Tracy Chapman: Tracy Chapman (1988)

[00:00]Hey everybody, this is producer Rob coming at you with just a quick announcement before this show, but before I say anything, I got to say my kid is in her room right now listening to music and it's music I like, and it's just so fun to hear her listen to music that I like too. Anyway, Mumford & Sons, I know they're kind of, listen, it's the way it is. This episode was taped, okay, not in front of a live studio audience, in fact, much the opposite, these were not live co-hosts that I had because they were not here, they were

[00:32]watching game seven of the World Series, of course, between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays and they are reacting to that game live during this show. This is the baseball commentary episode as well, okay, I've released two versions of the podcast today, if you do not want to hear these guys, pretty much, actually ignore me a number of times. Ignore the funny things. I say, not get the bits I'm doing, okay, not picking up a yes to and here and there.

[01:01]If you don't want to hear that, go listen to the episode. This one is going to have their live reaction to the baseball game and I've decided to put out both versions, so this is the baseball episode, so please don't listen to this and then complain to me about hearing them react to baseball, okay, when I'm trying to talk about all sorts of fun and actually educational things, okay, learning. So, this is the baseball episode, if you don't like it, go to the other episode. But I will be keeping all the baseball parts in for this.

[01:30]All right, have a good one, see you later. All right, I had to record again right away, I'm not going to see you later, for most, actually most of you, I probably am, but actually most of the fans, you know what, I am going to see you later, that's how small this podcast is, this is a cozy podcast, there's not many of us, okay, but there's enough. In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums is decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided by one of the greatest 500 albums, it's decided .

[02:27]- And there it was. - He put up the longest games. - There it was right there. - He put up the longest games. - It's Brian from East St. Paul,

[02:30]Brian from East St. Paul, through Matt from Richfield, to Mike from Richfield. - All right, that's cool. - Got it. - That's cool. - You know, I put this in the text sheet too, you know who gave him the name Donny Baseball? I saw this on the Dan Patrick show the other day. - Don't do it. - Yeah, Kirby from Redstone. - Don't do it. - Number 34, Rob. - Oh, Matt took it. - The center fielder. - Matt took it. Matt took it there. - I was gonna text him, he beat, I was gonna text him, he beat that guy from Redstone, and I was gonna put it, trying to beat Rob to it, trying to beat Rob to it. - A great cornbread skillet at Redstone, Matt.

[03:01]- Ooh, I would even want, wait, hey, take me through the cornbread skillet. - It's like a big skillet, and then it's got a, it's just cornbread, Aaron, then it's got maple butter as like the, the lube, if you will. - Kind of like a savory cookie parade, if you will. - As we're recording this, game seven of the World Series is on, so of course, that makes us bring up Kirby Bucket. - Just like we do every time. - We'll see ya tomorrow night. I really, the Blue Jays, the Blue Jays were trying to win this game one to nothing,

[03:30]and I thought it was a mistake. - Rob, you're down to 65 minutes. So Matt, your point is, you sent him that, and he made that graphic on the fly, and then put it up. - He could've, he didn't respond back to me. So I'm waiting for him to respond back to him. I sent him one, boom. So by the end of the, by the end of the show, we'll, I'll be able to, he'll text me back. - God, this Jimenez guy is hitting line drives the entire series. What's he hitting? Like 200 the entire year? And all he does is hit line drives. - Do you think he could do a graphic that just says Shohei Ohtani's nipples? Question mark? See if that flies.

[04:00]Listen, you're one for one. Right now, you're one for one. Let's see if we can go two for two. - Let's do the heat check. - Yeah, let's. In 2020, four friends decided to listen every one of the greatest 500 albums is decided by Rolling Stone magazine. - Oh, what a great start. - This resulted in a text Jay that celebrated the music. Is he questioning, does he have nipples? What color the nipples are? What they look like? We don't know, and led us to make it to this podcast. We are far from experts. We promise to do almost no research. All opinions are our own unless you disagree. Yeah, he's got weird looking nipples,

[04:30]but it's his agent's fault. It's not his fault. Please sit back and enjoy. - He didn't know. He had no idea. - Better. - Yeah, but nobody knows to him. - And those other three deals that were also sketchy, that's not him. That's not who he is. - Exactly. - This week. - The fact that he's fallen off over the last three games after being the best player in the world up until now, it's weird. Who could say? - We are talking, this week, we are talking about the 1988 album "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman. - Cool. - And it makes us feel so much better

[05:00]when we listen to it because we realize we've always been fucked. Not just now, we've actually been fucked since I was eight years old as well. So, there we go. Things are getting better. - Things haven't changed. Things haven't changed. - Now, of course, okay, with an album like this, making a parody song. - Bad idea. - You have to be so careful. It's a terrible idea, Aaron. - Did you do it to behind the scenes? - Behind the wall, Rob, because that was a bad move, if you did. - It's a top three bad idea. - Yeah, it's okay. - Okay? So, let's just-- - What's number one and two?

[05:31]- David Schneider's mustache glasses combo. - Oh, it's the Michael Jordan mustache is bad idea, number one, with a bullet. Okay, it still is an all-time bad idea. I'm just going to say it again, he was on a commercial and he just had that and nobody said anything. It's crazy. - Wait, wait, wait, wait, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob. So, you made us turn off GameStop? - Yep. - You made us turn off GameStop? - Yeah. - So, we can hear your Michael Jordan mustache bit again? - Yeah, it's so good, it never, hey, it's evergreen. - No comment. - What's the clock at, Russell?

[06:00]- Did you guys turn off the game? I got 10% left on my iPad right now. This game's got to end before the iPad dies. - Uh-oh, extra innings. - 63 minutes. - Extra innings, Aaron's looking for that old, big charger, 'cause Aaron still has the old iPad 1 with a huge, wide charger on it. Hey, I'm glad I'm in this hotel room with this big, wide charger. Thank God, it's the one place I could charge this iPad. Listen, let's turn on the radio. Let's see what sort of song they have. Maybe it's a song that was actually really fast to record and is not that long.

[06:30]Here we go. - What's up, everybody? Welcome to K-Rob, K-R-O-B, you know? Where is Russell? He was, I swear he was supposed to be home by now. Oh, yeah. ♪ Russ has a fast car ♪ - Yes. - ♪ He needs it coming home from the record store ♪ ♪ Said he'd be home by noon ♪ ♪ But now it is well past four ♪ ♪ He doesn't want to upset her ♪ ♪ He drives home as fast as an arrow ♪ ♪ Here's why it takes so long in there ♪ ♪ The record store aisles are so damn narrow ♪

[07:00]- Just narrow. Russell, they're so narrow. - Can't get through there. - Good move. Ended right there. That's a good move. - Yeah, it's a good spot. - Fast episode, fast cars, I like it. - Rob, for clarity, when I look to the left, it's 'cause I'm reading something on another screen that I'm not listening. When I look to the right, I'm watching sports and not listening. - Wow. ♪ I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack ♪ - For clarity, when I'm looking at you guys, I'm looking to see if Aaron's laughing, 'cause then if he's not, I adjust my jokes. See? See, if that makes Aaron laugh,

[07:30]anything's gonna make him laugh. I'm set. - The little adjustment to the jokes. - Listen, this is "Beck Did It Better." We are here talking about Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car." Or no, we're actually talking about Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman. That's the album name. It's not called "Fast Car." Tracy Chapman. Listen, I've got three guys here whose revolutions sound like a whisper 'cause they have their record players turned down too much. Hey guys, get that volume up. Okay? Or is it the gain? I don't know anymore. Who knows? Matt, I got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? - Good, Rob. For anybody who's ready for this podcast to be over,

[08:01]I got a plan to get us out of here. - Wow. I've got Russell in Minneapolis. Russell, how are you doing today? - I was gonna do a quote. I just, I thought you would have a much better bit about a fast car, given your whole thing about cars back in the day with the old jerk-off car, whatever that was. - Oh, yes. - I wish. With the blood pressure medication I'm on, Russell, forget about it. Okay? I'm in the right lane. Russell, I'm so far in the right lane for that stuff right now. It's crazy. All right? I could be a long haul trucker. I can drive all night.

[08:30]- You're a slow car. - Yeah, I could drive for a very long time. Okay? Even when I want to get there a little bit sooner. And I've got Aaron out in California now. Aaron was asking me probably the best question I've ever heard in my life. Aaron, don't lean forward and look at my screen. And the question he asked is, he said, do you think that- - You got a beard? - Yeah, I was showing- - You got a beard? - I'm showing you guys my beard. - Nice. - I shouldn't rub my beard. I'm trying to throw it away. - Well, Aaron's- - That's got some good color, too. I mean, that's some, that's pretty regal. - A little gray in there. - There's one, yeah, I would say a little bit in there.

[09:00]- It is one, but it is white. - Aaron, I'm continuing my look where I just grow a beard instead of getting my hair cut. Some people are like, well, he's just disheveled. You know what I mean? Like he's- - I actually did the, I did the full on- - You did send a picture. You did send a picture that was pretty good. - Yeah. - Was it with some colleagues or something? What was that? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's in front of my school. And I've got Aaron, he asked me the question. He said, he said, do you think Michael Winslow, now, of course, Michael Winslow is the voice guy from Police Academy, makes all the sound effects.

[09:32]Do you think Michael Winslow, 'cause he could do so many sounds. He could do machine guns. He could do helicopter. He could do whatever. Do you think Michael Winslow ever gets upset? This is what Aaron asked me, let's just recall. Did Aaron ever, does Michael Winslow ever get upset when his wife tells him to quit showing off and just do his impression of a vibrator on Max Power? - Yeah, it feels like- - Just do the vibrator. - It's a- - No, more power. You don't wanna hear the, I can do a Mack truck. I can do a machine.

