The Strokes: Is This It (2001)

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

[00:13]all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better

[00:19]we are all the way up to album 114 and from 2001 we have is this no what is it is this it right

[00:29]is this it i didn't write it down anywhere shit is this it by this that's correct is this it by

[00:38]the strokes and i gotta say guys i i thought i smelled toast during this album what the strokes

[00:46]hey there's a fun way to start a podcast uh let's get right listen no more jokes like that okay let's

[00:52]just get right into our opening radio bit why do i have to introduce this every week it's humiliating

[00:59]here we go

[00:59]tonight we're broadcasting from a home depot now listen aisle one that's hammers oh what's that

[01:15]you want some inflatables that's way down at aisle 10 they're on sale right now what's that

[01:19]you want to hold russell's hand during the day uh let me check that's aisle i don't think so

[01:26]oh yeah

[01:26]last night

[01:29]russell's day said we're at a big box store we should hold hands more

[01:36]oh baby let's go down that route you know the sun's still out

[01:47]oh that was a too hard call we've been dating but holding hands is something i don't allow

[01:54]when the sun goes down then i'll comply

[01:58]at night we can park in the aisles

[02:02]my shopping friends they learn this firsthand if you see the sun you know affection is banned

[02:15]more like home deep no i'm never gonna hold her hand

[02:19]but last night we went now she's my gorgeous bride

[02:27]so i put her hand in mine so i gave a big smile ran down the aisle

[02:32]when you want to hear about the greatest that's the story of russell running away from his own

[02:37]wedding because she wants to hold his hand home deep no no listen i'm so sick of songs

[02:44]with the home depot

[02:44]i gotta hear one more home depot

[02:49]i've got the perfect podcast for you jack did i ever tell you guys the story of when i was better

[02:55]building a water rocket launcher at lowes for a classroom and they said oh we can't sell you the

[02:59]parts my boss says this job is too dangerous like what you're making is too dangerous i was like what

[03:04]i am standing right next to a table saw what the hell are you talking about

[03:07]like easily it was great i was like wait what i'm too dangerous am i buying some lists now

[03:13]to me to be fair did you have that mustache you have now

[03:17]i looked exactly like this yeah well i guess it makes sense and i said well do you guys have a

[03:24]trailer to rent because i all i have is this truck full of fertilizer truck full anyway uh so listen i

[03:31]am here with three guys we'd love to talk about the best albums from the rolling stone magazine

[03:35]or whatever we're doing i've got matt in minneapolis matt how are you doing

[03:40]oh good if this episode is uh you know you're the planner of this episode right you do all the

[03:45]planning and everything if if this is any indication of how well this is going already

[03:49]this is going to be a banger of an episode i'm excited banger coming on we are starting at 12 40

[03:54]a.m my time for the first episode so this is something i gotta say i am the planner uh just

[04:00]like the warts on the bottom of my feet uh i got russell in minnesota russell how are you doing

[04:04]rob i heard your song can't you see i'm trying i don't even like it i just held your hand at

[04:09]menards to get to your apartment now i'm staying for a while and i've got aaron out in california

[04:14]aaron recently found out that you could challenge death to any game that you want as famous of

[04:19]course and build ted's excellent adventure part two uh

[04:24]you can challenge death to any game yeah you can challenge to death to any game to not take your

[04:28]soul aaron was talking about this don't make any sense to me okay so you know the grim reaper death

[04:33]right yeah you know how you have picked people paying him in chess have you ever wondered why

[04:37]what have you ever wondered why they play him in chess the no what it's because you get to keep

[04:45]your soul i mean what are you guys what have you ever seen build ted's excellent adventure too

[04:49]nope okay let's stop this podcast we gotta watch that right now

[04:54]i i got stuck on all the earnest movies a few weeks ago i didn't make it to bill and ted

[04:58]still rewatching that don't remind me of a better bit i did i just keep watching exorcist three

[05:03]every day all day every day so i don't even know that reference anybody anybody who's watched dom

[05:10]or the the new series that's what he watched every day i made it about three minutes into that show

[05:17]and i was like i can't do this i want no part of this this is not what i believe in if you can get

[05:21]through the first episode if you can get through the first it is it's pretty good but the first

[05:25]episode is horrible it's horrible like it's just bad i love that man it's like that was really bad

[05:33]well better watch the second one i wonder if it gets better the last thing we need to do is

[05:37]tee up rob for more eating ass jokes too oh god and let me clarify it's not horrible from like

[05:43]this is really poorly done it's so well done that you are so freaked out by jeffrey dahmer

[05:48]and like the situation that it's just it's it's uncomfortable by the way russell the fact that

[05:53]i didn't think of an eating ass joke is probably the most disappointed i've been in my entire life

[05:57]that you thought of that i'm just sitting here like an idiot what i want to know is yeah you

[06:00]can challenge death to any game aaron no i'm not done yet we still don't understand i'm not done

[06:04]death to any game what's going on you can challenge death to a game for your soul aaron decided to do

[06:10]a pillow fight yeah i guess he doesn't he's not aware of the repercussions of that decision

[06:15]i get it

[06:18]why don't you wear why don't you wear your new trench coat oh that was the other one i was going

[06:25]to talk to you and i'm glad i left it for you thank you i'm wearing nothing but my cowboy hat

[06:30]why is rob wearing nothing but his trench coat i've always i guess that's just that just is how

[06:36]the flasher is the easiest right it's too real can we go back to your place there's so many

[06:40]quotables on this album i think you could do a flash or two though if you're wearing gym shorts

[06:44]and well i mean who cares about the t-shirt i mean if you're okay let me ask you this question

[06:48]and listen i'm i'm with aaron flashing is wrong but if you're gonna do it and you're just wearing

[06:55]gym shorts you could just pull them down right you don't have to also pull your shirt up a little

[06:59]like to indicate that you're like yeah i'm actually getting i guess i mean if you're wearing

[07:03]five inches if you're wearing five inches you can just pull them up too

[07:07]a pull to the side or flash

[07:11]oh no you know i come from a long line of pull to the side or so i oh speaking of flashing this

[07:18]happened again to me today i've got i'm on a bad trend of forgetting to zip my fly in my jeans or

[07:24]my pants you guys ever go through it like a yeah this has never been an issue for me and then within

[07:29]the last like four or five months i think it's happened to me like five or six times no one's

[07:33]ever said anything i've never been like in a group or in front of people but i'll be walking from like

[07:37]my car to the office and i'm like oh shit i i it seems to be a problem with me i don't know if it's

[07:42]old age or what but you guys have this problem or not now russell asked me to backdate this episode

[07:47]two weeks this seems like he said it's a problem with me i don't know if it's old age or what but

[07:47]seems like he said i'm some sort of legal defense for something that happened at work today

[07:51]russell this might this might not surprise you at all but that happens to me all the time i think

[07:58]i think the the flies on my jeans are too heavy i think they get pulled down because they just seem

[08:03]to be open like all the time and i'm like i just talked to so many people like in the lobby of my

[08:08]building and and for some reason my jeans have an extra big fly too i always thought flies were

[08:13]like little these jeans i have i'm serious i think they have an eight inch fly like it goes like when

[08:17]you zip it it's like it's like zipping up a winter coat it's the longest fly ever so when it's down

[08:23]it's all the way down it's like full on what do you think aaron matt do you guys have this issue

[08:28]is it old age or what what do you think's going on i just think it's inattention right like just

[08:32]you know you're doing too much the restroom you're washing your hands you walk out you know

[08:37]then you get everything just all of a sudden like oh shit yeah i totally forgot to it does feel like

[08:42]certain pants just like it happens like it for me if it's like if it happens a lot it's the same

[08:47]i don't really wear pants very often shorts and shorts over and over and i'm like oh those damn

[08:51]shorts you wear the short pants i wear the short pants can you imagine can you guys just and i and

[08:56]i don't want to slow this show down we have so much to talk about can you imagine aaron's life

[09:00]where he just said i don't really wear pants like that's the that's the life i want where he's like

[09:05]i bought a suit today yeah i bought a suit today and i wore i wore shorts to the suit store so i

[09:09]could try but i'm going to a wedding in three weeks i don't have a black suit so there was

[09:16]barry from burnsville barry from burnsville famously always used to ask everybody don't

[09:22]you hate pants that's me man i hate pants i do hate shorts all day i love if you work from home

[09:28]you should never be wearing pants right like i wear no pants i wear no pants always shorts

[09:34]remember that ad i wear no pants this is the guy who doesn't get my playing games with death

[09:43]anything that gets russell singing is all right with me

[09:45]it's good to have you guys on the show thank you so much for watching and i'll see you next time

[09:46]let's get into the voicemail

[09:49]on the back line 802-277 that's 802-277-2325

[10:05]gentlemen how we doing close personal relative of aaron's here hey i'm covering the strokes

[10:12]tonight i can't wait to hear that in three weeks there's really nothing

[10:15]like the evergreen podcast content affected better anyways i have a lot of this outfit tied

[10:21]up in this band and my relative aaron but the main one is that in 2006 i had to pick between going to

[10:27]see the strokes play a show in kansas city on a wednesday night or on that same night going up to

[10:32]see johan santana pitch game one of the alds with aaron at the metrodome i chose the strokes the

[10:38]show sucked and i still spend a non-trivial amount of time thinking about that decision

[10:42]even though the twins lost it remains the same way i'm going to see the strokes play a show in kansas city on a wednesday night or on that same night going up to see johan santana pitch game one of the alds with aaron at the metrodome i chose the strokes the show sucked and i still spend a non-trivial amount of time thinking about that decision

[10:42]even though the twins lost it remains the single biggest regret of my entire life and it got me

[10:48]wondering what is a terrible choice that you made that still haunts you to this day and let's just

[10:54]get this out of the way starting this podcast i know that's the joke we're all gonna say

[10:58]a huge mistake we've gotten almost nothing out of this um what what's so what's a huge mistake

[11:08]first of all there's a chance that the twins lost because he didn't go to the game

[11:11]right like that's a chance it's not zero it's not zero think about that i uh russell what's your big

[11:18]bad go to someone else i haven't thought about it go to go to aaron or matt birds my god i texted

[11:22]you guys like i mean mine i mean mine relates to this caller this caller was here to visit me in

[11:27]oakland in 2016 and he was gonna be here and prince was playing i'm sure i've told this story before

[11:34]oh yeah the piano tour prince was playing on the piano tour at oracle arena and i got on ticket

[11:40]master i had three

[11:41]three tickets available to so that would have been myself the caller and my wife anna and i was ready

[11:48]and then it was like 275 bucks a ticket and i thought about it i don't know it was 275 worth it

[11:54]decided not to go we ended up just like hanging out going to a bar had a nice night but six weeks

[11:59]later prince is gone i've never seen him live that is the number one regret for me of my life so

[12:05]flip side he went to a concert i didn't go to a concert giant regret either way you know my wife's

[12:10]wife saw prince in concert and she kept saying that he's he's a big pianist and i was i wasn't

[12:15]really listening that close but guys please this podcast is so stupid i made that joke episode 14

[12:23]i made it 114 and i will make it 214 okay that's my promise to you so i've also talked about prince

[12:29]actually before where i went to that prince concert and then he said hey if you want to keep

[12:33]partying drive down to paisley park and you pay like 20 bucks and come in and we're gonna just

[12:37]party all night and i was like oh my kid just got home oh my god it's one o'clock in the morning why

[12:44]my kid just get home speaking of regrets she's really dropping the ball here so i i did not go

[12:53]to the paisley park i did not go that was my big big regret but i will say uh my other big oh my

[13:00]god what was it i just had in my head oh my god i just forgot what it was what was last weekend

[13:07]i ate some eggs at breakfast and then we went out for brunch later and i really wanted the

[13:12]breakfast burrito but i chose not to get the breakfast burrito because i had already had

[13:16]eggs in the morning and i've been regretting that all week like i still like fuck it like

[13:19]have eggs twice in a day i should have just gone for the breakfast burrito i've been thinking about

[13:22]it all week probably gonna go back this weekend and try to get that breakfast burrito i want your

[13:27]life i'm just feeling time for your dad i'm just feeling spacey you can remember around i'm trying

[13:31]wearing the short pants eating breakfast burritos yeah i mean what could be better eggs twice

[13:37]a day rosie oh my goodness rob rob told us about this question two days ago and he can't think of

[13:43]any i know i got on russell for not thinking about it and i realized i had no idea what i was gonna

[13:47]say god dang it oh you know what i didn't remember what it was every time the vikings with the

[13:53]exception of the philadelphia game every time the vikings been in the nfc championship i watched it

