Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska (1982)

[00:00]Aaron, it's all, it's the only thing that gets me turned on nowadays. 2024 friends decide to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums decided by Rolling Stone Magazine. Because you asked. I cut that part off earlier, but you asked. You said, Rob, what turns you on these days? So I wanted to tell you. It's how we start all of our podcasts with a vocal warmup. What turns me on these days? What turns me on these days? It's always kneeing me in the crotch. 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. I command you, sit back and enjoy. Beck did it better. We are all the way up to album 150. And from 1982, it's Nebraska by The Boss. Okay, now I feel like this is a number of times we've done Bruce Springsteen. I can't say it. I've made the Hugo Boss joke almost every time.

[01:00]I'm not going to do it again. I'm stronger than that. Okay. And I've done all the Boss jokes. I've done Hugo Boss. But what I didn't get about this album is when Bruce Springsteen came out, dressed like a cop, and he started beating on the ultimate warrior with his baton. The big boss man. Yes, I couldn't believe it. If you ever take a trip down to Cobb County, Georgia. The big boss man died at 42. No, don't say that. I was just going to say. It looks so much. How depressing is that? He died at 42. Yeah. Who could believe a wrestler at that time would be living a life that would cause him to die early? Would you take that life? How old are you? How old are you guys? I'm 43. 43. Yeah. Oh, there you go. I beat the big boss man. Yeah. I've also never given the Hulkster a hard time slam. So he lives different lives. Okay, listen. Guys. Remember when he fought the Mountie at WrestleMania? It was like the battle of like. The Georgia cop versus the Canadian policeman.

[02:01]Let's go to the radio. Thank you, Mr. Marconi. Oh, no. Somebody just left. That was it. All right. Here we go. This is me. I got turned on the Zoom, but I'm back. Now I'm here to listen to the radio with you guys. Shoot. I pushed the wrong button then. All right. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the 150th episode. This is KROB. K-R-O-B. You know, 150 episodes. Is that even a lot? Well, let's do. Let's do the math. Oh, yeah. We'll add 150 episodes with this one tonight. There's only 350 episodes left. If episode one represented 12 midnight, it would be 8 a.m. for this podcast. It's about 9.4 days if you listen straight to every episode. It's about 9.4 days if you listen straight to every episode.

[03:10]It's about 9.4 days if you listen straight to every episode. It's about 9.4 days if you listen straight to every episode. I just realized I'll be 50 when this is done in my. Oh, this kid will be 21. Oh, the greatest. Everything dies. We could be funnier. We can be funny from this. This is just extra pipes I put in for ballast for the episode. We're going to shake it off and make it funny. Is episode 150 like the second 150 or is it the first 150? Is there episode zero counts as a number? So technically we've done 150. Meaning this is the second 150, right?

[04:01]Listen, if only there was a math expert on the Zoom. If you're a math teacher, if you're a math teacher, just have me listening to you speak up. And don't forget about the Christmas episode and don't forget about episode zero. There are no math teachers on the Zoom. They're just quitters. People couldn't handle being a teacher anymore, so they had to quit and find a new job. They had to find more pleasure as a principal. No, that's okay. It actually turns out some people made the right decision. I didn't realize that until I was much older. What's the old saying? Those who can't teach admin? No. Nobody has ever said that behind people's backs. Oh. All right. Those who can't teach crowd control at state hockey tournaments? No. No. I will not stand for this. Okay? Because my camera is pointed at me sitting. Listen, we are talking about Bruce Springsteen. It's the boss. We are talking about Nebraska, the album that when I said, oh, we're doing Nebraska, everybody said, what? And listen, this is one boss I would want to sexually harass me. I mean, give me those buns, Bruce. It's coming up in your next album. It's the money maker. It's true. It's the money maker. Yeah.

[05:00]Hey, Rob. If I had. I said you had a nice body. Would you hold it against me? I'd be like, gross. You're terrible. It's sucking my finger. Bruce, that's too far. That's past. That's past work sexual harassment. I feel like it's not subtle right there. Yeah. I wish your panties had a delete key. Listen, listen, I got three guys here. I got three guys here who are so excited for this album because they love the E Street band. It's their favorite part of Bruce Springsteen. I've got Russell in Minneapolis down in the down in the. Down in the pit. Russell, how are you doing? Rob, all of our listeners have thoughts about the DVD tournament. That's a fact. But all those porta potty dwellers keep coming back. So listeners better put on their makeup and fix up their hair pretty and meet me tonight in DVD Tournament City. Nice. Well, listen, if you are maybe sitting on the zoom and you don't know what we're talking about, Russell has moved into his new place. And when he moved in, he looked out the window.

[06:00]A great sweeping view of the river, of course, in Minneapolis. And between the two of us, we're going to have a great time. We're going to have a great time. We're going to have a great time. We're going to have a great time. We're going to have a great time. We're going to have a great time. And between the time he had inspected the place and moved in, they had installed approximately 10 porta potties right outside of his window. So that is not what he looks at when he looks outside. And it gives me great pleasure. OK, I think about it almost every day. My kids and I have talked about it definitely every day since the last record. So it's bringing us a lot of family time. And we appreciate it. I mean, who knows? My kid loves talking about porta potties. Who would have guessed that's the case? I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you? Do they call the magic water the elixir? It does look like a video game elixir, doesn't it? If I drink it, it's going to increase my mana. It's blue. Red is for health. Everybody knows that. Rob, two, three weeks in a row, you chose correctly in going with Russell first because I would have completely ruined his vibe if I would have stole his line. But I've got written down here. I said, put your makeup on. Fix your hair up pretty. Meet me tonight in Pleasure Principles City.

[07:01]Let's go. And I've got Aaron out in California. Now, Aaron just was telling me. He's telling us how much he loved the movie Air. Air, where it's about Nike getting Michael Jordan. His favorite part was at the end where Nike made tons of money. That's why everybody's like, yeah. Everybody in the theater stands up and goes, hooray. They got the meeting with Michael Jordan. A movie about fucking taking meetings. Can you believe it? Air was probably fist pounding like all the four comic club people that he's with, right? Air in, right? Air in, you guys know. It sounds kind of funny. Kind of funny, yes, indeed. But at the end of every hard day, people find a reason. A reason to believe. Let's talk about Nebraska. I love this album. Yes, I haven't had a hard day. Nine hours. I got to go see my doctor. Let's get into the section that I have told voicemails. This album's so bad, I can't even get pumped about Aaron's quote. No, no. I'm going to change your mind. I'm working on it. I'm ready. I'm here for you. I'm here for you. This is an interesting one. All right. Let's listen to whatever this is.

[08:01]Oh, oh, God. On the back line, 802-277. That's 802-277-2325. Now, this might shock you, but this week, I am begging you, please call in and leave a voicemail. Please, please, please. I need those voicemails, okay? I have miscalculated some simple math. Please, please, please call in. A lot of miscalculations this week. Man, 60 to zero is so fast right here. Hey, guys. Close personal relative of Aaron's calling in. Hey, there was a thread on Twitter last week, and then in the Frank Ocean episode, Russell made mention of a song. It sounded like it would be on a FIFA soundtrack. Anyways, the Twitter thread asks, what song is extremely synonymous with a video game for you? I'm curious if any of you guys have any specific songs from any video game past. For me, it does not get any better than Train in Vain off of NCAA football 2006.

[09:00]Nice. Shout out as well to MVP Baseball. I have the greatest soundtrack of all time. Thank you. This guy. This guy knows his stuff. Actually, the song that makes me think of video, you know, games is also off the MVP Baseball 2005 soundtrack. No Ramirez was on the cover of it. Love it. And the song is Dropkick Murphy's. The song that started is Dropkick Murphy's. The song is Tessie. Rob, pull that up. Tessie by Dropkick Murphy's. I don't know this song. This this call. And the reason it's important is I had actually bought my old house with a good friend of mine. It was definitely not the pleasure principle. Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. And so, when we moved into this house within about two months of us living there, our sewer backed up full of shit into the basement and we had to tear out the whole basement. So all the walls had to come down, all the furniture, everything had to go. And for about a year we didn't finish the basement. We literally just sat in the basement with a big screen TV in camping chairs playing MVP Baseball,

[10:04]the home run derby for literally like a year straight with the pleasure principle. It's one of my all time favorite moments with the pleasure principle. Pleasure principle is playing the home run derby. Listen to Tessie by the Dropkick Murphys on MVP Baseball. How do you even beat that? You can't top that. It's amazing. It is amazing though. Isn't it? How many video game song memories we have? What Matt, what do you got for a video game song? I mean, I've literally have none. You, you know, you pull back the curtain. You gave us about eight hours to think about this, right? Like the only thing I could come up with was the Rocky top song, the Tennessee Rocky top song. This is from college. I had nothing to do. It's always come up. But pod pod three 21 beats a shit out of pod three 24 or something like that was a tiebreaker. But it's a great song, you know? And this song was just playing nonstop because Tennessee was always kicking the shit out of whoever else it was. So this was just Texas, you know?

[11:00]So, so it was just the Rocky top. So, I mean, that's the only thing coming with it that associated me with a video game. You know what I loved about that football tournament is that's where I met my wife said nobody ever. I was just sitting there playing video games and Mark this lady was like, Hey, that's the guy I need to spend my life with. She was like, Oh my God, are you faking a field goal against Aaron? Oh, I want to marry you so bad. I got to ask you guys, would you consider yourselves like good video game players back in the day or not? Cause like I was pretty, pretty, I would say above average at most games, but like one of my good friends, the pleasure principle also played in that, that tournament between Texas and Tennessee, where that song came from, Matt. And I always kind of, you know, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, no, I don't know. He's not like overly good, but Dan, when it came to big games, he would always win. He would always come through the pleasure. The principal was with the clutch player in video games when you, when you weren't quite expecting it. No, I, I was absolutely horrible at video games. I always was like after Nintendo, I was a system behind everybody,

[12:01]you know? And so like all of a sudden bond is a gold. Nice. That was that before bond or something like, you know? So all of a sudden gold guys out, right? playing it forever and like oh come over and play gold mine so i go over there and i just get shot and i die right away so i'm like well this is fun right and that's just what that was that's my experience with video games so i'm sour grapes i i've never been good at them i've been good at at uh oh there you go that's that one i guess reminds me oh boom see it just started i already died i'm already out i'm done so this is about as far as i got through the song i'm the same man russell knows he set me up on this russell played video games with me for the better part of four years and i got my ass beat pillar to post in every type of game imaginable i was never a good video game player and russell knows that but for me the game of course was tony hawk pro skater and the song of course did you ever hear the song anywhere else besides beside tony hawk pro skater the ad for it this was the ad of the beacon sock kiki it's so like