[10:01]Aaron, how you doing? - Baby, can I hold you tonight? Let's talk about Tracy Chapman. - Wow, and you know what? Why mess around? Let's get right into our voicemail. - Got one? ♪ The freak's on the phone ♪ ♪ Leave me alone ♪ ♪ Leave me alone ♪ ♪ Leave me alone ♪ - We actually have multiple voicemails. Now, this one might be a little bit tough to hear, okay? - Crank it up. - Which, okay, well, okay.

[10:31]You told me earlier to not do it anywhere, Russell. It was just you and I on the call, but. - Rev it up. - Hey, Alex is listening to the Replacements Podcast. - Hey, Alex is listening to the Replacements Podcast. - It's my very favorite episode. - It's my very favorite episode. - It's the Beck Day at Value Podcast. - Oh, it's the Beck Day at Value Podcast. - You know, I believe you told Bryce when he was on. - Oh, no, it's Bryce. - Yeah, I believe you told my dad when it was on. - Oh, it's my dad. - My dad. - Yeah, Bryce got my dad. - That's Margo, that's definitely Margo.

[11:03]- Tim. - Did you originally do it with the Replacements, Tim? - Because it was ranked 136. - Because it was ranked 136. - When you started the podcast. - When you started the podcast. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings.

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[12:00]- And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And then abruptly went with the newer rankings. - And if he wants us to do Tim, because it was originally at 134 or whatever, and now it's off the list. - He got knocked off? - I'll do it. - Tim is great, Tim's a great...

[12:30]- If Bryce wants to come on sometime, Aaron, set up a time, I'll do Tim. I'll do it any time. Listen, I'm desperate for listeners, okay? If that kid sounds like a future listener of Beck Did It Better, I'll do whatever he wants. But this does... - Yeah, Rob, it would be great if we could extend this whole experience for a whole extra week. As if the first 500 weeks weren't enough, we needed a new... - Another week. - Another week, Rob. - Another week, that would be great. - No, no, we look back at our Christmas, our favorite Christmas songs episode with a lot of delight. Everybody always comes up to me and says how much they love that episode.

[13:00]- Bryce sent me some very long... He sent me his entire rankings of... He put a post on Reddit of his personal rankings of every Replacements album ever recorded. And that, I have that as well. And I'll just give you... - Wow, how many albums are there? - He's ranked... - Isn't there like three? - From one to 11, his number one is Tim, but not the... The studio edition, it's the Let It Bleed edition, the most recent remaster, so it's Tim. I'm not gonna read his entire thread, but I will just say, I'll just read a highlight,

[13:32]which is, "At this moment, as I'm enjoying this thread, "while I drop my daily loaf "during my public school lunch break, "head pressed firmly against Gunsteel, "I'd rank the Mads catalog thusly." And then he proceeds to rank all of his favorite Replacements albums. So you'll know, yeah, our listeners will be happy to know that Replacements Guy is still up to what Replacements Guy is up to. - Amen. - I will just say that Replacements Guy came on... Hold on. Come on. Ball three. Replacements Guy came on, and I totally discounted Replacements.

[14:02]You know, the whole thing, it was like, "This is just '80s weird stuff." And now every time they come on, every single time, you instantly know that it's Replacements, and I love it. - Fun to listen to. - He flipped me big time, and I have to thank Bryce from Minneapolis for flipping me to the Replacements. Replacements Guy lived up to his name and spreading the gospel to the Replacements. - Every time I think of the Replacements, I just think about how it was a bunch of kids from school and the janitor in a band together. That's all I can think about.

[14:30]- Oh, no. - Matt, you're 10 seconds ahead of me. Do not tell me what's going on. - Yeah, Matt, stop. - 'Cause I just saw ball three. I'm one pitch behind you. - Matt's 10 seconds ahead of me, too. - Yeah, whatever Rojas did, I don't wanna know yet. - Well, the other thing is with this album, right, Tim, is that, Aaron, don't you have a tattoo from this album? - Well, from Tim, yeah. It says, "Here comes a regular," right? - It's right on the front of my arm right there, yeah. - Oh, my God. - Holy shit. - The nine hitter. - Did he go, he went yard, didn't he? - He just went yard, yeah. - I fucking, he had one hit coming in.

[15:02]He had zero hits. - Hey, Rob, this is great, by the way, that we're doing this today. This is great. - Listen, I told you guys three hours ago, don't play for one run in the third inning. One run wasn't gonna get this game done, right? I told you, don't-- - It should against the ninth hitter. - Don't bunt in the third inning. - You know what's great? - I told you that. - You guys talking about baseball? - I told him. - Wait, you have to spend like 20 minutes convincing the upstairs roommate to turn on the World Series game, and then-- - And then walk away from your podcast? - She finally gets into it, and then I've got to walk away from the night that they do this?

[15:30]- I didn't see from. Anna was like, "What are you doing?" - Not good, Rob. - It's the seventh game. Anna was like, "What are you doing?" - By the way, Rob, you're down to 53 minutes. - No, no, no, no, this is gonna be like soccer. This is injury time. I get this time back. - This thing's going forever. This is going all night. - Aaron, I'll tell you what, okay? - I told him, don't bunt in the third inning. This is karmic retribution. - Aaron, you get Bryce on the show. I think we do an episode with Tim. I'd love to cover the replacement some more. You know, Minnesota band, how can we say no? - It would be tough.

[16:00]- Hey, get in the weight room, Shohei. - Replacements still have an album on the list, so it's all good, but it would be tough to be the album that got knocked off the list. It's one thing to be going down the list and stay on it, but just to be like wiped away would be kind of brutal. Right? - Yeah. - I don't know, maybe Beck did it better, but maybe Beck needs to do a little forensic examination and we can decide, does this deserve to be kicked off the album? But I'll come up with a better phrase that is not so wordy. Speaking of not so wordy, we're gonna rush right ahead here

[16:30]and get right into rolling and going. It's everybody's favorite part of the night, unless you're counting the game seven World Series which just went into extra innings, thereby putting all of my co-hosts in an extended state of distraction and could be quite a frank anger with me that I've edited out from earlier. I've got Matt. Matt, rolling going. How's it going with you? Or no, you know what? Well, yeah, Matt, go ahead. - Good, I'll be quick. I tried to line this up. You guys know I make a list of just things to discuss

[17:00]and sometimes they run out, sometimes I forget exactly why I put something on the list. - Have we solved anything off that list yet? Flashlight C Menzies, do we know what's going on with that? - No, no, I have no idea, no idea. But one of the ones I had was that I was gonna ask you guys, what is your, and I don't think we've talked about this. What is your guys' drive, and this fits in with Fast Car, but what is your guys' driving style? Are you aggressive? Are you like old grandma? Are you somewhere in the middle? Does it depend on where you're going? Because I am extremely aggressive

[17:32]and in the last, I don't know, three, four months, I've tried desperately to just turn into an old man because it just doesn't matter, but I cannot shake it. What is your guys' driving habits? - When you say aggressive, Matt, are we like, taking, cutting people off? I mean, are we like speeding ahead? Is it just a little bit extra speed, a little bit extra weaving? - If he says he's aggressive, that means he cuts people off. He might not admit it because people that are aggressive do that shit. - I don't know, I never cut anybody off. - He's probably no blinkers cutting people off.

[18:01]- No, I wouldn't say that. Maybe I'm aggressive, I'm not very aggressive. Let's just say that 'cause I'm not like cutting people off and like flipping them off and then like brake stopping and trying to make them, you know, things like that. But like if somebody's in the left lane and they're going, speed limit's 60, they're going 60, I would ride them to get them over, kind of a thing. - I will say I vacillate between Matt and a little bit lower layer of man. But I would say I'm like a seven mile over the speed limit on the highway type driver, man, for sure.

[18:31]- I'm nine, I'm 9.9 miles. I will not get to 10 over, but I'm nine, I'm as close to 10 as you can get, so. - I'm a very chill, I mean, my wife might have to, Anna might have to call in after this, but I'm a grandpa driver for sure. Every time I'm on the freeway, I'm going slow. I'm a very slow driver. Almost every situation, I'm a chill, slow driver, except on twisty mountain roads, then I like to push it. I like to go as fast as I possibly can

[19:01]within reason on a twisty mountain road. I like to try to push the envelope, but the rest of the time, I'm slow to the point where Anna will be like, "You're driving like your grandfather right now." But like if we're going, if we're on a twisty mountain pass, I'm trying to see what I can do. I want to see what I can do. - That Aaron, that's great. I am, I don't know. Matt, why are you trying to get chilling out? You just started- - Because it really, I mean like- - It's so strange 'cause Matt, you're so like mature in every other way. You're much more mature than me. - I want to follow rules, right? So like, if the rules are, you go fast in the left lane,

[19:34]you know, if you're not, get over to the right. And then I'll be completely out. My dad is like the worst 70 year old driver. Like from that standpoint, he's like honking at people and like telling them, like blinking at them, to get over, stuff like that. And it's like embarrassing to ride with them, right? Kind of a thing where I just, I don't want to turn into that. I do not want to turn into that. So half of me is telling this on the podcast that Sarah will hear it in three weeks and see if over the next three weeks, if I've like actually slowed down.

[20:01]- Let's check back in. We'll check back in when Bryce comes on for the replacements and see if you've slowed down. I would say I'm a pretty aggressive driver. If it's a route I take on the normal, if it's a route I don't normally go, I'm extremely conservative. I'm very much errant. I'm an errant style old man driver if it's roads I'm not used to being on. And I will say this, the people in the world who are like no blinkers, cutting from far left to far right, cutting back and forth, if they drove off the road and died, I would laugh at them. I just, I can't fucking stand them.

