Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death (1997)

[00:00]I would rather play for five hours and break even with you guys than play for 20 minutes and win $200, though. That would be nice, brother. Yeah, I'll take the walking away even any day. Please. Now, guys, here's a real question. We tried this two years ago. This year in Vegas, are we going to keep a ledger of our winnings? What? No. I've got it. Negative winnings. This will be year four for me of keeping a ledger of everything. Sick. Good for you. Yeah. I tried it one year, and I got so depressed.

[00:30]I was like, can't keep a ledger anymore. That's how I solve a lot of my problems, actually. I'm like, boy, I wonder what that feeling is where my penis hurts. I'm like, well, if I get a checkup, it might tell me something bad. I better not do that. That's the same of me not using a ledger in Las Vegas. Why worry about that stuff? Well, you messed around with the base anyway. Yeah. Base. All the nerve endings down there. It just feels like. We got a ring. We got a ring on the radio on this episode, Rob, or not?

[01:00]I did, though. I did have a pain in the base of my penis today, and I was walking around, and I was like, you guys are the first guys I thought of. I was like, hmm, I'll think of something I could bring up tonight. I was going to say, you better give us the password in case we need to take this down after something bad happens. This would be down so fast, Rob. If you guys. No. That is so mean. That's literally. It would be down before Matt even got to make up something at your funeral about what made you croak. I was in the hospital with a penile injury. I was in the hospital with a penile injury, and honestly, guys, I'm trying to keep this

[01:31]podcast in a positive place. Can we not talk about death anymore for this episode? In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums decided by Rolling Stone Magazine. This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own, unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy. Back. Did it. Did it. Better. Better. I'm going to put it here. I'm going to put it here. I'm going to put a huge echo on that. I think it's going to sound really good.

[02:00]Biggest echo you've ever heard. We are all the way up to album 179, 179. And you know what Jenny asked me the other day? No, today. She said, how many years do you have left for the podcast? And I was like, oh, we don't talk about it. I said, we're up to like 179. I said, 50 years, 50 episodes a year. You can kind of do the math. Did she really ask that? Yeah, she did. She did. And I said, I don't think the real answer is.

[02:30]I said, halfway there yet. I said, but if it stops making us happy, we're not going to do it. Lie. Lie. All of us are obsessed with finishing things. That's the biggest lie of all time. Have you ever told her, Rob, like, oh, maybe, maybe I'm just going to stop doing it. I'm getting a little tired of it. No, no, because I have to. That's going to be my ultimate weapon. If she like wakes up and gets mad at me, I'm going to cancel a record. I'm going to say you made the podcast end. You're the Yoko. And she's going to have to. Think about it. Okay.

[03:00]And I find when I lash out like that, things go great for me. Rob, if you really wanted to play it right, you make up a fake recording and you cancel it to do something with your family or to go to bed early or to do something. Oh, yeah. Hey, no one needs to know that there wasn't a real recording that night. Not up to us. I guess I don't even know how would she know that I didn't record then. She would just think I did. It's not like she's listening to me. No, no, no, no. It's like eight o'clock. You go put your headphones on.

[03:31]You start recording. You're like, you know what? I don't need the podcast anymore. I'm going to just take the week off. Tell her, hey, I just told the guys we're taking a break tonight. We're not doing it. Now, you think when I go to bed with her, she's going to be happier? No. That's going to be like, no. Mask on or mask off? Oh. It's like those douchebags. You ever see that on like Instagram or whatever? Those douchebags go up to their girlfriend. Otherwise, like, you know what? It's Wednesday night. I'm not going to watch football tonight. I'm going to hang out with you. We can grab some dinner. And all this stuff. And every red-blooded American knows there is no fucking football on Wednesday nights anyway.

[04:03]So, like, what a douchebag. There's no football. I'm going to make her watch the Timberwolves, which seems to be working. Well, they're good. They're fun. It's impressive that you've made that. You did it. I just can't imagine. Like, I can't imagine being like, Jenny, watch some UFC with me tonight. She'd be like, okay, I love you. This is once in a lifetime. Like, the Wolves are not going to win the title. Literally. Literally with the Timberwolves. Yes. The playoffs will be a disaster. Disappointment. You have to enjoy this regular season.

[04:30]Great regular seasons are not something to take for granted. Like, going out, like, knowing your team is going to win more likely than not every night. You've got to enjoy that. No. This is going to last forever. Somebody, a comedian, had a nice talk about Minnesota's got a new flag. I don't know if you've seen it, Aaron. I don't think I've ever seen the old flag. Has anyone seen any of the flags? Yeah, the old flag was pretty bad. But the new flag, literally, there's two different blues. And then they've got, you know, the one split. The blue is supposed to symbolize, this is the guy's joke.

[05:01]And so I'm stealing a guy's joke. So it's not my joke, but just so everybody knows. But it says, you know, the blue represents the lake. And then they've got a star that looks like a butthole. It does look like a butthole. And the butthole represents Minnesota sports teams. Because they just all suck so bad. So we got a really big laugh out of the crowd in New York with that. So I thought it was pretty good. Listen, it's from 1997. We have a plus-sized double album. From the notorious B.I.G., it's Life After Death.

[05:33]All right, guys, let's... Are you doing it in 2020 anymore? Are we losing this again? You did it already. I did it. Then I stopped. I told you I was going to put the big echo on it, Russell. Oh. Okay? No, no, no. But it's not as big on as this echo. Big echo. I was at a family reunion this last weekend. And someone who listens to the podcast will go unnamed because they don't want to be named on the podcast. Yeah, maybe just... That's the first part of the podcast. The intros have been going pretty long lately.

[06:01]I said, do you like that or not? He kind of just shrugged. Just shrugged. He, okay. So I don't know. I'm sorry, Russell's uncle. Anthony. You're not enjoying the Herald. Can you imagine caring about the opinion of somebody who listens to this podcast? Hey, I listen to your podcast. Yeah, I've listened to about, oh, 360 hours. Oh, this is what I think. Well, no, I don't care what you think at all. You've listened to 360 hours of the podcast. Except for John from Edina, who loves Edina. Everything about this podcast and yeah. Oh, well, John would never criticize us, okay?

[06:32]Because I know his IP address. I would cut him off. Wouldn't allow him to download it anymore. Hey, we'd stop the podcast out of spite. We wouldn't do it. Just to bug him. Listen, okay? Let's go to the radio, okay? Now for this one, guys, it is... What was I going to say? I don't know. But, you know, I think it's my New Year's this year. I'm going to try to grow. I'm going to try to make the intro shorter, okay? I'm going to think about typing in something

[07:00]about the base of my penis pains into WebMD, see what comes up, all right? Or not a shower. Probably a good idea. And I'm going to really try to, you know, I think Aaron has been feeling disrespected again. It comes in cycles. It comes in waves, all right? So let's work on that a little bit. And let's turn on the radio and see if maybe the song relates to what I just said. Who knows? What's up, everybody? Welcome to KROB, K-R-O-B. We got a song... That is wrong. We... 100%. What? That is wrong. That is 100% the wrong week. All right.

[07:30]What is happening? That was... And here we go. What's up, everybody? Welcome to KROB, K-R-O-B. You know, tonight you're going to learn that Aaron actually wants me to interrupt. Oh, yeah. Aaron Roland going as far as I can see. You can break it into three categories. He'll talk to us about the food he eats, the drinks he drinks, the books he reads.

[08:00]If you listen close when Aaron starts up, you'll notice he wants me to interrupt. He wants me to begin with a funny joke, a pun I wrote. It's exactly what he had hoped. After the four of us record, I get a TXT thanking me, saying it was so funny. Hoping I would never cease. The saddest thing would be if I said quietly when Aaron is talking, he wants me to break in a time or two, just like he wants me to. I don't interrupt Matt or Russell's list. But tonight, I can at least promise this.

[08:30]I'll let Aaron say at least five sentences. Aaron, Aaron tries to complete his Roland going every week. But then Rob, he just cannot wait when he has something funny to say. Aaron, Aaron, Aaron just wants to complete what he thinks about some meal that week. Then Rob has something to convey and everybody agrees he's so funny. Wow. That's so nice of you guys. Yo. That's rap for a live. Oh, man. King of New York. That's King of New York shit right there.

[09:01]I'm trying to think of something funny to say, and I can't. That's not even funny. It's got to be something about your boudoir photo shoot you'd be calling Biggie Smalls, right? Let me ask you guys this. We had a family friend ask us if they could do a boudoir photo shoot in our apartment. What do you guys think about that? I hate to drop this, but I'm going to do it right off the bat. In your apartment? Yeah. What kind of shithole do they live in that they want to do it? I'm going to use your apartment for this. I was like, well, I don't...

[09:33]Like, are you going to have a bunch of pictures of me in the background? Because that'd be kind of... What kind of perks do you get out of it? Do you get, like, do you get a free print? Or do you get, you know, a Dwayne Reed gift card? Or what's up? Do you get to keep the sex doll? I sniffed all the seats in my apartment and that didn't lead to anything. So I'm not sure what exactly I get out of it. Hey. You sniffed the... Don't say it like that, Aaron.

[10:01]Before or after that? I'm confused. Before? What? I don't... I'll be, like, sniffing your own butt on the couch here. Oh, Aaron, who would sniff their own butt on the couch? What's your problem? What's your problem? Oh, my God. What's your problem, bud? What is happening? You know how hard it... You know how when you check your breath, you got to lick your hand and smell that, and that's your breath? Okay, you got to smell the couch if you want to see what it really smells like. No. That's what Aaron's saying.

[10:31]Gross. Why? Listen, I've got four guys here. This is back to it better. We're talking about Biggie Smalls, Life After Death. No. Yes. I'm so confused. These titles of his albums are all sounding so similar. And I've got four guys here. All two of them? Well, yeah, because, yes, Life After Death and Ready to Die, to me, is the most confusing thing. That's confusing. Well, he's got his greatest hits, too, but that doesn't confuse me as much. Listen, I've got four guys here

[11:00]who have only some problems. Yeah, it's because we don't have no money. We need more money. We're working on it. We're trying to monetize this thing. Yeah. I've got Russell in Minneapolis. Russell, how are you doing tonight? Rob, I love the dough more than you know. Do you know what the beef is? Oh, sorry. That was meant for my cameo on the Wisconsin Lacrosse Cooking Podcast. Oh, my God. Russell comes on.

