Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)

[00:00]I'm going to say one name and you tell me whether or not you think they were involved in this professional betting scandal. Okay. Adrian Peterson. I mean, there's a 0% chance that Adrian Peterson wasn't one of the guys where they just fleeced him. Right. They brought in Adrian. He was one of the marks. Oh, listen, I do think Adrian Peterson is running that scam. I don't think so. I was thinking he probably, he was like calling the mob. Like, Hey, are you sure I'm ready to be at a table? Do you need me? Okay. I'm ready to be your guy tonight.

[00:30]I know I owe you $20,000, but I could sell this camel for five. Okay. This is not a big deal. Like I don't need to ride him around anymore. I do. Remember when that was news guys, remember how fun the world was back then when Adrian Peterson on a camel was he, he had his very own Adrian Peterson day from what, in whatever town he was from in Texas or whatever, where he was riding around in a camel. Like now he's broke. The thing, you know, Adrian Peterson, you kind of get an idea of who he is when he enjoys the same thing.

[01:01]My kids enjoyed at the zoo when they were seven. You know what I mean? Like he's probably like, get me on a camel. Let's get some cotton candy. You know what I mean? Like it's just, doesn't seem like he's taking it very seriously. I don't know how you would ever do it. I don't, you can't possibly do it. Yeah. But the NIL stuff, some of these pro athletes, like they just need to take their money and put it in an annuity for them and just be done. Like, and you can't, there's no way to do it though. I disagree. I, I, I totally disagree. If I have to,

[01:30]the point of being an athlete and the best in the world is so you can live it up for a while. Like I know, but they can know my financial security when I'm 75 doesn't fucking matter. I want, I want fast cars, fast women. I want the life, Matt. I want the life. And I'll get it. You know what? I bet if you ask Adrian Peterson, he'd be like, dude, I'm glad I did it my way. Justin Jefferson has been living in a townhouse in Eagan for like the last six years. We don't need to take half your money.

[02:01]We don't need to take Thompson Reuters and live out the townhouse in Eagan. If you're going to put the shit, imagine this, you're a pro athlete. Every breast you see is perfect. Like you've never seen it in perfect. I don't think so. You know what I mean? Like you're just seeing the best of the breast. I got questions. I mean, how picky he raises. Okay. I would say like, it goes up, it goes up a little bit at the end. Which is, Oh, wait, what was your question? Which are the imperfect ones?

[02:31]Like let's have a list of the most imperfect breast rubs. That's the thing, Aaron is that the more, the older I've gotten, the answer is none. Turns out I love them. You know, it's like pizza. Even if the pepperonis are like really big, they're still good. You know what I mean? Can I do a, can I do a quick preview of a roll and go? I'm going to roll and go in now. I'm going to do a one leaner pizza. This is just a pre-roll and go. And now Aaron, sometimes this will make you think, more than you can roll as hard as the other one.

[03:01]No, Aaron, do we think rolling goings impregnate your mind? Is that what we're saying right now? They get impregnated. It's like inception. Yeah. All right. It's true. Cause there are, you guys do do some rolling goings where I still think about Aaron, a samurai swimming. I bet. I think about that one. Like that has impregnated my mind in a way. Okay. Russell, give us a little tease of this rolling. No, I'm going to just do it now. And then I'm going to do more later. Okay. You can just do the tip of your rolling. So we, this household has become a big, a sourdough, the upstairs roommate has now got a sourdough kit.

[03:31]She's doing the sourdough bread on the mother on the regular. There's a kit, there's stuff growing in jars. There's constantly bread being made. So we were started doing like homemade pizza. So domesticated NBA podcasts and trouble. So, so home. So we've been doing, there've been two attempts at a homemade pizza. And I know like Brian from, is it East St. Paul, Matt? East St. Paul. He always does homemade pizza. And Matt used to run a pizza joint, but I figured, all you guys are kind of food guys.

[04:01]Matt would definitely have some thoughts on this. So last week we did their first attempt with the sourdough crust, homemade pizza, and the crust took way too long to bake, got really thick. So this week we cut the amount of dough in half. And then we, I believe it's called par baked the crust. We put the crust in first, baked it for like three, four minutes, took it out and then put the topics on. So it didn't all get the crust all wet. But what is your homemade pizza? How do you do the crust?

[04:30]Russell, can I just say this? Anytime we've talked about this on the podcast, have we talked about this? I think we have crust. I think we also, anytime I make a homemade pizza, it ends up looking like Pangea. It's the craziest shit I've ever seen in my entire life. I think we've put it in and I even had, I've done it on a stone. I've put the fucking cornmeal down. I know, you know what I mean? I've got a pizza. What do you call it, Aaron? I know you know what that shit's called. Apron. A slider. You spank. It looks like a spanker.

[05:00]Spatula. What is it? The big shovel, like Uncle Buck's shovel. The shovel. What is that called? I don't know what that's called. The flat thing where you flip it? I don't know. He's called the paddle. The paddle. If only one of our friends was a pizza holo, they could send a voicemail and help us out here. I've done all that. It never works. And it's never as good. Nobody has ever eaten a homemade pizza and been like, wow, this is much better than if we would have spent, well, like 25 bucks now. Right. To get one delivered. Like I think. No,

[05:30]you're spending more than 25 bucks on pizza. I know. You're right. You're right. You're spending 40 on a pizza. I know. It's true. Yeah, it's 40 bucks. Of course. And Matt, what about you? You're a pizza expert. You're making good pizzas at home? I would never. I mean, because of that exact reason, I would never, ever, ever make a pizza at home. I just, you know, like good for people who are trying to do it. I just, I know it will not turn out anywhere close to how I want a pizza, and so I just would never try.

[06:00]The dough is the tricky, right? Because if it gets too thick, well, then it's just a hunk of bread, which I hate. Yeah. It's not my, I'm not a Chicago style pizza. Don't tell me it's focaccia. I know you just fucked up the dough. You know what I mean? Like, don't lie to me about that. Yeah. So no, I, we don't make, we don't make homemade pizza at home. I think we have talked about exactly this. Like I've even, even when I buy pre-made dough from the store, then stretching the dough, I'm just a disaster. Like it just ends up being, I'm fucked. Matt gave the best advice ever once where he's like,

[06:31]go to the pizza place and tell them you want dough. Like if you want to have the pizza making fun day at home, go pre-made, go buy the pre-made dough at the pizza place. We've done it and it's great. It's a great experience and everything is, it's so much easier. So you rolled it out flat enough or you got the dough flat enough. So it wasn't a big hunk of bread. Yes. Is that what you're saying? Yes. Okay. But we, we, we, we had to get half, whatever recipe we used a week ago, it was the big hunk of bread, Matt. It was like, so that's what I was going to say.

[07:00]Like, isn't it the same amount of bread rising? And we took half of the dough we used last time. So we cut the, cut the recipe in half. Is there a meal, is there a meal you guys won't get at a restaurant because you feel like you could make it just as well at home? It used to be hamburgers for me for a long time, long, long time. But I, you know, there's the 60, 40 burger at a red, red cow. No, red cow. I'm in my jam. That might be, might be the best burger. What's the 60, 40 was, let's tell, let's hear about it.

[07:30]I mean, I think it's 60% hamburger, 60% or 40% pork. I'm trying to remember what it is. A lot of bacon. I don't know. It's, it's just really good. It's so, I will get that burger. I will try burgers now again, but for a long time, I still, I make a great, I make a good, I make a mean burger. So it's hard to, it's hard to order that, but sometimes you just need a good burger. Sometimes you don't want to deal with the cleanup. Yeah. You want to do the, do it yourself. There's, I think I would do better than a restaurant. I don't think.

[08:00]The other thing we got into today with the upstairs roommate, she was saying, cause she did have a piece of sauce from a jar. Like that was the one thing that we didn't kind of do on our own. She's like, well, next time I'm going to make my own pizza sauce. I'm going to do with this. I'm going to get this, this, this like, hold on. I'm like, this is going to cost way more than just buying the damn jar for like 49. Right. Wow. And she's like, no, it will be cheaper. And she started going into all this stuff. I'm like, bullshit. Can I just say this?

[08:30]Because it's cheaper. This is officially an RIP. A single Russell. Single Russell would have never been caught dead. Arguing about the price of homemade pizza sauce. Comparing it to what it's like going out. Homemade Russell, you made it so many episodes in the show. Over half. We love listening to your antics. But now at this point where you are arguing about pizza sauce and it

[09:02]becomes a major point of conversation in your relationship. It's time for us to admit to ourselves. He's gone. Single Russell. We loved you. Rob. But you're gone. This song is long as shit, man. Did you, did you reset the song for my next topic? I told you guys this weekend on a text. Reset the song, Rob. My next topic. We're only supposed to do one episode. The other day I went on to my,

[09:30]my phone calendar, which I have now been told is a shared calendar. Oh yeah. We talked about it. So occasionally it'll be like, Hey, it's got like, we're going out for drinks with friends or like it's, it's usually got like one, like three things a month, right? Right. I lock up the other day. Good thing. The song is this loud. The upstairs roommate has put every Timberwolves game through the end of the year. Shared calendar. So now I'm like, I've expected to be home for every Timberwolves game. Game on time. Oh, Russell.

[10:00]It's fine. I mean, Rob hit the music. This is like, this really makes me feel old. We asked you. We're saluting again. I got some feedback around our D'Angelo reissue about how interesting it was to hear. Yeah. Single, single Russell, but it was not better. People did not say it was better. They just said it was interesting, but that was that long ago. Huh? And we talked a lot about making homemade pizza. We still love that. Yeah. Somebody said this turns out like Pangea. Somebody else. Russell goes, fuck it.

[10:30]I'll always buy a pizza or whatever. My point was with that story. Now in 2024, friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest Rolling Stone magazine. This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own. Unless you disagree, please sit back and enjoy Beck. Did it better. I just thought of the joke I wrote for the next part. It made me laugh thinking about it. But I was going to ask how,

[11:01]if it's not, if you don't like our opinion, then it's not our, what is that? What is that line? All opinions are our own unless you disagree. So if you disagree, then it's not our somebody else's any longer. If you disagree, the opinion is somebody else's. Yeah. So guess what? Portis had review guy. It fucked. It wasn't our opinion. That wasn't, you didn't like it. That wasn't our opinion. Actually, most of this is have a taste to be drivel. It's verbatim from a website.

[11:30]By the way, when I'm reposting those D'Angelo episodes, I realized like we should maybe reference things when we're joking about them. And they're like a joke from like three episodes ago. Cause when you're listening out of order, you got no idea what's going on. We kept saying drivel in that episode. And I was like, man, if you didn't know that somebody gave us a bad Portis head review, you'd have no idea what we're talking about instead of this, which is seamlessly joining together. We're up to album two 55. And from 1955, 63 reminds me of my marriage.

[12:00]Yeah. Six years until 69. I think you'll be able to execute that six years from now on the 27th anniversary. That's when it happens. Hey, the podcast will be done. So you can use your time on your mobility. Hey, what's this on my shared calendar? Six years from now. By the way, Russell, you know, it's on my shared calendar. What's that? The turn back time, but that's my C E J C H E R calendar shared.

