The Clash: The Clash (1977)

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better we are all the way up to album 102 and from 1977 this is the second eponymous album in a row we have the clash by the clash folks i mean what can we say you know we've said it all what joke could i possibly make here that i haven't made in 101 other episodes i don't know you're kind of quiet tonight it sounds like you're in a bathroom don't get into my trying not to disturb with a camera speaking of listen just because i'm in the bathroom with a camera that doesn't mean i have knowledge about setting up cameras in bathrooms okay you it's true this is the first the first time for everything probably makes it more likely but yeah

[01:03]i will say i will say the morning after when my family comes in and there's a full microphone setup and computer open it gives them pause before they go to the bathroom the moment someone walks out you come running in and immediately save that file and you're like what are you doing speaking of quiet i think we said that earlier this is a little song about somebody who's a little quiet welcome to k-band's k-band's this is where man was going to improvise he's a quiet he's like a turned off megaphone he will never speak up he doesn't really say much but we will never complain because it gives more time for us

[02:02]i always edit out to what he has to say because i know he'll never listen anyway he's a quiet he's like a ghost it's what i like that is why he's my hater co-host when you want to hear oh that's quite that's quite a bunch of stuff i've been singing i have been singing that all day i i do make i am a perfect co-host for you if you and i were married give you 90 give you 98 of the runway and i just take two yep you're literally the opposite of my current marriage better all right by the way they don't like it when you say current marriage just gonna give you a little tip there russell not good i got i got a buddy that always refers to it i refers to his wife yeah this is my first you know i don't like that either

[03:00]i've got three guys here that are proud to know that aaron came from garage land garage land garage garage from the garage garage land and so i've got the three guys i've got you made it to the end of this album baron i can tell yes wow yeah you know it that is no idea what you're talking i've got russell whatsoever i've got russell minnesota russell how are you doing guys we can't make good podcast noise we can't get expensive podcast gear we can't make no podcast money seriously what the hell are we doing here way up in north dakota i've got matt matt how are you doing great i have nothing to even say to even try to sound like i cared about this album one bit this is i i'm gonna tell you right now this is slander i will not stand for this i enjoyed this album i think it is a vibe i thought i liked it i have same and my best friend okay and always been

[04:02]best friend we've always agreed together and if i had to marry a guy of the podcast even though he would talk too much that we would get in a fight and it would break my heart oh god just picture it and how rosie and i breaking up him walking out with half our stuff including the pillow that we have shaped like a dan cortez uh i've got rose i'm gonna edit that so it sounds like i actually had that idea i got rosie oakland rosie how are you doing i'm great i came in from the garage to record this album because i thought this would be a great career opportunity so let's talk about oh no i stole your joke second oh my god anyway let's get into the voicemail and it's another one it's time for me to find another random spot in matt's song to for us to enjoy you know every time you look at the mona lisa you see something different every time i hear

[05:05]that song i'm like it's true it's brilliant it's all over again what did you did you ever read that replacement book though um i read i have two yeah i've really troubled with it what the fuck what is your what is your favorite replacement album tim's the only one i know really even with the background what the fuck tim's the only one that i know great album though right yeah i mean they're definitely not the rum brand they're definitely not the reference i mean you hear that fuckers it's definitely not the rum brand i was set up i was set up aaron is is this a chuck berry okay not know i was being recorded yes i'm i'm blinking i need help i went on vacation with replacements guy as we affectionately know him and i was real i was there

[06:07]for like it was the first hour that i was there we go to the to the to the snack shack anna marie's snack shack on bear island lake we're drinking a grain belt and he set me up he starts chatting about the replacement book and i'm like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so and then i realize that he is calling into the back line as we're talking and he tried to get me to say that they are not the rembrandts and he wanted yeah i was set up it was a full chugberry situation it was a setup so how long do you think he's been trying to set because if he's doing this the first hour and he has been waiting days if not weeks if not months to do this to you i mean we had this trip planned from about march so yeah he he for sure had been planning this for a long time and he he played it off really well i gotta be honest like i had no i did not know that that this was going on he played it off perfectly first of all thank you okay for whoever whoever went all

[07:00]watergate there and totally tapped aaron in real life we should do that i cannot tell you a show of aaron in real life would bring me joy where he'd just be like all right i'm at the bakery just stopped at the pizza place like i could not get enough of aaron just hearing him talk to a friend it makes me happy to hear aaron that was aaron in real life did you hear the boring shit he was saying it was just like the podcast but it was real life this is not an act this is what it's like i'm me i couldn't believe it and you know i'm glad to hear that this that that was a uh that was a chugberry situation as we call it as i record my bathroom um that was a chugberry situation because i thought it was the other kind of chugberry situation which is where you were calling me from the past to give me advice about the podcast because you've heard the sound you've been looking for okay this is your cousin marlon barry or aaron from the future being like aaron the podcast you're on it actually is really cool stay on it don't quit okay like everybody keeps saying as a joke seeing

[08:02]if anybody actually bites and says oh maybe we should quit like all of us are like hey i mean wouldn't it be crazy if we just like quit we're all like rob this is your cousin rembrandt haramazoon van riege the artist and i'm calling from the past rembrandt oh god i'm a dutch painter and i've got the i've got the secret you've been looking for and it's a band that nobody ever cares about except for this guy who sets up toilet cams on aaron's camping trip so i did some research do you realize the replacements made seven albums studio albums as many live albums to studio seven studio albums in nine years yeah there's no way those albums are good i get them confused with the pretenders the rembrandts the pretenders and the replacements are all that would be why i saw that painting of how he's back on the chain gang

[09:00]only pretender song i can think of that's not rush limbaugh okay i i legit think we may have just ran out of all replacements jokes i think that's it i think you've done it might have it might have died you found the end of the replacement joke aaron calling me from watching the replacements in the theater being like hey future aaron remember this joke like what all right guys i can't i can't believe i'm the only one who saw the replacements in the theater this podcast is not off to a good start literally nationwide that might be true aaron you're the only one it's time to see what everybody's up to it's time for roll it going oh yeah uh rolling going rosie how's it going with you it's going okay i had oh no this i'm worried yeah i had a realization today i learned something today

[10:02]that i feel i feel a little bit disappointed in myself about uh i live near a cemetery here in oakland called the mountain view cemetery which is kind of it's sort of a landmark so i live in a place in oakland where you have to figure out who you're talking to and they say like where do you live like you can like sometimes you can say like oh you know village market like i live right by village market some people are like oh yeah i know that grocery store i love it the dandelion green place yeah actually yeah some i mean some weeks the dandelion greens are the best looking greens there you can't buy collards like in you know june july because they're dry you gotta go dandelion green hey remember when i asked you where you lived earlier i don't care anymore please so you gotta figure out i live i live by that i live by that store where master p used to used to go once in a while that's right i'm russell i like where you're going with this because i so i i was talking to some teachers at my son's school today and and you know they said well where is your house and i said well it's close to mountain view cemetery and it turns out

[11:00]where you're like hey have you guys seen any good plays lately i love elementary school listen if you're not listening to every episode get the fuck out of here you don't need your ass i have lived in this house in this neighborhood for 10 years i have walked through the mountain view cemetery i just learned today that bay area rap legend mac dray is buried in the mountain view cemetery and i checked on this and it turns out there's a website called gravefinder.com i know which plot he is in now you're not going to look at it are you of course i gotta go look at it i gotta go look at it yes aaron i highly recommend you bring a piece of charcoal piece of paper and you're etching that shit make a little etching the gravestone it's your right as an american i'm gonna do it i'm gonna maybe twist something up and take it there and lay one on the grave maybe one for myself i mean i gotta do it so i but 10 years i didn't even know it's walking distance from my house i had no idea aaron i i'm just gonna

[12:01]ask because i can just hear the audience i can hear the guys out mowing their lawn i can hear all these dumb shits they're yelling for us to ask a question you gotta be a real dumb shit to listen to this way you mow the lawn and it's not i'd rather listen to a lawnmower engine and it's not about mac miller or whoever you're talking about there this question has to do with why the fuck are you walking through a cemetery so often what is going on i've only i've i've only actually walked he said i walked through the cemetery all the time is what he said that is verbatim i didn't say i walked through all the time i'm gonna play the clip be quiet i'm gonna play the clip right now i have lived in this house in this neighborhood for 10 years i have walked through the mountain view cemetery so now he hasn't done it we went no i'm gonna edit it in did it once you're gonna hear me you're gonna hear whether who's right aaron or rob okay so we'll see aaron who has to apologize i can't wait i can't wait but yeah because it's beautiful and it's a landmark and you can walk through there if you like but now i know i've got to go back and find plot 47 because that's where

