Pearl Jam: Ten (1991)

[0:00]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine. This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own, unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy Beck Did It Better. We are all the way up to album 160. And from 1991, it's this little band called Pearl Jam with their debut album, 10. I got to say, guys, it feels more like 1256 to me. I don't know. Maybe it's just, okay. It's very late. This is our second episode. Let's get right into the radio. Let's turn on the radio and see what's going on. Man, were these guys on the radio or what? What's up, everybody? Welcome to KROB. K-R-O-B. You know, I just want one person, one time, to ask me one question. Hey, Rob. What's the weather like up there?

[1:00]Oh, man, you're so tall. Oh, yeah. Mind blown. I've insisted that I've always been the tallest guy on this Zoom. I see Russell. I have to look up. I have to look up at him. That's where my trouble began. Then I'm having doubts and I ask others about it. Maybe Russell was on higher ground. They say he's above by half a head. I can't deny. I have to say that I was wrong. Because Russ is taller than I am. I always thought that he maxed out at like 5'10".

[2:00]But Russ is taller. Got me thinking. Does this mean that he also has got a bigger wang? He's lucky. When you want to hear about the greatest out of all time. No. Rob, I actually thought we'd have a few more verses. It's about how Matt and Aaron might be taller than you two. I swear to God. I thought we might actually have a song that's on this album. Well, man, Matt was mad because I didn't pick a song on the album. Do you guys want me to read the other options I had for parody songs? I just wrote down a bunch of ideas. There's four hits you could have picked from. I was going to do, Is Bryce Still Alive? And play a bunch of clips of him being drunk. I heard Bryce is still alive. I just got a video from him. He was at Lauryn Hill tonight. At the casino. I wanted to go. Hey, by the way, can we talk about that? Matt ripped the casino and I felt bad if I would have gone. I mean, it can't be that great, right?

[3:00]I mean, seeing Lauryn Hill at a casino. I wouldn't think so. Was the video any good? I haven't watched it yet. I'm with you guys. I haven't watched it yet. I'll let you know when we're done. Can't wait to see her again. We'll just refuse to go see her at a casino or anything like that. Hey, can I ask you guys a personal question? So if you had a co-tenant that maybe did want to go see Lauryn Hill, and you had to find reasons that you couldn't go because really you just knew you had to record this podcast, what would be an acceptable fib to tell about not being able to go to the casino? You refuse to see an American treasure like Lauryn Hill at a fucking casino. There we go. That's got it, yeah. No, that's on principle. Man, if you could write that down and notarize it and send it over by tomorrow morning, I'd appreciate it. I would just say I'm in charge. I make the decisions. Okay. You want to know the other? The other big mistake I've made recently is I noted that- Oh, Russell, I'm just going to say this. You never have to preface a sentence with that. We always want to hear the biggest mistake that you just made.

[4:00]We cannot get enough of this. So after I mentioned that Lauryn Hill was going to be playing at the casino and that, fortunately, we can't go because there's things going on, but it's really this podcast, which is not a good excuse. A music podcast. I also noted that we'd been talking on text, and I saw that Lauryn Hill and the Fugees were going to be coming to, to Minneapolis. And so my co-tenant started looking up the list of all the shows, and it turns out, no, I misinterpreted. You guys were saying they were going to be in Oakland. They're not going to be in Minneapolis. Is that correct? I think that is correct. Well, let's just say that was a mistake by the Russ band again yesterday, too. Wow. Yeah. It seems like the Fugees are joining for, I don't know, 20 dates? Yeah, about that, yeah. Or is there 20 dates and they're joining for 10 or something like that? Russell, we don't have a lot of room for guests, but we do have a pretty decent guest. We have a guest set up. So if you want to bring her to Oakland, you can stay with us. We can hook it up. Oh, please. Russell, if you want to do that, we'll pay for the state.

[5:00]Okay, we'll fly you out there. Beck did it better. We've been selling a couple shirts, okay? I think we have enough money to fly you guys out there. I'll mention this right now. As you know, last week we talked about my roommate, my co-tenant's questions for you guys. One of the questions was going to be, we may be planning a trip to the Bay Area, potentially the Napa area, one country. What do you do if you're visiting? If you're visiting the Bay Area, Aaron, we'll get to it before we even do intros. Oh, well, yes. You do Napa and Sonoma. You go to Bouchain, which I still haven't been. Our good buddy is in charge there at Bouchain, so you got to do that. You go to San Francisco. You do Golden Gate Park. You go to the ocean. We did Alcatraz with some friends who were here. I was really stoked about it. Then actually I was a little bit less stoked once we went out there, but still Alcatraz is pretty cool. You know, honestly, Russ what I would do? What I would hope to do if I went out to Napa? What's that? Probably ****. I mean, it's so romantic,

[6:00]What? Russell, I can vouch for the hop-on, hop-off bus to San Francisco. That's after the ****. Great option. What is the pier? Pier 39. It was the pier 39. That's where all the seals are at, right? I love walk. I do love to think of Russell coming home and being like, Hey, honey, I'm home. Turn off that goddamn TV. Listen, I made a mistake. They are not coming to Minneapolis. No, to be fair, Rob, it's usually turn off that goddamn TV. I need to sit here in silence for a while. Excuse me. It's time for Russ to read his Hulk Hogan magazine, not to watch TV. There has been discussion about whether the Hulk Hogan magazine can sit in the front of the little entertainment, like where the TV stand is, like right in the front, where it is prominently displayed for anyone who comes over to see. That's off. I mean, it's the true stories. What are you supposed to do? I thought you were going to say it was prominently displayed in the front of your car that she had to sit in the back. And you're like, no, no, the front is where the Hulk Hogan magazine goes. Park at the Bison Paddock at Golden Gate Park.

[7:00]You know, walk through the park. Russ is going to stop you there. Russ is not going to do that. Just stop right there. Walk through the park to the bookstore and the fish taco place. We get some fish tacos. We go get some books at the bookstore. We get some cookies at the coffee shop. Then we walk out to the ocean, hang out by the ocean. And then someone walks back to get the card and can pick us up at the ocean. So we'll happily take you on that little roundabout tour if you want to come out here. Do you have any cake by the ocean? Oh, usually cookies. Usually just cookies. Maybe we bring a beer. Matt, yes. What's the street? Is it Lombard Street? The big hill that goes up and then winds down? That's pretty cool to see. Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. That's what Lombard Street taught me. Top of the mark. Go up there and get some chocolate. You're not five minutes early or late. Can I say this too? I want to edit this in earlier. So, Russell, can you ask me, how many times is Lauryn Hill coming to Minneapolis? Hey, Rob, how many times is Lauryn Hill coming to Minneapolis? One time. Oh, I screwed it up.

[8:00]Shit. I screwed up my joke. That's my bad. Hey, Rob, could you just tell us what your name is quick here? It doesn't matter what your name is, Rob. Okay, let's set the timer. When is Russell going to get that can you quiet down text? I cannot wait for that one. That's coming very shortly. So, I've got four guys here. But it's all good because I'm just convinced we're going to do a hop-on hop-off tour. We're good. That feels like a regular Saturday night for you. Yeah. That is one thing I've convinced the co-tenant we are doing in San Fran. What a great way to get around a big city with cheap transportation. Yeah, I recommend it. I completely just poo-pooed those. Actually, when I visited Rob, that was the first time I was ever on a hop-on hop-off bus. And it was great. It was awesome. Sit up there and watch. I've done it before when I visited. I visited Aaron once. Then he came and took me to the Comstock Saloon. It was fantastic. You can still go to the Comstock Saloon. It's not a bad idea. I'm so sorry to do this, but I have another joke to edit in.

[9:00]And this is going to be about the wine stuff. I would mix a... I would say, oh, I love to mix the red and the white. Because when I'm in wine country, I love the pink. That is a funny joke. You know what's also pretty funny to see is all of the driverless cabs are on there, Rosie. Like, we don't have those. Oh, yeah. And so... Seeing all of them, it's wild. Yeah, those are cool. It's crazy to see them driving around. Right. Is that for real? The pink is great. See? Aaron likes mixing the wines. The pink is great. I mean... It's so good. I mostly just drink rosé as is. But you can make your own if you need. If I go to wine country, I'm going to slam so much Behringer White Zinfandel. It won't even... You guys, it will rock your world. Rosie, I don't think I told you. When I went... We went to a vineyard and I think I insulted... They're talking about their blend. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, yeah, you kind of just take everything and put it together and make a blend. And they're like, no. No, we think about these things and what we put in and things.

[10:00]It's not just throwing things into a vat. It was very insulting. Very insulting. I've got four guys here who it's late enough where they barely feel alive. Okay? I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Good, Rob. I'll ride the wave where this fucking podcast takes me. Let's talk about Belgium. I've got Russell in Minnesota. Russell, how are you doing tonight? Rob, have I got a little story for you? When you were sitting home alone at age 13, your daddy was doing stuff with that disco ball in the background. I'm glad you didn't see him, but I'm happy that we talk about it. Oh, those disco balls are still alive. Oh, no. This is an old timer. That was my attempt at alive and disco balls. I would just say the less we can talk about my dad's balls on this podcast, I think the better. I'm feeling very uncomfortable with this topic. That's one opinion, Rob. It's fun. It's a better man. Listen, I've also got out in...

[11:00]Another song not on the album, Better Man. Also out in California, out in wine country. It's Aaron, and Aaron was telling us he only gets sick on work days because he's got a weekend immune system. Yeah. A weekend immune system. I can remember... It hurt when you gnashed your teeth and bit the recessed lady's breast. How could I forget? Let's talk about Pearl Jam. What is that? Miss Donna, no, I'm sorry. She hit me with a surprise lift. Dude, my jaw left hurt. Next time I meet up with Matt to watch a game, I'm going to have all these inside Pearl Jam quote jokes, and he's going to love me. He's going to think I'm the best. Awesome. That was a great line, Aaron. Appreciate it. Us on the Beck line.

[12:00]802-277-2325. That was a treasure. And the concluding part of our trilogy. Hey, this is Russ's friend. He's the most super optimist dude. In the history of the world. He took us out to a super fun game of the twin game. Now he's got us up on the super trendy North Loop. We're drinking espresso martinis. Oh, wow. There's no wine. No wine. No wine for him. So, this... Yeah, we don't have any questions for you. It was just a general comment on the size of Russ's large cock. I knew it. I fucking knew it, man. I like your comment on his ability to get more vocal in the podcast. Other than that, bye. All right. So, that is...

