De La Soul: Three Feet High and Rising (1989)

[00:01]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 103, and from 1989, this is Three Feet High and Rising by De La Soul. Let's listen to K-Rob, K-R-O-B. Welcome to K-Rob, K-R-O-B. This is just a quick reminder that Russell went on a date, and his hotel room was full of bugs. Oh, yeah. 403, my hotel room number. I need assistance, but not a plumber. Someone left the door open, and it wasn't me. And now the bug. The buggies have us outnumbered. Going on a date, and it's happening soon, so I get a nice hotel room.

[01:04]We open the door, we leave on a light, we have a million roommates that night. Go to the front desk, and I ask them, please, can they find another room for me? I was hoping for some kissing and hugging, but now it turns out this whole room is bugging. Grab a can of Raid, and I go inside. I commit bug genocide. Well, the bugs in the room, my style is cramping. I paid for a room, but it feels like camping. Gotta clean up the bugs, so I grab a towel. Can't wait to hit the winery tomorrow. Hoping she was screaming like it's hysteria, but we just got a bad case of malaria. 403, it's my room number. It's full of bugs, and we can't slumber. There's crickets, and I think I see some centipedes. This isn't good, and that's a huge bummer. When you want to grab all the greatest animals of all time. There's no crawlers. Russell goes too lazy to look at our bum. Russell having a room of bugs. I don't think it was talked about enough in the last episode, honestly.

[02:00]Is that all we talked about? I haven't listened to it yet. I probably won't listen to it. I told multiple people, like, hey, Beck did it better. Russell was in a room full of bugs. They were like, what? I was like, hey, listen to the podcast if you want to hear more. That's what happened. Listen, this is Beck Did It Better. We are up to 103. We were talking about De La Soul, and I've got three guys who haven't seen this much sampling since they went to Costco. Since they went to Costco. Except for Aaron, of course, who's never been to a Costco. Famously. So for him, he calls it. I've never been to Costco. I've never been either. Half of this podcast has never been to a podcast. Oh, my God. I've also never been. I've never been to a Sam's Club. I've never been to a Costco. I also don't believe in coupons either. Yeah. Russell is holding onto two giant dollar hot dogs when he say that. So I don't believe him. I think he has been to Costco. But as Aaron calls it, his vegetable collective for the good of the comrades in the Bay. That's where he goes instead of Costco. Costco. That's where he goes. That's right. That's what I'm about. That's a good one.

[03:00]That's a good one. I said about my own joke. Thank you very much. Not nervous at all about how this is going to work out today. I've got Matt Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Great. I could go for a few of those little wieners wrapped in bacon or something right now. That'd be good. Are you on the right podcast or what? Aaron's like, huh? I've got Russell. Now, Russell has an interesting situation today. Russell is up in northern Minnesota. He is calling. He is zooming from his phone. It has required him to turn his video off. So what we're looking at is just a big R. OK, so we don't get to see Russell's normally expressive face where he looks concerned or stressed or all that stuff. And there is a little bit of a delay. So we might have to adjust his audio a little bit. Definitely going to make him sing along with a song tonight. I think that's going to be good. I've got Russell in northern Minnesota. Russell, how are you doing tonight? Mirror, mirror on the wall. Tell me, mirror, what is wrong? Can it be bugs in my hotel room or fake drinks on boats so strangers don't loom? Gambling at wine. Wine tastings. It ain't make-believe. And it makes my date cry. But when it comes to pulling a Russell, it's just me, myself, and I.

[04:03]Yes. OK, so I'm actually going to leave in. At that moment, I'm going to leave in how long we actually waited for Russell to talk. Because it is so funny. But for the rest of this, I will be editing it so it sounds good. So, Russell, if it sounds like we're interrupting you, I swear to God we're not. We have just time-traveled to now. We're not in the past like you are. Now we're now. Russell's watching. Russell's like, hey, did you guys just see this? Did you guys just see this movie that just came out? Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane. That's how far behind he is on the Zoom. And I've got Aaron, who was recently telling me he's so upset that Biden is making Jules illegal. Jules illegal. Because he doesn't know who's going to save our soul now. Who's going to save our soul? Jule. It's a double. I get it. OK. I get it. Rosie in Oakland, how are you doing? Rah. Yeah. Haircut. Rah. Rah. That's dandruff. Rah. Rah.

[05:00]That's dandruff. Let's get in right into it today, guys. We don't have time. OK. I don't have time to talk to you about. Actually, I did have dandruff growing up. And it was like, you know what? I just use. What are you guys? What are you guys doing for shampoo right now? I am just using head and shoulders dandruff shampoo. It's two in one. I know it's like if I was in the dating scene, I'd get made fun of that. If somebody came over and saw that. Don't care. I haven't had dandruff in, I don't know, 30 years. I. But I am so paranoid about it that I am still on the head and shoulders bandwagon. I will never switch shampoos. That will be the shampoo I use on my last day here on Earth. What are you guys doing shampoo wise? Anything fancy? Whatever they've got at Lifetime sitting in the. Oh, my God. You're using the yellow stuff or the green stuff or whatever. Yeah. I haven't taken a shower at home in like four weeks. I don't know. What? Well, I've been up north. And then you go to Lifetime. They got free nice towels there. You get a nice sauna in while you're for your shower. Are you OK, Matt?

[06:00]Yeah. Yeah. I'm all right. Wait a minute. Matt's background moves. He's just in his car. He's got a picture of his house at the back of his car. It makes us think he's in his basement. Oh, no. He's living out of his car. There was, you know, just a sidetrack. There was a track coach down at our alma mater, St. Olaf. And I forget the guy's name, but he was there for like 35 years, the track coach. And he famously went like four and a half years without. Taking a shower at home because he was just he was at school every day. Right. And it's free water there and stuff like that. And so that was the big story. Weekends and summers. Why is it? Yeah. Why is he there? He's there all the time. He lives two blocks from campus and would go up there every day. So free, free, free water. I just don't think you should jack off at work. I think that's wrong. I don't think you should do that. OK. Call me crazy. OK. If that's wrong, you lay down in your shower. Could you imagine walking into the college coaching shower room, Matt?

[07:00]And there was some guy laying down. Would you just turn and run out of there? What would you do? Yeah. Immediate 180. I would immediately be suspicious as soon as you turn your water down to not so hot because, you know, you're going to get super sweaty anyway. So you're like, I can't have the hot water and I got to have the cold water. Not too cold. No, you don't want to do cold because that has the opposite effect as well. So you got to kind of make it about 98.6 degrees human body temp. Listen, this is too early to be getting. All this, I think Aaron's giving me a big nod. He wants to actually talk more. He doesn't use shampoo anymore, does he? No, I just use soap. I don't have hair. I didn't even think about that. I mean, it's just like, why does he use soap? I am sexual harassment. Aaron, I'm working on it. I'm going to get better. I'm trying to get better. OK. I'm sorry about that. I'm just saying that weird. Yeah. Aaron's like, what washcloth do you guys use to wash your huge dicks? I'm like, oh, no. All right. Let's get to the voice. Well, it's like about our listeners, right? All right. Today's voicemail.

[08:00]Hi, guys. Great job on the show so far. Love it. Every minute of it. Wait till today's show. I'm just curious, as now you are all music experts. What Disney song do you feel is the greatest Disney song of all time? I'll go first. I think it's Stand Out from the Goofy movie. Bye. Oh, I don't know that one. Oh, it's kind of fun. Kind of like a Michael Jackson kind of a thing. This doesn't sound like a Disney song. This just sounds like a pop song put in a Disney movie. Oh, wow. I think it's weird when Goofy starts singing about Africa, like, and dressing up like an Egyptian. Remember that weird part of Michael Jackson's career where he was like, where he was like, I'm going to dress up like an Egyptian. Everybody was just like, whoa, that is weird. Oh, you don't remember the time. Yeah, I remember the time. Oh, man. And you're like, wait, you're Egyptian now like that.

[09:02]And then he went to an alien starship with his sister. Was that black and black or white? Where they were playing the video game. I remember that because I was like, is this a shitty video game they have in the future? This video game sucks. But here's the thing is what what is your favorite Disney movie? Now, I did text you guys ahead of time. OK, and I got a text back from everybody, but except for one of us. OK, one of us didn't text back and it could have been anybody. We don't know who it is. So you can tell the age of that caller. I think that caller is approximately five years younger than us. If they say 38. Yeah. If they care about the Goofy movie at all, a movie I couldn't care less about could be wiped off the face of planet. Yet when I went to YouTube to get that video, every comment on there is like, this is the best Disney song ever. This is so great. People love the Disney movie. The Goofy movie. And I'm like, when did the Goofy movie come out? People who hate the movie don't go on YouTube just to put a comment in the comment section on the song that this is the worst Disney movie.

