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Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life (1976) (... and it’s HotDog Night!)

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About this episodeWARNING: If you are new to the podcast, just skip the intro.  We are up to album 4 on the list, Stevie Wonder's monster double album Songs in the Key of life. We discuss Stevie's third straight album of the year and the length of the songs.  We also get into our biggest flying pet peeves, yacht rock and the joys of having a simple hotdog night (even if you don't have a microwave.)  We also debut the hit new segment called "Making fun of Aaron." What happens in the segment may or may not surprise you.  Contact us at beckdiditbetter@gmail.com and follow us @beckdiditbetter on Instagram and T
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[00:00]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine.

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

[00:11]We are far from experts, and we promise to do almost no research.

[00:15]All opinions are our own unless you disagree.

[00:17]Please sit back and enjoy.

[00:19]Beck did it better.

[00:20]This is Stevie Wonder's 1976 double album, Songs in the Key of Life.

[00:25]So guys, actually I've had a lot of trouble today thinking about a funny intro.

[00:30]And I always, you know, I ask you guys for help.

[00:32]And I actually got a great email from Aaron.

[00:34]So Aaron, I'm going to read your bit that you sent on the email, okay?

[00:36]Yeah, you bet. Yeah. Thanks for taking my advice.

[00:38]So I'm sure we're going to talk about this, but at the beginning of Isn't She Lovely, you hear the baby cry.

[00:43]It turns out that's the actual first, and I normally don't get into this this early, before the theme song even.

[00:49]But that's actually his baby's first cry ever after being born.

[00:53]And it turns out that Stevie Wonder actually took that idea of using sound clips and applied it to a lot of his songs.

[01:00]Okay, so Aaron actually emailed me this clip of Sir Duke.

[01:04]And this is one of his alternate takes that ended up not being on the album.

[01:08]So tell me what you guys think of this.

[01:09]Oh, Aaron. Oh, Aaron.

[01:18]What is this?

[01:21]That's it. It's one of the alternate takes.

[01:23]First porn, now fart jokes.

[01:26]Is this the lowest point of our podcast?

[01:30]Yes.

[01:30]I have no idea what's going on.

[01:34]I got a response from a female friend of me about the big bopper the other day.

[01:38]This is going to be way worse, Rob.

[01:39]Just cut back the music.

[01:41]I think I was planning on trying to do it to the beat, but it's really hard.

[01:44]Rob, cut the music.

[01:46]When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time

[01:51]But you're just too lazy to look it up online

[01:56]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:58]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:58]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:58]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:59]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:59]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:59]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:59]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:59]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:59]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:59]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[01:59]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:00]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:00]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:00]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:00]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:00]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:00]And then they get off track

[02:02]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:32]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:32]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:32]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:32]If you want to hear from guys who chat about it all the time

[02:32]Guys, you know, my four co-hosts make me think

[02:34]The song should be called

[02:35]Isn't We Lovely?

[02:36]Oh!

[02:38]And let me introduce you to my four co-hosts right now

[02:40]This is Beck Did It Better

[02:41]We got Matt in Minnesota

[02:42]Matt, how are you doing?

[02:43]Doing good, Rob

[02:44]Doing good

[02:45]Thanks for having me

[02:46]Yeah, no problem

[02:47]I don't think you understand how this works

[02:49]I'm not really

[02:49]But anyway

[02:50]Russ in Minneapolis

[02:51]How are you doing?

[02:52]Rob, I've been smoking cigarettes

[02:54]And writing something nasty on the wall

[02:56]I'm a nasty boy

[02:57]Send me to the principal's office down the hall

[02:59]You nasty boy

[03:02]And Aaron out in Oakdown

[03:03]How are you doing, Aaron?

[03:04]I'm great

[03:05]The Athletics of Oakland extended their season today

[03:06]I was very happy to enjoy that game this afternoon

[03:08]I know it's a music podcast

[03:09]But I was watching some sports today

[03:11]I honestly

[03:12]I watched one Twins game

[03:14]And it was one of the most boring things I've ever watched in my life

[03:16]I was like, oh

[03:16]It's so

[03:17]I just can't handle it, guys

[03:18]I'm too, like

[03:19]I'm too dumb

[03:20]My attention span is too short

[03:21]These were all homers

[03:23]The A's are playing in Dodger Stadium during the day

[03:26]Everything's a home run

[03:26]It's amazing

[03:27]Everything in here is a home run

[03:28]Just perfect

[03:30]I'm almost

[03:30]I'm almost going to sleep just like that

[03:32]Just listening to that

[03:32]So

[03:35]Let's

[03:36]You know what?

[03:37]Why mess around?

[03:37]Listen, I

[03:38]As much as I would love this

[03:39]I figure we did Joni Mitchell

[03:40]That was a two-hour podcast

[03:42]This is a double album

[03:43]I'm looking at four hours for this episode

[03:44]I think that's a bare minimum for this

[03:46]That's where we're going

[03:47]That would probably get you about through five innings of an Oakland A's baseball game, right?

[03:51]That's true, right?

[03:52]I do want to apologize for that opening joke

[03:55]I don't think that was very funny, Aaron

[03:56]All right, so

[03:58]See, this is Rob

[04:01]Now Rob's got to keep bringing up

[04:02]Because he knows this wasn't good enough to make it

[04:04]But if he keeps bringing up, it has to stay in

[04:07]Too many edits

[04:08]Can't cut it out if I keep bringing it up

[04:10]It's brilliant

[04:11]Oh, God, I'm so smart

[04:12]So, actually, that whole setup was very complicated

[04:15]Now I'm totally discombobulated

[04:16]I don't know what's going on

[04:17]Let's get right into our

[04:20]Let's get right into our rolling going

[04:22]Matt, rolling going

[04:23]How's it going with you?

[04:23]Going well

[04:25]You know, to continue to look at this list here

[04:28]Oh, no

[04:29]We're getting a little early into it

[04:31]But

[04:32]Two quick notes for this week

[04:34]Matt's still mad about the list

[04:36]I'm not

[04:37]Actually, I'm extremely happy about a couple things here

[04:40]I'm not sure why this is at 489 and not 488

[04:43]Yeah

[04:44]There was two albums that

[04:46]What about Garth Brooks?

[04:47]Were kind of like the known albums from a couple of artists

[04:52]And then they had a second album that was on the list

[04:55]That was farther down the list before

[04:56]Well, the second albums have jumped over the original albums

[05:00]And so the first album was

[05:02]The first one being U2

[05:03]Joshua Tree was originally number 27 on the 2012 list

[05:08]What on earth jumped Joshua Tree?

[05:10]That is a solid banger of an album

[05:11]The first three songs on that are some of the top three songs of all time

[05:15]Yeah, if you were born in like 1972

[05:18]All right, all right, all right

[05:19]Grumpy Matt is back again, we love it

[05:21]I don't know

[05:21]So, but Actong Baby from 1991

[05:25]What kind of tongue?

[05:27]Actong

[05:27]Is that the one that has numb on it?

[05:30]No, that doesn't have numb on it, does it?

[05:31]It's got wild horses on it

[05:33]That's what I, you know, I think it's their best song

[05:35]But extremely happy that Joshua Tree fell

[05:38]And I think this album is better by U2

[05:41]So I was happy that happened

[05:43]And then we went to Dookie from 1994 Green Day

[05:49]Sir Dookie, Sir Dookie

[05:50]Sir Dookie

[05:51]All comes back to Sir Dookie

[05:55]No

[05:56]Was originally 193rd on the list

[06:00]It dropped, you know, from 2013

[06:01]to 2012

[06:02]Dropped down to 375

[06:04]Well, American Idiot was 225

[06:08]It is now 248

[06:09]So it dropped, but it jumped over Dookie

[06:12]Which my 13-year-old self, you know, is extremely disappointed by this

[06:17]But, you know, American Idiot is an awesome album

[06:20]And definitely deserves to be above Dookie

[06:23]So, you know, a couple albums where I think the voters got it right

[06:28]So that's my quick breakdown for the week

[06:31]So that's how I'm

[06:32]You know, Matt, I like the depth of research there

[06:33]The depth of knowledge

[06:34]Every time Matt talks, it makes me realize that

[06:36]He talks by far the least on the podcast

[06:39]And knows the most

[06:40]And it makes me realize that I talk the most

[06:43]So what does that mean?

[06:44]Like, it's so depressing

[06:46]There's no second least behind me

[06:47]It's just depressing

[06:49]I'm like, blah, blah, blah, blah

[06:50]Then Matt's like, look at this very salient point

[06:52]And I'm like, huh?

[06:52]I'm really just more curious if it got dropped

[06:55]Because of the gross name of the title

[06:56]What was the name?

[06:58]Dookie is the name of the title

[06:59]And I'm wondering if our episode of this podcast

[07:01]Is going to plummet

[07:02]When Rob insists on using

[07:04]Fart noises in the trailer

[07:06]Or whatever was going on there

[07:07]Songs are the key of life, Dookie

[07:09]No, trust me, that fart noise trailer thing

[07:11]If you've noticed

[07:12]I put all the fart noises on a totally separate page

[07:14]That page is getting deleted

[07:16]There will be no fart noises

[07:17]On the permanent page

[07:19]It was very tempting to me to be like

[07:20]Well, maybe I'll put it on, you know

[07:21]Because I got so many fun sounds on here

[07:23]I mean, if you replace that with one of those sounds

[07:26]It's going to be a great time

[07:27]I'm not doing that

[07:28]I'm stronger than that

[07:29]I am not going down to that level

[07:31]I absolutely refuse to

[07:33]By the way, Dookie should be higher than that

[07:36]It should be higher than 375

[07:38]But it kind of goes back

[07:40]There's something about these albums

[07:42]That kind of turned

[07:43]Where music was going

[07:46]From the hair bands of the 80s

[07:49]Into Nirvana

[07:50]And some of these other ones

[07:51]The punk of the 70s and 80s

[07:54]Into more of a mainstream punk

[07:55]That's what Dookie did, I think

[07:57]And so, yeah

[07:59]There's a bunch of these albums we'll get into

[08:01]You know, in future episodes

[08:04]But, yeah, for sure

[08:05]It's one of those ones that kind of

[08:07]Pivoted where music went

[08:09]And what popular music was

[08:10]And so, yeah, I agree with you

[08:11]I will say

[08:12]Do you know anyone growing up

[08:13]That didn't have that Dookie album?

[08:14]Like, didn't everybody have that?

[08:16]I didn't listen to any of that music before

[08:18]And I own that album

[08:19]Like, I think everybody had it, right?

[08:21]Yeah, my high school girlfriend

[08:22]Who was homeschooled owned that album

[08:23]What?

[08:25]Wait

[08:25]What?

[08:26]What?

[08:26]How do you meet a girl

[08:28]Okay, time out

[08:29]Yeah, that's what I was going to say

[08:30]Time out

[08:30]She was homeschooled?

[08:30]She was homeschooled up until

[08:31]Her sophomore year of high school

[08:33]So, then I met her in high school

[08:35]But, yeah, she owned Dookie

[08:38]So, you didn't meet her

[08:39]While she was being homeschooled?

[08:41]No, I did not

[08:42]I was going to say

[08:43]How do you meet a girl that's homeschooled?

[08:44]I mean, I guess you'd go to their house

[08:46]And just knock on the door

[08:48]And see if anybody's up for a date

[08:49]This is back

[08:50]I was talking to my wife

[08:51]About Russ meeting girls

[08:52]In the grocery store

[08:53]And she was like, oh, no

[08:54]No, no, no

[08:54]Wait, wait

[08:56]I don't

[08:56]I thought this

[08:57]My conversations about my

[08:59]My misfortunes

[09:00]Were just between the three of us

[09:01]Four of us

[09:02]You're not publishing this, are you, Rob?

[09:04]Or you're not talking about this with people?

[09:06]No, no, no

[09:06]I edited that out

[09:07]I definitely don't put it front and center

[09:08]In the show description

[09:09]And I think in the Apple podcast description

[09:11]Of our podcast in general

[09:12]It's mostly just your dating stories

[09:13]Oh, man

[09:14]But so, what

[09:16]So, you dated a girl who's homeschooled

[09:18]But then it was like

[09:18]Her first year of high school

[09:19]Yeah, so she was like

[09:21]She was like a horse

[09:23]That was being released into the wild

[09:24]In this wild stallion

[09:26]Right

[09:26]And you're the first one to come along

[09:27]And try to tame her

[09:28]Yep, I guess

[09:29]Well, I

[09:30]I guess that's one way to put it

[09:32]Yeah, that's a gross way to put it, Aaron

[09:33]I can't believe you put it like that

[09:35]Were you just like the first guy

[09:36]She's ever seen?

[09:37]Like, she came into the school

[09:38]And she just happened to be sitting next to you

[09:40]Because her name

[09:40]Her name was like right next to you

[09:42]In alphabetic order

[09:43]Or how did it go?

[09:44]Yeah, I think that's how it worked

[09:45]It was like

[09:45]It was that easy

[09:46]It was just

[09:46]It was a fish in a barrel situation for me

[09:48]Yeah, Mogli

[09:48]The wolf girl

[09:50]Coming out of the jungle

[09:51]Aaron's like

[09:52]Hey, you want to date me or what?

[09:53]He's got his purple sunglasses on

[09:54]He's like

[09:55]Hey, you ever heard of the Beatles?

[09:57]We should date

[09:58]I just remember

[10:00]I just remember staying on topic, though

[10:01]She did play the flute

[10:02]So it was

[10:03]Oh, nice

[10:03]I mean, obviously

[10:05]We were setting things up for this podcast

[10:07]Even at age 18

[10:09]Rob

[10:09]16

[10:09]Rob

[10:10]I don't

[10:13]There's so many

[10:14]Come on

[10:14]There's so many buttons I can push

[10:15]You've been called out

[10:16]Before

[10:17]There's so many

[10:18]She played the flute

[10:19]What's going on?

[10:21]Rob

[10:22]There's a joke there

[10:23]She played the skin flute

[10:24]All right, so

[10:24]And that was for Kristen in Minneapolis

[10:29]All right, so

[10:29]Okay, off to a good start

[10:32]Cara, I'm sorry

[10:33]That joke was wildly inappropriate

[10:35]Russ, rolling going

[10:37]How's it going?

[10:37]It's going really well

[10:39]I actually had my

[10:40]One of my first kind of trips

[10:41]Into the wild recently

[10:42]As you guys know

[10:43]I had a conference in our industry

[10:46]And I actually went and presented

[10:47]At this conference in Puerto Rico last week

[10:49]So it was the first time

[10:50]That I got back on the plane

[10:51]And I don't know whether it's the right

[10:53]Or the wrong thing to be doing

[10:54]Traveling or going presenting

[10:55]At conferences or participating in that

[10:57]That's for everyone to decide, I guess

[10:59]But I'm going to do it

[10:59]But one thing that I came across is

[11:01]I hadn't flown in a while

[11:02]And I came across these

[11:04]Flying pet peeves of mine

[11:06]And I wanted to see

[11:07]What you guys thought

[11:08]About whether these behaviors

[11:09]Were good on a plane

[11:11]So can I just go through

[11:13]The four things that really bothered me

[11:15]And I want to see

[11:15]If you guys do these things

[11:17]Or what you think of them

[11:18]We do them

[11:19]Always take your shoes and socks

[11:21]Can I have the whole can

[11:29]Of the soda?

[11:29]Of the soda, please?

[11:30]Come on, please, please, please, please

[11:31]Please, please, please, please, please

[11:33]Hey, dolls

[11:34]All right

[11:38]I have a bomb

[11:38]Number four on my list

[11:41]This is not an official list

[11:43]So there's no clip needed

[11:45]But the first one that really bothers me

[11:46]Is people who somehow maneuver

[11:48]Too far back in the plane

[11:50]While you're loading up

[11:52]And then they have to walk

[11:53]Back against the grain

[11:55]And try to get by all the people

[11:56]That are trying to get back to their seats

[11:58]Yep

[11:59]What do you think?

[11:59]What do you guys think of those people

[12:00]When they've decided to go to the bathroom

[12:02]Or something while you're loading

[12:03]And they've got to walk back

[12:05]Against the grain

[12:06]During loading the plane?

[12:07]Airplane salmon

[12:08]That's what I call those people

[12:09]That one's a minimum

[12:10]That one's

[12:10]I feel your pain

[12:12]It's minimal on my list

[12:13]But I feel your pain

[12:14]It's number four on the list

[12:15]It's not number one

[12:16]Nope, I get it

[12:17]I get it

[12:18]It only makes Russ somewhat mad

[12:19]Number three on the list

[12:20]And my guess is

[12:21]My guess is this one

[12:22]Could be really divided

[12:23]Because I don't think

[12:24]Some people have a problem with this

[12:25]I got a problem with it

[12:27]Seat reclining

[12:28]Your thoughts

[12:29]If you recline your seat

[12:31]You are a monster

[12:32]You should be arrested

[12:33]And taken off the plane

[12:34]Immediately

[12:35]Reclining your seat

[12:36]Is a sociopathic behavior

[12:38]I have tweeted about this

[12:40]A number of times

[12:41]Anytime people tweet about it

[12:42]I totally say

[12:43]If you recline your seat

[12:44]The monster

[12:45]Oh, I paid for it

[12:46]I get it

[12:46]Shut up

[12:47]You're in my space now

[12:47]Shut up

[12:48]You're not reclining the seat

[12:49]Okay?

[12:50]Reclining the seat

[12:52]Really is the downfall of society

[12:53]It does

[12:54]First of all

[12:55]If it helped

[12:55]That would be one thing

[12:57]Like if you recline the seat

[12:58]And you got to go

[12:58]Way back here

[13:00]And you're really relaxed

[13:01]And oh, I get to sleep

[13:02]It doesn't help at all

[13:03]You literally go back

[13:04]Like two degrees

[13:05]It makes no difference

[13:07]Yet it makes a world of difference

[13:08]For me

[13:09]You know

[13:10]I'm on my laptop

[13:10]I'm trying to edit a podcast

[13:11]On the plane

[13:12]I can't get my foot care in

[13:14]If that seat is reclined back

[13:16]Yeah

[13:16]I guess I would just say

[13:17]Counterpoint

[13:18]If you get severe gas

[13:20]On an airplane

[13:21]What?

