Lou Reed: Transformer (1972)

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by

[00:04]rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the

[00:08]order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research

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[00:19]we are all the way up to uh album 109 i know you don't want to hear it but

[00:26]we are all the way up to album 109 and i'm going to tell you guys i did this is from 1972 lou reed

[00:34]transformer post velvet underground his second album post velvet underground i could not believe

[00:40]that this song was that old from 1972 i seem to think of it as i mean uh transformer i

[00:46]i think it was more current you know what i mean i didn't realize he was this quick

[00:55]i didn't realize he was this quick

[00:55]i think it was more current you know what i mean i didn't realize he was this quick

[00:56]i didn't realize he was this quick

[00:56]i did not know that he would licky boom boom down i mean he probably would

[01:00]i mean he's kind of like the bgs right i mean the bgs started out singing normal then they went

[01:05]falsetto yeah that kind of sounds exactly the lou reed similar progression yeah he's moving up in

[01:11]pitch dynamic i i just want to remind you this song was a legit hit when we were younger okay

[01:19]just listen to this song it's a legit hit is that insane so was i like big

[01:26]buts and i cannot lie true oh don't get me started about that you know what's going on with that right

[01:31]now no all right let me just wait i think we need to know he licked the velvet underground down now

[01:38]what's going on with the big butt song we gotta get to the radio my

[01:45]yahoo fantasy football username i made it when i was in college it's i like big butts

[01:51]yeah that was my number in college and the song i like last time he cut out the

[01:56]we cut out the number he didn't want people to know the full oh sorry i'll beep the number just

[02:02]like i did lips the other episode so here's the thing is that when when i do that it is humiliating

[02:09]again i am sending these invites to my dad i am running the drafts i'm doing all this stuff my mom

[02:14]my dad are here my sisters and now it's my nephew in there and he's like getting invites from i like

[02:19]big butt 75 i'm just like please you have to be careful with the usernames you pick i tell my

[02:24]girls all the time i'm like don't pick i like big butt 75

[02:26]i'm just like please you have to be careful with the usernames you pick i tell my girls all the

[02:26]first of all that's mine is anybody really surprised at it i mean like even your nephew

[02:32]i mean are they really surprised or oh that's rob i did have to do my annual log into pile of

[02:39]shit too in order to do our fantasy football draft the other night it's a great bit my dad

[02:46]was i like big butt 75 i might like big butt 74 because i'm smaller you can just call me i like

[02:56]big butt 75 i might like big butt 74 because i'm smaller you can just call me i like big butt 74 because

[02:57]i'm smaller you can just call me i like big butt 75 because i'm smaller you can just call me i like

[02:57]big butt 75 i might like big butt 75 because i'm smaller you can just call me i like big butt 75 because

[02:58]so guys listen let's listen let's stop talking about our troubles and let's turn on uh something

[03:02]that aaron loves okay if we're talking about bits from old episodes aaron we know he loves the radio

[03:06]so let's see what's playing on you know that's a real old bit that's like episode zero yeah it's

[03:12]an old one what do we say if people don't know that bit go fuck yourself right i don't think i've

[03:17]said that i respect our listeners they're to me said it numerous times in the last month

[03:21]to me they're heroes okay if they if they go to top i'm not gonna do that bit again

[03:26]i have to i have to tell you this song is about one of the saddest moments in show history though

[03:34]so let's listen right now oh no what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-r-o-b you know

[03:39]i heard the boys are in a little bit of legal trouble over their online store you know i made

[03:43]an online store once for a pie but the problem is i didn't put very many ingredients it was kind

[03:48]of bland some said i took a walk on the mild pie and the mild pie oh yeah i've had a good

[03:56]idea the other day yes you want a beck did it better shirt well go online and pay

[04:03]he set up a store and it looked okay he took it down and emailed made us a copyright claim

[04:10]and our online store died they didn't even explain so i don't understand why go to t

[04:18]public slash user slash spectator better slash notebook now the plan is what happens when we

[04:23]make hundreds of dollars doing this we'd probably get sued by beck for

[04:26]using his name

[04:27]that logo is ours we paid for the design

[04:35]and they never let him know so now you can't buy a beck did a better pillow they said copyright

[04:42]claim and our online store died but nobody complained so i guess

[04:48]oh so fast we're asking you don't sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue

[04:56]remember what's true true true true true true true true true true true true remember aaron is in

[05:11]charge of beck did a better llc oakland california all other members of the podcast are simply

[05:16]contract workers and are not responsible nor liable for the actions of aaron his web browsing

[05:21]or his creation of shirts and throw pillows online when you want that's legally binding

[05:25]right it's not a problem

[05:26]we should have totally thrown that on like little rosie or something make him in charge

[05:32]i do have a family member that was not happy that there wasn't a

[05:38]store available and that i had not bought my nieces and nephews notebooks

[05:43]i had a request for a onesie unfulfilled and then when i told them about the fact that we had been

[05:50]taken down for copyright they did accuse one of us who happens to be an attorney and they said

[05:55]how can you let that happen you

[05:56]you're an attorney shouldn't you know these things

[05:58]matt you're the attorney here right shouldn't you know these things

[06:03]well to be fair i mean like 98 of everything we do is probably has some sort of liability

[06:09]against it that we you know i don't know we steal a lot of content no

[06:14]some attorney you are and plus how do you know i'm not the attorney russell

[06:20]e pluribus unum man you know i got it so here's the deal listen corpus after the

[06:26]episode where i talked about our online store and i was literally excited to get kids back to the

[06:31]better notebooks it's a very funny bit to have a dumb they were on sale more you buy the more you

[06:38]save and literally eight hours later i got an email saying well your store has been taken down

[06:43]no reason whatsoever just says it goes against our guidelines all it was was our logo which

[06:48]is literally ours so i emailed back and i said i am very upset that you would take this down and

[06:52]it's hurting our ability to make money with a logo i designed i demand you put the store back

[06:56]up and their response was absolutely nothing there is nothing so i don't know what i'm gonna

[07:00]do i'm gonna have to go to it and the problem is is that guess who owns every major t-shirt like

[07:05]for sale on demand it's the same damn company so i'm gonna run into the same thing over and over

[07:10]but this time i'm gonna buy a notebook right away before they can get it so that's my plan

[07:15]so i don't know i was also a little disappointed that i got like one response by the way to a text

[07:22]to russell feel free to text the back line everybody 802-277-BEC we need those voicemails

[07:26]but i thought i would get more of a response online we did not so another failure i've been

[07:32]told by by some of the dumb shit listeners out there that they get nervous about texting the

[07:36]back line that they start practicing they start writing things out yeah but then they get nervous

[07:41]and they don't want to do it because they don't want to be harassed by the main host

[07:45]well now i have regret over some of these bits that i actually made for today's episode

[07:50]listen if you want to call the backlight 802-277-BEC i promise i will be nice to you

[07:56]okay that is my new thing i am turning over a new leaf i am now nice to the listeners they're

[08:00]actually big leaf they're the they're the real heroes okay i was on don't don't get me started

[08:05]i was on the fix today man a lot of and this is the this is the problem right actually figs is

[08:10]next episode so just wait here's the thing here's the problem i had bought a beck did it better flag

[08:16]the size of a football field that they were going to bring out on opening day of the nfl season

[08:20]wave it and to our fans the true american heroes and now they closed the store

[08:26]closed the store now russell you had an interesting opinion of why maybe they got us for a copyright

[08:31]strike tell us what you think it was the fact that they would use the name well i don't i really don't

[08:36]think we should have this conversation because this would really bury us somewhere down the

[08:40]road i think we should just move it along to get the intros i'm just gonna say back if it's not

[08:45]two turntables there's no way that could be associated with the back our logo has one

[08:48]turntable it's a different back okay maybe it's jeff back maybe he's mad that we brought him up so

[08:54]many times

[08:56]oh well okay listen i've got three guys here okay who have been listening to this lou reed album and

[09:01]i was talking to him earlier and i realized they misheard the song do you do you really have three

[09:05]guys that have listened to this yes sure i do a lot of driving today going to different roughing

[09:11]things i'm sure you just put on the album maybe to listen to it just real quick to have an opinion

[09:15]but here's the thing is that they misheard the song and i saw them walking around crazy on the

[09:21]sidewalk they're going back and forth all over the turns out they were taking a walk on the wildest

[09:25]ride oh listen i am not getting enough sleep lately okay this is the i'm gonna blame that on

[09:30]that as soon as i read it i was like god damn it i have to say this i've got russ in minneapolis

[09:35]russ in minnesota russ how are you doing you guys hit me with your inverted flower last week you do

[09:40]it every hour oh baby your figgy pudding is so vicious i'm begging you guys let's save the fig

[09:48]talk to next week please you'll see why can we not go one week without discussing aaron's fig

[09:55]trees please can't do it trees are bushes aaron it's a tree it's a tree it's a fig tree so when

[10:03]you bought this place did they happen to mention the fig tree is and is it possible that that's

[10:07]why this other people moved out it's possible because i can see the background that last time

[10:11]we talked to you the background behind you is about a fourth full of figs and now it's about

[10:15]two-thirds full of figs so i'm starting to worry that you've encountered a fig as ball pit situation

[10:19]yeah i think that's what's happening i can't pick them fast enough i've got aaron out in california

[10:25]how are you doing you're going to reap just watch so i'm good thanks for yeah like figs it wasn't

[10:36]creepy at all no i like that uh and i've got matt minneapolis mad how are you doing just super

[10:42]excited to be here with you guys today thanks thanks for having me all right all right a little

[10:45]enthusiastic excited to talk about this yeah and here's what i don't get about aaron because i

[10:49]forgot this part here's i don't get aaron was telling me that mario the character is actually

[10:55]he was created in japan and you find out it's true because you know what mario's first it turns

[11:00]out his last name is mario i always thought it was brother but then that didn't make sense because

[11:05]his other brother was also brother but they're the mario brothers that doesn't make sense brother

[11:08]brother brother brother mario brother brothers like brother free tony brothers exactly one

[11:13]thousand percent but here's the deal i just act like i knew what you're talking about there do

[11:16]you see that turns out that mario is japanese do you know how i know that guess what his first name

[11:20]is it's a me oh no

[11:25]that's why his name is it's a me mario so a lot of people don't realize the beginning of those games

[11:30]he's saying his name i'm glad we doubled back for that one it's a b so rob you were telling us

[11:35]earlier how worn out you are because you've been working so hard including on this podcast is this

[11:39]what you were working on i'm i i regret to inform you i actually wrote down that joke like four

[11:45]weeks ago guys listen we don't have time for this we need to do a voicemail we got a voicemail again

[11:53]matt did you

[11:55]tell your friends they needed to pick it up or what i've told a couple yeah

[11:58]i didn't know this was a voicemail song

[12:02]on the back line 802-277

[12:06]seamless you can't even tell where that was so nice oh so russ not putting the beck did it better

[12:16]logo on his custom cowboy hat is an absolute travesty also t-shirt idea cartoon version of

[12:22]on a chopper with his custom cowboy

[12:25]hat on with bad to the bone printed somewhere on there and of course a beck did it better logo

[12:31]listen i haven't got bad news for that collar that t-shirt with russ with his cowboy hat in a chopper

[12:39]with bad to the bone playing and the beck did a better logo is not going to happen

[12:43]the store is shut down weren't you just listening to us what are you doing you idiot this is not

[12:48]what i'm talking about these dub callers so i am i am going back to nashville in a week and i could

[12:54]go back to

[12:55]the rustler hat store without co-workers and get the beck did it better

[12:58]custom cowboy hat oh a secret yeah that's gonna be awesome russ i cannot wait until you oh my god

[13:05]what what if you had to pick another color cut so russell is wearing his cowboy hat again he's

[13:08]wearing the white cowboy hat showing he's a good guy russell if you had to pick another cowboy hat

[13:12]what are you thinking because i know you've been thinking about it you sicko i think i might go for

[13:16]a darker brown and get the the beck did it better branded in the side maybe put a feather in that

[13:21]cap like oh talking rob just make the biggest feather they got feather

[13:25]russ comes back he's got his ears pierced he's got big feather earrings too i'm like a mr t style

