Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run (1975) (Matt is 40!)

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by

[00:04]rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the

[00:09]order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research

[00:14]all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better

[00:19]we are all the way up to album 21 born to run by bruce springsteen hey guys do you know what

[00:28]they call bruce springsteen six months later bruce falstein

[00:32]you know why they're called the e street band because if they were called a street band

[00:39]everyone would ask them which one hey what's the name of your band a street band oh really which

[00:44]one hey should we call the state jersey or new jersey and what should we call this big city

[00:51]that's in it new works perfect

[00:55]hmm

[00:58]of the guys are laughing at these puns they don't realize how hard this podcast is for me

[01:02]when they don't laugh at every one of my clever word plays

[01:04]i sit here with the guys recording the podcast barely listening to them when they talk

[01:20]i just want to make my joke that i thought of but i need to wait till they stop

[01:27]my joke's not great but for now it's just fine but these guys won't stop talking and i'm running

[01:33]out of time oh but now i need to speak i got something to say my kid is off track but we

[01:42]might laugh i gotta talk over these bums because hosts like me baby we were born to

[01:50]oh

[01:53]baby we were born to pun

[01:56]hey you know i filmed a show about a sleepover at bruce springsteen's house it's called under the

[02:06]covers boss hey you know if a tree sang this song it'd be called spruce springsteen i saw bruce and

[02:14]tony danza on the train the other day i went up to him and i said hey who's the boss baby we were

[02:19]born to

[02:20]baby we were born to pun

[02:25]when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time

[02:34]but you're just too lazy to look

[02:37]who's the boss

[02:37]karen spring is six months after fall i get it

[02:44]did it better

[02:51]welcome everybody to beck did it better this is the podcast where we're looking at the top 500

[02:57]albums as according to rolling stone magazine and we're all the way up to 21 not even 10 of the way

[03:02]through but don't think about that guys we got to introduce you to everybody so you can tell the

[03:06]difference between our voices we've got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing excellent rob

[03:11]thanks for having me no offense matt but when you're talking i did some spelling salts i got

[03:15]russ in minnesota russ how are you doing just one look and whisper and our podcast listeners are gone

[03:20]our podcast listeners are a town full of losers and i'm pulling it out of here for the win

[03:25]and out in california i got aaron aaron how are you doing i'm ready to strap my hands across you

[03:31]guys's engines let's go okay that was that song is way dirtier than you thought it was right

[03:36]yes you're such a bit stealer rosie

[03:39]that was the first time that my my not work computer got denied on a on a website when i

[03:48]was looking at the lyrics for

[03:50]born to run so let's get right into it today we've got a lot of content today okay guys and

[03:57]i'm definitely not nervous about covering this album because i don't have much to say about it

[04:00]so let's go to our voicemail we've got a super special voicemail that was set up so this ep this

[04:06]is coming out in three weeks what's the date in three weeks do you guys know it's like january

[04:10]maybe like the 13th is that right somewhere around there all right so tuesday right it comes around a

[04:17]very special time of year it's our favorite

[04:20]is this before after the climate czar takes office here uh okay well just before we're

[04:25]we're not going right into politics right off the bat russell i know you love

[04:29]hey it's christopher minneapolis just calling to wish matt a happy 40th birthday

[04:38]from minneapolis minnesota this is steve ryan from west bloomington hi this is aaron

[04:46]calling to wish matt a happy happy happy birthday

[04:50]hello this is jim from hermontown calling to wish my older brother matt happy birthday

[04:56]this is sarah the landlord from hermontown this is your father-in-law dennis from gold canyon

[05:02]arizona this is kevin here from nashville this is missy in minneapolis this is karen ryan from

[05:10]bloomington hi this is sarah and jim may from eden prairie and we wanted to say happy birthday

[05:18]matthew george

[05:20]happy birthday matt hi this is megan and ben from minneapolis hey this message is for matt

[05:25]just want to say happy birthday nick from minneapolis old school how does man have this

[05:30]many friends i'm shocked i thought we were the only ones happy birthday this is sarah

[05:36]from atlanta this is dave from richfield minnesota happy birthday matt whoa patty

[05:43]from richfield this is probably from the only dick in your life hi this is

[05:49]stacy from minnesota this is brian calling from the birthplace of water skiing this is lamana

[05:55]helsing paul minnesota this is lucas from minneapolis this is zach goring from apple

[06:02]valley hi darren from oh coach goring mark johnson here from richfield happy for all

[06:08]buddies to play basketball welcome to the club yeah this is matt mcdonald calling i just wanted

[06:12]to wish matt 12 a very very happy birthday this is jen from manhattan hi this is neil from my

[06:19]mill have a great birthday and remember that when given the opportunity always i would double down

[06:25]love you a little story to tell you matt was eight pounds one ounce and he had a little bit

[06:34]of complication the cord was around his neck when he came out so he had to be resuscitated

[06:39]and they moved him from st mary's hospital over to the university's neonatal intensive care unit

[06:46]for observation so the next day mike and i

[06:49]were able to go see matt um and here he was in the uh NICU with all these preemie babies

[06:56]and because he was eight pounds they didn't have any diapers in the NICU that fit him because he

[07:02]was too big they only had the preemie size you're too big for a man that'd be pretty good content

[07:09]but what i'm saying it's not that it's too bad your life didn't continue that way right

[07:14]for his body right so the

[07:19]man that was uh attending the regular size now for your body across the corridor from

[07:25]matt took a look at matt typical uh was he jones story keeps going

[07:31]he's okay and he's going back to the other hospital in a day or two so anyway that was

[07:42]matt's uh initial start in the world and uh luckily he didn't have no look any brain damage

[07:47]from the asphyxiation but he's okay and he's going back to the other hospital in a day or two so

[07:49]we're so happy that he made it and we're so happy that he's turned into such a great dad

[07:54]and husband and so happy birthday matt podcast host assistant podcast host wow holy cow hi this

[08:04]is in minneapolis just wanted to let you know that i wouldn't swap you for anyone no swapping

[08:10]he's disappointed by that wow there's some deep cuts in there holy cow happy kevin from nashville

[08:19]yeah well that was amazing thanks matt's wife hasn't seen me with my quarantine beard yet that

[08:24]might change that swiping might be game on here in a few months we're gonna keep her away from

[08:29]you russell i know i know look out listen the baby boy happy birthday and listen matt if you

[08:34]think i'm gonna take that story that your mom told and cut the words up and make it into some

[08:37]sick story for my own enjoyment then you know we're out really well seems like a lot of work

[08:43]and somebody would have to be teaching from home for two weeks to have time to do that all right so

[08:48]happy birthday uh i'll never do that again all right so the old the old matt matt asphyxiation

[08:54]tales are just going to be hammered over and over for the next 480 episodes only a little bit i like

[09:01]to call that the man in the diaper story that was my that was my version of that story

[09:04]and if you wanted to hear all the voicemails played at once then you could have heard the

[09:09]first part of this bit that i edited out well thanks hey we're out rob let me just say thanks

[09:13]i don't know if i said it but thanks to everybody that that does mean a lot there's some a lot of

[09:17]people i haven't heard from in a long time there so i don't know who put it together but thanks for

[09:21]that are these people downloading or are they just calling in because if they're not downloading like

[09:25]we need to cut no i mean i guarantee not right you know my deep dark secret plan right is just

[09:31]to mention as many people as i can so like you know neil from lakeville and nick from minneapolis

[09:36]and now we've got like sarah from atlanta and kevin from nashville and some of the you know

[09:40]we've got we just keep mentioning people there we're gonna get some uh downloads out of this

[09:44]i noticed that asshole magic mike 69

[09:47]or whatever his name is from houston never called in to wish you any birthday you don't know you

[09:51]don't know your facts i guess that that's shameful and i and i also noticed that russ and aaron also

[09:56]didn't leave a message all right so uh seems strange that uh thanks rosie it seems odd right

[10:02]that was kind of bullshit i asked him too and they just said no which i thought was strange all right

[10:07]so let's get into everybody's second favorite segment after our famous rating system

[10:14]you

[10:17]know what time it is it's time to make fun of aaron oh make fun of aaron's back i love it

[10:25]yeah i just like to hear it just for the i don't own a microwave drop all right so aaron

[10:33]aaron did the amazing thing there of talking over himself somehow that was pretty impressive i

[10:38]haven't heard that one before all right so over and under i want to i pulled two clips from last

[10:42]week's episode i just want to i want to remind everybody and i really only pulled these clips

[10:46]just to tell everybody listen we we sit here we talk for two hours we try to make funny material

[10:50]we're at the same time being very smart okay uh and and and definitely not just saying the word

[10:56]diaper over and over for an hour hoping that that becomes a ruddy gag because it's just so easy

[11:00]i just love how my new bubble headline is going to be yeah people have told me i'm way too big for

[11:06]my diaper the way too big is the most important part the word 2021 has rolled over a whole new

[11:14]leaf for my dating my dating world and so what we do is we try to say like things that maybe we can

[11:19]play off of or maybe make into a running bit so i'm just going to pull i have two clips from last

[11:23]week that i pulled of aaron talking to us and i just want to imagine that you have you imagined

[11:28]that you were on a podcast with aaron you were trying to have a conversation and and this happens

[11:32]man don't get me started about the dew point i've really learned a lot about that in the last year

[11:36]and a half so i don't what are we supposed to do with that aaron don't get me started about the

[11:43]dew point it's a fascinating concept it's very explain to me what the dew point is even and keep

[11:49]in mind i do teach weather as part of my units as a science teacher it is the air temperature at

[11:55]which water turns to moisture and it has it affects a lot of things about how too early this

[12:00]podcast uses the word the moisture also it has not we're supposed to keep this how we perceive

[12:08]uh weather okay and as a cyclist it changes the

[12:13]road conditions very greatly so it's an important it's a very fascinating concept you're right i

[12:18]should not have gotten you started about the dew point all right let's go and check the next the

[12:22]next one and this is a fun one to me because this is one where aaron we all thought aaron was making

[12:26]a joke and he was making a serious point which i think is a very funny bit i i would argue though

[12:31]that a person in their basement is not going to make this whole album they might hit a song i don't

[12:36]think they would be able to create an album like this no because you there are actually more