[10:08]Well, I mean, that's a little bit biased, right? I bet it's a teacher or someone who's got their whole summer off to come up with stupid questions like that, right? It's got to be a teacher. Not that I know of. But, you know, some some teachers are actually like thinking about the curriculum and actually reading. Recharging the batteries. And some of them are sleeping till like eleven thirty on the day where they're supposed to release the podcast and maybe not getting that quite done yet. Because maybe they ate too much prime rib the night before that they had cooked. But, you know, every teacher is different. Goofy movie, by the way, came out in 1995. Yeah, definitely. It's like that one at all. It's a time where, you know, I think us as we were in high school at that time, you know, we were making out like we were we were cutting holes in the popcorn boxes. We're doing all that. Meanwhile, middle school kids are at home watching Goofy movie. If I was going to see Mulan and Pocahontas, like who's watching the Goofy movie and when you could be watching those other classics.

[11:00]Confused. Look at Aaron saying he went and saw Mulan and and I did. I saw him in the theater. I totally saw him in the theater. He's doing the one with the two female leads to make us look like shit. Fuck you, Aaron. What a dick. Yeah. Trying to trying to make us look bad. I saw Hercules in the theater, too. I saw all of them. I went to all the movies. No, I did see Hercules in the theater. Nobody's favorite Disney movie, by the way. Nobody's like. Yeah, I love it. I love Hercules. And now I got to say, James Wood has done some interesting stuff. I don't know if you follow him on Twitter now. He's got some cool stuff coming on now. But that's a few points. Matt, what is your favorite Disney song? Well, instantly, the first song I thought of was Let It Go. But I think it's a little bit of a recency bias. It was frozen. You know, the circle of life from Lion King. I just can't think of the old ones, you know, but there's so many, so many better than that goofy. I don't know how that one, but we could just, we could list them all.

[12:00]But I think Aladdin, Aladdin had some bangers on there. Yep. You know, I think, yeah, the Little Mermaid had three or four, right? Kiss the girl. I mean, that was a, you guys are all whiffing on the big one here. Can I just jump in before you? Please. The greatest, the greatest Disney song ever without question is from Beauty and the Beast. It's Gaston. I missed. Especially good at expectorating. Be good at expectorating. When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs. When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs every day to help me get large. And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a boar. You're 1,000% right, Russ, because you texted me, please pick the Gaston song from Beauty and the Beast.

[13:00]I had already done it because that was my pick. And I had gone to that same place where he was talking about eating so many eggs that he's as large as a barge. There's, there's, there's not a better Disney song than that. That's, that's the A1, that's the A1 player on the board, right? That's the king on the chessboard. It's such a good song that you feel bad for Gaston when he tries to kill the hero at the end and then falls off a thing and dies. And you're like, oh, that's kind of a bummer. I like that guy. Well, to be fair. The, the hero of the thing was like a werewolf beast, which in any other world, like people would have said that thing needs to go, right? I, that's what Gaston did. I'm not going to lie. He said the beast has to go. When that beast and that lady were having that relationship, I was kind of like, oh, I'd like this a lot. There's also the line in that song where it's, and every last inch of me is covered with hair. That just kind of makes me feel good about myself. Right. That's not celebrated enough by common, by common people right now. Right. All the way to the tip. Yeah. Yeah. Oh no. Well, and you know what? Sometimes when you get older, that actually happens that you have to shave.

[14:01]I think it's weird because you can't shave it, but it's soft. So you got to like turn the water to 97.8 degrees, then start shaving. You got to be so, so careful. We are going to have a manscaping sponsored by the end of this 200 episodes. Well, another hundred episodes. Manscape is going to be with us. Oh, I, well, you know, for speedo season, I'm not going to lie. I did have to do some manscaping and it was extensive. Intensive and dangerous. It was, there was a lot of like manscaping. There was a lot of like blind alleys and turns that I had to do it. Like, I hope this is going to work and I hope there's not something there I don't expect because I was using my safety razor. So it was like a whole, like I was using an actual blade. It was scary stuff. I was asking my nieces and nephews about the greatest Disney hits. And actually one of them was telling me that a new song just broke like the record for Disney, like highest on the chart or something. We don't talk about Bruno. I'd never even heard of this movie or the song of you guys. Everybody loves that. Oh yeah. It's a great, great flick. Yeah. They it's, if you're a teacher, that song is, is going crazy.

[15:02]Now, Russell, I did, I was mad at you because I picked Gaston and I was going to make fun of you. Um, but you're so far in the past right now. It feels bad. It feels like I'm picking on a child. It feels like I'm picking on a younger person actually doing that. Oh, he's fine. Yeah. Rob's going to be, be good and not pick on people. Yeah. Well, it's Russell. I mean, he's so sweet. Here's the thing is that I am going to pick instead a very similar character, although that's a bad guy, but a very similar character. It's a very, I, there's something about Disney characters when they are super boisterous males that I can relate to. I don't know what it is. It's weird. I don't know. It's, you know, maybe it's just who I want to be, but you're welcome. Dwayne Johnson, the rock. We also talked about this with my nieces and nephews and they love this one. They were singing along. This is a jam. This song is so good. Now I'm not going to lie. If you listen, the rock is not singing. He is talking melodically. He's making it work. Thumbs and it's Lin-Manuel Miranda, man. That guy can write a song. It's, it's crazy that you would be like, Hey, let's have the rock sing a song and then it

[16:03]works. Like you just, you automatically should just win every award ever. Yeah. Now, Aaron, you sent me originally, you wanted me to play Zippity-Doo-Dah during this. Now I'm not going to do that because that is actually pretty offensive. I don't know if you realize that that song has been canceled. Oh God. I've been thinking about that joke all day. I'm just going to basket it for a little bit. Felt good. Felt good to get that one off. I was, I was borderline searching for it on YouTube and I was like, no, work computer can't be doing that. Actually get me in trouble. Uh, Rosie, what is your favorite Disney song? My favorite is Un Poco Loco from Coco. This one. Can I ask you guys, when you were, when you're thinking about Disney movies, one of my nieces said, well, what about Toy Story? And I said, isn't that Pixar? And I said, well, that's owned by Disney now. So what? So that's what I was going to bring up. Do Pixar movies count in Disney world or not? I don't think so. so yeah i don't think so so uh what is it you've got a friend in me by toy store so obviously i'm

[17:02]looking at a list now i googled it but like i mean there's there's an unbelievable huge list of disney songs that are way better than that goofy song but you know you've got a friend you know again i didn't think of that as a disney movie russell i'm with you and so i mean apparently it's disney pixar so you you got a friend in me is not better than the gaston song it's it's just not like there's no there's no there's no there's no expatriating there's nobody covered in hair and there's definitely nobody's roughly the size of a barge i mean if woody was talking about how much hair he had i would be all about it i would be listening to that no problem yeah right if it inspires that kind of performance from russell it's got to be up there there's maybe maybe this person who asked this maybe they're like some phd student who is like doing a deep dive into what is your favorite disney song and you know rosie's bringing up un poco loco i'm saying friend like me and let it go all this stuff and rob and russell are

[18:04]talking about these boisterous male no man i think it's i just think it's something there i think it's a high school teacher who's got their summer off it's got nothing better to do pretty pretty sure all right you got me let's get into rolling going and now i will say i think it's impressive that you by far had the most time movie what everybody's up to all right let's get into rolling going rosie how's it going with you rolling going oh man it's going really great we um so just we moved on friday we uh bought our first house thank you and so just gotta start off with just like yeah i don't have any more triumphant music but like you buy the house yeah you buying a house is so great rosie nice job thank you it's the end of an era for this podcast isn't it yeah i'm right one less thing rob can make fun of rosie for yeah i mean the house that we bought still isn't that big i'm sitting here in the laundry room but i mean yeah

