Wu-Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)

[00:00]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine.

[00:05]This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated the order, and led us to making this podcast.

[00:10]We are far from experts, and we promise to do almost no research.

[00:14]All opinions are our own unless you disagree.

[00:16]Please sit back and enjoy.

[00:18]Beck did it better.

[00:19]Guys, you heard us talk about it.

[00:22]Now we're here.

[00:23]We're up to album 27, Enter the Wu-Tang, 36 Chambers by the Wu-Tang Clan.

[00:28]Hey, guys, I noticed that if you notice here, I've just been cranking up this radio I got from my public radio station for jazz.

[00:36]So let me just crank it here for another 10 minutes at least.

[00:39]I got to get some water, but I'm just going to crank it a little bit.

[00:41]What are you cranking?

[00:42]I got a radio, but I was just saying I got a radio from the public radio station.

[00:46]It takes you 10 minutes to crank it?

[00:48]All right, here we go.

[00:50]Let's set it to my favorite channel.

[00:53]Here we go.

[00:53]I said channel.

[00:55]Fucked it up already.

[00:56]God damn it, Rob.

[00:56]What's up, everybody?

[00:58]Welcome to Q.

[00:58]K-Rob, K-R-O-B.

[01:00]You know Wu-Tang Clan, before they had Method Man,

[01:03]they had another guy who was a mean old dad.

[01:06]Oh, yeah.

[01:08]Uh-oh.

[01:09]From the slums of Shaolin, Wu-Tang Clan strikes again.

[01:13]The Reza, the Jezza, old dirty bastion,

[01:16]inspecting deck, they pour on the chef,

[01:19]you guard, ghost face killer, and me.

[01:21]M-E-A-N-O-L-D, dad.

[01:23]M-E-A-N-O-L-D, dad.

[01:26]M-E-A-N-O-L-D, dad.

[01:28]M-E-A-N-O-L-D, dad.

[01:30]Hey, hey, now you're my son,

[01:33]and I believe you should have no fun.

[01:35]What happened to all those other toys you had?

[01:38]Here I am, I'm a mean old dad.

[01:40]Don't call me buddy little man, I'm your dad.

[01:43]And I'm not your friend, I don't want you to inconvenience me.

[01:47]I won't drive far to get a Christmas treat.

[01:49]I'll come and watch you play baseball,

[01:52]but I won't cheer, no, not at all.

[01:54]I only go to the beach when it's far away.

[01:56]I'm a mean old dad, every day,

[01:58]every day, M-E-A-N-O-L-D, dad.

[02:01]M-E-A-N-O-L-D, dad.

[02:03]M-E-A-N-O-L-D, dad.

[02:06]Participation trophies in the garbage can.

[02:08]When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time.

[02:13]You can get those participation trophies out of my house.

[02:15]But you're just too lazy to look it up online.

[02:18]Second place is the first loser.

[02:20]If you want to hear from guys who chat and enjoy it all time.

[02:23]He could be like the science priest and be the 37th record winner.

[02:26]That's it, I've got the perfect podcast.

[02:28]♪ For you, Jack ♪

[02:30]- Beck did it better.

[02:32]- God, Ron, he's awesome.

[02:33]- Welcome everybody to the therapeutic Davenport of love.

[02:37]You sick freaks.

[02:38]We've got four guys here that wanted to be in the Wu-Tang,

[02:42]but our names are too close to the people

[02:44]that are already in there.

[02:45]So let me introduce to you, I got Russ from Minnesota.

[02:48]His name was Russ-ee-za, the number one jizza.

[02:50]Russ, how you doing?

[02:52]- Ron-jizza.

[02:53]- Oh, wait, I think that's a compliment.

[02:58]I would say if somebody said, you know what?

[03:00]You're the number one jizza I've ever known.

[03:02]I would take that as a compliment for sure.

[03:03]- Yeah, that's right.

[03:04]- Kind of depends on what circle you're talking about.

[03:06]- Well, in my circle-

[03:07]- Who are you hanging out with?

[03:08]- You're the worst jizza I've ever seen.

[03:10]- In my circle, fellas, I'm the sire.

[03:14]I set the microphone on fire.

[03:15]My online dates vary and wear red snooze suits like Mariah.

[03:19]- Oh, yes.

[03:21]- All right, we've got Matt in Minneapolis.

[03:23]Now, Matt tried two names.

[03:24]He's got rake one more time around his vegetable garden.

[03:28]We'll let that sink in.

[03:30]- Rake one more time?

[03:31]- Or Matt Head Man.

[03:33]- Matt Head Man?

[03:35]- Yeah, Matt Head Man.

[03:37]Matt Head Man.

[03:37]- Matt Head Man.

[03:38]- Matt Head Man.

[03:39]You gotta say it Matt.

[03:40]- It rolls off the tongue.

[03:41]It rolls off the tongue.

[03:42]- I would stick with the rake man.

[03:42]- That shit's funny as hell on the page.

[03:44]I'll tell you that.

[03:45]- Rake one more time on the page.

[03:47]- Well, Matt, I'm introducing you.

[03:51]So say your voice.

[03:51]- You're supposed to say hello.

[03:52]- What am I supposed to?

[03:53]Oh, hey, Rob.

[03:54]- Yeah.

[03:55]- Thanks for having me, man.

[03:56]Appreciate it.

[03:57]- You gotta say it's good to be here.

[03:57]- Appreciate the energy.

[03:59]- Hey, glad to be here.

[04:00]- Thank you.

[04:01]- All right, we've got the West Coast face gorilla

[04:03]of chicken.

[04:04]It's Aaron, California.

[04:06]- Oh, man, what an honor.

[04:07]I'm so stoked to be here.

[04:08]I got my champion gear on.

[04:09]I'm wearing my wallabies.

[04:10]I'm ready to talk Wu-Tang with you guys.

[04:12]I'm so stoked.

[04:13]- And me, I'm Rob in New York City.

[04:15]I'm the middle-aged dirty bastard.

[04:17]- Oh, yeah.

[04:17]- All right.

[04:19]- You're probably older than ODB when he passed.

[04:21]- Well, that mustache certainly plays right

[04:23]into the character, so good work.

[04:25]- Yeah, nobody likes this mustache.

[04:27]Nobody thinks it's cool.

[04:28]Nobody likes it, but everybody,

[04:31]we got a Bex to the Bex line.

[04:32]Let's check it out.

[04:33]- Okay.

[04:34]- I'm sorry, Marge.

[04:35]I'm afraid this gets my lowest rating ever.

[04:38]Seven thumbs up.

[04:39]It is okay to offer more critical thoughts

[04:41]on a lot of these albums.

[04:43]Y'all touch on the negatives, then tend to pull punches.

[04:46]Matt and Russ, please be more open

[04:48]when you think things are terrible

[04:50]as the other two work too hard

[04:52]to find the good in everything.

[04:54]- Okay, so wait a minute.

[04:57]All of a sudden, I'm the super positive one of this podcast.

[04:59]Like, I'm the one that's really like,

[05:00]come on guys, we can all work together.

[05:03]Dumb shit listeners.

[05:04]They can't even tell what we're doing.

[05:05]- To be fair, our listeners have not heard the three of you

[05:08]just go completely medieval on Carole King.

[05:11]That's gonna be coming up.

[05:13]Or that was a couple weeks ago

[05:14]when we were doing the Back Into the Future thing,

[05:16]but this Bex or Marge or whatever her name is

[05:19]is gonna feel the wrath on Carole, I believe.

[05:21]- I'll tell you what.

[05:22]Everybody tells me, they listen to the podcast,

[05:25]and then for some reason they think I want advice on the pod.

[05:27]I hear so many people say things like,

[05:29]yeah, like this, like,

[05:30]oh, you guys should be meaner to the albums.

[05:32]I can tell you right now, if we were mean to the albums,

[05:34]nobody would wanna listen to that.

[05:35]That does not make for a fun, happy podcast.

[05:38]Yeah, and who cares what we think about the top 500 albums?

[05:40]Like, we make an, I wanna tell people out there,

[05:43]we make a real effort to not be negative.

[05:46]Like, we have to, it's hard for us, but we do it.

[05:48]And the same thing happened

[05:49]with that stupid Michael Jackson episode.

[05:51]I've had like two people be like,

[05:52]well, you guys didn't even bring up the kid stuff.

[05:53]I was like, yeah, no shit.

[05:55]How are we supposed to do a funny podcast

[05:57]when we're talking about that?

[05:58]These dummies, God, our listeners are dumb shits.

[06:01]They're just the dumbest of the dumb.

[06:02]- The only person who I think's gonna really care about this

[06:04]is Carol Kay, which she downloads on her 79th birthday

[06:07]and the 50th anniversary of tapestry,

[06:10]and you guys just shit all over it.

[06:12]- I don't think that's, is that really what happened?

[06:14]- I like the first one.

[06:15]- I felt like it was more nuanced than that.

[06:17]- Yeah, I think so.

[06:19]- Also, based on the discussion

[06:21]from the Kidda episode,

[06:23]none of you have ever owned a real, a real pickup truck.

[06:26]- Oh.

[06:26]- Better than Kanye.

[06:27]- Okay, let's not burn on this person

[06:29]'cause they said a real, a real in the text, okay?

[06:31]That was not a mistake on my end.

[06:33]That was on their end.

[06:33]- I owned two pickup trucks.

[06:35]One of them had an NRA sticker in the back,

[06:38]so I don't care how small that pickup truck was.

[06:40]It had an NRA sticker.

[06:41]At the time, I did not understand

[06:43]what it meant to be driving around with an NRA sticker.

[06:45]- Wait, what?

[06:46]- Aaron didn't own a gun, let alone many guns

[06:49]that would necessitate an entire rack.

[06:50]- But I owned two real pickups.

[06:52]I'm sorry, Matt, I stepped on your line.

[06:54]- No, I was just gonna say, didn't we admit that?

[06:56]- I said I got three little Tonka trucks.

[06:59]And I mean, so like, yeah, yep, true.

[07:02]Whoever Marge is, thanks, yeah.

[07:04]Congratulations, you've reiterated exactly what we said.

[07:08]- Dumb as, dumb as fucking rock, okay?

[07:10]We worked so hard and we put out this shit

[07:12]and it's just slop for these dumb pigs.

[07:14]- And then, you know what?

[07:14]He wants us to be he, she, I don't know who this is.

[07:17]- It's a he.

[07:18]- Maybe this is Kirsten.

[07:18]- I know, I know who this is.

[07:19]It's a he.

[07:20]- Oh, well, he wants us to be more open

[07:22]on things that are terrible.

[07:23]Well, this fucking Beck's is terrible.

[07:26]How about that?

[07:29]This guy is not gonna get the 15 seconds of his life back

[07:32]and we're not gonna get the 30 seconds of our life back

[07:34]talking about this fucking Beck's.

[07:35]- Now, I will say, this person has also sent me

[07:38]two pictures of feet, though, so it does even out.

[07:40]Okay, so I do, please keep, but you know what?

[07:43]Don't listen to what we said.

[07:44]Keep these Beck's calling, coming, calling, coming,

[07:47]whatever, whatever you wanna do with the Beck's line.

[07:49]Take pictures of whatever you want and send it to us.

[07:51]I'll forward it to the guys.

[07:52]It's 802-277-2325.

[07:55]- This is what we sound like

[07:56]when we get mad at stuff, right?

[07:57]I'm like, who fucking, nobody wants to hear us

[08:00]get mad about anything.

[08:01]Like, screw it.

[08:02]- I think people, what they really want

[08:03]is they want us to, you know, enjoy the music,

[08:07]have a good time.

[08:08]You can get negativity everywhere else.

[08:10]I think they want us to really be positive,

[08:12]which brings us to our next segment.

[08:13]♪ You know what time it is ♪

[08:17]♪ It's time to make fun of Aaron ♪

[08:21]♪ Oh yeah ♪

[08:22]- All the positivity, keep it to us.

[08:24]♪ Don't worry, he likes it ♪

[08:26]- What do you got this week?

[08:27]- Under the sting, you can't hear my sting.

[08:29]- I don't own a microwave.

[08:30]- Yes.

[08:31]- Making fun of Aaron is like a sword fight.

[08:34]You must think before you move.

[08:36]- Oh.

[08:37]- Okay, so real quick, I'm gonna do two things

[08:39]making fun of Aaron.

[08:40]This, I just wanna show you,

[08:41]this was one of Aaron's response, and I don't know,

[08:43]maybe I'm out of the loop.

[08:44]Tell me what you think about this.

[08:46]- I didn't like him, that one,

[08:48]but when I started this-

[08:49]- He says bullshit.

[08:49]You guys like Marquee Moon.

[08:50]- Yeah, you're full of shit.

[08:51]Russell likes Marquee Moon.

[08:53]- And then we just moved on from that.

[08:54]- Marquee Moon? - We totally ignored him saying that.

[08:56]Russell, now, be quiet, Aaron.

[08:57]Russell, do you like Marquee Moon?

[08:59]- The only thing that I could even potentially guess

[09:03]this would be would be he misspoke on Marquee Mark

[09:06]and the Funky Bunch or something.

[09:06]- Oh, yeah.

[09:07]- I have no idea who Marquee Moon is.

[09:08]- Feel it, feel it.

[09:10]That's why you, I was wondering why you have

[09:11]that barbell back there with concrete blocks

[09:13]on the other side, and you're just in your underwear.

[09:15]- It's a three pound concrete block.

[09:17]- Well, I thought you were gonna talk about

[09:18]the walking teddy bear that's been living in my house

[09:20]for the last few years, like Ted style,

[09:22]but I'm glad you left that off the pod, Rob.

[09:24]- I would investigate.

[09:25]I would investigate that.

[09:26]That does not actually exist in real life.

[09:27]I would get in there and look at that.

[09:29]So, Rosie, can you explain who Marquee Moon is?

[09:33]- Feel it, feel it.

[09:34]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[09:36]Shut up, Aaron.

[09:37]- Is Marquee Moon not an album by the band Television?

[09:41]Maybe I'm wrong, but I felt like when we were going

[09:43]through the list and texting about it,

[09:44]Russell was like, this Television album is great.

[09:46]And isn't it called Marquee Moon?

[09:48]Am I totally off?

[09:50]- Aaron, you assume that I remember anything

[09:52]from these albums that we talked about

[09:54]that I would recall even the slightest

[09:55]but like, I am so amazed with you

[09:57]that you remember some texts from me

[09:59]like five months ago about the Television album.

[10:02]But literally, when we get through tonight,

[10:04]I won't even be able to remember how to say,

[10:06]woo, tang, woo, tang, woo, tang.

[10:10]- The story checks out, 1977, Marquee Moon by Television.

[10:15]- Oh, so it's not Marquee Moon, it's Marquee Moon.

[10:19]- Marquee Moon.

[10:20]- M-A-R-Q-U-E.

[10:21]- That's 'cause he's reading all that French stuff.

[10:23]- So technically, Rob, Aaron,

[10:25]Aaron is correct, I do like Marquee Moon, I guess.

[10:28]So who's the dumb ass now?

[10:30]- It's Aaron.

[10:31]Well, okay, guess what?

[10:32]We got a double making fun of Aaron this week.

[10:34]So see what you think after this one, ready?

[10:37]- What rhymes with fucking furnace?

[10:39]- Trucking dervish.

[10:45]- What?

[10:46]- I think that's great.

[10:47]I think that's like, I think that's brilliant.

[10:49]I'm gonna start writing poetry right there.

[10:51]- You think furnace and dervish rhyme with each other?

[10:55]- Yeah, it's like, I'm coming through

[10:57]like a trucking dervish.

[10:58]Don't let me fix your fucking furnish.

[11:00]- No, it's not furnish, you don't say furnish.

[11:02]That's what you do with like a living room, you furnish it.

[11:05]What Russell swears at is the furnace.

[11:07]- Trying to pretend like I'm a Wu-Tang member all week,

[11:09]so I'm trying to get there.

[11:11]I don't know, it kind of rhymes.

[11:12]- It's a close rhyme, but you were so confident

[11:15]when you said that on the podcast, really.

[11:17]But I will say that once again,

[11:18]if you listen to that extended clip,

[11:20]we once again totally ignore what you say

[11:22]and then we just move on.

[11:22]I kind of feel bad, like listening back to this,

[11:24]I'm like, God, we're terrible.

[11:25]We're terrible to Aaron.

