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Episode 211

Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul (1991)

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About this episodeFirst of all, let's be clear. Can we possibly be the best Ray Charles podcast and the best ever about this box set called The Birth of Soul, without Matt? Probably not, but three of us got together on a school night and tried.Β  We find out how Aaron gets his weather (wild), how my uncle was in the Miami Sound Machine, and we dive into Spotify Leagues.Β  Β Rob talks beds on the plane; you will never guess how Aaron says Swordfish. (Actually, I bet you could.) and Russell is living it up in Vegas.Β  Then we hear the greatest story of all time and finally drag ourselves to talk about this 53-song
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[00:00]man is not here and i would say more about that he is uh he's somewhere but aaron just told us

[00:05]something insane aaron just told us something incredible now russ and i of course are having

[00:08]a very normal conversation about the roaring 20s and who was popular then okay and i pointed out

[00:13]as you do you know the 20s was boring because the one thing on wikipedia for it is the charleston

[00:18]okay famously the most boring dance a dance that's never come back nobody's ever done the

[00:23]charleston except as a joke about the charleston okay and aaron said well i want to get off twitter

[00:29]except what aaron why do you use twitter for for weather because daniel swain weather west

[00:35]when he posts a new blog about the long-term outlook for what's going on with precipitation

[00:40]in california that's where i find it rob maeda posts about what's going on with fire weather

[00:44]this weekend it's a red flag warning this weekend you gotta you know this stuff this is where you

[00:48]find doing this where i'm making fun of you and then you say it's for fires relative humidity is

[00:53]low winds are high but it might be a marginal event because we've got oh my god it's not going

[00:58]to be bad can i tell you this my around here my uncle just ran in sweating around here relative

[01:05]humidity so i there's some of the most human people i know if you had to bet a million dollars

[01:11]you think aaron and i have ever used the same source for weather like ever like has he ever

[01:16]used weather.com or not no and have i ever used anything but weather.com i'm gonna search hashtag

[01:23]rain and see if anything comes up i wonder if it's gonna rain

[01:27]you

[01:28]so many great climate scientists on twitter but they've had to move to threads or blue sky or

[01:34]whatever i haven't tried it yet i still stay with twitter climate science in quotes i put that in

[01:37]quotes um i do like the idea that aaron's like i want to hear about the weather but i want to hear

[01:43]about like the philosophy of the weather like the weather generally i don't need to actually know

[01:47]like go outside that's what you know you live somewhere russell where the weather is really

[01:50]nice when you get your fucking weather off twitter he just opens it up and goes it's pretty nice

[01:54]outside i will admit a lot of the weather stuff goes like well over my head i don't know if i'm

[01:57]going to be able to do that i don't know if i'm going to be able to do that i don't know if i'm going to

[01:57]over my head like they're really into the air and what look at the atmosphere man they're like

[02:03]you know the the atmospheric pressure and the low cold fronts and the high pressure fronts and all

[02:09]that stuff and the collisions i mean i don't totally get it but it tells me if it's gonna

[02:14]temperature and precipitation that's what i care about those are important well you guys know i'm

[02:20]in the to the dew point so we get some dew point discussion on there it's all you know you're into

[02:25]the dew point and you know what's sick is that i didn't know that i didn't know that i didn't know

[02:27]that i didn't know that i hate my life god my life sucks this whole thing sucks this is a big

[02:33]part of my life and it sucks speaking of your life sucking rob uh congrats on waking up on time i know

[02:38]i know tonight was one of your i had it's so late i had to take a nap before the recording but i just

[02:43]want to say congrats for waking up and not ruining it for all of us in honor of matt being here

[02:47]tonight i did the i the watch alarm where i put on my watch and i got the alarm and i gotta say

[02:53]i have been the last couple nights putting on my watch to track my sleep

[02:56]okay my my uh nutrition guy's like let's track your sleep we're gonna see not only much sleep

[03:01]you get but how much deep sleep how much rem sleep i highly recommend you don't ever ever do

[03:06]this it has turned my life into a nightmare because i have always told myself i get eight

[03:10]hours of sleep i'm getting eight maybe eight and a half nine hours of sleep every night

[03:14]actual sleep six and a half hours i wake up when you wake up and you look at your watch and it says

[03:20]you've gotten six and a half hours of sleep your day is ruined you are tired you know you're screwed

[03:25]it sucks

[03:26]don't do it some things are just better left untracked okay it's true just it's better not

[03:31]to know by the way aaron was talking about how most of the weather was over his head i just want

[03:35]to do a quick shout out to somebody whose weather was not as far above his head who passed away

[03:43]while we were on a break and that of course is the kembe mutombo oh yeah the scat man all right

[03:51]to the kembe mutombo who

[03:54]is now asking in heaven who will sex mutombo so my big guy up there who will sex you indeed

[04:04]everyone listening at home is waving the finger with us right i i'm sorry to my wife who i

[04:11]shouldn't divulge this about her but she texted me that morning and she said out of the blue she

[04:17]just said now i'm thinking about all the people who will never get to sex mutombo oh my god this

[04:21]is how much her brain is broken

[04:24]it means nobody's gonna get a comb in the house of mutombo again huh no that's right get it rob

[04:35]that's a joke listen there's a joke right there i gotta say i of course i think we can be immature

[04:44]and say this i would love to watch my wife have sex with somebody sounds great okay but i gotta

[04:50]say if i saw her have sex with the kembe mutombo that might take me some time to recover from

[04:54]like i would just have to think about that like i'm looking at my wife this woman i love

[04:58]we got married we made a commitment to each other and now she's having sex with the mutombo i'd be

[05:05]like what this is a joke coming true in my life do you think afterwards he would lay down on the

[05:10]bed and like hold her up and like scream like when he upset the supersonic in the playoff

[05:15]over the one scene

[05:18]yeah

[05:20]yeah

[05:20]yeah

[05:24]that literally is like me meeting my wife was like the eight

[05:26]getting over on a one seed he peeks at you when you get out that extended lens

[05:31]rob it's kind of going for the zoom in and he gives you the finger wag

[05:34]we're all finger wagging for the people that are

[05:39]we're all a lot of finger was there any wrist motion this finger wag or is it all finger

[05:46]it was i think i think you can't just do finger oh i'm getting tired oh my hand hurts

[05:50]i know i gotta put in the rest

[05:54]i don't know i think i think the isolated finger is pretty good when aaron is moving just this figure

[06:00]like that i hate it but i also love it okay rob you would have been able to see in person if you

[06:04]were over in the corner shooting the threes while he was uh working the paint at your place right

[06:09]yeah can you imagine if mutombo was your doctor and you had to get your prostate check you'd be

[06:13]like wow i'm going to the guy i'm going to the number one guy to check my prostate right now

[06:19]you can line two people up and check their prostates at once

[06:25]that'd be the same super efficient yeah yeah

[06:33]i'm sorry to the cammy mutombo's family who i'm sure is listening

[06:42]i we might need to give a beck did a better apology yeah oh no okay

[06:49]out there to the man who we definitely would want being our doctor if in fact we had trouble

[06:56]going to the bathroom maintaining the steady stream we went to see our doctor

[07:01]dr m tumble we go in he says he takes out first of all he takes out the biggest thing of vaseline

[07:11]you've ever seen in your life he has to have a gigantic amount of vaseline on that finger

[07:15]and sure enough he checks your prostate and you are

[07:19]convinced that you've gone to the right place unfortunately that place god this song was long

[07:25]as hell isn't it unfortunately that place is no more the camby mutombo mount mutombo

[07:31]we salute you and all you've contributed to the beginning of this show which i swear to god it's

[07:38]a weeknight i was trying to get this done early and i've just done a 10-minute bit about

[07:42]all mutombo checking my prostate you never thought it could be done but rob did it

[07:49]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums is decided by

[07:55]rolling stone magazine this result in a text chain that celebrated music excoriated the order and led

[07:59]us to make this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research all opinions

[08:03]are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better we are all the way up

[08:08]to album i put 2010 that can't be are we in the future i think it's 210 right

[08:15]in the year 2000

[08:19]if we're at 2010 we went too far are we done that's why matt's not on he's like you guys were

[08:24]done yeah oh in episode 2010 matt makes a comment in the first 20 minutes of the episode

[08:30]guys you know rolling stones is gonna do that too they're gonna be like actually we've added

[08:38]another we've added another 1 600 albums so you're never gonna be finished finally i get

[08:44]to listen to trout mask replica uh and from 1991 uh question mark

[08:49]it's ray charles with the birth of soul 1991 birth of soul great what is this a history of

[08:55]south korea is this a shoe coffee table book oh oh my god oh my god aaron came over the top you

[09:05]know what i got anti-motumboed i got dunked on vince carter have you gotten dunked on yet aaron

[09:13]at basketball no fortunately no one has dunked i think there's two guys who can dunk but they

[09:18]typically don't okay

[09:19]i was in one game in rochester where a guy was coming at me and i was like

[09:22]look he has in his eyes it's very weird i've never seen that before and then i was like oh

[09:27]he's gonna dunk on me he's about to dunk i was like this is awesome this is gonna be the one

[09:31]time he's gonna dunk and i kind of stepped out of the way otherwise i would have gotten dunked on

[09:34]because what can i do i can't possibly stop somebody because i could i could jump and touch

[09:39]their belly button that's not gonna stop them i was i was out with uh some some st olaf graduates

[09:44]the other night some people that went to college with us and uh they we were talking

[09:49]some of them said they really enjoyed when we relived coach causes win loss

[09:54]fans like that fans you know what's sad is that the majority of our podcast listeners do love us

[10:01]talking about our division three basketball coach how he did can i do an alternate joke to my opener

[10:05]by the way bring it no one's gonna stop uh ray charles with the birth of soul guys i can tell

[10:11]you that any birth that takes two hours and 20 minutes is either good or bad or normal i can't

[10:15]remember it was so long ago i have no idea how long a birth takes

[10:19]oh why did i do the alternative i think you were headed down the right path the punchline just got

[10:25]don't bring that don't bring that punchline into the house of matabo tonight rob listen

[10:30]okay i've got uh two guys here do i do this after the song listen uh let's get right to the radio

[10:35]okay let's turn on the radio and see what is going on a kid has their sound machine on with

[10:42]the door open it's so loud oh i would freak out i couldn't possibly no i'd have to quit what i can't