[19:03]just like to start off just like man's like what's that infinite gratitude to like my parents my wife my son anyone who ever gave me a job just like to have bought a house is just like such a dream big up to all those people who helped you with the financing the loan officer people big props big ups thank you so much for helping out thanks it'd be so nice to me yeah easy but i did i learned some things i learned some things those title workers i mean to get that title commitment that's no joke they put a lot of work into like searching the platen surveys right you just wait i got some thoughts about that uh yeah the title workers shout out to them shout out to chicago title everybody who made this happen so we're here we're in the house and i'm so stoked um i learned some things during moving uh as you often do like you learn about yourself um first thing i learned was that i was like oh my god i'm gonna learn is i own uh an uncomfortably large number of zip ties uh what i don't know why like i was

[20:03]in the garage like is there such a thing i mean is there too many zip ties you put on a government watch list why do i have so many zip ties like no one who's not you know either into bondage or a serial killer doesn't need as many zip ties like what was he doing i guess i just say every time i one zip tie i bought 50 so that was did i um one thing did i ever tell you guys about the time i bought restraints for our bed my wife and i so i bought restraints because i was like hey it's time to spice up this marriage we're gonna get some restraints right so it's this thing where you have to like first of all it's a huge pain in the ass you got to put it under the mattress and then the hand things come up and the legs things come up and already she is instantly annoyed with me because i did not for you or for her i'm just trying who's being okay man i am so strong nobody i'd be like king when they start taking those flash pictures some would say you're roughly the size of a barge rob

[21:00]she'd be like oh there's so much hair everywhere uh every inch uh and so i put him on the bed sorry to interrupt rosie but i put him on the bed and tied her up and i was like all right it's time to get erotic and instantly she was like well my nose itches and i was like well sorry you're tied up that's the way it goes and she goes take this off right now my nose itches and i was like okay and that was kind of the end of it and then they just kind of next time we changed the sheets they went to the wayside so if anybody wants to get some very lightly used restraints please let me know okay rosie go ahead you're talking about your restraints or whatever second thing i don't know if this is something i learned about myself or not um but something i noticed in the move-in process once we got over here uh it was fairly warm day a lot of trips up and down steps moving stuff um we were all working pretty hard um my lady was here totally busting her ass to get stuff done and she was like oh my god i'm so tired i'm so tired i'm so tired i'm so tired i'm so tired unpacked she unpacked and put away so much stuff but the first thing that she unpacked of mine and the only thing for half the day was my deodorant so that was that was all that was out there just

[22:03]prominently i opened up the bathroom closet that was there so uh is that your toms of main shit aaron it's mostly cocoa butter no it's aluminum free but i can't remember exactly the brand it's really it smells nice so but i got that message so i've been wearing that you know pretty regular regularly uh over the weekend so that message received uh matt you had a thought is she from minnesota it's a very minnesota thing passive aggressive let me just set this out here for you and i'm not gonna tell you that you smell like ass but here let me just set this out here this is this is very much like matt's breath mints discussion where he and his wife just brings out the breath mints right oh hey would you like some gum never ever seen you buy a pack of gum ever in your life before what does this mean yeah there you go third thing i learned and uh this gets it russell's uh russell's talk about people i'm thanking so i've always been on the lookout for

[23:02]jobs i would want to do in retirement and i used to think i'd want to like pour beer at a beer bar but our notary was amazing this guy i mean i don't think it's a full-time job i i think it's just a person who gets a stamp yeah i mean incredible this guy had a whole act down it was like every decision that was like well off the record i'll tell you you did this exactly right oh yeah that's this right here that was the great choice you're gonna do just fine with that and he might have told us the same thing if we made all the opposite decisions of course but signing with him was such a wonderful experience and he was like i retired i was home my wife was yeah i was driving my wife crazy she told me i had to get a job so i do this notary thing you know he drives around having people sign papers on their you know big accomplishment in life so that's that's that's gonna be my my uh dream job when i retire as being a notary so if anybody out there is hiring or looking to train people please let me know i love you and i didn't think you could get more boring but that would be more boring

[24:00]but at least i could explain your job then hey what is erin doing the podcast i have no idea honestly i still don't know at least i'd be able to say well he signed stuff or something if they if they were to make an adult film about erin doing his dream job it would instead of being a notary public it'd be notary private yeah and now i'm just gonna get out my stamp notarize those privates that is one of those jobs rosie where it's like you you just need to remain certified right you just need to remain in good standing with whatever notary board there is at your state yeah but when you need a notary i mean people pay good money for you just come out like hey i'll be there in a half hour 100 bucks sounds good i'll be there in 100 i'll stamp your little piece of paper and yeah you know all that stuff so i think sarah had sarah had to get something um there was a notary and she's like look i gotta get these other things can i can you notarize these two and he's like five bucks a document right because he's already there kind of a thing who knows if he's actually charging that or just pocketing the cash or what the heck happens but

[25:04]again it's kind of a seems like a good job for you rosie i'm gonna do it it's a good gig plus i just you know i love those people who are like really happy with their job it's like if you go to the coffee shop and the barista's really into it like that makes you feel good it is that is fun and it i'm busy today sorry i'm doing a podcast call me yeah i go yeah sorry i moved now aaron now aaron let me ask did you move now what was that record shit that you're gonna sell to somebody who like was way into records you're gonna have a whole contest to sell that did you ever sell whatever that was oh yeah i didn't sell it i sent it uh to a fan of to one of our listeners so one of our listeners uh now has it in kansas city and i believe he is listening to records on it yeah he is still in kansas city trying to meet that girl i can't believe it trying to get that girlfriend back he might that guy might be rob you might watch it he might be that guy might still be doing that we

[26:01]might need to watch listen if you haven't listened to every episode fuck off okay if you don't get that reference we don't need you no i didn't i didn't move that that uh paraphrase because i shipped it to kansas city for one of our listeners but we moved like we moved about three blocks uh which is like one of those things where you know it's great at first and then the next two days just like well i gotta make like i made three trips to bring all this stuff from the fridge where like if you were gonna move further than that you wouldn't do it but we're all done now yeah it's like oh most of this salsa is left so it's tough though much junk because at some point you move your garbage can you're like well shit now i can't throw anything out like this is all moving i'm moving trash yeah jenny texted me today she goes our garbage can broke and i was like how does a garbage can break you just put stuff in like how do you bring the garbage isn't this the yeah of course yeah that's the thing is i told her you have to buy exactly the same can because we have bought 90 worth of bags that only fit this can letter j yeah exactly get those letter j bags

[27:02]that's simple human we need it she's like well i'm just gonna buy a different can i was like no you don't understand the ecosystem we're in now we're we're deep in the simple human ecosystem we have to do it oh my god can you imagine just have it i was just thinking to myself imagine having enough money to be in the dyson ecosystem where all the stuff you buy is dyson like all your fans don't have blades all your hand dryers at home are dyson hand dryers god that'd be sweet they got bladeless fans oh bro you gotta check out the dyson for this fans you gotta go to costco they sell my costco they have mine you can stick your hand right through nothing gets chopped up it's great well yeah it's wonderful yeah nothing it's it's unbelievable russell rolling going how's it going with you rolling going i'm up at the cabin with family for a week and i i was going to share i had a moment where i was the hero of my family for a little bit so i thought i could share that story is that work for you guys love to hear it so we're we go out swimming the nieces and nephews there's about 10 or 12 of us

[28:00]out there and we're swimming at kind of this sand beach out on the lake and we were out there for a few hours you know just swimming around having fun kids are jumping off the pontoon it's a great old time it gets a little windy and all of a sudden one of my nephews swimming noodles like these big long tubes that kids kind of float along with oh yeah starts dripping away my nephew starts freaking out over he's like there goes my noodle my noodles gone and i'm like you know what uncle russ is gonna save the day oh my gosh so i've started going in the water i'm already in the water and i start swimming towards the middle of the lake to go get that to go get that damn noodle so i'm going and i'm going and i'm swimming i'm i'm the torpedo or whatever you want to call it but michael phelps i'm i'm like michael phelps doing yeah the also you're also like michael phelps because you had a couple drinks before this happened that is true this probably wasn't the best idea for me to be swimming towards the middle of the lake at that point but yeah you're combining all michael phelps into one incident so so i get out

