Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012)

[0:00]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine. This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the Order, and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no Research. All opinions are our own, unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy. Beck did it Better. We are up to album 115 and from 2012, okay, the day that I ate all my dad's supplies For the end of the world, he was like, end of the world? I was like, no, what? No, I never ate the Cake mix. Good Kid, Mad City by Kendrick Lamar. And I'll tell you what, guys, let's get right into It. Listen, so I have heard the feedback. I just want to tell everybody that I am talking too much About penises. It turns out celebrity penises, not what people want to talk about. It turns out Even maybe when you're on a text chain with friends and you are texting out pictures of things and the Friends maybe aren't on the podcast, it's kind of awkward. After a while. So I've decided that I'm going to get all of the penis talk out at the beginning of

[1:00]The show. Okay. I had to, I don't think this is the way it was supposed to go for the Correction. Yeah. I find halfway. I find that when I do it like this, then I can take a break and I Can I don't have to think about it so much like it for at least a half hour, 45 minutes. I think we're going to be set here after the song. So let's turn on K-Rob and see if there's any Songs on the radio about penises. K-R-O-B. You know, we're always talking about how the world is getting smaller and Smaller, but yet some people want things to get bigger and bigger. Folks, Rob had a Dream about that. Oh yeah. I wish a big dick would be my superpower. Looks like a snake is loose in My trousers. If I'm walking through a field, I would accidentally. I just want to look good when I'm in the shower, man, I'd make it bigger, longer, just like Lenny

[2:00]Kravitz would be a pant. I'd want to make it the same size as Lee Neeson. Please honk the horn when I'm driving my Neeson. When I am squatting, huge dick could be a spider. I want people to say, Is that Ted D Bridgewater? If I did it my way, I'm wearing baggy shorts. You could see it hang. Wish my big dick would be my superpower. Wish my big dick would be, it's all about big dongs, just like Joe Mauer. Now it's small and white, looks like the movie Powder. When you want it. Greatest albums of all time. Wow. We could get a single with a Sunday Shango reference in there. Man, you and I should have been a rapper, Rob. I've got the perfect podcast for you. Nothing's better. Beck did it better. I did wait until my kids left the apartment to record that one. I was like, I cannot do this with

[3:00]The whole family around. I need to wait a little bit. Listen, welcome to Beck did it better. We are Talking about Kendrick Lamar, his second album that we have done so far on the list after to Pivot butterfly. And I've got three guys here who know so much about it, have listened to the album A number of times and they want to talk about it. I got Russell in Minnesota. Russell, how are you Doing? Guys? I was praying our podcast gets a following as big as the Eiffel tower. So I can Be less embarrassed about this podcast for 72 hours. But then Rob played that opening song And it killed my vibe. God damn, I feel amazing. I was like, Hey, this song is about Him having a big dick. First time ever. Somehow when Kendrick does it, you're like, That makes sense. When Rob does it, you go, that's pretty funny. Great. I actually did listen to this album. I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Right on Rob for once. That's good. Good work. It's a banger. And I've got Aaron. Aaron, I saw recently on the news in Oakland, there was a guy

[4:00]Running around and this is sometimes I use this space to tell jokes, right? But I, Sometimes when I see stuff happening in California on the news, I think about you all the time. And Especially this one, cause this was right in the Bay area. And I was wondering if you saw this, There was a guy who they found out was walking around. Do you remember a couple of years ago Where everybody was dressing like clowns and kind of going out and like being in the woods and being Scary? Do you remember that? It lasted like three months or something. It was like a random clown thing. This guy was dressing up like a clown and he was hiding from perverts. Did you see this Aaron? Did you see this story? Did you see this? Yeah. That's cause you're a Pervert. You're an absolute pervert. I got Aaron out in the Bay area. Aaron, how are you doing? I'm just trying to reconnect with my elation, baby. Let's talk about getting in that city. Listen, that was worth it. I've, I've found that when I say it's like, I can then change the To any topic I want. It's like how I bought a thing of cereal today and it says large size now

[5:00]Instead of family size. Cause it's, it knows it's just me. They know it's just me. It's not the Family. It's just large size. Listen guys, let's get right to our voicemails. As you guys know, This episode is coming out on Halloween. So let's see if we have a Halloween related voicemail. Did you call them that? This is the voicemail? I was working on the podcast. I've got my jokes to write. When I realized this episode tonight Would be downloaded and then it would be seen on October 31st. Why that's Halloween. He made a list about scary songs. The bit's always a little too long. What song will be number one? He made a list. If you don't like it, then you are wrong. So I went online to find the scariest song.

[6:00]I copy other lists so it doesn't take too long. The thing this year that's got me depressed. It's the third year in a row that I've made this list. He made a list about scary songs. He made a list. This bit's always a bit too long. Rob made a list. What song will be number one? He made a list. Number six was this very song. He made a list. Yes! Oh, that reminds me, by the way. I did download that laugh as a laugh that we can play at any time. So if anybody has a funny joke, I think we can play this. Won't be too distracting at all. Keep that in the back pocket. Was Michael Jackson kind of the original furry? You know what I mean? Like he dressed up like a werewolf. He's out there. Oh. Anyway. I said the scariest songs. You know it's Halloween, but I have to finish it by Michael Jackson as a furry impression.

[7:00]I'm a cat and I need my mama's milk. Give me my mother's milk, please. Doctor. What was his name again? Conrad Murray. Dr. Conrad Murray. How can I forget that? How far is the reels already? So it is October 31st. I am releasing this episode on a Monday as a special treat unannounced to our listeners. Okay. Because. You know, this is going to be the sweetest thing they get all Halloween. And so anytime it's Halloween, we think what we talk about music all the time. You know, music has emotions. I think this album, especially you hear this raw emotion. So I was thinking one emotion that is. You were thinking we'd make a list. I did make a list. I don't know if you noticed that. And I also say that sound clip because it's a depressing thing that we're probably going to make a fourth Halloween list next year. Guys, this is the third Halloween we've been together. I don't know. I don't know. It's starting to lose steam. It's wild. No, no, no, no, no.

[8:00]This is definitely not losing steam. This is a good bit. No, I just meant the podcast in general. I don't know if we'll make it another year. Yeah. Oh, I know what you're talking about. It has nothing to do with this list of the scariest songs for the third year. So let's go through my list of the scariest songs. Now, the first one, I'm going to admit, I downloaded this for my sad songs and I forgot to put it on. But you know what? It's also scary. Okay. Think about being out in a boat on Lake Superior. I feel like they play this occasionally and they just go on and on. Spooky. This is not scary at all. I mean, this is, you don't think this is scary? Trying to make up for missing the sad song list. I would definitely give out a king-size candy bar to the kid who comes trick-or-treating And is dressed as the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And he'd say, it's been good to know you. That's what the captain says. What song is that, Rob? Who's it by? That's by, oh, that's embarrassing.

[9:00]Gordon Lightfoot. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's actually, I didn't see that on many scariest songs list. But if you think about sinking in the lake on a boat, that's scary. I would be scared. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's scarier than any of these other songs because it's about a real boat sinking. So the fact that you're laughing at that, Aaron, is terrible. Just terrible. Their families could be listening. I think the Edmund Fitzgerald only. It had one hit, right, Rob? Oh, no. That boat hit in the ground, the base of the sea. Guys, I can't do it. Just go for it. You know you want to. I can't. I mean, it would be on Halloween, the scariest time of year. Hold on. Let me pick it up. Hello? Hello, who is this? Hi, this is the captain from the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And you won't believe who's standing next to me. Who's with you, Captain? It's Coolio. It's Coolio and I. We're standing here. Oh. Yeah, Coolio had some hits. I had some hits, too. I don't know if you guys knew that, but it's... What was your big hit, Captain?

[10:00]My big hit? Well, first, like a lot of bands, I actually had a breakup. And it was the middle of the ship. Yeah, it was the middle of the ship, and it broke up. And then we went down, and the minutes, they turned to hours. Oh. So, hey, do you want to talk to Coolio real quick? Yeah, I'd love to. He's not here. But Chuck Berry said he wants to talk to you. Hey, guys, it's me, Chuck Berry. Chuck, how's it going? Listen, things up here are great. You can do whatever you want. What do you mean? Well, I got to go. I'll see you guys later. I've been hell. Goodbye. Now, if I told you that was a bit that I had planned earlier this week, Would that be sad or good? Is Russell a plant in this scenario? Obviously, Russell thought that song was pretty scary, And he wanted to try to distract me from doing the list. Not going to work, because I am still on. This is number five. This is the number five scariest songs. This is the number five scariest songs of all time. This is the number five scariest songs of all time. This is the number five scariest songs of all time. This is the number five scariest songs of all time. This is the number five scariest songs of all time. This is the number five scariest songs of all time. And honestly, to be scared by this song, You really need to watch the video. But just listen to this.

[11:00]This is Primus, and he is, Les Claypool is stringing a double bass, Like an electric double bass, And in the video, he's wearing a tuxedo Dressed in a pig suit, And everything around him is like burning down. It's very scary. Just listen to this. Now, if you were swimming away from your boat In the middle of Lake Superior and you heard this, That would be very bad, right? That'd be scary. Kind of like a Jaws feeling to it, doesn't it? By the way, they played this video six times on MTV And then never played it again. You might wonder, Who would be dumb enough to have bought that album With that on it, thinking they would like that? And the answer is me, Because that was also the song that Hamburger Train was on, So I had that album. Does the whole album sound like that? Yes. You can imagine what my parents thought when I played it, And I was like, mm- yes, I like this, Because I like Les Claypool, apparently. Tell me. I would have guessed it was the same guy Who was dumb enough to make a Halloween music list For three years in a row That bought that album. You bought it, right? This actually, Russell, seriously,

[12:00]That upsets me. It's not a Halloween list. It's a Scariest Songs list, okay? That's released at Halloween. No, yes, but you could play this list whenever you want. None of these songs are Halloween-related, If you noticed. Do you guys think that if you would have played The same list all the last three years And anybody would notice? Yes, there was a Will Smith one. There was a Will Smith one I would have recognized If you played it back. Oh, yeah, Nightmare on Earth. It was actually DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith, But yeah, it was Nightmare on Earth. Nightmare on My Street, And then I also remember I had this song, And they went, Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Listen, we don't have time to go down there. I mean, there's... Nailed it. Yeah, it's very scary. Now, this song, legit, is scary. It's Tom Waits. It's just called What's He Building? He said he wrote the words And could never put a song around it, So he just did it as a spoken word poem. Oh, I know. I know this song. This is on Mueller. Yeah, of course. I mean, this is Harry. What is this? I don't know. What's he building in there? I mean, this isn't a song. What is that?

