The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle (1968)

[00:00]Rob, I was going to tell you last week we were doing that Velvet Underground album. I actually, you guys asked if I bought it. I did. I bought it online. Wow. But the only thing I'm worried about is I'm a little worried my credit card statement is going to show the other thing I bought, the big naturals. Do you know how to get that off my statement? Rob? Am I supposed to take this? You know what I'm going to do, Russell? I'm going to take this. I'm going to paste it to the end of the last episode. No, this is the intro to this episode.

[00:30]Oh, it's the intro to this episode. You don't want me doing a little looper action where you go, but here's the deal. Add it and start it with the same thing. Cut it right off in the middle where it ends, and then it is the punchline at the beginning of the next one. Oh, my God, Russell. Such a good bit. I love it. In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine. This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own, unless you disagree.

[01:00]Please sit back and enjoy. Beck did it better. We are all the way up to album 243, and from 1968, hey, I'll owe you one. We have the zombies. I mean, guys, can you imagine New Year's Eve, 1968? Everybody's just waiting. Just waiting for the moment. Hey, the ball's not going to drop. We have the zombies. with Odyssey and Oracle, okay?

[01:31]And I gotta say, speaking of the Odyssey, the older I get, the more I understand Odysseus just getting on a boat for a long journey with his bros. You know what I mean? Just like, hey, family, see you later. I get it, where am I going? I don't know. I don't know. Okay, are we gonna go see women so attractive they have to lash me to this mast? Yes, of course, okay? It's like when you go to a strip club and you tell your friends, do not let me spend over $100 in the strip club. You know what I mean? That's your original Odysseus. That's one of those where he's like, you know that time where you went to the strip club

[02:01]and said, don't do that. It's like Manny at my wedding. Take my wallet. Don't let me spend more than $100 with these sirens, please. That's okay. I can't remember. Why do we have Manny's wallet? I can't remember if that was before or after he told my dad, you have many beautiful wives as he's looking at my two sisters. Okay, classic Manny bit. Now, Manny, of course, got on the limo. Now, of course, Russell, we talked about it, and I hate to bring up the limo again, Russell. I know this is a sensitive subject for you. And probably as we get closer and closer to your nuptials,

[02:31]I should not be talking about this as much to try to make this a race from your brain. But when we were in the limo, my dad and I were in charge of buying alcohol. Now, if you want two people less competent to buy alcohol for a group, you could not pick out anybody more than my dad. It's just all Mike's Heart Lemonades or what? It was two six-packs of Mike's Heart and a bottle of Tito's. No, the Smirnoff Ice is in the other limo. Can I get some Zimas and some Jolly Ranchers, please? For two limos. For two limos, I want to say my memory is

[03:00]we brought two bottles of champagne and put them on ice. That is not enough. Now, first of all, my wedding party is two limos. Don't think about that. Don't think about why we had to have two limos that my wedding party was so big that we had to have two limos. But that's the way it is. And then why somebody had to sit up front. Well, listen. Well, yeah, well, they weren't big enough. I sang at the wedding. I was not in a limo, so I didn't make the cut. Oh, this story. I mean. Listen, I can tell you guys. Two limos, I was in neither of them. None of you guys were at the back of the limos except for me. And I can tell you, it was a blast. Okay, we're having a blast back there.

[03:30]We're having a great time. But somebody did bring a bottle of wild turkey. Okay. Now, you would think, oh, that's good. Then everybody's going to drink that bottle. No. Okay, only one person is going to drink that bottle. And later, he's going to come and tell my dad, you have many beautiful wives. And give me his wallet for the evening. Yep. I thought last week we were supposed to talk about a dentist last week. Why didn't we talk about dentists? You know what? We got to save the dental talk. Are you still eating Boston baked beans? I'm trying not to. I know it sounds so bad. Are you going to brush your teeth?

[04:00]It's a week later. He's already talked about it. He brushes them after at some point. Time. What is it? Time is what? What is your line? What's that? Time is linear. So I will be brushing my teeth. Will I be brushing my teeth later? Yes. Aaron, it's the summer. You don't have to do it in the summer, Aaron. It's 1 a.m. Will I be brushing my teeth by tonight? Yes. Think about it. Okay. Okay. Nice. Einstein, Stephen Hawking would be like, oh, God, this is the smartest guy I've ever heard in my life.

[04:31]This guy is really smart. That's my last impression of him. Rob doesn't have to go to work till Labor Day. He's good on the teeth for a while. It turns out you don't actually have to wash your hands after you pee. No, we can't. What? He's smart. Anything he says is smart stuff. Yeah, Aaron, I'm going to brush my teeth at night, just like I wash my hands after I pee at a urinal. Oh, boy. Real necessary. Okay. Kooky science stuff going on. Listen. Let's turn on K-Rob. Let's see what's going on.

[05:00]All right. Now, you would never believe that some karaoke song tracks actually have background singers, and sometimes they can be a little distracting, so try not to listen to those singers. And let's listen to the main voice on this random song that we're turning on from K-Rob. K-R-O-B. What's up, everybody? Welcome to K-Rob. K-R-O-B. Today, we're talking about eating in the summer, but I've got something that are going to tip the scales. Oh, yeah. I know I will be eating. At a fish fry. Oh, yeah.

[05:30]And I won't be asking them whether they will fry up the fish skin. It would taste so bad. Taste so bad. It's just like eating a scab. Should be a crime to be eating fish skin. Thank you. Such a good song. It is. Hey, everybody. Save your dad. The best. Oh, no, no, no. I enjoy eating the fish skin.

[06:00]Yeah, I like how it's slimy and gross. It's my favorite part. Is it gross? Is it gross? I'm just worried. I'm so worried about the mercury. And does it taste kind of fishy? I bet it does. It feels like it would always be slimy. But they do it on Top Chef. I don't care. They do weird shit on that show. Oh, it'd be a crime to be eating fish skin.

[06:35]Thank you. Oh, nice, Rob. My wife asked me what the song tonight was about, and I said, oh, it's eating fish skin. She goes, that's disgusting. We had sea bass at the Italian place tonight. Did not eat the skin, Russell. Wait, you went to a restaurant? You went to a restaurant where they serve fish skin? You often left it there. I said, and I quote, Aaron says you should eat the fish skin, and I, and my wife, said, Aaron has a lot of fucked up dudes on food. I was like, hey,

[07:00]couldn't have said it better myself. And I want to say that. She doesn't listen to this. Yeah. No, but I, no, but I, I, I, I have her read the transcript every time, Russell. Hey, Rob, question. You think she even knows what three other people are on the podcast? Could she name them? If you recall, the podcast was a major source of friction at the beginning, Russell. She was equally mad at all three of you, but especially Aaron. Now, I wanted to point out during that, I did say something that eating the fish skin is like eating a scab.

[07:30]Now, I don't know if that's going to affect your eating the fish skins in the future, but it's true. The skin is the same as a scab. You cook it up. It's hard. It's crispy. Think about it. I no longer take food advice from a man who's consumed 37 servings of Boston baked beans over a two week period. I don't feel great. You know what I mean? There's a serious lack of omega fatty omega acids. You just wonder, like, I know that like Dan and Dave, Carl Lewis, Edward Moses, never once have they been like, I ate so many Boston baked beans.

[08:00]I'm like, and you start like, oh, I don't know. You just know. Okay. Listen, I can't talk anymore about Boston baked beans. We can't do it. I got three. I got three guys here that are we are going to listen to an album that went so badly. It wasn't the cream or the clear. It was Boston baked beans that made me hit those 73 home runs. See, not John Kruk. If you said John Kruk was eating a bunch of Boston baked beans, that makes sense. That makes sense. Cecil, Fielder. Yeah, exactly. Those are Boston baked beans. Guys,

[08:30]Jabba Chamberlain, Boston baked bean guy. Jabba Chamberlain. Whoa. La Tortuga. Boston baked bean guy. For sure. Big baby Davis. Boston baked bean guy. Oh, wow. Hmm. Who is the nose tackle for the Ravens all those years? Alati Nota or whatever his name was. Oh my God. Boston baked bean guy. Oh my God. Did we say Jerry Lorenzen? Fitz Wilfork? Big Boston baked bean guy.

[09:01]Jerry Ball. Big Boston baked bean guy. Big Boston baked bean guy. Special Boston baked beans. Now, I've got three guys here. Robbie Avila. We're going to listen to an album. Oliver Miller. Big Boston baked bean guy. That did so poorly. Big Boston baked bean guy. He's probably the tallest Boston baked bean guy there is. Did I ever tell you? My buddy Barrett and I would watch the Timberwolves all the time. Post-college. We watched the Timberwolves all the time when Oliver Miller was on the team. And we always called him the O-dozer. Because we thought

[09:30]that's what he was. He was just the O-dozer walking around dozing people like a big bulldozer. Barrett gets a letter to the announcers. Where they're just reading letters from fans, right? This is like, hey, a letter to the game. The game, the letter, the question of the day. That's what it was. My buddy sends in the question of the day to the Timberwolves announcers where they will read a question on the air. His question was, my friend and I call Oliver Miller the O-dozer. That's it. No question mark. No follow-up. No nothing. He turned the Timberwolves

[10:00]question of the game just to the statement of the game. And the guy said, I got a joke here written by Rob's daughter. O-dozer, that's what I call my penis. No, sorry. It doesn't work. Hey, for Pride Month, that joke is going to go over big next Tuesday. But I did my stand-up at Pride Month. My daughter has a penis, Aaron, that joke is going to kill. Now, well, you know the time I got on the Vikings broadcast, right? Where they were doing- They were doing Twitter things on the bottom and it had your Twitter

[10:30]name on it. And I was like, well, fuck. This is a great time to break out one of the greatest jokes of all time. So I write, hey, my aunt on Twitter, I write, hey, the Everything website. Russ and I call it X now. I write, hey, my aunt is a huge Vikings fan. Just want to say hi. How are you doing, Norma? Norma Stitz. I want to call him. So they run this. They run this. Oh, I've got pictures on my Instagram. They run this for like

[11:00]the next hour on a loop. Norma Stitz, you know, at Rob M. Blank on Twitter. Norma Stitz at Rob M. Blank. All of a sudden, my Twitter goes crazy. I'm getting messages. LOL, this is so fucking funny. I was like, I get it. I get it. This is what my life should be. Norma Stitz went off and it was like the Vikings preseason, you know, when it's like Paul Allen doing the announcing. So they don't give a shit what's on the screen. They couldn't do anything. They couldn't care less. We're looking at like, you know, some running,

[11:30]some running Juco running back that's never going to sniff the end of something. You know what I mean? Oh, oh, this wide receiver from Germany. Oh, I wonder how he's going to do. I wonder how a wide receiver from Germany that the Vikings draft is going to do. You fucking dumb shits. You know who is a big Boston Bates beans guy? Who? Norma Stitz. Norma Stitz is a good one because a lot of people don't know it. So they'd never see it coming. And Stitz, I mean, it kind of sounds like if you had a Miss Stitz that lived down the street. Now, never forget, of course,

[12:01]and I hate to say it again, that when we're doing those Zoom calls during COVID, I did change my Zoom name to Norma Stitz. And then my wife, my kid used that Zoom for the first two weeks of middle school where she was not ever in physically in school. So for the first two weeks, she was Norma Stitz of middle school. So she's doing fine. Okay. Okay. It turns out the social workers around here are so nice. They're so understanding. Listen, I've got three guys here who are going to listen

[12:30]to this album and it did so badly in the ratings and nobody liked it that the band disbanded for over 40 years. Oh, okay. Don't, man. No. Okay. I don't think any of us will make it to number five. Yeah, it seems like a stretch. Oh, guys, when I'm 80, you know what? When I'm 80, I'm not going to hold back anymore. God damn, I'm going to say what I'm thinking. I can't wait. What's the cutoff for you, Rob? 62? Like, what's the cutoff where you will have all filters off?

