Elton John: Honky Château (1972) w/ Magic Mike

[00:00]so russell just came in and said oh there's a phase of my i went through a phase of my dating and then we realized none of us were recording we scrambled it was like we were in a submarine and they were like there's a destroyer right above us we were at battle stations battle stations okay russell what phase of the your dating life are we talking about it well i was joking it was gonna have to be bleeped out but there was a phase where i was it wasn't a chubby chucker but i was doing chubby something else oh okay it is gonna be that kind of night if chubby checker

[00:33]had a small penis everybody would just be disappointed what do you mean well it's not gonna be it's not gonna be immense you don't think so his name is chubby no yeah i'm sorry mike that you're here um it would be funny if the one game he loved was chess oh that would be ironic oh okay now listen okay we are so we're just starting in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every

[01:03]one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music can you review magic mike excreted the order and led us to make this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research i had a good run going on the chubby chuckers too nobody's gonna know what i'm talking about unless you're a big minor league baseball fan all opinions are own aaron is literally watching a livecast of a minor league game just to let everybody know it's this it's so much in the game cast of the oakland ballers and the ogden raptors i'm just saying if it's a sport game three it's winter

[01:35]go home if it's a team that i could try out for i don't think i'm watching a live cast of it you know what i mean uh all opinions are aaron in your city isn't it typically winter move to vegas they're doing a perfectly good billy bean they set a they set a league record for the for new wins in a season and now they're going to go out in the first round and scores score one run in the last two games total wait actually aaron we were talking about ai didn't i

[02:02]just see something about the oakland minor league team their manager just got replaced yes i was going to send them some hate mail because they did a they did a bit where they replaced their manager with ai and i was going to send them an angry email and be like watch terminator 2 one fucking time like no aaron you were well mike here's the thing aaron my advice is if you know where that what car the manager drives i got a great way to get a message to him okay ask me later everybody loves it they think it's great uh that's a deep cut i don't know i'm not

[02:31]following it's a note under the window it says you went to moron school manager using ai what are they doing they're using ai as a manager what does that even mean they tried they tried but it was it got messed up they had to do a bunch of stuff manually because they didn't get their stuff hooked up appropriately so but yeah they they had like a bot make you know set their lineup yeah they make decisions during the game and whatnot can you imagine what would make a baseball game more boring less people on the field i'm just watching computers play computers it's like war games the only way to win is to not play now good call mike good thinking all

[03:07]opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy a beck did it better we are all the way up to album 251 and from 1972 we have the biggest rocket man since herbie hancock nice it's elton john with honky chateau and folks i don't have three guys here i've got four guys a lot of guys we've got magic mike in reno mike amazing how are you doing today

[03:35]i am doing great i was gonna show i have two things i was gonna show you real quick yeah have you seen oh wait a minute it's unzipping oh exactly oh have you seen the apple pie ones oh can i just tell you no i mean he knows he knows who he's talking to here i've had two different people email or text me pictures of oreos and then various mountain dew flavors within 24 hours i was getting texts like that i was like at least people know what i love now

[04:02]how is the apple pie alamode uh oreo i can see where that's good like a like a that one's actually decent so it's uh it's the yellow it's the white cookie not the chocolate cookie it's showing us oreos is for the people oh yeah sorry oreo apple pie thank you yeah those of you don't pay the extra five bucks for the video that russ doesn't know about that i've sent out for anybody who wants and then i also got the reese's oreo which i've not tried yet all right this is oreo cookies so

[04:33]what is the reese's oreo can you hold that up to your camera real quick this one's cutting a little deep this one this are you going to test this live this is peanut butter chocolate let's see this test it live all right very thin i'm going to say this that cookie is very thin to me even for oreos like they're cheaping out true but also i think it was in my car for a while so it might just be milk oh you I know one guy in lakeville that doesn't like those i could tell you that much the reese's oreo that looks rob do you think um people of a thinner size generally get like

[05:02]regular size oreos or like you never see you'd never see a big guy go get like not the double stuff right no no i don't know what like 165 pound man like does he get the regular size oreos or not it's like it would be like like if i went in and bought a small men's shirt that would be like if i went and bought those oreo thins you know what i mean like i'm buying them everybody knows i'm not going to eat these like these are the worst part of the oreos these

[05:30]are absolutely disgusting oh yeah what do i what do i want to take out of the oreos oh yeah i know the delicious white stuff in the middle i'd love more of that cardboard outside part that uh that nobody likes so so mike how is the peanut butter oreo is it as delicious as i think it should be it's pretty good i would say between the two i think the uh the reese's is the better one they need to make double stuffed mint oreos that's how it's going to be i don't know if you're going to be happy now listen we got extra guys here i can't we can't just keep going uh i've got i've got uh four guys here oh i forgot to do this bit i've got four guys here who want all of aaron's

[06:01]feral cats off the steering steering wheel hey aaron get those feral cats off the steering wheel because that situation i got a cat update wait a minute i have a sound clip i got oh no aaron they're honky cats they're on the hey whiskers this is the parody song mr muffins get off there these are honky cats okay so guys there's no way that sound clip's going to come back later

[06:34]uh i've got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing uh good rob i think it's going to be a long long night no no way i've got uh russell in minneapolis in the basement russell how are you doing guys magic mike's about to find out we're not the many things at home now uh i was talking to aaron because recently uh uh i was actually contacted by somebody high up in the russian military and they were asking me how to fight a drone war

[07:05]and i said well i have noise canceling headphones and that seems to help what noise canceling headphones yeah yeah there's just uh i i literally can't explain it i'm still awake and i think she's listening to me right now hey i'm excited because uh mike is here and i think change is going to do us good let's talk about honky chateau let me tell everybody

[07:33]we've got magic mike in studio with us right now we we when i came out to see him in reno i said hey we want you to do an episode uh and uh he said i want to do elton john uh honky chateau mike can you is this a good time mike how did you get into listening to this podcast why would you listen because just to be clear i'm not a fan of honky chateau i'm not a fan of honky chateau to be clear you don't know us at all we are just four random people and you literally have gotten into the podcast you emailed us you were like our first super fan and and really our only super fan

[08:01]that doesn't know us i think he was a hater i think he was a hater email to tell us we were wrong you were wrong i think more than anything yeah you were just slightly wrong about something i don't remember what it was something with the beatles i think but yeah that doesn't sound that doesn't sound right we did a lot of research the whole not doing the research part probably right and then so why would you listen to this show mike um so at the time the that was right after the um the list changed and i was looking for another podcast the white album yeah but it

[08:34]was right after like so in my world you know it was september 2020 and i was looking for another podcast that was going to do the new list because i was already listening to a podcast that was doing the 2012 list that guy's still doing the old list too that's the craziest part yeah i mean to be fair i think there's kind of good and bad about and actually i'll get into that later i think there's good and bad about both lists i think it's kind of good to listen to them concurrently because i feel like the new list i feel like the new list cuts out too much of the old stuff

[09:02]to compensate absolutely oh my god mike mike do you want to start a podcast i've got every week we listen to the current list and the old list okay so now we're comparing beyonce and trout mask replica what do we think captain beefheart i mean i was glad that one got cut i got master replica i've never understood the love that album gets i've heard people i've heard people you know expound on it i just don't

[09:33]get it at all it's very strange if you haven't listened to it go out and just listen fine just listen to two seconds of it so you literally were just looking for a podcast about the list and our pathetic seo actually made it out there that's incredible yeah yeah and then uh and then you know i i got into like what your vibe is and then i got into like what your vibe is and then i got into what your vibe is and then i got into like what your vibe is and then i got into like what your vibe is was with all you know talking about your lives and everything and it cracked me up and i was like this you know like it was fun so so who's your i'm going who's your favorite between us would you say like who do you think is the funniest oh wow we're really gonna get into that you know

[10:04]just say rob oh the zoom is it's like your kids you have different you pick different things that you like about all of them do you want me to go around i can tell what i can tell you what i like okay yeah why not what do you like about well now wait a minute yeah please tell me what you like about me please you guys don't like compliments no i mean yeah like no for sure what do you possibly like about aaron

[10:30]about aaron yeah oh like i mean so like i always start with you yeah you do um no like so for aaron i think it's just he's got interesting takes on things um i think in my in my initial email to you guys i said that aaron was like the george harrison of your podcast that you guys are like thank you talk over him like how london and mccartney talked over george harrison and wouldn't let him get his get his songs on and then eventually he did his own album and put