[13:30]that was always wild was it that he was like i'm gonna wear all this jewelry he's like god damn i

[13:36]got all these gold chains it's so heavy then he's like oh but my ears they're so sensitive better

[13:40]put some feathers in there don't want to weigh those down we have a friend in town who i just

[13:45]learned tonight has a cousin who slept with mr t that's it what yeah like within the last couple

[13:52]years or it is like i'm not sure three

[13:55]uh i don't know that's a good question i don't know i just found this out is that my woman

[13:59]yeah i don't know i just i just learned this but you brought up mr t and i i'm what's that

[14:05]and that maybe makes me like four degrees of separation from mr t that's not that great

[14:10]you gotta wonder if she said fuck me like clubber lang you know what i mean like that's who i think

[14:15]i would want to be fucked by is clubber lang hey pretty lady pretty lady come over here let me show

[14:20]you what a real band's like i mean clubber lang rocky three doesn't get a lot of juice because

[14:25]he does wrestle hulk hogan in it okay so i guess

[14:28]pre-fucking his best friend's wife as thunder lips kind of foretelling nobody likes it but

[14:38]clubber lang is one of the best rocky villains that's out there i think he's better than drago

[14:42]he's way more interesting he's fun he's funny i i just love it plus he looks juiced do you think

[14:48]if he was online dating and dating multiple women at the end of the day at that night he'd be like

[14:52]i pity that fool

[14:53]you

[14:55]he's shorter than stallone right like he'd be the only guy that that stallone has a reach

[15:02]advantage over right in the end like in the whole world yeah he's tiny he's tiny it's just such a

[15:08]rocky three is such a fun movie russell i gotta say your macho man randy savage impression

[15:12]one listen loved it laughed every time i edited it heard it i thought it was great

[15:16]your mr t impression sounds a lot like you

[15:19]i gotta say rob your macho man randy savage impression was the worst one i've ever

[15:25]heard you just kind of went into like some sort of steve urkel voice you had a good you've got a

[15:30]good oh yeah but i think you just relied too much on the car crash i'm just gonna say it's the only

[15:35]bit i have rob's got a thing against dead people right like rob really like i mean hopefully we

[15:41]get a lot of good queen jokes for the next two two episodes but like rob's really gonna think

[15:45]about making fun of dead people and how they die for being for being dead yeah just for being dead

[15:52]especially if it's in a vehicle accident he's all about it

[15:55]it's gotta ring twice who's this

[16:03]i'm calling you from hell baby i'm down here in the brimstone it's so hot baby oh

[16:17]yeah and guess who's right next to me baby we're in that chantilly lace

[16:25]it's me i had some hurt problems due to my steroid use oh yeah big bopper i got a question i have i

[16:34]know a listener of ours i know a listener of ours was actually taking a drive down to somewhere in

[16:40]iowa a while back and they went through the city where the music died on aaron i don't know if you

[16:45]know the city where the clear lake clear lake and this listener of ours did not stop and go look

[16:51]they've got to have some sort of memorial or they have to have something down there right

[16:55]oh baby you know what they have down there they have blood-stained glasses for buddy holly they've

[17:02]got uh a guy yelling richie for richie valens and for me baby they've got blood and guts all over

[17:10]chantilly lace in your face put it down on the ground the plane is flying through the air

[17:18]should that thunderstorm be there there there uh-oh altitude is running low i don't think this

[17:24]is where the

[17:25]plane should go this ain't funny uh this is real crummy oh baby that's a what i that's a crash it's

[17:33]on there so oh i gotta i gotta go guys i'm in hell uh remember i had two hits chantilly lace

[17:39]and when i hit the ground speaking of a fiery crash we just saw one we just witnessed 911 i

[17:46]just witnessed a fiery crash on a podcast if if aaron ever gets into like the the times people

[17:52]had horrible crashes he's just going to do an impression of what rob just

[17:55]did over and over yeah what are you guys even talking about

[18:00]that wasn't me that was the big bopper it's a character

[18:05]you know rob has never said anything on this podcast it's a character it's true it's true

[18:13]what can you do uh rolling going rosie how's it going with you it's going great i was reminded

[18:19]i gotta take a brief detour on the rolling going uh when you said about russell's t-shirt where

[18:25]i did the bone somewhere on it uh when i was in high school all of the i was i was in the as you

[18:31]know i was in the trombone section uh not first chair as we've discussed uh we don't like to bring

[18:38]that up here come on yeah thanks thank you but uh for the marching band every section would have

[18:42]their own t-shirts and the the trombone section would always like the the t-shirt would would say

[18:48]the word somewhere on uh on the uh t-shirt it would always say somewhere and i didn't know why

[18:55]and it's because the first time they had these t-shirts made they went to the t-shirt shop

[18:59]no uh and they said they said the teacher just has to say bury the bone somewhere on it and so

[19:06]they came back with this design that said bury the bone dot dot dot somewhere and then they just

[19:13]ran with it so every year the trombones the trombones had to have the word somewhere on

[19:17]their t-shirt because they said bury the bone somewhere oh so it wasn't i picture the whole

[19:22]marching band saying bury the bone i get it though if you're talking about

[19:25]trombones i was like oh this is kind of weird like if you're playing a piccolo and then it

[19:27]says bury the bone yeah i mean imagine playing the tuba and you're in a marching band right

[19:33]and it's just like on this album today i know they're on the album and you're walking around

[19:39]and the tuba and you're just listening to this and you're wearing a shirt that says

[19:42]bury the bone somewhere i mean guys there's a thousand percent chance you're getting laid

[19:47]there was zero chance that there was zero chance that tuba players in high school were

[19:51]burying the bone anywhere no absolutely not i can't are you kidding have you ever been on a

[19:55]marching band bus what what well not you guys have seen american pie we're not like we're not

[20:00]talking like baddest in wisconsin marching band where they had to like shut the whole program

[20:04]i think this makes it funnier right the tuba just keep it going and no i've been on a marching band

[20:13]bus for like three months there is a high school tuba player who's gonna shut her ass down for

[20:18]playing this though for copyright i will i will say this too can you imagine a tuba player with

[20:24]small balls you can't do it can you they all have big balls in your mind

[20:27]what's wrong with me really is there something wrong with me and then the only other thing i

[20:35]wanted to mention tonight in my rolling gun is that i'm really enjoying the new alchemist rock

[20:39]marciano album called the elephant man's bones it came out on friday august 26th uh rock marciano is

[20:45]a new york uh rapper alchemist is a long-standing producer great stuff but my favorite moment on the

[20:52]album is when i was a kid and i was like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die

[20:54]i know speaking of speaking of copyright they created with the game there right yeah exactly

[20:59]right can you smell what the rock marciano is cooking by the way i just have to say the rock

[21:10]doing this stuff for black adam you know black adam is going to be a terrible movie you are

[21:16]talking to a guy who saw san andreas in the theaters though oh i would never oh my god

[21:20]and at the end i couldn't do it san francisco destroyed

[21:24]see to be clear the reason i wouldn't see san andreas is that right there i would love

[21:27]all any movie with rock all that was left was a single fig tree on a hill that was all that was

[21:32]and rock turns to the camera and they say what are we going to do and he goes we'll rebuild and

[21:38]it zooms in on american flag and i was like i stood up i was like i clapped i was in my navy

[21:42]whites i was like this is great hey rob do you remember what the director of that movie's name

[21:46]was no it doesn't matter what his name is

[21:54]it doesn't matter it doesn't matter so i just wanted to say my one of my favorite rock moments

[21:59]is very good either now on the rock marciano alchemist album which is a long-awaited collaboration

[22:04]love it but they bring in this guy what's the best song off of it that you're hearing under

[22:09]underneath it right now the best song is uh you say chantilly lace i've got news for you

[22:15]quantum leap is really good yeah quantum leap is really good one it's just like it's all like

[22:21]spooky kind of yeah well there's a

[22:23]ziggler

[22:24]that's really good too quantum leap is the name of the song too

[22:27]this is just like do they have any creativity here okay

[22:31]aaron aaron take out your headphones for one second take out your okay they're out hey guys

[22:37]uh guys aaron is talking about an album from rock marciano it's called quantum leap yeah okay do

[22:44]you think it's possible that aaron has a stroke and he's just recalling like old memories and

[22:49]that's how we got to this point right now where the song starts with a guy going

[22:54]oh then that's how the song starts just like quantum leap does the album is called the elephant

[22:59]man's bones i think the title track is really great there's a song called trillion cut that

[23:05]has boldy james on it you guys know i love boldy james but on the song zip guns the penultimate

[23:10]track on the album they bring in a rapper who i don't know named knowledge the pirate which like

[23:15]that's a great rap name and he fucking rhymes peaky blinders with bb and cc winans and that

[23:22]was a moment for me like you could not be talking to me anymore if you're right if you're rhyming

[23:26]peaky blinders with bb and cc wine so i was really that's where i'm at this week not gonna lie i knew

[23:33]that was coming that's just where i'm at i was really enjoying that album either that or i've

[23:39]been enjoying alice coltrane's patad the el daoud i just discovered that one that was from 1970

[23:43]something but i just discovered it okay i'm not gonna be mean to you but say that rhyme again

[23:48]well he says i don't remember he says d i think he says i'm on demon time like the peaky blinders

[23:55]it's the gospel like bb and cc winans so he rhymes peaky blinders with bb and cc winans

[24:00]and i don't know who bb and cc winans is but can you explain to our dumb dumb audience who should

[24:06]call in and i'll actually be nice to you who they are you guys you guys don't know the peaky blinders

[24:10]no god that's the part that's the one part i do know are you serious right now are you serious

[24:15]bb and cc winans are from a famous gospel singing family so they they both sing gospel

[24:20]and their whole family it's like they're one of the you know royal families of gospel

[24:24]thank you all three of us are nodding real big because we do that you got it yeah that's how

[24:29]that's how it's rolling going with me somewhere oh my god aaron your life you're just eating figs

[24:35]like crazy you're listening i am i'm eating a lot of figs yeah i won't talk about how the

[24:39]bathroom's looking but i'm eating a lot of figs i don't want to tell everybody how the sausage is

[24:43]made

[24:45]but we're doing a double episode tonight i cannot wait to hear what aaron's rolling going is on the

[24:49]second episode if that's how a db had to dig for his first one could you abandon yeah don't worry

[24:55]i'm saving something no i'm saving something okay russell rolling going how's it going with you

[24:59]um oh rolling going things are going good i actually went up north i went up to

[25:09]cole's resort one of our favorite sponsors and on the way up there i actually stopped at a winery

[25:15]called forest edge winery have you ever heard of this place before no forest edge oh that sounds

[25:21]where is it it's in laporte minnesota which is just kind of northwest of brainerd just south

[25:27]of bemidji about a half hour decided to stop at this winery for the first time i don't know about

[25:31]you guys are you guys winery guys you ever stop at a winery if you come across one oh yeah absolutely

[25:36]i guess i just don't i don't come across that much i don't know i mean as we we've talked about this

[25:43]like i'm not great about talking about wine i like to drink it though so i would love to go like i

[25:48]like to go have the tasting if nobody wants to you know what i'm saying my you know my opinion is

[25:53]aaron because i don't like i don't like wine that has a lot of tannins and i especially don't like

[25:59]wine when they chase me around on a hoverboard and it turns out it's a biff tan

[26:03]that's the worst joke i mean that's crazy

[26:08]that's a terrible joke

[26:12]excuse me

[26:13]excuse me is this why i have a lot of biff tannins i dare you to say that next time

[26:17]you can't go across the water unless you have power now that's the one quote i know from

[26:24]back to the future 2 no one else remembers that scene i do that quote they're like what are you

[26:29]talking about like oh from back to the future 2 oh idiot oh god dumb stuff back to the future 2

[26:37]i think there were three of them right and i believe when they go the old west the thing that

[26:41]was so bad is i believe nintendo made it so bad that it was so bad that it was so bad that it was

[26:43]made a video game that was back to the future 2 and 3 in one game i think it was two movies in one

[26:49]game yeah that's how bad it was they were like we're not gonna waste another cartridge on this

