Otis Redding: Otis Blue (1965)

[00:00]What do you say? What does your guy say? Two claps and a what? Give me two claps and a Ric Flair. Woo! There you go. I've already warned the upstairs tenant that there may be some loud noises and singing coming from the basement tonight. Tonight's the night. It's lit. Yep. And I thought about telling Jenny what I thought, but I didn't. Last week's episode happened last night, so I'm still kind of nicking around at night just being quiet. When she's around, you'd be quiet. When she goes to bed, you'd be loud again. She had a good day lifting,

[00:30]so I think we're in the clear for a little bit. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. I like to warn my roommate there are going to be loud noises too, but... Loud noises. Sound of fury signifying nothing. Yeah. If you hear somebody saying, I'm grinding the couch, I'm grinding the couch, that's the podcast. We're doing that for the podcast. Oh, God. Matt, so you knew somebody who's an adult male stripper? I don't know why I said adult. I wish I didn't. Worked at a place called Sharks, and I don't know where Sharks is. I never was there, but his last name rhymed with Shark, so we called him Sharky.

[01:00]I think his last name was Clark, so instead of Clark, we called him Sharky, and it was the greatest nickname of all time. And then he used to do all the KDWB like booty cruises. He was one of like the stalwarts of the... What exactly? You're going to have to go back. What exactly is a KDWB booty cruise? I have no idea. Yeah, I need to know about this. I have no idea. I just know that they would always have these two or three times a year, they'd have these booty cruises. See if you can... And where essentially it was like a cruise up and down the Mississippi or whatever, you know, you get on a boat for three hours.

[01:30]So, booty cruise. Go to the Facebook page. Maybe we can find pictures of them. Dave Ryan in the morning. See, so this is... When was the last time they posted? 17. There you go. Yeah, yep. 2017 is the last time they posted to the Facebook. Here they have a booty cruise. Now, you might think to yourself, oh, the booty cruise is going to be... It's on a paddle boat. Yeah. Right? How much booty... Is that the boat that we were on, Riverboat? Is that... Does that look like... That does look like it, doesn't it?

[02:01]I honestly, you know, I might have performed in a Rodgers and Hammerstein review on that boat. Oh, my God. Oh, what? Okay. At any time, did you see Sharky and he announced it's a booty cruise? No, a different... I think I was on a different night. Oh, Oklahoma, when the winds come rolling down these plains. Please put up your dress. And then it's like, oh, you know what else is plain? Anybody want to help me out? I started the joke. Why don't you guys edit? You guys know I do have... You have the Oklahoma on vinyl, right?

[02:30]Oh, yeah. Does it sound good, Russell? It's actually really good. It's one of the ones that's not scratched. I can verify. There is nothing worse than seeing the Oklahoma play and the lead who was supposed to sing Oklahoma cannot hit Oklahoma like it should be in the song. Oh, no, that's no good. Yeah, that's no good. Which happened to be... Oh, Oklahoma when the wind comes... You got to be able to hit that note. That's the one. That's the one thing you got to do. Guys, I'm warning you. I don't want you to do that. I don't want to ruin

[03:00]all my singing at the beginning because there's going to be some later. Oh. I'm looking forward to this. I'm ready. That's what we call a tease in the business. A tease. Keep you around. Normally, you're tickling my butt with a feather, but with that, you're kind of tickling my feather with your butt. Like, it's... You've upped the game. Okay? I'm excited. It's a reverse tickle. Reverse tickle? That's a good idea, Aaron. Let's think about that. Okay? I grab your hand and rub it on me and then I laugh and laugh about it. Oh, it's a reverse tickle.

[03:30]It's a good thing I don't work for you. In the business, we call this an RT. Okay? We're told not to call a real tickle anymore. Reverse tickle. Guys, I have figured out. I have procured us a sponsor, just so you know. Great. Oh. What's that? Cold Stone of Minot will be sending each of us hats. Yes. So we will all get Cold Stone of Minot hats. So we are officially sponsored by Cold Stone of Minot. Are they going to listen to the Cold Stone bit? Are they going to... Oh, probably. I don't know. Hopefully, the guy's in Vegas

[04:00]in two weeks. We're in Vegas on January 18th through the 22nd at the link. Now, I'm just going to say, who lives close? Jeez, who's getting in on the 18th? When I say this guy, when I see this... Wow, baller. When I see this guy in Vegas, I'm going to be looking right at his forearms. I'm going to be like, hmm? Hmm? You know what I mean? I might give him something like, oh, can you sand the cylinder? And I just want to see how he does it. I can tell you that he does not have very strong... Well, maybe like one of his forearms is strong, but both of them are not because he's the owner and I don't think he's... You got to check for calluses, too.

[04:30]I've been getting complaints about mine. Have you? Not enough. Not a real man. That's like when I got that massage that one time and they rubbed my right forearm and the lady was like, oh, my God, this is the most tight forearm I've ever felt. And I was like, I play a lot of racquetball. You were good at racquetball. We did. We played a lot of racquetball. We were talking about that. We had fun playing racquetball, late-night racquetball. Russ and I were talking about that, how we used to play racquetball until like 10, 30, 11 at night, just like it was a normal thing. We closed on the lifetime.

[05:00]Yeah, we'd play until our shirts were saturated and then it was like, we can't play anymore. Can you imagine if I played racquetball? If I played racquetball right now once until 11, it would take me two weeks to recover. I'd be like lost in the wilderness. I'd be like, I don't know what to do. My bedtime's all off. I'm telling you guys, I'm on a bender right now. Yes, let's hear about it. Average bedtime, about 3.30. Oh, my God. I'm dying. Oh, my God. Okay, but tomorrow... 3.30? Yeah, because I do what I want. Okay? Nobody tells me what to do on break, okay? And it's very sad. Break is coming to an end in a couple days,

[05:30]so I am in that phase now where I just am like a full-blown, like I'm on a full-blown just staying up late bender. Like it's Friday night, but it's already the Sunday night of your break. I'm exhausted. I can't... The idea that it's Friday night makes me so tired already. I just can't stand it. I just gotta... Tomorrow, I'm just gonna sleep until like 3, reset. No problem. Rob, you were mentioning playing racquetball all night. I don't even know if I could get in that little door in a racquetball court now. Like is there like a 10% chance I like injure myself or get stuck or something or not? Russell was legitimately good

[06:00]at racquetball. Like if there's one thing... I picture Russell in my head and I say a lot of things about Russell, but I have always pictured Russell as an athlete. And racquetball was a huge part of that. Russell is a legit athlete. Now, when you got in there with Aaron, Aaron is athletic. He just poked your ass. But he would hit you with a ball every fucking time. Yes. It was terrifying. You would get a ball right in the back. Yes. Every once in a game. Yes. Jeez. He'd be like, I'm so sorry. And he had to believe him because he's Aaron. I never hit anybody on purpose. I may have hit Zach

[06:30]from Colorado because anytime he hit me, I made sure to do the no-sell. And he hated that. It was the one thing I ever had on him athletically. He'd be like, just act like it hurts. And like it did. But I could tamp it down because that was the one thing I had on him as an athlete. You're like Kane from WWE. You just walk right through that shit. Like it means, like they wallop you over the head with a chair and you're like, no, nothing. Yep, that was it. You probably, you probably also no-sell that because his wife is weird, right? Number one on the weird list, Rob. Rob, that's where you hit the song. Boom.

[07:00]Boom. No, that's not, well, that's not how we start. We don't start with a song. We start with a gong. Okay. We started. It's very close. Oh, is this an episode? In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone Magazine. This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own. Unless, unless you disagree close enough. So please sit back and enjoy. Beck did it better. We are all the way up to album 178.

[07:31]Okay. 178 in the motherfucking house. And from 1965, we have the King of Soul. Wow. Otis Redding. Wow. Otis Blue. First Otis Redding album, right? And maybe what, only our second or third Memphis Soul album? Jeez, I'm so stoked. Guys, we're going back to Memphis. We're going back to Stax today. This, I can tell you, Russ got on and he announced tonight is going to be a banger. Okay, so in Russ we trust. And Russ, I'm going to start by saying, you know,

[08:00]I know that you've been coming to us for advice and I heard and I just like that now instead of coming to us for advice, you said, hey, Rob, I have an idea for a song. Can I write it down and you do it? And I said, of course, Russell, I'm happy to help. So let's play that song right now. Russell came up. He's going to take some of our advice. Let's listen to the, okay, Rob, let's turn on the radio and just hear this great song that Russell wrote. Okay, again, Russell wrote this. Wrote it. What's up, everybody? Welcome to K-Rob. K-R-O-B. We got a song today

[08:30]sent in by Russell. That would go under the R's. Oh, yeah. When my work is through, I listen to records in my living room. Love it. When I am done with them, I file them on my shelf using a simple system. Yeah, but I think I need to teach my roommates how to correctly put the records away.

[09:00]I think she will appreciate this lesson of mine. Think about it. I will simply explain it's alphabetical by the last name. Yes, that's true. We should follow the system. Simple system. You're a good listener. Let me know if you have any questions. That's important to say. I think thank you

[09:31]is what she'll exclaim for the time I take to explain. I think she'll appreciate this lesson of mine. I will just tell her to change. I can't see anything going wrong with this exchange. I love

[10:00]living with someone else. Just put the records alphabetically on the shelf. Yeah. All right. When you want to hear about the greatest New Year's Eve, I was like, let's make some cocktails. Vikings are on. Let's get out the creamed violet. Do a purple cocktail to aviation from booze and vinyl. The purple cocktail. Yeah. Put on the Prince album. She was like, not sure where the Prince album was. I went right to the P section, pulled it out, put it on. And the P section

[10:31]has got to be the best section. Go right to the P. Well, it feels like you should like stop making a couple of other stops on the way. That is not the Chuck Berry section, Aaron. I was, that was the P I was talking about. That's what you were going for? Pearl Jam? Yeah, Pearl Jam. Listen, this is Beck Did It Better. I've got three guys here and we want to talk about Otis Redding. I've got Matt Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing tonight? Good, Rob.

