Beck Does it Again: Grateful Dead American Beauty (1970) Aired 11/26/24

[00:00]there's something russ is having some technical issues i would say the show today we're in a weird place everybody okay we are recording on a sunday morning and you know what that means erin's not here okay there's only one reason that would be playing uh some johnny cash in the background oh my god i think oh my god sunday morning coming down sunday morning and speaking of sunday morning coming i'm a bigger uh lionel richie easy like a sunday morning oh oh there you go that's that's the russ favorite that's the hungover russ senior year of college every morning i'd come walking

[00:30]into the the pod and this is playing and those that made better decisions in life are like up working out doing real things and this is great on a sunday morning you will see my kids this time arise from their sleep at a normal time it's already 11 30 11 30 here in new york they're not quite up yet uh but erin's not here today you in a little bit but that's why we're recording on a sunday morning we're gonna get this done an

[01:01]hour and a half before the vikings start no problem but i will say one thing about growing older and actually now i'm realizing i don't like doing this when the rest of my family is awake well you wake them up anyways with all your yelling anyways so there's something really any difference there's something about jacking off on the weekends it just feels wrong as an older guy you know what i mean it's like this should be the one time where i'm actually making love to you to the person in my house and not staying in the bedroom and they get up early

[01:30]you know what i mean like that's when you know that you might have an issue i think during the weeknights everybody else went to sleep i think you're fine i think on the weekends this seems wrong hey this goes along well with this song oh we could never do a daytime recording again guys i had this the song i'm gonna play for you today i had to sing well my family was listening i'm just gonna make any comments uh no but i'm gonna have to probably sit down with one of my kids and explain stuff have a little conversation about how some things are just jokes she shouldn't actually

[02:05]ever think about me saying those things again oh i mean you could probably just maybe just have ross or uh brian from woodbury i mean they're usually pretty good at explaining these things to their kids since they listen every week so maybe they have to and guess what your kids call we've got another uh podcast in the wild voicemail today the voicemail's gonna blow your mind we really do we really do it's gonna i think it might be one of the all-time best voicemails i think my song might be one of the all-time best unfortunately aaron's gonna be not

[02:34]here for one of our all-time best episodes hey guys that's a lock that's a guarantee right now that this is going to be one of our all-time best episodes that's the way what do they say in the old business world uh under promise over perform or what is it you know under promise over deliver maybe over deliver there you go rob tip we want to keep this budget low rob we want to keep the budget low just wait we just spent all the vc's money right out of the right out of the gate

[03:00]there's two things true in my life i've never once under promise and i've never once over delivered okay so you'll never get either one of those things we're not about to start right we no way absolutely not in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest five albums that decided by rolling stone magazine this results in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research oh also i announced a power lifting meet all day yesterday so my voice is totally shot uh all opinions are our own unless

[03:31]you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better we are all the way up to album 215 that's crazy by the way and from 1970 it's the band that could have used a little peanut butter because it's one of the all-time jam bands we've got the great old dead with american beauty okay now did you come up with that by yourself uh this i felt like before i play this song oh wait a minute we gotta okay so we just got a text from aaron uh yeah we'll do i'm trying to open the hotel soap so

[04:07]once again aaron never fails to deliver aaron has now said something funnier than we've said in the last five minutes over text crazy have you guys ever heard of aaron's song over text guys i mean this this brings up a question and i think about this often when i'm in a hotel if he's been there overnight is he just opening the soap now wow so they didn't have to use the soap wow nobody went to the bathroom yesterday anything like that wow man i don't know man but

[04:34]aren't you kind of a thing where you're in the shower and you have to use like liquid gel soap doesn't that just feel like not as clean i believe that's a isn't that a new york state law now they or they have to have they can't have the little containers they got to have the big containers rob oh really yes most people have moved on from that anyways but i will say that using liquid soap with a washcloth just using the hell out of the uh the hotel's washcloth to get clean i mean that's that's

[05:03]i know there's nothing wrong but there's something about using a washcloth where i feel like i'm one of those like medically fat guys you know what i mean like when i'm washing myself with a rag i feel like i'm really like in a hospital getting sponged down like it just it never feels good and i get it super clean but i just it makes me feel weird i don't like with it's like in game of thrones when the man with no face is wiping down the dead bodies before he steals their faces exactly that's russell you could not have put it better and i'll say the same thing i was going to get one of those

[05:30]foot washing things have you guys ever seen that where you put it on the ground and you rub your feet in it no no okay i was never mind that was a joke ha ha i was going to get one of those and then i was like this is like there's aaron when you need this is like an old fat guy thing you know what i mean like if i'm using a device to wash my feet i'm like that's i've gone too far that's i've too much stuff in your bath like in your shower i think makes you a medically fat guy it's just a thought i have you know what i don't like at hotels and they do this there was a kirby enthusiasm episode about this what are your thoughts on the the hotel staff where they either

[06:04]take your dirty clothes they put it in a bag they put it in a corner or they fold it and like put it on like the bench i was at a nice hotel and they did the full fold of everything got everything and i was like this is too far i don't need them digging in all this stuff and folding everything right what are your guys thoughts on hotel staff primping it primping up your room a little bit and getting into your clothes i usually am a pretty like neat piler but i'm also like not there for more than one or

[06:33]it's usually like a one night thing it's not a lot of three or four nights where it would be piling up like that but i'm usually a very neat piler so that i'm kind of in a corner so people know like don't touch this stuff right like this is mine kind of a thing but i was at a place in charleston a couple weeks ago where they did like the the turndown service which is really weird because i like went into the hotel took a little like half hour breather from like 4 30 to 5 and

[07:00]just kind of watch some um what are we charleston usually i'm either watching ridiculousness or uh what's the dating one oh catfish because i don't have mtv at home i think we've talked about this so you know watching an episode of catfish before going out to dinner so i i knew what the hotel room looked like and then all of a sudden i come back and it's like there's like turndown somebody's been sleeping in my yeah and it was it was really really i don't know that kind of creeped me out like i don't i don't need this

[07:32]stuff so i i think anybody touching anything of yours inside of your hotel unless it's like cleaning up like who's been peeping around my hotel room here oh my god this music's making rust talk like he's in the 1920s i love it i it might shock you guys i love it people picking up my stuff for me folding it for me making me feel like a king anytime i can feel more like jabba the hutt i love it i love people taking care of me i love people doing things especially if i picture them not liking doing it then i like it even more i think

[08:03]it's great can you imagine growing up in the 1920s not only is this the music you listen to the candy you ate was also charleston shoes like think about this you're listening to this music eating charleston chew and you just be like well yeah no wonder it's just uh it's it'd be terrible like can we get a box of nerds around here yeah i don't even think i don't even think there's an iphone 5 yet honestly like they were probably still on the iphone that didn't text pictures remember good text pictures all right where were we oh

[08:33]i think we're at the point of the show where we talk about charleston speaking of iphones uh we had a plumbing issue in our house we have to have the the rental agent or our home age whenever you call it the maintenance people for the association come and fix something upstairs roommate since she lost her phone a while back no longer had the app so she she just emailed the people and said i no longer have the app please come fix this i can't i can't and i said well you could re-download the app and re-log in and she was like oh that makes a good sense so

[09:04]then there was another email back saying never mind i know i can re-download the app i'll do it through the system now can i ask you yes how do you get people to respond to your advice by saying oh yes thank you i will do that thank you i will do that thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you instead of yelling at you and getting mad about you giving them advice can you give me some can you elucidate me on that russell please i i i think i i hit the lottery today i was gonna say it must be at the right time of the day or something uh listen okay we gotta get we gotta

[09:34]turn on the radio okay we've been trying to push it because we know aaron is now in the shower all right but uh let's no he just said he was trying to get the soap open that's all i i texted i said was it the circle soap because i get it with the circle soap and when you're in the shower i hate taking the wrapper off the soap in the shower then you got to leave a wet wrapper in the shower yeah i mean what is this eminem on a rainy day i mean the wet wrapper it's so gross i figured you would have practiced with enough candy wrappers over the years robert in the shower

[10:03]i gotta say i gotta say i have taken to now eating my homemade ice cream in the bathtub at night once again it's a major job of the hut move and i love it does it melt it quicker or anything or not you know it does russell so i can still hold my phone and eat my ice cream because i'm drinking that bad boy down all right i'm getting maximum i'm getting maximum sensory input hold on so you famously take showers or baths every morning

[10:37]you taking baths every night now with ice cream well not every night there's just some nights where i'm i'm tired and i want to take a bath maybe my family is outside you know do you ever get any bubbles in on the ice cream and you've got to like whift it away like waft it away with your hand or not i am not taking a bath with bubbles oh you're not maybe i am putting in some epsom salts okay give it a little grit

[11:02]when i sit down you know what i mean like a little traction that's about it speaking of grit i we had a power lifting me yesterday and the the bathroom we upstairs that we had people use was in an auto body shop the soap dispenser in this auto shot body shop's bathroom was for guys working on cars it was first of all it was about is it the orange soap no it's soap i've never seen it was about the size of a cereal box the soap dispenser huge soap dispenser and then when you took out the soap there was like pumice in it it was like

[11:30]flecks of like hard stuff and it would eat away like everything it was the most unbelievable hand soap i've ever used in my entire perverted isn't it it did make me want to wash my hands after going to the bathroom okay which i don't think you should have to do after a number one it doesn't make any sense to me i'm not digging around i don't think that i'm not touching that much like i don't think we should i think actually me washing my hands after number one makes my hands dirtier than they were before that's my stance this is like i drive better when i drink argument isn't it no it's no it's not at all

[12:02]that's crazy now let's trade better we all know what we're doing we're trying to stall because we want aaron to come on and listen to this song okay if he comes on we'll just play the song again for him later and edit it in now but that's the way it is let's turn on the radio let's turn on k-rob let's see what's going on now if you guys had to guess off this album because as soon as i saw this album i was like i know exactly what the song is going to be i know the title of the parody song do you guys want to guess by any chance it's got to be rucking it's got to be ruck into trucking right trucking oh oh rucking god damn that would have been so much better

