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

[0:00]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 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 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 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

[1:00]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 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 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 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

[2:00]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 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 that's a deep cut i don't know i'm not 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 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 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

[3:00]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 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 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

[4:00]How is the apple pie alamode oreo i can see where that's good like a that one's actually decent so it's 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 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 people of a thinner size generally get like

[5:00]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 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 Are absolutely disgusting oh yeah 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 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 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 i've got i've got four guys here oh i forgot to do this bit i've got four guys here who want all of aaron's

[6:00]Feral cats off the 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 I've got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing good rob i think it's going to be a long night no no way i've got 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 i was talking to aaron because recently i was actually contacted by somebody high up in the russian military and they were asking me how to fight a drone war

[7:00]And i said well i have noise canceling headphones and that seems to help what noise canceling headphones yeah there's just 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 mike is here and i think change is going to do us good let's talk about honky chateau let me tell everybody 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 and he said i want to do elton john 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 really our only super fan

[8:00]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 so at the time the that was right after the list changed and i was looking for another podcast the white album yeah but it 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

[9:00]To compensate absolutely oh my god 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 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 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

[10:00]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 About aaron yeah oh like i mean so like i always start with you yeah you do no like so for aaron i think it's just he's got interesting takes on things i think 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 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 regular she wanted to hear more about my bits when the wordle word was throb this week she loved those didn't you send them a towel with you Like in a speedo we keep it in our car 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 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 Red white and brown 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 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

[13:00]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 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

[14:00]Compliments you all the time i mean oh you're way you're wasted as a middle school science teacher you should be out there 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 madman type pjs like it looks like a suit 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

[15:00]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 thank you i 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 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

[16:00]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 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 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

[17:00]We talk about all these albums most of the guys who listen are just calling but then an itunes review showed up one night 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

[18:00]Because he listens to the show he's a super fan and now he's gonna be the best co-host 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 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

[19:00]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 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

[20:00]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 Plastic thing that looks like 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 like a normal 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 oh i think it's a regular but i would

[21:00]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 A lot of coffee accoutrement well i think that's right how much coffee 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

[22:00]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 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 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 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

[23:00]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 upstairs roommate this only goes in coffee is my understanding i have five at a time oh this is like six months or something is this a trust me i'm worried about 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 kids turn the camera off rob turn the camera off i'll turn the camera off wink 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

[24:00]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 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 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 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 not normal milk this is weird shit it's nothing weird about it it's i think it's lactose free and It's high protein so 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 somebody have five of these

[26:00]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 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 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 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 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 a mustache back then 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 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 rose from golden girls famously was from st. Olaf you're correct yes does 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.

[29:00]I didn't know until I went to college. See, and I knew this, but I started doing some deep dives Into it just to figure it out because you would think that she'd have like a Pennant or a sweatshirt or something like that. Never wear anything. I think that she started Out by saying, I'm from St. Olaf, Minnesota. Like it's a fictional town in Minnesota. And Then it turned it. Everybody said, Oh, well, the college everybody just turned it into that She went to St. Olaf. You guys know the real reason, right? Why she's, oh, Are you serious? I assumed we all knew this. I have no idea. No. So St. Olaf is the fictional town that the dumbest member of the golden girls Lived in. And I did. Yeah. Okay. So it's a town. It was a town, 100%.

[30:00]Yeah. Is this Betty White? Yes. The writers were from Carlton. The writers graduated from Carlton, which is the rival school across the river. And so when they needed a Town for the dumbest character, they picked St. Olaf. And I will tell you guys, I know it doesn't affect you in the Midwest because everybody knows St. Olaf. It, me, I assume there was towns called St. Olaf like around when I moved out east and you tell people That you went to St. Olaf, they give you a look like that. Like you're just making it up. You know, you might as well say you went to fake university. They have never heard of it. And then when they do hear of it, they're like, Oh, like the golden girls. And I'm like, No, that is not. It is totally different when you're out east. So yeah, Mike, It is a St. Olaf is a joke in the golden girls about how dumb it is. When you can see, obviously, And you've heard Mike, literally you've listened to thousands of hours of us. How brilliant. Yeah. I mean, yeah, we're smart guys. Remember the other day when I Mentioned a sculptor? Bro Dan nailed it. God, another sculptor came to my head.

[31:00]You know what's a bummer though out here is that in the Bay, a lot of people, not a lot, But if you meet someone who knows where Northfield is, it's because they went to Carlton, Which happened to me today. I was at the soccer store today. And this very cool dad, When I couldn't fucking figure out how to work the shin guards was like, Oh, Yeah, you pull them on. And then there's like a little sleeve you pull them on over. And I was like, Oh, I didn't grow up playing soccer. So I don't know that. And my son was like, yeah, he played other sports, but not soccer. And then my son was Like, dad, did you play hockey? And I was like, no, I played broom ball. And this guy was like, Very cool. Dad was like, I played broom ball too. I went to school in Minnesota. I was Like, really where Carlton every fucking time some smart, handsome, cool guy went to Carlton, Not to say no. We had a parent, we had parent teacher thing, like teacher night, Like meet the teacher or whatever. And Leo, my oldest, so meeting with his English teacher. And she goes, well, I'm from Pennsylvania and I came here and I went to Carlton and I Just in a bunch of everybody and I just went, boo, just have to do it.

[32:00]Mike, basically Carlton is kids who are smarter and more granola and St. Olaf is Attractive women. When I got recruited for football, they said there's three women for Every man Norwegian. Yeah. Three women for every men. And I said, okay, can I come There? Scandinavian. And then I get there and the coach neglected to mention it was a dry Campus. Yep. Okay. So they wouldn't date you because they wouldn't, weren't drunk enough. Yeah. No, so that might be correct. That might be totally right. Actually, Rob, you'll appreciate this. One of our listeners, my cousin who's called in Quite a few times, she sent me a list. I think this was on LinkedIn maybe, but it was The Princeton review is named St. Olaf and a variety of top rankings. Check out the highlights.

[33:00]I'll give you guys some of them. Number six, best classroom experience. Wait, excuse me. Excuse me for a second. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Russ. What is number six? Number six, best classroom experience for private schools. Wow. Wow. Number six, best campus food. Oh, okay. This is like the top 10 Schools with the campus food. They were number six. Oh, I see. I thought that was like, You're saying the best top six things and they were all number six. I was like, that's how it Works. They were ranked number seven for best science lab facilities. Wow. You're looking At a product of those. Well, that's what like when we're Robin to like smear his feces on Something in the beaker or whatever, right, Rob? When you were with that lady friend and We're trying to be in her the fact that you say beaker just shows that your science Education was subpar. Okay. I obviously wouldn't put that into a beaker. You'd put it into a Little test tube thing. Why don't you even know that stuff is milk. So that would probably Make sense. It ranked them in a Petri dish. They ranked number 12 in green matters.

[34:00]Everyone cares about conservation. Wow. Number 12. Yeah. We recycled all those Smirnoff bottles for sure. We'll see if Magic Mike agrees with this one. That's the ones you made Christmas trees out of. We ranked number cycling. Number 15 in friendliest students. Friendliest students. I could see that for sure. I mean, you guys are all friends from there, right? Yeah. That's a fair. Number 16. Most days. Yeah. Oh, gee, Matt. Matt's got one Foot up the door. It's been intense. It's been intense recent views. Yeah. Yeah. When Matt fake like he was quitting, I stressed out listening back to that editing. Yeah. I thought that was it. I really thought that was it. The last two things were 16th In students that study the most. There was a lot of people that studied there, right? You guys all call. That probably, it probably was me. You guys all did. And then the person in nerd call ranked 20th in great financial aid. I don't remember

[35:00]That part. So those were the rankings. So that Mike, now you know a little bit more about Seattle. All right. Fantastic Russell. I would say it was number one in having a pinball game Of that had a ZZ Top theme song that I played for hours and hours. And looking back, I was paying tens of thousands of dollars to go somewhere to play pinball away from Thinking maybe that women were going to show up and play pinball. Not quite sure. Said at the pause. Yeah. That's not quite sure. Although the pause is where I met my wife. Did I ever tell you guys when she was working at the pause and I came in and I had, wow, Never mind. I don't want to tell the story. Pretty sure that's how John from Edina kind Of got his wife to hosting cause she was delivering pizzas. So pause is like a restaurant, Right? On campus, kind of like the, yeah. And I had a, my sailboat catalog and I was Looking at different sailboat parts and I showed her and she was like, Hey, all right. I was like, Hey, that's the best response I've gotten yet. My but my butler

