The Who: Tommy (1969)

[00:00]I can't believe that Jenny, like, totally bails out on making out with Rob like that. No, Jenny kissed me just fine. The kiss was fine. The kiss was just fine. I mean, that's debatable. She didn't kiss me well enough. I wouldn't J.O. to that kiss. Oh, that was a kiss. Did you see that? Forehead? I mean, like, I'd kiss Russell on the forehead. Rob, can we make sure you guys are recording the video over there? Are you recording the video?

[00:30]The shoulder rub's kind of nice. Yeah, I'd rub Russell on the shoulder. There's nothing that's intimate going on right now. Russ jacking off to me getting kissed on the cheek by my wife is so funny to me. Like, he gets busted. His upstairs roommate comes in. Huh? All right. Hey, listen, we're not messing around tonight. Okay, so before we start, I need to be perfectly clear with the audience. Rob, I have a Post-it note in every room. Remember, it says, hey, this was just a joke, so I can always just say, hey, I was, I could

[01:03]just give her the Post-it note and say, hey, this was just a joke. I was, it was just seeing how you'd react. Russell, why does the bathroom smell so bad? It's a joke. It's a joke I put in. I mean. Okay. I thought I liked milk. In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums that decided to be released on 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. We promise to do almost no research.

[01:31]All opinions are our own, unless you disagree. Please sit back and enjoy. Beck did it better. Now, tonight, we've got a special treat. Okay? You're going to find out in my rolling going that I thought I was going to have some time to prepare today, because when I texted my wife and said, do I have any plans Friday? She said, no. And then people came over to my house, and they stayed here until about five minutes ago. So this is a totally ad-libbed episode of Beck Did It Better. I have nothing. I have nothing prepared.

[02:00]I don't have the music downloaded. I don't have any notes. Guys, this is going to be the episode where we are totally off the cuff, kind of a whose line is anyway. That's great. Let's do that on a double episode where there's like, you know, 32 songs. Great, great, great choice, Rob. Okay, Matt, give me a word. Give me a kind of food. Give me a kind of food. Carnivore. Carnivore. Okay, so I said food, and you said carnivore. So that's running for a loop right off the bat. You said give me a word, and then you said give me a food. Okay, let's go with that. Let's go with asparagus.

[02:31]Asparagus. Okay, asparagus. Asparagus yesterday. I'm not going to talk about the piss thing. Don't talk about the piss thing. Your pee smells today. Don't talk about the piss thing. Damn it. That's all I can think about is the piss thing. I will tell you a story. The thing is, I saw something on the internet that you should not snap your asparagus off at the end. That's not really the way to do it. You should just cut a short piece off and then peel the bottom inch or so. You guys, I spent, I don't know how long, peeling asparagus last night. Not worth it.

[03:01]There's no way that's worth it. There's no way. Not worth it. Just let your piss smell. What's about the fibrous? Is that the goal? You don't want to save as much of it. Sure. You don't want to have the true parts at the end, you know? But yeah, I mean, it was good. It was okay, but it was not worth the peeling. Can you imagine being Aaron's wife and you build that comment? Aaron's like, I made this so the piss doesn't smell as much. You'd be like, wait, what? She definitely didn't come in and just say like, why don't you just snap those off? I was like, because the internet said that's wasteful. Yeah. We've got to get rid of it. And we know. Right, Rosie?

[03:30]You can't put anything on the internet. That's not true. Yeah, you can't. That's what the regulations say. That's why I put my social security number in every time they ask for it. Okay? It's the law. I have to. That's my email address. That's my social security number. I've sent them so many Google gift cards. I'm expecting something really big back in return. Maybe a kiss on the forehead. I'm so bored. I'm going to start responding to those texts. You know what I mean? Hey, I'm in town. Can you meet me today? I'm going to be like, yeah, fuck yeah. Let's meet. I don't care. You guys get those spam texts? I got one the other day where it said, hey, I'm riding a horse.

[04:00]Are you still an equestrian? And I was like, this spam text is so, you cannot get that many people with this one. Like the ones you get, you get nailed them. I'm not going to lie. You nailed the horse people. Not me. Because I was like, no, I'm a terrible equestrian. Let me send you a Google gift card. Listen, tonight, okay, we are all the way up to album. Tonight is the night. 190. Okay? And tonight we have. I'm 14 away. Can you, no, can you guess, Matt, the band is The Who?

[04:34]Yes? Yes. Nope. You might, Matt, guess who? Where? No. Where's not a band? Oh, boy, I'm in a big rush. We've got Tommy, The Who from 1969. Nice. Nice. Hey, guys, can you smell that? Because it's the rock opera. The rock doesn't. I don't care what you sing at the opera. We're doing the rock opera of Tommy by The Who.

[05:02]Let's get into my song. Can I ask a question? Can I ask a question? To the 20s and 30s of fans of this podcast. Can I ask an honest question? Before we even get into all of this stuff, is there anything worse than a rock opera album? Probably someone who doesn't live. If you missed about the best rock opera albums, that would probably be the worst.

[05:30]Okay. Let's turn on my song, which is definitely not recorded later and stuck in. What's up, everybody? Welcome to KROB, K-R-O-B. Now, it turns out that all the time Rob has been saying that the voicemail line is full. Well, he didn't realize that it wasn't full, and it wasn't even close to full. So, please. Picture Aaron down on his knees begging you, call the back line, okay?

[06:01]And our self-worth depends on it. All right? We feel bad if you don't call. Oh, yeah. We set up the back line so all our fans could call. But now we have a problem because we have played them all. I don't like to do it, but I need to beg y'all. I need our dumb shit fans. Give the back line a call. You can ask us questions about how Matt keeps his shoes so clean.

[06:36]What does Aaron think about eating poutine? You can even ask Russell, should all bars have specials? But no matter what, give the back line a call. It's our voicemail line. The line I promised to be nice. When you hear this song, I would love it if you called twice.

[07:05]What is the number you call 802-277-PEC? When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time. Welcome back. I've got you. Oh, that was awesome. Man, that was a great song. That might have been the best one you've ever listened to. Slipped into the podcast. Listen, I don't think Aaron says the C word as many times as he did in that song, but

[07:32]I thought it was good. You know what I mean? Like, I don't usually do stuff like that. Don't teach yourself again, Rob. Excellent work. Can't believe it. All those references to your sister's profession. Oh, no. Don't do this. This is actually not funny to me at all. Listen, I've got three guys here. The nightmares you had about your dad and those disco balls. That verse was amazing. Can't believe you got your mom on there to sing. That was really incredible. Okay.

[08:00]No, I'm not doing any of that. Okay. It's going to be the last bit of recording the day before I have to send this to Russell. I'll be like, pinball wizard. Okay. You know what? I haven't even written the song yet. What's it going to be? Pinball wizard. I was thinking about, do you guys want me to open up my parody song folder? A thin wall of gizzards. It's like if you built a wall of gizzards. Aaron, when have we talked about a thin wall of, you know what? Anybody can put disco balls and wisdom teeth into the same. A disco ball wizard would be pretty easy to come up with. Yeah, that's true. I was thinking about something about Apple maps, but I couldn't think about what it was.

[08:31]Was this the episode where we were going to purposely not do funny? No. Listen, I've got three guys here. Is this where we need to pick them up? Is this the special surprise? I'm not. There's no special surprise this week. This is where we really deliver the dog shit episode. We've talked about the last few weeks being done. This is where we, we put it in the paper bag. Drop it on your doorstep and just let that shit flame. Full dog shit.

[09:00]I've got three guys here who want to be reminded that the who bass player died in Las Vegas in bed with a prostitute. Okay. I tell that story every time we do who album that is he was named Dobber. He died from a cocaine overdose in Las Vegas with a prostitute in the bed to which I say you should have gone to the ranch. We've been talking about the ranch. You can get up there. You got to walk up the steps and then you have to negotiate. But that is now. I got to admit, guys, if I died at the ranch, I'd be like, my last breath would be like, please haul me out of here.

[09:31]You cannot have the ambulance haul you out of the ranch. Like, listen, this guy barely fucks. You know what I mean? Like he got obviously it looks like you fuck somebody had a heart attack and they're like, well, couldn't you walk out? Be like, I fuck fine. My thoughts if I were going out with and I had the prostitute in Vegas and I knew it was about over. The first one would be, are they going to charge me a late checkout when I don't get out of here for like three days or not? Like, oh, you're dead or not.

[10:00]Are you dead right now? I'm assuming they charge someone's on the hook for it. Right. Oh, yeah. No, no. Dead guy. You just write it off. The company writes it off. It's like Rob. They just cancel it. You know, so. Well, that's not. Listen, let's get into tonight's voicemail. You introduce us first or no? Oh, I got to have this written down. This is why I don't get three guys. Listen, I've got three guys here.

[10:31]Seven. Seven. Okay. Who want to talk about the seven? Two, three, two, five. Yes. I've got Russell Minneapolis. Russell, how are you doing today? Guys? Robbie's daddy gave him magic. I can tell by the way he walks. Oh, wow. Robbie. I don't know. Robbie. What song? Robbie. Robbie. Robbie. Robbie, can you hear me? Robbie. Do I have to show you my supple wrists?

[11:00]Because I will do it. I was going to say, I thought we were going to have to draw straws to see who got the supple wrist. I'll say it again. I went and got a massage again the other day and they're rubbing my right forearm. They're like, this is so tight. And I was like, oh, yeah. Who knows why? Could be any reason. I've been peeling a lot of potatoes. I've gotten mad at me. Matt, how are you doing? Good, Rob. Just wanted to say, you know what? If we're in Vegas next January, give us a room, close the door, leave us for a while.

[11:32]You won't be a boy no more. Oh, my gosh, man. That's what John Entwistle said right before they found him dead in the room with the prostitute again. God, does Ann-Margaret say that? I've got Aaron out in California. Now, Aaron. Oh, I do have some stuff written down for Aaron. Aaron, did you say Ann-Margaret? Yeah, she's in the movie. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do a recall on that later, Aaron. Bookmark it. Oh, boy. Put a pin in it, as they say in the corporate world. Let's put a pin in that. Let's put a pin in that.

