The Cure: Disintegration (1989)

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

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

[00:09]order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research

[00:14]all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better

[00:20]we are all the way up to album 116 guys that's like the second time you can get your license

[00:25]it's when you turn 116 years old a lot of people don't know that it's not 32 or 48 no it's you get

[00:32]it again when you're 116 okay and if it's anything like when i got my license you take the car out

[00:37]and immediately almost get t-boned enforcing what you always knew about yourself that you were a

[00:41]failure uh and we have robin thought we were going to talk about our t-boned experiences on this

[00:47]podcast that reminds me of when i one summer dear penthouse one summer i worked on the golf course

[00:53]let me tell you about this

[00:55]we were playing for the ladies playing from the ladies tees if you know what i mean

[01:00]uh just so great that you're like somebody's like you know what god you know banging that old lady

[01:09]on a golf course was great but you know what would make it better if the whole world knew

[01:13]about it i better write penthouse and let them know that i have this story why would i hide my

[01:19]light under a bushel i gotta share this with the world yeah it's like i don't have any friends that

[01:23]want to hear this at all but you know who does

[01:25]the same people who buy penthouse not gonna go to that we've got disintegration by we've got so

[01:32]let's jump right from that penthouse story too we've got disintegration by the cure

[01:35]as you guys know the other night uh we had a little special guest on the podcast uh she didn't

[01:41]know she's a special guest on the podcast but you could hear her for about 50 of it as she uh

[01:46]she helped out in the background so let's here's a little song dedicated to

[01:49]uh i just like to call her my special helper here at home so and please don't tell her i said that

[01:55]let's see she's not listening what's up everybody welcome to k-rock k-r-o-b listen you get to that

[02:07]point in the podcast where you're recording on the living room and you don't care who's there

[02:10]and i've heard people say this is the best years of your marriage

[02:16]but it turns out i didn't hear him correctly and it turns out they were saying

[02:20]this is the best years of your marriage oh this is

[02:25]dishes i was recording a podcast and she knew

[02:30]she decided it was time what's going on in the background to begin

[02:37]the dishes she began to do

[02:43]no one could hear me over the din seriously rob how long have you been home you couldn't

[02:53]have washed those dishes before you got home

[02:55]what happens at the three to six month part is that when they start flaking pots and pans in the

[03:01]back of your apartment

[03:03]i thought 10 minutes you'd be through

[03:11]she would quickly scrub and then she'd give a rinse

[03:19]but after a work too

[03:25]the noise became quite an irritant

[03:32]it's true

[03:34]she scrubs and she sprays she loves to do the dishes she's addicted i'd say

[03:45]every day she never misses it if i would have helped it be done fast but i'm doing the podcast

[03:55]i am doing the podcast

[03:59]can't help with the when you want to hear about the greatest

[04:02]i gotta tell you about my long my long con my boss's wife

[04:12]long con your penthouse you'll never believe what happened to me in jail

[04:19]jack

[04:19]did it better oh god i get it see

[04:25]now if you really listen to my foley work here where i've got the dishes

[04:29]you can hear my wife in the background you can yelling at me to stop it because while i was

[04:35]recording this song i was clanging the dishes literally for two minutes and 36 seconds

[04:39]and she said please you're driving me insane and i was like yeah don't you see don't you see

[04:46]russell did you hear that did you hear that in the background i couldn't it just sounds like

[04:50]something i must be familiar with oh my god oh my god it's it's a learn to tune it out

[04:57]so listen this is beck did it better and today we are talking about the cure and i've got three guys

[05:03]who are the disease and a simple uh antifungal cream is the cure actually i've got russell in

[05:09]minnesota russell how are you doing rob i wanted to thank you for having me over i left you with

[05:14]some photographs and pictures of my trickery but i did want to apologize for the stains on your

[05:19]carpet and the stains and i'm sorry i didn't mean to hurt you but i did want to apologize for the

[05:20]on your scenery oh god

[05:22]stains on your scenery honestly i would say the number one thing that's caused stains in my house

[05:30]is my kids slime and they like put it on the they throw it up and it hits the ceiling and it makes

[05:35]a stain they put it on the wall makes a stain i've got slime stains all over the place uh i've

[05:40]got matt in minneapolis matt how are you doing tonight uh good rob i've been uh hoping so long

[05:46]that this podcast is over that i almost believe that it was real

[05:50]i can't do 500 minus 116 in my head but i think it's over a big number

[05:56]i've got a long way to go i've got aaron out in california aaron was telling us the other day

[06:01]that his wife was a real keeper and he knew it was true when she wore that white suit and had

[06:05]that thing that makes all the smoke uh aaron how are you doing today man rob it's i've been looking

[06:11]so long at these pictures of you it's nice to see you live and in person let's talk about

[06:14]you guys are so nice on the cure albums i like the cure the cure is robert smith is nice to me

[06:20]okay and and this might amaze you it is not the ohio state robert smith that's the head of this

[06:26]that's the lead singer in this band was that surprising to anybody else nor is it famed

[06:31]physicist robert smith question mark who wrote a mathematical paper on how to survive the zombie

[06:35]apocalypse well that's the end of the that's got if that's not the end of the podcast

[06:39]we haven't even gotten into a segment

[06:44]oh

[06:44]there's actually the math behind the the

[06:50]spread of the zombie apocalypse meanwhile the queen guitarist is laughing like what a dumb

[06:54]shit that guy's done in the physics what a loser uh listen uh i'm trying to think of more robert

[07:00]smith jokes i don't even have any robert smith was like he had this spin move i was looking at

[07:04]robert smith highlight tapes and it's just constant uh yeah pat summer all saying like

[07:09]robert smith with another spin move for a first down yeah that's what russ is listening to on

[07:14]his wireless headphones it's the only thing that makes them hard anymore it's robert

[07:18]highlight

[07:18]oh

[07:19]impressive for such a like a tall lanky guy too like he was all legs and elbows and had that spin

[07:26]move somehow his headphone falls out it's right next to her ear and she just hears like and that's

[07:30]gonna do it 10 5 he's in it's like what are you listening to this is so strange i always remember

[07:35]robert smith because they always talked about him being such like a an intelligent athlete they

[07:40]would be like he almost was a he almost studied stars or he almost went to medical school it's

[07:44]like yeah medical school no because they said well he's he's gonna stop football or is he can

[07:48]go back and be a doctor he's gonna go back and be a doctor he's gonna go back and be a doctor

[07:49]and then he's a fucking announcer on tv i was like dr liar big lie i'm actually quite smart i'm going

[07:56]to go to medical school and then he's just he's equally as smart as like mike dicka and i said

[08:00]smart okay let's not talk about me saying smart instead of smart it's actually a new word the

[08:05]kids are saying these days it's pretty smart of me to say uh so listen let's get right into the

[08:11]voicemail

[08:12]voicemail

[08:13]the freaks on the phone won't leave me alone

[08:19]hey boys uh long time listener first time caller i just wanted to let you know that i was listening

[08:26]to random episodes up until about the end of july here then realized i was missing out on about 60

[08:32]episodes so what i did was i crammed through every single one of them and finished them up about a

[08:36]week and a half ago thanks to you guys my kids now know pretty much everything there is to know

[08:41]about anything that doesn't make sense in life i appreciate that because i let them listen to it

[08:46]in the car like i've so listen i gotta stop this this real quick

[08:49]kids should not be listening to this podcast okay i wouldn't even know where to begin to explain what

[08:55]the penthouse forums joke was earlier it's like yeah you kids know what a porno magazine is oh

[09:01]yeah okay imagine like a website but like it's in a magazine paper yeah and then imagine that like

[09:07]there's all these naked women but there's also some stuff you could read and i guess guys prologue

[09:11]to a book or something yeah yeah russ knew is in the beginning so that's strike one against russ

[09:16]uh and it's like yeah so i guess that they just don't know what to do with it

[09:19]i mean you would you'd sound like a psychopath you'd sound like a it's like it's like a caveman

[09:25]trying to masturbate right like he thinks about like some smooth rocks you saw once or something

[09:30]like it makes no sense i mean to be fair i mean if kids are there are cartoons in there and some

[09:35]of them so i mean the kids would probably want to look at cartoons friendly content i'm sure you

[09:40]pervs know a lot about penthouse okay let's move on here i was just joking i looked it up in a

[09:43]research academic way i mentioned before and i really don't care what you guys talk about because

[09:49]the other thing is is my wife officially hates pretty much all of your voices from hearing you

[09:54]guys talk so much because i played it on speaker on my phone everywhere i went all the time uh

[10:01]questions for you guys i know uh so let's talk about that i i do think that first of all i know

[10:07]i know how this caller feels because my wife also hates the podcast with the fire of a thousand suns

[10:11]so i totally get that can you imagine just listening to bits of the podcast like just

[10:17]kind of coming in and out like he's walking into the room and then one time we're laughing

[10:19]really hard when we say time machine and then like i want to remind you guys in the strokes

[10:24]episode i had forgotten this there's a big running bit about ball gags like we talk about ball gags

[10:28]over and over and over like i had forgotten that i was like oh no like you'd be like what is my

[10:34]husband listening to i've made a huge mistake but isn't that just what all spouses are thinking

[10:39]right now i think i get a lot of nods yes yes i get a lot of nods yes okay sorry here we go

[10:44]you're having some issues with uh the anna stuff um have you ever tried bleaching it

[10:49]that cleaned things up and helped you keep you from breaking out a little bit you know

[10:53]bleaching the anna sometimes works sometimes it's preferred

[10:56]second question for you guys as a group if you had to pick up your entire family or everything

[11:04]you are and had to switch with one of the others in the group and live in their situation with

[11:09]their jobs uh would you do it or who would you select to take the place of so all i got boys

[11:16]keep it going i'm just gonna get this out of the way i am not

[11:19]gonna switch with russ okay and i don't really want to get into why but i'm just gonna say it

[11:23]i had it written it's a great place to live it's a great place to grow up i would live in richfield

[11:31]you wouldn't want to go to vegas or what's the deal yeah i had it written down that i would

[11:34]switch with russ and that was gonna be my big joke but that i've decided to reverse that and

[11:38]say absolutely not would not be russ let's just be very clear about that so russell who would you

[11:43]switch with one of us if you had to just pretty much take on our lives he was talking about jobs

[11:49]what aaron does at all and in fact i got a text about it today still don't understand

[11:53]what he does um russell who would you pick your full lives we're talking full lives i have to say

[12:00]i know i've known aaron i've been the closest friends with aaron the longest out of the the

[12:04]four of us but aaron lives in a world where they don't care about having air conditioning and i

[12:08]just can't imagine doing that in my life like it's it would be such a big part of my life to be hot

[12:14]and uncomfortable all the time that i would have to eliminate aaron right off the bat because i

[12:17]need modern appliances in my life i

[12:19]choose not to live without modern appliances so aaron unfortunately is out it's nothing personal

[12:24]it's just about your your selections of amenities it's it's aaron and laura zingles wilder is who

[12:29]russell doesn't want to be those are the two people read a book people i'm smart i'm not just

[12:35]reading pendos forums who would you what else russell continue this logic i i'm gonna continue

[12:41]with the elimination principle now i'm gonna eliminate rob because i don't really think i

[12:45]want to live in new york and i don't want to be like a an east coast elite

[12:49]i live in new york we have the best hot dogs even though they taste like shit we've got the

[12:54]best pizza although it tastes like every other pizza you can buy in a mall everywhere and so i

[12:58]just don't think i want to be a new york elitist so i'm gonna say rob is also out so i'm gonna

[13:02]switch and i'm gonna i'm gonna live about two miles from where i live now in matt's house instead

[13:07]that's i would love to see russell going early for the school pickup line just to look on his

[13:12]face when he has to leave the house to wait to be the traffic magic mike instead or not

[13:17]no this is free fuckfest

[13:19]uh so yeah you would pick matt rosie what do you think who would you pick

[13:26]i yeah i don't know i i i love russell's uh happy-go-lucky first of all for you to pause

[13:34]that long and say i don't know is so insulting like it's so insulting that you look at the three

[13:38]of us and you're just like jesus christ i don't know who i'd switch like you know what fuck you

[13:42]i was trying to follow russell's footsteps and i also you know i love russell like a brother but i

