Billy Joel: The Stranger (1977)

[00:00]We need to do a great episode. And I can tell you right now, this is going to be a problem. Because Billy Joel is my mother-in-law's, one of her favorite musicians. This also is an Aaron's mom album all day. Uh-oh. Well, you know what that means. Okay, here we go. She did tell me she plans to listen to you, so we're in trouble. Okay, you know what? It's time for one-on-one with Aaron's mom. Mom and Rob's mother-in-law. Now listen. I'm going to tell you, my mom does not want you to pick on me on this episode. Which you did not last week. We didn't pick on you.

[00:30]Last week you didn't. Okay, I think Russell said something unsavory about your wife, but that was it. Now listen. That was a week ago, so I can't remember. Here's the deal. Was that the egg yolk or the asshole joke? Oh, God. No. Okay, and you know what? That brings me to the next. Russell, are you listening? Our moms are listening right now. Oh, I didn't. Oh, sorry. Okay, this is the mom record. Moms are going to be listening to this across the country. They just got their new Galaxy phones. Okay, it automatically downloads some podcasts. Oh, what am I going to listen to? I'm going to listen to Beck Did It Better, talk about Billy Joel. I love Billy Joel. So guys, guess what? I'm going to make a commitment right now.

[01:00]This is going to be a clean episode. Okay? This is going to be the clean episode, and I've had a little bit of a problem with that lately. Oh, fuck that. No. Fuck that bullshit. What? What? Don't say that. Okay? Please. And I have had a problem. I feel like lately I've been trying to double the dirtiness, double the dirtiness. You know what? Like I said, it's got to stop. So tonight's the night. This is when we unite against you, Rob. We've had one of these before, I believe it was. No, I know. I can find that episode. You did. I did not like it when we went over the top on you with that.

[01:31]It was not good. Guys, we can all be above board this whole time. We don't have to be dirty. We are funny. We go up high. We come down hard, Rob. Up high. Up high. Up high. You're trying to tempt me, and it's not going to work. This is a mom-friendly. All those are the high, hard ones. Hey, moms, come on in. This is a mom-friendly episode. Okay? Moms, gather round. Okay? Let's talk about Billy Joel, mom's favorite artist. Okay? And guess what? In this case? Mom's right. You know what I mean?

[02:01]Because this is a great album. Let's talk about Billy Joel. Moms, hey, you driving your grandkids around now? Turn it up. You're safe to have it in the car with the kids. Will you walk us through all your purple hyperlinks of where you've searched for when mom was right? I will not be tempted. Okay? Away with you. Okay? This is Jesus in the temple right here. Or in the desert. I'm going to have to go back and reread. I'm not sure how that works. I feel like if Matt was in the Garden of Eden, and the snake was like, here, eat this apple.

[02:30]And Matt's like, ugh, no. I won't. Man, the apples in my backyard right now are so good. Like, surprisingly good apples right in my backyard. Wow. You live in Eden? Yeah, that'd be something. Yeah. Wow. I wonder what would give me mind-bending diarrhea. How about eating too many apples in a day? Dang it. I'm trying. I'm drinking an espresso martini that's been sitting here for a week. Okay, moms. Moms, I know you just stepped out. You're kind of halfway out the door. Come on back in. That's the last one. Like, diarrhea jokes, that's just, that's got mom's sweet spot.

[03:01]Moms don't worry about diarrhea. They just, they clean that stuff up like no problem. You know what? It's true. Moms do talk a lot about their gastrointestinal, like what's going on, what was going on, what's made it better. You know what? Billy Joel and stomach issues, two of mom's favorite things. Moms, come on in. It's safe again for you moms out there. Pepto-Bismol shots for everyone. What age do you guys realize your parents, all they talk about are like health issues? Like, at what age in your life is it all about like, well, I've got like a cataract, like I've got a cataract, so I've got to get something work done.

[03:32]I don't know. I'm still not there yet. My parents are young, so I would say I'm still not there. I think it's, see, my mom doesn't talk about her medical issues. She does what I call the full body scan, where she takes her eyes from my tippy top of my head all the way down to the bottom of my toes, all the way back up to the tippy top of my head, slower than you would think. Okay? Like she is giving me a RoboCop scan, and then she says, you know, I have high cholesterol. I'm like, okay, I see what's going on here. Okay? I know what's going on.

[04:01]My mom's, it's kind of a nice way of doing it though, right? Wow. So, it's cheaper. That's real Jedi ninja shit. It's cheaper. She only takes a little, she accepts my insurance, which is nice actually. Listen, we are not going to be dirty tonight, and there has been a problem, and I think I figured out why. Okay? So let's turn on K-Rob, which in this case stands for clean, clean Rob tonight, and let's go. Let's listen to the radio.

[04:30]What's up, everybody? Welcome to K-Rob, K-R-O-B. But you know, Big Papa Rob wants to work clean, but somebody won't let him. Oh, yeah. I try to be subtle when I joke with the guys. I keep it lighthearted when we improvise, but I get no laughs from any of these three. Then I say 69

[05:00]because Aaron only laughs when the joke is dirty. Oh. So I talk about sex and shooting some goo. Then I talk about my balls and how they are so blue. It breaks my heart because I want to work clean. It causes me grief, but Aaron only laughs when the jokes are dirty. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, if my jokes are clean

[05:35]Aaron won't even green He won't laugh even one time If I take him on my balls getting smashed Aaron will laugh Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. So I ask him to laugh I am resigned If you talk about muffins

[06:03]I'll say they're good for eating If you bring up some meat I'll say it should be beaten He makes me say he's the mayor of Tittie City But a chuckle from him makes me feel like I'm brilliant And he only will laugh when it's dirty I think the time is after him What do you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time?

[06:30]But you're just a crazy boy Oh, I'm from the line You don't want to hear from guys who try to lay it on the line You're out there just butt-ass naked with your voice on the track I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack Yeah, I sang that so well I should have a couple drinks get in the car. Uh, now listen. Oh, God. Oh. Jesus. All right. That will not be a recurring joke. Moms, come on back in. Okay? Oh, I smashed my balls.

[07:00]No, Rob, no. Aaron didn't laugh at that. I was wrong. The song was wrong. Okay, you're right. I smashed my balls episode. We did, actually. Oh, no. In 2020. No, I didn't even do that yet, did I? 2020, four friends decided to listen to one of the greatest 500 albums decided by Rolling Stone Magazine and it's actually decided by the music screen of their own. I think we've done this twice now. No, I didn't do this one. I didn't do it. We just started with the song. Okay. Sick. We are far from slow down on some research. All opinions are our own unless you disagree.

[07:30]Please sit back and enjoy the mom's version of Beck Did It Better. We are all the way up to album 169. And from 1977, we have Billy Joel with The Stranger. I can't believe this guy went on to sing for Green Day. I've got four guys here who can no longer die young. So that's good. I've got Matt in Minneapolis.

[08:01]Matt, how are you doing? Good, Rob. You know, on this podcast, we ain't too pretty. We ain't too proud. We might be laughing just a bit too loud, especially when you go dirty like you always do. I did get that text about being loud. It's true. Yeah. Did you? Yeah. I've got Russell. Waking the cats. I've got Russell in Minnesota. Russell, how are you doing? Guys, a bottle of white, a bottle of red, perhaps my first date is pregnant instead.

[08:31]Oh, boy. Whatever kind of mood our listeners are in, we'll meet them anytime they want at a barbecue vegan rat infested restaurant. Oh, man, that place closed. I didn't even get to tell you guys. Solely vegan closed. Super bummer. Aaron's wife at gmail.com told me I had to let you guys know. Wow. I can't believe it. I was hoping to buy a franchise. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I've got a barbecue place. Oh, good. It's vegan. All right. Well, see you later. Like, where can I invest? That's great.

[09:02]I've made a lot of money in the stock market. I need some losses. Please let me invest. All right. That was a joke for all you financially responsible moms out there. Listen, and I've got Aaron who was just, and this was kind of sad. He was just at a funeral for a chef he knew and he got to give the eulogy. How'd that go? Well, it was just one word, Russell. Recipe. Recipe. Recipes. I think they're supposed to be an S. Recipes.

[09:30]There we go. Nailed it. All right. Aaron in California. Aaron, how are you doing? Rob, you can get what you want or you can just get old. Let's talk about Billy Joel and the Stranger. Nice. I love it. Let's go to the voicemail. I just called to say There you go. You're so stupid. You can kiss my ass. God, my listeners are dumb shits. They're just the dumbest of the dumb. God, my listeners are dumb shits. Mom's just the dumbest of the dumb. God, my listeners are dumb shits. God, my listeners are dumb shits. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

[10:03]Fuck off. Fuck off. Hello there, brother. I got a question for you. What are you going to do when the 24-inch pythons are wrapped around you? Now, my real question to you, my brothers, or for you, my brothers, I want to hear from you. Kind of go in there. Your all-time favorite WWF or WCW or WWE wrestler.

[10:30]Oh, yeah, brother. I was going to pick an NWE guy, but I guess that's not – or AEW guy, but I guess he didn't list that. AEW, NJW. Just like Aaron's Wi-Fi there, that accent was going and going gone by the end of that call. It kind of changed pretty drastically. But I think the gist of that call was, who is your all-time favorite wrestler? Obviously, it's a listener who maybe wants us to talk about more wrestling, much to the complaints of everyone else. Rob, what he's asking is, if you were going to pick the wrestler where the cream rises to the top, oh, yeah.

[11:05]Oh, my God. What wrestler would you pick? Oh, yeah. Is that really yours? Is that your number one? No. You can't pick the macho, man. Oh. I was just rephrasing the question in a voice that moms listening would know. Who's your favorite, Rob? Honestly, the guy who I would always get excited to see was Jake the Snake Roberts.

[11:35]Oh, that's a good choice. We should pull up his music, Rob. Pull up Jake the Snake theme. That's what moms want to hear is 80s wrestling music. If it wasn't for the moms listening. I would talk about Jake the Snake on that Vice video thing and what he talks about on there. Where he's like, yep, you're on the road so long. See, Rob, you can never trust a snake. He was like, you know, you're on the road so long.

[12:00]You're having sex with one woman, having sex with two women. Then you're just watching them have sex. Like, that was his whole thing of like. When I show you my snake Damien and I lay my cobra across your neck. You know why? Yeah. Yeah. Shout to the one, two, three. That's so good. So creepy. It's so good. Do you want to guess why? Now, keep in mind, I have a very small brain and it was even smaller when I was younger. Okay. Do you know why I like Jake the Snake Roberts?

[12:31]Why is that? Because he has a snake? No. Matt, do you know why? Look at me. Look at my face, Matt. Why would I like Jake the Snake Roberts? I have a small brain. You like to do a lot of drugs? No. It's because. You kind of look like him? It's because he had the name Robert in his name. And I was like, that fucking rules. Okay. Good point. Meanwhile, my dad, whose name was Smash, you'll never believe. And do you want to guess what my mom's name is?

[13:03]Axe. Mr. Fuji? All right. My mom was the amazing Elizabeth, of course. Matt, who is your favorite wrestler? I mean, I always had. I was. I was frantically writing down kind of my. 100 favorite. Top 100 list. Timelines. My 100 favorite list. You knocked off the list? Yeah. No. And, you know, there came a point in life when it was like, you just got to stop watching wrestling. I mean, I don't know.