[12:00]Let's bring it up later. Put a pin in it. This is a living, breathing document. I was in a meeting, and they said that once, and I was like, I need to leave. I will die. It's a Word document. This is not what I was here for. A living, breathing document. Oh, that's awful. Oof, that's rough. I've got Aaron out in California now. Aaron, can you do me a favor, Aaron, for this bit? I'll edit this out. I got you. When I say my thing, can you say, oh, what did he say? Okay. Mm-hmm. Oh, Aaron, I went and saw my doctor the other day. Oh, what did he say? What did she say?

[12:30]The doctor was a woman, Aaron, and she said, stop looking at my boobs. Doctor, doctor, give me the news. Wait, I was distracted. I was looking at you. All right. Aaron, how are you doing? I wanted to be the first to make a supple wrist joke. But since I can't, I just want to ask you to see me, hear me, touch me, feel me. Let's talk about Tommy. Thank you, Aaron. Now, let's get into, guys, we've got something to do.

[13:01]Robbie, Robbie, Robbie, Robbie, Robbie, Robbie. Russell loves a bit, okay? Now, okay? Oh, my God. I'm going to show you my rock out. All right, guys, listen. I don't have a voicemail prepared, so instead, it's time for... Rosie. Rosie, that joke will come back later.

[13:30]Don't worry. Two or three episodes, that'll come back. Rob will listen to the edits and be like, shit. Ah, there it was. Okay, so, Aaron, now, the other day, and now, of course, I am editing, so that means I hear everything that can be heard. I don't own a microwave. Okay. Okay, now, out of room. Out of respect to you, I edit out quite a bit, but I wanted to play this, and I... No, Aaron, not farts. What are you talking about? Gross. What I want to say is...

[14:00]You know what I was thinking for next week's parody song, Rob? Instead of at last, it could be past gas. That's actually pretty good. Can I tell you how mad I am? I already did a fast pass song that I couldn't do another one for this next song. You know how hard it is to make a song about car mats? It's almost impossible. Almost? Okay? Okay. It's almost... It's tough. Almost. Okay, but you will get together... When you guys... When we get together Saturday morning at 8 a.m. To listen to my songs I recorded, you're going to love it.

[14:30]Aaron, I want to ask you right now. Can you tell me... We're recording. I hear this over your microphone. I immediately cut it out and download it. Tell me what's going on in this scene at your place. Oh, God. What is that noise? What is the fucking... What is that? Oh, my God. Wait a minute. We got to play it one more time. What? Oh. What is that? Aaron is addicted to cocaine, apparently. Aaron, what is that noise that I am hearing from your microphone?

[15:02]It's such a source of contention in this house. Aaron, I'm so sorry. I have to play it one more time. I'm so sorry. Okay, Russell. Russell, what do you think that sound from Aaron is? If I had to get... If I had to guess, I would guess it's... Aaron's got like a fancy desk chair that goes up and down, and it's got like a hydraulic something going on with a fancy desk chair.

[15:30]All right. Okay. Fancy desk chair with hydraulic. You think he's got multiple Eames chairs? Aaron's rolling like three figures, three, six figures. Dude, if you pay $8,800 for one chair, you don't sit in another chair that's like a lawn chair. Everything's got to be nice, right? Oh, Aaron, living the life with chairs. Matt, what do you think this noise is? And again, Aaron, I'm so sorry, but I just need to play this one more time. I know that Aaron's got some great rhythm, right? I mean, like those hips don't lie, as Shakira once said.

[16:02]So he's in his folding chair. Yep. He's in the laundry room, which has like a... It's more of like a laminate flooring than anything. Maybe it's a tile, and he's just riding that thing across the floor. Okay. That's what you think is a chair scraping across. Maybe his hips don't lie. Because I'm dancing along with the music. So I think this is Aaron, and it turns out that his nose is stuffed, and he is blowing his nose.

[16:31]Okay. That would be... Too rhythmic. I can't... Well, I mean, too rhythmic. You should hear about this band I heard earlier. Okay? It's not for me. It's for you, rhythmic. Aaron, what is that noise? Sorry. I'm listening. That is the... I'm going to back up and apologize. Aaron, excuse me. Excuse me. I want to apologize for that rhythmics joke. It seemed really good in my head when I started, and it's not. Aaron, and I'm so sorry. I'm just going to play the noise one more time. What is this noise? What is this noise?

[17:04]I always thought it was the oor rhythmics, like the original rhythmics. That is the soda stream. Are you guys familiar with the soda stream? So that is the little canister that makes fizzy water. And my wife does it like eight times. And sometimes I get mad because I don't like the sound. And so it's super funny that now you're playing this. Oh my God. She's going to love it when she hears this bit. Yeah. So that's, she's fizzing up some water.

[17:30]So probably she was getting ready to go to bed. I can't hear her. I'm so sorry. That happens. That happens sometimes in the house where it's like I'm talking to her and then she's doing the fizzy thing. Does she know what annoys the shit out of you or not? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she's, yeah, she's like, she knows that I don't love this shit. I don't love the sound, but she's very courteous about it. She just happened to be doing it. And it's right outside this door here. So like you would, you would definitely hear it. Yeah. Now what I added out at the end is Aaron yelling out the door. What the fuck?

[18:01]I'm doing a podcast. I've talked to you about this. Okay. So Aaron, is there anything else now, Aaron, theoretically, this is not real, but theoretically, is there anything else your spouse does that really bugs you? That bugs you more than like, if you could say, I want this one thing to stop. It's not a deal breaker, but you want it to stop. What would that one thing be? Don't make it stop. Don't make that motion. Don't do that. I don't like that. I mean, we already said the SodaStream. That's it. That's it. That's the only thing. That's it. Matt, what about you? Is there anything that, that bugs you? You know, lately my wife's been, you know, she's been kind of down in the dumps.

[18:34]What about that spoon in the dishwasher? In the dishwasher or something like that? No, I mean, she, you know, she just thinks that she's like, oh, you know, I just, this shirt doesn't look that great on me. And she looks gorgeous. Like, you know, she keeps complaining about her looks. This is such a bogus thing. She should stop talking about, you know, everything she wears looks good. Wow. That man. Goddamn, man. You're good. Okay. Russell, what kind of shit are you going to say?

[19:01]I get it. What bugs you? Russell, why don't I go first? I'll go first. Have I told you guys, have I told you guys about my latest thing at work? No. I have to tell you. This is, this comes up. So there's this lady. So. You know, I work, I deal with brokers at work who like, do they have business and they're trying to broker deals to us, things like this. So I've got this lady that I talked to. Go, I'm going to give me five, give me five, give me five, give me 10, give me 10, give

[19:30]me 20, give me 20. She's not in New Jersey, Rob. I got 22 over to the man on the right. And she'll say things like, well, you know, our business is really bad this, you know, going really bad this quarter. Right. And then she'll just stop because she'll want to, she wants me to say something. Well, let's, you know, let me figure out how we can help you or, oh, that's too bad or something. But I legitimately know what she's doing and I just wait it out. So I go with a pregnant pause and I think I made it to 48 seconds. Oh, 48 seconds. I think I made it to 40.

[20:00]Negotiation. I went through the peaks and valleys. I went like, I felt a little bit, you know, and then I went to like, fuck, yeah, I'm winning this, this battle. And then I went back to, wow, this is getting even more awkward to the point. And then I just wrote it out. Like, yep, I won this bad boy. Jesus. But it went like 48 seconds of dead silence. So do you guys in, in work, Russell, I got, maybe this is for you more than anything. Do you employ the pregnant pause ever?

[20:30]Because I think it is about the biggest win you could ever do to somebody to just let them sit there and sit in silence. I think a pregnant pause is always good because you let people think and then they stew on it for a little bit. Then they kind of start twisting around in their own mind and you just got to let them let them go. Right. Yep. Absolutely. The pregnant pause. That's my, that's my latest, uh, tool. I'm trying to sharpen in my, uh, toolbox. Pregnant pause was a move. I used my sophomore year of college. Didn't work though. Paused anyone for getting pregnant for quite a while.

[21:01]My face generally gave people pause. That kid is now in here getting his MBA at Northwestern. I was like, we don't need pills or condoms or anything. I am no threat here. This is my pause. You can always trust a guy who's true. Starts with, we don't need no pills or condoms. Hey, you know what? I could see this guy fathering my children. Uh, my speaking of fathering my children, my wife, how many women in the world do you think have ever said that about you, Rob?

[21:32]Over one and a half. I would say under 0.5 over under 0.5. By the way, can I say this right now? My kid came out and told me earlier. She goes, listen, I am on the phone with my boyfriend and he can hear every word that you're saying. That's awesome. That's, that's awesome. I was like, Oh, I can't say guy on top 69. That is do not want them talking about that. Don't put any ideas in there. I have to explain.

[22:00]She'd be like, well, it's something he does on a nice day. Rob, have you met this gentleman caller or not? No, we're supposed to, we're supposed to play in the future and I'm going to do the thing where I shake his hand, but I rub it with the middle finger. You know what I mean? Like that thing to really creep them out right off. The bad. I think I'm going to establish dominance right off the bat. I'm going to call him by his wrong name right away. Hey Steve, I've heard a lot about you. Stuff like that. That is the way better play. Sarah's best friend's name is Anna, right?

[22:31]To this day, my dad still says, well, how's, uh, how's your friend like Angie doing? You know, like this is like 17 years later kind of a thing. So that's the best place to call him the wrong name. Or ask him for some notes, ask him like, Oh, did you, did you hear about the guy in the top 69 that I was talking about? What are your thoughts? To be fair, like a parent should not have to know their son or daughter-in-law's friend's name. Like that's kind of crazy, right? Like if, if, if, if Rob, would your mom know Jenny's best friend's name?