[36:00]In retrospect, not my finest hour. Okay. But I didn't have marrying her and having sex with her At least twice. Oh, now she, and now she's the winner, right? Yeah. I've got some deals going Through where if they go through worse set. Okay. I just need a couple things to follow The place. It's going to be just fine. But yeah, Mike, that is the story of St. Olaf on the golden girls. And I was, I assumed I did it saying to myself, well, At least this will be an episode where we don't just talk about St. Olaf the whole time. And then that has been, and then it turns out that's what everyone wants to hear about. Yeah, they do. They love this stuff. Yeah. Next, Mike is going to ask me where Various things are around the city. Okay. So I do have one more thing real quick For rolling gold. Nice. So we got lots of time. This is, right? This is for Matt. I was watching, there was a trailer that just got released for this new movie called Song, Blue that's going to have, we've been in the willows. Yep. It's going to have Kate Hudson

[37:00]And Hugh Jackman and they're like a duo from Wisconsin where they're going to do this Neil Diamond, whatever. So then I go find out that like they performed, they were called Lightning And Thunder. They performed with Pearl Jam and did forever in blue jeans with Pearl Jam. And then I'm looking at the set list. For the movie? No, no, in real life. So in real life, In real life, this was a real couple from the 90s that did this act and they got invited by Pearl Jam at the, what was the act? The act is that it was Neil Diamond. Neil Diamond is called Lightning and Thunder and then there's a documentary that is what this movie is based on. And Then so I went and watched the documentary. They get invited up by Pearl Jam to do forever In blue jeans. And then I'm looking at other set list because they were playing at the Wisconsin,

[38:00]Like some kind of like state fair kind of thing. Summerfest. Yes. And I looked at the other Set list and the other set list is what I sent Rob because the next night they went and did Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. Like they covered the whole album? No, just the song. So they did, it starts off with the little wing going into Maggot Brain. Okay. We're watching Mike McCready. I mean, yeah, if you can play the guitar well enough, You can do it. This is Maggot Brain right here. Wow. Pearl Jam. This is Pearl Jam Doing Maggot Brain. Yes. Now, Mike, how did you find this video? Because Maggot Brain Dispelled Magot. And even I know that's not how you spell it. I mean, Google figured it out. He's trying to find that scene with Robbie Margot from Wolf of Wall Street. And then he came across this. That's it. I have a bookmark and you can find it faster.

[39:00]Exactly. She doesn't play guitar in that as well. Nearly as well as Mike McCready. Yeah, but Mike McCready is pretty underrated from like he never makes any of the Top 10 lists, top 20 lists, things like that. You should definitely be on some like top 50 lists, If you will. But I think he will later on in life when Pearl Jam starts fading away. 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 going to say. Like you bump it, actually, you're like, this is Maggot Brain. Yeah. Oh, the other thing I should mention is Chad Smith is playing drums. Oh, with it right here. Yep. Yeah, because he would often fill in. It still fits. And he's with Eddie Vedder's got a band called the Earthlings that's playing in Ohana. I think next weekend And Chad Smith plays, he plays drums with Earthlings. He's playing this thing note for note.

[40:00]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 going to say was Right after this, he collapses and is in the hospital for 14 hours. What? He gets to high. He collapses right after this show is dehydrated and exhausted and is in the hospital for 14 Hours. He just gave it all he left it all for. Yeah. Wow. What? I could listen to the 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 had to be doing some other drugs. Yeah. Wait a minute, drugs can get you in the hospital.

[41:00]Listen, I would say also mad is that they're wearing all flannel. You know what I mean? Like it's too hot. Yeah. Those big old boots. Those big old art boots. 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 rolling going. How's this going with Russ? Rolling. Well, 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 event, We rented out an arcade in Salt Lake City. It's called Quarters Arcade. Invited the whole conference attendees to come to 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, please. So the two games that

[42:00]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. If I play a little NBA Jam, I can still compete with people that These are guys, mostly people between the age of, I'd say 40 and 60. So But played a little NBA Jam was the Timberwolves Christian Latiner 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 it was like DJ Armstrong and 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 doing like the Double button push where you run up to the guy, you push him down, take the ball. And these guys Were like, wait, you can push this game. And I'm just whooping that ass. I'm putting it on. And they're trying to dunk from the baseline. And you know, that was the easiest dunk to block,

[43:00]You know what I mean? Like that you have the timing of the windmill dunk from the, Like it's just a boom. Now Russell, of course, 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 Ben Jammon. And I said, how did you get Ben Jammon? And Sam heard me say it. And it was the Psonics Benjamin, apparently. And he made fun of me. Is that Sam from the Robin Sam's? Yeah. And he, he recently sent me a text that was making fun Of me for saying Ben Jammon. So that is, I had been a lifelong mistake that I made. Because if Sam had a beard, he looked like Jesus, right? He's the whole skinny guy, The longer hair. Yeah, for sure. And then, so like for Halloween, We went as the hockey guys ones 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, by the way, Russell, I'm going too tall, skinny, too fat. What are you doing in ice hockey? Oh, I think you got to go three skinny, one fat. Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy.

[44:00]Matt, what are you doing for ice hockey? Too fat, too skinny. Thank you. Aaron, Is there a medium guy? That's so if you pick a medium guy, that's I'm already pushing it. No, he's that, he's that strong or The Mario looking guy. Did you ever play ice hockey on Nintendo? I did, but I'm, I don't remember much about it. I just remember it. Like that's where I learned how to, what icing was, but that's I think they had like Finland and Russia. It was like, you get 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 a tech mobile and you just Always played. Yeah. You played the Raiders and then you played the Jackson. Russell, what other games did tech mobile there? What do we got? So before I get to that, I was just going to, you mentioned when you found out about Icing, Rob found out about after you ate that cake mix the one year.

[45:00]Fuck. That literally, that bit is like 39 years old just to 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 going to challenge someone At the conference of Mortal Kombat and I'm thinking, I got this, right? Like You can't pull up scorpion or sub zero kind of get the get over here or the Freeze move and I'll be good. I got destroyed. I really got embarrassed. Like I really couldn't even get a kickoff. It's just guy just smoke. 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 hours, right? Like they know back, forward, down, And they know moves. Yeah. So I did not know the moves. So I got destroyed in Mortal Kombat, Which was once you get, got destroyed at one arcade game, you don't really want to play anymore

[46:00]Because you think you're just going to get this shit kicked out. That's my, that's my college Life. That's my college life. As you guys just always play like Bond or whatever it was. Come on overplay. And I would die within like three seconds and it'll be like, well, This is fun. Or what's the other one? There's other shooting game call of duty. Everybody wanted to play call of duty. Oh, Halo. Halo. Maybe this Halo. Yeah. I never yeah. And I would die. And we're like, this is so, yeah, this is great. Bye. I'm going to leave. So some of the other experiences, there was a group of, There was a group of four guys who beat the Simpsons game. Oh, they defeated the Simpsons Game at the arcade. Listen, I'm just going to say it again. Why does she have a vacuum? It doesn't make any sense. She doesn't have a vacuum in the show. It's the other bizarre. 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

[47:00]Featuring your grotto or whatever the hell that is. So did you know that I had that pinball Machine, the playboy machine? Yeah. My father had it down here. And then we bought the house. He just left it. And then we got rid of it 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 video. So it's up in, it's up in my not now, One of her cousins place. 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 joke. My dad had a hustler Pinball game and the part where the ball went and got spread open wider sometimes That it was nuts. I don't understand how you can talk about anything when this song is on. I can't, I can't hear you. I was going to say, Rob, this is a missed opportunity Because you can be playing the on John version of the song. Oh shit. 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?

[48:00]What you did there, you thought you're, you thought you're being cool, but it was actually Pretty fucked. Okay. Normally people text things like that to me if I ever make a mistake. So Once again, you point out a mistake I made. Okay. That's a one strike. Okay. You do not want to be here for the, wait, does he do the whole thing on the piano? Yeah. Oh, this is on his greatest hits album that I had. This was my own John albums with The greatest hits. And this was the first song on the second greatest hits album. 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,

[49:00]You know what I mean? That's what life is about. Have you literally read the Description of the show? That's what the show is about. So 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 And send it to HR. But there was a lot of people got really into a ski ball. One guy Being like seven perfect ski ball shots. People were losing their mind over that, But the coolest game to me, they had the Zoltar machine. Did anybody go back in time to be 13 Years old? No, but I pulled some sort of fortune about 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. 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. He stopped when Elizabeth Perkins super sure enough. I've seen

[50:00]Enough here. He just had to pause. He just paused right there. There was no reason to watch the Rest of it. I don't know why, but there was no reason to watch the rest of it. If you go from A kid and then you're like, Hey, I wonder what my dick looks like now that I'm an old guy And like you look and you're like, Oh 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 arcade game that just sucked nuts? Like you really know, This game sucks. Like you played it. You're like, this is bad. No, no, I played one of The Pac-Man, like the, where you sit down, like the big Pac-Man games, but it was almost Like too 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 to. There's a lot of arcade places In Minneapolis with the boys. And then there's one in uptown called up down. Yeah.