[29:00]there and i could hear like my nephews are like cheering me on they're yelling go uncle russ and i'm like like just invigorated with this like great moment of like they've got so much pride in me i'm showing like this is going to be remember how matt was talking about his uncle who's known for being the speedo uncle my nephews and nieces are going to remember me as the guy who got the floating noodle and i saved the noodle the noodle so i i get it and i get it and my nieces and nephews they're cheering from the boat and they're all super excited and i turn around and start swimming back with it and all of a sudden my one nephew throws a fishing pole line out and catches a fish and everyone forgot about uncle russ all they were doing was cheering for my nephew who caught a fish and now all of a sudden i'm out in the middle of the lake with a noodle and nobody gives a damn once again russell once again as homer simpson said trying only leads to failure yeah so don't even try i can tell you too as as a teacher russell of kids that age the moment you try to

[30:06]actively impress kids it will always backfire it will never work it never happens you just have to accept it when honestly for that fish and when they started cheering for it everyone was cheering for him at that point i was like i'm just saying i'm listening out here and i'm like oh my god i'm out here in the middle of nowhere now and no one cared it was heartbreaking russell just picture russell in the middle first of all russell bright red just sunburned to the dickens he's so sunburned yes he's floating on a noodle tears coming down nobody can see the tears because they're hidden in the water but he is crying because everybody's ignoring him and meanwhile they pull up the smallest fish ever and everybody's cheering and he's exhausted coming back oh russell that's that's so sad russell but great job how you guys ever do you guys ever do like that do you ever have moments where you're you're the hero for your your kids or your nieces and nephews where you go out of your way to to save something stupid that they're gonna lose when like i mean the noodle's worth 82 cents right if the thing floats away nobody cares but like do you

[31:05]guys ever do stuff go out of your way for something stupid that your kids are into to to save the day like that i get up on the roof a lot at our old place yeah yeah i mean i think the dumbest thing i've ever done to be the hero and i and i i'm gonna admit this on to the to our dozens of listeners is that back in the day when the pokemon go create i mean i think it's still still happening it's still a thing you know but leo was probably four or five and just getting into pokemon and all that stuff and loved it we would go we would take uh we would go up to like the mall of america and just walk around and we'd go up to lake harriet just walk around right stuff and just it was a way to kill time and the whole thing was supposed to be then you get to a point where it's like i'm running out of balls and i'm running out of this i'm running out of that so you know to be the hero every once in a great while at like 11 o'clock at night i would drive around in the car and collect pokeballs around just so that the next day when we were going to the mall of america we

[32:03]had enough ammo to catch all those little fuckers at some point so that was the dumbest thing i've ever done to be the hero of wrestling you're a hero darren from minnetonka didn't darren from minnetonka skid about on half of our vegas trip to go through those things and then just in pokemon go in vegas yeah yeah yeah so he said but he came back with a whole bunch of belt burns around his neck so we were suspicious about what was going on a lot of glitter a lot of glitter yeah he's like oh i caught so many pokeballs he's like oh i got it i got so many squirtles and we're like what you know i don't know rob rob recognized the size of those restraint burns immediately he's like that's that's familiar oh god you just reminded me that restraint story is so sad probably honestly the saddest moment of my life i don't know it's just the way it is i've had i've had a blessed life when have i been a hero to my kid uh i will say it seems like every time when

[33:01]i'm up here yeah i don't know i don't think i am a hero to my kids my kids seem to not they seem to see me as a chauffeur slash cook slash boat driver well technically you live in new york where you don't have a car so really you're not even a chauffeur and they do take this i know what rob so what have you been out in new york with you you know and we're out at some swanky restaurant or something you know hanging out and eat eating and drinking fancy smoke drinks things like that you know like your kids are hungry and you'll order them uber eats and it'll get delivered to them that's a hero right there yeah children need to eat yeah so that's good yeah that's you man thank you thank you very much pizza i want sushi oh what kind of sushi do you want i want rice and miso soup i mean the sushi place by our place has delivered to us multiple times just rice can you imagine being a sushi

[34:00]place and they're just delivering rice they're like this motherfucker can't even make rice like what is going on literally you take rice you put it in water you have rice like do they even charge you for that oh oh they charge you a ton for a for a quart of rice is two rice what i thought i thought you were saying you ordered something else with it and like they just messed up and didn't put the other half they just you just ordered rice yes yeah it's rice and then the one wants miso soup but she doesn't like the green stuff in it so we have to ask for the green stuff take it out i mean it's a listen yeah but you know what yeah i get that bill every month i get the green stuff out of it i get it it is mad this is my kid that's like actually that sounds really good rice rice in the soup with no i get that number not a lot of places do that so rolling going how's it going with you uh good uh russell was the hero for getting the noodle rosie he got the hero uh he got the hero call because he's got a new house right he's providing

[35:07]for his family and all that stuff and he fired enough people where his money his company saved so much money he could buy a house yeah well i think you know this week i think i stepped up and probably deserved the hero uh music because my wife is out of town for the week and so i am babysitting our kids by myself babysitting my own kids and doing a podcast impressive and doing a podcast so yeah i mean no applause guys i'm babysitting my kids all week a true hero no help from grandmas and grandpas and camp and all that stuff it's just me 24 hours a day watching my kids man let me ask you just a simple question yeah what was dinner tonight dinner tonight was pizza luce we went to pizza luce a true a true champion dad of the year somewhere michael phelps and brian boitato are looking at pictures of matt wearing medals and they're like

[36:05]damn that guy is a true american hero that's right yeah it's the world track championships right now so it's appropriate that we've been enough of the damn break relays so matt you are a true hero for babysitting your kid this week i oof yeah i think you deserve some time off when the wife gets back oh i think so too i will have to talk to her about that so many of my venmo requests to my wife have gone unanswered every time i'm with the kids for a couple minutes charging that money speaking of venmo requests can i share one of my biggest pet peeves with you guys uh okay definitely people people who have their venmo stuff on public so like if i go to venmo i start seeing a feed of other people's venmo i'm like i don't need to see that you paid your wife for groceries i don't need to see this i don't think people know about that though who are the assholes that are making their feed public i make everything public and i love it i think it is great i love people knowing

[37:01]because i'll be paying like oh this is for my nutritionist this is for my weightlifting coach so people who don't know me and don't see that i'm drinking like three truly's and a red hot mountain dew which by the way i bought another 12 pack of these yeah guys my shits are insanely orange here's the thing is that they think i'm living my best life through my venmo it's like every other social media they're just getting a glimpse but it is funny when i see couples who are together and they're venmoing each other and i'm like is everything okay over there like are you guys like is what's going on i i kind of like it it's kind of like reality tv to me i spy on it russell what are you doing spying on people's venmos you're kind of a sickle like me pops up when you open your venmo account like there's just a feed there right it just shows and there's like i've got like seven people that i know and i don't even know why they're in there i think i must they must like i must have their email or something i don't even know what it is but i know they buy groceries with their fiance all the time i'm like don't need to know it can you just i don't think

[38:02]people know i don't think people know about it but i was just opened up my venmo and between uh march 15th and april 16th there was like 38 venmo transactions me just sending money to rob i don't know what that was and see a turn of it i don't know he could gamble in new york i'm not sure so i mean look at this off though do you guys know how to turn it off asian store mommy milkers burgers chips or the bride milk you're hot have one on me like this is the stuff that keeps me going guys my life is so incredibly boring i love scanning the venmo scan the venmo see what people are paying for these days i mean i guess it makes sense another glimpse into people's lives i'm i'm fascinated by people who are married or just cohabitating like a center where they're essentially married and they're still venmoing each other i just i want to get into that world of like how how does it work like how are you paying the bill like i just think it's so

[39:00]fascinating to me that you're willing to like you know like put parts of you in other people and at the same time you're like yeah but we got to venmo each other a couple like five bucks for pizza or whatever like that is so interesting to be other people rob is a science teacher it's true it's a technical term is this a music podcast no excuse me i still have my rolly going now listen how's it going rob listen this i just want to tell you right now i'm just going to give you two heads up on the story number one this has all been okay that i can tell this story oh god and number two you cannot say no to any of this okay i already hear you russell i don't see you but i hear you be very i'll just i'll go i'll go on delay for a while so you guys wanted to hear about my trip to ireland let me tell you ireland was great turns out driving on the left hand side i'm a god at it driving with a stick it was on i was just it was crazy good i will say the roads in ireland are so narrow that the the speed limit is not possible they'd be like okay you can only go 80 kilometers an hour which is like 50 miles an hour