[11:30]He's like, I'll only do it if you guys eat meat. Oh, you want me to caress your wife down? Okay. Only if I get to cook real meat on there. And then they eat meat. So, like, the whole time, they're like, my stomach hurts so bad. I haven't eaten meat in 12 years. Russell's like, please don't do that. I'm pumping away on your wife. Don't say stuff like that. Gross me out. Okay. Hey, are you smelling the cushions back there? Is that what you're doing? Oh, no. A callback. No, I got to go. I got to keep that joke in. What a bummer.

[12:00]I have our notes up. I have our notes up for our Rod Stewart podcast about halfway through the edit. And I'm half tempted to just write the edits down for this one immediately, Rob. No. Don't do that. The time signatures will get all screwed up. Okay. And, Russell, you got to take it in. It's like a wine. You got to let it age a little bit. Okay. Because you never know. You got to let it breathe. I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Good, Rob. Just trying to figure out who's the real dookie, meaning who's real. Who's really the shit. Thanks for having me on the podcast today.

[12:32]And I've got Aaron out in California. Now, Aaron recently got a model of Mount Everest. He got a model of Mount Everest, and he built it. And his wife said, oh, is that to scale? And Aaron was like, no, it's just to look at. It's so small. I mean, you could. Aaron in California. Aaron, how are you doing? I'm going back to Cali, but I squeezed first, asked questions last. Let's talk about life after death, the notorious. B-I-G, the black Frank White, Biggie Smalls.

[13:01]All right. Let's just get into the voicemail. You guys know anybody named Frank White? I do. I'm so stupid. You do? I can kiss my ass. God, my listeners are dumb shits. They're just the dumbest of the dumb. God, my listeners are dumb shits. Just the dumbest of the dumb. It's unfortunate how I play this song right when I. Dumb shit, dumb shit, dumb shit, dumb shit, dumb shit, dumb shit. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. It's unfortunate how I play that right at a time where I really desperately need voice. Hey, fellas, this is Ben from Minneapolis.

[13:31]I know this is a travel podcast, so I thought I'd share a story. I was just taking a flight from Minneapolis to Vegas, sitting in my seat, boarding process going on, noise canceling headphones on, when from immediately behind me, I hear a man exclaim, we're on the wrong plane, which got my attention and all the attention of all the people around us. We were trying to figure. Now, do you think he means that like in a spiritual sense? Like, I don't think you'd be in the astral plane, but I'm on the earthly plane instead.

[14:04]But again, I don't know. I haven't ever heard this or whatever, so I'm not sure, but he's not on the wrong plane. He got on the right plane. He booked the wrong tickets. Is that? Oh, we got to let it play out. Yeah, I know. But like, no, yeah, man, I got an industry. I didn't listen to this either. So this is a big mystery to me too. How can you get on a plane if you're on the wrong? I mean, like the scan tickets and all that. Yeah, but well, it only takes three points to make a plane. Yeah. What? Geometry joke coming in hard.

[14:31]Oh, figure out immediately what happened. How did this person miss all of the signs that they got on the wrong plane? It turns out that they were trying to go to Phoenix, but actually booked the flight to Vegas inadvertently. It was a mistake. So the whole boarding process is happening. They get the flight attendant's attention. All the passengers. All the passengers around us are offering suggestions.

[15:00]Some saying just go to Vegas and drive the four hours to Phoenix. Others saying get off. If you get off, do you get your money back? There's all these different considerations. Honestly, can I just tell you what I would do right now? What's that? I wouldn't have said anything. I'd just eat it. Yep, get to Vegas and then figure out how to get to Phoenix. There's no way I could let a plane full of people know that I accidentally bought tickets to the wrong place. And if I had said something, out loud by accident, like it's one of those things where if Jenny said it out loud,

[15:30]I'd be like, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. No, we'll just, we'll figure it out later. Like we cannot tell. It's also zero, zero percent. And it's not, it's never zero, zero percent chance. Jenny doesn't say something like she'd absolutely would say we're on the wrong plane. Right. It would be right out loud. Yeah. Yeah. No. And then like one of my kids would start crying. You know what I mean? Like we were going to like a birthday party that she really wanted to go to or something. She's bawling her eyes out. I'm like, and meanwhile, I'm back there going like, shh, shh, shut up, shut up. Everybody's like,

[16:00]what are you? You're a monster. Phoenix. So they're saying, get off. If you get off, do you get your money back? There's all these different considerations. Um, the whole thing is a complete mystery to me. I have no idea how they walked past. They went through security, got through the gate agent, sat in the plane, started, hearing the announcements about going to Vegas, uh, and completely missed it up until that point. But here's the big one. I don't get is when you walk up there,

[16:30]aren't you wondering why the person is standing in front of a sign that says Vegas to Las Vegas and not Phoenix? Is there, is there a chance they're going to, Matt knows, uh, directions a little better than I do. Is there a chance they're going to like the grand Canyon or a place where you could potentially be flying into one of the two? And they just booked, they're not going to stay on the strip or they're, you know, I think they're going somewhere in between, right? You'd think, but at the same time, like if you are booking a flight,

[17:00]right, you're booking to a destination. Like the only one that makes complete sense to me is like Austria and Australia or something like that. Like where you would completely mix it up somehow. You know what I mean? But like you then eventually would figure out like that when you land and I don't know, things like that. But Phoenix and Las Vegas, I don't, I just, I don't get how you'd mess that up. But you know, it'd be weird if you were in Vienna and you were like, wait a minute, nobody's throwing another shrimp on the bar, Barbie, right? That is, there are no fosters here.

[17:31]I'm really looking forward to having a foster. You're flying with Aaron and he's like, well, the age of consent is different in both countries too. And you're like, what? How do you know that? That's what you know. That's so weird. Both Phoenix and Vegas are approximately three and a half to four hours from the grand Canyon. I, my prediction is, trip to the grand Canyon. They had talked about flying into one airport. Someone made a mistake and booked up flying into the other airport. And they, they didn't think anything of it until they got on the plane.

[18:00]I, I, you know what I would do if they were sitting by me and I'd be like, listen, I actually work at Delta. Give me 400 bucks cash right now. Okay. And when you get off this plane, I will call my boss and I will have somebody come and meet you. Okay. And they will help you out because obviously you are dealing with two, two people who don't know what's going on and you might as well take advantage of them. Okay. Cause they're going to Vegas. They're super rich. Okay. Or they're going to Phoenix for retirement. You're going to get every last dime,

[18:30]but either way, Hey, you've earned that money, Aaron. And that's what I've learned from this album. You got to get that money any way you want. Love the dough. And also I, I thought I had a beef with you guys, but it turns out I don't. What is beef? I just want to say nasty words. That's it. Oh, wait, would you guys reaction to be on the wrong plane? Do you have for, if you had your kids or family or you were on your own? Yeah. A hundred percent. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Totally. What if you were on your own? What would you do? Never tell anybody. Go to wherever I'm going.

[19:00]Time to open that folder. I have in Google drive that says fake my death. Let's go through the plan. Let's get it going here. Hey, I guess I live in Vegas now. I can never tell anybody this story in Vegas. Now you're going to live with me now, chunk. I mean, I'm in Vegas now. Baby Ruth. Can you imagine by the way, if I lived in Vegas?

[19:30]Oh my God. I, it would take me one year and I would have the biggest house. Cause I'd be so rich. Oh my God, guys, we're going to win so much money this weekend. I can hardly stay at it. Nothing could possibly go wrong. You know what my thought was today? I was like, Oh, I'm definitely going to get sick. I'm going to get sick. Like Thursday flying out there. I know I am. Now there's a story behind this, but anyone care to share? Because we did go through two episodes since Christmas and have not heard much about this sort of thing. We heard about a noodles trip, but we didn't hear a lot about other Christmas escapades.

[20:02]Oh, well, now listen, Aaron, I'm willing to forego my rolling, going to hear the extended version. Are you? That's true. I got your, yeah, so yeah, go ahead. I'm willing. We can do this. I'm listening. Yeah. Are you talking about me? Hey, are you talking about me? I got to say, thanks, Ben from Minneapolis. Fairly new listener. Yeah. Great guy. Thanks for calling in Ben. You know what? He takes my advice. He does. He takes my advice. We answered your question before you even ask it, Ben. Please call him again. He lives right down the river from you too, Russell. You guys are practically neighbors.

[20:30]Let's not make it creepy, but as a gift, let's play this little song just to celebrate. We all were all thinking that. That was a great voice. Story time. All right. All right. These are the stories that I like. Meanwhile, meanwhile, Ben talks like, he's taking a shit next to these guys on the plane, but he's like, we're going to hear about your flight tonight. Oh, I was, I know it was Rob. I was maybe,

[21:00]uh, I knew some people that were maybe going to see you a while back and you, it's turned out you flew in, you didn't feel good for a day or so. And then I, I heard like you, you had had went to a shake shack and brought that on the plane. You went to a Buffalo wild wigs. You had something to, I think, I think you got to limit the food at a, at an airline, right? Okay. So it could have been now it's true. When I flew into Minnesota, we arrived at my in-laws at four 30 in the morning. Okay. They threw back the sash. Okay. And they saw that we were there.

[21:30]All right. Now what made me sick? What made me throw up that next day? Cause I watched the Vikings game and for some reason threw up. Okay. And then when it was time to hang out with my family, I got really sick and I had to go upstairs and I'm serious. Okay. I really got sick and I really had to go upstairs by myself. Uh, now it could have been, yeah, the shake shack that I wolfed up. I wolfed down in the seat because I was embarrassed that it smelled on the plane. It could have been the Buffalo wild wings that we got with our credit. The second time we got off the plane, the Buffalo wild.

[22:00]Okay. Because I did get multiple spices. Okay. Lots of different spice kinds and a couple of drinks and that's it. Okay. And a lot of fries. I don't know what the, I don't know if they're cleaning out the fryers or what, but they brought up more fires fries than you should give to a person. And I ate almost all of them. Two meals in one airport. I think is, is a side for disaster. There's also another thing. Yes. Jenny got Jenny needed. And this, I cannot express you how important this is salad dressing.

