with? And I'm like, me? Me? How about that? Let's start there. Can I get on your list? Can I get on your Hull Pass list, please? It'd be great if I could be on that list. However I get on that list, let me know. Is Google Forms somewhere? Do I have to fill it out or what? Like, would it be a deal breaker

[62:31]if she bent it with Beckham or not? Oh, geez. She, if you said, if you said to Jay, this is David Beckham, she'd be like, what? From now on, man, you, she would never know. How much can he bench? Yeah, if he can't squat 600, I'm not even looking. That would be a problem. If it was a powerlifting champion, I'd be, I'd be in the closet with a video camera like, how do you do that? It's right, all the way past the hip crease. Yeah, wow,

[63:00]he's down, he put his balls all the way in that exhaust pipe. That's crazy. Was that this episode? I can't remember. I think it was the last one. Oh, no. That's all I had on my list. Rob, rolling, going, how's it going with you? In Memphis, powerlifting nationals. I'm down there. I lift, we go down to Beale Street, right? Sunday night, late Sunday night. Great. One of the craziest places I've ever been. I sent you guys a picture. Were your feet on Beale Street? They were. Were they 10 feet off? 10 feet off. I was walking in Memphis,

[63:30]100% for sure. Okay. We look in one, all these bars we pass by, there's like, we're trying to find our vibe, right? I look into one, it is almost totally empty except for a couple eating chicken fingers. And there is a 16 piece big band in there. These guys are just, and I was like, I cannot be the second couple that's going to listen to the big band. Cause like you, if it's not full, you just can't go in, right? Oh, I disagree. We finally,

[64:00]well, we know Russell. This was, I have to say, I did look to see if I could request a Venmo song cause I wanted to play the song for a story, but couldn't do it. We go to a bar where there's a guitar, there's a blues guitar or a bass player and he's playing the blues with a piano player and a drummer, you know, Memphis, every bar has music blaring out of it. It's crazy. Russell, have you ever been to Beale Street? I have not. I've been to Nashville, but not Memphis. Russell, it would be like, you know why it would be like Greece if you went to Beale Street? Why?

[64:30]It would make you cream your jeans. Okay. You would love it so much. All right. So I'm, I'm sitting outside. Jenny goes in to get drinks and she's going to, she's going to like, and I see her tip the, the bass player, right? So of course, who do I think of when I'm watching live music? I'm thinking about you guys. So what do I immediately do? Take out my phone and start videoing him from my outside seats. I take out my phone from my, start videoing him. He turns to me

[65:03]and points at me over the microphone to the full bar. He goes, no, no, no, you can't do that. Oh, an entire bar of 35 people or whatever. I turn and look at me and I just am like, oh no, I'm a piece of shit. No. I'm that guy. I'm the, I just have the realization of like, oh no. You were just excited. Wanted to share it with people. I was mortified. I was just like, and they kept kind of

[65:30]looking over their shoulder at me. Like I was like, they were somebody that scraped off their shoe and I was just like, my wife is in there. I thought she tipped you. So then I have to like go and I Venmo him like a big tip and I'm like, oh yeah, hey, it's a guy outside. And he's like, oh yeah. It was absolutely mortifying. Then afterwards, he came and walked around and put us on his Instagram live and he was so fucking annoying. I was so mad. I tipped him. I was like, God damn. He was like, hey, what's going on? I was like, he talked to us for like five minutes and it was like four and a half minutes too long.

[66:00]And he's like, he's like putting us on his Instagram live and I'm like, please leave us the fuck alone. Like this is not a reverse. He pulled a reverse live show on me. I came to see him do a live show. I'm not there to be in his live show. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Don't do that. He put a script on you. What if David Beckham pulled a reverse live show with you and Gary Spice? Your reverse live show would be when the thunder crashes, a new mother dies and then they play in reverse and they come out and reverse it and they show you how good they are at it. A normal thing that happens at concerts.