[13:00]I'm getting real fucking close. I'll tell you, I got somebody who I was working with and I was like, hey, we need to coordinate this thing and she goes, and she was like 30 and she's like, okay, sounds good. I'm not going to be in tomorrow morning because it's my birthday and I almost said something. I almost go, who the fuck cares? You're 31. Nobody cares about your fucking birthday. You're taking work off for your birthday? You take a week off to go weightlifting. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone should take their birthday off. I'm working my ass off. You should not be taking

[13:30]your birthday off work. Yes, you should. Taking your birthday off. No. If I was a teacher, I would not want to be. What are you talking about? Oh my God, guys. If you're a teacher, you want to be at school on your birthday? Fuck no. I would not want to be in there taking a beat with those kids on my birthday. Do you know how many kids say, do you know how many kids say happy birthday to you? I mean, if you tell the kids, let's just tell the kids maybe a couple of days ahead of time. You get some gifts sometimes. Rob is a passionate hound. Rob wants the, if he can get the attention from larger people, he's going to take it. Yeah. What do you guys get? Happy birthday sung to you once, twice? Losers.

[14:00]Okay. I do it every class and I do it at Suzanne's speed. Happy birthday to, I'm going to do the whole song. You. We did it. We had a kid. This is what's going to drop bad off before the end. We had a kid on the baseball team this year whose birthday was like the, during the baseball season. And he, he demanded that we sing happy birthday to him on the practice. That was like closest to his birthday. That was definitely cut him. He's right. This is the kind of shit I'm talking about. He was like,

[14:30]Hey, are we going to sing happy birthday to me? Happy birthday. Not on your birthday is like how am I the only one that I'm not a good singer, but am I, am I the only one that railroads every happy birthday to get them going? No, you got to be. I started singing louder. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Yeah. It's way funnier. It's way funnier. You got to start happy birthday. So slow. It's the funniest shit. Would you just go happy birthday?

[15:01]And everybody's like, and you fight it all the time. You're like, you're like, you're like the roots back there. You're just dragging out that beat the whole time. It's great. Aaron, what's your favorite birthday prank? Birthday prank. Yeah. Why would there be any birthday pranks? Oh, for me, it was sending the, the, the coming off guard. I didn't know that was a thing. Yeah. Yeah. It was sending the picture of the kids on. What's that shit that came out? I got it for me. It was sending that picture of the placenta to my sisters

[15:30]instead of the baby. That's to me, the number one and number two birthday story in like two months. Yeah. You know what? Very excited about that story. Let's make it four. I've got a great picture of man night hanging out in New York. I'm going to send you check, check your text and don't look at the preview. Now I've got Russell in Minneapolis. Russell, how are you doing? Rob? This podcast is all I have to protect me from pain. Oh, that's actually that legitimately made me sad. Okay. I was going to say,

[16:02]Russell, just call me anytime you want to talk if you need help, but that's not true. Do not do not tell me because I tend to, I will do that. Oh, don't worry. Don't worry. I know. Okay. And for me, well, on the East coast, it's way too late. I'll never be up. Matt rolling, going up Matt in Minneapolis. How are you doing? Good. This is for John from Edina. Since he listens to this podcast, right away in the morning because you always get it out on Tuesdays, right away in the morning, especially for John from Edina.

[16:30]Yeah. So John from Edina, good morning to you. I hope you're feeling better, baby. Wow. Wow. No, I have to say last week I was two hours late releasing the podcast. That is because I woke up early and I was playing video games before my last day of school. Okay. You play video games in the morning? Yeah. That is fucked. It's bad. That's messed up. He takes a bath. He plays video games. Hey, I'll tell you this. The Venn diagram of people that eat multiple servings of Boston baked beans and play video games

[17:00]before work in the morning, there is an intersection there. There's a big one. There's a big one. I am fighting for my life right now. You guys know what happens to me. You guys know what happens to me when summer starts. Yeah. It happens every year. Hell in a handbasket. I spiral so bad. Currently, and I can tell you, there's one thing I know. There's one way I know when I'm spiraling. That's why I've got my gallon of water. I'm drinking this water. I'm drinking this. I put the Boston baked beans in the shoe closet, which unfortunately is right by where we're recording. So I'm not eating as many of those.

[17:30]But the biggest way I can tell if I'm on a summer spiral is that I have only been jacking off once a day. If that number goes above one, I know that it's time for a reset. You got to reset. Okay. You know what I mean? Because for a person with a family to be doing it twice in a day, there's something going on. You know what I mean? Like you're getting up or everybody. I can't know anymore about this. Or you're out there later than everybody. But you can't do both.

[18:01]This is a bit for your standup. You can't do both. This is a bit for your standup. Along with the saddest days of jack off. Saddest days, yeah. It's so good. Now, what are we talking about? It's got to be leap day, right? My guys, we're on this podcast. Leap day is a great Russell. I only jack up for leap day. That would be shameful. No, no, no. That's the extra day. Anything goes on leap day. It's like the purge. You know what I mean? You can do whatever you want. Man. This doesn't count. In Minneapolis, how are you doing?

[18:30]Good. This is going to go out to John and Diana. I forgot about that. Because he listens to this. Because you post this thing on Tuesday mornings at six o'clock so he can listen to it on his right. Every time. Every time you do it. So, John, good morning to you. I hope you're feeling better, baby. Now, that story I was telling before I got a little diverted or it was something. Who knows what I was talking about. Is I was playing video games. I did get the text. Podcast is not out yet. And I go, oh, shit. And then I went and posted the podcast and then went to work.

[19:00]And so when I got that text back of like, oh, summer Rob not waking up to post the podcast early enough. I was like, that's true. I was totally legit. I was playing video games. Wow. Yeah. What's the difference between if I get up and take a bath? It's better than me taking a bath every morning, which is also what I was doing. What are you playing, Rob? It's six in the morning. I can't. I can't even tell you guys. Well, now I'm going to tell you I did win three games in a row. I'm not going to talk to you guys about video games. It's Marvel Rivals. I cannot get enough of it. It's all I think about. It's all my TikTok is full of.

[19:31]It's all I want to talk about. It's fun. It tickles every part of my brain. It's bad. Guys, there's a counter for hours that I put into it. Oh, why? Oh, no. The counter now reads. Is it more than podcast hours we've done? 11 days. No. Days. Nuh-uh. Nuh-uh. Oh. I started this game like in March. Oh, Rob. Do you know how good I'd be at the guitar

[20:00]if I played it for 11 days straight? Do you know how strong I'd be if I benched for 11 days? How good of a table dancer would you be if you did it for 11 days? Table dancer for 11 days. He'd be a great table dancer if it wasn't for his 90s. There's very few. Let's see. 24 times 11. Impossible to do in your head. There's very few things in my life I've done for the equivalent of 24 of 13 days or whatever. But I can tell you everything I have done that much, I'm really good at. Like, crazy good at. Very talented at. This video game,

[20:30]Russell, Russell, this video game, you can be in bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, like, ultra, and then one above. It's like a delta. I'm in, I'm in low gold. I'm not even halfway up the ranking ladder. I'm terrible at it. Rob, what is, what is 24 times 10 days? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. How many hours is that? 24 times 10 days. That sounds like a delicious day at raising canes. I love them 10 days. Chicken 10 days.

[21:01]How many hours is that? How many hours? Okay, okay. You really want me to do the math? Okay, fine. What did I say the number was? 10 to 12? 11, 11, 24. Now he's repeating it while he's thinking. 12? Yeah, this is easy for me. I mean, at 12, right? So 240 plus, 240 plus 40, 288 hours. Fuck, I wish I would have done that math. God damn it. And after tomorrow, it's going to be like 300. But it was 11. What's 11? Huh? Minus 24. You know what? It doesn't matter because it's going to be up to 12 before I go to bed.

[21:30]It'll be 12 by the pocket. Guarantee it. Guarantee it. Should I set a reminder? I'll set a reminder right now. Ready? Can you set a reminder a week from now? Check how long you've been playing video games and send that number to the guys. There. I set a reminder for a week from now. I'm going to text you guys of how much I've upped the game since then. It's going to be gross. It's disgusting. Now, I've got Aaron in California. Now, Aaron, okay, Aaron was telling me that, did you guys hear about this?

[22:00]Aaron was all fired up about this, that Trump is trying to get a Qatari plane as a gift. He wants him to give a 747 for Air Force One as a gift. And Aaron's like, why would he want a Qatari plane? I think at best, he'd want the Super Nintendo. That's exactly what I thought. I thought he should get it. Maybe the, the Switch 2. Because that's the new one. The Switch 2. Q Dreamcast. I told you guys.

[22:30]You don't have to worry. All your worried days are gone. This will be our year. It's a long time to come. Let's talk about the zombies. Wow. That's great. So, Rob, what is the game you've played the most in your life? Is it this one or not? No. I bet I've got more in Destiny. Did you have, I can almost guarantee it. Did you have a period like late 20s, early 30s where you stopped playing? No. No. No. No. No. No. You've always played. Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no. I did. I didn't, I didn't have a TV in New York if you remember till like. That's right. After the pandemic. You know what I mean?

[23:01]Like, and then I got an Xbox and now I can't play guitar anymore. Who knows? Are those things connected? We don't know. We're not sure. Okay. But I will say this. Lately, Russell, when I've been playing, my hands have gotten a little sore sometimes. I'm playing enough video games where my hands get sore. You're getting carpal tunnel from the blisters? I'm a little concerned. Okay. My hands are getting sore. Dropping deadlifts could be related to the video games. We're not sure. Listen, let's get right into the voicemail. I just noticed there's a June 12th patch. Do you have a June 12th patch, Rob?

[23:30]K-Rob. K-R-O-B. Aaron, you think I don't know what's in the June 12th patch? I don't know. I'm just checking. You think I don't know if they're going to affect my Rocket Raccoon or Venom? Just checking. I'm looking it up. Trying to figure this out. Listen, it's, here's a question. Who on the text chain plays the second most video games you think? On our, on our, the whole of the text chain. Who's number two? And is it over, is it over 30 minutes a week? No, it's not over 30. I might be mad.

[24:00]I don't, Matt, you, I mean, it's kids play by default because I play with my kids. Well, my kids are in, in the city when I'm playing almost all the city. But you know what? I'm not, I'm not bringing the Xbox to Minnesota. We're going to go cold turkey on that for, and I'm going to spend time with my family. I was going to say, he's going to spend no time planning our, our live show because he's made no effort on that. Don't, you want me to, I'll tell you, I told you what I'm going to do.