[22:31]Okay. Now where do you buy a salad dressing in an airport? Okay. Well, the answer is those salad vending machines, right? They got the vending machines with a jar of salad. She took that, took the dressing out, gave it to me. I ate the whole thing. All right. I'm sorry. You just ate this. I ate the salad dressing when I ate the salad dress. No, what the salad dressing after she, no, the salad after she had taken the dressing. You keep saying you ate the whole salad dressing. No, I ate the whole salad. Okay.

[23:00]Okay. Did you toss it first? I'm pretty sure. Actually, I, you know what? Honestly, your brother used to listen to this podcast and he, and if I didn't make that joke, he would be disappointed. That's I, I made the biggest mess eating that salad. And he was humiliated because they were like, I would bet. I would bet 20 small pieces of salad under me when I was done. And I was just eating a salad. And I was like, everybody's going to know it's me. Like, this isn't a kid's mess. This is an adult. When you see salad on the ground,

[23:30]that's an adult who made that mess. That is not a kid. It's not Doritos. It's not goldfish. No, no, not Cheerios. I used to eat Cheerios in the backseat of my car all the time. Aaron, my wife never knew. She never knew who it was. Okay. I mean, I was down there sniffing the cushions. Anyways, I might as well have some Cheerios. I have a little treat. I don't know. It's a callback. Rob, if you edited it out earlier, sorry about that. It's my bad. You can't down roughage, shake shack, and the B-dubs before getting out of play. You can't do it.

[24:00]That recipe for disaster. Not especially from an airport. Yeah, you're right. Because I was super sick. And then, so then you know what happened is that we went somewhere else. And I can't say where, because she'd be really bad. She found out that my kid threw up at her house. So it wasn't my sister's, but my kid gets sick, goes into the bathroom and comes out and goes, sorry. I go, no, don't say that to me. Don't go into the bathroom,

[24:33]throw up, and then come out and say, you're sorry. That's incredibly bad. Also, if she didn't brush her teeth after, she probably has a cavity. So you're hearing, you know what? It's my kid. I'll raise them how I want. Okay. Don't tell me how to fucking raise my kids. Let's make it a different kind of joke. Okay. Doesn't want to make. Okay. Nevermind. I'll listen. Here's the other thing too. I don't think, I don't think your sister gets enough credit, Rob, for the nice thing she does every time you're in town. She had that birthday party for you the one time she hosts you, you know,

[25:00]every time you come in, you know, I think we, we, we deserve a few podcast claps because she's putting up with you and your family. There's a 50%. You know what? Well, I'll give my sister. Okay. Yeah. She, she does charge an exorbitant fee though for late payments. I'll just say that at 18% of the maximum allowable rate for an overpayment on that dental work is a bit steep.

[25:30]I thought we were done with this. I was trying to be nice. We're, we're turning a page here. I'm sorry. We're turning a page. I came out, I went into that bathroom. Okay. That my kid had been in. There was, there was throw up on the toilet in the shower next to it on the door on the other side. Then by the sink, I was like, how did it go both ways? My kid goes and all over. Like I had to like take a toilet paper and like put it in between the seat and the thing and like floss it. Like that's when, you know,

[26:00]maybe sorry. Maybe she, she shouldn't say sorry. Yeah. Sorry. It feels like. So I said, I said, I said, what happened in here? You throw up in the toilet. Like, what's your problem? You don't get yelling at the sick person. Classic. Okay. What were you thinking? Oh, you, you hadn't, you had, you made something that was accidentally done. I'm going to give it to you. I'm going to give you the business about that. Really helpful. It's going to help. And she goes, and she goes, I didn't think I would throw up twice. That's a fair point. And I was like, it's not because everyone throws up twice.

[26:31]Every time. Nobody in the history of the world has ever just gone. Well, yeah, but the second one is always a surprise. Every time you're like, I think I'm done. And then you got to keep down. There's always one more. We're all there. We're all looking into a bowl that smells like vinegar. Okay. We don't like it. You cannot pick your head up. Okay. Cause you, no, the second time is coming. Keep your head down. Yeah. It's like saying, Oh yeah, that's right. I'll just, I'll just take a little number two and I'm not going to pee this time. Okay. Are you David Blaine? That would be a David Blaine special.

[27:01]I'd watch. Listen, let's get into rolling. Go in. Five sentences. It's time to see what everybody's up to. I appreciate you. It's time for rolling. That's one. You didn't know you were all going to start it, but I want to interrupt it. Oh, yeah. I didn't start yet. Aaron, roll it going. How's it going with you? It's going great. I did not eat anything interesting this week that I can recall. I had sushi Friday night. That's my son's choice for everyone's birthdays this year.

[27:33]So we had sushi Friday night for Anna's birthday. We're going to have sushi next Thursday night for my birthday. So nothing, like nothing exciting to report there. Did tonight hang out with some friends. You have those friends who just like, if your wine glass is empty, they will fill it up. The, another one of those nights. Yeah. Great friends. Yeah. We had a super fantastic time. The kids all stayed up way later than usual. So we were out partying late. So I do want to give you guys a shout out. Thank you for staying up late to record with me.

[28:01]Rob, anything, anything you need to say? You're doing great right now. That was one of the hardest things I've ever been through in my entire life. And this is what I'm talking about. I can see the sweat on your forehead. Russ and Matt were sitting there and Aaron said, that's what my son picked for our birthday. This year. And nobody said anything. And it was on sentence three. And I almost throw up. That's what my son picked for our birthdays this year.

[28:30]Rob, could you imagine if you had to go to noodles for your birthday next year? Oh my God. I don't know, man. Like we had, we had a, like my birthday is coming up this, the next, this coming Thursday. And we had a babysitter booked. We were going to go out to dinner. And then I was like, I don't know. Like how much longer is my son going to want to have dinner with me? Like, I want to have dinner with my son. I want to have dinner with my family on my birthday. And you know what, Aaron, can I tell you a secret about teenage kids? Yeah. All they want from you is free food. They're starving all the time.

[29:00]They will want to go out to eat with you all the time. In fact, I think eating with older kids, it gets better and better. Cause they'll go eat with you and like have a normal conversation. And they're actually like people. But so that's what's, that's what's going on in my life. But I do, I have something I want to ask you. Like I sincerely want to ask you guys about sideways. Have you, so you all are professionals. I head to toe. Have you all been in a conversation where someone uses the verb suck more often in a work conversation than seems improper,

[29:30]seems appropriate. And so like, I'll give you, so here's what happened. I work in data, like analytics. And so we're talking. I just want to point out, you do work for a Bissell vacuums. Okay. So let's be careful here. Sure does suck. So I'm talking to this guy and he keeps saying like, yeah, well, that's how we just, we can take that data. We can just suck in that data and we can suck in data from anywhere. And then like, if we just suck in that data, then we can like do this or that. And I was like, there are so like, you could say ingest import.

[30:01]Yeah. Transform, grab, whatever. Has this ever happened to you guys? Whatever it is. Like I thought I was being, I don't know. It just felt like, is anyone else on this phone call thinking you should not use this term in that way? Or is there something wrong with me? I can tell you who would love this conversation. Is the actor Brett Spiner. He'd be like, Oh, I feel no emotion, but I do love this. Even as a cyborg or an Android, I'm sorry. He was an Android. I have no idea what you're talking about.

[30:30]His name was data on a Star Trek. You know who else, Rob, that, that one kid who had the pinches of power and Goonies data. Yeah. He would love this conversation as well. So this is fine. You can just talk that way. You guys wouldn't, if you were on this phone call, you wouldn't know. It feels like everybody's got somebody. Yeah. Somebody, somebody's got, and I'm trying to remember the word. There was somebody, there was a lady in my office who used some word, like it wasn't suck, but it was something else where I just wanted to say, that's what she said. That's what she said that,

[31:00]you know, 9,000 every single time. That's what she said, but you can't, right. And you have to just get it out on the podcast because you can't even talk to your subordinates about it. Can you? Cause you know, what do you have? 17, 18 people underneath, you know, only 13, but yeah, I can't bring that up. That's like, I used to work at a stair, a place, made staircases. All right. And we would look to see how many people could make it down and how many people would trip and have an accident. We would call that our fall, fall ratio, follow, follow race,

[31:30]fell, fell is cause it's in the past. So it was actually a fellow ratio, fellow ratio. And so we would always talk about, Oh, you know, how much do you like the fellow ratio? You home and talk to your wife about fellow ratio. Oh my God. That's so good. Reminds me actually, my, my mom's dog's name is Angus and anything, and yeah. And when we were leaving, like when, yeah, when we were leaving her house, I would say, did you kennel Angus? And I had like, you have to be very careful about where you place the glottal between kennel

[32:04]Angus. You got to have some space in there. It seems to me in a, in a professional setting, the word suck should probably only be used like once in a conversation, right? Right. Because there is a sexual connotation with, with it. And if, you know, someone comes in and you say, Oh, how was your weekend? They say, I, Oh, I dinged my car, whatever you say. That's that sucks. That's like the only appropriate time to use that in like a professional setting.

[32:30]Don't you think? Yes. There's so many other options. You don't need to like, how many times does Biggie talk about getting his dick sucked on this album? Like how, what else do you think about when you hear the word suck? Like you can't. I mean, if somebody came into, if I came into work and I was like, listen, I accidentally got on a plane. I went to the Philippines. I'll tell you right now that stunk. But I was there for a couple of days. So I walked around and I got sucked off for money. And you're like, okay, that's the one violate the rule of one. That's the one. That's the one time you got it. Professional conversation.

[33:02]Thank you. I should have maybe gone to the advice corner for that. Thank you guys for talking me through it. But how's it rolling going with Russell? That's what I'm curious about right now. Rolling going. Things are going good. You know, the whole point of, I actually came across a article in the star Tribune the other day that really, made me start thinking about this podcast, why we're doing the podcast. And I thought I wanted to share with you and share the lesson from the article. I thought you guys would appreciate it. So the, the article, if anyone's looking for it is called a sibling sought.