[13:58]in vegas with you guys when they got destroyed by philadelphia that was really fun actually

[14:02]that was fun the other two times the saints and then the uh falcons

[14:06]i changed up how i normally watch vikings games one i went over to a friend's house that i've

[14:12]never watched a vikings game there and the falcons game went there live but not with my dad now it was

[14:18]with somebody else and it turns out that their favorite gag was with two minutes left they would

[14:24]stand up and go stand by the door so they could get out first to get back to the parking well if

[14:28]you remember in 1998 that was the game where they drove down and basically like it was this huge

[14:33]overtime like it was this huge deal at the end of the game i can't remember when to overtime or

[14:37]what but it was like a big field goal at the end and i was there watching it like in the concourse

[14:43]through the door watching the vikings season end and then hurrying out to the car having no time

[14:48]to process what had just happened giant mistake huge how would you do you feel like you dodged a

[14:54]bullet though now with that saints game or would you be like it's fine like now that we like for

[14:58]you now that we for sure know that brett farve is one of the five worst people in america like would

[15:02]you would you be fine with it if you dodged a bullet though now with that saints game or would

[15:03]you be fine with it if he had actually won that game or you do you feel like you dodged a bullet

[15:07]i gotta see how nice this volleyball court would have been though you know what i mean like it was

[15:11]a really really good volleyball court it's like i don't know maybe like an awesome volleyball court

[15:16]yeah what if it leads to like a national championship for southern mess i mean does

[15:19]that change it they got like tape on the court where all the out of bounds goes and everything

[15:23]yeah i mean who do you steal money from the government what like why why does anybody care

[15:33]oh no the government brett farve stole money from the government what are we talking about

[15:37]okay now the idea of my tax is going to brett farve and then be like i'm gonna build a volleyball

[15:44]court actually that kind of rocks the bread follower volleyball court i think that's a good

[15:47]idea um what i still think it's funny that ted dibiasi was involved in this somehow but he's

[15:58]just basically been dropped it's just all brett farve no i think the million dollar man

[16:02]scamming the government everybody's got a price it seems like the million dollar man did not in

[16:08]fact have one million dollars if he was having to go out there and borrow it if i started getting

[16:13]a business deal and i realized the other guy was the million dollar man i would be very suspicious

[16:17]okay like why aren't you just running the money for this right like yeah i'd be like

[16:22]i've seen you a lot i don't trust you what if he offered you a hundred a thousand dollars

[16:28]to dribble a basketball ten times then he kicked it away from you on number 10 rob what would you

[16:32]do it's so funny that he did that to a little kid on like national television right yeah oh my god

[16:39]it's so good and again i'm just gonna say it again first of all ted dibiasi looked a lot like my dad

[16:43]second of all just the concept of somebody being a wrestler who's rich and he just loves to wrestle

[16:49]it tickles me it just picture the rich guy right now now he's a professional wrestler i mean it's

[16:54]a great idea it's a great concept if i were gonna have a survivor series match my two team captains

[16:58]would be the million dollar man and the pleasure principle

[17:02]i might be jumping ahead here but one of the one of the beautiful internet eulogies that i saw for

[17:11]coolio rest in peace was by virgil the million dollar man's yeah yeah valet they must have been

[17:18]buddies what is he what is virgil rosie what is he to the million dollar man wasn't he the valet

[17:24]or what was he he was the i don't know personal assistant i'm not sure what you'd call him

[17:28]hey butler i don't know

[17:31]oh

[17:31]oh matt are you suggesting that perhaps this was a problematic depiction

[17:35]yeah

[17:36]good point i shouldn't we can't cancel virgil that seems reverse hey virgil you're canceled

[17:43]wait what um that seems bad uh it is funny i i do think growing up though tv gave me an idea

[17:53]that a lot more people had butlers than actually like in real in tv i saw a lot of one rob what

[17:59]don't you have one

[18:01]or is that who you call her call her your friend she makes great cookies

[18:04]but that's not have one like a butler so what's the difference between somebody who cleans your

[18:09]could i start calling the person who cleans my apartment a butler oh my god i'm gonna start

[18:13]do you have do you have somebody who answers do you have somebody who answers the door and like

[18:17]takes in packages and things and i do doesn't allow other people up to your front desk guy

[18:21]is my butler oh my god that's so great yes they do sometimes wear a suit this is awesome i have

[18:28]a butler oh my god finally there were so many shows fresh prince yeah you're like the prince

[18:33]mr belvedere was he a butler what was mr belvedere my my biggest my biggest two regrets the first

[18:39]we've discussed it before we don't need to go into detail but getting upper deck tickets at the

[18:44]stadium for the rolling stones like when you get a chance to see one of the greatest bands one of

[18:49]the biggest bands of all time and you you screw it up and don't you aren't able to enjoy any of

[18:53]the night that's a pretty big it's too bad it's too bad you didn't have friends i would we're

[18:58]out for you trying to help nobody meant nobody was trying to help nobody was there for you

[19:01]and the other one goes back to college i remember for months i wanted to buy a playstation 2 and i

[19:07]kept thinking about it but they were like 300 bucks at the time and i was like i can't spend

[19:12]300 bucks on this i can't even afford to buy like an oatmeal cream pie at target or whatever like i

[19:17]had no money but i really wanted this playstation 2 so bad so bad and i waited and waited and i

[19:22]waited months and finally i bought it i was like i should have just bought it right away like

[19:25]i think you should just give in give in to what you're doing and i'm like i'm not gonna do that

[19:28]you want spend the damn money get what you want you can't take it with you when you die

[19:32]you go bankrupt in the end you probably were gonna go bankrupt anyways without buying like

[19:36]a playstation get what you want to do do what you want to do i probably said that to you over and

[19:40]over at the time and that's why i want to talk to you guys we only live once and i have this great

[19:45]business opportunity i'm gonna build a volleyball court in mississippi okay some stuff has fallen

[19:51]apart but i think we could get this done i think it's a good idea rob you could stop sending us

[19:56]the pictures of your crotch though like

[19:58]i wanted to i wanted to show you what it would look like in somebody wearing tight pants on the

[20:03]court okay but the court isn't built yet so i had to do some computer renderings the crocs look very

[20:08]nice man what's your big regret did you have a big regret for a concert or something you missed

[20:13]that you wish you would have went to there's not really a concert so much in eighth grade uh there

[20:19]was this girl named katie who was trying to make out with me and i kind of chickened out and ran

[20:23]the other way so that that's a big regret um bought a pizza place and i was like i'm gonna do

[20:28]when i was 22 that didn't work out that was a that was a big regret you learned

[20:33]matt you know what i think i went to your pizza place once and it's when you had a fantasy football

[20:38]draft so i don't think your friends really did their part in helping that pizza place did they

[20:42]it was doomed to begin it was doomed from the beginning anyway so live and learn man i'll tell

[20:48]you what i don't know why your pizza place didn't take off it was called there's no scabs on this

[20:52]pizza yeah i mean there's no scab it was in the name

[20:58]well here's a little psa for people if you're buying if you're buying a business but it's had

[21:05]four owners in the last like three years you know that's probably not a good sign like probably

[21:10]there's probably something else wrong what if some of those owners have gotten picked up by the

[21:13]mississippi government uh thing and now there's only one and he's in desperate need of somebody

[21:20]and there's text messages saying there's no way i can get caught doing this right that's right

[21:24]that's the best yeah i would say there's no way i can get caught doing this right that's the best

[21:28]there's no way this can get out to the public is there i would say if you're asking if you can get

[21:32]caught you're doing something bad right like i'm not going to the grocery store and buying ham and

[21:37]be like well i hope nobody catches me doing this but if i'm going to the grocery store in a trench

[21:43]coat and then putting the ham on the glass a reverse deli case scenario i want you to think

[21:47]about this i'm at the deli case right i asked the guy to look in he looks in i put my butt on the

[21:54]glass the meat is on the glass but it's reverse he's seen it from the inside

[21:58]that would blow his mind i bet the reverse deli case was actually the pleasure principles

[22:02]finishing move he's gonna hit him with the reverse deli case he's putting the ham on the glass

[22:11]rolling going aaron how's it going with you i'm gonna actually make a little shirt of me

[22:16]doing the reverse deli case it's going pretty good although i will say i have a i have a touch

[22:22]of melancholy tonight um i love i fucking love this album so much i wore the cd

[22:28]out in my chevy s10 uh in which i shared an uncomfortably close ride with russell and rob

[22:33]many years ago love this album and so sometimes when it's an album that i love i'm super stoked

[22:38]got to the end of the week stoked to talk to you guys about it but i feel already

[22:43]that our caller referenced the nostalgia for this album i feel a lot of nostalgia for this album and

[22:49]then knowing that it was so long ago it just feels like oh yeah the passage of time and so

[22:55]when this when this episode is over it's just one more time and i'm just like oh my god i'm so

[22:58]gone in my life so i feel a little a little tinge of sadness

[23:02]aaron if your cd of this went to the bar i could buy a drink yeah that's that's bad

[23:09]that's right that's very bad well i i've got it i got to get into the i need some advice actually

[23:15]i need a little bit of a corner i might have to get in the corner i need a little bit of advice

[23:19]aaron aaron the advice don't put the ham on the glass

[23:23]i can't every time i put the ham on the glass

[23:28]somebody tells me it's a bad idea yeah he'd be like what is there there's roast beef outside the

[23:33]deli case what the uh i'm not i'm so this is not a halloween question it's a it's a different

[23:42]costume question i'm not generally a costume guy wait it's not a halloween costume it's a

[23:47]different costume different costume question yeah okay never mind no sense is it not generally

[23:52]uh fuck this how big of a ball do i need to put in my mouth

[23:58]i'll tell you what a small ball gag does not do a job you could talk right through it

[24:04]sorry is that is that even regulation size yeah no i i would say the smallest you could

[24:13]have a ball gag i think is racquetball size right like any smaller any smaller like if

[24:19]it's a golf ball size you'd be like well who's this is a little uncomfortable but it's actually

[24:23]not too bad like i hope you still get jokes after i actually ask my question because you just want

[24:28]great jokes i'm gonna cut to the chase there's a benefit auction for my son's school in november

[24:33]and and the parents are required to dress up and i've heard my son's in kindergarten and i've

[24:39]already heard the older parents make fun of the kindergarten parents because they don't really

[24:43]bring their a-game when it comes to costumes but the theme competitive parenting the theme

[24:49]is people need to get lives toy shop the theme is toy shop and i have no fucking idea what to wear

[24:57]for a costume

[24:58]also we've discussed before i have no hair so it's really difficult to do a cop an elf costume

[25:04]like elf the show of the movie or like an elf yeah like a keeper elf yeah that's whoever one

[25:10]works at a toy shop right i just don't yeah i don't what's in the toys or you just tell them

[25:15]to go fuck themselves because why you need to just craves how about this i'm gonna give you

[25:21]i'm gonna give you an idea aaron and this is this is an idea you can bring and you can actually use

[25:28]that as well and that is you put in a ball gag you just get a ball gag and say oh i didn't

[25:33]understand what kind of toy shop you're talking about he's rocking he's walking around with like

[25:38]one of those high halai scoops and then a ball gag in his mouth instead of

[25:41]you got like knee-high socks on there too oh my god you could you could go like as a hungry

[25:49]hungry hippo and have like a big white ball gag that you walk around with the whole time

[25:53]and anna's just back there just pushing your back

[25:57]around

[25:58]you keep like chomping down on the ball but it doesn't make you keep showing up

[26:04]people would i mean we'd be memorable right people because they'd be like excuse me sir

[26:10]why do you think it's okay to wear a ball gag to an elementary school benefit and you're like

[26:14]yeah oh i'm sorry i was i worked out of the pleasure principle i uh

[26:25]but really what what what's the point of doing a ball gag

[26:28]what's wrong what is wrong with people rosie if they're gonna make fun of the kindergarten

[26:31]right it's hazing it's like a hazing ritual right i've heard i got the other day the other day we

[26:37]got an email from a parent at leo's school that had a like a 16 point bullet point outline about

[26:46]why the lunch is so bad and what they should do about it and if anybody is with us you know

[26:52]please email me back so and i'm like what the fuck do people do right what is going on in your

[26:58]life pizzas are covered in scabs god is your is your child getting enough calories then shut up

[27:06]right or you know what pack a damn lunch and send it you know what i mean like if you're worried

[27:11]about it send a lunch now listen listen parents are the worst okay it's just just trust me here's

[27:18]the thing you think it's possible that this is a fake costume situation this is a prank yes

