Beck does it again Chuck Berry: The Great 28

[00:00]What's up, everybody? Welcome to Beck. Did it better? Beck does it again? Does it again? Is that what we're calling these when we don't? We're too lazy to record a new one. Beck did it again, I guess is what we're calling them. Now, listen, I was gone all week. Had some stuff going on. Couldn't record. So I texted the guys. I said, listen, what is going on in music history that we can just re-release one of these episodes? Nobody will be any of the wiser. Or did somebody die? Now, it turns out nobody died, but Russ did send me a text. By the way, my wife is in the background.

[00:30]Listening to the Amy Winehouse movie for like the third time in two weeks on absolute full volume.

[00:35]Nobody cares about fidelity anymore.

[00:38]Now, what was I talking about?

[00:40]Oh, yeah.

[00:40]So I get a text from Russell.

[00:42]Not just a text.

[00:43]He sends a screenshot of all the things that happened on the 15th of October, 2014 at the St. Louis Club.

[00:50]Now, Russell sent me this from songfacts.com.

[00:53]He took a screenshot.

[00:54]First of all, he took a screenshot at 1.26.

[00:56]Didn't send it till 2.26.

[00:57]It's an hour later.

[00:58]You know what?

[00:59]Time changed.

[01:00]That's on me.

[01:00]I should understand that.

[01:01]Russell takes a screenshot in the afternoon at 1.26.

[01:04]His phone is at 18%.

[01:06]Russell, what is going on in your life where your phone is down to 18% at 1.26 in the afternoon?

[01:11]That's sick.

[01:12]Okay?

[01:13]Are you not charging your phone at night?

[01:15]Do you need a new phone?

[01:17]Is your phone dying that fast?

[01:18]What's going on?

[01:20]It's crazy to me.

[01:21]Anyway, Russell sends me information of what happened on the 15th of October from songfacts.

[01:25]And it turns out in 2014,

[01:26]the St. Louis Club Blueberry,

[01:30]Chuck Berry performs for the last time.

[01:33]Okay?

[01:34]The rocker who dies three years later in 2017 played monthly gigs at the venue starting in 1996.

[01:41]That means that Chuck Berry played at Blueberry Hill monthly for 18 years.

[01:50]That's crazy.

[01:52]18 years.

[01:54]He was there every month playing.

[01:56]Can you imagine?

[01:57]Who's there?

[01:58]Who's going there?

[01:59]18 years.

[02:00]18 years in a row?

[02:00]Monthly?

[02:01]Oh, my God.

[02:02]He's wearing that little sailor's hat.

[02:03]So here's what we did.

[02:04]We're going to re-release the Chuck Berry episode because in our notes,

[02:07]I haven't listened to it in a long time,

[02:08]but in our notes we said it sounded very good.

[02:10]Okay?

[02:11]I also have put at the end a little bit extra from our T-Rex episode

[02:16]where according to the email,

[02:18]Rob goes on another bit about Chuck Berry.

[02:20]Now, I'm not going to lie.

[02:21]The response from the guys for the bit,

[02:23]not great.

[02:24]Okay?

[02:25]I think it was late at night or something.

[02:26]Maybe they can't hear me very well.

[02:27]But I think it's a great bit.

[02:30]So you can decide.

[02:31]This is more of Beck did it better.

[02:32]Oh, no.

[02:33]This is Beck does it again.

[02:34]Okay?

[02:35]Listen up.

[02:36]Okay?

[02:36]We'll be back next week.

[02:38]Actually, we just texted.

[02:39]I'm not sure we're going to be back next week,

[02:40]but we'll figure it out.

[02:41]Okay?

[02:42]We have great Charles.

[02:45]We have a box set.

[02:46]It's going to be a disaster.

[02:47]But we'll see you guys again.

[02:48]And always, we always appreciate anybody listening.

[02:51]Call the Beck line, 802-277-BECK.

[02:54]We love you guys.

[02:55]And let's listen to more stuff about Chuck Berry.

[02:58]Now, there's something about Chuck Berry.

[03:00]God, I just can't think of what it is off the top of my head.

[03:06]Oh, well, talk to you later.

[03:07]Bye.

[03:08]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums

[03:14]as decided by Rolling Stone magazine.

[03:16]This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music,

[03:18]excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast.

[03:21]We are far from experts, and we promise to do almost no research.

[03:24]All opinions are our own unless you disagree.

[03:26]Please sit back and enjoy Beck Did It Better.

[03:29]Folks, this is album 51 from 1982,

[03:33]but really all the music is from the 50s and 60s.

[03:36]This is The Great 28 by Chuck Berry.

[03:37]So, folks, you know, it is the summer,

[03:40]and in the summer it is a classic Minnesota tradition to go up to the cabin,

[03:44]followed only by another classic Minnesota tradition

[03:47]to realize that your family drives you absolutely crazy at the cabin.

[03:50]So let's listen.

[03:51]Confirmed.

[03:52]Let's listen to, and that's why I really do believe

[03:57]that this is going to be the next hit song.

[03:59]Song of the Summer.

[04:00]Up in the morning at 533.

[04:05]Yes.

[04:06]I'm driving up north with my family.

[04:08]Oh, no, this is too real.

[04:10]For decent weather I say a prayer.

[04:12]Yeah.

[04:13]My extended family will all be there.

[04:16]Oh, no, this is too personal.

[04:18]Three hours later we get on the road.

[04:20]My wife tells me again she doesn't want to go.

[04:23]We stop on the way to get some groceries.

[04:27]Yep.

[04:29]It only costs $630.

[04:31]Yep.

[04:32]We finally arrive in late afternoon.

[04:34]The kids want a tube behind the pontoon.

[04:38]Yep.

[04:39]I just need to go and buy some gas.

[04:42]Yes.

[04:43]My wife disappears to take a nap.

[04:46]When you finally come back from town,

[04:49]you add the gas and the boat breaks down.

[04:53]Oh, that's the worst.

[04:54]You paddle back in a real bad mood.

[04:57]Yep.

[04:58]But all the...

[04:59]♪ Little kids have eaten your food. ♪

[05:01]Oh, no.

[05:01]♪ The kids are now playing out back. ♪

[05:04]♪ And learning from their cousin, the pyromaniac. ♪

[05:08]♪ Dinner comes, the last straw. ♪

[05:12]♪ They tell you don't cook as well as your brother-in-law. ♪

[05:15]Oh, boy.

[05:16]♪ At the end of the day, you try to go to sleep. ♪

[05:19]♪ The temp at night is 103. ♪

[05:23]Yes.

[05:23]♪ You and the kids sleep in the same room. ♪

[05:28]♪ For 17 people. ♪

[05:29]♪ For 17 people. ♪

[05:29]♪ For 17 people. ♪

[05:29]♪ There's one bathroom. ♪

[05:30]Oh, no.

[05:31]♪ The kids are cranky because they're tired. ♪

[05:36]♪ Except at 10.30 at night, they're totally wired. ♪

[05:40]They're a pewter.

[05:41]They haven't poured a load.

[05:42]♪ When you're ready to go. ♪

[05:44]♪ That's when the sun decides to show. ♪

[05:47]That's the biggest bullshit, isn't it?

[05:48]♪ You use vacation days to come to the lake. ♪

[05:52]♪ But going back to work will seem like a break. ♪

[05:54]Yep.

[05:55]When you want to be a teacher,

[05:58]that's the wrong point.

[05:59]That was only semi-autobiographical.

[06:01]♪ If you're just too lazy to look it up. ♪

[06:05]The problem is it's not funny because it's all true.

[06:07]I know.

[06:07]The rest of us, anybody who's gone up there is like,

[06:09]yeah, yeah, that's true.

[06:11]That's true.

[06:11]♪ Day one at the lake, Uncle Russ is very cool. ♪

[06:13]♪ Day seven, Uncle Russ is just a cranky old man. ♪

[06:16]♪ He wants to get the fuck home. ♪

[06:18]♪ Beck did it better. ♪

[06:19]Welcome, everybody, to Beck Did It Better,

[06:21]the podcast about the Rolling Stone Top 500 list.

[06:23]We are all the way up to 51.

[06:25]Chuck Berry and I've got three guys here

[06:29]who, eh, they want you to see their ding-a-ling.

[06:32]Guys, I couldn't think of any other joke.

[06:33]I tried so hard.

[06:33]I looked through all the lyrics,

[06:34]but that's just the way it is.

[06:35]I can't believe my ding-a-ling's not on here.

[06:36]28 songs, not one of them is my ding-a-ling?

[06:38]You might find that on today's podcast

[06:41]there's a bonus 29th track.

[06:42]We'll see what happens.

[06:43]I've got Russell in Minneapolis.

[06:46]Russell, how are you doing?

[06:47]Rob, your mother told you someday you'd be a man,

[06:50]and you wouldn't have to do that with your big old hand.

[06:53]I know you've never learned to read or write so well,

[06:55]but now you play that VR just like you're ringing a bell.

[06:59]Yes.

[06:59]Wait, sorry, Rob.

[07:02]I hope that didn't piss you off.

[07:04]By the way, I was putting on my VR goggles,

[07:07]and I saw my sister coming in,

[07:09]so I did the playing on the big radio joke,

[07:11]but I did it toward her.

[07:12]She goes, what the hell are you doing?

[07:14]I go, oh, it was a joke.

[07:15]I was like, oh, no.

[07:17]What a backfire.

[07:18]What a disaster.

[07:18]I've got Matt in Minneapolis.

[07:20]Matt, how are you doing?

[07:21]Good, Rob.

[07:22]Ready to flush all that negativity from that cabin song

[07:26]and get right into it here.

[07:28]Great.

[07:29]And I've got Aaron, who doesn't look a day over 14.

[07:31]Aaron, how are you doing today?

[07:33]Oh, jeez.

[07:34]That's way worse.

[07:36]So cute.

[07:36]He doesn't look a day over 14.

[07:38]I'm just here drinking from my wooden cup

[07:40]and excited to get this going.

[07:42]So let's talk some rock and roll.

[07:44]He does have a wooden cup.

[07:46]This is a shout out to my dad, who is a listener of the podcast.

[07:50]This is an Oakland A's commemorative wooden cup

[07:53]that is made from a bat

[07:55]and then has the Oakland skyline as well as the names.

[07:58]The players on the team that particular year.

[08:01]I think they got their ass kicked by Tampa in the wild card

[08:04]that particular that particular year.

[08:06]But I'm a big A's fan and I had a wooden cup

[08:09]which jived with Chuck Berry's lyrics.

[08:11]So I wanted to bust it out for tonight.

[08:13]That's good.

[08:14]I was wondering where I was going to make my first edit of the podcast.

[08:16]Now I know where you talk about how the A's did.

[08:18]Why aren't you worried drinking out of that cup, though?

[08:21]Isn't that how coronavirus started?

[08:23]There's not a it's not a pangolin cup.

[08:26]Oh, it's a bat, though.

[08:27]It's a bat.

[08:28]Oh, all right.

[08:31]So let's get right into it today.

[08:32]We have a text to the Bex line and I'll give you a hint.

[08:35]It's actually from my best friend.

[08:37]OK, so let's let's listen to the whole back.

[08:40]Jenny.

[08:40]Yes, Jenny is my best friend.

[08:43]Why are you laughing so hard to sell?

[08:49]Edit out how hard I laugh when you mention that my wife is my best friend.

[08:52]All right.

[08:52]Voicemail or Bex line.

[08:56]Bex to the Bex line.

[08:57]I know this is.

[08:58]Just going to prove my doubt.

[09:00]She pushing my glasses up my nose, wagging my finger, fact checking self.

[09:04]But Aaron's repeated misunderstanding of Endless Nameless is the last song on Nevermind needs to be corrected.

[09:10]That was always meant as a secret song that came in about 10 minutes after the album proper ends with something in the way.

[09:16]Nirvana meant it as a joke and the rest of Nevermind shouldn't be judged off of it.

[09:20]Magic Mike 69 and a half.

[09:23]And that's what I call my penis.

[09:24]All right.

[09:26]Thank you, Magic Mike 69.

[09:27]Coming in hot with the.

[09:28]Fact check.

[09:29]So finally, we find out that Aaron actually doesn't know jack shit about music.

[09:32]So apparently that last track on Nirvana was a hidden track.

[09:35]Aaron, what do you have to say about that?

[09:37]I have to issue an apology.

[09:39]I was not aware that it was a hidden track.

[09:40]I still think it's unnecessary.

[09:42]But yeah, I guess if you were listening on CD, there would have been several minutes of silence before you heard the rest of that.

[09:49]So I will strike those mentions from my future comments on Nirvana.

[09:55]I still think there are times when maybe number six is too high for Nevermind.

[09:58]As much as I do like, Nevermind, but I was, I was incorrect.

[10:02]You got to be correct on this stuff.

[10:04]The rest of us don't know the difference between Offspring and Oasis.

[10:07]And if you don't know that this is a secret track, we're all going to look bad.

[10:10]So don't apologize to Rob.

[10:12]Don't let him apologize.

[10:13]Can I, can I just say something?

[10:14]Speaking of, of people not knowing the music, I have to point out a great joke that Aaron actually had last week.

[10:21]And I just want to point this out real good.

[10:22]Cause I thought it was so funny.

[10:23]I clipped it.

[10:23]So here's a joke where we are talking about, uh, the doors, how, uh,

[10:28]Jay-Z covered a door song last week.

[10:30]So listen to this.

[10:31]She was looking for her husband and she said, go to the Carlisle.

[10:34]No, shoot.

[10:36]That's the wrong clip.

[10:37]I dig it, Rob.

[10:37]Oh, no, for the people, for the people that can't see what's going on the whole time.

[10:43]Aaron was telling his story.

[10:44]Rob was searching through all his clips, looking for the Beck, did it better apology.

[10:48]And so I started talking to fill time so you could find it.

[10:51]And then when you got to it, he's looking for a different joke for a different one.

[10:56]And Rosie.

[10:57]I think you're talking about something in the way as like, not a good last song, right?

[11:03]Not that endless, nameless song.

[11:04]No, I was talking about, I mean, I don't know that I'd love something in the way.

[11:08]I think I'd have to go back and listen, but I was talking about endless nameless when

[11:13]I've said this before.

[11:15]Something in the way.

[11:16]Sounds like a bad bin of protein powder that I got.

[11:21]And speaking of good jokes, here's another good joke.

[11:23]All right.

[11:24]So now we have the first diss track of the album.

[11:26]The takeover.

[11:27]Oh, I heard this one.

[11:28]We got some doors sample in here.

[11:29]Is this the doors of the Ramones on the sand?

[11:30]That beat, that beat just crushes.

[11:31]And then you hear us just talk right over that joke.

[11:32]We just do not go back to that joke.

[11:33]We do not go back to it.

[11:34]Also, Aaron, I do have to say that is a good joke.

[11:35]Make in front of Russ.

[11:36]And I salute you.

[11:37]We don't make fun of me.

[11:38]That's too easy.

[11:39]That's like shooting fish in a barrel.

[11:40]That's not even right.

[11:41]I just wanted you guys to know that I am paying attention to what you say.

[11:42]I just sometimes have to call back to the things that you say, because you all are smart,

[11:43]funny guys.

[11:44]When people ask me to describe the song.

[11:45]I don't know.

[11:46]I do just say, well, we have a guy who confused the doors and the Ramones, and that gets a

[12:01]laugh every single time.

[12:03]That's not even close to my worst one, though.

