Sade: Diamond Life (1984)

[00:00]Before we start recording, I bartended tonight. I had four other people, parents and two kids. I bartended, and I made kiddie cocktails for the kids. Did you? Cranberry juice. Sprite, a little grenadine. Cranberry juice. Listen, I didn't have any grenadine, but I did have shrimp cocktail sauce, so I thought that was a good mix. Cranberry juice, ginger beer, which I had to explain is not beer. It's just like pop, and a lime, and it was a hit. It was a hit. So let me get this straight. You had kids over to your place, Russell? Yeah, I did. Man, have you been to Russell's place? I've never been to Russell's. Aaron, have you been to Russell's place? No, I've not been there, no. Never been invited. Never even been invited. Did those kids have any questions about the swing hanging up in your room? I had to take some chains down. That was kind of an unexpected flick. I want to swing on the swing. No, no, no. You don't. You're not swinging. No, we can swing on the swing. At least use the spray first. Oh, I can swing and see myself in the mirror.

[01:00]On the ceiling. You wouldn't think that swing could hold a guy that big, but it does pretty well. Russell, it's my turn to use the swing. No. No. Yeah, I'm swinging it. I'm swinging upside down and using the mirror on the ceiling to check out something my doctor talked to me about. Rob, can you imagine, like, how double reinforced that sex swing would have to be for you to have confidence to get in it and just go for it? Like, you're not, you and I are not getting in the same sex swing as Matt's getting into. That's true. We would need. We would have to go to the special, the big, the tall and big section. Can you, can you imagine the sex store? The sex store has a tall and big section and you have to be like, yeah, the tall and small section. It's not even really about the swing. It's about like the anchor, right? I mean, that's what you're worried about more, isn't it? Yeah, but who has time to do that, Matt? Just drill a hole, put it in there. It's got to be in the stud. You got to use the stud finder. You got to put it, Matt, when you're using a swing, you got to put it in the stud. Okay.

[02:00]I've said that forever. If I was going to have someone install it in my house out of you guys, I would pick Matt first. No question. Matt would get that thing in. There'd be no front. Rob, I don't know if I could trust you to put that in correctly. Oh my God. See, the first thing I would do, Russell, is I would, I would, I would get into the attic and then I'd put another board across all of the, of the beams. Cause you got to spread that. You got to spread that, that pressure out. Yeah, you got to spread out. You got to spread it out. Matt knows. And then I would sleep up there and drill a little hole. I'll give you a hint. Two holes. One for my eye and one for my other eye. What about your third eye? Hey, what's this? What's this? It looks like two gray icicles are coming through those two eye holes up there. Should I be recording? Gray, gray ice. Oh my God, Aaron. Luckily I've been recording this whole time. So just to let everybody know, I do have guests over currently. So here we go in 2020. Oh, I don't have my thing open. God, that's almost more humiliating that I didn't have my thing. I don't.

[03:00]I might Google keep open. So I can't actually do it yet. Well, Rob's logging in. I have a, I have a, a thank you and an apology to make. Oh, all right. It's two in one to the same person. It's Aaron. Aaron sent me a book of sea shanties as like a, I saw this and I thought of you and Aaron. I got this a while back and I, we don't check our mail very often. So when I saw you in person, I didn't know that it'd been sitting in the mail for like two, three weeks. I totally forgot. I sent it to you. I got it. And then I was like, do I send a text message or do I wait for the podcast? So I thought I would wait and say, thank you for sending the book. I thought that was very kind of you. I really, it was very touching and very nice. Yeah. It was a book of sea shanty. And now I know what the Wellerman is all about. It's very cool. Let me tell you, Aaron, someone else in this house knows what the Wellerman is all about too. Russell, let me out of the swing. No, I'm doing a podcast. Quiet down, please. You got to keep the clamps down. It's safety first.

[04:00]Spread it out. You got to spread out that pressure. You got to spread out the pressure. I'm going to apply my clamps first. Okay. One on this nipple and one on that nipple again. Two on one nipple. You took it there, Rob. Rob, you can't do that. Okay. Good. I know you got guests over and you're trying to impress them and everything. I am. That was the nipple clamp bit that's definitely going to get us some more downloads. In 2024, friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone Magazine. This resulted in a text chain that celebrated. The music excoriated the order and led us to making this order. Podcast. God, I'm faulty. I'm failing under pressure, guys. I would never qualify for the Olympics. We probably shouldn't have a live show then. This is like a partially live show. That's true. It's like a little bit live, but not all the way live. My favorite live show is when they were doing their album, The Dolphin's Lament. My favorite live album. Lightning crashes. If you think we're going to do a live show and I'm not going to open with a song from Dolphin's Lament, cut. You don't know Rob very well.

[05:00]Which song will I open with from Dolphin's Lament? Probably the titular track, which definitely is a song that's real. Excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts who promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own. Unless you disagree, please sit back and enjoy. Beck did it better. We're calling people folks these days, huh? Folks. We are going to do a switch up. All right? We are switching it up. We are not doing pavements slanted and chanted. We're going to move that to next week because today we are doing album two. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Absolute bullshit. What? Have you guys listened to this one yet? We are two-fifths of the way through. If this was a clock and we started at midnight, it would now be 9.40 in the morning. Guys, we're getting to where we're actually awake during this podcast. If we were Ted Williams, it would be the last day of the 1941 season. We'd be trying to get over 400, and then we did it. Wow. And we still took all of our at-bats, even though we had the option not to. Actually, and then it was a doubleheader. It was a doubleheader, Aaron, and he was over 400. Yeah. And then they could have sat, and he said, nope, I'm not sitting.

[06:02]And then he ended up going like three for four and being like 406, right? You know what's not a doubleheader is where he's cryogenically frozen. That's only one head from Ted Williams. If that. You're one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, and you're just a frozen head somewhere. I mean, come on. It's got to be better than not being a frozen head. If you think about it now, what would you rather be, Rob, the frozen head or the deteriorating corpse that's been buried six feet deep for the last... In the last 30 years. I'll take the frozen head. I'll go frozen head. Frozen head for me. You read that story where they had it like on a tuna can, right? It was sitting on a tuna can. Oh, no. Yeah, look it up. That's a true story. We are doing Diamond Life by Sade. It is 200. This is a big episode now. Every time we've done a hundredth episode, it's been bad. Last time it was the band. It was a bad record. Bad episode, not this one. However, I just want to tell you guys. That one time we did it? Diamond Life. Every time. It's the only sample size we have.

[07:01]This album, Diamond Life, came out to the listeners today when you're listening to it. July 16th, 1984. This album is 40 years old today. Wow. Okay? It's just like my favorite John Cusack movie. It's Serendipity. We had to do this album today. I saw that at the theater, by the way. Serendipity. Have you ever seen interviews of KG talking about Serendipity? No. He gets as fired up as he does about anything else. He loves serendipity. He loves serendipity. It's a top five rom-com for me. Maybe top two. It's a great movie, yeah. Never seen it. Oh, it's worth it. You're not living. You're not living. This album is 40 years old today. So everybody who's here because they wanted to hear Sade Diamond Life and you accidentally said this into Alexa and I played this podcast. Haha, fooled you. Don't turn us off. Please listen to us. If this album, guys, it's 40 years old. So if this album was a guy, it would be starting to get not as hard as regularly. My mother-in-law just walked in the room, so that's great. I'm glad that those two jokes went together.

[08:02]All right. Guys, you know what? Let's not mess around. Let's do things that maybe people who aren't wearing headphones can't hear. Is your mother-in-law really up there? Oh, yeah. Oh, that explains why. Okay, that explains some things for me tonight. I'll just say that. Leave it at that. For some reason, she wanted to say hi to you guys. Some people don't give as much information as you ask for, it sounds like. Russell, can I just say right now? I'm not sure about this. I'm not sure, but it turns out people are very sure of where they're going to be. Some people know where they are. I'll tell you right now, Russell. Some people would love to have less information in their lives. They would give a lot to not have so much information in their lives. It would actually make their lives a lot more simple. Now, let's go right to the radio. Okay, let's do something that maybe people who are here can't hear. And let's turn on and just see what's on. Now, I just want to tell you guys, this is... Now, usually, I do a song that's funny and a joke, and we all try to have fun. This song, I'm just going to tell you for the first time, because it is our 200th episode. I want to be really serious.

[09:00]There is not a single lie in this song. Okay? What's up, everybody? Welcome to KROB, K-R-O-B. You know, some podcasts celebrate the seasons, winter, summer, ski. But here on Back to the Better, there's only one season. And I got to ask you, cling or free? Oh, yeah. Here we go. Here it goes on about the fruit he likes to buy. Tells us what he likes to get from the Wednesday farmer's market. But he knows he lies to all us guys. He must admit he hates fruits with pits, but he can't tell. It's kind of like the fruit has got a hard heart.

[10:07]Free or cling, it's still the shittiest part. After all, there's a reason there's no peach pop tart. Oh, wow. Turns out Aaron is a stone fruit hater. What? Stone fruit hater? Stone fruit hater. Something soft like a tomato. Think seedless grapes are much greater. Stone fruit hater. Of all the offensive things you've penned about me over the last 200 episodes, this is the least truth. I don't know. I have so much stone fruit in my house right now. There's probably at least four that are worse than that.

[11:01]But that's kind of a low blow. I did it better. I know Aaron's like, listen, I'm not going to talk about the foot thing, but I do love. I'm going to the Berkeley farmer's market tomorrow because the peach jamboree couldn't make it this last Tuesday because the fire's up by Oroville and they got June prides, which they get a little bit later. I know it's July, but they're at 1500 feet. So they get the June prides a bit later. So I got to get there tomorrow to get some June prides. Yes, man. Got to go tomorrow. It's all smoked peach stuff. He's like, wait a minute. If you ever do come back to the Minneapolis, Aaron, I'd be happy to invite you over and show you by peach jamboree. Oh, all right. That's what I did. Russell, I did. Is it you that said there was no stone fruit like drinks or what was it? Yeah, I had an issue with it one night. Yeah. So then I sent you, there's some white claw, peach white claws. Claws the law, man. You know, and they were great. They're my, my drink up at the cabin. I love it. So at the strawberry cooler, Russo, North Dakota. Wow. Well, listen, everybody. I am on a new computer.

[12:00]I'm in a new place. I am stressed out. So things are not going to be as smooth tonight, but we still. Very different purple links. I still, oh, I'm on my wife's computer. You guys should see the links that are purple on here. It's all like divorce legal question. How to get divorced. Why? Why did I get married? Question mark. Can I annul a marriage? Question mark. Husband on bottom. I don't know why she's clicked on all those links. It's so strange. Listen, I've got three guys here. I would give her like the 15 kilo plates and I would keep like the 1.25 kilo plates like the little ones. Oh God, that would bug her. Russell, you should be an attorney, Russell. That's so smart. Listen, I've got three guys here who want to talk about shot a and a diamond life. I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Good, Rob. Rob, your eyes are like angels, but your heart is cold. Wow. Wow.