[10:49]i've told you i can't deal with white noise anymore we don't have to get into it it's not

[10:52]funny i just can't that aaron that would unless as you know if it's the miami sound machine i can

[10:59]maybe but rhythm motion that's a lyric for your song come on baby

[11:06]i'm more of a more of a c and c bound sound machine guy what's that russell c and c sound

[11:18]machine oh

[11:19]that's the miami white noise machine you know my dad was in the my uncle was in the miami sound

[11:32]machine you know a party played the tiger roar that might have got me aroused yeah it was really

[11:41]good yeah uh there's no way that's the first time rob's done that that voice no he's practiced that

[11:47]for sure listen let's turn on the radio

[11:49]okay we are talking about ray charles and wonder if k-rob has a song that's similar

[11:53]okay or maybe he picked a little bit of each song off this album okay all 53 all 53 songs maybe i

[12:00]did a little mashup okay for a treat yeah it's a couple of gigabytes big but i think it'll be fine

[12:05]let's turn on the radio and see what's on k-rob k-r-o-b what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-r-o-b

[12:14]you know life is day after day a dull great void but sometimes i wonder

[12:19]what if i could pick someone else's life to live oh yeah sometimes at night i start to fantasize

[12:25]what if i could live someone's life whose life would i want to lead if i got to pick well who

[12:34]would it be that's why i say yes i pray to be russell's nephew for a day oh yes imagine russell

[12:43]takes you to the store he buys a rookie giannis onto campo

[12:49]and he takes you to that wrestling show then you're both watching cody rose that's why i say

[12:55]look at this awesome shirt he gave to me it's got a picture of ted db i see

[13:08]then i listen to my dad's advice oh don't ask russell why he doesn't make that woman his wife

[13:14]oh that's my dad because i'm curious

[13:19]been together long enough why is she not engaged to him what does it mean when you say he lives in

[13:27]sin that's why i say yeah i pray to be russell's nephew for a day when you want to hear about the

[13:35]russell laughed more at the beginning of that song than at the end i noticed

[13:38]took a sharp unexpected turn actually you guys will appreciate this it was by one nephew

[13:45]his birthday the other day and i actually got him stuff and i shipped it first time i've ever

[13:52]shipped anything second time i've ever shipped anything other than when i shipped those t-shirts

[13:56]to our top tiered fans wait so you you went to uh i went to the store i went to a fedex

[14:03]and i walked up and i just put the stuff on there and the lady did all the work for me it was

[14:08]it was amazing it's pretty nice right but i i shipped him we'll see i got him some panini

[14:13]prism basketball cards and then an aunt edwards replica jersey and anthony edwards blue timber

[14:19]wolves jersey that's that's pretty good this is you're just proving the song correct that's

[14:23]incredibly good listen this is beck did it better okay we've got one good uncle and two other guys

[14:28]here to talk about ray charles the birth of soul unfortunately matt is not here he's in the main

[14:34]part of the united states which ironically is maine one of the least main parts okay it's right

[14:42]there

[14:43]uh i've got russell in minneapolis russell how are you doing

[14:46]rob tonight's like that night in vegas when i say stop don't you move that peg

[14:51]and when i say go just shake a leg we're doing the mess around

[14:58]one of the few songs that mentions barbecue okay there should be more honestly there's

[15:05]definitely not enough yeah um don't say it rob don't say it

[15:13]you can talk about your chips and their sour cream just the wrong kind of barbecue

[15:18]okay whoa i'm coming back i'm coming back is that the parody that failed tonight

[15:22]there were quite a few barbecue chips yeah barbecue like oh i love barbecue

[15:28]barbecue chips is what he's talking about the things that honestly taste at least like barbecue

[15:33]like if you only knew barbecue through barbecue chips then you actually ate it like a texas

[15:37]barbecue you'd be bummed out you'd be like well it's not nearly as salty and brown like barbecue

[15:42]just to me tastes brown it does i'm right it doesn't it tastes brown barbecue chips chips

[15:50]yeah i would have said like red like like a brick red okay russell barbecue chips what color do they

[15:57]taste like to you barbecue chips yeah where you been russell i got nothing i have no about this

[16:07]sour cream and onion russell what color do they taste correct answer green thank you yep i think

[16:12]the answer is just whatever they come in in in the pringles can right that's it the can doesn't

[16:17]lie you're like think of it like if if sour cream and onion pringles can was orange you would think

[16:23]they are orange no orange is original we all know that orange is wait what is oh no orange is cheese

[16:30]russell's right my taste flavor color theory is true it's just the pringle color yeah it's just

[16:39]the pringles color i was wondering boy that's wild if you could only have one flavor of chip the rest

[16:46]of your life what are you picking i know it's gonna piss you off russell but i'm gonna say

[16:49]cool ranch i got it written on my parody song list russell hates cool ranch i i love cool

[16:54]ranch i think cool ranch is such a fun flavor love it aaron what would you have just one kind

[16:58]of chip i well i i think i would have said salt and vinegar uh but i might have to go back to

[17:04]cool ranch now that you mentioned it but i my my gut said salt and vinegar salt and vinegar is great

[17:09]until you have about three yeah and you're like god damn god damn my lips are full of cracks like

[17:15]they're full of cracks you've never even thought until you had salt and vinegar chips aaron you

[17:19]and i could get stranded on an island together and like they would drop us down two sets of snacks

[17:23]like once a year and we could divide them evenly we would have no arguments fine right yeah i'd be

[17:28]like you take yours i'll take mine really you think that's true i think so i think there'd be

[17:32]no overlap yeah i think we're okay let's try it okay it's a a bag of popcorn with nutritional

[17:38]yeast on it who's taking that

[17:39]that's me right here wow russell's right uh i've got aaron in california now aaron aaron was telling

[17:48]me this actually aaron's wife at gmail.com just bought a new handbag and came home and showed it

[17:54]to aaron now of course listen this touching my wife's purse one of the worst feelings of all time

[18:01]anytime she hands me a purse i want to hold it for no more than three seconds

[18:04]okay i if like to torture me you could have me just hold my wife's purse i hate doing it

[18:09]and you know what i think it's from i think growing up i think and i think all men have this

[18:14]you would start digging around in your mom's purse and find tampons and the realization would blast

[18:19]your brain like a million hot sons and you'd be like is this a funny intro oh no i got off track

[18:25]a little bit is this a joke one or the dirty one so aaron's uh this is actually the clean one

[18:29]aaron's aaron's wife said you might need to go see someone rob is this the surprise this is my

[18:34]handbag but it's not really my style per se and i was like well it's pronounced purse that's pretty

[18:41]funny i don't know i feel like and i feel better i feel like i i got something off my chest i think

[18:47]i relived some childhood drama that's good i'd say so rob i didn't listen to this whole time is

[18:52]this where i can ask you to bend over and see you shake your shell feather or is that no not quite

[18:56]different okay did make this one no not quite okay but if you know what i wish there's a little

[19:00]more country and western on this that'd be where could i go to hear that

[19:04]uh listen let's get let's not mess around okay let's not get distracted

[19:07]okay let's get right into the voicemail

[19:11]i was hoping that it would be like with man not here that this would be a really short episode

[19:21]and i realized no nothing's gonna change it's not gonna be any shorter than normal it's hard

[19:26]to say who drives the length of the episodes like where where could it come from we're all

[19:30]looking for the guy okay we're all trying to figure out who it is

[19:33]the mystery

[19:34]at my work we are a part of something called music league which is with spotify where each

[19:42]week there's a different theme and your school system is a song that you think fits that theme

[19:48]and then you vote on which song is the best so for example it could be like the best one hit

[19:53]wonders or uh break solo when somebody breaks away from a group and has a solo tour well we

[20:00]work at a school and so this year this round we're going to be doing a solo tour and we're going to

[20:03]we're doing different departments in our school and this one week was science and i thought of

[20:11]rob because somebody submitted particle man by they might be giant so what i'm asking you is

[20:18]which song would you submit for the theme of science class wow i you know i i did a music

[20:26]league this summer i re-optimized i re-optimized spotify so i could

[20:32]be part of a music league i did not win can you explain what a music league is i don't i don't

[20:38]understand i was very confused so you you're in a league with people the week has a theme

[20:42]when you submit your songs you submit them blind so everybody submits two songs you don't know who

[20:48]submitted which song and then you vote you don't get to vote for your own song you vote for the

[20:52]other songs to see which song sort of captured the vibe the best and you can hand out your points so

[20:57]then you vote blind and then you you see who ends up with the most points at the end of the so it's

[21:01]like a fantasy league for picking music uh yeah yeah kind of but it happens on a weekly basis and

[21:08]you know you get to vote on your friends submissions it's kind of like one of those

[21:12]board games where people people turn in answers and you got to vote for the best answer that goes

[21:17]with the fun question or something like that so do you think that it's possible that one week is

[21:22]going to be scary as spooky as songs it's got to be a good chance it's a good chance i would

[21:28]dominate that one yeah aaron is there

[21:30]is there ever a part though like it's got to be frustrating when you're the person who never gets

[21:36]votes on your song choices right yeah i mean of course like i think there's i i joined a league

[21:42]of people who i didn't actually it was like friends of friends and so there actually turned

[21:46]out to have been well replacements guy was in there and uh i got in i didn't do great in the

[21:51]league but then it turned out there had been like some drama in days past like before i got on about

[21:57]like people you know oh i think you're voting for someone else's songs because you know and it's like

[22:01]you know you don't want your messages because you think you know whose songs are whose and yeah

[22:05]there was a little of that a little that kind of stuff going on and people and people vote for the

[22:09]shitty songs because they want to win and they don't want to give points to someone that could

[22:13]be competing with kind of game the system a bit it's taken russell three seconds to become a

[22:18]conspiracy theorist about here it's spotify league yeah he's like well i mean i had to rejoin spotify

[22:25]just for that speaking of conspiracy theorists i had to rejoin spotify just for that speaking of

[22:26]conspiracy theorists i had tried to be on spotify for a long time but i had to do it because you

[22:29]can't do it from other streaming services god i god i need your job so bad oh it's crazy i need

[22:35]your job we do appreciate you finally getting joe roken over the hump on that

[22:40]can you imagine if you had to like tell your wife like listen i can't do the dishes tonight