[12:34]oh i could i'm never doing this again i am never doing this bit again where i asked you what i should have said this and said he had like his bagged of opus his greatest song ever and i was like you just shot that down right he just he literally put his hands in his forehead and said it's brutal i pray that i never do this part bit again russell we should start we should we don't need to listen to rob's song we should start right right you get a couple verses i'll get

[13:00]a couple verses for rucking for aaron and then and then we'll uh we'll do our own karaoke right now thank god i'm never asking you guys again it is a trucking though so let's see let's turn on k-rob you didn't truck him but didn't do ruckin yep he also had to do is eliminate one letter you guys will never guess what i decided to ride with truck and here we go welcome to k-rob oh oh me oh me we're never gonna make the vikings game on time all right he's here and you know what that means

[13:32]here we go it's k-rob now with special guest aaron hold on he can't hear you yet hold on hold on aaron turn on the speaker so your uncle can hear this one you're gonna have to go you're gonna rob you're gonna have to re-record this to ruck and i'm warning you i you this is where this is where i was told by someone a few weeks ago that i have some blind spots in what i see or don't see this is one of your blind spots i'm helping you russell

[14:02]we cannot be influenced by other people okay we've got to do what's true to us okay if this is too much we'll let aaron decide so aaron i asked these guys what song do you think i did and they all said oh it's trucking but you did ruckin and i went like this oh that's a way better idea than what i did i'm warning you this is the dirtiest song rob's done and it's about you and your proclivities so you may want to tell him it's got to come out and if you tell him it comes out with no question russ and i have russ and i have already voted that it comes up then we'll do

[14:32]ruckin but they want it out that makes me want it in so bad all right here we go what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-r-o-b you know sometimes you just make a song that's too dirty for this world ruckin aaron thinks is the best he's ruckin in his big vest walking is not hard enough

[15:00]for him because aaron is too then i don't think aaron can just walk down the street ruckin he wants to do something that's way less discreet how about a vest so he looks like the police puts it on now he's hurting his knees now he's walking up a hill or three he looks like he's

[15:33]paramilitary this costs about 150 just so aaron could feel like russ and me aaron's wife told him i really like it but when he left she just rolled her eyes she just wants to get him out of the apartment she thinks it's a dumb way to get some exercise

[16:05]ruckin it's dumber than dumb you're walking with just some heavy stuff on aaron acts like he's in the navy seals maybe he should just eat some bigger meals aaron better not bring the best

[16:32]to our trip to las vegas if he does we'll throw his aaron better not bring the best to our trip to las vegas aaron better not bring the best to our trip to las vegas into the pelagio fountains when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time

[17:01]when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time but you're just too lazy to look it up but you're just too lazy to look it up but you're just too lazy to look it up online online online if you want to hear from guys who chat if you want to hear from guys who chat if you want to hear from guys who chat and then they get off track and then they get off track and then they get off track i've got the perfect podcast for you i've got the perfect podcast for you i've got the perfect podcast for you jack jack jack beck did it better i've got three guys beck did it better i've got three guys beck did it better i've got three guys here with the opposite here with the opposite here with the opposite or the opposite of the grateful dead or the opposite of the grateful dead or the opposite of the grateful dead because our live shows would be so much because our live shows would be so much because our live shows would be so much worse than our studio recordings okay worse than our studio recordings okay worse than our studio recordings okay can you imagine this unedited going out can you imagine this unedited going out can you imagine this unedited going out to the people they'd be like jesus how

[17:30]to the people they'd be like jesus how to the people they'd be like jesus how much editing do they do this is crazy i much editing do they do this is crazy i much editing do they do this is crazy i think uh joe and john last week were think uh joe and john last week were think uh joe and john last week were like wow there's a lot of editing going like wow there's a lot of editing going like wow there's a lot of editing going on uh i've got matt minneapolis matt on uh i've got matt minneapolis matt on uh i've got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing tonight how are you doing tonight how are you doing tonight uh good rob lately uh uh good rob lately uh uh good rob lately uh did you say tonight oh how are you doing did you say tonight oh how are you doing did you say tonight oh how are you doing this morning oh this morning oh this morning oh good you know lately it's occurred to me good you know lately it's occurred to me good you know lately it's occurred to me what a long strange trip this uh what a long strange trip this uh what a long strange trip this uh podcast has been very strange podcast has been very strange podcast has been very strange can i say i was at a powerlifting meet can i say i was at a powerlifting meet can i say i was at a powerlifting meet yesterday and somebody came up and said yesterday and somebody came up and said yesterday and somebody came up and said the first thing he said to me how's the the first thing he said to me how's the the first thing he said to me how's the podcast going podcast going podcast going yeah right yeah right yeah right i was like you're my best friend of all

[18:00]i was like you're my best friend of all i was like you're my best friend of all time uh i've got russ in minneapolis but But Russ is in a different room. There's a window with light streaming in. Is that a different room? It's just there's light outside tonight, Rob. It's the day I can open up the curtains. Your basement gets light? I look right onto the river, Robbie. Wow. Well, I can look out there and I only see one or two port-a-potties, so I think that's perfect. I got Russell in Minneapolis. Russell, how are you doing? Well, all you dumb shit listeners, gather round that good, sweet candy man's in town. It's the Russ man. It's the Russ man. Don't say the name two more times.

[18:32]And I've got Aaron in a hotel in Arizona. Aaron, how are you doing today? I'm on a long, strange trip myself, but I'm thinking about sugar magnolias. Let's talk about the great sugar magnolias. And I realize I forgot the bit. Now, earlier, Aaron was talking to us and he said, you know, Rob, I just don't understand all this cloning that's going on these days. I just don't understand this cloning. And I said, well, yeah, that makes two of us. Are you talking about that sheep they cloned? Wasn't that in the news a while back?

[19:02]A sheep? Hello, Dolly. Speaking of sing-alongs. And I'm not going to sing that song. Okay. Let's get right into the voicemail. I got to say, guys. Now, I did say I thought that song was one of the greatest of all times. 802-277. That was wrong. Beck, that's 802-277. I do think this is one of our great voicemails. Okay. All right, let's hear it. Hi, boys. It's Krista from Minneapolis. It's been a while.

[19:30]It's been a while. But I just had two sort of awkward experiences, all thanks to the podcast. So I just thought I'd share those with you. And you could share an awkward experience maybe you've had as a result of the podcast. Oh. I was in pursuit of carving pumpkins at approximately 8 p.m. on October 30th, just trying to find a pumpkin anywhere. Really dropped the ball on that one. And as I was running into our local grocery store,

[20:01]and I saw a gentleman talking to another lady, if those were the only pumpkins left, and they were grabbed right in front of me. But that gentleman looked at me and he goes, hey, how are you? And I, in the moment, had no idea who it was and said, do I know you? And lo and behold, it was John from Edina. And I had just been so flustered. He's a man of our time. And I didn't recognize him right away. So she is finding, once again, John from Edina. I don't know what this guy does. He doesn't seem to spend any time at home. He doesn't seem to spend any time at work.

[20:30]He's just out and about. The fans are seeing John. They're all arguing over the last pumpkins on October 30th. Can you imagine a bigger collection of losers than people trying to get pumpkins on October 30th? Like that is, they can't even go to the patch. They're like, hey, there's that outdoor patch just down the road. And I'm like, no, let's go to Byerly's where we can maybe get some fancy chocolates while we're there too, right? Get some groceries. Hey kids, instead of the corn maze, we're going to act like these aisles full of corn are kind of like a maze. Let's go up and down and see if we can get out of here. No, the gourd, the little one.

[21:01]Get the gourd. Get the gourd over there. Now I have to admit, my school gave away pumpkins for a pumpkin carving contest they were doing. I grabbed two and I brought them home on November 3rd. So I also dropped the ball. We did not have pumpkins in the house for Halloween, but I got them after. You have to carry those on the subway? Oh no, I stuffed them into my hiking bag. I kind of rocked them home actually, just like that hit song we heard earlier. We definitely, definitely was about rocking and not something that I thought was funny. One year I worked at a company,

[21:31]a Thompson, a big company in Egan, that's out in the eastern, southeastern suburbs, man, I would say off 35E and Yankee Doodle Road. Yeah, Yankee Doodle between 55 and 35E. And the two years I worked there, they did a thing where they gave every employee a turkey. So you could get a turkey and they had a big semi truck out. When you walked out, you could pick up your turkey or you could take like a ticket and put it in a box, meaning you were donating it

[22:00]and they would donate it to charity. And I remember the first year I took that turkey and eventually it got eaten. But the next year I put the ticket in there and I felt like the most, I'm so generous. Like I'm giving away this turkey to charity. And really all I did was take the ticket and throw it in a box. But I was like, I went home and I told everyone, yeah, I donated a turkey for Thanksgiving today. So like everyone needed to know how kind I was at that time of year. Russell's year was literally like the story of the Christmas carol.

[22:30]Yeah. In the beginning, he's like, give me this fucking turkey. I'm going to eat it. You're going to work during this. And at the end, he's like, go ahead, tiny Kim, get you a turkey as big as you. I'm going to put this ticket into a box. You know what I mean? A butterball for all. Russell did eat a bad piece of potato. So that also makes sense. Oh, I guess you guys haven't been to kids plays of the Christmas carol like I have for the last three years. And my other awkward moment was just now when I was picking up my order

[23:01]from a store that you guys never want to name, but I don't know why you never want to name it. And as I opened my trunk for the employee to put the groceries in my car, Rob on the podcast said, now that is a small penis. Oh, so that was great. Now, listen, I refuse to accept any blame for this. I think running the podcast,

[23:31]while you are getting down and interacting with somebody in public, that is on you. That is not my fault. That's your fault, right? I mean, that's- Well, that happens to Sarah all the time. Like she'll be listening on her phone and then, you know, she'll drop the kids out, listen on the way, come back, and then somehow we'll get into the car and the car will turn on. It'll instantly go to whatever was playing on her phone. And, you know, if you hear Rob's voice, she, as quick, as fast as she's ever moved, that volume turns down if she hears Rob's voice pop up.