[13:31]I don't know if I got there. So, I think I started out with a super blood. Have you seen any of the ladder matches recently? No. My kids and I watch one wrestling event of the year, and that is Money in the Bank, the ladder match. Matt. That was in Minneapolis this year, wasn't it? When they. Oh, that would have been awesome to see. When they get ladders. Because the ladder match. Aaron, have you seen a ladder match? No. I used to watch them all the time. Not since the Money in the Bank ones. Yes. Rob, what was that pay-per-view called? What was that pay-per-view called again? Money in the Bank? It doesn't matter what that pay-per-view was called, Rob.

[14:01]Matt, who's your favorite wrestler? Okay. I'll go through this just for Russell Morgan. Yes. So, I've got kind of a timeline, I think. You know, starting out with Superfly, Jimmy Snuka. Yeah. Steamboat. Matt, let's pick a few more guys who killed their wives, by the way, in the Bank. Yeah. Chris Benoit. Yeah. Superfly. Roddy Piper. Roddy Roddy Piper. And then, you know, the Rockers and into Shawn Michaels. And then, you know, I did like Stone Cold. I had a nice Stone Cold series. And then Mick Foley.

[14:30]He was pretty great. I'm into kicking ass and chewing bubble gum. And I am all out of bubble gum. Aaron, what about you? I have two favorite eras of wrestling. Number one favorite was freshman year of college, watching with Russell. So, in his dorm room. So, that was. That was. That was the Rock at the height of his heading, on his ascent to being the WWF champion. So, it was the Rock, Mick Foley, Stone Cold, all of that. So, I love that era. So, any of those guys. And then, for me, the most nostalgic I feel about wrestling was there was a period of

[15:00]time where AWA wrestling was on after school. It might have been on like ESPN. And I don't even know. It must have been like replays. But it was like Abdul of the Butcher and Terry Funk, Arn Anderson. Put your hand down. I know you were into the claw, but put your hand down. That's disgusting. Kerry Von Eric. So, that's it. So, number one for me, Texas Tornado, Kerry Von Eric. I loved everything about his persona. I loved watching him wrestle. I love the story about him. And there's a movie coming up about him in December.

[15:31]So, I got to go with Kerry Von Eric as my number one all-time wrestler. I'll tell you. You know, if we're going two eras, I do. I always loved Goldberg. Just the simple idea of a guy who obviously has almost. No wrestling. It was fun. But he was just. He had the biggest. Like, when you saw his lats, you were like, those are the biggest lats I've ever seen. That's the biggest traps I've ever seen in my life. Like, just his upper body was. I was like, that's what I want to look like for sure. But he couldn't wrestle for shit. No, not at all. He's terrible. Russell, what do you think?

[16:01]Rolling well. Whoops. Not that part of the show. I got to go. My favorite of all time was definitely. It's the excellence of execution. The best there is. The best there was. The best there ever will be. Rob, hit the music. It's Brett. Thank you. Brett the Hitman Heart. Yeah, I should have guessed that. I should have known. Wait, I think I have the wrong. Watching Rob spell Brett the Hitman Heart with two T's and Brett is just like infuriating for me, but that's fine. I'll let it go. Hey, Brett with one T was my dad. Call me Brett. The guitar hits at the beginning of this and the Hitman comes walking out.

[16:34]I'm in on this. The best there is. The best there was. The best there ever will be. Did he get to keep his. Yeah, because the other thing I forgot to mention was the. The Sunday Night Wars. That was when I was watching with Russell. Did he get to keep his music when he briefly appeared in WCW? Did he get to bring his music over or did he get new music? Let's check it out. Brett. No, you're not going to take your music. No way. Heart theme on WCW. No, it's got to be different.

[17:00]Aaron, this is investigative journalism. This is important. It'll sound very similar, but it will be different. Oh, see. Wow. It's slightly different. It's a little bit different. Similar enough that the fans, he would get that. He would get that. He would get that pop, right? As they say in the wrestling biz. But you could. It's just like WCW, too, where it's just a little bit worse. You know what I mean? Like, it's a little bit cheaper. Like, you could see this leading to Robocop getting sting out of a cage. Like, this makes sense. It's like the knockoff Beck Did It Better podcast where they're covering albums 501 to 1000.

[17:35]Oh, God. Can you imagine? Starring John from Edina, Barry from Burnsville. Joe from Woodbury. Yeah. Oh, my God. What a podcast that would be. Music mic. One of the things I always loved about the Hitman was he would come out and he would give the kids, like, his sunglass. Remember, like, Rob, you got the Hitman Heart sunglasses. If you guys were wrestlers and you were going to come out and give away, like, an item, what would you guys be giving away?

[18:00]529 accounts so the kids would stop watching this and maybe get an education. Yeah, I'm kind of on the same page with Matt. I would probably take off my socks and throw them into the crowd because I love taking off my socks. It's one of my favorite things to do. Would you do it, like, million-dollar? Man-style, Rob, where, like, I want one of you, or Rick Rude, like, I want one of you fat, overweight sweat hogs to come out here and take my socks off while I show the fans what a real man's ankles look like. I have a tiny towel that's around my legs that I, like, open it very slowly and you

[18:32]can see my socks. And, like, with it, I'm fainting left and right when you take the towel off to show your ankles. Mm-hmm. Oh, good. Hey, Miss Elizabeth, why don't you come up here and take off my socks? Oh. I, Brett the Hitman Hart, too, and not to kill a bit, but Brett the Hitman Hart always made me think, too, why was the figure four painful? Like, it never made sense to me. Stop, stop, stop, stop. They were bending their legs. No, no, no, no, no. He did the sharpshooter, Rob. The figure four is the opposite. Yeah, the sharpshooter, you turn him over. Of course that's painful, and it's going to hit you in the low back, maybe across the

[19:03]shins. I don't know. Rob, when we're in Las Vegas, January, Matt, when are we in Vegas? Uh, January 19th through the 22nd at the Link. No, you can't tell him. That's the Link in Norrisville. No, no. I, we should have a sharpshooter competition. Let's see who can make, who submit with the sharpshooter. It's a Rob Aaron sharpshooter figure four. You roll back and forth. Yes, let's do it. Reverse, because you got to reverse the pressure, right?

[19:31]There's no way I will not get injured. I will 100% get injured, but I think we should try it anyway. Can we imagine Aaron comes back home in multiple casts? His wife is like, what happened? What happened? It's the sharpshooter, Rob. Rob put a wrestling move on me. Listen, you're never going to believe what happened to me. Oh, wait, you listen to the podcast, then you will totally believe what happened to me, because we talked about it months ago. Can you go out and play Leprechaun Tag? Because I'm in these casts. I got to go inside and listen to records, make it chilly. All right.

[20:01]Russell, was that it? Was that it for the voicemail? I think so. Oh, well, that was a good one. You did pretty good, I thought. Best wrestlers? I think so. I enjoyed it. I mean, no. Well, Aaron's favorite wrestler, of course, for sure, is Jesse the Body Ventura, but he liked his later work more. He liked some of that stuff he was doing. Is this where I have to say that I voted for Jesse the Body Ventura? I did, for sure. I mean, I 100% voted for him. The guy was in Running Man. He was in Running Man. Okay, that's all you need to hear.

[20:30]We saw him, Russell and I saw him. I mean, still one of the most amazing moments of my life was we go to see him at St. Olaf College in, what, September of 98? Right before he was elected, within two or three months. Right before, but when he was elected. He was still polling at, like, 1%. Like, oh, there's no chance. So we go. We had more listeners than he had voters at that time. Yes, yes. And we go just because he's Jesse the Body Ventura. And he says something in the auditorium at St. Olaf about, like, I think if kids want to go to college, they can find a way to pay for it.

[21:02]And every kid in there goes, like, apeshit for it. And it's like, you know, many of us were not paying for our own college. And then Russell went up and asked him a question about the best wrestling. Now, rewind. What he said was, I'll take questions for a while. I'll take any questions you guys want. If you want to talk about politics, I'll take those. If you want to talk about sports, wrestling, whatever you want to talk about, I'll take questions. I would have asked him a question of when the underwater demolition team

[21:32]merged with the SEALs. Because there seems to be some confusion on his part with that. There seems to be some discrepancies there. So then I went up there and I snapped off a Slim Jim and I was like, I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. You're funky like a monkey. Oh, yeah. And then I voted for him. Of course you did. Now, I want to play a game right now, guys. Okay. And this will be the first game of the night. All right. We didn't play a game earlier that got edited out.

[22:00]We did. Right now, do you think the over under is 34%? Did 34% of you three, so over one out of three of you, see the movie? Running Man. Okay. Now just think to yourself right now. Have over one out of three of you seen the movie Running Man? Matt, what do you think? Yes or no? No. Russell? No. Oh, Aaron, you probably should say no. No. That's a zero for three.

[22:32]This is fun. You've never seen Sub-Zero? Fireball? I think you're talking about Mortal Kombat. Is that Mortal Kombat? Oh, my God. If you want to hear from guys. Guys, Sub-Zero is played by Professor Tanaka. He's credited in the movie as Professor Tanaka. It's crazy. We've gone off the rails. You don't know anything about Ben the Butcher Richards, the butcher of Bakersfield.

[23:00]Aaron, it's a... Sounds interesting, though. Maybe I should check it out. Guys, hashtag Rob's right to the back line if Rob is right and these people are... Hey, guys, I got to log off the Zoom to go watch Running Man. But not watching... You know what I did? I saw some good video of Hammer doing the Running Man recently. Oh, okay. Okay, that means it is time. Oh, my God. We're already rolling going. I can't believe it. We're fucked. We're going to pull up some Hammer doing the Running Man. I guess...

[23:30]Yeah, he did the Running Man, right? And then the Hammer dance. Yeah. And don't forget... I practice doing two legit... By the way, for people at home, I just did the whole two legit to quit thing. But it was very slow because my hands are very big. I practice two legit to quit with my hands all the time. Like, it was going to come up in life where somebody would say something. I'd be like, no, I'm too legit to quit. We should bring it back, though. We should definitely bring it back. Yeah. The problem is that I quit a lot. And guess what?

[24:00]Quitting is actually legit. When you quit something, there's no better feeling. Feels great. Fuck that. Hey, kids, coach yourself. You know what I mean? I'm out of here. See you, Rob. All of your hand signals with two legit... To quit are like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is macho madness. Oh, yeah. Boy, that sounds just like a guy I played baseball with. Aaron, rolling, going. How's it going with you? You know, I'm glad. It reminds me. I've had this on my mental list for a long time, but I don't write them down, and I should.

[24:33]I've been meaning to ask you guys... The mentalist? I've been meaning to ask you guys about hand signals. And honestly, this dates back to, like, the COVID times when we were wearing masks and stuff. Okay. Which is, like, what are... So, I mean, the basic question I want to ask is, what do you think of a guy like me who uses the Shaka? Because I really... I feel like the Shaka is a great hand signal. You cannot do that. No. Is that a no? Don't use the Shaka? No. I want to hear this out.