[26:53]thing well they filmed you know they filmed those two movies at the same time that's how good back

[26:56]to the future one was they're like fuck it we're making two and three at the same time it's like

[27:00]the way we do podcasts right our last one was so good that we do two in one night okay you guys are

[27:07]gonna use that biff tannins joke i bet it'd be so good

[27:10]i'm sorry

[27:11]so anyways i go to this forest edge i go to this forest edge winery with a wine taster if you will

[27:19]and it's the interesting thing is it's on a rhubarb farm and so you go up and they've got

[27:23]this this beautiful kind of like old barn where they've got like you can go in and you can shop

[27:28]for wine you can shop for kind of like their swag and everything but the cool thing about this

[27:32]winery is everything is a berry wine they don't have grapes it's all made with berries from

[27:38]northern minnesota isn't that interesting do they have any

[27:41]strawberry wine don't do it erin 17 god just faster than i could search it

[27:49]well she's gonna sound better than me

[27:52]god damn don't do this this is one of your tongue bites waiting this song is so good

[27:58]i know what's going on i got it all down you don't you know too much about my life don't you

[28:02]now if you guys want to see deanna carter okay she's gonna be in milwaukee in december

[28:08]oh

[28:09]i wonder if you guys want to see deanna carter okay she's gonna be in milwaukee in december

[28:09]i wonder if you guys want to see deanna carter okay she's gonna be in milwaukee in december

[28:09]i wonder if you guys want to see deanna carter okay she's gonna be in milwaukee in december

[28:09]i wonder if you guys want to see deanna carter okay she's gonna be in milwaukee in december

[28:09]i wonder if she plays you can't stop playing it now you gotta go to the chorus sorry man

[28:15]oh i love this song deanna carter might be one of the most beautiful country singers of all time as

[28:22]well so i just meant because we're dragging up the time i'm sure you love the song now russell

[28:28]did you buy any strawberry wine to see how long it would last to see if it would last as long as

[28:33]strawberry wine so it's interesting we tried a bunch of things and there's nothing better than

[28:37]going to a place like this than getting a

[28:39]flight right you got to do a flight you got to try as many things as you can

[28:42]oh you know i hate to tell you this

[28:44]i mean i hate to do it i really do

[28:52]oh yeah wait a minute baby did somebody say

[29:09]a flight tonight

[29:10]so anyways these guys had all berry wines they had a black currant wine a blueberry wine paul

[29:19]bunion red which was a black currant wine with plum wine a rhapsody in red which was a red blend

[29:25]that will bring music to your mouth and my favorite the one i enjoyed the most a rhubarb

[29:30]blueberry wine a full-bodied red with a fruity finish the wines there were fantastic they're

[29:36]they're different than what you would have you know getting a normal

[29:39]you know you're getting a normal you know you're getting a normal

[29:39]bottle of wine a california red or whatever you're gonna have it was so much fun beautiful

[29:44]place to go if anyone ever gets a chance to go to forest edge winery up in laporte minnesota i would

[29:50]highly suggest it how did it taste russell compared to regular wine what did you think

[29:54]oh my god he's got a glass right now glass with the cowboy hat on i mean this guy's

[29:58]this this guy's the kind of guy he'll take you to a nice winery

[30:02]but later he's gonna eat like a cowboy does okay i'm sorry i said that oh no

[30:07]is that something is that a stereotype

[30:09]typical cowboy thing

[30:10]i mean it wasn't in brokeback but they left those scenes out i think they were pretty

[30:17]discreet the only bummer i had with this winery they had this outdoor seating area it was beautiful

[30:22]it felt like you were out in the country it was amazing place but they had a snacks like they're

[30:27]like any winery they had snacks you figure maybe you're doing some charcuterie or something like

[30:30]that so we ordered what looked like the like the highest end snack tray you could get right

[30:38]it turned out it was just like a snack tray it was like a snack tray it was like a snack tray

[30:39]so they just literally walked out with just the big box lunch where you had to like find a way to

[30:45]like open only this oh we haven't heard the fuckery for a long time rob i know that charcuterie is one

[30:52]of your three s's of the summer but the summer is over my friend because it was just a big package

[30:58]lunchable with packaged cheese packaged crackers and packaged meat i'll tell you what man there is

[31:04]nothing that is my kids like more that disgusts me as much as a lunchable

[31:09]the difference between how much they love it how much i detest it is amazing they will get a

[31:14]lunchable and they're so happy when they get a lunchable and i'm like guys look at that meat

[31:19]like that what kind of tell me what kind of meat that is i don't even know it's greater than ben

[31:23]roethlisberger's dick and just for legal reasons okay i want to just say it is a court document it

[31:32]has been documented in court that he has a great penis that's all i'm gonna say not a joke on a

[31:38]podcast it's real

[31:39]we're not i'm not trying to monetize his gray penis either we're not selling

[31:44]gray penis t-shirts we're not selling that's the one that's the one thing you need to clarify for

[31:49]legal reasons everything we talked about let me just clarify the last thing i was going to share

[31:55]about my my trip to the winery though is one thing they gave us is this cool card you guys can see it

[32:01]essentially shows about eight wineries in the minnesota area that are all kind of like part

[32:05]of the same group or whatever they do tasting together at the state fair and so

[32:09]now i've decided i've been to two of these i went to one in stillwater i've been to this one in the

[32:13]port i've got to go to all of them so i'm kind of curious do you guys have anything i know we have

[32:17]the quest for the albums but do you have anything like where i need to see all the state parks or i

[32:22]need to see all the national forests or what are your things where you guys are trying to check

[32:26]something off the list in terms of places you want to go i want to say like the top rated pizza

[32:30]places i want to just have a day where we go and go to like three or four different pizza places

[32:35]and really finally decide that when somebody comes and visits us this is the pizza place

[32:39]that we're going to take him to oh i like that what is that place you took us to down by the

[32:43]peep show theater that is joe's yeah joe's famous pizza that was pretty good and i just want to be

[32:50]clear it's a regular theater there's peep holes outside that you can watch it through it's not a

[32:54]so it's a peep show so it's a peep show well i guess technically so you took us to a peep show

[33:00]yeah well kind of yeah you and your kids i showed them the peep show for sure and you said it was

[33:04]fine so that's good yep aaron what about you you seem like a guy that's a long shot but i i would

[33:08]like to

[33:09]i don't you couldn't really do all of them in a lifetime but i would like to hit as many i'd like

[33:14]to go to as many polynesian islands as i could i've only been to two oh there you go i've been

[33:18]to two of the hawaiian islands i would love to go to tahiti new zealand american samoa like other

[33:25]other islands in polynesia i'd like to like go to as many as i could that'd be i'd i'd watch it

[33:30]would you watch a travel show where aaron does that and then just goes on the beach he's just

[33:35]like sweating yeah profusely yeah and aaron's like okay

[33:38]aaron's aaron's on the beach he's got a camera the huge zoom lens and he's just pointed right

[33:43]at women's feet as they're walking by take a picture effort picture i mean i would watch that

[33:46]show i think my i have family members that are doing something similar i think i've told you

[33:53]guys about this before they're trying to do every island in the song kokomo oh yes yeah we're so far

[33:59]i think that's a great quest that's a good one how about you matt are you trying to like see

[34:05]every stadium or see every park or anything like that no and i think you know kids come into it

[34:10]where i mean they just throw monkey wrenches into everything and so i'm sure 10 15 years from now

[34:17]we'll start doing something like that but we took a trip to see the national parks we went from

[34:22]north dakota and down and you know the badlands and devil's tower and tetons and and uh you know

[34:29]yellowstone and all that i mean that's that's pretty darn fun in an rv so i think eventually

[34:34]when i get older that'll be something that i'll i'll want to do maybe see every fifth all 50 states

[34:39]in an r in an rv or something like that yeah i'd like to do that aaron can i just go back to

[34:44]something you said earlier about uh brokeback mountain and they didn't have it i just want to

[34:48]say i do have a deleted scene here from the movie so i'm just going to play it real quick

[34:52]i can't quit you neither can i now i'm gonna eat so they did once again glad we doubled back for

[35:04]that one it's a great movie it won an academy award deservedly so it's a great movie yeah

[35:10]so i think i killed russell's bit sorry there matt rolling going how's it going with you

[35:16]uh good kids started school this week which is always good run the energy out of them and get

[35:23]them back with their friends and everything you know and you get to hear all your teacher friends

[35:26]about how tough their lives are all of a sudden because they've got to be back at work things like

[35:31]that always fun times always fun times

[35:34]so long why is that so long it's a good nice long but i came across something and i didn't know what

[35:40]this was and i've seen this in minnesota but apparently there's this big problem on oakland

[35:45]right now because it's so hot is it is it hot out in the bay area yeah we've got a terrible

[35:48]fucking heat wave man today today is finally a day where it's not quite as terrible i almost

[35:53]did this for my rolling going i almost did the same exact thing that you're about to do i was so

[35:58]close we'll see i know exactly i can i guarantee if it involves

[36:04]if it involves legs i know what you're talking about legs on animals yep yeah so apparently

[36:11]there's a bunch of squirrels that are just laying dead in the road now oh what out and out and out

[36:18]in oakland and the bay area have you come across this at all rosie no i've not they look like

[36:24]they're just laying flat on the road but they're not actually dead so you don't want to like run

[36:28]over them and you don't want to like disturb them they're actually just spluting what is that what

[36:33]i'm not they're spluting i've seen this because it's because of the heat well they are they're

[36:39]they're heat dumping this is part of their heat dumping function i had one of those this morning

[36:45]and i know russell hates to talk about it but i had some coffee it did not but i have seen i have

[36:50]seen this i mean we've got a million squirrels around our backyard and you see these squirrels

[36:54]that are laying like sprawled out you can see pictures of these right like look at that one

[36:58]up top they're laying sprawled out i'm like what in the hell is that thing doing well it's called

[37:03]rob when he used to use those uh restraints right oh god wait a minute are you visualizing me using

[37:10]the bed restraints face down no i've not seen you know i thought we had a big fish day off in lake

[37:16]mary that was horrific i thought you were gonna talk about that god aaron we're trying to have

[37:20]fun on this podcast what are you doing look at these look at these squirrels all spread out so

[37:25]what are they doing they're not spread out aaron they're dumping heat they're spluting they're

[37:29]dumping no no they're spluting they're spluting that's the official term for that okay so that's

[37:33]the idea is that they're they're putting as much of their square footage you know of their of their

[37:40]body on the ground right and that's supposed to disseminate the heat you know what you know what

[37:44]this makes me think of you know what my own personal spluting is okay and don't make that

[37:48]motion aaron with two hands and the one that is so weird i've never seen that upside down

[37:56]and you're doing this thing with your hands like you're playing a recorder too i don't

[38:01]that doesn't make any sense anyway my own

[38:03]personal spluting did you just say playing a recorder rob yeah you son of a bitch

[38:10]my own personal spluting okay is and i hate to bring this up again it's when you sit backwards

[38:21]on the toilet and put your head down on that cool tank that's me i thought that was the ac slater

[38:27]it's the ac slater yeah it's the ac spluting that's i mean that's that's what it is now

[38:32]don't come in i'm spluting my kids are like jesus christ i have friends over dad what are you talking

[38:38]about so so public service announcement if you see a squirrel lying flat on the road don't run

[38:46]it over don't think it's dead it's it's just simply spluting so i think other animals splute

[38:50]or just squirrels apparently apparently dog splutes sometimes like if he's too hot he'll

[38:57]do the splute i don't know you know what's weird though is the one i have seen this splute in one

[39:01]position and i've never seen it in one position and i've never seen it in one position and i've

[39:02]never seen it in one position and i've never seen it in one position when you go to clear lake

[39:03]iowa they actually have a statue of the big bopper spluting because that's how they found

[39:07]him oh baby that's not right i'm spluting baby oh no that's not right what it's a fact what

[39:17]i really have something i have a joke i want to make but it's wildly inappropriate well we can

[39:22]we can cut it out yeah i can't i can't do it does it have to do with how splooting this kind

[39:27]of looks like you're the squirrel's getting ready for something to eat it's

[39:32]and you thought oh squirrel this is gonna be a nuts joke no it's an idiot joke did not see that

