Depeche Mode: Violator (1990)

[00:01]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. That's the name of the podcast. We are all the way up to album 167. Okay? Bond. James Bond. 167. I killed so many.

[00:30]167. And we have an album named After Me During My First Basketball Game in Middle School When Nobody Told Me I Couldn't Be in the Lane for Three Seconds. Violator by Depeche Mode. No good refs call three seconds. I'm telling you, it was a traumatizing thing I had where I kept getting called and nobody would tell me what it was. I bet I got called on it easily 25 times in the game and nobody told me what it was. What does Neil coach? Like 8th grade or 9th grade? I don't know what he's coaching these days, but only 9th grade refs call. Three seconds.

[01:00]This is how dumb I was growing up. The ref was like, that's three seconds in the lane. And I was like, what the fuck does that mean? I have no idea what that penalty is. Like, there's no penalty that is more obvious than what it is. I believe it's called a foul. Oh, well, whatever. You just name it. Like, all the other ones, you're kind of like goaltending? Like, that doesn't even make sense. You know what I mean? I didn't get called for that too many times in middle school. Listen. Wait, wait. Has anyone on this podcast ever been called for a goaltend? No. God, that'd be some shit, right?

[01:31]That would be, that'd even be even like, I used to dream about dunking a basketball. Now I'm going to dream about goaltending. Goaltending somebody? Oh, sorry. It was goaltending. Yeah. Yep. That would be amazing. Sorry. I fucking jumped too high and I denied you the basketball. On purpose. Patrick Ewing style. FIBA basketball rules. I'm allowed to rip it off the rim. Right. That's true. It's live. It's the rim. It's live. Yeah. Can we have one podcast where we're not talking about FIBA basketball rules? Please. Just one time. Oh, I think the key should be bigger on the bottom. Shut up. And other things I know about FIBA basketball.

[02:02]I can use a few more timeouts, maybe at the end of the game, right? More Frenching in the arenas. Quarters. More flares. The French team is like, okay, time to do the drill where guys dunk on us. Let's practice that because it seems to happen an awful lot, according to Rob's childhood. And then the game ends and we all hate each other. Let's get into, let's turn out, you know what? Enough FIBA basketball talk. That's our other podcast, guys. It has no downloads. Nobody wants to listen to it. Just listen to the radio.

[02:31]Let's turn it on right now. The crazy thing, though, is we've also made it 167 episodes for our FIBA basketball podcast as well, right? That's true. As soon as we're done recording one of these, we go talk about FIBA basketball. Turn it right around every time. I know. I change out of the shirt I'm wearing now. I put on my Lithuania Grateful Dead shirt. We're set. Oh, Rob knows two things about FIBA basketball. I think that was FIBA. FIBA basketball. FIBA basketball sounds like a video game like your grandma gets you when she's trying to be nice, but she has no fucking idea what's going on.

[03:02]I got you. I got you a video game. Everybody's talking about FIFA, so I got you FIBA basketball. And you're like, God damn it. I'm going to go throw a Doug Collins bronze medal off a bridge somewhere. It's like a penny right around your neck. I like that Rob's grandma is related to the Crypt Keeper. Oh, no, don't say that about my grandma. My grandma was a saint. Okay. Although she did call us little boys and ghouls. Which now I'm trying to think that is suspicious. Interesting.

[03:30]All right, let's turn on the radio. Enough messing around, okay? We are starting, just to let everybody know, here's the deal. We are starting so late, okay? And we're definitely going to do a double tonight. And my dog, my wife is gone. Okay, so I'm in charge of my house. Nobody tells me what to do. And my dog both is terrified by my voice, but also cannot be away from me. So he is constantly trying to come in and then be scared and leave and scratch at my kids. They love it. They think it's fun. Let's turn on the radio. K-Rob, K-R-O-B, Matt, you're stuck with us forever.

[04:04]Oh, yeah. I thought the scariest episode was last week. No, Matt, you must stay. You're a guitar for me. It's kind of twangy, actually. We're going until... Matt leaves us.

[04:30]We always want to see you in your Zoom square, sitting downstairs. We're going until Matt leaves us. If you leave, we've got to at least find someone to call the back line. Oh, yeah, give it a call. It can't always... Matt, don't groan.

[05:04]Don't leave us alone. Blame Rolling Stone. They made this show up for his own. This gets repetitious, but you can't quit this. I wish I knew how to quit. Matt, if it's the end, would you be a good friend? I would love this if you tell me first that you quit. So I can do what I want. And I'll make these... Parody songs. Yes.

[05:30]We can't ever quit anyway. Never. We need to hear about Russell States. So we're going until Matt leaves us. Yes. When you want to hear about the greatest... Not this week, Matt. Not today. Not today. Not this time. Not here.

[06:00]Tonight is our day, Junior. Imagine leaving before we talk about Depeche Mode, man. That would be terrible. It'd be horrible. You couldn't even look yourself in the mirror. I've got to at least make it through Wildflowers, right, Russell? At least through Wildflowers. Matt, I believe it's Wallflowers. That did it. Number 502. Yes. I'm telling you, I got that out. That song is related to a good friend of mine in high school leaving my school, which to me at the time was a very traumatic event. And so I think of him. Every time I play that song, Dan Gravdahl. What song? Where Are You?

[06:30]Whatever the Wallflowers. One Headlight. Like, I'd get misty. I'd be like, oh, he's leaving. He's leaving. Little did I know, I don't talk to anybody anymore from high school. Okay? And it's not because of those restraining orders. Did you guys ever move as a kid? Were you ever the new kid at a new school? Or no? Were you always, like, through the same system? I fucking beat up those kids. I hated those guys. Oh, God. Jesus. The only thing I did is I went to the old Catholic school from, like, you know, preschool through fifth grade. But then all of my friends that I was playing sports with were at the public school.

[07:00]And so I'm like, I just, can I please just go? And so I knew a lot of the kids at the public school. But I did change in sixth grade from private to public school. So a lot of, wait, a lot of dates then? I bet, like, you must have crushed it that year, right? Like, new guy, played the sports. Like, the ladies must have just been stoked. Oh. No, I mean, there was just, you know. I'm from Catholic school. All I know is how to study my Bible. I would never try to f*** you, you know? Jesus. Next thing you know, you got it.

[07:30]You know what I mean? I, here, we are Beck Did It Better. We are four guys who are talking about Depeche Mode Violator. And I, guys, I have to say, I liked Depeche Mode a lot more when they had ice cream on top. True. Yeah. Depeche Alamode. My own personal banana split. Piece of. Wait, what'd you say? Piece of. Guys, I was. I was going to do door dance. Piece of pie. I was talking about. Oh, I guess Alamode.

[08:01]Personal piece of. Oh, when I thought of Alamode, I thought of a banana split, but that's Alamode. I mean, that's a hat and a hat. That's ice cream with ice cream on top. You put a hat and a hat. Peach pie Alamode right there. That's all you need. That's a delicious treat. No, but what about this? Banana split Alamode. Hey, what could this shit use on top? Some more ice cream. Let's do it. By the way, banana split, I'm going to say this. F dessert. You always think it's going to be good, and then you get the bananas, and they're too cold, and you're like, nah, don't need this. Could have just had a banana split. Rob doesn't like anything messing with his ice cream. I've never had a banana split.

[08:33]My grandma loves them, and I've never had one. Stop, stop. I don't know if I've had one either. If I did, it was a seven or something like that. I think we had a secret. Maybe you had it when you watched Gremlins, Rob. I don't know. Listen, guys. I didn't like bananas. I still don't like bananas. I eat them now because it's like, well, you can choke that banana, and you're going to make survival for another hour. No, and I didn't get that. Rosie, have you ever seen a weak gorilla? No. Have you ever seen a weak gorilla? No, I have not. That's good. That's good. I like it. That's a good thought, man.

[09:00]And that's why I don't wear pants a lot, too. Here's the thing. Here's the thing, is that I didn't hit that button because Aaron said he doesn't need a banana split. It's because he immediately came back with, my grandma loves them. She does. How does your grandma love banana splits, and you've never had one? That's so insulting. She's probably like, please, Aaron, have a banana split. I gran-y made it for you. She's crazy. And then she's like, and then you're like, no, grandma, fuck you. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to eat that banana split. I'll never eat a banana split. I'll never be like you, granny. I don't know. I just, I know they took her out for 180th birthday, but I live in California, so I wasn't

[09:33]there. So thanks, Rob, for making me feel guilty for living all the way out here when my family took my grandma out for a banana split. Well, you won't even have a banana split with your grandmother, so that's something to think about. Russ, have you ever had a banana split? You know what? I don't know if I've had a banana split, but I get banana split blizzards. If I were to go to a Dairy Queen, I get a banana split blizzard, and that is what he's saying. Who gets that? That's insane. It is more normal for you to say you've never had a banana split than you've had multiple banana split blizzards.

[10:01]No, but that's amazing. It's like a banana split in a cup. But you've never had a banana split. You've never had a banana split. Why would you get that when you get the blizzard? I'm kind of with Russ here. Why would you get a banana? There's so many good blizzards that have like chocolate or candy in it, like good shit. Instead, you're getting the banana split. That's insane. He didn't fucking eat his blizzard. That's good. Oh my God. So good. And you know what would make that better? A banana split. No. When you order a banana split blizzard, I guarantee the workers inside hit a button, and they're like, where the fuck is a banana split stuff? This guy is back again. Okay. Guys, Rob's very judgy about desserts.

[10:31]No, it's about ice cream is what it is. I had ice cream with churros in it last weekend. What do you think about that, Rob? That's good. I've had that. That's a good one. The Ben and Jerry's with the churros. It's nice. Listen, and if you looked at our Instagram lately, you would think that we're desperate for voicemails. We're not. We got plenty. Okay. Just because I've asked twice now in two days, don't worry about it. Okay. But please call and say if you think it's insane that Aaron hasn't had a banana split. I'll let you know. Although I will say. Rob ain't too proud to beg. You know why I've had so many banana splits? Because Thursday was banana split night at Old Country Buffet, and I knew that.

[11:03]And so I'd always make my parents take me there on Thursday. I ate at Old Country Buffet, I bet, once every two weeks growing up. I think my parents were just like, they would just be like, we're going broke. We got to do something with this kid. We didn't do Old Country Buffet in the Apple Valley. We did Bonanza. You guys have a Bonanza or not? No, I never had. We had Golden Curl. Golden Curl. It's like, I wonder how many deep fried shrimp I could eat. Well, time to go to Bonanza. Like, you'd have like a million, they'd have all you can eat deep fried shrimp.

[11:31]I would easily have 150. Like, I'm not even kidding. Like, not even, because you wouldn't have to take off the tails. Now, Rosie doesn't care about that. But you could just start popping them, and it was just like. No, you just eat the tails. Actually, he does, because he would like the tails. Yeah, just eat up the tails. Just go for it. Don't say that. Don't say that. People are seriously going to stop listening to Fingers. Why not? What's different about the tail? Like, you're going to eat the rest of it. It's on your plate. Why would they put it on your plate if you can't eat it? What else are you going to eat? It's the tail. It's the tail of a shrimp. Nobody eats it. If there was something wrong with it, it's been in the same water and through the same

[12:02]whatever curing process they use to clean the thing up. I feel like I'm on Ed TV, okay? And you guys are gaslighting me into thinking that it is normal to not have banana splits and eat shrimp tails. And I feel like I'm going insane. And by the way, everybody else brings up Truman Show. I'm bringing up Ed TV, because that's how I roll. Ed TV was good. Stop. It was good. That was when they had the bet, right? Where if they made the bet, it was like you got to do the dare. They had to do it, but they couldn't tell anybody they were on the dare. Aaron, nobody has actually seen Ed TV.