[27:24]they do in kindergarten parents we're all gonna dress up we'll show up

[27:28]just like we did in college we would always tell the freshmen because you know college football

[27:32]games are on saturday so we tell the freshmen hey just like high school we all wear our jerseys on

[27:37]friday classes in college and all the freshmen wear their jerseys and we would howl we thought

[27:44]that was the funniest joke because they looked like dinks and then we go down and get destroyed

[27:49]by 55 points it'd be like that joke yesterday sure was funny and then saturdays you'd all be

[27:55]walking around with ball games in your mouth right i mean

[27:58]remember my freshman year i was like you know everybody in this football team seems pretty good

[28:01]why are we such people say we're going to be a bad team i can't believe it and then i was starting and

[28:06]i was like oh i get why i'm 18 and i'm going against 23 year olds i'm going to destroy a part

[28:13]of any club that would have me but you know duluth did that where they would say to the hockey players

[28:17]hey new freshman hockey players we're going to go stand at midfield for the football game you know

[28:22]go out and they're going to announce you and everybody's excited to meet the freshmen so they

[28:28]went out to half field and absolutely nothing would happen and so the hockey players would just

[28:32]be standing out there nobody said anything the teams would run back on and the players would be

[28:36]like oh and they just walk off maybe that's gonna happen to be in my ball gag but i think i mean if

[28:41]it if it happens i'll be happy to be there in my ball gag so i'm gonna what are you what are you

[28:45]leaning towards right now aaron are you gonna do like some sort of toy story character or what i

[28:49]did say to do it tomorrow what are you gonna do i did i did suggest maybe toy story but i kind of

[28:54]like matt's elf idea so i don't know i mean we're gonna try to do something together but i don't know

[28:58]so uh maybe toy story family costume well wallace doesn't get to go it's a parent event so yeah but

[29:05]like so you and your you and your wife are gonna wear like team costume yeah well here's the other

[29:09]thing i could never do this i could i couldn't somebody invited us to dip out early and go out

[29:14]to dinner so i do have to wear something that is like dinner appropriate so i don't know maybe the

[29:19]ball gang isn't it i mean how am i gonna eat i would love to go out to dinner with my wife

[29:24]we're both wearing ball gags we'd just both be on our phones we'd be like this is the best day

[29:28]ever how's your day what how's your day let's just be at all folds okay let's be at all folds

[29:36]this is very good here's the problem though you're going to dinner with ball gags

[29:39]what i mean the fries are just hitting the ball gig you're like no

[29:44]trying to get them around why did i think this is a good idea

[29:49]all right well i appreciate the the advice guys i knew i know it came to the right place i'm gonna

[29:54]get out of the corner

[29:58]i'm wondering how it's really going vice corner oh yeah i'm wondering how it's really going with

[30:03]matt that's what i want to know today um i still don't know what flashlights to see menzies is

[30:08]started asking other people to try to figure it out i need to know i don't know man put that

[30:15]ball gang back in and try to pronounce it maybe maybe it'll all come together okay we'll see

[30:20]uh i don't know if you guys saw but there was two high school bands down in new orleans

[30:28]saint augustine and car and they were at a football game and they were having a band off

[30:34]which i thought was pretty darn awesome a band off they wouldn't leave the stadium first the

[30:41]bands kept playing for an hour and a half after the football game i was gonna look for a clip but

[30:45]no thanks yeah but they're there so the band the uh the baton twirlers the flag everybody was still

[30:53]there and finally the cops came and told them they just it's time to go it's time to go wow

[30:57]i mean just and all you heard for an hour straight was

[31:00]everybody's doing all this stuff so i just i don't know i just thought that was pretty gangster of a

[31:09]band to just say nope i'm uh we're staying we're not we're not gonna be the first ones to to call

[31:15]it quits what if professional bands did this like they had an air maybe they've done these battles

[31:19]i know you were talking about this during the pandemic but what if like you had like the rolling

[31:22]stones and queen come into the same stadium and they just start playing back and forth until the

[31:27]one of them out of there i mean absolute dream that would be amazing that'd be pretty sweet uh

[31:35]the yeah yeah yeahs are coming out with a new album yeah they dropped yeah i dropped today

[31:39]today yesterday today their release concert is about two miles from me over oh you should go

[31:44]over in queens right now saturday night tomorrow night i heard two of the tracks i have not heard

[31:51]any of it i heard it on the way home from football game i'm like i cannot wait to listen to that so

[31:56]i love the yeah yeah

[31:57]yeah yeahs i think i mean they kind of came out at the same time as oh yeah they're part of this

[32:01]whole scene yeah it's very appropriate you know and so like i love the yeah yeahs i cannot wait

[32:06]to listen to it so i'm super excited for that great band name too by the way yeah yes yeah

[32:10]yeah yeah yeah it is yeah yeah yeah yeah no i can already see russell be like cut cut we're

[32:18]you know we brought it up already but you know i started watching we brought it up the domer series

[32:26]on netflix right

[32:27]and it's one of those things where here's my problem okay and it's not really about the

[32:31]domers i actually think it's pretty good it's freaking freaky to watch right it's creepy it's

[32:37]freaky it's not good i would think that it's not funny huh it's not funny it's not okay it's not

[32:41]it's like a humor no not funny at all not funny but it's like top 10 on netflix right and everybody's

[32:48]watching it there's 10 episodes well do i have to get through it i mean like i feel like there's

[32:54]this pulling to like get through it you guys ever have that where you're like oh my god i'm not gonna

[32:57]you're like i don't know i just i gotta see how this ends because everybody's watching it kind of

[33:03]a thing as soon as you have that feeling it's over you shouldn't be watching anymore it's a sickness

[33:07]we have of like this completionist of like well if somebody asked me about i really want to say

[33:11]yeah i finished it nobody's ever going to ask you about it like no let it go you want to know what

[33:18]ends he gets killed in prison like it's it's not a fun ending either it's not great so yeah no all

[33:24]right well i i feel like netflix has a lot of fun in it i feel like netflix has a lot of fun in it

[33:27]has hit on something at least with me but doing that top 10 thing so like there was this movie

[33:32]lou right was like top 10 and i was like what the fuck is this movie but i saw some lady in the

[33:37]northeast who saves a saves their you know so his daughter or something's actually it turns out to

[33:43]be a granddaughter spoiler alert you know we kind of could see that coming from a mile away but it

[33:47]was a great movie it was a great just throw it on kind of a action movie things like that so

[33:51]i don't know i'm a sucker for the top 10 i like it yeah that's all i got so that's all i had on my

[33:57]got to figure out what men's ease is maybe please please keep asking around so begging you rolling

[34:03]going russell how's it going with you rolling going things are going really well i the other

[34:08]night i went out on another adventure i know rob's never been to one of these before they don't really

[34:13]have in new york city but i went to a comedy club i went to acme comedy club in minneapolis

[34:17]rob you've ever been to a comedy show before you guys comedy people or not it is all we do when

[34:23]people come visit jenny nine the other day for her birthday we went to two comedy shows in one week

[34:27]we see the same acts we see that we and and it's a great time every time it's it's fantastic going

[34:33]out to live comedy baron mad do you guys comedy guys do you ever go or not i i feel like if i know

[34:40]who they are or if i'm going to new york and rob is like look this is a great spot you know it's

[34:46]like a out of town thing to go but i feel like the ones in minnesota are just very bland and

[34:52]there's not like the the flavor that you get from the new york comedy scene and like the actual

[34:57]place has been around for a while it feels like they try to throw them in like there's one at

[35:00]dave and busters now they have like a comedy show up in southdale and i'm like what or right below

[35:06]dave and buster like why am i gonna go to that i don't know what's the deal with video games that

[35:10]don't even take quarters you need to have like a card or something that you fill at david busters

[35:14]i mean get out of here right there great jokes great jokes i think i told the story that the

[35:18]last time i went to one was at the starline social club in oakland and i think we didn't

[35:23]know for sure it was happening until we got there so it was in this side room and we went in late

[35:27]and anna and i ended up sitting on opposite sides of the aisle and uh we i became fodder for a lot

[35:34]of jokes like about like oh are you guys together is everything okay like it was like so i i

[35:39]definitely became the the brunt of several jokes from one of the uh i do like going to i do like

[35:44]going to shows like if bill burr's in town is coming next week or something like that or

[35:48]somebody you know i do like going to shows if you know the people but

[35:51]you know just to go to the comedy club it it feels tough in minnesota so i'm excited to hear

[35:57]what your take was russell because acme is kind of a famous one for minnesota isn't it i think so

[36:03]i think it's one of the it's probably the most famous one in minnesota that i know over at

[36:07]minneapolis rob you're the expert yeah i think it's i think it's probably is i don't know i only

[36:12]go to the village underground here because it's the best of the best did i tell you guys when i

[36:16]went to see my friend do stand-up did i ever tell you that story is this the time you took me there

[36:21]they were supposed to be someone famous performing and that famous person wasn't there yeah that was

[36:27]the time or a famous person shows up but they've been canceled like two months earlier so we have

[36:31]to make a decision what we're gonna do it's like yeah they got this great bit on how they wanted

[36:36]to build a volleyball court down in mississippi but it just seems wrong to me because actually

[36:41]his co-host explained who the money was coming from and then he felt bad but he was backed into

[36:45]a corner so he didn't know what to do he had to lash out um yeah no i think it's good what was i

[36:51]what was i gonna say honestly i've been trying to think of another dave and busters bit not really

[36:57]about inky blink inky blinky and pinky and the ghosts and how pac-man i mean so here's the deal

[37:03]right the ghost is pac-man is are the ghosts dead pac-man what the fuck is happening the ghosts of

[37:09]pac-man are they dead pac-men is that who they are because what ghost looks like that and then

[37:16]you're eating ghosts none of it makes sense to me see this is the bit and dave and busters that i'm

[37:20]working on it's i'm working on it you're workshopping it you're in a safe space game you have guns but you shoot

[37:27]cds like it's so weird you guys remember that old game okay never mind rob i actually think

[37:32]you might fit in pretty good in the minneapolis comedy scene if you keep it up like that

[37:36]so the one thing about the acne comedy club what they do is they have a restaurant above it and

[37:42]they do a thing where you buy tickets to the club and you get it's part of your you can do a meal

[37:47]if you want so if you want to go early you can go to the restaurant and your ticket price

[37:51]essentially comes out of your dinner so if you pay 36 bucks or 40 bucks for two tickets

[37:57]they take that off your meal price so you get into the show and you get money off yeah right

[38:03]order the salad i'm gonna make money off this place they're gonna be give me

[38:06]but so i'm curious to see what you guys think of this so i go there with a comedy fan big comedy

[38:12]fan and so we get there and there's this big restaurant there's like two people in the

[38:16]restaurant it's empty it's like dead gone goodbye what it looked like it looked like

[38:22]matt's broadway pizza from circa 2001 strokes like scab free pizza there's

[38:27]no scabs i don't know if there was like scab free uh scab free fish or what was going on but

[38:34]you guys ever go into you go into a restaurant and there's like nobody there does it ever worry

[38:38]you or what do you think of that oh yeah absolutely worries you definitely what the

[38:42]hell's going yeah my move if that happens is chicken quesadilla if they got a chicken quesadilla

[38:46]that's what i'm ordering it can only be so bad right like there's only there's a there's a i

[38:52]feel like there's a a floor for a chicken quesadilla if it comes with some guac some sour cream you're

[38:57]maybe a little bit hot sauce how did they cook the chicken listen when you walk in boiled probably

[39:01]if you if you walk in and the waitress looks at you with surprise that you're in the restaurant

[39:07]that is a bad sign you need to leave like if she's talking to the bartender and then she goes oh and

[39:11]kind of like jumps back you need to get out if you go down to the comedy show is it just the four of

[39:15]you no so people started showing up for the comedy show and that's where it got worrisome it's like

[39:21]people are actually showing up to watch the comedy and nobody is showing up for the meal part of it

[39:27]not a good sign even our waiter said like with you know 40 minutes before the show is like hey

[39:32]here's your tab i gotta go down and serve in the in the comedy cellar now so it's like they just

[39:38]abandoned the restaurant early because nobody's up there so what did you order i would say russell

[39:42]unless the other person at the restaurant you look over and it's albert einstein he's going like this

[39:47]to you like pointing his forehead it's not a good decision unless it's unless it's you and albert

[39:51]we ordered some scab free steak and a scab free salmon i believe so the food was fine it wasn't

[39:57]great but it wasn't bad it was fine it's gotta be all right but so anyways we go down to the comedy