[12:39]instruments than you can fit in a basement you're right

[12:43]wait that wasn't even supposed to be funny i was agreeing with right

[12:46]so at the end he has to explain like i was not making a joke there's actually more instruments

[12:51]that could fit the basement no i think on one of our recent episodes aaron declared he's not trying

[12:57]to be funny on this podcast it was a declarative statement he's here in all business that's right

[13:02]i'm serious serious so listen is it not is this just because i love making fun of aaron and that's

[13:07]why i want to do this bit any chance i get even with the littlest slight hint that i could do it

[13:13]that door's cracked rob you uh you walk right through that i cannot get enough of making fun

[13:18]of aaron so that was our favorite segment making fun of aaron let's get into our i don't know what

[13:23]is this maybe our fifth favorite segment i don't know i don't get a lot of feedback from people

[13:26]actually mostly people just calling to wish mad a happy birthday i don't actually get a lot of

[13:30]other voicemails but we are going into rolling going it's it's it's time to see what everybody's

[13:39]up to it's time for rolling gold

[13:43]oh yeah so listen we started out by making fun of aaron so aaron what's rolling going with you

[13:50]and say something interesting and funny well yes so i well i gotta rob you know i gotta get a little

[13:58]bit serious on my rolling going i'm feeling good i'm happy it's new year's day i'm happy to turn

[14:03]over the calendar for another day i spent the day with my family uh we ate black eyed peas and

[14:08]collard greens so that was good but uh we did learn yesterday i love how you said you state you spent

[14:12]the day with your family like you haven't done that for the last 10 months every single day or

[14:16]what yeah well i mean it's true yeah we spent a lot of time together but we went for a little

[14:20]hike and it was nice now when you ate that black eyed peas did you say let's get it started

[14:25]i should have said that rob i should have called you i should i should have yeah i should have said

[14:31]let's yeah don't say the other version of that song i love how so offensive yeah i love how you

[14:34]censored oh well the fact that that other version of the song is this is wild once again don't get

[14:42]hop and john so i cooked the rice in with the black eyed peas and threw it in the oven and i

[14:48]wasn't using white rice so it was brown rice which is like a different you know whole cooking brown

[14:52]rice is almost impossible it's tough yeah but it turned out really well i was happy with it my son

[14:58]didn't eat it but um he had a chicken sausage uh and some rice and then threw his rice on the floor

[15:02]so that was all right but uh but rob knows i gotta get a little bit serious we found out yesterday

[15:07]that uh mf doom passed on to the next plane of existence and uh i don't know if you guys know

[15:12]i requested that rob play a little bit of mf doom during my rolling going i don't like to get too

[15:16]serious but doom was one of the rappers who uh really changed how i listen to music i bought his

[15:24]cd at fifth element in minneapolis back in the day this is from operation doomsday and he passed

[15:32]on october 31st but his family didn't tell the world until yesterday and um many many people

[15:37]have written about it more eloquently than i ever could but doom was one of my favorite rappers um

[15:42]his songs run around through my head all the time and i didn't realize until much later that he's

[15:48]responsible for my love of shawday because he was sampling shawday all the time and when i finally

[15:53]came to shawday later in life i'd be like oh doom sampled this uh although the track i requested

[15:58]isn't isn't a shawday sample but um uh rest in peace to mf doom uh so that's my rolling going i

[16:03]was um you know i try not to let the uh celebrity um passings affect me but this one kind of did

[16:09]just hit me in the in the nostalgia button so i had to had to bring it up since we're a music podcast

[16:12]was mf doom also the inventor of that game doom the computer game like the first person shooter

[16:18]where you ran around and blew away the nazis i don't think he was but that would be he go to

[16:22]medical school and then uh go against the marvel characters as dr doom he did well i mean his whole

[16:29]thing was dr doom yeah he was like inspired by dr doom he he uh he got his start aaron rob you don't

[16:35]know i do want to actually if you if you don't know who mf doom is because i had no idea when

[16:42]you look him up you need to go now he wore a metal mask at all times right like a thor type mask

[16:47]correct correct what was the reason for that i i think i think musicians who dress in costumes

[16:52]are there there should be a documentary made about people like buckethead there should be

[16:58]a documentary made about the people like in slipknot have you ever seen buckethead

[17:01]he just has the kfc bucket on his head with a mask and he plays guitar uh in uh what was he

[17:07]in velvet revolver and then the guys in like slipknot who are always in costumes or like guar

[17:12]the idea that you would want to be a musician and not let anyone recognize who you are is wild to me

[17:18]all i want with this podcast is to be famous why would that anybody not want that there are some

[17:23]right there i saw last night i spent i went down a doom rabbit hole last night there's footage of him

[17:28]as his previous persona zev love x performing on arsenio without the mask uh but it's going to be

[17:35]another downer he was in a group called kmd with his brother subrock subrock passed away in a car

[17:42]disappeared forever uh for a long time and then when he came back he always wore the mask his name

[17:47]is daniel dumoulin his uh government name was daniel dumoulin but um after his brother passed

[17:52]he just felt that he was a different person so he always wore the mask after that once he came back

[17:55]but he disappeared a long time and then came back and he was um he was doomed so yeah he only wore

[18:00]the mask uh in in all of his concerts and um yeah he was he was a sort of goofy uh free association

[18:07]kind of rapper you know long verses internal rhyme schemes and um he was a sort of goofy

[18:12]i listened to him a lot you know uh back in the day he's one of those people where they pass and

[18:16]you think like oh shit i haven't listened to doom for five years and then you put it on again and

[18:19]takes you right back to wherever you were when you first listened so um highly recommend getting

[18:24]into some doom if people are in that mood rob you had mentioned slipknot or one of you guys

[18:29]mentioned slipknot i believe the drummer from slipknot is the son of max weinberg who is the

[18:34]drummer for the east street band here i did not know that's crazy i did not know that one that's

[18:38]fun that's super they probably had a basement full of instruments like what aaron was saying it's just

[18:42]a basement full of instruments like what aaron was saying it's just a basement full of instruments

[18:42]a bunch of drum kits down there he's like i can go in it probably depends on the size of their

[18:47]house how big their basement actually there's a basement where you can fit all the instruments

[18:50]dumb shit of course the basements are different sizes jesus christ all right so the basement at

[18:58]the alamo where peewee's bike was by the way i saw it we're doing there was a there was a

[19:05]something on twitter where the the day that large marge died was like three days ago yeah and that

[19:12]part of that movie scared the hell out of me in fact to the point where i don't really want to

[19:16]show my kids peewee's great adventure even though it's like peewee's big adventure even though it is

[19:20]like a legitimately funny movie i think because that large marge scene was so scary to me as a

[19:25]child thoughts i'm with you i thought it was scary but i thought that movie was like the epitome of

[19:33]hilarity before like dumb and dumber and stuff came along i could not get enough of of him and

[19:40]talking hello francis you know all that stuff i thought and his show with on saturday mornings

[19:46]i don't know you know then all of a sudden he turns out he's hanging out in movie theaters

[19:51]and stuff which whatever but he's hilarious i thought the movie was scary yeah the movie

[19:57]who's watching the movie theater you thought was scary i don't think you understood i don't

[20:01]think you read the news article right that wasn't a scary movie he was watching

[20:04]it's just science right you know i think that's what he yelled when he got

[20:10]caught

[20:10]it's just science it's just science don't worry about it's just science rolling going man how's

[20:15]it going with you uh good good uh throwing me off a little bit with the birthday thing you know i'm

[20:21]uh i'm a millennial i don't know if you guys know this that the pew anymore pew research center

[20:27]has determined that anybody born january 1 1981 uh till like 1996 or something is

[20:34]technically a millennials is that why you're so much cooler than us man yep at least

[20:40]that's why i think i am you know that's why i walk around with that chip on my shoulder like i think

[20:44]i am i know a lot of i know a lot of millennials that wear double knit cleveland brown sweatshirts

[20:48]so i think you would fit right in there champion oh don't get him sorry i apologize i apologize i

[20:54]am wearing it uh i thought i had a washington r words team one this week and a guy pulled

[21:01]pulled back on me and i'm just pissed i've i probably bought 10 or 12 reverse weaves that's

[21:08]kind of my uh

[21:10]it's been my covid hobby is to search ebay to find a champion reverse weave sweatshirts

[21:15]i don't want to take us down a sweatshirt rabbit hole man but i need to understand

[21:19]what is reverse weave i need to know more about the technology i have no idea to be honest with

[21:24]you i have absolutely no idea all i know i mean it's got to be something with how thick it is and

[21:30]how the material i don't know i should look at it aficionado i need to know what it is you like

[21:35]all i know is that the reverse weave champions like from like the 80s and 90s they're just thick

[21:40]hardcore heavy duty sweatshirts and i just i like them i don't know i mean so they were like

[21:45]actually have a sweatshirt thing where they were made better at the time and like they don't make

[21:48]them like that anymore kind of thing well yeah i don't know probably i mean at least if if it if it

[21:54]is like true then yeah but if i mean if anything it makes me feel like they're that much better

[21:59]quality and all that stuff so i don't know but half of it is just finding like the old logos

[22:04]like nobody can see that you know but this cleveland it's a visual one i mean you can't

[22:09]find stuff like that anymore and i found like a kansas basketball one and i got a couple weeks

[22:15]ago i wore my gopher uh marching band one with goldie gopher marching out those marching band

[22:21]those marching band players they get out of control but the wisconsin marching band those

[22:26]guys are oh yeah they're out there i heard rosie got caught playing with his instrument

[22:30]he yelled it he yelled it's science right when he got caught no but i i don't know

[22:39]is it true that the sweatshirts remind you of an umbilical cord wrapped around your neck and

[22:42]that's why you like them so much yes that is true you heard that correctly rob that is true

[22:50]they remind me of a nice tight diaper yeah i thought about a half second about not making

[22:56]that joke just to go through just in case anybody was wanting to hear from me

[23:00]no we sidetracked you on your role and going where were you going once again we've yeah

[23:04]yeah you guys are like 18 for 18 on that so

[23:09]yeah so as the resident millennial on this uh podcast i just wanted again to say thanks to

