Mary J. Blige: My Life (1994)

[0:00]Oh guys i almost started without it i always did it In 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text that celebrated the music excoriated the order And led us to making this podcast we are far from experts and we promise to do almost no research I've got nipple gongs greg can you gong me all opinions are our own unless you disagree please Sit back and enjoy becca did it better we are all the way up to album 126 our journey through the Next quarter of the albums god damn it i gotta edit that out i had so much energy and then i Fucking blow it like that well see you guys later good show and from 1994 it's the album that Jumped all the way up on the last time this album jumped all the way up from 281 yeah it sounds like My weight freshman year of college it's my life by mary j blige okay so no laughs on that So we're off to a strong start thank you so much down to 126 i would love to see those photos

[1:00]That's like if rob only if rob was only one leg and it had to do a water cut he'd be at 126 So here's the deal okay you know what we're not messing around today we're gonna make this A quick we're gonna make this a quick episode let's get right yes guys listen we are Gonna turn on the radio and let's just see what's on and you know what it could be anything it could Be any channel i'm just gonna flip the dial let's go to a Random station it's not a big deal everybody welcome to k-rob Hi is this k-rob yes it is i i just wanted to say that i miss my husband Use the downstairs bathroom and i love it i recommend everyone does it this way So do we have downstairs Downstairs bathroom Yes upstairs good no no okay

[2:00]That's the real story i got a note from my wife she wants to talk to me She's mad at piss standing up because it's manly She doesn't want any strife so she told me Me Matt you need to go downstairs when you See My wife is telling me when i need to take it Some personal time or a bathroom break Downstairs is where i'm assigned it's where i find time To unwind So i put in something just for me Helps keep me so clean I know i'm the man of my house

[3:00]Some guys run their house I don't need to listen to my spouse That's the guy that runs his house But i go down anyway Because i like to blast off with my Birthday I got the water pressure turned up In there Now the joke's on my wife Because she never sees me If you see my anus it's a plus clean It's like a car wash for my b-u-t-t And i can fill myself up if i get thirsty When you want to hear about the greatest Hey whoever that caller was sounded nervous

[4:00]Look it up Definitely all right He was If you want to hear from guys who chat And then they get off track I've got the perfect podcast for you jack Beck did it better You make it this far and it's the first time you've said the word anus in a song That's actually really impressive Yeah well you know you find a rhyme for it I think i like that rhyme b-u-t-t But the idea of matt being like i'm so thirsty And then using his bidet and be like i'm not thirsty anymore Like that made me laugh so hard when i was recording it I left it in You can hear me laugh at my own joke All right listen Welcome to back to better We are talking about mary g day blige my life And with me i've got three guys You know what they're 90s kids Okay so they're gonna know this album like crazy I've got matt in minneapolis Matt how are you doing Great just great rob thanks for having me Gotta go use the bathroom but i'll be back And i've got somebody who changed his name today to puffy daddy

[5:00]I've got russell at minnesota russell how are you doing Oh guys podcasting on a tuesday night We're not gonna cuss and fight We're just gonna make it right Oh there's work to do I want to get real close to you Like matt's bidet I want to get you in the mood All we can do is think about matt's bidet It's all that's running through our minds Matt's running it on his little brain downstairs We're just running it on his little brain downstairs We're just running it on his little brain downstairs Running through our big brain upstairs And listen out in california i've got a guy Now aaron actually it was He had a bit of a medical emergency this week He he ate six toy horses He accidentally ate six toy horses But you know what the good news was aaron I called the hospital See how are you doing And the doctor said your condition was stable Condition was stable Stable Aaron how are you doing All right rob what i got will make you spend money Let's talk about mary j blige Nice I like that Speaking of which vegas is coming up I am not going to bet this week of the playoffs

[6:00]Just to get my tolerance back up So i'm ready It's going to be great And you guys are going to hear with our live recording Just how bad i'm and we're going to sound in vegas Because we're going to get My plan is guys we're going to get absolutely Capital b blasted And do an episode Great Yeah Speaking of which man before i forget Do you want me to bring a package of gummies from new york for you Yeah Okay I can buy them so i'll bring them and that'll be no problem Yeah Otherwise just know what the dosage is would you So you're not giving us the 50s again That wasn't right I'm gonna keep it in the shop That wasn't right I said to russell don't have another one Don't tell me what to do I'll have another one if i want to Listen I literally i it was one We can keep this in i don't care It was but it was one o'clock in the afternoon And i could not pick up my chips That was as high as i've ever been in my life I could not We were playing blackjack And i had to go Because i could not put in My next bet Was that the one where the dealer told the same story 10 times Were you there at that table No matt was gone by that Jesus christ

[7:00]The guy told the same story And joe About a high roller Yeah and joe and i rustled looked at each other We're like he just told that story the ninth time right Like we're not crazy right It was one of those times where you're like this isn't fun anymore This is not good But we're gonna do it all over again I then had the greatest time of my life Looking at the jimmy the margaritaville color green And thinking about all the other things that are that same color Like mountain dew Slime from nickelodeon Nickelodeon slime And it just cracked me up that was such a unique color The only disappointing thing about it is we're going a week later this year right And i did get a text from the richfield guys Wondering if we were going to meet up on saturday night at the king's car And i had to inform they weren't And so they may or may not be trying to bribe the bartender Into looking out for one of you guys who they have a picture of To see if they can get a shot the next week That was of course the infamous time Where they somehow put a shot into a giant draft beer draft glass And we're like here somebody drink this And somebody drank it

[8:00]And then that's the next thing i know the next morning We're looking through the photos And we're like going through all these different casinos I was like i don't remember that Don't remember that Not great Listen let's get right into the voicemail This is a positive voicemail song On the back line 802-277-BECK That's 802-277-BECK I almost called you a dumb shit just out of habit I fucking did it This is a quick one I fucking did it Did aaron hear about gangster boo or ip I yes aaron so that is a caller from memphis Who was wondering if you heard about gangster boo Now aaron can you explain what's going on Yes gangster boo sadly passed away last weekend Or i think the weekend of new year's perhaps And she is one of the original members of three six mafia One of the hardest Rappers to ever come along And the hardest rap groups that ever came out She got her start I read a really great Eulogy of her by tom bryan

[9:00]Who's an excellent rap blogger And she got her start at age 15 in three six And was just You hear her right there She was full of swagger Full of life And unfortunately yeah Passed away this last weekend But i do appreciate our listener reaching out And one of the things i want to say is If you think a little kim is dirty like gangster boo's got some stuff for you I don't know wait a minute now i'm not more interested Who are the dirtiest female rappers of all time here And if you were going to do a mini list Who are the dirtiest female rappers ever It's like there's gotta be him on there or not Yeah it's gotta be little kim and gangster boo Oh man i don't know Is the lady of rage dirty or no Not that dirty i don't think Not the like I mean i i think that Who's the gal now Oh what's her name Megan the stallion is Yeah Is trying to get into Megan the stallion She's trying to break into that top two She's fantastic

[10:00]Yeah Yeah I think she's probably the most talented Yeah Now i want to I want to make something very clear with you I had a date tonight to make love to my wife And instead she found out i was doing the podcast She's like oh we'll just move it And i was like So i just want to show you guys how committed i am to the podcast that i'm here Okay If we get through fast enough I was thinking to myself Is there still time or no If if she said to me If she said to me One thing That like they say in wop You know what i mean Like if she was like Oh use your nose Like you credit card swipe I would in my pants Like that would be the hottest thing Ever Instead of like what i normally hear Which is like Oh my hair Ouch Ouch my hair You're on my hair You're on my hair I think i've got jenny's number I could just send her a quick text It feels like It seems like she's not listening She could really pick up some pointers Matt what exactly would that text say Rob would like you to quote The song that you wrote for me Wet ass pussy to him Yeah Oh yeah Yeah As foreplay First of all See what happens I don't think she knows what that song is

[11:00]Second of all She wouldn't do it Like that's not I mean rob just said It's basically five play So she doesn't even have to make the date She just recites the lyrics And that's it Yeah she might like that actually Less contact I love I'll say it again I love dirty female rappers I just i cannot get enough of it There's something about it that's I mean it really deep down It's super deep Super erotic Don't you think like It's just I mean honestly Beyonce kind of gets an honorable mention now Like she really is up to her Up to her dirty Dirty lyrics game So i i think she gets a shout out too Oh man i just i i don't know Russell what do you think about dirty female rappers Do you Does it tickle your pickle Or what's going on here I i swiped on as many dirty female rappers When i was back in the In the dating game And oh A lot of swipe rights A lot of matches rob How many licks does it take to the Get to the middle of the tootsie pop Or whatever There we go Yeah that was the brat right The brat's gotta be up there too Is foreplay one word or two F-o-r-e-p-l-a-y

