The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (1969)

[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]We are all the way up to album 41, Let It Bleed, by the Rolling Stones.

[00:28]Now, you guys probably don't realize this, but listening to the Rolling Stones made me realize how important friendship is.

[00:36]So I got some of my best friends together.

[00:38]No offense to you guys.

[00:39]And I recorded a little song for an intro.

[00:42]So this time it's not on the radio.

[00:43]It's just a song I made.

[00:44]But I think the song has a really important message about family and about love.

[00:49]And this might be the greatest thing that I've ever done in my entire life.

[00:53]And that includes my two children.

[00:54]All right.

[00:54]I saw a man today.

[00:58]I saw a man today on the Zoom call.

[01:00]I noticed that his laundry was all done.

[01:05]When I asked him if he was going to fold it, he said, that's a job for my mom.

[01:17]No man wants to fold the laundry on his own.

[01:23]No man wants to fold the laundry on his own.

[01:28]No man wants to fold the laundry on his own.

[01:31]He tells me, Mom, she folds his laundry.

[01:35]Hi, this is Joni.

[01:41]I just wanted to let you know how much I love doing math laundry and folding clothes for Matt and Sarah and Leo and Eddie.

[01:50]It makes my day every time I go over there to do it.

[01:53]Bye.

[01:54]Bye.

[01:58]Matt's mom's getting pretty tired.

[02:01]She just wants to go to bed.

[02:07]When Matt's clothes have run through the dryer.

[02:13]She has to go over, fold him up instead.

[02:19]No, Matt won't fold his laundry on his own.

[02:26]No, Matt won't fold his laundry on his own.

[02:31]No, Matt won't fold his laundry on his own.

[02:37]He gets on the phone.

[02:40]He yells, hey, mom.

[02:43]Fold his laundry.

[02:45]Yeah.

[02:47]Jeez, what a rich man.

[02:50]Fold his laundry.

[02:51]When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time.

[02:56]Oh, my God.

[02:57]That was fantastic.

[02:58]By the way, if you would have heard me record the choir part 15 times,

[03:03]it's the funniest thing you've ever seen.

[03:04]If you want to hear from guys, check it, and then they get off track.

[03:07]This is crazy.

[03:08]I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack.

[03:13]I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack.

[03:14]Beck did it better.

[03:15]All right.

[03:17]Welcome, everybody, to Beck Did It Better.

[03:19]We're talking about the Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed.

[03:22]Now, listen, now that I've got that voicemail from your mom, Matt,

[03:25]I'm thinking about making.

[03:26]I'm thinking about making a clip where your mom talks to Hulk Hogan.

[03:28]I don't have time to make it, though, so if you could edit that together,

[03:31]I think that'd be really funny.

[03:32]I think that'd be really good.

[03:34]I'm here with three guys who keep asking me who Leon was.

[03:40]Because we all need someone to Leon.

[03:44]We're getting started with that.

[03:47]Oh, this is a big one.

[03:48]I got Matt in Minneapolis today.

[03:52]Matt, how are you doing?

[03:53]Good.

[03:53]I'm actually in God's country.

[03:55]I'm in Russell's home.

[03:56]Not hometown, but where he lives now.

[03:59]So Russell and I are in the same city today.

[04:00]So we're doing good.

[04:01]Oh, slumming it.

[04:02]Russell in Minnesota.

[04:03]How are you doing, Russell?

[04:04]Don't you guys think we need a woman's touch to make this podcast come alive?

[04:09]I really don't like that.

[04:12]When you say woman's touch like that, the stone said it first.

[04:15]Actually, when I say it, though, I do really like it.

[04:17]Woman's touch.

[04:18]I think that's good.

[04:19]That's the name of the store I'm opening, and I would sell.

[04:23]Yourself?

[04:26]Yeah.

[04:26]I would just sell my hand.

[04:26]My hand's covered in oil.

[04:27]They'd come in and my hand would just be in oil.

[04:29]I'd be like, hey, woman's touch.

[04:30]They'd be like, what do you sell?

[04:31]And I was like, oh, no, I just touch women.

[04:33]I screwed up the sign.

[04:33]It was an email to the sign guy.

[04:35]My bad.

[04:36]Okay, so we're starting off hot.

[04:38]And I've got Aaron who kept texting.

[04:40]He kept emailing me all week and telling me that if we need someone to cream on.

[04:44]I don't know.

[04:46]Aaron out in Oak Town.

[04:47]How are you doing, Aaron?

[04:48]I'm actually not feeling very good, guys.

[04:51]I think the meat I ate for dinner was hanging up for a week, and I realized I shouldn't be taking food.

[04:56]Food safety tips from the Rolling Stones.

[04:58]So hopefully you get me through the night tonight.

[05:01]I would take actually any health information you can from the Rolling Stones.

[05:04]They have lived forever.

[05:05]That's true.

[05:06]All right.

[05:07]Listen, if we talk before we get going, Russell gets very bad.

[05:10]So we have to get started.

[05:10]We're going to start right away with another segment of our favorite game show, Air In or Air Out.

[05:16]Oh, I like this game show.

[05:17]It's been airing on the game show now.

[05:20]This one may actually be everyone's favorite game show for a while.

[05:23]It's true.

[05:25]People do like this game.

[05:26]It's insane.

[05:27]How he doesn't use the dryer.

[05:29]He don't use his microwave.

[05:31]We want to figure out what this air is all about.

[05:35]So we're going to play our favorite game, Air In or Air Out.

[05:40]Oh, yeah.

[05:41]All right.

[05:43]So that was fun.

[05:44]All right.

[05:45]So I'm going to ask you questions about Aaron's life, and we're going to decide whether or not who knows Aaron the best.

[05:50]Is it Matt?

[05:51]Is it Russ?

[05:52]Or is it me?

[05:53]So let's start with this.

[05:54]I have my little scoreboard here.

[05:56]Now, my scoreboard is a piece of art my child did that I'm just going to draw on because that's what you do with kids.

[06:02]By the time you have two kids and their youngest one is like nine, you're just chucking their shit away.

[06:06]You don't even care.

[06:07]They're like, here's a picture I drew of you and me and how much I love you.

[06:10]I'm like, that's great garbage.

[06:11]And I'm like, goodbye.

[06:12]At which point do you guys start throwing stuff?

[06:15]Wait, did you get a file cabinet where every picture through first grade went in the file cabinet?

[06:19]Well, Matt, obviously you probably pitch things from day one.

[06:22]But Aaron, I feel like everything your kid makes probably gets saved somewhere, right?

[06:26]We're still at a point where we can send it to relatives, right?

[06:28]So we put that off on the grandparents to throw it away themselves.

[06:32]So we chip that stuff off when we can.

[06:34]But he is kind of a hoarder, so he doesn't like when we get rid of his artwork.

[06:37]So we got to find places for it and then shove it in the mail on the sly.

[06:41]That's the thing is that when I throw my kid's stuff away, I have to put it in not clear garbage bags or like dark garbage bags so they can't see what it is on the inside.

[06:48]Yeah.

[06:48]Because, of course, I just go down and store it in my car like I do with most of my garbage.

[06:51]You get pretty good at pretending.

[06:53]I just, I don't know where that went.

[06:55]Here, let me look around a little.

[06:56]I don't know.

[06:57]Cripes.

[06:57]Yeah, it's weird.

[06:58]Your mom must have put it somewhere.

[07:00]Cripes is an all-time dad swear word, isn't it?

[07:03]Yeah.

[07:03]There's no way Matt ever used the word cripes until about two, three years ago, I would bet.

[07:07]Nuts, cripes, rats.

[07:09]I'm trying to think if there's any other ones.

[07:11]Fuck my ass.

[07:12]Fuck my ass.

[07:14]Where did they put those toys?

[07:15]My kids have gotten in a lot of trouble at school.

[07:19]All right.

[07:19]So we are playing air, inner, air, out.

[07:21]How well do we know Aaron?

[07:23]Aaron, answer these questions honestly, not after we guess.

[07:26]The first question.

[07:26]By the way, Aaron, has Aaron ever in his life shoplifted?

[07:32]Okay.

[07:33]I'm going to go first and I'm going to say yes.

[07:37]I think shoplifting gives you a high that you cannot replicate with any other activity.

[07:41]It feels good to do it.

[07:42]I think Aaron loves it.

[07:43]He might be doing it daily.

[07:44]Matt, has Aaron ever shoplifted?

[07:46]No.

[07:48]Not even a candy bar.

[07:49]Let's say you're a fat little kid when you're growing up and you steal a candy bar and maybe the grocery store catches you and you're right next to your dad.

[07:56]And at this time, you are also eight years old.

[07:59]So you're at an age where you should not be stealing candy bars.

[08:01]And the store says to you, are you stealing that candy bar?

[08:03]And I go, oh, no, I thought my dad was buying it.

[08:05]If you have to illegally maintain your spot as the heavyweight on the wrestling team, I don't think it's stealing.

[08:10]It's maintaining.

[08:11]That's right.

[08:12]You're fine.

[08:13]It's really school spirit.

[08:14]Russ, what do you think?

[08:16]I think Aaron probably shoplifted at some point and he's willing to admit that it happened at some point.

[08:21]Probably middle school age.

[08:23]I bet he did it.

[08:23]But I think we can all agree if he did do it, he feels terrible about it.

[08:26]Like it's like eats him up inside every night when he closes his eyes before he tries to get into his bed.

[08:31]It starts eating him up right away.

[08:32]He feels terrible about it.

[08:33]Aaron, have you ever shoplifted?

[08:35]What do you think?

[08:35]I think I may have.

[08:38]I can think of two.

[08:40]And you're right, Rob.

[08:41]It's eating me up right now.

[08:42]I'm not feeling good about it.

[08:43]But I think perhaps from the quick trip.

[08:45]Aaron, a small business.

[08:46]Aaron, shut up for a second.

[08:47]A small business owner.

[08:48]Can you believe that you would steal from a small business owner?

[08:51]They probably are penniless now because you shoplifted.

[08:54]Yeah.

[08:55]And guess what?

[08:56]What happened to Mrs. Quick Trip, the widow?

[08:57]I think two instances.

[08:59]I think one, I took a candy bar on accident and then went back and paid for it.

[09:04]I do remember that.

[09:05]And then I think, I do think there was no period of time.

[09:08]There was no accident.

[09:09]There was no accident involved.

[09:10]You took it and then you felt bad.

[09:12]Now, first of all, I think we've all done that.

[09:14]Like I've done that too.

[09:15]Okay.

[09:15]You're not some sort of fucking hero.

[09:16]Don't try to, don't try to big time us with that.

[09:18]I think there was a period of time where it was a thing in my hometown to take.

[09:23]Do you guys remember squirts?

[09:24]These were big plastic.

[09:26]These were big plastic refillable bottles that you could get from.

[09:28]Let me search for that online.

[09:30]Ultimate squirts.

[09:32]I was going to say you and Rob, I think you have a different definition of squirt.

[09:36]I mean, we all paused.

[09:37]We were all waiting to see who was going to say it.

[09:38]It was kind of a thing to see if you could get to Quick Trip, get back to the fountain

[09:43]at the back and fill up your squirt and then get out without paying.

[09:48]So I think I did.

[09:49]No, no, wait a minute.

[09:49]I'm thinking of the squirts like the, like the gummy, like the, the fruit roll up that

[09:54]had stuff inside of it.

[09:55]The squirt.

[09:56]Squirt.

[09:56]No, this was a quart bottle that you filled with fountain soda.

[10:00]The squirt.

[10:01]Shut up, shut up.

[10:02]It's a, are you saying quart?

[10:03]Yeah.

[10:04]Squirt.

[10:05]With an S in front of it.

[10:06]Yeah.

[10:06]But he's saying squirt.

[10:07]No, I'm saying squirt.

[10:09]Squirt.

[10:11]Yes.

[10:11]Squirt.

[10:12]Yeah.

[10:13]It was a refillable, you know, you buy one to go and then it's, you bring it back and

[10:17]it's like a dollar to fill it.

[10:18]But it was like a thing when we were kids to be like, who can go back and, you know,

[10:21]fill it with 10 different sodas and then get out without paying.

[10:23]I think I may have done that.

[10:24]I apologize to anyone listening.

[10:26]Who used to think of me in a better light.

[10:28]Am I, should I schedule a doctor's appointment?

[10:30]Am I the only one who doesn't understand what a squirt is still?

[10:33]I don't understand.

[10:34]What's a squirt?

[10:34]It's like a, not a pint, but a quart with an S in front of it.

[10:38]Right.

[10:38]Oh, I was going to say we use, always did spites growing up, but I don't understand.

[10:41]I did, I did gallons of Gatorade of soda.

[10:45]Squirt.

[10:47]It was a quart bottle that you could squeeze.

[10:49]It was like a portmanteau of squeeze and quart.

[10:51]So it's squirt.

[10:52]It was more of a skegs guy.

[10:53]Skegs.

[10:54]Eight gallons in 16.

[10:56]Just remember you asked, this was your, you wanted.

[11:01]Were you guys, were you guys shoplifters?

[11:02]I don't remember really shoplifting anything that jumps to mind, but I had friends when

[11:06]I was younger that used to do this thing when they would go to movie theaters, when the

[11:11]guy would try to take their ticket, it's usually like a 15 year old kid and they were probably

[11:14]older, you know, seniors in high school, 18, 19 years old, somewhere in there, 17, 18.

[11:19]And when, when they would walk up to the line to go through the movie, they would just walk

[11:24]by the kid taking tickets.

[11:26]And they were just thinking, we're older than this kid.

[11:28]What's he going to do?

[11:29]And they would always call it going complimentary to the movies.

[11:32]So they would just walk by and see a movie for free and call it complimentary.

[11:36]That's like a Suge Knight move.

[11:37]One would hold his hands at a 30 degree angle and one would hold his hands at a 60 degree

[11:41]angles.

[11:41]And they're like, oh, this is complimentary.

[11:42]And then if they had two more guys, it was supplementary.

[11:45]Huh?

[11:47]By the way, did you guys hear when I said squeamish earlier?

[11:50]Did you guys understand what I was saying?

[11:52]I feel like that didn't get a big laugh, but is that, that's not shoplifting.

[11:56]Right?

[11:56]I mean, that's not stealing something from the movies.

[11:58]That's just having a good time.

[11:59]Intellectual property.

[12:01]You're stealing it.

[12:02]Yeah.

[12:03]Well, we, you should never steal intellectual property.

[12:05]Okay.

[12:05]Don't listen to this podcast, but you should never do that.

[12:08]That's very bad.

[12:08]How about you guys?

[12:10]Do you ever, do you ever take a grape?

[12:11]Do you ever take something from the grocery store?

[12:13]Yeah.

[12:15]You get to test grapes, right?

[12:16]That's not against the rules.

[12:17]I would do the gag though, because my dad worked with a guy at fleet farm and he said, oh yeah,

[12:24]fleet farm is really big on busting.

[12:26]They will bust shoplifters all the time.

[12:28]So since I was like 12 to like, oh, I don't know, 40 years old, anytime I'm in fleet farm,

[12:34]I will act like I'm stealing something.

[12:35]I will like go over and subtly act like I'm putting stuff in my pockets because I want

[12:40]to get busted at the door and then show them I don't have anything and like mess with their

[12:43]brains.