[66:30]The placenta stays on the table. It doesn't fall. Placenta pictures never sent to my sister. Jump from the floor up onto the table. Right. Now that would, you know what? Hey, somebody send me a YouTube video of placenta. Placenta going backwards. I'd reverse that. I think it'd be fun to show. It's like that Ninja Turtle villain crane, right? Oh. Is that Ninja Turtle

[67:02]this episode or the last one? I don't know. It's the last one, I think. Shredder. Shredder. I can't believe you gave the baby Nutrients Shredder and now I'm no longer needed so I will fall to the floor. Shredder, what do I hear? It's a new mother crying. And that's the Crane Live mashup that everybody's been looking for. You didn't know you needed. Russell, the number one

[67:30]Crane Live mashup podcast of all time. We're going to have to put that right under our write-up. That doesn't get us over 300 downloads an episode? No. Right. There it is. We're never going to get it. If you would have said to me that we'd have two episodes in a row where we talk about Crane, I would have said, of course. I'm amazed that hasn't happened earlier. Crane was actually quite a big part of my life growing up. Like if you say Crane, I know exactly what you're talking about. That's wild. It's like Madonna, one name. Listen, then afterwards,

[68:00]we go to a karaoke bar. There's also a pool hall. Seal. We are shooting pool, the four of us, and also doing karaoke. So Jenny and I go do Love Shack. She can't sing. She's tone deaf. She's terrible. It's great. I've got a great Fred Schneider voice. It sounds, I love it. I think it's a great gag. We go back and I play pool. We played pool for, I bet, 45 minutes, an hour. And they even had those beads on the ceiling, you know, and I would move them back and forth. I don't know what they're for. Do you guys know what they're for in a pool hall? Like you move those beads.

[68:30]Do you know what I'm talking about? Beads on the ceiling? There's like on a wire, there's like a thing and you move them. I don't know what it's for. I know I wasn't doing it right, but I was like flicking it like I was official. I didn't sink one shot in 45 minutes. Not one. I did not hit a single ball in. Wait, that's, wow. No, I didn't. Not one. And I took every shot and it's not like we were sitting around playing slow. I missed every one. Oh. By the end, I was like, like it was not fun. It was like, took one a good day of my life

[69:01]and I was like, wait, I'm terrible at this. Like it's awful. Sucking at pool in a bar with other people, that's, that's, that's about as bad as it gets when you're out doing bar type games, right? Like you're not very good at darts and as long as the darts are hitting the board, you're fine. You just keep throwing them. But when you literally can't make a pool shot, that's rough. And you know who was next to us is a guy with like one of those finger sleeves over his finger and he had his own cue and he was like, and I was like, well, I'm not hitting balls over at this table, but I bet if I was playing

[69:30]for a hundred dollars a ball, I'd kick that guy's fucking ass. Let's get over there. You know what I mean? Just the obvious. Okay. You guys don't know how pool hustlers work? Have you ever seen that episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? No. Wow. You're missing out. I've seen the hustler. No. 1962? You know what? We forgot to put the hustler in our TBD tournament. We might have to start that whole thing over. Oh, start it again. That's a great episode. Where is it going to be rated though? Where is it ranked? We'll have to look at the alphabetical order. It got beat by Wayne's World.

[70:00]It got beat by Wayne's World 2. An album that everyone on this podcast decided to talk about. It got beat by Wayne's World 2. It got beat by Wayne's World 2. One and a half hours in. A lot of people's girlfriends are at this show. All right. Let's talk about at Folsom Prison. He wrote Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash, in 1955. Right? And then kind of after the height of his career, he, I mean, watch the movie if you want to know what's going on. But basically, he got big into drugs. He got him under control. He was looking for a turnaround. And he said,

[70:30]I want to sing this song in a prison and tape it and make it into an album. Right? So he gets June Carter Carl Perkins and the Tennessee Three. He performs two shows at Folsom Prison on 1968. Okay? And then, basically, he did two shows in case one wasn't good. Turns out the second show sucked. He was too tired. Only two songs are off that second show. Stripes and there's one other one. And then, all the other songs are off the first album. The live single of Folsom Prison Blues

[71:00]is a top 40 hit. And this was in 68. This is the first for him in four years. Hugh Cherry comes back out and says, listen, here comes Johnny Cash but don't cheer for him until he comes out. Is that the single greatest MC move of all time? Like, they know how that's going to sound on the album. How good that's going to sound. Yeah, it makes the album, right? It really, like, makes the thing pop. It really, really does. Now, this album comes out, gets big for him. However,

[71:30]Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated. So the radios say, oh, we can't play a song about shooting a man just to watch it. We can't watch him die. The record company edits the song and sends it back out. They just, there's versions out. Yeah, there's versions out there where they do not have those lyrics in the song. It's craziness. Now, at the 11th Grammy Award in 1969, he won the album for best album. He won the Grammy for best album notes. Best album notes, like the writing in it.