[12:33]Yeah. All right. We have an album where a Minnesota kid comes out to New York for work. What's oh, boy, that's that explains some of these song titles. Every day is my nightmare. My life is a gray void. That never changes. Go ahead and talk to me. That's all right. I thought that was the Ben Roethlisberger song. Avoid the gray noid. Yeah. The noid. It was one of the more illegal documents, right?

[13:01]It's not even a, it's a bummer, a bummer. Just having to see that when you Google yourself. Oh, like if you Google yourself and penis color, something comes up, that's bad. All right, let's turn on the radio and ignore that part. Everybody. Welcome to K Rob K R O B. Listen, I'm just digging through the fridge here. I'm seeing what you want to drink. Do you want to, I got some wild berry. I've got some cherry truly. So I've got to, I don't know. All these are big, strange, containers are all whites and full of liquid.

[13:30]Oh yeah. What? How many times has Russell opened the fridge to grab a can of truly? How many of those cans has Russell moved around to not have to drink blueberry? That's true. Well, Russell was searching for the last wild berry. There was something he just didn't see.

[14:02]Russ couldn't comprehend the amount of milk within. He didn't even see the five gallons. Multiple gallons. Multiple gallons. I want to hear about the greatest dog. Oh yes. Very nice. I know you thought he was going to say, you're going to get a second verse, maybe a bottle of the truly flavors there are,

[14:30]which by the way, all rhyme, cherry, wild berry, pineapple, get off track. Blueberry. We haven't done a good pineapple truly joke in a long time. Mango. Hey, got to add something to my shared calendar for five years and 364 days from now. Buy pineapples truly. Okay. You should get two of them at least. Maybe four or two for each of you. Oh, when my wife and I lock eyes, after drinking a pineapple truly, we're like, all right,

[15:01]listen, I've got three guys here who want to talk about Bob dealing and all this freewheeling. Okay. And I've only got one guy here who wants to talk about Bob Dylan three wheeling, which is where Bob Dylan got on a three wheeler, which according to my mom is an instant death ticket. According to him in my family, you got on a three wheeler. You were definitely going to die. Did you guys, have you guys ever written on a three wheeler? Yeah, I grew up my mom. We've talked about this before. My mom's, she was a nurse. So we didn't do fireworks. The idea of getting on like a four wheeler or something like I'm out on that,

[15:32]that there are too many bad stories. I'm out. No, yeah, no four wheelers for me. I crashed a mini bike once up at Barry at Burnsville's cabin into a pine tree. I'm not supposed to be riding those things. We've been on a snowmobile or did you not go snowmobiling? You did. John and I almost died. We like drove off a ledge. That reminds me. We were in Croatia on a boat trip and we were taking this motorcycle tour on the island. And I had one of the girls on my, little motorbike and Jenny had one on the back of her motorbike.

[16:00]And I was like, boy, I didn't know Jenny could drive a motorcycle. She immediately guns it and drives right into the side of a building within like no turns. It was like six feet. Just like, I was like, oh, so we had to put her on the back of Fernando, the captain of the boat. I don't want to talk about it anymore. Listen, I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Big schlong on that guy. I've walked and I've crawled on six cricket highways, Rob. Wow. I got Russell in Minneapolis. Russell, how are you doing?

[16:30]Rob, just a reminder. The executioner's face is always well hidden in that black leather, leather zipper mask with a top belt wrapper hanging out of it. Wow. You know, this song really makes me think. Yes. The executioner. When are these cannonballs going to start flying? Listen, if you think that's the last fetish we're going to talk about tonight, you haven't seen the list I made. I've got Aaron out in California. Now Aaron's been paying attention to the New York mayoral debates,

[17:02]right? I did watch a little bit. Yeah. He says he's a big fan of Zoran Mamdani because he wants to make the big buses of New York City free. And Aaron is very similar because he wants to free big bus because they look pretty. Big bust. Bust is for free. And Aaron's like, yeah, yeah, let's free those things. I like them all. I've never seen a bad one. Unleash the beast. Hey, there ain't no use in.

[17:30]Don't say that. I can't say unleash the beast. The light I never know. Please tell me you don't say unleash the beast ever. Don't. That might be why a single Russell. I think actually you shouldn't say that. That's a Russ calls a Wednesday. Yes. Go ahead. Sorry. I just said it ain't no use in turning on your light, Rob. The light I never know. Wow. And you know what? Speaking of turning on our lights, thank you for those. And I have to go turn out the light in my son's bedroom. So I'll be right back. Oh, wow. And guess, guess what? To the heroes of the night. To the heroes who finally sent a voicemail in. Thank you. Let's get into the voicemail.

[18:02]And I'll tell you what, after this one, phone lines are open. 802-277-BECK. That's 802-277-2325. Feel free to call us and ask a question. If you want to hear about Russell's sourdough starter and what he thinks of it. Russell, can I ask you a question? I'll edit this out. Yeah. Do you like sourdough? Sure. All right. Okay. No, that's fine. It's great. I love sourdough. I love sourdough. It's actually very good. You know what? I love sourdough.

[18:30]She's probably done six to seven loaves, if you will, of sourdough. And I would say six out of seven, over 80% have been delicious. There was one that didn't come out right. And she knew it didn't come out right. That's a lot of six sevens out of you, Russell. That's a lot of six. I don't even know what the shit that means. That hasn't affected my life at all. So don't worry about me. Listen, let's get into the voicemail. And thank you again for calling, leaving a voicemail. It's pathetic when I say,

[19:00]Rob sent out a call, a plea really for voicemail. So here I am. Hi, it's Claire. This is Russell's cousin calling in again. I'm calling because Taylor Swift recently released her album. And I'm just going to be honest. I was disappointed. Yes, sure. Were there some bangers on there? Absolutely. Wow. Were they fun? Yes. But throughout all of her promotion before the album dropped,

[19:33]he kept talking about how she was going to be working with producers that had done songs on reputation and lover or more pop based. She talked about how this is basically going to be like the second 1989 album, which like Matt, I agree is her best album she's ever done. And I'm just disappointed. And that's,

[20:00]I think kind of a bad thing because I'm clearly her main demographic because I'm of the age group that kind of like grew up with her throughout her music career. So I just wanted to hear your takes on what do you think about Taylor Swift's most recent album, Life of a Showgirl? Amazing call. She knew Matt's favorite Taylor Swift album. Yeah, that's impressive. Our fans are also our key. Well, I assume somebody is keeping a wiki on this. You know what I mean? Like you can go look that up if you wanted to.

[20:30]But I have to say it goes kind of blew my mind at Reddit. Russell's showing a mastery of Reddit. What are you? You can tell you how it's structured. One reply. Listen, I, when she said that she grew up with Taylor Swift, that always blows my mind because I don't know how old your cousin is. I assume she sounds like she's about 28. No, I assume, but like my daughter, but Taylor Swift's got to go back like 20 years, right? I was being nice,

[21:00]but oh, well, yeah, I mean, Taylor Swift goes way back, but yet my daughter. Okay, well, we can cut this out. How old do you, how old do you really think she sounds, Rob? 29. Oh, man. Okay. She called and left a voicemail. I have to be nice. The, but you know, my daughter's been into her for like the last five years. Rob, just start swearing. Just start swearing real loud. Oh, that's not even, that's a daughter's friend, guys, who's over for a sleepover. Can you imagine, imagine that you came home and your dad was doing a podcast when your friends were having a sleepover.

[21:30]It'd be really embarrassing. You would just, how embarrassing. You would just go and just be like, well, time to take a garden hose into this car. See what happens. Huh? And then you've got to like carry the dog around. Like, cause your dad won't take the damn dog out that your dad insisted on getting. Oh, and then, you know, the friend would be like, well, what's the name of the podcast? You're like, I'm not going to tell you. You can't listen. Hey, my whole family told me no on this dog. I did it anyway. So now they got, they're going to take it out. Yeah. See what, ask her, ask her what her take is on the new album.

[22:01]She's the demographic. What, what do you, what do you think of Taylor Swift's new album? She says not her best, but when she first got it, she really didn't like it. But now she says that she likes it more than when it first came out. I don't think anyone that says it's not her best means that's not good. So I have not listened to the new Taylor Swift album. Have you guys listened? No, I haven't. I mean, my, yeah, I have been meaning to, I'm very busy at work. Usually I listen to that stuff at work, but I don't, I think Rob has and has strong takes.

[22:31]I don't know if we should talk to him about it, but I am getting sick of the commercialization of it all. I think with like the drops and the secret this, and then the, the 20 minute this, and then going to the theater and all that stuff. Like it would be great if like one of these was just like, here's an album. Like she did that. I think a few albums ago, I don't know with some of the, it's getting too cute. It's just, I mean, even like Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam's getting, everybody's getting so commercialized with all of their shit that it's just,

[23:00]it's, it's not fun, I guess is maybe the right thing. I'm not excited about it. I'm not, uh, Eddie Vedder's got a, a concert that's going into the theaters next week. And it's like for raising money and all this stuff. But at the same time, like they do so much selling merch now and all this stuff that it's just, it's getting a little ridiculous, but, and that's my take with Taylor Swift. I think, I think, I think she takes it to the nth degree and it's not any worse than anybody else,

[23:30]but it just, it, it does, it makes me not want to listen to it. But her, her first album was 2006. So she's been going 20 years. Wow. Yeah. Wow. That's funny. She has a, she has a business. I haven't listened yet. And I, yeah, I mean, she probably got people to support now, right? She's got, she's like, there's a certain amount of money she has to make to keep going out. Imagine. Uh, I have not listened. And I, I actually, I do always want, like, I always intend to check it out. And when she puts out a new album, I'm like, well, it's a cultural event. I should check it out.

[24:00]And Anna this time was like, you don't need to listen to this one. Like I will, but I just, I haven't done it yet. Do you, but do you, does that happen to you when you have a band you like, and they put out a new album and no matter what, you're kind of like, I don't know if I like this one until you listen to it for a little bit. Then you kind of find. Yeah. It's going for it. Like for me, every time they might be giants puts out one, I'm like, I don't know. And then I listened to it after a while. I really like it. Cause she put out an album that most people would like. Do you think that possible? She put out an album that most people would like. Yeah. Like,

[24:30]just like, like this is just a nice album. Those people would like, I mean, hasn't it been her last like four or five albums? Like most people are like, yeah, I like this. Or is it, are they all divisive? Is that what you're saying? I don't know. I don't know. I think she can, but at the same time, you're going to have a dud or two in there. I mean, you're just going to, you can't just, everyone can't, everyone can't be, the best thing that ever happened at that time. You just can't. Do you think it's like this podcast? She like settled down, not being single. And I kind of, all that creative juices kind of went away. It is kind of more talking about like a glass of pizza sauce and stuff like that.

[25:02]I just, I feel like I don't know enough about Taylor Swift. He's off to the left. Joking there somewhere. Oh no. No, I'm not doing that. What did you think Rob? So yeah, Rob, what's your take? I haven't, I haven't heard it very much. I don't know. I just, I mean, and to be honest, Amelia's reaction was so negative to it. Really? That I was like, I was like, but I told her, I said, you're, you're just not, you didn't like the last album when it first came out too. And then you really did after a while.