[13:21]That two inches

[13:23]That you can recline

[13:24]Can save your entire

[13:25]Ten foot radius

[13:27]From all of the gas

[13:28]You might release

[13:28]Like if you just have

[13:29]A little bit of relief

[13:30]You don't know

[13:31]What that person in front of you

[13:32]Has actually got going on

[13:34]In their guts

[13:35]So I mean

[13:35]Maybe they're trying to save you

[13:37]That's true

[13:38]I can gas on planes

[13:40]I don't know

[13:41]I don't think that's what I'm talking about

[13:45]Yeah it is

[13:45]Fart sound

[13:46]You think

[13:46]Oh

[13:47]Oh no

[13:48]No

[13:48]No more fart sounds

[13:49]That's what I was trying to tell you

[13:50]No more fart sounds

[13:51]No more fart sounds

[13:53]This album is so

[13:54]This album is so important

[13:55]This cannot be

[13:56]The fart sound podcast

[13:58]This album is so important

[13:58]This cannot be

[13:59]The fart sound podcast

[13:59]You know what

[13:59]I'm going to delete that

[14:00]I'm going to delete that whole section

[14:01]Don't worry

[14:01]I'm done with it

[14:02]That was Matt

[14:03]That was Matt

[14:03]Matt was pointing at my computer

[14:05]I had to do something about it

[14:06]Alright

[14:06]My number two

[14:07]My number two pet peeve

[14:09]And this could be

[14:09]This could be controversial

[14:11]Yes

[14:12]Emotional support dogs

[14:14]That are wearing diapers

[14:15]On the plane

[14:16]Your thoughts

[14:17]Can I

[14:18]Can I tell a story

[14:19]Go for it Matt

[14:19]Is it a cute dog

[14:20]I

[14:21]I

[14:23]Was sitting

[14:23]I always sit in the aisle

[14:25]I travel fairly often for work

[14:26]I always sit in the aisle

[14:27]So I can get up

[14:28]And move around if need be

[14:29]And not disturb the other two people

[14:31]By going across

[14:32]Okay

[14:32]So I'm

[14:33]I'm flying

[14:34]I think

[14:35]I'm flying to Charlotte

[14:36]Something like that

[14:36]And

[14:37]The

[14:38]Nobody

[14:38]Nobody's next to me

[14:40]I'm on the aisle

[14:40]I got the middle

[14:41]And the

[14:41]Against the

[14:43]The windows open

[14:44]And I'm thinking

[14:45]Yes

[14:45]There are two seconds

[14:47]From shutting the door

[14:47]Yes

[14:48]Here we go

[14:48]Shut the door

[14:49]Oh

[14:50]Nope

[14:50]A lady walks in

[14:51]And she's got a dog

[14:53]Matt's in the back

[14:54]Okay

[14:54]Boo

[14:54]Yeah

[14:56]Luckily I get to fly

[14:58]Pretty close to the front

[14:59]So

[14:59]Oh

[15:00]Oh

[15:01]Good for me

[15:01]Good for me

[15:03]That's going to be

[15:04]Another call next week

[15:05]And so the dog walks in

[15:06]And the dog

[15:07]It doesn't

[15:08]You know

[15:08]She's just carrying the dog

[15:09]Basically

[15:10]And it doesn't have

[15:11]Any emotional support

[15:12]Like

[15:12]It's got like a red vest

[15:13]Normally or something

[15:14]It basically has a handle

[15:15]On its collar

[15:16]That says

[15:17]Support dog

[15:18]Like that was made

[15:19]Yeah

[15:19]By the person's grandma

[15:20]That you can buy on Amazon

[15:21]For like three bucks

[15:22]Yeah

[15:22]So

[15:22]The lady

[15:23]The lady sits

[15:24]Against the window

[15:25]The middle seat's open

[15:26]Alright

[15:26]Ten minutes

[15:27]Into the flight

[15:28]She decides

[15:29]That she's going to

[15:30]Lay down

[15:30]Take a nap

[15:31]Right

[15:31]Her dog's going to

[15:32]Lay down

[15:32]In the middle

[15:33]On the ground

[15:35]She's going to

[15:36]Kick her feet up

[15:37]Right next to me

[15:38]And she's going to

[15:39]Take a nap

[15:39]Okay

[15:40]And I'm like

[15:40]Alright

[15:41]This is great

[15:42]So do you take out

[15:42]Your phone

[15:43]And take pictures

[15:43]Of her feet

[15:44]Wait what

[15:46]Why are you guys

[15:46]Looking at me like that

[15:47]Is that all out

[15:48]She just wakes up

[15:50]And you're next to her

[15:51]Just going through

[15:51]Just hundreds

[15:52]Of pictures of her feet

[15:53]On your phone

[15:54]And you're like

[15:55]Highlighting them

[15:55]And like zooming in and out

[15:57]That would

[15:57]Teacher the greatest

[15:58]This is my favorite

[15:59]And so

[16:02]Ten minutes in

[16:03]She's sleeping

[16:04]The dog is just

[16:05]Moving all around

[16:06]She's like

[16:06]Sit down

[16:07]Sit down

[16:08]You know

[16:08]Five minutes after that

[16:10]The dog shits everywhere

[16:11]Right onto the floor

[16:13]And she's sleeping

[16:14]Right

[16:15]And she doesn't know it

[16:16]And so then everybody

[16:17]Is looking around

[16:19]And they're looking

[16:19]Back at me

[16:20]And they're looking

[16:21]Forward

[16:21]And I'm like

[16:22]They're like

[16:23]Who's that

[16:23]Who's that guy

[16:24]That went

[16:24]Sir Dookie

[16:25]In 12A

[16:27]Matt's fully

[16:27]Fully reclined

[16:28]Because he's like

[16:28]Oh I got so much gas

[16:29]But when I fully recline

[16:30]I feel so good

[16:31]You know

[16:32]So I'm like

[16:34]Oh my goodness

[16:35]You know

[16:35]And I had no idea at first

[16:36]I thought the dog

[16:37]Just farted

[16:37]But then

[16:38]You know

[16:38]She kind of looks up

[16:39]And oh

[16:40]You know

[16:40]You hear her say

[16:41]Oh

[16:41]She's frantically

[16:42]Trying to clean things up

[16:43]I get up

[16:44]And I go to the back

[16:45]Of the plane

[16:45]And the stewardesses

[16:46]Are nice

[16:47]And the stewardess

[16:47]Flight attendants

[16:48]I don't know

[16:48]What you call them

[16:48]I sit back

[16:50]You know

[16:50]In one of their jump seats

[16:51]They let me

[16:52]I tell them

[16:52]What's going on

[16:53]Okay

[16:54]So they're

[16:55]And I'm like

[16:55]No she's got to

[16:56]Clean that up

[16:56]And then I'll go back up

[16:57]And they're like

[16:58]Nope we get it

[16:59]Sounds good

[16:59]So she cleans it up

[17:01]Go back up

[17:02]Ten minutes later

[17:03]I'm really sorry

[17:04]I'm like hey

[17:04]You know

[17:05]Bad day

[17:06]I get it

[17:06]No problem

[17:07]Ten minutes later

[17:08]The exact same scene

[17:09]Happens again

[17:11]The exact same thing

[17:13]Happens again

[17:13]She should have reclined

[17:14]That middle chair

[17:15]For that dog

[17:16]They

[17:17]Yeah I got up

[17:18]And I grabbed my stuff

[17:19]I walked to the back

[17:20]They found me a seat

[17:21]I had to sit in the middle

[17:22]In the back

[17:22]But it was fine

[17:23]You know

[17:23]Oh no

[17:24]Big baller

[17:24]Big baller

[17:25]Got to sit in the back

[17:25]In the middle

[17:25]In the back

[17:26]What the hell

[17:26]Big baller

[17:27]I am not a fan

[17:29]Of quote unquote

[17:31]Service dogs on planes

[17:32]It doesn't end well

[17:33]Hardly ever

[17:34]You know

[17:34]If someone needs the dog

[17:35]I'm not judging that

[17:36]You know

[17:36]If some people need it

[17:38]I completely understand

[17:39]Nobody needs a dog

[17:40]On a plane

[17:40]Shut up about that

[17:41]Get out of here

[17:42]I did see

[17:43]There was a lady

[17:44]That had this little chihuahua

[17:45]That she brought on the plane

[17:46]With her

[17:47]And it had the little diaper on

[17:49]But the dog was freaking out

[17:51]Like

[17:51]There was

[17:51]That dog was giving

[17:52]No emotional support

[17:53]That dog needed

[17:54]Emotional support

[17:55]So it's not

[17:56]An emotional support dog

[17:57]That's how you know

[17:58]Right there

[17:59]That's the part of the collar

[17:59]That was folded under

[18:00]That says

[18:00]Needs emotional support

[18:02]You flick it out

[18:02]You're like

[18:02]Oh no

[18:03]And then once

[18:05]I'll just tell you

[18:05]One other flying story

[18:06]Once I was carrying a baby

[18:07]It was my baby

[18:09]But I came

[18:10]And I had a middle seat

[18:12]Between two guys

[18:12]That were also my size

[18:14]And I'm holding

[18:15]Like this six month old baby

[18:16]And the guys look at me

[18:17]And I look at them

[18:18]And I go

[18:18]Hi I'm your worst nightmare

[18:19]So the last

[18:24]My last pet peeve

[18:25]And I guess

[18:25]I gotta see what you guys

[18:26]Think of this one

[18:26]This was the one

[18:27]That really sets me off

[18:28]Is when you're getting

[18:30]Off the plane

[18:30]And there are people

[18:31]That are sitting

[18:32]In the back of the plane

[18:33]That decide they need

[18:34]To get up

[18:34]Grab their stuff

[18:35]And rush to the front

[18:37]Yes

[18:37]Now I understand

[18:38]Like if they need

[18:39]To make a connection

[18:40]You kind of do

[18:41]What you have to do

[18:42]But I don't think

[18:43]Everyone who does this

[18:44]Is needing to make

[18:45]A connection

[18:45]I just think

[18:46]They realize

[18:47]That the squeaky wheel

[18:49]Gets the grease

[18:50]Or whatever

[18:50]And if I just go for it

[18:52]This is how I'm gonna

[18:53]Make my life easier

[18:54]What do you guys

[18:55]Think of the people

[18:55]Who dart to the front

[18:56]When you're exiting

[18:57]Savages

[18:58]Absolute savages

[18:59]If they're nice enough

[19:01]And they're like

[19:01]Hey I really gotta get

[19:02]You know

[19:03]Alright I'll understand

[19:04]But then you've got

[19:05]The people who are

[19:06]Three rows back of you

[19:07]Who want to just get

[19:08]A couple rows up

[19:09]Yeah

[19:09]You know or something

[19:10]Like they're just pushing

[19:11]So again

[19:12]I fly pretty close

[19:13]To the front of the plane

[19:14]And so

[19:15]I don't mind

[19:17]I don't mind

[19:18]Sitting there

[19:19]With my elbows out

[19:19]I got my gold card

[19:20]And I gotta go sit

[19:20]In the Delta Club

[19:21]On my layover here

[19:22]Sharpen those elbows

[19:24]And just stand there

[19:25]And piss them the hell off

[19:27]And it's great

[19:27]And they're just

[19:28]Up on your back right

[19:29]And you just

[19:30]You start inching back

[19:32]A little bit

[19:32]Just get a little bit

[19:33]Far in the back

[19:34]Just to piss them off

[19:35]You know

[19:35]Oh here you know

[19:36]And then you

[19:37]And then the best thing is

[19:39]Is you let everybody else

[19:40]Go

[19:41]You know

[19:42]Like somebody who's

[19:42]Gotta get it

[19:43]You just

[19:43]You know

[19:44]It's gonna take them

[19:45]Four minutes

[19:45]To get their bag out

[19:46]Oh no

[19:47]Go ahead ma'am

[19:47]Here

[19:48]Can I grab that for you

[19:49]And you know

[19:49]They just wanna go

[19:50]Sons of bitches

[19:51]That's what I say

[19:52]I cannot figure Matt out

[19:54]Sometimes he is so relaxed

[19:55]And just like

[19:55]Let bygones be bygones

[19:57]And then sometimes

[19:58]This angry Matt comes out

[19:59]And he's like

[19:59]Fuck everyone

[20:00]And I'm like

[20:00]Yes this is what I want

[20:01]This is what I love

[20:02]If we had access

[20:03]To his spreadsheet

[20:04]Obviously we know now

[20:05]That people who run up

[20:06]From the back of the plane

[20:07]Are on his spreadsheet

[20:07]And start to get rid of

[20:09]There's like

[20:10]There's like social contracts

[20:11]In the world right

[20:12]I'm not trying to

[20:13]You know like

[20:14]You just

[20:14]You don't just speed by

[20:16]You don't just slam on your

[20:17]I mean everybody

[20:18]Who's driving down the road

[20:19]You don't go to someone's home

[20:20]For a fundraiser

[20:21]If you know you have

[20:22]Matt's the guy

[20:22]Who kind of like

[20:23]Creeps his car over

[20:24]Into the

[20:25]The gutter

[20:26]Or the side lane

[20:27]Where so people

[20:28]When they're trying to get by

[20:29]He's the guy who like

[20:30]Stops everyone right

[20:31]Yeah

[20:32]No I

[20:32]Not even close

[20:34]Those

[20:35]I mean

[20:35]It's the

[20:36]It's just

[20:37]There's social contracts

[20:38]In the world

[20:38]Right

[20:39]You open a door

[20:40]For a little old lady

[20:41]You let her go in

[20:42]I don't

[20:43]You know

[20:43]You hold the door

[20:44]In the elevator

[20:45]I mean there's just

[20:46]General things you do

[20:46]I'm not opening that door

[20:47]For that old lady

[20:48]You take a nap

[20:48]On the airplane

[20:49]You take your shoes off

[20:50]I mean it's polite stuff

[20:51]And your socks

[20:52]What you do

[20:52]You let those things

[20:53]Air out

[20:53]Bring your foot file

[20:54]If you could

[20:55]Like a

[20:55]Airplane time

[20:56]Is foot care time

[20:56]Like that's how it works

[20:57]When we're not doing

[20:58]A double album

[20:59]I will tell you about

[21:00]How I've gotten addicted

[21:01]To the Delta Sky Club

[21:02]I cannot go to the airport

[21:03]Anymore without getting

[21:04]The Delta Sky Club

[21:05]I go in there

[21:05]I get all my free drinks

[21:06]I get all my free soups

[21:07]You want to talk about

[21:08]Gas on a plane

[21:09]Try loading up on

[21:10]Five bowls of

[21:11]Cheesy tortilla soup

[21:12]This is what I'm talking about

[21:13]You need to recline

[21:14]When that happens

[21:14]But yes you're right

[21:15]It is a double album night

[21:17]And this album is very important

[21:18]So we gotta get to it

[21:19]Do not tempt me

[21:20]To play that noise again

[21:21]Keep moving Rob

[21:21]So let's go

[21:24]Aaron

[21:25]Rolling and going

[21:25]How's it going

[21:26]It's rolling and going great

[21:28]I had a really good

[21:28]Food day today

[21:29]I went out

[21:29]My lady and I

[21:30]Went out for tacos

[21:31]For lunch

[21:31]And then we had

[21:32]Hot dog night

[21:33]For dinner here at home

[21:34]Hot dog night

[21:34]And it was just

[21:35]A beautiful day

[21:36]What does hot dog night

[21:38]Consist of

[21:38]Is there like toppings

[21:39]Or what is

[21:40]Is it just regular hot dogs

[21:41]What's hot dog night

[21:42]I probably shouldn't

[21:44]Have brought it up

[21:44]Because I wish

[21:45]You hadn't asked

[21:46]But you're gonna wish

[21:48]You hadn't asked too

[21:48]Yeah I was excited

[21:50]Because one of the toppings

[21:51]Was my very own

[21:52]Sweet pepper relish

[21:54]That I made myself

[21:54]With some

[21:55]Roasted Jimmy Nardello

[21:57]Peppers

[21:57]You didn't buy it

[21:58]You didn't go buy it

[21:59]At a store

[21:59]I didn't buy it

[22:00]At a store

[22:00]I made it myself

[22:01]Because we had

[22:02]Some Jimmy Nardello

[22:03]Peppers from our CSA

[22:04]And I roasted them

[22:05]And then I

[22:06]Minced them up

[22:07]With some basil

[22:08]From the backyard

[22:09]And some salt

[22:10]And olive oil

[22:11]What did you use

[22:11]To cut those

[22:12]The Jimmy Nards

[22:14]I just used the regular

[22:15]Old kitchen knife

[22:16]There's no special

[22:16]Technique to that one

[22:17]They're pretty straightforward

[22:18]Even Aaron's hot dog night

[22:21]Is way more exciting

[22:22]Than my hot dog night

[22:23]You can just

[22:24]Mow hot dogs

[22:24]Can't you

[22:25]They're the perfect shape

[22:26]They fit right in your mouth

[22:27]You barely need to chew them

[22:28]You're just like

[22:28]This might choke me to death

[22:29]I don't care

[22:30]Down the window

[22:30]Yeah just straight down

[22:31]The gullet man

[22:32]Aaron you have a job right

[22:33]I don't mean to pry or whatever

[22:35]But you have like a job

[22:36]I have a job

[22:37]Why would Aaron

[22:37]Hold on

[22:38]Why would Aaron

[22:39]Preparing hot dogs

[22:41]Prevent him from having a job here

[22:42]It's not like he spent

[22:44]Eight hours

[22:44]He went and got tacos

[22:45]For lunch

[22:46]And then he prepared

[22:48]His own relish

[22:48]And made hot dogs

[22:49]Oh so I will clarify

[22:51]I made the relish

[22:52]He's not curing cancer

[22:54]Solving world hunger here

[22:55]I am definitely not

[22:56]He's like cutting up

[22:57]He's cutting up condiments

[22:58]Aaron didn't tell us

[22:59]He does work at a hot dog cart

[23:00]That's the way he works

[23:01]He's like finally

[23:03]He's like I should try one of these

[23:04]I mean

[23:05]I remember Aaron

[23:05]A while back

[23:06]Telling us he didn't want to hear

[23:07]About his co-workers feelings

[23:08]And if I was a hot dog

[23:09]Hot dog cart guy

[23:10]With other hot dog cart guys

[23:12]I wouldn't want to hear

[23:13]About their feelings

[23:13]I get so hot

[23:14]When all the

[23:15]When all the hot water

[23:16]Boils up and makes me sweat

[23:17]Like I wouldn't want to hear

[23:18]That either

[23:19]So I get that Aaron

[23:20]Got mustard on my apron again

[23:21]Sometimes I think

[23:22]I should be selling pretzels

[23:24]Instead of hot dogs

[23:24]Instead of hot dogs

[23:24]And I went out for lunch today

[23:26]So that was like

[23:27]Relish making was my

[23:29]Outing yesterday

[23:30]And then tacos

[23:32]Was my outing today

[23:33]I can tell you

[23:34]I got one street hot dog

[23:35]In New York one time

[23:36]And I was like

[23:37]Oh it's a New York thing

[23:38]Get a hot dog

[23:38]It was so gross

[23:39]It was like gray

[23:40]When it came out

[23:41]And I was like

[23:41]Oh yeah the dirty water

[23:42]And I ate it

[23:43]But I wasn't happy about it

[23:44]You needed to lean back

[23:45]In your chair after that

[23:46]On the subway

[23:48]No no

[23:49]It doesn't matter on the subway

[23:50]And I'm not

[23:50]I don't want to get too into it

[23:52]But these hot dogs

[23:52]I got from Cream Co.

[23:54]Here in Oakland

[23:54]They're the best hot dogs

[23:55]I've ever had in my life

[23:56]They're really good

[23:57]So I'm also excited about that

[23:58]Cream Co. hot dogs

[23:59]Cream Co. hot dogs

[23:59]Are you sure that that's not

[24:01]That sounds made up to me

[24:02]That sounds like a

[24:03]No I'm telling you

[24:03]Cream Co. is really

[24:04]Like if we could get them

[24:05]To sponsor us

[24:06]I would happily do some

[24:07]Ads for Cream Co.

[24:08]If we got sponsored

[24:09]By a hot dog place

[24:10]That means you would have to

[24:11]Tell people about the podcast

[24:12]Which I don't know

[24:13]If any of us are really

[24:13]Ready to do at this point

[24:14]And after the intro

[24:17]For this podcast

[24:17]I'm pretty sure

[24:18]I'm not going to be

[24:19]Doing it this week either

[24:20]You guys are tempting me

[24:22]Again to push the button

[24:22]I'm not going to do it

[24:23]I'm too strong

[24:24]Rob how's it rolling

[24:26]Going with you

[24:27]How's it rolling

[24:27]Going with Rob

[24:28]We had a sleepover

[24:29]Birthday party this weekend

[24:31]And it is the greatest

[24:33]Mistake I've ever made

[24:34]In my life

[24:35]I never

[24:36]I never have regretted

[24:38]Anything more

[24:38]It was

[24:39]It was only

[24:40]Four girls

[24:41]Aged ten

[24:42]Over for a sleepover

[24:43]But the problem

[24:45]Is not the sleepover

[24:46]The sleepover is fine

[24:46]I'm a teacher

[24:47]I can handle kids

[24:48]I've put on the disco light

[24:49]I've put on the video games

[24:50]We gave them shakes

[24:51]We watched a movie

[24:52]They were your daughter's

[24:53]Friends right

[24:54]Yeah they were not just

[24:55]Random kids off the street

[24:56]They were

[24:56]They were my daughter's

[24:57]Friends

[24:57]They were over

[24:57]And basically

[24:58]I kind of woke up

[24:59]At like

[25:00]I went to bed at ten

[25:01]Told them to go to bed

[25:02]Woke up at eleven

[25:03]Told them to go to bed

[25:03]Woke up at twelve

[25:04]Told them to go to bed

[25:05]And finally by two

[25:05]They were just asleep

[25:06]The problem is

[25:07]The next day

[25:08]They are like

[25:10]Gremlins

[25:11]They are like

[25:11]They are like

[25:12]Like little moglies

[25:13]That you have given water to

[25:15]And the next day

[25:15]You wake up

[25:15]And it's just gremlins

[25:16]Like putting their head

[25:17]In the blender

[25:17]And turning it on

[25:18]That's my whole family

[25:20]Doesn't a sleepover end

[25:22]Like at nine

[25:22]A.M.