[13:00]i only got love for one skating game and that was the original on nintendo's 720 skate or die the tornado would come to like wipe you off the game that was the best skate or die yeah tony tony hawk had good they had tony hawk had dell the funky homo sapien like tony hawk had some good stuff on there ace of spades was on tony hawk there was oh my god i mean it's kind of a it's kind of cheating like uh was guitar hero right like i hear i still hear songs that come on the radio now and i'm like oh that was from guitar hero you know so i do hear that i have to say the caller mentioned this song uh train and vape that it was in the training from the clash yeah it was on the training part of the football game that he would play which i think is so fun it's like well that's the thing about this i happen to know that this caller would uh play the training mode on this game for multiple hours at a time so this this caller definitely spent a lot of time playing training mode isn't it weird how those games are like that like yes like in a in a like a meditative state

[14:06]i went through a period in madden where i would just like fantasy draft my team and then i'd play like one game and then i'd quit and be like i don't like this team but then i would just go through like another fake draft and pick you know all the guys i wanted and then i'd make one game and be done yeah i got a song i got i didn't get to give a song i got a song my my one one song that i can think of is i can't remember what year madden had never scared by bone crusher but bone crusher never scared was on madden one year please just wait a minute i can't i can't i gotta do this first i mean you really you make my life so hard i gotta type in bone crusher i've gotta go to like big dot r r-u-s like the russian thing to go find it i ain't never scared i ain't never scared right this was on a madden game great one i actually have one more on that and i think madden got really good at adding songs and the other one i had was from madden 2003

[15:02]it was the one with marshall faulk on the cover i don't know if you guys remember the marshall faulk game but the song was by andrew wk the song party hard you guys remember andrew wk party hard is that the guy with the blood on his face this song is so good i love andrew wk this is like he only had songs about partying which i could appreciate yeah party we will party hard if you turn on the football of this church break and you're ready to go right right you're like let's go it's very dropkick murphy-esque too they're kind of the same everyone else in college is like hey we're going down to a party the hockey house all the girls with leather jackets are already down there you know it's gonna be fun and we're like we can't baby we're partying hard we're playing madden we're on year 10 of a dynasty wait you went to school girls in leather jackets that's not that's the hockey girls somebody on this call knows what i'm talking about i'm getting a big nod oh yeah they were at all the games trust me i was always

[16:01]watching them unfamiliar to me yeah i didn't realize there was a was a group called the hockey girls or a hockey girl group was there one in college oh yeah yeah oh i i assume so because i kept talking about on my radio show that i had uh all right let's get into rolling going most of them are married to hockey players time to see what everybody's up to it's time for rolling going uh all right rolling going aaron rolling going how is it going with you now i gotta say aaron before we start i know i don't like to talk about your appearance very much but you are looking a little more her zoot today you're a little hairy okay you got a little hair on top you got a little hair on the face i cannot wait to see what is the reason have you been out hiking you're out camping you're out doing exciting things what is going on here that's thank you for noticing i it's uh man the summer's a grind i don't know what this is like like for you all i don't find that oh you know days are already getting shorter i mean gripes it's if you mean that you're

[17:01]pretty soon we're gonna have the state fair and the mtv right around the corner you all of a sudden like instead of yeah like we my son went to a camp this week and it was aaron wait i did i don't think i got that clean if you're talking about jacking off a lot like mtv grind then yes the summer is a grind for me my mom's like this guy loves watching the grind this guy and he must be dancing because he is down there are sweat stains on the couch like you wouldn't believe downstairs does your does your frequency increase during the summer rob yeah i wake up and what is there to do i don't know what should i do oh what should i oh what should i do what should i do what should i do what should i do what should i do what should i do should i get up and do the dishes which by the way there are like eight egg yolks every morning in the kitchen i gotta clean up okay and walk the dog and start my day and should i go to jujitsu in the morning i should go in the evening what am i going to go to the gym hold on she's just throwing the yolks out she just eats the whites and throws yeah she eats eight egg whites every day and puts the yolks in a bowl i don't know listen if i try to eat them aaron i i've tried

[18:00]i've tried making custard i've tried doing something okay it's recommended by zero by negative five out of five doctors doctors came back in the future like don't do it hey you know that heart attack you've been waiting for this is it right here isn't that how hogan trained for wrestlemania rob wasn't it wasn't he wasn't he wasn't eating sushi then it was it was egg yolks wasn't it yes i think yeah he was eating he was drinking egg yolks raw eggs i got i got salmonella from oral sex from hulk hogan a lot of people don't know that that was i've been eating so many egg yolks brother i got a bacterial infection brother but thank you for noticing i've not had time to shave this week uh my son's been in this camp it hasn't like it went okay by thursday friday but the first few days he was kind of unsettled so it took a long time to get him out the door uh i don't know what it's like in your yards but my yard is like anything that looks fucking ugly is growing out of control and anything that looks

[19:00]nice has died so i'm out there pulling weeds all the time so every time i thought i was like oh i should shave water yeah every time i thought i should shave then i gotta get out there and i'm out there and clean the yard so i did the same thing today so here's what happened to me today i had i had a break in my afternoon it's friday afternoon i had a break from two to four uh and so it was like okay should i shave wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute yeah you it's a friday and you have a break from two to four and you have to go back at four a.m no because here's the deal i had to have a call with my teacher i had to have a call with my boss's boss at 4 p.m shit going on so you know when like when your boss's boss in the morning hold on hold on friday 4 p.m with your boss's boss do you still have a job are you still employed still good all good there but yeah yeah that's the classic time that's never except a never accept a meeting do the 13 people you manage still have a job at least 12 of them do

[20:07]yeah she reached out to me this morning at nine like hey do you have time to talk about this thing today i'm like sure i'm free after 12 she's like how about four great so all day i'm thinking i got this thing going i would have been sweating bullets rosie that is a baller boss yeah it is a baller boss move put the pressure on you make you stay till the end of the day i love it i got a new head to school at my school one year but he was brand new and this is like i don't know what it's november december right he comes down i get an email head of school wants to see you lunch today and i was like i love it so i go in oh yeah they don't respect my lunch time so i go in and instantly i'm doing a lab with the kids i get eggs he's trying to eat egg yolks and there's nobody giving him the time to do it how many classes how many classes do you teach today well there's some days where i only do one but there's some days where it gets all the way up to four but they're messing yeah and

[21:00]those are four 40 minute classes okay and i can go home when i'm done now here's the thing i'm dissolving eggs in vinegar right so the egg shell is like this white powdery stuff gets all over my pants so now i have white stains all over my pants and i told the kids of course hey after this the head of the school is meeting with me i'm probably not gonna be here next week it's been okay teaching you you know what i mean and so then the kids are like you have egg on your pants you're gonna get fired so of course i go meet with this guy and he says to me even worse i wish you would have fired me because you know what he said i heard you were funny can you host the christmas party you guys remember that can you host the christmas party and there's nothing you would love more than this yeah you you would love six to midnight right there it might surprise you i got too drunk when i was hosting the party they were like let's do cheers and every time we cheered i had a whole drink and after about the 10th one i was like oh i can't be doing this i'm hosting uh sorry aaron didn't interrupt so yeah so today at two o'clock i was like uh like anna came home she had had the car and i was like hey uh i got this two hour break

[22:02]should i like i need to shave should i shave nice or do you want to do you want to take a walk because it's been cloudy here so the sun finally came out so i was like yeah let's take a walk so i was gonna make hot dogs tonight we have no hot dog buns and i'm two months i'm two months late on pickups at the wine shop for the wine club and we have no rosé in the house for anna so i was like listen all right 240 we get done with walking at 250 and i got a meeting with my boss's boss at four and i was like i felt like matt right here i felt like i was doing a mat i was like i can get missing this meeting to go get hot dog buns and i can say i can get down to the wine shop get my pickup done pick up another six bottles get back stop for hot dog buns and get home so i did it i drove down down i stopped in unfortunately it was not the regular person working at the wine shop it was the stoner guy who's like really slow and like their wi-fi wasn't working but i still i slammed it i chugged a glass of rosé wi-fi is that working so why because why do we have to make this digital i'm trying to pay for my stuff

[23:03]because i got i pick up my wine that's there and then i gotta add some more bottles and so then i i you know chug a glass of wine get my bottles of wine go back to the car drive back to town then like all of a sudden there's like traffic on 24 so i had to get off on claremont and then i'm going up broadway terrace i get to the to the grocery store at 3 45 which is five minutes from home so i run in you got it you know where i'm going i pick up the hot dog buns there were none in the regular spot because they've got a special going on by the front of the register so all i figured that all out got it all done walked into my house at 353 just in time to set everything down and have my coffee and i'm like okay i'm gonna go to the hall with my boss's boss i felt like i felt like matt like i knew i could do it i made it happen i felt i felt if you reported to be you your boss would have two less employees i can't believe you risked that you risked showing up late to go go run those errands that's the most errant thing ever of all time i mean oh i know it's late to the meeting what were you doing i was getting

[24:03]hot dog buns and wine it's friday right we're trying to drink some rosé and make some hot dogs for my family what i mean problem was you know like i i do that on a daily basis right like to the minute like i know that it takes me like six and a half minutes to get my house to lifetime on about 66 and xerxes which is york but then it turns into xerxes because kind of goes at an eight let's turn it up you know i know it's six and a half minutes and it's like a minute to get in and all the like it's on the daily right except then all of a sudden like there'll be like a lane down in a road or something or there'll be an accident or something and it just i always forget about that stuff so i've started leaving and i'm like oh my god i'm a little i started leaving like three minutes just in case so in case i gotta go around or something like that sorry the hot dog buns were up by the register the boss is like yeah i was just calling you didn't get real hot dog buns did you tell us the truth you did not even get the real hot dog buns yeah did you get like some well the boss is probably calling and being like

[25:03]hey listen i was thinking about that john henry's hammer song and you're right ai is gonna take over this business you're fired oh god it's aaron pause now he's frozen he's frozen in the room i love the way he's frozen though or he's really thinking about it you're joking he's very serene i like it hey you know what i actually have is do i still have his laugh somewhere no i think i got rid of that page well apparently that hey the wi-fi something's going on with the wi-fi in california there he is aaron let me think about this did you attempt to do what i have tried to pass i bet i try to pass this on my kids once a year i'm like listen we got hot dogs but i got hamburger buns so here's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna cut the hot dog buns and i'm gonna cut the dogs in the thirds we're gonna put it on it's the same it's bread it's buns and you my kids think i am the devil when i try to do that yeah i don't i don't mess with that i don't try it you gotta go even even more ghetto and just take you know you got the loaf of bread you get the two ends

