Talking Heads: Remain in the Light (1980)

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums that's decided by

[00:04]rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the

[00:09]order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts and we promise to do almost no

[00:13]research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it

[00:19]better we are all the way up to album 38 i think remain in the light by the talking heads all right

[00:25]everybody so listen guys let's turn on the radio and let's listen to k-rob welcome to k-rob we just

[00:33]switched over from alternative music to music rob likes and to start the new station we got an email

[00:38]here from a listener this is from aaron's wife at gmail.com she writes guys can you please play a

[00:44]song that aaron would like he's been feeling pretty sad lately about how mean everybody's

[00:48]you may find yourself living in a tiny house

[00:54]you

[00:55]the backseat of a large automobile

[01:03]you may find yourself sleeping in a tent in the garage with a couple of mice

[01:09]you may ask yourself why do all the guys make fun of me

[01:13]we want aaron's life yes we're very jealous he works from 3 30 to 5 he never overdoes it

[01:22]he's going hiking again

[01:25]his wife puts up with him and we all want aaron's life we all want aaron's life

[01:31]when you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time

[01:36]i do not have a friend whose wife still likes me there's not a single one all of them eventually

[01:53]turn on me every single wife

[01:55]hates me by the end somewhere there's some poor bastard who has an aaron's wife at gmail.com who's

[02:00]going to get all these emails after this i feel bad for that person right now uh yeah i've sent

[02:05]him but i've sent him some stuff i probably can't take back rob i'll be honest with you my son asked

[02:10]me today if rob is the best person and i did not say no i didn't say yes either but i didn't say

[02:14]no the best person yes like as a person i think about doing good things all the time yeah you

[02:22]know like you know like at the checkout when they're like hey do you want to donate a dollar

[02:26]i'm like no sorry i donate already and i'm like god i gotta start donating already so i can actually

[02:31]believe that when i say you know so i'm not just giving a dollar to like i'm here with three guys

[02:35]that find themselves stuck making a 10 year long podcast we didn't think about that when we started

[02:40]like that rob you gotta put a little pizzazz in it come on we've got russell in minnesota russell

[02:46]how are you doing you know rob this goes out to magic mike and all his facts facts aren't simple

[02:50]and facts aren't straight facts are lazy and facts are lame facts don't come with our amazing point

[02:56]of view facts don't do what our dumb shit listeners want us to do take a look at these

[03:01]hands rob take a look at these hands i'll tell you what that reminds me of aaron when he's always

[03:05]saying facts don't care about your feelings then he's going on and on with that q and a stuff it's

[03:09]like yeah i get it you know like okay i got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing excellent rob

[03:15]thanks for having me oh god i was gonna take a drink there and you answered so fast i got aaron

[03:19]out on the whisper

[03:20]coast aaron how are you doing and you're in your tiny house today west coast i'm in my house it is

[03:25]not a house in motion but i am inside the house tonight so we'll see how it goes i'm not in the

[03:30]garage i did see a rat walk across the street today so that was kind of weird put you at home

[03:35]right yeah you're like hey what was is that really what you're going to open up the podcast with i

[03:41]saw a rat cross the street today i wait you don't that's it that's weird it could have been a possum

[03:46]i'm not sure but it was definitely a critter that looks wet or possum like walking across the street

[03:50]outside the house you don't know if there's a rat or an opossum that is i don't know because it could

[03:55]be little kind of picturing him like listening to a little uh you know don't worry be happy as he's

[04:03]kind of strolling he said he's just kind of strolling across the street and that's kind of

[04:07]what he was doing hey having a great time out on the west coast yeah his kid's falling and like

[04:11]busting his teeth open whatever he always does and aaron's like hey i think that's a possum or

[04:15]a rat over there i don't know mosey and on over let's get right into our voice in the house

[04:20]so stupid i can kiss my ass dumb shit listeners they can't even tell what we're doing yeah i don't

[04:26]know why listeners have not been calling as much lately uh after playing that i don't know

[04:30]hey boys i know it's been a long time since you've heard from your target demographic

[04:38]of middle-aged women from minnesota that does seem i have to say that seems targeted at one

[04:43]of us i'm just going to say that right now that seems that seems aggressively so i thought i'd

[04:47]call in this is krista i just finished

[04:50]it is at the top of my list i really enjoyed that one um thank you there were plenty of

[04:59]jokes to go around so everybody can feel good about that i have to say that as a

[05:04]white lutheran girl from the suburbs i had no right listening to hip-hop but i love it

[05:14]and i guarantee if my dad knew i listened to these this music

[05:20]um at that age i would probably get grounded now because some of those things still make me

[05:26]blush even though i love it the first time i heard easy ease you ready for it rob give me that nut

[05:31]oh wow rob you went right for the vulgar stuff on this clip here didn't you trust me it is not

[05:43]hard to find vulgar stuff on this song just check out the 30 seconds

[05:50]oh yeah oh give me that nut uh there oh yeah this is great matt has literally just put his

[06:01]heads on his head and he's relaxing now like he's sitting in the lawn chair he's he's just

[06:05]enjoying the ride right now i blushed but then i needed more um i will agree with russell the

[06:13]defiant ones is a fantastic documentary pause pause pause pause pause she used to agree with

[06:18]me this has not happened in my world in my life i'm not going to do that i'm going to do it in my

[06:20]a long long time where i've gotten any props from a lady so erica or krista or whatever who is this

[06:26]that's leaving this message i appreciate it erica is not even close the defiant one is a fantastic

[06:32]documentary i also think you guys could um learn from straight out of compton i'm surprised you

[06:39]didn't mention that movie um might be a little one-sided considering we don't have easy ease

[06:44]opinion on that rip and also because dray or we could be saving that for straight out of

[06:49]album which would make sense

[06:50]i will also say i loved the list of dray produce songs man those were some good songs they were

[07:00]all my jam i will say i agree i was never really into club that song was big when i was in college

[07:07]and you know where um and so the club i went to was the upstairs of the rube so i don't really

[07:15]yes yes to the club uh well now wait a minute we got to talk a little bit so

[07:20]she's talking about the club i'm talking about the club i'm talking about the club i'm talking about

[07:20]our haunt in college which was basically the upstairs of the rube which as i remember it

[07:25]now first of all the number one thing i think about of the stairs is i did see a woman once

[07:28]fall down drink so much and then fall down those stairs and i laughed and i laughed because it was

[07:34]like a nice fall where it was like butt down and then like she wanted to do it you know on the way

[07:39]down it wasn't like it wasn't it wasn't a tumble it was kind of like a stumble no it was but it

[07:45]that was wild so you picture yourself you're in this grimy college bar you go upstairs which first

[07:50]of all would like that means that me talking to women up in the bar i was always like this

[07:54]how how's it going tonight what's up can you believe they may be paid four dollars for this

[08:02]but this picture of miller high life i can't believe i had to pay four dollars for this

[08:05]and then i all i remember is that they had a pinball machine up there and then one time they

[08:10]gave free buffalo wings and dave ate so many that he got a joker smile where when he had

[08:16]he like slept under the pinball i don't remember there's some stuff maybe i'm not too clear on it

[08:20]but for some reason i can't remember why yeah they had free tater skins and buffalo wings at

[08:25]happy hour and then i sometimes ate so many buffalo wings that and drank so much bush light

[08:29]that when i went home and peed it would smell like buffalo wings and bush light matt matt didn't we go

[08:33]to this bar for your 21st birthday i believe we went there for your 21st birthday and you had a

[08:38]few shots didn't they do the give me the red one give me the green one give me the the water or

[08:43]something like that oh no yep they had like the joe from woodbury yeah famously gave me a couple

[08:50]half in the bag so yeah the third one i thought it was water again but it was some

[08:55]sort of vodka happens as your buddy shows up and he comes and he taps you like on the side when

[09:01]no one's looking and he says hey i'm gonna make you look like a badass i'm gonna get you three

[09:05]shots they're all gonna be water just act like make a face act like you're super tough when

[09:11]you're taking them so he gives you one take the first shot water second shot water third but like

[09:16]you're making all these faces you're playing it up and then the third one he just rails you with

[09:20]something and you're like oh my god i'm gonna get you three shots and you're like oh my god i'm

[09:20]gonna get you three shots and you're like oh my god i'm gonna get you three shots and you're

[09:20]gonna get you three shots and you're like oh my god i'm gonna get you three shots and

[09:20]hard right and it catches you off guard is that right joe joe from woodbury that's the kind of