[23:15]rob for putting that together whoever did sounds like maybe sarah some of those people had to get

[23:19]get a hold of you through sarah so thanks for doing that not russ or aaron they did not contribute

[23:24]i don't want it i don't want to take up too much more time on this but i gotta ask since

[23:28]rosie did bring up we are we are uh recording this on january 1st on on new year's day do you

[23:35]guys have you has anybody ever had a new year's resolution that's worked out for you

[23:39]ever i was going to have a positive uh dating life for like the last 17 years and each year

[23:48]it's been like a monumental failure so i'm not good i'm not good at keeping the resolutions

[23:53]actually i had one resolution i held pretty strong on this one probably five six seven

[23:59]years ago i did i'm gonna do no pop no no coke no nothing and i stood very strong for it and i

[24:05]made it about three years and then i finally gave in and kind of it's got it's got a lot of

[24:09]back in my life a little bit but not like it was before but i got rid of pop for multiple years and

[24:14]i stuck to it that sounds like hell rob anything ever worked for you uh no i don't really i don't

[24:23]know i don't i said like my goals i said are for like weightlifting so it's more like meet to meet

[24:29]but it's not i don't know i don't i don't ever start the new year with like oh this is a new goal

[24:33]i because i'm not teaching during this time and so i'm so lazy like my goal is to like

[24:37]maybe get out of bed

[24:39]you know during the day at some point like that's about it i know looking at me you think i'm a man

[24:44]who has a lot of goals and who's reached those goals but that's actually not true i'm a huge

[24:49]mess believe it or not aaron how about you i think there was maybe one i've done i mean i i'm not on

[24:57]rob's level in terms of fitness and and uh working out but i have set numeric goals for myself um

[25:03]some of which i've failed like oh i want to you know get back under 16 minutes on tunnel road

[25:07]which i didn't do but um

[25:09]i think the one that the one that actually stuck for me was i was like i'm gonna read a book every

[25:13]day like i'm gonna read you know even just one page from one whole book no god no i mean i'm

[25:19]going to like really yelling at your kids every day i am trying to read a book i set this goal

[25:25]and i misspoke when i read set the goal and now i have to do it it's like 4 30 on january 1st and

[25:31]aaron's losing his shit because he's not following through like green eggs and hammy can't get

[25:36]through the whole thing like there's this part there's this part of like the third

[25:39]the rising action of green eggs and ham where aaron just gets stomped he can't get through it

[25:44]he's like there goes my whole book i will not eat them with a mouse i will not eat them in a house

[25:48]i will not eat them here or there i will not eat them anywhere i'm never gonna get through all my

[25:52]books but and that one's gotten easier as as you know apps have gotten smaller like now i have a

[25:57]kindle and a ibook app on my phone so i can always be reading something but i still try to keep

[26:01]something paperback in the rotation but that's the only thing that ever really stuck for me how

[26:05]about you matt well i i i think is he the 16 or 17 year old man i think he's the 16 year old man

[26:09]17 i stopped the pop thing just like russell and i've probably had all like a can and a half total

[26:15]since and it's usually up in north dakota we're mixing uh captain diets or something and i'm just

[26:21]forced to do it because i'm already half in the bag but um i i distinctly remember it being like

[26:27]october of that year and i'm still just have strong cravings for a pop and then finally like

[26:32]in middle of october november i finally got over it but i mean that was i i don't know that's about

[26:39]ever ever stuck with me on a new year's resolution so do you drink like sparkling water like what do

[26:45]you drink i don't get it uh water and that's it that's about it yeah straight water i think that

[26:52]yeah russ is there a big surprise that the two most boring guys on the podcast just drink water

[26:56]like isn't that wild no offense guys well i drink water until 4 p.m and then it's whiskey and then

[27:01]wine and then whiskey and beer okay so that's why a lot of coffee yeah he's he's yeah he's like oh

[27:09]then whiskey at four by the way that's yeah that's a little on the early side some people

[27:15]would say but okay so that's why aaron's the coolest guy in the podcast sorry dad

[27:20]okay so again you don't have to call me that i've said that a number of times

[27:26]every time uh but so you don't drink you don't russell what do you like what do you drink now

[27:32]first do you drink sodas now i guys i cannot handle like i i'm a soda a day now maybe i

[27:36]should not drink sodas should i take up this goal this year

[27:39]well when do you drink soda do you do it as like a pre-workout or post-workout or is it like no i

[27:44]do it like well i do right now during the podcast because i'm trying not to fall asleep i love how

[27:48]aaron's about to shame you for like just doing it for your personal enjoyment like your sugar fix

[27:53]like i'm just saying like rob he's like do you use it before your workout after you work out

[27:56]like yeah he's just drinking it because it makes him feel good yeah i mean well that's great then

[28:00]do it because look at this also the duane reed downstairs they sell these cans look at these

[28:04]cans of diet coke this is not a normal size can this is a tall boy oh

[28:09]and i love it but maybe i should have a big head if you knew rob just held the can up next to his

[28:16]ear like i held up to my head like that's the thing everybody knows like my head is equal to

[28:20]one foot or something yeah maybe i should quit that and then i immediately think like i don't

[28:25]want to okay i'm gonna get back on that one i might do it guys just rob rob you could just

[28:30]make a new year's resolution to organize a funnier podcast and just keep making more jokes this time

[28:35]start it right now start it tonight right get aaron out of here

[28:39]in 2020 i think it's resolution i was able to write those six puns you heard at the beginning

[28:46]of this podcast no problem okay i only had to steal two of those online by typing in bruce

[28:50]springsteen jokes question mark not a lot of results by the way wait do you get better results

[28:56]if you add the question mark at the end well no i type out question mark i feel like the question

[29:01]mark is implied if you're already googling it i don't know i write no question mark this is not a

[29:07]question

[29:07]are there

[29:09]dinosaurs not a question just a statement okay i don't know where i'm going with this

[29:12]matt's most recent google search does my asphyxiation have anything to do with me

[29:17]filling out my diaper question mark totally different results when you put the question

[29:23]all right russ rolling going how's it going with you it's going great as you guys know

[29:30]as part of our kind of quest of listening to all these albums and

[29:34]doing this podcast i've told some people that hey we're i'm listening to these albums and

[29:39]as part of it sometimes i'll have a cocktail that's specifically designed for that specific

[29:44]album usually i just kind of go the rob route i try to take some pun or something but

[29:48]one of my my friends sent me a book and it's called booze and vinyl a spirited guide to great

[29:56]music and mixed drinks now so essentially your friend signed who sent that to you do you know

[30:00]who sent it to you yes okay then never mind who sent it to me never mind i was going to take

[30:04]credit maybe if you was a mystery okay i'll give you credit for it if you want it great no problem

[30:11]you're welcome russell essentially it's this book that includes 70 albums and they're in four

[30:16]separate chapters rock dance chill and seduce and so each of the albums has a side a drink and a

[30:24]side b drink where it's kind of like pairing some sort of cocktail or some sort of drink

[30:29]with the album that you're listening to and it's interesting that born to run by bruce springsteen is

[30:34]the book so i was going to tell you guys about that but before i told you about that one i had

[30:38]to unfortunately tell you matt there is no pearl jam in this book so you are not allowed to drink

[30:43]while you're having fun on this podcast can i ask can i ask one question oh go ahead go ahead

[30:48]should there really be a book about drinking and a category with seduce in it like is that

[30:55]appropriate is it like an appropriate is it an appropriate section have you looked at it just

[31:00]to make sure that oh oh man i've looked at that section i've read that section

[31:04]cover to cover about eight times in the last eight hours

[31:07]but no pearl jam listen i'm not gonna so there's no pearl jam rob i went to look for you they might

[31:14]be giants no they might be giants in the book so you are also not allowed to drink during during

[31:20]this podcast and aaron i have to say i was really bummed that there was also no slobber dog your

[31:27]favorite band was not included in the book i'm so surprised why wouldn't they be i would make a gray

[31:34]hound and then put like some whipped cream on top that's easy easy drink called the slobber dogs

[31:39]so none of you guys are allowed to drink tonight but for they did have bruce springsteen born to

[31:44]run i figured i'd just share you guys with this at the top of the podcast okay i think it's spring

[31:48]water all right and a stein and you put it in a stein so and some spruce needle in it and it's

[31:57]called spruce springsteen did you have to google that too rob okay

[32:03]you should have wrote this book it might have been more creative than what they actually have

[32:07]in the book that was way funnier than you guys gave me credit for but go on but the the drinks

[32:11]they suggested is they suggest a side a drink and a side b so for side a tonight i'm going to be

[32:17]doing a boiler maker which is a beer and a shot of bourbon so if anyone wants to join me for a

[32:22]boiler maker tonight on side a of this we're going to be doing a boiler maker i'm in for that i got

[32:26]my montucky cold snack um unfortunately i already drank my shot of bourbon but i'm i'm with you

[32:30]so i'm gonna have at it right now i have my old grand

[32:33]dad you guys we were talking about like the new year and kind of starting anew and i thought maybe

[32:38]i could get some dating advice from you guys as i go into 2021 and try to reverse the curse and

[32:44]make things a little different this year hey guess what 2020 goodbye but guess what stays

[32:49]the corner it's time for russell's advice corner oh yeah

[32:57]one of the originals the oc drops so one of the

[33:03]things with the online dating apps is you kind of have to decide you know what are my best pictures

[33:07]what are the pictures that i want people to to she's gonna see this and say i want to date that

[33:12]guy and i was kind of going through my pictures and thinking maybe i need to change it up a little

[33:16]bit pick some new pictures and i was wondering what you guys thought of this over the last year

[33:21]at some point i grew a quarantine beard and it was quite large it was you know big dirty just like

[33:26]this big gray beard it was like very santa claus looking nice and i think like it kind of made me

[33:31]look old but i also thought it looked pretty cool

[33:33]and so i was wondering what do you guys think about me leading with the beard picture

[33:39]on my dating profile just on the off chance that like five percent of the women in the world

[33:44]are into like the old dude with the beard so here's the thing i i think it's 100 worth the

[33:51]shot and and i've seen your quarantine beard it's much cleaner than you give it credit for

[33:55]yeah it was impressive but i will say this i learned from a friend of mine who has been a