[13:00]I didn't even know what that was. That, I think, was the conclusion of your twins game where you did not sit in your seat and were at the bar. And then, apparently, later went out to different bars. That seemed to be what it sounded like. And I did mention your cock size in the song. So, don't forget I was also annoying about the color of the dirt in the infield. That was last week. We're not. I swear to God. Guys, we cannot talk about the dirt any fucking more. We already brought it up twice. We're not a dirt podcast. Oh, okay. Don't make me say I'm a positor because I'll absolutely do it. Russell, what's your strategy going out with friends? I got problems because people come see me in New York. I only go to like two places. Are you like, let's go get a drink here? What are we hitting up? Two, three places? What are we doing? I'm not a big bounce around guy. Part of the reason is I don't want to wait in lines. I refuse to go to a spot where I've got to wait in a line. I just want to go somewhere where you can go in, get an easy drink. People don't have to wait in lines. They don't have to be crammed into a small room. I just want people to have fun, be relaxed. They can get a drink if they want to. If they want to get something to eat, they can do that. I want people to have autonomy at a bar where they can do what they want.

[14:00]They get something to eat. They get something to drink. They're not crammed into a small room. That's my theory. What do you guys think? Yeah, that sounds like the sweet spot. Like if you find a place that's cool, where the drinks are good, the price is right, and people can sit down and enjoy themselves or stand up if they prefer. And there's not a lot of waiting around, then you've really found the right spot. I got to push back, guys. I think variety is the spice of life. You hit one bar, don't open that tab. Keep it closed, get a drink, move on to the next one. Obviously, you guys can just walk place to place. And you know that you don't have to drive home because you're taking the subway. It's that simple. It's easy for you. I get it. Rob, if you ever have to explain to someone that variety is the spice of life and you have to wear a condom afterwards, is that a problem or not? Afterwards. After the conversation about variety being the spice of life. I think, okay, guys. Rosie had that turned around in a second.

[15:00]Can we try this right now? All of us should, next time, we're going to make love. I looked over both shoulders, but I realized that's a visual joke. Visit the mummy in the coffin. Yeah. After we're going to go grave robbing. Put it in the sarcophagus. Okay. We're going to do it Sphinx style. Don't get me started on Sphinx style right now. Yeah. That's where you have sex with a guy named Leon. What? That's Sphinx style. Now, here's the deal. There's nobody who understands that joke. There's no one who listens who gets that. Look it up. Nobody. It's in RoboCop 2. Here's the thing. Let's all wear condoms next time and see if they say anything. Maybe they won't say anything. Let's just like wear one for the podcast. You got lost in the sauce, Aaron.

[16:00]I'm talking about next time we make love to our significant other. We should all wear condoms and just see if they say anything. Would that be a funny gag? Fuck it. Let's do that on the podcast, too. Let's Aaron. You want me to put on a condom in front of you? Do That was the worst part with the first time I bought condoms. I was like, well, listen, I'm going to do what all guys do. I'm going to do what all guys do. When they first buy a condom, we're going to go home. We're going to put it on and we're going to jerk off into it. Just see what's going on. Right? Like I think 100% of guys did that. 100%. It's like, I got to make sure this works. Am I squeezing the tip? We all know that tip, the reservoir tip, you got to squeeze it closed. Right? Number one of the worst times to get busted. If you were to get busted doing that is when you're wearing a condom because like your parents come in and go, what are you doing? Oh, like it's just, it's like a roller coaster. They're like, what? He was, but he was where? Huh? Someone talk to this kid. Yeah. Is there an invisible person in here that I don't know about? That's what you'd have to tell him.

[17:00]I was having sex with an invisible woman. That's why it looked like I was jerking off wearing a condom. You guys get that bit? No. Okay. Or. Well, it went on for a while. But the problem was, is that when I bought them, they were so expensive that I was like, am I really going to waste one just with myself? Like these, I, were you shocked? Were you shocked at the price of condoms when you bought them? Rob, especially the price, like for the size. Why do they got to be so big? Right? Why? Russell's like, hey, can I save some money? You got to have a smaller section, right? Yeah. The ones that have a goodwill, they're not that great at all. I'll just say that right now. Excuse me, sir. At the Walgreens. Could you come back here? There's got to be a smaller section for other people, right? It's, it's, it's, it's time to see what everybody's up to. It's time for. That voicemail encouraged us to be nasty. No more.

[18:00]Hey, from now on guys, can I just tell you this right now? Clean episode. You're on out. Okay. Promise. It's a whistle. All right. Rosie rolling. Go on. How's it going with you? Hey, it's going all right. I got one. I don't like to deal in regret, but I did. I got one regret. I was in Minnesota briefly over the Labor Day weekend. I did not make it over to see Russell because I was out on the lake. And you know how it gets lake time, how it happens. Like I thought maybe we're going to leave by seven. Maybe we're gonna leave six 30, but no, we're out on the lake catching the very last rays of sunshine on the lake. And we didn't come off the lake till after eight 15. And so I didn't, I didn't get to see Russell in Minnesota. So next time, hopefully. But I did, I tried some wake surfing. Have you guys done wake surfing? Yeah. Where you get on the surfboard behind the boat while it makes waves that destroy the environment of the lake. Yeah. I've heard that. It's a, yeah, I, I, that's funny, Rob, you mentioned that. I mentioned this to a colleague of mine. He was like, Oh yeah, that's actually outlawed here in a lot of places in Oregon. I was like, cool. Oh, great. I'm really glad that I did that. Aaron's like, Aaron's like, Oh, let's drive by the tire fire while I'm wake surfing.

[19:00]But unfortunately I was not able to let go of the rope and still stay up on the waves. That was kind of unfortunate. I drove to Iowa on Monday because it was my dad's birthday. So I did a quick dip down and back three hours down, hang out for three hours back. So wait, you did a longer drive than the amount of time you were there for. It's true. Yeah. That's how it went. That is commitment, Aaron. I'm impressed. The family was getting together and I was like, it's like, it's, it's like you're that close. And I live in California. I'm not very often that close. So it was like, yeah. And you guys, it turns out. So it was like too long of a day to bring my son. So I drove by myself. Turns out driving by yourself. Not bad. Not a bad way to spend a few hours. Yeah. That's why chauffeurs always look so happy. They can just put up that window and be like, I don't fuck that mess back there. Just me and my Hulk Hogan magazine up front.

[20:00]Right. Did some podcasts on the way down. Aaron probably told his family, I got to drive to Norman, Oklahoma and back. I'm going to be gone for 24 hours. I've driven to Norman, Oklahoma from Des Moines. Matt, you had a thought. No, I was just agreeing. And so, yeah, but no Wallace was upset up in Minnesota, with his Minnesota cousin. So it wasn't like he was like left out. He was happy where he was. They were in the backyard. It was all good. We, we know you're a great dad. You can ditch your kids and drive in a fast car. Okay. Get away. Okay. We're going to, you're going to make a decision. Maybe. God, I got to learn. I can't get it out of here. Here's the red almost immediately. Aaron, I got a question for you on this drive down. You got to probably, I bet you stop at a gas station and you get something, you get a drink or you get a piece of salt and pepper cashews or something at the gas station that you would never get. You know, if your family was in that car,

[21:00]What did I cannot wait to hear what weird thing Aaron is about to say. I can't even imagine if your family was with you. I stopped at, yeah, I stopped in clear Lake. And usually I would, when you pull off the freeway at clear Lake, it was at one 94 in Iowa. You would take a right and go to the Casey's. And if you go to Casey's, maybe you get a slice of pizza. Maybe you get nothing. Is the Casey's over there? Is it, is that North or South of the come and go? The Casey's is North of the come and go West of the freeway. But if you go left, go under the freeway, go East. There's a brand new quick star and the quick star has, have you guys been in a quick star recently? No. Okay. I feel like this is when my parents bought me goal bots instead of transformers. I feel like you going to the quick star, you're going to like the rip off quick trip. Like the quick trip brother that got kicked out is like, I can make my own gas station and it's going to have better macadamia nut cookies. Yeah. But this quick star, man, like they got a big, like they got a big hot food section.

[22:00]They got a big, a prepared sandwiches section, lots of drinks. So, yeah, I ended up, it was pretty tame, but what I purchased, was for a drink. I got one of the, I got a melon flavored, liquid death water. So that's one of my favorites. I love the liquid death with the melon. Aaron, I was so concerned that you were going to blow this and you didn't, you nailed it. This is like, why did you Nadia Comedici? And then I got a, I went over to the hot bar and it was like, they had cheeseburgers. And I was like, man, I could really, I don't know. Should I do it? Should I do that? You cannot get that. And then like do a two hour drive. And then I didn't, I didn't. If you're going to get that cheeseburger, you got to do like that. Astronaut woman did remember where she put on a diaper to go like kill somebody in Florida. You'd have to also be buying a diaper. That's why the diapers are right next to the cheeseburgers at the gas station. They go together like peanut butter and chocolate. And then also under the heat, which is also what it looks like in the diaper. When you're done, they had bacon, egg and cheese or sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches, which I feel is the best heat lamp sandwich.

[23:00]I feel like gas station, but yeah, I couldn't do it because like, I also had, I had already had eggs for breakfast. So that was out. And then there was a fried chicken sandwich, which I thought like, that sounds pretty good. And then this is like, this is, I feel like I've been like a knockoff gas station night before Christmas. And I feel like I'm the ghost from the future. Be like, no shit from the gas station. So where I landed was a, Was a Chipotle chicken burrito. I was like, this is fine. I can see you're not here. I'm going to pass on those perfect bars. That's what I got for dessert. I got a perfect bar for dessert. So it wasn't a big deal. So you get a burrito. Do you eat it in? Do you sit down at the table and eat it? Or do you eat it in the car? I ate it in the car. It was like a mini burrito. It was very small. The thing was what I didn't understand was that it was like a school lunch burrito where like,

[24:00]It was very much just like mush inside. Cause it told me it said there was Chipotle chicken and cheese. And then it was all really just kind of mixed in together. Like it was, it could have just been put in a blender or something. I think you have this weird idea about Mexican food because you live, apparently from the stories you tell, you live in an area. That has a fish taco place about every half mile. Cause every story involves like you at the post office, the one next to the fish taco place. Oh, then I went to the lake. There's a fish taco place there. Every story is a fish taco place. Minnesota is not like that. Neither is I. I wouldn't get a fish taco from the quick trip, much less. I would not get a burrito from the quick star. But that's part of doing like a road trip on your own. When you stop in that gas station. Oh, you do something that you would never ever do. You're like, Oh, I'm going to get a burrito from somebody else. Right? It's exactly right. You know it. Russell is exactly what I was thinking. There's no way a human could consume a bag of Skittles this big. And then you get done with the trip. You're like, I didn't even seem like that many Skittles. Can I tell you guys a story that I didn't want to tell you guys a week ago?