[09:25]guy he is so yeah yeah yeah i never saw anybody get railed with something hard at the roof but

[09:30]i just love that that was a thing like it's been done so many times somebody's like i'm

[09:36]gonna do the old three shots of water game like can you imagine doing that now it's like a 40

[09:42]year old like hey i'm gonna get you three shots you'd be like well no stop right there i'm not

[09:45]doing that i had one shot two weeks ago and i'm still recovering from that like well the other

[09:50]two but not i had to do the cement mixer did you guys ever have to do any of the bizarre shots like

[09:55]the yeah they would pour the kalua and the lemon and it would curdle the that type of stuff no for

[10:00]me it's just prairie fires these days you know a little tabasco i think that's kind of a nightcap

[10:06]for me not a big deal of course all my birth my birthday's in may so all my birthdays in college

[10:11]coincided directly with finals so no one ever wanted to go out with me i once went i was like

[10:15]hey does anybody want to go to taco bell like and people are like no i'm studying i'm like meanwhile

[10:20]my wife's birthday is in my wife's birthday is in september so everybody wanted to go out with her

[10:25]because it was like she could just go you know and then she was 21 and i wasn't so she would go

[10:29]out to the bar and i would stay at home that's why i'm going to tell my kids the first thing you need

[10:33]to do in college is get a fake id because that is where it's not even about the drinking that's just

[10:37]where fun stuff happens like i was at home in my room playing nba 95 on sega genesis waiting for

[10:43]this my future wife to come back wait are we talking about college or the last hour of my evening

[10:47]all right this is

[10:50]getting too real for us we might need to move on here no there's none of us waiting for each

[10:54]other come home we we see each other we're like hey how's it going and then like one of us had

[10:57]headphones in so we don't even hear each other we're like okay well i just want to say what my

[11:01]favorite song is still going marijuana even though i am not a partaker is um she doesn't

[11:09]do marijuana by rick james that song oh that's actually a great pick that's a great song

[11:14]this is fantastic

[11:20]yeah rick james is an absolute classic

[11:24]man she's damn i don't think i i feel like i've never heard this song before believe it or not

[11:31]oh it's a super jam this whole album's great

[11:34]man is rick james on the list man is rick james on the list anywhere

[11:39]i don't know i didn't pull my list up today

[11:42]i'm tired guys i'm tired oh no man we gotta get moving matt's tired we're getting we're getting

[11:50]to keep going

[11:50]oh my god this is this is a ticking clock before we all fall asleep we're definitely not going to

[11:54]stay up for two hours after this and chat with each other about the same stuff we talked about

[11:57]last week all right so let's get into everybody's rolling going

[12:04]it's time it's time to see what everybody's up to it's time yeah yeah yeah rolling going

[12:14]oh yeah yeah i got i got something i gotta get off

[12:20]my chest i gotta talk about

[12:21]nice yeah you guys ever you guys ever make a mistake and the mistake itself isn't the hard

[12:31]part it's knowing you're gonna have to live with this mistake for an extended period of time that

[12:35]that at that moment when you make the mistake that's the worst part knowing that this is gonna

[12:38]last for a while are you quitting the podcast i don't want to hear about it like are you quitting

[12:43]the fucking podcast after i made that song i had a song about how jealous we are of your life

[12:48]and you're quitting the podcast outrageous

[12:50]you could have told us you're gonna send me a text before i drove home at 10 p.m on a friday

[12:55]night to record this shit aaron yeah my rolling going was aaron's off the podcast so i guess

[12:59]now what am i supposed to talk about a few a few episodes ago i said that my wife you know it'd be

[13:04]nice if she just put a spoon in the dishwasher i knew that one right away she actually does a ton

[13:11]i'm just trying to make kind of a subtle joke and that's that's getting edited out the only

[13:16]part that's going to edit it's this podcast is going to start with you being like she doesn't put

[13:20]a spoon in the dishwasher so yes i know exactly what you're talking about so you guys never pick

[13:26]on my west coast lifestyle and sensibilities and for a long time i i went through the exercise of

[13:32]trying to buy more earth-friendly aluminum foil like the recycled stuff or the shit and it's

[13:38]terrible what the what the hell is more earth-friendly aluminum foil how can it be anything

[13:44]but aluminum what does that mean like because it's like it's thinner and it's made out of recycled

[13:48]material instead of

[13:50]and it's terrible it's awful it wrecks oh imagine that every time you try to use it never would have

[13:55]thought you never would have guessed that you know that's a big surprise because it is a lot of times

[13:58]i'm using tin aluminum foil and i'm like god i wish this was thinner like i wish this was just so thin

[14:04]because you know what i love using cling wrap oh that's my favorite it's so thin and it's somehow

[14:08]thin and hard to tear and i never know how to use it so i wish aluminum foil is more like cling wrap

[14:13]so i finally decided you know what i can do other things to help save the planet i'm gonna just

[14:20]go right back to reynolds aluminum foil i'm not messing around i'm gonna get the military grade

[14:24]stuff when i buy aluminum foil all right so i bought 200 feet of it like i'm not gonna fuck

[14:29]around i went to the grocery store i bought the 200 foot roll of aluminum foil well we know aaron

[14:35]loves speed i've i've been i've been really working on my aluminum foil tearing technique

[14:41]i've gotten it down so i don't because i used to have a lot of problems where i'd try to tear it

[14:44]and i'd get a corner that was broken off and it would piss me off it's not really improved what

[14:50]my technique with the aluminum because i use it for bacon or whatever else i'm roasting so on

[14:54]wednesday night i'm going to roast some asparagus i go to grab the aluminum foil out of the cupboard

[15:00]i fucking drop the aluminum foil on the ground and the end of the tube gets all bent and kinked

[15:07]up so that the the foil is kind of crinkled and so as you unravel the unroll the foil

[15:12]one end starts to tear off so it's not a perfect rectangle anymore and i've only used eight feet

[15:19]of this 200 foot roll i now have to live with this mistake for another 192 feet of aluminum foil

[15:25]i'm so upset about this i've been just beside myself all week i'm so pissed every time i gotta

[15:30]use it ask him rob ask him did you just go dump the other 196 feet in the bay and like like drown

[15:36]a seal with it or what do you do with it no i don't i don't get my like my marriage is hanging

[15:41]on by a thread i can barely like interact with my kids like my job is super stressful i what the fuck

[15:49]is going on in your life that this is your thing where you're like oh i've got this thing where i've

[15:53]got to have a conversation with these guys and we really need to fill content oh i know what i'm

[15:58]going to talk about and you were excited you're like i got a good one i got something i've been

[16:02]upset about it um well here here's the thing i think you got to put it you got to put a price

[16:06]tag on it i'm looking it up right now and it says that my favorite story

[16:11]it's 949 for a 200 foot roll aaron's got to work like two weeks to make nine nine dollars and

[16:19]49 cents if they picture that 10 bill that you just lit it on fire throw that shit away and just

[16:25]say i'm done with it but then it's wasted it's a waste of a perfectly good aluminum foil you save

[16:31]that aluminum foil for crafting yeah because your kid is getting right to that crafting age where

[16:36]they're going to need like like masking tape in my house masking tape is like the world's most

[16:40]valuable resource in my house we buy it at costco we buy like six rolls of masking tape at a time

[16:46]it's gone in like days masking tape and scissors all we have

[16:49]like 30 pairs of scissors no idea where they are the girls just take them and then use them to tape

[16:53]everything up and cut stuff i don't even know what they're doing like i said i don't have time to

[16:57]interact with my family i'm too busy planning this podcast aaron i'm sure your son could put

[17:01]an aluminum foil hat on or something if he had to listen to you talk about these stories for too

[17:05]long right like he can find a use for that real quick dad dad my friends at school say they have

[17:11]a microwave we better put on these hats and protect ourselves yes we should son but the

[17:19]i feel bad making fun of aaron's kid i'm gonna take that back the borderline happy ending of

[17:24]the story is i told my wife how upset i was and she was like relax what are you so upset about

[17:28]and then she tried to use the aluminum foil the next day and she was like oh yeah this is this

[17:31]is terrible but i think she fixed then she's pissed at you i think she got it fixed so i think it's

[17:37]gonna be okay i'm not certain but i was really in that moment i was looking i was just staring down

[17:42]the barrel of 192 feet of messed up aluminum foil that's what i'm gonna start calling my penis