[34:03]that men tend to like facial hair on other men more than women do so when this friend of mine

[34:09]grew a mustache i was like dude i love that mustache he was like yeah that's been my reaction

[34:13]from men my wife hates it so i don't know if you should take my advice on this but i say go for it

[34:20]on the quarantine beard well i would be concerned about this russell wouldn't wouldn't you be

[34:24]concerned that somebody was like into beards and then you showed up and you didn't have the beard

[34:29]and they were like yeah or you know had like the well well that's what i

[34:33]tell them about the podcast it's like a bait and switch i get them in there and then at least i get

[34:36]the download out of it right all about the pod i mean isn't that kind of setting it up for i mean i

[34:44]don't know if like if you were into blondes and you know i was like oh there's a blonde chick here

[34:49]then all of a sudden uh brunette showed up i mean it's not like shocking or anything but it's like

[34:53]not the person you thought russell would stand up and yell no and run out like i mean isn't that

[34:58]like a has that happened to you where if somebody showed up and like looked completely different

[35:03]than their picture you're like no way that's happened yeah her her beard her beard did not

[35:08]match the profile and i was pissed the carpet did match the drapes no that's that's not what that

[35:14]means man i'm gonna oh my birthday gift to you is after this podcast i'm gonna show you a couple

[35:20]things here um why not do both russell why don't have multiple pictures i think you got there i

[35:26]think you gotta spread that net you gotta spread that net as wise you can to catch as you say all

[35:32]you little fish and you gotta get as many as you can up there i mean that's you know that's how you

[35:37]eat that's the way it goes and i'm sorry i said that well well i think i might take your guys

[35:42]advice and do a little bit of a combo and go with the beard as the lead in but also show my

[35:47]clean like cleanly shaven face so there's not a shock when i show up with my beck did it better

[35:51]t-shirt and start pimping the podcast for an hour and a half at mcdonald's while we're eating fish

[35:56]fillets with cheese i just i just cannot imagine picking pictures out for a dating site that would

[36:02]absolute worst nightmare oh my god that's terrible that's it time's up get out of the corner that was

[36:09]russell's advice corner oh yeah so you guys might be wondering it's rolling going with rob for me

[36:16]what is more embarrassing than walking around my apartment wearing vr goggles well it turns out that

[36:20]i can live stream myself and it goes to facebook okay so then i was watching my own live stream of

[36:26]a video game i had played earlier that day and me talking over the game and then i was laughing i was

[36:32]laughing at that so i was listening to myself play video games i was laughing at that i feel

[36:38]worse about myself being on this podcast knowing that this is what rob does in his free time and

[36:42]then right that embarrassed me but then i realized that my wife had then taped me watching my own

[36:48]live stream and laughing at myself and then i had posted that to her instagram so it was probably

[36:53]the most humiliating thing of all time of me watching myself play video games laughing at me

[36:57]and then now i'm watching it on public you know on social media with everybody else watching too

[37:01]not good

[37:02]that's like 19 degrees of social media yeah that's a lot of layers that's crazy yeah

[37:10]listen my life is not perfect uh yeah i know looking at me and hearing me you think oh rob's

[37:16]life there's nothing wrong with it everything is just smooth no sometimes people watch me watch me

[37:20]playing video games i love how aaron just said is that you're rolling going when aaron has literally

[37:25]brought like 18 straight weeks of like oh i had lettuce and black eyed peas for lunch today

[37:32]that's that's i don't want to bring it down i'm gonna step in and say i think aaron is doing a

[37:41]great job aaron i'm gonna defend you for once aaron other than like the two weeks where you

[37:45]were living in the garage i mean let's get let's get let's get your shit straight here what the

[37:49]hell is isn't making fun of aaron it's like drugs you need it like you do a little bit of it and

[37:54]you're like okay well i'm done with that and then you're like wait just a little bit more to feel

[37:57]normal okay look out pretty soon you'll be making your own drops that's what happened to me

[38:02]i couldn't stop thinking of aaron though about when he was living in the garage with the rodents

[38:06]and the rats when i was listening to this ep or the the album because there's like five or six

[38:11]uh references to rats in in this bruce springsteen album and i kept thinking like

[38:17]aaron's rat traps are filled with soul crusaders and i just kept i kept thinking about aaron and

[38:21]his yeah what the hell man you can't rip anyone's rolling going you've been giving us recipes for

[38:26]the last four months this is fair this is fair i also wanted to say that that's very part gets

[38:32]me as this podcast has declared earlier we are not caring about what date it comes out although

[38:37]man's birthday is kind of has thrown that if we're a wild loop but today is january 1st and last night

[38:42]i was watching the new year's eve it turns out am i the only one who still watches the music acts on

[38:46]new year's eve i've always posted about to facebook i text my sister and last night she was like you're

[38:50]the only one who watches this i was like wait what i started at 8 p.m so i watched four and a half

[38:55]hours straight of music on new year's eve i had a great time i love it because it introduces me to

[39:00]bands where i've like i should know the music because i'm a middle school teacher so last night

[39:05]for example i did not actually know who machine gun kelly was i thought he was great he did a

[39:09]great job i've never seen 24 karat before i thought they were great and i've never actually i don't

[39:14]know if i've actually seen megan the stallion before perform boy there's just something about

[39:18]that performance i just i thought was wonderful okay and i'm gonna probably watch it again and

[39:22]again on youtube in a theater i don't even know who this is is this like an inappropriate thing

[39:27]that is rob she is one of the best rappers do it you i mean she's one of the best rappers in the

[39:30]she's one of the best rappers out there right now like legitimately can wrap her ass off

[39:34]but also is a nice looking lady rob were there any old school acts on or not uh i said we would know

[39:40]i did see in vogue oh oh never gonna get it yeah it was they were very good and one of them is

[39:48]extraordinarily tall which is always weird when you see an act where it's just like one very tall

[39:52]and then cindy lopper was on and she was terrible oh sad she's yeah it was hopper wow it was not good

[40:00]she would have been past her time if this was like the year 2000 millennial like how is she on

[40:06]right now it was it's well that's that's a that's a covid new year's eve for you they're like okay

[40:10]who can we get who could we get cindy lopper cindy lopper i think she might have a broadway show

[40:15]though maybe she's trying to promote that or something yeah i'm sure in the many broadway

[40:18]shows that are going right now all right come to my show it's not running at all oh he's still he's

[40:26]still just mad because you called him out for saying that he was what did he say that his

[40:30]his mother-in-law knows that he's the gift to all guys or something like that yes that's sweet

[40:34]he's still just mad for that he won't bring it up and we thought he said don't bring it up guys

[40:39]before the pod started but he's still mad that you called him out for being the gift of gift to

[40:44]guys and then you and then you called him out for bringing up a boring rolling going here like

[40:47]man i don't i don't understand when you cut him when you cut him rosie he hurts i've said it

[40:56]before and i'll say it again you cannot damage my self-confidence it is absolutely sky high

[40:59]right now there's nothing you can do so rob if you listen to what we thought of that intro song

[41:05]it would be damaged it would be damaged i did tell them i said guys don't laugh during this

[41:09]because the joke is that it's going to be silent they did not laugh and i don't think it was part

[41:13]of like them acting there's a lot of like confused looks i was like how what are they looking at the

[41:17]jokes are so simple and great let's so we are talking about bruce springsteen born to run

[41:22]this is an album that came out in 1976 and i think uh it is probably interesting to

[41:29]think about what bruce springsteen was doing before this this is his third album with uh

[41:33]columbia records and basically it was their last chance to make this guy work apparently when bruce

[41:38]had started with columbia columbia had come out and basically said this guy is the next bob dylan

[41:42]and and bruce springsteen absolutely hated that label but this was the one where they're like if

[41:47]you don't do it on this album you're done like he just knew like this this is going to be it

[41:50]and so he put the work into this album and in fact a song like born to run he worked on that for 12

[41:57]months wow i mean he

[41:59]or six months on that song 12 months on the entire album like this this this is the the album that

[42:06]made bruce bruce the bruce we know today and he it kind of set up an interesting thing that you see

[42:11]in a lot of albums from here on out which is they call it the four corner strategy where they start

[42:15]the side with the up song they end it with a down song uh the second side they're starting with an

[42:20]up song and they end it with a down song so we'll see that as we go through the it sounds like my

[42:24]dating strategy like it hit it with a high note and then end with a complete disaster at the end

[42:28]of it and

[42:29]i ask them out again and i think it's gonna go well and then they don't respond and it

[42:33]it ends on a down note it's a four corner strategy i run yeah it's kind of like the reverse aaron

[42:38]where oh aaron how are you doing and then he starts with the absolute lowest possible thing

[42:42]you can start with and then slowly crawls and brings it up as it goes every artist i've ever

[42:45]listened to died today so we'll go through that right now

[42:48]yeah who knew and his fixating baby was the highlight of our podcast

[42:54]all right

[42:56]what he's right here

[42:59]the diaper that doesn't fit yeah he just turned 40 congratulations he fills that diaper out though

[43:05]all right so let's start off on one of those high notes this is thunder road

[43:10]i mean this is like dylan like the piano is dylan-esque the poetry but you understand you

[43:21]understand why he absolutely hates the comparison right yes like his songwriting chops are there with

[43:29]dylan but he is completely different i mean he is like 100 miles an hour uh you know let's make this

[43:35]a three-hour concert you're gonna get everything i've got on stage and that's what he's there for

[43:39]is the live the live act and that's what everything he puts you can hear throughout this whole album

[43:45]that all these songs are made for live act and i i i don't blame him one bit for hating being

[43:52]compared to to dylan like that even though i think they're uh you know their writing skills are on

[43:57]par with each other right it's

[43:58]wild to me too like in my mind they're completely different generations and they're not that far

[44:04]apart i mean what uh like rolling stone or highway 61 is from 67 all right no earlier than that 65

[44:11]maybe and then this is 10 years later he's come out and said that dylan was a big influence on

[44:15]him but i think just that i mean how would you like to be labeled first of all i would love to

[44:19]be labeled the next dylan i don't think it's gonna happen but you can see where when you want to come

[44:23]on music to get compared to somebody it'd be almost impossible by the way russ uh sent me a message in