[12:05]I don't think I'll take that as a compliment.

[12:07]And my mom also has made more than one sitting in front with the driver joke since we've

[12:12]recorded the best up.

[12:13]So she's still burning on you, Russell.

[12:15]It's just so great.

[12:16]Well, thank you.

[12:16]Whatever.

[12:17]She said to be your mom her whole life.

[12:20]She's been through enough, but that'll be whatever I was underweight when I came out.

[12:25]It wasn't that bad.

[12:26]Don't worry.

[12:27]All right.

[12:28]So, Aaron, we officially apologize to magic.

[12:32]I do apologize, but I am going to go back and listen between now and next week.

[12:36]I'm going to re-listen to something in the way, and I might be right.

[12:39]Magic Mike.

[12:40]Absolutely.

[12:41]Nobody better podcast.

[12:42]Oh, yeah.

[12:43]You don't know what you want.

[12:44]Magic Mike.

[12:45]Get the hell out of here.

[12:46]I'm going to check it out.

[12:46]Your stupid facts.

[12:47]I may not be wrong.

[12:48]All right.

[12:49]So let's get into everybody's favorite part of the podcast.

[12:54]The rolling going.

[12:55]Oh, we have a new rolling going intro there, huh?

[12:56]I tried to be excited about it, but then I realized I'm outside where I think my family

[12:57]can hear me through the window.

[12:58]So I also had to be quiet.

[12:59]So I'd be like.

[13:00]All right.

[13:01]Rolling going.

[13:02]Russell, how's it going with you?

[13:03]Rolling going.

[13:04]We were talking about being back up at the cabin, being up north with the family.

[13:05]I was up north with my family last week.

[13:06]And I was like, oh, my God.

[13:07]Oh, my God.

[13:08]Oh, my God.

[13:09]I was like, oh, my God.

[13:10]Oh, my God.

[13:11]Oh, my God.

[13:12]Oh, my God.

[13:16]I was maybe going to tell you guys about some of the the hardships I had with being with

[13:20]the family for a week.

[13:22]But we don't need to go over that.

[13:23]Rob's covered in the song.

[13:24]But one thing that I did get to do when I was up north is up north has a few small casinos.

[13:29]And you guys know, the three of us have been to Vegas numerous, numerous times over the

[13:34]year.

[13:35]We've probably been seven or eight times over the last seven, eight years.

[13:38]And so I decided I was going to go up to this little casino and play a little bit of blackjack

[13:43]without you guys.

[13:44]Oh, how did it go?

[13:46]Well.

[13:46]Russell did.

[13:47]Let me let me ask you this.

[13:48]Here's the only thing you need to know about a successful trip to a northern Minnesota

[13:51]casino.

[13:52]Yeah.

[13:53]Did you get stabbed?

[13:54]I did not.

[13:55]But I might have.

[13:56]Winner is from sitting on the seat, the third seat at the one blackjack table may have given

[14:01]me something.

[14:03]You're the winner.

[14:04]If you did not get stabbed at a northern Minnesota casino.

[14:07]Congrats.

[14:08]I might my casino.

[14:10]I'll give you a brief overview of experience and I had a few questions about casino etiquette

[14:14]that I thought I would run by.

[14:15]You guys, it's been a while since we've been there and I'm used to going and gambling with

[14:20]you guys with friends.

[14:21]And when you're not there with friends and when you're there with all strangers, it's

[14:24]a little bit different.

[14:25]But so I went and I won, I won 200 bucks.

[14:27]Oh yeah.

[14:28]I didn't go until the very last day.

[14:30]I was like, I don't want to go and I don't want to start a trend of going and losing

[14:33]a bunch of money up there.

[14:34]So I waited until the last day I went one, 200 bucks and I came home and then I was like,

[14:38]Oh, I need to go back.

[14:39]I need to go back.

[14:40]And I lost my $200.

[14:41]Right.

[14:42]Back to it.

[14:43]So yeah.

[14:44]Yeah.

[14:44]So I eventually, I eventually broke even, but breaking even is winning, I guess when

[14:50]you're having fun.

[14:51]Right.

[14:52]Yeah.

[14:53]So would you say that was a fun time?

[14:54]Like when you were sitting there, were you ever like, Oh, I'm having fun?

[14:57]Actually not really.

[14:58]I was not having fun.

[14:59]And I, for me, blackjack is a very social game.

[15:02]I want to play with my friends where you can joke back and forth.

[15:05]I don't want to play with, with people.

[15:07]I don't know.

[15:08]And I, I'll say this.

[15:09]I know I can be allowed an annoying blackjack player when we play, we're always singing songs.

[15:14]We're joking around with the dealers and whatnot.

[15:16]I can't stand.

[15:17]I can't stand playing with loud, annoying blackjack players when I'm not part of the

[15:22]group.

[15:23]Oh, there, there were, there were people having fun and you had to be the fun police and step

[15:27]in and say, it was more like, it's not fair to say part of the group, Russell, you're

[15:31]generally the leader of the pack when it comes to playing blackjack, making friends with

[15:36]the dealer.

[15:37]That's, you know, you're not, you're not just part of the group.

[15:39]Exactly.

[15:40]You've talked about this before though, when you see things in other people, it reflects

[15:43]upon what you see.

[15:44]I mean yourself.

[15:45]Yeah.

[15:46]And so when I saw these younger guys being really loud and really annoying, I was like,

[15:48]oh God, I hate my, it was just more, more some hatred, honestly, because I know I'm

[15:53]that guy.

[15:54]I'm not as loud as that guy, but I'm that guy.

[15:58]So I thought what I could do though, is other than the fact that I, I went and didn't have

[16:02]as much fun.

[16:03]Cause I wasn't with you guys.

[16:04]I thought I could, I could bring up some moments that I had at the blackjack table.

[16:07]And I, I think I know how you guys might think about some of these, but it's been more than

[16:11]a year since I've played.

[16:12]And I, it's been a long time since I had.

[16:13]I haven't played with friends.

[16:15]So I wanted to see if you guys thought these types of things were okay at the blackjack

[16:19]table.

[16:20]Can I run those by you?

[16:21]Let's do it.

[16:22]Wait.

[16:23]Now, now what is your clever name for this segment, Russell?

[16:24]Oh, okay.

[16:25]I'll edit this out.

[16:26]But what, how about, um, bust or big bust?

[16:29]Yes.

[16:30]So this segment is called bust or big bus.

[16:36]Oh boy.

[16:43]So here, so the first, the first scenario I got to ask you guys, I've played with all

[16:48]you guys for blackjack for a long time.

[16:51]For the most part, I think we all generally play by the book.

[16:53]We might have a few things we do that are a little bit off, but what do you do when

[16:56]you're playing blackjack with people that literally have no idea what they're doing?

[17:00]They're hitting, they're hitting on 16s against a six, they're splitting tens against a six.

[17:07]They're doing everything wrong.

[17:08]And sometimes dealers will kind of step in and help them, but as a player at the table,

[17:12]is it your obligation?

[17:13]Or should you just be quiet?

[17:15]Let them play.

[17:16]Do you get annoyed?

[17:17]What's your style?

[17:18]When people don't know what they're doing?

[17:19]What did not, or is this like a $5 table, $10 table was like the minimum $100 table.

[17:25]It was a $10 table, which was the only table at the casino.

[17:29]Oh no.

[17:30]Okay.

[17:31]If it's like a, a $10, you know, like when we're in Vegas, usually like $10 is the little,

[17:35]you know, sometimes 15, something like that.

[17:37]Like that's, that's where you just throw whatever preconceived notions you have about blackjack.

[17:43]If you're going to play at that table, you have to just say whatever and get out of the,

[17:48]get out of the way.

[17:49]If that makes sense.

[17:50]Eventually those people, hopefully they lose all their money as soon as possible and they

[17:53]get out.

[17:55]Sometimes it helps you.

[17:56]Right?

[17:57]I mean, we had the famous Iowa double down all of a sudden that just came in and helped

[18:00]the whole table, you know, things like that.

[18:02]So people do things like that.

[18:03]Can you explain what the official term Iowa double down means for all our people?

[18:07]I tried, I have tried, this is the only thing I've ever tried to get on Wikipedia and it

[18:12]didn't work because it's not real.

[18:14]Damn it.

[18:15]It is real.

[18:16]It is real.

[18:17]It is real.

[18:18]So if, if I have it right, we've got a hard 12, which means, oh yeah, a 10 and a two.

[18:24]Yes.

[18:25]It's, it's, it's not an ACE involved.

[18:26]You've got a hard 12.

[18:27]And the dealer's got, that's what I call my penis.

[18:28]That's what I call my penis.

[18:33]I just hate when I get that hard three.

[18:34]It's so embarrassing.

[18:35]I got a hard 12 and the dealer's got a six.

[18:42]Yup.

[18:43]That's what I call my penis.

[18:44]I don't know.

[18:45]I don't have any other jokes.

[18:46]I'm just waiting.

[18:47]You're just, you're just happy today.

[18:48]So I'm just, you gotta have something right with all these buttons.

[18:51]I'm always happy.

[18:52]So the dealer's got a six and you double that shit, right?

[18:55]Yeah.

[18:56]And the way this came up was that somebody from Iowa one time did this, an actual real

[19:02]life casino play with a group of people.

[19:04]I still am not sure.

[19:06]And then he ended up like getting like a 19 or something and the dealer ended up, no,

[19:10]I think he got like a four.

[19:13]So the dealer had the six and then a 10 would've had a 20.

[19:16]We all would've lost.

[19:17]But because he doubled down, the dealer ended up busting.

[19:21]So the whole table won.

[19:22]And so that instantly that's how, and just to let everybody know, not all heroes wear

[19:27]capes.

[19:28]That's something that happens probably at two 30 in the morning, about eight years ago.

[19:31]And it's something we talk about every year for hours at a time.

[19:34]We bring it up every time we, we yell about it.

[19:36]We talk about it.

[19:37]It has become lower.

[19:38]Now.

[19:39]Much to Aaron's chagrin.

[19:40]Speaker 1 : To put a little color on this, the, I would double down has always

[19:46]been a thing in my world.

[19:47]I've always called it doubling on a hard 12.

[19:49]And my favorite part about it is when you do it, it's kind of so dumb that the dealer

[19:53]has to announce that you're eating it like a hard 12 and everyone's looking around like

[19:59]what the hell's going on.

[20:01]But the reason I think it's called an Iowa double down is our friend Jake.

[20:04]At one point it's seen that we were doing this and he said, the only people that are

[20:09]dumb enough to do this are people from Iowa.

[20:11]And that is why it's called an Iowa double down.

[20:14]Speaker 2 : Folks.

[20:15]If you are listening to this and you are part of our friend group who knows why we call

[20:18]it an Iowa double down, text in and to the back line, 802, 2, 7, 7 Beck and tell us why

[20:23]do we call it an Iowa double down?

[20:24]None of us seem to know, but it is the truth and it will be on Wikipedia soon.

[20:28]Probably.

[20:29]Speaker 1 : And if you are one of our loyal listeners

[20:30]from Iowa, please know that I have defended our state's honor on so many occasions.

[20:33]Speaker 2 : I'll tell you what, Russ, if it's not your money, I don't think you

[20:36]can tell people what to do.

[20:37]The black table.

[20:38]Right.

[20:39]Speaker 1 : Oh, and I, I often look to you guys for advice when we're at the black

[20:46]check table together, but I feel the same about weird, weird blackjack players as I

[20:50]do about like weird internet people where you read a weird conspiracy theory and you're

[20:56]like, well, that's crazy.

[20:57]And then you start thinking like, well, do they, do they know something that I don't

[20:59]know?

[21:00]Should it make me there?

[21:01]Is this, wait, should I be thinking about this differently?

[21:03]So like when I sit at the table with people acting weird, I started thinking, wait, should

[21:07]I be really rethinking how I'm playing?

[21:08]Yeah.

[21:09]Do they know something?

[21:10]I don't

[21:11]Speaker 2 : After the last podcast, Aaron sent us like 10 texts about chemtrails

[21:13]with question marks afterwards.

[21:14]He was like, maybe, maybe they know something, you know, we don't know.

[21:18]Speaker 1 : Hey, maybe Beck did do it better than all these bands.

[21:21]Yeah, exactly.

[21:22]Okay.

[21:23]Russell.

[21:24]So what else?

[21:25]How do you avoid getting stabbed?

[21:26]They only have one table open because the other one is covered in blood from somebody

[21:28]getting stabbed.

[21:29]Speaker 2 : So there's essentially only the one table open.

[21:33]So that does change things a little bit, but the next thing was you're there, you're sitting

[21:37]at a pretty full table.

[21:38]And the new guy shows up and the new guy decides I'm playing two hands.

[21:42]The guy who plays or the lady who plays two hands at a table.

[21:46]What do you think of the person who needs to play two hands at the table?

[21:49]Speaker 1 : I first I'll ask, are they playing how you would expect a two handed

[21:55]player to play?

[21:56]Like, are they playing like by the book kind of a thing, or at least a table minimum and

[22:01]not playing by the book?

[22:02]Oh,

[22:03]Speaker 2 : Well, if they play a table, the only solace you get out of that

[22:08]is just watching this guy crash and burn.

[22:10]And then they get mad at the dealer because somehow it's the dealer's fault that this

[22:13]guy's a dumb ass.

[22:14]Right?

[22:15]So the, uh, the ancillary show that's going on with that guy is the entertainment for

[22:21]the, for a little while right there.

[22:22]You kind of forget the cards, just play the minimum, but just watch that guy just crash.

[22:26]Speaker 1 : By the way, I want people to understand, like when Russell is talking

[22:28]about a Northern Minnesota casino, you might be picturing like what you think of as a casino,

[22:32]especially some of our Nevada listeners out there, what you actually need to picture is

[22:37]picture.

[22:38]If you gave yourself like a month and you said, I'm going to build a casino out of things

[22:42]I have around the house and I'm going to put it together, that's what this casino looks

[22:47]like.

[22:48]Speaker 2 : It's going to be in a church basement.

[22:49]Speaker 1 : Yeah, exactly.

[22:50]The one in the one I, when I, when I lived up in world, the one up there was literally

[22:53]like a blow up, like they would have for like playing tennis in or whatever.

[22:56]And they kept meaning to put in like solid walls and they just never did.

[22:59]So it was like walking into this little Metro dome and people got stabbed there all the

[23:03]time.

[23:04]Very dangerous because it was a blow up area.

[23:05]So you had to be careful with sharp objects, but

[23:06]Speaker 2 : Wait, you mentioned this.

[23:08]So Matt, you mentioned kind of watching the people next to you go down in flames.

[23:11]I started wondering if this makes me a bad person when you're sitting there and you're

[23:15]willing to lose just to watch other people lose, like you're happy when the table loses

[23:20]just because the asshole next to you, you want him to lose and again, leave like, does

[23:24]that make you a bad person when you're willing to lose hand after hand just to get rid of

[23:29]someone or not?

[23:30]Speaker 1 : Only, only if you laugh out loud.

[23:32]So they turn and look at you, you're enjoying it.

[23:36]Silently.

[23:37]It's fine.

[23:38]You're all in the laughter sometimes.

[23:39]Isn't it?

[23:40]Russell watch.

[23:41]Speaker 2 : I did laugh out loud once or twice.

[23:42]Cause the one guy, like you said, Matt was getting really angry and it's always the dealer's

[23:45]fault.