[12:31]Please, we're begging you. Nobody's seen it. Wait, really? Nobody's seen it? You haven't seen RoboCop and you've seen Ed TV? That's fucked. Russell, pull us out of this nosedive. This podcast is going in a bad direction already. Go ahead. You've got to do introductions, Rob. I'm being mean. Listen, I've got three guys here. Alamo, et cetera, et cetera. I've got Russell. Russell in Minnesota. Russell, how are you doing tonight? To all our listeners tonight, I'm going to take you on a trip, and you won't have to move. You just sit still.

[13:00]Now, let your mind do the walking and let my body do the talking. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And when Russell's body does the talking, it's saying to me, lick my nipple. All right. So, I thought I was going to think of something funny by that time, and I didn't. I mean, it's kind of funny to me. Since we are a wrestling podcast, you sounded very much like a ravishing Rick Rude there. Oh, yeah. I just wanted to say that. To all you fat, out of shape podcast hosts, I would like to show you all what a real podcast host looks like.

[13:33]So, please keep the noise down as I take off my robe and show all the beck, what do we call the becker heads? Becker heads. What a real podcast host looks like. I'll tell you what. Keep the noise down. If Ravishing Rick Rude, he would learn such a lesson if he tried to take my wife up on stage. And kiss her. Because I would be jacking off in my seat. Because that's what I'm into. He would not see that coming. Well, double entendre.

[14:02]Listen to the next episode to hear a fun song about that. Double entendre. Double entendre. Double up on you. I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Good, Rob. I will deliver. You know I'm a forgiver, Rob. You know I will deliver. Wow. You know I'm a forgiver. Wow. Matt, and can you forgive me? I'm a forgiver. I'm begging you. Can you move your camera down like half? I can see like the top half of your face. It's very disconcerting. I know. I can hide back here. No, no, no, no, no.

[14:30]I want to see your whole. I don't know what's going on down here. I want to see your whole Ravishing Rick Rude body that you have. I'm just going to keep hiding. I'm just going to hide like this. No, no, no. Aaron put his egg-shaped head close and I'm freaking out. How am I doing, Rob? And I've got Aaron out in California. Now, Aaron, he had a business where he was trying to mate chickens. But he realized he made a mistake. He bought all female chickens. And now he can barely make hen's meat. Oh, hen's meat? Hen's meat. It's hard out here in the coop.

[15:00]Rob, you look nice in that blue dress you're wearing. Let's talk about Depeche Mode. Thank you very much. And listen, I was supposed to read this earlier, so I'm going to edit this in. I got three guys who were excited because we thought we were going to watch My Cousin Vinny. They thought this was Joe Depeche Mode. I had a roommate in college, Jake. I'm trying. A lot of you guys know who Jake is. And he... He had a brother that was older who was a huge Depeche Mode fan. And he swore that it was Depeche Mode. That's how you say it. Wouldn't there be another accent? And I saw for a long time because this guy was older and was cooler.

[15:35]I thought it was Depeche Mode, but I think he's nuts. I think he's completely nuts. Hey, you Utes, go find a personal Jesus. That's Joe Depeche Mode. Did anybody do any research? Do we know where their name came from? Nope. Aaron. We promised to do almost no research. Do I need to restart the podcast? Because I will. I'll do it right now. Hold on. I promise to do no research. And I got a great banana split bit coming up. Listen, let's get into the voicemail.

[16:03]And today we have a special treat. We don't have a voicemail. We're playing a game. Oh, we don't. Oh, we really don't have voicemail. We are hard up for voicemail. Yeah, I got clothes hanging up right here. Look at this. Aaron, guys, about. So we're going to play our favorite game, air in or air out. Oh, yeah.

[16:30]Aaron moved the camera to show us his clothes drying. Aaron, can you do that again? Sure. Yeah, I got, well, there's, I mean, my wife's undies are up here. That's what I was going to say. It's all panties up there. You're not still hanging clothes, are you? Yeah. Well, yes. Some clothes last longer if you don't dry them. Very true. That is so wild. Got to keep that heat away from them. Why do all your wife's underwear have price tags on? I'm for eBay. Now, I got to edit that out. I wanted to make it sound like you did it, but it sounds like she does it. Sorry about that. Listen, we are going to play air in and air out where we are going to ask questions of Aaron,

[17:02]and he's going to tell us the truth. Now, my first question was, have you ever had a banana split? So that we're all going to lose that because that's an insane thing. You've never had a banana split, but let's get started right now. Aaron. For air in and air out. Our first question. Hey, and please don't answer this, Aaron. Yeah. Russell and Matt. Oh, never. Do you think Aaron could tell us right now the number to the back line? Could Aaron right now tell us the number to the back line?

[17:31]Okay. Russell, what do you think? Yes. Does he have to know the last four numbers? He has to know the last four numbers. He has to. Then no. No chance. He cannot just say the four-letter word. When I was at the winery trying to call the back line a few weeks ago, I had to stare at my phone to figure it out for about five minutes. Oh, my God. I solved that problem by never calling the back line. I never will. Okay. Matt, what do you think? Will he know the digits to the back line?

[18:01]I think he definitely does. He used to be a texter back when he had his lawnmower. He had the T9 texting. Yep. He knew all of it. But here's what I think. I don't even think he knows the first three numbers. I don't think he could tell us the first three numbers of the back line. Like what area code it is. I bet he doesn't know. All right. Okay. We're ready. And I'm not going to ask. I'm not going to ask Matt and Russ if they know, because I'll get too depressed with the answer. But Aaron, tell us the number. Well, if you want to know if I know the number to the back line, you can text yes to 802-277-PACK.

[18:31]That's 802-277-PACK. 802-277-2327. No, it's 2329. Russ, you were correct. Good job, Russell. That part is hard. You knew it. I was so close, though. I was so close. 2325. Shit. That's sad to see, Aaron, that you did not know that. I thought I did the last part. Can you imagine? The person who has the number that Aaron said when people have been fucking it up and leaving all these voicemails over the last week about UFO porno. Oh. UFO porno.

[19:00]I don't think UFO porno has come out yet, has it? In our world? Yeah. I can't remember. But in the world where this podcast is released, it has. Guys, this is like Marty McFly. I want to make out with my mom. Yeah, I don't understand the timing, but. Didn't get a laugh. Already too late for this podcast. Not great. Not a great start. Not a great start. Okay, I'm going to ignore this next question about whether Aaron would laugh at me making out with my mom. Now, I think I've asked this question before, so tell me if I have.

[19:31]But the next question is, has Aaron ever gone skinny dipping? Do you think Aaron has ever gone skinny dipping? Okay, let's picture that right now. He's on the wrestling stage. He's got my wife up there. He's kissing her. Okay, Russell, what do you think? I'm going to say yes. Aaron worked at a marina, I believe, in high school or college. So I feel like if you work at a marina, that's like the type of thing that you and some of the coworkers do at some point. I also think Aaron's kind of a free-living guy. It wouldn't surprise me if him and his wife

[20:00]have done something like that at some point in their lives. Oof, oof, I'll be right back. Now, I will say this, too. We know Aaron has a huge hog, and I think that makes it easier to go skinny dipping. It's more of a risk for fish and all that, right? Well, yeah, but see, like me, when it looks like a bird's nest like mine, you can just go and you get out of the lake and you're like, oh, I'm going to go skinny dipping. And when somebody sees that, humiliating. It's going to change your life. It kind of depends, too. Like, are you just getting back up and short, or do you got to push yourself up on a dock? Because that's when it really, oh, I'm pushing myself.

[20:30]That's bad. Or maybe you're my dad, like I said that one time where we were swimming together, and he took off my swimsuit underwater and threw it onto the middle of the dock in front of the whole family, so I had to get up and get it. And I was about, I think, 17 years old at the time, so it wasn't what you're thinking. Another disco ball is shining down on you as you had to get up and put your suit on. Put your suit back on. Matt, what do you think? Has Aaron skinny dipped? Well, besides having the huge hog, he's got a bunch of cool tattoos, so he's definitely showed those things off

[21:00]to the marina gals and anybody else, so for sure. Aaron, I'm going to say, I'm going to say no. It seems like Aaron, and I know that when he did work at the marina, I know that he had pierced nipples as well. So I know that fish would like to bite those, okay? So I would think that would limit your skinny dipping. Aaron, were you ever skinny dipping? Russell's correct, I mean, you guys are too kind. I don't think there was any huge hog showing off going on. Yeah, I did go skinny dipping sometimes after work

[21:30]at the marina, so it's true. Okay, wait a minute. I did also once, if I could tell a story, I once, I ran out of gas. One of my jobs at the marina was to drive people out to their docks or houseboats, but one time I drove out to a dock and got out there and realized that I was out of gas, and it was dark, and I had a pocket full of $1 bills because I was getting tips that night, and I had to swim in the dark from the dock

[22:00]where I parked my boat back to a different dock where there were other boats that had gas in them so that I could get out and go pick up the people that I had run out of gas trying to go pick up earlier. Also pre-cell phone probably at this point too. It was, yeah, it would have been the late 90s. Can you imagine like, Rob, Matt, Aaron, ask your kids like, can they imagine a pre-cell phone world? That's gotta be one. That's gotta be wild, right? Yeah, it's like when Russell was the last holdout on a cell phone and he got separated from everybody in downtown St. Paul after the Frozen 5, and he was lost in the wilderness of the frozen tundra

[22:33]and didn't have his cell phone to call anybody. Rob, how long, when you got your first cell phone, how many hours before you were looking at adult content? Oh, I can tell you, here's a better story. I don't remember with a cell phone, but I absolutely remember when I got a laptop and I was like, what was the first thing you put in? I immediately like, and we lived with somebody in Warroad and I immediately went to the bathroom and jacked off with my laptop.

[23:00]And it wasn't like fun. It wasn't because I needed to. I didn't have to get a hot nut out or anything, but it was just like, I was just like, I can do this. And it like, it was like the clouds parted and like angels were singing. You know what I mean? Like, here's me, I've got my Dell laptop, right? I've set up wireless, which at the time, you forget wireless was kind of a big deal too. That was awesome. That was awesome. That was awesome. Yeah. You're in Warroad, Minnesota, sexiest city in the world. Yeah. And all of a sudden I'm just like, I can, I can do this anywhere. I don't have to wait till nobody's home.

[23:30]So I have to be in the computer room. I don't have to hope that nobody walks in on me while I'm watching Total Request Live or like Carson Daly doesn't come on the screen in the middle of a video I'm trying to watch. That would have been a bummer. And here I am mobile. You know what I mean? I can go anywhere. Changed my life. It's so great. All right. So, and I would like to point out, Aaron started that by saying, I would often skinny dip after work. He is the only person who I've ever heard say that sentence. And I have a feeling ever will say that sentence. Okay. Very few of us are going right from work to skinny dipping.

[24:02]Straight. Yeah. Straight to it. Okay. Next up. Okay. And the next question, last one. You guys love this game. I know you do. Okay. And it doesn't portend any kind of issues we're having with our callers or whatever. Has Aaron ever had, when you say that, it makes me, it makes me sound dumb. I use a lot of great words. Okay. I'm smart. Agree. Has Aaron ever had a fake ID?