[44:28]the chat and he said i noticed you didn't make a pun with that song okay well it is what if what if a

[44:33]kid asked you where the sewers were and you'd have to say thunder road thunder under thunder road okay

[44:40]that's getting edited out would you guys stop staring at me like that when i do a bad joke please

[44:43]i need just any kind of feedback when aaron doesn't laugh i know it's really bad all right

[44:47]next up we've got uh 10th avenue freeze out this is a song about the formation of the band

[44:58]bruce has come out and said i have no idea what the title of this song means but it's important

[45:02]but he is singing about when the big band when clarence joins the band like this is part of

[45:08]it right that's kind of like yeah mythological story about how the the east street band forms

[45:12]right and they're a super tight band man well that was one of the big changes for this group

[45:19]is they got a new for this album they got a new piano player and drummer and apparently the who

[45:23]they got it were much more kind of rock steady and less flourishy and it kind of helped this song in

[45:28]this album overall i think in general this album is uh i i know i didn't know this album as well as

[45:37]i knew greetings from ezra park and the wild venus and the east street shuffle but in general this

[45:43]album and rob you're you're really into the mix i think this album is just mixed way better than

[45:49]the other albums so you can really hear everything in a lot of different way and

[45:52]he's doing all this poetry that gets lost a lot even on this album like he's he's right you know i

[45:58]i like you guys had to go to genius to check on these lyrics because there's stuff that you miss

[46:03]and sometimes because his voice is buried in the mix and to me that happens a lot more on

[46:07]the other albums and this one it really comes through i was really impressed i i gotta say i

[46:14]this album for me was one of the hardest ones for me to listen to i don't know what it is about bruce

[46:19]springsteen i would almost rather listen to that kid a album again i had to put this let's get this

[46:26]get the out of here

[46:28]there's no way and what are you talking about i'm not gonna say it again i just i had trouble

[46:32]listening this is rob trying to be too cool this is rob trying to be too cool for school here this

[46:38]is and i gotta say bruce springsteen fans drive me absolutely crazy because like when you go on

[46:42]wikipedia for example half the wikipedia entries about when he has played each one of these songs

[46:46]live oh yeah and i and listen yeah i'm gonna be like russ last week russ did a great job

[46:50]it's not my thing i think it's great that this is other people's thing and

[46:54]i love that they keep such great track of it i don't understand

[46:57]why anybody cares how many times he's played 10th avenue freeze out live

[47:01]i also don't know why that bothers me so much that people care about that

[47:04]it does i have a small brain i'm gonna let it go i'm gonna be take matt's advice and i'm just gonna

[47:10]make try to make this world a better place but that's like a you know groups that are known for

[47:15]their live acts i mean that's their thing you know you've got the the dead heads and i mean even like

[47:20]pearl jam's got this and i'm not gonna bring a pro jam there's a whole bunch of other live bands

[47:27]all these jam bands that you know it's like well how many times they played that song when did they

[47:32]play it i was there for this version and the 2002 version is way better than the 2006 version and

[47:38]you know all this stuff it's like it's you got this community and it's all about seeing the

[47:42]group live because that's what they're known for and it's just it's just the subculture of

[47:47]the springsteen heads i don't even know if they've got a name but i mean i

[47:51]there's so many people that are one generation ahead of us matt who called ahead of you

[47:57]two ahead of you because you're yeah two ahead of me for sure you know but that one of the guys that

[48:02]called in uh matt from northfield will call him you know huge bruce springsteen fan you know and just

[48:09]lives and dies with bruce springsteen he's uh you know 13 14 years older i mean but it's it's like

[48:14]it just the 80s took over uh bruce springsteen took over because he's so popular with it and

[48:22]his live shows are so good and you go to him and you're just instantly hooked that's what i've heard

[48:27]i've never seen him live i can't my brother jim from hermit town called it he's seen him light a

[48:31]couple times and so it's just if you just want to you just want to talk about it and you want to say

[48:36]that you've been and so i i mean i get it i understand why you're uh you know what your

[48:41]angst is with it rob but it's just the subculture of it and i i think the springsteen people are

[48:47]better than some of the dead heads and some of the other groups because they're not they don't care

[48:51]you know they're not trying to one up you like well i was at this one you know it's just like a

[48:56]it's more of a

[48:57]a community thing as opposed to a one-upsmanship some of these bands are i don't like them because

[49:02]they're booked to one-uppers but um you know like well you didn't know them and i wasn't you

[49:06]i don't like when they do concerts in michigan and they call themselves the one oopers oh

[49:11]i saw that coming and i was smiling the whole way i love just stand on the tracks rob nice job

[49:18]the big train's coming yeah butthead all right next up we have night

[49:27]night now i think this song does a good job of illustrating what he was going for with this

[49:32]whole record and aaron was talking about the mix which you can't hear because i'm talking over it

[49:35]but this was his wall of sound idea he was really trying to take that phil specter idea

[49:41]of the wall of sound which i finally looked up what that means and that's basically where they

[49:46]all record in the same room so the songs from the other instruments kind of blend into the microphone

[49:51]of the other instruments so you're just getting this whole full song right now but recording this

[49:55]album sounded crazy

[49:56]i mean what did they say they had 72 true or they had like track after track and he spent

[50:03]months on these songs trying to perfect this sound he's like he's like a true perfectionist

[50:07]which i didn't realize one thing that i really liked on this song did you guys notice i think

[50:10]we mentioned this aaron might have mentioned this on kid a did you guys notice the glockenspiel on

[50:14]this song yes i do you know i did so so i i heard the glockenspiel i thought about aaron talking

[50:20]and so i started thinking like hey what are these the great glockenspiel songs but the one glockenspiel

[50:26]song that really jumped out to me that we had talked about before is one of matt's favorites

[50:31]and that's sloop john b by the beach boys also featured the glockenspiel but another artist that

[50:37]has featured the glockenspiel on songs is our guy back so rob if you want to pull up the song

[50:42]uneventful days by back and he's playing the glockenspiel and it's very subtle so you got

[50:47]to listen to it a little bit here

[50:48]can you kind of hear it

[50:56]yes it's subtle what is a glockenspiel i don't know what a glockenspiel what am i listening for

[51:02]matt let me show you my glockenspiel real quick it's the kind of like

[51:06]do you hear that rob i can't see it i i think get closer get closer to the camera i can't see it i

[51:14]think it's one of those ballad instruments like bad if you actually went to one of your kids

[51:17]musical performances like their concerts and you didn't complain about going it's like where they

[51:21]play the little xylophone thing i think it's like a little xylophone gotcha but the interesting thing

[51:26]now now now did bruce springsteen play the glockenspiel on this album hell no he didn't

[51:32]play the glockenspiel on it but you know who did play the glockenspiel on his album

[51:36]beck played the glockenspiel on that song so i gotta ask you guys who plays the glockenspiel

[51:42]better i mean a question did it better guys this this is this is where i go for all my glockenspiel

[51:49]news god you're so brilliant such a funny word speaking of glockenspiel news i forgot to mention

[51:56]that i'm a big fan of glockenspiel and i love the international charts this song uneventful days by

[51:59]beck made it to number 33 on the belgium charts so i thought you would appreciate that wow that's

[52:05]good top 50 and it also made it to number one of the adult alternative songs but i don't know what

[52:11]the adult alternative songs mean on the on the belgium the top five word glockenspiel hits by

[52:17]the glockenspiel brothers oh i should have thought of a better name than the glockenspiel brothers

[52:22]do you think we could ever make it onto the adult alternative songs list

[52:26]list or not like are we adults enough for that list or not i think any of rob's covers go we'll

[52:31]just go to our basement and make a we don't have instruments you can't fit enough instruments down

[52:36]there it's true i have to play my glockenspiel in the basement hey when your instrument overfills

[52:43]your diaper it's not going to fit many places you know all right next up we've got uh back streets

[52:51]oh man

[52:56]you know what i have always liked this song i was wrong about bruce springsteen i do love this

[52:59]by the way i gotta talk to you

[53:01]i gotta talk to you about that guy in the background

[53:06]that's bill withers everybody knows a lot of the verses in that song until you get to the

[53:13]female verse and everybody's like i don't know what she's saying nobody ever knows what's going

[53:17]on is that little kim that little that video had little penny in it do you remember little penny

[53:23]little i remember a little it was chris

[53:25]rock right that's chris rock's voice with anthony hardaway that is the that is the most insane hip

[53:31]hop music video to incorporate like a wasn't it it was an ad right like it's just like yeah you

[53:36]just put an ad into your music video that's wild honestly it's probably it's probably foxy brown on

[53:41]that verse but i might be wrong i'm gonna be wrong i'm gonna say i'm gonna declare come back

[53:45]five minutes later i'm declaring it right now i had a bump in my list number one god only knows

[53:51]number two hot for teacher number three is black street okay no diggity great

[53:55]it's on spins the word curves the verb i love it all right queen pen somebody called queen pen i

[54:03]don't know queen pen at all we got nobody remembers the verse all right we got back streets

[54:07]this is the one where the lyrics are like the man has so many stories in his head and then

[54:15]when he goes into the throaty you know singing like that's that's what gets people hooked on

[54:21]the boss what do you think of the boss when he sings there like he's this is another

[54:25]ubu this is another unique but useful singer i love it oh this sounds i love that by the way

[54:31]right yeah i love it he has i mean he has songs where he struggles but he doesn't care he does

[54:35]it anyway i remember what i really remember vividly about the boss singing is when prince

[54:40]passed away and he covered purple rain live and he couldn't do it but he didn't give a shit and

[54:45]it's just like the feeling is there i love it and then there are times where he really nails it so i

[54:49]love his voice that song is about him promising a childhood friend like that they're gonna stay

[54:55]kind of how they deal with that it reminds me so much now of me seeing my kids go through stressful

[54:59]social situations and i just want to say to them none of this matters you are not going to talk to

[55:05]anybody you are going to school with now for the rest of your life like once you're past 20

[55:09]none of this matters but you can't say that to them because this is like their whole life right

[55:13]now you're never going to be on a podcast with the first person you met your freshman year of college

[55:18]yeah 21 years 23 years later to do it you're not going to be there on a podcast rob you might are