[20:31]I hate people that are like, "Hey, you know what, I'm willing to, I'm willing to put everyone else at risk because I've got to save like 0.8 seconds to get to a light where everyone's sitting there anyways." Fuck those guys. I don't give a shit about them. - I'll tell you the worst, the worst, the worst thing is the people who are in the turn lane and they don't pull up to then turn. You know, 'cause if it's yellow, two people can go through if it's a yellow, right? Like if it turns yellow, two people.

[21:01]The worst ones, and it happened today, are the people that pull like halfway through and then they don't go on a yellow and then they try to back up. Like, oh geez, I'm, you know, I'm stuck in the, that's the worst to me. So those are the ones, I'm with you though, Russ. If you're not following the rules, like put on a blinker or whatever, then I'm with you. Like, that's just ridiculous. But I always put a blinker on. - I'll say this, today I was going through the sound effects and I deleted that car horn one. I was like, I'll never need this one again. - Talk about driving. The fact that like this will go off while people,

[21:30]like Barry from "Burn Souls" is driving, I can't stand. - I thought about that. I thought about that. Very dangerous. - All right, we got to hustle up. Aaron, roll and go on. How's it going with you? - Oh my God. Oh, you guys are a pitch ahead of me. Did he do it? - Power, oof. - No, I already saw that. - Oh, what did he do? - Go ahead, it's a home run at like plus 380. - I'm good, man. It was Halloween last night. As you guys know, we're recording this on my, Russell and Aaron's wife at gmail.com

[22:00]is texting me in all caps right now. This is what's going on. - You're missing. You made her watch the damn game, but then you walked away. - Yeah, she's in the other room watching the game. - This is going to be so hard for me to edit. This is crazy. - What are you doing? - I was telling him. - I was telling him. - What the hell is the game seven? This is once in a lifetime. This is the only game seven that has ever happened. - Actually, it happened in 2019. - No one remembers that. - Listen to me, Matt. It's the only-- - There's been 41 of them in World Series history. - It's the only one that has happened while we were recording this podcast. As far as I can recall.

[22:31]- Yeah, it's true. And a lot of people are asking, Shohei Itani nipples? Question mark. That's why I'll remember this one. - I mean, we've never recorded a podcast during the ninth inning of a game seven ever before. - Wow. - It's a great point. Aaron, we'll be doing it long enough where I bet we hit another one. I can almost-- - We got five more years. It's true. - Yeah, we've done three Olympics somehow already. I don't get how that is. - Why are Boba Shett's pants so high? Like, come on. I do think baseball pants should extend below them.

[23:00]I don't have that many Boomer-- - Oh, boy, you're gonna get calls from Neil from Lakeville. - I just think I get the pants. Those are shorts. - That's a robe. - Are you telling me that you think baseball pants are ugly? The ugliest professional uniform that exists? Those look like shorts. - Hey, hey, is this the ugliest uniform that exists in professional sports? Let's make everybody wear it. - I'm not with the Savannah Bananas-ization of baseball. Baseball should be boring. Don't entertain me during the baseball game. Like, there should be boring-- - They just pinch-ran for the guy who hit the three-run homer in there.

[23:31]Like, what are we doing? What are we doing? - Yeah, that's why they lost that 18 inning earlier. - Yeah. - Or who are you talking about? I don't even know. - That's why they lost that 18 run. They had the triple-A team. - Yeah. - Like Brian from East St. Paul said, yep. - That's the great thing about the text chain. I get all my World Series news from the text chain the next day. - That was a wonderful night. That was a truly, I mean, I think, in fact, I think I should, I should talk about this as part of my rolling going. That was a real highlight for me

[24:01]to be watching a World Series game. What was it, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, this week? - Monday night. - Monday? I came home and, oh, it was Monday night. It was Monday night. And I turned on the game in the ninth. And Anna was helping Wallace brush his teeth, doing, you know, what it takes to get Wallace's teeth brushed, which isn't easy. And I thought like, oh, they're going to be back there for a while. I'm going to just watch the ninth. And then, you know, this thing's over and then that's fine. And then pretty soon it's the 13th, 14th, 15th.

[24:30]Anna was like, why are you, why are you making me watch baseball? Why am I now into enjoying this baseball game? It keeps going. She went to bed and maybe the 16th, I was texting with you guys. - Yeah. - It was a truly wonderful, throwback night. Like I know there's nothing funny or interesting about this. I just was so excited to be watching a baseball game deep into the night, texting with all of my buddies who also love baseball, felt like being in the dorm again. It was wonderful. So I mean, if it, hopefully it happens again tonight.

[25:01]- We were almost up. - You guys were up till two in the morning. - For Rob to get into his shower or into his bathtub. You know, he was almost up. - Everyone was like, it's so late. - Every day last week. - It was late. - People can stay up late once in a while. Like people can stay up late. - No. - And rebound for one day. - No. - Is it really that bad? - No. - What are we talking about? - No. - You can do one. - Every single weekend we do this fucking podcast and we stay up till like two on a Saturday. - There's no worry. It's no big thing. - And it's just ridiculous. - No, it's brutal. Cause I've got either weightlifting or jujitsu the next day.

[25:30]Plus I've got a classroom full of kids that didn't stay up late and they're not changing what they're like. I have no, there is no respite. There is no break. Now, if everybody in the world just agreed to stay up late and we could just start everything like two hours fucking later. And you know what? Let's cut out the hours from seven to nine. Who needs them? Cut those fucking hours out the next day. We go right to bed at seven, we're set. But like, so let's say you get like four hours of sleep instead of six. You're gonna be fine the next day. You'll just be crabby for a little bit.

[26:00]What are we talking about? - If I have six hours of sleep one night in the week, my week's shot. I can't do, no way. No way. - You just bounce back. - Seven, I'm hurting on seven. - Russell doesn't have kids waking up and wanting breakfast and having to get to school in the morning. - My kids don't wake up till one or two now, so. - How's the rolling going with Russell? - Rolling going, I went out to brunch this morning. We went to Hazel's, man. Have you been to Hazel's in Northeast before? - No, I haven't. - Hazel's in Northeast, I don't know.

[26:30]That's off like Central or somewhere up there in Northeast. Rob, if you could pull up the music. - That doesn't seem right where you could just say it's off Central or somewhere up there and then I still have to play the map song. That's sick. That's not the point of the bit. - Northeast Minneapolis is this world where like the sun never shines. The sun never is bright over there. You never see the sun shining like. - Huff Johnson, 29, Huff Johnson. - I used to live in Northeast Minneapolis. Well, Jenny did, I slept over a lot. But all I remember is that there was a point where everybody's garages were being set on fire.

[27:00]She's like, "Yeah, they're having a problem with somebody setting everybody's garages on fire." So a very good spot. It kind of like, I wouldn't say like not a diner, but like upscale diner, really good food and everything. But so we get there and I'm gonna get this hash, Rob, some sort of smoke it up. - Ooh, I love a hash. Ooh, wait, wait, wait, we need the James Brown. What's in the hash? Come on, do we need the James Brown? - I don't know if I have it. - I call it hashish. - Aaron, they had a special hash, which was like a seasonal one with like apple, sweet potato. It was like seasonal and they were out of it.

[27:30]So I got the regular one, I forgot what was in it. But the interesting, we also got the upstairs roommate got. - Oh, here we go, Rob, Rob, you ready? - Yeah. - Corned beef brisket, hash browns, caramelized onions. - Oh, okay. - Yeah. - Red, roasted toast. - Just red, I hit it after red. - Eggs, ooh. - Red and a toast. - Toast, wow. - It must be toast on the side. - There you go. - That is a, ooh, that's awesome. - So we get there and get a drink and get our, each order something.

[28:01]And we order a caramel roll, Rob. - Wow. - It's like a sweet roll. - Wow. - In my mind, that roll usually comes out at the beginning. That comes out before like a main dish. - Oh, 100%. - Oh, 100%. - Does a pastry like that come out at the very beginning or does it come out at the end? - No, no, no, no, I'll tell you what, who ordered the caramel roll? - I ordered it as I said, hey, I'm gonna get this. Then we also want this. And I think I said, I would like that to come. I think I said, we'll take that further. I implied, bring that out first.

[28:31]- If there's two people and you ordered two meals. - We each ordered an entree, yeah. - You went there, you did the Chuck Woolery, you did two and two. - Two and two. - And then you also, okay, pull a classic. - Hey, Rob, and put it on her tab. - Yeah, yeah, a classic big guy, move of, hey, you know what? Yeah, we better do that caramel roll too. I just noticed it on the menu. I wasn't thinking about it right when I sat down to think about how I get this in the order. Yeah, do you want a little, will you have a little caramel roll? No, you'll try a little bit. Oh, you know what, we better get the caramel roll.

[29:00]And so that comes, that must come before the meal. For that to be there with a savory meal at the same time is insane. Breakfast is the opposite of most meals. You need that sweet stuff at the beginning as a palette opener, okay? You need to get ready. - Oh, I like where Rob's going here. - Yeah, it is, you need a sweet opener, big time. That's why coffee, you gotta have a little bit of sweetness in that first coffee of the morning. Ooh, ooh, la la. Russell, how did these guys fuck this shit up? So we get our, I get my hash that Matt beautifully described

[29:30]the ingredients, the upstairs roommate got her omelet and everything. They forget the caramel roll. So they forget it. And then it turns out our waitress is kind of missing in action for a while. They're just probably too busy. And you know, upstairs, we're having our food. And I kind of say, well, if they bring it, they bring it. If they don't, they don't. 'Cause Rob, I'm a walker, I'm not a talker, right? - Yep, that's true. We established that. - I'm walking. - He's not talking. - Upstairs roommate not having it. She sees another waitress that had not been serving us,

[30:01]but she flags her and says, hey. - Can I just tell you, Russell? This reminds me of somebody I know so well. - Sounds familiar. - If there's something going on in a restaurant, she will grab anybody that walks by, anybody that walks by, the same color shirt. She's like, excuse me, I want to order. And she's not just asking for water. She's like, I want to order mozzarella sticks. And then I'm like, that's not the waiter. That's certainly not our waiter. I don't even think it's a waiter here at the restaurant. They'll just grab anybody. Is that what happened there, Matt? - I just want to say the funniest place

[30:31]that this happens is in Target. - Oh yeah. - Like you never wear a red shirt while going to Target. Because you know, they have like that red shirt thing, which like all the employees basically wear anything that's not black these days and they call it red. And you know, oh, can you tell me where the milk is? And people will be like, I don't know. I don't work here. - No, I used to do that with Best Buy. I was wearing a blue shirt and somebody would be talking to me and I was like, oh, I'll eat. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. - So the upstairs roommate stops a different waitress and says, hey, our caramel roll never came.