[39:38]one coming left field take of the week you know what it is my second left field take of the week

[39:46]what what now i can't edit it out

[39:49]rob so when you haven't been spluting this week to get away from the heat wave rolling going what's

[39:59]going on with you my wife

[40:02]is an incredibly bad online chopper oh she often will order sometimes it's one banana coming

[40:09]sometimes it's one banana sometimes it's seven bunches you just don't know what you're gonna get

[40:14]she orders stuff for vacation that doesn't come for four weeks after the vacation and i love her

[40:19]and it was her birthday this weekend okay so i was on eggshells the entire weekend because

[40:24]aaron's like oh i can't wait to hear about the podcast and your wife and sure enough i was

[40:28]editing it on her birthday and she oh my god is it you didn't love her enough you didn't

[40:32]love her enough to do the dishes before the last podcast

[40:34]i mean really it's my life i was like okay i'm gonna record the podcast and then she was like

[40:41]i mean it's so distracting when you listen to the episode it's and i edit out 90 of them

[40:54]it's crazy i mean the question you're putting on her but like you could have just done the

[40:59]dishes beforehand no i couldn't because it was a

[41:02]it was her birthday party up on the roof and so i she said oh we're gonna do this and i said oh

[41:07]yeah i also planned a podcast record so she was happy with me to start with right away there was

[41:12]no time to do this from the job it's crazy so why does she why does she have the issues with

[41:16]the online ordering does she not realize what she's ordering or does she just be like i need

[41:20]one banana i'm ordering one or what i it's something about like and often i'll go to the

[41:24]amazon cart and there's like four things in there and she's like oh i thought i ordered those you

[41:28]know what i mean like that's a thing that happens too i think it's just that she's going so fast

[41:32]and moving and doing lots of things because she really is an angel like she's the best you know

[41:36]she's never gonna listen to this so i don't know why i bother but recently we lost our charger

[41:42]to our electric toothbrush that we share we have electric toothbrush we share but we had different

[41:47]heads russell okay don't make that face we have different heads we switch the heads and it's a

[41:50]nice no no way you don't use the same toothbrush and switch the head back and forth oh yeah russell

[41:56]this is what it's like to be married my dude no it's not matt no this seems insane there's no way

[42:02]zero chance not even well one sarah doesn't let me use her bathroom so i i get kicked out to the

[42:09]basement anyways so uh man i mean i can i sploot your bathroom real quick that's what he does when

[42:18]she's on vacation yeah yeah i can sploot anywhere i want i can sploot all over the house uh i know

[42:24]i have to i have to come to rob's defense we for a time um shared a toothbrush and switched out the

[42:30]heads

[42:32]how much is like how much are two electric toothbrush like you couldn't spend another

[42:37]hundred bucks for one whatever costs no you guys never you don't understand it's never in my house

[42:43]it's never about them sometimes it's about the money but it's always about the stuff space and

[42:47]it is a minimalist like no more stuff you know so if you can get by with half the stuff you get by

[42:52]yeah yeah and i i'm assuming she wants my scent on a toothbrush when she puts it up to her mouth

[42:57]in the morning like that's something she likes so she so we lost the charger right which is

[43:02]does she ever get like mustache hairs where are you putting the toothbrush rob no she usually

[43:06]what yeah what is rob doing before he uses the toothbrush how are you getting your scent on the

[43:12]toothbrush are you splooting on the dude it's getting my mustache which is covered in egg yolk

[43:16]for some reason every day when i wake up oh no i thought i had a dormer i was eating ass and i wake

[43:23]up and there's egg yolk all over my face what's going on you can't do double recordings again if

[43:29]this is what it's gonna be this is the first one my dude

[43:32]so listen she bought these toothbrushes and right away i was suspicious she goes listen i got us two

[43:39]electric toothbrushes they're way cheaper and they come with way more brush heads and so instantly i

[43:45]was like she was like yeah they're thirty dollars and instantly in my head i was like you know when

[43:49]you buy something you're like this is too cheap it's not gonna work it's not gonna be good thirty

[43:53]dollars for an electric toothbrush you're getting a kid's electric toothbrush look at this toothbrush

[43:57]i got ready listen to this toothbrush just listen to this thing

[44:02]you hear that no no

[44:06]you hear that no it's so loud for me how can you guys not hear that it's

[44:12]you know what it's coming in on my it's coming in on my audacity oh it's so loud oh god turn it down

[44:18]oh geez that's crazy how can she why would you make him use that my goodness it is so fast and

[44:25]so powerful and all it does is vibrate it tickles my mouth i cannot use this toothbrush when i put

[44:31]it in my mouth it makes me laugh oh oh it vibrates my mouth i can't do it so i cannot

[44:39]and it does this thing can you hear this

[44:41]it's got vibrator speed why do you need a toothbrush that does the vibrator thing

[44:49]well if you have to ask rob i've said it before and i'll say it again vibrators don't need this

[44:56]speed vibrate nobody's ever done a vibrator like this in their life i know someone who's a dentist

[45:00]who once invited me to a party you could probably ask them why they need to have vibrator speed on

[45:05]that one who would ever need a toothbrush it goes wow wow i mean this guys i'm not gonna lie this is

[45:13]a disaster because guess how many toothbrush heads it comes with like 10 i'm gonna use this until the

[45:18]day i die and it's a toothbrush i hate regular vibrator gets snatched up by security now you've

[45:23]got a backup right so now are you each using your own rob or are you sharing the the cheaper electric

[45:30]one too we are we are each using our own russell so you don't know i gotta say i'm more more happy

[45:36]with that than i was with do you think do you think like that vibrating pulsating thing is

[45:40]just another scam by the dentist to make more money and they're like all of a sudden now you

[45:44]need to change your toothbrush and that's how they're trying to get you yeah it's not making

[45:49]as much noise when it's running you got to get a new one wait i'm not even i'm not even by the

[45:54]dentist this is i'm this is coming from somewhere in my apartment okay nevermind

[46:00]is this a music podcast jenny's bedroom you know usually i wait until there's a joke to go in the

[46:07]kitchen over there i don't know go into the album but there has been no joke for a little bit so i'm

[46:11]just gonna go right into the album all right a music podcast that's what i signed up for

[46:19]what what's what's more interesting to listen listen to that toothbrush sound or lou reed's

[46:27]vocal tones

[46:28]that's close

[46:30]i think it's good there's some stuff on this album i really like oh my god the whole thing's great

[46:36]tuba it's so good uh listen we are talking about transformer we are talking about transformer by

[46:44]lou reed uh and so i'm not even gonna tell you guys how much time it took me to find that sound

[46:53]to download but i will be using it every time i say the word transformer um once again taking

[47:00]showing that there's no good joke i can't just totally kill so listen this is uh lou reed

[47:05]basically broke up with velvet underground he kind of broke up with andy warhol at the time he came

[47:09]out with a single album called lou reed and it was basically a flop people didn't like it didn't sell

[47:14]very well so he basically david bowie approached him and said i want to produce an album with you

[47:22]mick ronson and i who is david bowie's lead guitarist from the spiders from mars

[47:25]and basically they created the album transformer which is a major

[47:30]glam rock album and basically put um uh lou reed on the map now bowie was always a big velvet

[47:38]underground fan in fact one of my favorite songs of all time i want to play this for you

[47:42]is david bowie covering waiting for the man i mean listen listen to this

[47:48]brownstone building

[47:54]i mean this song is so good it's off his uh santa mona

[48:00]album it's unbelievable david bowie is so fucking good and that's exactly what i realized with this

[48:06]album is i was like we so just just rewind a little bit we did not care for the velvet underground

[48:12]album right correct uh no no i i mean i like everything but when nico got involved i didn't

[48:18]like you know yeah the nico stuff but i mean you know that that one song about what was it a heroin

[48:25]when all of a sudden it's speeding up that was that was great top five pop songs it's true i mean

[48:30]where was it at on the list i don't know if it should be that way in the teens it was way way up

[48:35]but so i was like oh man as soon as we were doing lou reed i was like oh we didn't like

[48:39]velvet underground there's no way and all of a sudden i started listening to this album and i

[48:43]was like god what is it about this album i love it it sounds good i think it sounds and then i read

[48:48]and i say oh i know what it is it's david bowie producing it and mick ronson was a studio player

[48:54]for almost every instrument on this album he played guitar he did the string arrangement

[48:58]he played rustic guitar he did the string arrangement he played the string arrangement

[49:00]i hate to say this to you he did play the recorder on this album recorder and he was the backing he

[49:06]was the backing vocals um and he basically this album came out it was a giant hit and made made

[49:12]lou reed an international star like if it wasn't for this i think lou reed would kind of have

[49:16]maybe not had the success and maybe velvet underground doesn't have the success that

[49:20]we think but this this album is endlessly fascinating to me because it's a perfectly

[49:26]produced album it sounds great and lou reed has one of the strangest

[49:30]voices you'll ever hear somebody sing i mean just listen to this here's vicious

[49:33]the song has been in my head all week got some cowbell there it's kind of basic right that's a

[49:43]cowbell hit me with a flower basically he said that andy warhol came up to him and said write

[49:53]a song about somebody who's vicious and he goes what do you mean he goes you know hit you with a

[49:56]flower and he was like damn i gotta write that down

[50:00]andy warhol would have loved our podcast yes wait i had this i had this album on this morning uh

[50:06]when wallace and i were doing legos and he kept asking me like what's this song about and i was

[50:10]like i don't man i'm not sure like i was like well now they're talking about a shaved honey bear i

[50:16]don't know and he's like i thought they were talking about a chest like it's it's like wild

[50:20]stuff lyrically it's hard to keep track it is and i think like listen to this next song andy's chest

[50:27]this is literally a song written to andy warhol and he's like i don't know i don't know i don't know

[50:30]after he got shot in the chest and to cheer him up like it's a great idea all the trees

[50:38]are calling after you such a terrible voice and i love it i don't care you know what

[50:45]the beginning of this song seemed so basic where i was like i think i'm a better singer if you took

[50:52]yes if you took my gaston song and put it up against this you say you've got to meet but then

[50:57]all of a sudden like the second half of the song kind of

[51:00]picks up and it has this different pace and it actually became a really fun song for me

[51:04]i mean doesn't this sound like um ziggy stardust to you

[51:07]yeah i mean for sure except with here the influence

[51:11]here's the crazy part andy's chest was originally a velvet underground song they recorded it

[51:20]so i want to hear have you see what that song sounds like with zero david bowie influence

[51:25]mick ronson influence listen to this

[51:30]when rattlesnakes lose their skin and their hearts it's not even close no it's not it's not

[51:36]so polished i mean i think lou reed is a brilliant lyricist i think he's a fun singer i think it's

[51:42]an interesting tone but man another another let's go back go back to it go back to andy go

[51:49]back to the next find oh all the trees are calling after me this is so much more interesting yeah

[51:58]and all the

[52:00]now backup singers in this one and everything

[52:04]it's a great song this i i texted you guys this and then russ got mad because we're texting about

[52:10]the album i think the top six songs on this album might be one of my favorite top six we've ever

[52:15]done this album to me was so strong in the beginning and then so weird at the end i loved

[52:20]it last time we talked about lou reed you claimed that the velvet underground was the coolest album

[52:24]ever and then we got drunk and argued about every single album we've listened to for about 25

[52:29]minutes

[52:30]and that was officially the longest cut we've ever had from one of the podcasts

[52:34]is we cut like a 28 minute section that just went off the rails

[52:38]i love the idea that we're like oh my god 28 music minutes of us talking about music cut

[52:51]10 minutes of us talking about squirrels that stated it related that toilet backwards that's

[52:58]gold jerry it was not a perfect day that's for sure perfect day this song is beautiful i have

[53:04]an announcement to make oh this is going in my top six of the best pop songs of all time

[53:12]what movie is this in train spotting okay he must have so he must have sold stuff earlier than

[53:24]other people right like because i never listened to this album all the way through

[53:28]but and you know walk in the wild side for me i know from tribe but uh this one wow uh walk in the

[53:35]wild side and satellite of love i've heard so many times in my life they must have been all over pop

