Jay-Z: The Blueprint (2001)

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

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

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

[00:14]all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better

[00:19]we are 10 of the way through after today rob's mom did it this is album 50 the blueprint by jay

[00:28]z all right so guys i i just want to know let you know that we did have a little bit of an audio

[00:35]problem with the last episode okay here we go ready last week on beck did it better

[00:41]hey guys i need an actual timeout i need an actual timeout i got a recording problem going on here

[00:50]my my counter stopped on my on my recording so i'm gonna have to like this is wrong guys i lost

[00:56]the i rob i'm

[00:58]i hope you're recording this on zoom rob because i something got fucked up i lost the first half of

[01:03]my

[01:03]on the last episode aaron's on the chick day

[01:14]said it was because his mic broke down

[01:19]we're about halfway through the outcast episode when aaron looked down and then he said oh no

[01:27]he said i think my mic broke down

[01:28]but really it was he never turned it on it's too bad because rob worked so hard on the podcast

[01:35]and aaron says no those guys can eat my ass started the show aaron started off slow he had

[01:41]a can and a string instead of a microphone yeah but now we're all the way up to episode number 50

[01:46]and at least now aaron uses an iphone 3 aaron doesn't care how he sounds on the podcast but

[01:52]we can't kick him off because we need his laugh

[01:55]yeah

[01:55]aaron sounds good

[01:58]aaron sounds good

[01:58]aaron sounds good

[02:28]all right welcome everybody to beck dead better we're all the way up to album number 50 we're

[02:33]talking about jay-z the blueprint we've got three guys here whose dick game is sponsored by nerf

[02:38]i've got matt north dakota matt how are you doing excellent thanks for having me rob yeah he's fired

[02:45]up i got russell in miniat minnesota how are you doing russell rob we're running this pod shit m-a-t-t

[02:51]we're running this pod shit aaron i don't care what our listeners say your food takes are not

[02:58]aaron and i've got aaron who is all excited for this album because he heard it was full of piss tracks

[03:07]aaron in california how are you doing what piss tracks

[03:11]i'm glad russell mentioned that because i gotta be honest you guys i love this album like cooked

[03:17]food and i'm excited to talk about it with you guys nice there you go just wait my kid came in

[03:23]right when i was saying piss tracks then put the dog in there so parent of the year once again

[03:28]gotta explain to road well see a piss track is like a diss track it's like it's like why are

[03:32]you saying piss track and everybody was just staring at you blankly and it's like no sweetie

[03:35]this is a podcast it's very very important all right let's get right into it let's get into

[03:39]voicemail so stupid check my ass voicemail listeners they can't even tell what we're doing

[03:45]yeah turns out i screwed up the voicemail they're just the dumbest of the dumb all right

[03:50]hey boys it's krista but sarah doesn't really want to talk

[03:58]um i have a question for you what was the first cd you ever owned i'll go first mine was the

[04:07]soundtrack to the broadway version of joseph and the amazing technicolor dream coach now my mom

[04:15]actually bought one that did not feature don azman so i had to go return that to the store and get

[04:20]the correct one your turn so i will say this joseph the amazing technicolor dream coat was a

[04:28]for approximately eight years i had the entire thing memorized i saw that i saw the show

[04:33]unbelievable it was red and yellow and green and brown and blue

[04:38]and one of the saddest moments i ever had is when i taught in my old high school and it turns out

[04:45]two years after i graduated guess what play they did it was joseph and the amazing technicolor

[04:50]dream coat i could have been in it i would have been joseph i'm like donny osmond xxl i could

[04:55]have done it uh but what was the first cd you owned it was the first cd i ever owned it was

[04:58]aaron i can't wait to hear this story what was the first cd you owned michael jackson dangerous

[05:03]that's the first one that i owned that i bought with money first one that i listened to on repeat

[05:08]was i stole my dad's copy of the motown greatest hits so that was the first time i listened to a

[05:13]lot but the first one that was mine was michael jackson dangerous what was on dangerous what was

[05:16]that one remember the time that song was i love that song i've talked about this before then when

[05:23]that song came out that was like the height of michael jackson they did the video where you've

[05:27]got magic jackson and the first cd you owned it was the first cd you owned it was the first cd

[05:28]johnson and arsenio all in the video that video was huge at the time so that's a great that's a

[05:34]great first cd i think i remember i saw that black and white video on tv and when he beat up the car

[05:38]i went outside and did the same thing it changed my life forever i was totally scarred by it i was

[05:44]like i just want to watch the simpsons now i'm turning into a car and now i'm turning into a

[05:47]puma and walking around what i mean it's you you talked about beating up a car have you guys ever

[05:52]heard the story of how aaron and i went and destroyed a car this is a great story what

[05:58]in college there was this guy who went to college with us and he set up this

[06:02]this huge what was it called a scavenger hunt it was called trick of decathlon mania and so he had

[06:09]he had like a hundred things that you had to do and you had different points for them and they

[06:15]were a variety of things one was have a seance to andre the giant in the chapel when no one was

[06:20]around one was to reenact an american gladiators thing scene one was for someone to take a shot of

[06:28]salt a shot of salt and a shot of ramen powder and you had to have video evidence of all these

[06:33]things now now can i ask you real quick back then how did you take video because it's not like phones

[06:37]were just tons of video like what did you have did you have like a big did you have the camcorder

[06:41]with the bcr tapes that go right in you know what i mean like it's this huge like the camera's just

[06:46]giant i drove home to get my mom's camcorder for the weekend and we used that we used the camcorder

[06:52]and what was really embarrassing is one of the things was someone had to wear nothing but pudding

[06:58]aaron of course volunteered first to be the guy who wears nothing but pudding yeah so we do have

[07:02]a video in my mom's vhs player aaron walking out of a dorm room buck naked with nothing but pudding

[07:11]on his junk it's like russell's birth and they were taped over it to show aaron like i'm like

[07:15]it starts with like you know keep pushing keep pushing this is gonna be great and that's just

[07:19]aaron walking out of a dorm room covered in pudding be like damn this was a two-day scavenger

[07:26]hunt though you had 48 hours to

[07:28]complete it and the winning team the winning team got a thousand dollars when you're in college i

[07:32]know it's what you could have six people on the team but it was a thousand dollar prize for the

[07:37]winner did you buy in was that the deal no buy-in no buy-in i think he got money from the college or

[07:42]i don't know how he did it awesome yeah so we did a lot of these things the first day we kind of

[07:48]struggled but aaron and i the thing that had the most points on the whole thing was to cut the top

[07:54]off of a hard top car cut the top off of

[07:58]a hard top car so aaron and i are like let's do this so we call a local junkyard okay and we say

[08:03]can we come out and cut the top off one of your cars and the guy's like i don't give a shit what

[08:08]do whatever you want yeah so aaron and i were so stupid excuse me junkyard sir we're from the local

[08:14]liberal arts college and we're wondering if could we come down there and please please please let us

[08:18]cut the top of your car and he's like fuck whatever i don't care that's exactly how it went yeah but

[08:22]yeah but aaron made it aaron made us do it in like acapella singing because aaron was a music major

[08:27]so the whole time we're like oh my god i don't care i don't care i don't care i don't care i don't care

[08:28]i'll cut the roof

[08:30]thanks for joining guys just russell and i duo i was just enjoying you yeah so aaron and i we go

[08:41]to the local hardware store we buy a hacksaw like some like 20 saw because we're like no so

[08:47]hacksaw jim duggan we drive 20 minutes out to this this thing and we talk to the guys like

[08:53]yeah that's the car go for it so we walk out there in this junkyard and we start sawing

[08:58]on the top of this car as hard as we can and we're going we're sawing on this thing for probably like

[09:02]10 minutes and it we didn't even make the slightest dent in the top oh that junkyard

[09:07]guy was probably filming you for the junkyard truck but they got a cathalon yes get two idiots

[09:12]to try to saw with a handsaw through a car we're gonna cut with this the funniest thing was he was

[09:17]also in an acapella group so him and his buddies were there watching it it's like oh these guys are

[09:22]idiots

[09:23]are you guys doing around yeah no

[09:27]but so anyways so the guy finally comes out and he's like you know i'll rent you a sawzall if you

[09:33]guys want like he felt bad for us because we couldn't cut the top off or whatever right yeah

[09:37]yeah so he finally we aaron and i rented a sawzall from this guy for 20 bucks and we cut that shit

[09:42]right off we cut the whole top off of the car straight up and down and then you won right you

[09:47]won a thousand bucks actually no we lost but at least we got that on video that's on video and

[09:54]aaron wearing nothing but pudding is on video i have i have video evidence

[09:57]we did also one of the tasks was to acquire viagra and we did acquire viagra and then no one was bold

[10:04]enough to try taking it everyone was a great coward i mean guys imagine just imagine having

[10:12]a rock hard erection what for four hours oh and then and then aaron aaron's acapella group would

[10:20]come in and start singing be like rock hard erection rock hard erection we're waiting for

[10:27]you man

[10:27]oh i don't know i don't i don't know how to do rounds guys i don't know

[10:31]sorry no why did we start talking about this great question i was wondering the question was

[10:44]what was the first cv you owned you're lucky that when the junkyard you're lucky that when

[10:50]the junkyard guy is like if you want to rent a saw that he wasn't like would you like to play a game

[10:54]you're like yeah actually we are we're cutting a saw off the car

[10:57]oh that sounds like a good game the game is what was your first cd can you imagine being

[11:06]hacksaw jim duggan you're like okay i'm jim duggan i'm going to be hacksaw jim duggan it's like okay

[11:11]well what do you want to carry out into the ring and he's like better take this two by four and

[11:14]this american flag it's like well don't you want a hacksaw oh no no no no much too dangerous i want

[11:19]this two by four an american flag this'll well that guy's got a snake over there yeah he's jake

[11:25]the snake that makes sense you're hacksaw jim duggan

[11:27]you have a two by four you should be lumber lumberyard jones damn it i'll never be famous

[11:33]i cannot think of things off the top of my head very quickly um there was a grocery store in

[11:37]vermont that just had a picture of hacksaw jim duggan by the deli counter and he looks so

[11:42]fucked up it was like way post like super drug use hacksaw jim duggan he was like

[11:46]that was i was like i'll take a half pound of roast beef uh all right so that was a great

[11:53]voicemail thank you very much for calling in i appreciate it matt what was your first cd i think

[11:57]i say did we answer any questions there matt what was your first cd like i got two at the same time

[12:01]i got the cranberries no need to argue the original z hanbei um and then stone temple pilots purple

[12:09]i know russell's i mine was either i'm pretty sure it's ll cool j mama said knock you out the

[12:15]only other one it could have been is rex in effect that was my guess okay so mac got stp i had jimmy

[12:24]hendrix russell had rex and effects rump shaker and rosie what was yours at the time

[12:31]oh yeah i mean i think you can tell what kind of person you are just by the first cd you won't like

[12:39]i think that very much puts you into like a lane for the rest of your life like oh russell loves

[12:44]the rump is that what you're saying i mean look at russell if you put a sign on him right now that

[12:49]said rump shaker everybody be like sure that sounds good to me i yeah i mean he looks like

[12:53]the ultimate rump shaker

[12:54]russell i'd pay to see that rump shake all right all right let me tell you hold on are you guys

[12:59]gonna are you guys gonna do some acapella background music or not all i want to do is

[13:04]shake that rump rob if you were in the acapella group would you have to be the bass guy the real

[13:12]low bass no didn't you hear that didn't you hear the opening song he can hit those high i know

[13:16]if you want to hear about the greatest story of all time story can't even do the fucking words

[13:24]today actually you know what i should say this i have a friend who is joining the new york gay choir

[13:29]and they will also take on allies and so she wants me that's one day a week and i was thinking about

[13:35]joining i don't know i haven't been in a choir since i was like 12 but i thought it would be

[13:38]super fun and plus it's like lesbians i'm like choirs and lesbians this is my dream come true

[13:46]this is what i'm talking about my mom said to me once she's like what would you think if your kid

[13:49]was a lesbian i'd be like oh thank god because i know me and i know my friends and i'm like a great

[13:53]guy i'm a great guy you guys hear the things that get edited out of this podcast it's terrible

[13:58]the people who requested the dirty versions of my song will not talk to me anymore

[14:01]like they haven't called in have no they have not called in they are permanently scarred they're

[14:06]like oh this is what rob's really like this is very very bad from minneapolis i'm calling you

[14:10]out specifically yeah yeah call back in i promise i won't make i don't make any more songs like that

[14:15]that was a joke it was an extreme it's a character i keep telling people it's a character i mean to

[14:19]be fair i almost quit the podcast when i heard what matt does in the privacy in his own

[14:23]own bedroom on that song that was brutal it was yeah it was disgusting and and who knew that you

[14:28]could even do that who knew that i was that i was that flexible right yeah i didn't know that you

[14:34]were flexible at all and you think the iphones keep getting bigger and bigger it'd be harder to

[14:37]do but i don't know all right let's get into rolling going it's time to see what everybody's

[14:46]time for rolling going oh yeah all right i'm

[14:53]the main host so i'll go first today i will tell you right now beck did it better is officially on

[14:58]tiktok we are on tiktok we have an account on tiktok if you want to see the clips that i've

[15:05]also posted on instagram uh that i haven't made for like two and a half months now or

[15:09]pics of people grilling uh which are much less popular our our instagram our podcast ones have

[15:15]like a thousand clicks the grilling one has like three it's very depressing but the reason i got

