Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (1966) (... now with more HARMONICA)

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better this is blonde on blonde hey guys you know this is interesting actually i thought this would be a good intro i actually have a recording of bob dylan when he did the he went into the studio for this album do you guys want to hear it yeah most definitely yeah well that's not very enthusiastic but i'm gonna do it anyways no no this is important hey bob good to see you i'm the sound engineer on this new album hey i've got a great idea uh yes bob what's your idea uh i want my brother-in-law rupert to be on the album uh that's okay bob what does he do he plays the harmonica uh is he any good not at all but he can play it for a super long time hit it rupert

[01:04]i love it rupert play that harmonica yeah oh yeah listen to that i like so at this point you guys would step in and also make jokes and help me out at some point if you're a true friend it's an awfully long harmonica i think this would have gone way better if i would have just purchased that harmonica and blared into the microphone right now very good i think this would have gone way better if i would have just purchased that harmonica now there is not uh there's only about four minutes left of this so oh yeah this is a perfect intro i was hoping this would be where you guys riff and we do fun funny things it's not working out i want to hear about the greatest albums of all time decide whether to turn off this harmonica or not but you're just too busy to look it up on live i want to hear four guys are talking then they get off track well i've got the podcast for you jack beck did it better take a breath rob all right here we go and you were wailing on that harp there

[02:06]i was uh yeah i was that was a rupert and a lot of people don't know he played harmonica on most of these songs uh hey everybody welcome to the show it's like bob dylan said i want you to meet my co-host let's say hi to everybody uh we've got matt in minneapolis matt how are you doing doing well rob doing well glad to be here thanks for having me yeah well no problem i would feel really bad if you weren't here actually russ how are you russ in minnesota how are you doing russ as bob dylan once said rob i'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet it seems like so inefficient there's somebody bob dylan said it i didn't say it i just repeated what he said i think he might have been in some sort of like bike accident because that anatomy seems messed up it seems like it shouldn't get like shouldn't go out like a trumpet yeah yeah did you ever get caught playing with your instrument and band aaron yeah oh plenty of times often got caught playing with my with my trombone though yeah so a lot of boner jokes there if you

[03:02]want to guess if you want to take take this in the wrong direction right away uh no actually i'm up here on the high road i'm not making those jokes okay you guys disgust me uh all right uh next up we've got uh aaron how are you doing aaron in socal not socal just regular cal in the bay area in the bay area i'm good uh clean air today went outside rode a bike in the sunshine it was nice wow that is uh much different than what i did which was pretty much absolutely nothing today uh so i want to get to you real quick we do have a voicemail so i want to play that for you very quick and this might this might blow your mind hi this is sarah from minnesota first time listener long time caller um i couldn't resist had to pull a little bit of a krista and call in because i feel like when you guys were talking about jazz cloud is you pretty much missed the mark i am feeling like if you're talking straight up sex appeal

[04:03]then herbie man who ends um is clearly an obvious choice for being the best of all time but if we're talking jazz flautist free um i feel like you missed the mark and jim horn is being put in herbie's shadow and i do not agree um i did my own little background research i am not aaron's brother um but looked things up and found that in no particular order um well actually i guess it is alphabetical order um simply because i took it right from the wikipedia sounds nervous um jim horn has played with artists such as you ready for this aaron mendel barbara streisand the beach boys billy jewel elton john elvis frank sinatra garth brooks george harrison herbie hancock i've never heard of any of these guys john denver

[05:01]johnny mitchell kenny chesney lionel richie little richard the mom this is enough wikipedia page or anything no this is just natural jazz flautist knowledge and dv wonder the righteous brothers the rolling stones tom petty the traveling wilburys and the list goes on and on and on oh sure he does wikipedia so like i said i feel like herbie man to end was getting all the credit but really jim horn one n um is the man and the legend that we are talking about here so before making radical claims you guys might need to up your game and do your own little beck research um but i do love the show you guys make me laugh and uh keep it up have a good one uh so once again we are being criticized over the voicemail which is not the purpose of the beck line i want to remind everybody again the purpose of the beck line is not to call in and tell me what i've done wrong in my life i don't understand i've got a lot of outlets for

[06:01]that but she is talking about who is she talking about jim man i think joe horn joe horn oh my god okay so this like i said before i'm not great at listening and paying attention and realizing what's going on that's my bad jim i didn't know the former saints receiver picked up the jazz flutist when he was down playing in new orleans for all those years like i thought he was just catching footballs it turns out he's like an amazing jazz flautist i think you're thinking of rick rick mahorn personally attacked i feel like this is on me like i i feel like i really wanted to talk about the jazz flute on the marvin gay episode and i'm completely missed the boat i picked the wrong well that's why we're here today rosie we're actually not recording anything we are having a bit of an intervention with you so we have noticed recently that a lot of your picks have been mainstream and not weird as hell and we are concerned about you i had a bad case of the flautist a few weeks ago and had to go to the er for it it wasn't good that's from too much playing your trumpet uh so here's the deal is that i did look up jim horn right ironically named flute player think about it

[07:02]it's fucking blow your mind see what i did like frank beard and zz top not having a beard it's mind this is my new favorite bit rob tried to tell jokes and we just stare at him we might need to restart this last time we had one like this it went on for like two hours there were no laughs we might need to restart it in 2020 those are the ones i tell you that i didn't actually record i'm like i wasn't funny enough okay delete the recording sorry guys we gotta do it again this time i'm coming in with my pre-written bits so jim horn did play a great song with and this is gonna this might remind you of the 90s a little bit think about how 90s this is jim roome this is jim horn and amy grant oh amy grant that's my shit see if you can recognize this song i'm gonna be hitting jazz flutist oh oh jim horn just dunked on you dude okay i'm gonna jump to the end no no this is oh we gotta stick with this for a second

[08:02]this is okay well here this is canned heat you gotta hear amy grant come in this is so 90s it's crazy i mean have you ever heard a more 90s song ever in your life i love it shit i've ever heard he would have joe horn would have never been able to play this with his regular flute he had that jazz with amy grant and he crushed it he had a specially made flute just for this amy grant concert so here's him at the end really breaking it down okay so i do have to say guys it seems like maybe we did make a terrible mistake when we're talking about herbie man so much i can't imagine herbie man's gonna come up later in this episode but no chance he'll come up again i do think we have to give it up i do think we have to give it for jim horn who obviously is a master of a jazz flute and give it up to our listeners for being so knowledgeable and keeping us honest keeping us on our toes he played on the monday night football theme with hank williams jr wow that's wild man that

[09:03]dude must just be caking man there is no flute in the monday night football theme well it says he was a saxophone guy too so this is what i said many of them were multi-instrumentalists you guys remember the greatest monday night football song ever was when we were kids and kozar came back from an injury and instead of playing the song they played bernie's back and you're gonna be in trouble no nothing sometimes i think i remember really weird stuff and then and then i talk with russell and i remember i'm not the only one who's like this and i feel much better as bob dylan once said sometimes i think my deck of cards is missing a jack and the ace i have a feeling a lot after listening to this album a lot of what bob dylan says i would not take as a true philosophy because i think a lot of it is just words that he came up with was like beetle bum beetle bum beetle dumb beetle jump down my face think about the future and you're like wait what where did that even come from i'm getting ahead of myself though we need to

[10:02]apologize the official beck apology and now an apology from beck did it better i'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody beck does it better podcast coming in hot with that apology bringing the heat bringing the heat and again i do feel bad when i have to play that for a woman who called in and tried to be nice to us to support our show that we're like so i feel terrible education terribly sorry sarah that's uh that's my bad and uh uh aaron made me do it all right so moving on he played on africa by toto this i'm telling you jim horn guy is amazing this is the next great bit every 30 seconds matt just laces us with another track hold on jim horn you've lost that love and feeling by the righteous but is is the flute on you lost that love and feeling the jazz he played the baritone on uh what was it guys i think i think we've established that going up

[11:01]country candy is not even jazz flute right that's not even jazz flute to begin with that's the example we always use no it's a style of flute it's the notes it's the notes they don't play russell did we did we establish it is just played in the style of jazz or if there's an actual separate jazz flute that's what aaron claimed but aaron didn't know about joe horn the the saints playing jazz i'm sure that so i'm sure that any advanced instrumentalist has a a particular instrument they like for a particular style i don't think that the jazz flute is made separately at a separate jazz flute factory but i imagine there are different qualities for a jazz flute that like you know i'm sure herbie had a whole quiver of flutes where he'd like pull them out of his back you know and like you know whatever song he was on but i i don't i don't think they've got a whole separate fact good vibrations for pet sounds he was in the wrecking crew he was a member of the wrecking that is awesome and here he is with a solo right here he was a multi-intermediate

[12:00]a lot of different sounds i like that that sound gets a laugh from you guys that sound will always get a laugh i could play this at my funeral i'd be like rob died eating a hamburger it was very sad but he died doing what he loved let's all give a moment of silence everybody be like man robbie is great all right uh so let's do this let's do a little rolling going it's time to see what everybody's up to it's time for rolling going i swear if i had a time machine i would go back in time and stop myself from saying oh yeah for so long that's the one use i would use it for it's too bad you can't change it i mean i could no it's impossible it's out there now okay so don't that now i feel like you're criticizing me twice over that all right let's talk about what's going on in our exciting lives and definitely not totally boring stuff going on uh let's start russell how rolling going how's it going with you starting with me oh well okay yeah no what do you do okay matt how's it going

[13:08]now i'm terrified of russell russell has bullied me on my podcast that look that look can kill all right man rolling going how's it going it's going great i think you know for so long we're getting into the football season right and i thoroughly enjoy watching football and i think it's because of fantasy football but i think after like 20 years of doing it it just might be time to take a couple years off because every single year i think i do so well in my draft and then i just get hammered week one by somebody and it's just like it just throws me into a thing i don't know so i'm i'm i'm debating whether fantasy football should be in my life anymore or not but then i'll win next week and i'll be all back on the on the on the bandwagon but i don't know that's that's my focus right now is uh making sure i'm just managing my teams every year i want to quit fantasy football and then the draft sneaks up on

