The Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground (not the one with the banana) (1969)

[00:00]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine. Well, hey, this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy. I could do it better. We are all the way up to album 143. I love you. I love you. That's the code. That's what 143 means if you're cheating on your spouse. If you get a text, remember on the pager? Yeah, you get a 143, and that would mean

[00:31]I, one, love, four, three, you. Russell's like, shit, that's the number I've been giving out to all these women. No wonder it hasn't worked out. I didn't know there was a code. So you're saying you're admitting you're cheating? I don't get it. What does four stand for love? Because it's four letters. What kind of wordle guy are you? Oh, well, there's another word that starts with four. Oh, yes. I hate you. Oh, I hate you. I kicked you.

[01:00]Next, listen. Okay? We are up to album 143 from 1969. Nice. It's The Velvet Underground with The Velvet Underground. Now, they also have an album called The Velvet Underground with Nico. This is not that. Okay? This is without Nico. All right? When asked why the other... Oh, no. I forgot I wrote this. When asked why Nico wasn't on the album, she replied, I don't know. Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo. Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo. I'm trying so hard not to laugh at that.

[01:31]Super trying not to laugh at that. Chyna's like, that voice sounds good. All right. Next up, let's go to our... You know what? Let's listen to the radio. That's what I say. Matt, do you think radio time? I'm here for listening to the radio. Okay. You know, sometimes you make songs and they're just a big joke. Nobody should take it seriously. Okay? All right. Here we go. What's up, everybody? Welcome to KROB. K-R-O-B. This is a message. To our listeners and callers out there, I love you.

[02:02]Well, most of you. One, four, three. Oh, yeah. Rob made fun of all the callers. Yep. Well, they made him mad. But then Charm's voicemail altered. Well, now he just feels bad. For what I said, you know I feel bad.

[02:33]From now on, I like you guys. How sweet. What a sweetheart. Yep. And when you call, I will always be nice. And then he's not going to add the way you think it is.

[03:00]30 seconds forward, please. I love it when we listen. When we hear our fans speak. But now here's the thing. If you text, you are a fucking creep. We have enough calls for the next five weeks. So to our callers, I love you guys.

[03:40]Yes, love you guys. It's the dumb shit texters that I truly despise. I could be on board with this. When you're on the greatest album of all time. We have so many great songs. I have so many voicemails to choose from. I'm not kidding.

[04:00]I've never had to go through a pick like voicemails. I ignore others. And so now, like the text, I was like, the text don't have a chance to get on the show right now. I'm sorry. It'll dry up sometime, but not right now. We've got so many. Russell, think about that. The back line is getting multiple voicemail calls a week now. Back did it better. That's never happened before. No way. Russell, we're on a fucking rocket ship taking off. And after that last episode, we might be on the moon right now. All right? Listen up, okay? Four guys here who want to talk about.

[04:30]You know, guys only want to do one thing. And that's talking about the Velvet Underground, but not that album. Not the one with the banana on it. The other one. And I've got the three guys who would be perfect to talk to them about. I've got Russell in Minnesota. Russell, how are you doing? Rob, you were apologizing for stuff earlier. I should apologize. I'm sorry I got that jelly on your shoulder. I know it's what you fear most. But since the jelly's on your shoulder, lie down on the carpet between that thought and expression. Now, let's kiss the culprit. Whoa. One, four, three. One, four, three.

[05:00]One, four, three. I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Good, Rob. All the people are sleeping and they're having such fun. I wish that could happen to me. I just wish. But Russ's bits on the last show took so long. You know what I mean? So now we're here. And I've got Aaron. Aaron was telling me earlier that one time when he was in the dating world. He doesn't like to tell this story because it's kind of embarrassing. But I think it's a good one. He was in the dating world and he was at a bar with a date. He goes, oh, the date, you know, they came in. They sat down and they're sitting at the bar and the date sits down.

[05:32]Aaron goes, oh, excuse me. May I push in your stool? And the woman said, well, we'll see how the date goes. That was a training day joke. That's enough to make me turn to Jesus. Jesus. Let's talk about the velvet underground. Do you guys think stool is the worst word for that? It's bad, right? Wait, I tried to move on. You're going back to it.

[06:00]You know, let's talk more about. I did just watch training day on the last airplane. I wasn't, you know, I know a few people will get it. I know what you guys are talking about, too. I'm laughing. Do you see me laughing over here? Like, I know. All right, let's get to our voice. Voicemail. So stupid. I can kiss my ass. I mean, right after the song. They're just the dumbest of the dumb. God, luckily I made this song and that buys me a couple of forgivenesses.

[06:30]Right, Russell? Yeah. By the way, I listened to the Hamilton soundtrack this week. Oh, this like this is amazing. And I got to say, Aaron, I get what Aaron's saying about Lin-Manuel Miranda. I do not think he is a better singer than the person that I saw at Hamilton recently. He's an amazing composer. He's an amazing writer. And I don't know enough about. Theater and singing, but there was no part of me that was like blown away by his performance

[07:01]bait compared to what I saw. I will also say I have a favorite song on the Hamilton soundtrack in the room where it happens is the number one song on the Hamilton soundtrack. Correct? Yes. Is it Leslie Odom on the soundtrack, too? That's yeah. Yes. Yes. Correct. Yeah. I mean, he sings the hell out of that. That song is an all time rate. I added it to my Spotify list. Can I can I tell you guys? I went and saw Hamilton the other day. Actually, I should have brought this up.

[07:30]I should have said this earlier. Yeah, but it was I think I got because I got really cheap tickets. And I was like, why are these tickets so cheap? You know what I mean? Like too cheap. But I was like, I'm not doing anything. I want to get away from my family. They're fine at home without me. So I go to this play place. OK, and I know what it's called. It's a theater. I go to the theater and I show up. And here I am watching here. I'm watching Hamilton. But all the actors are doing are catching acrobatic touchdowns. From Terry Bradshaw. Now, you guys will not believe who is starring in this version of Hamilton.

[08:01]Who? It was Lin Swan Manuel Miranda. Oh, that is the worst joke for that big of a setup. You took that long to do that? Oh, you want me to reference his reporting days as well, where he was on the sideline? No, I celebrate Lin Swan, the receiver. Are you pulling up in the room where it happens or what? Oh, no. All right. No, we're doing the voicemail. Hey, it is your favorite.

[08:31]Magic Mike 69. Actually, I'm not just leaving a text because I know. Nice. I do. You know what? He knows us. Actually, Magic Mike 69 has always been one of our best friends. He knows us better than we know us. He is. He's OG. He's. Hey, Rob, you put the jelly on your shoulder. I've tried to move on, Russell. I will bring up. Stool again. Every time you do that, I'm going to bring up stool. Sorry. Sorry. That's what I'm doing.

[09:00]It's like Harry Potter. You got to cast a counter spell. So I am actually a few. I'm caught up on the podcast, but I'm actually a few episodes behind that. I wanted to comment on something. You're not caught up. He's not caught up, right? He hasn't got this a bit about getting caught up. But this is momentous occasion. This is our first voicemail from Magic Mike, right? This is. Yeah. Well, he said that one of him singing backwards. That was kind of a voicemail. OK. All right. All right. Yeah. Not to be technical, but if you're not caught up, you're not caught up.

[09:31]You're not caught up. It's not to fact check in there, Mike. I'm sorry. Glad you're listening. Yeah. If he starts talking about Bob Dylan, like the freewheeling Bob Dylan or whatever episode, we know. We know he's not caught up. Yeah. Do we do freewheeling Bob Dylan? I miss it. I love that album. Remember all those bad albums with the harmonicas there? That's what I'm talking about. Magic Mike is like, I think Rob should start singing parody songs at the beginning. I'm like, you're not caught up. You're not even past Michael Jackson. All right. Here we go. So the day that you posted the Adele podcast, I actually was in line to get Adele tickets

[10:07]for my mom and her husband because her husband is a huge Adele fan. And we actually ended up scoring them at $600 a pop. That was definitely the most I've ever spent on a concert ticket. And I am kind of shitting myself about that right now, especially because I want to go

[10:33]back to Vegas to see the... Don't say that. I would like to know what your most expensive concert ticket has been. And did you feel like it was worth it? That's the first question. Second question. I will be in Vegas with my mom and her husband, like I already said. Also, bye. 17, almost 18-year-old son. So, you know, the fuck fest is out.

[11:02]No fuck fest with the family. It's not a rule that way. But I'm hoping I can get some suggestions on other fun things to do in Vegas. I've already kind of done a little bit of research and stuff. But I'd love to hear what your suggestions are. Vegas suggestions. Going by the pool and getting drunk with 40 mils is out. So anything other than that? Let me know. All right. Talk to you guys later. Hit the close music. We're not talking about making out with volleyball milks.

[11:32]Hit the music, Rob. We're done. Hit the music. Tell you what. You know what? The text messages? Actually, not that bad. I'm going to have to sit on this and think about which I like more. I'm not sure. That's a lot to... Oh, wow. What Vegas... I mean... Does your son... Let me ask you this. Is your son a fan of Super Freako? Okay. That's all I'm going to say. Two words. Super Freako. There are literally... Male strippers wearing penguin heads. It is quite the show.