[23:46]And then, and then they got mad over whether they were clear on the hitter stay sign.

[23:50]And then they claimed they'd stayed and then they didn't.

[23:53]And then the pit boss had to come over and warn this guy and said, you have to be very

[23:56]clear about this.

[23:57]And at one point the guy just got so pissed and he goes, just leave me alone.

[24:00]Just get away from me right now.

[24:02]And so I wanted that, like I was willing to lose hand after hand just to watch the eruption.

[24:06]The last thing.

[24:08]Speaker 0 : The last situation I was going to ask you guys about being up at

[24:11]the up north casino.

[24:12]And this will normally happen in Vegas.

[24:13]It happens to us quite a bit because we're not big spenders.

[24:16]Maybe Matt is Matt metal for some of those big chips out there, but how do you guys handle

[24:21]blackjack when you're playing next to someone for a while, it was just me and one other

[24:25]guy and he was betting quite a bit of money.

[24:27]So he was betting 200 bucks a hand and then would get into the splits and doubles.

[24:31]And he had a hand where I think he had $1,200 on one hand.

[24:35]How do you handle playing with someone?

[24:37]Who's betting significantly more money where you're worried if you do something wrong,

[24:42]there's going to be a complete destruction of the building.

[24:45]Speaker 2 : Yeah.

[24:46]Matt is Matt is loquacious today.

[24:47]Go ahead, man.

[24:48]Speaker 0 : I'm going to step in one more time.

[24:50]Again, you're at the table minimum, right?

[24:52]And if this guy is not at like one of the high roller tables or something, then all bets

[24:58]are off.

[24:59]He, he knows who he's playing with.

[25:00]I mean, you just keep playing whatever that guy, that guy, he might as well be bad and

[25:03]betting five bucks.

[25:04]I'll tell you what.

[25:05]You don't care.

[25:06]Yeah.

[25:07]When you're at this casino, your chances of getting stabbed, you're at the table maximum

[25:10]for that.

[25:11]So I would definitely, I would definitely turn to that guy if he's got a thousand dollars

[25:16]out.

[25:17]I think he turned to him and go, what do I do?

[25:18]What do you want me to do on the sand?

[25:19]Speaker 2 : Yeah.

[25:20]Like you could ask him that like if it's a 50, 50 or something to be fair, his chip stack

[25:23]is like the endowment for the whole city.

[25:25]So if he wins or loses, there's going to be problems.

[25:28]Speaker 0 : Yeah, that's me.

[25:30]The one time it's happened to me in Vegas and it's great.

[25:32]It just takes the pressure off of you.

[25:33]I just become that person's de facto second hand.

[25:35]I just say, yeah.

[25:36]Hey, what are you going to do?

[25:37]What do you get?

[25:38]What do you want me to do?

[25:39]Like I just, and then, and then I'm there for another 10, 15, whatever minutes and I

[25:42]don't have to make any choices like, oh, Hey, you got a whole bunch of money out there.

[25:45]What would you do here?

[25:46]And then I just, I just do what they say.

[25:47]Speaker 2 : But the real question is, so let's say Aaron, you've got a $20 bet

[25:50]out there and this guy's got a thousand dollar bet deep down.

[25:54]Do you want to win your hand more than you want him to win or not?

[25:56]Speaker 0 : Oh yeah.

[25:57]Yes.

[25:58]For sure.

[25:59]Speaker 2 : You care about your hand, not his.

[26:00]Speaker 0 : Yeah.

[26:01]I always want to win my hand.

[26:02]Right?

[26:03]Yeah.

[26:04]If I have a chance, you can play it by the book and get your ass kicked as has happened

[26:07]to me plenty of times.

[26:09]So if I just leave it to fate or some other external force, then I don't have to worry

[26:14]about it.

[26:15]Speaker 2 : It's just like that sign.

[26:16]Aaron has in his garage, you know, capitalism.

[26:18]Number one, it's like, if they have more money, they get to tell you what to do.

[26:21]I think that's right.

[26:22]So I agree.

[26:23]I would turn to the guy and be like, what do you want me to do?

[26:24]And then I would do the opposite.

[26:25]I'd be like, nobody controls me before we move on.

[26:30]I have to say, we've been to Vegas many times and sometimes you see people that are down

[26:34]on their luck.

[26:35]They're just sitting there and they're, they're had too much to drink too much of other things.

[26:40]They've lost all their money.

[26:41]They're just sitting there and it looks brutal when you're at a, at a up north casino.

[26:46]And there's like the random guys just sitting like slouched over at the, at the machine

[26:51]playing the penny slots.

[26:54]It is just not good.

[26:55]It is not a good site.

[26:57]And he went twice.

[26:58]Let's be clear.

[26:59]He went twice.

[27:00]It was so bad.

[27:02]He went back to check it out again.

[27:03]Russell's like, I love it.

[27:04]I love visiting my family.

[27:05]Well, after the most depressing place in the world twice, honestly, I had to go when, when

[27:10]I've reached my uncle Russ point of like, okay, I'm about to blow up on these kids and

[27:15]they will never let me again.

[27:16]So I'm like, I just need to go to the casino.

[27:19]I can't take these kids fishing one more time.

[27:21]And that it was only like the third time.

[27:22]And I was like, I can't do it again.

[27:24]Russell.

[27:25]My, my reel is all tangled and you just look and it's like an explosion happened on the

[27:28]reel.

[27:29]They're just lying all over.

[27:30]It's not, it's not fun when you tell your nieces and nephews, it looks way too windy out.

[27:34]There were, there's no wind on the lake.

[27:37]You don't want to go back in that boat.

[27:43]That looks rough out there.

[27:44]Guys.

[27:45]You've never seen perfect storm.

[27:46]Oof.

[27:47]Bad.

[27:48]Need a little wind here.

[27:49]All right, Matt, Roland going, how's it going with you?

[27:53]Good.

[27:54]Good.

[27:55]I got a couple of things on my list today.

[27:56]First, I, I actually watched an NBA basketball game.

[28:00]Wow.

[28:01]I watched game six.

[28:02]Great game.

[28:04]I, I, I do like watching when, you know, championships can be one, things like that, but I, I don't

[28:10]know.

[28:11]Did you guys catch, did you guys watch it?

[28:12]Anybody watch it?

[28:13]Yeah.

[28:14]Nope.

[28:15]I'm out on sports.

[28:16]I'm out.

[28:17]That's good.

[28:18]So at the end of the end of the game, right?

[28:19]You know, Milwaukee wins confetti comes down and everybody's high five and they're looking

[28:23]at Giannis and the rest of the guys and all this stuff.

[28:26]So then they're going to go to the trophy ceremony, right?

[28:28]And the trophy ceremony comes out and Adam silver, the commissioner says that now the

[28:33]world champion.

[28:34]Milwaukee bucks.

[28:35]And who do you think grabs the trophy?

[28:36]It's gotta be John.

[28:37]He's the star of the team.

[28:38]No, it's probably the team.

[28:39]It's the team owner.

[28:40]I bet.

[28:41]It's the dumb shit team owner.

[28:42]Who's got like the t-shirt on over his suit and just looking in the hat just looks horrible.

[28:49]And so there's three team owners, I guess, from Milwaukee and each of them did the old

[28:54]hoisting of the cup thing.

[28:55]Right.

[28:56]And then they put it down and they didn't give it to any of the players.

[28:58]That is about the worst thing ever.

[28:59]Yeah.

[29:00]It's just terrible.

[29:01]Team.

[29:02]Team.

[29:03]Team.

[29:04]Team.

[29:05]Owners just take their ridiculous profits.

[29:06]Sit back and go sit in the corner.

[29:07]Yeah.

[29:08]Come on.

[29:09]Later.

[29:10]Anyway, like just lay back for a day.

[29:12]Guys.

[29:13]I, for one feel bad for the team owners.

[29:15]Okay.

[29:16]Why?

[29:17]Does it be one thing if you like cheer for a sports team and they suck.

[29:19]Okay.

[29:20]Like I've done that.

[29:21]I'm used to it.

[29:22]It would be another thing if you own that team and you also had to cheer and they still sucked.

[29:25]You'd be like, God, they suck.

[29:26]Oh, it's all my fault.

[29:27]God dang.

[29:28]And I'm terrible.

[29:29]Like it would just be, you know, it's like when your kid does something really dumb and

[29:32]you're watching him do it.

[29:33]And you're like.

[29:33]Yup.

[29:34]That's just what I would've done at that age too.

[29:35]Well, my kid's dumb like me.

[29:36]That's too bad.

[29:37]Yup.

[29:38]So good for them.

[29:39]Good for all of our cheese head friends to the east over there.

[29:42]Yeah.

[29:43]Thank goodness.

[29:44]We are going to have, I haven't run this by you guys, but I'm just going to commandeer

[29:48]it anyways.

[29:49]We're going to have our first Beck did it better concert meetup scheduled for October

[29:56]24th.

[29:57]What concert is it?

[29:58]Rolling stones are coming back to the twin cities.

[30:00]And so yeah.

[30:01]The magazine.

[30:02]Yeah.

[30:03]They're going to do a podcast where they go through all 500 albums.

[30:06]They've got, they've got a couple of people that are going to come out and play one or

[30:08]two songs each.

[30:09]And then they're going to have like radio DJs in between.

[30:11]It's so good.

[30:12]Yeah.

[30:13]Are you organizing a listening party for our listeners to join us?

[30:15]Matt?

[30:16]Are you buying tickets for everyone or houses?

[30:17]No, I'm not buying for it.

[30:18]I'm just, we'll, we'll, we'll meet at some tickets for all our listeners.

[30:21]Wow.

[30:22]Sure.

[30:23]Yeah.

[30:24]That is impressive.

[30:25]That is so generous.

[30:26]You're going to have to buy five whole tickets.

[30:27]Five tickets.

[30:28]The four.

[30:29]Yeah.

[30:30]And then I'll, then I'll invite Russell and he won't come anyway.

[30:31]So it'll just be like, well technically Matt would probably invite me and I would show

[30:36]up and he wouldn't be there and he wouldn't show up for like the next two hours.

[30:39]That's how it's generally gone in those situations.

[30:42]I get it.

[30:43]I get it.

[30:44]Okay.

[30:45]So October 24th, all Minnesota people will be going to Rolling Stone.

[30:48]So, you know, we'll figure that out when it gets a little closer.

[30:51]Awesome.

[30:52]The last thing I got on my list is I just, I, I didn't know how nostalgic I'd be about

[30:59]what we did today.

[31:00]The boys and I.

[31:01]Yeah.

[31:02]We went to the Richfield public pool.

[31:04]Were you guys public pool kids growing up?

[31:06]Did you go to the.

[31:07]Yeah.

[31:08]And I just, I, it was like we were in the pool.

[31:10]I went to a country club because I also did golf and tennis lessons, alternating days,

[31:15]but the country club pool was also pretty busy.

[31:18]There were a lot of people there and it was sometimes like, sometimes it was so hard because

[31:22]sometimes, you know, you'd forget your account number for having to order lunch at the little

[31:26]snack bar and you'd have to bring cash.

[31:28]Did you go in the men's restroom?

[31:30]Yeah.

[31:31]Yeah.

[31:32]Was there anyone else in there with you?

[31:34]No.

[31:35]Exactly.

[31:36]That's what I'm talking about at pools.

[31:37]Yeah.

[31:38]Go into that men's restroom.

[31:39]There's never anybody else there.

[31:40]It makes you think.

[31:41]How do they have all those ices and they've got nowhere.

[31:44]There's no one in here, man.

[31:46]Matt, we should start a public pool memories podcast.

[31:49]I could do this all day.

[31:50]We went to a dive in, they did a dive in movie.

[31:53]It was the Goonies.

[31:54]You brought your floaty, floated in the pool and watch the Goonies.

[31:56]How amazing is that?

[31:57]That sounds awesome.

[31:58]So much pee.

[31:59]So much pee in that pool.

[32:01]I do have to admit, I also now belong to a private pool on Roosevelt Island as well in

[32:06]New York.

[32:07]So it's private.

[32:08]My kids don't know.

[32:09]My kids would never be, they'd be like, a pool with other people here?

[32:12]So do you have to reserve time or do you just show up or how does it work, Rob?

[32:15]I used to have to reserve time, but now you can just show up.

[32:18]But now that I've been gone, I've just been giving my name and my wife's name to other

[32:21]people and then they go.

[32:22]So I feel like I'm getting my money's worth by helping other people go to pools.

[32:26]So it's good times.

[32:28]Do you have to show them your wife's W2 to qualify for that type of pool or not?

[32:32]No.

[32:33]We used to though.

[32:34]Oh God.

[32:35]It's not as much as a mattress, but it's up there.

[32:36]Half the mattress?

[32:37]A little more?

[32:38]Yeah.

[32:39]It's not quite half a mattress.

[32:40]Not quite half?

[32:41]So a quarter of a mattress is a little over a quarter?

[32:44]You could buy a couple of waterbeds on Craigslist, okay?

[32:47]And I don't want to get in.

[32:48]I don't want to have to.

[32:49]But we are getting to the waterbed corner.

[32:50]So I'm sorry.

[32:51]Aaron, why'd you request this again?

[32:52]I've got better.

[32:53]Oh yeah.

[32:54]Oh yeah.

[32:55]Oh yeah.

[32:56]Oh yeah.

[32:57]Oh yeah.

[32:58]Again, I recorded that in front of my family at the cabin.

[33:02]I saw several jokes about how they installed anti-sex beds at the Olympic Village, right?

[33:09]The Olympic athletes-

[33:10]Anti-sex beds?

[33:11]Yeah.

[33:12]The Olympic athletes have to sleep on cardboard because they're trying to keep them from shacking

[33:15]up with each other.

[33:16]I was wondering what that package was at my apartment that had all the Japanese written

[33:20]all over it.

[33:21]I asked Jenny what it was, and she's like, "Oh, it's just, don't worry about it."

[33:23]That makes sense though.

[33:24]For when you get back.

[33:25]Would you guys mind doing like a video chat where I show you what it is?

[33:26]A video chat where I show you my bed because something's been wrong with it for quite a

[33:29]while and maybe that's what I bought the wrong type.

[33:32]We look and it's just like, he's been buying stuff you'd put down for a hamster, like wood

[33:37]shreds and stuff.

[33:38]He's like, "Oh, this is good bedding."

[33:39]It's like, "No, Russell, you need to go to a Bed Bath & Beyond.

[33:40]You've been going to the pet store and buying bedding.

[33:41]This is terrible."

[33:42]That was a good joke.

[33:43]Anyway, the joke is they should have just done water beds because those are anti-sex

[33:49]beds, but I think you guys, you did it one better.

[33:52]Congratulations.

[33:53]I don't think they're anti-sex beds.

[33:54]I think back in the '80s.

[33:55]I think a water bed was a sex bed.

[33:57]I think that was prime for the time, wasn't it?

[34:00]Prime real estate.

[34:01]I just think with a water bed, like when I'm laying there, I want everything to be as high

[34:04]above the bed as possible.

[34:05]It needs to look as big as it possibly can.

[34:07]If I'm sunk into the bed and all that's sticking up is one little glans, I don't need that.

[34:13]You know what I mean?

[34:14]One little glans.

[34:15]It's already rough enough.

[34:16]Yeah.

[34:17]That horizon dips down.

[34:19]It doesn't get quite over the horizon.

[34:21]It's not good, is it?

[34:22]Yeah.