[25:00]Cause I was embarrassed. Yeah. Russell, again, when you say stuff like that, don't need to tell us. We will always say yes. Not a question. So a few weeks ago, you guys were making jokes about like buying a pizza from like a target eating in, in the car, that type of thing, being embarrassed about it. This may or may not have happened to me personally within the last two weeks. Oh, please. You were, you bought a pizza from a target. I did not. It's even worse. Aaron, even worse. So I've got a, I've got a Sunday afternoon and I'm going to meet some of our college friends for a college fantasy football draft. This is what I do with my life. I play college fantasy football with other fucking sports nerds. They know all this shit about college fantasy. I don't know anything. I just show up. So I don't lose my friends. That's the only reason I do these things so people don't eliminate me from text chains or from the groups, right? I'm going to guess right now, Russell, that this would be a group of friends who would actually be very interested in how much

[26:00]The dirt should be watered down at the twin stadium. Well, maybe a couple of them. Yeah. I mean, Russell, it would be a huge mistake to get out of this league, right? And then like, not be on those text chains here all about what's going on in the fantasy world, right? I'd be, it would be a huge mistake because Rob sent out a lot of gambling chains and I'm assuming he's got side chains for everything that I'm not a part of anymore, which we've talked about what side text chains do to people, Rob, but that you do what you want to do. I do set up some gambling side text chains. That's fine. Although who has the ultimate side text chain is Aaron and I, if you guys saw Aaron, a nice text, there's, this is the most wholesome text chain you've ever seen in your entire life. We are just sending each other fun, loving things. Like literally, it's just like videos of Al Green. Singing and singing. It's we're just, we're both so happy with it. Heart rate data. It's basically, it's basically the complete opposite of yours and mine, Rob, where it's just like this fucking guy. Why can't he get his shit together? What the fuck's going on again? You know, just

[27:00]Every time. Aaron and I also have a separate text chain. It's him telling me he doesn't have time to come see me when he's in Minneapolis. So anyway, it's a Sunday. I'm going to this, I'm going to this college fantasy football draft, Yeah. And my car tire is a it's a, it's a, it's a, yeah. And my car tire is a little low on air. Russell what I would do? Yeah. I'd stop at a gas station, get some air. And while you're there, maybe go in and look at some snacks, just a couple things. So I go in and I've got some time to kill before I can't, I can't go all the way back to Minneapolis. It's too far the wrong way. If I'm going out to the burbs to do this fantasy football draft with these guys. So I go into the gas, I go to Bobby and Steve's a four 94 in France. Yeah. Kind of over by South. Dale mall, Matt, somewhere over there. You probably know that right by the Perkins there. And they got the total wine. And they got to there's a couple office buildings, right? The old Fuddruckers, McKinney corners. Fuddruckers is gone now. Yeah. I think Fuddruckers would have been on the,

[28:00]Is it the west side, the east side of 35, right? East side. I don't know. Somewhere over there, but so north side of four 94. So I, I gotta make sure that my air has got enough. And my tires got enough air. So I go in, I fill up the air, free air. A great thing about a gas station is to have free air. You go to a gas station, you gotta pay for air. That's bullshit. Yup. It's what it reminds me of the movie total recall, where they had to pay for the air cop guy, pair for the air on her on Mars. Not the robo cop guy. Yeah. It was this. Okay. Keep going. So I told a recall where they had that scene with a chick with three boobs. Okay. Well, yeah, that is the one I'm talking about. Okay. So I'm in my car and I'm like, well, no one else in this car, just like Aaron, I'm going to go in and get a snack that I wouldn't get. If someone else was with the car with me, you say, Russell, so I go in and I kind of do my typical stroll through the gas station. Yeah. They have a fucking Godfather's pizza in Godfather's pizza in the gas station.

[29:00]Even though Aaron I am not a guy like a restaurant. Was there sausage on it? Let me ask you that. It's on every fucking one. I get a guy, a small little personal Godfather's pizza and a diaper. And then I'm like, well, where am I supposed to eat it? They've got tables. This is one of these gas station that has table, but you know, I mean the horror. If you're sat, you're caught by anyone you ever know sitting there and eating food from a gas station at the table outside to get that's worse than the KFC, right? Yes, this is really bad. Russell. So I take the Godfather's mini pizza to my car. I am sitting in my car eating the little Godfather's pizza before I go to the Buffalo wild wings for the draft. But then you guys brought this whole thing up like two weeks ago. And I was like, I swear to God,

[30:00]Rob is what he's filming me. He knows exactly what I did. Well, that was my really good Buffalo. Wild wings. Egan down there off Yankee doodle. 35, probably the east side of 35. Literally. I'm just going to stop you guys. Nobody likes this bit. I have never heard one person like you are the only one who doesn't know. People hate this bit. They don't like it. When Rob gets mad, they like it. When you listen to me talk. Sorry, Aaron, I hijacked your rolling, going to tell you guys about the sad parts of my life. That was my really good. How's it rolling? Going with Rob? I got it. I'm going. Okay. Matt, I happen to know that today you had a pickleball game scheduled. Okay. Because I put the date into my calendar when we did the last podcast. And I was like, I got to see how this pickleball game with the young guys went. Matt, I got to ask you one question. How was your dink? Was your dink pretty good? I was the only one that was dinking and dunking. I can tell you that I,

[31:00]So it was 22nd floor. Okay. My office. I'm on the 22nd floor. Half of it is my department. Half. It's another department. Yeah. Basically there's like one lunchroom area, kind of one cafeteria type area where the analysts on my team, there's three or four of them. They eat lunch out there. And then these other crew comes over and they have this great time. And really, none of them really like each other. I don't think, but they, They eat lunch together. So set up pickleball game, because I guess two people on the other side play pickleball and they're bragging about it. And my three analysts that I work with, they think they're like, there's no fucking way. These guys are any good at pickleball, right? No way. Not good at pickleball at all. So we go over there and we get our ass kicked essentially by one guy, just one guy, one 30 year old guy. But I've got a, let's see, I'm 42. We've got like a 22, 23 year olds and a 25 or 26 year old. So we should kick the shit out of them.

[32:00]Sounds like my last weekend, all those 22 year olds, we got worked. And I, let me tell you much like yoga. Now I was not the worst one at pickleball by far. I was not the worst one. I told Sarah, she would have been proud of me, but impressive. So, nope, but it is a weird game, Rob. It is a weird game. The dinks and the dunks and the, whatever you call them. It's a absolute game changer when you finally figure that stuff out. And I've been figuring it out and getting a little better, But I gotta figure out how to get on a regular schedule of playing pickleball. You, if you want pickleball content, just say the word pickleball around your Tik TOK app. There is so much pickleball content on Tik TOK. You're you're assuming I've got a Tik TOK app. Well, if you're not on the back to a better Tik TOK, you should be because I've been following some very interesting people. What would be some examples, Rob? Well, there's one woman who just films her legs from above and she claps her legs together. Like, does it make a noise? Oh yeah. Like

[33:00]Like a thunder or lightning sound. It sounds like a Godfather's pizza being put in your lap, Russell. The worst part about the Godfather's thing. Then I've got this empty pizza box. I got to get out of the car. Oh, so I have to do the walk down the little hill at the like, and they've, they've got like these tables in this grass area. And I walk out and I throw the garbage thing away. Just praying. No one sees me. They're going to see you and they're going to be like, that guy was sitting at that table eating a Godfather's pizza by himself. Even worse. He was sitting in his car. We've talked so many times, Russell, about cults and like people who lead cults. That behavior is the opposite. If you never wanted to lead a cult, that's what you could do is eat Godfather's pizza outside on the bench. You don't think I'd be a good cult leader? No, but you wouldn't get any fucking sucking by saying, Hey, let's go down to the gas station, get a Godfather pizza and sit on the bench and eat it. No,

[34:00]I think it'd be a pretty good idea. What? What was that Rob? Well it would be, of course, when you start a cult, the reason you do it, of course, is you want to hang out with people, right? You want to help their inner being get better. Okay. And you want to show them with like ribbons or whatever, that they're part of a group. And then of course, it's a fuck fest where everybody's fucking and sucking. Okay. And especially you, because you're the leader. All right. When you come home and tell them to turn the TV off, they'll do it. Man, that reminds me of our first fuck fest episode. Rob, does it make you feel weird at all that I'd never wear socks? No, it doesn't make you feel weird at all that I'd never wear socks anymore when we do this podcast. Now it's messed up because I think you guys, every time I ask my kids to take off my socks, I don't like it. Why can't I just like nice things? Things I like, why can't I like them? Roland, go on, man. How's it going with you? Good. I've got two things on my list here. It's a road trip by myself and pickleball. Good. But man, I bet man,

[35:00]I bet Matt's getting a nice, he's getting like sunflower seeds and beef jerky or something. Sunflower seeds and milk duds. Oh, there you go. Oh, milk duds. How do you deal with sunflower seeds in the car? Like a soda can or something? You got some, yeah. Okay. Usually you have, you gotta have something. I probably get like a diet Coke or a bottle of water or something too. Okay. Got it. You gotta poke a hole in it, right? You gotta take a pen and stab a hole on the side. Cause if you're blowing into the bottle, you can't just, you gotta have the air's gotta go out. As long as they start blowing. As long as they start blowing back at you. Oh, that's good to know. Are you talking about milk duds? I was thinking of a joke. What are you talking about now? Sunflower seeds. Spitting the seeds away. Oh, okay. It's like, if you spit in the seeds in a diet Coke bottle, it's gotta have an outlet. There's gotta be an eye seed. The air's gotta go somewhere. It's science, Rob. Maybe you should consider learning about it. Well, I gotta say something that we're going to edit in earlier. So here's the thing. Can you imagine if Matt was taking a long road trip to see his dentist? And he's like, oh, I just ate a bunch of milk duds and sunflower seeds. That dentist would be like, it'd be like his Vietnam. He'd get done.

[36:00]He has a thousand yard stare. He's like, I saw shit in there. I don't ever want to see it again. That was fucked up. Is there anything worse than like the night before panic of going to see the dentist? I'm like, God damn, can I make up for like the last eight years of what I've just done? Like in like an hour? Like if I just floss the shit out of this, will it change my results tomorrow or not? Oh yeah. And then you're like, oh, I'm supposed to be wearing a mouth guard. That's the question now. I'm supposed to be wearing a floss, but they're like, have you been wearing your mouth guard at night? I'm like, Yes, I have. You fucking liar. Your teeth are ground onto little nubs. You son of a bitch. We know you're lying to us. You're like a dental brat. I am kind of a dental brat. I'm not going to wear my mouth guard. So here's the one quick story that, so I drive up to our cabin, shut it down, have a great weekend. All that stuff. Yeah. By myself. Oh man. You dirty dog. You Sarah's cousins are up there. They helped shut the door. I'm like, well, my cousins are up there. They helped shut down, take out dogs, take out the boat, all that stuff.