[72:01]Like, that's a wild Grammy to actually get a word You can see it on the back of my album here. The notes. I don't know if you call this a note, but it's almost like a, it's very hard to read, actually. It's like a letter from Johnny Cash on the back of the album. That's got to be what wins it, right? I told you my kid got a CD and was like the monkey at the beginning of 2001. She didn't know how to open it, didn't know what to do with it. She was looking and she goes, oh my God, Dad, under these, in the front, there's a note if you open it up. And I was like, yeah, I know, like that's what CDs are. And then she tried to open the back of the CD

[72:30]and I was like, no, there's nothing there. This is not an escape room. We don't have to play that out. Hey, Rob, I think he actually might be talking about one of those cock cages in the beginning of these notes here. Okay. The culture of a thousand years is shattered with the clanging of the cell door behind you. Mm-hmm. Isn't that it? Well, if it's behind you, Russell, you know you're in trouble. Life outside behind you immediately becomes unreal. You begin to not care that it exists. Now, all you have within you

[73:00]is the cell. It's your bare, your animal instincts. Can I ask you, is he kind of jailbaiting here? No, I don't like the way that came out. I mean, is he pretending that he was prison baiting? Was he pretending so much to be in prison and kind of like making a thing about it? I think it's a little bit of a expansion on what he did. Like, I think he spent one night in jail for like drunkenness or something, right? Right. He makes it seem like he's kind of a hardened criminal when I don't think that's really the case. Yeah. Like, you know,

[73:30]like everyone else in this podcast, I love, I love Johnny Cash. I read his autobiography twice. And then I read someone else's biography, biography of him. And he's not telling any lies, but he's certainly, you know, if other people were telling grandiose stories about him, he wasn't necessarily saying those weren't true, right? Like he was okay with what this said about his image without it being all the way true. That's good. But he's like, I mean, he's like, he was as poor as pork gets

[74:00]growing up. I mean, he's not like, like did not come from any sort of privilege whatsoever. And I think that's where, you know, these are some of these people are his people, you know, that are in these prisons. So I think he sees a lot of where he could have been or family or people he's been around, you know, in some of these prisoners and stuff like that. So I agree with that. So this song, Folsom Prison Blues was off his first album in 1955, which is pretty crazy. It's a great song

[74:30]for a first album. Listen to this intro. I mean, iconic. Hello, I'm Johnny Cash. Gotta make sure you drop that needle in the right spot. I was sitting with my, my, my, where did I go to today? It was a block party goer last night. And she set that record up and hit it in the middle of the song. I'm like, nope, nope. Gotta rewind. It's gotta hit before that opening. Right, you gotta hear it. Now this song combines two things I love, a train song and a prison song.

[75:01]It's both. It's got that train beat. A lot of these songs are train songs where it sounds like a train in the background. That was their style, right? The Tennessee T. Yeah. Just like when you know your crab has gone, you know, dungeon. Never mind. Dark as a dungeon. No laughing there in a song, please. It's been recorded on O'Hell. Don't you know it's recorded? It's been recorded on O'Hell. Oh, yeah. And a drunkard

[75:30]with his wife. Listen to this. A crescendo of cheering after he says it's been recorded. Like, I get a rush. The reason I put that is I get a rush every time I hear that of like these people realizing like, oh, we're gonna be like in history. You know what I mean? Like, here are these people stuck in this prison and all of a sudden they're like, oh, everybody's gonna hear my voice. Got him. Oh, so good. Next up, I Still Miss Someone written by Johnny Cash.

[76:01]If you ever did, get your iPhone 14 Max caught somewhere, would it be dark as a dungeon up in there, Rob? Yes. Oh, no. No? We've actually installed track lighting. Okay. It's pretty good. Once in a while. Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes so, so bad. In fact, it does the opposite thing lighting is supposed to do. Now, can I tell you, Jimmy Buffett, four days after Johnny Cash passed away, Jimmy Buffett played that song as a tribute.