[13:01]mac dray is laid to rest so i'm i'm distressed that i didn't know that until today so your answer to why you're walking through a cemetery is that it's beautiful yeah what kind of peaceful what's wrong with that quiet man you're trying to make a joke here rob there's no joke am i taking crazy pills they're walking through a cemetery it's you know it's it is a quiet place and it's probably usually pretty clean not a lot of people there's no dogs that are chasing around and stuff like that i mean yeah it's good for introverts yeah yeah absolutely listen i'm sorry i lost all that money playing blackjack i've i got a great date for us and it's free it feels like you're at a huge party with a ton of people and you're like oh my god i'm gonna go to the cemetery so when i go there i'm gonna put in my headphones i'm gonna listen to the songs that rob is playing right now like too hard for the radio and feeling myself and maybe i'll do the fizz dance i'm excited guys i i wish that i had known this for a long time so maybe i'll send a picture you

[14:01]can put it up on the back to a better instagram account have you guys ever been to a celebrity gravestone before have you ever done like some sort of historical tour or gone to any sort of thing like that before did see jim morrison's in paris went and found that all you had to do is follow the other hundred weirdos that were going to go look at jim morrison's uh gravestone and then you see it and you're kind of like okay great or not great i don't really know so i think that's the only one oh and uh darwin's of course big fan of darwin big ups to darwin d's up yeah big ups to darwin big ups to darwin figuring that shit out okay i got a second part to my rolling gun if you want to hear it i think we need to next week no we need it now okay second part is i i flew to minnesota for the aforementioned trip with replacements guy so i took a flight all right all right these are the stories that i like to edit this so much

[15:01]okay so that last flight tonight i'm going to leave that in so you the viewers at home could hear what we listen to compared to what i edited where it makes russell match up with the music it's so funny so we were flying to minnesota i was very excited of course it was one of those you know rolling going in real life kind of moments for final minutes so we flew sun country which we haven't flown for a while which i think is a minnesota airline so i was having a very minnesota experience our flight attendant's name was kristin i want you guys to guess if it was kristin with an e with an i or some other variation russell how was it spelled i like the e i'm a fan i'm not into the i's or the y's i'm gonna go okay okay i'm gonna go k-r-i-s-t-i-n okay all right matt i'll go with y-y-n at the end i'll go k-r-i-s-t-y exotic oh i like that russell's got it russell has it it's a e it's a k-r-i-s-t-e-n i was so excited to tell you guys that i had a

[16:06]flight attendant named kristin i was stoked about that my other question for you guys give you a badge obviously i'll just i'm sorry aaron i'm so sorry to interrupt and i don't want you to shut up i feel bad about that can you imagine sitting next to aaron on the flight you're flying from california what is that like a four-hour flight right about four hours yeah you would need that whole time for him to be like hey our flight attendant's name is kristin is that interesting he's just slapping you he's just slapping you on the shoulder hey look look at that hey hey look at that wake up i gotta wake up dude i couldn't wait to tell you guys why is that interesting and he'd be telling you why he'd be telling you why and precede like i'll dissent uh please wrap up any super boring stories uh put your trade deal up and thank you i could not wait i was so excited you had a lot of choices and you didn't want to spend money so thank you for flying some country we appreciate it i can tell you about the rest which was that i was reading a book about love supreme and listening to love supreme at the same time

[17:03]and that was really that was super fun like so there there was a lot of notes rob you get into this there are a lot of notes about how rudy van gelder would open up the space in the room just as mccoy tyner was winding down his piano solo and then i got to listen to it because you really depending on your streaming service bluetooth is not lossless audio i don't know if you guys knew this so you can only get lossless audio on wired headphones so if i was wired connection then i'm getting lossless audio it's a great experience i've never listened to love supreme that way um so that was my flight experience i love you i mean that was yeah i was thinking about you guys the whole time aaron rolling going of an insane cemetery story which apparently is normal everybody's going to the cemetery except for rob apparently that's why i don't see anybody and then a great story about how he flew in a plane saw a stewardess and then listened to a cd and read the book about the cd note noted that the last sec the last letter of her name was an e and not an i or a y or any other that was

[18:00]important that was that was important because i was readying the quiz for you guys can you imagine if the guy next to russell was listening to big bad voodoo daddy and reading a book about big bad voodoo daddy so so rob you're in minnesota now matt you might have been in minnesota a week ago so aaron hook up hang out with you guys when he flew in no it was a lot like aaron's wedding i wasn't there he called me he called me but unfortunately he's up in north dakota so we just couldn't make it work boy he didn't call me at all and it turns out that he does hang out with people from the podcast just you were in ireland interesting it's like i'll just treat this like my wedding i can't wait till our next next call where he's talking to kirsten about the stewardess on the plane and he's on the voicemail it's being recorded oh that's even worse than this kirsten with an ir over an ri

[19:00]just this nervous caller with aaron in the background going on and on about how he's listening to lossless audio with wired headphones and she's like oh how much do you guys edit out you know what i mean like it's crazy uh ross rolling going how's it going with you we're only going things are good we fourth of july was a few weeks ago when people are listening to this and i actually went down for a cool trip to stillwater for a weekend and i had a couple of musical adventures so i thought i could share some of the musical adventures i had over the fourth of july in small town river city minnesota so my first part of the musical adventure i go down to stillwater and when you're going to stillwater one of the things you have to do is you got to do a boat cruise right you got to do a cruise down the saint croix on one of the big river boats right i should explain explain what stillwater is for people who aren't from minnesota who aren't named kirsten i think it's just a city on a big river thank you very much nailed it and ironically named ironically named stillwater think about it i didn't thought about it like that that's no i'm just confused go out to the cemetery

[20:03]meditate on that this is the guy who accuses me of telling boring stories let's all just note that we stopped russell's rolling going russell don't listen to rosie this is not a boring story please so anyway so i decided i'm going to go on a river cruise with a a person who came to stillwater with me there on local a local a local because it's fun to go to small towns with locals right we're going to go on this riverboat cruise so we go and we get on the riverboat and they actually had what was it was called jazz and a lunch cruise so it's referring to it as a jazz cruise so we get there and i show up and it consists of a jazz cruise and it consists of a clarinet player a tuba player a banjo and a trombone is that a jazz band in your guys world or not i know i'm not a music expert or not i don't know i mean the banjo kind of throws me off so it ended up like if you went to a band if you went to a boat and they were playing this

[21:01]you would not be like oh this is jazz this is not erin's book this was more like a this is more like a ragtime band where they're playing like i'm a yankee doodle dance you know they're singing in like the barbershop quartet voice and everything in the tubas bumping along but hello yankee doodle dandy grand old flag they played tennessee flat top box these guys were rocking it on this boat it was fantastic what do you guys think of riverboat cruises are you into them i we love a river cruise anytime people come to visit us out in new york and they actually call us and tell us that they're nearby and they want to hang out and they don't just ignore us we will take them on a cruise around the hudson it goes down around the statue of liberty real quick best way to see statue of liberty and everybody loves it it is fun to be out on the water it is fun to be on a boat with strangers getting drinks chatting it up see i'm against i don't want to chat with strangers i'm in the erin world yeah i specifically the the local and i who went on this we went we found a spot to sit up on the upper level so you could be outside but it was kind of

[22:02]raining out so we picked a spot in the middle and then we strategically put drinks around our table so it looked like there was multiple people sitting at our table oh my god so we didn't have to sit on the upper level so we didn't have to sit on the upper level so we didn't have to sit on the sit with strangers what do you think of that move matt you gotta love that that's pretty good russell pretty good that is thumbs up on that one that is officially now called the russell that's how great that move is that move is called the russell if you were putting out drinks so people don't sit by you that is the russell and that is a brilliant i just i then i just ended up watching these two older couples that were sitting up right over the water and they were clear they didn't know each other and they had sat next to each other and they were sitting right over the water and they sat next to each other and the whole time i couldn't just stop thinking like i would never want to be one of those people sitting at that table with the strangers i want no part of that so i pulled a russell fake drinks everywhere to keep people away their kid walks over and russell's like this is the worst day of my life wait so where did where did you acquire all these fake

