Beck Does It Again! A Tribe Called Quest: Low End Theory (1991) Orig Aired 6/1/21

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts and we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better we're all the way up to album 43 the orlando thomas of albums is that right the low end theory by a tribe called quest guys you know what i was thinking the other day what if let's

[00:34]just say theoretically somebody was going to go on a date with somebody and they wanted to have them listen to the show but you know at this point we're so funny and we do so many inside jokes that i think it would be best if we just had a kind of a wrap-up of the show okay so i'm gonna uh push play on this mp3 that i just downloaded off of limewire and let's get a quick history of beck did it better and i almost said the rob show there to be honest with you i did almost say the rob show uh but that kind of you

[01:02]know rolls off the tongue it's euphonious all right let's see here's a history of beck did it better what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-r-o-b you know we're all about our history getting back to our roots if you haven't heard our first 43 episodes you might be wondering what the heck is going on well let me play you a little song you can be my hamburger because i'll play catch up oh yeah here we go yo so what's the what's the what's the history of the show here we go yo here we go yo

[01:33]so what's the what's the what's the history of the show you know this and you know that but do you know about the guys on the podcast well what do you know russell aaron and matt i can give you a history of all that first we have russell he always orders bacon lots of online dates you know he be making he always has a drink he always is thinking that i need to believe it when i say deep dickin next up is quiet matt he is a dad when the kids are having fun he starts to get mad he has a

[02:00]spreadsheet where the bad things go his mom folds his laundry now his garden plate of bowls now we have aaron he loves toes he was part of the riot at the capitol he's always talking about that food he makes he slept in the garage after his brother's wedding date he knows a bunch of stuff that no one else knows he sticks his chicken in a big metal bowl sits with the sun in the back of the car and he's like oh my god i'm so tired of this the car he always brags when he has big bonars next up is rob and he's the main host comes up

[02:31]with all of the game shows he's in charge and here's his main thing he won an award because his dick is too big his body is perfect he has six pack abs he is the coolest and he has a ton of friends when he died they'll build memorials he always brings up how aaron loves toes here we go here we go yo so what's the what's the history of the show here we go yo so what's the what's the history of the show when you want to hear about the greatest it's been a while since we've done quality aaron toes

[03:19]well i'll tell you what uh i i just realized i think i edited it out every time aaron was bragging big boners but it is something that has happened on the show uh listen everybody we've got three

[03:30]guys here who are so confident in themselves they're bugging in we've got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing oh after that uh started the show just great rob this is gonna be a great show russell in minnesota russell how are you doing today listen to my rhyme because it's time to make the gravy i hope my next first date doesn't show up pregnant with a baby oh here we go yo here we go yo what's a date without a pregnant person uh and then we've got aaron and

[04:03]aaron's letting me know this album came out in 90 1991 they should have called it the low winsky theory low winsky low winsky uh but aaron did aaron did say he didn't think bill clinton did anything wrong aaron in california how are you doing aaron i'm great i'm very excited to talk about this album my only quibble with q tip is that i like i like my liquor stronger than 80 proof but otherwise i think he's on point all the way through so let's talk about it all right so let's get into today's episode and i can't find

[04:34]where my mouse went oh there it is and we're gonna start today with a voicemail yeah the back all of our adoring so stupid i can kiss my ass now normally i would play this and say how our listeners are a bunch of mouth breathers but this week i gotta say they're on point hey guys aaron from minnesota calling i just finished listening to the rolling stone episode and i wanted to comment on russell's list

[05:02]for this week which was oh geez songs with awesome fiddle playing in them and i feel like i love russell's list you had a huge miss on this one you had no songs by the chicks on your fiddle list and i really feel like that's a myth marty okay aaron we get it we see the text messages yeah we'll call them the dixie chicks okay relax a little bit geez louise marty mcguire is an amazing fiddler and i love some of their

[05:34]fiddle heavy songs like sin wagon is super fun great fiddling action i mean she's got sin wagon by the chicks yeah this is this is a jam cowboy take me away i know I didn't know if they got canceled or what happened, so I didn't want to bring them up on the list and create a firestorm over the name or something like that.

[06:01]You really didn't know if they did get canceled, but like reverse canceled. They got canceled in a way that nobody else has gotten canceled. They got like conservative canceled. It was wild. So, yeah, Russ, turns out you're a real dumb shit. What do you have to say for yourself? Oh, no. I would just say that Aaron's voicemail has to die. Goodbye, Aaron. Goodbye. I got to say, my brain is so broken that the whole time she was talking about fiddling, I think I've been on the podcast along with you guys because I thought the dirtiest stuff.

[06:35]Don't make that hand motion. I was like, I love a list about we're fiddling and you should see the Dixie Chicks do some fiddling. And I was like, what is wrong with my brain where I think that's dirty? It's like, I know what she's talking about, but I just could not help it. They had me the other day where I was talking to Jenny in bed and she goes, you're not on the podcast right now. Oh, no. Reviews are in. I was like, that's a good bit, though. I would also say Aaron has not obviously listened to our most recent episode, the Radiohead one, where we talked about how, hey, no one wants advice from other people anyway.

[07:05]So thanks for giving that, Aaron. You must not be caught up in here that we don't want your stupid advice anyways. Some great fiddling action, though. That would be a great nickname for this podcast, I think. There's a better joke there. I'm pretty sure it's Aaron's message board name for some website. I'm not sure which website it is. Charlie Daniels message board. My name was great fiddling action. Charlie Daniels dot net. Like, he was too slow to get the dot com, so he had to get the dot net.

[07:30]Maybe I could change my Bumble profile to be me holding a fiddle and it will just say, like, into great fiddling action. I bet I would get some swipes on that. That would be so good. And everybody would be like, isn't that a violin? And you're like, I think it's different. Oh, God, Rob. Why? Why would you do that? Why would you pull the brakes on that? So hard. This is such a good bit. Rob, how do people get a hold of the Becks? The Becks line. The Beck line. Who cares? Who cares anymore? Because I'm just going to kill it. I'm going to kill the momentum. You can call or text the Becks line 802-277-BECK.

[08:04]That's 802-277-BECK. And just to warn you, if you do text me, there is a chance that I, or the line, I should say, there is a chance that the Beck did it better will text you back. And sometimes it's inappropriate. Oh, yeah. All right. Let's get into our next segment. And I need to find the Sting 40. It's been a while, guys. We haven't recorded in like a week and a half. I'm feeling rusty. Aaron, what do you think? I miss you guys. All right.

[08:30]Shut up. I still got it. It's time to see what everybody's got to say. I miss you guys. It's time for Rollin' Gold. Soundtrack. The sound bit is playing. Oh, yeah. We're talking over sound bites, Aaron. All right. Rolling on. Matt, how is it rolling on with you? Good. Good. It's going great. Only a couple of things on my list this week here. I was watching. I was watching the PGA Championship this afternoon. I had the whole day off.

[09:00]That's a classic dad move. Dad stuff. Heavy dad vibes. Not even the Masters. Like, it's the fourth. It's the evil red-headed stepchild of the moment, wasn't it? You know what? I tried to watch NBA playoffs. The NBA is just horrible. It's absolutely horrible. I don't know how you can watch it. It's just two people. Pick and roll. Shoot from a three. Pass, pass, pass, shoot. Pass, pass, pass, shoot. There's nothing going on in NBA basketball anymore.

[09:31]It's not even defense. I can't watch it. I hate it when I get to see the world's greatest athletes play. At their best. Yeah. I'd much rather watch a bunch of college kids miss threes all day long. That's super fun. All right. Sorry, Matt. I interrupted. Go for it. I had the day off because I don't know if we talked about this before. My kids, they earned their second. They played video games all day. All right. So literally, they woke up at 630. They went down to the basement.

[10:01]We made them come up for breakfast, made them come for lunch, made Leo bike around the block a couple of times this afternoon at dinner. They literally played video games the whole day. They earned it. It was great. It's probably not our best parenting move, but it's essentially a day off for the parents as well. And it was great. Can I ask you a question? When you play video games with your kids? I love to beat my kids. Is that true? Oh, God. I love to beat my kids. I don't know. What's the game? What are they into right now? What do they use? Oh, I get into some Minecraft.

[10:33]I mean, they really get Minecraft, but there's just a bunch of Mario games and there's a bunch. There's a couple other maybe more kid friendly ones, younger kid friendly ones that you guys wouldn't know about. But there's some Pokemon stuff that they're into. We've got so many games over here. Did Aaron ask this question? Of course. I'm curious. You're really interested in this? Yeah. I need to know. My kid's only four. I got to know what's on the horizon for me. What do I need to prepare myself for? What do I need to know?

[11:00]I think your kid's going to be playing with like your kid's going to be playing with like a hoop and a stick. You're going to be like, in my day, we only had a hoop. You better like that stick. I could easily see Aaron's kid be like the ball in the cup kid. And Aaron's like, oh, I almost got it there. So I had the day off. So I got washed a couple of cars. I've got a classic car. We think we've talked about it. I've got my 1989 Isuzu pickup. It's classic. It's a classic. I got it. It's got it. It's got it. One wash for the day. But I was watching and Phil Mickelson won the PGA championship, right? Oh my God, back around.

[11:30]And so everybody, everybody there, right? It's just cheering. But if you look and you're watching, everybody's got their phone up while he's winning the championship, right? Okay. Which is just, I don't know if I've just have been around, if I've had my cell phone for too long. What is your guys' cell phone etiquette, like at a concert or like a big game or something like that? Do you have your phone out or do you just? Can I, can I drill down in this a little bit, Matt? Are you asking, are you being critical of people not enjoying the moment and just focusing

[12:01]on recording it? Or are you talking about it, it interrupting other people's views? Where are you going with this? All of the above. Like it is, to me, it is the dumbest thing to try to say, oh, you know, I'm a hundred yards away from Phil Mickelson. And like, I'm going to, who are you going to show that shot to? No. How many times are you going to watch that again? Zero. Like just enjoy the moment, right? I think it's more important that this for people now to, to have some sort of picture saying I was there to post this on some sort of social media and get the accolades that come with that.

[12:30]You can, you can take a picture like being there, right? Like by the trophy, by the, you know, whatever, without saying like, oh, you know, I saw Phil Mickelson hit that shot, you know, kind of a thing. Like, and all you seriously, people are staring at their phones. They're looking up like this. They're not watching everything. Why? I just don't get it. Happens at concerts. What is your guys? Do you guys partake in the videoing and then putting it on Insta? And so, so I, I have three answers to this, right? Number one is I'm the iPad dad guy at the school functions. I got the iPad, not a phone.