[37:00]So, but on the way back, all of a sudden, one of Sarah's cousins who lives in Fargo, she's there for a family funeral. Then just decided to stay, hang out with her mom and her kids are grown. And so it, but she's in the bags tournament. Yeah. We can Labor Day weekend bags tournament. And so she doesn't want to leave early. So she goes, Matt, you're going back tomorrow. What time are you leaving? I'm like, I don't know, 10. Oh, I gotta wait till six o'clock in the evening to go. Can I ride back with you? Oh man. Like, Fuck like, of course it's like, yes, but you think about like you can't fart in the car with, you got people. You can't just Blair music. Yeah. So the best thing that I did is I was halfway through a podcast, blood Valley, bone Valley, but a guy in Florida was wrongfully convicted and finally getting a, that was a tattoo idea I had when I was a sophomore in college. Yeah. But so the greatest thing was, is I'm like, well, I got a podcast I'm listening to and she's like,

[38:00]Great. And so we literally said like five words to each other the entire ride. And so if you ever need to, if you ever get stuck with a partner, just put on a podcast and say, Oh, I'm in my pod. How much different would your life be if society wise, we just all agreed. It was okay to say, I don't want to do anything with anybody right now. It's not just you. It's I want to be totally by myself right now. So we're not going to hang out. Or I'm not going to go do this thing. I said I was going to do because I don't, I don't want, I want to be by myself. Don't you think just every year would be happier. It's part of the reasons I might not have a co-tenant by our next episode. Oh, maybe don't say it exactly the way Rob said it just now, but I think everybody kind of gets it. Right? I mean, I think you go through this natural stage, right? Where all of a sudden you got friends and you don't, you fear missing out and you got to hang out with everybody. And then all of a sudden, you just get to, you get to a point where you don't want to hang out with anybody or you want to see him like once a week or whatever and things like that.

[39:00]So I think it's just natural part of life that you just, I don't know. And I've tried to find ways. I think everybody tries to find ways to just have your own time and do your own damn thing without interference. And I'll tell you what, some things I've done is that sometimes I hang out with people twice as long, so I don't have to do it as often. You know what I mean? Like they just extend it and then we can actually take a break and it's actually pretty nice. Wait, what road trips by yourself are awesome. Rosie. I agree. Pickleball. It's a great game. I see why old people love it. Cause you get good at it and you're, you figure it out. But Russell rolling, going, how's it going? I feel like Matt kind of stole my rolling, going there a little bit. You know what I mean? Did you do rolling, going or no? Yeah. I asked Matt about his pickleball. Took the cheap way out again, Russell. If you're keeping track, that's like one 42 of one 60. One 42, one 60. I mean, I, I let you guys know the other day. I was like with the mom and a wife thing and nobody wanted to talk to me about that. So I just said, I'm going to talk to you guys about yourself.

[40:00]Like you guys don't want to talk about the things I want to talk about. I thought tonight I could give you guys a preview of some of the things that I have upcoming and see what you thought about these ideas for fun nights out. Oh yeah. Oh yes. Russell. The first is that road trip by myself. Ding. The rest man could use a road trip by himself a lot. I, I just think road trip by yourself. You can put in, you can listen to any podcast you want to listen to. It could be like a pro wrestling podcast. Beck did it better. Yeah. It could be some album that no one else wants to listen to road trip by yourself. Like you do whatever you want during that time. Right? Aaron man. I would listen. I mean, yeah, I listened to Gabe Nendez and Ascension by Coltrane and Paramore. It was great. Zach probably listened to this song. Drive too fast. I would probably listen to the audio version of the Hulk Hogan magazine. Hulk Hogan. I said Hulk Hogan. Shit. So one of the events I'm going to soon, and we'll see if anyone, if you've ever been to this building before,

[41:00]I suspect that someone may have. And if you haven't, then this whole bit is a failure. Can I guess what it is? Russell? Good luck. Is it the local courthouse? Come on. Is that your date? I've been there. Rob, we weren't going to talk about those tests. It's, it's, we weren't going to talk about those tests and what they've proved or didn't prove about whether I'm 99% the father or not. I thought we said we weren't going to talk about that. There are false positives. Aaron, I'm just going to, I'm going to throw this out there. We may have to revamp this completely. I'm going to a haunted cocktail experience coming up at the Gale mansion. Oh shit. No way. And I was wondering, have any of you ever been to the Gale mansion before? I, yes, I've been to the Gale mansion in 2007, August 24th, 2007. What event would that have been for Aaron? I got married at the Gale mansion. Oh my God.

[42:00]Aaron, how great of a friend am I that I am going to the Gale mansion coming up? And when I realized this was the Gale mansion, I was like, I recognize that name. And then when I looked at it, it was like, Oh, I know I've been there before. I have shooed away homeless people from this place during a ceremony for one of my good friends, Aaron's wedding. You got married at the Gale mansion. I did get married at the Gale mansion. I've not been back since. I would love to go to an event there. That's everyone should try to get to the Gale mansion once in their life. It's a really great place. Have you ever been to the Gale mansion? I'm trying to think if I've been to the Gale mansion. I don't think so. I did do this thing where I tried to sneak into Aaron's wedding dress as an unhoused person, but that didn't work out for some reason. Somebody was shooing you away. Somebody was shooing me away. So how exciting is that, Aaron? I'm going to a haunted cocktail reception at the mansion where you had your nuptials at. Wow. That's wow.

[43:00]That's, that's a real full circle kind of experience, Russell. That's amazing. Russell, I got to ask what is your, how do you find these things? Email lists? Are you on some what, Matt, if you want to come to the haunted cocktail reception, you should come with us. We would have fun. I do not want to go. That's going to be by himself. I want to be by myself. Yeah. So going to the haunted cocktail reception at the Gale mansion. And part of the reason I brought that up is because A lot of fun, amazing people have been invited to that place over the years. And maybe some people haven't, but that's cool. People should have a great place for people. Russell, what are you picturing a haunted cocktail hour looks like? Like, are you dressed in costumes? Oh, Russell dressed in a costume. I would imagine there's a lot of smoke coming out of places that you wouldn't expect it to come out of, right? Oh yeah. Spooky. Keep it above board. We've got a couple of weeks and we might have to do a list. I was working on the podcast. Of the scariest songs ever. When I realized. We just don't know what song will be number one. What?

[44:00]It could be number one. It could be anything. In fact, one of the other events I have coming up. I want to see what you guys think of this one. All right. Well, let's do it. Let's do it. All right. Let's see what you guys think of this one. I've told you once before I went and saw the Beatles and Bach by candlelight, where you went into a church, all candles, no lights. And then you had it like a, I don't know. Oh, these fucking fancy instruments planned. Beethoven or Bach and the Beatles going to one, a cup coming up through this is fever up. I've told you guys about fever up before. This is where you find some of these fun things where this is who Russell is sponsored by personally. Next coming up. So I've got Gail mansion on Friday. Night for the cocktail reception. Thursday night is candlelight, a tribute to Amy Winehouse. So it's going to be Amy Winehouse songs played by fancy instruments by candlelight. How amazing does that sound? That sounds great. I'd be there for that. This is slick. Rick. Russell. If at any of the events, these events, they make you put on a sleep mask again. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Well you know, I don't know. I don't know.

[45:00]I don't know. Russell, if at any of the events, these events, they make you put on a sleep mask again. Can you please take another picture and send it to me? Okay. I lived on that picture for a year. That would be dinner in the dark, Rob. Oh, if we ever have dinner in the dark at the Gale mansion, I will be sure to not invite you. Oh, it's so hurtful. Just daggers. And so real to me. Left and right. Rob, isn't this a music podcast? You know what? It is a music podcast. We better get to everybody's favorite part where we talk about the album. This is a big night. This is an important night. I want you to declare me a great friend, Matt, tonight, because it's Pearl jam night. I made sure to skip any mention of the DVD tournament. We will push that out a few weeks because it's Pearl jam night. It's Pearl jam night. Thank you. I'm going to, I'm going to tell you tonight. I did absolutely no research. I actually stuck by our credo. Matt agreed to be a nice dude and take over the entire podcast to talk

[46:00]About his favorite band. Pearl jam. This is it. I'm so excited. Well, this is going to be really boring for you. Rob, not to hear your own voice, talk about it, but no, no, I it's a, there's a lot of pressure when this comes and I know why Bryce got absolutely hammered working his way through the replacements. Cause there's a lot of pressure when it's like your favorite band. And you know, that's, that's what we're talking about tonight. So we are talking about 10. It is the debut album by the one and only Pearl jam, Formerly known as Mookie Blaylock, but Mookie Blaylock sued him. So they had to change the name to Pearl jam. Nobody really knows why they're actually called Pearl jam. Some people say it's because one of their grandmas was named Pearl and she liked to jam out, but nobody really knows why they're called Pearl jam to this day. Pearl jam is made up of currently five official members. There is a six boom gossard from Hawaii is their unofficial organist and is on,

[47:00]On tour with them as, as we speak. But 10 was the first album. And really, and I think we talk about this often. It's really, there's two bands that came before Pearl jam, but Jeff Ammon stone gossard, we're in a band called green river that started in 1983. So 19, they've almost been playing 40 years together. Those two, which then they broke up and went on to form mother love bone, which was a very, Very kind of underground up and coming. Everybody loved them. Rock band that was right in line with the sound gardens and the Nirvana's of the world, but their lead singer. I got to remember his name. Andrew wood died of a drug overdose in 1990. So Jeff and stone were kind of fig trying to figure out, are they going to keep going? What are they going to do? They met up with Mike McCready, who was in a couple other bands out in Seattle. They sent a few demo tapes around to different lead singers.

[48:00]They were trying to find a lead singer. Eddie Vedder at the time was down in San Diego. I was from Chicago, was in San Diego and somehow got ahold of some of the demo tapes, went out surfing, came back, wrote two or three songs in like two days, sent up his lyrics and him singing to the songs. And within a week was up in Seattle and playing with the band known as Mookie Blaylock before they even started going. So all of these songs, half of them were written for like five, six years. They've been demos, they've been kicked around. And I think we've talked about this before where the first album by a lot of these bands, they're really good. If you've got really good musicians because they're taking these songs that they've been playing at these little shows and other venues and stuff and kind of bringing it into like a first album, if you will. So songs like alive,

[49:00]Even flow, once black, they were, they've been around for a long time. They just didn't know. We didn't have them what they are now. So what they did was finally they put together a demo. They wrote 10 to 15 songs, put them in an album, got into the studio, recorded for only like three weeks, put it together and then started touring. And it took a while to take off, but we, as Rob would say, let's get into the album. Matt, you had mentioned the one singer who died. That was like the temple of the dog. We talked once about that temple of the dog song. Wasn't that like an homage to that one singer? Or am I wrong on that or not? Yeah, because Soundgarden, so it goes even deeper. So their drummer right now is Matt fucking Cameron. That's everybody calls him Matt fucking Cameron. But is that in a good way or a bad way? Huh? In a good way. He looks like a he looks like an accountant. If you found a picture of him, it's hilarious. He's just, he's a, it's like one of those guys who looks completely out of place, but he's just an awesome drummer.