[23:00]drinks did you go to the bar and order extras it was more like it was more like it was more like put a bottle of water in front of one drink put the drink you're drinking in front of the other so it kind of looks like there's four people at your table instead of you and a local that's wow that's you and a local russell's dream is literally to find the riverboat that's also a cemetery and then be going around on that boat that's his dream now russell on fourth of july so a really i'm so sorry to interrupt russell and i promise this is good this is gold did you when you saw the tuba player did you try to explain to the date how a tuba player you would be having sex with your wife making the tube noises and did your date say what the fuck are you talking about to that you I think this this local is a downloader so they probably know that inside joke oh no so every time you see a tuba you just laugh it's great oh how can you not that's all I think about so anyways boat cruise was super fun the band was fun people were getting into it like

[24:04]what the band would do is they would perform for like 45 minutes on each level of the boat so no matter where you were sitting you were going to get to hear the band in person at some point on the cruise fantastic job by these guys ragtime girl you know that type of thing it was great hello another music adventure on fourth of july went down to peaty pappy's for a while it's kind of like the motorcycle bar down right down on the water they had live music and they had a reggae band and i gotta say like listening to reggae music on on a nice summer day there's nothing more relaxing there's nothing more fun than having a drink listening to a reggae band but it's even better when they start playing covers of like all sorts of songs they covered purple rain they covered knocking on heaven's door they covered yeah you see like a sunday morning it was badass whoa yeah reggae covers do rule god that is so awesome russell i'm so jealous i kind of want to date russell now sorry rosie you might be out i

[25:02]don't know i mean go for it well we technically went to another concert after this and you might change your mind so at some point i had i had i had seen that there was this uh you guys remember a while back when i went and saw a billy joel elton john concert and i couldn't remember any of the instruments yeah and you also as i remember hated the elton john performer yes yes so this is at a place called the zephyr theater in in stillwater so eventually we left this super hopping like all these people are having fun having drinks people are dancing they're into the music and i was like i want to go see this big band they're playing it's a 30 piece big band playing at this leader down so we since we walk down to stillwater and we walk in and i'm old but we we immediately dropped like the average age like 20 years like there's no one there under the age of like 65 and i think they announced us there's a 30 piece band up there the average age of the band 77 years old wow oh that is impressive so and it's one of

[26:05]these things where there's a bar back behind the band and you can walk up to the side of it and nobody's going to get drinks but i'm like oh i'm going to get drinks so i'm like the guy who walks right up the side of the band to go to the bar to get to come back with drinks but they were playing all these great fourth of july songs on you know all these brass instruments and they even played a couple beatles songs too it was super cool it was fantastic that is that was all in two days you heard all that music in what a day and a half two days it was two days and i also awesome i this might need to get cut out but you guys want to hear one of the biggest dating disaster stories in the history of the podcast i don't know we're so busy oh geez i'm not sure if this one's going a little long the clash really started punk so i think we should talk about that but okay well we'll carve out some time for this okay okay so i found this local and i was like well we could split a room because that it you know if we get a room we can stay down and we can stay down in

[27:00]still water we can two queens two queens you know just put a sock on the door a few yeah man hey man i split a room in vegas and it turns out there was a frosted shower window that we could see each other's outline every time we were and i was like man can you please stop eating off for two seconds watching me shower by the way not in the shower just in case so i i did it right so fourth of july is real big in still water they do huge fireworks show over the st croix at night thousands of people come down there so what do i do i get one of the rooms with an outdoor balcony right overlooking the st croix so we don't even have to go down into the thousands of people we can watch it from the comfort of our own outdoor patio deck ball on the room i'm thinking baller right perfect move right nailed it yeah so this is fantastic so we get there in the first night we we check out the the balcony and everything we sit out there for a minute i i don't know if i sat out there but the the person i was with the local sat out there for a minute your roommate russ is like too many people doing too many people out here

[28:00]russ is russ is putting five do not disturb signs on the door just to make sure that he doesn't see a soul so eventually we went out and we went got some drinks or whatever and dinner and we we got back and it was probably about midnight or something like this we walked in and uh i think i don't know if i went and grabbed something from the the lobby or ice or something from the lobby and i came up and the local who's with me she says hey there's bugs in here and i was like what are you talking about she points at the wall there's like this big mosquito so i go up and just kind of smash i'm like i think we're done we're good she goes no you don't even you don't understand we're done we're good we're good i just killed it she goes no look up ahead look up above i look up above and there's 10 000 gnats flying around up in the in the in on the wall of the hotel because now that's ironic it could have been me it could have been the local did not shut the door on the balcony when we left for the night so it's like midnight and they're all all over this isn't something you can just ignore

[29:05]it's like what are you doing russell this is totally your fault you're not going to change this is totally your fault i can't believe that you did that and allowed this to happen in this it was my fault that's why it was my fault i yeah i can't believe you did that but that is the worst so what do you do i mean because yeah what do you do i need a i need a vacuum i mean this is not getting bugged like aaron when he was visiting that friend instead of us and actually getting bugged and recorded for the voicemail this is a different kind of getting bugged so i go down i go down to the lobby and i was like we've got bugs i didn't say that anyone left a door open i just said we have bugs all over the room smart can we can we move to a different room and they say we're all full we can't move to a different room we got nothing usually that's just them being lazy they don't want to do anything right like they just don't want to give they just don't want to make any effort so essentially i'm like well do you have bug spray or anything

[30:01]like that so eventually they give me this can of bug spray i walk back up walk into the room ask the local to go stand outside for a little bit on the balcony shut the door and i just nuke nuclear bomb this room with bug spray and then cleaned up the walls and then we essentially wow then we essentially sat outside for about 45 minutes to an hour deciding do we uber home because there was no driving at this point yeah and do we uber do we uber home or do i uber her back to her local local place where she was staying and then go home or do we just tough it out and do we stay in the room where all the bugs were and all the bug spray was that what would you guys have done tough it out i just stay there this situation is so insane i can't even think about what i would do if if sleeping i don't know yeah yeah knowing where you live i mean it's it's a you can drive home like a car ride it's a little bit of a longer ride right but if you're buzzed at all yeah like there's no way so if i was sober

[31:02]i'd absolutely beelined it out of there and go home and i'd be like oh my god i'm gonna go home beeline that reminds russell that room god bees so we we ended up we ended up you know sprayed a bunch of spray on them cleaned a bunch cleaned it up as well as we can and then ended up staying outside for a while and then ended up staying down there because it was like if you go back at that point it was the first night it's kind of like the trip screwed at that yeah right like you can't leave and then come back it's over right could you sleep on the balcony did you think of sleeping on the balcony there's more bugs out there there were bugs all over so this is one of like these you know it's a still water town there's not enough wind to move the water or the bugs right rob it's still water makes you think there are literally just when you walk up to the hotel at night there are bugs all over just all over and so every single bug that saw a light in our room took advantage of it that night oh my god we stayed and then and then i had the local go down and tell the the hotel the next morning they need to come up here and do some cleaning oh actually the local was

[32:02]insistent on doing that so your date went down and you're like oh my god i'm gonna sleep on the front desk and said listen you gotta come clean this room i mean next morning yes they look up and they're like real bad you're gonna have to clean this up it's real bad yeah yeah we put down plastic but it still got all over i don't know like he's just pumping he's like nice work dude listen we tried to spray for it we tried to spray you know we tried all sorts of different things but no you're gonna have to come clean this up yeah have you guys ever had something like that you took a trip somewhere and something went way wrong and it ruined the whole trip or anything or russell that's the most insane story i've ever heard in my life and i am begging you i will cut off a finger if you let us keep this in the podcast please this is an all-time story that you slept in a hotel room full of bugs and not in a we killed the bugs and wiped them up like i literally went through like three bath towels of wiping up dead oh my god wow i mean i've heard about bugged hotel rooms in the uh chuck berry way but not this is the russell now now the russell