[24:30]Has Aaron ever had a fake ID? Now you look at Aaron on the surface. Okay. He's a law abiding citizen. All right. Oh God. He is a good guy. All right. He would never show us his wife's underwear on the Zoom to get a laugh. All right. Would Aaron have a fake ID? Russell, what do you think? Does he have to have his own or can he use somebody, can he use one like a group one? I'm going to say he has to have his own in a wallet. I'm going to say Aaron did not have his own,

[25:01]but I believe he used one at Drake when we were there. I believe Aaron has definitely used a fake ID. Wow. At the Drake Relays? It was not the Drake Relays. It was some other event where one of our buddies was sitting on one of Aaron's. Nobody's taking a fake ID to the Drake Relays. Come on. Hey, you must be this old to watch the high jump or whatever they do there. I don't know. Got to be 21 to watch those four laps. I'm going to say yes. Aaron has used one.

[25:30]I don't think he had one, but he used one. Matt, Russ, tell us that. When did you see him use a fake ID? When his buddies were what? We went to Drake. Actually, we did a road trip. We were going to go to Kansas State sophomore or junior year. We decided last minute that was way too far to drive to Manhattan, Kansas. Instead, we went to some small town, Iowa. We went to some, I don't even, Central College or somewhere. We saw Central play St. Norbert's. We were like one of, it was 20 below zero.

[26:02]We were like one of 20 fans in the stands. Then we went to Drake, and we definitely went in a bar, and people were using the same ID to go in and out. I think he's used one. Wow. Then one of our buddies, the guy who had the knife, started hitting on Aaron's friend's girlfriend while we were there. Nice. Always a classy move. Never is going to go wrong. Matt, what do you think? Aaron has had a fake ID, yes or no? For sure. I am going to say no. I don't think Aaron has ever had a fake ID. I think Aaron would be too scared to get an ID.

[26:31]He doesn't want to deal with the issue, and that's not something I'm projecting from my own life. He's like a choir kid. Like, you know, somebody projecting on him because he's a choir kid. Up until sophomore year, then he wasn't a choir kid anymore, if you recall. Aaron, tell us, did you have a fake ID? Russell and Matt are correct. I never had one of my own. I had one that had my own name on it, but I did use a communal fake ID at Drake University. I think all of my fake ID experiences were at Drake multiple times.

[27:00]Once with Russell, a few other times to visit my friend who went to school there. Oh, wow. Yeah. But you never had a fake ID? I never had one of my own. You didn't have a fake ID in your wallet, right? Because that's what my wife had? No, never one of those where I was like, oh, this is my, no, that was never. I tell my kids all the time, the first thing you've got to get to college is a fake ID. Because I turned 21 in May. Everyone else turned to September. They were out having a blast, having a good time. I was literally in my dorm room. Russell didn't turn 21 until August. Russell was waiting forever. No, Russell, why aren't we getting fake IDs

[27:30]so we could be out there at the bar, having fun, eating wings, seeing people sleep under the pinball machine? I never had a fake ID. I never had one either. Matt, did you have one? Oh, yeah. You knew that? I think I've told this, haven't I? Like three days before my actual 21st birthday, the guy who was working, at the Rube, he finally said, look, you got it. This isn't going to work anymore. I go, well, on Wednesday, I turned 21. He's like, all right, fine. See, I should have been there. And then I went to the bar,

[28:00]and one of the first nights, I saw a girl that I went to high school with me fall down the stairs at the Rube. And I was like, where has this been my whole life? I should get a fake ID. This is one of the best nights of my life. I mean, you guys remember a little side hustle that me and another one of our pod mates had where, Dan from, we'll just say Dan, everybody knows who Dan is, was working at a bar in St. Paul, and he would steal all of the fake IDs and then bring them back to our school. What? What?

[28:30]I know. For a case of beer. So Dan and I drank. Dan brought them down. I would distribute them out, and we'd get a case of beer like every weekend for a long time. Aaron, your face is how I'm feeling right now. I'm just like, that is so smart. That's so much smarter than anything I did in college. Aaron, you're an older brother. I'm an older brother. Matt, are you an older brother too or not? Yeah, I'm the oldest. So did you guys give, did you ever like give your brother like an expired ID or anything like that or no? No, my brother, my brother went to school up in Duluth

[29:00]and they, I mean, nobody cares up there. They were fine. Yeah, same. I mean, my brother was six years younger than me and he went to Northern Iowa and I don't think he needed it. If you went to a bar in Wisconsin from Duluth, they'd be like, why are you showing me your ID? Get in here and smoke some cigarettes. Let's go. Did you commit a crime or something? Get out of here. Are you a cop? Why are you showing me your ID? Narc. What is this? Some sort of bust? I remember I went with some friends

[29:31]who smoked over to Wisconsin after they shut down the bars from smoking in Minnesota and we were in there and everybody was smoking and they were like, it's too much smoke. We can't handle it. There's too much smoke inside. So they were like, we're going to go smoke outside. So then they just went and smoked outside the bar that everybody was smoking in. Like when I tell my kids now that I used to go to a restaurant, and you could, if there wasn't any full tables, you'd be like, well, I'll go sit in the smoking section and people next to you would just be smoking a cigarette while you're eating like indoors, right? Yeah. That's crazy. At Arby's or wherever I was going. I don't know. I don't did Arby's. I've been Arby's.

[30:00]The Arby's smoking section. I know for a fact. That's a sad place. I know that Rax had a smoking section for a fact. Okay. And again, look it up. It's like the Arby's in Rochester. Aaron rolling going. How is it going with you tonight? Tonight? It's going excellent. You guys, I had the most luxurious night. Uh-oh. Can I just say this? I just ate way too much of this gummy and I just realized how many milligrams it was. I don't think we're doing a double, guys. Yeah. We're only having one. We might only do a half. We'll see. I'm going to have to wrap this up tomorrow.

[30:30]My bad. Does everybody know the story, though, about you giving, well, at least Russell and I, gummies out in Vegas. Oh. He basically is like, oh, yeah, it's just, you know, I don't know. It's just a gummy or whatever. This is before we knew anything about anything. Like, fine. And it's like 1.30 on a Saturday afternoon and I'm at the blackjack table and I can't grab my chips. Yeah. I literally can't grab my chips. And Russell's sitting next to me and he goes like, what the fuck? You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, I don't know. I cannot grab my chips, Russell.

[31:01]And then Rob goes, oh, yeah, sorry. That was a 25 milligram one. Yeah. And I'm like, well, fuck. I don't even know where you find them that big. I don't know. New York, I guess? That happened to me last year where a dealer told the same story and I'm not kidding. You can ask Joe about this. He told the same story 10 times. Yeah, he told the same story 10 times and we kept looking at each other like, what? This is like a scene out of a movie where he's trying to make us think we're high. It was crazy. It was absolutely crazy. We also had the one where Rob overdosed me

[31:30]and we went to the, what's your buffet, Matt? The Aria buffet? Well, it used to be the Aria, yeah. Now it's at the Cosmo, but yeah. And Rob overdosed me at that one too and it was like 2 p.m. And I wanted to get up and get ice cream so bad, but I couldn't. I couldn't move. I was like frozen there. And I wanted to ask one of you guys to get me ice cream and I couldn't even get it. I couldn't even get it out of my mouth to ask. My mother-in-law and father-in-law, we were on a boat tour going around the Statue of Liberty. And I was like, hey, do you guys want part of these edibles?

[32:00]And they were like, yeah, sure. And I was like, hell yeah, getting high with the in-laws. We go to see the Statue of Liberty and my mother-in-law turns to me and she's crying. She's like, it's so beautiful. I'm like, man, you're high. When you cry at the Statue of Liberty, you have somebody coming up from Minnesota, like, oh, you know what I mean? Like, I am your tired, your hungry, your weakened. What? That should be your stick. You know, what is the guy who goes, you might be a redneck. Yeah. You know, whatever. You might have eaten too many edibles. You're crying. You might be too high to cry

[32:30]when you see the Statue of Liberty. We're all going to Aaron. How's it going? Where were we? I just, I had the most luxurious night. Luxurious. Oh, just wonderful. My lady, if you cry while going around the Statue of Liberty, Rob may have overdosed you on edibles. I did almost get overdosed. If your wife just left for a trip to Finland and you immediately went and bought two boxes of Double Stuff Oreos, you might be on edibles.

[33:00]I feel like we should just get a run. I've got nothing to say. I'm on your side. This week I went down. No, no, no, no, no. This week I went down to Duane Reade. I went down to Duane Reade. I went down to Duane Reade. And one day I bought two big boxes of tampons, just giant box of tampons. And I was like, hey, they were like, do you want a bag? And I was like, no, women's stuff. This should be free. You know what I mean? Like this should, this is healthcare, blah, blah, blah. The next day I went down and bought two boxes of Oreos, Double Stuff.

[33:30]And they were like, do you want a bag? I was like, yes, please. Put it in a brown bag. Don't let anybody see this. This is the most embarrassing thing I've ever done in my life. Yeah. So I've just been chilling because Anna took Wallace to see the Paw Patrol movie. And of course I had. Oh, rubble, rubble on the double. Of course I had this idea like, oh, I got the night to myself. I'm going to have the best ruling going. I'm going to write it down. Get the laptop in the bathroom. Might write a bit or something. But no, I actually just,

[34:00]I listened to Action Bronson and made a steak and drank some whiskey. And, but honestly, like tonight, I could have started at like, I don't know, 7 p.m. Central. Oh my God. What are you saying? I have to say it this morning. I had to watch it tonight. I had the whole night to read it. It was like, wonderful. I just, I could have started so much earlier. But you know, I, here we are late at night and I'm here with you guys. It's been a wonderful night. So I'm really enjoying my life. Okay. So all I know is Action Bronson is like from some MTV show or something.

[34:31]Like, is he a rapper? Is he a singer? Is he a, when you say he's listening to Action? Okay. He's a rapper. I don't know. I don't know if I recommend it, but sometimes it's like a nice thing for a Friday night. He's like, he's a, he's from Queens. And I like his most recent ones called Coco Drio Turbo. But he's kind of, he kind of like ripped off Ghostface's whole flow. But he's got, I enjoy it. He's got some good stuff. Does he have any claim to best rapper alive? I would say no, definitely not.

[35:00]The only thing I know about Action Bronson is there's a halal cart right by my jujitsu place that all they have on it is loved by Action Bronson. And it's a picture of him next to the halal cart with a guy. He is not smiling. He's got a YouTube show called Fuck That's Delicious where he just goes around New York eating stuff. So that's probably, well, that's our motto. Fuck That's Delicious. That's our motto. Fuck That's Delicious. That's his thing. What was Russell's bit with the sign and the food cart? That's our motto. Made with love. That's our motto. Quality is our motto. Our motto is quality.

[35:31]But the other thing I was going to mention to you guys is Rob was playing some previous parody songs earlier. And he played one about my job. And it reminded me that tonight before Wallace and I went to see Paw Patrol, I was reading to Wallace and then I saw something pop up on my work phone. I was like, oh, I got to deal with this, but hang on a second. And so I had to send an email about somebody's sick leave or whatever. And he said, oh, it's really boring watching you do your job. That is,

[36:00]I mean, if your son thinks what you do for work is boring, you might be in middle management. Upper middle management. Son, I need to say no to this woman's sick leave. The baby was born two weeks ago. What the fuck? Get back to work. Yeah. So that's my night. It's been a good night. How's it rolling going with Russell? Rolling going, things are going good. You mentioned a movie, Aaron. I also went to a movie this week.