[17:49]160 feet

[17:51]the end is kinked and it's weird

[17:55]doesn't roll out right hey hey aaron's rob aaron's aluminum foil

[18:02]yeah aaron's aluminum foil bends where other people's end right

[18:08]dropping it on the floor

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[30:44]and someone's monopolizing it that's fine but if there are not multiple options

[30:48]i think you got to get your shit in and move along

[30:50]yes there's a there's there's there's kind of a hierarchy at the gym depending on i mean

[30:58]depends on where you go right so i'm uh more of an la fitness guy than like in lifetime you know

[31:03]lifetime's a lot more expensive rob you pay like thousands of dollars for your gym i'm guessing so

[31:08]they've got no idea jenny does it so i'm sure it's i'm sure it's actually ten thousands of

[31:14]dollars so i'm sure it's i'm sure it's actually ten thousands of dollars

[31:14]so and i and i used to i used to go a lot before the pandemic to at like five in the morning right

[31:19]and there'd be people lined up and i'd get there at five and it'd be out by 6 6 30 and get everything

[31:24]in right but it's the same people every day and it's the same people for like the last 10 years

[31:29]and so they've been coming at the exact same time for that much every day and every tuesday you know

[31:35]they're doing this and there's this guy who you know he'd always just do horrible my guess is i

[31:39]guess he's doing dips the thing that makes you feel terrible that you can't do right i love dips

[31:44]wait you can do them oh yeah this is bullshit let's move it along yeah i also love dips so

[31:51]the problem is like if they're there every day doing that but like if they've been there for

[31:56]five years and every tuesday at six o'clock let's say and the in and that's what they've done like

[32:03]i give them a little bit of a pass i gotta if you're if they're there every day doing that you

[32:08]know like religiously i mean that kind of does turn into their machine if you will at that time

[32:14]i don't know i'm slightly in that camp so i think you got to kind of feel it out and it's like this

[32:19]person the next that's aaron at the gym yeah you know so i get i get it rob i see rob what are your

[32:27]thoughts you're a professional gym goer what are your thoughts on monopolizing a machine at the

[32:31]yeah it's horse shit if there's limited equipment you cannot superset it with that equipment there's

[32:35]a superset does not does not do that much of a benefit where you get to take up the time

[32:40]and you have all the right to be like hey can i hop in between your sets

[32:44]and they gotta say yes in a post-pandemic world where we're coming off this i understand some

[32:49]people probably aren't even comfortable going to the gym at all but like you're not going to jump

[32:53]in in the middle of a set with someone using a machine anymore it's just not going to happen

[32:56]right yeah that shit doesn't spread by touch just just get in there it's true don't ask just get my

[33:01]favorite part of the gym i think arnold said he goes you know what really helped me when i was at

[33:04]the gym is checking instagram between every lift i will i lifted a place where you get like these

[33:08]20 year olds in there and literally like it's 10 minutes to check your instagram and then they're

[33:14]like don't make me hate you anymore you know what i mean it's like when i go to the grocery store

[33:17]now and i see somebody and they've got like captain crunch and four frozen pizzas and i

[33:20]just want to be like fuck you i've got a family i can't do this like at the gym i'm like i gotta

[33:26]get home i gotta get home and put my kids to bed i can't just be sitting here on my instagram all

[33:31]day you should start a new club of people that get that get the frozen pizzas and the captain

[33:35]crunch instead of doing this podcast right when they're when they're doing the thing where their

[33:40]their cart looks like a cuban uh refugee ship coming to florida because they've got the

[33:44]mountain dews oh the six pack of mountain dews lined up on the sides you know so they have more

[33:48]time looking at you rob oh my god i'm just like you fucking piece of shit with no family like

[33:53]how dare you make a good decision and by the way man i kept him crunched the roof of my mouth on a

[33:58]bagel at lunch today i had an everything bagel for lunch and my i i can't even eat anything else

[34:02]the rest of the day it's just like clock feeling going on back to what he eats every day you got

[34:08]your shit cut up by everything bagel yeah

[34:11]oh man

[34:14]listen i don't want to shame but that's fucking soft dude

[34:16]this bagel has everything you don't feel until later you're like what did i what like was i

[34:24]eating razor blades why is the roof my mouth feels so bad see and that's why i have the fitness guy

[34:29]because i've never once thought like what did i eat earlier and now sometimes i look at my thing

[34:32]and i'm like what did i eat earlier oh my god i can't believe i ate that already i ate a whole

[34:36]bag when people come to me for fitness advice well you're a lot stronger than we think you are

[34:43]rob roland going

[34:44]how's it going with you well i just want to say one thing i'll tell you what's the most stressful

[34:47]thing about spotting is i there's a guy who went it's when your nuts are hanging in someone's face

[34:51]while you're holding the damn bar on the bench well no that you that is if that's not the most

[34:56]stressful thing that there's something wrong with these nuts across imagine dragons the only person

[35:01]i spot is my wife and i did do the thing where i touched the bar the other day when she's benching

[35:06]and literally she was benching and it stopped and so i helped it up and she goes what the

[35:11]fuck are you doing don't touch the bar and i was like oh my god

[35:14]like i got yelled at for my bad spot are you doing just the two finger thing too you're just

[35:18]giving just a little bit a little bit and she was so fucking pissed at me and i was like and you

[35:21]know what i totally understood actually i was like yeah that was a bad spot i'm really sorry

[35:25]like i i couldn't even be mad at her for yelling at me she was right the only worst thing is i

[35:29]remember about a year ago i was at the gym and i was i was doing a bench and this guy came up to

[35:32]me afterwards he's like do you need a spot i think he was worried that i was gonna have a problem

[35:37]like not being able to get it up like get get that's what i'm gonna start calling me oh no oh

[35:44]yeah like aaron's busted ass this guy is worried that he's not gonna get it up

[35:48]uh mark that rob where are we at here

[35:52]i think when that guy comes over he says i'm worried you're not gonna get it up he's not

[35:57]talking about your bench i fucking hit my leg what a gym you go into yeah those aren't kettlebells

[36:04]sir rob rolling out going how's it going with you so last week i teased that i had my jeep stolen

[36:10]and i got a list of everything that was in the jeep my dad uh sent me this

[36:14]a list of everything so i'm gonna put it up on the screen here and show you guys

[36:17]because it is so full of shit right so i'm just gonna read this left just read the left-hand

[36:22]column don't go to the right-hand column yet ready things in car okay yeah bowling ball so

[36:28]again i did have the grenade in the bowling ball in the car this is all stuff that was stolen

[36:32]out of my soft top jeep so this is a two-door car so picture a two-door car with all this

[36:36]part of a weight set two racquetball rackets three racquetballs two sets of goggles a sweat band

[36:42]three pairs of meshed

[36:44]shorts now why would i have three pairs of meshed shorts in the car bad things can happen in one of

[36:48]the car i like the only part of a weight set like which part of the weight set i don't even get what

[36:53]that was like did i was it the weights or the bar that doesn't make any sense 50 bucks 50 bucks i

[36:59]yeah i tried to associate the price on all these but obviously you know you you've said uh often

[37:04]that you leo's kind of like you you know and you're you might be right because your handwriting

[37:09]is horrible rob how the hell just like how are you putting like this is a visual

[37:14]joke but how are you putting this list up here and you're saying please don't look at this list

[37:17]of cds which is obviously the first thing that i'm going to although i'm gonna get who cares

[37:21]i can't i'm gonna get to the cds keep going rob what else is on the list of shit that got stolen

[37:26]next thing is medicine for wet band medicine for dick too big so that is on there uh so i've got

[37:33]two t-shirts i've got a golf golf chipping net okay so i was walking around in a car with a

[37:43]this is by the way this is from memory i remember that i actually remember that being in your car

[37:47]i i know i remember that best being in your car yeah

[37:51]so we're about halfway through the list uh

[37:56]oh there's like way more something primo edition i don't even know what that is

[38:01]uh imagine if oh that's what it's cranium primo edition so now we get to the board games

[38:06]i had cranium imagine if a cd adapter to radio a cd case

[38:13]i didn't know what that was

[38:13]i did put three-fourths of a tank of gas on the list because i want that back for my insurance

[38:17]and then two pairs of tennis shoes so in this car i had two pairs two pairs by the way i'm wearing

[38:23]shoes walking around so i have two pairs in the car i'm walking around two t-shirts two three

[38:28]things of mesh shorts like can you and i was married at this point what is jenny doing why

[38:33]doesn't she have me on track what is her problem i just love how you put three quarters of it