[12:00]Quite the show. Go see Super Freako. I was going to say you got to go to Joker's Wild, right? Between the link and the... That'd be Carnival Court, technically. Carnival Court. It is Carnival Court. Go there. It's the best place in Las Vegas. Free dancing on Fridays. They have the 90s band. He won't be able to take his son in there. So he's got his... They don't card anyone. Don't they? No. No. I think Russell may be that we do not look under 21, which is why we don't get carded. Look at the three of us. But they don't have... Looking at our four windows right now, I am the youngest looking guy here by far.

[12:30]There's no one at the door. There's no one out there. No, there's not. I think Carnival Court, especially for... I think if you're a music fan and you're not going to go to like see the three boys to men and the other guy who's got the serious health problem that Rob wants us to bring up on the regular. If you're not going to go see like one of the rotating shows in Vegas, or you're not going to go see like one of the big famous shows, if you're a music fan, I think... And you're a middle-aged dude, I think you go to Carnival Court and you listen to them

[13:00]play 80s rock all night. Don't you think? Yeah, they're a great band. Like they know what they're doing. It's not just me. I mean, it's everything. They play everything. It's just pop music. It's great. I think that's the best. And then, I don't know, what else? Like, what do you do? Because you can't gamble, right? The kid can't gamble. You go find an all-you-can-eat crab legs place and you just plop down 50 bucks and eat all the crab legs you can. It's true. It's good. You only need one meal for the day then. That's a good thing to do. Can you gamble? Do you have to be 21 to gamble in the casinos? I think you have to be 21 to be in there. Yeah.

[13:30]Be in the casinos? Okay. Yeah, I don't know. There's a Taco Bell right next to a McDonald's and going there at like 2 in the morning. So everybody, one person, you know, if you want Taco Bell, great. If you want McDonald's and then meet outside and just... Or you know what? A little of both. No, you could do a little of both, right? Those are two restaurants. Russell, how much do they have to pay you to combine McDonald's and Taco Bell in one meal? Like half your meal. You can pick any items. Taco Bell and McDonald's, you combine them. Why would they have to pay you anything? You can't make a good meal. No, it's a terrible meal. What are you talking about?

[14:00]A taco and fries? Ugh, get out of here. Yeah, that's great. A burger and a quesadilla? Chicken sandwiches and nachos? Just get a burrito and throw some fries in there. Like, hey, Rob, here's the move. Oof. You get a meal from McDonald's and a Mountain Dew from a Baja Blast. They've got one's a Coke product, one's a Pepsi product. A Baja Blast. It reminds me, summer's coming up. Where are those alcoholic Baja Blasts? I'm so flattered. I'm so flattered that Mike thinks that we do... He thinks that we do cool things in Las Vegas. He's like, he's asking us for advice. I mean, it's a little bit of a handicap to take a...

[14:31]Lose time? Take a under-21 kid, right? I mean, he's an Air Force kid. It changes your calculus. I mean, I will say my favorite thing to do in Las Vegas is just to be outside when the lights come on on the strip. And anybody can do that, so you've got to do that once. I would imagine a younger person could enjoy a show like The Beatles' Love. Yeah, for sure. Cirque du Soleil, right? Cirque du Soleil would be great. Yeah. Or Blue Bay Group or something like that.

[15:00]Or maybe Copperfield or something like that can... I went and saw Siegfried and Roy when I was there. Yeah. But you guys would never guess what happened at the show I was at. It was crazy. The Tiger. Okay. Oh, are you talking about Manticore? Because that is the Tiger's name, and I know that off the top of my head. I'm very smart. It's sapiosexual. It was Manticore, and it bit the one guy. So, moving on. That would be a bummer of a show, though, wouldn't it, Russell?

[15:31]If you were at that show, and you're like, oh, that was the one thing we didn't want to see. But you kind of did, because you're at the show, right? Like, who's going to a Tiger show, except for people who kind of want to see somebody get bit by a tiger? Aaron, what's your most expensive concert ticket? Quick. Let's do this quick. I think it might be Hamilton, if that counts. I do not. What did you pay? Matt, did you see him saying Hamilton? Was that on your top 100 list? I don't know if that's a concert. That's not a concert. I don't know if that counts. I don't know if that counts. I mean, I have not paid a lot for tickets. I don't, I mean, for a single show.

[16:02]Aaron, you paid enough to be in the room where it happens, the room where it happens, the room where it happens. Yeah, I mean, I haven't been to a show since I was on the shows at First Ave, and that's back when it was like, oh, the routes are $35, and it's Tuesday night, and I don't know if I can swing it. You've never, have you ever paid like $100 for a concert ticket? Aaron turned down Prince because it was too expensive, and he regretted it. I'll never forget that one. It was $2.70. Have you ever paid $100 for concert tickets, Aaron? Yeah, probably. You can't remember?

[16:30]Matt, can you imagine not? I just can't. Aaron, haven't you seen like Pearl Jam? They've got to be over $100, right? Every concert I go to is like $200. I saw Pearl Jam, but that was in 1998. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, New York's a little different too, Rob. Yeah, and tell me about it. They got the surge pricing now, like Blink-182, they finally got all three members back together. Tom DeLonge finally stopped chasing aliens and came back to the real world, I think. You know, so, I mean, their tickets were $385 in Minneapolis, you know, kind of a thing, and people pay for them.

[17:00]Pearl Jam, the cheapest ticket, I just bought one for St. Paul, $161. That's the cheapest ticket. That would be $400 in New York. Yeah, it is. And, you know, the surge, the very best pricing is like $2,200 for like an actual seat, and people are buying those, and that's like $4,000 in New York. I was looking at them. When we moved here, we bought Adele tickets, the week we moved here, and Jenny would never tell me what they cost, but they were like the day of. She bought them the day of the concert,

[17:30]and she will not tell me what they cost. What was it awesome? It was unbelievable. I mean, I'll remember that concert forever. Adele was amazing, and we've only recently topped it by buying our kid next weekend, next Friday. Now, you might be saying to yourself, oh, May 13th. Is that a big deal? Because it's Rob's birthday, and I definitely got him a gift, and I remembered, okay, so I'm actually going to get him a gift next Saturday, May 13th, also Dennis Rodman's birthday, not Frank Thomas, or am I going to be taking my kid to Philadelphia to see Taylor Swift

[18:04]for $800 tickets that we bought? For each one? For each one, her and a friend. My wife and I are going to sit in the parking lot and listen to the concert in the parking lot. That's a good call. Yes, thank you. Yeah, we saved a lot of money. Are you going to get lucky? Oh, the final frontier. It is your birthday. We could do something mutually outside the mutual field. You know what I mean? I think the most I've spent is somewhere like,

[18:31]I think I've spent like $270, and I don't remember what it was. I don't know if it was Pearl Jam in Nashville or somewhere else at one point. But the tickets are, it used to be, right, like $40, great. $50, great. That's completely gone. It's like $150 to $500 if you just want to get in the building. And so it's quietly, I think, I don't know how many people they actually get to go to these things, but Pearl Jam sold out quick. You know, it was a half hour before I could get in on the verified fan thing.

[19:03]And there was, you know, only a couple hundred seats left in the whole place. And so, I don't know. People are, people are paying, you know, people are. Yeah, that's half the problem. You know, you just never know, but. But is there, who would, who would you break the bank for? You know, I mean, I don't think I've ever paid, I've maybe paid up to, I mean, I don't remember what I paid for those, those horrible Rolling Stones ticket, but it was, it was definitely over a couple hundred bucks.

[19:35]I mean, it kind of, I mean, it depends, right? Like, I would love to see Pearl Jam in the first row of the balcony, you know, like real close. I know what it was. I paid $380, and I think Sarah knows this, a ticket for Leo and I to go to 21 Pilots. You know, but Leo was like, I don't know. I was like super into him, and I wanted it to not be sitting in the back of the arena so he couldn't see anything. So we got essentially the second section off, and then it was the first row.

[20:04]So then nobody was in front of him, and it was, so it was great. Can you imagine, Matt, getting nice tickets when you were a kid and going with your family? My family would never have bought anything but the dirt cheapest tickets to take me to a concert. Never. Never been like, oh. We just bought four, I just bought four tickets. AJR is opening up for Imagine Dragons. I'm a kid's huge AJR fan, so now we're going as a family, but that was 140 bucks each.

[20:30]I mean, you know, it's nuts. It's absolutely crazy. Well, you know what else is nuts? Aaron? Imagine Dragon. These nuts on your face. Imagine Dragon. Well, you know, I remember, speaking of tickets, I mean, I remember, Russell, do you remember this? I remember when 20 bucks, do you know what 20 bucks could get you, Russell? In my hooking days? Or now? No, Russell, I don't know what you're doing on your computer, but I'm going to say it again because you're distracted. Do you know what 20 bucks used to be able to get you, Russell?

[21:00]What's that? 20 trucks, okay? 20 trucks for 20 bucks? 20 trucks for 20 bucks. How about, Russell, if you did the math, you're kind of a math guy, what would that be? 20 trucks for 20 bucks? I think it's 20 bucks. I think that's a buck a truck. That's a buck a truck? That's a buck a truck. I guess that would go down to one over one. I did take my nephew once to the monster trucks or the denominator in that. I took my nephew once to the monster truck rally, and I actually, I kind of did a math thing.