[36:31]I went and saw Killers of the Flower Moon. Oh, let's see if we can make some jokes there. It's a Scorsese movie. It's a very good movie. There's some problematic stuff with it. Is there any scene where Leonardo DiCaprio is fucking somebody wearing no clothes? No, he's canceling headphones. Oh, God. Are we talking about the movie that I saw in the theater or what I've been watching? His laptop. Yeah, Russell has a point of view of him in headphones and he holds it over his face. It's like he's fucking me. Would it be considered

[37:01]a problem if the upstairs roommate was watching some TV show I didn't want to watch earlier and I just put headphones on while I'm sitting on the couch? Hey, hey, I would say you're up to 20 years of marriage already, my friend. Nice work. Okay, that's a classic marriage move. So we're at this movie. It's a Saturday night weekend night. Probably a half full theater, so definitely not full, but there's enough people there. And this is a long movie, three and a half hours, and it's a late start, like 9.30. Oh, my God.

[37:30]Long movie. You're going to a 9.30 movie, Russell? Yeah, why wouldn't you? Oh, my God. Oh, wow. So we're there and probably an hour and a half in, all of a sudden, a few people over to the left from us, dude starts snoring. Asleep and audibly snoring. Yeah. So my question for you guys is if this happens in the theater and you're sitting close to them, do you nudge them? Do you ignore it? Yes. Do you move? What do you do? Throw some popcorn, something. What do you do? Matt, what do you do?

[38:00]I do nothing because somebody else will do something, right? You're a free rider. I'm a free rider because somehow this is going to turn into something funny and I'm not going to be the one to be, you know, looked at. Not that funny or anything for waking the guy up or doing anything inappropriate. So I'll just wait for somebody else to do something inappropriate. I would never wake up a stranger. Like, I cannot imagine how that would end well. Like, picture the stranger waking up and going, oh, thank you. You can't because it wouldn't happen. Nobody's going to be happy

[38:31]that you woke them up. Here, have some of my milk duds. Thank you for waking me up. Oh, that's crazy. Oh, Aaron, what would you have done? I feel like if there's an empty seat anywhere nearby, you can kind of like flip the seat down and like let it make a noise or something. Like, you got to try something to wake this person up without hitting them. Yeah, something that might like at least cause them to stir enough to stop snoring. You know, you don't have to like wake them up explicitly. So he's kind of sitting in the middle of the row. We're sitting on the far end. So we're probably six, eight seats from him or whatever. There's a guy kind of,

[39:00]I think, sitting one seat away from him. I don't think they're together. Guy reaches over after a minute or so and kind of nudges him. And he's like, hey, you were snoring or whatever. So he stops. Happens a few more times. So it happens like three, four times throughout the movie where the guy keeps doing it. And at one point during like one of the biggest scenes of the movie, there's this guy on the other end of our row all the way at the end that gets up, goes and taps the guy and starts fucking yelling at him. He's like, you are snoring. Somebody else. Somebody else would do that. The movie, you are ruining this

[39:30]for everyone. He's yelling at the guy in the middle of the theater. And then all of a sudden, all these other people around him are like, leave him alone. Leave that man alone. Like it was getting like super intense. And the guy went and sat back down. And then I'm just, I just kind of laughed. I was like, this is so, so stupid. And my movie goer I was with, now all she can think about is the fucking asshole down on the far end. So, so I can see her just every two seconds looking and staring over there. Cranking up. Getting ready to do something.

[40:00]Cranking up. And missing like the most important part or one of the best scenes of the movie. But what would you guys have done? Like if the guy gets up and goes and yells at him, you can't get involved with that, right? No, no. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely not. Just keep eating your popcorn. Yeah. I mean, if it's getting like belligerent or he's like being abusive or something like that. It's dangerous, right? Yeah. Russell, if you think there's going to be a physical issue, I would definitely switch seats with your date so you are on the other side of that. You know what I mean? That's one of the first things I would do. Rob, you know I don't give up

[40:30]my aisle seat for anything. Oh, it's not happening this time either. She was in between you guys. Oh my God, that's crazy. Now, Russell, I will say this. When you see your date getting fired up like that, I would turn to her and I'd say, number one, relax, okay? Relax a little bit. Number two. Good start. That does not work well for me. You got to say, you need to watch this movie or you're going to miss parts of that. I find that goes really well. People like that when I inform them of what they should be doing. Stop watching your phone. You pick the show. Why are you on your phone? Stuff like that. Yeah,

[41:00]we don't need to get into stop on your phone stuff while we're doing this, but I did it. So then the guy over on the edge, the guy was sleeping. All of a sudden, after he's woken up the next time, he takes out his phone and he's got like the bright blue screen in the middle of the theater all of a sudden. Now the movie going with this has flipped sides. He's like, well, fuck this guy now. I didn't mind that he was snoring, but now like, you've got the bright blue phone up in the middle of the, you can't do that, right? No. No,

[41:30]that's shitty. I'm telling you guys, this is why I don't, I don't go see movies in the theater very often. The last couple of times I've gone, there's always people talking. There's always, always people with a phone. The only time I will go see movies now is in that 40X theater where it is tossing your shit around like you are, like you are having sex with a bodybuilder. Okay? You are getting tossed around like crazy. The popcorn's flying everywhere because nobody can be on their phone. Nobody can talk because you're moving around. It's the best time. That's the only way I'll go see a movie.

[42:00]Otherwise, I'll just download it and watch it at home. You could really pass the buck and go out of the theater and go talk to the 17-year-old kid working and say like, hey, there's a, there's a disturbance in the theater. Could you please come and deal with this? And then that kid who's making like 11 bucks an hour has to go and try to deal with some person. Hey, also, I'm done with these junior men and you throw that shit on the floor. You're like, hey, pick that up because that's what I thought was normal growing up for some reason. I would, we would like take, we would like take trash out of a bag and put it on the floor. We'd be like, we think they like the trash.

[42:31]This is somebody's job. We'd be putting the popcorn down the nachos. I'm giving somebody a job by doing this. Yeah. I'm like an economic machine myself. Like, look, GDP just went up another half a point right there. Speaking of trickle down, I'm going to trickle down this soda on the floor. Clean this shit up. I'm going to trickle down and tap in my boy, Matt, Matt Roland going, how's it going with you? Good. I don't got too much this week. I did the strangest thing in the world. I found a Pearl Jam song

[43:00]that I didn't know existed. That was from like 1995 and I've listened to it. I think Russell, so Rob, can you pull up this long road? Just go to like a minute and a half. Wow. It takes a while to get going, but I think I listened to it. I told Russell 18,000 times over the last four or five days. I love the obsessive listening to the same song. Yeah. And so it's got Eddie Vedder. What? And then on the pump organ, it has Neil Young. Oh, all in a way. So it's an Eddie Vedder, Neil Young song. You know,

[43:30]it's all this stuff. And was it on an album? Was it written for an album? I'm on the pump organ. So the Pearl Jam did a lot of stuff with Neil Young and then they ended up being like the backing band on his ball, his album, Mirrorball. And they kind of had a side thing called Merkin Ball for Pearl Jam. And so this was like the B side of the Merkin Ball song. Matt, you didn't tell me this was on the soundtrack of one of the funniest movies of all time.

[44:00]Dead Man Walking starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon. Hilarious. Laugh a minute. So I think it's like that one in Caddyshack, right? And so Matt, we were looking at, Matt and I were, this is our side chain today, Rob. I don't know how you feel about Matt and I having a side text chain, but we were talking about the pump organ and Matt asked if we ever done a pump organ list and I said no. We've covered the Wurlitzer, the Hammond organ, a few of the other ones, but not the pump organ. Never a pump organ? But I think the pump organ

[44:30]is like a harmonium. Is that the other name of it, Matt? That's what I saw too when I, yeah. Okay. And there was a Beatles song. Remember what the Beatles song I was mentioning to you, Matt? Do you remember what that one was? And then it's singing out. What song is that, Aaron? Let me take you. Strawberry Fields. Is it Strawberry Fields as a pump organ? Let, or no, that's not it. Nope. How can we stop the song, Rob? Yeah, let it be. I thought the chorus

[45:00]was coming up. You know, I hate those things. Is this song in Friday Night Lights? Eddie Vedder, I'm on the air. Hey, Neil, you're doing great, but let's keep the singing to a minimum back there. We can work it out. We can work it out by the Beatles. Oh, we can work it out by the Beatles. Yeah. No, no, don't put the, no, no, let Matt's song play. I'm sorry. Yeah, just keep playing this song. This is my role in going, Rob. All right, you're right. Otherwise, I'll quit this shit. You know, I'll quit this shit. Man, that's always been, that's always been a funny subtext.

[45:30]Don't say it like that, please. It kind of was a shock to my system to hear that. Plus, I already have a new song for next week. You need to quit the podcast. You might be one of the hosts that doesn't really enjoy doing this at midnight. Oh, that's good. So then the only other question that came up this week about the podcast is, have we, somebody, and we'll talk about who this is, somebody said that we have used the C word on this podcast before. No. And I think we've used

[46:00]pretty much every other word, but the C word, do you guys ever remember us using the C word? Because I swear we have, we would not, we would not cross that line. I, no way. Aaron did that cunnilingus corner, but I think that was, that was more of him doing a demo in a corner where he had a Sharpie and he drew it in the corner and then he was like, I'll do it like this. And I was like that. You're, you're confusing that with the FIBA basketball podcast. That was on the other podcast. Oh, that's right. I did, yeah. He's like, see in the corner, it gets smaller at the baseline. No, that's ironic

[46:30]that you brought that up, man, because I almost used the C word earlier tonight, but I'm not going to give an example of that until next time. Aaron, Aaron. Until Rob stops playing music. I know he can't edit over music playing underneath. Excuse me, I can. Watch this. I don't know. I'll edit that. I'll do something there. So yeah, so my wonderful mother-in-law, Patty, who's a loyal listener, says that she heard us say, and I'm like, I just don't remember that at all. So I said, I'm going to have to ask the guys and I have to do it. Well, no, hold on. We were talking about the old country buffet earlier.

[47:00]And Aaron, I believe it was your grandma or aunt, if they used to call that something. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. We've used the word, Matt. Oh, we did. So we brought it up. Wow. And it was, she has an abbreviation. And it was Aaron. And I know for a fact, Russell found that with a search in his Gmail. So now that is in his Gmail. Google has that word with Russell's name on it. Do you think if I ran for public office that my Gmail notes of our podcast would disqualify me? I think the part

[47:31]where you would type in public office and up would come your notes for the pubic speaking bit. That we did for about five minutes one time. Like, you'd be like, oh, I guess, I guess. Do you ever notice, Rob, that I purposely spell words wrong just because I don't want that to ever pop up? Aaron didn't use the word correct, I believe. Did I really? And you didn't bleep it out? No, fuck you. No. Oh, jeez. I put it in.

[48:01]I put it in x-ray and I made it really loud. I like emphasized it. Here, say it now and I'll beep it out. I'll beep it out, I promise. I know, I'm done. Nope, nope. Not trying that again. I'm not going to fall for that. Aaron, Aaron, just say, just say, um. You can't fool a fooler is the thing. Aaron, but just say. Shame on. Think of a, think of a, think of a three-letter word. Think of a four-letter word. There. Now I'm going to beep that out and it's going to make it sound like you said the word. No. Now I got to do it to you too, man.

[48:30]That's another beep. Yeah, you guys are saying nasty stuff on the show. Technically, if anyone had access to my Gmail, they would know that it was on the Beyonce suggested edits email from March 29th of 2021. Let me guess. Let me guess. You had some suggested edits and it was to bleep Aaron. It was to mute Aaron. Just keep muting Aaron. Hold, hold. Here we go. Here we go. So, so to bring our listeners behind the scenes, the way it goes is our notes always have

[49:00]overview, greatest hits, things I liked, time, suggested edits, and the write-up. So this time, the things I liked, the second bullet was about never being effed so good that they've been taken to Red Lobster or the old country buffet. That was the bit. The first suggested edit, Aaron tells the old C star, star, star buff joke from three to four minutes. The word is used a few times. I recommend bleeping out that word.