[12:00]Is that how you spell foreplay Oh my god you're sending the text That would be That would be a great opening bumble line Wouldn't it matt Is foreplay what two words Or one word or two Dirty rappers is what russ calls all the Used up dental dams on his bedroom floor Oh geez What Oh jeez It's time to see what everybody's up to Can you imagine going into like a duane reed And being like Hey do you use any dental dams I mean at some point you just put a condom On your tongue right What Squeeze the tip before you put it on It could go anywhere Rolling going aaron How's it going with you It's going great I have made a musical rediscovery Over the last Month It's been a long time since we talked I think the last time we chatted We russell asked what my son's Thought of the nine inch nails record Or maybe the youtube record And i said he was pretty Yeah so we didn't get through much youtube Because he was really stuck on elvis costello

[13:00]But i got tired over christmas break Of elvis costello So i thought well maybe i'll try some green day And see what he thinks So i put on There you go I put dukey on Favorite And from it's eddie's favorite Well yeah Boulevard of broken dreams But yeah eddie's into green day now So yeah it's so great Like i put it on he immediately was like He said who's this song artist He wanted to know right away Are you talking about mike dirt Yeah right And i gotta say guys I'm i might have a new policy That everything is going to be rolling Grown until we get to Until we get to do That album is so good I don't understand how we haven't heard it yet It's so good And i know it's You know what year it came out You know what year it came out rosie I do because we talked about this 1994 1994 Greatest year of all time You hear aaron's kid walking around going All by myself It's like oh my god He found the mystery song

[14:00]How do you even do that anymore Am i just down Aaron is your Is your son at the age Where a term dookie Is super funny to him Or is he still a little below that age Or where's he at in the The potty humor Russell i just want to stop everybody Russell that's a great question Poop is still absolutely at the At the top of the heap for humor But he's still at the top of the heap He did not know what the term dookie meant So once we told him then yeah he was over the moon But i did get my nephew a birthday card this last weekend And he's turning seven So he's in the prime age Matt you rob You might know better than i do But he seems like he's in the prime age Where about every 10 minutes is some sort of Poop or fart joke from him right And that's yeah So i played right into it as an uncle And i got him a birthday card Where it had kind of like the christmas poo on the front And in the middle of the card it said It's your duty to have a good time And he got a kick out of it being his duty To have a good day I mean poop jokes never really get old You know my kids thought that was so funny

[15:00]When they were seven The works of chaucer They love the canterbury tales okay Because my kids are actually super educated Oh the baker ho ho ho What a funny story or whatever I had to read that shit in high school It's terrible The works we've been getting into are calvin and hobbes We got a calvin and hobbes book from the library And he will not let us return this thing We're just continually renewing it And i think that's a good thing I i didn't realize until reading this That hobbes is actually a stuffed tiger And everyone else knows that hobbes is stuffed And he comes alive just for calvin I always just thought he was like a figment of calvin's imagination Never understood that hobbes is actually a real life Did you have a childhood What the fuck is your problem I have been nice to you for a couple episodes I don't know But this is ridiculous Like do you think that garfield actually talks to john arbuckle Like you need to go on a whole comics discovery No it's thought Bubbles look at his thought bubbles every time he does it What do you mean garfield's not actually talking to the man Oh my god it's fucking thought bubbles

[16:00]I'm surrounded by idiots So really like garfield's not he's just thinking to himself Yeah he's a cat He's a cat But it's a comic book Look at it's all thought bubbles Garfield never says anything Although in this comic he is saying z So i think that's snoring But there you go He's no look at he's this one Oh he's just thinking the whole time While john arbuckle is talking Yeah it's a cat So you really i i'll tell you what I was a calvin and hobbes addict growing up Like i had every book i read them constantly And i read them till i was like way too old I read them till i was like 16 18 Like religiously i'd read them all the time And then you know what comic i really got into Dilbert for some reason I love dilbert I love the work-paced comedy And then all of a sudden it turned out Probably not I mean that is a concern Like calvin hobbes is like in the wrong hands It could be a gateway to to certain Attitudes you know like the You like you don't want to get too straight Too far from sincerity at this age right Like you don't want to get into sarcasm too early But yeah i didn't realize

[17:00]No i got into sarcasm really earlier And it actually worked out great No big deal don't worry about it Or if he starts getting into garfield too early He'll just eat a lot of lasagna And have a weight problem Yeah He likes the garfield There's a netflix garfield show he likes And garfield swims in a sea of marinara And then the final thing i gotta tell you guys I don't know if you've seen it I have a i mean you guys know i have problems But i've realized i have a new problem Which is that i can't stop buying tote bags Like i just have too many Huge problem Yeah i went into the wine shop the other day That i've been going to forever And it was like oh we finally have our own tote bag With our logo on it I was like well obviously i need to spend $34 on this tote bag Like no wait a minute $34 for a wine tote bag You know what It was a bag who bag I'm hitting you And i haven't hit this one in a while That was errant Second left field take of the week I don't know what i'm gonna do

[18:00]I'm holding one here that i got from my brother's resort Yes A tote bag should always be a free giveaway You should never have to pay for a tote bag Or like two bucks Russell did you hear how much he paid for the tote bag I did i didn't want it It's a very nice bag It's a nice bag $34 for a tote bag I would tell that wine store to kiss my cork If they offered me $34 for a tote bag That tote bag better That tote bag better You know what i think If aaron put his son's lightsaber in the tote bag It would be the same cost as one year of college Yeah that's an idea Yeah this tote bag doubles as a dental dam Does anybody else have an addiction that they Or is it tote bags for everybody I well mine's a little bit different Is that i cannot find the proper bag Like all in one bag And i keep trying to find the proper bag Whether it be a backpack Whether it be like an airplane carry-on I cannot find the right one Either it doesn't have enough room

[19:00]For like my second pair of shoes Or it doesn't have a water carrier You know to put a thing Or you can't easily sleep I cannot find a perfect bag And so i am ever on the quest To find the most perfect bag I don't want it too big Don't want it too small I don't want like a thing over my You know i it's got to either have wheels Or i got to be able to put on my bag But it can't be too big on your back So i don't know That's my problem Is i keep trying to find the most perfect bag For work and for travel But who knows Yeah it's bad You know what my wife's addiction is And this is sick It's powerlifting knee sleeves I bet she has eight pairs of knee sleeves All different sizes for what she gains Or loses weight And she buys new ones all the time People be like this one's really good And she just buys it I'm like what I've used the same pair of knee sleeves For like the last five years It's not good for me It's fine It's it's fucking knee sleeves You should probably wash them Sometimes i do My knees don't smell that bad So that's it that's my problem

[20:00]How's it going rolling going with russell Rolling going things are going well Do you guys know we're coming out of the holidays And i need to go to the dating advice corner To get some feedback on how i may have handled Some situations over the last few weeks A little update A little update Pretty warm there As a secondary note i'm also single I'll i might be after this episode but we'll find out You keep saying that so so as you guys know we talked a few weeks ago about how What the rules are with going to someone you're dating's parents house or Their family's house whether how much time you have to spend Do you have to spend the night those types of things so i thought i could Fill you guys in on how this situation went for me Tell you how i handled some of the situations you can tell me whether i did The right thing or didn't do the right thing is that all right to you Sounds great so i think the first question has to be Especially for people who live in minnesota minneapolis area i know east coast has had bad

[21:00]Weather recently what is the rule about going to an in-laws or someone you're dating's parents Or their family if the roads are really bad let's say the government is saying advising you not to Go on the roads not to travel if it were your own family it's easy to just say no we're not doing it But when it's someone else's family it's easy to just say no we're not doing it But when it's someone else's family it's easy to just say no we're not doing it It's a little different what are the rules about traveling It's a little different what are the rules about traveling Under treacherous conditions to someone's house Under treacherous conditions to someone's house Under treacherous conditions to someone's house don't do it you don't do it i have Don't do it you don't do it i have Don't do it you don't do it i have personal experience with this we we Personal experience with this we we Personal experience with this we we delayed our flight because we didn't Delayed our flight because we didn't Delayed our flight because we didn't want to travel under the treacherous Want to travel under the treacherous Want to travel under the treacherous conditions i'm on your side russell And did you face any grief over that decision or anything, Aaron, or no? No, I don't think so. I think people understood. Russell, let's, let me just put it this way. I think there's a certain type of person in this world where if they really want to go Do something, you just got to suck it up and go do it. Otherwise your life is going to be capital M miserable for a while. You just, if they say, listen, this is my family. I know we could die.