[11:00]I want to rock you. I want you to rock me slow. Oh, I could do that. Thanks for having me. I got to say, Matt, of all the kids, I think I, of all the people on this podcast, I think I could raise as a kid. I think you'd be number one. Guys, who's your number one kid you'd want on this podcast? If I, if one of us was your kid, who would it be? Me. Aaron. Yeah, Aaron. Wouldn't it be Aaron? I'd want to raise myself. You'd want to raise yourself? That's so sick. I bet Matt was self-sufficient by like the age of eight. Mm-hmm. I bet he was emancipated.

[11:31]I was, I was, I was emancipated. Yep. Get me away from those dang parents. I noticed that none of you picked me. So, joke's on you because I was actually a great kid. Okay. I had lots of thoughts and I let people know all the time. You're good at eating eggs as we've discussed. Well, the problem is, I think if I was a member of a country club, then probably I'd have you, Rob, because you'd be you're a perfect country club kid, but I'm not a member of a country club, so I can't. You get a discount on the tennis and golf lesson combo.

[12:00]We have talked about this, okay? Okay. I didn't use it just for the cigarette machine that was also downstairs. Just a straight up cigarette machine. I could have been buying cigarettes the whole time. For like five bucks a pack, I'd send them to the future and make a billion dollars. You know where we used to get cigarettes as kids? Where's that? Whoa. The bowling alley. We would steal them from the bowling alley. Now, how did you get them? I've never seen you smoke a cigarette in all the years we've been hanging out together. I've smoked probably less than five cigarettes in my life, but we did. One of the five I've probably had in my life

[12:30]is we did, I would call it geifling a couple packs from a bowling alley. That's such a great word. So, Russell, how exactly did you geifle a couple packs from the bowling alley? Are you like, hey, what are those shoes back there? Like, hey, oh no, I dropped my ball on your foot. Then you take them or what? I think there was like a side room where, you know, bowlers must have gone to hang out and talk about bowling or something and you kind of looked in there and you didn't really know what, as like a 12-year-old, you didn't really know what was going on in there, but we saw cigarettes once and we geifled a few packs.

[13:01]So there was just, your story explained nothing what I wanted to know. So you just went in and there were just loose packs of cigarettes around and you just grabbed them? They were like loose packs of cigarettes in like a side room and these are complimentary movie guys. We took some. So the concept you have is that people are bowling and they're like, hey, let's talk about bowling. The guy's like, you know what? I'd love to. It's so fucking loud out here though. All I can hear are these bins and balls. Let's go to the side room where we could jam a bowling. Why else is there a side room and a bowling alley? What else are they doing in there?

[13:30]I don't know. I think you're right. You have a pizza party in there after you go bowling. It could very well be like private party room in the bowling alley. Aaron, you're right. Apple Place Bowl, Apple Valley. I don't know that it still exists, but if it did, Matt's buddy out there, I'd recommend it. They got cigarettes laying around. It's always a good one. Russell in Minneapolis, how are you doing tonight? Rob, I know a lot about my booze and vinyl book, and I know about the espresso martinis I shook,

[14:01]but I don't know much about algebra. Could you come over here and look? Is this what a slide rule is for? Oh, wow. I like the idea that they're using a slide rule to get to the moon, and they're like, we use this computing power. Russell's also measuring his wang with one. I was like, yeah. It doesn't slide as far as you think it would. No. I'm using the inside of these calipers. When you use the slide rule, do you go from the base to the end,

[14:32]or I don't even know where to start with that slide rule? You know, I don't think I've ever measured my penis. Can I be real with you guys? It'd be so demoralizing. Me either. No, I'm not going to measure my penis. I've never done it. I mean, guys, have I been naked around rulers before? Of course. Okay? All right. The teacher. I mean, of course. Aaron, I am not getting naked at work. Okay? That's like the number one place I do not get naked. What's the number two place?

[15:01]Yeah. Number two place I haven't been naked? Honestly, probably a bowling alley. I think if you find yourself naked at a bowling alley, you're in a bad place. You got some questions to answer. Yeah. Like, if I saw somebody naked at a bowling alley, I'd be like, that guy's fucked up. He's done something fucked up, or he's fucked up. Something's wrong. This is not normal. This is not normal. If you saw a naked guy at the mall, you'd be like, well, I could see that. Like, there's, you know, there's clothing. You run out, you get scared. There's a spider. Whatever. But the bowling alley, like, you're like, I'm never putting any money on that air hockey table again.

[15:31]Right? It feels good when I sit on it. What? The air. It blows up. I had a buddy once that was walking around naked at, uh, it was like father-daughter day at St. Olaf. And he was riding around in a scooter naked. That's not good. Story for another day. What? Uh, yeah, it seems like a good one. Some people would say that's actually funny. I got to say being on a scooter naked too. No, thanks. They're a chain, chain driven, hard pass. Oh, Hey, if Rob, when I introduce here, and I've got a story about the person who might've been riding around naked when, when Rob introduced here in here, I've got Aaron out in California.

[16:09]Now, Aaron was recently a personal trainer, but he, it turns out the weights were too heavy for him. So he had to give his two week notice. Did my best. I did my best. That's pretty good. I couldn't, I couldn't live. I got a story about that maybe from a rolling going, but, uh, I don't, I'm just so stoked to talk about this album. I love this album. I love Otis Redding. You guys know that. Um, but I do think Rob, maybe you're tired and your love is growing cold, but my love's growing stronger as this affair grows old.

[16:37]So let's talk about Otis Blue. Let's talk about Otis Redding. Aaron, should we have an affair? I mean, we could start. Is that how affairs start? I don't think you announce it like that. I think they have to. I could, I could, I could do some handholding maybe, but I'm not. I'm not sure about it. Listen, if it's anything like movies I've been watching online, we might have to massage each other here. And I think that's how it starts. Okay. No, give it a shot. We can cook some vegan food. First, it starts with an ad that I have to wait five seconds for before I skip.

[17:02]Okay. And if you laughed at that, that's from our porn heads out there. Uh, listen, let's get into the voicemail. Aaron was laughing the hardest. Freaks on the phone. Why not? The freaks on the phone. Now, today's voicemail is not a voicemail. No, rather, this is a very normal way to send somebody information. This is a link to a Google drive audio file about, this is magic.

[17:30]Mike calling about his experience seeing you two in the, like the sphere. Did he go to the sphere in the sphere? So I think he saw him twice. I, so I have cut this down. This is section. We'll just call this section one. Okay. And if people don't want to hear this, call the voicemails. Feel free. Don't insult him this close to the Vegas trip. Oh yeah. Already. We definitely have to check the front desk for packages this time. Hey, Hey, do we have any packages here? Yeah. Can you just run that through a quick scanner? All right.

[18:02]Let's listen. Yeah. Promised a call in for the U2 shows. Just got back last night. Hold on. Pause, pause, pause. Is he, is he like using audacity? Like that was the clearest audio. I know he's using a professional recording. No, he definitely did. Yeah. He, he heard the call. He wants to have good sound quality on our podcast. A hundred percent hats off to magic Mike for using right. A real thing to send us a audio file overdrive. Again, very normal way to reach out to strangers. Here we go. But my U2 shows possibly getting to go to a third one in January.

[18:35]I'm not sure if it's going to be the same week. You guys are in January though. Hopefully it is show. I was the crazy fan that stayed out all night and was able to secure a spot on the rail. I was like, Oh, I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one.

[19:01]I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. We call him David around here, right? He's not the edge. He's David. I couldn't remember. I was going to say Brian. I can't remember. David. We love you, David. Matt, you were always ripped on the edge. I always loved him when he was in the brood with Gangrel. Then he tag teamed with Christian. Him as a solos wrestler, great, great, great champion. He bulked up.

[19:30]He carried a lot more weight than he was meant to. He really worked hard to move up to the heavyweight division. Now, was the edge a guy, a buff blonde guy, was the edge a guy, a buff blonde guy, or was the edge a guy, a buff blonde hair? Yes. There's like 100 of those guys. I get them all confused. He had kind of a vampire backstory, right? Yep. Oh, okay. Actually, there's two guys I know for a fact have a vampire backstory. That's crazy. That's not narrowing it down to who's a vampire. Well, it's Christian. Yeah. He was with Gangrel, the brood. Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about.

[20:00]Fun. I don't know what you're talking about. That's insane to me. All right. Let's get back with the voicemail. He got the first concert up front. Good for him. By the way. That sounds rad. It felt like just the people on the floor were the only people around me. You kind of forgot about all the people in the seats. The common folk, if you will. The sound of the sphere, no matter where, either place I sat, was fucking amazing. Like, I've never heard a concert sound this good.

[20:33]It was just, I mean, you could hear the residents on the guitar. You could hear... Just every... Russell, can you explain real quick? Residents on guitar? Actually, this is not the... I will be saying the word residents at least twice later in the podcast. Oh, my God. I have it in my notes. Oh, all right. Is this about you being a... Rob, I'm also going to be using the term mouth cavity. Just a warning. I think I know where this is going.

[21:00]I like it. You know it. Russell. I think I got it. I like it. Is this when you were an RA and you thought you were a residence assistant? You're like, oh... Oh, you're doing some throat singing? Dude. Rob knows what I'm doing. Yes. Yeah, I got it. I know what's happening. Single note, and it wasn't just a wash of sound. It was like you were listening to headphones. It was just so good. The drawback of standing is that you don't get to see all the visuals very well. It's, you know, it's like you're front row in a movie theater, right?

[21:32]So it's like really you're like having to crane your neck to see anything. There was a lot of stuff that was happening way up high. That I didn't really see necessarily without like really having to crane my neck. But you have the benefit of the fact that like, yeah, the band is performing right in front of you. You're feeling that energy. There's just nothing like... Are you guys sitting up front to see the band or you want to see the whole visual thing? I think if I was going to go to a U2 concert there, I would go to see the visual effects.

[22:02]Because I've seen them, you know, I've followed a lot on trying to figure out and seeing like these desert scenes. And these smoke going in the mountains. And you can go in there and you can see like giraffes are coming to like... This is not at the concerts and stuff. But like this place looks phenomenal. And so, but if you're a big U2 fan. Hello, I'm a big U2 fan. You know, I think you would go in front if you can. Like I applaud Magic Mike 69 for being that guy who's waiting outside and then gets on the rail.