[11:26]- You're like, ah, we should've made fun of him

[11:27]in the moment, why we gotta come back the week later?

[11:29]- It's like, it's a lot of work for me to edit this stuff.

[11:31]I need to, and you know what, guys?

[11:32]I'm gonna make this commitment.

[11:33]I will do a better job of making fun of Aaron in the moment.

[11:36]I'm gonna focus, I can do better, I will do better.

[11:39]Okay, our callers want more negativity, fine.

[11:42]I'm gonna direct that right toward Aaron.

[11:44]- Great, I'm ready.

[11:45]I'm ready for anything.

[11:45]- Making fun of Aaron is like cocaine

[11:48]straight from Bolivia for me.

[11:49]I like it.

[11:50]- Oh, yes.

[11:51]- I like making fun of Aaron.

[11:52]- I know, it is addicting.

[11:54]- Yeah.

[11:55]- It's quite adverse on the track.

[11:56]- It is addicting, and I wanna do it off someone's chest,

[11:59]so I can see how that's both related.

[12:01]- Oh, there we go.

[12:02]- If I can get one more in in like the next 10 minutes,

[12:04]I'll be done with all my quotes.

[12:06]It's gonna be fantastic.

[12:08]- All right, let's get into rolling going.

[12:11]♪ It's, it's, it's, it's time to see what everybody's up to ♪

[12:18]♪ It's time for ♪

[12:19]- Rob, these sticks fucking, they're horrible.

[12:21]I can't believe it.

[12:24]- Matt's still mad at that Baxter.

[12:27]Matt.

[12:28]- I'm just trying out the negative side of things.

[12:29]I don't think it works.

[12:30]I don't think it works.

[12:31]- No, I like that.

[12:32]It definitely didn't just stress me out

[12:33]for like an instant before I realized it was a joke.

[12:34]It didn't ruin my night.

[12:36]- Matt, I will totally track down that Baxter with you

[12:39]and throw eggs at their house

[12:40]and pour maple syrup all over their windows

[12:43]and everything, whatever you want.

[12:43]- I could give you the address.

[12:44]I know right where they live.

[12:45]All right, so does anybody wanna start today?

[12:47]- We're coming for you.

[12:48]We're coming.

[12:49]- I got a new segment I wanna introduce to the podcast this week.

[12:54]- Ooh, okay.

[12:55]- I like it.

[12:56]- Calling, what should we call it?

[12:58]I don't know.

[12:59]How I Know I'm Getting Old, all right?

[13:01]I did something this week.

[13:02]- All right.

[13:03]- That, I mean, there's a few things that I did this week,

[13:05]but one of them in particular that I remember in my 20s,

[13:08]making fun of a couple friends of mine for doing,

[13:10]I thought they were absolutely nuts, okay?

[13:13]They would take, everybody gets, you know,

[13:16]when you start now, you get like two weeks of vacation

[13:18]from work a year, then you get all the holidays and stuff.

[13:21]And I had a buddy that would take Wednesdays off of work,

[13:23]like just a random Wednesday.

[13:24]- Oh, it's the best.

[13:25]You only have to work two days in a row.

[13:27]- Dumbest thing in the world.

[13:29]I'm like, why would you not take a Friday?

[13:30]Why would you not take a,

[13:31]to have a three day weekend, have a four day weekend.

[13:33]Well, this past week I took Wednesday off

[13:36]and it was fucking awesome.

[13:38]It was so great.

[13:40]It was so great.

[13:41]'Cause like what Russell just said,

[13:42]you have, you got Saturday, Sunday,

[13:44]and then you go into work Monday,

[13:46]you go into work Tuesday,

[13:47]you got a day off in the middle of the week.

[13:48]- Yeah. - So sweet.

[13:49]- And then you go Thursday, Friday,

[13:51]and then now we got two more days off again.

[13:52]- You double your amount of Fridays.

[13:54]You're right, you double your Fridays.

[13:55]It's like Aaron has five Fridays

[13:57]'cause he's just out cooking stuff all the time,

[13:59]but most of us don't have five Fridays.

[14:01]But Matt, Rob is completely right.

[14:03]You've doubled the days where you don't have to do anything

[14:05]because corporate America has just decided

[14:08]that Fridays it's accepted you don't do anything

[14:11]and you just doubled that shit.

[14:13]- And so there's a couple other things

[14:16]that I knew that I was old this week.

[14:17]It snowed here in Minnesota

[14:20]and I was, my wife's like, all right,

[14:24]I'm going to go, Sarah's like, I'm going to go to,

[14:26]I don't know why she's dropping the kids off.

[14:27]So I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait, I got to get out.

[14:29]And I shoveled off the driveway before she drove the car,

[14:33]backed out so that I didn't get the tracks.

[14:34]- So you didn't get the compressed snow on the driveway.

[14:36]- And then when she was coming back, I said,

[14:38]text me when you're way back so that, you know,

[14:40]I can get out there and shovel again so you're not leaving.

[14:42]So that's another thing.

[14:43]- That's major dad energy, big time dad energy.

[14:46]- I'm getting old, I'm getting old.

[14:47]So how about you guys?

[14:49]What do you do now that you're in your 40s that you realize,

[14:54]man, I'm getting old.

[14:55]- One of my friends, he just turned 39.

[14:58]He's Josh, he's a listener of the podcast.

[15:00]He enjoys the podcast.

[15:01]A shout out to Josh, but he sent a text.

[15:04]He just had his birthday the other day.

[15:06]And he said, the reason you know you're getting old

[15:08]is when you have to start grunting to get out of your car.

[15:11]When you're in your car and you have to grunt

[15:14]to like get up and just stand up,

[15:16]that's the moment you know you're getting old.

[15:17]So that was the one that stuck with me

[15:19]and I thought it was pretty funny.

[15:20]- I'm going to make you feel better about that though,

[15:22]because Clay Thompson,

[15:24]miss you every day, Clay,

[15:24]who is the patron saint of my household.

[15:27]Clay Thompson, professional athlete,

[15:29]grunts to get out of a chair all the time.

[15:31]There were some great super cuts on the internet

[15:32]of Clay getting up out of a chair and grunting

[15:34]and he is a three-time NBA champion.

[15:36]- Yeah, but he's also like 6'5".

[15:38]- He's very big.

[15:39]- Yeah.

[15:40]- I saw him once, yeah.

[15:41]- Long levers.

[15:42]- He's got long levers.

[15:43]- Long levers.

[15:44]- Yeah, I bet he does.

[15:44]- I bet he does, man.

[15:46]- He's got a big penis.

[15:46]- Needs a pencil.

[15:49]- Needs a pencil, not hanging in the water.

[15:50]He's not taking a sip like an elephant.

[15:53]I know what that's like too.

[15:55]That which at least means am I rolling on by the way?

[15:57]'Cause I gotta tell you, my dog,

[15:59]and listen, I love my dog, okay?

[16:00]Dog does nothing, like the dog just sits around,

[16:02]it sleeps all the time.

[16:04]The dog has one fault and that is he loves to eat,

[16:08]not bite, he chews on and eats dirty underwear.

[16:13]So if you've worn underwear,

[16:14]so he has eaten the crotch out of, I would guess,

[16:17]a dozen pair of my underwear.

[16:19]He has eaten about 10 pair of my wife's underwear.

[16:21]He ate my mom's underwear.

[16:23]He's eaten my sister's underwear.

[16:25]He's eaten my kid's underwear.

[16:26]- I mean, at what point do you find

[16:28]a different underwear storage solution?

[16:30]Like, where's your dirty underwear?

[16:32]Like, it seems like--

[16:33]- Like, fool me once, shame on you.

[16:36]- Fool me two dozen times.

[16:37]Like, yeah.

[16:38]- Fool me two times, well--

[16:39]- You know what?

[16:40]- Where's the dirty underwear?

[16:41]- I'm gonna take this dirty underwear,

[16:41]I'm gonna shove it in that dog crate.

[16:43]That dog crate's gonna ignore it the whole time.

[16:45]It's gonna be so awesome.

[16:46]- I'm gonna borrow a speak at an old dirty bathroom.

[16:48]Dog, hold yourself.

[16:49]- I'm gonna borrow a phrase from my wife and say,

[16:50]"Guys, I don't want fucking solutions.

[16:52]"I just want you to listen, okay?

[16:53]"So just be quiet."

[16:54]All right?

[16:57]The underwear is staying on the floor.

[16:59]That's the way it is.

[16:59]I don't care if the dog chokes to death.

[17:01]I am not picking up my underwear after I take it off, okay?

[17:03]- The dog can change.

[17:04]- Yeah, exactly.

[17:05]The dog will learn his lesson.

[17:06]- It's the dog's fault, yeah.

[17:07]- But I had to draw the line when today I put on--

[17:09]- Dogs wear a toad style, immensely strong.

[17:11]- I put on my biking shorts for my Peloton.

[17:16]And the dog has eaten a hole in my Peloton shorts,

[17:19]but not right in the crotch.

[17:20]It is to the right.

[17:22]It's down my thigh about two inches.

[17:23]- Ooh, well, you can still ride with that.

[17:26]- And I was like, well, this is a risky business

[17:28]because my kid has friends over.

[17:29]But I got to walk over to the Peloton with these.

[17:31]And these are the biking shorts I have.

[17:33]So I got to wear these.

[17:34]So I'm walking over to the Peloton.

[17:35]I get on.

[17:36]- Do you have to?

[17:37]- And then I'm biking.

[17:38]I'm like, oh, this isn't so bad.

[17:39]The hole doesn't affect too much.

[17:40]But then in a 45-minute ride, three separate times,

[17:44]my balls flew out of my bike shorts.

[17:46]And it was rather uncomfortable, okay?

[17:51]It definitely ruined my cadence.

[17:53]All right.

[17:54]- Is the dog like sitting over in the corner

[17:55]winking at you or anything when this is happening or not?

[17:59]- It's so, the dog's over there saying, oh.

[18:02]- It's so upsetting that you cannot do a workout

[18:04]and have your balls fly out occasionally

[18:05]and just start flying around

[18:07]and at all focus on what you're doing, so.

[18:09]- Someone should have told me that

[18:10]before I got it kicked out of three lifetimes

[18:12]in the last two years, but that's all right.

[18:15]- I can't remember, was it just the one branch or all of them?

[18:18]- What are you supposed to do on those sit-up machines?

[18:20]Stuff's going to happen, right?

[18:23]- The reverse incline, for a reason.

[18:28]Everything starts falling down.

[18:29]- Deep down, Rob's thinking,

[18:32]there ain't no way Russ has ever sat

[18:33]on one of those sit-up machines.

[18:35]- Russ goes right into that hip abductor machine

[18:38]with the leg that's spreading wide and coming back together.

[18:40]It's like, really, right away,

[18:41]that's the first one you're going to do?

[18:43]So anyway.

[18:46]- So what's our, so really, no, I mean, no solutions?

[18:50]We're just going to just let the dog keep doing this?

[18:51]- Well, the problem is,

[18:52]the main problem is that my wife's underwear

[18:54]are quite expensive.

[18:55]So every time he eats one, my wife tells me like,

[18:57]that's going to cost you this much money.

[18:58]And I'm like, that's furious.

[18:59]- You have like a hamper or something?

[19:00]I mean, like $12 a target.

[19:02]- So here's our laundry style, okay?

[19:04]And tell me if this is messed up.

[19:05]- This dog is only what, six inches high?

[19:06]Like you could, you could put this on a coffee table, right?

[19:09]Like you can just put your underwear on the back of the couch?

[19:12]- Oh, that dog will...

[19:13]- You know how sometimes dogs end up like their owners?

[19:17]So here's the thing.

[19:18]- Your dog's got a horse shit mustache.

[19:22]- Horse shit mustache.

[19:24]- He's a poon hound.

[19:25]- Aaron and his wife would have like a loop,

[19:27]like a rope looped up into the top of their living room

[19:31]with a bundle hanging down.

[19:32]Like they're hiding stuff from a bear

[19:34]that's coming into the campsite.

[19:36]And they would be hiding that dirty underwear

[19:38]way up above where that cat can get to it.

[19:41]- Yeah, Aaron's like, I keep it right at nose level.

[19:43]- Wow.

[19:44]- I wish I wouldn't have said that.

[19:47]- But you did.

[19:49]- But I did, what can I say?

[19:51]- It's out, it's out.

[19:52]The Wu-Tang has inspired me.

[19:54]- We do actually hang our laundry from the ceiling,

[19:57]but that's not that interesting.

[19:58]- Let me tell you my laundry style.

[19:59]Here's the deal, is that we have a washing machine

[20:02]in the apartment, which is very rare for New York City, okay?

[20:05]And so what we do is we, when laundry is dirty,

[20:08]we put it on the floor in front of the laundry.

[20:11]- New York City brag drink.

[20:12]- And then we put it on the floor

[20:16]in front of the laundry machine.

[20:17]And then when it's clean, we put it in a hamper.

[20:19]So that way we know what's clean and what's dirty.

[20:21]So the laundry is clean.

[20:22]- The laundry does have a lot of time on the floor,

[20:24]but sometimes, you know, when you're getting in bed,

[20:25]you just, you know, you're throwing the underwear

[20:27]on the floor, you, Aaron, you're giving me the not,

[20:29]you're giving me the no, you're don't,

[20:30]what do you do when you go to bed?

[20:31]- No, I was giving you the yes.

[20:32]I was giving you the yes, man.

[20:33]Like, yeah, like the, yeah, I get it.

[20:35]I'm understanding now.

[20:36]- Yeah, Aaron's floor is covered in underwear.

[20:39]- Right?

[20:40]- That's why he bought shoes.

[20:40]He has stepped on too many underwears.

[20:41]He was like, ugh.

[20:42]- Matt's mom, AKA the housekeeper,

[20:44]is over at like 10:30 every night when Matt goes to bed,

[20:47]she's scooping that shit up off the ground

[20:52]for that dog to get at.

[20:53]- Matt, call me before you go to bed so I can scoop up,

[20:56]so you don't leave a line in your room.

[20:57]I got to scoop up, just like he's out,

[20:59]just like he's out with the driveway.

[21:00]She's with his underwear in his room.

[21:02]- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

[21:04]- It's all genetic.

[21:05]All right, so rolling going.

[21:08]Rosie, rolling going.

[21:09]How's it going with you?

[21:10]- Oh, thanks, Rob.

[21:12]It's going good.

[21:13]I had a really nice, really nice week.

[21:15]- I love how we're thanking Rob

[21:16]for asking us. - He asked you a question.

[21:17]- Yeah, thanks for asking. - He asked you a question.

[21:19]- Yeah, he's technically obligated to ask you

[21:22]based on the format of the podcast,

[21:24]but that's nice of you to thank him for it.

[21:26]- I did try to skip Matt last week,

[21:29]and you guys caught me on it.

[21:30]- I'm trying to fight back against all this negativity,

[21:32]but I just wanted to tell you guys

[21:33]all about my week at work.

[21:35]I had a really nice week.

[21:35]- Oh, Jesus Christ.

[21:37]- I entered some performance ratings into our HR system.

[21:39]I got to write up the reports next week

[21:41]and deliver those performance ratings.

[21:42]- Oh, I got to crank up this radio again.

[21:44]- Yep, and got a really nice message

[21:47]from Enterprise Analytics Services.

[21:48]We're going to be able to enable tab pie on our server

[21:51]so we can deploy it.

[21:52]- We're going to deploy some Python models, potentially,

[21:54]in our data visualization.

[21:55]- This bit is so good.

[21:57]I love this bit, I love this bit.

[21:59]I want it to keep going.

[22:00]- You want some internet work content?

[22:01]Is that what you need?

[22:02]- Oh, oh, oh, this is you spanking us.

[22:04]This is you coming back and spanking us for the last week.

[22:07]- Do you want to talk about my job?

[22:08]- If Rob ever needs pornographic material,

[22:10]he is definitely going to go back

[22:11]and listen to your description

[22:13]of you putting in entries into performance reviews

[22:17]and Enterprise Services.

[22:18]- Guess what?

[22:19]My nuts coming out when I'm on my Peloton is my job, okay?

[22:22]And I'm above target every week.

[22:26]- Business is good.

[22:27]- Yeah.

[22:29]Plan, plan, above target.

[22:31]- Talk about a short squeeze.

[22:32]- Work this week.

[22:33]I'm very excited.