[22:00]Let's go drive through a snowstorm and go see him. You just, it's just, your life's going to be, honestly, if you go 360 and fall off a Cliff, that will be better than the, what will happen if you don't, if you just say, Oh, I don't want to go. And then it's a little snowy and icy and stuff like that. It was a little snowy and icy and we were making it, I believe it was, under The 90 minute rule, as you guys said, I looked it up. So it was under the 90 minute rule, but, made our way down to this place about 90 minutes away. And about 20 minutes in the drive, you realize it's horrible road conditions. You can barely stay on the road. You can't see. And this is even in like the highways where super icy, nerve wracking, white knuckling At the whole time. Now, can I just ask a question real quick? Yeah. Was anybody else in the car just talking to you this whole time? Like maybe nothing was happening. It wasn't a big deal. They were just chatting away and maybe you were trying to focus on the road. You got really stressed about it. No, for the most part, this person was very understanding that the road conditions were Good. The only discussion we had, I've got a question though, which day was this?

[23:00]Was it Friday, Saturday, Thursday? Like. Sunday, which day of that weekend was it? I don't, I'd have to go look. Let's say it's Christmas. Let's say it's Christmas Eve, whatever day it was. You still know everything was like, don't drive that day. So we, we decided to drive. We were informed. We were informed and we look in it. Certain roads in this general vicinity are closed. They are closed at this point. So our strategy is we'll wait a little bit later in the afternoon to when they're open. Cause that makes sense, right? We got to just wait. Just wait for them to be cleared and then it won't be so bad. But the first, the one question I would have is if you're going on a trip Like this and Google maps tells you to go one way and the person you're riding With, let's call them your shotgun person is telling you to go a different way. And they've driven this route before. Do you listen to Google maps or do you listen to your shotgun person? Google maps, a hundred percent. Google maps. Absolutely. I can tell you some people when you get out into maybe, I don't know,

[24:00]Maybe like a very country area. Like the roads they want you to take are barely roads. They are like little trails through cornfields and there's no way they're going to be plowed Whatsoever. I think you got to stick with Google maps, but honestly, if I'm in that situation again, Russell, you got to listen to them. Otherwise your life is just going to be miserable. That's the way it is. Yeah. You're out there going through Glencoe and Silver Lake and you don't know what the hell Street you're supposed to turn on. I'd stick with Google maps too. So I did go with Google maps. I did hear about this about halfway when I was going down a cliff in Henderson, terrified. I, we were going to fall off the cliff that they said, well, the only bad part of this Route is now we've got to go back up the hill, which is even worse than going down, which My shotgun person told me, at that point in the trip, but I didn't listen to them. I decided to go with Google maps. I don't know if it was the right decision or not, but I once spun a three 60 on that Very hill. I know exactly what you're talking about in a very similar situation. I'm just going to no comment and say that nobody mentioned that a similar incident to

[25:00]Me during this trip, Rob. Well, If you guys are both on this road, it must be a pretty popular road. Then if you've both traveled, I would travel to the same place, right? Russ and I are both taking that road less traveled. So let's say hypothetically, a few minutes after I get to this road where Rob maybe has Spun out in his life, I realize there is no way I can drive home that night. I can't leave in the dark because you can literally barely see in the daytime, the road You understand that like you have to. You have to make a choice and you have to commit. There's no, we can't drive back at night. What are you saying? I, yeah, I'm just picturing, I'm picturing Russell is talking out of the left side of His mouth on the way out. God, we should be going. No, we could, we should not be in this. And then on the way home, it's, oh, we can get through this. We'll make it home. No problem. We're not going to handle anything. So we, so I make the decision about 20 minutes from our destination because I, I like, I

[26:00]Don't know if. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I can be a nervous driver. If I'm by myself, it usually doesn't bother me, but when other people are with me, I tend To be a nervous driver if the roads are bad. And I was like, I can't see the road in the middle of the day when the sun's out. I don't see how we can go back at night in this. Right? No, of course. I make the call with you. I tell the shotgun partner in my car. I bet they have lots of toothbrushes there. Actually, you actually never need to bring one. It's not a big deal. You've got to tell your family. We have to stay the night. I can't, I can't drive out in this. I'll lose my mind. So we are officially staying the night despite being at 89 miles away. So the plan worked. So the plan works. So we get there and the question, it's like a Venus flytrap. Russell goes in. He's like, Oh, what is this delicious nectar? I'm just going to have a little sip. And next thing you know, everything's closing around him and stuck. So speaking of things being stuck. So I, I am a planner. I, I, I am always prepared. I bring stuff with me just in case.

[27:00]So like I have a bag. I have a backpack with the clothes in it, just in case I need something on a trip like that. Right? Right. And we get there and immediately are my shotgun partner tells me, well, they don't have any change of clothes if we're staying the night. So they need to go to town because they need a change of clothes. So we get there and immediately my shotgun partner and five of the family members jump in a truck and leave me at the house with three of the family members that I don't know very well. What are your thoughts on being left with random? Family members that you've maybe only met once or twice in your life. It's a good test. It's a good test for you. I, I, I applaud this shotgun rider of yours or whoever. They were really thinking through. Yeah. Is this are thinking through this? I can just. One, they trapped you there. Two, they trapped you with some family. You don't know. I mean, they're, yeah, they're, this is some checkers versus chess being played by the shotgun. You think it was on purpose you're saying? Oh, for sure. Yeah. For sure. They're, they're putting the, they're, they're dropping in. They're, they're seeing, they're like putting little spies around.

[28:00]Russell, my advice there is just start. Drinking. I mean, what are you going to do? You're just like, Hey, you're, you're in it. Just start drinking, loosen up a little bit. Talk with that family. I will say this. Yeah. Hey, give me your phones. I'm going to download a podcast for you. They were all very nice. They were all very hospitable. The shotgun partner's mother actually offered me wine immediately when I got there. Very hospitable people. Very nice. So it wasn't awkward or anything. We, we had a good time and, but there were definitely family members that had been There for like three days and had been stuck in the house. And the. The moment they had a chance to get out, like half the people jumped in the truck and we're Like, yeah, we're going to the store. The one thing I did is I didn't know if these people, if they drink at holiday events or Something like that, if we're supposed to bring anything, I brought some wine down just In case, like, it can't hurt to bring it and people can drink it if they want. So, but I, I brought more than enough. I'll just put it that way. So my next question is, is if you're at, if you're stuck overnight for something like That, is there a limit on how many glasses of wine or how many drinks?

[29:00]You can have, can you do whatever you want? Do you have to follow like a brother-in-law's lead? If they start having more drinks, can you have more? What's the rules? Wait, did you refer to him as a brother-in-law? You know what I'm what I'm what I'm implying? If it's, if it's, if it's your shotgun partner's brother is, if he's having Some drinks, can you follow his lead or what's the, what's the rule? You got to know yourself, right? I mean, I, I, I cannot follow anybody down. I don't know if it's a shot game or slamming beers or anything like that Would ruin it for me, but you know, you got to know your own game, don't you? If you can hang or not. So what if I think I'm the leader in the pack, but I don't want to Make it clear that I'm the leader of the pack by always being the guy who's going up to Get another glass of wine. If that makes sense. I mean, honestly, to tell you the truth, Russell, I think you do that first time down there Is like, that's, you gotta behave. You gotta behave yourself, right? Like you gotta be good. You gotta do maybe one or two or three or four.

[30:00]Less than you would normally do. Like, I think that would be a good, I think that's a good thing. Now I would say maybe if you've been down there a bunch of times, okay. A couple of times you could just get absolutely blasted and nobody cares at all. It is your time to do whatever you want because everybody thinks you're wonderful for being With just being there in the first place. That's what I would do. I think it's just about it's about managing the perception. So why is difficult if they see you getting up to do the refill? That's, that's problematic, but if you can find a way to do those refills on the slide, Maybe keep your glass at the same level all the time, so it's never empty or If you switch from wine to something else you get the tumbler Full of a liquid with ice in it and you know, you just roll with that for the night And nobody knows exactly what old Russ is drinking, but he's feeling good. An opaque glass. That is a classic move. An opaque glass. And you start with just putting Diet Coke in there and you pour it right at the table And you just have a big Diet Coke and you're like, hope this doesn't keep me Up tonight. You know what I mean? And the next thing you know, you're in the bathroom putting a bunch of whiskey in there.