[31:02]And it had been a while. Like it was, you know, both of our drinks had been drank. They were gone. The waters were gone. - Drink, drank, drunk. - I'm not normally too picky on that, but it had been a while. So she stopped the other waitress. We didn't get our caramel roll. Could we check on that? - And they look over and Russ is just over there waving. And then she doubles down, Rob. I'll also take another, I'll take another glass of bubbles, another champagne here. - Wow. - Yeah. - Wow. - Bring me another, let's go. - So then the other lady comes back,

[31:30]finally brings the caramel, brings it at the end. We finished the entrees. - Yes. - Maybe the best caramel roll I've ever had in my life at this Hazel's. - Wow. - Wow. - You know what? I think the caramel roll at the end of the meal is the way to go. It's like dessert. It was, I've never had it at the end of the meal. That stuff always comes first. It came at the end. It was amazing. - That's your new move. - It's the perfect thing to like end the meal and be like, all right, now I gotta go home

[32:00]and like sleep this off. You know what I'm saying? - Okay, yeah. - Russell, it's almost like you listened to me talk about my thoughts at the beginning, knowing how your story was gonna end. So I have to say, so for our listeners out there, for the brunchers. When you're brunching next time, think about leaving that caramel roll for the end. It may be the way to go. - Russell, nice work. - You know what, Russell? That was almost. You're putting the listeners in the advice corner, okay? The listeners, all three of them

[32:30]are crammed into that corner. And listeners, just imagine Rob sitting in the other corner and he's watching you. He's sitting in like a small chair. - Everybody, take 10 seconds here. Hold on, 10 second break. - Oh. Matt, Matt's so far ahead. - Well, it's one out. It means it's gotta be. - Is it double play or it's a walk-off? - No, it's a walk-off, gotta be. - No, it's a double play. - No! No! - Well, Russell, you're ahead of me too.

[33:01]- I think they're gonna review this, guys. - If they overturn the World Series at a review, I will never watch them once again, Matt. - No, they can't. They absolutely cannot. - I don't think they will. - They cannot. - I think they're gonna check it. - They cannot, I mean, they have to check. - If they overturn this, - They can't. - they can't get out on the field, I'm done. - I think he got it back down, too, but. - If it's a walk-off. - How about a second baseman making a play? - That's a nice play. Oh, we got some second basemen who listened to this show. - Right, I think he pulled it up and got it back down. - He didn't get it. He definitely didn't get it. - He got it back down.

[33:30]He got it back down, watch. - No, I don't think so. - No, he did not. He is safe. That is. - If they overturn this shit. - He is safe. - They have to call him out, they have to. - Yeah, they're gonna call him out. - No, they can't call him out. Oh, look at the arms in the way. Okay, maybe he got it. But you don't know when his foot hit the plate, though. - Rob, this is great. - Great radio. - We can cut this out. - I'll tell you what. - He's safe.

[34:00]- The clock keeps running. Rob, roll the corners to go with you. - He is so safe. - Jenny woke up and now she's in the kitchen and it's hard for me to focus his thrust off. I'm looking to my left, it's because my marriage is ending. - Look at this, here you're gonna see it. He's safe. - He's safe. - I'll tell you what, guys. - I bet you five bucks he's out. I bet you five bucks he's out, Aaron. - I'd say a hundred. There's no way they call him safe. They're not ending it on an overturn. - But if they called him safe, they wouldn't end it on an overturn either. - My God, guys.

[34:31]- Rob, roll and go on. - Nice play. - Tell you what, I'm digging up a roll and go on I had from this summer and I saw it because I was listening to an old episode of ours where we were talking about Russell going to a baby shower. - Yeah. - It was the first 10 episode, I believe. - Yeah, I basically talked mostly about deviled eggs and I realized, hey, Pam. - No! Oh my God, what a catch. You fucking ran the guy over. He injured his own teammate.

[35:01]- He just came in. - He just came in, he just came in the game. - Yeah, they did a defensive substitution. - And that guy just came in and ran over Kike Hernandez. - My God. - Oh my Lord. - Oh, Jesus Christ. - Rob, roll and go on. - How's your deviled eggs? - No, you can't keep saying roll and go on. I'm gonna continue. I got it, don't worry. Don't worry, this is my, I'm a professional, I can do this. I'm not cutting this out. - No, this is a historical document. - Guys, if you're not watching the World Series and you're listening to this, I can tell you it's brutal.

[35:30]- Listen, if you're Tracy Chapman's family and you're listening to this because you wanted to hear our thoughts on her album, you're probably also not a baseball fan. - Or possibly Tracy Chapman herself, still alive. - I guess that's true. - Yeah. - Hey, I listen to my old podcast episode sometimes. Maybe Tracy's gonna listen to this one, we'll see. - Yeah. - We mostly on that episode, Russell, talked about how much I love deviled eggs. And then I think I mostly did impressions of you eating tons and tons of deviled eggs. - Gross. - Well, it turns out the number one egg producing state in the nation is Ohio.

[36:01]I did not realize this. - O-H. - So one of the things they do to celebrate is that every year they have various flavors of deviled eggs at the Ohio State Fair. - Gross. - Like the Kit Kats. - Come on, give us the flavors, give us the flavors. What do we got? - I am now going to read to you - Yes. - Ooh, yes. - The top five flavors from the Ohio State Fair. - Aaron strikes me as a big deviled egg guy. Like I bet- - You know, you know. - I bet Aaron consumes at least 95 deviled eggs in a year.

[36:32]- Yeah, if I'm at a party and there are deviled eggs, I'm going for a dozen to start gross. Like that's what I want. I want a dozen to start out. - Well, the thing is, Aaron, a dozen deviled eggs is only six eggs. - That's what I'm saying. - You know what I mean? 'Cause they're cut in fucking half. It's the ultimate trick. It's the trick the devil pulled. That's, oh, Aaron, is that why they're called deviled eggs? 'Cause this is the trick the devil pulled. Well, you think you're eating 12 eggs. Bro, you only ate six eggs. - Do you guys also, can I ask, do you also eat cranberries at Thanksgiving? - No, hell no. - No.

[37:00]All right, wait, are craisins, would you count craisins? Okay, 'cause I'll have a craisin sometime. - Okay. - I'll fuck with craisins big time. Like on a salad, put a craisin on a salad, damn, that salad's better, right there. Okay, but a cranberry, like out of a bog, Russell, do you know how many foods I tried to not eat out of a bog? - How many? - Well, the cranberries for sure. Moss, yep, nailed it, Russell. You didn't think I could think of something else that grows in a bog, did you?

[37:30]- Didn't. - Okay, bog monsters of various types. Now, Aaron, this first flavor, I'm gonna read it to you, and then I'm gonna show you a picture. Now, here's the problem with some of these is that the title also has most of the ingredients. The first egg, of the top five deviled eggs at the Ohio State Fair, okay, we have the cranberry feta deviled egg. - Nope. - Okay, number one, pieces of cranberry. - No, thank you. - Number two, feta cheese. - You guys read legit cranberry? - Okay, here's what it looks like. Oh, no, do I have a picture of it?

[38:01]I think this is it right here. - Oh, gross. - Okay. - No, that's, that's not even trying. - How about this? - All of a sudden, they just put some cranberries on top of a regular. - Rob's talking about our baseball talks being boring to everybody, and he's just like, he's describing pictures of deviled eggs. - Number four on the list, the Columbus pizza deviled egg, okay? We've got marinara. - Sounds interesting. - Now, this is a deviled egg marinara filling. Okay, crispy pepperoni bits. - Yes, all right. - And a little bit of Parmesan. - All right.

[38:30]- And Aaron, it looks like this. - Ooh, the curl, hey, when a pepperoni curls up like that, it's 'cause it has a natural casing. That's what you want. - Yeah, it's a Totino's pizza roll. - Wow, doesn't that look good though? Now, I am suspicious 'cause they're showing these in groups of two. If you can only buy two deviled eggs at a time at the Ohio State Fair, I'm going broke. I'm going broke 'cause I'll tell you what, Aaron, you know what the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was? This is only one egg. You think you're buying two, but it's only one. And guess what? When I went to the deviled egg stand, I would use that logic.

[39:00]They would fall into my logic trap. "I'll have two, please." And they would hand me this and I'd say, "Ah, ah, ah." That's one. Next up, Aaron. Hey, we've got the sriracha peach deviled eggs. - It's its own fruit, the peaches and sriracha. I don't know why- - Is there like a slice of peach on top? 'Cause I can get with that. - This is what it looks like right here. - Come on. - It is sriracha mixed in with the deviled eggs. It's on a plastic plate. It's at the fair, Aaron. - Come on, they didn't even try. - Okay? But they've got a little peach on top of a little sriracha-filled egg filling, oof.