[11:00]out all things must pass and it was like the best solo album yes he was the genius exactly i'll be doing my own podcast soon that's really too bad because i consider myself the eric clapt of this podcast so we're we've we've got some issues i think you've got some issues trying to figure out like i know rob has my wife's phone number they text almost every day i do on the on the regular she wanted to hear more about my bits when the wordle word was throb this week she she loved those didn't you send them a towel with you

[11:34]like in a speedo we keep it in our car was that by was that by anna's request have you seen yeah i can go get a bike have you seen it i have not seen it oh yeah you gotta show my guys now we keep it in our car my my son loves to pull it out at like uh events he's like hey grab i should probably redo that i think i'm skinnier you know what we might you know what for the 250 for this year's the holidays you guys might be getting another little gift in the mail

[12:00]magic mike you might be getting one too but this is going to be especially hard to explain i was going to say you just put it up don't you have like a don't you still have like a a shop a little higher that did a better job man a little higher man he wants you're showing them the yeah there you go that's what i want okay that looks good so all of you have that readily available you're showing them the yeah there you go that's what i want okay that looks good so all of you have that readily available it's literally a towel that they could no no no what's the what's what's on the speedo is it a flag oh oh yeah well yeah it's american flag it's america okay yeah these colors don't run it's supposed to be at half mass today rob except when you pee your pants

[12:33]red white and brown uh so here's the deal i've got a song that is dedicated okay i thought he was giving feedback yeah you gotta let me get it oh yeah keep going what else okay so i got a i got a text from him saying please move on i don't know so for matt i like he's he's very fatherly and actually i've taken a lot of his advice he has really good taste in music movies books a lot of that and then just life advice that i've

[13:06]taken yeah and then russ russell back in his dating days before he like settled down that was like he was kind of like because you know i'm single also so like it was breathe a little life into your life exactly like it was like all right you know like we can kind of like laugh at life's experiences and stuff yeah i thought i was fucked but it turns out we're both fucked like it's kind of nice to know like exactly i've never rented a room with a bunch of bugs so it was like you know

[13:34]as far as my daily life is gone it's never gone that the bugs weren't there when he started to be clear russell he didn't know yeah and it wasn't russ russell was that you that added the bugs it was definitely not me that left the door okay mike now the moment we've all been waiting for rom what would you say is your favorite thing about me of course you're so funny like everybody

[14:03]compliments you all the time i mean oh you're way you're wasted as a uh middle school science teacher you should be out there what is matt what is matt doing he's got in okay so mad has a bucket in the back i don't know what he's doing i think he's pinning up the towel on his wall wow is he wearing pajama pants he is definitely yeah for sure pants yeah i always pictured bad as like he would wear like the like the madman type pjs like it looks like a suit like uh like

[14:32]a silk like a silk like with the piping oh yeah i know exactly what you're talking about buttons up the front yeah no instead he's wearing a bustier and i never pictured him as a flannel pant guy did you no man what is matt what are you wearing a flannel pant guy i never pictured him as a flannel what are you what do you wear pajama pants to bed no not at all you just wear them around the house or what it's it's freezing cold in my basement it's like 60 degrees down here so you know so i get my sweatshirt and my pj pants while i'm podcasting so matt wasn't here when

[15:06]mike said what it was nice about me mike what'd you say again let's say that one more time all right now let's move on listen we have mike it is great to have you i have been looking forward to this uh thank you i i literally i literally texted mike like three hours ago i was like oh by the way you want to be on the podcast tonight so he saw our level of planning that we normally do but you know what for mike today let's make it a little different let's turn on the radio let's turn on k-rob and see the radio see what is on k-rob

[15:33]i can't hear it yeah anytime now anytime rob silence called production and you might think oh this kind of stuff is really going to stress rob out and actually throw him into a tailspin that he's not going to recover from on the show rob you're embarrassing us in front of the show i would never can i just say this the one thing i don't ever want to do on this podcast

[16:03]is embarrass anybody never that never including when i told that story about how i stuck out my tongue all right let's do this let's move on here and love that story uh you don't have to reveal that about yourself you know what the story is when i just say that it's so gross it's your choice you can keep going to yourself aaron let's let's hand crank up our radio let's get in to k-rob okay i'm fine i'm good things are great scenes stuff here okay just can't look into mike's eyes

[16:39]as this you know what i am gonna watch mike's face as i as he listens to my parody song this is a terrifying here we go what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-rob today on the show we're making one lucky listeners dreams come true and they can be in the podcast oh yeah we record the podcast late at night

[17:02]we talk about all these albums most of the guys who listen are just calling but then an itunes review showed up one night

[17:30]it said rob made mistakes then he said that i i was always right wow that's awesome that's how i remember it he leaves voicemails for us all of the time i guess his standards are oh so low

[18:03]because he listens to the show he's a super fan and now he's gonna be the best co-host yeah yeah but i hope he doesn't try to make too many funny jokes i forgot to explain that part you know i had a verse about how this is just like when porn stars let fans have sex with them

[18:32]but i decided to cut that out i didn't think it i thought that was a niche audience like it's not a thing well no i don't know maybe we're gonna blast a loud version of magic but you didn't put his name in there so we could reuse that song listen let's get i've screwed up the order already let's get right into the voicemail all right now for this voicemail i actually need to pull up a picture as well because we

[19:07]the beck did better investigative unit has been alerted okay and we have discovered that somebody on here has been telling falsehoods oh hey russ has milk in his house he has five gallons now not only did we get a text saying russ has milk in his house we got a picture where there is so much milk

[19:34]now let's take a look at this fridge we gotta see what's going on in this fridge there is five fair life milks you might say rob how can five for life milks fit in the fridge these are like the dr dray video of the 40s they are so good stacked up like torpedoes like a tank with all the shells inside there is so much milk russell and then at the bottom looks like we got a little goat cheese i see some oh i see some charcuterie meats down there at the bottom two bags of romaine lettuce boy this looks a lot like

[20:04]a mission tortilla at the top this looks a lot like a fridge i this looks a lot like my fridge for some reason right what are you powerlifting what is going on how did you not think now famously you said i don't have milk in the house russell what's going on here this is going to be like russ is oblivious to things in my world milk comes in like a big two gallon jug that's clear you know that's a gallon you don't buy much milk no i don't buy any milk it comes in like a clear

[20:33]plastic thing that looks like that you can see that you can see as it goes down though like when a gallon of milk a normal like whatever you call that camps or whatever whatever like a normal like like these fancy milks it would never even dawn on me that these things crammed into our fridge or milk i didn't even know what it was i just figured it was all like coffee creamer or something so this has been in your house the whole time yeah yeah oh i think it's a regular but i would

[21:02]never pull so what's the one right above there's some sort of nut pod creamers above it whatever yeah that is it's a vanilla some sort of vanilla nut again it's again it's it's cap facing tortoise the top is facing tortoise it's very i don't know what's going on in this fridge but it kind of makes me anxious just looking at it i just figured all this stuff was open yeah what's on top of the milk yeah what is that i just figured all this stuff was like coffee type accoutrement like we don't ever we don't ever like you would never see someone drink a glass of milk i would that's

[21:34]a lot of coffee accoutrement well i think that's right how much coffee guys guys guys guys i got a feeling russell is opening the fridge less than once a day i mean that's what i'm thinking yeah russell are you doing my job i'm doing my job i'm doing my job i'm doing my job cooking like are you doing what are you opening the fridge looking inside when they're hey what's to eat all i see are these blue bottles i wonder what's in them ah too busy yeah but i i just can't do that math in your head the coffee flavor stuff all that stuff is just beyond i don't even

[22:04]see it i i look right past and i would have never known we had milk in the fridge oh well i gotta say thank you so much oh here we got another picture oh we can see there is two different vanilla nut creamers lactose free oh yeah fair life of course is this isn't milk this is some sort of weird coffee thing no this is no this is milk russell this is good milk too it's lactose free okay so like what does that even mean isn't milk that is lactose right oh i'm hearing from the

[22:36]other room i'm hearing from my producer that it's high protein milk see this is not regular milk this is weird stuff jenny get out here get out here right now they don't care if you're wearing clothes or not get out here right now get out here right now get out here right now get out here right out here i just want to show you a picture weigh in on this milk situation just stick your head around the corner i promise i won't okay she says she doesn't trust doesn't trust me i i can't