[31:00]Oh, but just got to go back to the bathroom real quick. They hear you moving the toilet tank around. Hey, what is that guy doing in there? I kind of thought the key was just to get one person on your side. As long as you have one person in the building who's kind of on your team, I think that's The way to go. So at, at this house, there was a gentleman there who, nobody was ever offering to Get him a glass of wine when they got up. A lot of times people get up, they'd say, Hey Aaron, do you need some Rob? Do you need Matt? Do you need something? And no one was offering this gentleman anything and he kind of made a point about That. So the next time I got up to grab a glass of wine, I said, Sir, can I grab you anything while I'm up? And all of a sudden he's on team Russ. You know what I'm saying? Does that make sense? How could you resist? We're all on team Russ. I mean, let's just do it. You want to make sure it's not the, the outlaw of the family, right? You don't want to be the excommunicated uncle that you're. Hey Russell, you want to do go do Coke with me in the bathroom? The guy that everybody's trying to not have drink anymore. So either way that the night's going good.

[32:00]I find. I find like all these Christmas cookies come out there. There's not a better, like when you find your groove of, Oh, there's a ton Of Christmas cookies. I can have as much as I want. No one cares. Like they want you to eat. Oh, try everything. Right. That's what they're all there for. And I've hit my groove. Like I'm, I'm having a bunch of wine, but I'm not overdoing it. So I'm doing good. A good time and everything. I was curious about this though. I was talking with one of the people who lived at this house and I asked him cause they've Got a bunch of real nice couch set up. It's very cool. And I asked him, I said, well, Hey, Where do you normally sit when you're here? And he said, well, actually I sit right where you were at, but I, but you're a guest. So I didn't say anything. So what do you guys do? He didn't go out of his way to say, Hey, you're in my spot. But when I asked, I said, where do you sit? He was like, well, you were actually in my spot. What do you guys have ever sat in someone's spot? How do you handle that? Russell? You are now the king of the castle. You could tell that whole family to go eat shit because this is Russell's world.

[33:00]They're just living in it. Oh, I think that's a tough spot because you can't just get up immediately. Like you can't, you can't, you can't like just say like, Oh, so sorry. And get up. You have to figure out a way to let everybody save face and maybe make it up at a later Date, but you have to just say thank you and enjoy it for that moment. So again, it was not, there was no, he didn't say it. The person didn't say anything to me. I just asked and it turned out the spot I'd been sitting in for most of the time while I was there was kind of his spot, but he was very good. He was very gracious about it. So that was very nice of him. But the, I got, I get through the first night. Everything's great. Everyone's we play some games. Everyone's having fun. His bed is whose bed is this that I'm sleeping in this bed is so comfortable. I love it. Which woman do you usually sleep in bed with? Well, I guess it's fine. What share am I sleeping? Okay. Porridge. Which bowl of porridge is my porridge? Oh, okay. Russell locks to the three bears. Shouldn't have. So everything goes well the night, that night.

[34:00]So the next day the goal was eventually to get to my family's. We realize it's probably not happening because of the roads, but I'm fine with that. There's no worries there. And so we eventually decide, well, my shotgun writer has another family event at a different Person's house. So at an aunt and uncle's house, what is the rule? Are you obligated to go to two family events at different homes within a 24 hour period? Yep. What are you going to do if you say no, what's your option? I'm just going to stay here and kind of roam us through your guys' stuff. I don't know. It's a big deal. Like I'll just stick here. It's no big deal. I don't think it was sticking there. It was, we're either going home. The day is done or we're going to another family type Christmas event within The same day. So the last question I had, so everything's going well here, but I when you Go somewhere, people are very gracious. They want to offer you a drink. So I get there and one of the people that own this house insists that I have a beer. So I grab a beer from them. They give me a beer.

[35:00]It's very nice. The beer. And then another person who lives at this house comes up and insists that I try this Scotch that they have. They're a big Scotch drinker. They want me to try this Scotch. I finally, I just give in fine. What? Fine. I'm happy to try it. Now I'm the guy who's holding two drinks. I'm sitting on the couch, two drinks, and this is when everyone descends on the football Room. And now I'm, I'm the new guy who's holding two drinks at one time. How do you handle that? Yeah, that's a, that's not a great look, Russell, you just don't, you just hand one To somebody on the couch next to you. So essentially I just pounded the beer as quick as I could, got rid of the bottle and Then, and then it sat there with the Scotch. That's perfect. That is so funny though. Russell, you picture like, oh, okay. Yeah. I'll have the second drink. And then everybody comes in and you're sitting there. It was not optimal timing.

[36:00]But I will say everyone was very nice. There's nothing, those types of things can be intimidating, but when everyone Is very nice to you and very gracious and lets you into their home, it's, it's a very Nice thing. So I had a great time at both places and I think I survived each of them, but, we'll See. I might be cut off from wine, Christmas cookies and other things. Next time I go to any of these places, okay, Russell, when we're done with this podcast, We'll have a real conversation about how it went when you really Matt Roland going, how's It going with you? Good. Good. I got, man. I got, I've got a, I've got a problem. I think I do so well taking these notes. You guys can see you've got the app on this thing. You're typing now. You're not even and I, I've got the third one now that I have no idea what the Fuck it means. So it's flashlight. See Menzies. It's what was the other one? It was photos of feet. I'm the creeper. And now it's elbow guy would have worn nicer socks and I have no idea, and I think it has

[37:00]Something to do with. Something at, at a fuck fest, if somebody would have worn nicer socks or something, And I'm trying to remember what it was, but I have no idea about holiday party, right? I gotta say elbow guy, the fuck fest. That only makes me think of one thing, macho man. No, no. It's yellow guy. It's you fucking somebody's elbow like this because you thought it was something else In the dark. And you're like, oh, you're kind of getting into that crevice. Yeah. You're kind of doing like what they used to call the bagpipes where you do it. Somebody's armpit. They'd go like this with their arm. The worst is when they guys know what I'm talking about. They flex a little bit and you get a little more constriction that you were expecting, Rob. Yeah. They're really just the macho man. Yeah. They're released. Oh yeah. I like those socks. Those are nicer than my socks. The best socks for a fuck fest would be one that you get from like a trampoline place. Have you ever gone where you get the special socks that had the grip on the bottom? You could, you could put those feet up on the wall.

[38:00]Those feet. Anywhere. You wouldn't like slip in a tub or anything, would you? No. And even if they wanted you to get real slippery for some reason on a tarp or whatever, You're not moving. You're the king. You're the one eyed man in the land of the blind. So my hope is that we'll be, we'll be in Vegas next week and I'll be slightly inebriated Typing these things up and then you guys will be able to help me. That's right. Better notes. Yeah. We're there. Taking better notes. You know, this is a music podcast. Is this a music podcast, Rosie? I think it's supposed to be a music podcast. And I, I'm going to jump a little bit ahead only because I, I started listening to half This album and then just cut it off because I've been obsessed with this band that I didn't Really know about. I mean, I knew about them, but didn't really know about them called LCD sound system, Which is kind of this dance, rock, hippie, rock, electronic rock group that came Out and they've got this, there's this new movie and Rosie's probably heard of it called White noise. It's kind of really artsy fartsy.

[39:00]It's got a Adam driver in it. Right? I think it's on Netflix. Okay. It's like one of those movies that cinematography is off the charts. The story itself is just kind of stupid and dumb and wacky, I guess. And so like, it's really cool. But at the end they have this huge, long, like seven minute outro of all of the, you Know, all these people are dancing in this, like grocery store and it's very choreographed. So it's awesome scene. And I had no idea what the song. I thought it was from the eighties and all of a sudden listened to your favorite station, Rosie and the twin cities here, 89 three, the current, and this song comes on and it's From LCD sound systems. Okay. And I am like, what the hell is this band? All right. I, I swear to God is from 80. So Rob, I think I told you to tee it up, but they've got this song called new body rumba From the movie white noise. And it is like straight up. It's like, synth pop.

[40:00]But it just goes unbelievably cool. And I'm like, Oh, this I've never heard of these guys from, oh, this song Is from September of this year, And I'm like, holy cow. So I'm on this deep dive into LCD sound system. That's my we talked about the songs that were playing over and over. This is my song for this week. So it's a good thing, man. They were, I've never listened to that. It really rocks right here. Like it really kicks in. If you, and it's just this for the next two minutes. And it's, oh man. So Matt. Do you listen to this song or to like all their music now? A lot, all of their music, but this song specifically, especially this last two minutes here, just Goes in heavy, like into like a newer sound, but like I've told you, the synth pop from The eighties, I don't know. You've got a sound. You definitely have a sound, man. I got a sound and then all of a sudden this band comes along and it's like, Oh, people are still making the stuff. Good stuff. That's always, that's always so fun. Isn't it? When you get it, you get hooked on an artist that is, that you really haven't heard before.