[22:37]I bought a new mat for my turntable.

[22:39]So the sound is even better.

[22:42]So I'm really going to be prepared for the Voodoo album.

[22:44]So if you think that I'm insufferable on this week's episode

[22:47]about drums and music,

[22:48]just wait until you hear me talk about Voodoo.

[22:50]- Yeah, I can't wait to meet this new mat.

[22:52]I hope he talks more on the podcast.

[22:53]You know what I mean?

[22:54]- Did you guys know

[22:55]that you can hear a hummingbird's wings flap when it's flying?

[22:59]We were sitting in the backyard today at the end of the day

[23:01]and this hummingbird came down

[23:03]and you can actually hear its wings.

[23:04]It sounds like a little mini helicopter.

[23:07]It's amazing.

[23:08]Have you guys ever heard this?

[23:09]- Yeah, I don't know.

[23:09]I wonder if that's why they call it a hummingbird.

[23:11]- Hmm.

[23:12]- I have to think about that.

[23:13]- Hmm.

[23:14]- It's weird.

[23:15]- Whenever I see a hummingbird.

[23:17]- Why are you going to the airport?

[23:18]- Whenever I see a hummingbird,

[23:18]I watch it and listen to its wings thinking,

[23:20]is it going to go pimp that butterfly?

[23:22]over there?

[23:23]- Yeah.

[23:23]- And it always does.

[23:24]It always does.

[23:25]- So Aaron's story started out with work.

[23:28]And by the way,

[23:29]his work day sounded like it took about five minutes.

[23:30]And then his second part was like,

[23:31]you know, I was outside listening to birds.

[23:34]Do you know how much I would kill

[23:35]to just be outside listening to birds?

[23:37]You should see the shit that I put up with today.

[23:39]My God.

[23:40]- I can't wait for the post-podcast,

[23:42]the post-game show as we like to call it,

[23:44]where we tell Aaron,

[23:45]just start talking about food again.

[23:46]That seems to work pretty well.

[23:47]- It really does.

[23:48]Aaron, you know what?

[23:49]- It's better than talking about your job.

[23:50]- We do not want to be...

[23:52]And I think, you know, Matt says it best.

[23:55]We don't want to be creative cock rings.

[23:56]We don't want to hold you back.

[23:58]We want to let you fly, okay?

[24:01]So just imagine that you're like the nuts

[24:04]and this podcast is like my Peloton pants.

[24:06]Get out there.

[24:07]You know what I mean?

[24:08]- Just fly.

[24:09]- Just fly.

[24:10]- Just let it go.

[24:11]- Fly by.

[24:11]Now, thank God I'm not on a real road bike.

[24:12]Oh my God.

[24:13]I'd be like a dragster putting on a parachute.

[24:14]You guys know what I'm talking about.

[24:15]So you see what I did there?

[24:18]I went back to my rolling going.

[24:19]I just reversed it.

[24:20]- It's a recall.

[24:21]- You are always bringing it back yourself.

[24:22]And thank you.

[24:23]I accept that compliment.

[24:24]- So good.

[24:25]- Positivity.

[24:26]Okay, Aaron, we get it spanking.

[24:27]We want you to talk about food.

[24:28]We love it.

[24:29]Give us one thing you ate this week.

[24:30]- Yeah, just tell us one.

[24:31]I would be so bummed

[24:33]if I didn't hear something you ate this week.

[24:35]- Oh man.

[24:35]You want to hear something I ate this week?

[24:37]- Yes.

[24:38]- Jeez, you're putting me on the spot.

[24:39]It's been a pretty chill week

[24:42]in terms of we ate a lot of broccoli.

[24:44]- I love how Aaron is being put on the spot now,

[24:46]which means he was definitely researching

[24:49]in previous weeks.

[24:50]He was like preparing notes on what

[24:52]he was eating.

[24:53]Now we ask him off the cuff.

[24:53]He's like, I have no idea.

[24:55]I don't know what color the tacos were.

[24:56]- I don't eat anything.

[24:57]I'm lying.

[24:58]I've been eating.

[24:59]I've been drinking that soy like green every day.

[25:01]- I mean, the thing is it's two Fridays in a row.

[25:02]I made quesadillas 'cause that's easy,

[25:04]but I snuck some roast pork in there.

[25:06]So that was nice.

[25:07]And then we had some frozen broccoli.

[25:09]- Making your wife eat roast pork,

[25:11]even though she's just vegan.

[25:12]Nice.

[25:13]- No, she doesn't eat it.

[25:14]- Real power move.

[25:14]- And then, I mean, you're gonna hate me for saying this,

[25:17]but we did have cheese tortellini for lunch today.

[25:22]I don't have any problem with the cheese tortellini.

[25:25]There's no problem with that.

[25:26]It's just when people take cheese tortellini on a hike

[25:30]and send it with their three-year-old son to daycare,

[25:32]that's when I'm just,

[25:33]you just gotta know that you're playing

[25:36]in your own field over there.

[25:37]- But the thing we did today on the cheese tortellini

[25:40]was we bought this really nice chili oil

[25:43]that I really like.

[25:44]It's called Holy Steely.

[25:46]And it is a everything bagel seasoning

[25:49]in a chili oil that also has some MSG in it.

[25:52]- Grr.

[25:53]- And on the side of the jar, it says,

[25:56]"The love of 1,000 grandmas and the sting of 1,000 scorpions."

[26:00]And it's good on everything.

[26:01]You can put it on pizza, pasta, rice, all of it.

[26:05]So that really made the day today.

[26:07]- So it's kind of like Frank's Red Hot.

[26:08]You just put that shit on anything.

[26:09]- Put it on anything.

[26:10]It tastes good, exactly.

[26:11]Yeah, you get it.

[26:12]- In my online dating adventures,

[26:13]I haven't moved on to the 1,000 grandmas yet,

[26:16]but I hope it doesn't come to that anytime soon.

[26:18]Like I know Matt was talking about we're getting older,

[26:20]but I hope I'm not there yet.

[26:22]- Russell, you're just killing it.

[26:23]- You've only had a couple of stings of the scorpion,

[26:25]but you got some medicine to clear that right up.

[26:26]No big deal.

[26:29]- Gotta get that venom out of there, right?

[26:31]- Aaron was blown away.

[26:32]Aaron was blown away by Matt's rolling going

[26:34]when he said a five-day work week,

[26:35]and Aaron was like, "Wait, what?"

[26:36]He's like, "What about Coralini-making day?"

[26:40]- Can't believe there's no jobs in this town.

[26:43]Yeah, unless you want to work 40 hours a week.

[26:46]- That's about it.

[26:48]Rolling going, Russ, how's it going with you?

[26:50]- Rolling going, this is going to come out

[26:52]I know Rob, I never know if I'm supposed to talk

[26:54]about what's going on or what's happening in the future.

[26:56]You always make it so hard on us.

[26:57]- Don't say the date.

[26:58]Just don't say the date.

[26:59]- So confusing.

[27:00]- Don't want to get Rob mad again.

[27:01]- So the date is somewhere around the Super Bowl happening,

[27:04]somewhere within like a four to five week period

[27:07]of the Super Bowl.

[27:08]- Can we say Super Bowl?

[27:09]Are we going to get dinged for fair use?

[27:10]Is that the one time we're going to get dinged for fair use?

[27:12]He's talking about the Super Bowl, the big game.

[27:15]- I don't really care anything

[27:16]about the Super Bowl this year.

[27:18]I don't care who, I think I know who's in it.

[27:20]I don't care who's favorite.

[27:21]I'm not probably not going to watch the game.

[27:22]I don't care.

[27:23]But I started thinking about,

[27:24]because now I'm in the world, I'm a music expert.

[27:27]As Magic Mike knows, I know all this stuff about music.

[27:30]As Christine from Richfield knows, I'm a music expert.

[27:34]So I started thinking about like,

[27:36]what are the greatest Super Bowl songs ever?

[27:38]And I was just going to see what you guys,

[27:39]like if you had any memories of great Super Bowl music

[27:42]in my rolling going here.

[27:43]So the first one, the first thing you have to think

[27:46]of right away is the Super Bowl Shuffle by the Bears, right?

[27:50]- Yeah.

[27:50]- You guys were, like, we were really,

[27:51]really young at this point,

[27:52]but I know Rob's mentioned this before.

[27:54]This is like the greatest Super Bowl song ever, right?

[27:56]♪ I've been jamming for quite a while ♪

[27:58]- Samurai Mike, Mike Singletary?

[28:00]- Horrible.

[28:01]- Matt, you don't like it?

[28:02]- What a nerd.

[28:03]- This is horrible.

[28:04]- Why don't you like it?

[28:05]- I thought this was Wu-Tang when we put it on.

[28:07]- Just listen.

[28:08]♪ We are the best shufflin' crew, shufflin' on down ♪

[28:12]- I think, doing it for you.

[28:15]Refrigerator Perry wore that neck roll to protect his neck.

[28:17]- I do kind of like that.

[28:18]I like the, ah, yes.

[28:19]- I like the keyboards on here though.

[28:21]- Did you guys know the Super Bowl Shuffle

[28:22]was nominated for a Grammy?

[28:24]- No way.

[28:25]- For best R&B performance by a duo or a group.

[28:28]It lost to Prince and the Revolution with Kiss.

[28:32]- See, I was gonna talk about Prince

[28:33]when you talked about the Super Bowl,

[28:34]but maybe that's coming up for you.

[28:35]- So I started, I was looking at the Super Bowl Shuffle,

[28:38]but they weren't the first team that ever did it.

[28:40]Did you guys know the 49ers, in 1984,

[28:43]created a song called We Are the 49ers,

[28:46]where all the players on the team sang it.

[28:47]Have you ever heard this before?

[28:48]- I have not.

[28:50]All right, this is-- - This is Oakland.

[28:51]- This is the Bay Area, and you should know this.

[28:53]- This song is going out to Peter in Brooklyn,

[28:55]a fan of Beck Did It Better.

[28:56]Here we go.

[28:57]- I thought it was just gonna be--

[28:59]- Motherfucker, I hit the wrong button.

[29:01]Guess what, Peter, that's all you get, okay?

[29:03]Too bad.

[29:03]♪ We've got the power, got the heart ♪

[29:09]- Oh, this is, yeah, it's kind of a Bay Area sound.

[29:11]I hear it, like some funk.

[29:13]Yeah.

[29:13]♪ We are the 49ers ♪

[29:15]- Oh, this is nice.

[29:16]♪ We will rock ♪

[29:17]- Like, I would listen to this in the car.

[29:21]- Welcome to this 49ers song never gets any publicity.

[29:24]- I don't know, man, it's really nice.

[29:26]Get some handclaps and that, like, whoom sound.

[29:28]That's good, that's, yeah.

[29:31]This is, I, this rocks.

[29:33]I'm down with this.

[29:34]- They're kind of low on lyrics.

[29:35]Maybe they need me to come in and punch it up.

[29:36]Let's see what rhymes with "Niners."

[29:38]♪ 49ers ♪

[29:41]- Rosie, what rhymes with "Niners"?

[29:43]- Yeah.

[29:44]- Aaron?

[29:44]- Blinders?

[29:45]- Dervish.

[29:46]- Recliners?

[29:48]- Hmm.

[29:49]- Yeah. - I wonder if--

[29:51]♪ 49ers ♪

[29:53]- Greasy Diners?

[29:55]- Ooh, Greasy Diners, yeah.

[29:56]♪ Just sit in your recliner ♪

[29:58]Yeah.

[29:59]♪ Late night greasy diner ♪

[30:00]- Aaron thinks 49ers stands for four foot nine and--

[30:03]- That's what I'm gonna start calling my penis.

[30:04]- Oh, okay, that's fine.

[30:06]We're not doing that.

[30:07]That's not the bit this week.

[30:09]- It only took like 40 minutes to get into it,

[30:11]and yeah, that was some good restraint, Rob.

[30:13]Good work.

[30:13]What else you got, Ross?

[30:15]- So the one thing I was thinking about with the Super Bowl,

[30:17]the last song I was thinking of is, it was crazy.

[30:21]I think about the Bears.

[30:22]Did you guys know they recorded that

[30:23]in the middle of the year?

[30:24]It was like six weeks before the playoffs.

[30:26]They recorded the Super Bowl shuffle

[30:29]well before the playoffs.

[30:30]It's so arrogant, and they ended up winning.

[30:33]- They were so good.

[30:34]That defense was so good.

[30:34]- You would have to be a really arrogant team

[30:36]or a really arrogant stupid city

[30:39]to start making a song about your team

[30:41]going to the Super Bowl

[30:42]or winning the Super Bowl before you made it,

[30:44]and then I thought, my hometown has done this before.

[30:47]If you go back to 1998, check it out.

[30:49]This is going to Miami.

[30:51]The Vikings song about the '98 Vikings

[30:53]that was going to go to the Super Bowl.

[30:54]- I am just going to put a little trigger warning

[30:56]before this, okay?

[30:57]- For any Viking fans.

[30:58]- I would highly advise,

[31:00]if you are out there from Minnesota,

[31:01]hit that fast-forward button 15 seconds.

[31:03]Hit that twice.

[31:05]We'll be through this in 30 seconds, I promise, okay?

[31:08]♪ Poppin' teams off for real, y'all don't understand ♪

[31:11]♪ I never seen a quarterback hit the mark like Cunningham can ♪

[31:13]♪ When he's looking for speed, it's Jake Vita, Randy Moss ♪

[31:16]♪ Gets lost when he catches the ball ♪

[31:17]- Oh, look.

[31:18]I don't even, I don't care about the Vikings today.

[31:21]This is David.

[31:21]I watch every '98 game with Russell,

[31:24]and that, I've never, I've not recovered from,

[31:28]I mean, you understand.

[31:31]♪ We're going to Miami ♪

[31:33]- Matt, do you remember '98 Vikings?

[31:35]Denny Green running things in the Metrodome?

[31:37]- Oh, yeah, yeah.

[31:39]I'm triggered.

[31:40]- You're triggered too?

[31:41]- I've turned my, I've got my headphones off

[31:43]because I'm triggered.

[31:43]- The most fun I've ever had watching football

[31:44]until the last game.

[31:46]- 13 to finish a 16.

[31:48]- I was at that Falcons game, you know?

[31:50]I was at that game. - You were.

[31:51]- I do.

[31:52]- Well, so I, my dad had season tickets, right?

[31:55]And so we would go to every game,

[31:56]but we never went to any playoff games.

[31:58]So yeah, I was at the Falcons game,

[32:00]but I went with a friend of mine

[32:01]who was nice enough to invite me, okay?

[32:02]I'm not going to say anything was bad,

[32:05]but it was such bullshit because their big thing,

[32:08]the thing that they found was most important

[32:10]than anything else in the game, you know,

[32:13]fourth quarter, they didn't want to hit traffic.

[32:17]So we literally watched the last 30 seconds

[32:21]of that game from standing in the door to the concourse,

[32:24]getting ready to walk out.

[32:26]And it was like the worst way to watch a game of like,

[32:29]oh, we're going to lose.

[32:30]And I'm also going to rush out of here at the end

[32:32]as fast as I possibly can,

[32:33]because these psychos want to get to their car.

[32:36]Whereas in my family, we stayed for every game,

[32:39]every second of every game, always.

[32:41]We would be getting destroyed by like 35

[32:43]and we would just sit there and be like,

[32:44]yeah, we're going to stay here.

[32:45]And then we're going to go slowly.

[32:47]And we're going to listen to talk radio in the car

[32:48]as we drive out.

[32:49]And that's just what we do.

[32:50]Going to the Falcons game. - Yeah.

[32:51]- Going to things like a football game

[32:52]with another group of people makes you realize like,

[32:54]oh, these people are psycho.

[32:56]Like I thought they were, and again,

[32:57]thank you for inviting me, but you, what the fuck?

[32:59]It was one of the worst gaming experiences

[33:01]in my whole life.

[33:02]I'll never forget it.

[33:03]God, thanks a lot, Russell.

[33:05]Bringing the negativity back to the podcast.

[33:07]- I just got to bring some quick positivity.

[33:09]Speaking of Minnesota and the Super Bowl,

[33:11]I saw on the internet that yesterday was,

[33:14]14 years ago yesterday, Prince's halftime performance

[33:17]in Miami at the Super Bowl.

[33:19]- Oh.

[33:20]- Greatest. - Wait, 14 years ago?