[39:30]- How do you walk Mookie Betts? Mookie Betts is up there hitting with a noodle in his hands right now. Just throw it down the middle to Mookie. - Next up, Aaron. Now, this one really intrigued me. And I think it's gonna intrigue you too. - Ooh, I'm intrigued. - A hot honey everything deviled egg. - There we go. Okay, okay, I like it. - We've got hot honey. - Hot honey, yes. - And everything bagel seasoning. - I'm out of that. - On a deviled egg. - No, I'm out on this. - And it looks like this. - Gross. - Now, Russell, let me ask you this. Do you have a canister of everything bagel seasoning

[40:01]in your house? Because that is a classic diet food staple. Like when people are like, "Oh, I got a great diet omelet," or whatever. - Never had any bagels, I've never had bagels and I've probably had less than two deviled eggs in my life. They are extremely off-putting. - No. - Russell. - I hate to bring this back up. - I'm with you, Russell. - But when you say less than two, do you mean four halves? - I would say one half. - Okay, 'cause remember. - I might have had a quarter of an egg, like eaten a half of a deviled egg before. - The idea of like seeing them- - That's crazy. - Like being at someone's house-

[40:30]- First of all. - Those eggs are like sitting out there and I'm like, "Oh my God." - Yeah, 'cause you gotta catch 'em when they're close, like when they're like 75 degrees Fahrenheit that is when you need that egg. - Russell, if I- - 80 degrees Fahrenheit? - 80 degrees is probably warmer than room temperature. - 85, that's what you want. - First of all, if I'm at the party, no deviled eggs are staying out very long, okay? Number two, if I eat a deviled egg and I can sense any sort of refrigeration has happened to this egg in the last couple hours, if it's cool at all, get that deviled egg out of my mouth.

[41:01]- Rob, you know how I don't like going to people's homes? Like I would rather go to a bar or whatever? It's part of it is like going to someone's home where they're serving deviled eggs. This is the behavior that leads to me not wanting to do it. Like why would they think that's okay to serve? - What about a bar that has deviled eggs, Russell? Are you- - No, that's terrible. That's embarrassing. - That's not what's embarrassing. - I mean, honestly, Aaron, it feels like a dive bar, like a brewery type of thing to do 'cause they can't do real food. - Yeah, fair. Yeah, I like it. - Russell, I might get you with this last one though.

[41:31]The number one, the featured flavor, featured of deviled eggs, okay, was a deviled egg with the filling, this is what I should have done. I should have just done the filling and the topping. The filling is chocolate chip cookie dough. - Oh, gross. - And there's a little cookie on top and it looks like this. - Egg? - Huh? - Look at that. - It looks like shit. - Well, say that right before I play this music, Russell. Damn it.

[42:00]- Rob, the greatest trick the deviled egg ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't, it wasn't gross as shit. Well, if you don't love deviled eggs, you don't love yourself. But you know what? We gotta get into the album. I do love Tracy Chapman. This album is-- - It is good. It is very good. - I'm gonna tell you this. I did not realize it, but this was an at-home CD album for me. I knew every word, I knew every note of this album, and I had totally forgotten about it until I started listening to it again.

[42:31]This album is so incredibly good. Oh my God, the deviled eggs are still on my screen. I can't look away. Now, okay, Tracy Chapman, born, 1964, Cleveland, Ohio. - Cleveland rocks. - The land. Cleveland, this is for you! - Did Rob tie that together with the deviled eggs from Ohio and this fact? No, that was coincidence, ironically. She's playing around Boston. She's busking around Boston in coffee houses as this Tuft student.

[43:00]T-U-F-T, Russell, not just like a Tuft student. She's a Tuft student. - Like, "Arr, have a taste of me knucks." - That's like the school of hard knocks. She's a student who's running an anti-apartheid protest. This is in like 1987. And he says, hey, somebody says, "Hey, I know this great singer "who sings these protest songs. "You should get her." He listens to the cassette, the demo that she has, and it's so good, he goes, "Hey, you know what my dad is? "He literally is like a music publisher. "I'm gonna get this to him. "Boom, she's signed by Elektra Records."

[43:30]Now, keep in mind, that's 1987, right? The album is released in April of '88. - Another great team won a grade seven in a World Series that year, Rob, '87. - Wow, who was it? The Twins, of course. ♪ Oh, put me in code ♪ ♪ I'm ready to play ♪ - I would say that was probably Kirby Puckett's, probably Kirby Puckett's greatest days. ♪ I'm ready to play ♪ Can't think about what his worst ones are, though. Now, the album is released in April. In June, she is playing Wembley Stadium

[44:03]for Nelson Mandela's birthday. - Wow. - Wow. - Okay, she's got a short set in the early, mid-time, she's gonna stay to watch the guest of honor, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder gets here. Now, is this a problem that would only occur in 1988? Listen to this. Stevie Wonder gets to the concert and flips out 'cause he has lost the floppy disk to his synthesizer. Now, I'm assuming that somebody else was in charge of finding the floppy disk, and it wasn't Stevie Wonder himself

[44:30]who has lost the floppy disk, but he does not play, so they put Tracy Chapman back on the stage, now, in the prime time slot. She plays "Fast Car," and she plays "Beyond the Lines," and all of a sudden, her album absolutely blows up. The album hits number one on the Billboard in August of '88, so the next month after that, it hits number one, okay? And just to give you an idea of where music was, here's the albums that hit number one in the week prior to her album hitting number one,

[45:01]"Hysteria" by Jon Bon Jovi, "Appetite for Destruction." The albums that hit number one after her, "Hysteria" by Bon Jovi, "Appetite for Destruction," plus "Rattle and Hum" by U2. Like, for this folk album to come out and hit number one in the middle of 1988 with those albums as being number one just shows how amazing it is. She wins Best New Artist, or she wins Best New Artist, Best Contemporary Folk Song, Best Female Pop Performance, and, of course, I think lately we know her best,

[45:30]or "Fast Car," she kind of got reintroduced to the public because Luke Combs hit number one in the country charts in 2023, and that makes Tracey Chapman the first black woman to solely write a song that's hit number one on the country charts. - Cool. - So let's get into Tracey Chapman's, and I'll tell you what, okay, this is an eponymous album. All right, we're talking about a revolution. This song, when you, it got up to 75 in the U.S., but when you hear this,

[46:00]you automatically know what kind of album it's gonna be. It's political. - I forgot this song. I was expecting "Fast Car." ♪ Don't you know ♪ - What's the song a few years later in '90? - You know the reason? - Yeah, give me one. I was kind of expecting that. ♪ Don't you know ♪ - I had forgotten this song. This is so good. - Yeah, so good. - This, like, I don't know what, I don't have Matt's "My 100 Song" list, but this might make my 100. This is so much, this is fantastic. - It's so beautiful. The writing is so good, but her voice is so emotional.

[46:33]It's so emoting. Like, you can, you can, like, feel what she's singing with it. Listen to this. ♪ Waiver promotion ♪ - I mean, listen to this. ♪ Don't you know ♪ - Just builds, oh, I love this. If you could, if you could start a revolution for one thing in the US, what do you think it would be? Like, I could see, like, if you saw me outside of McDonald's being, like, a number eight, no, I want a non-serious thing here.

[47:00]- Oh. - Okay, I don't want to be depressed. - But not like, oh, people should be able to eat. - Two cars going through a yellow light. - Or a turn signal. - I would say-- - I'm going revolution of getting rid of bike lanes. I can't fucking stand the bike lanes. Hey, let's just-- - That's so ignorant. - We're gonna, we're gonna run right through the stop signs while cars are turning right. But let's, I mean, let's, let's let 'em know. - Russell, I could see that if we could, if you could have bike roads. If there were a bike road-- - Fair enough. - A bike lane road next to the bike, next to the car road, I think that'd be great. Agreed, bikes and cars sharing the road, not a good idea.

[47:32]- I think that the prices of the meals at McDonald's now are too high, okay? - That's true. - If I buy a two cheeseburger thing and I'm paying over $10 for it, that's absolutely insane. Okay? Somebody needs to stand up for something. - I mean, if I'm not allowed to say, you know, SNAP benefits or actually fair elections or any number of things I truly believe, then it's motherfucking daylight savings. Didn't we vote to not do this shit anymore? And now I have to change my clock again tomorrow. Couldn't we all just agree--

[48:01]- Oh, it's tomorrow. - Couldn't we all just agree to adjust our start times of things? Based on when the sun comes up, rather than everybody has to change their actual clock? Like, can't the time be the same at the time we start stuff changes? Couldn't we all be adults and do that? - Listen, I would love for sporting events to start at like 3:00 PM Rosie's time, okay? I want to go to bed. I deserve to go to bed. I live in New York. Rosie can stay up late. He lives in California. He's got, there's nothing to do out there. You just enjoy the nice weather all the time.

[48:30]I'm in the shit. - Enjoying the sunshine. - Okay, I'm in the shit out here on the East Coast. And I got to stay up late to watch the Vikings get beat by some fuck all time. I'm on a football team on a Thursday night. God damn it. Okay? But you're right, Aaron. A daily savings is an absolute disaster, except for what we're doing tonight. Turning back time, okay? We're going share style, okay? We're turning back time. - But we're not because it just means a longer day of parenting or taking care of your pets or whatever. - Oh, I forgot your perspective on that. I forgot about that part. What I was thinking, Aaron, is with an extra hour tonight,

[49:00]each one of these episodes could be a half hour longer. And it's like, it never happened. That's the greatest trick. I call it the deviled egg. - All right, next song, "Fast Car." - Never heard of it. - This is one record of the year, song of the year, best female pop vocal performance. Or no, I'm sorry, it was nominated for the first two. - She did win best female vocal performance. - Yeah, she did win best female pop vocal performance. - Well, I don't know if I would think about this, except we just had this last week.

[49:30]And also because of the scene where Matt Saracen is, I know I mentioned this last week, we've been dealing with "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," but this feels like a nice companion piece to "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" to me. It's like, it's about moving on. Something about it works for me. - This is one of the few songs that really makes me sad when I listen to it. - Fuck yeah. - Because, I mean, obviously you just listen to it and the whole cycle's starting up again. You realize at the end of the song, like, "Oh, this isn't gonna change at all."