[40:03]and it'd be during a single lane dirt road in the middle of nowhere i was like i cannot go that fast on this road these speed limits are dangerous like do not approach the speed limits but it was good because i also saw zero cops the whole time i was there there was nobody there to speed limit so it was just like i don't know it was very strange but the best part of ireland is that on the way out we're on the airport right we are uh going through security now this isn't a flight so i can't play the i can't play the music so we can't have russell sing along in a delay but we are going out we're going through security and of course 100 of the time this happened jenny's bag gets pulled right so instantly i'm like i'm like it's because she's got so many espresso pods right it's it's an espresso pods or it's the powders like she just brings bags of powders right because she's got creatine and protein powder and all this stuff so she's always just has powder she's always getting checked it's always these things oh no not this

[41:01]time they pull her bag and what do they take out of her bag right on the very top you know it it is absolutely they are taking out her vibrator right off the top oh yes they take it out and not only this is security take out her vibrator they then hold it up in the air as if they are beginning the olympics and they are coming down and they're bringing the torch down there and then one security goes over to the other and they're walking around with this and they have now i have to explain something to you my wife's vibrator does not look like my penis at all okay it is great uh no it's it's so hot they were like this is so hot uh you're editing this one i can't be a part of this one anymore no edits rob it's good as it is no edits at all this marriage enhancement device as she calls it uh looks like you know like in the 1930s like doctors just had those vibrators that they'd use on women and they'd be like this is gonna be talking about this is gonna cure your hysteria

[42:03]and the women are like yeah actually it works really well we should do this more often like it looks like a medical device that you would see like we're if you got if a doctor said listen i've got a prescription for you you need to vibrate this is what they would give you at the pharmacy for it so it does look like it looks like something you'd buy at ikea it's not penis shaped in any way shape or form and so they're walking around with this up in the air so i immediately being the man of the house put my head down and walk away i walked through security i walked i was like if she is getting detained by interpol for her vibrator i will not be part of this okay she is on her own all right i don't need to be part of this and and she looked at them she looked at them and laughed and said i can show you how that works if you want and then they put it back in her bag that's a good move where was this at where this happened was this us this is in dublin yeah so were they being jackasses and no they did they know what it was and we're holding it up just to

[43:01]be jackasses i don't think so because when they kind of like i think somebody kind of realized because it pretty quickly went back in the bag did she say did she go up to them and say oi have a taste of me nups no i think what she did is she pointed at me and she's like oh that's my husband over there as i was slinking behind like a pillar and trying to hide and she's like and they're like yes you need lots of these like you obviously are married to no man whatsoever knowing your wife you know if they're being jackasses she would just one up right just stand there and just let it you know like whatever you know you're not she's not going to get embarrassed by that one bit i mean clearly since you're allowed to tell this story right but like and so yeah i mean what i mean what are they going to do you're going to see zero of these people in this ever again yeah in your life right nope well i thought it was embarrassing for me when they pulled out uh a warmed up tomato that i had with a picture of aaron's face taped to it what all right let's get into the album let's talk about the album don't make the tomato too hot though i'm just gonna tell you right now

[44:05]97 degrees you want anyway oh god let's move let's be one big tomato so glad i could be there for you let's catch up catch up all over the place all right so let's get into talking about three feet and rising so here's the deal we got three guys for de la soul de la soul is a lot like this podcast right now because i can only see three of you who actually these guys went to high school together in amityville uh new york out on long island now the three guys are aaron do you know how to say these names posunos troy gay true goy they say wait did you listen to the album uh positive news true goy and what was the last one maceo yeah now it turns out that that true true goy do you know why he has that name aaron you know i honestly did not know until i read the pitch for pitchfork review this yeah so you tell it he likes yogurt and true goy is yogurt backwards

[45:01]which i love yes i'm trying to figure out how to spell burger backwards like and then the other one is sound sop which you kind of think maybe he just kind of ran out of ideas on that one he was like oh this works but um but basically these three guys they they got a demo when they were in high school to producer prince paul and made this album and basically they made this whole thing using this casio drum machine sampler and this harmonizer which was kind of this new piece where they could take different samples and actually change the tone of it so they could take something like daryl hall and they could put over a slide in the family stone and they didn't need to worry about what key was in because they could adjust the key so that it worked and that's really the main thing with this album right is that it is a crazy compilation of samples that go into this album i think that's probably what this album is best known for and what makes it honestly problematic to to try to get your hands on whatsoever because there are so many samples on this album and basically they had an agreement when they they

[46:02]this was the album that started the whole sample lawsuit right is that in 1989 they come out with this the turtles hear one of their songs being sampled they sue in 1990 and that's it for sampling that that uh the record company makes a deal with most of the samples to pay them the deal is for vinyl and cassettes only so as soon as we start going to internet as soon as we start going cds they realize that all of these deals that they made de la soul no longer count warner brother has all the masters doesn't want to deal with it so none of de la soul's albums are available through stream they're not being made on vinyl anymore they're no cd you cannot find these on apple you cannot find these on spotify you cannot find these anywhere i mean it is tough to find yeah it's a real bummer and and and what makes de la soul so interesting i think is that this is rap this is coming out the same time as uh nwa this is coming out uh when we're starting to see gangster rap come up but this is more of what like a jazz rap

[47:02]like i saw them get compared a lot to another 1989 album which is paul's boutique by the beastie boys public enemy was also from long island yeah i think this sort of bomb squad you know production is a similar uh yeah tribe i mean they're part of the native tongues crew so i think tribe similar it's a it's a similar but it's almost saying but it's almost like they went down two different paths right is that public enemy is using rap as like a social justice thing right which is almost what nwa is doing in a different means and these guys are having that same idea but it's more i mean de la soul is playful it's funny like the lyrics are kind of it's it's a little bit just you just feel like it's a couple guys hanging out in fact they got the reputation of being hippies which they really didn't like but it was kind of this like comic book inspired you know to me it has parallels with wu-tang also where there was just like some some nerds inventing their own you know language and and uh sphere of of you know being yeah well i would you know cash rules everything around me right so that's that's was that what it

[48:04]is cash rules everything around me yeah cream yeah that's cream yeah yeah i was like what is that spell i'm dumb no wonder i can't come up with burger backwards i've still been thinking about how to spell burger backwards have not figured it out gonna have to write it out do it uh at the end of this episode but uh i don't know i'd like like this so i had to find this i had to find it and download it and put it on my plex and listen to it but let's get into de la soul yeah so we start with an intro sketch one one thing i i i was gonna ask you is this what came first because isn't there the isn't this the game show it's at the beginning yeah what came first this or the chronic because i have to say i i grew up loving the chronic but if the chronic came after this it's going to drop on my list because how many of these albums were using tell us a little bit about it yeah this is before the chronic by like three or four years depending on 92 recording dates and release dates yeah so like the chronic is just lifting the idea of taking a game show as

[49:04]the end the opening or is are there other albums like that in hip-hop do you think it's going to be two i mean i'm sure there are um i can't think of any yeah i think these guys were massively influential on both coasts for sure what was that game show where they were gonna heat up a wire and stick it up somebody's ass god i can't remember what game show that was what was that magic number this takes the drums from a zeppelin song actually and then takes the three the schoolhouse rock song kind of is that yeah and when you hear this on the second track you know like oh i'm in a different realm here like we're putting things together that nobody had thought of and i honestly listening to this i didn't know until i went back and looked it up it was from 89 like it's ahead of its time i feel i that's the thing right is i here's a here's a question is this album brilliant or is it dated right like or is it both i think it's both because you can't sound like this

[50:06]anymore no label is going to pay for some like this so just like paul's boutique just like uh public enemy like the records don't sound like this anymore because labels aren't going to pay to clear the samples so from this right you get the rise of things like kanye where they're coming in making the beats instead of taking it from other people i mean is that kind of what happens here yeah i mean i think kanye did a fair amount of sampling earlier in his career but yeah i i don't listen to that much current hip-hop but i think a lot of it has gotten away from sampling whether it's due to you know i don't know if it's labeled politics and money or if it's just people ran out of crates to dig i mean can you guys imagine just sampling things like all i want to do it just makes no sense to me now i i don't know i think i've done that joke approximately 1 million times but it's funny every time i'm going to say right now that is not the best three is the magic number song one of my top three bands of all time blind melon covered three is the magic number listen to this voice listen to shannon hoon