[24:30]I'm going to unleash Jenny on that. If you really want me to, I'll do it. Yeah, I'll do it. You just say the word. Hey, I'll release the hounds big time. Are you spending less time at the cabin this summer than other summers? Shouldn't you be there by now? Don't get me fucking started about that shit either. I'm the only guy you're going to see on the beach in Mexico like this. Wait, I'm on the beach in Mexico and Russell, I hate to say this, Russell, I hate to bring this up because I know what the beach in Mexico makes you think about. But Jenny did say today, hey, I think it'd be fun

[25:00]if we invited Russell's roommate and Russell down to Mexico with us. And I said, no, we cannot do that. We cannot invite them. Russell's busy. He's got stuff going on. Now, let's play. Gotta wash his hair. Let's play today's voicemail. Oh, can I say this, by the way? This is from my sister, the dentist. I forgot a very important part about the duck penis story. The reason that story existed about the duck penis, and I hate to talk about duck penises again,

[25:30]is that when the guy asked to see a picture of her receipt to make sure she was picking up the right order, she opened up her phone and it was on a big blown up image of a duck penis that she then showed him. So once again, Beck did it better and guys, guys are seeing a lot of Beck did it better, but too real. You bleeped that out, right? So if we don't get... Oh, terrible. I listened to that episode where we did it. It was the Curtis Mayfield. I had to beep like 10 times.

[26:00]It was terrible. Oh, I just did it again. God damn it. Matt, you should definitely get a crown. They have a pretty high profit margin. Be sure to schedule at 2.30 p.m. XOXO, Suzanne. Wow. First of all, my sister gave you hugs and kisses at the end, which is fucked. Okay. Love it. I would never. Can I just say this? I would never put up with that. To be fair, she may think Matt looks like Steve that Steve as well. She may be confused. That's true. That's true.

[26:30]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Oh, hey, are you guys trying to make me think about my sister getting horny to Matt's voice? No, I'm not talking about that. Do you guys know why she said I should get it at 2.30? Yeah. Why is that? It's a dentist's favorite time. Dentist's favorite time. Wow. Tooth hurty. That's because that's the time. That's because they cut out early. They made no money on the day. They can just get out of there. They don't stay. They don't stay at work till 3.30 like some real heroes

[27:00]in the United States. You know what I mean? Guys, you don't work till 3.30. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, I'm there till 4.30 every day because I have to be in the weight room. Now, I have said I am going to stop working in the weight room when I turn 50. I cannot be a 50-year-old who still works in the weight room after school. I cannot do it. The problem, Russell, is they pay me $15,000 a year to do it, which is an obscene amount of money for me to sit in a weight room. What am I supposed to do?

[27:30]How much of your lifting do you get done in that weight room? Almost none. Okay. The weights are so thick that I, no, this sounds like I'm making something up. The weights are so thick I can't fit enough on the bar sometimes. These are like the safety weights for the kids. Kind of. I get it. Yeah. But you, you could bench, right? Yeah. They don't have the right height bench and I think it's been screwing up my shoulder. So that's what I mean. It's kind of falling apart. They have things like pull-ups, dips. Yeah, right. Who's doing those?

[28:00]Not even real lifting. You know what I mean? Love the dips. Dips is my favorite. Treadmills. Dips are a good exercise. They don't even have a hip abductor? They do. I have ordered one. I ordered one. I saw, I have to say, I saw Joe from Richfield. You guys know Joe from Richfield. Do 125 dips in one set of dips. Oh, shit. 125 dips. That's an amazing feat. That's impressive, Joe. I did two sets of three today and I thought my arms were going to fall off. It was skull in one side of my mouth and red man in the other.

[28:30]Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Fuck that. I got to say, guys, if Zins were around when I went to college, God damn. I'd have been doing a lot of those. You know what I mean? Just these, because what are they? They're like intense. And my dentist, listen, the dentist caller is going to hate us talking about this. But what are Zins? They're like intense nicotine. They're like nicotine pouches, right? Wait, are they bad for your teeth?

[29:00]Well, I don't, Aaron, I don't think you're supposed to be chewing nicotine. I think any dentist is going to say that. I suppose not, yeah. They give you a great buzz, though. Holy cow. Do they? Yeah, if you don't use nicotine a lot, yeah. I had the, I had the very, very unfortunate, but very fortunate instance when I was like in seventh or eighth grade of watching somebody try to chew for the first time and instantly throw up. And it just has never made me ever, ever

[29:30]been around so many people, baseball players and all, who chew, never, ever had the desire to do it. It's been the greatest thing ever. I'm so glad I saw that guy throw up. The first time I chewed, I think I've chewed like twice. It really, I'm not good at it at all because all the spitting, I can't, I couldn't keep track of it. It tastes terrible. But I put it in and then I was like, oh, I know what's going to make this go better. I'm going to rub it. So I went like this and rubbed it. Oh, that hurts. And what I don't realize, yeah, literally there's fiberglass in the fucking chewing tobacco. I had a cut in my mouth

[30:00]for like days. But I'll tell you what, I got fucking blasted. Holy shit, I was flying on that shit. Yeah, the first time, whew. Yeah, because I always thought chew was something like old guys did just for like fun. And I was like, oh, these guys are getting fucking zooted. Like they're out of their minds fucking gone on this shit. It was crazy. Because when you smoke a cigarette, you don't like spend five minutes going like, oh my God, is the world ever going to stop spinning? You know what I mean? Like nobody has smoked a cigarette and been like, I'm going to throw up and then do it again. That happens all the time

[30:30]with chew. It's crazy. Like that's how good chew is. It's like, it's the most disgusting thing and tons of people do it. Great vote. Russell, what about you and chew? What's your relationship with chew? First time I did it was at the neighbor's house. This was kind of the neighbor in the neighborhood who was kind of one of the troublemakers. Oh, that's, that's a weird. And so I think we were watching MTV or something like that. This is probably about 14, 15 and he chewed enough to where he could eat while he was doing it. So he was eating

[31:00]Fritos while he was chewing. What? That's crazy. And so I figured, oh, that's you. That's you can do that. So I, I did the, I did it and did the puke in the sink with, within the first time. But I would occasionally chew a little Fritos. I had a few years there where I was like, I would chew if I went fishing once in a while. Fishing boat. Yeah. It's really not my thing, but I'll tell you what, if we could get someone to sponsor our podcast, I would do it daily. Listen to,

[31:32]to the dentist who called in and talked about it. Sorry. We just talked about you. It's very bad. Let's get into, I'm going to tell a true story and see if a John from Otana remembers. My first time chewing was in John from Otana's mom's minivan. We were on our way up for the fishing opener. And I was trying to pack the, somebody gave me the tin of Copenhagen. Oh my gosh. And I was trying to, I was in this car. That's cool as hell, Aaron. Can I just say, that's cool as hell. No way this story is going to turn and you're not going to look

[32:00]cool as hell in my eyes. Trying to pack the tin of Copenhagen because I've seen people do that and the lid fucking comes off in John's mom's minivan. I got it in my eyes. Aaron had to pull over the car. We had to like use water bottles to try to wash Aaron's eyes out of. Of chewing tobacco. Yes. I bet you were fucking flying. I bet you were sky high. And then I had to try to get it out of John's mom's minivan because she was nice enough to loan it to us for the fishing opener. So John, if you're listening, I still think about that

[32:30]and I apologize. I wish I had done that that day. Can you imagine? Like back of my car is always like Cheerios and like, you know, little kid stuff. And it's just like all this, all this red man, long cut back there. Well, God. All right. Well, and I have to say too, when Russell said that he was at his neighbor's place, 14, 15, he was talking about, um, 2014, 2015. That was only 10 years ago where he was eating Fritos in the basement. It's time to see what everybody's up to. I just realized that I've got a 13 year old who will be turning 14 who's seventh grade

[33:00]going to eighth grade. Don't think about that. Yeah, those things could start happening. Down to the first time? No. That shit started. Matt, I'm telling you right now, kids these days, nobody's going to chew. Yeah. Well, especially, yeah, him and his nerdy friends. They're not chewing. And I'm telling you, everybody's a nerd these days. I'm telling you, I'm telling you. Like, the stuff you think we did, if kids these days did it, they would all, like, go to, like, to St. Cloud, that prison in St. Cloud. All of us would be there if we did what we did. The kids are not doing anything fun right now. Nothing cool.

[33:30]Now, rolling going. Aaron, how's it going with you? Well, it's rolling going. I mean, I was actually, I'm going to talk about kids not doing cool stuff. I'm going to talk a little bit about peer pressure because I've grown. Well, Aaron, technically you did your kid by himself with his grandparents for three or four days, so he shouldn't be misbehaving. Yeah, exactly. Aaron? 66 and Mountain Dew. You convinced me I'm also going to talk about peer pressure. Man, oh, I learned, I learned this week of trivia that Mountain Dew was invented as a mixer for whiskey.

[34:00]Has anyone had a whiskey in Mountain Dew? That's how. No, but when I first started drinking because I didn't like beer because, yeah, Barry from Burnsville, first beer I'd ever, didn't drink in high school, first beer I ever had was a, God, what was it? This is Moan. It must have been third floor. Does that sound right? Where those guys all lived? Second or third floor. Yeah. Barry from Burnsville gives me a flat slate. If you came from Moan, you guys are fucked. There's something wrong with the guys

[34:30]who came from that dorm. That's true. That's true. Like, if you're a Hoi Mi guy, you're probably kind of a, probably a pervert. If you're from Moan, you do stupid shit. It's off. It's just off. That's coincidence. We're all staring at each other's windows. So, Barry from Burnsville, the first beer I ever tried was a Blatt's Light. Oh. So, I thought that's what beer tastes. So then for a while, I was like, oh, I can't. Matt, what do you think that can of Blatt's Light cost? Like, if you broke it down per can. It was probably like eight bucks for a 24-pill or something like that.

[35:01]It had to have been something like that. The math is impossible to do. There's no way we could do it. You can't do it in your head. I can tell you that much. Ours freshman year was like natural ice light. Netty ice. Netty ice. It was all bud ice. It was all the ice, beer, because it was higher alcohol. Except the occasional Red Dog. There was some Red Dog in there too. Hey, Matt, according to my calculations, each beer cost $33. Nailed it. Don't tell me. I don't know what I'm doing. So,

[35:31]I had to try to figure out something to drink. So, I think it started out with like root beer schnapps, which was just a bit too sugary or something. But then it turned into like orange vodka with a Mountain Dew, which was just sugar. But I could drink that. You knocked that down. I didn't have whiskey, but I drank it. I mixed a lot of drinks with Mountain Dew kind of the first little while. I got to tell you, Matt, I talk about like drinking because I say I don't drink beer and everybody, nobody, you will not see people shocked at me more than when I say I don't drink beer. They're shocked when they hear that.