[23:04]No fucking. No, no. My mom and Jenny are the only people I know who talk to each other and then both zone out when the other person is talking. So it's like two radios, like in the wild, they're just like, and they're like, Oh, uh, I would say. My thing I can play with my wife is that she's, uh, she's emotionally distant. All right, let's get into a rolling. Actually, you know what it is?

[23:33]She's still eating the fucking clusters out of the honey bunches of oats. I'll see her putting it into the container that we have and she's eating all the big clusters. Clusters are great. Oh, clusters are good. But a person eating them, that's a breach of trust. I don't get it. Rob, I'm willing to share. I'm willing to share. I'm willing to share. I'm willing to share one. The thing that's got me the most recently. Hey, Russell, we actually don't have time. We're into rolling going. I don't know if you heard that. The new thing is if, if we make dinner together and, uh, upstairs roommates really good, she'll

[24:02]pick up stuff. We'll do, she'll make something. She's got a plan and I give her all the credit in the world. It always tastes fantastic. We have a great time doing it, but I don't, she will like nitpick. Like, I don't know, Aaron, is that time or like those little leaves where you got to pick the little things up. Herbs, cilantro, all that stuff and, and watching like that get picked off the thing for like four or five minutes. I can't handle it. I would rather, I would rather taste like shit than have to watch someone pick, like

[24:32]pick little herbs for five minutes. I can't do it. Here's my picture. Russell and his roommate cooking together. Russell's like on a chair. Watch. You'd be like, God damn, this is taking a long time. What is going on? Bound up with a ball gang. That's the whole thing. You watch me cook. You watch me cook. You sick fuck. And then I'm going to throw in the garbage right before I cook it. I'm going to throw it away. I like this. This turns me on. I'm getting finned on. This dinner was really expensive.

[25:01]It combines a lot of kinks that Rob talked about. A lot of fancy herbs. Russell, what is, what is the best meal you and the roommate have made together? Oh, I like this question. And don't, Russell. If you say, no, delete it. Aaron, roll it going. How's it going with you? Oh man. Okay. We just ended out something so funny and you guys will never know you sickos.

[25:33]Oh, okay. Well, I, I've got to give a little shout out tonight to my friend, Brendan, because I think I've told you guys that I, I've been, uh, Brendan, like Ian or Bree is like B and then a or an Ian and Brendan. With an E and an A. So Ian and a, has he ever called, has he ever called or texted? No, I don't believe he listens to the podcast. Probably use about five more to finish this regional. Just saying.

[26:00]He's still my friend. Are we getting more phone calls right now? Hey, this is Russell number two. God damn it. I couldn't think of another name, but Russell number two. God damn it. I should have planned this. That's better. Pile of shit. Pile of shit too, calling in. So I, I think I've told you guys that I've been going to trivia on a regular basis on Tuesday nights at Ben and Nick's down on college Avenue, but we've had it. And so Brendan really is the guy who keeps the trivia team together, but, uh, he had

[26:32]to miss a bunch in a row for work or family or what, and like baseball has started, he's coaching the T-ball team. So that's all happening. So we'd missed like many days of trivia in a row. Um, so this, this past Tuesday, the bat signal went up. Who's up for trivia? We're up for trivia and we're supposed to only have like max of six, but we ended up with seven people to play trivia. It was a big night. Everyone was back in cheating. Dad's only been there once. Well, we, we forfeited our prize, right? We forfeited our $20 gift card.

[27:00]So that's how it works. If you, if you exceed the total, if you exceed the max number of people, you can play. There's some team who get, you beat their ass and they still got to come up and claim the prize. That's the ultimate domination, Aaron. We beat your ass and we don't even care. But we didn't win. We did not win. We finished second. We finished second place. So that's like, eh, you know, we still, we finished in the money. You know who I can't stand are the fucking nerds at trivia every time that just crush everyone, Aaron. And I have a feeling this is you and your group. Like people show up, you know, half the room shows up to be dumb fucks and just have fun.

[27:33]And then you got the table over there. The, the, the six dudes that are nerds and no fucking everything. It's not fun for everyone, right? Well, no. Have I told you guys this, that the, that the big round is the music round. So the final round of the night. Every round is eight questions, one point each. And then the fourth round is she plays one song for each question and you have to name the artist and the song. Oh, you just have for each, don't you, Aaron? Yeah. I mean, yeah, I guess I'm the secret weapon.

[28:01]That's why, that's why they keep inviting Aaron back. That is exactly right. For round four alone. Right. But no, actually this last week, I didn't, I didn't have any songs that I knew that anyone else did. It was sweet. Like, did you guys remember Natalie Imbruglia? Imbruglia. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. She played Torn and I could not remember the name of the artist, but my guy Don remembered Natalie Imbruglia. Have you ever dumped a question on purpose because you were like, I'm becoming too big? Like, this is embarrassing that I know all this stuff.

[28:30]So I'm going to drop one on purpose or no? Yeah. No, but I will, you know, this is a little bit of inside baseball on the trivia team guys. You will let other people figure stuff out when you know you can hammer it right away. You could whack them on that thing right down and you let it sit. You let it breathe. Yeah, I do that. I do that. And then I will once in a while. I'm out. Can we take one pause? Rob for like 13 minutes has been trying to find hot sauce on feet. Is it going away? Have it bookmarked. I had to go.

[29:01]I had to search it on Bing. Don't ask me why I knew how to do that so well. Safe search off. But I will once in a while let somebody play themselves where it's like, I know this answer and you're like, you seem to think you know this answer. And I know I know the answer, but I'm gonna let you answer it wrong. And then you answered it wrong. And you knew that I had said the right thing. Like, I'll be the one to back off first. And then you go like this. Oh, my gosh. I told you it was Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. The girl is mine. We had a song where we missed. It was Wings. We thought it was Air Supply. Anyway, I wanted to say.

[29:31]Russell, what would happen if Aaron invited you to play trivia? Would you want to do it on his team? Aaron, how long are these trivia matches? They're beautiful. It's 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday night. It's perfect. She starts right on time at 8. She asks. She asks the last question by, like, 9.30. The bar clears out by 10. It's wonderful. All right. How many drinks are we doing now in that time? Two. Like, two beers. One beer an hour. It's easy. You're a miracle. Sorry, Aaron. Go ahead. It's marvelous. Yeah, it's great. So, my guy, Brandon, we hadn't been playing for a while.

[30:02]Here's a song I would hope would be a trivia. Here's this one. If she said this one, I'd be like, Funk McCullens. I know who sings this for sure. The guy's name is Funk McCullens. He has 556 subscribers. I don't think he puts up like this. People see it. What else does Funk McCullens have? What else does Funk McCullens have? And, Aaron, again, I'm so sorry. We're just going to look. Okay, so he's got a video call. We can't do this.

[30:30]Electronical man. Russian ninja. We've got Bobby Street. Merry Christmas 2016. Listen, normal stuff. So, I'm just going to click out of that. Let's get back to Aaron's. Roll in and go in. Aaron. Very simple. All I wanted to say was that on Tuesday night, Brandon also was very kind to usually, pick me up to go to trivia because my lady likes it if I'm rolling deep, if I'm leaving the house. So, she prefers that I'm with a friend. And he usually goes to pick me up. You're a waiting outside guy? You're waiting outside for this guy to pick you up? No, I can see him from my window.

[31:00]He's got a big bay window. Does he come knock on the door? You're not waiting outside for him? You get up when he parks? That seems kind of. I mean, I come right down the steps. It's no big deal. And so, Aaron, you have a driver and you still hold the two drinks. That is simple. You have some discipline right there. That is. That's true. Aaron, we are. Actually, yeah. Aaron, you know I'm in full whites. I salute you. Once in a while, I get a tequila also. Okay. How often is once in a while? Sometimes.

[31:30]Here we go. Okay. Well, if I get a tequila and a 12-ounce beer, that's kind of like a 16-ounce beer, pretty much. I can tell you this. It's been a while, but Matt has driven me home a handful of times, and I don't remember a goddamn one of them. So, my driver shows up. All I wanted to say is that on Tuesday night, we hadn't been hanging out for a while. We had not done trivia for a while. My driver pulls up. He had rolled down the windows and the sunroof of his Toyota hybrid car and was blasting

[32:03]the Boys Are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy. And, like, I never used to. I never thought of that song as, like, a good song or, like, it was like, whatever. It's in commercials, whatever. Excuse me. But, like, listening to it in that context, man, I was so excited. I was so stoked. And, yeah, like, it gave me a whole new appreciation for the song. I was like, oh, yeah, fun song, whatever. But, like, it's actually a great song. Thin Lizzy's a great band. Are we going to hear Thin Lizzy on this list? There's no chance.