[51:03]three magic number it's so good pretty impressive that's cool i this one on every mixtape i made all the way through college i love this song every time you were trying to have a threesome you were like making room rob how many mixtapes did you give to women in your life how many over under two and a half mixtapes uh i don't think i ever gave any to women i think i was too terrified too scared plus i was always i was in a long-term relationship i'm a long-term relationship guy so so you just give them you just give them their own copy of they might be giants oh my god if i dated somebody that can you imagine dating somebody that listened to they might be giants i can't even imagine that i'm telling you when you go to a they might be giants concert it's all guys that look like me one thousand percent it's like this podcast but multiplied over and over and over it's it's craziness it's shut up change in speak little james brown or what is that

[52:02]yeah well i don't i don't have a lot of notes for this album honestly this is the one i couldn't hear the lyrics i this one to me the vocals were buried in the mix but i don't know if it's because it's a big coffee or what but i love the air and i i said the same thing i don't i was not listening to the best version either but i had numerous songs where i couldn't really hear anything over the music right i mean i love this group but i couldn't understand they're talking about that sounds like a tribe song but oh well these guys i mean yeah i'm just saying it sounds like try rip that song off there the what what is that the song off of their second album that sounds exactly like that song these guys are pretty interlinked with tribe called quest for sure i think they were in that same like producer right yeah they grew up in the same area yeah they're all from long island but cool cool breeze on the rocks this is the one right where like like if you had to pay to clear all this stuff you would go nuts

[53:05]like there's one song every second this is just aaron ripping through the radio dial like yes like nope nope nope yeah it's a fun track but i mean no nobody would want to put this on an album now it's a total bunch of homework can you keep a secret this is a rap song where everybody shares a secret this this is this the dandruff song yeah this is so bad this like honestly almost ruined the whole album for me like how how do you get to this song and especially if you're watching on the youtube version that's an hour and 10 seconds you know 10 minutes long you can't just pick it up wherever you're screwed if you forget where you're at this hard to get through this song this is horrible i think it does the the scarcity of the album and the way that you have to listen to it versus other things really affects your experience with the album because you have to listen russell you have to be in the room with whatever device is playing it you can't put it on and go to the next room or whatever it's just

[54:01]like you really have to pay attention so you hear something like this and you're like why do we waste my time but i i kind of like the beat you liked it yeah i like the beat it's it's a fun album and i'm whispering you do that's true i enjoy aaron aaron you have a bigger house you don't need to whisper anymore you can sing loudly like yes yeah i think rob is not enjoying my whispering i'm just gonna do this for the whole podcast something's happening in my pokey balls here i don't know what's that willies you I do like that i well here let's get into this jennifer taught me this is derwin's revenge now i do love this this is a song about a guy they knew named derwin who they just said the chopsticks this is great they sampled this too did they yeah i mean these guys these guys are like led zeppelin they're just taken from all the legends they took from whoever the legend that created chopsticks was

[55:01]oh jenny oh yeah yeah yeah my wife loves to hear me talk about taylor soul at home number one fan i'm gonna restrain her and make her i'm gonna restrain her and make her listen to the podcast tangerine tangerine that's our safe word um so but i like here's the thing with like would they be bigger if you didn't have to like hunt for their albums like you didn't have to like see it and go on the soundcloud or go into youtube or man i don't know if this sounds bad or not i think they'd be bigger if they didn't have the name de la soul i think if somebody instantly hears de la soul they don't think of a rap group you know there's this alternative band yola tango you know it's the same thing like you just don't think of them being an alternative band right and so i did i personally um it would be if you could access their music yes they would be way bigger than they are but i think even with a different

[56:01]band name i mean nwa a tribe called quest uh you know all of these these other groups that have come out during this time i mean they have some pretty you know run dmc public enemy all this stuff right they've got some you definitely know where they're coming from and what they're what they're doing and i think de la soul i just i think it gets lost a little bit there's and there's a number of bands that this you could say that about but they get lost it gets lost big time yeah now the good news is we can play as many samples on this episode as we want because who's going to come after us that nobody like we're making no money on this i do know one of our listeners who told me today that he owns this on three different physical media he owns it on cassette vinyl and cd so god damn millionaire i've missed the boat not not picking this one up because i i yeah it's hard it's hard to deal with with the current streaming situation man see what it costs on ebay right now i i think what's really amazing about this album is that this is the debut album all right like that this is a crazy album is it debut this is a crazy what debut what did i say wrong debut

[57:03]i can't believe you guys would make fun of me over one little thing that's sick okay that's sick but like for for somebody that this is there see that you guys see that rainbow over there it's a great debut it's a great debut for somebody's first album fine i'll be dumb i'll talk dumb to you guys uh for somebody's first album like this is a this is a killer album this is i think like changing this is a new style of music and i know we say that every week and we always roll our eyes when we say that we didn't say it about the big pink i know you're pretty negative about that but our downloads reflected don't worry nobody heard how negative we were i think like 20 people downloaded that one um but this this like this album i don't know like you have to put this in context this is 1989 right this is their best-selling album this is their most popular album they get lots of critical acclaim after this but none of them sell as well it's a huge accomplishment and yeah they were young they were young too i think they

[58:00]were in their teens or 20s yeah it's it's crazy you cannot be a hip-hop head aaron and not respect de la soul right like you can't can you have negative opinions i mean well yes everyone can have negative opinions um and i i will admit i've not been into de la soul that much uh actually the album that i knew the best of theirs was grind date from 2004 because that one i bought on cv when it came out um which has some cool samples of like some prog rock uh maybe rush or yes but that's not important uh but this is the part where i say that i went back and i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm to read uh quest love's book uh on music today and he loves de la soul and he calls them his favorite rap group um this album and de la soul is dead he credits with changing his whole approach to music and it was like what when he heard himself in music and he points out a lot that he really likes hip-hop that has more beats per minute and i never put it together but a lot of these songs are up-tempo so uh you guys know me i love quest love so if quest love loves it uh i

[59:00]can't say anything negative about it so if quest love we're gonna like talk about them maybe once a week they would be his sneaky beat of the week they might be his sneaky beat of the week you know what and it's sick that you would make me play this sound clip it really is because you know i know this is officially my favorite sound clip this is the best one you got it's just a mess what if that's the one that gets busted what if that's the one where eiffel comes in is like we're gonna sue you guys over that sound clip we're interpolating we're not we're not sampling we're interpolating that's right we're we're learning from this this is educational fair use uh all right ghetto thang it's the only negative kind of song on this it seems like kind of a you know a trope of the time like i if you weren't gangster rap you had to do the obligatory like what's going on in the ghetto song i don't know i don't hate it if you guys could live in a world and there was only you can choose

[60:01]rap either positive rap or gangster rap but you could only have one which one would you pick positive rap matt you take the positive absolutely why is that i mean eventually it just gets worn down by gangster rap and i don't i mean again everybody's trying to there's there's never i mean what good i don't know how do you say this correctly without getting yourself in trouble you know like i mean it's celebrating a whole bunch of horrible things gangster rap a lot of times you know and so if i had to choose i would go with the you know conscious rap or whatever you want to call it over gangster rap any day of the week but i mean you could say you could say too that that's just whitewashing the situation right of like yeah of course we'd love to hear songs about everything's great but it's it's not and sometimes that's that's the reality that you're hearing from a lot of these groups i guess there's also a difference between like run dmc and some

[61:01]of those other ones and and just the straight up you know pimp and hose and you know it is whatever you want to talk about it's you know there's so many different levels of it right and again that's some people's reality it's true again i don't have to listen to it so no matt makes great points and uh now as a dad if i were to choose only one i could listen to in the house obviously i would choose the positive rap but i would choose gangster rap because uh i would have to be able to listen to biggie and ugk so i i couldn't i couldn't those i mean that's like i gotta have biggie in my life so that i'd have to choose gangster rap if there were no gangster rap rob sneaky beat of the week would just be a sound of aaron singing blue double d double down there would be no biggie sexy in the background biggie saved me on that one too yeah oh my god you're making me play the biggie sound clip down too you know i know right where this one is too like i don't know where any clip is i know right where this one is now imagine her saying my nose

[62:01]itches let me out now that's my that's my cd uh okay so now we have you asked about the album just looking on ebay it's anywhere from like 140 bucks to like 250 so people are that for vinyl yeah for vinyl wow or what i could tell is original pressing so aaron i can't believe you sold it to that guy in kansas city that's terrible this is so funny to me this is so funny this is the song they got in trouble for this is the one that caused the same random french nonsense transmitting live from mars so this is a combination of a turtle song combined with a french language educational cd yeah and this is the one that got up taken down did someone heard this and they're like no i'm not gonna tolerate it i mean like okay if you're the turtles right this is 20 years after your prime somebody comes out with this