[21:33]I overpaid for nicer tickets. I'm like, I don't want to sit way up in the upper deck. No, these trucks are, and you probably said to the kid, like, listen, we got to sit close. These trucks are going to be so small. They're going to be so small. We got to sit close. And then the truck comes out, and the kid's like, holy shit, that's not small at all. That's one of the biggest trucks I've ever seen in my life. It's a monster truck. It only cost me $1. We sat down in the more expensive seats, and we could see everything, and it took about four minutes before my nephew said, when did we go get a buy at monster truck?

[22:02]He wanted the toy truck. He didn't give two shits about Gravedigger. Now, Russell, I'm going to guess that right now, based on your buying stuff at Concerts History, it was not a buck a truck over at the concession stand, was it? Would you say it was maybe 30 bucks a truck? It was 30 bucks a truck. Which truck did he pick? Now, I'm going to say, I'm going to give you two options, and if he didn't pick one of these, I'll be disappointed. You know I'm going to say Gravedigger. And you know I'm going to say Bigfoot. Or I'll also throw in Barefoot. Not often thought about monster truck, Barefoot. Your kids, Rob, must not have monster trucks.

[22:32]My nephew already has like 100 of them. Oh, no. He has them all. So we got a specific one that was like specific to the event. It was clearly like a custom one that was more expensive, but it was like for that specific event. So we did not get Gravedigger. He already had Gravedigger. I mean, Gravedigger and then Bigfoot, those are the only ones, only because that guy's on the commercial, Gravedigger, right? Well, you know who his archenemy is? It's Truckasaurus.

[23:00]That guy's eating trucks all the time. I've seen it. Now, Russell, when you went to this thing, did you buy the whole seat? I didn't. Because in my experience, you only need the edge. That's a Metro, Metro, Metro dome. Bucks, truck, 20 bucks, 20 bucks. So just to make sure that Mike really enjoys this segment that he's touched off, does anyone regret the tickets that they bought? When you spent for the tickets, did you wish you hadn't? You know what? The ones, for me, regrets are usually not music.

[23:31]The Rolling Stones was a regret. But sometimes sports tickets can be a regret because if you go to a game and your team doesn't play well, it's not fun. No. And even if they win, it's usually a stressful couple hours. It's not an enjoyable experience. Not fun at all. But I'm at the point where, and you guys probably are too, like, at this point, I'm not going to go to a game. At this point, if I go to a game, I'm going to pay a little more and I'm going to sit down in the lower level. I would have never done that. We didn't do that when I was a kid. I didn't do that in my 20s.

[24:00]But when you reach a point where, like, you have enough disposable income to do that, I'm going to sit in the lower level. But usually when I leave, like, a Timberwolves game or a Vikings game, I'm like, damn, that wasn't fun. And I'd rather have my money back at this point. That's why I don't go to a lot of games anymore. Right. Like, very few. I'll go to, like, one or two a year. Plus, they're so good on TV. Games are so good on TV. The most likely thing that I probably spend more than the average person is, like, a really good restaurant. I'll pay for, like, a really good restaurant experience.

[24:32]I bet my biggest expenditures for an event in my life have been to go to, like, some sort of, you know, where they're doing, like, a 12-course tasting menu that is fantastic. I will overpay for a dining event over music, I think. I just, I don't know if I'll overpay for music. I don't know if I'll overpay for concerts anymore, right? Like, you're going to have, some might say paying $160 is overpaying, but I'm not going to pay the surge pricing of $800 or $1,000 just to sit in the right seat.

[25:04]Like, it's just, it's too much. And I won't either after Taylor Swift makes my daughter love me again because of all this dog stuff that's going on. Okay. And it's my birthday. I want to remind you guys. Well, thanks for calling in, MagicMike69. Yeah. It's good to hear from you. And bringing up monster trucks or whatever you wanted to talk about. Let's get into rolling going. Rob, what do you pay for, like, a movie? It might be a Giants concert. Oh, way too much. Because I don't ever buy them. They go on sale. They don't ever go on sale. And I never buy them.

[25:30]And then I got to buy them at the last minute. Yeah. Then, of course, I buy two and nobody will go with me. So that's double the price right there. That's a numerator times two. And then, yeah, I don't know, probably $70 a ticket. You know, something like that. But it's too much. It's in a little room. I don't know. It's crazy. I would pay more to be in a little room than to be at a big concert. Can I ask you guys a question? About concerts, quick? Of course. I went to a concert the other day at the Fillmore in Minneapolis. A concert goer that I know, her friends invited us to go to this concert.

[26:04]And it was a band. I don't even. Well, quick question. The band is called Skinny Puppy. Go ahead, Matt. Were you invited? Yeah. Were you invited a couple days afterwards? Is this an Elmo type thing? Were you going? Were there little kids there? Did they sell balloons halfway through the concert, Russell? Because you went to a little concert. I've actually heard Skinny Puppy and I think they're pretty good. Jazz Collective. What do you think, Matt? I don't. I think they play them on the current every once in a while.

[26:30]And I've got them on my list to bring up, you know, so I like Skinny Puppy. I would almost describe that for me not being into their music or never hearing them for the first time, I would almost describe it as like a knockoff, like Rob Zombie a little bit. And, but it's not about, I gotta watch what I say. It's not necessarily about the music. It's about, they put on like a show. So when you're there at the show, they're playing. They're people wearing these costumes. There's like these wars and fights between these characters that are wearing alien heads the whole time. It was a really strange and bizarre show.

[27:02]It wasn't for me. The way Matt would put it, it's not my thing. And I went and I, you know, it was interesting to watch and I made it for a while, but the whole time I was thinking, what is the minimum amount of time I have to stay at this? Yeah, because it's just, it's, I'm not saying it's not, doesn't take talent and it's not entertaining. It's just not for me. And so we were sitting there watching and part of it is like, for me, I'm old enough for like, I'd rather have a seat. I'd rather be sitting at a bar watching the show than be standing in a, I don't want to

[27:33]be in a, in a packed room where I can barely see and people are bumping into me. Right. Standing at a show, standing at a show. Forget it. I said it in my head. I'm like, my goal is to make it through 10 songs for an hour and 10 minutes. And then I'm going to say it's time for me to go. I've, I've hit my limit. I've hit my point, but I made it an hour and 20 minutes before the encore. And then it was like, let's get out of here before traffic gets crazy.

[28:01]You can't get an Uber and all that, which my concert goer was down with that idea. So we're waiting for Uber out there. And when did you call the Uber? When did you call the Uber? Where were you? Were you inside a building or outside? We may have had it. We may have had an Uber disagreement over how, what we should be doing for Uber. But the most interesting. Thing you can hear, it's a small enough theater where if you're standing out in the, like the lobby, you can hear inside. And they came up to do the encore.

[28:30]They did one song and they go, I'm sorry. It took so long to come out and we're going to have to cancel this early. The lead singer has a mouth injury and is bleeding out of their mouth and we can no longer continue the concert. So we didn't even miss the encore because the lead singer had an injury because this show is like, it's a vibe. It's like an aggressive show. Where they're hitting each other with these fake weapons and everything. It was intense and we didn't even miss the whole encore because he had a mouth injury.

[29:00]Oh my God, that's crazy. What do you think gave him a mouth injury? You think, do you think he hit the microphone in his mouth? That's what I think. Ooh, that would hurt so bad. I don't know. He was wearing an alien costume the whole time. If I was a rock star, you know how I get a mouth injury. How Frenching too hard. I'd be. Why do you have a bunch of band-aids on your tongue? Oh my God. If you're a rock star, you don't even have to go through the, you go through the process of Frenching.

[29:31]You just bypass that step. I honestly don't know what the next step is, Russell. I don't, I don't know what the next step is and I'm too scared to ask you. You were singing about it last week. Can I just tell you, Russell, if I went to a concert and it sucked, this is what I would do. But reverse to my wife. Wait. No. You'd bail. I'd be going out the bathroom window.

[30:00]Rob, I actually thought about you at this concert. Immediately. I knew like, this isn't for me that they're putting on an amazing show. It's, it's, it's people can get into it. I get how people would like it. It's just not mine for me. Yeah. But I actually thought about Rob when you took your wife to, they might be giants or whatever, one of these bands you're into. And I think she got super high. confused over some song you told us about that yes where they were they played well it's quite simple actually they played the song backwards and recorded a video and audio of it and then

[30:34]played it forward to start the second act easy to understand what's the big deal but she was entranced by it right she was blown away by it so what i tried to tell myself is like i should just sit back and like take this in and understand like it's an experience and just try to be like weirded out by it and so that got me through a legit like hour and 10 minutes but when they hit that encore when they walked off stage it was audi 5000 it was nice nice and to an uber no problem

[31:02]no problem getting the uber not a big deal was that that's a good rolling going matt an organic that's so good um we went and saw the mario movie have any of you guys seen the mario movie i'm not how was it saw it yep i think they did a really good and i feel like this has happened lately a lot more lately like with the uh what is the top gun remix oh we weren't going to talk about top gun oh sorry

[31:31]sorry i'm really sorry you have to bring that up sorry guys um but it's like the top gun you know like it was just a great movie right like there wasn't too many surprises and it was just kind of a beginning nostalgia a whole bunch of action it ended everybody's winner all that stuff right so just a good movie and i felt like mario was kind of that way too they just made every reference they could to every mario game ever made that's what and it was just good i mean it wasn't like a great movie or anything but like it just it had enough for everybody to be a little bit entertained by it