[25:00]So, you think that you might become a Shaka guy? Yeah. I went through various permutations of, like, what hand signals do I like to use during COVID, right? Because it would be like... Like, I would do a thumbs up. You know, like, oh, hey, yep, thank you. It'd be a salute. Yeah. Very happy for you to let... Oh, I haven't tried the salute. That's a good one. You say to people like this, you say, you're okay, and you make an O like this, right? And then you want to point to that's okay. So, then you point to the O that you made with the other hand. I'm okay. You make that symbol. That's my favorite hand symbol.

[25:31]It's a visual joke. I like to do the... Don't do it. I like to do the salute when I get on the airplane first. I get it somehow when you do the salute sign, you get on the plane before everyone else. It's great. Hey, I'm a veteran in a wheelchair, okay? In my Navy whites. I salute you. And I have a kid. And I have a baby. Yeah. The most frequent one for me is like kids. This dog, this giant dog is a service animal. My son is like such a wonderful kid and so sharp, but like still is the worst at crossing

[26:00]a street of any person I've met in my life. And so, I'm just constantly like grabbing him by the shoulder because he's going to walk out in front of a car. Unfortunately, in our neighborhood, there's a lot of kids. So, like people are always stopping to let us cross. So, like a lot of my hand signals are like, thumbs up. Thank you for letting me cross the street. I like this. I like the salute idea. I often like to do the, you know, the thankful hands, like the, you know, or like a restaurant, you know, but I do find myself, like I find myself using the Shaka fairly frequently.

[26:30]And I don't know how you guys feel. If we're together, like next time we're together, if I'm giving the Shaka, how do we? No? I didn't know you had been using the Shaka. I thought you were thinking about it. I've been using it, but I think about you guys when I use it because I think like, what would the Beck, Did It Better crew say about my use of the Shaka? But I'm getting a strong message. I'm getting a strong message. You know what? I wanted to be a Shaka guy so bad. I really did. Because when I was in Hawaii once, somebody drove by and gave me the Shaka and I was like, I'm the coolest guy in the world.

[27:01]My day is made. I'm set. And I just, I couldn't pull it off. I'm now like a, like a head down, one finger up guy. Oh, like the farmer. Yeah, like that's. Exactly. Exactly. That's kind of my, that's kind of my like, yep. Like, Hey, yeah. Sorry about my kid. That's kind of the symbol, you know, for sorry about my kid. My bad. My kid, my kid's trying to kill himself in the street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, exactly. They're, they're trying to sample all the ice cream. You know, they learned it from their mom. I don't think they should, but I'm powerless to do anything.

[27:30]Russell, what's your hand symbol of choice? I'm kind of like a two finger salute. I like that. A two finger. So I'm not a salute from the head, but kind of like from the temple up, kind of like a, Hey, I got you. Okay. Yeah. We're on the same, we're on the, we're on the same wavelength. I know that. I love it. My ice cream eater doesn't need to be trying all the samples of the ice cream, but I got you. I got you. Wait. Hey, I'm just, I'm just a hand wave. They might be talking loud in a small store, but guess what? I'm powerless. I can't say anything. Okay. Can't say anything.

[28:00]I'm just a hand wave or a nod or a couple of fingers just to let them know that I saw them and thank, you know, thank you. Maybe a little, little head nod, you know, thing like that. But no, I don't use any. Um, cultural appropriation signals when going after saying hi to people, you know, I try to stay away from those. Plus Aaron with that move, I don't really know how you get the correct angle with that, that shocker move, right? It is difficult. Yeah. Cause I'm never sure. Like, cause because yeah, sometimes I try it myself and I might just be like doing,

[28:32]yeah, I might. Cause like you have to commit if you're going to look at my small fingers, don't look at this. There's gotta be like an extra waggle with that. It can't be like, yeah, like it's gotta be a. A waggle. It'll get a little waggle. Right. Or you gotta just be solid. Like, boom, here's my shocker, you know, but like, I'm not, I'm not there yet. So I, maybe I need to come and maybe I gotta find something else. Okay. I appreciate your advice. Well, I mean, there's a lot of things like that, right? Like it used to be the old high five and then it was the shake and now there's the whole, you know, kind of the, the, the grasp that all the, the soccer guys do.

[29:04]Okay. It's hard to know what to do, you know? Right. Like greeting other dads. Like it's a mess. Like I don't even know. Is it a shake? Is it nothing? Is it? Is it a hug? Is it? No idea. Aaron, this is better than your last one though, where you're just doing the Mexican hat dance. We're like, we took, we had to tell you that that was a no go. Okay. I do. You guys know, I do default. I default to hugs more often than not, but I find that not everybody. Maybe you could go with the NWO too sweet.

[29:30]Oh, I like that. Or you could also go with one of your favorite wrestlers, Jimmy Snuka, who murdered his wife, but you still don't seem to have a problem with that. But he does the I love you sign. Aaron doesn't seem to care. He murdered his wife. You're a don. You're on board. Wait, that wasn't mine. That was Matt's. Oh, sorry. In my mind, I had already edited that part out, guys. Not going to lie. I like the NWO too sweet. All right. Well, I always appreciate you guys' perspective on life. How's it rolling going with Rob? I'll tell you what. My wife was in Finland. Okay. You'll never guess what happened when she got back.

[30:01]She calls me while I'm at my kids. Did you have to eat any hot dogs you didn't want to? No. When would I ever have a hot dog that I wouldn't want to eat? Sorry. Keep going. Especially when she's gone. Here's the thing. When I'm at, I was at my kid's swim meet. Like, my kid is actually a high school athlete, which. Wow. Look at both ways. It blows my mind. It really blows my mind. That's crazy. I can't believe it. So I'm at the swim meet, right? Now, did I go like a half hour on the subway to see a 30-second race?

[30:33]Maybe. But guess what? It's fine. I love my kid, okay? I enjoy watching it. It's great. Would you have rather watched like a two-hour sporting event? Like, you can barely get started on one of your podcasts in a half hour. That's perfect timing for you. Anyway, don't criticize what I'm mad about with my parenting. Here's the thing. If Matt reffed 30-second events, we would start this podcast at 8 p.m. every night. We'd be through like 250 episodes by now. Did I tell you about jiu-jitsu the other day?

[31:00]Where I got beat by somebody who I know for a fact is 15 years old. For real? Really? I got my ass kicked. Three minutes. And I was able to get on top of this person all my body weight. 300-plus pounds pushing down. They immediately kicked out my legs and flipped me over and put me in an arm bar. And I was helpless. There was nothing I could do. That's impressive. It really made me rethink a lot of my life. I was like, I can't beat a 15-year-old? That's crazy. You should have gone with the side-rushing leg sweep, the backbreaker, and then the sharpshooter.

[31:33]Like, the hitman. The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be. How much do you think this 15-year-old weighed, Rob? Is the old thing that you said you could be the state champ? That's true. 130. It made me think about that big time. I will tell you that. Did it? My main move in jiu-jitsu is breathing heavily. Well, for our listeners, what was the bet? I mean, your father-in-law is a former wrestling coach, right?

[32:01]Yeah, I've been big into wrestling. I believe he also wrestled a bear, if I remember the story correctly. That's true. Have you met him, Russell? How do you know this, Russell? Have you heard the story? I've heard it through sources. He did wrestle a bear. Now, of course, I did too, but that was my junior year of college. Okay, I was experimenting. Here's the thing, okay? Is that he was a wrestling coach, so when my wife and I started dating, I would just go to wrestling meets, like, as dates. Like, we would be at a high school wrestling meets. I'm like, you know, 19. Wait, wait, no, no, no, no. It's a pause. Yeah. You had to go to, like, your future father-in-law's, like, employment?

[32:32]That was a date? Yes, yes. No fucking way. If I wanted to spend time with my future wife, okay, I went to wrestling meets. I didn't know anything about wrestling. I never watched it. At the end, I was like, the first time I was like, why is everybody mad? Like, they would go, somebody would easily win. The guy who won would throw off his head thing. The guy who lost, throw off his head thing. Everybody's mad. I was like, what is going on at this meet? Everybody looks hungry. I was like, ugh, no thanks. Then you went up and started doing the bushwhacker, started licking guys' heads,

[33:02]and he's like, get the fuck out of here, Rob, right? Yeah. He's like, let me put you in this sharpshooter. And I was like, it doesn't hurt. It's not a big deal to me. No, no, no. So I said that I could. I could beat every state champion up to 180 pounds. Yes. And your friend group said that I was an idiot and I was dumb. I think you would have gotten beat by any state champion like 125 or bigger.

[33:30]Would whoop your ass in wrestling. I wouldn't try it with any trained wrestler. I wouldn't even try it. After what? After what this 15-year-old kid did to me, I kind of am down in the dumps on myself. Oh, no. Okay. We don't need to pile on. Yeah. You can just squat more than he can, though. No doubt. Yeah, that's true. That's true. I can hang my head on them. I bet my blood pressure way higher. Hey, bro, what's your systolic? Russell, rolling going.

[34:00]How's it going with you? Rolling going. Things were going good for me, but they weren't always necessarily going good in my household over the last few days. I wanted to run something by you guys, see how you would have handled it. Let's go to Russell's living in a house with someone advice corner. Russell, now I notice you're speaking very quietly during this segment. I've already cleared that I'm allowed to bring this topic up multiple times, so I cannot be in trouble for bringing up the topic. All right. And you're making my favorite sign with your hands. Good job.

[34:30]You just got to waggle it enough, right, Aaron? No. Just a little waggle. Or just be solid with it. Just commit to your sign. Mom, hit that 15-second button. So, I now live in kind of like a townhouse complex. There's probably like 60 or so units over a few block area, and I've realized recently that it's kind of confusing what street or unit is what. So, like, you get into this townhouse complex, and if I'm in, let's say, unit 101, there's

[35:02]like six 101s throughout the complex with all different street numbers. So, it's like 315-101, 314-101, 313. And the biggest problem this is causing is when you do any sort of Amazon order, Target order, any sort of online delivery, they are constantly bringing stuff to the wrong house. So, you order something, you think it's going to show up at your door. It doesn't, right? Now, I have a suggestion for you, Russell.

[35:30]Yeah. Have you thought about address line two? Putting something in there like, hey, this is building 115, like, mine's the one with the camera looking at it. Pointing out so I can see the sunset. Point it outwards. Point it outwards. Yeah. Yes. Sorry, Rob, you need to delete that. Some people don't know about that. Oh, no. But so, anyways, so we've had this issue. Your errands pay are here. So, occasionally, we've probably been here four months or so. Occasionally, you order DoorDash, it'll get dropped off at the neighbor's house.

[36:02]You order something, it'll get dropped off. And you can kind of just, if you look outside, you can usually see it. Just go grab it. It's not the end of the world or whatever. But the other day, we had something. Something happened where the Amazon order in the house decided she was going to order something nice. I believe I was told it was some sort of Ninja food processor and blender, something in like the $300 range, right? Orders it. And then one day, we're sitting here and she looks, she's got an email saying, hey, it's

[36:30]been delivered. And she looks at the picture and she's like, it doesn't really look like our doorstep or whatever. She goes out there, not there. So, immediately, we're like, okay, it must have gotten dropped off. It must have gotten delivered somewhere else. And so, there's immediately kind of some, okay, I got to be careful how I do this. I offer to- No, let it rip. We can always delete it. We can always- Oh, yeah. I promise I'll edit it. So, someone in our house was not happy that, hey, they ordered this really nice thing. It got delivered to the wrong place.