[36:00]And I go, yeah, I would have loved to in college. Instead, I was drinking Dew Drivers where it was because the flavor of Mountain Dew, of course, and you know this if you ever drank Mountain Dew and then brushed your teeth, is that it's orange. And so, you can mix it with vodka and make a screwdriver, but it's a Dew Driver okay? It's terrible. I don't recommend it. But your story, Matt, does remind me the first time I had somebody go buy liquor for me as a sophomore. I had a football player. I think Dave, so Adam, my buddy,

[36:31]I guess, Adam, goes buys me alcohol. He's like, what do you want me to buy? I said, okay, here's what I want and I'll never forget. I want Amaretto. I want rum. I want brandy. I was like getting drinks I had heard of in like a fairy tale, I think. You're like, I'm making an eggnog. I'm making a sidecar. Yeah. And I'm making an Amaretto Sour. Yeah, literally when I got busted for drinking in Larson, I was drinking an Amaretto Sour. Can you imagine? No ice, no nothing.

[37:00]Like, what are you doing? They should suspend you for that. They should have kicked me out of school 100%. Yeah. We're railroading Aaron's thing here, but as long as we're talking about this, so Chris was a senior baseball player. Great guy. Hated when we called, but went every single time. Hey, can we get a case? Every single time he would go. So I, you know, he ended up doing the circle of life kind of thing. It was great. But finally, we couldn't get a hold of Chris one time freshman year. And so we did go

[37:30]and ask our JCs. This was like the last couple weeks of school and the JC goes, finally, we've been waiting for you guys to ask all year. Finally, somebody asked. He went right and got us a case. It was the greatest JCs ever. Now, what you have to understand about where we went to school too, it's a dry campus. So you're not supposed to have alcohol on campus. And also you had to have a car to drive to town, which not everybody had. You get in trouble if you get caught with alcohol. It's not that you're not supposed to have it. Even if it's trouble. Now,

[38:00]of course, the most famous story from that is we find out that they are checking for alcohol. We find out they're checking for alcohol in the dorm. I think, were we seniors? Something like that? No, that was the sophomore year because I was going over and I used to carry it up for Barry, for Burnsville. He'd give me his hockey bag. You know, we'd carry it up and then one time you're like, let me do it. Let me do it. So I get a hockey bag and we fill it with pornography all the way up. Every magazine,

[38:30]those hustlers with the chicks peeing, that's going in there. Hey, Russell, if you had to guess was it all your support or did anyone else contribute? No, I only had, well, okay, let's not get into what I had. No, it was not mine. It was only, it was only from like this one pod and it literally like filled up. A hockey bag somehow. Like it was crazy. It was a crazy amount of porn. Russell, what were some DVDs you maybe, that you think maybe got put in there? The only one I'm aware of was Aaron's, the one Aaron brought, the one time Ultimate Squirt. Okay, so Ultimate Squirt. That wasn't mine.

[39:00]Ultimate Squirt 8 or whatever it was. I don't know where I found it. I found it for sure. Yeah, I found it. Russell, how do you think the girls, what's something a female would say on that DVD? I don't even know. Well, technically, Rob, that would be natural naughty titty. Yep, she was into the natural naughties. That's right. God, I've said that a thousand times in my life, I bet. Now, we go over and one person I know from my trip that I went on to Hawaii,

[39:30]Brad is working the front desk and then the dorm director, Pamela is there. The director of all dorms. She is like a legit adult. She is like a 40-year-old adult who is working in a dorm. They've heard there's a problem at Bone. Yeah. So she's going to come over there and regulate it. So I walk in with this bag and I'm making it look heavy. I'm making it look like I'm really struggling with it. And of course, then she says, Rob, I need to see that bag. And I say, no, you don't. No, please. She goes,

[40:00]I need to see the bag. I said, I am begging you. Don't look in this bag. And she opens it and just sees all this hardcore pornography. Goes, oh my God. She closes it back up. I go, okay, thank you. And then I'm kind of like, what do I do now? What now? You know what I mean? So I made the unfortunate decision to go to Brian's room. Brian from Ample Valley. I went right into his room, watched him play Counter-Strike for a while. And then I realized like, oh, she thinks I'm like delivering porn to all these guys

[40:30]and now we're just hanging out and looking at it. I came back up drinking a blue Gatorade, put some sweat on me. I was like, oh, rough day down in the mines. You know what I mean? We had sex. I have a vague memory of like sitting on the stairwell and looking and peeking around the corner and other people knowing that you were walking in. It was like an event. College was crazy, wasn't it? We had a meeting in Hoime because there were too many liquor bottles in the recycling and they finally said, that's enough. We need to have

[41:00]a meeting about this. Aaron from, I don't know where Aaron was from, but Aaron says, okay, we're having a meeting at 3.30 on like a Wednesday. Time to get absolutely fucking blasted. He got so wasted for the alcohol awareness meeting that I had to escort him. Up there and be like, oh, he's kind of sick. And in retrospect, it's like, oh yeah, he got drunk and came to the meeting, obviously. Go ahead, Aaron. I'm sorry. Oh, well, I'll keep it short. I just wanted to talk a little bit about peer pressure because as I said last week, there's a new Turnstile album. It rules. I love it. My son's been into it,

[41:31]so we've been listening to Turnstile in the camp carpool. But then as soon as his friends get in the car, he goes along with their requests to play meow music. So this is just like, it's like some kid made music that's, it's just meows. So it's like, play meow number two. No, play meow number three. All right. Play meow number four. So that's what, that's the, that's the danger of, so they're numbered. It's like meow number nine. Well, if you're going to play it,

[42:00]you got to play the right thing. Number nine. They pull him back down into, back down into the dregs of society. Yeah, they drag him back and we're trying to make progress. Like we've been doing a lot of Green Day. He's been way into Nimrod and then we listened to a little bit of the new Green Day album, which is kind of fun. And then yeah, his kids, drag him back. So man, peer pressure is dangerous, man. I thought I was out of it. I thought I was like fully into cool music that I could enjoy in the carpool and then it lost it. So that's it. That's how it's really going with me. How's everyone going with Matt? Good.

[42:30]I was going to say, my kids listen to like video game music in the back and it's like, yeah, I don't know. I'll go quick. Rob, you can't play anything in the background, so don't worry about it. No worries. It's not stressing me out. This is fine. The lady at Caribou knows me now. That's, that's, that's a good thing. I guess I go to Caribou enough where the lady knows me. Does she know your order? She knows my order and she also knows that I give my wife's phone number for the, for the rewards or whatever thing like that. She goes, okay, what's her number?

[43:00]Did you have the moment where you give the number and then she goes, wait, you're not Sarah and you had to like do the little joke. Nope. Cause I always say like, it's my wife's, it's Sarah. She can keep whatever she's got because somebody has my number at Caribou and I keep for five years and I've been meeting a call corporate office and say like, we got to fix this because I try to put my number in there. Like, let's already registered. I'm like, how can we register? It's my number, you know, kind of a thing. So I've been meeting to do it. Sarah has been benefiting from my, uh, so yeah, that's it. Um,

[43:30]Sarah and I watched Dirty Dancing the other day. That is a great movie. It's so good. That is a great movie. It is a classic 80s movie, but it's a great movie. If you guys have not watched Dirty Dancing in a long time, I highly recommend it. It's a good date night movie. It's a, it's a great movie. And the music I think is even better. Somehow it is better than you remember every single time. It's unbelievable. Every song, it fits in well. You know, I had the time of my life was written for, you know, even though it's set in the 60s, but it's made in the 80s.

[44:01]You know, it was written in 1987. Everything else is, uh, you know, from that era. But this one, it's a little, little weird. Don't, don't think too hard about it, I guess when you, when you're out there. But I figured out maybe the worst people in the world. Ooh. My new favorite Who's that? Likely, likable people in the world. And that is the people who don't understand a sport, but are at a sporting event

[44:31]and they're not watching the sporting event, but they're just talking the entire time and they won't shut the fuck up behind you. Wow. I went to my first Saints game a couple weeks ago with, uh, uh, Eddie and his baseball team, stuff like that, and I think and there's a guy behind all you want to talk about was like Star Wars and all of a sudden we're at a game, but he, he's the loudest talker and he won't just, he, he's, he's with somebody else and he does not take a breath for like six innings and just keeps talking and keeps talking. I struggle with that

[45:00]in general, even for people who do like sports because, uh, I, I do struggle to be social at sporting events because I want to watch the game. Like I do too. I think I do too. Yeah. And the, the, the only thing that comes into a close. Yeah. You want to watch the game. I mean, like I'm, I'm trying to tell, I'm trying to tell Eddie, like this guy, two strikes, he's not stepping. That's what you're trying to do. Blah, blah, blah. You see the, you know, trying to, I'm, I don't know. I'm, I'm weird. I get it. Like I'm, well, I'm not even trying to, it's just like maybe in my brain,

[45:31]I'm trying to watch it. I love watching like the right fielder shift and then saying, oh, is a curve ball coming because he's shifting and a curve ball coming like, oh yeah, I'm smarter than everybody else. Kind of a thing like that. You know, I think I get, I get where you guys are coming from. If you've got the loud person that you can't, you can't unhear if they're constantly going. But I, I would say, I would bet 90% of people that are at baseball games are just there for the social part of sitting there and relaxing. But I'm not lying,

[46:00]Russell. Yeah, I'm not lying for six straight innings. This guy did not take a breath. He did not take a breath. And his buddy maybe said like 10 words because I started counting and Sarah and I are texting back and forth. Like, what's up with this guy? You know, he's right behind this kind of thing. Oh, that's annoying. Right, exactly. And the only people that maybe are a close second at a baseball game are the ones that stand up and are like trying to talk to their kids, whatever, don't realize they're blocking like a whole section of people because they won't just sit down. You know, they have no idea. They're standing during the game.

[46:31]Yeah. We're like, oh, well, you know, cause like, you know, somebody's get, they're bringing down a whole bunch of hot. They're like, oh, well here, we'll get this. Well, now this pass this down. And they just stand for like a batter and a half and not understanding. They just sit down and do all this stuff. There's people that you are blocking their view of the game. Don't get it. Yeah. So get off my lawn. I've, uh, thank you guys for letting me get that off my system so that I can. Well, I want you to know, Matt, there's a great sporting event in Des Moines called the Drake relays,

[47:00]where they often say over the PA, everybody sits, everybody sees. So if you ever want to go to the blue oval, you, you can enjoy sitting down and seeing some great athletes. I paid for my ticket. I can stand and cheer if I want to. Yeah. Russell makes a great counterpoint. The athletic feat there is that you just run in an oval. Oh boy. I mean, do they like, this feels wrong. Do they change? Do they turn right? This feels wrong. Or is it always turning left? If it was a square and you had to make hard,

[47:31]nice three right turns at full speed, it would be way more impressive. So that's the athletic feat. You just turn left. You don't even have, you don't have to turn right. You just have to learn how to turn one way. Sometimes you just run straight. Yeah. Cause of all too. Yeah. Yeah. Did you guys see Trayvon Brumell run nine 84? I don't think he's going to be able to keep it up, but he's back. Did we see that? No, we did not. Aaron Russell rolling, going, how's it going with you? I know Neil saw that. I didn't throw it in there. So one of the reasons Rob sometimes is late with the podcast is Rob does give us the chance to listen to the podcast beforehand.