[12:43]They'll be like, excuse me, sir, do you have squirts in your pocket?

[12:46]I'll be like, ah, actually I don't.

[12:48]Squeenus.

[12:49]Yeah.

[12:50]This is my squeenus.

[12:51]Don't worry about it.

[12:52]Matt, Matt saying squeenus got a bigger laugh than I did.

[12:55]This is bad.

[12:56]It's a callback.

[12:57]All right.

[12:58]I just got this shanko here.

[12:59]I got this shanko.

[13:01]It starts with an S, right?

[13:02]Second question.

[13:03]I wish I had a shanko.

[13:04]That'd be so great.

[13:06]So does Jenny's.

[13:08]It's about the size of a squirt.

[13:09]Yeah, that's right.

[13:10]It's about, if you imagine what a squirt looks like, it's the size of a shanko.

[13:14]Mine is just the coal.

[13:15]Mine is like a fourth of it.

[13:16]Has Aaron ever owned a juicer?

[13:22]Has Aaron ever owned a juicer?

[13:24]Rob has one.

[13:24]Russ has one.

[13:25]Matt, once again.

[13:26]Matt again has zero.

[13:26]Matt doesn't know jack shit about Aaron.

[13:28]Aaron, he is air out.

[13:29]Matt, what do you think?

[13:30]Has Aaron ever owned a juicer?

[13:31]We can find any sort of like blender thing that's supposed to juice, make like a smoothie

[13:38]or something like that.

[13:39]I'm going to say no.

[13:39]I'm going to say no blenders, no bullet.

[13:42]It has to be a specific.

[13:43]It has to be a juicer or a cold press juicer.

[13:46]I will accept either one.

[13:47]Something you can put wheatgrass in and get some juice out of.

[13:50]No.

[13:51]All right.

[13:52]Russell, what do you think?

[13:53]Has he ever owned a juicer?

[13:54]Do they all require electricity?

[13:56]If it requires electricity, I'm going to say the answer is no.

[14:02]I don't think there's handcrafted juicers like ice cream.

[14:04]He has probably not had one since he's moved to Oakland.

[14:07]If he had one, it was before he moved to the West Coast.

[14:10]All right.

[14:10]I'm going to say no.

[14:13]I do think I also think they're too big.

[14:15]And I think his wife would say, we don't need a juicer.

[14:17]What are you talking about?

[14:18]Plus, Aaron's healthy.

[14:19]He hasn't done that fat guy thing where I'm like, if I get a juicer, I'm definitely going

[14:23]to get skinny.

[14:24]And instead, all I get is weird looks.

[14:26]At work, when I'm drinking green, brown drink, and then having mind bending diarrhea, when

[14:30]I'm supposed to be teaching kids about the age of the earth or whatever, I'm supposed

[14:33]to be teaching.

[14:34]Who cares?

[14:34]Aaron lives in a small house.

[14:36]He doesn't have the space or an appliance the size of a shanko to fit into his cupboards,

[14:44]right?

[14:44]There's only room for one shanko in my house.

[14:46]Have you ever owned a juicer?

[14:48]No, I have never owned a juicer.

[14:50]Yes.

[14:50]I have not.

[14:51]Did I get a point?

[14:52]I think we all got a point on that.

[14:54]Nice job.

[14:54]Finally.

[14:55]That's the first.

[14:56]That's my first point.

[14:58]On occasion, when I worked in San Francisco, I would stop at the plant cafe and purchase

[15:02]a beet juice, but I've never owned a juicer.

[15:04]Oh, God.

[15:05]Terrible.

[15:06]I make my own beet juice with my juicer.

[15:10]Guys, come on.

[15:12]I'm not talking about my squeaning.

[15:14]I had a juicer and I would make, when I lived in Vermont, I had a juicer and I would make

[15:19]myself a juice for lunch every day, which of course was just a terrible, terrible idea

[15:23]because it's like, you need to add like six apples.

[15:26]To make it anything you can eat.

[15:27]And by the time you add six apples, it's so much sugar.

[15:30]You might as well just like, you might as well just take out your pancreas by your hand.

[15:34]Like, it's crazy.

[15:35]As long as you get enough rotations per minute, that beet juice will show up, won't it?

[15:39]I think beats per minute.

[15:44]How are you doing it?

[15:45]Rotations per minute.

[15:46]What's going on?

[15:47]I don't know.

[15:47]Who knows?

[15:48]I told you I thought I needed a woman's touch to make it come alive.

[15:53]I told you that, Rob.

[15:54]I forget that.

[15:55]I forget.

[15:56]And by the way, no more dirty stuff after this, but I forget that.

[15:58]I forget that Russell does own a bed that rotates around.

[16:03]So he does call it rotations per minute.

[16:05]And he'll get that thing flying.

[16:06]He's going.

[16:07]No, no, it's not like that, man.

[16:08]It's way faster.

[16:08]It's like a Gravitron when he's on there.

[16:11]Fantastic.

[16:12]He's like, you just put your.

[16:13]Okay.

[16:13]Nevermind.

[16:14]I just, I had a thought.

[16:15]I'll share it with you guys after the podcast, but it's very funny about having sex on the

[16:18]Gravitron.

[16:18]On the secret, on the secret pod.

[16:20]We'll talk about it.

[16:20]Exactly.

[16:21]Yeah.

[16:21]But it's a work night.

[16:22]I really have to go to bed early.

[16:23]It's so important.

[16:24]I'm going to ask one more question.

[16:26]And that is, has Aaron ever owned a necklace that has any kind of shells on it?

[16:31]Okay.

[16:32]We're talking necklace shells.

[16:34]Yeah.

[16:34]Has Aaron ever owned a necklace that has shells on us?

[16:37]To me, this is the easiest question of all time.

[16:39]The answer is obviously yes.

[16:41]You know, in Iowa, he had the puka shell necklace.

[16:44]He had the, uh, the, uh, drug rug thing with his John Lennon glasses.

[16:49]It's so easy.

[16:50]Okay.

[16:51]Matt, what do you think?

[16:52]If we, if we were in Vegas.

[16:54]If we were in Vegas, we, I'd be putting, I'd be hammering the yes on this.

[16:59]He definitely had some sort of shell necklace.

[17:02]He had to, this is a dumb shit question.

[17:04]I shouldn't have even asked this.

[17:05]Russell has Aaron in his life.

[17:07]Okay.

[17:08]Think of all the dumb decisions Aaron has made.

[17:09]Okay.

[17:10]Constantly shoplifting, constantly getting those squirts.

[17:13]What?

[17:14]Has he owned a puka shell necklace?

[17:16]Protesting in Washington.

[17:17]Jesus.

[17:19]Aaron.

[17:20]Aaron.

[17:21]Why did you do that?

[17:22]Well, I was wondering who stole that squirt from Nancy.

[17:24]From Nancy Pelosi's office.

[17:25]And now I know.

[17:26]That's computer, right?

[17:29]That's slap top, right?

[17:30]From her office.

[17:31]Yeah.

[17:31]Somebody told my, stole my laptop and this squirt squirt.

[17:35]I feel like I'm not saying it right.

[17:36]Squirt.

[17:37]I'm losing my mind.

[17:39]I could play it safe and just pick the same thing as you guys.

[17:43]Cause I think I have a lead and go just guarantee the win, but I'm going to go opposite.

[17:47]I do not think that Aaron has ever owned a puka shell necklace or ever worn one.

[17:52]Okay.

[17:53]So the score right now is Rob.

[17:54]Two, Matt, one, Russ, two, whoever gets this.

[17:56]If, if Aaron has had a puka shell necklace, I am Aaron.

[18:00]You guys are air out.

[18:01]If not, Russell wins.

[18:03]Aaron, what is the correct answer?

[18:05]And don't lie.

[18:06]You son of a bitch.

[18:07]I have never owned or worn a puka shell necklace.

[18:10]Yes.

[18:10]The only necklace I can recall.

[18:13]Air in or air out.

[18:14]I can recall wearing two necklaces in my life.

[18:17]No, three.

[18:18]I did wear a gold chain at some point in middle school.

[18:20]Golden air quotes.

[18:22]How do you know?

[18:23]I had a.

[18:24]A necklace made of a fishing line with beads on it that my sister made for me.

[18:29]Shout out my, my younger sister.

[18:31]And then I had one of those leather ones with a, like a pewter kind of amulet with a sigil on it.

[18:37]Stop.

[18:38]Stop.

[18:39]That's the necklace.

[18:40]Tell us more about the leather.

[18:41]Yeah.

[18:42]So you had one, it had a ball that you put in your mouth and your wife has a, I guess like a, like a thin leather cord or like a, or like a nylon.

[18:49]It was probably nylon.

[18:50]What was your safety word?

[18:51]Aaron was quoting Pulp Fiction right before.

[18:54]Aaron's like reenacting the Gibbs scene right now.

[18:58]So you're not sure if the leather or nylon.

[19:02]So you have, you have problems to start with.

[19:04]You're.

[19:04]Well, it's probably from Spencer's gifts.

[19:06]And I, you know.

[19:07]And then it said like this Spencer's gifts and it was a big pendant that said Bush so big on it.

[19:14]I think that got edited out of the original episode.

[19:18]Actually.

[19:18]Remember back then when we thought that was too dirty.

[19:20]What a laugh.

[19:21]By the way, I will say.

[19:24]Jenny has started listening to these shows now and she's like, your guys' Marvin Gaye episode is so funny.

[19:28]I was like, Marvin Gaye?

[19:29]Marvin Gaye?

[19:30]That's 40 episodes ago, lady.

[19:33]There's no way she's going to make it into the 30s.

[19:37]There's no way.

[19:37]There's no way she's going to get to last week where I just complained about her for like a whole hour.

[19:41]You guys were worried about my marriage afterwards.

[19:43]Did her listening to an hour and 40 minutes of us, was that more time than she's listened to you in the last month or not?

[19:49]She says she had trouble running because she was laughing so hard.

[19:51]Ooh.

[19:52]Yeah.

[19:54]So I don't know.

[19:55]But then again, that happens when I come into the bedroom naked too.

[19:58]So I don't know.

[19:59]With my, with my coat, my Vishanko.

[20:03]Okay.

[20:04]She says, did you bring your Shanko with you?

[20:06]And you're like, no, it's just my coat.

[20:09]That'd be so funny.

[20:10]If my wife did bring up Vishanko to me, I would be very suspicious.

[20:13]That seems like a very niche thing.

[20:15]In fact, if anybody in my life brings up Vishanko with me, that would be very strange.

[20:19]All right.

[20:19]Let's get into everybody's rolling going.

[20:24]It's, it's, it's time to see what everybody's up to.

[20:28]So long.

[20:28]Why is it so long?

[20:29]Rolling going.

[20:31]Oh, yeah.

[20:33]All right, guys.

[20:35]Remember, let's not be dirty.

[20:36]All right.

[20:37]So I'm just going to say this.

[20:39]I was listening to last week's episode.

[20:40]I'm going first, by the way.

[20:42]I was listening to last week.

[20:43]Have you guys noticed that Rob starts going first all the time?

[20:45]Now, this never used to happen.

[20:47]The last four to five weeks is Rob.

[20:48]Rob's got to go first.

[20:49]I like it.

[20:50]Mine are so good.

[20:51]This.

[20:54]Uh, although the joke of the podcast is obviously squirt this week.

[20:57]I mean, that's just, we're going to say squirt after the theme song plays at the end.

[21:00]We know that's going to happen.

[21:01]I know the joke already.

[21:02]I got it in my head.

[21:03]Uh, I was listening to last week's episode and I have to say, Aaron absolutely crushed

[21:07]it last week.

[21:08]He did such a good job when, when we, when we played a chord and he's like, oh, that

[21:11]sounds like a Sabbath.

[21:13]And then he was just saying things.

[21:15]And of course I didn't notice it the first time I was doing the show because I don't

[21:17]listen to you guys, but he was so good.

[21:20]And, and what I realized is I thought to myself, like, you know, I listened to a lot of music.

[21:23]Why am I not like as good as Aaron?

[21:27]Like, I feel like I should just be as good at Aaron about knowing stuff about music.

[21:29]And what I realized is I'm dumb.

[21:33]Like I'm a dumb guy.

[21:35]And the problem is, and I know what you got, you guys, first of all, thanks for not being

[21:39]so shocked there.

[21:39]That's kind of insulting that you guys were like, oh no, you're not dumb.

[21:41]Like you just kind of sat there looking at me like, yeah, okay, go on.

[21:44]Uh, we're just like, where's this going?

[21:45]Asked and answered.

[21:47]I was, I was, I was actually Googling squirt guy.

[21:50]I think they want some good time.

[21:51]Google squirt.

[21:53]Let's see.

[21:53]It comes up.

[21:54]I just sent you guys a picture.

[21:55]Okay.

[21:57]Wait, pausing down the podcast.

[21:59]So here's the thing.

[22:01]Oh, wow.

[22:02]Oh, wow.

[22:03]Oh, wow.

[22:04]Well, at least I know what I'm going to be posted on the show's Instagram coming up.

[22:13]All right.

[22:14]So it's, I, I listened to music.

[22:17]I listened to a lot of, they might be giants.

[22:19]I don't, but what I realized is I don't know.

[22:23]Many people's names.

[22:24]And that's like a theme in my life.

[22:25]So like I listened to a lot of, they might be giants.

[22:27]I could not tell you the name of their bass player.

[22:29]I could not tell you the name of their drummer.

[22:30]I don't know.

[22:32]Like anybody who played with Bob Marley.

[22:34]I barely know.

[22:35]I just have never been a big name guy.

[22:37]And that's just me in general.

[22:38]I'm terrible at knowing names.

[22:40]Like even as a teacher, it takes me like half a year to learn.

[22:43]I screwed up two kids names yesterday.

[22:45]Like I've been teaching all year.

[22:47]I'm really, really bad at it.

[22:48]How do you guys, and I think that's a real skill.

[22:51]Like I, and I know why I know.

[22:53]Why it's because when people are talking.

[22:54]I'm always thinking about what I'm going to say and not listening to them or paying attention.

[22:58]So when they say, oh, my name is, it just sounds like nothing to me, but it just sounds like nothing to me.

[23:04]Right?

[23:05]Like, cause it's all I'm thinking is what I'm going to say next.

[23:07]So there are tons of people like I, I, there are people I work with and I see twice a week.

[23:11]No idea what their names are worth there for two years.

[23:13]And I was too late.

[23:15]It's too late.

[23:16]I can't.

[23:16]So how do you guys remember names?

[23:18]Like Aaron, you're really good at this.

[23:19]How do you remember people's names?

[23:21]It's a skill.

[23:21]Teach me.

[23:22]So this one's, I don't know.

[23:24]There's a lot that I, that I forget in my life, but the names come to me naturally somehow.

[23:30]And then this, this thing is an illness.

[23:32]Like I, I have to know everything there is to know about any band that I like or have listened to.

[23:36]So I, I go in and I read it and then I read it again until I remember.

[23:40]I don't know.

[23:40]It's a, it's a, it's a sickness.

[23:42]Oh, that's how I ended up on this podcast with you guys.

[23:44]I don't think I can be a nerd.