[25:30]So. It doesn't feel like it's everywhere. Like some of the other ones have been, but I'm also not really plugged into what's going on. Right. I mean, there's only a few people or bands that I'm checking for immediately when they come out. It's like Beyonce, Turnstile, Larry June. Yeah. Eclipse. I mean, otherwise like there's not, there's not people I'm like super checking for as soon as it comes out. I just think there's been so much Taylor Swift news. We've been saturated. I'm not saying it's bad or anything, but it's not just the, it's the tour,

[26:00]right? It's her last album. It's the huge tour, which was, I don't know, big news at this house anyway. And then all of her Kelsey stuff. I just don't think this album had a chance no matter what. There was a movie and then there was this and then, you know, all this stuff. Yeah. How many, here's the question. How many tracks were on this one? Is this like a 48 minute, 12 songs or is this four, four records? You know what, Russell? That's a great question. Here's why I didn't listen last time.

[26:31]The torture poet. So I was, I've never been like a big Taylor Swift fan. Nothing against her. I just don't really know her music. But last time when it came out, it was such a big cultural thing that I listened to it when it came out. But I remember listening to that one. There was like 40 songs or 35 songs. The problem was Russell. And I got an hour and a half in. I was like, okay, I'm done. I'm, I'm cash. And so I just assumed it was going to be another three hour. I've got two numbers for you. Yeah. 12 songs, 41 minutes. I mean,

[27:00]that's, I've got to give it a chance then. Okay. It's just what we love, you know? And the last one has Sabrina Carpenter on it. Like, I don't know. I think maybe I got to give this, I got to give this a chance. It is funny though. I will say when you look at like musicians and producers on this album, this is another one of these albums where it's like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people working on it. And I wonder if you just, I don't know if it's just too much or if I, I just don't think, but that's fine. I mean, you want those people to not have a job. Like it's part, like if they were, if that's the music industry, that's fine to me.

[27:30]I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I'll listen to it or if I'll like it, but that's, but I think it's, it's what Matt's saying about the production value sometimes. Right. You know me, I love, listen, Aaron, you know me, I love a nicely produced album. I love it. It's like Madonna Q sound shit or whatever, or nicely produced videos. Russell, actually, I care less about that about the lighting or anything. No angles. You don't care. Sometimes I'm adding tan lines to my search, you know, who knows? Gotcha. When you have all of those people,

[28:00]I think you expect it to be like, you know, the, maybe they made 48 songs and they cut it down to the 12 best. Yeah. And they put the 12 best because you have all these people and this is like earth shatteringly new and you know, something's edgier. Something went, you know, beyond where the other ones were thinking. I mean, you can't always do that, right? But like you just, I think that's what you expect. And you want to hear like one song that's like, Oh my God, I got to listen to the rest of the album kind of a thing. Like I remember, I remember specifically when beastie boys,

[28:30]when intergalactic came out, I think it was nice. These guys are, you know, they're, they're, they're going beyond what they were doing in 93, 94, but this is an awesome song. So I'm going to figure out where these guys are going with this, you know, and that happens all over the place, but you expect, you expect to hear something like that. And if you don't, you kind of, you know, just wait till the next one and kind of go on to whatever else is out there. So I don't know. Maybe that's just that. Maybe there's just not. Or any of these songs famous for like,

[29:01]did she trash like Kim Kardashian? Like when did the last time there was all this stuff, like there was all the, the drama, you know, songs, does this happen or not? Russell, it's funny. Cause it's very on theme for this podcast. Do you know what one of the songs was alluding to? What's that? Kelsey's. Oh, you know what? I don't think people want her to do that. I don't think they're into that from her. I don't, I think that's probably a turnoff for her fans. They don't want that. Would it be crazy though? If his penis looked just like his brother, you know what I mean?

[29:32]Like, it's kind of weird. It's a time. Well, I wasn't going to say that, but it's, it's time for kind of stocky Aaron. Yeah. Kind of stuff. Yeah. He's just doing like workout videos on YouTube. Now note to Rob edit and joke about, like tush push here somewhere. All right. So Jason, Kelsey penis, tush push. You don't think that's a good joke. All right, Aaron rolling going. How's it going with you? Oh man, it's going great. I mean,

[30:00]uh, let's see, you know, it's up and down. Um, went to a family poker night tonight and lost, lost on the final hand. Everybody else is wearing the glasses. And it was like, wait a minute. How'd you, you fleece me for this? It was a $5 buy-in. So I did, but I, I actually, I got to respect this. So we went, uh, and I was out of town. So it's just Wallace and me this weekend. He's got these babies in the kid and he's got these buddies who are twins.

[30:32]And so we go, we hang out with them a lot and the kids know, no blackjack. So the kids wanted to play blackjack and they played for a while. And then they were like, let's watch TV. We don't want to play blackjack. So there was just three of us. It was me and the parents. And it was like, well, it was family poker night. Like we want to play. And like, to their credit, they were like, like with the kids, we weren't playing with real money. And to their credit, they were like, well, we got to, we got to play for real, right? Like we got to play, got to actually play for money. You know? So there is nothing.

[31:01]If you find yourself with a bunch of adults playing poker for chips that don't mean anything, right. You just feel like the biggest losers. It's like, yeah, it's like when you're playing house with a kid and you're like, God, I don't want to do this anymore. I play house in real life. Like, let's gamble for, buddy, let's do it. So respect, man. Rebecca was like, no, we got to put real money in. It was $5. So like 20, 20, a hundred big blind. Yeah. So yeah, that was all right. But I also have big news.

[31:30]I got big news. I've been listening to a ton of D'Angelo, of course, since last week. And then I've been like, just consuming all the D'Angelo related stuff I can consume. So I, you know, I saw an interview where he said that parade, uh, the parents, the Prince album parade is the best funk album of all time. So I listened to it. I've been listening to parade a lot. Parade is also nice. It's like a 40 minute album that has kiss. And sometimes it snows in April. Great. So I've been listening to parade, uh, Sly and the family stone fresh. That is a great, great album and has a wonderful cover of case or a sera,

[32:02]which, uh, D'Angelo also did in a great video. Fantastic. Yeah. This fucking song, man. And big news. There exists on SoundCloud. I don't want to blow up this guy's spot, but someone, but all of hardcore jollies on SoundCloud. Do you guys, you know, I've been talking about hardcore jollies for a long time, but you have been, and it's finally available to listen. I listened to the whole album today. Yes. As I'm saying the way you've talked about it, it's true.

[32:30]Got to listen to a hardcore jollies. The whole thing today, start to finish my Wallace. Didn't ask me to turn it off. It was wonderful. So I was, you know, silver lining in D'Angelo passing, but yeah, I just been like, listen to as much of, I've been listening to black Messiah on repeat voodoo a lot. And then just as much of, what I've read about that, he was into some gospel music. There's this band called the veal and air is this wonderful. So it's just been a nice week to like re-engage with some music that I love. Now, even though it sucks, he's gone. Russell, can I say this? I got two things to say.

[33:01]I made the huge mistake. Russell, Aaron recommended two songs off the album. Kiss. One I know. And then sometimes it snows in April, which I was like, Oh, I'll just pick the second song. He said, so this is cooler. It seems like a more hip podcast. I forgot who was talking. I forgot who I was fucking dealing with. This is a Prince song. Who would guess? This is a Prince song. It's very much less. Why would you talk about that on the show? And tip me into this is crazy song.

[33:30]I remember from the album. I thought, Hey, call in Aaron's. Hey, Hey, hold on. Maybe he's at the spot. Wow. Maybe, you know, a little more sensitive. He's sad about single Russell going. If you're out there listening to this podcast and you had heard of this song previously, text hashtag. I know this song. To the back. Wow. Hey, I'll take anything we could get to be honest. But coincidentally, this also. So, I mean, this also is the song that D'Angelo performed on Jimmy Fallon when Prince died. So bringing it all, all full circle.

[34:00]Yeah. Can I just say this? That's crazy, by the way. I like that. Can I just say this? Do you think celebrities, when they know that we can't record one week, like celebrity singers are all kind of looking at each other like, Oh, which one of us is going to pass away this week? You know what I mean? Like, do you think Joni Mitchell is like, well, he didn't really give Ace Frehley his due. Oh yeah. When's that kiss episode coming up? Did he die? I didn't even hear that. Totally missed me. When did that do? Is that two, about two weeks ago? It was within the last week. And so tonight,

[34:30]if you can see Rob, I was listening to kiss alive. Yes. One of the best openings of all time. What's the track list? You wanted the best. You got the best strutter. Got to choose hotter than hell. Firehouse. Nothing to lose. Come on. I love me. Parasite. She watching you a hundred thousand. Here's black diamond, rock bottom, cold gin, rock and roll all night long. And let me go rock and roll. Wow. I almost any other night. I would say that might be a better album than the one we're listening to tonight, but tonight is a, tonight is very strange.

[35:02]How is it? We're over five years into this podcast and we're just now getting to this album. We got to talk about it. I got to know how it's rolling going with Matt. Uh, rolling going with me. Uh, Aaron, thank you for passing. I'm curious. I, I, I got to hang out with Rob in New York again. It's like a, it's our second, you know, we do it about once every maybe eight, nine months, Rob, I would say it's, it's more than once a year, not quite, not quite two times a year. So we got to hang out with Rob and Rob, you guys will never believe this.

[35:31]He curated the perfect day in New York. It looked like he had a, it looked like he had an agenda to meet. Yeah. Yeah. Rob getting them drawers. Can you pull up the agenda and read what he did? Yeah. Uh, can I pull up my, my agenda? I'm not sure I can. Where would I find that? I've got so many. If you think it's in my chat, GPT history, look how much stuff is in here. I don't even want to show Aaron. This is embarrassing. Look at this one. Just dead trees. Just chat.

[36:01]GPT histories being the left side is so low down and dirty where you can just see it. Fix printing error. Uh, skin contact definition. That's a bad one. Why would I want to know the definition of skin? That's for wine. I got Aaron. You're right. And Aaron, let me ask you, this, what is a skin contact line? How do you know? Uh, usually it's orange in color. Oh my God. I went to fucking Africa to learn that shit. Aaron, you just do it already. I think I found it in my text messages.

[36:30]All right, good. So 445, we met up in the lower East side. We went to a, a speakeasy bar called Attaboy. Ooh, Attaboy. Attaboy is one of my new obsessions with bars. And we went to two of these. Is it a speakeasy? Yeah. Is it just, well, it wasn't labeled. There's no label on the outside, but when you go in, we went to two of these places in Paris, Russell, you go in, there's no menu. You tell them, you tell them what you like and they make it for you. It is so great. I mean, to be honest,

[37:00]they're often just making me some sort of old fashioned, like they're not, but you know what I said at one place, I said milky and nutty. I'm bringing it. When I said that, the bartender gave me the biggest smile of all time. You know what I said? Different place, Russell sweet and fun. I was like, let's just go. Let's go with Russell. What would you say for a drink? If you wanted to order a drink on a vibe, nutty and milky. Did you just get eggnog or like pistachio?