[14:00]me and i end up in the league and then i de facto quit by starting guys who aren't even playing in the first week i hate it so much and i just somehow i can't get out of it aaron i was going to say your quitting has been official to the other 11 members of our league for a long time now we appreciate that you still have a username and whatnot but resignation was official four terms ago i am just the worst at i did win the league once but i'm horrible now i don't even i can't even name like five players i like the idea that your fantasy football sneaks up on you like an internet subscription that's yearly and you're like okay i don't need these menus anymore i'm not cooking this food i'm going to cancel the subscription and then it's like you paid 100 119 for your subscription you're like dang it i missed it again and then you're like i'm definitely going to cancel it this year that's funny i have i have some food from hello fresh come out of my house tomorrow because i forgot to cancel my subscription for the hello fresh isn't that the real true first word problem you're like i can't believe it's somebody sending fresh delicious food to my house god damn it why can't i get my life under

[15:00]control like that's when my life is spiraling out of control when i've ordered too much fresh food to be delivered to my house mushroom quesadillas again i'll be like that you know what i've done though rosie let's hear i've i've started just a a uh an excel doc that you just you know the stuff that you don't want anymore you don't want in your life and then eventually one day you get real pissed off and you just hack it all out of your life like it might be eight months from now but then you've got a quick list that you've got all these things and you could just start checking them off just getting rid of them your friendship with russ isn't on that list is it that's priceless no he chopped that off a long time ago that's how he got the dove soap out of yeah dove soap all caps yeah i had like four magazines a couple years ago some of these subscriptions and stuff and it's like if you just put them all on there just get rid of them all at the same time it's way better to imagine like four literal magazines just sitting around his house like oh the 1994 street and smiths college basketball edition like the you

[16:02]know sports illustrated from when the twins went on the wild card or something like aaron i i would assume aaron you still have numerous magazine subscriptions am i right no i do not have any magazines subscriptions because uh i don't have any magazines subscriptions because uh i don't have i don't want to use the paper so no no paper magazine subscriptions so i'm sorry to disappoint wait a minute wait a minute you said no paper magazine i have numerous online newsletter subscriptions uh tom zillers good morning it's basketball uh i think i subscribed to numerous there's like a major one is a number one is subscribed to that i keep meaning to cancel uh pavel the kettlebell guy i subscribed to his newsletter you know i got a few this pavel this pavel kettleball guy read the email stop reading email going to kettleball right yeah turkish get up 100 turkish get up each side rosie i know you read an email not doing kettleball you lazy son of bitch in my country you never survive without doing 100 swings every

[17:05]morning i'm trying to figure out how to do a one-handed push-up but i'd spend too much time reading newsletters so i'm not there yet you put one hand down and you push yourself up what's the not all of us can lift 400 pounds with a one-armed push-up well no well no but i'm not saying i can do it but i know how to do it like i don't need to research how to do a one-handed push-up it's about full body tension you got to use your glutes and your abs there's a lot to it i haven't done one but i've read a lot about it in my newsletters glutes abs yeah i'm out of this you have tried you have tried it's embarrassing no i can't do one i loved the idea of you like thinking about it you're like sweetie this is the year i'm gonna do a one-handed push-up and now it's like it's like you know september whatever and you're like okay i have done a lot of research and i've read about doing a one-handed push-up it's gonna be very soon sweetie i'm gonna attempt it for the first time this is gonna be so fun you realize though aaron's probably had like hour-long conversations with his wife about this one-handed push-up but she tolerates it

[18:04]because he gets birthday candles for her cake oh my god i did not see that coming a slam on me i would never apologize rob i have another friend i have another friend his name is roy he's married he's a co-husband of a friend of mine jenny and roy always forgets to bring the candles oh husband that that i that would be i think that would be the key right is to be the second husband in that marriage and you just come in and you're like okay so she really doesn't like it when the towels are just put in the sink after you shower not hung up i'm not gonna do that like i think you can learn from your mistakes that you can't in a way when you marry somebody and move in with them like you can't you know also you have a sink big enough to fit a towel in you can't fit listen that was when we first got married okay i don't do that anymore that's disgusting i would never do that it's gross okay plus i got yelled at a lot uh so i learned my lesson all right so i forgot where we were at all i'm not gonna call on russ again because he did call me okay oh my

[19:02]god okay we're sorry how's it going it's i feel like i'm in a weird place in my life right now rob and aaron and matt well you're on a podcast with us so that's i'm on a podcast with you guys about about music and i think kind of piggybacking off of matt and not being into football or fantasy football i used to be a huge sports fan i would know all the players that at all i would know all the players on all these teams and i've reached the point now where if i have the choice of listening to an album that i'm not into or watching the second half of a vikings game i pick the album every time i'm out on sports i don't watch any games anymore i don't know who players are on any teams and if if me as like a 22 look at me now i i would go back into the future and kick the crap out of me i it would be just a beat down but you're probably happier your life is better i i i got that way russell with uh

[20:00]baseball a little bit of basketball too but baseball is the big one and football i still i give myself three hours a week to watch vikings front to back don't want kind of come in and out of the other other nfl stuff but baseball would be a tuesday night in the middle of july and their twins are 10 games out right and it's like 9 30 at night and there's like it's like the bottom of the seventh and the twins are up by two and you're like oh i can watch the end of this it'll be done in like a half hour and i'll go to bed at a decent hour and be fine and all of a sudden the bullpen comes in and the twins are down by four and then they catch up at by two and your two innings that you think you've got left it's like 11 o'clock what in the hell am i doing with my life watching watching baseball again middle of july yeah matt we're sold we're ready to watch baseball let's do it i've spent more time this week listening to the stooges than i did watching nfl football there's there's no way this would have ever happened five six seven years ago what what

[21:03]are you what are you wearing right now what whoa okay so i'm gonna um just push mute real quick i think we're gonna take a little break i'm gonna push pause here we've asked russell what he's wearing russell is to be fair wearing an nfl jersey okay but it does look dope russell but i get your point russell i get it i mean like it it just it's such a time suck and such a waste of time and you can figure out the highlights in like five minutes now and so i'm with you is it possible that we are just getting old and getting some sort of adhd where we can't sit and watch something for three hours anymore because i find that's even true with like movies like people are like oh i'm gonna start reading books and i was like okay i'm gonna start finishing a movie when i start it like that's my goal that's that's for me i think part of it's getting old i remember being a kid and my my uncle or my parents or my aunts and uncles they they wouldn't live and die with a vikings game if they lost they would just kind of laugh it off and i never understood that then i get it now i get it yeah it is the daily grind i mean i've i've lived through one of my

[22:05]adopted teams winning a title and the thing is your team wins a title you gotta go to work the next day the man don't get me started on how little links paraphernalia you can buy in the in the general oh no you can't find it uh but the thing is like they win a title you follow them you watch every game all season they win the title you still have to go to work the next day and then you go to you go to the parade a few days later but then you just go to work the next day then they blow a three-to-one lead losing game seven you're at george and waltz at the bar for every single game five six seven sitting in the same spot hoping to work the next day and then you're out this sounds awesome they lose you still have to get him to go to work the next day and like you do it enough times in your life and you the sports don't seem so important that that all seems awesome every single team i follow is getting used as toilet paper by every other team all the time i would love to have a chance like one of my greatest joys are the vikings making the playoffs

[23:01]i know they're gonna get pounded but i'm just like yeah no complaints don't get me wrong i'm not complaining like as a basketball fan i had a great run with the warriors but i'm saying you know i've got another window open on my computer i'm not complaining i'm not complaining i'm not almost always when i'm watching the vikings i'm doing something else and usually it's making an excel spreadsheet of things i don't like and the vikings are just the first just like it's just a kill list of things in my life i'm like i don't like you guys don't like doing the dishes cross out you guys had mentioned the links did you guys see this story the other day where maya moore the former links player had essentially retired from basketball to kind of work in the in the ministry but she also kind of took on trying to free this guy who was inappropriately convicted 20 years ago yeah so she made it her life mission to help this guy get out of jail and he finally got out like six months ago and they announced today that she married him can you imagine like how crazy is that her goal was to get this guy out of jail and within six months they were married i did not i didn't know there was

[24:02]any romantic interest there that's wild it would be kind of a bummer though if you were that guy right like you're in there for so long you're like oh man when i get out i'm gonna go on so many dates like this is gonna be so great and then you're like he swipes he swipes once on maya moore it's a match it's like damn yeah you're like oh my gosh this woman is so hot i've never seen a woman like her and then you immediately get out of prison you see like 100 women like her because you just haven't seen any women for the past 20 years you're like oh this is so great i love it and then you're like you're married you're like oh such dangerous territory better than i mean better than jail comments but i think it's better to just not say anything oh no is this another thing of rob gets robbed gets canceled oh yeah no guys i think that the whole prison let me be very clear the whole prison industrial complex is a very bad thing it's terrible that somebody is being put away for that but to come out and get married right away i think the harder thing would be i mean i mean we know i'm probably the worst basketball player in my marriage but i think the tougher part would be knowing that