[13:01]I've got the full iPad up as high as it goes. I'm filming the kid front row. So no, everybody else can just see my iPad view of it. Always my favorite dad at the school function things. Again, videos you're never going to watch again. Yeah. Rob also has that iPad up in his bedroom when his best friend is deep dicking his wife. Sorry. Was that inappropriate, Rob? Oh, I just had some sushi. No, to the point where we have a sting ready to go for that very moment. Matt's position is something to strive for.

[13:30]So I've been both. I've, uh, when the, the tour of California went up Mount Diablo in 2013, I wrote out there and I was holding my phone up when Peter Sagan went by trying to get video of Peter Sagan. But I, I mean, who hasn't tried to get a bit video of Sagan? I loved him in street fighter too. He was my favorite. He's on his way out now. It's a, it's a, it's a sign of all of our mortality that he was unbeatable in 2013 and it's 2013. 21. He's on his way out. He's, he can't keep up with what Vinard and Matthew Vanderpoel, but I'm, uh, I'm with you, Matt.

[14:00]It's a, it's a thing to strive for, to be, to be in the moment, to be there and not get out your phone and take the video and know that the video that you're taking mentally is, is enough. It's, it's something to strive for. We all got to fight that impulse, right? We're going to fight that impulse to experience the experience we're experiencing and actually get up in there and enjoy it. That's my new, that's the new Hill that I'm dying on is put your damn phone down. I like it. I went to Russia. Yeah. Yeah. In college, but I took a bunch of photos of like churches and all these different things. And I got back and I was like, I don't really like these photos.

[14:31]And my mom said, one of the things I've kept with me for my rest of my life. She says, nobody wants to see a picture without people. Right. It's like nobody wants. So I don't take pictures anymore that don't have me or the girls or what's her name? Jenny. Yeah. Look at this sunset. You can't, you can't capture it in a picture. So I will just take a, I'll just take a selfie. If I see something cool, I'll take a selfie and be like, I would like to take a picture. I was here. And then it's like, that's, that is, is a more interesting picture. And not just because it's me. I know that's the joke you guys are going to make.

[15:00]I was in central park and I saw somebody naked. So I took a selfie with me with the naked guy. That's a better picture than just a naked guy. Right. The just naked guy picture. You got to be like, yeah, why did I take this picture? But me with a naked guy in the background class, you see, I was there. You probably didn't need to do those things to him and put it on you porn, but it works for you. Right. What's you for? I don't know what that website is. Oh, I was going to say, uh, Aaron's wife. Once, whatever her name is, taught me a lesson about being in pictures. Once we, Aaron took me to this place called the Comstock saloon in

[15:30]San Francisco. Oh, yes. And I was going to take a picture of kind of the outside window or whatever, kind of the banner of it. And she kind of hollered at me and said, Hey, get in there. Pictures with no people in them are stupid. So as much as we make fun of Aaron and whatever, whatever her name is, they are, they do have some logic to the way they do things. Aaron's wife at gmail.com could be my mom. Something to think about. So that would mean Aaron's. Like my dad, I think I get it now. I get why I treat Aaron the way I do. That would also mean he's your kid's grandpa.

[16:01]He's he's my kid's grandpa. Yeah. I take that. Aaron is a grandpa. Aaron's a perfect grandpa. Hey, kids. Did I ever tell you about Dave Brubeck's bass player? And they'd be like, Jesus, grandpa, you're so boring. It'd be like, yes, he is. He is boring. This guy's boring as shit. Yeah. So I got that. The last thing I got, I just tell a quick story. I had the pleasure of going out to New York last weekend. I went out. I went out there with Manny from South St. Paul. We had a great time. We surprised Rob for his birthday. His wife, Jenny, we've talked about a number of times in this show, did a great thing, right?

[16:34]I mean, I don't know. Rob, did you have a good time? She ordered a boat. Yeah. So my wife basically threw a surprise birthday for me where at some point I walked onto a boat thinking that we were going out to dinner with some friends and I turned to my left and all of a sudden like 10 drag queens jump out and yell surprise at me. And I'm like, that's a surprise. And then I look and basically. Basically every friend I have in New York is on this boat and we get to hang out as I'm walking back saying hi to people. I'm saying all of a sudden I see this like just vision, right?

[17:03]Just this guy just jacked and next to him was Matt. And I was like, what the heck, Matt and Manny are here. This is crazy. So I just like gave him a hug and then hung out with them. And then I said to him, what are you guys doing tomorrow? And they're like, we're hanging out with you, dummy. And I was like, oh yeah, that makes sense. So Jenny's been planning this thing for weeks, right? And I've been trying to keep it quiet on the podcast and all this stuff. And with, you know, I've been trying to keep it quiet on the podcast and all this stuff. And, you know, Russ and Rosie knew about it. So, you know, we've been trying to keep it all quiet. But so Jenny, you know, she's been great.

[17:31]She's like, well, do you think people want to come on Manny? Like, yeah, Manny, you're coming out. You know, we're going to come out. Okay, well, great. So here I'll give you all the details. I'm like, okay, what time should we show up? You guys need to be there at six o'clock. You need to bring tape. Matt, you're in charge of putting out this. So we got a list of everything. So all of a sudden we got out there and we were put right to work. It was great. It was great. So then we're on the boat. All right. And so we knew there's going to be the drag queens are going to be on there. It was going to be part of the show. The back of the boat has a bunch of lights, right? We don't know. And there's no tables back there.

[18:00]So we're thinking, oh, this must be where the show is going to be in all this stuff. And we're like, all right, this is great. So then we look at what, where did Jenny assign us? Table five. So it's me and Manny. We're back at the table five. This is great. Jenny set us up right, right in front of, you know, she must realize this is great. She must really like us. She set us up right where the show is going to be. We're going to be front row of the show and everything like that. Well, when it's time to sit down, everybody's sitting down. It's me and Manny. We're then Rob's kids.

[18:31]And then somebody else from Rob's one person. And then all of a sudden the show is about to start. Realize that no, they're not doing the show in the back there. We are in the far back table. We're way in the back and the show's up front. I did have to put, we did put Matt and Manny back at the kids table. Okay. To teach him a little lesson about. Oh, something or other. I don't know what the lesson was. I can't think of anything on my feet fast enough, but it was very funny. So Manny and I flew out there to be, uh, to be the help and then sit in the back of the,

[19:00]you know, I have the worst seat in the house. So it was good. And it was, it was so great to see you guys, but this does lead me to the first. Uh oh. Someone was a bad little boy. It's time for big Papa Rob to give you the discipline you crave. It's time for the official. The discipline you crave. Spanking of the week. All right. So I've got one here for Russell. I've got one here for Aaron. Okay. So you pieces of shit did not come out to my surprise party. Therefore you get the spankings of the week.

[19:30]Okay. Aaron, it's not your wedding. I, you got invited. Okay. I didn't even get invited. You're all right. Which we're not going to talk about now. That's a rolling going. I'm going to save for another time. So tell me, why didn't you pieces of shit come out to my birthday party? I've got, I got three reasons. You got to let me tell all three before you interrupt me again, though, Rob, like, like you did earlier. I'm going to try so hard. Number one. I was traveling for work the next week and I didn't want to go do too much traveling like within a few days. Second, I did get a text from Matt, which was a forwarded text from Jenny, which made

[20:03]it very clear that we were going to be the help at this event and had to help set things up. And I was like, I'm not going to New York city to help set up a party for Rob's like 41st birthday or whatever it is. So those were the two reasons. The third, I, I, I can't handle more than like an hour and a half view a week. I'll tell you what, we did have some statues that needed. Moving around. It was very disappointing to not have Russell there. We would have loved, and we had a seat all picked out for you right next to the boat captain. It would have been perfect. You would have been right up front.

[20:30]You'd been honking that horn. It would have been great. Listen, when you have a surprise party, actually, I took almost no pictures whatsoever. And we kind of regret it afterwards. Jenny was going to hire a photographer. Then she didn't. So guess what? She fucked up on that one too. So the real question is Rob, before you get to Aaron, why he didn't show up is, was it a real surprise for you? Or did you act? 100%. No, it was 100% a true surprise. And I. And I love, listen, I love surprise parties. I think they're just the best. And Jenny threw me one, like, I don't know what, 10 years ago. And it was just like four people coming over.

[21:02]And I thought it was the greatest thing ever. So to have this with like, you know, 40 people on board or whatever, and then to see friends from Minnesota and then to have a drag show while we're going around the Statue of Liberty. Like, it was absolutely fantastic. Jenny did say, turn to me though, at, during the thing. And she said, why didn't that piece of shit Aaron come out here? And I said, I don't know why. So Aaron, why didn't you come out? Aaron? He's a real fucking loser. I don't have a great, I've been searching for a good joke about this for the last 30 seconds. I mean, New York's really far from California, Rob.

[21:30]It's such a long flight. And I wasn't prepared to take such a long journey at this point in our, in our nation's history. Well, I would like to think that I would come out to visit you, but you have never invited me out. So I don't know. Have you guys ever had, have you guys ever had a time where you thought you were maybe going to have a surprise party thrown for you and then it didn't happen and you were disappointed? Like maybe. Aaron, your 30th birthday or Matt, when you were, it was your 40th birthday. Did you guys ever think, oh, I better dress up a little more. Maybe this is going to be a surprise birthday. And it was a big letdown.

[22:01]That's such a sad thought. Russell, has that happened to you? That sounds terrible. No, Russell. I'm just curious. It's okay, Russell. You can say it. We feel so terrible for you. I'm just curious. Russell, why are you wearing a tuxedo? I just thought I would let Matt carry the Beck did a better torch and I, I, I, I wasn't able to make it, but I was, I definitely had FOMO while I was looking at the photos and the videos. That's Rob. Guess what? This not given. Is that what you say? Forgiveness not given. I do have to say a couple of things about the party. First of all, it makes me realize how little I noticed, like to a point where I'm worried

[22:31]about my brain. Okay. My brain could be like just going away rapidly because for example, Jenny baked three cookies for each person. So she baked 150 cookies, wrapped them individually. I did not notice. I never noticed. I never asked any questions. She was baking cookies and wrapping them individually and never once did I say, why are you doing this? I was just like, oh, okay. Like the girls that night, nobody fed them on that Friday and like, they never called me for dinner. And I was just like, well, okay. Like nothing, nothing set off any alarm bells.