[37:31]You have to say milky and nutty. You can't, there's a bar in Minneapolis that does this and they make very good drinks, but I'm curious to how your guys went. Cause this bar in Minneapolis that does this, I think it's cool. Now why not? But you do wait like 25 minutes for a drink. Like it's, it's a very slow bar. So I don't know what your guys environment was like. It didn't feel slow. I don't know. It just felt like a regular old, the one in the, the one we went to in Paris, there was, we were right at the bar. Everyone was making drinks right in front of us. And then she had a big flower bouquet and she would pull off flowers and put

[38:03]them into your drink as the toppings. It was great. It was awesome. Sounds marvelous. No, the flowers. I should never be putting a non-edible garnish in something. My health teacher said something like that to me once. I mean, I had one time thought the dandelions were not, you know, things like that. So get that shit out of here. So then we went, we left there. It was very dark in there. It came out in the bright sun and went to scars pizza. Does that sound about right?

[38:30]Yep. You know, great pizza, Rob. I think I should, I should have had your slice with the hot honey and jalapeno on it. Pepperoni. That was good. Good call. And then we were just randomly walking. We were heading to our next spot, which I think was one more beer. It was, were we supposed, we were going up to Rudy's, which of course is famous because for every drink, you get a free hot dog. So I was kind of taking you to the two extremes of bars, like the, the very nice and rude. Can I ask when you guys were doing the pizza, which one of you was the one that's like,

[39:00]cause one of you had to be like, Oh, I'm just going to get one piece. Then one of you was like, Oh, I'm going to get two. And then when he's like, you know what I'm going to get, I'm going to get three. Like who was the one who went over the other guy and how many without feeling guilt. Russell with these New York slices and the medication I'm on, there's no going over one. One. And it was one. Cause we, we knew, well, we thought we were going to the hot dog and then, and then we were going to go to the, we're going to the Rangers game after this. So I knew that it wasn't like this was dinner for the night. I also should tell you, Russell to really paint the picture.

[39:30]It was a party of three. Okay. If you're wondering why, maybe I didn't get two slices, but I did a lot of listening diverted because we walked by the store and it was, I don't know. How would you call it? Was it a, vintage store? Yeah. Vintage is the right word. These jerseys. They had all these jerseys and then they had all of these nice flannel. And so it was like, well, fuck, we got to get it. We got to go in there. We went in there and Rob actually bought a Jersey.

[40:00]Rob actually found one that fit because he's so svelte now and it fit him perfect. And it was a New York. He looked, he looked slim in the shot, in the shot. Was it, was it, was it a Chris Ho van? It was a, it was, Oh my God. Chris Ho van would be crazy. Well, Russell, there were three jerseys. I was going to choose from because they did actually have a Vince Carter, but it was the old yellow Raptors. I didn't like it, but plus it was a basketball Jersey and I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it. There's no, never a good time to wear that. You can't wear sleeves under it. You can't wear no sleeves.

[40:30]You're screwed. So listen, here are the jerseys I had to pick from the Ron Dane. Then the other giants Jersey. Yeah. The other giants. Cause I was like, I should get a giants Jersey living in New York. You know, the other giants Jersey, there's almost no other Jersey where I would be like, boy, do I want to buy the Ron Dane or this one? Ron Dane to me is such a clear picture. Perfect pick for me being from the Midwest. The other one, Carrie Collins. I was like, Oh damn, that's a close pick. If I could get a Carrie Collins Jersey, that'd be crazy. And in fact,

[41:00]there's one better than both of these. If you guys can maybe man, I both had the same one. What's the other giants Jersey that you would buy? The two that I was going to guess would be the Jeremy Shockey or I was going to say, I mean, it wasn't Tiki Barber, the guy that was sleeping around on his wife. We both said Seahorn, Jason. And then there was one for the jar chargers that said V gray. And I was like, boy, I've never heard of V gray. This might be awesome.

[41:30]It's like a super rare Jersey. So I was picking between the V gray and the Ron Dane. I was like, ah, the V gray is nice. It's got the embroidery and everything. And I was like, I better look up who this V gray is though, just to make sure I'm not like getting in trouble. Turns out there was never a V gray that played for the chargers. I almost, I bought a custom Jersey custom Jersey or like 50 bucks at an old shop. That would have been a disaster. I just want to say these photos of the two of you made me so happy. It was just like, I loved seeing it. They looked high as hell.

[42:00]Didn't they? Not at the clothing store. Oh, maybe later. So where'd you end the night? You ended the night at the hockey game. So then we, so then we, you know, so we had to skip the hotdog bar because it was like, well, we just got to get over. You guys sent that agenda. I was like, there's no way they're hitting all the things of that. We were close though. We hadn't stopped at the, we hadn't stopped at the clothing store. We would have, yeah, we would have made it for sure. But the wild were in town. So we had to go see the Minnesota wild. I had, I have never seen an event at Madison square garden.

[42:32]So it was the first time going to Madison square garden. And so we played the whole time, played a ticket master roulette to try to find out the best price with the best tickets. Rob, where did we end up sitting and how, how, how good were the seats? Do you think we sat, uh, we ended up paying like a hundred bucks a ticket, but we were sitting right in the front of the second. What would you say? The second level kind of like level probably. Yeah. Yeah. And Russell,

[43:00]we had a view of Matt goes, will we want this? Because this is where the wild is shooting twice. This game, because you forget they're doing fucking three periods, right? Yeah. So we're down there. Wild are dogs. We bet the wild, the shoot five shots first. We bet the wild to win. We bet. And we absolutely clean up easily, make more than the tickets cost in the first place. We paid for it with our brilliance and fan. You had,

[43:30]so I am, I'm now the one person in this podcast who has not had the experience of some kind of betting hot streak with someone else on this podcast. That's it. That's it. As Matt and Rob will sit, you know, Russell and Rob, Russell and Matt will sit at a table, clean the whole thing up. We're starting to know who the cooler is. Yeah, it's me for sure. Uh, and, but at this place, a Russell, there was something I've never seen before. When you're at the garden, the seats in front of you have a TV on the back. Oh, so what do we do?

[44:01]That was just because we were in the front row. It was like a TV. We turn on the Monday night football game. So here I am. Now we did each have maybe a little, a little bit of Russell's, uh, drawer candy there, but, uh, at one point, Rob's pocket candy. At one point in the third period, I'm like, Oh, wow. And I, and I look over at Matt to see if he saw this big hit or something. Matt's watching Detroit play Tampa Bay. And he's just like this, just like so close to the screen.

[44:33]And I go, Matt, you love football. He's like, I do. I love football. So, yeah, so then it was, we, we got to that and I think that was it. We, we called it. You had to work the next day. I had to work the next day and it was about, you know, 10 o'clock. It was great. I was staying in Jersey city. Uh, so then, so it was great. So then Rob's like, yeah, tomorrow we'll go comedy. We'll do this. And I had known he has just came back with a nice long trip. And I'm like, there's no fucking way.

[45:00]So I didn't, you know, you didn't hold them to it. You let them off easy. Matt was so Matt gave Matt new, like right away. He goes, listen, we go get comedy tomorrow, but you don't have to. And he kept saying that every time it was like, it was like just a postscript. You don't have to, you don't have to insure enough. I didn't. So I, I was in New York one more day. So I went, my buddy, Tom works for the wild from Richfield. We're like, we're going to go see comedy. So I got up that, that morning I'm sitting, wake up and I'm looking for tickets. Cause Jenny, these guys say, Oh, you guys, you probably missed the window.

[45:31]And I'm like, yeah, we probably missed the window. But all of a sudden there's a secret pop-up show, five 45 at the main room of the comedy cellar. So I'm like, this sounds like something we should do. So Tom, it was great. Cause we get earlier. He wanted to get back. Cause he's big job now working. And so we went secret show. They don't tell you who's there. Tom and I are walking around again. We're first in line at the, at the queue, Rob to go down. Hey, yeah, let's get those posters. Yeah.

[46:00]Posters. Yes. And, and so then we got to see one of the regulars, the Swedish guy or the Norwegian guy, Rob was very dry who talks like he, so he opened and just, and he was starting to make fun of himself for doing that. But then Aziz Ansari came in and, you know, he's kind of a, he was kind of a questionable guy over the last five, eight years. That's the way to say it, Rob. He was almost canceled, right? Yeah. He, you know, but it was that for him, I have to say his was kind of a weird,

[46:30]it was like a light canceling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he came and it was awesome. It was probably, the room was probably three quarters full, Rob. We were front row and he did about 50 minutes of all new stuff. Kind of, kind of a thing. And it was like a seat. He's lives in LA now. And, and then he was just in town for three days and decided to do two nights, two days of a pop-up show like this. And it was great. It was unbelievable. It was so fun. Secret show, all that stuff. Going to see comedy in New York is awesome. Wow. Matt Monday. Yep.

[47:00]Matt loves New York so much more than I do. It's crazy. How happy Matt is in New York. He's here. He's like, this is the greatest place. And I'm just like, you know why it is. I don't do anything. Like I just do the same shit all the time. Matt, Matt's a, Matt's a fast walker. Like I could see him like getting through New York city rocks in a click, a very efficient, quick, like he probably always hits like the lights. He's never waiting at corners. He just strikes me as being very good at working. If that, if that thing's counting down, you gotta, you gotta hide and tell it.

[47:31]And you gotta make sure you get through that intersection. That's always strikes me, strikes me as a guy who could live in New York. He would be happy living in New York, getting on the subway, riding around. Well, I'll tell you, you know, so we ended our night, Tom and I ended our night by going to Joe's, you know, pizza. We got a slice at Joe's and took the subway home. So it was almost a perfect New York night. But I'll tell you this. So every, when I'm in New Jersey, that's where a lot of the, my work stuff is, I'm using my air quotes, work stuff is, is over there. And everybody wants to like drive you around. You're like, we'll just take an Uber. And anytime there's a train option,

[48:00]I'm like, I'm just going to take the train. Yeah. Like, or I walked, I walked 25 minutes from the Hoboken station down to the Newton station. People there are probably like, why would you walk that far? And you're like, it's 25 minutes. Right. You know, kind of a thing or take, yeah, take an Uber that one guy was saying. And I was like, well, I'll just go experience it kind of thing. So I love taking the train. And I tell the guy, it's probably because I don't do it every day. If I had to do it every day, I'd probably be sick of it. Just like everybody else kind of thing. But when I'm there, it's kind of like when you're in Rome, just do what the New Yorkers do.

[48:30]Do what the New Jersey people do. Well, that explained why Matt tried to take a shit at the train station. That's not that part. Don't do that part of the city. When in Rome, he said. Yeah. When in Rome. Yeah. I think I saw that in Rome too, actually. So it was good. Russell, rolling, going, how's it going with you? I got a few things. Rob, if you could pull up the song, let's go with, how about, let's go, let's go. I got a feeling by the Beatles. It's the four face album. Four face album. Last, last week I went, I saw Paul McCartney live at us bank stadium guys.

[49:01]Wow. I had to shoot. Where did you sit? Where did you sit? So Matt, we sat about halfway up the lower deck. So on about the 50 yard lines, we were to the side of the stage. The stage was in the end zone. So we sat on the side of the stage. We weren't right up next to the speaker, but pretty about a 45 degree angle from the big speakers on the corner. So how was the sound? The sound was decent. I think they blew a speaker or something.