[33:21]- 14 years ago from when we recorded,

[33:22]or when this was released, Aaron?

[33:24]- Oh my God.

[33:25]- From when we were recording.

[33:26]From when we were recording.

[33:26]- Rob, you screwed this whole thing up.

[33:28]You should have never given us instructions.

[33:29]- Well, listen, yeah.

[33:31]When we're talking about the Super Bowl in April,

[33:32]you're going to see what this is like

[33:33]when you have to worry about the date.

[33:36]We got to start thinking about this like ahead of time,

[33:37]but we can't do that.

[33:38]We're not, we don't, we do not have the brain power.

[33:40]- That's a lot of planning.

[33:41]- That's a lot of planning.

[33:42]- We'll release this in like three years

[33:42]when the Vikings have screwed up another NFC title game

[33:45]and Rob's in tears.

[33:45]- Up from the 36 chambers!

[33:47]- Is it time?

[33:48]Are we ready?

[33:49]Let's get into the album.

[33:51]- Put your W's up.

[33:52]- So Aaron, I'm not going to lie.

[33:53]I'm a little light this week in no sense whatsoever,

[33:57]except for my knowledge of this album.

[33:58]So please feel free to step in and correct me anytime,

[34:00]but shut up right now.

[34:01]So here's the thing is that we have,

[34:03]it starts in the late 80s with the RZA, the GZA, and ODB,

[34:07]all from Staten Island, and they form a group.

[34:10]And later added Ghost, what?

[34:12]- Aaron, this is where you don't say anything.

[34:14]- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[34:15]- Later added Ghostface Killer.

[34:17]- Okay.

[34:17]And what was tough about this

[34:19]is that they wanted to sign as a group.

[34:20]They wanted to sign as Wu-Tang Clan,

[34:22]but at the same time let their artists go off

[34:25]and do solo efforts with whatever label they wanted.

[34:28]So it was hard for them to find a label

[34:29]that would actually let them do that.

[34:31]But sure enough, they were able to go out

[34:32]and get their killer bees, as they called it,

[34:34]all the other groups that were kind of in the periphery

[34:35]to Wu-Tang Clan to get out and do what they did.

[34:38]So they were able to get old solo contracts

[34:40]for all the members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

[34:42]We got old Dirty Bastard, we got GZA, we got RZA,

[34:45]we got Raekwon, we got UGOD.

[34:47]We got Method Man, and we got Ghostface Killer.

[34:49]And then who am I missing, Aaron?

[34:50]I know I'm missing a couple of them.

[34:51]- Inspector Deck, Master Killer.

[34:54]I think that's it.

[34:54]I think you got them all.

[34:56]- Okay.

[34:56]- You only missed Inspector Deck and Master Killer.

[34:57]- Old Granny Jones, Doofus the Clown.

[35:01]Yokozuna.

[35:04]- I mean, there was also like,

[35:05]there was, you know, Alaa Mathematics

[35:06]and Kill a Priest and Capadonna

[35:08]and the ones that like didn't make this up,

[35:09]but ended up appearing, you know,

[35:11]Shaheem like appeared on later ones.

[35:12]- There goes all my research on the second half

[35:14]of this one.

[35:17]Big Ray from Downstairs.

[35:18]That woman who's always at McDonald's when I go in

[35:24]and it's embarrassing that she sees me

[35:25]every time I'm in there.

[35:26]All the members of the Wu-Tang Clan that we love.

[35:28]And so basically RZA comes out

[35:30]and he kind of changed what hip hop sounds like

[35:32]on this album.

[35:33]He tried to make only 25% of any album

[35:35]that he's producing be sampling.

[35:37]He's actually trying to do a lot of the instruments himself.

[35:39]For example, the piano on "Chess Boxing"

[35:41]was after he watched a Thelonious Monk documentary

[35:44]and he was actually able to,

[35:45]he was actually not able, he was actually playing that

[35:47]himself and he would also take samples

[35:49]and then speed them up and slow them down

[35:51]to however it fit.

[35:52]So we've heard that with kind of "Public Enemy,"

[35:54]you know, kind of the sampling like overload

[35:57]where it was like thousands and thousands of samples.

[35:59]And now we're kind of back to a minimalist point.

[36:01]And in fact, the Kanye was talking about this album

[36:03]and said, this is the album that I heard

[36:04]that really inspired me to kind of form my music around that.

[36:07]And then there's tons of people who say that,

[36:09]but it's interesting.

[36:11]I love this album because it's not just one artist.

[36:14]You feel like you're listening to this whole group of guys.

[36:16]Okay, and kind of like us,

[36:18]like all these guys have a personality, right?

[36:20]There's the funny, handsome one, okay?

[36:23]There's the positive one.

[36:24]And then like, there's the cool one.

[36:26]And then there's like you three,

[36:27]whatever you guys would do, you know, I don't know.

[36:29]But it's like, I love like when you can hear

[36:32]the different voices, I just think that sounds so cool.

[36:34]And one thing I want you to keep in mind is that

[36:37]often to decide who would be on a track,

[36:39]RZA would ask them, 'cause you know,

[36:41]RZA was so big into the Kung Fu

[36:42]and you can hear that throughout this whole thing.

[36:43]It was a huge part of his life.

[36:45]And he would ask them to do rap battles against each other.

[36:47]And whoever won would get to be on this album,

[36:50]would get to be on the song.

[36:51]- I'm obviously going to talk all night

[36:53]until you guys make me shut up

[36:54]about how much I love this album.

[36:55]But one of the things that I didn't know that I loved

[36:58]is that this album is so much about brotherhood

[37:00]and friendship among dudes.

[37:02]And that's what I love about being here with you guys

[37:04]recording this album, or recording this podcast.

[37:07]So I think, you know,

[37:08]we're not necessarily the Wu-Tang of podcasts,

[37:10]but I think there's some parallels.

[37:12]- I've noticed that they don't take one member

[37:13]of the Wu-Tang clan and keep calling them a dumb shit

[37:15]over and over though.

[37:16]So I think we might be doing something wrong.

[37:18]Actually, this is making me question

[37:19]how I think of a friendship.

[37:21]- Well, Rob, let's get to final ranking

[37:22]and move along with this week

[37:23]and get to next week's album, huh?

[37:25]- You know what guys, we should do Carole King again.

[37:28]I got it right here.

[37:29]Let's play it.

[37:30]- Hey, speaking of slow albums,

[37:32]we're about to hit track number one, right?

[37:34]- Oh!

[37:35]- All right.

[37:38]- I'm going to bring to Russell.

[37:38]I'm going to bring to Russell on this-

[37:39]- Oh my God, that's so much better

[37:40]than what I was going to say.

[37:41]Let's bring to Russell, bring to noise.

[37:43]- Bring to Russell.

[37:44]We got the Shaolin opening.

[37:45]- We got the Shaolin opening here.

[37:46]- And the Wu-Tang sword style.

[37:48]- This is a great example of what you're going to hear

[37:49]on this whole album.

[37:50]- It's the Shaolin takeover of the rap game.

[37:53]And supposedly the Shaolin takeover is,

[37:56]it's kind of a slow rap at the beginning here.

[37:58]Aaron, you dropped bombs on Carole King for being slow.

[38:01]And this is probably a slower tempo, am I right?

[38:03]- Yeah, I mean, I would say slower tempo.

[38:05]It's just for me, and I'm already giving away what I love.

[38:08]It's just the drums hit so hard.

[38:10]- Wait, this isn't Carole King.

[38:12]- The drums just, of a hype.

[38:15]- You did hype verse, leaving a hearse, you did verse.

[38:17]- That was Carole.

[38:18]- Yeah, and yeah, well, I mean, I'll stop.

[38:23]You guys probably won't talk about this album, too.

[38:24]- No, you cannot, we are on, Jesus fucking Christ.

[38:27]We are on a podcast, you cannot just say

[38:29]you're going to stop talking like that.

[38:31]- I just, the drums for me are what like,

[38:33]and I had light bulb moments.

[38:35]I spent, you know, the whole week re-immersing myself

[38:38]in this album that I had on CD and listened to

[38:40]in my little toy truck, my Chevy S10, and loved forever.

[38:44]And know so well.

[38:46]So I spent all week immersing myself again in Wu-Tang,

[38:49]but then I started today listening to

[38:52]the complete Stax Volt singles,

[38:58]because I started to understand

[39:00]- Nailed it.

[39:01]- How much RZA is sampling Stax,

[39:03]and he's just really recreating the Stax sound,

[39:07]especially for the drums.

[39:08]And if you, like, if there's nothing else about this album

[39:11]that people love, it has to be the drums,

[39:12]because RZA's drums just never stop.

[39:14]- Yeah.

[39:15]- Hitting hard.

[39:16]So Russell, I agree with you, the tempos are slow,

[39:18]but I love the hard-hitting drums.

[39:19]- I read that they put the snare in this one

[39:22]in like an elevator shaft,

[39:23]and it gave it kind of a different sound.

[39:24]Did you ever know that, Aaron?

[39:25]- I didn't know that.

[39:26]So here's the thing, like, I love this album so much,

[39:29]I'm not going to know all the facts about it.

[39:31]- Wikipedia the house.

[39:32]- I'm not going to know the facts,

[39:33]because all I've ever done is listen to it.

[39:34]I don't know all the background.

[39:36]But I did start to understand.

[39:38]I started checking on who sampled.

[39:39]Like, oh, these drums come from, you know,

[39:41]I noticed writing a Carla Thomas song,

[39:43]or this came from a Wendy Rene song.

[39:44]And like, he was obviously just so immersed

[39:47]in that stacked sound,

[39:48]and he just took it to a different place.

[39:50]- A little peek behind the curtain,

[39:51]I let Aaron send me sound clips again tonight.

[39:53]Once again, what the fuck is going on?

[39:55]It's crazy, the clips.

[39:57]At no point did Aaron send a sound clip

[39:59]where they actually said, you know,

[40:01]"Bring the fucking ruckus."

[40:03]At no point did he send me a sound clip at any time

[40:05]that said, "Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with."

[40:07]And I was like, that's like the main part of this album.

[40:10]But what Aaron did do, which I really appreciated,

[40:12]is that he sent me clips of each rapper,

[40:13]so you can kind of hear what they're saying,

[40:14]what they sound like.

[40:15]So I'm just going to play these real quick.

[40:16]Same song, this is "Ghostface Killer."

[40:18]And they actually remastered this song

[40:21]from their original demo tape.

[40:25]- And Ghost is my favorite rapper of all time.

[40:28]So, I had to get some Ghost in there.

[40:30]- He is my favorite.

[40:31]- So if you're going to be nice to some rappers,

[40:33]you got to rain fire and say which ones you don't like too,

[40:36]according to Marge, right?

[40:38]- I guess that's true.

[40:38]I mean- - Matt, Matt.

[40:39]- Where is Wu-Tang from, Rose?

[40:44]Where did they grow up?

[40:46]- Most of them are from Staten Island in New York.

[40:49]- Okay, 'cause I hear this,

[40:50]start this over one more time,

[40:51]and I instantly hear Beastie Boys,

[40:54]and which, wait, hold on right here.

[40:56]Hold on, wait for the drums.

[40:59]And I instantly hear Beastie Boys

[41:02]and the kind of that New York rap scene, you know, sound.

[41:06]And so I thought that's what I heard them from,

[41:09]but I don't know.

[41:10]- No, it's definitely East Coast rap.

[41:11]- That use of those drums is kind of what I like.

[41:14]Kind of what led, I don't know,

[41:15]maybe more the East Coast,

[41:17]but I think just more New York in general,

[41:19]which I really appreciate.

[41:20]- It's a very New York-centric album, you're right.

[41:23]- Yeah.

[41:23]- Here we have a girl that Russell was looking for in Bumble,

[41:28]Inspector Dick.

[41:29]No, Inspector Deck.

[41:30]I'm sorry, I misread that.

[41:31]- Dick Inspector.

[41:32]- The rebel INS.

[41:35]- Inspecting as many decks as I could.

[41:38]Those grannies didn't like when I was inspecting the decks.

[41:41]- This deck needs to be stained.

[41:43]- He's kicking like cigar.

[41:44]- He needs to go all out for justice.

[41:46]- What would you give the inspect her deck,

[41:50]a ranking on a scale of one to 10 on the Wu-Tang, Aaron?

[41:54]- I give deck a six, maybe seven.

[41:58]- This is an insane game.

[41:59]We cannot rank every member of the Wu-Tang.

[42:01]- No, we gotta go to the next song.

[42:02]We gotta go to the next song, right?

[42:03]- Well, we've got GZA.

[42:04]This is Aaron sending me sound clips.

[42:06]♪ Yo, I'm more rugged than slave man boots ♪

[42:09]♪ Newbie crooks, they up MC troops ♪

[42:12]- And I also wanna say this, I did find

[42:13]the clean version of every song, which is insane,

[42:16]considering I just kept talking about Peloton in my balls,

[42:18]but that's the way it is.

[42:20]So I would recommend not listening to the clean version.

[42:21]- Good thing you spent your time.

[42:22]I guess a good, yeah, you spend your time.

[42:24]- Yeah, I'm sure there are entire podcasts out there

[42:27]dedicated to rating all of the members of the Wu-Tang

[42:31]and what their relative rap skills are.

[42:35]- No, there's no other podcast about the Wu-Tang.

[42:36]We're the only one.

[42:37]Do not suggest they go find other podcasts.

[42:40]- Can I rate some fire based on our becks?

[42:43]Our Beckster earlier?

[42:44]- Yes.

[42:45]- I enjoyed a lot of this album.

[42:47]I think relative to the album,

[42:49]this is the worst opening track

[42:51]that we've heard on an album so far.

[42:53]Now I'm not saying it's the worst track.

[42:54]I'm just saying there's so many good tracks on this.

[42:57]This is not one of the best five or six on the track,

[43:00]or on the album, do you think?

[43:01]- I honestly think the first 30 seconds of this song

[43:03]tells you everything you're gonna get.

[43:04]It gives you a Kung Fu clip.

[43:06]They're yelling at you about how they're gonna bring

[43:08]the ruckus and then they just blast it.

[43:09]Now, whether the song as a whole is great

[43:12]compared to the other songs,

[43:13]but they really do kind of summarize what you're in for.

[43:16]- Yeah, I don't want to disappoint our listeners, but.

[43:19]- Yeah, you know what kind of ride you're getting on here

[43:22]when you start listening to this song.

[43:23]- But I can't disagree with Russell

[43:24]that it's not the best,

[43:26]it's not in the top four tracks on the album.

[43:28]- This is a big time ODB track, "Old Dirty Bastard,"

[43:32]and this is "Shame on a New--"

[43:33]- Dirt McGirt, "Big Baby Jesus."

[43:35]- This is the actual radio edit of this song.

[43:37]Thank God.

[43:39]- Yeah.

[43:39]- Hey, there's a Super Bowl reference for you.

[43:43]- Super Bowl reference.

[43:45]- What ball?

[43:46]- I love, I think "Old Dirty Bastard" might be my favorite.

[43:50]His voice is so unique.

[43:51]- Yeah, I think he was just such a wild card

[43:55]that they couldn't get him in the studio for very long.

[43:57]And I don't think ODB is a great rapper,

[44:01]but he's so charismatic and his voice is so good.

[44:03]- I always enjoy when Method Man pops into these songs.

[44:05]I feel like when Method Man pops in, they just, they ramp up.

[44:08]I really, I think the Method Man is my number one

[44:11]Wu-Tang rapper.

[44:12]- And we're gonna talk about him.

[44:13]- We're gonna talk about him in detail a little bit later,

[44:15]but here we have Raekwon.

[44:16]♪ Coaching half step but ain't hurt half of it yet ♪

[44:19]♪ And I bet you're not a fraud ♪

[44:20]- The Chef.

[44:21]- Who is actually good at cooking fish.

[44:23]- This is what Method Man listens to

[44:24]when he's out in the garden.

[44:25]He's raking one.

[44:26]- That was a good joke.

[44:29]- Yeah, Raekwon the Chef actually could cook.

[44:31]And he's made some of the greatest solo albums of all time.

[44:33]Only built for Cuban links is, you know, canon for hip hop.

[44:38]- I think he's kind of the most straight sounding rapper.

[44:40]You know what I mean?

[44:41]Like the most rapper with a sound that we're

[44:43]used to the most.