[40:02]the comedy spot it's downstairs just like they do it out in new york fancy new yorkers i gotta walk

[40:06]downstairs it makes them feel more important feels like a big deal or whatever but so i'm curious to

[40:11]see what you think of this rob because you've gotten through this so they walk us to our seats

[40:16]they walk us up they put us in the very front row right in front of the comic not off to the side

[40:22]not a few rows back we are legit as close to the front as you could be what do you what do you think

[40:27]about being in the front row at a comedy show like that love it i was at i've been in the front

[40:33]row the last couple i go to and the last one the guy thought i was a cop the whole time he kept

[40:38]saying are you a cop and i was like i'm a middle school teacher he's like man that's pretty close

[40:41]you're both like short sleeve shirts i was like yeah that's about it um no i love it i love being

[40:46]up front give me guess what put me on blast you know what it might surprise you russell i kind of

[40:57]straight face like if you were sitting in the front row would you be like a is like a make me

[41:00]laugh kind of thing or do you just like let it let it no you gotta oh no i'm fully supportive

[41:05]you have to laugh loud and laugh quick i'm getting the rest of the crowd going i'm thinking to

[41:09]myself the comic and i are kind of like a team okay and that's why when i like riff back and

[41:13]forth and i say stuff from the crowd he actually likes it he acts like he's really mad at me

[41:16]but he likes it a lot so i've told you guys this before i don't want to be in the front row i don't

[41:22]want to be picked up by the comic and i think matt you've said this we've talked about this before matt

[41:27]on him either like you know go f yourself just do your show i don't want to be picked on but so

[41:31]we get in the front and you start thinking like is this really where i want to watch the show

[41:35]do i really want to be in the front if i need to go to the bathroom i gotta walk out while they're

[41:39]performing right in front of you if you know if you're not having a good time you you're stuck

[41:44]the whole time it's like so we ended up sitting in the front row russell's life is a nightmare

[41:49]what is your like rob what do you think is an appropriate interaction with the comic because

[41:54]there was a lady over to the right of us who started talking with the comic

[41:57]and it became overboard where she was like it got really strange but like what is your

[42:03]responsibility as an audience member at a comedy show if they interact with you

[42:07]you interact back you ignore it what do you do you talk less than they do you understand that

[42:12]you you are there to get a laugh and you do your bit like if they say something you just say one

[42:17]sentence back you don't try to make it do not do do not even fucking think about making a joke

[42:23]do not try to make a joke it will not be funny and if it is that's even worse

[42:27]for the comic they will get mad at you and come at you even harder you you have to just be the

[42:31]straight man and the whole thing no attention to yourself there there was some interaction

[42:36]they didn't interact with me they may have interacted with someone i was with there

[42:39]and we'll just move it along but but there was some people over on the left on the other side

[42:47]and he started asking them questions and it turns out they were on a first date at a comedy show

[42:53]what do you guys think of a comedy show as a first date spot we know

[42:57]we have discussed this with music mike 69 yeah he took her to a comedy show and it's great because

[43:03]they are laughing they are having a good time and it has absolutely nothing to do with you

[43:07]and they're just going to associate you with a good time plus it's an automatic you're going to

[43:12]have a couple drinks you get to talk a little beforehand you have something to talk about

[43:16]afterwards you can i mean i think it's a great thing to go to actually want to answer russell's

[43:21]question with a question i'm just going to throw out a number here maybe i'm i just did just a

[43:27]56th 57th date yeah you know maybe like a 70th date like we're maybe a thousand yeah i mean what

[43:33]do you think about infinitely those any of those numbers somewhere in there maybe it's like a never

[43:37]ending you feel like you're stuck in a loop and it's just never you just do the same stuff you

[43:41]maybe you live in the biggest city in the world with so much stuff to do and yet you only go do

[43:44]the same two things all the time the other thing i was going to ask you guys at a comedy show

[43:49]where is the line between someone bombing and someone bombing so bad that it now becomes funny

[43:57]out of someone bomb like yeah when they're bombing at the beginning a lot of times it's

[44:00]because they're doing brutal jokes it's the type of thing where they'll say like well i'm not a bad

[44:04]guy but i'm now i'm going to make a joke that pretty much shows i'm a bad guy right or have

[44:09]you heard about the volleyball uh court that i'm building in mississippi and who is taking money

[44:13]from and actually i thought it was the government but it wasn't it was somebody way who deserved it

[44:18]more actually so the second comic the quote-unquote feature comic was just bombing it

[44:23]was horrible their jokes were not funny they were going and looking at the paper on their

[44:27]every few minutes trying to come up with anything but after like five minutes of them just like

[44:31]staring at the crowd going so nope not good not good and at some point it became funny to watch

[44:37]them bomb so rob where is the line between bombing and now they've gone over the line

[44:43]far enough where it now becomes funny to watch them just crash and burn you know it's like

[44:48]it's like hardcore porno i know it when i see it okay and i've got a lot of it and how often

[44:57]yeah and a lot actually i know when i see it and hear it actually and uh know know what to search

[45:05]for it i actually had the same four search terms got any kind of a rut doing the same thing i mean

[45:09]the internet's so big you can do whatever you want yet i'm doing the same three things bikini

[45:12]red bikini i mean when you type in like filth dirty talk and you're like i've seen this one

[45:16]i don't know i think it's fun sometimes you see it to see that's the beauty of live art right like

[45:21]things go wrong you don't get to edit out big chunks where you talked about like maybe weird

[45:26]stuff that you don't want everybody to know about you don't want everybody to know about you don't

[45:27]know about actually speaking of things going wrong and crashing and burning rob rolling going

[45:31]how's it going with you what's your guys's pillow situation mine's situation my situation right now

[45:37]is fucked what you got a great one okay i got a fantastic pillow here's how how many of them

[45:42]have beck did it better on it red bubble red bubble red bubble so here's the deal i've got

[45:49]three pillows one is a giant king-size pillow that covers up half a king-size bed it has no

[45:57]pillowcase on it for some reason and never has i don't know why just the way it is it is full of

[46:02]like uh it is super full it's like this thick i mean it's like a foot and a half thick

[46:07]super full super stiff okay so that's my main pillow my head is like nickname in college

[46:13]it's it's the main super full yeah super full that's a great nickname this this pillow is too

[46:20]big okay this is the bear this is a goldilocks situation this pillow is way too big my other

[46:25]pillow is old and lumpy and its feathers and the feathers poke me at night when i'm sleeping and

[46:31]it's very uncomfortable because like the the pins of the feathers are poking my face i think it also

[46:36]uses the hair dryer at the gym to dry its balls off right rob the pillow i've seen some guys that

[46:43]you would confuse if they were in a pillow factory they would blend in my camouflage for sure just

[46:47]white and lumpy and a little bit of the hair sticking out um here's the thing then my third

[46:53]my other pillow the third pillow

[46:55]is like non-existent it's just too light i've been to a store to buy pillows like bed bath and beyond

[47:02]and you literally just put your head on pillows in the store it's humiliating i need to up my

[47:07]pillow game guys what should i be doing right now i think you double up you take you take the one

[47:12]firm one and the one super light one and you double it you've got to start making combinations

[47:16]of different pillows and find a combination that works wait what what do you mean combined you got

[47:22]to use two pillows you don't use one you use two you get two of the really light ones and see if

[47:27]that that fits your needs maybe that's it i don't know i just don't that's the thing right does any

[47:32]why isn't there just one really good pillow why isn't there like an apple of pillows where i can

[47:36]just pay more money and i know it's good like give me that pillow well i think you do need to

[47:40]switch pillow i think you need a new pillow about every nine months i think you can't like we our

[47:44]heads are heavy man yes you can't yes you cannot keep using the same pillow for a long yes you

[47:49]rob you have so much money you don't have to worry about shit like

[47:52]you can't keep using the same pillow for a long time you don't have to worry about shit like

[47:52]you should be spending money on pillows you got like you got disposable income you should be

[47:57]buying a new pillow every nine months you'll thank me so you don't need to be using the same pillow

[48:01]for so what i just go on amazon and buy pillow like what do you go you go to a sleep store and

[48:06]buy a nice oxygen pillow and they're there's this there's this great guy that i've i mean i've i've

[48:13]i've kind of heard his no like he's got some other stuff going on you know like but i i think he's

[48:22]like he sells these things called my pillows or something like that like well you're not going to

[48:28]believe who's sponsoring this episode it's gonna blow your mind we bought a few listeners and

[48:35]ran into some trouble in a hardy's drive through the other day and that we cannot be bought who

[48:41]goes to a hardy's right haven't you seen those ads where it makes you think that hot women are

[48:46]eating hardy's i went to hardy's so much after those ads you guys know what i'm talking about

[48:51]no we're gonna have the super attractive women eating big gross hardy's hamburgers is this a

[48:56]dream i had is this a i used to go to hardy's sometimes after going to billy's on grand and

[49:00]then crashing at russell's place in st paul and then the next morning i'd stop at that hardy's

[49:03]on lexington that was my that's probably the last time i went to hardy's you'd go to two hardy's in

[49:08]24 hours do you think like when someone pulls through a hardy's they have some level of shame

[49:12]that's higher than pulling through a different fast food place i just what what is the worst

[49:17]fast food place to see somebody you know and i'm talking about it's hardy's i'm talking about your

[49:21]box you're in the building you're in the building and you look and somebody's like walking outside

[49:29]they're not in the building but but they see you and it's eye contact and it's somebody you work

[49:33]with but you're not friends with them you know what i mean is hardy's the worst one to be caught

[49:37]in i mean it's like it's worse than white castle going into a taco bell is bad news guys like it's

[49:44]can't be going taco bells all right taco bells above the above the fray that's a good one inside

[49:51]there's just you get have you ever done taco bell on a tray and you get done eating you get done

[49:56]eating taco bell on a tray and it's just paper there's like a thousand pieces of paper and you're

[50:00]like damn i ate a ton of shit there's so much paper on this tray humiliate everybody can see

[50:05]how much you ordered because there's just paper rob my sister actually she lives in rochester the

[50:10]the town you you grew up in and supposedly they have a new taco bell that is down by one of the

[50:14]hospitals and supposedly that's where everyone goes for lunch now like the taco bell in rochester

[50:19]is like the most popular spot in the world and it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like

[50:21]in the city of rochester is it a cantina is it talk about cantina yes alcohol yeah those are

[50:27]maybe i don't know you can get fucked up on baja blast just like god intended what about what about

[50:32]a kfc rob you're standing in a kfc and you've got a big bucket of chicken and a bunch of sides and

[50:38]stuff and someone walks in and you look them in the eye what do you do and they're like oh sir

[50:42]here's your kfc uh the stuff you ordered from long john silver is going to take a little longer

[50:46]and you look at your co-worker you're like

[50:51]i like the fish here it's actually pretty good

[50:54]at that point you'd almost have to just lie and say you were just in there because you needed to

[50:59]use the bathroom and throw some water away or something right you'd have to put your hand in

[51:03]your pocket like this and be like okay give me all the money in the register i'm not buying food

[51:08]here i'm robbie the place okay don't tell everybody at work i was buying food at kfc

[51:14]i'm waiting i'm waiting for my getaway cars brett bar for the million dollar man to pull around to

[51:20]the drive-thru

[51:21]a million dollar man you're driving your own car what happened to your valet

[51:25]woke mind virus you guys know virgil can't work for me anymore it's so so bad

[51:33]all right thank you very much guys i appreciate the advice about my pillows so that was very good

[51:40]okay that was russell's advice rob's pillow man i feel like you're a guy that robs pillow corn

[51:46]oh

[51:51]i can't say what i was gonna say rob man man you seem like a guy that's got between the pillows

[51:57]you've got some good pillows you've got some good pillows don't you i do have like 120 pillow i think

[52:03]and it's like one side is really squishy the other side is supposed to keep you

[52:07]cool at night i knew man it's great it's just spend money on pillows man you can't cheap out

[52:14]on them you got to treat yourself and man think about that over when you're replacing that every

[52:18]nine months i mean you're gonna go broke

[52:21]replacing that 120 pillow every nine months rob can't even afford his own toothbrush he can't

[52:26]afford that type of don't get me started on that don't get me started on the toothbrush thing again

[52:30]listen let's talk about the album guys did i call that matt was gonna have the best pillow

[52:40]i knew it i just knew it i would put my pillow up against matt's pillow but i'm happy to have that

[52:45]that contest someday all right we'll do it you and me i'm here for a contest yeah wait till i get

[52:51]i'm sure guys if by the way if you do buy a back to the better pillow it's of the highest quality