[22:45]it is league night i am doing spotify league i have tried to go through this music i gotta listen

[22:50]all this music i gotta vote well you submit them asynchronously it's like you submit them by

[22:54]thursday and then you have until

[22:56]monday to score them and then you submit against it's over the course of what that reminds me last

[23:01]week's list best songs about synchronicity and everybody's like god i gotta i gotta put this in

[23:05]first and so the caller was asking about the best was it science class theme science class theme

[23:12]okay and so what do you guys think about science i will go last as the professional science teacher

[23:18]oh wow because i've got lots of ideas but uh russell what do you think what's your what's

[23:22]your god i think you guys will remember this one uh this is one of my all-time favorite

[23:26]this is from college it's actually the song we used to play to get us hyped up for geophysics

[23:30]it's the galaxy song by monty python

[23:33]you know this one people are stupid i don't think so but of course it was monty python

[23:41]you always gotta let it go

[23:42]just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

[23:56]they'll say something like oh goddamn you guys think that's funny that's an appropriate word

[24:17]there so this is the galaxy song uh the pleasure principal and i he was actually my roommate i

[24:23]believe junior year and we had signed up for a class called geophysics yeah and i believe it was

[24:29]because rob had told us the year before this was the easiest science credit to get at st olaf college

[24:34]that can't be true i took that class pass fail i chose to pass because i heard it was so hard

[24:39]we heard it was so easy we took it and it was the hardest class we had a rock lab where you had to

[24:45]memorize like a hundred types of rocks and the day before the midterm where you had to memorize the

[24:50]rocks i was like there's this is not my life

[24:53]i called my mom and said i have to drop a class it was the only class i ever dropped

[24:58]i went to drop it and the professor was the whiz bob jacobo yeah right and i walked in to drop it

[25:06]and he looked at me and he smiled he said you're getting out aren't you oh my god

[25:10]you're getting out aren't you he holds up a rock and says nice yeah pardon my quartz

[25:18]pardon my quartz i remember russell coming back to his room after that

[25:23]you're pepping your step after dropping oh there's nothing so sweet as dropping class god that was a

[25:27]good feeling i love dropping you when you when you finally give up on something and just let it

[25:32]and you let it go it feels so good it feels so good actually it's like matt seeing this episode

[25:38]come out and know that he didn't have to stay up he's like oh yeah this is the greatest feeling

[25:41]and it's it's what's crazy is the pleasure principal who was much smarter than i a much

[25:46]more intelligent a better student everything he i think actually ended up dropping it too he did

[25:50]not make it through the semester i don't think so but rob you were the one who was the one who

[25:53]you were in that class you made i must have made it through well i did because i had to take it to

[25:57]get my license so i took it pass fail and it turns out i have a cousin who's in the same field as bob

[26:02]jacobo and i said oh i took a class from the guy and she goes oh my god that guy's a real asshole

[26:06]oh you do know him that's crazy uh that is a class famously where i was just talking telling

[26:14]my kids about this where i didn't want to go to class one day yet we had friends that were in the

[26:18]class that we wanted to go to lunch with so we skipped the class and then sat on a bench that

[26:23]outside the class and waited for it to dismiss so we could meet the guys and go to lunch and i was

[26:27]like i was in my head i was like well you're a fucking idiot this is the dumbest thing you could

[26:31]possibly do in your dumb piece of shit but i was just like yeah i'll keep doing this hey rob will

[26:36]you promise to bleep something out if i say it of course wink this is gonna have to be though

[26:43]yeah of course russell i went on a date is make love to you oh no russell now wait a minute before

[26:53]come on do i have to bleep it out i can already tell i'm not gonna want to bleep it out so bad

[26:58]oh i went on a date aaron is how this story is starting right i know this story is gonna go

[27:03]i mean anywhere the possibilities are endless it's gonna be great

[27:06]oh they're gonna be great okay i once went on a date with a lady

[27:10]hello everybody this is rob from the future with some terrible terrible news

[27:18]i have been asked to edit out the

[27:23]very short story that was very very funny okay russell's a gentleman he does not want the story

[27:30]to be out there but i am going to tell you it was one of the funniest things i ever heard it

[27:36]was not long it was only about a five second story and it made me laugh very hard so what

[27:41]i'm going to do is i'm going to put in our reaction and this will be the great

[27:45]mystery of all time this is up there with the pyramids the sphinx uh why why do your

[27:53]balls turn different colors as you get older it's one of those great mysteries of the world

[27:57]i'm sorry i can't play it but i did promise russell and fulfilling my promise as a friend

[28:02]and as a brand new member of the promise keepers which i just joined i haven't read a lot about it

[28:06]but i think it's a good idea so let's get back to the show and hear our reaction to probably one of

[28:11]the greatest stories of all time that none of you will ever ever hear unless you send me a text over

[28:18]the back line i can just tell you you'll never know wink okay edit that part out and we'll see you next time

[28:23]out siri edit that part

[28:25]i was not prepared

[28:44]we can't we can't

[28:53]episode 210 it can't be downhill

[28:56]it's all downhill from here it's never gonna get any better

[28:59]i mean that took a turn that was so sharp and did you think of him during the act

[29:12]oh we gotta move on i'm not saying anything anymore

[29:23]how do we carry on from here

[29:26]i don't even know where i am i mean we're talking about science science class who cares anymore

[29:34]aaron what would you be submitting for the science class uh fantasy music league i was thinking it

[29:40]has to be something from dr funkenstein so i had i actually had to look it up because i don't remember

[29:45]the the discography perfectly so it should either be gaming on you from the clones of dr funkenstein

[29:52]or bop gun which is from funken teleki versus the placebo syndrome so one of those has got to be if

[30:02]you're going to do some science you got to have dr funkenstein involved so okay what was the song

[30:06]you wanted you wanted bop gun or gaming on you oh gaming on you i put gaming on you i don't know

[30:11]what's going on my typing something seems to be wrong all right here we go gaming on you but i

[30:15]think if you want to learn some science it's got to be from the from dr funkenstein also this album

[30:21]cover

[30:21]also this album cover

[30:22]it's a crazy album cover yeah yeah i mean so if you want some science these guys were doing science

[30:29]back in the late 70s early 80s wow this you know what i gotta admit if i went into a class and this

[30:36]was playing i'd be like i think i could learn this yeah funk is all about learning man it's

[30:42]all about math funk is very organized i i you know what i should send you an episode of a podcast

[30:50]where we talk about the first funk songs a lot of people don't know about the first funk songs

[30:51]a lot of people like that actually i'd love to check that out aaron now why did you pick this

[30:57]for science again you just wanted to pick some parliament no because the parliament because one

[31:03]of the characters in parliament was dr funkenstein so i feel like dr funkenstein probably knew some

[31:07]science but also yeah parliament was always going to space and they were talking about

[31:12]you know extraterrestrial beings and all that that's all sciencey so i'm gonna love it parliament

[31:19]now of course you guys are incorrect the answer of course is they might be giants now you might

[31:24]say oh are you going to pick a song off of here particle man which you already heard about particle

[31:29]man is not actually good that's my favorite song right real no real fans don't care for that song

[31:36]they've heard it too many times don't like it okay so you could pick for example a song about

[31:40]evolution called my brother the ape okay or you could pick a song uh roy g biv about the colors of

[31:48]the uh rainbow but i'm gonna actually go on an album the same album as uh i don't know what else

[31:55]you guys would know off this album but from apollo 13 where it's all about different mammals

[32:01]the song called mammals

[32:03]and it's a song all about what makes mammals a mammal

[32:13]very high metabolism

[32:16]and then list different mammals do you know every word to this

[32:21]mammals their names are called they raise a paw the bat the cat dolphin and dog

[32:30]no not really all right so that would be what i would pick is of course they might be giants

[32:36]for uh the science forget dolphins or mammals oh aaron are crypto are cryptids mammals oh my god

[32:44]they have to be bigfoot do bigfoots have nipples aaron is that what you're wondering

[32:47]is that what you're wondering guys we got to get to roll it going i got to talk about this

[32:52]we'll have to see if our if our listener submits any of our songs if she wins any points for him

[32:57]right yeah maybe she's trying to use us to get i mean she'd be thinking way ahead at this point

[33:02]because this isn't coming out until yeah oh this week is this week is masturbating to cryptids week

[33:07]what song is going to win this one uh rolling going aaron how's it rolling going with you

[33:13]it's rolling going good we had swordfish for dinner tonight i don't think i've ever

[33:17]actually had swordfish no i was so excited please stop russell do you hear what he's doing

[33:23]what the hell is he talking about you eat swordfish yo no no no no no no no what did

[33:28]you eat aaron say it again swordfish oh come on swords come on man sword aaron how do you how do

[33:34]you spell it it's you're making it sound like it's shit you're saying s word you're like s word

[33:42]sword do forget the w listen the wu-tang says swords black thought says swords i'm gonna say

[33:47]swords i think like it's got a w in there we like that's how you should pronounce it can i say when

[33:52]we released the uh uh chuck berry episode last week there were some times where i was being mean

[33:57]to you and anytime i listen to myself being mean to you i feel terrible russell am i being mean to

[34:01]aaron or is this am i losing my marbles is he saying sword is that weird that's weird okay

[34:06]thank you thank you except for wu-tang and black thought go ahead aaron sorry so what i was just

[34:12]really excited i've never i don't think i've ever actually had i don't think i've ever actually had

[34:15]swordfish maybe at a restaurant but we were out at uh the fish market today wallace and i went to

[34:21]go get some flowers for his mom and then we stopped by the fish market and i said would you have some

[34:26]fish for dinner and he's not been great about he's really picky it's been hard to figure out what he

[34:30]will eat but he saw the sign that said swordfish and he was like i think i would like to try swordfish

[34:35]and i was like let's do it man and i put that thing on the grill and you guys know i think i've told you

[34:41]mayonnaise is the key to good fish on the grill yes so slather that thing with mayonnaise coat it

[34:46]with some mayonnaise i was very excited i've never it's it's kind of foolproof like it's really not

[34:51]hard to cook on the grill very easy super enjoyed it so that was a nice oh nice thing i think i want

[34:58]some i think i want some swordfish around my house i mean right yeah you should check it out

[35:02]sounds good does it come with like the long the long sharp nose or anything does it yeah does it

[35:06]look this is the worst piece they're like no no no this is the best we're getting you the best cut