[23:01]believe i gave a bow on her wedding day to probably not show a bunch of people on zoom or naked body i do have a question though russ if you're not drinking if you were not aware of this milk who's drinking all this milk every day this is this this is upstairs roommate this only goes in coffee is my understanding i have five at a time oh this is this is like six months or something is this a trust me i'm worried about

[23:31]you right i do think fair life is shelf stable right like it does last longer it does i've never had fair life go bad because this is what we put in our creamies to the fair life of the bedroom rob do you use this type of milk when you eat your your kids turn the camera off rob turn the camera off huh i'll turn the camera off wink uh wait she's fully closed hey camera's off if you want to pop that topic what'd you say yeah russell told me he had no milk in his fridge and then in the voicemail

[24:01]this popped up as a this is lactose this is coffee stuff this is not milk he claims it's coffee stuff and not milk i'm gonna have to agree with russ though if this can last if this shelf life does not go bad it's not real milk real milk can we can we can we have jenny can we talk to jenny for a little bit okay i was saying jenny was talking to me and mike was talking and i felt like i was 69 in here oh i'll let her sit down talk to you oh yeah you can sit on my lap hi jenny how are we doing you got to talk into the mic though we're doing good jenny what do

[24:37]you think of the fact that rob invited a stranger onto the podcast this is the guy you wanted to to meet you to meet in reno oh yeah so when i got done lifting he said to me i gotta go now where are you going we're in reno and he just had to go like well we gotta go hang out where are you going this is the guy instead of having dinner with mike i'm like mike and why

[25:00]are you taping all these phone books to your chest so my friend and i went to dinner without rob because he had to go meet mike all right jenny let's get to the the crux of the matter here so the upstairs roommate has these coffee creamer stuff that these guys are saying is milk like rob doesn't use this fair life milk like when he eats frosted flakes right this is this is not normal milk this is weird shit it's nothing weird about it it's i think it's lactose free and

[25:32]it's high protein so does it come does it come from a cow yes it's regular milk and they just some i don't understand how this works because they've they it's extra filtering i get it they do more filtering and somehow that preserves more protein so it's just higher protein regular milk and it's more expensive than regular milk and that's about it but you can use it in cereal russ doesn't like here why would why would somebody have five of these

[26:01]because like so we usually buy one at a time yeah we usually have one regular and one chocolate because i do put it in my coffee but it's almost like a milkman has been coming over a lot like oh days a week it needs an excuse to come in oh boy it's like a milk laundering situation a lot of but yeah it's just regular milk except bros it's really it's more expensive i'm implying that the milk man's having sex with his roommate yeah i know if jeff ever needed money russell would have

[26:34]to liquidate some milk in order to lend money to jeff it is weird how our rigged doorbell camera cuts out from like 11 to noon jenny put rob back on he's talking over us because i gotta go never lend jeb never do it never do it never do it bye jenny good to see you thanks jenny thanks for stopping by yeah you can sit on my lap for the rest of the show if you want oh god rob you're gonna get us back on track magic bike's gonna hang up on this all right let's go sideways that

[27:00]was a part of the show where my wife comes and sits on my lap and that usually happens about 26 minutes in like it did there for sure about once ever so listen you're telling me listen let's get into rolling can i just say by the way when jenny had the headphones on i couldn't hear what you guys are talking about it was absolute torture and i'm cutting that whole thing russell can you find out why you have so much milk and then get back to us like was there a sale it's just no this is a it's just coffee stuff she drinks a ton of coffee you keep saying that

[27:32]but she must be drinking a tremendous amount of coffee i see five gallons of milk in there wow what do you want me to say that's true rolling going mike how's it rolling going with you oh i get to go first okay so actually i've i have a question that you guys have never touched on in i don't think you know in the five years yeah probably uh aaron and i would get married well i thought that was like a close second to you going back in time and marrying

[28:00]yourself smoke first of all i'm not gonna marry myself okay i don't like commitments did you have did you have a mustache back then um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um i'm gonna marry myself okay i don't like commitments did you have a mustache back then did you have a mustache back then in college yeah no okay so the two mustaches the two mustaches wouldn't get like entangled and enmeshed and he had a big old afro more than you know he had a lot of yeah that's that's what the mustache could get involved yeah okay that's true would college me like kissing a mustache that's a great question mike i gotta think about that okay so my question is um rose from golden girls famously was from st. olaf you're correct yes does

[28:41]like what was your thoughts growing up and always hearing rose talking about st. olaf being like sort of this out of the way crazy you know podunk town when really it's i think it's really what that magic bike there are probably people and i actually knew one year there was a woman in our dorm and she told me she found out about st. olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st. olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st. olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st.

[29:11]olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st.

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[33:11]olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st.

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[38:11]olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st.

[38:41]olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st. olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st. olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st. olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st. olaf through like the gold girls that was like the first reason she ever heard of it but i gotta say i knew of the show golden girls growing up i never knew there was any connection to st.

[39:11]underrated from like a you know he never makes any of the top 10 lists top 20 listings like that he should definitely be on some like top 50 lists if you will but you know i think he will later on in life when protein starts to fail he's playing the hell out of this man now man you go to a show pearl jam plays maggot brain do you have any idea what's going on no no okay i was gonna say yeah

[39:35]but you bump the guy next year like this is maggot brain yeah oh and the other thing i should mention is chad smith is playing drums oh with it right here yeah because he would often fill in it still fits and he he's with uh eddie vetter's got a band called the earthlings that's playing in ohana next weekend and chad smith plays he plays drums with earthlings he's playing this

[40:00]thing note for note he's really doing it this is a little wing maggot brain mashup or like a medley or whatever and little wing famously is what he based yellow light better off of like if you listen to his little wing it sounds like yellow light better but then the other thing i was gonna say was right after this he collapses and is in the hospital for 14 hours what he he gets to hi he collapses right after this show is dehydrated and exhausted and is in the hospital for 14 hours

[40:31]yeah wow wow what i could listen to maggot brain all night how much do you have to play guitar to get dehydrated like that's crazy that would be so much guitar playing he's pretty active on stage oh he they had to be doing some other also drugs yeah whatever drugs yeah yeah wait a minute drugs can get you in the hospital listen i would say also mad is that they're wearing all flannel you know what i mean like

[41:04]it's too hot yeah those big old boots those big old arms put on some chucks well mike this is unbelievable what a way to tie it all together i love it all right so i will go um rolling going how's this going with russ rolling things are going well i was out in salt lake city i took a flight out to salt lake city the other day and we were doing a work event part of this work event we had a theme around old school arcade games and as part of this

[41:34]event we rented out an arcade in salt lake city it's called quarters arcade invited invited the whole um the whole conference attendees to come to the to the this arcade we had 179 people show up at an arcade like a late night event at an arcade people loved it and so i thought we could just roll through and talk old school arcade games from oh yes oh please so the two games

[42:00]that i really wanted to play the most and i'll see what you guys wanted to play the first one was nba jam i was convinced yeah if i play a little nba jam i could still compare with people these are guys mostly you know people between the age of i'd say 40 and 60 so but play a little nba jam was the timberwolves christian laytoner and jr ryder against the bulls and this is also the bulls era where it's no jordan no jordan it's it was like pippin and or it was like bj armstrong and

[42:34]pippin or something like that wow but we waxed these guys in nba jam we waxed them it was so cool so i'm like i've got it like i'm put i'm doing like the double button push where you run up to the guy you push him down take the ball and these guys are like wait you can push in this game and i'm just whooping that ass yeah i'm putting it out and they're trying to dunk from the baseline and you know that was the easiest dunk to block you know what i mean like that you had the timing

[43:01]of the windmill dunk from the like it's just uh boom shakalaka now russell of course nba jam nba jam just to let you know is of course the game where i thought somebody at a place was playing a special character named benjamin and i said how did you get benjamin and sam heard me say it it was the psonyx benjamin apparently benjamin and he made fun of me benoit benjamin is that sam from the robin sanders that you're talking about yeah and he he recently sent me a text that was making fun

[43:31]of me for saint benjamin so that is that had been a lifelong mistake that i made because if sam had a beard he looked like jesus he did right he's a skinny guy longer hair yeah for sure and then and then so like for for halloween we went as the hockey guys once yeah from ice hockey where he was speaking of video games russell we'll get you back on track but i was the big guy and he was the of course the tall skinny fast guy by the way russell i'm going too tall skinny too fat what are you doing in ice hockey i'm going too tall skinny too fat what are you doing in ice hockey well i think you got to go three skinny one fat oh that's so crazy that's crazy matt what are you