[50:01]And then you listen to the song again, you're like, "This is such a beautiful song." And then halfway through, I'm like, "I'm sad again." - Yeah. - It's just like, it's such a good song that you have to get into it. You have to wallow in it. - Yeah. - And this is perfectly produced. This album, this sounds so good to me. - It's great. - Oh, apparently when they first recorded "Russell," they wanted to add, like, a bombastic soundtrack behind her and she just hated it. Can you imagine hearing a demo of Tracey Javin with, like, pop? - It wouldn't be on the list, would it? - Oh, it's terrible.

[50:30]- "Russell." - You were talking about the best vocal female pop performance. You talked about the other albums that were up there at the time. The top, like, Bon Jovi and those, but I thought we could celebrate some of the other great best female pop performances from the '80s leading up to this. - Wow. - Wow. - Let's hear it. - It's time. - These are the winners of the Grammy for the same award in the five years leading up to her. - Can I tell you the best female pop performance I ever saw? It was a ping-pong ball show in Mexico.

[51:00]I couldn't believe what was going on. - Oh, Jesus Christ. - Okay, how about this? My wife drank a big bottle. She drank a big bottle of Diet Coke. And then these ping-pong balls came flying out. Oh, my God, I couldn't believe it. - And Rob called me ignorant for making a comment about bike lanes. - Hey, if sex workers need to take their bikes to work, Russell, that's legit. It still works. - We got to make that happen. - Okay, let's get a shirt made up. Aaron, make us a shirt. Sex workers use the bike lane.

[51:31]- Oh, yeah, I got you. - First up is four or five years before this, this is from 1984. Irene Cara, "Flashdance, What a Feeling" won. - Oh, yes. - ♪ What a feeling ♪ - Wow, much slower than I remember. - Yeah, you're right. - I mean, it almost drags, but it's such a good song. - I believe the composer for this song, Rob, also wrote "Danger Zone" and "Take My Breath Away."

[52:00]What are your thoughts on the song "Take My Breath Away" and the Tom Cruise sex scene? - Oh, it's... So, Aaron, you are the one to have strong feelings about the Tom Cruise sex scene. - Yeah, that's all I can think about if you've heard that song. - Russell, isn't "Take My Breath Away" on the NBA Best All-Stars in 1986? - Did we decide, was that Dr. J, or what was it? - Yeah, we had a little discuss. - You guys say it's Dr. J for every song, and then you say you're right, and then we just move on. I swear to God, it's been like three or four songs that Dr. J did his show to.

[52:30]- Russell's going to come get to the bottom of this. - Hey, Dr. J, what... What song do you want on your tape? Oh, I want that one that's the sex scene from "Top Gun." - Oh. - Okay. Not any of those other songs. - So is that movie "Flashdance"? Is that the name of the movie or not? - Yes. - So that soundtrack made it to number one. It interrupted "Thriller," which, by the way, I listened to last night for Halloween. - Wow. - That's an amazing album. - Look at that.

[53:00]- Michael Jordan. - So that interrupted "Thriller" here, and then "Thriller" went and beat it back. So that was the album that interrupted "Thriller" on the number one on the billboard. Isn't that crazy? - Isn't that crazy? Well, you know what that movie's about, Russell. I mean, I'm assuming you haven't seen "Flashdance." - I've never seen it. You know, honestly, I made the list and I was confused. I thought this was the same movie as "Dirty Dancing," 'cause I watched the end of "Dirty Dancing" with the upstairs roommate a few weeks ago. I thought that it was the same movie. - Nope, it's... Well, Russell, this one is about a person who wants to dance,

[53:32]but guess what she's doing for a day job? She's a welder. So there's tons of scenes of her welding, and then she flips over the mask, and she's just, like, so attractive, and it gave me a weird, weird thing growing up. It's a fetish. You cannot get satisfied anywhere. - Her welders. - Yeah. - It's never lived up to the hype, huh? - Everybody's like, "What are you using AI for?" You know, it's, "Oh, it helps me at work. "It does this." People ask me, I'm like, "Nothing. "Don't worry about it." - Don't ask. - Right. I mean, there's a lot of scaffolding in the city, right, Rob?

[54:01]If you're walking around Manhattan, you're just like, "Oh." - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah. - A little list of work sites kinda got me. - Yeah, it's also one of the few cities you could jack off of the street. It's not that unusual. It's the perfect city for me. For a guy with a welding women fetish, it's the perfect city. Okay? - Next up, 1985. We've talked about her before. - AI, voice chat, hand lines, welding. - Jacking off on the street. - Rob, you have slow Wi-Fi, though.

[54:30]Does that, like, when you create stuff like that, that's gonna take forever on your Wi-Fi. - Yes, it really does. Can I just tell you right now, this video game I'm playing, my Wi-Fi is killing me. - I believe it. - Goddamn. - Next up is 1985. We've talked about her before. Best female vocal pop performance. Tina Turner, "What's Love Got To Do With Me." - Yes. - Yes. ♪ What's love got to do, got to do with me ♪ - How, would you, could you imagine going up against this song? Oh man, I might win a Grammy for best pop vocal performance.

[55:00]Who am I going against? Oh, this song. - Oh, Tina Turner, "What's Love Got To Do With Me." - She just smacks you in the face. - No, this should have been the only nominee. - Right? ♪ When a heart can be broken ♪ - Oh God. Next up, we'll go to 1986, the year before. - Speaking of Aaron's sexual awakening, that video of that. - That's it, it was. - That's Aaron's. He's talked about the legs, right? - Yeah. - I was looking at welders and Aaron was looking at legs. - Yeah, that's true. - Stay tuned for next week's theme song. Well, Matt was in 1986, watching Boston lose the World Series to the Mets. And also during 1986, it was Whitney Houston,

[55:32]"Saving All My Love For You," best pop performance. - Oh shit, okay, okay. - This is a crazy run. - She did not fuck her, this song. - Can you imagine that the Flashdance person is like, "I'm probably the greatest winner of all time "of female vocal pop performance." And then it's Tina Turner and then Whitney Houston. She'd just be like, "Oh damn, damn." - That's like the difference between like Nick Punto and Shohei Ohtani in terms of skill, right? - Oh wow, Nick Punto, that's a real flash from the past.

[56:02]- All right, 1987, we've never talked about this, this lady and I'm guessing she doesn't have anything on the list, it's Barbra Streisand. This is from the Broadway album. I guess it's like an album of show tunes. ♪ You're one night, you're a trend, you're the trend ♪ - Aaron, are you a Barbra Streisand guy? We've never talked about her. - No, I'm really not. It's kind of a hole in my musical knowledge. - This was her 24th studio album, 24. - I had her on a list where she was doing the show tunes.

[56:32]- This might be it. - She was pulling stuff all the time like this. An interesting thing about this, when they were, there was an interview, I believe on Rolling Stone was doing a video interview with Tracy Chapman, and in the background, that song from Barbra Streisand was playing. She said, "I find it relaxing to listen to Barbra Streisand." So I thought we had to have that one on the list. - Wow. - All right, last one on the list. There's no connection here, but she's so damn good. We got to do it anyways. 1988, so this would be the Oakland A's,

[57:01]I believe over the, or Dodgers over A's, Matt. I think in the World Series in '88, right? - Giants? - Fuck, Kirk Gibson. - Giants. - '88 was the Bay. - No, '88 was the A's, Dodgers. - '89. - '89 was the Bay. '88 was A's, Dodgers. - Laurel Hershiser, yep. - So '88, same time. - '88 was Kirk Gibson, yeah. - She's coming back. She's winning another Best Vocal Pop Performance. It's Whitney Houston, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." - Oh, wow. - She's won two in a row? Or what? - Two out of three. - Wow. - Wow. - I mean, this is truly like, dance.

[57:31]- Wow. - It's so good, right? - Yeah. - Can you imagine? So, and then after this, Russell. - And then it's Tracy Chapman. - '99 is Tracy Chapman. - That's a run. - Yeah. - Absolutely, Russell. What a fantastic list. - Fucking murderer's row. - Now, this is gonna blow your mind, Aaron, but the winner of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, there's some good singers on that list. - Yeah. - And Irene Cara from Flashdance, of course.

[58:01]- They can sing, also. - That's crazy, that's crazy. Across the Lines. I mean, her voice is just so, what's the closest album that is the most similar to this that we've listened to so far? - I can't figure it out. That's a great, I mean, to me, Dylan is the comparison, but I can't think of another singer-songwriter who makes themselves so vulnerable,

[58:31]and her voice is obviously way better than Dylan. Springsteen, some of his early stuff. - Yeah, I mean, Nebraska, maybe. But she's so, like-- - Kind of the same themes? Social justice, kind of stripped down a little bit? - Yeah, but it's just, and it, like, again, it's because of the recency for me, but, like, this is so bare and vulnerable and naked, and her voice is better than most of the voices we've heard. There's so few comparisons. - Red-Headed Stranger. - Yeah, yeah. - Carole King? - Yeah. - Carole King's a good one, yeah.

[59:01]But this, but this subject matter is, I mean, the songs still sound radical, you know what I mean? Like, literally, what, 30, 40 years later? - Bob Marley, right? - Yeah. Did we do Tori Amos? - Yeah. - Yeah? That's the earthquakes. - Yeah, but that's more piano-based, this is more guitar-based. - There you go. Yeah, right? - I mean, but similar otherwise. - Now, let me ask you this, have we done an a cappella song yet? ♪ Last night I heard the screaming ♪

[59:30]- I don't think so. - This thing is a fucking-- - This is almost too much, right? - Yeah. - It's almost too much, yet, I find myself singing along with it. - It's a powerhouse. - Like, it's crazy for me to be singing along to a song like this. ♪ Always come late if they come at all ♪ - I mean, you can, it's just unbelievable. Damn. ♪ Last night I heard the screaming ♪ - Damn, this album is rock. ♪ Loud voices behind the wall ♪ - Now, this next song, "Baby Can I Hold You" got all the way up to 48 on the Billboard.