[32:31]I highly doubt it. No. I highly doubt it. I can't get it, Aaron. It is a thing, though. It's like, there's these fleeting moments of, like, pure masculinity as you get older, where you're riding with a bro, listening to Thin Lizzy, all the widows are down, and you're like, goddamn, I'm a man, and I'm just going to fucking trivia. I felt a little emotional when I thought of you guys, because I thought about, you know, friendship and music and what life all means. When you're in the car rides, like, I would equate this to, like,

[33:01]if I do a fantasy football draft and I'm riding somewhere with a buddy, do you guys talk trivia the whole ride home? Or do you, like, does anyone ever, like, be like, so how's Wallace doing? Like, does it ever come to, like, a personal conversation, or is it always, like, man, did you see the Warriors suck yesterday? Well, you, yeah, I mean, no, like, this, like, a lot of these guys, in fact, all these guys are dads from Wallace's school, so there's always, like, something to talk about with the kids. So, like, but, like, like, Brendan, Brendan's kid and Wallace's kid

[33:31]are on the same baseball team, played soccer together. Oh, so you guys ripped the coach, the manager. What? No, Brendan was the coach last year, but now he's coaching. Oh, so he can't while he's in the car. But now he's coaching his younger kid's team. But, yeah, so it's always, like, well, how'd practice go today, or, like, oh, the field trip's coming up. But then on the way home, you definitely, like, if you didn't win trivia, you definitely, like, replay, like, oh, God, why didn't we get that answer, you know? Are you ever uncomfortable riding in somebody's car? Because I always think, like, what if they pull up to a liquor store and they hand me a ski mask, and they're like, bro, just real quick,

[34:01]fucking put this on, you're going in, just come with me, don't say anything. I'm always scared, because if you've ever been with somebody, and they're like, hey, come, you know, I'll drive you, and then they're like, I just got to stop somewhere real quick. And you're like, no, what the fuck, why are we stopping? You know what, Rob? It's terrible. I'm an Uber guy. I'm so, like, I Uber so often all the time. Like, I always just think, like, if it's even a minute out of your way, I'll take the Uber. I don't want anyone to go out of their way to get me, for one. But I also think, like, I don't need to ride in someone's car,

[34:31]and I don't need to go to their house. I would rather just be able to go and leave when anyone chooses, and I don't want anyone to be stuck when they don't want to be. Maybe I just overthink it. Is there anything worse than when you have to use your friend's toilet? Like, to me, that's just the low point. You're like, hey, I'm at a friend's place. Can I use your toilet? You're like, everybody knows what I'm doing in here. You know, like, it's what I mean. It's just embarrassing. I come out of my house, but I've just got water all over my jeans. Oh, my gosh. Look at all that hair.

[35:00]Oh, my God. Look at all these haircuts. He did. He got a haircut. He looks good. He looks sharp. I like him. Tell him not to use the SodaStream so much. Tell him he looks like a banker. You know, my nephew, Beckett, used to look like a banker. We called him Beckett the banker. They wouldn't tell you that. They like your haircut. It looks sharp. It looks good. Okay. He looks like a nine-year-old, Tom. Yeah. He looks old. He looks like a Tarzan. It looks like a... You know what he looks like, Matt? You were a coach. He looks like a star baseball player to me.

[35:31]He looks like a Tarzan. Yeah, he does. Left-handed. He's playing pretty good, Matt. Have you got him on the tee yet, though? No, we switched to some soft toss, but we're not... That was... This year, that's a different coach. This year's coach. State champion winning coach. Rewind, Aaron. You emailed, texted the group, and the group has probably four or five college-level baseball players. You were asking questions.

[36:00]Rewind. I played City League softball, if you remember. I was one of the best athletes on the team. I've been feeling a little bit... This might be next week's rolling good. I've just been feeling a little bit like this year's baseball coach does not necessarily... agree with my ideas, and it's not just one thing. It happens fairly frequently, and so I'm trying to figure out when I should care about this or not, and also trying to figure out, like, I didn't play baseball past 10th grade, so

[36:30]maybe my ideas are wrong, but sometimes I... When did this guy play back? What is this guy's criteria or resume? I mean, I think he's the same as me. I think he played up until... CV, yeah. Yeah, I don't think he's any, you know... Did you... When you started coaching, did you try, like, you were going to pitch him a coach? You took a wall, and then you see a swing, and you're like... No, I wouldn't. No, I'm not doing that. I'm the manager. No, I'm not doing that. But I just... I suggested that maybe because we're doing coach pitch this year, and the kids are doing great making contact. So they're making contact, which is great. So then I'm like, well, maybe we want to start, like, thinking about some swing mechanics.

[37:01]Like, maybe we want to teach them, like, don't lift your... You don't have to spin all the way around, and, like, let's load your back leg, and, you know, let's, like, you know, roll over through the ball and finish high. If you're going to bat, that's not too heavy. If you're going to chew, chew red man, not big league chew, get the red man. Yeah. Hey, kids, sit your ass down. I got this 25-minute compilation of Korea League bat flips. Check this shit out. Oh, so good, right? They're hitting it about there, throwing that bat way over. That would be the number one thing you could teach those kids. It was suggested that the kids wouldn't, like, they might be confused if we went back to

[37:32]the tee now that we're doing pitching, and it was the same. That's fucking stupid. I had to check myself with you guys, because I was like, wait, is that... Like, don't the kids, like, they'll figure it out, right? No, the tee, again, nobody cares about this, except for Brian from Woodbury and maybe Joe from Woodbury and me, right? Like, the tee is the only way that you feel... What about John from Moan? John from Moan? I don't know. He's got, I mean, like, that guy's, like, fishing for... Okay. I mean, he's like, yeah, he's forgotten about baseball.

[38:02]I thought he had better bat speed than Joe from Woodbury. It's the only way to feel like when you're hitting the sweet spot of the bat is using a tee. Like, how do you know how to use your tool unless you're hitting off a tee? Like, tee is the greatest thing in the world. These people don't know. Thank you, Matt. I also, Rosie, I'll send it out. I sent out today. We've got our first game tomorrow, which is why we've got to get rolling with this stinking podcast. We've got to get to bed, because the first game tomorrow, I sent back, I sent back, I sent out my... Rob hasn't spoken in, like, two minutes. He's pissed.

[38:30]My annual, your kids are swinging a bat that is too big, email. It's everybody. Oh, here we go. All sorts of stuff. Hey, that's one note I never got from myself. Every year of college. Your bat is too big? Hey, isn't there supposed to be a knob on the end of the bat? Russ, we've graduated a few levels. I noticed you haven't gotten up to the level you're supposed to be at. Well, I am swinging that big red wiffle ball bat. So, nice light bat. Keep it small as long as... I said, look, I'm on a mission here, but I'm not a dictator.

[39:03]You guys can do whatever you want. But your kids are swinging bats that are too big for themselves. Yeah. So, Newton's second law, force equals mastery. It's times acceleration. The faster you can swing a bat, the farther the ball is going to go. Yeah. And I want to show you this real quick. Listen. Oh, man, Matt, this is music to my ears. I'm loving it. This cream I call the clear. It's going to help a ton with your baseball. It's good. Okay? It's going to increase your mass and your acceleration. Yeah, just rub this on, okay?

[39:30]It might be a little teeth separation. You'll be fine. Aaron, these bats I've gotten for your son and his team, they are not corked bats. They're not corked bats. They're the Sammy. So is the special. Yes. Oh, guys, I didn't even play this. I mean, what am I doing? Dropping the ball. See, I just like to check my... Aaron's like, okay, cup check, cup check. And so, Aaron... I like to check my baseball understanding with the gentleman on our text chain. And you're an assistant coach. You're not a dad just chiming in, right? Correct. I'm an assistant coach, yeah.

[40:00]That was a strike, you dumb fuck. I don't want to... I'll do it next week. All right. How's it rolling going with Matt? Good. Good. I've got a question. We're running a little long. So I've got a question for you guys this week. Okay. Specifically for this group. And I think this is maybe pointed towards Russell more than anybody. Oh, boy. Russell. Waiting for eye contact. There we go. There we go. There we go. Russell, dial in.

[40:30]If you could fire a co-worker... Oh, God. Yes. Or get a 30% raise, which one would you choose? Any co-worker or a 30%. If you could get a 30% raise, which one would you go with? There's this pregnant lady where I work. She's been rubbing me the wrong way. I'll tell you that right now. There have been times where I would pick the firing the co-worker 100%. Oh, no. But sometimes you just let the world play out and the world works itself out naturally

[41:01]where you don't have to do it. That 30% adds up to more when you start adding zeros to the end of that salary, Russell. That's what happens. 30% sounds like a lot more money. Yeah. And you know, also, I would say with... With Aaron, you know, the tax breaks he's told us about that he's taking advantage of, like, that 30% increase is probably like a 50% increase. So I keep thinking... This has lived in my head longer than it should, right? Because it's just a hypothetical and nobody cares or whatever. Like, instant thought is 30%.

[41:32]I can deal with anybody, right? Yeah. I can deal with anybody. I'll be fine. They're fine. Co-workers, whatever. Eight hours a day, go home, you'll be fine. What? I mean, like, we start adding up years. Like, we've probably got 20 years of our working lives left. So you got 20 years of the person... Oh, my God. I'll see you guys later. I gotta go. Yeah. Who would you fire from this podcast? One of yours. Or take a 30% raise on the podcast. Would you cut the... Would you cut the length of the podcast by 30% or fire one of your co-hosts?

[42:00]Oh, God. In a heartbeat. No way. Guys, some of the best stuff is at the end. Dude, we could go from... Did you hear my Aliens Trip Club shit the other day? I loved it. I gotta say, when I got Russell's... Dude, back on the episode the other day, and it said, I got a little sick of the Aliens Trip Club bit. I was like, he must have not heard my... No, I never said that. He must have not heard my Scotty Pippen, Grant Hill bit. No, this is Rob reading it. I'm gonna pull it up. That was never said. All right. Pull it up. Pull it up. I'll pull it up. It was never said. Rob, are you firing a co-worker, or are you taking a 30% raise?

[42:30]You know what? I'm taking a raise. I got that one guy that I work with that I had this huge conflict with, where it had to be mediated, and I still am pulling my most devious plot ever, where I'm convincing him that we're friends. And I'm talking about like, oh, at the end of the year, let's go out, let's do this. And guess what? I'll never be friends with him. And he doesn't know it. He thinks we're friends, but we're really not. It's the rudest thing you could do. So I'll take that raise. You know what I mean? I mean, you know if you fire somebody, they're gonna hire somebody 10 times worse. That's Newton's law right there. I mean, that's the way it goes. That is. It has to depend on whether you have to deal with the person.

[43:02]If they're just making weird comments to you while you're getting coffee in the morning once a week, that doesn't matter. It's, are you dealing with them on a regular, right? If they're- The question is coworker, not subordinate. So, Rosie, how about you? What are you thinking? I'm taking the raise. 30% is a lot of money. You can, I mean, I'm already there because I get paid. Like, I don't want to be there anyway. What that means is Aaron already hates everybody he works with, so getting rid of one just

[43:31]means you've got eight others, right? I mean, I like many of them, but they are my coworkers. I will- Hopefully not see any of them ever again as well. Matt and Aaron, I'll let you judge. This is what I said. So, Rob may be right. I may have to issue an apology. What I said about the alien bits a few weeks ago was the initial alien strip club bit was really funny. That's a positive, right? Yeah, it's very positive. That's up. The first follow-up was really good. And then here's where I'm hurting Rob's feelings.