[44:02]doing too fat too skinny thank you aaron is there a medium guy yep that's so funny if you pick a medium guy that's jay i'm already saying pushing it no he's not he's not strong or fast the mario looking guy do you ever play ice hockey and nintendo i did but i'm i don't remember much about it i just remember like that's where i learned how to what icing was but that's yeah it's a valuable life skill i think they had like finland and russia it was like you get

[44:33]the olympics and then you got to pick your lineup how you got meanwhile my ass buys blades of steel i'm like blades of steel swing no my my nintendo sports was uh tecmo ball and you just always played yeah you played the raiders and then you played jackson jackson exactly russell what other games did tecmo bowl there what do we got uh so before i get to that i was just gonna you mentioned when you found out about ice and rob found out about it after he ate that cake mix the one year that literally that bit is like 39

[45:08]years old just let you know they've been making fun of me for that long so the next game i wanted to play and it turned out it was the fourth version it's mortal kombat four so i'm gonna challenge someone at the conference of mortal kombat and i'm thinking i got this right like you can't lose pull up scorpion or sub-zero you get over here or the freeze move and i'll be good i got destroyed i really got embarrassed

[45:33]like i literally couldn't even get a kick off and this just guy just smoked me russell wow fighting games you have to be so careful because you know there are guys who put in like they know the thousands of buttons right like they know back forward down and they know moves yeah i did not know the moves so i got destroyed in mortal kombat which was once you get got destroyed at one arcade game no you don't really want to play anymore because you think you're just going to get this

[46:03]kicked out that's my that's my college life that's my college life because you guys just always play like bond or whatever it was like come on over play and i would die within like three seconds and i'd be like well this is fun or what's the other one there's another shooting game uh call of duty everybody wanted to play call of duty halo halo maybe this halo yeah i never played that one yeah and i would die and we're like this is so yeah this is great bye i'm gonna leave so so some some of the other cool game experiences there was a group of there was a group of four guys who beat

[46:32]the simpsons game oh they defeated the simpsons game at the arcade listen i'm just gonna say it again why does she have a vacuum it doesn't make any sense she doesn't have a vacuum in the show there was a lot of pinball machines there was a lot of people really into pinball some people are really good at it rob you will appreciate this right next to the guns and roses pinball machine there was a playboy pinball machine featuring your grotto or whatever the hell that pool is called

[47:02]that is so did you know that i had that pinball machine the playboy machine yeah my father-in-law had it down here and then we bought the house he just left it and then we got rid of it when the when the kids are like two and five sarah goes we got to get rid of this thing we can't have boys learning what playboy is you can't do that from the from the video yeah so it's up in it's up in mine i know one of her cousins plays so yeah we've had we had that i'm pretty good at that one you know what the worst part was is that my dad i just thought of this

[47:30]joke my dad had a hustler uh a pinball game and the the part where the ball went and got spread open wider sometimes that it was not i don't understand how you can talk about anything when the song is on i can't i can't hear you i was gonna say this is a missed opportunity because you could be playing the on john version of the song oh wait did he do it in the movie oh that's cool that movie is so trippy mike can i talk to you to the side just a little bit what you did there you thought you were you thought you were being cool but it was actually

[48:04]pretty okay normally people text things like that to me if i ever make a mistake so once again you point out a mistake i've made okay that's one strike okay you do not want to be here for the wait does he do the whole thing on the piano yeah oh you this is on his greatest hits album that i had this is my own john elms with the greatest hits and this was the first song on the second greatest hits album oh my gosh it's good i highly recommend elton john's

[48:38]greatest hits i know it's this is fun i would argue it's not a better version but it's a quicker version you know what i mean it doesn't have that like opera who stuff which is kind of nice you know rob we don't have to talk about what music is better than other music there's not a reason to be ranking things you know and

[49:02]it's not what life is about have you literally read the description of the show that's what this show is about so the the last thing rob you'll appreciate this there was one person at the conference whenever someone would play the playboy game that would go up and take a picture of them playing the player and send it to hr but there was a lot of people got really into uh ski ball one guy made like seven perfect ski ball shots in a row and people were losing their mind over that

[49:30]but the coolest game to me they had the zoltar machine like the the from like the from anybody did anybody go back in time to be 13 years old no but i i pulled some sort of fortune about uh the brain is the only muscle that works 24 hours a day 365 days a year until you fall in love is what it said for me russell didn't understand the fine print and so now his balls are really big you know he's like what isn't that what zoltar did didn't like make things big i don't know can i just say i've never seen the whole movie big okay he stopped when elizabeth perkins took her shirt

[50:03]off well i've seen enough here yeah he just had to pause he just paused right there yeah and there was no reason to watch the rest of it anymore i don't know why but there's no reason to watch the rest of it if you go from a kid and then you're like hey i wonder what uh my dick looks like now that i'm an old guy and like you look and you're like oh i mean wouldn't it just be so disappointing it's like why is it wasn't that color when i was younger i don't know what's going on here russell was there was there an arcade game that just sucked nuts like you were like oh

[50:31]this game sucks like you played it you're like this is bad no no i played i played one of the pac-man like the where you sit down like the big pac-man games but it was almost like two fancy of a pac-man where things would happen and the whole screen would start shaking and nobody really knew what was going on so it got a little too complicated but i was wondering if you guys were to go back and play one arcade you walk into the arcade i got to know what game are you walking up you know we there's a lot of arcade places in minneapolis we've gone with the boys and then uh there's one in uptown it's called up down up down yeah it's on lindale just before

[51:06]lake street south of lake street you know mike's here he doesn't know these things right behind you know behind it is it's that uh what's the what's the speakeasy behind there russell with the red light the door you're gonna go in the volsteads yeah man i was gonna say i was gonna say i don't think mike's interested in like the minneapolis maps but i can see he has a minneapolis map in the background with a bunch of pins i was gonna say what i do is i triangulate everything and then i'm like okay so if they're going here they've got to be within 10 miles

[51:34]there's a lot of writing and lipstick on it i don't know what's going on that one i'm glad i called that i keep trying to fight but i keep trying to find one there was a there was a there was an arcade game and it was a cop game where you would shoot the bad guys and i cannot remember what it was but i would play that game for hours and if you gave me enough time i'd find it but you know otherwise i i like going back and playing the old pinball machines

[52:02]but then um you know that that's kind of what there's there's one that we we played a lot maybe it was the the old car games there was like we had two people next to you and like it's the brumbles a lot like the old driving games because we used to play when you were a kid you'd play those and you thought you were real cool like actually driving and shifting so i don't know there's a ton of games to play the correct answer for me i would say that either the x-men one i had a blast playing that or the one i played every day at lunch my senior year of high school daytona and they had that rubber band so it was always close at the end

[52:35]you know you never knew and we would just be yelling our brains out i would have eaten my baked bread in a bread bowl and i was now at the arcade oh yeah that's the place okay so the the food court was right by the arcade the best place in the food court was the potatoes place and just sold potato type stuff okay the potato place hates to see a guy like me coming in and i would get the potato soup in a bread bowl oh my god i literally start to listen i had enough of these

[53:04]where i had a punch card yes and multiple times i got free soups in a bread bowl now part of that was i had a friend who worked there and she gave me a bunch of stamped punch cards so i didn't have to pay all the time but that uh i think the uh the i've been grandfathered in on that i'm not like are you an arcade game what game are you playing if you go i was gonna say did they have dragon's lair that would have been the one i would have played oh that would have been the one i was thinking too mike it's just one button and a joystick right yeah and it was super hard

[53:31]so like if you had like if you had a chance to play it for free let's do it and dragon's lair was crazy because it was one of the first that had a huge screen and it was like a movie it was like a totally different game and you had to press a button and the direction just the right time and so everybody would watch because it was a game like no other game in the arcade and it was so hard that you just got ripped you got rocked right away everybody's like oh this guy sucks and then i'll be watching so speaking of getting ripped matt roland going how's it going with you uh good i won't take too long today i

[54:01]just got one we we have to tell the story you know russell so matt my favorite magic mike's i don't know if we brought this up but we brought this up that we went to vegas one year and we were you know famously we always tell everybody where we're going but we're not actually going there because russell's scared and i sent a care package and no one picks it up i think we were telling her we were going to paris or something we've never gone to paris it was the link i know i still have that charge it's so sad but we never i never know what i never knew what you sent mike we never knew because we