[13:00]This isn't a song. This is Canada in my house. We do this all the time. What's he building in there? He took down the tire swing from the pepper tree. He has no children of his own, you see. He has no dog. There's a big part at the end Where his neighbor is setting up 20 yard inflatables, And he's mad about that, But I don't want to play that part. If I remember correctly, The... The wedding that you did not invite Matt and Rob to, I think if I remember right, You purposely uninvited Rob. I think he was like on the list, And you crossed him off, If I remember right. That's right. But I believe Aaron gave everyone Who came to the wedding a CD, And I believe it had a Tom Waits song on it, If I remember correctly. Is that right, Aaron? It did. It was a good song, though, was it? It was not. No, it was not what's he building. Ah, I hope I don't get this wrong. It might have been I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand. I think it might have been I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand. Yeah, my lady, When we first... Well, on our first date, She had a Tom Waits cassette in her car, And I was like,

[14:00]I gotta know more about this woman. She had Raindogs in her car. If that song would have played, Would you have gotten out immediately, Or would that be... Maybe, yeah. If it had been, yeah, If she'd been playing The end of Mule Variations, I might have been concerned, But it was Raindogs, So it was a little different. The, uh... I love the idea of a wedding CD, And then you look back, And you're like, These songs were shit. What does that mean about This whole choice I made? Like, these are terrible songs. I've got tattoos I regret, And the CD is terrible. I think I may have made Terrible choices all along. But it's fine, Because my tattoo says No regrets, So it's fine. Classic. Listen, now, This video legit Did scare the shit out of me When I saw that MTV. Oh, Metallica. Is it one? Oh, God. Yes. Yeah, no, This shit's terrifying. This is scary. I'm gonna die And myself. This song was My greatest headbanging In a car experience ever With Aaron And two of our other roommates. When we were in college, I remember being in a car, This song came on, And the whole car Started headbanging

[15:00]For about five minutes In the vehicle. It was fantastic. It's all you can do. You have no choice. It was our Wayne's World Bohemian Rhapsody moment In a car. What do you say, Aaron? I would guess Bohemian Rhapsody Was not about a guy Who stepped on a landmine And is still alive But cannot communicate But is being tortured Inside of his mind. And then me, Maybe as a 10-year-old, I don't know, Waiting for like a TLC video To come on Or something else. Mariah Carey, Yeah, Is just starting To maybe start that process And then that video comes on And it leads to a lot of Confusion. What did the process involve? Huh? What did the process involve? A lot of looking over my shoulder. Standing up back then. Yeah, it's like Laying down now. It's like standing up back then. He's out mowing the lawn. He's probably not going To look in the window While he's mowing the lawn, right? Like, that'd be crazy. You know what? If the old man Walked in during that, Rob, And you were watching The one video, He would have to just turn around And walk out. There's no way he'd even be like, Hey, knock it off in there. Why does Rob have my disco ball?

[16:00]That's why he looked in. What the hell Is the disco ball doing on? Having your dad Catch you jerking it To the Metallica video? That's scary. With a disco ball? Number three on my list. Wow. Did he have disco balls Through your whole childhood, Rob? Or is this a recent thing That's developed? No, no, no, no. It's always. He's always been enamored With like buying a disco ball And putting it up. We did have one in our basement. We did have one in our basement For a while, for sure. 100%. It's not a joke. Where'd it go? Oh, it's somewhere else now. We've got multiple all over. That one got wore out. That was like the third of 19 In the history of the ward. My sister loves this bit. She thinks it's funny. I get lots of comments About how much it makes her laugh. She dislikes it Because we're not talking about How much of a scam Those dentists are. That's why she likes it. She didn't say. She goes, I heard you said Stick it up for dentists The other day. And I was like, You wouldn't believe How much I edited out as well. Charge us some more

[17:00]For that, Floret. I think they already Put it in the water here. What the hell? I will say, Speaking of dentists, And this isn't scary, So it's not part of the list, But I have been wearing My mouth guard every night For this week, guys. That was on my list Of changing my life For the better. Made it a whole week? Good work. It's hard sleeping With a mouth guard And it's not easy. Is it a teeth grinding thing Or why do you wear it? It's a teeth grinding thing. They claim I grind My teeth at night. I don't think I do, But I want to prove The dentist wrong, So I'm going to wear it And show them that, Ah, it's something else Eating away at my teeth. Maybe sugar. Maybe those dentists Can do a better job, right? No, I didn't say that At all, actually. In the football squad, Everybody had a mouth guard, right? There was always that one guy That would just chew it Just to a pulp. And that's what you're going To bring into your dentist Aren't you? He's going to be like, Come in in a month, right? And he's going to come in And it's just going to be shredded. See, I don't grind my teeth. This thing is rock hard. It's hard. It's crazy to sleep with. Try sleeping with a hard mouth guard And it's almost impossible. What is the point of going To the dentist If you've got to do all the work To wear the mouth guard

[18:00]And everything? Like, you're going to a professional So they can fix the problem. Like, what? Now you've got to wear The mouth guard? And you're paying them? You're paying them money for it. Listen, honestly, If it stops me From having pain in my mouth, I would go, If they said you have to go Every month, I'd say, okay. As long as I don't have, Can you guys imagine mouth pain? Forget about it. It's one of the things I use the most is my mouth. It's my chef knife. Here, you come back, Rob. You come back once a month. You give me $2,000. Done. No mouth pain? We'll go all back. We'll kick in the nuts. We'll call it a day. How about that? That's it. I'd pay an extra $2,000 for that. Is there an out-of-pocket maximum For your coverage, Matt, or not? Can you stamp them too? I mean, it's funny. I don't think dentists, They don't have any Out-of-pocket max, do they? Oh, God. Oh, no. Not there. That's scary. That belongs on the list. Thinking about dental insurance? Ooh. That's number two and a half On the list. Now, number two, By Pendrecchi, This is the Threnody

[19:00]For the Victims of Hiroshima. Now, this is a classical piece That you have heard in, Well, see, now, This is the thing, though. He made it, And then he listened to the thing, And he was like, What does this make me think of? And then he was like, At the end, he was like, That's for the people of Hiroshima. So to me, He wasn't thinking about the people When he made it, So it doesn't, He kind of just tacked that on To the song. Doesn't that seem Kind of cheap? Right? Are you accusing him Of stolen valor? Kind of. Actually what? That's not too far off. And you hear this In a lot of movies. This was in Children of Men, People Under the Stairs, Which is a movie That scared the shit out of me Around that same time. Children of Men, One of the great movies Of all time. Twin Peaks. So here it is. You'll recognize this. This is scary. This is, I would say, This is the second scariest song ever. It's like something Out of a Hitchcock movie, Right? Yeah, this stuff's terrifying. I feel like there's Birds swarming me Or something right now. Yes. Not gonna lie, I've never heard this song Because I get scared shitless

[20:00]From those movies That you just said. I'm with you, man. I'm out. I don't like scary movies. I cannot watch those. I can't even watch them Like through the fingers, right? Where you've got Your fingers up. I can't even do that. No, I'm showing my kids Child's Play this weekend. Oh, my God. With Chucky. That's good parenting, right? Children of Men, Children of Men, though. Children of Men's a great movie. My kid's like, What's happening? And I was like, Oh, the person Who killed somebody Is putting their soul Into a doll. Does that make sense? She's like, what? She's like, I'm going to my room. And I was like, No, no, you must watch this movie. The reason that was so scary Is because in theory, It could happen. Like, you can lock Your doors and everything, But all my stuffed animals That I've got in my room And all my dolls And everything, If those came to life, I'm screwed, right? But like, If there's some crazy clown Out there on Halloween, I can lock my doors And in theory, They're probably not Getting to me very easily. But if my dolls Come to life, I'm screwed. Especially that one doll Russell had to fly out To Nevada to buy And it weighs like 200 pounds And he has it in his house And he takes it out To dinner sometime.

[21:00]I mean, If Russell's sex doll Came to life And tried to murder him, That'd be sick. It keeps dripping lube All over my hallway. Oh my God. Oh my God. What's that noise? I hear it. It's KY on the floor. I'd recognize that anywhere. Russell, Just don't lock your door Because if that clown Really wants to get in, He'll bust right through That door. So why even lock the door? You might as well Just let him walk in Because then at least You don't have to Replace the door When he leaves In three or four hours After terrorizing you. That's true. That's a good... Hey, And I'll tell you what, Hanging doors, Almost worse than getting Terrorized by a clown at night. Yeah, So you might as well Just leave it open Because he's going to get in No matter what. Rob, Do you ever hear Like a creepy sound Maybe in your apartment Or something And you just lay And wait for your wife To go check it out Or what's your style When you hear something Creepy in the apartment? If somebody broke Into my apartment Because you know, I don't even like That you announced this. Yeah, We don't lock our door. We don't do it. We have a doorman. If somebody's... You have a butler. Yeah, Exactly. It is a butler And he does not like it When I call him that It turns out. But there is somebody there

[22:00]So we don't lock our door. We just don't And if somebody came in, If I heard The tap, Tap, Tap of somebody's shoes I didn't recognize And like I could hear them Opening doors And looking around, I would go out there And I would sneak up Behind them And I would say, I swear to God, If you wake up my wife, I'm dead. You need to leave Right now. Okay? She has a big Deadlift day tomorrow. Yeah, I know her meet's not For six months But apparently this is a big day Where she needs a lot of sleep And it's actually worth... Is this week one, Day three Or is this week two, Day one? It's week one, Day three And it's actually worth Breaking up Important relationships, Being mad about Maybe waking people up. Maybe even in the morning, Like early Saturday morning He thought it'd be fun To wake her up But it was not. It was a bad idea. You'd be more afraid Of your wife waking up Than you would be Of the cat burglar. Oh, Please. I'd be out there. I'd be like, Yeah, Let's... Hey, Do you want to play Some video games together? Like, I'm dying here. Let's hang out. Do you think the Giants Are going to cover Plus seven and a half? They're in London So you got to think about it. What's the last scary song On the Halloween list? Russell, You say The last scary song. Okay?

[23:00]This is actually The biggest scariest song. This is number one. So you kind of made it sound Like maybe the list We're going backwards. We're not. We're actually going Towards number one Which is strange For this podcast. Normally we're going The other way. You're saying this list Has been getting better And this list supersedes All of their years. So all of their years Are now no longer The top six scariest songs. These are the six scariest songs Of 2022. And of course The number one scary song For the third year in a row. I want candy. There is nothing scarier Than when your kids Come home After eating a bunch Of Halloween candy. Tonight, I always say The real monsters Come out after my kids Eat the candy. Okay? So that's one you can use. My kids are absolute nightmares The day after The day After the day Of Halloween. They are terrors Because they're all Juiced up on sugar. So guys, That was a scary song. That was fantastic. Very scary. Never expected That to come up From that voicemail. It was so nice That we got a voicemail About that To prompt the list. Just glad that

[24:00]Kirsten and Little Rosie Finally took like A week off And stopped calling in All the time. Oh They probably, You know, We have a problem. Our voicemail is full. I got to go through And empty some. So that's going to happen. It's tough stuff. Listen, Let's get into Everybody's favorite Part of the show. It's rolling going. Rolling going. Oh, all right. And for those of you At home, Yes, We haven't started yet. It's time for Rolling going. We've almost started The podcast. Oh, yeah. Ah, rolling going. Rossell, You've recovered From the scary songs. What's up? A lot of things Are going on. I had a few sports, Live sports events That I went to. I also had a few Music events. What should we start with? Live sports Or live music? Let's do the sports. Oh, sports. Sports. I'm in sports. All right. Live sports. I'm with Aaron. Sports, sports, sports. Yeah, music. Who cares about that? So the other night I went to a high school Football game live. I went and watched One of our good friends Who likes to listen To my voice in the shower

[25:00]When he's showering In the morning. He had a big game Kind of over In the Minneapolis area At Bloomington, Jefferson. We watched the game And the game was fun And everything. It didn't go our coaches And our team's way, But our coaches Are doing a great job. But it actually, There was some music That came along with it And had to do With the marching band. It was halftime. Love this. And so they played Abba For the two songs During halftime Of the marching band. What do you think of Abba As halftime music For a marching band At a football game? Absolutely fantastic. Did they play Dancing Queen? They played Mamma Mia and Dancing Queen Were the two songs That I jotted down In my notes. As long as they play Dancing Queen, I'm in. You know what I would want? How about What about this song? This would be a great Marching band song, Wouldn't it? Waterloo? Yep. Okay. Yep. Good drums. Who's laying down the... I'll give you a hint. It's a big, huge blonde guy. No, it's great.