[15:20]on tiktok is that my cousins have kids who are like

[15:23]legitimate viral tiktok stars they are to the point where they get free swimsuits and sunglasses

[15:29]and stuff like that and they were visiting me here at the cabin and they did a video

[15:33]when they first got here of a seven second dance that video is now at 28 million views

[15:38]none of my none of my dates have been impressed with my seven second dance i gotta be honest with

[15:43]you they weren't impressed with the seven seconds might work for the tiktok world it has not worked

[15:48]for me do you have rump shaker playing in the background when you're doing your seven second

[15:53]it would probably make it a six second dance if i was getting into the music it would just be the

[15:57]intro there was just one rump shake there was one shake just that horn just that deep horn that's

[16:05]coming in at the beginning of that song and then it's like wait what that was it i don't remember

[16:11]so much muffled sobbing in the middle of rump shaker but i guess that's the way it goes oh so

[16:17]that's my cousins or my cousins once removed if you want to be technical we're like hey i know

[16:22]what's going to make a great video and i'm going to make a great video and i'm going to make a great

[16:23]viral video and that is let's add my 41 year old uncle in a speedo and then another one where i got

[16:30]so i did one in a speedo tiktok censored it they wouldn't put it out for four days they thought it

[16:35]was too much so i did another one in shorts and then they actually released both of them

[16:38]both of those videos are currently at about 32 000 views so i did you know for for all these

[16:44]times i've not want to been viral during this covid stuff and all of a sudden i want to go

[16:47]viral and it's not happening it just i i have totally failed going viral rob rob they have

[16:53]no communication for most of these things i've in one of my seven second romps i they fixed that

[16:58]virally it's not there for the rest of your life i don't care i'm married like i said remember we

[17:04]can get herpes from the peloton if anybody that's our that's our line so i what i will say though is

[17:10]that i have to i have to tell you tiktok the comments that i got on this video if you are a big

[17:15]fat guy in a speedo will make you feel so good it is incredible how horny people are in tiktok they

[17:22]are horny and they are desperate and so let me tell you some of the comments that i got

[17:26]with me in the middle in a speedo doing a dance ready let's hear it damn where do i find this man

[17:33]sunglasses emoji the guy in the white chair is beefy and then the emoji where the the smiley

[17:39]face is licking its lips oh beefy yeah nice uh so this one said okay this is my absolute favorite

[17:47]it says the one in the middle is mine with three pregnant lady emojis

[17:52]three pregnant lady that sounds like a nightmare three at one time aaron aaron turned off his video

[18:01]and he went he went into his tent to look for the pregnant lady emojis that's so weird that he would

[18:05]do that the guy in the white chair dude he's funny he got up and was like oh yeah i'm sexy

[18:10]crying face so not not as good as he's beefy but you're beefy i would say you're beefy is the one

[18:16]the beefy that i could live on your bv so now i have been addicted to actually scrolling through

[18:22]the beck did a better tiktok and just going through videos and i gotta say guys this algorithm

[18:26]has nailed me this algorithm it is incredible how fast i don't like or anything i just am like

[18:33]sitting there there are now two kinds of videos on the tiktok for the beck did a better feed

[18:38]one is uh uh pimple popping videos giant blackhead cysts all of us i thought we

[18:48]weren't doing this i saw one where it was getting stuff out of an ear it blew my mind it was like

[18:52]45 seconds i know like you're like just like serving mad up here i don't get it then the other

[18:58]kind of videos that for some reason were to me were like these pseudo lesbian videos where like

[19:02]these girls were just about to kiss and then they'd act like they're not gonna kiss and i was

[19:06]like this is incredibly hot i can't believe i was like look how look at how awesome this is i was

[19:11]like this is everything i wanted growing up and then next is a lesbian video and i'm like whoa

[19:16]this is great too i like this as well like these videos were i was making a joke you fuckers about

[19:22]so like we're on a podcast guys we can like talk about stuff or we can

[19:29]whatever i'm asking you you said there was a joke in there i don't know where it came from

[19:33]okay i'm gonna redo it are you ready for this rosie are you ready for this yeah so i was

[19:38]watching one video right right and i was like oh my god i was like that's so hot i was like look at

[19:43]that oh it's great man look at this look at that look at the size of those things oh and then the

[19:52]so the first one is the pimple popping video yeah i hear you what we have here is a failure

[20:00]to communicate i was trying to make it sound like you would think the first video was lesbian video

[20:04]but then it turned out as a pimple popping video oh i get it oh because you turned on by the pimples

[20:09]popping yeah jesus christ i get it rob no it's good i honestly tried this joke out on a friend

[20:16]at lunch and she laughed at it okay so i was like oh this is gonna be great and i come here and you

[20:21]four you three are just

[20:21]staring at me like i think this is why the tiktok is for like the 20 year olds yeah you might be

[20:28]out of your element here rob yeah uh listen if watching lesbians and pimple popping is wrong

[20:32]i don't want to be right lock me up and throw away the key so that is that is my uh rolling

[20:39]going russell rolling going how's it going with you rolling going i may need to go to the dating

[20:44]corner can i go to the advice corner for a little bit i definitely need some advice

[20:51]russell's advice corner oh yeah my advice is if you have a good joke don't try to tell it on this

[20:57]show yeah aaron keep him to yourself when it comes to dating apps you guys have never been able to

[21:05]use dating apps i know rob is very jealous of this aaron is jealous but he always talks about

[21:09]it after we're done recording aaron you were telling me about ashley madison what's that

[21:14]i'm not familiar no it's a dating app for married guys i heard about it i heard about online

[21:21]i think i read about it but anyways i i started thinking you know when you're into dating apps

[21:28]people they you focus so much on pictures people are always swiping on pictures but

[21:32]so often people don't read what is actually written on there so what i thought i could

[21:37]do is share some of the profiles i've came across over the last week and some of what

[21:41]was written on there and then you guys could tell me is this someone i should be swiping

[21:45]on or someone who's not okay wow so the two things are swipe or not no

[21:51]we're gonna make this even more fun okay as you guys also know this podcast came out in the middle

[21:56]of the olympics are you guys big olympics fans or not oh yes oh yeah so what what i thought we could

[22:01]do is play a game called tinder gold tinder silver or tinder bronze so i'm gonna give you guys each

[22:08]of these pick these lines oh what's that oh i like this music i love it oh sorry i was watching

[22:15]i was watching a pimple popping video just wait yeah this one's six to midnight for me all summer

[22:21]yeah and this this will be the song that gets our uh pod kicked off everything john williams is

[22:26]coming for us yeah okay we'll copy et next week anyway so what i thought we would do is i'm going

[22:32]to give you guys a line and you're going to tell me this is a gold line i got a swipe on her okay

[22:38]this is a silver line or silver metal swipe the other way not good enough or a bronze metal i

[22:45]just need to cancel my my subscription okay gold silver or bronze you guys interpret it how

[22:51]however you would like the first line i came across that i thought you guys would like is

[22:55]one day some guy's gonna come see me eating a whole rotisserie chicken with my bare hands in

[23:01]my parked car and think that's her that's the one what type of metal would you give to that the lady

[23:07]who's eating the whole rotisserie chicken in her parked car if she would have stopped with the whole

[23:12]rotisserie chicken maybe silver maybe gold yeah then she said then she kind of kept going and so

[23:19]she's a bronze no

[23:20]that's a gold oh yeah no listen you got some woman who's talking about eating a rotisserie

[23:25]chicken in the car gold gold gold gold gold swipe swipe swipe a gold is a super swipe a gold is a

[23:32]super swipe you say super swipe i think that's absolutely a super swipe rosie what do you think

[23:35]yeah gold i mean you can hang on the rotisserie chicken like that's that's that's a great place

[23:40]to start your day yeah rosie's getting on ashley madison right now as we speak so he can get out he

[23:45]can meet this woman chicken that's like a nice breakfast with some coffee and then you can get

[23:49]going on the rest of your day

[23:50]yeah hey why are you why do you have why do you have why is that wet spot in the front of your

[23:55]pants uh i was eating a rotisserie chicken in my car i forgot to turn my my fanny pack around it

[24:01]was sitting on my rump shaker if you will the next one that i came across that i figured this

[24:07]is a music podcast we had to touch on this this one said hungarian hick hungarian hippie with

[24:13]rockabilly tendencies what the hell are rockabilly tendencies you swipe is that a gold silver bronze

[24:20]tendencies go ahead rob play the song in the background and yep she is the uh the honky tonk

[24:27]man that's some rockabilly isn't it if she's playing this in the background when she pulls

[24:33]up in her car to pick you up russell that's a goal yeah russell you get picked up in your car and this

[24:38]is and her hair sling back i'm coming to your town well maybe not if she had long sideburns

[24:46]everything else yep aaron what do you think hungarian hick hippie with rockabilly

[24:50]tendencies i'm conflicted so i'm gonna give it a silver because the hungarian part makes me think

[24:54]like maybe she could cook up some nice goulash i feel that the rockabilly tendencies could be

[24:59]interesting if she can really come through with like what she loves about rockabilly but if she

[25:04]doesn't have any specifics about rockabilly tunes she digs on then she's just making making funny

[25:09]quips and nobody has time for that russell that's a that's a bronze out of bronze yeah here we go

[25:14]we got to get a better medal here gold silver or bronze here's the next one i want to be the girl

[25:20]will conquer your heart and rumple your sheets conquer your heart and rumple your sheets what

[25:26]medal do you give her matt and it doesn't like that she feels i'm gonna go with silver intrigued

[25:31]like like like rosie said she's kind of it's right in the middle so yeah i don't know the yeah i'm

[25:37]gonna go with silver what do you think guys conquer your heart and rumple your sheets i know that you're

[25:42]looking for a deeper connection in life but i think if if they're mentioning the sheets you know maybe

[25:50]maybe you just give it a swipe just to just to see what what it's all about aaron i'm sorry but

[25:54]is it a gold a silver that's a gold i gotta say a silver i don't know all right here's here's the

[26:02]next one we're talking about beds this could maybe pertain to a water bed if you will this one said

[26:07]she said take me swimming or on a boat because i'm aquatic as fuck gold silver or bronze take

[26:14]me swimming or on a boat because i'm aquatic as fuck i'll tell you what that's gonna get a gold

[26:19]and that's a gold medal for some pee play and i think that's what she's saying in that whole thing

[26:23]and i think don't ask just be like all right i'm down for what you're saying and then just show up

[26:28]with like rubber sheets and like a wet suit and she'll be like wait what what did you think i

[26:33]meant i'm gonna go bronze unless you have a boat that you can take this person out on or you're

[26:37]willing to go swimming it's it seems very clear this is going to be an aquatic it's going to be

[26:42]a nautical theme kind of date so unless that's what you're in for i'd say a bronze i too i don't

[26:49]only because i would be afraid of what i'd find out because i think rob's long i think rob's got

[26:54]this right there's some uh secret language that we don't know about here and some some words that

[26:59]are you know lead to something that we're not sure about so i'm i'm scared to be honest with

[27:03]you russell i'm gonna go with the bronze hey i'm russ i'm here to piss on you wait what i'm just

[27:09]trying the more direct stuff now guys to make you laugh i don't know this is everybody wonders why

[27:13]i have to be so dirty it's because you just sit there well i'm desperate one of the things as you

[27:19]we've talked about aaron's is a culinary culinary tastes and this one kind of touches on that she

[27:25]says all right f the whole dating process just move your shit in take your pants off i'm making

[27:31]waffles gold silver or bronze move in take your pants off i'm making waffles i'm gonna go with

[27:39]silver only for the direct uh you know i think sometimes in life you have to take the bull by

[27:44]the horns and just put it out there what you want you know and try to go for it so you know

[27:49]again i don't know if it's the if it's quite reaches gold but because she took the initiative

[27:53]i'm gonna go with the silver on that one i gotta say a waffle maker and my pants off that sounds

[27:58]like all sorts of trouble going on there i gotta go silver just because i'm a little nervous what's

[28:04]going on there i think it would be almost too tempting i mean think about what that because

[28:08]i'll tell you what sometimes after i go to the bathroom when i'm tucking my stuff back into my

[28:11]fly it does look like the waffle batter that's coming out of the sides you know and i kind of

[28:15]have to poke it back in to get it all in there so i'm going to give that a silver

[28:19]because i'm too nervous about that i'm curious to see how aaron's going to come down on this

[28:23]because i believe waffles are high carb and maybe have gluten so here's the thing wait i need gluten

[28:28]he hates gluten folks bagel today i had a brioche uh bun for my impossible burger tonight so here's

[28:35]the thing all in the bathroom rob assumes that she has a waffle maker in which case i say gold

[28:41]but if she's just talking about some freezer waffles to throw in the toaster

[28:45]okay you can do that yourself so i'm going to say silver until i understand exactly what the

[28:49]waffle situation lego my ego right okay aaron let me ask you a question do you think russ almost

[28:54]have a toaster does that yeah i don't know the blender you think sorry oh i fucked that up let's

[28:59]try that again i'm going to strike that question for the record i was going to ask if you have a

[29:02]waffle maker but i think we all know the answer go ahead ross like keep going all right here's

[29:06]the last one we'll finish up on this is the the closing ceremonies of the games right here this

[29:11]is the final question this is the 100 meter dash this is the big one here was what she put on the

[29:19]she says i'm looking for an extremely wait and you think that's good that she was kicked off

[29:24]so that's not we're not going to talk about that no keep going keep going russell all right here's

[29:31]what she says gold silver bronze so you look like an extremely hard worker and i have an opening for