[49:30]Rob, it's your call. Oh, no. And you let it in? Oh, wow. God. Aaron. Awful. Aaron, what do you have to say about that? You want to say something? I have to say... And I just had another beep and so it made it sound like you said it again, Aaron. That's sick. I can't believe you would say that. I should have probably bleeped myself. That would have been a good idea to bleep myself. Well, Aaron, do you want to say that you are something right now? I am. Just say it. You are what? Nope. I just bleeped that again and made it sound like you said

[50:00]something really bad about yourself. Aaron, do you want to say something about our fans out there? I do not. Nope. I have no account. You don't think anything? They're like, are they nice, Aaron? Just say the fans are nice. The fans are nice. Oh, I just bleeped it again. It sounded so bad, Aaron. I can't believe you'd say that about our fans. What album was that? That's Beyonce what? If I could, I'd take it. It's probably Lemonade. It's from two years. Is that Lemonade? It's from more than two years ago. It's got to be Lemonade. It's got to be Lemonade. Is that a sexual one? Okay. Well, you could just Google Beyonce Red Lobster. There were other edits. Do you guys want to hear some other edits

[50:30]that were on this one? Did any of them get edited? 418 to 423. Russ also makes a C-buff joke, which I said sounds terrible and needs to be deleted or muted out. So when I said it, I said it's got to go. When Aaron said it, I left it up to Rob. It's Rob's call. Wow. Guys, I've noticed something really bad about our podcast. When I try to search Beck Did It Better, Beyonce Lemonade, all that comes up is Beck and Beyonce album of the year stuff. None of our stuff. I think we're getting scrubbed from the internet. I think we're getting

[51:00]like shadow banned. That's why I've got all those secret cameras set up. Why would I say that? Aunt-in-law who referred to it as the old C-buff. See? I bleeped it. You bleeped it? I bleeped it. Well, it's bleeped. Aaron, do you want to say something to the listener who thought you used the C-word? I want to say that Beck and listen. I edited out all that and I made it a bleep again, Aaron. It sounded like you said something really bad. Really bad. And that's to a loyalist.

[51:31]That's to a listener. Yeah. So that's my rolling going. Found a nice new song. Didn't know it existed. I'm sorry. We figured out that Rosie is the one who said the C-word. She did bleep it though. Yeah. Rob, rolling going. How's it going with you? Listen, so when I walk into the building, you get your, your doorman gives you the packages. They always say, hey, nice to see you. Welcome back. And it feels good. Like you feel good and I get in the elevator. You got to do it. The milkman? If your doorman answers your door,

[52:01]I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. You might be a snobby New Yorker. What do they say if you're leaving and you're not coming back until next Tuesday? Then what do they say? Oh, Aaron. That's terrible. How's that? That's... Oh, Aaron, I bleeped out where you said, I bleeped out where you said listener and I made it sound bad again. God, I'm doing a good job editing this thing. If you had a doorman, a milkman, and also host two podcasts, you might be in the rich upper class.

[52:31]Yes. I'm going to get a text from upstairs. That hurts. I will say this. There is nobody on the earth who has seen me as high as my doorman. He seen me coming back just through the moon after like walking the dog after a bad day at work. I'm just like, hey, Frank, how's it going? He's like feeding the dog. Oh, yeah. I got Frank and Jay. Now listen, but when you come

[53:00]in the apartment, you can see, you can see, you can see like packages that people are picking up or like meals that have been delivered. And the other day I walked in and I saw something that took my breath away. Okay. I was blown away by this. Somebody had ordered to point. You should put that, put that song on in the background. Take my breath away. Aaron, who's that by? Oh, I bleeped that out. It sounded like you said something really bad there. I'm going to be the whole episode. Oh, Aaron, you're going to be what the whole episode? Why would you say that?

[53:31]Now listen. There you go. All right. I'm walking in. Okay. Do not, we cannot get distracted by watching Top Gun. I'm walking in and I see that somebody in my apartment building has ordered to be delivered and it's in a bag and it's sitting there waiting to be picked up. Applebee's. And I thought to myself, what the fuck? And I think I said to my kid, could you believe this? Can you think of a restaurant that you would want delivered to your house

[54:00]less, like, I guess if somebody brought me some riblets, I'd be like, hey, you know me, I love riblets. I think they're great. But I am not sitting down and being like, I can eat anything I want. I live in New York. Culinary capital of the world. I could get whatever kind of food. Korean fried chicken. Vietnamese. But you know what? I kind of want some Applebee's. Let's get some Applebee's delivered. That's insane, right? I don't know how you think. Maybe you guys are listening to Rob. There's no, I have not heard a word Rob has said. He's playing the Berlin music video.

[54:31]Like, there's no, like, I'm not paying attention to what you're saying while you're playing this. Literally not one word. Okay. I got, I got one just slightly better for you, Rob. We, we're off to a football game on Tuesday. We always get there early. So I always go to a gas station, get a cup of coffee and like some nuts or something. Get her done. Get her done, yeah. So I'm in the essay on, it must have been like Snelling. Ooh. You know, it was just, yeah, it was just south of 94. Kind of south of

[55:00]Before you got to McAllister. Yeah. We were supposed to go back to St. Thomas, which was over a little bit on Marshall, just to the west a little bit. But it was at the essay and it's not a nice essay. It's not a nice essay, you know, over there. And so I walk in and the guy goes, well, hold on a second. He had to go to the back. There was a DoorDash guy at essay picking up three things of like chicken bites from essay. That's cool. That, and I could, I could not believe it.

[55:30]And he, I go, I go, how often is this? Hey, he goes, rarely. We rarely have anybody, but every once in a great while, somebody orders DoorDash from essay. You know what? It's gotta be, you know what? It's gotta be because that's not cheap to get that stuff delivered. Like it's a big, yeah, right. It's gotta be somebody who got over overdosed by their buddy on edibles. Yeah. Russell, if you're ordering chicken from the essay and DoorDash, your friend might be overdosing you. If I woke up

[56:00]and on my, on my counter was a box from the Super America next to like a DoorDash receipt, I would go and check myself into rehab so fast. It would be that because I'd be like, this is absolutely rock bottom. You know who, you know who ordered that? It's somebody who's like, I've never been this constipated in my life. What could I possibly, I haven't taken a shit in 14 days. What can I possibly eat that will get my system moving? And they're like, yes, I remember back in the old days, a chicken, chicken from

[56:30]a system Super America chicken bites the Buffalo chicken bites. I mean, they didn't even get the tornadoes. That's what I would have gotten. I want the nachos where they got the cheese. No, that cheese. But I want to add that onto the list too, right? I, we were talking the other day about a big, the number one, I was talking to my kids about the, the top three fights my wife and I have ever been in. And one of them involved the hot dog runs we used to do in college. And they'd be like, oh, well then we went to the gas station and I got three hot dogs. And my kid was like,

[57:00]wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, It was like, it's like me talking to Erin where she had to be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Well, no, but she, I mean, she knows what they are, but she was like, you went to a gas station just to buy three hot dogs late at night. She goes, what is your problem? And I was like, huh? I mean, she might as well have said like, yeah, it's so normal. Like the sky is green. It's like, it's no, you're just wrong. Like we just got hot dogs. And I was like, yeah, we used to get hot dogs all. And not only that, we would leave the bar early before call because you knew if you were late, there were going to be

[57:30]no more hot dogs. That's when you had to go get together frozen pizza. Yeah. That's when you had to get a frozen pizza. Oh my God. Do you guys, do you guys have a place that you, do you have a guilty pleasure getting delivered to you? Food wise, Aaron, I can't imagine you get much food delivered to you. I'm just going to say that right off the top of my head. Aaron, Aaron does have a big Papa John's back box in the back. So he does love getting Papa John's pizza. No, we haven't had anything delivered for quite a while. I usually go pick it up because as you know, if I order takeout, I go pick it up. I have a cocktail while I wait for the takeout. It's not like I don't get food from the restaurant.

[58:00]It's the best move. It's the best move you can ever do. Yeah. So I do that instead of delivering. We better make sure it's as fresh as it can be. I'll go pick it up. Oh, you know what? It'll be faster if I just go pick it up, right? Yeah, you ordered it 13 seconds ago. It's got to take a little while to go, oh, you never know when it's going to be ready. I better go right now. I don't even know if I can order. What is this glitter doing there? If you've got glitter,

[58:32]if I could order Roto-sha every night, every night, I would get Roto-sha every night. I would, you know, I just, I have to calm down my ordering of Roto-sha. That's my guilty pleasure. The other night, I door dashed a place called Storm King in the North, Floop. It's a barbecue spot. Oh. And I was looking, I was like, I wonder if they have like a dessert and they did. They had a peach cobbler, but Rob,

[59:00]it came with ice cream and I did not think the ice cream would hold up for delivery. So I chose no dessert, but you're an ice cream. You're the, you're the king of ice cream, Rob. What would you have done? I'll tell you what, I'm as, as a guy living in New York who absolutely cannot go pick up the food, even, okay, no, this is embarrassing, but the pizza place is literally 25 yards from our apartment. We almost always, we almost always get it delivered. We almost always get it to like, because I'll be to my kids. Hey, will you go pick up pizza? They're like, no, I don't want to fight this.

[59:30]Like, fine. I'll just pay like the five bucks, get it delivered. Like, who cares? I'm like, will you go down to the front desk? I'm like, okay. You know, but, wow, they talk that way. Yeah. Well, but I, I, we get, we just get everything delivered all the time. You can't go pick it up. What was your story, Russell? Now I'm lost. Okay. And don't, this is how this could be. I couldn't decide if I should door dash ice cream, a dessert with ice cream. I have tried. You can't remember what your friend said 13 seconds ago. I have tried. If you can't focus on the ice cream question,

[60:00]you've had too many animals tonight. I have tried to order so many desserts to be like, what's going to keep up. I've done ice cream. I've done fried ice cream. Can you do dings after all these desserts? Oh, ding, ding, ding. I've done, okay. I've done ice cream. I've done ice cream. I've done ice cream. Some extra. I've done deep fried ice cream. Oh, we got to do that. No, we got to do the, what's the other one? Usually when it's your list, it's brown. It's a James Brown. That's what we get. Don't confuse it. Bet.

[60:30]Do you want to get through? I've done ice cream. I've done fried ice cream. Yes. I did deep fried bananas. I feel like I can make a deep fried banana split. I've tried to order a Pazooki. Oh, what the fuck? Oh, Pazooki. It's a cookie pizza with ice cream. Put it on top. It's a Pazooki revolution. It's a Pazooki revolution. Do you, hey, when they deliver that, do you, when they're coming up the hall, do you clap them in? Cookie parade. Cookie parade. Now,

[61:00]of course, Matt is referencing a time where we were at a sports bar and we all ordered cookies for dessert. Now, we are 28 years old at this point, 26 years old. We all ordered cookies and I said, hey, if they all bring these cookies out together, these waitresses, cookies Sunday, if they bring them all together, we're going to start clapping and chanting. Cookie parade. Everybody goes, okay. And sure enough, there's like four of them come out. We start going cookie parade. And to our joy, the staff got into it. They're like, they're really strutting their stuff coming down.