[24:01]Because, well, maybe, Matt's like, I can't stand this shit. Turn it off. No, I think she probably is like, well, I liked it. I like hearing what Rob has to say, but maybe not exactly what he says all the time or the songs he sings. Well, that's 80% of the podcast that she's ready to turn it down, right? Because she's looking for those other clips. 85, I mean, but who's counting? Have you guys ever had an awkward moment because of the podcast? I actually had one very recently. I was in a group lunch.

[24:30]I'm not going to say, who was at the lunch, but these are, it was people I would prefer they don't know about this podcast. And somehow there was someone who did know about it. And they brought up in the lunch, Russ, don't you have a podcast? And I immediately, I fucking lied through my teeth, guys. I lied. I said, I did one for a while. They said, are you doing it anymore? I said, oh no, we quit doing it a long time ago. You have to. I lied. I lied completely and prayed that no one will ever find it. No, that's, we don't blame you.

[25:01]We don't blame you at all, Russell. I would have done exactly the same thing. I can't think of too many awkward. I mean, I really try not to identify with this pod in the real world as much as possible. And so I can't think of too many awkward moments. I've, I've had almost none. I've never, I don't think I've ever met someone who listens to the, listens to the podcast in real life, except for my, my wife and my uncle's here. Who's here with me now? Picture this. You meet somebody who does listen to the podcast.

[25:30]That's terrifying. You know what I mean? That's the John from Edina experience that he's going around. He's, how is he? He's on the least, maybe that's it. He's on the least number of episodes. Yet he is the biggest celebrity from this podcast. Yeah, that's, that's weird, right? Guys, let's get into rolling going. I did have a thing at work though, where I was listening to a podcast where they were being very dirty and I took off my headphones when I got in and I thought to myself, what if this podcast starts back up and they realize I'm listening to a podcast about swingers? Like that cannot be.

[26:01]Cause I liked them thinking I'm listening to like the economist little podcast in the morning, but nobody thinks that when they look at me. Hang on. You're listening to a podcast about swingers? No. Well, yes. Yes, actually I do. Isn't there a thing on Spotify now where you can like share, listen to stuff? So like Aaron and I could be listening to the same thing at the same time. Or I think there's something like that. But I remember, I remember when I first saw that on Spotify, I was like immediately panicking, turning all Bluetooth off, not using wireless speakers. I'm like, I can't have anyone accidentally run into this.

[26:31]Right. See a lot of people, they cover up their webcams on their computer. I just tilt the screen down. You know what I mean? Cause if they're going to look, they're only going to look once. I've got, well, you know what? Let's just start Aaron rolling going. How's it going with you? I've been, I've been Aaron. How's it going with you? It's rolling going pretty weird guys. Let me talk about some fun stuff, which is that I'm in Tempe, Arizona, staying here in the,

[27:01]enjoying the lovely weather hanging out with my uncle, who I think also listens to the podcast. We hit it pretty hard last night. We went to a football game yesterday, watched the Sun Devils win one of the just wildest endings I've ever seen in person. No, definitely the wildest ending I've ever seen in person. So we were at the premature charging of the field, right? Sure. Charging the field, all of the little, all of the little soldiers ran out there. It was crazy too. Cause it was like, you knew they were going to add another second to the clock.

[27:30]I mean, we don't have to get into the details for the football sickos, but you knew for sure they were going to have to pull all these people off the field and they just kept streaming on there. We're watching it and just going like, this is a crazy thing. So that was, that was wild. And then, yeah, we, you know, that happened. And then we went to the hotel bar and had some happy hour and watched the cyclones. And then we went out for dinner. And then I think we had another beer on the patio deck at like 1:00 AM. So we had, we, I literally just woke up as you guys were restarting this podcast.

[28:01]And we missed breakfast. So we're going to, we're going to be a little bit behind today, but we're making it work. And the reason is that we're here celebrating while not celebrating yet. We're working through some stuff for one of our great listeners, perhaps our greatest listener. I can say that now, cause I can say that he's our greatest listener. My dad, who I think we can call Dr. J passed away and expressed unexpectedly. And I'm not going to get too far into it, but you guys asked me, you know,

[28:30]do I want to record? Do I want to talk about it? Do I want to talk about him? And I do because he was a huge fan of this podcast. And not only that, he was a huge part of the reason that I went to the St. Olaf and met you guys. And so I don't think there would be a Beck did it better without him. He was a great listener. He loved all of the dirty jokes. And I know that if he's paying attention, he would have enjoyed, he would ask me, I'm sure he would have asked me, do you really have a foot fetish, but is there really something wrong with you? He would have, he would have laughed at that time.

[29:01]He would have been like, I don't fucking suck. So that's what I'm here. And I wanted to fucking suck. How much more can I honor his memory than to record his, his only podcast that he listened to as far as I'm aware. You know what? Actually, I do have an embarrassing moment about the podcast. And that is when we're texting each other being like, Hey, this terrible tragedy happened with Aaron. What are we going to do about the recording this weekend? And we're just like, Oh God, we're pieces of shit. We're the absolute lowest. No, but you guys ask and you were in, you said, you know, we'll, we'll do whatever you want.

[29:30]And I said, my dad, my dad was a listener. He was a fan. He loved you guys. And I'm, you know, what am I going to do? But, but say great things about him and, and talk to you guys. So that's where, where I'm at. Aaron, this is the ultimate challenge. Okay. Hogan warrior. No, you've brought this up and now we're going to try to make this podcast funny again today. Oh, it's going to be tough, but you know what? I think I know exactly what it will help. Okay. Rob. Okay. All right.

[30:00]I think this is good. You're like, well, we're going to get to the bottom of it. We did. So I didn't have, I've not had an awkward moment with any listeners, but I did of course have the moment where my uncle is one of the great friend makers of all time. So any server, he's making friends. He's a, he's a great guy to chat with them. And so of course, with one of the bartender, the bartender came over and he was singing a rather obscure Tupac song. And I said, was that Tupac? And the guy was like, Oh yeah, I guess I was. And so then of course my uncle had to say, well, this guy right here, he knows music.

[30:30]He's on a podcast. What's the name of the podcast? Oh my God. I mean, so yeah, I did have that experience. Song exploder. Got him, got him to, got him to think. The Joe Rogan podcast. Yeah, you got, he kind of has the Joe Rogan vibe right now. His head is a little, Aaron's head is not quite squished enough. It doesn't look quite enough like a dumbbell to pull off a Joe Rogan. It's not bursting out of the seams. But yeah, no, that would you rather that they said, Oh yeah, he has a podcast or, Oh yeah, Aaron used to be on the message boards as raw, going to give it to you. So he probably knows a lot of these songs.

[31:00]I'll never forget that. As long as I live. Yeah, man. I mean, I don't know. I, what do we say? Like, of course we've got our condolences. I don't even know. That's not anything we need to say. We make a funny podcast. We, we, we enjoy this. We enjoy it. And we deal with the rest another time. He is a great listener. I've known Dr. J for, for many, many years. He's always been really good to me. And you guys remember this, he listened and I was in Des Moines, which is, I don't know if you've ever been to Des Moines. He listened and I was in Des Moines,

[31:30]which is about where Aaron's family, most of his family lives. And I went to this restaurant called eggs and jam. You guys remember that it was like the hip hop themed, the hip hop themed brunch spot. And they had tons of good food and everything. And everything was named after like different hip hop groups. And after he heard the episode, he actually sent me a shirt and I was going to wear that to honor him. But unfortunately it feels like I've had too many eggs and jam in recent months and it didn't quite fit as well as I would liked it to. So, but, but yeah, Dr. Russell, you know,

[32:00]I'm thinking those shirts, Russell, the laundry lady, the laundry lady, laundry lady, laundry lady. Oh my God. He's yelling. Sorry. Oh, Russell, the door opened behind you. Oh, he looks so fast. He looked so fast. That was crazy. I got to say, Russell, there's no greater compliment than somebody sending you a shirt. That's too small. You know what I mean? Like that is the best. It did fit at the time. It did fit at the time, but it's still a cool shirt. I still got it up, up in the closet. So, I'll have to maybe go for a walk today and put it on to honor Dr.

[32:31]J. Well, I will say my way of honoring Dr. J is that I now think the Drake relays are really good. Okay. I love the Drake relays. I, they're very important to me. I definitely get why they're a big deal as a track made to me. They are very important now. Okay. In my opinion of them started at the bottom, but now we're here. So that's what I think of the Drake relays. That was like an apology. Your mom made you do. You're like, well, I'll admit they're okay. Yeah.

[33:00]It's well, I already feel that way. So Aaron, I do. It does sound like you were up a little late. You mentioned having the beer on the patio. I've always found a super late beer on a patio or by a patio, like a pool. That's always going to come back to bite you. You never, you never needed the last, the last patio beer at the hotel, right? Nope. Didn't need it at all. Yeah. Cause what happened was we were down to that. We closed down the hotel bar. Once you've closed it down and you cannot stay at the bar. Yeah. You got to chase a little more. That's the one that gets you. We chased a little more. Yeah.

[33:30]We, we closed down the hotel bar and my, my stepbrother who's here, who's doing an amazing job helping out and was, you know, he, he's a late night guy and he was like, yeah, I'll have, I'll drink one more with you guys. We were like, well, we got it. We got to do it. So yeah, we're paying for it and we're going to, we're going to figure out how we, how we move on and, and get some sunshine at some point today. I had exactly the opposite experience yesterday where I worked. I announced his power lifting meet all day and I was constantly stealing hard seltzers from the back. I was, I did not pay for them. I just stole them.