[50:00]He was the drummer for Soundgarden. He was drumming with a bunch of these other bands kind of in the late eighties with these guys. So when mother love bone broke up, these guys knew Soundgarden. So Chris Cornell and Mike and, Jeff and, stone played a lot of kind of side shows and kind of made this super group that is known as temple of the dog. Eddie Vedder never was really part of it. So even in, I think it was like 2018, before, Right before Chris Cornell died, temple, the dog reunited. So it was Matt Cameron who was with Soundgarden. It was Jeff, it was stone, and it was Mike. And they had a Chris Cornell as their lead singer. And they did a six tour set on the all in the west coast. That's just kind of a way without Eddie Vedder. So let's get into it once. I liked introducing the album like this kind of slow. It kind of leads you into something that you're not,

[51:00]You don't really know what to expect. If you've never heard this, how like, it's kind of a kind of Lurie in a little bit. It's like, but how long were some of these songs on the charts? Right? Cause if this came, or was it just that this album was so big that I was still listening to it in high school. This felt like I'm surprised to learn this came out in 1991 because it just feels like this was on MTV for my entire high school years. But am I just imagining that? Cause it was so big. Well, songs like it didn't really take off till like 1992. So Nirvana and Soundgarden and all these bands took off. And then it's, it's a little different than the rest of them, right? I mean, a lot of these songs are very guitar heavy. Yeah, they are very super 80s rock band without like the hair metal screaming. I mean, you've got Eddie Vedder's voice. Who's very deep. And you know, the lyric, it's just weird. It's not all about partying and something. I mean, what are these songs about? Right? Like I'm half of them. I don't know what they're about.

[52:00]I mean, a lot of them, nobody really knows. You ask Eddie Vedder or people have asked Eddie Vedder, what are they about? And he's like, well, I don't know. You know, it's just how I was feeling on that day. And you know, just wrote a song. It's like, I could have been walking down to get a cup of coffee. And you know, some guy, some lady was behind a counter and a it reminds me of the replacements. Like you already mentioned the replacements. It reminds me of the replacements like that. Like some idea came into somebody's head from any old experience and they wrote about it. That's like, I mean that one day Eddie Vedder went and they said, Hey, Is everybody from the nursing home on the bus? Did we get everybody from the nursing home on the bus? And he goes, yeah, we got everybody. And the bus driver goes, even flow. And he was like, wait a minute. Better check. Did you want me to play these? Do you want me to, how do you want to do these cues, Matt? Do you want to do, well, I I mean, here's the thing. We'll get into it. Like all of these songs they're kind of all built the same. They're all slow. They build up or they have this really quirky front.

[53:00]And then you get into what everybody likes about them, or they've got some weird beginning. I don't know. They're just weird. They're not just like a three minute. Here's a brunt. Here's a back three versus in a couple of chords and go. It's everyone's a little different. So they don't, they don't feel like your typical commercial hit. And the way they do it, the way they're structured, but damn, like when they hit the chorus on some of these, you're like, holy shit. Yeah. I can see why they're super popular beyond like a fringe, Like grunge audience. Right. Yeah. And it to be fair, they're, they're a live band. You know what I mean? Like they are great at writing my opinion again, right? They're great at writing songs, but go ahead to the floor. Don't lie. That's live. It's alive. Okay. Fucking live. You can't say the word live. Or whatever that band was on this one tonight. All right. I got a list. The greatest live albums. What a bitch. Yeah. Everybody's talking about it.

[54:00]I will say this. I've never listened to this album. Never. And I was embarrassed to admit it, but it's such a different album than synchronicity that we just listened to. It's like the exact opposite almost to me. Yeah. Well put together, even flow. So this was probably the first video that everybody saw and it was live shot at a concert. Yeah. Eddie Vedder's jumping off speakers and stuff like that. So you kind of figure out who they are as a band. Right. They have played this 903 times in concert. Wow. 903. So it's their most popular song. It's been around forever and the one that they play the most in concert. I got to admit, if I went to a Pearl Jam concert and I didn't hear this, I'd be like, kind of bummer. I don't know though, Rob. I mean, Matt's been to way more live, he's been to all their live shows, I bet. They've got enough huge hits where I think if you missed one, you'd be like, "Oh, I'm going to miss this one." Yeah. I mean, I think they're going to be like, "Oh, I'm going to miss this one." They've got so many great songs that I don't know if you'd miss one like that. There is a lot of super fans like me, I think, who go to these shows knowing that they've

[55:00]Got, I don't know what they've got now, like 12, 13 albums. Expanding for a while. From 1991 until their last one came out in 2021, two weeks before COVID hit, I was supposed to be in Nashville watching their new album songs from there. So the amount, and they don't just play the same song every night, so you go to set lists, we talked about this, I always go to set lists just to see when bands start or whatever. You can see the bands that play Alive, Once, Jeremy, and they play it in that order every Night. There are a lot of bands that doesn't do that, and so they say they've got like 600 and some songs that they can play live. I've got this list here, and I think it's over 290 songs that they've recorded. Somebody has wrote down that they've played live before, and so it's never the same concert. I don't know if you would really miss it, but if you're just a casual fan or a couple of the albums, you're like, "Hey, I'm going to go see a grunge band from the '90s when

[56:00]I was in high school," and stuff like that, I think you would be disappointed not to hear it. I went August 31st, it was the first night of the St. Paul leg. They played four songs off their new album, and I was pumped, and I was probably the one of 10% of the people there. I've never been to a concert, but I've been excited to hear the new album, right? You always just want to hear them play the hits, everybody, "Okay, here's a couple off our new album," right? But they do, and people know them, and they love them, and it's just... It's hard for Me to explain because I think I'm just in a different level. Yeah. I think I'm in a different level with them from my knowledge. I celebrate their entire collection, and we use that often, kind of a deal, and so I don't know. I'm not the person to ask, I think, if you'd be disappointed because I wouldn't be disappointed if I didn't hear it, but go ahead, Rob. I got to say, you got to give me credit for going that whole time where he's talking about live songs, and I didn't say, "I alone love you, I alone tempt you."

[57:00]I think I should get credit for not making that joke. Hey, Rob, I'm going to give you credit for that. Thank you. That's what keeps me alive. A naval salute. Rob, the next time I'm eating a Godfather's pizza at a gas station, I'll be thinking of you. Oh, good. This is an amazing song. This is just like, has to be... I mean, again, I've never seen... Aaron, I think you've seen Pearl Jam in concert, but you're in a concert, they start playing this, how does the whole world not rock, right? Right. Yeah, it rocks. And everybody sings it. There's a few points where everybody sings it, but they play... Yeah. Everybody sings it, but they play that one, 839, that's the second most. The next one's Porch, not on the album, but not in the order, but 640, so they play Even Flowing Alive every concert, basically, or at least if they're playing a couple nights in a place, they play those once a night. You should go on their Wiki and see if Russ is taller, you can put the Wiki on there for one play. Legit, Rob, it's funny because I think you could be the shortest person on the podcast, and I don't think you've ever thought about that either, and I'm going to continue to

[58:00]Not think about that. I don't think he is. Matt, I got a question for you. Measure off. If I'm not a Pearl Jam fan, I could have a Pearl Jam favorite song. It could be Alive, it could be Jeremy, Black, whatever it is. When you have your perfect songs, is there a Pearl Jam song on that list, or is there a ton of them, or is there one that jumps out to you "I've got a favorite," or not? There's a lot. Yeah, there's a lot. There's a song, and Rob, I don't know if... I mean, there's a song called In Hiding off of Yield, and Yield came out in 1999. Yeah. I listened to it throughout college, and it's probably my favorite song off of that. Remember the Wish List, the song? There's a few songs. You would know a couple of them off there. Yeah. The song In Hiding was on there, and I think that's kind of like a quintessential perfect Pearl Jam song, if you will. Just like when the local gym I had ran out of money, why go?

[59:00]Come on. Yeah. I'm trying. You're doing a great job. It strikes me now how much Zeppelin they are with the guitar and the drums coming together. They play so much of the same rhythm. Definitely. So a lot of The Who, a lot of Led Zeppelin, a lot of Neil Young's huge with them, stuff like that. So you hear a lot of the late '70s rock that comes into their... Aaron, Zeppelin is all I could think about when I listen to this. Right. Because like I said, I've had almost no exposure to this, and when I listened, I was like, "This is the most album that we've listened to." I think this is the album that we've listened to the most. I think this is the album that we've listened to that the most reminds me of like '70s classic rock, where it's different, but you can just hear it, and it's so great. And I didn't know. I didn't think that at the time. Like in the '90s, I didn't make that connection. Black. This has turned into a... This is a great live song, because they play this little part, and then the drum kicks in, and it's...

[1:00:00]It is a moment. When you talk about live songs, I think they're songs that remind me of like, "Hey, you've been out at the bar with a few of your friends. You've got a sober driver driving you back. There's like four of you in the car, and this song comes on. You all start singing." Pearl Jam has these songs... Yes. And you don't know the actual words. You don't need the actual words. You can start singing along. I think Adam Sandler does a pretty good job of that. It's so good. Guys, I just want to say how proud I am, again, that you're listening to this, and I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Thank you. Guys, I just want to say how proud I am, again, that you guys were mentioning live music, and I didn't sing the song "Likini's Juice." "Likini's Juice." I did not sing that. That's how that song started out, but here's kind of how it ends, right? I've given you a couple of... This is a famous line. Does everyone have to sing along with that? Yeah. I was really singing along. The best is nobody knows the fucking words. I don't know. I don't know what to do.

[1:01:00]If you're singing with this with your buddies, right? Yeah. I don't know what he's singing. That line is so clear though. I guess that they owe the beautiful life And maybe to send somebody else this guy. That's a killer line. Yeah so you've got all of these like That are 22 to 25 year olds are writing, right? And it's just it's amazing to think Some of the lyrics and how timeless they can be. Not just from Pearl Jam, but from all From all these youngsters, we think of this. Matt, I have another question. What, like when you were 14 was Pearl Jam your band Or did something happen? Like did you have a moment like in your 20s Where you're like, oh, this is my band? What, no I was like smashing pumpkins In Pearl Jam and I didn't really sound garden wasn't all that popular for me, But Smash Pumpkins of Pearl Jam seemed to be it. And then when No Code came out like 1997, So they have 10 versus, There's another one in there. Vitalogy. Rob's Vitalogy, yep, which is a double album.