[55:25]you you might ought to be more worried about whether your daughters are gonna even talk to

[55:27]you when you keep kicking them out of their room so you can record a podcast i'm telling you right

[55:32]now the other one's having a sleepover and i can hear her banging around in the other room and i

[55:35]swear to god if it affects the quality of this podcast i'm gonna be so grounded for life it's

[55:44]gonna be bad i mean can you imagine being a kid don't have an apart a sleepover in an apartment

[55:49]in like a two-bedroom apartment i can't imagine being a kid looked like you and he was he had a

[55:55]microphone set up in the one daughter's room and was yelling at them to keep it down while he was

[55:59]doing a pot yeah that would be weird no i was gonna say it seems like heaven okay so i guess

[56:04]we're disagreeing i might i might rather go the matt style and be prematurely exfiscated or whatever

[56:08]you have oh god russell you can't stay away from that topic it seems so russell it's sick sick that

[56:16]you keep bringing that up so now we are going to side two we are back to a high song this is

[56:22]side two means we're doing a different drink actually

[56:24]oh what are we doing again let's hear it so side two they switched it in the book so side two is

[56:29]called a new jersey cocktail two ounces of apple jack two dashes of cherry flavored bitters and

[56:36]granulated sugar cheers fellas that sounds good are you doing uh russell are you doing laird's 86

[56:43]or are you doing which guy's apple job um i got the closest thing i could find i got the the crown

[56:49]royal apple i know that's a little different but that's what i'm going i really enjoy apple jack

[56:54]makes a bonded one that i really like but it's hard to find apple jack is the oldest american oh

[56:58]my god he's still going spirit yeah i was like well this is the end this is where i hop in and

[57:04]make fun of it don't hop in just let him keep going man he needs to get enough umbilical cord

[57:10]to hang himself with oh god now man what would you say the chances that joan is going to listen

[57:17]to this podcast oh i don't know somebody has to probably tell her how to listen to it so

[57:24]that kind of yeah probably 50 50 oh no okay well i'm so sorry you know obviously people have brought

[57:31]up have told her that she was on the podcast talking about being a laundry obviously no that

[57:36]would not occur to me they would tell her that we were talking about her doing the laundry

[57:39]i want to be very clear we're making fun of matt in that situation not joan thank you

[57:44]right correct so we are back on and aaron joan's listening so don't laugh when i say this is the

[57:49]titular track on this album

[57:51]okay

[57:54]uh so this is i feel like you bring it i feel like you bring that up like at random times

[58:00]just just when it's like a lull like is there an actually a word a titular yeah it's the title of

[58:06]the album i think he brings it up with the titular track yeah hey check this out i'm going to show

[58:10]you my titular okay so biblical cord away when he says that this is dirty my titular track is

[58:16]right below my glockenspiel it's between my glockenspiel and my belly button all right so

[58:22]what

[58:24]way up there rob just keeps banging that mallet down there this is the 21st song on rolling stones

[58:32]best 500 songs of all time i learned today that this is not max weinberg on drums no it's the guy

[58:39]who they kicked out of the band after service i'm not sure and this took him six months of working

[58:45]on this song when they recorded it it was 72 total tracks okay including 11 different guitar tracks on

[58:52]this song so like you hear about these guys working with bruce and i have this image in my head of like

[58:58]bruce is being kind of this freewheeling guy of like oh this is uh you know we're riding motorcycles

[59:03]and strap onto my engines but now you realize when you listen to the lyrics too he's like

[59:07]pretty stressed out it sounds like right like he's kind of am i wrong he's a perfectionist

[59:13]through he definitely what's that i know go ahead i asked like four questions in that sentence that

[59:18]was terrible hosting first of all man the song is a crazy

[59:22]perfectionist thing second of all he seems kind of angsty to me answer both those questions in a

[59:27]funny way please well two things i think however they crafted this song there's some just phenomenal

[59:35]like little tiny parts that aren't in a lot of songs right when when he's leading up to the part

[59:40]before he says baby you're born to one run and they're kind of playing that everybody's it's

[59:44]going higher higher higher and they kind of take a little pause and then it drags into the whoa

[59:48]and i i can't get enough of that when that you know some of those pauses that they do

[59:52]and then that's like the song dies and starts up again you know some of that stuff like think of

[59:58]being there live for that and it just it would be phenomenal if i gotta go see him now after hearing

[60:03]after hearing this because i think it would be phenomenal but i think that he if you read his

[60:08]bio and i haven't read too much of it but i saw netflix had his um his stage play that he had on

[60:16]broadway that was so popular it's so good yeah you know the guy wanted to be a professional his whole

[60:22]life he just wanted to be a musician you saw elvis and i think give me a guitar yeah and so he was

[60:27]like 12 or 11 or whatever it was and so i think when you've got that and you're so driven and

[60:32]somebody's telling you like look this is three strikes you're out kind of a thing like you're

[60:36]gonna put everything you've got into it and you're gonna make it your own and i think he absolutely

[60:40]did it on this and so a perfectionist or just a you know what i would call a professional somebody

[60:46]just getting it right oh um you know like a slam on me somehow i think we all interpreted that as

[60:52]ourselves and we're like well i don't know every time matt slams us for not being professional we

[60:56]drink bottoms up boys no so i you know i just think it's like anything you know you've got

[61:05]these quarterbacks who go out right and they don't they lose the they lose their final game

[61:10]on january 2nd and on january 4th they're already out there throwing uh to receivers again saying

[61:15]let's get ready for the next season i think it there's so many different things that play through

[61:18]in life where people are just driven by whatever their passion

[61:22]is and no matter what's going on uh you know you're gonna do it to the nth degree and that's

[61:27]what he does with all of these songs that was matt's smart comment of the week that's smart

[61:32]shit this this song and i know we've already spent a lot of time on it but it is as rob likes

[61:38]to say the titular track and i can't necessarily expand on anything matt said because it was

[61:44]smarter than what i have to say but i felt in my in my bones this week as i was driving like i was

[61:51]driving around town listening to this song and um i don't want to like get into territory that

[61:58]that's controversial but uh people listening to this podcast may not know that we are for

[62:03]caucasian males uh who are now all over 40 uh and oh yeah well us white dudes don't have a lot of

[62:11]culture that's uh that's that's our own and um most of what we would consider our own if you

[62:17]look back far enough has been stolen yeah from someone and for sure this song was stolen from

[62:21]early r&b with the sax sound and um a lot of a lot of the rest of it but if you are driving in

[62:27]your car and you are a 40 something white man and you are singing along at the top of your lungs to

[62:33]born to run you you that's that's your culture you are like this was the first album that i felt

[62:39]like this is me this is uh you know this is not me peeking into someone else's life or uh

[62:46]borrowing someone else's feelings and and bruce was borrowing them for me i think but but this

[62:51]feels like oh yeah this this one you know i'm communing with my elders when i'm singing along

[62:56]at born to run at the top of my voice so that this one spoke to me this week is it borrowing

[63:02]or is it just playing on what you've heard yeah right right isn't everything isn't everything

[63:07]borrowed i mean yeah yeah there's nothing new under the sun you know yeah that kind of a thing

[63:12]so i i just sometimes stuff is legitimately stolen and taken as though i created this um you know and

[63:21]that's maybe what does stick with a lot of people with bruce is that he is a white guy who's playing

[63:26]some pretty i don't know if it's different rock and roll but you throw like the saxophone in there

[63:31]with you know with everything else that's going on it's not the 70s rock it's it's kind of a an

[63:37]upbeat fun bar sound more than anything i think the coolest part of this song to me is it's the

[63:42]clarence clemons it's the saxophone solo right agree oh absolutely let's hear it i love the

[63:51]clarence clemons because he's so big and that saxophone is so small it gave me hope in life

[63:55]not everyone fills up their diaper right away right that's right

[64:01]maybe that's my key maybe i should be holding small things more often so i look bigger wait

[64:08]is that what i want bigger so when i was listening to this song i started thinking what are the

[64:14]greatest saxophone solos of all time in modern music it's like shaving your pubes so your dick

[64:19]looks bigger

[64:21]sorry i gotta i gotta go take care of some business right now

[64:24]okay don't reference that i'm editing that out sorry russell i interrupted you all right and

[64:30]we're back i'm gonna give you guys the list of the most iconic saxophone moments in modern music

[64:36]history this is where you play the anything by kenny g oh my god is yakety sax on here

[64:41]yep that's number one and two one through five

[64:51]okay so when i came up with this list i said first no jazz albums so there's no jazz

[65:06]jazz forward albums these are real songs i don't need a real song these are real songs that people

[65:13]want to hear about it's not these like saxophone colossus straight like saxophone for two hours or

[65:18]whatever also um

[65:21]i've got a lot of honorable mentions before i get into this pink floyd money

[65:24]foreign or urgent men at work who can it be now that's off the list it did not be on the list so

[65:31]i just wanted to call those out also if you include any sort of derivative of the word

[65:36]saxophone in the title of the song you are out oh that was enough for you to get tossed huh so

[65:41]mr saxo beat by alexander stan is out so recent song out so here are the top five saxophone iconic

[65:49]moments in music history

[65:51]the first is jerry rafferty maker street let's see if you know this one oh yeah of course i hate this

[65:59]song i don't know this was by jerry rafferty that's a good pole wrestler so this was in 1978

[66:04]a few years after born to run and uh this was done by this guy named rafael ravenscroft and he

[66:10]was a session musician he essentially said hey we should put this in the middle of the song and

[66:15]they did it and it became this iconic saxophone moment and this also led to something called the

[66:20]baker street phenomenon which led to a resurgence in the sales of saxophones and their use in

[66:27]mainstream pop music so i thought that was really cool oh i like that i can't wait till our podcast

[66:31]increased glockenspiel sales everywhere it's like we can't keep enough glockenspiels and

[66:36]bureaus in stock everybody keeps buying them the next one on the list is george michael

[66:43]careless whisper let's see if you guys remember this one yes i remember

[66:46]that is saxophone right josh

[66:50]reddick when he was with the oakland a's used this as his walk-up music which was really one of my

[66:54]favorite favorite major league baseball moments that's pretty good it was so good one thing i