[25:22]Though they wake up

[25:23]And you send them home

[25:24]You shouldn't have to deal

[25:25]With any consequences

[25:26]No it's true

[25:26]We sent them home at ten

[25:27]It was the greatest party

[25:28]Because they came at six

[25:29]They left at ten

[25:30]But everyone is so tired

[25:32]And so pissed off

[25:33]That you are just angry

[25:34]The girls are upset

[25:36]Because they were up too late

[25:36]They didn't get enough sleep

[25:37]My wife is upset

[25:39]Because I don't know why

[25:40]She got tons of sleep

[25:40]I don't know

[25:41]She told me to go out

[25:42]I'm pretty sure

[25:42]We heard the intro

[25:44]Of this podcast

[25:44]I'm pretty sure

[25:45]I know why she's upset

[25:46]Like she's

[25:47]Like at any point

[25:49]Matt and Aaron

[25:50]And I could quit the podcast

[25:51]She's made a life commitment

[25:52]Here I get it

[25:53]Listen I ran Sir Dookie

[25:55]By her

[25:55]She thought it was

[25:56]Very funny

[25:57]But I also wanted to mention

[25:59]That we did have a passing

[26:00]Of a music great

[26:01]Eddie Van Halen

[26:03]Passed away the other day

[26:04]And I figured we should

[26:04]Probably talk about him

[26:05]The problem is

[26:07]Right

[26:07]Is that I just am

[26:09]Like I understand

[26:10]That he's a great guitar player

[26:11]I just was never

[26:13]A big fan of Van Halen

[26:14]So everybody was going crazy

[26:15]About like

[26:16]Oh Van Halen died

[26:17]And I was just like

[26:19]Yeah that's a big bummer

[26:20]But it's like

[26:21]It's not going

[26:22]To rock my world

[26:23]Like there's a lot of musicians

[26:24]Where I'd care a lot more

[26:25]If it happened

[26:25]I will say though

[26:26]Eddie Van Halen

[26:27]Always impressed me

[26:28]Because I thought

[26:28]He was the one guitar player

[26:29]Who didn't seem to copy

[26:31]Anyone else's style

[26:32]Like Eric Clapton

[26:34]Jimmy Page

[26:34]I thought all those guys

[26:35]Were kind of just

[26:36]A different kind of

[26:37]Blues guitar player

[26:38]You know

[26:39]Whereas Van Halen

[26:40]Seemed to be like this

[26:41]Weird like

[26:42]He was almost taking

[26:43]Orchestral music

[26:44]And speeding it way up

[26:45]And doing all these

[26:46]Different things

[26:47]And

[26:47]He claimed he didn't

[26:49]Listen to music right

[26:50]I mean I think

[26:51]I think you're onto

[26:51]Something Rob

[26:52]Because

[26:52]His thing was

[26:53]He was like

[26:53]I don't listen

[26:54]To other music

[26:55]Like he

[26:55]I don't know if this

[26:56]Was true or not

[26:57]But he

[26:57]He claimed to just

[26:58]Basically never listen

[26:59]To other guitarists

[27:00]So

[27:01]If that's really true

[27:02]I could be one of the

[27:02]Greatest guitar players ever

[27:04]Because I don't listen

[27:04]I didn't know shit

[27:05]About music either

[27:06]Right you could just

[27:07]Pick one up

[27:07]And just start playing

[27:08]So I wanted to talk

[27:09]Just real quick

[27:09]About Van Halen

[27:10]I have a couple clips here

[27:12]Of his guitar solos

[27:13]And I wanted

[27:14]Just real quick

[27:15]He did do this solo

[27:16]My favorite work of his

[27:17]Is the guitar solo

[27:18]In Michael Jackson's

[27:19]Beat It

[27:19]Did you guys know

[27:21]He played this

[27:22]Beforehand

[27:23]Or did you just

[27:23]Realize this when

[27:24]He died

[27:25]And it was like

[27:25]Kind of in all the articles

[27:26]I knew it beforehand

[27:27]And that's the other thing

[27:28]Is I don't think

[27:28]We need to talk about

[27:29]This too much

[27:29]Because I think

[27:29]A lot of people

[27:30]Are probably doing

[27:30]Better things

[27:31]Than what we're

[27:32]Going to do

[27:32]I did know

[27:33]That he did this

[27:33]Beforehand

[27:34]But I didn't realize

[27:35]That he only did this

[27:36]In two takes

[27:36]And he like

[27:37]Listened to it real quick

[27:38]Now he did say

[27:39]What the interesting

[27:40]Part of the solo is

[27:41]Is the chords behind it

[27:42]And let me play

[27:43]This for you

[27:43]This is him

[27:45]It's just a solo

[27:47]Everything else

[27:47]Is cut out

[27:48]And I will say

[27:51]It rocks

[27:52]Right

[27:53]But it's not as good

[27:55]As when the music

[27:56]Is being played

[27:56]I mean if it's

[27:59]On the easy level

[27:59]I could easily

[28:00]Hammer this

[28:01]On Guitar Hero

[28:02]Not like medium

[28:03]Or pro

[28:03]But easy level

[28:05]Guitar Hero

[28:05]I got this

[28:06]This is the part

[28:07]That's impressive

[28:07]The tapping

[28:08]And that's

[28:09]You know

[28:10]What he was known for

[28:11]But if you heard that

[28:12]Like in Guitar Center

[28:12]You'd be like

[28:13]Oh that guy's really good

[28:14]But you wouldn't be like

[28:15]Oh my god

[28:15]That's the greatest

[28:16]Rock god of all time

[28:17]You have to hear it

[28:18]In context

[28:18]Yeah I mean

[28:19]Exactly

[28:19]In context to really

[28:20]Now realizing that

[28:21]He did

[28:22]He did that on two takes

[28:23]And he didn't want

[28:24]To get paid for it

[28:24]He said

[28:25]He said quote

[28:25]Oh I wanted to help

[28:26]That kid out

[28:26]So first of all

[28:28]Referring to Michael Jackson

[28:28]This is post-thriller

[28:29]Referring to Michael Jackson

[28:31]Yeah he was already

[28:31]The biggest star in the world

[28:32]That's a baller move

[28:34]Just be like

[28:34]Yeah I'll help this guy out

[28:35]But I do want to play this

[28:36]This is

[28:36]Of course the greatest song

[28:38]Third greatest song

[28:38]Of all time

[28:39]I'm the teacher

[28:40]Just as guitar lick

[28:41]It's so good

[28:45]It's just

[28:46]You claim this is

[28:48]One of your favorite songs

[28:49]Ever Rob right

[28:50]It's fantastic

[28:51]It was

[28:52]It really is

[28:52]I do love this song

[28:53]Very much

[28:54]Again it is problematic

[28:56]Because I am a teacher

[28:56]So if it ever comes up

[28:58]Like on my phone

[28:58]Or in the weight room

[28:59]I'm probably gonna get fired

[29:00]Did you guys know

[29:02]That Beck

[29:03]Was actually part of a cover

[29:04]Of the song

[29:05]Hot for Teacher

[29:06]He

[29:07]He joined forces

[29:08]With a

[29:09]Kind of a jazz duo

[29:10]Called

[29:10]The Bird and the Bee

[29:11]And they did a cover

[29:13]Of Hot for Teacher

[29:14]Rob if you go to like

[29:15]Two thirty or so

[29:16]Of The Bird and the Bee

[29:17]Hot for Teacher

[29:18]And you guys

[29:19]Might like this

[29:19]Let's go

[29:21]Let it roll for a minute

[29:22]Is that Beck singing

[29:26]No

[29:27]Hold on

[29:27]Sounds like

[29:36]Stevie Wonder

[29:37]This is badass

[29:40]Is it not

[29:41]I mean Matt

[29:42]You're making a joke

[29:43]But you're not wrong

[29:44]I mean the keys are

[29:45]No I'm not

[29:46]I'm not trying to joke

[29:47]I mean it is

[29:48]Just

[29:48]Easy listening music

[29:50]And it's good

[29:50]It's good

[29:51]Well I wouldn't call it

[29:52]Easy listening

[29:53]But I would say

[29:53]It's keyboard forward

[29:54]Which is you know

[29:55]A lot of what

[29:55]Hey baby

[29:56]Key of life is

[29:57]Can you imagine

[29:58]Hanging out with Matt

[29:58]And he's like

[29:59]Hey let's just relax

[29:59]A little bit

[30:00]Let me put this in

[30:01]And you're like

[30:01]Wait what

[30:01]I'm stressed

[30:02]I'm so stressed out

[30:03]I'm hot for teacher

[30:05]But the real thing

[30:07]So Beck collaborates

[30:08]With this group

[30:08]And so Beck actually

[30:10]Performs kind of the vocals

[30:11]For another part of the song

[30:13]So Rob

[30:14]If you could jump

[30:15]To that other part of the song

[30:16]I gave you

[30:16]It's about thirty five seconds in

[30:18]Play that part quick

[30:19]Good morning class

[30:21]Oh

[30:22]I know

[30:23]I'm a teacher this morning

[30:24]My name is

[30:25]Mr. Goodbody

[30:26]Oh

[30:27]Goodbody

[30:28]No

[30:28]This is a text

[30:29]From Moby Dick

[30:30]So please turn down

[30:33]To page

[30:33]Sixty nine

[30:35]Always

[30:35]Classic

[30:38]You know how many times

[30:40]I've had to pretend

[30:41]In front of students

[30:41]I don't know what

[30:42]Sixty nine is funny

[30:43]Wait so is

[30:44]Is he gonna read Melville

[30:45]Or not

[30:45]Does he not read Melville

[30:47]The bird and the bee

[30:48]Brought in Beck

[30:49]On this song

[30:50]To play the role

[30:51]Of the

[30:51]Teacher

[30:51]Mr. Goodbody

[30:52]So I gotta ask you guys

[30:54]When it comes to

[30:55]Dirty teachers

[30:55]Who does it better

[30:56]Rob or Beck

[30:57]Who does it better

[30:58]Oh Rob's

[31:01]A way better dirty teacher

[31:01]I have to say

[31:02]Beck did it better

[31:03]Beck did it better

[31:05]Okay I'm not

[31:06]This is all getting cut out

[31:08]By the way

[31:09]I am not a dirty teacher

[31:10]I don't even know

[31:11]What that means

[31:11]That's very bad

[31:12]Dirty teacher

[31:13]Now

[31:15]Yeah

[31:16]Page sixty nine

[31:17]That's what every

[31:17]Like problem

[31:18]Everything ever is on

[31:19]Page sixty nine

[31:19]It seems like

[31:20]When you're teaching

[31:20]There's no doubt

[31:21]About that

[31:21]Alright

[31:22]So I wanted to get

[31:23]To one other thing today

[31:25]I think that's all

[31:25]We have for Roland going

[31:27]Oh I will say this too

[31:28]When the other kids

[31:29]Were at the sleepover

[31:29]I realized what a bad

[31:30]Parent I was

[31:31]No other kid

[31:32]Knew how to use

[31:33]A whipped cream

[31:34]Spray can

[31:34]They were like

[31:35]How do you do this

[31:36]How do you do this

[31:37]And my girls were like

[31:37]Like this

[31:38]And I was like

[31:39]Oh my god

[31:40]I'm a terrible parent

[31:41]It's the worst

[31:41]I just

[31:44]One more call out

[31:45]It's a

[31:46]Really famous

[31:47]Musician's birthday today

[31:48]Very influential

[31:50]Nineties

[31:51]Two thousand

[31:52]Tom York

[31:53]From Radiohead

[31:54]It's his fifty second

[31:55]Birthday today

[31:55]So I just want to make sure

[31:57]We say happy birthday

[31:57]To Tom York

[31:58]I actually

[31:59]That's actually great

[32:00]As much as I can

[32:01]That's great to think about

[32:02]Because I think that

[32:03]There might not be

[32:04]A kid A

[32:05]Without this album

[32:06]That we're going to talk about

[32:07]Can you imagine

[32:08]What singing

[32:08]Happy birthday

[32:09]To Tom York

[32:10]Would sound like

[32:10]Happy birthday

[32:13]Happy birthday

[32:15]I've got to deal with this

[32:16]Once in the next twelve years

[32:17]Can we not

[32:18]Have to do it twice

[32:18]Can we just move on

[32:19]So good

[32:21]Alright

[32:22]I did

[32:23]And by the way

[32:24]That was

[32:25]Rollin'

[32:26]Goin'

[32:27]It's time to find

[32:30]What everybody's up to

[32:31]What everybody's up to

[32:33]I forgot to play this

[32:34]Rollin'

[32:35]Goin'

[32:36]Hot dog night

[32:37]Oh yeah

[32:39]Can you imagine

[32:42]The look on his wife's face

[32:43]When he was like

[32:43]Sweetie it's hot dog night

[32:45]She's like

[32:45]Oh great

[32:45]That sounds great

[32:46]I love it

[32:47]I love that Aaron has

[32:48]Like nights

[32:49]He's got like

[32:49]Fun fun

[32:49]Things for

[32:50]He turns like

[32:51]A basic thing

[32:53]And he turns it into an event

[32:54]I love it

[32:54]So you didn't work all day

[32:55]And you had tacos for lunch

[32:56]And now you've made me

[32:57]Hot dogs

[32:58]Like I would be

[32:58]I'd be so mad

[33:01]Alright

[33:02]So now

[33:03]We don't have any voicemails

[33:04]The Beck line was fallow

[33:06]This week

[33:06]I'm not going to lie to you

[33:07]I cannot tell a lie

[33:07]Fallow

[33:08]Good word

[33:08]I like it

[33:09]It was totally empty

[33:10]So instead

[33:10]This is our new section called

[33:12]Make

[33:13]Fun

[33:13]Of Aaron

[33:14]This is where I've pulled clips

[33:15]Of things I've edited out

[33:16]Where Aaron said something stupid

[33:17]And we're going to make fun of it

[33:19]Okay

[33:20]Aaron is like the only

[33:21]Let's

[33:21]Let's

[33:22]We got to stop here for a second

[33:23]Like

[33:23]Literally

[33:24]Aaron is like probably

[33:25]You know

[33:26]We give Matt credit

[33:27]For saying smart shit

[33:28]But Matt just kind of sits

[33:30]In the weeds for two hours

[33:31]And says like one

[33:32]Interesting paragraph

[33:33]And we give him credit for

[33:35]Like

[33:35]Aaron says smart shit

[33:36]For two straight hours

[33:37]On this podcast

[33:38]And now you're going to

[33:39]Listen

[33:40]He's by far the smartest guy

[33:41]On here

[33:41]And we all know it

[33:42]And you're going to say

[33:43]We're going to make fun of Aaron

[33:44]I combed through every episode

[33:46]Looking for me saying dumb stuff

[33:48]Didn't find anything

[33:48]Nothing

[33:49]Okay

[33:50]So there's nothing there

[33:51]So I had to do it with Aaron

[33:52]Those make the first edits

[33:53]I don't even get to Russ

[33:54]For my edits

[33:55]First of all

[33:55]Our biggest

[33:56]Our Beck Did It Better

[33:57]Fan Club Twitter page

[33:58]Which is my favorite Twitter follow

[33:59]It's just great

[34:00]Very active

[34:00]Very funny

[34:01]It pointed out

[34:02]That Aaron claimed

[34:03]He has never eaten Lucky Charms

[34:05]Aaron is that true?

[34:06]You've never eaten Lucky Charms?

[34:07]Yeah I don't think I have

[34:08]I don't really like them

[34:10]Like the marshmallows

[34:10]Are like a weird color

[34:11]I can't get

[34:12]I can't get down with it

[34:13]That's mind blowing to me

[34:16]Next episode

[34:17]Buy some Lucky Charms

[34:18]I want you to eat some

[34:19]On the podcast

[34:20]I can do that

[34:21]I'll try that

[34:21]Are you playing a clip

[34:22]Or what's happening here?

[34:23]No I just wanted to talk

[34:23]About Lucky Charms

[34:24]I don't actually have anything prepared

[34:25]It's not

[34:25]It's not that

[34:26]I mean like my favorite cereals

[34:28]Are Cap'n Crunch

[34:29]And Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries

[34:31]So it's not that I'm opposed

[34:32]To sugary cereals

[34:33]But Lucky Charms

[34:34]It's weird

[34:34]They're like marshmallows

[34:35]Yeah like marshmallows and milk

[34:37]I don't know about that man

[34:38]Have you ever taken

[34:39]Your Cap'n Crunch

[34:40]And heated it up in the microwave

[34:41]Before you eat it?

[34:42]I don't own a microwave

[34:44]Should we put this on pause

[34:46]For 20 minutes?

[34:46]We are not

[34:47]Okay

[34:47]I am not getting into the fact

[34:49]Pause, pause, pause

[34:50]I am not getting into the fact

[34:52]That you don't have a microwave

[34:52]We do not have time

[34:53]To talk about this

[34:54]This is a double album

[34:55]You know what?

[34:56]That is next week

[34:57]That is going into the next week's segment

[34:58]Of making fun of Aaron

[34:59]Next week

[35:00]You don't have a microwave

[35:01]What the hell?

[35:02]This is again where

[35:03]I just came home

[35:04]And microwaved a bunch of hot dogs

[35:06]And my date wasn't all that impressed

[35:09]Because they're like

[35:09]Well it works for Aaron

[35:10]It's gotta work for me

[35:11]So like hey

[35:12]We're gonna do a hot dog night

[35:14]You should come over here

[35:15]And then I just microwaved

[35:16]Like these Johnsonville

[35:17]Pre-cooked brats

[35:18]And she was like yeah

[35:19]This was not

[35:19]What I was hoping for

[35:21]And now I realize

[35:21]Well I shouldn't have gone

[35:23]With the microwave

[35:23]Aaron doesn't have a microwave

[35:24]Russ was like

[35:25]I thought my date

[35:25]Would be more impressed

[35:26]Because I have two microwaves

[35:27]In my kitchen

[35:28]How else are you gonna cook anything?

[35:30]I'm not putting anything

[35:30]On the stove

[35:31]I mean that's risky

[35:32]That's wild

[35:33]Okay we're not doing that

[35:34]Here we go

[35:34]First clip of making fun of Aaron

[35:35]I have no idea

[35:36]What these actually are

[35:37]I've never had Lucky Charms

[35:40]Okay so that was it

[35:42]That was the clip

[35:43]I didn't listen to it

[35:43]Before and I should have

[35:44]True story

[35:44]Okay

[35:45]I can't believe

[35:45]You never had Lucky Charms

[35:46]We gotta call time out Rob

[35:47]You

[35:49]You said you've had trouble

[35:50]Editing our podcasts

[35:51]And getting them out on time

[35:52]We've had listeners

[35:52]Complain about the timing

[35:54]But you've had time

[35:55]To filter through

[35:56]All of our podcasts

[35:58]To find Aaron

[35:59]Say I don't

[36:00]I've never had Lucky Charms

[36:01]I will say

[36:02]I do this as I'm going

[36:03]When I hear Aaron say

[36:04]And it's just Aaron

[36:05]When I hear him say

[36:06]Something like this

[36:06]I go cut, edit

[36:07]Make it into an MP3

[36:08]Put it on my desktop

[36:09]Save it for later

[36:10]I have lots of these

[36:11]On my desktop

[36:12]Just making fun of Aaron

[36:13]Okay

[36:14]It's the same thing

[36:14]I do with my good jokes

[36:15]When I have a good joke

[36:16]I cut, edit it

[36:17]Put it in

[36:17]I've got two

[36:18]Say it again

[36:19]Yeah I've got two

[36:20]Say it again

[36:21]What's number two?

[36:21]That microwave joke

[36:22]I just made

[36:23]Alright so

[36:24]And I said that

[36:25]So I don't edit it out later

[36:26]Next clip

[36:27]For making fun of Aaron

[36:28]What do you think

[36:30]Is the greatest song ever

[36:31]About being happy?

[36:32]And is this one of them?

[36:35]So I came up with a list

[36:36]Okay so Aaron said

[36:38]The greatest song

[36:39]About being happy

[36:40]Is happy birthday

[36:40]I gotta be honest

[36:46]This is disease Rob

[36:47]The fact that you

[36:48]Are doing this

[36:49]Is so wildly unfair

[36:51]Like

[36:51]Look how hard

[36:52]You're laughing

[36:53]I say

[36:54]I say probably

[36:55]Take a breath Rob

[36:57]Take a breath

[36:58]I say 50 to 100

[36:59]Stupid things

[37:00]At every podcast

[37:01]Where I've got to

[37:02]Oh don't spit that out

[37:03]Don't spit that out

[37:04]And say

[37:04]Please take this out

[37:05]And you're literally

[37:06]Finding like one

[37:07]Minute thing

[37:09]Where Aaron

[37:09]The smartest guy

[37:10]In our podcast

[37:11]Happy birthday

[37:12]Is a reasonable

[37:13]Answer to that question

[37:14]No it's not

[37:14]A song about being happy

[37:16]Shut up

[37:17]I'm gonna clip that

[37:18]What you just said there

[37:18]We're gonna play that next week

[37:19]Along with I don't own a microwave

[37:21]This is wrong

[37:21]I don't like what's happening here

[37:22]No this is what's happening

[37:24]Listen you don't like it

[37:25]Get people to call the beck line

[37:26]This is what we're gonna do

[37:26]Every time people don't

[37:27]Call the beck line

[37:28]There's no beck line

[37:29]Rob I appreciate you listening

[37:32]Can you imagine that Aaron's like

[37:34]I'm feeling really down

[37:35]What music can I listen to

[37:37]That'll cheer me up

[37:38]Oh I know

[37:39]Happy birthday to you

[37:41]He's like

[37:41]This does make me happy

[37:42]Although I will say

[37:44]When people are

[37:44]When people are singing

[37:46]Happy birthday

[37:46]It does make you happy

[37:48]Like you

[37:48]The saddest thing ever

[37:50]Would be if somebody was crying

[37:51]While everyone else was singing

[37:51]Happy birthday to him

[37:52]Don't think about it too long

[37:53]You're gonna come around

[37:54]Nobody ever sings in tune

[37:55]Nobody ever sings

[37:57]Matt's got

[37:58]Nobody starts

[37:59]Nobody ends

[38:00]Somebody's loud

[38:02]Who can't sing

[38:03]Those candles won't go out

[38:04]Those candles keep

[38:05]They keep turning up

[38:07]And everyone thinks it's funny

[38:08]They got these tricky candles

[38:09]Just blow out the candles

[38:09]Let's move this along

[38:10]Nobody is

[38:11]Nobody's at your party

[38:12]That you set up for yourself

[38:13]Alright

[38:14]So let's start talking about songs

[38:16]I didn't get candles

[38:16]For my wife for her birthday

[38:18]Cause I just

[38:18]I'm just incapable of doing that

[38:20]Oh my god

[38:21]That never

[38:21]That one never goes away

[38:23]Was that

[38:23]Was that a happy birthday?