[26:02]right you just take the two ends and you're like it's the same as your butt no i don't try that my son just wouldn't eat it like there's no way no way i got two different kind of buns so he could choose we had the pretzel buns and then the top slice buns which actually i think that like the top slice buns were kind of nice i i gotta i gotta get onto this so aaron send us a picture today this is this is not just the podcast this pervades pervades the whole life aaron sent us a picture of hot dog buns that are cut from the top so he bought hot dog buns which are cut from the top and what i like to call the uh jared style because it's what subway used to do okay before they got all woke all right woke mind virus uh and so they cut it from the top i love it i love it rosie you could put a jam that thing full of hot dog put it right in the top with you know you don't have to you can hold it you can display it you can have on the plate there's no mess no muss no fuss love the top loaded hot dog i'm with you man i enjoyed it i love that i can stuff some pickles in there and put some hot peppers on top some sauce i loved it the ultimate

[27:00]hot dog bun i had was in the czech republic i had one once where it was just all encasing it looked like a it looked like a circumcised penis because it was kind of sticking out of like a baguette right yeah because they take the baguette and they put it on the hot dildo and then that hollows the thing out and then they put the hot dog in there yeah i've seen that in austria and this big hot part is sticking out and the other part has yeast so it's pretty similar to a lot of things actually all right but enough about uh enough about tube meat how's it rolling going with matt uh good um i know we talked about it and we've talked about starting another podcast but they're just i love it when it comes up it's so great and i gotta just drop everything i'm doing there was another cult documentary that came out recently for real yeah about the duggards about the duggards and i get what it's called but the duggars uh shiny happy people shiny happy people yeah yeah about how fucked up that whole thing is and i can't get enough of it and i think it's just great and i've watched it so yeah somebody in the zoom somebody in zoom call

[28:02]was a big fan of the duggars for a while he was like these guys have the right idea pump out these kids like crazy let's do it yeah but got halfway there is there yeah keep it i need more arrows in my quiver more arrows in my pleasure quiver yep that's good listen listen listen listen we all love having sex with our wife it's great okay i think we can all agree to that you know even when it's not great it's great it's gonna be bad okay but after like the ninth kid aren't you just like geez i see it's starting to see a correlation here like these two things start to go together you know what i mean like it's like enough like when you're sitting there and you're throwing away like i don't know five dirty diapers in a room and you're like oh my god i'm gonna get a day like in the morning just when you wake up you gotta be like listen i gotta stop fucking my wife like i this has to end i mean part of the thing i was trying to figure out how they live you know it's more about like everything else going around but i never really watched the

[29:00]duggard so i didn't see like on a daily basis how they did all the laundry and all that but you see how they did i mean like it's ridiculous yeah but you see like three of the kids have to bake like 10 loaves of bread in the morning like that's their chore just to have enough food for lunches and you know they have a bread kit aaron i bet they have a sourdough kit that sounds that doesn't sound bad to me that seems smart yeah yeah except for the fact where your kid you know it's like oh well you should be in school but oh you gotta stay home with the you know with the mom and take care of the kids so you don't get to go to school anymore so you know there's things like that that pop up and you're like this is fucked oh that's matt aaron and rob all you guys two of you have two kids aaron has one kid did you guys ever have a moment where you're like oh i can't go out there like was there a a moment where you're like i'm done yeah yeah other than like a technical procedure i'm not talking about the physical aspect of it i'm asking we're on the technical procedure side so if you really want to get into that russell we can get into the technical

[30:02]yeah you want to talk to me about the technical procedure of how my wife had two kids with me you're sick russell oh yeah rob what was it for you did you guys just purposely decide that you were good at two or not no my wife was like hey i'm gonna go to school i'm gonna go to school are you thinking about another one i said absolutely not i said absolutely not because after two like you got to kind of change like you got to like you got to everything has got to be different right like it's a different car you can't just sit on an airplane seat like with the two kids like it's a whole different like it's you got it's a whole new lifestyle and i'm i'm much too lazy to do that like i'm i'm such a bad parent i'm so lazy i don't want anything to do with anything i want to be as simple as possible uh but no i am not i'm i'm it was pretty clear like two kids a perfect amount for me it's great man well i mean for us it was we took a lot to have the kids and it was basically like you know we got two healthy kids and sarah you're still healthy let's just uh you know cash in our chips and call it good you know why uh why make it why dance with the devil

[31:03]too many times you know so that was kind of our decision sure uh my son tried to murder us between ages zero and four so there was i mean he's only three and a half we were just we were just talking about this tonight like he was i mean we had some fucking nightmare heartbreaking months at a time with the sleep and the screaming and the so it was like yeah that's it we're we're still still recovering he's sleeping right now though so that's good like and you know because if guys could develop a vagina fake vagina that felt exactly like a real one what they would be a bazillionaire they would make a thousand dollars they would make a million dollars right because everybody would buy it they'd be like oh i could just do this you just went from bazillion to thousand dollars to million it feels like yeah why yeah numbers aaron look it up this is really wide i got a news for you dr number line came up with something you better check it out all right and if they made a perfect replication everybody would have one but they haven't yet the stuff they've come

[32:04]up with i mean that stuff you buy it in walgreens that's no good i want to pay like ten thousand dollars for something where it's like this feels just like it and you don't have to clean it that's the main thing i think is the cleaning part i'm going to edit all this out but i'm serious about the cleaning part like that's because you would be like oh yeah oh yeah oh they'd be like i'm so tired ah but i gotta clean this thing you know what i mean then you'd be in the bathroom you'd have one of those baby bottle brushes you'd be like your wife cleaning all those egg yolks i wonder how long this would go if we just let him go like who could he do he's got to fill the silence guys just hold on just watch just watch just why is there a wet spot in the bed when i've been at work all day you've been at home it's 9 00 a.m you got the bottle brush out already what are you doing and edit point all right so that's a little something for our live guests if nobody else is going to hear that oh geez all right really good russell how's it going with you things

[33:02]things are going good as you guys know i i moved into this new place and and i've trying to narrow down my dvds the new the new co-tenant is getting on me about this big case of dvds i brought i'm over the limit i've bought two tubs from menard just like matt told me to but i've got three because one is full of dvds so as you guys know i have to narrow down the dvds are you we're doing have you have you had the the serious conversation in your head like dvd tub versus this new co-tenant maybe this just isn't going to work we'll do that on the after podcast i will say before we talk about the dvds i will ask you for rush hour two i might need to go to the co-tenant advice corner real quick oh no i had another okay wait we'll get to it rob we'll do a bowl get to the corner it's time for russell's tennis corner oh yeah i'm gonna have to change the sound clip am i aren't i

[34:01]now we'll wait we'll wait until i get married before i turn to it we'll see so the question i was gonna ask you is i've worked recording tonight and i noticed last week we listened to the podcast and i hated my audio quality because i'm down in this basement wood floors everywhere my audio quality is just was terrible the other night and i'm sure it's gonna be terrible again tonight but so i started thinking you know is it all right to ask the co-tenant hey could you just like go to bed early tonight or get out of the main floor so i could record in the main floor what what would your guys advice be about trying to kick out your co-tenant so you could report record your podcast in a better acoustic room my advice russell is don't ask tell okay they like it when you direct they like it when you say hey you know what i'm doing something if you could just go to bed and i'll be there for you that'd be great okay definitely that's gonna go really well my advice is just let that audio be shitty for a while until you figure it out because it's not worth it so just your audio is not shitty

[35:01]russell it's just fine it's not worth getting an argument about that's my advice so anyways i floated out the idea well maybe i could just record up in the kitchen tonight and you could kind of evacuate the area and then i did not get a rousing response so i'm back down here in the basement again i'll tell you what anytime you use the term evacuate with your partner in your house that's always a good sign i think that's really good okay referring to them to evacuate i think it's great where would your co-tenant go if if she were to evacuate well i mean they could come down and sit in this freezing cold basement right but anyways as you guys know i've got this all these dvds and we're narrowing them down we're doing the dvd tournament wait wait wait welcome to k-rob everybody k-r-o-b listen the other week we did a dvd tournament which dvds russ is gonna keep and the number one question we got is how is so-and-so number 18 you morons we said we alphabetized them listen please i need to make a decision and it's hard

[36:05]for me to do which dvd yeah help me decide i can only hold on to five well i know that i need more space and now which which one should go they're alphabetized that's how we set up the tourney so don't ask why they're ranked so strangely let's decide wow i gotta say this ranking the dvd tourney which i thought you know i thought hey this is an idea this is content let's fill it up this got a higher response than anything that i have ever said on the podcast on the text chain everybody is talking about the dvd tournament and the number one question was

[37:03]how is that rank so low when russell clearly explained even i heard that they were alphabetized and and rob technically if i were to rank them from 1 to 16 there'd be no reason to have the tournament i would just keep the top ones right we're alphabetizing them we're looking to decide who do you guys think we're going to rank them from 1 to 16 and we're going to rank them from and who do the listeners think are the DVDs that need to advance and stay in my collection? If one of these DVDs is ALF, that's a twofer because that's going to be a one seed and it's already alphabetized. ALF is all over it. Alphabetized. A few weeks ago, we did the comedy. We did the comedy region. Tonight, we can do action, sports, or drama. Do you guys have a choice? Let's do drama for the sex scenes. What are the sex scenes in action movies, too? Are you picking drama? I think drama is the weakest region by far. Okay, then forget it. It's just shocking. It's just shocking. Let's go action. Let's go action. Again, these

[38:01]DVDs are ranked in alphabetical order for those that weren't listening the first time. I will say, in my mind, I had better DVDs, too, but I think it's because I used to live with definitely not the pleasure principle and he had a good set of collection of DVDs and VHS tapes. I remember a lot of Tom Cruise movies, Jerry Maguire. Hey, how many did he end up leaving at your house when he moved in with his significant other because he couldn't take them with him? How many was that? That was not his style. I bet he took it all. He took everything Russ said. Yeah, he's got a big house. He's got enough for kids baking bread in the morning. He keeps his DVDs in there. I think it was suspicious. Russell's like, wait a minute. I thought I had Ultimate Squirts 1 through 3. I only have six. What happened to number two? Oh, wait, I can't. Is that Ultimate Squirts? That's for the after tournament. I've got

[39:00]those Southern Six games we'll talk about afterwards. So we're going to do action movies. There's a couple things. One, I only included sequels if it was in the same DVD package, so I'm not doing trilogies of like seven types of, you know, I'm not doing Fast and Furious 1 through 9 or whatever it is. They're in the same package. That's my favorite. Is that you still are getting double packages? Why wouldn't you? I just can't get enough. Okay, let's hear it. All right. The number one seed in the action is Dark Knight Rises. Dark Knight Rises. Is that a number one seed? I don't know if that should be a number one seed. Dark Knight Rises, that's the one with Bane in it, right? I believe that's the one with the Joker that's Dark Knight Rises. Oh, Dark Knight Returns is with Bane. Because I need to know which ones the Heath Ledger won. This is Heath Ledger won. Is Heinz Ward, that's the only way I know to distinguish the Batman's, because there's that one that has Heinz Ward in it, and it's so distracting. It makes

[40:00]me think about it so much. I saw Heinz Ward, Bane flies in, stadium collapses, tons of people die, and all I'm thinking is, does Heinz Ward live in this world? There's a Heinz Ward in this world as well? It's so distracting to me. All right, Russell, are you showing us the cover? I missed it. No, I'm not. Okay. All right. So, the number one seed, Dark Knight Rises, the one with the Joker versus the 16th seed, one of my favorites from college, Young Guns. Young Guns. Okay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Young Guns, all the way for me, it's Young Guns, Young Guns. That scene, that was one of the first time I knew as a child what sadness was. When they're coming out of the farm and they're shooting and they're getting shot and it's like, uh, no, uh, you know, what are they yelling in that? Richie! I might be confusing my Lou Diamond Phillips, but and that was when I knew sadness. And then when Young Guns 2 came out, I was like, yeah, fuck it. Big bopper, though.