[60:01]♪ Baby ♪ - More of a love song. ♪ Baby, can I hold you ♪ - Well, that's got a little bit of the '80s, that's got some '80s pop in the background. - Yeah, exactly, it's kind of dated, right? It's like Peter Cetera could have sung this, too, right? Like, it's got that vibe, but it sounds better 'cause it's hers. - Oh, now let me ask you, this is kind of about, "Baby, can I hold you?" What, I feel like this is almost an apology song. ♪ Baby, can I hold you tonight ♪ - You guys have a way you apologize, like, when you have to apologize for stuff, do you have a method to apologize,

[60:31]or does this indicate that maybe I'm making quite a few mistakes in my life? - Rob, I was told two days ago that I need to have a better way of apologizing and a better way of my tone, so I, yeah, I'm not good at that. I've been told I have a tone problem. - Oh, no, Russell. - Russell, turn to the right. - We'll just look at that. - My wife says-- - Oh, my God. - My wife says I have a tone problem, but that's because of my muscles. And the church said I have an atone problem 'cause, Aaron, I got so many sins,

[61:01]and guess what they need to be? - Atoned for? - Atoned, just like these abs. - Oh. - Aaron, you can watch baseball if you want. - Oh, I was trying not to comment on Will Smith. - He just smacked Chris Rock and then smacked some blue jay pitcher. - I'm still telling you guys, they shouldn't have butted in the third inning. This is a karmic problem. - You know what a thought I had while you guys were doing this?

[61:30]I should edit this episode twice. Once where I do it with all the baseball stuff in, and once I do it with all the baseball stuff out. And then I'll just label it and people can listen to it if they want, 'cause I bet you're right. I bet a lot of bros would love to hear us react to the baseball game. - Rob, then you should tee it up and tell people they can start re-watching the game and tell them to watch along. - Mm-hmm, when the lion roars in the second time, Shohei's nipples are exposed in the third inning. - Thank God we didn't wait till the end of the game to start this damn podcast. - Where we at on time, Russell?

[62:00]- Mount No Things, yeah, we have three minutes. - Well. - Aaron, no, penalty time, injury time. - Sounds like the Lion King. Also, I was thinking of, when I heard, when I saw the tracking in Mount No Things, I was thinking of how Rob used to say, "Sign over the times." - "Sign over the times." - "Sign over the things." - It's all about consumerism, all about consumerism. We got so much junk in our house, guys. We've got so much Amazon coming in. But I gotta say, I gotta tell ya, if I could get a lifetime of, and I don't have to store it, it's just as delivered to me,

[62:30]a lifetime supply of one thing, and I'm not worried about money or whatever, I'm not, I would get a lifetime supply of whipped cream. - No. - Like, when I run out of whipped cream in the morning and I don't get to put whipped cream in my coffee, 'cause Russell, I start my day with a little sweet treat, okay, a little whipped cream in my coffee. When I run out and I don't get, I even have a homemade whipped cream maker. You know that, Russell. - You know, Rob, it's funny, I am not a whipped cream guy. Like, if I were to get a Ho Cho, a hot chocolate somewhere, and they said, "You want whipped cream?" I would say, "No." - No to the, not even on a Ho Cho, wow.

[63:02]Don't do whipped cream, no, I'm out. - I would go with lifetime supply of eggs. - Oh, God, God, Aaron, lifetime supply of eggs. - That's what I want, lifetime supply of eggs. - Lifetime supply of eggs, Aaron, that's so good. - 'Cause I want it not just to be, I don't care about the payment, I want it to be, I want it to be that I'm never without, I wanna know that, like, there's, whatever happens, like, there's eggs in the refrigerator. Where am I counting? - That's how I feel about whipped cream. There's oftentimes, Aaron,

[63:30]where we have four or five containers of whipped cream in the fridge at one time. We're going through whipped cream like crazy, okay? My kids are like, "Oh, yeah, I like to use it to get high." I'm like, "What, what does that even mean? "I don't understand that." Okay, but it would explain why we're going through so much. Matt, what about you? Your lifetime supply of things. - New pair of socks, new pair of socks every day. - Every day, that would be sick. Oh, that'd be sick, that's so good. - I think the second time you wear a new pair of socks is the best, though.

[64:00]The first time is quite as good. - It's comfy. - First time. - Oh, freshies for you, Matt, okay. - I do, when I'm at a, 'cause I love it when I travel, I'll just buy socks, so they come in a box, so I don't have to pack 'em. You know what I mean? They just come in a box, I'm like, "Fuck it, I don't have to pack this shit." I don't have to unroll 'em, I just take 'em. When I'm in a hotel, and I know that all of your socks also come in boxes, so you know what I'm talking about, that's a normal way to move socks around, is in a box. You just put 'em in, when I'm at a hotel, I open up that sock, and I put it on, I just throw the paper on the ground, and I don't pick it up myself.

[64:31]Oh, it's heaven, it's one of my favorite experiences. She's got her ticket. This is kind of the end of the feminist themes of the album. It kind of ends the album a little bit more upbeat. - It's a little bit of reggae, right? - Yeah, for sure. - Tell me again what year this is, '87? - '88. - Yeah, this has that Robert Craig kind of like anesthetized production thing going on. Like this is the reason why,

[65:00]I think if she could do this album again today, and strip out some of this funny production stuff, it'd be different. - What year is Graceland? This sounds like Graceland came out like three years before this, and they were like, "Hey, we should get that sound." And they were like, "Yeah, but we don't want to pay "all those guys." - Yeah. - But I got this floppy disc I stole from Stevie Wonder, I think it's gonna be on here. Why? And you know, Aaron, that was like a seven-inch floppy. You know what I mean? Or like a five-inch, like it was one of the big ones. - There you go. How many places could it have gone? - Nice.

[65:30]- Like who's the floppy disc guy? - You gotta hold on to the floppy disc for Stevie's synthesizer. Please. - So Rob, we were talking about best female rock vocal performances. Tracey Chapman got nominated again in '97, so we're moving ahead to '97. Not sure who won, if that was the Yankees, your World Series, you're mad, or not sure. - Florida Marlins, maybe? - I might be right, yeah. Kevin Brown, Pudge, maybe? So '97. - For any one reason, she gets nominated Best Female Vocal Rock Performance.

[66:01]Another person that got nominated for Best Male Vocal Rock Performance was Beck that year, '97. Same year they were nominated, the same year. But they also, Rob, and I think I sent you a link to this, they both sang, we've talked about the Kennedy Center Awards once before, right? - Yes. - They both honored, I believe it was, is it Buddy Guy, am I getting the wrong name here? - No, Buddy Guy, yeah. He's a blues singer. - Yeah, so they, Beck and Tracey Chapman,

[66:30]were on the stage at the Kennedy Center's honoring Buddy Guy with Bonnie Raitt, Tracey Chapman, and it was Jeff Beck and Beth Hart honoring Buddy Guy with "Sweet Home Chicago." Check this out. - Turn to the right while we're listening. ♪ Back to the same old days ♪ - Hey, you're two inches ahead of me. ♪ Sweet home Chicago ♪ - Oh, so she's singing and he's playing? - She's singing with Jeff Beck playing the guitar. - And is Buddy Guy playing, too? He must be. - He's playing the guitar. - I think, well, he's up in the audience

[67:00]watching as they're performing his stuff. - Oh, okay, honoring him. - So when it comes to honoring Buddy Guy, being inspired by Buddy Guy, who did it better? - Beck did it better. - Jeff Beck, of course. Then we've got, oh, I should, you know what? We here, just give me one reason real quick. I totally forgot this was Tracey Chapman again. How fun. ♪ And I'll turn it back around ♪ - I was almost surprised that this was late '80s

[67:32]the album we listened to tonight, 'cause I was thinking of this song like mid '90s when I'm in middle school watching MTV. ♪ You gotta make me change my mind ♪ - So this was '97? This is like basically 10 years later. ♪ Baby, I got your number ♪ - Wow. Kind of a different sound, too. ♪ If you hadn't mine ♪ - Boy, did I see this video a billion times. I know this video. ♪ You know that I called ♪ - Okay. Not gonna talk about why I sat and watched,

[68:01]hoping something else would come on later, okay? 'Cause it's not appropriate to talk about during this episode. Now, for my lover, she of course, listen to this right here as well. Tracey Chapman, women have come out and said that they've been partners with Tracey Chapman, but Tracey Chapman has never publicly commented or talked about her sexuality anyway, but. She's very, very private. Like when she appeared with Luke Combs recently

[68:32]to sing the "Fast Car" with them at the Grammys, it was like unbelievable. People hadn't seen Tracey Chapman in a long, long time. - Yeah, she was, yeah. And was it, was it that she was blackballed from the industry or it just, the industry didn't suit her? Or what do you think like happened to her life? - Yeah, I think she just doesn't like the spotlight is what I'm reading here. - Yeah. - But also I bet that that first album, I mean, when it's that big, like imagine Aaron, imagine if we, imagine if the first episode of this podcast.

[69:00]- You had a live performance in Wembley Stadium. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah. - And we get 3 million downloads and everybody talks about how great we are and we win all these awards. And then the rest of the shows are like what we do now. You'd be like. - Well, we told you who we are. - You want a newspaper interview and you can talk about how far you've fallen? No, actually I don't want to talk about that, okay? I think about it every morning at 4:30 when I wake up and my alarm's not going to go off for an hour and a half. - Rob, we could just redo the cake farts episode. Episode over and over. - Wow, see, if only we knew then, Russell,

[69:30]what we had there, right? The famous cake farts episode, if not now. ♪ You can wait till morning comes ♪ ♪ You can wait for the new day ♪ - So fun. ♪ You can wait and lose this heart ♪ - And then finally for you. ♪ Deep in my heart ♪ - I don't know. ♪ Look at me ♪ - The question I had written down is you get to dedicate one song to your younger self, what would it be? But that's too sad. - So Rob, you said you- - Back loser. - You knew this whole album from when you were younger. - Yeah, a hundred percent.