[23:00]They were like, oh, we're having dinner over here. Actually, it's on a boat. And I go, okay. So I just walk over. Like, I'm like, literally I could just be conditioned to like commit crimes. It's like the deer hunter. It'd be terrible. And then the other thing is, this is when I have to give up my second spanking of the meat. Because Jenny, it's time for big Papa Rob to give you the throwing this party for me. It's time for the official did it better as really fucked me because you know what I thought

[23:32]of the minute I realized she had set this up that for her birthday this year, instead of a surprise party on a boat with friends from out of town and full catering and open bar and all that, I forgot to get the candles because I was editing this dumb podcast and then we threw a birthday party for the dog. So I don't, I cannot throw together a surprise party. It could, it would just be the same people. Like it would be all of my friends on the boat again. I don't, I wouldn't even know who to like, would, would I call her work? Who is Jenny friends with at work? Like, how does that work?

[24:00]Do you think she's through the surprise party for you to like really have a, a head up on you or did she do it because she loves you or because she wanted to feel like she won the battle? You know what? I bet you're right. She's trying to, she's trying to show me that she's better than me. How dare she do that? You know what? Couldn't be that she loves you and wants you to have a wonderful birthday. Oh, Aaron, I don't like playing the slap sounds for my wife. Why would you make me do that? The other reason you were going to spank us is for Matt's birthday. You guys put together like this amazing or someone put together this amazing, um, all

[24:30]his friends called in, wished him happy birthday and everything. His mom told us the story about the umbilical cord and everything else. And for Rob's birthday, I noticed that our last week's episode, Rob mentioned his birthday and not one of us said a damn thing about it. We didn't even say happy birthday or anything because we were trying to keep the gig up. We didn't want to, we didn't want to mess up the surprise. That was my birthday gift to you. And it's 41. Like, right. Like when do you, when does it kind of just become a day? It is true. Everybody in the boat thought it was my 40th because I had missed kind of last year's birthday.

[25:00]So Jenny was just saying it's my 40th. I told a friend when we were going out after I said, this is my 41st. He goes, what the fuck? I wouldn't go out for New York for someone's 41st birthday. Wow. But we had a great time. Matt and I, we went to a comedy club with Manny. We went to a jazz club. We ate delicious food and Matt got to see what Jenny means when she says, oh yeah, it's just a little bit of a walk from here. When we went for a walk, we went to a comedy club with Manny. We went to a jazz club. We went from 4th Avenue up to a place on 54th, just in one shot. No, there's a subway right under us the whole time. We walked the whole way. It was a long walk.

[25:30]Hey, non-New Yorkers don't know what the hell that means, Rob. Put it in miles or something for us. It's 50 blocks. Five miles. Yeah. That's reason for why I didn't go. I've had enough sweaty first dates over the last year. I don't need another one. Yeah. Rolling, going. Russell, how's it going with you? It's going really well. As you guys know, I traveled to Mexico for a work. Thing recently this last week. I just got home tonight. But as you guys know, when I travel, I got to share some, some of my impressions that come from being on airplanes and at the airport.

[26:01]So can I get your guys' feedback on what you think of these type of situations at the airport? Now it's time for plain old Russell. Oh, yeah, that's great. That's great. So first I'm sitting down on my flight back today. Of course, the guy who sits next to me comes in with a box and it's clearly hot food. He had pizza on the plane. The guy brought the pizza on the plane. I was like, you got to be shitting me. He had multiple slices. You bring, if you bring a whole, yeah. If you bring a whole pizza into any public situation, you need to offer to share.

[26:31]Aaron's eating plain pizza. What, what, what seat did he have? Russell? Was he like at first? So he sat down and he was, I was on the window. He was on the aisle. So I was like, well, at least he's not next to me. And then a lady came and said, you're in my seat. And he had to scoot over to the middle seat. Oh, middle seat pizza guy. You got to share a pizza, right? Yeah. But the real thing, the real thing that jumped out to me, I, this is the first time I've ever had this. Are you guys exit row guys? Do you ever want to sit in the exit row?

[27:01]Do you like sitting in the exit row? What's your thought on the exit row? Absolutely. I would love to have, I would love to be the Sully of the flight, be a hero, open the door. So the, the reason I bring it up is there was a guy sitting in front of it. There were two exit rows. I was sitting in one. The guy in front of me was probably like a 16, 17 year old kid. And they came. When you sit in the exit row, they kind of go through, they make sure you're looking at them and they, you have to say, yes, I'm willing to do these duties. This kid was clearly not prepared for any of this.

[27:31]And so he stopped looking at her. He kept not listening to her. And she was yelling at him. You need to look at me when I'm talking to you. And he just kept ignoring her, kept pulling his mask down and everything. And he was joking around with his buddy and she starts telling him and he looks and he goes to grab the handle. Like while we're on the plane. A classic gag. Whoa. And she, she starts hollering at him and she goes, how are you at least 16 years old? Cause I think you might have to be 16 to be in an exit row. And he said, yes, yes. But the whole flight, I was like, I can't believe I'm going to die.

[28:03]I'm going to go big bopper style because this fucking kid in the exit row isn't prepared for this duty. You're like, dude, open the exit door. We got to get out of here. And he's like, don't be so chewy. And you're like, wait, what does that mean? Oh, you're dead. Youth culture. I got killed by youth culture. I was kind of wondering. Rob, who do you think was in the exit or on the big bopper? You think he was the one manning the exit? Oh yeah, absolutely. Seat or not. Yeah. He was like, Hey baby, what if I pull this handle, baby?

[28:30]Aaron, shut up over my big bopper impression. Hey baby, check out this bigger handle. I'm going to pull for you. I was going to say, I was going to say Russ, when, when she was yelling at this kid, did she notice that you got rock hard from her yelling at this kid over and over and over? That's what your fetish is. You loved it. Yeah. I shouldn't have asked her to pull out my handle. That was a mistake. Sir. Your trade table is going up on its own. Okay. And that's a good joke. You got to admit that's a good one. And then I had one last thing for you guys with the airport. Have you ever been to like, let's say a work conference or you're at an event with friends

[29:02]of friends or something where let's say you share a cab ride back to the airport with someone you don't really know, or you, you get to the airport with someone, you know, it's an acquaintance, but not a friend, not someone you're traveling with. What is the etiquette when it comes to, Hey, they're not through security yet. I am, but we came here together. Do we have to do this? Do we have to keep hanging out together at some point or have like an official goodbye or can you just walk away from the person at some point? What is the etiquette there, Matt? I, I've got clear, I've got TSA, I've got, I've, I've paid for as many things as I humanly

[29:35]can pay for to get from point A to point B as fast as possible. And so like Manny and I, we flew in the same flight home from New York last week and I'm like, well, see you in there, you know, cause I am not waiting in that line if I can just literally walk through the airport. Like, cause I paid for it, you know, by privilege allows me to walk through that. So, so no saving money. Yeah. And you know, and like what, man, Manny was 10 minutes behind me.

[30:00]Right. So it wasn't like a big deal, but I'm not going to stay in that line. So no, you just say, I'm going to, well, I'm, I'm TSA. I'm going, you know, like I'll, I'm over here. So no, I don't know. I think you can try to get away from that awkward situation as fast as possible. And just cause like, you want to go do your own thing, right? Like maybe you want to grab a coffee or you want to, you know, you're going to sit down and read a book or listen to a book or something. Like that. Like you don't want to be, you've just been talking to these people for the last three, four days. The last thing you want to do is keep talking to more people again when you're off the clock now. So. Yeah. Again, and this is the one guy who came to visit me.

[30:31]So I want to eat the pizza at the airport without being judged by someone who's a healthy eater ordering airport pizza. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And I think too, Russell, if you were at security and they opened up your suitcase and they saw that you had like 20 different nipple clamps, they'd be like, what? Why do you need 20? Well, we're two. You need two or four at most. You've got where you were, you were presenting. Right. And like, so this is like a work conference. Yeah. Don't you? I, if, if, if it's me, I cannot wait to just be off the clock from all that work stuff.

[31:01]You know what I mean? Like, like I've just done, this is Matt time. Now I don't have, I got a t-shirt on, I got jeans. I got my, my kicks. I don't have to dress up anymore. I don't want to talk any more work. So this is kind of how it came up as I split a car with four or five people, like a big van with four or five people that were at the conference. So I know, I know them professionally. I wouldn't call them friends or anything, but then once we got there, a few of us kind of kept going through the same airline and it kept, you didn't know when it's time to

[31:30]say, Hey, I'm just going to go sit by myself. It's a goodbye without feeling like an asshole. Irish. Goodbye. Irish. Irish. Take off. Hey, what's that? Just be like, guys, I got to take the biggest dump ever. I mean, Mexico. Am I right? And then they'll just, they come out and they're like, are you wearing nipple clamps? I got to go find that family bathroom and hope no one yells at you for it. Right, Rob? No, absolutely not. Yeah. That's another, you're, you're a war criminal. If you're using that family bathroom. Do you know how many people I had to wait?

[32:02]Oh my God, Russell. I've had to change diapers and I've had to wait for the family bathroom. And then some woman comes skulking out and I'm like, Oh, you get out of here. Like you just spread down the whole bath. She's got 20 nipple clamps all over her body. Yeah. So Aaron rolling going, how's it going with you? I'm all right. I'm all right. I, uh, I believe. I also traveled this week and, uh. By the way, how tight do you think nipple clamps are? Do you think nipple clamps are like, if you just pinch tightly or are they like, like

[32:31]what size binder clips would they be? Are they like binder clip tight? That's too tight, right? Can you turn like a dial and make them tighter or looser or not? That's a good idea, Russell. Don't, I'm going to edit that out. That's our, that's our money making. We're going to get do Beck did a better branded nipple clamps where you can adjust it. Yeah. I think they should adjust the tension. They should be personalized. Yeah. I also traveled this week and I. I'm going to call him Russell's nipple clamps. Pleased to announce that I am now a fanny pack traveler. The fanny pack is really an ideal. This does not shock me at all. It's an ideal travel, uh, bag.