[25:00]you're the worst basketball player in your marriage that's tough just just at the park and you're just getting spun up and your ankle's broken all the time by your spouse that would be a bummer you can't even go out and hoop together you you would always have the trump card to say at least i didn't repeat it you can't even go out and hoop together you you would always have the from being a pro athlete to marry some guy i got out of prison that's like the uh i wouldn't be part of any club that would have me as a member kind of thing that's like that's like in my online dating world whenever a girl messaged messaged me back i think there's got to be something wrong with her so i immediately lose interest i think that's the question you have to ask him russ like if i was in prison would you work to bust me out and then we get married i think you can really weed out who's serious and who's not serious by asking that question i'll add that to the profile quickly i get reported to the police that's a stunned silence with my idea i think that was a great idea actually no rob i think it's it's a very good idea the problem is sometimes you guys give me a lot of good ideas and they just all turn out to be not as good as i thought they were going to be i'm telling you you need to have us in an earpiece on a date a la like impractical jokers

[26:01]and we'll tell you what to say i got some great lines russell i really do i have two daughters you think i don't know how to talk to women and i'm going to cut that shit all right because you gotta admit it's funny just constantly telling that line oh what would be incredible is like a looper scenario where like one of rob's daughter's future one of rob's daughter's future suitors comes back and she says oh dad i really love this guy he told me that like you know he thought that i would be great at school because i have nice hair and like i would be great at school because i have nice hair and like i would be great at school because i would be just fine and like look at him he he got through school just fine and rob's like oh my god this is a line that i used on my own daughter and now this future guy is using oh no totally having daughters is the most terrifying thing because i know what i was like like the date women you know i was like so home really fast i respect you i respect you so much like we're

[27:04]just gonna lie together on the couch don't worry about it you know stuff like that we need to move on any joke what oh yes anyone else says right now is is gonna be terrible it's all getting cut so don't worry about it but yeah question is how are you doing uh did we do aaron yet no you always skip there because you only care about yourself no i have nothing okay well yeah you know how how am i doing say that again man so i have a clear edit point here rob how you doing man okay man that's twice you had asked me you don't have to ask me rolling going rolling going how's it going uh it is going well i had somebody living in apartment rocks okay we had we called down our drain in the bathroom was not draining very well we called down to the they just sent somebody up for maintenance with a huge snake they pulled out approximately 10 pounds of jenny's hair and was he was he was he wearing a tag team belt with the honky-tonk man i'm here to snake your drain brother you look into the eyes of the snake darkness i love those early wrestling guys who they're just they just had a gimmick it's like

[28:05]jake snake all right done like that's it that's my whole gimmick sometimes i'll have a snake sometimes i won't it doesn't really matter it's just a gimmick it's just a gimmick it's just a there's nothing else i could do like hacksaw jim duggan why do you have a board his name was hacksaw he should have had a saw he should have been out there cutting people something probably tried that somewhere in a regional promotion and didn't work out i've been sent up here to clean drain with this so yeah so jake the snake comes up and he goes in and snakes are drain and like i tip him 10 bucks he's like oh you really don't have to do that it's like yeah no it's no problem and then again that is baller status on my part but i was just like this is so awesome i love living in an apartment where i can just call down and be like hey come snake my drain and they're like okay and they come to it so here's my question i was going to ask you guys what's your anti-chore style if you get rid of one shore in your life what chore do you think you'd get rid of for me it's definitely snaking hair out of the drain that has to be so gross that's that's i own i was going to go over and pull over the uh the snake that i have here in

[29:04]the garage because i've used it in numerous times so snaking the drain is my job at the top of my excel spreadsheet of spreadsheet of chores i want to get rid of i'm going to go over and pull over yeah the top for me is cleaning up the cat litter box and i will admit my my my lady does it more frequently than i do but we got this cat who's at least 20 years old now pretty close he is never going to die and uh his litter is all over the damn place and he's now recently taken to pissing and shitting outside of the box so um any any chore of cleaning up um cat poop or pee i'd get rid of that oh i'd rather do that i'd rather snake a drain a hundred times than clean a litter box again no doubt plus you're like we're still potty training a top so then you're like doing toddler potty training and cleaning up cat like you guys and they're going out of the box yep and you gotta like yell at them about it and then uh it's just a man you don't know there's poop it's bad when there's poop in the house and you're not sure who it belongs to you're like wait a minute what's that right who did this come out of matt what's your anti-chore style what's what what would you not want to do for a chore i would say cat litter too but i think

[30:01]folding the laundry as well i just can't stand folding the laundry don't you have a don't you have a feeling of satisfaction when you have like you have a bin full of laundry then you have a bin it's like yeah i did something no yeah neither do i i never do that shit but it feels good when it's done and i see it and i'm like oh that looks good i like that russ what's your anti-chore style what chore don't you want to do my anti-chore style would definitely revolve around outdoor chores because indoor chores if i don't do them i'm the only one who has to i live alone i'm the only one who has to deal with like you know dishes they're in the sink for too long no one else has to deal with it but outdoor chores are the ones where people notice if i don't do it right so if i don't hold my lawn for too long people notice it not that i ever do that but i do it all the time but the one that always that i have the hardest time with is cleaning leaves and and stuff out of the gutters on my roof i don't do it nearly enough and i noticed the other day that i it looks like i have a small tree growing out of part of my roof right now and every every week i drive up

[31:03]and i sit in my car and i look at it for about 30 seconds and i think i should really do something about that and then every day i think well i still have those dishes inside that i'm gonna ignore so i'm just gonna ignore that other thing neighbors will give you the business about yard stuff we we are the only we so we live in a nice neighborhood in oakland we're the only rental house on or two miles other houses around us are you know one and a half two million dollar houses and a neighbor uh yesterday walked by took a look at the ivy in front of her house and said uh you guys are renters right i said uh well yeah we rent this house she said uh well several of us down the block have rats and she gestures at the ivy meanwhile uh we've had a rat living in our garage all summer i i'd like to just sit on the porch and watch it go in and out of the garage yeah and you've been bringing over female rats for the rat to meet and have babies with you don't think it's a big deal call you out for your yard shit you're like and i your neighbor's like i also noticed on your garage it says rat orgy

[32:00]in a big sign so i'm we're wondering if perhaps you're the problem what is the connection between the ivy and the rats i guess rats like to live in ivy she was i guess i'm not being clear enough she was blaming our house oh yeah neighborhood rat problem because we're the only renters in the neighborhood i noticed you have you have plants around your house rats like plants we had a rat in my house it must be your house that's the fault you looked out at her house it's just all like concrete everywhere no lawn she's like it can't be me compound it's a fortress you look at her and start screaming oh you're worried about this infestation what about this global pandemic on your hands lady and then just walk back inside and like throw some more cheese on the ground i'm always too slow on that stuff like i was like oh that was nice of susan to like point out that we should you know trim the ivy and then i got inside oh my god it's like of mice and men over here i mean what is going on like how can you not understand what she's saying to you that she hates you and she went oh you're renters that should be sign number one what is going to come out of your house what comes out of her mouth next is not nice oh you're renters wow we love having you in the neighborhood it's very great it's always like oh

[33:02]why do you have so many cars on your lawn like that's what it's like that's always a low moment for me when my neighbors that i've lived next to for like 10 years ask me if i'm a renter basically my upkeep of my house russell we've noticed that you haven't chainsawed any trees down in the last week we've been doing one every morning so if you wanna and that was a call back to a long time ago uh and aaron rolling going how's it going uh it's going good as i mentioned our air quality has cleaned up uh here in oakland um so we got to be outside the last couple days that was nice that makes my snaking the drain story seem less important oh yeah there's not as much um weird particulate matter to breathe into your lungs when you leave your house uh i will say on a mildly serious note the thing that i'm into we talked about movies uh i did complete a full movie this week and in fact i watched the first half an hour twice because my lady wanted to watch it too uh and i would say for listeners of this podcast i would highly recommend uh the five bloods which is uh spike lee's latest uh out on netflix

[34:01]uh number one because uh it's one of chad's movies called the joint the new spike lee joint man you know russell i thought about this so much when i was gonna talk about this i was like can i say the new spike lee joint is that okay for me to say that and i should have said spike lee joint you're totally right the new spike lee i hope it's okay i think it's okay i'll get the apology thing fired up like am i gonna sound like a big dork if i say spike lee joint that's what i should have said edit that no you sound super cool rosie keep saying this back in the new spike lee joint on netflix uh one of chadwick bozeman's last performances uh he plays a sort of messianic figure so that's kind of cool and ironic uh delroy lindo also known as the new spike lee joint uh the man into whom lebron james is morphing slowly over time uh gives what i think is a oscar-winning performance uh but i would say the big thing for listeners and i'm sorry for bearing the lead is that the the movie makes incredible use of what's going on by marvin gay uh so the only music in the movie is terence blanchard's orchestral score and um what's going

[35:04]on um it sort of weaves in and out of the story of these five four vietnam vets who go back to just tell us the ending tell us how it ends it's pretty exciting and and he's definitely like it's a really interesting movie he's really drawing on like he's sort of paying homage to things like uh rambo and other movies like that and like kind of make some explicit tie-ins to that but also it's very different uh so yeah anyway it's it's great um the the big thing um other than you know in addition to using what's going on he uses some of marvin gay's isolated vocals which is of course just like the butteriest butter like i'm gonna listen to anything that has that so uh again like a fairly basic recommendation i'm sure this is one of like the top five streaming movies on netflix but i think our listeners who enjoyed the what's going on episode would like the five bloods when you when you were watching that on the tv did you turn to your wife and say this is gonna be great for the podcast and then turn back the tv and like smile knowingly and be like i that i think that actually happened yeah i think oh yeah she's like that's great honey like