[35:10]it's just the nose you're like i don't think this is the best that's a good question russell i didn't

[35:15]see the nose at the fish shop i don't think they're getting whole fish and breaking them down

[35:19]there it's not it's not that it's not that serious my god i had a problem with that where i peed in

[35:23]the amazon i got one of those whole fish you know what i mean oh god i just i want to this even the

[35:30]thought of this makes me ill all right we could move on go ahead aaron sorry i had a week of

[35:35]covid last week and i i'm pretty sure i'm almost certain so i went out for trivia last week i felt

[35:40]fine and then i woke up in the morning and i've had covid and then one of my trivia partners got

[35:45]covid so i do need to give it back did a better apology i i think this is the first time i've

[35:50]actually transmitted the disease to someone else and i want to apologize to don don missed the

[35:57]school field trip this week oh it's very sad you did don a favor field trip does a better podcast

[36:02]yeah i was healed up went back at least we've progressed enough to where aaron can admit it

[36:06]like four years ago if he admitted it he would have been the scoundrel of all scoundrels

[36:10]yeah i'm owning up to it so uh but i have been sleeping on the couch uh which is going fine for

[36:16]the most part and uh it's fine it's fine it's fine i you know what i should say too i only you

[36:23]know i think you do feel guilty with covid because i transmit it to a person once i had okay so i had

[36:31]this bat that i had to get from a place in china okay to a different place in china the floor was

[36:40]incredibly wet all right i could not believe how wet this place where i was buying food was it was

[36:46]insane i trip my bat falls into a pangolin it's crazy no way it's crazy i told i told people to

[36:56]wear a mask when they ride that peloton it has been an extraordinarily long time since we chatted

[37:01]i feel like i don't have a lot of exciting stuff going on in my life other than eating swordfish

[37:05]and you guys have been doing exciting things so i would love to hear how it's rolling going with

[37:09]russell

[37:10]rolling going things are going good i actually was on a scouting trip we do a uh vegas trip

[37:15]together every january but i was in vegas wow last week for a work trip so i went to vegas so

[37:20]rob cue the music uh i'm gonna have something vegasy don't you oh well you know i've got

[37:27]i do actually there were some vegas yeah i've got i mean

[37:32]yeah this is perfect

[37:35]yeah so i go to vegas

[37:40]interesting thing was going on down there see if you guys would be excited about this

[37:43]i was down there for the implosion of the tropicana they were imploding

[37:48]one of the old casinos that they were blowing up they don't do that very often on the strip

[37:52]it was at 2 30 in the morning on tuesday night the question is would you guys have

[38:00]stayed up to go see the implosion of the tropicana

[38:03]i can sit here and say that i would have but i know that by the time 1 a.m hits in las vegas

[38:09]i'm looking around like does anyone know what's going on in vegas i'm looking around like does

[38:10]anyone know what's going on in vegas i'm looking around like does anyone know what's going on in

[38:10]vegas i'm looking around like does anyone know what's going on in vegas i'm looking around like does anyone

[38:10]i'm looking around like does anyone know what's going on in vegas i'm looking around like does anyone

[38:10]else want to go to bed because i want to go to bed to me if you're not gambling because you're

[38:15]going to see some damn implosion get out of vegas okay i'll tell you again aaron this i think this

[38:20]is another scam by aaron to try to get me to go do something in vegas oh let's go to the hike let's

[38:25]go see the implosion uh-uh i'm sports gambling and then regular gambling those are the two things i'm

[38:29]doing so the answer is no russell you are a gambling warrior it's true oh i love i gambled

[38:34]till about two in the morning and then you know what vegas is so damn big though like when you

[38:40]watch it that's not the way vegas works right like you gotta walk walking a block in vegas takes you

[38:45]25 minutes right so yeah and you can't just see any part of the sky they got buildings in the way

[38:50]so i ended up watching it from my room on the 46th floor and i could kind of see it but i was

[38:55]blocked by a building but they actually lit off fireworks for about 10-15 minutes before the

[39:00]implosion and then you could kind of hear the vibrations of the implosion but that's all people

[39:05]were talking about for the whole time leading up to that night was the implosion of the tropicana now

[39:10]russell big deal more importantly than the implosion how did you do gambling did you clean

[39:15]up or what okay rob uh the first few nights i lost a little money the third the third night i came

[39:22]roaring back strong and actually i was playing at a table these guys at the table they were losing

[39:26]a little bit and it got down to one-on-one and i don't know about you guys do you like going

[39:31]one-on-one with the dealer because this time the dealer went one-on-one with the great one

[39:40]russell and i took and i took it to the dealer i was getting in that that run of you know win big

[39:47]hand put a little tip out on the next hand win it again keep keep the tips going yeah there's

[39:53]nothing better than when you got the tips going like on every hand right oh my god you're feeling

[39:57]good you're rolling you're sharing yeah russell you're getting fucking hype from vegas yes let's

[40:02]go so i'm killing it and i have a new dealer comes in he sits down we got a good rapport going

[40:07]dealer's name

[40:10]back what yes back is the dealer's name i went one-on-one with the dealer named back in vegas

[40:16]and guess who won i won i won yes russell how big did you put that first bat when you noticed his

[40:22]name was back were you like this oh i was i went big immediately and i was like i'll win it all and

[40:26]lose it all with this guy and i'll be happy but i did have to do like the the sneaky i think i sent

[40:31]you guys a picture right yeah yeah i would like step away how did you take a photo without getting

[40:35]thrown out of there i took it i had to get it listen that's like yeah i mean you had to i was

[40:40]impressed that's like me i was going through my vegas photos to find some picture i wanted to

[40:43]send you guys and all i had were pictures of us at the urinals like everybody on the trip had the

[40:48]urinal next to me i had a picture of them wait wait what are these rob you say that is that we

[40:54]were in there posing for photos at the urinals these are sneaky photos that rob takes while

[40:59]we're trying to go pee at the urinal listen you know my weakness my weakness is like all of the

[41:05]chucks i had chuck berries i had a full of chuck berry you know me i love taking sneaky toilet

[41:09]pictures i don't know what to do with it i don't know what to do with it i don't know what to do with

[41:10]it i've been doing it with everybody i love in my life it's a normal thing okay i recommend

[41:14]everybody i'm unbelievable russell great job crushing in vegas so i took it to vegas roll

[41:21]and go on rob how's it going with you i am getting hyped for vegas i'll tell you that right now oh i

[41:25]had one more question for you guys sitting there with one of the dealers this was not back this was

[41:29]another dealer and he was great i tipped him a lot of money he was a great dealer super fun he was

[41:33]fist pounding me every time i would bet for him and win we had a good rapport

[41:37]at one point he looks at me and we're having fun he goes

[41:40]how old are you and i was like oh god damn this is not really a good question right yeah

[41:47]where are you going with this and so i tell him and he looks at me and smiles he goes

[41:50]do you dye your hair like that he wanted to know if i dyed my hair wow and then i thought like

[41:56]what is he if if i were to say yes what would that i don't even know what that means like

[42:01]i'm purposely dyeing my hair bright white russell how do you describe your hair for

[42:05]those of you that don't know what you look like i think it's like old man white hair it's it's the

[42:10]grayest of gray hair and and as far as i can remember it has always been the grayest of gray

[42:14]hair right russell like it's like no it was red i would say the last like it was red i would say the

[42:18]last 10 years it's been eight to 10 years it's been the whitest of white it's like the greatest

[42:23]it's like the greatest most gorgeous head of gray hair in the entire world like russell has the

[42:28]greatest gray my gray hair coming in is like scraggly and old and like looks weak russell's

[42:33]looks like he should be on like mount olympus like it's awesome gray hair but i got but i got to

[42:39]admit if i found out somebody dyed my hair i would be like oh my god i'm gonna dye my hair

[42:40]like that i'd be like what the fuck are you doing you cannot be dying your hair that gray that's

[42:44]crazy the only thing i can think is my eyebrows are still dark so maybe he looks at my face and

[42:50]he thinks he must be dying his hair but i was like i don't know how to take that maybe that

[42:53]means he thinks i'm younger than my hair looks and i'll take that as a compliment i didn't know

[42:57]how to take it i think that's it if anybody is over the age of 12 and they're asking you how

[43:01]old you are red flags immediately alarms have to go off he might be he's either a weirdo or he's

[43:10]also in your hotel room so you got to be careful oh god well nobody goes into the house of my

[43:16]temple in vegas rob roland going how's it going with you uh listen okay i went to south africa

[43:25]okay i had a good time that's far have you recovered yeah yeah actually i did because

[43:31]it turns out having a plane with a bed seat having a bed on a plane is awesome people how was it

[43:37]people getting on you don't want maybe this has to be a little bit of a flight to go but

[43:40]i think for sure it's time for guys what else would it be right you took a flight with a bed

[43:45]i took 16 hours to fly from uh south africa to atlanta i slept for 10 hours

[43:54]wow deep asleep according to your watch or oh my god don't remind me my watch today is just

[44:02]gonna be like kill yourself now it was unbelievable i had braised rib once again

[44:10]i am unbeaten you guys know my special superpower i have never picked the wrong meal on the airplane

[44:16]i picked the right meal on the airplane 100 of the time i got the braised short rib but the best part

[44:22]of flying business class is when you're sitting in this pod and guys it really is like a spaceship

[44:28]pod it's a door i can close all the way it looks awesome people passing by and the stuff they say

[44:34]not to me because i dare not make eye contact with these idiots getting back out the back of a 16 hour

[44:40]flight ridiculous but they say they're like oh that's awesome that seat's awesome i'm just sitting

[44:44]in there watching some cartoon just canceling headphones just being just and and guess what

[44:50]every time i flew i got to go to the lounge so i'd go right from the lounges to the bed on the plane

[44:56]it was the it was i don't think i can ever ever ever go back to regular flying it's going to be

[45:01]really hard for me i want to remind you that this is the guy who made a whole song about my expensive

[45:05]chair this is the life he's living oh i can't go back guys i can't

[45:10]fly anything but first class now i think i might be a first class only guy

[45:13]rob can i ask when you i'm going on one of these fancy flights is the bathroom still like a regular

[45:19]like like do you have to go from your fancy pod to like a regular tight little bathroom yeah and

[45:24]i did and you know what i had to do that for it's because they gave out pajamas on the flight