[29:38]you you look like an extremely hard worker and i have an opening for you this is a dating app

[29:46]right this is not like starbucks looking for a

[29:48]bronze that's a job application you don't think she has an opening rosie that's your

[29:53]she could be hiring aaron why do you say it like that i think it's not even a real person

[29:58]it's a bot russell quit this podcast and go reply to that person right now

[30:05]matt any last piece of advice before we get out of the corner here

[30:12]no i uh again i appreciate the directness that she was going with there but

[30:18]um yeah i don't know i'd be scared i'd be scared russell you are talking to to three guys who have

[30:24]been stuck with their families so we are totally asexual for this whole summer i would email

[30:28]message that woman and be like listen i will do this job with my knees on the ground floor

[30:33]i will put my nose to your grindstone i am willing to do whatever it takes to get this hand job

[30:38]okay so please reply with that all right that was funny rob there was a funny one rob you got

[30:44]that was funny rob we acknowledge that joke we acknowledge each other

[30:48]thank you no mom it was like the grindstone it was like the the other clip

[30:52]oh she poked her head in sorry she wants to be part of this podcast and i was like no you don't

[30:57]get to everybody hated you on the best of mom that's what i told her so she didn't get too

[31:01]big of a head she wants to be the star of the show no mom that's me she just yelled at us to

[31:05]get out of the corner we should probably get out of the corner that's it time's up get out of the

[31:12]corner i like that all of us wouldn't just immediately swipe whatever is good on the app like to

[31:18]all those we'd be like don't care don't care don't care well it'd be a short bit if we'd ever

[31:23]it would just be yeah if it was really we'd be like we'd be like oh wait she wants a relationship

[31:32]bronze just here to hold hands i don't think so uh rolling going rosie how's it going with you

[31:40]i'm pretty good um i'm recovering i went to the dentist this morning i got the

[31:45]shit kicked out of me at the dentist it was not a

[31:48]pleasant uh experience so did not enjoy that but uh on the bright side

[31:54]around the corner from my dentist can i ask you a question rosie real quick

[31:59]did you get x-rays today not today no the x-rays so did they let me guess did you have zero cavities

[32:07]i did have zero cavities what the fuck every time there's no x-rays every time i go in and

[32:12]there's no x-rays they're always like you're looking so good as soon as their x-rays are like

[32:18]do you see this spot i'm like no i don't see a spot they're like

[32:21]we should probably do something about that it's gonna be really expensive i'm like yeah sure i

[32:26]don't i mean without x-rays dentists i'm convinced they're just like yeah i don't know their teeth

[32:31]like they yeah they cautioned me about like oh yeah last time on your x-rays there was like a

[32:35]little bit of a spot but we're not gonna worry about that right now they're like foreshadowing

[32:38]my visit in 2022 like hey look out we're gonna be yeah no i have a lot of thoughts on that i think

[32:43]the first day of dental school they just teach you how to guilt someone for not flossing enough

[32:47]because no one ever does it enough right and so you go in and they have to guilt you about it no i

[32:52]i really i i have a i have i try to floss as much as i can and there's just weeks where i just don't

[32:57]do it and i feel so bad but i have to start doing it before dental trip otherwise as soon as they

[33:01]start poking around in there it just immediately starts bleeding they're like oh yeah you have

[33:05]you just feel the warm blood pooling up in your mouth i just got beat up at the dentist's office

[33:10]my my sister went to dental school and she said once she just reached back

[33:13]and touched the guy's tooth and it just would fell apart into his mouth and i was like oh

[33:17]also a guy once had a hypodermic needle still in his leg okay go ahead rosie tell your story

[33:22]the silver lining for me is that since uh late 2020 wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute

[33:31]time out let me interrupt again i'm gonna guess right now man don't put your head down like that

[33:35]did is your dentist it's only seven interruptions on rosie's story is just trying to get through

[33:40]dentist next to a restaurant of some sort that you're excited about you got it you know no no

[33:47]you came for the soul you couldn't get that air out that hot pocket all right i'm gonna zip down

[33:52]my pants and zip up my lips here we go my dentist is around the corner from the ono bakehouse which

[33:59]is a hawaiian bake shop in berkeley shout out ono bakehouse so my new thing is go to the dentist

[34:05]go straight to the bakery today i loaded up with a white miso rice crispy treat a chocolate tahini

[34:13]cookie uh some purikake checks mix and a spamu

[34:17]sous vide and i could have bought 20 more items so for me that's my little it's my tiny rebellion i

[34:22]gotta go there they're gonna stick the water pick in my mouth and tear apart my gums and then i'm

[34:26]gonna go eat some sugar so my question to you guys is what are the what are the small because

[34:30]here's the thing i never and not never but i didn't often get in trouble as a kid and i realized

[34:36]now as an adult that was a mistake and don't tell my son this don't tell my son but you should get

[34:41]into more trouble as a child because once you're an adult you can't do that anymore it's not a good

[34:46]idea to get into trouble

[34:47]so my tiny rebellion is i go to the dentist i go straight to the bakery need some sugar so what

[34:51]do you guys do when you need to rebel a little bit when you're feeling a little bit like

[34:55]bucking the system i'll often stop my car and get out and yell at somebody and then yell at the

[35:00]policeman that are next to us actually what i do what i like to do is anytime i'm in a drive-through

[35:05]and i highly recommend everybody starts doing this if i'm in a drive-through and you know the

[35:09]kids are usually in the car with me i'll say frank you at the end instead of thank you but

[35:14]they can't really hear it very well so i'm always like frank you and then i can

[35:17]just picture them going like what do you say thank you and my kids are so embarrassed when i do it i

[35:22]go frank you that and if i'm ever going through a drive-through and i order a bunch of meals and

[35:27]my wife is in the car i'll always say yep that's all she wants at the end so there'll be like three

[35:32]meals i go yeah that's all she wants and then the way they get there they kind of look good

[35:35]i get a kick out of that i kind of had a little bit of a you know kind of goes down this line

[35:42]rosie one of my i i i think i grew up eating a lot of mcdonald's and

[35:46]i just love mcdonald's i just i don't eat it anymore because i know it's just

[35:50]not good for matt you know everybody else can do whatever you want you know so i i don't have

[35:57]egg mcmuffins i don't have sausage mcmuffins on it but i love mcdonald's breakfast so

[36:03]this weekend uh around monday i golfed in the tournament up here in minot right and got

[36:08]absolutely blasted stayed over at one of sarah's cousins had to get up at like six o'clock to get

[36:13]home um had to go to walmart pick up groceries all this stuff and i just love mcdonald's and

[36:16]stuff so i'm gonna i'm gonna get you know i'm hung over i'm gonna get a mcdonald's yes for the

[36:21]45 minute drive back to the cabin right perfect hangover food go in line order my sausage mcmuffin

[36:28]with egg get an extra hash brown give me a coffee with two creams right i'm hung over listening to

[36:34]little k fan because i haven't listened to k fan in two weeks i just got on the i heart radio

[36:38]you know i'm going down the road get about five miles down the road okay sandwich is probably

[36:42]good enough to eat right so i open that sandwich up take the first bite

[36:46]and they didn't put any sausage in my sausage

[36:48]and so i haven't had i haven't had a mcdonald's breakfast exactly and like i don't know 18 months

[36:58]you know two years something like that and i'm this is when i'm gonna have it and then they

[37:02]didn't put any of that that's a heartbreaking story in my what didn't they put in your egg

[37:08]mcmuffin sausage that's what i call my penis oh man

[37:16]What? I thought we were beyond this.

[37:18]Now Matt's doing it too.

[37:19]Why don't I just say, why don't I say

[37:21]I would be driving by that

[37:24]McDonald's just like this. Just like Aaron going by

[37:26]his dentist with all his sugary foods. They're looking

[37:28]out the window like shaking their heads.

[37:30]The problem is I'm already into the cornfields.

[37:32]You know, you're not

[37:34]going to turn around again to go give as much

[37:36]as you want to. Even if you caught it in the parking lot, would you turn

[37:38]around? I mean, that's one of the things. Are you a

[37:40]talker or a walker? Like at some point, you

[37:42]just got to be like, that's what I get.

[37:44]That's the risk. That's the downfall of the

[37:46]that's the downfall of the drive-thru, right?

[37:48]Like whoever really

[37:49]you can't check anything in time.

[37:52]I don't think. I mean, I don't know. Maybe you do, but

[37:54]no, you can't sit there.

[37:55]If you are, you are a monster.

[37:57]You're the person who digs through the bag

[37:59]in the drive-thru. It checks everything.

[38:01]You're a monster. Listen, it's like

[38:03]it's like sitting on a Peloton seat.

[38:05]It is a gamble that you are going to take when

[38:07]you drive through a drive-thru window. You don't

[38:09]know what you're going to get. You've got to be careful.

[38:11]But guess what? Like I went

[38:13]through, I ordered something. I got a totally different

[38:15]meal and I was like, okay, that's the way it goes.

[38:17]Like I spun the wheel, didn't get what I wanted,

[38:19]but guess what? I'm going to eat this, you know,

[38:21]chicken sandwich with extra lettuce or whatever the guy

[38:23]ordered. Psycho order, by the way.

[38:25]So that's

[38:27]my guilty pleasure every once in a great while,

[38:29]Rosie, and it turned out horrible.

[38:31]What's your secret rebellion, which I think is what the

[38:33]actual question was, but I like man.

[38:35]I think this is too tough. I think I live in a

[38:37]world where I have too many secret rebellions.

[38:39]So when you guys have your

[38:41]secret rebellion, I think everything

[38:43]I do is a rebellion. And then

[38:45]yeah,

[38:45]it it's an abnormal for me to

[38:47]do things the way I should be doing it. So

[38:49]I don't even think I can. I don't even relate

[38:51]to like going out, drawing outside

[38:53]the lines because I feel like I do that all

[38:55]the time. And I'm just trying to do something

[38:57]right once in a while. You're kind of reverse it about

[38:59]you, right? Like you, you rebel against everything.

[39:01]So anything normal is your rebellion.

[39:02]I think so. You're like, let's go crazy tonight. We're

[39:05]going to do loving vaginal sex

[39:06]while

[39:09]we listen to rump shaker

[39:10]tune. We got to get that horn.

[39:15]That's a rum shaker.

[39:16]Yeah, I'm sorry. I wanted to laugh.

[39:19]I was taking a drink of water. That would have

[39:21]been the end of the podcast for me. No, no, no,

[39:23]no, no, no, no. You know what? Feel free. Don't laugh.

[39:25]And if you could make sure to unplug

[39:27]your mic day again, just don't laugh at anything. I say

[39:29]this is great. I love it. It's my

[39:31]favorite part. I love what do I love?

[39:33]I love staying up late. Yeah,

[39:35]I love staying up late and then going to a podcast where

[39:37]nobody laughs to be even my co-host.

[39:39]You know,

[39:41]there's there must be tens of laughs

[39:43]among our hundreds of listeners. You don't know.

[39:45]No, Rob, you at least have to give us

[39:47]credit. We are authentic. We are. We are genuine

[39:49]and authentic. We laugh when you earn it. We

[39:51]don't when you don't. If you thought either

[39:53]my Russell vaginal joke was funny

[39:54]or my tech talk blackheads

[39:57]got to keep that in now. Shit

[39:59]the tick tock blackheads lesbian

[40:01]video. If you think that was funny, can you just

[40:03]text the best line? Hashtag funny.

[40:04]I would appreciate it. By the way, Russell, we did get

[40:07]10 texts with hashtag strap

[40:09]your hands across my engine. So I am going to need that picture

[40:11]of you in a motorcycle so I can text that

[40:13]out to the one person who texted me 10 times.

[40:15]They did find a loophole, so they

[40:19]are going to get a picture of Russell on a motorcycle. So

[40:21]Russell, please send me that. I will. I will

[40:23]blur out your face and send it.

[40:25]If it's a lady, I will definitely pick you up

[40:27]on that motorcycle. Let me

[40:29]think about that. That is definitely it was definitely

[40:31]not

[40:32]a lady

[40:34]to ride on a motorcycle.

[40:36]All right. So Matt rolling going.

[40:41]How's it going with you? Good. Good.

[40:43]I got a short list this week.

[40:45]Posted or a page of paper.

[40:47]That's what I call my penis.

[40:49]I got a word doc this week.

[40:50]I just typed it up on a word doc. Electronic.

[40:53]Oh, not even a doc X. You're like doing word

[40:55]98, huh? That's for all my

[40:57]office heads out there. What are you talking

[40:59]about? Yeah. Microsoft

[41:01]works in your face.

[41:02]Microsoft works. My God, you're going way back.

[41:05]Sorry, Matt.

[41:07]Microsoft office. Microsoft works

[41:09]was like the version you bought when you didn't. You didn't

[41:11]quite want to spend enough for Microsoft words. You're like, oh,

[41:13]I got works. Then you bring it to school.

[41:15]On a floppy disk. It just doesn't work with anything.

[41:17]You're like, oh, no. Okay, go ahead.

[41:18]Let's

[41:21]see. Where do we lead off? Baseball

[41:23]all-star game was this week. That used to

[41:25]be a huge thing in my life. I could care

[41:27]less at this point. Yeah. And I'm kind of

[41:29]all of a sudden feeling a little nostalgic

[41:31]like I'm missing out on something. But again,

[41:33]something happened to me as a child. I think

[41:35]oh, sorry.