[44:44]- But I would say he's the one who's always

[44:45]shouting out the champion gear.

[44:46]He was the one wearing champion gear.

[44:47]That's why I had to wear my courtesy of Matt,

[44:51]champion reverse.

[44:51]- So Aaron sent me this clip from Clan and DeFront.

[44:55]And it just says GZA feces in the pants.

[44:58]So I was like, yeah, sure.

[44:59]If that's, hey, we all can relate to.

[45:01]- Can we get Rob back on track?

[45:03]Is it GZA, Riz?

[45:04]What's, explain the name so Rob, correct Rob quick here.

[45:08]- Yeah, it's GZA.

[45:09]I didn't want to.

[45:10]- Oh, GZA, how am I gonna remember that?

[45:13]- Here we go.

[45:13]- Wow, they even bleeped out goddamn on that.

[45:22]♪ 'Cause I don't know you're there for show me what you know ♪

[45:25]- What you know.

[45:26]- I love this.

[45:27]- We're in the Midwest.

[45:28]- I hate to do this again to you guys,

[45:29]but I love how heavy New York this album is.

[45:32]The lyrics, for example.

[45:34]- And there's the human feces part.

[45:35]- Drink.

[45:36]- When you look at the lyrics, they're so brilliant.

[45:38]On 34th street in the square of Harold.

[45:40]Now of course the 34th street stop on the

[45:42]F train is Harold Square.

[45:44]And so then they take that Harold.

[45:46]I gamed Ella, the bitch caught a fits like Gerald.

[45:50]For Ella Fitzgerald.

[45:51]Dean Ferraro.

[45:52]- Dean Ferraro.

[45:53]- I mean, it's just like a wheel of fortune.

[45:55]Like now and then it's just a crazy, it's insane.

[45:58]I love it.

[45:59]- That's why GZA is the genius.

[46:01]- I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

[46:03]I'm just gonna start drinking on this one.

[46:04]I don't know what's going on anymore.

[46:06]- Yep, here comes the drunk monk with a quart of Ballantine.

[46:09]Yeah, I mean GZA was one of the like,

[46:10]he was the real lyricist I think.

[46:12]Of the group.

[46:13]And a lot of people think his solo album

[46:16]is the best of the Wu-Tang solo albums.

[46:17]My favorite is Supreme Clientele by Ghostface,

[46:20]but I'm a big Ghostface fan,

[46:21]so maybe I'm not the right person to say.

[46:24]- And now we have Seventh Chamber.

[46:26]We have him, Raekwon talking about,

[46:28]and this is funny though.

[46:28]This kind of does remind me of Matt.

[46:29]We got some talking about Champion Gear here.

[46:31]♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo ♪

[46:33]♪ Champion gear that I rock and get your boots knocked ♪

[46:36]- Oh, Matt, Champion Gear.

[46:38]That's a nice shout out to you.

[46:40]- Yeah, what rhymes with double knit sweatshirt?

[46:42]- Yes.

[46:43]♪ More, more ♪

[46:44]♪ Like ding ♪

[46:45]♪ Like ding ♪

[46:45]- Dervish.

[46:46]Thank you, Matt.

[46:48]Sure, thank you, thank you.

[46:49]♪ I kick it like a night flight ♪

[46:52]- What do you guys think of like the interludes

[46:55]or the conversations, the kind of talking back and forth

[46:58]at the beginning and ending of these songs?

[46:59]What do you guys think of that?

[47:01]- I think it's fun.

[47:03]I think it makes it sound like

[47:03]they're a group of guys hanging out, right?

[47:06]- That's what I'm talking about.

[47:07]Yeah, they were a proto-podcast.

[47:09]I love it.

[47:10]And it's all stuck in my head all the time.

[47:12]All that stuff is just like always rattling around

[47:14]in my head because I've heard this album so many times.

[47:16]But I love the vibe between all of them.

[47:18]- I love that you keep comparing us to the Wu-Tang Clan.

[47:20]If the Wu-Tang Clan had the number of people at a concert

[47:23]of total downloads we've had in our like six months

[47:25]of doing this, they would be insanely disappointed.

[47:27]They would instantly quit what they're doing.

[47:30]- But the thing is they're like way nerdier than we are.

[47:32]Like these dudes are dorks.

[47:33]Like they're into comic books.

[47:34]They're into Kung Fu movies.

[47:36]They're talking about, you know, like a whammy.

[47:38]He pressed his luck.

[47:39]They're doing like whatever rubs off me sticks to you.

[47:42]Like all that stuff.

[47:43]There's all this humor in there.

[47:44]They're total nerds.

[47:45]Like for sure they would get into like the best podcast.

[47:49]Mike, no question.

[47:50]- All right.

[47:50]So I do want to play a little more Ghostface Killer

[47:52]just for Aaron from 7th Chamber.

[47:54]- Anytime.

[47:55]Anytime you're going to play Ghost, I'm here for it.

[47:56]- I got to keep playing these clips.

[47:57]Aaron sent me so many.

[47:58]I got to keep, I'm going to keep hammering them while we go.

[48:01]- I thought I read at some point they sampled

[48:03]Down in the Valley by Otis Redding on this song.

[48:05]You guys read that?

[48:06]- How does that go?

[48:09]Down in the Valley?

[48:10]- Yeah.

[48:11]- Sing a little of that for us.

[48:12]♪ Valley ♪

[48:14]- I did hear it.

[48:15]I heard it just now.

[48:16]♪ Valley is so low ♪

[48:17]- I thought the guitar was from that baby song,

[48:20]but I got to say that was one of RZA's better verses,

[48:25]I think.

[48:27]And the fact that,

[48:28]so I think run the jewels is a kind of standard phrase

[48:31]for, you know, robbing people, whatever.

[48:32]But, but the fact that RZA said run the jewels

[48:34]and now there is a rap group called Run the Jewels

[48:37]that is probably the best rap group, you know,

[48:39]currently going.

[48:40]- Oh, of course.

[48:41]- Of course, run the jewels.

[48:42]- I mean, I was going to,

[48:45]I've been waiting for like weeks to talk about

[48:47]roll the jewels on my rolling going.

[48:49]And I've just waited and waited and waited.

[48:51]And now I'm so pissed.

[48:54]- Yup.

[48:56]That's what I was going to say as well.

[48:57]- Next song.

[48:58]- Next song.

[48:59]- He's never wanted to be off this podcast

[49:02]any more than right now.

[49:03]- Beacon of samples.

[49:04]Can it all be so sample?

[49:06]Simple.

[49:06]♪ Plops was a bean since 16 ♪

[49:08]♪ Shooting that that's that ♪

[49:10]♪ It's bloodstream ♪

[49:11]- Whenever you're sitting at home by yourself

[49:15]doing a podcast on a Friday night,

[49:17]you have to have a screwdriver, right?

[49:18]So I'm having a screwdriver.

[49:19]- Okay.

[49:20]- Oh no.

[49:21]Is it a rusty screwdriver?

[49:22]- I went to the grocery store

[49:23]and I couldn't find any orange juice.

[49:24]So instead I bought Tang and I'm having a screwdriver

[49:29]with Tang.

[49:33]- Oh.

[49:33]- In honor of the Wu-Tang.

[49:35]- Oh, that's so good.

[49:36]- Wu-Tang.

[49:37]- Wu-Tang.

[49:38]- Wu-Tang.

[49:39]- Wu-Tang.

[49:40]- Wu-Tang.

[49:40]- No offense, but what kind of grocery store is this?

[49:41]What kind of grocery store are you going to

[49:42]that doesn't have orange juice?

[49:43]I would relocate.

[49:44]I would go to a different grocery store.

[49:46]- I thought you were referencing

[49:47]the intermission before method man,

[49:49]where he's like, I'm gonna, I'll pull your tongue out

[49:50]and I'll just stab that shoe with a rusty screwdriver.

[49:52]Like wow.

[49:54]- I was actually not gonna talk about that.

[49:55]It's actually a baby song.

[49:56]- Well, yeah.

[49:57]- You can edit it out.

[49:58]- Well, I kept feeding myself

[50:00]and feeding myself the other night.

[50:01]It didn't go well.

[50:02]So I decided to go get the Wu-Tang drink instead.

[50:05]- It's really funny 'cause we'll talk about that now,

[50:07]but I was reading about that

[50:09]because I listened to that part once, right?

[50:11]And they were talking about all the ways

[50:12]they would punish somebody.

[50:13]And there was just all this nasty stuff of like,

[50:15]you know, talking about balls.

[50:16]That's so gross.

[50:18]But what they said is that instead of doing

[50:21]like yo mama jokes,

[50:23]which would make people like legitimately angry,

[50:25]like those are, you know, fighting words,

[50:27]they could say what they were gonna do to people

[50:29]in this way and just snap on them,

[50:30]like with these insane things that they would do.

[50:33]And nobody would ever get mad

[50:34]because it was so over the top and so ridiculous.

[50:36]It was like, well, it's not a big deal.

[50:37]Yeah, I'm not gonna really tie you to a bed

[50:39]and then hit your nuts

[50:41]with a baseball bat with nails in it.

[50:43]- Right.

[50:43]- I mean, it would be a big deal

[50:44]if someone sewed my ass hole shut and kept feeding me.

[50:46]That's all I know.

[50:47]- I like how it's the keep feeding you part that gets you.

[50:52]It's like, oh, don't keep feeding me here.

[50:54]This part one was bad, but not part two.

[50:56]Come on.

[50:57]Oh, some hot, hot ramen.

[51:00]All right.

[51:01]Here we have a, the first time we're listening to You God.

[51:04]- The only appearance from the Hillside Strangler.

[51:07]- By the way, the mystery of chess,

[51:08]the mystery of chess boxing was a Kung Fu movie.

[51:11]- Right.

[51:11]- Title.

[51:12]And I'm glad I said that.

[51:13]What a great thing to add.

[51:14]Rob, God, you suck at hosting this podcast.

[51:15]No, Rob, you're good at this.

[51:16]You're better than any of these guys.

[51:17]Yeah, you're right, Rob.

[51:18]Okay, here we go.

[51:19]I had to give myself a pep talk there, guys.

[51:22]- There's that cocaine from Bolivia.

[51:24]- I have so much to say about this song.

[51:25]- This is gonna be one of the best,

[51:27]the best parts of the album, right?

[51:28]- Yes.

[51:29]It's a highlight.

[51:30]These drums are from Otis Redding and Carla Thomas, Tramp,

[51:33]which is a song that's kind of like a prelude to that,

[51:37]♪ I carry like Mariah ♪

[51:41]This song was on the opposite side

[51:44]of their first single, "Cream," to come out.

[51:46]So I think they also thought it was a highlight.

[51:48]I love this song.

[51:48]Here's "Masta Killer."

[51:50]I don't know why these guys weren't on more songs.

[51:52]Their sound is so good.

[51:53]Like there's, I mean, listen to this.

[51:55]I wanna listen to this guy rap.

[51:57]- But maybe he only had one verse.

[52:00]- It's kind of like this podcast.

[52:01]I mean, you know, sometimes there's just

[52:03]too many voices talking.

[52:05]So some people just have to be quiet

[52:06]and just stand in the background.

[52:07]- Sometimes there's a lot of two-boy voices or something.

[52:08]- We gotta just lay out.

[52:10]- Aaron.

[52:10]- Did any of these guys,

[52:11]I don't know a ton about Wu-Tang or the rappers,

[52:14]like who's the most successful rapper?

[52:16]Who had the most successful careers of these guys?

[52:18]- Well, I mean, Method Man's gotta be

[52:20]the most individually successful rapper.

[52:22]I think his first solo album probably sold

[52:24]the most of the solo albums,

[52:26]and then he went on to a movie career.

[52:28]But he's also the most handsome,

[52:30]which is interesting because he really went out of his way

[52:32]to make himself look not handsome.

[52:33]- The most handsome?

[52:34]Wait, stop, rewind, rewind.

[52:36]What makes him the most handsome?

[52:38]- Yeah.

[52:38]- You should put up the chiseled jaw.

[52:40]- Yeah, you should put up a picture of like,

[52:42]ODB versus Method Man, like today.

[52:45]It would be.

[52:46]- Yeah.

[52:46]- If anybody Googles,

[52:47]Google Old Dirty Bastard right now.

[52:49]- Well, ODB is dead.

[52:50]You can't count that.

[52:51]- But that was like a thing where like,

[52:52]Meth would like kind of mess up his whole look.

[52:54]Like he had on the do-rag and he'd be chewing on the blunt.

[52:57]And then he would wear like the weird contact

[52:59]that blacked out his eye.

[53:01]And part of that was because he was so good looking

[53:03]that they didn't want to be for the ladies.

[53:05]Like they didn't want that to be part of their image.

[53:07]So he had to like make himself look not good.

[53:10]- I'm so angry right now.

[53:11]The fact that like people have to like downplay their,

[53:14]how handsome they are, as Aaron would say it.

[53:16]I'm so jealous right now.

[53:17]I've never had to do this.

[53:18]- Yeah, it's not easy.

[53:20]- I've never once gone out with a granny where she said,

[53:23]"Hey, you need to like,

[53:24]you should just dress a little more schlubby."

[53:26]You know, the grannies like a little more schlubby guys.

[53:28]I've never had to do this.

[53:30]I don't know how to feel about it.

[53:31]- So, all right.

[53:32]So Aaron wanted to do this with all the female artists

[53:34]we've talked about so far, but I said, no,

[53:35]but now we're doing it with the Wu-Tang Clan.

[53:37]Who is the best looking member of the Wu-Tang Clan?

[53:39]So here we have,

[53:40]it's Method Man.

[53:41]- It's Method Man.

[53:42]- He's got like a nicely groomed goatee, I would say.

[53:44]- I don't know, RZA's good looking.

[53:47]- It's true, RZA's good looking, yeah.

[53:48]- He's also the movie star.

[53:50]Those two starred together a lot.

[53:52]- Both in the movies, that's true.

[53:53]- Yeah, the rest of the guys are rough.

[53:54]I gotta say.

[53:56]Not great.

[53:57]- It might not surprise you guys.

[53:59]- Who do you guys think is the most handsome person

[54:01]on Beck Did It Better?

[54:01]Why don't you text in?

[54:02]Let us know.

[54:03]Who's the most handsome person?

[54:05]We wanna know who you think this is, okay?

[54:07]- This is gonna work fantastic

[54:08]when I've been using Aaron's picture.

[54:10]Here's my dating profile for the last month.

[54:13]- It may or may not surprise you guys

[54:15]that when I was a 23-year-old grown person,

[54:19]living with a first-time job,

[54:23]spending time on the Wu-Tang hip-hop message boards

[54:28]after my work hours,

[54:30]- Okay, stop for a second.

[54:31]Shut up for a second, shut up for a second.

[54:33]What was your username on the hip-hop message boards?

[54:38]- That's exactly where I'm going with this

[54:39]because I thought it would be

[54:40]really important to be a UGOD fan.

[54:42]So my message, my username was raw, I'm gonna give it to you,

[54:46]which was hard to spell out.

[54:48]I couldn't figure out how I could spell that out,

[54:50]but I wanted-

[54:50]- That's dirty.

[54:51]- I felt it was important to signify to the other users

[54:55]of the message board that I was a real Wu-Tang fan.

[54:58]- And you were gonna give it to them raw.

[55:00]- Yeah, that was a mistake.

[55:01]That was definitely a mistake.

[55:02]- I got a lot of private messages.

[55:04]I did not care for it.

[55:06]- Sir, I think you're on the wrong chat line.

[55:10]Do you have to delete hundreds of thousands of Hotmail emails

[55:15]to your raw, I'm gonna give it to you at hotmail.com

[55:17]like on a yearly basis or not?

[55:19]- That's like what he's using to apply for a job.

[55:21]Email me back.

[55:23]Listen, I want to work at this bullshit company

[55:24]doing whatever you guys do two days a week.

[55:26]You can email me back at raw, I'm gonna give it to you

[55:29]at hotmail.com.

[55:30]Please email me at raw, I'm gonna give it to you

[55:34]at hotmail.com.

[55:36]- So good.

[55:36]- Raw, I'm gonna give it to you is 69.

[55:39]- Oh my God.

[55:39]- I bet Aaron just sat on all those web domains for years.

[55:43]He's like, raw, I'm gonna give it to you.com.

[55:46]Raw, I'm gonna give it to you.edu.