[53:40]culture and but i never heard the album until we listened to it for this and i think here's one

[53:44]thing you need to keep in mind too this is 1972 this is a early early album and i think it's the

[53:51]the the way he's singing the the production of it and the themes he's singing about it's a wild album

[53:56]for 72 and i couldn't figure out what it is about this album that appealed to me so much

[54:01]and i think it might be that i think lou reed for most of this album is being sarcastic i think this

[54:07]is a sarcastic album if you listen to that first song vicious he sounds like he's just like he's

[54:13]being sarcastic about being vicious even perfect day perfect day sarcastic right yeah they think

[54:19]this song is about yeah heroin they think this is about how what it's like to do heroin and he's

[54:24]saying it's a perfect day and and by the way i mean i mean if it's not about and he claims it's

[54:30]not about heroin he said no no i wrote it it's not but listen to this ending what does this mean

[54:34]he's talking about the perfect day hasn't he once also claimed before though that another song wasn't

[54:40]about drugs when it clearly was i think that's kind of a bit of his right yeah i think you're

[54:44]right yeah the piano is the piano is awesome so aaron i was gonna ask you so i love this song too

[54:51]i'm right with rob matt said the piano is awesome if if you had like an all-time singer on this

[54:56]would this be an all-time like top 10 song ever yes if david bowie covered that everybody would

[55:04]know that song i think i think so i think you need the right artist though right but but it also like

[55:10]i mean yeah you need the right artist matt's totally right it would have to be the right voice

[55:15]but something about lou reed's voice really works i don't know if it works as well in someone else's

[55:19]hands

[55:21]maybe the contrast is what really makes it stand out right yeah there's yeah there is something

[55:26]about a guy with these i here's what he says you just keep me hanging on like you can hear how hard

[55:32]he's hanging on and like someone else wouldn't be able to do it with that same affect now here's one

[55:38]issue i have with his voice russell okay what do you call the drink and i and i hate to bring up

[55:43]wine again okay russell what do you call wine when it's mixed our blueberry tonight guys

[55:51]made in a bathtub somewhere in northern minnesota what russell no i'm not enjoying it anymore

[55:57]well there goes that sponsorship um here's the deal how do you say when you mix that with like

[56:08]juice and seven up or whatever it is what do you call that drink that's famous in spain sangria

[56:12]sangria i say sangria too okay i want to see if i was crazy because listen to how

[56:16]lou reed pronounces sangria in the opening line of this song

[56:21]perfect day drink sangria in the park what sangria sangria and then later is this just

[56:31]because nobody knew about sangria in 1972 except for cool new york hipsters like lou reed

[56:35]sounds like he's trying to uh rhyme like uh marlon wayans with something like that you know some

[56:43]other things you know what then i got to give it up for him because sometimes rhyme

[56:46]rhymezone.com does not tell you what rhymes with sangria yeah

[56:51]i gotta admit finding rhymes for things is hard unless that word is figs and again stay tuned to

[56:57]next week you'll see what i'm talking about lots of things rhyme with pigs it turns out

[57:00]um i love that i thought that song was so great i mean guys here's what i want you to do i want

[57:06]you to fly out to me new york okay we go stop at the halal cart for aaron okay yes we get the

[57:13]all the white sauce that he wants or whatever yes we go to central park and we all walk through

[57:19]central park and we all listen to this song together guys it's the perfect day

[57:24]are we gonna ride one of those horses if we're riding around in one of those horse

[57:30]no you don't do that that's canceled are we doing two sets of headphones and we each

[57:36]like two we pair off two by two sharing headphones or do we i do what i always do

[57:40]box yeah i always do what i do in new york i have a huge bluetooth speaker and i turn it

[57:44]full volume and i walk around and people love it because they're always yelling at me i love that i

[57:49]hear what they're yelling but i assume is that they love it hanging around i'm not gonna lie i

[57:54]think i've been hanging around this town on the corner i've been hanging around this old town

[58:03]too long i've been hanging around this town on the corner i pulled this song and i didn't pull

[58:12]hanging around by the counter that's crazy to me

[58:16]yeah

[58:19]hanging around this podcast has officially broken my brain because when i heard this song

[58:23]do you know the one word i heard let's see if you can pick it out

[58:28]this song this sounds like i mean this is like suffragette city this just fucking rocks it's

[58:41]just like let's play a rocker there's a piano that kicks in it feels like jerry lee lewis or

[58:45]something oh yeah the piano on this is just badass

[58:49]this is a song about kind of hanging around uh andy warhol and all the cast of characters that

[58:54]would uh be down there and he's kind of describing it in fact a lot of this album including walk on

[58:58]the wild side the next song is about meeting those people do you think part of this is that

[59:02]1972 everybody's heard about andy warhol they've seen the work they've heard how kind of cool he is

[59:07]and then this album is kind of a peek into what's going on with that i don't have we talked about

[59:12]the it was like a four-part andy warhol series on netflix that was kind of a i think you briefly

[59:18]mentioned it once matt i don't know if i finished it but it was very interesting i mean do you know

[59:24]this whole like it feels like andy warhol is like before us right like we don't unless you're really

[59:30]into the the artsy scene you don't really i don't really know who andy warhol is other than like the

[59:34]surface of it right and so it's it's very interesting to go and kind of see that whole

[59:39]scene and you know andy struggles and how he's in and out and he's really kind of a big nerd

[59:44]and now everybody's kind of putting up this pedestal but he's coming down and coming back

[59:48]in and all this stuff so it's very interesting four or six part series to go to i'm telling you

[59:55]this inspired the metallica song on on master of puppets didn't it oh that's right yeah you

[60:01]i love david boy this podcast i i'm telling you guys this is like a major change my life and not

[60:10]just because i'm getting way less sleep than before i've said this before you're right you're

[60:14]spot on with

[60:14]where i'm at rob i've said this before the one of the favorite things i've had about this experience

[60:18]is being exposed to david bowie's music and it's been fantastic and then to hear the polish that

[60:23]he puts on this it really made it enjoyable oh i thought you were going to talk about the less

[60:27]sleep thing that's what i think that's what's causing all my splooting i'm not sure

[60:33]something walk on the wild side

[60:38]interestingly about this this is the only

[60:44]song i heard of on this album before and i liked it enjoyed it but it wasn't my favorite song on

[60:49]the album so there were other ones that actually bypassed it and for me i'm the guy who likes the

[60:54]commercial hits the stuff you've heard a thousand times and i think it's a great album again we're

[61:00]describing that and well we have david bowie on guitar and then at the end of the song right

[61:08]it's a pretty famous fade out you guys remember how the song fades out no saxophone yeah yeah

[61:14]this oh yeah this

[61:18]this saxophone solo is played by ronnie ross and guess who he taught to play saxophone

[61:28]as a child david bowie that was david bowie saxophone teacher coming in and playing a song

[61:35]on a little album we've talked about david bowie saxophone playing guys it's all coming together

[61:40]man should we see if we can get my middle school teacher mr mendenhall or whatever to

[61:44]come in and talk about how he taught me to play the sax mr poppin and mr page my elementary school

[61:50]who is your boner teacher rosie we should get your boner teacher yeah that was mr poppin was my was

[61:55]the boner teacher yeah what's the boner teacher you put the bone bury the bone anywhere russell

[62:00]that bury the bone that was this episode believe it or not we talked about aaron wearing a shirt

[62:05]called bury the bone and we have not brought it up again the bone it's true i wish i wish we could

[62:09]somehow and i wish i was a quick enough reader and didn't fall asleep after like five pages

[62:14]of reading a book every night um you know because this this song was inspired by a book called a walk

[62:21]on the wild side by something called nelson algren or something like that and it would be awesome to

[62:27]like be able to like read these books that all these people are you know pearl jam's got a bunch

[62:32]of them it's all these like 19th century russian uh you know poets that some of these albums are

[62:39]it would be great to kind of go back and just try to understand what all these people are reading but

[62:44]right you know i just it's overwhelming it's overwhelming you've hit russell's idea what do

[62:49]you want to cover in your life maybe that's it maybe the kids grow up and hey what are you doing

[62:52]nowadays well i'm reading all these russian poets that have inspired pearl jam inspired pearl jam

[62:56]and lou reed i like it i didn't i did not know this was inspired by a book this russian poet

[63:01]which russian poet did it better i can write a theme song great man if you really need it

[63:05]i know some good rhymes i want to bring up right now because this blew my mind

[63:08]there was a fame not a famous there is a r&b song based on walk on the wild

[63:14]side yeah called r&b song called i think it's just wild side one word

[63:20]it's by marky mark and the funky bunch oh i know this song yeah i had this on cassette

[63:25]are you serious i have never heard it it's a second mark song

[63:29]that's because you didn't buy the cassette which also has

[63:34]it's about time i fuck you baby

[63:36]what does it have it's about time i fuck you oh oh no it's about time i fuck you

[63:44]yeah it's pretty much just covered walk on the wild side oh yeah i played again sorry i i sang

[63:51]over play it again because what are they what are they doing for drums russell you're a normal

[63:55]person have you ever heard this song before i don't know i don't know if i read it it doesn't

[64:03]shock me it doesn't shock me i figured this is too too famous of a hook for it not to be covered

[64:08]or not to be sampled the shocking thing about this song is that marky marquette and funky bunch had a

[64:14]song i did not know that i did not i did not know they didn't just have good vibrations is the is the

[64:20]marky is the marky mark version before or after can i kick it because the thing the reason i don't

[64:25]like walk on the wild side anymore is because can i kick it ruined it for me because if you don't

[64:30]hear that that and then the drums drop it's just not the same like once tribe sampled it it was

[64:36]like that's all i want to hear can i kick it is from 1990

[64:44]wildside marky mark is from 91 uh okay this says that this song wild side with marky mark hit number

[64:50]10 on the billboard hot 100 and number eight on the billboard hot rap singles chart that's

[64:56]impossible can you check if marky mark and the funky bunch is on the rolling stone top 500

[65:01]109 110 111 yeah i can't believe i'm the only one who owned the marky mark cassette tape god uh i was

[65:13]too busy with snow informer i was licking that booby what is it

[65:18]i just had a bunch of they may be giants makeup i loved i like this song too it was a little

[65:25]we know why everyone loves this it's got the tuba tuba i almost legit came up with the new tuba list

[65:32]because the tube is so good on this and what's wild 1972 here is lou reed writing a song about

[65:40]drag queen getting ready and then

[65:43]and then not even hiding what it's about i mean listen to this this is so obvious it's wild

[65:48]out of our club rob just tried to play a tuba like a trumpet he's holding it he's not

[65:58]he's holding it like a trumpet so that you play a tuba rob as i was splooting it yeah

[66:03]we're coming is the first is this the first album we've had where they explicitly talk about

[66:07]getting what aaron calls sloppy toppy i don't i don't know something was

[66:13]happening in one of those jay-z or beyonce albums in the kitchen that i was pretty intrigued by

[66:17]oh yeah beyonce is there's plenty of sloppy toppy and beyonce surfboarded yeah i mean what am i

[66:22]thinking guys we literally did yeah yonce is all in your mouth like liquor yeah driver roll up the

[66:29]partition please you don't see all of them all again those are burned into my brain man somehow

[66:35]i forgot that we literally did an album that had this song on it and i'm wondering if this is our

[66:40]sloppy toppy reference

[66:41]thanks to

[66:43]or as aaron calls it good dome

[66:47]aaron come on classy ready to die does not have the lyric of the heads right biggie there every

[66:53]night that's from life after death let's get back and talk about the album transformer

[66:58]all right it's a good bit when we're falling off here um satellite of love

[67:06]oh what is that speaking of the recorder

[67:13]oh sorry rob you mentioned earlier the recorder that's mick ronson playing the recorder right i

[67:19]think he played the piano on this one and i know it's been a while guys and i've been gone i've been

[67:25]busy and rob and aaron you've been picking up the list but today i thought we could do another list

[67:30]i could come back with a list and i thought we could celebrate the greatest songs ever

[67:34]featuring the recorder yes i love that idea let this play real quick and i'm gonna edit this so

[67:40]it's during when russ said it so it sounds like i know what i'm doing

[67:43]i gotta admit russell earlier when you said got mad at me about talking about the recorder i