[38:24]That's not fair

[38:25]That happened

[38:26]Russ was giving me

[38:27]The wrap it up sign

[38:28]And then he dropped

[38:28]A bomb broke out

[38:29]Right at the end

[38:30]You better look out Russ

[38:32]I think I know

[38:32]What next week's segment's gonna be

[38:33]Except I do want to explore

[38:35]Aaron not having a microwave

[38:35]I know he lives in a small house

[38:37]But we don't have time

[38:37]We have to move on

[38:38]Okay

[38:39]I don't want to be around

[38:41]Those radioactive waves

[38:42]Twitter

[38:42]No they're

[38:44]They're not

[38:44]They're actually less powerful

[38:46]Than

[38:46]Okay I don't have time

[38:47]To get into microwaves

[38:48]Okay

[38:48]Oh

[38:49]Hey

[38:50]Hey you had time

[38:50]To get into Sir Dukey drop

[38:52]Or whatever that was

[38:53]At the beginning

[38:53]You have time to get

[38:54]Into radioactive waves

[38:55]58 fart drops

[38:56]I had to practice that

[38:57]While the person was here

[38:58]Cutting her hair

[38:59]I had to go into a different room

[39:00]And close the door

[39:01]And pray nobody heard me

[39:02]If they heard me playing

[39:03]Sir Duke with fart drops

[39:04]And then

[39:04]Cause I just said

[39:05]Oh I have a podcast

[39:06]He's like what's up out

[39:07]And I'm like

[39:07]Alright so

[39:10]Here's the deal

[39:11]Let's talk very quickly

[39:12]This is our fourth album

[39:13]On the list

[39:14]Anybody have any experience

[39:16]With Stevie Wonder

[39:17]Beside

[39:17]I

[39:18]I

[39:18]I really had none

[39:19]Growing up

[39:19]At all

[39:20]Matt

[39:20]How about you

[39:20]Not

[39:22]Not hardly any

[39:23]I mean

[39:23]You hear his songs

[39:25]I distinctly remember

[39:26]Hearing his songs

[39:27]On like

[39:28]KS95

[39:29]And the Twin Cities here

[39:30]And

[39:31]You know

[39:32]They're always on

[39:33]They're extremely popular songs

[39:34]And they're always on the radio

[39:36]And stuff like that

[39:36]But

[39:36]Never got into the albums

[39:38]You know

[39:39]Later in life

[39:40]Kind of got into

[39:40]Some of his earlier stuff

[39:42]Or a lot of samples

[39:43]I mean

[39:43]There's a ton of samples

[39:44]Oh tons

[39:45]I was blown away by that

[39:46]You know

[39:47]To kind of just

[39:48]Go back to

[39:48]Oh that's Stevie's work

[39:49]Okay

[39:50]You know

[39:50]Stuff like that

[39:51]So

[39:51]But other than that

[39:52]Not a lot of experience

[39:53]With this album

[39:54]Russell

[39:55]Any experience

[39:55]With Songs in the Key of Life

[39:57]Or Stevie Wonder

[39:57]I don't have any experience

[39:59]With any of these albums

[40:00]But I thank you

[40:01]For being nice

[40:02]And asking me anyways

[40:03]Rob

[40:03]The one thing I will say

[40:05]Is

[40:05]When I listen to this

[40:07]Other than the Beatles albums

[40:08]We've listened to

[40:09]A lot of the albums

[40:10]Didn't have a lot of

[40:11]Commercial hits

[40:11]This was the first one

[40:12]Where I was like

[40:12]Oh I know that song

[40:13]I know that song

[40:14]I know that song

[40:15]So for me

[40:16]I don't really have

[40:17]A lot of experience

[40:17]With Stevie Wonder

[40:18]But I would say

[40:19]When I listened to it

[40:20]The first time

[40:20]The second time

[40:21]The third time

[40:22]There were a lot more songs

[40:23]That I recognized

[40:24]Than I was expecting

[40:24]To recognize

[40:25]So

[40:25]But that

[40:27]Again

[40:27]Yeah I don't know

[40:28]Anything about any

[40:29]Of these albums

[40:29]Alright moving on

[40:30]Let's put the album

[40:31]No I'm kidding

[40:31]Rosie

[40:32]What experience

[40:33]Do you have

[40:33]With Stevie Wonder

[40:34]I know you're

[40:34]Busting at the seams

[40:35]To talk about this

[40:36]I've been

[40:37]I've been

[40:37]Rehearsing this all day

[40:39]And I'm gonna

[40:39]Flub it anyway

[40:40]I would say

[40:42]My experience

[40:43]With Stevie Wonder

[40:43]Would have been

[40:45]On the

[40:45]Motown compilations

[40:47]That I've mentioned

[40:48]On previous podcasts

[40:49]So Motown

[40:50]Greatest Hits

[40:50]Stuff

[40:51]So as a kid

[40:52]I knew things like

[40:53]Fingertips Part 2

[40:54]Science Sealed and Delivered

[40:56]Masha Ria Moore

[40:58]You know

[40:58]His hits

[40:59]From when he was younger

[40:59]And then

[41:01]Yeah

[41:02]Same time

[41:03]In my early 20s

[41:04]When I thought

[41:04]I really need to get

[41:05]Into the classics

[41:06]I bought this

[41:06]I bought Songs in the Key of Life

[41:08]On CD

[41:08]I bought Intervisions

[41:10]On CD

[41:11]And so

[41:12]For a long time

[41:13]I thought Intervisions

[41:14]Was actually my favorite

[41:15]Stevie Wonder album

[41:15]But I think

[41:16]I was just trying to be

[41:17]Contrary

[41:17]And then

[41:19]Naughty

[41:20]Naughty

[41:20]Naughty Aaron

[41:21]When

[41:22]When Prince passed away

[41:24]When Aretha passed away

[41:26]For some reason

[41:27]I'm just a guy

[41:28]Who listens to music

[41:29]In my house

[41:30]In my garage

[41:30]But

[41:31]It became really important

[41:32]To me

[41:33]To understand

[41:34]The greats of my time

[41:35]During their time

[41:36]It's the same reason

[41:37]I watch LeBron's games

[41:38]I feel like

[41:39]It's important to appreciate

[41:41]These people

[41:41]While they're here

[41:41]So I started to try

[41:43]To get

[41:43]To listen to this podcast

[41:44]Yeah

[41:44]I want to be around the greats

[41:45]When they're still around

[41:46]Yeah

[41:47]So I have spent more time

[41:48]Can you imagine

[41:48]I'm going to die

[41:49]And my legacy

[41:50]Is going to be me

[41:51]Talking about hot dogs

[41:52]Jesus Christ

[41:53]Oh well

[41:55]So I've spent more time

[41:56]You know

[41:57]Trying to learn Stevie's

[41:58]Especially this classic run

[42:00]Of

[42:01]I'm going to get these wrong

[42:02]Not the right order

[42:03]But

[42:03]Talking book

[42:04]Fulfilling this first finale

[42:06]Music in my mind

[42:07]Intervisions

[42:08]Songs in the key of life

[42:09]So I've spent a lot more time

[42:10]Trying to understand

[42:10]And learn these albums

[42:11]So yeah

[42:13]I know

[42:14]I thought

[42:15]But I would say

[42:15]I thought I knew songs

[42:17]In the key of life

[42:17]In the key of life

[42:17]Really well

[42:18]But the more I listen to it

[42:20]Every time I listen

[42:21]I hear something different

[42:22]And I also want to say

[42:25]I own this album on vinyl

[42:26]But when I bought my used copy

[42:28]It did not include the bonus EP

[42:30]And so

[42:31]I would say that this

[42:33]This album in particular

[42:34]Of the ones we've listened to so far

[42:36]Is the best argument for

[42:38]Physical media

[42:39]Russell

[42:40]Yes

[42:41]It's the best argument

[42:42]You mean this album

[42:42]Which I listen to on vinyl

[42:44]Russell's holding it up on vinyl right now

[42:46]It's the best argument

[42:47]To me it's the best argument

[42:48]For physical media

[42:49]Over streaming media

[42:50]For many reasons

[42:51]One of which is

[42:52]The liner notes themselves

[42:54]Which are incredible

[42:54]The experience of

[42:56]Four perfectly

[42:57]Crafted sides

[43:00]That are

[43:00]There's like a legit book here

[43:02]There's a legit book here

[43:03]You open up

[43:04]And it's a book

[43:05]On the songs of the key of life

[43:07]Yes

[43:08]Exactly right

[43:09]So those are all things

[43:10]That we miss

[43:11]Over streaming

[43:12]You know

[43:13]But I also watched

[43:14]The A's on my phone today

[43:16]So I can't

[43:17]I can't just hate

[43:18]On modern media entirely

[43:19]But yeah

[43:20]I have a lot of thoughts

[43:21]On this album

[43:21]I really love it

[43:23]And the more I listen to it

[43:24]The more I discover about it

[43:26]Aaron wanted to watch

[43:27]The A's on his record player today

[43:28]He's like

[43:29]Oh I can't wait

[43:29]It didn't work

[43:30]Yeah I tried

[43:30]It didn't work

[43:32]Russell I'm so

[43:33]I'm so stoked

[43:34]Russell and I might have to have

[43:35]An offshoot podcast

[43:37]Just to talk about

[43:37]The vinyl copy of this album

[43:39]Oh

[43:39]Matt we're going to have

[43:41]An offshoot podcast

[43:41]Where I talk all the time

[43:42]Okay so

[43:44]Okay

[43:45]Ah

[43:47]Here's the deal

[43:48]Is that

[43:49]Aaron

[43:49]Russ where did you buy that album

[43:51]Did you buy it at the record store

[43:52]Did you buy it at

[43:53]Russ's record store

[43:54]Which is what I call Target

[43:55]No didn't I tell you guys

[43:57]I'm afraid to go into

[43:58]The record store

[43:58]Yeah I know

[43:58]So did you go to Target

[43:59]Or what

[44:00]This was actually

[44:01]A Russ's mom steal

[44:02]My mom had

[44:03]Stevie Wonder

[44:04]Songs in the Key of Life

[44:05]Yo

[44:06]And does it have

[44:06]The bonus LP

[44:07]Or the bonus EP

[44:08]I don't really know

[44:10]What any of that means Aaron

[44:11]There's a lot of records

[44:12]In here

[44:13]And today I realized that

[44:14]I realized that you can't

[44:15]Just flip over

[44:16]Side one

[44:17]Record one

[44:18]And then go to the next song

[44:19]You gotta like

[44:19]Put in the other

[44:20]It's one of those

[44:20]Where it's one and four

[44:21]And two and three

[44:22]Yeah

[44:22]Yeah I'm

[44:23]I'm having an education

[44:25]On record players

[44:25]And not knowing what I'm doing

[44:27]But yeah this was definitely

[44:28]A Russ's mom steal

[44:29]But I was like

[44:30]That's pretty cool

[44:31]My mom had this

[44:31]This album

[44:32]It's pretty awesome

[44:33]That's totally awesome

[44:34]Yeah the liner notes

[44:34]Are incredible

[44:35]Slate did a great series

[44:36]Where they were doing

[44:37]The same thing

[44:37]Like respect the people

[44:38]Who are geniuses

[44:39]Who are still alive

[44:40]And Stevie Wonder

[44:40]Was the one they did

[44:41]There's a great clip

[44:42]Of him playing a drum solo

[44:43]On YouTube

[44:44]If you ever want to see

[44:45]Ah

[44:46]Who said

[44:46]Oh god who was it

[44:47]Eric Clapton said

[44:48]He was one of the greatest

[44:48]Drummers he's ever

[44:49]Worked with

[44:50]So before we get into it

[44:52]I don't want to

[44:52]Take away from

[44:54]Where Rob's going here

[44:55]This is a ten second answer

[44:56]But like does Stevie Wonder

[44:57]Playing a ton of instruments

[44:59]On this

[44:59]Or what else is he doing

[45:00]On this album

[45:01]I think on his earlier albums

[45:02]He was big on playing

[45:03]Every single instrument

[45:04]Like that was a big deal

[45:05]For him

[45:05]And then eventually

[45:07]He started letting

[45:08]Other musicians

[45:09]Help him out

[45:11]For example

[45:12]Guess who played on

[45:13]Superstition with him

[45:14]A guy named

[45:15]Jeff Bezos

[45:16]Jeff Beck

[45:16]Okay maybe we'll

[45:17]Remember that for later

[45:18]I'll put that

[45:20]In my compilation

[45:20]Of smart things

[45:21]Rob says

[45:22]Oh yeah

[45:23]But I think

[45:25]For this album

[45:25]He had a lot of help

[45:26]For example

[45:26]Herbie Hancock

[45:27]Was big on a lot of these

[45:28]Jim Horn

[45:30]Jim Horn

[45:30]And on saxophone

[45:32]The aforementioned

[45:33]Jim Horn

[45:33]Yeah it's clear

[45:34]In the liner notes

[45:35]The ones so definitely

[45:36]Things like

[45:37]Past Time Paradise

[45:38]Village Ghetto Land

[45:39]I think it just says

[45:40]Musician Stevie Wonder

[45:42]Also because he was

[45:43]Getting so far

[45:44]Into

[45:45]The new

[45:45]Synthesizers of the day

[45:47]The Dream Machine

[45:48]And was very

[45:49]Into the technology

[45:50]So there were things

[45:51]Where he was doing it

[45:52]All by himself

[45:52]But then the other tracks

[45:54]Yeah there's

[45:54]You know

[45:54]Huge numbers of

[45:55]People involved

[45:56]These notes

[45:59]Or whatever

[45:59]The liner track

[46:00]Or whatever

[46:00]Aaron calls them

[46:01]They've got like

[46:02]The whole

[46:02]All the lyrics

[46:03]For all the songs

[46:04]It's awesome

[46:04]Which is amazing right

[46:05]Like you can learn

[46:06]So much just from

[46:07]Reading the lyrics

[46:07]And it looks like

[46:09]A fancy restaurant menu too

[46:10]That's pretty cool

[46:11]Like I'm waiting

[46:13]For the key lime pie

[46:14]On the last page

[46:14]And it's just not

[46:15]Showing up

[46:16]Man if only Matt and I

[46:18]Had a way to find

[46:18]All the lyrics for this song

[46:19]Let me go to Google

[46:20]And type in all the lyrics

[46:21]For songs of the key of life

[46:22]Oh look here they all are

[46:24]Jump back to the history

[46:24]Of the album

[46:25]There's only 64,822 websites

[46:28]That have all the lyrics

[46:29]So I think the best way

[46:30]To think about this album

[46:31]Is we just

[46:32]I just want to talk about

[46:33]Stevie Wonder

[46:33]Just in general

[46:34]First of all

[46:35]You've got to understand

[46:35]He and Dylan

[46:37]Released their same

[46:37]Released their first album

[46:39]In the same year

[46:40]1962

[46:41]The difference is

[46:42]Bob Dylan was 21

[46:43]Stevie Wonder was 12

[46:45]12 little Stevie Wonder

[46:47]Fingertips part 2

[46:48]Yeah he topped

[46:49]The Billboard 100

[46:50]With Fingertips

[46:51]Part 1 or part 2

[46:53]Or whatever

[46:53]When he was

[46:55]He topped it

[46:56]When he was like 14

[46:57]Seriously?