[36:05]she's not paying attention at all she listened it took her three days but she listened to the what's going on episode she she listened to the whole thing yeah that's that i i was in the weight room the other day with somebody and i said oh yeah well i i'm i have to i'm gonna go to sleep tonight because i've got a podcast recording tomorrow and she goes oh you have a podcast what's it about and i go oh it's about you know we're listening to top 500 albums of all time but it really it's funny we just make jokes and stuff she goes okay so a lot of times people would ask me like what's the title or how can i find it she's just like okay my experience has been the second time you bring it up she will ask for the title yeah but you will never hear from her again and she's like okay i'm gonna go to sleep tonight because i've got a podcast from her again i've realized this to the people i've given the title to i have never never heard any any feedback no it is this is definitely just for the three of us to listen to it it's like oh it's on amazon amazon has podcasts i'm like this is so exciting more people cannot listen to what we're doing in here this is gonna be awesome my favorite part about this one too is i didn't hear

[37:01]anything you guys said after aaron started talking about butter he said butter twice and i just got really hungry so when i re-listen to this i'm probably not gonna be listening either because i'm gonna be eating instead aaron told a very long story there and i started thinking about what happens when my wife starts telling a long story and at one point in my life this is about six months ago i got in my head that it was a good idea and a funny joke where she tells like a 10 minute long story about work or whatever where i would say oh that was such a good story can you tell it again and so she told this long story and i did the line and she looked at me and i go oh that wasn't funny at all like i thought it was gonna be funny and we were all gonna be laughing like i picture just be like oh rob you're so funny and i'm like oh my god i'm gonna be laughing and i'm gonna be and it came off as so rude and like cruel i was like oh sorry about that that's my i even i practiced my real and going to my head i tried to keep it shorter but i couldn't i was so excited about sorry russell go for it as the married guy maybe you guys could give me a little advice here how often are you wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute get get get get to the corner i've made all these we have to play one for russell's advice corner oh yeah doesn't

[38:06]those beginning oh yeah it seems so short and cute now russell what's what advice do you need my question is what advice do you need for russell's advice corner oh yeah doesn't those question high level question is is at what point do you acknowledge that you're not listening to your wife so i was out on i was out on a date a while back and what'd you say we were we were talking about you getting to know each other or whatever and at some point she started talking about her house or something like that and then i i talked to her house or something you're like what did you say about your house conversation it was a good conversation but so we we started talking a few days later and i asked her something where it clearly showed that i was not fully paying attention and she said don't you remember we talked about this and i i kind of just went into silence like i did on rolling goon earlier earlier or i just didn't even know what to say i just kind of had to had to like don't call on me did you say yes i said i said don't call on me and i hug up and i went and ate like a stick of butter because i didn't know what else to

[39:00]do but so at what point do you do you acknowledge as as a husband do you acknowledge you're not listening you say oh i missed that how do you handle it russ that question shows that how what an amateur you are you absolutely would never ever admit that you were not listening that would be a terrible breach and it would open it up for the future thinking that you're not listening okay because that you have to understand russell they don't actually want your opinion and when i say they of course i respect women uh but they don't actually want your opinion they just want you to be listening and not even that they just want to say it like they don't even really care if you're listening that much so what i do is anytime i hear something that ends with i always say well that must be really frustrating or i say i agree with you rob's people make another one use the same voices as like the adults in the muppet babies yeah there's another one right yeah absolutely and you say you say oh that must be so frustrating for you

[40:01]right i totally agree with you like no matter what that's all they want to hear okay what they don't want to hear is oh that was such a good story you should tell it again which is unfortunately what i think is true i think i think it was up to like maybe you're seven or eight that i would try to backtrack and play it off like i was listening yeah but then eventually i think you just figure out that you just fall on the sword and just say i wasn't listening to a thing you're saying and then you get the wrath for about 10 more 10 seconds and then she tells the story again and it's all good but as opposed to like two minutes of trying to backtrack but russ i don't think you you're on a tightrope with no net yeah sarah's got i i do all the laundry sarah i i do the dishes i mow the lawn sarah's stuck with me she can't uh she's gonna have to she's gonna have to live with me you want to clean my gutters while you're at it yeah i think uh i mean when you get it you do all the work in the house and you're mad that your wife doesn't do more work okay fine i she'll listen

[41:02]to the podcast not a healthy way to communicate but i guess that's fine with me frustrating man uh i thought russell was talking about when you started this i thought you were asking at like what moment was it when you started this i thought you were asking at like what moment was it when you when you are if you're not listening what moment do you say something and i was going to say you know like immediately you say like oh you know i'm terribly sorry i wasn't listening i was thinking about you know like conflict diamonds or you know something uh you know i was concerned about global warming or you know um things of that nature my soap style fantasy baseball eighth eighth player on the timberwolves i haven't lotioned up my feet yeah i just think about my foot care routine anything but when it happens a few days later i don't know man that when you just have to like apologize and move on oh my my feet are looking more and more like parmesan cheese like every day i look down it looks more like a block of cheese whatever my feet if i would go back to high school left field take of the week if i go back to high school and tell myself this is the most attractive

[42:02]your feet are ever going to look is right now like they're not getting any better 2020 it's just the hair the hairs you're gonna get more hair the nails are for some reason gonna get thicker like we have talking about another bob dylan album from 1966 at this point so russell happy to give you advice i think that was a good idea all right that's it time's up more good advice for russell corner that was russell's advice corner oh yeah russell never admit defeat never admit that you weren't listening it's a terrible mistake understood all right so he was not listening to that all right so let's get into this uh i think we talked a little bit about bob dylan does anybody have any experiences with this album or a song i'm going to tell you right now uh rainy day women is the first song on the forest gump soundtrack which is probably the cd that uh i listened to more than any other cd in my entire life is the forest gump soundtrack that was one where like in a six in a six disc changer in my car that was never coming out of the trunk that was always cd one

[43:06]and two were those two they were so good uh and rainy day women was the first song and i hated it and i hate it still and i cannot stand the song is i think it's intentionally made to drive me insane uh so when this album started with that it put me in a real foul mood to start uh matt how are you doing what's your experience with this uh i got zero experience with this album um you know and i think i think it took three or four times of listening to it for me to really appreciate it i i think i've got a different take than the rest of you guys i thoroughly enjoyed it i'll i'll put this on the on repeat and listen to it again i don't you know i don't know some of these songs they drag on and it's a double album so um you know there's there's there's a lot of songs there but you know i think the musicality in it and uh i want to talk about that once we kind of get into a little bit is uh ahead of its time and i thoroughly enjoyed it personally i actually put this cd on my

[44:05]spreadsheet just recently so that that's not a good sign my hate spreadsheet russ what's your experience with this album sorry i've got to go cross people off my hate spreadsheet for a second don't do that they the feds come in and find that that's big trouble well he did have a hate spreadsheet and he did talk about it in his podcast i'm glad i called that guy yeah the bad thing is i wasn't listening to you when you told me to delete it that's the main problem is we're all sitting here thinking of things to say and not listening to the thing anybody else is saying man i don't really have any meaningful history with the album or bob dylan we've listened to highway 61 already and i've i've watched two different documentaries and the second one i i watched has a lot of kind of like behind the scenes footage with bob dylan and now the band or the the the artists that are playing with him through this album and i think part of the previous album too but i think that's a really interesting thing that i learned about is

[45:01]the connection with uh is it levon and the hawks who go on to be known as the band is that the thing that i that i found out watching one of the documentaries about this but one interesting thing about bob dylan i don't know i think aaron maybe touched on this before the documentary i watched last time kind of shows bob dylan interacting with people in the media a lot he's kind of a dick right he he comes off as being very sarcastic and you could like it for a little bit but when you watch more than a few minutes of it you just realize he's kind of an asshole is he not and that's why doing the research for this album is almost impossible because any quote you find from bob dylan like somebody asked him hey hey what i almost said the bob dylan voice oh my god it's bob dylan asking bob dylan it's bob dylan's brother rupert hey bob dylan this is rupert uh why did you they said why did you write the song pillbox hat leopard skin pillbox hat what's it about he goes yeah i don't know i think i saw it like in a store i think i

[46:00]saw it in a window in a store you know that's not right you know that he's lying to you and he's just saying that to like piss you off he literally is like the bill belichick of musicians he's just like yeah i know i don't really care and you can tell he has all these like brilliant thoughts and he just doesn't want to share it it's aggravating but i try to like you know i i i have my uh ups and downs with how i feel about dylan as a as a human because i as i've said before i think he might be full of shit but he wrote some genius tunes i think there's some genius tunes on this album and i i think he was most comfortable communicating through music i've said this before and i think a lot of what you see when he tries to communicate in other ways is discomfort with himself with the world around him and i have to imagine that he felt on some level i've given so much i couldn't possibly write any more words on any of these pages i've written every word i could think of why is anyone still asking me for any more thoughts if i didn't put it in my song i probably didn't think of it i think he maybe just didn't have anything else to say it's like i mowed the lawn you can't ask me to clean the gutters too i've done everything you

[47:04]can ask me to do yeah what's aaron's history with the album do you have any other history i thought that was the history i wasn't going to ask my only history with this um uh this is kind of a hole in my um dylan knowledge i don't know this album that well but when i think about it it is interesting to me that i can think of at least two songs that were either written about or inspired by members of this band so there's the song leave on by um elton john um so he wrote a song about leave on helm or he didn't he didn't write it about leave on helm but it was somehow inspired by him or something uh is that where that name comes from i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know really for that song i love that i had to check that's one of my favorite songs of his oh my god it's so good i'll turn it down a little bit guys this makes me want to listen to elton john this is not good i know i'm sorry i don't get it why is elton john soldiers less crabby than bob dylan

[48:08]like they both are equal i don't get it why is elton john soldiers less crabby than bob dylan equally successful right like they both kind of had the same path why is elton john seems so much more pleasant bob dylan's a big grout yeah so none of these lyrics seem to be about leave on helm but but uh if you you know if you at least according to wikipedia uh he's talking about the drums in a band that he called the band but the one that's strange to me is there's a a band that i truly love called drive by truckers and one of their members jason isbell who's uh still a great rock and roller and he's a great rock and roller and he's a great rock and i loved so many of his songs um one of my least favorite drive-by trucker songs is called danko slash manuel so we're playing your least favorite song on the list what happened here so the song's called danko slash manuel i never really knew that it was about two members of bob