[67:00]thought you guys would like is george michael had 11 different saxophone players play this before

[67:06]he found the right one i thought that was crazy so we just we hear about these these artists that

[67:10]are so particular about it 11 people play it before he found the right one george michael

[67:14]is another guy who's got caught doing some stuff for science

[67:20]no well aaron god damn it hey i can't make fun of a guy for having a tryst in a public bathroom

[67:27]and you say r.i.p we cannot do that you said tryst you can bleep it out and then aaron like

[67:33]motioned towards his face with a tear it was so inappropriate

[67:36]that guy loves getting blown in public bathrooms

[67:41]number three on the list is the outro to rick james super freak you guys will recognize this

[67:47]one

[67:47]and she will never let us go

[67:50]oh yeah this is great that's saxophone right rick james made nothing but jams all day i was

[68:06]like a third chair saxophone player when i was a kid and i remember the teacher once told me i

[68:11]should challenge the number two chair but i sat next to this really cute girl i was like i don't

[68:16]want to chat i don't want to get bumped up to number two chair so i stayed as a

[68:20]third chair because i was like i'm happy sitting next to chair four but what if that music teacher

[68:24]would have yelled to you blow daddy i feel like that would encourage you to do better like i think

[68:28]if people yelled blow daddy to me more often i'd be set like anything i'm about to do just blow

[68:34]daddy be like hey i'm making these balloons for anybody wants to yell blow daddy at rob call into

[68:39]the background blow daddy call into rob what's that number again rob that number to say blow

[68:47]daddy to me is 802-277-BECK i think we had about 14 15 people calling for my birthday let's see if

[68:54]we can beat that for next week 16 people telling rob to blow daddy well no it's not blow daddy it's

[69:02]blow daddy blow daddy blow daddy no don't say it like that i do that like that blue daddy all right

[69:11]next up on the list is bob seger old time rock and roll it's also famous obviously for tom cruise and

[69:17]everything but check out the saxophone here well r.i.p rosie wait is he passed too

[69:23]alto reed just passed a couple days ago he did actually matt alto reed just it was two days ago

[69:31]from when we recorded this because rob makes sure we tell people what exact date we're six feet

[69:36]below daddy but this guy also played this also played uh on bob seger's turn the page he played

[69:46]and rob's guys dan ackroyd and james belushi played with the blues brothers not my guys i

[69:52]first of all i had george thorogood albums i never one interesting fact about this song other than

[69:57]like the whole tom cruise thing did you guys know this is the number two most popular jukebox song

[70:03]of all time what yeah it's the second most played jukebox song ever we each get one guess at the

[70:10]number one jukebox song i'll give you guys each one guess aaron gets to go first my guess is

[70:14]aaron will guess someone we've never heard of that has nothing to do with that's ever been

[70:17]played on a jukebox but we'll let aaron go okay let's go i'm gonna go unchained melody by the

[70:21]right oh a good guess but that's incorrect i'm gonna go i'm gonna go with uh in the jungle by

[70:32]the tokens wait can't you hear it you can hear it rob's playing it behind us

[70:39]matt's stealing aaron's bit rob what's your guess you know what all right all right all right all right

[70:43]you know what r.i.p tokens um my guess would be uh i'm gonna say jukebox hero by foreign also a great

[70:52]guess you guys are only correct the correct answer was actually ross perot's campaign song

[70:57]it's crazy by patsy klein was the number one jukebox played song of all time oh can you

[71:03]imagine how depressing some of those moments would be like late night at a half mp bar

[71:08]crazy comes on you're like i gotta go l and m down there at the l like a whole stack of lone

[71:13]stars in front of you you gotta get out of there i've got a full beard my date didn't show up for

[71:18]the night that's like patsy klein is just playing over and over that's you look over at somebody and

[71:22]say below daddy does that work i feel like this is getting off track all right i'm gonna get to

[71:29]the number one saxophone moment in modern music history and it's the best because the song title

[71:34]is also the best this is tina turner oh we often know this is simply the best

[71:40]oh baby

[71:42]here we go

[71:46]so good right anything like 1984 more than like an awesome saxophone solo like this

[71:58]there were so many 1981 songs i can't even tell you guys there were dozens of amazing 1981 so i

[72:04]i think that when i was telling you guys that jerry rafferty that baker street

[72:08]really led to all these musicians using the saxophone like throughout the 80s

[72:12]and but there were a couple good ones there i enjoyed them but you're right it's a similar

[72:16]sound all of them have like a very yeah like you you could you could probably argue that

[72:19]that rafferty song inspired all of them boy saxophone solo so many jokes for us to make

[72:25]but moving on uh listen daddy but let's just give a hats off to russell nailing another list that

[72:32]was fantastic that was great this song she's the one is number 63 diddly rhythm on rolling stones

[72:39]100 greatest bruce springsteen's song

[72:42]so i'm going to say that again because i don't think aaron heard me it's the hundred greatest

[72:47]all right she's the one that references soft french cream go ahead rob i'm listening

[72:54]this is 63 on rolling stones top 100 greatest bruce springsteen songs i don't like when aaron

[73:01]talks over rob's wikipedia facts yeah i don't like aaron bossing me around like this i don't know

[73:05]but this that just shows why this album i think is so high up in this list

[73:10]rolling stone

[73:12]i think it's so high up in this list i think it's so high up in this list i think it's so high up in this list

[73:12]i think it's so high up in this list i think it's so high up in this list i think it's so high up in this list

[73:12]aaron loves bruce springsteen they think he's the greatest thing of all time

[73:15]the fact that they have a list of the 100 greatest bruce springsteen songs

[73:20]might give you again their their readership and the people that are running that magazine

[73:25]it's uh the venn diagram is a circle for sure between them i enjoyed this album but don't you

[73:30]guys i think that's the weak point of the album i feel like that song was like building to something

[73:34]building to something and then it never happens what did you guys think it's my favorite song on

[73:40]the album

[73:42]it's the first time i said it's my favorite song on the album i mean that's fair it's the first time

[73:48]russell and i totally diverge i like this it's giving me a strange tingly feeling in my glockenspiel

[73:54]i really like it like there are other i think there are songs that are better probably but i

[73:58]love this one because i'm just a sucker for that rhythm and i also like that he's sort of looking

[74:02]forward like i i think this kind of like tinkly piano intro is a lot like other don't say rock

[74:09]that was going on around the time here don't make that

[74:12]the bow diddly rhythm is like such classic you know thing i think it's cool he's like we heard

[74:17]it for the first five minutes of the song while you're clapping over it i think to be fair i think

[74:21]the three of us only know bow diddly from the from the advertisement with bow jackson back in the day

[74:27]where it's hey bow right you don't know diddly like i don't know anything of bow diddly's music

[74:31]do you guys matter rob uh i mean just from a little bit of some uh rolling stone stuff i mean

[74:38]they were hugely influenced by bow diddly's work

[74:41]some of that so yeah i i mean i've heard some of it but again most of it's because of uh

[74:47]people sampling it and coming in and making it their own russell at what point did you realize

[74:52]that you and i are the dumb shits on this podcast like did that has that happened just recently

[74:57]because i think it just clicked in for me that i'm the only one here who doesn't know what's going on

[75:00]that's a pretty terrible way to start my new year but i'll get through it i'll get through it

[75:04]this is january one i realize i'm i realize i'm the dumb ass on the podcast well i'm going down

[75:11]i'll just keep swiping with my beard picture over here and i'll be all right i'll be all right

[75:16]no i i think i think it's like uh russell i think for you to say it's a low point on the album is a

[75:22]completely defensible position for me i just i really like this song but it might suck i don't

[75:26]know so that's i mean for me it's this song and the point in backstreet's where he goes nuts like

[75:32]that's what i love we have meeting meeting across the river this song sounds like it's from westside

[75:39]story or something yeah this is the

[75:41]craziest song we've listened to so far

[75:43]they say that this song is a springsteen this is the one where he's talking about like hey

[75:49]they're gonna rob someone yeah this is a lyrical disaster right well and so what they say he's

[75:56]talking about how he wants to go and do he needs a ride over to do this crime and then he's going

[76:00]to come back with a pile of money and throw it on the bed and show the woman that he's with like hey

[76:04]i did this it's not just talk what's the dumbest thing you guys have ever done to impress a woman

[76:09]and i'll go

[76:11]first okay because i i want you i want you to think about it but i will tell you right now i

[76:16]was dating a girl in high school okay so i'm going to wait for everybody to be pretty impressed by

[76:20]that and then uh and that kind of leads shows you the mindset i had at the time which is where she

[76:25]said you should start wearing sweater vests now if you look at me okay probably the last part of

[76:32]my body i should be trying to emphasize is the middle okay let's just put it this way i have

[76:37]done very well in quarantine wearing a mask around to most places so instead

[76:41]i wore a sweater vest but not just anywhere it was my high school was playing in the sectional

[76:45]championship the sectional championship games now the fact that this happened to me when i was about

[76:51]13 and i can still remember it very very vividly actually i'm going to say 16 because i realized i

[76:56]probably drove there if it was high school i am wearing a sweater vest and i walk into a arena

[77:01]of everyone in my high school watching the basketball game and every single person turned

[77:05]and laughed at me because i was wearing a sweater that my girlfriend had bought for me

[77:09]and i was worried to try to impress her

[77:11]all-time disaster no shirt underneath because you're going to experience some chapped nipples

[77:15]if that happens no that would have rocked i was wearing an eddie bauer button-up plaid shirt i'm

[77:20]sure it was like not wash you know it's like right off the cardboard like you can still see the

[77:25]creases in it yes and i was like if this will get this girl to kiss me five more times before this

[77:31]is by the way the same girl that i drove away fast after we broke up i'm gonna drive away really was

[77:40]and then you got home and you get your whole your whole upper torso was chafed from your

[77:44]sweater vest it was like i drove fast driving away fast yeah i'm worried i got i almost got

[77:50]pulled over i'm chafing right now what a disaster of a night guys if i find a picture of me in one

[77:55]of these sweater vests i'll send it to you because i'm sure my parents took a picture of me like oh

[77:59]look at this guy what a joke like when my kids start doing dumb stuff like that i gotta take