[55:48]And he just sat on those and eventually

[55:49]it's gonna pay off big time.

[55:51]- If we can get 10 people to text in and say,

[55:55]hashtag raw, I'm gonna give it to you.

[55:56]I will type that into Google videos

[55:58]and just play the first video that comes up.

[56:00]And that's how we're gonna open up the next podcast.

[56:02]Raw, I'm gonna give it to you.

[56:05]That's what Aaron, the only Aaron would be like,

[56:06]I'm gonna use a username raw, I'm gonna give it to you.

[56:08]And then his parents come downstairs.

[56:11]Oh, what are you doing?

[56:11]Let's look to see what Aaron's typing on the computer.

[56:14]Raw, I'm gonna give it to you.

[56:15]Oh Jesus.

[56:16]- Yeah, your search history must be like Rob's,

[56:19]searching for pies.

[56:19]- No wonder your parents aren't excited

[56:21]about those t-shirts you're sending them, Aaron.

[56:24]I wouldn't need them, I wouldn't even claim you.

[56:25]- Raw, I'm gonna give it to you.

[56:27]All right.

[56:28]Well, I don't know how we,

[56:29]we should just end the podcast over that probably.

[56:30]- Yeah, I don't know how you're going from there.

[56:32]Sorry, everybody.

[56:33]- So a great example of Aaron sending me times

[56:35]is that Aaron sent me times for all these songs.

[56:37]And Aaron, again, I appreciate it.

[56:38]It's a lot of work kicking off my plate actually.

[56:40]But he did not send me anything that sounded like this,

[56:43]which is wild.

[56:44]I think this is the most well-known part

[56:46]of this album, right?

[56:48]- Aaron's probably never heard this part.

[56:49]It's like right after Miley Cyrus

[56:50]on his list of things he's never heard.

[56:53]- I mean, listen to this.

[56:54]♪ Who's tank planning ♪

[56:57]- This is by far the most famous part of the album, right?

[57:00]- Right, it's gotta be.

[57:01]Nowhere to be found in Aaron's list

[57:03]that he sent me whatsoever.

[57:04]- Did I miss this one?

[57:05]- I think there's better parts of this song.

[57:08]- Oh, you sent me this.

[57:09]So this is what Aaron wanted me to play from this song.

[57:11]♪ Style is awesome ♪

[57:12]♪ I'm causing more family trouble ♪

[57:13]- Oh, this is pretty awesome though, too.

[57:14]- It is.

[57:15]The RZA coming at you and that doot, doot, doot, doot, doot.

[57:18]You guys know what that's from?

[57:20]- I don't know.

[57:21]- The bass in the background?

[57:22]- What is it?

[57:23]- It's the "Underdog" theme song.

[57:25]- Ah, no shit.

[57:25]- See, that's so cool.

[57:27]- Bunch of nerds.

[57:28]- He talks like he's like Super Cat.

[57:29]- I know, I love these dorks.

[57:30]♪ I'm forced to get up my staff ♪

[57:32]♪ Carries like a pickup truck ♪

[57:33]- Man, listen to that bass line, so good.

[57:35]- Yep.

[57:36]- I'm gonna say it again.

[57:38]I hate to bug you guys.

[57:39]This was another great walking around New York

[57:41]listening to this, my headphone album.

[57:43]So good.

[57:43]- I mean, that's the place to listen to it.

[57:45]- To be fair, I'll drink, Rob mentioned New York.

[57:48]- Well, listen, we've already done

[57:49]quite a few Minnesota albums, so don't give me that.

[57:51]- I actually, Rob, you know, you're right.

[57:53]When you listen to this album,

[57:54]if people put their headphones in and listen to this album

[57:57]and you start walking around like in the city,

[57:59]like I went to the grocery store to get my Tang.

[58:01]And when I was walking around listening to the Wu Tang.

[58:03]- I was picking up Tang.

[58:04]- By the way.

[58:05]- I instantly had like a little bit of giddy up in my step.

[58:07]I had a little bit of attitude and I'm like,

[58:09]if people knew that I was walking around

[58:11]listening to Wu Tang right now,

[58:12]they would be like, that guy is awesome.

[58:15]- That guy's got life figured out.

[58:16]- He's got life figured out.

[58:17]- Yeah.

[58:18]- And then they look in your cart

[58:19]and they see a thing of Tang and they're like,

[58:20]well, see you later.

[58:21]Okay, I gotta go.

[58:22]This guy does not have anything figured out.

[58:23]- No, I thought about this tonight.

[58:25]You guys wanna know what I picked up at the store?

[58:26]I'm gonna go Aaron style.

[58:27]- I gotta hear, actually, I do have to hear that

[58:29]because in my mind, if you're buying Tang,

[58:31]you gotta load that cart up with something else

[58:33]to distract from the Tang.

[58:34]- I was gonna say like Tang, a couple onions.

[58:36]- Yeah.

[58:36]- I undershot it.

[58:39]So tonight I just said, after this podcast,

[58:41]I'm gonna try to make my own cheese plate.

[58:43]So what I went and got is some salami, salami,

[58:46]some cheeses.

[58:47]- A charcuterie board.

[58:48]- Yeah, I'm making my own charcuterie board tonight.

[58:49]- Aaron's raw, gonna give it to you.

[58:50]He's all excited now.

[58:52]- And so I was walking around,

[58:53]but I didn't even have a basket.

[58:54]And so then I kept like loading my hands and I was like,

[58:56]oh, I gotta go get my Tang though.

[58:57]So I had, I had salami.

[59:00]I had different types of cheese.

[59:01]I had Tang and then I was like,

[59:03]I should probably go get some almonds or something

[59:05]to put on my charcuterie board.

[59:06]Like let's, let's switch it up a little bit.

[59:08]So that was my adventure in the grocery store.

[59:10]And Aaron, it wasn't even a fancy grocery store.

[59:13]It was Cub Foods.

[59:14]How do you like that?

[59:14]- That sounds like food that like a serial killer

[59:18]would buy when they're gonna have somebody over

[59:20]for like a dinner.

[59:21]- I was shopping at Cub Foods at the same time

[59:22]I was raw, I'm gonna give it to you

[59:23]on the Wu Tang message board.

[59:24]So I'm with you.

[59:25]- Oh my God.

[59:26]Kendrick spirits.

[59:29]All right.

[59:31]So here was my name on the message boards cream.

[59:34]This was their first single off the album.

[59:39]- This is the video that I remember.

[59:40]- This is the most popular one that I know.

[59:43]- This is Wu Tang.

[59:43]- When I think of this album, this is what I hear.

[59:45]- Right.

[59:46]- So I think what's really interesting about this

[59:48]is that this is RZA and Raekwon rapping on this,

[59:51]but apparently they came into the studio

[59:53]and RZA just pointed at Method Man and said,

[59:55]listen, you have to put a hook on this song.

[59:58]Method Man's like, yes, that's what I do.

[60:00]That's what I'm best at.

[60:01]Put a hook on this song.

[60:02]So listen to this hook.

[60:03]- I know it's so good.

[60:07]I think it's deck rhyming on this one, right?

[60:09]- I was reading that Method Man came up with this buddy.

[60:13]He worked for like the Statue of Liberty with this guy.

[60:15]They would come up with these kind of acronyms

[60:17]for certain things.

[60:18]And that's kind of where they came up with this.

[60:19]I thought that was really cool.

[60:21]- I think the Dalla Dalla Bill might've been not a sample,

[60:26]but it was like, I think they ended up having to credit

[60:28]another song on the Dalla Dalla Bill, y'all.

[60:31]- What, uh, Method Man has had an insane career, right?

[60:36]- Yeah.

[60:37]- Like before we get into the next song,

[60:38]which is just Method Man, his career is literally insane.

[60:40]Like I didn't know he started with the Wu-Tang Clan

[60:42]because I know Method Man from when he was

[60:45]with his cousin, Redman.

[60:47]And then what I really know them from

[60:48]is from their hidden camera show that they had on MTV

[60:51]where they would go around and prank people.

[60:53]- Right.

[60:54]- Like it's so wild.

[60:55]- "Do As With Mary J."

[60:56]Yeah.

[60:57]- He was in a movie, "How High,"

[60:58]where two stoners got into Harvard.

[61:00]And it's just like a ton of jokes.

[61:01]It's about being high, like rowing.

[61:02]It's so wild.

[61:03]It's such a crazy, like his, his whole career.

[61:06]And then now he says that he hasn't sworn

[61:08]or said a dirty word in a rap song in like six years,

[61:11]which may be why you don't hear a lot of

[61:12]Method Man songs anymore on the radio, but.

[61:14]- One of my favorite parts of that song is the reference

[61:18]to "I Slam Tracks Like Quarterback Sacks" from LT.

[61:21]We're talking Super Bowl.

[61:24]There's this reference to them.

[61:26]I think the Wu-Tang Clan, they do a great job

[61:28]of having these kind of shout outs to football

[61:31]players, right?

[61:32]That's in there.

[61:32]There's, it's in some other songs too.

[61:34]So it started making me wonder,

[61:36]what are the greatest hip hop songs ever

[61:38]that have shout outs to NFL football players?

[61:41]So I'm going to give you guys a list.

[61:42]- Oh, I'm excited for this.

[61:44]- Oh man.

[61:45]- Three, two, one, four, another, another.

[61:49]- I swear to God, if we have to listen

[61:50]to that whole Super Bowl shuffle again,

[61:51]I'm going to be upset.

[61:52]- There's no more Super Bowl shuffle.

[61:54]We can delete that whole thing out of the whole podcast.

[61:56]- No, we talked about that, Russell.

[61:57]No more saying that.

[61:59]It was good.

[61:59]Now stop it.

[62:01]- The next one on the list is we've talked

[62:02]about OutKast before.

[62:03]OutKast is right in Matt's wheelhouse.

[62:05]This first song is OutKast.

[62:07]You guys remember this song, "The Whole World"?

[62:09]- Hey, I got something to say about this.

[62:13]- Randy Mouse.

[62:16]- Randy Mouse.

[62:17]- You know who this rapper is?

[62:19]- And I think this was on Killer Mike,

[62:22]who is now part of Run the Jewels.

[62:25]That was Killer Mike rapping.

[62:26]And Killer Mike is in Run the Jewels.

[62:28]So you can't escape it, Russell.

[62:30]You wanted to not talk

[62:31]about Run the Jewels, and you talked about Run the Jewels.

[62:33]- Russell, you fell right into Raw,

[62:34]going to give it to you.

[62:35]- Right into my trap.

[62:37]I set the trap.

[62:38]- I'm going to be running it raw

[62:39]and running the jewels all over those grandmas this week.

[62:41]- He's going to be fantastic.

[62:43]- Yeah.

[62:44]- You're in big trouble.

[62:45]- The next song on the list is Wale.

[62:46]I don't really know a lot of Wale.

[62:47]This is Wale's dance off the album, "100 Miles Running."

[62:51]And he's got all these cool references

[62:52]to old school Cincinnati Bengals.

[62:54]Check it out.

[62:55]- Oh, wow.

[62:56]♪ I'm on my city, miss me ♪

[62:57]♪ I'm on my U.K. shit ♪

[62:58]♪ Get me the eye of a Bengal shuffling my icky ♪

[63:01]♪ Y'all boomer, you need you a M.D. like Esiason ♪

[63:04]♪ Dominating all the East Side, shout commence ♪

[63:06]♪ And I shout commence that I'm the truth, Joe ♪

[63:08]♪ Though they try to block me like Munoz ♪

[63:10]♪ I know my call is worth ♪

[63:11]- Munoz, Anthony Munoz.

[63:13]- Within a rap, he references Icky Woods,

[63:16]who has the greatest touchdown dance ever,

[63:18]Boomer Esiason, the greatest left-handed quarterback ever,

[63:21]and Anthony Munoz getting it right.

[63:23]- Hold on.

[63:24]There's no way Boomer's better than Steve Young,

[63:26]but I do like the rap.

[63:27]I like the rap.

[63:28]- Yeah, but then he's also, as an offense,

[63:31]the best offensive lineman ever been shouted out

[63:33]in a rap song in the history of the world.

[63:35]- No, absolutely not.

[63:36]- No, yeah.

[63:37]- That's so good.

[63:39]- Russell, you're just crushing it every week

[63:40]with these lists.

[63:41]- NFL player raps.

[63:42]I'm imagining Russell's Google history again.

[63:44]It's like, NFL players rap,

[63:46]we're all gonna give it to you, question mark.

[63:48]Best looking Wu-Tang member.

[63:49]- Technically, Rob, it's NFL shout outs in hip hop.

[63:55]- Ah, I see.

[63:55]- If you want more.

[63:57]So the next song is, we've covered Kendrick Lamar before.

[64:01]Gotta check out this song by Kendrick Lamar.

[64:03]It's called "Bloodsport"

[64:04]and it's on the album called "Training Day"

[64:06]and he shouts out so many NFL players.

[64:08]Check this out.

[64:08]♪ When I kick it like Morton Anderson ♪

[64:11]♪ It gets scary ♪

[64:12]♪ When you on my shoulder, refrigerator parry ♪

[64:14]♪ Hip hop cops on me, I dodge 'em like Barry ♪

[64:17]♪ Sanders, John Madden, hold your commentary ♪

[64:19]♪ Keep the cameras on ♪

[64:20]♪ I'm primetime like the '95 DeHaan ♪

[64:22]♪ Should I keep going ♪

[64:23]- Listen to all these famous players he shouts out.

[64:26]♪ I'ma do it like the '97 T-Awns ♪

[64:28]- And so this song, maybe Aaron,

[64:29]maybe you might know this song, but he,

[64:31]he shouts out all these players in all different sports,

[64:33]but you guys gotta go check this out.

[64:35]If you're a sports fan and you still watch sports,

[64:37]I don't know why you would,

[64:38]but you guys have to go check out "Bloodsport"

[64:41]on "Training Day".

[64:42]There's like, shout out to Ken Griffey Jr.

[64:44]It's fantastic.

[64:44]- Was the Morton Anderson a callback to the '98 Vikings?

[64:47]- Jesus Christ.

[64:48]- He's still just trying to rub salt in that.

[64:50]- What the fuck, Aaron?

[64:51]- Like I brought it up as a joke,

[64:52]but now you're just being an asshole.

[64:53]- Yeah, put the trigger.

[64:54]You gotta trigger it.

[64:55]Put the trigger warning on, Rod.

[64:57]- Put Aaron on mute for the rest of this.

[64:58]- Oh my gosh.

[64:59]- Get the hell out.

[65:01]- Now there's me halfway out of the Metrodome.

[65:02]So instead of riding home for an hour and a half,

[65:04]we could ride home for an hour and 15 minutes.

[65:06]Dumb shits.

[65:07]- The interesting thing on the next one is,

[65:10]do you guys remember that movie "Miracle"

[65:11]where it's like, you gotta look at the name on the,

[65:14]the name on the front of the jersey means a lot more

[65:16]than the name on the back.

[65:17]And so this next song, they're calling out teams

[65:20]and they're not calling out specific players.

[65:22]And this is actually the GZA,

[65:24]I believe his name is pronounced, Rob.

[65:26]- Yeah, there's some debate.

[65:28]- This is from GZA.

[65:29]The song is called "Queen's Gambit".

[65:31]DJ Muggs vs GZA, Grand Masters.

[65:33]Check this song out.

[65:34]- Great show.

[65:35]- Ooh, DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill.

[65:37]- He references Chess.

[65:38]♪ Dying for me to pack her as she stroked my helmet ♪

[65:40]♪ And I was thinking these girls were saints ♪

[65:43]♪ But it was first content and there was extra walls to paint ♪

[65:46]♪ Before you know it, I had all three in the huddle ♪

[65:49]♪ Bucking like a colt before I released the puddles ♪

[65:52]♪ They spread eagles like keypads ♪

[65:52]- Oh boy.

[65:53]- Whoa.

[65:54]- Oh yes.

[65:55]- It truly is the GZA.

[65:56]- Here we go.

[65:57]- That, I was like, it,

[66:00]the GZA, the Wu-Tang, here comes the GZA coming back

[66:04]and he's putting the front of the name

[66:06]on the jersey instead of the back.

[66:07]He's calling out all the teams there.

[66:09]- GZA's football experience

[66:10]sounded a lot like mine in college.

[66:11]- Releasing the puddle.

[66:13]- Get into the huddle and, mm-hmm.