[61:30]And we've always now done that. We start chanting cookie parade. And it turns out a lot of the staff is not entertained when you start chanting cookie parade when they're bringing you food. They do not care for it. I think, you know, in the older we got too, it was like, you know, they just didn't appreciate it as much. So anyways, I would like to point out that none of you, uh, did comment when I brought up riblets. I thought that's something that maybe we could break into and talk about and really. I'm more of an electric lemonade guy, but I suppose we did talk about Alamo, just like the band Depeche Alamo.

[62:00]Oh, that's a transition and a half. You did it. Thank you. Is this a music podcast? Oh yeah. Applebee's. I was just like, what could you have ordered that you couldn't order from anywhere else? It doesn't even make sense to me. The whole thing is about eating good in the neighborhood. Like you got to go be in the neighborhood. Do you have Applebee's delivered? I don't even know. If you can transition, if you can transition from Alamo ice cream to Depeche mode, the band, you might be an above average podcast host. I can see Aaron calling Applebee's and being like, Hey, do you guys have apples? You know,

[62:30]cause he wouldn't, he'd just guess. Like I see Aaron as a guy who just kind of guesses at menu items when he goes somewhere. He's like, Hey, do you have apples? And they're like, no, we don't have apples. And he's like, Oh no, I guess I'll take the bees then. Anyway, of course, this is Depeche's mode pollinators. This is Depeche's mode. Depeche's mode. Depeche's mode. It's like, it's like Whopper's junior. Yeah. It's like bumps on a log. Okay. This is Depeche's mode. Seventh album. And it's their first to get up.

[63:00]It's their seventh album. This is their seventh album. And it's the first to get on the billboard. 200 peaking all the way up at number seven. Normally they made their albums by this guy. Martin Gore would come in and with demos, almost fully formed. Invented the internet, right? That's the guy. That's the guy. Good poll Russell. The internet is a series of tubes. And then it turns out when you search my search history, there are a lot of tubes there. Okay. Oh, I just realized you guys don't know what tube tubes galore is.

[63:31]Okay. Again, that was a very online joke. Just forget about it. Okay. Don't look at tubes galore on a work computer. I thought maybe you were into tubes. So I'm really into the. Oh, Aaron, you think I'm into what? And just like, I bleeped it again. So it's like, it sounds like you said something really bad. Yes, Aaron, I'm into fallopian tubes. Although I haven't always been fascinated by fallopian tubes. Like, cause there's just this thing of like, Hey, here's a sexual organs. And then there's these things up here. And I was like, they're just sitting up there. Like, do they hoist them up?

[64:00]Like, is it in? I was like, it's just up there. It's like, it's like they're flexing the whole time. The fallopian tubes look like they're giving you a double bicep. Like where they're like, yeah, check this shit out. We're fallopian tubes. And you know who they were discovered by? Dr. Tubes. We also came up with tubes galore.com. Don't look at that. He was a sick man. Okay. Who just wanted some time in the bathroom laptop. I'm Mr. Tubes. Dr. Tubes was my dad. How is Russell not laughing at this?

[64:32]Russell's looking up stuff. He's looking up if it's actually Depeche's. I'm trying to see if I can get some riblets here tonight. Oh God. If they got there before the end of the episode. That was the nickname for my penis in high school. Riblets. What were riblets anyways? They were like the, see, I knew, I knew the riblets shit would hit. I knew this would fucking hit. Yes. What were riblets? They were like, were they just the end of the rib?

[65:00]They had to be like the cheapest part. Yeah. They're like the chopped off part or whatever. Yeah. Like the rib tips or whatever. It's just like the leave behinds from some factory, right? Where they like trim them for some fancy place. And then Applebee's is like, oh yeah, we'll take the rest of those. Oh man. Kind of like hot dogs. Put it all together at the end. But Ted, hey, is Ted Cook still there over off of like close to Cedar? And what was that? Like 30, was it 38th and Cedar where Ted Cook's was? Ted Cook's made rib tips. Yeah, it's close to Matt's. Maybe it wasn't Cedar. It was like,

[65:30]yeah, Southeast Minneapolis. Ted Cook's made rib tips. Aaron, don't you want to learn about Depeche Mode? 28th. Yeah. It's on 38th street. Yeah. Russell really is, I think ordering riblets. He's intently looking at the screen. Okay. He's getting, he's like, huh, what, what kind of strawberry iced tea should I get? Let's see. They have, see if you could get a hard drink through Applebee's Russell, I'd be very impressed. Normally they would bring these fully formed demos. I said this right down from the river view, but now all of a sudden, now all of a sudden they're working with a producer called flood.

[66:02]It was this guy named Mark Ellis and flood turns out to be this giant kind of person. We'll talk about him in a bit, but this was, he basically was able to make the sound of a giant kind of person. Wilder, the guy who didn't do the demos would tell this guy, this is the sound I want. And this flood was so good. He was able to, to get exactly the sound. And this is in 1990. He had worked with you too on Joshua tree flood, and it had worked with a racer. And then after this album, he goes along and does nine inch nails.

[66:30]And he's a co-producer on a little album called melancholy and the infinite sadness. I don't know if you guys have ever heard that every day before work or whatever. So it's actually his dream. Yeah. I was going to say, you know, Rob really doesn't care. About songs that are actually in the album. So might as well. Anyway, this, I think the Pesh mode it's, it's, it's electronic, but it's like popping electronic. I feel like, I don't know. This doesn't seem like an age electronic. Like I still think this album could come out kind of in modern day.

[67:00]Like you just don't hear a lot of music like this. I know you guys are giving me looks already. I know what you think of this album, but we're going to be positive about it. I'm listening. I will say, I kind of wish this album would come out during Halloween week. Cause it feels like a spooky. It does. Very spooky. The dark. Russell, do the lights turn off? No, it hasn't even turned off yet. You don't even want to know how dark it'll be when this thing pops off. Oh, Russell, you can eat your riblets in front of us. You don't have to be in the dark. You need your riblets. Okay. We've all been there. If you listen to like postal service and the killers, I think you can hear bands that are inspired by,

[67:32]by Depeche mode. Oh, come on. Yes, absolutely. Killers have more keyboards in it than you think. Yes, absolutely. They have more keyboards than you think. I know, but they're not Depeche mode. Stop it. 19,000 times. Better. I do love it. I still, one of the best Saturday night live performance I've ever seen. The killers world in my eyes. This was a fourth single off this album. Sounds like Madonna song. I'm just going to say I didn't mind the album.

[68:01]I got into some of the songs later on. I turned this song off five times. It took me like literally six, seven times to give this album a fair shot. Guys, I kind of like the sound. I think it's like a, they might be, it might be a Giants thing. I was thinking about why do I enjoy this? You liked me. Did you, did you like Milli Vanilli? Kinda? Yeah, I did actually. Yeah, I really did. I thought of Revenge of the Nerds. Revenge of the Nerds 2 or whatever one where they're playing the synthesizers and all that.

[68:31]That's what I thought of here. It does feel like a computer could have made this, but they were, they must've been playing the instruments, right? They actually did have a, I have it later, but they had a, a, a, a, a, one of the earliest MIDI setups where they were able to computerize. A lot of the effects, but here's the thing is that when you listen to this album in headphones, I thought it was going to be like this gorgeous headphone album. It's not, it's not that interesting in headphones. I thought it would be like this whole sonic experience and it still feels kind of flat to me.

[69:00]This song, by the way, is about a horndog travel agent inviting somebody to visit his Mississippi Delta. I can't think of anything perverted. What's a, what's a perverted, what's a double entendre destination? You could go to Aaron. I'm sorry. If I'm a horny travel agent, what double entendre would I use to seduce one of my customers? You could go to Dixon notch, New Hampshire. Oh my God, Aaron, you just nailed it. That was a pull. That was such a pull.

[69:30]Okay. I'm not even going to ask you this. Now, first of all, being a horny travel agent, probably one of the worst jobs you could have. Cause what are they seeing? One person a week. You know what I mean? You might as well be me at home. Like it's just being a horny. You'd be like, you want to go to, you need to, or whatever. Like being a travel agent would be so tough right now. I just don't get it. I don't know. All right. Rob, when I went to Napa Valley, I wanted to go Mount Helena. Oh, Oh, I like this. Mount Helena. The sweetest perfection.

[70:01]The sweetest perfection. To call my own. If you look at the wave file, if you guys look at what this looks like, it just gets louder and louder and louder. And you can hear, listen to this guy. You know, we produced Nine Inch Nails. Listen to this. You can start to hear that kind of sound you're going to hear on Infinite Spiral. That's a good, yeah, that's a good call. Thank you. Next song. This got all the way up to 28 on the billboard.

[70:31]It became Warner Brothers' single biggest selling 12-inch single, which is like, that's like how The Rock describes his movies though, where he's like, this was the largest opening for movies in March. On the Thursday with a full moon. And it's like, okay, we're kind of getting a little too precise. But Priscilla Presley once called Elvis her own personal Jesus. And that's where they got these lyrics from. This was probably,

[71:01]I guess 12-inch makes sense. This was probably played in dance clubs, right? Like DJs would have been snapping this up for sure, right? Like people must've gone nuts for this. And I mean, whatever dance clubs were like in 1990 or whatever. I think if you, if you took this and doubled the beat, like how to do double time, I think you could make this a modern dance. I had never heard this version that I recall until we're listening to this album, but I only knew the Johnny Cash one, which I know we've said about many other songs on this podcast.

[71:30]The other version I remember was the Marilyn Manson, I think did a version of that back when we were in college. Oh, I don't remember that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We gotta, we gotta do this. Personal Jesus, Marilyn Manson? I think so, yeah. Now I'm just going to tell you right now, you guys, no, there's some videos that when they would come up and you're trying to J.O. downstairs, they were major bummers. Marilyn Manson videos were always those where you're just like, well, I'm done. It was like, like I'm done doing anything. Okay, we'll go to 30 seconds here.

[72:00]Come on, Marilyn. Yes, I remember this. Oh, there's JFK in the video. Yeah, pretty weird. Hey, Aaron, Marilyn Manson is edgy and if you don't like it, okay, I'm a, don't talk, tell my mom I'm listening to this, okay? Yeah, but I would never know. Can we hear the Johnny Cash? I don't know if I know the Johnny Cash. Oh, the Johnny Cash. I almost did a list of best songs covered by Johnny Cash, but we've talked a lot of Johnny Cash in the last few weeks, so. You could just do the entire American recordings, right?

[72:32]Yeah. Do you guys think maybe we should have done a podcast involving Johnny Cash? Because we all seem to like him quite a bit. Yeah. And then we play one of his albums and we're like, yeah, it's good. Aaron, I've got an idea for a third podcast, but it's just you and me, okay? It's called It's good. Oh, I'm going to edit out where you said cash and put in a beep and it's going to sound like you really want a nasty sounding podcast. We could do a fourth podcast

[73:02]where we just order Applebee's and talk. See what happens? And then check in with each other like six to eight hours later and see what's happening. Oh, how we're feeling? Yeah. He's on the toilet. And then you find I've got a spinoff podcast where I'm just ordering stuff from a Super America. Not even a quick trip. Like that's the fucked up part. I mean, you might as well be eating at a Sinclair. You know what I mean? Like you're really, you're going down. What's that yellow one?