[33:02]I really enjoyed it. I had a, I had a, uh, suitcase that was a roll behind suitcase and then also had the fanny pack to keep my, um, other essentials in. I could put a sandwich in there, some hand sand, um, my phones. I would not mix those. I would not mix those. You're purposely, this is like, you're going for like a vibe or a. You're not doing this for utility. You're, you're trying to be a little bit of a hipster. You're trying to be a little hipster, right? I don't think so. I, so I have a fanny pack that I got for free and I like to do the over the

[33:32]shoulder style. Cause then you can kind of swing it around when you need it. And it's got all this stuff you need for traveling. Yeah. I mean, that's the back, but yeah, but it's too heavy, right? Yeah. It's like a tiny backpack. So I really enjoy it. So let me, let me ask why, why not a backpack? Why not a backpack? Just because I have the fanny pack. Because I have a backpack. I have two backpacks, but they were big. They were bigger than what I needed for this particular trip. So the fanny pack was the perfect size for what I needed. The backpack was too big and the fanny pack was the right size. Other trips.

[34:00]I do a backpack. Okay. You were going somewhere where you just need like a pair of socks and some hands and pretty much, but I had a rolling suitcase behind me as well. So that's that. Yeah. There's a rolling suitcase. So then the fanny pack was just the essentials. Yeah. So then the other thing, go ahead. Go ahead, Rob. I was going to shut up. I was going to tell you about the next thing I wanted to say. Which is that I'm really proud of myself because I shimmied up a tree yesterday in my yard. Oh God.

[34:30]Bear style, like bear hugged the thing and shimmied up the tree. Super proud of myself. However, I have like Matt, I have joined the seven inch inseam revolution and I'm going to, I'm here to tell you a seven inch inseam short is not the proper attire for shimmying up a tree. I do not feel good today. I wish I had worn some pants or some maybe nine to 12 inch inseam shorts that did not work out for me. Inside of the knees and you got to get protection, right?

[35:01]Yeah. Shimmying. It's not feeling good right now. It's a bad, it's not a good situation down there. Okay. Why, why were we shimmying Rosie? I was, I was going to hang a rope swing for my son. So I had to shimmy up to get the strap over the furthest out branch to hang up the rope swing and it works. It was successful. So I did it. The main part of a rope swing. The rope swing, the strap. AKA the sex swing hanging from the rafters. Did you hang the swing? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. He's like, I got a swing and a strap. Oh yeah. It's, uh, it's for my, uh, kid.

[35:30]Yeah. Did you have your screwdrivers and everything or your, your tools and your fanny pack when you were going up this thing? No, I should have. Cause I got up there and I realized I had nothing with me. My wife was like, you should have taken the strap up with you before you went up. And then she had to try to hand it to me. I was definitely freaking out. I was definitely freaking out. So you, you would say that you didn't have a strap on. I didn't have a strap on. No, I didn't. Yeah. He's like, all I have is this fanny pack full of nipple clamps, adjustable Russell style nipple clamps. Adjustable Russell.

[36:01]These don't help at all. You like the tension. So Aaron, is it like anything else with parenting where you did all this work and you put the swing up and the kid was on it for about 30 seconds? It goes, and then goes back inside and plays with his ball and cup or whatever. No, it was worse than that. He was like, this is what I was expecting. And I was, this isn't as high as I thought. No, he had a full on meltdown. Cause it wasn't what he wanted. It wasn't what he expected. And he was a perfect angel while he was waiting. So patient. And then once it was up there, it wasn't what he expected. Yeah. You get it. You love to beat my kids. Yeah. I hear you, man.

[36:30]I get it too. I think it's a good idea. How's it rolling? I think that's a good one. I'm curious about how it's rolling with Rob. Again, we have to bring up again that Aaron shimmied up a tree with, and then, and then got up there and goes, wait a minute. I forgot. That is so funny to me. And this is, this is a good one. This is a percent of people that think they can beat a certain animal in a fight unarmed. Okay. So we're going to go away from the easy ones.

[37:00]It's only, first of all, though, 7% of men do think they can beat a grizzly bear in a fight unarmed. What? This just goes to show like why there's so many problems in the world is that that's almost one out of 10 men are like, yeah, I could take a fucking bear. It's like, really? You think you can take a bear? Natural selection. A grizzly bear, a grizzly bear. They weigh like 900 pounds. Well, how would you even start to fight a grizzly bear? It doesn't make any sense. It makes no sense. So then we have gorilla 8%. That's no, you couldn't beat a gorilla. No way. Now. Okay. Now this is where it starts to get interesting.

[37:30]A crocodile. I have to say, I do feel like I could beat a crocodile in a fight. Okay. If I, if I could get sneak up on the crocodile, I feel like, cause it's eyes, right? Like I could just jab its eyes out. Their jaws don't. You guys have seen people wrestle crocodiles. I saw a guy wrestle a crocodile in the black Hills. Once you close those jaws. That's all it takes. Their jaws. Aren't so strong opening as they are closing. Like if I, if I came at it now, if he snuck up on me, not going to lie in big trouble, then he gets ahold of my arm.

[38:00]I'd be in trouble. But again, I feel like the eyes, I mean, even putting my finger next to my eyes makes me nervous. Okay. So kangaroo 17%. There's a, there's a great, there's a great video of a guy punching a kangaroo. Kangaroo steals this guy's dog. Rob, you got to see that. I have seen the guy. He started squaring up with him. He gets his, uh, and he punches the kangaroo and the kangaroo lets the dog go. So I don't know. I kind of feel like maybe, but it could kick you. Was he listening to slobber bone when he got that dog back or not?

[38:31]That was the inspiration for it. Okay. So let's jump ahead. 23% King Cobra. Cause chimpanzees, the other one, we can't be the chimpanzee. They're scary as hell. Yeah. I think, I think I could be the King Cobra. So this is in the fight. I would just see Russell King Cobra, but you, that means you got no weapons. Not before it bites you. I don't know, man. Quick reflexes. Yeah. I feel like it could bite me. There's nothing that says that like, I don't have like anti-venom there. I feel like if it bit me, guess what?

[39:01]That Cobra he's in for a rough time. Cause he's going to get a punch to the arm. Ooh, like that. How that hurt. Okay. So maybe I'm rethinking that. That was not good. 31% of guys feel like they could beat a large dog in a fight. That's insane. What's a large dog, a lab. I'm going to say a pit bull. I'm going to say right now. A pit bull. And we're not talking about Mr. Worldwide. Cause he'd never fight me. There's no animals at this point on the list.

[39:31]No way. Not doing it. Okay. 71% of men think they can beat a goose. I don't know, man. I am scared as shit of geese. When I, like, if I go for a walk and there are a bunch of them standing there and they kind of start hissing at you, I start walking the other way. I would rather, I think, take on the large dog or the King Cobra than the geese. Absolutely. Those things scared the shit out of me. Do geese even have teeth? No. Like what's the worst a goose could do to you? They just, just give you a little squeeze. That's it. You know, just punch him in the mouth.

[40:00]There's some ego in 71% of males in this country. If they think they can beat the geese, I would be out of there. Okay. Here's the one I want to say, cause this is actually something I brought up last summer. So I feel like I should be credited on this. An eagle. Only 38% of men think they could beat an eagle in a fight. I know for a fact I could beat an eagle in a fight. If I knew that I was fighting the eagle and the eagle, didn't surprise me. Look at how long my arms are. Look at how long these are. What's an eagle going to do? It's going to bite my arm. You might get severely wounded on one of your limbs,

[40:30]but you're going to survive and you're gonna be able to get that thing. Yeah. Are you sure? They're super fast, man. And they're huge. I saw a video the other day of an eagle carrying away a Fox. That's pretty impressive. Yeah. Yeah. Well, guess what? Okay. This Foxy guy is going to beat the shit out of that eagle. No problem. I would grab it. I would destroy it in a fight. I would, I would. First of all, it would hurt me because it's like I'm fighting America. Right. Okay. So that would be a bummer that I would have to be fighting freedom right there. But afterwards I would pluck him. I would gut him and I would put him into an oven and I would eat my

[41:03]foe. Okay. That's one of the few animals on here that you could do this with. Tastes like freedom. Maybe a gorilla. I've always wanted to eat a gorilla too, but that's about it. What? You shouldn't eat bear because you're going to get trichinosis from bear. NFL sound. NFL sound. NFL sound Rob. No. Trichinosis from bear. What the hell? This doesn't take the sound word away. If that's not the NFL sound, what can ever earn it?

[41:30]Well, I was talking about fighting the Eagles. I mean, here comes Rob coming down. He's going against the fiercest opponent, the Eagles. Now, wait a minute. What if it's Michael Vick? Then it's the Eagle and some dogs. I came here to, is this a music podcast? Oh my God. Is this really what you want to do? All right. Let's get into the album. Where do they put my phone? Talk about the Eagle. Yeah. We're only 53 minutes into this podcast. All right. So we are talking today about the low end theory,

[42:02]or as Aaron said earlier, the Lewinsky theory, because I was in 1991. Now I get it. Now I get it. Yeah. Thank you. So, so this is an album that came out in 1991. It was produced and pretty much George Bush, the Prince of the president, 1991. Yes. I listen. Don't bother me. It was like 96, 97. All the Lewinsky stuff. Yeah. You're off. It's about five years, but that's all right. Is that really, was I really 16 when a bunch of jokes about blowjobs are going on? I feel like that might've influenced me somehow.

[42:30]And this was really, I mean, this is a really produced by mainly, I think the main force behind this album is Q-tip, right? Right. Like this, that's kind of what's going on with this produced and kind of had the idea of like, basically there's two songs on this album that weren't produced by Q-tip. And it's the two that doesn't have just this absolutely, mind-blowing thumping base in it. You want to just have base in your face all day long. And when the album came out, I think it was, it was successful,

[43:00]but looking back, people have now kind of deemed it as like a real, uh, Harbinger of alternative hip hop. And it's like a true mixing of jazz and hip hop. And you can, you're going to hear it in all these songs. And probably most importantly, this launched the career of, at the time, 19 years old, Busta Rhymes, who eventually went on to, on, uh, to a career that his absolute highlight was playing a concert at St. Olaf, where he held out the mic for St. Olaf to sing the chorus to one of his hit songs.

[43:31]And it was met with absolute silence because nobody at St. Olaf listened to Busta Rhymes. To be fair, you guys are, you're bearing the lead on Busta Rhymes at St. Olaf. Like that, that is not what everyone remembers him coming to the, our school for. Everyone remembers that his rider, that of what he required in like his green room or whatever, required, required like a hundred condoms that was on the rider. That was, that was the thing that was famous for Busta Rhymes coming to our school. I think you're, you're bearing the lead on Q-Tip too. Like this, this album shaped the sound of so many albums after it.