[26:00]I was just trying to figure Who's laying down The rhythm guitar. If it's the trombones Or... Aaron, you were in The marching band. Did you have any favorite songs Like pop songs That you guys did When you were in band? No, we were kind of highbrow. So we never did... We never did pop songs For the marching band. We did... It was always like Something that was arranged By St. Olaf Graduate. John Williams or something? No, it wasn't. Not even that? Pretty frequently we did... Pretty frequently we did Exclusive arrangements By St. Olaf Graduate Travis Cross, Who's now at, I believe, Northwestern University. I actually have a recording Of Aaron in the marching band. Do you want to hear the song You play? Listen to this. I don't know. It's almost too highbrow. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like... A little pretentious. No, I think... I can't remember. Yeah. I feel like We might have done Lincoln Shirt Posey. That sticks out, But I don't remember If we actually played that If we were good enough or not. But no, But I do remember There was like The slow tune. There was a slow song Where we had a big moment, Us trombones, Where we were Burying the bones somewhere And we got to turn around

[27:00]And point our bells Right at the press box And have a big loud moment. And it went... That's all I remember. And you showed them. Yeah, you showed them. Russell, what are you doing Asking them these questions? Well, Every time. Every time. Well what? Maybe we need more sports On this podcast. We turned that into music. The next one is just sports. So one of my new favorite sports... Yes. One of my new favorite Sporting events to go to, I talked about it last year, Is the Twin Cities Marathon. Not running that damn thing. It's way too long. I still go cheer people on. And so I went, And my sister the other day Was running the 10 mile. So I'm sitting out there And they have the cool app Where you can see When people are coming. And my sister's coming through And she's like, And about a minute or two Before my sister comes through, Who comes running through? But my co-host, Matt. Matt comes running through, Big smile on his face, Comes up, Gives me a high five. Matt, you were looking great. I was curious How the race goes for you. 10 miles is my stride.

[28:00]Marathon, way too long. Half marathon, That's probably a good challenge. 10 mile, That was pretty darn good. So I can handle that. When I was running up, I mean, You were with somebody else And I couldn't tell Who it is at all. I've never seen that person. Never seen that person. Distance runner. Yeah. So I, They like reached out To give me a high five, But I don't know who that is. I don't know what kind of germs I got. I'm not giving them a high five, right? To be fair, Matt, The distance runner May have mentioned That they did not get A high five from you. So I'll just, I'll just put it out there. I don't know who they are. That's true. I've never met them. I don't know who they are or anything. They're probably like, Well, in about six months, They might give me a high five. We'll see. Things seem to tend to happen. They're really slow. So we'll see. Really slow playing. I suppose if I saw that person In Home Depot, I might hold their hand, But I'm not going to give them A high five on a race. The sun was out. The sun was out. It's true. But you had a good race, Matt. Matt, you had a big smile On your face When you came rolling through. It looked like you were running well. I had no idea you were going to be there.

[29:00]Did you know that I was running that? I did not know you were running it. I went to see my sister And I didn't even think About asking you If you were running. Because when I, When I looked And I was kind of coming And I could see you In the distance, right? And I'm like, Well, there's Russell. That's that's funny. And I came running up And you had like no clue. I was not ready for it. Yeah, you were not ready for it. It was kind of, It was kind of fun. So, but it was good. So enough of this sports talk. I also had a couple Of live music adventures Over the last week. Man, I've got a lot Of stuff going on. Another one. So Matt talked about The Troubadour Wine Bar The other day. I had to follow up Matt's recommendation. I went back to the Troubadour Wine Bar And you know what? They had a live Solo acoustic Guitar player And he had his Venmo up. So I made some Venmo requests. Was it Ray? Oh my God. Let's do some Venmo receipts. Okay. Was it Ray? Was it the guy that I saw? It was not Ray. It was a guy named Robert Briggs. He was actually A second grade teacher. He said there wasn't That many people in there. So he was very communicating With the audience And everything. And I got to say,

[30:00]I don't know if we talked About this last time, But this is a fantastic wine bar. When you walk in, They invite you in. They kind of show you Where you can sit. They tell you about The wine on the menu. They just do a great job. I would highly, Highly recommend it. Yeah. But are we ready To go through My Venmo request list? Oh boy. I'm always ready. Always ready. I've got to come up With a theme for the Venmo. This will do for today, But. All right. My first request Is acoustic guitar player. So I go with, And I'm giving them options. It's my new thing To give options So they can't say no. I give them Neil Young, George Strait Troubadour, The band, The world, The weight, Or R.E.M. Pretty good request, Right? Wow. They definitely played Neil Young. He played Neil Young. He played Old Man, Which was an absolute killer. I was pumped about it. Oh, nice. Yeah, that's pretty good. That song makes Aaron flinch When he hears it Because he remembers The parody song about it.

[31:00]That was not only Devastated, dude, But it was also like 10 minutes long. By the way, I was going to say My Venmo started A little earlier in the night. That was at 8.33. I've started to move My Venmo requests Before midnight, So I think that's A good way to go. My next request, 8.59. Here are my requests. David Bowie, Life on Mars, Or something else. Oh, wow. Oh, that's a good one. Elvis, Suspicious Minds, Or something else, Or Van Morrison. Suspicious Minds. Van Morrison. Oh, okay. I'm going to say He went with Suspicious Minds. I think I did, too. I'll say Van. I'm going to go with Van. I'm going to go Suspicious Minds, too. That's what I'm hoping for. Matt was correct. It was Van Morrison. I think it was Brown Eyed Girl, If I remember correctly. Oh, what a... How good would it be If he played... What's that song? What's my number three Top pop song of all time? Sweetest Thing. I knew that. Oh, yeah. So, a few minutes later, 9.10, I go for another request Because there's no one Else making requests, And I'm like, This guy's doing a great job.

[32:00]I want to keep it going, right? We're kicking. Russell's getting This gig economy going. And to be fair, He started playing Some of his own songs. What do you guys think of that When you're at a... Maybe you guys like that. Do you like when You're at some sort of bar And they're playing A lot of covers And then they start playing Their own songs? What do you think? Normally, I don't, But when I was there, Ray, and I think it's... And I wish I remembered his name. I think we follow him now On Instagram Because I put a reel up And then he liked it, So I think we follow him now. But he was playing All his own music And it was like the first time And I'm like, Well Because then he was like, Look, you guys do your thing. You talk. You're here on dates. You talk, all that. I'm here. Listen. Great. And everybody's clapping for me. He's done. He thought it was The greatest thing. So I respected that Because he was playing His own stuff, But he's also like, You don't need to be Just looking at me. I'm just here For the ambiance, too. And I thought it was great. So I enjoyed Ray Playing his own original music. And also, The guy who Venmo'd me Four requests, Please back off a little bit, Okay? Give other people time. You only waited 12 minutes.

[33:00]That is actually going to Come up here in a second. So then again, I believe, I don't know if it was 8.59 or 8.33, But I come back again I'm coming back again 9.10 p.m. I come back with another one. Paul Simon, 40 minutes, Amy Winehouse, Green Day, Or Weezer? Jesus. Wow. What a list. Could this person sing? Had to have played Weezer. You can't play Weezer. You can't play Winehouse Unless you can sing. You can't play Winehouse. What was the other one? Winehouse, Weezer? They went Paul Simon. If they did Neil Younger To do Paul Simon. Rob, you got a guess? What was it? Paul Simon, Weezer, Amy Winehouse, and what? Green Day. I'll say Green Day. Time of your life. Time of your life. Technically, you guys are all right. This is where this guy showed He was a champion. He looks at me And he knows it's me And he goes, You know what? I can do all of these. I got all four of them for you. Oh, wow. So he cranks out The Sound of Silence By Simon and Garfunkel. Wow. He cranks out Rehab By Amy Winehouse. Really?

[34:00]Good riddance. Is that the acoustic Green Day song? Mm-hmm. Acoustic. And then he played One of the Weezer songs. I forgot to jot it down, But he cranked out All four of my requests Right back to back. Yeah. It was fantastic. And then he looks back And Russell's dressed Just like him And has a wig on. Okay, well, I'm going to head out early, actually. I'm not driving A brown Miata, please. I'm not driving A brown Miata. And then he walked in On me in the bathroom And there was a disco ball And I was listening To One by Metallica And he was like, Nope, I'm out of here. And then Russell... I've already locked The little window. He said, You could do that standing up. I said, Then Russell invited him To meet us in Las Vegas In January 2023. Yeah, exactly. So after... After this guy cranks out All these things, There's not a ton of people there And he looks at... And he goes, Hey what? You're killing it. Thank you. Like, I appreciate it. You can just shout stuff out. You don't have to always Request it through Venmo. He's just like, If you want, Just pick what you want And holler at me And I'll try to play it. So I was like, Oh, that's awesome. Then I was like, Okay, a few more people came in. They started throwing out Some stuff. Someone requested Like The Cure

[35:00]And was requesting Like British bands. I'm like, What do you think He's going to do with that? He can't do that, right? So did you yell out For Whipping Post? I yelled... I did not yell Whipping Post. But at one point, I did yell out James Taylor. I'm like, He's an acoustic guitar player. Oh, yeah. He said, I don't know any James Taylor. What? I was shocked. Not a single James... Wow. Isn't that for an Acoustic guitar player? That's got to be like The biggest faux pas, right? Not having any James Taylor In your quiver. How do you not even know? Whoa. He doesn't even know this one. Do you have a friend? I mean, This is my favorite James Taylor song According to... Where I downloaded it online One time off LimeWire At Napster. This is my favorite one. So that was my experience At the Troubadour. I highly recommend People go check it out. You can Venmo songs Or you can just Holler them out, It sounds like. Russell, You are... I love it, Russell. You are supporting the arts. I have one more too. Are we going too long? I can skip it and save it. Oh, no. You can never go...

[36:00]No. This is just like me. We're not too long to work. I love it. I have some random question And Rosie's eating something And had something To happen with his kids And I forgot something That I wrote down. It's not a random question. You're the one... You carry this. You carry this thing. As long as the rolling going Is longer than the album We're listening to, We're good. So we're almost there. I have another... And mine is actually About some scary songs. So I don't know. I've run out of stuff to talk about. I have another musical adventure. Aaron and Matt, I think you've talked About this place before. I haven't been there In a long time. Aaron, you might... Some of you guys Might have seen Snoop Dogg there. I went to the Caboose A few nights ago. That's Matt. So Matt, maybe... Who have you seen At the Caboose before? Have you been a few times Or not? Yeah, every... The first weekend In February, It's right around Bob Marley's birthday. They would have A Bob Marley tribute concert. So they'd have Two or three... I think it was The Reggae All-Stars. I'm trying to remember Who they were. We haven't gone In a few years now. So like five or six Or seven years in a row, We'd go to this Bob Marley tribute concert. Awesome. I saw a rapper

[37:00]Come in And I was like, God, who was the rapper? And it was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. What? Skizzy Mars. There was this guy Named Skizzy Mars Who was... I've never heard of that guy. That sounds great. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah. Yeah. But like, So then like, I hit his album And I loved it And it was great. And he'd get up there And he'd play like 30 seconds of a song And then like, He'd get tired out And be like, All right, Thank you very much, You know, And move on. And it was like A half hour show. I was like, This is the worst thing In the world. And then yes, I did see Snoop Dogg And Nate Dogg Wasn't there, But Warren G was there. Yes. And Kevin Love Was behind the speakers Watching the show And everything. But yeah, Snoop Dogg At the Caboose Was an awesome show. Top 10 show. So a few weeks ago, A few weeks ago, I had went to a Twins game With a Twins fan And afterwards we went out And we were getting Some drinks at a bar And this Twins fan... Like they like Twins? They're like, You're not a Twin. Yeah. So I mean like, Hey, Hey, You got a Twin And then Russell comes out With a fake mustache? Oh, yes. My name is Roberto.

[38:00]How are you doing? Russ and Roy. Russ and Roy. Yeah, Russ and Roy. Hey, Your brother Roy Was just here. He said he was going To go get some lobster. Oh, did he? But wait, You have a lobster bib on, Russ. Wait a minute. So this Twins fan's friends Came and met us And we'd had a few drinks At this point And so they were telling us They were going to go see This band at the Caboose And they were called Cam FDM. It's a German industrial band. They've got like metal guitar, Electronic music, Sampling and everything. And so just, I'll give you a song In a second here, But so that night I'd had a few drinks And I got excited about this And I like going to events And I was like, I want to go. So immediately that night They're like, Well, you should, You guys should come with Me and this Twins fan. And so I go And I buy tickets Immediately that night. And then the next morning I'm like, What the fuck? I don't want to go To this German industrial band. So do you guys ever do that? And then what do you do? Do you go or do you not go?