[67:48]assumed we had a bit in the past about you sucking playing the recorder and i just smiled and acted

[67:53]like i knew what was going on i was worried you were stepping on my list earlier on rob but

[67:58]the interesting thing so the the first recorders dated back to the middle ages

[68:02]oh my god and then they became popular during the renaissance and baroque periods the baroque

[68:07]periods right rob hey if and so it was not baroque don't recorder me

[68:13]fixing it and so the interesting thing is they were actually reserved for royal courts and they

[68:18]were a hobby for kings and queens and then they became more popular and then they started being

[68:22]used with bevaldi bach and some other composers you're telling me but bach used a recorder

[68:29]music for recorders yes i can i just can i just tell you this right now russell i have been to a

[68:35]recorder concert oh i have been to a place where was it aaron's kids concert when you flew up to

[68:42]california or not

[68:43]yeah and he was like hey can you record this on your phone and then i had an app where i was like

[68:48]and i was like oh i'm screwed up i was playing recorder

[68:52]so anyways are we going to step on your touchdown when we say so when it comes to

[68:59]recorder music oh who does it better uh kind of but not really how about this let me retry that joke

[69:06]okay

[69:06]aaron was telling me earlier that

[69:13]he's been recording his wife sleeping at night and i was like well that's weird and it turns out

[69:18]he's just playing the recorder while she sleeps well speaking of playing the recorder while someone

[69:24]sleeps it's interesting that the thing that makes the recorder work is something called a labium

[69:28]labium is a hard edge ramp that is cut into the body of the recorder just after the mouthpiece

[69:34]this when a player blows down the mouthpiece their breath hits the labium and the air begins

[69:40]to oscillate and resonate and whistle we've all thought about it i'm just gonna say that we've all

[69:45]thought about it so that's i mean the recorder works just the word blow job when i was younger

[69:51]that thing screwed me up like i was like i don't want that i mean my labium forget about it do not

[69:57]blow through your mouthpiece into my labium don't need it the pitch of this whistle can be changed

[70:02]by altering the length of the column of the air in the recorder which you do by covering and

[70:08]uncovering the little holes in the recorder and then you can play the recorder and then you can

[70:10]play the recorder body with your fingers and thumb now that i've done but what i thought was

[70:16]really interesting was that the recorder was used by the royals by the royals back in the day and we

[70:23]actually had a big thing happen with the royals when we're recording tonight the queen elizabeth

[70:28]passed away today while we're recording so yeah a couple weeks from now when people are listening

[70:32]uh king charles was crowned as the new king right and so what i thought we could do is celebrate the

[70:40]songs ever, but they're all gonna

[70:42]feature British bands. How about that?

[70:45]Oh, that's great. Wow. Yeah. That is

[70:46]impressive. I gotta

[70:48]say, Russell, the fact that you have left

[70:50]this open for more recorder lists

[70:52]in the future makes me so happy. Brilliant.

[70:54]The first song on the list is from 1967.

[70:57]This is Ruby Tuesday

[70:58]by the Rolling Stones. Oh, good song.

[71:00]While the sun is bright.

[71:02]You hear that recorder back there?

[71:05]I never thought about that being a recorder.

[71:07]It's kind of advanced technique, right?

[71:09]Just a flute, right?

[71:10]Yeah, a little bit. It's a recorder.

[71:12]Ah, that's nice.

[71:13]Well, first of all, I think

[71:20]for this list, Russell, can you do me a big favor?

[71:22]Anytime you're talking about these people playing the recorder, can you call them

[71:24]blokes? Is that possible?

[71:27]So, for this one,

[71:28]Brian Jones was the bloke playing the recorder.

[71:30]Yes, thank you. And I think if, and Matt

[71:32]knows much more about the Stones than I do, but I think

[71:35]Brian Jones brought a lot of musicality

[71:36]to the Stones, right? He played, I think

[71:39]the sitar that was the bloke,

[71:40]playing the sitar on Painted Black, is that right?

[71:42]Yeah.

[71:43]He was very artsy-fartsy

[71:46]compared to the other guys, and when he ended up

[71:48]passing away, they got much more

[71:50]into the blues and kind of just straight up

[71:52]mainstream rock and roll once he was out.

[71:54]I just want to pause this podcast and just say

[71:56]you guys are so fucking smart. This podcast

[71:58]sounds like a real music podcast right now.

[72:00]I don't care that we've been talking about sitting on toilets

[72:02]backwards or splooting and mouthpieces

[72:04]and lead rams or whatever.

[72:05]I'd love it. Good job.

[72:08]Is it okay if I unplug all my cords

[72:10]and go try that out while we're recording or not?

[72:12]Well, here, I got this.

[72:14]Let me see something real quick.

[72:16]Does this feel good on my labia?

[72:18]That's not a tin whistle, right? Because there are

[72:24]multiple recorders, and actually

[72:26]one band that didn't make the list because we've

[72:28]talked about them before is

[72:30]what's the famous Led Zeppelin song?

[72:32]Stairway to Heaven? Stairway to Heaven?

[72:36]Stairway to Heaven has a recorder on it, and it actually has

[72:38]three recorders. I think there's like a tenor

[72:40]recorder, a regular recorder,

[72:42]and a bass recorder that is

[72:44]John Paul Jones. Is that the

[72:45]bloke?

[72:47]That's the bloke who played three

[72:49]recorders on the recording of

[72:52]that song. So listen, I think you might have pulled

[72:54]an errand here. You are doing a list

[72:56]about British blokes who

[72:58]played the recorder. Led Zeppelin

[73:00]has three recorders. We've already

[73:02]talked about that song. We don't repeat stuff

[73:04]on this podcast. Oh my god.

[73:05]That's crazy to me. But one interesting

[73:08]thing, one interesting thing about

[73:09]the Rolling Stones is that

[73:11]we can't just say they're a British band

[73:14]and not bring it back to the Queen. So Mick

[73:15]Jagger was actually selected

[73:17]to receive one of these awards,

[73:19]you know, not being knighted,

[73:21]but one of the, you know, royal

[73:23]whatever awards. And so

[73:25]he was set to get this, and there was kind of

[73:27]some controversy because Keith Richards thought

[73:29]this is bullshit. We shouldn't, like, a band

[73:31]like us shouldn't be taking, like, some

[73:33]award from the establishment, from the Queen.

[73:35]And it turns out the Queen was also

[73:37]disappointed that he was selected.

[73:39]And she said he was not suitable

[73:41]for this because he had called her

[73:43]a chief witch. And so

[73:45]she actually missed his ceremony

[73:47]supposedly because she was

[73:49]getting surgery. So Jagger

[73:51]was knighted or whatever, and she missed it.

[73:53]What do you think of that? Well, guess which one's still

[73:55]alive? Hmm. Who won there?

[73:56]Can you imagine if you would have said

[73:59]who's going to live longer, the Queen or Mick Jagger?

[74:01]You would win so much money.

[74:03]Or Keith Richards, you know,

[74:05]even more than Mick. That's crazy.

[74:07]Keith Richards is still alive.

[74:09]Oh, God.

[74:09]Imagine being the Queen and dying right

[74:11]before the first football game of the season.

[74:12]A bummer. You get your fantasy team

[74:15]all set up.

[74:17]Crown run the jewels or whatever

[74:21]team name was. Can't do it.

[74:22]Second

[74:25]song on the list. This is the Beatles

[74:27]1967. Is that really the second song

[74:29]on the list? Magical Mystery Tour.

[74:31]This is The Fool on the Hill. Check this one out.

[74:33]Oh, I love this song. I wore this CD

[74:35]out.

[74:35]I could maybe whistle this

[74:39]entire recorder solo.

[74:40]Do it, Aaron. Let's hear it.

[74:42]I think there might be a tin whistle

[74:47]on this. There's a recorder and a tin

[74:49]whistle, I believe.

[74:50]But we always talk about Sir Paul and his haircuts.

[74:53]He was knighted in 1997

[74:55]and he's also been named

[74:57]a Companion of Honor.

[74:58]And that is only one of two musicians to

[75:01]ever receive that. It was him

[75:02]and Elton John. And Elton John

[75:05]was granted this

[75:07]Companion of Honor by now the King,

[75:09]Charles, who honored him with this

[75:11]in 2021.

[75:12]Wow. Fantastic.

[75:15]It's all coming full circle.

[75:18]This list has broken my brain.

[75:19]We're a royal podcast here.

[75:21]I did not know we were going to be a royal podcast today.

[75:23]I'm going to try not to say anything

[75:25]incendiary about the royal family

[75:27]and colonialism and capitalism.

[75:29]You've got to blame the UK government as well.

[75:31]You've got to blame the government as well.

[75:32]I'm into that, yeah.

[75:34]This next song is from 1973. I've never

[75:37]heard of this artist before. Her name is Lindsay

[75:39]DePaul. The song is called Ivory Tower.

[75:40]Check it out.

[75:41]Ooh, I don't know this one.

[75:42]Ooh, soulful.

[75:46]Ooh, so sweet.

[75:47]Now, is there a chance that this is

[75:50]Zamfear, Master of the Pan Flute?

[75:52]Does this sound like an ad?

[75:56]Did you buy this from an infomercial?

[75:57]She actually had a song called

[76:00]Sugar Me. I don't know if you guys have heard of

[76:02]Sugar Me before, but it actually,

[76:04]that song, the year before, made her the

[76:06]first British female artist to have

[76:09]a number one self-written hit.

[76:11]The first female artist to have

[76:12]a number one self-written hit was

[76:14]this artist, Lindsay DePaul. What about Dusty

[76:16]Springfield? I don't know.

[76:18]I think UK. She didn't write it.

[76:20]She didn't write her stuff.

[76:21]Do you know who played the recorder on that?

[76:24]Russell, was it a bloke or was it a bird?

[76:26]I don't know if it was Lindsay or if it was a bloke.

[76:29]But an interesting

[76:30]thing, so in 1976, she goes

[76:33]to this charity dinner that's hosted by

[76:35]Prince Charles. So later

[76:36]in the night, Prince Charles becomes very

[76:39]enchanted with this Lindsay DePaul.

[76:40]And in the book called Settling Down,

[76:42]a royal editor wrote,

[76:44]Fellow guests that night sat in trance as the bloke

[76:47]Prince Charles grew more and more friendly

[76:49]towards Lindsay, clearly bowled

[76:51]over by her diminutive singer's

[76:52]looks and bubbly personality.

[76:55]So now the king,

[76:56]King Charles, was once into this

[76:59]Lindsay DePaul, who had a great song

[77:01]featuring a recorder. Do you think there's a chance?

[77:03]And I hate,

[77:04]I hate to say this on the podcast.

[77:06]It just, it brings me no joy to

[77:08]report this. Do you think there's a chance

[77:10]that King Charles

[77:13]said that he

[77:14]wanted to be her tampon? Do you think that's

[77:16]possible?

[77:17]I knew there was no way.

[77:21]I mean, it can't be zero, right?

[77:22]No way we were going to get through this list.

[77:24]Do you think that's just the line he had?

[77:25]No way we were going to get through this list

[77:28]without that reference.

[77:30]He worked when he was in like boarding school and he's like,

[77:32]dang, ladies love this line.

[77:34]You know how ladies love Cool James?

[77:36]Ladies love the tampon line.

[77:38]That will not be a running joke in this podcast.

[77:42]Next song on the list is by another

[77:44]British bloke. This was from

[77:46]1979. This is

[77:48]Alan Parsons. He did the song, remember the

[77:50]Bulls opening?

[77:51]He also did this song called Winding Me Up.

[77:56]Check out the recorder on this song.

[77:58]Are you going to go into how much Parsons is connected to all these people?

[78:02]We've talked about Alan Parsons a million

[78:04]times. I hope we have.

[78:06]He was with them in Nice,

[78:08]he got too drunk and got kicked

[78:10]out of the Rolling Stones recording.

[78:12]He was

[78:13]hanging out in the West Coast.

[78:16]In 2021,

[78:18]he also received the Order of the British Empire

[78:20]Award, the second highest ranking order

[78:22]in the British Empire.