[22:33]Especially in front of David. Well, I tell you. So if you don't know that... The sphere is like a big 360 degree thing where they can put up a screen. They can have a change. Wait, what shape is the... What shape is it? Unknown. We don't know. We're not sure. Okay. It's not... It's in Las Vegas. And so basically they did this thing and the sphere is playing images all around them. Right? So what do you think, Russell? Do you get by the band or you want to see the video show?

[23:00]I think I want to see the video show. I think that's what sets it off and makes it different. I think I want to see the whole show. I want to be back. I want to be able to take in everything. Take in everything. Wow. Let's go into where Mike goes here. Being right in front of a band. And that kind of goes with any concert. You know, those big stadium tours. It's just like you're so disconnected from the band when you're further back. My experience from the back. So the back seats I had were level 406, front row of level 406. So it was like center. Front row.

[23:30]And I was basically in the center of that row. So it was almost like I was center, center of the front row of the top. But those... Those were awesome seats other than... They were awesome seats for the screen. That was like just an amazing experience for the visuals, which were just... The biggest I've actually been in times 100, right? I mean, everything is just so big, in your face, amazing. And so if you guys get a chance, definitely try to go when you're there in January.

[24:07]Okay, listen, I'm just going to stop you right there, Mike. No, we won't be going in January. Wait, are we sure? 100%. We're going to dinner. We're going... We are not going to dinner. We're going to a dinner. Matt already side swiped it. We're going to a dinner. An actual dinner? I'm going to make a reservation. I'm going to go to a dinner. Aaron, you and I will have dinner. We'll have pizza next to each other at the Sportsbook. That's what more do you want? That would be a healthy dinner. That sounds nice. That does sound nice.

[24:30]It does sound nice. It does sound nice. But I'm going for the visuals too, because I've seen a band up close. I've seen the Teenage Prayers at the 400 bar. I was right by the stage. So I've seen what a band looks like. I want to see the visuals, man. Now, I have to say, he said that later that those tickets are about $150, and now he thinks they're more like $300. So they're going up in price a little bit. But I thought $150, front row of a balcony to see U2 in the Sphere, I was like, that's way cheaper than what I thought they were going to be charging. That's not bad at all. For sure. And I will say this, Russell, I did see on TikTok,

[25:00]somebody got the Russell, what I call the Russell seats, where they went to the Sphere and they were below, the balcony. And they didn't realize those seats existed. So when you look up, you just see the ceiling, like the balcony. You don't see the Sphere. I saw that too, yeah. It would be absolutely brutal. That's a crusher. And we would tell Russell, like, Russell, make sure you're not under the balcony. Russell would be like, these guys fucking telling me what to do. I'd be like, hey, if it rains, we're covered. It looks like over there, all we've got is the Darren Aronofsky's

[25:31]postcard from Earth. So kind of like that, the giraffes and the elephants and all this stuff that I was talking about. That sounds cool. I would check that out. Absolutely not. Hard pass. Sounds like it has a little bit of culture to it. Aronofsky, don't need it. I will be frying my brain over four days. So, sorry. Aaron, we're only going, how's it going with you? Oh, it's going great. We went swimming today. That was nice. It was good to get out of the house. Oh, I got two things. I got two things. One is I bought iodized salt and I wasn't sure how I would feel about this,

[26:03]but it's not that bad. It's not bad. Bro, have you not been doing any iodized salt? No, I don't do iodized salt. And go, go gadget goiter. You got to look out, Aaron. You're just the kind of guy that would get a goiter. I decided I should do some iodized salt. But like when we go to Airbnb or whatever, like you use the Morton's, I don't like the taste of it, but I took a chance on some iodized salt. It's not bad. And, you know, I feel like it's going to help my health. So that's good. There is absolutely no difference between the Morton's salt and other iodized salt.

[26:33]Dude, you can taste it. You can taste it. That is, that cannot be true. Telling you, you can taste it. In a blind taste test, I could taste it. Absolutely. Okay. You know what we are doing in Vegas? I'm getting different kinds of salts in Vegas. I've changed my mind. Yeah, this is a salt off. Okay. Matt, what's your favorite kind of salt? I have no idea. I feel like, I feel like you and Russell, when you, you know, and Rosie and I are talking about something and I'm like, this is just completely, what in the hell are you talking about? Iodized salt versus not.

[27:00]You don't have any like truffle salt. You don't have any pink Himalayan salt. No, no, bro. I was making fun of Aaron, but I feel like making fun of you too now. I usually just do the diamond kosher salt. And then I recently got some Maldon flaky sea salt for, you know, finishing. I got my son to eat some peanut butter toast today. Cause I put some sea, some Maldon salt on it. Cause he won't even eat peanut butter toast. That's a whole different story for another time. Along with Matt's stripper friend. We heard that already, I guess. How about this? Should we do a kid exchange, Aaron? You send your kid to me for like three weeks. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Let's do it.

[27:30]We need a lot of video of it though. Oh yeah. He's going to find out. Well, it'll be like, he'll be like, what's for dinner. I'm like, I don't know. I thought you were planning it. Like, I don't know. I'm busy. I think Rob would last less than 12 minutes with Aaron's son. I just have a feeling Aaron's son would bring an energy that Rob just is not ready for. He's no, I think they would, they would hit it off. He would come back and be an iPad expert. Yeah. Well, that's all right. Dad, I got more iPad time. Any other kid, my age already. It's all over Rob. You should check out the, check out this vegan cooking show.

[28:01]Rob showed me. Oh, you gotta wait. Watch. All the way to the end. Yeah. Make sure you watch all the way to the end. But the thing I'm actually really excited. So the iodized salt, I think is not bad. And I think it's maybe going to improve some of our health outcomes in my household. What I'm really excited about though, and it was fun. It was fun. I finally today, I know at least one of our listeners had hipped us to this on the, on the thread that we're on the text thread. But this new guys, this T-Pain live show, this fucking rules.

[28:32]Like it's so much fun. Pull it up. You got to pull it up. It's so fun. What are you talking about? What did I send you the other day? T-Pain singing what? You said Tennessee whiskey the other day, which is great. Singing Tennessee whiskey. Pull that up. But he also covers like Daughtry. He covers Ozzy Osbourne, Luther Vandross, Ozzy Osbourne. It's so fun. Your journey. It's so fun. And it's available everywhere now. Yeah. And he sounds great.

[29:00]Ever. Like I've been seeing this stuff on social media. Like where's he been hiding this voice? Like why? And it's so, it feels like T-Pain's like a, he's like an auto tune guy, isn't he? He's right. He'd been doing auto tune for years and it turns out he can absolutely rip it. I'm going to come when I pass out. That's auto tune. Hello? What? I would say. I get it. Can I just say this? If we go into Russell's hotel room and he's Jessica Rabbit is paused on the screen and Russell has his belt around his neck and stone cold.

[29:34]Dude, I'll take the, I'll take the credit for that. You can tell everyone about that. That's an auto tune. You know what I mean? Right? Listen to this. Oh, this is fire. I know. Might have to let this play for a while. He's so good. Wait till it kicks in too, which is holy cow. What a great intro to this album too.

[30:03]Yeah. This is amazing. Is it any surprise that T-Pain is a talented artist? That's not surprising to me at all. It's like, it's like when you, what it reminded me of is those videos where Brian Scalabrini just destroys dudes. Yeah. Those, I love those videos, Aaron. Right?

[30:34]You're in the war. It's so good. This is so good. All I had heard is the War Pigs. Cause you know, that's my jam. Right. You did War Pigs too. It only has 404,000 more views than hot sauce on feet. Wow. And so it was so fun. Cause he also covered change is going to come. And so it was this, like the, the album is of such of the lineage of Sam Cokotas Redding.

[31:03]It reminds like the, the vibe of the album is so similar to Sam Cooke at the Copa where, except it's like if Sam Cooke got to be whoever he wanted at the Copa. And so it was so much fun to listen to today. So that, that really made my day. I was doing that alternated with Otis Redding and it was super fun. Cause like, I just love to hear those. And I'm usually against deluxe editions, as you guys know. Yeah. But I had the deluxe edition of this thing on. So like, it's like 40 tracks and all day, like wherever it was in the house. Like once in a while I could hear Otis yell and then I put T-Pain on.

[31:30]I heard T-Pain doing his thing. It was, it was a good day. So yeah. Matt, shout out to you for tipping people to the, to the T-Pain album. What's up, Rob? How do I get your job? I mean, I need your job so bad. Like, did you work today? Yeah. Yeah. Damn. Damn. I had to talk about who gets an excellent rating and who gets a successful rating. Are you, are you, Rose? At a two hour calibration session. Are you required to give somebody a not satisfactory rating? Like, do you have to judge everybody? And then some people are, does not meet expectations or something like that.

[32:03]Making, making Aaron. Talk about work at night is so funny to me. This is my favorite bit. I don't have to give anybody a not satisfactory. How many people you got underneath you? 13, 14? Aaron's going to take, Aaron's going to take 12 minutes off tomorrow on Monday morning because he had to do this right now. He's going to be like, no, fuck, I'm on the clock. How many people, how many people got, does, did not meet expectations or whatever, whatever your guy's rating system is? Zero. Nobody's going to get a does not meet expectations. Hey, if, if you guys were my managers and we're going to put me on a performance, I'm going to put you on a performance.

[32:34]I'm going to put you on a performance. I'm going to put you on a performance. I'm going to put you on a performance plan for this podcast. What would you say to me? Well, what do I need to do? I would say, how's it rolling going with you, Russell? It's time to perform. You're on the spot. Fuck you boss. You're not going to fire me. Yeah. What are you going to do? You're going to go to your, you're going to go to your boss and report me, Aaron. Is that what you're going to do? Hey, give me some, why don't you, why don't you play John Henry's hammer a few more times? That's, that was great. Man, that, that whole joke just went right. I mean, nobody even, that was, I tried that and it just, nobody got it.