[13:00]That reminds me of a Black Crow song. I've got Russell in Minneapolis. Russell, how are you doing? Robbie boy, we move in the space with maximum waste and minimum joy. Wow. Jeez. So elegant, guys. For a 200, we are really bringing the class to this episode. So now people are- Was that your big hit joke or not? I just, no, I just want to make it clear. Now people are actually looking at me and listening to me. But you know what? I'm proud of the work I've done for this episode. So I'm going to say this. Tell them we voted that lifting six inches off the ground does not count. I've got Aaron in California now. Aaron was recently asking me, he said, you know, here in the America, we call boobs jugs. In Canada, do they call them bags? Oh, God. Wait, do they call jugs bags in Canada? No, they call them bogs. Have you ever had bagged milk? They get milk bagged in Canada. Oh, wow. Instead of in Canada. So if you lived in Canada, they would bring that to your doorstep.

[14:02]Can you imagine getting a bag of milk? The least appetizing thing you could possibly think of? My cousins used to get bagged milk. The same ones that had the healthy cereal. They would get bagged milk and they had it in a special thing where you would clip the bag and have it like, disgusting. I never drank it. I was like, I'm not drinking milk out of a bag. Well, that fits because what I wanted to say is we're hungry, but we won't give in. Let's talk about Chate. Diamond life. But if you think about it, udders are kind of the bags to the soul. I don't think about udders. Should I think about udders more often? A hundred percent, Aaron. I could see her being a 4-H kid. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You could have done it. There's a good one. There's this gal who's like, she's directing her. I think it's a pig. Yeah. We'll find this eventually. Excuse me, Matt. She is so serious. Excuse me, Rob. Can you tell those people to shut the fuck up in the background? Seriously, shut up. We can hear them on the podcast. Learn how to lift above your knees. Shut the fuck up. My headphones are cutting out, guys.

[15:00]You can't use those raps. I can't hear what you're saying. I have a bad feeling, actually, that in a little bit, Jenny's going to start doing the dishes. So we might have another dishes episode. Hey, it sounds pretty familiar when people start clanking dishes around for no reason, right? Exactly. All right. Let's get into the voicemail. Pick your starting five of your basketball team featuring fictional basketball. Pick your starting five of your basketball players. Wow. Right. Wow. So they want, and I'm not, we're not going to do a starting five. That'd be 20 people. They want our favorite. I've got a starting five. Russell, you got a starting five. What's your favorite five fictional basketball? I have actually two starting fives, if that's all right. Oh, my God. Jesus Christ. You have 10? Would you guys, I don't want to, maybe I should let you go first. No, you do it. Yeah. Yeah, I got it. Okay. So I have two teams. One is completely fictional. One is fictional characters played by NBA players. So I'm going to go fictional characters. One is fictional characters played by NBA players. All right.

[16:00]I'm going, I'm going big. I'm going to go big on my team. My, my starting center is Sean Bradley from, from Space Jam. Yeah. I'm taking Sean Bradley. I need height. At the power forward, I'm going Neon Boudreaux played by Shaq in Blue Chips. Oh, wow. Shaq playing the four? I guess he could have at that age. He could have played four at that age. Your favorite player, my favorite player of all time, it's Kevin Garnett from Uncut Gems. Oh, Uncut Gems. So he's playing Kevin Garnett. He's playing Kevin Garnett, but that is a, that is like a fictional character, I would say. Yes. At the two, I'm going Jesus Shuttlesworth. Jesus. He got game. Jesus. Also known as Ray Allen for people that aren't in the know. And at the point, I'm going Butch McRae played by Anthony Penny Hardaway at the point guard. Yep. That's unbeatable. And I do, and I do have a six man because you guys know I need, I like the length. You got to go length. You see, look at like my arms waving around length. Yep. I'm going George, but you're a son, my giant.

[17:01]Wow. That's unbeatable. You can't, I mean, that's my starting five with a six man of, of real NBA players playing fictional. Kareem didn't make it. You haven't seen airplane. That's why Kareem didn't make it. I guarantee. Oh yeah, that's right. That's a great point. Play a basketball player. Then the movie though, did Sean Bradley over Kareem? Yeah, he plays himself. He's kind of meta. It's, it's Russell. It's hard to explain that movie. It's too complicated. Listen, I got to say, Russell, our caller is furious right now. She didn't ask for fictional basketball players in fictional movies. She wants the fictional basketball player. Can I give you my fictional lineup? I think she's probably doing this. Please. Okay. Some of these, we might be going off the board a little bit at my point guard. I'm taking Steve Urkel from family matters. Now was that Steve Urkel? Is that Stefan or Kel? Either way, he's playing the point for me when they gave that kid a basketball, he was like dynamite with the ball. He's like Chris Paul, Pete, Pete Maravich all in one, right?

[18:03]Do you think, do you think Stefan or Kel, who of course was Steve Urkel's cool guy persona? Do you think Steve Urkel? Oh, Russell, Russell. That is so good. That's so good. Sorry. I'm sorry. Do you think that eventually he was like, I'm on a show. I'm cool. I'm a cool actor, but I am not, I am playing a nerd on the show. You have to have me play Stefan Urkel. I need to show people that I'm cool. Like that. You have to have a point. You can't play the nerd though. Every time. No, I get it. I get it. How playing a character is exhausting. I had to think about their career. Actually, the parallel is I, I heard a bit of Andre Iguodala on that podcast that Mello does. And he was talking about like, once you make the choice to be the guy who gives up, who takes less money on, you know, for the team, like hi, Jalen Brunson, then you're known as the guy who will take less money. And then that changes your whole career from there. So yeah, like the guy who Jaleel White had to be like, I've got to eat after this. I can't just. I can't just be Steve Urkel. I got to be Stefan Urkel too. Well, he never would have guessed his career was going to take off after that show though.

[19:03]You know what I mean? Well, it kind of didn't. Sorry. I just heard Aaron talk about take less money and I've thought about how Rob hasn't paid us yet for this shit. Maybe, Aaron, maybe you're forgetting about when Stefan Urkel was on Dancing with the Stars. Okay. I might be forgetting that. That's true. It seems, seems that that slipped my mind. I watched every episode of Dancing with the Stars. Close. Okay. Sometimes freezing it. Freeze framing. For five to 10 minutes at a time. Oh, because that was before he turned 40. My starting two guard is Kevin Bacon, the Jimmy Dolan shuffle from the air up there. If you guys remember the air up there. Wow. First I go left, then I go right, and then I go like left and right or something. You guys remember Jimmy Dolan air up there? Yeah. That movie taught me a lot about national relations on a lot of levels. Right. So I learned a lot of stuff. Well, this was my, I suppose this. This would be more race relations. My three, my three band is Cindy Doyle, Cindy Green, Cindy Green, white man can't jump.

[20:04]Cindy Dean. Cindy Dean. Cindy Dean. Okay. Yeah. You got it. And then my four man, I'm going back to TV, hanging with Mr. Cooper. I'm taking Mark. Mark Cooper is my four. Oh, Mark Cooper. The baby of his own. Wow. That's a good one. I had forgotten that the guy from Hanging with Mr. Cooper was, he was a basketball player. That was his backstory. That's a good one, man. That is so good. My number five, I had to go some sort of animal. It was a tough call between air bud. But I'm going Teen Wolf. I'm putting Teen Wolf at the five. Yeah. You got to have Teen Wolf. Teen Wolf is definitely, listen, the proof is in the pudding. Okay. He can dunk. He can do black flips on a van while he's driving around. He doesn't even have to put it off his nose like the damn dog does. No, he's, he's a Teen Wolf is great. Aaron, who's your favorite fictional basketball player? Russell. I might've just poached a lot of them. No, no, no, no. We've got lots of, we all, these other guys definitely planned ahead as much as you did Russell. So I can't wait to hear what they're going to say. Extremely hard to. To beat any of those. That's what, that's what, it's not, it's not what she said.

[21:03]Marvin, the Martian. It's going to be Marvin, the Martian. Wow. I'll tell you when you tell him to shoot a basketball, I mean. Right. He uses his ray gun. Yeah. I mean, I mean, that's it. Like that's the, that's the answer. It's Marvin, the Martian from Space Jam. Did you ever see the new Space Jam? The second one. My son did, but I didn't really watch it. That was a, it was a flight, a flight waste of time. Oh. Oof. Can you imagine you're sitting next to Russell and he's like, ah, watching Space Jam 2, you're like, please do not talk to me. Please do not turn off this movie and talk to me. I kept, I kept pausing it on, on Bugs Bunny. It just was not the same as Jessica Rabbit. I'll just say, I'm leaving it out. Bugs Bunny dresses a woman. Russ is taking tons of pictures. Russ is taking tons of pictures and putting it in the album for later on his phone. And the guy's like, why would you do that right in front of me? I can see it. You can give it any other name. I mean, all photos on your phone are for later. If you think about it, it doesn't really make sense. How do you know about the for later? I've never told anyone about that.

[22:01]What rhymes with for later? Oh. Matt, what's, who's your favorite fictional basketball player? Well, instantly I went with Jimmy Chitwood, not Chipwood, Jimmy Chitwood from Hoosiers because that's such a good movie. I'll make it. He just says, I'll make it. Can I tell you guys something? Is this a safe space for me? Have not seen Hoosiers. That's actually advanced. I feel like, like not having seen it. Hoosiers makes you an advanced human. I, I'm not sure about that. I just like levels of stuff. You didn't like, you didn't have to do. Well, I feel like I kind of lived it because my dad came to a lot of my games and I kind of caught the drift of it through stuff like that. So the only other one I kind of had to go look for a few more, you know, there was the white man can't jump. And there was a couple of the other blue chip, blue chips. It was that came to mind right away. An often forgotten person. And from blue chips, Matt, Ricky row was the three man as part of like the,

[23:01]the number of the class was Shaq and Anthony, Ricky row. Who was the farm kid who got the dad got a new track. That would be Ricky row. That's Ricky row. Okay. Yeah. And then, then the one that I found when I was just doing a little bit of looking was completely forgot about Jackie moon from semi semi-pro. So the good one got to put Jackie moon in there. Unfortunately, you guys are incorrect. Okay. Normally you don't do that. This part of the show, but we have to for this, the answer is no. The answer of course, is the guys from three ninjas. Okay. If you recall three ninjas challenged the bullies, three ninjas challenged the bullies to a game where they spotted them 19 points in a game to 20 and came back to win using their ninja skills. Now what a lot of people don't realize. And I actually, I watched the scene. They kind of refreshed myself, but what you don't realize is in the international release of this movie. And this is true. They lost that game. They actually did it just a different thing where they lost and the bullies took their bikes.

[24:01]And I was like, what, why would they film two different scenes of two totally diverging? You know what I mean? It'd be like, if at the end of little women, they're like, let's film one where she's fine. Let's film one where the C does make her feel better. Like this is actually really good. The end scene of that would sound like the end scene of this podcast. If I told the people behind you to shut the fuck up, that's what it would feel like. Right. Shut the hell up back there. We can hear all of you guys. I've got to go and say goodbye to everybody. I'll be right back. I cannot wait. I cannot wait till we just start our own podcast with John for me to realize the. It's obviously coming up. You know what? We did talk about it while Rob's not on. We talked about it. And the problem is none of the three of us have the initiative to actually like send a text to be like, we should do it. I was gone until Rob was gone. I didn't get back to listening to what Rob did. So I wasn't going to happen. I wasn't with the replacement guy. We could have made it happen. You know, I was going to bring that up. We like, we need to hear from him.