[49:30]There was, there were, I saw articles. They were talking about some of the audio stuff was screwed up, but there was a point where when certain instruments were playing, the audio was all muffled, but otherwise, it was good. It was good. And I gotta say, Paul McCartney, no opening act played for three hours. Jesus. I'm like, wow. He's like 80 something, right? 83. Jeez. And he was on stage the whole time there. He never like disappeared for five,

[50:00]10 minutes. He, he, he jokingly did a wardrobe change once where he took off his jacket and like rolled up his sleeves and then kept playing. It wasn't, this wasn't like Tony Bennett. You know, where you felt like there's somebody off stage, like shocking him to go back on stage. And I was, I was feeling it. Lady Gaga's got a remote where she's like, you better listen to me, Tony. So a few of the highlights that I've needed to share with you guys, he brought out the mandolin. We've talked about mandolin songs before he played dance tonight, which was great. Oh,

[50:30]blah, D oh, blah, dah. Like, you know what I was going to say about Paul McCartney? If you're not sitting there smiling, having a good time or something fucking wrong with you, you need to look in the mirror. Like all these songs are just joyful. It just brings positive energy. I can't imagine someone sitting there and not having fun. That's what they always said to the Beatles, right? That he was always doing these like sugar gum. Well, it worked for the live concert. I'll tell you that. Live and let die. All of a sudden they started shooting off fireworks, which was fantastic.

[51:00]But wow. What I really want to do is go through kind of like the final seven, eight to 10 songs. And this is what they end with. All right, let's hear it. All right. Well, really it breaks in. As he plays something, which is George Harrison song, and he plays it on the ukulele, which was very cool. Very, that's cool. Then they come with, Oh, blah, D, Oh, blah, dah, which people love. Did they do it straight or did they do any kind of vamping and soloing and grooving? No, they play. It was, it was a lot, definitely a longer version of it.

[51:31]But then they played band on the run, which obviously is, I think McCartney, that's my number one. That's a good song. That's a hot take. Get back. Let it be. Live and let die where there's fireworks going off. Jesus. Hey Jude. Yeah. Which, which every single, every sings along. Oh, that's incredible. And then they go on course. They walk off for about a minute. Come back on. Here's the encore. I've got a feeling, and this is the best part of the show for those of,

[52:02]we've talked about the Beatles that with the documentary, right? Yeah. Yep. Yeah. So on this song, they've got Lennon singing, his part and McCartney going back and forth. So they got, are you serious? On the big screen, singing his part up on the top of that Apple building from the documentary. Jeez. Oh my God. It's like a video. It's not like a hologram. It's, it's a video. It's the video from the documentary of Lennon up. So when it's hit, Lennon's part of the lyrics, he's up there.

[52:30]Can you, can you, can we just, I'm a little worried that something might happen to me. So I'm just going to record a couple of things here. And then when I pass away, you could just play it. You could just play stuff like this. And then we could just do it on a loop. Are you ready for this? Ben Roethlisberger. How did I know this was going to be the first one? Russell, that sounds unbelievable. So then they go to, I got a feeling this isn't, here's where they keep going. They do Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the reprise, the end of Sergeant Pepper's,

[53:01]right? Wow. Yep. Then Helter Skelter out of nowhere. Crazy. Oh, geez. But here's, they end with golden slumbers, carry that weight in the end. They, they, they end with, is that Abbey Road? Abbey Road, yeah. That's the end of Abbey Road, right? So. Yeah, that might be the last, I mean, Abbey Road was recorded after Let It Be, right? So that truly is like the last Beatles song. Yes, this is the end of the Beatles. Yeah. So he was fantastic. Like the, it was definitely an older crowd. A lot of people with Russ's colored hair,

[53:30]if you will, a lot of gray hair sitting down the whole time. So I'm like, oh, I like this. So that was really great, but I had a few of them. Was it full? Did it end up being full? Oh, it was packed, Matt. Yeah. It looks, it looks so, and you know what, Matt, we talked about like ticket prices, the lower deck ticket prices were up, up, up. So buying early was the way. Okay, good. That's so good. Yeah. Can I tell Aaron, I've got one confession I got to make Aaron about this. And that is I'm on a text chain with the upstairs roommate. Oh, I was sent the ever rare,

[54:01]one of the rarest things you're ever going to see in your life. Okay. Is it a unicorn? Is it a white Rhino? Is it, yeah, is it a married couple, six and 90? No, it was a picture of Russell and the upstairs roommate together at the concert. And then I showed it to the person to my right, who happened to be Matt sitting next to me at the hockey game. So we both enjoyed it without Aaron. Didn't even think about saying it to Aaron. Nobody even brought it up. I'm too busy watching football. I almost fell out of my seat.

[54:32]What is this? So that was great. There's two other things I wanted to share with you guys quick. I was, I went down, uh, had some time to kill this morning, went down to hang out with my mom. And you guys know when I come back and it's vague on what time I'm going to be home at. I've got to stop at a record store. So I made a stop today. Nice. Wow. Relationship Russell. All the tricks. He's like, doesn't know all the tricks. So the first one I pulled, this is the record store, cheapo records where they do the day by day. The, the, you can get records from this day's arrivals.

[55:01]Yeah. The one I got used from the recent arrivals, cat Stevens tea for the tiller man, which was on our list. That's a fun one. Yeah. I love that song. That is so good. I also has a preview for how good this album is tonight. I did pick up the free wheel and Bob Dylan. Yes. For you. Yeah. Won't regret that. I can't wait to see which albums perverted. Oh, I, speaking of the perverted one, I didn't get this one because I was almost too ashamed, but I did take a picture of it.

[55:31]And the album was called, um, it's called, take a look at those cakes. By James Brown. Have you guys seen this one? Those cakes now to be fair. Okay. I was going to say, I was going to say he could have been, he was going to be talking about anything. And yes. And then I did see the cover of the album. That is, I could take that. The other one I did take a picture of, and this goes out to Joe from East St. Paul and Manny.

[56:00]They didn't have the rad soundtrack. Yeah. You didn't get it. I'm not a rad guy. Like you guys are. Oh yeah. Well, what else would you listen to going around hell track? You know what I mean? Like it's, it's the only thing that makes sense. So then I picked up two more of the ones I had to share with you. These are obviously, I've told you guys, I only get stuff on the list. I picked up parliament mothership connection, which is in the three hundreds, Aaron. I don't know where this ranks in your parliament albums. That's a classic. Yeah, man. And then the last one I picked up is,

[56:32]uh, uh, Beck did it better. All time favorite. It's James Brown live at the Apollo. Oh, wow. That's, that's Russell. Oh no. Now you're making me go back and forth. You gotta do it. You gotta do it. Can you just tell me what time you're coming home? Just any time. I said, I said, I was heading home at two 20 and then I got a call at like four 30. Ask where, where, where was it? So there was like, please come home.

[57:00]Please come home. But so that was great. The other thing I had to share with you, Robin, I don't know if you've got your list ready for this, but it's Halloween time. Wow. And so, uh, I, my mom, she lives in an assisted living place and she's like, I need some candy. So the people that help her out, I, I've got like, I need a bowl of candy. Yeah. So when her assistants come in, they can grab like a little candy bar or whatever. Russell, I feel like this is exactly when you should have called me. I feel like you should have gotten on the phone with me. I'm your kind of your candy expert. Like if you were going to a Pearl jam show,

[57:31]you know, you talk to Matt, you're buying candy for your mom. You gotta call the broad man. They had, they have like the, the, the, the, what do you value packs? Like the 90 little bars of different types. So here are the, here are the value packs, Rob. I want to know what you think of the value packs and then what you think of all the candies involved. Is that fair? That sounds good. Let's listen. What's in this value pack. Russell first value pack. I looked at, had four types. Okay. Baby Ruth, a hundred grand. Okay.

[58:00]Butterfinger. Yes. And a crunch. Oh, I, I'm going to tell you right now of those, and this is going to blow your mind. My least favorite, a crunch. Oh, I could take, I could take or leave the crunch. Don't need it. What was the first one? The first one's a, the baby Ruth. They, I think the baby Ruth is kind of underrated. Grand. Yeah. Butterfinger. I think the, the baby Ruth Russell, I think the fact that it was used to look like poop in so many movies being thrown in a pool, I think it dissuades a lot of people from getting a baby Ruth,

[58:31]but guys don't sleep on them. They're good. So I, I ended up getting a few bags and I brought some to my mom. I brought, I actually brought one into work. This was the one I brought into work. Rob and I thought you would be interested to know. Let's hear it. The, the crunch and the a hundred grand were gone within like a day. Everyone ate those. People do like a hundred grand. It's the Butterfingers and the baby Ruth. I think you're right, Rob. It's the, it's the, the baby Ruth sat there. They're still there. No one, no one takes them. It's the poop in the pool. It's the poop in the pool. It's the problem with the baby Ruth.

[59:00]I'm surprised that's Butterfinger though. That's. Yeah. But Aaron, remember you're at work. Butterfinger to me is a bottom three candy bar to eat at work. Okay. It's going to make it, it's going to make a big mess. You know, it's going to get stuck in your teeth. Crumble all over. Okay. All right. It's like the other day, guys, I, I tried to eat some Tic Tacs in public. God damn. God damn. You cannot. Cause I made the big mistake. I was on the subway. So I only had one hand free. You went with a shovel. You went with a shovel into the mouth.

[59:30]I went with the pouring it directly into the mouth. No. And it didn't come out as much as I wanted. So I kept doing it. I looked like a crazy person. You cannot eat. You cannot eat Tic Tacs in public and look like a normal person. Cause I, I'm not going to, am I putting them in my hand? Is that what I'm supposed to do? I don't know. There's so little, you can't like grab with your fingers. No, you got to just dump the box into your mouth. Yeah. You got to do that in private. You know what I mean? Like there's just some stuff. Just don't do that out in public. Tic Tacs are one of them. It's like putting on your gold bond and eating Tic Tacs.

[60:01]Don't mix up the gold bond. Oh, you saw me do that in public. Holy cow. Hey, I wish the subway car was just, just us. Oh, I got an idea. Watch this. The next bag. Oh my God. He's got the blue bottle. The green bottle. It's extra medicated. I was always, it might surprise you guys. I was always a green guy. Who's the person that says I don't need the extra medication. Yeah. What? Like if it's there, I'll take some more. My crush doesn't itch and then burn after I scratch it. So Rob,

[60:31]the next, the next bag of mixed candies that I evaluated. Sounds like that guy's had jock itch before. I don't know. How about this one? Can everybody, you laughed at it. Hey, if you're sitting next to somebody right now who laughed at that last joke, they've had jock itch. Booyah. Gotcha. All right. Let's keep going. Keep going. I want to hear more. I just think it's one of those things. Like I, there's a lot of things I would talk to my friends about. You know what I mean? Like I would, I would say like, Oh, you know, I'm sick. I'm not feeling well.

[61:00]Jock itch is not. It's like way down the list. Like if you tell somebody you have jock itch, what can they say? Well, you know what I mean? Like, Oh, that's a bummer. Aaron and I, Aaron and I had a good friend of all of ours that, uh, used it as a way. So people didn't guard up an intramural basketball. We're essentially, we're like, uh, his shorts. So you can see it. And then like back is rationed to people. And this was like a medical condition. This thing was like, he needed, Oh, this guy had the worst jock itch.