[41:00]Like, and it's just kind of like a newer artist and you feel for fleeting second as A 40 year old man, you feel almost hip, right? You feel almost cool. Even though you really, you're like a year behind everything. You're like, ah, No, I know I've heard of them before. Yeah. I will say. I think every time he talks music with us guys, maybe he's the guy, he's the guy with The, the trampoline socks and the fuck fest. He's the genius. I've actually never listened to LCD times. He's the genius. Yeah. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. The genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. He's the genius. Yeah. Yeah.

[42:00]Sound system because i it was too long so the second half goes crazy man it's all Synth pop that's the weird part shit oh i missed it oh well rolling going rob how's it going with You okay now i actually have three things number one these i'm gonna have two quick things number One did anybody watch new year's music shows again is it just me no well i watched a little Bit i did watch a little but i missed a bunch of good stuff i think like miley cyrus's was really Great right yeah and they had belbiv devoe was going with bobby brown whatever new edition it Was new edition no that's funny you texted us and i was like hey turn it on belbiv devoe's on and Then we turn it on and they were like what the hell are you talking about this isn't belbiv devoe And i was like oh no it's new edition yeah i get it wasn't new edition the same as belbiv devoe Minus bobby brown what about ralph trezvan oh i'm sorry ralph i forgot about that That's actually the first time i've ever thought About ralph trezvan number two i want to remind you guys how i find my boxers online one way i

[43:00]Have combated getting older okay is i am doing cool stuff now as you know last year my key to Buying a speedo is i did go to a gay clothing store okay and that got me a nice speedo everybody Complimented me in there and it's great i have found now the best way to buy boxers i believe You had a moon landing at that event right well that's true it was through a curtain though so it Was pretty cool but if you go on amazon and you search boxers best bulge this is the way That you can now buy boxers i'm going to show you guys my boxers real quick what do you think of the Bulge in these boxers check us out are we looking on text or what's going on no not yet on video oh No we're actually looking oh wow oh those are not boxers those are pretty whatever they are what no They're not briefs that's like a lift you're getting your ball sacks getting a lift rob Has got confusion over terms with his underwear i think this okay so how would you just aaron describe Those underwear in detail and do it slowly please they were orange oh yeah they're quite snug and

[44:00]There does seem to be one of those pouches in the front to kind of keep the whole thing high and Tight you know and everybody thinks it's your cock but it's your balls yeah it's a lift it's Lifting everything up it is it's it's like a wonder it's a wonder pouch guys if you are not Wearing these kind of boxers they make you feel sexy as hell Those are 100 not boxers though they're not boxers they're they look like they're orange Whitey tighties they look like yeah they're not whitey tighties they have legs they're very There's no legs on those things rob's rob's too big for those steps what did you fold the legs Up underneath i think all right i mean i see those don't you get chafing do you get some thigh rub Now that actually goes together with why they were folded Up i think my body just does that it kind of eats whatever i'm wearing kind of up into my Crotch area that's just a natural thing that happens but i thought of that when i skittered

[45:00]To the bathroom i was like i wonder if they're wondering what these boxers are about but I sent you guys a text you listen back to the recording we were not i want you to Look at the text i was over the holidays i saw my family i was looking at instagram as something my Dad was looking with me and i said oh let me just go search instagram real quick and i went to one In the history of life and that is the instagram search page now what the instagram search page Does for those of you that don't know is it just shows there's a tiny search bar at the top It's like two percent of the page it's almost non-existent but what it does show you is people On instagram or photos that it thinks you would like okay so according to instagram's algorithm And it's best okay yeah aaron do you want to describe just pick any picture That i sent you and i will be posting this in the instagram of my search page just pick one picture And tell me which one you're looking at and tell me describe to the audience what it is what

[46:00]Did my dad see on my instagram search page hence thinking that this is what i'm way way into Sounds like looks like ronnie coleman on the joe rogan show talking about his body fat percentage That's the one you pick out you gotta be fucking kidding me do you know what a podcast is do you Know what we're trying to do i think you're doing the opposite i was messing with you a little bit It does look it appears to be ladies who are jacked super are bodybuilders of some Maybe one or two ladies who some cartoons some pictures yeah oh there's no cartoons on there Russell no those are all people there's at least three cartoons i think oh there's not there's not Those are real photos zoom in my dude so these are amazon women huge roided up women with six Packs wearing bikinis and almost six-packed women with six-packed women and almost six-packed women Every photo is like from the crotch up it's the dirtiest looking photo and this is what came up When i showed my dad my instagram of like what i said so my dad now thinks that my like fetish

[47:00]Is bodybuilding women is he wrong and you also have paulie from the jersey shore on there it Looks like we're in a shirt that says full send well yeah i mean that's that's kind of the vibe I'm giving off for sure i this instagram page disturbed me i thought about it for days i i Because on one hand what if my dad turned to me and was like i'm proud of you son Listen we are talking about my life by mary j blige music this album okay this is kind of i mean this Is really in my mind the quintessential 90s hip-hop soul album when you really think about Like this is and i've i have how familiar were you guys with this album just real quick I don't think i've heard i don't think i had heard any of the songs before listening to it I know several of the songs but definitely never listened to the album all the way through but yeah It's it's it's genre defining i mean it's bad boy doing what bad boy does yeah so mary j blige is an

[48:00]Interesting story she actually recorded a song in a recording booth in a mall and her mother's Boyfriend took that tape and gave it to somebody at uptown who sent it to andre harrell who is That right here and andre harrell yeah that's how you say it yeah and so we've talked about Andre harrell before when we talked about biggie i think and basically she got brought In to work immediately with puff daddy on an album called what's the 411 because her past Job was that she was actually a 411 operator which i think would be a great job right people Would call and be like hey what time is this movie show you look it up you'd be like 8 20 You know and everybody'd be oh thank you i'd rather be a 511 or 611 operator i don't remember What it was but it's the one that tells you what roads are closed in southern minnesota Not that it was the first time i've ever looked at road closures on That website but so what's what's the 411 was released on 1992 her first album it peaked all

[49:00]The way up at number six and it went triple platinum so she was a superstar right out of The bat she goes into studio 93 to start recruiting my life and now all of a sudden she is battling Alcohol addiction she's battling drug addiction she is battling depression she's an abusive Relationship with some shithead named kci from jodeci and now this is the first album where she Writes lyrics and she's writing lyrics about all these things that are happening in her life and When you listen to this album you're like oh this is kind of a fun funky album and then when you Start reading the lyrics you're like oh this is a super depressing super funky album and in 1996 This was nominated for the best r&b album at the 38th grammy awards which of course that award Was won by tlc for crazy sexy cool but it also had d'angelo brown sugar it was going against prince And then this is weird barry white the icon is love like can you imagine barry white being there He's like i i'm gonna get my ass kicked by these albums nobody's ever heard of this album i think

[50:00]Isn't he sampled on this record he is yeah absolutely yes and you know what the record Of the year was that year i've been kissed oh rose on the wind i knew that oh man wouldn't It feel kind of shitty to lose a grammy to someone who sampled one of your Songs And now the best podcast of the ward of the year award is paul's boutique remix We thought we had to go to it well this was i mean yeah this i mean we talked a little bit Before the show this album's full of samples because that was puffy's whole thing he was Just like oh well if the song was good once it's probably good to just redo it again and It's going to work for people who know the songs for nostalgia purposes and it's going to work for People who've never heard it because it's already a good song he's and he's not wrong so this album Gets it it again this her second album certified triple platinum like a giant genre

[51:00]Defining album like aaron said before aaron real quick before we start can you explain how this Album uses samples differently than like the beastie boys that we just listened to I think it comes a lot closer to interpolation or even getting in some of these cases getting Closer to just straight up covering a song it's not really burying the samples or or trying to Make us guess five or six notes or repeated or something like that or right like the hook or Something yeah exactly i mean it's really just like using big swathes of tunes exactly matt and And laying them down so like the point is to recognize the song and to say oh i think i Recognize that and then it's updated intro i'm gonna go through those spoken intro ones so fast They are right it's not it's not a bad boy record if you don't have puffy on the voicemail What are the other Big bad boy records i don't know enough about bad boy or or what are the other big killers out there

[52:00]Both biggie albums ready to die and life after death matt's right mace 112 i mean the locks Then maybe state property but yeah i mean biggie would be the big one and then mace his harlem World was like massive right looks like machine gun kelly is currently an act french montana He's pretty good it's no longer little bow wow janelle monet probably a song i've heard more Than any other song in my life and not by choice not once have i chosen to listen to this Song and that is i'll be missing you yes by of course mary j blige and faith evans yeah is that Faith evans that's faith evans biggie's ex or wife yeah you know yeah so Faith evans and p diddy and it's just i heard this song i bet one conservatively one billion times Growing i was a much bigger fan of the version that was like the dinosaur version what was The was it on the god i like the godzilla version better mary jane all night long according to