[13:47]i just don't think i can keep up with his

[13:49]freewheeling lifestyle i could not handle all of the trips to nashville uh i just can't keep i

[13:55]couldn't hang so i'm not gonna choose russell matt is off the board so i'm not taking matt so

[14:01]obviously i'm going to new york baby i would love to live in manhattan i love that rob always takes

[14:07]advantage of everything there is to do in manhattan and outside of manhattan when the

[14:11]apple orchards call so i'm in i'm taking rob's life yeah just like today when i stayed inside

[14:17]all day and watched football on a tiny computer screen because my dad was like oh my god i'm not

[14:19]big enough for a tv so it's super fun uh and i do not have a sonos soundbar matt who would you

[14:27]pick to switch with well i i was gonna try to go a little bit you know i would take russell's job

[14:32]russell's got an extremely interesting job so i'd take russell's job i would take rosie's sense

[14:38]of adventure with uh putting chickens in cans and going hiking up mountains and things like that

[14:42]and i'd live in new york i mean i would i would absolutely love to move to new york

[14:47]and live there i mean every live

[14:49]every band goes through new york you wouldn't miss one show that you would want to see things

[14:54]like that all that stuff so if i had to pick one rob i would i would take living in new york so

[15:00]i think i would have to pick i would have to pick aaron i think i would love to live out in the bay

[15:04]area it sounds great it sounds like if you don't need air conditioning rust that's just because

[15:07]the temperature is just right i don't know aaron's got a huge dong and that's the first thing i would

[15:11]do aaron if i had your life and your body okay the first thing i'd do is i'd get in a mirror and i'd

[15:16]look at myself okay

[15:19]it would be pretty awesome i think it would be pretty good uh that's what we were talking about

[15:25]right switching bodies by the way just you know all jokes aside that was probably the best call

[15:30]we've ever gotten ever maybe you know maybe the the anus joke anus anus rosie doesn't like anus

[15:39]maybe that joke okay but you know everything after i mean that that was at least the top

[15:44]two phone call of all time we pretty much haven't received anything better than that do you think

[15:49]when you call the backslide rob oh 802-277-BEC and feel free because i can tell you there's a lot

[15:55]of space it's wide open right now uh almost to the point of getting nervous about it maybe think of

[16:00]another video to review uh do you think if you get your anus bleached you'd have to show somebody

[16:05]right like if you you'd have to go home and be like hey can i like check this out like it's like

[16:09]a manicure or pedicure right but you gotta well the only reason to do it i would think is that

[16:15]you're showing it right yeah some form or fashion keep that to yourself you got to keep that to yourself

[16:19]you got that gleaming yeah listening white thing you probably want to share it with the world

[16:24]isn't isn't am i off on that rob what's your thoughts

[16:28]yeah i guess i mean if i was like in a uh abu grab or something i wouldn't care what my haircut is

[16:34]you know what i mean like nobody's seeing me so like i guess how do we get here if it's not

[16:39]sitting in it if it's if it's not in the light of day i'm not i don't care about it why are we

[16:44]in abu grave that's a good point because i i also think if i got it bleached i would try to be showing

[16:49]you know what i mean i'd be like oh i need to oh who dropped this penny over here you know this big

[16:54]white penny like i'm just just wearing my kilt to work with no underwear

[16:59]just blinding light comes out of the kilt oh god his anus is so white do you guys ever go to like

[17:08]a social function and you think hey maybe i know something that you know about someone here about

[17:12]something in general and all the rest of these people don't know and you kind of have a smirk

[17:15]on your face do you think if you went through life with the bleached asshole you would like

[17:19]every room you went to you would constantly be thinking oh these people don't even know they

[17:24]don't know they don't know how gleaming white it is yes i gotta say though just and i don't want to

[17:29]get into this but just based on like evidence i've seen in my life yeah it can't stay bleached for

[17:36]that long can it you know what i mean like how long does that last does that even last like the

[17:41]walk home if it's humid out like it just seems to be it's like it's like it's like getting your car

[17:49]uh lots of fecal particles in it for some reason even no matter how well you take care of yourself

[17:54]it seems to always be there it's an embarrassing point so i thank this caller for bringing up

[17:59]this possibility for us and do the services like give you like a punch card can you go back in and

[18:05]get like i would assume yes after five there's got to be a frequent flyer yeah like every six

[18:09]is free can you get like a you get like a three-week guarantee on the service or like

[18:15]what's an acceptable performance hey i've been here before i said those stirrups to eight

[18:19]okay let's do it

[18:22]how much how much different would the mark on your your sister's bathtub have looked if you'd

[18:29]be bleaching hey it would have fixed the mark it would have rewiped it it's like a magic eraser that

[18:34]i guess that is a deep pull that's a deep pull you don't know what we're talking about we don't

[18:38]need you we're not trying we're obviously not trying to get new listeners okay that part of

[18:43]our show is done we have talked now about eating we're happy 20 minutes yeah that's a that is a

[18:48]listener plus his kids that's two more listeners

[18:49]i'm assuming they're telling their friends at school downloading i went to a discount anus

[18:54]bleaching place and uh she she opened up a brand new magic eraser and i left i was like this is not

[18:59]this is not gonna work i use this to clean the stylus on my turntable you can they're

[19:05]really great for that oh not the same anus oh my god that's so gross yeah all right listen let's

[19:11]aaron enough please okay let's get into rolling going we're not going to talk about

[19:16]it's time to see what everybody's up to

[19:19]it's time for rolling going it'd be wild if if you were there right and you were up in the stirrups

[19:27]and your asshole was out and all these scientists came in and they said no we said you reached

[19:31]uranus uh aaron rolling going how's it going with you it's rolling going great yeah it's it's uh

[19:40]it's autumn i know you guys like to laugh about my choices seasons but i've autumned and i can't

[19:47]get up i've come to realize that i'm a i'm a

[19:49]huge pumpkin patch fan i love pumpkin patches and

[19:54]i'm i'm a huge pumpkin patch

[20:00]but i've we've reached that unfortunate stage of of life and parenting where my son has a stronger

[20:07]opinion about things than i that i do so of course i want to go out to brentwood to the pumpkin patch

[20:12]where you get to ride a real tractor and there's a corn maze no no there's another pumpkin patch

[20:17]that's 22 to get in and i'm not going to go out and ride a real tractor and there's a corn maze

[20:19]that has blow-up slides and a bouncy ball pit and that is the one we've been to three times so

[20:25]that's that's the pumpkin patch three times my dude you're you are not your kid is not in charge

[20:31]we have to drive by it on the way to and from soccer so you leave soccer at 11 a.m on sunday

[20:35]and it's like well we can go home and fight about lunch or we can go to the pumpkin patch for two

[20:41]hours and he's happy can i go back to who i said i would switch with i'm gonna change my mind

[20:46]rob would i ever go to a two-hour pumpkin patch

[20:49]no no oh my god i don't know i'm concerned now because we're we're traveling next weekend and

[20:55]then we get back and it's halloween i don't know if i'm gonna make it to my favorite pumpkin patch

[20:59]so i'm hopeful that we can get out get out wait that's the thing is that you're mad you're not

[21:02]going to your pumpkin patch this is insane yeah that's this whole table right i'm a person too

[21:06]i matter um why don't you just buy it at like the grocery store can't you just buy them right

[21:10]out in front like it'll it'll take you eight minutes yeah but how many pumpkins do you have

[21:16]at home now like 10 we've only got one pumpkin you don't need a pumpkin every time you go you

[21:20]only have one pumpkin that's too little but like you can't be you're not a fan of like just going

[21:24]and picking out a pumpkin sawing it off and paying for it to go you you gotta like like the full-on

[21:29]they've got brats or they're serving apple cider they're apple pie or something right

[21:35]that's the reason yeah the one way the one i like to go to you get to take a real tractor

[21:40]ride out to the pumpkin patch they got like crazy pumpkins you've never seen before they got a corn

[21:45]maze where you can actually get lost and then you ride back on the real tractor and you like buy

[21:50]some honey at the barn or whatever it's beautiful i like the whole experience i'm not about the

[21:54]pumpkins necessarily there's a great one there's a great one in minnesota called severs corn maze

[22:01]essentially a pumpkin patch let's see i like the problem with it is is right next to the

[22:06]renaissance festival and so and those are for the most part you know up until about last week

[22:13]they're at the exact same time and the traffic is like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's

[22:15]like horrendous absolutely horrendous so you have you you've got about a two-week span of being able

[22:22]to go to that thing at a reasonable hour with a reasonable amount of travel time otherwise you're

[22:27]just getting screwed so no it's it's a it's a tight window for the pumpkin patch people yeah

[22:32]man you gotta hit you hit your right pumpkin patch when you're trying to go behold all ye pumpkins

[22:37]we came to ye wrong location that's somebody looking for the renfair getting lost in the

[22:45]i have very strong recollections of going to renfest renfest i never went to renfest but i

[22:50]remember very strongly going to the municipal liquor store in northfield in february of 2002

[22:56]and there were cases of greenbelt premiums stacked up with renfest stickers on them and we bought out

[23:01]the full bought out the liquor store in cases of greenbelt and there's cases left that skunky stuff

[23:07]stacked up room temperature in our dorm and i think we were still trying to finish that stuff

[23:12]the day we moved out it turns out that college co-eds aren't in the warm

[23:15]green belt premium beer that's expired yes it does not matter how many bodices they're wearing

[23:20]which is the number one reason i'm into the renfair i love a good bodice we told them hey

[23:26]these cases were five bucks a piece now they weren't impressed three three three bucks

[23:30]that's the magic eraser of anal bleaching

[23:35]it's too cheap it's not gonna be good

[23:40]that's an awesome price remember there used to be firehouse liquor too that was out yeah

[23:45]down you know dundas and we used to go and barry from burnsville famously was stuck drinking like

[23:53]i don't know if it was lime vodka or something like that for like a month and a half because

[23:57]he had bought six bottles of lime vodka for like a buck and a half kind of a thing and so that's

[24:03]what he had and he's like well i gotta finish this sometime so yeah that's how i remember whenever i

[24:08]see lime vodka i think of barry from burnsville yuck so yeah it's autumn i'm celebrating the autumn

[24:14]uh that's that's really what's really going with me how's that sounds like hell

[24:17]what you didn't eat any you didn't have anything to eat this week there's nothing good

[24:22]no i had ethiopian on you know actually we had a funny conversation on friday we went out on

[24:26]friday night uh there was a kids night out so the middle school kids and their parents

[24:31]invite the k-5 kids to come to the school from 6 to 8 p.m they put on a movie give them pizza and

[24:38]the parents get to go out so of course when you get this chance as a parent you have to choose

[24:42]somewhere that does not allow

[24:43]children right like you can't go out to any place where you're going to see a kid so we we picked up

[24:49]ethiopian takeout and went to one of our favorite dive bars the kingfish uh they're on telegraph in

[24:54]oakland and we had i had the star special which is now up to eight dollars so that's a shot of

[24:59]rock cut whiskey uh with a red stripe so i had a couple of those and we had some ethiopian takeout

[25:05]and we're in we're eating dinner and this is parents night out it was great it was wonderful

[25:09]but at one point like we're filling up on injera and and um

[25:13]lentils and things and my wife looks at me and says this is a really wonderful dinner but this

[25:18]is not like sexy date night food and i'm thinking like well i definitely made a mistake there this

[25:23]is my one kid's night out of the semester you're not she's not supposed to say anything you just

[25:28]don't say anything as soon as you say it well then yeah it's not but if you don't bring it up

[25:32]just pretend like it is right like power through that should we feel bloated and our fingers smell

[25:38]like food and yeah those are all like clarified butter

[25:43]fingers are not bleached and i agree with you what the fuck is her problem taking an ethiopian

[25:48]takeout to a dive bar i mean who as the one time their kid's not around who wouldn't have thought

[25:52]of that as the perfect date what the fuck are you doing aaron can't you just hear the panties

[25:56]dropping all around america as i'm calling this story so bleached

[26:02]we had we had the ethiopian takeout we had a really nice time though we had a wonderful time

[26:09]you know what i'm back to switching places with you i can show her a good time