[1:02:00]That's the one with the bulge. That's the one with the bulge. Those are all, and then they kind of take a break And then No Code and then Yield come out In 1997, 1999. And it's like they kind of jumped away From really being the grunge band to being kind of the band I think of them as of today is just basically a rock band. And that's kind of where it really took off From me. And then I saw him with, let's see, Cordell from Apple Valley and Lafferty from Apple Valley. We drove to Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wisconsin To see him, I think in 1999, the fall of 1999. What a memory. And to see, again, that was the first time I saw him live because they did not come. Rob, congrats, good work. What's that? Thank you. You didn't see, I saw him live. Okay. I wouldn't even say the dolphins cry. I didn't even say the dolphins cry. I think they actually played at the Gale Mansion. It's too bad you didn't get invited there. But they famously had the big dispute

[1:03:00]With Ticketmaster, right? Where they just didn't tour for a while. They just did not unless they were doing their own thing. And so in kind of the prime high school age of Pearl Jam, They just really didn't tour all that much. And then they started touring And then they started releasing all their concerts On bootleg very much in all the jam bands, The Grateful Dead of the world. And they just, they're kind of pioneering In how they've moved from commercialized rock band And away from like the 80s hair metal stuff Into what they are today. They're kind of just their own little beast. So, man, I have a question for you. Yeah. Do you like Pearl Jam? Do I like them? All right. Maybe. I just want to point out, listen to the first, If you take out, listen to this, You have Evenflow, Alive, Black, And then Jeremy, literally four of the first six songs On this album. Wow. Yeah. Crazy.

[1:04:00]Crazy. Even if you weren't a Pearl Jam fan, That lineup of hits puts this way up on the list. Yeah. It's almost like a best of, And I know Matt would cringe when I say that, But that's how I feel. Not really. And I think this song, This is the purple rain for me, right? Like I've heard this song so many times. This is what everybody associates this album with Is Jeremy, to me I think, Because of the video, right? It's such a powerful message about a kid going to school And basically all the things that were happening Beforehand, but I just, If I'd never heard Jeremy again, I'd be okay. Or if I got it off of this album, I'd be okay, right? And so, but it's a great song. Everybody knows it. I think the video, Eddie, he's looks pretty crazy. He's got his eyes going all over. He's shaking the thing and the hair in the face. Yeah. It's pretty, it's pretty weird. Man, I still play They actually changed the lyrics now. You know, it said a mommy and daddy. He says mother and father. And I guess that's because his kids would say mommy And daddy. And so he just couldn't say that anymore

[1:05:00]Because he didn't want to associate that, This song with his kids, his daughters would call him. But are you saying that he said, Don't call me, don't call me, hey, don't call me daughter? Daddy, father, yeah. So Rosie wrote up Yellow Ledbetter. Yellow Ledbetter was written before this album came out, But they did not put it on this album. Yellow Ledbetter is not, Yellow Ledbetter is not on any album. Okay, it was the B side of the Jeremy album, You know, or the single when it came out. Right. And so, but again, it's a fan favorite. It started going, being on the radio in like 1994, They just didn't release it ever. Radio stations just started playing it. Russell, how bad does this whip the llamas ass, Russell, For you? It whips the llamas ass more than the tea bag I drank last week. Oh God. So famously, there's, famously there's no lyrics, right?

[1:06:00]Like he essentially said, and there is, There's some talk about blood and other sports and stuff. Nonsense lyrics, we've talked about this before. Yeah, but you know, he just used his voice As another instrument, if you will. I totally didn't realize that. What if I, have I not been listening to you guys? I've always been trying to figure out What the word is. So, in honor of Rosie's favorite Pearl Jam song, I thought we'd do a list of the favorite, One of the best songs that were never officially on any albums. Oh, I like it. Wow, what a great idea. You know, here's what I don't get when you guys do lists. You know what the list is called And it makes sense at the end. Like, that's what I don't get, how you do that. Because I make a list and none of it ever works out. And I've done it a lot. It's not like I haven't practiced, I've tried. It never works. It makes sense in my head. First song, Rob, the cure, Boys Don't Cry. So good. Favorite song. You know, I don't do as much research as Russell. He's just nice to do it now.

[1:07:00]But essentially, I'm not, They didn't release this on any song, but they had it. And so then it just became a popular song. When I think of the cure, this is top three songs. This kind of closed my mind and it was born my mind With Pearl Jam 2 because now everything gets released In a digital file on the internet. Or they get re-released and they get the special song. But back then, somebody would have had to get a hold Of like what, the seven inch of Jeremy And then play the- And that's what I had to do. I mean, I had the CD of Jeremy Single. And below it, they had, And that's what everybody had to do. They had to know that's how they had to get it. You're sitting there with your cussingle. You're like, hey, let's play both sides, let's go. You play one song, you gotta get off the couch And go change it. You're like, love this song. And this just, I think is just a phenomenal song. And it's by Rihanna. It's called Bitch Better Have My Money. Oh, yeah. Good song, yeah. And so this song was conceived By producer deputy in his apartment, The simple beat. And he had somebody else who wrote the chords.

[1:08:00]But he figured that the only person Who could do it would be Rihanna. This was a complete divergence Of what Rihanna was doing. She had towards the sun and then American oxygen Or something like that. But she had a few others That were just completely not anything like this. So famously, this dude, deputy, Brought this to Kanye West And then Kanye West and Rihanna made it And kind of made it their own. Guys. Bitch Better Have My Money. That same thing could happen to this podcast episode. You know what I mean? Like they just bring it somewhere famous And then we get famous. Thank you. We're Rihanna now. They could. They could. We've talked about it a lot. I'm going against Russell's normal, But I just think it's, again, Another great story. Hey Jude by the Beatles was written While the white album was going on. And then they just didn't put it on any albums Because I don't think it might be butchering the story And help me out if you guys remember. But it was about John Lennon's son,

[1:09:00]Jules being one of the changes to Jude. And I think famously they were hanging out With John's first wife, Cynthia. You know, then all of a sudden John gets with Yoko And essentially she's just kicked out of the group. Nobody ever sees her again. And John kind of felt really bad About just her being ostracized And Jules being ostracized. So he wrote the song and would check in With them and stuff like that. And then he eventually didn't get put on One of their albums, but it was way like. You might have been on Let It Be, But it was on the B side and it got added to later on. But I think Paul actually, did you say that? Paul wrote it for John's kid, I think, Which kind of makes it more point in. For John's kid, yeah. Matt, you mentioned the white album. I actually went to a record store. I went to Electric Fetus. What's the big one right downtown, Matt? Right at. Yeah, right off 26 and the Franklin River. The huge store. You walk in there, you're like, I can't believe this is a record store, right? I'd never been there. Just west of 35W and just south of Franklin. There you go.

[1:10:00]I parked in the parking lot, right behind it, Probably on the west side of the store. Because it's not clear if you can park In the street there or not. You're like, is this really a street park or not? Ken parked on the west side of the parking lot On the backside of the prop. It's probably like first, isn't that first over there? Yeah. Stevens, no, sorry, Stevens. Can I ask you guys about the dirt At the metrodome or whatever? I would rather talk about that right now. This record store is huge and I walk in there And I had like two record store terrible moments. One, I spent the whole time looking, Like looking through all these records And not realizing, oh, these are all new, brand new ones. I don't want a brand new record. I want used records. Yeah, get out of that used, yeah. Hey, I would be like the song, Take those used records off the shelf and give them to Russ. He wants the used records. He wants old records. Don't give them to anyone. So I tried to run my system. You guys know I like the dollar record. I like a record on the list. I like a perverted record. I couldn't run the system. But one record I didn't get was, I found a copy of a used The Beatles white album.

[1:11:00]I thought that was pretty cool. Nice. To find a used white album at a record store. Is that cool to find? Can I ask you how much you paid for that bad boy? What's that? Can I ask you how much you paid for that bad boy? It was like under $30. Really? But here's the question. I ran into this on a couple other records That I thought about getting. There was a Bob Dylan highway 61, But it said mono. I don't know enough about monover stereo. Whether if you get a mono record, What like Aaron, you tell me, Is that like a bad move or not? I don't know. I know, I think on the equipment That we're playing records on, The stuff it's going to figure itself out. But Robin met might have a different thought. I just want to say this When we're talking about mono. Matt, what's his real name again? Bono? Oh, mono. Oh, okay. My bad. Nevermind. Forget it. Forget I said anything. I only bought one other album that day. I went through a bunch of stuff. I was looking at the jazz albums And I was looking for Chip Corea,

[1:12:00]Chick Corea. Chick Corea, yeah. They had a Chick Corea section And I was fiddling through, But there was one song I wanted from Chick Corea And I looked, I pulled up my phone. I'm like, I'm going to look through my list For Rob to what I sent for Chick Corea. They did not have the song I wanted. I'm not spending money on Chick Corea Unless they have my song. The other album I purchased was The greatest US band ever That we had talked about a few weeks ago. Boston. Credence? Oh. Credence. I got greatest hits Because we have to- There's some hits, man. They are the greatest US band ever. Where, I can't remember where are they from? Where was that? El Cerrito. Oh, come on here. You're trying to be here. I thought they were from by El Cerrito. I thought they were like next door. They were close. No, they are from El Cerrito. So I went in there and then I came out. And Matt, the reason I did think of you Though I was there, And this is what I was going to ask you too about this, They had like an Eddie Vedder solo album.

[1:13:00]It was like, it just said Vedder. It was clearly not like a Pearl Jam album. It was an Eddie Vedder album. And so I was curious like, Are you a fan of Eddie Vedder? It's like, when he's doing his own, Does he do his own thing outside of Pearl Jam too or not? Yeah. And he tours outside of Pearl Jam. He, his first kind of foray into it was for the movie. I am Sam, right? Huh? Is it I am Sam? It was the last dude. Into the wild. He did that whole album. That movie was funny. I laughed my ass off of that thing. Damn. Like where his belt keeps getting tighter. He's going to keep putting new holes in it. That's hilarious. Isn't it? I want to eat these berries. I know I shouldn't eat these berries, But I'm kind of a survivalist brand. I'm going to eat these berries. But now he's come out with a couple other, You know, he comes out a few solo songs. I don't care if it's fun as my friend. I'm going to eat these berries. Yeah. Yeah. And he does some tours. And you know, all of these guys have their own bands.