[32:03]all and in the end it was a good story for kids and all that stuff so i don't know i thought they did really good and then jack black obviously kind of stole the peaches peaches peaches peaches peaches yeah you know with his song and stuff so it was good it was i had a kid do that song in karaoke club at school the other day i had a kid do that song in karaoke club at school the other day i run karaoke club did i tell you guys that no i have a karaoke club every monday some kids come and do karaoke and i run i have two wireless microphones that i bought and i run it through youtube songs i'm like yeah there's lots of songs actually on youtube that are karaoke versions you

[32:33]can do parody songs too if you want nobody knows my secret and then uh they did the peaches song but i was thinking to myself this has nothing to do with my job or anything do you think in mario do you think he ever gets that mushroom and kind of rubs it on his johnson first like maybe this will maybe this will make it make it grow hey it's a me it's a mario do you think he ever has moments where he runs into one of those duck things and all of a sudden

[33:01]gets really small and has a problem with them i got a thing is the thing is sometimes you get so big sometimes you get so big you shoot fireballs out i'm gonna let matt finish but i gotta i got a serious mario question when matt's done let's let's go yeah what's your mario topic well my sister the princess is in another castle you have a sister as you all will recall she's a real human she told me and maybe you guys i want i want to know if you guys knew this she told me that in duck hunt player two controls the ducks yeah i did

[33:31]not know this 100 yeah yeah i didn't know we used to do it all the time i thought it was one of the most fun things i i always thought that was sick about me that in duck hunt i'd rather be the duck than the gun i thought that said something about me what a person i didn't know now i need to play i didn't know that either yeah it's so fun to move the ducks and then right when they're going to you move them they don't hit them oh it's so satisfying speaking of old school games i my nephew the other day or a few weeks ago he got a his dad got him a playstation 3 and so i i think i told you guys i was going to give him like my old two games so he could play them i ended up

[34:03]giving a bunch of playstation 2 games he enjoyed them his dad ended up getting really into guitar hero but but i um i'm starting to make some life decisions in the future where i don't think video games are going to be able to come with me anymore and so i decided i was going to give away all my old games that are down in my basement that i haven't played in years to my nephew so i gave him a nintendo with about 10 games including my favorite game punch out rob yeah multiple tecmo bowls jordan versus bird every super mario 3

[34:37]everything you could ask wow nintendo 64 with all the great wrestling games on it and bond this is crazy that you're i've played those wrestling games that your situation is changing so much before that you would clean out something like this in the basement yeah more people might know about it it's on a separate text chain without you rob that people know about i just couldn't think what would precipitate that organizing everyone's materials but it is just your nephew like you

[35:02]can get them back yes so what i said was so i you're erin you're a smart dude so i went out and i i was meeting my sister and her kids for lunch and i i showed up with like four grocery bags full of new systems and i was like oh my god i'm going to get them back i'm going to get them back i'm going to get them back i'm going to get them back i'm going to get them back and i was like look you should try all these out i told my sister there's maybe one that's got firearms that maybe some parents don't want their kids probably playing you know so i'm like can't

[35:31]use those or whatever you got to check with your mom on those or whatever but i you know i gave him to him and i was like i think i'm a good uncle and everything and then i'm thinking these are all so old he's going to be like if he brings over friends and play they're going to laugh at it they're not going to like it and his dad sent me a picture and they were playing like one of the old school i don't know if it was the 64 the nintendo the sega whatever one it was jesus russell and they were loving it and he said they were really enjoying like the game so i don't know if they're still enjoying them and i i told my sister and brother-in-law i'm like these are old his friends

[36:04]might not think this is very cool but i i think they might there's some value to that right well i don't know what the subscription is but there's like a nintendo subscription for the switch you can get all sorts of old games rob you might know it know what it is exactly yeah well maybe you need to play tetris online okay so let's maybe you need a subscription to that system to play tetris online which maybe people do for fun it's cool yeah okay and i'm not well they wouldn't be afraid to talk so they've got

[36:31]they don't have mike tyson's punch out they've got national punch out or something because mike tyson's not mike tyson zero zero seven seven three seven five nine six three zero seven three seven three five nine six three yep how story you're not already married i don't get you know but so the kids love it and then leo has been playing a game called undertale which is like a it's almost an eight bit you know flat screen what i don't know what they call it anymore but it's some some 15 year old made it who was in college made this game five years ago and everybody loves

[37:04]it and stuff so i don't know i think you know it doesn't have to be like some uber intricate shooters you know multi-level game to for kids to like but you know when that's going to change is the moment you find out you can't play it you can't play it you can't play it you can't play it you can't save like you're playing zelda and shit and you get so far you're playing zelda and you get so far and you're like okay well i'm done for the day i put in eight hours into zelda i've gotten tons of hearts and my sword is like four swords or whatever i'm definitely going to turn off this

[37:31]machine and when i come back the game will simply restart where i left off and definitely not kick me back to the beginning every single fucking when i get through water world on mario i'll just hit power and i'll come back and i'll be on water world again yeah exactly if you are you playing eight hours of video games at a time rob no because my family is here and they are making me do stuff they were leo did you not hear earlier i did i tell you earlier matt what they made me go see in the theater what was it it was i thought it was gonna be a show about presidents but it

[38:03]was just a guy reporting on football from the sideline and you'll never guess who started this lynn swan manuel miranda oh no and i got it all clean that time it's not a good joke i got it he knew too was that last week when he did the lynn swan or is it two this week that's two this week yeah i think so that what else is on your list i interrupted with nintendo talk um i just the only thing on my list was i went to i was out in boston for work and i'm going to a celtics game

[38:34]i saw that wow it was a playoff game it was fun one of the analysts who was out there with me he's huge celtics fan hello hello huge celtics call me the chief never been to the garden before or to a celtics game i've never been to the garden before or to a celtics game i've never been to a celtics game and so he got he went and so i went with him and it was great it was a lot of fun but we were behind the basket we're right in the row it's right behind the basket and lucky the mascot besides that because it's the fourth quarter and that's where the other team

[39:05]is shooting he's gonna just kind of camp up and down our aisle right oh no because he's gonna get everybody waving and everything well i'm on the aisle and so now there's nothing but a line of parents oh who are trying to get a picture with lucky during the fourth quarter of this playoff game and it was the worst thing in the world that's terrible and this one guy was like lucky come back here my kids can't come down there he'd be like okay i'll be right back up well the guy's

[39:32]taking lucky he's taking pictures of all these kids and doing stuff the dad comes back five minutes of lucky you said you're gonna come up and i'm like oh my god lucky give lucky a break yeah so i don't know i would if it was a crypt keeper russell you'd be like oh man you're sitting on the aisle but be careful you're not sitting on the dial so i think mascots are great for some kids i don't understand what cheerleaders do at professional games anymore but i don't know would you did you ever like hanging out with like goldie gopher or any of the mascots or

[40:05]are they just a pain in the ass like lucky they're terrifying that's what that's what eddie says too eddie eddie hates i have a picture of my kid with crunch and my kid is terrified and i don't blame her i put her in the picture because i knew it would be a scary picture when you're older i don't know what i was i mean well i mean this is particular to is unique to the state of iowa but in iowa the you know the cyclones and the hawkeyes have a big rivalry and i was mascot as herky the

[40:31]hawk and iowa state's mascot is cy the cyclone and they you know they're both birds so like that's pretty fun so like those games when i was a kid that was pretty fun and then for a while there was like a miniature version of cy whose name was clone like that was pretty cool i was into that as a kid oh it was kind of a dink and was this kind of a doink and dink situation yeah yeah doink dink blink and it was uh and then the leprechaun and then who was who was who was the leprechaun wrestler hornswoggle hornswoggle

[41:01]every day we're closer to becoming i was down on mascots ruin my experience not good guys whack if you don't know what hornswoggle is look it up it is a wrestler whose gimmick was he was a leprechaun i'm the leprechaun like rosie rolling going let me think who would win in a fight stone cold steve austin or a leprechaun nobody even thinks that would be a match i did hornswoggle ever win a match honestly

[41:32]it's going good with me i have little league photos tomorrow morning which i now know is a terrible idea uh and i guess a kid never realized like i gotta there was an online order and now i have to print the order form but i'm not gonna go forget i'm not gonna make this this is this is like i feel like this is my like steve martin no potato bun or like my like my falling down moment but nobody is less likely nobody is less likely to have a printer at home and more likely to need one than somebody with a child who is

[42:01]5 to 12 years old everybody's like oh just print it out at home excuse me what the fuck are you talking about there's a whole text chain going on tonight about printing the order form is printing shit at home i i wouldn't even know why can't you order online you you do order online you order online and then print your order out and bring it this makes no sense i'm not even printing shit out when i'm gonna do that when my kid emails me something at work and it's like can you print this i'm like who are these teachers who are making kids print out stuff it makes no sense

[42:30]yeah i'm i'm struggling with that but i i have been having a lot of fun my son's been out of school a couple days i realized we were talking about going to sporting events i've been to the a's already four maybe five times this year they are the worst baseball team ever and somehow i've gone more times this year than ever before but went on thursday afternoon with a bunch of kids that was pretty awesome what what is your do you take the kid with you every time you go or do sometimes you go without him i've done two without him and two with him what so what is your uh