[39:00]What do you do? It's a sunk cost. I've already paid. Do you go or not go? You guys, You guys are the, I send text messages To you guys all the time. Like, Do I go see Pavement As a show? And you're all like, Yes. And then it gets to be about 830, Just like this damn podcast. It gets to be about 830 And I'm like, Oh, There's nothing I want to do More than to go to bed Right now, Get my crossword, Hop in the wrapper, Fall asleep, Right? That sounds more, So I chicken out. So I have learned To not buy tickets Because in the past I would have bought tickets Months ago And then I would have Like had to gone And you go And it's the greatest thing In the world, Right? But I just don't buy The tickets anymore Because I can't stand The thought of it When it's like, Yeah, Looking at like having to go. So, Yeah. I did go to a Lizzo show And she was started at 930 And I was like, Oh man, I was like, This is so late. I was like, This is, This is crazy. And tonight we started Your podcast at 1130. My thing is,

[40:00]What I'm wondering is, So it seems like You've met some of this Twins fans friends. I'm wondering if this Twins fan Would like to meet Any of your friends. I'm just wondering if like Their friends Get with your friends And then you go Call your crew. I'll go grab my crew. We can rendezvous At the bar around two. Last time, Last time my crew Didn't give them a high five. So I probably won't do that. I don't know where That hand has been. Oh no. So anyway, So then I forget about This concert completely, Right? Like I, I didn't even think About it. It might be covered in bug spray. You don't know. Right. That D you've heard About deep, Right? I mean, You know that the hand Has not been in Russell's hand. There's So I forget about This concert completely. And then it comes up Like the day before, Hey, We have tickets to this. And I was kind of thinking, Well, Maybe they'll just forget. And we don't even have to go Because at this point, I don't really care about going,

[41:00]But I don't want to like Insult other people When you've told them, Hey, You're excited about going To something with them. You can't just bail, Right? No, No. Yeah. Yeah. Once, Once you got plans And you, You know, And, And once you start bailing And you became known As a bailer And you're all of a sudden Bob Marley and the bailers, You cannot shake that. Like it's, It's, And then people just stop Inviting you to fun stuff. You got to go. It's a, It's the prisoner Of being a cool guy, Russell. Trust me, Lock me up, Throw away the key. So I invited someone Who was into German Techno electronic music And we went and checked it out. Rob, I actually gave you a song. This is off their new album. The song's called Hyena. I gave you guys a sample of it. I should say the hype, The E in Hyena Is an umlaut as well. How was it live? Because that's a tight, That's a tight venue And they've got great sound. So I can imagine This would be awesome. It actually was a great show. I got to say, People were really into it. I kind of found a spot At the corner of the bar. I wasn't right in the middle Where everyone was, You know,

[42:00]Moshing and going crazy And everything, But they put on a great show. There was some kind Of strange stuff. They had a electric guitar player That was just thrashing. They had a drummer And then they had The guy up there Who's messing with, I don't know if, Like the board. I don't even know What he's got up there, But it's all just Electronic music, right? So he's up there And then they've got a lady Who's standing at a podium And she would just sing Once in a while. So it was just Kind of a weird vibe. I don't even know How to describe it. When they told me It was a German band At first, I was like, Oh, this is going to be Like Rammstein Or something like that, But it was more Electronic than that, But I got to say, Matt, you're right. You've got to go Because you're always Going to have fun. Once you're there, It's the greatest thing In the world, right? It's the act of getting there That's the toughest. You got to talk yourself Into it. I've got a joke That's going to kill This whole thing, Russell, So if you want to know, Feel free. I have been interested. You make me interested In German music. I wonder if there's Any German jazz

[43:00]Where they scat and stuff, So I'm going to type in German scat videos On Bing. I'm going to see If anything comes up. Hey, while you're Searching for that, Aaron, rolling, going, How's it going with you? He's the scat mensch. Interesting. Man, it's really going great. As usual, I got a lot of thoughts In my head, A lot going on. So the first thing is I engaged on social media Yesterday, And I replied to a tweet Did she respond To your engagement Or not, your proposal? And so far, This is the most likes I've ever gotten on a tweet. I think I have close To 100 likes on this tweet. The problem is I just, I don't have anything To promote. I don't really know. No. I've got all these people Following, Liking this tweet On social media, And I just, I don't have anything To promote. What was the tweet? It was a joke About MAGA And US WNT fans And I joked That this lady Was probably A Hope Solo fan. It's a niche

[44:00]Kind of a joke, But... Jesus Christ. Laying it out there, Yeah. And you're worrying About promoting Something on that? Don't worry. Wouldn't stress about What you're going To promote. Aaron, you should have Like a little... The joke was I'm on a podcast And I didn't promote The podcast. That was the joke. Aaron, you should have Like a little... Please don't after that. You should have a person Who just follows you Around everywhere And then, Like, every 12 minutes They would just say, Well, that was A niche comment. I guess that's true. That's true. Well, another niche That our podcast Has dabbled in... Did you start Where do you... I don't know, Do you guys use Facebook Or Twitter and that stuff a lot? Were you, Aaron, Were you looking Every 10 minutes To see if you had more likes Than you get into Seeing how it was No what happened Is I didn't know That I had... No one's ever liked Any of my tweets before. I didn't know That I have notifications For likes. Are you serious? Oh, boy. That's the saddest thing I've heard in my entire life. I'm like, I'm getting...

[45:00]I was like, Oh, I didn't know I had notifications On for Twitter. Like, all these people Are liking my tweet. That's great. Oh, my God. But I had nothing. I had nothing I could share with them To promote. No SoundCloud, nothing. He's tweeted out Into the world And never gotten A single like. So is this Our fourth sweet, Aaron? Is this going to prompt you To do more tweets now, Aaron? Now are you excited Because the people Want more, Aaron? They want more niche content? Obviously, right. I got to give them What they want, right? I had a great one About Michael Jackson Being a furry, okay? And it goes like this. Dr. Conrad Murray, Do you want your mama's milk? I want any milk. I'm a cat. And then at the end, You play this. I don't know how This would get in there. I think you'd have to attach, Maybe attach it. And then at the end, Say Beck did it better. But that is the funny thing About Twitter, though, right? I mean Everybody can have a Twitter. Everybody can tweet. Everybody can follow. They can read All that stuff. But 99.8% of people With Twitter, If they post something,

[46:00]They might get 10 likes, right? Yet they still feel like They need to throw Their opinion out in the world. And they still need to Throw it out in the world. You know, That's what I don't get About the Twitter. And maybe people just use it To follow, like, news Or whatever. I don't know. But if anybody actually tweets, I don't think, yeah. I've entered a very sad Part of Twitter, Which is sports betting Twitter. Where everybody's like, Like, I engage with somebody On a post, Will Matt Ryan, It's like something like, Will Matt Ryan Get three yards rushing? And then there's like 20 replies. Do we play NFL music For this? No, it's actually really sad. Here we go. Which was the worst NFL game In the history of NFL games. People are like, He's not going to get three yards. And a lot of people are like, He is going to get three yards And here's why. And I was like, This is so stupid. And I'm reading Every comment on this thread. Actually, the best thing I do On Twitter Is I follow The Twins account And every time they post Something about Torrey Hunter, I mention that he was A raging homophobe. I'm like,

[47:00]Oh, he's also a raging homophobe Every time. It's a sickness I have. I cannot help it. It's so bad of me. We've talked briefly. We've talked about it. Like I knew more about This girl from high school That I graduated with, right? I was good friends there, All this stuff. Hadn't really talked To her since high school. I knew more about What her kids were doing On a day-to-day basis Because of Instagram Or Twitter Or one of those things. And then one year We were going to Vegas, Which we'll be in Vegas again On January 14th, 2023. January 14th, 2023. And so I was going to Vegas And it was one of the times Where it was like My phone was dying Every like three hours. So it's time to get a new phone. And I'm like, I gotta get a new phone Before going to Vegas. And so I got a new phone And they asked the question, Do you want to put these apps Back on your phone? And I just literally said, Nope, To all the social media. And it's been the greatest thing I've ever done In my life. From a product. Yeah. It's been great. I can't, I can't even imagine. I've got so many thoughts

[48:00]About Tori Hunter That I gotta get out there. Engaged on some social media. There's two other things Happening with me this week. One, I had a really hard time Listening to any of the albums We're supposed to listen to Because there's too much Good rap music this week. There's new Freddie Gibbs. There's new Boldy James. There's a Billy Woods album. It's all great. Get out there and listen to it. And finally, I wanted to give an update On Spluting, Which I know is a niche That this, Yeah, Yeah. We were out for a walk Yesterday And a squirrel Was walking with us Next on this retaining wall Next to us. And this squirrel Had like a really large Visible nut sack. Like I didn't know That squirrels had big balls. Like it was right at Eye level. Squirrels love nuts. I need to point out For a lot of this podcast, Matt has been kind of Looking around And we are, All three of us Are dialed into this story. We are looking at Aaron So intently. Yeah. So I didn't know That there was That squirrels had Big balls like this. So Anna says to me, You got to tell you guys On the podcast That's big balls.

[49:00]That's why the squirrels Were spluting Because they had to keep Their big balls cool. Like that's why They had to do it. I've never seen a squirrel Ball sack before. So now I've seen everything And that's, That's it. That's, So I wanted to give you guys An update And Biggest balls. That's all I got. They weren't like Big compared to, They weren't like big Compared to your balls, Right? No, They were like, I don't know. They were like, I don't know. It's like if, It's like if I had Pool balls for balls, Maybe, Or like, You know what I mean? Like it was like, Yeah, Like it was, It was like outlandishly Big for the size Of this squirrel. And I never, I'd never seen that before. Aaron, Remember when Rob Did his parody song And we were going to get This out of the way In the first eight, Three minutes of the podcast? Yeah, I apologize. I know. I know. I apologize. No, no, no. That was, I strictly said penises. That's, I was very clear. Okay. If you go back And listen to the language. Zoological. All right, Matt, How's it, How's it really going With Matt? Good. I'll keep it short

[50:00]Since Russell went So long today With his role. Okay. I got it. I got a list. Still don't know What flashlight To see Menzies is. Come on. Albert Pujols Ended his career With 703. That's amazing. That's incredible. No chance It was juice In the second half Of that year, Right? No chance. Who cares? Yep. Who cares? Yep. Go for it. That was fun baseball. Who cares about 62? We had this text chain. Oh boy. Here we go. Here we go. More sports, Matt. More sports. More sports. Love it. Listener Neil, We're not going To get too into it, But listener Neil Had a big win today In high school football. I want to say Congratulations to Neil. Way to go, Neil. Wait, Neil's playing High school football? He's a coach. He's coaching. That was like, He's just crushing Those side graders. He's like, This is four weeks Ago now, So I know He's still With eligibility left. We'll just say That Neil's team Beat the Eagles.

[51:00]That's fairly Benign enough to know. So good job. Good job, Neil. He's probably, His season's probably done now. It ended in a heartbreaking way And he's just listening To this being like, Dang it. I have on here Live action shows. They're doing All of these Live action remakes Of movies And I have zero interest In watching Any of them. Have you guys Watched any of them? No. No. Yeah, It just, I probably should Watch five minutes Of one to see If it's anything, But like, I have zero interest In watching Pinocchio, The live action Pinocchio. Do your kids, Are they interested? I don't know. I'm trying to make them So they're not interested And never bring them up Because I don't want To watch them. I'd much rather watch. My kids showed No interest in like The live Lion King Or the live anything. Do you think, Do you think at some point They're going to do A live Toy Story? Is that going to be The what's next? It's like this weird, Scary where the toys Are now real. If they've done Pinocchio, Why wouldn't they go ahead And do Toy Story, right? That's what they're Working towards. Aren't you doing

[52:00]The three hours With the Vikings With your kids? So you're kind of done For the rest of the weekend After that, aren't you? Done babysitting. I just thought Your three hour commitment Was all you needed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's, That's about it. That's about it. Okay, time. We're done watching the Vikings. Time to watch The live Little Mermaid. Yeah. Fun. Although I bet they could make, You know, Ursula very scary. Okay, or, Okay, now this, This is going A little different direction. You guys probably can't guess Which direction it's going, But it's possible Ursula could become A very sexy. I mean, think about it. It's a woman on top, Right? And she's got arms With suckers on the bottom. Arms with what? Whoa, with suckers. She's an octopus On the bottom. Like, I mean, The ones where you take The wrapper off And if they got a guy Shooting a star, Then you get a free one If you go back. I mean, guys, Listen, When you're making love With your lady And she's got two hands, It's awesome. If she had eight hands, Holy shit.