[46:58]Yeah he's total

[47:00]Wow

[47:00]He's total has won

[47:01]25 Grammys

[47:02]In his lifetime

[47:03]For Intervisions

[47:04]And Fulfillment

[47:04]His first finale

[47:05]Both won back to back

[47:06]Best Album Grammys

[47:07]This album also ended up

[47:09]Winning Best Grammy

[47:10]For Best Album

[47:11]So that's three

[47:12]In a row

[47:13]Albums that

[47:14]He won

[47:14]He came out with

[47:15]That one best album

[47:16]Like it's

[47:17]It's crazy

[47:17]Because so many of these people

[47:18]We've talked about

[47:19]They've had one album

[47:20]That's good

[47:20]And then it kind of

[47:21]You know they have a couple

[47:22]Other good ones

[47:22]But he was just

[47:23]Crushing it

[47:25]Here in the mid 70s

[47:26]And he was

[47:26]That was his years

[47:27]Basically his ages

[47:29]20 to 25

[47:30]That was

[47:31]That's when he was

[47:32]Like really

[47:32]Dominating

[47:34]The music world

[47:35]Even though like

[47:35]People like

[47:36]Like I know him

[47:36]As like this old guy

[47:37]Who

[47:38]Yeah I don't

[47:39]I don't know him

[47:39]As the young guy

[47:40]Where he was

[47:41]Having all these hit records

[47:42]I know him as the old dude

[47:43]But that's pretty amazing

[47:44]To have three

[47:45]Back to back like that

[47:46]When he's in his

[47:46]Like early 20s

[47:47]And I think that's

[47:48]Part of the problem too

[47:49]With how old we are

[47:50]Is that we don't think

[47:51]Of Stevie Wonder

[47:52]As like this

[47:52]My hair just looks old

[47:53]I'm not old

[47:54]I'm young man

[47:55]I don't give a shit

[47:56]What people say about my hair

[47:57]I look fucking good

[47:58]We don't think about

[47:58]Stevie Wonder

[47:59]As this young

[47:59]Dynamic musician

[48:01]Who's coming out

[48:01]With these great songs

[48:02]And talking about

[48:03]You know just like

[48:04]Marvin Gaye

[48:04]Talking about the

[48:05]Social issues of his time

[48:06]And once again

[48:07]I think we have to

[48:08]Acknowledge that

[48:08]Before white guys

[48:09]Talking about Stevie Wonder

[48:09]There's going to be a lot

[48:10]Lost in translation for us

[48:12]Obviously

[48:12]Problematic

[48:13]But

[48:14]We think of Stevie Wonder

[48:17]As the old guy

[48:17]Who was doing duets

[48:18]Like in the 80s

[48:19]Right

[48:19]Like you'd always see him

[48:20]On these things

[48:21]And you're kind of like

[48:21]Oh this is like

[48:22]Music my grandma listens to

[48:24]And to be honest

[48:25]The first couple times

[48:25]I listened to the album

[48:26]That's the impression

[48:27]I got over and over

[48:28]And I still have that

[48:29]Impression with some

[48:30]Of these songs

[48:30]I can't lie

[48:31]But he was

[48:32]He was just on fire

[48:33]Back then

[48:34]In 1975

[48:35]After these albums

[48:36]He hated music

[48:37]He was going to move to Africa

[48:38]And help children

[48:38]With special needs

[48:39]And Motown came and said

[48:41]Okay we're going to

[48:41]Give you a contract

[48:42]Seven albums

[48:43]Seven years

[48:43]Thirty songs

[48:44]Thirty seven million dollars

[48:45]Which you can imagine

[48:46]In the 70s

[48:47]Was like

[48:48]The biggest contract

[48:49]Anyone's ever gotten

[48:50]With a 13 million dollar

[48:51]Advance right

[48:52]Think of how many

[48:54]Hot dog nights

[48:54]You could have

[48:54]With 37 million dollars

[48:56]Yeah right

[48:56]I mean

[48:57]Three

[48:57]You could hire people

[48:58]To make your own

[48:58]Homemade condiments

[48:59]With that money

[49:00]That's

[49:02]You could even go to a store

[49:03]And buy condiments

[49:04]That other people

[49:05]You could probably

[49:07]Afford to sit next

[49:08]To Matt on an airplane

[49:09]If you made

[49:09]37 million dollars

[49:11]In front of an airplane

[49:11]Well if you were a stewardess

[49:13]You could sit next to

[49:14]Matt in the

[49:14]Jump seat

[49:15]Yeah I'm going to

[49:15]I'm going to go use

[49:16]The coach bathroom quick

[49:17]And walk back up

[49:18]To the front wall

[49:19]You guys are loading up

[49:20]Because I make

[49:20]37 million dollars

[49:22]On my last deal

[49:23]I picture Matt

[49:24]Getting on a plane

[49:25]He's wearing like

[49:25]A tuxedo and a top hat

[49:27]Yeah I listened to

[49:29]An interview with

[49:30]Greg Fillinganes

[49:31]Who played Keys

[49:32]On a few tracks

[49:32]Isn't She Lovely

[49:34]And Contusion

[49:35]And two others

[49:36]And he played Keys

[49:38]On four tracks

[49:39]On this album

[49:39]And he talked about

[49:40]There was this giant

[49:41]Synthesizer called

[49:42]The Dream Machine

[49:43]There were four of them

[49:44]In the world

[49:45]And Stevie owned

[49:46]Two of them

[49:46]Which like

[49:47]That's what he did

[49:48]With his giant advance

[49:49]From Motown

[49:50]It's so great

[49:51]But he basically

[49:52]He came out

[49:53]He made this album

[49:54]The album debuted

[49:55]At number one

[49:55]Right

[49:56]When it came out

[49:58]It was the number one album

[49:59]Right when it came out

[50:00]That's the first time

[50:02]That that has happened

[50:04]By an American artist

[50:05]Right

[50:07]Because normally

[50:07]When the albums come out

[50:08]They climb the charts

[50:09]They don't debut

[50:10]As the best selling album

[50:11]At the time

[50:12]And so he had had

[50:13]A few albums before

[50:14]This had already hit

[50:15]Number one

[50:15]So he was already

[50:16]Very established

[50:17]But this is the first week

[50:18]And the world was waiting

[50:19]For this one

[50:19]The first week

[50:20]The album's out

[50:21]It's the best selling album

[50:22]In the country

[50:23]Like that's

[50:24]Like when I was

[50:24]Like when I was waiting

[50:25]For Chumbawamba years ago

[50:27]When that came out

[50:27]I needed Tum Thumping

[50:29]At the time

[50:30]Like when I was 17

[50:31]I needed Tum Thumping

[50:32]I hear ya

[50:33]That song spoke to me

[50:34]Because I definitely knew

[50:35]What a cider drink was

[50:35]Back then

[50:36]And in fact

[50:37]It's the third album ever

[50:38]To do that

[50:40]Okay

[50:40]The other two albums

[50:42]Were written by the same guy

[50:43]You want to guess who it was

[50:44]Elton John

[50:45]It was Elton John

[50:47]And his albums

[50:48]You would never guess this

[50:49]In a million years

[50:49]The albums that did that

[50:50]Were Captain Fantastic

[50:51]And the Brown Dirt Cowboy

[50:52]Whoa

[50:53]Never heard of that

[50:54]And Rock of the Westies

[50:56]Both of those albums

[50:57]Were in 75

[50:58]So this

[50:59]Was right before

[51:00]Yeah so this is right before

[51:01]I mean things are just

[51:02]Going nuts

[51:03]This album spent

[51:04]13 weeks at number one

[51:05]It finally fell

[51:06]To Hotel California

[51:07]130 people total

[51:09]Russ

[51:09]To your question

[51:10]Worked on this album

[51:11]But Stevie was

[51:12]Absolutely obsessive

[51:13]About the song

[51:14]Going back

[51:15]And reworking it

[51:15]Over and over

[51:16]To the point where

[51:16]Motown actually made shirts

[51:18]That said

[51:18]Coming

[51:19]You know

[51:19]The album's coming soon

[51:20]Like everybody wanted to know

[51:21]When this album was coming out

[51:22]And it ended up

[51:23]Getting him his third album

[51:24]Of the year Grammy

[51:25]And so let's get into it

[51:27]I think we

[51:28]It's time to start

[51:28]Talking about it

[51:29]Let's hear it

[51:30]This first song

[51:31]Totally sums up

[51:32]What I

[51:33]The issues I have

[51:35]With this album

[51:35]I'm just going to say that

[51:36]Before I start

[51:37]Wow really

[51:38]What's the song?

[51:39]Love's in need

[51:41]Of love today

[51:41]Love's in need

[51:44]This is a killer intro

[51:45]Though isn't it?

[51:46]We talked about

[51:47]Songs to play

[51:48]When you need to feel happy

[51:49]And like

[51:49]I literally will

[51:50]And I know we don't want to get

[51:51]Political on this podcast

[51:52]But I will say

[51:53]Since November of 2016

[51:54]This is the song

[51:55]That I play

[51:56]When I need to feel better

[51:58]About the world

[51:58]And also it's

[51:59]Track one side one

[52:00]So you drop that needle

[52:01]This is on his mixtape

[52:03]It's this and happy birthday

[52:04]Just repeat it over

[52:05]And over and over again

[52:06]Just these two man

[52:07]That's it

[52:07]I will say

[52:09]The song is

[52:09]Great

[52:10]The singing

[52:11]Unbelievable

[52:12]He is so talented

[52:13]I mean

[52:14]He's a

[52:14]He's a

[52:15]Genius right

[52:16]Like that's just something

[52:17]We can just accept

[52:17]We don't even have to

[52:18]Talk about it

[52:19]Why is this song

[52:22]Seven minutes long?

[52:23]Why?

[52:24]Why is it seven minutes long?

[52:25]It would be a wonderful

[52:27]A perfect four minute song

[52:27]You could say that

[52:28]About many of

[52:28]Because he could do what he wants

[52:29]Because it was like

[52:30]He could do what he wanted

[52:31]It's too long

[52:31]It's too long

[52:32]I'm going to disagree with you Rob

[52:33]If you go to 450 left

[52:35]In the song

[52:35]Go 450 in

[52:36]To me

[52:37]This is what really

[52:38]Jumped out to me is

[52:39]I heard

[52:40]The precursor to

[52:41]Michael Jackson

[52:42]In the song at 450

[52:43]So like

[52:44]When I hear Michael Jackson

[52:46]There's a part of this song

[52:47]Where he goes into

[52:48]This kind of riff

[52:49]And I was like

[52:50]Oh

[52:50]Michael Jackson

[52:51]Took this from Stevie Wonder

[52:52]But I never realized this

[52:54]Until right now

[52:55]Like I hear Michael Jackson

[53:04]Oh yeah

[53:05]Totally

[53:05]Good call

[53:06]That's what you get

[53:07]For listening to the vinyl

[53:08]Of this Russell

[53:09]You're really getting

[53:09]The

[53:10]You're getting it all man

[53:13]So like

[53:13]If I hear a Michael Jackson song

[53:15]And like Michael Jackson

[53:16]When we were kids

[53:17]Was

[53:17]He was the king right

[53:19]Yeah

[53:19]And Stevie Wonder's

[53:20]Just a little bit before us

[53:21]When I heard that

[53:22]Like I never realized

[53:24]Oh Michael Jackson's

[53:25]Lifting that from Stevie Wonder

[53:26]I didn't get that

[53:28]When I listened to the song

[53:28]I was like

[53:29]That is badass

[53:30]Because they were on

[53:31]The same label right

[53:32]I'm not going to

[53:34]I'm not going to

[53:35]Not say what I said earlier

[53:36]I will say

[53:37]It is a seven minute jam

[53:38]Of a song

[53:39]I just think it would be

[53:40]A great four minute song

[53:42]It would be a fantastic

[53:43]Four and a half minutes song

[53:44]Where do you guys think

[53:45]It ranks on the all time

[53:46]Opening track

[53:47]So our kind of consensus

[53:48]Is and I know

[53:49]We've had people

[53:50]We've kind of disagreed

[53:51]On certain albums

[53:52]But I would

[53:53]The consensus

[53:54]From what I've gathered

[53:55]From all you guys is

[53:56]Our ranking right now

[53:57]Is what's going on

[53:58]Like a Rolling Stone

[54:00]London Calling

[54:02]Pet Sounds

[54:02]Sergeant Peppers

[54:04]Blue We Were Divided

[54:06]Are you going to

[54:06]Reverse order

[54:07]Because I haven't heard

[54:07]Taxman yet

[54:08]And Taxman was dead last

[54:10]But where would you put this

[54:11]Matt or Aaron

[54:12]Aaron

[54:13]I know Aaron loves this album

[54:14]But where

[54:14]Matt now

[54:15]Aaron where would you guys

[54:16]Put this one

[54:16]This is right behind

[54:17]Taxman for me

[54:18]Oh behind Taxman

[54:20]Dude

[54:21]This is a boring ass song

[54:23]I get it

[54:23]Great singers

[54:24]All that stuff

[54:24]This is a boring ass song

[54:26]To start out an album

[54:27]Particularly

[54:28]With the other songs

[54:29]That are on here

[54:30]I don't

[54:31]It's just boring

[54:32]Wind him up

[54:33]Watch him go baby

[54:34]I love it

[54:35]I think it's great

[54:35]Aaron where would you put it

[54:37]I can't

[54:38]I can't

[54:39]I mean for me

[54:40]It's number one

[54:40]Because it's the one

[54:41]That I listen to the most

[54:42]So it's the one

[54:42]That I personally love

[54:45]And would put on

[54:46]Over what's going on

[54:47]Yeah

[54:49]Yeah I think I would

[54:50]I mean for me

[54:50]It would be my choice

[54:52]And like I love

[54:53]I love what's going on

[54:54]You guys heard what I had to say

[54:55]About that album

[54:55]But in terms of tracks

[54:57]This is the one

[54:58]I would play the most

[54:59]That doesn't make it the best

[55:00]That's just the one

[55:01]I know I would go to

[55:02]One thing I was going to say

[55:04]Is when I was kind of

[55:05]Referencing the

[55:06]Where I heard Michael Jackson

[55:07]I also read that

[55:08]Michael Jackson

[55:09]Called Songs in the Key of Life

[55:11]His favorite

[55:11]Stevie Wonder album ever

[55:12]So I think

[55:13]You can definitely see

[55:14]Where he took

[55:15]Inspiration from this

[55:16]I think this album

[55:17]Was absolutely

[55:18]I think it's highly

[55:19]Deserving of the spot

[55:20]If it shouldn't be higher

[55:21]Because you can tell

[55:22]How many people

[55:23]This album influenced

[55:24]Over and over and over

[55:25]I mean

[55:25]I think you're right

[55:26]I think if you really

[55:27]Listen to this

[55:27]And of course

[55:28]I'm listening to this

[55:29]On my iPhone speaker

[55:30]Riding my bike

[55:31]Through the city

[55:31]So I'm barely hearing it

[55:32]But I think you would

[55:33]Pick up a lot of things

[55:34]Like what Russell did

[55:35]Listening to

[55:36]And hearing Michael Jackson

[55:37]Like it's brilliant

[55:38]Everything that came

[55:40]After this reference

[55:40]Is this

[55:41]And I don't

[55:41]You know

[55:42]We're going to

[55:42]We're going to have

[55:42]A back and forth

[55:43]Obviously for this

[55:44]Entire episode

[55:45]I don't

[55:46]Disagree with anyone

[55:47]Who doesn't feel

[55:48]These songs

[55:49]Or you know

[55:50]They don't speak to them

[55:51]Like that

[55:51]I mean for me

[55:52]I have an emotional

[55:54]Connection with many of them

[55:55]I think some of the

[55:56]Sounds on here

[55:57]Do sound

[55:57]Dated

[55:59]But

[56:00]We'll get into that

[56:01]But

[56:02]Yeah

[56:03]Yeah I can see how

[56:04]It wouldn't be the right

[56:06]Thing for some people

[56:06]So like in terms of ranking

[56:07]It's going to

[56:08]Again I'm just going to be like

[56:09]I can't rank this

[56:10]It's art

[56:12]Have a talk with God

[56:15]Yeah so first of all

[56:17]This is where

[56:18]You start hearing sounds

[56:20]That you've never heard

[56:21]Anywhere else before this

[56:22]Is it like a xylophone

[56:23]Or a triangle

[56:24]Or what's going on here

[56:25]I think they're all

[56:26]Synthesizers

[56:27]I think they're all

[56:28]Electronic sounds

[56:28]I love this chorus

[56:29]And like if you imagine

[56:30]At the time

[56:30]A synthesizer took up

[56:31]Almost an entire room

[56:33]Right?

[56:33]So like

[56:33]This was 1975-76

[56:36]I love that chorus

[56:38]Where he's like

[56:39]Have a talk with God

[56:41]I do too

[56:41]It's so good

[56:42]It's so good

[56:42]I love it

[56:43]I love that song

[56:44]And guess what

[56:44]Two minutes and 42 seconds

[56:46]I put in the time

[56:47]I put in the song times

[56:47]For all of these

[56:48]Because I'm going to

[56:49]Bring it up over and over

[56:50]And over

[56:50]Hey

[56:50]What's the pot

[56:52]Calling the kettle black?

[56:53]Rob

[56:53]Rob advocating

[56:54]That we have like

[56:55]Four hour podcasts

[56:56]When I tell Rob

[56:57]Like hey

[56:58]When I'm like Rob

[56:59]Two and a half hours

[57:00]Is a little bit long

[57:02]For the last podcast

[57:02]And he's like

[57:03]No I think everything

[57:04]Was really good

[57:05]And now he's criticizing

[57:06]Stevie Wonder

[57:07]One of the geniuses

[57:08]Of our time

[57:08]For going over

[57:09]Three minutes

[57:10]I mean

[57:11]Let's get our shit

[57:12]Straight here Rob

[57:13]I don't see the connection

[57:14]All right

[57:15]Song number three

[57:16]Village

[57:17]Ghetto land

[57:18]I like having Aaron

[57:19]On my side

[57:20]I like having Matt

[57:23]On my side

[57:23]He's my silent partner

[57:24]This

[57:26]It's too synthy

[57:30]It's a lot of synths

[57:32]This would be a great

[57:33]Out song

[57:34]If it was real instruments

[57:35]In the background

[57:35]And I'm going to say that

[57:37]Over and over

[57:37]He was going for the

[57:38]String sound on the synths

[57:40]I chose

[57:41]I put in strings

[57:41]Without strings

[57:43]So

[57:44]Background in the podcast

[57:46]I requested a particular

[57:49]Spot on this

[57:49]Song to Rob

[57:51]I like the

[57:53]This part where he says

[57:54]Glad for what

[57:55]We have

[57:56]Because

[57:57]One of the

[57:59]Colors

[58:01]On this album

[58:02]That changes so frequently

[58:03]Is Stevie's voice

[58:04]And I'm

[58:05]I really love

[58:06]That he will go

[58:07]To the absolute bottom

[58:08]Of his register

[58:08]Where he can barely phonate

[58:10]And then we'll get into

[58:11]I think on

[58:11]As or another one

[58:12]Where we get into

[58:13]This part where he does

[58:14]The throaty kind of thing

[58:15]And I just love

[58:17]All of the

[58:18]Different colors

[58:19]In his voice

[58:19]And I like that he'll go

[58:20]To the very edge

[58:21]Of what he's capable

[58:22]Of doing

[58:22]Who's Nate?

[58:24]Well if he's got

[58:27]A phone Nate

[58:27]I want to know

[58:28]Who Nate is

[58:28]I don't know

[58:29]It must link

[58:31]Somewhere in between

[58:32]The elite

[58:34]Perfect sound

[58:35]And Ubu

[58:35]The unique

[58:37]But ununique

[58:38]Sound

[58:38]Or what's the

[58:40]Wrestling skill again?

[58:40]Yeah it's

[58:41]Oops

[58:41]It's oops and Ubu

[58:43]Oops only one perfect sound

[58:44]And Ubu ugly but useful

[58:46]Yeah

[58:46]Guys we should be paying

[58:47]We should be making people

[58:48]Pay for this master class

[58:49]On music that we're putting down

[58:50]But I agree Rob

[58:52]I don't

[58:52]I don't love the

[58:53]Synth sound on that one either

[58:55]That one's a little bit dated

[58:56]And there's so many of those

[58:57]Where I think if it was

[58:57]Real instruments

[58:58]That it would sound

[58:59]So so so much better

[59:01]Okay

[59:02]So Stevie Wonder

[59:02]If you're listening

[59:03]Take some notes

[59:04]Maybe rework it a little bit

[59:05]I don't know

[59:05]Maybe play this

[59:06]With a live orchestra

[59:08]If you love Stevie's voice

[59:10]You are not going to love this

[59:11]This song

[59:12]It's Contusion

[59:12]Now I do have to say

[59:21]When I was sitting at my desk

[59:22]Correcting papers or whatever

[59:23]There were a couple moments

[59:25]In this album

[59:25]Where I would look up

[59:26]And be like

[59:26]Wait what song is this?

[59:27]And this was one of them

[59:28]Where I was just like

[59:29]Oh give it to me

[59:30]Rock my face on

[59:31]Right?

[59:32]This one just rips

[59:33]I will say this is the one

[59:35]That playing around the house

[59:36]My wife was like

[59:36]Could we skip this one please?

[59:38]Could I not hear

[59:38]Contusion one more time?

[59:40]Jesus

[59:41]She's holding like six hot dogs

[59:43]She's like please

[59:44]How can I eat all these hot dogs

[59:46]With all this funky music playing?

[59:47]The first time I listened to this album

[59:49]I wasn't really into it

[59:50]But then when I listened to like this song

[59:52]When we talk about like

[59:53]You guys understand music

[59:55]And musicality or instruments

[59:56]Way more than I do

[59:57]So maybe I'm just talking out

[59:58]The side of my ass here

[59:59]But like

[60:00]If you listen to

[60:01]A Bob Dylan album

[60:02]Or a Beatles album

[60:03]The music's kind of straightforward

[60:06]You listen to that

[60:06]And there's a lot of shit

[60:08]Going on in that song

[60:09]From a music perspective

[60:10]Like instruments

[60:11]Or I don't know what

[60:11]What's all into it

[60:12]But like

[60:12]I went back and listened to

[60:14]Revolver by the Beatles

[60:15]Today

[60:16]And it sounds

[60:17]Extremely basic

[60:19]From a music perspective

[60:20]Compared to this song

[60:21]Like do you guys get that

[60:22]Or am I off on that?

[60:23]But part of that Russell

[60:24]Right is that

[60:24]We talked about that

[60:25]With Sgt. Pepper

[60:25]I mean they were recording

[60:27]On like four tracks

[60:28]So they could do

[60:28]Four tracks at a time

[60:29]And then they'd have to

[60:30]Crunch it down to one track

[60:31]Stevie's getting to the point now

[60:33]Where I don't know

[60:34]How many tracks

[60:34]He was working with

[60:35]At a time

[60:35]But he could

[60:36]He could go back

[60:37]And just do

[60:37]One instrument

[60:38]Like over and over

[60:39]Until he got what he wanted

[60:40]Got it

[60:41]And I think

[60:41]That's why it took him

[60:42]So long

[60:42]To make this album

[60:43]Because there's parts

[60:45]Where you can tell

[60:45]He was like

[60:46]I should do this

[60:47]I should do this

[60:47]It's like me

[60:48]Making all

[60:48]Do you want to know

[60:49]How many fart sounds

[60:50]I downloaded

[60:50]For the opening of this?

[60:51]It'll add another fart sound

[60:52]It'll add another fart sound

[60:54]I downloaded 20

[60:55]I downloaded too many

[60:56]I'm like the Stevie Wonder

[60:57]Of fart sounds

[60:58]I had too many fart sounds

[60:59]Because I had so much time

[61:00]On my hands

[61:01]I was like

[61:01]I'm just going to download

[61:02]Enough fart sounds

[61:02]I needed like three

[61:03]But I got 20

[61:04]Just in case

[61:05]I think that Stevie Wonder

[61:06]Is doing the same thing

[61:07]Right?