[76:32]Okay, so. And we all know a couple weeks ago. Who are we gonna hear from here? A couple weeks ago, somebody Hello? Hello? Passed away. Hello, Russell, I'm calling from the afterlife. Hey, Russell, it's me. It's Jimmy Buffett. Oh, Jimmy, I'm sorry you passed away. Thank you, Russell. I appreciate it. But, you know, Russell, there's one problem. What's that? When I passed away, I went straight to hell. And you know what?

[77:01]You know what? You know what I'm doing here, Russell? Wasting away? I have an office job that goes till 6 p.m. I have to be at the office every day until 6 p.m. Till 6? Are you gonna work from home or no? No, I have to go to the office, Russell, and I don't get to leave till 6 and really it's 6.15 by the time I get out of parking. I mean, can you imagine for Jimmy Buffett, that would be hell. Are you kind of getting what this bit is maybe a little bit? Russell, you know, the other thing, I went, I went, I went, I went, after work, I go to the bar.

[77:32]What bar did you go to, Jimmy? Actually, well, actually, I'm not quite, I didn't plan enough to talk about that, but I went to the bar. You know what I ordered, Russell? You know what I ordered? Was it neon green and yellow? Fish tacos. A margarita, and they had a margarita. They had a margarita. They did. They delivered it to me. They told me they didn't have any salt for the rim. No salt. Where's the salt? There's never any salt for the rim, Russell. Where is the goddamn salt? Russell, I'm Jimmy Buffett. I'm in hell. I don't know if you're quite picking up on this, what we're doing here,

[78:00]but this is, hell, so. Okay. Russell, you know. Matt, or Aaron, do you want to take over the other side of this? He's talking to you. I mean, he's talking to you, man. I'm not. Russell. You're on the phone. I can't even hear his side of the conversation. Russell, do you know anything else about Jimmy Buffett? Because I'm, even me, Jimmy Buffett, I'm having a little hard time remembering any other bit that we could do with this. I did read a great, his obit in the New York Times was great. When he, he had to flee Jamaica because the Jamaican government

[78:31]thought he was running, we, which he may have been. And when this, when this happened, Bono was on the plane with him. Yes. He had this private plane. He was, yeah, just wild. Like his life was pretty wild. And you know, but you know what? He, they shot at his plane. They like filled it with bullet holes. They apologized to him. And in classic Jimmy Buffett fashion, he wrote a song about it. And do you know what this song is called? And this is not a joke. I swear to God, this is not a joke. Cheeseburger in Paradise? No. And I, and I know you want to say

[79:00]Jamaican jerk off and that's not the song. Oh. This song is actually called Jamaica Mistake-a. I mean, literally a genius. All right. So we're sorry that we, we're sorry that Russ wanted to set up this bit where we made fun of him. So that's, all right. See you everybody. I'm Jimmy Buffett. Hi Jimmy, thanks for calling. It's actually pronounced buffet. A lot of people didn't realize that. All right. Let's get back to this thing. Now I have to admit, I wrote down that bit. Worth it. It was good. Cocaine blues.

[79:32]Got up next morning and I grabbed Aaron turned me onto this song. Aaron, you remember when we heard this where we became big fans of it or not? Yeah, I heard Hank Three do it. Hank Williams III do it on a late night show. I had never heard it before. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I hadn't heard it. It was before I had heard Folsom Prison, the album, and that's where I heard it. This is an all-time song, right? It's an all-time song. And Hank Three's cover is great too. Matt, you were talking about what we're watching, what we're listening to,

[80:00]giving out recommendations. I have a recommendation for your friend Ben. Yes, so yeah. For a few months ago, you guys, or it was probably almost a year ago now, I went and saw the Folsom Prison Experience where they do like the live show. That is actually back and they're doing it again. Friday, January 12th at Alpen St. Cloud, the Center for the Arts, the Folsom Prison Experience. And then Saturday, January 13th, the Ames Center in Burnsville, Minnesota. Burnsville is just south of, what would it be, Matt?