[33:01]You're going to fire me like you fired Dorothy in the pumpkin. I was fit a few years ago on Halloween. I didn't fire the lady. It wasn't me who fired the lady in the pumpkin. It's a nice callback though. It wasn't me who fired that lady. You're going to make me go to Portland and stay in, stay in the, stay in the lowest grade hotel in the city. Is that what you're going to do here? I did do that. We're going to do a trust fall, but just avoid these needles that are in the grass. That's all my work. All my greatest hits. You're pulling them up. So what you're saying is I'm getting a raise. Yeah.

[33:30]You're going to raise and a promotion and now we want to know how it's rolling. I'm going with you. Roll it going. Things are going good. A couple of things to cover. I told you guys the other day I was out on records. I lied. I lied. Just when I thought I was out. So today. Pull me back in Johnny. It's time to talk about. Oh yeah. That sting does not need to be 18 seconds long. There's no reason.

[34:00]I think that's, I think that's the right length. So quiet and loud too. It makes no sense. That's what she said. Russell, just like the Guinness Book. I've never measured it, but. Just like the Guinness Book, you're full of records. Okay. Now hop off that little motorcycle and show us what you got. It's time to clip your fingernails. So tonight I was, we did like a little family holiday thing. I was at my mom's and I was driving back to Minneapolis going up Cedar. And then I was getting on 62, Matt. So I'm going by the Mall of America, going Crosstown, getting back on 35, coming downtown.

[34:31]And I really. I realize I'm almost out of gas. I'm almost out of gas, but I have told you guys, I hate downtown gas stations. The downtown gas stations here are the worst. Like some bad shit's going to happen. There's just weird, too much weird stuff going on in the downtown gas stations. I'm out. Did you get off at Portland and head over to the SA across from No Name Records? Matt, I got off at Portland. I went over to the SA right there. This is so gross. I filled my tank up and I've already told the upstairs tenant I'm going to be back in like a half hour.

[35:03]So I filled the tank up. I'm ready to go. I look across the street. No Name Records is right there. And I'm like, what can you do? How do I not go over there? I know I hate records and it's just a waste of money. But why would I not go? It's just a siren song. I Google. They're open till 8 p.m. I've got another hour. There's an open parking spot in there. Perfect spot to go. I got to go in. Right. Like it was calling for you. Oh, it's a sign. So I went in there and, you know, it's weird.

[35:31]You guys may know this better. I'm coming to the realization record stores have very different levels of records like in the store. Like some of them have stuff. Ninety nine percent of the stuff is stuff you've never heard of. I can't imagine why anyone would ever buy it. This is coming from us nerds who are listening to all these albums. But some of them have a ton of like well-known records that are used. No Name Records is kind of on the sketchier quality, I would say.

[36:00]But it's a great store. So here's the four I came up with. Actually, I had one point I got worried I was going to have to walk out with nothing. I was like, I have to get something. Aaron's told me I have to buy something. I have to do a pity buy or something. I mean, I usually buy if I go in. Yeah. So here's what I ended up coming out with. First one I picked Leonard Skinner. Second helping. It's got Sweet Home Alabama as the opening track. I mean, it seems cool. What else is on there? I don't know, Aaron. It's not all the hits. There's according to everything I could Google in there in the in the quick time.

[36:33]I tried. It is the second best Leonard Skinner album. There's another one that's got all of the other hits. All right. But I figured if it's the second best one, I can I can buy that one, right? I think so. Russell, you got Leonard. You got Leonard Skinner. By the way, Leonard Skinner. You know what they named their band after? Their principal. Yeah, I think there's a principal who said that they'd never like do anything with their lives. That's great. That would be so baller to be that principal, to be named Leonard Skinner. And somebody you taught becomes so famous that they make fun of you.

[37:03]My dream come true. It'd be like if someone if someone if was named Beck did it better, we had to pay him all these royalties on all the money we're making. Rob, seriously, are we going to ever make like penny one? Yeah, bro. I got these Cold Stone cards coming. Didn't you hear about that? What's the resale value of those hats? Well, yeah, there's not even cards. It's just hats. I assume millions of dollars. Second album I picked up was Cats.

[37:33]Stevens, now Yusuf, Islam. It's teaser and Firecat, which featured Wind and Peace Train. Oh, wow. I don't actually know those songs. Do the Wind. Yeah, you do, Rob. This is so good. This is one of my favorite songs ever. It's a good one. The good one. Aaron, do you have a cat? Stevens? Yeah. I think I do. Yeah. I think I have a cat. I think I've got a cat Stevens hole in my brain. The YouTube video for this is definitely some kid playing with a strace.

[38:03]Squirrel don't like squirrels. Makes me uncomfortable. Yeah, that's so gross. Weird. I've said that's how you get monkey pox. Ironically. Oh, something to think about. I saw Wind and Peace Train is the opening and closing track. I was like, everything in the middle has got to be good then, too. So I got to get that one right. Mm hmm. The next one. I don't know if we've ever talked about this artist. I think he's the artist who does the what's the what's the long song from piano bars about

[38:30]the boat that goes down in California. Edmund Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald. Is that Gordon Lightfoot? Yes. Yeah. So it doesn't have this one on here, but instead it is a different song. I love. Wait, how is there anybody from Minnesota who doesn't know that's Gordon Lightfoot? I thought that was like. No, I know. Aaron, I forget your name half the time. I've known you for 30 years. Oh, God. It's so long. The album is Gordon Lightfoot. It's Sundown. Check out the title track for this one. It's such a good song. I don't know if you guys know this one. All right.

[39:01]This song is good. I've seen this album in multiple record stores, and every time I'm kind of like hemming and hawing, and finally it's just like, you know what? I need that album. So I got it. Oh, I like it. There is not a dad record collection anywhere that does not have Gordon Lightfoot in it. Russell. One of my tips, my little tips from last week are my facts, and I left it off was about Gordon Lightfoot in this song. This is very weird that you're bringing this up.

[39:30]This song was written about. A chick, somebody named Kathy Smith. Kathy Smith went to jail for supplying the drugs that killed Jim Belushi. John Belushi. Oh, no. John Belushi. Wow. Jim Belushi's dead? Don't say that. I'm not even joking about that. It's John Belushi, right? He's the one in Animal House. He's the more famous one. Yeah. Am I saying that right? Wow. He's the talented one. Have you guys ever seen Red Heat with Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Belushi, Jim Belushi?

[40:03]Very good. I was actually out with some friends. This was like three years ago, and we were listening to some music, having some drinks, and someone started doing like, well, what's your favorite song? And this was when I was in the zone of Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye. That was my jam. I listened to it over and over. That's what I proposed. And one of the people that was in the group with us proposed Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot. I listened to it. I was like. That's a great call. That is a great song. So I picked that up tonight, too. I'm adding that one to my math soft jams.

[40:33]Yes. That's a good soft jam. And then I got one last one. I had one of those the other night, man, on New Year's Eve. Did you? Too much champagne. Hey. What is Matt's fault? She called it Matt's soft jams, and I was like, well, don't say that. That doesn't help. She did do a little dirty talk with me, though, Aaron. You know what she said first? I want to go to sleep. I was like, damn, I know what that means.

[41:01]You want to. But you can't resist. You can't resist this. She's addicted. Yeah. She's addicted to what the dick did. I mean. She can't get. She's putting Narcan in. Oh, God. Last one I picked up, Aaron. I think you'll appreciate. What? What was that, Rob? That's my wife doing Narcan after I addicted her down so well. You asked. When you have to explain the joke, it's. No, I love explaining jokes.

[41:31]You guys. Hey. Just. Let you know. Anytime you want me to explain one of my jokes. Let me know. Happy to do it. I did. I did have a comment from a person. I just know they have paid part of the rent in this house. They didn't ask me. They said, they said, what would happen if Rob's wife ever listened to the podcast? I mean, what if the sky was upside down? Like, it doesn't. It would never happen. You know what I mean? Like, what if my grandma was a bike? Like, it's never going to happen. So it doesn't matter. What if your uncle is a monkey?

[42:01]Yeah. Yeah. I just, I mean, I don't know. I mean, you don't think I say these same things to her all the time. Oh, I don't. We don't see each other. I'm do this podcast a lot. The last album I picked up. This was another one where I had to Google it and see if this was like, what was the best album by this artist? At least one list that I looked at had this was the number one air. And you might know, you might have this one. It's Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston. Yes. That's her first album.

[42:30]First album. Yes. With the orange cover. With saving all the orange cover. Yes. Yes. I don't know what the hit song is or the best one is in, but I think it's probably saving all my love, but it's also got a Teddy Pendergrass duet on there. Gosh, what else is on there? That is number 249 on the list. Russell, we'll be getting to it. No, it's not Whitney. It's the, it's the orange one where she looks like the, like Cleopatra kind of. That's the one right there. You give good love, right? Also the greatest love of all I think is on there. Greatest love of all.

[43:00]Was that, was that on the NBA? Video, Russell, am I thinking of that? I don't know. I was watching a few of the NBA ones the other day, though. There cannot be somebody dunking to the greatest love of all. I think, I think it's on there. You might. Unless it's like maybe a Clyde Drexler or something. Yeah. Julius Irving. Julius Irving was the greatest love of all. The doctor. I've watched this NBA, I watched this so much that it triggered me. Like when you said the greatest, I'm like, oh, I think that's on the NBA superstars video. It really is sick that you know that, I think.

[43:31]It's wonderful. It's, it's such a strange. It's only. Rob, what is your Wi-Fi speed? Watching this YouTube thing, I was like, man. We need to compare Wi-Fi speeds again. Yeah. We need to. Let's check on, yeah. I got some stuff taking up heavy bandwidth. I've got some 3D 4K stuff that I'm downloading. We better check those downloads now. So the, so those were the four I picked up. I stopped at four because I realized I had told the upstairs roommate I was going to be home in like 20 minutes. And then I made a stop for like 30 to 40 minutes that was unaccountable.