[61:07]And I think we both

[61:09]Had equal results

[61:10]I think that that opening

[61:11]Is probably

[61:11]My songs in the key of life

[61:13]Your contusion

[61:13]Contusion is the one

[61:15]That you read

[61:15]That like he would

[61:16]Wake people up

[61:17]At three in the morning

[61:17]And be like

[61:18]We got to remix

[61:19]Contusion again

[61:19]And I think the big thing

[61:21]That we're not mentioning here

[61:23]The word we're not saying

[61:23]Is jazz

[61:24]This is I think

[61:25]And we're going to hear it

[61:26]I mean it's very cool to me

[61:28]That he does contusion

[61:29]Straight into Sir Duke

[61:30]Because contusion is

[61:31]As far out as jazz

[61:33]Had gone

[61:34]Or I mean

[61:35]Maybe not

[61:35]Because it's still

[61:36]Melodic and rhythmic

[61:36]But he's definitely

[61:37]Barring from jazz

[61:38]And then he goes

[61:39]To Sir Duke next

[61:40]Which I

[61:40]The transition

[61:41]This song is like

[61:42]Sir Duke is just

[61:43]Fantastic

[61:43]This song is just

[61:44]An absolute jam

[61:45]Maybe again

[61:46]This is me

[61:46]Coming from the guy

[61:47]Who is looking

[61:48]For commercial hits

[61:49]And I know Aaron

[61:49]You have maybe said

[61:50]Once before

[61:50]Like this isn't

[61:51]One of your

[61:52]It wasn't one of my

[61:54]But now it is

[61:55]Now the more I listen to it

[61:56]I love it so much

[61:57]You I mean

[62:02]You absolutely

[62:02]Have to have this song

[62:04]On one of your playlists

[62:05]Right like Matt

[62:06]I don't know if this

[62:06]Is on your top hundred

[62:07]But this has got to be

[62:08]Close to it right

[62:09]Matt has left

[62:11]I don't see Matt

[62:12]Hey this is a great song

[62:13]This is a great song

[62:15]Matt left the podcast

[62:16]I don't know

[62:17]To me it's

[62:18]It's an absolute crusher

[62:19]And to celebrate that

[62:20]Tonight I'm drinking

[62:21]Crusher Cabernet

[62:23]And let me tell you

[62:24]If you try this Cabernet

[62:27]You can feel it all over

[62:28]You can feel it all over

[62:30]People

[62:30]And I gotta say

[62:33]Again I was talking

[62:34]About my record player

[62:35]Earlier because you know

[62:36]Guys I'm very advanced

[62:37]In my music tastes

[62:38]But I listened to

[62:40]The first five songs

[62:41]And they're all on the

[62:42]First side of the one record

[62:43]I don't know what that's called

[62:44]Side A whatever it's called

[62:46]Those five songs

[62:47]And that one side of the record

[62:49]Is pretty badass

[62:49]It was pretty awesome

[62:51]Side one yeah

[62:51]It rips

[62:53]Alright thanks for informing me

[62:56]I also have to say

[62:56]This is our first

[62:58]I'm sorry I don't want to

[62:59]Step on Russell's bit

[63:00]Or make this go any longer

[63:01]But Sir Duke is our first

[63:02]As far as I'm aware

[63:03]Iowa reference on this podcast

[63:05]Shout out Glenn Miller

[63:06]Of Clearing into Iowa

[63:07]So

[63:07]How are you stepping on me

[63:10]Like I've never had

[63:11]No Iowa references

[63:12]On this podcast

[63:12]Not just Iowa

[63:14]But you just

[63:14]You had a really nice

[63:15]Talk about Crusher Cabernet

[63:17]And I don't want to

[63:18]Oh I don't give a shit

[63:19]Aaron let me play a sting for

[63:20]Let me play a sting for

[63:21]Every time we have

[63:22]An Iowa reference

[63:22]Yeah I don't have one

[63:24]Alright

[63:25]Alright

[63:27]This thing that way

[63:28]I would never use

[63:29]I'd use that less than

[63:29]Matt's parenting sting

[63:30]That I made

[63:31]And I've never had

[63:31]A chance to use

[63:32]Because now I get angry

[63:33]He's not talking about

[63:34]Parenting anymore

[63:35]Bums me out

[63:36]He's a mean old podcast

[63:36]Old daddy

[63:38]So now

[63:39]You're Russell

[63:39]Okay

[63:40]You're surrounded

[63:41]By microwaves

[63:41]You go to your record player

[63:43]You flip the record over

[63:44]We are now on

[63:45]Side album

[63:47]One side B

[63:48]I don't

[63:48]Well no

[63:49]We gotta skip

[63:49]We gotta skip forward

[63:50]Like six songs

[63:51]Because I didn't understand

[63:52]How that works either

[63:53]So are we

[63:54]Are we going way out of order

[63:55]Like I did today or not

[63:56]The record player

[63:57]The record is in the microwave

[63:58]He's like wait a minute

[63:59]This doesn't seem right

[63:59]You would think that

[64:01]The first

[64:01]The first big record

[64:02]Or whatever it's called

[64:03]You can just flip it over

[64:04]In the next song

[64:05]You wouldn't think

[64:06]You gotta take

[64:06]The other record out

[64:07]I don't know what

[64:08]And some

[64:09]Some caller is gonna

[64:10]Call us out for this

[64:11]I don't know why

[64:12]Old school

[64:12]No one's gonna call us

[64:13]For anything

[64:14]I trust me

[64:15]They love the

[64:15]They love the

[64:16]Making fun of Aaron section

[64:17]No calls

[64:17]Two and three

[64:18]And I don't know why that is

[64:19]And I should know

[64:20]But I don't

[64:21]You idiot

[64:22]Get your wife on the podcast

[64:23]God dang

[64:24]Right

[64:25]If only we had like this

[64:26]Machine

[64:27]We could type in

[64:28]These questions

[64:28]No

[64:29]Russ check those liner notes

[64:31]See if the answer's

[64:31]In those liner notes

[64:32]Alright

[64:32]This next song is

[64:34]Rob's

[64:35]Mixtape

[64:36]Pick of the week

[64:37]I would say

[64:38]This

[64:39]You could say that

[64:40]This is the best

[64:41]Song we've listened to

[64:42]Yet

[64:42]On this podcast

[64:43]And I would not

[64:45]Argue with you

[64:45]No

[64:46]We just listened to Sir Duke

[64:47]Are you in a time machine

[64:48]Sir Duke

[64:49]This is

[64:49]I wish

[64:50]You tell me what song

[64:53]Is better than this

[64:54]That we've listened to

[64:55]God this is good

[64:57]This sounds like

[64:58]The closing credits

[65:00]Of every movie

[65:01]From the 80s

[65:01]Yeah

[65:03]I just love the really

[65:06]Churning bass

[65:07]And synth going on here

[65:08]When the horns get in

[65:10]So I'm teaching

[65:12]Remote right now

[65:13]So the kids log in

[65:14]You know

[65:14]And I'd always play music

[65:15]When they come in

[65:16]This song was a whole day

[65:18]I just blast them

[65:19]With this song

[65:19]I was like

[65:19]You guys gotta get

[65:20]Some Stevie in your life

[65:21]Yeah

[65:22]So good

[65:23]And I will say

[65:24]I think we texted about this

[65:25]I did not understand

[65:26]As a kid

[65:27]What a

[65:28]Like I think people

[65:30]Were really upset

[65:31]When Will Smith

[65:32]Used that on the

[65:33]Wild Wild West

[65:34]Soundtrack

[65:36]And Stevie was on it

[65:37]I think that really

[65:38]Messed up a lot of

[65:39]People's minds

[65:40]That Stevie was on it

[65:40]He was willing to

[65:41]You know

[65:41]Go on that

[65:42]When I'm rolling

[65:43]To the Wild Wild West

[65:44]When I'm strolling

[65:45]To the Wild Wild West

[65:46]When I'm bouncing

[65:47]To the Wild Wild West

[65:47]I hate to remind you

[65:48]But you know who also

[65:49]Performed in that song

[65:50]It's a callback

[65:51]To an old episode

[65:52]Ooh I don't know

[65:54]Cisco

[65:55]Was also

[65:56]On that song

[65:57]He was also on that song

[65:58]I don't know if he had

[65:59]The gray hair

[66:00]Because I don't know

[66:01]If he counted that

[66:01]As the tablets from God

[66:02]But Cisco was also there

[66:03]I think Stevie was actually

[66:04]On the song right

[66:05]Or maybe I'm

[66:05]Yeah no no

[66:07]He

[66:07]Yeah no he totally did it

[66:08]Because I remember

[66:09]When they did the MTV Music Awards

[66:10]It was

[66:10]Will Smith

[66:11]He was on there right

[66:11]Cisco and Stevie Wonder

[66:12]And I was like

[66:13]Is this heaven

[66:14]Wild Wild West

[66:15]And then

[66:17]You're like

[66:17]This song rocks

[66:18]And you go see the movie

[66:19]You're like

[66:19]This movie sucks

[66:20]Every time you guys

[66:22]Bring up gray hair

[66:23]I have to look in the mirror

[66:25]The next day

[66:25]And it just knocks me

[66:26]Off my feet

[66:27]Russ you're the Cisco

[66:27]Oh

[66:28]Russell

[66:30]You're the Cisco

[66:31]Of this podcast

[66:31]Russ no doubt

[66:32]Alright so that is

[66:34]My mixtape of the week

[66:35]It seems like you guys

[66:36]Aren't making a big deal

[66:37]About my mixtape of the week

[66:38]But that is going to be

[66:39]For sale after a while

[66:40]My mixtape of the week

[66:41]Oh yeah

[66:42]Did you say mixtape

[66:43]I did

[66:44]This is also the first single

[66:45]To come off the album

[66:45]So I'm right

[66:46]I think it's actually

[66:47]Rob's mixtape

[66:49]Mixtape of the week

[66:51]Rob's mixtape of the week

[66:53]Oh I'd love to date

[66:54]Somebody named Mixtape

[66:55]Yum yum yum

[66:56]Alright so

[66:58]And that's a good joke

[66:59]Write that out

[66:59]It's very funny

[67:00]Next one

[67:00]Knocks me off my feet

[67:02]To be right after I wish

[67:06]This is such a bummer

[67:10]I love the double bass

[67:13]There though

[67:14]The keyboard's doubling

[67:15]The bass

[67:15]And I think this is

[67:20]Such a clever line

[67:21]Coming up here

[67:22]There's so much

[67:30]Cleverness in this

[67:32]I don't want to go

[67:32]To hot dog night

[67:35]At Aaron's

[67:37]Aaron's looking at

[67:38]Those hot dogs

[67:38]I love you

[67:39]I love you

[67:40]Yeah he's like

[67:41]I don't want to

[67:41]Bore you with it

[67:42]But this is all

[67:43]I got to say

[67:43]I think it's such

[67:44]A clever line

[67:44]God I do want

[67:46]You know I once

[67:47]Had a hot dog party

[67:48]Where I grilled

[67:49]Like a hundred hot dogs

[67:50]And then we had

[67:51]Different recipes out

[67:52]With different ingredients

[67:53]Like guacamole

[67:54]And pico de gallo

[67:55]And then like

[67:56]I think there was

[67:57]Just one where it was

[67:57]Just mustard

[67:58]I don't know

[67:58]Yeah no it's great man

[68:00]Hot dogs are a pilot man

[68:02]They're a bling sweet

[68:03]Aaron we don't want

[68:04]To talk about hot dogs

[68:04]All night okay

[68:05]Yeah I agree

[68:06]Shut the fuck up

[68:06]About hot dogs already

[68:07]Jesus Christ

[68:07]I mean I kind of do

[68:09]Yeah what's up

[68:10]How else am I

[68:11]How else am I

[68:12]Going to prepare

[68:12]These romantic dinners

[68:13]If you guys don't tell me

[68:14]How to prepare

[68:15]Hot dogs correctly

[68:16]Is Matt working

[68:17]While we're on this podcast

[68:18]Yeah Matt

[68:19]I think so

[68:19]He's sending out

[68:20]Some spreadsheets

[68:21]TPS report

[68:23]I'm reading a spreadsheet

[68:24]It says this podcast

[68:25]Well I don't know

[68:26]What that means

[68:26]He's leaving a note

[68:27]For Del to do not

[68:28]Put me by that dog

[68:29]Without the diaper

[68:30]Dog shit on a plane

[68:34]Is on the spreadsheet

[68:36]Apparently albums

[68:37]The double albums

[68:38]Are going back to this

[68:39]And you know

[68:40]It's right on

[68:40]This little thing

[68:41]Called Wikipedia

[68:42]Like kind of right

[68:43]At the top of it

[68:44]You know when you just

[68:45]Type in the question

[68:46]If it was on the radio

[68:47]Aaron would have heard it

[68:48]There's a lot of times

[68:50]In the late 60s

[68:52]Early 70s

[68:53]There was automatic

[68:53]Changers

[68:54]And so you do

[68:55]One and four

[68:55]And two and three

[68:56]So that you'd only

[68:57]Have to flip

[68:58]An album once

[68:59]So they could have

[69:00]Automatic changers

[69:01]Come in

[69:01]Drop it in

[69:02]And go in

[69:03]And so you only

[69:04]Had to flip

[69:04]One you know

[69:05]You only had to flip

[69:06]From two to three

[69:06]Oh yes

[69:07]One would come in

[69:08]And then it would go

[69:09]Out and then

[69:09]I know what you're

[69:10]Talking about

[69:10]Because my grandmother's

[69:12]Record player

[69:12]Had one of those

[69:13]Where it would just

[69:14]Like drop another

[69:14]Album on top

[69:15]So I didn't get

[69:17]The right record player

[69:17]No you need to go

[69:19]Get the $600 version

[69:20]That Aaron got

[69:21]No I think modern

[69:21]Double albums

[69:22]Just do one two three four

[69:23]I mean like

[69:24]UGK Super Tight

[69:27]Is a double album

[69:28]That's one two three four

[69:29]I'm trying to think

[69:31]Of my other double albums

[69:32]Are you sure

[69:32]That's not a

[69:33]Pornographic movie

[69:34]That you've purchased

[69:35]That you think

[69:35]Is a double album

[69:36]I mean it might have been

[69:39]Russ don't give me

[69:39]That look come on

[69:40]All right

[69:41]Next one

[69:44]I had too many

[69:46]Hot dog night jokes

[69:47]That I just had

[69:48]To keep to myself

[69:48]I would love to see

[69:51]Russ on a date

[69:52]And he just brings

[69:52]A date home

[69:53]And there's just like

[69:54]50 hot dogs

[69:55]On the table

[69:55]And he's like

[69:56]Eat one of those

[69:57]She's like

[69:57]Don't you have any buns

[69:58]He's like

[69:58]No it's hot dog night

[69:59]It's not bun night

[70:00]It's hot dog night

[70:01]It also just happens

[70:02]To be Herbie Man night

[70:03]And all those albums

[70:04]Are over there too

[70:05]Pastime Paradise

[70:09]Now this

[70:16]I did not realize

[70:17]This Julio was a cover

[70:18]Of this song

[70:19]I'm still dumb

[70:20]Saying that

[70:21]Do we get to hear

[70:26]The Julio song or not

[70:27]No

[70:28]Why not

[70:29]When I first

[70:29]Don't have it

[70:30]When I first heard

[70:32]The Julio song

[70:32]You know

[70:33]At age 11 or 12

[70:34]I did not know

[70:35]That this was

[70:36]A Stevie Wonder sample

[70:37]As I walk

[70:39]Through the valley

[70:40]Of the shadow of death

[70:41]I take a look

[70:42]At my life

[70:43]And realize

[70:44]There's nothing left

[70:45]Cause I've been

[70:45]I did not know

[70:46]This was a Stevie Wonder sample

[70:47]Until we listened

[70:48]To this album this week

[70:49]Who do you think

[70:50]Had a better career

[70:50]Stevie Wonder or Julio

[70:51]Alright

[70:53]Call into the back line

[70:57]Yeah let us know

[70:58]What do you like more

[70:58]I will say though

[71:00]That Pastime Paradise

[71:00]It's a gorgeous song

[71:02]Isn't it

[71:02]I mean

[71:02]To have a song

[71:03]That you just

[71:04]The whole time

[71:04]You know

[71:05]And obviously

[71:05]He's singing about

[71:06]The situation

[71:07]That's around him

[71:09]That's what it's like

[71:10]For young people of color

[71:11]And the whole time

[71:13]It's just building

[71:13]You get this sense of doom

[71:15]And this minor key

[71:17]That just is

[71:18]Layers upon layers

[71:19]Over and over and over

[71:20]And by the end

[71:20]You're like legitimately

[71:21]Stressed out in that song

[71:23]I just think

[71:23]It's absolutely brilliant

[71:25]And then the choir

[71:26]Comes in to sing

[71:26]We Shall Overcome

[71:27]Which I didn't

[71:28]Honestly I didn't

[71:29]I've listened to this album

[71:30]Like I said

[71:30]I thought I knew this album

[71:32]I never caught that before

[71:33]Until we were really

[71:34]Studying it this week

[71:35]Ugh

[71:36]I got a kick out of that song

[71:38]I loved it

[71:39]Chill

[71:39]Alright this song

[71:40]Summer Soft

[71:42]Does it have to be

[71:42]Four minutes long

[71:43]This might to me

[71:46]Be the

[71:47]Maybe my least favorite

[71:51]Of the tracks on the album

[71:52]I like the percussion in it

[71:54]Oh totally

[71:55]Is it better

[71:56]Than the love boat

[71:57]Better than the love boat

[71:58]Theme song

[71:59]Or not better

[71:59]I would say better

[72:01]It's still a groove

[72:02]To me

[72:06]Nice drumming too

[72:07]Let's see right there

[72:09]I think the song

[72:10]Could end

[72:11]Right

[72:11]I mean we're like

[72:12]Two minutes in

[72:13]Alright moving on

[72:14]Double album

[72:14]Moving on

[72:15]Numbers

[72:16]Basically two songs

[72:17]In one right

[72:17]Ordinary pain

[72:20]That little spot there

[72:26]With the glockenspiel

[72:27]That

[72:27]This to me was the

[72:30]The what

[72:30]The what

[72:30]Maybe it's not a glockenspiel

[72:32]I don't know

[72:33]But it was some kind of

[72:34]I might have to bleep that out

[72:35]This to me

[72:36]Is the most

[72:36]Motown track

[72:38]On the album

[72:38]This is like

[72:39]Yeah

[72:39]Some of the instrumentation

[72:41]Here harkens back

[72:41]To his days of Motown

[72:42]That's what I've written

[72:43]Down here too

[72:44]Is this driving drums

[72:45]And bass working together

[72:46]I think it's really cool

[72:47]Yeah

[72:47]It seems like a throwback

[72:48]In a way

[72:49]And then I also have

[72:50]This clip from ordinary pain

[72:52]But it's basically

[72:52]Two songs in one

[72:53]Yes

[72:56]Because where this

[72:57]Female singer comes in

[72:58]Yeah all of a sudden

[72:59]This might be my favorite

[73:00]Song on the album

[73:01]Beside I wish

[73:02]Is this second part

[73:03]Of ordinary pain

[73:03]So good

[73:04]She's just killing it

[73:06]This is where

[73:07]Yeah

[73:08]This is where it

[73:08]Kicked up for me

[73:09]Yeah

[73:10]Yeah

[73:10]And it's

[73:11]She came

[73:12]I do wish

[73:14]He would have just had

[73:15]A normal bass

[73:16]And not a keyboard bass

[73:17]But you know

[73:18]When I wrote that

[73:19]In my notes

[73:20]It sounded really good

[73:20]And now that I'm actually

[73:21]Talking about Stevie Wonder

[73:22]And I'm like

[73:22]You should have