[52:55]okay there's no doubt about that listen we are hey it will stay cool all the time because you'll

[53:01]never have anyone who will ever accept sleeping on it right i i like a pillow that i can easily

[53:09]take to the couch without my wife waking up as i never mind that's too much too personal

[53:16]we finally hit the limit the strokes

[53:21]we found it the strokes are a the strokes are a new york band right and they released

[53:26]basically so new york rob this is the most new york band we've had since velvet underground i'm

[53:31]so excited for you what about the ramones what about uh what about television these guys are

[53:40]more new york like they're the new yorkist new yorkers we've heard for a while yeah new york has

[53:45]a great music scene i highly recommend seeing the same comics over and over instead um so but

[53:50]basically they released this three they released this they had this three song long play right that

[53:55]they had and all of a sudden when they released that they became the biggest band i mean this is

[54:00]2000 this is in the 2000s early 2000 this became the big band that all of a sudden everybody's like

[54:06]this is going to revolutionize music a huge bidding war erupts between all these record

[54:12]companies and they signed with some british record company where all of a sudden they release the

[54:17]album first in australia they tour in australia they

[54:20]release the album in japan they go over and tour japan they take them over to the uk do a sold-out

[54:25]tour in the uk they they super successful instantly the album everybody knows it's going to be a huge

[54:31]hit it is a huge hit after that tour they're out touring with their opening for the rolling stones

[54:36]and the thing is is that this really i mean when you listen to this music it's this two guitar band

[54:42]it the music the guitars are kind of bouncing and fun it's a very the the lyrics are a little

[54:48]bit angsty and it's this very particular noise of him singing through this little amp it's kind of

[54:53]this fuzzy uh noise the whole time but basically he said i wanted to sound like a band from the

[55:00]past that took a time machine and is showing you what music's like from the future and i gotta say

[55:05]i was like damn i love that i love thinking about like i want to be i i just love it and so they

[55:12]they really they did most of this album live and uh have you guys ever seen i just wanted to say

[55:18]i should say this there's a quote from bbz's bbc's uh radio one let's see that link is purple

[55:24]zane lowe suggests that the album moved popular opinion from djs and pop music to skinny jeans

[55:30]and guitars the template for rock and roll in the modern day this is the album that changed

[55:36]everything in the early 2000s as far as music and you have you ever seen the internet did you guys

[55:42]see the international cover for this yes but pull it up anyway because it's incredible did you see

[55:48]it better than the so much better than the cd i had i mean look at that that's the international

[55:54]cover right there it's this nude woman very similar to the uh spinal tap album cover smell

[56:00]the glove where's this nude woman wearing a black glove like on her hip and it is

[56:05]unbelievable it's a top album cover of all time and i'm not going to do my nipple list i got edited

[56:11]out that one time what why'd they change it then too sexy can you imagine in 2001 an album cover is

[56:18]they can't sell it

[56:19]no i've been jacking off to the sergeant pepper's cover guys okay i didn't want to say that

[56:26]nobody laughed at my earlier stuff so now i'm saying we gotta start laughing hey

[56:31]energy up for a bad day we need to start laughing at rob's jokes

[56:34]you're wearing those outfits i'm like oh my god it's like a colorful napoleon

[56:41]i didn't know that was a joke oh my god so let's get into yes

[56:47]cry for help maybe let's get into is this it uh and the aaron i'm gonna do it to you i'm gonna do

[56:57]it to you again let's hear it and this was a big track aaron this was a hit these this is a big

[57:03]titular big one to me man big titular strokes is this yes i mean this album i wrote it's dirty but

[57:11]clean like the recording is so clean when this bass line hits

[57:16]this bass line is in my head at least twice a week when this thing drops it's over for me for

[57:23]that from then on i was in on this album i listened to it so many fucking times

[57:27]i wrote the same thing here and i said is that the bass line i like the most or what yeah i'm

[57:35]oh man but he he's fucking just singing on that thing i don't even know i but this for me was

[57:41]also like i listened to this music so much and i never saw the strokes live but i tried to do it

[57:46]every band who was trying to be the strokes after that everyone that came to minneapolis i

[57:51]idealized this lifestyle they were living i loved it it was everything to me it's also the period of

[57:58]my life where i was not reading about music much at all other than like maybe the album review in

[58:02]rolling stone and like go out and buy the cd so like i can't even remember other than julian

[58:06]casablanca's i can't remember the guy's names in the band i know so little about them but i've

[58:11]listened to this album so much the modern age

[58:16]i love the drums here

[58:19]this whole album is brilliant pre-choruses like leading you into the chorus it's so good this

[58:27]whole thing and the guitar is crystal clear and high and the voice is like a guitar they like

[58:36]switch the sounds around some you know what i mean the voice has a guitar tone and the guitar

[58:42]has a voice tone this is kind of this is a little bit true glenn though i think they're

[58:46]chugling a little bit here a little bit of ccr and see some children

[58:49]what do you guys think of the distorted vocals you like them

[58:54]is that what makes this different or what do you guys think of that

[58:57]i never i never thought about it i did i didn't it didn't even occur to me until rob mentioned it

[59:06]i just like i just listened to this so much like it never occurred to me that they were just doing

[59:10]it i know i know you're totally right it just sounds like you're singing through a ball gag

[59:14]it really does totally

[59:16]it just never occurred to me i was just like i love it i just i'm into it

[59:21]oh my god you've never thought about that's crazy to me you're broadening my horizons

[59:26]oh soma now guys we all know that a soma of course is the main body part of a nerve cell

[59:33]soma but it was south of market it's also the name of the ideal pleasure drug in the

[59:41]huxley novel brave new world oh my god so many drugs so i i listened i didn't get

[59:46]all the way through but i listened to meet me in the bathroom the oral history of this nice time

[59:54]in new york just drugs just so many drugs parties the bars called place like called max fish and

[60:02]like somebody who threw a party called motherfucker that they only threw on three-day weekends and

[60:06]just like everyone doing drugs everyone going to drink for free because they knew the bartender

[60:11]only the bands hanging out together and just the whole thing just feels like everything you thought

[60:15]new york was it probably only lasted like 10 minutes but it feels like the whole whole scene

[60:20]and then look there's rob and jenny going to the one nice restaurant they know on the upper east

[60:24]side over and over no they didn't go up that far actually there was a there was a talk about a

[60:31]party that was on 21st street and they talked about how hard it was to get people to go all

[60:34]the way up to 21st because that was a stretch that's that's classic that's a classic bit

[60:39]aaron so when would you listen to this album i'm curious like when is the right time for you guys

[60:43]to listen to this album is it in the car where

[60:45]are you guys at when you're listening to it this was a car album for me because i had it on cd so it

[60:50]was it was in my cd player in the car all the time now like i'll put it on in the house but yeah for

[60:56]me it was a car album you know what this for me is i knew every song in this album through my

[61:00]pandora play i've never listened to this album once i knew every song through my pandora playlist

[61:05]i i've just heard all these songs so many times that i can sing them all for you it's it's crazy

[61:10]i didn't realize how much this album like affected me until i listened to it rob you have

[61:15]rooftop patio at your building have you ever listened to this while you were rocking out at

[61:19]a rooftop party that would be a great idea oh my god that's a great idea well that's what booze and

[61:24]vinyl said to do you should be rocking out to this album on a rooftop party and so they say before

[61:30]you drop the needle hike a cooler of beer up to the roof then pass it around limes and hot sauce

[61:35]to get this party started no frills just chill that's the night's mantra so tonight on side a

[61:40]booze and vinyl suggested a spicy lager in lime you guys want to hear what's in it i do

[61:45]want to hear i cannot wait i'm just that's my kind of shit right there that's that's a combination of

[61:51]what the spice is that makes it spicy and then what russell has instead of that spice oh my god

[61:57]i can't wait to hear this use some tyene so the first thing they suggest is 12 ounces lager style

[62:03]lager style style beer chill so lager yeah nice one ounce of fresh lime juice as you guys can see

[62:10]i've got fresh limes right here with fresh he's blowing my mind a new man and then one bar

[62:15]spoon i don't have a bar spoon so i used a regular spoon yep of hot sauce i used frank's red hot

[62:21]i figured you guys could appreciate that good choice so that's what a spicy lager and lime is

[62:26]but the one thing that i've made me really come through is they say this is the perfect drinks

[62:33]for nights when you don't feel like bussing the strokes drank heineken the green bottles made an

[62:38]in all their photos but they famously refused to sign a deal to promote heineken but in honor of

[62:44]the strokes my

[62:45]lager tonight is a heineken there you go oh that is fantastic russell you nailed it

[62:50]so what do you guys are you hot sauce and your beer guys do you ever do this or not

[62:54]yeah fuck yeah what's going on dude yeah are you a hot sauce and your beer guy and aaron just goes

[63:02]oh yeah you know what aaron oh that's your left field take of the week

[63:07]agreed with russell what the hell you didn't even think about it i went i went to the giants game

[63:15]in san francisco and pull up to my seats and look behind me and there's a michelada stand

[63:20]in oracle park and i was like fuck it i'm a giants fan now i don't care they got micheladas here and

[63:26]you can choose between modello classico or modello negra like it perfect just the most perfect thing

[63:31]so i'm a michelada guy through and through and if i don't have a coors banquet i had both i mean

[63:37]what would you think i had one drink yeah russell you idiot that was that was stupid of me

[63:45]wait a michelada has hot sauce in it yeah i mean it has like tomato and some spice and then usually

[63:51]like a chili salted rim see i don't drink beer but i have always kind of wanted a michelada because

[63:56]i think the name sounds fun oh it's so good one of my favorites but if i don't have access to

[64:00]michelada mix i'll just put some hot sauce in my beer it's a great idea plus i would say would you

[64:05]ever drop a little i want a beer michelada no no i wouldn't no sorry no talk to you guys oh my bad

[64:13]that was my fault yeah

[64:14]that's just a full no absolutely i just want you to picture this okay you're you're in north dakota

[64:22]okay a state by the way i just want to remind everybody has a lot of stuff okay some people

[64:27]said some stuff last week that was not nice um i don't have time to go into it i mean there's oil

[64:34]fields and and other things now air force base you're up there aaron you're all drinking you're

[64:39]all get your koozies out you're drinking your beer and you've pulled out some frank's red hot and

[64:44]put it into your beer okay is everybody going to be like ah yes i also enjoy putting hot sauce in

[64:49]my beer or are you going to be kicked out of the bags tournament you'd probably be kicked out of

[64:55]the bags yeah yeah yeah does anyone salt their beer there does anybody put salt in the beer

[65:00]that's a wisconsin i'm not sure no i don't and my brother puts uh olives in his beer sometimes i

[65:07]think it's kind of a a version of the salt but no i don't know i mean just all this i've i've

[65:14]not to get too far to the end but like i've been trying to figure out where this

[65:18]album fits in my life and it doesn't fit in my life okay because i know all these radio songs

[65:23]right but this is post grunge post kind of that really heavy 90s stuff that i like

[65:31]right it kind of got into this really light poppy kind of rock to me where you know the guy's not

[65:38]even singing he's singing through a ball gag right you know which works it works for him you know

[65:44]but then now that we're talking about like the perfect beer for this is to put lime juice and

[65:50]hot sauce in it like it you know that that makes yeah it makes complete sense where this album fits

[65:55]in and it's just it doesn't fit for my life which is perfectly fine right but i like the songs i

[66:00]like a beer i like the idea i like you rosie all this stuff it's great but i'm like where does this

[66:06]whole thing fit where does like vampire weekend fit in where does some of these other like random

[66:10]kind of poppy rock bands fit in i don't know

[66:14]i think on the personality graph you have matt on one side and hipsters on the other side right like

[66:19]that's that's where it is and this is a the strokes are a hipster band right they are the

[66:23]they are they are especially when they came out like if you knew the if you knew the strokes

[66:28]you were putting hot sauce in your beer yeah you put hot sauce in your beer yeah but karen o was a

[66:33]big fan i mean karen o was part of this scene too so you know the yayas came came out of the same

[66:38]scene and that's one of the crazy things like i'm listening to this this book and karen o's just

[66:42]talking about like how

[66:43]sexy these guys these guys are and it's like so much sex and then like the guy from lcd sound

[66:49]system punched chris robbins from from the black crows in a bathroom and so there were like fights

[66:54]and sex and like drugs and these guys weigh like 116 pounds like it's just a weird scene man it's

[67:00]a weird scene yeah and like you i was trying to figure out like where did this this is this a new

[67:05]york band right yeah well these guys met at some like swiss boarding school you know like like all