[26:13]okay i'm not going to get ethiopian ethiopian food and then going to get

[26:17]rotgut whiskey and a red stripe yeah i think my wife is ready to switch places with me and then

[26:22]go hang out with you guys because there's no way i'm going to an ethiopian restaurant so

[26:26]she has to plan those for times when she knows that i'm not going to be with her so

[26:31]it was delicious best best of fate but i passed it to you matt how's it rolling with matt

[26:35]good good i got a list it's quick list this week i still don't know what flashlights

[26:40]are terrible trying to figure that out these days um

[26:43]i i saw on tv today when i was watching the vikings game that blake shelton is leaving the

[26:49]voice after 23 seasons the voice has been on wait how many seasons of the voice do they have every

[26:54]year so here's my question 23 wait i thought i was 25 i was like that's been on most of my life

[27:00]and then i realized that's not quite true and i was like i think they have like three of them a

[27:03]year kind of a thing yeah and so my question to you guys about that is is that really like an

[27:10]awesome thing or is that completely fucking sad because i don't know i don't know i don't know

[27:13]maybe you can tell which way i'm rolling

[27:15]is it because i cannot name one voice winner like ever in 23 that's the thing yeah shouldn't i know

[27:23]one person that won the voice right and so the voice is not about the people who are singing

[27:29]it's about these clowns that are rolling around in chairs or whatever they god i used to watch

[27:33]those shows though like crazy dancing with the stars i watched everyone uh american idol i

[27:39]watched like the first five seasons i was crazed for that stuff i don't know it's been replaced by

[27:43]house

[27:43]wives and kardashians you know guys we used to have american idol uh the voice and dancing with

[27:49]the stars and now we have housewives of beverly hills the house was atlanta and no jobs so think

[27:57]about that for a second remember that when you go to the polls in three weeks yeah yes

[28:02]that joke by the way is not funny

[28:06]uh next one blink 182 all three members the tom

[28:13]de long is back with blink 182 they're gonna go out on a on a tour um russell our seats that we

[28:20]would sit at they're coming they're opening the u.s leg of their tour in minneapolis on may 4th

[28:26]and i'm sure we'll go because sarah's a big fan but um the seats where we would like to sit you

[28:32]know how we got right off first first level right off the stage so you can see 450 bucks

[28:38]400 i mean this is minneapolis like that's pretty that's pretty

[28:43]normal for new york but 450 bucks to see a punk band from the 90s 2000 450 it seems like

[28:52]it shouldn't be over 100 bucks per person in the band you know what i mean like if you're seeing a

[28:57]trio it shouldn't be that expensive that's crazy they can charge that much so it's so that's going

[29:03]to be a thousand dollar show if you yeah so then there's a there was a pit there was a pit and then

[29:07]there was like seats right behind the pit so i don't know a couple sections back those are 880

[29:13]85 bucks first row uh seats right right off the pit are they gonna are they gonna sell out that

[29:19]with those ticket prices you think oh yeah that's what's the deal are they releasing new music or

[29:23]they're just playing they got a new album coming out but what's the title like like uh i don't know

[29:29]their new song was like energize or something like yeah but they have the best album titles

[29:33]oh ever i mean they have enema of the state with that uh that uh adult film actress with the glove

[29:40]on and then they also have of course my favorite take off your pants

[29:42]jacket i know i was watching the padres dodgers game last night and then i was having a conversation

[29:48]with a couple of our listeners about this because they came back from commercial as top the eighth

[29:52]padres had gone up five to three it was such a party in the stadium it was pouring rain

[29:56]and the whole stadium was singing all the small things from blink 182 and i was like man that was

[30:01]such a moment and then uh this friend of mine pointed out to me that perhaps that was like a

[30:05]marketing plant i was like oh this sucks i feel i feel duped they sing that exact same song and so

[30:12]i was like oh my god i can't believe they're going to be doing that at some other stadium did they do

[30:14]that during the nhl playoffs like probably i don't know you guys know i actually did see the same

[30:18]tickets and you know you guys don't know this but i actually called matt and i was like hey would you

[30:22]buy these tickets for me and he said well how much are they and i said 488 dollars and that's about

[30:27]that time that man hung up nobody likes you when you're 43 yeah that's exactly it oh my god that is

[30:42]what would you be willing to pay to go to see blink 182 no it's gonna be like it's gonna be a game time

[30:47]no i mean it's a game time decision right like if if i could get like first row right there and it's

[30:54]the day of and sarah's excited to go i'm excited to go i mean what the hell when how many how many

[30:59]more times you're gonna see blink 182 play together because tom delong will go find aliens somewhere

[31:04]else and turn crazy again and they'll break up but you know but so there's probably something that'll

[31:10]be in the upper uh

[31:12]sections of the lower level you know that would be resold at a decent price the day of so it'll

[31:18]it'll just be a game time decision i know russ you want one of those t-shirts that they have at the

[31:22]concert but that just seems like it's too much i'd pay no more than 182 dollars for a blink

[31:28]i wouldn't blink at that price oh god oh my god is this the podcast though

[31:35]disaster i love how rob's eight minute bid on bleaching assholes was a great set is this

[31:42]the podcast it's when we discuss the price of concert tickets i give you guys a chance i made

[31:46]my beekeeper joke with aaron's wife and nobody bid on that so i was like well it's one of these

[31:50]shows and i had to step it right back up again i tried one clean joke forget it back into the

[31:55]gutter man is there a band where you would pay uh 880 to be down in the pit to see uh again pit

[32:04]if i knew i was on the front row front rail maybe but like the pit that just has zero

[32:12]desire to go sit in a pit anymore and watch a concert like i'll sit on i'll i'll be up a little

[32:17]bit where you can see and like you know i just want to i just want to watch i don't want to be

[32:20]an active participant can i ask a question that we might need to delete yeah so matt would you go

[32:27]i do bleach my ass 48 if it was just yourself or are you hesitant to pay 880 for two people

[32:33]no no i mean to sarah's point we can fly somewhere for 448 bucks probably right and go

[32:42]it's not about the money but it is about the money but it's not about the money i don't know

[32:46]it just feels like you're gonna be able to get something a little bit better for not 448 bucks

[32:51]or at least you know see what's going on on may 4th that's the other thing at this time in my life

[32:57]like what what the who knows we might be up at the cabin on may 4th and who cares about blink 182 at

[33:02]that point i know i don't know we might be trying to record a double episode yeah yeah oh check my

[33:07]schedule check our schedule oh guys i gotta go to the concert sorry i think one of the things with

[33:11]blink 182 though is that i would know about six of their songs and the other six i would not know

[33:18]and as soon as the song came on that i didn't know and i i would then think about how i paid

[33:22]a thousand dollars for my date and i had to go to this concert and i could be there listening

[33:26]i could have headphones and listening to some music aaron listens to i would go ape shit to

[33:31]hear damn it in person like if they like as soon as that guitar drops i would absolutely lose my

[33:36]mind i'd be like this was worth 880 dollars here's what russell here's where i would pay i would pay

[33:41]if they were at like a first app or something that was a little bit more intimate right than

[33:46]just a like a arena show that's right that's where i'd start paying some big money to be

[33:51]you know a little bit more of an into somebody's all you know i think pearl jam just played at

[33:56]house of blues or somewhere in new york that they play i think rob they played at a smaller venue in

[34:00]new york and there's only like 4 000 tickets and you know that's something where i'd pay to go if

[34:05]you could see that but sometimes the arena shows you know if you're not in the right spot man they're

[34:10]just bad just bad just bad just bad

[34:11]just hardly hear anything mad that leads into my role and go on so i'm gonna i'm gonna jump in here

[34:16]interrupt mine i took my uh two girls to see lizzo at madison square garden unlike harry styles with

[34:23]the oldest it was so good we were up in the uh up in the front row i got the front row of the

[34:29]balcony which is about what i could afford that's good was first of all we were sitting next to the

[34:32]people that were crazy lizzo fans and they just went nuts she would start a new song and they

[34:41]would be next to somebody who was going absolutely bananas and i think it really enhanced my

[34:45]daughter's concert experience and the people ahead of us never sat down which i absolutely

[34:50]love because then i could stand up the whole time and i didn't have to think like oh am i doing the

[34:54]right thing am i you know it's that classic dumb like midwesterner stress that i have thinking

[34:59]about other people which is the worst the best part though was at the end uh lizzo got done and

[35:07]walked off the stage and i realized that my youngest had never ever seen an encore

[35:11]oh so she was cheering and going nuts and we were singing and and she turned to me she goes oh she

[35:16]didn't sing a couple of her big songs but that was really fun and i said yep and then all of a sudden

[35:20]it was a real quick it was a real quick pull but lizzo came back out and she went bananas and i was

[35:25]thinking to myself like how wonderful that'd be to see an encore for the first time ever in your

[35:30]life and just be blown away by that right like that'd be awesome of like i cheered loud enough

[35:35]and she came she loves us and she came back out you know not knowing now that it's like just part

[35:41]and kind of a strange part of that i was gonna ask if you've ever been to a show where you expected

[35:45]an encore and people didn't cheer enough for the band just left the stage and stayed gone no i don't

[35:50]know if i've ever been to a full music concert that's small enough for the band would make that

[35:53]choice i think normally they've got like all their fireworks planned out and all the screen

[35:58]stuff planned out i go to only big shows so they're always but the encores there feel so

[36:02]fake because they'll go down and then like 10 seconds later they're back up i'm like i want

[36:06]an encore where it's like 10 minutes and you're like making a chair for it yeah you're making us

[36:11]beg like sick dogs get down on all fours and drink out of this bowl like that's what i want the band

[36:15]to say to me and i want to give it to them big time it was just because my my my concert experience

[36:22]going experience is completely different now because i will know every song i'll know what

[36:27]time they go on yeah you know they'll be on at 904 exactly you know or they'll be on between 90

[36:33]nine o'clock and 9 10 and i know i'll know that they're playing 23 songs and i'll know after the

[36:40]break and after the 23rd song about for a break and so they'll have two encores so stick around

[36:45]for two encores you know kind of a thing and so which i like because then if i don't know songs

[36:50]to your point rob about going to a concert where you don't know songs particularly if it's a band

[36:55]that i'm not all that big on i'll be like oh these are the ones they're playing i'll at least listen

[36:59]to these ones so i i know but that's that's like my oldest my oldest loves to do that she'll get

[37:03]the whole set list she'll look at it she'll watch she'll know what's going on the concert

[37:06]because she'll watch instagram videos of previous concerts yeah and i just never

[37:10]never i never want to see the set list i never want to know what they're playing i'm always

[37:14]disappointed when i do that i like to not i like to be hit by the new song it's it's something i

[37:19]enjoy my question is this at the end of the concert what do you do with your garbage right

[37:25]i've got drink i've got cartons we're trying to get out of madison square garden i told the girls

[37:29]just leave it at the seat i is that bad is that because i used to do that in movie theaters too

[37:35]and now i don't i take all my garbage out throw it away because i realize there's people that work

[37:38]there which i know is true at the concert

[37:40]place too but it just feels different i think a stadium a stadium is different than a movie

[37:45]theater right like in a stadium you can throw those shells on on the floor and then that's an

[37:51]acceptable practice right right yeah right but like you can't throw stuff on you can't throw

[37:56]stuff on the floor at the movie theater that's not right i yeah stadiums leave it i mean if you

[38:02]can right if like it's not hard to just pick it up and throw it if you know a trash can's right

[38:07]there or something great but no i leave my

[38:10]at stadium and then absolutely 100 pick up everything in a movie theater throw it away

[38:16]but it's still people like what's the difference it it shouldn't make a difference right it's crazy

[38:20]so anyway that is my uh the girls uh my youngest's first concert was lizzo good times

[38:26]that's a pretty good time to live up to that one isn't it you can't think they might be giants next

[38:31]but i don't know there's something about seeing it in a small venue i think it's not it doesn't

[38:35]even feel like the same activity you know what i mean right it's like when you uh

[38:40]sleep with a prostitute like they're just so good because they're professionals you're like well i

[38:43]can never go back to just amateurs you know what i mean yeah amateur threesomes yeah i mean a

[38:50]puka tan lines maybe if this if you see all the same movies over and over you start searching