[25:02]He needs to call back in with some sort of a witty something because he added a ton to the program. We need to hear from him again. I told him I'll tell him again. Okay. Did you guys have a good time on your adventure? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. The three of us made it like two minutes of our like 18 seconds of trying to be funny. And then it's just like, so did you have a good time? Eric? I had a nice time. It was very good. Yeah. Well, I don't want to give away my rolling going, you know? Oh, gotcha. I can't give the content away. The podcast starring the three of us would just be a flaming disaster. We would make it like eight minutes. Four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums. You know, like he has to do it. I never know what she's doing back there.

[26:07]It's an emergency. I need a Diet Coke, please. Do you think basketball is your favorite? What's the best? If you're going to see a sports movie, what's the sport that gets you excited when you're watching a movie? Boxing. Boxing movies are the best. I was going to say boxing too. Yeah. Basketball, football, those movies are hard to get the action scenes right. You know? Like boxing is like the best. Like you got two characters or one character and like you can make the fight scenes look good. Like it's boxing for me. I mean, any of them that were, I'm with you with the getting whatever, right? Like any of them where you know that the actors have never played the sport is always tough. I guess why Kevin Costner is so good in the baseball movies he does. Yeah. Because he actually played baseball, you know? So you can, you can absolutely tell. Too bad he can't make a decent, a decent Western movie that could stay in the theater for more than a week. Right? Like. When is that thing coming out? What the hell? It's already out.

[27:00]It's out of the theater already. Delayed the other one. Oh, geez. Horizon, my ass. Like more like kick him out of the theater. It's so funny because his co-star came out and said, you know, it's the TikTok. Kids don't want to sit through a whole movie. It's not his fault. And I was like, you think kids on TikTok were excited to see a Kevin Costner, Wessner movie? I got news for you. Okay. It's the boomers not coming out to see that movie. Okay. That's it. Exactly. I heard something the other day that destroyed me. And that is that they filmed all of Wesley Snipes scenes in major league in slow motion because Wesley Snipes was exceptionally slow. He was so slow that they had to film him in slow motion. So he looked fast. That destroyed me. That absolutely crushed. I was like, it'd be like if Santa took off the hat and it was actually the devil. It wasn't Santa. It was the exact opposite of the devil. Okay. How slow was he? He was so slow that he had his tax return. And in his hand, he was like, I was just about to turn this in. I swear to God.

[28:00]Okay. We're only going, Aaron, how's it going with you? Check out my blade. Man, it's going great. I took a swing through the Midwest. I was there for two whole weeks. So I was in Egan, Minnesota, and then I was in Hutchinson, Minnesota, and then I was in Granger, Iowa and West Des Moines, Iowa, and then back to, and then I was in Babbitt, Minnesota kind of. And then I was back to Egan, and I even saw- If this was a band tour, if you were a band and this was your tour, you would be a shitty band. I'm not going to lie. Hello, Hutchinson. Are you ready to rock? I even got to hang out in person with a couple of other members of this podcast, and Russell and Matt took me out to Barbet on West Lake Street in Uptown, and that was pretty wonderful. And then I did, I popped in after we dropped. I took the extra long walk to the Bryant Lake Bowl, so I could enjoy a pilsner at the Bryant

[29:03]Lake Bowl. Weird. Definitely weird. Like, I have not been in Uptown for a while. It's a very different scene, but I still got to see some stuff that I enjoy. And then- The old haunts. Yeah, some of the old haunts. So that was pretty marvelous. Hey, honey, you want to drive by the, you want to drive through the McDonald's here, and I'll barf out the window? Like, that's the number one thing I think of with Uptown. Jenny, can you find your computer charger for me? And while you're looking for that computer charger, can you shut the- Shut the hell up back there. Seriously. Shut up. You know what? I'm keeping all those in, Russell. Find the computer charger quietly. Just do it quietly. Just for once. Just for once, can Rob make it about himself, not about Jenny. It's not about Jenny tonight. For two hours. Don't get me started, please. And then I was in- I was in- Jimmy Hart Megaphone up there, it sounds like. God dang. Bad Egg, Minnesota at the YMCA Camp Northern Lights. Wow. With Replacements Guy and his family. We stayed in a cabin.

[30:00]It was incredible. Got to get destroyed by mosquitoes, a little bit of canoeing, a little bit of stand-up paddleboarding. I went to the art barn and glazed some mugs. It was really a marvelous time. Yes, Rob? Can I just say one thing about Babbitt? Yeah. Every time I go there, I just get so embarrassed. Oh! That joke hits. Yes. That joke hits. For the three of you that understand that joke, it is a good one. Is that like a John Bobbitt joke, or what was that? We didn't know. Embarrassed is the next town. Like, embarrassed is- Embarrassed, Minnesota. Babbitt, Minnesota. Yeah, you drive through embarrassed on your way to the Camp Northern Lights. Jenny, Russell has a message for you. Shut the fuck up. Oh, God. I'm putting it down. Oh, no. There she is. That's real. She's looking at you, isn't it, Russell? It's real now. Hello, Jenny. Hey, thank you for joining us this evening. Oh, he turned his camera off.

[31:03]They asked if they were being too loud chatting, and I said, oh, no, don't worry about it. Tell your friends to shut the fuck up. We're trying to record for our fans. Sorry, go ahead. Oh, is it still my rolling going? Oh, don't say it like that, Aaron. We're excited. So, Aaron, when you guys are- You're up at this camp. It's like a family camp, right? Family camp, yeah. So, like, what are- Like, your kids go off at some point. Is there, like, adult- Like, you guys- Dude, it's amazing. Yeah. Do you guys go fishing and have a beer, or what do you do? Do whatever you want. No, you can only- You can drink beer in your cabin, or between the hours of 4 and 8 p.m., you can drink 3-2 beer on the patio at Anna Marie's. What? Which is right on the lake. So, you can either drink in your cabin, or it's a YMCA family camp. So, from 9.30 a.m. to 12 p.m., the kids go off and do age groups. Yeah. And so, a couple times, Anna and I took a walk. I went paddle boarding. I went to the art barn and glazed some mugs, and a replacements guy drew some pictures

[32:01]of Wolverine, and drank some coffee, ate some cookies, and then there's often, like, a community component of this. So, there was some icebreakers going on when you're in the art barn with the other adults. Yeah, Rob, go ahead. The summer has brought one of my favorite seasons of the year, which I love, and that is people catching people having sex on watercraft in the lake, and taking pictures of it and posting it online. I've seen it twice now. Once on a paddle board- What? Which is impressive. I mean, that's- That's good, yeah. That's hard to do. And once it was on a pontoon boat, it was so funny. Guys, I mean- Wait, have you- You can imagine what it looks like on a pontoon boat. It was even funnier than what you can imagine. I don't know. I feel like I'm going to- Oh, man. I'm going to need to watch the paddle board one. Like, I kind of need- Yeah, maybe you can figure that one out. Come in and you need to check it out. That feels like- Paddle board or paddle boat? Paddle boats suck, man. No, no. Like, the paddles are always broken. No, no, like the pedal boat. Oh, the pedal boats are always- Those things are terrible. They're always broken. Right, they're horrible. That's what I'm saying. That's what I thought you were saying was crazy. You're half full of water all the time. Those paddle boats, when your upstairs group mate suggests you go on those and you know

[33:03]there's like a large weight difference between the two, it's not happening. We're not going out on the dam. No, we tried that one. It's horrible. Why is that swan tipped over so far? I'd rather go glaze some mugs or something. Can you imagine? Yeah, but then the problem is I glaze my mugs, but you can't glaze the bottoms. So then I glaze them. And then it brought them all, they fire them in the kiln and everything. And like, it was crazy. Like, I was just, I was in there, I was grinding, man. Like, I was just trying to get my glaze on before I could go paddle. So I did two mugs. I just did like plain glaze. Like, I did a purple one and a brownish one. That was it. And you had to do four layers of glaze, right? Like, this was hard. And then I look over and there's people doing like fucking starry, starry night. There's like a guy who like glazed his mug in the style of like, it looked like there was like overflowing hot chocolate. I don't even know. The people. They're all up there, man. They're intense with their glaze, man. Aaron, comparison is the thief of joy. Okay? You're being the best Aaron you can be. If music be the food of love.

[34:00]And I'll tell you what, that might suck really bad. And it's fine. Okay? Because it's the best you can do. You can't possibly glaze a mug any better than what you did. No, I couldn't. I did the best. And then I brought them home and I drank some coffee out of it. And the mugs, the mugs sweat out of the bottoms. Like condensation all over. Like, I can't. I'm so disappointed with my mugs, man. And again, that's the best you can do, Aaron. It was the best I could do. That's the best you can do. It was the best. My new motto for my life? Why bother? Trying only leads to failure. Add another layer of glaze on that. What's the best rolling going that Matt can give us tonight? That's what I want to know. I did something that I've never done before, guys. We need to get the bleeps ready or not. No. Yeah. I sprained my wrist. Yeah. So, whether you know it or not, I do not like talking politics. Don't talk politics. All right. Right? Like, I really could care less to talk politics because you're not changing me and I'm not changing you and, you know, all this whole stuff.

[35:00]And I really don't get into, like, too many, like, noble causes, if you will. Like, donate enough money to different charities and things like that. But I'm not, like, going out and knocking on doors and handing out flyers and stuff like that. But I did, I think, for the first time ever, I signed a petition the other day. Wow. Wow. Something. It's not to quit the podcast, is it? Finally, finally moved me enough to sign a petition. Okay. Tell us, what was it that moved your heart so much that you went and signed a petition? So, about a year ago, it just absolutely ruined my life and my kids' life. I can't do this. Lunds and Byerly's decided that they were going to take their donuts, their great donuts, and they decided to go fancy. And they were making, like, these square things now that they're selling. And so, that's absolutely horrible. So, you know, for years, I've been walking up to Lunds with my kids, get donuts, Saturday morning, you know, sit outside, I get a coffee, things like that. And about a year ago, they changed it.

[36:01]Well, I finally found somebody, Maggie S. Finally got so pissed off about this. Thank you, Maggie. She started a change.org petition. And I saw it on Reddit. And I couldn't sign it fast enough. I could not sign it fast enough. So, there's currently, as of, it started June 14th. Change.org, bring back normal donuts at Lunds and Byerly's. Wow, normal donuts. They're looking for 500 signatures. They're at 369. So, I need to use this, my platform here, on this very form of media. We need to get to change.org, bring back normal donuts. Maggie S. needs us to sign this petition. Can you explain to me, can you explain to me, donuts at Lunds, can you explain to me, what is it, again, maybe, I missed it while I was typing in things that were normal. Okay, so they got a picture, yeah. So, you go to the change.org. They've got the new, what the new donuts are at Lunds.