[38:37]taking gas because you're like well they're gonna call bullshit on me if i call the full tank so i

[38:43]take the full tank right like i'm gonna save the eight dollars and not have them call bullshit you

[38:48]know and this was the car that they eventually the car this car i went to a high school reunion

[38:54]and i parked it my dad was like don't park in the bar parking lot it's gonna get hit i was like

[38:59]that's very smart so i parked it outside wait why would it get hit in the bar parking because it was

[39:03]like you know he's he's convinced that people are gonna drive away drunk from the bar you know this

[39:06]is just one of those silly dad things so sure enough we get out uh out of this high school

[39:11]reunion we walk out some guy in a pickup truck with an american car and we're like oh my god

[39:13]fucking flag on the back goes fuck yeah like jams it just floors it goes right by me peels out takes

[39:21]a right takes a left peels out of the uh parking lot directly into my car which i had parked right

[39:27]outside the parking lot hits it so hard that it spins around over the curb his license plate falls

[39:33]off into my car the guy spins around and drives away and my friend goes holy fuck he just hit

[39:37]that car and i go yeah that's my car he goes oh shit and then walks away and i was like so i was

[39:43]like so my dad's like oh my god he just hit that car and i was like oh shit and then walks away and

[39:43]my dad fucked me he screwed up i should have parked in the parking lot i wouldn't have gotten

[39:46]hit that car was in the shop for six months got back to me for a month i then filled up with all

[39:51]this shit and then it was immediately stolen so i was like well that car is cursed i don't want it

[39:55]anymore goodbye i want that cranium game back so yeah it's primo edition so here are the cds that

[40:00]were in the car i've got the jbs right what's that who's the jbs james brown's backup band

[40:05]so i've got uh bob marley four disc set al green i've got one two three four they might be giants

[40:13]got the donnas classic soundtrack oh the donnas is such a great i'm gonna put some in the background

[40:22]sing it sing a donna song for me but you can play my game and then it was an all-girl rock band they

[40:28]were so fucking good i used to play them all the time i would have been i would have been so pissed

[40:31]right now if i had stolen your car if this was my home i gotta be honest with you so i also want to

[40:38]insurance were two bags of just garbage so once again he did so all of this stuff is in a two-door

[40:43]car plus garbage i got a mighty wind soundtrack and then let's see what else i got cd wise i've

[40:49]got elton john's greatest hits cat steven's greatest hits tracy chapman uh hits of the 80s

[40:54]time life bluegrass johnny cash live at folsom prison oh that's a tough one what an asshole

[41:00]they stole that shit willie nelson and johnny cash vh1 storytellers great oh by the way i'm so good

[41:05]you need that back and then i've got albums i have no recollection of owning whatsoever

[41:09]run dmc greatest hits black sabbath greatest hits do not remember owning those

[41:13]at all might have been insurance fraud on my part i'm not sure got the dr dray 2001 so i was

[41:19]wondering where that cd ended up i love how some of these you're claiming are worth 15 and some are

[41:23]14 like you're putting the actual price and no depreciation or anything no i don't know i well

[41:29]this was the time where like cds like this like rolling stones the london years that was a four

[41:33]disc set 35 bucks remember you go to a store why did you price the elton john ones at 14

[41:38]and dr dray at 15 i don't i have no idea there's no way there's no way i don't know

[41:43]way i did much work i mean look at the handwriting i obviously did this i guess as fast as possible

[41:47]i'm sure what happened is my dad was like hey can you get me a list i need it in five days i was

[41:51]like okay and then six days later he's like hey do you have that list i was like oh yeah i got it let

[41:55]me send it to you what are the bottom two after dr dray i can't read your hand rolling stones hot

[42:00]rocks and rolling stones the london years which was a four disc box set so that is all the shit

[42:05]that was in my car probably not worth it probably all gonna get cut but god i'm a slob and this is

[42:10]what happens when that happens you get a check for all that so

[42:13]the car got stolen and they and they sent me a check for the car and they paid about the same

[42:19]that i had paid for it when i bought it because by the way this is the car that i bought when i

[42:24]traded in the mihata because i realized that having a convertible uh rear wheel drive car

[42:30]does not effective in minnesota winters not great great for going out and having one woman be able

[42:35]to sit with you in a car that ruled now normally that one woman is usually just russell and i

[42:39]hanging out but uh that was awesome what

[42:43]not so good when i traded that in i got the jeep the jeep was immediately stolen

[42:47]run into and then stolen hey listen i'm gonna go here's a challenge for you guys i'm gonna go to

[42:51]the bathroom you guys talk amongst yourselves and i'm gonna come back and later when i edit it i'm

[42:55]gonna see how much you guys floated this thing without me the main host the other thing i was

[42:58]gonna do for rolling going that we could talk about is when you guys get invited to a party

[43:04]do you feel obligated to bring something like do you have to bring a thing of wine do you have to

[43:09]bring something to eat if you get invited to a dinner if you just show up with yourself are you

[43:13]an asshole or do you have to bring something what is your style when you get invited to something

[43:18]and you're not sure whether you should bring something or not luckily luckily but you guys

[43:25]have wives that will save you right that's what i was gonna say like luckily i don't have to think

[43:30]about that too often and so yeah so i feel for you russell because i have no idea like i would

[43:36]normally not bring anything unless it was less like you knew it was like a potluck for a ball

[43:41]game or something like that you know like bring something over but i'm not sure i'm not sure i'm

[43:43]not sure but yeah it's just like hey we got a few couples few people coming over like yeah i'd have

[43:49]no idea i went to something tonight it was a few people coming over it was a couple couples and

[43:53]then you know random rush showing up solo but it was nice you never know when are you supposed to

[43:58]show up with something and are you a jerk if you if you roll in with nothing so i had to bring a

[44:03]bottle of wine just because i figured then i don't even have to think about it i can just put it on

[44:06]the table and at least i'm not the jerk but aaron what do you guys bring when you show up to an

[44:10]event i know you haven't been anywhere in a year and a half no you're right

[44:13]right i mean why he brings cheap ass aluminum foil he brings aluminum foil

[44:17]it's earth-friendly aluminum foil i mean wine's the go-to unless you're going to someone's house

[44:22]who yeah who is uh you know doesn't drink then yeah wine's an easy one like hey i brought this

[44:28]wine you can open if you want or if not keep it and people are always happy to have that and that

[44:32]that's that's an easy one the other question is if you shown up with wine at someone's party are

[44:38]they obligated to open it let's say aaron you're having people over they show up with wine you have

[44:43]to open it and serve it or you can just keep it i think if it's a small party then yes i think if

[44:48]it's just yeah if you're the only one who brought wine if it was a small enough thing yes you do

[44:52]have to open it and serve it i think that but you should you should definitely go there not expecting

[44:57]to take it home with you if it's not open oh no absolutely not you don't love that idea that

[45:02]russell would bring a bottle of wine to the party and be like well nobody drank it that seems like

[45:07]a george costanza thing so good it's a seinfeld episode if you're not gonna drink it and you're

[45:12]not gonna drink it i'm gonna take it home with you

[45:13]take it home by the way the fact that i left and i came back and you guys were actually having a

[45:17]good conversation don't get that into your fucking heads okay that's not the way this

[45:20]shit's gonna work all that shit's getting edited out i'm gonna chop it up make it sound real sloppy

[45:25]well to the tens are tens of listeners if they like the what they've heard in the last three

[45:29]minutes they can listen to our secret podcast that we've got you're gonna love the text chain

[45:34]that rob's not on all right so let's get into talking i know i do the talking heads talking

[45:43]but we've got tina waymouth on bass we've got her husband chris france on drums and then jerry

[45:49]harrison on guitar so this album the album before this one on the tour they got done

[45:56]and a reporter was talking to uh uh chris and tina and said what are you going to do now that

[46:02]david's never going to play with you guys again and they said what are you talking about and he

[46:06]goes yeah i just talked to david bernie he said he's quitting the band he's never going to play

[46:09]with you guys again they're like uh so in response they were like well we got to play with you guys

[46:13]figure out what's going on we don't know if we want to stay with them or what and we need to work

[46:17]on our marriage so they went down to haiti they did what any good couple would do when they're

[46:21]trying to save their marriage they went down and got way into voodoo rituals so they went down to

[46:25]haiti they were doing some voodoo stuff they're playing on the drums down there and then

[46:29]eventually they got a place in the bahamas where they just started jamming right and eventually