[41:36]That's really bad. I mean,

[41:38]I feel the same way because then when I saw Vladito

[41:41]won the MVP, I felt like I should have watched,

[41:43]but I did not watch.

[41:45]Yeah. Matt, did you used to watch

[41:47]for like the Minnesota twin? Because

[41:49]every in the all-star game, there's always

[41:51]a player from every team. And don't you remember Matt

[41:53]when, whenever it would be knob

[41:55]blocker pocket or whoever would come in, you were always

[41:57]ready for the one or two twins

[41:59]that were in the game. Is that what you remember? The twins

[42:01]were so bad in the nineties that it was just Brad

[42:03]Radke every year. He

[42:05]was horrible himself. And so

[42:06]like 12 Jones goes in

[42:09]there. Yeah, I think

[42:11]I do love the all-star game because

[42:13]every time the twins almanac Twitter account will,

[42:15]they'll post Kirby pocket stuff, which gives me a great

[42:17]chance. I was back at it the other day, commenting

[42:18]under any post having to do with Kirby pocket, causing

[42:21]trouble in twins Twitter for no reason whatsoever.

[42:23]Go ahead.

[42:23]I just don't, I there's only 24 hours in a

[42:27]day, isn't there? I can't stay

[42:29]in my family.

[42:30]Were you a big home run derby guy too, or

[42:33]just the all-star gamer? I was

[42:34]home run derby. I mean, do you guys,

[42:36]did you ever watch, did you ever see, I don't know

[42:39]if it was like on, you know, the channel

[42:40]45 or whatever. They had those old home run

[42:43]derbies way back with black and white.

[42:45]Yeah. Yeah. You know,

[42:47]things like that. Loved home run derbies.

[42:49]We had a wiffle ball

[42:50]field in my front yard.

[42:53]We used to have home run derbies all the time.

[42:55]Tom and Mike from Richfield and my brother

[42:57]Jimmy. It was great. And so, yeah, loved

[42:59]the home run derby. What's your favorite slang

[43:01]for a home run?

[43:02]Like, like dinger.

[43:05]What? A dong.

[43:06]That's what I call my penis.

[43:09]Oh, geez.

[43:11]I'm just walking

[43:13]right into these. Matt might not laugh for your jokes,

[43:15]but he'll, he'll tee you up when you need it, Rob.

[43:17]I'm always a big sloppy tater.

[43:19]That was a sloppy tatery.

[43:20]That's what I call my penis.

[43:21]That's what I'm going to start calling my penis.

[43:24]All right.

[43:26]So, so there, a little bit

[43:29]nostalgic, a little sad, but I don't know.

[43:30]I mean, life moves on. I hear you.

[43:32]North Dakota people are

[43:35]professional drinkers. They put Wisconsin

[43:37]to shame. Oh, wow.

[43:38]Why do you say that? What's been your experience

[43:41]up there? So is it too much brandy

[43:43]or like Wisconsin's known for brandy?

[43:45]What are North Dakota people doing up there?

[43:47]I thought Wisconsin's just known for beer.

[43:48]I mean,

[43:49]No, they got their brandy old fashions.

[43:52]99% of the country's brandy is

[43:55]drank in Wisconsin. What's, what's the drink

[43:57]in North Dakota? There's

[43:59]like Bush Light, Bush

[44:01]Lattes, as they call it. There's Coors

[44:03]Light. Oh, yeah. There's

[44:04]Ultras. There's Elites.

[44:07]I mean, you know, so they're going really high on

[44:09]the, you know, they go for the quality

[44:11]of beer. You know, I don't drink beer.

[44:13]Would I be allowed into?

[44:15]North Dakota, if I have like a 12-pack of

[44:17]Trulies, like, is that

[44:19]something that's going to fly up there? What I get?

[44:20]I don't know.

[44:22]I mean, you know,

[44:24]you guys, yeah,

[44:26]half this, half this podcast

[44:28]is drinking Trulies right now. That's awesome.

[44:30]It's truly amazing.

[44:32]What time does the drinking start

[44:34]there, Matt? Is it all day long or is it, is it

[44:36]Yeah, you can't drink all day if you

[44:38]don't start in the morning.

[44:39]That's right, Rosie.

[44:40]You know I believe in that.

[44:42]I would say, you know, I would say, you know, about,

[44:45]about noon, one o'clock, and then, I mean,

[44:47]it goes for a long time, and so, yeah.

[44:49]So North Dakota, I, in my opinion,

[44:51]the North Dakotans, they can put

[44:52]Wisconsin to shame for their drinking

[44:55]abilities. That's just more of a comment than anything.

[44:57]Have you tried to keep up or have you

[44:59]just stayed on the sidelines and observed?

[45:01]See, that's the problem. You know, they come and they've got

[45:03]like 30 packs of beers

[45:04]and they bring like four of them for the weekend,

[45:07]right? And so it's almost just forced

[45:09]into your hand. I think we've talked about this last

[45:11]year, but, you know, the amount of can

[45:13]koozies that get thrown around

[45:15]and if you don't have a can koozie in your back pocket,

[45:17]I mean, you might as well, you know,

[45:19]they definitely know you voted for Biden

[45:21]if you don't have a can koozie in your back pocket.

[45:23]This is how I know we've been doing the podcast for a year, because we've had this

[45:25]exact discussion, I think. Yes, we have.

[45:27]Last time I was up here, but.

[45:28]The thing about these Struly cans is they're very

[45:30]skinny and they don't fit in those koozies real

[45:33]tight in that pocket. It's very loose.

[45:35]If I could show you. That's why I'm going to start calling them a penis.

[45:37]Yeah.

[45:37]Subway of

[45:41]Minot and Bismarck has

[45:44]cans for Struly and

[45:46]McUltras. They have can koozies for

[45:48]Struly and McUltras.

[45:50]So it's caught up here. I mean,

[45:52]again, they're professionals. They know

[45:54]what they're doing. They're equipped for all

[45:56]occasions. So even for the

[45:58]smaller guys in the world, there's a koozie out there

[46:00]is what you're saying. Yep.

[46:02]I feel better about that. Hold on.

[46:04]Hold on. They do have small

[46:06]koozies.

[46:07]That's what I call my

[46:10]penis. Oh, geez.

[46:11]Man, I got to

[46:14]stop doing that. Small koozie. I think he was an all-star

[46:16]for the twins from 2001 to 2003.

[46:18]I will say that Russell

[46:20]thinking that he and I are the small guys coming in

[46:22]with the Trulies. I like that idea that we probably would be

[46:24]the smallest guys in North Dakota, though, Russell. We're probably

[46:26]like, you know, way down toward the bottom.

[46:28]It is tough, though, isn't it? Like

[46:30]I'm at the cabin now for like a month and a half.

[46:32]Everyone kind of cycles up here and

[46:34]they're here on vacation. So every day

[46:36]it's like, oh, we got donuts. We've got ice cream.

[46:38]We've got let's party. And the girls

[46:40]and I are like living here. And so I have to

[46:42]tell the girls like we cannot have

[46:44]ice cream at lunch and ice cream at dinner.

[46:46]Like we have to pick one treat a day

[46:48]and you would think that I am

[46:50]absolutely the worst person in the world.

[46:52]I'm like, okay, you had ice cream at lunch. You cannot have it

[46:54]after dinner. They're like, what are you talking

[46:56]about? Everybody's having ice cream. I'm like, yeah, I know. They're

[46:58]going home in three days. We're stuck up here.

[47:00]I have been eating so much ice cream

[47:02]and every time I do, I'm like, oh, yeah,

[47:04]that's right. I'm lactose intolerant and I get to

[47:06]take a huge mess

[47:08]in the bathroom around my whole family. I

[47:10]mean, it is a disaster. You got to tell

[47:12]them, too, like they can't eat ice cream all summer and then

[47:14]go back to the East Coast where people

[47:16]are a bit slighter in the East Coast. They can't

[47:18]go back and be beefy. It

[47:20]won't work for them. I'm the three pregnant

[47:22]lady emojis.

[47:23]And so, yeah, we're up here. We were up here

[47:26]for two months last year. We're here for about a

[47:28]three weekend, two week kind of stint

[47:30]right now. And our

[47:32]kids, again, we're

[47:34]500 miles west of where

[47:36]Minneapolis is essentially. And so

[47:38]the sun goes down at 930. Don't dox

[47:40]everybody. Don't go try to look for Matt based on

[47:42]information. Yeah, but it stays

[47:44]you know, it stays light until like 11 out here

[47:46]because we're closer to mountain time kind of a thing.

[47:48]And so the kids are out

[47:50]here are used to being up to like 11. My

[47:52]kids, they go to bed at like 830

[47:54]you know, back home. And so we try to get

[47:56]him on this cycle. Right. And you know, we

[47:58]let him stay out until 10 o'clock. But the other

[48:00]night, then they still wake up at 6, right?

[48:02]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But Eddie, he just started

[48:04]bawling at like 10 o'clock. And

[48:06]you know, the cousins are like, what's going on?

[48:08]What happened? I go, well, he's up two and a half

[48:10]hours past his bedtime kind of, you know, when we

[48:12]normally get ready and things like that. That's your

[48:14]point, Rob. Like, yeah, you try to have

[48:16]some sort of, you can't just go balls

[48:18]of the wall the whole time. And so you

[48:20]want to be the chill dad and being the chill dad

[48:22]never works. It's never a good move.

[48:24]No, it really isn't. And

[48:26]Matt's been having truly since like 11 a.m. He's

[48:28]like, because

[48:29]I'm crying.

[48:30]The last thing, this is a music podcast.

[48:36]I didn't know. So I've heard is

[48:38]that, you know, in my love of

[48:40]documentaries and

[48:42]you know, music documentaries, I

[48:44]finally got through finishing the Tina

[48:46]Turner doc on HBO.

[48:47]And it is phenomenal.

[48:50]If anybody

[48:51]ever brings up Ike and Tina ever

[48:54]again, they should be shot like that dude should

[48:56]just never be talked about ever again.

[48:58]He's just a horrible human being. I

[48:59]don't, you know, I wouldn't say that like Tina

[49:01]Turner, somebody that I like or, you know,

[49:03]it's in my, my kind of in my repertoire

[49:06]if you will. But again, I think she's a person

[49:07]that if you see her live, she's phenomenal.

[49:09]So I don't know. I would

[49:12]highly recommend it. And it

[49:13]it's just, it's a great story. She's an

[49:15]extremely positive person who came

[49:17]out of a basically a

[49:19]number of horrible situations and

[49:21]came out and is extremely pot. So it's

[49:23]just, she's an American treasure. Everybody

[49:25]should watch it. And so that's all I got for

[49:27]this American treasure. Like we should do

[49:29]more documentaries on living American treasures.

[49:31]Yeah. Michael Jordan documentary when they, when

[49:33]they were showing him iPads of

[49:35]people talking about him is my favorite

[49:37]kind of every documentary should be like that

[49:39]should be about living people. Guess what? Dead

[49:41]people. You're dead. You're dead to me. Goodbye. I

[49:43]don't need you in a documentary. See ya. I got to give, so

[49:45]I'm going to give both Matt and Rob props here

[49:47]because when Rob used simply the

[49:49]best for the intro on the

[49:51]best of, I got a little bit

[49:53]emotional. I got a little bit choked up because

[49:55]well, because of the Schitt's Creek

[49:56]reference for me, but also

[49:59]because of the Tina Turner. And

[50:01]yeah, I mean, we, we put on

[50:03]simply the best by Tina Turner a few times

[50:05]this week and every time you put it on that song

[50:07]absolutely knocks top to bottom.

[50:09]Her performance is great. The whole thing

[50:11]is great. She is an absolute treasure. So that's a,

[50:13]I'm glad you brought that up, man. My favorite

[50:15]Tina Turner song by far.

[50:17]I think this

[50:19]song bangs. It is very good. And again,

[50:21]I'm looking at three blank faces, no laughing

[50:23]whatsoever.

[50:24]Not going to do it. I'm not doing it for

[50:27]you, Rob. You don't think Tina Turner

[50:29]singing blue is funny. To be fair,

[50:31]Rob, the blue joke started

[50:33]on episode three for

[50:35]Joni Mitchell or episode

[50:37]49. So I think

[50:39]once you hit the 45 episodes of

[50:41]those jokes, you're over the hill and

[50:43]there's a tipping point and they're done.

[50:45]And we just called her an American treasure

[50:47]and you're going to come back with blue.

[50:48]And this is the first clip on

[50:51]our behind the music. This is it. This is

[50:52]the beginning. Rob,

[50:54]let's wrap this up for you, Rob, here.

[50:59]Rob, you know, when we were talking earlier

[51:01]about things that aren't good for you that we keep

[51:03]doing, your guilty pleasures,

[51:04]you're playing of the jitterbug and blue.

[51:07]Maybe those things.

[51:09]No, I don't. No, I will never

[51:11]stop playing blue. All right.

[51:13]All right.

[51:13]So let's get into the album

[51:15]and here's a new sound clip for it.

[51:16]All right. We're talking about

[51:22]the blueprint. Okay, guys, I will make a sound

[51:25]clip for the next one. I promise. Okay. I just didn't

[51:26]have time. I'm so busy up here eating ice cream

[51:28]and then trying to figure out which bathroom the baby

[51:30]is not sleeping in so I can use that one.

[51:32]All right. So we were talking about the blueprint.