[63:00]i can see where somebody'd get a little bit upset now did it have to go as far as it went yeah i don't know i i think the turtles were much bigger in their prime it's like late 80s leonardo donatello rafael michelangelo late 80s they're in their prime uh now listen you might say to yourself rob is that the best french rudimentary french song that's ever been produced no flight of the concords have a song called food of fafa where they only use high school french in song and it is so good so now he's in the supermarket he's gonna go to the supermarket right now when aaron when aaron raises his eyebrows with it flight of the concords their flight of the concords is such a good cd if you guys haven't listened to that it is your own claude van damme

[64:00]it is so great uh this is the fifth single off the album this is i know this is the fifth single this is one of the songs i hear the most maybe steely dan steely dan eventually embraced the sampling we're talking about sampling this is where i had a hard time i love this song absolutely loved it but i was like is it just because it's like steely dan you've got the oldest reddest redding whistling is it just because they've got all these amazing samples and that's why i like it or how do you how do you reconcile that it's i like what they've done with the it's amazing melody and things like that don't you think it's amazing though this was fantastic yeah yeah this is this is an absolute group this is a and i honestly think this is another i've said it before this is another album where if you put it on in your college dorm room it's a fun cool listen to that it's cool i mean it's it's something now i gotta admit if a girl walked in and you're like everyone has dandruff that might not be the vibe you're looking for

[65:00]right maybe you want to make a mix with this one and not just run it let the album run start to finish it's insane that those two songs are on the same album right they don't belong on the same album yeah there could have been maybe a little but i don't know you're gonna have fun listen listen i know better than anyone you're gonna have fun sometimes you're gonna have some misses that's just the way it is now i edit those misses out so all you hear is the gold you're hearing the top 10 of what i'm saying every episode we record is four hours long uh take it off take it off i don't really know what they're going for here there's a lot of fashion references that don't hit for me from this much later but i i really like those drums you can tell you can tell even with the stuff you don't enjoy as much there's parts that you just you can pull out a little bit of soap oh and some ben eking and i don't know what they do with the effects on the bass line there but this also like they take things that are sort of canon and so

[66:04]well known and then they do goofy stuff over the top of it and it's very cool aaron can i ask you a question are you gonna listen to this album after we're done with this yeah i am i mean i i don't know how often i'll put it on like uh i did like soundcloud was okay like there's for me there's still some commercials or whatever but no i'm definitely gonna listen to it and if i can find it on vinyl i'm gonna grab one tread water hey rob i was gonna ask you before you tried on your speedo and caftan rope did you take your ass to the bathroom and use a little soap you would not believe how much tucking in i have to do with my speedo i have found like when i first put it on i have to like it really is like when you're making waffles and some of the batter comes out the side you have to make sure it's all in there this by the way my favorite song here potholes in my lawn second time we've heard it on this podcast you guys remember the first oh we've heard this one before what we have it was actually on a

[67:04]list what list was this on it was the best yodeling songs ever if you guys remember they sampled the yodeling from parliament little old country boy do you guys remember that it was on the sly and the family stone remember the yodeling and the family stone this was on the list and i remember it was one of my favorites for matt because i figured he would never put up with potholes in his lawn this year i do remember that actually had some the cabin next to russell's like what the hell is the podcast i'm doing a podcast he just hears a yodeling dick star podcast yeah it's it's actually the second time we've brought up yodeling on the podcast say no go god there are some great samples on this though yeah this was an absolute jam i loved it for some reason i'm thinking like 80s 90s dunk contest three-point shooting contest like nba all-star

[68:06]game like this was just a jam for me i loved it all right and do as dila does you know what i love these guys have a great they've used dila like in their name like saw the name of the band and songs all the time earlier they said from my soul dila that is i love the way they play with words and play with the name of the band yeah you're right i like how they just sneak it in there wherever they can it's nice plug tune in the first time around you didn't quite understand yeah this was their first song right the the one that that they put together with with prince paul the first time i didn't know that till today but now let me ask you is there anything you made in high school that you could give to an adult and be like hey can i make a career out of this no no no no absolutely not i got i think i did pretty well in the act uh does that help oh really what score did you get

[69:02]oh 32 i don't either uh dala orgy i don't think i did better than 32 how do you mention it i couldn't handle this one this is brutal yeah not russell's thing did you like it i liked it because i was trying to figure out if it's a very white sample it just felt so out of joint with the whole rest of the album don't you think my nose itches my nose itches please stop where are my socks you know all the bits you knew we were gonna tell those big ghost jokes come on he's really enjoying himself that would be tough wouldn't it if you were an orgy and you're the loud guy or maybe crank it up you probably want people to watch you right i think you're probably not like you're probably like oh yeah you like that you're getting ran by the best i've been doing this so long oh i'm so good you probably have to be like oh yeah look at me

[70:02]you could see my balls from the back you just are i'm screaming my family is here at the cabin i'm doing the screaming orgy bit good thinking why is your dad walking in with the disco ball back there i normally don't have trouble getting hard just scream just the loud orgy guy yeah this feels good yeah oh yeah like yeah of course it feels good we're at an orgy that's the point like my hamstrings are cramping up oh no didn't drink enough didn't have enough bananas before i came hello buddy we're so tired description

[71:08]this is them just doing limericks what's a limerick it's where one person starts and then you start singing a song and then the other person comes in a little bit later like a person comes in a little bit later hey man there once was a man from nantucket man this episode will sound like a round because my audio is so far behind you guys so it'll be like just as much of a round as that that boondock song me myself and i i . this parliament song that it samples is also not available on most streaming services i think because i think it's warner brothers again

[72:01]aaron loves shit that he can't find the funkadelic edwin bird song and then ohio players all sampled on this one right i didn't know about the ohio players but that's a good call guys this was a song where they actually sang a song that they didn't know about this was a song where they actually sang a song that they didn't know about this was a song where they actually sang a song that they didn't know about this was a song where they actually sang a song that they didn't know about this was a song where they actually sang a song that they didn't know about this was a song where they actually sang a song that they didn't know about this was a song where they actually sang a song that they didn't know about song where they actually got nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Performance. So I thought we'd do a list of all of them that were nominated in 1990 for Best Rap Performance. This is what happens when a dumb guy makes a list. Oh, this will be fun. I saw the Grammy nomination. I was like, this is a list. No, there's nothing clever. There's no connections. Let's hear it. Beck will not be mentioned here. Nothing good. Now listen, here's a weird thing. There was a Best Rap Performance in 1989 and there was one in 1990 and then there was not another until 2012. So we go right from these two winners that I'm going to talk about to

[73:01]Jay-Z and Kanye winning the next two because they actually split this up into Best Rap Performance solo and Best Rap Performance as a duo and then brought it together at the end. In the 1990 Grammys, one of the nominees was De La Soul for the song we just heard, which was... Me, myself and I. Me, myself and I. We heard Me, myself and I. For 1990. In 1990, right? The other song nominated was, again, Will Smith with I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson. A song I have not heard ever. No, I don't know this one. I know it. This was definitely on the Win app. It really whips the llama's ass when I was in college. This was a Grammy nominee song that you have never heard of from Will Smith. It's crazy. I mean, this... I've heard about Will Smith slapping, but this song kind of slaps, actually. This one. I am going to say anytime I think about Mike Tyson, there's only one person I can think of, and that is Russell. When we went to that party

[74:01]and all these women were there and Russell... I watched Russell beat Mike Tyson on the Nintendo, and it was one of the greatest memories of my 20s ever. 007-737-5963. That's how you get to it. But that night, I did it. The old-fashioned way, Rob. I did it raw. No codes. I beat the whole thing. And the whole time he was yelling. He was like, this is how you do it! Et cetera. I can't yell anymore or do stuff, guys, with my family around. Now, imagine you're at the Grammys and you're like, hey, what else is... Beside that Mike Tyson song, what else is nominated? Well, of course, Funky Cold Medina. This is a Grammy-nominated song. 9,000 times better than a DJ jet. That's a good song. Why are we mocking it? It was a good song. Oh, yeah, this is 9,000 times better than that Will Smith song. I like this one. I mean, I like all these songs. I don't know about anything. Tone Lope is so horny. He's the horniest guy. Now, every song is, he's like,