[34:00]And at the end I took two and put them in my pockets and drank one on the Uber ride home. And then guess where I found the other one in my closet unopened. And I was like, I am so smart. I can have one of these today. And I didn't drink too much yesterday. I was very proud of myself. Yeah. I should have stashed that last one in the closet for sure. Guys. And I'm telling you, you're nothing feels as good as drinking a Kirkland hard seltzer on a, in a Uber ride home from a power lifting meet. That really feels like as a 44 year old man, your life is totally together in the Uber. You could do that. You're not drinking it in the Uber. Yeah.

[34:30]Well, I coughed when I opened it. So nobody heard. Oh, that old trick. And I gave my kid a look when she looked at me, when I opened it, I said, don't tell anybody. I'm going to do a Rob. Cause I made this joke and Rob talked over it. So I'm going to make it again. You can edit it out. If you want Robin, you're going to honor my dad. And I thought you were going to say that you've become a pull it to the cider. I wow. I thought real hard about the room. Jesus. I thought hard about that. I thought hard about playing cats in the cradle. And I didn't do that either. I feel like I'm doing a great job.

[35:00]You're doing great. Thank you. So we've done, we've done long enough on this topic. Let's have a good episode. And how's it rolling going with Matt? It might surprise you. I don't have the emotional depth to deal with the tragedy very well. Well, then let me keep it going here. We lost. We lost another. Oh, another. We're going to be down to like five downloads a week. Yeah. Folks, if you are listening to this podcast, go get a checkup right now. So we lost Sarah's mom,

[35:31]Patty for me. Dino called in a number of times, I think just literally 24 hours before Aaron's dad. And so it was, it was very surreal, you know, and going over there and stuff, but Patty, unlike Aaron's dad, Dr. J hated all of Rob's jokes, especially all the time. And she would often call and, and want Sarah to call and say, can we, can we, can we just tone down the penis jokes and the gray penis jokes?

[36:02]And Sarah would constantly have to remind her that, you know, 68 year old women who live in Edina, aren't the target audience for this podcast. And so, but she loved listening and she loved breaking it down. And she loved kind of figuring out how crazy Rob's life was and stuff. You know, a real bummer. And then the last episode you heard was about Locktober. That's a bummer. You know what I mean? Like that's, that makes you think. Oh yeah.

[36:30]Yeah. So another, we, we lost a couple of great listeners this week. And you know, I know Aaron, it's, it's going to be a long, strange trip. And, but it is, man, if we go with Tom Petty, what did I say last week? Tom Petty's favorite lines were, you know, it's going to be all right. It's just going to take time. You know, we're, we're kind of getting into some of these deep music, uh, lyrics, uh, over the last couple of weeks here. And so I don't know, it's, we'll, we'll, we'll get through it together though,

[37:00]because I think you need, you need people around you to get through stuff like this. That's right, man. Yeah. So Rob, I can, I think now we can pivot and try not to be Debbie Downer on a Sunday morning and go from there. So, um, the only thing I had, the only thing I had, um, and I think I'm just going to save it for next week. Cause I want to break this down a little bit bigger, but, um, did you guys know that rolling stone came out with 101 greatest, uh, soundtracks of all time? Oh my God. Wow. Yeah.

[37:30]What are the top five? Where's top gun? Well, I'm going to give you a top five and then next, next week I want to break down the, I want to break down the whole thing because, uh, yeah, I don't want to give too much away, but I just want the bodyguard is one Oh one. So they did the hop. I'm like, how the hell are you serious? Oh, one Oh one. You're serious. I don't want to, I don't want to sound bad, but that's the worst thing I've heard all week. You know what I mean? Like that's bad. That's it should not be a one-on-one. That's the third best selling album of all time,

[38:01]right? That's crazy. Yeah. Okay. I feel bad about making that joke. I'm just going to say that right now. Then I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say that. All right. I'll take three minutes just to go through it. Just cause I'm a little heat. Well, no, if you want to do it next week, give us what's what's number 69. That's what I'm curious about. Well, here, here, if you go to the Rolling Stone website, there's not a Wikipedia page yet for it. So obviously it sucks to go to Wikipedia project page. There's difference. If you go to Wikipedia for all our listeners out there,

[38:30]if you look up Rolling Stone 500 Wikipedia, there are two pages. One is a summary of what the list is, but one is called Wikipedia project. And that actually has the list. That's the one you need to find. Gotcha. 93 footloose. I was 93. What else was on there besides that? I've seen it in person. It's you know, so good. 85 above the rim. So above the rim is better than footloose and the bodyguard. How about that? Above the rim. What even songs are on there? A personal favorite of my household at 84 is Juno.

[39:05]And so if you guys have seen the movie, Juno, it actually does a very good soundtrack. Yeah. Reality bites at 80. Oh, Beverly Hills cop, which has one of the greatest like movie theme songs of all time. 79. So Rob claims that some other name though, he, he says it's some other song name that no one's ever heard of. Well, no, because I only do the, you know,

[39:30]I only do the crazy frog version of axle. Yes. I, I, I listened to that so much this summer. Oh my God. This is Aaron. I do. In the camp carpool. And this is what Cole's number one request was. So this would be like, Cole, what song do you want? It's this and gummy bears. Crazy frog. Yeah. 74 for all, for all the ladies out there. 74. Dirty dancing. Dirty dancing is the 74th greatest. How can there be 73 better than that? That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. By the way, above the rim, above the rim does have big pimpin and regulate on it. So are you serious? 64,

[40:00]64 is flash dance. I mean, that's a pretty epic. Where is that? I cannot imagine what the top five is going to be. 58, 58, eight mile again. What? I mean, I don't know. I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm going to be the 58th. That's gotta be like a top 20. That's true. Lose yourself as a top five movie song of all time. High fidelity. One of my favorite movies, top five movies of all time. High fidelity. If you get the joke, you get the joke. 54. That is a very good one. I mean,

[40:30]there's different type. Well, Matt's looking at this. There's different types of soundtracks, right? There's collections of songs like Forrest Gump has got like all these, you know, Oh, sure. Yeah. They just like made it basically made a greatest hits album. There's a difference between greatest hits. And I'm assuming for most of the bodyguards, they're like, Oh, yeah. Like those are original songs for that. Or am I wrong about that? Oh, you're right about that. That's true. It seems like there's a difference, right? Greatest hits versus like an original soundtrack. Yeah. Yeah. If they put the big chill in the top five,

[41:00]that's like, you know, it's top gun. I'm really not on there. Cause they do have, that's what I was trying to get to. It's like, I think maybe I, I hope I must've passed it. Cause even highway to the danger zone is fun. Like there's some, there's some fun stuff on there. Top gun is 82. 82. That's silly. On the list. Yeah. That's not the, come on. Yeah. Uh, menace to society was in the forties, which I think that's a underrated, never heard of. Um, what's on that movie? Never seen it. Medicine. Oh,

[41:30]classic 1993. Yeah. Hip hop soundtrack, right? Yep. Uh, days and confused rich via one, a rich field. That's a rich field staple for all my friends. Days to confuse 43 on the list. And that's an awesome, that's a collection of songs from the seventies. So you got that, uh, um, all right. I'm trying to get to the top 10 here so we can, well, let's do it. Let's do, let's do top five next week, man. Okay. Let's do that. I think that's a great plan. I love it. Yeah.

[42:00]All right. Sounds good. So rolling, going Russ, how's it going with you? Rolling, going, um, I'm going to take this back. You know, part of the, uh, when we started the podcast, one of our things, I think it's still in the written summary is Russ's dating life. I thought I would share a dating experience. It's a dating story. I've been, I don't know if I've ever done a date like this. Your guys' thoughts, dinner in a movie. I did dinner in a movie the other night. What are your, how do you guys like to do dinner in a movie? Russell, you're talking to three married guys. We haven't done dinner in a movie in 10 years.

[42:30]What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, that's like a, that's like a five hour, uh, commitment there. That's, that's a rough one. We do dinner, looking at her phones in a third of the movie before she goes to bed. What? I mean, what are you talking about? I told you guys about this, dinner where we went to an, uh, late afternoon showing of dune two and then went out for tacos after. That was our movie first. Yeah. Movie first, then dinner. Aaron, we, we, we did this recently too. We do,

[43:00]uh, the, the brave new workshop, super cool improv comedy spot in, in Minneapolis off Hennepin and about 12th, Rob, that's in between 13th and 11th, I think in Minneapolis. But, um, we actually did, they do a, a matinee like Aaron, the five o'clock. And we also did comedy show dinner instead of dinner, we did comedy show dinner. And how, how did it work out? It was fantastic. It actually might be even more fun because you don't feel rushed when you do dinner before the event. Sometimes you're like, I can't get that extra drink. I can't get the dessert and everything. Here's dinner in a movie.

[43:30]Oh God, I forgot. We had dessert last night. Jesus. Yeah, that must've been, that was, well, you must've had an aperitif with the dessert, right? Aaron? I mean, there's no way that he did. Now, he didn't even make the rush. Didn't make the rush? Yeah. He got through the paddling part though. A bunch of sorority girls paddling me? Sure. Uh, also I will say this when it was a foggy day in South Dakota. Rush? Rush more,

[44:00]more like rush. Alas, I can barely see these guys. You want to hit the closing music on that one? Nope, I don't. Is this the special surprise? I've got one more, one more, one more, one more, one more, I've got one more. And that's when I couldn't find my tickets to go watch them sing Tom Sawyer. I did not feel rushed that night either. Also, when Rush Limbaugh died. So we ended up, we went to a wildfire in Prairie, very good restaurant. But I think the toughest thing with dinner in the movie is when I go to the

[44:30]movie, I want the popcorn. If you go to dinner beforehand, you have to really regulate what you're going to eat, right? Because you're going to be miserable the whole night, right? Yeah. Cause those popcorn, like even as small as a lot of popcorn. Well, I went for everything, but then we went and saw Gladiator 2 in the theater. Gladiator 2. How was it? How was it? Wait, this, this is the number one sign of a guy not being married. You took her to Gladiator 2. Okay. Watch this right now. Watch this. Watch this. Jenny,

[45:00]I got tickets tonight. Let's go see Gladiator 2. It's another great comedy bit, Rob. She said, no, thank you. With almost no pause. Rob, thank you. You're welcome. Rob, we even to get, to get ready for the big date night. We watched Gladiator, the original during the week as like prep for the movie. So I will say you're going to see Gladiator 2. I would recommend it. It's a fun movie. Some of it gets a little outlandish, but you do need to go watch, rewatch the first Gladiator to appreciate the nuance in Gladiator 2.