[44:02]expected so that was what i did did you bring anything home for her or was it the way to use it was for her what yeah yeah yeah whitney yeah whitney houston's for her yeah i got her whitney houston yeah yeah it says russ real big on the if you guys remember the last two records i got her were both scratched and like unlistable so i don't think that's the route i'm gonna go anymore there's one other thing i needed to chat with you guys about we said we were not i told you guys i was not going to bring this up again until someone brought it up the other day we were out watching

[44:30]some football games with some friends someone brought it up it's back it's the elite eight of the dvd it's back the dvd is back everybody has been waiting for this for sure the elite eight and rob i don't know are we gonna let you guys vote we're still doing the same voting pattern you still know how to work the instagram of course i'm an instagram superstar if you guys remember

[45:00]the first matchup on our elite eight is the comedy section it's dumb and dumber versus uncle buck and the great outdoors combo pack oh the combo pack is hard easy for me it's a great combo pack but dumb and dumber is the greatest i told you it's going to be dumb and dumber versus godfather the worst that's the best

[45:30]i think this is the the loyola maramount division or one of these schools that no one's ever heard of it's the action movies it's fight club versus kill bill which one advances to the final four fight club kill bill oh rob i gotta go kill bill whoa rob hates agreeing with me but he's gotta do i gotta go kill bill i just too many guys were like fight club it's his dual personality and i was like well then who was he talking to

[46:00]underground when he's fighting because they talk to each other for long periods of time where all the guys around him like who's he talking to he's talking to nobody so there's a chance that the voters out there if they really if they really whip the votes could come back and take that one over but it's gonna be tough all right the next one is the sports movies i think this is one of the toughest ones ever i love both of them it's major league versus slap shot easy major league lance i i'm going to slap shot if they didn't have the corny ending where

[46:30]jake went and you know had his catcher's gear on and went and made out with the chick i would a little different but slap shot not the court not the not the corny ending in slap shot though the end of slap shot it's great it's out starts twirling around i have said i have for the longest time slap shot is the best sports movie of all time because it's so underrated nobody remembers it as a sports movie or anything they never add it to the list i have to go slap shot that is crazy to me man read me right fucking that's the best movie of all time i've ever seen i've ever seen

[47:00]that's the best movie of all time i've ever seen that's the best movie of all time i've ever seen that's the best movie of all time i've ever seen that's the best movie of all time i've ever seen you were talking about this woman's place he pulls down her outfit with his cleats with his baseball cleats dress yeah with his cleats it's hot as hell and he's you know what he took the bullpen car over to her house yeah i mean we've all been there that's that's our equivalent of going down to st louis or whatever you know what i mean like that's us in the bullpen car if there's a girl like that said hey i'll have sex with you tonight all you have is a bullpen card i wouldn't even think twice i'd kill anybody who's in my way to get that bullpen car you take

[47:30]a river oh a hundred percent okay and then i get there and she'd be like i want to go to sleep little do you know that's my erotic phrase that's my turn on uh it's it's major league aaron who do you like more mad or i pick one yeah it's hard for me i like i don't i don't like voting against paul newman uh one of the all-time greats but i i think i think i will vote major league yes it's the one i've seen the most i don't know i would put blood durham as a better baseball movie than major league well we now you're gonna get me in extra trouble because

[48:00]i still haven't seen bull durham oh sorry i need to rewatch slap shot though maybe i would change my mind if i rewatched slap shot the last matchup to get closer to our final four this is pretty tough too i know you guys have talked about the godfather moving on but if anyone could give it a run it's goodfellas goodfellas versus the godfather i'm going godfather yeah i gotta go good i gotta go goodfellas i think it's two to one i think it's objectively a more fun movie goodfellas well it's more fun for sure but you know what's sick you don't move the color

[48:30]the characters that you know movie i always like more than either one of those casino i love casino i think it's so fun that's good it's good when uh you know what's annoying is when i put when i put the two to one in the spreadsheet for some reason it's defaulting to like a calendar reporting so it says february one when i put two versus one secret code annoying i put it in your codes yeah change that change that whole column to text you'll be all right all right i'm gonna change

[49:00]back rob will get those up on the on the site you guys will probably hear this in about four weeks after the vote's been taken but either way let's get the column to text matt rolling going how's it going with you good rob you like when that she takes that pen and stabbing that guy in the neck that's what that's one of your favorite scenes all of it it's i'd love every moment of it like just the idea like but you know what i really you know what i would also watch a movie of just guys running a casino no story no nothing i would like to hear like what's going on with

[49:30]what they do to make it better i would like to hear their financial reports like a bar rescue but for a casino how good of a show would that be that'd be pretty how much would you watch that if there was a guy picture russell he goes up to northern minnesota he's fixing casinos up there they're looking at security film they're figuring out who's like doing what who's taking them yeah who's the who's the card counters who's taking it could never happen right like it would never they're never going to be that open yeah also it would be sad because most of the guys russell be like is this guy card counting they're like no he's sleeping there

[50:00]he's been sleeping there the last three days oh it'd just be this you'd be like oh i don't like watching this i like having fun you know what i didn't like about the casino i watched it on the airplane the other day what's that i if if i'm gonna be killed by i don't want to save the mob or if i like if i were to be killed and buried out in the can you at least just let me keep my clothes on do you really need to strip me down to my underwear and then throw me and just let me let me wear my sweatshirt you know i don't i don't i don't like that they strip me down to my underwear

[50:30]and then had to beat the shit out of him you're sleeping with just a sweatshirt like you want to be buried that would be a torture to me if i had a donald duckett in my coffin and it was just me and a shirt oh gross the worst way to be it's like if somebody buried me in my socks i swear to god guys if you try to bury me in socks i will come and find you okay 2028 i'm gonna come find you booties oh no i want my feet out okay tony let's keep growing after death i want it out

[51:00]wait is that true that's true no your feet just shrink oh god your ears keep growing too i heard that roll it going uh good rob i need you to pull up she don't use jelly by the flaming lips i know this what a great song as the song of the week don't use jelly don't use jam you know where this is famous from what do you know aaron no the tv show friday night lights oh is it it is yes they're playing remember that when landry and his friend i forgot landry's friend's name this

[51:34]is how going out to neil and lakeville who refuses to watch friday night lights because he doesn't like it one of the greatest shows ever there's a scene where landry and his friends are playing this at the bar his friends they're playing it looks like a band an all-time song man it's on my spotify list great song tell you what there is no band you want to criticize less than the flaming lips if you ever say anything bad about them people come out of the woodwork and will like be very mad at you so people yeah people love the flaming lips yeah they love them god they love

[52:05]them like that's the one comment i've ever gotten from somebody about the podcast is after we reviewed the pixies and we didn't say that they were the greatest band of all time this guy's like you're the dumbest piece of shit ever and i was like i don't know what to tell you um i've officially moved into fancy country and rob i mean for rob this is probably just old hat country club guy but um i got my very first ever tailored uh sport coat i've never had a tailored fitted sport coat before wow and it

[52:38]looks great and it's like the greatest thing ever and it wasn't all that expensive and i can't believe that it's taken me this long to get it so are you guys tailored shirts tailored suits kind of people or have you ever done this before i went and got measured at indochino for a suit because they had a i went to i went to as i was at a powerlifting meet and i saw them on the window they had a pink like crushed velvet suit coat with big black lapels and i was like well

[53:07]i need that i need that and then i i put cool rob on the inside as like a custom embroidery with jellyfish everywhere so i can just flash that to the kids whenever they think i'm not cool and i can inform them that actually i am cool it says it right here on my custom made jacket red new jacket and indochino has all my measurements so they won't give them to me hey i begged them i said please there's just one measurement i really care about okay i just need i need an expert to do it they won't send me the measurements

[53:32]but they have them and i can order a suit anytime i want with those measures i'll bring the slide rule to vegas we'll figure it out we'll get your inseam i'll bring a mirror russell are you a are you a tailored guy or just off the rack kind of a guy i've been measured for suits before and um i actually got recently got a sport like i don't wear blazers a lot like just random like blazer coat overlay with jeans or khakis it's not really my vibe but i've started to do is when you when you go to like industry events those types of things get more less formal

[54:06]than they used to be say three four years ago you can get away with wearing you know a sport coat and khakis where people used to be tied up all the full suit on yeah so i went and got a sport coat mat and got measured for it they tailored it all up so it fits perfect and everything and it's fantastic you you feel so much more confident with something that fits you right right right i'm with you so i gotta i've got i've gotten a few shirts now rosie where are you at in there can i just tell you my biggest fear with a tailored coat

[54:34]guys is that i'm going to lose too much weight and not be able to i can't even say it i own one suit and i did have to take it to the tailor to get i bought it for one of our listeners weddings in october of 2021 22 yeah and i had to get it tailored so yeah that's good well shout out to ben from minneapolis he hooked me up with his tailor malik and uh i've gotten a few things from now and i'm probably hooked i have to probably watch how much

[55:04]i spend whenever malik comes into town because he he comes in and flies out and he's a fancy guy so yeah so shout out to ben fly in fly out tailor yeah wow that is you know what my favorite thing about the place where i went last time and i i went to this place a few times i think i've been multiple places but this one i had the same guy you know what i love about a tailor if it's a bigger guy i don't want my tailor to be some ripped brick shit house who looks good in every

[55:34]suit i want him to be a bigger dude who knows the plight of the bigger band and thinking like don't don't make me put on something you know is not going to fit me and embarrass my ass you know what i look like go get something that's going to make me fit fit good and make me feel good and the bigger guy is going to know how to do that so i had a bigger tailor and i thought it was great that's good i like it that's good just just ask him if he's sad the cummerbund isn't around anymore i think all fat guys would love

[56:01]to have cummerbunds come back in a big way you know i mean like you're like oh honey i gotta get to work have you seen have you seen my cummerbund it's like a thing okay covers up this problem what is it yeah so it's it's like a okay you know how a shirt like covers up your upper body okay get that out of your head that's not it okay think of like a crop top uh-huh yes and then do the opposite and it's around your waist yeah and it's around your waist it's a and the slides go up because it's like they're crumb catchers so you've put those go face to the