[51:34]The blueprint was released on 9-11

[51:36]2001. At this time,

[51:39]Jay-Z was up on a weapon charge and

[51:40]assault charge and he was involved with feuds

[51:43]with Nas, Fat Joe, Mobb Deep,

[51:44]Jadakiss. He had two goals

[51:47]for this album. He wanted to cement himself as the best

[51:49]current rapper, especially in New York City

[51:50]and he wanted to make Aaron's favorite kind of

[51:52]tracks, some diss tracks.

[51:54]Yes. He

[51:56]wrote all the lyrics to this album in two days.

[51:59]The best rapper alive. He recorded it in two weeks.

[52:00]He released it on 9-11.

[52:03]It did go number one for four

[52:04]weeks and it's his fourth consecutive album.

[52:06]This is his sixth album, but it's the fourth consecutive one

[52:09]to go to hit

[52:10]number one as an album and the

[52:12]big deal with this album is that he brought back

[52:14]this is a big one where they hip

[52:16]hop had gotten away from sampling

[52:18]and this is one where they're bringing back, especially

[52:20]soul samples. A great example

[52:22]of the hip hop that you were listening to

[52:24]around that time would be like

[52:26]Timberland beats and a great

[52:28]example. I want to play a little this for you.

[52:30]Right. So we had like genuine

[52:34]with Timberland where they're just literally

[52:36]making beats kind of

[52:38]off the computer or whatever. So now he's bringing back

[52:40]sampling and speeding it up and slowing it

[52:42]down. That's what Aaron and I listened to when

[52:44]we cut the top of that car. It was Timberland.

[52:46]It was that song right there. Yeah.

[52:48]Yeah. Every time Aaron was hacking with

[52:50]that hacks, I was like, yeah, Timbo's got a beat

[52:52]on this one though. I have to admit listening

[52:54]to that song. It did give me flashbacks to college

[52:57]and watching other people grind

[52:58]like that's my biggest flashback. I was like,

[53:00]yes, other people were grinding then and I was

[53:02]kind of looking around like

[53:03]I just wanted to say this started at

[53:06]454.

[53:08]It got updated to 252

[53:11]when they updated the list in 2012.

[53:12]And then it's all the way up to 50

[53:14]on the current list. So should we get into

[53:16]Jay-Z's The Blueprints?

[53:19]Yes. I got to say

[53:20]guys, I've never listened to Jay-Z

[53:22]in my life. I thought this album was an absolute

[53:24]banger. The Ruler's

[53:26]Back.

[53:27]This one's just blazed, right?

[53:30]The Ruler's Back. I thought we were going to be getting spankings

[53:32]on this song, Rob. I thought for sure

[53:34]you were going to break out the roof for us.

[53:36]This is actually a tribute to

[53:38]Slick Rick's song of the same name.

[53:40]Back, motherfuckers. I've

[53:42]got to...

[53:43]I love it when you do that stuff,

[53:46]Aaron. I got to say

[53:48]this Slick Rick, The Ruler's Back

[53:50]song is so good because it

[53:52]posits the question

[53:53]what if they rapped

[53:56]in the medieval

[53:58]ages? Like with kings

[54:00]and serfs and all that stuff. Like what if it was a rap?

[54:02]So it starts with that trumpet of like announcing the king.

[54:04]Listen to this.

[54:05]I love Slick Rick. Listen to this flow.

[54:12]Yes!

[54:13]This is pretty cool.

[54:16]Yeah, Jay's just doing a straight homage to this.

[54:18]It's so good.

[54:20]But the Jay-Z version

[54:22]of this is on steroids times

[54:24]10. Like talking about Matt's home run derby.

[54:26]It's just...

[54:28]It's the 90s and Mark

[54:30]McGuire compared to Roger Maris. He's

[54:32]hitting him another 100 miles, right?

[54:34]It's the cream and the clear, to be fair.

[54:35]This whole album could never happen again. It's so expensive.

[54:38]He got every hot producer.

[54:40]He's got Just Blaze. He's got Kanye.

[54:42]He's got Eminem doing a beat.

[54:44]Timbaland. And

[54:46]the samples on this thing are crazy.

[54:48]No label would ever pay this much money

[54:50]to make a rap album again. And it's just like

[54:52]dripping in money

[54:54]and excess. And it's so much

[54:56]of the time. I love it.

[54:58]Alright, so now we have the first

[55:00]diss track of the album, The Takeover.

[55:02]Got some

[55:04]Doors sample in here. Is this the Doors

[55:06]of the Ramones on the sample?

[55:07]That beat just crushes.

[55:09]I love the first two tracks of this album.

[55:12]This is just destroying

[55:13]from my perspective. I love it.

[55:15]Why is this a diss track?

[55:19]Who's he ripping on here? I heard it was

[55:22]Nas, but I don't know enough about the relationship.

[55:23]Aaron, maybe you know a lot about

[55:26]the relationship with Nas and Jay-Z. What's going on?

[55:28]Yeah, so we just heard

[55:30]that line where he says, you was a ballerina.

[55:31]I got the pictures. I've seen you. So all this stuff

[55:34]immediately gets super

[55:35]personal. And it's like real

[55:37]neighborhood stuff from where these guys

[55:40]grew up. So when he's talking about the ballerina

[55:41]picture, he's like, I got the pictures. I've seen you.

[55:42]I think that's Prodigy from Mob

[55:44]Deep. There were pictures of him as like literally

[55:46]taking dance classes as a kid.

[55:47]So Jay-Z comes out in this one

[55:50]and he's kind of swinging at

[55:52]everyone else in New York. He kind of

[55:54]keeps it broad at first.

[55:55]And I didn't know the full

[55:58]history of the beef between Jay and Nas, so I

[56:00]had to read up on a bit today.

[56:01]And it does sound like they initially

[56:04]had planned to do some work together

[56:06]in 96 on Jay's

[56:07]first album, Reasonable Doubt. And Nas

[56:10]didn't show up and the beef sort of escalated

[56:12]from there. And as rap beefs

[56:14]go, it was

[56:16]a lot of tracks shot

[56:18]back and forth between Jay's crew

[56:20]and Nas's crew. It was kind of

[56:21]some subliminal stuff.

[56:23]But when Jay

[56:26]late in this track says

[56:28]ask Nas, he don't want it with Hov.

[56:30]And he starts calling Nas out.

[56:31]And he calls Nas out

[56:33]about his albums and

[56:35]his bodyguards

[56:38]verse being better on Uchiwali and

[56:40]one hot album every 10 year average.

[56:42]That took the whole thing to a

[56:43]different level. And then Nas

[56:45]responded, I don't know, a year

[56:47]later, maybe not even a year

[56:49]with Ether. And

[56:51]I think the general consensus

[56:53]is that Nas won this

[56:55]particular battle. I mean,

[56:57]Ether has now become a verb.

[56:59]To Ether someone is to end their whole

[57:01]existence.

[57:02]I think the consensus is Nas won

[57:05]this battle. Jay-Z

[57:07]won the war. But this whole

[57:09]thing, it just went crazy. And Nas

[57:11]really

[57:11]took it to

[57:13]an even higher level.

[57:15]Just like, you know, the Ether track starts

[57:17]out with fuck Jay-Z just right out.

[57:19]So, you know, this stuff

[57:21]went from being subliminal to being

[57:23]overt. And it's still within

[57:25]it's still under the

[57:27]specter of Tupac

[57:29]versus Biggie, right? This is only maybe five years

[57:31]after those guys died.

[57:33]And so it's still really

[57:35]uncomfortable. And Def Jam 9, you know,

[57:37]Hot Jam, sorry,

[57:38]Hot 97, the radio station in New York, is kind

[57:41]of egging this thing on. And I think

[57:43]eventually it got to be to a point where

[57:45]it was like too serious. Like people die from

[57:47]rap beef. But yeah, this is a great

[57:49]track. The whole Nas versus Jay-Z

[57:51]beef is famous within

[57:53]hip-hop. It inspired two of the best

[57:55]diss tracks, you know, of all time. But these

[57:57]two have since buried the hatchet and recently

[57:59]just released a track together

[58:01]on the latest DJ Khaled joint.

[58:03]All right, Izzo.

[58:04]Second Kanye beat in a row.

[58:07]Got that Kanye shuffle on the drums.

[58:09]I wrote this song for 20...

[58:11]Yeah, Kanye's a producer on this album.

[58:13]This is kind of when he really made his stamp

[58:15]on hip-hop.

[58:16]20 years I've been listening to this song. Today

[58:19]I finally looked up what he was talking about

[58:21]when he says H to the Izzo, V to the Izzay.

[58:23]And of course he's spelling it Hove.

[58:25]So,

[58:27]but this song, Izzo is an absolute...

[58:29]I mean, that song is a jam. I was playing that.

[58:31]That's a summer jam. I was playing that all day

[58:33]today out on the boat everywhere. It gets people

[58:35]bopping all over the place. That's the

[58:37]big commercial hit, right? That's the biggest

[58:39]hit that if you're not into Jay-Z, you've

[58:41]probably heard that song anyways, right?

[58:43]It's the first single off this album, too.

[58:44]All right, and

[58:47]now we'd have one that I'm sure if I worked at a strip

[58:49]club, this would be the one I'd excellently put in as the

[58:51]song I want to dance to. Because what I really want

[58:53]to do is Motley Crue's girls, girls,

[58:55]girls, everybody.

[58:57]Welcome up, Violet.

[58:59]Violet,

[59:01]get up there and bend over.

[59:03]I can't think of anything clever.

[59:04]This is a scenario in which you are a stripper dancing

[59:07]to songs about girls? Yes.

[59:09]It's a strip club. It's called the...

[59:11]It's called the trick club.

[59:12]And it's where people come in and they're tricked.

[59:14]Because they think they're going to see strippers, but it's actually me.

[59:16]Let's get Rob up to the stage.

[59:19]The best would be Rob would be wearing those

[59:21]basketball pants with like the

[59:23]tearaway, the buttons down the side.

[59:25]He would just rip them off. There's some people

[59:27]that'd be in there to see Beefy Rob.

[59:28]I don't know. I don't know if they'd be tricked to be in there.

[59:31]Hey, ladies, please

[59:33]welcome Beefy to the stage.

[59:34]Come on, Beefy. Show them those

[59:37]tearaways. Quit your

[59:39]grinning and drop your linen, Beefy. Let's go.

[59:41]It's Girls, Girls, Girls.

[59:43]This is such a weird song for me.

[59:47]I can't stand the Girls, Girls, Girls

[59:49]chorus. I think it's terrible. What?

[59:51]That's Biz Marquet there.

[59:52]But I love when you listen to them rap

[59:55]and the orchestra kind of in the background, the strings

[59:57]in the background. I adore it. I think it's amazing.

[59:59]So I have a love-hate relationship

[60:01]with this song.

[60:02]I love that chorus. Girls,

[60:05]Girls. It's so like atonal and fun

[60:07]to stick in the middle.

[60:08]Matt, you've talked before about you weren't

[60:11]you were not like a New York rap

[60:13]guy. You weren't necessarily West Coast. You like

[60:15]Outkast or someone. Where does Jay-Z fit

[60:17]in your your pantheon of

[60:19]rappers? What do you think? Well, you know, you hear

[60:21]the stories and I think, you know, the thing about

[60:23]Jay-Z and Rosie step

[60:25]in is that when you really

[60:27]hear where he came from and how

[60:29]he does things and

[60:30]you know, he was a straight up and I

[60:33]hate using this word, but a straight up

[60:35]hustler. I mean, like this dude

[60:36]capitalizes on everything.

[60:39]He's a billionaire now, I think,

[60:41]because of it, you know, where he had

[60:43]to grow up and how he had to grow up. And he's just

[60:44]he's incredibly smart.

[60:46]He's a genius. He's incredibly

[60:49]good with words and putting

[60:50]together and forming

[60:52]these unbelievable tracks, right? So

[60:54]he's a genius, right? It's just

[60:56]again, it's funny you

[60:58]asked me on this song because I'm with you

[61:00]on this one, Russell, that girls, girls,

[61:03]girls, you know, like I just never liked

[61:05]it. You know, I'm with you. Like everything

[61:07]else around it is

[61:08]pretty darn good, but I'm with you. He's got some

[61:11]of these hooks and you know, I'm not a big

[61:12]diss track guy, right? Like try

[61:14]to try to remain a little bit positive

[61:16]about anything. Like why do you got to talk bad about

[61:18]people? I don't know, you know, like so that's

[61:20]the stuff I don't get. I mean, like an outcast

[61:22]you don't hear that, right? But then

[61:24]Nas, it's all about being heavy

[61:26]and hard and, you know, getting back

[61:28]and repping your hood and all that

[61:30]stuff. And that's just not the rap that I like.

[61:32]So I never really got into

[61:34]Jay-Z that much because of all of that.

[61:36]But I mean, clearly he's a wonderful

[61:39]artist, if you will.

[61:40]I love this album because I think

[61:42]it sounds so full. And I think a big part of that

[61:44]is the samples that they're using. I mean, it just is

[61:46]this huge, like when you're really

[61:48]listening to this album, it's like this huge

[61:50]huge sound. It's regal.

[61:52]Yeah, it's like pomp and circumstance.

[61:54]Jigga that

[61:59]So this is intentionally

[62:02]a song where he made the own beats

[62:04]and so he breaks up the soul

[62:06]sample in the middle of this album with these beats.

[62:10]Yeah, this one seems like

[62:12]a mess to me sometimes, but then I get

[62:14]in the middle of it and I'm loving the rhymes.