[38:53]tan lines because you know it's going to give you the same results but different movies or whatever

[38:57]it it took it took me like seven years to get back to online dating after my run with prostitutes a

[39:02]while back like it was not an easy transition hey this is slightly cheaper uh russell how's it going

[39:10]rolling going things are going good i was actually in las vegas this last week and i was going to ask

[39:15]you guys what do you think is the ideal amount of time to go on a vegas trip two nights two nights

[39:21]two nights yeah no that third night is horrible and i don't how long were you there russell

[39:27]i was there for not one not two not three not four not five oh my god i was there for six days

[39:35]six full days and five nights in las vegas my goodness what oh my god

[39:39]are you serious how are you still alive yeah how'd you do it i'm barely surviving right now

[39:44]oh my god that sounds terrible did you take like one night off or you're like hey i gotta i just

[39:49]gotta go to my room at nine and just kick back and watch american pickers or something there was

[39:54]there was a couple work nights when one night i did go out at like a fancy dinner with some work

[39:58]industry colleagues but i did make sure to go back and was in bed by i think 11 or so on one

[40:04]of the first nights so there was one night that i did play it pretty calm jesus but what was the

[40:09]other nights well what's a standard night on a six night trip for work out there well what i what

[40:15]i thought i could do is i've got three categories of stuff we could talk about we could talk food

[40:19]we could talk arts and entertainment or we could talk vegas experience what do you guys want to

[40:25]start with why were you putting entertainment quotation air quotes well you gotta let me know

[40:30]what you want to hear about it i think i think all three of those could apply to sex workers

[40:35]so i'm kind of into any of these stories i want to hear the vegas experience so that's the one

[40:39]that's the one that really tickles my toes so this this is not shows this is just interactions

[40:45]with people where i'm like this only happens in vegas right so actually this the first one doesn't

[40:51]happen only in vegas but i just wanted to get your guys thoughts on this uh one of the restaurants i

[40:55]went to one night is morimoto it's the guy the iron chef i don't know if you guys watch iron

[40:59]chef at all but japanese restaurant really good and immediately i'm there with a foodie a foodie

[41:04]if you will and we're waiting and there's this group next to us and immediately there you can

[41:09]there's a lady in the group that is the really really loud lady like screaming squealing at

[41:14]everything laughing super loud what are your guys thoughts on dealing with the super loud person in

[41:19]the group next to you sometimes i just in the group next to you okay i'm not familiar with that

[41:25]in the group next to you rob yeah i just had it with that guy you know i was talking to the pizza

[41:29]place who was talking about you got to go to the wedding don't you know skip the dinner with her

[41:34]it drives me bonkers and i can't and sarah knows this about me and tries to help me out with

[41:39]my affliction but i can't concentrate on two things like if i'm driving in the car

[41:43]and there's four of us in the car and they're talking somebody answers their phone

[41:46]and they're talking like i can't i just i have to not talk to anybody because i can't

[41:50]so if there's a loud person it just all i do is hear that person and what they're talking

[41:56]and it absolutely ruins it for me i can't stand it i want i one thousand percent get that it's

[42:03]when you hear a conversation going on another table it is the most engaging thing

[42:09]you cannot not listen to it you need it even if they're just saying the dumbest shit and then

[42:13]you can't not listen and then you get annoyed when you start listening it's a disaster

[42:16]yeah i can't tune it out no i i but i will guess in terms of dealing with it i'm going to guess

[42:22]that my method of dealing with it might be different than the foodies method that you're

[42:27]with but my method would probably be to be quiet and just listen to whatever's going on at that

[42:32]table and maybe get out of there quickly and go somewhere else i have to tell you guys my wife is

[42:38]is a loud talker my daughter and i often will look at each other and my daughter has started

[42:43]just telling her you are talking very loud the problem is anytime you tell her that she's being

[42:47]loud she gets very mad at you very very very mad at you in fact and so sometimes it's easier

[42:54]sometimes maybe those other people in the group are actually held hostage because there's nothing

[42:59]they can do they're at the loud person's mercy and they have to sit there they know they're being

[43:04]loud they cannot they cannot do anything about it they have to just eat it okay it's like it's

[43:08]like if somebody handed you a gun and said hey come to this bank with me and then they brought

[43:11]the place you're like well i'm i'm not really part of this but i am part of it now so i might

[43:16]as well go along with it i don't know but anyways so we got through the loud lady it wasn't that big

[43:20]of a deal but we did have another experience we were at a bar you guys know one of my favorite

[43:24]places to go in vegas just for one drink is margaritaville we had uh one of our first vegas

[43:30]trips ever uh matt and aaron instead of gambling with us at margaritaville decided to get day drunk

[43:38]and so every year i love good drinks i love to go get one drink at margaritaville just to relive

[43:49]the glory days and so i was there uh with a margarita drinker and so we're sitting there

[43:54]at the bar and this guy comes in over down the down a few people from us at the bar

[43:59]and he walks up and he starts complaining he orders like a margarita to go

[44:04]starts complaining to the bartender tells him you are making this wrong

[44:08]i came here yesterday and the other bartender made it differently with like fresh lime juice

[44:13]instead of a lime or something and so he starts yelling at the bartender and everyone starts

[44:19]staring and he brings the other bartender out he goes sir we have never ever made it the way

[44:24]you're describing and he was yelling at them and the whole time we're thinking how in the

[44:28]fuck do you go into a bar called margaritaville yeah and tell them they're making

[44:33]what do you guys think of that that's such an alpha move

[44:38]that would literally be like if i said to my wife i was like listen

[44:41]your anus is so brown it's crazy we gotta fix this you know what i mean like it's doing what

[44:48]it's supposed to do it's fine like it's actually great at the only thing it's supposed to do like

[44:53]it's doing a great job you cannot how can you bring harsh vibes into margaritaville what a

[44:58]bummer just after like after like a five minute argument the guy finally leaves and the bartender

[45:03]just shakes his head and walks over and i say excuse me but can you put some fresh weed in

[45:08]my drink what a good bet i thought when you said that he that he uh shook his head that you were

[45:15]going to say oh no i want that head stirred oh i don't know god i i should have bailed way earlier

[45:22]i did have you guys know we like to gamble i also had a fun interaction with a dealer you

[45:28]guys know i think like a dealer at a blackjack table is so much part of the fun if you have a

[45:32]good dealer that's interacting with you having fun with people you know switching up the pace

[45:37]at which they deal it's so much more fun and how you interact with that dealer can make or break

[45:42]your time there and the only guarantee is once you find somebody you really like somebody like

[45:46]that margaritaville guy is going to come sit next to you who both is loud and argues with people

[45:51]well there was some guy who came and sat next to me and this was the type of guy who orders a vodka

[45:55]cranberries so initially like he orders and he was kind of a dick a little bit and at one point

[46:02]he ordered another one and the dealer loudly says vodka cranberry going out

[46:07]i just stared right at the guy it was hilarious the dealer immediately won my points

[46:12]the vodka cranberry is a drink that is like it is like in a time machine from like 2005 right like

[46:20]it's just like that was the year everybody got gray goose and cranberry and then we just all

[46:24]agreed to never do that again then jokes on russell that poor guy had a uti he's just trying

[46:29]to self-medicate yeah i love i love vodka and it burns when i pee what can i do about this

[46:37]but there there was one other crazy thing this was actually having too many vegas experiences

[46:41]with some of these professionals out here and he's a vodka cranberries so i was actually getting an

[46:47]uber home this was after my sixth day so at this point i am exhausted like you need to get out of

[46:52]vegas you guys know it's time to go you need to go and it's not a quick flight home either i mean

[46:57]you know and it's a longer flight home too and you're like god damn just get home well i'll tell

[47:02]you what matt it's even a longer uber ride when your uber driver gets in a fight with someone in

[47:06]front of you and you have

[47:07]to order a second uber so going down wait a minute wait a minute so what i'm picturing is

[47:14]the uber driver fighting you sitting in there for about oh two and a half minutes or so and

[47:19]you're trying to decide what do i do minneapolis airport this happened this is not a minneapolis

[47:23]this is vegas these are vegas stories man vegas yeah this is a vegas experience man

[47:28]if it was just at the minneapolis airport we would do it be doing a flight tonight segment

[47:32]but so getting there we're leaving in the hotel we go down

[47:37]stairs and we're getting an uber and we're waiting for it and the guy comes pulling up we start going

[47:41]over and walk over he slams on the brakes and we're he opens the thing put our backs in the

[47:47]back you know suitcases in the back stuff in the car the traveler i'm with jumps in the car and

[47:52]sits down and the car pulls up behind him and they he starts yelling at our driver saying you don't

[47:57]know how to fucking drive starts yelling at our driver starts screaming at him back they start

[48:01]screaming at each other for like two to three minutes and both of them are out of the car now

[48:07]like in each other's faces it's it's a fight so at this point i just i'm like i'm out of this we're

[48:13]done i'm not doing this stuff so i grab our bags pull them out and i said get out of the car we're

[48:17]not riding with this guy i'm not doing this shit so immediately my next move is to be like the

[48:23]biggest scared little cat in the world and say we're going to stand behind that pillar over there

[48:27]because we're not riding with this guy yeah and i don't want him to be accosting me about like

[48:31]canceling his uber because he's already like getting violent with the guy next to him you know

[48:37]it's just smart you i think what you should have done there russell is jump in on your guys's side

[48:42]i think once you get an uber driver you're ride or die you know what i mean you gotta back him up

[48:47]you should come in and punch the punch the guy like right in the chest like really hard to start

[48:51]i gotta be like wait what the fuck it's like you're my uber driver i love you man we're into

[48:55]this forever so all these people are watching it and i just wanted because he saw who i was he saw

[49:00]when we were putting our stuff in the in this right he knew who i was it's not like i could

[49:03]just cancel and walk away and plus you change your uber name to

[49:06]thick dick so that stuck out in his mind you can do that by the way you can change your name so

[49:13]when they pick you up they have to legally call you by that name he seemed to recognize me anyways

[49:16]because my old name was mount dickless and now i went to thick dick and he was like it's like oh

[49:21]did you take a trip take a trip to the desert while you're here in vegas

[49:26]one of those procedures mount dickless that sounds like the instructions never mind so anyways the

[49:32]person i'm with starts like talking to all these people around us and i'm just like can we just be

[49:36]honest i hope this guy like doesn't see us and avoids us so we can just so i i cancel pay the fee

[49:42]to cancel order another one it's his goddamn car picks it up again what how's this possible i don't

[49:50]know i don't know time to get out the fake mustache oh hola senor oh no i'm a pile of

[49:57]shit too yeah you'll soy dickless mountain too so eventually i cancel again and he drives up

[50:03]and he gets out and he starts walking towards me he's like hey we gotta go i'm ready to go and

[50:06]everything's going to be okay and i'm like oh my god i'm going to be okay and i'm like oh my god

[50:06]not happening dude i'm like i'm not down with this you do your thing i'm not riding with you

[50:11]and he's like no but you know i i took your thing i'm like not doing it if you're gonna argue with

[50:16]people like that i'm not riding so i'm just like hey man i understand it you got your thing with

[50:20]that dude it's all you you do your thing not happening so eventually he just left and didn't

[50:24]give me any more grief on it i love the idea of you arguing with this guy about why it's bad to

[50:29]argue that's my argument i just said i was choosing not to ride with him so what would you

[50:36]by that forever he's like well you're arguing you're like oh my god this guy so what would you

[50:40]guys have done if you were getting in an uber and they got in a fight and i think it was physical

[50:44]at one point there was like hitting and pushing and stuff what would you guys have done in that

[50:48]situation got in that car and got to the airport as fast as possible i'm sitting around another

[50:54]half hour waiting for another guy it's not that part of the airport i guarantee if you took all

[50:59]your clothes off and went out there and talked to them they would stop fighting and they would

[51:03]pay attention to you and you would get whatever you want i think that's always been my strength

[51:06]strategy ever since i was growing up i've never been in a fight in my life but if i was

[51:09]the first thing i would do is take off my pants because if somebody's gonna fight if somebody's

[51:15]gonna fight me without my pants on i deserve whatever is coming if they still fight me i

[51:21]deserve whatever's coming my way you gotta take your shirt off so they can't grab no no no hold