[33:05]moving all the drinks to the table and filling up a room with bugs that you were paying to sleep in fear factor shit russell also i'm sure this is yeah i'm sure this this has happened and there's some story out there because sarah will remember it and tell me like why didn't you tell him that story you know kind of a thing and so i'm sure there's something the only thing i think of is when we were traveling once for baseball when i was coaching i think and you go to these small towns these colleges are and you pull up these hotels and they're just god-awful motels kind of a thing right but the college is trying to save a buck and so then you're like oh my goodness this is just the worst thing ever but no i can't i i don't i can't think of anything where it where it's been uh your fault my it would be my fault too russell so you know it i don't know if it'd be something that i did that would make this happen like this but there is nothing worse than sleeping in a someplace new like that or someplace you're only there for a night or two like a hotel or a motel and just feeling like creepy crawly because

[34:05]i don't like that situation russell this is you're gonna this is gonna get edited out but in vegas this year for power lifting jenny before me clogged the toilet and i didn't know it too much toilet paper she put down i took this was after i had eaten at the heart attack grill post like cut me to eat anything i took the world's biggest shit and tried to flush it nowhere doesn't go anywhere and i'm like what what is no and i and of course you look left you look right there's no plunger no so now i'm like okay there's another bathroom in this hotel room okay the hotel room is relatively bug free which is something i always

[35:00]look for in hotel rooms we can just close this door and ignore it and maybe it's going to unclog itself right like maybe so i close the lid close the door totally forget to tell jenny about it she comes back goes in and goes jesus christ what is going on and i said well actually this is your fault you clogged the toilet okay i didn't realize what was going on so then we just leave it there for like three days while we're hanging out in vegas we're using the other bathroom every day i go in and check maybe it's unclogged itself i go and i look no nothing so the last day we're leaving at like six in the morning i call the front desk and i'm like listen my wife clogged the toilet and i put a 20 on the toilet seat on this thing and we left we're gone a tip i don't know if it's a tip or if it's like blood sorry an apology yeah i mean probably not enough they probably saw the 20 and go oh no like if you

[36:05]walked in if you were the janitorial services and somebody called and said there's something wrong with the toilet you walked in and there's a 20 on the toilet for you you'd be like this can't be good this is not good this is like the hurt locker i do not want to open this toilet i should just quit this job speaking of toilets like this this might have to get cut out too but is there anything so far we're at zero is going bugs in your hotel room where they do something funky with the bathroom this bathroom had a barn a sliding barn door on it no so it's like there's no when you slut you when you shut the door you can hear everything out of the bathroom right yeah that's bullshit well like who the fuck is thinking like hey let's do this this would be a great way to make the hotel room more invite like what are we doing here are you jacking off and crying in the shower what no if rob if you needed to do that this hotel it would have worked because each floor

[37:04]had an open unisex bathroom anyone on the whole floor could use it was like there you go if you need an escape from the barn door room you can you can go find the the a little more privacy but i was like if you go with that unisex bathroom and it's closed and the lid is closed and there's a 20 on the top don't open it go back to the barn door your date's like i can hear you jacking off and crying over all these bugs matt rolling going how's it going with you now that we're at minute 20 of the podcast yeah good good uh i'll try to drag it out just a little bit so we can make sure this is a nice long episode such a great album yeah you know it's great uh no so last it's kind of our last week up here in north dakota and so i just i i don't want to beat to death how different north dakota is from where i live in minneapolis but i thought i'd bring up sneaky beat it to death today sneaky beat it right here this i just want to bring up three things of the week

[38:03]okay oh god every time i forget how terrible this album is now i'm gonna tell you right now if you're gonna tell us that north dakota is different because there's a ton of bugs russell's gonna argue with you no but they do have this thing called tempo up here and they don't sell it minnesota but literally you spray it around like you're spraying weed killer yeah tempo oh i thought it was a drink i thought it was like hard mountain do i've just never heard of it but it kills every bug and so i grabbed two bottles of it it's like 70 bucks a bottle and i'm bringing it home with me because this stuff works wonders so you could use dollars yeah i mean but you know so yeah you get like you know you drop like an ounce of it into a gallon of water kind of thing spray it around it works wonders it's awesome so you could have used it russell could you could you put that in an ice bucket at a hotel room do you think would that work yeah yeah okay russell write that down there you go all right so here's the things i have a 10 and a seven-year-old and i just want to tell you the things that they have learned while they're up here again we had swearing last week

[39:04]but here's the new greatest thing they now know how the 10 and the seven-year-old now now know how to drive golf carts yeah love it oh nice that's a big point of life yeah it's a big thing in life you know so we have not gone so far as most of the other parents in this uh community will call it by just allowing the seven-year-old to drive by himself on the golf cart it's crazy you know so so we do we do kind of have a rule that you have to be with a parent if you're going to drive the golf cart so we've got that two drinks max you're like okay yeah uh the local bar has bingo okay yeah nice so you know so it turned into a family event eddie has won let's see we we've played about four times up here and it's four games so it's about an hour but you play four games a night and it's 20 bucks for a sheet of six bingo cards kind of a thing you get four games of that so it's great the last two times we've played eddie has won five times five out of the you know

[40:05]four times oh man you must be so stoked out of the 12 games that we've been playing so eddie is now officially addicted to gambling people boo yeah people do not like him i guarantee they don't like no absolutely not and we're kind of we're not the new people we've been up here for a while or you know come up for years and stuff like that but we're also not the locals if that makes sense and so yeah yeah bingo is actually bingo is actually a great when i when i was really rocking it in the online dating world in the bumble world bingo is actually a great date to go on because there's stuff going on so if you run out of stuff to talk about for a minute you can just kind of focus on your card for a little bit you can play you can get excited about maybe getting bingo you can see what your your dates doing on the bingo card a great date option is bingo oh good choice i love that where do you where do you go play bingo where's there always bingo going on there's actually i'll throw this out there for people i i think the website still works but there's a bar there's a website called

[41:01]bar bingo.com and you can like pick your state and you can like see a map and it'll tell you every bar like within a hundred miles of where you live that essentially says who does bingo on what nights and at what times minnesota it's called minnesota bar bingo.com that's going right next to grave finder on my bookmark bar it's going to be right so i can do both grave grave robin yep it's quite quite an evening um and so yeah so i don't know so it's just funny because eddie wins he goes up they've ever they make him sign the book that he won his 25 you know so like officially in north dakota they have to like you know sign that you won kind of a thing so you know it's legit it's legit up here that kind of a thing there's no funny business and are you like an intense player matt like if you're if you win yes and you're one of your boys is close to winning do you call that out or do you let them you let it go oh no i mean i'll i'll hand them one of the cards and say here you call it that kind of a thing so oh no it's serious

[42:01]i mean there's serious people up here there's i mean they're they're out for blood if you if you if you live in the minneapolis area there are 203 bars that host bingo on a weekly basis 203 bars if you go to mnbarbingo.com you can see the map you can go through the whole list and find every night that each bar is hosting bingo wow crazy this podcast is actually in the educational section now in itunes okay because we've taught so many people so many things so the last the last thing that happened make sure you shut your door before you go i'm gonna latch it that's good well that's well that's weird because my third bookmark is should bugs be in hotel rooms.com it just says no okay so the last thing that happened to uh leo while we were up here so they have these every year they've got these things called the games and it's on fourth of july usually or the weekend and you know it's like the the old uh you know egg

[43:02]toss and foot races and sack races and things like that yeah they've done all that stuff for here but the bar owner new bar owner up here decided to set up a like a tent right and so she had like a grill and then she was serving keg beer and then she was uh she had slushies right and so there's there's a slushy system that they've got right two dollars for a kid slushy five dollars for an adult slushy which is essentially booze in it right and so some rum in it or something so i go up leo's doing some race or something i go up and i get a kid one i didn't it was one in the afternoon and it's hot as hell i didn't want a an adult one right so i go up and i get a kid one i come back it's half gone he's like oh i want one of those i go okay well so i handed him a five dollar bill and i said okay we'll go go go get home he he goes up to the lady and whoever it was and he gets a cherry uh slushy brings it back

[44:07]and he's got the worst look on his face now this kid doesn't drink pop we you know he just hates pop hates anything but water right so he can instantly taste that something's wrong with this icy or whatever right so it comes back and then i'm looking at the one i got in my hand mine's a little like a little cup right yeah when he's got his hand is like the coors light like plastic cup you get that dumb idiot gave him a fucking booze so he comes back and he's got this worst and he's like i don't know you know i don't know about this i go did you pay two dollars or five dollars for that man's five dollars where the fuck is the change that's what he's really mad about he goes five dollars ago oh it's got booze in it leo hold on give it and he started bawling he did something wrong and he thought he was gonna get in trouble all this stuff this stuff so my kids up here they now know how to drive they now know how to gamble and they now are drinking so that's what north dakota is providing who is the person serving back there