[51:00]It's on Lindale just before Lake street south of Lake street Mike's here. He doesn't Know these things. Right behind it is, it's that, what's the, What's the speakeasy behind there? Russell with the red light. The Volsteads. Yeah. I was going to say, I was going to say, I don't think Mike's Interested in like the Minneapolis maps, but I can see as a Minneapolis map in the Background with a bunch of pins. 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. There's a lot of writing and lipstick on it. I don't know what's going on. That was a game where you called that guy. I keep trying to fight, but I keep Trying to find one. 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 he gave me enough time, I'd find it. But, You know, otherwise I, I like going back and playing the old pinball machines, but then,

[52:00]You know, that's kind of what there's, there's one that we, we played a lot. And maybe It was the old car games. There was like, we had two people next to you And like, it's the brumbles a lot. I don't know. It's not like the old driving Games because we split when you were a kid, you'd play those and you thought you're Real cool, like actually driving and shifting. So I don't know. There's, there's a ton of games To play. The correct answer for me, I would say the 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, A driving game. And they had that rubber band. So it was always close at the end, You know, you never knew. And we would just be yelling our brains out. I would have eaten my Baked potato soup in a bread bowl. And I was now at the arcade. Oh yeah. That's the place. Okay. So 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. Start on search. I had enough of these where I had a punch card.

[53:00]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, I think the, I've been grandfathered in on that. I'm not Sure. Mike, are you an arcade gamer? What game are you playing if you go on? I was going to 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 to Mike. It's just one button and a joystick, Right? Yeah. And it was super hard. So 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 fucking 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 Rowling going, how's it going with You? Good. I won't take too long. They just got one. We, we, we have to tell the story,

[54:00]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 Famously, we always tell everybody where we're going, but we're not actually going there Because Russell scared. And I sent a care package and no one picks it up. Imagine Mike says a care package. So I think we were telling her we were going to Paris or Something. We've never gone to Paris. So then it was the link. 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 never got it because we were actually at Paris or whatever, Wherever you sent it. And so then you famous, I think 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 go to the green door, which is the sex club Down in Vegas. Rob's fist now. Mike, you got to, Mike, you got to do the bit.

[55:00]You know, where is it? You know, it's like right now I can just describe it. All right. So it's a place in the Vegas where you can let your inhibitions run wild. The world's Most unique social club. So this is a sex club, huh? Cause I listened to a podcast where They talk a lot about sex clubs. What convention? No, no, I know somebody. I know somebody in Woodbury that'd be interested in this. We got to come back to that Russell. Convention attendees, exclusive 10% off for July. So Hey, if you're going to Vegas, Maybe for a convention, maybe in January, you could get 10% off at the door. So let's see What the cost is real quick. I don't think I can go to a sex club. So actually, I'll tell you the Cost because 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,

[56:00]Mike, excuse me. I need to do something here. I'm interested. Hold on. I'm interested. I want to hear. Yeah. 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 I would sleep at the sex club. No, it's just because 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 out, if I have to stay up all night anyway, as well, hang out there. I might as well just hang Out there. Yeah, especially if it's 50 bucks. 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 Gatorids. This is also the part of the podcast where I remember that my son was going to listen to This later. No, no. You've acquitted yourself well so far. Even you've got nothing out of bounds

[57:00]So far. Have you ever like mentioned this podcast to a co-worker or a friend? If you Ever said, oh, I'm listening to this podcast. And then when you mentioned it, they never asked The name of you ever tried to get a friend to listen to the podcast. Friends, no, but my kids have all listened to it. When I told my son, I was listening to it. He's like, oh, cool. So like, you'll be the only listener. I was like, no, there's tens of people listen to this podcast. No, we're at dozens. We're up to hundreds. There's lots of iPhones and best buys that Continue to download the show. I don't know. 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 it's up and down as always. I've been, I've been fucking with dates pretty hard. I feel like dates are a 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 know, I like the ones with the pits. I like to have a pit in there. And it's like a stone fruit. I don't know what a stone fruit is. Is it like a fig or what is it?

[58:00]Dates that are the pits. Russell knows exactly what you're talking about. I mean, I don't know. I eat the medjool dates. There's different types. 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 a stone fruit or not. What did you have in your backyard? You had some sort of True, didn't you have a date tree in your backyard? We had figs. We had figs with that one. We had to tear down when we read the yard sadly. So you know what's funny is I never buy figs now Because I feel like an asshole. 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. So I had a couple of dates today. That was really nice. I went to a party this afternoon and I ate too much. Rob's had, Every time you say that, I had a couple of 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 Crip

[59:00]Keepers testicles. Look at these disgusting things I've ever seen in my entire life. They're so good. Have you ever had a date shake? Oh, it's like blend up some Russell answer that question. Now I'm back. Oh, it's so good. Answer that question. Hey, Russell's had a date shake round and roll. Literally she had long, actually, sorry, literally the date had long sideburns and They're just like back. So like smoothie places in like Palm Springs or out in Hawaii, They do 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. 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 I got a party that served. I got to do it. I have to do it. I've been trying to hold on, but you pushed me over the edge. I was trying to think about

[1:00:00]It. I was trying to think about baseball and I couldn't do it. I had to. Did you show up To a party? Did you see that they had tripe and you said, Oh God, this is my part for the Party. No, yeah. I need to call my sponsor. They have tripe here. It was a friend. No, It's crazy. So this friend of ours turned 40 and he was having a party. He's Filipino. So here There was all this Filipino food that his auntie or sister had cooked. I couldn't quite understand Who their relative was cook the food. And there was a whole roasted pig there as well. And then I remember 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 some of Russell's Dates too. But there was a dish that I could see because the tripe looks has like a honeycomb type Texture to it. And so it was like almost looked like a curry. So there was some Tripe in there. Oxtail looked like I'm not Swiss sharp. Some kind of green, but I will say

[1:01:00]Russell, look at this. I got to the party. I thought the dates look gross. Erin be quiet for a second. I thought the dates look gross. This looks like you took somebody's brain and just chopped it up. Erin is intestine. Everybody right now. Stop what you're doing. Go look up a picture of tripe. Don't you have to To get in Erin's head where he goes to party sees tripe. And he goes, yes, you cannot be the White guy at the party who's like, Oh, I'm not going 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 a few foods that taste you, but I got there on the late side. So it was like not super hot anymore. And 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 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

[1:02:00]At some point when you're digested 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 that through as we go through The rest of this episode. Well, that was a sexual turn on. I'm out of here. Stomach touching stomach is my third favorite section. Rob, you have anything else? It's like Russell and I hugging each other. All right. Listen, my marriage is in big trouble. And let me tell you what, it's always in big Trouble. It's always in big trouble. I know. Did you forget it? Did you forget the candle? First of all, 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

[1:03:00]House every weekend. So like we organize a clause that we organize. I sent you guys a picture Of our pantry when we unloaded it. Yeah. Just disgusting. We're disgusting people. And I was talking to her and 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 first of all, ice cream, and I want you guys To think about this. Ice cream is below crème brûlée. And I could get behind that. I do love A crème brûlée. Jenny and I famously, we are a couple that loves crème brûlée. Then, At this point, 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 what I mean? This is like,

[1:04:00]This is getting 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 into the couple's lounge. I could not believe when she likes scones more than ice cream. It was one of the most offensive things I've ever heard. Is anybody else outraged at my wife? I will say this. I love ice cream. And I would have ice cream at home, but like, I would never get ice cream at a restaurant. Like 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 ice cream, rustle on like business. When everybody's ordering you go out and everybody's getting this and

[1:05:00]Everybody's getting that. I have 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 does an order of 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 was going to say the other, The other exception is Mexican restaurants. So you got to get fried ice cream. Oh, wow. That's a damn fried deep fried ice cream is delicious. Oh, I love it so much. Mike, is there a dessert on the menu that you get excited when you see? Yeah. Well, they don't even know if they're in round anymore, but the claim jumper, Eclairs used to be like, that was like the go to dessert. I mean, nothing was huge. You would Take like three quarters of it home with you. I've been a claim jumper only one time My life in Tucson. That's a Western. And I think claim jumper might, I think they might all be closed now. I think it's one of them that's kind of died off.

[1:06:00]That looks good. What was the thing from Bridgeman's Russell, the Lollapalooza. Lollapalooza. Yeah. That's, 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 all by my own? 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 is also a music. Yeah. The link is purple already. That's kind of strange. Yeah. This, yeah. So it's like this basically. It's a Sunday. It's just a massive Sunday. And this person is an average Minnesota person behind it. Did people, did you do like the Ziggy Piggy? Were you like Ziggy Piggy? Yeah. What's a dessert, Aaron? You're excited to order. I was afraid you were going to come to me. I mean what? There was a, The number one that sticks out of my mind, there was a burger spot here in Oakland that

[1:07:00]Was called Kroner Burger. It was fantastic. And they had a honey pie and that thing was Incredible. So it was more like a custard kind of a thing and sweetened with honey. 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, instead of a, oh, come on, Rob, you got this. E-Claire. Let's talk about it. I think E-Q'd the levels on this album. Mike, you should see how many times he has to edit this To like make his jokes more like, we'll see if, if you can pick out where he has to make all his Edits here. It's called production. Instead of an E-Claire. I declare this the 251st best job. Oh, we got a replacement. Wow. Okay. I was thinking about E-Claire Huxtable, Where if he was married to a giant, okay, so here's the thing. No.