[37:00]I get the frustration, right? You expect someone, if you order it, it's going to be delivered to your spot, not someone else's, right? Yeah, of course. So, I'm like, immediately, I'm like, you know what? Let me go out. I'll walk around kind of the- Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The neighborhood, the townhouse complex to see if I see a box sitting there. I'll just run up quick. I'll look or whatever. But- Hey, hand me your car keys just in case, too. I'll find that thing. I know it's missing again. We're going to try to find that car. Oh, no. You can't bring that up. Oh. Do you want me to have to move out again or not?

[37:31]Oh, you've moved out once already? Yeah. I'm already in Russell's room. But so, anyways, I'm walking through the townhouse complex, and it's later at night, so you can't like start walking. This is like people's doors, their doors are up a staircase, so you can't just start walking up people's staircases at night and like looking at people. That's just creepy. It's weird, whatever. So, I kind of do a lap through the complex or whatever. I don't see it. I'm like, I don't see it, whatever. It's, you know, it could be there, but whatever.

[38:02]Let's just either, you can call. We can either wait and see if someone drops it off for a day. You could call, cancel it. I'm good with whatever you want to do on it or whatever. So, we go. We go through this whole thing, and the next day, we're kind of looking at the picture of it, and the townhouse renter with me realizes, I know this house. It's this house over here. I know what unit it is. We've had something dropped over there before.

[38:31]So, my question is to you guys, do you go knock on the door and ask, has something been dropped off at your place? Do you just cancel it? What do you do if something's gone, but it's not, you can't see it anywhere? Someone has clearly either taken it or something's happened with it. Now, Russell, first of all, I just want to say, it sounds like a life without kids. It sounds awesome. You're like looking at Amazon pictures twice, three times. Yeah. Unbelievable life.

[39:00]Sounds great. No one's yelling your name, trying to get your attention or jumping off a retaining wall or. I would go. But I think I would stand. I would go knock on someone's door and ask. Do they have something? I think I would stand behind my wife. Now, I, and I hate to interrupt it. Well, can I tell a story after, after everybody else answers? What would you, you know what? I'll tell my story right now. Tell it now. I was at Goodwill once and I gave my kid a phone to play with. We've heard this. We've heard this. And you know what? Someone that I know. And they took the phone and went to their house and I took the kids to the house.

[39:31]A townhouse renter I know brought up this story as a justification. Oh, no. For tracking that shit down. Russell, I put my kids in front of me when I opened the door. Because I figured if I was going to get killed, we should all get killed. They couldn't live without me. It would be too sad. So here I'm using my kids, not as a human shield. Okay. It's actually for their own good. Makes a better story. Russell, I know she would go. I know what's going to happen. Like, there's no, there's no reason for me to go. She would go. Russ, Rosie, what would you do? It just seems like you can deal with this.

[40:02]Like, can't you just go to your credit card company and have them cancel it? You can actually. It's pretty easy to do, actually. You can get rid of a lot of shit like that. What do you do, Matt? Do you go to the neighbor's house? What do you do? Yeah, I would go. I mean, especially if it's going to happen more often, right? Like, they'll probably stop taking your shit then. If they know that you know or they know that you know that they know that you know. So I would go knock on the door and just ask. You open up the door and they're just eating like delicious smoothies.

[40:30]You know, like, you son of a bitch. Is that a triple berry with yogurt? Yeah. What'd you make that with? Just throw a little kale in there. Boy, that food looks pretty well processed. It looks fully ninja. My initial thought was you can't go knock at night. Like, maybe if you live and you know all your neighbors really well, maybe it's different. But if you don't, I think going to knock at night is a no-go. So I said, let's just hold off. And then what I said, and everyone's different. Everyone's different and everyone's approach is fine.

[41:01]What I said is I probably would not go do it. But if you want to, that's what you should do because everyone's different. Everyone, you should go do what you want to do, right? Yeah. And so the next day, the townhouse renter that I live with went over to this house, knocked on the door. They weren't there. They went back a few times and they went back another time. And this, we lost another package in like the same day. And one of the neighbors, it waited a day and they brought it over the next day. So they clearly grabbed it, probably brought it inside, realized it's too late, whatever, brought it over.

[41:33]So one of the neighbors brought it over. The other package, the ninja never shows up. Three days or so. The renter goes over, knocks on the door with the lady with the little dog. I'll just say that. So just put that in your, think about it. Okay. Okay. That's in my tickler file. And she goes up and the lady at the house where we've had other stuff put before goes, here's your answer. There was a package on my doorstep, but I never brought it in.

[42:02]And then it was gone. That is what the lady says. That lady stole that package. 100%. Am I right? For sure. Yep. Yep. For sure. Now, Russell, was she, was she enjoying like a freshly made Baba Ganoush or something? Something that really like could only have been made by a ninja. Yeah. I, I, Russell, I think a hundred percent she opened that. She's like, she's like, it was here. John, would you like to try this hummus? Yeah.

[42:30]She's like, well, finally, it's not one of these cock cages. Like I had so many of those come in. Oh, moms. Don't look at them. I don't know why those keep going to unit 104. They need to go to 105. I'll offer you a sip of this mango lassi to ease your troubled mind. But so if you, if you guys, if someone got delivered to your place and you took it and the neighbor comes and asks, you don't say, oh, there was something out on my step and then it was gone. Like who sees a package and then ignores it? Like you see a package, you go grab that.

[43:00]What she is doing is she is blaming someone else for stealing it. She's telling you it was stolen, but she's saying, Hey, listen, it wasn't me. Now I know you're probably upset about it getting stolen. Can I? I'll offer you some of these fresh made Italian breadcrumbs. Yeah. You want to hop in with a food that's a process. I'm looking at other stuff. I don't know. Did you bring any bread to dip in this pesto that I've made?

[43:30]So, so now we're at the point where we've reached the point where we know the old lady in the one unit is just keeping stuff. And at first, like I kind of gave her the benefit of the doubt thinking, well, maybe it's an old person. They open it. They didn't realize it was for them. They panicked. They don't know what to do or something, but I don't know, man, you keep something like that. That's, that's kind of bogus, isn't it? Are you going to bust in their born identity style or what? Yeah. Hey, no more homemade hummus. Right.

[44:00]Especially if it's your neighbor, right? Like, cause you can see that the neighbor's there. The address is somewhat close. Right. And it's probably just an error. Yeah. You know, if it's some random address, you never even heard of or anything. You can't deal with that. Yeah. You know, but like, it's not like the address was way off or anything like that. So, you know, that it's one of your neighbor's packages. I agree with you, Russell. Get a crowbar, go through a window, grab that package back. You know what I mean? Fair is fair. Well, can I just like hang out by the window? It's just a little dog.

[44:30]Won't bite that bad. Mine, that's, it's, mine's, I was taking a walk today. I was like, why is my leg sore? Oh, it's still that spot where my, where I got bit. Oh, Aaron. Aaron, don't die before we get to 500. I get a heads up now though. When, when Coco's going to be next door, I got a text from the neighbor, like Coco's coming over. I'm like, cool. I'm not going over to pick up any balls. It's the same. I'm not picking up any balls. Matt, how's it going? How's it going with you? Flashlights. Good. You know, it's been a week since we talked. So long.

[45:00]I missed you guys a lot ago. Yeah. And so I said, I'd bring up my list, Russell. I don't know if you want to hear the list anymore. The hundred, the hundred songs? The hundred lists. Yeah. All right. What are we going to start at? 99? We're going through all 100? Get my typing hands ready. I don't have, I don't have them ranked like one to a hundred. It's just a list. It's just a list of the top 100. I think you ripped through them and maybe we pick a few to listen to. All right. And I did send the list. I did send you the list, Russell, in your email. So you will have it.

[45:30]Sorry. I think you mailed it to unit 105 and the neighbor lady took it. Oh, so she's got it. She's got it. This isn't like a Spotify list. This is an actual list you have. And I can tell it's in like a. Excel spreadsheet with. Yeah, I want it. Of course it's in Excel, yeah. Here, I can. I forgot who I'm working with. The no-scene running man nerds who know. Oh, alternating colors. How original. Hey, Rob. Hey, Rob. Why don't you send us some more songs on your Plex as if anyone knows what the hell that thing is. I just told you I run a, I run a non-server off my non-server.

[46:01]It's got all these streaming services, but Rob's like, well, I'll send it to you on my Plex. Yeah. Well, guess what? I don't even know what that is. When you get an airplane and there's nothing playing. Okay. Don't come talk to me about my Plex because you're banned from my Plex. That George Foreman always works. Would it help if I sent you the Amazon list? It probably doesn't, does it? No, I think I can get into Amazon. I could play it. It'd just be faster for me to play it that way. I find with Amazon Music, doing simple tasks is so simple. It's definitely not hidden behind a bunch of weird buttons that are all over the place.

[46:31]Okay. Yeah. In fact, I would say Amazon Music, always really good. Do I have a playlist I play every day at 3.30? And it never is on the front page when I open the app. Yeah. I love it. I love digging around and finding where that playlist is. Hey, don't put it on the front where I can see it really easily. Make it super complicated. Thank you, Amazon Music. What's your everyday 3.30 playlist? Wait room. Brother. Get some Hot for Teacher in there? No, you cannot monitor a wait room in school and play Hot for Teacher. So, Russell, I'm just going to start flying through them, okay?

[47:01]Got Dissident by Pearl Jam. Rearview Mirror, Pearl Jam. Corduroy by Pearl Jam. Daughter by Pearl Jam. Given to Fly, Pearl Jam. Release, one of the best ones ever, Pearl Jam. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Pearl Jam. Yes. I Am Mine, Pearl Jam. Little known one. Don't get it, yeah. Just Breathe by Pearl Jam. Oh. Light Years by Pearl Jam.

[47:31]That's the end of the first set of Pearl Jam. There's a couple more. There's a couple years of Pearl Jams. Yeah. Well, there's a couple more. This is, you know, a list that's... When you... When you add a new song, it adds it to the bottom. Okay, I gotcha. It starts moving things up. That was starting to feel like a manifesto from a shack somewhere. Yeah. Ain't Life Grand by Widespread Panic. I don't know if we talk about Widespread Panic too much, but that's a great little southern rock band. Cherub Rock, the Smashing Pumpkins. Mayonnaise, Smashing Pumpkins.

[48:00]Rocket. Hummer. There you go. Here's Widespread Panic. Muzzle. Rhinoceros. All by the Smashing Pumpkins. Loser by Beck. Nice. One Headlight by Wallflowers. Shut Your Eyes. So emotional. Just Say Yes by Snow Patrol. Those two songs. Holding On To You by Twenty One Pilots. Grace 2. Play that one, Rob. Go about 20 minutes or two minutes into Grace 2. It's a tragically hip... It's kind of a weird band, but they're out of Canada. Everybody in Canada knows who they are.

[48:30]Sex On Fire. Use Somebody and Radioactive by Kings of Leon. There you go. Ride by Twenty One Pilots. Mr. Brightside by The Killers. I Am The Highway by Audioslave. Great song. Audioslave. Damn. Clocks by Coldplay. Ophelia, The Lumineers. Yep. Danny California, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Gimme Shelter and Moonlight Mile by The Rolling Stones. Moonlight Mile, that's one of your jams. Now, Matt, can I just pause you real quick?