[54:35]never got it because we were actually at paris or whatever wherever you sent it and so then you you messaged us like hey did you get the care package you know like you sent we sent one to be at the front desk when we got there what did you send us do you remember it was pairs of socks in case you wanted to in case you wanted to go to the green door which is the sex club down in vegas wait a minute rob's pissed now green doors mike you gotta mike you gotta do the bit you know where is it you

[55:03]know it's like but it'd be out here a little bit easier but you know rob's looking up right now i can just describe it all right so it's a place in vegas where you can let your inhibitions run wild the world's most unique social club uh social i like being so this this is a sex club huh because i listen to a podcast where they talk a lot about sex clubs what convention now no i i know somebody i know somebody and we're in uh woodbury that'd be interested in this we got to come back to that russell put a put a pin convention attendees exclusive 10 off for july so hey if you're going

[55:37]to vegas maybe for a couple of weeks you're going to vegas maybe for a couple of weeks you're going for a convention maybe in january you could get 10 off at the door so let's see what the cost is really i don't think i can go to a sex club so actually i'll tell you the cost because when i went down when i went down for you too i thought about hey instead of getting a hotel i could just come here and stay here and i don't have to do anything but it's like yeah okay

[56:00]mike just wait one second please excuse me i need to do something here hey rob can we uh stop hey robert are we allowed to like kick anyone out of the zoom so you're gonna go and just stay i'm interested hold on i'm interested i want to hear yeah i think it was i think it was like i think it was like 50 bucks and i was like well i could just stay here for the night and then i don't have to get a hotel room because you would sleep at the sex club no i was just because i was i was half into like you know i was staying up all night to go to youtube to get front row and so i was like if i am if i have to stay up all night anyway i might as well

[56:36]hang out there i might as well just hang out there yeah especially if it's 50 bucks there is no there is no place i would get sleepier than a sex club you know what i mean like i would be so tired blue gator see me walking in with that kind of walgreens bag just a bunch of blue gatorades this is also the part of the podcast where i remember that i my son was going to listen to this later oh no you've acquitted yourself well so far even you've done nothing out of bounds so far have you ever have you ever like mentioned

[57:02]this podcast to a co-worker or like if you ever said oh i'm listening to this podcast and then when you mention it they never ask the name have you ever ever tried to get a friend to listen to the podcast um friends no but my kids have all listened to it when i told when i when i told my son i was listening to it he's like oh cool so like you'll be the only listener there's a lot of nope tens of people tens of people listen to this we're at dozens we're up

[57:30]to hundreds there's lots of dozens there's lots of iphones and best buys that continue to download the show i don't know i i feel like i feel like that's good for my role in going this week aaron how's it going with you oh it's it's well you know it's up and down as always i've been uh i've been with dates pretty hard i feel like dates are really good food i like to eat two every day i've been enjoying those but i like the pitted ones better i mean i like the ones i like the ones with the pits i like to have the pit in there and then spit the pit stone no one knows

[58:01]is it like a fig or what is it dates that are the pits your russell knows exactly what you're talking about i mean i don't know i i eat the medjool days there's different types uh but yeah i think i don't know what they're like when they're fresh because they're they're dried and i like the ones with the pits in them but i don't know if they're technically what did you have in your backyard you had some sort of true didn't you have a date tree in your backyard uh we had figs with figs with that one we had to tear down when we reeded the yard sadly so you know what's funny is i never

[58:30]buy figs now because i feel like an i feel like well i'm not going to go out and buy figs now that i like tore down an entire fig tree that was producing beautiful fruits i never buy figs but that's a renewable resource dates i really like so i had a couple dates today that was really nice uh i went to a party this afternoon i ate too much rob's head every time you say that i had a couple dates today rob's head goes a lot of different spots i was excited until i saw what dates look like look at these dates they look like the crypt keepers testicles look at

[59:00]these things these are the most disgusting things i've ever seen in my entire life they're so good have you ever had a date shake oh come on russell blend up some brussels answer that question now i'm back oh you're so good answer that question hey russell's had a date shake rattled roll you yeah literally she had long actually sorry literally the date had long sideburns and they're slick back so like smoothie places in like palm springs or out in in hawaii they do like uh

[59:32]like it's like the one in hawaii calls it a sweet date it's like dates and almond milk maybe some almond butter and it's like creamy and sweet it's so good so yeah i've been loving the dates uh and then but then i went to a party this afternoon and i ate too much tripe and i wasn't sure i was going to be able to make it on the pot and and i got a party that served yeah i gotta do it i gotta do it i have to do it what i have to do it i've been trying to hold off but you pushed me over the edge i'm sorry i was trying to think about i was trying to think about baseball and i couldn't

[60:03]do it did you show up to a party did you see that they had tripe and you said oh god this is my part no yeah i need to call my sponsor they have tripe here it was a friend you know what's crazy so this friend of ours turned 40. and he was having a party he's filipino so he there was all this filipino food that his auntie or sister had cooked i came i couldn't quite understand who their relative who has cooked the food and there was a whole roasted pig there as well and then i remember

[60:32]that i was also at his 30th birthday party so an entire decade ago where they had a whole pig and that time i helped to carry the pig from the car over to the picnic spot today they were all set up by the time i got that sounds like that sounds like some of russell's dates too but there was uh there was this dish that had um i could see because the tripe looks has like a honeycomb type texture to it and so it was like it was like almost looked like a curry so there was some tripe in there oxtail looked like i don't know swiss chard or some

[61:02]kind of green but i will say russell look at look at this truck like i got to the party aaron be quiet for a second i thought the dates look gross this looks like you took somebody's brain and just chopped it up aaron and his intestines everybody right now stop what you're doing go look up a picture of tripe don't no you have to get in aaron's head where he goes to party he sees tripe and he goes yes you cannot be the white guy at the party who's like oh i'm not going

[61:31]to eat the tripe like what's this on your plate yes you can you do it i grew up in iowa this is not my culture i do not eat this stuff but the problem was it was one of the few foods that taste you but i got there on the late side so it was like not super hot anymore and i've got i do i will say like i had a tough time with the tripe as it was getting a little bit colder like it was i had a tough time but i i knocked it down so i felt good and then like about five o'clock i thought i was going to have to go straight to bed i wasn't sure i was going to make it on but here i am and i'm very happy to be here tripe is one of the few foods where it's actually stomach touching stomach

[62:02]at some point when you're digesting it you know what i mean like it's stomach versus stomach they're battling it out in your body so as that's exactly what's happening inside my body now as we're talking about elton john so you guys can all think about think that through as we go through the rest of this episode well that was a sexual turn on i'm out of here guys stomach touching stomach is my third favorite sexual rob rolling do you have anything else i wonder how it's rolling around that's what i'm here for

[62:36]it's like russell and i hugging each other dude all right uh listen my marriage is in big trouble and let me tell you it's always in big trouble it's always in big trouble i know did you forget to did you forget the candle did you forget it was a first of all her birthday is right when school's coming up her birthday is right when school starts it's so unfair every year is right when school starts this year for her birthday all she wants to do is organize a section of the house

[63:02]every week every uh every weekend so like we organize a closet we organize i sent you guys a picture of our pantry when we unloaded yeah just discussing it we're disgusting people uh and i was talking to her and i and i was i was talking about ice cream and i said where in your hierarchy of desserts is ice cream now this is a person who makes her own protein ice cream every night like every night without fail she has one and here's what she said she goes you know first of all ice cream and i want you guys to think about this ice cream is below creme brulee

[63:31]and i could get behind that i do love a creme brulee jenny and i famously we are a couple that loves creme brulee then at this point she goes she goes yeah i would say ice cream is also below cake and i was like okay well that's a weird thing to say but you know maybe it's your birthday and we just had a good cake from magnolia so maybe we might say that and then she said ice cream is below cookies and i was like i don't know this is you know what i mean this is like this is getting

[64:02]worse and then she said it's below both scones and fruit cobbler oh come on i mean i folks my i am going to be heading to the green door pretty soon okay i will be not going to the couple's lounge i could not believe when she likes scones more than ice cream i it was one of the most offensive things i've ever heard is anybody else outraged at my wife i will say this i i love ice

[64:32]cream and i would have ice cream at home but like i would never get ice cream at a restaurant like is it as a dessert if that was not that would not be one of the things i would ever choose does that make sense rob ice cream is a kid's dessert i agree i don't get ice cream when i'm out either and fruit cobbler is hard to attain like fruit cobbler is an ephemeral thing so i get that but i mean i i have ordered i have ordered ice cream russell on like business when everybody's ordering just you know you go out and everybody's getting this and everybody's getting that i have