[67:13]these weird connections and the guy's mom was miss denmark and his dad ran this you know model

[67:19]agency and stuff like that like that's not new york i mean maybe it's new in new york and i knew

[67:24]those things too i just chose not to include them on my earlier summation of the album um can you

[67:29]imagine going to a swiss boarding school they'd be like today's we're going to eat chocolate you'd

[67:33]be like yay some fondue you're about to play my favorite track but i do want to know russell

[67:37]what's your review of the lime and hot sauce beer would you drink it again it's actually really good

[67:42]i'm not a hot sauce person i was a little worried about this when i was sitting there i had one beer

[67:47]without it because i was like i can't if it ruins my whole night with the first sip i'm going to be

[67:51]in trouble but it's actually really good i would highly recommend it i would i would check it out

[67:55]i would love it too because sometimes i'm always worried like will i have diarrhea and with this i

[67:58]know you know what i mean like i'm gonna know for sure this is what's gonna happen next up plan

[68:04]accordingly next up stay out of here i've got to pour this water now the toilet stay out of here

[68:12]uh as aaron declared this is his favorite song barely legal well oh shit i was wrong oh

[68:21]oh aaron said it wasn't that i was i got confused where we were at

[68:27]some days my favorite ones but i do like this one julian casablanca's dad dated a 16 year old

[68:34]model when the dad was 41 so they think the song might be a little jab at that oh you guys i read

[68:40]this guy he was the he was the founder of a model company that discovered cindy crawford and giselle

[68:47]rob what what if what if your dad when he had those uh those disco balls up in the back room

[68:52]all the time was bringing home world famous supermodels like cindy crawford and giselle

[68:56]i'll tell you what any guy who starts a model company is probably fine we don't have to think

[69:02]about it he's probably a fine guy listen no some guys just love the world of modeling and they want

[69:10]to find people to help and it's not a skeezy thing at all and they also don't want to build a

[69:14]volleyball court with models down into in mississippi can you imagine hey i'm gonna start

[69:19]just just me saying i'm gonna start a model company yeah great like what how hey do you want

[69:24]to be a model yeah hey i want to start a model company we're like a perfect fucking pair like

[69:30]we should get together and do this aaron what makes this your favorite song on the album

[69:35]someday is actually my favorite coming up uh it's i was i was i got confused

[69:40]but i will say about barely legal it it is uh sort of to me it's more of a nod to the dance

[69:46]scene and there's a lot uh again lcd sound system is the one band that i can remember

[69:53]hearing about that was much more about dancing and there there is a lot uh interviews i listened

[69:59]to they thought a lot about how like they would go to rock shows and nobody was dancing and so

[70:04]they were trying to make danceable rock music so i think barely legal is you hear that a lot now

[70:08]right like the killers neon

[70:10]trees ajr you know all these newer bands you know that are very much like you can shake your hips

[70:17]too so right i love this album it's 30 minutes long each song is about two minutes and 45 seconds

[70:24]three minutes i mean you this is great you can peel right through this album it's it's so much

[70:29]better than that elton john double album like this is it's the length of the songs and the length

[70:33]this album are perfect and every song i think is somewhat danceable and they all sound so similar

[70:38]yet so different

[70:40]in some ways it's i it's great some day can you repeat that did you say so i can write this down

[70:49]is it the length of this is perfect is that length this is perfect it's perfect for that

[70:54]yeah it's not it's not too long it's a perfect length this i love the guitar in the background

[71:00]is so fun yeah it's kind of like noodling along it's just great i was gonna ask you guys is this

[71:05]like an all-time guitar album or what what do you where does this rank in the all-time guitar

[71:09]albums is it is it up there or not even close i would have trouble saying it's all-time guitar

[71:15]album i think it's a how did you describe it the sound i don't i don't know it's a unique sound and

[71:24]it is very guitar driven you're right russell and they're using guitars in a different way than

[71:29]other bands i did read that one of the guitar players albert hammons his dad was a very

[71:35]prolific songwriter and he wrote for celine dion aretha willie

[71:39]nelson ace of bass even he wrote one of his big hits was i believe it's one moment in time by

[71:45]whitney houston aaron i don't know if you know that one he also wrote a song by starship wow

[71:53]i'm kind of curious like were your guys parents yeah were your guys parents musical like

[72:00]this guy's got to have a huge advantage when he's got a singer you know songwriter dad like

[72:04]aaron were your parents into music or what was your background how do you get into music as a kid

[72:08]yeah i mean we'll

[72:09]for me it comes from my grandfather was a music teacher and his wife my grandma was a pianist

[72:16]uh so the two of them nice but that's on my dad's side but my mom was always all about music there

[72:23]was always music going in the house and my dad's a huge huge music fan and and has a

[72:28]yeah my dad's a music fan he is a enthusiastic singer has a great voice so uh for me my parents

[72:37]were definitely musical but it came

[72:39]from my from my grandparents yeah oh that's just what my kids say about me too i spent

[72:44]a half hour at coach patrick's house a couple weeks ago right coach patrick's got the band

[72:50]you know and seafarer seafarer he's gonna be joining mumbato pretty soon so he is we're yeah

[72:57]we're we're officially on the mumbato uh yeah russell you would know this yeah so he's gonna

[73:02]he's gonna play guitar from mumbato now wow that's a big deal yeah and so but we're over

[73:07]there and he's got all the amps he's got all things he's got a drum kit he's got a keyboard

[73:10]and all this stuff right and i'm like oh my god my kids are just behind the eight ball because

[73:16]coach patrick you know he's got all the little guitars and the kids are down there they're

[73:20]banging on the drums and all that stuff and it's such a great environment to learn music as opposed

[73:25]to my house where i know nothing about anything we've got a piano the kids take piano lessons

[73:29]and all that stuff that's great no yeah and so we're gonna get over to coach patrick's house

[73:34]more often because they can just wail on the electric guitars and the drums and everything

[73:37]it's great i think the good speaking of the good thing about your music oh sorry the good thing

[73:41]about your kids man is that they know sorry but i'm gonna keep going they know the ins and outs

[73:45]the good thing about your kids is that they know the ins and outs of jeff i'm so sorry i talked

[73:49]over you just but just you just hear me out on this it's really but let me just keep going i was

[73:55]gonna say it's it's a good thing we're giving all of our our store money to that charity that music

[74:00]lesson thing that aaron was gotten it's too bad i had to divert some of it to that volleyball court

[74:05]it's actually bad what they did russell i looked into it it's actually that good okay

[74:14]so probably shouldn't make jokes about it i was gonna say that albert hammond's that guy who

[74:18]whose dad was the songwriter it was interesting that he said the moment he fell in love with music

[74:23]was when he saw a show on the life of buddy holly i was like what about the bopper man

[74:27]but not the bopper can you imagine

[74:30]a band coming out and being like hey who are your big influences probably like they're like

[74:33]yeah that's probably the big bopper i would say the big bopper's number one

[74:36]i loved the part where he talked to the woman and then sang the same song it's the only one

[74:42]i know from him it's like he did what yeah well you know he only had two hits you're gonna what

[74:46]go ahead and say it hold on go ahead and say it get it out i can't i can't well who were the two

[74:56]hits well you know he had chantilly lace that was his number one hit i think that kind of

[75:00]pretty high on the billboard what was the other one and some people say you know how would you

[75:04]like that's so high what are you going to do i mean you aren't you worried about when that's

[75:09]not a hit you're going to hit the lowest of lows yeah and it turns out he did he hit the lowest of

[75:15]lows uh below the hard deck and don't oh the hard deck for this flight is 300 feet

[75:24]i'm requesting the opposite of a flyby um here's the thing oh what

[75:30]you guys see you beat me into this this is not good um i was gonna do a bit about uh uh the big

[75:36]bopper doing a something with a ball gag but i can't think of it oh my god we have so many songs

[75:41]left someday you can do that man rob maybe you can do it when we're alone together someday that's

[75:51]the big bopper with the ball gig by the way aaron do you think that someday is your favorite stroke

[75:55]song because it had richard karn in the video and it made you know it's my favorite because i realized

[76:00]i like the lyrics when he says it it you know he says my fears they come to me in three and then

[76:05]this thing about you say you want to stay by my side darling your head's not right i'm telling

[76:08]you like this was this time in my life when i idealized like wouldn't it be great to be a mess

[76:13]and just be like i'm such a mess but you want to stand by me anyway and like that's not actually

[76:18]that cool but i enjoyed the lyrics would it be so great to pretend your life is a big mess and

[76:23]kind of spiraling out of control like you're staying up late too many nights you have too

[76:26]many bad habits that might have taken over i mean that'd be great that'd be hilarious

[76:30]and this is not related by the way but i just realized my zipper is down in my jeans ironically

[76:34]okay not intentionally this is the way it is uh ironical all right alone together

[76:41]and that's the title that makes you think

[76:44]i'm telling you guys the pre-chorus of these songs are so good it gets you

[76:52]what it's a pre-chorus it could actually get you pregnant you gotta be

[77:00]careful because the pre-chorus can also get you pregnant

[77:02]because in the rhythm method you gotta you can't you gotta be you gotta stop before the pre-chorus

[77:10]i don't know it's like the part before the chorus it's like the i don't know but they

[77:13]call it the change i don't it's listen it's on genius.com i know you can have a post-chorus

[77:18]but can you ever just have a chorus rob's always been a very staccato rhythm guy right

[77:23]rob you got to keep that rhythm staccato that's true that's pretty angular

[77:26]lately lately my marriage has been more vibrato all right let's get into last but everything's

[77:36]fine right everything's fine last night everything's fine marriage is going is this

[77:40]the most famous song is this the biggest hit yeah this is the big hit for a reason right i mean this

[77:45]this is a fucking perfect pop song does this intro remind you of a song

[77:48]probably you're gonna play it

[77:54]no

[77:56]i'm just wondering no yeah we're just doing we're just doing association it's based on this song

[78:02]oh oh yes whoa yeah fully ripped off listen it's about you know it's about the thing aaron

[78:13]loves to collect american girl dolls aaron's got them all he knows all their names he sets

[78:19]up a little it's the same it's the same bass sound too geez they ripped off the entire song

[78:23]oh yeah i read they ripped maybe you have it rob i don't know if

[78:26]you have it but i heard they ripped off the bass line from the cure

[78:29]jeez they pretty much said it was like a straight copy is what they said

[78:33]wow which song i wonder that i don't know i don't have it off hand

[78:37]we haven't had a tom petty yet what this 114 no time yet i had i had my i had my uh my vote for

[78:46]rolling or for the uh the patented and often quoted yeah and everybody loves it but i think

[78:53]i gotta change it after hearing that i don't know but i was gonna say that's a great song

[78:56]that that song can go on any radio station go on top 40 and go on rock you can go on easy and go on

[79:03]any radio station which i think makes it uh why it's so popular is it on your top 100 list matt

[79:10]or no no no not your style yeah american girl might be now though all of a sudden no that's a

[79:19]great song great song the question is if you're the last night who would you joust you know i mean

[79:24]like it's just you

[79:25]last night are you in a are you in a joust match with death

[79:29]i don't understand what you're saying it's gonna throw off the rhythm for the whole podcast see

[79:36]that's what you guys did that's what you guys i can't believe death hasn't even called us at this

[79:40]point we've been talking about death so much we can't get a fucking phone call from death

[79:44]one of rob's favorite topics you don't know you don't want that and by the way i'm changing i'm

[79:49]a changed man okay i did i made a list the other day of things i need to change in my life it lasted

[79:54]one day well

[79:55]hold on what's on this list huh well step one was make a list and i haven't gotten around

[79:59]make a list so you can remember the things when i make that list oh baby wait till number two it's

[80:07]gonna be real good i bet number two relax just go with life don't worry about that volleyball thing

[80:14]okay hard to explain

[80:15]rolling stone said this is the 59th best song of the 2000s yeah i think this is my favorite song

[80:24]did you hear that false ending there what do you guys think of the false ending in the song

[80:28]it's so cool i like it yeah yeah i can't argue with the man i mean it's a good choice

[80:33]and it does like set up this expectation and then also again are they using a drum machine

[80:39]on any of this do we know they said a lot of them they said that they wanted the album to

[80:44]sound like it's a drum machine in some parts even when it's not a drum machine i'm not sure

[80:47]if it is a drum machine i don't think it is yeah i don't know they recorded a lot of it live

[80:51]now the next song

[80:54]i don't know if they did no hold on one sec you guys heard that false ending did you guys know

[80:58]that uh false ending was actually a classical music device used by joseph hayden for example

[81:04]he would include applause in the in the wrong place in the finale of his string quartet op 33