[53:00]I can see this Because then there, Like, maybe there's a, Maybe there's a scene Where, like, Poseidon is, Like, got his arms On the side of a boat And he's just Leaning up on the side Of the boat And looking real happy, But Under this water, There's. He's noodling. A lot of stuff happening. Poseidon's noodling. Yeah, that's good. Thank you for saving that bit. The only thing with Little Mermaid Is The song, There's enough songs, There's a ton of songs In that one That kids would like, So that That would be the only one. Yeah, you can get somebody Who can sing the hell out of it. Just watch the original. Who cares? I don't get it. Although the hair, Like, the hair animations Come a long way Since Little Mermaid. Like, Little Mermaid Compared to Moana, It's Not even the same genre. But the prince On Little Mermaid, I mean, That's an attractive dude. He's a handsome man. He is. When he got a statue Made of him, I was like, I'd take that statue. Like, I'd take that. It'd be great. Put it in my house. Last thing I had Is we went to Pizzeria Lola The other day With the family. We were sitting outside. It's such a good, Man, It's such a good spot.

[54:00]She's actually on, There's a Netflix show And Anna Kim Is on One of the shows Talking about her pizza thing. And I saw Anna Kim And her husband Were running The 10 mile, So I ran right by them. Good for her. That's great. It's kind of funny. I wanted to be like, Hey, pizza. Hey, They high-fived The marathon runner That I was with. Did they? Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. You know, She runs a restaurant. She's got pretty good hygiene, So I don't know. That's the subtitle Of her restaurant. We've got pretty good hygiene. We're sitting at this table And you know, You're out on a patio And you're so close And the guy next to me Couldn't have been more loud, Couldn't have been more Gen Z, And couldn't have been More wrong In every single one Of his takes That he was telling To the gal he was with. Just a friend. Classic mean old daddy Would be bugged By the loud person next to you. And I'm not going To take too much. I got a whole list Of the stuff That he went through, But the biggest one, The biggest one he said Is he said like,

[55:00]Well, yeah, I went to the, I went to their wedding, But you know, I didn't, I didn't go to the dinner. I just, I just went to the ceremony Because I really think It's the most important thing Is going to the ceremony For the wedding And I skipped the dinner. We got to get this guy On the show. And I just wanted, And I'm sitting, He's literally, I mean, I could reach out to, I literally want to be like, That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. I am begging you. Aaron's talking about Trying to get people Talking about his tweet About God knows what I forgot already. But next time You need to give him A business card With just our zoom link. That's a Saturday nights, Please. Cause I need this guy To talk to Russell. Can you imagine If somebody tells Russell The best part of the wedding Is the ceremony? Russell's head would explode. He said this, He told this gal, He goes, Well, You know, I, I went to the ceremony But I skipped out on the dinner Because I, You know, The most important part Is to see the ceremony. And I'm like, The people who have The ceremony Could care less If you're at the ceremony. They paid for you To have a dinner, Jackass. Like go to the dinner Kind of a thing. So that was it. So that's all I had For this week. Rob, Rolling, Going,

[56:00]How's it going with you? Tell you what, My kid made me watch Hocus Pocus 2, One of the worst movies I've ever seen In my entire life, But she loves it. She loves it. It is a movie that If you watch, All of the movie Was recorded On green screens. None of the characters Ever cross. If you watch it, They never, They're always Standing face to face And then they walk off In different, You'll never see. And I kept saying to my kids, Nobody's crossing, Nobody's crossing. And finally my kid Turned around and said, Shut up about the crossing stuff. And I was like, This is a good practice For the podcast. So this movie, Of course, It's Halloween today As we release this. So I'm thinking about it. One of the things They were doing, I got a couple of things From this movie. One of the things They were doing In this movie Was bobbing apples. And I was like, I remember bobbing apples. I remember bobbing apples Being like, Okay, I'm going to put my head in. Yeah, I'm going to bobbing four apples. I'm going to put my head in. I'm going to grab an apple. Bobbing apples. This will be simple. It's like whack-a-mole with apples. This will be so simple. I'm simply going to put my head in. I'm going to grab an apple With my mouth And I'm going to pull it out. And then it was like The hardest thing In the entire world Was to get one of those Smooth apples

[57:00]Into your mouth. And then meanwhile, You look over And somebody else Is sticking their head In the same pail of water At the same time as you, Right? It's disgusting. Like the whole Bobbing apples thing, If you look back, It's gross. It's so gross. Just like dipping your face Into a vat of water. It's like if you went To a swimming pool And you saw an apple floating And it's like, I'm going to eat that apple. Or like a hot tub. You're at a hot tub, right? It's like if you're at a hot tub And you go by a hot tub With a bunch of people And there's an apple And you're like, I'm going to eat that apple. That's exactly what Bobbing four apples is like. It's disgusting. Like you get an apple And you're like, Well, There's some teeth marks In it already, But I think it's going to be okay. Right. And then if I don't remember, I may be bobbed four apples And there's going to be other Options and delicious stuff to eat. Right. It's always a party Where the parents Are giving out like pencils too Where you're like, Oh, this party sucks. Bobbing four apples, This stinks. Your party sucks. Let's tear this place apart. Let's steal stuff From the bathroom Or whatever we did at parties. It didn't matter. What did your daughter think Of the bobbing four apples?

[58:00]Oh, they, Again, They told me to shut up Because it was just in the movie. So I talked about the bobbing Four apples for a couple of minutes, Came up with this bit And then they told me to be quiet. Was their movie Interrupting you again, Rob? No, no, no. I came in and sat down And watched this movie Because it was insane When you realize It's all green screen. You cannot see anything else When you see it. And so again, It's my job to ruin things for people. So I wanted to point that out. And then the other thing I saw Was in this movie, The witches come back on Halloween. So they're disguised, right? And so the whole town Is dressed in costumes And it's movie costumes, right? So it's like nice costumes. These costumes though, Really threw me. Okay. I'm going to give you My top three costumes From Hocus, Hocus. Are you ready? Second list of the night. This is another list Where I'm going to give you My top three costumes. And these are top three costumes That threw me. It gave me pause. Okay. I really thought about This Halloween release episode thing. Well, This is what happens When your kid makes you watch Hocus Pocus too And then says she loves it. So you have to say nice things

[59:00]About it to her. What would you guys say Is like the number one Halloween costume? Like ghost, right? That's what we dress like. Witch, ghost, vampire. Okay. Yeah. So in this one, There was a, A student dressed As a referee, A referee. They were a, They were a football referee. Sexy referee. No, This is a, This is a student Dressed as a referee, Which I thought was bizarre. And I go, Who the hell Dresses like a referee For Halloween? Matt, Would you have ever Dressed as a referee As a kid or not? All the time. I hate Halloween. I've told you guys, I hate Halloween. And my dad Reffed football. And so It was the easiest thing. Like, Here's an old shirt. Here's an old hat. There you go. Like, Do I have to think About a costume? No, Just be like, Great. Awesome. I don't want to do anything. The second costume That threw me big time, And this is a twofer. Okay. Cause they're kind of the same. Some people were dressed As pharaohs And some people Were dressed as kings. Is a king or a pharaoh

[1:00:00]A Halloween costume? Those aren't right. Nobody dresses like a pharaoh For Halloween. That's crazy. Is that the one Where they, I mean, Like technically They got the shirt off And then, You know, So it's like sexy pharaoh. Like it's a, It's an opportunity To take your shirt off. These guys were regular Sphinx, Riddled the sphinx. Aaron can give me a kiss And we don't need to do That whole bit again, But it was a good one. Maybe, Maybe they're teasing The next live action Disney movie, Prince of Egypt. I was thinking maybe They were like, The only time I saw people Dress like pharaohs Is when we studied Egypt in school. Like people would dress Like pharaohs And walk like an Egyptian. And actually, That was really problematic Now that I look back on it And think about it. But like a king, Would you guys want to dress Like a king for Halloween? The Burger King, Maybe that creepy Burger King speaking Creepy, scary stuff. I think they got rid Of that guy, Didn't they? King Ralph, I'd dress as King Ralph. Oh, Great movie. Hey, Here's a picture Of my extended family That got electrocuted In a photo. And again, A lot of people forget That part of the movie. I keep bringing it up. We can set our clock back Number of weeks Since we referenced

[1:01:00]King Ralph on the podcast Back to zero. Yes. I'd probably dress Like Serena Williams' dad, King Richard. I think that'd be a good one Where I'm yelling, I'm yelling at my kids And it just happens To work out one time. So a lot of parents Think it's actually normal. So, yeah. Or two times, Depending. There's two of them. So then the other, The last costume That gave me pause Was there was a number Of people in this movie Dressed up like pilgrims. That was my number one Bad costume. I was like, Does anybody dress up Like a pilgrim? I mean, First of all, Thanksgiving is so close, Right? That's, You get your pilgrim time During Thanksgiving. Don't worry about it. You got buckle hat. You get to wear it Like then, Like crazy. It's not a Halloween costume. Regardless of whether That's a good costume Or not, It has no business Being anywhere Near Halloween, Right? Well, The whole thing Of Hocus Pocus is though, That's on the East Coast And that's where, You know, The first people Landed over there And the witches Are that old And stuff like that. So it's part of their culture Probably, Rob, Right? So you think the pilgrims Were at the Salem Witch Trials And that's why this is going on?

[1:02:00]Goddamn, Matt, You're so smart. Maybe they just wanted To wear tights and socks. I don't know. So anyway, That is my rolling going. I think they like Taking their, Their socks off After wearing Those tight socks. Oh my God. This thing's got to be Acrylic too. Like that doesn't feel good On your feet. You got to get this off Your feet or you're not breathing. I think you, I think you guys Every morning When I wake up And I come out To my computer chair And there's two socks Underneath from the night before Where I've taken them off In ecstasy. One of the best feelings In the world. You're no longer Wearing them to bed? No. Although I have been Wearing them to bed And then taking them off In bed. It's kind of a treat To myself. But again, You got to be careful Because if I wake up, Jenny, It's huge trouble. Listen, We are talking about Good Kid Mad City By Kendrick Lamar. This is Kendrick Lamar's And Aaron, Honestly, Aaron is going to help me Out a ton with this. He's kind of the expert on this. There's a lot going on With this album. This is basically An album where He had released Section 80, But this was his first Major label record

[1:03:00]Where he was on Interscope And he was with Dr. Dre And he had total Creative control Over this album. So a lot of people Consider this kind of His first album. And basically, This album is following Teenage Kendrick, Because he lives a day In Compton. And immediately When this came out in 2012, People knew It was going to be massive. I mean, You can see from the guests He has on this Like first big album To get the people Rapping with him That he has. I mean, He's got Janet Jackson For God's sakes. And then this is, It made a ton of best lists. And I just want to tell you That basically The concept of this album Is that it's a story. It's a narrative, right? And he basically Is going to meet a girl, Drive around with his friends. They stage a robbery. He, They, They, They stage a robbery. He gets jumped by some guys. They go back to confront him And the friend gets shot. And then there's a scene Where they get baptized By Maya Angelou, actually. And talking about Should they retaliate? And dad and mom are saying, No, You've got to get into the music. And I'm telling you, The first time I listened To this album, It was, To me, It was a rough listen. I was like, Well, The skits aren't funny. Like there's no $500 game show. There's no like chins on,