[51:24]you close no shirt everybody takes their shirt off fighting so they're gonna think that's normal

[51:28]but when you're taking off your pants they're gonna be like wait a minute are you wearing

[51:32]underwear or no no i'm naked i'm nude is your asshole bleached or no

[51:36]no not at all the opposite i take the i take the scrapings from the bleach place

[51:41]so if you're nude though and somebody's like you know what i'm still gonna kick this guy's ass you

[51:48]really deserve it you know because just think about fighting a nude guy not good not great

[51:53]can you imagine getting all scuffed up if they like double leg took down you on the on like the

[51:58]cement floor i mean plus you'd just be so imagine throwing the scrapings in their face that you've

[52:04]saved for some reason

[52:05]i don't know i don't know i don't know

[52:06]so what do you guys do when you see like a dispute between people do you try because like part of me

[52:15]thought well maybe i should get in and break it up maybe i should what do you do like i'm at the

[52:19]point in life where i know internally the way i think i can be like a real antagonist and a real

[52:24]asshole when i want to be but i just i don't want that in my life i don't want to be arguing with

[52:29]people i don't want i'm just like i'm just walking away and leaving it alone what would you guys have

[52:32]done 100 walk away nervously there's i mean that's i would have yeah

[52:36]i would have slunk away and then just been like well i guess i live in vegas now because i can

[52:40]never leave like i i can never call a car again on the off chance it's going to be the same guy

[52:44]no man driving is hard like matt talked about you know trying to drive while distracted rob knows

[52:50]how tough it is to drive when you're amped up emotionally yeah like you can't get in the car

[52:54]with this guy after a big fight like he might just he might be like ready to do it to drive

[52:58]really fast you made the right choice man that's that's true you know i was biking down uh the the

[53:03]west side highway or the west side whatever it is manhattan and i was like oh my god i'm gonna be

[53:06]and two bike riders had crashed into each other and were punching each other in the middle of the

[53:11]bike lane and two guys had stepped in to break them up like two other bike riders and i was like

[53:17]you know those two guys who are breaking them up are really the real heroes like i would never do

[53:20]that in a million years because exactly what i did is i went wide to continue my bike ride without

[53:25]even slowing down at all i went right around them like their problems aren't yours rob their problems

[53:30]aren't yours they're only going to hold you up that's true i will in three minutes yeah yeah

[53:34]plus i was like am i going to take off my oh

[53:36]okay i'll picture this i'm naked except for a bike helmet smoke what what was it russell picture

[53:42]this time if you will a picture i'm naked except for this helmets and then i i'm wearing a helmet

[53:52]and i'm naked i mean that's ironic that's like safe safe and sorry if you were liam neeson riding

[53:58]that bike you could get caught in the chain or something he can't ride a bike he can't do any

[54:03]physical when he's naked i mean if he gets hard he passes out he can't do any physical when he's

[54:06]he has to be lying down there's so much blood going and i'm going to share i'll save my uh my

[54:11]food and arts and entertainment experiences for future episodes that is experience i how did you

[54:16]not just die six days there that'd be like that's like that's like a hundred years earth years like

[54:21]that's crazy you've aged a decade something might have affected guys let me we don't have time to

[54:27]talk about russell's time in vegas all the time russell's like oh yeah i forgot about one category

[54:33]visit me visiting the cat house it's like well

[54:36]i would have picked that one rob i will give you a preview for next week's episode

[54:40]i may or may not have gone to a show called fantasy

[54:43]that uh is that the one with the brooms where they sweep the things you think it's going to

[54:52]be like topless ladies and instead it's just fantasia and you're like wow this is

[54:55]it's not even erotic

[54:57]you'll never guess what all the little brooms are in erotic fantasia they're butt plugs all

[55:06]right so about the album listen we are talking about disintegration by the cure

[55:10]this is really that's too much this this this the scrapings this uh this is their uh

[55:19]this is like their fifth or seventh album or something like that but it's really their first

[55:23]commercial success i don't know guys i did these last week i thought we were doing double

[55:27]eighth studio album so yeah definitely not their six it's either their fifth or seventh

[55:32]definitely not the six this is a band who made music

[55:36]so i did these notes i did these notes a week ago so they're not that fresh in my head there's no

[55:40]other reason why i'm not doing this very well listen but this is really their most this is

[55:45]really their most successful album it's their big first commercial success and i think really to

[55:50]understand commercial success i can't remember first well i not their second to understand the

[55:56]cure i want to just play you a couple cure songs from earlier albums so you can kind of i think

[55:59]this is the best way to track their trajectory off their first album three imaginary boys but

[56:04]not really this is one of those things where they're like oh i don't know i don't know i don't

[56:06]they release it as a single in the uk and then they tacked it on on the album in the u.s this of

[56:10]course is boys don't cry oh right and the thing is this this is a them being produced by a real

[56:17]pop producer they robert smith barely had any control over this album he didn't get to produce

[56:22]it he didn't get to make it sound the way he wanted but but the album wasn't success

[56:26]so what ended up happening is that uh this is off 17 seconds in 1980 so a year later

[56:32]this is when robert smith is in control now see if you can tell

[56:35]a difference between the two albums they're in control now see if you can tell a difference in

[56:36]this is called a forest

[56:37]and i saw this described as gothic rock or a term i love which was bloomscapes

[56:49]so instead of like sound the sound and they kind of muddied the sound up a little bit yeah it sounds

[56:54]like you're playing from further away or something and it's a much different sound overall and then

[57:02]robert smith everybody was calling them a goth band so robert smith of course did the very normal

[57:06]thing of getting mad at them and saying no i can write a vapid pop song just like anybody else like

[57:10]this

[57:11]this is a love song what is this listen for the cure this is like super pop

[57:22]you can tell you can hear the what was that band we did that

[57:28]london burning the clash i mean there's a lot of clash there's less gone here

[57:33]or it's like i feel like every

[57:35]every british band does like that one mccartney tune it's just like every everybody listened to

[57:40]when i'm 64 enough times they're like well we got to do the little dance it can't be one

[57:43]i i and so then in 87 he he does just like heaven so now he's going like oh this rocks

[57:51]this is such a good song yes this is their first top 40 hit in the u.s in 87 so this is

[57:58]eight years after they start but you can still hear it's poppy it's hooky it's like

[58:02]it's his voice

[58:05]so good to me so then they come out with disintegration and this is robert smith in

[58:13]full control full robert smith mode this gets he wanted to get away from the pop song it's like

[58:20]when robert smith was running the wildcat for the vikings he was in control did they do that i want

[58:25]to be no no that wasn't even invented then those are those this is back in the day where everyone

[58:30]had just had huge shoulder pads don quarterbacks had huge shoulder pads everyone had huge shoulder

[58:33]pads i feel like they might have run a direct snap to mo williams once or twice

[58:36]direct snap to uh help me out russell who am i thinking of

[58:41]straight to the wizard yeah oh no i'm sorry and again sorry to all of our fans who are

[58:49]not they used to pass the drug test they fake dong so i think about it every day this though

[58:53]uh disintegration he wants to get away from the pop song and it's really robert smith combining

[58:58]two things that i think happens to all of us number one he was super bummed because he was turning

[59:02]to the pop song and it's really robert smith combining two things that i think happens to all

[59:03]30 30 so he had been in a band for 10 years and he's like oh no i'm gonna be 30 i was like i when

[59:10]i read that i got so mad i was like what the fuck he got mad at 30 it's like oh i don't have a single

[59:18]gray pubic hair fuck off you know what i mean i don't need to hear that it's so stupid it's like

[59:25]oh i don't think my life is a drudgery yet anyway so then their first i mean that so his first album

[59:33]he uh he also is using he says you know what i know i'm depressed so i'm going to take some

[59:38]medicine i'm going to take this medicine i have called lsd so he's not he was a heavy lsd user at

[59:43]this time he's depressed about turning 30 and so this album was basically that response and so

[59:49]you're going to hear this very kind of surreal hypnotic album that could not be more different

[59:56]than the strokes if we tried it instead of two minute and 30 second songs we have 20 minute and

[60:01]30 second songs and this is started off we have plain song

[60:05]he's an awesome starter i mean lsd is like an accepted treatment for depression though

[60:13]yeah i love this this how this starts up i'm sure robert smith was in a double blind study

[60:18]i guarantee it what do you guys like about the chimes or what what's the start for you guys

[60:24]right when it kicks in getting you know exactly what sound you're getting out of this album it

[60:30]from it sets

[60:31]tone and when you're sitting there listening on headphones it's like makes anything you're

[60:37]doing seem like magical and far out like i was like entering grades into a grade book and i was

[60:41]like wow it does have a superman-esque kind of like a movie i'm with you yeah cinematic yeah

[60:48]it reminds me so much of the opening scene of top gun just that sound and that feeling that i'm just

[60:53]like talk to me goose that's called top gun anthem okay all right all right should be our national

[61:01]agree it should be should be you know throughout this whole album i can hear that he's making this

[61:07]for a big rock stadiums it feels like he's made it's not made for the studio it's not made for

[61:14]little venues like you hear the and it might be some of the echo they do what they're singing but

[61:20]i mean these songs are awesome live i can only there's a couple of um

[61:25]just chills right just let it go

[61:31]that's the thing i've really enjoyed about wearing an n95 is i can pull my n95 off to the

[61:37]side and pretend like a maverick and be like talk to the goose like that's my favorite thing about

[61:41]wearing a mask pull your mask to your side and pretend you're goose jesus what a lot of people

[61:48]died from covid here okay so now we're all just watching i nailed it i got that correct you got it

[61:58]and really we should be doing a video breakdown because

[62:01]this video is wild there's a guy playing a guitar in a hangar but i just want to say this should be

[62:06]our national anthem like if people came out to this at the olympics every other country would

[62:12]know that we're not fucking around okay especially if they're in unnamed rogue states okay that maybe

[62:18]wouldn't offend countries that buy movie tickets or especially or especially like in that movie the

[62:24]new basketball documentary the redeemed team where they act like it's super impressive that

[62:28]the 12 greatest basketball players in the world beat the world with a n95 and they're like oh my

[62:31]god they're gonna beat the world down spain or some team that became a team that has like one

[62:34]nba player that would be a great song who who who made that documentary who is the producers on that

[62:41]what what studio did that come out of i don't know it might be the top two or three greatest

[62:45]players in basketball history that might be their collaboration yeah it wasn't like luke longley he

[62:51]was like trying to think of one other international player and i cannot do it

[62:56]luke longley jesus christ but i mean that's

[63:01]that should be the name i would you know what i would not take a knee during that song okay

[63:07]would you take your hat off finally during that song never i never will because i'm always saluting

[63:13]because i'm in my navy whites what about hand on heart during that song rob i do yes the hand on

[63:18]heart what was the rule the hand on heart is if you're like a boy scout right what's the i don't

[63:23]know i was always told it's like very if your hand on his hands other places please edit that out

[63:29]sorry i'm sorry what

[63:31]i'm sorry

[63:32]oh god i wish i had this wait i have to reopen this

[63:38]okay that's what i call aaron tell that story about boy scouts getting molested again

[63:42]i mean it makes you realize how great america is because you realize how good this song is

[63:50]because you're kind of like yeah that's badass so is this a dumb question is this song this is

[63:57]not a normal song this was made just for the movie i think so just to score for the

[64:01]movie i think so or it's so good they named the movie after the song

[64:04]i do see you got whatever the whatever this algorithm is as lana del rey is the

[64:12]next song up for you see fully i'm telling you and then for some reason it's marty mcfly saying

[64:18]yeah your kids are gonna love this just like this podcast it's it's for the future

[64:23]it's really it's really for the future god damn so good uh pictures of

[64:31]you

[64:31]top 100 song of all time so this is the one

[64:37]over and over and over again matt texted us there's a top 100 song on this album and i was

[64:48]i was like oh i'm so excited i had made a guess for prayers for rain here the second half of the

[64:54]album i'll repeat it to you when it comes up man i was trying to guess what you were gonna pick

[64:58]i thought for sure it was love song what what

[65:01]this one apart for you admittedly i like this album but i don't love it i i would have never