[33:30]Why is that as best pizza? I believe it's called. And so essentially it's about this younger adult and her brother. I think her brother had some sort of maybe down syndrome or he had, so he had some sort of challenge, but her and her brother had turned, had, had started this quest a while back. Where they started going to get like the best burgers in YZ. They went to like all like 12 different burger spots with the intention of going to them, kind of rating them, doing the exact type of thing I would love to do. Like, you know, making a list, kind of scoring things or whatever. And so then her and her brother decided to do this new quest and it was,

[34:04]let's go find the best pizza in YZ. So we're going to go to all these pizza places, you know, over, I think they went to like 12 pizza spots over like a month period or something like that. Right. Trying out all this stuff, which seems like such a, fun adventure to me. You're going to try new things, go places. Maybe you wouldn't have gone otherwise. So I really liked the idea, but she, she wrote in this article, these couple of paragraphs here. I don't want to just share with you guys and see if it makes you think about

[34:31]what we're doing on the podcast. So, all right. She says throughout our quest, I savored sampling each slice, but more so I reveled in observing Teddy's reaction to the food, to the people, and to the experience. Once again, and not surprisingly, he liked them all pure joy spread across his face. As every pizza was placed before us, no matter the spice level, the cheese type or the amount of sauce, his initial reaction included words such as perfect, delicious, and just right.

[35:00]He ate every shape type and flavor without the slightest hint of displeasure or critique. She goes on to say about herself. Now, while undeniably frustrating to someone who approached this quest with the intention of ranking the city's top spots, it also led me to consider, just how often I compare and how unproductive it can be. While I'd focused on faults in order to prioritize, Teddy had arrived at each establishment, genuinely eager to sample another pizza with absolutely no desire to place

[35:30]one above the other. Each was a treat and all were uniquely delicious. I'd come into this quest to push Teddy and once again found myself being pushed by him, realizing the truths that extend well beyond pizza consumption. Life becomes much happier, when you choose to enjoy rather than compare. Wow. And I listened to that and it made me think about this podcast. And is the rating system that takes away from our enjoyment of the podcast.

[36:00]The, this was all built out of the list, but this whole lesson is when you go into something like trying to find faults or trying to find critiques, you're never going to enjoy it as much as if you just went into it with an open mind, right? I mean, there are, there is one great philosopher who said, life's a journey, not a destination. And that feels like where we're going with this list, enjoy every notch on the list without making a comparison. Now, let me ask you,

[36:30]have you guys listened to next week's album? Yes. Yes. Okay. So we can say that we can say all we want right now. All right. Well, we're listening to biggie. What are the best albums of all time? It's going to get a little tougher next week. I'm just going to say that right now. But I think that applies so much. I mean, Matt recently had a birthday. So we all were on the text chain saying nice things about Matt. And one of the things I said is like, Matt's literally changed the way I view life. Right. And part of it was like, you just have to have philosophy, stick with it. Things, decisions all get easy when you have that.

[37:01]But another thing is that when we started, we did a test run where we got a huge fight about Radiohead or something. It's not a fight, but it was like, it was a, it was just not like we were, we actually thought we were like, like music critics. I was being a dick. Well, I didn't want to say that, but yeah, that's it. That's what it was. We're going to, we're going to release that episode, aren't we? Someday. Essentially. This is why Russell Meyer is staying alive. It's the only reason. Cause I know if I die, Russell's going to delete the podcast. He knows if he dies, I'm releasing that episode. It's what the fans want. Essentially,

[37:30]I savaged that cause I did not like it. And I savaged it. I didn't savage it once, which would have been fair. I did it like every, every, every, every track. But, but haven't you ever gone out to, I mean, we talked about this other week when we were talking about people going out to eat. Right. And complaining about the service. And then that's all you can think about. And it just brings you down. And it's like, you know, there's always negative stuff. Like there's always, and I see this a lot in New York too, of like, people are like, no, no, you can't be, you can't say sorry in the subway. You got it. And I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to be who I am.

[38:00]But Russell, that's totally what this is. Right. Is that we literally, we started by saying, Oh, is this really the best album? And now we're just like, Oh, this is a great album. Like I enjoy this. Like I learned stuff about Biggie this week that I didn't know. And it's fantastic. I think it's perfect. Now, do I wish instead we were eating pizza at a normal time instead of starting at 1230? My time talking about an album that I listened to twice a day. Yeah. But are you saying this would have been more fun if it was done at a normal hour? Rob, are you comparing? You know what, Russell, you got me. Okay.

[38:30]I will just tell you right now, I'm having a great time. All right. I'm not going to compare. I'm just going to enjoy. You're totally right. So, Roland going, that was my experience was I read something in the Star Tribune and it related back to our journey and made me think about the way we're looking at this. That's beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Roland going, Matt, have we gone to you yet or not? Roland going, how's it going with you? Nope. Nope. I'll go. I'll, I'll keep to my promise. So Rob can get to his second rolling going. And I'm pretty sure, uh, I, I, I hate to bring this up about my dad,

[39:02]but I think he's starting to lose it just a, just a tiny little bit. And, and I got to tell you what he does now. He's got, he's got a brand, he's got a brand new truck. He's got one of those new as a Ford. How many, how many trucks does he get? Just one. Oh, not 20. Oh, not 20. No. Cause here's the thing. How much did he pay for that one? If I wanted to go see 20 trucks, I mean, that would cost me probably thousands of dollars, right? Like, Oh yeah. Oh, not quite that.

[39:30]I bet Rob, I bet there's somewhere out there that you could probably see 20 trucks for, probably 20 bucks. That's a buck a truck. That would be a buck a truck. That's a buck a truck. That would be a, that would be a buck a truck. Now, man, the thing is if I paid for a buck for a truck, why I would be able to sit on my whole seat, right? Well, you're going to buy the whole seat. I'd buy the whole seat, but you only need the edge. What if, what if you accidentally spent 21 bucks for 21 trucks?

[40:02]Would you tell anyone or just go forward with the transaction? You bought the tickets to the wrong place. I think you would have to just go, go forward with it, Russell. But just make sure you use the arm chair and, you know, maybe the, maybe lean back and use the whole chair that time. Not just the edge of it. Well, and especially if you see somebody out there sniffing seats. I mean, if you're just sitting on the edge, they're going to be disappointed. So your dad's got his truck. And he's obsessed with not getting a dinged, right? Somebody opening the doors on it.

[40:30]So he has started, he has started taking pictures of the car to the left and the car to the right. Oh yeah. So that, we're into this stage. He comes out and if he sees his car got dinged, he knows what car that was. But this seems completely batshit crazy to me. Right. And, and not that accurate because another car could just pull up and park. It could. And that way, you know, yeah, it could. So does he delete? Yeah. Like how does he keep track? I don't know. Does he delete these photos every time?

[41:01]Because eventually you might lose track. Yeah. And he's trying to find an old picture of one of my, my sons at a birthday, something like this. And my one older one, Leo says, what are all these pictures of cars? And grandma's like, Oh, you know, he takes pictures. And I'm like, Oh, you know, that's the, yeah. Oh, you know, I get it though. Cause if my wife just slowly said like, Oh, I'm going to just take a picture of all these cars that are parked by us. Like in the, at first I'd be like, don't do that. That's silly. And then after about the 10th time,

[41:30]I'd be like, yeah, no, it's just what your mom does. She takes pictures of the trucks now. you know, is there, weird that they never did when you were a kid that they do now. And an example that I have is my dad. Now, if he goes to like a subway or a pizza place, he says, his name is Tony. Now my dad's name is Rob. He never did this growing up. I don't know why he started doing it now, but everywhere he's Tony. And in fact, we went to a pizza place and I called it in.

[42:00]He goes, well, I can't go in. Rob called it. They think I'm Tony. I can't go in and pick it up. I don't know where it came from, but anything, anything, anything like that, where you guys are like, what is going on? My mom is a lot of stuff, but good. My mom has found like the, the weird things in life to be like, Oh no, they're not getting me on this one. So like the example would be like it, if her, like one air is like the tire in her air is down, like one ounce of air pressure. That is for sure going into the car dealership. That's fine. But she wants,

[42:31]um, have got like a free key chain from a car dealership and it broke. And she was like, Oh, I'm going back in there to get a new, keychain i was like this thing cannot cost more than like 49 cents and you're going back in to get a new keychain he's just like they gave me a crappy keychain i'm going in to get a new one i was like okay you do you yeah no that's how they get you russell they there's the keychain is a lost leader i don't have time to explain this to you okay i will later there's a lot of things with like logins to like netflix or things like that where you just know that there's just something

[43:05]really simple like something's just like either caps lock some but you know you know he just goes it ruins their day it's like three hours of pure you know trying to figure out what the hell's going on and it's like i'll be over in five minutes and we'll fix this and go from there there's just little things like that yeah the tv what has been for my mom so she she it took her a long time to accept oh i'll use russ's netflix i'll oh i can see there's other shows on netflix other than what she's got on head on basic cable for you know 50 years but so she like

[43:35]is insistent on only using netflix on the ipad and i've explained well i can hook this up on your tv i could get you bigger no i do not want it on the tv no i only want it on the ipad i've offered hey you could access hbo i've got all these other i've got like you could expand your world of possibilities tenfold i've got all these servers no i only want the netflix and i only want it on my ipad how about you aaron your parents have any quirks like that i don't well aaron my

[44:05]you're not as close to them either like you know like russell like a mile and a half you know from me things like that so we see these little things all the time that's what makes it even harder because like my dad will be at the cabin he's like well how do i illegally pirate this football game and i'm like okay well here's the site i like to use and i'm like does he have a pop-up blocker an ad pop-up look did i install that last time i was there because if he opens this up and he gets like four porn ads that's bad like i cannot recommend porn ads to my dad because then

[44:35]i have to show him how do you go use private mode you know i mean like a first turn on private browsing he's like yeah i've got that on already yeah there's no way he doesn't know that it's like on permanently yeah why do you have that on i would say the only generation gap thing i can remember recently with my dad and maybe this is more of a geographic gap than generation but i was with him in arizona and he had the car he had rented was the same model as making model as my car and he was like hey aaron i can't figure out like you're supposed to be able to lock this car