[56:31]top because they catch the crumbs it's i had to wear one for children's chorus i know oh yeah no i i've worn many a cummerbund it's the way to go i've never worn a cummerbund russell have you ever worn a cummerbund i have it's been a while i have but it's been a long time you know the the the semi cummerbund rob which sometimes works out really well and then if it doesn't can be really bad is like the vest if you do like the three piece for a wedding or something you got the vest that fits right that does the great job too if it doesn't bigger guys can have a

[57:03]problem with that vest you know what the thing is now at high school dances yeah guys take off everything except for the vests they have no shirt on they're just wearing a vest and i can tell you if you're jacked it looks fucking awesome it looks so cool i'm like at the dance i'm like i would see those kids in the vests and they look so fucking awesome and then i saw them out in the parking lot smoking and they look even fucking cooler i was like damn kids these days are so cool i bet they went to that bowling alley huh rob oh yeah yes that's that's what all the cool kids did

[57:37]russell's they went to the bowling alley hoping that there were loose cigarettes about rob rolling going how's it going with you listen okay i got some stuff going on robbie i i just want to say this my wife texted my kid today and took a screenshot of a text and sent it to all of us i immediately go on the non-wife text chain it's a text chain with me and my two kids

[58:00]okay to which my one kid said the other day you know we don't have a text chain without you whether it's just mom us and mom and i said yeah you better not you would be crushed i said yeah can you imagine i will be furious okay if you guys have a text chain without me i'll be so mad but anyways when i was on the non-wife text chain you know how many text messages she had unread 113 i'm gonna go 98 no russell what do you think what are we guessing again oh my god that's uh my wife has a number of unanswered text messages how many do you think she has

[58:36]i mean i'd say 51 114 russell 114 i was like if i got 14 text messages that were unread that would be too much stress for me how can she live with 114 and then later i asked her i said you know how to delete text messages and she's like no i don't why don't you just like click on the link and then scroll to the bottom and they're all they're all red i that's what i do with our

[59:00]guys with your text chains oh yeah in fact i think i did it today like we would never let russell what number of text messages can you get where you get stressed where you're like i gotta see what's going on that doesn't bother me if i would just look and if there's like the other night or one of these nights from you guys like when because we have a we have a couple we have a text chain with 15 people on it and it gets going sometimes where if you're away from your phone for an hour there could be 60 text messages on there and almost i would say 95 of them are about

[59:31]gambling we're drinking you're not betting who's drinking who's drinking yeah but but i think i've said this before there's times where i'm like there's no i can't catch up with this i'll just scroll to the bottom and pick it up where i can pick it up so i that it it doesn't stress me at all and that one that one doesn't stress me out and i'll tell you what i don't want to put pressure on anyone on this podcast but i know that if there were some people who were like i don't want to put pressure on anyone on this podcast but i know that if there was something that needed my attention on that thread and i weren't responding matt would hit me with a side text and be like hey you gotta

[60:01]get a check like i know matt was good at that if i was needed he would let me know i would listen we're all trying to find the guy who gets baked at night and just starts firing off text messages okay to the only people who will listen to him all right we're all looking i'm definitely in the top three for that where i'll start ripping off texts late at night and i'm like thinking i don't think anyone wants to hear this but i'm gonna let it rip anyways you never know somebody might be around i'm probably awake i just want an app that has all my messages in one place i've got people messaging me on instagram text message whatsapp email and now tiktok people are sending messages i'm like

[60:35]you got friends in europe what's what's what's what's what's with the whatsapp at whatsapp oh yeah oh and the kids use it sometimes and sometimes the swim team does it yeah i don't get it i don't just i don't want messages i don't want any more messages i'll take tech messages that's it if you send me if you're my dietician guy and you send me a message on your special website and i'm supposed to read it to see what to eat to lose weight because i've been paying you hundreds of dollars a year with actually no results i'm not gonna do it okay don't tell me what to do i'll never do that

[61:05]okay my my nutritionist gave me a performance review he said excellent a plus i was like damn thank you here's a check by the way it's almost like he'll positively reward you if you keep paying him that's almost like i only want people to say nice things about me let's talk and i myself with people who do that oh yeah except for one i see quite a bit oh yeah all right

[61:32]jesus jesus is not afraid to tell me like it is uh now listen we are talking about otis blue right which is an otis redding album okay aaron of course love this otis redding born in georgia okay gets up plays the chitlin circuit down south promoter says hey you gotta get signed i'm bringing you to this company called stacks he goes in plays two songs here his second song is uh is written by him and steve cropper who is the guitar player in

[62:02]the blues brothers among uh other more famous things probably like booker t and the mg's the well yeah or the blues brothers aaron if you've ever seen that movie okay it's not too long great all right i have seen it it is too long have you seen booker t do the spin a rooney not do this so he goes into stacks and records a single called these arms of mine they release it it's huge he signs the stacks and just goes on a tear making an album can i say

[62:32]something about this song please you i i can't i'm sorry rob to even bring this up this is the actual first dance at my wedding this is true truly the first dance at my wedding was this song it was a little awkward it was me and your mom out there dancing to it aaron but it was still a great moment you guys know what the uh first dance at my wedding was some elton john we've heard it eight times

[63:00]it was actually the waterbed corner we had a waterbed corner i forgot yeah we haven't checked the waterbed corner for a while we should probably these arms of mine great stuff we should probably get back on there and don't distract me anymore okay this is his third album okay the second album of 1960 for otis redding it's mostly covers okay he's got three songs that he wrote he got three by sam cook who had just passed away so otis redding thought it was important to record sam cook songs he

[63:32]recorded this whole album minus one song in about 24 hours at stacks in memphis which is crazy to think about that all this came out in 24 hours uh he was backed of course by booker t and the mgs and isaac hayes on guitar are on piano this is one of his best-selling lp with three top 40 hits and basically after this he started to go out to la and he would do rock shows and he would do shows at whiskey go-go and pretty much became bigger than the soul scene and kind of got uh famous on the rock scene as well and honestly he he got so big that by 1967 he's closing down

[64:02]a night of monterey pop festival like that's that's crazy to go from nobody to close the performance is a must watch it's so good uh let's get into the album otis blue okay first song written by writing uh old man trouble this was released as the b-side single on respect the guitar i mean steve cropper is so good on this whole album

[64:33]oh from the blues brothers there's some great stories about peter growling's book sweet soul music has some good accounts of otis in the studio and it was just like it sounded like they'd be in there recording all night and like he you have his shirt off and it's 3 a.m and he's whipping the whole band into keeping it going just like a every everything you read about him was about what a

[65:00]vibrant personality he was and how magnetic he was and inspired people rob i think you're forgetting about another blues brother that's on this album and you might like him because he looks like strange kids on christmas cards it's donald duck dunn oh yeah oh of course donald duck dunn is playing bass on this yeah oh yeah of course respect this was written by otis redden i think we i learned this from i think aaron maybe mentioned this or you guys mentioned this when we've done aretha before but until we started the podcast i had no idea that he wrote

[65:31]this i just thought it was an arena song yeah i mean he said she took his song right he knew it as soon as he heard hers he was like it's not my song anymore it's so interesting though because it's such a different song when it's a guy saying just give me some respect i'm gonna give you my money when you come home don't worry it's kind of like oh it's totally different with aretha older right makes it sound good though doesn't he yeah it sounds good the horns sound good uh a change is going to come this is a sam cook song he wrote this uh after getting turned away

[66:02]from a whites only hotel so that moment that moment's like an all-time moment right is that is it sam cook moment just as good or is this the version i know or do i know the sam cook version too yes you probably know that's like an all-time moment sam's is just as good i mean sam was just as a sam had like a more pure beautiful voice it was easier sam's voice is easier i looked it up on rolling stone for otis probably without the shoes but rolling stone magazine has

[66:34]otis as the ninth greatest singer of all time you guys want to hear the top eight real quick this is not at least just a quick one not a list number eight on a list is the number eight above otis redding is beyonce oh what seven is stevie wonder six is ray charles oh the guy from the country album five is mariah carey oh what a jump four

[67:01]is billy holiday wait what that's a different genre entirely three is sam cook i'd be number two two is whitney houston shit and one is aretha aretha all right i mean what a wild list to make no axl rose crazy no freddie marie uh ready mercury is like 12. here's okay all right here's the sam cook version by the way if you listen to the beginning not russell sam cook recorded the song in the studio

[67:35]got shot two weeks later died oh and this was never released when he was alive i mean what a song i mean how can you choose right all-timer i mean i like that kind of big band sound but it's just a great song uh next up down in the valley this was written by a guy named solomon

[68:01]berg the king of rock and soul i don't see you got to get in there that's that's like me power lifting it's like champion over 40 in my weight class right he was the king of rock and soul um that that song there down in the valley actually reminds me of a different version of down the valley i don't know if you guys have ever heard it it was arranged by george mead it's a choir song have you guys heard this version of it i would love to hear it wow

[68:33]is this the only choir i don't know that this is the only choirs version it may be erin but when i heard this song it made me think you know you guys talk about how erin's this amazing musician i've given him credit there's some things about erin and i as musicians that you guys might not know that we have in common both of us were never in the only choir that's right both of us were in high school choir yeah and i was in high school choir and we've never

[69:00]talked about that before so today we're doing a list we're doing a list of russ's five greatest high school choir songs i'm sharing with you guys today i absolutely love it i forgot i can't believe this never came up russell knew his choir so i was a baritone so i'm not the very deep bass voice bass in the choir but i'm also not the tenor so i'm in the middle of the male section i will say this for my i did that once my sophomore year i just want to say at

[69:33]rosemont high school where where i went you were either in the irish bards which was the all men's choir hello or you were in the concert choir which was the you know the older kids i was one of the few juniors that did not make the concert choir as a junior so it was me and like the other ones who weren't good enough and then like the younger kids but it was almost more fun to be in that right you go in and you fuck around and you have fun and yeah but i but i was in the concert choir

[70:00]my senior year so i did make it to the same level as erin and the best choir in the school you did i always loved being in a men's chorus is i love sea shanties and one of them that we did was eyes to buy this is by great big c it's a it's a more pop version of it but check this out eyes to buy the bills of bone and eyes to buy the sails sarah's got a friend who loves sea