[53:00]Wikipedia this was the third single but the wikipedia entry also said the video has them Doing some real crazy dancing so i'm starting to get suspicious as we move down the list how Accurate these sources are going to be yeah this is the one that's just like almost a straight cover Of the The mary jane girls song i was thinking of you rob i heard the harp on some of these samples here That was didn't your aunt play a harp or something when you were a kid oh no i've got a cousin now Who plays the harp oh they've got a harp in their house and if i went over i could ask them just to Play the harp for me and they would i wonder if deborah beck is listening to this one erin that Is a pull and a half who is okay that was good i did it better on the harp player From like when it comes to harp On the record who does it better yeah we might need to find that let's go back in time to when We talked about the harp we'll drop it in i'll find it that would be tough though wouldn't it

[54:00]If you were going back in time to talk to a person that was playing the harp you'd be like Okay let's go back let's remember that time i talked to my aunt who played the harp and that's Like that's right when does hey hey rosie improv with me hey aunt rosie how are you Doing are you still playing the harp yeah i'm still playing the harp i'm still playing the harp Yeah i've been playing the harp the whole time oh are you playing it right now yeah i'm playing The harp i'm really okay that sounds way better going further back but i just where Am i now i'm just trying to practice my arpeggios i don't understand oh my god i'm i'm i'm in an Ancient land surrounded by troglodytes ancient humans and they're coming at me They have bones ancient weapons bones they seem to have some sort of raw culture that seems to Be undeveloped but here somebody brings out a a tiny stringed instrument and hey thog What are you playing over there thog what is that oh it's a it's a harp have you ever Heard this before it's a it's a beautiful harp it's so interesting oh my god now i go farther

[55:00]Back in time it's me space nothing okay it's the sixth day god created the harp hey rob check out This note it's a harp oh my god where am i going now this is crazy i'm not editing any of that That was a great bit haven't you noticed i don't edit out boring stuff anymore i only edit out Inappropriate terms in association with parody songs that are inappropriate to be fair when i Had to beep out a dirty word that aaron said last time he was saying good job rob for Not saying this he's congratulating me so you bring me just like my friend when i didn't want Any more mounds you bring me joy i thought this song was absolutely fantastic the beat was banging I really enjoyed this was one of my favorites on the album I also i gotta give some credit where it's due my we're listening to this in the House and my lady was like i think she stole prince's flow from get off for this one from get

[56:00]Off yes and obviously she's not gonna credit nobody's gonna credit prince because he wouldn't Clear the sample but yes it sounds the same right it's there right that is a pull i don't Know It's also a great song i'm not i'm not i'm not a big fan that your wife always goes after female Artists those and accuses them of stealing male artists yeah guys i think we need to do a video Breakdown of the video get off i'm seeing a lot of interesting things here i'm gonna need to order More dental dams if we're doing that right there's a lot of women on tarps in this video like the Time is a flat circle i swear to god and wait a minute What is that prince is playing it's Hey prince you're you're now you're back in minneapolis high school you're playing basketball

[57:00]Oh hey it's a pep band oh what's that one guy playing in the pep band oh no I'm not editing that out that's a great bit the accidental confused time traveler The guy It's time traveling but secretly Loves it i just can't stop time traveling okay wait a minute just one second i'm sorry guys Okay i had to write that down marvin interlude oh god wait is there a harp in there too I was reading one of the big producers on this was someone called bob brockman and their Name was either i couldn't decide if their name was the coolest nickname ever or the worst it's Either basie Bob brockman which would be an amazing name or bassy bob brockman like as if he's a bass fisherman And i couldn't tell so i think it's bassy because i saw him one time i walked into a room and he

[58:00]Looked right at me real quick as soon as i moved and he goes take me to the river I walked into the room and he was noodling something in the corner This is one of the few podcasts where you will get a big mouth billy bass reference I'm the only woman Now can i just admit some of you guys the problem i had with this album i think it's a great album I love listening to it i listened to it a ton this week at work it helped me get through a really Stressful week almost all these songs sound the same to me like i could put this on random i could Put it in the straight play i don't think i'd know the difference i love the sound but i was I took about a four hour drive it was not to my shotgun partner's home it was a different place This weekend but i was like i'm gonna do it again i'm gonna do it again i'm gonna do it again i'm gonna Driving back and i was like perfect opportunity put this on be over in an hour no problem i had To stop the album three or four times and go to someone else because it was just doggedly beating

[59:00]Me down with the same thing for way too long album i know matt had maybe mentioned this in The text way too long for me it is i i'm telling you an hour-long album should be illegal it should She should be in jail sorry not sorry marvin interlude We just did that one we did do that one wait a minute what's going on here All right my light no oh it's keeping so here's the other thing with this album and i don't know if This is on purpose or not i just realized that the sample that she's using that they're Using and i'm the only woman is also in keep your head up by tupac and just biggie and pock are just They tower over this album for me they're the piano from who shot you is in a couple of Tunes dear my god i love this album i love this album i love It mama or was it keep your head up That's what i'm thinking so it's like yeah and then the piano loop from who shot is

[1:00:00]In here and so it's just it's hard to listen because it just these guys were just like Towering over the sound at the time well i can tell you what people are not sampling And that's these interludes here's another one this one is actually by an arizona quarterback You might have heard of it hey murray interlude very Selfish Actually i know none of us read anything on this album this is the one thing i read This is who shot yeah this is not keith murray kind of redid a a biggie verse on this and The reason they had him redo the verse was the biggie verse had explicit lyrics and if they Used that in the album they would have to put the explicit lyric tag on there and they didn't want To do that so they had keith murray redo the verse i thought that was pretty interesting rob i don't Know if that was the only thing you read so if it was i apologize but no i read that actually he Had to redo a verse because wait a minute you know russell one interesting thing about this album Is that i actually read the something reverse verse i don't know i got it lost keith murray

[1:01:00]Was kind of like your favorite rapper's favorite rapper for a while i know he had an album called The most beautifulest thing in this world but i don't actually know his music that well i just Like that album title most beautifulest thing in the world that's so good i love it he's kind of Like carmelo anthony of nba players right aaron everyone loves carmelo anthony but everyone's Like he's really not that good but all the players are like he's really not that good but all the Players are like he's really not that good but all the players are like he's really not that good but all the Players love the players love him yeah that's a good analogy i got another nba analogy for This album i'm gonna wait to bust it out my life in the sunshine roy airs I read this song by this is the joyers was sampled 183 times i was like that's pretty Impressive right wow i mean this is that's why they call them airs jordan oh another callback What i guess to what here's what is that Making an airs jordan joke with the xylophone on the dead guy and the whole thing Jesus christ no i don't remember what we were talking about two minutes ago deborah beck harp

[1:02:00]Thing from earlier i don't know what he's been doing recently but i guess i've been listening To beck did it better wait a minute let's let's see what let's see what he's talking about So aaron the thing with this airs guy is something with a xylophone what do you think We're improv aaron you have to oh well the thing is you know it's like he's wearing a t-shirt Where he's playing xylophone and he's wearing a t-shirt and he's wearing a t-shirt and he's wearing Xylophone on a dead guy's ribs i gotta get out of here give me that harp Matt what's your impression of like the bad boy i know you're more of an outcast guy do you like The bad boy hip-hop or you like the r&b or what's your impression so far same thing as rob is it's It's all the same and i don't know if it's just me because i think we had the same thing with Erica badu you know or by the end of the album the three or four great songs but everything Else was essentially the same song and i don't Trying to figure out if it's me or it's the genre or what it is but yeah it's just i like i said I turned it off halfway through because i just couldn't listen to it anymore i had to listen to

[1:03:00]Something else it was the same thing over and over i think this is a great party song though Right you're having a dinner party you're having people over put this thing on cut out all the Interludes i think it would be awesome a great college vibe album i yeah but the best would be Watching rob like jump up like the interlude comes on and he jumps up from the dinner table to go like To track that track to track it you gotta believe no i when i was younger actually i used to always Play like weird al over the whole house stereo and i was always like why are my parents so annoyed With me all the time and now i realize like we were jumping from like 60s rock to weird al to They might be giants on a six disc changer so it was just randomly playing songs casey and jojo in The background it is right yeah What the fuck i was telling the story to me but i think she i do think she really turns it out on This one vocally but there's a lot of filler on this album she does have a pretty amazing voice