[78:23]And to think

[78:26]that he was almost just a person, but his name

[78:28]is not quite spelled that way. So he's Alan

[78:30]Parsons. I mean, it's quite the

[78:32]story.

[78:32]Last song on the list. We're going

[78:36]to go back to, I think one of the reasons

[78:38]why there's recorder on this album

[78:40]we're talking about is Mick Ronson and

[78:42]David Bowie. But David Bowie

[78:44]on the album

[78:46]The Man Who Sold the World

[78:48]also had a song called All the Mad Men. Check

[78:50]out the recorder on this one.

[78:52]Two recorders playing together there?

[79:00]Is it one guy playing two recorders

[79:02]like this sideways?

[79:03]I love what you're doing with your fingers.

[79:06]I love it.

[79:08]So Bowie actually refused

[79:13]to be knighted by the queen. He said that's

[79:14]not what he was in music for. David Bowie

[79:16]said, I'm not taking the honor of being knighted

[79:18]by the queen. What do you guys think about that?

[79:20]Would you guys have turned down the knighting or

[79:22]would you have taken it? Turn it down.

[79:24]Fuck them. Yeah.

[79:26]I would say, I mean, it's the difference between night

[79:28]and day.

[79:29]You know, it probably depends on what are the

[79:32]benefits of being knighted.

[79:34]I mean, like, you know, you get the title, but

[79:36]like, do you get into all,

[79:38]man, city, uh,

[79:40]United game or man, Manchester United

[79:42]games, man, city games, you know, things like that.

[79:44]I just want you to picture this.

[79:46]Your email signature

[79:48]says, sir, that's all you need

[79:50]right there. You know what I mean?

[79:52]Like, please give us back our online store

[79:54]signed, sir. Rob like that.

[79:56]That would get it done. How confusing

[79:58]would that be for Aaron? Cause he wouldn't know if they had

[80:00]to call him by the full name or if he could call him by

[80:02]the short name.

[80:03]Right. When do I, when do I add, sir? When do I not

[80:06]Russell? What, what album?

[80:08]What David Bowie album was that on?

[80:09]I think it's the man who sold the world. Isn't that correct?

[80:12]I'm sorry. It's the what that sold the world.

[80:14]The bloke who sold

[80:15]and that song was called what

[80:18]all the bloke men.

[80:20]No, it's all the men.

[80:21]Why would you

[80:22]all the men

[80:26]bloke

[80:26]prepared for this

[80:35]podcast we've ever done.

[80:37]So that's the list.

[80:38]That's the list of the greatest

[80:39]British artists that use recorders

[80:41]and their music. Fantastic Russell

[80:43]was another

[80:44]I cannot wait when we cover, you know, Russell,

[80:47]you're asking, what do we want to cover? Every one of

[80:49]I want to cover every

[80:51]country and their best recorder songs

[80:53]for these all seven continents.

[80:55]There aren't that there actually aren't that many

[80:57]other recorder songs that could have made it.

[80:59]Another one that didn't quite make it was

[81:01]Dido. Thank you. But it was very faint

[81:03]and hard to hear. Remember?

[81:04]It's a great song.

[81:06]I mean, Russell, she probably

[81:08]played too long and didn't get a breath.

[81:10]You know, you know, I know

[81:12]the list is over and I haven't been

[81:14]doing the list for a while. You know what else we have been doing a while

[81:16]is honoring back. It turns out this

[81:18]song Satellite of Love. Great song

[81:20]back actually perform this

[81:22]and at the 2015 Rock and

[81:24]Roll Hall of Fame induction for

[81:26]Lou Reed. Check out Beck's

[81:28]performance of this song.

[81:30]Right.

[81:34]Sounds great.

[81:35]Faithful to the original. It literally

[81:38]sounds better

[81:40]to me. Better

[81:41]Satellite of Love

[81:44]and performing this to honor Lou Reed at

[81:46]the Hall of Fame. Who did it better?

[81:47]Beck did it better.

[81:50]But when it came

[81:52]to but when it comes to

[81:53]using the recorder

[81:56]as part of your music,

[81:58]who did it better?

[81:58]The bloke did it better.

[82:01]No, no, no.

[82:02]Bach did it better.

[82:04]The bloke Bach.

[82:08]I don't think they record.

[82:10]So I watched this video very closely

[82:12]so I could cut a song off my list.

[82:14]But you couldn't hear

[82:16]the recorder when that bloke Beck

[82:18]was playing it. And the guy who was playing

[82:20]in the back when he got done, he looked at it like it

[82:22]wasn't working. He must not have known

[82:24]how to blow into the labium correctly.

[82:26]You know what? I had that problem

[82:28]for a long time. I blow the

[82:30]alphabet in now and that seems to work really well.

[82:32]Now you were talking earlier

[82:34]about that bloke Beck.

[82:36]Yes. You know what?

[82:38]What bloke Beck said to me?

[82:39]What? He said, I can't quit you.

[82:41]I'll come eat my ass.

[82:45]Because he actually said, I'm going to eat your ass.

[82:48]And I said, wow, Beck really does do it better.

[82:50]And don't sue us for saying that.

[82:52]He said, I can't quit you

[82:54]and you also can't use my

[82:56]logo for your t-shirt store.

[82:57]Okay, here's a shirt. It's me standing there

[83:00]and Beck eating my ass and me saying, I can't

[83:02]quit you. And then

[83:04]it says Beck did it better.

[83:08]Just mock up a few

[83:09]samples for us, would you?

[83:11]Did you write these notes down

[83:16]in the notebook or not? The one notebook

[83:18]you got while we were on sale?

[83:19]What's going to happen with this next episode?

[83:24]Seriously, what's going to happen? We're going to fall apart.

[83:26]We still have like six songs left on this album.

[83:28]I know what's going to happen on the next song.

[83:30]We're going to start singing Hootie.

[83:31]Gonna rock you baby like a

[83:34]wagon wheel.

[83:35]I do what I want.

[83:37]I like his...

[83:38]I like his voice on I'm So Free here.

[83:39]It works.

[83:40]That's got to be Bowie and Ronson in the back,

[83:45]right? That's such a

[83:47]trip.

[83:47]God, what would you give

[83:51]to be there for the recording with those guys working

[83:53]together? Awesome.

[83:54]Russell, can you rock me gently like a wagon wheel?

[83:57]Rock me.

[83:58]I don't know this one. Can I do it in a macho man voice?

[84:01]Let me think about that.

[84:03]Yeah, okay.

[84:03]I can't just do it. I need to be in the moment.

[84:07]I can't do a macho man.

[84:08]Rock me gently like a wagon wheel,

[84:10]which is also like the wheel I'm going to turn to the left.

[84:12]Oh, yeah. Rock me gently like a wagon wheel.

[84:15]Hulk Hogan.

[84:18]It is true that when you live in New York,

[84:24]you often hear people talking on the cell phones

[84:26]and they're having the most insane conversations

[84:28]that you've ever heard in your entire life.

[84:30]And this was

[84:32]before cell phones, right?

[84:33]He's presaging

[84:35]the New York...

[84:38]Cell phone therapy.

[84:39]Yeah, and then my husband has a podcast where he talks about

[84:41]how bad I am at buying on stuff online and then compares

[84:43]his toothbrush to a vibrator.

[84:44]New York telephone conversation.

[84:47]This song is insane.

[84:50]Yeah.

[84:51]What do you guys enjoy more?

[84:54]This Lou Reed album or the Underground album?

[84:56]Oh, Lou Reed by Miles.

[84:58]And it's because of David Bowie.

[84:59]Matt, how about you?

[85:01]This one, for sure.

[85:02]How about you, Russell?

[85:04]Oh, this one, for sure.

[85:06]If you said, hey,

[85:08]listen to this album and then somebody put it on random

[85:09]and they heard this song first, they would think you're the most insane

[85:12]person in the world.

[85:12]It's like the bugs of Vitalogy.

[85:15]It's like a show tune.

[85:18]He decided to put on a little cabaret

[85:19]show tune near the end of the album

[85:22]just to see who's listening.

[85:23]So guys, this is the final

[85:26]track on Transformer.

[85:27]And

[85:30]let's listen real quick. This is

[85:31]Goodnight Ladies.

[85:37]Unsuccessfully bringing women back from the bar

[85:39]and it didn't make me think about anybody.

[85:42]It did not make me think about a single person

[85:44]on this podcast.

[85:44]Didn't do it.

[85:47]I like the clarinet here, yeah.

[85:53]Is he covering

[85:58]the guys in Music Man?

[85:59]Is he sort of cribbing from that?

[86:02]From what?

[86:04]The Barbershop Quartet and Music Man

[86:07]that does good.

[86:07]Goodnight Ladies.

[86:09]Goodnight Ladies.

[86:11]Goodnight Ladies.

[86:13]We're going to leave you now.

[86:15]That was Aaron's second

[86:17]left-field take.

[86:18]Isn't that what he's talking about?

[86:20]All's I know is he had a lyric about

[86:25]sucking your lemon peel dry.

[86:27]Yeah, he does.

[86:28]The last time we talked about

[86:31]sucking the lemon was

[86:32]Radiohead.

[86:34]My God, we have talked about

[86:36]Sloppy Toppy so much on this podcast.

[86:37]It's insane.

[86:38]Get into the rants.

[86:40]That's surprising.

[86:41]I don't see four dudes

[86:43]we can eventually talk about.

[86:46]Hey, have you guys talked more about that

[86:48]or sitting backwards on a toilet?

[86:49]It's pretty close.

[86:52]It's awesome, actually.

[86:53]Listen, okay?

[86:57]This album is at

[86:59]109 on the list, Aaron.

[87:01]We are slowly moving up the list.

[87:03]We are at 109.

[87:05]It's asking you, you know, do you want to take a walk?

[87:07]Are we going down the list or up the list?

[87:09]Well, here's the thing.

[87:10]You think to yourself, maybe a podcast wants to get to the good albums

[87:13]at the end and kind of build to it?

[87:15]No.

[87:15]Okay, maybe you should do a podcast for all the good albums.

[87:18]You actually didn't know what you were doing with a podcast.

[87:20]You didn't know funny things to bring up like splooting

[87:22]or recorders

[87:24]or

[87:25]that Paul McCarty impression I did earlier

[87:29]that nobody commented on, so it must have been okay

[87:30]because you guys have been really hard on my impressions lately.

[87:33]I'll boost it in the next.

[87:35]I thought that was Ringo.

[87:36]No, it's good.

[87:37]It's a good bit.

[87:38]It's a good bit.

[87:38]Fuck off.

[87:41]You don't know it.

[87:42]Here's the deal.

[87:43]This is at 109.

[87:44]Does this album belong to be at 109?

[87:46]That would mean it's rolling well toned.

[87:48]Okay.

[87:49]Does this album?

[87:51]It's got David Bowie.

[87:52]Mick Ronson.

[87:53]Okay.

[87:54]Which I think I've called him Mick and Mark interchangeably.

[87:56]Don't worry about that.

[87:56]Okay.

[87:57]The blokes love that stuff when I do it.

[87:58]This, if you think it's better than 110,

[88:01]we should have heard this earlier.

[88:04]Okay.

[88:04]That would be.

[88:05]Raymond Usher.

[88:05]That would be.

[88:08]You know,

[88:08]and that's fine.

[88:09]Cause I take criticism.

[88:10]Well,

[88:10]I don't,

[88:10]these little criticizing things that doesn't bother me.

[88:13]So it's no big deal.

[88:14]Thank God.

[88:15]You're not posting this to Facebook.

[88:16]That would be,

[88:20]if it was better than you think,

[88:21]that would be a rolling bone.

[88:23]It should have been higher up on the list.

[88:25]It's too,

[88:26]it's way too far back.

[88:26]This is,

[88:27]there's so many good signs or is this album not quite up to par.

[88:30]Okay.

[88:31]It's a rolling groan.

[88:33]It's not as good as it should be.

[88:36]What do you think?

[88:37]Rolling well toned,

[88:38]rolling boned and roll or rolling groan.

[88:42]What do you think?

[88:43]Russell?

[88:44]I'm really torn on this one.

[88:46]I came into this one convinced I was going to hate this.