[1:04:00]Nuts on your chin or whatever. And then when I did research For this album And I listened to it again, It was like super powerful. Like it was, To me, You know what's going on In this album. And where he came from And where he grew up And all that. I mean, Just, And you can hear it in his voice And the way he changes his voice Throughout the album To indicate what's going on. So I don't want to tell you guys this, But you might guess That Aaron gave quite a few soundbites. So this might take a little bit. But here we go. You don't have to play them all. You don't have to play them all. But yeah. I respect you too much, Aaron. I'm going to play them all. First we have Shireen, AKA Master Splinter. Splinter's daughter. We've actually talked about this song Once before. Do you guys remember for what? No, what was it? We did a, We did on the Drake album, We did a list of the best voicemails ever. And the voicemail in this song Made the list. Oh, right. Yes, right. I do remember that. It's so good. So then here he is Meeting Shireen and talking to her. I mean, listen, Kendrick's flow is so good. Yeah, what's wild about,

[1:05:00]I mean, this, So He was known As, As sort of a backpack rapper. He was part of the, Of the Black Hippie crew. And so you mentioned, Rob, this album. Schoolboy Q. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, exactly. You mentioned this album Came out in 2012. I, I first heard about Kendrick In 2006. I went to South by Southwest And a guy who was with me With the crew was like, I got to go see Kendrick And Black Hippie crew And that was in 2006. And so, You know, Rap heads were like Really up on him For a long time. He's 25 when this album comes out. And, And he was really Known for, You know, I mean, The stuff on Section 80, He's doing a lot of Double time rapping. He's doing stuff Where he'll switch up his flows. All the stuff you hear On this album. But what's really Impressive to me Is the way he's able To edit himself And really just give like Concise stories, But, But within his, You know, Talents. I mean, For this to be a debut album,

[1:06:00]I mean, We're doing like next week, We're doing The Cure, Right? That's their seventh album And it was like their, What they've always wanted to do And everything was building to that. For him to just, To come, You know, Like you said, Not totally out of the gates, But for this to be a first album Where it's this complex Running narrative With these sublime songs on it, I mean, Just mind blowing. Was this his debut album Or his second one? It's his first major label album. Major label. So it's, A lot of people say It's the best debut When it's not really. And then it was, It was that thing too Of like when, When Dre picked a, A protege and a next, He mostly got it right, Yeah. Eminem, The Game. But there's a couple, You know, 50 Cent, Obviously, But there's a couple like Bishop Lamont never took off. And so there was always This rumble about like, Well, Dre's got another guy coming And then you don't know If there's an album That's coming or not. So there was a lot of lead up, A lot of anticipation for this That when it came out, He was already a household name In some circles. There's that one rapper too, Steve Jones. You ever heard of that guy? Snapper Jones?

[1:07:00]No. Steve Snapper Jones? No, You never have. Oh shit, I picked somebody That was real. Shit. That joke blew up in my face. Bitch, Don't kill my vibe. Is this the best known Track off this? I think it's Backseat Freestyle. It's the one, I'm not a huge Current music fan And Backseat Freestyle Was the one That I knew the most. So this is one of the few songs On the album That's in the current tense And it's basically talking About what he thinks About the current state Of hip hop And then Kind of this and Compton Are the only songs That are like that On the album Where it's in the modern times. Yeah, It's one of the only songs That kind of keeps the same. Well, This one and like Maybe, Think About Me And Dinah Thirst, A couple of them That kind of keep The same flow, Same vibe Throughout the whole track. Others, He kind of likes To switch up Sections. I mean, He was so big at this time That Lady Gaga Had agreed to be on this song And it just didn't work out. Like, 2012 Lady Gaga, That's giant. That's enormous. You can hear it too. Like, You know, When he did,

[1:08:00]When his, When the album Damn came out, Which would have been Two albums after this one, A lot of the singles Got play on the R&B stations out here And you can hear, How much R&B Influenced his sound, Influenced the whole LA sound On a lot of this And that one I think Is the most, Most indicative of that. At the end of that song, His friend in the skit Is saying, Hey, I've got the beat CD In the Blackwoods, Get in the car. You need to freestyle Rap with a beat CD. Isn't that such an awesome idea Of just driving around With your friends And like, Just doing this And having Kendrick As one of your friends Doing a freestyle In the car? I mean, I love the like Street Fighter Sounds of that beat. And so he said basically like, This song is not me, What I think about now. Like, It's such a different, I mean, His concept of just having A huge dick That's the size of the Apple Tower. It's so strange Compared to the rest of his album, But you realize This is teenage. This is teenage Kendrick

[1:09:00]And he's talking about What he wanted then. It's fun too, Like it's, He's giving the people What they want, right? It's like, Well, Let's hear Kendrick just rap. Like, Let's just have a song Where he's just going to rap And then he's going to give you The double time flow. Oh, This is the double time flow? That's so interesting. I love the sound Of his voice there. No way. He can kind of switch up His vocal tones too, Doesn't he? Like, He can kind of get that Like growling, Angry type rap And then he's kind of smooth At other points. He's really, Really unique. Yeah, Yeah, He's, Yeah. This is one I could relate to. Every time I've ever gotten In trouble in my life, It's been in a car With like three other guys. That's, There's a Pazone Revolution on. The art of the peer pressure. Yeah, That's how we got in trouble. The Pazone Revolution, By the way, Is where we drove around a car And at the time, Pizza Hut was selling Something called a Pazone, Which, What was that, Russell? I can't quite remember What it was. It's a pizza that's shaped Like a sandwich. So, It was a Calzone pizza And we thought it was so funny

[1:10:00]To yell, It's a Pazone Revolution On the car. Now, Keep in mind, Russell and I are, I think, 21 at the time, 20, And there's girls At these parks. And we keep screaming That it's a Pazone Revolution. We didn't have Nintendo To plan that part. We had to yell About something else. We could just stand In the corner And be embarrassed That no girls Were talking to us, Right? So, This song is about him, But the same thing With getting peer pressured With guys. In our case, We're yelling Pazone Revolution. In his case, He's going to rob a house. But he's talking about, I love the line, I'm usually drug free, But I'm riding with the homies. It's like, It's such a perfect Indication of what Peer pressure is like As a young male, I think. And then the robbery, I mean, Listen to this. He describes it. Any Nintendo DVDs, Plasma screen TVs In the trunk. We made a right, They made a left, They made a right. I mean, You can picture What's going on. Yeah, His diction switches up here. He's really enunciating Carefully to Hype up the pressure. You know, A huge part of this album, Too, Is this concept Of him having a van,

[1:11:00]Having his mom's van, And she wants him To return it. Aaron, Where does Kendrick Kind of rank? We may have talked About this before, But in terms of lyrics, Like, I'm just blown away by this, But like, Is he generally considered On that Mount Rushmore, If you will, For that or not? Yes. Yeah, I think now, If people were to make A Mount Rushmore Of the greatest rappers Just based on skill, He's on there. I mean, On, You know, Nine people Out of ten people's lists, He's on there Because now the, Like, The number of tracks He's put out And the, The variation. Distancy, yeah. Yeah. No, I think he's on The Mount Rushmore, Yeah. And, And Aaron did text In the, Zoom here, He said he's also On the Mount Cockmore, Okay? And of course, Last week we talked About the Mount Cockmore And the Mount Cockless, And so everybody Remembers that, And I'm sorry That I broke a promise I made earlier In the episode. All right. So that got Mid-league reviews. He's not, However, In the group Mount Westmore, Which is E-40, Too Short, Snoop, And Ice Cube Because he's not Quite that old yet. But it's, It is shocking

[1:12:00]How old Kendrick actually is. I still think of him As a young guy, And he's actually now Not that much younger than us. He's been around the block. Technically, I think he's from Compton, So he's also not On the Canada Mount Rushmore, Which we like to talk about. More Rush. That one just has Rush. Oh, sorry. That's the thing. Mount Rush. The problem is Rushmore is only a trio, So we got big problems, okay? We got one more head To fill at the Mount Rushmore, And it's, I mean, It might be, Aaron wants Rush Limbaugh. I don't think that makes sense, But he should go on that. I mean, If you think about it, Think about it. By the way, Speaking of being old, I'm currently sitting On a hot pad on my back, And it's one of the best times I've had all day, So Money Trees Featuring J-Rock. What I think is J-Rock and Black K.P. As well. This is a summary Of the whole story So far of the album. Oops. That's, I mean, I remember, I still remember When Kevin Durant, And I'm going to go back To Twitter, When Kevin Durant Just tweeted Hot sauce all in our top Ramen, you bish,

[1:13:00]And I was like, Ah, Everyone's listening To this album. It's so cool. And, And I, At that point. Did you like his tweet, Aaron, Or not? I don't know if I did. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't really think My likes really go that far, But. Yeah, Black Hippie is Ab Soul, J-Rock, Kendrick Lamar, And the Schoolboy Cube. Right. And Schoolboy's album That came out Not too long after this. Right, A year, So, This is another one Of the more popular songs, But all of the bonus tracks, Which we're not going To talk about, You hear a ton Of backbeats That are not, That are then played In Schoolboy Q's Album, You know, Collard Greens And some of those songs. Collard Greens is a good song, Yeah. Yeah, But you hear in the bonus tracks, If you go back And listen to the bonus tracks, Rosie, You hear, Essentially, It's like, Well, It's Collard Greens Right there, So, Yeah. Okay, Cool. You can hear where they're, THC, I know nothing about THC, But there's a producer Named THC. Nothing at all. Tell me more. No. Yeah. I don't know. I get these cookies Sent to me. Oh, yeah? I don't know.

[1:14:00]But there's a producer, THC, Who is on this album On a couple songs With more of the bonus Than on a lot Of the Schoolboy Q, His first album, So that was the, I think that's the connection. So, I mean, That part of the song Was he was talking about The people in front of the gun Are the ones That are going to live forever, Right? He's talking about The actual results Of the shooting, Whereas then J-Rock Comes in and raps about What it's like To be living at a time, What he's got to do. I like this verse. I feel like he's Still in a ludicrous flow here, But I don't mind. I'm okay with it. I'm hustling. What else is a thug to do When you eat cheese From the government? Gotta put fire for my dog. Hustling. So good. And I just, I put in, This is the one skit I put in Because the mom is mad Because she's like, I just want the van back. I got to get out of here. The dad is wasted. And listen to the dad In the background. Yeah, It's hilarious. So funny. I want your body. Shit, I'm trying to get My thing going too. One of them Just bring my car back. Shit, He faded. He's feeling good. Look, Listen to him. He's got a big old

[1:15:00]Fat ass. Fat ass. So these are his real parents. Yes. These are real voicemails, Right? I want your body. Look at that big old Fat ass. See, He has hair. Shit, He ain't even tripping Off them dominoes no more. Just bring the car back. Did somebody say dominoes? That somebody say dominoes Is so funny. It's such a funny way To end like such a terrible Song about like such a terrible Where you're laughing about Like that original He's hangering For dominoes joke. It's so, Such an interesting Juxtaposition in this album. Poetic justice With Drake. Man, I swear that she can get it. Say if you a bad bitch, Put your hands up. Is this the Drake one? This is, Yeah, This is Kendrick here. Hands up high, Tell them. And I noticed that Just this week, A deluxe edition Of Velvet Rope Was released. So, Imagine that. Yeah. Get those deluxe editions Out there. Give it, Give it three weeks And we'll have the deluxe edition With the bonus tracks. Yes. That comes out. I was listening, I was listening to this And I was looking at it on Genius And I was like,

[1:16:00]God, Who is singing in the Back? She sounds so good. And you might recognize This name from, What, A couple of weeks ago? You might recognize This name from the video That I made you guys watch Where we all felt Very uncomfortable. Janet Jackson. Poetic justice. In the background. All right. Well, They're sampling it, Right? Or did, She didn't come in And sing it for me. Did she? Isn't this the same? I don't know, But she's on the, She's on the, She gets ready for it. So good. She and, She and Jimmy, Jam and Terry, Terry Lewis get a, A writing credit on this one. Sampled. Anytime, Anyplace. So now we're getting Into Good Kid, Mad City. This is Good Kid. We got Pharrell Williams On the intro here. Yeah. He's talking about How he's a good kid. He's not in any gang, But he still gets harassed By them and he's still Getting harassed By the police For being black. So, Tough world out there. I love the baseline In this one. I believe this was also Produced by Pharrell And a guy named Chad Hugo. They're called the Neptunes. You guys know the Neptunes At all?