[45:01]that's like then it comes out there's like five or six or other you know it was like five or six or eight other kids all same thing happened all of us russell now if you're no if you're saying that a russell if you're saying that a north dakota bar owner is irresponsible i will not stand for that on this podcast okay there's no way that that has ever happened couldn't be i think what's bad though man is when he came back and he goes oh i think it's gray goose you know what i guess when he's mad it's not something else this is not tito's there there are sulfites in this i can tell they didn't even filter it that much okay listen quick story my rolling going i'm at the cabin okay which means of course i'm recording in the bathroom okay means you're serving booze the bathroom is approximately 90 degrees it is hot hot hot hot bathroom not fun place to be in between records tonight i did turn off the camera and audio to go to the bathroom and i was like what if i just left the audio on that'd be kind of fun for kind of a uh a naked gun type moment but i gotta say up here i found something beautiful

[46:05]and i want to show it to you speaking of hot hot hot check this out beautiful huh what's he doing he's grabbing we're not on video for something and it's something we've talked about i bought a case of mountain dew flaming hot no it's not even hot it's flaming hot mountain dew what have you tasted it yet oh bro shit's almost gone okay my kids this is not the one with booze and no no unlike man i don't let my kids drink booze because my kids drink a lot of this okay and i'll tell you what go out and get it it is 170 calories a can it is well worth it you drink the mountain dew first of all i'm gonna tell you right now orange it's orange does that blow your mind right away that is orange mountain dew and it comes out and it tastes like mountain dew and then when it gets to the back of your throat guess what there's a little kick of that cheetos spice

[47:01]this is the kind of thing that i love to have up here at the cabin because i go around to all my aunts and uncles and i go hey do you want to try this mountain dew that's flaming hot and they're like oh okay and then they're always like i had it with the jelly beans that tasted bad i did the same thing up here with my family i love getting weird stuff and bringing it around to my relatives it is a special treat for me but if you are out there go out and get the flaming hot mountain dew guys it is recommended by zero out of ten doctors except for me dr rob go get it how many how many years how many years have you been handing out weird things to your aunts and uncles and cousins and stuff i just i picture this as like something you started when you were like eight and it's been fun ever since anytime i get a chance if i go to the store and i see some weird something weird and i know i can go share it with my extended family it brings me so much joy it makes me so happy you've done the you've done the bean boozled yes my nephew brought bean boozled over once for like oh that's the sticky ones oh half the half of the jelly beans are good and then the other half are like those are gross band-aid dish dish water

[48:05]water that type of stuff it's not half and one of them was the the one that sticks with me forever was liver and you ate it and i had a mask on when i ate it and i ate it and got in the mask and everything smelled like liver for the rest of the day and it smelled just like liver it was like you were gutting something it smelled so bad what kind of mask are you wearing well you know i'm not everybody's in north dakota some of us are wearing masks every once in a while still mad i don't know do you ever that's what mad hands out is this family thing in north dakota yeah oh man scandemic his north dakota get together he's like guys i got this weird thing it's called a mask and it can actually prevent the spread of covid-19 have you guys thought about that i totally forgot about masks i'm not gonna lie i thought he was thinking of some like halloween thing or something like what kind of mask do you wear to get the liver in yeah so rob did your daughters drink all the the spicy hot mountain dew did you drink most of it so i drank i would do about two cans a day okay a lot like fruit loops okay i would do two cans one of those

[49:04]i'm drinking one of those i'm handing around anytime we had to get together to have more people drinking it but i will say the 12 pack was gone in about three days so if you do the math there are some missing from that equation and the thing is that this is in the back fridge where you can access it as a kid and nobody knows so this is where people are getting in they're they're having one when no one's looking they're going out they're behind the cabin they're drinking the spicy the only thing is when i go up to the girl's bedroom upstairs do you want to guess what's up there a lot with cans of soda there are anywhere from and and none of them are empty that's the weird thing they are like an eighth full to a half full thing of soda those are my girls they are the half soda drinkers the lowest forms of life on the earth it brings me no joy to report this about my own children next to bucket stackers yep listen people who stack buckets together and half cans yep when my family has a lot of kids they're like oh my god i'm gonna have to go to the hospital i'm gonna have to go to the hospital i'm gonna have to go to the hospital i'm gonna have to go to the hospital i'm gonna have to go to the hospital i'm gonna have to go to the hospital and everyone else is leaving half drank cans around the house i feel like i've done a terrible job as a parent it's the worst speaking of speakerphone can i bring up one other thing

[50:02]that occurred on this trip i had to stillwater yes and now we have to keep it in for sure so we i went to there's actually a saint croix vineyards there's a winery like a vineyard where you can go have local wines right outside of stillwater so it's it's where the water flows faster up by the vineyard rock rob it's not still what's weird about this is he was at a vineyard and they had a sample of horse racing so it's kind of a taste of horse racing yeah take a break from drinking wine and go bet on horses so we go to this vineyard and we're sitting out on this beautiful like quiet outdoor patio there's probably like five probably ten people on this outdoor patio and the table next to his phone rings woman picks up the phone she starts facetiming she starts to have like a seven minute conversation on a phone with someone and it wasn't like hey are you on your way or with directions it was just like they're talking about how long it's taking him to move

[51:02]it's just a regular conversation at like a quiet outdoor patio where you hear everything what are your thoughts on people that have a phone conversation or a facetime conversation with someone either at a bar or somewhere like in public where everyone can now first of all okay three things number one russell's concerned because the conversation was about how this woman came into a hotel room and there were bug carcasses everywhere number two okay rosie's used to being on speakerphone together because when he saw his friend and not us he was on speakerphone being recorded for the voicemail guys this is the trifecta joke this is the trifecta box coming in number three comes all together i think this is where you can talk loudly this is when it's acceptable to talk loudly to the people you're sitting with and say boy don't you hate it when people are on the phone at a restaurant it's so loud i think that's what you have to do this sounds like someone you could be related to rob because in my mind i just seem like i'm annoyed by it but i don't go out of my way to be like a dick about it but the person i was with was very

[52:00]adamant and and made it well known that this was kind of rude and started saying well we should go move down there but it wasn't just like we could move it was it was said loudly in a manner of i'm gonna make this person know that you're pissing me off by doing this what would you guys do you guys say anything in that situation what do you do all right man i i'm with you i think these people are the lowest forms of life self-centered assholes right who just like just don't i don't understand it and i think it's an older generation thing with the speaker phones they're not holding up there i don't know i don't get it it's just it drives me bonkers as well i'm with you though russell like there's things to there's there's hills to die on in life right like things you should worry about that are going to ruin your day and you know eventually this phone call is going to be done and it's not it's you know what is five minutes of inconvenience i don't know it's a pain in the ass but it's not worth about

[53:01]it on the podcast yeah it's not worth ruining your whole time and and getting uh getting you know getting filmed as being a carrion or whatever the you know latest craze is you know things like that can you imagine if she's on the phone and she's like listen yeah there's a guy here uh he's got a table full of drinks but it's only been him sitting at it for the last half hour it's called the russell oh is this a music podcast i don't know i don't this isn't he this is isn't the guy the bass player plays one note the whole thing this is oh come on that is terrible listen this album uh the clash is written by all mick jones and joe strummer uh the guitar player and singer of the clash and recorded over three weekend sessions this is the clash's first album and here's the crazy thing right this is recorded in in 77 right that's the same year as that sex pistols album that we've already done uh and then the ramones uh but but this is really the first punk the ramones actually

[54:02]recorded an album in 76 but this is actually the first punk album to have singles hit the charts in various countries so this is really i think a lot of people look at this as maybe not the first punk album but the first album that brought punk into popularity i mean of course with the sex pistols but this is a very different sound than the sex pistols like this is it's still aggressive but it's almost it's much more musical i think than the sex pistols uh this album was not released in 79 but when they did release the album it is a totally different version including uh i fought the law on the law one totally different songs and in fact maybe some people if they're downloading a album for the podcast and they are taking it to the cabin and they downloaded the american version by accident they don't realize it until only a couple hours before the podcast it might end up being a big deal so uh this is the clash by the clash i don't have anything else to say about the album i mean it's it's kind of the progenitor of punk um and what was the one we did last time what was the album we did that was london calling london calling now i gotta say