[1:14:00]You know, Stone Gossards actually with, God, who's the local? It's a Minnesota guy. He's in a band. Replacements guys that we made fun of a few weeks ago. Rudy Purpidge. Rob, you got Bernie Carlson. Bernie Carlson. Probably the most Minnesota guy they're in. Rudy Purpidge, probably number one Minnesota guy. Paul Barney Carlson. Number one. Barney Carlson is way up there too. Paul Wellstone. Paul Wellstone. All the way up there. Rest in peace. So Stone Gossards in a new band recently With Mason Jennings, who I think he's from Minnesota Or plays a lot there. Right. Yeah. He's definitely got Minnesota ties. Yeah. Played a channel. So so they've been working together Since 2014. So all of these guys have solos and careers And different bands that they also play. All right. Last song, there's a ton of them. And I should say, Russell, I did not do like solo songs or meant for movies Or meant for like a TV show or something. So like Skyfall by Adele was listed on a lot of the websites. Was the bodyguard on an album

[1:15:00]Or was it on the bodyguard album? That's anything that I saw. That was the bodyguard, the album. That is an album. And then I think Taylor Swift had one That was in Hunger Games that was mentioned By a ton of people. Is there any two people Less likely to fall in love in your mind Than Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston? Like anytime in the movie where they were like, We love each other, I was like, there's no way. There's just no way. I've never seen it. I've never seen it. Yeah, I know. I need to see it. I've never seen it. Hey, guys, should we do a bodyguard, Robocop double feature? Yes. Does that sound like something we should do? Instead of our next episode. Oh yeah, it's so good. There was, we should say, there was a lot of websites That listed Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus. I thought we could somehow try to fit that in So that we would have to show Rosie the wrecking ball. The wrecking ball wasn't. That is the number one piano bar song In the history of the world right there. Party in the USA, number one is the perfect song. All right, the last song, Silver Springs by,

[1:16:00]Written by Steven X performed by British American band, Fleetwood Mac, originally intended for the band's 1977 album, Rumors. This got cut from Rumors But became the B side to the song, Go Your Own Way. Matt, cut this song. If this were on Rumors, it has to be number one of it. Exactly. I love Marvin Gaye. If you put this on Rumors, it has to be number one. Have we talked, have you guys watched the video Of like the live, that song where she's staring down. Live is a center song? Oh my God, it's so good. Top five list. Hey, Matt, tonight, that was a top five list, easy. All right. First work, man. Love it, Matt. Next, we're going from the top five to 10. Only in this podcast would that make any sense. Oceans. This is, if I'm looking at Wikipedia, This is one of like two songs where Better

[1:17:00]Was one of the writers on this. So to degrade a lot of their, like later songs, Matt, Cause like as a not a full-jump guy, I don't them as Eddie Vedder, But it's clearly it's just not Vedder's band, right? Well, and on this album, it's not Vedder's band. Stone, who's the rhythm guitarist, And then Jeff Amit, who's the bass guitarist, It's their band, right? And they're bringing all these people together. Clearly it's Eddie Vedder's band later on. Everybody knows them as Eddie Vedder. They're not as popular without his voice and all that, But he ends up writing a lot of the songs, like the lyrics, While the rest of the band does a lot of the musical work, If you will. And so they're, they were on Eddie Vedder's On the smart list podcast, maybe like a year or two ago now. And I was kind of talking about this whole thing. He said, look, it was just, We've always been cool with each other. And if you want to do this, do that, You want to do that, great. You know, we'll put some songs on here, Put your songs on there.

[1:18:00]Go do your own stuff by yourself. Yeah. And so it seems like, I don't think you can be a band for 30 years Without having a little bit of strife. You know, they've had to go through some drummers, But you know, they seem to work well together. They seem to have not the egos with the band. Stone out of all of them kind of gets washed out, But he was the original member of the band. And so he sings on a few songs And gives Eddie a break at a lot of the concerts And stuff like that. So I don't know, it's, he's, I think for this album, He's kind of muted as his contribution. And I don't know if that's a writer's credit thing Or what's going on, But you know, he's definitely doing a lot Of the writing moving forward. Matt, let's porch that discussion And start this porch discussion with the song, Porch. No one's going to wonder for a band like this, Like, how do you split money? Like, does the lead singer get more money

[1:19:00]Than the bass player? How do you split money between a band? They all, hold on. Hey, Rob, we could have the discussion about us, But you haven't given us any money yet. So that's, that's one of those weird starting ones That's great live because the whole, The whole crowd knows what it is. I do remember. I do remember. Let me start with the singing and go. So Russell, a lot of bands, They're all set up with LLCs, right? And then so in those LLC agreements, They figure out who gets what. That's why smashing pumpkins essentially broke up originally Because while they had four members, You know, Billy Corgan was doing like everything. He was writing everything and he didn't want to split All that stuff four ways. And so two of them, the two guitarists, Darcy And then I forget, Jimmy Eha, They just basically said, screw you, I'm leaving. The drummer, he stuck around. But you know, with Pearl Jam, I gotta think it's just a five way split. You know, I don't know how they do it, But you know, it's all just,

[1:20:00]It's in the LLC docs from what I can tell. The thing is you hear stories like that about bands, Like smashing pumpkins and how they broke up. And you realize like, I don't know. It's just like the world is just like It's just Sometimes you just think the world is a vampire. You know what I mean? Like it's just, Hey Rob, take your headphones off for a second. Okay, I was good for real there. Hey, Aaron and Matt, we could do this without Rob And we could split all the money between us. Three ways. We have to stick together, right? Three ways. Stay together. Matt and Aaron, you guys can be the funny person And do the editing. His dad's a lawyer. Hey, his dad's a lawyer. He will lean on us. If we stick together, yes, he can get through this. 8% bigger cut, you guys. Come on. Can you arrange it on the body we would make? Listen, as the head of this podcast, I just got to stick back in and say, listen, Union fees are just you losing money. You're actually not getting anything. So let's cool it with the you talk right now on the show.

[1:21:00]It's really only protecting the bottom 20%. Yeah, we we're working together as a family. There's no reason to get like rules and contracts involved. Let's not worry about the better union That some people are trying to form. Okay. Hey, let's porch that discussion about porch And start our discussion about garden. Garden discussions. This was, this has always been kind of the one downer song. We can get rid of this, but yeah, let better on. It's a way better song. Yeah, right. Oh yeah. You put yellow letter on there And it's, it's a top five album ever. Like it could be for bad anyways, But it's unquestionably. If you put another absolute smoke and hit on it, right? Yeah. Deep. You gotta have some, it's like, It's like going to a wrestling match. You gotta have to be, you gotta have a popcorn match. You gotta have to let people down and then bring it back up.

[1:22:00]This sounds so good. His voice. I mean, it's just such a unique voice. Swing there on the drums, whichever drummer this is this time. I wouldn't put it in bottoms league, But he's kind of swinging the way bottom does. Aaron, you just talked over, You just talked over, was this your favorite Pearl Jam album Or not? Sorry, Rob. I'll be quiet. It's not, but it's Sorry, Rob, let Rob talk. I apologize. Rob's gonna get his jokes off. Rob's mad at me for talking over something brilliant. He was about to say, I just fucking forgot what I was going to say. What were we talking about? Man, is this one, I don't mean to jump the gun, But is this your favorite Pearl Jam album or not? It's not. And I think I've kind of discounted it over the last 10, 15 years is not listening to it that much. So bringing it back this week, It's been pretty darn cool to listen to. I think again, it's like purple rain to me. I just, I associate Jeremy with it too strongly. And I just got to skip right past it. Just skip past Jeremy, Listen to the rest of the album and it's great.

[1:23:00]I remembered what it was that I forgot. You guys talked over one of the hottest takes I had On this album where I was saying, And this was an actual sentence I said On my music podcast that I run And we all kind of work together on it. Okay. It's not about who's getting paid more or less Or whatever podcast we don't get paid on. Yeah. Well, Magic Mike bought a t-shirt and I got no money from it. Hmm. I what? I'm going to get back to you. I'm going to go look at that. But I had one of the hottest takes on this music podcast Where I said Eddie Vedder has a very unique voice. Okay. And I was hoping I think to spark a discussion With that where you guys were like, wow, Rob, Rob's really smart, Rob. And you know what that guy, it's for this week guys. Unfortunately, when I said that I hate to say it, But me pointing out that Eddie Vedder has a unique voice Makes me a dumb shit. You can just go to release.

[1:24:00]I think release is going to be Russell When he finds out the roommate wants to live With them again. They got to get a release. I'd never heard this song until I watched the live version Of the Wrigley concert and they played this for someone Who was in the front row and this is an amazing song I never even knew about until the Wrigley concert. This is, Rob, did I send you that clip? But I did send you. Oh yeah, this is a clip. Oh, this is what I'm talking about. This sounds extremely corny and I understand this, But this is about as close to religion as I get These days is listening to live music And hearing this song and he's going through this Was unbelievable. Matt from Woodbury and I were at Wrigley And the whole crowd sings it. And it's what the one concert film I still have on my phone just to keep listening to it.

[1:25:00]There's an intro at the beginning of this week. Essentially says, hey, the guy who was first in line At this concert and stood out in line in the rain For two days this year and he's going through some shit And he wanted to hear release me And I'm going to play this for you now. It's amazing. Yeah. And the guy that was in line was like, The guy that was in line was like, I've waited here for days. Yeah, it's really cool. We wait people are inspired. But my partner at home keeps watching TV And I got to get out of there. It's so goddamn loud, okay? I'll just wait in this line. I don't even like this band. There's only so much of the walking dead That you could take over a couple of weeks, right? Yeah. Oh my gosh, they're stuck in a situation. Oh my gosh, they got out of a situation. What a huge surprise. Let's get into everybody's favorite part. It's popular. It's padded. It's the rating system. I don't really want this episode to end. I would like you to continue. Matt, but we're to some other good Pearl Jam

[1:26:00]Songs. I don't want to stand yet. Give us some other great songs we need to listen to. Russell, are you saying there's no Pearl Jam Guitar hero pack? Come on. Come on, Russell. I don't think they would commercialize Things like that and take money for it. Russell, right, Russell. I have a favorite Pearl Jam list, Russell, And I can send it to you. I've also got a favorite Pearl Jam, Slow Jams that I've been putting together, Just the slow ones. Give us a few Pearl Jam songs that we might not know That we need to check out. There's a one called Smile. Sorry, Ryan. Play Smile. And this is a fan favorite, Smile, Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam. I forgot what Bandra was doing. Three Crooked Hearts. And there's a lot of Pearl Jam fans get Three Crooked Hearts. They got the stick figure. You probably would recognize that, But this is a fan favorite. One of my favorites by them. Kicks in. Who should get it?

[1:27:00]The timing for your kicks. This. You know what this sounds like is a classic, One of the best American bands of all time? Jacob Dillon, okay? The Wallflowers. The 501 on the list. Yes. One of the best. Oh, you're the drum fill there. I heard it. Yeah. In hiding, if you want to play another one of my favorite In hiding by Pearl Jam. Hiding. What's the band? Pearl Jam? Okay. Pearl Jam. With a J. Aaron, how many times have you seen Pearl Jam? Just one time. Yeah. Just the once. Summer of 1998. I remember it because we would have been, This is when we were forming a friendship. But I remember you went to Pearl Jam. I guess no, it would have been 97. Yeah, summer 97. I remember you were, before I knew Matt,

[1:28:00]You were the biggest Pearl Jam fan of you. Yeah, I owned a couple of them. I mean, cause I owned Vitalogy. And then I bought one of those live on two legs, I think. Interesting thing about Vitalogy, Remember it had like the soft cover. It was not like a normal CD case. It was like, yeah. Vitalogy. I'm still alive guys. That was big Pearl Jam. I'm a big fan of, I'm a big, I'll just read the list that I've got on my top 100. It's just the Pearl Jam songs. So I can jot them down when I listen back. Dissident by Pearl Jam. Wishlist. Rear room air. That's a great song. Korderoi daughter given to fly release elderly woman Behind the counter in a small town. I am mine. Just breathe. Rob, you might like that one. Just breathe. Light ears. And then there's a few other, I mean, we've got a few other lists That just have a ton of them on it. Can we listen to dissident? Just pull up. We want to listen to dissident too. Russell.