[48:01]And I typically, I would say 70% of the time I'll listen and send it to him. I'll send comments or edits, but a lot of times we don't get it till Sunday. It's like, if we get busy, it's kind of hard. No, no, no. And I'll tell you what, the idea of editing this on Saturday after recording on Friday, it's too much for me. So I am a Sunday editor. I am a late editor. Russell's requested on Saturday. I said I would do it. I don't. So that's hand up. That's on me. Keep going, Russell. But so I have the last two weeks. I've never done this before, but Rob will send it over.

[48:31]And I've got on the thing that I download and can listen to. I have the, the speed. So I have been pulling. Oh, and a little Rosie and listening to our podcast. I got up to double speed. Nice. Oh, double the double speed. And occasionally I have to pause and rewind to take some notes or whatever. But a lot of it I could get through, but then I'll tell you, I went back to single speed. I can't listen to us.

[49:00]I think we suck. I think our podcast is too slow. Single speed. Yeah. Once you've been there with, I was doing that with Bill Burr's podcast, for a long time. And then I just haven't listened, but you know, but it's just to, just to listen and then get through it all. And I'd have it. I think I'd had an one and a half speed, maybe 1.6 or something like that. And then you do go back to a one. Oh, and you're like, what the hell is going on? Yeah. Once you've heard the speed and to go back is very difficult. It's tough because I do that with like a stock podcast and sports podcast.

[49:31]I'll just do like 1.5 speed just to get through it. Like, cause I want to hear this stuff, but I don't want to spend so much time doing it. And it is crazy how listenable things are in like 1.5 speed. I think 1.25 or one 1.5 gets a little quick, I think, but at 1.25, I don't think you've missed anything in life by doing that. No, no. You know what? Some of them say you haven't missed anything in life by not listening to podcasts at all. Hey,

[50:00]this coming from the kid whose son listens to meow. Number four, it's inspirational. I turned style. Yeah, this is nine. Number nine. The other thing that I've been doing, uh, we have a, a, a mighty return of one of my favorite personas that you guys know very well. The assembly men is back. The assembly men, Russ is back. And I've been assembling furniture again this week. Oh my God. Oh, the assembly men is back.

[50:30]What? Oh yeah. We decided in the upstairs room, it had brought it up multiple times that the lawn chairs or whatever that we have, we have out on, we've got two decks, one looking over the river. And now this guy's got two decks hold up. And the other one looking on the inside. Hey, Russell, can I tell you one time I got a double decker when I went to get a Minnesota gopher receiver, great autographs, ask them twice. Eric Decker. I essentially get these, I get, I, I, I land on two chairs and I was going to see what your guys outdoor chair

[51:02]style is, but I got two chairs. They're the kind of the wicker chairs with the cushions that gloss glide and spin a spinning gliding cushion chair. What is your guy's style when it comes to, and by the way, I assembled one last week and it almost broke me when they show people assembling these damn things on the video, they put them together in like eight seconds. This thing took me at least an hour, not like the damn, the damn screws don't fit, right?

[51:30]It's impossible to put the thing together. I almost lost my mind, but my thing for you guys is what is your outdoor furniture style? I'll tell you, the best outdoor furniture scene I ever had was when I lived in Rochester. Cause obviously I don't have anything. Now when I lived in Rochester, we had an outdoor, like the wicker with the cushions, but Russell, we had the fire pit with the jewels, with the glass in there, with the propane fire. It was heaven. It was awesome. It was, it was my favorite with the cushions. Russell, do you have to bring them in and out? So here's,

[52:00]so I've only assembled one mat and I haven't brought people. Hey, did you hear that? Now the production works. Fuck. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. I will say a little bit loud, almost blew my eardrums out, but that's okay, Rob. It's not too loud. You're too old. That's true. So Matt, I assembled the one last week. It frustrated me. So the one has been sitting in our living room for a week because it's been raining all week and I don't want to take it outside, but I, I was going to,

[52:30]I have seen, there are big covers that you can just put over. So Matt, are you a cover them up with a big like tarp looking cover? Or are you a bring the cushion in guy? Well, I'm not, I'm not a cushion. I don't like the idea of the cushion because of the in and out things like that, but I do like the chair. I do like a little bit of rock. I love the swivel. Yeah. Love the swivel. And so if I had anything, it would be something that you could keep outside that you didn't have to bring in and out or cover anything like that. But did I ever tell you a swivel?

[53:01]Did I ever tell you about my sister's outdoor furniture, Russell at the pool dentist? Are you talking about the desk? The one with the, somehow she built a huge pool. I'm not sure what her husband must have a nice job or something, but she got brand new outdoor furniture, cream white. And she got the big wicker beds kind of where you can like recline them. And they were great. And the first day I was there, I wore my robe that I bought in Turkey at the grand bazaar. It was like my outdoor swimming robe,

[53:30]right? Go in the pool, you know, get wet, come back up, put this robe on, put it on, lean back, sit in the chair. Well, it turns out that when you buy a robe in Turkey, one thing they do not do is color seal it at all. There's no kind of, so instantly my robe has now taken her brand new furniture that she had owned for approximately two days. Ruined. And basically, well, I don't think it was ruined. I left after it went in the washing machine. I'm not sure what happened to it, but I think it ended up being just fine. Okay. Things seem to work out for me.

[54:01]It's not going to last forever. I'll just, I'll just go get, I'll just go get a crown from her and she'd be able to replace it in two seconds. She said, the best outdoor chair is a couch. We have a couch outside with a, with a little like a lounge in front of it. And that's, that's what I, I mean, we do have chairs also would, uh, I prefer the couch and we do cover it. And then, uh, but we leave it out there all year round. Got cushions. Yes. Got cushions. You cover it. And sometimes you forget, and then you just got to leave it out to dry in the sun. And a couch with cushions is a bench.

[54:30]Okay. When you're outside, you got to be careful with that. Now, Russell, let me, what's your opinion on hammocks? Oh, did you see me trying to get in a hammock? Like that's just ripe for like a YouTube video. And I can, can I just see you once get in a hammock, Russell? No. Speaking of things that I don't think would be good for me, this has come up multiple times for the upstairs roommate. And at one point I had to be like, don't bring this up again. She's brought up the idea of like doing a paddle boat together. And I'm like, if we sit in the paddle boat, it, it, it might go over, like it's going to look like all tilted.

[55:02]I can't do that. Russell, you got to get in the paddle boat. Please. I'm begging you. Okay. They're rated for you. You're fine. Russell. I want you to get in this paddle boat. Not Russell. I need you to get in this paddle boat. Aren't you scared about the workout aspect of that too? Cause I'd be scared about the work. They're like working too much and just becoming a sweaty mess from the paddle. I had one other thing to share with you guys. I have a big event coming up in a week and a half or next weekend.

[55:30]Actually. I'm going to Denver. I'm going to red rock. I've got it set. I'm going to see. We are at red rock in Denver. Wow. Aaron, have you guys been to any tips for red rock? If you've been, I have not been bring doobies, bring doobies. That's a great idea. Oh yeah. Or something. Hydrate also hydrate. I would check out. Is there a cushion situation there? Like, should you have a cushion? Do you think they say you can bring them if it's a certain width?

[56:01]Right? Yes. I think I've been there a couple of times. I've seen widespread panic a couple of times there. I think you would be your people rush in to get close. It's up. It might even be better to be up a little higher just to see it all and take it all in. You can see outside of the. Now I have read that the best places in about row 30 to 40 because then you're close enough to the band, but you can also see the view if you will. Yep. Now, Russell, are you worried about being pretty high up 30, 40? Like, is this,

[56:30]I did look and it did look pretty steep, but honestly, Rob, I am more concerned, but I've read enough about it. I don't like driving up into the mountains, but what I've read is that it's not really like a, like you may be elevated, but it's not like a up, up a winding road type of thing. Can I give you a little piece of advice here, Russell? Bring it. I would Google map it, get in the live view, do the drive, see how much mountain you're going to be seeing. Then at least you're going to be prepared. You know what I mean? Know what I've also done. So I'm not driving to this.

[57:02]I have also booked a shuttle. I'm right. We're taking the bus shuttle. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. That drop shop right at the front picks you up. You don't have to worry about Uber. And I figure like busing, right? Driving off the end of the road in Denver, like some Uber driver might, but that bus isn't going to do it. I was going to say for probably, you know, 250 bucks, you probably get a personal driver. You're right. And it might be the best 250 bucks you ever spent. If you're that, you know, if you're, if it's a thing for you,

[57:30]right? Like if you could just enjoy it without having to, you know, worry about driving back, that's probably the more important. That's probably the more important thing. So yeah, it sounds like a great idea. Rolling, going, Rob, how's it going with you? Listen, I'm seeing a trend. Listen, I've seen a trend in TikTok. Okay. Is it Mr. Greedo again or whatever his name is? Mr. Greedy. Mr. Greedy. Mr. Greedy. Guys, do not give me going about Mr. Greedy. I'm off Mr. Greedy. I'm done with that. Okay.

[58:00]My TikTok. What were the kids' names? What were the kids' names? Well, of course there was, there was cool boy. There was Mr. Greedy. If you want to have a good time, just look up Mr. Greedy on TikTok. Okay. I don't know how to explain this without sounding like a weirdo. Like a month ago. Now you're already off it. Oh yeah. I've been off of that for weeks. Somebody is having young Indian men compete in games and then they win food. Okay. Yeah. I don't know how to say it, but it's also something I love to watch. If Russell, if Russell had to be, he would be beeping.

[58:30]If you, if Russell was explaining it, you'd be beeping this out. It's true. It sounds bad when I say it, but just type in Mr. Greedy, Tik TOK. But what I, what I have seen lately, and this enrages me, a new trend, friends get together. So like, you know, eight of us get together, right? They do PowerPoints where they explain friends. They do professional. They do power. So professional. They do PowerPoints where they explain what their jobs are.

[59:00]Why? And you, I, it's always like 20 year olds doing this where they're like, Oh, I don't know if they're excited about having real jobs, but on one hand, I listen, honestly, I still don't understand what Aaron does. I have no idea. I should have been at school when he talked to the teachers about it. I should have been there. I don't know what he does, the PowerPoint, but on the other hand with you, I don't give a hair. And you would not believe the detail that people put into those

[59:30]PowerPoints for career day. I was amazed. I thought everyone's was going to be like mine, like, Oh, here's 10 slides. We'd like nothing. No, these things were tip top. And someone did say, Oh, I think we should do this for adults. So I can learn when everyone does. I was like, no, I'm always happy. Like if I can go a whole day of conversation with people and not talk about our jobs, I feel like we accomplished something. I fucking hate work. I hate work. It is the bane of my existence. I hate the email. I hate doing any work. I hate going in there. I hate walking at the same stupid fucking subway steps every morning.

[60:02]I hate everything about it's named after the worst thing here. And I'll say, and again, work. Nobody likes it. Why would you want to spend your free time talking about your work? Now, listen, if somebody is talking to you about their work, like all the time, that's fine. Okay. I'm able to handle that. That's not a big deal. Okay. But would you participate in one of these parties? Russell, you seemed extra annoyed by this. No, I don't think people, people you're right, Rob, even people that say they like their jobs. No one, no one wants to hear about people jobs.