[34:23]The rest of it's so big that the glans are so small.

[34:24]I don't know how it works.

[34:25]Lord of the Rings.

[34:26]It's forced perspective.

[34:27]I will say for my role in going this week, I was talking to my friend Kirsten this week

[34:34]and she had a drink.

[34:35]We were out on a boat and she had a drink that was kind of a cool drink.

[34:38]I don't remember what it was.

[34:39]Kirsten?

[34:40]I said, "Where'd you get this drink?"

[34:42]And she said, "Oh, what I do at the liquor store is I just look to see somebody who I

[34:46]want to be."

[34:48]So she goes and finds like a 25-year-old, somebody who looks cool, somebody who dresses

[34:51]like cool, and whatever they buy, she just goes and buys it.

[34:53]Right with them.

[34:55]She just goes right behind him and buys it.

[34:57]And she says that every time somebody turns around and goes, "Oh my gosh, that's what

[34:59]I'm getting."

[35:00]And she goes, "Yeah, me too."

[35:01]And she's like, "Yeah, I do that at the liquor store and I do the same thing at Target

[35:05]when I'm shopping for clothes.

[35:07]I just find whatever people are buying that somebody I would want to be and then I just

[35:11]go buy that same thing for me."

[35:13]Do you guys ever do that or not?

[35:14]No, but I'm going to start doing that.

[35:16]Matt, do you ever do something like that?

[35:18]Now, when I'm following a 25-year-old woman around Target buying the same clothes, I think

[35:22]I'm going to get some looks.

[35:23]Yeah.

[35:24]I still think it's a good idea.

[35:25]Do you guys ever have a moment, let's say you're out with friends or something and someone

[35:28]orders a beer or drink and they order some sort of fancy beer and you don't really know

[35:33]what to get and you just said, "I'll have what they're having," and then do you ever

[35:35]feel like you're just kind of a loser because you're just jumping on board with someone

[35:39]else?

[35:40]They pick a glass wine, you're like, "I'll have the same thing," or they pick a cocktail,

[35:43]"I'll have the same thing."

[35:44]Do you always get your own thing or do you ever jump on board with other people you're

[35:47]with?

[35:48]I'd say 75, 25.

[35:51]I know what I want.

[35:52]Yeah.

[35:53]If it's a fancy place or something and you don't know, it's a compliment, Russell.

[35:57]Hey, I'll just have what they're having.

[35:58]They know what they're talking about.

[35:59]It's a compliment.

[36:00]Yeah, I like it.

[36:01]The worst, Russell, is when I'm going to get something and then my wife says that she's

[36:04]going to get that same drink and I'm like, "God damn it.

[36:07]Well, we can't both order the same drink.

[36:09]That's terrible."

[36:10]So I have to order a second drink.

[36:12]It's always not as good as the one she gets.

[36:13]I should just order the one I want, but I just can't bring myself to be sitting there

[36:17]on a date and just order the same drink, the two of us.

[36:20]I can't do it.

[36:21]I think the move, Rob, is ... I know you've been on a date with me.

[36:23]I'm going to give you some dating advice.

[36:24]Okay.

[36:25]I think the move is to order two and let Jenny try both of them and let her have the one

[36:30]that she likes better.

[36:31]I like that move.

[36:33]So not let her order at all.

[36:34]I like that, Russell.

[36:35]Take charge.

[36:36]Rob, he's telling Jenny.

[36:37]He's putting the hand up.

[36:38]No, hold on.

[36:39]Jenny.

[36:40]Jenny.

[36:41]Jenny.

[36:42]Jenny.

[36:43]Jenny.

[36:44]Jenny.

[36:45]Jenny.

[36:46]I got to grab her upper arm a little bit.

[36:47]I'm like, "Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh."

[36:48]No, don't worry.

[36:49]I got this.

[36:50]I'll order this.

[36:51]Don't worry.

[36:52]You should smile more.

[36:53]She'll have eight eggs.

[36:54]Aaron, how's it going with you?

[36:55]It's going great.

[36:56]Had a date last night with my ... Well, I do want to say I want to respond to Rob's mom.

[37:05]Go ahead, Russell.

[37:06]Did she put out?

[37:07]Yeah.

[37:08]Yeah, usually you tell us afterwards, Aaron, but now tell us during the podcast.

[37:09]Sorry, Aaron.

[37:10]I know you usually save that for the end, but ...

[37:11]Yeah.

[37:12]It's the secret podcast.

[37:13]You're using all of our good stuff from the secret pod.

[37:14]Is it the same thing as last month that you talked about?

[37:15]Oh, yeah.

[37:16]I'm sorry.

[37:17]I know you usually save that for the end, but ...

[37:18]Yeah.

[37:19]It's the secret podcast.

[37:20]You're using all of our good stuff from the secret pod.

[37:21]Is it the same thing as last month that you talked about?

[37:23]Yeah.

[37:24]I got it.

[37:25]Little little weenie on the hike.

[37:26]Was it in the tent?

[37:27]Yeah.

[37:28]Tortellini in the tent.

[37:29]I should have known better.

[37:31]What I wanted to say was I wanted to respond to Rob's mom.

[37:35]I checked with my wife about whether it's okay to call her my lady, and she likes that

[37:41]one.

[37:42]She's okay with it.

[37:43]So I think we are married.

[37:44]I want that to be clear.

[37:45]I'm not trying to skirt that issue, but I like to call her my lady, and she's okay with

[37:48]that.

[37:49]So I just want to put that out there in response.

[37:52]My rerolling going is related to ...

[37:53]To my lady, so I had to make sure to clear the air on that one, which is that we bought

[37:58]a new credenza, which I didn't know what that was either.

[38:01]It's like a chest of drawers kind of thing.

[38:03]Yeah, chest of drawers.

[38:04]We all know what that is, Aaron.

[38:05]We're not idiots.

[38:06]New credenza to put our entertainment ... Like a media center, but it's not a media center.

[38:12]But I'm considering streamlining my record playing apparatus.

[38:17]So I've got this big chunky receiver and two speakers, which I've spoken about on the podcast

[38:22]before.

[38:23]Wait a minute.

[38:24]We're talking about a record?

[38:25]Do you hear that?

[38:26]You hear that?

[38:27]It's time to talk about ...

[38:28]Aaron.

[38:29]Oh, the record player quarter.

[38:30]It's been a while since we've got this one.

[38:31]Yeah.

[38:32]I do need a bit of advice on this.

[38:33]So it turns out that with the new credenza, the setup that I have is just too much.

[38:46]And in general, at this point now, the big chunky receiver and the two speakers are devoted

[38:52]only to the turntable.

[38:53]There's nothing else, and it's a bit overkill.

[38:55]So I'm considering moving on, getting a single powered speaker that's sort of more minimalist,

[39:01]and then I wouldn't need the receiver and the speakers anymore.

[39:04]It is an emotional decision for me, because as I've discussed on the podcast, it's a part

[39:08]of my story and my lady's story.

[39:11]So when I decide to part with the receiver and the speakers, here's what I'm considering,

[39:16]and I need your help.

[39:17]I will sell the setup, but it's going to be on a sliding scale, right?

[39:21]Mm-hmm .

[39:22]I think the whole thing when I bought it would've been like 400 bucks, but this was 15 years

[39:26]ago.

[39:27]So I think if you are a person with zero records, zero tapes, zero CDs in your collection, you

[39:33]just want to get started, that's $100.

[39:36]If you're a person with, and you guys can help me adjust the scale, if you're a person

[39:41]with 10 CDs, records, or tapes, all 10 of them are greatest hits, $400.

[39:47]It's like a progressive tax system.

[39:50]Right.

[39:51]If you're a person who owns a copy of Funkadelic's Hardcore Jollies, I will give you the whole

[39:57]setup for that copy of Hardcore Jollies.

[39:59]That's all.

[40:00]That's it.

[40:01]If you're out there listening and you need an Ankiya receiver.

[40:04]What if you're someone who your favorite record is, without question, the Kokomo soundtrack?

[40:08]Yes.

[40:09]That's fine.

[40:10]That's totally cool.

[40:11]Yeah.

[40:12]I like how Russell calls the cocktail soundtrack the Kokomo soundtrack.

[40:14]That is the main difference.

[40:15]Russell's like, "Hey, you want to watch Kokomo, that movie with Tom Cruise where he serves

[40:19]cocktails?"

[40:20]I don't want to be a music snob about this.

[40:23]I really want to sell it to either someone who's gung-ho about getting started on collecting

[40:27]music and this is their fresh start, or just someone who ... I feel the same way about

[40:30]listening to music as I do about someone making food at a restaurant.

[40:33]I just want them to care about it.

[40:35]I just want them, even if it's someone who owns 50 Limp Bizkit CDs and they've got bootlegs

[40:41]of bootlegs and imports and all of that.

[40:45]That's great.

[40:46]If that's your thing, that's great.

[40:47]I just want someone to care about music.

[40:49]What if you gave it away for free and you interviewed potential buyers?

[40:52]You had a day where when you weren't cooking linguine for those seven hours you're supposed

[40:58]to be working, you literally just said, "I'm going to give this away for free.

[41:02]I just want a 15-minute conversation about music," and at the end of the day, you gave

[41:06]it to the person that you thought it would benefit the most.

[41:08]I like this idea.

[41:09]How about this?

[41:10]Facebook Marketplace, put it for free, but say, "You need to send me a message with what

[41:14]CDs, records you own."

[41:15]Top five.

[41:16]Yeah.

[41:17]Top five albums of all time.

[41:18]Come on, do that and let's see what you get for responses.

[41:20]I would love to see what you get for responses.

[41:22]That would be badass.

[41:23]Rob will supplement the loss of income with revenues from the podcast to support your

[41:28]effort in that area.

[41:29]Yeah, you can have 120% of the revenue that we've made since we started.

[41:33]Honestly, what you could do is auction it off and if anyone downloads one episode of

[41:37]our podcast, that would probably be worth it, right?

[41:39]That would totally be worth it.

[41:41]That's it.

[41:42]One more download would do it.

[41:43]So Rosie, if somebody, let's just say you're trying to sell this thing for $100, you've

[41:47]got...

[41:48]The person who's got the best taste in music around, what you're looking for ideally, is

[41:55]going to pay you $100, but then some just average Joe who will probably just throw it

[41:59]in their back counter is going to pay you $150 for it.

[42:03]What would you do?

[42:04]Well, I don't want to...

[42:05]I mean, I wanted to go to a good home and get good use, so I'd give it to the person

[42:09]with great taste for $100.

[42:11]But if the average Joe tells me they're going to put it on their back counter and play records

[42:15]on it every day and love it and enjoy it...

[42:16]No.

[42:17]It's going to be on their shelf, and it'll never see the light of day ever again.

[42:19]Oh, well, then I'm not going to...

[42:20]Yeah, I don't want the extra $50.

[42:21]I wanted to go to a good home.

[42:22]Aaron's like the guy who's giving his dog away because he doesn't want to take care

[42:24]of the dog anymore.

[42:25]He's like, "Well, I want someone to at least feed the dog."

[42:28]I don't care if he's got a pen to run in or anything, but they at least need to feed the

[42:32]dog.

[42:33]I wanted to go to a good home.

[42:34]Mm-hmm.

[42:35]And then at the end of your Facebook marketplace post, be like, "What do you think about waterbeds?"

[42:36]And please note, I have small plans.

[42:37]Yeah.

[42:38]If you can just do a straight up swap, Aaron, that would be great for the content of this

[42:44]pod going forward.

[42:45]Well, I will try to report back.

[42:47]It is going to be a bit of a process because I'm not prepared to part with it yet, so I'm

[42:52]going to get the new speaker, try it out for 45 days, see what I think, and then maybe

[42:56]I'll be ready to go through this process.

[42:58]I will report back.

[42:59]I think the way to do it is to give it away to whoever writes the best 100-word essay

[43:04]on why they love music.

[43:05]Oh, yes.

[43:06]I think that's the way to do it.

[43:07]I love this Russell.

[43:08]And then we'll read those.

[43:09]And Aaron, I think we speak for everyone listening when they say, "What the fuck is your problem?"

[43:13]I just don't get it.

[43:14]Oh, yeah.

[43:14]I don't know.

[43:17]I could not be happier to get rid of some old-ass speakers.

[43:20]I would sell my wedding album at this point for $3.

[43:23]Who cares?

[43:24]Give me less stuff.

[43:25]I want less stuff in my life.

[43:27]The idea that I'm going to trust all these speakers for 45 days, like, "Why 45 days?

[43:31]That's so long."

[43:32]The 44th day, you're like, "Actually, I hate this."

[43:36]Yeah.

[43:37]I'm with you, Rob.

[43:39]I'm trying to go more minimalistic, but this is of particular sentimental value to me,

[43:44]so I've got to be careful about who I give it to.

[43:45]Guys, it is time to get into the album.

[43:46]It's time for nobody's favorite part of the show.

[43:47]Let's talk about the album.

[43:48]Oh, yeah.

[43:49]I think we should just go back to the waterbed opening for the album.

[43:50]What?

[43:51]I like the waterbed opening for the album.

[43:52]I made that in five minutes while I was watching the Olympics today, like next to my family.

[44:07]It was humiliating.

[44:08]I had to do it again.

[44:09]All right.

[44:10]So let's talk about, we were talking about Chuck Berry's "Great 28." Like I said, this

[44:11]came out in 1982.

[44:12]But this song is, this album is actually chronological.

[44:13]So it's kind of, I was going to say it's fun to listen to.

[44:17]I'm not going to go that far.

[44:18]But it is interesting to hear like how he advanced throughout the age with the first

[44:21]song being the oldest and the last song being the newest.

[44:23]You guys know what chronological means.

[44:24]I don't have to explain it to you.

[44:25]Maybe some of our dumb shit listeners I do.

[44:27]But it's interesting to think this, he started coming out with songs in '55.

[44:31]Chuck Berry was born in 1926, right?

[44:34]So when he was writing these songs about teenagers and like cars and fast cars, he was 29 years

[44:39]old.

[44:40]And for a lot of this, he was in his 50s.

[44:43]When you listen to this album and you think about that, it takes on a whole new thing

[44:47]when it's like, "Hey, here's my uncle Chuck Berry singing me these songs about teenagers

[44:52]and fast cars and all that."

[44:53]He was barely 17.

[44:54]Oh my God.

[44:55]And the thing is, is that a lot of these songs, we're going to see they sound very, very similar.

[45:00]But it also is like, I think we have to put his perspective a little bit.

[45:04]When this album, when he wrote his first song, Chuck Berry, when he came out with "Mabelene"

[45:08]in 1955, the number one song in the country, the top single of 1955.

[45:12]Yeah.

[45:13]In 2005 is Perez Prado, "Cherry Pink and Blossom White."

[45:17]And here it is.

[45:18]What is that?

[45:19]Ooh, this is a nice song.

[45:20]Ah, what is that?

[45:21]What is that?

[45:22]This is like Big Band or something.

[45:23]Yeah, very smooth.

[45:24]I mean, this is no Herb Albert.

[45:25]It's not "he."

[45:26]It's Herb Albert, Aaron.

[45:27]Herb Albert.

[45:28]Herb Albert.

[45:29]If you bought a waterbed and this song was playing when they delivered it, I think that'd

[45:30]be perfect.

[45:31]This is a perfect waterbed song.

[45:32]Yeah.

[45:33]I mean, I think it's a perfect waterbed song.

[45:34]I think it's a perfect waterbed song.