[44:03]And Q-Tip eventually actually had influence on Dilla, who influenced so many things, Voodoo, which we've already heard. So, uh, yeah, let's get into it. Let's get into the album. When somebody, one of Russ's ex-girlfriends tries to break in as an excursion. Is that good? Like that's good. I feel like, right. By the way, they're going straight for soul jazz, but they're going to a classic jazz artist, Art Blakey. This is chant for boo from Art Blakey. And so many of these samples,

[44:33]they're just playing the sample. Like they're, they're really playing long stretches of these songs. And so if you, if you know the songs, you can really recognize them. If you don't, you might go try to find them. This song perfectly sums up the album though, right? Yeah. Jazz to start with. To start off. He's talking about how my dad used to say, it's just like bebop or hip hop. And then it's just bass, bass, bass. Yes. And they hit you with these drums.

[45:00]And we could, we're not going to do a sample based podcast because people have done that and done that better than us. But anytime you, you go to who sampled, and this is the one, this is the first time that caused me to purchase the who samples app because I had to have it. I had to know what was going on on all these albums. And these guys were seriously digging in the crates. Some of this, this stuff is well known. And some of it is so deep cuts that these guys were spending a lot of time. And I don't know if, I mean, it was probably Q-tip. I don't know exactly what Ali Shahid Muhammad's role was,

[45:32]but these guys were really searching for these samples. Are you saying in the last week you bought the who sampled app? Yeah. For this album, it's only five bucks, but I was like, I had to know for four bucks. Maybe. Oh, Matt's furious. Do you see Matt's face? And you said you paid for an app. He's so bad. I had to do it. It's way better. No, it's way better. On the, if you look at it on the web and you got all these ads, man, you should pay $4 and it's right there. I'm going to get that too. I'm going to go on seamless here and I'm going to write in app sampler and

[46:00]I'm going to push purchase. Oh yeah. The very good. It's just what I wanted. Lots of realistic. Did you guys, were you guys ever, did you ever want big subwoofers in your car? Yes. I wanted that so bad growing up. Did Dave, you have it? No, no. I tried to get some speakers in my little truck one time. Didn't quite, I mean, it worked for a while. There's a lot that goes into that. I had a couple of buddies. I had some, I don't know, looking back at them now, they weren't great systems, but at the time, I mean, it was better than anything you had. And so there was nothing better than just mind shaking base and you

[46:34]couldn't understand anything else. And you're literally just rocking your head. And so, no, it's a thing. I don't know. You know, I don't know if I could do it now, but it's a cool, it was cool. Oh, Matt doing it now would be so great. Eddie, Leo, get in the car at 715. I would love to have it. It'd be one of those. Those guys were, when you, when you close the doors in the car, the air pressure changes. Cause the subs are, yeah, that's what I wanted, but I never did. I didn't ever have amazing speakers in my car, but my first car did have a car phone,

[47:00]like in the, like in the, in between the two seats. That's pretty rad. It had a car phone, like Gordon Gekko style. My mom never activated those, so I could never use it. But yeah, there was a car phone, Gordon Gekko style in the car. I always wanted huge speakers in my car until I met other guys that had huge speakers in the car. And I was like, Oh, I don't want to be like you at all. This is a disaster. But my friend did have a friend who had like a competition base car. Like he would bring it to competitions, no license plate, no nothing that would rattle. It was totally like together. And you would get in this car and he would play like,

[47:33]and you would like feel the breath go out of your body. It would, you would be breathing based on the base on the car. It was unbelievable. In fact, it made me want to start bugging out. Love it. I think it's interesting that the first track is basically, it's a Q-tip solo track, right? There's no Fife on it. And then Fife comes in on this one and there's another track that's maybe all Fife, but I think they have such a good interplay together that the tracks with them,

[48:03]the two of them together. I really, but this is kind of Fife's coming out party though too, right? Like he wasn't, he was kind of just hanging around the early, late. I don't know the history, man. Tell us about it. Yeah. I don't know too much about it. I just know that this is kind of where Fife dog kind of came out and said, um, you know, Q-tip was pushing him to be more out front. I think Q-tip got sick of kind of, I think he wanted to have more of a collaborative group kind of a thing. Like he saw, God, there's a couple other groups. Um,

[48:30]big daddy Kane was with some groups, um, Busta Rhymes. Yeah. Dale of soul and all that. You know, I think the Busta Rhymes was with, um, leaders of the new school. Yeah. Yep. You know, all of those groups had kind of a vibe to them and, you know, as they weren't solo artists, they all became soil solo artists later. But I think at the time it was, it was much more, I don't know if, uh, it was much more advantageous to kind of have the, the crew, if you will, particularly at live concerts and stuff like that. Cause you couldn't just be up on your own the whole time.

[49:01]And so, you know, I think Q-tip was trying to find his buddies to come be part of it. So I don't know. You guys mentioned Dale of soul there. They get shouted out a few times on this album. You know, who else gets shouted out on this song? Bugging out. Arsenio. He's out on a bunch on Arsenio all the time. You're called on a few times. Not, not, yeah, not to, to, uh, not to spoiler alert, but he's going to come up at least two more times on this album.

[49:30]This is such a 90s album. It's of a time for sure. Right? Yeah. Arsenio comes up a lot. Is Arsenio Hall the most 90s thing you can think of? Yes. Like it's such a spot in time of like anything big. I remember Bill Clinton on the sacks, right? Like magic Johnson talking about HIV. Like all that stuff happened on Arsenio Hall. It was like, it was such a finger on the pulse. Yeah. It's crazy. I like that word. Rob. Nice. Yeah. And then I ended up with saying it's crazy,

[50:00]which is what a dumb guy says to end a sentence. It's so, it's so dumb. Can you, can you explain to me, can you explain to me who, what is Fife dog still big? Am I just too dumb? He's like, what's going on now with Fife dog? Why is Q-Tip such a big deal? Oh no. Yeah. What happened? When did he pass away? Not that long ago. 2016. 2016. No, I think, yeah, honestly, I think he might've had kidney disease or something. So then in one of these reasons, like I, yeah. When he's like, we got to do this again. No, I'm serious, man. Like, listen, when he says I drink so much soda, they call me Dr. Pepper.

[50:30]I was like, that shit is sad, man. Like he obviously like it's all tied up in the history of health problems for African-American people and the things that we've done wrong. Yeah. We're not, we're not going down that road, but yeah, Rob, thanks for that. That's part of where this title for this album. Well, yeah, this shows how much research I've done. You guys were like, you talk too much. And then I did my three sentences. You're like, you dumb shit. You didn't touch on anything. What do you guys want from me? I am dumb. I keep saying that to you. I don't know how many more times I can say that to you. I am a dumb guy who looks smart. Go to the next song. And I just did a smart pose,

[51:00]by the way, rap promoter, chicken and orange juice. This is on my rider. Don't forget my pastry. Make sure they're tasty. I'm not the type to be. Ooh, don't forget my pastry. Make sure they're tasty. This, I mean, there's just, there's just lyric upon lyric throughout this whole album. It's great. And you can hear them. You can understand them. And I think it kind of goes to this, you know, what do we call it? Alternative rap. But I think there was this big push. And I think this was so popular because it wasn't gangster rap,

[51:30]right? Like everybody knew Eazy-E. Everybody knew NWA. I mean, there wasn't, there was a lot of quote unquote gangster rap or kind of even just, um, inner city rap, as opposed to this was very conscious, very, you know, it talked about, more things than just, uh, you know, living hard life kind of a thing. And so I think that's what made it a little more popular. It's kind of spread out, uh, into the, that wasn't just inner city, New York is in the boroughs. I was outside in the suburbs a little bit more. Does that sound,

[52:00]which did you guys listen to more as a kid? Did you listen to a tribe called quest as a kid or not? I didn't. Nope. No, I didn't either. No scenario was the only one electric relaxation off of midnight marauders. I know that one really well, but yeah, I didn't a lot. And now this is the stuff. That I would put on. This is like a desert Island album for me. Like I'd take this with me anywhere. Yeah. It's a pretty great album. I mean, I, and I think if you were going to expose somebody like a child to hip hop, this would be a great album to start with. I mean, it's got all the touch. It's got all the touchstones. Now he's just going back to it.

[52:31]What up? That's crazy. Am I using that right? That's crazy that you're doing that. You're just using. That's a good point, Rob. Like I didn't think about it. Like if you're going to introduce, let's say somebody younger than 13, like hip hop, right? Like you're going to put on the chronic or you're going to put on this kind of thing. Right. And so, yeah, this, so all day, there's a couple of things where you can tell it's dated, but I think, and it turns out that if you play, if you play scenario, for example, for let's say, I don't know, maybe a middle school class to start your class.

[53:01]And then one of the first songs is about how they're going to come in your eye. You know, maybe that's in there too. And you forgot that that's in there. And you just play that and you hope none of the kids. Let me know where I'm coming from. But I will say that song rap promoter is all about how he got, he's, you know, they're constantly getting ripped off by club promoters and stuff like that. But he mentions that on his rider is or either potatoes or Ida bag potatoes are so good. Aaron, are you fucking with or Ida bag potatoes, like the crinkle cut or the waffle cut fries? Or is that just me? I literally, I bet I have, I haven't had, I bet I have that three times a week.

[53:30]I've not had them for a long time, but I recently read a recipe for roasted potatoes that call for Del Monte canned potatoes. And now I'm on the lookout for canned potatoes. Cause I got to, I got to find these potatoes. They're supposed to be fantastic. Roast them up with some, I've read this on the internet recently. That's, that's my next culinary. So I guess my question was, do you guys have any foods that you buy that you're kind of embarrassed

[54:00]that you would buy those foods? Like for me, I'll just tell you right now, here's an example. The only cheese that I buy for the house is craft singles in the plastic because it tastes good enough and it doesn't go bad. And the other time we buy cheese, you tip it out and it's moldy. Don't need that. I know Aaron's disgusted by that. I love craft singles. Perfect in a grilled cheese. And guess what? Also. Okay. And a tortilla with some taco meat on top. Not a big deal. Everybody loves it. I think craft singles are a feat of engineering, Rob. I'm with you, man. They're like, they're an amazing thing. Like they're, they're, they're legitimately like an incredible invention.