[45:01]without a key can you show me how the how to lock the car and i was like dad i don't lock my car and he thought that was the funniest fucking thing and i was like dad i was like why would i lock my car like somebody's gonna break the window like i'd rather they open it and take the aux cord i'm with you i'm with you i know if they want it they're gonna get in there and so then instead of just losing your aux cord you gotta go get a new window and a new aux cord right yeah i don't like my car yeah yeah that's rob rolling going

[45:31]listen can you guys explain to me i didn't lock a car for 20 years and then after living in my new place it took me about two weeks and a mistake and someone rummaging through my car it is now locked it's locked yeah all right i wish you the best of luck yeah catalytic converter is inside okay i took it inside please do not look for it you don't need it can you guys explain to me the relationship between larsa pippen and marcus jordan what is going on there so just tell me who they are they

[46:00]are scotty pippens uh what i what i know is that scotty pippen is the one that's going to be the wife and michael jordan's son yes and they got married they got married now i said i thought they got married i sent you guys this quote i didn't know they were married i sent you guys this quote and larsa pippen has come out and said that he she and marcus jordan have sex five times a night and that is way more than she did with ex-husband scotty pippen now when i first read that that's great i was like wow what a dig on scotty pippen you know what i mean like that is what a nasty

[46:33]like if you listen if my wife broke up with me went with somebody famous you know and then said oh yeah i'm having way more sex with this guy than i ever did with rob that's a bummer but it's not even someone's famous it's someone's famous as kid like he's less famous than her ex yeah it's a very it's a whole ex-teammate abs adds the whole uh wouldn't that be a bummer aaron like like listen yeah my wife divorces me fine don't blame her i honestly just looking in the zoom

[47:03]camera right now and i'm like oh my god i don't know what to do with my ex-husband scotty pippen and i've got video like plussing on like it's cranked all the way up still i get it a lot of things just in this area of what you're seeing right here not working out okay great you're growing your hair out you're growing your hair out so you can get a sweet mullet for the hands yeah it's not because i'm too lazy to go in and get my haircut man so i'm thinking i'm thinking there but so then she comes out and says yeah i'm having way more sex now and i'd be like well that i don't need to know that injury yeah yeah yeah it's it's in total yeah but then you realize that

[47:33]she's saying she has sex five times a night well that's that's i'm you know what i don't think i've ever said this in my life and i don't think i'm ever gonna say it again that's too much sex that's five times a night can't we just keep it on like a quarterly rotation that pause for effect was phenomenal rob that was that was uh top 10 this is a stolen joke but nba

[48:01]players are used to load management and they're used to it and they're used to it and they're management so i would see like you would just it'd be like it's just gatorade you just have a mini fridge next to your bed and it'd be full of gatorade she says probably five times a night in theory that means there's nights with three and nights with like nine seven nine oh nine wow it's an average like if they're you know there's like if if probably five is not like oh it was one night in in cancun probably five means there's got to be nights where you're bordering on double digits

[48:32]right i physically don't think i'm not sure i could do that like if i if i held a knife to you right now and i said go have sex three times tonight could you do that yeah oh my god eric that was quick three times my family's listening but three times in a night you could just go do that you're not gonna get tired like can i tell you what's happening to me now i don't know if it's the

[49:00]jiu-jitsu or the power lifting or the dehydration or the cut or whatever is going on 90 of the time massive hamstring cramp oh huge hamstring cramp to the point where i have to go into the shower and put the warm water on my hamstring so it loosens up okay that's well do you have a hair gun or like are you can't you just be on the bottom oh yeah oh you think you think it's that simple i mean if you think it's that simple solution you went to

[49:32]college with rob's wife this is you think i'm trying to help you think it's that simple where i just be like oh can i be on the bottom aaron i got news for you this is like a reverse wwe match we're all trying to get on the bottom okay and no i don't have a theragun that would just get me all excited again that would get me up to three times that's too much man you haven't sex three times in a night if you had to i'd maybe if i absolutely had to okay

[50:02]you should get a theragun rob i've got one they're great oh no i've got one i've got one but i don't can't be doing that right after like my wife's trying to go to sleep but i'm like wait you gotta go get in the shower anyway can't you just oh you know what you're right before man maybe i need to do some calisthenics or like some yeah some warm-ups uh some warm-ups maybe you know a little uh what do they used to call that uh karaoke down the hall yeah on your

[50:32]oh yeah the old karaoke yeah why did they call it that that's such a bizarre no idea can i tell you guys i played in a staff student basketball game this week my jujitsu has done something to my brain where i now realize i'm also very bad at basketball you know what i mean like i used to think i was a super athlete and i'm good at all this stuff i also now suck at basketball and you used to do sports growing up i airballed a free throw in front of the whole school i would yeah i would do that yeah i airballed no shame i would do that it was often how often you

[51:02]shoot baskets though rob never because i'm almost actually i'm a little bit too muscular to get like the hands like this i'm kind of yeah the gooseneck no yeah but it was bad it was really bad and so so uh russell what do you think it's five times a night is that too much i was just looking up they're not actually married mad i don't know where you got that you gotta check your uh your well i i'm gonna i'm gonna fully admit that i do not keep up on the

[51:32]kid and or the personal lives of them so i have no idea i just thought they got jordan is a competitive guy does he see that article it'd be like i gotta ramp it up my son is better at being something or what i haven't wanted to bring this up but speaking of dad's gonna bring the last dad's home huh speaking of speaking of his son's uh father son stuff have you guys seen what the speaker of the house has with his son where they are honest with each other about if they whether or not they've watched pornography they're each other's accountability buddies oh my god he has

[52:02]come out and admitted this he and his son will tell each other if they've watched pornography now this guy should we all do that should we how about this guys should we all they're engaged russell they are engaged according to his son that would be no that'd be some marcus jordan and larissa marcus jordan gets married he's uh oh ever since marriage we only have sex once a night it's like it's down it's down 80 it's terrible let me ask you this should we

[52:32]and whoever gets loses and i'm serious about this we have to have a parent be our porn accountability buddy and we have to have that conversation with their parent guys that is a fun game to play it is high stakes i would love if that conversation with certain parents i would love to hear those outcomes i'm just telling you right now i get nervous now when my parents are calling me on the phone you know what i mean like they call me on the

[53:01]phone now and i'm like oh this is bad if that was the case i'd be like i'm not picking this up is this the porn accountability phone call yeah who's calling me at 1 30 in the morning i would draw straws if it was going to be rob's mom i would love it if rob's mom was his porn accountability but all right no i'm not doing this she's a doctor she'd get all like technical with it right it'd be awkward you have you know certain biological impulses no but what if she called him tell me about these pains yeah tell me about these pains at the base what is that about rob because she

[53:31]also has to divulge that information she's been watching porn technically it's true it could explode okay actually this this bit is actually not funny okay so let's it's actually not good you'd be like well at least you're not eating candy you don't know what would like rob if your mom was watching porn what would it what would the guys be doing in rob's mom porn having an organized desk you know what i mean like their kid would have an organized backpack they would like

[54:01]not wear socks outside that would probably be the number one thing mom i'm going outside i'm gonna put on shoes all their papers are properly put into the folders and then into the back they go into their car and it's clean you know what i mean it's not just junk everywhere my mom's just jacking off to a clean car your sister is gonna love this

[54:31]she's cranking off because i did know that person i went to high school died the person that will not be named when i was asking me if he's talking about the podcast a lot and he did say i'm pretty sure at least three of the four of you would get fired at your job

[55:00]if anyone ever heard this at the vacuum company no way and after tonight aaron aaron will makes it four out of four so did it nailed it oh no i hope i don't get fired what will i do you'd be you'd be your dad's accountability buddy too you'll have free time like me getting me getting the same grades as my friend who got caught smoking in high school so i was like why don't you have the same grades as this kid

[55:30]he got caught smoking never heard about him again ever my mom is it's like a it's like a repeat video of me just throwing away my xbox i hate video games i don't want to play video games i knew you could do it rob thank you i feel like that was a good one okay not gonna think that when i'm editing it in the clear light of day okay it's like opening up your phone you didn't what's wrong i should have done this

[56:00]i should have done this yeah uh now we are talking about where's my stuff we are talking about uh life after death okay notorious big 1997 okay now i'm just going to tell you guys the list i have is a little depressing uh biggie's second album is supposed to be released on halloween in 1996 okay if we all remember the big storm was 96 not the right year i think but it was pushed after a car accident 91 92 i think they were 91 or but it's pushed back after a big car accident which is why in a ton of photos around this time you see biggie's second album which is supposed to be released on halloween

[56:30]that's the car accident that he had the cane from uh basically puff puff daddy was like i want to expand biggie fan base to all these other people so we're going to try different kinds of songs we're going to have lots of guest artists come in and a lot of it was a diss track to other artists like nas west coast uh and of course tupac catches a couple strays in this whole thing and then biggie i saw an interview with him because i go on tiktok now and i look up the artist right and i got news for you next week not a lot of tiktoks about love

[57:00]but for biggie you have a website they just have a facebook page oh love what is that oh i looked and i was like oh they're big in britain what a big surprise every band where i don't know jack shit about him is big in britain anyway the um uh i saw an interview with biggie and russell you had said that biggie got bigger like toward the this he was in his big phase at this one okay he was large in charge in this interview and he said basically uh ready to die was about how his life was so bad he just said i'm not gonna do it again i'm not gonna do it again i'm not gonna do it

[57:30]i'm already dead life after death is now that he got famous coming out of that life kind of what it's going to be like and all that stuff but we're still looking at this kind of mafioso rap you know talking a lot about like actual real time gangster stuff and killing people and stuff like that uh however of course the tragic story with this album 16 days before the release of this album biggie is shot and killed in a drive-by in la and that brings me to tonight's list oh a list right off the bat okay a list before the album

[58:07]okay and this list is the happiest birthday songs i don't know wait i misread that this list is people who had their songs released posthumously so they had died before these songs came out now of course we've got some honorable mentions okay we've already talked about otis redding sitting on the dock of the bay that's a good thing we've got some honorable mentions okay we've already talked about that album bob marley had an album come out confrontation which is where the song buffalo