[49:00]Yep. Are we doing all 100 songs? Yeah. Rob, Rob. Someone mute Rob out. He doesn't get the bit. Oh, no. Aren't we on, like, 30 or something? You're on 30? Matt, I think I texted you the other night. I was at a bar, and I heard Moonlight Mile, and I was like, how is this not on the list? It's a great song. It's a great song. Great song. Welcome to Paradise Basket Case and When I Come Around by Green Day. Runaway by Kanye West. Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova by Oasis.

[49:32]Nice. My Hero, Walk, Times Like These, These Days by Foo Fighters. Nice. Say It Ain't So. And Undone, the Sweater Song by Weezer. November Rain and Estranged by Guns N' Roses. Estranged. I got to hear this. You know, you got to know Estranged. I don't know if I do, Aaron. It's like November Rain Late. Yeah. I was going to say, I tried to move 30 seconds in.

[50:00]This is the one where he jumps off the ship and starts swimming with the dolphins in the music video. Right. That was when I had checked out of Guns N' Roses. Oh, this is such a good song. I listen to this one all the time. This is one that goes on repeat. Float On by Modest Mouse. Glycerine, Machine Head, and Come Down by Bush. The best Spotify, Amazon, whatever you want to do, kind of early to mid-90s alternative rock,

[50:31]is you simply put on Better Than Ezra. So I've got Good by Better Than Ezra. Nice. And that brings up all sorts of great songs. The Story by Brandi Carlile. Oh, there's a song. Yeah, that's a song. Yep. Crush by Dave Matthews Band. I Miss You and Damn It by Blink-182. Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots. Russell's Favorite, Karma Police by Radiohead. Wow. Yes. Take Me Out, Franz Ferdinand. That is a great song. Paper Airplanes by MIA.

[51:02]Kids by MGMT. We should have a lot more MGMT on this list. Rosie, this is for your W to take a little listen here for this next four or five. This gets into a little bit of thematic. You can tell where I was when I started adding these songs. Hungry Like a Wolf by Duran Duran. Nice. Take On Me by A-Ha. Pictures of You by The Cure. And I'll play this one out here, Rob. Lips Like Sugar by Echo and the Bunnymen.

[51:30]One hit wonder, but one of the greatest songs of all time. I don't know it. This is not it. Is this Lips Like Sugar? Is that what you're on? Yeah. Okay, go for two. You guys know this song? No, I don't know this one. No, man. This is such a good song. Listen to this one. Write that down. Lips Like Sugar. Hey, can I say this, guys? I'm addicted to this list now. I'm down with this list.

[52:00]I could do this all night, I've decided. This is it. This is a new episode. This is great. I'm trying to do it and get going in an hour or five here. What I've Got and Doin' Time by Sublime. Can't go wrong with Sublime. Another great 90s song. How's It Gonna Be by Third Eye Blind. Oh. It is the chorus of this. This brings you back to an era, right? Yeah. Good stuff. Good stuff. Patience by Chris Cornell.

[52:33]The best version of Patience out of all of them. Written by Prince. Prince? Didn't Prince? Write that song? He did? No. No. That's the Guns N' Roses one. Yes. Prince wrote, what's the other Chris Cornell one that was done by your Halloween costume? You can cut all that out. Sinead O'Connor. Sinead O'Connor. Nothing compares to you. Nothing compares to you. Chris Cornell does that and Patience better than anybody else, I think. Chlorine by 21 Pilots.

[53:02]Benny and the Jets and Tiny Dancer by Elton John. In Hiding by Pearl Jam. The best Madonna song. The best Madonna song of all time. Borderline. Good song. Hard to explain by The Strokes. Do we know this one? Yeah. Do you guys know this? We've done the Strokes album. Let's see. Did we do The Strokes? Gotcha. Is this it? Slave and Waiting on a Friend by The Rolling Stones. Lost by Coldplay. Father of Mine by Everclear.

[53:31]Oh, wow. Also, you've got to like that one. This one comes up on my Pandora station. I have a Presidence of the United States of America Pandora station. I have a Presidence of the United States of America Pandora station. I have a Presidence of the United States of America Pandora station. I have a Presidence of the United States of America Pandora station. This song comes up all the time. Do they also play Peaches? Oh, so much Peaches. So much. I'm telling you, Presidence of the United States of America, Mach 5. One of my favorite songs of all time. Man, you know what? I'm going to make a list. Sounds good. Don't tell me what to do. That was 81, so we've only got a few more here. We'll hustle through them. Oh, this is great. Ramblin' by Led Zeppelin. This is America.

[54:00]Top five videos of all time by Childish Gambino. This is America, Childish Gambino. No, no. That video. That's too much. Yeah, but it makes you think. It's a great one. Circular by My Morning Jacket. Play this one. This is my walk-up song. Brian from Woodbury always asks about your best walk-up song. So Flavor in Your Ear by Craig Mack. There you go. Kicking the brand new flavor in your ear.

[54:30]I bet your mama miss you and I bet the Mack that go off like an M&M's. Such a great song. Hello by Martin Solveig. If you don't like these videos, Russell, you should make a list of your top 100 videos. Huh? Rob, I don't know if you've heard this one before. What? But I have Maps by this band called Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I will say this. We hear that one? One of the greatest drum intros of all time. And a rock band song, Russell. This is on a rock band. You can play this on the drums. Listen. Hit it.

[55:03]Oh, I missed it. But I'm going to edit it. Oh, shoot. You know something, Rob? The big Val Mosky is a lot like Mack's 100 song list. The more you play with it, the harder it gets. I love this list. I really do. Where Is My Mind by the Pixies. Where It's At by Beck. Yes, that's two. Oh, Beck did it better.

[55:30]Yep. Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis. Can't You Hear Me Knockin' by the Rolling Stones. When we did that. I got a half. How do you get two Oasis from the same? Don't Look Back in Anger, aren't those all on the same album? Yep. There's three. So you had an interruption where you picked two and then one came way later. I think when we did the album. You're like, it has to be on there, right? Yeah, I got to add this one, too. Can't You Hear Me Knockin' by the Rolling Stones. The Wait by Built to Spill. We played that last week.

[56:00]Somewhere Only We Know by Keen. You Don't Know How It Feels by Tom Petty. It's one of the best albums of all time. Talk about a great video, too. Russell, if you remember this video, we just went in circles. Yeah, for the Circle of Delights. Yeah. Very, very good. Great song. Good one. All My Favorite Songs are Slow and Sad by Weezer. Oh, My Own Soul's Warning by The Killers, you missed. Did I miss it? Oh, yeah. My Own Soul's Warning by The Killers. That was when I played over and over and over, Russell.

[56:31]Oh, my God. Higher Love by Steve Winwood. Ooh. Winwood. Yes. Uh, Warning Signs by Coldplay. And then Spody Odie Dopealicious and Rose of Hearts by How Karen Knows It. I knew that would be on. 101 Common People by Pulp. Common People by Pulp. Now, I noticed... That's the list, Russell. That's a good list. I noticed that you didn't have any, uh, of one of your favorite albums, The Dolphin's Lament, which, of course, was Live's follow-up to The Throwing Cop.

[57:03]Oh, God. Okay? So... Somehow, a song came up. A song came up in some playlists, and it was a live song from, like, 2000, and it was not good. What? It was not good. There definitely seems to be a lack of placentas falling to the ground on that list. Yeah, very few. Hey, it's already a music podcast tonight. We've already had a music podcast. Well, you know what? Let's slow it down a little bit. Let's get into... Did everybody do their rolling going? Yeah. We all rolled it going. All right. We all rolled it up.

[57:30]Let's talk about the album. Roll that shit. Light that shit. Smoke it. Let's talk about the album. Aaron, this is your mother's episode. Did you keep it? Aaron. Hey, she grew up in the 70s. Okay. Oh. Hmm. I've seen Days of Confused. That's right. We know what it's like. All right. All right. All right. Are you cool, man? I saw Dukes of Hazzard. I know what my parents' life was like growing up. Listen. Okay? This album... I was reading this, and it just said, Jenny called me naked. And I was like, no, that's not...

[58:00]I'm in the wrong part of the episode. This is Billy Joel's... So, Billy Joel's a stranger. This is his fifth album. He hits it big with his second album, Piano Man. Surprise hit. Columbia's thrilled. Third album comes out. Fourth album comes out. This album comes out. The fourth album comes out, not good at all. Bust. Okay? And Columbia's thinking about dropping him. So, he's like, well, I got to put out an album that's going to be good. So, he says, I don't want these studio musicians. I don't want this. I want the guys I've been touring with. Bring all those musicians in.

[58:30]And he also brought in this producer, Phil Ramone. Now, I linked to his Wikipedia. He's a guy trained at Julia. He's a guy trained at Julia. He opens up a recording studio in New York City. Listen to who he worked with. Burt Bacharach, the band, Bono, Karen Carpenter, Chicago, Celine Dion, Bob Dylan, Debbie Gibson, Elton John, I mean, Cyndi Lauper, Liza Minnelli, Sinead O'Connor, Frank Sinatra. I mean, everybody. He's a who's who producer. Crazy, crazy, big deal.

[59:01]Right? He knows what hits sound like. Yeah, he can get you on the radio. They are working together. They are making music. They are making this album. You can tell when Billy Joel tells the stories about how the songs are written. He said it was just a blast. He says three weeks. Just awesome making this album. This album comes out six weeks at number two on the Billboard 200. I have no idea what was ahead of it. Mac, is there any way? I don't even know. It's really hard to look that up, but I can tell you. But this has sent four singles to the top 40. It wins Grammys for best record, best song of the year for Just The Way You Are.

[59:32]And that beat Staying Alive and one of the worst songs to exist, Baker. Okay, which is on my worst 100 list. Okay, I hate that song. Ugh, with a saxophone solo. Even if it's a great sax solo, we may have discussed that once. No, it's, that song's awful. Now, this is, guys, honestly, you guys texted me before I listened to it, and you were just like, how are we going to not play every song on this album and do a parody song to every song? They're all good. This is a crazy album. Listen to this. Moving out.

[60:00]I mean. And that's the first note of the album. That's how it goes. You played the first note. Yeah, you played the very first note. This is an all-time, if you're a member of Aaron's family, you don't want to be around while this album is on, because I will, I somehow, I don't know every word. I've heard this album so many times in my life. I don't know every word, but I will sing along anyway to every note that I can possibly There's exactly two words I know in this song. Hard to get out. There it is.

[60:36]Billy Joel said when he wrote this song, he originally made the melody the same as Laughter in the Rain, the Neil Sudeikis song. What? And so he basically, and somebody said, hey, this song is exactly Laughter in the Rain. He's like, oh, damn, you're right. He said, yeah, but it's louder and better. So he basically took the same lyrics and wrote a brand new melody with those lyrics. Can you imagine? That would be like taking one of the best songs of all time, Happy Birthday, and singing

[61:04]it to like Sweet Home Alabama. Okay. I think it would sound something like this. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Okay. I'm going to do the guitar solo and then we'll come back to the song. It's actually pretty good. I'm kind of enjoying it. That kind of kicked ass. Did I just make a new birthday song? Yeah, it's pretty good. Holy shit. So in my office, whenever someone has a birthday, I've got like a little Bluetooth speaker and

[61:35]I go put it out in the kitchen. And I start blaring the Beatles Happy Birthday until everyone in the office comes down and starts clapping for whoever's birthday it is. Oh, wow. I play the Beatles Happy Birthday and then I play Stevie Wonder Happy Birthday. Is there a third song I need to be adding to my happy birthday list or not? Boy, the best birthday list. That's the only two I know. Huh. Yeah.