[54:30]Is this a shot? I can't believe I can't, I can't believe that Aaron agrees with me. Yeah, I totally agree. I'm with that. Okay. Okay. Tough guy. You got craft singles in your house right now. I don't right now, but I think they're, yeah, big talk, big talk. Get off the fucking craft singles train. I'm driving this. It is a feat of engineering and I'm the engineer. And guess what? You're off the coast. Goodbye. Air in or air out. I have an impromptu air in or air out. All right, let's hear it. In the last 10 years, has Aaron ever purchased pre shredded cheese or does he shred his own off the block?

[55:00]Has he ever purchased a bag of shredded cheese? It's time for. All right. So I got to think about this. Does Aaron shred his own cheese? Does he shred his own cheese or has he ever owned to purchase the bag of Ziploc shredded cheese? I'm going to say he has purchased it, but I'm going to say he prefers to buy the block and shred it because he saves like 50 cents or whatever you save. He likes to do that. And I would guess he's got one of those big square shredders. So it's actually. Do you think he makes his wife and kid watch him while he shreds it like he does when he puts up the swing set outside?

[55:33]Oh, yeah, yeah. He gets the shredded cheese and then he forgets the shredder and he has to go back to the kitchen. Matt, what do you think? I think it's a good question. Jinx. The right answer is. Great. Now we can't talk. He did. He has bought shredded cheese, but the right answer is just if you have a block of cheese, it is so much better to actually shred the cheese and put it on. So if you have the ability to do it, if you have the ability to do it, you absolutely shred your own cheese. You buy the block, shred your own cheese.

[56:00]It's great, but he has bought a bag of shredded cheese in the last 10 years. This is why this weekend when I gave Matt some, shredded cheese on a tortilla, he said to fuck off because I got it out of the bag. It's so it's, I didn't think that was a good guess, but whatever. Aaron, do you shred your own cheese by the block? Matt is 100% right on the daily. We, we buy blocks of cheese and slice them for their useful for their, for whichever use you need them. So on the daily, we buy the blocks, but I have indeed purchased pre-sliced pre-shredded cheese,

[56:32]multiple occasions in the last 10 years when I'm making lasagna for the family who are visiting. So Matt is correct. Omelets. Omelets. Omelets. There's nothing better than shredding your own cheese, putting in omelets. Oh yeah. You got to shred it yourself. You buy the block, you shred it yourself. How about instead of shredding your cheese, you take the plastic off and then you put it on top of your omelet. And then you got to wait a while to melt. Cause it does have a plasticky like quality. When it first comes out ingredient list on shredded cheese, it's like cheese plus a bunch of other shit. Like it would not surprise list on a block of cheese is like cultured milk enzymes and rent it.

[57:05]Like there's a difference. It would not surprise me. You know that Dr. Ray video where he opens up the fridge and it's just forties. It would not surprise me if you opened up Russell's fridge and it was just all craft singles. That's what it takes up. And forties. Yeah. And forties. I haven't taken a dump in three years. I'm so backed up. This, the shredding the own cheese would violate Russ food. Rule number one, of course, is if it takes longer to make it than to eat it,

[57:30]it's out. So shredding my own cheese is a no go. Russ's oven is where he stores all his paper, important paperwork. And he's like, I can't use this. It's so locked. All right. I'm telling you guys, or I had a potatoes. If you're not fucking with the waffle cut or I had a potatoes. So good. New wood tastes good on top. Probably butter. Ooh, 1988. We get some horns on this one. This is where I don't know what's in the background of this one. Rosie, maybe you've got it, but I didn't get to the refrain.

[58:00]It's good. No, I didn't look at the sample on this one. Cause I didn't want to, I didn't want to make the entire show about what are the samples? Cause people have, I've done that. Aaron goes to Costco and only takes some of the samples. I've never been to Costco. I, this is the one track to me. That's like a little bit, it's like a little bit misogynist this one. And then obviously the upcoming, uh, the infamous, you know, this is the one where I just feel like five's a little over the top with the, he's like trying to do some slut shaming.

[58:30]That's like, it's just, this is like puts it in. It's, you know, 1991, uh, Rob you're, you're in New York guys. So tribe called press there. Uh, Queens they're from Queens, right? Is that correct, Rob? Yep. So in honor of that, I went back to our favorite book who's in vinyl and they've got low end theory in the book. And so they suggest on side a, this album, you do a Queens cocktail, which is a gin, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth and pineapple juice. So I'm doing a Queens cocktail in honor of a tribe called quest.

[59:01]That sounds Russ's bar grows larger and larger every episode. He's now got dry and sweet vermouth. Well, I only buy one type of vermouth because it would take, it would take too long to pour two types of vermouth in there. So it would violate rule number one. So there's only, I don't know what kind of vermouth it is, but not two kinds. Russell drinks, his drinks faster than he pours them. I might be, we might need to have a Dutchess cocktail than a Queens cocktail, but you're getting there. Aaron is called Russ out of his book. Aaron's on fire today. I love it.

[59:30]Versus from the abstract. So much anger over that whole, uh, in effect swing set mishap. I do feel like this album, it picks up majorly toward the end. Agree. The second half is really good. So this one, they actually had a guy named Ron Carter on base from the miles Davis quintet, his second quintet. And he does mention, I'm pretty sure he was part of the third quintet. Aaron, are you sure he's in the second quintet with Ruby Hancock and Wayne Shorter, right? It's John Hancock.

[60:01]John. I got to ask you guys, do you know, Tony Williams? I, I enjoy a lot of this album. Do you think it's a little monotone? It's just kind of like that same drum beat over and over. Maybe you guys have enough. Oh, what did you listen to? Yeah. What did you listen to it? I've done it different ways. I did. I've done earbuds and I've also done, um, the beats by Dre headphones. So I've done it both ways, but it just, it, it felt a little bit, um, consistent from song to song of it.

[60:31]It, all the songs sounded very similar to me. I would agree with that. Clamps by Russell. That's a great name for those nipple clamps. By the way, Russell, you're, you're, you're, you're jumping the gun on my, um, final rating, but I, I do, I'm not sure if this is better than a midnight marauders, which is their album that came next. And I think the drums are more varied on midnight marauders. Cause you started to get to a little bit more of that syncopation, a little bit more of that Dilla sound behind the beat kind of thing. And this does sound like a lot of the drums are similar loops.

[61:01]Yeah. Midnight marauders on the list. And I think if it had been before, it would certainly be, I think they just, I think the way, the list is crafted, you know, because it came out in 1991. That's why it's higher up there kind of thing. But I agree with you that, you know, it's much, uh, they spread their wings much more on midnight marauders and get a little bit more, uh, sample-y if you will, not so monotone. So, but I agree with you. Listen to this verse, listen to this lyric from the song real quick. All right.

[61:33]So you notice there that he said very quickly, and I definitely jumped to it right away. He's got a fetish for some booty. Okay. Now, first of all, that comes up multiple times in tribes, right? A perfect lyric. He indeed has a fetish. He's like, I have a fetish for the booty. What do you guys think would be the best fetish to have? Like if you could pick, and I'm not fetish shaming here. Like if we'd all know Aaron with the feet or whatever, uh, and we know Russ with them with the Russ clamps by Russell. But what would your, what would be the fetish?

[62:00]If you could pick to have a fetish. And what I mean by that is you see it and you just get turned on like crazy. What would be the best fetish to have? I got to go with a foot fetish. I think that'd be awesome. You just go to the beach. You're looking at these feet. They got those little toes, like skittles. And you just want to suck on them. It's too easy to get caught. Rob staring at some chicks feet at the beach. It sounds like it's coming from personal experience. No, no. Have you ever heard of mirrored sunglasses? Hello? That is a summertime staple for Rob at the pool. Let's get on the therapeutic diving port of love and talk about these fetishes. Cause Roosevelt Island has a pool and Roosevelt Island is one of these

[62:32]places that a lot of people that work at the UN live there. So when I go to the pool in Roosevelt Island, I see a lot of people. I see a lot of European swimsuits, if you know what I mean. Okay. So I see some swimsuits where I need those mirror glasses because I'm with kids. I can't let the kids see that I have a booty fetish as well. Okay. Now do I also see a lot of speedos? Yes. But guess what? It's a trade-off I'm willing to make. Those guys got beautiful bodies, man. I can't even lie about it. What would be a fetish you'd want? Russell, you want to answer this question real bad.

[63:00]You're raising your hand. You're giving me a big thumbs up. I just can't stop thinking about the whole fanny pack thing. Like maybe I could make that like a new thing. Like you, you go in and, you're just rocking just nothing but the fanny pack. I think that's the new fetish. do you think a fetish is something you do? No, no, I don't, I don't have a good answer. I'm fucking. Cause I was going to say, if your fetish is women wearing fanny packs, that would be great. I would love to see Russell seeing somebody walk by and be like, Ooh, yeah, look at that fanny pack. But to be fair, Rob talked about this fetish and said, don't bring up feet. And then he immediately said his would be a foot fetish. It'd be easy.

[63:31]My fetish right now is a naked person who's attracted to me. Do you know how hard of a fetish that is to pull off? That's the one of the most impossible fetishes of all time. I know how hard it is to pull off. We don't need to bring that up again and again, right? Maybe, maybe my fetish should be people who aren't attracted to me. Ooh, yeah, that would be really easy to do. I could do that. No problem. Just over and over being body shamed by every, by everyone. Yeah. Oh, that tray table is just going up and up and up. Matt, what's your, what would be your fetish? Well, you, you brought up what would be a good fetish,

[64:01]right? Now what's my fetish? And I, I keep coming back to what a good fetish should be. I don't want to know what your actual fetish is. Yeah, right. Good. I'm glad. Okay. Would be something that you can't, it's like, you have to be like you're into the eyes or something like that, where it's like something that you're not creepy looking at feet at the beach all the time or something like that. I think so. I don't know. You were just, you were just so, you're just staying in your lane as well as you possibly can, Matt. That is so fucked. If you think a woman would rather have you staring at her eyes than her

[64:30]feet. If you went up to someone and you were just like, okay, I'm going to close up on the zoom camera. You think that's better? Me being like, Oh, look at those little piggies. Just want to suck on them. Like that's way weirder looking at somebody's eyes. My fetish is their eyes. And if you said to a woman like, Oh, my fetish is your eyes. They'd be like, Oh my God, I got to get out of here. Open the door, jump out guys. Speaking of getting busy, show busyness, show business, show busyness. Oh, this is badass. This scene went a little more uptempo to me.