[88:49]I did not enjoy the velvet underground.

[88:51]And the first time I listened to this,

[88:53]I listened to this in a car with not great headphones and I didn't quite hear

[88:58]all the music and listening to it again with headphones gave me a whole

[89:01]different experience with it.

[89:03]Again,

[89:03]I wanted to hate this.

[89:04]I wanted to dislike it.

[89:05]And I ended up really enjoying this.

[89:07]I'm,

[89:08]I'm torn because I don't think Lou Reed is a good singer.

[89:10]And so it's like he's unique and he's one of a kind,

[89:14]but I didn't think he was a great singer.

[89:17]And I wonder what this would be like if you had a really talented singer

[89:20]singing along with it.

[89:21]But Aaron mentioned this earlier and I'm kind of coming around on it.

[89:23]I think that part of the contrast is what makes this special.

[89:26]Right.

[89:27]And so for me,

[89:27]I really enjoyed it way more than I thought it was.

[89:30]I'm going to say it's rolling bone.

[89:32]I think it should maybe be higher on the list.

[89:34]This I think is up there for me with Lucinda Williams and,

[89:37]and whole as albums that I thought I was not going to enjoy.

[89:40]And I turned out to love it.

[89:41]I mean,

[89:42]this is a total turnaround,

[89:43]but I don't want to spoil my rating system.

[89:45]Okay.

[89:45]It may surprise you.

[89:46]Aaron,

[89:47]what do you think?

[89:47]Rolling?

[89:47]Well,

[89:47]tone rolling bone or rolling grown.

[89:51]Yeah.

[89:52]Russell called this one special.

[89:54]And I,

[89:54]I agree.

[89:55]I didn't know the album,

[89:57]but I put it on a bunch this week.

[89:59]The whole family liked it.

[90:00]And yeah,

[90:02]it,

[90:02]at first you're sort of like,

[90:04]well,

[90:04]what's up with Lou Reed's voice?

[90:05]And then it grows on you.

[90:07]And,

[90:07]and there's some really great tunes on here and some great lyrics.

[90:10]So I'm also going to say it's rolling bone.

[90:13]It should have been higher on the list.

[90:14]And I will say this,

[90:16]and I know nobody's asked me to say what I'm going to say when I say,

[90:18]I will say this,

[90:19]this is not,

[90:20]I hate to inform you.

[90:21]This is not a college dorm room vibe album.

[90:24]Okay.

[90:25]You might think it is.

[90:26]You might think,

[90:26]Oh,

[90:27]you put this on in your dorm room.

[90:28]You get a good vibe.

[90:28]It means college school's just starting up.

[90:30]How do you look cool?

[90:30]Okay.

[90:31]Well,

[90:31]we're the four guys to ask,

[90:32]of course.

[90:32]Oh,

[90:33]what a perfect day.

[90:37]The reason is if somebody comes into your room and you're playing this

[90:42]song,

[90:43]I was sleeping gently.

[90:45]You will never recover from that.

[90:47]Then you're a weird music guy for the next four years,

[90:49]right?

[90:49]You're a weird music guy.

[90:50]You can't,

[90:51]you can't pick the strangest song off the album though,

[90:53]right?

[90:53]That's not really fair.

[90:54]That's a vibe check.

[90:55]That's,

[90:55]that's the way it works.

[90:56]Okay.

[90:57]That's true.

[90:57]The vibe check could come at any time.

[91:01]It's like,

[91:01]it's like at school.

[91:02]I remember when they were looking for toasters,

[91:04]you never knew when they were going to come find a toaster in your room or

[91:07]a microwave.

[91:07]That's what it was.

[91:07]You couldn't have a microwave.

[91:08]So people would just put signs on their microwave saying not a microwave

[91:11]and it would work because nobody cared.

[91:13]Is that true?

[91:13]Russell,

[91:14]did you look for,

[91:14]you were an RA.

[91:15]Did you look for microwaves?

[91:16]No,

[91:18]no,

[91:19]no,

[91:19]no,

[91:19]no,

[91:19]no,

[91:20]no,

[91:20]no,

[91:20]no,

[91:21]no,

[91:21]no,

[91:21]no,

[91:22]no,

[91:22]no,

[91:22]no,

[91:22]no,

[91:23]no,

[91:23]no,

[91:23]no,

[91:23]no,

[91:23]no,

[91:23]no,

[91:23]no,

[91:23]Aaron and I were JC's.

[91:25]It was like an RA and there was someone in our dorm that was boozing and

[91:29]it actually was one of our fellow JC's and one of the other JC's came to me

[91:33]and said,

[91:33]you have to go bust those people.

[91:35]And I said,

[91:35]that's not going to happen.

[91:37]I am not.

[91:37]Do you think it's possible that that's where Aaron's hatred of microwaves

[91:43]came from is back in his JC days that he was enforcing no microwaves and

[91:47]he's just continued that.

[91:48]And it's like,

[91:49]it's like the war on drugs,

[91:51]drugs,

[91:51]one war on microwaves,

[91:52]microwaves one.

[91:53]Yeah,

[91:53]it's true.

[91:54]They always,

[91:55]they always come around.

[91:56]Now listen,

[91:56]that was not worth the detour that I took that.

[91:58]Okay,

[91:58]Matt rolling,

[91:59]rolling,

[92:00]well-toned rolling bone or rolling.

[92:03]Grown and feel free to stretch this out.

[92:04]We got to fill a little time.

[92:06]We do.

[92:07]Well,

[92:08]like BB and CC,

[92:09]why known?

[92:10]I think this list is rolling.

[92:13]Growned that rhyme.

[92:16]CC.

[92:17]I like it.

[92:17]Yeah,

[92:17]that was nice.

[92:18]I tried to,

[92:19]I tried to get to put a beat under that.

[92:21]They're not your favorite gospel group.

[92:23]You got bars.

[92:23]I got bars.

[92:25]Uh,

[92:25]look,

[92:26]I think this is a David Bowie side project that has Lou Reed as the

[92:33]a little carrot that's dangling in front of it,

[92:36]right?

[92:37]Great album to listen to,

[92:39]but to say that this is better than,

[92:41]let me pull up my list here,

[92:42]you know,

[92:43]like goodbye,

[92:43]yellow brick road by Elton John coming up,

[92:46]uh,

[92:47]you know,

[92:48]moon dance by Van Morrison and another good one.

[92:51]You know,

[92:52]there's some other Janet Jackson's control.

[92:54]I mean,

[92:54]there's all of these other albums that Paul's boutique by beastie boys and

[92:58]about 10,

[92:59]um,

[93:00]a night at the opera.

[93:01]I mean,

[93:01]there's so many 1999,

[93:03]there's so many different things.

[93:04]Like I just,

[93:05]I don't see how this is like an influential album or anything like

[93:10]that.

[93:10]That would be in the top 109 of all time.

[93:12]I think it's just a,

[93:13]it's a great Bowie side project that,

[93:16]uh,

[93:16]we'll definitely listen to again,

[93:19]at least a few of the songs,

[93:20]but I think it's rolling grown should be lower on the list.

[93:23]Great point.

[93:23]Geez.

[93:24]Great points.

[93:25]You know,

[93:26]ironically,

[93:26]you guys,

[93:26]I think I forgot to start my recorder for this podcast.

[93:29]Oh,

[93:29]well,

[93:30]no big deal.

[93:30]Just kidding.

[93:31]I am recording.

[93:32]Russell looks really stressed.

[93:33]Sorry,

[93:33]Russell.

[93:33]You just got to blow on that labial and it'll start going again.

[93:37]I've been,

[93:37]I've been trying,

[93:38]but I'm not flexible enough.

[93:39]Um,

[93:40]so here's the deal.

[93:41]And don't make me do a Maryland Manson,

[93:44]take out a rib joke.

[93:44]I'm going to edit that out,

[93:45]edit it out.

[93:46]I will listen.

[93:48]The answer is you guys were incorrect.

[93:49]Unfortunately.

[93:50]Okay.

[93:51]Again,

[93:52]109 times.

[93:53]This gets them.

[93:53]This gets a rolling and for sure it's Mark Ronson.

[93:57]Okay.

[93:58]Yes.

[94:00]Mark Ronson was the bloke who made this album.

[94:03]He made the sound.

[94:04]He,

[94:04]I know it's a David Bowie project.

[94:05]I think that's a great take by Matt,

[94:07]but you hear so much of that spiders of Mars influence on this.

[94:10]It could be a Mark Ronson project,

[94:12]you know,

[94:12]side project.

[94:13]So I agree with you.

[94:15]Guess what?

[94:16]Now Matt and I are in love.

[94:17]It's great.

[94:18]Are we sure it's not?

[94:19]Are we sure it's not Mick?

[94:20]Is it Mark?

[94:20]Or Luke or John?

[94:23]Monday,

[94:23]Wednesday,

[94:23]Tuesday,

[94:24]bringing it all around.

[94:25]Here we go.

[94:25]I think we have an Usher Raymond issue on the hand,

[94:30]right?

[94:30]I love criticism.

[94:31]Doesn't bother me.

[94:32]Do some,

[94:33]a bunch of damn work for this podcast.

[94:34]Nobody respects my accents.

[94:36]My voice is,

[94:36]Oh,

[94:37]your macho man voice isn't good.

[94:38]It actually is good.

[94:39]A lot of people have emailed in saying,

[94:41]I love the macho man dying on the street bit.

[94:43]It's not Rob Rosie.

[94:46]I can confirm that it is Mick Ronson.

[94:48]Sorry,

[94:49]Rob.

[94:49]Sorry.

[94:50]I don't mean to be a sticker for the details.

[94:52]Edit point.

[94:53]It's a rolling Mick Ronson.

[94:55]I feel like Mark Ronson was the guy who hosted that show.

[94:57]Double deer on Nickelodeon or something like that.

[95:00]That's Mark Summers.

[95:01]Let's look up the most,

[95:03]famous Mark Ronson.

[95:03]No,

[95:04]you're thinking of the guy who did the guy who did uptown funk.

[95:07]Hey,

[95:08]isn't that Mark Ronson?

[95:09]Yeah.

[95:09]Yeah.

[95:10]Yeah.

[95:10]British bloke DJ.

[95:12]Yeah.

[95:12]All right.

[95:13]Next week.

[95:14]Okay.

[95:15]Next week.

[95:17]Next week.

[95:17]Oh,

[95:18]see you guys in a week.

[95:19]Yep.

[95:19]Definitely.

[95:20]Well,

[95:20]Hey,

[95:20]God,

[95:21]I go to bed early.

[95:22]See you tomorrow.

[95:23]Wait,

[95:23]no.

[95:24]See you tomorrow for Russell.

[95:25]I think we just crossed over next week.

[95:27]This is going to be a late night.

[95:29]We have next week.

[95:30]We have what Aaron sees when he goes.

[95:32]He's a WNB.

[95:33]A game in Los Angeles,

[95:34]but he just focuses on one team.

[95:36]What's that?

[95:37]It's court and spark by Joni Mitchell.

[95:39]Horton sparked.

[95:41]Yeah.

[95:41]But don't.

[95:43]Yeah.

[95:43]That's like when you want Lisa Leslie is just one spark.

[95:45]God damn it.

[95:48]That's a better joke.

[95:48]Fuck.

[95:49]I should know a more current spark player,

[95:55]but that's what I got.

[95:56]I've got the.

[96:00]All right.

[96:01]I got,

[96:02]I got some.

[96:03]I have,

[96:04]I have never waited for a joke more than this one.

[96:07]This I'm guys.

[96:08]Are we sure the queen passed away and that she wasn't just splooting?

[96:11]Cause if she was splooting,

[96:13]it's going to be real awkward for that bloke.

[96:15]Prince Charles.

[96:16]It's time to say good night.

[96:26]We're going to end every episode like that.

[96:33]From now on.

[96:33]That's good.

[96:34]I like it.

[96:34]I like that.

[96:35]That's nice.

[96:36]Seriously.

[96:36]That would be an amazing joke by her on the whole world.

[96:39]If she was just like,

[96:40]she's like,

[96:40]no,

[96:40]sorry.

[96:41]I got hot.