[49:01]dylan's band it's such a bummer just kind of three there's three members rosie it's about rosie it's about three members it's danko and slash and man right isn't that what you said it's in the song it's called danko slash manuel yeah hey you care you guys care if i have my two boa constrictors here with us it's so different from anything that's on this album i don't understand my friend jake and he sits over in the corner he's wearing my hands but i think it's so interesting i'm gonna take you into the ground jake the snake has brought out slashes his pagan partner people that's it that's what i think about this album is like oh he's taking him outside the church and he's gonna body slam him but first here comes a guitar solo no wonder no wonder my wife hates me so much i am so bad at listening to people oh my god i am so sorry rosie i totally talked over you but the idea of jake the snake robertson slash is wrestling

[50:01]co-partners is just too funny to me i just hope so yeah anything i say can become a joke that's that's all my goal is for anything to become a running joke on this and that song was about two guys in the band that's so wild danco slash manuel richard uh shit is it richard dankwell danco i can't remember now okay so i talked over your bit rosie i apologize that's my bad it wasn't a bit i think everything's a bit that's the other problem like people don't have feelings it's a bit uh they like what i talk about this so basically he was trying to record this in new york uh this is after highway 61 he's saying he's he just he was trying to do sessions with the band there that at the same time he's touring more than he ever has before he can't get the sound right he tries doing 10 out 10 recording sessions in new york can't get any songs done and somebody in the band says hey you should come down to nashville like i played down in nashville i know everybody down there you'd really enjoy it and at the time apparently this was a hugely controversial thing because rock and roll people did not go down to nashville that was strictly country

[51:00]but he went down there and of course he meets like these super professional nashville nashville musicians who are used to sitting there and working for an hour on a song and then pounding it out and working an hour for another song and pounding out and kind of doing that conveyor belt stuff we've talked about before and now all of a sudden they're working with bob dylan where literally they're sitting there playing cards for six hours and then bob dylan goes okay i wrote a song and then they work on it for 10 hours and then he's writing a song and he'll write in a half hour and they work on it for two hours like it's such a a different setup that that's what you hear is that they're actually playing all these songs live in the studio with no barriers between them and a lot of times he would just be like nope it's not going to be right until the 15th take like i want that slowed down sound i want that and they said on that last song which was 11 that that uh sad eyed lady that they thought that was going to be just a three verse song and that's why it builds so much in the third verse and then he kept going for another like eight minutes they're like guess what that's the whole side of the album now i mean that was the whole fourth side of this double album uh and then he but bob dylan loves this album he's saying this is the closest he's ever heard to what the songs in his head sound

[52:00]like he called it a thin mercurial sound which i think is a perfect description of this because this album i would say at points is pure i was talking to my friend suzanne about it today and she was like maybe you're just too old i was like maybe 20 years ago you wouldn't have cared that there's this loud harmonica and i was like i don't know this seems like a sound that is made at the specific frequency of human ears that drives me crazy um so yeah he records all these down in nashville and all of a sudden they uh he pounds out six songs in 13 hours and and this is the album that comes out of it which is blonde on blonde all right should we start getting into the tracks here let's get into the tracks all right so blonde on i was thinking i should get stoned for this episode but then i would have fallen asleep by now so that i didn't do that well i can think of us i can think of a sound that would wake you up rosie bob dylan said he wanted a band to sound like the salvation army band it works like i'm gonna play trumpet does that be good he's like nope i mean you want to talk about rosie this is like a sound you made in the high school in band like when you're warming up as a trombone

[53:04]as loud as possible i read that they just picked up some like trombonist off the street to play the beginning of the song and isn't that like you know you guys i'm not a big nhl fan but you know when nhl teams they've got like a spare goalie who just sits in the stands and so if both goalies for a team gets hurt they just bring in this dude off the street and he plays in the game for either team and isn't that crazy they just picked up some trombonist off the street and now he's playing in one of these you know a song on the top 10 albums of all time i think in nashville you just have trombonists all over the place like pigeons so they have a trombone in my garage that could be me like the next time someone needs a trombonist off the street that could be me you look like you've played trombone in a ska band get in here that'd be so great you're like well i need to work on my embouchure sadly i never played in a ska band i did play in the band for my high school show choir that's it okay so that's the opposite of a ska band actually

[54:03]it is so so so so wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute you didn't play in a ska band but the point you did want to make and you made time to really say this is that you played in your not you were not in the show choir but you were a trombonist for the band for the show choir that's correct yeah jazz trombonist for the show choir yeah we played some blood sweat and tears man i got into it you know what who is doing a choir that has a trombone in the background nobody's like you can't always get what you and then it's like it's like oh i love that choir and i loved it when the trombone came in real loud at the middle that was me that's what i was trying to do is there is the reason you were the all-state trombone player because you were the only trombone player in the state of iowa or not i don't want to get into all of this boring shit i was never i was not and why are you wearing your high school letter jacket and pointing to your trombone patch right now i i was a very good trombonist but i was all-state in the choir not

[55:04]in the band i did not make all-state as an instrumentalist uh because grant dickinson was first chair and not me uh in high school and not that he holds not that he holds any grudges but it is i do see on his excel list it does say grant dickerson so that's not uh not great much much bigger boner than you i don't want i don't want to bore these people not not bigger not bigger man it is uh better did you guys ever play an instrument in high school or middle school i absolutely and this may shock you i also was a trombonist so i know i could play a b flat scale right now one six four three two one four two one something three two one uh and you can tell i am by how musical i am and i didn't just take the trombone up to my lips and sing through it next time a tromboner off between rob and eric next week i could yeah i can have mine ready to go in like three minutes we can get charlie charlie from st. olaf we can get charlie on too he he was in a scott man scott's redemption listen if there's

[56:01]one thing that goes well with living in an apartment in new york as i've aforementioned it's practicing my trombone at all hours of the night hey who wants to hear when the saints come marching in okay uh who wants to hear uh the b flat scale if jenny if jenny's like making dinner you just have your trombone and you just don't don't don't know i would tell you right now you would think playing trombone in the high school band is really fun because you get to move this thing and everybody but it turns out that that's the one instrument everyone can see if you've made a mistake because every other instrument every other person you're playing with like goes out and you don't go out at all and you're like oh damn it i just made a mistake and everyone in this whole auditorium knows to make sure you don't hit someone in front of you in the in the seats down below and also you go walking around looking like you got punched in the mouth all day oh yeah and the slides always get out of the line and you had to like re-grease them it was the biggest pain in the ass and i had like my uncle's old trombone from like 1965 and the just would never stay straight and also i took zero care of it i remember i came into middle

[57:03]school they're like hey did you practice over the summer i was like oh yeah let me just find my trombone it was right where i left it in june the year before i was like yep i got lots of practice don't worry about it i'm gonna be great that's the worst that you had to use like your grandpa's old trombone you your parents would even buy you like a new trombone from schmidt music yeah oh my one of my great trombone stories is uh i was thrown out in my when i was in fifth grade uh was when we first started wait wait wait wait wait let me play this sting this is just one of aaron's great trombone stories probably didn't think of all the albums to have a trombone that i would play this you would think like we had to say we're not gonna talk about the harmonica we're not gonna talk about nobody said shit about the trombone you can talk about all you want aaron go ahead man so here's the thing i was gonna make a trombone list because i really uh there's a jazz trombonist named the third uh i really like his i like his evolution album so i was i tried not to do it but it's like it's the first sound on the album you're gonna talk about

[58:04]i think trombone shorty would be beyond that i mean his name's trombone right trombone shorty did kraken shorty or whatever this guy's name is play with joe horn and everything i didn't hear sarah mentioned that in the voicemail great trombone story is in fifth grade when we first started in band in ankeny iowa we did group trombone lessons so i was in a group lesson with jason dervinga and eric reno i'm sure i'm sure they're listening because we have their listeners and i don't know how this got started but rob this will speak to you our um our instructor at the time was a student teacher and he made like a mild joke using a jamaican accent which like i'm sure you all can hear listeners out there how i'm a super white person uh so hilarious joke using jamaican in iowa oh god that's funny oh yeah uh would not uh as fifth graders would not let that joke go ahead had to continue making the jamaican accent he kicked us out of our trombone lesson finally for continuing the joke that he

[59:05]started and then by my senior year of high school uh that very person was my band instructor he had been my student teacher and then he was my band instructor and my favorite thing to do with mr poppin was in pep band when he would call up a tune and he would say all right let's play give me some loving i would say mr hoppin i don't think that's appropriate so um these are things that oh my god from playing trombone and you can cut all of that rob i apologize for taking rosie i don't want to pay for this therapy i'm so sorry i'm so sorry we even left that weird right what the hell is he talking about i'm not even going to ask you what the jamaican joke was because i'm sure it was very appropriate you could definitely say it today nobody ever nobody ever used a jamaican accent to make what would now be totally inappropriate cultural appropriation jokes oh yeah so aaron i can't wait for next week's segment aaron's next trombone story of the week i do like how you were in the pep band though so you got to play like all the sporting events

[60:04]yeah totally i my school you could either be in the pep band or the football team you couldn't do both isn't that some bs once again i was on the football team so i only did marching band on saturdays i did the competitions on saturdays i didn't do the halftime or the pep band during the football i did pep band in basketball season we gotta stop where would you guys rank this song on the all-time like lead tracks would you like we're in the world of marvin gaye what's going on to tax man for what we've listened to where does this rank in that top seven or eight one ahead of tax man everything's better second to last eight thousand this is the worst song that we've heard yet isn't this the best song on the album no no this is not the no russell russell this is your favorite on the album no it's not admittedly it's the only song i'd ever heard from this album the first time listen to it okay i mean yeah it's one of the better known but i wouldn't call it the best on