[58:34]soldier was on it was actually found like in the vault after he passed away and a lot of people don't know this but big bopper wrote a song called i'm gonna buy a parachute and morehead right when i land okay he had just recorded that very poignant yeah not as popular even not as popular but you could see where that was you could see where somebody would be proud of that joke so they kind of want to wallow in it for a little bit they just want to savor that joke roll around like a little pinky yeah yeah exactly the first one uh graham parsons

[59:09]now we know graham parsons best from uh pretty much getting high and drunk in fact so much of the rolling stones kicked him out of their house in france where they were recording the flying burrito brothers their album uh i don't know exactly but he did this song he did the original version he's low on the list because i don't like it i don't like it i don't like it i don't like it i don't like this version of it but he wrote original love hurts he wrote love hurts wow

[59:35]he dies for its placement in a king of the hill episode but not this version he dies from tequila and morphine overdose before this album comes out his roadie immediately steals his body brings him to joshua tree douses him with gasoline and burns him because that was his last wishes oh yeah now again guys my last wish you need to set up recurring payment to pod bean okay so this

[60:06]podcast will live forever i have put too much work would be down before aaron could even get you on the wrong flight to vegas to get you to joshua tree aaron's taking the belt off my neck in the hotel room being like how do i get gasoline i don't even know if he's getting it all confused uh next a lot of electric cars now already i don't know where to find gas next up okay of course we've talked about on the podcast before janice joplin the album pearl with me and

[60:33]bobby mcgee written by chris christopherson this song was released after she died posthumous release you never would hear her play this live i didn't know that i mean just so incredibly sad now of course ross has brought her up on a number of times with the places he goes to like to have a drink and eat where they have pictures of dead people on the wall so this list is actually i would be the 27 club in fort lauderdale

[61:00]i bet it'd be less depressing to go like the 108 club you know what i mean it's just like a bunch of old japanese people you're like well they 108 i mean people from sargenia a couple people from costa rica the blue zones guy only smokes cigarettes in vegas i think he lived that long too uh nirvana mtv unplugged with this david bowie cover of a man who stole the world this was released almost a year after

[61:34]kirk obeying suicide i had forgotten that they were sitting on this and releasing that must have been a huge deal when we were growing up that must have been a giant news story the itv unplugged the whole album came out after he died yeah way out and there was all that video of them too yeah i mean it's it's a fire yeah next up the album the cry of love jimmy hendrix and the song angel

[62:00]now i have to say one of the things that has struck me in this podcast is i think aaron said can you imagine if jimmy hendrix survived and got to hang out with miles davis because they had been planning on working together right now together yeah with paul mccartney on bass maybe russell do you really think it's worth it to have him on your wall of your valuable 27 club you know i was thinking about i was talking about this with the uh the record listener in my house the other night we were sitting i think i sent you

[62:32]guys a picture i listened to some records was having a drink and i i put on the whitney houston is a self-titled album the first one aaron i believe yeah the one titled whitney houston yeah yeah it was so good so good to listen to i really enjoyed it there were no scratches on it i'll take the five dollar whitney houston album over the twenty dollar at miseducation of lauren hill that was all scratched up and the other one i had that got all scratched the madonna but by the the record listener in my house asked what would have happened to whitney houston if she had

[63:03]lived longer like would she be making records right now or would or was her time passed or like how often do you see like stars who are huge stars like in their 20s and still like making hit songs in their sick 50s 60s right it's only aretha right where they always go through some lost decades like johnny cash yeah share had a new christmas song this year right about but i can see i mean share life after love that was like my christmas song i want to be dancing all night long i could have seen her

[63:33]hopping on that share bandwagon where you're getting more into like electronic type stuff like it's uh when you use it yeah i mean you know if they had good songs they'd bring it to whitney right otherwise you go to mariah carey yeah it's hard to say with her too because she she was so unhealthy to the point where it was already affecting her voice in a way that like mariah hasn't had to deal with like mariah's deal has dealt with with age but not like it was happening to win you early because she wasn't healthy so i'm but yeah she would have she would

[64:01]have had a like a celine type career right she'd be doing or she would like she'd come out and do like a grimy there'd be like a grimy tribute and a dale would be on you know that sort of thing totally totally next up okay guys uh one of our favorites this is three years after he passed at the terror america four american four so you partake of that last offered cup and we've said it before if you don't own these four cds you need to go get technically five five they are

[64:33]so good they are so good so good that i feel like i've given away almost all of my cds but not these yep can't you know you can stream them but you know you won't you know if they're on cd you're gonna listen to them sometime mine got thrown away in a dumpster because i wasn't allowed to bring a bunch of stuff in a dumpster russell you know what i have to say to that all right uh next up six months in passing this is the man who elvis said had the world's most

[65:15]beautiful voice okay can you imagine if elvis says you have the perfect voice god that would be a good feeling he does have a great voice now roy orbison holds the record for me as a celebrity where

[65:34]i both want to know what his penis look like and also feel like i have a pretty good idea what his penis look like i think his penis you have a book where you that's the record that's like the on the on the graph he's in the upper quadrant i tell you to think about roy orbison's penis you could do it right now it looks like his head you know what i mean it's like great we're all thinking of the same penis hot take if you put a picture of 10 random people in front of me and

[66:01]one of them's roy orbison i probably can't tell you what who which one is roy orbison i don't think i have any idea what he looks like no idea kind of looks like elvis in my head he looks like an elvis impersonator and i just let me show you this then okay you tell me who you think roy orbison is in this random picture no okay you'll get it down to two you'll get it down to two for sure okay here's a random picture of guys okay i'll be honest i don't know if i can one two three four five oh it's got to be the it's got

[66:30]the guy in the he's got the they all got funny glasses on this guy with the white shirt and the black letter jacket i would guess you are correct that is roy orbison and it is a tough one because they are all wearing sunglasses okay unlike this one where it's just jeff lynn and roy wearing them in of course jefferson traveling willow berries there is something kind of uncool about rockers that are wearing like jeans and sport coats it feels like a lot of people are wearing jeans and sport coats it feels like not a look you see a lot anymore wow i think when marty mcfly played

[67:00]guitar he would have something different to say about that okay because you might not like it but your kids are gonna love it and your mom finally only if it's her kid guys this one is so such a big posthumous one this is such a big posthumous track that it didn't come out until 40 years after this guy's death okay see if you can spot this one 40 years oh that's right we're talking beethoven oh gary lease somebody found this written down and then played it and was like damn this is good

[67:36]okay we should we should make every kid who learns the piano play this song meanwhile dr chopsticks was like shit and i had that market corner my fries myself and not give any to my dumb brother do you guys remember the mcdonald's commercial oh we don't have time sir i was i was waiting i got four well three minutes now i was gonna say rob you uh said you wanted to

[68:01]keep this episode in 90 minutes and now we're at one we're at uh 87 minutes according to mike we haven't even listened got to the album tracks well this is not a ton of songs right so now from the last album we go right into what is it showing me the volume anyway we go right into life after death basically combining suicide and death and then we go right into life after death suicidal thoughts the last track of the last album talking about diddy mourning his friend biggie now what's crazy is that you would think oh this

[68:33]album there's so much talk of death and and and biggie's death they must have like added stuff to it after you had no no no it was all pressed it was ready to go with two weeks he passed away two weeks before this album came out someone somebody's got to die they said he wrote this after he watched the movie usual suspects which is why he has a rhyme for verbal doorbell he's already quoting himself here

[69:00]can i ask you something this album when i everybody on tiktok was arguing is this a better album or is all eyes on me by tupac a better album why why do it why does everybody compare those two albums well because biggie and tupac are well all eyes on me also a double album would have come out around the same year as this and it's just you can't talk about biggie without talking about tupac and they were certainly in conversation by this point of their lives because they were so close to the end of their lives and had been through but who shot you and hit him up

[69:33]and all of it so i think it's just that those two are so closely intertwined but i i would say stylistically they're probably similar records like a bunch of big name producers overstuffed albums where they're you know you consider kind of their magnum opus so that's probably why people think of them in the same breath okay no russell not that kind of magnum you know what i'm gonna stand by that i actually like that joke i was gonna say it disappointed but i like it hypnotize his first uh number one his first single on the album built around the herb

[70:07]albert song rise he remained at number one for three weeks until it was kicked down by guess what song by hansen that's the world we're living in that's the world we're living in 97 where a my sister and like all other teenage girls from that era should have to stand up and accept like

[70:30]we we did we did society wrong right yeah they have to go to three monster truck rallies as tenants i know this was oh go ahead here he just turns phrases so easy like close like starsky and hutch stick and clutch like he just throws stuff off for this entire album that will every all of it will turn your head there's some cool tiktoks will though they'll highlight the type of rhyme in a verse and there's just colors they match up with colors and there's just random colors and you realize how much like internal rhyming he was doing the cadence was i mean you notice in

[71:03]my parody song i didn't even try to match it because you can't you just gotta do a pastiche almost like it's it's it's so impossible this is the second number one this is the second song ever to debut at number two on the billboard hot 100 do you know what the only other song to do that was crossroads by bone thugs and harmony oh that's definitely the last time we're gonna hear from oh well okay thanks aaron no you know what you gotta sit i got excited you gotta sit it's kind of a weird so explain to me why this is so i saw that too rob and i started

[71:36]looking at it it's like it's just because but there's dozens of other songs that hit number one right away is it just because this was released as a single that it gets treated differently like for that type of thing or what just it debuted at number two there aren't there's no other songs that's done that before except for bone thugs and harmony okay because i think debut at number two is strange because you have to be like famous but then like not that famous you know i mean they can't be like beatles famous

[72:05]where it's just like replacing themselves at number one is this the one that uh samples herb albert yes yeah really yeah rise yeah rise here listen listen i was reading that like there was a really big deal it was hard to get herb albert's music cleared at the time and i think buff daddy like met him and was talking to him and he was like i was a huge like this is all we heard was your albums in new york when i was a kid it's the bass line i i think hypnotized might be a top

[72:38]five song we've listened to like on the whole quest and maybe maybe for me it's got the the pop hook like with the big it's got the hook in it and everything but i think it might be a top five to ten song we've listened to but you know when the first note hits you're stoked yeah i know what this is you're gonna enjoy every second of it yeah plus he tells you how different girls from different cities dress and that's helpful yeah you know what i mean right every cutie with the