[1:08:00]Listen, we are talking about a honky-shato. Okay. I don't know. I'm just going to 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-shato overall. I think we're kind of back to our Jamaican jerk off time where you're like- Couple of awkward song titles on this one. Yeah. He's making a couple of songs. I'll just say this. There's a couple of songs in here where I'm not going to talk That much about the songs and said, I got some other stuff that I wanted to load up. But this is Elton John's fifth album. This is the big turn. Actually, Rob, this is Elton John's fifth album. I got it right here on vinyl honky-shato From Bill Sidney, 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 100 on main street In downtown Hopkins. A little bit more of a Excelsior Boulevard there. There you go. The street is so gross. 169. West of 169. 169.

[1:09:00]You could pay me a million dollars to tell me we're Excelsior's. I have no idea. I know I've driven through it a hundred times. I just have no idea. This is where- Excelsior Boulevard, not Excelsior. Excelsior, the town is on Lake Minnetonka, A little south of Lake Minnetonka. If you've ever gone west on something you've gone through it. Kind of between, yeah. We're we're, 394 turns into 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. This is the album where his band that had been on the road with them Finally became his permanent band. Before this, he was doing mostly session, musician stuff. He recorded it at Chateau 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 Eroville. Nailed it. You know, you just open your mouth real big at the end. Eroville. France for about two weeks in just January of 1972. Elton and Bernie were basically looking to like change the sound on this album.

[1:10:00]Instead of, his last album was like had Levan and Tidy Dancer on it. And this one he wanted to come out with more of a rock sound. And to be the- Very American sound. You said 72? 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 of- I was going to say the best part was that week and they hung out Where Elton John had to like carry Bernie around When 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? I sure do, Elton. Hey, Bernie, did you come up with a new song? I sure did, Elton. This one's called Elton John's the best. Oh, Bernie, you made a song called Elton John as a big penis. That's so crazy. Thank you for doing that. Sorry, I'm sorry, I can't apologize. Now, okay, Russell again, don't ever apologize. We're working on that.

[1:11:00]This is his first US, I'm sorry, it hits US. It's number one in the US. 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, hang on, pause for a minute. Yeah, wait for a while. Hold on, hang on. Pause for a minute after he says all my notes. Is there a connection with this album? Is there a reason you asked to be on this one? Or is there any sort of connection with Elton John, Or what's your Elton John background? Oh yeah, just saw me, huge Elton John fan. Hello, yes. And so we're just this album standing in the Elton John panther. Bernie wants to go water skiing. We better make that happen. I can barely get to the boat.

[1:12:00]So without spoiling my final rating, So this one, like to add to what Rob said, This one has a more rocky sound, The albums prior to this, I mean, he had another album That didn't do very well, Empty Sky, But most people think of his first album as Elton John, And then his second album was Tumbleweed Connection, His third album was Mad Man 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. And just went with like a straight pop sound, And most of the songs are fairly short. The songs on those other albums Can go five, six minutes sometimes. So this one. Moody Blues influence, like the premium stuff. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. So this one is, I actually do like those orchestrated ones. This one, I would probably put it, I mean, it is lower than Yellow Brick Road, Which is I think where it is. But I think it's on this list because of Rockin' Down.

[1:13:00]Which is like a top 25 song of all time, if not there. Yeah. We'll get to that, I'm sure. I gotta say, I did not recognize A lot of songs on this album, But it was fun to listen to. Hell yeah. It was kind of, like 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, 100%. It was just like, we had that same experience With Yellow Brick Road, right? Of just like, oh, this is a really, 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 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 Duggin produced this one as well. He's produced all those, the first, You know, the first like 10 or whatever, The classic albums before Blue Moves. Everything before Blue Moves is Gus Duggin. And yeah, just amazing producer. Wow, you took what I was just gonna say.

[1:14:00]So first up, let's play Honky Cat. Oh, no, not again. What is that? Muffins, get out of there. Mittens. What are you doing? Spot, Russell, you're calling the cat spot. That's great. That's flipping it upside down. I love it. It's like a dog scene, right? Well, again, nothing. Rover, let's get into Honky Cat. No, I believe that song. It's Honky Chantau, right? If I, no, that's the album, Russell. The first song here's the thing. The first song is called Honky Cat, Which of course is a play on words, Guess what the word in French is for cat? Got a toe? Well, it's chat. But with the C, it doesn't sound right when I say it like that. Yeah, Honky Chant. Now, wait a minute, Aaron. I just thought of a great bit for the end. You'll never guess what it's going to be. But it involves two plus sound clips.

[1:15:00]Yeah, it's going to be about how you Get yourself at the Green Door Club. Oh, God damn it, Russell. Now I've got to think of a new joke. So this was described as a New Orleans funk song. And really, you want to come out right away And say this is not just a piano ballad's, You know, heavily orchestrated album like Mike was talking about. Ooh, I like the effects. I hate the song. I've always hated the song. What? I've gone on the record before saying I hate the song. When this song comes up, I track it almost immediately. What? I just, there were so many other Ellen John songs, Songs I liked more. This one, I think it was the weird punctuation of the beat I never liked when I was younger. It is funky. I like it. I got to say, though, for this, I downloaded the, Oh, what do you call it? What do you call the lossless stuff? Flack. I did get the flack and it really

[1:16:00]Made me enjoy it more, I will say. Mike, you like it. What does he put in his bottle of wine? Cheers. What's going on? I think it's the idea that he's a country boy. So that's the whole thing I was going to say. This is really Bernie Toppin, basically, Who wrote all of the songs. He writes all the lyrics for Ellen. This is his, like, biography. And he's basically saying I'm the honky cat. I'm the country boy That's getting invited to all these big parties. Similar, I think, to, and Goodbye Yellow Rook Road, The song Goodbye Yellow Rook Road, Where he's just feeling, like, out of place Because he's like some country boy that... You know what we call that, Mike? What's that? The titular track. Wow, that's a, that is a titular track. Wait, is, where's Bernie Toppin from? Is he, he's like a country bumpkin character? Yeah, he's, yeah. He, he grew up on a farm in Whatever, rural England. Northern Tropshire. Oh.

[1:17:00]Don't you think? I actually, I did read his... Mike, excuse me a second. Mike, we're having crossover. I can't hear you're muted. Mike, do you ever think 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. Elton's like, finally, I could do this one. All right, Mike. Oh, you seem to come back in. I can hear you again. Something's wrong with the Zoom. I don't know what's going on. In case we're waiting for it on the song Hercules, Magic Mike, Gus Dungeon is playing the Rhino Whistle. Oh, oh, actually I have the Rhino Whistle. Now I got to look that up. That 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 whole song I feel like was about his life. And then, and that was like famously, Bernie Rhodes 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 going to do a list of other songs

[1:18:00]And other artists that Bernie has written songs for. Very cool. Oh, nice. Now, wait a minute. Mike knows a lot about music and makes lists. Oh, okay. So far Matt's safe. Let's see if he does. See if 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, he did write a few songs for Rod Stewart, Which is kind of interesting because Rod Stewart And Elton John actually have a little kind of a, Well, I think 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, He would like, he called him Phyllis for one. Like he called him his drag name. And then, Wait, Elton John called Rod Stewart Phyllis.

[1:19:00]Yeah. He gave a bunch of people drag names. So Rod Stewart had one. Buddy Mercury had one. I can't remember who the other ones were, But they all had. And then Elton John's drag name was Sharon. Oh, this guy does his research. That is amazing. I'm loving this. I love the idea that Elton John was like, Just this huge bitch to evolve like these singer songwriters. He's like, you get a drag name Phyllis. To the point where he actually like shot down One of Rod Stewart's balloons that was advertising his concert tour. Like with a gun or like a blow dart or what? I think he like hired somebody to go up with, Yeah, with something and like shoot it down. I'm like, that makes more sense. Cause the one time I melt Elton John, He was like, Hey, I have this rumor about Rod Stewart I want to tell you about. And I was like, why?

[1:20:00]Oh yeah. Okay. I know what you're talking about. Okay. You've 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. Rob, can you shut the hell up? I'm trying to watch the Canelo Terence Crawford fight right now. God damn it. You know, I want to watch it. What's going on right now? No, please Aaron, don't. I need you in here. Go ahead. Okay. So the first thing I was going to do is Ringo Starr. With the song Snookeroo. Oh, here we go. Snookeroo. So Bernie Toppin wrote this song for Ringo. And Elton John plays piano on it. Oh, really? Oh, Rob, you do a pretty good, Ringo impression. No, it's my Paul McCartney. Hey, mate. I'm, oh, Ringo by Way of Australia. Oh, I can't even do it. Now I'm messed up. That was like.