[65:05]picked this song as one of my hundreds so what you know it's maybe you know this if you really

[65:11]look into the lyrics and i really haven't but the thought of pictures of you and then just this like

[65:16]slow deep guitar is dragged out i don't know i mean it just it feels like kind of an alternative

[65:24]song i guess and so that's probably why i like it it's such a beautiful song he came up with

[65:29]that song after he went through a house fire

[65:31]and he found a picture of his uh old pictures you know sitting around and so you know i've said that

[65:36]before of like what are we going to do with all of our pictures and so i and we've talked about

[65:41]this like i have just so many digital pictures of dumb shit like what what is anybody going to

[65:44]do with that so look what i did guys i went out right after we recorded that episode

[65:47]just a warning i think i told you to delete this whole conversation

[65:52]today in our car so well whatever i want to leave that in but i got a digital picture frame that

[65:58]just sits in the living room yeah it's hooked up to my google albums and so any picture i take just

[66:05]gets added onto the picture frames now i did have to think real hard about pictures i've taken

[66:09]recently maybe like texted you guys and whether i want a picture of that showing in my living room

[66:13]so there's gonna have to be some editing pictures from the memphis zoo way back yeah i don't know

[66:18]how long how long would it take your family to say something if every picture was of you

[66:21]oh i can i just tell you this i bought this picture frame i put it in the living room today

[66:27]jenny was in here all day she never noticed it or commented on it they literally a picture frame

[66:34]that is showing different pictures of the family from years and years and years got zero comments

[66:39]from her because she just did not see it oh sarah's dad had an apple tv and then you know

[66:45]he had an apple laptop so all of his pictures were on his laptop and that dude loved collating

[66:53]putting together adding new pictures taking ones out finding ones scanning them in

[66:57]you know

[66:57]and creating a slideshow then having it at like the cabin it would just be going

[67:01]non-stop in the background that's beautiful and you know it was cool because you got some old ones

[67:06]some new ones some young some old it was good it's great until you remember that when you're

[67:10]younger with a digital camera you thought a very funny prank was uh kicking open the bathroom door

[67:15]and taking a picture of your wife going to the bathroom and so your google photos now has

[67:19]literally dozens of pictures of your wife scared on the toilet looking toward the door as you take

[67:25]a picture and you don't know whether you should delete the picture or not you don't know whether

[67:27]you should delete them because you maybe both pass away simultaneously hold on hold on hold on

[67:32]hold on now you you remember the seinfeld episode right where kramer was gonna create that

[67:38]coffee table book of like dogs taking a shit or whatever like all you've got you've got a coffee

[67:45]book table right there wife on the toilet to her for all your family and her friend bernie i'm sure

[67:51]bernie would like that for a christmas present i should be clear they're tasteful photos oh okay

[67:57]they are tasteful and i could put them in black and white bathroom shots yeah they are but she is

[68:01]terrified in each one because i have just kicked down the door and i have a camera in my hand so

[68:05]so we've talked about switching lives with people erin would that would this be acceptable behavior

[68:09]out in your your uh home that one would not fly

[68:12]well it's kind of the perfect prank too because they can't do anything about it they can't

[68:21]chase you around because they paid 75 bucks for a bleaching they can't just ruin it did you have

[68:27]like the

[68:27]quick click thing on so she could like hide the food she brought in there and the behind them in

[68:31]the kitchen or the little bathroom in the what's that called the bathroom fridge that would be the

[68:36]worst one it's like the one refrigerator the one day i heated up a chili dog right when i have to

[68:41]go to the bathroom is when my wife kicks in the door and takes a picture of me eating a chili

[68:45]dog on the toilet i'd have to explain no this is not a normal thing you know it's like like

[68:53]every 1100 pictures in your family photo that pops up and you just gotta hope it's with no

[68:57]one's there it's so hard to eat on the go too because if you wait if you just have the little

[69:01]paper tray kind of thing and then there's chili you're gonna end up with it no everywhere that's

[69:06]not a good bathroom snack well but yeah i mean it's i don't know shower afterwards yeah you could

[69:11]also take off your shirt yeah you could be dude eating a chili dog which sounds really good

[69:15]actually okay sucking on chili dogs i'm a toilet uh closed down so you can tell like this album is

[69:27]soundscapes yeah and honestly all these songs i picked where to start just by where the lyrics

[69:34]start because it's when the beat kind of drops in these i think i started to wonder if it's a

[69:40]concept album like it seems like some themes come back and it does feel cinematic i don't know if

[69:44]that's just how it was definitely written as one piece right but i don't know if there's a story

[69:48]that knits the album together is there well part of this song i know robin mentioned that getting

[69:52]old and kind of having that moment of feeling old and i think he said uh this was the song

[69:57]that where he felt like i'm running out of his time he reached 30 years old he hadn't had his

[70:00]big hit yet and so i thought we could maybe do a list celebrating the greatest songs ever about

[70:06]getting old oh this is my nightmare russell this really is

[70:12]one song that didn't make the list was old man dries balls off in a in a public gym hair dryer

[70:22]did not make the list see but that's not even it like that's the point that i want to get to

[70:26]where i've just

[70:27]accepted that i'm old and fuck everyone else i'm drying my balls on the i'm turning the hair dryer

[70:31]upside down and you know what's coming next we're playing the one-man parachute game

[70:35]all right first song on the list is from 1985 we covered this band once before we didn't cover the

[70:40]song it is fleetwood mac landslide oh of course

[70:46]this is a banger can i tell you when they released their uh unplugged special was this song

[70:56]it was when i thought about getting older too because they looked old as hell when they were

[71:01]playing the song it was crazy how old they looked at that video of them singing this

[71:04]so this is about like reflecting on you know your life changing where it's been how it's

[71:09]maybe falling apart do you guys ever reflect on how your life has changed what what do you

[71:13]what do you think about reflect about how it's falling apart all the time

[71:16]yeah i think about it all the time i mean i well we just released an episode that we recorded two

[71:23]years ago you think about where we've come as a group in two years think about that think about

[71:28]how long i've known you guys all the time the problem there's in rosie i'm gonna get you going

[71:34]here a little bit there's things when you have kids that you don't realize you've done them for

[71:39]the last time ever um yeah and that's it you know and that's that's the ones i think about a lot like

[71:46]you know i probably have read and i could go read uh dog man with leo right now but we read so many

[71:52]dog man and wimpy kid books and i think about that a lot i think about that a lot i think about that a lot

[71:53]books and all that you know now we're on to like lord of the rings and cool shit but yeah you know

[71:59]it'd be nice to go back and read one dog man book with leo things like that yeah but see now you get

[72:04]to do it the perfect time like like my nephew you know like i i put on a swimsuit and i go take a

[72:10]bath with him because that's what i did with my girls all the time i took baths with them that's

[72:13]just what we did and obviously now i can't do that anymore but with him i'm like hey i'm back

[72:19]i've got the alexa on playing music i'm taking a bath and then when i'm done i take the kid

[72:23]out i hand them to somebody else and i am done taking baths do not have to do it every day to

[72:28]kill three hours until bedtime like it's it's still you still have those great moments you

[72:33]just don't have to do them all the time like i liked reading to my girls at night but at the

[72:37]time it was like a prison i had to do it every night it was just hours of my life and i'd do

[72:41]anything to get that back but i cannot forget that it was also a prison and i got mad almost

[72:45]every night doing it before we get to the next song on the list i had to hit a couple of honorable

[72:49]mentions these are songs that cover the topic but we've already talked about

[72:53]so they can't be on the list um when i'm 64 or in my life by the beatles changes by david bowie

[72:59]neil young old man oh see i was waiting for that one that's the boy with the thorn and aside from

[73:04]the smiths we just did a couple weeks ago which talked about this theme springsteen's glory days

[73:08]and then someday by the strokes which we just talked about all those songs right are about

[73:13]getting older but none of them made the list okay okay well it's gonna be a good list of that's good

[73:17]to know yeah the next song on the list this is a is about celebrating one's grandma and

[73:22]kind of the importance that an older person provides in someone's life this is bill withers

[73:27]grandma's hands check this song out oh did you have the beginning wait jump to the end on this

[73:37]oh yeah sorry i forgot i was gonna show you gotta get that knowledge though yes right back

[73:42]you guys know this one yes

[73:43]it's all about everything grandma did in his life it's her arthritic hands soothed they scolded

[73:52]she brought pearls of wisdom to the guy's life so i was curious like as you're older like what

[73:57]are the things you're proud about that you're giving to the younger generation because it's

[74:00]not all bad getting old right there's good things too no diggity no doubt i think i think that it's

[74:07]i think like one thing i do is we just go out and do like we go to a like we're going to a drag show

[74:13]we went to muay thai like a couple weekends ago like we go out and do kind of these like borderline

[74:19]insane things that you don't know how to do like you don't know how to do anything you don't know

[74:22]how to do anything you don't normally do as a family and just really get that experience like

[74:25]i think that's that's like the number one thing i can pass down of like hey i like to i i am like

[74:31]going to do these weird things and it's okay you should do that too like i think that's something

[74:34]i'm passing down awesome how's that embracing fun it's great yeah i also think just kind of

[74:40]stressing about like what everybody thinks about you all the time and maybe if you do things that

[74:44]nobody likes it like you just or maybe you tell a joke and it doesn't land maybe you just think

[74:48]about that all night while you're going to bed i think i'm passing that down as well actually

[74:52]honestly i know there's a lot that i hope my son takes from watching my wife and i together i hope

[74:57]he sees that we love each other and care about each other i think also doing this podcast he's

[75:03]learning the importance of friendship i'm 42 years old my friends still make time to talk to

[75:07]me i make time to talk to them he knows it's what i go do when he goes to bed so i think i think

[75:11]it's that i hope he never listens to it but i think the fact that we're still doing it is is a

[75:15]good role model one thing he said he had referenced no diggity rob if you want to go jump to the

[75:21]song you guys will recognize this and let's see if you guys know where it's from or where we've

[75:26]heard it recently from this is the beginning of this song god this is just no diggity i mean this

[75:32]is yeah did you guys know this was the song sampled for no diggity before aaron had to you

[75:39]had to right yeah man you too so good yeah i also go to a website called grandma hands.com

[75:51]but i don't think that's the same i have a subscription there actually rob i did read

[75:58]one comment about that song was someone's hands you can tell a lot about how they work and how

[76:02]they love whoa wow my my wife's hand feels like the crypt keeper because she does so much she's

[76:09]got all these dead calluses so it's like being touched by a cheese grater oh god next song on

[76:16]the list is from 1989 we haven't done too much country music or garth brooks this is garth brooks

[76:21]uh much too young to feel this

[76:23]he's so talented not even the live one or anything i like this steel guitar

[76:44]and i'll tell you what garth brooks you want to talk about a cautionary tale of getting old

[76:48]i mean that guy looked old when he was like 22 like

[76:51]i was like wow this guy he looks younger now i think he looks younger now his head doesn't look

[76:57]so cut in those jeans i mean if you if you saw garth brooks at a pumpkin patch you would try

[77:01]to pick his head and take it home i mean it was huge i read that that song is about a rodeo rider

[77:08]who just can't keep up anymore and can't keep up with the younger guy so i was curious what

[77:12]are something i know we know rob is no longer a stand-up man he's a lay down guy but what are

[77:17]some things in life that as you guys have gotten older you can no longer do that you wish you could

[77:21]do i don't think i could break out into a sprint at any given time and survive 100 no like i run

[77:30]for the train but it's not a full-on sprint to the train like i think i tried that at the beginning

[77:34]of the pandemic i tried these home workouts and some of them would be like you know do six

[77:38]10 second sprints and forget it like sprinting absolutely young man's game no there's some

[77:44]muscle in my hamstring that was never there before that immediately gets pulled it's just like no

[77:50]you're never gonna you're never gonna

[77:51]do this again well that i mean like so the one thing in reffing is as the back judge i got to

[77:57]sprint all the time oh my god you still got it i still got i gotta beat that i gotta beat that

[78:02]receiver to the end zone you know as the back judge and so yeah i get to get out and sprint

[78:07]all the time so it's fun i think i would struggle big time to hit a baseball now which drives me

[78:14]bonkers that you know i i haven't tried in a while but i think i would struggle big time to