[43:01]concession stand routine with and without your your kid oh that's a good question so without it is get a burrito and bring it with you to the game because you can bring your own food into the coliseum and none of their food is that great yeah so so the move without is to i don't even know if i told you guys about this i took a monday my best friend from home from growing up was in town so we went and had uh lunch we had lunch at the swan oyster depot in san francisco and i had like

[43:32]all this shrimp and seafood whatever and then we went over to fruitvale because we were going to and stopped at this food truck and i got a shrimp burrito and i was like what's my merch like what's the maximum number of shrimp you can consume in a day like with that you know mercury i was pushing it yeah so the move on your own is to go to fruitvale and get a burrito push the the oyster limited dc i'll just say that oh i've done that yep i've been there how do you feel i didn't feel good i'll just put it that way and then uh have you ever gotten full on oysters that's why i know

[44:05]you're eating too many oysters when you're like i'm so full i couldn't eat another oyster you're like oh no that's too many oysters i probably made it in there i mean i ate a whole shrimp seafood cocktail and then i ate an entire shrimp burrito but i'm still standing so i mean if you eat the tails too like that's just adding even more well these were just the little bay shrimp so the tails were already off but with wallace the first time we went we did the full thing we did

[44:31]you know strawberry lemonade churro cotton candy pretzel he woke up at 3 00 a.m with a stomachache so then this time when we went uh we ended up just i think he got some m&ms and i brought a sandwich from him from home and that was about it so this time we kind of we kept it kind of mellow this time yeah and then today like we're concession stand people and we're gonna spend a lot of money on concessions well target field has nice concessions like i don't know if you guys have heard anything about the oakland athletics but

[45:01]the caliseum is not the nicest ballpark and it's my favorite i love it so much but you're not missing anything by not i'll tell you what's at the caliseum you don't need any of these this new shit with concession stands where it's like oh we're a restaurant and we have a weird food that you can only get here don't fucking need it every concession stand in these stadiums should sell hot dogs nachos yep and that's pretty and pretzels and then m&ms and a sneaker bar and peanuts and cracker jacks and that's ice cream rob i have a soft serve machine a soft serve machine

[45:32]with a helmet and you put the cone of the sunday in the helmet and everywhere sells fortuna i don't need to play your old fortuna in the background i don't i don't need a tennessee memphis nashville hot chicken sandwich in a baseball game i don't need pancakes as dinner in a coliseum i don't want sushi i don't need anything that's fancy or

[46:02]requires a knife church i want something that can be wrapped up can be eaten in the hand i can put mustard on all of it i want something where the cheese it's not even a question of what kind of cheese it is you would never say oh it's a kind of cheese like when i say what's your favorite kind of cheese nobody says nacho cheese because we don't think of it like a cheese rob your thoughts utensils at a ball game no no utensils you don't need utensils everything is right there you dip the chip you put the pretzel

[46:34]also in the cheese the swamp cheese you hold the hot dog ice cream you pull the m&m's out if you're having soft serve yeah an element you gotta you need one utensil there you get a wooden spoon with your sundae oh malt cup a malt cup my friend no they don't so there's one thing that i i feel like this is an upgrade over the mall cup they do have dip and dots at the coliseum i feel like dip and dots are an upgrade over the mall cup i have

[47:02]never consumed dip and dots over the mall cup i have never consumed dip and dots over the mall cup me neither listen i look at them and i'm like like you're gonna get that over like some sort of ice cream that looks delicious you're gonna get like this rat like rat poop in a in a cup who gets dip and dot can i just say this about dip and dots what if dipping dots is the future i am going to swallow all these pills i will not live in a world where the future of ice cream is dipping dots if i wake up from my coma and i'm in my robot body with my brain

[47:34]transferred after i die and they say sir welcome to the future we've cured real quick pause real quick whatever happened to the guy that slept on your couch who wanted to uh get his brain frozen we kind of kind of just lost over this we never figured out it's still alive talk to him talk to him just the other weekend did he put down money on that he's going forward with it i'll just talk to him about it sometime ron game on rant okay sorry go back ahead we just gotta call if that

[48:01]was the ice cream that i came back to i would simply go back to the past find my parents look at them and say don't do it i don't want to live in a world of dipping dots it's the worst okay and i wouldn't be attracted to my mom that's how it's different from the movie well that's actually a great segue because oh i can't wait to see what i know we don't have time for this i know we don't have time for this but here we go let's do it play it we also

[48:34]for one-on-one with eric's mom oh no well that's like no that's great my mom is a great pinball player from way back and wallace and i went to the pacific pinball museum today wait wait wait and i'm taking a break where you said we're 54 minutes in to our 143rd episode and you're just now you just now have the nerve to tell us that your mom is a quote-unquote great pinball player

[49:00]yeah just right now everybody picture your mom playing pinball i can't do it i sure as shit can not picture my mom playing pinball anybody out there would be like how do you work this thing and get pissed off and walk out of the arcade that's amazing russell that your mom i can't believe that your mom would get so pissed they'd walk out russell that sounds weird the apple fell far from that tree what what what is going on with your mom that she is a quote unquote good just out there if your mom is you can picture your mom playing pinball please text into the show i just happen to know that my mom loves pinball and is good at it and so whenever

[49:30]i play pinball i think of my mom and today we went to the pacific pinball museum which is amazing it was 22 for me to get in it was 12 for him to get in they have five rooms all full of pinball machines from starting from 1960 up through whenever all just with your admission you just keep playing you just like you just play as much you hit start you play more and there was a back to the future pinball machine but great scott yes yeah uh terminator two terminator two was

[50:00]amazing did you have some wine and you turn and say this wine is so high in 15 and stuff did it inspire you to go invent a biffy and put all the blue because you know what happens you're you're fine if you do that but i'm but i but the i had to send you guys a picture because our absolute favorite of the uh pinball machines was the tales from the crypt pinball machine because that shook and then like all those places where there would like would have been targets they were eyeballs it was incredible it was amazing do you know how long

[50:34]i just want to say this do you know how long i spent trying to think of a pinball crypt keeper pun i literally i bet it took me a half hour and i thought about it straight for half hours like i was like tilt uh your grave would be built like that's no good like i so that's it that's that's really going with me how's it rolling with you rob hey can i interrupt yeah sure i think i could have an all-time story but i i think i could have an all-time story but i think i could have an all-time story but i i get i get i get it deleted if i want of course russell okay that's no problem

[51:08]to be bad oh my god this is um this could be bad i don't think it will be but it depends um well i wouldn't matt was talking about being at the game let's not let's not talk about it oh no please russell man you're kicked off the podcast goodbye forever matt was talking about being at and he was talking about being seeing the uh the mascot and he was like why are cheerleaders at the

[51:34]game right and so it started me thinking i was at a wolves game a while back and there were cheerleaders there but they also have um it's called the senior dance team it's like an it's relatively older women that go out and do like one dance in the middle i thought you're talking about high school seniors or maybe even college seniors but you were talking about exactly we were talking i would say the elderly you're talking about the raisin rangers i'm at this game and the senior dance team comes out and i'm looking and i'm like i recognize that

[52:07]lady oh i went on a date at one point a few years ago is that the senior dance team why would you want to delete this i don't know if there's an age qualification

[52:36]or if there was a lie about the age or what it's old for the dance team or for your dating profile russell can i just ask you this yes now the nba season has been over for quite some time how long have you been sitting on this and wanting to talk about it on the podcast you know what i i was at the game and i noticed it and i was like well that's kind of funny and i didn't think about it it it it for some reason i still know frank thomas and

[53:05]jeff bagwell's birthday and i and i would have never remembered it but all of a sudden matt started talking about why is there a why is there uh cheerleaders what's the purpose what and he doesn't like the the uh what's it called the mascot and it just jogged my memory and i was like if i don't tell you guys now i don't know when it will ever come up well that's like i you know i mean russell you can say i mean you could say oh yeah i dated a minnesota timberwolves cheerleader

[53:33]for a little bit you could say that right you could say i went on a couple dates with the minnesota timberwolves cheerleader you don't need to be so specific about it i think that's what you should go with that's like when i found out jenny was a cheerleader in high school i was like oh yes date i'm married a cheerleader i've made like my high school rob would like come to future give me a high five you know what i mean you guys made me think of it and i was like i was gonna wait until you afterwards but rob would have been so pissed at me if i would have said no you can't leave that stuff on the cutting room floor he would have been i would have been like past rob

[54:02]comes up to future rob is like yes you married a cheerleader yes and i would have been like also biffy tannins is something that's just a joke you're gonna make later don't ask me about it but it's a good one it's actually good you know the joke you've been looking for this is it um and i'm going rob what rolling going how's it going no no wait i had a story about me in the future shit now i can't remember what it was all right so um i just it's a real short one do you guys know who octomom is yeah yeah yeah isn't that fucked up we all know who octomom is

[54:34]we shouldn't we really should not she had eight babies we should not all know that her name is natalie suleiman without having to look it up we don't we all know that that's bad right like does that show that we're kind of on the decline of humanity that we all all four of us i mean aaron doesn't he has never even seen that miley cyrus video but he knows who octomom is still haven't seen that you know what's weird guess what octomom is was recently doing as a hobby