[45:35]I think it's a perfect waterbed song.

[45:36]I think it's a perfect waterbed song.

[45:37]I think it's a perfect waterbed song.

[45:43]I could listen to this all day.

[45:45]So part of it is listening to this album, you have to kind of keep in perspective what he

[45:49]was, what the music was like at the time.

[45:51]Chuck Berry was plagued with legal problems his entire career.

[45:54]We talked in the last episode a little bit, probably most famously got arrested for installing

[45:58]toilet cameras in his restaurant.

[46:00]But Chuck Berry became so famous as one of the early rock and rollers, and a lot of people

[46:03]think it's because, honestly, if you listen to the music, he's got kind of the start of

[46:10]rock and roll where it's this blues, country guitar.

[46:13]You can hear what he's saying, the diction is really clear.

[46:15]And honestly, he sounds white, right?

[46:18]So we're talking about, with all this music, we're talking about a black guy trying to

[46:22]break through music in the '50s, like, that would be such an impossible challenge.

[46:26]But the fact back then that nobody knew what he looked like, I think probably really, probably

[46:31]really helped him.

[46:33]He went into Chess Records to do an audition, and Chess Records already had-

[46:36]Rob, Rob, you know about auditions.

[46:38]I've seen the purple links you click on.

[46:40]You know about auditions, right?

[46:42]Casting?

[46:43]Now we're getting into Russells.

[46:44]Now we're getting into-

[46:45]It's a casting thing, right, Rob?

[46:46]We're pulling some layers back.

[46:47]Aaron's nodding so big.

[46:48]Oh my God, Aaron is like-

[46:49]Is that one guy?

[46:50]What I don't get about that guy, right, because you can tell it's the same guy for all those

[46:57]auditions.

[46:58]He must be so tired.

[47:00]Like, every day, he's like, "Oh, God, I got to do another audition."

[47:03]Like, what do they tell him, like, "Okay, I'll do an audition every 12 hours"?

[47:07]Like, I don't-

[47:08]It could never work for me.

[47:09]There's no way.

[47:10]It's a great 28 hours.

[47:11]Yeah.

[47:12]I don't think auditions would not work for me.

[47:13]I've probably only got a great 24 auditions.

[47:15]Trust me.

[47:16]Every time I go into a job interview, I pray to see that black leather couch.

[47:19]I'm just saying.

[47:20]Please.

[47:22]Yeah, Aaron laughed at that.

[47:23]I know what's going on.

[47:24]So he went in, and he played a couple blues songs, and the Chess Brothers already had

[47:29]Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, and the legend is that his audition went so bad, they said,

[47:34]"What's the worst song that you have?"

[47:36]And so he played a song that he had called, and he ended up calling it Maybelline, put

[47:40]it out, and it became, like, pretty much an instant classic.

[47:41]And Chuck Berry then would tour the country, but he never toured with a band because he

[47:47]would have to pay him so much.

[47:48]So there's a ton of videos online, if you watch Chuck Berry play live, where he's playing,

[47:52]like, in Europe with a band that's never heard the music, and they're just following him

[47:56]like they would in a jazz.

[47:57]Interesting.

[47:58]And it led to so many bad live shows of Chuck Berry that so many people were mad at him.

[48:03]Counterpoint.

[48:04]There is now one fantastic live recording that he did in Detroit with the Funk Brothers,

[48:10]which was later in his career, I think '63, maybe, and it rips.

[48:15]The Funk Brothers, the backing band for The Temptations.

[48:17]And you can hear just the way the audience knows every word.

[48:21]It's one of these just, like, great documents to rock and roll and the impact that he had

[48:25]on the culture.

[48:26]It's fantastic.

[48:27]But I think it was a rare, you're right, Rob, I think it was a rare event.

[48:30]And finally, I think that this is one of the few albums, you know, because Erin's always

[48:35]talking about In Her Space, but this is one of the few albums that's actually been spent

[48:38]out to outer space.

[48:39]Because both of these, Johnny B. Goode is on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 satellites,

[48:45]which are currently outside of the solar system heading off into space.

[48:49]So, if you want to know what kind of music is on space, it's a guy who has gotten arrested

[48:52]for setting up toilet cams to film people watching go to the bathroom.

[48:55]So, hey, there's hope for everybody out there.

[48:57]You mentioned that, and I was reading a little bit about that Voyager album.

[49:00]They essentially made this album of music from all these different cultures throughout

[49:04]the world.

[49:05]And there's really only one pop song or rock song on it at the time, right?

[49:08]It's just the Chuck Berry song, and then it's all these classical, it's, you know, Beethoven's

[49:13]Fifth and other stuff like that.

[49:14]Is that right?

[49:15]Oh, I didn't do any other research.

[49:17]I have no idea.

[49:18]No, you dumb shit.

[49:19]I did a lot of time looking at his toilet cam case, actually.

[49:21]Mostly, it's what I looked up.

[49:22]A lot.

[49:23]We should get to the first step.

[49:25]The music does speak for itself.

[49:27]We should probably discuss it.

[49:29]All right.

[49:30]Let's get into Maybelline.

[49:32]Got up to number five on the billboard.

[49:35]Maybelline.

[49:36]Maybelline.

[49:37]Maybelline.

[49:38]Maybelline.

[49:39]Maybelline.

[49:40]Maybelline.

[49:41]Maybelline.

[49:42]Maybelline.

[49:43]Maybelline.

[49:44]Maybelline.

[49:45]Maybelline.

[49:46]Maybelline.

[49:47]Maybelline.

[49:48]Maybelline.

[49:49]Maybelline.

[49:50]Maybelline.

[49:51]Maybelline.

[49:52]Maybelline.

[49:53]Maybelline.

[49:54]Maybelline.

[49:55]Maybelline.

[49:56]Maybelline.

[49:57]Maybelline.

[49:58]Maybelline.

[49:59]Maybelline.

[50:00]Maybelline.

[50:01]Maybelline.

[50:02]Maybelline.

[50:03]Maybelline.

[50:04]See?

[50:05]See?

[50:06]That song was based on a song by Bob Willis, or not by, but it's an old country song called

[50:10]Ida Red.

[50:11]Here's Ida Red.

[50:12]Ooh, Bob Willis and the Playboys.

[50:13]Jesus Christ.

[50:14]Aaron, leave, put those magazines down.

[50:15]Yeah.

[50:16]Wait, isn't that what they were called?

[50:17]You're correct.

[50:18]It was Texas Playboys.

[50:19]I don't know what the band is called, but you don't have to pull the magazines up.

[50:20]Yeah.

[50:21]Aaron's like, actually, I'm more into Hustler.

[50:22]This also rips.

[50:23]I mean, no doubt.

[50:24]Like, no disrespect to Bob Willis and the Texas Playboys.

[50:25]Can you imagine if we get like a cease and desist from Bob Willis and the Texas Playboys?

[50:26]I don't know.

[50:27]I don't know.

[50:28]I don't know.

[50:29]I mean, no doubt.

[50:30]No disrespect to Bob Willis and the Texas Playboys.

[50:33]Can you imagine if we get like a cease and desist from Bob Willis and the Texas Playboys

[50:37]for besmirching them on this podcast tonight?

[50:41]Bring it on, Bob.

[50:44]I just want to circle back talking about those Hustlers a little bit, because you'd open

[50:46]them up and you'd be like, it is time to look at pornography.

[50:52]And then there's like girls keen in there and you're like, what is going on?

[50:56]It blew my mind.

[50:57]Oh, yeah.

[50:58]Oh, 100%.

[50:59]100%.

[51:00]I swear to God.

[51:01]I'm not trying to play like I have seen a Playboy in my life, but I've definitely never

[51:05]seen a Hustler.

[51:06]That's that's real smut.

[51:08]Yeah, it's it was it was like to the point where you're like, I don't I think I'm a bad

[51:12]person.

[51:13]Like, it really makes the question like, what kind of person you are?

[51:16]Guys, listen, enough about people peeing and taking pictures of it.

[51:18]Let's talk more about Chuck Berry.

[51:20]This is 30 days.

[51:21]Now I'm going to I'm going to do you hear something similar between Maybelline and 30

[51:25]days?

[51:26]Oh, wait a minute.

[51:27]Is it?

[51:28]Is it everything?

[51:29]Maybelline.

[51:30]Maybelline.

[51:31]Maybelline.

[51:32]I do love the background singers here, though.

[51:34]He said this is a tribute to Hank Williams.

[51:37]There's a pretty bad ass guitar solo on this later on in the song, so this does hammer

[51:52]from a guitar perspective.

[51:53]I don't know where Chuck Berry I think he's in the top five or six all time guitar players,

[51:57]but there are some pretty bad ass solos.

[51:58]On here.

[51:59]Yeah, it is.

[52:00]I mean, obviously, like you again, you have to think about this is not being released as

[52:01]an album.

[52:02]These are released as singles.

[52:03]So like you're not hearing Maybelline right after and then hearing 30 days on the same

[52:04]album.

[52:05]So it would be kind of fun to be like, oh, here's a new Chuck Berry single.

[52:06]I'm going to put it on a man.

[52:07]A lot of these sound that I picked a lot of these songs starting from the very beginning

[52:08]and you're going to hear that opening bar a lot and a lot of times.

[52:09]This is just like when I used to throw a knuckleball.

[52:10]You can't catch me.

[52:11]You can't catch me.

[52:12]This is just like when I used to throw a knuckleball.

[52:13]You can't catch me.

[52:14]You can't catch me.

[52:15]You can't catch me.

[52:16]You can't catch me.

[52:17]You can't catch me.

[52:18]You can't catch me.

[52:19]You can't catch me.

[52:20]You can't catch me.

[52:21]You can't catch me.

[52:22]You can't catch me.

[52:23]You can't catch me.

[52:24]You can't catch me.

[52:25]You can't catch me.

[52:26]You can't catch me.

[52:27]You can't catch me.

[52:28]You can't catch me.

[52:29]You can't catch me.

[52:30]You can't catch me.

[52:31]You can't catch me.

[52:32]You can't catch me.

[52:33]You can't catch me.

[52:34]You can't catch me.

[52:35]You can't catch me.

[52:36]You can't catch me.

[52:37]You can't catch me.

[52:38]You can't catch me.

[52:39]You can't catch me.

[52:40]You can't catch me.

[52:41]Yeah.

[52:42]There's no spin on it, right?

[52:43]We talked about it on the Beatles episode and it got sued for it and John Lennon had

[52:46]to write songs for the record company because he didn't think the term, coming up slowly

[52:51]on flat, or what was it?

[52:53]Here come old flat top.

[52:54]Here come grooving up slowly.

[52:56]That's where we come together.

[52:57]He was like, nobody will know I stole those lyrics.

[52:59]All right.

[53:00]Too much monkey business.

[53:01]The Beatles did this one too.

[53:02]Here's a little guitar solo for you, Russell.

[53:03]You guys were mentioning the Beatles and all the bands that took from this, like the beginning

[53:11]of this sounds like a Beach Boys song.

[53:12]There's five or six Beach Boys surfing songs that are direct ripoffs of Chuck Berry songs.

[53:18]Am I right?

[53:19]Yeah.

[53:20]Yeah.

[53:21]Surfing USA is a ripoff of one of these coming up here, like a hundred percent.

[53:23]Not even trying to hide it.

[53:27]If you look up the Wikipedia for this album, 99% of the Wikipedia is who covered these

[53:31]songs because these songs really, like the Rolling Stones, their first single was a Chuck

[53:36]Berry song, right?

[53:38]You talk to so many rock and roll people and they're like, yeah, Chuck Berry was an absolute

[53:41]giant influence.

[53:42]I mean, and if you've listened to some of these, I put in a couple of guitar solos just

[53:45]to try to switch things up with these songs and he can, I mean, you're right, Russell,

[53:49]he can jam on the guitar.

[53:50]There's no doubt about it.

[53:51]When, especially when you listen to it compared to whatever that Paisley park or whatever

[53:56]that band you were playing that had the other hit in 1955 or whatever, it's so beyond whatever

[54:02]else was being played at the time.

[54:04]Right?

[54:05]Oh, what?

[54:06]You don't like, you don't think this is a, you don't think that this is a ripping guitar

[54:07]solo?

[54:08]Yeah.

[54:09]Yeah.

[54:10]Yeah.

[54:11]Yeah.

[54:12]Oh, but that sounds good.

[54:14]I wonder if it's a flugelhorn and not a trumpet.

[54:19]Aaron was a 50 year old woman in 1955.

[54:21]He's back.

[54:22]All right.

[54:23]So let's get to a brown eyed, handsome man.

[54:27]There's a, I love this song.

[54:30]This is one of my favorite songs ever.

[54:33]There's a Johnny Cash version of the song that absolutely, absolutely crushes.

[54:37]I never knew where it came from, but this is one of my favorite songs on the album.

[54:41]I love listening to it.

[54:42]I love it.

[54:43]All the lyrics are awesome.

[54:44]It's a gem.

[54:45]It really is.

[54:46]It's a super clever song.

[54:47]I didn't know Chuck Berry wrote this song, uh, in their million dollar quartet, uh, Elvis,

[54:52]Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins.

[54:53]You can hear Elvis talk about what he toured with, with, uh, Chuck Berry.

[54:56]You ought to hear some of this stuff sitting around.

[54:59]I just come off a tour with this guy, Chuck Berry, man.

[55:04]He sat down behind the stage and just, I mean, it's so funny that it's like there's Elvis

[55:11]just basically admitting like, yeah.

[55:12]I played a bunch of stuff and I think I'm going to, you know what I should do?

[55:14]I should probably steal that stuff and play it and make it more famous.

[55:17]I think that's a good idea.

[55:18]Right.

[55:19]And that's interesting.

[55:20]Elvis is a good lead into the racial implications.

[55:21]I mean, so you, you, you mentioned Rob that, that Chuck Berry was very clear in his intention

[55:26]and crossing over and worked at that.

[55:29]But this song, if you think about, um, kind of what he's saying about the judge's wife

[55:35]rescuing the brown eyed, handsome man, that's a potentially when you think that this isn't

[55:40]that far removed from some of the things that had happened.

[55:42]And in the forties and fifties, that's a, it's an intense statement to make.

[55:46]Uh, and he did it in a poetic way, but it, it certainly calls out, uh, something that

[55:52]would have been really controversial.

[55:53]Like imagine if this really happened, like if the judge's wife went down to the courtroom

[55:56]and you know, a brown eyed man doesn't necessarily have to be black, but he could be.

[56:00]And if the judge's wife was probably white, went to the courtroom and said, you got to

[56:03]let that guy go to keep your job, people would, you know, eyebrows will be raised and lives

[56:08]were lost for less.

[56:09]So, uh, he's, he's playing at something.

[56:12]Yeah.

[56:13]Making great tunes.

[56:14]Well, that's like the, you know, he came out with a, you know, he came out with a sequel

[56:15]to Johnny be good.

[56:16]He also came out with a sequel to this song and it's called a brown eye.

[56:21]I see in my cam.

[56:22]And that was later.

[56:23]I was later on.

[56:24]I see him.

[56:25]I can't.

[56:26]You want to get that as a tattoo, but I laughed at it.

[56:27]It was very funny.

[56:28]A brown eyed, handsome man.

[56:29]Here is Elvis singing.

[56:30]I'm probably going to have to go to the bathroom and match the brown eyed handsome man.

[56:31]I'm going to have to go to the bathroom and match the brown eyed handsome man.