[1:29:00]Oh, look at what the fuck? The verse is out and covered. Yep. Scroll forward 30 seconds of this song. At least you should like give them more of a listen. No, I noticed it. I noticed at no point did Matt say That Pearl Jam ever played a song backwards And recorded it and then played the video At the beginning of the next part of the concert. But it's pretty. That's pretty genius though. Maybe my hearing is gone. That's pretty genius. Hey, and just for Joe from a, Joe from Woodbury, will you pull up? And when we get to the ranking, I know where this album is going to be. This band is going to be way higher at this. Pull up a Wishlist. We might never get there. Pull up a Wildflowers Eddie Venner.

[1:30:00]Oh no, now we're getting into the derivative bands. So he. The, Concord, St. Paul, right here. Turn it up a little. This is the closing song of the whole thing, man. This is the, came out to the first song of the, Concord. Amazing. You know, they actually, he did a concert with this later Where they actually wheeled out Tom Petty's corpse. And everybody cheered because they thought it was him For real, like coming out, but it was, It said it was his evil cause of the grip. Keep them right problem. He looks so much like a corpse in real life. It'd be like if your head was a gravestone. I feel like Eddie Venner kind of has this state girl thing

[1:31:00]About where everyone likes him. Is that true? Or do people not like Pearl Jam and like, Are there anti-Pearl Jam people or anti-Eddie Venner people? Like everyone loves safe girl, right? Well, I'm sure. Not anybody that I talked to Russell. No, not anybody. Yeah. I think there are. But I mean, like they do so many, They do so many songs. They're extremely philanthropic. I think they're very genuine because like, It's one of those things, right? You never want to meet your heroes kind of thing. And he's not my hero, But I would never want to meet the guy. But I heard him on the smart list podcast. Sounds like a very down to earth guy. It seems like the rest of them are. So I don't know. You know, there's got to be people that hate Pearl Jam. Can I tell you, man, I went to one concert where the band was dissing Pearl Jam The whole time. The band? I just, and I couldn't believe it. Because who would dis Pearl Jam? I mean, it's, they're so, they're so great. Okay. I got to learn more about these guys, honestly. And it turns out I was at the Ticketmaster's All Stars Band.

[1:32:00]Yeah. Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster All Star Band. They're like, they're like, oh, we sell tickets. But the problem is we're not a band. I got an idea. We're going to do the Ticketmaster All Stars. It's Roy Orbison. It's Jeff from Yellow. It's Tom Petty. Hey, stack those fees on there. Buddy Holly, big bopper. He's in there to everybody. All right. Speaking of the day things died, Let's get into the rating system. I will remind you of our six concerts back in 1981. Red Hot Chili Peppers with a little headliner. Nirvana was the first opener. Pearl Jam was the very first. The first opener is Pearl Jam. Then went Nirvana. Then went Red Hot Chili Peppers. Can you believe that concert? What a show. That would be incredible. And to think when I was in college, I saw Citizen Kane twice. Citizen Kane twice. Man, who opens for Pearl Jam now when you see them? Oh, yes, Russell. I love that. So for a while there, I can tell about two years ago.

[1:33:00]I'm going to keep you up all fucking night. They didn't have any opener. So they would come out at eight o'clock. And so again, pull back the curtain. Most concerts need to be done by 11 o'clock in most metropolitan Areas. I don't know why. I think it's just some noise. Yeah. And you know why? Because you know who's working at those concert venues, Setting those strict rules. It's a little somebody called the Union. So it's actually pretty bad. Longer concerts. We went to longer concerts. That was the Union. So when they were playing at Wrigley and those different Venues, they'd come out, they'd play 38, 39, 37, 40. They'd play for like three and a half hours. It was awesome. They didn't have an opener. It's some group called deep sea diver, which was okay. It was the first time doing arena. You know, I don't know who they were. I listened to them for a little bit when I was there, But still have some openers now, but they're not like Anybody that you would have heard of. Is this a rolling well toned? Okay.

[1:34:00]And I'm much too tired to think of anything funny to go With this. Is this perfect at 160? You know what pearl jam? I was like pale. Look at how pale. This album is perfect at 160. This is right where we should be 160. You me. Perfect. Chef's kiss. That would be a rolling well toned. It's perfect right here. Is this a rolling bone? Okay. It should have been higher up on the list. And in fact, there's only one pearl jam album on the list. Man, this is it. That's why. Vitalogy was on the old list, but they got, They got axed on the new one. And that's why maybe some people had to do songs That weren't on this album because it's the only one They really knew that well, this thing along to. Okay. Or is this a rolling groan? I don't even want to say it. It should be a lower on the list. Maybe because we're going to do it again. Maybe Matt wants it to fall down the list. So we'll do it again. He loves pearl jam that much. But that would be a rolling groan. It's rolling groan. We should all have to put a thumbs down while We say rolling groan.

[1:35:00]Guys, if you say that, look at Matt. Look at, look how sweet his face is. He's a sweet, nice guy. He's a good dad who just wants to be left God damn alone Sometimes. Please don't break his heart by giving this a rolling groan. Okay. Don't do that. Okay. So one thing we don't do on this podcast is fight. Okay. And there's not an episode that I've been saving maybe For a rainy day where maybe we could do a big fight. All right. Russell, what do you think? Rolling well toned, rolling bone, rolling groan. Okay. Pearl jam. Aaron, what do I love? What do I love on albums? Yeah. I love commercial hits. The hits. This to me has even flow alive. Play the hits. Jeremy. And there's other ones that I know too, but those are like the, To me, if, if you have win amp, what really whips the Lamaze, those four songs have to be on my college playlist. You have those four songs in the album. It's amazing. So for that, it's for sure it's rolling bone. It should be higher on the list for one. I would also say like you guys, we've talked about this

[1:36:00]Before. Part of the idea of the quest was like being exposed to New music and having like experiences with music And knowing that Matt, this is his band and hearing what he Is interested in to me is absolutely like one of the Reasons that we're doing this. So to me, this is a rolling bone. It should be way higher on the list. I think this is maybe like a top 25, 30 album. Yeah. And that's from the hits. It's from all the cool things about it. It's like this band has been around for like 30 plus years And they're still killing it. So to me, it's rolling bone. It needs to be higher on the list. Let's leave like, let's go back though. We've, we've listened to so many albums over the last eight Months. Yeah. This destroys half of them. It destroys half of them. This is going to be higher on the list. You know what? Let's just do this real quick. Can we go through all of them one by one? Let's go through. I'm just kidding. You know what Russell might as well. Ask Aaron. Don't remember this.

[1:37:00]Here's the deal. Don't, Rob. No, no, no. Don't do it. Is this better than the replacements? Let it be. Yes. We're all nodding. Yes. Okay. That's good to see that. I mean, is it better than that Pretender's album? A hundred percent. Better than PJ. A zillion percent. Yeah. Okay. Is it better than this? What's this album that would get us almost no downloads Of the podcast? Maggot Brain. Yeah. This is a better album than Maggot Brain. What Porta said is definitely better. Yeah. Well, but if you remember it's dummy, Which did lead to a lot of pretty good jokes And you'll never guess about. What? Sorry. What? What? Aaron. Rolling well tone. Rolling, rolling. Yeah. This is another one that's so like this is so far outside Of rankings because this album just lives in your, In your brain. If you grew up in a certain time and place. I think because these songs are songs that I love And know so well, it's got to be a rolling bone And needs to be higher.

[1:38:00]All right. We're, we're one away from a perfect score. I hope Matt doesn't give it a rolling grown. Matt, what do you think? Rolling well tone, rolling bone, Or rolling grown Pearl Jam 10. I will say I think I get why they put it here, You know, with Nirvana and all that. And if we kind of look at genres and where everything's at. But obviously I think it's rolling bone and should be Much higher on the list. Way above MAGA brain is what I'm hearing from you. Unfortunately, you guys are incorrect. He's, he's, he's army. You guys get it. I hear him. Unfortunately, you guys are incorrect. What? This gets a rolling bandwagon. Bandwagon. Oh God. I should have listened to these guys in 1992 And hop right on. This shit rocks. I want to listen to this album again. I was walking around listening to this album. This, like I said, It's the best example of modern rock that I think we've Listened to on this list so far. It's so good.

[1:39:00]I will challenge everybody. I'll challenge you Rob. Listen to yield. The album yield by Pearl Jam came out in 1999. My favorite one. Just put that one on when you're walking around Some day. And that's kind of the, The bridge between the old and the new. And I think tell me what you think of that sometime On the next few podcasts when you get through it. Just let me know what you think. Let me know what you think. All right. Now, next up. The next album is a little controversial Because it's about them jello pudding pops. Oh wait. No, I read. I heard the album wrong. This is an album that will have you saying sweet. Judy blue eyes. It's Crosby's still. Oh no, this is going to be bad. It's Crosby still. And Crosby still is a Nash. But the album is also called Crosby still the Nash. So it's Crosby still the Nash. So really, if you think about it, It's Crosby still the Nash's. If you think of it, that's how you're going to Polarize it. And that's fine. We'll be fine next week. I'm not worried about it at all. [100:10] I love these guys. [100:12] These three. [100:13] They had Neil Young in there. [100:15] I think they won. [100:16] Oh, it's so good. [100:18] Sweet Judy blue eyes. [100:19] Listen to the basement recordings of his. [100:21] It's unbelievable. [100:22] It's just him on a guitar. [100:23] Can I say this, Russell? [100:25] Unless you have something to say. [100:26] Do you have something to say? [100:27] What? [100:28] I mean, we've kind of shut you out of this episode, Rob. [100:30] I feel like we should just shut you out of the end. [100:32] Oh, what? [100:37] Russell. [100:38] Rob, let me hear the episode. [100:40] Give me like the best joke you got. [100:42] Here's the best joke I've got. [100:43] Okay, listen. [100:45] Did I tell you this one? [100:47] It's about smashing pumpkins. [100:49] Okay. [100:51] No, here's the deal. [100:53] Do you know how Matt's cafeteria in my trip to Napa Valley,

[1:40:00]which by the way was this episode. [100:59] Matt's cafeteria in Napa Valley. [101:03] How are those two things similar? [101:05] How is that? [101:07] It involves analysts. [101:09] Analysts. [101:11] Analysts. [101:13] Analysts. [101:16] Hey, babe, I birge all the way to Napa. [101:19] What?