[61:32]It was, it was more than jock itch. It was something else. He showed it to the trainer once. It looked like brown beef. It looked like those tubes of hamburger. They hand out from behind the window at Costco, you know, like those big tubes. That was like his leg. It was so gross. Oh no. So the Rob, the next bag of candy I evaluated was, I believe this would be a Hershey bag. This has Reese's cups. A plus Reese's pieces. A straight old Hershey bar. A Kit Kat.

[62:03]B and a Whoppers. What do you think of that mixed bag? A Whoppers are an A plus for me, Russell. I love Whoppers. I bought Whoppers the other day and added them to my protein ice cream along with a zebra cake. Oh, oh wow. Hey, why am I not losing weight? I'm eating protein ice cream every night. Are you mixing a zebra cake in a box of Whoppers? Well, yeah, of course. It's not on a bodybuilding show.

[62:30]Rob, here's the next bag I evaluated. I just don't write it into my fitness bail. Let me know what you think of this one. Okay. Three muskets. Three musketeers. Three musketeers. I'll say B. Starburst. Z. Skittles. B plus. Twix. A minus. And a Milky Way. So there's five in this one. I, Milky Way's an A minus for me too. I do love a Milky Way. Oh,

[63:00]Russell, I like that one. I kind of like that. But you know what? You know why I like a Milky Way? Because I'm a mush, I'm a mush head. It's one of the few that doesn't have nuts. It's the same reason I like a Milky Way. There's only one mushier candy bar, Russell. What is the mushier candy bar? I have to say the musketeers is for musketeers. Of course, it's a mush head's dream. Okay. There were two, two other bags Rob, I had to tell you about. So one of them, I was thinking, what is my mom going to want? Oh, you know what? I got her just the straight bag of the little Snickers. I was like,

[63:30]you know what? A grandparent is going to want is just a Snicker bag, right? That's a classic. You can't go wrong with a Snicker bag. I don't think I've ever eaten a Snicker bag. I don't think I've ever eaten a Snicker bag. I had a Snicker and I was like, well, that wasn't pretty good. Snicker is always, it's there. It's always good. It satisfies. You know what's not there? What's that? Any Snicker variation. Fuck off with these Snicker variations. Almonds, peanut butter. Don't need them. Get out of here. You are spot on. So what I was really wanting to get your opinion on. I'm the candy guy. There were like seven different colors slash flavors of Kit Kat bars.

[64:02]And I was overwhelmed by the colored Kit Kats. And I didn't know what to do. I was like, Rob, what would you, what do you think of all the colored, different flavored Kit Kats? Russell, I'm going to tell you right now, we're living in a golden age of Kit Kats. We've got the mint Kit Kats. There's like green, white, orange. I need to tell you guys this. And I know this episode is going long and I hate to tell this story. Bring it. But I went to a gay hibachi last night. It was a hibachi with all gay guys, Jenny and I. And the guy I sat next to was obsessed with Japanese Kit Kat flavors.

[64:35]And he was telling me about them. So Russell, are you ready to go through some of these Kit Kat Japanese flavors? James Brown, let's bring it. Kit Kats in Japan. There have been 400 different flavors. Oh my gosh. Okay. Do you want apple? No. Pineapple. Yeah. Soy sauce. No. Wasabi. No. Sweet potato. Oh yes,

[65:00]I can do that. Here's one. It's just called vegetable juice. Aaron, if you say yes, you're off the pod. No way. Aaron, I got one here and it's going to say, that's poisonbee.com or whatever that website was. Here's one. I guarantee Aaron's going to say yes to. Hokkaido roasted corn. Let's check it out. Try that. Don't you heard? Yeah. Okay. How about this? Okay. Maybe I can tempt Matt here. Edamame. Here's one. And this one almost feels like an insult. European cheese. Oh,

[65:30]European. I mean, I don't even understand what that means. Stinky Kit Kat. And finally, of course, Russell, we do just have one that I think, I would actually have, and that's just butter. Oh, butter flavored Kit Kats. Sign me up, which does remind me, and I hate to extend the story, and I'm so sorry, but at the, uh, hibachi. And again, going to a gay hibachi and there's big flames and they're throwing food in your mouth. I mean, guys, when you're chilling with a bunch of gay guys and they're throwing shrimp into your mouth,

[66:00]can you even imagine the jokes that are going on? This reminds me of my junior year of college, of course, is what I said. Oh, yeah. Shrimp in my mouth. Anyway, they probably think you're a tease, Rob. They're probably like, oh, Rob's a big tease. Oh, for sure. They were doing a thing where they had, they had, uh, what's it, what's the drink? Uh, the Japanese sake. They had sake in a spray bottle and they were spraying it into the guy's mouth. And so as the bartender's coming around, he's spraying it into everybody's mouth and he's doing it for like 10 seconds. Like it's a long time.

[66:30]And of course with me, he does it for like 20. It's always the joke. They always do it longer. And then you're giggling. You're giggling. You're giggling in your chair, aren't you? So as it's coming toward us, it's going down the line. Jenny goes, what is that? And I go, it's melted butter. And she goes, oh, gross. I don't want that. So it goes to me, spray it. She goes, then she goes, no, no, thanks. I don't want any butter. Everybody's like, what? She goes, I don't want butter. She goes, what is that? She goes, it's sake. She goes, oh, I thought it was butter.

[67:00]I was like, you think they were going down the line of these guys with perfect haircuts? And they were just spraying butter in their mouth. And they're like, yeah, I would love. These guys all love butter in their mouth. This is crazy. So anyway, Russell, as you said, it is, of course, time. It's the spookiest time of the year. Yeah, it's a Halloween episode. And when the spooky time of year comes around, of course, we all start thinking about the same things. What is going to be on Rob's list for the spookiest songs of the year?

[67:35]Now, I can't remember. Does this have a theme song? We do have a theme song. Don't wait for this. I fucking almost forgot about this shit. Can you imagine if I did? That would be so sad. Man, so sad. I almost missed this. I was working on the podcast. I got my intuition right. When I realized this episode tonight would be downloaded and then it would be seen on October 31st.

[68:01]Why, that's Halloween. He made a list. Yes. About scary songs. He made a list. The bit's always a little too long. Rob made a list. What song will be number one? He made a list. If you don't like it, then you are wrong. So I went online to find the scariest songs. I copy other lists so it doesn't take too long. The thing this year that's got me depressed. It's the third year in a row that I've made this list.

[68:31]He made a list. He's depressed. What about scary songs? He made a list. This bit's always a bit too long. Rob made a list. He made a list. What song will be number one? He made a list. Number six was this very song. Yes. Now, boy, I put a lot of production into this show back then. Listen, of course, it is time for the list. Yes. And I just want to say, a little too long. This year,

[69:00]okay, I'm not, I'm going straight ahead. No jokes with this list. This is a straight up list. It is just a scary list. Okay. It is just a scary list. Now, of course, according to my song, I did use the list that Billboard recently came out with of the Billboard's greatest Halloween songs. Okay. These are the greatest songs that were on the Billboard 100. And they did it mathematically by how many weeks the songs were in certain portions of the list. So these are Halloween songs that were on the highest positions

[69:31]of the Billboard list for the longest. Oh, so they made the list. Yeah. So this is a totally straight list of actual, actual songs that are on the Billboard list. Number, at number something, I think I have more than five. I'll just say number five until it's not. At number five, from 2017 remaster, this was on the list in 80, I put 18, but that can't be right. Right? It can't be 2018 or 1918. Ah, damn it. I spucked this up already. Devil Inside. By Annex Sass.

[70:02]Oh. I think it's got devil in the title. It was on the list. There it goes. Devil Inside. It got up on the Billboard for two weeks. It's at number four. Now, guys, this song is pretty scary, don't you think? It is creepy, yeah. Now, of course, this song... I'm so scared. This song, I mostly know because it was written by a man named Michael Hutchins. And, of course, Michael Hutchins sadly passed away from an excess. He's one of the autoerotic masturbation guys.

[70:33]They think that's what he was. So that's why he always sticks out in my mind. Of course. Next up. This got up to number four. And that's pretty spooky, Russell. You know what I mean? That would be spooky if that's what you're well-known for after beating in excess. You can't hammer Aaron for bringing up depressing stuff. Yeah, wow. This really took a turn. Well, I just think it's him. It's David Carradine. Oh, no. We can move on. You know what I mean? Okay. Okay. I don't think of it yet.

[71:01]Aaron, maybe that one time. Devil with a Blue Dress. If we hadn't rushed in. So good. This was on. This got to number four in 1966. This is Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. This is Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. A bunch of the whitest guys you've ever seen in your entire life. And this was two years after the song was written by a guy from Motown named Shorty Long. So let's not try to think about why this went big.

[71:32]It was good on there, yeah. But it did make me do a little research into Mitch Ryder. And it turns out, first of all, Devil in a Blue Dress, Russell, that's pretty spooky, don't you think? It was a devil wearing a dress. More spooky than a red dress, I guess. I'll tell you what else is spooky. Mitch Ryder's obsessed with one thing, and that was double songs. Because that was Devil in a Blue Dress and Good Golly, Miss Molly. Oh, yeah. I love it. Listen to Mitch Ryder's hits. Ooh-la-dee, ooh-la-da, give me shelter.

[72:00]What? That was a double feature he did. Ring Your Bell, Baby, I Need Your Lovin'. Ring Your Bell, Baby, I Need Your Lovin'. Ring Your Bell, Baby, I Need Your Lovin'. Ring Your Bell, Baby, I Need Your Lovin'. Sugar Bee slash I Believe. Rock and Roll slash Box of Old Roses. Like a Rolling Stone slash Can Do. He only made songs that were slash songs. So they were like a bar band, pretty much. He was just doing covers. Yeah, yeah. And like from the 60s to the 90s, he was doing double songs the whole time. And that's when I discovered he did one of the greatest double songs of all time.

[72:30]You've got personality, but look what he combines it with. Oh my God. Put it in my face. Now, this is fantastic. Oh, that's like a full-on mashup. Oh, yeah. This is all Mitch Ryder did. So if you went to a Mitch Ryder concert, guess what, Russell? You're going to a Paul McCartney concert, you're getting what? One song at a time?

[73:00]Fuck that. I'm going to a Mitch Ryder concert, I'm getting two songs for every song. I'm getting double songs, Russell. It's like ordering a Big Mac. Yeah, those things cost like $12. Oh my God, in this economy. That's like a fifth of a hand of blackjack. Next up. This got up to number two in 1984. How much can that bread in the middle of the two burgers cost? What are they doing with all the extra top ones? What's it doing there anyway? How special can this sauce really be?

[73:30]This is the Halloween classic song. And according to Billboard, it's one of the top Halloween songs, of all time. This is by Rockwell. Somebody's watching me with uncredited vocals, of course, by MJ, Michael Jackson. Not credited. Here's the crazy thing. This is put up by Motown. Guess who runs Motown? Barry Gordy. Barry Gordy. Guess who Rockwell is? Barry Gordy's nephew. Barry Gordy's son. Oh, son, okay.