[78:21]myself well while you're still hitting bombs and winning titles and stuff honestly i still think i

[78:29]could hit a bomb anytime i wanted to like i have no reason to think i i am like a real pitcher was

[78:34]pitching at you though like oh yeah for sure i think i do stuff like that i'm like i bet i still

[78:38]got it with no i've never been able to baseball my whole life there's no evidence to the contrary

[78:43]i can't right now go downhill on a bike as fast as i could five years ago but i've noticed and

[78:51]but i have noticed there's this curve in riding with people around here is that the young guys

[78:56]will go down the hill super fast middle-aged guys sometimes slow down a bit and then the older a

[79:01]cyclist gets the faster they go downhill it's like don't give a shit anymore it's all about yeah what

[79:08]do you i mean you know you've got kids you got to be careful when you're younger you can carry less

[79:11]than when you're older you're like oh fuck gotta get the jollies going somehow around here if it's

[79:16]riding the bike downhill fast that's what it's gonna be yeah i've got love insurance my or life

[79:21]my loved ones will be fine if i'm sure here russell what's what's something you don't do

[79:26]anymore well you don't pick fights in the parking lot i don't pick fights you know what i i would

[79:30]you i would say five ten years ago i would have gotten in that argument with the two guys like

[79:34]lickety split because i i would have just i would have thrived off of that type of thing and i just

[79:38]don't i don't want that shit in my life anymore i'm a walk away i'm a walker i'm not talking on

[79:43]that thing love it next song on the list 1988 this is rod stewart i think rob talked about a

[79:51]did an elton john song rob and you wanted to play it at your wedding yeah your song

[79:55]i was i figured you didn't give him props you made fun of rod stewart but i thought we could

[79:59]honor rod stewart and this is forever young great song

[80:04]this is such a good song

[80:10]and i gotta say too does anybody have anything real to say about the song before i do my

[80:17]i'm just enjoying rod's voice like how does he do that man he just nails this thing thank you

[80:21]for saying you enjoy my voice aaron i appreciate that i think the thing that makes me think about

[80:26]i think about being young because i i remember listening to this song when i was younger

[80:30]and thinking about that rumor that rod stewart had to go to the hospital because he had so much

[80:34]semen in his stomach what yeah did you never hear that rumor they had to go to the hospital to get

[80:40]his stomach pumped because he had too much semen in it no no that would miss me do we have a legal

[80:46]document so i guess that's something you said earlier what are you passing down to your kid

[80:50]that you don't think other people are passing down to you

[80:51]i guess that's one of them because i knew that listen if you knew that rumor uh can you text in

[80:57]802-277-BECK and just put i remember okay hashtag i remember it's going to let me know if anybody

[81:02]remembers that rumor or if it was just something i heard maybe from the hospital hippa i mean come

[81:08]on i think this song is really about maintaining a positive attitude as you get older right and

[81:13]staying young even as you get older and i was thinking about that this week i was like you

[81:16]know what i went to vegas for six days like i still got it i was showing i still got it i'm

[81:21]you guys are older what are some things that you're still doing that are showing hey

[81:24]i'm still vibrant i'm still young i'm still into into life here

[81:28]drinking the star special at the kingfish man i can still do a shot

[81:33]did i get it yeah did i get a gout flare up the next day of course i did but i still can go out

[81:39]and drink a shot of beer wow this is sure gonna give me gout all you young guys over there agree

[81:45]you guys know what i'm talking about oh you think gout's really bad it's actually not it happens all

[81:51]the time i'm just kidding i'm just kidding i'm just kidding i'm just kidding

[81:51]i'm just gonna get a flare up i actually have medicine all ready to go for it it's also it's

[81:55]all lined up the one thing i can do is we have retaining walls in the backyard and i can still

[81:59]pretend like i'm doing a box jump onto the retaining wall it's about two feet high but

[82:02]you know i can still jump all the way up onto the retaining wall i can still smoke kids in video

[82:08]games there's a website where you can play kids in tetris and so i'll play my class in tetris

[82:13]i win every single time i'm too good they can't handle they're like what is this game what is

[82:21]it beat by me right now it's great rob you also crush people in weightlifting competitions but

[82:26]technically you keep going up in the age bracket so i don't think that really counts no it doesn't

[82:31]because and plus the way i look now like i kind of like when i'm at the gym now i realize who i

[82:36]look you know what wrestler i look like now hacksaw jim duggan like i've gotten the hacksaw

[82:42]jim duggan body and it really is a bummer because nobody ever even at the height of his career

[82:47]nobody was ever like boy he's got a great body like nobody ever said that what what

[82:51]hey when we're when we're in vegas on january 21st to the 23rd this year you have to carry around a

[82:57]two by four with a flag stapled to it i definitely you have to i have yeah and i'll be in my navy

[83:03]white so that'll make sense all right we're gonna skip the next song or the last song on the list

[83:07]this is five for fighting a hundred years you guys know this one oh yeah oh of course oh okay yes

[83:15]this is all about the struggles of going from youth to a midlife crisis

[83:21]to death like he's reliving all these different ages the most interesting thing about this song

[83:27]is that the melody is actually sampled from the opening song in this album the melody from this

[83:33]song is sampled from plain song on this album we're listening to yes that's incredible the way

[83:40]i don't know if we'll be able to fight him if you go back to listen to plain song at the beginning

[83:44]it's the same let's just see there's a chance that we're gonna be able to find i don't know

[83:47]if we'll be able to fight that's a great time i

[83:51]yeah i hear it there yeah pretty awesome russell five for fighting that's that's rad that is wild

[84:01]you have to be think they were heavily influenced by the cure right oh yes you must have listened

[84:07]to this album so many times i would say a judge would also say they were heavily influenced by

[84:10]the cure for sure russell that was the that was the list of songs about getting older

[84:17]i feel great i'm gonna sleep great tonight really appreciate you bringing that to us

[84:21]one quote i did one quote i did read which i'm gonna leave all our listeners with including

[84:27]brian from woodbury is every moment of your life is the oldest you've ever been yeah so this moment

[84:32]right now is the oldest you guys have ever been i love it they may be giants have a whole song

[84:37]about it uh all right now we have love song this got up to number two on the charts is their most

[84:44]successful single ever such a great song this is the one he didn't like though right he said this

[84:51]love a more straightforward pop song type thing and he he said it was the worst song on the album

[84:57]i believe really it's so different like it's a totally different song the rest of the album god

[85:01]i love it it sounds so good this either this the first three sounded like stadium anthems to me

[85:07]you know this one sounds like it's going back five years from where it was and it's kind of

[85:12]more early 80s but yeah i agree next up last dance

[85:21]i think this was the first of two songs that had a lot of whispering on it there were two straight

[85:27]songs with a lot of whispering not just a little bit i was like there there may be a limit on how

[85:32]much whispering i can do on my top 500 albums i am gonna say this album 1000 passes my college

[85:39]vibe check you put this album on you were setting a vibe in your room you play lullaby you're setting

[85:45]a vibe don't come talk to me right leave me alone let me cry in the dark this song is called the

[85:50]lullaby russell

[85:51]the song's narrator describes a nightly visit from menacing spider-man who is always hungry

[86:01]looking for a victim shivering in bed oh i was reading about this one too and i he said it was

[86:07]inspired by uh this is it robert smith he's inspired by a song his dad would sing to him as

[86:12]a kid and his dad would do these really creepy lullabies where he'd say sleep now or you won't

[86:17]wake up at all can you imagine what kind of what kind of

[86:20]insane parent tells like creepy lullabies forcing their kid to go have you guys ever heard like what

[86:26]is it the brothers grim like the actual fairy tales what they actually are like there's a

[86:33]podcast that my kids listen to oh yeah and sarah listen i'm like what are you guys listening to

[86:38]like they like like little little mermaid hansel like little mermaid she dies at the end

[86:43]like yeah you know handsome gretel they get cooked in the oven like it's a whole right

[86:46]kids cooked in an oven yeah yeah you know at the end of uh at the end of beauty

[86:50]the beast the beast dies from an anal bleaching gone wrong it's a it's terrible

[86:55]anal bleaching place loses their license and it's a terrible tragedy if i asked you right now is

[87:06]there a picture online regulations is there a picture online of the beauty putting the beast

[87:12]poop into a bag and throwing it in a garbage can no no does that exist online do you think that

[87:16]picture what are you doing no like where she's picking you know must pick up after

[87:20]your pet and it's like the beauty of the beast i bet that exists

[87:23]i don't know rob why don't you check it out you guys are lucky so late

[87:28]next up we have fascination streets oh sounds like rob is a fascination

[87:34]what now whoa this is heavy this song became the number one single on billboards

[87:44]a new thing that they made up called the modern rock tracks that stayed on top for seven weeks

[87:50]modern rock tracks also known as songs that suck well now it became it became alternative

[87:58]it became alternative and there's been one artist that had the longest space

[88:04]between their hits on the alternative uh charts you know who that artist was the longest between

[88:09]their first and second hit on the track who was it beck did it better like a 25 year hiatus

[88:17]between his two number one alternative songs wow

[88:20]it's true what were you gonna say aaron well i wanted to know if uh i mean i think matt's

[88:26]probably our top nine inch nails fan aficionado on the podcast do we know if trent resner was a

[88:30]fan of the cure i feel like i have no idea i don't know i think about that you can hear some of that

[88:36]yeah to me but i mean yeah no especially on that to be honest to be i listened you know the first

[88:42]four or five songs on this album that i thought were awesome when i listened to them in heavy

[88:49]half of this i just i started to just skip over it it's kind of a drag i just got it because drags on

[88:55]it becomes much more gloomscapey and much less it does musical uh prayers for rain aaron you were

[89:01]you were right before we go to the next one you were right trent resner inducted the cure into

[89:04]the rock and roll hall of fame oh my god you know what i bet he did listen to him then that makes me

[89:10]think he did listen to him prayers for rain

[89:15]matt this was

[89:19]my guess for your 100 song i don't know why but this was my guess

[89:23]interesting i don't know why this would be such a some part in some part later in the song that

[89:29]jumped out this would be such a good karaoke song wouldn't it it's like seven minutes long

[89:35]everyone's like why is this happening you just like sitting up on a stool and brooding the whole

[89:40]time i don't know tinny little backing track just doesn't quite capture the bombastic nature of this

[89:47]arrangement i'm telling you like this is a song that i've been listening to for a long time and

[89:49]this is not a music i would want to listen to all the time but it sounds so good so well put together

[89:54]i think like for what it's trying to do this one's got the one with all these guitar effects effects

[90:00]all over it right yeah and at the end it ends with thunder and it connects to this song

[90:06]uh the same deep water as you great title by the way great title

[90:12]rob i sent you a clip for this song if you can go to it i think it's about 50 seconds into the song

[90:19]i don't know if it's on the one i sent you're the one you have oh i don't know i just have the one i

[90:23]have i put it to 20 seconds because that's what you said go to about 50 okay listen can you just

[90:28]go 50 and take a listen to this quick

[90:29]i heard something on this and it took me a second to click in my mind i remember wwe wrestling

[90:40]superstar mr perfect this sounds exactly like oh really i guarantee the guy who writes the wwe

[90:49]it sounds exactly the same doesn't it oh no yeah they ripped it off 100 whoa i mean they just ripped

[90:59]it off it's the same song isn't it yeah they just ripped it off it's so strange absolutely

[91:04]perfect it's so strange because you would think you know what wrestler i think would come out to

[91:08]cure songs what was that sting better taker yeah i mean does the sting look like he would be

[91:14]robert smith he's kind of got a goth look to him i think you're right one thousand

[91:19]percent robert smith takes off the mask and it's robert smith below uh all right i should start a

[91:24]website like you know there's like there's like there's like who sampled who and what song sounds

[91:28]like what song i should have a a website called like what wwf song is like which famous pop song

[91:35]oh my god that'd be so good just they're just totally blatantly ripping off so i'm looking

[91:39]this up mr perfect there's something called exodus theme is that the name of the song russell did you

[91:44]i've got i've got perfectly perfect or i don't know what the one i sent off let's call it even

[91:48]better song title sorry that one i don't know if it's the same one or not matt why well because