[45:28]they had pajamas that you could change into now of course you can change in your little pod

[45:33]well no because there's the pod is only okay now you're making the pod sound bad because the pod

[45:39]only goes up like

[45:40]four feet so if you walk so here's the thing other thing when you're walking through the aisle you

[45:44]can stare down at everybody's pod like the eye of god oh yeah a little weird well or pretty great

[45:50]pretty perverted is it is it weird if i watch everybody sleep dang i hit the i hit that button

[45:58]it's cool how i could see you from up here but touch your toes down there

[46:04]you look like you're in a deep sleep i bet your watch is telling you you're using

[46:09]very deep sleep tonight oh i'm just waiting for the bathroom i'm just watching you sleep while i

[46:17]wait to go to the bathroom now i have to say when they handed out when they handed out pajamas though

[46:20]russell how would you interpret this they were giving out pajamas they go do you want any pajamas

[46:25]they said it like that do you want any pajamas that's the way that they're worried it's not

[46:28]gonna and i said what size you have to go just and they said just small medium and large and i was

[46:33]like okay i get it so you didn't you didn't take i haven't worn a large since fourth grade

[46:39]okay anyway guys i can't i can't tell you enough how much it helped i literally came back a six

[46:48]hour time difference i came back no jet lag whatsoever it was unbelievable it was awesome

[46:52]i have to say if i was on a plane and i had to relieve myself because i wasn't feeling good

[46:56]from eating the braised short rib or whatever rob got and i was waiting in line for like five

[47:01]minutes because some first class fuck was putting on airplane pajamas i would be pissed it did suck

[47:07]when it was just like it was kind of a disappointment it was just a regular bath

[47:09]you're like oh yeah it's still like the scary toilet flush like you're like god damn what's

[47:15]going on there loudest toilet flush of all time it's like how else are you gonna get those chem

[47:20]trails out there oh crazy speaking of loud flushes you'd do it again you would do the

[47:29]delta water whatever it's called again all right i would except i did calculate how long i have

[47:33]to teach to pay for the flight and it just made me feel like i was like a whole 16 toes

[47:39]to the delta bed it's honestly as close as i've gotten understanding what it'd be like to have an

[47:54]addiction because i was like well i can't afford this and i need it more than anything i think the

[48:00]craps table might might have something to say you got me thinking about how i've been watching

[48:04]tiktoks of just a guy playing bubble craps i've watched like 20 minutes of it at a time i'm like

[48:08]craps craps craps let's go

[48:09]let's continue the podcast getting on my flight in a person in my industry i know him well he's

[48:19]also based out of minnesota so often we're coming home from conferences we'll be on the same flight

[48:22]or whatever dude won three thousand dollars at the airplane at the airport slot machine no

[48:28]at the fly machine that's a myth are you serious he walked up with a big wad of cash and it just

[48:35]cashed out like three grand plus from an air from an airport slot no

[48:39]that doesn't yeah that doesn't happen right can you imagine if you if you do what i call the uh

[48:43]las vegas airport double header you win a thousand dollars and then you shoplift something from one

[48:47]of the stores it would be the best feeling of all time can't beat it guys we are talking can't beat

[48:54]it we are talking about and then you and then you dine and dash in one of those gentlemen's clubs

[48:58]rob that's a triple crown okay i gotta tell you one thing about this powerlifting meet that i was

[49:05]at okay please this town in south africa i was at was invented basically because they could put a

[49:11]strip club there and it wasn't technically in south africa so it's a weird some weird laws it

[49:15]got around so i was sitting right before oh this story's stupid i shouldn't even tell but i was

[49:19]sitting before the meat and the only doctor in the whole place who's in charge of any powerlifter who

[49:24]gets hurt here's me talking about oh yeah this town was just invented because they have a strip

[49:28]club here and the guy looks at me and he's so pissed because he's obviously from this town he

[49:32]goes it's not a strip club it's a nude review bar and i was like i go oh okay and i was like

[49:42]fuck if this weight folds me and my knee bends the wrong way this guy is gonna do jack shit for

[49:47]me he's so mad at me for thinking his town is a strip club okay you're looking for a medical

[49:53]opinion and he's giving you a nude review yeah it's not that's a real smaller than i thought

[50:00]that's a real strip club guys whether

[50:02]like it's actually a nude review the story has a plot it's okay it's like okay yeah i'm sure

[50:09]would you guys ever do now aaron now that i have to say if you wanted to go to one of those topless

[50:13]shows in vegas that i would think about you would not and we're not i'm not you're gonna catch me

[50:19]i'm not gonna do that that'd be kind of like watching porno together right though if we were

[50:22]just looking at we paid to watch look at topless women that would be weird right yeah i've been to

[50:27]one of like the where they're doing like the kick lines and all what is like the i've been to one of

[50:32]those they're from the same place i've been to one of those they're from the same place i've been to

[50:32]fun oh russell says russell i want to go to one of these with you that does sound fun i mean

[50:39]they've existed in vegas for hundreds of years it's cultural it's cultural you have to go you

[50:45]know what it's actually quite rude if we don't go yes we've been there seven times never been

[50:51]wow how disrespectful okay aaron get us doing our part for the economy yeah aaron gets three

[50:58]tickets to the juggy review or whatever it's called my eggs yeah if we don't do it

[51:02]it's called like nude cowboy girls go wild i feel like we should get one for matt in his absence oh

[51:07]yeah i think that's in oh yeah matt for sure well he was talking about it earlier listen we are

[51:12]talking about the birth of soul by ray charles now this is a compilation album it's kind of a

[51:19]greatest hits album we've talked before about how that we really don't think these belong on the

[51:23]list but correct it's a problem with ray charles right because he released a ton of singles he

[51:31]released like back then he released a ton of singles he released like back then he released

[51:32]like back then they didn't have these big albums so how are you going to collect these songs how

[51:35]are you going to get a ray charles album without these songs i don't know in this case when we're

[51:40]doing the 50s i almost it's it's kind of like who's the cowboy singer we did hank williams it's

[51:45]it's kind of like that where like you almost have to have a best of now i agree but you don't have

[51:49]to have a 53 song one like that's this is three cds 53 songs two hours and 28 minutes long it is

[51:57]abusive we will not be listening to every song i put it here and i started to go through them and i

[52:01]was like i'm not listening to every song i put it here and i started to go through them and i was

[52:02]like since when has been the podcast we claimed we're going to listen to every song that's nobody

[52:06]cares if you're a ray charles completist this has a place in your on your shelf i don't you know

[52:10]that's that's cool but on the list i don't know and i actually think this is an all-time vibe

[52:14]album if you just put this on shuffle and had it on on a saturday while you're putzing around the

[52:19]house i think this is a great album the songs are fun they're short there there's a there's a good

[52:24]change in tempo in them i think it's fun this collection i can hear that this collection

[52:27]starts in 52 when he's signed by atlantic and goes all the way through 59 when he moves to

[52:32]mount record so this is seven years span and basically let's look at ray charles what we've

[52:36]already talked about in chronological order we've already listened to his modern sounds

[52:39]of country western okay that album doesn't come out till 62 his first big number one hit

[52:46]is in 1960 with georgia on my mind so this is prior to all that this is like 52 to 59 we're

[52:52]going before that ray charles grew up famously i mean do you want a history of ray charles just

[52:57]watch the jamie lee fox movie like one of the craziest jamie fox movie did i say is it jamie

[53:02]fox jamie jamie lee fox was in halloween i think okay but it was a different halloween jamie lee

[53:08]fox i meant that as a different the emphasis should have been difference there um i believe

[53:13]they were they were also in that show coach with with hayden hayden hayden fox fox charles ray

[53:19]charles loses his sight at four years old due to glaucoma his mom from georgia sends him to a school

[53:24]in florida where he uh he gets really good at the piano mom passes away at 14 ray charles drops out

[53:32]and basically says well i was raised in the church and then i would hear all this blues music

[53:36]and i would go to revival and so i got both sides and so what he started to do is blend kind of

[53:41]r&b at the time with gospel and that's why this album is called the birth of soul ray charles

[53:47]has really looked at the first soul singer kind of carrying that flag with james brown

[53:53]who did more of like copying the the preachers like the southern preachers at the time

[53:58]but ray charles is copying the music and you can hear that evolve as

[54:02]this list goes on and i'm going to show you a couple of examples of him taking stuff from

[54:05]gospel mixing it with our mixing it with r&b and creating soul which i thought was a really cool

[54:10]part of this album and basically soul music uh you know mirrors the civil rights movement starting

[54:14]in the 50s gaining traction in the 60s and uh we're gonna see i'm gonna show you some songs

[54:21]where they sound just like old gospel tunes and then eventually ray charles on this list starts

[54:25]writing his own songs that sound like gospel tune and this album was originally number 54 on the list

[54:32]i forgot he was on atlantic john coltrane was recording on atlantic at the same time up until

[54:36]59 or 60 i don't know if they would have crossed paths at all why not put those people together

[54:41]that's crazy like why not have a combo album yeah right ray charles did record some jazz albums but

[54:46]i don't think he and coltrane ever recorded together it'd be interesting to know ray charles

[54:50]that says recorded 60 studio albums and has 200 compilation albums so that's he was prolific right

[54:57]oh i mean 200 compilations that sounds like my

[55:00]yeah

[55:02]private mode all right and that's a joke for guys who are way into porn

[55:06]it's like when like if you say i'm in the oh i mean i'm driving in the pov lane

[55:12]yeah i know he's already stalling he's sicko he doesn't want to play the music

[55:16]the sun's three cd three discs the sun won't even get started the sun's gonna shine again

[55:23]i actually like the recording of these early ones i think it sounds good

[55:32]oh russell is this a good song to play if you want to make love

[55:36]it feels like big band music it feels like we're going real old here with this music right

[55:42]yeah you're right sort of throwback to like charles brown and yeah looks like that you

[55:49]could see it you could see a granny making out to this for sure and that's the last time i'm

[55:53]gonna say that okay not gonna bring it up never again certainly not oh so good i love it jumping

[56:00]in the morning

[56:01]we're gonna jump ahead to jump i'm not gonna say jumping ahead from now on but it's what we're

[56:05]doing uh jumping in the morning i like this if you are listening along and following on the track

[56:10]list then you are john from edina and you are our only listener doing so and thank you for being