[81:10]number two nicknamed the joke so false endings have been around

[81:14]i've heard 31 but i haven't heard 32 so we've heard these before right like we heard it on

[81:22]bold as love helter skelter i think has a false ending uh marquee moon we heard one a few weeks

[81:27]back you know another one that had a false ending it wasn't on the list but chattahoochee had a false

[81:33]ending when we did the when we did the the music what was it called rob the video breakdown breakdown

[81:39]so i thought we could do a list of the other greatest false endings in music history i love it

[81:46]nice very excited

[81:47]four three no

[81:50]one

[81:52]that was a false ending there on the south bank

[81:54]you know what i would call a false ending winter i mean a false ending

[82:01]i thought we called it autumn on this podcast oh god that's right it's like i thought it was like

[82:07]when you put a letter in the mail in the fall it's a fall sending false ending yeah well i was

[82:12]gonna say false ending i mean that sounds kind of like the big bopper you know oh my god falling

[82:19]in this plane is the worst thing ever i can't imagine anything worse

[82:22]no i can think of one thing

[82:23]what's his name going down the sunny going down the uh skis ski hill

[82:30]false there was also some false endings on that peewee balloon deal right

[82:37]god was that funny that's some funny

[82:41]so that was originally my number one on the list but we don't repeat songs on this podcast so the

[82:49]first the greatest one of the first song on the list is from 1962 we've talked about stevie wonder

[82:53]before this is when he was a kid this is fingertips part two check this out

[82:57]uh-oh so he stops then he kicks it back up and he keeps going monica yes

[83:12]and aaron you might know this so i think this was the first live recording to make it to number one

[83:19]was the youngest ever artist to have a number one hit he was 12 years old right at this point

[83:23]and i i could be wrong i think marvin gaye played the drums on this i think you're right right yeah

[83:28]i believe you're correct yeah it was a motown record so one of the harmonica note is still

[83:34]going do you guys believe i have this song clip still by the way that one's gonna stay

[83:39]go ahead yeah but one of the cool things about that so wonders like feeding off the crowd during

[83:44]this and so the song is supposed to be over and the band is clearing the stage and the next act

[83:49]is going to be on the stage and the next act is going to be on the stage and the next act is going to be on the stage

[83:49]is coming on and he's just into it so he starts playing again so you can actually hear

[83:53]there's a bass player ask what key are we supposed to play so maybe rob play it again

[83:58]it was really close when they kick it back in you'll hear the bass player

[84:01]oh yeah right there

[84:14]yep that's fantastic

[84:19]a few years ago is it julian casablanca is that the lead singer for the strokes yeah he he uh he

[84:32]had his own personal website he put up a new page called master mixtapes where he talked about his

[84:37]introduction to artists that he deemed to be universally super cool champs it included lou

[84:42]reed bob marley and stevie one there you go now i also want to remind you of a famous stevie

[84:47]wonder false ending where they were playing wild wild west with will smith and cisco and you guys

[84:52]know i love to talk about cisco and they all left the stage at the mtv music awards leaving stevie

[84:58]wonder out there by himself on a piano so and then somebody had to come out and get him so there you

[85:04]go next song on the list we've talked about this once before this is the stooges tv i check this

[85:09]out oh yeah we heard this album

[85:14]oh it's over

[85:17]oh oh it's back but doesn't this feel like it's kind of another garage band there has to be some

[85:24]influence with the stooges and the strokes don't you guys think absolutely yeah one thousand percent

[85:30]that is such a good song yeah next song on the list 1991 this is guns and roses november range

[85:39]oh thank god that song was over two guitars

[85:47]solos it was so long wait wait what are you doing what's that i thought i was slow dancing

[85:55]but wait i have a question does does everybody need somebody who i do do i go stand on the wall

[86:02]now because the slow dance part someone took the ball greg out of my mouth who needs somebody

[86:06]huh who needs somebody everybody rob everybody needs what who needs somebody everybody needs

[86:13]somebody excuse me i have to go jump into this cake

[86:17]i think uh there were three members of guns and roses slash duff and matt sorum who actually

[86:25]appeared in the video someday they were doing the family feud i don't know if you guys remember that

[86:29]but they were in a music video with the strokes and guess who hosted family feud is richard karn

[86:35]that's why i brought up richard karn there you go good job everyone the one celebrity where you know

[86:42]that his balls look like his face like if you looked at richard karn and his balls looked just

[86:47]like his face you'd be like yeah he's kind of like that but well that light hair and maybe a

[86:51]little flannel you'd be like well makes sense to me like picture another celebrity can you picture

[86:56]their balls like hulk okay hulk hogan i mean we know they're like orange they're bright orange

[87:01]listen aaron no more of this come on let's move on next time well well we're gonna go

[87:09]right back down the the the dirty hole here but the next song of the list is from 2006

[87:15]oh jeez

[87:17]from 2006 it is from lonely island dick in a box

[87:21]the dirty hole that's nice i mean it's a very well done parody song

[87:39]wouldn't you guys love to hear a really well done parody song like wouldn't that just be like

[87:45]really the pinnacle of comedy

[87:46]so fucking hurtful you know that's hurtful do you know i had to sing i'm gonna fuck you in the

[87:53]aisle of home depot today in front of my kids in front of my kids they're just and you know what

[87:57]they did nothing they're used to it that's even worse this podcast has ruined my life and my

[88:05]family casablanca's was actually featured in one of lonely island songs it was called boombox i

[88:10]I don't know if you guys ever remember that, but he was in the video for that.

[88:14]Don't recall.

[88:14]Last song on the list is, this is not a band that I know very well,

[88:18]but supposedly there's a great relationship between the Strokes and this band.

[88:22]You guys know the Arctic Monkeys at all?

[88:24]Oh, yeah.

[88:24]I've seen the Arctic Monkeys.

[88:25]I saw the Arctic Monkeys at first have.

[88:27]They're British, right?

[88:29]Last song on the list is, I think so, yeah, it's Brainstorm.

[88:32]Check out the false ending on this one.

[88:40]Oh, that's good.

[88:44]Should all songs have false endings?

[88:46]That's good.

[88:47]They're pretty awesome, aren't they?

[88:49]Yeah.

[88:49]I saw them, and there was a rugby team in attendance when I saw them,

[88:53]and they brought the rugby team up on stage,

[88:55]and then shit just got real wild from there.

[88:58]Oy, oy, oy.

[88:59]The Arctic Monkeys, one of their, I think it was their 2018 album,

[89:03]their lead song on the album, the first line under one of the first lines said,

[89:07]I just want to be one of the Strokes.

[89:09]Yeah.

[89:10]And then.

[89:10]And then on Instagram, the lead singer for the Strokes put a picture of him

[89:15]on the cover of their album and just said,

[89:17]I always wanted to be in the Arctic Monkeys.

[89:20]So there's obviously like a big respect between those two bands,

[89:23]but I love those false endings in songs.

[89:25]We've talked about them before.

[89:26]I think it's a great way.

[89:27]That was a nice list.

[89:28]Great way to turn it up in a song, right?

[89:29]I love it, yeah.

[89:30]That was a false ending there again.

[89:40]Rob, we're going to fuck with people so bad when we do the real ending at the end,

[89:45]and they think it's a false, and they just,

[89:46]we're going to put like an hour of blank stuff at the end.

[89:49]Let's just let it roll for an hour and make people wonder when that's coming back.

[89:53]When they hear these false endings,

[89:54]they're going to look at their phone and think something's wrong.

[89:57]Okay, and definitely not just go to their next podcast.

[89:59]Like, oh, I listened to enough where I can have a conversation with Russell about it.

[90:03]I can text him something.

[90:04]He thinks I'm listening.

[90:04]The next song is on the international album.

[90:09]The next song is.

[90:10]The next song is New York City Cops.

[90:11]Now, obviously, this was released basically right after 9-11.

[90:15]So close, in fact, that the Strokes CD, this song was taken off and replaced by Hard to Explain.

[90:23]Yeah, I never knew this song.

[90:25]But the vinyl was made before the CD, so the vinyl in the U.S. actually has this song on it.

[90:33]This is a more of a Ramones, I mean, pure punk.

[90:40]That probably is much, much lower five.

[90:42]Yeah.

[90:43]I'm in.

[90:45]It feels faster, doesn't it?

[90:47]No, I didn't hear that at all.

[90:48]Yeah, you can definitely hear the punk influence here.

[90:51]I read about a band that sort of kicked off this whole scene called Jonathan Fire Eater from D.C.

[90:59]And this, to me, sounds a lot more like the Jonathan Fire Eater sound.

[91:02]It's not that bad.

[91:03]I mean, all they say is New York City cops aren't very smart.

[91:06]Like, it could have been a lot worse.

[91:07]You know, like you could say, oh, Oakland cops are criminals.

[91:10]Or like, you know, the sex traffic people.

[91:12]You know, like, those are the things you could say.

[91:13]This is a time where George Bush threw out a baseball.

[91:15]We're all like, goddamn, America's back, baby.

[91:18]He threw a strike.

[91:19]I mean, in his, you know, I got to give him credit.

[91:22]He threw a strike.

[91:22]Well, and that mission was accomplished, though.

[91:24]I was still working on that one.

[91:27]Listen, trying your luck, Russell Silvan.

[91:29]Trying your luck.

[91:30]This song is so good.

[91:33]The drum.

[91:33]Oh.

[91:34]This is a scrunch your face up song.

[91:37]A what song?

[91:39]A scrunch your face up song.

[91:39]Scrunch your face up song.

[91:40]Scrunch your face?

[91:40]Yeah.

[91:41]For me, it is.

[91:44]I don't ever do a scrunch your face.

[91:46]I feel weird doing it.

[91:47]It looks good.

[91:47]Oh, Russell's scrunching his face like crazy right now.

[91:49]Looks good.

[91:50]It's a good look for you, Russell.

[91:51]It feels so scrunchy when you do that.

[91:53]I don't know if I like it.

[91:54]Russell's finding new things out about his face.

[92:00]Take it or leave it.

[92:03]That's what we tell our listeners.

[92:06]You know, listening to these songs, and then, Russell,

[92:09]you played TVI.

[92:10]That TVI sound is a huge part of this.

[92:14]I think, like, the singing, the whole sound of it.

[92:17]Well, there's another person who liked the sound of the strokes.

[92:22]It was Beck.

[92:23]Oh, of course.

[92:24]He said the first time he met the strokes, he was like,

[92:27]who are these guys going to be?

[92:28]And he's like, it turns out they're just like him.

[92:30]They're like skinny jeans guys and everything.

[92:32]And he met him, and he's like, holy shit,

[92:34]I've been hearing you guys for a week.

[92:35]What's your deal?

[92:36]And the story goes in a very strokes fashion.

[92:39]The lead singer of the band said,

[92:41]you're going to fucking love us.

[92:42]And it turns out he did.

[92:44]So a while back, 2018,

[92:47]back in Julian Casablanca's in concert,

[92:49]covered the Human League's Don't You Want Me.

[92:52]Check this out.

[92:53]I still love you, Beck.

[92:59]Now Beck comes in here in a second.

[93:03]Don't you want me?

[93:09]Oh, yes.

[93:10]So I got to ask you guys,

[93:12]when it comes to covering the Human League

[93:15]with the lead singer of the Strokes,

[93:17]who did it better?

[93:18]Beck did it better.

[93:20]I'm going to say this, though.

[93:21]I do not like it when people fuck around at a concert like that.

[93:24]Like where you can tell they're laughing and having fun.

[93:26]It's like sex.

[93:27]You don't need it.

[93:28]Like there should be no laughing.

[93:29]It should be very serious.

[93:30]Like, oh, it's a playful thing.

[93:32]We're just having fun.

[93:33]No, we're here to...

[93:34]I paid a lot of money for this, right?

[93:36]Yeah, that sounds like sex.

[93:39]Let's do it, Russell.

[93:39]Guys, the Human League.

[93:41]I got bad news, actually.

[93:42]The Human League was something I had set up.

[93:44]It was a volleyball league I actually set up down in Mississippi.

[93:47]It's not going to happen.

[93:49]Now it's time for everybody's favorite part of the show.

[93:52]The nicest quarter.

[93:54]Beck did it better.

[93:57]Russell, if you bounce this volleyball 10 times,

[93:59]I'll give you $1,000.

[94:00]Let's take it or leave it on this one,

[94:02]or is that a bonus track?

[94:04]Yes, it's on there.

[94:05]What?

[94:06]Uh-oh, we almost missed a song.

[94:08]We just played it.