[1:21:00]This is such a Ringo song. We've famously said Ringo songs are the best karaoke songs. Mike, I gotta admit, this is the first time I've ever heard this song in my life. And you ever do an album cover for this? It was like goodbye to Venice. It's like him and the robot. It's crazy. Okay. So then the next one is going to be Alice Cooper. How are you going to see me? Oh, Alice Cooper. Nice. This is a crazy Alice Cooper song. So this whole album actually, Bernie Toppin wrote. So this was after he healed Elton John's split. Elton decided that he, he fired his whole band. This was in 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 got to like. How do you do that exactly? Do you like write him a letter or text him or what?

[1:22:00]Just gave him the wrong Zoom link every week. So anyway, yeah. So he writes this album with Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper had been in 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 From the Inside. And all of the songs are about different people That are in the asylum with him. Geez. And yeah, I'm in the song. This was the single off of 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 a, it's like when Kiss did like, what's, What's this song? It sounds like a song I would rather hear. Like this is cool. Like I've never heard Alice Cooper like this, But I kind of rather hear Elton John sing it. Like I feel, yeah, true. I was going to say also, Russ, if you ever get this one on vinyl, 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 this

[1:23:00]Asylum and like Alice Cooper is like laying on the bed and stuff. Okay. So then the next song is Emily Harris from Brokeback Mountain And it's a love that will never grow old. Oh man. Imagine writing a song and bring it to Emily Harris And being like, Hey, you should sing this. Like that would be so intimidating. Yeah. You got to have a big balls to do that. Like you got to go and raise the song. You sing it. You got to be secure in your craft. Wonderful. And this song won the 2006 Golden Globe for best song. Man. I would, that movie is like kicking the teeth, man. Oh, this is so beautiful. Man, this is good. Geez. 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.

[1:24:00]It's going to be Heart These Dreams. Oh, listen to the chorus here. This is crazy. What's that sound that sounds like it could be, as I always tell them, But it's more aesthetic. Is that some kind of, is it a synth? I'm sure it's the 80s. It's the 80s, I'm sure it's right. Yeah. Yeah. It might be that percussion instrument, Like it's a metal 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 Aeros Jordan. Oh my God, Aeros 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. That's very cool. And then she was actually shouting about Aeros Jordan. Explain to her, it was a Xylophone on the rib cage.

[1:25:00]She didn't even care. 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? That would be amazing. The final one, which this is sort of an honor of Aaron, Starship, we built the 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 the song. So good. Yeah, because like it 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, It was Starship that took it up. And then Starship was the one that, You know, changed it to be about the Bay Area Since that's where they were from. Because Starship was originally Jefferson Airplane, became Jeffery's Starship,

[1:26:00]Became Starship. Why? That's Gray Slick right here. 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 the old hippies got to eat too. And there's a target on Hate 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've ever going to write. That's going to make me more money than anything else. Nothing could tap that. Yeah, way more than the tiny dancer. But I was going to say, in honor of the song that didn't Actually mention my name that started this, What they did in the middle of the song is there's like This radio part where it's like, oh Like we're sitting by the bay, 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 a smart marketing play 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 Elton John

[1:27:00]And it was used in a documentary film called The American Epic Sessions. And the song was called Two Fingers of Whiskey And it was performed by Beck. 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. You know who the executive producer is on this, Russell? Who's that? Robert 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 gonna make, Sing a song written by Bernie, wait, If you were gonna sing a song written by Bernie Top And about the history of rock and roll in music,

[1:28:00]Who does it better? Well, Beck does it better. Okay. 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. That's great, Russell. That was easily a 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 perfect timing Because if you have Violet Gordon, my right, Rob, Let's get ready to roll. Oh, no, stop it. Just tell me if Canelo wins in the ninth. That's all I care about. Now, next up, Elton John, we've got a list. Melo. 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. The instrument. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[1:29:00]And you guys probably thought I was going to ask you questions About Melo Yellow here. I'm not. Before you go on, though, go to the, Go to the solo about three minutes in. Oh, no. You were, no, you were, You were about to where it was. If you just kind of blossom 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. Hey, I brought this Rhino whistle. I'm going to show you something really cool. Go sit in the corner, Rob. 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, Dexie's midnight runners

[1:30:00]Is getting some more work. You know what I mean? We've never done an electric violin list. I don't think Russell, have we? Yeah. No, Magic Mike is a big type in Russell. Wow. 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 what it is? The freestyle machines. They don't have out and 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. 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 with Eric Clapton and Elton John

[1:31:00]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 Clapton has Layla. Harrison has legs. Listen to this guy go, Russell, do you want to hear some legs? Larry Smith. God, did I want to learn how to tap dance so bad When I was younger? I thought it would be so cool. I still do kind of. It could be a nice tap dancer. Yeah, 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 Danza? That's when 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 the sitcoms, I thought two things were true.

[1:32:00]Number one, I was going to be a lot more butlers. I thought there were quite a few butlers around That I was going to see at some point. Because one wasn't enough at your house. Yeah. Shot fired. She came over to clean twice a week. That's not a butler. Okay? Twice a week. It's made. And then... You think you're aware of those outfits, Rob? Okay. Then moving on, I will not have... You talk about Ms. Beaver like this. I'm not listening to this. The name was Ms. Beaver? Yes. What? I hang on. Beaver to... Nice Beaver. Not helping yourself yet. Beaver to... 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 Liggs Larry Smith's Latest album, you released an album called Call Me Adolph in 2009. So I think things have kind of gone solid For Liggs Larry Smith. I think things are off the rails when you're...

[1:33:00]So here we go. Susie 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. Oh, nice. The lyrics of 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 awkwardly to me a little bit. I'll be honest. The lyrics are too weird. Is it almost like he only wrote the songs in four days? That must be it. I don't know. I think I'm going to 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 lyrics are. Yeah, 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.

[1:34:00]Who's literally one of the few lyricists That like millions of people know. He was his only job. Yeah. Dude, don't get me wrong. There are some amazing turns of phrases. I'm not questioning that. I think there's what I would call problematic stuff. Well, I'll have you announce a song That's coming up in a couple here. Do you think Bernie is just the worst singer of all time? Is that what it is? Is he just so bad at singing? Or does he have a beautiful voice But he's just too scared to use it? He needs to be inspired by somebody. Are there any recordings of him singing? There are. He had a band. I think it was the Lost Dogs band. Something with the dogs. That's a bummer then. That's an album by the Pearl Jam, Lost Dogs. If you're the most famous lyricist of all time And nobody knows what band you're in, That's a major indictment under the 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 stands of Rocket Man was written By Bernie Toppen on his drive home to his parents' place. And so he had to repeat it to himself for two hours.

[1:35:00]He said it was miserable because he didn't want to forget it. 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. Gee, I have to flip it over again, right? It's, this is you're right, Russell. I want to keep going with this. This is after Bowie's singing about space, right? This was like a theme of the time, I guess. I guess it's only three years after we went to the movie. And Gus Dudgeon produced that song also, Space Song. Oh, okay, all right. Wow. Hey, Aaron. Babe, we don't need you. I passed all of you guys. We got all the wrong cast of characters on this podcast. Yeah Mike knows all the facts, And I can do a parody song about space if I want it to. Outer space, inner space. Nailed it. Inner space is the new song.

[1:36:00]It has that Bowie-type sound of mixing the acoustic guitar With the layered vocals with the other stuff going on. For sure. A hockey-tongue 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 most famous cover they thought of this song Was the Kate Bush version, Where she turned it into a reggae song. What? I kind of like it. What the shit is this? Yeah, turn it off. We know when you shut this off. Look at the headphones, man. Oh, wow. I know you guys are missing out. Hey, Mike, just to be clear, That would be a say no of College Vibe album right there. Like if you were looking to come to say no, Forget that. That would be what Rob is playing. Oh, it's Ferret is running around these college movies. Don't mention it. Don't talk about the Ferret to Mike. That's embarrassing. Salvation. You can hear, I think, on this,

[1:37:00]That the band is a lot tighter. I mean, there's more guitars. I feel like he trusts them more to do stuff. This feels like an Exile on Main Street Kind of American gospel kind of stuff. Man, if you get a second, Can you look up how many times Elton John is on the list? Yep. 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 it. Only twice. Good Dubai, Yellowback Road is 112, And this one is 251. Yeah. That's too bad, Because I got some good Princess Diana bets. What? Oh, well that English rose. You guys, You guys were, You guys were indeed somebody That was way into when Princess Diana died, Like I was. Goodbye, Rose. Next song, Slaves.

[1:38:00]Slaves, he actually made two versions of the song, And I want to play this for you. Brittany's furious one. 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. Kind of fun. Elton playing a little. When I saw Elton John at Madison Square Garden, And my parents come out, We saw Elton John live, And one of the things they do rustle Is they have a camera That's just on his hands, On the piano. And so you. Sausage fingers. He has the shortest, Baddest 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 us what, Tell everybody what your piano thing is, If you don't mind. I don't want to embarrass you.