[62:00]Should there be more birthday songs? It's so fun. You could do 50 Cent in the club. Yeah, I'll do that. That's a good idea, Aaron. I mean, it works. Yeah. It's your birthday. We're going to party. When Billy Joel was writing this song, do you think he thought about like, do you guys even know what the name of that opening song is? What is it? It's called Moving Out. Anthony's Song. But is it Anthony's Song or Moving Out? Isn't it Moving Out parentheses Anthony's Song?

[62:30]You don't see too many songs that have a parenthetical in the title. Wow. And a parenthetical. That I know who happens to live in New York suggested that we do a list on the opening song of the album about the best songs ever featuring a parenthetical title. Oh, I like this. I like this. Russell, can I just say this, Russell? Yes, sir. How about this for a birthday song? Put this on the speakers. Rihanna Cake.

[63:00]We could do that. I really want to let the icing off. The icing off. I really want it in the worst way. The worst way. Matt just had to delete a Pearl Jam song when he heard Birthday Cake by Rihanna. I like this. Cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, cake. You should definitely be playing this one in your office. I would be running down to get that cake. Some of the songs we've heard before with parenthetical titles that we've talked about before, you guys remember Kate Bush?

[63:30]I believe it's We've Run Down That Hill, A Deal With God was the name in parenthetical. Parenthetical, right? We talked about this in the best cowbell songs ever. It's Don't Fear the Reaper by the Blue Oyster Cult. Wow. I was like, who do I fear? This is so I can't tell from the song who I should not fear. Thank God you put it in parentheses. We had Aretha, You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman. Another one that Aaron probably loves. Otis Redding, Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay.

[64:02]The last one that we've talked about before, I believe we've talked about it last week. Was Come on, Ride It, The Train. All right. Anyways, here are the best songs ever featuring a parenthetical title, which Rob suggested on the first song. Normally, you guys know I don't do first song lists. Anyone's annoyed by it. You can take it out with someone else. So I said, hey, how about best parenthetical song list? And Russell goes, sounds good. You should do it. And I go, man, I'm so busy. I literally gave Russell the I'm so busy. First song is from 1979.

[64:32]This is ABBA. This is Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. A Man After Midnight. Oh, yeah. You know what the word gimme makes me think of? Is the candy good and plenty. All time worst candy, you think? Good and plenty. It's bad. Yep. My dad loves it. It's really pretty tasty because they have the liquor in the middle, right? Oh, I'm allergic. They last a long time. I saw there was an article today about how to pronounce Reese's peanut butter cups, whether it's Reese's or Reese's.

[65:06]What are your guys' thoughts? I think I heard it's supposed to be Reese's. I always call it Reese's, but I think it's supposed to be called Reese's. You're correct, Matt. It's Reese's. It's supposed to be like Reese Witherspoon is the way they explained it. Matt's right then. Can I tell you this? We were at work and we were talking about favorite candies and or no, I was over at Suzanne's and I said, oh, yeah, I love Butterfinger.

[65:30]And she goes, oh, they're so gross. And then it came out that she had never eaten a Butterfinger. And I was like. And then they started talking about candy bars. And I'd be like, oh, yeah, that's the Crunch Bar and the Blue Wrapper. And then they're like, oh, the and I was like, oh, yeah, without stickers, without peanuts, that's like a Milky Way. Oh, if you take out the caramel, it's like a three to a ball. And I realized, like, it's kind of like the online stuff. I was like, I know way too much about candy bars. Like, I was talking about like, oh, what do you guys think of Reese's Sticks? All the links are purple. And they were like, we've never had Reese's Sticks.

[66:00]And I was like, oh, no, I shouldn't be eating Reese's Sticks. It's a new kind of candy. Like, I mean, like, I'm a grown ass man. I shouldn't be eating candy, right? Like, if you see an adult eating candy, what are you what are we thinking when we see an adult eating candy? Like, I mean, if somebody is eating Milk Duds, I think they're probably highly intelligent. Probably pretty good looking. Good and plenty. What about like dried orange slices, though, man? Adults eating candy. Well, I think it's great. In fact, I've been looking forward to.

[66:30]I remember last time we were in Las Vegas, I walk into the sports book and one of you had a bag of pretzel. M&M's. And you know, like when we're in Las Vegas, we can eat pretzel M&M's. You know who it was who had that candy. It was me, Aaron. I had the candy. I was like, oh, you just eat candy. Like, I don't eat candy at home. Like, it's so great. I can't. I'm in Vegas. Anything goes. I'll sit here and eat pretzel M&M's with my tequila. Why not? This this this would be like if you got your vision restored and you were ugly.

[67:00]You know what I mean? Like you got to see yourself for the first time ever. And then you look and you're like, damn, that sucks. Like me realizing that I'm a candy guy. This is really hard for me right now. Rob, you want to know? I have had a similar realization over the last probably year. Oh, I like to picture myself as like a foodie. Like, oh, I like to go try out a new restaurant, try out new food. It's like, of course, that guy likes to try out new food. Look at him. He's like overweight. You know, like, do you ever like I'm like, well, shit, I never thought I did. I just thought I was like this cool foodie dude.

[67:30]I'm like, no, I just probably like to eat. I think you really are. I think you are a foodie. And I think that's a good thing. You are okay to be an adult. That eats candy. Okay. How many times would I tell you a week and you would be kind of like bombed? Probably three. Oh, that's a dagger. I would say, I would say on average, two times a week, I'm buying candy. Oh, God damn. I can't believe I said that aloud.

[68:01]You guys are like my therapist. I've had something every day this week since Halloween, like every, you know, every day since Tuesday. I'm calling a pause here. This is where like, it's like somehow Aaron's, Aaron eats the shit. Aaron's drinking all these days and Aaron's, Aaron's, Aaron's cut like a, like a gladiator. Like something's not adding up with what Rob and I are doing. All he has is debilitating gout. He's doing fine, Ross. Don't worry about him. I'm good. Yeah. Don't worry about Aaron.

[68:30]He's doing fine. We were talking about that song. You know what? Hey, Ross, can I say this? The fact that Aaron has gout. I'm feeling better now. I'm a candy guy. I'm okay with it. I feel good. Thank you. That brought me back. Sorry, Russell. Go ahead. Parenthetical songs. Parenthetical songs. Rob implored me to, to, to follow this list. And I found a website that was called pickle priest, where it had the best songs with ever featuring the parenthetical. And they were talking about this. Gimme, gimme, gimme song. And I had to read this explanation for the song to you guys. The childlike chant of gimme, gimme, gimme usually means the desire for ice cream or

[69:04]candy. But for the Swedish slaves of ABBA, they craved an all night fuck fest. From the darkness to the break of day. And it's a fuck fest. Okay, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let's just picture that real quick. Gimme, gimme, gimme. The childlike chant of gimme, gimme, gimme usually means the desire for a toy.

[69:35]Ice cream or candy. But for the Swedish ladies of ABBA, they craved an all night fuck fest. From the darkness to the break of day. They don't come right out and say it, but I do appreciate women who know what they want and know how and when to get it. Oh, God. I'm thinking about, when I think about this song, I do think about peanut M&Ms. Like, that's a problem. Admittedly, I was going to put an Otis Redding song, we'd run it back or a few of these other

[70:04]ones. But then when I saw that pickled priest description describing a fuck fest, it had to stay on, right? I got to admit, too, a fuck fest with a Swedish band, that would be pretty awesome. Yes. Hey, guys, the Swedish band you're looking for is over in that direction. And my Finnish wife is over this direction. Remember, what was that? What was the famous bikini team? Swedish bikini team.

[70:31]Who was your guys' favorite bikini team? Probably Sweden, right? Did you guys? Sure. I'll go with that. Yeah. Did they actually have other teams? Next song on the list is from 1975. This is one of Aaron's favorites. The band is Parliament. This is Give Up the Funk, Tear the Roof Off That Sucker. Oh, yeah. The greatest opening to a song ever, in my opinion. Yep. Is this Ray Davies?

[71:01]Yes, you got it here. Nice. Yeah, such a great song. And the band is so tight. It's just, this is such, I mean, this song is perfect. This is a perfect song. Now, this was a song I did for, I did a math video for school. I was big into making videos for class projects. And we did a claymation video where it was like a two-second math problem.

[71:31]And then I made like a 35-minute video around it. Okay, now that might surprise you that it was kind of unnecessarily long, but part of it was claymation, and we had a penis pop into frame like every three frames, like kind of off center. And so every time we played it in class, we would see it, and we thought it was so funny. And now as a teacher, I'm like, oh, you'd never say anything. In a million years, you would never say anything. You just pretend like you didn't see it. Like, I guarantee the teacher saw it and didn't say anything. I was going to ask Aaron if you ever saw it.

[72:00]Did you know when that was originally released? They had flipped it. The song was called Tear the Roof Off the Sucker, parentheses, Give Up the Funk. And then for whatever reason, after they released it, they changed the title, and they flipped what was in the parenthetical. Brilliant. Give Up the Funk is a hundred times better name. It's one of the greatest names of a song ever. You see a song called Give Up the Funk, and you're winning, and you're not playing it. Give me a break. Get out of here. All right, next on the list is from 1990.

[72:30]It's from the album Flood. This is a Rob favorite band. It's They Might Be Giants. It's Istanbul, not Constantinople. I like this one. My kids love this song. My kids love this song. I've almost called you like four times when you listen to it. Do they like the They Might Be Giants version or the original by the four lads from 1953? They like the They Might Be Giants version. Oh, that's a cover. Yeah, it's a cover. Is this a cover? It is. Wow. Of course, mostly made famous from the show.

[73:03]What show was that? Not Animaniacs. What played with that? Ren and Stimpy? No. Okay, I'm starting to realize I'm also a big-time TV guy. Beavis and Butthead? Movie guy? Bad movie guy? You're a big, bad movie guy, too? RoboCop is good. Deeper than you think. They're a New York band, Rob. I didn't know that. There was actually a website that was doing like a Billy Joel versus They Might Be Giants.

[73:31]Like all the categories versus, versus. And it was like Billy Joel just whooped their ass and everything. So I didn't feel like I needed to bring that up. No. But Matt, the reason I thought you might really like this is you're really into the Roman Empire. And if I'm correct, Rob, you're a history guy. Maybe you'll know this, but I believe the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for 11 centuries that was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, that was Istanbul, right? Well, Constantinople. Constantinople, and then became Istanbul.

[74:00]So people who love the Roman Empire, they gotta love that song. Right? Yep. And then they finally took it back after World War II, and they started raiding the Middle East. So they get the Suez Canal opened, and that's how you got Iran and Iraq and Israel and Jordan and Syria. And then that's how Turkey became Turkey again and all that stuff right back there. Hey, Rob, if you have any funny jokes to tell about Turkey, why don't you tell it? And then your wife can jump in with the punchline at the end. It's truthful.