[56:32]I'm going to have to go to the bathroom and match the brown eyed handsome man.

[56:33]I'm going to have to go to the bathroom and match the brown eyed handsome man.

[56:44]It is a bang.

[56:45]It's it's so good.

[56:48]If you are like me, okay, and you keep thinking to yourself, why can't somebody go tell Beethoven

[56:55]to fuck themselves?

[56:56]This is the song for you.

[56:57]Roll over.

[56:58]Get out of here.

[56:59]And there's a Beatles cover of this one.

[57:02]Is that right?

[57:04]Yeah.

[57:05]I think so.

[57:06]All these, every one of these.

[57:07]Yeah.

[57:08]The Beach Boys.

[57:09]Yeah.

[57:10]I mean the, like the Beatles, I think they just played like when the Beatles were playing

[57:11]in Hamburg, I think they were basically playing Chuck Berry covers.

[57:13]Aaron, I got to ask you, you've, you're a classical music guy.

[57:18]You study classical music for most of America.

[57:21]Do you think who has had a better run Beethoven, the composer or Beethoven, the big St. Bernard

[57:27]in the movie series?

[57:29]I mean, for most of America, it's gotta be the movies, right?

[57:32]I think so.

[57:33]I'll be honest.

[57:34]I haven't listened to any Beethoven for a long time myself, so.

[57:36]I think the St. Bernard has had a better run than that composer.

[57:41]It's hard to argue with that.

[57:43]The box office receipts.

[57:44]That's a great movie.

[57:45]Charles Grodin.

[57:46]He was great in that movie.

[57:47]The dog, Matt, your kids ever watch Beethoven?

[57:51]No.

[57:52]Matt's watching the Olympics on a different TV right now.

[57:58]I think there's, I think there's some stat out there like that Beethoven still is like

[58:02]the number one.

[58:02]Selling artists out there or something like that.

[58:05]Kind of like the Bible's the number one bookseller or something like that.

[58:09]So I was just trying to look that up.

[58:10]Can you look up hustler?

[58:11]Where's hustler set up?

[58:12]How do you spell that password that, that song is actually 97 on the list of the greatest

[58:19]rock and roll songs of all time.

[58:22]He claims that he wrote that song because his sister was always playing piano and he

[58:24]wanted to get down there and play some rhythm and blues.

[58:27]But I'm convinced that 99% of Chuck Berry's stories are stories that he's made up after

[58:30]the fact.

[58:31]It's a good story.

[58:32]But that was 1956 by the way, here we have the album, the song that I would skip every

[58:37]single time when I listened to this album, Havana Moon.

[58:40]Yeah.

[58:41]Problematic.

[58:42]Yeah.

[58:43]Why do you say problematic, Aaron?

[58:45]Well, this, I don't know, I mean, this sort of, um, dialect that he's, you know, affecting

[58:53]here is a question of misappropriating a culture is what you're saying.

[58:58]Yeah.

[58:59]I think so.

[59:00]I agree with Rob.

[59:01]I just thought the song sucked.

[59:02]It was my least favorite song.

[59:04]Honestly, I didn't make, I didn't make it through the whole album.

[59:06]We've talked about this beforehand.

[59:08]I made it through about the first 10 songs every time, and then I would give up, but

[59:12]that was my least favorite song on the part of it that I could get through.

[59:15]I can just tell you when you're taking kids tubing on a boat, Chuck Berry grade 28 is not

[59:19]a great soundtrack to listen to because you're never quite sure what song he's playing.

[59:22]I always thought the Havana Moon was when you pulled down your pants and they saw the ham,

[59:27]the cheese and the pickle because it was like a Cuban sandwich.

[59:32]I was like, Oh, that's a good song.

[59:34]I'm going to go with that.

[59:35]I'm going to go with that.

[59:36]I'm going to go with that.

[59:37]I'm going to go with that.

[59:38]I'm going to go with that.

[59:39]I'm going to go with that.

[59:40]I'm going to go with that.

[59:41]I'm going to go with that.

[59:42]I'm going to go with that.

[59:43]I'm going to go with that.

[59:44]I'm going to go with that.

[59:45]I'm going to go with that.

[59:46]I'm going to go with that.

[59:47]I'm going to go with that.

[59:48]I'm going to go with that.

[59:49]I'm going to go with that.

[59:50]I'm going to go with that.

[59:51]I'm going to go with that.

[59:52]I'm going to go with that.

[59:53]I'm going to go with that.

[59:54]I'm going to go with that.

[59:55]I'm going to go with that.

[59:56]I'm going to go with that.

[59:57]I'm going to go with that.

[59:58]I'm going to go with that.

[59:59]I'm going to go with that.

[60:00]I'm going to go with that.

[60:01]I'm going to go with that.

[60:02]I'm going to go with that.

[60:03]I'm going to go with that.

[60:04]I'm going to go with that.

[60:05]I'm going to go with that.

[60:06]I'm going to go with that.

[60:07]I'm going to go with that.

[60:08]I'm going to go with that.

[60:09]I'm going to go with that.

[60:10]I'm going to go with that.

[60:11]I'm going to go with that.

[60:12]I'm going to go with that.

[60:13]I'm going to go with that.

[60:14]I'm going to go with that.

[60:15]I'm going to go with that.

[60:24]I love the Kokomo soundtrack.

[60:26]And this one also, like, it's, you know, it's questionable.

[60:30]You know, like, I guess, like, the seatbelt is stuck.

[60:33]But, you know, he starts talking about he can't get her belt to loose.

[60:36]It's just, it's all problematic to me, as much as I absolutely love these songs.

[60:40]Do you think School Days, though, is this the first song in history where people started making fun of teachers?

[60:44]Like, if this song had never been written, do you think more rock and roll songs would be supportive of teachers?

[60:49]No.

[60:50]Oh, for sure.

[60:51]Yeah.

[60:52]This is, yeah.

[60:53]This is the downfall of teachers.

[60:54]The beginning of making, that genre, making fun of teachers, for sure.

[60:58]Teachers are actually really cool.

[61:00]All right.

[61:03]Let's get into rock and roll music.

[61:05]Yeah.

[61:08]This is a top 10 for Barry.

[61:11]It's a top 10 for the Beatles and for the Beach Boys.

[61:14]I didn't realize, I didn't realize going into this, I know that the, Chuck Berry is, like, a great guitar player.

[61:21]But I love the piano on this album.

[61:23]Great.

[61:24]I love the cool piano songs.

[61:25]Didn't you guys enjoy that?

[61:27]Yeah, I agree.

[61:28]I was just, I was trying to figure out, I wonder who the pianist is in here.

[61:31]I wonder if they're credited anywhere, because it's great stuff.

[61:33]Johnny Johnson was the piano player on most of the songs, I believe it is.

[61:36]He sued him, didn't he?

[61:37]He sued him, yeah.

[61:38]He did, Matt.

[61:39]He did sue him.

[61:40]Tell us more about that.

[61:41]He sued him, didn't he?

[61:42]Yeah.

[61:43]I was in his restaurant.

[61:44]I had eaten some barbie.

[61:45]And that's the thing about his restaurant, too, right?

[61:46]With these toilet cams, because that's what you really have to understand.

[61:47]I looked at the menu for this restaurant.

[61:48]I looked at the menu.

[61:49]There is so much fried food at this restaurant.

[61:50]It's like fried food and barbecue.

[61:55]It would be an incredible camera.

[61:57]I mean, you'd be like, this is a disaster.

[62:00]You could not pick a worse place to have a camera in the bathroom.

[62:05]Aaron, stop laughing.

[62:07]Also, in the court, the judge, they mentioned that he would slow down and pause it at some

[62:11]parts.

[62:12]Okay, keep going.

[62:13]People confuse mine and Aaron's laugh, and I just want to make it clear, it's Aaron that's

[62:16]laughing at Rob's jokes tonight, not Russ.

[62:19]Yeah.

[62:20]aaron what do you think about toilet can oh come on what are you doing it's true

[62:25]you got too much on me oh that's so funny to me all right let's go to uh oh baby doll

[62:38]little guitar solo here for you russell

[62:40]that's pretty badass isn't it yep way before it's time i think maybe there were other guys

[62:50]out there doing this i don't know but if you listen to those old country songs i mean the

[62:53]kind of rockabilly stuff they're sounding a lot like this but this is definitely bringing that

[62:57]blues into it they were probably doing it on the fiddle and he's doing the guitar yeah i mean other

[63:01]blues guitarists i feel like howlin wolf or muddy waters might have been doing similar stuff but not

[63:06]this fast necessarily oh yeah we should we should dive into some of those other guitarists and see

[63:12]this well no we're not going to because next yeah we can't we're trapped in this hellish

[63:19]songs to go yeah yeah so we're all the way up to song number 11 we have gone two years to 1957 so

[63:25]here's reeling and a rocket now this is like me this is like russ fishing with his nieces and

[63:30]nephews the reels are getting tangled up the hooks are getting caught in rocks and russ is singing

[63:34]reeling in a rocket while we're playing this song we can just talk about when i was up north this

[63:39]week instead of this song if that's all right of course when i was up there i realized like do you

[63:43]guys ever have a thing where you realize like you don't you're not up to snuff with your peers when

[63:49]you realize the thing i'm not up to snuff to is like captaining a boat with multiple people in it

[63:54]oh no um i'm terrible i've always been terrible at like backing a boat in i'm not good at docking

[63:59]the boat well and landing it on the dock without ramming it right into the corner of the dock

[64:04]i'm just like terrible if i were to ever take a date out and like on the lake and she would never

[64:09]go out with me again it would be a complete disaster so is there anything that you guys

[64:13]are really terrible at that you don't want people to see you trying to do man i learned this week

[64:19]i'm terrible

[64:19]at using the damn vitamix i spend so much time you know i'm okay in the kitchen i make food i cook

[64:28]plenty of meals i have plenty of disasters too which don't need to be discussed but i cannot

[64:33]use the damn vitamix i tried to make pesto i gotta stop sometimes i try to make my son's smoothie

[64:37]i'm terrible at the vitamix how do you fuck up using a blender how do you do that no rob this

[64:45]you not put the top on do you not like no what happens is i end up with like

[64:49]i end up not getting the consistency right and the blades go and then it stuff gets chopped and

[64:54]then it sits underneath the blades so it can't get chopped up anymore that's why i i can't make

[64:59]my son's smoothie i can't do a lot of things with the vitamix i'm terrible at it he's gonna keep

[65:04]your dough hook out of there that ruins it get your dough hook out of there aaron you might have

[65:08]it our minds are broken by the way that we all laughed at the word dough hook there um you might

[65:14]did you buy your vitamix like off facebook marketplace having to write a hundred word essay

[65:18]about favorite things to blend you might have to buy your vitamix like off facebook marketplace

[65:19]because it sounds like you might have gotten a knockoff model if it doesn't blend everything

[65:22]that's in the blender like that's the one job no when my wife does it it's perfect she's great at

[65:27]it i just i can't i don't know i'm really bad at the at the vitamix that sounds you know what i'm

[65:31]really bad at cleaning the kitchen floors oh oh my gosh oh please oh i'm so bad at this oh my gosh

[65:37]did i just shove all the dirt right to the middle of the floor and then walk away and forget about

[65:40]it yeah i better not do that anymore oh i'm so bad at it oh matt and rob you guys would be

[65:45]terrible life partners could you imagine matt losing his shit if rob just

[65:48]you

[65:49]swept everything into the middle of it then didn't sweep it all up left it there

[65:52]yeah that you guys would you wouldn't even last two months we would have to have yeah we'd have

[65:57]to have a sit down talk all right rob rob look at me in that rob rob rob look at me in the eyes

[66:04]now i've noticed i've noticed that you know hey you're doing great you're sweeping everything up

[66:12]into a pile it's great you know i appreciate that hey should we should we jack off together

[66:19]rob this is serious okay i'm trying to have a serious conversation it's also

[66:24]just what jenny says to me do what i say i'm trying to have a serious conversation okay i'm so sorry

[66:33]but ignore what i'm doing here yeah uh ignore this dough hook all right let's get into

[66:40]he's tubing it uh in this song aaron wanted to talk about sweet little 16

[66:44]all right

[66:44]this stuff is problematic but yeah this is the one that uh surfing may say ripped off right

[66:53]so yeah aaron you mentioned that they they got sued the the beach boys wrote this song

[66:58]in uh 62 so five years later they just came out with this song

[67:02]same song they're like same damn song maybe nobody will notice

[67:09]did they did they have to pay for this you think or did they just do it chuck berry

[67:14]actually or the the record company sued them and chuck berry got a songwriting credit on that so

[67:19]now every time that song is played chuck berry is listed as the songwriter which i think is

[67:23]that's what you'd want out of that yeah so the one of the coolest things that i enjoyed about

[67:28]this song is i heard there's that part where do you guys remember ever as kids where you would

[67:32]rip your finger up and down the piano it's like the most basic thing that anyone can do in a piano

[67:37]right did you guys hear that in the song it hurts to do it right and it hurts to make it it does

[67:41]there's actually youtube videos about how to do it right

[67:44]right check it out rob oh oh you can hear him back oh oh oh yes they're just ripping up and down

[67:51]and aaron i don't know if you know anything about this you probably had to take piano

[67:54]i did when you were in in in music or choir in college right shut up professor i believe that

[68:00]it's called a glissando is that correct where you rip up and down it's called a glissando is that

[68:04]correct yes indeed it's hard to do man you're gonna have tough fingernails for that shit

[68:09]what i thought we could do is a list of the greatest songs ever the greatest pop songs ever

[68:14]that you've ever heard of and i think it's a great song and i think it's a great song and i think

[68:14]it's a great song and i think it's a great song and i think it's a great song and i think it's a

[68:14]feature a glissando on the piano oh yeah as part of the song

[68:18]it was confusing though because there's also something called apartamento which is similar

[68:24]but it's not a portmento kind of the same but different oh right yeah portmanteau and

[68:29]apportamento are different although similar idea because you're eliding between apportamento

[68:33]hold on hold on there's a toe there's a toes joke coming hold on no i was going to move

[68:38]i was going to move to madrid and i was looking for an apportamento too so

[68:44]we can get into it they're the same idea you're eliding between tones no between keep going

[68:51]the first song on the list is one of the favorites and for me this is not famous for

[68:57]jerry lee lewis it's really famous from top gun but this is great balls of fire by jerry lee lewis

[69:02]check out the

[69:03]show me the way home honey

[69:05]wow yes

[69:10]goose jammed on this

[69:14]one take me to bed and lose me forever what was your guys favorite top gun song back in the day

[69:19]was it that song great balls of fire was it highway to the danger zone or was it when cruise

[69:25]and goose do you lost that love and feeling what about take my breath away yeah

[69:30]the scene right like licking her nose or whatever yeah it's a weird sex scene man

[69:36]i've seen it a thousand times rob who would you rather perform a sex scene with in a movie prince

[69:42]or tom cruise oh prince

[69:44]he's so short actually both those guys would be so short on me it would be like lord of the rings if

[69:48]gandalf decided to make out with the hobbits yeah you shall not

[69:55]i like playing with the boys too wait wait can i retake that

[70:00]i should be really quiet because man you this is gandalf uh making out with the hobbit you shall

[70:08]eat us

[70:09]you made us listen again for that

[70:14]plus i heard a good joke that got stomped why do you think they call him gandalf the gray