[55:01]what dancing at the timberwolves games i do like the miley cyrus song flowers i think i like i like that song it is good it is good you guys don't have anything to say about octomom no what i'm talking about her all the time over here you are yeah okay what what why do you fascinate what makes her interesting to you just ask ask the people in your life do you know octomom and they will say yes she has one of the highest q scores of anybody you know what i mean it's a q

[55:33]score like you know who they are everybody knows octomom i bet if you show people octomom and kamala harris more people would know octomom that's messed up i don't know if anyone knows what octomom looks like i just think they know the no yeah i don't know what she looks like okay i'm starting to realize i'm actually starting to realize i was way more into octomom than you guys were so you've never heard like interviews with her no okay okay yep never mind not everybody knows about octomom in the way some people do all right let's get into the album oh it's a music

[56:02]podcast enough octomom talk please for music mike oh yeah 69 69 i do i did like the reveal that he has a uh teenage son and he's still going by music mike 69 that's great yeah well i picture that's why i picture him like out in the backyard making the call like all quiet mike 69 i don't want my son you know i listen to podcasts hey are you calling that podcast again what no i learned it from watching you dad yeah i remember when they you they you said all that

[56:32]stuff the hotel and they didn't even care about it at all and they forgot to pick it up and it's so rude of them i think we call it magic mike 69 so we don't get too close to his actual name in case he doesn't want it out there oh right right right this is the third album okay and of the velvet underground and it's kind of a big shift to like normal music and ballads and a big part of it was that uh bassist uh john kale was kicked out and came in and kale was kind of one of their leader avant-garde the album before this um was like super

[57:03]noise dissonance like the murder one at the end is a lot like what the whole last album was so this is a much more return and i think you hear them starting to move toward lou reed's transformer i heard a lot of lou reed like solo lou reed in this album but basically again we're talking 1969 you got to keep that in mind with this album uh they're kind of post-punk paved the way for alternative rock the strokes and then basically like you want to have a patty smith uh david bowie a radio head

[57:33]without velvet underground you couldn't do it right they're like using lyrics to talk about real issues and like kind of being out there and making music art like this was the group that was doing it and that's why it's russell's number one pick of an album that you should buy right now you love number one candy says what a wild i heard what's the wise men say only fools rush in i heard that song in this yes i don't know if

[58:03]that's elvis or righteous brothers or whoever does the original one but uh yeah it's probably elvis right so this was a song about i can't help i'm sorry i can't help falling in love this is a song about candy darling who was a trans performer uh for warhol and the friend of the band this feels immediately like you're watching a wes anderson film yes i don't mean that in a bad way i take i do not like wes anderson films i think they're terrible i think it's so

[58:32]fair i'm out on them i'm out fair you know what my favorite movie is of all time rated my favorite movie of all time is rush probably tannin bombs it's rush more and tannin bombs is like number two russell you're breaking my heart yes his later stuff is weird and i haven't rewatched it but rushmore is one of my favorite movies ever man these are or scrubs oh are they what goes on this song was written when he was still with the ostriches if you remember from their all e tuning

[59:00]i actually really dig this song i thought there was some kind of cool riffs on it i liked it yeah this is the one with the organ on it too i think well yeah so at the end they're playing a double guitar solo and you can kind of hear them both playing and they rock it you hear that organ yep you know me i'm sucking for the organ but this sounds like a real rock and roll song you know what i mean like this doesn't sound like the chair scraping across

[59:30]the cement or whatever you heard the last velvet underground album chugging along you want to know why it sounds like a real rock and roll song why listen to the organ for a second you recognize that or not russell come on are you serious organ what do you get what pull up pull up once in a lifetime by the talking heads they essentially are copying that organ at the end of once in a lifetime again a little bit further no they're doing on the guitar yeah

[60:01]they're doing the same thing they were doing on the organ though right yep yeah same chords it's cool isn't it yeah yeah that's cool russell i read it i that's not a i didn't think of that yeah but that's good you're still smart for reading so good uh some kind of love this was more of what the last album was like for them more experimental song i gotta say how it's so stripped down but that cowbell is kind of cool

[60:33]this is an album i was expecting to hate and wanted to hate because it feels like too avant-garde too artsy for me i actually kind of enjoyed it i like this one way way more than i was expecting i was gonna russell come wait till we do the next radiohead album russell you're gonna love that one you're gonna come around on all these ones pale blue eyes oh man this lyrics are about to be his former lover who at the time was married

[61:01]to a fellow bandmate i feel so happy can you imagine if i wrote this song about one of your wives sometimes i feel so sad i think i could listen to this song every day every time sometimes feel so happy i do have a i should i gotta wait for this i love that guitar sound like i don't know what to say about who's playing guitar or how that's what's technically they're doing but i like the kind of licks on there yeah you heard russell start a story and then get flustered right i can't do you know

[61:33]what that means aaron i can't russell just a little just a little taste just give us a little taste of the story no names no nothing doesn't have to describe hey russell maybe just make up a story why don't you make up a fictional story and tell us that and change names and everything in places and let's let's say a few weeks ago we did an episode where rob insisted on keep going to like sex doll things like like buying sex dolls and what he was like

[62:00]showing his pictures and then what let's say what if what if you know instead of using like a random name he used aaron's wife at gmail.com for one of the names or used uh matt's wife at gmail.com for one of the names wow you know how i would push back on that and say it was actually what would you guys have thought of that i would have thought that maybe it was actually the trademark name and so he was just reading something off a website didn't think about what he was saying something off a website but let i rust almost made him delete that

[62:30]did that happen oh that didn't happen i do not recall the name of the website oh wow i didn't want to tell it oh wow well that was a good fictional story keep more fictional stories like that coming because those are all staying in uh jesus it's kind of a beautiful song isn't it yes there's so much beauty in this album this sounds a lot like the blue reed album we covered transformer to me where it's just like this he's very melodious very there's hooks

[63:05]and if you're like oh can you explain this song to somebody be like no i can't because there's no chorus there's not like it's like oh it's a catchy hook it's like a it's like this is the one where they say it's not about religion haven't they had songs before where they're like the whole song's about drugs clearly and they're like no it's not about drugs yeah they're like it's kind of annoying isn't it yeah but they're

[63:32]that's how they are they're their thing they're andy wallace i mean there was a thing about bob dylan who got asked about his songs right and he essentially just started making up new answers for everything because he'd go to city after city and have 15 different reporters asking what's this about what are you trying to say here yeah and so it's probably the same thing it's like i already heard the song listen yeah uh let's see beginning to see the light did we do this one no i don't think

[64:00]so well i'm beginning to see the light i want to tell you this just feels like rolling down a hill right like i like when they do this group like it just kind of chugs along yeah i think part of the reason i like this i think the drummer's kind of slick on some of this it's not like super advanced or anything but it's kind of catchy i was reading their drummer is named maureen mo tucker and she's actually considered one of the greatest female drummers of all time oh they their original

[64:32]drummer left the band because they thought they sold out like did velvet underground sell out before this like if they sold out at some point i don't know what they were doing before but i was reading that she had a very kind of minimalist approach to drumming it was very stripped down she had a simplified drum kit and she had a very kind of minimalist approach to drum kit with tom's snare and then an upturned bass and she played standing up with mallets rather than sticks and she never played the cymbals because she said a drummer's job was

[65:00]to keep time and playing cymbals just got in the way of other instruments so and so i was i was reading i was interested and i started thinking i want to know who are the greatest female drummers of all time so i thought we could do a list to honor the greatest female drummers ever wow wow for another better better countdown oh this is gonna be great the first song on the list is she played drums with prince and i actually asked aaron to make

[65:34]a suggestion on a song for this but this is sheila e the song is glamorous life yes she lee of the escobedo family born in oakland her dad pete escobedo was a music drummer from a musical family alejandro escobedo is her uncle i believe are you guys worried that the rhythm's gonna get you at any time during this song right it's kind of i mean

[66:03]we're close to the rhythm getting us tonight great song she's really rocking all those drums too that it's badass next one on the list is this is she's referred to as the queen of percussion drumming her name is bobby hall aaron do you know bobby hall i don't know bobby hall she actually was one of the youngest motown session musicians ever she played on janice joplin bill withers

[66:32]marvin gaye a ton of their hits bob seger really but one that she's really known for is playing the bongos on inner city blues on marvin gaye's album check this out wow we've heard this album for 142 albums the number one album ever if you're playing on the one album of all time and you're you made the bongos like you deserve to be on the list right this album was like groundbreaking because they weren't using a drum set on the album

[67:00]next song next drummer on the list is cindy blackman she played with a number of artists throughout the years uh she actually performed uh she had her own jazz album she played with pharaoh sanders sunny simmons ron carter and also she played with with one of our favorites she played with lenny kravitz this song is called straight cold player check it out was she on was she always lenny kravitz's drummer she she was not always lenny kravitz's drummer but

[67:37]she was in the video one of his very famous videos i forgot which one are you gonna go my way are you gonna go my way so she was she did not play on the studio version recording of the album but was in that recording and actually the reason you you should maybe know her aaron she's actually married to santana she's santana's touring drummer and is married to santana wait a minute you're telling me that this drummer