[46:34]they invited david bern to come down and said listen there's been so much stress on you as like

[46:39]the the lead person in this band he has written all the songs he'd write

[46:43]all the lyrics he'd show up and be like the main host a little bit he was like the main exactly and

[46:48]i feel how he feels where it's like you have this idea and then people fuck around and don't do

[46:51]exactly what you think at all times and then when you edit it you're like you yell at it you say

[46:55]this wasn't a funny joke fuck you you know stuff like that and this wasn't a funny joke we're gonna

[47:01]just jam and come up with songs as a jam and then you're gonna go and take the lyrics and you're

[47:07]gonna write all the lyrics for this album on your own and that's exactly what they did and of course

[47:13]uh so david burns that's why a lot of the lyrics on this are kind of just nonsensical because he

[47:18]actually had writer's block so he's like well i'm just going to kind of do some dada type lyrics and

[47:22]see if it works but what's really interesting about this album is that the way they made this

[47:26]album and i think i think this you get a lot more out of this music if you know this because i'm a

[47:29]smart music guy they basically every song on this album is just one chord and it's just one jam

[47:36]layered over and over and then what they did is that they would strip out layers throughout the

[47:41]song so at some point you're going to hear the lyrics and then you're going to hear the lyrics

[47:43]all the layers on top of each other you know different rhythms going on different instruments

[47:47]different noises and then they would pull some out and put david burns singing on top and

[47:51]so this is like garage band before garage band yeah and and what they're doing is no wait a

[47:56]minute what do you know they did this before anyone else they're trying to do african music

[48:01]they're doing fellacuti's music that's what they're trying to do that's exactly what fellacuti

[48:07]did starting in i mean his earliest records were from the late 60s early 70s

[48:13]i did he was looping the stuff in like this who's fellacuti i don't i don't know enough

[48:17]about him tell me about fellacuti i love when i have a beer and i fill up a koozie with it

[48:21]he's a nigerian musician who's uh you don't feel probably the most famous african musician he

[48:29]himself played mostly saxophone i think but then uh was the composer uh his most famous

[48:34]bands were africa 70 and nigeria 80 um or sorry egypt 80 and he uh uh and also

[48:43]famously his drummer was tony allen who brian eno said was the greatest drummer who ever lived and

[48:47]that was exactly what they did was they played long grooves they their songs were 15 minutes

[48:52]or more long and they did this very very technique of we're gonna layer things i didn't notice that

[48:57]when aaron sent me this clip and said oh you can fast forward to 11 minutes and 30 seconds in i was

[49:02]like classic air clip so this is fellacuti yes this is equalization of trouser and pants

[49:10]say the title again so you can hear it

[49:13]here this thing's kind of a slow burner which is kind of my preferred groove of his but this is

[49:20]exactly what and i read um chris france's autobiography called remain in love which i

[49:25]found on russell's libby app uh and he said they discovered the album shakara by uh fellacuti which

[49:32]came out in 1970 or so and so man alexa kept trying to play that when i was trying to play

[49:37]shakara today that has the tracks lady and shakara on it yeah tell you something aaron

[49:41]when you're asking to hear music and alexa's like

[49:43]what the fuck is your problem so i i think there are good grooves on this album for sure but they

[49:48]are full-on borrowing and trying to do things that were already done and in some cases they

[49:53]come close in some cases they don't i mean that's the other problem is that a lot of fellacuti's

[49:57]music was his lyrics were political and so to take afrobeat and turn it into dadaism is like

[50:03]borderline offensive i mean uh yeah i mean that's definitely something we can talk about with this

[50:08]album is is borrowing versus you know it's like it's like oh this music is popular now that white

[50:13]people are using it and it's like oh this music is popular now that white people are using it

[50:13]do it it's yeah but i want you to listen listen to the first song here born under punches and

[50:18]just listen to how you hear the same things repeat over and over and over by the way that was a good

[50:25]uh good three sentences thank you i really like that shortening it up but you can just hear it

[50:33]to repeat yeah they add stuff and take it away but it's always the same there's no change there's no

[50:38]nothing i'll tell you what

[50:43]uh tina waymoff the bass player she's getting it done on this album she's driving this album

[50:49]yeah i think it's actually the i i don't want to pick on chris france because i actually

[50:54]jokingly had to say i don't want to interrupt you here but take a look at these hands

[50:59]i mean that's got to be an all-time like top top 10 lyric that we've heard on the list so far

[51:06]take a look at these hands yeah that's enough to say about that it's so good russell don't

[51:13]ever apologize for interrupting aaron it feels good like it makes you feel like a real king

[51:17]like i i have to do shit all the time i don't want to when i get a chance to interrupt aaron

[51:21]oh i savor that moment that's so great so take a look at these hands and then russell you want

[51:28]to meet it so that song was about uh watergate it's kind of it's setting the tone for now the

[51:32]first part of this album especially where you're hearing a lot of funk russell you wanted me to

[51:35]play this part yeah one thing if you jump to the end did you guys kind of hear these

[51:38]beeps and blips it's totally different than what we've heard maybe maybe other than uh

[51:43]what's the band that i can't stand again what's that radio today what's that band oh yeah

[51:48]what's that band kid a i think you're referring to radio other than radio head we haven't heard

[51:54]a lot of like i would i don't know if this is techno i don't know what you'd call this but

[51:57]this is like there are beeps and blips there's all sorts of stuff going on here it's different

[52:00]than what we've heard right rob play this quick

[52:03]we haven't heard this type of thing too much have we no and they're doing it in 1980 so i think this

[52:13]is a guitar that they ran through a keyboard oh there we go yeah they're definitely doing a lot

[52:17]of cool tricks well whatever it is i know that if you look up hold on sorry if you you look up

[52:25]milf's dishwasher question mark no if so if you if you look at genius when you look at the lyrics

[52:33]on this they actually call it beeps and blips as a thing on this song it's like we talked last week

[52:39]about gibberish lyrics or a few weeks ago we've

[52:43]talked about hand claps finger cymbals they call out beeps and blips i was like wow this is crazy

[52:48]what other artists do beeps and blips it turns out namesake of his podcast back does beeps and

[52:55]blips check out this song we dance by back we dance alone finally a song i can relate to

[53:03]i mean speaking of the roof like me dancing alone at the roof

[53:06]so we got a few beeps and blips here but back's not a one-shot pony on here he does multiple

[53:12]ones and when i listened to that song by the talking heads i was like this sounds like a

[53:17]super mario brother character like getting a bunch of coins right like you're getting those coins and

[53:22]you're getting like right keep it going russell keep going with the beat i love it it turns out

[53:29]beck also did a remix album called hell yes where he mixed famous songs from one of his uh i forgot

[53:36]the album but he mixed famous songs with game boy or nintendo 8-bit video game clips check out this

[53:42]song hell yes by beck which is a remix of one of his songs oh yeah there's some beeps and blips

[53:50]there this is like 8-bit nintendo music right here that's yeah it takes me right back to

[53:57]childhood so when it comes to making albums with beeps and blips and nintendo sounding songs who

[54:06]does it better beck did it better beck definitely does you're damn right matt i don't know

[54:12]guys that song is so funky i mean that's a funky opening song i think that's a great opening song

[54:17]and now we get to um all right uh cross-eyed and anus no cross-eyed and painless here we go

[54:23]a lot of this music is when you listen to the lyrics super super paranoid

[54:32]i think that's a lot of the theme of david byrne's work

[54:37]what do you say why is it paranoid what like is that the

[54:42]lyrics or why do you hear that yeah it's kind of about somebody who's losing their identity

[54:46]he's not sure what to do about it and then a lot of his other albums are about like

[54:50]you know dystopian futures and kind of getting worked up i mean did did you ever see the video

[54:57]for um once in a lifetime what it looks like dude dude's stressed in that video he's like

[55:03]and all the time he would talk about how he moves around on stage he's like if you ever

[55:07]see david byrne perform he is he is uh and if you said oh he's a paranoid guy you would not

[55:11]be surprised by that

[55:12]i read an anecdote about cross-eyed and painless and russell referenced the facts are simple or

[55:17]facts are i can't remember exactly how the lyrics go uh that this this to me sort of sums up to that

[55:24]part anyway this band's approach to life which is like god grant us all the confidence of some art

[55:30]school kids he was struggling how to fit in the lyrics of facts are simple and someone said oh

[55:35]well rap music is a thing now just just rap it because they play and then they and then the story