[41:00]Hey, baby. I'm on the run, baby. I'm an expert with a Gatlin gun, baby, or whatever. Okay, go ahead. Sorry. I'll remind Matt and Aaron before they vote on this. The line from the song Regulators at the very beginning, Regulators mount up, does come from Young Guns. That wouldn't exist without it. Matt and Aaron, what's your vote on this one? In my world, I don't know how this is ranked. Number one, this is like a 15 versus 16 for me, and I'll just, I'll go with Young Guns only for, and I was going to say it, for what you just brought up, the Regulators mount up. I got to go with Dark Knight, number one, because I miss Heath Ledger every day, and number two, because I haven't seen Young Guns. I haven't seen it either. I just know it's him. Aaron, what happened to Heath Ledger? I can't remember. He died of exhaustion, man. Is this a joke? Exhaustion? What does that mean? I don't know what he died of, but he died way too early. I think I know. The last place I saw him

[42:00]going was Neverland Ranch. And you know what he was looking for? Why so serious about Mommy's milk? Give me that milk. Vincent! No! Nothing like making fun of dead people for being dead. Here we go. Hey. They could be made fun of for worse things, right? All right. Next one. So, Young Guns. Especially Advances Over the Dark Knight Rises. I'm sure we'll get no negative feedback about that decision. The next up is the two versus the 15. The only Star Wars movie on the list is the two-seed The Empire Strikes Back. Oh, that's a great one. Versus the 15-seed Unforgiven Unforgiven versus Empire Strikes Back. If it was my house, I would probably take Star Wars, because I can't have my kids watching a movie that has the word cunny in it over and over like Unforgiven. You just can't. I mean, if there's a slightest chance you come home and the kids are listening to that movie and they hear that word and then they say it

[43:00]at school, not great. So, I would have to say Star Wars, but I don't know. I love Unforgiven. I think it's so good. I'm thinking after the start of this list, we should go to the dramas or whatever Rosie was going with, but I'll go with Star Wars as well. I'll go Star Wars. Aaron? Once again, in the battle of one movie I have seen a thousand times and one movie I've seen zero times, I'm going to choose Empire Strikes Back. Empire Strikes Back moves out, huh? Unforgiven won Academy Awards. Clint Eastwood. Yeah, but Eastwood's movies are so fucking boring. I mean, his movies are fucking boring. I just can't with him. I'll tell you what, if you're going to watch anything, just look at the scene where Eastwood comes to town at the end and threatens to kill everybody. It's very sad. I'm sure there's a great scene, but everything he's directed has just been like overly serious. I mean, Nolan has the same problem. Don't make me Oh my God, I bought you the I bought you the mule for Father's Day and I feel bad about it. I should have sent it to you. Did you not realize the only thing we've gotten feedback out of this podcast in months was because we started talking film?

[44:01]Yeah, I'm here for it, I guess. Oh my God. Alright, next game in the tournament, we're getting to the late, late game on TBS here. The number three seed, Enter the Dragon. Shout out Kevin Harlan. Versus the 14 seed Spider-Man. Enter the Dragon versus Spider-Man. Wait, which Spider-Man? The first one? The first Sam Raimi one? The first Spider-Man. Is that with the upside down kiss or is that two? Technically, Aaron, I have two of them, but they are not in a combo pack, so only the first one is in the boat. Yeah, who's the villain in that one? Is it Green Goblin? Willem Dafoe? Yes. Yes, it is Willem Dafoe. I just picturing Russell at Best Buy being like finally, I can watch Spider-Man at home. Take it in a little DVD, take it at home. Uncle Ben, no! You gotta go Enter the Dragon. It's cheesy, it's corny, but it's like Bruce Lee's only real movie that he ever made, like with an American budget. It's a classic. I'll go Spider-Man. You know, I haven't seen Enter the Dragon, but I'm gonna choose Enter the Dragon because Bruce Lee, he's not gonna

[45:00]appear in any place else. Let's go into the Dragon. Sorry, Rob, I already forgot which one you picked. Enter the Dragon. So Enter the Dragon moves out over Spider-Man. Your action movies are wild. This isn't a wild assortment. It's quite a ride. It's only gonna get more wild here at the late game in the morning session. Oh, I hope it's wild things. It is. It was like the number four seed. Fight Club versus the 13 seed, Sin City. I love Sin City. I think it's, especially if you've read the graphic novel, Sin City is accurate reproduction. Before all that stuff got really corny with graphic novels, I would go Sin City. I'm gonna go Fight Club. I haven't seen Sin City, so I wouldn't Aaron, it's down to you. Man, I saw them both in the theater. I do love Sin City, but I gotta go Fight Club because yeah, just like Rob, when I was a 20 to 26 year old guy, I thought that was the smartest shit I ever saw in my life. Like, oh, it's about, like, the two selves. Like, you can have one self and a different self, and they can

[46:01]be at war with each other. Spoiler alert. And I wouldn't read the book. Spoiler alert. And then Aaron went and started making homemade soap. See, I gotta be true to myself. I gotta choose Fight Club. The next tournament game is, I think this is an interesting matchup. We have the number five seed Gladiator versus the 12 seed Predator. Predator. Man. Predator. Gladiator is longer than you think. There are some great scenes in Gladiator, but it is a long-ass movie. Predator, you get right to it. You get right in there. There are aliens fighting Jesse Ventura, okay, who I voted for multiple times. The alien, not Jesse Ventura, of course. The alien was actually, he wanted to crack down on immigration, which I thought was strange because I was like, you're an alien. I will get my vengeance in this life or the next. We're definitely going Gladiator. Gladiator for Matt. Aaron? Gladiator. Damn. All right. The next tournament game is the six

[47:01]versus the 11. We've talked once how I got into a weird phase where I started buying Western movies, and this is one of them. The six is the good, the bad, and the ugly versus the 11 National Treasure. That's an action movie, right? This is what you want. It's an action movie. I gotta go to good, bad, the ugly just for the Enrico Marie Cohen soundtrack. It's on a Pandora station. I use when I need to type something. I play that good, the bad, and the ugly soundtrack, and it inspires me because it's so good. I am hoping there's more Nicolas Cage in the action section of this bracket, but just for that reason, I will go with National Treasure. Wow. So the tiebreaker again? You're the tiebreaker again. A lot of pressure on you, Aaron. I'm not worried. It's good, the bad, and the ugly for me, man. That's a classic. I do love that one. Yeah. Plus, Aaron found out going to the Capitol trying to cause trouble is actually frowned upon. Speaking of which, we might be taking a little break for a

[48:01]while. Five to ten years here. I had such a hangover on January 7th. I don't even know what happened. Yeah. Where did my horned helmet go? I don't recall. All right. We have two DVD matchups left here tonight. The next one is the number seven Goonies, which I would consider an action. Maybe that's a comedy. I've got it in the action. It's action. I like it. It's action. And it is going against a combo DVD, Rob. A combo. Yes. Kill Bill 1 and Kill Bill 2. That's not even a... Wow. Goonies got a tough draw. What's Aaron going to pick? The Goonies, who has a director who doesn't love feet more than anything else, or two movies where the director is a known foot lover? The director of Goonies, is it Robert Zemeckis? I think so. I don't know for sure. Aaron, you with the Goonies? No, I got to go Kill Bill. I love those movies like a dork. I love Fight Club. I love Kill Bill.

[49:00]I got to be true to myself. No, it's okay. It's okay to be very dumb and watch those things and be like, I like this. I saw them in the theater. I loved it. And the Goonies did not show Sloth's feet. And I think we were all wondering, like, what is going on under there? Do you think Sloth had normal feet, or do you think he kind of had feet that looked like... He's got to be like a club foot, right? I was going to say, most people's feet look like their face. Like, if you look at your feet, that's what your face looks like. Sorry, it's true. It looked like Aaron's feet if he didn't take his medicine. Whatever his medicine is. His goat. Oh, no. Sloth does look like a goat foot. You're right. Matt, did you pick the Goonies versus Kill Bills? No, but I will go a little bit contrarian and say that of all of the Tarantino movies, I never got into Kill Bill. I got into a lot of the other ones, but I never got into it, so I'm definitely going Goonies. I would also say Die. Kill Bill advances. Alright, so we got one more matchup tonight in the Action Regional of the Rust DVD Tournament.

[50:03]The eight-seed Jaws versus the nine-seed. It's a combo pack. Karate Kid 1, Karate Kid 2, and Karate Kid 3. It's just the original three. Come on. You can't compete with that. Now, is this still a combo pack, Russell, if you took out the one where the Karate Kid was a girl and you threw it away because you were mad about it? No, I wasn't ever mad about that. Oh, okay. My bad. Uh, I will say, I don't think you can throw away Jaws. It's such a good movie. It's a perfect movie. That speech where Robert Shaw is talking about going out to get the shark, where he's in the town hall meeting and he scrapes on the blackboard and then says, I'm going to go. Listen, you can't beat it. You just can't beat it. So, Jaws for me. I don't know. I got to do the Karate Kids. I mean, those are such an important part of our childhood, so I got to do Karate Kids.