[80:30]South of 494. 44 by 20 minutes. Minnesota Valley. Yeah. That's where 35W can act. 35W, yeah. Matt, you cannot yawn audibly on the podcast. We just can't do it. We all need to ask a question. No. It's terrible. So I went to this and the pleasure principal took up this recommendation once and he went to it and had a great time. So someone go see this in Minnesota, the 12th to the 13th of January,

[81:00]Folsom Prison Experience you will have a great time. Russell, the sponsorship money, it's so great. Next up, 25 minutes to go. Literal gallows humor. Now, this song was included in a Shel Silverstein book. Along with Anaconda, the famous poem where somebody get eaten by an anaconda. Wait, Shel wrote this? Yeah. He also wrote a boy named Sue, didn't he? He did. There's another one he,

[81:30]you guys remember the song Cover of a Rolling Stone? Yeah. That was Shel Silverstein too. Dr. Hook? Dr. Hook, yeah. Yes. The Dr. Hook song, yeah. What a pull by Rob. Rob Smart. That's good, awesome. Were you guys a bit, a bigger light in the attic or where the sidewalk ends? Pull them. Where the sidewalk ends. Probably sidewalk ends too, but. I was a big Giving Tree fan. Oh. Oh, pull out the third book. The one you didn't expect.

[82:01]But you know what was really in it, Russell? Were those scary books with the scary drawings in there. That's what I had hidden inside that I was really reading. Yeah. You take off the red scarf and her head falls off. Do you know the books I'm talking about with the scary drawings? I don't think so. Nightmares to Tell in the Dark, is that what it is? Like these drawings, you remember this? This book? Oh, jeez. I'm out. Huh? Trying to go to Blakely. Like that? Yes. They are scary and it was a kid's book and you could just buy it at a book fair. Okay, I just wanted a poster of a Lamborghini and some scary stories. I didn't need that fucked up shit in my house.

[82:30]Okay. Just awesome. That was the only place Lamborghini sells posters was at book fairs. It's like I'm getting a Lamborghini and I'm getting a fucking stealth bomber and I'm going to put that shit up in my house and it's going to be awesome. And then I go to college and I have my stealth bomber poster and everyone else has like the pink Floyd butts and I'm like, oh, am I a child? I'm going to throw away this copy of The Giving Tree I have. I don't remember if this was this episode or not but I had a Godfather poster and I was like, oh, I'm going to be cool

[83:00]and put up a poster of The Godfather. That's good. And then you're like, oh, I should have framed this because now it's just silly putting to the wall. Well, yeah, the corners are all ripped because you had to move a couple times. Speaking of posters that had to be discarded when I moved in with the block party goer, I had to get rid of my Johnny Cash giving the middle finger poster. What? Wow, no. The whole thing? Jeez. It was time. I suppose. Now, Russell, can I just tell you this is a tip for all those married people out there. If you have a picture,

[83:30]let's say you have a picture from when your wife was pregnant and she was taking belly dancing classes and let's say that picture is big. It's like 11 by 14 for some reason and you went and got it professionally framed in a very large frame. So now you have this huge piece of art that is your wife pregnant in a belly dancing outfit. Right? It's like a class photo. She will not let you hang. No, listen to this. Listen to this garbage. She will not let you hang this anywhere up in the apartment. So guess where

[84:00]I hung it, Russell? The bathroom? No, it's in my closet. When I move my clothes, I can see it back there and it brings me joy every single day. The back of your closet is a place to put posters your wife won't let you put up and that's a normal sentence. I really like that move. That's a good move. Think about that. When that sentence comes out of my mouth, that's a normal thing to say. Okay, hiding posters that I'm hanging up. I like that move. Orange Blossom Special, the fiddle player's anthem. And you realize when you hear this harmonica, it's like, yeah. Hey, lookie up. I could use a fiddle

[84:30]instead of that harmonica sometimes. But this voice, oof. Yeah, you can hear the power in his voice because sometimes it feels like it gets to the edge of what the recording equipment could support. For sure. But the other thing, too, is people have long talked about his backup band, but you can't imagine a better combination of that spare musicality with his booming voice. Like, he didn't need a whole lot. Well, the real backup band