[74:30]It's truthful. I went out with a guy tonight for drinks. I did the same thing. I was loading up. I went out with new teachers. New teachers who have not heard my bits. I loaded up like a five-minute story. I was like, oh, the other day I was walking on the street, and the guy goes, yeah, the woman had the parrot. I was like, God damn it. Like, he just jumped in and did every, he did it to three of my stories. I almost flipped out. It was terrible. I just want to lose enough weight where I can co-host a podcast with three other people. Oh. That's a good one.

[75:01]You know that's a good one. Next song. Next song. Next song. This is from 1987. We've talked about this band recently. It's R.E.M., The End of the World as we know it, and I Feel Fine. That's great. It starts with an earthquake. Oh, no. It's a layoff. Birdies and airplanes. Let's all sing it. We were seven, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down, seven down. Here we go.

[75:31]Here we go. The story with that is he had a dream once, and he heard, like, he was at a party where everyone had the initials LB, and he freaked out because he didn't have those initials at the party. Did you know that's what that was from? No. No, I didn't. Yeah, that's great. That's so weird. You know, this song was in 87. Two years after this, Billy Joel kind of used that same rapid vocal stream of consciousness with We Didn't Start the Fire. We Didn't Start the Fire. The last song on the list is from, I don't know what year.

[76:01]Rosie's froze it again. Can you hear us, Rosie? I knew I was bombing for a reason. Last song on the list, I don't know what year this is from. I believe this might be the first time we've had a list come up three times on a list before, but it's so good. We can't miss it. It's Meatloaf. I would do anything for love, but I won't do that. Can I say this? The podcast without Aaron sounds good.

[76:30]Oh, wait, he's back. Rob, I think for the moms, you know, in the crowd, what do they mean when they say, but I won't do that? What is he talking about? A lot of things they might not be willing to do. Yeah, what are we talking about? I would say probably get vaccinated. No. Russell, this song, I put on this song, I bet. I bet I put on this song once a month. It's so, so good.

[77:00]It's a great song. Great job. Rob, hit that cue, that time cue again. This is like one of the best moments in music history when he really ramps it up. You're right. Boom. And one of the reasons I gave this is I think it's important for me to get Matt songs that he likes. I don't know if he likes Meatloaf. The song, but I know Matt loves Meatloaf, the food. It's one of his favorite foods. Yeah. And it turns out that if you, if you look for Billy Joel and Meatloaf, what you're going to find is his ex-wife, Katie Jewel, who was the host of Top Chef for the first ever season.

[77:36]Katie Jewel's Meatloaf recipe is on the internet, Matt. So if you Google, you can find a new Meatloaf recipe written by Billy Jewel's ex-wife, Katie Jewel. Check it out. That's the greatest songs ever about songs. Songs with parenthetical titles. Impressive. Great list. Top two list. Great list. For sure. Great list. That's a fact. Boom. All right.

[78:01]Rob, since we're coming out of the wonderful list, I'll give, I did a little research. Yes. This album was number two behind Saturday Night Fever. Oh God. For six weeks. I was going to say that's what beat the rest out. Rumors. Rumors was out. You know, for about the next three months before that. So they were in and out of there. I was going to, the old list had two Billy Joel albums. So the 2012 list had two Billy Joel albums.

[78:30]I go walking in the night. Walking in the night. Let's see. They have The Stranger at 70. The Stranger was at 70. It just dropped that far. It should have had songs in the attic. 354 was 52nd Street, which at the end of 1978, that was the number one album. So that did reach number one. Number one status on the billboard. So that's what it is. But it's not on the list. Thank you, Matt, for doing that research. I appreciate it. You're welcome, Rob. Anything for the show.

[79:00]Hello? Hey, Russell. This is Meatloaf. Now, Russell, when you sent me that song on the list, I could only think of one thing. What's that, Meatloaf? Why was Meatloaf's call funny? What did Meatloaf do? I'm having trouble recalling exactly what Meatloaf's bit was. Some of the other callers have very well-defined bits. I think he was anti-vaccine. I don't know if I remember correctly. Oh, yeah, he was. I don't think that's going to be evergreen. I don't think people are going to get that joke in 20 years. All right. Well, Russell, can I just tell you right now, I want to say hi to all those moms who are listening out there.

[79:32]I know if you're a big Billy Joel fan, you're also a big Meatloaf fan, and that's good because there's only one size of Meatloaf, and that was big. And I can tell you something I'm not big on. Vaccines. Okay? Hey, Meatloaf, I was going to say this is the first time, but I was Googling for Billy Joel and Meatloaf, and I came across the recipe. I found out that Meatloaf, it is actually two words. It's Meatloaf. He has two names. Did you guys know that? Oh, just like Billy Joel. Meatloaf. Meatloaf. Meatloaf. Could you explain why you have your first name is Meat and the last name is Loaf?

[80:03]Well, because I was actually, I went to, I had one of those name tags that said, pleased to meet you, and my name was Loaf. But I put it in a place where people just said, oh, that's Meat. Is there name tags that say Meatloaf? No. It says, hello, my name is, doesn't it? Okay, so. Okay, step one. I got to go to the Better Store and make some name tags. Track one. Make this joke work. We're on track one of Billy Joel. Anyway, I know it's bad when you're exhausted by your music talk.

[80:31]I just want to tell you guys. Some people don't like music talk. I'm just going to tell you guys, this is Meatloaf, and I definitely remember the bit, and it was worth it. So, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Say goodbye to all the moms. Hey, hey, to the moms out there, I'll see you later. Okay, in your dreams. Hey, Meat, Meat, can I just ask you one more question? Yes. What was going on by the dashboard light? I'll tell you what. Okay? Yes. Listen. Our moms want to know. We've had a lot of calls in from moms.

[81:01]What was going on by the dashboard light? This thing is so new. You're not going to, but your kids are going to love it. That's Meatloaf going back in time to back to the future to do back to the dashboard lights. My God, I almost kissed Mrs. Loaf. She thinks my name is Calvin Klein. All right, I want to do that joke again so bad because I thought it was funny, but I'm not going to.

[81:30]I'm too strong. Is this where we talk about the album? I'm looking for the harp sound effects, and I can't find it anyway. I cannot find the harp sound effects. We're stuck in Meatloaf. You guys want to know how to get Rob to transition? Rob, the next song on the album is The Stranger. Oh, okay. Well, no, come on. And unfortunately, The Stranger is a titular track. Okay, that's a coincidence. There's no getting around that. That's a coincidence. We've stayed clean this whole time, except for that Meatloaf guy. He was terrible. So we're going to kid you to do it. Oh, Billy Joel heard this drum beat on a drum machine and said,

[82:02]I wanted to do a song around this. It's kind of fun. The guitar groove, whatever it sounds, 77. 77, okay. So early drum machines. It's a great theme, your public self, your private self, the self you hide from people. I like it. He has this way of, like, he says some things where you're just like, oh, he really just cut right to the heart of life.

[82:31]No, and I'll tell you, the recording of a Billy Joel song, his voice is so clear. The whole thing sounds so well recorded. It just sounds good. Now, I got to say, his first 10, it's got all the way up to number three. He wanted to keep the song off the album. He said it was a quote. A gloppy ballad and out of place compared to the rest of the album, which is correct. It sticks out. It is correct, but it's a great song. The producer, this Ramone guy, disagreed, and he brought in two people, Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow,

[83:01]and played the song for them, and they were like, oh, my God, this song is so good. I wish I had recorded that, yeah. And he's like, okay, I guess I'll keep it. Yeah. That would be tough to show that song to Linda Ronstadt. She goes, oh, I like it, and then you pick the other one. And this is where he also, like, he gets out there a little bit where his voice isn't perfect. It's perfect on this one. It's vulnerable. Production lets it be vulnerable, and it's very cool that they kept it on there. What comes first, this or That's What Friends Are For? This.

[83:30]That's What Friends Are For has to be a direct ripoff of this, right? It sounds the exact same. That's the same. Is that Stevie Wonder playing harmonica? It is. It is. Doesn't that sound exactly like the song? It sounds exactly the same, Russell. What year is this from? I don't know. I was finding a website called songs that sound like each other. It sounds like, what is that song? And this was one of them that got mentioned.

[84:01]They sound the exact same to me. This, yeah, this is 85. It's eight years after. Oh, it's written by, yeah, so, but it's a Burt Bacharach song, right? So if we're living in Burt Bacharach's universe, it makes sense that these would be similar, right? They're not similar. That's like a- Maybe the same. Yeah, even Robin Thicke is like, hey, that kind of, does that kind of sound similar to this? You know what I mean? Okay. Vanilla Ice is like, that actually sounds really similar.

[84:30]You should add a little thing. If I was living in Burt Bacharach's world, it's because I was watching Austin Powers. Oh, hey, baby. And he was making us Randy, baby, yeah. Yeah. That version of Why Do Birds is so good in that movie. It really is. I love it. Listen. Scenes from an Italian restaurant. Oh. It's three songs. Perfect song. Okay. The Italian restaurant song. Not great with the titles. And then Things Are Okay in Oyster Bay.

[85:02]And then Marley in whatever their name is. The thing is- Brenda Hattie. He kind of put this together in a way like they did with the B-side of Abbey Road. Oh, like with Maxwell's Silver Hammer and came in through the back of the window. I'd take this is- I've never heard this. I've heard this song before, but I don't really know. You don't hear this on the radio very often, do you? No, it's seven minutes long. I heard this song so much growing up.

[85:30]And I actually talked to my mom last night. And she was like, I said, I know this album really well. I don't know the last two songs. And she's like, I might have just put the ones I liked on a tape. So this one I heard so much. But I don't know if it was on the radio or not. Billy Joel, classic mixtape artist, I think. I didn't listen to it. I listened to a ton of Billy Joel songs when I was a kid. And I've heard this song in recent years. I heard it when I went to a big band concert in Stillwater. And they were doing Billy Joel songs. And this was one of them.

[86:00]And it was so good. Hot take. This is probably in my top five favorite songs that we've listened to on the list so far. I could see that for sure. I've listened to this song 50 times in the last three days. And I will listen to it 150 more. This is so good. Yeah. I took a class on a field trip to Oyster Bay. And I saw Billy Joel's house from the boat we were sailing around on. I like it so much I wrote a parody for it even though I knew I wasn't going to be able to record it.

[86:31]I was just so into this song. Wow. Russell, can you read us two lines from the parody? Do you want to hear about Rob, you, and Jenny being the popular steady or which one? Yeah, let's do the popular steady one. Sure. Rob and Jenny were the popular steady. Runner up for the king. Of the prom. Riding around his car top down and the jerk features on. Matt had to move his recliner when a dog took a shit in his first class airliner. We knew our listeners would never want more than this out of life.

[87:01]Sure, Beck did it better. We'll always respect copyrights. Wow. Forever. That's going to be tough to put to a karaoke track in the background. I'm going to try you, Russell. We're going to make that song happen. I think we've maybe listened to that once before. It was on the best accordion songs. We talked about that on Graceland. If you guys remember, we did They Might Be Giants. We did Mad Villain by MF Doom, one of Aaron's favorites. Don Omar, Donza Caruso. And then the Congos come with me now. But this song is, this is a top five song for me, I think.