[62:16]I mean, his whole thing is just the

[62:18]wordplay. I agree. This is my least

[62:20]favorite track on the album. This one,

[62:22]other than the kind of the

[62:24]interesting, I don't know what that horn

[62:26]is or whatever it is, there's kind of an interesting

[62:28]little horn going on there. But otherwise,

[62:30]I could have done without that song.

[62:32]You don't know.

[62:34]Sure I do.

[62:37]Oh, this is back. This is a Kanye

[62:40]track, right? This is back.

[62:42]Chipmunk rap.

[62:43]Kanye West, I gotta say,

[62:46]I've told you guys before that Kanye West

[62:48]album was my number one or right up

[62:50]there. These Kanye West tracks

[62:52]are amazing. I'm a huge

[62:54]Kanye West guy. I know he's crazy and

[62:56]everything, but I'm into his music.

[62:58]This thing is so loud.

[62:59]Yeah. And this is where, yeah, I mean, Matt, this is

[63:02]where he details how he went from, you know,

[63:04]kind of, and the thing I like about

[63:06]this album is, and

[63:07]Jay probably wasn't the first to do it.

[63:10]But he was the best to do it at this

[63:12]time. This kind of, and I don't

[63:14]know, there are, there are accounts that say he never

[63:16]really was as great of a drug dealer

[63:18]as he claims on this album.

[63:20]But how would you be, how would you be a

[63:22]bad drug dealer?

[63:23]Well, if you don't sell enough, you know, like when he talks about

[63:26]losing 92 bricks, right? If he lost

[63:28]those 92 bricks and never made him back, like

[63:30]you'd be dead, right? So. Oh, I thought

[63:32]you just would not be very good. You're like, hey, do you want some

[63:34]do you want some? Oh, never mind.

[63:36]It's not even that good.

[63:37]Listen, I cut it with baking powder. Oh, God,

[63:40]I should have told you that. He was one of the, he was the best

[63:42]and then I think, I mean, I think Pusha T and like

[63:44]Clips maybe did it better, but this

[63:46]thing of like, oh, I never left the game and I,

[63:48]we're going to talk about Never Change soon. Like

[63:50]of course he wasn't still dealing drugs

[63:52]when he was a rapper because like your

[63:54]lawyer wouldn't advise you to do that, but he makes it

[63:56]believable. It sounds like he's still really

[63:58]out there dealing on the street when he's making

[64:00]records. Like, like, like every, every, every Saturday

[64:02]he goes out and accidentally forgets he's a drug

[64:04]dealer and does a lemonade stand. He's like, God dang

[64:06]it. I left the heroin up in

[64:08]my apartment. This is not a lemon

[64:10]lemonade stand. He's like, he's a bad drug dealer.

[64:12]I went to the shittiest lemonade

[64:14]stand this weekend. Some kids had some out. I was

[64:16]shooting model rockets with my nephew, which rocked

[64:18]that way. Oh, you're his fireworks guy. Oh, no.

[64:20]No, it was a model rocket. So we're shooting these model

[64:22]rockets up and it's like, yeah. And then there's this

[64:24]lemonade stand and it's a quarter of lemonade, right?

[64:26]So I'm like, okay. It's in those cups that you used

[64:28]to swish water around, like in the bathroom.

[64:30]So it's tiny. A Dixie cup. It is, yeah.

[64:32]It's a tiny Dixie cup and then it

[64:34]is like the weakest lemonade and I was

[64:36]like, and they're like, we're also selling cookies.

[64:38]And I was like, no, thanks. Okay. I've sampled it.

[64:40]I'm out of here. You got your buck. I gave you

[64:42]a buck 50. Forget about it. No

[64:44]thanks. I had ice cream at lunch. How old was the person

[64:46]selling the lemonade? I would guess they were

[64:48]like eight or nine, but there was no sign

[64:50]up. They didn't have any signage. They didn't have any hustle.

[64:52]Jay-Z would have been very upset at them. I mean, they, there's

[64:54]no way that they could have sold.

[64:55]What is it? They could have sold ice in a blizzard

[64:58]and fire in hell. Like there's no way

[65:00]they could do that. And this song got me

[65:02]thinking like water to a whale.

[65:03]I would be a terrible salesman. Like I, do

[65:06]you guys, you guys have to sell some stuff in your job,

[65:08]right? Like I cannot.

[65:10]I've never had to have a job where I sell anything

[65:12]but myself. Right. And like the idea of

[65:14]science or I don't know. I had once

[65:16]where I was tutoring, right?

[65:18]I put myself on Craigslist as a tutor.

[65:20]I get called by a college

[65:22]student who wants help with physics.

[65:24]So immediately I should have just been like,

[65:26]absolutely not. I'm not good at physics.

[65:28]Certainly not college level physics.

[65:29]So I have never had to sell anything in my life.

[65:32]It stresses me out like crazy.

[65:33]I go in and meet this woman.

[65:36]Okay. I had

[65:38]been making linguine like

[65:40]with garlic. And so the first thing I say

[65:42]to her is to go, hey, I'm Rob. I'm sorry.

[65:44]My hands smell like garlic.

[65:45]So then I sit down and she's like, oh

[65:50]here, can you let's like, let's just go

[65:52]through these problems. I look at the problems that she's

[65:54]doing. I have no idea.

[65:55]Absolutely no idea what I was doing. And I

[65:58]was only charging like, I don't know what. Then I was

[66:00]only charging like 50 bucks an hour or whatever.

[66:01]And I was like sat there for an hour trying

[66:04]to do these problems. Couldn't help at all.

[66:05]And at the end I just go, yeah, you

[66:08]don't even have to pay me. Like this is really bad. I just

[66:10]fuck up. Never did it again. Like I am the worst

[66:12]salesman ever. Like I can't even

[66:14]sell myself. Like it was terrible. That's when I

[66:16]was like, I cannot sell anything. How do you

[66:17]how do you so you're so you're the jay-z

[66:20]of drug dealers or you're what

[66:22]how I'm like, right? I'm like the jay-a

[66:24]I'm the opposite of jay-z. I'm the worst

[66:26]salesman. Like I would be. I'm terrible. Yes.

[66:28]All right. Hola. How

[66:30]Vito. Hola.

[66:30]Hola. Oh, Vito.

[66:33]This is the Timberland hop. Hola.

[66:36]I like that hop.

[66:40]Is he burning on Timberland?

[66:41]No. Timberland did the beat

[66:44]on this one. No, he's saying

[66:45]like a lot of jay-z tracks

[66:47]sound like that. Like we're at the beginning of it. He'll

[66:50]say like, turn the music up on my headphones or

[66:51]I think they leave those kind of ad libs in

[66:53]from the beginning because he didn't write anything down.

[66:55]So his whole vibe was like, play me the beat

[66:58]and I'm going to go into this other place in my

[66:59]head and just rap. It's crazy

[67:02]how good these rhymes are. And I've heard them

[67:03]say that like people listen to him

[67:05]freestyle and he uses more metaphor and more

[67:08]complicated stuff. And they say, why don't you put

[67:09]on the album? And he says, well, never sell. Nobody wants to hear

[67:12]that. They want to hear just the straight rhymes. But that's

[67:14]the song where he's talking about his dick game.

[67:15]Dick game vicious.

[67:17]Like what sport would you guys use to describe

[67:20]your dick game? I think I would be like the NFL all

[67:22]pro game where it's like everybody's

[67:24]there and they're like having a little

[67:26]bit of fun, but they're not trying that hard. And eventually

[67:28]it's like there's just not much going

[67:30]on and nobody's really excited to be there at all.

[67:32]What's your dick game? I'm more like

[67:33]the puppy bowl.

[67:34]It's kind of sensitive. What? Yeah.

[67:37]Yeah. That's what I'm

[67:39]talking about. Like super excited, super

[67:41]energetic. Or what does that even mean?

[67:43]Balls in the mouth.

[67:45]Matt, what's

[67:49]your dick game? Balls in the mouth.

[67:52]Tugging on a rope.

[67:55]I was going to go with something with baseball. I don't know.

[67:57]Always swinging for the fences or something, but

[67:59]Rosie and his balls in the mouth.

[68:01]I mean,

[68:01]just follow after follow

[68:05]that was a bunch of fall

[68:07]balls. When you hit the follow ball, it gets caught in the

[68:09]mask. That's my dick game

[68:11]right there. Hey, Aaron, you got to watch it.

[68:13]My friend, my friend, Aaron's dad listens

[68:15]to this podcast. Could you not be so dirty

[68:17]while we're doing this gross

[68:19]and puppy ball, puppy ball. Jesus

[68:21]you guys. I can't. So I can't

[68:23]listen to this album though without thinking about

[68:25]Beyonce making lemonade.

[68:27]I just cannot think about like all

[68:29]these brags about his game

[68:31]and girls, girls, girls.

[68:33]This is exactly what she's talking

[68:35]about when she made hold up right when she's talking

[68:37]about like you needed me in the

[68:39]maybe it's later in

[68:40]maybe in song cry where he's like, oh, you

[68:43]you know, you help me with the loan to get my

[68:45]first car or whatever. Like she listened

[68:47]to all this stuff. And then when

[68:49]he pissed her off, she used it against

[68:51]him. And I don't think he ever

[68:53]recovered this. This is

[68:55]like if I ever find a girl that will

[68:57]go out a second date with me and she listens to

[68:59]this, this is the whole Jay-Z

[69:01]Beyonce rewind part do

[69:03]right here. She ethered her own husband

[69:05]just based on his album and like it's

[69:07]incredible. I don't know.

[69:09]Beyonce could write a hundred albums about me and I'd

[69:11]still be like, we should be married

[69:13]still. Like, I love you. I think this is great. This

[69:15]is working out great. I love being

[69:17]with you. You'd still sit on her

[69:19]Peloton, right? Oh, 100%.

[69:21]I would be

[69:23]the Peloton seat.

[69:24]I'd be like, I'll turn up the resistance right here. You don't

[69:29]have

[69:29]I was like, I'm doing a hundred cadence.

[69:33]I can't go any faster.

[69:34]Actually, I think my dick game

[69:37]would be like me, me shooting baskets by

[69:39]myself in the gym.

[69:40]Well, it works half the time.

[69:47]All right.

[69:47]Wait, you were going to say something?

[69:52]What song is this one?

[69:55]Heart of the City.

[69:56]This is a song that Kanye did the beat

[69:59]for and he wanted to give it to DMX with R. Kelly

[70:01]on the vocals. But Jay-Z wanted

[70:03]this to be the first single off the album.

[70:04]I think this

[70:07]is more, this is maybe the one that's

[70:09]lasted the longest in

[70:10]kind of popular culture.

[70:12]I mean, this is on so many movies,

[70:14]so many TV shows, things like that.

[70:16]Like this gets played all the time. Great parody

[70:19]songs. This has been

[70:21]sampled hundreds of times, right?

[70:22]This is one of the most sampled songs ever, I think.

[70:25]Is it

[70:26]Bobby Bird or Bobby Blue

[70:28]Bland or

[70:29]Bobby Blue Bay? There are

[70:32]three different Bobbies sampled on this record.

[70:34]It's a big record for

[70:36]Bobbies. Is one of them with a whistle?

[70:38]Because he doesn't have a gun? Because he's a London

[70:40]policeman? Oi, governor!

[70:42]Girls, girls, girls, girls,

[70:46]governor! Okay, so they went

[70:48]away there, the accent, a little bit.

[70:49]Alright. You turned into

[70:52]like a New York paper boy

[70:54]there for a second at the end of that one.

[70:56]X-Tree, X-Tree, read the paper, mister!

[70:57]London policeman sampled by Jay-Z.

[71:00]Oi, governor!

[71:01]Okay, so I'm getting too many layers deep. I gotta get out.

[71:04]Rob, Rob, never change. Your jokes are

[71:06]fantastic. Never change.

[71:08]I'll tell you what, if it costs two bucks and I give you

[71:10]two bucks, I'd never get changed.

[71:12]Yes, yes.

[71:14]I think we could do without

[71:16]ripping on an eight-year-old selling lemonade, but

[71:18]other than that, you know, I'd keep it up. If you tasted

[71:20]this lemonade, you'd tell them it's a piece of shit to their face.

[71:22]And you put it in those Dixie cups. They deserve

[71:24]to be... I mean... Russell, is your

[71:26]grandpa still run

[71:28]Yelp? Can we get Rob's

[71:30]negative Yelp reviews off of that little

[71:32]girl's lemonade stand? I'm gonna

[71:34]have to charge you guys royalties if you're gonna use

[71:36]my Bob Yelp material. That's for Vegas,

[71:38]okay?

[71:38]Vegas only. God, that's hilarious. My Yelp material

[71:40]is not for the pot. Listen, all I know

[71:42]is that when I drove by that lemonade stand

[71:44]as I drove away,

[71:46]this was playing out there.

[71:48]Yeah.

[71:49]Never Change is my favorite track on the album.

[71:52]One, because the sample is David Ruffin,

[71:54]and two, because I'm a total sucker for the whole

[71:57]loose-lip-sink-ships

[71:58]when he says, I plead the fifth when it comes to the fam.

[72:00]I'm like a dog, but I speak...

[72:02]I don't speak, but I understand.

[72:04]I love this never-left-the-streets kind of

[72:06]drama, so Never Change is my

[72:08]favorite song on the album.

[72:09]I love the idea of this next song,

[72:11]Song Cry, where he's like,

[72:14]I can't see my tears, so I'm gonna make

[72:16]a sad song, and then that's what the song literally is.

[72:18]It's so good.