[70:00]- Matt, Aaron, did you know this? So I knew- - I knew two or three songs. - I knew "Fast Car" and "Talking About a Revolution", but I didn't know the rest of it. - No, I didn't know the whole album. - And this was a surprise. This was a really pleasant surprise. And I'll tell you what, guys, when I put it on around the house, everybody loved it. This is a great, I would say, might be an all-time college vibe album, okay? If you put this on, the ladies know you're sensitive, okay?

[70:31]You're definitely not gonna start a radio show or a podcast when you're older that mostly talks about Shohei Yatani's nipples, question mark. Matt, has that graphic shown up yet? - I think this is more of like a brunch. I think it's more of a brunch album than it is college vibe album. - Wow. ♪ The show, the pandemic and very popular ♪ - Like, I think you put this on and then maybe you throw on some Van Morrison. I think that's the vibe. - I'll tell you what, Russell, there's some sweet stuff at the end, just like your favorite brunch. It's really sweet at the end, Russell. - What's that? - It's the rating system. It's everybody's favorite, it's popular, it's patented.

[71:03]Everybody's caring. Oh, how'd you rank this? How'd you rank this? And we remember. - Rob, you're dropping a little dollop of butter on top of that at the end, aren't you? - Oh, right on top of your sweet bun. - Russell, are you putting butter on a caramel roll? I gotta- - Rob- - Don't say why not. - Yeah. Hey, somebody else has come into the call. It's Russell's cardiologist. - Hazel's had a dollop of butter type stuff on the caramel roll, Rob, and it was delicious. - You know what? I'll tell you what, Russell. If it's on the caramel roll, fair game. Get out the knife, spread it in.

[71:30]- Well, you're not supposed to scrape it off, right? - No, you have to respect the chef's wishes. You have to eat that butter. - Yeah. - Okay? - Chef's kiss. - Guys, this guy out there, his caramel roll is 10 minutes late. We're fucked. - Oh, no. - This guy out here, his caramel roll is 10 minutes late. We're totally fucked. And then they look over the window at you and they're like, okay, we're gonna put a bunch of extra butter on this. The guy's never gonna know. He's not gonna complain. He's gonna love all that extra butter. Now, as everyone else watches the World Series, is there anybody- - What did I fucking say about bunts? I said it.

[72:00]I said it and I was right. - Live reaction. - Two bunts, one in the third, one in the 11th. Don't bunt. I fucking said it. Why are we giving away outs? It's the only commodity in baseball. What the fuck for? - Because you're not doing a double play. You're not doing a double play. - What for? Why are we giving away outs? You gave them two outs. You only had 20. You only had 27. - That's a 2018 take on bunts. - You played the game with 25 outs. - Rob, you gotta keep it going.

[72:30]- I will remind you, Aaron is a professional baseball coach. - And I'm right. - And he almost tried out for a team recently, okay? Looks like he would've caused some trouble at the clubhouse to me. Not a team player. What do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, or rolling grown? Tracy Chapman, colon, Tracy Chapman. Matt, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, rolling grown? - My gut tells me rolling grown. This should be low. This should be lower on the list. But, you know, the first two songs are all-timers, and Tracy Chapman's an all-timer.

[73:00]So for the Tracy Chapman sake, I'll just say it's rolling well-toned right here. - Russell, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, or rolling grown? - I think it's rolling well-toned. I don't know that it should be much higher on the list, but we've definitely heard some stuff in the last 20 or 30 that I would 100% put this over. So I think it belongs over some of the ones we've listened to, but I think this is a good spot for it. It has to be on the list. It's about middle eight albums of all time. I think that's about fair. So I'm gonna say rolling well-toned. Aaron, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling grown, or rolling bone?

[73:31]- You know what? I think it's none of those things. I think it's a rolling wrong generation. - Generation. - I think Tracy Chapman was born at the wrong time. I think if this album had come earlier or later in the span of music, it would have been better. I think the songs are outstanding. I think her voice is incredible. I think the mid to late 80s, was a great time for production for rock and funk. It was not a great time in R&B. It was not a great time for production

[74:01]for singer-songwriter blues-inspired music. I think it's too clean and anesthetized in terms of the sound. And that is why it hasn't stuck in the popular consciousness, but I think she's a fantastic artist and the songs are fantastic. - Can we see this though, Aaron, leading into the women-led acoustic guitar 90s? - Oh, of course. - Lothair and Alanis, and like, isn't this kind of, - The talent and the songs stand the test of time, but to me, the sound is of a,

[74:30]it's just too stuck in the mid to late 80s. - Aaron, you're so damn smart, but I don't have any, I don't have a sound to play with Aaron's smart, so I'm sorry about that. - What about when Matt's smart, we could play that one. - I do have that, I just, I know it's uncomfortable for you to play it, Rob, but no, I'm happy to compliment everybody. - That's some smart shit. - I just like it when I get complimented too. - Yeah. - Okay. - Okay. - The catcher, when he wins the World Series with a home run that puts him in the lead inning before it should be allowed to take off his catching gear

[75:02]before the celebration. - You can't be taken off your catching gear before the celebration. - You can't wear the catching gear the whole time. - You have to, you don't have time. You can't be kneeling down trying to take shit off, 'cause you know, that's like when it's going to take the longest it's ever taken in your life, and you're going to miss out. - Rob, what if his kids came out and took his catching gear off for him, like your socks? - Oh, wow. Wow, you know what? My dog just, my dog just did that. He's eating my socks down below me as we speak. - Picked them off, huh? - Oh, that would be great. If my kids came, if I won the World Series and my kids came out and took off my socks,

[75:31]I'd be the happiest man in the world, Russell. I would be Luke Gehrig. Today, I'm going to put a bunch of echo behind this. I consider myself the luckiest man on earth. My kids came out and took off my socks for me without me even asking. - What'd you say, Russell? - We're going into extra innings here a little bit, Rob. It's been a little bit. I had a cocktail tonight that's paired with this album, if you can see this right here. - Wow. - This is from the book Booze and Vinyl.

[76:01]- Wow. - And Rob, I know you have a lot of respect for intellectual property, so why don't you give credit to the authors of this book for us? - Dr. Booze and Mrs. Vinyl? - Andre Darlington and Tanya Darlington. - Oh, wow. - They've got Tracy Chapman. - Okay, by the way, if you assume Dr. Booze was not a woman, Dr. Booze and Mrs. Vinyl are actually in a committed same-sex relationship. Okay, so check your biases at the door. - Mrs. Vinyl goes in 'cause she got called and she had to go to the emergency room

[76:30]because her kid was, I'm losing the thread. - I'll tell you what, no, I cannot operate on why. It's my son. Okay, and by the way, I've been in a same-sex marriage for years, too. - Thanks for picking me up, Rob. - Yeah, I've just been, I mean, it's mostly missionary. - So they recommend on this album, before you drop the needle, they say, rally with some strong drinks post-release. It's got some signature boards, pens, and a revolutionary attitude. - Wow. - And they recommend a fast car.

[77:00]Have you guys ever had a fast car before? - No, it sounds good. - It is a mix of brandy and coffee liqueur that's sure to make you have a jump. It's one and a half ounces of brandy, half an ounce of vodka. - Wow. - Three-quarters Kahlua. - What, pfft, whoo. - Half an ounce of Cointreau. - Wow. - And an orange peel for garnish, Rob. That's a fast car. - Man, sounds good. That kind of sounds like a, is that what a B-52 is? Something like that? - It's like a takeoff on a sidecar.

[77:31]- Ooh. - Very nice. How is it, Russell? - Well, I forgot about it for a while 'cause I was watching the baseball game for the last few hours, so it kind of got a little diluted and warm, but that's okay. - Hey, just like my favorite kind of deviled eggs. Unfortunately, you guys are incorrect. This album gets a rolling wo-moan. - Wo-moan? - Yeah. This album is starting something unprecedented for us here on the podcast. - A revolution. - We are now doing five albums in a row

[78:04]that are just women artists on the list, okay? Or as Aaron wants me to call it, it's Ladies' Night. Come on down, it's Ladies' Night on the Rolling Stone Beckett & Better list. We're talking all ladies for the next four episodes. It's next week. - Yeah, talking ladies. We are the right people to do this. We're, like, we are the people that do this. - We are the people you want to tune into. - Who would you want to listen to more than us? - Yeah. - Okay, well, we're going to have a guest, but she went to bed before 10:30.

[78:31]What's her problem? Next week, we continue our streak of women-only artists with the only artist on the list to have an amusement park named after them. - Who's that? - Well, except for that short period that the Jeff Buckley Waterpark was open. We've got Dolly Parton with "Code of Many Colors." - Wow. - What? - Oh. - Oh. ♪ And my hair's slicked back ♪ ♪ And with a two-toe tail ♪ ♪ With a big head left ♪ ♪ Of all time ♪

[79:02]- I kind of fumbled that song back there. ♪ If you want to hear from guys who chat ♪ ♪ And then they get off track ♪ ♪ I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack ♪ - Beck did it better. - I could have mentioned Neverland, and I could have said Neverland Ranch. - I mean, that's the only other singer on the list with a, you couldn't have done like a deviled egg joke or anything?

[79:31]- Amusement park. Well, I've got deviled eggs jokes still. ♪ It's time to say goodbye ♪ - Let's hear it. - See, Aaron, that was one episode. I only put in the effort of a half an episode. - That's because it's only half an egg. - All right. Thank you.