[51:01]What do you think, Matt? Are we going to need a bigger boat or are we waxing on and waxing off? I just, I have to argue with the committee putting Jaws as an action movie. I don't know. It doesn't feel like an action movie to me. So, yeah, something like that. They blow up a shark with, like, dynamite. Yeah, you know, it's drama. A lot of drama going on. So, I'm going to go with Karate Kid. It's probably more because I grew up watching them so it's nostalgic more than anything. I got to say, Karate Kid fucked me up on skeleton costumes for Halloween for a long time. Very scary. So, the DVDs that moved on in the tournament tonight are the Empire Strikes Back, Enter the Dragon, Fight Club, Gladiator, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Karate Kid, The Kill Bill Combo Pack, and Young Guns. Love it. Can't wait. Love it. Rolling with us, Rob. How's it going with you? I was thinking, what if I designed a shoe company called P.A.R.E.? P-A-R-E. But I only sold one shoe at a time. So, somebody would say,

[52:02]oh, I want to get a pair. Wait a minute. How did this bit go? I might be working on it a bit right now. So, somebody said, oh, I want a pair of shoes. And you said, okay, here's a pair of shoes. Maybe the shoe's called P.A.R.E. That's what it is. So, you buy a pair of shoes. You get one shoe. I then charge you double. Because you're not going to just buy one shoe. You got to buy the other shoe. No returns, by the way. Is that a good idea to you guys? What's the price point? Is it $40 for one shoe? It's $80. So, it's something where you think, oh, this is kind of a cheaper shoe. Like, as a fancy shoe, it's kind of on the cheaper side. But then it's $160 when I nail you with the left one. So, we're not talking about like a Shack at Walmart price point or a Starberry price point. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is for, this is scam purposes only. So, you have a pair of shoes. And then, so, when you really need it, you say, well, I want a pair of pair of shoes. And then, guess what I also sell, Aaron? Pair of professionals? No, I sell pair of shoes. Is this your best scam?

[53:00]Is this your best scam idea? Like, if you only had one scam idea you could go with, is that the one you'd go with, Rob? Yes, I don't have any other scam ideas. My scam idea was always to start a ring of petty crime in my own neighborhood. Like, smash a mailbox here or there and devalue the property values in my neighborhood. Buy up all the houses in the neighborhood. And then, what do you know? The petty crime stops. Wow. And the value of the houses goes up. The CIA from the 1980s would love to have you there. Oh, jeez. Oh, my God. That's so good. What, Matt? What did you say? I know of a few freeways in Oakland. Yeah. The only problem is interest rates are way up. Your cost of purchasing these properties, you know, is probably going to be a little bit rougher. So, you might have to rework your pro forma to see, you know, how long you can carry these bad boys with 7% interest rates these days. I just feel like if I saw Russell in a mask with a sweater on, I think I would know it's Russell. You know what I mean? Like, he's out there smashing a mailbox with a concrete block.

[54:02]I'd be like, well, that's Russell. I know Russell's obvious. Like, I could see Russell from 10 miles away. I know Russell's one. Like, he's somebody I know so well. I'd be like, nope, that's Russell. Like, Russell, you'd have to employ someone else to do it. Speaking of houses, I'm going to be trying to sell my old house at some point over here in the next few months. What do you guys think the odds I could get my old roommate, definitely not the pleasure principle, to come out and take one last picture with me in front of the house that we used to play at? Are we not going to have a are we not going to have a rager? Just like an old classic. Rob shows up in a diaper and everything. We need to have a rager, Russell, at your house. We do. Rob will be here for a month. If we had a rager, it wouldn't even go later in this podcast, would it? We'd be like dead tired at 10, and we'd be like, well, we got to go. We can go play some wiffle ball at, I think it's called Fremont Park there, right about 75th in Fremont. I think, you know, five, six blocks from your house. All I know is I'm going to do what I did last time I came over

[55:01]to your house. I'm going to go downstairs, clog the hell out of that toilet. Never tell anybody. Leave. I don't think there are any things that went wrong with that. But, you know, that's what I would do. Let's talk about the album. Russell's down in his basement looking at the stuff that's flooded up. He's like, God, it's just all egg yolks. Like, who would do this? All right. Listen, we are talking about Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen. We've put it off long enough. And the interesting thing about Nebraska, I got to say, there is, because I texted you guys earlier this week, and I said, this album sounds like shit. It sounds like dog shit to me. You know what I love? Four-track cassette recorder. Are you reading his notes? No, I'm not. Do you want to do this part? Do you want to do this part? There's only so many things on Wikipedia, Aaron, and you just ripped number one. One, four, seven, and eight. You just covered them all. I took time

[56:01]away from my family and fucking my best to make this list. Okay. I'm very excited to hear what you had to say. Here's the thing. I'll just read the description that the Wikipedia has for Nebraska, because I think it sums up the album perfectly. The songs in Nebraska deal with an ordinary, down-on-their-luck, blue-collar characters who face a challenge or turning point in their lives. The songs also address the subject of outsiders, criminals, and mass murderers with little hope for the future, or no future at all. As in the title track, where the main sequence is sentenced to death in the electric chair. Now, that is every song on this album is depressing, depressing, depressing, and then to think that the next album after this is born in the USA, right? Like, it's wild to think that this... But it's not even just the next album. It's like, literally the same... He's writing all these things at the same time. He just... He was like, let's put a... It'd be like if we took every shitty joke we did today and was like, let's just put this on one episode.

[57:00]We'll burn them all. We're going to put all our good jokes into this one five-minute episode. It's going to be fine. And so, basically, he was at home, and he... This was right before Born in the USA. And he said, one of the big problems I had was... Because we know Bruce Springsteen kind of was like... He had this weird thing where he started off, and he was on a rise, and then he kind of was up and down. And he said one of the big problems he had is that it took him so long to record albums because he hadn't written songs. So he's like, listen, I'm going to buy this $1,000 four-track audio cassette recorder, which in like 1980 is a huge deal, right? I mean, audio cassettes at home you're recording? And he recorded some songs at home on this four-track recorder. And so he brought it in, and he worked with this guy, and they brought in the E Street Band, and they have recorded songs from Nebraska as a band. They've never been released. Because basically, Bruce and the producer sat down and said, listen, nothing we can do sounds as good as these songs sound over this four-track cassette recorder, so we're going to release them like this. And yeah, some of them have... That sounds like someone kissing somebody's ass, right? Like, hey, we've got all these amazing musicians, but we can't make it

[58:01]sound better because you're so awesome, Bruce. Hey, what better way can I keep my job for the next few years? But, I mean, really, like some of these are... Like he said, some of them recorded too quiet. Some of them needed these noise reduction. And you can hear, if you're wearing nice headphones, or I think anything, you can hear that this sounds muddy. I kind of agree with you. I wonder what's going on. Why couldn't they just record him in a studio with just a guitar? Like, maybe... I just think you're not going to capture the moment in the same way. And yeah, you can hear there are times where the microphone distorts if he's singing too loud. There's lyrics that you miss and get dropped, and if you're not reading along with the lyrics, you miss it. But it's just... It's about, like, a moment in time, and they're not going to be the same if you record them again. So, he records these at the same time when he's doing the Electric Nebraska sessions, trying to figure out how to do this. He records eight of the 12 tracks that go on Born in the USA, which is crazy, right? Like, he just has a... Because a lot of people love this album, Russell.

[59:01]They love... Like, when you look up Bruce Springsteen fans, a lot of people love Nebraska. I love this album. Shit, I forgot. I got to go get the lyric sheet. I'll be right back. Matt, were you going to say something, Matt? Did you ever end up... No, I was just... I like this album, but I have no idea... I couldn't tell you one lyric from one song. It's that album for me kind of a deal. You were saying everything's so depressing. I mean, I just... We often ask, where do you listen to this album? You know, and for me, it was listening... I listened to it at work, like, four or five times through, because I just put it on repeat and just enjoyed having it on. So, it's not like I'm going to go and tell everybody, you have to listen to this album. But I thoroughly enjoyed... I'd rather have this than the, you know, the all-out Bruce Springsteen, just, like, getting sweaty on stage and just rocking out until he can't even breathe anymore kind of stuff. Like, I'd almost prefer this to that. The last time I listened to this one was when I blew the chicken man in Philly last night. He died. He blew up his house. So, let's get into

[60:00]1982's Nebraska. What is the opening track, Aaron? Opening track is Nebraska. Yeah. Which is... Which is referred to as what? A titular track. I mean, he's talking about his pretty baby. Like, he's not going to do an album without talking about little girls and pretty babies. We know that. But right there, I mean, you can hear it limit there, right there, right? Sounds like Ross down in his basement, kind of. I mean, it sounds like... He's going to the limits of what the... I think that's fun. I think that he's going to the limits of what this equipment will do, and I think that gives it a certain appeal. This is one of the albums. This, you know, it's Lana Del Rey, some of these other ones, Arcade Fire. When I went through and listened to all of them, I distinctly remember listening to this, not thinking I'd like it, because reading a little bit about it, and then walking away saying, this is a great album. For whatever reason, it hits with me.

[61:00]But I understand why other people don't like it. Can you guys listen to this album more than once? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I sat alone in the dark two nights this week and listened to the whole thing, start to finish, no distractions. What? Were you in the living room? Yeah, I sat in the living room, because I got it on vinyl. I was going to read and turn it on, and I was going to have it on while I was reading. I was like, no, I'm going to sit right here in my chair. Do you have a drinking hand? Yeah, a little tequila. What were we doing? We've got to set the scene a little bit for us here. A couple gummies? No, two nights ago was just like a glass of water and a record. And then Aaron woke up, and two months had gone by, and his typewriter says, all work and no play makes Aaron a dull boy. Last night was a little bit of Lagartona Reposado, and yeah, just put on the record and just sit and listen to it. That's it. I was like, man, I wish you guys could be here. I wish you could sit here in my living room with me and listen to the whole record start to finish, no distractions. If you did that to me, if I came out to see you and you made me sit

[62:01]and listen to this album, I'd rather go to the vegan barbecue with you. I'd be so pissed off. Oh, my God. Because also, you've got to read the lyrics, too. Because I think it's important. I didn't do that. I will say, I do think this album shows you that Bruce Springsteen might be one of the best songwriters we've had. I mean, I know that's kind of a corny thing to say, but No, it's true. These are pretty amazing songs. We've got to keep playing these. Don't listen to me talk, listen to Bruce. I like this song. This is the jam on the album, right? This is the commercial hit from the album, right? It does make this song more interesting, too, when you realize this is just a four-track. Guitar on one track, harmonica on one, boys on one, the harmony on one. That's it. That's all harmonica. You know what, Matt? I think the harmonica is very abrasive on this again. I think it's like Bob Dylan. But you know what? We talked about this last week when we had our special guest from Edina on. We talked about how we didn't like some of the