[65:00]I liked the songs that were a little quicker than some of the slower ones. Yeah. So this is a verse by Lord Jamal. And I read on definitely not on genius.com that this was the first and Aaron, don't laugh at this. This is the first posse cut on this album. So Aaron, can you explain to me what a posse cut is? Yeah. It's when you're, it's when you're typically bringing together members of different rap crews and you're, or even your same, your same rap crew, like Wu Tang, a lot of the Wu Tang album was posse cuts where you're just doing trading off,

[65:34]you know, everybody's got one verse, everybody's thrown in their own verse. That's a, that's a posse cut. Like actually a lot of the back half of the chronic was posse cuts too. I think. I like that. I think that would be a gang. I'd start called the posse cuts. That'd be awesome. That song is kind of interesting. They originally recorded that song as a song called Georgie Porgy, which was about a kid growing up in the hood as a homosexual or as, as being gay. I was told I can't say homosexual anymore, that that's bad to say. No, I'm trying to stay on top of it.

[66:01]Yeah. That's my, well, I said that once in front of a, in front of a, a queer friend of mine. And she laughed and laughed and said, what are you a doctor? And I was like, I don't know. I feel like I'm doing the right thing. Yes, I am a doctor. Show me those toes. But, but then they said that label basically said, no, we can't release a song like this. It's going to be too heavy. And one of the guys who wrote that is not on the song because he said, if we're not going to talk about that, then I'm not going to do it.

[66:30]So it was this thing with like, they were trying to be a little bit more progressive, but the, the actual record label was like, no, that's too much. Like you can talk about all that other stuff, but not that I, I just thought that was kind of interesting vibes. And let's see. Oh, wait, no, this is, I'm sorry. I was looking at an Amazon order. I've coming in vibes and stuff. You've got coming in. Now this one I know is off a grant. Happy mother's day. We have, we have to call it out. This song is the second reference to our city.

[67:01]Yes. Two references outside a over there as my dog pound. It's also called vibes and such. Cause that noise you hear in the background is called a vibraphone. Right. Okay. And we know that we don't want our phones to ring. So we always have it set to vibraphone. Yeah. And when I looked up this sample, it's off a grant green album, but the vibraphone player, I've already forgotten his name. It's not any of the well-known vibraphone players. They were really digging deep on this stuff.

[67:30]They were, they didn't have any of the well-known vibraphone players. Aaron, you gotta be kidding me. They didn't want to pay him too much. They didn't want to pay him. Vibraphone Jones was like, come on, man. It's me. Vibraphone Jones. I'm the best known vibraphone player. I was thinking like Bobby Hutcherson, but I don't know. Maybe I might be saying that. Oh yeah. B-Hutch. Yeah. I was thinking vibraphone Jones. We'll skip it. Let's go to check the rhyme. This verse by Fife though. So strong.

[68:00]Yep. I read that this is really kind of a, a celebrated hip hop song for something called call and response rhyme cypher where it's back to back and forth. Ooh, like run DMC. Yeah. So that was pretty cool. I try to do this on here, but you guys never respond. I do a lot of call. There's no response. But there's actually another song that you guys have to hear that has a little call and response with Fife dog. This is Shaq. Where are you at? From Shaq Diesel. Fife dog was on that album with Shaq.

[68:30]And honestly, this is embarrassing. I knew Fife dog from the Shaq album, but I didn't know him. I didn't know him. I didn't know him. Not from this album. Oh my God. That's amazing. That's so good. All my nuts taste. This is it. That's all I got on this. We can move along. Oh no. These lyrics are so good. Matt, can you look up where Shaq is on the list? Shaq is a pretty good rapper. Fast forward a little bit, Rob, and see, let's let Aaron judge Shaq's rapping skills. Wait, what about Matt? Matt knows rap. Matt? You got to fast forward.

[69:02]I honestly fast forward. I really did. Basketball player. Who is the guy from the, any basketball player. It's got rap album out. It's not good. And any rapper who wants to play basketball is not good at basketball. Every rapper, every rapper wants to be an NBA player and every NBA player wants to be, and this is very generalization. So we'll go with all, you know, there's football players. Everybody wants to be in the music game,

[69:30]not rapper, but like in the music game and every, everybody in the music game, wants to be an athlete. And so that's like every guy who has a foot fetish really wants to have an eye fetish. And every guy who has an eye fetish really wants to have a foot. Yeah, that, that tracks. I did the closeup look on the zoom again. All right. Everything fair is fair. This is one of the only songs that involves drugs on this whole album, which is pretty wild. Very little drug rap. God,

[70:02]he's got great lyrics. I'm going to have to play my opening song again. So you guys can hear what that sounded like. Cause that was also very good. It's also got bars, but these, these albums are so hard for me to make the opening songs for jazz. We've got the jazz. Sorry, Rudy Gobert. That's a good joke. They're playing right now. I see who's, who's the musician here, Rosie competition. Oh, you know what? That's Matt. I'm really glad you asked because I think that our,

[70:32]our listeners are probably wondering, wondering if there's going to be a list on this episode. There are no listeners now. Still waited this long to drop a list on this episode. And I, I, I heard this song and I looked up the sample and it inspired me to make a list. So all right, Jimmy, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff had me coming up for a list. So we were getting, we were getting going, going, get going thing. So we'll just keep talking over the things,

[71:00]but Rosie, I didn't drop that. I didn't drop that. I really didn't. No, I really wanted to know. So this is very interesting that you actually have a list for this. All right. What is the list? Aaron, Aaron, what's the list here? So the sample on this song, you heard the, you heard the Soprano saxophone there. That is Jimmy McGriff and the Jimmy McGriff quintet. And it's lucky Thompson on the Soprano sax live from the Cook County jail. And I think Rob, you might have the, the source material queued up. So if you want to play that real quick.

[71:34]And it comes in here in about three seconds, you're going to hear the Soprano sax. You got the Jimmy McGriff on the organ. All right. So this is a live concert from the Cook County jail, which is in Illinois. And it turns out there's a lot of great music recorded in prisons in some way. I love it. So we're doing a prison music list right now. Yes. Yes. So, Hey,

[72:00]what earlier, what I did want to talk about my fetish. Here we go. Here we go. Cage prison girls in heat, listening to jazz. So when I saw it, when I looked up the sample, I immediately thought I got to do a prison music list because it's going to bring up some of our favorites. It's going to let me talk about some interesting things. It turns out there's another American music. Great. Who has performed at the Cook County jail and that is BB King. So this is BB King. How blue can you get live from the Cook County jail in 1971? Amazing.

[72:32]You just see Russell, like holding, up a gas station outside. He hears it going on. He's like, yeah, give me all your money. Like you don't even have a gun. He's like, let me in. I want to hear this concert. So we're starting with BB King's solo to start the song. How blue can you get? So we've got to hear a little bit of this guitar because it's as good as it gets. We should put all these albums into a box set of like a jailhouse rock box set. No doubt. Because there's something about hearing these guys cheer in the background where you just get like,

[73:02]it gets you amped, right? And then if you want to play the next sample, we just got to hear BB King's voice. I gave you seven children. And now you want to give them back. I mean, what a voice, right? That was badass. And the whole crowd going nuts. His voice is so good. He should be BB plus King.

[73:30]Right. So then obviously if we're going to play, a song's recording in a prison, we got to play one of my favorites. I know one of Russell's favorites, Johnny Cash doing Folsom prison blues alive from Folsom prison. This is an all time. This is on my top, probably five to 10 song list ever. It was a, a Rob favorite in college at karaoke. One of the reasons I fell in love with the song is so good at doing it at the bar. I would start out with a little pad or a couple of jokes.

[74:01]And this is another one. You can just hear, but the inmates get into it. To be clear though, it's no Portishead. It's no Portishead. What a bunch of bullshit. I will say we've talked about it before, but on that Johnny Cash album, there is a section where they are calling out prisoners who have people visiting during the concert. And Russell and I have said to each other a number of times, if that was us, I'd be like, Hey mom,

[74:30]go fuck yourself. Cause I'm watching a Johnny Cash concert. This fricking rules. I am not coming out to visit you. Forget about it. So in the 50 years after Johnny Cash performed at Folsom prison, there were no other artists who were granted a permit to perform in Folsom prison until I believe 2018 when Los Tigres del Norte and I, my Spanish is terrible. A Norteño band received a permit to perform in Folsom prison and they did. And they did their own version in Spanish of the Folsom prison.

[75:04]So let's hear Los Tigres del Norte doing La Prision del Folsom. There's a little bit of a lead in here. You gotta hear it though. This kicks ass Aaron. This song is so good. Oh yeah. Oh yes. This is an Aaron list like I've never heard before in my life.

[75:30]Is that an accordion? Yeah. There's an accordion. There's an accordion. There's tuba on here. There's a Netflix documentary about this concert, which I haven't watched yet, but all the videos on YouTube are incredible. They'll make you cry. All the tears. It's so good. Hey, you combine my prison music fetish with my accordion fetish and it's just getting real over here right now. So keeping it in California, the San Quentin, obviously San Quentin is a famous prison and we know that Johnny Cash

[76:00]recorded an album there. But what I didn't know until I did a little bit of research, is that Frank Sinatra once performed at San Quentin and this didn't make it to an album, but when he was asked to perform at San Quentin, he said, yeah, sure I'll do that. And he brought the entire count Basie orchestra and played for the inmates at San Quentin. So this is Frank Sinatra doing fly me to the moon for San Quentin. Oh, sweet. Let me sing forever more because you are all I long for.

[76:33]Went ahead and brought the entire, the whole orchestra. Like sure I can do a performance and bring everybody. He should have probably brought a guy with a microphone. You know what I mean? Like instead of a wax cylinder, whatever they recorded this on, they maybe should have thought of, I think this is from 1966 and if you do look this up on YouTube, there's some great voiceover from Walter Cronkite, which is also just worth listening to as a sort of a historical time capsule thing. And then the last song I went ahead and switched it. The other songs leading up to this were songs recorded by people who were not

[77:03]locked up, who were performing. For inmates. But here I've got a song from an inmate. This is Draco, the ruler who was locked up for two full years while he was waiting trial on a murder charge, which for which he was eventually acquitted. And he's one of the new West coast stylists in rap. So this is Draco, the ruler. He recorded all of his verses for this album over the phone from prison. The album is called thank you for using GTL,

[77:32]which is the prison telephone. A calm company. And this song is called social media. Can't help you million followers. None of them can tell them about the screen. I'm playing Elvis or his shots, but he felt it in his microphone. Sounds better than Russell's as Draco, the ruler recording from prison over the phone while he was locked up. What a lift.