[44:01]I said, we did run it into the ground pretty hard, though. But that's every bit in this whole goddamn podcast. Running the bit into the ground. The bit is the bit. But to be fair, this was in the greatest hits section. So, really, what I'm trying to tell Rob is we could use the first two parts of it for the greatest hits and you don't have to go. This wasn't in the things I like section. This was in the greatest hits. In the greatest hits. Rolling, going. How's it going with you? Rolling, going. So, I'm going to ask Rob to pull up a song. Rob, can you pull up Prince of the Ladder?

[44:31]And we're just going to play that in the soundtrack while we're talking. I feel like I've heard this one before. Honestly. I'm never going to not think this is funny, guys. Okay? I'm so sorry. Prince of the Ladder. Oh, whoa. Ladies and gentlemen, I wish you could all see. Is it the ladder? L-A-T-T-E-R? I'm just laughing at the way you spell things. Oh, the ladder. How do you high school graduate? You can just turn it down.

[45:00]We're going to talk more of this. So, guys, I had an affair with my principal. So, for the first time ever. And we all grew up or lived in Minneapolis for a while. Or Matt and I have lived here in this area our whole lives. I went to Paisley Park. I grew up as close to Minneapolis as Rob did. You went to Paisley Park? I went to Paisley Park for the first time last week. Have you guys ever been? Wow. No, I never have. Never been. I went to that Prince concert. And there was a big sign on the concert during the thing.

[45:31]It said, come to Paisley Park and party with us after the concert. And I said, I'm too tired. I'm going home. Bad move on my part. We had a cohort. A coworker that was from Denver who came in. He's like, hey, I would love to do Paisley Park. He took a bunch of people to Paisley Park. And none of us had been, none of the local people had been there. And my friend, coworker from out of town couldn't understand how local people would never go there. And maybe you guys can shed some light on, like, Aaron, I know you were a huge Prince fan. Like, I don't think a lot of Minnesota kids my age grew up being a Prince fan.

[46:04]Like, he wasn't grunge. He wasn't rock and roll. He wasn't hip hop. Matt, maybe you can jump in on it. Yeah, I'll speak to this 100%. Nobody, nobody that I grew up with thought of Prince as, like, somebody who was, like, this icon, right? Like, was it black and white? Maybe, I don't know. You know, once he got, like, past, like, 1990, 1991, there's an album that he had that came out that was okay.

[46:30]It was kind of, but, like, Purple Rain was so far. I mean, that was, like, the old people listened to that kind of a thing. I had a couple of people. I remember Brianna and maybe one other person who was just a huge Prince fan. Hello. Hello. I'm a huge Prince fan. Yeah, I feel like I have a name on me. Nobody was Prince fans. You had to be, like, five years older than us, I think, at least, to be Prince fans. I don't like kings or dukes, but I'd like Prince fans. I mean, I definitely had a different experience. Like, I felt like once I moved to Minnesota, I was like, oh, my God, everyone here is crazy for Prince.

[47:02]Like, they absolutely love him. But we just ran in different circles. Here's my question. Out of, let's say we have a text chat. We have a text chain with 15, 14, 15 guys on it. How many people in all of them have lived here for the majority of their lives? How many people on that text chain you think have been to Paisley Park? I bet it's zero. I bet I'm the first one to ever go. Like, nobody goes to Chaska. That's why. It's Paisley Park, though. Well, I know, but nobody's going to go to Chaska. Like, because. Well, like, here's the thing. Before he died, like, yeah, it was there.

[47:31]Everybody knew where it was. You could drive out five. You could see it. It was great. Like, there was no reason to go there because you couldn't. You couldn't get in. Every once in a while, they have these weird concerts, right? But, like, you never felt like you could get in. You know, I had to drive there weekly. I had. What was I doing? I was a delivery guy from a pharmacy. And I was bringing these bags of stuff out there. I mean, it was just so much stuff. I was, like, too much. Russell, was it awesome?

[48:00]It was a fantastic experience. So, while our listeners may have never been, I think people are going to listen to this. This episode, and they're going to say they've got to go now. And there was a point in Prince's life where he knew he was going to convert it into a museum. So, they started doing certain things to make it more like a museum. But it was a fantastic experience. If I flew into a different city and I was coming to Minneapolis, I would tell someone, if they're a music fan, they have to go to Paisley Park. It was fantastic.

[48:30]So, I thought I could share some of, like, the coolest things about Paisley Park with you guys. Is that cool? Yeah. Do it. Now, I would love to see what the bathrooms look like. Did you get to use Prince's bathroom? Yeah, I mean, Rob's not going to let you do that, but I'm interested to hear about it. The interesting thing is... I'm just asking about Prince's bathroom, Aaron. You're not curious? A big purple toilet? Come on. No. Let's go. Russell's probably going to tell us. Actually, small. Prince probably had a tiny toilet, if you think about it. We'll talk about the staircase, Rob. Okay. But, no. So, you walk in, and first of all, I was yelled at by security within the first five minutes.

[49:02]I'm just going to say I was yelled at. It means you're doing right. Yeah. Well, I mean, a big, tall guy like you, you draw some attention. I think the weird part was, Russell, is you wore those pants that had no ass in the back as a tribute to Prince as you were walking around Paisley Park. I thought that was respectful. So, you pull into the parking lot at Paisley Park, and they've got some cones, purple cones, in all the parking spots, and then there's the big Prince's symbol right in the front. They were cones! And you guys love cones. You guys love yelling through cones. Aaron loves stealing them from the A's owner.

[49:32]So, like, I picked up the... I got my picture taken in front of the symbol with a cone. I think all my people that were with me were like, what the fuck? That's so weird that he's holding up a purple cone. Yeah. And trying to explain to your friends and probably our listeners why people, why you guys would think it was cool that I had a cone was kind of tough. But immediately, I walked in, the security guard admonished me within 30 seconds and be like, don't touch the fucking cones, man. So, anyways, I get admonished. I kind of joke around, but we go in or whatever.

[50:01]But we go in, and immediately, you can see all, like, the platinum records, all the gold records, everything, which is very cool. But one of the first things I want to talk about is, I don't know if you've heard about this, but I wanted to share with you, we walked into, they had two studios that are technically still operational. So, you can see the studios where they record everything. And one of them had is the Lin drum machine, which we've talked about how Aaron thinks of that shit drum machine. I believe Aaron sometimes refers to it as. I think that it depends on the context. I didn't love it on the last Morissette's album.

[50:31]I feel like it's fine. I've noticed a lot of artists who are female, Aaron, hates the drum machine. Oh, God. And then the other thing... I don't know why I said correlation. The other instrument they had was the Oberheim, and I believe that's, like, the synthesizer that we talked about with Matt. Remember when Matt gave us the list of all the instruments Prince played on that one? Is it Sign of the Times or one of those years ago? But he was playing finger cymbals. He was a hand clap. So, they said, and I could be wrong on this, that he used that Lin drum machine and the Oberheim on all 39 of his albums.

[51:02]I could be wrong, but that's what they said during the tour, which I thought was amazing. I believe it. I believe it. Second, really. The other really cool thing we saw was... It was the last thing, actually, we saw, which is the soundstage. You walk in, and you see Paisley Park, and it looks kind of like this big white warehouse, and you walk in. You would never think that there was, like, a whole stage where they could do live concerts that was, you know, huge. And you walk in, and they were telling us about the soundstage. It turns out they recorded movies there before.

[51:31]One of the movies that they filmed there was Grumpy Old Men, starring Anne Margaret, I believe, Aaron. No. Correct? No way. Yeah. Wow. I think you're right. You think Prince was the one who was like, hide the pickle. That's a good one. Do the hide the pickle. Like, he was giving them tips on the writing. Well, he may have been talking about a cat in that, because if you guys remember, in the movie Grumpy Old Men, there's, like, Walter Matthau has a cat. I haven't seen that one. That was Prince's cat, Paisley, that was just, like, lingering around the studio the whole

[52:04]time. So the cat in Grumpy Old Men was Prince's cat. Is that fantastic? Wow. I didn't know Prince had a cat. That's wild. I mean, so you could be watching Grumpy Old Men, and Prince could be in the background. You're not sure. You know what I mean? Like, he could be kind of... Maybe he's an extra in there. Yeah. If you see a little short guy walking around in high heels, there's a good chance that's him in the background. It seemed like he had a living kind of area up above the soundstage. They did not take us up into the upper level, so that might just be part of the tour they

[52:30]don't show you, but you could see something in the upper level. They had two doves. There are two doves that are in Paisley Park. How cool is that? Oh, living. Like, they're alive. Yeah. They've got two, like, live birds in cages up there. Now, is it true they poke them with sharper objects to make them cry? The tour guide tried to make it sound like they were very happy to be living in cages. I think... I would imagine that they're very happy. I mean, they have the whole world, but we're going to put them in that cage over there, right? Yeah, they love it. I wonder why these birds are singing.

[53:00]A couple of things I wanted to share with you guys. One was... Our listeners should go check out Google Jimmy Fallon Prince. Ping-pong. He tells this amazing story after Prince died about how he played Prince in ping-pong at like a ping-pong club in New York City. They wanted to have him on the Tonight Show. Prince didn't want to do it, but he played him. It's a great story, but in one of the studios, they have the ping-pong table that Prince would play on, and we got to play ping-pong on Prince's ping-pong table. How cool is that? It is not purple, but there was a purple piano, some sort of electronic piano, which he was

[53:36]going to tour with Aaron on the tour that... I believe you skipped because you had better things to do. Was it a piano-like tour, or what? Yeah, it was just piano. It was piano and microphone, yeah, in 2016. So we got to see the purple piano that he never got to play out. Oh, man. Matt, the one part you would have had to skip on this tour if you ever do go, they do have a purple rain room, so it's got the motorcycle, it's got the suit he wore, it's got everything

[54:03]you can watch part of the movie up there. There were two funny parts of it. The one is... It was also his basketball court. So when you guys have seen the Dave Chappelle, the Chappelle show Prince playing basketball deal. Game of blouses. So I got to walk through Prince's basketball court, which is now the Prince room for the museum. But I will say, so I was asking people I was with, I was like, have you guys ever seen Purple Rain, the movie? And most of them hadn't seen it. I kind of ruined their time a little bit for them.