[55:40]is that they played him curtis blows these are the breaks and he was like oh yeah i could rap

[55:45]and so he just like walk out there and be like oh yeah it's fine you don't have to sing anymore

[55:50]you can rap and walk out there and think you could do it by the way aaron curtis blow update

[55:55]how is curtis blow doing as far as i'm aware he's fine i looked him up last week to be sure but yeah

[55:59]the head the heart transplant seems to be okay so i'm very glad to very glad about that i'm also

[56:04]heart transplant all right so that's our weekly curtis blow update i wasn't listening to what

[56:10]aaron was talking about but i'm sure he said something that was very wipe off the whiteboard

[56:14]where aaron has gone two weeks without talking about curtis blowing yeah sorry curtis that's

[56:21]right this is a good one i appreciate that joke russell sorry i tried all right aaron what's this

[56:26]what's this next song called the great curve that's what i'm gonna start calling my penis

[56:33]all right here we go the other one is i mean listen to this

[56:38]we got some bongos on this drum we've talked congas before we got bongos here but this is

[56:44]another one where you can hear that looping and and there's a ton of layers going on here

[56:50]it's this is like a good hen house you know what i mean lots of layers what's a hen house what are

[56:57]you talking about a good hen house what am i missing here what the fuck don't you understand

[57:01]about it they did it for five minutes and tony allen would do this for 15 minutes just one guy

[57:06]just on the on the drum set and then additional percussion as needed but it's just different

[57:11]there's no there's no comparison what's going on what's going on what are you talking about

[57:17]we were talking about a hen house yeah i'm talking about the drums man what's our podcast called you

[57:23]and i are doing rob and rob and the silent guy rob and the silent guy yeah rob and that guy that

[57:29]fell man can you explain to russell what a hen house is please and why that has a lot of layers

[57:33]no oh my god

[57:36]it's a hen house is where hens are in their lane it's a chicken eggs yeah okay fine how about this

[57:43]it's like a chicken coop it's got a lot of layers don't they have levels not layers no the chickens

[57:49]are laying the eggs they laid the eggs these are my layers guys if you got that joke originally

[57:54]can you text the becks line i got 802-277-BECK say i got it just let me see did you get the joke

[58:01]if you didn't get it text and say i didn't get it there's layers they're chickens they're laying

[58:06]they're laying eggs sorry rob give me a better heads up next time and i'll laugh harder at your

[58:10]joke next time all right once in a lifetime oh crusher this is a banger and this is the song

[58:20]that really got big partially because the video got tons and tons of airtime if you get a chance

[58:24]you should watch this video and you're oh this song just wails amazing what green screen how

[58:30]much better it's gotten since this video and is that are they doing the backwards guitar sound

[58:34]that sounds like a beatles or a prince trick right

[58:36]is this an all-time song or is this too popular where music fans don't like it

[58:44]aaron matt what are your thoughts on this song this song is an all-timer isn't it

[58:48]i'd say it's like a top 500 all time i don't know but that's pretty damn good right

[58:53]it puts me in a place right was this ever in a john hughes movie like something about this song

[58:58]just makes me feel like i'm you know nine and watching a movie that i shouldn't be watching

[59:03]kind of feel you know i'm i'm telling you when you watch a movie that you shouldn't be watching

[59:06]you watch this video i had like like tactile memories of being a young person watching mtv

[59:11]watching that video like i hadn't realized how many times i'd seen that video but i could name

[59:15]all the parts where he's like squatting down and then doing the dance watch it sometime it's it's a

[59:20]it's a totally a wild one the one thing i noticed on that song and i think they played it too you

[59:25]heard it a lot on cross side and painless that second track you heard a little cowbell and i

[59:30]gotta be honest guys i've got a little fever and the only prescription is more cowbell so

[59:35]i'm giving you a list on the greatest songs ever featuring the cowbell love it you know what i've

[59:43]realized is that russ gets all excited for his list and then we play this long sound thing and

[59:46]it's so boring and it takes all the momentum it's it's no less boring than my list but you guys you

[59:52]guys accommodate it no we talk about this russell positive positive yeah first up on the list we

[59:58]have to talk blue oyster called don't fear the reaper when it comes to the cowbell right yeah

[60:03]obviously famous for the

[60:05]sketch on snl i was sitting next to the drummer from blue oyster called at a sailing thing out on

[60:12]long island i was with somebody and they're like oh there's a drummer from blue oyster called that

[60:16]was and i i almost turned i was like hey i really need some more cowbell and i was like i bet this

[60:21]isn't even a joke i thought there was gonna be a joke there and i know what you guys are saying

[60:25]how did you sit next to the drummer for blue oyster called and not realize it the thing is rob nobody

[60:30]knows the drummer from blue oyster called that's where the sketch came from will ferrell said he was

[60:35]like who the heck is this guy that is playing the cowbell on the song because it's kind of faint

[60:41]and so there's actually disagreement between the band on who actually played the cowbell on the

[60:47]song the drummer's brother claims he played it and a producer also claims he's played it so

[60:52]not no one's even sure who actually played the cowbell i'm don't fear the reaper you know what

[60:57]i would say that that's a weird story that they wouldn't remember but then again i listened to

[61:00]this podcast sometimes like from a week ago and i have no recollection of things we've said so i

[61:05]totally get it next up on the list we're going back to kind of the 80s here this is by the lips

[61:13]incorporated the song is called funky town you guys remember the minneapolis band this is a

[61:17]minneapolis record is it really is it yes are you saying that funky town oh yeah listen they're

[61:25]really hammering that bell are you saying that funky town is minneapolis i think it was recorded

[61:31]in minneapolis yeah there's a whole the songwriter dang

[61:35]staple you guys the songwriter and the producer was named steve greenberg and he was living in

[61:42]minneapolis and he was bored with it and he wrote this song about moving to new york rob this guy

[61:48]was living your life oh minneapolis to new york and he was in minneapolis and he was writing this

[61:53]song all about moving to new york and it became this huge hit there's a whole thing at the

[61:57]minnesota historical society yeah i always thought that song was about like if you owned a circus and

[62:03]you had a lock on the door and you had to have a key to get in that would be a pretty fun key

[62:07]won't you take me to funky town no fun key it gets me in the circus it's a fun i try so hard not to

[62:17]laugh and then when you say it again and i do i'd laugh anyway the repeating of the joke is one of

[62:22]my main weapons in my arsenal rosie we we we've talked about this you have to just say oh come on

[62:27]you have to start trivia for you we're gonna see if you guys can get this this song hit number one in

[62:33]28 countries funky town oh it was it set the record for the most hit number one in the most

[62:39]countries what song beat it eventually 30 years later it held the record for 30 years uh what's

[62:46]it called i'm gonna say i will always love you no correct side what is that the korean song the

[62:52]gingham style gingham style incorrect i guess

[62:57]living la vida loca you guys are all incorrect it was some song called hung up by madonna

[63:03]35 years later in like the mid 2000s you heard a song hung up no i don't think so you hear it in

[63:10]the background right now yeah yeah no one's ever heard of this shit that reminds me of

[63:14]which means i should not bring it up on the podcast no that reminds me of what happens

[63:19]sometimes when russell has to call somebody before a date yes you know what you should

[63:25]try using my funky town bit i think that's a good way honestly the cleanest joke i thought

[63:30]we were going to get out of the word of hung on this podcast

[63:33]next up on the list time has come today do you guys remember the chambers brothers at all i love

[63:38]this song i don't think i crank it up rob crank it you hear that cowbell oh yeah this was in

[63:46]the five bloods right matt wasn't this the opening credits in the five bloods

[63:52]uh this yeah i know this was in that oh what was that funny movie oh yeah girl interrupted

[63:57]this is on the girl interrupted oh god so this is like psychedelic rock they

[64:03]were trying to add like a tiktok and so they decided to do it with dueling what's it called

[64:08]cowbells but the interesting thing when they first made this song they played it on a bumper of a

[64:14]cadillac they would instead of they didn't have a cowbell so they would play it on a cadillac bumper

[64:18]and that was what they originally used and then they decided eventually someone stole it from

[64:22]them and they had to actually buy a cowbell i was like that's pretty cool fascinating i bet they i

[64:27]wonder if when the cadillac got stolen if it had two bags of garbage in the back seat

[64:30]and three

[64:33]one cowbell aka bumper two bags of garbage by the way i didn't want any money for that garbage i

[64:40]just want to point that out again i'm an honest person how pissed would you be if you stole rob's