[61:04]the album it's the only hit from this album right well all the other good songs are not radio length so understood understood can't be i think i read that i want you was charted right yeah i want you might have charted yeah some of them got above 100 but i don't i think the rainy day women was the biggest hit my favorite part is that he the wikipedia describes this as a elaborate pun on getting stoned i was like this is the best song on the album i've ever heard of it's the best song this is not an elaborate pun this is just one joke said over and over and over yeah i don't see what it's like he knew the radio would never play a song called everybody must get stoned so he called it rainy day women guys i'm telling you that the the song this song it pierces my brain in a way that most music can't i every i had it i listened to it once and then every other time i heard it i switched it that's what all my friends typically say about our podcast don't listen to episode zero everybody is still listening to episode zero i was like that was our you have to listen to later episodes they get better uh but not this one all right we had like

[62:04]four test ones we were practicing zero well yeah we but we're not releasing those because of all the the insane anti-mask stuff we were talking about the whole time rosie all right this one is called pledging my time all right don't complain don't complain positive but i feel all right i'm pledging my time wikipedia talked about the improvised harmonica breaks and i was like they're not that improvised there's one where it's just the one long note played for like four minutes it's like the joke of my intro in real life this is one song i just don't really want to listen to and i and i i think it's cool that dylan got to record music that he liked and he obviously was into the blues but i just if i want to listen to a blues tune i'm probably not going to listen to this one but i respect him for you know doing it and i think it's a good song to listen to not that bob dylan cares about my respect the harmonica it's the beck line next week it's just

[63:06]bob dylan we're like hey i think he loves it he loves it that's a pull quote i'm bob dylan and i love this podcast uh visions of joanna this one actually was one of his that a lot of people say that this is bob dylan's greatest song ever it's in wikipedia folks it's got to be true i mean i love this song the guitar and the bass player said they finally figured out how to play with dylan's lyrics on this song this is that this is that sound matt was talking about musicality and this is where i think you can hear the band it's just really tight yeah i don't know if i don't know if this was remastered or whatever what i've heard but i mean i finally got some nice speakers listening to these on and maybe that's why but i mean this is just unbelievably clear and i i just i thoroughly enjoy all the musicians that are taking part of this it's not just a radio song that's trying to get in and get out i mean it sounds like a song that that song wants to be here for you yeah the song wants you to

[64:05]listen to it it's not just trying to catch your ear for three minutes and walk away harmonica makes me want to put a drill in my ears okay i'm sorry we can bring it up and then if we we will let it go for the rest of this album we go to like a minute 30 in yes we can let's see i think we can anyways let's see yeah to me the the stars of that song are the guitar and the and the keys i just think that there's some really great stuff going on those sounds unbelievable i really enjoyed this song i thought it was awesome and then this harmonica hits and i had to turn my speakers down i had to turn my volume down because it just he's just blaring it at you it's a lot it's this is what we're talking about when we feel like he's just kind of doing whatever he wants this harmonica break felt like it's just like guess what i'm gonna play this and he's keeping the album and i'm bob dylan hang on this is part of my time we were talking about visions of joanna either way oh my god are you serious this is the one i always think of when i think listen to this harmonica song oh this is your

[65:03]favorite harmonica break it's so long he's just i got all confused this happened to a lot of these songs so where i'd listen to one i'd be like i have no idea what song that is guys i'm not i should not be hosting this podcast i am not good at this when they say like this is one of bob dylan's greatest songs and a lot of it like what i read is it's appreciation for the lyrics and i read the lyrics a few times and i still don't really understand it so matt when you like this song or aaron when you like this song you read the lyrics or do you understand the lyrics or understand what he's singing about i i feel like there's one or two like lines or three or four lines in each song that kind of stick with you sure it's not like telling a story from point a to point b it's i'm not even gonna call it poetry i think he thinks it's poetry but you know he he makes a lot of points and he i mean he's extremely good at rhyming or getting words that flow together anybody before him was very good at doing that or at least not putting it in the form that they're

[66:03]that they that he's got it in and so just the putting the music with the lyrics and then again you know i think your guy's point is that sometimes he's just blabbing on about god knows what but you always pick out two or three things and i should have probably written them down sound a little smarter about this but the you know i just think the way that he crafts and then it's not just six syllables each measure or however it goes you know he might put 13 syllables in one and eight in the other yeah it all comes out beautifully in the end well and really like knowing that these musicians a lot of times this was the first day they had ever played this song the recording you're hearing like they didn't practice it a ton no like to be able to play with bob dylan when he's like and i want people to say what i'm thinking about and like you never know how many words he's going to put into a measure it's got to be bizarro to play with him yeah i think he's when he really gets it right and to me songs like this i think

[67:01]when he's like i mean not getting it right it's not for me to say but i think when it really speaks to me no russell i don't i couldn't name a i couldn't i don't think i can recite a single lyric from this song even though i've listened to it every day for the last week um but it's to me it's like it's painting pictures with words um the other person that i think about who does this really well is ghostface killa and it's the same like i don't always i don't know i don't know what ghostface is talking about but you get the feeling you kind of let it wash over you and you understand and so yeah i don't i don't say that i know what visions of johanna is about but i get a feeling from it and some of that has to be words i just googled uh in quotations ghostface killa and bob dylan and it came back with zero results i didn't know you could even do that on google anymore that was crazy there have to be more results i'm gonna put up this transcript it's gonna be the first results ever for the for comparing bob dylan and ghostface killer that was absolutely i can't be the first my other one's gonna be asap rock but that's too obvious because

[68:00]he's white oh yeah yeah come on i mean i mean i almost interrupted you to say that uh and i definitely know what asap rook is okay so uh one of us rocky no no no not asap rocky asap rock two different they're different rappers all right what what else can i do that was aaron's second left field take of the week oh what the trombones player name was much less asap rock this is aaron you're just so wild to me one of us must know this is a double album guys we gotta get going we gotta get a dollar sign oh that's why i that's where my google search went wrong i need a dollar sign i do like this bass forward bob dylan i have to admit fun uh that was the first one uh that's the end of one this is the one that they did in 15 takes and it really is interesting that the chorus and that

[69:01]you can really hear the piano just pounding and that's the sound bob dylan was like looking for what i've heard about bob dylan is that he's so particular about exactly how everything sounds on the recording and that he any band that's working with him is really is he's gonna work him over pretty hard because he's he knows i i think this is one of these albums where you can tell this is a singular vision of like one person like this is what i want to hear and it comes through big time kind of like pet sounds right where ryan wilson was essentially telling every single instrument player i need you to play it this way play it this way right yeah young gets into that yeah yeah i mean you can tell some of these artists they get big enough and they just have no influence from anybody else they're just like i'm gonna make exactly what i want to make all right probably my favorite song on the album i want you me too man i love this song this is so fun isn't it you just feel good i was walking down the street today listening to this it just put me in such a good mood yeah this is the one that's stuck in my head all the time i want you listen to all the instruments yes all oh so good yeah and the guitar playing in parallel kind of with it was at keys or whatever

[70:05]it's super cool and i just i love how simple the chorus is so this is also a basis of my bob dylan stand-up bit that i'm doing where i do parody songs of bob dylan and this song is called i want youtube huh i want youtube i want youtube and then it's like hit that bell i want to get a subscription it's a guy that doesn't really youtube if this doesn't take off if this doesn't take off my career as a bob dylan stand-up artist is totally it's gonna be great you got all the jokes written already yep that was the only one and it was barely a joke all right uh stuck inside of mobile with memphis on my mind i think this is my favorite i would agree with matt because it's so what is it seven minutes long this keeps going yeah i love right this is another one where when he wrote it with the band he didn't know the lyrics

[71:01]he was just kind of mumbling stuff and then he was able to put it in later which i think is how he wrote a lot of this it is rhythmically rhythmically it's really interesting i was on a bike ride today i was trying to sing this in my head and i kept skipping beats because something about it just doesn't fit but the band makes it work it's very cool and it's cool that he's he's tying memphis and mobile together right those are two major musical cities for pop music that's that's cool to me aaron jumping off of that you mentioned memphis being this rock and roll city it's kind of the home of the blues it's the home of rock and roll did you guys know that there are 1074 songs that mention memphis in the lyrics it is the most mentioned city of any city in music in recorded history true i looked it up on google today rob i believe that can't put anything on the internet that's not there are 1074 songs 800 different titles that mention memphis in the song oh my god okay moving on are we gonna get to hear some of

[72:02]them are we gonna talk about absolutely i figured we should we should check out some of these songs and admittedly this is one of the hardest lists we've ever come up with because it's really hard to narrow it down but i think we need to do a list about the greatest songs ever about memphis i'm just gonna warn you right now i have a joke in this segment that's so good that you're you might die when you hear it are you ready for this i'm gonna warn you guys that i have such an emotional attachment to memphis a city that i've been to only three times in my life that if i break down in tears at any point in this segment feel free to edit that out it's okay to cry i'm not gonna and it's okay for me to feature that on the trailer it's just gonna be hey listen to our podcast oh memphis hey if you want to check out more beck did it better call the beck line no it's your party rosie you can cry if you want to okay i like it thank you number four on the list is mark cone walking in memphis i mean it's got to be like this is it like

[73:06]right so many slow dances to the song is what i watched other people do in middle school and then like when you go to memphis and he's talking about all these things i'm at graceland and i'll dream all of it so supposedly he traveled to graceland to try to find some inspiration and then all these he had all these experiences in memphis and this is what the song is about so i thought that was pretty cool you know my sister lives in memphis does she really do you go visit do you at the rendezvous hey rob i know she's from memphis he's the only 10 i see oh oh snap that was the joke i was going to make that i was talking about earlier no it was not it was about my sister god dang it now it doesn't seem uh no but i went down there once when she graduated and she was like okay let's go out on beale street let's do all this fun stuff and instead rock bandit just came out so we stayed in her apartment and played rock band all night and i never saw memphis at all