[37:00]Basically, they try to go fancy. Is it donuts, like, D-O-U-G-H, or donuts, D-O-N? That might be the issue. D-O-N. There it is. There we go. Okay, so you see these. Oh, they made cronuts. They made cronuts. Oh, God. What are they, these squares? What about this? It's almost like they tried to go too fancy with everything. You know, they had just, they had great, they had great cake, donuts, chocolate, chocolate, white frosting with sprinkles, they had glaze, they had the, you know, chocolate raised donuts, they had just the, it was the best. If you really wanted apple fritter, get a nice apple fritter, things like that. And they decided to go fancy on this bad boy and try to do square donuts with all sorts of, like, cereals and stuff on it. Just flopped. And you know how they know, you know how I know it flopped? Because they have so many donuts there at the end of the day. So, after six o'clock, you can get two donuts free, or buy one, get one free, okay? Wow. Right from the counter, they have this little stand now, next to the bread section, where they're selling the old donuts, but they're, like, individually packed, but they're not

[38:00]in the, in the case. So, they know they fucked up, because they've started selling these other donuts off to the side again. And I'm just waiting for the day. And hopefully, this change.org, bring back normal donuts at Lund's and Byerly's by Maggie S. Hopefully, this gets the normal donuts back into the, into the case. I'll tell you what, man, I'm going to do you a favor. I'm going to sign this. And then, I'm going to share it on the show, Instagram, so everybody can go. We need, we need to get there. We need to get, and say, Beck did it better, sent me here. All right. I, I will say this right now. Now, what, I still am, God, this music. Oh, wait, no, no, stop. No, so why would you stop the music? No, this, the Trombone Line is so good. What? It's just, the Trombone Line is just a music podcast, Rob. This is a music podcast. Okay. Keep forward, Waze. What are we doing? Yes. It's so good. Did you guys see what I typed in to get to this point, by the way? I wrote, I wrote marching band, marching band composter, and I was like, oh, it's composer.

[39:01]I couldn't remember John Philip Sousa. Aaron, you know what? Rob and Matt, shut up for a second. You know what happened, Aaron? While Matt was talking, he was willing to play the music. When he was talking, he's like, I got to turn the music off. Yeah, he's like, I got to turn it off. That is exactly what happened. Listen, so when you say normal donuts, do you just mean no frosting, like a yeast cake donut? No, no, no, no, no. Like the classic, like the classic cake donut with chocolate on it or cake donut with white frosting and sprinkles. Yeah. You know, your classic, classic raised glazed or you're raised with chocolate. Maple, maple with a little bacon on top. Nope. No, that's insane. That's Bogart donuts. I don't need bacon on a donut. That's Bogart donuts. That's over on the east side over there. That's fine. There are people who do that. It's okay. Probably go to Glamdoll or something like that for that. Glamdoll. That's what I was thinking. Glamdoll. Probably off, is it East Street, baby? Where Glamdoll's at? Off Nicollet? Well, I usually go to the one over closer to... Rob, that's the maps. If you could pull that up on another YouTube clip. Jesus Christ. No, you can't stop him.

[40:00]We still haven't heard the good part. It's coming up. That's all. Can you imagine if John Philip Sousa heard maps? He would, he would, he would stick his head in a tuba until he died. He would be, he would, it would blow his mind. So you think you need to get to 500 signatures so you'll get regular donuts back, Matt? I have no idea. I think Maggie, I think Maggie S gets the bit and just put it at she wanted 500 signatures on this. Yeah. But it's been, it's been almost a month now and she's not there yet. So we got to help her get there. I actually need about 499 more signatures on my change.org petition. It is a petition for the people at Rob's cabin to shut the hell up. We're trying to record a podcast. Shut up. So that's my rolling, going Russell, rolling, going, how's it going with you? Rolling, going, things matter, going great for me. I hope you guys could get the right donuts.

[41:00]You need, that's messed up. When you get up and you want to go get a donut in the morning, you don't want something weird. That does feel like something though, that you could like email Donald Trump about and you'd actually take that up and be like, well, folks, I've had a lot of people come up to me, tears in their eyes saying they don't have the good donuts at Byerly's and Lund's anymore. They got normal. I went there today. Guess what they had? A lavender donut. Folks, this isn't America with a lavender donut. By the way, my Donald Trump impression, very good. So Aaron mentioned this last week. We got together, all the podcast hosts. We got together for the first time in a while. It was me, Aaron, Matt, and John from Edina came and met us for a quick beer. All the podcast hosts got together. It was great. We talked about where the podcast is headed in the future, like our goals for downloads, what we need to do to increase the comedic stylings of the podcast. Rob, if you want to play that American sound music, that'd be great. Aaron came out and we went, but I had other plans that night, so I could only hang out for a while with Aaron. That night I had Hip Hop by Candlelight.

[42:02]I went to the Hip Hop by Candlelight concert, and I wanted to share some of the songs with you and some of the fun times I had at Hip Hop by Candlelight. So I go, and it's at the Granada Theater in Uptown Minneapolis. Matt, Uptown, where would you say that's at compared in the Minneapolis area? Well, Uptown. Uptown is actually a little bit southwest, so it's almost down. So it's down of downtown to the west, Lake Street, Hennepin, you know. But Granada was like right in the heart. Like, what used to be there? Like, it's like right south of Hennepin Lake. Was that the Uptown Theater? Yeah. No, it wasn't the Uptown Theater, because it was south of the Uptown Theater. Oh, so that was that other, you know what? That was a movie theater as well. Okay. And about 1997, I saw The Godfather. They used to play the old movies, and I saw The Godfather there with Eric from Eden Prairie. Why am I playing maps then? I don't know. Now, Matt, let me ask you this. What if you would have seen... Never a bad idea to play maps. What if you would have seen Dumb and Dumber there? Would that have been more fun? Something to think about.

[43:00]Something to think about. Head to head. I cannot comment. It's too early to say. So we go to this show, and what it is is it's a small theater, probably seats I bet 300 people or so. We get like the middle level, the mezzanine level. We've got our own little table. We've got our own little spot to see. We get some drinks. It's a four-piece string quartet with the drums. All women playing also. So five-piece band drum, bunch of strings here. And I don't know what all those string instruments are, violin and all this stuff or whatever. Nice. They get up there, and they're playing hip-hop music all night. So it's all dark in the room. The only lights are candlelights on the stage. So you've got these guys playing. So those of you at home right now, if you want to recreate this day with Russ, put on your headphones, close your eyes, and listen to Russ talk right now. Okay. Also, imagine that you're my date, and you're not drinking. You've decided I'm not drinking tonight, but Russ is.

[44:02]Like, could you imagine dealing with that? Oh, yeah. Did that happen? Okay. So now I want you to put... We had a round or two before. Yikes. We had a couple doubles when I got there, too, Aaron. I'm ordering for two. If you want to continue this illusion and have somebody, we offer to give you back rubs all the time now while you have your eyes closed. Well, you've got to put a little mustard into it, too. Oh, my God. A little mustard? Here is the song list. I thought I could share you guys the song list with you if that was cool with you. Please, please, please. Opening track, Gangster's Paradise, Coolio. Oh, wow. Number two, I Like It, Cardi B. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Number three is a medley by Jay-Z, multiple Jay-Z songs on the third track. We've got an outcast medley. Matt, one of your favorites. You're an outcast guy. They killed some outcast songs. Here we go. Lauryn Hill and the Fugees medley.

[45:00]Wow. Then we get to Drake, Passion Fruit, and Kendrick Lamar's Swimming Pools. They did a Drake. They introduced all the songs, and they did a Drake-Kendrick thing, like a battle, if you will. They're killing hearts. Is there applause after each track or not? There's an applause after each track. There's an applause after each track or section, if you will. So there's probably 10 breaks, and they would talk about the next song coming up. Yes. So did Drake or Kendrick get a bigger applause? Now we had another famous rap battle, Tupac versus the Notorious B.I.G., Aaron. Tupac versus Notorious B.I.G. Oh, my God. And then the final one, the final two medleys were a Dr. Dre medley and an Eminem medley. How awesome is that? Wow. It was, I might have texted you guys. This was maybe one of the best concerts I've ever seen. It's 65 minutes. You didn't say that I should have stayed. No, you're right. 60 minutes. You're in and out really quick.

[46:00]You get to listen. You get to watch this music you'd never hear otherwise. It was so much fun. If anyone gets a chance to do something like that, it's Fever Up that does these concerts, candlelight concerts. Check it out, man. It's the summer, so you know we're sponsored by Fever Up again. I can't wait for their checks to roll into our podcast coffers. That's such a good word. That sounds so fun, Russell. So, like, when they play a song, does, like, the conductor come out and say, this is, you know, Hey Ya by Outkast? Every one of the players would take a turn. So, they had five artists. Each of them would introduce, like, two songs. And they would probably do, like, a quick 30-second minute introduction about, like, the music, the relationships from the songs. Then they would just play. And it was fantastic. Wow. But another thing I wanted to share with you guys music-wise, we were talking about Lauryn Hill and the Fugees. Guys, I pulled an errand this week. I pulled an errand. Whoa. Whoa. I pulled an errand. Now, Russell, what did you do to pull it out?

[47:01]I think I'm proud, but I'm not sure. Rob, don't Google pulled an errand. I was going to say left-handed. I pulled an errand. I jacked off while I was crying. I bought a record pleading kit on Amazon. I need to know. Yes. I need to hear all about it. Rob, when the... The main host, me, Rob, or me and Aaron and Matt and John from Edina got together. We talked, and I told Aaron, I'm at a critical juncture of my... Crossroads, if you will, Aaron. Perfect. With vinyl, because I've got too many records that skip, that don't play right, and I don't know if it's... I don't have the right record player. I don't know if the records are scratched. I don't know if it's worth continuing to go down this road. So Aaron was giving me some tips about the... What do you call this? The band? Balance beam, Aaron, or some sort of thing. The tone arm. The weight on the tone arm, yeah. But Aaron made it very clear that you have to clean your records. It's part of what you do if you have a vinyl collection.

[48:00]So I bought a record cleaning kit, and I sat at my chair and had a drink one night, and I started cleaning. I cleaned about three records. It feels good, right? It's kind of zen. It is very zen. And I played... The first one I started with was my Lauryn Hill, the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which I love. Which, according to Apple Music, is the number one album of all time. And this is one that I bought for the Upstairs Roommate, and it was skipping. We couldn't listen to it. Wow. Russell, you cleaned it? I cleaned it. You put it on the record player? The moment... How stressful was that moment, by the way, where you're going to play it? Pretty stressful. Oh, my God. And what would you have done to Aaron? Well, so tell us. I don't know yet. I don't know yet how this turned out. What happened? Aaron, your record starts playing great. I cleaned it. Your record starts... Aaron, shut the fuck up. Hey, Aaron, hold on. We get to the main song, Killing Me Softly, but halfway through, skip, skip, skip.