[65:00]gotten just like a scoop of ice cream like a something like a raspberry sorbet ice cream you know as that just to not be the guy who doesn't order dessert kind of a thing because i just like one little scoop of ice cream is better than like a big chocolate cake or something like that so i have done that and it is it's not as bad as you think it is but there are definitely better desserts well i'm not gonna say the other the other exception is mexican restaurants so you gotta get fried ice cream oh wow that's ah damn fried deep fried ice cream is delicious oh i love

[65:33]it so much mike is there a dessert on the menu that you get excited when you see yeah well they don't i don't even know if they're around anymore but um the claim jumper um eclairs used to be like that was like the go-to dessert i mean that thing was huge you'd take like you know three quarters of it home with you i've been i've been a claim jumper only one time in my life in tucson that's a western and i think i think i think they might all be closed now i think it's one of them that's kind of died on that that looks like yeah what was the thing from um bridgeman's russell the

[66:05]lollapalooza lollapalooza yeah that's so that's that's kind of on par with that just huge matt do you think i had a button after i ate a lollapalooza oh 100 i did that was one of the first things i did when i got a license i was like all right i'm off to eat a lollapalooza by myself google me a lollapalooza i want to see what this looks like all right well this is going to be tough because lollapalooza bridgeman's famously is also a music yeah the link is purple already i don't that's

[66:33]kind of strange not an idea yeah it's this yeah so it's like this basically it's a sunday it's just a massive sunday and this person is like i don't know what they're doing i don't know what they're doing but this person is an average person yeah and this did you do like the ziggy piggy where you like ziggy piggy ziggy yeah yeah what's a dessert aaron you're excited to order um i was afraid you're gonna come to me i mean uh you know what there was a the number one that sticks out in my mind there was a burger spot here in oakland that was called kroner burger it was fantastic and they

[67:04]had a honey pie and that thing was incredible so it was more like a custard kind of a thing sweetened with honey and then they had a honey pie and they had a honey pie and they had a honey pie so if i ever saw a honey pie in the menu again i'd go right for that this might be a music podcast i can't remember yeah but i need a transition hey uh instead of a oh come on rob you got this eclair let's talk about how they eq'd the levels on this album mike you should you should see how

[67:35]many times he has to edit this to like make his jokes well like we'll see if if you could pick out where he has to make all his edits here it's called production instead of an eclair i declared this the 251st oh oh you got a replacement wow okay i was thinking about eclair huxtable where if he was married to a giant okay so here's the thing no okay uh listen we are talking about a honky chateau

[68:08]okay i i don't know i'm just gonna start by saying this i don't know what it is about elton john and just making some i don't know like what he's thinking with some of the song titles on this and like the honky chateau overall i think we're kind of back to our jamaican jerk off time where you're like couple of awkward song titles on yeah he's making a couple songs i'll just say this there's a couple songs here where i'm not going to talk that much about the songs instead i got some other stuff that i wanted to load up but this is uh elton john's fifth album this is the big the big

[68:34]actually rob this is elton john's fifth yeah i got it right here i got it right here i got it right here on vinyl honky chateau wow from mill city the hopkins store matt great record store best one yep best one this is hit the one where his road band a little bit west of uh 100 on main street in downtown hopkins a little bit north of uh excelsior boulevard there yep this is so gross 169 west of 169 169 you could pay me a million dollars to tell you we're excelsior's i have no

[69:05]idea i know i've driven through it a hundred times i just have no idea uh this is where boulevard not excelsior excelsior the town is on lake minnetonka a little south west of 494 kind of between yeah we're you know we're 394 turns in 12 a little bit south see what i mean mike like this is dumb this part of the show is dumb nobody likes it okay this is only because it bugs me that's why they like it it's gross uh this is the album where his band that

[69:32]had been on the road with him finally became his permanent band before this he was doing session musician stuff he recorded it at shat toe and this is going to be listen guys for me pronouncing this is going to be no problem so let's just all chill out with be pronouncing the french stuff chateau de ervil nailed it you know you just open your mouth real big at the end ervil uh france for about two weeks in just january of 1972 uh elton and bernie were basically looking to like change the sound on this album instead of

[70:01]his last album was uh like had levon and tiny dancer on it and this one he wanted to come out with more of a rock and roll style and he was like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't rock sound and very american sound you said 72 yeah yeah and i mean it is an american sound right it sounds a lot like the band to me like this album sounds a lot like a ton i was gonna say the best part was that weekend they hung out where elton john had to like carry bernie around and he was like half dead the whole time god damn it russell you think like elton john oh no bernie loves to play the piano don't you bernie

[70:33]i sure do you the best oh bernie you made a song called elton john has a big penis that's so crazy thank you for doing that sorry sorry magic white cat apologize now okay russell again don't ever apologize we're working on that uh this is his first u.s uh it i'm sorry it hits it's u.s it's number one in the u.s

[71:07]it's number one in the u.s this is his first of seven albums in a row to hit number one absolutely on a motherfucking tear elton john goes crazy after this and it pretty much cements elton as like not just a ballad guy not just a piano guy but not only is he a rock guy now he's also kind of a rocket man at this point so let's get into can we hang on yeah wait for applause hold on hang on pause for laughter

[71:34]is there is there a uh is there a connection with this album is there a reason you asked to be on this one or we're gonna hear or is there any sort of connection with elton john or what's your what's your elton john background oh yeah just i'm a huge huge elton john fan so where does this album stand in the elton john panther bernie wants to go water skiing we better make that happen i can barely get in the boat so without spoiling my final rating um

[72:04]so this one like to add to what rob said this one is going to be the best album i've ever heard of this one has a more rocky sound but the albums prior to this um i mean he had another album that didn't do very well empty sky but um most people think of his first album as elton john and then his second album was tumbleweed connection his third album was madman across the water and those three all had heavy orchestration and this was the first one that knocked out all that orchestration there's no strings there's none of that um and just went with like a straight pop

[72:31]sound and most of the songs are you know fairly short the songs on those other albums can go five six minutes sometimes um so this one moody blues influence like that exactly stuff yeah exactly so this one is i actually do like those orchestrated ones um this one i would probably put it i mean it is lower than um yellow brick road which is i think where it is but i think it's i think it's on this

[73:00]list because of fucking man which is like a top 25 song of all time if not higher yeah yeah we'll gotta say i did not recognize a lot of songs on this album but it was fun to listen to like it was kind of yeah like there was some there were some tone changes but overall i thought it was a pretty like the album went together really well it was just when it was on like the songs that i didn't even know i thought were it's nice it's just like a nice album to have on yeah a hundred percent it's just like we had that same experience with yellow brick road right of just like oh this is a really

[73:30]and i'll say it again elton john has some spectacularly mike i don't know if you know anything about sounds on like records and stuff but this album is a really good album and i think it's it's a really good album and i think it's a really good album and i think it's a really good album is produced so well it's just what i love it's super clear super it just feels like a lot of work went into the producing this album am i wrong mike i mean yeah gus dutchin produced this one as well he's produced all those the first you know the first like 10 or whatever the classic albums before uh blue moves everything before blue moves is gus dutchin and yeah just amazing amazing producer you took you took what i was just gonna say uh so first up let's play honky cat oh no not

[74:07]again muffins get out of there yeah mittens what are you doing spot russell you're calling the cat spot that's great that's that's flipping it upside down i love it it's like a dog rover uh let's get into honky cat now

[74:30]so i play that song right if i know that's the album russell the first song so you know here's the first song is called honky cat which of course is a play on words guess what the word in french is for cat well it's shat but it with the c it doesn't sound right when i say it like that yeah honky shat now wait a minute aaron i just thought of a great bit for the end you'll never guess what it's gonna be but it involves two sound clips it's gonna be about

[75:01]how you get yourself at the green door club oh god damn it russell now i gotta think of a new so this was described as a new orleans funk song and really he wanted you want to come out right away and say this is not just a piano ballads you know heavily orchestrated album like mike was talking about oh i like the facts i hate this song i've always hated this song i've gone on the record before saying i hate this song

[75:32]when this song comes up i track it almost immediately what i i just there were so many other ellen john songs like the songs i liked more this one i think it was the the weird punctuation of the beat i never liked when i was younger it is i gotta say though for this i downloaded the uh oh what do you call it what do you call the lossless stuff black i did get the flack and it really really made me enjoy it more i will say so why do you like