[55:02]this which came later in their career london calling and london calling was more of a shift away from punk if i remember correctly right and i think undoubtedly london calling is a better album like i i after listening to this album i did go back and listen to train in vain one of the greatest songs ever and it's so good but you can hear them in this i don't know like it's it's just so different i mean listen to this genie jones so this was about a famous catchy madam in london who used to be a movie star okay i'm into it i'm in i'm back yes gotcha and i'll tell you what yeah this is a great opener like this one when this comes on you're like yes let's listen to this album like this is a great opener yeah it's kind of a fun but you hit this part of the song and you immediately know this album is going to be rolling grown this is we've heard these punk albums before and we're going to hear this song for like the next 40 i'll tell you what though i'll tell you what you compare this with led zeppelin i

[56:02]mean you're going to listen to that song it's two minutes and nine seconds long is it that or is an eight minute 12 bar jam where we're listening to some guy playing with a violin bow like i'll take the clash all day yeah there's something about that i'm going to say janie jones was a um madam that was in britain that used to be a she used to be a movie star and reminding me that one time i the gym and i saw elliot spitzer and i was like oh i was like oh it's so weird i'm lifting next to a guy who's famous for going to prostitutes like that's literally why i know who he is i was like that would be a bummer i i had i had a celebrity running at the gym a few weeks ago and i tell you who i saw at the gym i would love to know former timberwolf the shack of the mac gary trent gary trent still looking good still looking like a beast he looks like he can still go in the low post and get 15. the shack of the mac man he was fun to watch it's so good it's kids in the nba remote control more nba talk you guys you love it yeah this is so melodic it's yeah this is where you hear

[57:05]stuff like training vein came from here right i'm gonna argue too i think this is a headphone album listening to this i didn't listen to it in headphones that's a good good point it's mixed it's much more interesting i don't know if it's a remaster or what but it's much more clear i think i don't know if it's a remaster i don't know if it's a remaster i don't know if it's a remaster or what this was written after they were so mad they were they're on the anarchy tour which was them some other punk bands and the sex pistols and basically the tour as you might imagine as we learned with the sex pistols totally fell apart and they were talking about how terrible it was uh next up was a song unfortunately written about mick jones's girlfriend it was originally called i'm so bored with you and then he wisely changed it to i'm so bored in the usa when it turned out the girlfriend was going back and listening to all the songs he had done over the course of his learning things maybe she didn't want to learn it's all about how bad the usa is uh the class this is white riot one of the big songs off this

[58:11]uh this was they were involved in a riot up in you know one of those british towns it's called like frosting fire or something like that and they actually it was a it was a race riot involving the the police treating uh black citizens there poorly and so they rioted and then the the members of the clash rioted along with them and they wrote the song white riot i love the the count off to start a song this one's fast this is my favorite song on the album this is my favorite song on the album it's a good one when the chorus kicks in here this is like the i'm always surprised because i have this idea that punk is sort of diy you don't

[59:03]i don't need to know how to play your instrument you don't have to be a musician but something like that is really hard rhythmically and for them to hold it together i think is impressive i would not say they hold it together for this whole album there were a number of songs where i was convinced they were changing tempo yeah yeah they probably were i mean there's there's a number where i was like i don't know what's going on here matt what do you think so far you've been awful quiet i it's just not for me i mean you know it's it's it's a lot of noise but again it's not my culture it's not my scene anything like that and so it's just i think just leads to me not liking it i guess i don't know so i mean there's bits and pieces right there's songs that you like but uh listening to a whole album even though it's 40 some minutes 43 or whatever i just it's not i i can't keep listening to this and so i'm hoping we just keep moving a little faster get through let's get through this and that's a great point man let me say something real quick just next time you're out with your friends at north dakota and they're chatting they're talking put on your headphones

[60:00]always canceling headphones and just play this it's gonna totally change the tone of the whole thing it's gonna be like it's great okay so now that i played this song twice directly after matt said let's speed it up we have hate and war you know this is quite a bit different right russell i don't think we're doing the same song every every song it's interesting the guitar on the downbeats here right yeah yeah i i just don't know if i want to be in a world where out of the top like 100 albums ever there's like six of these punk albums i i think there's too many albums in the top yeah but you can see why london calling is there it's a great album right it's barely punk and but this album started punk right that's why this is here this is well we we've heard too much we we've heard too many times that this one started punk we've heard it with the pistols we've heard it with the ramones like which is it russell don't give me wait till you hear about

[61:03]funk okay i've got some very interesting things to say about who started funk i don't know i enjoy listening to the music if this were if this album were one song or two songs that were eight total minutes i would love it i just i'm kind of with matt doing like a 40 minutes of it by the way i'm by the seventh song they've all said they're all merging together for me what if i told you there's a song in here about joining a ping pong club hmm this is the one by the way where i think the speed so why do you need a punk song about joining a ping pong club because the most punk thing you can do man what are you guys are you guys good ping pong players i can see matt being a legit thing you're good man i'll go up against anybody well i don't know if i'm that good but i i love playing ping pong i'll tell you what i love ping pong i think i'm so good at it might surprise you guys i think i'm really good at it but i went i did go to spin in new york city which is a bar that's

[62:03]just full of ping pong tables i've been to spin in chicago and it's fantastic you realize how sweet it is when somebody else is picking up the ping pong balls you just have a giant basket of like 500 ping pong balls next to you you hit them on the floor somebody grabbing them and playing somebody comes around and picks them up it's the greatest thing ever and you also realize you're not that good at ping pong because dan from work beats the shit out of you 10 times in a row and it actually infuriates you more than it would at a normal bar you're you're very right rob there's something really demoralizing about being defeated in ping pong it's almost worse than like if you were a ufc fighter and just got destroyed it it's there's nothing worse than getting beaten in ping there's a great tiktok account that beck did it better follows where it's just a guy who beats people in ping pong around new york city using things like his phone or like a paddle that's twice as small as a paddle and he beats the shit out of him and it's humiliating small paddle there's always there's always a bigger better ping pong player out there deny i think you mentioned what the previous song was about i think part of the problem for me is like

[63:11]i don't know what any of these songs are about without looking them up but i think deny is like a spurned love kind of thing right absolutely no idea didn't do a lot of research on this album i all right let's roll but i will tell you aaron i did do a little research and i'll say this is this is the album that kind of started punk okay a lot of people don't realize that but a lot of people are talking about it actually london's burning i gotta say i picked a lot of intros for this song not because i'm too lazy but because and this the songs are two minutes long but because these are great intros to songs just listen to this i mean they might be giants as a great song called fingertips where it's two minutes long and it's like 25 songs just the intros put together and it's fascinating to listen to

[64:02]because it just whips through and it's great because it's all these different songs if that was this album of just their intros it'd be the greatest album of all time it'd be number one with a bullet sorry marvin gaye goodbye that song was that song i was was actually inspired by a famous nursery rhyme about the great fire of london of 1666 did you guys know that what did not do any research no i did not wow well you know what i did some research and when i saw this was inspired by a nursery rhyme i thought we could do a list of the greatest songs ever inspired by nursery wow and you guys are parents you guys have had to sing nursery rhymes to your kids right aaron do you still do nursery rhymes or is your son past that he would still be into it but i don't know that many of them he would be into it can i tell you one problem i have russell there's only one place i learned all my nursery rhymes from what's the dice man i'm yelling in the cabin mary mary you're so damn

[65:04]somebody walks in and i'm doing my dice man impression in the bathroom of the cabin it would be a low point staring at three guys talking into a microphone laughing her ass so one thing that i had to clarify for our listeners is the difference between a nursery rhyme and a fairy tale i got a little confused at one point but a nursery rhyme is a short simple poem or song for young children such as hickory dickory dock little bow peep two one two buckle my shoe no shit a fairy tale is a story about elves hobgoblins dragons fairies or other magical creatures usually featuring some form of enchantment so like i couldn't like in my mind i was thinking like is jack in the beans a fairy tale or is it a fairy tale or is it a fairy stalk a nursery rhyme or is it a fairy tale i don't have kids jack hey jack jack tied up the spot he's got a big cock oh so i finally figured out what they were and i so here's the list the