[74:00]number three is jerry lee lewis memphis beat speaking of pounding the piano man this guy would fuck up a piano for sure oh i'm warning you where the beat is and he recorded this in memphis he stopped like rock band with his sister and went recorded this song while he was down there he was a son of records guy just to be clear by the way i have no regrets about what i did i did what i did and i'm proud of it aaron or matt aaron do you know like what i don't know if jerry lee lewis is on our our list at all what's the story with jerry lee lewis like he's some famous piano player what's his story i think i don't know i don't know if he flew too close to the sun or what i think his uh a couple of his live albums he's 245 on the list he is uh yeah is that the live from the star club by far the most famous thing about jerry lee lewis is he married like his 13 year old cousin right yeah i think he had some some stuff and that kind of got him i think i think that was

[75:00]even too much for the music people back then they're like we cannot we cannot put up with us well speaking of people who have done inappropriate things number two on the list chuck berry memphis tennessee wait did you say piss oh god that was the joke oh it's coming up that was it i thought of that earlier today and i thought it was so funny i wrote it down all right here we go chuck berry memphis tennessee i can't think of anything else so just to just let everybody know what we're referring to chuck berry did have an incident where he was arrested for setting up toilet camps which are wrong we should not i think the question about this song is that it wasn't there was a cover by what like johnny rivers or somebody johnny rivers so the interesting thing is i think maybe we could pull the johnny rivers up one rob if you have a second i was gonna put i think the johnny rivers one is more known and i was gonna play that but i figured if chuck berry did it first we should

[76:02]give him the credit for it yeah the johnny rivers one is people really know but i don't know i kind of like the chuck berry one better oh you listen to this you might change your mind the chuck berry one's faster no this one's quicker listen to this yeah i mean this one rocks a little harder slowing it down definitely helps it just sounds better it's a good groove long distance information this is the one everyone knows right yeah absolutely oh it's a banger so good the the next song on the list is king curtis memphis soul stew and i think this one is just badass yo i think this is one of the coolest songs we will hear throughout the northwest king curtis can blow man we sell so much of this people wonder what we put in it i love we're gonna tell you right now these songs where they're about a half a teacup of bass where they talk about the instruments coming in and they come in here right it's like

[77:01]archie bell and the drills sign the family stone has a great one these drums are hot too a royaling memphis guitar it's four tablespoons come on king curtis give it to us and some wispy flute with my friend joe horn a little bit you get some hammer b3 in here and here's prakin montgomery the third on trombone and a half a pipe horns this is badass is it not this is oh this is number one russell with a bullet yeah this is memphis right here this is so good we need more songs like this you guys think the king curtis song is probably the greatest song about memphis russell there is no way anyone could ever come up with a song

[78:02]three six that is greater or more relevant to this podcast than the one you just put on top of that list so let's move on that's the end of the show you know what though the one problem with that is i don't think that king curtis ever combined the jazz flute with rhythm and blues but i know one man who did and that's herbie man memphis underground what one man capital mr man that's mr man you russell enjoy this jazz flute about memphis so russell which of one of your mom's records was this song on this is actually memphis underground is the title of the album there you go do you just picture him like that picture him like that you're playing this with his shirt off every time i picture herbie man with his shirt off just at any given moment just always picturing herbie man with his shirt off a really interesting fact i saw about this is memphis underground was the favorite album of writer hunter s thompson who mentioned it in several chapters of his book beer and loathing on the camping campaign trail

[79:01]i'm telling you guys herbie man we're we are the number one place for your herbie man resurgence news herbie man is gonna have a huge resurgence thanks to us let's face it we already had a voicemail today we're gonna get another one in about three weeks at this rate about this is herbie man this is more play than herbie man and everyone i talked about herbie man is like oh yeah i know herbie man i have that's crazy like that band playing behind him is good that's a good groove like that kind of chunky you know bass moving forward kind of thing i mean they got the memphis sound down russell nice job with the countdown once again you have gone off the board and blown our minds the fact that you could combine herbie man and memphis is absolutely amazing absolutely mind-blowing to me uh promise i don't want to hear anything else after hearing memphis soul stew that's all i want to hear the rest of this album can just eat it because that's all i want to hear i'd eat that memphis soul stew right because i definitely don't want to hear leopard skin to pillbox ever again in my life thanks thanks for our listeners for sticking around for this next song then

[80:00]i'm like joe buck in the sixth inning of a game like fuck this shit i'm out of here what's the macros on this memphis soul stew i've already had my fill of chunky bass i can't have my doctor says i'm always supposed to have nine grams of bass per day and that was another one that i'm gonna have to edit out god i'm just not on fire today bob you're a lot stronger rob as long as you lay off pinching your organ you're gonna be just fine i think a little pinch of organ there's honestly a graph and i know we've said it but i think there's a graph for this album that as the amount of flute goes up the quality of the song goes down all these without the all these without the harmonica that flute in the brain they're so much better without the harmonica i mean i'm still mad at russell because he went off the list and i i think memphis soul stew was the better song about memphis but when you hear the groove from that herbie man song

[81:00]whoever was playing i'm gonna need to look this up whoever was playing on that track they get this stuff more than the hawks did and when you hear the hawks try to do this kind of groove it just it sounds it sounds bad when you when you when they do the jangly rambling you know almond brothers guitar kind of stuff that works for me but when they when they're doing leopard skin pillbox it's not the same as musicians who really get it did you guys know in 2008 there was this charity project called war child presents heroes where all these legendary musicians asked next generation musicians to cover some of their favorite songs that sounds like an album that we can't make jokes about and bob dylan actually picked beck to cover this song what leopard skin pillbox hat so beck covered this song and he performs it at a lot of his concerts now check it out i'm telling you when you hear this you realize how good these songs are because they're it's a slamming

[82:01]he actually performed this at the academy awards too i thought that was pretty awesome what was he performing for the academy awards for who do you guys think did it better there's only one answer i think beck did yeah that's easy beck did it better that song is a hundred times better by beck that was so good i love that easy good job bob dylan picking it picking an artist to play his song can you imagine doing that can we imagine picking four other people to do this podcast well i was hoping the other the other everybody just said yes they all know that the other name for our podcast was going to be rex and effect did it better and i'm really glad because i was not aware of any rex and effect covers of bob dylan or any songs is that the first straight up cover we've done is that the first straight up back cover that we've had on one an album on the top i think so yeah i think so 500 i don't think he's had another straight up cover uh all right just like a woman i've been singing this one all day

[83:02]she makes love end of side of tooth we're halfway through yes she does and she hates like i think this song might suck but i love it i don't know what that says about my taste in music but she breaks oh this song is great it doesn't suck seems like a billy joel song to me i don't know why i also love billy joel so i do like the guitar inspiration for this as you guys know i try to pair my drinks with the album and so this time instead of doing wine tonight i decided to do two types of wine two types of beers bolton lonely blonde oh no and because it's blonde on blonde i have to have a second blonde i gotta i gotta pile them on top of each other seems right and the second one is called belching beaver me so horny blonde you weren't gonna say that for a two live crew episode those two blondes seem like they should find one another i mean it just seemed like one's got what the other one needs so these were the these were the two blonde beers that i thought were most

[84:03]just like a woman russ as you know for a lot of these episodes i've been trying to pair my bar type desserts and i picked two blondies so this is i've got a blondie on blondie here that i'm eating right now it's quite delicious does that belching beaver have like a demonic satanic uh label they they seem to really get into the artwork no i'm sure it has a normal label like most small label beers that are not at all these weird ass labels it's definitely a demonic looking exactly it's i'm sure it's not four white dudes with nothing better to do with their time sitting around thinking of a weird label all right most likely you go your way parentheses and i'll go mine like is it just where is this the loudest song on the album this one seems loud this is like crank it up i couldn't tell you if you would have played this clip for me and said is the song on the

[85:01]album i wouldn't be able to say yes or no there is a song on the album that i wouldn't be able to say yes or no there is a song on the album that i wouldn't be able to say yes or no it's confusing between the songs on this album and the ones on highway 61 like it's sometimes hard to remember which is on which they sound so similar to me it's so wild man how do you how do you compare this when you're listening to this one versus highway 61 like do you hear a difference or do you like this one compared to highway 61 or what jumps out to you as being similar or different i i feel like this one's much more musical i think they've got the bands behind it i think he's moving away from the solo act this is the third of his electronic uh move to electronic it's kind of like the trilogy right yeah and i think he's getting better as he goes and so for me personally i think this just plays musically a lot better i don't know if the lyrics are better i think i think everything that way is good but i just i i feel like this one to use uh aaron's vernacular moves me a little

[86:02]bit it speaks to me a little more just from the musicality standpoint i think it's a little bit important do you think and first of all i have to say i i came into this record not especially liking this album but now listening to you guys and hearing the songs once again my tiny feeble brain has been swayed and i think i really like this album though okay another surprise the ninth greatest album of all time is pretty good according to rob i'll tell you you know what really got me i'm up in the 200s of the the list and bob dylan's modern times which came out 2006 um is number 204 and he sings horribly he cannot sing any longer but he still has got the lyrics and the musicality on that is unbelievable and i think that kind of opened me up to you know maybe that he's a little bit more than just the hippie singing about anti-war stuff um you know so i think i should probably go back and listen to highway 61 again but you know his later stuff when we get into it i think you guys are gonna be pleasantly surprised how bad he's