[64:44]card it's like you're digging through it's like wait there's just a bunch of banana peels and

[64:48]shit in here well you know what i told that story to rosie the other day and he's like you should

[64:51]have put a bunch of women's underwear on there and then they buy you a bunch of women's underwear

[64:54]doesn't make sense and he's like yeah sense that's why you'd want women's underwear gross

[65:02]gross

[65:02]that's not the new ones what oh aaron

[65:08]well if you wanted you wanted women's underwear from a gin soaked bar room queen in memphis

[65:14]the next song on the list is honky tonk women by the rolling stones matt one of your one of

[65:19]your favorites my sister lives in memphis

[65:21]you hear the cowbell in the background oh yeah it's right there

[65:27]and this was played by their producer jimmy

[65:32]miller who originally played with george clinton and the parliaments and clinton later said aaron

[65:37]that when jimmy miller left to go play or produce the rolling stones he took a lot of the funkiest

[65:45]stuff over to the to london so he was actually a producer with your boy george clinton jeez this

[65:51]is good stuff when the rolling stones tried to do honky tonk after that guy left it sounded like

[65:56]this it's just not the same you know what i mean like mick jagger and the rolling stones

[66:02]i'm bird oh that's a good one russell i'm telling you fellas though you're gonna want

[66:14]more cowbell on this podcast so the final song that we gotta hear is called grazing in the grass

[66:20]by hugh masekela i don't know if you guys remember this one but check it out yeah can you dig it

[66:26]oh such a smooth tone know this one yeah

[66:32]and you can hear he's doing polyrhythm on the cowbell this is the only one so this is african

[66:37]music right this is the only one a lot of people you're right on here a lot of people say that

[66:42]hugh masekela he's a trumpet player but a lot of it he's from south africa a lot of people say that

[66:47]his melodies have a lot in common with african influence pop including paul simon and the talking

[66:53]heads that's right so i thought that was a great way to end the list love it that kind of same

[66:57]similar influence right and one of the last albums of tony album tony allen's life was

[67:02]an album called rejoice with hugh masekela very cool love it russell i gotta have more cowbell

[67:10]shut up about who's dead and listen to this clip i'm clicking

[67:13]jesus christ by the way uh real quick rosie we'll go on a little side bend here that you know

[67:21]defy bloods the fact that delroy lindo did not get nominated for best actor is a tragedy crime

[67:30]yeah great movie

[67:32]highly recommend it and what was the the the whole album or the whole movie um there was one of our

[67:40]albums we listened to was played what's going on thing what's going on yeah it's it's great so

[67:46]highly recommended but delroy lindo i didn't know the dude's name beforehand but holy cow to that

[67:51]guy he acted his his pants off i loved him in star wars too delroy lindo calrissian um so

[67:58]that by the way that was on today's uh wheel of fortune

[68:02]before every time nobody got it no matt you're 100 right i'm with you on that man

[68:07]what the fuck you've never said that to me in my life where that makes you feel that

[68:11]that's bullshit oh is that is that grazing in the grass is that a cover of the friends of

[68:17]distinction or is that friends of distinction a cover of that one because the version i'm

[68:21]familiar with is the friends of distinction version i'm not familiar with that version

[68:25]okay well you're hearing in the background right now i that's i to me it's the part with the

[68:32]friends of distinction is that that's my alarm and it's a great way to wake up every morning

[68:37]just like yeah grazing in the grass i can dig it he can dig it we can dig a chicken dig it you can

[68:41]dig it we can dig it all right so i'm getting that look that i get from my from my co-host here

[68:46]what i'm talking too much i actually was really enjoying your rendition of that i mean you can

[68:51]you can play but i like how you were singing that it sounded good do it again thank you

[68:55]come on let's hear it come on we can dig it she can dig it they can dig it and you dig it

[69:02]from 69 i gotta figure that the hue uh what's his name's version was before that but yeah i'll play

[69:09]that for you guys after the podcast this dumb shit podcast we gotta get i think the hugh massacala

[69:14]version was recorded in 1968 it made it to number one in 68 matt it's another one of those like

[69:20]everybody's just recording the same song like yeah fuck it it's a good song everybody record it i

[69:24]think that's so funny all right houses in motion this one they pushed his voice way to the back of

[69:31]this mix

[69:32]this is the last good song on the album and i would told i was just going to say that i think

[69:38]this is where the funkiness ends and we start getting put to sleep after this yes what happens

[69:44]you guys like this song you like i think it's a nice groove yeah i like it yeah you're not

[69:49]not into it russell no i do like it but i we talked about this on the post game show last

[69:56]time where i thought when we hit talking heads we've reached the point where we're at albums

[70:01]that can no longer claim the title of the album we're not going to claim the title of the album

[70:02]they're in the top 10 right i felt like we hit a we hit a breaking point where we dropped off a

[70:08]little bit with this talking heads album but i really liked the first half the album i thought

[70:12]the first half is pretty awesome yeah it's a it's a great it's a nice album but i got to admit i did

[70:17]not listen to the back of this album half of this album more than just a few times like it's no hell

[70:22]no i i didn't need it so seen and seen and not seen you can tell here where they were a jamming

[70:30]like a jam band and then you can tell here where they were a jamming like a jam band and then you

[70:32]he just put the lyrics over top which is totally different than he's done it in the past you can

[70:36]hear it here was just like it sounds like he kind of wandered into the room and is like hey what's

[70:40]going on like you know is this i read that robert palmer was played percussion on a lot of these

[70:48]songs that's the same robert palmer that did all the 80s hits well you know because he was their

[70:53]neighbor in the bahamas where they recorded this after they went to haiti they went to the bahamas

[70:57]and the bass player and the drummer said hey you know uh david come on down we're just jamming just

[71:02]hang out listen to this and he was like okay i will and then robert palmer there was there actually

[71:07]on um rehab because it turns out that he had been addicted to love and so he was trying to get over

[71:12]that you might as well face it you're addicted to love that's my one other fun factoid what i was

[71:18]going to give about this album was that they were also recording maybe it was back in new york and

[71:22]not in in nasa they were recording next door to acdc doing back in black they were acdc was in

[71:32]amazing that's so wild that they could have just wandered around and been like oh hey uh well not

[71:36]bon scott because he was gone but hey brian johnson you're recording back in black that's wild imagine

[71:40]you're playing a song that's like okay we're gonna layer this on top of this and we know next

[71:46]door they're like yeah i love those it's such a fun it's like okay we're gonna we're gonna have

[71:52]one guitar one bass and one drum and then everybody's just gonna scream and it's like

[71:55]okay there's an album we got it listening speaking of listening listening wind

[72:02]this should be called no one's listening because if you hit like the sound seven to eight on this

[72:08]album you are fast forwarding through like i want to give this album more credit because i did enjoy

[72:13]the first half but man the final two or three songs are pretty well this rough this is the

[72:18]penultimate song and then the last one there's a funny story with this last one this is the overload

[72:23]sounds like pink floyd to me and i gotta admit when i picked a time for this song i just moved

[72:28]it randomly because it's all this it's all can you imagine a worst way to end an album

[72:32]like especially after last week where we had burn this disco out yeah and then the polar opposite

[72:36]song which is the overload but the story behind this song is kind of funny and that is that

[72:41]david burn and the talking heads heard about joy division right here's joy division

[72:48]now how in the hell do you make those connections you can still dance like a media

[72:56]they never listened to joy division they heard about joy division somebody explained it to

[73:02]them so they were like well we're gonna make a song like joy division never listen to it so then

[73:06]they came up with this that's it's about on par the funniest part is and it kind of explains david

[73:13]burn in a nutshell is that he later heard joy division he was disappointed like his version

[73:18]of what he thought joy division would be can you imagine if you were joy division you're like hey

[73:22]we're parroting you guys this is what we came up with and they played this like pink floyd

[73:27]sad song what i don't even know what that i got a feeling listening to joy division they don't

[73:32]care about too much they're just like

[73:33]also tragic this is the only joy division song i know and i really like it but i've never listened

[73:41]to any other joy division that oh that overlord song or whatever overload or whatever it's called

[73:47]it's gotta be i know we don't want to be negative but that's not one of the best songs we've heard

[73:51]on the list so far it's got to be in the bottom 10 it's way down there with a couple of those

[73:55]velvet underground dogs i think the closer to nevermind was also shitty but i and the realer

[74:01]joke rub

[74:01]you know i don't care about too much they're just like meh

[74:02]yes no well lady my life's terrible no it's not a no it's not a joke because i you know i was not