[74:00]But here's the craziest thing. At the time, he was estranged from his father. He didn't talk to his father. Oh, weird. And the father's ex-wife was married to the producer of this song. So just imagine this. Your wife leaves you. She marries Bill. Okay? Bill then sends you an album with your son on it and says, hey, you should put this on your record album. And you do, and it's a giant fucking hit. It goes up to number two on the Billboard charts. It becomes one of the scariest

[74:30]Halloween songs of all time. I heard this one today on the Piedmont Avenue Halloween Crawl. By the way, there's a taxi cab. There's a cab driver in the video for this song. He's also in Rockwell's other video, which is a song called Obscene Phone Caller. So if you think I didn't listen to Obscene Phone Caller, the song, you know I did. It's actually really good. The video's even better. Aaron, that song's got a little bit of that G-funk. Yeah, you're right. It does. I can't remember the name of that instrument. This next song gets up to number two in 1989. And of course,

[75:00]when you think 1989, what do you think about? Ghostbusters 2. Well, if you're thinking about Viggo, the Carpathian, I think you're thinking about Viggo. This movie was an enormous flop when it came out, which if you would have said that to 12-year-old Rob, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I thought this was one of the greatest movies ever created. I didn't think it was a flop. In my world, this was almost the better Ghostbusters. I agree. I agree. I know this Ghostbusters

[75:31]more than the first one. And I think part of it is that they said they got criticized because it made it more family-friendly, and then I was like, yeah, I bet, because the first Ghostbusters, hey, I'm sitting there, I'm watching it with my dad, I'm having a great time. All of a sudden, he's going to blowjob from a ghost. I'm like, why would you put this in the movie? You ruined it. It's not as fun. None of that in the second one, Russell, just slime. I don't know. A creepy painting guy, that was scary as shit for me. That was scary. The only thing scarier to me was the Event Horizon movie.

[76:00]Otherwise, Viggo or whatever. Jesus. The scary painting guy from Ghostbusters, that was an all-time, I can't handle, it's too scary. I'm going to put Large Marge up there. I think Large Marge was a very scary movie. She was scary, yep. By the way, that was Bobby Brown. What were you scared of? What was the movie you couldn't handle? Oh, I mean, I can't take any horror movies at all, so anything where there's just a little bit of a jump scare at all. So even Large Marge, when you're younger, all of a sudden, when that just pops

[76:30]on the screen, that's a jump scare. I ran out of the theater at E.T. when he was in the cornfield. I still won't watch that movie. That part scared me so bad. I'm sure. I was at a Halloween dinner. But then the part where E.T. dresses up as a girl, that got me so bad. So I don't know, guys. This is a blue push and pull. I was at like a Halloween, mostly pull, like a dinner event thing, and there was a guy dressed as Chucky. That's so long. Is it Chucky? Is that the? Yeah. And I was like, this is too much for me. Like, I don't even like being in the same room

[77:00]with someone that would get a kick out of dressing up as Chucky. Too much. Chucky was scary. Chucky is a scary. Fuck yeah, because it could happen to any room, right? And I always thought it's because he was mostly stabbing your ankles and calves. You know what I mean? He was always stabbing your calves, and I was always like, oh God, that would hurt so bad to get stabbed. Yeah, wasn't he like slicing people's Achilles tendons? Oh gosh. This next song on the list was up to number one for one week in 1973 and is produced by Rick Derringer. Oh. Guys, you want to hear about a scary Halloween song? Huh. What about Frankenstein?

[77:33]Yes. Okay. And this is not Dr. Frankenstein or Dr. Frankenstein's monster. This is a separate Frankenstein. We've talked about him before on the podcast. There was a very long thing we did on Rick Derringer, but this song, and then we got back to, he was also the Hulk Hogan guy. Yes. He's real American. Yeah, that's right. This is a picture of the album cover. I've got this album. I have this. They only come out at night, and it might be the scariest thing you're going to see

[78:00]this holiday season. It is the scariest fucking album cover of all time. Oh my God. Yeah, that's terrifying. He's terrifying. It kind of looks like Bowie, but like weirder, but also Marilyn Manson. No. No, it's something. If you saw this guy, this is the way you would take a shit on the other side. All right. This one goes up to number one in August. So first of all, picture this is August. It's the summertime. Okay, this goes to number one for three weeks. It's also nominated for the 57th Academy Award

[78:31]for Best Original Song and lost to I Just Called to Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder. What? Of course, you know it's Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. Oh, this is so good. Which has an intro you never remember. What? What is all this? This is a top five karaoke song. If you karaoke this, people will love it. They all can sing along with it. You're done in two and a half minutes. It's a great karaoke song.

[79:00]Ray Parker Jr. was forced to make a song for the Ghostbusters after Lindsay Buckingham turned them down because they wanted it because the Holiday Road song was so good. They're like, we want another theme from you. So they said no. Well, Ray Parker's watching an ad and realized he could say who can you call and have somebody else say Ghostbusters because he couldn't figure out how to sing Ghostbusters. It sounded cool, which is correct because if you were like these Ghostbusters like you automatically you're like this is the worst song ever.

[79:30]Yet somehow a crowd yelling Ghostbusters to you makes this an absolute bop. I don't know how this happened in our life, but there was a stretch of time where this was the music video that Wallace needed to watch if he was getting a shot or doing a COVID test. It was like he would like anything he was scared of with the doctor and be like, well, you can watch the Ghostbusters music video and it'd be all right. I don't know why. It's got healing powers there. It does. I mean, it's so good. And of course, Huey Lewis also made

[80:00]some money on this because he sued Ray Parker saying that it's the exact same melody as I Want a New Drug. Which he later got $30,000 for, which I was like, that doesn't seem like it's enough for how much, but oh well. Also, of course, Ghostbusters has one of the best lines of all time.

[80:35]I mean, that sounds like something I would put in one of my songs. That's right. I'm surprised you haven't said that yet. That song's badass. The Sivs or whatever they got on that. That song's awesome. Number one on the list of the scariest top Billboard songs of all time. This got all the way up to number 11 in 1969, 1965. This is written by a guy named Feldman, Goldthier, and Gothar, but they called themselves three Australian brothers

[81:00]named Giles, Miles, and Niles Strange, of course, of The Strange Love. And when you think of scary stuff, what else can you think of? There's nothing scarier than your kids after they have candy and happy nights. I did hear this one today, too. There was the Halloween crawl on the Piedmont Avenue where all the businesses are, and someone was playing this one. I thought it would immediately rock. Halloween this week is on a Friday. Yes, it's amazing. This is going to be

[81:30]a disaster because my kids are going to be fucked all weekend. The only thing saving them is going to be the daylight savings time next week. Your kids are too old to be trick-or-treating at this point, though. Oh, yeah, you're right. Right? That probably explains why they were walking out with all those toilet paper rolls and spray cans. Oh, no, they're smashing pumpkins and shit at this point in their life. They're destroying things. They're making bongs out of apples. Oh. There's no... Can I just tell you right now? There's no way my kids could make bongs out of apples. There's absolutely...

[82:00]There's a zero percent chance I could do that. Yeah, someone described this process to me tonight, and I was like, this is actually kind of complicated. Like, it's not a straightforward thing. And, Russell, if my kids were out smashing pumpkins, would their voicemail sound like this? Yes. I didn't realize why the song would be playing. I should have said I opened the door to their room and this is playing, and I was like, are you guys... Matt, do your kids, they still trick-or-treat or not? Yeah, and I think probably the last year for...

[82:30]Leo? Leo, yeah. But a couple of his friends said, absolutely not. Most of them, we were kind of taking a temperature. It was like, well, is anybody going to go? And most of them want to go out trick-or-treating, but there's a couple of them now that are like, absolutely not. They're dumb. Even if their friends are going, they're like, I'm not going even if my friends are there? Right. Yeah, they're too cool. Cool kids. Too cool. Well, Russell, you know what tomorrow is on Rosalind Island? Yeah, it's Halloween Day on Rosalind Island, so you know what that means. I'll be getting too drunk to see anybody. Thank you very much. It's a good thing Matt didn't come to see you

[83:00]this weekend because Rob would be too drunk to show up. I would have to. It's this or the Christmas tree lighting. You know what it is for me. Listen, let's talk about the album. I forgot we haven't gotten to this part yet, so we're going to do this real fast. And to be honest with you, I found out the same thing every time I researched Bob Dylan. Oh, yeah. The research is annoying. There's so much information. There's so much differing information for this. Listen, it's just, with Bob Dylan, there's just so many different stuff out there. Every song's got, like, its whole Wikipedia page,

[83:31]right? Bob Dylan's born May 24th, 1941. This is his second album. His first album is only two Bob Dylan songs and the rest are covers. Okay. This is all his songs with two covers. There is exactly one musician on this whole album. Guess who it is, Russell? Bob Dylan. Okay? It's his voice, his guitar, his harmonica. He tried doing versions of his songs with other people. Hey, Rob. Didn't like it as much. Yeah. You say he's a one-man band. Playing his own instrument.

[84:00]Oh, okay. I was going to say, Russell, you said that like it was a double entendre, but I don't get what a one-man band is. Double entendre. Double entendre. All right. So, it's back. He's like, what? This album is all of a sudden more political, right? He moved in with this Susie Rotello. It's all in that movie. What's that movie? By the way, guys, we excited about the Bruce Springsteen movie? I'm going to go see it, but I saw the, I saw the, he got good reviews for his, his performance, but the movie's not that good.

[84:30]Yeah. I just don't feel like I need to see a movie about Bruce Springsteen. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Matt, what do you think? I mean, I'll, I'll watch it. I'm not going to go to the theater to watch it, but I'll watch it. That actor, that actor, he's in. The Bear. The Bear. Bear. And then what was he in before that? Shameless. Yep. Shameless. He was also one of the wrestlers in the, the. Yeah. Von Erich Brothers. You know what? It was. Russell, how about this? Plane movie. There's a lot of traditional music.

[85:00]I'm going to tell you some of the original songs when we play them, but a lot of traditional music with modern kind of political lyrics. And of course, you know, this is released in 63. Later in 63, of course, Dylan performs with Joan Baez when she's at the very height of her powers at the Monterey Folk Festival. It boosts him like crazy. And it's just as like the ultimate Bob Dylan boost. And of course, starts a romantic relationship between them. Now, here's my question, guys. This is too fast. It's 54 on the list.

[85:30]It's fucking crazy. It's stupid. Originally, it was 97. Then it was 15. And now it's 250. How is this? I don't. This is wild. It's so dumb that this would be this low. I don't get it. 97 seems absurdly low. Am I missing something? It does. Matt, by the end of this, can you tell me why this isn't a top 20 album? No. Why it's not? Yeah. I can't. I don't understand. I mean, just listen to this. You forget. I forget anyways.