[76:07]i think well i think it's the idea that he's a uh he's a country boy so that's that's the whole thing i was gonna say this is really bernie toppen basically who wrote all of the songs he writes all the lyrics for elton this is his like biography and he's basically saying you know i'm the honky cat i'm the you know the country boy that's getting invited to all these big parties

[76:30]um similar i think to and goodbye yellow brick road the song goodbye yellow brick road um where he's just feeling like he's a country boy and he's like i'm a country boy and i'm a country boy like out of place because he's like some country boy that you know we call that mike what's that the titular wow track that's a that is a titular track wait is where's bernie topen from he's like a country bumpkin he's yeah he's yeah he he grew up on a farm in you know um whatever rural england northern shropshire yeah don't you think i actually i i did read his uh mike excuse me a

[77:06]thing that elton john was ever bummed out that bernie didn't sing more songs about having a big wang you know what i mean like oh i got a big wang i'm so happy ellen's like finally i could do this one all right mike oh you seem to come back in i can hear you again someone's wrong with the zoom i don't know what's going on uh in case you were waiting for it on the song hercules magic mike gus dungeon is playing the rhino whistle oh oh actually i have the the rhino whistle now i gotta

[77:35]look that up that sounds like a good idea i don't know if it's a good idea i don't know if it's a good idea it sounds like something you could get as a party favorite the green door when you walk in so yeah so basically like yeah this this um this whole song i feel like was about his life and then and that was like famously bernie wrote wrote all of elton john well not all of but all of the classic songs and then they have a splitting of ways in the late 70s and but i was gonna do a list of other songs and other artists that bernie has written songs for

[78:06]oh nice now wait a minute mike knows a lot about music and mixed lists okay so so far so far matt's safe let's see if he does see if he does well he is into pearl jam too so now wait a minute here some cost-cutting measures i see happening here okay so i wanted to give an honorable mention to rod stewart because um he did write a few songs for rod

[78:30]stewart which is kind of interesting because rod stewart and elton john actually have a little kind of a well i they they originally thought it was sort of just a fun tiff but in the recent years it may not be fun and rod stewart actually rod stewart may actually have hold a grudge against elton john because elton john used to um he would like he called him phyllis for one like he called him his uh drag name and then um wait wait elton john called rod stewart phyllis yeah he gave he

[79:00]gave a bunch of people drag names so uh rod stewart had one um buddy mercury had one i can't remember who the other ones were but they all had and then um elton john's drag name was was sharon oh this guy does his research this is amazing i'm loving this i love the idea that elton john was like just this huge bitch too of all like the singer songwriters he's like you get a drag name phyllis to to the yeah to the point where he actually like shot down one of uh rod stewart's balloons that was advertising um his concert tour

[79:35]like with a gun or like a blow dart that's what like i think he i think he like hired somebody to go up with yeah with something and like shoot it down like a that makes more sense because the one time i met elton john he was like hey i have this rumor about rod stewart i want to tell you about and i was like why oh yeah okay i don't know i know what you're talking about okay you've

[80:04]mentioned it before see aaron we each bring in things to the podcast we each do research on things mike and i are kind of equal really i agree shut the hell up i'm trying to watch the canelo terrence crawford fight right now damn it you know i want to watch that's going on right now no please here don't i need you in here go ahead okay so the first song i was gonna do is um ringo star with the song snookeroo oh here we go snookeroo

[80:34]so bernie tophan wrote this song for ringo and elton john plays piano on it oh really oh rap rap you do a pretty good uh ringo no it's my ball mcgurn hey mate i'm going ringo my way of australia i can't even do it now i messed up that was like this is such a ringo song we've famously said

[81:03]the best karaoke songs mike i gotta admit this is the first time i've ever heard this song in my life and did you see the album cover for this it was like goodbye to venice it's like him in the robot it's crazy okay so then the next one is going to be alice cooper how you gonna see me this is a crazy alice cooper song

[81:33]so this this whole album actually bernie tophan wrote so this was after he appealed elton john split elton decided that he he fired his whole band this was in um the late 70s it was right after i think the rock of the westies album and he fires his whole band and fires bernie and says i want to like sort of do my own thing so then bernie's gotta like you know how do you do that exactly do you like write him a letter or text them or what just uh just gave him the wrong zoom link

[82:01]every week oh i don't know so um anyway yeah so he he writes this album with alice cooper alice cooper had been in um an insane asylum because he was he was in an insane asylum he put he checked himself into an asylum for alcoholism and then writes a whole album called um from the inside and all of the songs are about different people that are in the asylum with him jeez and yeah i mean the song this

[82:31]was the this was the single off of the the album it's such a crazy alice cooper when you sent me this i listened to it i was like this is alice cooper it's like uh it's like when kiss did like uh what's what it does sound like a song i would rather hear like i'm this is cool like i've never heard alice cooper like this but i'd kind of rather hear john sing it like i feel yeah true i was gonna say also um russ if you ever get this one on vinyl uh this is a really cool vinyl because it actually like it opens up and you can like there's like doors and you can like look into the asylum and like oh that's cool

[83:03]laying on the bed and stuff okay so then the next song is uh emily harris uh from broke back mountain and it's a love that will a love that will never grow old oh man imagine writing a song and bring it to emily harris and be like hey you should sing this like that would be so intimidating yeah you gotta have big balls to do that like yeah crazy you sing it you gotta be securing your craft

[83:33]and this song won the 2006 golden globe for best song man i was that movie is a kick in the teeth man oh this is so beautiful man this is good like this one might be one of the best lists i've ever heard it's definitely a top five list definitely all right so then the next one is going to be one that you've probably all heard before it's going to be heart these dreams

[84:02]listen to listen to the chorus here this is crazy what's that sound that sounds like it could be a xylophone but it's more synthetic is that some kind of is it a synth i'm sure so many 80s it's the 80s right yes yeah it might be that you know that uh percussion instrument aaron where like it's a

[84:32]metal the like the you know like what you'd use to spank a partner but you put it over the tubes it's like the one where the guy's playing his ribs and it's yours oh my god here's jordan xylophone so the interesting thing about this song this is the first song that nancy wilson ever sang instead of ann wilson so nancy wilson is normally the guitar player for heart but but that's very cool and then she was actually shouting about eris jordan i explained to her it was a xylophone on the rib cage she didn't even care

[85:02]she was sick when she wrote or when she sang the song so that's why the voice is so raspy and when she had to perform it again her producer was like can't you just get sick again okay and then the amazing the final one which this is sort of an honor of aaron starship we built this city this is bernie this is bernie this one when i was reading his when i was reading his autobiography he said this is the one he retires on oh he retires on so good yeah because like it

[85:32]makes so much money yeah this is such a funny thing to think about him sitting there writing this song so this song was actually originally about la because i guess the clubs were closing and when he was trying to shop it around um it was starship that took it up and then starship was the one that um you know changed it to be about the bay area since that's where they were from because starship was originally jefferson airplane became jefferson starship became starship

[86:02]wow that's grace lake right here that's the game okay so they went from the white rabbit to this exactly that's incredible that's such a journey it's so crazy i guess even old hippies got to eat too i and there's there's a target on hay street whatever can you imagine bernie toppett sitting there being like we built this city on rock and roll well those are the greatest lyrics i'm ever going to write that's going to make me more money than anything else nothing could top that yeah way more than the tiny dancer but i was gonna say in

[86:32]honor of the uh the song that didn't actually mention my name that started this what they did in the middle of this song is there's like this radio part where it's like oh you know like we're city by the bay blah blah blah they other radio stations would drop in their own thing so then it could be about like whatever city you were listening to no oh no that's so good i guess it's the smart marketing boy at the time you know mike there's also another another song that was written by bernie and it was actually written by bernie and uh and elton john and it was used

[87:02]in a documentary film called the american epic sessions and the song was called two fingers of whiskey and it was performed by beck oh beck hansen also performed a bernie song two fingers of whiskey from a documentary it also includes jack white and t-bone burnett and beck hansen did you know who the executive producer is on this russell who's that robert

[87:31]redford obviously what of course so this is actually i was gonna say i've actually seen this this is a documentary jack white did i want to say it was 2016 2017 where he goes back and talks about the history of like early american music and how it's influenced musicians today wow but mike would you say if you were going to make sing a song written by bernie wait if you were going to sing a song written by bernie toppman about the history of rock and roll in music who does it better