[91:53]that was stolen from a 1960 london orchestra score or something i get so maybe we are just

[92:01]uncovering that the cure we gotta pull this up now we're pulling the thread mr perfect exodus

[92:08]exodus theme wait it's on grannyhands.com let me change the theme of exodus okay sure

[92:18]oh this is different

[92:22]it's nice though let's see maybe it will kick into that

[92:29]walk it out yeah i've never heard this from mr

[92:39]mr perfect fan if i remember right he was a good wrestler technically that's a perfect song for a

[92:47]guy coming out to wrestle or if you're a guy coming out to wrestle you're a good wrestler

[92:48]making a movie about cowboys in wyoming and they're looking over a landscape somewhere like

[92:53]it's such a strange song to have as a wrestler it's bizarre this disintegration by the way that

[92:59]last song in the same deep water view he said that when he was singing he said he was shocked

[93:03]that he could still care about music as much as he cared when he was making that song he was

[93:08]blown away by it which is great just awesome disintegration one of the cures best this is

[93:15]voted fourth best song in a fan poll i talked to somebody

[93:18]how would you describe how would you just rosie what would you say about this song how would you

[93:23]describe it in the album the album or this song would you call this maybe the

[93:30]i would call this a titular track a titular track this is a titular track yeah and you know what the

[93:36]deal is though this song is longer it's a long titular it's long these are some long titular

[93:42]tracks i like i do like the songs better that have a bit more driving rhythm to it

[93:48]which i think i've said many times about stuff that some of this stuff in the middle

[93:52]when the drums kind of drop out i get a little bit lost i like this stuff when they combine the

[93:56]glooms what would you call it gloomscape rob with a little bit of rhythm i i think this is a good

[94:02]album to just put on if you're like i was gonna say doing something around the house but this

[94:07]would be insanely depressing to also be like moving the dishes or whatever people do with

[94:11]dishes moving i don't know what people do clanking the dish yeah clanking the dishes while i'm trying

[94:16]to make a famous podcast here

[94:18]homesick

[94:20]this is the last song the keyboardist contributed a song to before he was kicked out

[94:26]for being too happy so is he playing a piano so there's piano in the mix here

[94:33]and there's a yeah maybe not i don't know this

[94:37]this is a little bit of whispering here again i don't know sludgy it gets

[94:43]it gets tough to get all the way through this album now we get to the final

[94:48]transition

[94:48]this is the opposite of a titular track because it's a track that billboard claimed was so

[94:54]depressing that robert smith couldn't even name it and to be fair robert smith said this song is

[94:59]about how making an album is an utterly pointless occupation okay so don't think what that means

[95:04]about making a podcast about an album swings back around it's actually good

[95:10]it's important we're doing important work for the culture

[95:14]i love this

[95:18]though i do think it sounds so good is he a good singer aaron or not i don't know i you know i feel

[95:26]i feel similar to him as i did about morrissey where like the stuff that's really on is really

[95:31]on and then sometimes he chooses to do like non-singing kind of stuff and i don't know there

[95:36]there are tracks here in the middle where i just i get tired of his voice but i i do think that when

[95:40]he's really singing great it's great i think it's a little ubu i'm not gonna lie russell that's what

[95:45]i think listen that is it for disintegration okay and uh i know what you're thinking you know what's

[95:53]funny you know what's funny it would be funny rob please tell me because i've been looking all night

[95:57]i cannot find it uh what would you describe an anal ass bleaching because it really isn't useful

[96:03]but it's not ugly so what would the what would the short name for that be well unfortunately

[96:09]it's ubu because it's unuseful and ugly it's the same letters it's ubo

[96:15]only one perfect asshole that's because you're just going for that perfect asshole

[96:18]that's what you're striving for when you go and just you go ahead and say give me that one perfect

[96:26]asshole do you think do you think at the anal bleaching place it's like a barber shop where

[96:29]they hold the mirror up at the end and they're like hey what do you think and you gotta look

[96:34]and you and you have to look and say wow that looks great because you can't i mean it's like

[96:38]you go in with pictures of the one you wanted to look like like no i didn't want this one but that

[96:45]nine and eleven o'clock can we kind of maybe clean that up a little bit yeah there's still

[96:50]some scrapings on there i see the fade over on the right isn't quite what i was looking for yeah

[96:54]it's it makes you realize that oh it just makes the rest of the area more brown like my night okay

[96:59]okay so yeah okay between four and six yeah my nine and eleven you're four and six okay yeah

[97:05]looks looks fantastic

[97:08]just thinking about things guys just think about getting older this list actually really

[97:15]bummed me out big time oh i thought it was a positive list well i mean hey that's kind of

[97:21]like this album right we've got this album coming in at 116 okay uh 116 and is this a positive thing

[97:29]like russell thinks his list about getting old was the very positive things of getting old and

[97:33]songs about getting old uh and by the way i'm glad you didn't include the wreck of the edmund

[97:37]fitzgerald on there because that uh had made two previous lists russell so we couldn't use it but

[97:42]that's also about getting older

[97:43]i'm

[97:45]because you start thinking like hey maybe a job where i'm on a boat away from my family for months

[97:49]at a time actually not that bad doesn't sound that like a big of a deal sounds good uh is this album

[97:56]good is this a place at 116 a good place to put this album listen we wanted 80s pop and we kind

[98:03]of got 80s pop here a little bit um and if you agree at 116 this is a rolling well toned if you

[98:10]think this album should have been higher okay i mean think about all the other gloomscapes albums

[98:14]we've done

[98:15]should this been higher than those that would be a rolling bone it should have been up higher

[98:20]it should have been better or is this list a lot like getting older okay anytime you stand up or

[98:26]sit down you know what sounds going to come out oh yeah this is this album a rolling groan should

[98:33]not have been at 116 should have been farther back russell what do you think rolling well

[98:37]toned rolling bone or rolling groan i'm kind of torn on this one i enjoyed some of the synths and

[98:43]some of the or i don't know if you'd call it orchestral or whatever but i think it's a good

[98:45]what you'd call the music kind of the vibe that it gave you i don't know if you guys called it

[98:48]soundscape or what the right term is for it but it was really beautiful to listen to and

[98:53]you can kind of sit back and be introspective while listening to it but for me i read that

[98:58]this um you know they were one of the biggest bands in the world they were selling out like

[99:02]wembley stadium and giant stadium in 1989 that's when that's when i was a kid and i don't even

[99:06]remember listening to any songs from the cure so i think it's kind of weird that they were so huge

[99:11]when i was a kid but i'd had i don't know anything about them i would have never known that they

[99:15]were a big band so for me it's kind of weird that they're this high on the list but i definitely see

[99:20]how they could be very influential for future bands but for me it's just probably not what i'm

[99:24]going to come back and listen to over and over so i'm going to say it's rolling groan it's too high

[99:28]on the list rosie what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling groan robert smith

[99:33]and the ohio state buckeyes yeah as we talked about this album starts out great the first

[99:39]four to five tracks i think they really make a cool sound they set the stage i

[99:45]think that that's kind of when you guys ask about what i think robert smith's voice i think on

[99:49]pictures of you that's when it's at its best uh but just the rest of the album to me just doesn't

[99:54]live up to the to the first half it got kind of long it lost me a little bit and uh we talked

[99:59]about 80s pop but still no madonna so i think i'm gonna have to call this one a rolling roll

[100:03]what one of these kind of sound didn't i mean come on you don't think this sounded a little bit like

[100:09]vogue i agree with you yeah no no i mean yeah you're totally right but i just think that like

[100:15]i just don't know as an album

[100:17]let's hear it for the boys

[100:22]sorry uh matt what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling

[100:29]groan to be fair i wanted to hear 80s synth pop you guys wanted to hear 80 pop i wanted to hear

[100:36]80s synth pop so i absolutely loved listening to this album but listened to it multiple times

[100:42]and then started just listening to the first four or five songs then

[100:45]started diving into is this like depressing synth pop you know compared to like in excess and you

[100:53]know the pet shop boys and i you know i really started getting into what kind of synth 80s

[100:58]synth pop do i like and this is the stuff i like the depressing alternative stuff oh my god

[101:03]think about getting old and all this stuff and so so this is stuff like i i i this is the era and the

[101:14]music that i've been listening to for a long time and i've been listening to it for a long time and

[101:15]i've been listening to it for a long time and i've been listening to it for a long time and i've been

[101:15]into right now trying to figure out what exactly my avenue is um in this so i loved listening to

[101:23]this album you love that kate bush album too right yeah no it was great things like that um talking

[101:30]heads was listening a lot of talking heads lately you know things like that uh pet shop boys a little

[101:35]poppy a little weird i don't know not not into them as much but trying to figure out to rosie's

[101:41]point and i think we've all said it the first five four or five songs actually i've been listening to

[101:45]excellent the bottom just falls out on this album so i'm gonna say it's roll it should be lower on

[101:50]the list should be meanings it has a higher number so that means it's rolling grown i haven't given

[101:55]a rolling grown in a while is that is it rolling grown means it shouldn't be so high it's not very

[101:59]good yeah so i think it should be you know on the list but it shouldn't be this high up there's

[102:04]plenty of albums that are a little bit more fuller and more complete if you ask me yeah i think this

[102:11]is an album where like if you're just depressed about like things but you can't quite put your

[102:15]on it this is the album to listen to yeah if you're depressed about siamese dream by uh yeah

[102:19]smashing pumpkins listen to that man that'll put you in a really weird spot if you're depressed

[102:23]and you know exactly what's bugging you go back and listen to the smiths like that's a much like

[102:27]direct this is kind of more more roundabout you're so funny man the stuff you're listening

[102:31]to it's just so funny to me i think this is a rolling depression i mean this again wait this

[102:38]can't be a wrong depression this was the smiths two weeks ago was a rolling depression oh man

[102:45]where's our song about the repeated bits this is good night this is good night guys guess what

[102:54]you're the only ones who ever going to hear this bit because this gets i gotta tell you guys you're

[102:58]all incorrect okay because this gets a rolling integration disintegration this is this is the

[103:07]album and definitely not because i already did that one for the smiths and i remember that uh

[103:13]listen this is this is like an

[103:15]album though where he is going through it and he's talking about it and like he's having a rough time

[103:20]and things are not going well uh and he has the ability to talk about it and express his feelings

[103:26]instead of just not talking to his wife and hoping things get better like that

[103:30]that's not as good of a way to solve the problem okay and i wrote these notes a week ago i just

[103:35]want to remind you so things are going fine now i thought this was for sure a segue into next

[103:40]week's album no i'm not going through some stuff ironically a trip to the apple orchard improved

[103:45]my marriage it was why it's i gotta tell you guys that story that's a wild story rob was that ranking

[103:50]before after your wife heard you playing the the song where you were clanking pots and pans

[103:54]everything's it's it's like my marriage is like it's bc no pd past dishes time like that's

[104:02]my marriage before the dishes and after the dishes next up

[104:05]we look at a tv channel that only showed kathy lee's co-host after 11 p.m

[104:15]it's late regis station by kanye west

[104:19]guys i'm not saying that it's a grave digger but you couldn't possibly make the wheels bigger

[104:28]that's a little taste for the parody song actually

[104:30]it's about grave digger so we have to talk about grave digger now so it works

[104:35]beck did it better guys i actually came across an old magazine in my basement

[104:45]a penthouse i thought i would read you the dear penthouse is that what it's called the penthouse

[104:48]letter rob what's it called i thought it was the forum because it's actually like the greeks it's

[104:53]actually yes it's the forum it says dear penthouse then later on on the drive home i called rob's

[104:58]wife from a payphone i said i was the cops and your husband j husbands in jail the state looks

[105:04]down on jokes about anal bleaching what's my age again russell i would pay 780 dollars for that

[105:15]that's a no-brainer

[105:18]i'll go to the concert with you man all right you guys i don't know how you put up with me

[105:26]i was i could not find it today goodbye we gotta play goodbye yeah it's time to say

[105:33]it's time to say oh how's brian how's brian's kids gonna know the show's over

[105:45]it's time to say

[105:47]are we talking about the viking are we talking about the oh okay yeah

[106:02]yeah i was gonna be an nfl player and i decided not to do that

[106:14]you

[106:15]all right