[85:01]was when he played this with the Muppets, Rob. I don't know if I gave you that clip. Johnny Cash performed Orange Blossom Special with the Muppets. Oh, I mean. It's that Orange Blossom Special Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Rollin' down a seaboard line Again! It's that Orange Blossom Special Now, Russell, are they all on a train? That's what I'm picturing. There's a train coming behind them. But right before this, he does do the duet. He does Jackson with this biggie as well. Yeah. Drew Sander,

[85:30]you're a music legend if you kill it with the Muppets, right? I will say, if you saw a frog and a pig having sex in real life, you probably would think that's weird, right? Like, that's not happening. And then a guy's hand was in behind each of them. Well, that's... I don't know what you're doing, Matt, but for my relationship, that's actually quite normal. It's on my hall pass. I said my hall pass is your middle finger. And that's... Speaking of finger, this is gonna have to be blue. I didn't bring this up,

[86:00]but this was a line in the movie Saturday Night Fever, which is kind of bad, but I kind of laughed. Like, he's getting into the car and they, like, slam the door and he goes, careful, you're gonna hurt my pinky finger. Oh, yeah. I was like, you gotta be shitting me, right? I know. I already knew what you were gonna say there. I was like, wow. Yeah. I was thinking to myself, hey, we got a double. We're starting late. It's Johnny Cash episode. We better try to do it real quick. Yeah. And then I saw the email that you sent me. It was songs that we're gonna play today.

[86:30]And I was like, oh, that is totally out the window. Russell, last week, sent me four songs. This week, he sent me, like, 45 songs on an email. It was crazy. Did you see this email, Aaron? You gotta wait for it. With all the songs that we're gonna be playing? Don't blow it. Look at that. It's crazy. I don't wanna see, well, I don't wanna see Russell's list before the list. All right, well, one of them was just that Muppet song, so something to think about. That's part of our bits, Rob. Might not be a good one, but it's part of it. Okay. Even if the bit's not good,

[87:00]you should try it out. And Russell, you know, if the bit doesn't work, you know what you can do sometimes? You extend it. You just make it longer. And pretty soon, it gets long enough where it can't help but be funny. If the bit don't fit, then you must go to a different bit. So in 1994, you guys know, he was playing a show in Los Angeles. Guess who opened for him? It was Beck. Oh, my God. It was for Johnny Cash. Wow, my God. No way. And actually, Beck and Johnny Cash kind of had a good time and they had a unique relationship.

[87:30]Beck played this song, Rowboat. Have you guys ever heard Rowboat before? I don't think so. Yeah. Row me to the show. You ever heard that? Oh, yeah. I've heard that one. Well, there was a guy who heard it. It was Johnny Cash. He covered it on the American Records album. So check out the Johnny Cash version. Wow. Row boat. Row me to the show. Dude, there's something about

[88:00]Johnny Cash's voice that crushes, doesn't it? Well, I think Rick Rubin knew what was good about Johnny Cash on the Folsom album and that's that his voice is front and center. Like, put it up front. So I gave you another quick clip, Rob. You guys got to check out Johnny Cash talking about Beck and what he admired about Beck. Just like a quick 20 seconds. You got to listen to this. I swear to God, if this guy's trying to hone in on our podcast, I'm going to be so mad. Okay, this should be the number one Beck slash. What else are we a podcast of today? Dickie, Nick Quick

[88:31]and the Quick Shit? No, we wrote something down I thought they were going to put into our search term, but yeah, you nailed it, Russell. I was so impressed with the way he could do Appalachian music. You know, Hillbilly? He's really good at it. And then his own songs. And I especially like Row Boat. It sounded like something I might have written or might have done in the 60s. You know, I was going through some kind of weird times.

[89:00]So either way, the point is, he hears Beck, he covers Row Boat. So when it comes to inspiring Johnny Cash with Appalachian music, who does it better? Beck did it better. That's pretty awesome. That might be your best. That might be your best pull. Is that awesome or what? That's great. That's incredible, Russell. That's great. Nice work. That was three songs in there, Robin, and it only took about a couple minutes. Russell, listen, when you listen and you get, I'm not criticizing you,

[89:30]okay? And you shouldn't, it's, listen, we don't need to react to criticism in a negative way, okay? That's something I do. You don't have to. Okay, I'm trying to make a joke that I hate criticism, but it's coming off as me being an even bigger dick than when I criticized you doing all the work and sending me an email, which would be hard to do. Long Black Veil, one of the few songs that could be both a Johnny Cash song and a Metallica song. Yeah, this is one of my favorites. What's up?