[45:32]So if you're thinking about seeing it, you gotta do that first. Gladiator might be one of my favorite, like movies of all time, just to sit down and watch and action and all that stuff. And Russell Crowe's it's peak Russell Crowe. Who's also, who's weirdly in like 17 movies a year now lately. He's in a ton of, he's in a ton of movies. He's kind of gone that Gerard Butler route. And they're all good movies. They're all good to watch. You know, they're not great, but they're all good to watch stuff, things. But you know,

[46:00]it doesn't hold up. Russell, is it worth seeing? Am I going to be disappointed by it? Is it a two over the top CGI stuff or anything like that? Maybe a little, a little bit of that. But if you just go in and you take a look, you got to take it for what it's worth. I'm going to see a Roman, you know, Roman M we've talked about Roman empire. Wasn't this a, a tick tock thing for you guys? Many, many years ago. But if you just go in, you're looking for like a fun action movie. I think it's, it's an enjoyable movie. It gets a little strange at times. There's some seeds where like, well, that seems to CGI, but, and especially at the beginning, a little bit, but once you kind of give it a few minutes and you get

[46:30]into it, I thought it was pretty fun. So I would say, go check it out. Dinner in a movie. Great at daylight. I mean, I, I don't know if it's a movie. Great at date. Idea night. Rob on my cue, unleash hell rolling, go on housing, go with you. Listen, are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Those, the scenes in the original gladiator, where those guys are fighting the women on the chariots. I was like, this might be the highlight of my entire life. And you know what? Looking back, I wasn't that off. Like I was like this fucking rules. I'm having a great time watching this. I went out there. I was like,

[47:00]I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, this fucking rules. I'm having a great time watching this. I went out there. I went out to, I went out with coworkers. Okay. Kind of an executive level. It wasn't teachers. It was people who were a little bit above teachers. So I got to go teachers. Yeah. A little bit above. Did you guys get to use the, did you guys get to use the corporate card? The corporate card was in effect because my boss was taking us out for drinks and dinner. So already I'm on my guarded state because I know,

[47:30]you know, normally my goal, you know, my goal when I'm out drinking at work, I have one too many. Okay. When it's just this crew, all right. So we go out, one of my coworkers starts telling us her scam to get reservations at Michelin star restaurants in New York city. Well, when it's the restaurant stuff, I say Michelin. When I say tires, it's Michelin. Okay. It's not the Michelin man. They are related as, as you know, even though it's, yeah,

[48:00]it's the same company, but I pronounce it differently because I don't want a Michelin star. I want a Michelin star. Yeah. Oh no. Aaron likes it. He's like, I'm going to get a Hawaii and he says, Hawaii. I'm going to get a croissant in Hawaii. Now what she does is she will. Now let me think. What do you think of this person? Okay. She will call a restaurant two days out and say, I'm just checking to see that the reservation I booked for two days from now, we're good to go. It's a very important dinner.

[48:30]This is at no point. She booked a reservation over the computer at this point. Some people have no shame. So not only was she telling us at work, she also then said, oh yeah, and they will give us free stuff because I really badger him because they made a mistake. And she's telling us this, like, it's a normal thing. She's telling us this, like, this is something that we should. And I said, oh, that sounds like a great idea. When we left, all of us got together and talked about her behind her back. We could not believe that she was doing this. It is one of the most disgusting things I've ever,

[49:01]I've ever heard of. Can you imagine what would you need to do to be able to do this? What would you need to do to be able to call and say, I need a reservation, knowing that you don't have one, knowing that that's the scam you're going to run? And she said, it works every time. The only thing I, the only thing I could think of, it was like the one time in your life thing for some reason that would, and I can't even think of it right now, right? Like some crazy reason, like Barack Obama called you up and said, Hey, let's have dinner. And you just had to get them into the best.

[49:31]Matt, I'm just, Oh, you haven't broke that out yet. Guys. Great impression. Nailed it. So I can't think of anything. I can't think of anything. That's pretty bad. Matt. I'm so hungry from calling in these drone strikes. We got to go have dinner. This sounds like someone who would, who would skip ahead online. Don't people stand online? Yeah, no. Oh,

[50:00]but that's the thing is like online, like an East coaster. Like if she's though, just a New Yorker, I don't think it's so weird. It's, it's, it to me, it's just like, it says so much about a person. Like if I did that, the food would taste like ash to me. I, and then if I did that, I would never in a million years tell anybody that I did that. Like, that's like now when I'm working with this person, I'm like, Oh, you're like a true, I mean, I don't know how else to say it. They're a true sociopath, right? The society of rules do not apply to them. There, there are people in the world that would, would they see an opening or are going to take the opening?

[50:31]And there are people that aren't, and this isn't the way I would do things, but I think there's more people in the world than you would think that, that we'll, we'll, we'll skip a rule. We'll skip the line. We'll jump ahead of everyone else. And the, the, the rule doesn't, if they, if they could say no is what she would say. Listen, we can be accepting all we want, but the bottom line is that if you found out your kid was doing this, would you say to them, Oh, okay, that's okay. No,

[51:00]of course not. You would say you're a terrible person and you need to go get your head up. Right? Like, it's just, I, I just, I can't, I can't believe it. I just, to me, I can't believe your mom influenced you this way to become this person. Did you tell them you steal stuff from the airport? Yeah. What was your time? Did you, did you tell him that you, uh, everyone's got their own thing that for their mind they think is okay. I brought up the airport stealing thing once at work and it got a very negative reception.

[51:30]So I don't do that anymore. I had to laugh it off. Mine would be, mine would be a while back. Um, they were redoing the, the blacktop, the cement in our street. And they said, don't drive on it. And one day I, I had nowhere else to park, like within six block radius. And I drove over the damn thing. I knew it wasn't going to matter, but I drove over it. Someone saw me doing it. They got really annoyed with me and you know what? They were right. Doing it. Nice. They were right. Right. I was in the wrong. Yeah. It's kind of like that pervert with my dog. You know what I mean? Like I knew he was right, but I still had to call him a pervert publicly. It's just the way it goes.

[52:02]Sorry. Well, you said that was kind of. You're getting called out as a pervert. I didn't remember the story. Oh, come on Aaron. It should be the front of your head right now. Uh, all right, listen, let's talk about American beauty by the grateful dead. Okay. We're finally into our jam band era. We haven't had a real jam band before this, right? Maybe the almonds a little bit. Oh yeah. Almonds. Almonds would be the one, right? Some people think like, uh, you know, kind of fall into some of that stuff.

[52:30]You had a pearl. Crosby, Stills, Nash. So what is your guys's relationship before we start? What is your guys's relationship with the grateful dead? Now I have said in the past and it got edited out cause it sounded creepy. I was always a fan of the grateful dead just because attractive women in my high school wore the shirts. So to me, that's what I have always associated with it. Are you going to edit that out again now? Or do we have to? Yeah. Cause it didn't really, you guys didn't really respond in a way I liked it. It made me sound weird, um, which I would never want to do on this podcast. Um, but I, I have to say like,

[53:00]to me, my friends growing up were really into jam bands. They would go to see fish. They were, I just could never. And so it was kind of a little grateful dead in there too. I just could never get into it, but I, I liked this album. I thought it sounded cool. I like bluegrass. I like this country sound. I just can't get into jam bands. I don't know. What about you guys with the grateful dead? I, I'll go for, I mean, I've always been kind of grateful dead adjacent. I like the almond brothers way more than I like the grateful dead, but I like the grateful dead. Um, I kind of got into the jam band scene.

[53:30]Uh, Scott from Alexandria. Now a few people know who that is. Um, got into a band called widespread panic, which was much more guitar heavy. And so that's really my jam for jam bands. Museum air quotes here is just a lot more heavier guitar than, than what this is. I mean, I think I've said it a few times, fish. I really don't. I mean, I, I, I, you know,

[54:00]I, I, I, I, I, I know that's the wrong band. I know it. Yeah. I love it. I, I, I, I, I, they have some, they have some hard, they've got some radio songs, you know, all of a sudden kind of a thing. I think it's, it's kind of like video games for me where I just, I'm not good at video games. And so I never got into video games. Cause every time I'd play with somebody, they would just kick the shit out of me. They would just kick the shit out of me. And it's kind of like the grateful dead. I mean, there's,

[54:30]there's some pretty good, like Tik TOKs and Instagrams where they will play a live show. And then they'll ask these dead heads, like, when was this from? And this guy will be like, oh, you know, well, I mean, I can kind of hear this instrument in the background. So it had to be between 80 and 83. And you know, the voice is a little tired here. So it must've been at the end of a show. So I'm going to say a December of 81. And the guy would be like, actually it was January of 82. And they're like, deadhead. Oh, and they're like dead on. So there's some people that are such big dead heads that it's like, like Russell,

[55:00]we should probably not put in our description. We're the number one grateful dead podcast, because we will get vitriol from thousands of people. If we just said, you know, we're an, we're an average ratings, Matt. Yeah. Do we think this is going to be a highly downloaded podcast then? But can you imagine old stoners being mad at us on the computer? Crazy. I think there'll be a few, a few, but it's almost like there's, there's such a popular jam and like, I just, I'll never be able to understand all of the nuances there.