[54:31]I was like, there's some pretty... There's some things in that movie that are... That shit doesn't fly anymore, right? Questionable stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Throw in the label. Throw a lady in the garbage can. Not great. But the last thing I had to say is we do got to see two in the studio. I stand by what you say. I just want to say, if I don't say I agree with you, it maybe sounds like I disagree. I actually agree with you. I should not be doing that. Did you just do the, I don't disagree? I don't disagree. I'm in full agreement with Aaron. Should not be throwing people in garbage cans. The last thing I needed to share with you guys, at one point they were showing us two

[55:03]of the studios. One, they occasionally still get used by artists, but we talked about this once before on the tour. They mentioned Beck. Beck recorded the Paisley Sessions. He was the first one to record in Paisley Park after Prince had died. So we just had to give it up. So I thought when it comes to getting a shout out on a Paisley Park tour, who does it better? Beck did it better. So the word Beck is in Paisley Park.

[55:31]Now, Russell, you're there with a bunch of work people. Did you have to be like, oh, it took every bit of me, Rob. I got this podcast. Yeah, everybody kind of takes off in different directions as soon as you say that. I want to do my whole bit on finger snaps and everything. And I had to hold back. So I'm not going to hold back with you, Rob. Rolling going. How's it going with you? Listen, it's the rock opera episode. So I got to tell you guys on Wednesday, I went to the opera. Okay. I had a student of mine who was in the Met, like in the true opera.

[56:04]It was El Nino by John Adams. It's a modern opera. I went to the opera. It was too late for Jenny. So a friend of the podcast, Suzanne, came with me. And we showed up 730. I'd never heard of her. The Phantom of the Opera is here. Why didn't he wear his mask on the non-fucked up side of the face? That's what you'd want to protect, you'd think. You know what I mean? Like, hey, that side's fucked up. You don't need a mask.

[56:30]That's the most thoughtful commentary on Phantom of the Opera that anyone's heard. That's the most thoughtful commentary anyone's going to find on any podcast. I think so, too. Great job. Very hard work. This is the number one Phantom of the Opera podcast. Oh, yeah. Of course. I would say, so we went to the opera. I have a student in it. Okay? The parent gave me free tickets. Row K at the Met. I'm there. Suzanne and I. Now, I have a friend I work with who is a huge fan of operas.

[57:01]And she said to me, listen, there's two things you got to know about the opera. One, you got to read what's going to happen because you're not there for the plot. You're there for the story. You're there for the feeling of it. Step two, and Russell, this is what we did. And this is going to blow your mind. We showed up to the opera, to the Met. We got drinks. I then asked the bartender, can we please pre-order our drinks for the intermission? We then pre-ordered the drinks. And at intermission, when we came out. They're ready for you.

[57:30]The drinks are ready. We bypassed the whole line. There were like four drinks there, two of those were ours. Guys, it was one of the all-time greatest moves I've ever done. I highly recommend, if you're at a show, pre-order your drinks. Oh, that's so smart. God dang. At this point in the intermission, we ran into a bit of an issue. No. The opera was very boring. It was one of the most boring things I've ever been to in my life. It turns out a modern opera is almost unlistenable to. It was totally arrhythmic. The whole thing was in a minor key.

[58:01]And Aaron, they had these tenors that Suzanne was reading about later where they're like these new reverse tenors where they're like the modern, modern-day castratas. Do you know what they're talking about with that? Crazy story. The Catholic Church used to castrate men so that they could maintain their voices. And apparently the castrato voice is very beautiful. I think there's like one recording of a true castrato. Aaron loves two things, ivory and castrato songs. My music history professor, Kelly Harkness,

[58:30]told the story that at some point the church technically outlawed castration. So then anytime they hired a castrato, they had to come up with, you know, a story for how this guy lost his balls. And apparently one of the common stories was that wild boars had eaten his balls. So there was this idea like in the Renaissance that there was like, just like rowing bags of wild boars just eating dudes' balls. And now they could go like become castrati. Do you think, do you think a YouTube video of Rob getting his balls eaten by a wild boar would have more hits than the hot sauce on feed video?

[59:01]Yes. Yeah. Hey, listen. Oh, yeah. I love wild boar. Uh-oh. My balls dipped in some wild boar food. Oh, well, I'll be fine. I'm going to walk along. Rob, you said you left at intermission. You couldn't take it. You left. I left at intermission and it was Suzanne. I looked at each other and we said, we cannot take this. It is almost nine o'clock. We have to leave the kid. I teach. I never saw him in the show.

[59:30]So I can't say anything to him because if I'm like, Hey, I loved you in the show. You took free tickets and left. Left and left. I had to, it was agony. I had to, if you can't, you know, here's the one thing I'm worried about because I haven't said anything to the kid about how he did in the show. I can't because what if he was sick and he wasn't even in the show and I can't say anything. Russell, there were three pregnant Virgin Marys on the stage singing opera at the same time. One was in a boat.

[60:00]I didn't get what was going on. I'm too stupid. I do think there, Aaron kind of mentioned it. I kind of think. I think like you go to something like that and if you're ready to leave, you just leave like there's not like at the end of your life, you don't get, you don't get bonus points for sitting through shit. You didn't want to sit through, get out of there, go do something you want to do now. It's not for you. I got to say the security guards did kind of look at me sideways as we were walking out with drinks in our hands because we get pre-ordered drinks for intermission. I would have totally been like, Hey, I got to go.

[60:32]I got to go smoke a cigarette and then just left. I felt like a dumb guy doing it. But at the same time, I knew it was the right decision. Aaron, have you ever left like a, cause you've probably been to more, you know, musicals, orchestra, those types of shows than we have. Have you ever left one early or not? Um, no, I don't think so. No, I, we've stuck through some stuff that was pretty rough, but I don't recall leaving early. We mean, Aaron's got to boo the shit out of him at the end, right?

[61:01]King George. Yeah. I mean, I was definitely like, I tell it out of there as quick as I could, but I don't think I've ever left early, but it's been a long time since I've gone to anything. Russell, they had the words on the seats in front of me. They had a little screen with the words that we're singing. That's fancy. And it still made absolutely no sense. It was the same words for five minutes at a time. It was like Joseph saying that the earth was shaking. And then five minutes later, he's singing the same thing. I couldn't take it. I got to know, Rob, how quickly into it did you know you were going to hate it? Like, are you, you're like four minutes in and you're like, oh, it's going to get better

[61:32]in the next four minutes. And then let your eight minutes. You're like, I want out of here. How quickly? It's about two minutes. As soon as it started, it was so arrhythmic. Just listen to the beginning of El Nino and just listen to the sound of the instruments are making. And right away, I was like, oh, this is this kind of Spanish for the Nino. What kind of drink did you get? Oh, well, that was another thing. So I got a some kind of whiskey on the rocks. And this is the first time. And then I got Grey Goose and Cranberry.

[62:01]Russell, you want to hear what the bill was? Because I got a text about it for my wife today. Why did you spend ninety dollars at the opera? I said to her, I got two drinks. She was like, I thought you left the intermission. I was like, yeah, we did. This is a rock opera podcast. Guys, we are talking about Tommy by The Who. And we're doing everybody's favorite rock opera. Now, we have already done for The Who. We've done Who's Next, which was the album after Tommy.

[62:30]I think that's all we've done for The Who, right? We just done one. So that Tommy. We've done two, but it doesn't matter. I can't remember. I can't remember what the other one was. So this is coming out in 1969. And basically, Tommy. Am I really going to go through the opera here, guys, what it's about? Do the 32nd version of it. Yeah, you can go pretty quick. Tommy is a character named Tommy Walker. Comes out. And in the first song, they find out it's a boy. There's some killing in front of him.

[63:01]Tommy turns out that the mom is addicted to drugs at some points. As he gets older. As he gets older, he can feel vibrations. Now, Aaron, if you could feel vibrations really well, what would you do with that skill? I'd play pinball. Well, he does become a pinball wizard. And you would think there's a twist. Okay. But that pinball wizard. Do you know what he's got, Aaron? Such a supple wrist. How do you think he does it? Tommy, they take him to a doctor.

[63:32]And the doctor says, hey, this is all psychosomatic. And the doctor says, go to the mirror. Which is one of the songs. And his parents notice he can stare at his reflection. And then he smashes the mirror. Basically, this album. This is the example of this band just getting bored with being a band. Saying, hey, we're going to string all these songs together. We're going to make an opera. And essentially, they tried touring on this. It did not go all that well.

[64:01]I forget. Tommy becomes like a messianic figure then at the end, right? That's like, Aaron, I have so many kids reading this. I have kids reading the Dune books at my school. Oh, nice. I'm like, wait till Dune 3. The kids turn into fucking worms. And they're like fucking each other. And it's like, I don't even know what to tell you about those books. Aaron, I was reading the words in front of me on the chair like Rob when he was at the thing. And I believe that he starts a religious movement and expands it to a holiday camp. And then his followers reject his teachings and leave. So he retreats back into his darkness again.

[64:31]Oh, wow. That's how I feel. That's how I feel when I see you guys on Zoom. You know what I mean? I think of myself as a real mess. A messianic figure. Like, you guys are following me. I mean, you're not totally wrong. Yeah, I think so. And why not? We're all still here four years later. Yeah. And it's definitely, Aaron, this is one of these cults. It's not going to be a fuck fest later. No fuck fest here. By the way, I watched another cult documentary on Netflix. It took one episode with their, like, we started fucking. And I was like, I knew it. I almost texted you guys.