[74:08]invited to aaron's wedding and that's something we can talk about later aaron's aaron's first

[74:11]aaron's first dance he loved joy division so much his first dance at his wedding was this song

[74:14]and his wife said yeah it kind of fits the mood of how i feel pretty well actually

[74:22]all right so that is it for remain in the light let's get to my favorite part

[74:31]the

[74:31]the

[74:32]I did get some clarifying emails that people said it's our favorite part because it's the end

[74:39]and i was like well that's

[74:40]you know it's like what my dates say it's kind of always disappointing yeah

[74:46]oh it's 4 30 already time for bed what's the highlight of your day been the end of this date

[74:53]oh that was too serious thank you i'm gonna take you to lips funky town that's what i'd tell them

[75:02]and that too that was part of it all right listen is this album this album is 38 on the list and i

[75:10]knew that it's not a big deal didn't edit that in earlier what is it matt 39 like i said this album

[75:16]is 39 on the list okay uh is this album rolling well tone that means it's perfect at 39 everybody

[75:23]oh my god everybody we we open we got the rolling stone magazine new list bruce springsteen on the

[75:28]cover let's see what's going on where are the talking heads which remain in the light 39 perfect

[75:32]love it that means it's rolling well toned did it get rolling boned okay that means it should not be

[75:37]39 it should have been 38 it should have been 37 if you're russell maybe it should have been in the

[75:42]top 10 or is this a rolling groan you did not like this album it should not be 39 it should be lower

[75:50]on the list 40 41 so in that sense it's not as good as uh rolling stone thinks it could be you

[75:55]you ran home you opened the magazine you looked you said no damn you jan venner whatever his name

[76:01]is

[76:02]uh matt what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling uh you know i'm tired

[76:07]tonight so i'm just gonna go with this is uh rolling uh wait a minute i forgot what you said

[76:15]what did you say again you think you like it or don't know because when i try to do the joke

[76:18]don't do that because you can't have it both ways you either got to play the game or don't

[76:26]yeah we better start this podcast over all right um i think it's too high in the list

[76:32]so the the number is too low so i need it to be farther down the list which means it needs to have

[76:38]a higher number so it makes sense to what is that one well it's like a good cash register it makes

[76:42]sense you know yeah so no i think i there's there's too much good stuff coming up the uh

[76:48]it has one good song one excellent song what song what what is the best song

[76:53]the one that rob did the parody of at the beginning of the one that everyone knows

[76:59]once in a lifetime yeah once in a lifetime

[77:02]so you know like that's like a top 500 song i don't know if it's top 100 song but it's a top

[77:07]500 song and so because of that i think it gets up here and then just what you know the bands that

[77:12]came after depeche mode uh in excess they opened up the the 80s i think to this kind of genre of

[77:19]music so there is something to be said there but uh for the most part it's uh rolling groaned is

[77:25]that right that is correct all right rolling groaned damn man i'm impressed uh aaron what do

[77:30]you think

[77:32]i read is this a rolling well toned is this a rolling bone or is this a rolling groan you make

[77:37]the decision and your time is now so go ahead i don't recall now if it was david burn or brian

[77:43]you know i think it was david burn who said we were going for afro beat we fell short but we

[77:48]made something else that was you know good or great i don't know what he said uh i think there's

[77:53]some really good grooves on this album but um you know when we talked about voodoo uh i felt that

[77:59]voodoo was rolling well toned and not rolling well toned and i think it's a really good groove

[78:02]bone because there were other albums that voodoo was um inspired by or taking ideas from that were

[78:08]much further down on the list and in this case they were either fully um mimicking felakuti's

[78:17]aphrodisiac album or they were inspired by his album shakara or any number of other lps that he

[78:22]put out most of his stuff was two sides that were you know 30 minutes long total and um there's just

[78:28]no way to me that any there's some good grooves on here but it just doesn't work out and i think

[78:32]doesn't touch anything that that felak did so and i don't even know if he's on the list at all so

[78:36]this uh to me is a hard rolling groan well i thought you were gonna say a hard uh rolling

[78:43]bone that's what i'm gonna start calling my penis oh right i don't like what aaron always calls it

[78:49]the great curve offline either that's good it's getting a bit much aaron that's what i'm gonna

[78:54]start calling my penis the great curve that's enough cody chestnut has a great line he says

[78:58]i got a hard dick with a curve that's all you deserve yeah what kind of fuck are you

[79:02]all right we're getting to that point in the night where i'm more interested in playing my

[79:07]sound effects than listening to anybody so russell what do you think listen to aaron in particular

[79:10]no aaron come on you know i love you mona i came into this album not expecting a lot like i said

[79:18]i thought when we heard this when i was like okay we've reached a breaking point where we're no

[79:22]longer in the top tier albums we're down to a second tier but i have to say i really like the

[79:28]first half of the album way more than i thought i would i i

[79:32]love the bongos i love the cowbell i thought there was so much going on with the first half

[79:37]for me it's unfortunate the second half just didn't live up to the first half so i'm gonna

[79:41]give it a rolling groan but i like the album way more than i thought i i would like it it's

[79:46]interesting isn't it because when you think of talking heads you think about cycle killer you

[79:49]think about take me to the river you think about that war zone song and this album is just so

[79:54]funky but then even like the main hit off this album isn't as funky as those opening tracks i

[79:59]love those opening tracks i love the way this album opened i think it was great i think it was

[80:02]great hey rob agree take a look at these hands like that it's hard to beat that that line too

[80:08]we gotta give it credit well that's what you know luke skywalker said when he saw the millennium

[80:12]falcon take a look at these hands uh so he said take a look at their hands hands well also in

[80:20]die hard when he was trying to get up to nakatomi tower look at take a look at these hands gruber

[80:23]uh all right but luke only had one hand for a while briefly

[80:32]you're right aaron i was trying to bring the energy too high up we gotta bring this baby back

[80:36]down thank you i appreciate it this is a rolling slow dome is what i wrote how did i pronounce that

[80:44]rolling slow down you know in my head when i wrote this down it seemed like a good idea this is a

[80:49]rolling slow dome it gets so slow at the end yeah i mean we're talking about beats per minute this

[80:54]thing was getting way down those beats per minute we're getting way too low so you know what those

[80:59]beats get too low no no no i keep it at about a minute and then i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my

[81:02]god medium pace right yeah i think uh let's see beats i think if you're you know it's like being

[81:06]a farmer you gotta have lots of beats uh i'm so sorry if it's like a farmer in the revolutionary

[81:12]war lots of beats per minute men oh no yes i'm still going okay wait no i can do another one i

[81:17]can do another one what comes after men beats per minute made listen what if i was making juice out

[81:23]of beats and beats per minute made like oh i love this juice it's so good guys i could do this

[81:28]i don't need any jackasses on this podcast listen next up though that's it

[81:32]for the talking heads my favorite band apparently next up we've got david bowie the rise and fall

[81:37]of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars let's ziggy play guitar when you want am i right like

[81:46]we've reached the point where these albums are no longer top 10 eligible right yes i think there

[81:51]are some after this to know that maybe not top 10 always this one this one's not even top 100

[81:56]eligible you don't you don't think we're at a tip yes no outcast ain't coney i think this is

[82:02]an outlier for you jack beck did it better one thing we've talked about on an earlier podcast

[82:10]was where the different strokes on the congas we didn't even get to talk about the strokes on the

[82:15]bongos and i looked them up and they're very similar but they have a different name have you

[82:19]guys ever heard of the slap play for the bongo no rob do you want to know what that consists of

[82:25]you i do you cup your fingers as you strike the head and then you relax your fingers and let you

[82:32]let them bounce off the head that's the way you play the bongo rob you guys could laugh no i'm

[82:39]trying to figure out i'm trying to figure out how this works i'm trying to do it yeah or there's

[82:43]also the heel tip movement which is the fourth fourth stroke for the congas you

[82:49]you rub your hand on the head and rock from the heel of your palm to the tip of your fingers

[82:57]that's the way you do the heels what if i release the episode news just this

[83:02]no setup no nothing it's just russell saying the different strokes of the bongo and that was the

[83:06]whole episode that's like we need a new we need a new clothes let's get a new clothes no that's

[83:13]like they have that uh they have that new drive-through head shop where you can get a bongo

[83:17]bongo yeah it's drive-through i've just yelled

[83:21]don't worry we're stopping way before any of that

[83:25]you