[55:32]They're a live band that does albums as opposed to a studio album that does live shows. And so I, I dunno, it's like, it's a, it's very intimidating to me to try to dive into the, the grateful dead, if that makes sense. Well, and I, you know, I, I do think we, we've talked about this before. Some of these bands are just better live. I would say the Dolphins lament. I love uncle John's band and sugar magnolia. And I know almost nothing else. I think uncle John's band would have been one that was on Russell's wind amp. So that's fine. No, there,

[56:00]I think I had two on the wind amp. The one, my favorite, the song I know from the grateful that, and I'm not, I don't know all the grateful dead stuff. I wouldn't be considered a dead head. That's beyond, beyond my music knowledge. But my relationship comes through bill Walton. Bill Walton is probably one of the most famous dead heads ever. It's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, Bill Walton. Bill Walton is probably one of the most famous Deadheads ever. It's like if you're a basketball fan, he was always talking about the Grateful Dead. But he, for a while, had a show where I think he would like go through the U.S. and the song that played for his show. I don't remember what the TV show was, but they would play Truckin was like the theme show to his TV show that he had for a few years. So for me, the Grateful Dead brings back Bill Walton. Throw it down, big man. Throw it down.

[56:45]I cannot believe that your favorite Grateful Dead song is not Touch of Gray, Russell. To me, that makes a lot more sense. If I just had a touch, I wouldn't have a word in here, Rob. Blackjack dealers wouldn't ask me how old I was if I had a touch of gray.

[57:04]Listen, when blackjack dealers are concerned for you, you've hit the absolute bottom. Can you imagine the shit they see that they're like, bro, are you doing okay? By the way, Russell's saying that you shouldn't. You shouldn't go to the bar after like the bar closes to get drinks. It does make me think of Las Vegas where Russell's the king of being like, okay, we're going back to the hotel room. The Russell's like, guys, I'm just going to sit down and play a couple more hands. And then the next morning, every time we're like, Russell, how'd it go? He's like, I couldn't grab my chips.

[57:31]I didn't know what was going on, you know, or he won a thousand dollars. Kirk, there he is. Can you hear? They can hear you on the microphone. You can say hello. Hi, boys. How are you? Doing well. Great. You saw a crazy football. Game yesterday. Yeah, quite a deal. I'm just, I was more concerned about a couple of things. Last night, Aaron had me eat some catfish or a catfish. Aaron should not be making people eat his stuff. Listen to this, Uncle John.

[58:01]Listen to this. Hold on. He's got this foot fetish. What the hell is that all about? Oh, my God. This is the greatest podcast of all time. Unbelievable. You knew. Let's finish it, guys. I could hardly. I listen to you every week, and I just, it's amazing sometimes. We appreciate it so much, and we're sorry that we woke you up this morning by demanding that Aaron gets up and does the podcast. We yelled at him. Well, you know, I'm an old fart, and sleep is important to me.

[58:30]That's for damn sure. You needed it today. Absolutely did. You needed it today. Carry on, guys. Do a good job. Well, we appreciate it. Thank you. Take care. Bye-bye. Okay, this is, so we're talking American Beauty. It comes out in 1970. This is their second album of 1970. This is really Jerry Garcia and this guy, Robert Hunter, at their kind of peak. Now, Robert Hunter never played with the band. He was just a lyricist who wrote a lot of these songs, and basically, this is kind of a double album, kind of with Working Man, the album they released earlier that year,

[59:02]but this has a little bit more country, a little bit more bluegrass, and you can hear it because Jerry Garcia is playing more pedal steel guitar on this album, and this is the first time where they had a full-time mandolin player, so they're really kind of getting into that scene. By the way, Robert Hunter, the lyricist, was one of the guys involved in that LSD experiment out in California, where they were really taking the psychotropic, so that's a big part of this kind of Grateful Dead, I guess, aura, if you want to talk about it that way. This album comes out right after, now think about this, the dad of the drummer, Mickey

[59:35]Hart, was their manager of the band, and they found out that he had just skipped town with $70,000 of the Grateful Dead's money. Ooh. So, you're kidding me. Kids in a band, you become the manager, and then you leave over $70,000 in 1970? That's crazy to me. Listen, I've had some bad moments as a parent. I have never skipped town after managing my kid's band with $70,000.

[60:00]Wait, no, not $70,000. Maybe $69,000. But would you? Well, I don't know. I can get away from my family, and I got $70,000? Let me think about that. In U.S. dollars, and I'll do the... I'll do the conversion for you, Rob. Okay, good. Thank you. And they said that at the time at the studio, they were there with Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and they said a lot of their singing, they actually got from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and that's why you can hear so many harmonies

[60:31]on this album. When you think about, compare them to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, I think you really hear it on this album. This album was their most successful commercial release. It got up all the way up to 30. The song Truckin' got up to 64, which is really their only commercial hit. Until A Touch of Grey, which actually was a surprise hit that came out like 15 years later. So let's get into American Beauty, and we're going to start with Box of Rain. The song, this is one of the albums where they actually, the other members of the band contribute a lot. This is bassist Phil Lesch.

[61:00]It's his song. He's singing it. And one of the interesting things about the bass playing to Phil Lesch is that he was one of these bass players like Jack Bruce who said, hey, the bass can be part of the melody. It doesn't just have to keep time. It can be a more interesting instrument. And you really hear that. You really hear that throughout this album. I was reading, this was inspired by vocal harmonies from Crosby, Stills, and Nash. This is what this whole album sounds like. Very similar, right? Yeah, you're right. Very much so. Yeah, with the harmonies in there, yeah. Phil Lesch did not sing this song at concert barely ever because he actually damaged his

[61:37]voice through improper singing technique, which makes me a little worried, guys. I'm going to be honest with you, with my parody songs. I could be blowing up my voice. I can't remember what the most extreme version of your voice was. It's when I tried doing the ACDC high voice. That was the, that's when I knew that maybe singing was not in my future.

[62:03]Next up, I love this song, Friend of the Devil. I used to have this on my Winamp. And this is, it's kind of a fun, it's got covered by Loggins and Messina, Tom Petty, Counting Crows. It's got a little pickup to it. Nice, catchy tune. So, I'm going to ask a dumb question. Who's singing on this one? This is, I want to say this is Jerry Garcia, but I'm not sure.

[62:33]Sounds like Jerry. It's tough, though, because there's so many voices on this. I think also I, like as a kid, The Grateful Dead, all of that, like Skull, Skull is so iconic, right? So, I just, like, as a kid, I thought they were like a scary band, right? Like, you would see their imagery, and then when I finally heard them, I was like, oh, this music's so nice. Like, I expected it to be like, I don't know what I thought. Currents don't match the drapes, do they, Aaron? Yeah, right, yeah.

[63:00]Oh, my God. Speaking of touch of gray. Now, here's the thing, is that you, all I remember, one of the few things I remember from middle school is somebody gave a report on Jerry Garcia. I almost said Jerry Garcia. On Jerry Garcia. That was good stuff. And said that he is missing half of his ring finger due to a sledding accident. When he was a kid, a sled ran over his finger and chopped it off, and he became a guitar player. That always scared the hell out of me when I thought about being hurt in a sledding accident.

[63:30]My number one sledding accident was somebody hitting me on a tube, and I flipped over them, like that famous newscaster who did that. You guys have any major sledding incidents growing up? We had the back hill across the street that would go onto the pond, I think I've told you guys this before, where it was essentially, I don't know how to put this right. There was a game you would play with football where you'd try to tackle everyone. It had an inappropriate name when we were kids. We don't need to mention that, but it was kind of that version of sledding down the hill. So it was, everyone's on sleds to start.

[64:01]It's a race to the bottom, but anything goes. So it's like tackling off of sleds, pulling people off of sleds. It was like essentially a war to the bottom. That was a big thing we did for probably about four or five years when we were kids. I love Russell's old neighborhood stories. What do you think kids would have said to you, Russell, if you would have showed up with a helmet? Like I would have made my kids aware if they were doing that activity. You think they would have said it like- I probably would have gone over well. I think we used to make fun of kids like if they would wear knee pads when we'd play roller hockey. Like there was no quarter given for people that wanted to take safety measures.

[64:33]Sugar Magnolia. This is Bob Weir. This is a jam. This is about- This is about a wife of somebody who's on tour, always supporting them no matter what they do. Always supporting them no matter what they do. Oh, that's sweet. I just always figured that Jerry Garcia was the lead singer of the Grateful Dead. And like they were just the standard band. And, you know, like, so I don't think I got them at first and you really don't get them.

[65:03]And then kind of the jam bands are kind of like that too. Everybody comes in and sings different parts and all that stuff. There is a really good documentary called The Other One, The Long Strange Trip. It's about Bob Weir that came out in 2015, 2014, something like that. And I think it's on Netflix. And it's really worth a watch because it kind of- I mean, he's kind of like the secondary- Him and Phil Lester are kind of the secondary figures, even though they are main parts of the band. And it's a good watch just to see how popular he was.

[65:30]And he was kind of the younger one in the group. And, you know, he kind of came into his own a little bit later and stuff. So, I don't know. It's just another good documentary. I know you love watching these music documentaries. Because they're kind of a collective, right? You didn't think of it as a- Yeah. It's kind of like this podcast, Rob, right? Yeah. There's not a lead singer. There's a collective. No, but everybody thinks that there is a lead singer. And that's actually- Sometimes people think that's maybe the most important part. This is one of the albums- A pull. This is one of the albums that we listen to on this list where I'm like,

[66:01]I should have been listening to these guys when I was younger. I would have gotten into this music. I think for sure. Well, I think you would have for sure. This is everything I like. It's Operator. Like Jim Croce there. Smoking weed and tie-dye. Everything you like. I talk about tie-dye. You're right. You nailed it. When you put it that way, it sounds a little different. It's probably not too late to go to a great- Well, we can go to a Dead & Company show at the Sphere, right? I was just looking at it.