[23:46]I'm naturally a cool guy.

[23:47]I don't know if I can pull that off.

[23:48]That's true.

[23:48]It's true.

[23:49]But you don't like, do you, do you do something when you learn something?

[23:52]Do you remember somebody's name?

[23:53]Like, is there, do any of you guys like, like, how do you remember names?

[23:56]I, it's totally, it's terrible for me.

[23:57]I'm horrible at it.

[23:59]And I, you know, Sarah and I, we've, we've got it, you know, when you go and you meet somebody and you, I think we've, I don't know, maybe we feel like we've talked about this before.

[24:08]I think so too.

[24:08]We can talk about it again.

[24:09]Yeah.

[24:10]But you know, it's where you go and you're like, you're introducing, you're going to like a work event or something and somebody walks up to you and it's like, oh, hey, how you doing?

[24:17]Good to see you.

[24:18]And you know, when you're first dating somebody, Sarah's like, well, why didn't she introduce me?

[24:22]Well, I don't know.

[24:22]Her name, you know?

[24:23]So now it's just, it's just known.

[24:24]If I don't introduce you, Sarah, you know, here's my wife.

[24:28]You, you're the one who has to introduce yourself so then you can figure out what their name is.

[24:32]Cause I don't know their name.

[24:33]That's, that's exactly what I do.

[24:34]If I tell my wife, this is my wife, Jenny.

[24:36]She knows that I'm not going to, I don't know this person's name.

[24:39]Cause I'm not going to be like, oh, I think this is Dr. Squirt.

[24:42]Like I'm not, you know, I can't, I can't squirt guy.

[24:44]Yeah.

[24:45]I think that the best way to do it is try to associate them with a famous person with the same name.

[24:52]I think that's the best way to go.

[24:54]As you, if it's good, if you were to meet someone named Russell, you would say every time you'd see me, Russell Westbrook, you would think Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook, Russell.

[25:01]I do think that already.

[25:02]Just looking at you.

[25:03]Yeah.

[25:04]I just think Russell from Beck did it better.

[25:05]Like that's what I, if I, that's, that's the famous person.

[25:07]I did learn how to remember numbers from, from Russell from Beck did it better though, which is to remember the number of a famous athlete.

[25:14]So I can, I can remember numbers using Russell's trick to remember numbers of athletes that I.

[25:19]I have had locker combinations where I'm like Randy Moss.

[25:22]Andrew Glover, Robert Smith.

[25:24]You have to do it that way, right?

[25:25]Like, yeah, exactly.

[25:26]So Matt rolling going, how's it going with you?

[25:29]Uh, good.

[25:30]I don't, I don't have a list this week.

[25:32]I got just a couple of things in my mind.

[25:34]I, I, I can't get over the fact that Rob said that he was the most athletic guy on the softball field last week.

[25:41]And then Corey, I'm not going to say his last name, but Corey, who is by far, I mean like.

[25:47]So it's let's, let's recap this real quick in case you are not from our friend group.

[25:51]I claim that.

[25:52]I was the most athletic guy on the team.

[25:54]I then later claimed, I didn't claim within, within 15 seconds dropped that this other guy was on the team.

[26:00]And I, and by the way, I stand by this.

[26:01]I stand by this.

[26:02]The other guy on my team was a national level high jumper for the college.

[26:08]He was like a four year starter on the football team.

[26:11]Like he was this incredibly, but the problem is, is that he's a tall, skinny guy.

[26:14]So you would naturally think he's more athletic.

[26:16]Okay.

[26:17]This is, you guys can't miss this opportunity.

[26:19]We need to, we need to arrange.

[26:22]Uh, pentathlon competition between Rob and Corey.

[26:26]Okay.

[26:27]We can publicize it on the back to the better Instagram.

[26:30]It should include, you know, powerlifting and then also high jumping, uh, dunking a basketball.

[26:36]What else can we add in there?

[26:37]Muay Thai.

[26:37]We've got to have, it's got to be two to the Rob is strong and to the Corey is strong.

[26:41]And then one kind of tiebreaker.

[26:43]Like that's, that's, you know, equal.

[26:44]We, we gotta be honest too.

[26:46]This is D three.

[26:47]That just means like, you were probably like a good JV player at a major high school, right?

[26:52]When I tell my students, I played college football.

[26:56]I don't have to mention what level is not a big deal.

[26:59]So Matt, you cannot believe that I said I was the most athletic and then casually dropped

[27:04]that there was a national level high jumper also on the team.

[27:07]Rob, you played college football at a school that didn't charge anyone.

[27:10]Well, like you said, I mean, you, you were the center on the football team, right?

[27:13]I mean, you were the center.

[27:14]This guy was like the free safety who was just picking off passes left and right.

[27:18]So I don't know.

[27:19]I watched him play football.

[27:20]I wouldn't say picking them off left and right, but I mean,

[27:22]yeah, easy to say, easy to say.

[27:27]To be fair though, he is probably one of 10 people at the history of the college that

[27:31]could dunk a basketball.

[27:32]Oh no, we're not having this discussion again.

[27:34]We spent an hour after the last podcast trying to name people we know dunking a basketball.

[27:38]We cannot talk about this again.

[27:39]By the way, my name did not come up.

[27:41]I will say though, my, my wife did come see me play football in college and she said,

[27:44]mostly what you do is you run forward and then fall down.

[27:46]And I was like, no, no, I've prepared like hours of my life.

[27:50]This is like a main focus of my life.

[27:51]It can't be that simple.

[27:52]But didn't you see how quick my left foot moved?

[27:55]I'd snap.

[27:55]Yeah, exactly.

[27:56]Yeah.

[27:56]Yeah.

[27:56]That's years of training to do that.

[27:58]Yeah.

[27:58]All right.

[27:58]62 degrees, not 64 degrees.

[28:01]That's not being a football fan.

[28:02]What did Jenny think when the quarterback had her hands on your ass for 80% of the game?

[28:06]Well, she would only show up at the end of the third quarter.

[28:09]So I don't think she was actually paying attention to too much of the game.

[28:12]Yeah.

[28:12]She would not be there for most of us.

[28:15]All right, Aaron, a rolling going.

[28:17]How's it going with you?

[28:18]It's rolling going pretty good.

[28:20]I got it.

[28:21]I don't want to steal Matt.

[28:22]It's thunder, but I got a little bit of a list just because I've got the things I'm

[28:25]thinking about with that squirt from the camera with both fingers.

[28:33]Thumbs out.

[28:34]Oh, Matt.

[28:35]I've been getting back into sports, televised sports.

[28:38]We've discussed this a few times.

[28:40]So last night I watched the score.

[28:42]If you guys have heard of this, this, this event, I watched the Mike Tyson versus Buster

[28:48]Douglas fight last night.

[28:49]Did you guys realize?

[28:52]This is like a YouTube rabbit hole from 30 years ago.

[28:56]It's all available on YouTube.

[28:57]This shit is incredible.

[28:59]Like the whole thing is on there.

[29:00]I'm sure, Russell, I'm sure you've watched it, right?

[29:02]With the anti-thwell.

[29:05]What is something my nine-year-old and Aaron have in common?

[29:07]They both are addicted to YouTube.

[29:09]So Aaron's like, I'm getting really big back into televised sports.

[29:12]He's like, I watched the Mike Tyson and Buster Douglas fight.

[29:16]A fight that occurred when, Aaron?

[29:17]Just for our non-boxing deficient.

[29:19]1992, maybe?

[29:20]Oh, okay.

[29:21]Yeah.

[29:22]It's like, I don't know.

[29:22]It's the first fight that Mike Tyson lost.

[29:25]And so Aaron has decided that sports from, by the way, 1992, how many years ago, everybody?

[29:31]More than 20, right?

[29:34]Yeah.

[29:35]The thing is, when you watch this fight, so in the interest of defending myself, I did

[29:42]also watch the previous night's Spurs versus Jazz game.

[29:48]It's a basketball game.

[29:49]The Jazz brought out the flamethrowers.

[29:51]Those guys have a lot of shooters.

[29:52]But then I had to watch the Tyson-Douglas fight.

[29:54]Of course.

[29:54]When you watch the fight now, this is like, I guess, benefit of hindsight.

[29:57]I mean, Buster Douglas looks like he should have won that fight.

[30:00]He towers over Tyson.

[30:02]His reach is incredible.

[30:03]It doesn't look like Douglas would have been the underdog.

[30:06]But literally, I think Buster Douglas was a 50-to-1 underdog.

[30:10]And that's crazy.

[30:10]If you look, I don't know if you guys are UFC fans, but a few years ago, Ronda Rousey

[30:14]was the huge thing in UFC.

[30:16]And she lost.

[30:17]She was the biggest fighter ever.

[30:19]And she lost to Holly Holman.

[30:20]It was like the biggest upset ever.

[30:22]And it was 6-to-1.

[30:23]That Buster Douglas upset of Mike Tyson was 50-to-1.

[30:26]How crazy is that?

[30:27]There was this fight with Conor McGregor a few years ago.

[30:31]Oh, you piece of shit, man.

[30:32]I want my money back.

[30:32]This guy was like 2,000-to-1, right?

[30:34]Yeah.

[30:35]Dennis Seaver.

[30:36]So somebody smart said, hey, if I'm going to bet 20 bucks, I might as well bet 20 bucks

[30:39]on that because it might hit big, right?

[30:41]I'm concerned I may have to sleep in the garage tonight because I took myself out for lunch

[30:47]today.

[30:48]Oh, no.

[30:48]I'm going to go to the shawarma G here in Oakland, which is a shawarma spot that I

[30:51]had not been to yet.

[30:52]I was doing a collab.

[30:53]Is that a portmanteau of shawarma and orgy?

[30:55]No, G is a...

[30:57]That would be...

[30:57]Ooh, I would attend one of those.

[30:59]Matt, do you have any idea what they're talking about?

[31:02]Oh, yeah.

[31:03]Lars from Iowa and Dan from South St. Paul and I, we were over in Holland for like 12

[31:11]days playing baseball one year.

[31:13]And every night, we would get hammered.

[31:15]And every night, we would go get shawarma.

[31:17]And Lars lived in Saudi Arabia for a while and just...

[31:21]He could...

[31:21]He could talk to the dude.

[31:22]And it was just heaven.

[31:24]Every night, about 2 o'clock, getting shawarma.

[31:26]I love shawarma.

[31:27]So, shawarma, Russ, is that where you see the meat spinning around in the spit and then

[31:30]they shave it down on the side.

[31:31]And the brilliance about shawarma is it does not matter what country you're in, right?

[31:35]I've ordered shawarma in every different countries, including Russia, where nobody spoke any English

[31:40]when I went there in college.

[31:41]And one word in English and Russian was shawarma.

[31:44]So, I'd order it all the time.

[31:45]The other word was chicken McNuggets.

[31:46]So, I would also order chicken McNuggets.

[31:48]So, that was the extent of the Russian I learned.

[31:50]But, yeah.

[31:51]Shawarma is so good.

[31:52]And having an orgy with shawarma.

[31:53]So much tzatziki sauce.

[31:55]Okay.

[31:55]And I'm going to stop there.

[31:56]And no more dirty stuff.

[31:57]I remember going to my brother-in-law's bachelor party and him and a bunch of his buddies were

[32:01]too drunk to get let into the strip club.

[32:03]So, I had to babysit them outside.

[32:05]And they had a gyro stand.

[32:06]And those gyros were fucking awesome.

[32:07]Is that like a shawarma?

[32:08]Same idea.

[32:09]Yep.

[32:09]Very similar.

[32:10]Yep.

[32:10]All right.

[32:10]Yeah, exactly.

[32:11]So, the shawarma-gy...

[32:13]Now, Aaron, is it true that you pronounce it gyro?

[32:15]Is that how you pronounce it?

[32:16]I say gyro, right?

[32:18]Or gyro?

[32:19]I thought I heard you say gyro earlier.

[32:20]Okay, go ahead.

[32:21]Interestingly, I believe that in many languages, G is an honorific.

[32:24]So, you would say like, if I was really wanting to like...

[32:27]Oh, I'm sorry to everybody.

[32:27]I'm sorry.

[32:28]I'm sorry.

[32:30]If I was really wanting to honor Rob, I would say Robbie G or something like that.

[32:33]They did a collab with the world-famous Hot Boys with a Z.

[32:38]And it was a spicy hot chicken shawarma.

[32:41]And then their specialty is this sauce called Tum, which is essentially just emulsified garlic.

[32:46]So, since about one o'clock today...

[32:48]Anytime I come within six feet of my wife, she tells me how much I smell like garlic.

[32:52]I'm concerned I'm going to have to sleep in the garage tonight.

[32:54]So, you may have a return of the trapped in a tent by next week.

[32:57]We're not sure.

[32:58]That kind of sounds like it's her problem, isn't it?

[33:00]Oh, man.

[33:01]That's not a your problem.

[33:02]Man, didn't you literally listen on the whole fork of the dishwasher?

[33:05]It kind of sounds like a her problem.

[33:07]I don't know.

[33:07]Why?

[33:09]Just because you had a nice lunch.

[33:11]Did you get kicked out of the bed?

[33:13]I don't know.

[33:13]Yeah.

[33:14]Say, hey, guess what?

[33:15]I pumped out the air mattress.

[33:16]I got it in the tent out of the garage.

[33:17]See ya.

[33:18]I would pay a million dollars right now, Aaron, if you went and got your wife and I got to

[33:22]listen to Matt and let your wife have this conversation.

[33:24]A million.

[33:24]What's her name again, Rob?

[33:26]I don't want to dox her.

[33:28]You can email her at aaronswife at gmail.com.

[33:31]Yeah, she's been getting some nasty emails from some weird...

[33:37]From beckdiditbetter at gmail.com.

[33:39]Aaron, did you give out my email again?

[33:40]Go back to the garage.

[33:42]You can eat your shawarma out there.

[33:44]You know what?

[33:47]Sometimes when my wife is mad,

[33:48]I use the magic words and it always helps.

[33:50]I just say, hey, relax.

[33:52]Relax.

[33:54]Work for Aaron Rodgers, right?

[33:56]Yeah.

[33:56]Oh, yeah.

[33:57]It's great.

[33:57]My wife loves being married to me.

[33:59]It's so good.

[33:59]Roll and go on, Russ.

[34:00]How's it going with you?

[34:01]Roll and go on, fellas.

[34:02]I feel like I maybe need to go back to the dating advice corner.

[34:06]I need your guys' expertise.

[34:07]Yeah, put them in the corner.

[34:07]Put them in the corner.

[34:08]Get, get, get, get to the corner.

[34:11]It's time for Russell's Advice Corner.

[34:15]Oh, yeah.

[34:16]Yeah.

[34:18]It's a good sting, though.

[34:19]So the first thing is I wanted to share with you

[34:22]that sometimes you guys give me terrible advice

[34:25]and I take it and it backfires.

[34:26]Sometimes you guys give me terrible advice

[34:29]and it actually works.

[34:30]So can I share some advice that you,

[34:32]that maybe I misinterpreted,

[34:34]but it actually has worked so far?

[34:36]A success story.

[34:36]Yeah.

[34:36]Here's a success story.