[65:00]Let's get into it. We have The Who, the first song. And you might think, oh, is it over? No, it's Overture. Now, man, what's your problem with rock operas? Seriously, if we spend as much time normally on the songs that we normally spend, we're going to be here for another two hours going through this fucking album. So I'm taking that as a strong maybe. You went through the synopsis of, like, what the rock opera was supposed to be.

[65:33]Yep. And it's just, it's ridiculous. And, like, I get it that it's probably. It's pretty cool. And, like, the idea of getting behind it and the songs and everything. Like, you put it in and, like, you want to sit down with all of the information that you've got in your head about what the album is about. It's terrible. And then you're going to listen to it for, like, three and a half hours or however long the album is. Like, it's just, it's a waste. It's too much. It's too much for me. So.

[66:00]And let's not give away our ratings quite yet. The Who. Okay. The Who. It's a boy. This is about, I think, the boy is born. Now, Roger Daltrey, who's the main guy in The Who, born March 1st, 1944. 40 years later, the release of Beck's first album, Mellow Gold. Wow. So when it comes to releasing an album on the 40th birthday of Roger Daltrey, who did it better? Oh. Beck did it better.

[66:31]Roger Daltrey. Hey, it's time for my favorite song of all time. Oh, what is it? Pinball Wizard? Who's next? No, it's Happy Birthday. It's a song I love. Hey, I got you this for your 40th birthday. Russell, you'll never guess what somebody got him for his 40th birthday. What's that? It's a Beck album. All right. 1921. That's sweet. Man, what do you think this is? Is Pete Townsend singing or Roger Daltrey?

[67:00]I think this is Roger, or this is Pete Townsend, I think. Now, does any of us watch the movie? Nope. I did a long time ago. Isn't there like a chocolate fountain situation or a chocolate flood type of thing that happens? Well, now I'm going to watch it. I don't remember. Now, wait a minute. Yeah, now, wait a minute. You've got our attention now. I can't remember. I watched it a long time ago. I had a friend, JT Samson, who went through like a very strong Beatles Who type phase in like ninth grade.

[67:31]So I think I watched this with him. Yeah, it's like when I saw Paul McCarty bench 400 pounds. Strong Beatles phase. Hello. I arched my back more. All right. So I don't remember it that well. Amazing journey. It is always fun to hear Keith Moon do Keith Moon stuff on the drums. When it sounds like the Who, you're like, yeah, that's fine. I didn't love this album. There were parts where I was kind of like, I need to get through it. And then every once in a while, there'd be a Keith Moon drum fill.

[68:00]And it's like, he kills it on this, right? Yeah, it rocks. Yeah. Next up, Sparks. Let's listen. Ooh, there's some John Entwistle playing. I mean, they're a good band, is the thing. So it kind of feels like, why were they dicking around doing this? What would make you want to do a rock opera? Like, it's not songs you can perform in concerts. It literally is like, I don't know. I think it was dudes smelling their own farts and just being like, let's, you know.

[68:32]But they're only four albums in. Like, I could see you after, like, album 10, where you're like, well, I'm sick of this. Shit, we're going to do an opera. But this was their fourth album. I mean, that's crazy. I mean, who's next was after this? They're feeling themselves. Ugh, The Who, Eyesight to the Blind. The problem is, it sounds good, right? Like, man, if you didn't know this was a rock opera, would you like it more? I don't know. I was trying to figure that out when I was listening to it.

[69:01]Because it just, it feels like nothing really fits into, like, an actual, rock album. It feels like a rock opera, you know, the whole, every single song. So, I don't know. Like, I was trying to find a song or two before Pinball Wizard that I would like. It was kind of hard for me. Now, what about this one? Okay, one of my, honestly, one of my favorite. Is it possible that this becomes a song that we play on December 25th when our family is

[69:32]gathered around the Yule Log and they say, Papa, Papa, come to the Christmas tree. Let's open our presents. They say, okay, let me put on some Christmas music. It's Christmas by The Who. Rob, what would you think if your daughter's boyfriend called you Papa, Papa, Papa? Oh, my God. If he calls me anything but sir, he'll get a taste of my belt. I know the Pinball Wizard song is, like, the famous one. That's everyone's favorite. This was my favorite. This one's so weird.

[70:00]There's so many parts of the song that are bizarre and strange. I like it, Russell. I like digging in. I liked it. Because it's so different. Like, what is this? It's so strange, but I liked it. This was my favorite song on the album. In case you want to see the movie, this might dissuade you. The description of the song, The Tommy Cannot Hear, Speak, or See, Christmas, his parents believe, is a waste of time for such a child. There's some songs coming up here worse if you read about them that are not even, it's

[70:30]much worse. It's getting worse for Tommy, I'm telling you. Next up, get into it. We've got Cousin Kevin. Leaving him at the house. Definitely the highlight of cymbal work you've heard on the list so far, right? So this is Elvin Jones, pretty much, yeah. I heard his album with good finger cymbals a while ago. I'm not sure if you guys remember that. Next up, The Acid Queen.

[71:03]Aaron, you ever done acid? No. It kind of scares me. Yeah, me too. That's the same with me. I've never done it. And the fact, you know what it is? It's the fact that it comes on paper. I don't trust that. That's weird, right? What's on there? You're eating paper. Right, why are you eating paper? Feels like you're the weird kid at school again eating paper. Don't, you know, don't need it. Can't just drop some of those drops in like an espresso martini or anything for us? Like, it's going to be paper?

[71:30]I think that might be the one way that acid's never been taken, is via espresso martini. Martini. The who. Now, Aaron, how do we start this album? We started this album with the what? Overture. But now that it's Mother's Day, guess what we're going to do? It's album 10. Now, and I have to say, at 10, Jesus Christ, we're not halfway. That's right. We got to get going. Very many songs. This is where the album turns into, I start to hate it. You can't throw a 10-minute song in the middle of an album and expect people to get through their entire podcast.

[72:06]Yeah, it's too much. Too much. They were not thinking about podcast artists when they recorded this shit. They were not. If this was a real opera at this point, you know what I would do? What's that? Get my drinks and leave. Drink them on the way out. I am gone. Goodbye. Do not need it. The who. Do you think it's all right? Rob. Yes. You know what would be a cool move by us? What would be a cool move by us, Russell?

[72:30]We cut this episode off. Just like when you walked out right now, we could totally just say this episode is done and no one will care. Yep. Nobody will care. Okay. Well, let's get to the next song here. This guy is probably the most famous song on this album. Fiddle About. I think. Where were you when you first heard the who play Fiddle About? What's the song about, Ryan? Fiddle About, of course.

[73:00]Ernie proceeds. Okay. So we're going to move on and we don't know what the song is about. Let's move on to the next song. Okay. It is about pinball. You're a wizard, Ernie. You're a pinball wizard. You got such a supple wrist. Mom, this guy at the arcade said I have a supple wrist. I don't think I can go down there anymore. He was dressed like Gandalf. I do think this is one of the all-time great rock and roll moments, right?

[73:30]There. Aaron, let me hear what you think of this. There are some parts in this. Like, epic moments on this song. I don't know that I've ever heard the whole song all the way through. Really? Like, I know, like, the amazing parts, but there are parts where, like, I didn't know this is where the song goes. I feel like this was on classic rock radio when I was a kid, but maybe I haven't heard the whole thing. But just when that first, when the acoustic guitar comes in and playing the rhythm guitar, like, that's etched in my brain. Can I tell you an embarrassing fact about this song?

[74:02]I think I might like the Elton John. The cover better. That's the one I think of when I think of the song. Have you never heard the Elton John cover? It was on his, the first song on his second greatest hits album, which I own. Uh... And don't look at my spelling, guys. I don't know. Come on, he stresses me out. What's a cornball wizard? Wow, that's... I don't want to think about that. Look at, like... Okay. Listen.

[74:30]Put the glasses on that guy. I... Oh, no. I mean, look at that. Look at that piano he's playing. What? Guys, just listen to this. This is atrocious. No, but listen to it when he does the piano part. It's good. Huh? Ooh, okay. This is fun. Okay. I like it. Now, does anyone else in the world think this is better than the Who's version? No, just me. It's an illness I have. Now, at this point, Russell, football wizard, we are halfway through the album.

[75:03]And just like the opera, guess what? We're walking out. We're going right to the rating system. Yeah. Oh! We don't need... Listen, everybody. I'm a hero. I've never been so happy. I've never been so proud of being part of this podcast. I had a list. I had an inception list within a list. And you're skipping it all on me. Well, no. Let's go back and do your list, Russell. Let's do that. What song do I have to play to do your list? I was just going to do the best rock opera albums ever.

[75:33]But I think we should say, fuck it. No, Russell. We're 100%. Matt, what do you think? I think we say, fuck it. Move on. I like saying, fuck it. Fuck it. We're not doing... All right. Fuck it. We'll do it live. Listen, let's get into the rating system. We're walking out. We're walking out of this album. We've never walked out of an album before. The first time ever. Very popular. Beck did it better.

[76:01]Rating system. But the album is 26 songs long. So many songs. We didn't walk out of it. We didn't walk out on Hank Williams. It wasn't a rock opera. Those were fun. Sometimes you got to walk out. Guys, we didn't walk out on James Brown. That was four albums long. Can I just tell you? We don't play any songs. I was going to tell you the list. What are they? The other great rock albums people need to check out. Meatloaf, Bad Out of Hell is a rock album. Rock opera. Rock opera. Sorry. Okay.

[76:30]Southern rock opera by... Oh, by the Drive-By Truckers. Drive-By Truckers, Aaron. You're going to hit one of your favorites for me. Wow. I do love Drive-By Truckers. The other one we're going to do is Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Beethoven's Last Night. It tells the story about like the devil coming to claim Beethoven's soul the night before he dies. Oh, wow. We're going to play Women Without Whiskey. That's a great song. Can I tell you what, Russell? The day after... And man, I'm so sorry to tell the story. But the day after Beethoven died. Yeah. A guy walked in the town.