[1:39:00]Oh, what? You should be embarrassed. What my piano thing is, I've been tape on. Yeah. I've been learning jazz piano For the last, like, two years. Whoa. Very 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, what? Oh, my God. Can you imagine? This isn't like a professional thing. Well, it's just. It's it's in hopes of, Like, making it like a side hustle. Yeah. What? Very cool. Fortune. Is this like, You do want to be like a band Or do you want to be like One of those piano bar guys? Yeah, like a piano bar guy. Yep. Gosh. How close are you at this point? Like, Mike. Are you ready to get out and gig? Oh, no. So that's the thing about jazz piano Is it is way, like, one, It's really been hard to find A teacher in Reno. So I'm. That will get up at four. Exactly. I promise. I'm just wanting to play piano with you. That's it. There's nothing else. Yeah. Yeah. We'll be at the green door. [100:00] Magic Mike is up practicing piano

[1:40:00]when we're finishing this episode. [100:04] Four hours from now. [100:05] He's gonna be practicing piano. [100:06] I might sleep. [100:07] Oh, no. [100:07] You're, I forgot. [100:08] You're on my time here. [100:09] My time's up. [100:09] Yeah. [100:09] It's at one piece. [100:10] We seven days a week. [100:11] How many days a week? [100:12] Yeah. [100:12] Seven days a week. [100:14] Oh, my Lord. [100:15] That was a commitment. [100:16] What time do you go to bed at night? [100:17] To get up at four. [100:19] Usually around 10. [100:20] And when, what do you wear? [100:27] Russell, you have to stop asking to guess this. [100:29] We've told you this. [100:29] Ask it for an upstairs roommate. [100:32] He's just curious about your lifestyle. [100:34] You're getting in 20 hours a week of woodshedding. [100:37] Yeah. [100:38] Yeah. [100:38] But so like, so so I could go nerd off with you, Aaron, because you know all the music theory and stuff. [100:43] But I mean, like the thing about it is that you are with jazz. [100:47] You are only, you only are given the lead sheet. [100:50] You don't get any other sheet music and you have to come up with your own, your own arrangement. [100:56] So you're trying to sit there and go, you know, do I want to throw a seventh in here? [100:59] Do I want to throw a ninth in here

[1:41:00]and 11th to flat 13th? [101:02] Whatever. [101:02] That's, yeah. [101:03] Francisco Lirano. [101:05] Hey, I, to me, Mike, if I was playing jazz piano, to me, it's more about the notes I wouldn't play. [101:10] Exactly. [101:10] So actually, I'm kind of doing the most jazz piano of anybody. [101:14] I've never played a note. [101:16] How did this, well, yeah. [101:17] How did, maybe, how did it come about? [101:18] Did you just say like, look, I, you just say, look, I need to do something different. [101:22] And this is what I want to do. [101:23] And I'm going to dedicate this. [101:24] Yeah. [101:25] So so I had gone to school for music, producers, production, all that kind of stuff. [101:31] And then I'd been trying to play guitar for like years. [101:33] And then I'd taken piano lessons when I was younger. [101:39] And then I kind of plateaued on guitar. [101:40] And then during COVID, I was like, I had gotten my son a keyboard because he was playing trumpet and I knew he was going to take music theory and music theory is a lot easier to learn on a keyboard, blah, blah. [101:49] And I started just kind of playing around. [101:50] And I was like like, I actually kind of really like this again. [101:55] So I, I started doing it. [101:56] And then the thing about it with classical

[1:42:00]I was like, I don't really like this. I don't like this sound. [102:03] And like, so then I was like, okay, I got to find out how to play jazz. [102:06] And then I just started like looking online. [102:07] And then I was like, okay, if I'm going to really learn how to play, I have to set like a deadline. [102:12] And so I have to be like, I mean, to give myself five years to make this a side hustle. [102:17] And how am I going to do that? [102:19] So you, did you give up all your time on the guitar or not? [102:22] Oh, yeah. [102:23] Oh, you dedicate this amount of time for it. [102:25] Other stuff's got to go by the way. [102:26] Yeah. [102:26] Guitar got left in the dust. [102:29] Yeah. [102:29] I was wondering why the house behind you has no furniture in it. [102:32] It's just a piano. [102:33] Just a piano. [102:34] Yeah. [102:34] You have a piano and then a fridge full of fair life milk. [102:37] So I don't know. [102:37] You're a rematte. [102:40] I mean, the best thing about that fair life is it never goes old. [102:42] So I can just have, you know, 60 year old milk. [102:44] Yeah. [102:47] It's ultra filtered. [102:48] Guys, what if Mike played the piano? [102:49] He was just terrible. [102:50] You know what I mean? [102:51] Like it's three hours a day and he's like, hey, I just said just let me put it at the other show. [102:54] And we're like, oh my God, this is fucking terrible. [102:57] The first day you practiced was it three hours or is this like? [103:00] Oh, no, it built up. [103:00] What a question. [103:01] Yeah. [103:01] It was like, okay, like if I

[1:43:00]once I made that decision. [103:04] So I made that decision about two years ago. [103:07] And then it took me a while because it was like, okay, like the biggest part I don't know how often you guys are taking like online lessons or whatever. [103:15] But the biggest part is trying to find something that actually like resonates and you actually feel like you're learning something and not just like giving a guy money to scam you. [103:23] So I've gone through a few teachers and stuff. [103:26] So that's why it's been a while. [103:28] Now my music career famously ended in sixth grade when I would stop practicing the alto sax and it would be like run the reed under the sink and then put it back and say I'd practice. [103:39] Do you wake up every morning like super excited to do this or does it feel like a job? [103:44] I mean, there's some days where it does feel like what? [103:48] Because that's a legit commitment 4 a.m. [103:50] Yeah, there are some days where I'm like, okay, and so with those days then it's like, okay, I'm going to practice something else. [103:54] Like, I'm kind of sick of the song because you know, like you get sort of on a plateau where you're like, okay, I've played the song how many times? [104:01] How much more can I really add to it? [104:04] And so then yeah,

[1:44:00]then it's like, okay, you know what, let me go learn about this. [104:07] And like honestly you can just go down so many rabbit holes with with jazz that it's very cool. [104:13] So what's your go-to right now if you had to play an addition for a gig? [104:16] What do you plan? [104:18] Misty, that's my that's my number one or two. [104:20] And then probably Moon River is my next one. [104:26] Mike's eyes have glazed over. [104:28] He's going into 4am mode. [104:31] Mike, did you watch the the Billy Joel HBO Max? [104:34] I did. Yeah. [104:35] And I'm actually listening to the Billy Joel biography right now as well to compliment that. [104:42] I think it's so much better at this than we are. [104:45] Oh yeah. So there's, okay. [104:46] Can you imagine? [104:47] You mentioned me as as accomplished as he is and listening to our dope shit podcast. [104:52] I can't. [104:53] So I got to feel bad. [104:54] No, I love the Billy Joel thing. I thought I think the most interesting thing. [104:58] Well, one, I didn't know that his grandparents were

[1:45:00]survivor Holocaust survivors. [105:02] I thought that was really great. [105:03] I didn't know that either. [105:04] And then I think the thing that like I took away from it. [105:10] And it's also kind of the thing I'm I'm taking away from my jazz piano is the difference between a classical piano player versus like somebody like Billy Joel or somebody like a jazz piano player is they are really playing the instrument. [105:25] They like they know like, oh, this is how if I want that sound, I'm going to be able to like I just kind of intuitively know where it is, right? [105:32] They're not just following dots on a page. [105:34] They're like, they know they're like, if I want this mood, I know exactly how to create it in the moment. [105:42] Yeah. [105:45] One of the kids at my school says my favorite kind of music is classical music. [105:47] And I said, oh, not doing a great job. [105:53] Next up, we have Amy. [105:56] Still guitar on this one a little bit. [105:59] He wrote the song for somebody

[1:46:00]named Amy. [106:01] I know that might be shocking to you. [106:02] Did you guys ever write a poem or a song? [106:04] Wait, is that a real person? [106:05] Is it a drag name? [106:06] He gives us somebody. [106:07] Oh my god. [106:08] It's the nickname of Bernie's wife. [106:12] Wait, the nickname of the wife? [106:15] Yeah, his wife. [106:16] No, his wife's name was Sheila, but he called her Amy. [106:19] And this guy's fucking around with names. [106:21] He's fucking around with names too much. [106:23] I mean, even just going Elton John, Elton Hercules John or whatever it is. [106:27] That's true. [106:27] He's got a real obsession with names. [106:29] That's crazy. [106:32] You guys ever write a poem for somebody on for somebody? [106:38] Nope. [106:38] I mean, I could pull out my post from high school. [106:41] I wrote something wrong. [106:43] I definitely wrote a poem for girl like in fifth grade and put it in her locker. [106:47] And it was kind of good. [106:48] And it might shock you guys that the poem I wrote started as like a little thing. [106:52] And then I think it turned into like like two or three pages, which is kind of more manifesto length than romantic poem like put in her