[63:00]harmonica on that album. But you know what I thought we could do as we've been so negative on the harmonica, I thought we needed to celebrate the harmonica with a list tonight of the greatest songs ever featuring the harmonica. All right. And we've talked a lot about some of these songs before. Neil Young, his great harmonica songs, right, Matt? His Heart of Gold is probably one of the best ever. He's got a few of them. Stevie Wonder's got amazing ones. Alanis, we talked about her with the harmonica. Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, The Stones, and Aerosmith when Rob did his Cryin' vs. Crazy. We heard the harmonica during that, too. So none of those bands are going to be on this list. We've already talked about them. They're not on the list, right? That's what I'm hoping to hear. All right. So the first song on the list is from 1961. We actually talked about this song once before. The artist is Lil' Walter. The song is My Babe. It's a blues classic. He's kind of one of the, like, original

[64:02]blues harmonica players, right? Like, he's one of the best. This song was written by Willie Dixon. Remember we did the Willie Dixon list on the Led Zeppelin? I wonder why they call him Lil' Walter. Sounds great, doesn't it? It sounds better than Nebraska. He's got some vibrato in it. He's got a little bit of vibrato in his harmonica. Amen, Rob. The Boss was actually influenced by Willie Dixon. He covered a number of his songs, including this one, in 1995. You guys, we've talked about this before. The Boss, there's like a grid of everything he's ever done. You can see every song he's ever played anywhere, and he played My Babe at Jack's Sugar Shack in Hollywood in 1995. So he was a fan of that song, too. Wow. I could see myself getting way into that aspect of Bruce Springsteen. Like, collecting live albums and finding, like, obscures. No, I can't. I'm bored talking about it. Sorry. I thought I could. Next song on the list. I thought this band only had

[65:01]two songs, Love Stinks and Centerfold. It turns out they had another song. This is the Jay Giles band. The song is Whammer Jammer. Check this out. Isn't that this one? No, but it sounds great. Whammer Jammer. I used to do that move sophomore year. You had to have a bunk bed, though. Was that before or after the oil drawer? You had to have a loft and a pencil drawer. Actually, Rob, you might appreciate this. The harmonica player for this band was a guy named Richard Solwitz. He was known as Magic Dick and his Lickin' Stick. The harmonica was Magic Dick and his Lickin' Stick. What are your thoughts? Wait, that was his nickname? Yeah. Are you sure he's not living in Reno right now? The couple kids who just graduated high school? The Rolling Stone Record Guide music critic called him the best white musician to ever play the blues harmonica.

[66:02]Magic Dick and the Lickin' Stick. I can only imagine if... Now, listen. I've shown over and over. I cannot tell what women are thinking at any time. I've proven that a number of times. But I think every woman would agree. If you see a guy just going to town on a harmonica on stage just hours, and just moving it back and forth, and you just see... Like, guys, getting eaten out by John Popper. Unbelievable. You know what I mean? Like, it would be crazy. You'd have to do some stretches maybe to get him down there. But it would be crazy. He would be going crazy. He's pretty skinny now. Yeah, well, can he play the harmonica as well? I don't know. Speaking of John Popper, we'll jump ahead on the list to 1994. The next song is Runaround by Blue Strap. Just imagine.

[67:01]I couldn't decide between Runaround or Hook. I know Hook. I know Hook, but I mean, there's no wrong answer. Rob, would you... If you were to have a romantic moment with John Popper, you have to want the big John Popper. You don't want skinny John Popper, do you? I feel like... It's like seeing John... I think if you saw John Popper in the 90s when he was big, when he was a big hit, you'd be like, yeah, this is... And if he was... If he was chowing down on your box in the 90s, I think that'd be great. I mean, just imagine. I mean, really. I mean, he's not just spelling the alphabet. He's writing Cyrillic letters. This is crazy. In 2019, the band Big Head Todd and the Monsters covered the song Rosalita by Bruce Springsteen. They didn't have a harmonica player, so they got John Popper to cover the Bruce Springsteen song.

[68:00]I thought that was amazing. Very cool. All right, next on the list. Why is he so good at harmonica? I mean, what does it deal with that? Remember, it was just the 90s where you're just like, oh, yeah, this is one of my favorite bands. I love Blues Traveler. I thought they were great. Yeah. And the guy just fucking played the harmonica and everybody's like, yeah, that's the way it is. I think they treated... That was like a pop song back in the 90s and everything was alternative, right? It was all grunge, and I think that stood out as being a little bit different. There's something different about his playing, too, where he plays solos like you would play guitar solo where he's doing sort of one note at a time like it'd be finger picking or guitar picking instead of if you go back and hear the little... Walter, he's playing chords. I mean, they're playing single notes, but it's a different style. He's using it as a solo instrument in a different way. Well, I'm just going to... Picture in your head you've got three harmonica holes. One, two, three. One move you can do on a harmonica is actually put your tongue on the second hole and you can play a chord through those other two. Now, I know that because I had a number of how-to-play-the-harmonica books because apparently my parents were trying to get the other one to divorce them. But I know that that's a thing.

[69:02]And again, just think about it. My co-tenant should maybe get rid of all those how-to-play-the-harmonica books. Oh, my God. If you came home with... If I came home with a how-to-play-the-harmonica book and a big thing of Pineapple Truly, my wife would be like, that's it. I'm gone. Going straight to bed. I can't take this anymore. How dare. All right, next song on the list is 1973. I think multiple of you guys have seen this guy in concert. We've talked about him before. I don't know if we've talked this song. It's Billy Joel, Piano Man. Ah, yes, I have seen him. Target Center. Rob, have you seen Billy Joel 2 or not? I have. I have not seen Billy Joel 2, who, of course, is his son, who tries to make some money. It's kind of like a Gallagher situation. And I have also not seen Billy Joel 1. It was a comedy DVD. Billy Joel and Billy Joel 2. Yeah, Billy Joel 2. He comes out and he goes, ah, hey, I'm also the piano man. I'm a harmonica man. I play the harmonica. No, I have not seen Billy Joel, but Famous, again.

[70:01]I talked about Randy Travis last week. Famous DUI guy. Loves to drive drunk. Billy Joel has done it a number of times. Oh, yeah. Oh, Long Island. He's crashing into stuff. All over out there. He was actually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the same year as Bruce Springsteen, 1999. Oh, wow. Billy Joel was inducted by Ray Charles. You guys want to take a guess who inducted Springsteen that year? I see. Was Big Head Todd doing anything? I'll just say it's one of Matt's favorites. I was going to say, was it Eddie Vedder? Did he do it? Oh, I must have got that wrong. It's one of Matt's not favorites. It was Bono who inducted the boss. How the fuck How does Bono get into the Hall of Fame before the boss? That doesn't make sense. What the hell kind of Hall of Fame is it if Bono's in first? Yeah. That's bizarre. All right. Last song on the list is 1978. This is, I think this would be a jam band. Maybe Matt knows. It's the Doobie Brothers. The song is Long Train Running. Oh, yes.

[71:00]This is some bitter. I like this harmonica. I think it's got a nice tone. Who's playing it? Is it Michael McDonald playing this one or is it the other dude? It's Tom Johnson who was the lead guitar player and vocalist. This is great. This is amazing, isn't it? That's the thing. You don't have to be good, intricate harmonica if you have a good tone, I think. Some of these songs the harmonica is so rash on it. Doobie Brothers played at a famous concert in 1979 a year after they came out with the song. It was called the No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden Rob in New York featured James Taylor, Carly Simon, Jackson Brown and the Doobie Brothers with the boss. I thought that was pretty cool. That just goes to show with music, it has the power to do anything. Thank God we don't have any more nukes. No nukes. No nukes. Get off the nuclear warhead. Until Hideki Matsui came to New York and then he was hitting nukes all over the place. Boom! See, Matt,

[72:00]if it's good harmonica, I'm on board. If it's just the blaring, I don't think I can do it. Mansion on the Hill. I mean, this reminds me of when my leg is going uphill. The man's shin is on the hill. Hello? My music. Just listen to that. To me? No, to Bruce. Hello? I mean, there's nothing to say about this song that Bruce isn't saying in the song. Next up, we have Johnny 99. Okay, and just let me read, this is kind of, this is a change because this is actually kind of a positive, happy one. Springsteen sings about an auto worker who gets laid off in New Jersey and shoots and kills a night clerk while drunk and distraught. He's sentenced to 99 years in prison, but in a twist, he requests to be executed. You guys think you can do the 99 years behind bars? Oh, God, no. Sign me up. Rob, Rob, your summer vacation gives you the opportunity to do certain things.

[73:00]99 years behind bars, what would you be doing? Would I have some free time between 8 a.m. and 8.05 a.m.? That's the question. Hey, somebody's already flipped yourself. No. You don't stop. I saw Springsteen in Des Moines and he was on the Seeker Sessions tour, so they were playing all the American folk songs but then he came out and did this as an encore and it would have been 2006, I think. At that time, I did not actually know Nebraska very well and when he came out and played this song, the place went berserk and he did it like real rock star style and he did it as an encore like in the stance and started playing Johnny 99 and people went crazy, which like, you hear it on the album and you wouldn't think of it as a song people would go crazy for, but you know, It's interesting you say that, Aaron, because I was, I don't know if you said this earlier, Rob, but I think this is like the only album he ever recorded where he didn't go, he did a tour on the album, right? It doesn't seem like most of these would be concert songs, but people were into it. Didn't someone make a Johnny 99 movie as well?

[74:01]I gotta say, I think they made that booze called 99 Bananas. Oh my God, I was just talking about that the other day. I was like, you know, it's like in college, you have 99 Bananas and they all looked at me like, what are you talking about? And I was like, maybe that was only saying a whole lot for Bruce. Yeah. I do appreciate Bruce Springsteen because when I think I'm doing research, his stuff is so much easier to research because people are so meticulous about everything. Like you said, they talk about how many times he's played it live. Like it makes it a lot easier. Next up, we have Highway Patrolman. I'll tell you, you listen to this, you realize what a storyteller he is. I love this song. Like instantly, you get the idea. Here's a cop, his brother's bad in town. The cop is going to let him go. Like it's just brilliant. Aaron, which one do you like more of the Johnny Cash version or this version? I'm a Johnny Cash guy. When it comes to this song. Oh, I mean, it's hard. I don't know. I'll go with this one. But I mean, like anytime Johnny Cash is covering somebody, like that's hard to be.