[70:38]just a random gal who's a photographer friend of hers and she's part of some facebook group where these people get together in a park somebody starts a sea shanty and russell it seems like it'd be right up your alley if you like sea shanties but i'll have to let you know because sarah will let you know because they just all get together and somebody just starts singing and then they all just start doing the sea shanties together so would it be really funny if you just

[71:03]had a thing that you wanted to put in every sea shanty so like erin started sea shanty i'll tell you what i'd do with this group i look out upon the sea i see a mermaid and i want to have sex with the mermaid how do i do that should i become part fish or should we just try it out mermaid sex mermaid sex mermaid sex bourbon sex and like every week i just be like listen we're gonna nail this mermaid sex see shandy tell us a c plus do you have to take the tail off or do you just pull it to the cider

[71:34]that's not i think they have a cloaca that's the thing you know sharks have something called claspers i don't even know what that is but it sounds awesome hey take off those seashells grab me with your claspers please the fact that you know that it could just pull it up so darn quick

[72:00]next up on the list so you would have to do it like on an inflatable raft right like you'd have to have an inflatable raft with a hole cut in it well that now wait a minute that wouldn't work at all i mean you sit right down to the murky depths because how are you going to have sex with a mermaid you've got to be above water they've got to be below no i think the mermaid can be above right can't you scuba you think she has a scuba mask on erin because she's above and it's full of water you can scuba the mask is full of water and the scuba tank's full of water she's like

[72:30]she's like oh yeah give it to my class but it's so hard erin that's a brilliant idea i was picturing a beach chair in shallow water but you get too much weight on those beach chairs they get really dug into the sand that's not a can't be doing that either yeah i'm picturing now full beach chairs between the slats all right next song on the list so we did uh i always love the sea shanties the other ones

[73:01]that were really good sometimes were the spirituals erin i know we've talked about this one before this is the moses moses hogan chorale the song is elijah rock oh this song rocks literally one thing i forgot to tell you guys about the first song that down in the valley that we listened at the beginning rob i don't know if you can click on that one quickly you guys will appreciate this this was the song that even in the concert choir would be the women would sit down there was always a song where women would sit down the men would just sing by themselves

[73:33]and vice versa this was the one the men would always sing and the women would get like emotional over it they would get so into it and i was thinking about this i told the upstairs roommate when i made her listen to all these songs on the record player through the bluetooth today i would said this is the song where if i was cooler i would have gotten laid for sure after we were singing it you know like all the women loved it but i was not cool enough to make any like make any advantages out of it if that makes sense

[74:01]i erin erin you're the best cannot relate i am picturing your roommate like being forced to sit and listen to these choir songs and you explain what the list is going to be out and then they just go in their bathroom and they stare at the mirror for like 43 minutes they're just kind of looking like so what we're into i guess this is what we're having for the long run i like that you're playing choir songs to explain why you didn't get laid then and your roommates look at you and look at you now like this is why you're not gonna get laid now wait what this just got

[74:32]i don't know i mean maybe let's see what she's into you know next song on the list that this is one i've talked about with erin before this is going to take a little bit of explaining and um what was that word you said earlier rob we were going to come back to uh cloaca claspers claspers resonance resonance resonance is going to come up this is the song called past life melodies this is featuring the st. love choir i did in high school though check this out

[75:02]and rob if you after this if you want to play the what the fuck are you talking about the sound by it you can play it no this is great russell this reminds me of like a video game so this song actually features open throat drone and chanting and then later on there's harmonic overtone singing which is not typically used in western music and so later on when you guys hear we'll we'll jump ahead here rob if you want

[75:31]to the next clip i mean when you see people do overtone singing it's crazy and so maybe you erin i'll try to explain it but if you can explain it better to me it's a way of like using your your mouth and the the parts of your mouth your tongue your throat and everything and essentially when you do it it kind of creates two sounds if you will is that somewhat correct yeah i think you're right i mean i've never i never learned how to do it but yeah somehow the way they phonate and the shape of their mouth and

[76:01]it's a higher pitch that we can hear and so what it does is eventually it creates a pitch that's not almost like not real and so if you guys listen to that next clip rob play this here you're going to hear this sound and there's like a whistling up above and it sounds like someone's blowing a whistle but it's not it's coming from this overtone singing you guys hear that slight whistling way up above the choir russell are you are you tired tonight after having the beck sex of your life

[76:31]after explaining this to your roommate russell i know you got to go to the podcast but i can't contain myself anymore i had to share this with you guys this is so amazing yeah i mean i saw the only choir do it at orchestra hall and it's wild this was the one in high school we did it at like the all it was like the district or i remember when i remember you telling me you did this song in high school and it blew my mind we did it in high school at the lake conference event so it's like rosemont apple valley burnsville lakeville all this stuff and it's like it's like it's like it's like it's

[77:01]and we went last and did that and people did like the standing ovation went nuts after the end of it one of my all-time favorite choir moments this is a great list we're working on all right so i can't believe you remember all the songs from your choir i only remembered about seven or eight i actually remembered about i could remember about 10 of them and i've all on my spotify they didn't all make the list although two more did rob the next one is just a normal fun song the song is bound for jubilee oh my brother

[77:31]and now are any of these are we gonna get any recordings of russell's actual high school choir i don't know if i have them anymore i don't have them in my two tubs that i was allowed to take with me can you imagine you're that video transfer guy and you just get hours and hours of russell singing in the choir and i just really go like oh god i'm so bored i'm so bored i'm so bored i'm so

[78:01]bored i'm gonna turn these videos over from this package i got it says c barry on it well i'm gonna put this video in real quick let's see what c barry sent me hello video transfer guy it's your cousin marvin barry we got a pretty cool yeah you got to connect the cables if you want to see yourself shit on that person the future you is calling with like tech support all right last song on the list this actually became like a pop hit in night i believe in 94 this was on broadway

[78:32]i don't know like all the timing of it but we did lame lame is do you hear the people saying check this one out that's why you know the words a great choir song right is there yeah this is a real goosebumps on the arm moment for sure nobody wants to work anymore during this french revolution times okay he stole bread that's illegal okay that's illegal do you ever watch those on pbs when they do like the lame is cat broadway cast

[79:04]and then they all stand out there at the front and do this one and the whole thing it's awesome you know what my other memory of choir was was i was in the men's choir once and i was like a freshman and i was sitting next to like another freshman there was like the loser seniors behind us that like they wouldn't put in the the choir they were supposed to be because they were douchebags and they were sitting behind us like during practice while people are singing and like flicking our the backs of our necks and our ears like like tormenting us

[79:33]and i remember like turning around and like losing my shit at one point and then the guy next to me they started doing it to him and he went and told and i remember when he got done telling he came back and the guys behind us like gave me credit they were like at least that kid just stood up for himself and didn't go rat us out so though that was my other choir moment one i never got laid from being in the choir which was bullshit and then second i never ratted anyone out when i got picked on great moments i'm shocked that a kid

[80:02]who got bullied in choir didn't get laid more russell that's one of my all-time surprises if my kid came home and was like listen i'm in choir and i'm getting bullied i'd like go to my mirror in my bathroom and just look at it for like a half hour but like all right i guess we gotta deal with this uh listen next up i've been loving you too long okay she wants to go to sleep here this was written by redding with steve cropper sounds a little bit like a change is gonna come but

[80:32]this song makes a lot of like best guitar solo songs or best guitarists uh like when steve cropper's on a list of best guitarists they talk about this song shake uh this is a top seven for cook another one that was released posthumously for him i mean it sounds like he's got something in his throat almost it's like

[81:05]yeah i don't know how you do that it's very unique it's a gravelly thing i don't know how he does it i mean solomon burke had it too i guess but but that's the difference between he and sam like him just just a few years later he's able to kind of like be a little more rough around the edges where sam really to get on the radio sam had to be a little more you had to hold back a bit more it's you can hear a huge difference in his live performances in his radio stuff and by 65

[81:31]otis could be more i mean i guess that's the influence of stacks but otis could be more of himself and make big hits i mean are they still trying to sound white is that part of it like sam cook is still trying to sound like not too soul yeah yeah exactly uh listen of course we know okay top top macaulay culkin movie probably of all time okay one that i changed my childhood i thought it was so funny my girl aaron you know what i would give the movie my girl what grade

[82:06]a b's plus hey what about the middle of those darwin awards that kid would have got one hey why don't you go kick around the beehive right that's a great idea can't be doing that okay this is fun because i don't think at this point in time i don't think motown would have covered stacks but stacks had to cover motown it's so interesting to hear otis redding like cover all these songs at the time these hit

[82:33]songs and he sounds so good on every one like it doesn't matter every note he sings is yeah uh wonderful world by cook and herb albert helped write this song for real yep most famous by herman's hermits okay now herman's hermits of course get the record for having the hardest band to form almost impossible to get those guys together now erin getting herman getting herman there not herman's there nobody else okay let's just show up

[83:09]the drummer almost impossible i forgot you said three sam cook songs i couldn't remember the third i forgot wonderful world is the same cook song rock me baby bb king song kind of interesting to hear him play more just straight blues yeah now erin this album is an all-time vibe album you can leave this on you can walk around makes it feel good no matter where it is i could listen to this anytime i mean i can listen to otis anytime but rob you were

[83:36]talking about the who is who is copying who are you and aaron we're talking about who you know who's stacks or motown or whatever there's another person that kind of took some inspiration from part of the musical vibe on this and it's back i didn't send you this song rob but if you could pull it up quick it is the song is called sex laws by beck oh yeah totally

[84:00]i don't know i don't know if you guys hear it or not but someone on the internet says when it comes to being inspired by booker t and the mgs who did it better beck did it better russell that's so good i heard that there with the horns a hundred percent okay to think that our podcast leads us to connect otis redding with a song called

[84:31]sex laws you know what job well done hey you all get a patch not checkers okay let's put a patch on our bomber jackets that we all wear now with our different beck did a better accomplishments i served on the james brown double album okay i did my fucking time it's not over for me it's not over for me damn it oh no i come home listen to james brown i'm on vacation i gotta listen to james brown for four hours then make a podcast about it and my wife's telling me you're not getting enough sleep you're