[73:30]Like Conoco. Like you're eating at a Conoco. If you have a Sinclair, like if I'm at a Sinclair, I'm just hoping that they have the spicy peanuts. Like I just, I don't want the sweet peanuts. I want the spicy ones. And you're not sure you're going to get them. That happened to me my junior year of college. Spicy peanuts? Spicy peanuts. Yeah. Okay. The doctor said it was the smallest case he'd ever seen. Halo. Guys, that's a good bit. I'm going to use that joke again. I don't know erasure at all,

[74:00]but I thought a couple of these were erasure songs. Yeah. I don't even want to read this to you guys because you guys will hate this if I read the description of the song. It was written about giving into immortality, yet still feeling a sense of wrongfulness about it. Let me ask you, if you had a chance to be immortal, would you do it? Yeah. Yeah, of course. Right? Russell? I don't know if anything means anything then. I don't think so. Oh, wow. I think you take away meaning from everything else in life. Hey, I got bad news for you, Russell, Those chicken fingers you had at Applebee's

[74:31]don't taste so good anymore. You can try everything. If you have no limits, nothing matters. That's how I feel when I'm in a Panera. I feel like nothing, you ever been in a Panera and you're just like, this is the most fucking depressing place in my entire life. I don't know. Rob's being kind of, he's being a little harsh. He's ripping on people who go to Panera. He's ripping people who go to Applebee's. He's kind of getting a little highfalutin over there. You know what? Okay, can I give you an Applebee's secret that I have?

[75:01]Yeah. This is an Applebee's secret. Okay, I'm going to play this clip. Every time I tell an Applebee's secret, my sister's favorite place to go eat was Applebee's growing up. And so we had to go to Applebee's all the time. It was like a forced march to Applebee's. We would always go. And so I learned to hate Applebee's. And then when I read that book, what was it? Was it Nickel and Dime where she worked in Applebee's? And she was like, yeah, it's just microwaves back there. As soon as I learned that, the place disgusted me

[75:30]that they're just cooking food in a microwave. I didn't need it. The only thing I've cooked in a microwave nowadays, peanut butter Captain Crunch. We've already talked about that in the podcast. That was probably back in about 1988 when you went there. And I was reading that in 1988, Depeche was before this album. They were on this tour, Music for the Masses tour. And actually at the end of it, they filmed a one, it was called the 101 documentary. It was like a concert film. And they filmed it at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. And it was like one of the most talked about concerts. I don't know if you guys have ever seen that documentary. I have not seen it yet.

[76:00]That sounds good though. It made me start thinking, and I was reading that this is actually where the arm waving started. They call it waving wheat. Or like when people wave their hands back and forth at a concert. This was one of the concerts that started that. Can you keep doing that just for a little bit? I enjoy it. Let's, hey, Russell, get your hands back up. Let's all do it. We didn't wave wheat with you. Hands up in the air. Let's all wave wheat. Put your hands up. Oh, Russell, there's a delay. I forgot the delay is video two. This is messing me up. We are dumb. We are all doing a very visual joke right now.

[76:31]Matt, you're going too fast on purpose. Aaron, I'm sorry. They played at the Rose Bowl and I started looking. I was like, I wonder what other amazing concerts have been at the Rose Bowl. So I thought we could do a list of the best musical performances ever at the Rose Bowl. Wow. Wow. Before a Super Bowl halftime show list. One of the biggest first concerts there. We're not going to cover this one. It was Herman Hermits. Tom Petty's played there. The Birds, Stevie Wonder. But we're going to hit some real good ones here. The first one is from 1962.

[77:01]This wasn't a concert per se, but this is the Gopher Rouser. This is when the Minnesota Gophers beat UCLA Bruins. Wow. 21-3 in front of 90,000. Very warm-ass. Like, hell yeah. To thee, to our colors, true we will ever be. I went to see a Gophers game when they'd score and stand up and sing a school song and my kid was like, why are you doing that? And I said, well, it's Minnesota. She goes, you didn't go to college there. And I wanted to be like, shut the fuck up.

[77:30]Like, I'm trying to have fun. You know what I mean? Like, I would never talk to my kids like that, but I was just like, don't make me analyze fun things in my life, please. You know, some people would say, well, why are you guys talking about Gopher football or whatever? You guys know, they are six-time national champions. Six times. Six times they won the national championship? Crank it up, Rob. Minnesota, hats off to thee. And those six championships, those six championship games, the over-under number of forward passes, I'm going to set it at four.

[78:00]Okay, do you think it went over-under four forward passes in those games? I think I was reading in the 1962 Rose Bowl, they had 330 total yards and I believe only 20 of those were passing. Yeah, that's good. I was going to say. Oh, wow. Yeah. All right, next up on the list, this was also kind of at a sporting event. This was from 1993. You guys remember the Super Bowl halftime show Michael Jackson played at the Rose Bowl? Okay. Yeah, wow. Did he play this at the halftime show?

[78:33]I guess it would have been when Dangerous came out, right? It was right after Dangerous. It kind of lit a fire under the Dangerous album. And I was reading that the year before, there was no, like, halftime concert. They just showed, like, Olympic figure skating. It was like Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill, and they got smoked by In Living Color. In Living Color had, like, a show that they put up against halftime of the Super Bowl and the ratings went way down. So they're like, we need to fix this. So they bring in Michael Jackson.

[79:00]He kills it and this becomes, like, the standard for all Super Bowl halftime shows after that, right? Now, I've got to say, that black and white video, of course, did I watch it over at my super conservative friend's house? You know I did. You know I did. And then afterwards, is that the one where he busts up a car and grabs his crotch for, like, 10 minutes straight and then turns into a panther? Panther. And the family I was with was shocked and I was like, wait, what's going on? Like, I didn't, I was just waiting for The Simpsons to come on. This was at a time in my life where I was at somebody else's house at Sunday at 7 p.m.

[79:30]Insane to think of that right now. But I thought to myself, I'm shocked because you were downstairs trying to J.O. and then an opportune choice to be doing that. I'm going to edit this out, but I will say I did try to steal a porn from this guy's brother for sure. Larceny to J.O. That's how strong the urge was in me, guys. I think I should be, I have to do it. I could get really hurt. I keep telling people that and they laugh at me. All right, next up on the list,

[80:00]in 1992. I was going to say, Russell, that Black Widow video, I loved it, where they change, you know, they're doing the face morphing. Unbelievable. You know what that video was missing? What was that? A scene where George Wendt gets sent to Africa on a chair by a woman by a guitar. And that was in the video for Jam, okay? Jam, Jam, here come the man. It's one of the greatest intros to a video ever where George Wendt is blasted to Africa. Next song on the list. This is 1992, Guns N' Roses and Metallica stadium tour at the Rose Bowl.

[80:31]Oh, wow. But we're not playing Guns N' Roses tonight. We're not playing Metallica. There was someone else that opened for him and it was the Dice Man, Andrew Dice Clay opened for Guns N' Roses and Metallica. Mary quite contrary to that pussy it's so damn Oh, Aaron is saying all the bits along with him. Little puppy fucked a sheep blew a horse licked his feet. She ate his ass so very nice. Tummed his balls not once but twice. Oh my God.

[81:01]I mean, all these people know all the words. Jack be quick. Jack burnt off his fucking dick and we blacked it. What? One more. I wonder what you are. Listen to the crowd. Shine upon the parking lot as I eat my girlfriend's s**t, Aaron. We're gonna need some peeps here, Rob. Aaron, did you hear the word he just said? Yeah, I heard s**t. And now you just said it

[81:31]because I beeped it. He was like the biggest show in the world, right? He was huge. He was huge. He was like, I like girls but what I really like is their nipples. Ow! And everybody's like, yeah, there's f**king rules. I love this guy. So an interesting thing about the Dice Man, he became good friends with Guns N' Roses and probably like, it's probably like five, six years ago, he saw Slash. He was in Australia and Slash was like singing, like playing the national anthem at like a football game

[82:00]or a rugby game or something. He's like, what the f**k are you doing, man? Like you're, you're one of the greatest guitar players ever. You can't be playing national anthems at some random soccer game. And then he was like, I need to talk to Axl. So he goes back to Vegas. He gets an opening act in front of Guns N' Roses because Axl was playing without the old band for a while. He talks to Axl afterwards. He's like, what are you doing, dude? You're playing in front of like 3,000 fans. You used to be one of the biggest bands in the world. Helps start a communication between Axl and Slash and Duff again.

[82:30]They end up reforming and that's why they've been touring for the last few years, I think. The Dice Man. Guns N' Roses, you're a hit. But when you're split up, you sound like s**t. Ow! Ow! Now, can I just say this? It's so lucky that Andrew Dice Clay was like, I should do nursery rhymes because I feel like if he did other things, like it could have gone way worse. Like if he was like, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, you got a fat s**t. Ow! You didn't use that word there,

[83:01]did you? No. No, Aaron did. I beeped it because Aaron said it again in the middle of my bit. I was looking up the last time we talked about the Dice Man was actually on the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon episode. It also turns out Pink Floyd in 1994 played back-to-back shows at the Rose Bowl. Wow. Oh, man. Pink Floyd, I got something pink for you. Ow! My Dice Man is going downhill big time, guys.

[83:30]Oh! Two shows, two sold-out shows in a row. Like Taylor Swift does that now. Metallica does that now. But two sold-out shows, that's no joke, right? Wow. That would rule. Seeing Pink Floyd at the Rose Bowl. I didn't know this song was Pink Floyd. Sounds like you, too. I'm going to turn it off before anybody listens too close. Maybe I picked the wrong song by accident. Last artist on the list to sell at the Rose Bowl. One of our favorites here. We were talking about it earlier. It's Beyonce.

[84:00]Check out this song by Beyonce. 2016 Formation World Tour. Beyonce is the first female to headline the Rose Bowl. In Pasadena. The first female. First female to headline the Rose Bowl. Are you serious? Yes. That's wild. First female is Beyonce. God, you'd make a lot of money in bar trivia on that, I'll tell you. Yeah, right? Years later, just this last year, also played at TCF Bank Stadium, home of the Golden Gophers,

[84:30]who played at the Rose Bowl, too. Wait. I can't do both. They won't let me do both. Just picture it. There you go, Barry from Burnsville. Gotcha. But the interesting thing was some AI thing where Beyonce's singing the Gopher Rouser. But the last song on the list, you guys will notice, was the song Halo, which she closed with at the Rose Bowl, which was the same song. It's not the same song, but the same title of Halo that we're listening to now by Depeche Mode. Wow.

[85:00]Wow. Incredible. Bringing it back. So Beyonce stole Halo, the concept of Halo from Depeche Mode. That's what you're saying, Russell. Yes. I like it. You don't say Beyonce. I've never seen Beyonce and Depeche Mode in the same room now that I think about it. Hey, you know what would make that Rose Bowl better, Russell? Put some bananas in there. Put some ice cream on top. Boom. Banana split. Split it up. I would love to try one someday. I wish you would, Aaron. I'm your granny and you moved away and we'd never have a banana split now. Oh, God. Was that this episode?

[85:30]Oh, granny hates you, Aaron. Oh, I should have said that out loud. I only think those things. That's too weird. I meant it. Waiting for the night. Oh, waiting for the night. Oh, that's not it. Oh. I, so, yeah, I, Rob, I actually am not gonna shit on this album because you like it and I like that you like it and I like the vibes. I don't want to hear these guys sing anymore, though. I would love to hear these songs covered by someone. I just, I can't get down

[86:00]with their voices. That's just me. Well, have you heard of a guy named Johnny Cash? Yeah, that's him. The working title for the song was Waiting for the Night to Fall, but then when they came out and when they printed the album, the two words got cut off, so they're just like, man, it's called Waiting for the Night now. Yeah, it's fine. It's just like, nobody cares. Aaron, you were mentioning the voices, how the voices are kind of strange or different. I was reading that, Beck did an interview a few years ago, and you don't need to pull up a song or anything here, Rob, but he, they asked him, they said, didn't you used to record your vocals to purposely make them out of tune

[86:31]a little bit? He said, that's true, but you have to understand when I was growing up, all these singers had unusual voices with a lot of personality. Neil Young, Tom Petty, David Byrne, The Cure, Devo Morrissey, and Depeche Mode. It goes on and on. So part of Beck using kind of strange vocals, I think, comes from Depeche Mode. So when it comes to being inspired by Depeche Mode for vocals, who did it better? Beck did it better! Oh, Neil Young. Do that again. That's your bit.