[1:47:00]locker. [107:02] Never heard about a Russell. [107:04] Never. [107:04] Never acknowledged. [107:05] No. [107:05] So I wrote it. [107:06] I put it like in the slots. [107:09] Do we know who this person is? [107:10] Have you looked her up on Facebook? [107:11] I know who she is because she married a friend of mine. [107:14] Is she famously an adult dancer now? [107:18] No. [107:19] First of all, she was in a Vegas show. [107:21] That's not. [107:22] We're all adult dancers if you think about it, Aaron. [107:24] Yeah, that's true. [107:26] Okay, so that question didn't go for anybody but me. [107:29] Mona Lisa and the Mad Hatters. [107:30] This is a song that Bernie wrote after hearing some a gun go off near his hotel window. [107:36] And it's a very, it became one of Elton John's more popular songs, even though it wasn't released as a single and a very New York song. [107:45] This is my favorite Elton John song. [107:48] Wow. [107:49] Wow. [107:51] I thought you were going to say Honky Cat. [107:52] What makes it then? [107:53] What sets it apart? [107:55] I've just, I've never actually been to New York City but I have a very romanticized version of it. [108:00] I'm so busy. [108:04] But this feels like a,

[1:48:00]this feels like a Billy Joel song to me. [108:07] That makes sense. [108:08] I don't know. [108:09] Like, that's it. [108:10] And I think it became my famous one or my, my favorite one because of the movie Almost Famous. [108:16] E. [108:18] It's in Almost Famous. [108:20] It's when it's, I think it's when he's going to find her, I'm like spoilers for people that haven't seen this 25-year-old movie. [108:29] I think it's when he either is running to find her when she's OD'd or it's right after. [108:34] Oh, yes. [108:34] I can hear it now. [108:35] Yep. [108:37] Yep. [108:37] I can hear this. [108:38] Yeah. [108:39] You guys, this is a great song. [108:41] Yeah. [108:41] I didn't put two and two together. [108:43] That was from me. [108:45] This is good. [108:46] See? [108:48] Mike, see now this is going to be on the internet forever and ever. [108:51] That's your favorite song. [108:52] It's great. [108:53] Her. [108:53] I've also noticed that Rob is doing something where now the transcript pops up. [108:57] If you listen on Spotify,

[1:49:00]you can now read along the transcript. [109:03] I mean, are you doing something different, Rob? [109:05] No, no. [109:05] That's an automatic thing that they're just doing. [109:08] But it's very funny to read our podcast out loud. [109:11] You know what I mean? [109:12] Like it knows how to spell Rothesburger. [109:13] And I'm like, wow, that's kind of crazy. [109:16] The final song on the album, Hercules. [109:18] Crazy how many times that name comes up on the podcast. [109:20] Hercules. [109:24] There's something about British guys. [109:28] They want to be in that doo-wop era so bad and they missed it. [109:32] But they listen to it, I think. [109:36] What was in that whistle there? [109:39] Let's be the Rhino. [109:39] That might be the Rhino whistle right there. [109:43] But I think this song does a pretty good job of summing up this whole album, right? [109:46] Like it's Elvin John going rock. [109:51] And they were going to release this as the third and final single and then they just didn't. [109:55] It kind of is a fun song to me. [109:56] I thought this was a blast. [109:57] Fun way to end the album. [109:58] Against Russell's theory. [110:02] There's the,

[1:50:00]that must be the Rhino whistle, right? [110:04] It's got to be. [110:06] It's very, it's that Bob Dylan. [110:10] There it is. [110:10] And folks, there it is indeed because now we are on to the most popular and famous part of the show. [110:17] Can't raise hearts Say that to, I give up. [110:27] I give up. [110:29] Say that. [110:33] Okay. [110:35] Okay. [110:35] Get this art comes to hotel. [110:37] It's 10 bucks a night. [110:40] I'll never pay that rate. [110:46] What's even the point? [110:47] Sorry, I have to see this mic, but I do this every show and I edit it out. [110:54] So he's got dark. [110:55] He's got real dark. [110:58] I spent hours of my life that I could have been

[1:51:00]hanging out with my kids. [111:00] They're, they're moving out a couple of years and I just was preparing the show. [111:03] And then I say a guy comes to a hotel for $10 a night. [111:07] First of all, that doesn't make sense. [111:09] That's incredibly cheap. [111:12] Rob, if you could do nothing, if you could do nothing funny for about the next 24 minutes, that would be great. [111:18] Russell, stop talking about the boxing match. [111:21] Please. [111:22] This is way more Russell, you know what's more important than a boxing match? [111:26] Taking albums and deciding whether this is 251 album of all time. [111:31] And that's our job here on the podcast. [111:33] We don't actually care. [111:34] It's our job. [111:34] It is our job. [111:35] We have to say if this list is good or bad. [111:37] And I think that people have rolling stones are probably going to adjust their next, their next. [111:43] This is where we decide on Mike's cut. [111:45] We haven't decided how much of the cut he gets. [111:47] Oh, yeah. [111:47] How much of the take. [111:48] Yeah, Mike, actually to be on this show, you have to chip in to pay your hosting fees. [111:52] Okay. [111:53] A lot of people don't realize that, but there is a small donation that we take. [111:57] Listen. [111:57] I'm near Venmo. [111:59] We're talking,

[1:52:00]we're talking Aggie Chateau. [112:02] We're talking Elton John. [112:04] We're talking 1972. [112:05] We're talking 251 on the list. [112:07] Hey, I would not say this is the best top half of the best albums of all time. [112:12] This is starting off from what, Russell, that you know what this is? [112:15] This is starting off side two. [112:17] That's what this album is doing right now. [112:19] It's our bottom half. [112:20] If you think this is a good album, the bottom half, I'm trying to think of that is my better half. [112:26] I've been I was like, my bottom half, sadly, is my better half. [112:31] It is. [112:33] From the front and the back or just the front? [112:36] I wouldn't know from the back. [112:37] I'm not that flexible. [112:38] Imagine being able to see yourself in a mirror from the back. [112:42] I mean, this is literally how far I can turn my head. [112:44] You ready? [112:45] Right there. [112:46] You see that? [112:47] Barely looking 90 degrees. [112:49] I was in a hotel this last week and that had a lot of mirrors and different angles and doors and stuff. [112:53] And I did see parts of myself that I never really knew existed. [112:56] I was like, oh, this is not good. [113:02] Oh, sorry. [113:03] Wrong one. [113:03] I meant to pay the water

[1:53:00]bed. [113:05] A surprise mirror is never fun. [113:10] I'm just going to say that. [113:11] Listen, if this is perfect at 251, that of course is a rolling well toned. [113:15] Okay. [113:16] That means it belongs right here. [113:18] Rolling stone. [113:18] You did a great job. [113:20] Okay. [113:20] We love the list. [113:21] We love you. [113:22] This has been a march to our demise doing this list and bringing Mike on has made us realize that actually it's a giant waste of time because the people who do listen to us know more than us. [113:31] Okay. [113:32] This is like, if I was trying to explain sculpture to Rodan or if you think this album should have been earlier on the list. [113:47] Okay. [113:47] And earlier in this podcast, that would be youth. [113:51] This album would be rolling bone. [113:53] It should have been way higher on the list. [113:56] Okay. [113:56] Or is this album, of course, a rolling throne? [114:01] Okay. [114:02] There's two things in life I

[1:54:00]hate. [114:07] Chateaus. [114:09] Now, let's see. [114:11] Now, Aaron kind of perked up when I said chateaus. [114:13] It's not like that, Aaron. [114:15] Okay. [114:15] I can't believe I didn't make that joke earlier. [114:17] God damn it. [114:18] Chateaus are right here this whole time. [114:20] That would be rolling. [114:22] Oh, I get it. [114:22] Toes. [114:26] Now, Mike's kid listened to this. [114:28] Why are they talking about toes so much with Aaron? [114:33] You explained to him, well, he had a foot fetish thing, but it wasn't really real. [114:35] Now, here's the thing. [114:37] What do you think? [114:38] Is this rolling well-toned, rolling bone or rolling grown? [114:40] Elton, John. [114:42] Anki Chateau. [114:44] Okay. [114:45] Matt, rolling well-toned, rolling bone or rolling grown? [114:47] What do you think? [114:49] I'm going to start just going all these albums against Weezer for real. [114:55] And I've been doing that for a while, but at 294 we got Weezer by Weezer. [115:00] Came out in 1995 or 94 or