[85:02]too tired where do they get off calling me those vile things that's my rambo i got it back to a better speech that's pretty good and then they reset the list on matt oh the company come back reset the list spit on me saying i don't like flaming lips so good uh and that is only funny if you know from the text chain that i recently watched rambo to which aaron said oh that's so sad and i had forgotten that it's really sad and i read his

[85:31]text i was like oh man i hadn't finished it i was like oh it does get sad shoot spoiler alert i thought it was like rambo 3 where it's just like i hope these afghan muhajideen fighters get everything they need and more in the terms of weapons that we are sending them nothing will possibly go wrong with this in the long term i was uh i was looking in boo's environment and i was the three booze and vinyl books i have there was not an otis redding in either of the books which was really disappointing but i decided to make a blue drink anyways for otis redding blue if you

[86:03]guys can see how blue that drink is russell now those of you at home i'm just gonna say this this might be the most blue drink i've ever seen in my entire life he is not messing around this is like if you went to the caribbean and looked at the ocean you would see this blue it it's incredible either that or like a pool with some chlorine in it right well i wasn't gonna say that russell that does appetizing is the caribbean so you guys were talking about mermaids earlier the upstairs roommate actually found me a drink called hey russell can i just say this can i say

[86:32]this about mermaids real quick yeah i was thinking about it i almost said something but i didn't but now i am yeah if i got a mermaid and she was wearing a bra i would be like why why are we doing that no other animal is wearing underwear seashell thing yeah i mean a bra they're just swimming around in the water they should it doesn't matter if they're not swimming around in the water it doesn't make any sense i'd get the one mermaid who's like oh you know what i love from the surface bras like no that's everybody here hates those you can't no nobody likes bras

[87:02]you're like trying to take that off rob and make the clip work with when it's all wet that'd be a nightmare i've got we're at the beach i've got her favorite fish flakes i've got like one of those fish lake things i'm just dumping it in her mouth i'm like hey this is good oh my god i fed her too much oh my god she's just floating on the bay now russell tell us about the blue what is it the mermaid the mermaid mule oh my god oh russell this makes me want to get on my deck chair

[87:31]two shots of vodka a shot of blue curacao oh can i just say that if the idea that russell's in a long-term relationship is why he has blue carousel like to me that's so connected in my head because normally he'd be like uh i got blue aderade put that in uh an ounce of lime juice and then top it off with ginger beer russell that's the drink and then there's also a lime wheel but i don't like wheels i've now

[88:05]figured out how to do the like the twist oh yeah you guys can see like the curly cue so i am i'm a lime twist guy now so i did not do the wheel i do the twist come on baby do the lime twist i love a twist on there russell it's so fun uh next up we've got satisfaction i love how fast he plays this and then at whiskey go go it's even faster here's the crazy part

[88:34]this comes out in 65 guess what year the stones released satisfaction 66 no what they did it first it's their song they did it in 1965 prior he literally turned around the same year it's like hey that song guess what that song fucking rips i'm gonna put it on my album and cover it and you know what guys that song does fucking rip so i'm gonna go in a chronological order of the best covers of satisfaction by the rolling stones ever wow okay is this the tim

[89:03]hardaway jr episode again or not what was that joke again i can't remember well it was i uh i i made it a tim hardaway joke but it probably should have been a james harden joke oh yeah because we kind of mixed them all together it's gonna sound like a mess when you listen back boy i cannot remember anything from last night guys sorry about that last week last week last week yes we would never record two nights in a row what we're so busy here's the

[89:33]thing hey rob if you remember this episode two is like one of those coke machines i don't give a shit oh now you're really going making call if russell saw yo-yo ma or russell not yo-yo ma if you're an add a freestyle cook machine his life would like combine i'd start singing i's the buy that builds the boat and i's the buy that sails her i's the buy that catches a fish and takes her home to liza and we did to the mermaid and we dig ask her favorite restaurant we'd get in here for

[90:03]some fish flakes and then i'd put my patio chair down and i'd lie down and make her swim up under me i think that's the best way to do it anyway uh the first cover that i want to show you guys of the shirelles from 1967 oh this has got to be good i can't get no cool very much in the style of otis i'm putting these covers into two distinct categories one is super fun and the other is

[90:32]super weird there is no other kind of uh satisfaction cover you're either super fun or super weird okay 68 aretha franklin super fun you i mean guys almost shouldn't be allowed to cover this stuff she just steals people's songs and like makes them a bit like how do you even come back from that right right it's so good oh so good can't beat that now i count this is good too jose feliciano 1970 guys

[91:04]if you don't have a latin inspired music station on pandora what are you doing oh that's tricky this makes me sad though because also a guy in brazil is also like i can't even i can't get no satisfaction i'm in brazil you can see exactly how big my penis is according to my swimsuit

[91:30]77 we're gonna jump forward seven years we are now getting into the weird category probably the all-time weird cover devo oh it's so good i love this 78 year later little band you might have heard of okay one we can't stop talking about television

[92:01]okay live this one's good it's almost too close to the original though right oh yeah so close and then the vocals just start there right four years later okay guys we haven't done a lot of jam bands okay got a little grateful dead we mentioned her last night 1994 who comes out with one last cat powers last week last week

[92:39]she only has one power though not multiple powers heart get out of me i'm heart she's hanging out with a buddy and they had a cat diesel power she's on a like a cat uh oh tractor or whatever and that's how she got her name

[93:01]however the all-time weirdest cover of this okay maybe you know bjork maybe you know pj harvey bjork and pj harvey 94 your name the biggest disappointment on this one is rob hasn't written as back what no no it's the next one oh sorry okay well i guess finally this is absolutely mesmerizing

[93:34]there's one other artist russell who covered this song the latest what i have 2019 whoa it's a little guy named beck with cage the elephant for you you russell those are in my opinions the greatest so russell if we were going to make a cover of a rolling stone song and we wanted to be the chronologically the last one that i put on the list

[94:03]who would do that better oh my god that was so good russell that was a great list and definitely worth the time catch the fish and takes her home for life you know what i mean mick jagger was so hot he could fuck david bowie if he wanted to like that's hot do you know what david bowie would say to me if i asked to bed him down

[94:32]what's that i don't know actually probably nothing he's dead but he would not be i don't think he would be down with having sex with me was that did otis write that one i missed uh no that was uh william bell oh i like william bell guys let's get into the rating system with that woman first and every day would be a holiday what are you talking about aaron i'm naming william bell

[95:01]oh i was gonna say rob that uh pearl jam has performed satisfaction 12 times in concert most recently uh september 18th of 2023 down in austin hey this is 177 on the list all right is that divisible by 17 nobody knows all right i'm not here to do math i'm here to talk no about what it would be like to have sex one of the mysteries of the world i mean guys honestly though a mermaid carry the one drop it down right the only problem

[95:40]is you know my thought on having sex in water hard to do wait we know it's not divisible by 17 right oh aaron i don't have time for this okay 170 is right if you're having i mean it's not that hard if you're having sex in water it's cardboard on cardboard having sex in water is one of the things that you think is there is there anything else from

[96:04]your childhood that's more disappointing than the first time you have sex with the water because you're in your head you're like your childhood around right we're gonna be like maybe being maybe being a podcast host i did want to do this when i was a kid russell it's exactly what i pictured even better yeah this is way better okay our downloads are mostly staying steady okay success

[96:30]great aaron what was something you wanted to do as a kid that disappointed you as an adult i mean beside like everything besides this whole like thing i think that concept of like oh you can eat dessert anytime you want you know it's like oh you can eat dessert anytime you want and then like i don't know it doesn't doesn't sound as exciting as you thought it might have been desserts take like ash now because we're all maybe all we did over break is just eat desserts yeah okay i have i have a real one and matt can maybe relate to this i was going to bring this up earlier it's driving for me i

[97:03]cannot stand driving in bad weather anymore i get nervous i hate doing it it's never really bothered me up until like the last year or two now i go out if the roads are a little bit slick i cannot stand it i can't i hate driving i've reached the point where i don't like driving anymore if the roads are bad i just can't do it anymore matt you had to get through some roads tonight i would like matt you strike me as the guy who could just it doesn't bother you you just keep going does it ever get to you or not not really and what gets to me is if i'm not

[97:34]driving maybe that's the best i can't you know writing writing oh i'm a horrible writer in uh in bad weather i would much rather have my own life in my own hands i guess this is the best way to say it but no i'm fine you just slow down add 10 minutes to your trip and i'm good i'm good slowing down and everything that doesn't bother me i'm i just for some reason i've got like a an anxiety about driving in the winter now it's really bad covid kind of helped that like you

[98:02]don't have you don't really ever have to be anywhere anymore right i mean no you can do enough toilet paper and a couple packs of ramen you're okay my wife's lawyer does not agree with you i'm just gonna say that right now okay he's a stickler for times uh listen okay russell the correct answer is sex in the water okay so i say i say sex in the water russell says drive it okay

[98:31]perfect what a perfect end to the podcast listen especially when there's like a mermaid in the mermaid hey hey you want to hop in the back seat okay we can see what those we can see what those graspers can do throw that flipper over the seat there and let's go how can i sit i mean how would a mermaid even sit doesn't have a butt now wait a minute guys i just thought of something mermaids

[99:00]don't have a butt oh that's gonna take away a lot of my dirty talk that i do if if a mermaid we're gonna go on the flavor flavor show and do something really nasty how would they do it just a little you'd pick it up and just a little would come out you know like a little sand oh gross all right listen it's that black stuff in the shrimp that aaron's been eating this is the onus writing episode this is not good i would say though here's here's my top three cryptids i'd have sex with okay

[99:30]number one mermaids okay number two why not right i bet he can scoop some ice cream i that can see that guy can scoop some ice cream oh my god a female sasquatch would be so strong and we'd be outside okay oh it'd be great uh and i would say then after that number 300 the skunk ape which is what they call sasquatches down in florida i can tell you what a lot of my friends dated sasquatches in high school i was stuck with