[68:01]from this famous lenny kravitz video that kicks ass where she's in like a cage she's in like a glass box she's married to santana i don't know if it's it's either this one or a different famous lenny kravitz album all right do you want me to look it up quick to make sure i don't know because this i mean he's had the female drummer here too that can't be a coincidence right let me check quick god this video rocked i forgot how hard this video rocked yeah oh you know this video

[68:32]is missing though is aaron there's one thing that i would like to see happen during this video you'd like to see do you know what it is my mind is like a maze it's so complicated the drummer in the video is cindy blackman yes russell yes she toured with him but she did not play in the studio version so i didn't pull up that song so you nailed it but she's married to santana yes that dog that dog so russell can you guess what

[69:04]do i think this video is missing what do i think this lenny kravitz video is missing it's one thing you may not be able to guess it giving birth to a what was it giving birth to a decon so god they want rock so hard yeah all right great next song on the list we're going to play a song called rock so hard it's a great song it's a great song it's a great song next drummer on the list is sandy west she actually formed the band the runaways the song is cherry bomb check this song out is this joe jet who's it is joe jet

[69:37]she was a founding member with joe jet of a band called the runaways it was the first all teenage girl band to have like commercial success as a rock band and they became very influential like in punk music and they became very influential like in punk music and they became very influential like in punk music and whatnot and i think i mean i think she was 16 when she formed that band but she could drum i'm pretty sure that donna's i think the donna's covered that song actually i was a huge donna's fan oof love the donnas all right last drummer on the

[70:03]list i don't know if you guys i don't know if we'll have to we're gonna have to rewind a little bit to hear the whole drumming because you guys will know this one but the last one on the list is the white stripes meg white yeah yes she's also known for minimalism and keeping their time moving and often confused with being a bad drummer i would disagree yep yeah i think i think people who are dumb think that

[70:34]not me smart actually aaron you were spot on i was reading a quote that um the uk the times in the uk said she reduced the art of drumming to its primary components bashing the snare and cymbal together on alternating beats with the bass drum in a way that recalled mo tucker of the velvet underground oh you were spot on way to go russell russell now russell can i pull a mad here and give you one that i think should have been on there

[71:02]actually technically rob you were the one who pulled up four of your songs by the artists last time that's why we went 150. so i'm gonna take that as a yes to pull this up so i think have you ever seen this karen carper drum solo actually i was gonna bring up this one this was almost made the list oh yeah she's incredible she essentially i mean it's crazy that is badass yep

[71:33]so good look it up if you haven't folks it's my second favorite video on the internet hot sauce on feet it's number one if you guys are wondering no one is wondering no like is guys stuck in balloon or hot sauce on feet the answer is hot sauce on feet it's uh i might go peewee i might go if i'm gonna go balloon i'm going it's too late it's too late top three

[72:02]balloon videos number one i get stuck in balloon and says oh drat guy does not want to be stuck in balloon even though it very obviously turns him on number two peewee herman of the balloon can we think of any other good balloon videos uh the the condom swallowing the super small condoms the smuggled drugs guys i don't think he's beer to the condoms i feel like there's one where somebody's making like balloon animals but very aggressively or something like that i feel like there's a balloon

[72:30]animal there was one i don't like being around balloons the thought of a balloon popping see is it it weirds me out i don't like people touching balloons like the the noise that a balloon makes when people twist it i'm out then you're not on animal balloons i'll tell you what you're not gonna like one of my kink seconds i'm out i'm out i'm out i'm out i'm out i'm out it's coming up in a future episode i'll just tell you that right now all right but because you said that it might also get accelerated right to the top of the list of what we're going to talk about all right so next up okay and we all remember what we're doing not a big deal we have i'm set no yeah i'm set free

[73:02]i think it's fun and what's really crazy is yes it builds i'm you know russell i'm with you i didn't think i'd like it so much but listen to this guitar solo a lot of the sources i saw said some people think this is a one of the top guitar solos

[73:34]like vibe wise it's a crazy one okay but could you play that solo rob of course simply but he didn't he didn't no you're right wait what's that you hear in the background of the recording it's a machine coming down metal the door opening steam steam pouring out rivets

[74:03]and here's me in the studio saying go like this my son asked me where i'm right yesterday my son yesterday was like hey what was that time machine joke that rob does oh do you explain that i go back in time and kiss myself yeah yeah i didn't do the kiss myself but i was like fog machine that's the joke that's the punch line he likes he likes the setup he likes the smoke machine

[74:30]smoke rivets listen at some point in your life you're gonna need some nude photos of yourself take a bunch now put on different shirts put on different aprons in the kitchen take them all now you will never be hotter than you are right now i know what you're thinking kind of right on this one why do you want if you well if you watch ted lasso in the last couple weeks you would just now just leave them you you forget about oh you think your body looks like dough that fell into a floor of a barber shop because it's white and has hair all over in random places actually this is the best you're gonna look for a long time you wouldn't believe the kind of weird problems your body's

[75:03]gonna have from here on out take all the nudes now but that's me in a time machine so what are you gonna do uh all right murder mystery now i bet this one was kind of a weird one this is four concurrent spoken tracks yeah this is just not for me this is the one where i would want to like i'd want to ask lou reed like do you want to listen to this like because the rest of the album has such beauty on it and like

[75:30]this feels like they don't the buttons don't work they don't want you to listen to it i'm trying to push the buttons to move on and i can't do it this i think we have to go deeper i think we went slightly out of order what oh that's the story of my life that's the story of my life that's the story of my life i'm going to edit this in later that's the story of my life is later i mean it's earlier kind of making fun of rock and roll singers all right a lot of people say that maybe belongs at the end of the album it's sound better there murder mystery nope did that after hours

[76:02]this was a lullaby the drummer had written her kid and then they put on an album so that's sweet this is this is where i hit and i i really enjoyed some of these songs and then i hear the second to last one and i get it's just not for me and then the last one and i'm like could could anyone in a middle school music class do this as a middle school teacher i can tell you no absolutely not but i'm not saying it's i'm not

[76:36]saying like they don't have skill and they're not artistic i think they are incredible artists but it's this is where it's hard for me to say like this is a top 150 album of all time yeah for me and that's just my perspective that's why this is lower on the list than the other one i think there's some the strong ones aren't quite as strong in that but i like the vibe of the whole first part of the album i'm with you i will say i liked it if you want a good version of that same noise that you were just hearing i would listen to kimmy dawson who is

[77:04]famous from the you know juno soundtrack and i got way into her for a while had a great pandora station with her on that it was so good so good let's get into the rating system never has a system never as a part of the show but so popular than the three guys i'm staring at i've never heard the peaches song very popular back it's from the mario soundtrack is it better than i want to be in the room where it happens

[77:33]no oh god no listen i was also going to ask this rob yes as the and i don't know if aaron was in this as a as a youth but uh the uh the karaoke club a lot of friends those kids are no just good it's not it's not the choir it's not it's not the jazz band it's the karaoke club you

[78:01]know what i didn't just run this club i invented this club russell does that answer your question okay yeah we all got fucking switchblades in there we're cool as hell we're smoking candy cigarettes okay it's the coolest kids in school okay now our are there currently only two kids in there yeah that's fine two kids and a teacher make a club okay i think it sounds fun but i'm just i'm just asking well the kids didn't because they actually didn't show up this week they went somewhere so you just rocked it by yourself no i had to pack away everything and go back into a room

[78:37]where people saw me packing it away because nobody showed up to karaoke club so it was it was like when you left that date russell then your computer got stolen you had to go back in and ask if your date had a computer that was me packing up karaoke club so karaoke club is actually fine and it's actually cool russell okay and to go back to that to make fun of me that's something especially when i'm trying to get through the show actually you know what's funny i do russell

[79:00]you believe it or not i do so when i did go on a date with the senior timberwolves dance team member it was within a week or so of me going on the date where my computer got stolen oh no and so so on this date it was an outdoor date you guys know i don't like outdoor walk dates this is there was an outdoor walk type of date i get a call eating prairie police excuse me my date i gotta take this call because they're i gotta file a police report i had to pause the date with the

[79:33]senior timberwolves dance team member to take a call from the police to report my computer wow wow now everybody hurts rob everybody hurts later that night did she say to you at all i want to see your t-shirt cannon did you say i'd like to report a robbery because you've stolen my heart yeah you stole my heart which i don't have my pills for christ get me home

[80:04]need my heart pills i need my statins uh here's my younger sister the crypt keeper she's wearing like beige walking shoes or at that point where she's wearing beige he just doesn't want the night to end aaron i'm serious right now you go on a date and she's wearing beige walking shoes what you do you know what i mean you can't you gotta be like because you can't

[80:31]say like oh my grandma had those shoes like you can't do that no you can't oh what's wrong with your feet what are you supporting down there because everything she'd say it really would be like the closest thing to a time machine because everything she'd say you know is coming for you she's like oh i can't even get any sleep anymore i can only sleep four hours a night you're like yeah i think that is happening to me holy shit i'm becoming you in these podcasts yeah it's like oh i can barely chew ice anymore it makes my teeth hurt what that's me too i'm getting old

[81:01]this is terrible toy story one and two are right this sucks oh jeez not really i go and i give her i go back in time and i give her my my nude pictures that i took when i went back and oh no machine and she's like this is too awkward i was 50 years old when you took those oh my god you can see me in the background of the picture but i'm i'm fading away as we don't date anymore for some reason she's fading away in the picture aaron are you listening to me you didn't even laugh at my fading away joke when i was waving he's playing the guitar he can't play it he's fading away i know i've seen the movie russell

[81:37]and the timberwolf dancer you see their marriage photo where crunch is officiating it crunches in the background officiating the wedding and you see russell and the dancer fading away. Oh my God, Matt actually is asleep. Russell. He like jumps over us in like a flame and slam dunks it in. Can I tell you something, Russell? And I might have read this out, but I was so pumped. Like I said, when I found out, like you,

[82:00]I was dating a cheerleader, right? Jenny was a cheerleader in high school. Then you know what I found out later? Wrestling cheerleader. She was a wrestling cheerleader. I was like, what? You were, I mean, I was picturing hockey, basketball. Takedown. Reversal. We've got some former wrestling cheerleaders that listen to this podcast. Oh boy. Lay the flat. Pin their shoulders to the mat. Turn them over, lay the flat, pin their shoulders

[82:32]to the mat. Hey, you know that girl that's sitting on a pillow down there? I'm going to make her my wife. You know what I mean? Nobody said that. Ever. You might have to delete the whole episode. Yeah, turn it over. It's okay. I wasn't recording anyway. I forgot. All right. So let's get into the rating system. Now the rating system, as you remember, is very normal and easy to do. So Velvet.