[94:09]We did?

[94:10]Yeah.

[94:10]Russell, Russell, scrunch up your face.

[94:13]Listen to this.

[94:14]That sounds...

[94:17]Look at Russell with his scrunched up face.

[94:18]I love it.

[94:19]I can't get it up.

[94:19]Man, my face is, like, messed up now.

[94:23]It's like a crunch for your face, Russell.

[94:25]You're going to have a major face six-pack

[94:27]if you do enough scrunches.

[94:28]You think it works with or without the cowboy hat better?

[94:35]Everything's better with the cowboy hat.

[94:37]Russell scrunched his face,

[94:38]and I can't see the lower half of his body.

[94:40]It makes me very uncomfortable.

[94:41]Listen, Russell, do you know what my favorite bar is

[94:44]that looks like that,

[94:45]but it has little Rice Krispies in it?

[94:47]It's a scrunch.

[94:47]What kind of bar?

[94:48]It's a scrunch bar.

[94:48]A scrunch bar.

[94:51]A scrunch bar.

[94:51]All right, listen.

[94:53]We are at the point of the show

[94:55]where a lot of times we maybe wonder,

[94:57]why did we do this in the first place, okay?

[94:59]We all said what we think.

[95:00]We all seem to like this album.

[95:01]Matt, I'm still curious what Matt's going to say,

[95:04]I have to say.

[95:04]But this, we have to decide,

[95:07]it's not just do we like the album.

[95:08]It's not just do we like the album.

[95:09]It's does this album belong at 114, okay?

[95:13]Is that where this should be, okay?

[95:17]There are the people at Rolling Stone

[95:19]who we think are great, okay?

[95:21]They did a great job with the list.

[95:22]I mean, if the guys who made the list

[95:24]are also the same guys who designed the website,

[95:26]they've got nothing to worry about

[95:28]because both those things are very, very good.

[95:29]The website's not totally aggravating to use.

[95:32]If we think this list is good, okay?

[95:35]If we think it's perfect on the list at 114,

[95:37]this is perfect.

[95:38]It should be right here.

[95:40]There's 113 albums that are better.

[95:41]There's a lot of albums that are worse.

[95:43]It's perfect.

[95:44]That is a rolling well toned, okay?

[95:47]If we think that this album

[95:49]makes me want to scrunch up my face a lot, okay?

[95:52]Yes.

[95:52]This should be a rolling bone.

[95:54]I'm scrunching my face to this album.

[95:55]I'm at work, guys.

[95:56]I'm at work scrunching my face, okay?

[95:58]I didn't want to say that, but it's true, okay?

[96:01]People think I'm the pleasure principal in there.

[96:02]Or is this...

[96:08]Is this a bad album?

[96:10]Then it's a rolling well...

[96:11]It's a rolling groan.

[96:12]Listen, I'm so tired.

[96:13]What do you think?

[96:15]Rolling well toned, rolling bone, or rolling groan, okay?

[96:19]And if you notice, all those things rhyme with rolling stone.

[96:22]And I don't know if you guys have ever noticed that,

[96:23]but it's a little treat I put in, okay?

[96:25]Thank you, everybody, for coming.

[96:29]Just kidding.

[96:30]False ending.

[96:30]Getting all my jokes in now.

[96:33]Russell, what do you think?

[96:34]Rolling well toned, rolling boned, or rolling groan?

[96:37]I like the sound.

[96:38]I like that album.

[96:39]I've heard some of the hits before,

[96:41]but I'm definitely not as familiar with it as Aaron is.

[96:44]But I enjoyed the album.

[96:45]It's something I'll definitely come back and listen to.

[96:47]I definitely like it more than...

[96:48]I don't know what kind of music garage band.

[96:50]I don't know what you'd call this,

[96:51]but I definitely like this or enjoyed it more than...

[96:53]We talked about the Stooges earlier, Velvet Underground,

[96:56]some of those that maybe are pioneers for this type of music,

[96:59]but definitely liked it more than that.

[97:01]So I'm going to say it's rolling well toned.

[97:02]I'll come back and listen to it again.

[97:04]Aaron, what do you think?

[97:05]Rolling well toned, rolling bone, or rolling groan?

[97:09]Man, this is another struggle for me.

[97:10]I'm just, I'm too close to this one.

[97:12]This album exists outside of ranking systems to me.

[97:16]I just, I love it too much.

[97:17]But I almost feel like it's a rolling groan.

[97:22]I don't know.

[97:22]Like, I love this album.

[97:24]I'll listen to it anytime.

[97:24]To me, it's a perfect album,

[97:26]but I think there's probably more important albums

[97:29]that could have been at this spot.

[97:31]So I'm going to go against my own judgment

[97:35]and give it a rolling groan.

[97:36]Matt, what do you think?

[97:37]Rolling well toned, rolling bone?

[97:38]Rolling well toned and rolling groan, okay?

[97:41]And don't think about how Tom Petty's dead.

[97:43]Yeah.

[97:44]No, I try not to every day.

[97:46]And you might think, oh, was he dead

[97:47]in that Last Dance with Mary Jane video

[97:49]where he looked like he was dead?

[97:50]That was his normal look.

[97:52]He was normally that pale.

[97:53]That was the dead lady he was dancing with.

[97:56]Oh, I was confused.

[97:57]Because he kind of, I mean, guys,

[97:58]of all the musicians that look like a dead lady.

[98:02]Someday, you guys will hear my story

[98:03]about a friend of ours that, you know,

[98:07]has this whole conspiracy theory

[98:08]that the Tom Petty that we know

[98:10]is not the real Tom Petty.

[98:11]Oh.

[98:12]You know, he's just a front man

[98:13]for the real Tom Petty

[98:14]who's probably still,

[98:15]we'll get into that later,

[98:16]some other time.

[98:17]Has that guy ever loaned money to Jeb?

[98:19]He might have.

[98:21]He'd do that.

[98:22]It was a possibility.

[98:25]And it's not the guy you think.

[98:27]Oh, different guy.

[98:27]It's not the guy you think.

[98:28]Different guy, okay.

[98:28]Different guy.

[98:29]All right.

[98:30]Yeah.

[98:31]You know, here's the thing.

[98:33]There's this whole indie rock,

[98:35]alternative indie rock kind of thing

[98:38]of genre that I don't know enough about,

[98:41]but I like a lot of their radio hits and stuff.

[98:44]So I'm thinking of bands like,

[98:45]I mean, The Killers is kind of on there,

[98:47]but I'm thinking of stuff like

[98:48]Fitz and the Tantrums

[98:49]and Imagine Dragons

[98:51]and Young the Giant

[98:52]and even like Fall Out Boy

[98:55]and Kings of Leon

[98:56]and some of these groups that,

[98:57]you know, I love parts of all of them, right?

[99:01]You know, and so,

[99:03]and I think that outside of The Killers,

[99:06]The Strokes were kind of the band

[99:08]that kind of,

[99:08]kind of kicked this off, you know,

[99:10]and kind of changed this rock, indie rock,

[99:13]you know, college rock

[99:15]into more of a mainstream kind of a music

[99:19]that got played on the radio a lot more.

[99:21]It wasn't just the college bands,

[99:23]college stations, things like that.

[99:25]They got on popular music.

[99:28]We're in commercials, you know,

[99:30]we're in all sorts of movies and everything.

[99:32]So from that standpoint,

[99:33]I think it's rolling well-toned, right?

[99:35]I will listen to this album again

[99:38]because to Rosie's point,

[99:39]there's way more albums

[99:41]that probably should be way higher than it.

[99:42]But from an influential standpoint,

[99:44]I mean, I think that has its place

[99:46]in the anals of history,

[99:48]you know, what we're talking about.

[99:50]So I don't know.

[99:51]That's my take.

[99:52]Listen, guys,

[99:54]unfortunately, you're all incorrect.

[99:56]Son of a bitch.

[99:58]This is a rolling duration.

[100:00]Every album should be 32 minutes long

[100:04]and every song should be

[100:05]two minutes and 45 seconds long, period.

[100:07]These are the perfect,

[100:08]because then we can make a two-hour podcast

[100:10]about a 32-minute album.

[100:11]It's perfect.

[100:12]Hey, Rob, Rob, can you repeat that?

[100:14]Is it the perfect duration?

[100:15]So it's the perfect length

[100:17]and the perfect duration.

[100:18]It's the perfect length.

[100:19]It's the perfect duration.

[100:20]It's just like, you know how Rice Krispie,

[100:23]you know, not Rice Krispie,

[100:24]Reese's Cups, you know, the big cups

[100:26]where they just don't taste right, right?

[100:27]It's just too big.

[100:28]They're too, nobody likes them.

[100:29]They're too big.

[100:30]We like things short, okay?

[100:32]Nice and short.

[100:34]That's what everyone likes.

[100:35]In fact, maybe short.

[100:36]Or even,

[100:38]even smaller.

[100:39]I mean, it doesn't matter.

[100:40]Like, it doesn't matter

[100:41]what the size is, okay?

[100:42]Nobody uses it anyway,

[100:45]so who the hell cares?

[100:46]So, next up.

[100:48]Next up.

[100:52]By the way,

[100:52]when I texted that picture

[100:53]of Teddy Bridgewater's cock

[100:54]to the whole text chain,

[100:55]I was like, oh.

[100:56]I was like, ugh.

[100:58]They don't know.

[100:59]This is way out of context.

[101:01]They don't know the depths

[101:02]of your obsession with cock.

[101:04]I was like Michael J. Fox

[101:05]in Back to the Future.

[101:07]I was like, listen,

[101:07]your kids are going to love it.

[101:08]Listen to the podcast

[101:11]three weeks.

[101:12]You're going to love the joke.

[101:12]We're going to talk about

[101:13]pleasure principles.

[101:14]You know, it's just not,

[101:15]they're not hitting yet.

[101:16]They're not hitting yet.

[101:17]Aaron's brother made a point, though.

[101:18]He's like, oh, yeah,

[101:19]I love the evergreen content.

[101:20]And then we're just making jokes

[101:21]in real life

[101:22]for three weeks in the future.

[101:23]We're Marty McFly,

[101:27]but instead of,

[101:27]we're like Biff,

[101:28]but instead of he took

[101:29]the almanac,

[101:29]he takes like a joke

[101:30]about Liam Neeson's dick.

[101:32]You know what I mean?

[101:33]Hey, I came back

[101:35]from the future.

[101:35]Check this out.

[101:36]There's an actor

[101:37]named Liam Neeson.

[101:37]He's got a huge heart.

[101:38]He's got a huge blog

[101:38]and he pisses himself

[101:39]all the time.

[101:39]You still tell the same jokes.

[101:40]Listen,

[101:43]you wait till 114.

[101:44]It's so different

[101:45]than episode 14.

[101:46]Technically,

[101:47]we have got more than a week

[101:48]without a piss pants joke.

[101:50]Hey, wait.

[101:50]Way to go, everyone.

[101:51]Thank you.

[101:52]Turn that zero over to one.

[101:56]My wife said

[101:57]I've been making him

[101:57]in my sleep.

[101:58]Next up.

[101:59]Here's the deal.

[102:01]Next up.

[102:01]Where's Alfred E. Newman,

[102:03]the mayor?

[102:03]Okay.

[102:05]Where?

[102:05]Well, it's Good Kid,

[102:07]Mad City

[102:07]by Kendrick.

[102:08]When you want to hear

[102:11]about the greatest albums.

[102:13]Just kidding.

[102:15]That was a false ending

[102:16]to the ending.

[102:16]Look it up online.

[102:20]If you want to hear

[102:22]from guys who chat

[102:23]and then they get off track.

[102:25]I've got the perfect podcast

[102:28]for you, Jack.

[102:30]Beck did it better.

[102:38]I'm not going to lie.

[103:08]Play the play the blue.

[103:10]Oh,

[103:10]you thought it was over.

[103:16]We're back.

[103:17]False ending.

[103:19]This song sounds much better

[103:22]when you scratch your face up.

[103:23]Yes, man.

[103:24]Right.

[103:24]Scratch that face up.

[103:26]It hurts my eyes.

[103:27]What if as a joke,

[103:34]we just made a false ending

[103:35]of the podcast

[103:36]and we never recorded it again?

[103:37]Oh,

[103:38]what if it's a joke?

[103:38]What if it's a joke?

[103:38]What if it's a joke?

[103:38]Wouldn't that be funny, guys?

[103:39]That'd be so funny.

[103:40]That'd be so funny.

[103:41]I mean,

[103:42]but if any other person said that,

[103:43]I'd probably think about it.

[103:44]All right.