[66:30]I didn't realize that Phil Lesh wasn't playing with Dead & Company. I just assumed he was, but he didn't play with it. He still kept with Phil Lesh and friends. I've heard other podcasts talk about the Sphere and Dead & Company. Is that the current- Is that the current version of the Grateful Dead? Is it a cover band? What is Dead & Company? It's the current version. So it's Bob Weir, basically, is the one who put it together. Then I think Mickey- Is Mick Hart- What's the drummer's name? Mickey Hart? Oh, I wonder if his dad's around. And then- Mickey Hart and then Bill Krutzman, who's on drums. And then John Mayer famously stepped in as kind of the lead guitar slash singer,

[67:04]who I think is a wonderful addition to try to get to him. They tried to get one of the bassists from Phish to come join them, but he couldn't. He couldn't because of his Phish commitment, so they picked up another bass player. So I just assumed Phil Lesh was the bass player, but he wasn't. I actually heard that version with John Mayer. Their audio would be considered audio napalm. What? Never mind. No, no.

[67:31]I want you to explain that. Wasn't he famous for the Jessica Simpson sexual napalm or something like that? What? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. John Mayer. I was going to say, John Mayer. And he dated a- A famous coxswain. One of the more famous celebrity coxswains. You guys don't. This is the worst interviews about sex of all time. Well, you know who he did have sex with famously that I think about. Every time I think of John Mayer is Giada, the food channel host.

[68:01]Didn't he date Taylor Swift for a while too? This girl is like crack cocaine to me, Mayer said of Simpson. Sexually, it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like- Napalm. Sexual napalm. Oh, sexual napalm. Russell. Russell. Russell. Here's the ground. It's like the only pop culture thing I've ever nailed on this podcast. Wow. You were way ahead of us, man. Jessica Simpson and John Mayer. Yes. That's where Russell's Venn diagram comes together. Hot, liquid, sexually.

[68:30]Napalm. Yeah, makes sense to me. Can't think of anything else. Let's see. Candy Man. Play this five times. What? Are you going to play this five times? No. I had to do that while you were in a hotel. It would be creepy in a hotel. No, you can play that already. Oh, I was going to say. Oh, guys, we are firing you. Guys, this song is all about him rolling dice. You know what it's getting me hyped for? Rolling dice in Vegas. I cannot wait. Hey, one problem with hanging out with my family,

[69:02]not enough gambling going on around here. Although there is some. By the way, do we need to take two minutes to get our bets in, Rob? No. I've been doing that. Joe has been texting me as we've been. Ah, God damn. You just closed my hand in the fucking closet. Jesus fucking Christ. Wait, is Jenny in her pajamas? Yep. No, this is her formal wear. Yes, it's pajamas. What's up? She is wearing wealthy person pajamas.

[69:32]Yeah, they are. Maybe Aaron, I don't know. Maybe Aaron, I don't think you have these, but this is something like Jerry Seinfeld would wear. He's wearing satin like a button up. Long sleeve shirt with like, these are like wealthy person pajamas, right? Yeah, they are. Absolutely. There's nobody under the poverty line that's ever owned that pair of pajamas. And we already heard Russell before you got on air and before the podcast started, we heard Jenny say that Rob could quit his job and just go to stand up. He doesn't need to be working.

[70:00]He doesn't. So he only does it because he loves. But to be clear, she did say it so they could drop it a lower tax bracket so they could pay less taxes. Yeah. Yeah. And then she wanted him to quit teaching so he could become a famous, so that he could stop. So she could stop working. Aaron and Matt, this is probably the best we've ever done with Rob, but not in like, remember Joe told me that we're, we bombed pretty bad when Rob said it. This is probably our best two minute segment without him. We'll have to have Joe, Joe from what?

[70:30]See how we're doing. Rob, Rob, at least she didn't slam something else into that, into that drawer. Right. I also just want, I want this moment preserved forever from, from someone who has complained so much about doing late night. Never again. And then I give you a Sunday morning and you can't stay focused. Never again. Get the work done. I've got guys texting me wanting to put in parlays. I've got my wife slamming my hand in the closet. And then my kid is arguing because she's been sick for weeks yet.

[71:01]Wants to go to a swimming. You know what Aaron and Matt and their families are going through Rob and your kid handled a little finger in a, in a getting slammed in a drawer. I agree. Russell, I am going through the worst time of anybody here. So I think you're totally right. Okay. I get it. I accept your sympathy. Thank you. Thank you. I'll tell you what though, if this touchdown score parlay hits, things are going to be looking good for me. So don't worry too much about me. Things are going to be okay. Do you ever bet on the London game?

[71:31]I don't want to get into this. Okay. If you do, that is sick. Sometimes I'm lying, Betty ripple. Now ripple. This was, they say that he wrote this song on a half bottle of Retsina. Now, Aaron, I hate to bring this up after last night, but do you know what Retsina is? This, this is crazy. This came up last night because we were talking about, I don't even know. I don't remember now, but we were, we were drinking some wine at dinner and talking about who knows wine or

[72:01]doesn't. And my uncle made a joke. Do they have any ripple back there? And I guess ripple was like a cheap line, but I don't know about Retsina. Yeah, no Retsina is a Greek wine. That's infused with pine resin. Oh Lord. Okay. So George Brett, he's got his, he's got his ears up. Now he wants to hear what's going on. But Retsina has a sharp bracing pungency that some say masks the base wine and tastes like turpentine. Can you imagine drinking a drink knowingly that has pine resin in it?

[72:31]No, thanks. Okay. And ripple wine was another thing. Ripple wine was a different sweet fortified and carbonated wine. A carbonated wine. That sounds good to me. Honestly, it's E and J gala winery, a low end fortifies wine. Yeah. That's what Fred Sanford at Sanford and son always drank was ripple. Guys.

[73:00]Here's an idea in Vegas, Aaron. I know you want to go hiking, but what if instead we buy some ripple? That's about as much as I would. I'll wear a rucksack. I'll wear a rucksack. I'm going to go hiking when we got off the phone here. And I was texting Anna about what I was going to do today. And there's a, there's a Butte right behind us. It's called a Butte. It's got a big A on it. I think it's, I think it's butt. Yeah. Well, I texted her. She's like, what are you doing today? I texted her and I said, I'm going to go up the Butte. And she laughed and I realized why that's funny. So I'm going to go up the Butte.

[73:32]And you didn't even mean that as a joke. Oh, I didn't think of it. Oh my God. You know, I think you guys, you guys know one of the things I love looking at, like how often songs are played in concert. And so this album has been a song from this album has been played by Grateful Dead more concerts than any other albums. But Ripple is one of my favorite songs by them. I think it's just a beautiful song. It's only been played live 42 times, whereas opposed to like Sugar Magnolia is 602 and Truckin 532,

[74:04]but Ripple only 42, which kind of surprised me that that's not more of a popular live song. That's crazy. Now, Aaron, I would just be careful if you do find a treasure trail going up that Butte, look out. Okay. That's trouble. All right. And if Lord don't go to any caves in the Butte, Aaron broke down palace. You guys get any more Butte bits? You know what? We're doing a bit rewind guys. Come up with some Butte bits right now. Let's go. They play this one live.

[74:33]It's kind of a mental. Oh yeah. 219 times. Actually, they said that this song, they loved, but they really struggled singing it live, but they didn't play it as much as some of the other songs. Kind of a more complicated song. I I'm telling you guys, I love this album. I thought it was, I not love it, but I'd like this album a lot. I'll pull out again. I'd never listen to the whole album, but I did. I did put on last night on the record player. I don't have it on vinyl, but I did play it through the Bluetooth and just had it going for an hour.

[75:02]This is a great, this is a great chill album to listen to. We were making a charcuterie board last night, had it on, in the background. Do you have any carrots on that charcuterie? There were no, no carrots. Cause you guys mocked it last time and made fun of me. And you know how I take those insults very personally. So I did not do that. Russell, you got to grow up. They put a big pile of arugula on it. Like a big pile. Oh God. Get the fuck out of here. Get out of here. Dandelion greens. Great. Arugula.

[75:30]Arugula. No way. Absolutely not. I think that, you know, the, the, the harmonized songs like that one, I think those are really hard in concert to, to really kind of nail. So I can see where that would be from a live band standpoint. I'll give you guys an update on my record player. I have been having more skipping lately. And so I was like, maybe it's the old record. So we tried, I break out Beyonce brand new yellow records, yellow lemonade colored album. Of course. Put it on skipping. It's definitely the record player,

[76:01]not the records of this. That's good. So I Google, how do I change the needle? I believe it's called a stylist or something along those lines. And I, and I changed the stylus on my Victrola record. Love it. Clicked it off, click the new one on, put it on. Damn thing still skips. Victrola record player is, I think bed it's end. And I will be moving on to a new high end record player before the end of the year. Russell seems like a good Christmas present. Russell Russell,

[76:30]will you get a Bluetooth one still have to, I think you have to, because you have to, if you're going to have a cool speaker set up, right? You still have to be able to, be able to Bluetooth things out of that. You can't, you can't set up a good audio system and not be able to use Bluetooth. Aaron, am I right or wrong on that? Yeah, I think, yeah, you want to have the option. I think, and you want it to be, and then generally the Bluetooth ones have a built-in preamp too. So you don't need another piece of equipment. And Russell, I think what you were talking about earlier, and I totally agree with you, something about being at home alone and you're watching porn and it's not on

[77:02]headphones and you've got a blast and loud speakers in your house. There's something about that. That's so different and so wonderful. You know what I mean? Like you're truly the king of the house. Russell, a friend of ours bought a Victrola for her daughter and it was having that, it was skipping also. And she asked me if I could take a look and fix it. And so I was, I was down at a YouTube rabbit hole where a guy built his own DIY tone arm weight out of some soldering iron. And that was the same YouTube video. I saw it. And I was like,

[77:30]I'm not doing this. I'm just going to tell her she needs to get a different, a different table. Till the morning comes. There are some times like that, aren't there? Where they're like, Hey, can you fix this? And you're like, I know I could, but I'm not going to. But the guy had taken the whole thing apart. It was wild. No, forget about it. So this is Jerry, Jerry on guitar. Is this like the signature? Here you go. See a guitar sound. I have no idea. Love it. They've got like a hundred guitar players. I think so. I think he's the main, he definitely is the main driving force of the band.