[73:01]booty get a coochie yeah if you live in a watan then they shop at fleet farm you know stuff like that like it's easy to do uh kicking the door buff actually hated this backing track and biggie had recorded in secret what yeah that's crazy like because i feel like i feel like premiere brings out the best in biggie like i don't know this is a top five dj mc combination to me can i just tell you i the more i listen to this album the more i realize that puff's daddy brings out the worst in almost everything like anything where

[73:34]he has a heavy hand in it i remember i asked you guys like oh is he gonna be in the rock and roll hall of fame and you guys all laughed at me and i realized after this album why because he's just too he's like too weird corny pop uh that was a diss track on r kelly by the way or on i'm sorry okay now we have fuck you tonight featuring the guy who aaron's wearing the shirt of r kelly listen we also like ignition we listen to it spiley in our cars we know it's true

[74:02]this one kind of fell out of place a little bit what do you guys think yeah yeah it's just yeah this is one of the ones that i remember more than really do yes i remember playing a lot of it yeah but is it just because it's so dirty yeah yeah if you listen to every word that he says in this i mean as a high schooler you're like okay yeah for sure this album made me think i was gonna get my nuts licked a lot more than i have in my life he's always talking about getting his nuts licked

[74:34]i'm like well this was an album that yeah every every kid whose parents bought him a system in his you know car uh bought this cd and then they would play i'm fucking you tonight to like be funny or whatever and that's the one i heard a lot of yeah you funny like a joke like you look at him to see if they're gonna laugh or if they're gonna laugh or if they're gonna laugh or if they're gonna laugh or you know maybe if they don't laugh they take it seriously you're like well that's fine too when it comes to systems that ever tell you guys like the most uncool moment i ever had when i was

[75:00]in high school please i'm here for us so i had a time machine i would go back to the five seconds ago so i hear the story again so i would have had to been at least a year maybe a senior because i was it was uh old enough where i could drive so i'm 16 or whatever i've got a car okay and someone like one of my friends was like looking at my car we're driving somewhere he goes this is a nice this is like a cool car he's like are you gonna get any bumps in it and like i didn't know what he meant like he was talking about like are you gonna get like a system like some big speakers or something to this you know like you thought he was talking like black eyed peas i don't i don't

[75:32]even know what i think i was like wait you like am i worried i'm gonna like crash like i didn't get it and i remember thinking after like afterwards i'm like this is about as uncool of a moment as i could ever have i would have thought he was talking about lovely lady lumps yes i've been like yeah i'm gonna try to get as many bumps in here as i possibly can you know what i mean and then i'm gonna go have a what's it called rob would you talk to your parents about what you're looking at uh accountability it's a porn accountability i mean can you imagine like what's that conversation like dad i watch porn because then the next question the thing would be like

[76:02]well all right i think the first question has got to be are you paying for it because at least you gotta you gotta convince your kid don't pay for it right well i if you if you i would say if you have followed somebody on twitter and it turns out they're actually a good person and they are working as an independent contractor okay it's almost more ethical to pay

[76:30]for it right so this is last day featuring the locks now the locks is a group of jadakiss chic louch and styles p i played the jadakiss verse here because you can't possibly go wrong playing the jadakiss verse there's nothing wrong with jadakiss right damn it j to the moi no we're editing that okay so it's that simple i just redid it i'm a genius uh next up is just like me when i'm picking out ice cream i love that dough featuring jay-z now the description of this song is that

[77:01]they refute the popular misconception that money can't buy happiness and they talk about all the cool stuff they've got with money what a great idea for a song line by line the two explain the many ways in which their glamorous lifestyles are superior to those with lesser fortunes this is a song like this this style was launched and like just entire careers were built off of you know rebelling against this sound and this concept like who who's who's give me two uh like most

[77:32]deaf uh would be one like all of backpack rap you know like half of rhymesayers you know atmosphere um but like most deaf and tall liver some that i've come up can think of like i don't know maybe little brothers like people who are like fuck this materialistic shit and like it sucks for sure um but well but it's unfortunate that like i do love that dough either it's either that on this album or like exquisitely wrapped violent threats against people like it's a hard album to

[78:03]listen to as much as i love biggie it's true notorious b.i oh what's beef okay where he is saying that hey beef is not words beef is me doing stuff right let's get the strings this was kind of haunting yeah i would say this guys what's your favorite cut of beef if you got one cut of beef you're gonna have right now or the rest of your life what are you taking what kind of beef are we doing uh if it's for the rest of my life i'm gonna do a skirt steak really why are you picking a

[78:35]skirt steak i don't i never think of that as the only thing i love skirts oh i i is it corny if i just say like a big t-bone because i don't know any other kind of cut of meat i have no yeah i have no idea what the best one is everybody's a good choice is meatballs part of a cow which part is the burger where's the uh anyway uh worst cut of the beef okay

[79:05]oh by the way jenny going to uh uh the philippines she's looking up food she's like i i hope so the philippines she's looking up food she's like i i hope so the philippines she's like i i hope so the philippines she's like i i hope so the philippines she's like i i hope so the philippines she's like jenny turning me and goes well she goes to eat street food i'm gonna go to the grocery store and buy greek yogurt i was like this person is going to hate traveling with you first of all can you imagine you're like thinking about eating scorpions and stuff and she's like getting her

[79:30]greek yogurt i need to go to a grocery store i can tell you going on vacation uh with my roommate is a lot like looking for grocery stores in foreign countries and looking to see what kind of yogurt it is and then looking at labels because when you're like in greece buying greek yogurt calories is not spelled galleries it's not even the same alphabet all greek to me over there you know what i mean um one of the one of the foods she did find those where they have that bird that's not fully cooked it's in the egg it's like the baby bird found one no that that's

[80:01]one of the popular street foods she's like hey she's like i'll just be having yogurt i was like well yeah she goes because and the reason was because every once in a while the birds will be big enough to have a beak she doesn't want to accidentally eat a beak no it'll go down fine yeah right you're gonna eat the rest of the bird what's the difference guys i gotta say if i'm munching on a beak something's gone wrong in my life i don't need it uh big it's like a shrimp tail we don't eat shrimp tails russell don't act like that's normal uh this is a schooly d classic

[80:33]he flipped around apparently no money more problems this is such big puff daddy influence is it one of the top r&b songs of all time aaron like when you think of r&b or 90s r&b let's say is this like i don't i wouldn't i don't know i don't i don't think of anything with a rap verse on it as r&b no i would think of something with one verse on it as r&b but i wouldn't call this r&b but it is the top pop rap song in my mind this is like more crossover like mainstream

[81:03]mainstream hip-hop right yeah i think so yeah now if you want to see why guys our age who lived in the 90s are so corny watch this video this is what we were exposed to as what we thought was cool right all the time have you seen this video russell recently no it's almost two o'clock my time rob all right so let's just watch the video real quick okay and you know that i can speed up the uh play time so that's not a big deal

[81:31]no money more problems now this is what we're exposed to as being cool okay and this is part of the problem this is why we all suck yeah the shiny suit this is big time shiny suits this is tunnel of lights okay guys my internet's fine don't make fun of my internet please all right matchings i mean look at this guys he literally looks like he just got done running a marathon embarrassing uh next up n words bleed today's agenda got the suitcase up in the central i'm gonna tell you guys right now walk

[82:07]around new york today listening to the song skating at central park listening to this album is awesome it's a perfect skating great headphone album sounds great really really good uh next up i got a story to tell now this is a story about biggie having sex with a nick's girlfriend the nick comes home

[82:33]biggie then has the great idea to act like a robber and then take his money but not only do you wonder why your girl's so sleepy and thirsty when you get home a guy took your money when you walked in your door humiliated and it turns out later uh john stark said oh yeah it's a true story and big pun came out and said it was anthony mason anthony mason right yeah i mean

[83:00]anthony mason was a pretty tough dude he would not be the best right now that's not grandmama is it no that's larry johnson okay anthony mason was like on the charles oakley patrick ewing teams kind of like point forward type guy but a big bruising dude doesn't shrink is the guy i would mess with scrapes yeah now what's what's more depressing biggie having sex with your wife your girlfriend or your girlfriend being attracted to biggie you know i mean like that's it that's her

[83:31]type and then you come home and you're kind of like i was gonna say it would be it would probably be weird because he's like six eight like biggie biggie's not that big compared to anthony mason right yeah right you just walk in and you're like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like hey i'm home we i thought i would read my hulk hogan make oh shit wait a minute and then he takes my money too yeah why does he get to be on the bottom you said that causes your hamstrings to cramp up that was this episode listen you guys here i'm in

[84:03]for the whole thing here uh let's start the second album okay let's just take should we take a break should take a little intermission okay no okay everybody go out for a kitchen just a real quick i've been mad at you for a while i've been mad at you for a while i've been mad at you for a while so do you remember when your wife asked if there was a hard stop to this podcast ending i'm nearing it all right all right all right uh notorious thugs i take responsibility this is with bone this is the second most popular one i listen to more than anything yeah this was on all the time

[84:33]this was the one that i ended up i had forgotten about this when when i heard it like this was like uh immediately it's got to go on the playlist it's such a jam it's so fun too like not a combo you would ever have picked up through my tiktok research this was the song that where people said biggie this is biggie's best verse on the whole album is notorious thugs really i don't know if i'd agree with that but i do love it well then aaron

[85:00]maybe you should get on our social media and actually try to get us some listeners and some voicemails it would really help me out miss you now you might think oh is he talking about uh mississippi university no he claims it's about a friend of his in brooklyn everybody thought it was about tupac was tupac yeah because i can't remember tupac died first right tupac died 96 yeah he had died earlier another with little kim now this is about cheating on each other now this is a pretty ugly song i feel like it feels like a ghostbusters song

[85:36]that too it feels like the synth on it or whatever i just right this was not mine it's just too cynical the whole thing if you wanted to hear about egon he's hitting another girl from the back that would be like a lot like the ghostbusters oh man there you go or slimer i love oh now listen you come home yeah all you you have been working hard at the vacuum factory russell i've been podcasting all night the night before too