[70:20]because this thing is grayer than it should be yeah no actually being gray is normal in a lot

[70:26]of places it's not a big deal thank you next up on the list is come on eileen one of the greatest

[70:32]one-hit wonders ever this song starts off with one of these glissandos here check this out this

[70:37]reminds me of something i did my sophomore year too

[70:39]jeez

[70:44]i could hear it yeah it's beautiful great voice on this guy too i have no idea who the singer is on

[70:58]that one this was that song was actually listed as the number two one-hit wonder ever by rolling

[71:04]stone magazine do you guys have a guess at what the number one one-hit wonder by rolling stone

[71:09]was my sharona

[71:12]it's a good guess

[71:14]but incorrect uh is it thriller

[71:17]nope matt you got a guess i don't have a guess oh i know who it was

[71:23]is it the big bopper when he crashed that plane

[71:25]he's had two hits in his life right rob that's right chantilly lason when the plane crashed

[71:32]the actual the actual one that the greatest one-hit wonder was take on me by aha is this

[71:38]the greatest one-hit wonder ever agreed better than come on eileen no way yes but so it is it's

[71:44]a much better song so come on eileen actually you guys mentioned michael jackson come on eileen

[71:49]knocked off billy jean as the number one song in the country in 1982

[71:53]billy jean got knocked off by come on eileen oh my god people were idiots in 1982 but there was

[72:02]also a glissando on a famous jackson song this is the jackson first hit ever i want you back so

[72:10]check this one out

[72:10]yeah

[72:14]and then that bass hits at the same time that must have been tough to do like

[72:20]that's the funk brothers too right like that's hard to do that band is so good

[72:24]and i believe if if i remember right wasn't that song sampled by jay-z for

[72:30]izzo in the last podcast we did slowed way down too which is really yeah very cool so i thought

[72:37]that was a great start with a glissando but i think there's another one that's better check

[72:41]this start to a song out this is abba dancing queen

[72:44]that one is badass that was an aggressive one that was aggressive and quick yeah can we hear

[72:52]that one more time i want to hear that one once more okay but there's this pause in it that like

[72:56]makes you wait so you really the tension builds how aggressive it is

[72:59]it's a great song too all the background singers are looking at the piano player like okay we

[73:09]gotta say oh man is abba coming up on this list at all i know they were on the previous list did

[73:15]they get knocked down at all i would i always loved the first time we listened to it but i

[73:18]don't know if it was the greatest hits or what it was probably abba gold right wasn't it saturday

[73:23]night fever they were on saturday night fever which everybody considers abba but it's not

[73:28]nope the last song on the list was by a band that was originally called tyrannosaurus rex

[73:32]and they shortened it to t-rex this is bang the gong or otherwise known as get it on check out

[73:38]the glissando at the beginning of the song and then the last song on the list was by a band that

[73:39]this one

[73:40]oh yeah yeah yes and that's some chuck berry style rhythm guitar there too

[73:47]i mean i guess it's just the blues but it reminds me of chuck berry can i just say that that

[73:52]if they were called tyrannosaurus rex they would be the biggest band of all time

[73:56]there's no doubt about it what what if all their guitar players had really short arms

[74:00]they couldn't reach the strings though it'd be so good

[74:03]they can play with their teeth rob rob you were mentioning one thing that's really cool

[74:09]about this song is that it's a band that's really cool about it it's a band that's really cool

[74:09]about that song and it brings you back to chuck berry there's a part at the very end of the song

[74:13]we don't need to play but at the very end of the song essentially they say something along

[74:17]meanwhile i'm thinking which is a ripoff or uh an ode to chuck berry for one of the later songs

[74:24]we're going to talk about where he says meanwhile i've been thinking so that i thought that was a

[74:28]pretty cool way to get it back to your guy chuck berry i thought they're going to give credit to

[74:32]him by starting every song with sounds like a video game by the way uh abba is coming out

[74:39]coming in at 303 the definitive collection that seems way too low doesn't it yes well don't agree

[74:47]this hits conversation just tested i mean we're gonna have to have this over and over now for the

[74:51]next 400 just to let you know just to let you know we will be covering abba in uh 2026

[74:59]your child will be like in middle school by the time we cover that just to let you know

[75:04]not to make not to make you super sad but there you go that's a destroy your night

[75:09]oh my god my kid will move out of the house that year oh my god i'm gonna cry okay but so next time

[75:15]anyone goes to like their their grandma's house and that piano sitting there and you rip up and

[75:19]down and you hurt that fingernail just know there's been a lot of great songs that have started with

[75:24]that oh my god people would be so mad if i did that because my grandma died like 10 years ago

[75:27]we sold that house all right that was it for the list i have my grandma's piano in my house i'm

[75:34]gonna try it tomorrow morning nice please record it and i'll put it up on the uh the instagram all

[75:39]right i'm gonna try it it's gonna hurt man that hurts your fingernails that was another

[75:45]mech did it better list by russell that was easily a top five list oh yeah

[75:52]we always say it but i figured i'd put it in the sting anyway that's like a lick we'll be

[75:57]that's fantastic oh all right let's get back to the album where we're gonna hear another song

[76:02]start with oh johnny be good but this might be

[76:09]the best one this might be the best one that does that this is badass i mean there's a reason if

[76:16]like if you're going to communicate with aliens this is the one you do it

[76:19]seventh on the list of the hundred or the 500 greatest rock and roll songs

[76:23]it's actually about his piano player and then he just kind of made it about himself as well

[76:27]that would never be a top 10 song ever if it weren't on the back to the future movie right no

[76:33]i think that i think that changes trajectory i think the only other song to be changed like a

[76:39]was queen bohemian rap city in uh wayne's world yes there's there's no other song that got huge

[76:46]because of a movie compared to that but like in that queen movie did you see that they're like

[76:50]yeah we're gonna make bohemian rap city i was like how is wayne's world not in this queen movie i mean

[76:54]mike myers is right there he's on set you could have hired him play wayne world play wayne world

[76:58]actually that was his real name all right around and around and this is officially where i would

[77:03]check out right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round

[77:09]wouldn't it be great if chuck berry came out and he had like the

[77:13]eye patch on and the hat all i know is that to me you look like you're lots of fun

[77:19]when i flush the toilet it goes right round baby right right round like a toilet baby right

[77:28]round round round all right carol

[77:31]this was the first time on the album where i realized a quarter of his song is going to be

[77:39]also sound like run run rudolph yes they're all just the same

[77:42]but yeah here's this is where that guitar sounds just like t-rex or t-rex is doing that same rhythm

[77:53]thing they just slowed it down yeah you're right you're right i used to do that song as a christmas

[77:57]carol and nobody got the joke i'm deleting you aaron when you talk there because that

[78:00]joke was really good but i don't think they heard it all right beautiful delilah

[78:04]beautiful

[78:05]just in the latest time

[78:09]here's the piano again

[78:10]you're right russell i think the songs with the honky tonk piano are some of the best ones

[78:16]except for johnny be good maybe how many times do you listen to salvin or i would say at least four

[78:21]all the way through uh i don't think i ever quite made it all the way in one sitting but i definitely

[78:27]played it throughout the day multiple times you can do a lot worse you guys make it did any of

[78:33]you guys make it through memphis this song in one sitting or did you have to quit by the time you

[78:37]got this far like the people are gonna have to quit this way

[78:39]podcast i made it through memphis in one sitting this is a sad song man i'm gonna tell you right

[78:44]now people at the end of this podcast matt and i are gonna do another bit where we're married so

[78:48]if you want to hear that stick around and don't fast forward to the end that's cheating all right

[78:53]we've got memphis johnny rivers recorded a much more famous version that hit number two on the

[78:59]charts but we covered this song once on a list of the greatest songs ever about memphis

[79:04]we did a list on the greatest songs about memphis yeah it was the top five

[79:09]god i cannot read

[79:10]one thing i like about his playing in this song and that i that struck me about listening to this

[79:18]this compilation is he's he's obviously aggressive he's willing to get into the really

[79:22]beefy chunky blues chords but there's something so and i mean jimmy i think has the same quality

[79:27]like is there something so delicate about his playing on memphis and in other places he's so

[79:32]capable of being precious and delicate and then just really ripping on stuff and i think jimmy

[79:37]you know came up in the same kind of rhythm and blues school and would have listened to

[79:41]chuck berry and that's something that strikes me when i listen to him little queenie

[79:45]and he would this is another song that would sound like run run rudolph this is like

[79:53]all i can think of is home alone when i hear these songs that's all i think of

[79:58]i'm gonna eat your finger i'm gonna eat your fingers

[80:01]that's all i can think of now i think of home alone is joe pesci at the end how we talked

[80:06]about if he actually ate his fingers i'm gonna eat your fingers i'm gonna eat your fingers

[80:07]how terrifying that would be what a different movie that'd be yeah all right almost grown

[80:12]guess who's singing in the background here aaron somebody you probably never heard of

[80:17]named etta james well i was trying to figure who that is

[80:21]is this the song where he goes

[80:25]is that this song what does he do

[80:30]yeah i feel like i'm here with you man that's rob that uh i'm just

[80:37]disappointed in myself i should have known her voice she

[80:38]is special that's that's wonderful i get because she was on chess records right that makes sense now

[80:43]so what you're saying was magic mike was wrong that right to call you out for being a dumb

[80:47]shit earlier huh i have to go back i gotta study i gotta study i'm sorry music mike

[80:52]okay i'm gonna put in more time in this podcast aaron we've been meaning to have a conversation

[80:56]your effort can i just your effort is not not up to par i gotta talk to you guys about something

[81:03]i oh sometimes on this podcast i try to put on an

[81:07]act and stuff but sometimes i want to get real for the last two minutes i haven't heard a word

[81:12]you've been saying because i'm working on a joke in my head and it goes something like this are you

[81:17]ready did you hear about her sister who sold crackers cheta james and there's something there

[81:24]and there's just something like cheta james i'm gonna edit out all your laughing instead of etta

[81:30]james it's cheta james she is quite possibly the daughter of minnesota fats the famous pool player

[81:36]who was um

[81:37]immortalized in the hustler the movie the movie the hustler right um minnesota fats who

[81:41]may or may not have been from ames iowa if i have to look that up uh i'm gonna have to check that

[81:46]explains that scene in the movie where he doubles down on a hard 12 you get it also known as an

[81:53]iowa double down cheddar sounds like cheddar cheddar sounds like cheddar and i do want to

[81:58]point out i was vulnerable with you guys and you changed the subject very hurtful matt we're gonna

[82:01]have a conversation about this at the end of the podcast all right this is that not in front of

[82:05]everybody else all right not in front of you

[82:07]kids back in the usa

[82:08]i did reference this song once before on the show but i did get cut out because it's

[82:15]probably the best song in the second half when i could actually get to the second half this was

[82:21]my favorite song in the second half you will say i think there should be more songs where they say

[82:26]usa like that just it's a true feeling of of you know longing for home it's fun yeah it's like

[82:35]because he actually wrote that

[82:37]coming back from australia and he was landing down and he wrote that song

[82:39]some people think that that also applies maybe if you're like at a cabin with your family for

[82:43]about two months and maybe you realize you're scheduled for about you know i don't know three

[82:47]or four weeks too long and you know yeah my family didn't like how much you got left when i spent the

[82:53]last two days before i went to the casino just singing about other cities i would rather be in

[82:57]than with my family they didn't they didn't like that so much they thought it was insulting i was

[83:02]wondering why you were like hey can i write the parody song this year it's called i hate my family

[83:07]yeah we can use it next time i go up there i suppose all right speaking of waterbeds let it

[83:13]that doesn't quite work but it's close again it's really close

[83:16]run run rudolph it's the same damn song this is stuff that you could definitely tell dylan was

[83:32]listening to though like he's doing this kind of working man thing and you could tell that's what

[83:36]dylan was you know eventually expanding upon i i gotta tell you i love a song that tells a story

[83:41]i do i love a song about hey i'm waking up in the morning i'm swinging a hammer i go home and i got

[83:45]17 kids i'm like yeah i'm into that song i love it i think it's great those are called run run

[83:49]rudolph not on this damn album there's songs that sound like it and not one of them is the song

[83:55]people know i know matt doesn't like christmas songs but it should be on here it's a joke if

[84:00]it's not on here we couldn't have done the great 29 that would have worked just fine i'm still

[84:05]waiting on my

[84:06]after you got arrested for that toy thing he actually came out with a sequel

[84:09]to that yeah what was it called it's called runs runs rudolph

[84:13]aaron don't laugh at that aaron did you hear me yeah i said runs runs

[84:22]that's true all right

[84:28]i probably could get sued for doing that okay so deep fake next up we have which i think is the

[84:36]song on the list which is bye bye johnny which is such a blatant sequel to johnny be good where he's

[84:40]like i better go back to the well let's see it's worse than johnny be good in every way

[84:44]recorded worse the opening's worse the lyrics are worse at this point it should be changed from the

[84:51]great 28 to the mediocre 28 this song's not good enough to be on the great 28 yeah what what year

[84:57]was this one recorded rob i don't know i think it's somewhere between before 61 but it's not

[85:04]recorded well so maybe kind of a money grab i'm talking it's it's like me when i'm talking about

[85:10]miami football i'm talking about you the you the you it's a deep joke

[85:16]this one is quite different in style than some of the other ones we've heard

[85:22]aaron for real you got this far you listened to this song dude yeah of course i did i listened

[85:28]to all the songs matt give us one thought on the album we're at we're at song like 24 tell us

[85:34]something you liked or didn't like i i think you clearly hear uh the influence that he has on

[85:40]other bands that we've listened to rolling stones and the beatles but again i'm with you guys this

[85:47]is boring i can't take one more song i just want to shut the album off and be done with it

[85:52]the boring is shit 28 we should rename it yeah release it with a new name did i ever tell you

[85:58]guys about my sophomore year of college yeah a number of times what happened is that when they

[86:03]called you thick dick next song is come on oh rob see way different guitar style in this one

[86:10]i was like boy i love this song i remember loving this song and i realized why

[86:16]it's because it's the rolling stones first single ever

[86:19]wow i didn't know that and i had this is i had the collection of their singles and i used to love

[86:27]this song 64 nadine

[86:29]oh that's an interesting start yeah oh now we're back we're back

[86:36]and you might wonder why he was not making any songs from 61 to 64 and it's because he was in

[86:42]jail for that time right all right now no particular place to go no particular place to go

[86:50]this is a banger i don't care where it comes in the great the mediocre 28 it's still a banger song

[86:56]so wait a minute if there's no island named kokomo

[86:59]what's he talking about with the kokomos i don't know what he's talking about yeah he says we

[87:03]parked way on the kokomo i thought for a while it was pokonos because he loves talking about

[87:07]you know u.s geography but i don't know what the hell he's talking about with the kokomo

[87:11]have you guys when's the last time you guys made out in a car

[87:15]so they have to be with one of you that are on the podcast there could be someone else 2007

[87:22]probably i did it two nights ago yeah way to go rob got to a dinner reservation early and

[87:29]i was like hey we should make out not great it was not great making out in a car is not easy to do

[87:36]you know especially with the effort so i applaud you for trying man that's great keeping romance

[87:40]alive the question is did you rob did you have to do the lean over who leaned over well it got

[87:45]awkward because i was at the airport pickup and halfway through jenny walked in to the car

[87:48]and it turned out you met that guy who was flashing his bright side yeah you guys made up

[87:55]yeah no it was just me by myself um flashing my bright side but it just was