[78:02]And he lets others shine. There's probably a lesson to be learned there. If we weren't so busy today, addicts of my life. These guys have to be, are they like a top 15 live band? Like they're following is huge, right? Yeah. Probably top five, top five, Matt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who else would even be kind of up in the, in the list with them? Are they number one?

[78:30]Some would say Pearl jam. They sell out their album. Top live bands. Hmm. Let me think. I mean, the Rolling Stones, other WrestleMania, I might disagree. Fuck. Fuck. You put Metallica up there. I mean, they're following for live shows. They have a huge following. They call their, their, their audience is called the fifth member. Like if you're, if your audience and your followers has a name, that's, that's got to count for something. Right. But I, but, but you can name Metallica albums. You know what I mean? You can get the live versions or the,

[79:00]the studio versions are the ones, you know, sure. Can you name any other Grateful Dead album? Can you name, you know what I mean? I can name more. I can name more live, live shows that have turned into album, you know, people there's things like that. Then I can actual. And that's how I feel about the Allman brothers. Right. That's why I think they're kind of similar where it's like the live stuff is the stuff that's known. Yeah. Yep. No, I don't know. And then finally trucking. This is a song where all the members contributed about their experience on the road and an

[79:30]actual drug bust that had happened earlier in the seventies. So this is a surprise. This is their single off the album. And uh, their highest charting, like I said, till touch of gray got in the top 10 later. This is a fun song and I shuffle guys as Bill Walton said, it's not how tall you are. It's how tall you play. It's not how high you jump, but where and when you jump. I always love going back to Bill Walton. Love this song. Bill Walton's one of my favorites. Well,

[80:01]and I think it really is like a lot of this album is about them getting older and things happening and it's like for us to be covering this album with all the stuff that's happened this week and you know, it's like so much of this podcast is us looking back on where we've been and what we've done and talking about our experiences and not letting anybody who hasn't been friends with us for 20 years in and seeing what it's like. I mean, that's, it's just such a perfect,

[80:30]unfortunately, it's a perfect album for us to be talking about this week. I was wondering if Aaron was going to lie to his uncle and say he was not doing a podcast because he was terrified of you listening. No, I told you. No, he was, he was cool about it. I was like, I'm going to do this podcast. He was fine. He went down to the lobby now, but he's cool. He listens, you know, he likes the podcast, but not so much. He doesn't want to be on the live show. He doesn't want to be associated with it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. Folks, that is it. And the Vikings are starting in one minute. So we're going to do a quick rating system.

[81:01]Oh, now we're going to be quick on the rating system. Well, I mean, when your state has a professional sports team, Aaron, you got, this is a big pet peeve for him. There's only one first touchdown. Okay. Come on, Aaron Jones. Let's go. Listen. Okay. Is this album at two 15 American beauty by the grateful dead? Is this rolling? Well, tone that means it belongs perfectly at two 15. Now this used to be up in the two sixties on the early list.

[81:32]It got bumped down. Is this a rolling bone? It should have been higher. It's up on the list. Okay. Which of course is a lower number. We should have heard this earlier, or is this a rolling groan? This doesn't deserve to be up this high. Okay. What do we think about the grateful dead American beauty? Uh, Ross, what do you think? You know what? There's such an iconic band. I know they've got an iconic following. It seems like they got to be somewhere on the list. And I think there's three or four songs that I could get down with any time.

[82:01]So I'm going to say rolling. Well-toned. I will, I will throw this on again. If I ever get my record player, the new one to work, I would probably go. And I came across this at a record store for a, for a fair, reasonable price on a used record. I would get this. I'm going to say it's rolling. Well-toned. I would love to have this in my collection. Um, I'm in rolling. Well-toned, uh, Matt, what do you think? Rolling? Well-toned rolling bone or rolling groan? Uh, similar to Russ. I think that the grateful dead is a band. I think this album is here because of the band where they're at.

[82:31]They're not a studio album, uh, outfit. If that makes sense, they gotta, they gotta be put somewhere. They gotta have an album put somewhere. Um, but as an iconic force of nature for American music, you know, I think they are way up there, uh, top 20 band, American band of all time, kind of a thing. And so I think, could you argue that this is not the greatest album album? Um, only because I don't know,

[83:00]there's just not that much of it. I don't think of them as an album group, so could it be lower? Yeah, but it's probably to Russell's point, it's probably great right here. So I'm going to say, rolling well toned. Well, the album that came out earlier that the, that year working men's dead, as I pronounced it earlier, didn't definitely just call it working men, uh, is actually going to be four Oh nine on the list. Okay. So, and you might think, Oh, that sounds like it's toward the end of the list. Uh, that's two years out from the end of the list. Just to let everybody know. Uh, uh, finally, Aaron rolling, well-toned rolling bone or rolling grown,

[83:31]grateful dead American beauty. What do you think? I think it's rolling well-toned. I really, I really enjoy listening to it. I think Matt sums it up. That this, this band needs to be in the top half. We're still in the top half of this list. And, uh, yeah, it's not, I don't think it stands up musically to some other things we've heard or are going to hear maybe, but I like it where it's at. So I'm going to give it a rolling well-toned. Uh, unfortunately you guys are, Oh, by the way, that is after, um, expensive shit by feel a cootie.

[84:00]That's album four or two. That's actually, that's kind of a jammy album too. That's about eating marijuana, Rob. What? He ate all of his drugs to hide them from the authorities. And then he was taking expensive shits. I thought, I thought I was moving to marijuana to get away from the calories. Now I've got to ingest the stuff too. It's like that coffee bean. It's like that coffee I buy where it's all the monkey shit. I got to comb through it and get the coffee out. Okay. But I get a discount. I get it pre combing through. Listen, unfortunately you guys are incorrect.

[84:31]This gets a rolling. Shit. Rock on way. Rock on. Rock on. Rock on guys. When you really listen to this lyrics, this whole album is a bunch of middle-aged guys talking about their lives and who would want to ever listen to that? Uh, now next week we've got either or by Elliot Smith that has three songs that were in the Goodwill hunting soundtrack. Honestly, it's a very good thing. That album was not this week. Oh yeah. For sure.

[85:00]Trust me. The saddest music of all time. Also a sad story. Well, yeah, I'm sure you're going to be, you're going to be over it, but next week. Oh yeah. I'll be fine. Yeah. Uh, uh, one agrees differently. Yes. You want though? If I had a time machine, I would definitely go back and still decide to kiss me in college. Not take back that joke. Goodwill hunting number 77 on the top 100 and one, uh, soundtracks of all time. Are you?

[85:30]Wow. It's all. How do you like that? Apple spat. Yeah. I got, I got a number. Well, the thing about Goodwill hunting is, I know how will in that movie feels to be a genius who gets mad at everybody, slowing him down all the time. And then when he talks about stuff, he realizes that his life is very abnormal and not everybody's buying candy every day. I totally get it. Hey, Hey Rob, you know, when you did, um, that one song at the beginning, instead of rucking, it's okay. Rob, Rob, it's okay. No,

[86:00]Rob, it's okay. It's okay that you missed the obvious song. It's okay. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault, Rob. A couple of weeks ago, it's not your fault. This is the dumbest bit. It's not your fault that you missed the rucking song. A couple of weeks ago, I did say, how do you like them? Podcast episodes about Fiona apples. When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time, I wrote that out as one word. So I could do the joke. Look,

[86:30]get up online. All right, guys. Well, I hope you enjoyed a daytime recording because it's never happened. I loved it. By the light of day, this is gross. Guys, my name is Maximus Decimus Russell, commander of the Beck did a better list. General of the dating advice corner and loyal servant to our true podcast. Emperors, the dumb shit listeners co-host to you, three pals and boyfriend to an upstairs laundry lady. And I will have my vengeance in this pod or the next.

[87:01]Wow. Hopefully it's in the next laundry lady. That's a term. You called her. Yeah. That's what you called her. Rob. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right. Got to go. Rob Calder, laundry ladies. Talk to you later. Bye. You know, this is Aaron's dad and I don't really mind as a lifelong Island picking on Iowa that much,

[87:34]but man, when you take shots at the Drake relay, that's a whole nother story. I mean, how many Olympians have you seen run? And have you seen Mitch Potter famous 400 meter runner for the university of Minnesota throw up after races? I've gone for 49 consecutive years, soon to be 50. And man, you are missing a good thing. I got 10 tickets for the relays. You guys can come down anytime and watch it.

[88:00]Now, the other thing I have a problem with is Rob. You just in milk. Are you effing kidding? Me milk duds are awesome. And how can you go to a movie without eating milk duds? Man, Matt knows. Thanks a lot, guys. You take care. Hey guys, this is Patty. I'm a math mother in line. I'm sorry for my froggy voice. I have a question that goes way back to your beginning because I didn't listen to the beginning of the podcast shows.

[88:33]And I'm wondering about Beck. I know who he is. But I don't know why you guys are obsessed with him or who is obsessed with him or who started wanting to talk about Beck. So that's my question. I also want to say that we're really proud of Matt because he ran grandmas and finished yesterday. All of us who love him are proud of him. Go Matt. Bye bye.