[77:01]They walked by his grave. They walked by his grave. And they heard this... They're like, oh my God, I'm hearing a noise from inside Beethoven's grave. What was it? Well, they... Oh, Russell, we... Just wait a minute. Because first we have to open up the coffin. So they open up the coffin. They see what is in Beethoven's grave. Because they heard the scritch, scritch, scritch noise. And it's Beethoven's corpse. And he's taking his music and erasing note by note. He's going through and erasing note by note. And somebody said, oh my God, what?

[77:31]This is Beethoven's dead body erasing music note by note. What is going on? And somebody said, oh my God, this is Beethoven's dead body erasing music note by note. Oh, he's decomposing. I hope he got his wallet back at least. He's decomposing. Is this a special surprise? That was... Aaron, that was my singlet I was wearing. You know that. I'm so in. The last two on the list were... The last two were Sticks, Kilroy, which features Mr. Roboto. Domo origato, Mr. Roboto.

[78:00]And the final one, Aaron, was... Matt, I'm disappointed we didn't get to talk about this one. It's one of your favorites. It's American Idiot. Green Day is a rock opera. No. It is, 100%. Yeah, there's a stage show and everything. Yeah, but did they make the album in a stage show? Was it a show before? They didn't make the... It's considered a rock opera on any website you look at, Matt. And the other thing I was going to say, what was really interesting to me is I saw that Billy Joel, he's the lead singer of Green Day.

[78:30]Now, Rob, I thought you would like this. I thought you could look eye to eye with him. Turns out he's 5'7". The same height as... Who's the guy from The Who? Billy Joel Armstrong. Who's the guy from The Who? Billy Joel Armstrong. Yep, Billy Joel Armstrong. Not Billy Joel. Is from Roger Daltrey? Same height as Roger Daltrey, 5'7". So I was going to do an inception list and then go into the greatest singers that were 5'7 and have one of Rob's parody songs because, Rob, you were a 5'7 guy. Oh, wow.

[79:00]Wow. The other ones we were going to talk about, John Mellencamp, 5'7". For another... Bob Dylan, 5'7". Matt, Eddie Vedder, your favorite, 5'7". And the last guy, 5'7". Beck. Oh, wow. Beck is 5'7". Russell Beck, it's a... I can't believe you were going to walk out on all of this great... Sometimes you've got to walk out as a character. Sometimes you've got to walk out. You know what's weird, though? John Cougar Mellencamp, 5'8". His brother... It's one more word.

[79:30]Got these chili dogs in my car. What am I going to do with them? Uh, all right. Let's get into the... We'll leave them by the Tasty Freeze. Let's get into it. Yeah, you should bite those. Like, how gross is it going to look after you sucked on it? Oh, so gross. I mean, are they just getting the chili sauce off? That's what I'm wondering. I guess maybe that's what they're doing. Listen, if it was me, just order the chili. I don't need to suck it off these dogs. We're walking out of this episode. Let's walk out. Let's not peter around and try to worry about the security guard. Let's walk the fuck out. Listen. You know what?

[80:00]You could play the other songs two second clips each so we play the whole episode. Oh, Matt. Oh, Matt's being joking. We did the whole bit perfectly. It's a walkout. That's the who. There you go. Go to the mirror. There you go. Next. Let Matt run this. He tells you when to play what the name is. Tommy, can you hear me? There you go. Next. Tommy can't hear. Boom. Okay, I'm even bored by this, honestly. I can't do it anymore, man. I can't do it. This might be getting me aroused. You better keep going.

[80:30]I can't. I cannot. One more. Rob, one more. We're so close. Keep going. One more. One more. One more. One more. Even Matt's a completist now. Extra, extra. All right, I'll get one more. One more. I'm sorry. One more. We at least have to do Sally Simpson. What the fuck is this song? I got to hear this again. Extra, extra. Read all about it. Pinball wizard in a miracle cube. Can you imagine if you opened the newspaper and the article you had was extra, extra pinball wizard? I'd be like, I'm not reading about a pinball wizard. There simply has to be a twist. Who do you think of the four of us

[81:00]who wins a pinball game? Oh, me. I played. 100% me. I played pinball. I think Matt wins. I think Matt wins. Man. You guys are saying this to make me mad when really, you know, I would win. Man, who would win between me and you? Why are we not playing stuff in the background when we're talking about this? Let's do it. There you go. Next. That's a jangle piano if I've ever heard one. I'm free. This is probably, this is maybe the second or third best song.

[81:30]Yes. Might have been a single, right? Welcome. Next. That's what something at the airport Hudson News told me the other day because I put it in my pocket and walked off. Welcome. Tommy's Holiday Camp. Oh my God. What is this shit? This one I gotta listen to. We just hit the horseshit portion of it. All right, next. Go by it. Just go by it. Just go by it. Don't ask questions. The button's broken. Just wait. All right.

[82:01]All right. All right. We're not going to take it. Ooh, Twisted Sister. Russell, you should have done a list of the top songs called We're Not Gonna Take It. Rob, if the hottest woman in the world told you that Tommy's Holiday Camp was her favorite song ever, would you still go out with her? Yes. I mean, of course I would. I could live with that. Isn't We're Not Gonna Take It the last song on the album? See Me, Feel Me, Listening to You. Maybe I got an extended version. I don't know. We're not playing that extended version.

[82:32]Let's get into the rating system from 1969. We have the rock opera. Tommy. By the who? That's me. Russell, is this rolling? And the fact that we walked out at intermission, don't pay attention to that, okay? It was late. Is this a rolling? We got through the whole thing. It's true. Is this a rolling well-toned? Okay. That's like when you get a multi-ball. That is the perfect thing to get on a pinball table. Okay. Everybody loves it. It belongs right here at 190.

[83:03]Tommy by The Who. Is this a rolling bone? It should have been higher up on the list, which of course on this list is a lower number. Kind of like when you get a higher score, your place gets lower. Score goes up. Place also goes up to a lower number. Or is this a rolling groan? You did not care for this album. Okay. And you think that it should not be so high up. This is like if your wrists, Aaron, are not that supple. Not supple. Okay.

[83:30]Bony wrists. I got to say, guys. Do you think you could date somebody if they had bony-ass hands? Like if you're holding hands with them and they just got bony-ass hands, you grab it as like grabbing the Crypt Keeper. A nice day for a walk in the dark. Well, dark is not really that scary. Yeah. If you got to wear a wrist guard because you're using a computer too much, you can't handle this. I'll tell you that right now. Maybe doing some wrist curls if you want to. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[84:00]I got carpal tunnel from my keyboard. Not MTV Spring Break. Russell, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, or rolling grown? Tommy's. You're an Eric Nees guy too, huh? I actually, I'm going to go a little different route. Matt doesn't really like the rock opera. I think it's cool that there's a concept album. I think at least there's a story to it. I think there's more artistic creativity that goes into like telling a story through a whole album. But I will say like two hours or however long this actually was is just way too long for me. You hit that 10-minute under a chair

[84:32]or whatever the hell it's called in the middle of the album. I can't do that. I can't do a 10-minute song in the middle of an album after two hours. So I will say the Keith Moon parts though, every time I wanted to turn it off, Keith Moon would draw me right back in. But I'm going to say it's rolling grown for me, but there were really cool parts to it. And I appreciate what they're doing and doing something different. And I did enjoy that. Matt, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, or rolling grown? A for effort,

[85:02]for the thought of putting like a rock opera together like this, right? Like a story, beginning, middle, end, all that good stuff. Awesome. Great stuff. From an album standpoint, I mean, we will hear five seconds of Etta James next week. You know, her just saying, at last, will be better than anything we heard on this entire album. Thousand percent. And so I just think from a macro standpoint,

[85:31]looking back 40,000 feet, this is a, a rolling grown should be way lower on the list. But I like the effort. I think it's a cool concept, but it doesn't belong on the top 200 albums of all time, kind of a list. Aaron, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, or rolling grown? Can't say much that hasn't been already said. It's cool that it exists. There's some great who tunes. There's some stuff where the who is at their best. But overall, it's not something I'm going to come back to.

[86:00]And there's been no Thin Lizzy yet. No Green Day, no Tom Petty. So I got to say rolling grown. Unfortunately, you guys are incorrect. Shit. This album gets a rolling ulnar bone. Ulnar bone? That's the one that would give you such a supple wrist. Oh, yeah. Okay, very few albums. That's where the suppleness comes from. Very few albums make me think about my wrist as much as this one. Well, except for, I mean, this one maybe makes me think about my wrist a little bit, but that's a totally different.

[86:30]I think Biggie had a totally different kind of supple wrist. Like his wrist, sort of supple in a different way. What the fuck do you mean? Folks, next up next week. Okay, as Matt mentioned earlier, we've got At Last by Etta James, which is better than all those other people. Did you know there's a bunch of people that sang on the album that they didn't credit? It was Etcetera James. When you want to hear about

[87:01]the greatest albums of all time. Etcetera James. At all, James. EG, example given, James. In essence, James. I got the perfect podcast for you, Jack. Beck did it better. Yeah, guys, I pre-ordered some drinks for the end of the podcast. I'm just going to go pick them up and I'll be right back for the second episode

[87:32]we're going to record for sure. Okay, just start without me if I'm not right. It's time to say goodbye. Oh, you know what the best part of walking out? It's like leaving a game early, leaving a concert early. When you're afraid to broach the subject with the person you're with for like 15 minutes, right? You're hemming and hawing. You're like, man, maybe they're enjoying it. I don't want them to feel like they can leave. The moment you say, hey, what do you think about just getting out of here?

[88:01]And the person is like, yes. Is there a better feeling in the world? Right? You just came to a major agreement. Russell, I would say the only other better feeling is getting jacked off in the car after the concert. Oh, God.