[72:20]Vivid.

[72:21]I don't know if we're gonna hear it in this clip,

[72:24]but I gotta ask, guys.

[72:25]What is with the Jay-Z, the uh-huh, uh-huh,

[72:28]uh-huh? Like, is that a vocal

[72:30]tick? Is he doing that on purpose? What the fuck

[72:32]is the uh-huh, uh-huh?

[72:34]What is that? He's getting himself

[72:36]in the rhythm for what's coming up.

[72:38]I don't get it. I don't understand it.

[72:40]Every rapper's gotta have their own

[72:42]signature ad-lib, and that's his.

[72:44]That's his signature ad-lib, huh?

[72:46]You know, Pusha T's got the ugh.

[72:47]Before I do parody songs, I'm always going,

[72:50]Bah-humble-bee, bah-humble-bah-humble-bee.

[72:52]Do we have a

[72:54]signature drink for this week,

[72:56]Russell, speaking of signature?

[72:58]Thanks. You haven't given two shits about my

[73:00]signature drinks in 49 weeks,

[73:02]and now the one week where I have nothing, you ask

[73:04]me about it. What a bullshit move.

[73:06]It's gotta be Belvedere, right? Isn't Jay-Z a Belvedere

[73:08]I was trying to listen for the, you know, the transition.

[73:12]My apologies.

[73:13]My bad.

[73:14]My bad.

[73:15]All I need.

[73:17]Speaking of bizarre transitions, though, it's about to happen.

[73:24]Hey, do you guys hear that reference there to Peggy Sue?

[73:28]I heard it.

[73:29]I did.

[73:29]Yes, I did.

[73:30]Can we rewind that?

[73:31]Can we rewind that quick?

[73:32]Let's rewind that clip.

[73:38]I love the bass line.

[73:43]Yeah.

[73:44]My little tutu and my Peggy talked right over it again.

[73:47]Aaron, but you've talked about this once before.

[73:50]I think we talked about it.

[73:51]I don't know if it was the Chronic or what album it was, but you talked about Tupac and him talking about his gun being his girlfriend.

[73:57]Is that right?

[73:58]That's exactly right.

[73:59]Yeah, that's what this song is.

[74:00]It's an homage to me and my girlfriend.

[74:02]And so this is an homage to that.

[74:04]And you heard Jay-Z was talking about his Peggy Sue.

[74:08]His.

[74:08]Tutu.

[74:08]It's essentially the same type of idea, right?

[74:11]Yeah.

[74:11]But I started thinking I heard that Peggy Sue and I was like, really, this is an homage to our guy who died in the plane crash.

[74:20]You Rob always jokes about the plane crash with Buddy Holly, right?

[74:24]Because his famous song was Peggy Sue.

[74:26]And so I thought this was cool with the Tupac thing.

[74:30]But I also thought Rob has spent so many weeks busting on these poor bastards who died in this plane crash that I thought we could do a list of the greatest songs.

[74:38]Yeah.

[74:38]That honor the artists that were part of this crash.

[74:41]Can we do a list?

[74:42]I'm here for it.

[74:43]Great idea.

[74:43]Oh, my God.

[74:44]I'm going to cry a thousand tears.

[74:46]Russell, this is going to be so good.

[74:47]Trust me, you won't cry on all of these.

[74:49]Maybe one or two of them.

[74:51]Probably won't be able to see your tears, though.

[74:54]We're going to have to make the podcast cry.

[74:57]So we got to give the Big Bopper some respect.

[75:01]I'm going to invite the Big Bopper into the room up from heaven.

[75:04]Big Bopper, it's great to have you here.

[75:05]The first song on the list.

[75:06]I'm burning in hell, baby.

[75:08]I'm down so deep.

[75:09]I did a lot of bad things when I was younger.

[75:12]And I'm always younger because I was dead, baby.

[75:16]Okay, so now you guys talk to the Big Bopper and we have like a back and forth.

[75:20]It's like a creative thing.

[75:21]Well, Rob, you've got to keep this going for five.

[75:23]Two of you are turned away from the camera during that.

[75:25]You've got to go for five songs with the Big Bopper.

[75:27]You've got to choose your points here, Rob.

[75:29]I'm setting you up, if you will.

[75:31]Sounds good, baby.

[75:32]I don't want to overuse any bits.

[75:33]That would be terrible, baby.

[75:34]Oh, no.

[75:35]The first song on the list is we've talked about.

[75:38]American Pie before.

[75:39]But American Pie, The Day the Music Died is really a song about the three of these guys going down in the plane crash.

[75:46]And I knew that, but I'd never really thought about it a whole lot.

[75:49]But let's check out American Pie here.

[75:51]This is all about The Day the Music Died, which is the day these three went down in the crash.

[75:55]The Music Died is the day Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper, baby.

[76:04]Also super weird that this was always the closing tune at Worcester.

[76:08]When we were doing curriculum Wednesday nights in Dundas.

[76:11]Like, yeah, it's just this.

[76:12]Play the American Pie and close it out.

[76:15]It's not sad.

[76:16]The kids will love it.

[76:17]It makes no sense, baby.

[76:19]A song about my death is what everybody was like.

[76:21]All right, bar time is over.

[76:22]Let's drive home.

[76:23]Who is that man grinding with no one in the corner right now?

[76:27]I got to tell this story.

[76:30]I did drive home from Dundas one time in Russell's car.

[76:32]And I was the designated driver that evening.

[76:36]And I...

[76:38]I thought, well, you know, if I'm designated driver, I can still have like a drink or two.

[76:41]Ended up playing quarters.

[76:43]Oh, baby, even I think that's a bad idea, baby.

[76:46]Not a good idea.

[76:47]Forgot that Russell's Thunderbird had a headlight out.

[76:50]And that the cops are parked between Dundas and Northfield on Wednesday nights.

[76:55]Got pulled over.

[76:56]I was playing quarters at the bar.

[76:59]Blue zeros.

[77:00]That was my number one, one and only superhero moment.

[77:04]I don't know what happened.

[77:05]I don't know who was looking out, but maybe it was the Big Bopper.

[77:08]The Big Bopper.

[77:09]Who was looking out for him, Rob?

[77:11]Who was looking out for him?

[77:12]I think the cops were suspicious because after you blew zeros, you're like, whoa.

[77:15]Really?

[77:18]I didn't expect that.

[77:19]Yeah.

[77:20]Are you sure?

[77:22]You guys should really calibrate your instruments one more time.

[77:27]I was playing quarters with the pilots before we took off, baby.

[77:30]Oh, yeah.

[77:31]The next song on the list, Rob, the Big Bopper has once came to us before.

[77:36]And he said, hey, there was a movie about Richie.

[77:38]There was a movie about Richie Valens.

[77:38]There was a movie about Buddy Holly.

[77:40]There was no movie about me.

[77:41]So I had to find a song that specifically called out the Big Bopper.

[77:45]And this is one of Matt's favorite bands, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[77:48]And you guys got to listen really closely because there's other things that are important.

[77:52]Listen to this song.

[77:53]I show stop up the life of a white pop up.

[77:57]Come with me.

[77:58]Cause I'm a big pop up.

[78:00]You do.

[78:00]But yes.

[78:01]So in the same songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you got wife swapping and the Big Bopper.

[78:08]Oh, how do we never, how did we never think of doing a wife swapper?

[78:13]Big Bopper.

[78:14]We have failed.

[78:16]We have 100% failed.

[78:18]We're in summer school and there's a chance to make up that grade.

[78:22]Wife swapper.

[78:23]Big Bopper.

[78:24]Oh, baby.

[78:24]My favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers is when they put those big boppers on the socks, baby.

[78:28]And they dance around the stage with just the socks on.

[78:30]Oh, yeah.

[78:31]Big Bopper.

[78:32]Love that.

[78:32]The next song on the list is Rob.

[78:38]Bob is, or the bopper is briefly mentioned the movie about Richie Valens, but we've never

[78:42]heard a song where Richie Valens gets any sort of call out.

[78:45]So this is SPM.

[78:46]Stay on your grind.

[78:48]Check out the, the shout out to Richie Valens.

[78:50]Check this out.

[78:50]Sip gallons.

[78:53]Can't keep my balance.

[78:54]I'm gonna have to shine like the boy.

[78:56]Richie Valens.

[78:57]Ice medallion.

[78:58]Yes.

[78:59]Is that badass or what?

[79:02]SPM is South Park, Mexican.

[79:03]Yes, it is.

[79:05]Yeah.

[79:05]Yeah.

[79:05]Yeah.

[79:08]Do you have a Richie Valens impersonation?

[79:11]No, that's the woman at the end of La Bamba.

[79:12]That's how I, that's the only thing I remember from the movie La Bamba is the woman yelling

[79:15]Richie.

[79:16]And that's how the movie ends.

[79:17]It's so depressing.

[79:17]The movie's sad, man.

[79:18]Yeah.

[79:19]You know what would have made that movie better, baby?

[79:21]Me, the big bopper.

[79:23]Wait, is it, wait, does the big bopper never appear in the Richie Valens movie?

[79:27]He's got to, right?

[79:27]I do have an appearance where I'm trying to tuck my balls back into my pants, baby.

[79:33]It does look like raw waffle mix coming out of a waffle maker.

[79:36]Oh, no, baby.

[79:38]Save that joke, baby.

[79:40]Big bopper coming in hot.

[79:41]Big bopper's a dirty man.

[79:42]There's someone we've talked about once before who didn't die in this infamous plane crash

[79:47]the day the music died.

[79:48]And we've talked about this once before, Waylon Jennings, who gave up his seat.

[79:51]This is a song called A Long Time Ago, where Waylon Jennings references what happened in

[79:56]this event.

[79:57]So check this out.

[79:58]Don't ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane.

[80:02]I think you already know.

[80:05]Isn't that crazy?

[80:08]He sang about that.

[80:09]He was supposed to be on that plane.

[80:11]He wasn't.

[80:11]He must have dealt with that his whole life.

[80:13]It made me start thinking, though.

[80:15]You guys have fear of missing out.

[80:17]Do you think he has fear of missing out on this?

[80:19]Rob, you're a FOMO guy.

[80:20]Do you guys ever have fear of missing out for certain things or not?

[80:24]100%.

[80:24]Not dying in plane crashes, but.

[80:26]I'm constantly, like, if you said you could get on a plane with a big bopper and Buddy

[80:31]Holly, I'd be like, yeah, yeah.

[80:32]It's like a lunch table in middle school.

[80:33]I would have done anything.

[80:34]I would have sold out any of my friends.

[80:36]I would have cut any relationships together.

[80:38]Get set at that table.

[80:39]Even if that table is going to go down in a plane crash, it's all about the cloud for

[80:43]me.

[80:43]100%.

[80:44]Matt, are you a fear of missing out guy or not?

[80:46]I think I've grown out of it for sure.

[80:48]You know, I'm not a spend money on things.

[80:50]I'm an experienced guy.

[80:52]And if anybody's doing anything fun and I'm missing out on it, absolutely.

[80:56]You know, 100%.

[80:58]I'm trying to grow out of it a little bit, but yeah, for sure.

[81:01]Aaron, fear of missing out or not?

[81:03]Yeah, definitely.

[81:04]And, you know, living on the West Coast, I've had to grapple.

[81:08]I've had to grapple with it because my family's doing fun things.

[81:10]You all are doing fun things in the Midwest.

[81:12]I know I have to miss them, but I still always feel that twinge of fear of missing out.

[81:16]All right.

[81:18]Last song on the list.

[81:19]I feel like this could be a Matt favorite.

[81:21]I don't know, but I feel like this is in Matt's wheelhouse.

[81:23]Potentially.

[81:23]We got to go with Weezer, Buddy Holly.

[81:26]This is the ultimate song about any of these guys, right?

[81:28]Coming with Green Day.

[81:29]Going to see him at Target Field.

[81:32]Can't wait.

[81:33]Whoa.

[81:34]Weezer's playing with Green Day at Target Field?

[81:38]Weezer and Green Day and Fall Out Boy.

[81:41]They keep Fall Out Boy.

[81:43]Are they going to sell out the bleachers, like one or two sections?

[81:47]They're not selling out the whole field, are they?

[81:49]So negative.

[81:51]So negative.

[81:52]Are you 38 to 43 years old?

[81:54]We've got the perfect concert for you down at Target Field.

[81:57]You'll buy the whole seat and you will sit down the whole time because you do get too tired listening to three different concerts.

[82:02]That's exactly why I got fear of missing out right there.

[82:04]That's the concert I need to go to.

[82:06]Yeah.

[82:07]Oh, baby.

[82:08]I got to say that I've had two hits in my life, Russell.

[82:12]One was listening to that list.

[82:14]That was a great hit.

[82:14]And the other greatest hit I had was me hitting the ground in that plane, baby.

[82:18]Oh, I'm the big baba.

[82:19]Oh, yeah.

[82:20]Also, Shane, too many ladies put it in your face.

[82:23]That part always makes Russell laugh.

[82:25]All right.

[82:26]Russell, that was a great list.

[82:28]That was the shout out to the guys who died in the day the music died.

[82:31]Excellent work.

[82:32]That was great work, Russell.

[82:33]And let's play the sound clip to get us out of Russell's list.

[82:35]I've got it.

[82:38]Oh, no.

[82:40]Sorry.

[82:41]That was a blackhead video on TikTok I was watching.

[82:43]That's my bad.

[82:44]All right.

[82:45]Let's get into the blueprint.