[87:59]not it was we were kind of like okay let's go in and maybe they'll give us a table like that's what

[88:03]jenny said we did it for a while jenny was like maybe they'll give us a table early i was like

[88:06]okay reviews are in but there was there was a fair amount of making out in cars in my in my in the

[88:11]early part of uh of my now marriage but uh it's been a while since we since we tried it so i don't

[88:16]know now and from i've from the passenger seat i'm not sure how it would go i'd give it a shot though

[88:21]folks tell us what you think about making out in cars uh text into the bex line 802-277-2324-2325 and tell us

[88:29]is making out with cars thumbs up thumbs down what do we think about making out in cars

[88:33]no rob no it's what was the what was the game what was the game called

[88:37]uh buster we had a game buster wasn't a buster a big bus i think i think buster big bus turned

[88:45]out to be a big bust and that's good i like that that bit was rolling bone wait is bone high or

[88:55]lower that might mean it's good all i know is that jenny says oh yeah you like this you like this and

[88:59]the blinker was going left and right so i there was i was happy with that i was like oh the size

[89:03]of a blinker i'll take it what if we just change the rating at the end we can just rate making out

[89:08]in cars and do our ranking on that instead of this album well i could tell you it was a rolling let's

[89:12]get going at the restaurant and let's get going on the rest of this pod i want to be your driver

[89:16]you know who's playing guitar on this matt guitar murphy this one

[89:21]oh this is like a beatles song yes this is john lennon full-on ripped off so much this is this is

[89:29]the last song on the album 65 this is off his live in london album which i don't know if it's

[89:33]in the front of a live audience or what but he's also got matt guitar murphy on guitar back oh the

[89:38]blues brothers absolutely wow so is the beatles ripping this off or who came first with this song

[89:43]with chuck barrier the beatles well you're thinking of like drive my car drive my car

[89:49]would have come out in 64 so maybe that did come out before this one i'm gonna edit out where i was

[89:54]wrong yes i mean i was just about to say that

[89:59]beatles came out within 64 i'm gonna edit that before that song was very different than almost

[90:03]everything on the album it's a pretty solid ending for the album of the mediocre 28

[90:06]unless you're like me and you put in a secret track to play at the end in chuck barrier's

[90:13]career he only had one number one song that hit number one on the billboard charts

[90:18]did i tell you guys about my sophomore year this is my ding yeah

[90:24]so sad this was a number one hit

[90:28]absolutely his only number one hit

[90:32]whoa what it's so dirty also the longest song on this it's a four minute song

[90:46]people love it but listen to this the guitar work is still fantastic

[90:53]can i be honest with you guys again i want to bear my soul yeah last time it worked great

[90:58]my toilet ring light is there something there with that joke what toilet ring light

[91:04]so it'd be so dark how would you take pictures it doesn't make sense to me like do you have a flash

[91:11]if i said there's got to be a lot of these are honest questions

[91:16]if i sat down and a flash went off i would be suspicious okay audio or video only do you have

[91:23]to have like one of those part of the red yellow white cables to hook it up somewhere like an old

[91:27]vhs player or not

[91:28]it could not be audio there cannot be audio there's nothing no way it's just video there

[91:33]cannot be that cannot be part of it the audio of it i mean the guy's a musical genius you're

[91:38]telling me he didn't have audio he only had a vision i gotta tell you a chuck berry story

[91:41]from when after the podcast dude it's unbelievable all right tell it now no one's getting this far

[91:45]anyways just tell it now oh hell nobody's listening they found it they found a video

[91:50]of him and a woman like taking dumps on each other oh we could say that for after

[91:58]matt matt matt's gonna chime in on that one afterwards that's for the we'll save it for

[92:05]the secret pod yeah the secret pod take a breath can you imagine in court they're playing that

[92:10]video and they're like is that you and you have to be like

[92:11]i should have never got that red and white audio cord i would have been fine with just

[92:19]the damn video but now they confirm it's me because you know the video would start

[92:23]with like your face real close to the camera when you turn it on

[92:28]okay i think i got the red light

[92:31]okay can you hear me now plug in that white cord yeah now could you take a big shit out of this

[92:38]oh this is going great where's my life i love it

[92:43]okay and then at the end you're like oh god gross okay how did it turn

[92:50]it feels like that kind of thing would be hard to schedule too right you can't just

[92:55]like poop on command like you'd have to like plan okay like we both typically do

[92:58]they said like what you know 10 a.m or whatever it is like it seems like a lot of work i had to

[93:03]explain all the empty coffee cups in the background can you imagine if aaron had to deal with all

[93:08]these complications when he was living out in the garage that would have made life so difficult you

[93:12]just see the background he's like oh yeah we bought so much we bought so much milk i can't

[93:19]find the red and white cables okay we've been drinking i don't know how we're gonna record

[93:23]we've been drinking buttermilk for two days i'm ready for this day

[93:28]i had a problem while we were making out in the car before our scheduled time

[93:35]this is the end of the podcast i think

[93:40]all right so that's it let's get into everybody's favorite and patented

[93:45]the rating system i officially have too many

[93:49]things you are rating us rating us there you go i need all this

[93:55]everybody's favorite

[93:57]i need all this

[93:58]i've spent all this time trying to figure out whether it would be patented or just copyrighted

[94:11]oh no do i owe you money now shoot maybe i was thinking about filing a patent before you could

[94:18]but this is album number 51 if you think it's perfect at 51 we think this album is rolling

[94:23]well toned do you think that this album is better than 51 it could be 50

[94:27]49 you know what this album prints better this album rumors better than this album got rolling

[94:34]boned being all the way back at 51 or is this album a rolling groan you don't really like it

[94:39]you think it should be 52 53 maybe back at 303 with abba when we cover it when aaron's kid is

[94:44]in high school all right russell what do you think is this rolling well toned rolling bone to rolling

[94:49]groan to me it's just too long it's if if we just had 12 songs on this list and they weren't all the

[94:57]repeats of the same songs i would have been yeah that's not bad i'm bad man just too long

[95:03]yeah admittedly i don't always get that feedback which is a bit hurtful but

[95:11]maybe if someone just said it once it would be nice i tried to listen to this multiple times

[95:15]and i could never get through the whole thing and i think if you can't get through the whole thing

[95:19]then it then it's there's something wrong with the construction it shouldn't be

[95:23]that high on the list and for me i know i don't know if he he didn't have

[95:26]albums at the time so i know this is a compilation so it's a little bit different but this isn't an

[95:31]album to me this is a compilation it shouldn't be on the list so it is rolling groan or also

[95:37]known as a big bust a big bust all right matt what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone

[95:44]i could i didn't like listening to this album um i think it's too long i i certainly respect the

[95:55]influence that chuck berries

[95:56]had but i think to russell's point it's not an it's not an album um they didn't have them back

[96:01]then it's nothing against not having an album but it's it's just it's too long it's the same

[96:05]thing over and over uh so i'm gonna say it's rolling groaned all right aaron be just like

[96:10]the guy playing uh blackjack next to russell why don't you take a stab and tell us what do you think

[96:14]of this album rolling rolling groan i'll tell you what i think and hopefully not get stabbed it just

[96:21]dawned on me that both chuck berry and miles davis are from st louis and that this this stuff was

[96:26]same time as kind of blue which is just blows my mind to think like did they ever meet each other

[96:30]uh but i will say i had a lot of uh grown moments and uh cringe moments listening to some of these

[96:38]songs and thinking about what we now know about chuck berry the person so that's hard to let go of

[96:43]but i love listening to it i think i put it on in the house and just let it run i think i could do a

[96:49]lot worse in terms of having fun than just listen to 28 straight chuck berry songs agree with you

[96:54]guys i've made my my

[96:56]feelings clear on greatest hits albums on the list but they are on the list we are listening to them

[97:01]and he is such an important figure in rock and roll i have to say against my better judgment

[97:06]that it's rolling well toned you guys are all incorrect the correct answer this is a rolling

[97:11]inspiration guys yes did every single intro to this song sound the same and did we all think

[97:17]of run run rudolph every time we heard these songs yes but guess what that's because it's good we let

[97:22]it is like it rocks it is so good it was true fun to listen to and there is a lot of people that are

[97:26]not going to listen to it so we're going to let it roll we're going to let it roll we're going to let

[97:29]it roll we're going to let it roll we're going to let it roll we're going to let it roll we're going

[97:30]to let it roll we're going to let it roll we're going to let it roll we're going to let it roll

[97:30]this is like the original inspiration album it's it's you know it's it's just unbelievable to be

[97:37]able to hear the future in 1955 that was like so long ago it's crazy next up we've got someone with

[97:45]the same nickname as russell's penis the thin white duke we've got david bowie station to station

[97:51]when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time

[97:56]if you want to hear from guys who chat and then they get off track

[98:07]i've got the perfect podcast for you jack

[98:12]beck did it better yeah can i have an honest conversation with you right now

[98:18]yeah did you think that cheddar james joke was any good no not good it was brutal that was pretty bad

[98:26]it was a reach it was we call it a stretch well speaking of a reach let's let's check each other

[98:30]the problem is russell every time you start singing run run rudolph it made me laugh so hard

[98:41]well it's true that's all i could think of when i was listening to it is how the

[98:44]fuck are all these songs the same as run run rudolph run run rudolph

[98:48]and that's the best one it's not even on there it's the best one you keep saying that run run

[98:56]is chuck berry's best song isn't it am i wrong yes yes oh you guys don't know what you're talking

[99:02]about johnny be good is way better maybelline is probably the best song in this whole thing

[99:08]all right johnny be good can be better that's about it imagine russell at a chuck berry concert

[99:13]play run run rudolph what it's the same song it's on there four times five times

[99:20]it's the best song

[99:26]it is oh god why am i not still recording oh i would just play the podcast the podcast would

[99:33]just be a 10 second clip of rustling this best song and everybody be like okay all right sound

[99:41]i am recording

[99:43]bang and gong get it on russell listen to this it is based on a chuck berry

[99:51]sound he said and that's why on the way out if you listen to him he goes

[99:55]oh it's so popular and he goes keep file it's a quote from the chuck berry song which is a good

[100:02]thing you didn't find out chuck berry didn't find out he did it you can ask john lennon about that

[100:05]did all these damn free albums for him but check us out little queenie listen to this does this

[100:09]sound like bang a gong listen to the guitar oh 100 yeah okay looking like a model on the cover

[100:19]of a magazine it also sounds like the dance scene from uh pulp fiction now listen to be a

[100:25]minute over this took me on a deep dive on chuck berry and i just gotta tell you guys what i found

[100:31]because i went to it first of all i had forgotten that what he got in trouble for he had a restaurant

[100:36]where he was taping women going to the bathroom now i just gotta say this listen taping women

[100:41]going to the bathroom at your house bad but can you think of a worse place to want to see people

[100:46]go to the bathroom than a restaurant that has to be the worst it has to be i mean it would be like

[100:52]if you had an airplane like it's a psychopath

[100:54]what what you you would not more chuck berry bathroom content oh i think both are bad right

[101:01]how can we keep no a restaurant is worse a restaurant is way worse people out there know

[101:06]i'm right now he got busted because the janitor found these tapes and where he had chuck berry

[101:11]edited them into compilations and i feel like this is a stand-up bit that i could do so just bear with

[101:16]me for a little bit can you imagine it's really funny thinking of chuck berry going through these

[101:22]vhs tapes taking the time to edit them into compilations and i feel like this is a stand-up

[101:24]with two VCRs.

[101:25]He's got two VCRs at home.

[101:26]He's pushing record.

[101:27]He's pushing stop.

[101:28]He's fast forwarding.

[101:29]He's doing all this stuff.

[101:29]Scrambling them.

[101:30]Nothing's scrambling them.

[101:31]He is doing...

[101:32]He is doing so much work

[101:35]to be able to jack off later

[101:38]to the same stuff.

[101:38]Like, he is working so hard.

[101:40]He's like,

[101:41]putting in the time, man.

[101:43]But I got to get this video

[101:44]just right

[101:45]so it makes me really blast off.

[101:47]Like, it's so crazy.

[101:49]He's fast...

[101:50]Can you imagine how much stuff

[101:51]you got to fast forward

[101:51]on a bathroom cam?

[101:52]No.

[101:53]No.

[101:54]No.

[101:54]He's getting just the parts he wants.

[101:57]Okay?

[101:57]Ben.

[101:58]No.

[101:59]The funniest thing I ever saw

[102:01]is what Chuck Berry...

[102:03]Guys.

[102:03]Matt and I are horrified

[102:05]and Aaron is just...

[102:06]I think Aaron might have

[102:07]fallen asleep during this bit.

[102:09]Chuck Berry.

[102:10]Aaron's not even acknowledging

[102:11]you're doing it.

[102:12]Chuck Berry.

[102:13]If you look at a picture

[102:15]of Chuck Berry...

[102:16]And this is going to sound weird, okay?

[102:17]And I wish you guys

[102:17]wouldn't judge me for what I'm saying.

[102:18]No.

[102:19]Chuck Berry in his coffin.

[102:22]No.

[102:24]Check this out, okay?

[102:25]This is wild to me.

[102:26]Chuck Berry is...

[102:27]Look what he's wearing.

[102:28]You guys see what he's wearing?

[102:31]It's that...

[102:33]It is a sailor hat.

[102:34]Chuck Berry was buried

[102:37]in a sailor hat.

[102:37]Now, I did some digging.

[102:38]Was Chuck Berry ever in the military?

[102:40]No.

[102:41]Bury me in my fake

[102:45]Air Force whites, please.

[102:47]I am begging you.

[102:47]I want to be buried

[102:48]in my Navy whites.

[102:49]Can you guys do that for me?

[102:50]I want to have stolen valor

[102:52]all the way to the grave.

[102:54]And then I did some digging.

[102:55]And guess what?

[102:55]Chuck Berry,

[102:56]he wore the outfit all the time.

[102:58]If you look at a Google search

[103:00]of Chuck Berry,

[103:01]he is wearing a captain's hat

[103:03]in almost every picture.

[103:05]Do you see this?

[103:05]Yes.

[103:06]It's bizarre.

[103:07]Is this the T-Rex research

[103:09]you were talking about?

[103:10]Yes.

[103:11]Yes, this is the greatest research.

[103:12]And then...

[103:13]Is this the wild stuff

[103:14]about T-Rex?

[103:15]There's...

[103:15]He had one episode...

[103:16]This is why we had

[103:17]short rulings going?

[103:18]There's one article online

[103:20]about the hat.

[103:21]And it's just called

[103:22]Chuck Berry Given Lifetime Achievement.

[103:24]Chuck Berry Given Lifetime Achievement.

[103:24]Chuck Berry Given Lifetime Achievement.

[103:24]The Chuck Berry Given Lifetime Achievement Award

[103:24]still won't take off

[103:25]the stupid hat.

[103:26]And that's from

[103:28]PunchingKitty.com.

[103:29]Well, yeah.

[103:31]This is why I couldn't do

[103:32]21 ingredients

[103:33]on last week's

[103:35]food redraft.

[103:36]Guys.

[103:36]Look at Chuck Berry's hat.

[103:39]Why is he wearing

[103:39]a captain's hat?

[103:40]It's crazy.

[103:41]We got to look into it.

[103:42]Okay?

[103:43]But did you guys like

[103:45]the bit about the VCR tape?

[103:46]I don't know.

[103:46]That hat's a frozen...

[103:54]you