[75:01]I gotta women get it back to my crib. And then I give them this thing and then they want to bang me so bang. Oh, yeah, Tone Lope. And again, I'm going to do this bit again. I've done it before. Tone Lope is in so many movies and it takes you out of a movie every time you did it. Because he's always like, hey, I'm Detective Smith. And I'm like, no, you're Tone Lope. I recognize that voice. Would you like some of this Funky Cold Medina? The other song that was nominated, Fight the Power, probably should have won that year. Love it. Right. How does this not, I mean, this changes everything. It's so funny to be like, who's going to win Funky Cold Medina or Fight the Power? But then the crazy part is, guess what song did win? What's that? Yes. This is the Grand Professional Rap performance in 1990. Young MC, Bust a Move. Come on. It's a great song. I mean, Aaron, this song

[76:01]comes on and you're driving in your new car. You're turning it off. Hell no. No. Oh, no. Again, do I know every lyric to this song? Of course. Five-year blowing. Please, Russell, don't rap along. I cannot do the editing. I just don't have it in me. Plus, I would say it's a top three song about trying to get with a bridesmaid, I think. Now, you might feel bad because De La Soul did not win a Grammy at that point, but it turns out that they did in a year that definitely I did write down somewhere and I don't have right now with Gorillaz, Feel Good Inc. This is True Goy on this verse and this one, Best Pops Collaboration. The best part of this jam. is De La Soul. It's so good, isn't it? Yeah, it's a fun song. Aaron, wouldn't you say of all the lists I've done, that's easily a top five

[77:00]Rob list? That is one of the top five lists that you've done. When I do lists, it's always like an hour 40 of recording when we're just dead. That was fun. That's fun to go down the memory lane. We got in and got out of that list. I don't know. It seemed to go on for a long time. I had to explain it quite a few times. Hey, Rob. Rob, if you leave your setup in tonight and anyone has to go in the bathroom, is there going to be an announcement that this is recording? This is recording. This is recording. This is a recording. It's a jam, guys. This one throws me back a little bit to I feel like to look more like 86, 87. You can hear like it came from out of the Marley Marl kind of. It sounds kind of like Hakeem, right? I mean, that's what it sounds like to me. I can do anything. God, am I smarter? Am I kind of a hip-hop head? We're all going to give it to you. We're all going to give it to you. Two? Yeah. Two. Playing Euchre?

[78:01]Gotta get it. If you don't get that reference, get the fuck out of here. Don't do it. I can do anything. If I want to, I can jump off this building. All right. Thank you. And Daisy, this is where it's hard to get through the last 10 minutes of the 70-minute YouTube file. Well, and after, yeah, I mean, after you hear me and myself and I, you're sort of like, well, I mean, it can't get better, right? It's fun. I mean, it's the kind of thing that, yeah, like if you could just put it on and hang out, you would do that. And like some of the stuff that's like not the greatest, you'd be like, that's fine. I can vibe into this. But it's like, oh, I can only listen to this by truly paying attention. Different experience. We all know the point of music is to see what is good and what is bad. That's why we're going to the rating system. It's Aaron's favorite part. Oh, yes. It's science. It's time for the rating system. Russell's like getting ready to go with this rolling going. Rolling going. When Rob says it's time for the rating system,

[79:02]he makes that same face when he was fucking somebody real good. I don't know if I like that. Ooh, this is a rolling boat. Listen, let's get into the rating system. Yeah, Russell's like it's going good in the real world. Uh, so we have a rating system here. Okay. Is this album De La Soul three feet and rising by the way named after Johnny Cash song. Got to give it some extra points for that. I think is this does this deserve to be at 103? Oh God, Rolling Stone. You did a great job. You can't find this album anywhere. You got to go like into Vivo or like whatever weird video sites like you got to being this thing. Uh, it doesn't belong at 103. It's perfect there. That is a rolling well. Tone. Okay. Are there too many songs about dandruff? Okay. Too much whispering too much ASMR. We don't need it should be lower on the list, which of course we know what is a higher number. Okay. It's a lot like the ratings on a bed on your

[80:00]comfort plus mattress. When you were turning that stuff down, the numbers go down. The mattress goes up because it's actually getting harder. That would be a rolling grown. We do not like this album. It should be higher than 103 lower on the list. Or is this a rolling bone? It should have been higher up. We should have seen this earlier. Listen, we've had tribe. We've had, uh, outcast outcast. We've had hip hop outcast. We've had Wu Tang. Yeah, we've had Wu Tang. Shouldn't this been higher up? If you think it should be higher up, which of course is a lower number, kind of like the number of people on a trapeze. When you see a trapeze act, there's less people up in the air than there are down toward the bottom. That's where the crowd is a lot like this. That would be a rolling bone. It should be higher up. I'm confusing myself. This is such a waste of time. What am I doing with my life? I could be spending this time with my family. Uh, what do you think? Rolling well toned, rolling bone or rolling grown? Matt, what do you think? De La Soul three feet and rising one. Your family appreciates you taking a little time away to, you know, get your creative outlets

[81:01]off things like that. So I think, I think it's okay. I think we're all doing the Lord's work here. That's true. Um, you know, at 103, I, I mean, I enjoy this album, right? And I think I like it. Again, I didn't really think about it. So somebody asked, do you like gangster rap or do you like, like the upbeat rap or what do you know? What do you like? I don't know. I mean, outcast, I think is my, uh, put them on the top of everything and they're a little bit of mix of everything. Um, you know, so at 103, I think it's rolling well toned. Um, you know, I think you can hear where the influence comes in for the nineties and kind of things afterwards. Um, and so I think from a, from a perspective of how does this set for influencing for what came after it and all that other good stuff. I mean, I think it's, it's at 103. It's a, it's a good spot. So I'll say rolling well toned. Uh, Russell, what do you think? Rolling well toned, rolling bone or rolling grown? I thought there were some really fun beats and grooves on this one. Say no go.

[82:00]I know me, myself, and I could listen to those over and over again. Admittedly the dandruff song and day lot orgy or whatever that other one was just didn't do it for me. So those kind of brought it down a little bit. I think going back for me and maybe I just need to talk to whoever this guy in Kansas city is and get the heart, the vinyl of it or whatever, but it was just hard to listen to this song. And for me to go back and say, I'm going to re listen to this over and over again on YouTube, it's probably not going to happen, but some of the jams were pretty awesome. So I'm going to say it's rolling well toned. Aaron, what do you think? Rolling well toned, rolling bone or rolling grown? Yeah, a lot of great stuff's been said. Uh, I'm with Russell. I will go back and listen to this when I can get a physical copy. Um, but otherwise I don't know that it's something I'd work through. Uh, this, maybe this is sacrilege lyrically. It still misses me a little bit. I, I didn't understand today until I read the pitch fork review about all the slang they were making up. Um, and so I, I just haven't, that, that part of it

[83:00]hasn't, uh, caught up or I haven't caught up with that part of it. Um, the overall sound and vibe, the grooves I absolutely love. And it's a really important album and a really important group. So I think it's tough because if you get a time machine and go to 1989 and don't, don't tell me we're so we're running so long. Don't tell me you go back to 1989 and you listen to this, you might be like, well, this is, this is life changing. Whereas now it, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's kind of still 1989 for you, but unfortunately you're all incorrect. Okay. Yeah, but this is a rolling frustration. Frustration. Why can't we listen to this on Spotify or Amazon music? Listen, there are like three fucking companies that own every piece of music. Now they've all gotten into conglomerations. You're telling me they can't work this shit out. Warner Brothers can't just be like, yeah, everybody, guess what? We own all of you. We're going to do this. We're going to release it. Guys, I mean, if you had Van Go and you couldn't release some paintings because he painted, you know, the turtles, like as a, I don't know, listen, I'm getting lost. I'm getting lost in the sauce here. What turtles? It's insane.

[84:00]Like those little candies or the ninjas. Next up, we have an album and I think so far this is the only album where the title would also make a delicious dessert. Oh, really? Yeah. Think about this, Russell. You're going into a bakery. Okay. You've got your pizza. You're in. You're going into the bakery. Let's hear it. You get an order of sticky fingers. Oh, doesn't that just sound delicious? Oh, yum, yum, yum. And you would think I'd make a sick joke with sticky fingers. Guess what? I zig. I'm not going to bring up the fight we had about the track list and sticky fingers. Yes, you are. Yeah. Next week. Jack. Beck did it better. Rob, you said sample so many times that I ordered a Perkins appetizer sampler and unfortunately I ate it all. So right now I feel like I'm roughly the size of a barge.