[1:55:00]something like that. [115:02] The height of our musical, you know, where we started getting into everything. [115:08] So that is an all-time album for me. [115:11] I would much rather listen to that album than this one. [115:13] I think Elton, John, it seems weird. [115:15] There's only two albums on the list for him. [115:19] Maybe Magic Mike 69 could tell us a couple other ones that people should listen to before we get off the podcast here. [115:26] But I'm going to say it's rolling grown and should be a little lower on the list because I think Weezer should be higher. [115:34] No science behind that. [115:36] Just my own personal belief, but that's what I'm going to do. [115:37] Russell, what do you think rolling well-toned? [115:39] By the way, Mike, do you understand now why or this part where I delay the end of the podcast, why it makes everybody so mad when you're actually here in real time and it's just like so late? [115:48] And when you have to do another one to this rap. [115:50] And we have another one to do. [115:52] It's a punk album. [115:53] We'll go real fast on that one. [115:54] Plus, I got to edit it. [115:55] Oh, yeah. [115:55] I was just breezed through it. [115:56] Yeah. [115:57] I got to edit it tomorrow before I see Joe. [115:58] So it's going to be real fast. [116:00] It's going to be a real

[1:56:00]fast one. [116:02] But Mike, yeah, as it's getting later sometimes I just like to, I don't know. [116:05] I mean, it's only 10.30, my time. [116:07] I don't understand what your guys's problem is. [116:09] So again, Mike, you kind of interrupted me there. [116:11] Okay. [116:11] So I'm going to that strike too. [116:14] I was going to say just like the clock I, the watch I have on my belt, I like to waste time. [116:23] You guys muted. [116:25] What do you think, Russell, rolling well? [116:26] No. [116:27] Rolling tone, rolling bone or rolling? [116:29] I'm clear. [116:30] I suppose if you were muted, you would still hear the jokes. [116:32] That doesn't make sense. [116:34] I have a little bit of conflict on this one to me, just throwing this one on and listen to it's like a great brunch album. [116:39] It's kind of got a little pep, super fun to listen to, opening it up and reading the lyrics and looking at the song titles. [116:45] I had a major disconnect with it. [116:47] So I'm going to say it's a little rolling groan, but for me, it's, it's the lyrics and to me, the, some of the songs there was just a disconnect with the sound, but I love the sound. [116:57] I can listen to it all the time. [116:58] I'm going to say it's rolling groan too high on the

[1:57:00]list. [117:00] Aaron, what do you think, rolling well-toned, rolling bone or rolling groan? [117:03] And remember, Jamaican Jerkoff is not on this album. [117:06] Sadly, we don't get to hear that one again. [117:09] Matt Russell, both make good points. [117:10] We're at this point on the list now. [117:12] We're at the mid point of the list where we can for sure say this album is better than some of the things we've heard hands down. [117:19] 100%. [117:20] And we're definitely going to hear some stuff after this that we're going to enjoy more. [117:24] So I was surprised how fun and cool this album is. [117:29] I will put it on again. [117:31] I knew the hits, but I didn't know the whole album. [117:33] So I was very glad to listen. [117:34] So I'm going to give it a rolling well-toned. [117:36] And Mike, of course, rolling well-toned, rolling bone or rolling groan? [117:42] So I'm going to say Elton John, Anki Chateau, 1972. [117:48] I'm going to steal your bit. [117:50] I'm going to say this is a rolling replace this wone. [117:55] And I got it. [117:58] Replace this wone. [118:01] Yeah. [118:01] I think they should have. [118:03] So my issue with this

[1:58:00]in the 2012 list, there were a couple more Elton John albums that got kicked off. [118:10] I think I said it earlier. [118:12] There was Tumbleweed Connection and Captain Fantastic, The Brown Door Cowboy, which Russell's point, especially Tumbleweed Connection, has no hits that you would know. [118:22] Captain Fantastic has someone saved my life tonight. [118:26] But both. [118:28] So Tumbleweed is like, I think the height of his orchestral songs. [118:32] And that's the one that was the most inspired by the band. [118:34] And it goes way deep into like the Old West and the South and that kind of. [118:43] Can I just say, Mike, picturing Elton John in the Wild West is it's bringing me joy. [118:48] I would watch that movie all the time. [118:50] Like you go into a piano bar and you're like, oh, my God, this guy's really ripping on this piano. [118:53] It's just somebody dressed like that old duck. [118:55] Sure. Why not? [118:56] I bet he gets up at four a.m. To practice every day. [119:00] Exactly. [119:01] And then the Captain

[1:59:00]Fantastic, The Brown Door Cowboy. [119:04] I think, one, it's the story of both of their lives. [119:08] Elton John's Captain Fantastic, Bernie Toppins with The Brown Door Cowboy. [119:12] And I think the songs are a lot more eclectic. [119:16] It's sort of like how Goodbye Yellow Book Road had like songs that were all over the place. [119:21] I think that album is the same way. [119:22] This album, I felt like the songs, a lot of them sounded very samey. [119:26] I was if I was just listening to it in the background, I wasn't necessarily aware when the song had changed. [119:32] So, yeah, I would, if they're only going to put two, I would have replaced this one with one of those two. [119:39] And I think the only reason it's on here is because of Rockin' Man. [119:43] Unfortunately, Mike, you are incorrect. [119:46] Okay, I hate to say that to you. [119:47] That was pretty rude. [119:48] Pretty rude. [119:49] This gets a rolling Bill Shatner's Verjeone. [119:53] Verjeone. [119:54] Without this album, we would have never had what I consider one of the greatest. [119:58] Listen, get that Voyager one back. [120:01] We need to put this on the gold record

[2:00:00]that's out there. [120:04] Aliens need to hear this shit. [120:06] It is, of course, William Shatner on a science fiction award show doing his version of Rockin' Man. [120:13] So, obviously, he said, listen, I'll come to your fucking show. [120:16] I am science fiction, but there's one thing you got to let me do. [120:19] I got this great album. [120:21] She packed my bags last night. [120:25] She spoke to you in a cigarette bag. [120:26] And a spotlight has turned on. [120:29] Zero hour. [120:31] Nine a.m. [120:32] It's got like a huge bow tie. [120:36] And I'm going to be high. [120:40] And I think this is serious. [120:41] That's not a joke, right? [120:42] He has a whole speaking album. [120:50] This. [120:51] And people bought this. [120:52] Like, people went out and bought this at the record store. [120:55] I would. [121:00] Miss my wife. [121:03] So good. [121:04] This, of course,

[2:01:00]is what I love for Mel and John. [121:07] This is probably my favorite Bernie Toppin cover. [121:11] Can't believe you didn't have on the list. [121:13] And that's why this is a rolling Bill Shatner's version. [121:18] Where else do you get to see an actor's true hubris? [121:20] Like, that is just somebody to be like, fuck it. [121:22] I'll do whatever I want. [121:23] I'm famous as fuck. [121:24] Anyway, next up, I can't wait to get that way. [121:27] Oh, my God. [121:27] I can't wait. [121:28] Did you guys get a chance? [121:31] Next up, we have a band that answers the question, in which way should we whip it? [121:37] We have Devo. [121:38] With Are We Not Med? [121:39] We are Devo. [121:40] There's a documentary on Netflix right now. [121:42] Oh, we are going to have to. [121:43] Oh, guys, I pushed the wrong honky song. [121:48] I meant, of course, to push this one. [121:52] Hockey cats. [121:53] Such a dumb joke. [121:56] It's a good joke, Phil. [121:57] Respect. [121:59] Think of another cat name. [122:01] What's another cat name? [122:02] Because

[2:02:00]Mr. Whiskers. [122:05] Mr. Whiskers, no. [122:07] All right, there we go. [122:08] So it kind of killed our momentum. [122:10] Do you see how I do that, Mike? [122:11] I'm the head of this seamlessly, so it sounds like we ended on a high note. [122:20] I was going to say, if you want another William Shatner, great, common people doing Shatner. [122:26] What's that? [122:26] The common people from that whole problem, common people, William Shatner, distribution of that. [122:31] Back did it better. [122:33] Rob, I was going to say, I thought it written really well with magic mic. [122:36] And I didn't know that you and him were going to have something such in common that you're both up at 4 a.m. [122:42] perfecting your instrument play. [122:47] For three hours. [122:50] The thing is, in my house, I'm still second chair skin flute. [122:52] Like, that's the craziest part. [122:57] I've been working at it. [123:00] Ding. [123:00] Get a ding in the mouth. [123:02] Hey. [123:03] No, that's a good finish. [123:05] Yeah. [123:05] That's such a funny finish joke, Rob. [123:07] Listen, I respect. [123:09] But just wait till you hear this. [123:10] We got to record again. [123:11] We got another one to go. [123:13] This is where we don't get to do it. [123:15] Bernie, don't you want to kiss Elton? [123:17] What's that, Bernie? [123:18] You want to kiss me? [123:19] That's so strange. [123:19] Yes, I want to kiss Elton so bad. [123:22] Okay, Bernie, that sounds... [123:24] Okay, we'll let the audience decide. [123:27] We should have ended that.