[86:02]and you are so tired okay you only did one episode yet you're up so late and nobody knows why we're all looking for the guy who's proud that is and you come in and your wife is on top of slimer that would be a bummer you know what i mean because you know he's just got done eating a bunch of hot dogs and you know he can fly around really fast and yet he still gets to be on the bottom and you know what slimer would turn to you and say this is our fifth time tonight

[86:30]we probably do it five times a night what was slimer when he was alive it makes no sense every other ghost in that movie looks like a person i don't get what slimer is help me figure it out what was it accurate yeah it's really accurate so strange to me and everybody's just like oh yeah that's slimer it makes no sense also had the grossest flavor of juice box ecto cooler those are nasty you're actually wrong yeah okay i drank a lot of those

[87:00]they made me big and strong okay now did i did i have my gallbladder removed when i was older yeah does that have anything to do with it probably not what if we combine okay soda with urine what would it taste like let's call it let's call it ecto cooler plus it was like part of a ghost it was like oh ectoplasm one of the grossest things in ghost busters we should make a drink out of that do they still sell that oh i don't think so i don't know russell if you think anybody on this podcast lets their kid drink high c matt what's do you have any

[87:30]juice or high c in your fridge right now uh no no i can tell you russell if you're buying stock remember when we used to just get in my house we used to just get gallons of red it could just be a gallon and it would be like red and we'd just be like yeah that's what we drink it's red it's a gallon we love it like if mike if i saw my kids drinking that they would be punished immediately it's crazy uh and i would drink the rest of it uh next up going back to cali now this sample zaps more bounce to the ounce and zap was a guy that was on california love

[88:04]right he was also on this and you kind of hear him on there it's kind of fun yeah so here he's talking about going back to cali and how it's and he loves cali he loves it again very west coast sound so such foreshadowing it's crazy that's friend 10 crack commandments now russell i'm gonna do your favor i printed out the 10 crack commandments i was gonna read them to you i'm not gonna do it

[88:31]okay don't extend don't loan money to jeb that was one of them that's the one i didn't get that surprised me this is about the most noted kind of like gangster rap thing from like 1990 you know after uh snoop and easy and some of those like this song i think there's everybody knows at least three or four of the commandments if you listen to a lot of hardcore right and it's like your favorite rapper's favorite verse

[89:02]kind of thing yeah but think about that you know the beginning of hypnotize in a millisecond how many times have you said more money more problems in your life i mean i think i've heard my parents say that like everybody knows more money more problems like it's crazy that that just is a saying that everybody says oh it's like my daddy's like oh i'm sick of all these pet sounds we're always saying that around the house uh boy this guy hates the beach in spain he's a playa hater oh wait no that's playa hater

[89:37]now this song guys i loved i thought it was so funny where he's like doing the bismarcky pruning and it's all about him robbing somebody i mean it's pretty weird i don't know if they had made a single lp of this would have made the cut but what it's it's nice to have it now that he's gone it's good to have this voice recorded

[90:02]we've been talking for two hours you've been robbed yeah i believe when so his first album was ready to die and i think that made it like top of my list i think that made it top of my list 15 top 20 if i remember yeah it's way up there it's pretty high and i don't even know if i own the book booze and vinyl then so i'm gonna share a cocktail i'm having tonight with you guys was actually for ready to die but they didn't have life after death i mean this morning you're gonna share a cocktail this morning with us it's a mimosa this is technically the sign you i've

[90:33]probably got a problem matt but so for ready to die when do you think they they they're gonna recommend you spin this when do you want to listen to this album about one ready to die 28 in the morning oh what do i want to do ready to die 5 26 in the morning yeah probably right following me at 5 46 in 46 46 you're right yeah yeah yeah well but you got to set it earlier than hit this news a couple times you know they say you want to play this

[91:02]when you just got a promotion and you're having a party to celebrate your new promotion i can see that okay as long as you don't play the last track oh aaron hr coming in yeah so on side b or on side a actually i already missed side a but they're recommending a big juicy have you guys ever had a big juicy had a juicy lucy but not a big juicy i had i who was that my junior year of college is big juicy this simple yet sophisticated sipper with outsized

[91:37]flavor matches the easygoing vibes on ready to die it is juicy it is all good if you didn't know now you know so it features two ounces of light rum half an ounce of amaretto half an ounce of lemon juice oh this is all over the place and a lime peel for garnish yes all right it's pretty good i did not have amaretto oh no russell but i subbed out

[92:07]is your relationship okay this is the first time you haven't had a drink in a long time and i'm actually worried but i had a pretty good substitution i have is it orgy at syrup oh yeah yeah it's commonly used in my ties i believe it's made of almonds and that's kind of the flavor of amaretto so that's nice i was looking for a substitute it had a bunch but then i i reversed the look i said what is a orgy at syrup substitute and they all said amaretto

[92:34]so that filled in perfectly gave it that same flavor it's delicious cocktail you could use a jamaican rum as a nod to biggie's jamaican heritage and he has a line about jamaican rum on this album and then it would be a little island influenced kind of biggie nod well i guess i'll be up till three in the morning then and i'll have to call someone about my other issues but actually that drink sounds good there's a wild flavors all over the place uh nasty boy

[93:01]very good very talented at it sky's the limit have a three-part review of his life rags to riches story i was reading there he went to this uh rob your daughters go to different you guys have to apply to high schools out there right you go to high schools right in i was reading he went to the same high school as three other famous rappers jay-z mj would be one

[93:34]buster rhymes oh and dmx whoa i didn't realize dmx was from there too that's a pretty epic lineup right but a lineup yeah i tried really hard to find a fifth one so we could do a list couldn't find a fifth can you imagine going to that school's talent show yeah you know what i mean you get up there and you're like you're like playing your grandma's accordion and then you're for this talent russell's gonna

[94:03]play your lease and all of a sudden where's the hood that comes in right over your head you're like oh all right so uh next up the world is filled puff daddy is so corny he is so corny he is so corny aaron should this be a double album as we go with my downfall well i mean no except now that biggie's gone it has to exist but

[94:34]this second part of it everybody was telling on tiktok everybody's like this is one of the greatest double albums i'm like it would be a great single the first one i'm like i'm gonna do the first half is so so good long kiss good night well it is a great double album because it's got all of the last 20 tracks biggie ever did every you could pour over every line trying to find something new yeah but does that make it a great that it's long enough like that's

[95:00]no if he were no if he were still here this might not be where it is or i might not have you would look at it about it no you would look at it differently though if they were like yeah he had vaulted those and we're going to release it as the second one i'm not going to release it as the album you'd be like well yeah of course it's not as good you're nobody till somebody kills you i gotta say i really like this song and to hear him sing it it's just like haunting suit i mean obviously to end the album like this and for him to get shot 12 days before it comes out it's crazy all right let's get into the second list that i made or we can go into the

[95:37]rating system we weren't going to be comparing anything did you delete my whole rolling going in our first 178 episodes i thought to myself are we starting out are we already going to the smelling cushions bit like is this an episode and then we went way past it guys i think this is a we're in the stratosphere on this one for sure uh listen rolling well toned rolling boned or rolling grown this album

[96:04]it's a classic it's one of the greatest rap albums of all time aaron is that crazy to say top 20 rap album uh not crazy no no it's and it's at 179 on the list are you kidding me shouldn't this be higher up on the list if you think so that would be a rolling boned it should have been higher up on the list if you think this album okay should have been lower which of course would be a higher number okay so you can kind of think of it as like a teeter-totter you put a higher number of weights on there it's gonna go lower guys it's science okay don't make me explain it to you that would

[96:33]be a rolling grown if it should have been later in the list okay or is this a rolling well toned it is perfect this list okay it is just like pickle juice and that makes me think you think pickle juice helps biggie not pull his hamstring maybe that was the key it worked for roger clemens don't have time to get into why you said that wish i did okay but the other two guys with us

[97:02]aaron are staring off into space we gotta go we gotta help we gotta help them survive all right rolling well toned rolling bone rolling grown the guys on the two co's are setting it up guys in the midwest it's must be a weather thing russell what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling grown biggie smalls notorious big uh life after death guys i arrived at this establishment this podcast tonight genuinely eager to sample another album with absolutely no desire to place one above another each song on this was a treat

[97:33]and it was uniquely delicious life becomes much happier when you choose to enjoy rather than to compare so for me i'm going to go with this i'm going to go with this i'm going to go with this i'm going to say i really enjoyed hypnotized and notorious things those are two of my probably top 50 songs we've listened to over the last 150 albums i will not be ranking this album i'm just enjoying the things i enjoyed uh man rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling grown notorious big i mean there's so many great songs and there's some just it's like most double albums

[98:04]there's some just absolutely corny songs i'm trying to line them up and i can't quite say p diddy songs that are just horrible um but you know i think it's i don't know i mean the foreshadowing of his death with some of these songs is just i think that'll always override everything um you know being 12 days before it so you know everything that he's saying how much is he foreshadowing how much is he bringing that to himself i don't know you know but all in all

[98:33]there's three or four absolute bangers we don't use that anymore because somebody made fun of us once but banger of songs and some of them that are just horrible i don't know i don't know maybe considered even deep tracks that aren't you know the the radio plays things like that so all in all i think this is great right here at 179 um you know probably could be a little higher but we'll just say it's rolling well toned uh here at 179 i just gotta say guys i do love this podcast i didn't know anything about biggie before we started i mean i should have because this is

[99:03]right in my wheelhouse of like when i was alive but now that you when you've listened to his two albums and you kind of understood where he was and like what was going on it's it's it's a really is a crazy story you know i mean it would literally be like if i died getting if i died stuck in a dryer you'd be like damn that's incredible this guy he was talking about that shit for years and it finally happened to happen i mean he he's pretty close to where you live isn't he i mean grew up five miles away from you something like that he's not that far away

[99:30]down to brooklyn it's not way too far i'm just saying but like all things considered he's really he's pretty darn close isn't he what is what is the venn diagram of kids who grew up with a milk band and also listened to a lot of music like that i don't know if you've ever heard of that biggie smalls very high that's a very mom pop can i have a system in my car i want to get bumps i want to get bumps okay son you can but we're going to be a accountability buddy tell me never mind tell me if there's any swearing in those books yeah uh aaron rolling