[1:04:00]There and what did you and your wife talk about her vocal skills at all what's her Singing ability or what was your guys impression my impression is this and this is my nba analogy For this album i think for modern r&b i think that whitney and mariah are the Steph curry and reggie miller of modern r&b singers Did not see reggie miller coming there as the second name for me mary j blige slots in at the Ray allen slot where she's still great but i don't think she's god tier up there with whitney and Mariah which i'm gonna give away my my album rating but i think she's great and i think She's got a lot of soul in her voice but i don't think she's up there with whitney mariah What was his was he the one was ray allen the one with the tweet Yeah i think he did make some yeah is that the statements on twitter that Didn't is that the switch tweet yeah his ray allen tweet i'm getting there when you masturbate

[1:05:00]Think about my tongue on your clit switching back and forth with my dick and my tongue What a classic ray allen tweet so that is who aaron is comparing this to that's what ray allen Tweeted out obviously it was supposed to be like a dm to somebody and he pushed tweet it's so funny What guys think is sexy when they say it and then when you read it you're like wait you're gonna Switch back and forth like come on really I mean what are you in a hotel room switch give me a break that movie with jesus Shuttlesworth he got game he had game he did have some game that's true that yeah that's true he had Some game in that movie i never want to live he definitely ran a three-man weave in one of the Scenes i remember when i was in middle school basketball we were running a three-man weave Everyone else on the team knew how to run a three-man weave i had no idea what i was doing It's tough to run a three-man weave when you don't know what you're doing I guess they had to give the two sex songs in a row right like in case you're taking your time

[1:06:00]With it do you think aaron can hear me and aaron hear what i'm saying I'm just trying to think maybe i'm not that funny Wait aaron am i on mute You say yes aaron that's the joke there okay i never wanna where are we guys sorry I think i'm going down oh yeah I'm going down speaking of ray allen This might be my favorite track so this is a this is another one of those just covers right This is a rose royce song when all the music and instruments kick in it's amazing well the Original is amazing i mean this is a perfect song for the cover this part right here how do you not Love this right yes rob you got me on that one i did not know it was rose rose royce My only problem with this is that it's literally I because i was going to pull the rose royce song as a sample something rob said I know i'm not listening to him aaron he doesn't listen back

[1:07:00]This is the rose royce version since you've been this is my problem it's literally the same song It's just the same yes can you fast forward when the music all the instruments kick in yeah When is it Oh yeah it's man you hear this and now that mary j blige's version is kind of bullshit is it Isn't it right this song's kind of watered down it's i don't know i mean that rose royce that's What i mean is i was gonna pull a sample and be like oh this it's just not different at all it's Great song but it's my life my interlude no all right thank you be with you I don't know if we'll hear it on this sound clip but this is where There's that there's there's that g funk snake right here we talked about Many years ago on the dr dre and i think it was the chronic where that g funk sound with the snake Kind of twisting around i love that if this was a 40 minute album it would be perfect i think i

[1:08:00]Think it would be a perfect album of this genre mary's joint hey i got a question yes did mary j Blige perform with dr dre at the super bowl yes yep so so typically you don't see like the crossover Like if she was with was She ever part of puff daddy's label or how does that work like you don't see many hip-hop artists That are part of kind of both those michaels labels right that's true yeah i don't know who She was recording for when she did but he did the what the hell is that song oh yeah what is that I think dre did that beat but i don't know who what label she was on when that happened that's All halftime was just literally like the mount rushmore of rappers and r&b you know kind of that's

[1:09:00]Why they had you know dr dre and snoop and then they had m&m you know they had to throw a feet Those are all like dr dre produced west coast right they all were right but i mean m&m's from Detroit i mean you know they were all in the dre family tree and so mary kind of joined the dre Family tree later aaron aaron i love you i'm sorry I love you i'm good man no no that was the next song i wasn't talking to you He was cutting you off and then saying the song This is isaac hayes ike's mood sample okay Album sounds good in headphones man sounds really good well yeah he knew they were good songs Oh these are good songs just gonna play it's full it's lush i mean what so how is this Like what makes this a ditty album well i think ripping off songs wholesale i mean i think like You know a lot of people took issue with his use of music in this way

[1:10:00]Brazen about using material from others but nobody had ever done a song before called i'll be missing You know what i mean so something to think about until they did it on the godzilla movie Right well no i was making a song called i'll be missing you know what i mean Making a joke because it's a sting song called i'll be watching you but no So technically i was right no one else It's interesting you guys hear that there is no competition I was like i know what that is do you guys know what that's from is that any camosi It's not is that any camosi is a statement i have never said in my entire life You know what i'll give you a warning we're about to say is that any Camosi again in your few minutes here all right i actually was looking and that's actually a sample From slick rick and dougie fresh's song lotty dotty right from 1985 so maybe rob can you pull

[1:11:00]Up that the original version of that when it comes to me and my friend doug fresh you know There is no competition because we are the best but that's impressed which we so that's there There is no competition that we are that's nice and i started looking at this and it turns out This lotty dotty by Slick rick and dougie fresh is one of the most sampled songs ever it has been sampled 1084 times at least i thought that was insane so i thought we could do a list and we're not Going to talk about sampling of the music because if you go back and listen to that It's the lyrics that are amazing on that song and the lyrics are so good So i thought we could do a list of the greatest lyric samples ever From lotty dotty by slick rick and dougie fresh this is great this is such a good List i'm already excited for this comes to mind right away right we'll get after that one right Off the bat i think i'm gonna say i've said it before and i'll say it again i love how slick

[1:12:00]Rick sounds i cannot get enough of i can hear slick rick if slick rick read an audiobook i would Listen to every one he's another favorite rapper ghost love slick rick let's get Into it so before we get into the best songs i had to give you guys some of the amazing Lines from this song that were sampled but couldn't make the list but they're still amazing we have to Go through some of these lines right i'm here for it yeah let's hear it so the first one is okay Party people in the house party people in the house great line sampled by crisscross in the Song party oh nice here's another one just some men that's on the mic and when we rock Up on the mic we rock the mic right sample by ludacris robbie williams on some song amazing Lyric right yep just to see you smile and enjoy yourself because it's cool outside when You cause a cozy condition that we create because that's our mission amazing line sampled by ll cool J stand by your man jeez and tim mcgraw just to see you smile yes i do anything so tim mcgraw

[1:13:00]Sampling slick rick you know i i edit out every time matt has mentioned tim mcgraw on this podcast It's almost every episode another one because this type of shit happens every day another fantastic Wow the junior mafia on players anthem de la soul uses that one mc ren air and that's one of Your favorite rappers right on the song this type of shit he samples that through the whole thing m And m slick rick even samples himself on that's so badass when you say yourself right A few others i'll try to get i'll tell you what russell i cannot i just can't all i want to do Is make love to you another couple that were i thought really interesting i woke up around 10 In the morning like that's not always sampled but that's a huge influence on hip-hop all these songs Always start off with like starting in the morning like six in the morning ice cube it was

[1:14:00]A good day tupac changes all that stuff comes from this song by slick rick right yes i said mirror Mirror on the wall who's the top choice of them all the mirror said you are you conceited bastard Another great line like these like rob you threw on your new pair of gucci underwear today like This is fantastic right Yeah i put and i did put on some baby powder too so this all right so i could keep going forever These lines this is i think this that song has the greatest lyrics in the history of music if you go Back and look at it it's all over but so the first song is that's a great day we're just we're just Going to start with lotty dotty we like to party we're going to play the original version from Lotty dotty back in 85 you know what your people is lotty dotty we like to party we don't we got Fresh on the beatbox nobody we're just some men that's on the mic rock up on the mic we rock This is so good isn't it yes slick rick always sounds like he's smiling doesn't he when he's

[1:15:00]Rapping he's kind of like kind of sneaky so matt actually mentioned the sample we're going to pull On this one is actually snoop dog who essentially twisted the whole song and almost covered the Whole song but it's from doggy style 93 it's lotty dotty check this out he has the same type of tone And tempo we like to party Two guys who have very distinct voices that are so different than other rap guys I don't even want to tell you how much time i spent looking for a stewart scott version of Lotty dotty he likes to party and it is not on the internet no scrubbed it from the internet You can't that's whack i don't Tell you guys how many hours i spent in russell's dorm room listening to that song on death row's Greatest hits all right next song on the list we have to go you guys will remember this it's