[49:00]The whole record starts working well, except for the only song you want to hear on this one. The only one doesn't, like... And I sprayed the shit out of this with this solution. And this was a new record? This was a new record. It wasn't used. No, it was used. It was used. Okay. But cleaning did help part of it, or you could listen to... Oh, God, Rob. Just all this work that Russell put in for Aaron. Is that for me? I literally made it through all these songs, and I thought, like, this works? And I was, like, so excited, and then it started skipping again. But I did have a question for you guys on the Lauryn Hill album. What's the second most famous song? What's the... On Miseducation? That thing? There's Doo-Wop. That thing. It's the hidden track. Yeah, too good to be true. Yeah. So here's my question. The Frankie Valli cover. The Frankie Valli cover. I can't take my eyes off you, yeah. Okay, this is... I'm going to be really stupid here. I, like...

[50:01]Do all records have the hidden track? Because I listen to it back and forth multiple times. It's not on my album. No. What'd you just say? Russell wanted to know if all records have a hidden track. No. But is the hidden track at the very end of the album? Does it just... Does it just play and it's just not written on there? Yes. I mean, yes, for albums where that exists, yeah. But on vinyl, it might not. I mean, you could see it, though. Like, on vinyl, you would see it. Like, you would see the groove. All I know is when I get to the end, the record stops and the song is not on there. So maybe it was a CD-only bonus track. I... Wow. And I will say this. If it is, we need to re-examine this album. Because if you take... If you take that song off this record, it is not the same album. That's a huge difference, isn't it, Aaron? Yeah, that's true. And this album... And I sat there and I admittedly had had a few cocktails that night.

[51:03]What? This song is not on the vinyl version of this album. It's not. That is unfortunate. Russell, you're doing the detective work. The rest of us are too busy to do. Yeah, I mean, this is a great album closer. But it's not on the vinyl version. Not that... Unless there's a different version, but... It's not on the vinyl version. You know what? Russell, I'm going to go to change.org. I'm going to start a petition. Rolling Stone magazine, please change the list. Hey, Rolling Stone, shut the fuck up. Be shut up about your favorite albums ever, right? Yeah, that's... Russell, I agree with you, though. I think without this song, it's a whole different... Yeah, it's a different vibe. Because what's the song before this one? The ending song makes a huge difference. Yeah, right? What's the last track on the vinyl one? You'd have to pull it up on the Wikipedia, but it's not the famous song. Sorry, I don't mean to sidetrack us.

[52:00]I was totally blown. Oh, Matt's got all the time we need. No, we should stay on... You're right, Russell. We should stay on track for sure. Matt's doing his word a little tugged. Let's see. Speaking of staying on track... You've got to figure it out. Keep the streak alive. It's the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the last song on the album. This one here. Oh, so there's two bonus tracks on the CD? Yeah, there's two bonus tracks, but they are not on the vinyl version of the album. Wow. And this is where I didn't know. I'm not a vinyl guy like Aaron. I didn't know. Do they put them on there and they just don't write them on the album? Do I have to pick up the record and put the needle down somewhere else? I don't know enough about hidden tracks. No, if you played it all the way and the needle finished and it hit the label, there's nothing else there. That's it. So Can't Take My Eyes Off You is not on the album. This is not on the album. And this would have been, so this was the time, right? Like they could, a CD could be bloated the way an LP couldn't necessarily, right? Like they could add extra tracks on a CD

[53:01]because there was way more room to add music, I think. Where like a vinyl, you'd have to add another disc. You didn't have to do that on a CD. If you think about this and it's still an amazing album, even though it does still skip on that one part. But if you take that song off of this, that is a different experience than what we went through when we did it. We talked about it, isn't it? Matt, do you know anything? Well, I just, obviously, I knew this off the top of my head, so thank you for letting me finally say that it was... Hey, Russ, shut the hell up. Here, I'm going to read this like my favorite NPR host. It was first featured in the movie Conspiracy Theory 1997. Oh, wow. While the song wasn't featured... I got to go faster. I can't do my... While the song wasn't featured on the soundtrack, a radio disc jockey at KMEL in San Francisco put the song on a CD and began playing it. More radio stations followed suit,

[54:00]causing a domino effect around the U.S., ultimately leading the song to peak at number two on the Rhythmic 40 chart. Wow. Despite Hill's label not releasing the song as a single. Due to the popularity of the song, it was added as a hidden track. Wow. I think you hear that a lot. But then it's not on your... Yeah, it's not on your... Vinyl copy, Russell. Did you say K-M-E-L, Matt? K-M-E-L. K-M-E-L, yeah, 106.1. When Rolling Stone says that's like a top 10 or Apple says it's number one, I guarantee they consider that part of the album. Don't you think? They do. It's not. It's not. I got a bone... This whole list is a lie. This is what happens when I start doing air and stuff and cleaning records on a weekend. I mean, but it was good, right? Until the track skipped, you felt good about your life, right? You were feeling good about your chest. Speaking of feeling good about my life, Rob, how's it going? How's it going with you? Rolling going, I wanted to talk about the movie Conspiracy Theory, which of course starred Julia Roberts,

[55:02]America's Sweetheart, and America's other sweetheart, Mel Gibson. Now, what's crazy is I have a tape of Mel Gibson talking about the Lauryn Hill song, so let's hear what he says. I want you to put this song on the soundtrack. We'll go up to the... My mother-in-law gave me a thumbs up on that one. She liked that joke. Oh, yeah, I'm sure she did. Listen, okay, first of all, I've lost like 11 pounds, okay? It sucks. I have not... In three weeks, I have not lost much more than that. It's terrible. I can almost see the tip, okay? So I will give you updates as we go, okay? I got to say, though, guys, as I'm going to edit this out, but I know this stuff is ridiculous. It's amazing. I mean, like yesterday... Are you doing the Ozempic? This is the Ozempic? Well, it's at Wagovi, technically. But yesterday, I ate one meal, and at the end of the day, I was like, wait a minute. I haven't eaten anything all day.

[56:00]I got to have a protein shake. Otherwise, I'm going to get all small. It's really crazy. It's insane how this weight loss drug works. It's awesome. I cannot... But what's your goal? To leave my wife, Aaron. I have said that before. You know what my goal is. Oh, you put me on the phone. You put that... I mean, like, there's putting balls on a tee, and then there's, like, placing it on the golden tee of life. Like at Topgolf. You heard her here. Too much talking. You think some 23-year-old... Hey, Aaron, hand me the Big Bertha. I'm about to wail the shit out of this one. The Big Bertha. You think some 22-year-old model from the Ukraine is going to be talking that much with her friends while I'm trying to do the podcast? I don't think so, Aaron. Okay? Plus, we won't be married. We're going to keep it loose, okay? I've made some changes to my approach. I certainly could be banging any dishes in the background while you're at it. Aaron, repeat after me. You know what's going to be copy-pasted on my computer? Nothing serious. I'm going to be pasting that in every dating app I have.

[57:00]Okay? Y'all who's serious tries to hang out with me, I'm going to say, uh, not even you. Nothing serious. Go watch Young Einstein by yourself, sir. Listen. In totally normal news, I have started taping my mouth when I go to sleep now. Oh, yeah. Nothing weird. Unfortunately, I had one of those rare times, this almost never happens to me, where I texted my mom and she texted a picture of me with tape on my mouth to the text chain, okay? Zero replies. Nobody said anything. When you send a message to 14 guys on the text chain and there is no reply, you just know that you have sent the biggest bomb of all time. You know what? Like, that's half the messages I send. I think I lead the league in unresponded messages. You do? Those of you on the text chain, if you're listening, when Russell come on, we got to give Russell hey, give him a thumbs up. Give him a ha-ha. Oh, no. Russell's put on the white Oakley. Okay? You can't just leave me hanging out there. If I'm out drinking espresso martinis

[58:02]at an odd hour and I said like a weird message, someone's got to respond. All right. I'm going to step up. I didn't realize that was happening. I just feel like you're always doing more fun stuff. So you're just like, I'm having fun. You don't need the validation. I'm doing fun stuff too, Aaron, because I am now taping my mouth closed. Now, none of you have asked me any follow-up questions about this. So I feel like once again, this is a total bomb. Hey, Rob. Rob, what else are you taping closed? What? What would the answer to that even be? Is this just regular tape? Does it stay on all night? Does it pull hairs from your mustache off with it? Who puts it over a mustache? How do you not get it over the mustache? I put it on over my mouth. Okay? It is tape I just got from Walgreens. Don't fall for that expensive stuff. Two nights now, I'm an expert. No, time, time, time. I don't want time. Yes. I've never heard of this before. Rewind it. Take it back. Why are you wearing tape on your mouth when you sleep? Because my wife thinks I snore too much.

[59:01]Because his wife's been peeing in there. And? There's no more peeing in my mouth when I'm asleep. Aaron, what the fuck is wrong with you? Aaron. Can you imagine if you woke up? Because the first thing you do is you'd be like, God, my pillow's all wet. Because there's no way. Aaron's putting another layer of glaze on it. I've never heard of this like putting tape on your mouth. It's like a storing cure. Is that what you're saying? Or what's going on with the tape? It's supposed to. It's a hot new trend at Russell. You are supposed to sleep better. You breathe through your nose. And I got to say, guys, in the two nights I've done it, so I've got lots of data. First of all, it stays taped the whole time. It's great. I do think I sleep better. I know I'm not snoring. I think my sleep is more restful. Okay. And when you wake up and you peel off that piece of tape, God, that feels good. It feels good. It feels like you're ready to start the day. You start mouth breathing all morning. So you're doing, are you still doing socks at night too? Because like at what point do you not do the full body condom? What is wrong with you? I'm just saying like,

[60:01]Rob loves taking stuff off in the morning. Like why don't you just do like the tape, the socks. You don't make your kids take the tape off, do you? No. Hey, give me your tape. How would I tell him to take the tape off? You know what I have to do is send him a text. What? Listen. It's a tape. I take the belt off around my neck. Take the tape off my mouth. No. So I have, so now at this point, I have my mouth guard in. I have my tape over my mouth. I have my headphones combined band that goes over my eyes. You never wear the mouth guard and using the tape. It's a lot of apparatus. Oh my God. Russell, I'm going into battle. This is my everyday carry type stuff that I'm doing when I go to sleep. All right. I'm telling you guys, go to Walgreens, buy some of the tape that's there. It's tape that comes off really easily. Try it at night. You'd think it's going to be scary. It's not. It's actually kind of fun, but there's one problem. There's one downside. When I go to bed.

[61:01]Does it give you a rock hard erection? Yeah, Russell, that's a huge problem I have. Sorry. Although sometimes you guys know what I'm talking about. It's like so hard. It hurts. You know what I mean? Like it's like, I can't do anything with this. I got to face down, rub this into my mouth. Lump up my mantras for a while. Soften this thing up a little bit. Yeah. No. No. No. Pull the balls down. Get some more time here. Whoa. That's getting it. That doesn't help. I don't know. I'm not sure. It does. Aaron, the temperature. It's a temperature thing. You know it's a temperature thing. He's tried this. Aaron's like, you know he has. He's going dunking yo-yo with those things. He's going way down. He's going around the world. He's walking the dog. Walking the dong. He's going George Biersad, my giant on it. Mother-in-law gave me a big thumbs up to that one too. She liked that bit. George Biersad.