[60:31]I'll say this out of our group of 15. I don't think any of us have an interest in working. I don't think any of us have an interest in working. I don't think any of us have an interesting job. No, I wouldn't want to hear about any of our jobs, even the ones where you think they might be more interesting than others. I don't want to hear about any of it. None of it. I think, I think the greatest part about like group of like ours, right? Is the fact that I'm in my job for, let's just say 40 hours a week. And you spend a lot of time with all those people. And I can go somewhere where nobody gives a shit about what I just did for the

[61:01]last 40 hours. And I could talk about something completely different and nothing's going to come up about my job. I'm going to take this back. You teachers do talk a lot about your work. Oh, well, okay. Okay. Yeah. We'll, we'll put up. Yes. They're very sensitive. We love to talk about it and love to talk. Oh, I can't go out on a Sunday because I got a good bit to work the next day. Like, well, every fucking person has to get to work the next day. So what's the big deal? You know what? If you want to do this to me,

[61:30]send an email to my work email and I'll fucking check it in September. Okay. I'm not, we're going to Vegas on Friday. We're coming back Monday. Oh, I don't know. I better come back on Sunday. Say what you want. I'm trying to not jack off twice a day. My life is great right now. I love it. Suck my balls. There, there has to be a point where a school district will say, how many track and field beats could they possibly do during the school day? Like these guys go to field beats.

[62:01]Like you wouldn't believe it is fucked. I got to say those coaches. That's actually fucked. And teachers think that I just think I, I just look at those and go like, it's awfully gray. Those things is the sun. Does the sun ever shine at a track? What the hell is going on? It's always great. There's a lot of rain. It's been a lot of rain lately. I do need to clarify two parts of this. Okay. I want to be clear. Number one, I like my job. Okay. I discern between my job and work. I work in a great job. I get paid. I get paid more than anybody.

[62:30]I love what I do. I think it's important. And I like the people I work with. And I go somewhere and people talk to me and they think I'm, you guys don't fucking get it more than Matt. You guys don't get fucking get it. I'm a superstar at my job. Like I am like one of the all time. It's like fucking working with Bo Jackson guys. I told you what I tell the kids every year. I'm the best teacher here. Aren't you known as the teacher with the pee pants? What? Did you hear that? Oh God. What's happening? I'm one day away.

[63:00]I'm like one second away from being that person. You don't think I'm meticulously checking if I have to do the wipe my hands on my pants method to avoid the pee pants. That's where you wipe your hands on your pants to get it all wet. And then nobody can tell what's pee and what's water. Now guys, guys, I think Rob's better at his job than we think he is. Listen guys, I know that you guys want me to do my PowerPoint about my job, which ironically is mostly me making PowerPoints at the last possible minute, but we don't have time for nobody's got to talk about the album. And thank you for not mentioning music. Thank you for not mentioning the AI when I was talking about

[63:31]the new boss. I almost edited out that part where I talked about the new boss. I talked about using the old boss. And how, how, how long do these track and field meets go? Are they from like 8am in the morning till 8pm? True team is true teams all day. I used to coach. Now, Russell, did I coach? We're always after school. Like we had them after school. We didn't have during the day track meets except for state. Russell, did I coach a shot putter that one state? Maybe I did. Hey, did I coach a shot putter that threw over 60? Maybe,

[64:00]maybe I did. Not a big deal. Okay. Is over 60 good? Uh, well, top 20 in the state all time, but who wants to talk about that now? Okay. Now how Rob, how do you coach a kid to be so good at the shot? But well, first you find a kid who throws shot put, who also goes to state in the four by one and the triple jump. So that's your number one step. You have to do that. Okay. As soon as you find that you're set, don't worry about it. Now, if you put that guy in the football team, are you going to win more than three games? No, you'd actually be surprised at that. Actually, there were some problems with that.

[64:30]Now we were talking about the zombies, Odyssey, Oracle. Okay. Which you might wonder, is this a pretentious British band? No, they named the album Odyssey and Oracle, the most pretentious name of all time. These, this is led by a keyboardist vocalist, Rod, Rod Argent. This, this album name would be good if it was one or the other. I don't like that. You put two of them in there, right? It was just Odyssey or Oracle. I think it would be a great name. Don't they spell Odyssey in an odd way?

[65:00]Shut the fuck up, Aaron. You're not at the right place. Oh, okay, cool. I mean, my apartment proceed as though there's a door that just opened in my apartment. So I got to just be cool for a little bit here. Okay. Yeah. That door from behind you, right? No, don't say that. I'm not going to look. This is, first of all, you guys always do that in the summer. You try to give me the summer scaries. Not going to work. Well, yeah, cause you're not at your cat. No, I'm not going to do the summer. Don't do that. What are you doing? Listen, I mean, it's not like anyone bad is going to come in.

[65:30]It's not like you leave your door unlocked or anything. Yeah. Russell. Jesus Christ. This is right here. She's totally naked with a sleep mask on. Scared the shit out of me. You see that mask? She scared me again. Okay. I don't know. You're I'm screaming. I will be quiet. I'm sorry. Well, then why would you come back out here for a second? No, no. You're looking good. How are you doing? We need Rob to turn this video off.

[66:01]Thank you, sweetie. Thank you for, you came out to tell me that. She had to get her. I don't know what she said. I was realizing that she got out her, her headphones that plug her ears. She wanted me to know that. So she will not be enjoying one fourth of this wonderful podcast. Hey, you think this podcast is bad? Now wait till you're a fourth of it. Some guy yelling at his computer. Can you imagine what she hears me yell? So we're going to continue. We are talking about the zombies.

[66:32]Keyboardist. Good NPR. Vocalist. Uh, Rod Argent or 1945 and vocalist, Colin Blundstone or 1945. For once we got the same age in a band. They form in 61 Russell. Well, yeah, you do the math, Russell. Oh, I already did. They're 16 when they started this band. Their first head nailed it. They go through like a band contest. I helped him to be honest. They go through a band that he did. I had to ask him. They go through a band contest. They win. They get signed by Decker records.

[67:01]They come out with their first album in 65. So four years later, uh, she's not there. It gets all the way up to number two on the billboard. 100. This is how crazy the music industry is. This is like peak British invasion. We're like, if you were a British band and you make a song that has a chorus Americans by the 45, she's not there as like a hit song. You know what I mean? It's a hit song. It's on the oldies radio stations all the time. Please don't bother. I mean, this is out there. First album.

[67:30]The thing is after that first album, they get dumped by their record company. They go to number two in the U S they get dumped by the record company. They go to CBS. They then have to record this album at Abbey road, but they can't afford a lot of the stuff there. So they use a Mellotron or like that keyboard. We've talked about a Mellotron before in the background, uh, to record this. Basically after this session, they break up Russell. They break up before this album comes out. They recorded it.

[68:00]That's very, very Beatles. Yeah. Didn't think there was going to do well. All of a sudden, time of the season catches fire in the U S two years after they break up in 69. Nice. Nice. Okay. You like if our podcast caught, caught fire. Yeah. So after we, we dumped you as the main host. Yeah. So what did they do? Russell, what did they do? Yeah. They set up not one, but two fake zombies band to tour the United States. There are two bands of zombies.

[68:31]I mean, do you have to admit that is brilliant? It's brilliant. It's smart. And they're playing the hits. And one of the bands, guess who it is. It's members of the band that will later make up ZZ top. That is how they got their star. We talked about this. Frank Beard was a zombies, not a cover band. They were like literally a fake zombie band, which is crazy. But also that's crazy because this guy has such a unique voice. Like you would know if you weren't hearing the real guy, you would think so. He would think so big day. You'd be like, wait a minute. Why does he have an extraordinarily long beard?

[69:00]I don't remember any, any part about that. There's a misspelling for the, the album name. This might be our first album name with a misspelling. Odyssey is spelled O D E S S E Y. So if you ever want to search it, it's actually really easy to find. Odyssey and Oracle O D E S S E Y. This hurts. Guess who made the album cover form and made the misspelling. It was an art teacher friend of theirs. So their teacher friend sucks at spelling. So they misspell this album. So this basically they,

[69:32]these two guys, Russell don't play again until 99. Argent's playing at a jazz club, sees his old partner in the crowd and says, Hey, come on up and play with me. They play all of a sudden, guess what they're doing right now? Releasing albums again together. They took a 50, like a 40 year hiatus and then started releasing albums again. It's crazy. So let's get into the zombies, Odyssey and Oracle. Now I'm just going to say this, this would have been another good album for me to have that a hundred milligram drink to man.

[70:03]This is crazy. That British fantasy trippy shit. That 40 year break would be like if Aaron got together with a kid from his nursery school and started playing patty cake. Yeah, that's true. It's more if I was playing video games with kids. Wouldn't that be crazy? This is them writing a song, a song to their partner who's in prison. That harpsichord on the opening track is pretty cool. Yeah, but this is, this is a really nice opening track.

[70:31]The bass is nice. Jaunty. I love this guy's voice. Yeah, off to a good start. It is fun harmonies in front of the car changes. Can I tell you this, this album, not a great gym album. If you're listening in the gym and you got this on the headphones, you're not going to max out. It might be if you did any of those cardio machines, Rob, it's true. I feel like I'm running on clouds, a rose for Emily. You know, I did not do a ton of research for this album.

[71:01]I have to say this kind of feels like a week. A rip off of like a McCarthy type song. These all sound like Paul McCartney songs to me. It's crazy. It's just so kind of British fleet Fox's listening to this album. He took all the room. Oh really? I've never heard fleet Fox's before. I've heard of them, but I haven't heard. I only know one fleet Fox's song and it sucks so much that I've never listened to another fleet Fox's song. So she sucks more than anything. I haven't given them a lot.

[71:30]Doesn't that sound like a sorry rip off of God? God only knows almost. It does. You know, it does play that again. It kind of does. I mean, this was released 68. Oh, they would have heard God only knows. Right. For sure. Yeah. Big time. Maybe after he's gone. I'm doing,

[72:03]I'm doing some research on the fly here. Hey, according to genius, this is the third track as all that stuff they have on it. I mean, so there's like the one song at the end that is like the huge one that, you know, immediately, but you guys know the rest of this or not. No. Um, I do love when we get there. I was going to wait the, oh man, that's such a fun. I know this will be our year because you guys asked me recently how replacement's guys doing and replacement's guy walked down the aisle to this

[72:32]will be our year. That's the ones on me. Some guy really, yeah, he was only hoping for a year, not like a lifetime. Yeah. They're still together. So did you ask if his phone is still automatically downloading anything? I haven't checked on that. That's a good question. If he could, if, if he could add the Samsung app back to his phone, that would be great. He's mostly texting me about the wolves, possible uniforms for next year. And are they going to bring KG into the ownership?