[83:00]Listen, Velvet. A Velvet chair. Perfect. Especially for today, which was, of course, Coronation Day. Velvet chair. Perfect kind of time for Velvet. You love it. It's perfect. Should be right here. Just like this album at 143. 143. That is rolling well-toned. Okay? What about Velvet, though? Pajamas. Like a Velvet, no, loungewear set. You have a Velvet loungewear set that you can wear out. That's awesome. That's better.

[83:30]And this album might be better. Maybe it should have been higher up. It got rolling boned. It shouldn't be this far back on the list, this high of a number. Or is this like the worst kind of Velvet, which would, of course, be a Velvet toilet seat? A Velvet toilet seat is the worst place to feel Velvet. Nobody wants to feel that. It would not help you. It would bum you out. That would be a rolling boned. Shouldn't. No. Rolling grown. It's no good. Okay? And not like anything else that's going on right now. Alright? So what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling boned, or rolling grown?

[84:00]The Velvet Underground. Russell, what do you think? Man, I'm really torn on this. Like I said, I'm fully admit, like, I can be close-minded when it comes to these more avant-garde bands. I did not want to like this album. I immediately said there's no reason it should be this high. There's five or six songs that I really enjoyed on this. There's two or three that I really didn't enjoy. There's some part of me, though, that like I like it. I might even come back and listen to it. I still think

[84:30]it's too high on the list. Yeah. And so I'm going to say it's rolling grown, but I don't want that to come off as negative because I think the album has a lot of really good stuff on it. It's just too high. I can't see this being in the top 150. This were in the 400 somewhere. I would say rolling well-toned. This is a really cool album. I will come back and listen to the songs here and there, but I just think it's too high, but I do like it. Now, Russell, do you think the age of this album had any effect on how much you liked it? I mean, you picked up on that so fast

[85:02]here, and I thought I'd at least get through a couple questions. Okay. I don't know. I thought maybe he liked the album more. Can you imagine I'm sitting there watching and I got to squint a little bit. I'm like, wait. Is that senior dance team member? Wouldn't you just say that as one of your first? I mean, honestly, if I dance on the

[85:31]Timberwolves, I would tell my dates immediately right when they said I'd be like, I'm a Timberwolves dancer. It's like how I'm a power lifter, but really I'm just an old man power lifter. You know, you just never mentioned the old man part. I'd be like, I'm a dancer for the Timberwolves. Well, there's, I mean, it was a few years ago. There's part of me hoping that they didn't qualify for the team then. Oh, you were like pre-senior dancer. It's a feather in your cap either way, man. Don't sell yourself short. Under occupation on Tinder, did you put

[86:01]retired Russell? And you still swiped? I wouldn't swipe left just because of it. He's trying to get that pension. Like, oh, hey, maybe social security while it lasts. I'm paying in. I might as well get something out of it, right, Aaron? That's exactly right. That's exactly right. It's not going to be there for me in a few years. You know, it's

[86:31]what you can. Oh, God, this is going to be like all these guys for their real. They're like, listen, yeah, listen, this mattress is going to be good for 20 years. You're like, yeah, I don't need that. All right, Rosie, what do you think? Well, don't really boner rolling grown. Thanks. There's some really beautiful moments on this album. I will listen to it. I'll come back to it as well. Like Russell, I will probably come back to it more often than I would the other Velvet Underground album. But I also feel like there's a couple of things on here that I just don't know. I don't understand their

[87:00]inclusion. So while I like the album, I will also call it rolling grown. Matt, what do you think? Rolling well, don't really boner rolling grown. This is the equivalent of sitting C. Slater style on a Velvet toilet. It's just, I mean, I don't know if there's four or five Velvet Underground albums plus a Lou Reed. I mean, Lou Reed as a person has a huge influence on a lot

[87:31]of early rock psychedelic music, right? He belongs in there. I think, Rosie, if you would start taking a look at some of the albums that come after this, you might throw up, you know, seeing it this one is right where it's at. You understand how this podcast works, Matt, right? Like we're going to those albums. Don't say that. Exactly. But like the fact that the Wallflowers is 501, you know, it's not on the list. And you know, like who, I mean, there's all these ones, right? The fact we haven't got to Tom Petty, we haven't got Pearl Jam,

[88:01]we haven't got, you know, all these different things. Right. And this album is right here. It's an outrage. It's, it's, it's a travesty. Let's just call it a travesty. And so I'm with you, Russell. Like if somebody were to tell me this album's in like the 400s or, you know, high 400s, it's on the list. Great. Okay. But sitting as a number of 143, I love you. Way too high. Way too high compared to everything. Did I ever tell you guys about the time where I went out and I was at somebody's house and they said, oh, do you want to have

[88:30]some tea? And I, you know, you normally don't drink tea, but if somebody offers it, you say yes, because you want something nice. They took it. I generally drink oval tea with my senior. You know what, Russell? I have such a bone density. Sorry, Rob. I had such a mid-level joke and you just came in and just body slammed it. That was like the undertaker just coming in and destroying a hornswoggle. He just posterized your joke. Rob, tell me about your tea. I feel like hornswoggle. So this one, this person, this person I know serves me this tea,

[89:02]but it's weird because when she, when she opens it up, I hear this, I'm gonna love you forever. And I was like, wait, what was that? Okay. Forever and ever amen, right? Yeah. I'm gonna talk about the weather as long as old women sit and talk about old men. And I was like, what? I didn't ask, but what kind of tea is this? What kind? It was Randy Travis tea. It was another Travis tea. You guys were talking about

[89:30]Travis tea. So I wanted to talk about the Travis tea I knew, which is Randy Travis tea. Aaron, you get that one? Randy Travis tea. The other flavor was, I found me a diamond just to mine in for coal. That was the other flavor. Not as good. Hey, Rob, you know, I told you, I remember last time Aaron interrupted you about your favorite Rocky villain. It was Mr. Travis tea. Travis tea. I paid the fool who doesn't love me forever and ever. Oh my God. Is that Mr. Randy Travis tea? Yeah. I was just at a show.

[90:02]This is Mr. Randy Travis tea and I will love you forever and ever, but I just want to tell you, I was at a show of Hamilton, but instead of actors, there was all guys catching touchdown after touchdown for the Steelers. And it was I'm Mr. Randy Travis tea. And I went to a show with Lynn Swan, Mel Manuel Miranda. Listen, guys, we don't have time for all this. Okay. Let's get the actual answer is this is a rolling non-experiment

[90:30]today shown. Yes, they came back and they were making like poppy songs and it sounded like Lou Reed and it's, you know, normal stuff now next week. Get ready. It's normal stuff. Okay. Get ready. I know you guys, the first thing you want to do when you get done with this call is come back and record another one. Did we get it wrong? You got it wrong. We got it wrong again. 143 weeks in a row. The next one is a double album. Okay. It is a double album. And it's finally, we all remember the woman that was on, was it Jerry Springer? What show was that? Or no, Maury where she said, cash me outside. How about that?

[91:02]Do you guys remember that? Cash me outside girl. That was Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil. It was cash me outside. Put that in the octum up. Put that in the octum up. Why anybody should actually know that. I have no idea what you're saying. I've learned a lot about myself. Cash me outside. Well, this was the one where she said, Hey, cash me in here. Cash me in here. Cash me here. This is physical graffiti and Led Zeppelin. Oh. Cash me. Is this her fourth Zeppelin album? I think so. No, we've done four. We also did one. How many

[91:32]have we done? We did four. But we also did one. And we also did. Did we do two? No, three. So ask me if we've done four, Russell. Because we did. Jack did it better. Rob, have we done four? Yes, we did. Back at number 58. We did. Actually, my favorite Led Zeppelin album was 143. I love you. We've done 124. It's I copy

[92:02]you because they copied all their songs. Anyway, I looked it up, by the way, and I want to tell you Hornswoggle was a cruiserweight champion at one point. Does that blow your mind? It's time to say goodbye. Did you guys get my Randy travesty joke? Did you want me to explain that again? I think we got that one. Just wondering. And I didn't mention his DUI pictures.

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