[87:04]his singing is but how good the songs are i told you i was i was a huge fan of time out of mind which came out i think after modern times i know it would have been before modern times i forgot how old i am no time out of mind it was from uh the late 90s uh i have something to say about bob dylan's voice uh and you guys aren't really gonna enjoy this but uh we talked about this uh when we talked about how we don't yeah i'm sorry i should have saved it we talked about this on highway 61 um you know we talked about dylan's voice and the thing that don on me is um there was a uh teacher of uh singing and uh performing in the twin cities and and nationally uh who wrote a lot of great books called wesley balk and so wesley balk wrote a lot about how performers can influence uh their audiences and and what the the spectrum of sounds that a human voice can make and so there's a spectrum that goes from oops only one perfect sound to ubu ugly but useful and when you hear bob dylan

[88:04]you realize that he's using sounds in a really useful way and they're not always pretty but they work and that's the great thing about bob dylan's voice so maybe he hangs out on the ugly but useful end of the scale but it worked russell uh you should i wish more women on bumble would realize that i was an ubu like ugly but useful i didn't know how to say the joke without sounding incredibly cruel so i'm glad you said something because then i can just edit my part out you know i was trying so hard not to say that go ahead russell that's super interesting you know i'm not a good speaker but i'm a good speaker i'm a good speaker i'm a good one thing you guys mentioned earlier i'm going to take a chance at something here and if this fails miserably we can cut it as always what you guys mentioned like bob dylan's really great at rhyming did i ever tell you guys i once set up one of my online dating profiles with a poem um no but i hope you're gonna read it aloud please i will read it aloud but again i get i get deleted if i want to i'm here for this i'm here for all of this i promise i will delete it okay there's i've got this program figured out i know i've screwed up the last couple times i've

[89:04]manual i think i'm set so here's the deal so sometimes with these online dating profiles you feel like you have to change it up i i can only make myself look so good in pictures so i gotta try to change up the writing so you can be just genuine and explain who you are what you're looking for you can try to be off the wall and try to catch someone's attention i figured i would write a poem about myself and see if it would jump out to women which it has not really occurred but i'll run it by you guys and see what you think all right i'm obviously going to want to date you you already know that so i don't know if i'm the right person to be i bet you could say anything and it would fit in with a lot of these songs we could make this poem into a bob dylan song let's hear it rob if you want to take this and make a bob dylan song afterwards i would i would i'll give you copyright all right just tweet it over to beck did it better rob will get it off the twitter yes perfect well because i can't understand bob dylan's lyrics i instead decided to pirate dr seuss's lyrics on this the introduction of who i am wow we are off to a great start here

[90:04]we go i'm here for it here for it here we go and if it gets long you guys just stop me but the end i've got all the time i've got the rest of my life i don't care about my kids anymore all i care about is this let's go i do like green eggs and ham not sure where that makes me fit on that thing the enneagram i will eat green eggs and ham at vacations on the lake now i eat them at my house because of the fucking covet outbreak and i will eat them on my quest to visit every pro baseball park or while binging netflix what's up with that show ozark oh man russell and i will eat them while exploring sites of bygone history you know carol baskin fed her husband of the tigers that ain't no mystery and i like to eat them while exploring local hiking venues or while singing disney songs with my nieces and my nephews oh my god it's gold that's the best line so far and i will eat them

[91:04]while practicing my profession as a lawyer or while playing you in battleship i dare you come sink my destroyer yes oh man i think you guys like this one the destroyer and i will eat them with my friends on annual trips to vegas no it'd be a battleship you gotta say it's a battleship and i will eat them with star wars light up chopsticks yes i'm somewhat shameless yes my god and i like to eat them while reading books on u.s presidents or while cheering wildly at local sporting events jesus and i would like to eat them while conversing of our adventures and favorite shows we could do it over beer or wine what's your jam ipas or french bordeaux's that ends with an x too so that's extra credit because they have to know how to pronounce it to get the rhyme and here comes here's the final part where i here's where i try to set the hook i hope that's not in the poem but okay

[92:00]and i would like to eat them with someone who pursues her passions and is thoughtful we could do it over zoom or meet in person when it's lawful russell here we are i'm dating you again this is what happens this is fantastic wait so is are you not using that you're gonna try to bury your battles i have that on one of the apps yes the problem is i'm an ubu i'm an ugly but functional and most of the time i'm an ugly but functional women can't get to the functional part that's it's a it's a you got to not have that on your on your profile for sure i i think uh that came off as kind of a horny shell silverstein which i really like i think that was really good and i did just get an email to the affected better at gmail.com and it's from bob dylan and it says i suck shit russ is really good so i think that's a good sign it seems like you've nailed it the word is out yeah the many times you've heard bob dylan say the famous phrase i suck shit all right that's classy when i wrote it the first time i was playing a trombone the whole time so in the background i was

[93:02]like that's the only problem is that there's no famous trombone songs that aren't just i'd be like my mom be like you practice that trombone i'd be like okay i'd just be outside going wow wow wow wow because i thought okay not for my mom's like there's something wrong with that job i was like mom this is this she's like yeah sweetie very good okay all right temporary like achilles by the way no versions of the song on youtube anywhere all covers i wonder why i listened to it i think the piano saves this one like they're just that like that's what i don't get is his voice he can make his voice sound so good and so like pleasurable and then there's some songs where you just almost choose not to as as like a artistic choice but that god

[94:03]is so i love it all right so again we've run out of things to say with a double album we're just like yep it's all sounds the same all right we're proving my point i didn't want to hammer the point home but he he's using his voice in a in a purposeful way yeah he's an oboe wait what'd you say he's a he's oops only one perfect sound it's not really him and ubu would be useful song is about a spurned lover whose ex has taken up with a new boyfriend how would you guys react would you write a song with the trombone or whatever or how would you react rob if your ex lover had taken up with a new boyfriend celebrate that no no use sitting around no use sitting around uh crying about it write a song about it rob do not edit this part of the podcast in front of your family this week do not do it don't use this for some cute i i don't i would would that make you really mad i guess if you got dumped and they start dating

[95:05]somebody else right but i don't know i've just i've been out of it so long russell like i can't even picture what having an ex would be like rob just always drives his car fast regardless good or bad he's just gonna drive back on that guys i was like 15 that is so not fair that's like i gotta scrub that from the internet oh my god i hadn't thought about that in weeks you made me think about it i gotta cringe all over the place i'm such a baby when i got dumped and i just got so dumped and i couldn't even blame her i was like yeah i don't get it either i didn't get why you didn't see me in the first place i said hey when i reread this poem i put on my profile i'm gonna read it really fast okay so once again it does seem like everybody's making fun of me uh absolutely sweet marie sitting here beating on my trumpet okay russell sent me a time stamp and now i know what it was for you left for me i love this is the voice i love it because i just cannot get enough of it

[96:05]it's kind of like listening to the rock sing in moana right that was an awesome song oh it's like when the rock sings in moana and it's not really singing it's like kind of half singing like that's what that sounds like to me it sounds great my question is do you think yeah do you think i could write lyrics for bob dylan here and there if i could write lyrics for bob dylan here and there if i could write lyrics for he sings it in a song and it would sound as good yeah well they couldn't believe it to be russell thank you you're my true friend that was a friendship test by the way i failed if i sent him my dating profile would he sing it pro bono for me oh my god well you know they might be giants my favorite band if you're in their fan club you could pay him 500 bucks and they would sing your ringtone with your name on it they would compose right they would compose a brand new song and sing it right i tried to and they already were sold out by the time i got there i would pay 500 bucks for that in

[97:02]two seconds i always thought that was the coolest thing in the world they'd be like rob your phone's ringing wait a minute can i do this i should be charging money okay just let everybody know i did set up a patreon where i will sing your phone ringer uh and just tell me your name and then i'll say that your phone is ringing you guys can hop in here and help me out at any time for any of these jokes that are bombing feel free to hop in and just help me along and say something that is literally on his phone right now so he's either not laughing at your jokes or he's trying to call into your new somebody just asked me what's the beckline number why are you looking at your phone i'm trying to get this bat i'm trying to get over there man's got a good idea man's idea is that the more people that call the beck line the more people are going to listen to it because they're going to want to hear themselves on the podcast that's why i always put the voicemails up front if you guys notice because i'm like if we put it at the end the person is not going to listen to through this my brother is the only one listening to the entire episode that's true i put him up

[98:00]front it would save me a lot of time and money if i could go out on dates with matt and he would ignore me and play on his phone like my normal dates do and at least we could split the bill and it wouldn't be such like a financial burden on me hey russ's date hey you candy crush what level are you on there's this guy's got an awesome poem on his profile oh that was you oh oh fourth time around this is they think this is a response to john lennon singing norwegian wood in a dylan-like way and then dylan is now impersonating john lennon singing bob dylan norwegian wood was one of your top five beatles songs ever rob listen i i stand by that by the way and i also got somebody posted on twitter that i was right so think about it was it was it someone else who likes going out on dates and burning down hotel rooms as part of it or not yeah that was their favorite part they're like i love the part being obsessed with somebody burned down their place left eye style so if you listen it's in three four times does it sound like norwegian wood kind of just listen yeah it definitely does you can hear it let's play this

[99:03]i mean it's pretty dark they're very similar very cool oh a song that sounds like norwegian wood is a good song who would have thunk it maybe me thank you okay i got this tattoo says norwegian wood top five beetle songs of all time had a lot of explain to do with the tattoo parlor i'll never regret that i told him i had a podcast and they said oh sounds cool uh did not ask me the title was the joke over that and thanks again guys for leaving me hanging there all right bob dylan fourth time around this sounds like a parody of a bob dylan song from this period to me which obviously he's been doing his own songs but in the morning this feels like the one that got shoved in there so they could make it a double album like well we gotta include like a few it almost makes it sound like he didn't write it because one thing that's weird is that he's repeating the lyrics in that song you don't hear that a lot with bob dylan