[62:00]Can you imagine? Hey, Billy Crystal. Here's my giant. Tug on these. This movie will last long. Tug on these. I bet. Do you think Billy Crystal could have sat in George Biersad's scrotum? Like if you, if you set it up like, as a what? Like he could hold it in his hands and you could just kind of get in. You know what I mean? It'd be like a kangaroo. Like a flying squirrel. It's like a little guy who could sit like a window. Yes. Yes, Russell. You know what it's like? Like fucking Krang. He'd look just like Krang sitting in the middle. Shredder. I'm sitting in your scrotum shredder. I was watching a TV show and I was telling the upstairs roommate a few weeks ago and I've seen it a few times. Like it's happened on Entourage E. The guy, little guy on Entourage E. You see it occasionally. You'll see TV shows where there's like a little guy and he's like, it was on the bear. I think it was the bear. He's sitting on a countertop and I was like, could you imagine if I sit on the countertop?

[63:00]No. It would be a fucking disaster. And if you ever watch a TV show and there's a little guy sitting on the, that's not real. There's not people who's sitting like on window wells or window sills or sit on countertops. That is bullshit. No. And you know, Russell, when you're our size and you do try to sit on a countertop, oh, could you imagine Rob? You would just slide right off. Oh, you slide down and your ankles hurt when you hit the floor. Damn. I think I tore an ACL. Oh, this is my life now. This is terrible. Here's the main problem with the mouth tape. Okay. I highly recommend you all do it. It's very normal. Okay. Yeah. Problem is, Jenny has realized I'm wearing mouth tape. So now, the other night, she, how long did it take for her to realize? Oh, literally a couple of minutes. She's not, it's not like she's getting, oh yeah, Aaron, she gets in bed and looks at me. Okay. Sure. Yeah, we're newlyweds, Aaron. Wait, do you go to bed before Jenny ever Rob? This, this one I did. Yeah. The last night. When you were taping.

[64:00]Yeah, when I was taping. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's, that's great. I am taping right now. Yeah. She comes into bed. You start fucking talking my ear off and she is saying all this shit. She is talking junk like crazy and I am sitting there in bed, tape over my mouth and she's saying the craziest stuff. I've got to respond to it I've got, I've got responses and instead my mouth is taped up. It was torture. It really, I mean, for me guys, this was my cock cage. You know what I mean? Like I felt so constricted. So finally, I'm going to edit this out. But finally, I took the tape off and I go, you have to shut the fuck up. Oh no. And then I put my tape back on. Sounds like an episode of this podcast. Oh my God. Hey, people, people in the, Rob, tell the people in the corner of the cabin, shut the fuck up. Life imitates art. Art imitates life. I'm now going to show you that picture again

[65:00]of me with the mouth tape on. Okay. I'm going to dare you to not laugh. And that's just regular tape? That doesn't, no, it's like, the tape is on his mustache. Yeah. I'm telling you, it doesn't hurt when I take it off. It doesn't hurt. It doesn't rip off parts of your mustache. It actually feels really good. No. Oh. Yeah, it does. All right, let's get into the album. Let's talk. I'm excited about this album. Is this a music podcast? You know I'm a Sade fan. Aaron, will you try taping your mouth one night? Come on, just do it one night and get back to me. Okay, I'll do it for you, Rob. Thank you. Sade, okay, born in Nigeria as Helena Dew. She is the backup singer in the band Pride. Now, Pride was a shitty band and I know that because they have no Wikipedia link. When it says it's in this band, there's no link. I was like, whoa, that's bad. Sounds like four other people we don't know Wikipedia, huh? I've been trying so hard. Site sources. I don't even know what that means. Listen,

[66:00]a year later, she gets together with some of the members of Pride and as the band Sade, but she is also Sade. So it's kind of like one of these things where she's the band and the name. She releases this album, Diamond Life. It becomes the best-selling debut by a British female solo artist until Leona Lewis in like the late 90s, which is the song, I listened to the Leona Lewis song. I don't know if I've ever heard it in my life. This is one of the best-selling album of the 80s. Okay? It won Best British Album. It goes to number two on the Brit charts, number five in the US. And I think this might be the most pure album about love that we have done. This is the most pure love album. I mean, we've made jokes about doing stuff to the Prince album and whatever. But this one, it's all about relationships. It's all about love. I mean, Aaron, is this a neo-soul? Are we talking neo-soul here with Sade?

[67:00]Is this one of the first neo-souls? I don't think so because it doesn't have the sort of throwback to the, I mean, I don't know. It's hard to put, I don't want to put music in a box or classify it. I would say no because- What's in the box? What's in the box? What's in the box? What's in the box? Oh, it's time to play. Because neo-soul, I feel was specifically referencing 60s soul. And I don't, I don't hear that as much on this one. I mean, I feel like there's a lot of what's going on, influence and the percussion. But yeah, I wouldn't call it neo-soul. But Anna and I were talking about this today. Like, I don't know if there was anything else that sounded like this at the time with the exception of maybe the saxophone sound. It sits in a class of its own. I'm telling you guys, because we're going to play it. We're going to start Smooth Operator. Okay. When it really whips the love of the house. And there's no titular track, but there's a titular line. Oh, God. Oh, fuck. I'm sorry.

[68:00]Edit me out. Edit me out. Sorry. No, Aaron, that is perfect. It's the very beginning of the song, right, Aaron? Yes. It's a titular line. There it is. That's the name of the album, Aaron. It's a titular line. It's not a titular track. Wow. We've never heard I don't know if we've heard many titular lines, but it turns out we have. We're going to hear a few more. We're doing a list on the opening song. The best titular lines ever in album history. Opening song list. The titular best. Aaron, can you say the titular line? Titular line. You know what? Oh, yeah. Some undergarments wouldn't let you see the titular line. It depends on what you're going for or fashion wise. That's why I wore sunglasses in Hawaii so nobody could see if I was looking at the titular lines. The first song on the list is Dexy's Midnight Runners. It's Come On Eileen from the album Two Raya, I believe, is the name of the album. Check this out. The album is called Two Raya? Yes.

[69:00]Are you serious? That is bananas. That's crazy. No. What is going on? Is this the name of the album? One of the greatest One Hit Wonders ever. This is the name of the album. Wow. That's cool. That is very cool. You want to talk about this for me might be the ultimate win-win with this. I got to admit, Russell, I haven't heard the rest of the album Two Raya. Matt, can you look up when Dexy's Midnight Runners is on the list? We should know this because it made it to number one. Guess who it knocked off number one? Come on, Eileen. Who? Michael Jackson, Billie Jean. It took out Billie Jean to make it to number one. That is a great song. That's crazy. Two Raya is the name of the album. That's fucking massive. Rob, you're not going to believe this. It's not on the list. It must have been 501. Wow. You know what? Now we know what our second podcast is going to be. Someday when they revise that list. We're going to go through the albums of Dexy's Midnight Runners. Next song on the list. The artist is Vanilla Ice. The song is Ice Ice Baby.

[70:01]The album is To the Extreme. Wow. To the Extreme. I rock a mic like a vandal. Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle. Dance. Wow. The album is To the Extreme. Is that a basic one? I forgot the album was called To the Extreme. Aaron, your thoughts? Is this a Vanilla Ice queen under pressure? Is there a difference in the beats or anything? No, the beats are different. No, this is different because it's dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. They're different. Totally different. That's a great point. I understand that fully. There's a callback. I got to say, To the Extreme, I enjoyed that whole cassette. The entire cassette you did? My babysitter had that cassette. I listened to it and I was like, this is great. I enjoyed this entire cassette. Did not have to have Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go on it. Of course, my other big Vanilla Ice song, but it was a good one. I always, and then I was driving to Miami one time on A1A, Beachfront Avenue. Wow. Rob, I was reading

[71:00]that Beachfront Avenue is the section of the State Road, A1A in South Beach where fast cars and beautiful people are found. So if you stay on that weight loss drug, you could be like, Rob, what would it be like if you'd like a year from now, you text us from A1A, Beachfront Avenue. I'm going to see you on Beachfront Avenue. I'm going to go by my family. You know what I mean? Like I'll go, I'll drive by him and they'll be like, oh, I think he, I think dad's going to stop and I'll be like, oh, I just drove by. He's got that Miata back. Oh, Jesus. Can you imagine Rob, if you were driving a Miata a year from now, Beachfront Avenue. Can I tell you, I did get another convertible in Hawaii. I got a Mustang. Having a convertible, not as fun when there's two kids in the backseat arguing about how windy it is. I was like, this sums up why it sucks to be a parent. You know, but the Instagram pictures look great. It's true. It looked like you guys were all having a good time. They're like, mom got us an SUV so we could fit all the luggage. And I was like, mom's not here. One other point

[72:03]about this song, I thought you guys would appreciate. Ice Ice Baby was nominated for best rap solo performance. It lost to MC Hammer, You Can't Touch This. Is that an epic Grammy award or what? That's a time capsule. I have to say this to Matt about getting the Ford Mustang in Hawaii. You know, there's a lot of them on the big island that you could rent. Every single other every single one that I saw had a guy that looked just like me driving it. Some fat white guy. I was like, how do you know you're a tourist? Oh, you got the Mustang convertible. Okay. Hey, are you trying to reclaim your youth too? All right. How's it going? Not great. All right. Sounds good. Hey, is that might that might be giants blasting out of those speakers over there and what they're called that might be giants that might be I have the windows up so I can hear my NPR better. Next song on the list. Rob, another one of your favorites.

[73:00]This is from 1991. The artist is Lenny Kravitz. The album is always or the song is always on the run. The album is Mama Said. Oh, this is an album that people should play more often. I don't think there's any Lenny Kravitz on the list, but if you ever are at home playing Lenny Kravitz, you're gonna have one time. Do you think he's one of the only guys in the Hall of Fame that doesn't have an album on the list? That would be interesting. Examination. Yeah, it's a fun analysis. You guys don't play the guitar on that song? It's not Lenny Kravitz? Not Lenny Kravitz? It's Slash. Whoa. Wow. Oh, my God. No, on that song, it's Slash. That song? Also, Slash and Lenny Kravitz both went to Beverly Hills High School. They went to the same high school? Wow. Oh, my God. Is that Bones or what? Yeah, that's Bones. Can you imagine you're at the

[74:00]talent show, you're like, okay, I just played, I learned how to play guitar. I'm gonna play Linger by the Cranberries. This is gonna go off. Okay, let's see who I'm behind. Okay, some guy named Lenny Kravitz, and then some guy named Slash is after me. I think I'll be just fine. Next on the list, Matt, this is one of your favorite artists. I wanted to make sure I got you here. The artist is Lana Del Rey. The song is Venice Bitch. The album, Norman fucking Rockwell. Oh. Norman Rockwell No hype under our covers Matt, explain to me the love for Lana Del Rey. She's got some awesome songs, but this is a nine-minute song that this version is. It's me, a little Venice bitch on the street with a neighborhood kid. Matt, are you muted, Matt? Matt muted himself. Oh, no. Oh, no. Matt, you don't get to get out of this easily. What do you guys think he's doing when he's on mute?