[73:23]Not a keyboard bass

[73:24]Like it sounds really stupid now

[73:25]I gotta admit

[73:26]Well it's interesting

[73:27]A lot of his music

[73:28]I think is bass driven

[73:29]And then he seemed to

[73:31]And I don't know enough

[73:32]We're gonna talk about Stevie

[73:33]A few other times

[73:34]He seemed to take that on

[73:35]Himself

[73:36]On a few of these

[73:36]A few of these songs

[73:37]Isn't

[73:38]Isn't Rob not a

[73:39]Lovely podcast host

[73:41]Isn't she lovely

[73:42]And I will say

[73:42]The people at Motown

[73:43]Had the same thought I did

[73:44]They said Stevie

[73:45]We cannot release

[73:47]A six minute single

[73:48]Because literally

[73:49]They could not put

[73:50]A six minute song

[73:50]On a single album

[73:51]Like it was too long

[73:52]And Stevie said

[73:54]I refuse to cut it down

[73:55]I'm not gonna

[73:56]They're like Stevie

[73:56]You have

[73:57]The song

[73:58]You have the sound

[74:00]Of a baby crying

[74:01]And a baby taking

[74:02]A bath at the end

[74:03]No one

[74:04]Every time this song

[74:05]Played in the

[74:06]Baby cried

[74:06]I like flinched

[74:07]They're like

[74:07]No way

[74:08]And finally

[74:09]He eventually

[74:09]Agreed to cut it down

[74:10]And it became

[74:11]The second

[74:11]Single on the album

[74:13]One of the most

[74:14]Popular ones

[74:14]Isn't she lovely

[74:15]This is a great

[74:21]This is just

[74:22]Three minute song

[74:23]Classic

[74:23]Yacht rock

[74:25]Yacht rock

[74:26]What is yacht rock

[74:27]What is yacht rock

[74:29]Yeah what is yacht rock

[74:30]Are you talking about

[74:31]Little yachty

[74:32]Little yachty

[74:33]I don't know

[74:34]Who that is by the way

[74:35]That's just

[74:35]Yacht rock

[74:36]You know

[74:37]You're just sitting back

[74:37]You got your white shoes on

[74:39]And you're

[74:39]Sitting on your yacht

[74:41]Just listening to some tunes

[74:42]While you're coasting down the

[74:43]I mean

[74:44]I've spent a lot of time

[74:45]On my yacht

[74:45]In the last few weeks

[74:46]That is true

[74:47]So you guys

[74:48]You guys don't know yacht rock

[74:50]So Matt

[74:50]Is this like a

[74:51]Top five rock

[74:52]Yacht songs

[74:53]Or what is it

[74:54]I mean

[74:55]Yacht

[74:56]It's not really

[74:57]A definable

[74:58]It's not that definable

[74:59]So I mean

[75:00]You know

[75:00]To put like a list

[75:01]Of a top five together

[75:02]I just

[75:03]I don't know

[75:04]If we can do that

[75:04]To yacht rock

[75:05]So here's just some

[75:06]Some good examples

[75:07]Of what yacht rock is

[75:09]Alright

[75:09]So first one

[75:11]This is

[75:11]Classic

[75:13]Classic yacht rock

[75:14]Right here

[75:14]Christopher Cross

[75:15]Sailing

[75:16]Rob took me sailing once

[75:22]Did he

[75:23]And it was way too windy

[75:24]And I lost my water sock

[75:25]Or whatever it was called

[75:26]That was not a yacht rock

[75:28]Type of sailing

[75:28]That was more

[75:29]Hot for teachers

[75:30]I also went sailing

[75:31]With Rob

[75:31]This song was definitely

[75:33]Not playing

[75:34]When we got back

[75:34]And Rob looked at me

[75:35]And he said

[75:35]Yeah

[75:36]We should have definitely

[75:36]Not been out there

[75:37]That was way too dangerous

[75:38]I like the song

[75:39]Why would you think

[75:40]I'm a competent captain

[75:41]We're gonna have to go back

[75:42]To Isn't She Lovely

[75:43]After this

[75:43]Like when you hear

[75:44]The bass knock on

[75:45]Isn't She Lovely

[75:46]And then you hear this

[75:47]They're not

[75:47]They're not the same

[75:48]I can see that

[75:49]Playing on a yacht though

[75:50]But I still

[75:51]Man I'm still unclear

[75:52]Exactly what yacht rock is

[75:53]So it's kind of like

[75:54]A softer rock

[75:55]Softer rock

[75:57]She's just putting

[75:58]On the background

[75:59]Feeling good about life

[76:01]Letting the day go by

[76:03]You know

[76:04]You're just hanging out

[76:05]Probably got to go

[76:05]You got a little

[76:05]Martini or something

[76:07]You know

[76:08]You're just

[76:08]So like this

[76:09]Like would this work

[76:10]Yeah

[76:12]On the yacht

[76:13]Sailing down

[76:14]Maybe like

[76:15]A German rock

[76:17]Yachting rock

[76:19]Yeah

[76:20]Play just a couple more

[76:22]We can

[76:22]We can go through them

[76:23]What's

[76:24]What's number two

[76:24]On the list

[76:25]Oh you can't yacht

[76:27]You can't rank yacht rock

[76:28]Russ

[76:28]That's too stressful

[76:29]What is this song

[76:29]Okay Lionel Richie

[76:30]All Night Long

[76:31]All Night Long

[76:32]By Lionel Richie

[76:33]Okay

[76:33]Classic yacht rock song

[76:34]All Night Long

[76:35]Is it

[76:36]This is yacht rock

[76:36]Oh

[76:37]Russ come on up

[76:38]The Lido deck

[76:39]What's going on

[76:40]Up the Lido deck

[76:40]I like it

[76:42]I feel that

[76:42]Okay

[76:43]Next one

[76:44]What's the next one

[76:44]On the list

[76:45]The next is

[76:46]Kiss

[76:47]On my lips

[76:48]Oh

[76:50]I like this

[76:51]Now I'm understanding

[76:52]What yacht rock is

[76:53]Put it on the background

[76:55]I get it now

[76:56]Good stuff

[76:57]All right

[76:58]Oh wait a minute

[77:00]I said the kiss

[77:00]I thought I mistyped it

[77:01]And it was

[77:02]Kiss on my lips

[77:03]But it's

[77:03]Kiss on my lips

[77:04]Yeah

[77:05]Kiss is on my list

[77:07]All notes

[77:07]You're on notice

[77:08]You screwed me up there

[77:09]That's your fault

[77:09]Baby come back

[77:10]Baby got back

[77:12]Baby got back

[77:17]Oh

[77:17]This will kick in

[77:18]Hold on

[77:18]I don't know why

[77:18]Baby laughs hard

[77:19]Oh

[77:20]Oh

[77:21]Classic

[77:22]I'm gonna have to get me

[77:24]One of these yachts

[77:25]Oh yeah

[77:25]Like decent drums

[77:28]On this song

[77:28]The keys are kind of

[77:29]Buried in the mix

[77:30]And then the bass again

[77:32]Is

[77:32]You're thinking too hard

[77:34]Rosie

[77:34]That's the problem

[77:35]I'm thinking too hard

[77:36]You just gotta sit back

[77:37]Let it happen

[77:37]Where the hell are you

[77:38]On a yacht

[77:39]Where you're listening

[77:39]To the music actually

[77:40]The point is

[77:41]You need music

[77:41]You don't have to listen to

[77:42]Because you're on a

[77:43]Fucking yacht man

[77:44]Yeah

[77:44]When you're in Lake Tahoe

[77:45]With your yacht

[77:46]Next year

[77:47]You're not gonna worry

[77:47]About whether they're

[77:48]On or off key

[77:49]It's just gonna be like

[77:50]Hey we're

[77:50]We're yacht rocking

[77:52]I'm just trying to

[77:53]Understand the connection

[77:54]Between Isn't She Lovely

[77:55]A song about

[77:56]Having his first child

[77:57]And the emotions

[77:59]And the

[77:59]Power of that moment

[78:01]Hey Aaron

[78:03]Aaron welcome to

[78:03]Half Your Music Takes

[78:04]Since we've been on this

[78:06]So

[78:06]What goes around

[78:08]Comes around

[78:08]Alright

[78:11]I love this podcast

[78:12]Surprisingly

[78:12]Or not surprisingly

[78:14]You know

[78:15]Our good buddy Beck

[78:16]Did

[78:17]Beck

[78:17]He dipped his toe

[78:18]Into the yacht rock

[78:19]Oh he dipped it in there

[78:20]Genre

[78:21]Yep

[78:21]Just a little dip

[78:22]I don't know

[78:23]Colors

[78:23]He could really get in there

[78:24]But he dipped his

[78:25]What's coming

[78:27]Oh I could yacht to this

[78:29]I wouldn't

[78:31]I wouldn't sail with Rob

[78:32]Do it

[78:32]But I could yacht to it

[78:33]Hold on

[78:34]Up tempo yacht music

[78:38]A little bit

[78:39]Just when you're up over

[78:41]Let it come over you

[78:42]Let it come over you

[78:43]That's what

[78:43]Isn't She Lovely

[78:44]I mean

[78:44]Yeah if you want to

[78:45]Really

[78:46]If you want to read into

[78:46]Like the liner notes

[78:47]And figure out

[78:48]It's about his kid

[78:49]And all that

[78:49]You know that's great

[78:50]But if you're just

[78:51]Going to let it

[78:51]Play on KS95

[78:53]He literally says

[78:55]Her name in the song

[78:57]I will say

[79:00]If you take all those songs

[79:01]And add them together

[79:02]They're still

[79:03]Slightly shorter

[79:04]Than it is

[79:04]Isn't She Lovely

[79:05]So that's Yacht Rock

[79:10]I enjoyed the list

[79:11]I enjoyed

[79:11]I mean listen

[79:11]This is the same kind of music

[79:13]Yes

[79:15]You're right man

[79:16]You crushed it

[79:17]You crushed it with Yacht Rock

[79:18]So

[79:18]Aaron's band

[79:19]Aaron's band

[79:20]I wish we could take a poll

[79:21]To see if

[79:24]Who

[79:24]Who knew that

[79:25]He was talking about

[79:26]His daughter here

[79:27]Because you hear

[79:27]You hear it right in the beginning

[79:28]Isn't She Lovely

[79:29]I figure she's

[79:30]He's talking about

[79:31]A girlfriend

[79:31]Wife

[79:32]Something like that

[79:32]So

[79:33]You know

[79:33]You find out

[79:34]If her hot dog

[79:34]He says

[79:35]I can't believe

[79:35]What God has done

[79:36]Like

[79:38]He says

[79:40]He says

[79:40]Aisha

[79:41]Which is her name

[79:42]I mean

[79:42]My wife says that

[79:44]All the time

[79:45]When we talk about

[79:46]Being married

[79:46]I can't believe

[79:47]What God's done

[79:47]He says

[79:48]Only one minute old

[79:49]It's like in the second line

[79:51]He says

[79:51]Only one minute old

[79:52]Like he's not

[79:53]Talking about

[79:53]Okay but

[79:53]I think

[79:54]I think

[79:54]This plays into

[79:55]This whole album

[79:57]For me

[79:57]I get to like

[79:58]The first five words

[80:00]And it's

[80:00]Next song

[80:01]Next song

[80:02]Next song

[80:03]That's about as far

[80:04]As I can get

[80:04]As far as I get is

[80:04]Isn't she lovely

[80:06]Okay great

[80:06]And then I move on

[80:07]If you didn't listen

[80:08]Then I don't know

[80:09]What to say

[80:09]Matt I think

[80:10]You did a great job

[80:11]Explaining Yacht Rock

[80:11]I totally get it

[80:12]I have a better feeling

[80:14]For what Yacht Rock is now

[80:15]I appreciate it

[80:16]Put it in your

[80:17]Amazon music Rob

[80:18]And put it on

[80:19]Yacht Rock station

[80:20]And see if it ever

[80:21]See if it ever

[80:22]Comes off

[80:23]Joy inside my tears

[80:24]I just want to

[80:25]Go back one second

[80:26]I want to say

[80:26]I don't

[80:28]Disagree with Matt

[80:29]That

[80:30]Isn't she lovely

[80:31]Is potentially Yacht Rock

[80:32]To the degree

[80:33]You want to say

[80:34]One song

[80:35]Inspired an entire

[80:37]Genre of music

[80:38]And

[80:38]We talked earlier

[80:40]In the podcast

[80:40]About albums being important

[80:42]Because they inspired

[80:43]People after that

[80:44]So I think it just

[80:44]Plays into the greatness

[80:45]Of this album

[80:46]If it inspired

[80:47]An entire genre of music

[80:48]Doobie Brothers came out

[80:50]In like the early 70s

[80:51]Oh

[80:51]The early Yacht Rock

[80:53]See I disagree

[80:55]I did look this up today

[80:57]The creator of the

[80:58]Yacht Rock television show

[80:59]Defines Yacht Rock

[81:00]As being between

[81:01]76 and 85

[81:02]So there's

[81:03]No like

[81:04]This came out in 76

[81:04]I love how

[81:05]Episode 10

[81:07]Episode 10

[81:08]Of our Netflix documentary

[81:09]About our podcast

[81:10]Is going to be called

[81:11]Yacht Rock

[81:11]And it's just going to be

[81:12]We never talk to each other again

[81:13]Russell they're fighting

[81:15]They're fighting again

[81:16]This is so great

[81:17]I don't like it

[81:17]I don't like

[81:17]You don't like it

[81:18]Oh my god

[81:18]I love it when Matt Aaron

[81:19]You know what Rob

[81:20]It gives me tears

[81:21]It gives me tears

[81:23]Yeah

[81:24]Well maybe we could bring you

[81:25]Some joy inside your tears

[81:27]Yeah

[81:27]Okay so the next song is

[81:29]Isn't she lovely

[81:30]No the next song is

[81:31]Joy inside my tears

[81:32]You're you

[81:34]For the notes on this one

[81:35]I just wrote

[81:36]Z Z Z Z Z

[81:37]This is also

[81:39]Six and a half minutes long

[81:40]But it feels much longer

[81:41]It's pretty long

[81:43]Yeah it's

[81:46]Washington Irving

[81:47]The author once said

[81:49]There's a sacredness in tears

[81:50]They are not a mark of weakness

[81:52]But they are a mark of power

[81:54]They speak more eloquently

[81:55]Than tens of thousands of tongues

[81:58]They are messengers

[81:59]Of overwhelming grief

[82:00]A deep contrition

[82:01]And unspeakable love

[82:03]I'll tell you

[82:03]What Washington Irving

[82:04]Perfectly described my daughter

[82:06]At a Baskin Robbins yesterday

[82:07]We walked in

[82:09]We were getting a coffee

[82:10]And a donut

[82:11]And we told my daughter

[82:12]You can have one scoop of ice cream

[82:13]Because it was her first day

[82:14]Of real school

[82:14]She goes okay

[82:15]We get up to the cash register

[82:16]She goes I want a milkshake

[82:18]And then we said

[82:19]No you said

[82:19]She goes

[82:20]She started crying

[82:21]We're like Jesus

[82:22]Okay fine whatever

[82:23]Get the milkshake

[82:24]You're totally Russell

[82:25]Right Russell

[82:25]Tears are one of the most

[82:27]Powerful things that nature

[82:27]Has ever come up with

[82:28]Alright the next song

[82:30]Black man

[82:31]I love this song

[82:32]I do too

[82:33]This is

[82:34]The only one that's actually

[82:35]To me

[82:35]I feel like there's a little bit of

[82:38]I don't know if he's pissed off

[82:40]Yeah

[82:41]He's got a little jive

[82:43]He's got a little jump behind him

[82:44]Finally on the song

[82:45]So

[82:46]I mean that

[82:46]Whatever that

[82:47]That keyboard is in the background

[82:48]Doing the bass

[82:49]It's just so driving

[82:50]Oh it's just

[82:51]Unbelievable

[82:52]Now I am going to say

[82:54]Does it have to be

[82:56]Eight minutes long

[82:56]It's another long one

[82:58]But he's singing about

[83:00]In the year of the American

[83:01]Bicentennial right

[83:02]And so he's talking about

[83:03]The contributions of

[83:05]All races to

[83:07]What made this country great

[83:08]And yeah he is pissed off

[83:09]Yeah

[83:10]You know who I really felt bad for

[83:12]In this song though

[83:12]Is the guy who invented

[83:14]The fire extinguisher

[83:15]Because that's the very last guy

[83:17]That when it's cutting out

[83:18]At the end

[83:18]When it's cutting out

[83:20]At the end

[83:20]If you go right to the end

[83:24]Here I'll take it right to the end

[83:25]It's the guy who invented

[83:26]I had to look it up

[83:27]But it was a fire extinguisher

[83:28]I listened to this over and over

[83:33]I couldn't get enough

[83:34]Of this part of the album

[83:35]I know it's not like

[83:35]A typical like musical thing

[83:37]But I just couldn't get enough

[83:38]It's like a history lesson

[83:40]Yeah it's amazing

[83:41]And they're all in the liner notes

[83:42]Yeah that's why Matt and I

[83:44]Are so lost

[83:45]We don't have these liner notes

[83:46]Alright

[83:47]You know what

[83:48]Russell the other day

[83:49]You said you wanted to start

[83:49]Hosting the podcast

[83:50]So I'm going to let you announce

[83:51]What the name of this next song is

[83:52]Go for it

[83:53]I believe this is the song

[83:56]So for our listeners

[83:57]Occasionally we will send

[83:58]Rob time clips

[83:59]Of where to start songs at

[84:01]And I believe my recommendation

[84:03]For this song for Rob was

[84:05]I can't stand this song

[84:06]I refuse to provide you

[84:08]A time clip for this song

[84:09]So I'm not going to try

[84:10]To pronounce it

[84:11]Because I didn't like it

[84:12]Okay so Aaron

[84:13]Do you want to pronounce

[84:13]The name of this song?

[84:14]Does he say Ngikulela?

[84:15]Is that right?

[84:16]Okay I just got an email

[84:18]We are cancelled

[84:19]So thanks for that

[84:20]What?

[84:20]It can't be that far off

[84:22]I am singing

[84:27]I think that moment though

[84:32]That moment where he goes

[84:32]From

[84:33]I am singing

[84:35]That to me is one of the great

[84:37]Vocal moments on the album

[84:38]I am singing

[84:40]And I'm not

[84:41]You think

[84:41]This is too much sin

[84:43]You got to

[84:43]Have you guys seen

[84:44]Elf

[84:45]Where

[84:45]He goes

[84:47]He's singing

[84:48]He goes and talks to his dad

[84:50]He's like

[84:50]Okay get on with it

[84:52]With my dad

[84:53]And I'm here

[84:54]And I'm singing

[84:55]I'm singing

[84:56]Yeah

[84:57]Maybe I was inspired by this

[84:59]I wouldn't

[84:59]I think that's where they got

[85:00]The inspiration from

[85:01]I wouldn't be surprised

[85:01]Rob Matt

[85:02]Matt and Aaron are happy

[85:03]Again together

[85:04]I don't know if I love you

[85:04]I hate this

[85:05]I love you

[85:05]I love you

[85:06]I love you

[85:06]Hey Matt

[85:09]Are you ready for some harp?

[85:10]Let's hear it man

[85:12]I love harp

[85:13]If it's pleasing

[85:14]Oh it's pleasing

[85:16]Then why can't it be never leave

[85:19]I know multiple people

[85:20]That play the harp

[85:20]As their instrument of choice

[85:22]Is that weird?

[85:22]My harp sits in my living room

[85:24]Right next to my elliptical machine

[85:26]That doesn't work

[85:27]You laugh

[85:31]But I had an aunt growing up

[85:32]Where I'd go over to her house

[85:32]And she had a giant harp

[85:33]Pluck those strings

[85:36]That's one of my other favorites

[85:37]Don't say that about my aunt

[85:38]She says if it's pleasing

[85:39]Why can it be never leaving

[85:40]I think it's so nice

[85:41]What the fuck are you talking about?

[85:45]What are you talking about?