[73:01]A lot of thoughts. People are bringing back the tree. The trees around the edges. People like, I got to say, I would love to just go through Aaron's phones, texts for like the last week. I just would love to see what's coming in on his shit. Let's do a quick check in. How many text messages do you have on red right now? On a red right now. How many? It stresses me out. I don't do that. I just thought, Oh, 502 15. Oh, 502. What the fuck? Well, like there's some that I like, if I,

[73:30]you know, there's like, I see them and I'm like, Oh yeah, I saw that one. And then on red, no unread texts. I have zero. I don't get that. Well, sometimes they, sometimes they still count as unread. If I haven't opened them, you know, like I see them on the preview and I'm like, Oh, I saw that one. And then they don't open it. Now, like emails, I've probably got, you know, like hundreds of thousands. Yeah, of course. That's not text. To me, text. Like, I don't think I've ever had like unread text messages for more than a day. They're always like kids will call me all about it. If I carpooling kids around,

[74:02]I put the, I put Apple carplay on the screen. The kids will be like, you have 291 messages. You have 468 messages. I'm like, I didn't even, I didn't know that was a thing. Baller. Do they ever see some of the text messages I send through during the day? Tell me, what time are you in your car? I got some great messages. Like I said, Hey, they play that meow shit still in here. Next up, we have a song called Beachwood Park, a song. So boring. There's literally nothing on genius about it. Crazy. I don't know,

[74:30]Aaron, did you like this album? I did, but I only listened to it once. And I wonder once we get to the kinks, are we going to enjoy the kinks more in a similar genre? You've got to explain to me why this album is on the list. This might be the first album that has made me mad on the list. I got mad listening to this album. I love it. I don't think this album should be sniffing the panties of this list. Shouldn't even be close to the list in my mind.

[75:02]But thoughts, Matt, Russell, I'm with you. I just don't, I don't get it. Like there's not even like the dookies and the blue albums. I guess I don't get why this is on here. Period. Russell, what am I missing? I think it's time of the season. I think that's what it is. Yeah. Time of the season is such an epic song. Like that, that song goes great with movies. It's that Aaron, Aaron. Wow. Whoever voted for this list has this album ahead of Whitney Houston,

[75:32]Whitney, Whitney Houston. Yeah, I know it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. This is one of the few where I, I'm kind of like, I think it should just be maybe out told. Yeah. I enjoyed it because I only knew the two songs and then the rest of them, I was kind of like, Oh, this is fun. And it's of the time it's, you can hear the vibes they're pulling from. I, I'm not going to go back to it. You know, that's it for me being negative. I'm not going to say anything more negative about this album. Cause you know what? It is kind of fun to put on in your apartment. And I got to say,

[76:02]I think if you were going to get just blasted stone, Hey, let's say you get so stoned, you're going to walk to Washington square park. You're going to get some pizza, maybe some ice cream. This would be kind of a fun soundtrack for your day, right? Let's see that soaring sky and flying. It's pleasant. Very much. So it is very pleasant. I will say that I love the voices hung up on a dream. Now I do think for your love is a better song than all of this as well.

[76:30]That's my other problem with this. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. Is that their song too? Or are you just talking about other sixties? Isn't that what I said there first? What was her first hit? No, not for your love. This is 67. And what did we listen to? The velvet underground was 70. Yeah. Yeah. I think they might be related. The first hit was she's not there. She's not there. Yeah. Better song than all of these for your love is yard birds.

[77:02]Diamonds and stones. I got to say this is on listeners. Really? This is just the one you like. It's kind of British. Like kind of, I think he's kind of silly British ones sometimes, but all these, you can like the guy that likes, they might be giants. Wow. Yeah. This is kind of a, they might don't, don't ruin my list, please. Okay. And that you guys say that is so fucked. You would say that when I walked to my list, you would criticize that they might be giants. How did you guys even know?

[77:30]It doesn't sound like this is just all, it's all band of Paul McCartney. So like, it's just all like, no, it sounds like who's the Davey boy guy from the monkeys or something. It doesn't, you know, it sounds Davey Jones. Davey Jones sounds a lot more hokey than the Beatles to me. It's like a knockoff of a knockoff. Yeah. It's like inception. I want her. She wants me. Hey, this is, this has got that harpsichord or what? It's got a little, a little more stank to it.

[78:00]Don't you think? Does this represent mid, sixties kind of corny British invasion? Yep. Maybe that's why it's on here. I can see that. I can live with that. Cause this is kind of like, yeah, it feels like it's a, Oh, they had to pick something. But we did already come with love. Although I guess that was a California band. I don't know. It is kind of like, but what about yard birds? I think they should be ahead. I, this will be our year.

[78:31]This is a terrific song and very cool rhythmic work. The way he kind of trips over the ends of phrases into the next phrase. And this is like, now Aaron, did you sing this song and ruin his wedding or not? No, I did not sing it. Ironically, I did not sing it this way. Wow. But it was weird when Aaron tried to sing at that wedding and they turned him down to do all those two live songs. That was weird. Actually, you know, what did happen was that his dad,

[79:00]the, the, the, we're going to listen. Here's the, and I won't forget the way you said, I love you. You gave me faith. You just kicks right to the next one. That's really clever. He goes over the end of the phrase. You might be selling me on this Aaron. I love it. And this song, I think it's very cool. I know I didn't sing it for the place. This guy's wedding. And then, um, there was no religious music in the wedding, but then the bride's father was very Catholic. And so he wanted a hymn done.

[79:31]So like on the day of, he was like, Hey, can you leave this hymn like to me and Anna? And like, I'd been drinking for like three days. I was like, okay. So I think we did end up kind of like singing this terrible hymn. Can I tell you that my dad also at the wedding said, Hey, I want to get this hymn done, but he was pointing over to me. Uh, Aaron, let me ask you this. And Matt, you might be interested in this question too. If somebody asked you now, sing at their wedding,

[80:00]uh, is it a bit, is it as a joke or is it serious? Maybe all of it. Aaron, would you sing at somebody's wedding? Like in the, maybe next summer? Yeah, of course. I would never, yeah, I would never say no to that. Matt, wouldn't that be fun? It's their, it's their wedding. They got to listen. Wouldn't that be, wouldn't that be fun? I'm a horrible singer, but for the right people, I would, I would dust off any sort of skills I've got. Yep. Oh, we can do a round. We can do a round. Have we talked about, have you guys ever been an officiant at a wedding?

[80:31]Uh, no. Are you asking? Are you? No, I, is this our moment? No, I talked with some friends while back. I'll, I think you should ask Aaron. I was, Aaron should be the guy. Okay, I'll do it. Rob's the best man. I'm happy to handle. I'll do it. I'll officiate. I got some good bits. I'm happy to hand out, uh, programs. We've talked about, uh, talking about work people. I will sit at the back of the, whatever we're at. I don't need a, a role. I had a coworker about 15 years ago that asked me to be the officiant at her wedding. Oh, what? Wow. What? I said, no. Wow.

[81:01]You did. I said, no. You said marriage should be between a man and a woman under the eyes of God. And I, I just, I, I thought it was too strange. I just couldn't do it. I said, no. Do officiants get to see the bride naked? Well, I might have to ask. Nevermind. I will say this. I have to share this part. This woman that asked me, this guy was kind of a dick. Yeah. They get married. A few years later,

[81:30]they get divorced. Okay. Hear about the story about the divorce. And she eventually tells me the story. They're at his parents in Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. God, I'm so excited for this story. Her mother-in-law, her mother-in-law. So the husband's mom. Nice. Comes up to the wife that I'm friends with and says, my son has been cheating on you for a long time. You need to leave him. Oh, wow. Four hours away from home on Thanksgiving at his parents' house.

[82:01]And her mom tells the daughter-in-law what her son has been doing and she needs to leave. What do you guys think of that? So then obviously she got to. The mom is selling out her own kid. It'd be like, Rob, if your mom told Jenny about your bad behavior. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's Russell. I can see that happening so clearly in my head. I think that did happen. I think my mom, my mom is always telling my wife what a piece of shit I am. Vice versa. They talk to each other about it.

[82:31]And so now looking back on it, I'm glad I was not the officiant of, of those nuptials. Yeah. God, Russell, this could go great in a wedding speech. And then the worst is what do you do, Rob? You drove out there. They had a couple of kids. You drove out there as a family. You got to do the four hour drive back altogether. Oh yeah. Take the two kids and drive back and leave them there. What do you do? Yeah. You got to go back. You got to ride back. That's the way it is. Yeah. This is, I mean, if you're the chance, this is your wife. This is your chance to be like, Hey guys,

[83:00]what a fucker. My wife. You're stuck in the car with me for two hours. I get to say whatever I want. You know what I mean? Oh my God. I'm not stuck in here with you. You're stuck in here with me. Here's my question. Yes. What is your conversation with your mom? Like the next time you see her and you find out she sold you down the river. First of all, you say you, you're the one who fucked up. Yeah. I didn't ask Rob whether he was right or wrong. I asked what would Rob think? What would Rob say to his mom? His mom?

[83:30]Nothing. I would say mom, first of all, I thought having sex with your hot friend was actually fine because of some things that I've seen online. Secondly, thanks mom for all the support over the years. But now I'm realizing that's fine in my life. Normally it's your best friend's mom. It's not your mom's best friend. That's where I went wrong. I did the inverse. You know what I mean? Damn it. My bad. That'd be a good t-shirt. That'd be a good t-shirt. Normally it's your best friend's mom, not your mom's best friend.

[84:00]I think I don't, you know what? That is a great t-shirt idea, Matt. Do you think, I bet though, if I was 16 and my mom had a hot friend who tried to sleep with me, I bet I would have done it. Right? Yes. I bet you would have. Yeah. Aaron, what do you think? You sleep with your mom's hot friend? If it's hot. Aaron answered that very quickly. Hot. She's hot. Well, because Rob was asking what he would do. Of course, if you're a 16 year old and an older woman, yes, of course you're going to, you're probably going to be super screwed up for the rest of your life.

[84:30]But would it be worth it? Yeah. But yeah, you'd probably be jacking off once, maybe almost twice a day. That's how screwed up you are. Then playing video games for 36 days straight. What the fuck? Now you might ask yourself, Hey, you haven't been playing the game while we've been doing this podcast. Have you? Now you might ask yourself, Hey, this is a British album. Does it have some weird fucked up British pub shit going on? Like, where you just started like, why the fuck is this out of the album? Who would ever okay this? And the answer is yes,

[85:00]of course it's the butcher's tale, Western front, 1914. This reminds me so much of that BG's mining disaster song. Remember when they had that song in the middle of the album? It was like mining disaster. And you're like, what? I can't dance to this. Now this was recorded in one take at Abbey road studio. So probably, is this the best song that ever came out of Abbey road? This is an abomination. Isn't it? Maybe. But I got to say guys,

[85:30]when I heard this, and this is sick that I have to say this. Do you know who this did remind me of? Who's that? They might be giants. This is a lot like giants. And it turns out here's the even sicker thing. They covered it. They might be giants did cover. Oh, butcher's tale. Western front, 1914. Oh, to quote, to quote our friend Russell. What are we doing? What are we doing?