[75:00]That's what worries me right now. Yeah, we can hear you. 321, Lana Del Rey. 321, that's where it's on the list. Is this album? I don't know. It feels like it's a whole bunch of everything. A little bit of like new age electronica music, a little bit of Taylor Swift, a little bit of some badass people, some Beyonce in there too with some like rhyming lyrics a little bit. So I don't know. She feels like a amalgamation of a lot of things that comes out in a badass bitch. She likes to get a little hip hop. I think she's on the list at some point, I think, right? Didn't she get added? 321, 321. Awesome. Is it this album? Is it Norman fucking Rockwell? That album, yeah. Norman fucking Rockwell. We're going to get the last song here. Some honorable mentions we've already talked about. Pink Floyd, Brain Damage, I believe is the name. I believe that's the song from Dark Side of the Moon. Dark Side of the Moon comes from the song Brain Damage, I believe. Wow. If I'm not incorrect. Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back comes from the song Party for

[76:01]Your Right to Fight, I believe. It's a challenging one, yeah. And Taylor Swift, Folklore is on the song Gold Rush here. And Folklore is a favorite album in your house, I believe. It is. That was on repeat in 2020 in our house. There's a lyric Folklore, so it's a lyrical track. A titular track, right? A titular lyric. So the last one, unbelievable list. The last one we've heard before, but we had to, it's so good, and it's been so long since we've talked about it. The artist is Alanis. The song is You Learn. The album is Jagged Little Pill. Jagged Little Pill. Wow. Swallow it down. Jagged Little Pill. Yes. Wow. Yeah. So good. So good. This was a great album. Yeah, but you know what I don't like about this album, Russell? You'll never guess. What's that? The drums. Listen to that. I knew you were going to get me on it. I knew you were going to get me on it. We should have to listen to this album

[77:00]every like 50 albums and be like, oh, we would be killing to listen to this album right now. It's so good. It's such a good list. It's such a good album. When we talked about that song, we talked about Glenn Ballard, I believe, many years ago, who was the producer and the writer for a lot of Alanis. He was their songwriting partner, I believe, and he actually made it into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2023, the same year that Sade made it into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. And when Sade made it into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, they referenced a few songs. One of those songs, Smooth Operator. Is that a list or what? Is that awesome? That's a list. You brought it home. Always lands the plane, this guy. Amazing. Incredible list. Really, Russell, that was a good one. That was good. What's it at? Yeah. Sorry, we haven't talked about any songs yet. I'll be quiet for the next 40 minutes. That's a great start. That is good. I gotta admit, my notes on the rest of these songs is not as extensive as they normally are. Next up, the other single off this album, Your Love is King. I think here

[78:04]you can really hear the British part of it. It sounds like some George Michael, some Wham. Totally. This could be a Wham song. Totally, totally. I think this is my favorite song on the album. It's so good. Can you imagine if someone tells you your love is king? You're like, thank you. Wow. I mean, if someone told me I was a smooth operator, I'd take that too. That's good too. Yep, also. Yep, very nice. If somebody told me to swallow a jagged little pill. I'd have some questions. I don't even want to tell you how excited I got over Frankie's first affair when someone talked to me about that. You know? Hang on to your love. Love? I gotta say, there are some albums where I kind of wish the songs would start faster. This wasn't one of them. I thought every intro on this album, like, it just set the mood

[79:00]for the whole thing. It sounds like the Billie Jean bass line to me. It does, doesn't it? Do you hear that? Yeah, yeah. Some Michael Jackson in the bass. Yeah, because it also has that almost sound. No, you're right. I mean, listen to this. No, don't listen to it, Aaron. I was kidding. I didn't mean to talk. This is a podcast. Well, I, you know, I think as you guys know, I've been waiting for Sade on the list. Is this our only Sade album? I think it is. They've put out six albums. I own all of them on vinyl. I bought the box set. Growing up, it was like we knew Smooth Operator, right? And we knew maybe Ordinary Love. Oh, no, 247. We've got Love Deluxe. Love Deluxe. That one's got Ordinary Love on it. And, like, a tattoo. That one. Man, how could this be higher than Ordinary Love? It's higher than Love Deluxe. It's hard. But, like, growing up, you felt like, oh, is Sade kind of like smooth jazz adjacent? Like, is it dorky? And I had a friend I worked with in Minneapolis and he was like, I don't listen to, like, hard shit in my car.

[80:00]Like, I listen to Sade in my car. And I was like, maybe I should check out Sade. And then I heard them later on the Heat Rocks podcast, which I've mentioned before, and they talked about Sade's use of space in music. Like, the way that they just create space. Nothing's rushed. Every note has its place. And I think that's what you're talking about, Rob. They do these intros. They never feel too long. They don't feel too short. There's just a real understanding of how music should sound and the pacing of it that just makes this great music to me. I gotta say, you know who else used space really well? Elton John. Alan Shepard? Rocket Man! Don't... I heard you, Aaron. You tried to fucking get in there and steal my joke. Alan Shepard. Get that shit out. Good pull, though, with that astronaut. Frankie's First Affair. Guys, now listen. Put your hands together for Frankie. I joke all the time about cheating on my wife and signing up for dating apps and... Hey, Rob, if you were gonna do it,

[81:01]you'd listen to that saxophone while you were doing it, right? 100%. This would be my ringtone. She'll know if this is my ringtone. But I gotta say, that sounds like so much work for me. Like, I don't know, where would I find the time to do this? Where would I do that? If I ever cancel a podcast record, that might be what's going on. How much time a week do you spend powerlifting? Like, that shit can go away. It's gonna be like eight hours, right? Let's get rid of jujitsu. You can just stop doing jujitsu. What are we talking about? Rob, you always say about how busy you are. I'm like, damn, Rob's got enough time to, like, participate in, like, multiple professional sporting events. Like, I don't have time to do any of that shit. What are you talking about? You gotta make time, Russell. Okay? You gotta make time. But what if I did, instead of, powerlifting, I just cheated on my wife and I get to the next beat and I can squat, like, a hundred pounds? I'd be like, I don't know what's going on. Yeah. But also, I mean, one time for Sade's voice. Why'd you pack so many blue Gatorades to this podcast? They're such a great band.

[82:00]The band is excellent. It doesn't go without her voice. I think Frankie's first affair is up there with her best vocal performances on this album. Aaron, you mentioned this before. Like, you've talked about Sade before and, like, how... I had a moment where I didn't know... I always assumed you were talking about the lead singer, but you're talking about the band here. You're talking about the whole group. We're talking about Sade. The band is called Sade and her name is Sade. It's confusing. When you've talked about it before, I always understood it as the lead singer, but you're talking about the band as awesome. Yes. Everything. But it doesn't go without her, right? No, I know. I think everything. Yeah, I agree. Everything. They're so tight. They play together so well. Yeah. The grooves are great. I think, I mean, Rob, like, this has, this has to be like an all-time great mix for you. Like, you love sound. Like, this is perfect to me. It's true. It doesn't go without her voice, but yeah, I think the band is great. I am going to make love to my wife listening to this album and that's a promise to you guys. I will do that

[83:00]in the next two to three months. Guaranteed. Okay? And now we're at the cabins. There's a lot of rooms that are right next to each other. Okay? And when we do it, it's so loud. We have to be careful. People are going to be like, hey, shut the hell up over there. Shut up. You're going to hear me because I taped my mouth. Can't piss in here, baby. All right. When am I going to make a living? I think this is track one on side two, right? Yeah, I think so. I believe you heard. I don't think I passed a little bit. A song fives. Oh, no, you're right. This is the last one on side one. You're right, man. Now, I loved this next one was one of the hottest videos I've ever seen where that girl had the big smile. Do you guys remember what I'm talking about?

[84:00]This is cherry pie. I shot a cover of Warren, of course. She's my cherry pie. It's kind of had like the wah-wah or I don't know, some sort of funk aspect to it, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's a fun juxtaposition, too, between this and the album that precedes it on the list, but we won't hear until next week the Pavement album because the two bands use bass in, to me, very different ways. The bottom end, something about the sound of the bottom end is so different between these two bands. I think it's a very interesting, you know, comparison. This does not sound like an album from 1984. I mean, it's just so... It sounds timeless. It's lush. It's the future. It is lush. I mean, I'm a sucker for this kind of rhythm guitar plus the keys. I mean... Next up, Sally.

[85:00]Now, this one is weird because it's a hardcore punk song. Let's get in. Get it for Robbie. He's doing our I think some of the band members did have punk side gigs. I think some of the guys either the drums or bass or both had side gigs as punk artists. I mean, that's why I have this podcast. I'm so clean and normal in my life. I have to have somewhere to let all this out and this is the place I do it. You know what I mean? We're better people for it. Can I just tell you guys with my guests today, they were talking about the podcast and I said, listen, it's a little dirty. I said, there's a joke about how on Valentine's Day we do 69 guy on top. Stonefaced. No smiles. No nothing. I was like, I was like, why would I say that? This podcast is not for them. We were all enjoying our banana cream pudding. Why would I say something? Why would I ruin the night by saying that? Rob, why would you have ice cream? Ice cream is a much better dessert than banana cream pudding. Did someone have a banana cream pudding

[86:00]like on their nose as you're telling this joke? How does that feel? Can I tell you guys something? Since I've started this medicine, I'm almost dessert free. I'm too full. Almost. Okay. And I tell my family all the time, I go, I can't eat that. I'm on medication. They love it. They think it's really fun. Why can't we live together? Now, Aaron, did we skip I will be your friend? Why can't we live together? Oh. We did skip I will be your friend. It's out of order for some reason. Now, Aaron, this is how it starts, okay? Aaron, I will be your friend. Okay? Yeah. Just kidding. Give me your fucking lunch money, you nerd. Oh, man. That's rough. Wait a minute. This guy's a fucking dragon tattoo. He must be cool as hell. I love the sincerity of these lyrics. It's an all-time saxophone album, too. Isn't it, Aaron? Yes. We've talked best sax albums ever, and I don't know if any of these songs made it, but this is an all-time saxophone. Yeah, I mean, this guy's laying it down. This is why kids like me played the saxophone in middle school, right? Yes, right? You're like, oh. Can you imagine

[87:00]if this is going to be in Sade? The video goes and it's Sade singing and then it cuts over to Russ, a young Russell, playing the saxophone. Oh, my God. Full cut. That'd be great. Doc Martens. Yes. Ha! Flannel shirt over there. Over a T-shirt. A couple buttons undone. God, I'm just, I'm beside myself. We get to also hear Love Deluxe in the next year. So excited. Sade wrote all these songs, huh? For the most part? Well, I don't know. Did she write them or did the band write them together? That's a great point. You'll never know because it's the same name, Aaron. I just realized maybe Sade, the whole band, got into this Riders Hall of Fame. Sade and Stuart Matthewman. Those are kind of the primary writers. He's the guitarist, right? I don't know. This one was written by Thomas. I don't know who Thomas is. So great. Just using one name. I love it. Stuart Matthewman was the saxophone. Saxophone. And again, guitar. We can't say his name.