[75:03]I didn't pull it up because I didn't even know if it was going to come up. But let's see. Let's go to a nice 30 seconds in. Whoops. That's a nice 30 seconds in. Got a brother named Frankie. Frankie ain't no good. I mean, Johnny Cash. He's got a way. Yeah, he's got a way. I don't know. There's no way we're going to do that. I'd get a call on the short way. Would you guys, if one of your brothers, so Rob, you have sisters, Aaron and Matt, you've got a brother. If your brother was up to no good and you were the lawman, would you give him a pass or would you put him down? Absolutely give him a pass. That's the reason I couldn't be a cop. I couldn't be a judge. I couldn't, you know, we knew somebody or something like that. I would hear like this song would echo in my head. In fact, it does echo in my head. I'd be hearing this song and I'd be like, well,

[76:00]Bruce said, turn your back on your family. Listen, as somebody who you may be surprised to find out is the oldest sibling in the family. Okay. A lot of people are shocked when they hear that about me. Those younger siblings got to learn their lessons, Rob. I was not only a role model for my sisters and they looked up to me. Okay. And they said so at my wedding, I think, in a speech. I wasn't really listening. I also would make sure that if they, if they did something wrong, I would cover up for them. So I also helped out. Okay. If they went in and said, oh, Rob threw a tennis ball, wrapped two tennis balls wrapped to a string and it went around my neck and gave me severe rope burn. I would say, no, that didn't happen. I would help everybody out. Oh, Rob is trying to teach me how to fight with a bow staff and it keeps hitting me on the hand because he saw it in a movie. Doesn't realize till much later how painful that would be. So anyway, next up state trooper. So we go from highway patrolman to state trooper. And this is the end of side A of the album. Although I know like, I don't, I don't think vinyl was the number one format. No, they almost actually, they almost had to release this

[77:01]on cassette because they couldn't figure out the audio transfer. Yeah. And he said, thank God I kept that tape. He's like, that tape was just in my pocket for like a month. Like in a case, just like nuts. Aaron, how many Bruce Springsteen albums do you have? How many on vinyl? Let's see. I have this one. I have darkness on the edge of town. I had the river for a while, but I think I sent that one back to my brother because it's a real downer and it's long. Uh, I think I've got greetings from Asbury park and so maybe it's just three. Listen, but I did spend, you want, you may or may not surprise you, but I stay up until midnight the other night after I listened to this, trying to figure out which pressing I have because there was one pressing from a, uh, pressing plant in Pittman, New Jersey. And there was another one in Terre Haute, Indiana. And like, I think I might, but I couldn't figure out. I was on Discogs trying to figure this out because I was looking at the run out on the, uh, what? Well, yeah. So I, I'm not sure. Was there a reason to do that or you just wanted to know

[78:00]where it was? It's not like a secret song from the Pennsylvania one or something. No, it's just like, it's like the guy who's like always thrilled that the port, like that the, the urinals from like Danville, Illinois or something like that. Right. Imagine. Yeah. He's looking at, he's looking at the, uh, the manhole covers and he's like, God damn, Nino, Wisconsin. They make all these goddamn things. What's up, Drew? Uh, Matt, you know, he, he works at the, at the, uh, manhole cover now. Matt from Nina. Yeah. It's the gay bar in town, but he works with it's a different manhole. Uh, they'll be getting it out, but it was a good one. He was one of those guys where he came out after college and I was like this, what? The fastidiously neat guy who lived across the hall from me and hated it when I came over is gay. What? It's crazy. Uh, now, also the guy who came over and said, you can't play your music this loud during the 10 minute loud break during quiet time.

[79:01]We already talked about it. It's not a loud break. It just wasn't a quiet hour. I'm dumb. I have a small brain. Now, I think it's interesting. What a big lurch. They talk about spring. They talk about Springsteen being influenced by this band called suicide. And here's a French song called Frankie. Listen to this. This is 77. 20 year old Frankie. Yeah, you hear it. Yeah, you hear it. He's got a kid. Yeah, but listen to the song. It's exactly like a Bruce Springsteen song. Right. And he's working in a factory. And now, this is a parody. He's working for a seven to nine. This is prior to the, uh, and then, you know, listen to this. Ann Nebraska took all the wrong lessons was the hold steady who I got really into for a while and then finally my wife was like, I can't, you cannot put the hold steady in the house anymore. Don't do it. Well, I got to admit, Aaron, the idea that you are sitting in the hallway or in your living room listening to this album, and your wife walks by and sees you listening, like staring at nothing, just like on a plane.

[80:00]And then she walks by later and you're looking at what pressing the album was. She would just be like, what have I done to deserve this? What did I do in a past life? Don't bother anybody. Speaking of record, record listening, Aaron, this new place that I'm living in, there's a part of the house in the upstairs level, which is perfect for a little record call. I love it. Record player is set up. Yes. Now, like, what are the next things? Like, what kind of chairs do you get for your record listening area? What type of, what type of table to put your little snacks in? Something with an ottoman. Do you have an ottoman? What's your guy's style for your record listening area? I need like a mid-century, modern, kind of curvy chair with a little bit of a smaller ottoman. Yep. Go to Elm. I got an Eames chair. My lady spoils me, so that's what I got. Go to www.westelm.com. Anything in there is going to be good. My recommendation is get enough seating for one. Get enough seating for one so you can just sit up there, stare, think about what record pressing it is. Be Aaron for the day. You need a slightly bigger table,

[81:01]Russell, because it needs to be able to hold that, that album cover, right? But then also have enough to have a drink sitting there and maybe like a phone charge or something. So it's got to be a little bit bigger than a normal coffee table. A normal coffee table won't hold a record, you know, sleeve and a drink on it. And you're going to need a cabinet for your cleaning kit. You know what I mean? No, there's no cleaning kit. Oh, well, okay, well, that's what you say now, but behold your future. It's Aaron. He's saving money on his Wi-Fi, spending it on his record player. Used cars. I can hear my little sister in the front seat. Talking about how when he makes a ton of money, he's never going to get another used car. I think I put this song on the list, right? For the Glockenspiel. Yes, it's one of the tracks. One of the four tracks is the Glockenspiel. In four tracks, he used one for a Glockenspiel. Like now that I know that, that's even more impressive. It's so great. Would you guys, my dad once said, and I thought this is one of the smartest things he ever said. He said, if I was a bazillionaire, I would have a new car

[82:00]to drive to work every day. He's like, I love driving a different car. He loves driving a new car, like a different car, not a new car, but just like a different car. That was his, that was his goal. I always appreciated that. What's your guys' thought? Are we talking? That would be so stressful for me, like having to like figure out the mirrors, not knowing how to turn the lights on. I could never do a new car every day. It would stress the shit out of me. Like Matt, Matt strikes me as a guy who gets in a car he's never driven before and it just like comes naturally to him. He knows exactly what to do and he's still out and he's still where he needs to be six minutes away. I fuck around in that, in the driveway for like 20 minutes and I still can't figure out like why the trunk is open and I can't shut up. I'm an idiot. It's the equivalent of the fantasy draft for you. You're spending more time setting it up than you are using it. Yeah. I like the comfort of knowing a car. See, I would just choose one very nice car and drive it for a year at a time. I would a thousand times more than wanting just a new car every day, just a new pair of socks every day. It's nothing better than a brand new pair of socks. Just have a brand new pair of socks every day. That would do it for me.

[83:01]God, and that's so weird because I would love a pair of used underwear every day. Man, that is so strange. Anyway, open all night. This used to be a skipper for me but now I think this is like one of the great achievements in a rock and roll. You mean you used to track it? Yeah, I used to track it. I love this. It's incredible. The reason you like it is because it's about driving all night to see a girl. Yeah. Like when you and Jeff from Missouri drive all night to try to get a girl to come to you. And how did, like did he write these lyrics down? Did he do this off the top of his head? It's incredible. That's what you're wondering about this? Yeah. I don't think anyone's ever like they go to the boss and be like, hey, is this enough car songs? And he's like, no man, we can get more car songs than this thing. I met Wanda when she was employed behind the counter at the Route 60's Bob's Big Boy fried chicken on the front seat. She's sitting in my lap or wiping her fingers on a Texaco roadmap. Like he wrote this stuff like in a day.

[84:01]It just came to him like fried chicken on her lap, wiping her fingers on a Texaco roadmap. That's it. That's the whole album for me right there. What if they served that fried chicken with some paper around it? Greasy panties. What would you call them? What would that be called? Eric, can we get a cut out of that? Can you do it? What would that be called again? Greasy panties. Wow. I actually like that less where he spines it. Next up, My Father's House. But I ran till I fell. This one gets really teared guts out. Yeah, this one made me laugh. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, it's sad. My father was a clown who actually got hit in the crotch with a bowling pin. He was juggling. I thought his disco ball fell and hit him. All right. Reason to believe. Reason to believe. Now, can I tell you guys how bad you've messed me up? I was at Drag Bingo the other day and I won a disco ball light for my band. And I had it

[85:02]and I was there for Father's Day and I had won this thing and I was like, oh, this will be fun. I'll put it in the bathroom and it lights up and my kids go, oh, grandpa's going to love that. You got to bring it to the cabin. And I'm like, oh, my life is, I'm bad. I've ruined things in my life. if your kids were to have a podcast one day, they're talking the next 500 greatest albums 20 years when they turn 21 when this podcast is done. Oh, Jesus Christ. Like, what do you think they're going to be talking about you? Like, the old, man used to do this or like, what's going to be your thing? You don't have disco balls, but what's your thing? I don't know. Can you imagine, like, imagine just being my kid, right? They're right here. They're three feet away from me going to sleep while I'm yelling into this microphone. So they're hearing only my side of the podcast. I want to be clear. Right? Which is wild. And then a couple times a week, I put on a giant gi and I go do jujitsu, right? Where I come back and then sometimes I have a black eye. And then sometimes I'm squatting in the living room. Now, of course, when I'm squatting

[86:00]in the living room, do I have to get fully dressed to work out in my living room? I do not. Okay? So I can squat in whatever clothes I happen to be wearing or not wearing. It's fine. Do you wear a gi on the subway? So do you just get, you just walk out? I don't. I do. I did do it with a guy who's like, oh yeah, I wear my gi pants here to save time. I was like, how much time does it take to put on your pants? Don't wear your gi pants on the subway. No, I, trust me, I do not look intimidating in my gi. I look like I'm about to go to sleep. What about you, Matt? What are, what are your kids going to remember you as? But they're going to be like, can you believe the old man used to always do this? What's it going to be? Hi. I was trying to say, I don't know. That'd be very interesting. Probably just like bad dad jokes or something. I don't know. You know, I'm not sure. Probably, probably the record is going to be the old man used to listen to these records. This actually feels like a good time to share. I should have saved this for my next week's rolling go, but it feels like a good to share that for Father's Day, my wife and son got me a book that we're like, we're like, he could fill in. It was like a Father's Day Mad Lib kind of thing.