[56:15]here this i mean this is a true boogie woogie in this album oh good job rob you did your research

[56:23]oh you know i did for the first cd that's when i texted you guys i said we're not playing every

[56:28]song i've got a lot from the beginning not so much from the end

[56:31]it should have been me this is a memphis curtis song swish she was gone

[56:35]this this is a killer

[56:38]it should have been me this is on the same sessions as mess around so imagine you're

[56:44]at the studio you hear re charles record mess around in this song oh so good

[56:51]yeah this is jim and juke joint stuff who's the other vocalist

[56:56]uh i spotted it's okay we don't know i have no idea uh it's okay we promise to do no research

[57:04]losing hand never that i got your love baby you guys oh yeah he sounds so young

[57:12]what year was he born

[57:15]1930 1930 but even he russell wasn't in the 1920s

[57:25]that's how boring the 20s were they didn't even have ray charles

[57:30]he probably wasn't even there to hear the those kids selling those

[57:34]look at me i'm the king of new york isn't that the newsies that's gonna be about the 20s right

[57:44]oh my god russell's breaking out newsies you guys never fail to shock me uh heartbreaker the only

[57:50]reason i picked this song is that this is by a guy named adamant erdogan

[57:55]who i saw on wikipedia was a turkish songwriter and i was like well that's strange i'd be singing

[57:59]some turkish guy's song he was the engineer for atlantic yeah he owned atlantic records

[58:05]right so picture this you're ray charles you're working at atlantic the guy who owns it comes

[58:11]down and goes listen i wrote this song would you want to play it and sing it you got it i mean

[58:15]i mean you have no choice it's like aaron was telling us it's like a boss asking for a kiss

[58:21]you have to say yes it's a power imbalance that's not a thing that has happened in the last 20 years

[58:25]in my life uh wasn't him and his brother was it was it just ahmed or is there were there was there

[58:30]another erdogan i think just ahmed and then he would rewrite his name different things for

[58:35]songwriting purposes oh i got it okay aaron this is me bruce springsteen

[58:40]strap your hands in my engine to give me a little smooch

[58:44]little girl and don't go to my hr section which is also my horn section

[58:49]losing hand quick losing the answer i could do that i don't know if it's this one at

[58:55]i'm probably picking the wrong sound bites or something but i i heard a little

[58:59]is there jimmy hendrix taking any influence for bray charles i thought this one sounded

[59:05]like jimmy hendrix to me a little bit but this is maybe yeah i mean jimmy played in an r&b band

[59:10]when he got started right he played in uh he played in curtis knight and the squires

[59:15]they probably performed on the same circuits i mean a little bit later for jimmy but

[59:19]yeah maybe it's just the guitar or in this yeah i hear the blues guitar no i think you're right

[59:25]uh i mean they wouldn't play the they probably played some of the same clubs in the south

[59:29]now we have i brilliant by the way russell i totally agree with you now we have another

[59:33]amit song mess around mess around made famous from plane trains and automobiles of course

[59:40]this song is a crusher the people do this this is not coming from i have been

[59:47]they're doing the mess around this is also this is like my hair thing i have had probably 15 people

[59:55]say you know what celebrity you look like and i'm like i know what they're going to say if they say

[59:59]john ray charles every time they're blind but you know what like there are these songs i've talked

[60:08]about this before there are these songs that just feel like john candy movie songs right like where

[60:13]you can just see him kind of like doing the little dancing in the kitchen and that type of thing yeah

[60:19]but like there's so many good like songs from uncle buck and all these i was gonna do a list on these

[60:23]but there's too many good ones

[60:24]to do but i wanted to celebrate john candy in a different way tonight with you guys so that's

[60:29]all right let's do it different i can't wait i wanted to do a movie king of the mountain so

[60:35]we're gonna do i picked his my favorite john candy movies we're gonna start with two of them and you

[60:40]guys are gonna pick and that one's gonna keep going on all right and of course um this goes

[60:44]out to neil from lakefield there's no seating this is alphabetical order oh neil loves it wow

[60:49]all right guys blues brothers he's in that or cool runnings what advances blues brothers oh

[60:54]blues brothers so that blues brothers versus delirious

[60:58]delirious i don't think i'm seeing delirious i don't think i have blues brothers i gotta go

[61:04]blues brothers not long enough that's my only complaint about blues brothers blues brothers

[61:07]or home alone he wasn't home alone ah gee that's hard i i'm taking home i think you got to go home

[61:14]alone okay a guy alone it's too good a guy does one of the funniest things in the world at home

[61:17]alone which is steps on a nail but that's not john candy well i know but that's oh what are we doing

[61:24]we're just are we

[61:24]okay wait russell are we voting for the best movie or the best john candy part you can interpret it

[61:29]however you want i'm still going home it would be a bummer to be a big guy with a last name candy

[61:34]wouldn't it i don't know you know what i mean like i guess if his name was john salad that would be

[61:40]more jokes but yeah it would be terrible to be like hey could you mix another one in and they're

[61:45]making fun of your last name oh home alone versus nothing but trouble i haven't seen nothing but

[61:53]trouble is one of the most terrible

[61:54]movies although it does have shock g in it but it is terrible home alone versus only the lonely

[62:00]oh i got it i don't even know what only the lonely i just haven't seen only the lonely it's still

[62:05]okay there we go home alone alone versus planes trains and automobiles wow wow i have seen planes

[62:12]trains and automobiles but i'm sticking with home alone i gotta go planes trains and automobiles i

[62:16]gotta diverge rob's main host he's taking it planes trains and automobiles versus space balls

[62:21]space balls god i do love space balls i do love space balls

[62:24]i got space balls has got me space balls versus stripes oh i've seen stripes and space balls for

[62:30]me i gotta go main house i do love them talking about hulk will be in the big toe but i will say

[62:34]space balls space balls versus summer rental space balls the hell is summer rental this is crazy

[62:42]space balls versus uncle buck

[62:44]i think i'm a macaulay culkin fan i'm taking uncle buck wow you're the main host i gotta

[62:51]say when he takes out that hatchet he goes good enough to circumcise it and he's like oh my god

[62:54]wait a minute wait a minute i'm like oh my god i'll take uncle buck shovel to flip the pancake

[63:02]iconic scene uncle buck versus wagons east the movie he died girl i'll take uncle buck

[63:08]jeez uncle and i'm gonna take it over canadian bacon dude that's the next one you're gonna say

[63:12]uncle buck versus who's harry crumb

[63:15]so uncle buck's the winner you guys are saying uncle buck's the winner

[63:22]oh uncle buck it's the winner it's the winner

[63:23]it's it's the it's the belt holder it's not i don't even know because that wasn't a bracket

[63:27]style it was actually guys you know you know what you guys are dead wrong the best john candy movie

[63:34]is the great outdoors it's the great i was waiting for that yeah i mean

[63:39]but if you go what's the it's um go pull up the land of 10 000 dances quick

[63:45]this is what i was thinking of when i was thinking of these john candy dancer out it's at the end of the

[63:53]great outdoors where him they're like celebrating as a family

[63:57]like you can see john candy dancing in the cabin of this of course can't you oh yeah

[64:05]you get on a boat he's driving too fast i think he wants to go faster

[64:10]who doesn't love a good comedy water ski scene

[64:13]there's not enough of those anymore there's not enough and you know what else there's not enough

[64:18]comedies of guys trying to get laid you know what i mean can we just have a

[64:23]group of guys trying to get laid let's get that movie out there just trying to get yeah

[64:27]okay movies all these days are about oh i'm having sex with a fish or whatever

[64:33]what okay a little shape of water that was a

[64:36]about having sex with a fish okay i'll never forget you know what aaron didn't even blink

[64:43]at that because he's been reading books about the bear the aggressive bear jazz

[64:47]that's a good point the bear did you finish that book i finished that i did finish it you want me

[64:51]to send it to you uh nope i'm good actually

[64:53]let's do where was i oh feeling sad this is a song by eddie jones otherwise known as guitar slim

[65:03]listen to this voice here

[65:05]like you can't tell me you couldn't see john candy like walking over to the microwave putting

[65:12]in like a microwave dinner and feeling sad or something singing into a spatula yeah a hundred

[65:16]percent all the way up to the song 13 don't you know love the start

[65:23]don't you know baby i mean this is what i'm talking about don't you know put this put this

[65:30]album on random put it on a saturday you've got yourself a great little saturday and this is all

[65:34]the stuff that i didn't know right you know what did i say yep but you know hallelujah i love her

[65:41]so i got a woman but this is this is the pre-christian all right now listening to this

[65:46]on a saturday fun forced to listen to this at work for a podcast torture okay yes we're working here

[65:53]this does you guys were saying like if you have this in your collection this feels like something

[65:56]i need to add to the collection right like yes this would be an amazing vital to have you could

[66:00]throw this on for a whole afternoon and love every bit of it yeah if you have people over for drinks

[66:05]just put it on nobody's gonna complain absolutely mr charles blues this is mostly an instrumental

[66:09]i wanted to put on some of his piano playing

[66:11]it's good i mean russell you go to somebody's house they've got this plane just in the background

[66:19]smart sophisticated yeah there you go who's that is that you know

[66:23]whoever whatever blues playing a player you might know yeah russell can you name one you don't know

[66:27]it's very charlotte russell name a blues piano player that you can think of off the top of your

[66:30]head chick corea oh my god russell god damn yeah you know that's more jazz right boy ray charles

[66:38]yeah just like after a couple days sleeping on a plane bed that blew up in my face uh i gotta we're

[66:45]starting this too i got a woman so if you have this on vinyl though you've got a you're probably

[66:52]eight times right oh yeah yeah that would be maybe more yeah for sure that's a lot of record

[66:57]good point actually yeah you got a batch of drinks for this you can't be making espresso martinis or

[67:02]someone else has to tend the vinyl he performed this song for a year before he recorded it can

[67:08]you imagine wow well people were probably losing their damn minds and then he was like i don't know

[67:13]if the world's ready for this they think this is and he was like i can't tell my mom i recorded

[67:17]this song right this is well she died when he was 14 i don't know if you heard that part

[67:22]i missed that part i wasn't listening oh my god aaron that's so hurtful to me

[67:26]do we know this song and is is it like one of the ray charles most famous ones or is it just

[67:31]the kanye song that makes it that makes us know it more this isn't a kanye that's hard to say but