[90:03]Did I hear somebody applaud me? It's... He is so... The gallows humor is great. You know that he's done that joke. Like... He's just like the perfect showman. Like, this is a guy who's been on the road. He's done all the small circuit stuff. He knows what he's doing with the crowd. Like, they're right in his hand for this whole thing. Long Black Veil, she cries... Send a picture of mother. Can I tell you,

[90:33]I honestly picked the beginning of almost all these songs because to me it's the most iconic part of every song. It's what I remember the most. I don't know. This album was just such a huge part of my life in my early 20s. Huge. Same. Yep. Now this one, probably the most famous song ever with this title, The Wall. They'll block him, but the strangest

[91:01]It's fucking torture to sit here and try not to sing along with these two. I know this music so well, there's almost nothing to say about it for me. I think there's something about Johnny Cashburn. I think, Rob, you hit it with karaoke when we were younger, but it's kind of that baritone voice. You can get that voice without straining. You can kind of sing. You can learn the lyrics. This is as easy of an artist to sing along with, right? And all the songs on this album are like three minutes long. You're chopping along and all of a sudden you're to the next song. It's brilliant.

[91:30]Dirty old egg-sucking dog. This was off his album called Everybody Loves a Nut, which of course made me think of Aaron. He's always saying that. Especially your car exhaust, right, Rob? If it could do that type of thing. Hey, Loves a Nut. This sounds like it could have been a Shel Silverstein song, too. We should get an electric car. I don't think so. I got a special, relationship. Yeah. Flushed from the bathroom

[92:04]of your life. Now, Russell, I remember when we talked about this album once, you said there are some slow bits in the middle of this album that you do not remember. Is this what we're talking about here? In the bread line of your dreams. Yeah, I think so. Are you retracting that statement? No, I think so. I think when you think of this album, you think of Folsom Prison Blues, you think of Cocaine Blues, 25 Minutes to Go. You think of like five or six songs

[92:30]and there's some of these songs that are kind of, they drag a little bit. I like them. I enjoy them, but it's not as exciting as a lot of the album. It goes to show no matter who it is, when you get to that point where the singer just takes out a guitar and starts singing to just you, you're like, no, want that whole band in here. We got to get this whole thing chugging, right? Like we need it to be cruising. That's what should be happening. Well, they get it cruising back with the next one. It's kind of like, it's like a wrestling match, John Freddie Dynas. They slow it down

[93:00]with a popcorn match and then they ramp it back up for the main events, right? Jackson reached number two on the charts with June Carter. Go comb your hair. What a line. Got the Grammy Award for Best Country in Western in 1968. Now, in the past, I've said if I could go back and see one historical live concert, it would be live at the Fillmore with, with the Allman Brothers.

[93:30]Play Whipping Post. That one? Yeah, that one. But I don't know. This, when I put on this album, it made me so happy to hear it again. If you would have seen this live, you could have got one of those tattoos on your chest like Aaron's got. Yeah. Ladies feet. Oh, yes. Oh, oh God, you got me with my own joke, Aaron. You know, you know that's my Achilles heel. My own jokes. It gets me every time. Give my love to Rose. Please, won't you, mister?

[94:00]He actually re-recorded this in 2002 and got a Grammy for it. Now, that's baller. Guys, I got to take a piss. Wait, give me one second. Oh, dude. See, Rob, he does have short noise when he shows us tonight. This does slow down a little bit at points, though. That's who Johnny Cash is, but. Yeah, no, it's true. Like, when we're sitting here listening to it now, like, okay, not everything is like rips. But you can play the, I mean, you can just put the album on

[94:30]and enjoy it. For ten long years I paid for what I'd done. So I have this one. I think I bought this in Nashville when I was in Nashville. I went to a record store in Nashville and bought five records. This was one of them. I think I got Code of Many Colors by Dolly Parton. Oh, great one. And I got a couple other ones. I can't remember, but then Aaron also, you sent me for Christmas one year live from San Quentin. I sent you San Quentin, right? Yeah. With Johnny Cash, yeah. Yeah. Now you guys just saw something and I want to talk to you about this.