[34:38]I was messaging,

[34:41]or I was looking at someone's profile

[34:43]on one of the dating apps.

[34:46]Looking in their window from their backyard.

[34:48]I was looking in their window.

[34:48]I was looking in the window

[34:48]holding up my cell phone

[34:49]while I was talking to them.

[34:50]It was really creepy for them.

[34:52]The police understood, though.

[34:55]I heard that sneeze in real life

[34:57]and over the phone.

[34:58]So anyways,

[34:59]one of the things she mentioned in her profile

[35:02]is teach me something.

[35:03]Teach me something new.

[35:05]I want to meet someone

[35:05]who's going to teach me something new.

[35:06]And I was like,

[35:07]well, you know what I know a lot about

[35:09]is Wurlitzer Pianos and Fender Rhodes.

[35:12]Of course.

[35:13]So here's what I messaged.

[35:14]Here was my message

[35:15]to see if I could get a response.

[35:16]Now, let me ask you this.

[35:17]Were you trying to get a response

[35:18]or were you trying to date Aaron's wife?

[35:19]Because it seems like something

[35:20]that would have worked on Aaron's wife.

[35:21]Yeah.

[35:23]I won't even eat any shawarma.

[35:25]Hey, whatever your name is,

[35:28]I will not eat shawarma.

[35:29]And...

[35:31]I want to say Airina,

[35:33]but I don't think that's right.

[35:34]I feel like it's close.

[35:35]It is close.

[35:36]So here was my message.

[35:38]And we'll see what you guys think

[35:40]of this opening message.

[35:41]Why don't you tell me

[35:41]if I should be repeating this message or not?

[35:43]All right.

[35:43]So she asked,

[35:46]I want to meet someone

[35:47]who can teach me something.

[35:48]So I say,

[35:49]I can teach you about

[35:50]the greatest Wurlitzer

[35:51]and Fender Rhodes songs ever.

[35:53]Also,

[35:54]did you know that the same dude

[35:55]who played the jazz flute

[35:57]on Dr. Dre's album,

[35:58]The Chronic,

[35:58]also played the jazz flute

[36:00]for Will Ferrell in Anchorman?

[36:02]This is my offering.

[36:03]This is what I can teach you.

[36:05]That's perfect.

[36:06]Did she respond?

[36:08]She had to have responded.

[36:09]Why wouldn't she want to learn that?

[36:11]I got a response.

[36:12]Yeah.

[36:13]She just wrote,

[36:14]your place or mine?

[36:18]Can we also advise you

[36:21]on your next message to sender?

[36:22]Okay, type this as I talk it in.

[36:24]I broke my noise-canceling headphone.

[36:27]Okay.

[36:28]Can I use your thighs instead?

[36:31]Oh, no.

[36:32]I broke my noise-canceling headphone.

[36:34]What was the last part, guys?

[36:38]Can I use your thighs instead?

[36:40]Does that have two H's in thighs?

[36:43]How do you spell thighs?

[36:44]One leg over my shoulder.

[36:45]Two legs over my shoulder.

[36:47]Two legs over my shoulder.

[36:48]Sent.

[36:49]This is how you...

[36:50]Done and done.

[36:51]All right.

[36:54]Perfect.

[36:54]Rob, the woman that I just messaged about the thighs

[36:58]actually just messaged me back something about beet juice.

[37:02]It's on.

[37:05]In the first round of the draft,

[37:08]Russell gets played.

[37:09]The song is so good,

[37:14]I don't want to stop.

[37:15]All right.

[37:17]I cannot remember what we do.

[37:18]I don't know what we do after this on the podcast.

[37:19]Okay.

[37:19]So Aaron was gone.

[37:21]We could talk about the album.

[37:22]Let's talk about the album.

[37:25]Let it bleed.

[37:26]Roll out the red carpet, man.

[37:27]This is Matt's show.

[37:28]Let's do this shit.

[37:29]Oops.

[37:30]I took main host duties from Rob.

[37:31]I didn't know if we were going to do this early or late,

[37:33]but let's do it right now.

[37:34]So they started their first...

[37:36]As a band, they came together in...

[37:38]I feel like I'm getting cocked here.

[37:39]I feel like this is what it looks like

[37:41]when you have somebody older

[37:42]and have sex with your wife.

[37:43]Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick,

[37:46]they all lived together

[37:47]and all they did,

[37:48]all they did for two years

[37:49]is they tried to learn.

[37:51]They wanted to be a band.

[37:52]All they did was listen to country music

[37:53]and then Chicago blues more than anything.

[37:56]So Muddy Waters,

[37:57]put some Chuck Berry in and stuff like that.

[37:59]So when they were starting out as a band,

[38:00]all they were trying to do was copy

[38:02]their favorite music,

[38:03]which was country music.

[38:04]So Brian Jones loved the slide guitar

[38:06]and then the blues.

[38:07]So in 1964,

[38:09]they came out with their second album,

[38:11]5x5, heavily blues driven.

[38:13]All right.

[38:14]For the first three or four albums,

[38:16]they did nothing but cover

[38:18]covers for the most part.

[38:19]All of their best work was covers

[38:21]and they throw in a couple of their own songs

[38:23]and some of them ended up making it through.

[38:25]Well, in 1967,

[38:27]they got a new manager.

[38:29]I keep calling him Gary Oldman,

[38:31]but something called Goldman comes in and says,

[38:33]look, you guys are never going to make any money

[38:34]by continuing to do covers.

[38:37]You can't make money.

[38:38]You got to start doing your own thing.

[38:40]So all of a sudden,

[38:41]their next three albums

[38:42]are literally Beatles copies.

[38:44]And this is like the 101 version of this,

[38:48]but they went so far as Mick

[38:50]and their road guy

[38:53]ended up going,

[38:54]is it the Maharishi?

[38:55]How do you pronounce that, Rosie?

[38:56]Yeah, that sounds right.

[38:57]Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, right?

[38:59]Yeah.

[39:00]So they were traveling with the Maharishi

[39:01]before the Beatles were traveling.

[39:03]I already forgot that name too.

[39:05]This is my problem.

[39:06]Go out and try to figure out all this stuff.

[39:10]But all of a sudden,

[39:11]their sound goes from extremely heavy blues,

[39:14]extremely heavy country.

[39:15]Keith Richards, all of a sudden,

[39:17]is just,

[39:18]like, what in the hell are we doing, guys?

[39:19]Because all of a sudden,

[39:20]they're playing exactly like the Beatles.

[39:21]In 1967,

[39:23]they come out with an album

[39:24]called Their Satanic Majesties.

[39:28]And it's basically,

[39:29]like, comes out four months after

[39:32]Sergeant Peppers.

[39:32]Here's my autobiography title.

[39:33]And it looks like,

[39:34]and it looks,

[39:35]the title looks exactly like Sergeant Peppers.

[39:38]And it sounds exactly like Sergeant Peppers.

[39:39]And everybody goes,

[39:40]what in the hell?

[39:41]This is just Sergeant Peppers.

[39:42]What are you guys doing?

[39:43]So finally, after that,

[39:44]they start getting back to Beggar's Banquet.

[39:46]Okay, so this is the one

[39:47]before the Beatles.

[39:48]Before this album,

[39:48]Let It Bleed.

[39:49]And that's when they start getting back

[39:50]into the blues.

[39:51]They start adding

[39:52]a lot more slide guitar

[39:54]and a lot more

[39:55]of kind of the country twang

[39:57]back into their music.

[39:59]All right?

[39:59]But Brian Jones is going so nuts

[40:01]at this point

[40:02]with trying to figure,

[40:03]with all the drugs.

[40:04]He's hanging out with Jimi Hendrix.

[40:05]He's hanging out with The Who.

[40:06]All of them are just,

[40:08]they've got this newfound fame

[40:10]that they can't figure out

[40:11]what to do with.

[40:12]Okay?

[40:12]So finally,

[40:13]on Beggar's Banquet,

[40:14]you know,

[40:15]they start having a couple

[40:16]new people come in.

[40:18]They start adding new instruments.

[40:19]Brian Jones is playing

[40:20]every instrument he can think of

[40:22]and just adding it in

[40:24]and it's just completely

[40:25]changing their sound.

[40:26]Brian Jones,

[40:27]by the time they get to this album,

[40:29]they're pushing them out.

[40:29]They're getting out there.

[40:30]They're getting much more focused.

[40:31]And all of a sudden,

[40:32]you know,

[40:33]they've got,

[40:33]Graham Parsons is hanging out.

[40:35]They're hanging out with the band.

[40:36]They're hanging out with Bob Dylan.

[40:38]All these people,

[40:38]they've got all these influences

[40:40]that all of a sudden come in

[40:41]and it's like they take

[40:42]the best of what they used to do

[40:45]really good,

[40:45]which is the blues,

[40:46]and the best of what

[40:48]all of their new buddies are doing.

[40:49]Bob Dylan,

[40:50]Graham Parsons is in a band

[40:51]called The Flying Burritos,

[40:52]which we'll get to like in...

[40:54]Oh, we'll get to them.

[40:55]Find like 300.

[40:56]They're on there, right?

[40:57]Yeah.

[40:57]They're on here, right?

[40:58]And they're famous for,

[40:59]in 1968, 69,

[41:01]kind of getting the country rock

[41:03]kind of meld together.

[41:05]They're on the list too,

[41:06]aren't they, Matt?

[41:06]Yeah, like 300 and some.

[41:08]They're the latest

[41:09]and greatest thing

[41:09]that come in.

[41:10]So Graham Parsons...

[41:11]See you guys in 2030.

[41:12]Yeah, so Graham Parsons comes in.

[41:14]It's true.

[41:15]You can hear it

[41:16]on some of this stuff

[41:17]with...

[41:18]with Keith Richards

[41:19]and how he gets just

[41:20]absolutely back

[41:21]to the country side of things.

[41:22]And so to me,

[41:24]this album,

[41:25]it's like the culmination

[41:27]of what everybody knows

[41:28]as the Rolling Stones

[41:29]from like the 80s,

[41:30]90s, and 2000s

[41:31]with just these huge

[41:32]arena rock albums.

[41:34]And it's the culmination of that

[41:36]from their early blues stuff.

[41:39]And this is when they start

[41:40]bringing in all sorts of new people

[41:43]to start playing on their albums.

[41:45]And a couple...

[41:47]Let me get to my notes.

[41:48]Let's hear a quick...

[41:48]But you hear a lot of this, right, Matt?

[41:50]Like a lot of these songs

[41:52]have like a new instrument

[41:53]or like each song

[41:54]kind of has like

[41:54]whether it's a saxophone

[41:55]or this kind of xylophone song

[41:57]or auto harp.

[41:58]Each thing has like

[41:59]a different type of instrument, right?

[42:00]Yeah, and we'll get into the saxophone.

[42:02]This is the first time

[42:03]like when you think of

[42:04]new Rolling Stones,

[42:06]you think of the saxophone.

[42:07]We'll get into that.

[42:07]I've got a couple examples.

[42:08]Wait, how do you know

[42:09]I think about nude Rolling Stones?

[42:10]You know, I just think of you,

[42:13]Rob, nude, anything,

[42:14]and it just kind of comes together.

[42:16]By the way, check out

[42:16]that Sticky Fingers album cover.

[42:18]I'm going to say it on the pod.

[42:19]That is my favorite.

[42:20]Keep telling the guys.

[42:20]Keep telling the guys to look at it.

[42:22]You know, Billy Preston

[42:23]starts coming in.

[42:24]This is the first of...

[42:25]Fifth Beatle.

[42:26]This is the first of five

[42:27]number one albums for him.

[42:29]And basically,

[42:30]as soon as they got

[42:31]Brian Jones out,

[42:32]not for a bad thing

[42:33]because he did shape

[42:34]what they wanted,

[42:35]but they were able to focus.

[42:36]And basically,

[42:37]Keith Richards and Mick

[42:38]wanted to make money

[42:40]and put out albums

[42:41]that'd be popular.

[42:42]And they're finally able

[42:43]to do that,

[42:44]starting with Beggar's Banquet.

[42:45]This was the one

[42:46]where they really started

[42:46]to get into it.

[42:48]And it's like

[42:49]they finally got good enough

[42:50]to write their own songs

[42:51]and turning it into

[42:52]their own sound.

[42:54]And that's where I think

[42:55]this album,

[42:56]it finally jumps off

[42:57]as this is who

[42:58]the Rolling Stones are.

[42:59]We're not trying to be the Beatles.

[43:00]We're not trying to be

[43:01]from Chicago.

[43:01]We're not trying to be

[43:02]some country artists

[43:03]from Appalachia.

[43:04]You know,

[43:04]we are just the Rolling Stones.

[43:06]So the audience

[43:07]isn't going to hear this,

[43:08]but I do want to say

[43:09]that I did say something

[43:10]at the beginning of this.

[43:11]It all has been edited out now

[43:12]because Matt actually did

[43:13]a thousand time better job.

[43:15]And I also want to point out

[43:16]that Matt does talk

[43:17]the least on the podcast

[43:18]He does get the most mad

[43:19]when I interrupt him.

[43:20]Of all three of you guys,

[43:21]when I interrupt Matt,

[43:22]he's like,

[43:23]he just tries to keep talking.

[43:24]I'm like,

[43:24]no, no, no, no, no, no.

[43:25]You get this too.

[43:26]I'm going to interrupt you too.

[43:27]So Matt,

[43:29]this is about the Rolling Stones.

[43:30]I wasn't really listening.

[43:30]All right,

[43:31]let's get into it.

[43:33]Let's get into it.

[43:34]Give me shelter.

[43:36]Before we start,

[43:36]how do you spell your...

[43:38]Nevermind.

[43:39]It's a weero.

[43:45]Is that a weero?

[43:46]Yeah, there's a weero on there.

[43:48]How do you spell weero?

[43:49]It's a G-U-I-R-O.

[43:52]I was maybe looking

[43:53]for a weero list,

[43:54]but it's an opening track.

[43:55]We can't do a list

[43:56]on the opening track.

[43:56]Listen to this.

[43:58]You put this song on in your car,

[44:00]you feel like you're

[44:01]in a Scorsese film.

[44:02]You feel like you're driving

[44:03]somewhere to do some shit.

[44:05]Like when this song is on,

[44:07]some shit is going down.

[44:08]Isn't it incredible

[44:09]like how that song,

[44:11]it opens this album

[44:12]and you're in.

[44:13]Like every time

[44:13]I listen to this album,

[44:14]I was so excited

[44:15]to hear that song.

[44:15]It's so, so good.

[44:18]I read it was,

[44:19]I read it was Jimmy Miller.

[44:20]He was the producer

[44:21]and remember we,

[44:21]a few weeks ago,

[44:22]we talked about Jimmy Miller

[44:23]who was a producer

[44:24]that worked with Parliament

[44:25]and then he went to work

[44:26]with the Stones.

[44:27]He was the one

[44:28]who brought the cowbell

[44:29]to the Stones,

[44:31]but he suggested this Mary Clayton.

[44:32]Who is the singer on this song?

[44:34]You guys know anything about her?

[44:35]Yeah, I mean,

[44:37]as luck would have it,

[44:38]I just read a chapter

[44:39]about her in Hanif,

[44:40]Hanif Abdurraqib's book

[44:42]and it was called

[44:43]I Would Like to Give

[44:44]Mary Clayton Her Flowers.