[78:01]So that's it. That's what I got. Those are prison songs. Inspired. By the sample on jazz. We've got that's a great connection. I love it. I can tell you if you want to go into my true fetish, which is bodybuilding women, social media can help you because if you look at my Instagram search, if you click on that little magnifying glass of Instagram search, it's just people playing bad and video games. And then the biggest buffest women that you've ever seen in your entire life. And I love it. So good. Try to try to do something without me talking about it.

[78:30]Okay. That didn't make sense. What I just said is sorry. All right. Sky pager. Do you know this is so nineties, isn't it? The song about how much you need a pager. But my mom had a pager. She did play the song all the time. And the Duracell batteries last only three weeks because he won't put it on pause or whatever. So good. Yeah, I was for this. I was looking up some pager codes. Just to let you guys know. Okay. 07734. That's hello.

[79:00]Because if you read it upside down, it spells out. Hello. Oh, nice. Right. One, four, three is. I love you. 911 is call me right away. 477 is best friends forever. 6969 is Russell's calling you just get a bunch of blanks. That's Matt talking to you on the phone. And then there's one 4337, which if you'd look at it kind of looks like the word feet. And that's Aaron. He wants you to text the pictures of your feet. And I cannot tell you how many times numbers to try to combine them. Yeah. 4337 911. I tried to look at so many numbers to make feet.

[79:32]I was like, okay, if you do a one, and a three, that kind of looks like a butt, but that's not really like what we're I'm talking about feet. So there's a lot of me doing numbers today. So I'm a, I'm 41 years old. All right. What? I couldn't believe this was the hit song off this album. This is a great song. This is phenomenal. It's also the third reference to our city. At some point,

[80:00]there has to be a producer on this album that says, Hey, we've, we've covered our city or twice. We don't need it a third time or not. No way. What's a better way to get on the Arsenio hall show. Then keep talking about our senior hall. There's a very famous Bob Dylan song for us. It's all right, ma where he basically reminds me of this song, you know, basically has a million lyrics, a huge long song and just makes all sorts of awesome points. And it just reminded me of this song. And that's where I said, this song is better than anything Dylan wrote or on,

[80:32]on target. With anything Dylan wrote. I mean, this is just like when you really dive into the lyrics is genius. So if anybody's bored, go out and look at the lyrics or listen to that whole song. What? Cause it's, that's great. Just one minute for after another, right? All right. Now we have scenario. The last song on the album, this end of this album is so good. I mean, this is the song I absolutely remember from this album. This is the one where I watched the video and it was like, this, this thing is snapping. Like this is a whole different genre of music than I've ever seen in my life.

[81:03]So I was telling Matt about this before you guys came on. But the video is so great. It reminded me of that Aerosmith video where it started as a computer screen. And everybody's like 1991. This video is a computer like this rules, but the video had a Spike Lee in it. De La soul brand Nubian five bad fab five, Freddie and red man. So it had all these cameos. Okay. And then and by the way, you can get all those guys on cameo for under $25 now,

[81:30]but it also featured a, a 19 year old. So picture what you're doing at 19 years old. Here is bus rhymes. Listen to this. I mean, that's what a star sounds like. So this is clearly, at least from my perspective, the biggest hit, right? The one that's the most, by far the most known song. You guys remember many albums where the big hit was the last song on the album. Matt, what do you think of it? You're the construction guy. Should this have been at earlier rain,

[82:00]the lead song or not? Should it have been? No, I mean, no, but I mean the construction, if you go back to just Rob, go just, this is the low end theory. Go to the first song one more time, real quick. You know, all right, let's start over. This song is called excursions. Oh, let's get into the album here. You know, but again, the low end theory, the whole thing was to get as much base as you can out. And so this song set the table back big time. If you listen to it in your beats by Dre, and then you got Q-tip going, and then you end with a scenario where you got everybody going.

[82:30]So again, it it's, it's probably, it's probably up there and one of the top and man I'm too late on this, but when we talk about the engineering and the construction, we should have talked about Bob power a long time ago. Cause Bob power was the engineer on this album and on midnight marauders. Sorry. You're too late. When Matt said maybe on the third track, when Matt was like, you can hear their lyrics. Part of that is because they really cared about how this music sounded. And as Rob knows,

[83:02]the best albums are the ones that sound the best and Q-tip Ali Shaheed, Mohammed, Bob top, Bob power. They all got in the studio as far as I understand. And they wanted this thing to sound good. And they had an idea for how they wanted it to sound and they pulled it off. And so the best albums over and over again are the ones where someone gave a shit, how they sounded except for exile and they paid attention to the sounds. And so props to these guys for making this happen. And once again, we find rolling stone top 500 albums.

[83:32]It's pretty good. They all sound pretty good albums. It's mind blowing. All right. And now it's time for everybody's favorite part of the show. The very popular looking at Matt. I think it's fetishes air raid sirens. He loves the spring movement. Got a little movement there every time you play it. I don't like, I don't like that. All right. Uh, this is our rating system and listen, we're going long.

[84:00]So I'm just going to say it real quick. We, is this a rolling well tone? That means this should be at 43. It's the perfect spot for low end theory. Uh, is this a rolling bone? It should have been way higher than 43. We made a huge mistake by not putting up there. It turns out rolling stone. You done goofed. Okay. Or is this a rolling groan? Okay. This album is no good at the other album. Whatever you guys were talking about is better. It should be ahead of this one. This one stop. Don't like it. Other album, move it up. And in this case,

[84:30]it wouldn't be 43. It would be later. And the list, which of course, because we're reading the list from one to 500 and a reminder, we are at 43. So this is only 10%. Can you imagine when we're at album 500 and I'm still doing this bit 10 years later, this bit was almost funny. The first time and the 500th time came right back around. I loved it. Rob, we're at 42 times in the bid is the bid is playing out. It's been played out. So I know, but do you understand it's rolling well toned? If it's perfectly balanced,

[85:00]it's a rolling groan. If you didn't like it and it's a rolling bone, if you liked it, okay, it's that simple. Matt, what do you think of this album? I liked it a lot. I think it's rolling well toned. I am questioning whether it should be, uh, rated higher than Wu Tang's enter the wound, enter the Wu Tang, uh, 36 chambers. I'm questioning whether it should be, I don't think so, but I, I would, I think I'd listened to this album more than that album. Um, in the future chronic. Oh, definitely better than the chronic wave.

[85:31]Well, yeah. So again, maybe for that reason, but like 43 feels like a good is a great spot for it. You know, top 50, a huge band, great Q tips of genius, all that stuff. So I think it's rolling well toned. All right, Aaron, what do you think of this album? Like I said, I think it's a desert Island album for me. Every time I listened to it, I hear something different. You can put it on in your headphones and give it 100%

[86:00]means it's perfect. It's perfect. Or you can put it on and you were trying to run. I know you're trying not to do it and you can put it on in the living room and just vibe out and enjoy it. Um, I still don't know. I can't decide if this is a better, I think midnight marauders might be better. I can't decide if this is the best tribe album, but I will say tribe in general should have been a higher than the chronic specifically. I mean, Dre said with a producer who can rap control the Mike stroll and he wouldn't,

[86:30]didn't write his own. Raps and Q-tip is pretty close to the producer. The Dre is maybe better. So I got to say, this sounds better than the chronic. So I'm going to say tribe in general is rolling boned. I don't know what I would say about this album, but I'm going to say rolling, rolling boned. So Aaron's main point of this album is that you can listen to it in a lot of places. Wow. I want to say so glad you're on the podcast with this Aaron that you know what? That was mean. That wasn't, I feel mean. I feel this late in the podcast being mean to you is just being mean to be mean because nobody's listening to this.

[87:00]It's just me being me. This is just to make myself feel better about all the dumb shit I've said. Rob and Matt already like went to hula hands. Oh, that's close. They already went to champs to hang out for the post game beer. And it's just you and me, Rob. It's a waffle fries. Russell, what do you think of this album? Yeah, that's why the or Ida ones are good. That's what I'm telling you. Like I said, I never really listened to a tribe called quest. When I was younger, to me, I was probably more into gangstrap, whether it be biggie or whether it be Dr. Dre or Tupac or whoever I enjoyed the album. But I will say,

[87:30]when I listened to it a few more times over, to me, it felt very repetitive. I know Aaron says you can always pick out different things. I don't have the same ear for music that Aaron has, but to me, the drum beat felt very repetitive from song to song. I would never take this over Dr. Dre, the chronic, I would take the chronic every day over this. So I'm going to say, I really liked it, but I'm going to say, I'm going to give it a little bit of a rolling groan. It's too repetitive for me. Fair. This album gets a rolling bass tone guys. Crank up the bass is the great album does just test out those speakers.

[88:00]I don't own a car right now, but I am definitely going to go rent a car speaker. Put it in. It sounds like a great plan to me. I think that's good. You know, these bass tones, like Aaron said, it really makes the girls shake their turd cutters. Oh, Aaron, I don't like that at all. That is too much for me. Next time we've got an album that was recorded one year after this album, we have not. What, what did you say? No,

[88:30]let's, let's, let's, let's just go all night. What'd you say? Produce the track on Illmatic. I was like joining in. I wanted to be part of the podcast. I'm going to say it again. And I think I've said this before. You can't just join in when somebody's talking because when people hear that over the podcast, they, well, they don't hear it. Cause I edited it out. I edit your ass out every time. But when you're like, nobody hears it, both of us. So that's why I paused during, cause what you said was so important. All right. So now that we all hate each other and it turns out this was actually album 44 or whatever, right? This is all fucked, whatever.

[89:00]Have a good day. Everybody see it. Have a good day. And then I say, have a good day. Have a good day. Have a good day. What is my things are going well. Things are going well. When you want to hear about the greatest of all time. Unlike this album, the podcast did not get better as it fell apart at the end. If you want to hear from guys who chat and then they get off track. I've got the, I've got off track.

[89:30]I just got off track. It's all right. It's true. That did it better. You know, well, you guys were talking about the music. I was thinking about something else, Matt's down. I've actually changed my mind. Now that I know that Aaron's a fanny pack guy, I definitely think he could beat up a grizzly bear. If he were able to get his adjustable nipple clamps on the bears, touchstones, touchstones, touchstones. Yes, he could do it. Well, I hate to say it. Russell, I was hoping you'd work in crafts, American slices into there. I mean, you didn't do it.

[90:00]So failure, you get a BB minus King. And there's the final joke. Yes, I nailed it. Me, baby, me, the main host. Stop recording in case somebody else makes a joke.