[66:02]first one is run dmc 1986 from their album raising hell this is peter piper check this out oh now peter piper big peppers but run rock rock dump the bell down that's his hard time nimble nimble and he was quick this is so good i love this song and then they've got the bells in there yeah i mean i've heard some tubular bells before but these are good yeah jam master's got the good beat here they don't fall down i don't know that the artists that they sample those bells off but there's a ton of hip-hop artists that have sampled those same bells there and i don't know if you know that any of the songs i believe missy elliott's used those before beastie boys you hear those a lot now right for sure i know matt wants to go to bed but i just have to say one thing i've always had trouble with with a nursery rhyme okay what's that and that is at no point i get in an argument with my kids about this once a year at no point has anybody ever said humpty dumpty is an egg humpty dumpty is not an egg he is a man a flesh and bone there

[67:05]is nothing in the rhyme about him being an egg there is no there's nothing yet every drawing we've ever seen of humpty dumpty he's an egg it blows my mind speaking of humpty dumpty is that cookie that cookie's kicked in uh rob we're gonna skip that doesn't blow your mind honestly that humpty dumpty is not an egg well i had not heard i to be fair i had not thought of that rob and you are uh bringing up a very good point so i'm almost certain rob has brought this up before we're gonna we gotta comb the archives i think it's happened but i'd have to ask a downloader we'll see a philly we're gonna well if we're gonna talk about humpty we gotta talk about the digital underground and the humpty dance check out the lyrics from here you're gonna hear this can i show you something russell yes sir i saw this on the list today

[68:03]what are you doing he's standing up he's doing something weird oh he's he is wearing a shirt with the lyrics he's got he's got the lyrics he likes my shirt says i'm funky i'm spunky i like my oatmeal lumpy and i had to know where i got confused though i saw like in an article that this was inspired by a nursery rhyme and so i started looking at the lyrics and i was like i'd never heard of the the nursery rhyme about in a 69 my humpty nose will tickle your ear now but wasn't there that one where i didn't hear that nursery i used to read to my daughters about the time that somebody got it on in the burger king bathroom so this makes sense to me actually this was the first song where i ever memorized all the lyrics to it i think this is the first one and the best lyric in the song and i know i've said this before the best lyric is when he says i use words that don't mean nothing like lupid and it's so good that he just made up a song he made up a word acknowledge

[69:02]it's not a word and fit it in the song shock g big ups rest in peace you and rest in peace brave finder i'm gonna find out where he's buried so my understanding is digital underground he would rap as shock g and he would also rap as the as the character humpty hump is that right i think that's true because that's when he put the nose on and did the different voice yeah yeah and then kind of he became so popular with that that it kind of spun off a little bit but now did you shock g was smooth shock g would say like i'm shock g the one who put the satin in your panties and humpty would do it in a burger king bathroom i'm not gonna lie aaron you saying it like that makes me want to go take a shower right now that was crazy you know so it's initially uh this band um they're i think i don't know if they're bay area or not aaron but that song was inspired by the bay area earthquake from 89 is it 89 the world's 89 quick yeah that's correct is that their bay area well that's weird because i saw it on tv and i did see

[70:02]a lot of people limited to the side like their leg was broken so 1990 we were talking last week about um led zeppelin and kind of borrowing music and i think 1990 was a really big year because there was a huge lawsuit at that point about sampling we've talked about this before how there was a certain point where groups had to start crediting they had to start paying for samples but this was before that and um digital underground actually took a lot of songs from parliament and funkadelic aaron i think is that right yeah i think you're right and another group they took a lot of influence from was sly and the family stone so the next song on the list is everyday people by sly and the family stone see if you hear the inspiration from the nursery rhyme yes the butcher all right it's adding a twist on the traditional nursery rhyme rub-a-dub-dub three men in the tub the butcher the baker and instead of the candlestick maker it's the drum rub-a-dub-dub three men in a dub they're wearing jack straps oh oh that's the one my family's gonna be here

[71:07]and be like what the fuck is this show about next song on the list i don't really have anything to say about this other than it's a fantastic nursery i'm in a badass rapper this is warren g anime check this one out warren g yes pick up this stick oh oh they're doing back to the boogie yeah i mean we've not had enough nate dog on this list i know that by the way nate dog wait no he's not playing minnesota warren g is yeah one of them's dead i know yeah i just you know what i just looked up where he's buried so i'm actually going to go there because i love hanging out in the cemetery it's my favorite thing next song on the list aaron you've

[72:01]been calling for this artist for weeks now we're gonna play some madonna this is lucky star from 1983 and madonna's debut album yes yes russell yes russell oh yeah this list is so good this is yeah you've got you're you're two for two man you've got some incredible two episodes the the most incredible thing about this list is that this is not the first song that's ever used uh is it starlight star bright is that the nursery rhyme aaron what's the what's nursery rhyme first star i see tonight i can't wish i may yeah i wish i might i wish i might have this wish i wish to eat this girl like vegemite yeah no sorry mom i'm doing a podcast yeah no it's the thing is it was a andrew dice clay

[73:01]but it was eating like a fairy tale you get what i'm talking about okay she gets it she thought it was funny that's gross it was something else but so one of her one of her big hits but there's actually a couple other artists that you know i don't know if you've heard of them but they're used that starlight star bright first star i see tonight in a different song we're inspired by one of them was joni mitchell with a song called this flight tonight oh i think it was covered by nazareth yeah which is our flight tonight song check out the star bright sing along russell these are the stories that i like i'm gonna take up i mean this it does rock tonight starlight star bright star bright inspired by the song by joni mitchell inspired by a nursery rhyme nursery rhymes and songs are outstanding good work russell your brown star is so bright tonight russell can i tell you something i was thinking to myself why didn't he do i fell into your trap

[74:05]totally because i was thinking to myself why didn't he do slick rick talking about mirror beaver on the wall and i was like that's a nursery rhyme and then i was like shit i'm gonna do slick rick on the wall and i was like that's a nursery rhyme and then i was like it's not dude there was a lot of good fairy tales once too there's jack there's oh what's the song but quad city djs i think i can i think i can i think i little engine that good thomas the train or whatever the train not a nursery by the way i have a good train joke for andrew dice clay not going to do it out of respect for you guys but dude i spent a lot of time on like mother goose.com today to tell if things were nursery rhymes or a fairy tale this is what i do did i just say mistakingly nursery rhymes and fairy tales is what we call doing a russell but it's actually the third so you have to hold up a three when you say because there's until you just did it i pulled a russell what can i say russell i'm not kidding this time that is your best list you've ever done it's too bad nobody's gonna hear this episode because it's

[75:04]the clash but that was such a good list great job career opportunities i love this one the office of me this one and i heard the new timbrel's player sounded to me a lot like remember rudy gobert rudy can't fail remember you can't fail right and by the way he may say turns out rudy gobert is he's gonna be he's gonna get the timbrels right to the championship which is really cool if you bet on them at 25 to 1 maybe put five bucks i don't know anything about british television but i feel like any song that shouts out the bbc i i just feel like i automatically like that song then you would love jimmy hendrix live at the bbc a great album i walked into that one don't don't bing search it led zeppelin sessions the bbc sessions i i think that song had a lot of references to oi oi oi i didn't hear look at these knucks or have a taste of these knucks but you might have to work a little oi into your next british impression there rob oi take a look damn

[76:05]a taste of me knucks guys the impression is coming together i can almost say more than one thing all right by the way coming back from ireland i was thinking about doing the intro in an irish accent and i tried for about five minutes and then gave up as it got worse and worse and offensive actually uh cheat farther and farther away as we get into this song i feel like i've been cheated because rob told us he was going to ireland and then came and did two weeks of rolling goings and nothing was about his trip to ireland no not another thing he was like i went i'm wearing a speedo i love this song by the way this is fucked up yes this is a great song yeah i love when he gets that real snarl russell i told you my favorite part of the trip before we recorded but the listeners will never hear it my favorite part of the trip zero bugs in hotel rooms god there are no bugs i love that this is my favorite part uh protex blue now you don't realize how funny this title is until you realize what protex is