[44:45]She was a session musician.

[44:47]She did put out some solo,

[44:48]albums herself

[44:48]and the story is that

[44:50]some of this album was recorded,

[44:53]is it in Great Britain

[44:54]that they recorded most of it?

[44:55]And then they did some of the,

[44:56]Most of it,

[44:56]then they went out to LA.

[44:57]LA, so similar to Exile, right?

[44:59]Like, you know,

[45:00]they did their thing

[45:01]and then Keith and Mick

[45:02]went to LA

[45:03]and like overdubbed the stuff

[45:04]and kind of fixed it up

[45:05]and I don't know what happened,

[45:07]but Mick felt like

[45:09]he couldn't sing the lines

[45:11]with the R word in Murder.

[45:13]Well, no, the producer said

[45:14]it'd be great if we had

[45:15]a female in here

[45:16]to sing with you

[45:17]and then take over

[45:18]this solo here.

[45:19]So let's hear,

[45:20]let's hear Mary Clayton sing here.

[45:21]Let's do it.

[45:22]Damn.

[45:29]By the way,

[45:32]when I would sing this on guitar,

[45:34]on rock band

[45:36]and the R word would come up

[45:38]and I had to sing that out loud

[45:39]in front of my whole family,

[45:40]I was like,

[45:40]oh, I didn't know

[45:41]this was in this song.

[45:42]Well, listen to that.

[45:43]Right.

[45:44]And the story is

[45:45]they got her out of bed.

[45:46]She was pregnant.

[45:47]She went to the hospital

[45:48]in the studio in her house.

[45:49]Oh, oh.

[45:49]And then she was pregnant.

[45:51]Why did we really have

[45:52]to break that up again?

[45:53]We didn't talk about this last week.

[45:55]I'm just saying

[45:56]she was,

[45:57]there was a lot going on

[45:58]in her life

[45:58]and she went

[45:59]and turned out these vocals

[46:00]and we should listen

[46:02]to her isolated vocal track,

[46:04]but she also recorded this

[46:05]as a solo artist,

[46:06]which is a nice,

[46:07]a really nice cover

[46:08]of the tune.

[46:09]Just listen to the isolated

[46:10]version of this.

[46:11]Yeah.

[46:12]Murder.

[46:15]Instead of

[46:18]a shield on my spine.

[46:19]Yeah.

[46:20]Oh my God.

[46:26]So is she famous

[46:28]for other stuff, guys?

[46:29]I don't know enough about her.

[46:30]Is she famous

[46:31]for other music or not?

[46:33]I think,

[46:39]didn't she sing on Blue

[46:41]by Joni Mitchell?

[46:42]So in that,

[46:43]you could hear Mick say woo

[46:44]when she was done singing.

[46:46]I want you guys to listen

[46:47]real carefully

[46:48]to the full track.

[46:49]Check this out.

[46:49]See if you can hear Mick saying

[46:50]woo during the singing.

[46:51]It's very satisfying.

[46:52]You hear that there?

[46:55]Yeah, I heard it.

[46:56]Yeah.

[46:56]Think about

[46:57]styling and profiling.

[46:58]No denying.

[46:59]You're singing in front

[47:01]of the Rolling Stones

[47:02]and you do such a good job

[47:03]that they're just going nuts

[47:04]in the control room.

[47:05]That'd be so satisfying.

[47:06]Oh my God.

[47:07]Right.

[47:07]She did release this

[47:08]as a solo song,

[47:10]by the way.

[47:10]It's a little bit different,

[47:12]but you can't blame her.

[47:14]It kind of has

[47:15]that staple singer's

[47:16]influence to me.

[47:17]It's a little bit different.

[47:18]It's a good soul track, though.

[47:19]She's singing

[47:20]in a different register here.

[47:21]She's not doing

[47:22]the higher register

[47:23]wailing stuff.

[47:24]She's singing more

[47:25]in that lower

[47:25]kind of husky voice

[47:27]kind of thing,

[47:27]which I love.

[47:28]Aaron did just text me

[47:30]this link,

[47:30]so he did not email it to me,

[47:31]so it was a pain in my ass

[47:32]to get it,

[47:33]and he didn't send me

[47:34]a timestamp,

[47:34]so I do want to point that out.

[47:36]So that's why we're

[47:36]starting at the beginning.

[47:37]But it also has

[47:40]that kind of

[47:41]Ike and Tina Turner

[47:42]kind of churning.

[47:42]Yeah, absolutely.

[47:44]Soul review kind of thing.

[47:45]So did she have

[47:47]any big solo hits?

[47:48]I think Russell's question

[47:48]is a good one.

[47:49]It's because that voice

[47:50]is like,

[47:51]it's unbelievable.

[47:52]Right?

[47:53]I don't think she did.

[47:54]Somehow she's a person

[47:56]who history sort of missed,

[47:57]and that's a great voice.

[47:59]Being a musician

[47:59]is so hard, isn't it?

[48:01]You can be like so talented

[48:02]and you just...

[48:03]It's way easier to be a podcaster

[48:04]who just talks about music.

[48:05]Well...

[48:07]Talks to tens of listeners.

[48:08]I've said it before

[48:12]and I'll say it again.

[48:12]I don't care if anyone

[48:13]listens to this.

[48:14]I'm just trying to make

[48:14]you guys laugh,

[48:15]which is why

[48:15]I am going to say

[48:17]squirt again.

[48:18]Oh, right.

[48:18]Every week, success.

[48:19]Love in vain.

[48:21]So they finally,

[48:23]you know,

[48:23]this is the first time

[48:24]coming back to a cover

[48:26]in a long time.

[48:28]Who is it a cover of?

[48:30]Robert Johnson.

[48:32]Oh, wow.

[48:33]Man, the soul of the devil.

[48:34]So Robert Johnson,

[48:36]like, wasn't he

[48:37]high on the list?

[48:38]Did he get dropped down, Matt?

[48:39]Or what's the

[48:40]Robert Johnson story?

[48:41]Yeah, I don't have the number,

[48:43]but what I know,

[48:44]Robert Johnson was a blues,

[48:46]delta blues,

[48:47]singer who just basically

[48:49]traveled between

[48:49]Mississippi and Memphis.

[48:51]It just,

[48:53]everybody knew who he was,

[48:55]but you couldn't lock him down.

[48:56]He'd do shows.

[48:57]He recorded twice in his life.

[48:59]The recordings got out,

[49:02]I think in the 60s.

[49:04]And then basically,

[49:04]you know, everybody's like,

[49:05]holy cow, where did this,

[49:06]you know, everybody,

[49:07]it was like 10 years

[49:08]before his time kind of a thing.

[49:09]He died at 27, 28,

[49:13]something like that.

[49:14]They didn't know that,

[49:15]people didn't know he died

[49:16]for a long time.

[49:17]They didn't know if he was

[49:17]just out doing his own thing.

[49:20]So we'll get to it,

[49:21]but, you know,

[49:21]we isolated his version

[49:24]just so you get a sense

[49:24]of who he was.

[49:26]Oh, let's hear it, yeah.

[49:26]This is stuff that

[49:35]Keith Richards loved.

[49:36]He loved the soul

[49:38]of these blues albums,

[49:40]and that's what he basically

[49:41]was going for.

[49:42]There's a great YouTube clip

[49:44]if you want to see

[49:44]the Rolling Stones

[49:45]playing live with Muddy Waters.

[49:46]Oh, yeah.

[49:47]Really, really entertaining.

[49:48]In Chicago, right?

[49:50]Yeah, they walk up to the stage

[49:51]on the tables.

[49:52]Like, can you imagine

[49:53]being at that show?

[49:53]And I'm spending my Friday nights

[49:56]here with you dumb shits.

[49:56]Jesus.

[49:57]But props to the Rolling Stones.

[49:58]They borrowed a lot, obviously,

[50:01]from American blues musicians,

[50:03]but it wasn't,

[50:05]they weren't living

[50:06]in the times we are.

[50:07]They had to go buy these records.

[50:09]They had to do the work

[50:10]to listen, I mean,

[50:11]to find a Robert Johnson record

[50:12]in 1966 or 67.

[50:14]It really meant that they cared

[50:16]about this music,

[50:16]and so props to them.

[50:17]Yeah, so Muddy Waters,

[50:19]Chuck Berry,

[50:20]Bobby Trope,

[50:21]Marvin Gaye,

[50:22]Sam Cooke,

[50:22]Bo Diddley,

[50:23]Don Ray,

[50:24]Dale Hawkins,

[50:25]Wilson Picker,

[50:27]The Drifters,

[50:28]Valentino,

[50:28]George Jones,

[50:29]we're getting into

[50:30]some of the country guys,

[50:31]Hank Snow.

[50:31]I mean, they covered

[50:33]all of those artists,

[50:34]you know,

[50:36]and it was...

[50:36]Yeah, they did

[50:37]Looking for a Love

[50:37]by the Valentinos,

[50:38]Bobby Womack's group.

[50:39]Yeah.

[50:39]All right,

[50:40]Country Honk.

[50:41]So this was a re-release

[50:47]of the song,

[50:47]a single

[50:48]that they had released

[50:49]before the album,

[50:50]the arguably much,

[50:52]much more famous version

[50:53]of the song,

[50:54]Honky Tonk Women.

[50:55]I've gone back and forth

[50:56]all week.

[50:56]Which one do you guys prefer?

[50:57]This one or the single version?

[50:59]Well, here.

[50:59]So here's this, right?

[51:00]I don't even think it's close.

[51:01]Listen to this.

[51:02]Oh, yeah.

[51:04]You're right.

[51:05]This version is way better.

[51:07]It's not even close.

[51:08]Yeah, way better.

[51:08]You're right.

[51:09]Country Honk version

[51:10]sucks balls

[51:12]compared to this one.

[51:13]The one thing I did like

[51:14]on the Country Honk version,

[51:15]the one we just listened to,

[51:17]the first one,

[51:17]did you guys hear the fiddle

[51:19]at the end of it?

[51:20]Oh, yeah.

[51:21]Like this one?

[51:22]So when I started listening

[51:26]to this, I was like,

[51:26]oh, Russell,

[51:27]did you hear about these?

[51:28]Did you hear about the fiddle?

[51:29]Fiddle these nuts in your mouth.

[51:32]Oh, by the way,

[51:36]I had a kid name himself

[51:37]Candace for a game in my class.

[51:39]And I was like,

[51:40]I said,

[51:42]I know what you're doing

[51:43]and stop it.

[51:44]Candace nuts fit in your mouth.

[51:47]They think they're dirtier than me.

[51:49]I don't think so,

[51:50]middle school kids.

[51:50]I got you.

[51:51]Sorry, Russell, go ahead.

[51:52]When I heard this,

[51:53]I immediately started thinking

[51:55]we really haven't done

[51:56]a lot of country music

[51:57]on this list.

[51:57]And I was reading about it

[51:59]and I read that

[52:00]out of the 500 albums

[52:01]on Rolling Stone,

[52:02]there's really only 15

[52:04]that you can call country albums.

[52:07]So I don't know

[52:07]if you would consider this.

[52:08]I wouldn't consider this country,

[52:10]would you, Matt?

[52:10]No.

[52:11]But there's about 15.

[52:12]So there's, you know,

[52:13]Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash.

[52:15]Reba McIntyre.

[52:15]Reba McIntyre's is awesome.

[52:17]Ray Charles, Patsy Cline,

[52:19]Willie Nelson.

[52:19]There's some of them,

[52:20]but there's not a lot.

[52:21]And so I started thinking,

[52:23]what are the greatest fiddle songs

[52:25]of all time?

[52:25]So I'm going to give you guys

[52:26]a list of the greatest fiddle songs

[52:28]that I've heard.

[52:28]I'm here for it.

[52:30]Fiddle these nuts in your mouth.

[52:32]I couldn't wait

[52:35]until album 164, Johnny Cash,

[52:38]before we can talk

[52:39]more country music, right?

[52:40]No, we got to get to it.

[52:42]Especially on this album.

[52:44]For country music guys like us,

[52:45]of course, we cannot wait

[52:47]to talk about country music.

[52:47]All right.

[52:48]The first one on the list is

[52:50]The Devil Went Down to Georgia,

[52:52]Charlie Daniels.

[52:52]Yeah, it's got to be on.

[52:55]Where we went to school,

[52:58]when this song came on in a bar,

[52:59]people lost their shit,

[53:01]which tells you

[53:02]where we went to school.

[53:02]Right?

[53:03]You guys remember being out

[53:04]and this song comes on and...

[53:06]All the townies loved it.

[53:07]Yes.

[53:08]Aaron, you told me

[53:09]that you don't only like this song,

[53:10]you like some of Charlie Daniels'

[53:11]political views too.

[53:12]Is that true?

[53:12]I don't know anything

[53:13]about his political views,

[53:14]but I'm going to guess

[53:15]they're not really aligned

[53:16]with mine.

[53:17]I bet you'd love them.

[53:18]I think they're really, really good.

[53:19]He's got some interesting ideas

[53:20]about the southern border

[53:21]that you might think

[53:22]are just great.

[53:22]So a lot of times,

[53:24]country music doesn't make it

[53:25]very high on the Billboard Hot 100.

[53:27]You know, this made it

[53:28]to number one

[53:28]on the country music,

[53:29]but it made it to number three

[53:30]on the Hot 100.

[53:31]Really?

[53:31]The number one song at the time,

[53:33]My Sharona by The Knack.

[53:35]Oh, wow.

[53:37]There's a reason

[53:39]the songs from the 70s

[53:40]got cut off this top 500 list,

[53:42]right?

[53:42]Can you imagine?

[53:43]Can you imagine like,

[53:44]that was My Sharona,

[53:45]which is just a song

[53:46]that just goes,

[53:47]number one.

[53:50]And then the next,

[53:51]they're like,

[53:51]and next up,

[53:52]Devil Went Down to Georgia.

[53:54]And you're like,

[53:54]what?

[53:54]This is like a 10-minute story song

[53:56]that has a,

[53:56]and by the way,

[53:57]the devil wins in that.

[53:58]I know it's an old bit.

[53:59]Everybody's done it a million times.

[54:00]The devil song is better

[54:01]than Johnny's.

[54:02]So, sorry.

[54:03]Next up on the list,

[54:05]we've gotten into an argument

[54:06]about this guy

[54:07]before he sold so many albums.

[54:08]This is Garth Brooks

[54:09]calling Baton Rouge.

[54:10]Oh, man.

[54:12]This is a ripper.

[54:14]This is a great one.

[54:16]Garth Brooks.

[54:18]Oh, you mean

[54:19]Chris Gaines' Alter Ego.

[54:20]Yes.

[54:21]One interesting thing about this,

[54:25]I read when he released it in 1989,

[54:27]it was not popular at all.

[54:29]It only made it like

[54:30]in the 30s on the country charts.

[54:31]And then he re-released it

[54:33]five years later

[54:34]and it becomes this huge hit.

[54:35]I mean,

[54:36]if this song's come on,

[54:37]you're having a good night.

[54:38]I had a video that was good.

[54:39]Everybody loved the video.