[85:46]That's what she said

[85:47]She says if it's pleasing

[85:48]Why can't it be never leaving

[85:49]I think it's just simple and nice

[85:50]It doesn't even rhyme

[85:52]Can you believe somebody like that

[85:53]Would make bad rhymes

[85:54]And try to pass it off

[85:55]As a real rhyme

[85:56]Let's roll

[85:56]Let's roll to as

[85:57]Let's hear some Herbie Hancock

[85:58]Let's get some Herbie Hancock

[85:59]On this track

[86:01]By the way

[86:01]Seven minutes long

[86:01]Such an amazing

[86:04]I gotta be honest

[86:05]We really have to touch on

[86:06]What an amazing song title

[86:08]Right here

[86:08]As

[86:10]It's just called as

[86:11]As

[86:12]You better back that as up

[86:14]With this

[86:15]I mean Herbie is just

[86:16]Ripping

[86:17]He's

[86:17]You know

[86:18]To be Stevie

[86:19]And be one of the great keyboardists

[86:21]And be so secure

[86:22]In your musicianship

[86:23]That you will ask

[86:24]Another of the world's

[86:26]Greatest keyboardists

[86:27]To be on your album

[86:28]And let him have a feature

[86:29]This way

[86:30]Great

[86:30]He also is probably

[86:31]Predated for handclaps

[86:32]I just talked over

[86:34]The whole clip

[86:35]Like an asshole

[86:35]But that's my favorite

[86:36]Stevie voice

[86:37]Vocal moment

[86:38]On the album

[86:38]That's where he gets

[86:39]The big chest

[86:40]Replay it then

[86:41]Replay it

[86:42]No we don't

[86:43]Can't talk

[86:43]Just kidding

[86:44]We have all the time

[86:46]In the world

[86:46]My heart rate's huge

[86:47]It doesn't even sound

[86:55]Like Stevie does it

[86:56]No it doesn't

[86:56]If God knew exactly

[86:58]Where he wanted you

[86:59]To be placed

[87:00]Don't you know

[87:01]I do love her being

[87:02]Impacted

[87:02]Very cool

[87:05]I didn't like that movie

[87:05]He was in though

[87:06]Where he was the superhero

[87:07]I didn't get it

[87:09]All right

[87:12]Deep cut

[87:13]I love that

[87:13]I love that movie

[87:14]Second Will Smith

[87:16]Reference on the podcast

[87:17]All right

[87:19]Another star

[87:21]By the way

[87:21]As was the fifth single

[87:23]They released another star

[87:24]And As is singled

[87:25]When the album sales

[87:26]Started to dwindle

[87:27]After 13 weeks

[87:28]At being number one

[87:29]And these singles

[87:30]Didn't do quite as well

[87:31]I can't imagine

[87:32]With a seven minute single

[87:33]And an eight minute single

[87:34]After that

[87:34]Another star

[87:35]It's so funky

[87:38]But it's just too long

[87:40]But guys

[87:40]What is that I hear

[87:41]In the back

[87:41]What is that I hear

[87:42]Wait a minute

[87:44]What's that

[87:45]What's that noise

[87:45]Matt do you

[87:46]Do you have any idea

[87:46]I don't have the liner notes

[87:47]In front of me Matt

[87:48]They're in the other room

[87:49]I can't tell if it's a flute

[87:50]Or a jazz flute

[87:51]I have somebody

[87:55]On Facebook

[87:56]A friend of mine

[87:56]On Facebook

[87:56]Is like

[87:57]I need more jazz flute

[87:59]He said that to me

[88:00]On a comment

[88:00]And I go

[88:01]Guess what

[88:01]We're doing one

[88:02]With more jazz flute today

[88:03]Listen to this flute

[88:04]Ripping

[88:04]And she is

[88:05]Whaling on this thing

[88:06]Jazz flute

[88:08]Made easy

[88:08]Out of all of the jazz flute

[88:10]We've heard

[88:10]This is the best

[88:11]The biggest banger

[88:12]We've got so far

[88:13]Over her

[88:13]Over Herbie Mann

[88:14]Oh yeah

[88:15]For sure

[88:16]You wish you would've told me

[88:18]That before I went

[88:19]And bought those other

[88:19]25 Herbie Mann albums

[88:21]I invited my girl

[88:25]Over for a hot dog night

[88:26]I got Herbie Mann

[88:27]I got no

[88:27]I got no queen

[88:28]Of the jazz flute

[88:28]I'm telling you

[88:29]Girls over for hot dog

[88:31]Night

[88:31]Take a hot dog

[88:32]Hold it up to your lips

[88:33]Play it like a flute

[88:34]Solid joke right there

[88:37]And then do my

[88:38]Hancock joke

[88:39]That one takes more

[88:39]Explanation

[88:40]But I think it's also

[88:40]Very good

[88:41]Then I've got another

[88:45]Hancock joke

[88:45]That you can use later

[88:46]But I'll tell you

[88:46]After the podcast

[88:47]I feel like we could've

[88:50]Done the whole podcast

[88:51]With this plug

[88:51]In the background

[88:52]It would've just

[88:53]Gone fantastically

[88:54]Might've been even better

[88:55]Right?

[88:55]This one just moves

[88:56]I might be wrong

[88:58]Eight minutes might be

[88:59]A bit length for that song

[89:00]But it does

[89:01]Rip

[89:01]I gotta admit

[89:02]Like

[89:02]Yeah just

[89:03]It's a groove man

[89:04]It just goes forever

[89:05]And since we

[89:06]Rosie do we know

[89:08]Who this is?

[89:08]I believe it is

[89:10]The flautist Matt

[89:12]Is that what you're thinking?

[89:13]Yeah

[89:14]Bobby Humphrey

[89:15]It is Bobby Humphrey

[89:16]Who appears courtesy

[89:19]Of Blue Note Records

[89:20]The first lady

[89:21]Of the flute

[89:22]Bobby Humphrey

[89:23]I was second chair

[89:25]In high school

[89:26]To Bobby

[89:26]When I was the

[89:27]Jazz flautist

[89:28]I didn't know

[89:29]That much about her

[89:30]But I

[89:30]When I was

[89:30]After reading

[89:31]About this

[89:32]She played with

[89:34]Lee Morgan

[89:34]And also had some

[89:35]Great solo stuff

[89:36]So she's obviously

[89:37]You know

[89:38]Got some serious

[89:39]Bonafides

[89:39]Just like George Benson

[89:40]Who played jazz guitar

[89:41]On this track

[89:42]And wrote

[89:43]George Benson

[89:43]Why wouldn't we

[89:44]Touch on George?

[89:45]George Benson wrote

[89:46]The I Believe the Children

[89:47]Are Our Future song

[89:48]That Whitney Houston

[89:49]Made famous

[89:49]There is something

[89:50]About a jazz flute now

[89:51]That we have become

[89:52]The number one

[89:53]Preeminent jazz flute podcast

[89:54]That it just

[89:55]When you hear it

[89:56]It's just a noise

[89:57]That just makes you

[89:58]Want to just

[89:58]Get up and like

[89:59]I don't know

[90:00]Other people

[90:00]I guess would probably

[90:01]Get up and dance

[90:01]If I wasn't so lazy

[90:02]I would probably

[90:03]Do the same

[90:03]But it sounds

[90:04]So good

[90:05]It just rips

[90:06]Yeah

[90:07]It makes me

[90:07]Want to get up

[90:08]Guys listen to this

[90:08]Jazz flute

[90:09]Now

[90:11]Can you explain to me

[90:12]What is going on now

[90:13]Rosie?

[90:14]What are these four songs?

[90:15]These four songs

[90:17]Are a special

[90:18]Insert to the

[90:20]Double album

[90:21]That's a bonus

[90:22]EP

[90:23]And I mean

[90:25]The mythology

[90:26]You would say

[90:26]This is an inserted EP

[90:28]It's an inserted EP

[90:29]The lore

[90:30]Is that there are

[90:31]Over 200 songs

[90:33]Out there

[90:33]That Stevie

[90:34]Didn't release

[90:35]That he had recorded

[90:36]For songs

[90:37]In the key of life

[90:37]So I don't know

[90:38]How these four

[90:38]Were chosen

[90:39]As the bonus four

[90:40]I think Saturn

[90:41]Is actually

[90:42]An amazing song

[90:44]I think

[90:44]Well

[90:44]According to my

[90:46]Liner notes

[90:47]This is a bonus record

[90:48]Exactly right

[90:50]Bonus record

[90:51]Like I said

[90:52]When I bought

[90:52]My used copy

[90:54]I didn't get

[90:54]The bonus record

[90:55]So I don't have it

[90:56]You guys

[90:56]You guys are really

[90:57]Missing the visual joke

[90:58]Though of Russell

[90:59]Pulling up these

[90:59]Liner notes

[91:00]It literally is like

[91:01]An encyclopedia

[91:02]Britannica

[91:02]That he is pulling up

[91:03]It's this giant

[91:04]Cheesecake factory menu

[91:06]That he is pulling up

[91:07]And like paging through

[91:08]To tell us

[91:09]This is a bonus record

[91:10]And I think Saturn

[91:12]It's a bonus record

[91:12]At least if the internet

[91:13]Is to believe

[91:14]To be believed

[91:15]Saturn was actually

[91:16]Written about Saginaw

[91:17]Michigan

[91:17]Where Stevie is from

[91:18]Also where Draymond Green

[91:20]Is from

[91:20]Also my friend Janet

[91:22]Shout out Janet

[91:22]But I think the idea

[91:24]Of Stevie in 1976

[91:25]At the peak of his power

[91:26]Is thinking about

[91:27]Going back to Saturn

[91:28]Where the people smile

[91:29]Is just such a wonderful

[91:30]Image to me

[91:33]That's it

[91:36]That's all I'm going to say

[91:37]It's not a joke there

[91:38]On the next song

[91:39]Ebony Eyes

[91:40]Jim Horn

[91:40]Matt's boy

[91:41]Is the saxophone player

[91:42]She's a girl

[91:44]Not a girl

[91:45]Also got Peter's

[91:46]Sneaky Pete

[91:47]Kleinow

[91:48]On the steel guitar

[91:49]You got the liner notes

[91:51]Too huh Matt

[91:51]There we go

[91:52]No I just looked it up

[91:53]On the internet

[91:53]Oh

[91:54]No

[91:55]I thought my liner notes

[91:56]Were so special

[91:57]You can just look this up

[91:58]Look

[91:59]What the shit

[92:00]It would be interesting

[92:04]To see what Stevie Wonder

[92:05]Would do nowadays

[92:06]Right

[92:07]With all the tools

[92:08]At his disposal now

[92:09]I think it would be really cool

[92:10]Because I do think

[92:11]That's part of it right

[92:12]Is like

[92:12]It's a lot like Van Halen

[92:14]Where it's not just the music

[92:15]That's a big deal

[92:15]But it's also the sound

[92:17]And like the

[92:17]Set up

[92:18]It's kind of like

[92:19]What we talked about

[92:19]The Beatles right

[92:20]Like it's all kind of

[92:20]As

[92:21]He's so gifted

[92:23]But it's also

[92:23]How he recorded

[92:24]And the noise

[92:25]He was able to make with it

[92:26]Yes yeah

[92:27]He's making sounds

[92:28]On this album

[92:28]That no one had ever heard

[92:29]And here is

[92:30]All Day Sucker

[92:31]I'm an all day sucker

[92:35]What's he talking about

[92:38]No don't

[92:39]I'm not going to make the joke

[92:41]I had a whole hot dog night

[92:42]Russ joke set up

[92:43]And I'm not going to do it

[92:44]Oh

[92:46]Next one

[92:47]Easy Going Evening

[92:48]I did text the group

[92:50]And I said that I hated this song

[92:51]More than anything else

[92:52]So Stevie Wonder

[92:53]Russell I don't know if you know this

[92:54]But Stevie Wonder plays a

[92:55]He doesn't play a normal harmonica

[92:57]Like John Popper and Blues Trapper plays

[92:59]But he plays a normal harmonica

[92:59]He actually plays something called

[93:00]A chromatic harmonica

[93:01]Which is where you can play

[93:03]Every single note

[93:04]And then there's a little shift

[93:05]That'll shift it up a half step

[93:06]So he can actually hit every note

[93:09]Whereas if you see John Popper

[93:10]You know how he has

[93:11]The bandolier of harmonicas

[93:12]That's because he has a harmonica

[93:14]For the key of C

[93:14]He has a harmonica for the key

[93:16]He's got like a jazz harmonica

[93:17]He's got like a bass harmonica

[93:19]He's got a heavy metal harmonica

[93:21]Well actually I'm not joking right now

[93:23]He does have different harmonicas

[93:24]And different keys

[93:24]Whereas Stevie's harmonica

[93:26]Will play the key of

[93:27]Life

[93:28]Oh yeah

[93:29]Oh

[93:29]But I hate it

[93:31]I hate the sound of it

[93:32]Do you like this harmonica

[93:35]More or less than

[93:36]Bob Dylan's harmonica?

[93:37]Oh a thousand times more

[93:39]I mean

[93:40]This is

[93:40]He's like

[93:41]He's legitimately skilled at it

[93:42]And I know Bob Dylan

[93:43]Came out as a harmonica player

[93:44]But

[93:44]He wasn't a chromatic

[93:46]Harmonica player

[93:47]You can hear the difference

[93:48]Through good times

[93:52]He's talented

[93:53]But doesn't have to like it

[93:55]I'll be on your side

[93:57]Forever more

[93:58]Oh my god

[93:59]There's two harmonicas

[94:00]Down in my headphones

[94:01]I'm hearing it

[94:02]Guys

[94:08]I gotta say

[94:10]I

[94:11]When I first time

[94:12]I heard this album

[94:12]I was like

[94:13]It's too much synth

[94:14]The songs are too long

[94:15]But it's just

[94:16]It's just too funky

[94:18]There's so many songs

[94:19]That are just too funky

[94:20]But again

[94:21]You have to admit

[94:22]Would this be better

[94:23]As a single album

[94:23]Instead of a double

[94:24]Yes

[94:25]I will absolutely admit that

[94:27]It would be amazing

[94:28]It would be a great single album

[94:30]There's just

[94:30]I mean

[94:31]Man it's a mean old daddy

[94:32]There's four or five

[94:34]Excellent songs on here

[94:35]Right

[94:36]And it'd be great

[94:37]As a single album

[94:39]You know what

[94:45]Everybody's been clamoring

[94:46]For the final rating

[94:47]I'm getting a lot of hashtag

[94:48]Love your final ratings

[94:49]And other hashtags

[94:50]I can't think of right now

[94:52]Is this album

[94:54]This is number four

[94:55]On the list

[94:55]It is below

[94:56]Joni Mitchell's Blue

[94:58]And right above

[94:59]The Beatles

[95:00]Abbey Road

[95:01]Right

[95:01]Is this album

[95:04]At number four

[95:05]Rolling well toned

[95:06]That means

[95:07]The Rolling Stone

[95:07]Ranked it perfectly

[95:08]Did it get rolling boned

[95:10]It's too low on the list

[95:11]This should be three

[95:12]One two or three

[95:13]Or is this a rolling groan

[95:15]It's too high up on the list

[95:16]It should be

[95:17]Much lower

[95:18]Let's start with Matt

[95:20]What do you think

[95:20]Rolling well toned

[95:21]Rolling boned

[95:22]Or rolling groan

[95:23]Um

[95:24]Hmm

[95:25]This is tough

[95:25]No I'm kidding

[95:26]You know

[95:27]With all due respect

[95:28]With all due respect

[95:28]It's rolling groan for me

[95:30]I mean I

[95:30]I would take

[95:31]Talking book

[95:32]Over this album

[95:33]Um

[95:34]From a Stevie standpoint

[95:35]I

[95:36]I

[95:38]I just think

[95:39]It's

[95:39]It just doesn't

[95:41]Uh

[95:41]Resonate with me

[95:42]And I'll just leave it at that

[95:43]Like

[95:43]Sure there's some great songs

[95:44]Things like that

[95:45]But it doesn't resonate with me

[95:46]So I'm gonna say

[95:47]It's rolling well groaned

[95:49]Alright

[95:49]Russell what do you think

[95:50]The first time

[95:53]I listened to this

[95:53]Was months and months ago

[95:55]When we all started the quest

[95:56]And I remember at the time

[95:57]We sent a text

[95:58]And at the time

[95:58]I kind of said

[95:59]I don't really get it

[96:00]I don't hear the wow moments

[96:01]I don't understand why this is

[96:03]Cause I

[96:03]I don't know what it was

[96:04]At the first time around

[96:05]In the thirties or something like that

[96:07]It was not top ten

[96:08]And when

[96:09]When I saw this one at four

[96:10]I was kind of surprised

[96:11]But

[96:12]I think I've

[96:13]I've kind of falling into

[96:14]The rob trap of

[96:15]If someone tells me

[96:16]It's supposed to be

[96:17]In the top five

[96:18]I start thinking

[96:18]Okay I've gotta listen to this

[96:20]More and more

[96:20]And honestly

[96:22]The thing that jumped out

[96:24]To me the most

[96:24]Is listening to the first

[96:26]Five songs on vinyl today

[96:27]Um

[96:28]Love in Need of Love

[96:29]Um

[96:31]Something about

[96:32]Something about

[96:34]I'm talking

[96:35]I'm looking at my liner notes

[96:36]Have a talk with God

[96:39]Village Ghetto Land

[96:40]Sir Duke

[96:41]And then I Wish

[96:41]Comes right up next

[96:42]That's pretty awesome

[96:44]And I think I said this earlier

[96:46]I went back

[96:47]And what I really wanted to do

[96:48]Is see like

[96:48]How does this compare to like

[96:50]The Beatles who got dropped

[96:51]And when I go back

[96:52]And I listen to Revolver

[96:53]By the Beatles

[96:54]I just think there's way more

[96:55]Going on with an album like this

[96:57]And

[96:57]And it

[96:58]It's way more enjoyable

[96:59]Than Taxman

[97:00]And the songs that I heard

[97:01]On the Beatles album

[97:02]So it's probably not

[97:04]One of my top four albums ever

[97:05]But

[97:06]When I listen to

[97:08]Some of the albums

[97:08]That were on the list

[97:09]Before I can see

[97:10]Why this one is up there

[97:11]So I'm gonna say

[97:12]Rolling Well Toned

[97:13]Although it's probably not

[97:14]My fourth favorite album

[97:15]Of all time

[97:16]Fifty-seven by the way

[97:17]It was fifty-seven

[97:18]In 2012

[97:19]Wow

[97:20]Thank you

[97:21]That's crazy

[97:21]That's wow

[97:22]That's a big jump

[97:23]We should've done an episode

[97:24]Where we talked about big jumps

[97:25]Aaron what you got?

[97:27]Is it Rolling Well Toned

[97:28]Rolling Boned

[97:29]Or Rolling Grown?

[97:30]Yeah I think for me

[97:32]We've talked a little bit

[97:33]About how it's hard

[97:34]To separate the

[97:35]When you start to study

[97:36]Something

[97:37]Start to learn about it

[97:38]Does it affect the way

[97:39]You hear it

[97:39]And for me

[97:40]The more I listen to this

[97:41]The more I read about it

[97:42]I couldn't separate

[97:43]The mythology

[97:45]And the lore

[97:46]About how it was recorded

[97:47]And the

[97:47]Everything that went into it

[97:48]The work that went into it

[97:49]From listening to it

[97:51]And it's an album

[97:52]That I've always loved

[97:53]And as I said

[97:53]At the beginning

[97:54]I used to think

[97:55]It wasn't my favorite

[97:56]Stevie Wonder album

[97:57]But now

[97:57]Probably when we get

[97:58]To Intervisions

[97:58]Intervisions will be

[97:59]My favorite again

[98:00]But I think this is just

[98:02]Such a monumental

[98:03]Work of art

[98:04]In American history

[98:05]And I would

[98:07]Put it ahead of

[98:08]Pet Sounds I think

[98:09]So I gotta say

[98:09]Rolling Boned

[98:10]I love how you guys

[98:12]Are joining me

[98:13]In the small brain crew

[98:14]Where you're like

[98:14]Must be good

[98:15]Like it

[98:16]It's great

[98:17]Come on over

[98:17]I mean we wouldn't be

[98:18]On a podcast together

[98:19]If we didn't have

[98:19]Small brains right?

[98:20]Life is so easy

[98:21]I see an advertisement

[98:22]I go buy the product

[98:23]It's that great

[98:24]So my ranking

[98:26]Thanks for asking everybody

[98:27]Uh

[98:27]My ranking is that

[98:28]This is a

[98:30]Rolling too long

[98:32]I think this album

[98:33]Is just a little bit

[98:34]Too long

[98:34]I honestly

[98:35]I think if you had

[98:36]The top three or four songs

[98:38]From this album

[98:38]On any album

[98:39]It would be one of the

[98:39]Greatest albums of all time

[98:40]I think you could

[98:42]Cut it down

[98:42]And again

[98:42]Me saying that to

[98:43]Stevie Wonder

[98:44]Is just

[98:44]Who cares what I have

[98:45]To say about it

[98:45]But this would be

[98:46]An absolutely killer

[98:48]Single album

[98:50]It's just a little bit

[98:50]Too long for me

[98:51]So that's why I gave it

[98:52]That classic rating

[98:53]Rating too long

[98:54]Alright

[98:54]Next up

[98:56]We've got

[98:56]Ooh

[98:56]Ooh boys

[98:57]We're back to the basics

[98:58]And guess who's gonna

[99:00]Make an appearance

[99:00]It's me

[99:01]Ringo

[99:03]No

[99:04]This is Abbey Road

[99:05]Coming up next

[99:06]That's been

[99:06]Stevie Wonder

[99:07]Songs in the Key of Life

[99:08]This has been

[99:09]Beck did it

[99:10]Better

[99:10]We went through all this

[99:11]And we've got more Beatles

[99:12]Coming up again already

[99:13]What the shit

[99:14]When you wanna hear about

[99:16]The greatest albums of all time

[99:17]Just ruined your end joke

[99:18]Now you gotta come up

[99:19]With another one

[99:20]But you're just too lazy

[99:21]To look it up online

[99:23]If you wanna hear

[99:26]From guys

[99:26]Who chat

[99:27]And then they get all tired

[99:27]You don't have one

[99:28]I got one

[99:28]You don't want me to do it

[99:29]You don't

[99:30]Then someone else do it

[99:31]I've got the perfect

[99:32]Podcast for you

[99:33]I'm gonna do it

[99:34]Beck did it better

[99:36]I warned you

[99:40]Oh

[99:42]And I swore

[99:42]In the life of my children

[99:43]Watch this

[99:45]I'm deleting this

[99:46]I swear to God

[99:47]Look at this

[99:47]Ready

[99:47]Watch this

[99:48]Wait how do I delete it

[99:50]One more

[99:50]One more

[99:51]One more

[99:51]Okay

[99:53]Look at how many fart noises I have

[99:55]All of these are fart noises

[99:56]They're all different fart noises

[99:57]That's my life

[100:00]There's 15 of them

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