[1:16:00]The phrase hit it we'll go to the old version first check this out so listen close some so You all don't miss as we go a little something like this hit it there's that hit it you guys You guys will know that sound right yes so this has been covered by nwa the beastie boys dj Jazzy jeff eminem those are just some of them but the one we're going to start with We're going to we'll jump to the high stepper aaron wanted to hear i need camozzi we'll hear i need Camozzi yes isn't that a badass oh that's so good this is i mean this is a top 10 song of our youth This thing is it because he's the lyrical gangster committing a metaphorical murderer Excuse me mr officer i believe you're correct What is he what are they saying there and if you tell me the truth i might just die because i've Always wanted to know the lyrical gangster i'm the lyrical gangster oh no no i get no i know that

[1:17:00]Part it's here comes the hot stepper where they go word murder i always thought they were Saying word to rub i mean that would be cool too that'd be all right thank you aaron that is cool Thank you that's very cool that hit it is so good though it's sampled on so many songs another one We had to play two of them the other one is from rob bass and dj easy rock it takes two I'm gonna rock right now and i love how it used like the low zombie voice or whatever like The low alien voice like rob claims i sound like in the last song yeah i thought i'm not gonna give Too many facts of these the one thing i thought was interesting about this is 1989 spin magazine Ranked it takes two as the second greatest single of all time i saw that it was like they should have

[1:18:00]Their magazine privileges revoked after that right this one we had to touch on was a great Line this is the original version is tick tock you don't stop a great line to the heart Tick tock you don't stop to the tick i did not know this was from slick right it's at the very end of the Song you have to look for it it's at the very end do you guys know the famous song that What is that calling me bad i want to sex you up yes You don't stop to the heart tick tock you don't stop and they kind of put it down there Into the host becomes part of the percussion kind of a thing this is right remember when we got into That new jack swing this was written and produced by i believe we talked about elliot straight who Was known as dr freeze was the guy who wrote poison for This is a great song still great this song always let me stop it here so i can edit this out but This song always makes me think about having sex standing up Really an impossible dream never gonna happen but it makes me think about it

[1:19:00]Do you think jenny's still up you think i could text her that too I was gonna say jenny is simply not strong enough she can't pick me up so i don't know Swinging me around like a windmill she'd have to be like holding you by the armpits right Yeah oh i'm don quixote would look at me and be like i'm charging that thing I give you all my love today ricky ricky can't you see oh there we go What is this gonna sound like man you got this one biggie biggie Can't you see you got it man hit that one rob I never knew all this stuff came from the same song did you guys know that i had no idea no i Didn't know wow most of the n y lgbt and y and aaron i believe that hypnotize also

[1:20:00]Sampled a herb albert song right really it samples a herb albert song called rise And the reason that sample came was biggie when he was a kid list in the 70s loved that song by Herb albert and that's why they used it for hypnotize oh my god that's fantastic and that Actually that's a great point because the one thing like i've maybe been harsh on puffy's Tactics with this album but he definitely was a kid listening to the radio in the 70s like he loves The music and he's got an ear for it and i think he also was playing you know he was Playing the game of well this was on the music that the radio stations i listened to but Crossover white audiences aren't going to recognize this music but they're going to know it's good So they're going to buy it last song and the first single off this album this was the first one be Happy it's good enough where i give it a b plus happy you guys don't come on we're just having

[1:21:00]Fun here this might be a curtis mayfield sample too right i wouldn't have picked it out but you're Probably right i believe it's you're so good to me is the sample oh i don't know that song I do there's a lot of writing about you know if you read about this album much you know a lot of People really took a lot from it in terms of the strength of her story rob you told about Getting through adversity and i think a lot of people take a lot of inspiration from this Album and so closing with that one i think spoke to a lot of folks all right let's get into the Rating system i normally like to do it on a joke or something like that but i wasn't telling a joke To a joke even i could not do that back did it better rating system oh yeah Now listen okay you have to think about this album just like you would the song

[1:22:00]Lotty dotty we love to party now if you think this album is just fine and guess what it doesn't Bother nobody okay does this belong at 126 that would be a rolling well toned okay Is this song is this album too high on the list it's too good it's not that good you know what It thinks it's good and it's not and that's why it's a real conceited bastard this is a rolling Groan it should not be this high oh i had the gong red grown i almost hit gong and said that'd be Crazy i'd start the show again or here comes an edit point right here or is this song is this Album better than we think it should have been higher up on the list which of course we know is A lower number than we think it should have been higher up on the list which of course we know is a Lower number than we think it should have been higher up on the list which of course we know is a Lower number than we think it should have been higher up on the list which of course we know is a lower number That would be like hitting the mic right okay and that would be a rolling bone it should have been Higher on the list a lower number it got boned what do you think matt rolling well toned rolling

[1:23:00]Bone or rolling groan from 1994 my life by mary j blige what do you think i is you know like I've said it's just not for me i think it's rolling groan should be lower on the list I think you could clearly hear her talent and i think if you read her backstory she's 100 an inspiration to everybody that came after her and you know just generally she's overcome A lot in her life which is a great story but this album just doesn't do it for me i'm gonna say Rolling groan should be lower on the list russell what do you think rolling well toned Rolling bone or rolling groan mary j blige i thought it was beautiful music the samples that You're using are absolutely fantastic you drop her voice in over these samples and i think it's A great combination i love listening to it i will say when i listened to it the first time i had to Stop numerous times and go listen to something else it was too repetitive for me if you take a

[1:24:00]Great movie but the movie's 40 minutes too long or something it's hard to get past that and for me It felt repetitive it was hard for me to get through the whole album so If one of these songs popped up on my playlist i would love it and enjoy it i don't want to listen An hour and 10 minutes of it in a row so for me it's a slight rolling groan a little too High on the list it's like when you find a porno online and you find the full like 40 minute Version you're like yeah right fast forward to about 12 minutes into this thing is it 12 minutes For everyone like this yeah it's it's like a song 30 seconds in is the best part of the song 12 Minutes in is when they're just about to close a real estate deal but the one woman is realizing The loan doesn't go through and she's like well i need to buy this out what's gonna possibly do to Make this work You're on Why do you have so many dental dams on the ground what rob do you ever only get like 13 minutes in Then and then wonder what was in the rest of like the 32 minutes or not no again i do that thing Where it takes me a long time to jack off everybody loves that very fun why is there a sweat stain on

[1:25:00]The couch this doesn't make any sense you know the bench press is right next to it that's what Happened in the tub aaron what do you think rolling well-toned rolling bone or rolling Groan yeah i think russell makes some really good points the formula works when it works the The best songs on here are great i think there's some filler on here probably for a reason I think it might have been a time where they were trying to fill out enough music to sell a whole cd But they just needed the hits i'm confused why we've got mary j before we hear from whitney or Mariah i don't think that's quite right and as i mentioned earlier we haven't heard duke yet so It's got to be a rolling groan for me oh no it's your duty to rank this album I would Rank this album number two honestly guys unfortunately you are all incorrect Shit okay this album is a rolling 90s sound right like if you want to think about 1994

[1:26:00]What music sounded like this was well i was going to do rolling too long but i think i Already might have already done that for an album so i didn't want to copy myself I didn't want to sample myself for this album let me just check real quick Well no it takes rob way too long to sample himself anyway this sweaty this guys Now i gotta start the bit over again thanks for out here and you're totally distracting me Going back again hey guys this is episode four of the podcast oh my gosh this podcast so fun We're never gonna be sick of it okay i'm gonna give this album a rolling too long This will probably not be the best album we hear for the next 10 years Hey what's this heart button do oh no going back in time even more russell we're fishing Here's the deal listen okay this is it when you want to hear that 90s that when i turn this on It was that quintessential like 90s soul hip-hop song this is a great album if you want To go be transported back to that time in your life and it's and it's not quite it's not quite

[1:27:00]Dookie but it's i actually do you would be a stronger reminder of that time in my life to Be honest with you listen i fuck this up what can i do next up now i just want to tell you guys this This is maybe the greatest ending joke i've ever written Are you ready for this Next up Do you want to hear the most ironic cover ever of hey good looking Yeah it's ray charles with modern sounds of country western But after that is queen so we'll just see in two weeks don't worry about it I don't know how to stop the one I mean really he's Saying hey good luck Back did it better guys if if aaron's ranking was a dookie and it was my duty to raise rate

[1:28:00]The album and rob gave it a number two do you think that matt's bidet could clean up this mess We left for our listeners i don't know if we get it not a strong enough stream You have to At least the beast on that one Oh jesus christ We're back in time again well now we got to start the podcast Oh there it is Wow that's a nice bulge see that's what i'm telling you guys i think they're great underwear You should buy them Oh no No now do we have two post-credit jokes we have two levels of post-credit jokes this is a disaster It's too much it's too much That was fun