[54:40]It's funny you guys say that

[54:41]because it's actually,

[54:42]you know how,

[54:43]when bars close

[54:44]at LSU

[54:45]in Tiger Land

[54:46]in Louisiana,

[54:47]the closing song

[54:48]at all the bars at LSU

[54:50]is called Baton Rouge.

[54:51]So,

[54:51]I was going to wonder,

[54:52]like,

[54:52]what do you guys remember

[54:53]as being the best

[54:54]bar closing song ever?

[54:55]Oh, it's Closing Time.

[54:58]Easy.

[54:59]Easy money.

[54:59]As a Minnesota guy,

[55:00]Closing Time?

[55:01]Not even close.

[55:02]I don't want to say this,

[55:04]but when,

[55:05]I mean,

[55:06]American Pie

[55:06]out in Dundas,

[55:08]that was the usual,

[55:09]but then

[55:10]That is true.

[55:11]American Pie was the typical

[55:12]on the

[55:14]karaoke night,

[55:16]but there was,

[55:17]the one night,

[55:18]it must have been,

[55:19]I don't know,

[55:20]September 12th or 13th

[55:22]or 28th of 2001,

[55:24]where instead it was

[55:25]Lee Greenwood's

[55:26]Proud to Be an American.

[55:27]That was a moment.

[55:28]I stood up and sang it

[55:29]just like everybody else.

[55:30]That was a moment.

[55:32]Yeah, and then afterwards,

[55:33]Aaron said,

[55:34]we need to attack Iraq.

[55:35]And I was like,

[55:35]well, they didn't even do anything.

[55:36]And Aaron's like,

[55:37]no, listen to me.

[55:37]I have some information

[55:38]you may be interested in.

[55:39]And I was like,

[55:40]I hope you don't get tried

[55:41]for war crimes later.

[55:42]Well, because Aaron

[55:43]doesn't want to be patriotic,

[55:44]the next artist,

[55:45]we're going to move

[55:45]to a Canadian singer.

[55:47]And this is Shania Twain.

[55:49]You guys remember Shania Twain?

[55:51]Oh, I don't.

[55:52]He doesn't remember Shania Twain.

[55:54]Let's just say I remember

[55:55]Shania Twain pretty well.

[55:57]Usually when he's drinking

[56:00]a beet juice.

[56:01]This is Shania Twain,

[56:03]Don't Be Stupid.

[56:03]I don't know this song.

[56:05]Yeah, I'm not going to be stupid.

[56:06]What's the song called?

[56:07]Here, watch this.

[56:09]Here, let's fiddle here.

[56:09]Yes.

[56:13]Her voice is so sexy.

[56:15]Take a little Prince Owl.

[56:18]Owl.

[56:18]Oh, oh.

[56:19]Whoa, geez.

[56:20]Rob's having heart palpitations.

[56:23]Damn.

[56:25]I got a squirt.

[56:26]Yeah, I got to take,

[56:27]we got to take a drink.

[56:28]This is the best-selling

[56:31]studio album

[56:31]by a female artist ever.

[56:33]The ninth greatest

[56:33]selling album ever.

[56:34]I was shocked.

[56:35]I would have never guessed

[56:37]Shania Twain was like

[56:38]a top ten album.

[56:38]It was a crossover hit.

[56:39]It was a crossover hit.

[56:40]But Russell, I mean,

[56:41]Shania Twain,

[56:42]think about growing up.

[56:42]Like, she was just huge.

[56:45]Like, you couldn't,

[56:45]everything, it's just giant.

[56:47]And, and, and like,

[56:48]when you would pause her videos,

[56:50]like on a TV that could pause

[56:52]for like, I don't know,

[56:53]three to five minutes.

[56:54]Like, that was so great.

[56:56]Rob, Rob,

[56:57]would you say you probably

[56:58]paused those videos

[56:59]for at least 50 weeks

[57:00]because that's how long

[57:01]she was number one

[57:02]on the charts.

[57:02]50 weeks.

[57:03]I have an odd feeling

[57:04]that that was around

[57:05]the same time that TLC

[57:06]came out with Creep.

[57:07]I'm just going to leave that

[57:08]in your heads for a little bit.

[57:09]Don't be stupid.

[57:11]That was a golden age.

[57:13]Definitely a golden age.

[57:13]And meanwhile,

[57:14]and that Aerosmith song

[57:16]that you had to time yourself.

[57:17]All right.

[57:18]I'm going to go to the next song

[57:20]on the list,

[57:20]which I know it will get

[57:21]Aaron's beat juice

[57:22]going a little bit

[57:23]because I know he loves

[57:24]John Denver.

[57:25]This is, thank God

[57:26]I'm a country boy.

[57:27]You know, I love

[57:28]John Denver, Russell.

[57:28]Thank God I'm a country boy.

[57:32]I know.

[57:33]Who heard this song

[57:34]first on Son-in-Law

[57:36]with Pauly Shore?

[57:37]Oh, yeah.

[57:39]That's the first time

[57:40]I heard this song

[57:41]was a Pauly Shore song.

[57:42]The weasel, man.

[57:43]What did he say?

[57:43]The weasel?

[57:44]I heard that all the time

[57:45]in my house growing up.

[57:46]I got this one on vinyl

[57:47]I got John Denver

[57:48]on vinyl in my house right now.

[57:49]I'm going to put it on

[57:50]before I go to bed.

[57:50]My buddy's wife,

[57:51]my buddy's wife's godfather

[57:53]is John Denver.

[57:54]He married a,

[57:55]John Denver married a gal

[57:56]from, who went to Gustavus.

[57:57]You know, this makes me think

[57:59]that like,

[57:59]I spent so much time

[58:01]talking about the Big Bopper

[58:01]and stuff.

[58:02]He died in a plane crash.

[58:04]Why don't I talk about

[58:04]John Denver more in that way too?

[58:06]Like, I think that's

[58:06]another good bit.

[58:07]That's too far.

[58:08]That's too far for you guys.

[58:09]You guys don't care

[58:10]about me jacking off

[58:11]and saying that joke.

[58:12]Let's play a little

[58:12]Big Bopper.

[58:13]Let's hear your

[58:13]John Denver impression.

[58:14]Add a little fiddle

[58:15]to the background

[58:15]while you do

[58:16]the John Denver impression.

[58:17]Hey guys.

[58:19]Hey, I'm planning

[58:20]an experimental plane.

[58:21]What could possibly go wrong?

[58:22]This is a plane

[58:23]that is an experiment.

[58:24]No, no, no.

[58:25]The manipulated,

[58:27]the, the,

[58:28]oh shit,

[58:29]what's that variable called?

[58:30]God damn it,

[58:31]I teach this stuff too.

[58:32]The control variable

[58:33]is not my altitude.

[58:34]Okay, sorry.

[58:35]All right,

[58:36]the last song on the list.

[58:37]It's not getting cut,

[58:38]by the way.

[58:38]If you're going to play in Texas,

[58:40]you've got to have

[58:41]a fiddle in the band, right?

[58:42]This is Alabama.

[58:44]Alabama.

[58:44]Now, I've got to say,

[58:46]before the podcast,

[58:47]I asked Matt if Alabama

[58:48]is on this 500 list.

[58:50]They should be, right?

[58:51]No, hell no.

[58:52]Like, even if it's just

[58:52]their greatest hits?

[58:53]They're disqualified

[58:54]for making

[58:54]When We Make Love.

[58:55]If you made

[58:56]When We Make Love,

[58:56]you're out.

[58:57]That is the worst

[58:58]sex song of all time.

[58:59]Why?

[59:00]These guys,

[59:00]these guys had

[59:02]27 number one hits.

[59:04]They had a streak

[59:04]of 21 singles in a row

[59:06]that made it to number one.

[59:08]That is insane.

[59:09]Yeah, listen to this.

[59:10]They were huge.

[59:11]It's like standard

[59:11]country fare,

[59:12]like George Strait,

[59:13]all,

[59:14]all these guys.

[59:14]They just hung it out.

[59:16]Guys, Dixieland Delight.

[59:17]Probably not appropriate

[59:19]to play right now,

[59:20]but you're not hearing

[59:21]it in the background

[59:22]because I don't want

[59:23]to get canceled,

[59:23]but that song is a banger.

[59:25]Yeah.

[59:25]To be fair.

[59:27]And I think it's about

[59:28]getting dome in a car.

[59:29]You know what I mean?

[59:30]Aaron had no problem

[59:30]with songs about making love

[59:32]when he's been making

[59:32]beet juice while listening

[59:33]to these records

[59:34]the whole time.

[59:35]I don't know why

[59:35]he's got an issue

[59:36]with it right now.

[59:37]Just because that song sucks.

[59:38]That's all.

[59:39]Just because the song sucks.

[59:40]Aaron, I couldn't play

[59:41]in the background now,

[59:42]but why is,

[59:42]what Alabama song

[59:43]don't you like?

[59:44]I'm playing in the background

[59:45]right now.

[59:45]Which one is it?

[59:46]It's called

[59:46]When We Make Love.

[59:47]It's worse.

[59:48]It's worse than

[59:48]I'll Make Love to You

[59:49]by Boyz II Men.

[59:50]It's embarrassingly terrible.

[59:51]I'll make love to you

[59:55]Yeah, but they're not

[59:56]telling you.

[59:57]This is an instruction manual.

[59:58]So is it like

[59:59]the first verse is like

[60:00]I'll make love to you

[60:01]The first verse.

[60:02]I'll make love to you

[60:04]I dare you guys

[60:05]take over my pit like this.

[60:06]This is absolutely.

[60:06]By the way,

[60:07]you guys sound just like

[60:08]Boyz II Men.

[60:09]That's great.

[60:09]And guess what?

[60:10]Then I step in.

[60:10]Girl.

[60:14]To be fair,

[60:15]Russell,

[60:15]I don't know if we've got more,

[60:17]but this is your

[60:18]That was the country list.

[60:19]That is the end of the list.

[60:20]You brought up country music

[60:21]and the fiddles.

[60:22]This is when I like country.

[60:24]You know,

[60:24]not all the country fiddle guys.

[60:26]They wear like

[60:27]mohawks and leather pants

[60:28]and stuff

[60:29]and they just can't stand

[60:30]country anymore.

[60:30]So you brought up

[60:32]some great fiddle artists,

[60:33]Russell.

[60:33]That was an excellent

[60:34]excellent list.

[60:36]I love it.

[60:37]Is there anything better

[60:39]than when a band

[60:39]just starts ripping it

[60:40]on the fiddle?

[60:41]I mean,

[60:41]it makes you want to dance.

[60:42]The guy just kind of

[60:43]doop, doop,

[60:44]doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop.

[60:45]And that's why

[60:46]I think so many people

[60:47]could dig Dave Matthews.

[60:49]Like Dave Matthews band,

[60:51]that fiddle,

[60:51]when it came in,

[60:52]it was so catchy.

[60:53]It was so good.

[60:54]It was unbelievable.

[60:55]But so I think, Matt,

[60:56]if I'm right,

[60:57]the fiddle player

[60:58]on this country hawk song

[61:00]was the guy who played

[61:01]with the Flying Burrito Brothers.

[61:03]Yep.

[61:03]Yep.

[61:04]They brought

[61:04]Graham Parsons

[61:05]recommended him

[61:07]to come in

[61:08]and said,

[61:08]hey, you got to get

[61:09]this guy on there.

[61:09]So yeah,

[61:10]he's the guy.

[61:11]That's the connection.

[61:14]Hey, Rob,

[61:15]if I get,

[61:16]if I get a squirt,

[61:17]will you come live with me?

[61:18]I honestly didn't know

[61:22]what song was coming up

[61:23]and I was like,

[61:23]okay, this has got

[61:24]a real word real quick.

[61:25]All right.

[61:26]Live with me.

[61:27]Oh, no, live with me.

[61:28]So this is

[61:32]Leon Russell,

[61:33]who's the drummer

[61:35]from the band.

[61:35]And I think we'll get,

[61:36]I don't know if we,

[61:37]have we had done

[61:37]a band album yet?

[61:38]No, not yet.

[61:39]Coming up shortly.

[61:39]We talked Rag Mama Rag

[61:41]on the tubal.

[61:43]This is kind of

[61:43]the introduction.

[61:44]We're starting to bring in

[61:45]all these famous people

[61:46]from other,

[61:46]you know,

[61:47]the band.

[61:47]They were the backup band

[61:48]for Bob Dylan forever.

[61:50]You know,

[61:50]and here we got

[61:51]Bobby Keys

[61:52]finally comes in

[61:53]and makes a,

[61:54]and what does he play?

[61:55]He plays the saxophone.

[61:57]Oh, God.

[61:57]Bobby Keys plays the saxophone.

[62:00]Bobby Keys plays the saxophone.

[62:01]That's some terrible advertising.

[62:03]Russell had a,

[62:05]had a list

[62:05]a little while ago

[62:07]about saxophone.

[62:08]And he left off

[62:09]my favorite

[62:10]top three

[62:11]Rolling Stones albums

[62:12]of all time

[62:13]or songs

[62:14]of all time.

[62:14]So Waiting on a Friend.

[62:15]I think, Rob,

[62:16]I got it here for you,

[62:17]which Bobby Keys

[62:19]plays for most of the time,

[62:20]but Rosie might like

[62:22]to hear that this song

[62:23]Waiting on a Friend

[62:24]actually

[62:25]has Sonny Rollins

[62:27]come in

[62:28]and plays this.

[62:29]He's,

[62:29]this is Sonny Rollins

[62:30]playing with the Stones.

[62:31]You know,

[62:33]he's somewhat

[62:33]of a saxophone colossus.

[62:35]Yeah.

[62:35]I was,

[62:36]I was floored

[62:37]because this,

[62:38]this album came out in 1981.

[62:39]So I thought

[62:40]this was way later.

[62:41]I thought,

[62:41]oh,

[62:41]this is just 80s Stones,

[62:42]but they recorded this

[62:43]in 70s.

[62:44]It was in 72

[62:44]and sat on it

[62:46]until 81

[62:46]when they released it.

[62:47]But Sonny Rollins.

[62:48]I did not know

[62:49]those Sonny Rollins.

[62:50]That's,

[62:50]that happened to me

[62:51]once during a

[62:52]Shania Twain video

[62:53]and I couldn't squirt

[62:54]for quite some time.

[62:55]This is the introduction

[62:57]from here on.

[62:57]They play saxophone,

[62:58]the rest of their albums

[62:59]and it's great.

[63:00]So,

[63:00]but this,

[63:01]that was,

[63:01]that was the beginning

[63:02]of it right there.

[63:02]By the way,

[63:03]if you get a chance,

[63:03]watch the video

[63:04]for Waiting on a Friend.

[63:06]One of the worst

[63:07]music videos

[63:08]of all time.

[63:09]It's great.

[63:09]Just after this,

[63:10]we're going to watch it together.

[63:11]It's absolutely terrible.

[63:13]By the way,

[63:13]live with me.

[63:14]I want to play it again

[63:15]just a little bit.

[63:15]The bass line is played

[63:17]by Keith Richards

[63:18]on this song.

[63:18]I thought it sounded

[63:19]a lot like another

[63:20]song of theirs.

[63:21]Bitch.