[88:00]Say, wait, wait, wait. Rob, we're going to get to your joke, Rob. But let's hear Rob Smith say it one more time. Stuart Matthewman. Wow. Saxophone and guitar. He's not that interesting. I right clicked and went to his Wikipedia. To see if there was a list available. This is it. This is it. Now, Aaron, this song is called Why Can't We Live Together? You got to live with one of us. Right now. Who are you picking? Who are you picking? It's got to be bad. It has to be bad. No. There's no way. Come on. Who doesn't want to be a fly in the wall in Russell's house right now? I'm going with Russell. Aaron, you dog. You're the eye. And listen. I don't want to. There's somebody above the ceiling with the eye holes that get under Russell. I think Matt's kids are wonderful. Oh. And I also love my son. But I'm curious what it's like in a house with no kids. I'm just curious what that's like. I'm just wondering. You know what? I pick Russell too. That's a great point. Hello, ladies. I've got no kids

[89:01]over here. You can play Trivial Pursuit. I'm going to make drinks. Nobody talking at all. Hey, what are you going to do tonight? Whatever I want. I mean, imagine saying that. Just imagine. Do you know what fucking happened to me on this trip? We're fucking driving up to the lake. Okay? So first of all, we're driving up to the lake. We stop at a Whole Foods on the way up. Oh, yeah. Does Jenny buy all the groceries for the lake at Whole Foods? The most expensive place you could possibly buy groceries? Of course she does. Where else are you going to get Greek yogurt? I sat in the parking lot while she went into the grocery store. Now, keep in mind, this is in Maple Grove. I am trying to get up to Brainerd, okay? I hate to do this to you guys. I really hate to. It is about, it's about three hours. From Maple Grove. Okay? So I know I've got a drive coming up. I'd say it's two hours. So get yourself an iced coffee. Ooh. How long, how long, how long would you guess I'm in the parking lot? Jalapeno cheese curls.

[90:00]An hour and a half. An hour and a half. 90 minutes. An hour and 10 minutes. I am sitting in this parking lot. Why didn't, why didn't you go into the grocery store? You gotta go in. I had a kid in the car. Move it along. Why didn't, the kid refused to go in. So both go in. What are we doing? Oh, no. Yeah. You know what? No, no, no, no. The kid went in actually with him. The dog was in the car. Hey, hey, Rob. You know what else I don't have in my house? I got no dogs. I got no pets in this house either. No kids, no pets. Transport me to wherever you are, Russell. I need to be there right now. I, and then we get up here and she goes, hey, by the way, he looked, he looked. For the next three nights, we're going to dinner with friends. I didn't even get in the lake today, Russell. Cause you know what she said? Oh, what are we doing for dinner tonight? Oh, Rob, I want you to smoke a pork shoulder. I had to get up this morning at 530. My first day here, Russell, I'm up at 530 smoking a pork shoulder. Smoking a poke shoulder. Was it good? It was really good. It was super good. Turned out perfectly. Okay. But still,

[91:00]I couldn't eat as much as I wanted to because I'm on this damn medication. There's no way your wife said you need to smoke a pork shoulder. She probably said like, there's going to be people over here like, oh, I need to cook for people. I, I, I swear. There's no way. I swear on the life of my wife. No. This, she requested, she said, please smoke a pork. I said, well, I'm going to have to get up at five in the morning. She goes, okay. Motherfucker. She said, okay. Can you imagine if I asked her to get up at five to make something for me to eat? I got news for you. Wouldn't happen. Okay. So I also pick Russell. Okay. And you know what? Russell, let's do it. I'm moving in right now. Let's do it. Let's. Why can't we live together? There's something to be said for an album, for an album where it's just the same thing over and over. Sometimes it's fun. Okay. Sometimes. I mean, Rob, you've talked about college vibe albums. We all should have been playing this one in the dorm. I mean, there's never a bad time to play Sade. It's always good to play Sade. But if, like, if we'd been playing this in the dorm. No, no, no.

[92:00]Half your, half your buddies would have made fun of you if you played this in the dorm. My buddies make fun of me now. This is the only for the guys like Aaron who had ladies who wanted to come to the dorm. Three times a month you guys make fun of me. It's nothing new. Like, we've got, we're playing Bond on the little TV and this is playing in the background. People make comments. Russell, hey, in my dorm room I was always going slappers only. Listen to this. Get that ferret back in the cage. Oh, don't say that. I did talk to my kids the other day about how I owned a ferret. They were like, that's weird. I was like, come on, not you guys too. I'm your dad. Can I say this, Russell? You know what I would have said if I'm listening to Sade in my dorm room and my friends are making fun of me? What would I say? I would have said, because I got two nipples in my mouth, Russell, because I'm making love all night long. Two nipples. I did a, I did a Sade, what's the streaming thing called?

[93:01]Oh my God. Spotify. Whitewater. What was that Whitewater movie Aaron screwed up? I wanted to share with you guys the five songs that came up after on Spotify when you got done listening. Please. I am curious because yeah, there's nothing else like this. Carol King, It's Too Late. Mm-hmm. Oh wow. Sounds about right. Okay, yeah. I don't know this one. These Sacred Souls, Easier Said Than Done. I'm done with that one. Let's, let's, let's say, well, no, wait a minute. Sacred Souls. Sorry, Matt. I didn't mean to do this. Oh, that's all right. We only got a whole other album to go through tonight. Okay. Oh, okay. I'm in for this. This is pretty good, isn't it? Sounds like Durando. Oh, or a little bit of Michael Jackson. Keanu, okay. Yes. When did this album come out? I like this. I'll tell you what, you know what's easier said than done, Russell? Two nipples in the mouth. Next song on the list was Luther Vandross, Never Too Much. Oh. And then the last two, Etta James.

[94:00]This is from you, is Never Too Much. Etta James, At Last. Oh. And then the last one was Marvin Gaye, Mercy Me. Is it Mercy, Mercy Me, Aaron, or Mercy Me? Yeah, yeah, Mercy Me, yeah. Maybe it is Mercy, Mercy, but yeah. These Sacred Souls are, are they, debuted in 2022. What's that? These Sacred Souls. They sounded good, didn't they, man? Yeah, they're a newer band. That's, I was trying to figure out if they're, I couldn't tell if they're old or new or when, so. This, these guys are 2022? That's, yeah. Kind of a throwback, yeah. That's fine. Highly anticipated follow-up to their Breakout 2022 self-titled album. So, yeah, I don't know. You know, during COVID, some guys started a podcast. October 4th, 2024, new album. Some guys did a throwback band that sounds like this, so. They started a band that's four, four plays away from Sade. Wow. Wow. I'll tell you what else is some foreplay with Sade. Two nipples in your mouth. Oh, my God. He's going to run this joke into the ground. He's going to go until Matt laughs. All right.

[95:00]Challenge accepted. Three nipples in your mouth. Otherwise, don't is a peach chamboree. Oh, God. Got to get out of this. Now, listen. I want to remind you. We are not judging these albums. We would never judge art. Okay? We are the John Roberts, the Clarence Thomases, the other people, okay? Of the list itself. Does this belong at two hundo? That reminds me. I got to go catch that bus that was chartered by Stuart Mathewson. He invited me out. I haven't looked at it. I'm not looking at the news. Good week, Saren. Okay? And I'll tell you what. It's great. I was making a joke about accepting inappropriate gifs from people who have influence over stuff. You know what? What if I had an animation of two nipples in my mouth? That would be an inappropriate gif. Hey, man.

[96:01]Oh, a little smile for Matt. So we're getting close. We're getting close. Sorry, I was reading something. Sorry. He gives you nothing. He'll give you no itch. The view of my wife on a date with me. Same thing. Same thing as me looking at my phone. Listen. Could you imagine going out on a date the first day with Matt and he's playing hard to get like this? It would be tough to break down that wall. It would. I would simply play the podcast that we're both on. We'd be like, oh, yeah, I remember you. Listen. Is this a... That got him. You like that? You like the meta joke? This is a rolling well tone. Okay? That means it's perfect at 200. Guys, we're cracking off a 200. This is 200 pennies. Now that makes sense. Is this a rolling well tone? Rolling well boned. Okay? Because this, Rashad A, it is a well boned. Okay? Because this should be higher up on the list. It got boned being way back here at 200. Guys, the voice is beautiful. She's got a message. She's got a theme with the songs. It's great. Okay, that would be rolling.

[97:00]It should be higher up on the list, which, of course, is a lower number. Anything in the hundreds would be a lower number, Aaron. We're never doing 100 again. We did it. Except for next week. We're doing 199 because of a scheduling thing I did. Or, is this a rolling groan? Okay? This does not belong at 200. It belongs maybe at 248, higher up on the list. Okay? Maybe a little album switcheroo should have happened. What do we think? Rolling well toned, rolling boned, or rolling groan? Shot A is Diamond Life. Matt, what do you think? I'm going to say it's rolling groan. I can't... I keep hearing the Carole King as opposed to the Sacred Souls. What I... I don't know. I will... I think I will come back to this genre, though. I think I will just have Shot A on in the background at work or something like that because it's great listening. It's true. But I just... I don't know if it should be up here at 200. Probably should be on the list. I don't know enough about it, but I would gladly listen

[98:01]to Tom Petty Wildflowers before Shot A. Tough one. Pulling a trump card on that one. Wow. Oof. That's $5. That's $5 to the kitty. Some people are coming up to me saying the donuts are not... not normal enough. You know what? I got it. I still got it. Only 300 left, guys. 301 because we're doing 199 next week. Oh. Man. Russell, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling boner, rolling grown? I think the... the musicality we've talked... Sometimes we've talked about these bands where they're not great musicians. Sometimes we've talked about the lead singer where they're not a great singer. This seems to me to have both. And it's got a commercial hit, Smooth Operator. I had that on the Winamp. To me, this checks all my boxes. I'm going to say rolling well-toned. I love it being at 200, like the... the big number. I could even see it being a little higher. I really enjoyed it. I'm going to say rolling well-toned. All right. And so the correct answer is... Aaron, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling grown? You guys...

[99:01]You guys know what I'm going on this one. I love this album. I love this band. It's rolling boned for me, but I really enjoyed listening to it with you guys. I enjoyed Matt and Russell's thoughts. So thanks for... thanks for hanging out and listening to music that I love. I love... You really think of Sade as the band, don't you? Yeah. Every time Aaron... Every time he does that. Because Aaron's probably referenced it. He referenced it probably 10 times in the last three years. And I thought it was the single. But the Wikipedia page, I mean, I'm looking at the Wikipedia page and it says, hold on here, it says, Diamond Life is the debut studio album by English band Sade. Wow, man. I mean, she's great. She makes it. Like, there's no Sade without Sade, of course. But it's the same band for all six of their albums. I give or take some, you know, guests or whatever. And it's a band. I have a big announcement. I have changed my name to Beck Did It Better. Okay? This is a great decision. Yep. Lots of people are buying our shirts now. We're taking off, guys. We're on a rocket ship. All right?