[87:00]Wow. I'm a big Neil Young fan, I'll tell you. Listen, that song, oh, Enjoy the Silence. Something that I've never said to anybody. I love this song, by the way. This is the second single on the album, right? Yeah, this song is... I would listen to this song any day. Russell, this is a lot like your order from Applebee's because it's about those tender moments, so chicken tender moments, when silence fills the void and your lover is in your arms and the world ceases to exist. At this point, if I have my arms around my wife in bed

[87:32]for approximately 30 seconds, it's the hottest place on Earth. It is hotter than the center of the Earth. We are generating heat like crazy and immediately have to go to our own corners of the bed to cool down. Like, it's... I don't know what it is, but... Your own corners or your own ends? Head to toe? No, she demands I sleep head to toe. She's like, show me those feet. That's what turns me on. I'm like, oh, please. I'm not an animal, okay? I wish I was. Sorry, guys.

[88:00]I am... Guys, when do you say that you wish you were an animal and you think that's funny? Policy of truth. I'm changing beds. What? You okay, Russell? I'm actually in a Depeche mood tonight because according to Bulls and Vinyl, they're recommending a cocktail on the side B of this album. They're recommending a Depeche mood. Have you guys ever had a Depeche mood before? I've never had a Depeche mood. Russell, listen. I'm telling you, a Depeche mood is one of my favorite drinks.

[88:31]I order it everywhere I go and everybody's like, oh, you want a Depeche mood? They know what it is. Do you want the... Do you want that with Coke or ginger ale? What? Just keep going, Russell. There's going to be some bad heads here. Let's... So, I'm reading in Bulls and Vinyl, the band takes the same Depeche mode from a French fashion magazine. Ooh. Here we play off the French word for peach or pêche to create a sparkling drink featuring peaches and French mint,

[89:00]which I do not have. What? But here's what goes into a Depeche mood. We have an ounce and a half of bourbon. Here we go. Good start. One ounce of peach schnapps. Okay. I'll take it. And four ounces of ginger beer. Oh, delicious. It's essentially... And that's it. And a mint, but I didn't have the... Well, we had mint that looked... It's like a variation of a mule, right? With some peach schnapps? Yeah, it was really good. And they recommend playing this at a masquerade party. Have you guys ever been to a masquerade party?

[89:31]Oh, Russell, when am I not at a masquerade party? God, all the time. Mass on, mass off. Oh, we're at a... We're at an orgy. Okay, I thought it was a masquerade party. I'm always getting my masquerade parties and my orgy's confused. Okay? Socks on or socks off at a masquerade party? Socks, I have to look around. It must be like you have your eyes wide shut. You should open them. I should, and that's a movie I've seen for sure because I'm a good movie guy and I don't just watch RoboCop. Rob, we should all get masquerade masks for Vegas this year. Just wear those around.

[90:00]You're a movie guy. Oh, my God. Wear them at the King's Corner. Oh, my God, that would be so good. Okay, then my kids wouldn't know who I'm kissing in the pictures that come up on my photo frame. Why is daddy kissing somebody who's not my mom? Because I'm at King's Corner. Do you see the band? It's the same fucking band every year. You know I'm going to kiss weird women. Of course. When Magic Mike shows up, you and I can talk to him and Russell won't be freaked out because he won't know that it's Magic Mike. He'll never know. Yeah. Hey, I brought you this box.

[90:31]Open it and see what's inside of it. What's in the box? What's in the box, Magic Mike? What's in the box? What's in the box? Next up. I forgot we're doing a podcast for a second. I was just chatting with you guys. Listen, Policy of Truth. It's the only song to do better in the U.S. than it did in the U.K. Now, I know you guys love it when I tell you what the lyrics mean, so here we go. Once you've confessed to a wrongdoing, you can't take it back and you have to suffer the consequences.

[91:00]And my question is this. All right. Why don't we get in as much trouble as adults as we did as kids? I remember getting in as much trouble as adults I remember getting in trouble all the time as a kid. I can't tell you the last time I've been in trouble as an adult. Like where I've done something wrong and tried to cover it up. Why is that? Do we just admit when we're wrong? We're like, yeah, I screwed up. What are you going to do about it? Isn't that what you do as a kid? You push the limits and try different things and do dumb shit? For that big silence there, I'm going to put in a couple of beeps so people think Aaron was going crazy

[91:30]there that time. In fact, anytime I do this podcast, there's a little lull and it could be anybody's fault. We're all trying to find the guy who's bringing up random stuff late at night. I'm going to put in a beep. Blue Dress. This is a song that the creator of the song called Pervy. And he said it's about watching a girl dress and realizing that's what makes the world go round. And I got to say, I've never felt closer to an artist in my life. I totally get it. I still see my wife on dress

[92:01]and I'll like put down my book and be like, what's going on over there? Oh, yeah. It's one of the greatest parts of living life. Living with your wife. It's like, yeah, I'm going to just hang out while you get dressed or not. Matt's like, sometimes my wife will let me come up from the basement. She'll say, yeah, she's got her bedroom. I got mine. Oh, don't make me jealous. Don't even tease about that, Matt. You know how bad I want that? I want that so bad. Russell, you enjoy naked,

[92:31]looking at naked ladies or what? I'm just wondering tonight. I've kind of had a cold the last few days. Is it fair for me to, to expect the upstairs roommate to go use that extra bed or do I have to go use the extra bed? At least you're smiling when you ask that question, Russell. Because at least, you know, at least you get. I talked to Suzanne and the one thing she said to me, she goes, when you told Russell to tell her to go to the spare bedroom, that was really good. I was like, thank you very much. I appreciate that. So she does listen. Suzanne does listen. She listened to some parts.

[93:01]She said she listens for five minutes at a time while she's cooking. That's, we know those people. That's a fake listen so they could just talk to you enough about it, Rob. So they make you think they listen. That's a, Suzanne is a fake listener. I, well, she's never going to listen this far deep in the podcast. So we can say whatever we want about her. Aaron, what do you think of her? I think she was a. Oh my God, Aaron. I can't believe you said that about her. Rob, you have to believe that out. I can't believe that you would say I've said that. Oh, and I wish, I wish in all of her.

[93:31]In her what? Aaron, what is going on over there? I cannot believe this. I cannot believe you still talk. All right. Clean. I wish her bleep in all of her bleep. This song was inspired by Pink Floyd. They loved what he was doing with his bass and they wanted to copy it. Yeah, that's another one. I like, I like the bass. I like the vibe. Once he starts singing, I just want that one to be over. He nailed that.

[94:00]He nailed the post on that, Aaron. To criticize his singing. Because he always does sound like somebody who was telling him, hey, you know that part where you change notes? Don't do that. Just do the one note. Just do the drone. He's like, oh, okay. This album, hard to make love to. I'm just going to say that right now. Oh, Aaron, why would you say that? It's so dirty. Let's get into the rating system.

[94:30]And now it's time for everybody's favorite part of the show. The patent and very popular. Very popular. Better rating system. Oh, yeah. Listen, we are talking about Depeche Mode. Okay, they are all the way up to 167 on the list. Is this where they belong? We don't care about the album. We couldn't care less. Is this the best at 167? 167.

[95:01]Okay, so what's... It doesn't matter why a switch shows up. Let's just keep going. Does this belong there? Is this a Rolling Well Tone? A Rolling Grown? Or did it get Rolling Boned? It should have been higher up on the list. Why haven't we heard Depeche Mode yet? It's huge. Okay, lots of people love them, including my cousin Emerson, former guest on the show. I distinctly remember him liking Depeche Mode. Aaron, what do you think? Rolling Well Tone, Rolling Bone, or Rolling Grown? And don't say it anymore, Aaron, please. I don't understand

[95:34]the placement of this album. We've talked about it. Other things that we want to hear instead, like Willie Nelson, like Green Day, Matt wants to hear Wildflowers. I'm upset. You know what I'm upset about lately? We've not heard a single album with a guest spot from Ludacris on it yet. Is that coming at all? So until we hear any of those things, it's all Rolling Grown to me. This one's a Rolling Grown. Matt, what do you think? Rolling Well Tone, Rolling Bone, or Rolling Grown? You know, when I figured out what year this album came out,

[96:00]19-effing-90 this album came out. I swear this was from 1978, 1981 or something like that. You know, that's what made it a Rolling Grown for me. I'm looking at, what am I looking at here? Synth Pop. This is labeled as Synth Pop. And Wikipedia says, declining popularity, 1986 to 2000. So Wikipedia has declining Synth Pop in 1986, and this thing came out in 19... And that's what I feel about this thing. I mean, like, there's a couple great songs on here, right? But they should have been

[96:30]17 years before this came out. So the fact this came out in 1990, absolutely, Rolling Grown to me, and it should be way lower on the list. I know how Synth Pop feels after looking through our voicemails. I'm like, uh-oh. Declining popularity. Russell, what do you think? Rolling Well Tone, Rolling Bone, or Rolling Grown? Violator. I did enjoy the silence, but computer music just isn't really my jam. This brings me back to being in college, and there was this dude in the one college

[97:00]in the end corner room, and he kind of was always playing computer music, as I would call it. And I remember, like, he would play this, and I'm like, it's interesting, it's cool that he does it, I'm glad he has fun with it, but he's not a musician like Aaron was. And to me, this kind of, like, I hear this, and I just don't get the same vibe from it that I get from a lot of the other stuff we listen to. Some of it's fun to listen to, it's good mood music, but it's kind of a little dark for me, so I'm just going to say it's Rolling Grown, too high on the list for me. Guys, unfortunately,

[97:30]you're incorrect. Okay? I definitely listened to you and could repeat what you said. This album, this album gets a rolling own. Personal Jesus. Guys, at this point, I'd like to take my own personal penis. Reach out and touch me. I mean, you're free to do that, I think, we've discussed. It's all been a big beep, Aaron, what you just said. It's the only joke I've had that's been funny tonight, so I'm going to keep going. Next up, okay,

[98:00]we have a band, oh, I try to not be dirty, guys, I promise I do sometimes. Next up, we have a band name for a vibrator. No, it's not the electric toothbrush with Matt's face tape to it, it's Steely Dan with Can't Buy a Thrift. What? That's my wife's hall pass. Door rooms all over St. Louis College. Your wife has a electric toothbrush with Matt's face taped on it. You might be a podcast host.

[98:35]Beck did it better. What I'd like to do now is have all of you cigarette-smoking Eastern European FIBA basketball fans keep the noise down while I take my robe off and tell you all how the NBA's zone defense is legal, but the player may not stay in the lane for longer than three seconds, but in FIBA rules, a zone defense is completely legal,

[99:00]and if you know that, Rob may have overdosed you on edibles and riblets. I made that one big beep because I thought that was funnier. I want attention. You were doing so well there, I thought you might get some attention. If I don't get a text from upstairs on that one, I don't know what will. Guys, that was a lot of fun. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I got to go text someone real quick. Somebody at the door? Two doorbells or one? Oh, oh, hey, thank you. I was here. Okay, so let's see. I got a double order

[99:30]of riblets. Yes. And a banana split. Oh, yes. I'll be right there. I can't believe it. I'm getting on a flight. I'll be there in the morning, Rob. A la Depeche Mode. A la Depeche Mode, the greatest joke.