[77:02]in britain now russell you probably know because you you've seen some birds across the pond russell you know what i'm talking about some birds across the pond i have to admit i may have been looking for the best songs about condoms yes protex is a british condom so the song protex blue is very funny to me next up the only song on this album that i knew police and thieves yep i gotta play this for a while guys it's so good it's based on a reggae song i mean they're musical you can hear it here this is so different from the ramones come on russell don't shake your head at this i'm so confused i came into this convinced this is a rolling groan you guys are trying to change my mind and i don't know what to think wait until you taste mountain dew hot cheetos you're gonna realize that right sorry rocky aaron what'd you say

[78:01]i was just i was i was with you man i was saying listen the bass is really singing here crazy oh yeah still applies it's evergreen uh just like my favorite eddie murphy nick nolte movie 48 hours it was also the time frame that it took for the bug spray smell to go out of my hotel room and your clothes like i pictured you guys on the ride home and you both just smell like bug spray and you're both looking straight ahead so funny hey oh i had a great date and i smell like bug spray two two things that have never been said back to back a great song aaron can relate to it garage garage land garage land in the garage garage band russell i was going to do a list of people that when they sing you can hear their accents oh i like i might have to pull that out sometime i was reading about this one uh

[79:05]when they released this some big music critic charlie shawley's music critic charlie shawley's music critic when they released this some big music critic charlie shawley's music critic charlie shawley's music critic when they released this some big music critic charlie shawley's music critic charlie shawley's music critic when they released this some big music critic charlie shawley's music critic charlie shawley's music critic when they released this some big music critic charlie shawley's music critic charlie shawley's music critic when they released this some big music critic charlie shawley's music critic charlie shawley's music critic reviewed their show and said the clash was the sort of garage band who should be speedily returned to the garage preferably with the motor running that is a brutal brutal review that's and then so this guy just ripped them and this was the inspiration for this he's like if you're gonna rip us like that up we're gonna sing about that and then this same critic like a year later called this the greatest album ever so it's they showed him that's the song i've been listening to for a long time that's the song i've been listening to for a long time that's the song i've been listening to for a long time that's the song i've been listening to for a long time that's the song i've been listening to for a long time that's the song i've been listening to for a long time singing all day and my family's like so you're in a garage garage band and you want to go from garage land it's great it's a great song by the way if you have an insult you think is that good about beck did it better call in 802-277-BECK leave us a voicemail we cannot just talk about the we cannot just talk about the replacements every single no we cannot just talk about the rembrandts every single time okay we got to be talking about other stuff guys let's get into my

[80:00]very popular and very patented rating system it's a very popular and very popular beck did it better rating system oh yeah listen guys this album is at 102 okay there are only 101 albums better than this one and that's a fact that's a fact from okay you can put it on a gravestone aaron will see it as he walks by on his daily stroll through the graveyard which is weird nobody else thinks so if you think so please text in 802-277-BECK and say aaron is weird get that down if you think this album is like being in a graveyard it's great you love it it's one of your favorite things to do that means it is a rolling well toned it's perfect right where it is is this album should it be higher than 102 maybe at 101 maybe at 100 and you're thinking yourself higher yet he's going to lower numbers okay that is so weird it's like we're on a teeter

[81:06]totter where rob is on one side the list is on the other side and i cannot tell you how many traumatic experiences i've had with teeter totters in my life you can imagine looking at me teeter totters do not end well they just don't it's terrible that's a laugh that is a rolling you son of a bitch if you don't laugh this podcast is over if russell gets married and you stop laughing we're fucked i i don't want to encourage this behavior it's the thing that is rolling uh bone it should have been higher up okay kind of like me on a on a teeter totter fall down hit your tailbone because the other person hops off as a joke and it actually hurts really bad okay oh here it is coccyx oh or is this a rolling groan okay you did not think this album was so good it should be later on the list which of course is a higher number now for some reason that actually makes sense in my head now that i say it so what do you think rolling well toned

[82:01]or rolling bone or rolling groan and please please please please please please please please please please for matt's sake keep your answers short thank you matt what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling road let me find the sound clip there it is i would like to take us back to when we did album 16 london calling and the whole point of that was is that they were like uh so unsuccessful they're like on their last wits end they were going to be cut by record company if they didn't switch up and go to what was london calling and then it turned into like this great album that yeah rolling stone says is number 16 well this is the album that was right before that so this is the album that all of a sudden was so bad that they had to switch up how they did everything they needed to go to a garage that was preferable i mean i i honestly i just i just don't get it um why this is even on the list uh you know they have

[83:05]the clash has three albums on the list 16 is london calling this one's 102 and something called sandinista at 323 it feels like a few too many the clash albums uh particularly in the top 102 so i'm gonna say rolling groaned uh russell what do you think rolling well toned rolling boned or rolling grown okay now rolling well toned would be like a hotel normal okay rolling grown a hotel full of bugs rolling bone okay no pentel suite no bugs you know i'm trying to think of a dice impression about hotel rolling bone i can't think of one so sorry russell go ahead i think matt hit it on the head one thousand percent i didn't i didn't really think about it like that but matt is absolutely right with they were not successfully shifted to london

[84:00]calling london colleague was a top i believe it was a top 10 album on the original list dropped down a little bit but i don't know i just don't get this i i can't believe we're living in a world where if the first 101 albums didn't exist and aliens came to the planet and said give us your greatest album ever this would be our answer get the fuck out of here like i enjoyed listening to it there are a handful of super fun songs but there's no way this is one of like the 102 greatest albums ever i'm gonna say it's a rolling bugs in the room bugs what is that one oh it's not so easy to come up with puns about this rolling going is it i i like the songs i could listen to a handful of them for 10 minutes but this is a rolling grown as an album on on a greatest album of all time 10 minutes you'd be like halfway through this album rosie what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling and rolling bone makes you think about cemetery he wants to get out there get a hike in there rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling uh i mean matt makes great points it's too much clash in the top 102 i think this album

[85:01]is really fun to listen to i actually really enjoyed it i think this album doesn't fit the format of this show very well but maybe nothing does but it doesn't do the album justice to go through it song by song because one of the things that's great about it is that it's really tight and it's short and quick and we're playing pieces of each of it it sort of loses the thread but anyway uh i think it's really fun um but yeah i might have to i might have to give it a rolling too much clash in the top 102 matt you've turned the podcast against me everybody agrees with you now that's crazy unfortunately you're all wrong okay what and a lot of people don't know this okay but this is a rolling hey rob here's my car and the keys to my garage no it's garage garage everybody's been saying garage listen this a lot of people don't know this a lot of people have been talking about this this is just leave my protex blues in the corner though leave this is a roll this is a rolling first punk album

[86:00]okay it's literally the beginning of punk music and a lot of people have been talking about it it's it's crazy okay and every punk album on my computer is my i can't hear everybody listen next up okay next up this is rolling rolling overrated album literally could have picked that as the bit and did not instead i'm doing rolling bone which i have to explain people text all the time asking me to explain i have to okay we could get in trouble listen if i don't explain i could really get hurt oh yeah i could it can hurt my old blue balls joke all right listen old you've got old blue old blue he's my friend oh blue hit his balls oh rob's got old blue balls old gray balls that's my nickname in high school cookie parade cookie listen next up we have an album that i know aaron's gonna love

[87:07]de la soul real literally means of the feet and the name of the album three feet rising three feet rising right this is like this is like that arnold schwarzenegger movie the three boobs for aaron but it's three feet he loves it he's in the shower crying right now yeah total recall pg-13 was a total recall but listen i've got that podcast for you i don't know i think it's on the pg list i thought it better aaron i went to um gravefinder.com okay and i opened it up and you know what it said no saturday after that today live live live at the metro metro metro dome come see grave digger crush cars you'll buy the whole seat but you'll only need the edge now man i'm wondering how many trucks will there be and

[88:05]how expensive will it be last time i checked there was about 20 there's 20 no there was 20 trucks and it was only 20 bucks to get oh you know what that is russell right you know what you know what that is that's just enough to get four cherry snow cones with booze in it you know what i was at the truck that wasn't gravefinder.com that was gravedigger.com a lot of people oh it's easy easy mistake to make we're gonna delete this out but my closing joke would have been guys i just pulled a russell but i used all my towels cleaning up the bugs i got nothing to clean the mess up yeah let's stay it in rob rob's leaving that in