[63:22]When I heard it,

[63:29]I was like,

[63:29]oh,

[63:29]this sounds just like bitch

[63:30]and I love this song

[63:31]because it would come

[63:31]on the radio

[63:32]and I could always say

[63:32]bitch in my car

[63:33]and not get in trouble.

[63:34]And bitch came out

[63:35]three or four years before.

[63:36]This is still part of their,

[63:38]before their Beatles times.

[63:40]This is like an early

[63:41]Beatles song.

[63:42]Matt,

[63:42]Aaron,

[63:43]guess what?

[63:43]You suck this episode.

[63:44]Matt,

[63:44]you're the king of this episode.

[63:45]Good job.

[63:46]I was going to say,

[63:46]doesn't Mitch sound a little bit

[63:47]like day tripper,

[63:48]but maybe I'm wrong.

[63:49]Oh,

[63:50]you don't know what you're

[63:50]talking about.

[63:51]Aaron,

[63:51]shut up.

[63:51]You suck.

[63:52]We hate you,

[63:54]Aaron.

[63:54]Garlic smelling ass.

[63:57]All right.

[63:57]Rob's back.

[64:01]Let it bleed.

[64:02]This is such a great

[64:03]title track.

[64:04]What do we call it?

[64:06]A titular track.

[64:08]This is a great

[64:10]titular track.

[64:11]I will say,

[64:12]this is awesome.

[64:12]This is awesome.

[64:12]This is awesome.

[64:12]This is awesome.

[64:12]We got to redo this.

[64:14]The way you do it,

[64:14]Rob,

[64:14]is Aaron.

[64:15]Rob,

[64:16]introduce it the way

[64:17]you normally do.

[64:17]Aaron,

[64:19]next up,

[64:20]we have your favorite.

[64:21]It's a titular track.

[64:23]Don't laugh.

[64:24]No,

[64:24]no,

[64:24]you got to say,

[64:24]don't laugh.

[64:25]Don't laugh.

[64:26]Why am I being a coach

[64:27]on my own podcast?

[64:28]It's right,

[64:29]Rob.

[64:29]Aaron,

[64:30]get it right the first time.

[64:31]Don't laugh at this,

[64:32]but this is the titular track.

[64:34]Yes,

[64:34]yes.

[64:35]I think this is the last

[64:39]of Brian Jones'

[64:39]kind of

[64:40]with the,

[64:42]with the band,

[64:43]the slide guitar.

[64:44]Contributions.

[64:45]Contributions.

[64:46]That's a great word,

[64:46]Russell.

[64:47]Good word.

[64:47]So,

[64:48]yeah,

[64:48]you know,

[64:49]one of the critics

[64:50]called this

[64:50]Sloppy But It Works.

[64:51]This is like

[64:52]Sloppy Stones.

[64:53]This feels like the track

[64:55]that launched

[64:56]Wilco's entire career to me.

[64:57]It feels like Wilco

[64:58]listened to this song

[64:59]and they were like,

[64:59]we can build a whole band

[65:00]sound around just this track

[65:02]and then they did it

[65:02]for what,

[65:03]six albums or whatever.

[65:04]Chapter two

[65:06]of my autobiography,

[65:07]Sloppy But It Works.

[65:08]Aaron,

[65:10]you said you had a funny joke

[65:11]to make about

[65:11]Let It Bleed earlier.

[65:12]What was that?

[65:12]It was a funny joke.

[65:13]Geez.

[65:17]Ow.

[65:18]All I even say

[65:19]about that one.

[65:20]That one was great.

[65:21]That they recorded

[65:23]this song so many times

[65:24]that his fingers

[65:25]started bleeding

[65:25]because he played it

[65:26]so many times,

[65:26]which is wild

[65:27]because if you listen to it,

[65:28]it's not like a tight song.

[65:30]It seems like that's kind of

[65:31]that we've talked about

[65:32]dragging it before.

[65:33]It's pretty sloppy,

[65:34]but they did it over

[65:35]and over and over.

[65:36]I think they just

[65:36]liked playing it.

[65:37]They were just having

[65:38]a good time.

[65:38]It's a good groove.

[65:39]And speaking of good times,

[65:40]this song,

[65:41]I saw an interview once

[65:42]with the Rolling Stones

[65:43]and they asked him,

[65:44]what is the most

[65:44]Rolling Stones song

[65:45]of all time?

[65:46]And you would think

[65:46]they would say like

[65:47]Satisfaction or,

[65:48]you know,

[65:49]Start Me Up

[65:49]or something like that.

[65:50]And then they said,

[65:51]without a doubt,

[65:52]it's Midnight Rambler.

[65:53]Wow.

[65:54]That's because it's back

[65:55]to their

[65:56]Muddy Waters influence.

[65:59]You can totally just hear

[66:01]that Chicago blues in there.

[66:03]Well,

[66:03]I read this

[66:04]with Chicago blues too.

[66:05]What does Chicago blues mean,

[66:07]guys?

[66:07]I don't know

[66:07]what that means.

[66:08]It's heavily guitar,

[66:12]right?

[66:13]Compared to more

[66:14]of like the country twang.

[66:15]It's electric, right?

[66:16]Because Muddy Waters

[66:17]was plugged in.

[66:18]I mean,

[66:18]is this Bo Diddley

[66:19]kind of too?

[66:20]Is that Chicago?

[66:22]God damn,

[66:23]I'm smart.

[66:23]Aaron,

[66:24]get your ass

[66:24]out of this podcast.

[66:25]And I think also

[66:26]the harmonica, right?

[66:27]Like typically,

[66:28]Chicago blues,

[66:29]would it involve

[66:29]a harmonica?

[66:30]I mean,

[66:32]I'm not as well

[66:33]steeped in the blues

[66:34]as I would like to be,

[66:35]right?

[66:35]Like Muddy Waters

[66:36]is the only one I know.

[66:37]So go to this

[66:37]next one here, Rob.

[66:38]All I know about

[66:38]Chicago songs is

[66:39]24,

[66:40]25,

[66:40]2,

[66:41]6,

[66:41]or 4.

[66:42]God dang it,

[66:42]I don't even know

[66:43]what the lyrics are

[66:43]to that Chicago song.

[66:44]Guys,

[66:44]now we have the theme

[66:45]song of Carl Lewis

[66:46]in 1988.

[66:47]You got the silver.

[66:48]Suck it down, Carl.

[66:50]I never liked him anyways.

[66:53]He was clearly a juicer

[66:54]and acts like he wasn't.

[66:55]Yeah,

[66:56]he for sure was.

[66:56]Oh,

[66:58]everybody was back then.

[66:59]Sued off the air.

[67:00]So this is the first

[67:03]song they recorded

[67:05]with Keith Richards

[67:06]on the vocals.

[67:06]Now again,

[67:07]I have seen the Rolling Stones

[67:08]in concert.

[67:09]I saw them on their

[67:09]Voodoo Lounge tour.

[67:12]And when Keith Richards

[67:13]would start,

[67:13]when Keith Richards

[67:14]would play this song,

[67:15]I would say

[67:17]80 to 100%

[67:20]of the stadium

[67:21]then streamed out

[67:22]to go get a beer.

[67:23]Yep.

[67:23]Like everybody

[67:24]was gone.

[67:26]It was like

[67:27]everybody was just

[67:27]on the concourse

[67:28]like,

[67:28]oh,

[67:28]what are you doing?

[67:29]This is just

[67:29]a true intermission.

[67:30]Did you guys hear

[67:32]the part there's

[67:33]I think it's

[67:33]what's the guy

[67:34]who got fired?

[67:35]Brian Johnson.

[67:36]Brian Jones.

[67:37]Yep.

[67:37]Brian Jones.

[67:38]Whatever.

[67:38]He's actually playing

[67:40]the auto harp.

[67:42]I don't know if you guys

[67:43]heard this part, Rob.

[67:43]Can you jump to the section

[67:45]where he's playing

[67:45]the auto harp?

[67:46]It's country roots

[67:51]right there.

[67:51]And so the auto harp

[67:52]is actually a member

[67:53]of the Zither.

[67:54]Is it called the Zither, Aaron?

[67:55]Have you heard of a Zither?

[67:56]Yeah, Zither.

[67:56]I've heard of it.

[67:57]Yeah.

[67:58]And so it's actually

[67:59]was made really famous

[68:00]by June Carter

[68:01]and her family.

[68:02]And so I was listening

[68:04]to this.

[68:04]I was like,

[68:04]I wonder who else

[68:05]plays the Zither.

[68:06]And I was looking.

[68:07]It turns out that

[68:08]a Beck plays it,

[68:10]but it's not the Beck

[68:10]you're thinking about.

[68:12]Do you guys ever,

[68:13]did you ever listen

[68:13]to the show

[68:14]A Prairie Home Companion?

[68:15]Tried not to.

[68:17]We're from Minnesota.

[68:18]We have to.

[68:18]My favorite part

[68:19]of Prairie Home Companion,

[68:20]and I'm so sorry, Russ,

[68:21]because this is a good bit,

[68:21]but my favorite part

[68:22]is when Garrison Keillor

[68:24]toward the end of his career

[68:25]before he got canceled

[68:27]was like,

[68:27]oh, I think what people

[68:29]want to hear me is singing.

[68:31]And he'd be like,

[68:31]holy dirt.

[68:34]It'd be like jokes

[68:35]about ketchup or whatever.

[68:36]Then the last half hour

[68:37]he'd be like,

[68:37]jokes about ketchup

[68:38]or whatever.

[68:39]Powdered milk,

[68:41]powdered milk.

[68:42]Yeah, it's like

[68:43]somebody was like,

[68:43]oh, Garrison, God,

[68:44]people love it

[68:45]when you sing.

[68:46]It's so good.

[68:46]So I was never really

[68:49]into this show

[68:50]or whatever,

[68:51]but I read

[68:51]that one of the main

[68:53]primary musical performers

[68:54]on A Prairie Home Companion,

[68:56]her name was Stevie Beck,

[68:57]and she was known

[68:58]as the queen

[68:59]of the auto harp.

[69:00]And Garrison Keillor

[69:01]would always introduce her

[69:02]as the queen

[69:03]of the auto harp.

[69:04]Check out Stevie Beck

[69:05]here on A Prairie Home Companion.

[69:06]This is everything I love.

[69:12]Give it to me, Stevie Beck.

[69:16]Garrison's so mad right now

[69:23]that he's not singing.

[69:23]For the record, right,

[69:24]this is like a world-renowned

[69:26]radio program, right?

[69:28]So when it comes

[69:33]to the auto harp

[69:34]and being the queen

[69:35]of the auto harp,

[69:36]who did it better?

[69:37]Beck did it better.

[69:39]Rob, play the start

[69:41]of that song real quick.

[69:41]Quick again,

[69:42]because all I could hear...

[69:43]You know, Keith Richards

[69:48]is so good.

[69:49]Like, I get it.

[69:50]I should have left

[69:51]that concert.

[69:52]That was so good.

[69:52]Auto harp, auto tune,

[69:54]I don't know.

[69:54]By the way,

[69:55]I'm going to edit that joke

[69:56]so it doesn't take 10 minutes

[69:57]for me to find that song.

[69:58]I'm so funny.

[70:01]I don't know if anybody else...

[70:04]I literally thought

[70:06]this was Bob Dylan

[70:07]singing on the song.

[70:09]It's close.

[70:10]I can hear it.

[70:11]I hear it.

[70:11]Very close.

[70:12]I hear it.

[70:12]I just caught...

[70:13]I got one cut for you there, Rob.

[70:14]I don't know.

[70:25]I don't know.

[70:26]Yeah, I hear it.

[70:28]They were good buddies.

[70:29]They hung out a lot.

[70:30]Yeah, they were obviously

[70:31]cross-pollinating, right?

[70:32]They were hanging out together

[70:34]and sharing ideas for sure.

[70:36]And I think that makes sense, too,

[70:37]because if you listen

[70:38]to the harmonica solo

[70:39]on that song...

[70:40]Oh, no.

[70:41]I can't.

[70:41]That's Bob Dylan, like...

[70:44]Knowing that these guys

[70:45]were friends with Bob Dylan,

[70:46]I might give this a rolling groan

[70:47]just knowing that

[70:48]they even like him.

[70:49]The more albums we listen to,

[70:52]the less I think of Bob Dylan.

[70:54]I'm just going to be honest.

[70:55]We don't...

[70:57]Sorry, Matt.

[70:58]It's too late in the episode

[70:58]to get into this take.

[70:59]We can't do it.

[71:00]Listen, guys.

[71:01]You wasted so much time

[71:02]telling dumb stories, okay?

[71:04]We don't have time for this.

[71:05]Monkey Man.

[71:06]This is the vibraphone.

[71:10]It's like a xylophone.

[71:11]Thicker bars.

[71:12]This sounds to me

[71:13]like it's from the 2000s, right?

[71:14]Like, this is like

[71:15]a Time Warp song.

[71:16]This could have been...

[71:17]I always have my...

[71:18]I always have my phone

[71:19]on vibraphone.

[71:19]I don't want to hear it ring.

[71:20]That's a smart joke.

[71:22]It feels like

[71:23]a Daptones kind of a thing

[71:25]or something like...

[71:26]I love the rhythm.

[71:26]I think of the Alabama Shakes.

[71:27]Like, this sounds like

[71:28]the Alabama Shakes to me

[71:29]or like Alabama Shakes

[71:30]were trying to sound like this.

[71:31]When I wrote it,

[71:32]I wrote down

[71:33]new age jazz, R&B.

[71:34]You know, it's kind of got

[71:35]that new age intro to it.

[71:38]I love this album

[71:40]more than Exile on Main Street,

[71:41]which is ranked ahead of this

[71:42]because this mix

[71:44]of this song especially...

[71:45]Listen to the mix on this.

[71:46]It sounds so good.

[71:47]It sounds like it was done

[71:49]by a professional, right?

[71:49]I mean, it's so rich and full.

[71:54]It's just like...

[71:54]I love it.

[71:55]It's like a real rock and roll song.

[71:58]All right.

[71:59]And our final song...

[72:01]Guys, you know what?

[72:02]You can't always get

[72:03]what you want

[72:04]unless you're me on the podcast

[72:06]and I just edit out

[72:07]everyone else's jokes

[72:08]in that intro

[72:08]and I re-record my own.

[72:09]And our listeners do not

[72:11]get what they need.

[72:12]The listeners aren't listening

[72:15]this far into the episode.

[72:16]Give me a break.

[72:17]I've got to say,

[72:19]we've talked about

[72:20]best closing tracks ever.

[72:21]I remember one of the Beatles tracks

[72:23]had the Day in the Life.

[72:24]I think this is my favorite

[72:26]closing track on an album

[72:27]that we've listened to so far.

[72:28]Yes.

[72:29]It's a banger.

[72:29]I think it's one of the top five

[72:31]rock and roll songs

[72:32]we've heard

[72:34]or maybe will hear.

[72:35]And I think it's not just

[72:38]a closing song.

[72:38]It's this album,

[72:39]the bookends of this album,

[72:41]the opening track

[72:42]and the closing track.

[72:43]I actually went,

[72:44]I actually went, Rosie,

[72:45]and looked up

[72:46]because that was going to be

[72:46]my take at the end

[72:47]is that this is the best

[72:48]starting and ending

[72:49]of any album we've heard so far.