[95:00]For the listeners at home, I had to go up and go to the bathroom during that song, which is why I played so long. It's come to my realization that we're an open the door when you're peeing house. Is that happening with you guys? And you can be honest with me. I think you guys do a lot of nudity. There's, I think a lot of stuff that's not happening in most households, Rob. I'm going to just give you a heads up on that. Okay. So that's a maybe from Russell. What about the rest of you guys? Number one, yes, for sure. Open. Thank you, Matt. See, Matt and I

[95:30]should get married. Matt and I are... We got three boys in my house though and just one female. She usually shuts the door. Yeah. In this house, the female is never shutting the door ever. Even when sometimes there's kids' friends over and they get mad at her for it. She has the door open all the time to the point where now I'll say to Amelia, hey, mom wants to talk to you. She'll say, no, she doesn't. You're trying to get me to go see her when she's sitting on the toilet naked. Which is true. You guys know I have him sassied with that toilet naked thing. He used to take the photos. Still show up

[96:01]in the photo frame every once in a while. I got to take him out of there. Everybody's singing happy birthday or on the cake. They look over. It's a picture of my wife on the toilet going like this. No. I'm just not sure when you listen back you're going to be glad this is where you went in this discussion. I love how this is cool, but the idea that they would have a cheat list, oh, that's beyond ridiculous. I got stripes. We were talking.

[96:32]We've been talking a little bit about Johnny Cash and his vocals. He won best male vocal country performance for Wilson Prison Blues, the opening song. And he went 35 years later. He won best country vocal performance for Solitary Man. And then again, Give My Love to Rose on American Records way later. He's won this three times. He also won it for Boy Named Sue four times. So I thought we could do a quick list.

[97:00]We'll go quick. No, no, no. Russell, I want to hear all these songs and I want to hear them for a long time. I would never criticize having lots of music on a music podcast. That'd be crazy. That'd look like a real shithead. The list of the greatest male country vocal performances of all time. Wow. Of all time. Okay. All of these songs won best Grammy for best country performance. I'm excited. I'm excited to see how this goes. Russell, you know do you know anyone who loves who won the Grammy list

[97:30]more than I do? You know that's my jam. I love the Grammy list. Especially if this Grammy list turns into like the best of they might be giants somehow. And then all songs that played backwards but then we really just don't know what the list is. I could only find Jock Jams the album on one eBay site. I don't think they make it really. I saw it on one eBay site but I haven't bought anything on eBay in a long time. Is that still a safe space to buy stuff? Yeah. For champion sweatshirts. Yep. Yeah. You can still get stuff.

[98:00]Russell, I have to say too there's one song where all of us were like we've never heard this song before in our life. We've never heard it. And then when I pulled it to put it on the episode it's the Mortal Kombat song. I heard that. I was like we all know that song. We just didn't know what it was. Test your light. Mortal Kombat. All right. First song is from 1966. This is Roger Miller King of the Road. Oh, whoa. Great one. King of the Road. Oh. King of the Road. Oh.

[98:31]Third box car. You got to appreciate this, Aaron. You're a singer, right? These are fantastic voices. I love this stuff. Yeah. I could listen to it all day. The phrasing's great. Like the one, you know. I'll tell you. This is And the recording of this is so good. It's so clear. I have always loved this. He beat out Johnny Cash in 1965 with a song called Dang Me. He beat I Want You. I Walk the Line by Cash. But he actually appeared on the Johnny Cash TV show

[99:01]and he played King of the Road with Johnny Cash. Check this out. Oh, fun. Very cool, huh? That's cool. Look at that. No, don't rustle. Okay. Don't rush this. I know you're trying to you're trying to We're going to we're going to sit in these songs, Russell. We're going to listen to them for a while. The next song is from 1980. We were talking about this guy I think last week with the Bee Gees

[99:30]writing a song for him. This is Kenny Rogers, The Gambler. Great country voice. It's got that kind of gravel on the edge of it, but it's still a nice sweet voice. You know what was always fucked with this? People called Kenny Rogers The Gambler after this. In fact, I think he had a TV show or something, right? Where he was a gambler. But you know who the gambler was? The guy next to him