[1:17:00]Yeah. Yes. Oh, I mean, Yeah. So, So the Neptunes, I, Billboard called them The number one producer Of the 2000s. They recently got inducted Into Songwriters Hall of Fame. So I thought we could do A list celebrating The top songs ever produced Or written by the Neptunes. A third list? This is great. This is great. This seems like a lot Of lists. Is there, Russell, Is there the third verse Of a very popular song From the 90s? I don't know. Yes. I don't know. Yes. We'll find out. I guarantee there's A lot of these songs Are from the 90s. I just want to make sure Because I got to get Rob ready. These guys have written Songs. They have, They have produced Beyonce, Britney Spears, Timberlake, Jay-Z, Mystical, And Rob's guy, Lenny Kravitz. I know we're not allowed To talk about Lenny Kravitz Anymore, Rob, But they did produce A Lenny Kravitz song. Snoop Dogg. So, I made a promise. They actually became big In the early 90s. 1992, They were discovered By a guy named Teddy Riley. You guys remember Teddy Riley From the Janet episode? He was the kind of The pioneer of the New

[1:18:00]Jack Swing Sound. Remember that guy? So, These guys were... Time is a flat circle, Russell. This is all coming. This is blowing my mind. So, These guys, No, These guys, This guy, Teddy Riley, Finds these guys And they start Working with him And so, They actually wrote Rump Shaker By Rex and Effect. Wow. The Neptunes wrote this one. They were the guys That came up with like, Okay, What do we want To do? What do we do? And the guy, One guy's like, Well, I really want to zoom, Zoom. And the guy's like, Oh man, I do too. I want to zoom, Zoom too. What do you want to zoom, Zoom? And the guy's like, I'd really love to zoom, Zoom your boom, Boom. And the guy's like, That's what I was thinking too. Like, It's so good. Check, Baby, Check. I also read, Read that there's a line In that Rex and Effect song Where it's, I like the way you comb your hair, Which was actually lifted From a song called I Like It By DeBarge, Who I believe was the guy Who got annulled From Janet Jackson,

[1:19:00]Right? Yes. I like the way You comb your hair. Warren G sampled that song. Nice. God, Guys, We're so smart. I read Rex and Effect Only had one other top 100 hit. Do you guys remember What it was? They didn't do Tootsie Roll. They did Knockin' Boots. Do you guys remember Knockin' Boots? Yes. Knockin' da boots, Da boots. No, You might be thinking Of H-Town. Wait a minute. I know this is tough. Do we have a, You might, You're thinking of H-Town Knockin' da Boots. That's Knockin' da boots. Good love, body rockin', Knockin' boots. What, What's Knockin' da boots By who? Rex and Effect? Yeah. Rex? I don't know this one. Am I wrong? Effect. Guys, I'm sure you're right. Rex and Effect? Oh, It's Knockin' Boots. It's kind of like Puss in Boots. Knockin' Boots. Knockin' Boots. I see. Go to 30 seconds here. Look at that.

[1:20:00]Ooh, I like the, I like the keys. Now, Do you think there's a chance That they use Zoom And, Did they just say Zoom And Boom again In the song? They're reusing their rhymes? We might need more Rex and Effect In our lives. I'm trying to figure out What this song is. Some Onyx, Some Rex and Effect, Some Onyx. All right, Next song on the list Is one of, From one of Aaron's favorite groups. This is Old Dirty Bastard, Got Your Money. Check this one out. Old Dirty Bastard, Got Your Money. This was played At every stag dance ever At Richfield High School Between 1996 and 99. Is this Khalees on the Hook? It is Khalees on the Hook. Ah, all right. Speaking of Khalees, I've heard that name before. Where have I heard that before? I believe Khalees is next up On the list Because we're bringing All the boys to the yard. Who's bringing it? Khalees and the Milkshake. This was produced And written by the Neptunes. This is such a track.

[1:21:00]This, The background, The bass on it is so cool. Produced and written By Williams and Hugo. And I was reading, Rob, A milkshake is a girl's sensual energy. And what makes her stand out From the others? Dancing seductively And attracting attention From the boys in the club. What are your thoughts On the girls who bring the milkshake? Does it bring you to the yard or not? I'd always heard That the milkshake was about As Aaron calls it, Sloppy toppy. That's what I heard. Is it not? This blows my mind. I thought you were singing about that The whole time That she was singing About the milkshake. Was I wrong? I feel like it's more ethereal than that. Did you guys see this year With Daniel Logobot? I had a whole lactose intolerant joke Ready to go. Blew it up. Actually, Rob, Khalees in 2014 Announced that she actually Does not drink milkshakes. Maybe that's why. Oof. But do any of us really drink? Like, drink milkshakes? I mean, You go through life without milkshakes. No, but like,

[1:22:00]I wouldn't say I drink milkshakes. Also, like, they don't come up that frequently. You can just, like, swear them off. Like How often do you guys have a milkshake? Once a year? Yeah, or like, maybe a day. That's normal too, right? Like, once a day. That's fine. I'm not anti-milkshake. I'm just saying They're not That readily available. I think if somebody said, You drink milkshakes, I would have to say yes. But if they were saying, Oh, are you drinking milkshakes? I'd say no, Because I haven't drank a milkshake In a long time. No, it's been, It's been too long for me, in fact. Now I need a milkshake. And I'm more of a frosty guy, So I'm eating those milkshakes. I'm not drinking it. Now, a frosty would bring... With a wooden spoon. There you go. Yes, my frosty would bring My boys to the yard big time. Next song on the list, I actually put it on, Not because I enjoy the song, But actually Maxim called it The most annoying song ever, So I thought we would listen to it. It's Gwen Stefani, Hollaback. Oh, most annoying song ever? What do you guys think? Is this annoying or not? These drums are too hard For me to be annoyed. I mean, I don't care. All you have to do is see This song sung once at karaoke, And it's one of the worst, Because it is longer than you think, And you realize how good Gwen Stefani is,

[1:23:00]Because anybody else doing this, And it makes you want to Jump out of the bar. Written and produced by the Neptunes, Another one by these guys. I mean, it's probably like, Yeah, it's probably the Utmost distillation of their sound, Where it's so minimalist, It's just some drums, Some synths playing minimal chords, And then... And someone's talking, Like, you can't get any more Neptunes-y than that beat. The Neptunes? I thought they were the ones Who did Love me, Say that you love me. What band am I thinking of? It's not that, Because that's the Cardigans. That's the Cardigans. What? I don't care about anything. It was like the Neptunes, But they sang... Okay, never mind. Nobody's ever going to hear this, guys. That's the beauty of it. I edit it out. Rob looks so smart. It's like the Cranberries. It's like the Rolling Stones. It's like the Smashing Pumpkins. The embarrassing thing about this is... Rob, weren't you, like... Anything with the in front of it. Weren't you an astronomy teacher? Shouldn't you know the band That's the same as a planet? Astronomy or astrology? No, it's astronomy, first of all.

[1:24:00]I can never remember those two. And second of all, I am a big fan of listening to Planet Jokin coming in. Who knows what planet I'm going to pick right now? You just don't know. It could be any planet. Uranus. Uranus. Is there really 10 planets? What's the last planet called? Because when we were kids, There was only nine. Now I think there's 10. Yeah, no, they got rid of one, Russell. What'd they get rid of? You're backwards. Yeah, Pluto. They got rid of Pluto, my dude. It's a minor planet now. I don't even know how I'm supposed to sleep at night. It's just a rock. Listen, I know what you're thinking. Minor planet? Am I going to go back to a Conrad Murray bit? No. Okay, do not connect those dots. I'm not going to do it. Give me my milk. I want my milk. They couldn't find any mommy's milk on Pluto And said it's no longer a planet, huh? I want Mars milk. I'm on Mars now. All right, last song on the list. Wait, wait, wait. We got to hear what Vincent thought of that joke. He liked it. He thought it was good. He loves those Conrad Murray jokes. That's sick. You got to play this with, Don't you have a bunch of Rosie's laughs somewhere too?

[1:25:00]You got to play like that with a bunch of Rosie's laughs. I deleted all those. What? Oh, you did? They got tossed. Don't worry, man. There's lots I could choose from. Everybody says, oh, that Rosie guy and his laugh. I love his laugh. So then you had this whole track And then you just, You just chucked it. I love it. His laughs are good, But when he doesn't laugh, It cuts three times as deep. That's the trade off. That's what it is. Last song on the list. This was from 2004. Pharrell is on the opening verse And it was produced by Pharrell and Hugo, The Neptunes. It's Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg. Oh, yes. You can hear the connection Between these songs, can't you? The bass as melody in the back, kind of. Oh, nice rap. I read rap, but Drop It Like It's Hot Is kind of, Kind of like the milkshake. It's meaning moving your butt down To the dance floor. Also similar to Little John's Get Low. Did you ever drop it like it's hot? On the dance floor? I've dropped it like it's hot many times, Russell.

[1:26:00]Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And often some women have said, What feels so hot out here? There's something out here. There's something pressing against me right now That feels really hot. What is that? I actually read Snoop Dogg was on a podcast recently Of one of Rob's favorite boxers, Logan Paul. And he was talking about the rappers Out on the West Coast. And he said, I did my thing for 20 something years. And I was at one point, Maybe the king of the West Coast. I've given the crown to Kendrick Lamar. And then he said, actually, I didn't give it to him. He took it, but he takes his hat off to him. He said, he's been running wild. And the music that's been coming out of From the West Coast has been very good. So West Coast, one of the West Coast Kings, But I don't know if he's on the Mount Rush. What is it? Mount Rush Less or Mount? No, but Snoop Dogg given props to Kendrick, right? It's good that Snoop Dogg is learning His lesson about talking about West and East Coast Rapping in front of a crowd. That never goes wrong. It's never a big deal. Nice work. Mad City. This is Kendrick with Schoolboy Q here. All got along. They probably got me down.

[1:27:00]All got along. Yes, right. And then here's where this song gets wild, right? Here, I'll let it drop here. I mean, this is so good. I like this. And then I knew Schoolboy Q before I knew Kendrick Lamar. I don't know why. Like I just heard one song and then Went and found a few others. And so my, my, my intro into this, I don't know what he used to call like acid rap. And cause they're always like Mumbling through everything and stuff like that. Kendrick's not that, but that's the Schoolboy Q side of things. And so when I, whenever I hear Schoolboy, I mean, he's got a distinctive, Kendrick's got a distinct, How these guys found each other And created that group is just, It's crazy how these people, Come together and I cannot get enough Of Schoolboy Q with Kendrick Lamar. I love that perspective on it. Cause I, I love, I know that feeling of like Being a fan of someone who shows up On someone else's album and you're just like,

[1:28:00]Oh, this is so cool that they're on there. Like, I love that perspective Of coming at it from the, The smaller player on the album. That's great. Swimming Pools. This song is about drinking. This is, It's sad because he said, Well, what's the one thing that can Make everybody relate to it? And it's like, I can say, Do a song about drinking too much. He said, in my family, You're either a teetoler Or you just got hammered drunk. Yeah, I had, I, The same friend who has, Who put me on to Kendrick many years ago, I texted him cause I was, We were listening to this album this week And he was like, yeah, I was at this event not that long ago And some kids who were working the event, Like the wait staff, This song came on and they were like Going crazy for it. And he was like, I never realized This would be a song people would turn up for. Yeah. Like I guess, If you just divorce it from context, You're like, oh, it's about drinking. That's the thing is it's, It's described as a club banger. I don't know, man. It's a sad song. It is if you listen to it, But the beat and the sound of it is so good. If you speed that up and just,

[1:29:00]You know, take a little bit of it. I mean, I guess that's true. When they tell somebody. Yeah. If you played in the club and it's loud And it's got that kind of club whistle thing, Like Us four guys that are expert At what's going on in the club. I've been to a club before. I went to a club. I went to Eclipse once. This Eclipse. Come on. So good. Such a good pull. Damn, That was a good pull. That's like five people are like, Damn, That's a great pull by Eclipse. Jesus Christ. So at the end of that, They do the, The talking bit, The skit where they're, They're getting guys back for jumping Kendrick And their buddy Dave gets shot. And so the rest of the album is kind of a, I don't know, Kind of a looking at how that just, Just how terrible it is where they're growing up. Sing about me. I'm dying of thirst. This is the one that has Maya Angelou at the end Doing a baptism. But I mean, To listen to this directly after somebody gets shot In the skit before it's like,

[1:30:00]It's so powerful. And this is, This is the song that's almost 11 minutes long, Right? And like, It's kind of like the first seven minutes is one section. Yeah. So this seems to me to be like when, This for me is when the concept album, Sort of ends, Right? Like, Yes, The last two songs are a bit more kind of tacked on. This is kind of where he's like finishing the story. And I think, I think there's some stuff on real that, That could apply. Okay. But in the end, Definitely not Compton at the end, A real featuring Anna wise of sunny moon. This is a nice bounce. Wait, What group is she from? Sunny moon. Do you know sunny moon? I don't. No, No, No, No, No, I'm just trying to say, No, I was trying to think cause there's, I know there's a whole LA R and B scene. Like there's a group called King, That I just don't really know that well. I was trying to figure out trying to place that, But I like the bounce. I wonder what they go as Halloween.