[88:01]well beck does it better i'm gonna put a ton of echo on that but i don't know how it's gonna sound i gotta tell you mike that was an all-time list amazing list top five it's crazy to me how much you guys know about music i just don't get it and i gotta say you ended that at perfect timing because if you have i look over to my right rob let's get ready to oh no stop it just tell me if canelo wins in the ninth that's all i care about but

[88:31]now i got you next up uh elton john we've got a list mellow we've learned a lot i like elton john one of the reasons i like it is i know the lyrics are something but his voice he can make so many different sounds of the same word it's almost the sounds of his voice are more important than like the words just listen their instrument yeah oh yeah

[89:01]and you guys probably thought i was gonna ask you questions about mellow yellow here i'm not wait wait before you before you go on though go to the go to the solo about three minutes in uh oh no you were no you were you were about to where it was if you started kind of bossing me around don't you guys think hey don't you guys want to like say something to him okay you might like him in that green room in vegas oh yeah yeah hey i brought this rhino whistle i'm gonna show you something really cool go sit in the corner rob

[89:31]okay listen to this listen to this instrument whoa this is a theremin what is okay so before today i always assumed it was a hammond organ it's an electric violin oh electric violin i never would have guessed that finally dexi's midnight runners has

[90:01]getting some more work you know what i mean we've never done an electric violin list i don't think russell had we yeah no magic bike is big timey russell we've never done an electric violin list that sounds amazing it's almost like the longer we do this we're not putting as much effort into it but that can't be true no never that all right that was mellow and next up and yes i do drink mellow yellow when it's at what store is mellow yellow at now i see it all the time oh you know what it is the freestyle machine

[90:30]they don't have mountain do they have mellow yellow okay this song now this song i just i want to play this the song is i think i'm going to kill myself but i think the important part here is listen to this this premiered in 1972 both with and without an artist known as legs larry smith who also did tap dance on the album smith would tour with elton john and often wear a wedding dress while he did this tap solo he also toured

[91:00]eric clapton and elton john and guess who he was good friends with george harrison oh okay there you go harrison wrote and recorded a song called his name is legs he literally wrote a song like the clapton has leila harrison has legs listen to this guy go russell do you want to hear some legs larry smith oh god did i want to learn how to tap dance so bad when i was younger i

[91:30]thought it would be so cool i still do kind of i think you could be a nice type dancer yeah i don't you've been learning new stuff in your advanced age guys it wasn't tony danza a tiny tap dancer in the show who's the boss yes wouldn't he get out there and tony tony danza right that's when that's when like every sitcom had somebody who would tap dance i remember webster tap danced i remember somebody had mr belvedere tap dance for sure there was lots of it made me listen growing up watching sitcoms i thought two things were true

[92:00]number one i was going to meet a lot more butlers i thought there were quite a few butlers around that i was going to see at some point wasn't enough at your house yeah oh shot fired she came over to clean twice a week that's not a butler okay twice a week made and then you take away those outfits rob okay then moving on i will not have you talk about miss beaver like this i'm not listening to this it's lame it was miss beaver beaver

[92:30]yes okay hang on beafert nice beaver not helping yourself yet beafert though guys we're dishonoring her name and she picked up so much of my stuff now the other thing i thought was going to happen a lot is that there was going to be more tap dancing because that seemed to happen quite a bit now russell if you want to listen to ligs larry smith's latest album he released an album called call me adolph in 2009 so i think things have kind of gone south for legs larry smith i think things are off the rails thank you

[93:00]here we go suzy dramas this album is an all-time like i said the lyrics are in the album cover you open up you can read all the lyrics the lyrics on this are off the wall weird strange i think very problematic they don't really tie to the sound of the music to me at all i don't know it's kind of off-putting to be a little bit i'll be honest the lyrics are too weird is it all the time i don't know i don't know it's almost like he only wrote the songs in four days and that must be it i i don't know i i think

[93:37]i would enjoy this album we've talked about me being with the albums how it changes the experience i think it hurt my experience having the album cover for this one i'd rather not know what the yeah bernie's bernie's lyrics a lot of the times are not very good that's wild for someone who's made a massive career as just a lyricist who's literally one of the few lyricists that like millions of people yeah yeah don't get me wrong

[94:05]there are some amazing turns of phrases i'm not i'm not questioning that i just i think there's some what i would call problematic stuff well i'll have you announce a song that's coming up in a couple here but uh oh yeah do you think bernie is just the worst singer of all time is that what it is like is he just so bad at singing or does he have a beautiful voice but he's just too scared to use it needs to be inspired by somebody i don't know are there recordings of him singing there are he's got a whole he had a band i think it was the lost dogs band something

[94:32]that's a bummer then that's an album by the pearl jam lost dogs if you're uh if you're the most famous lyricist of all time and nobody knows what band you're in that's a that's a major indictment on you the uh quality of your singing next up rocket man number six on the charts in the u.s i couldn't believe it wasn't number one the first stanza of rocket man was written by bernie taupin on his drive home to his parents place and so he had to repeat it to himself for two hours he said it was miserable because he didn't want to forget it

[95:04]to me hey bernie use your voice memo on your phone you big dummy rob yes we've talked about this though parts of the records i do love last song on side one rocket man you have to flip it over again right it's this is i mean you're right russell i want to keep going with this this is after space after bowie's singing about space right this was like a theme of the time i guess i guess

[95:34]it's only three years after we went to the moon and gus dudgeon produced that song also space oh okay all right wow hey aaron baby we don't need you i'm telling you guys we got we got all the wrong cast of characters on this podcast yeah i mean mike knows all the facts and i can do a parody song about space if i wanted to outer space outer space inner space nailed it inner space is the new song it has that bowie bowie type sound of mixing the acoustic guitar with the layered vocals with the

[96:06]other stuff going on for sure a honky tonk piano now one of the things i love on wikipedia is they tell me who covers and there was one that caught my eye the the most famous cover they've thought of this song was the kate bush version where she turned it into a reggae song what it's just my joke five days a week i kind of like it oh wow you guys are missing out wow hey yeah mike just to be clear that would be a saint

[96:44]olaf college vibe album right there like if you were looking to come to saint olaf and get the that would be that'd be what rob was playing while his ferret is running around these college don't talk about the ferret to mike that's embarrassing salvation salvation you can hear i think on this that the band is a lot tighter i mean there's more guitars i feel

[97:05]like he trusts them more to do stuff it feels like an exile on main street kind of you know gospel kind of stuff man if you get a second can you look up how many times elton john is on the list yeah i would be interested to see that because this but see this song i don't know i had a blast listening to it it's musically interesting like it's not just the same stuff there's all these little bridges and stuff i love

[97:33]it uh only twice this is it good do i yellowback road is 112 and this one is 251 yeah that's too bad because i got some good princess diana bits what doesn't make any sense oh well that english rose you guys you guys were you guys weren't dating somebody that was way into when princess rose rose i remember uh next song slave slave he actually made two versions of this song and i want to play

[98:03]this for you britney's furious one yeah please don't make me make jokes about this right now aaron i can't do it okay yeah this is the song where elton john throws the jewel to the bottom of the ocean which is weird because the movie had not come out yet so it makes me think time machine elton time machine much he said that he had trouble getting the energy up for the fast version but listen to the fast version here it's kind of fun oh long intro here i like elton playing a little when i saw elton john at

[98:36]madison square garden my parents come out we saw elton john live and one of the things they do russell is they have a camera that's just on his hands on the piano and so sausage fingers he has the shortest fattest fingers full of rings and they are fucking running up and down the piano it's incredible to watch now mike i know you are playing piano tell tell us what tell everybody what your piano thing is if you don't mind i don't want to embarrass you oh what you shouldn't be

[99:01]embarrassed what my piano thing is i've been yeah i've been learning jazz piano for the last like two years whoa cool are you taking lessons you tell them how often you practice mike oh my gosh yeah so i get up at four o'clock every morning and practice till seven so three hours every day oh my god can you imagine this isn't like a professional well it's just it's it's in hopes of like making it like a side hustle yeah wow very cool fortune is this like you want to be like a band or do you want to be like one of those

[99:32]piano bar guys yep gosh how close are you at this point it's like are you ready to get on gig oh no so that's the thing about jazz piano is uh it is way like one it's really been hard to find a teacher in reno um so i'm that will get up at 4 a.m too i promise i'm just wanting to play piano with you that's it there's nothing else yeah yeah yeah magic mike is up practicing piano when we're finishing this episode four hours from now