[87:00]You know, like I love my dad because, and one of the entries was my dad is the most excellent person on Beck did it better. So I'm sorry, you guys. My son's going to remember me as the most excellent person on Beck did it better. I apologize. Just think like I, I'm going through this thing. I don't know if you guys ever did this. My mom had all these old VHS recordings, like, uh, can't, can't, can't record her like recordings when you were kids. And I'm going to go get those like transferred into like, you know, the cloud or something like that. So we have them, but Rob, Matt, Aaron, your kids are going to always have 500 episodes plus of your greatest moments. Thanks. Hey, this is always going to be this is a message for my kids in the future. I just want you to listen to this right now. Earlier. I did a bit about John Popper going down on somebody. Fast forward. Do not listen to that. Okay. I mean,

[88:01]honestly, I do have to turn to my kids. I'm like my younger one. Sometimes I have to turn around and be like, Hey, listen, you can't just say things that are shocking to get a laugh. You have to not do that. Yeah. Do that. Uh, yeah. John Popper. He was a, he was a harmonica player. Yeah. It's kind of reason to believe. Oh, you're wondering what a pop star looked like in the nineties. Let me show you this picture of John Popper. This is who I thought was cool in the nineties. Also, I got to say John Popper and chunk coming up on this episode as a big guy growing up in the nineties. That's my whole life. I know what pretty perverted John Popper. You guys make me laugh every time. John Popper, Tony balls, all in the same podcast.

[89:01]What? It's amazing. Can you believe it? The best is when, when one of your friends comes out, comes on to listen the whole night and they put on the T-balls background on the zoom and you haven't been able to see their face because they're not close to the camera. Look at those eyes just staring through you. Yeah. Rob. Well, I'm thinking about if I'm good. I think, you know what? I realized I played the wrong sound clip. So now I can play guys. Let's get into the rating system. Okay. We thought the album was fun. Laugh a minute. Back. Did it better rating system? Oh, listen, this album, Nebraska. Okay. Is this perfectly placed at one 50 guys? This is exactly 30% of our trip through this list, which we started because we all care so much about music. No, because we really

[90:01]wanted to do a podcast and it makes us feel super creatively. No, something we started during the pandemic. And now that time has filled up here. Come on. Now that time is filled up. We are too stubborn to cut it out of our lives. What? No. Okay. This is a something we are going to give to our children. Guys. Think about this. It's for the kids. Evergreen. It's exactly. This is always people are always listen. Look up who John Popper is. If you don't get these jokes, it's funny all the time. Is this at one 50? Okay. 30%. Is this the perfect number of tracks on a record? Which of course would be for this would be rolling well toned. This album belongs right at one 50. It shouldn't be higher on the list, which would be here later, or it shouldn't be lower on the list, which of course would have a lower number. And we've also covered it. So again, we are going lower to higher, lower to higher, kind of like we're climbing a mountain. That's how you got to

[91:00]think about it. Or is this album? No good. It should be higher on the list, which would be later. Okay. So maybe instead of this being the fifth or sixth, we're going with Springsteen album or whatever we've done. This should be farther back. This should be at one 51. Okay. Which also reminds me of 99 bananas or would this, that would be like a recorder that doesn't have enough tracks. That's like a one track recorder. What are you going to do with that? Okay. I was about to say something so inappropriate. I just had to, would have to cut it. So I'm not going to do that. I'm thinking of all the things I would do with a one track recorder. All right. So, or is this rolling boned? It should have been higher up in the list. It got boned. This would be like a recorder with at least five tracks. That is actually, this would be like a recorder that you play in elementary school. The perfect recorder. Okay. When I play that thing, I had a one track mind and that was to stop playing the recorder. I hate this damn thing. Okay. It makes no sense to me. There's so many, my fingers, so many holes. Now, isn't that crazy that there's not

[92:00]somebody who's famous for being awesome at the recorder. Can you guys name a famous recorder player who played recorder on stairway? Oh my God. Who played recorder? What? Yes. John Paul Jones. The most, the most famous. The most famous recorder player. I think we might have done the list. Oh my God. Doesn't matter. We could redo it. We'd none of, nobody remembers any of the list. We can just redo them all. Russell, save yourself the time. What do you mean they don't remember? Well, I mean, I remember them of course. They've been leaving for the people. I mean, I'm leaving for your kids to listen to. Can I tell you a sickness? Actually, I, when I heard the clock and she's feeling this album, I was like, Oh, we've done a list of the clock. She'd be like, my brain is broken. Or did this get rolling grown should be not as high rolling bone, higher or well-toned. Matt, what do you think? We're talking Nebraska. We're talking Bruce Springsteen 1982, which you don't realize how early this was, but what do you think? Yeah. At one 50, this is the fourth Bruce Springsteen, fourth of five. So 21 born to run

[93:00]91 darks on the edge of town. One 42 born in the USA, one 15 Nebraska here. It's just way too much Bruce Springsteen to be in the top one 50 of all time. You know, I don't, you know, there's, there's albums coming up. What's the story of morning glories coming up by Oasis and a couple, you know, things like that. Like I grew up listening to that. So I can't say that I would necessarily put this like, Oh, this is the greatest album of all time kind of a thing. But you know, I do like this album. I really like it. I'll listen to it again. I just don't think it needs to be in the one 50. If you told me it's like in the three hundreds, four hundreds, I'd say great. So I'm going to say it's rolling boned should be higher on the lower on the higher number. Can I, can I just tell you, I just looked at the track list for darkness on the edge of town. This should just switch places with it, but Oh no, I was going to say, I don't like any of these songs. I don't, I don't remember. I don't remember a single song on here. So a little disagreement. Uh, and Aaron, what do you think? Rolling bone or rolling? You know what I'm going to say?

[94:00]It's rolling. It's rolling bone. It should be higher. I think these are some of the greatest songs ever written. I enjoy the raw nature of the recording. Matt is also right. It's probably too much Bruce in the top one 50. So give me this one and darkness on the edge of town and the other two can come later. You're forgetting that you are talking to raw going to give it to you. Yeah, that's for our listeners. And I've got Russell. Oh no, I went to the beginning of the show. Sorry guys. We got to do it for the beginning. I've got Russell at Minneapolis. Russell, how are you doing today? And what do you think? Is it rolling well-toned rolling bone or rolling grown? I don't know. You guys are ragging on darkness on the edge of town. To me, the boss albums have all been absolute bangers all over. We've talked about Matt's talked about the four corners of greatness, how they always, he always begins and ends every side of the album was just an absolute killer. To me, this is respectfully, I think the biggest disappointment on the list so far. It's slow. It's depressing. There's no dynamics. I just, I think if you're going to have all these boss albums this high on

[95:00]the list, this one shouldn't be up here. If I want to listen to Bruce Springsteen, I want, I want the other ones we've listened to so far. I want the energy. I, there's a reason he's like one of the greatest live artists ever. And it's not because he's playing these songs. So kid, so kid a by radiohead is no longer the biggest disappointment. This one is the biggest. You know what, Matt? It might be because he's got all these other albums that are killers to add a fourth one on the top one 50, kind of like you said, maybe it's just too much Bruce Springsteen. Maybe if we'd only heard two of his albums before, maybe I'd be good with it. But compared to the other ones for me, I'll take the other ones. I think this is way too high on the list. I'm going to say it's rolling grown, although it does have a time and place when I get my new record set up and my, my chair set up, I could see listening to this, but I would say the whole time I'm listening to it, it's rolling. Now, and I've done all the boss jokes. I've done Hugo boss, but what I didn't get about this album is when Bruce Springsteen came out dressed like a cop and he started beating on the ultimate

[96:00]warrior with his baton, the big boss man. Yes. I couldn't believe it. If you ever take a trip down to Cobb County, Georgia, the big boss man died at 42. Oh, don't say that. I was just going to say it looks so much depressing as he died at 42. Yeah. Yeah. Who could believe a wrestler at that time would be living a life that would cause him to die early. Would you take that life? How old are you? How old are you guys? I'm 43, 43. Oh, there you go. Boss man. Yeah. I've also never, I've also never given the Hulkster a hard time slam. So I'm 43. Oh, okay. Listen, guys, remember when he fought the Mountie at WrestleMania was like the battle of like the Georgia cop versus the Canadian policeman and Sergeant Slaughter trooper. If we're going to talk about the boss, Rob, what's your ranking? Sergeant Slaughter steps in. Listen, you guys are incorrect. Unfortunately, what

[97:00]this album gets a recorded, this album gets a rolling recorded at home. We've only had one other album. Recorded at home. What was it? Sly and the family stone. Oh, okay. And both of those albums have been huge bummers because it turns out when you are a guy who just hangs around at home all day and you don't do anything else, maybe your summer just started and you don't want to go anywhere. It can really have an effect on you mentally. Maybe you can prepare for a podcast for about 12 hours and then it only lasts two hours. You don't get to do a lot of your bits. Okay. And it's a bummer. You barely get to play your DVD song. Anyway, next up, we have an album that might be the exact opposite of this one. Okay. Think about this. Bruce wants you. Bruce Springsteen wants you to understand the plight of Americans as corporations moved overseas, jobs went away, employment set back the first generation ever in the United States to be worse off than their parents. Bruce wants you to see

[98:00]the pain and suffering being beneath the boots of the rich in the US. Bruce wants you to see the separation that can fill the hearts of people when there's the haves and the have nots. Bruce wants you to see that all George Michael wants is your sex. We've got George Michael faith. And guess what? I'm probably going to give it to you. But you're just go look at George Michael in wham. My God. This guy. Jesus. I met him. I said, I guess it's true. I got that one twice. Jack did it. I jacked him off in the bathroom in New York. Uh, Rob, I was going to say that I've been actually working out quite a bit. And the next time that you suck on my finger, you'll notice my gorilla grip. I call it the bone crusher. Listen, there's no way the term really get grip is staying in from the podcast. From what I said earlier, if you remind yourself, I was talking about,

[99:01]and this is going to get beeped out. I was talking about my wife. That's not staying in. No, her mom listens. Can't, can't keep that in. Uh, they get right out. No, there's something else here. There's something else. There's always another. There's always, we have to get, we got to get one more tonight. Do you think big boss man, if he lost weight, like John Popper, you'd have to change boss man. You'd have to change all of his cards. Call me big boss man, junior big boss man was my dad. He's dead. Big boss man too. Yeah. Big boss man too. Big boss man. Oh shit. I mean, who would have, who would have thought like. We'll be right back.