[1:31:00]Oh, Rob. Probably. She's also a, She's also part of something called built to fade, Which by itself, I have no, Nothing about them. It's just, That's a great name. It's a good name for any sort of group. Do you built to fade? Do you think the Pharaohs were in that movie? Are we originally going to go as mummies? Like, Is that the jump they made? Like a mummy, Classic Halloween costume. Get that toilet paper, Spend it all around your mummy. Good to go. Pharaohs. Not so much. Well, That's how you do a mummy here. And I mean, What are you talking about? That's how you do it. I know. Yeah. A hundred percent. So that the whole song, You can, You can hear him, The voice changes everything and it's kind of a closure. And then the last parts of the last part is a skit where the mom's like, You know, You got to take the music seriously and do all that. And then all of a sudden, So you get this kind of emotional ending. And then all of a sudden you get this just absolute blast of a track. Dre was like, We're going to do this and it needs to be on the album. And you can tell Kendrick's like, Okay. We've got Compton with Dr.

[1:32:00]Dre. Yeah. This thing doesn't fit. And this is just a total modern day. Yeah. The fun track. Like I enjoy it, But I mean, Yeah, Super fun. I mean, Just blazes. It's like, It's like play this thing loud. Yeah. I mean, It's just such a, We've talked about that West coast sound with the, Can you get to Dre? Can you just get to Dre a little bit? Cause I mean, Where is not bad. Let me see. Well, Yeah. What's interesting is that anytime you listen to Dre after 2000 is trying to Figure out who wrote his verse. Yeah. There it is. Andrea, This time, You know, You hear this is a Kendrick verse. Like, Kendrick wrote this, But Dre raps the hell out of it. Yeah. That's a great point. And Dre at that point is what he's like 56 years old, Right? Like, Right. He's like, Oh, He's doing like, You know, He's doing like silly jokes. Like it's a rap when I come and I'm done, But like,

[1:33:00]It's still, It's good when I'm done and I come with like, It's works like it. I don't know. I like it. He's like, I I'm rapping so fast. I hope I don't have a massive stroke after this. I hope I don't have yet another allegation of abuse. No, I've got damn it. I'm just, I'm trying to hit this button fast enough. Listen, I said, I'm going to edit that mess together. Let's get to the rating system. Thanks again, Aaron, For getting all those times. That was a lot. I like listening to this one. What is to pimp a butterfly is right after this one, Right? That's his next one after this. Yeah, But it was three years between the two. Yeah. 15. Yeah. But what a, I mean, What a, Right. Which one did you guys, Well, Maybe it's part of the rating system. I'll be quiet. Yeah. Cause we all remember how we rated to pimp. A butterfly for sure. Plus I want to remind you, The road, The rating system is relative. So what you think about this compared to the other one is kind of built in With rolling bone. Russell is taking notes about how we all voted on everything. It is on our,

[1:34:00]Our wiki site. So it's back to a better wiki. Everybody's been keeping track of all the votes and what the actual answer is At the end. As you will find out the answer for this one may surprise you. Normally when you put stuff on Wikipedia, There's editors and they'll take something down if it's not real or whatever. It turns out Wikipedia doesn't give a shit. About our podcast. Just like no one ever is anything. Listen, This is a good kid, Mad city by Kendrick Lamar. And guys, This, Although the songs disappointingly, We're not that scary. Okay. I think we all can agree. It's a pretty good album. Okay. It's got a message. It's got a, It's just a fascinating how it's set up, But that's not what this show is about. This is not about, Is the album any good? Okay. This is actually about the list. We don't even care about the album. We're more about the list. So right now we're thinking about this. This list does this list right now with this album at one 12 or whatever it was at one. Is this album at one 15? Is this perfectly put there? And that would be rolling. Well,

[1:35:00]Tone. Okay. Or is this album? No good. Okay. This album is very bad. It should not exist. In fact, We should, We should get rid of every copy. Okay. And maybe censor what we're, Our kids are listening to these days. Something to think about. Aaron talks about a lot. I think it's a good idea. That would be a, Can you repeat that? I was burning books over here and I, I can barely see that over the sound of Huckleberry Finn going flames here. Not all. How do you have so many Rush Limbaugh books that you're burning? See, Now there's a twist. I was throwing all my Chucky dogs in that. Or is this album actually really, Really good? And it should be up higher up than some of the other albums we've done, Such as the strokes. We all remember that. Or the Smiths. You guys remember a lot of good jokes from the Smiths episode. Of course, Sure. It was a stold cold classic or our most downloaded episode. The Stooges TVI guarantee us a lifetime of obscurity on this podcast because it was our most popular download due to a glitch in the Samsung system.

[1:36:00]Russell, Speaking of glitches, What do you think of this album? Is it a rolling, Well-toned, Rolling bone, Rolling grown, And we're running a little long tonight. So let's speed it up a little bit, Please. I like the idea that it's a concept album or he's telling the story. I remember we talked a few weeks ago about Elton John and it was just like a collection of all these hits. It didn't really make sense. It didn't make a lot of sense. So I like that. This is kind of telling a story. Some of the songs I thought absolutely crushed and Kendrick is just one of a kind. He's it's amazing listening to him. I never really listened to his music before the quest, But you can just tell he's an uber talented musician. He's fantastic to listen to. So for me, I'm going to say it's rolling. Well, Tone, You know, Also as an uber talented musician, Dave, The guy who drove me home yesterday from the airport, He was, He was doing this German scat stuff and I thought it was really, Really good. I was interested in it. I was into it. And that was a callback. If you recall, That was the same episode. Didn't get edited out. Matt rolling. Well, Tone rolling, Growing a rolling bone. Aaron, You have to laugh out loud. If you start hiding your laughs, That's illegal. Matt, What do you think? You know,

[1:37:00]So just to pull it back to pimp a butterfly comes after this album. That was at 19 on the list. I think this album is way better than the pimp of butterfly. And because the pimp of butterfly is just so dark and angry. And twisted that I just didn't like it personally. Like this one, I think there's like one bad song on the whole damn album. Like I can listen to those thing day after day. And I probably will. Cause it's a great gym album just to put on while you're sitting at the gym. And so I think this is way better than the pimp of butterfly. I even think damn, Which is coming in at one 75 is better than the pimp of butterfly. So from a Kendrick standpoint, There's three Kendrick albums on the list. I think this one should be a lot higher than one 15 just from the, You know, Everything that comes off of this. It's Dre's next guy. You've got all of these other, Rappers that come out of it that are on it and stuff. So I'm going to say it's rolling bone should be way higher in the list. And I'm thinking about why this episode is running too long.

[1:38:00]And there's no way it's because I've done two separate lists, Right? Like that can't be part of it. There's no way. Aaron, What do you think? Rolling well toned, Rolling boned and or rolling grown? Hey, Shoot or shoot Rob. I'm, I'm, I'm thinking the same way. Good kid, Mad city. I'm thinking the same way Matt is, But I'm thinking, I'm also thinking about damn, Which one him a Pulitzer. So I, I don't know. It's been a while since I listened back to damn. I've, I listened to this. This is probably the album that I listened to most of Kendrick's. Although I actually personally, As you all will certainly remember, Really love to pimp a butterfly. But I don't know if this is better than damn or not. So I'm going to say the same thing I said about Janet Jackson, Which is that I think Kendrick is rolling. Well, Toned in this spot. I don't know if I would pick this one over damn. We'll find out in two years when we get to damn, But I'm going to give it a rolling well toned. At that point, I'll have to have had found eight, 12 more spooky songs. That's something to think about.

[1:39:00]And not in a depressing way. It's only like by not this Christmas, But next Christmas we'll be at dam. So like 60 hours until we get to it. So it's not, Not two years. It's less than two. Literally. I think Amelia will be driving a car at that point. So, So don't think about that either. All right. So, This actually guys, You were incorrect. She might not. You live in New York. There's no reason for her. You need to have a car. She's in a car. She's an Uber musician. I don't know if I told you about this guy, Dave. I know who does the German scan stuff. Okay. Callback part two. Oh, Listen, This is, And unfortunately you guys are incorrect. Okay. I hate to say that to you. I want to be positive. I want to be supportive. Hey, You guys, This is a rolling comp tone evolution. I mean, When you come from, When we've listened to NWA and we've listened to Dre and Snoop, And then all of a sudden we're going from this rap, Which is literally just the same beat over and the same kind of

[1:40:00]themes over and over with that. [100:03] And the funny skits. [100:05] And now all of a sudden it's like, we've gone from comic books and we're opening up Herman Melville. [100:11] And of course, Moby Dick, the most famous book I can think of that makes me sound like a smart guy. [100:15] Okay. [100:15] So it's like, this is like reading Moby Dick after comic books. [100:17] This is like intense thematic. [100:20] Like it's, it's dark, it's light. [100:21] It's you can tell he had a vision and he executed it, which is what this is all about. [100:27] And that's why it's a rolling comp tone evolution. [100:29] You just wanted to say dicks again, didn't you? [100:31] I have one last time. [100:32] It's been a while. [100:33] Okay. [100:33] We can listen to that song again. [100:35] Oh, we had to do the Elton John one. [100:36] Don't, don't forget. [100:37] Listen. [100:38] Okay. [100:39] Next up. [100:40] Okay. [100:41] On the album. [100:42] We have, it's a, it's a British band. [100:46] It's a, it's a British band and they're talking about integration. [100:48] And so they go, Oh, it's, it's disintegration, mate. [100:51] It's the cure with disintegration. [100:54] Disintegration. [100:55] Can't wait. [100:57] Is that like an Australian thing or is that a British thing? [101:02] Listen,

[1:41:00]I didn't write anything down. [101:04] I was in big trouble there. [101:05] Well, Australia is a British colony. [101:07] So that's all. [101:09] It's a good point. [101:10] Are you talking about King Charles? [101:14] His British colony? [101:16] Back. [101:16] Did it. [101:16] Interesting. [101:17] Hey, Rob, do you think if Michael Jackson went bobbing for apples, he would do it in a barrel full of mommy's milk? [101:22] Oh my God. [101:24] It's time. [101:27] Goodbye. [101:29] I don't know. [101:31] How am I laughing at that? [101:33] You and Vincent. [101:35] He loves the Conrad Murray bits. [101:38] Every one of them. [101:39] Russell hates all bodily fluid things, but he's, he's fine with mommy's milk. [101:45] He's fine with mommy's milk. [101:46] Yeah. [101:46] Excuse me. [101:49] Call me Conrad. [101:51] Dr. [101:52] Conrad Murray was my father. [101:54] He's in jail.