[66:15]Put the, something in the puddle, yep.

[66:17]- Rob, Rob, Rob.

[66:18]- Did he have a rhyme about sitting in a pod list

[66:20]watching Ultimate with all your male friends?

[66:22]- I have a feeling GZA's not talking about that.

[66:25]- We're supposed to bleep that.

[66:25]- All right, and the final,

[66:28]the final track in the list of the greatest hip hop songs

[66:30]that do give a shout out to NFL players

[66:33]is A Tribe Called Quest.

[66:35]This is What's the Scenario?

[66:37]You guys will remember this one.

[66:38]- Yeah, Busta's on this one.

[66:40]♪ So what, so what, so what's the scenario ♪

[66:42]- These some good drums too.

[66:43]♪ What, what ♪

[66:44]- What?

[66:45]♪ What, what ♪

[66:46]♪ 'Cause Mo can't rap ♪

[66:47]- Mo can't rap.

[66:48]♪ The D-dog is first up ♪

[66:48]- And if you listen for a little bit,

[66:50]he eventually shouts out Broadway Joe Namath

[66:53]coming up here.

[66:53]♪ For move faking ♪

[66:54]♪ Gots to get to lose so I can bring home the ♪

[66:56]- Here it comes.

[66:57]♪ Brothers front ♪

[66:58]♪ They say the drop can't flow ♪

[66:58]♪ But we've been known to do the impossible ♪

[67:00]♪ Like Broadway ♪

[67:00]♪ It's a great joke ♪

[67:01]♪ So sleep if you want ♪

[67:02]- Yes.

[67:03]Ah, that's good.

[67:04]I want to kiss you.

[67:05]Russell, this is so good.

[67:06]I want to kiss you.

[67:08]- He's coming at you raw, Russell.

[67:09]Look out.

[67:10]- Yeah.

[67:11]- Yeah.

[67:11]- I've never wanted to kiss Aaron Rahm

[67:13]more than right now after the greatest--

[67:15]- You guys know that--

[67:16]- Five joke, right?

[67:16]- Hip hop tracks ever that reference NFL players.

[67:18]- Yeah, Russell, you put a mirror up on this side

[67:21]and Rosie, you put a mirror up on this side

[67:23]and it'll be like...

[67:24]- Yes.

[67:24]- Trying to figure it out.

[67:25]- I don't have to explain that joke.

[67:26]- You guys have seen the Joe Namath kissing--

[67:29]- My username is Rob going to give it to you, so I don't--

[67:31]- Aaron, I'm going to call Aaron out right now.

[67:35]Aaron usually has the funniest joke every episode.

[67:37]We just normally are not listening for it,

[67:39]but Aaron just had the funniest joke again

[67:41]and we stopped on it.

[67:42]- Okay, so now let's listen to Aaron's joke.

[67:44]Aaron, we're listening.

[67:45]What is your joke?

[67:47]- Wait, I thought you were going to play something else.

[67:51]- No, I'm not.

[67:51]- My joke was--

[67:52]- I'm literally listening.

[67:53]- No, the joke was--

[67:54]- We're trying to give you credit for the Joe Namath.

[67:56]- Thank you.

[67:57]- I want to kiss you now.

[67:57]- The joke was I want to kiss you.

[67:58]- No one got it.

[67:59]- Yeah.

[67:59]- Yeah.

[68:00]- What was it?

[68:01]Say it again.

[68:02]We talked to drunk you again.

[68:03]- Yeah, drunk guys hitting on--

[68:04]- Drunk Joe Namath, Susie Colbert.

[68:05]- Side line reporters.

[68:06]That's right.

[68:07]- Oh, you guys are--

[68:08]- Hey, Joe.

[68:09]- He's not happy about this.

[68:10]He doesn't like that joke.

[68:11]- Hey, Joe, how's the game going?

[68:11]I just want to kiss you.

[68:13]I want to kiss you.

[68:15]Hey, Joe, do you think this might show

[68:17]that you have a long-term problem with alcohol abuse?

[68:18]No, I just want to kiss you.

[68:20]I got a problem with not kissing you.

[68:21]- I can bring home the bacon.

[68:23]- Hey, do you know anything about the Wu-Tang Clan?

[68:24]My name is Rob.

[68:25]I'll give it to you on the message boards.

[68:27]Come search me out.

[68:28]It's no big deal.

[68:29]All right, so that was a great Joe Namath impression.

[68:32]Guys, what if, you know what?

[68:33]What if Joe Namath had sex with Hulk Hogan?

[68:35]I think it would sound a little something like this.

[68:37]Hey, Hulk, this is your ass.

[68:39]I want to kiss you.

[68:40]Oh my God, I just had a bunch of sushi.

[68:42]Eat like a pig, bruh.

[68:43]So at no point did those two impressions change

[68:48]because they were with each other,

[68:50]but they just were sitting next to each other.

[68:52]- Would Joe be wearing the fur coat?

[68:53]Like, wasn't he famous for wearing the fur coat back then?

[68:55]- Yeah, he was wearing the fur coat back then.

[68:55]- Yeah, he was wearing the fur coat back then.

[68:55]- He's wearing the fur coat.

[68:56]He's calling that he's going to win the Superbowl

[68:58]and he's going to have sex with Hulk Hogan.

[69:00]And then Hulk Hogan bankrupts him.

[69:02]So there you go.

[69:04]All right, so that was a good trip down memory lane.

[69:07]- Hey, Rob, if he bankrupted him,

[69:08]he would have to cream,

[69:09]get the money for that bankruptcy, right?

[69:12]- That is, no, we already did that one, didn't we?

[69:14]- Oh, I don't know what song we're on here.

[69:18]- Russ just wanted to say cream.

[69:19]He's like, "Oh, I wasn't even talking about this song."

[69:21]All right. - Get on top, all right.

[69:23]- So we're talking about Method Man.

[69:25]The way this song starts, where he starts the M-E-T-H-H-O-D,

[69:30]whatever, I can't spell, man. - Man.

[69:32]- T-O-R-T-E-N-Y, man. - Is actually taken from,

[69:34]probably one of the most hardcore groups

[69:36]in the history of music, Hall & Oates.

[69:39]- Oh, wow.

[69:42]♪ M-E-T-H-O-D-E-O-F-L-O-V ♪ - Okay, forget it.

[69:43]♪ M-E-T-H-O-D-E-O-F-L-O-V ♪ - What else is there?

[69:47]- He took this.

[69:47]- It's a method of love.

[69:50]♪ M-E-T-H-O-D-E-O-F-L-O-V ♪

[69:55]♪ M-E-T-H-O-D-E-O-F-L-O-V ♪ - Oh!

[69:56]- This is awesome.

[69:57]- I had no idea.

[69:58]- Rob, that's a great song.

[69:58]- This is awesome. - I did not know that.

[69:59]- I mean, you can hear it throughout the entire album.

[70:01]- Your Wikipedia reading skills are--

[70:03]- That was off the top of the dome.

[70:06]Is that what they say, off the top of the dome?

[70:08]- Rob, did you have to click on a footnote

[70:09]to get to that Wikipedia part or not?

[70:12]- Guys, my knowledge of Hall & Oates is good,

[70:14]but my knowledge about the method of love is even better.

[70:17]- Okay?

[70:19]- It's hot.

[70:20]- But you can hear through the whole album

[70:20]what fans of music these guys are.

[70:23]That's a great call out, Rob.

[70:24]You totally nailed it.

[70:25]These guys were all listening to a lot of music,

[70:28]and Hall & Oates was actually a white group

[70:29]that got played on black radio,

[70:30]so it wouldn't surprise me if they all just knew this song

[70:33]because they heard it on the radio.

[70:35]- Yacht rock.

[70:35]- Yeah.

[70:36]- Rob, what would you say your favorite method of love is?

[70:38]- I think my favorite is where my wife and I agree

[70:40]that we're gonna meet each other in bed at eight,

[70:42]and then that never happens.

[70:44]We see each other at 10:30 and we're like,

[70:45]"Oh, we're exhausted.

[70:46]Let's just go to sleep."

[70:47]Okay.

[70:48]And then I sneak out of the room.

[70:50]All right.

[70:50]- Is that my method of love?

[70:53]- Here we go.

[70:53]- Rob sneaks out of the room and records a podcast

[70:56]and she's not even aware of it.

[70:58]- I'm like, "Maybe my wife's asleep.

[70:59]I can sneak out of this room and have a method of love."

[71:01]- I will say, I didn't realize until,

[71:02]like, there were times in my Wu-Tang listening career

[71:05]where I actually thought they were smoking meth,

[71:07]and I did not know that method was slang for weed.

[71:11]I was like, "It seems odd that these guys were doing meth,"

[71:15]but it turns out they were just-

[71:16]- I thought they were saying meth, too,

[71:17]'cause they kept saying, "Grab the meth."

[71:19]- Yeah, yeah, when they say meth, they're talking about weed,

[71:21]and it's confusing because, you know,

[71:22]growing up where I did, like, meth is meth, right?

[71:24]Methamphetamine, but they're actually,

[71:26]when they say meth, they're talking about weed.

[71:29]- Yeah, meth is what is behind the house.

[71:31]Weed is what's in front of the house, you know?

[71:33]- Yeah, but when Rob grew up,

[71:35]they called the jizza the gizza, so, like, no,

[71:38]like, we all grew up in different areas

[71:39]and different parts of the country, and-

[71:41]- But, yeah, when they say meth, they're talking about-

[71:43]- You say tomato, I say tomato.

[71:45]- Exactly, Matt, exactly.

[71:46]- I can tell you what, when they're hiring a meth teacher now,

[71:48]that's, it turns out I misread that.

[71:51]- Yeah.

[71:52]- Does that work?

[71:54]There's a joke in there somewhere.

[71:55]All right, speaking of math, let's talk about Math-ed Man.

[71:58]Two plus two is four.

[71:59]- This obtuse angle is bigger than the acute angle.

[72:02]- Man.

[72:05]- So, his name is Weed Man.

[72:07]That would explain the movie How High, then.

[72:09]- Yeah.

[72:09]- Exactly, no, he's known for smoking a ton of weed.

[72:11]Like, that was his thing.

[72:12]- I can't believe this connection.

[72:16]This is, that connection's one of the things

[72:19]that is blowing my mind more than anything

[72:20]that we've done on this podcast.

[72:21]He took a Paul and Oates track and made this song.

[72:26]- Yeah, that's wild.

[72:27]- That's awesome.

[72:27]- That's totally awesome.

[72:28]- How would you like to be known as Fish Filet Man?

[72:30]'Cause you just ate a lot of fish filets.

[72:31]Like, that's basically what he did.

[72:33]Like, he's like, oh, this is something I love.

[72:35]I'm just that guy man now.

[72:37]- Can we pause this while I update my tating profile

[72:39]right now?

[72:40]- F-I-S-H-P-R-O-I-F-I-L-E-M-A-N.

[72:46]It doesn't play as well in the apps, but I'm gonna try.

[72:49]- I think that's good.

[72:49]- I'm gonna try it out.

[72:50]- I think that's very good.

[72:51]And also, be sure to come and put in raw coming to you

[72:54]or whatever.

[72:55]I can't remember what it is anymore.

[72:56]- It's raw.

[72:57]I'm gonna give it to you.

[72:58]- So Aaron also sent me this time clip.

[72:59]I don't know why.

[73:01]I love Method Man, though.

[73:03]His voice is so fun.

[73:05]- It's raspy.

[73:06]There's something so unique about it, isn't it?

[73:08]- One of the only hooks on the album.

[73:09]- He's got that New York accent, too, and yeah.

[73:11]- The coolest thing I read about his voice

[73:14]is it sounds like he had a razor blade under his tongue

[73:17]and he accidentally swallowed it.

[73:18]- Oh my God, that's terrible.

[73:21]- Yeah.

[73:22]- That's something I stress about.

[73:23]That sounds like my teeth thing.

[73:24]Ugh.

[73:25]- But yeah, I must have missed the tongue cue,

[73:29]but that song has one of the only hooks on the album.

[73:32]- Rob, do you think your dog is gonna stress more

[73:34]about its teeth as it gets older

[73:36]and it realizes I shouldn't have been eating

[73:37]all this underwear or not?

[73:39]Do you think if your dog was on a podcast,

[73:42]this would be its rolling going?

[73:43]Like, I keep eating my owner's underwear.

[73:45]I don't know why I'm doing this or not.

[73:47]- I don't know what kind of damage I would do

[73:49]to my teeth if you're eating underwear.

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[75:09]- I haven't heard ODB for a while.

[75:11]- Yeah.

[75:12]- From the Brooklyn Zoo.

[75:14]Yeah, I think he's the only one from Brooklyn

[75:16]as far as I am aware.

[75:18]- It's so good.

[75:19]And then we have a little ghost face killer at the end.

[75:21]- And a little public enemy whistle in there, right?

[75:23]They got the same.

[75:24]- Yes, I was gonna say.

[75:25]You can definitely hear that influence of that East Coast,

[75:27]like with that

[75:28]- For crying out loud.

[75:34]- To go from ODB to ghost face killer is so good.

[75:39]- God damn it, Aaron.

[75:40]What do you wanna say?

[75:41]I will let you say as much as you want on this album.

[75:43]You're the man.

[75:43]- He says, not long as how long this rhyme took me.

[75:46]Like he's so good, but then he'll say like the goofiest shit.

[75:48]I just love it.

[75:49]- God, you listen to the lyrics.

[75:52]I cannot hear the lyrics as much as you.

[75:54]- I listened to this album a lot.

[75:57]- Yeah, that's true.

[75:58]All right, and then we hear the same song.

[76:00]We have the RZA going to the jizz-a.

[76:02]- He's just going around the mountain when I come,

[76:06]like that's so dorky and I just love it.

[76:08]♪ I'm down ♪

[76:09]♪ Took a chicken ♪

[76:10]♪ Take us the out of here ♪

[76:12]♪ The woo is too slamming for these cold killer labels ♪

[76:14]♪ So ain't had to hit the scene ♪

[76:15]- God, this is good.

[76:16]- There was something there, the daughter's as bright

[76:19]as a 20 watt light bulb.

[76:21]- Right.

[76:21]And like Matt was saying earlier, it's all a New York sound.

[76:25]They got that, like that whole track is a,

[76:27]is a public enemy kind of thing,

[76:28]but like a little more stripped down without all the,

[76:31]you know, frenzy around it,

[76:32]but you still have that squealy saxophone in the back,

[76:35]which is like a pure public enemy callback.

[76:37]I just, I can't get enough of it.

[76:38]- I can't get enough of it.

[76:40]This next song is a lot like my Peloton bike pants, "Tears".

[76:43]Oh wait, no, "Tears".

[76:44]- "Tears".

[76:45]- More Stax Records, Wendy Rene on here.

[76:49]- The background, the beat to this song,

[76:52]that high pitch beat with it is the best part.

[76:55]This is fantastic.

[76:56]- When you go and listen to the Wendy Rene track

[77:00]that this samples, they're really just playing

[77:04]the whole track. - This part here is fantastic.

[77:05]♪ Now Thelma had a rep that went side in her neck ♪

[77:08]♪ Happy girl who's shawling ♪

[77:10]- It's almost as if Rosie waits for other people to talk

[77:12]and then that's when he talks.

[77:14]- Is this beat here, that high pitch beat,

[77:16]is that sampling from something else

[77:18]or is that Wu-Tang coming up with that?

[77:20]- This is, you know, this is basically,

[77:22]so this is something that Ghostface then took

[77:24]to the next level in his later career

[77:26]was they're really just playing this Wendy Rene track,

[77:30]that whole thing.

[77:30]If you go and find the track,

[77:33]it's called "After Laughter", I believe.

[77:35]It's really, they're just rapping over her song, right?

[77:37]- Yeah. - Yeah.

[77:38]- Yeah.

[77:39]- And Ghostface took it even further later

[77:40]where he raps over "Save Me Dear" by Freddie Jackson.

[77:42]I think it's Freddie Jackson and a couple others

[77:45]where he'll just like throw it on a track and rap over it.

[77:49]And I know RZA did some other, you know,

[77:52]messing with the levels and the drums and such,

[77:54]but this one, he's just like really just rapping

[77:57]over a whole track and it's perfect.

[77:59]- Should we do that with episode zero

[78:01]where we just play it under us

[78:02]and then we talk over it the whole time?