[72:51]Every time I hear this horn,

[72:52]you guys shut up

[72:53]with your facts you brought.

[72:54]Can I tell you what I think about

[72:55]every time I hear this horn?

[72:56]That girl who dumped me

[72:57]and I said I was going to

[72:58]drive home real fast,

[72:59]she played the horn

[73:00]in the band.

[73:00]The French horn?

[73:01]It's all I can think of.

[73:02]The French horn?

[73:02]No, she told me

[73:04]it wasn't a French horn.

[73:04]That's why she couldn't do that.

[73:05]Okay, go ahead.

[73:06]I do have a personal

[73:07]emotional connection

[73:08]to this song,

[73:11]Minnesota,

[73:11]which is that my uncle

[73:12]for a very long time

[73:14]lived in Excelsior.

[73:15]And this is before Wikipedia.

[73:17]He told me the story

[73:19]about how this track

[73:21]was inspired by Mr. Jimmy,

[73:23]who was sort of

[73:24]the man about town

[73:25]of Excelsior.

[73:25]Matt says Minnetonka,

[73:26]but he tells me

[73:27]they're the same.

[73:28]Man about town of Excelsior,

[73:30]kind of the unofficial town mayor.

[73:31]And there was a,

[73:32]there was an amusement park

[73:33]out there on Lake Minnetonka

[73:34]at one point

[73:35]and the Stones went there

[73:35]to play a concert.

[73:37]And the story is that

[73:39]they were out there

[73:40]to play a concert

[73:41]Mick went to the drugstore,

[73:43]met Mr. Jimmy

[73:44]and Mr. Jimmy,

[73:45]you know,

[73:46]he couldn't get what he wanted.

[73:47]And Mr. Jimmy

[73:48]told Mick,

[73:50]literally said,

[73:52]you can't always

[73:53]get what you want,

[73:53]but if you try sometimes

[73:54]you get what you need.

[73:55]So that was the story.

[73:56]That was the story

[73:56]that I knew as a child.

[73:57]My uncle's very dear to me.

[73:59]And then the internet,

[74:00]Wikipedia tells you

[74:01]that it was actually

[74:02]about Jimmy Miller.

[74:03]So the lesson is that

[74:04]the internet is a cesspool.

[74:05]It will crush your dreams.

[74:06]Don't read the internet.

[74:07]I've heard,

[74:08]I've heard this story

[74:09]from a lot of people.

[74:10]It sounds,

[74:11]it's like when,

[74:11]when the kids

[74:12]in my middle school

[74:13]thought Green Day

[74:14]was named after

[74:15]Monday, Wednesday, Fridays

[74:16]because they were

[74:17]Green Day's Red Day.

[74:18]That sounds like

[74:19]a bunch of bullshit.

[74:20]A classic story.

[74:22]So Matt,

[74:24]what were you talking,

[74:24]you were talking about bookends

[74:26]before Russ and Aaron

[74:27]interrupted you,

[74:27]by the way,

[74:28]very rudely.

[74:29]No,

[74:30]I was just going to say

[74:31]that I,

[74:32]I,

[74:33]I didn't want to just have,

[74:35]just,

[74:36]you know,

[74:36]start spouting off

[74:37]saying this is the greatest

[74:38]song of all time

[74:39]or this is the top three

[74:40]songs of all time.

[74:41]This is the best song

[74:41]of all time

[74:41]without having,

[74:42]you know,

[74:42]some actual research in it.

[74:43]So I was going to say,

[74:45]can you guys think of a better

[74:46]bookended album?

[74:47]There's like one,

[74:49]maybe.

[74:49]Can I throw out my one

[74:51]or not?

[74:52]Yeah,

[74:52]go ahead.

[74:52]The one that jumps out to me

[74:54]is London Calling by The Clash

[74:56]kicked off with London Calling

[74:57]and finished with Train in Vain.

[74:59]And I remember that one

[75:00]being really strong.

[75:01]I didn't even put that

[75:02]on the top five.

[75:02]I would throw David Bowie

[75:04]on there.

[75:04]I would throw that last album

[75:05]on there.

[75:05]Five years.

[75:06]No,

[75:07]get out of here.

[75:08]No way.

[75:08]No,

[75:08]you get out of here.

[75:09]Five years to rock and roll

[75:10]suicide.

[75:10]That's a great one.

[75:11]So here's what I got.

[75:12]I got The Beatles

[75:13]started out with

[75:14]Sgt. Pepper's

[75:15]ended in A Day in the Life.

[75:16]I like it more

[75:16]because it ended with

[75:17]A Day in the Life.

[75:18]I really like that.

[75:19]That's a hard one to beat.

[75:20]Rumors started out

[75:22]with Secondhand News

[75:23]ended with Gold Dust Woman.

[75:24]That was pretty good.

[75:26]Abbey Road

[75:27]started out with

[75:28]Come Together

[75:28]ended with that

[75:29]kind of that mishmash.

[75:30]That was more personal to me.

[75:31]I really liked that mishmash.

[75:32]It had those four songs

[75:33]in like two minutes each

[75:35]or whatever.

[75:35]What's going on?

[75:37]Not much.

[75:38]What's going on with you?

[75:39]Ended with Inner City Blues.

[75:40]which was pretty good.

[75:41]But I thought really the only one that really could come,

[75:45]but I just don't like the ending.

[75:47]But Let's Go Crazy and then Purple Rain on Purple Rain.

[75:49]That's pretty awesome.

[75:50]That's a pretty good start.

[75:52]That's tough to beat.

[75:53]That's tough to beat.

[75:54]I'd still put this ahead of it.

[75:55]I would too.

[75:56]That's pretty darn close.

[75:57]Prince's album is pretty darn close.

[75:59]That's a pretty good list there.

[76:03]Well, have you heard the story about the choir?

[76:04]Where they're like, hey, we should do a choir.

[76:06]And Mick was like, oh, that's a dumb idea.

[76:09]Like, that's never going to work.

[76:11]And they're like, oh, let's do it as a joke.

[76:12]And they did it.

[76:13]And then the choir like totally distanced themselves from the song

[76:16]because it was about drugs.

[76:17]And they were like, oh.

[76:17]And guess what?

[76:18]I know guys that were in choirs.

[76:20]They did a ton of drugs.

[76:21]Choir guys love doing drugs.

[76:23]It's like their favorite thing.

[76:23]That's why they call them bass heads.

[76:26]You guys know what I'm talking about.

[76:27]That's a choir joke, right?

[76:28]10 or 12 hits.

[76:30]Huh, tenor?

[76:31]Soprano.

[76:34]Let's smoke.

[76:36]See, I got them all, guys.

[76:39]Aaron, those are good choir jokes.

[76:40]You're doing great.

[76:40]Thank you.

[76:41]So I will say, too, one time the Rolling Stones were playing at a casino in New Jersey

[76:48]and the owner of the casino was there.

[76:49]And Keith Richards took out a knife and said,

[76:51]I'm not going to play if that man is in the crowd.

[76:55]And so Donald Trump had to leave.

[76:57]He had to get out of there.

[76:59]Okay.

[76:59]And Aaron has put on his Make America Great Again hat.

[77:03]He's really mad about that story.

[77:04]It makes him furious.

[77:06]He hates it.

[77:06]All right.

[77:07]I'm logging into my fake.

[77:09]My fake Twitter or whatever it is.

[77:11]By the way, follow him on Twitter at raw.

[77:14]I'm going to give it to you.

[77:15]He's still there.

[77:16]He's still using that aid.

[77:17]I don't know why.

[77:17]All right, everybody.

[77:19]Let's get into.

[77:21]Oh, I can't show that to you guys.

[77:22]Let's get into our final segment where we rank the album.

[77:26]And God damn it.

[77:29]I played the wrong goddamn song clip.

[77:31]I kind of like the siren shit.

[77:34]That wasn't right either.

[77:38]All right, here we go.

[77:45]The rating system.

[77:46]And now it's time for everybody's favorite part of the show.

[77:52]The patent and very popular.

[77:55]Very, very popular, by the way.

[77:58]Very patented and very popular.

[78:00]Yeah.

[78:02]A lot of things not popular.

[78:03]Did you have to add that very popular at some point when it became so popular, Rob?

[78:07]Oh, my God.

[78:08]All right, everybody.

[78:09]We are talking about Let It Bleed.

[78:12]And this is the time for the rating.

[78:14]And here's how the rating system works.

[78:16]For those of you, maybe we got some new listeners out there.

[78:18]They're like, wow, what a great podcast.

[78:20]This definitely has made a lot of sense.

[78:21]I don't need to know a lot about either growing up in the 90s, Buster Douglas, or St.

[78:26]Olaf College specifically to know about this podcast.

[78:29]The rating system goes like this.

[78:30]Is this a rolling well tone?

[78:32]That means it's exactly perfect at 41.

[78:33]Rolling stone.

[78:34]Chef's kiss.

[78:35]You did a great job.

[78:36]Did this album get rolling bone?

[78:38]Okay.

[78:38]It should be way higher on the list.

[78:42]It shouldn't be back this far.

[78:43]This is an outrage.

[78:44]We're furious.

[78:45]We're going to the capitals.

[78:46]We got our fur hats on with the horns.

[78:47]We're out of there.

[78:48]Or did this get a rolling groan?

[78:51]Capitals, plural.

[78:53]Aaron, or is this a rolling groan?

[78:56]That means this album should not be so high.

[78:58]This album is not as good as everybody thinks it is.

[79:00]And actually, you're smart for thinking that because you're like a real smart guy.

[79:04]I don't know why I said that.

[79:05]I'm so tired.

[79:05]Aaron, what do you think of this album?

[79:08]This album, is it a rolling groan, rolling bone, or rolling well-toned?

[79:11]I was really prepared to rolling.

[79:13]And rolling well-toned just means it's great.

[79:15]It's okay.

[79:15]Just as a reminder.

[79:16]Every time, Rosie.

[79:17]He's too sweet.

[79:19]He's too sweet for this podcast.

[79:20]He's too sweet for the world.

[79:22]I was really prepared to rolling groan this album because of the things we talked about,

[79:27]about the Rolling Stones liberally borrowing from blues artists.

[79:31]Oh, I thought you were so mad about the Mr. Jimmy and the story from your youth.

[79:34]Well, that's true.

[79:35]I am upset about that, but that's my own fault for being gullible.

[79:38]But it's a great listen.

[79:40]And with these bookends, it's super hard.

[79:44]Other than, as we discussed, Purple Rain, for me, it's hard to beat these bookends.

[79:49]So I got to call it rolling well-toned because when it's great, it is absolutely great.

[79:53]Matt, rolling well-toned, rolling boned, or rolling groaned?

[79:59]What do you think?

[79:59]Rolling groaned means I think it should be rated higher.

[80:03]No, rolling boned.

[80:08]Rolling boned.

[80:08]Okay.

[80:08]Rated higher, lower number.

[80:09]This is not your new bit, by the way, is asking me questions to confuse me and show I don't

[80:13]understand what's going on.

[80:14]I get confused.

[80:14]I get confused myself.

[80:16]I think this is rolling boned.

[80:18]I think this, you know, and a lot of it is personal take.

[80:21]I really like the Rolling Stones.

[80:23]Shocked face.

[80:25]I think shocked.

[80:26]Yeah.

[80:26]You know, and I think, again, I said it earlier, but this is kind of them coming out of trying

[80:31]to figure out who they are, copying everybody, sampling, taking from, and finally kind of

[80:37]getting their own voice.

[80:38]And writing their own songs and doing everything on their own.

[80:40]And they're bringing in more people, different instruments, some good piano players, some

[80:46]saxophones, stuff like that.

[80:47]And now they're kind of taken off from here where this is one of the next five albums

[80:51]or number one albums for them.

[80:53]So I think this is an album that got rolling boned and should be way higher personally

[80:58]with a lower number.

[81:00]The Rolling Stones came into their own in five years.

[81:02]That means, guys, by episode 250, yeah, we're going to be hammering this stuff.

[81:06]We're going to have this stuff figured out.

[81:08]All right, Russell, what do you think of Let It Bleed, which Aaron said he's going to tell

[81:14]a very funny joke after the theme song plays.

[81:16]I think this is going to be really good.

[81:17]Russell, what is it?

[81:18]I really love all the different instruments on each of the songs, the sax, the fiddle,

[81:24]the vibraphone, the auto harp.

[81:25]I thought all that was really cool.

[81:26]It felt like this is kind of unique and different from what we've heard.

[81:29]It felt like each song kind of was its own thing.

[81:32]So I really enjoyed it.

[81:33]Like you guys talked about, the one thing I was thinking about was the beginning and

[81:37]the end.

[81:38]And the only thing that I thought was close was The Clash.

[81:40]And so if you're going to end, if you're going to begin and start an album so strong, I've

[81:44]got to say it's rolling well-toned.

[81:47]And I think for me, the closing song is the goat of closing songs.

[81:51]I think it's the best closing song on any album we've listened to.

[81:55]The best closing.

[81:57]If you can't always get what you want ended with that, it'd be perfect.

[82:00]Guys, this is a rolling Americone.

[82:03]Okay.

[82:03]This album has USA number one, continues to be number one of all time.

[82:08]Aaron, show us that red hat you got.

[82:09]Everybody loves this album.

[82:10]It's the American dream.

[82:11]It just shows how great America is.

[82:13]Other countries, too bad, unless you download the podcast.

[82:16]And we're actually big fans.

[82:16]We love it.

[82:17]Next up, guys, I know we know that there's a role coming up.

[82:21]We have albums we love coming up.

[82:22]I think this might be one of the greatest three albums we've done in a row.

[82:25]We've loved the David Bowie album.

[82:27]Matt, I think Matt liked this album, Let It Bleed.

[82:31]I couldn't really tell.

[82:31]And next up, an album that Russell has told me he's really looking forward to talking about.

[82:37]We've got...

[82:38]Radiohead and OK Comedians.

[82:40]Yes.

[82:40]So, if that means, please don't expect a theme song for next week.

[82:46]When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time.

[82:50]Theme song, shit.

[82:50]Parody songs, what I meant to say.

[82:52]God damn it.

[82:53]But you're just too lazy to look it up online.

[82:54]Okay, start over the podcast.

[82:55]This is where I start it.

[82:56]Sorry.

[82:57]If you want to hear from guys who chat and then they get off track.

[83:02]I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack.

[83:06]I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack.

[83:08]I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack.

[83:08]Did you guys know that when Aaron got really into the Wu-Tang, he got this Rolling Stones

[83:14]and the song Cream Confused and his Raw Gonna Give It To You hashtag, the thing he always

[83:19]would end every chat with was, we all need someone to cream on.

[83:23]Cash rules every...

[83:26]What was it?

[83:28]Cash rules every...

[83:29]Everything around.

[83:30]Everything around me.

[83:31]Everything around me.

[83:33]Cash rules every squirt around me.

[83:34]Perfect.

[83:35]You didn't need much cash for a squirt.

[83:36]It was like $1.06 or something.

[83:38]Cash rules every...

[83:40]That was Aaron's lefty.

[83:43]Just the real life slamming.

[83:45]What the hell is he talking about?