[87:32]Top five all time. The third beat of this too. Listen to this. I mean, it's just so good. So good. Is that a third beat or did I just miss it? Yeah, it was a third beat. It was a third beat. God, that's good. And that end is so good. Yes, Aaron, I love it. Next up. Okay. He's singing about his favorite sausages. Okay. Vienna.

[88:00]I was trying to think of another sausage to save. I couldn't do it. Aaron, what's another sausage? Polish. Nice. God, you're right there. Breakfast. Chorizo. Nice. Matt, you got a sausage? What are we talking about? Cut. Obviously, sausages, man. We're listening to Vienna. I was just reading about scenes from an Italian restaurant. It's a good song. Oh, speaking of, can we go back? We got to go back two times. Uh-oh. You know, some people, Aaron earlier sent a text and he was saying,

[88:33]bottle of red, bottle of white. What was it, Aaron? I did the opening line, bottle of white, bottle of red, perhaps a bottle of rosé instead. So I grabbed a bottle of rosé tonight. You guys can see it. I grabbed it. I'm drinking some of it, but I'm not just drinking it straight because Booze and Vinyl suggests a cocktail inside one of this album. Oh, boy. And, Rob, I think you might find this. You know what, Russell? We haven't done this. Just hold up your drink and let us all take a look.

[89:02]Can you guys check this out? Wow. Ooh. It's a red drink. It's got a little lemon in there, a lot of ice. I don't want to know, but I think I have an inkling. Yeah, what's Russell drinking? Yes, Russell. Can I end it abruptly? When do you think you spit? We always talk about when do you want to listen to this album. When do you guys listen to The Stranger by Billy Joel? When I'm at my in-laws. Yeah. I think like 4 o'clock on a Friday.

[89:32]Yeah. Get the weekend going. It's a good one. They said this was a fresh start party. If you're starting anew and you're having a party for a fresh start, you throw on this album. Love it. But on side A, they recommend a drink called a Trevi Fountain. Wow. This spritz variation is named after the red drink. After the restaurant Fontana di Trevi in New York City, which is supposedly the inspiration for the song Scenes from the Italian Restaurant. Rob, I don't know if you know that, but this became a famous destination for Americans after the scene in the film La Dolce Vita.

[90:02]So there's a specific restaurant this is about. And so I'm going to give you guys this drink, which I'm drinking tonight. Trevi Fountain. It's one ounce of Campari. An ounce of sweet vermouth. One and a half ounces of rosé wine. Two ounces of club soda. Oh, yeah. I like where this is going, Russell. And then a lime or a lemon for garnish. Wow. You know what? I got it all.

[90:30]And I'm drinking it tonight. And it's delicious. It's a perfect light drink for a Billy Joel album. Wow. Russell, how does that wash down after two espresso martinis that you had earlier? It's going pretty well, Rob. It's going pretty well. I bet. It seems like maybe. You and I are the only ones who aren't tired on this podcast right now for some reason. You know what? It also recommended an aperitivo plate, like a charcuterie board. Nice. And it had four or five things listed. And I was wondering, if you guys are doing a charcuterie board, what has to be on there for you?

[91:00]Jamon Serrano. Number one with a bullet. If it's not on there, it's not a good board. But if you do that, you've got to do it right. You can't leave it in clumps. You cannot have big clumps of your, yeah. You've got to do it right. You've got to do it right. You've got to do it right. You've got to do it right. Just like when I'm doing a DVD tournament, no clumps. Get the clumps out of here. They were no good. Get the clumps out of here. Okay? No. I don't want no clumps. I like a lot of olives.

[91:30]I've got some Greek olives. There you go. A little prosciutto on there. That's so wild. Maybe a little salami type thing. Yeah. I'd say brie. I know it's basic, but give me that brie. Love that. You've got to have a nice soft cheese. I'm a mush head. I like baby. I like milk. I like. I like three musketeers. Nobody else does. They're mush. I love them. Awesome. We can go on to the next song, Rob. I got my drink in. We had to get that, though. This was the one where I had to drive down the street and couldn't find a parking spot

[92:01]to get these ingredients. There was no way I was fucking missing this drink after that. Yeah, you had to. You had to. And I bet you're blasting this song as you're going. Only the good die young. Such a good song. I live for this little drum trippy. Tripping Phil coming up. So good. I can't get enough of that. I love it so much. I mean, this isn't that classic old person song, though, right?

[92:31]Where you hear like, oh, so many people were mad at the lyrics of the song. I'm always like, what? Yeah, because he's trying to talk her into having sex with him. Like, it's not a pleasant topic. Like, it's the kind of thing like. Yeah, but are you going to tell your kids? They can't listen to this song? Well, no. No. Hey, Aaron, come on. Are you going to force your kids to listen to the song? They're at a Cuban prison. Of course. They don't have to get tried by the courts, Aaron.

[93:01]They're prisoners of war. It's international law. What is that? Okay. Actually, it makes a lot of sense. It's a great song, though. I can't get enough. I love, like, many of the albums we've listened to, I'm like, I wish I had that on vinyl. But this one, I don't. Oh, I got two copies. Oh, I love that. What a flex. Maybe I need a copy anyway. Yeah. But I just love, like, I always repeat this song. I always repeat scenes from an Italian restaurant. I love listening to this album because there are songs that have to be played twice. And this is one of them.

[93:30]This song got all the way up to 17. She's always a woman. It's got to be played twice, too. On the list. It is six. Billy Joel. It says on Wikipedia, Billy Joel claims this is six to eight time. And I was like, what does that mean? He claims it. Is there some dispute to that? I mean, you can hear it. One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six. It kind of swings, though, a little. Oh, Aaron, he's a truther. This song. No, I'm not. I'm just reading with him. This is a song where you cannot imagine a world where this song does not exist.

[94:05]Right? Just imagine, like, you were, imagine you play a record and this song is on it for the first time. You hear it for the first time. It would be mind-blowing. This is one of the most beautiful songs of all time. That's what I had, too. Absolutely beautiful. This song reminded me of, I think this is another Billy Joel song. She's Got a Way? Yeah. They sound very similar, but they're just absolutely beautiful songs, right? Yeah. We've talked about this before. The Kennedy Center Honors.

[94:30]Kennedy Center Honors does a Billy Joel event where they've got people up there doing all the Billy Joel songs. Garth Brooks comes up and does Allentown. You've got all these huge stars that do all these Billy Joel songs. For all the people that like taking our recommendations, Matt, your friend, check this one out. Do the Billy Joel Kennedy Center Honors. They're so good. Ben from Minneapolis sent me a picture I've got to send you as a potential Christmas present for you, Russell. Oh, nice. See if you like it. Ben sent it over and said he was thinking of you.

[95:01]Amazing. I hope it's me and a Speedo, because that is a great present. Let's see. Next up. Okay. Did we talk about Vienna? Aaron, what's your favorite kind of sausage? Get it right the first time. Okay. He wants to impress a girl. And Aaron, when you said to your mom, hey, what's the deal with these last two songs? I'm with you, Aaron. I mean, didn't know this at all, right? Forget about it. Yeah. I mean, this sounds like it belongs on like a Billy Joel, the musical.

[95:32]There was a Billy Joel musical. We might have talked about that once on a list, but he did a musical that was inspired by some of the songs on this album. Okay. Yeah. It feels like that's the one. Aaron, I was thinking about you when I heard this, though. There were things I was wondering. Because it's kind of like more funky, a little more disco. I was like, maybe Aaron will like that. But also later on, if you get into it, he starts doing that la, la, la, lo, lo, lo. And I realized Aaron a few weeks ago did not like that. He thinks it's a lazy way of a song to just do la, la, la's, right?

[96:02]Wait, did I say that? Yes, you did. It was Crosby, Stills, and Nash, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did. So I was thinking about you on this song, Aaron. It's like, I wonder if he likes this because there's these things he likes. It's kind of the skipper for me. Like, yeah, it is. It's the one where like. Once I hear she's always a woman, I'm kind of like, okay, I'm good. Yeah. Imagine Russ is a lawyer, right? And he is cross-examining. Wow, I wasn't going to say that, Russ. I don't like this with your address and your job.

[96:31]It makes me uncomfortable. Imagine Russ is a lawyer, right? You're on the witness stand. And he's like, do you remember when you said lo, lo, lo, and la, la, la is lazy? And you're like, I'm not sure. I might have said that. Aaron didn't say it, right? Now you guys are really new. This entire question. The court is out of order. Everybody has a dream. It finishes and then it swings back to the stranger. Whistling part is kind of a, it's kind of like a Pink Floyd type circular thing.

[97:00]Except the stranger is the second song. So it doesn't really work. I don't quite get what they did there, but I'm not sure. Yeah, whatever. It feels like it feels like a studio choice. I mean, I was torn. I thought if this ends that she's always a woman, this is a top 10 album. I agree. I think you're right. Yeah. But maybe seven songs isn't enough. Seven's pretty short. Yeah. Seven's pretty short. I feel like the people at Rolling Stone magazine have something against Billy Joel. They must, right? To only have one album. Doesn't seem like he's a guy that they get mad at.

[97:31]Like maybe like he ran over one of their mailboxes or something one time. Maybe they had the spotlight on him in Russia. They was like, turn that damn spotlight off. That was getting edited out too, Russell. It was too much of a bummer. I think it's an easy omission for the voters there so that they can get other songs. Other bands in or edgier stuff or, you know, it's like Billy Joel's fine. He's a massive star. He plays massive live shows. No, you know, he doesn't have fans who are going to go berserk online if he's not on the list because they're going to go see him live anyway.

[98:01]They don't care. So I think it's easy for Rolling Stone. Dude throws out Madison Square Garden like monthly for years in a row, right? Yeah, like he doesn't need Rolling Stone's validation. So they're like, yeah, I'll leave them off. Should I have an interest in going to one of those concerts? I guess I probably should, right? Like I should probably see Billy Joel before. If you haven't seen him, you should. Yeah, I saw him once. He's coming in, Russell, I think like November 12th. This will be after this episode comes out and I'm not going to be in town. I would love nothing more than to see him, but I can't go. Russell is going to Sweden for some reason.

[98:31]He can't, nobody can figure out why, but he suddenly bought a ticket to Sweden. At least Rob didn't bring up my Finland trip like he did last episode. Oh, I didn't know you were so quick to talk about your Finnish, Russell. That's crazy. Mom's out there. We could have totally got one more episode in tonight. It's only 146. Here's the deal. Here's the deal, guys. Okay. Gimme, gimme, gimme your thoughts on where this album is at 169. Okay. And I remember this is a mom-friendly episode.

[99:00]No. Tell you what, not nice if it's your mom. Okay. I'm just going to say that right now. The childlike chant of gimme, gimme, gimme usually means a desire for toy, ice cream, or candy. But for Swedish ladies of ABBA, they craved an all-night fuckfest. And I hate to say this right after Russ says this. Picklepriest.com. That's not me. I've got something in my head, and I have to say it or my mind's going to explode. Okay. Much like somebody in the movie Running Man. Yeah. I think of all the ways, and again, I hate to say this.

[99:36]Yeah. If you're going to catch your mom having sex, the 69 would be the worst. Dude on top or no? You go in, Rob, and you get- I didn't even think about dude on top with my mom.