[86:00]He fucking wrote this song. And this is the first track. This is the first track on the album. Blowing in the wind doesn't exist. You can't do it. Like, this is like, this album, this album is one of the few albums we've listened to where it brings you to a time, right? Yeah. Like, this feels like it is representative of an era of a community. Like, if there's just not many albums we've listened to, then I think do that. Right? Yeah. Totally. And I think, too, I think you think about

[86:30]parts of your own life where you listen to this album or to these songs. Like, everybody's heard these. Everybody has an association with this. Like, this is me in my basement at home. I can picture it right now. I'm right there. I have listened to this album so many times. I still, it's, I mean, we probably still play it like once a week. Like, this album's on all the time. I don't play it once a week, Aaron. That's a while. Goddamn, that's a while. Adam plays this all the time. Damn, you're wild. But you can maybe battle. You guys might, you know Bob Dylan, you guys know more of him than I do, but like, this is number four

[87:01]for Dylan that we've done, right? Yep. Yeah. So, Highway 61 was way up on the list. 18. And that was his first electric one, like full electric? Is that right or not? Okay, so that makes sense. I can see why that's a revolution. Is it weird that, like, the folk music is better than the electric, though? Or what? No, I think that's, no, I think that was the, that was the point of why people were so upset, right? That this was, why would you do that? Why would you think you could improve on this?

[87:30]But I also see why he wanted to do things differently. Like, he can't do something over and over again, but, you know, but like, yeah, why, like, that's why people were so mad. Like, what were you trying to do that was better than this? But could you work at Rolling Stone and say this is your favorite Bob Dylan album? You couldn't, right? You can't be a music writer and say this is your favorite album. You have to be more of a thinker than that, right? Isn't this like the dumb guy's favorite Bob Dylan album? They put Pet Sound, I mean, I don't know, all of the top 20 are pretty, you know. So what, so it's been,

[88:00]it was Highway 61, it was Bringing It All Back Home, what's the one other Dylan album? Blonde on Blonde? Blonde on Blonde. Yeah, I mean, those are great, but these songs are better. These are. These are better. Girl from the North Country. Yeah. Written by an ex-girlfriend from the University of Minnesota. One of the few Minnesota references he has. Just listen to this. Hold on, just listen. If you're traveling in the North Country fire. Yeah. Unbelievable. Hold on. Blood. One of the tracks was nine.

[88:30]We missed one in there, too. Jeez Louise. Yeah. And he has three more on the list after this. I'll listen to this album more than those other ones. Here's the only thing I share. This is a beautiful song. I love the Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan version. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, of course. And there's some, because their voices, and when you see the movie, you see their, kind of the rapport with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash is kind of, I'd say, a little bit older than Dylan. Is that, a fair way to put it? Yeah, a little.

[89:00]His career started first, right? Yeah. That version of that song, like, that's one of the, I don't know if you guys have songs that ever almost bring you to tears. That's one of mine, the duet with Dylan and Johnny Cash on this is amazing. I mean, the fact that they're on a record together, right, is, it just is an incredible moment. Masters of War. This is based on Nottingham Town, an English riddle. He wrote this while he was in England. This is such a direct,

[89:34]like, we start to get these very direct political songs. It's hard to listen to. I mean, things like this are hard to listen to now. You're like, oh, like, this was, when this happened, people believed it and thought it was going to change stuff, you know? Aaron, just a reminder, this was almost 70 years ago. Yeah. Oh, my God. We've fixed this shit. It's fine. Okay? Stuff is totally different now. We've never done nothing. He doesn't even mention,

[90:00]like, Halliburton in this whole thing. You know what I mean? You're right. Yeah, good point. What rhymes with black rock? He played with my wife. Down the highway. I really miss my baby. Me talking about depressing stuff from, like, five years ago. She's in some foreign land. This is a song all about his girlfriend, Susie, going to Italy. Well, your streets are getting empty. Lord, your highway. I don't love Bob Dylan, the blues man. I don't love Bob Dylan, like, this maybe is my little low point

[90:30]on the album for me, but it's still fun. Yeah. I do think the guitar playing on this whole album is very fun. It fucking rocks. I mean, it's so good. It's just fun to listen to. Here's a question I have. When I was reading a lot of, because you were saying all these songs have all these things written about them. A lot of these are, like, plays on, like, English riddles. They're all plays on, like, other songs, other things. So we, like, Led Zeppelin gets torn apart when they kind of poach, but Bob Dylan's doing that

[91:00]all over this. It's just, it's just from different people, right? Why does Bob Dylan get away with, like, poaching melodies, poaching riddles? He does a lot of that, doesn't he? I think he admitted it eventually, whereas Led Zeppelin, I don't know. It was just more direct. Theirs was clear. Zeppelin was ripping off wholesale songs, right? And plus, some of these are, like, English riddles from, like, the 1600s. You know what I mean? Like, the Earl of Sandwiches not getting pissed that somebody's taking a song or whatever.

[91:30]And nothing's, like, completely original, right? I think he, no, nothing's completely original. And I think, you know, his first album is all folk tunes that he didn't write, and that was the tradition he came from, right? Like, he came from a tradition where you, you know, it was just, it was what you did was, you know, as a folk singer, was sing other people's songs. This is Bob Dylan Blues. This is a song he kind of just made up off the cuff, and it kind of, I think it foreshadows a little bit where we're going with Bob Dylan when he would get those super absurdist songs about, like,

[92:00]the man with the long legs and the cowboy hat breaks into the bar, and you're like, well, okay, what is this about? A hard rain's gonna fall. Do you like his, where he puts his own name in this song title, Rob? I do like that. The idea that this is not called The Rob Blank Show. Although, see, that's tough when I don't want people to know my last name. Very secretive. Do you think there's any fan who doesn't know my last name? Probably not. This is the Dylan Maker. Listen to this. He writes this song when he's 21. Come on, Jesus Christ.

[92:31]Reads it off a notebook, sings it in a bar in New York City. Three days later, he's performing it at Carnegie Hall. A month after that, the Cuban Missile Crisis. This song becomes like, I mean, this is one of the most beautiful songs at inside one. It doesn't, it doesn't sound like a 21-year-old's voice, does it? Like, all these Dylan songs sound like an old band. He's 21.

[93:01]I've never actually thought about that. I've never really thought about it. That's like when you look, it's the movie cover and it's the album cover, too. When you look at him, it's like a young, young guy. Yeah. Yeah. He's closer to your son's age, Aaron, than he is to your age on this album. No, you're right. Oh, Jesus. You're totally right. That's so rude. It's true. He's very close to my daughter's age. Oof. Don't think twice. It's all right. This opens up something. I'm on the other side, too. Imagine flipping the album and hearing this

[93:30]for the first time. Yeah, this, oh. Picked him. Dylan wrote this song after Suzy said, hey, I think I'm about staying in Italy forever. And I was like, don't think twice. It's all right when you know what's about that. It's such a... Does anybody remember when this song's playing when Matt Saracen leaves Dylan, Texas? He's driving away in Friday Night Lights. Oh, Friday Night Lights. It's such a good song. Look out your window

[94:00]and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a traveler. So, I mean, I don't know if this is a breakup song. It's the greatest breakup song of all time, right? Oh, it has to be. It's right up there. I would say that and then somebody's watching you. Fuck you by even. Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's Dream. This is a melody of the traditional Lady Franklin's Lament. Which sounds like

[94:30]a song Aaron would have had to study in music school. Yeah, right. I probably did. Didn't realize it. And then my favorite Bob Dylan song of all time. Air Force 1962. This, again, the year before. They tried to get the first black student to enroll in the University of Mississippi. And then this song comes out. That was in September. This song comes out in November of the same year. Oxford Town. I learned how to play

[95:00]this on guitar, Aaron. So much I loved it. It's an alternate tuning. So you have to do all this shit to get it to sound like this and then you couldn't play any other songs. Yeah. His tunings are crazy if you look at them. Really interesting. I love this song to the moon and back. And it's so short. It's like two minutes. And when they got done the engineer said, is that it? It's brilliant. Oxford Town Guns and clubs. Followed him down. I mean, it's so beautiful.

[95:30]I love it. Next up, Talking World War III Blues. I love me Bridget Bardot that'll make the country grow. That's one of my favorite lines. What do we need? Bridget Bardot. And Russell. Because I think he's talking about farmers. There's not as much harmonica on this one as there is the Russell. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not ready to talk to you yet. What did you just say, Aaron?

[96:00]When he says that what the country needs is Bridget Bardot, the country will grow. I think he's talking about boners. Or people making babies. I don't know. One of the two. Wow. You know what? Would everybody be happier though if they had one? I don't know about that. A boner? Yeah. I guess I am happy most of the time when that's going on. Sometimes I'm very sad. Rob, let me tell you about this four-hour problem I've had. Oh, that's very sad. You know what?

[96:30]You're never having that and then just being like, man, I'm okay. How are you doing? Okay. You're either way up or way down in that situation. I'm not going to lie. Matt, you don't want to chip in anything. You're being pretty quiet back there. This has been going on for a very long time. Jealousy is a feeling I've had. Wait. Karina Karina was recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks and Bo Carter in 1928. Russell, this is what you're talking about. I think Russell, the harmonica here,

[97:00]it doesn't seem as harsh as it does later. I don't think it's as harsh as Blood on the Tracks or Highway 61. Yeah. It's much more sparing on this album. I didn't know if we were going to do two or one tonight, so I spent some time listening to Free Will and Bob Dylan and I also listened to Tracy Chapman. Oh, that's a fun. I was going to tell you guys, I listen to each of these albums probably five to six times over the last... It's the first time where I didn't know

[97:31]if we were doing a double where I couldn't stop listening to two of the albums in a row. We're in the 250s. Oh, fun. We're back, Russell. We're back. This is actually my favorite song on the album. And I know he didn't write it. I know it's a cover. Just love it so much. Honey, just allow me one more chance. A lot of people thought that last two are the weakest songs. I kind of thought they're fun. You know, you get kind of your serious songs out of the way in the beginning. Just allow me one more chance of doing anything we need.

[98:00]I don't... When he sings fast, I just get such a kick out of it. Yeah. I'm looking for a woman who can It's memorizing Bob Dylan lyrics is fun. It's fun to do. One more chance. I mean, Aaron, there's a medicine to give you boners. You know what I mean? Like, that's how fun they are. Like, think about... There's very few things in my life where I would take a medicine to, like, you know, feel better. Now that I think about it, I actually do that quite a bit. I shall be free. Not thinking about that. I was looking at Bob Dylan,

[98:30]Blood on the Tracks, and I was just scrolling through Wikipedia skimming some stuff. This is when I look over the left, Rob, it's because I'm doing research. Yeah, of course. Personnel, Blood on the Tracks, acoustic guitar on four songs, Chris Webber. Whoa. I wonder if he called any timeouts during that recording. Oh, Russell. And then he made Beats for Nas 50 years later. That's wild. That's... That's crazy. Listen. Oh, shoot.

[99:00]I should... You know what? I missed it. I should have done this. Russell, when you said Chris Webber timeout, I'm going to move this so it's under the timeout. So don't talk for a little bit. All right. I can't help myself. I got to talk, Aaron. I love it. I love this shit. I love talking and shit. I love talking, Aaron. I don't know what it is. I just love it. Which is why it's so weird who I got married to. It's crazy. Man. Man. Man. Who would you say

[99:31]talks more? Is it me? Or is it my wife? Your wife, Jenny. We talked about... She doesn't listen to the podcast, so it doesn't matter. No, it doesn't. No. I asked... I'm not going to tell you. I have to tell you now. This year for Christmas, I said, hey, for my one gift, can you listen to... I can't tell you. It's too sad. Hey, fill it in your own head and do that story. What could make Rob really sad?