[78:02]a picture i gotta be there i gotta hop can i tell you guys the worst worst fashion decision

[78:06]i ever made in high school like do you guys remember when like colored jeans became a thing

[78:10]like

[78:10]people would have no green jeans or red or white like different color like very distinct color

[78:16]jeans that were not blue not navy or black and i got white jeans yes and then i also got like a

[78:23]white denim shirt like so i wore like the all white thing i remember like getting up and you

[78:28]were in boys to color me bad i was like i'm gonna look so badass and i walked upstairs and my mom

[78:33]looked at me and just started dying laughing you look like a fucking painter go change your clothes

[78:40]i'm just gonna kill it like i'm a man right now and and and i didn't even make it out the door

[78:49]before my mom ripped me and i had to go change my yeah i gotta say walking upstairs having your mom

[78:54]laughing it was not a great confidence builder to your day oh my god i'm sure the white denim

[79:00]shirt would look great with regular jeans but what's the most embarrassing thing you've done

[79:04]for a woman aaron you didn't want to say it so now you say you sick freak most embarrassing or oh no

[79:10]what's the most what's the yeah what's the i don't know whatever the dumbest most embarrassing

[79:14]just tell a story that we can make fun of it'll be easy it'll be easy just tell a story turntable

[79:19]purchase so like i you know i got together with my lady and she owned some some vine she owned

[79:24]some opera records on vinyl and i did not have a turntable so i think i had you know 200 to my name

[79:32]at the time and i went and spent you know 450 on a turntable and some speakers and i was like hey

[79:40]bought this stuff you come over now we can play that phantom of the opera but come on over now i

[79:44]hope you don't mind paying for you know sandwiches because that's all that was it like my great

[79:50]for the next three weeks on the turntable so that's probably it for me yeah i do like that

[79:55]russell's pull for opera music was phantom of the opera

[79:58]all right now we are all the way up to the eighth song and final song jungle land eight tracks

[80:08]perfect four and four

[80:10]i know this album is everything i should like it i should it's a very piano driven album right

[80:17]i do kind of like it well this whole album was written on the piano

[80:20]springsteen wrote all these on the piano this was the song that he it was a center piece of

[80:28]this whole album they were building around the whole time this was 19 months of rehearsing

[80:31]uh for this album i think this is a fantastic ending of an album like there's a point with

[80:38]six minutes in

[80:39]where you think it's kind of over and then it builds back up you're like i kind of just wanted

[80:44]it to end but it keeps going and you're like no they they hit it right on the nose yeah the song's

[80:50]all about these guys talking about like so many bruce springsteen songs of you know uh new jersey

[80:54]kids thinking about escaping their town and going after the great world i had zero of those

[81:00]inclinations growing up i never wanted to leave i'd be happy i think living in like my parents

[81:04]house in the basement i'd be just thrilled i wanted to stay in my hometown forever and ever

[81:08]but you can probably fit a little bit into that but i think it's a great song and i think it's a

[81:09]a lot of instruments in there you had a nice a nice upbringing around that was so good erin that

[81:14]was such a good callback i gotta give you credit for that nice work and the answer is yes actually

[81:18]i do have a lot of my old equipment still in my parents basement i think there's a bass guitar

[81:21]down there there's a trombone there's a drum set i never learned how to play all that stuff is still

[81:26]down there no problem is there a white denim white denim shirt that i can borrow or not

[81:30]yeah there's like reinventing reinventing myself and i could use one there's 10 sweater vests down

[81:35]there no big deal but i don't know i just i the idea of like

[81:39]i can totally see that of like when you're younger saying actually i can't i never understood that

[81:44]like of leaving my hometown to go off and find great things i never wanted to do that but you

[81:48]think about i think it kind of goes back to a lot of it i think everybody in the neighborhood all

[81:53]their dads worked at like the plant yeah everybody works at one company and it's just that's where

[81:59]you if you don't get an education or get out you're just going to end up working at the plant

[82:03]or the the factory or whatever it is and so when you've got those factory towns that's the i just

[82:09]i'm not going to go work at that factory where everybody else is going so that's a good point

[82:13]because in my hometown the main factory was the uh male clinic hospital so everybody knew her

[82:18]doctor so i was like oh i kind of want to stay and work at this factory town turned out i wasn't

[82:22]good enough at organic chemistry to stay and work at that factory so i'm teaching but this is also

[82:28]has another epic sax solo with clarence clemens he he rehearsed this he played this for 16 hours

[82:35]with bruce until bruce thought it was good enough sax s-a-s oh s-a-s s-a-c-k-s is what aaron just texted

[82:45]me aaron the horns on this album are just awesome aren't they yes yeah yeah i mean i mean east street

[82:56]i would say b plus street when i was looking at clarence clemens i noticed that he also played

[83:01]edge of glory with lady gaga did you guys know that i did not know that yeah

[83:05]really the sax solo on edge of glory with lady gaga is clarence clemens he played it a few years

[83:11]before he died wow that's awesome clarence clemens was great he used to go on howard stern and he was

[83:16]filthy dirty so for some reason i really enjoyed that who knows why it could be anything not

[83:21]usually a prop sally but yeah i make an exception here and there you know i'm not special circumstances

[83:26]yeah every once in a while i put on my sweater vest to get down into the muck

[83:30]all right let's get into everybody's favorite section which is set again in the sting

[83:35]and now it's time for everybody's favorite part of the show the patent and very popular

[83:44]beck did it better rating system you got a patent huh yeah yeah what's our patent number

[83:52]worried about somebody stealing this rating system are we uh yeah and it's also an invention

[83:56]that does something there for a patent and not a trademark okay but you know legal stuff you

[84:00]guys probably don't know a lot about that here's the deal you say potato i say potato is this in

[84:05]the beck did it better patented rating system is this album rolling well toned at 21 it's right

[84:10]where it should be it's perfect everybody thinks it's great is it rolling boned meaning that it the

[84:17]album itself got boned it's too low on the list it should be higher on the list meaning in this case

[84:23]a lower number so it should be 20 or below we should have heard this already instead of at 21

[84:27]or is this album a rolling groan it is too high on the list now normally okay being up top on a list

[84:35]case it's bad because this list goes from 100 down to zero because that's how the rolling stone

[84:39]website is set up with one at the bottom because they got those clicks they want those clicks so

[84:43]bad so now that this is clear rolling groan you don't like it rolling bone you do like it rolling

[84:47]well toned it's fine okay so those of you that listen to this part why why do you do this who

[84:53]cares what we think about this but uh let's go matt what do you think rolling well toned rolling

[84:56]bone or rolling groan if you need an explanation let me know i'm happy to explain it so let me get

[85:05]if i think i'm in perfect then i say it's rolling boned because throwing it a bone or no i'm kidding

[85:12]i think it's rolling well toned i uh springsteen is a juggernaut of a rock musician and you know

[85:22]having an album in the top 25 um he certainly deserves it this album i think is great um i'm

[85:30]not going to pretend to know kind of the back history and all the musicians and everything but

[85:34]me personally i'm not going to pretend to know kind of the back history and all the musicians

[85:35]i loved listening to it with all the musicality it had to present it was a rock album that had

[85:40]piano and saxophone and all of these different musicians playing so i thought it was a great

[85:45]album i just gonna wrap it up by saying rolling well toned all right russell what do you think

[85:50]rolling well toned rolling bone to rolling groan kind of similar to matt i really enjoyed the album

[85:56]at first i wondered whether it would have been better if born to run cranked off right at the

[86:00]beginning of the album but i think the album kind of has like a crescendo and it kind of builds

[86:04]to that and then it kind of builds back down in the end with with jungle and i think it's just a

[86:08]fantastic ending to it so i really enjoyed it i loved all the horns on it and part of me gives

[86:14]maybe the horns too much credit but i really loved clemens and the the trumpets and the different the

[86:19]different horns on the album and i also loved all the references to the rats it made me think of my

[86:23]friend aaron when there was like five to six references to all these rats and what they were

[86:27]doing so because of the references to the rats i'm going to give it the credit it deserves and

[86:32]say it's rolling well toned aaron what do you think

[86:34]i'm uh i'm gonna go borderline rolling boned on this one i agree with uh matt and russell on this

[86:45]the band you it's hard to find a band that is as tight as this one um i love thinking about the

[86:52]fact that this album and songs in the key of life are released one year apart and uh in in my mind

[86:58]both of them are looking to other genres and and perhaps looking backward and forward at the same

[87:04]time

[87:04]a song is in the key of life looking more toward jazz this one looking more toward classic american

[87:10]r&b but i think this is as good as rock and roll gets the the band is super tight the springsteen

[87:16]charisma is great the poetry that he writes is excellent i love his voice when it when it's

[87:23]right in the pocket and i respect it when it's trying and reaching and falling short and i think

[87:29]it might be better than blood on the tracks as an album for me so i'm i'm gonna go rolling

[87:34]well toned but a borderline rolling boned all right the correct answer is this album gets a

[87:40]rolling bayone because i was talking a lot about new jersey and that's a city and you guys wouldn't

[87:45]understand that all right well well the way rob started this album so it's terrible jokes is the

[87:51]way he's gonna end it matt and so we don't understand that joke much like we don't understand

[87:58]the rating system as a whole so it's just part for the course of the whole thing so it all works

[88:02]it's just like when you guys were talking about not drinking pop i was like i don't understand

[88:05]what they're saying i don't understand i don't get it i'm on the east coast now

[88:09]all right next up we've got oh notorious big ready to die wow now it's gonna be a three hour

[88:17]physical moment of the zoom i gotta ask you guys reaction give me the loop give me the loop i have

[88:24]never ever ever listened notorious big oh my god you are in for such a i like songs that are about

[88:31]having sex and sometimes get

[88:32]dirty am i gonna enjoy this album all right that's honestly it's yeah honestly track eight

[88:38]is gonna be right i can't wait i can't wait that is it for beck did it better when you want to hear

[88:45]about the greatest albums of all time but you're just too lazy to look it up online

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[89:06]this episode is kind of the sweater vests of beck did it better

[89:12]this looks looks a lot of chafing gets laughed at oh my god i just had a flashback

[89:20]oh

[89:26]ended on that ended there it's not everyone has stopped

[89:32]Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.