[67:37]i don't think kanye would have found it if it weren't famous already i mean i know kanye was

[67:40]a great digger but this is i think is a famous yeah this is this is a big one this he also

[67:45]re-recorded this song though to russell when he signed on with paramount uh like seven years

[67:49]later so a lot of people know the other version of that song you call it paramount

[67:52]or paramount oh russell are we just making fun russell are you really making fun of how people

[67:56]say words you hammered aaron for his swords yeah but you know what i'm standing up for myself okay

[68:02]i've got a spine how dare you make fun of the way i say paramount okay very fancy uh next up

[68:09]greenbacks i love this i reached in my pocket i love creepy ray charles boys that was yeah i like

[68:15]that like the chatter he shows her a five dollar bill and then breaks into the sun

[68:22]if i gave one of my kids a five dollar bill they'd be so pissed at me they'd be like what is this

[68:27]what do i do with this my kid today came to me and said i need 30 cash i said for what she goes

[68:33]swimming gifts for the seniors i was like this kid's buying drugs this kid's buying drugs and

[68:39]running a scam on me right it has to be what's going on that's why you tell your parents it's

[68:45]for the senior gifts speaking of asking for money let's see what you guys think of this i'm at the

[68:52]and this guy that is like a client of ours so i know him not very well but i know he works with

[68:57]us so i've maybe met him once or twice sits down he's playing and he sits down with like the 25

[69:02]but he's playing one hand if that makes he's like not really right here's my 25 bucks if i win i'll

[69:07]keep going he had like an extra five or something a little bit of money he needs like a five dollar

[69:12]chip to like double his better something like that and he looks at me and i'm like yeah no

[69:17]problem or whatever give it to him he loses then he looks at me goes hey borrow me 25 bucks so i can

[69:22]play another hand whoa and i look do you borrow the purse of the money or not russell i you try

[69:31]not to if you can help it but if it gets awkward i don't know what you do you have to right like

[69:35]you can't i felt like i had to i did it so i borrowed him the 25 bucks and i you know he's

[69:41]gonna lose it right yeah there's no way he's winning you might as well just handed it right

[69:44]to the to the dealer so i give him the 25 bucks loses and looks at me again he goes give me another

[69:52]five come on no russell self-respect at this point i just say no i'm done i'm done i i i laid the law

[70:00]down and said no more you did whoa dude yeah i said about this cash machine's all over i'm not

[70:06]i'm not just giving you money that's messed up russell setting boundaries i love it i could

[70:12]never russell yeah that guy would be able to soak me that's what how old was this guy

[70:17]oh probably 50s what i thought you're gonna say

[70:22]like 18. that's a crazy thing to ask table made for money after one after another that's crazy i

[70:27]would feel bad asking one of you guys for 25 and i've chased you around naked i'm a lot around a

[70:32]lot of objects rooms check buses check i've done it all come back baby this was released as a b-side

[70:39]i got a woman this song come back baby was also done by aretha franklin on lady soul

[70:47]a little bit faster tempo oh really yeah i don't remember that

[70:51]do you think now let me ask you cool for you 21 very horny song incredibly horny he was a horny guy

[71:01]do you think he was like daredevil horny or because he didn't have his vision

[71:06]like when he busted it felt so much better oh god what i'm asking

[71:12]you know what i mean like he has heightened other senses he has heightened orgasm sense

[71:21]possible you'd be like god that felt good what is that terrible smell

[71:25]did you write that one down did you prep that one

[71:38]i'm trying to tie it back to a joke russell made earlier but i gotta think about how much that's

[71:43]gonna get bleeped you might have to delete that whole thing so don't even try it's all gone let's

[71:49]just think about it let's just you know what let's just be cool and think about what we're

[71:53]gonna do with this thing because it could be maybe one of the greatest things that's ever

[71:56]happened in my life russell could be big birth of one of my children that joke birth of my other

[72:01]child this little girl of mine this is obviously little light of mine a gospel song turned into r&b

[72:12]and soul i mean i'm gonna have to add this to my spirit what's this on your spot if my

[72:19]list this has got to be it's on there adding so good oh super nice can i ask you this by the way

[72:26]ali put this song hard times i know i've heard this before somewhere where have i heard this

[72:31]it might have been covered by you know the big boss man will make you walk the line

[72:37]watch your shoulder you'll be serving hard time

[72:41]big boss man wwe right i know the famous guy where i was like yes finally i get to cheer for a prison

[72:49]guard

[72:49]yes beat the shit out of those guys yeah yeah yeah everyone loves cheering for the cops i i was

[72:56]always though the big boss man on the wwf arcade game because just hitting somebody with that club

[73:00]i was like god damn that's so satisfying okay now nintendo 64 version doink the clown i was always

[73:06]doing the clown because yeah oh yeah i was watching that vince mcmahon thing on netflix there's about a

[73:14]three second shot of doink and it made my whole week because i was like well there's doing the

[73:19]thing i'm watching yes ground in my own tears this is his was this on the country one two third

[73:28]number one single i think he re-recorded it for that i think you're right okay this caused him to

[73:34]uh recruit a singing group called the ray let's which is a bunch of women that he sang with and

[73:40]guess what he occasionally did with some of the ray let's you'll never guess touch them without

[73:44]their permission oh i didn't know it was without their permission because i know he had an affair

[73:48]with one but aaron you're not allowed to do that you're not allowed to do that you're not allowed

[73:49]i don't know if it was i i think it was like uh you know of the time it's me bruce springsteen

[73:54]i'm supposed to go have some meeting now with somebody aaron what did you what did you what

[73:58]are you talking about i'm the boss let me give you a kiss now now i didn't know because the joke

[74:03]was that the ray let's had to let ray so i think it's part of his legacy that got buried a little

[74:08]bit i don't i don't know that anything is fact but i think those kinds of things get get brushed

[74:14]aside it would be the least shocking thing in the world if you heard something like that yeah of

[74:19]you'll never guess who else has covered drown in my own tears

[74:24]okay it's jeff beck on guitar now listen to this donald fagan from steely dan on keyboards yes

[74:36]bernard birdie on drums whoa this is wow there he is wait so who's singing uh this is

[74:49]you've got me just like a child catherine russell don pataducci bass

[74:54]and russell i was doing some research do you know how many grammys jeff beck won

[75:02]how many 17 do you know how many ray charles won how many like 40 some it was crazy i looked at

[75:10]i was like god damn this is hard and russell makes it look so easy it's actually quite hard

[75:15]and then i found out ray charles has been inducted to the

[75:19]rock and roll hall of fame jeff beck has been inducted twice once as a member of the airbirds

[75:26]once so russell i gotta ask you this when it comes to number of times inducted into the rock

[75:32]and roll hall of fame and has sang drown in my own tears who did it better jeff better wow and

[75:40]when i say sang i meant he played guitar on just so everybody's very clear uh russell that was a

[75:49]lot of people say this is where the soul really starts soul music again we've said it a third

[75:55]time oh this is so good fun so did he maybe rob talked about this at the beginning did he have

[76:04]any normal albums or was it all just singles ab is there anything that could qualify to be on

[76:09]this list normally or not he he he does but there's so many and i think they're so short

[76:14]well i think modern sounds of country and western music was actually released as an lp right

[76:19]yes but all this stuff was singles compilations it is kind of fun that they just did ray charles

[76:24]like theme albums right it's like here's soul music here's a country one i mean this russell

[76:31]this sounds like a gospel song but he wrote the whole thing he's not copying another gospel song

[76:35]so we see another step in soul music lonely avenue got all the way up to number six

[76:40]some might call it rob the birth of soul wow one could argue that reminds me of when i

[76:49]saw the spanish sun being born yes nailed it

[76:52]anyway oh that's pretty impressive thank you uh leave my woman alone

[77:00]do we know is this compilation laid out chronologically so are we getting later in

[77:10]the 50s now yeah yep now in this song he talks about being a playboy do you think we could be

[77:17]playboys if we tried

[77:18]and you

[77:19]got the women all over town our playboy days behind i don't even really know what it means i

[77:23]think russell's the closest to having been a playboy i mean i think i think russell's done

[77:28]most recently russell that's a great question i don't know what it means either to me it means

[77:32]wearing like a smoking jacket i think that's how i would start right aaron what would you do if i

[77:36]said you had to be a playboy what are you up to i would throw some parties in my house i would wear

[77:40]a smoking jacket yep aaron now let me ask you would you swim now let me ask you this aaron if

[77:45]you were a playboy yeah would you swim in some piece of shit regular pool where

[77:49]you could see the sky or or would you choose to swim in the grotto the grotto obviously and it's

[77:57]got to be shaped like a bunny now if you went to the grotto do you think anybody is in the men's

[78:02]bathroom the grotto there's no way right that men's bathroom at the grotto is empty why is that

[78:07]i don't know because you're peeing in the pool you're peeing in the grotto i mean come on no you

[78:12]have to be people are swimming in there yeah people are always swimming in pools i pee in aaron they're

[78:18]always swimming in pools i pee in aaron they're always swimming in pools i pee in aaron they're

[78:19]always swimming well that's why you're not a playboy that's a good point a playboy would

[78:23]never be in a pool i also think the key to being a playboy is like you show up at parties and you're

[78:28]always like beyond fashionably late and people are super excited to see you and you've got other

[78:34]stuff to do so like you go you are the hit of the party and you're only there because you've got

[78:39]like better places to go than all these hanging out with all these poor saps but you brought

[78:44]something to keep the party hours you brought something that's going to really keep the party

[78:49]and then cake or whatever i go in and i and i show them my thigh and what have i put on at the tanning

[78:55]salon a playboy bunny sticker on there damn did the hottest girls in my high school do that oh

[79:02]if you had a playboy bunny tan line thing there's a good chance i jacked off thinking about you i'm

[79:08]not gonna lie okay i'm sorry for anybody that hears that that knows that that probably happened

[79:13]you were hot

[79:15]you were hot

[79:19]sorry to all those people from rob's high school who were listening

[79:22]aaron went to a tanning place where it was so it was it was a discount place all they had were

[79:29]hustler stickers you could put a hustler sticker just real smut swanee river rock and i played this