[86:00]I just want to say this. He's intentionally singing bad. Okay. I'm just going to say that right now. I'm defending my band, but this is a terrible song. This feels like a money fight. Now guys, listen to this. You're probably thinking to yourself, I want to hear more. They might be giant covers. Well, do I have good news for you? Because I have put together a list. That's some of the greatest. They might be giant. You know what? Even Rob's mom,

[86:31]Rob's mom's ugly friend wouldn't sleep with him after fighting out. He likes these songs. Oh, my mom's ugly friend. Yeah. Which one? Which one's your mom? I know I am going through it in my head. It's going to the one that wouldn't let me, that made me take the artwork out. Hmm. Going through my mom's friend, Rolodex in my head right now. The old Rolodex. Excuse me. Excuse me for a second. I have to go do something. All right. Heard off the video. It's a joke for us. First of all,

[87:00]you might not know, but their song, and I, I didn't have a chance to put this all together, so I need to have some time. Just, uh, I'd say that's a good time to take a few minutes. Yes. A little break. Well, no, I'm going to edit all this Aaron. It's not two 38 in the morning. Your wife's already yelled at you. Their song, of course, Istanbul, not the count. Santa Noble. It's the number one. They might be giant. So no, we don't say that. Russell, you know that. It's for the normal people. This is the one people know for the normies. This was on tiny tunes.

[87:30]We all know it from that. That was also on the same. This is more known. It turns out that was actually a cover from a song by the four lads from like the 50s. I know this one. But 1953. It turns out that is a, a long cover. Wow. What kind of feels like a cover? I was wondering how they go.

[88:00]I would say this song drags a little bit dragging these nuts across your face. I was going to say, I like the original better, but I don't know. Once you hear 1.25, I might be different. I guarantee if the, one of the members of the four lads from the 1953 singing group heard a drag of these nuts across your face joke, their head would explode. It would be the craziest thing they'd ever heard in their whole life. Okay. Of course, of course they might be giants. Did they ever cover the Allman brothers? Well, you know, they did.

[88:30]And of course this is Jessica. Rob, Rob is playing these videos from some weird website right now. Yeah. Where did you find these? I don't know. This is not like they played Jessica. Yeah. Great. It's a jam. A little slow. I mean, this sounds like my effort on guitar hero, but yeah, can I say this guys? This is so fucked because when I was over at Suzanne's, the other day watching that Peewee documentary, every time it stopped or the circle would go,

[89:00]I'd be like, Oh, the internet is so slow. When it was buffering, I'd be like, my God, you have slow internet every single time. Oh, was she offended when you said it or not? You have to be. It's devastating to hear that you're just slow. It's the worst. Do you think they might be giants? Did they ever cover Pearl jam? Did they ever cover, cover, did they ever cover Pearl jam? The answer is yes. They covered Beyonce. No, they didn't ever cover Pearl jam. I don't think. I'll hold some money from me until you get your check. Rob, what is this website? Bills,

[89:30]bills, bills. This is who sampled who actually. Why don't I go and find another? They did this live for the AV club. I'm enjoying this. It's a good one. They do this in concert too. I love it. Then. Tell me if they ever did sample a Pearl, Jim, man, I'd love to hear it. And then finally, Hey, of course,

[90:00]Russell, they also did another one for the AV club. Hey, it's a little band. I'm just going to tell you the band they covered. You, you guess a song. The band that covered his Chamba Wamba. Okay. Do you want to guess what song that they did? Oh, amazing. There's a six, five or six.

[90:30]These are just AV people, AV club people. Guys, that concludes my list of the best. What a list. They might be Giants covered. Great list. Rob, you want to know some weird? I kind of thought they might be Giants where it's like a two person band, like Daft Punk where they wore weird outfits, like in helmets. You know what? They are a two person band. They started Lincoln as a two person album. Their first day, maybe Giants is a two person. They are a two person band, but they added people as they went on. And then when I saw them, they had like 10 because they had a full horn section.

[91:00]Ooh, it's so good. And then finally, guys, let's close out this friends of mine. Not finally, but you know what? Can you think of a song that's been skipped work? This should be a disqualifier for being on the list. Right. Right. I shouldn't say it's bad. It should be. It should be a disqualifier to be on the list. And then of course the song off the album time of the season.

[91:31]This was, you guys know what? This was a single after this was released after butcher's tail. The one I made fun of, but they might be giants that was released as a single before this. What the fuck? They thought it'd be a protest on Rob. I've told you guys earlier. I think there's one of the perfect points in music and that to me, it's on this song. Really? If you go to one 20 in about one 19, one 18, go into this and they're 20 is an Oregon solo.

[92:02]That pops in. That is an absolute killer. Yeah. Russell reminds me of my summer Oregon solo. Yeah. No, Russell did like that. That is bad ass. Yeah. Not this was my favorite part of listening to our albums over the last two weeks was that there's it's quiet and it has that false. And then that organ pops in. That is fantastic. Yeah.

[92:30]How many standard deviations is this song better than the other songs on this album? It's unreal. It's crazy. It's like pistol. Pete Merriman scored 50 a game for LSU or something. You know what this is? This is like fucking the guy who invented the forward pass, like the first Ford passive football game. And everybody was like, what the fuck? You can even do that shit. That song is a killer. Listen, if I was very flop, is it, is it pos exactly? Good point, man is, could this be one of the best closing songs of all time? Well, guess what? We don't have time to talk about it anymore because we're running out of

[93:01]time. We want to know not to be like, it'd be like if you had a horrible pitching staff, Matt, we'll talk baseball for you and you just put out your tedious pitchers for the first eight innings. You're like, you know what? Yeah, we're going to bring in Randy Johnson for the ninth when we're down 10 to zero. Exactly. No waiting system. It's true. Great point. But I got to say, guys, listening to this album with you and these nice headphones, I was kind of like, do I kind of like this British jangly stuff? I don't know. But unfortunately we're done talking about the album because now we've

[93:30]gotten to the main point of our podcast and possibly the reason that we're not the most famous people on planet earth yet. We are talking about what, where does this belong? Is this perfect at two 53? Okay. If so, it's a rolling well-toned. Okay. I would say 53. What's that? Two 43. Shit. Two 43. Okay. Thank you. Two 43, two 43. I did have an idea for the second two 50. Can I get my idea quick? Yes. I don't know that we should do this. This is just an idea. Yeah. What if we tried to have a guest on the, every episode for the final two 50,

[94:01]we would all episode, you know what, Russell, I'll let you schedule that. Okay. I think that answers it. Right. And then, yeah, then try to schedule it with us too. And here's a tip. We can't just have John as the guest. Every time we can't just have somebody who's available every Friday night at 11, doesn't mind staying up late and peeing in his car. Yeah, he did that. He did that. One double. And it broke his fucking brain. He was beating a bucket. Is this a rolling well-toned okay.

[94:30]Just like the time of the season, we're going to say the summer it's perfect. It's the best. Okay. Actually it's not the best. It's just right. It should be where it is. Is this way too short though? Right? Rob, my God, tell me about it. It's almost over. Basically is this a rolling well-toned or is this a rolling groan? Okay. We do not think this album should be up this high. It should be lower, which of course would be, a higher number on the list we would hear later, or is this a rolling bone? Okay.

[95:00]It should have been higher on the list is my sneaky beat of the week. Okay. I think it's just me saying the whole bit. Why did I make that? Why does it take up space on the board? Or is it rolling bone? Okay. It should have been way higher on the list guys. It's like the British invasion. This started at all. This is like everybody heard the Beatles was like, I guess, we could do some shit like this. Okay. Uh, they didn't quite understand what was going on, but is this the most famous Abbey road album?

[95:30]Of course we all say yes. Russell, what do you think? Rolling? Well-toned rolling bone or rolling groan and that, uh, care of cell or whatever that first one was, I thought it was kind of a fun song. And to me, the closing song is an all timer. And that Oregon jam at the end was an all timer, but it takes you that long to get to the closer. Then for me, it's, it's too high on the list. So I'm going to say it's rolling groan. I don't think, uh, this is a tough one for me to ever want to buy. Cause I don't think I can make it through to get to the part. I want to hear. This is a perfect win amp song.

[96:01]I'm not taking the rest of the app. So I'm going to say rolling groan too high on the list. Matt, what do you think? Rolling? Well-toned rolling bone or rolling groan. This feels like a classic one hit, a wonder album, kind of a deal where I have to think if somebody really wanted to study, they could find 10 albums from the British invasion of bands. You'd haven't really heard of, you know, not the stones and not the Beatles and not the yard birds, stuff like that, that you would find better albums than this album. If you really want it to,

[96:31]it seems like people have tried, but that's why it's on this list. I don't know. It's just not for me. So I'm going to say it's rolling. Groan should be lower on the list. Aaron, what do you think? Rolling? Well-toned rolling bone or rolling groan. Odyssey and the O and Oracle 1968. I can't disagree with these guys. I do think it probably belongs on the list because of this will be our unique, our year and time of the season. But I think there's a lot of skippers. I think it's probably an important document and it's the one so far sort of

[97:03]true British invasion, you know, non Beatles, non stones band. I think we've heard you're going to check me on that and I'll be wrong, but yeah, I think it belongs as a historical artifact, but I think it's too high on the list. I'm going to give it a rolling. I agree with Aaron, this historical document, it's probably equally good to the declaration of independence. Okay. It's probably the same. Can I ask you a real question about this album before you do your rating? Like an important one. It's like, if you were to compare this album to one of your mom's friends,

[97:30]which one would you compare it to? Well, you can do it on looks personality. However you want to choose. Yeah, we had that. We had one neighbor that after, after my dad moved out, he, she was a British woman who moved in. She was older, you know, but she always seemed to be around to help out. God, what was her name? I can't remember, but she was high. All the time. So I would say that this, this album is a lot like Mrs. Doubtfire, my neighbor. Oh, hello. Which in retrospect,

[98:00]that movie probably not appropriate, right? Nope. Like you can't just close. Can't just, just do whatever you want to just get back into your wife's life. Okay. No matter who's what your mom told her. Okay. My mom, when she first, when my mom first met my wife, you know, the first thing my mom said to my wife is in the car. Like one of the first things, Hey, did you ever play video games at school? Oh, she was checking in on you. And I was like, fuck, I did not see this coming. And so of course,

[98:30]Jenny goes, oh yeah, God, all the time. It's all he does. And I was like, fuck me. Cause Sam, you know, would always see my parents and be like, got to go to the library. No matter what he was doing, he'd be like, got to go to the library. So they thought his ass was in the library all the time. And meanwhile, I'm playing video games. Now, both those things were totally 100% correct, but my parents don't need to know that. I have a problem now. I don't have more time to play video games. God, I love that shit.

[99:00]Unfortunately, you guys are incorrect. Shit. What this gets a rolling time of the season. Guys, that song was a hit two years after they stopped. There's still hope for us. We got a chance. Okay, we're going to get there. All right. And so technically for that to happen, we have to make it like another, another six years. So then we would have to, it would probably be about eight to nine years from now where we would make it. Well, I'm telling you as soon as we're done with this putting in the work,

[99:32]we start our movie music movie podcast where we watch music movies and talk about those. I already got an idea. We're going to be doing this to yes, this is going to be so good. Next up, rest of our lives. Next up. Oh fuck. You say the rest of your lives that I got to read this shit next up. If you don't read the news, you're going to be really excited about this next album. Kanye West, heartbreak and 808. It's now the only good news. Are we still doing the only Aaron? We have to, it's a historical document.