[78:04]It would be like the same thing, it'd be so good.

[78:06]- Cool.

[78:07]- I read that the funky drum beat on this

[78:10]is from Wilson Pickett's 1970 song, "Get Me Back on Time".

[78:15]And I went looking forever

[78:16]and I just kept coming up with Wilson.

[78:18]Which one, Rob?

[78:20]- Which one was it?

[78:21]- It's like the screw driver.

[78:21]- Which one am I talking about?

[78:22]- Yeah.

[78:23]- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[78:24]I got those confused.

[78:25]♪ Open your heart and you'll find ♪

[78:27]- Chains, chains, chains.

[78:29]- Don't make me put more music on the background.

[78:32]♪ Someday somebody's gonna ♪

[78:33]- God damn it, now that's yours.

[78:34]♪ Say goodbye ♪

[78:35]- We're nine minutes into this thing, Rob's gonna...

[78:36]- Sorry, future Rob. - We're nine minutes into this thing, Rob's gonna...

[78:37]- Sorry, future Rob. - We're nine minutes into this thing, Rob's gonna...

[78:38]♪ 'Til that day ♪ - Last episode, I was like,

[78:40]we were putting in so many of those, I was so mad.

[78:42]And I go, "Okay, let's play that song here."

[78:44]And then I go, "God damn it."

[78:45]And I go, "Sorry, future Rob."

[78:46]And I was like, "Yeah, that's what I'm talking about."

[78:47]Like, that's my attitude.

[78:49]Oh, there's a hole in your bike shorts?

[78:50]Oh, don't buy new ones for future Rob.

[78:52]Just leave it.

[78:53]Let your balls fly around past Rob, dummy.

[78:56]Idiots.

[78:57]All right, here we have the seventh chamber, part two.

[79:00]So really it's the 14th chamber, if you think about it.

[79:02]- It's pretty much a remix, right?

[79:04]- Yeah.

[79:06]- Or is it the 49th?

[79:08]- That's a good point.

[79:09]- Oh, nice, nice, Matt. - Aaron, what are all the chambers?

[79:10]Is this like, is this a Kung Fu thing,

[79:12]or what are the chambers? - I got it, Matt.

[79:14]- M-A-T-H, Matt.

[79:16]- I think it's a Kung Fu thing.

[79:19]- That's a math callback for our buddy, Darren.

[79:21]- I'm sorry, what were you guys talking about?

[79:25]Matt and I were having our own podcast over here.

[79:26]- Russell wanted to know about the chambers.

[79:28]- I just waited for Rosie to talk,

[79:30]and that's what I said.

[79:30]- Please don't do that.

[79:33]That makes it very hard to edit, actually.

[79:36]♪ Who now has the force to leave you lost ♪

[79:38]♪ Like the travesty ♪

[79:38]♪ Like the travesty ♪

[79:39]- I like the pausing of this.

[79:40]- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[79:41]- We have not even talked, we've not talked at all about,

[79:43]we've not talked at all at this point

[79:45]about divine mathematics or 5% nation

[79:49]and all this stuff that was,

[79:50]so there's, underlying all of this,

[79:52]underlying all of the tough street talk

[79:55]and the goofy call-outs to game shows and movies

[79:59]and all of that, there's all of this really intense

[80:06]to the 5% nation, which was a subset

[80:10]or maybe an offshoot of the nation of Islam,

[80:13]and all this stuff about divine mathematics,

[80:15]so everything they're saying in a lot of cases

[80:18]has a meaning that means something else,

[80:20]so like when Ghost says he stuck the power you,

[80:23]he's talking about a lady's private parts,

[80:26]when Riz's name is all about like rule of zigzag,

[80:29]zig-a-la, jam is fatal.

[80:31]- Why do they call it a you?

[80:32]- Zig-zag, zig-a-la, no, the power you,

[80:33]like the lady's part is a power you.

[80:35]- Oh, oh.

[80:36]- So all this stuff is like,

[80:38]you know, there's stuff that's like,

[80:40]I've never understood, you know,

[80:44]and I'm only getting half of it myself,

[80:46]and like who knows, is someone out there who's listening

[80:49]who understands all of it,

[80:50]so it's deep, like a Navy seal, like Raekwon,

[80:53]but it's also--

[80:54]- Aaron said some really smart shit,

[80:56]can I say some really smart shit about this album?

[80:58]- Yeah, I wanna hear it.

[80:59]- So one of my favorite things

[81:00]is they kept singing about Kung Fu,

[81:01]but there's other artists out there

[81:02]that also sing about martial arts,

[81:04]and one of them is Beck.

[81:06]And in his song, "Wow,"

[81:08]he sings about a different type of martial arts.

[81:10]Let's check it out, Rob.

[81:11]- Let's hear it.

[81:11]- Listen closely,

[81:13]he's gonna sing about a different type of martial arts.

[81:16]- This is Beck?

[81:20]- Jiu-jitsu.

[81:21]- There you go.

[81:22]- So Beck is singing about Jiu-jitsu,

[81:23]and I think anyone who follows Ultimate Fighting

[81:25]or mixed martial arts knows

[81:27]that if you put a Kung Fu fighter

[81:29]versus a Jiu-jitsu fighter, who's gonna win?

[81:32]Jiu-jitsu.

[81:33]So when it comes to songs and albums,

[81:36]music, about martial arts, who does it better?

[81:39]- Beck did it better.

[81:41]- Beck did it better.

[81:42]Russell, that's amazing.

[81:44]- So Aaron, I know sometimes that we call albums songs.

[81:47]What did you think of this album?

[81:49]- I think this song sucks.

[81:51]- Oh, Aaron, that's terrible.

[81:53]I can't believe you'd say that about "End of the Chamber."

[81:56]That's terrible.

[81:57]That's awful.

[81:57]- He's been mentioning this one

[81:58]for like eight to 12 episodes in a row.

[82:01]- And guess what?

[82:02]He blew it.

[82:02]All right, so let's get into our final most popular.

[82:06]Rock, sometimes puts the needle to the groove

[82:09]and he gets really rude.

[82:10]I don't like that.

[82:11]- No!

[82:12]- There's the last one, there it is.

[82:14]- Beck did it better.

[82:15]Rating system.

[82:17]Oh yeah.

[82:18]- God, that's long, isn't that?

[82:22]I mean, that's like 10 years long.

[82:25]Okay, well, guess what?

[82:25]Kinda like Aaron, do you think it's rolling toned,

[82:28]rolling bone, or rolling groan?

[82:29]You guys know what it means.

[82:31]- Oh, that's a disappointment.

[82:33]You're not giving me explanations.

[82:34]- Everybody's making fun of the system.

[82:34]Guess what? Rolling well toned.

[82:36]This is number 27 on our list, I believe.

[82:40]Should this be number 27 on the list?

[82:45]Should, did this album get rolling boned?

[82:48]Meaning it's too low on the list.

[82:49]In this case, we should have covered it earlier.

[82:51]It's a better album than 27.

[82:55]Or is this a rolling groan?

[82:56]It should be 28, 29.

[82:58]So it should be farther down the list.

[82:59]But in our case, farther down is actually the lower number

[83:03]on the rolling stone.

[83:04]So it's actually, is this farther up the list

[83:05]on the rolling stone?

[83:06]Or is this a rolling stone?

[83:06]So you would see it first.

[83:08]Okay, so it should this be a first album,

[83:09]meaning it wasn't as good.

[83:11]So there's the simple rating system.

[83:13]Let's go, Russell, what did you think?

[83:15]- I really enjoyed the album there.

[83:18]To me, there are highs and lows.

[83:19]There are some songs that are kind of slow

[83:21]and there are some songs that are just bad-ass.

[83:23]And I love that the coolest thing about it

[83:25]is you have all these different rappers

[83:26]that have a different voice or a different tempo

[83:29]or kind of a different vibe to them.

[83:31]So I enjoyed it.

[83:32]For me, the most exciting part of this is watching Aaron get

[83:35]to enjoy it.

[83:36]For that, I'm going to say it's rolling well-toned.

[83:38]I want to watch my, or experience my friends experience

[83:41]amazing music too.

[83:42]And watching Aaron experience this is well worth it.

[83:45]Rolling well-toned.

[83:45]- This is like watching you watch ultimate .

[83:47]You know what I mean?

[83:48]Like you're just doing something you love.

[83:50]It's great.

[83:51]And can you imagine having a group of guys

[83:52]with different sounding voices?

[83:53]That would be so helpful on a podcast.

[83:55]That'd be so great.

[83:56]So anyway.

[83:59]- Rob, who's up?

[84:00]Matt, Matt rolling well-toned.

[84:03]- Matt, what do you think of this album?

[84:04]Is it rolling well-toned?

[84:05]Is it, excuse me, sir.

[84:06]Is it rolling well-toned, rolling boned?

[84:09]Okay.

[84:10]And that means that it should be in a different place

[84:12]on the list or is it rolling groan?

[84:13]And once again, I've forgotten what all those mean.

[84:15]Go ahead.

[84:16]- Which one of those rankings makes it cream, Rob?

[84:18]- They all do.

[84:22]- Okay.

[84:23]- The lightest touch at this point.

[84:24]- I am going to go, if this is a rolling well-toned,

[84:29]that means it's right where it should be.

[84:30]- Yes, yes.

[84:31]And that's funny that you would act

[84:32]like you don't understand the system.

[84:34]- Well, I'm trying to read what

[84:35]you've got here and then you get confused.

[84:37]- We're not supposed to read Rob's notes anymore.

[84:39]We're not supposed to do that anymore.

[84:41]- It says right there, too low on the list.

[84:43]It's a higher number.

[84:44]- He got mad at me when I stole his ranking a few weeks ago.

[84:46]Don't do that.

[84:47]- You want it to be a higher number

[84:48]or it is a higher number, so you want it to go lower.

[84:49]- Listen, I don't want anything.

[84:50]I just want to hang out with you guys.

[84:51]This is fun.

[84:52]I'm doing positive stuff with my good friends, okay?

[84:54]Where else would I know that Aaron's username is raw?

[84:56]I'm going to give it to you.

[84:57]And at no point did he think like,

[84:58]oh, this is a terrible username.

[85:00]- I'm going to go with rolling well-toned.

[85:03]- I want to get to Rosie's take on it,

[85:05]but the fact that you've got, at the heart of it,

[85:09]you've got a bunch of nerds that want to hang out together

[85:11]and make really cool music.

[85:13]In the end, it is awesome.

[85:16]And I will listen to this album forever

[85:19]and come back to it forever and just put on,

[85:23]every time I hear Old Dirty Bastard,

[85:25]every time I hear the name Old Dirty Bastard,

[85:28]it just makes me laugh and I can't wait

[85:30]to hear his raps on these songs.

[85:33]And so,

[85:33]I think in all of these that we've come across

[85:37]that everybody really likes or really gets into,

[85:39]it's somebody who's kind of taking one genre

[85:42]and moving to another.

[85:44]Like these guys, literally,

[85:45]you know, there's been rap groups,

[85:47]but there has been like rap groups

[85:48]that have like lived together.

[85:49]They're like, look, we're going to have like 18 of us

[85:50]and we're just going to see who gets the best track

[85:53]laid down, you know, and then that's, what's going to go on.

[85:55]And then it's just, it's a, it's a formula.

[85:59]I don't know how it's, if it's still being made.

[86:01]I mean, there's some like rap groups that kind of-

[86:03]- The groups now are kind of super groups, right?

[86:06]Like after they have success.

[86:09]- Yeah.

[86:09]And I mean, I think like a lot of the online rappers

[86:13]have kind of really taken to this kind of style,

[86:16]which, you know, it's hard for me to get into rappers

[86:19]that have rainbow teeth and stuff like that.

[86:22]So I haven't got into that stuff, but you know,

[86:24]I just think that ultimately when you strip it all down,

[86:28]you've got a bunch of nerds who have put their heart

[86:31]and soul into something and created something

[86:33]that nobody's heard before and it turned out great.

[86:36]And so I say it's a rolling well tone.

[86:37]- Oof, rainbow teeth.

[86:38]I'll tell you that really stressed me out when you said that,

[86:39]'cause that got me thinking about my teeth again.

[86:41]All right, next week we got D'Angelo.

[86:43]Bye everybody.

[86:44]Here we go.

[86:45]- When you want to.

[86:46]- Okay, yeah, good night, everybody.

[86:49]You got the last joke, Rob?

[86:51]- Aaron, what do you think?

[86:52]What did you think of the Wu-Tang Clan?

[86:54]- What a, that was so rude.

[86:57]- You like that?

[86:58]- Yeah.

[86:59]- I wrote that bit like last Sunday.

[87:00]- So good.

[87:01]- Aaron, he gave that raw to you. Raw.

[87:03]- No, give it to me.

[87:04]- Raw, he's gonna give it to you.

[87:06]- I, I mean, you guys know what my rating's gonna be,

[87:09]but I so appreciate what Matt said.

[87:11]- Okay, let's get to that back in a better time.

[87:14]- Well, if we know, then what do we want?

[87:15]- When you want it, you know what we're gonna do.

[87:17]- Yeah, well, it's gonna be something with him.

[87:20]- Well, round one, 41, we gotta cut it off, guys.

[87:22]We gotta go.

[87:23]- I so appreciate what Matt said about this album

[87:27]being about, you know, guys trying to one-up each other

[87:31]and do it better, and a crew,

[87:33]a crew of dudes who just wanted to make great hip hop

[87:36]and took each other to task to try to make something great,

[87:39]'cause I think that's the essence

[87:40]of what the art form was at the time.

[87:42]And I hope that I have said anything

[87:47]that does honor to what this album is

[87:52]and what it's meant to me,

[87:53]and I'm so happy to be here talking about it with you guys.

[87:56]So I gotta say it's a rolling bone,

[87:58]but I'm just so happy to be talking about this album

[88:00]with you guys, so thank you all for listening

[88:02]to what I have to say.

[88:03]And my ramblings about this album.

[88:05]- We might not gonna ever talk about this album again,

[88:09]because you always used to reference it.

[88:12]Is this like a top five album for you?

[88:14]Where should this be on the list?

[88:15]- So here's the problem.

[88:16]It is a top five album for me,

[88:18]and what's really annoying for you guys

[88:19]is that next week is also a top five album for me.

[88:22]So somehow these two albums are coming right in succession.

[88:26]I love them both so much.

[88:26]But yeah, for me, this is a top five album

[88:28]of all the songs I've ever listened to.

[88:31]- Hey, you Beckster.

[88:32]How do you like that, that ranking?

[88:34]It's got a little, little stank on that one.

[88:36]It's putting it in the top five.

[88:38]How do you like them apples, asshole?

[88:40]- All right, I agree with Aaron.

[88:42]This album sucks shit.

[88:43]All right, I'm gonna give this album a rolling statin-yloned.

[88:48]- That's right.

[88:50]- Oh, yeah, yeah, I like it, yeah.

[88:52]- And guess what?

[88:53]That's another New York reference.

[88:54]Ugh, yeah.

[88:55]Listen, this D'Angelo album coming up is so good,

[89:00]I would give it a D plus, Angelo.

[89:02]- Oh, shit.

[89:02]I need to use that joke next week.

[89:04]- Well, good joke in the podcast, finally.

[89:06]See you guys.

[89:08]♪ When you wanna hear about the greatest albums of all time ♪

[89:11]♪ But you're just too lazy to look it up online ♪

[89:15]- Damn, I should've said that joke.

[89:17]♪ If you wanna hear from guys who chat ♪

[89:20]♪ And then they get off track ♪

[89:21]- Are we just gonna talk about Beverly and Angelo

[89:23]like the whole time?

[89:24]- Yes.

[89:25]♪ We've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack ♪

[89:28]- Beck did it better.

[89:30]- We didn't even talk about the line where Raekwon, Desert,

[89:32]Desert Eagle is somebody's dick.

[89:33]Like, we missed the whole vote on this whole thing.

[89:35]- What?

[89:36]What, what?

[89:37]- Well, you find that on your raw dog.

[89:41]- Yeah.

[89:42]- 69 page or whatever, talking about Raekwon's dick.

[89:45]- Man, even Jack, who still would've never gone that low.

[89:48]That was terrible, Aaron.

[89:49]- Oh, no.

[89:50]- That was terrible.

[89:50]- That's so good, Russell.

[89:51]So good.

[89:52]- D plus, Angelo.