[79:34]song because we're up to disc three we did it

[79:37]what kind of man are you the singer here is marianne fisher

[79:43]now guess what ray charles and marianne

[79:49]fisher did

[79:49]went out for coffee they had sex he's horny

[79:54]i mean it sounds like it would be a pretty sultry evening there they sound true yeah

[80:02]it's true

[80:04]i gotta say though if you're making love to ray charles and he turns the light off you'd be like

[80:10]oh i'm in his world now you know what i mean like he would have the advantage

[80:13]and you know when he busts how good it feels

[80:17]tell all the world

[80:19]about you

[80:19]i love any sort of happy uplifting ray charles song

[80:23]kind of fun here too because we switch into big time stereo

[80:28]it just fits like a john hughes movie right

[80:33]big time

[80:34]uh no i i gotta say this i picked this song my bonnie

[80:39]because i was like you know that you're a superstar when they're like hey what song do you want to

[80:45]cover and he's like hey how about that one who uh but that uh lady who lies over the ocean

[80:49]yeah yeah yeah the one who lies over the sea that's the one i'm gonna cover yeah and then

[80:53]they're gonna use this how they illustrate the major sixth in theory class oh but he doesn't

[80:58]do it he chooses not to do it what he doesn't do it what well it's supposed to be my body lies but

[81:07]he doesn't do it pretty pretty baller isn't it if you take the most the one thing it's held for

[81:15]you're like i'm not doing that thing the issue so that's it that's it

[81:19]major six because i got to admit when i was in a teaching class because i was in a teaching class

[81:22]at saint olaf it was all music teachers so one thing would be true and that is every week they

[81:28]would come back from their student teaching devastated their lives are absolutely exposing

[81:33]music teachers to middle schoolers and high schoolers is a torturous affair that nobody

[81:37]should imagine they'd be like i just want people to love the flute it's like nobody's gonna love

[81:41]the flute they hate your class hey i got news for you math teachers spanish teachers everyone

[81:46]hates your classes okay no one hates your classes

[81:49]nobody likes the class how would you rank them rob like worst of first most like worst by far

[81:55]every and i can tell you because i taught it math everybody's mad at you they're mad at you before

[82:00]they set foot in the door parents will threaten you like my kid better know this by the end

[82:04]otherwise they're not i'm like what job are people doing with math what job are we doing with math i

[82:10]cannot tell you how many times i've had to use sign in my life zero i don't want to sound like

[82:14]that guy who's like oh it's so good it's quadrilateral season i haven't used a lot of math

[82:18]the cosine of

[82:19]the cosine of the number of listeners to this episode equals the tangent of listeners zero and

[82:25]i and i do i like math i actually but it's it's the worst class and the next up the languages

[82:31]that is the next class where if parents are pissed about something it's a language class

[82:35]then but kind of history yes i feel like in college though if you were doing spanish it's

[82:41]because that's what everyone did in high school you had to get your language credits

[82:44]i feel like the the guys we knew that did norwegian or some of the other languages

[82:49]it felt like they were more into it it may be it is spanish is that people feel forced into that

[82:55]one because that's what's available all through middle school rob or not i think you're of the

[82:59]opinion that because everybody does it it's going to be easier that was always my thought i was like

[83:03]well everybody speaks it i should learn this and and it'll be easy it was not the only thing that

[83:07]got me through is that the movie we watched in college she knows i had watched the whole thing

[83:12]in high school so i knew all of it i never had to go to the language lab i didn't have to practice

[83:16]spanish and a guy on the football team was from costa rica and would write a book about it and

[83:19]my papers for me uh all right what i'd say now this is of course parts one and two electric listen

[83:27]to this he plays a electric piano on tour because he doesn't trust the tuning on these pianos he's

[83:33]playing 300 dates a year at this point 300 dates a year crazy yeah that's crazy and so he sits down

[83:40]this is his first pop music hit he sits down and just improvises this at a concert one day

[83:46]and the crowd goes crazy

[83:49]and so he's like oh he ended once he recorded this every concert he did he ended with this song

[83:55]i mean this sounds like amphetamines right this sounds like everybody we're doing 300 nights a

[84:00]year ever like the drummer how's the drummer doing this like this cannot be done sober right

[84:04]this is crazy and somebody just hopped out there and did this and improvised it's wild so then we

[84:09]get to this part this is what had it banned most radio stations wouldn't play this version of the

[84:14]song because of this

[84:14]this is what it was like

[84:19]in the 50s radio stations would not play because of this

[84:22]because it sounds too much like sex i mean it does sound like sex right it sounds like it's

[84:28]like the adam sandler sketch are these people at a concert or having sex i'm sure sex where

[84:33]both people are making noise aaron okay and not once does he say is it in there's nothing else

[84:42]he's doing with those sounds i mean like it wasn't supposed to sound like anything else sorry that's

[84:48]it

[84:49]but do you think people maybe in the 50s you did maybe you know what i could see where if i lived

[84:54]in the 50s with no internet and no mtv videos and no grind can you imagine a world with no mtvs the

[85:02]grind that's yeah you would hear ray charles going do it with the air and i'll put on you i'll put you

[85:07]on the left okay now i'm gonna put those in the different sides does this make you horny let's do

[85:16]this i'm gonna send this back in time maybe in the 50s you just got that that's how horny they were

[85:21]is that when they heard that they're like god i got a bust they were repressed man i don't know

[85:25]this is tough well let's get into the rating guys i don't know if i'm gonna be able to stay for the

[85:29]end here i gotta head over to the nude review shop we're a topless we're a topless woman is

[85:37]just selling you various retail items shop uh yeah two uh yeah two waters thanks

[85:44]this is the first nude review shop i've been to that didn't have a free hot dog bar

[85:49]can i get one of those gatorades with the extra electrolytes yeah

[85:52]so thirsty do you hear this hits do you hear this song

[85:56]yeah i've been up in my room with my doctor dr mutombo uh listen we don't care about this album

[86:06]it's fun but we don't care what we care about is this should this be album 2010 from the future

[86:11]there are kind of i mean

[86:14]i've come back in time to tell you that you need to not do the podcast with your friends

[86:25]it actually affects your health really badly you're up too late way too much

[86:28]honestly you could just text the jokes to the guys that they get it you think if i texted the

[86:33]the text chain and just said mutombo was my doctor and he checked my prostate i think i would get

[86:38]just as good a response yeah but you're not there in person to hear it rob rob i know matt couldn't

[86:44]do it to me but i'm here to listen to music with you

[86:44]tonight and you were pretty insistent on making it happen because we were going to have another

[86:47]extended break yes people out of town and whatever i'm thinking about the foot freaks out there

[86:52]and and a part of me thinks that uh there was one or two people that were not happy

[86:56]that we had a replay last week and i feel like that hit you right like right in the guts

[87:00]you know what i a thousand percent disagree i thought that chuck berry because you said this

[87:05]is a funny episode i listened to it back it was so fucking funny it was really funny now it wasn't

[87:10]the highlight of my life which is a joke that russell told earlier that may or may not be

[87:14]in the podcast but it was a good episode who would have thought an episode about toilet

[87:19]cams we could make that work it was crazy you did it probably i guess the whole odds you pulled it

[87:25]off i just want to remind you it was in a barbecue restaurant that's where the toilet

[87:32]cams were a barbecue restaurant it's crazy maybe it was a barbecue chip restaurant oh my god russell

[87:37]hit me with it what flavor is chili purple everybody knows that it's from the drew

[87:44]now is this album rolling well-toned perfect at 210 okay it got done as i'm not gonna lie it's

[87:50]going from 54 to 210 that's a harsh reality for ray charles that's tough it shouldn't be up at 54

[87:56]did this album get rolling boned it shouldn't be this far down on the list it should be higher up

[88:00]which of course is a lower number or is this a rolling groan

[88:04]uh

[88:04]uh

[88:08]uh

[88:10]uh

[88:10]uh

[88:14]okay your great grandma back there just

[88:18]oh god i'm gonna bust i got blue walls what's gonna get us bad from spotify this is it well

[88:24]that's great because i just rejoined up my membership i heard they have a la liga going

[88:30]where you have to speak spanish music now is this rolling well-toned rolling bone or rolling groan

[88:35]aaron what do you think ray charles birth of soul i get why we need to have a ray charles

[88:42]compilation because as we talked about there

[88:44]wasn't a studio album that featured these songs which are very important i think if they had cut

[88:48]it down been a little more economical with it it could have been rolling boned i'd like it where it

[88:53]is though it's good it's good music so i'm gonna give it a rolling well-toned uh russell what do

[88:59]you think rolling well-toned rolling boned or rolling groan i would love to own this on vinyl

[89:04]i've been thinking about expanding my vinyl collection trying to get more of the some of

[89:07]the albums we've listened to i would love to own this and have part of this in my collection to put

[89:12]this on all the time but it has no business beat on this list i'm out on the compilations

[89:17]you bring that into the house of my tumbo i say get that shit out of here rolling groan

[89:23]so good unfortunately you guys are incorrect okay so you guys are doing the you know what

[89:30]our little stubby figures are not nearly as impressive when we do that's true

[89:35]when we do it just looks sad nobody's like my middle knuckle goes almost like halfway up

[89:42]it's not like my finger is very far extended put your finger toward the camera more and then it

[89:48]looks like it's really long then you have the big motumbo finger that looks like we're doing

[89:51]something very this show is so dumb this album okay this album gets gets a rolling uh give me a

[90:02]second here and this better this gets a rolling don't turn the lights on mess around yeah oh

[90:12]this album is fun you cannot listen to this and not think a song about barbecue is fun

[90:19]do the mess around it's great it's a great time now it's fun

[90:26]i want to do the mess around which aaron told me earlier is just hand stuff over pain

[90:31]anyway

[90:33]next up next week we have joy division we get a math class

[90:42]joy long division hey this extra song is a remainder uh and the album is called unknown

[90:48]pleasures which i assume is hands in the pants stuff when you want to hear about the greatest

[90:53]albums of all time but you're just too lazy to look it up online if you want to hear from guys

[91:04]you gotta do it

[91:04]i've got the perfect podcast for you jack

[91:12]beck did it better i mean the the one thing i didn't tell you guys when i when i had to get

[91:16]rid of the class i did tell them i was down there to deep drop that class oh we gotta keep it in

[91:23]he's just he's taunting you he's taunting you

[91:29]getting out you're getting out huh

[91:41]Thank you.

[92:11]Thank you.

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