[82:46]Where were we?

[82:48]We're on Renegade, I think.

[82:50]Renegade.

[82:51]The show that you watched after Highlander when it came on.

[82:54]Remember Renegade?

[82:54]The guy on the motorcycle?

[82:55]It was on UPN.

[82:57]Anybody?

[82:58]I was reading about this one.

[83:00]So this is where Eminem is the only guest rapper on this album.

[83:04]We've listened to a lot of hip hop albums where they have other guests, right?

[83:08]They had all sorts of Nicki Minaj.

[83:09]There was all sorts of, but he's the only guest rapper on this.

[83:12]And what I read is that, Aaron, maybe you could talk about this a little bit.

[83:17]I don't know if you know a little bit about this, but Eminem, Nas rips Jay-Z because of this song.

[83:23]And he says, Eminem murdered you on your own shit.

[83:26]So Nas in that song, Ether, calls him out.

[83:28]And he's like, you're the best rapper alive.

[83:30]And you got outdone by Eminem.

[83:32]That's crazy, isn't it?

[83:33]Yes.

[83:34]And I exactly, Russell.

[83:35]And now since that time.

[83:38]I've always listened to this.

[83:39]It was just generally accepted.

[83:41]Eminem murdered you on your own shit.

[83:42]Yep, that's true.

[83:43]First of all, I got to say, Eminem did this beat.

[83:45]I don't like Eminem's beats.

[83:46]I don't like this sort of dirge thing that he does, but that's fine.

[83:49]That's kind of where his head's at.

[83:50]But now when I listen to it, I try to put myself in the space of, do I really think Eminem murdered Jay-Z on his own shit?

[83:58]And I don't think I could say that he does.

[84:00]I think they both do great versus.

[84:01]I think it's equally good.

[84:02]I don't know, Russell.

[84:03]What do you think?

[84:04]I think he murders him on this.

[84:05]I think everyone says everything.

[84:07]What I've read is that there's a term out there that's called renegaded.

[84:11]And that means when you have someone on your album and they outperform you, it's called renegaded.

[84:15]And I got to ask you guys, Matt and Aaron, how do you feel when you guys and I renegade Rob on his podcast?

[84:22]We go out and we do funnier jokes than Rob.

[84:26]Rob, how do you feel when we renegade you on this podcast?

[84:28]Well, as soon as you guys start telling jokes, I'll let you know.

[84:31]And I'll let you know how that goes.

[84:32]I think that'd be really fun if you maybe came in with some bits or whatever.

[84:36]You said some funny stuff.

[84:37]And then maybe I would play.

[84:37]I'd play off you and we would go back and forth instead of just saying something and then staring at a bunch of blank faces.

[84:43]Matt murdered Rob on his own shit.

[84:45]Can you imagine if you went up to somebody and you're like, you got renegaded?

[84:48]They'd be like, what are you talking about?

[84:50]I have no idea what you're talking about.

[84:52]I'll write a dictionary of that.

[84:54]It's on there.

[84:55]But it did become a thing.

[84:56]Like, you know, people didn't want to put guests on their stuff because they were going to get called out for their guests doing better than them.

[85:02]So, like, you know, Luda would always murder people on their own shit.

[85:06]Kendrick did it on.

[85:07]You know, Big Sean's control song.

[85:09]It's happened, you know, multiple times.

[85:11]But everyone's afraid of that after this.

[85:13]We've had dozens of calls about Emerson knowing more about the Beatles than Aaron.

[85:16]He renegaded him on that.

[85:18]He's never going to answer it.

[85:19]He's never going to get renegaded.

[85:20]OK, so now from now on, if anybody is renegading me on this, please let me know.

[85:24]Just say the word renegaded.

[85:25]We'll know what that means from now.

[85:27]Like a year from now, we're when we're on album 100.

[85:30]Just think about that.

[85:31]By the way, next summer, we're going to be doing album 100.

[85:33]Oh, no.

[85:34]You can just say renegaded.

[85:35]Everybody will know what that means.

[85:36]Wait.

[85:37]Is album 100 also a Jay-Z album or not?

[85:40]Oh, we don't have to do this right now.

[85:42]Let's keep going.

[85:42]Sorry, Rob.

[85:43]See what I mean?

[85:46]Like, that's a reverse renegaded.

[85:47]Aaron is bringing me down on the podcast.

[85:49]And no, the band music from Big Pink.

[85:53]Oh, God.

[85:54]Tuba time.

[85:56]Here we go, baby.

[85:56]100 on the charts.

[86:00]It's Tuba in our hearts.

[86:01]It's the Pink album.

[86:02]This is Blueprint.

[86:04]This is the last song.

[86:07]It's one of the hidden tracks.

[86:08]You guys like this one?

[86:13]No.

[86:14]I like it to vibe with, but it seems like an obligatory kind of like,

[86:20]okay, I got to do the thing to like shut up my people kind of thing.

[86:23]Here we have Breathe Easy.

[86:25]I love this one where he's talking about how great he is.

[86:27]This is me every year.

[86:28]You guys know at the beginning of the school year,

[86:30]I sit down with my students.

[86:32]I don't sit down.

[86:33]I never sit down because if they saw me sitting down,

[86:34]that'd be weakness.

[86:35]But I stand there in front of my students.

[86:37]Wait, is that true?

[86:39]You never sit down?

[86:40]What do you do when you eat?

[86:41]Do you eat standing up?

[86:42]No.

[86:42]Have you ever seen me sit down or stand up?

[86:44]It takes way too long.

[86:45]And I make noises when I do it now.

[86:46]It's like, oof.

[86:47]I thought you only laid down for certain biological functions.

[86:52]I thought you couldn't stand for that.

[86:54]I don't remember.

[86:55]Is that a joke we made one time?

[86:56]Like a shit when lying down or something?

[86:58]It's a young man's game.

[86:59]Oh, that's right.

[87:00]Because it was face down.

[87:01]That's right.

[87:01]It makes no sense.

[87:02]All right.

[87:03]So here's the thing.

[87:03]Like, yeah, we got to have confidence.

[87:05]That's what this song is.

[87:06]He's just talking about how good he is.

[87:07]He's just talking about how great he is.

[87:07]Listen to this.

[87:08]Six statistical categories.

[87:16]Yeah, this is kind of egotistical a little bit, isn't it?

[87:22]It's great.

[87:23]It's great.

[87:24]Do all musicians do this?

[87:25]I'm like, hey, like, could you imagine if Brian Wilson was like, oh, I'm better at arranging

[87:29]these strings?

[87:30]Yes.

[87:31]No, you're right, Russell.

[87:32]That's what's fun about it is that he enumerates the things that make you a good rapper and

[87:36]we don't hear a lot of that.

[87:37]Other musicians do that.

[87:38]You're right, Russell.

[87:38]That's super fun.

[87:39]Yeah.

[87:39]And he's right.

[87:40]That's the thing.

[87:41]I think you have to be like that to do this.

[87:42]Russell, I want you to try to put out one song.

[87:45]I'll play it next week and think about how nervous you would be to do that.

[87:48]Like, you'd have to be like, I am the best at this and this is why I'm doing it.

[87:51]Like, and he, I got to say he's close.

[87:53]Like, listening to his flow, listening to how he, he, the word sound.

[87:57]I mean, it's unbelievable.

[87:58]I loved it.

[87:59]This last one is Girls, Girls, Girls again, the hidden track, but it's produced now by

[88:04]Kanye.

[88:05]Listen to the difference here.

[88:07]I love girls, girls, girls, girls, girls.

[88:12]Yeah.

[88:12]Matt, what do you think of this as a close?

[88:14]You're, you're the album structure guy.

[88:16]What do you think of this as the end and last track?

[88:18]Is this the last track of the?

[88:20]Yes.

[88:21]Yeah.

[88:21]I suppose I'd have to listen to the album to, you know, sorry.

[88:26]They're not playing this on a loop in North Dakota for you, Matt?

[88:30]Yeah.

[88:30]This sounds like diplomats to me.

[88:32]No, but I mean, I don't, I don't know.

[88:35]I mean, playing the same song again.

[88:37]Um, different version, but listen, listen, just listen right now and I'll play the other

[88:41]version.

[88:41]Okay.

[88:43]Here's the other.

[88:44]I mean, it just shows you that Kanye is just right on it.

[88:51]I like the one.

[88:52]I mean, I like the verses better than the last one where he says in and out of moving

[88:55]through a student body union.

[88:56]So that is the blueprint by Jay-Z.

[88:58]Let's get into everybody's favorite and everybody's padded, uh, the rating system.

[89:07]You know who loves the rating system?

[89:09]General Patton.

[89:10]It's Patton Patton, big boy of OutKast.

[89:15]You guys, I went to law school for many years and I heard if you say patented enough, it

[89:22]actually is patented.

[89:23]So I think we're almost there.

[89:24]Another episode.

[89:25]How many years did you go to law school?

[89:26]Why'd you go for many years?

[89:28]Yeah.

[89:29]No, Aaron.

[89:30]Yeah.

[89:31]Law school is one year.

[89:32]You dumb shit.

[89:32]What are you talking about?

[89:33]Aaron's like looking for lawyers.

[89:35]He's like, how many years did you go to law school?

[89:37]Two.

[89:37]I'm kidding.

[89:38]I know exactly how many years Russell went to law school.

[89:40]Yeah.

[89:40]Russell's a, Russell's a.

[89:42]You know, you don't have to go to law school to be a lawyer.

[89:44]You could pass.

[89:45]You can just go take the bar without.

[89:47]If you live in California, not all states.

[89:49]If you live in California, you can.

[89:51]Is this me getting renegated?

[89:52]Is this what it's like when you get renegated?

[89:53]Yeah.

[89:54]How does it feel?

[89:55]Wow.

[89:55]It really sucks.

[89:56]You just renegated your ass.

[89:57]Hey, Rob, I heard the podcast.

[89:58]My favorite part was when they were talking about the judicial system in California.

[90:02]I loved it.

[90:03]I can't believe they only need 19 credits a year for that.

[90:07]I can't believe they only need 19 credits a year for California.

[90:07]They need 22 credits in South Dakota.

[90:10]I love this.

[90:11]I love this.

[90:12]I love 27 credits in North Dakota.

[90:14]As long as you have a PBR while you're taking the test.

[90:16]I like the fact that Aaron goes to somebody in California and he's like, Hey, how long

[90:20]are you a lawyer?

[90:21]And the guy's like, I'm lawyer ish.

[90:22]And he's like, yeah, that sounds great.

[90:25]I do billable two hours.

[90:27]All right.

[90:28]So the rating system here is, this is number 50 on the list.

[90:31]Guys, this is the last one on the first webpage of the Rolling Stone site.

[90:36]After this, we're going to go to the next one.

[90:37]We're going to 51, then 52.

[90:38]So as you can see, we're going down the list, but up a number 52, Rob.

[90:42]What?

[90:43]What do you think?

[90:44]I don't have a bit ready to go for 51.

[90:46]Don't, don't try to renegade me on this.

[90:48]Okay.

[90:48]So here's the thing is that I'm trying to get in the way of my patented rating system.

[90:53]I don't think so.

[90:54]Is this a rolling?

[90:55]Well-toned it's perfect at 50.

[90:56]It belongs right here.

[90:57]It's after Biggie.

[90:59]It's after public enemy.

[91:00]It's after Kanye.

[91:02]It's after even Beyonce.

[91:04]Really is.

[91:05]Should this be better higher up?

[91:07]Did this get rolling boned?

[91:08]It should be 49, 48, 1, 2, 3, 4, but not 50.

[91:12]That's the other way.

[91:13]Again, we're going up the list, but down in numbers.

[91:15]But for us in the podcast, it would be going back in time.

[91:18]So think about that.

[91:19]And then now I've got a time thing to talk about.

[91:22]This is great.

[91:23]Or is this a rolling groan?

[91:24]You didn't like listening to this.

[91:25]You, we should be listening to this in the fall, in the summer, next summer.

[91:29]Okay.

[91:29]Cause it's later on the list.

[91:30]It's a higher number.

[91:31]Okay.

[91:32]So later and higher.

[91:34]Think about it.

[91:35]Okay.

[91:37]On the list.

[91:37]Where, where should this be?

[91:39]Is this a rolling?

[91:39]Well-toned rolling bone or rolling grown?

[91:41]Rosie, what do you think?

[91:42]I was just trying to, as you were going through that long thing you were

[91:47]talking, but I didn't understand it.

[91:49]Oh, well, okay.

[91:50]I was rolling.

[91:51]Well, trying to means that it should be number 50.

[91:52]It's a perfect place.

[91:53]Place this rolling grown in the context.

[91:55]No, no, no, no, no.

[91:56]I'm going to have the other hip hop that we've heard.

[91:58]So that would be public enemy, Lauren Hill, Wu Tang, outcast, Nas.

[92:07]Uh, I'm missing one in there.

[92:09]Biggie, the chronic Biggie, the chronic.

[92:12]Uh, so I, I think this fits correctly with, uh, with the, the other hip hop

[92:16]albums that we've heard.

[92:17]One thing I love about it is this is 2001.

[92:20]So it's well after, uh, public enemy.

[92:24]Did we do nation of millions?

[92:25]Is that the one that, that was the, yes.

[92:27]Yeah.

[92:27]So it's, it's well after public enemy, even maybe 15 years or more, but it's

[92:32]still situates hip hop in a very New York centric.

[92:36]Yeah.

[92:37]Place.

[92:37]And I'm, I'm surprised Rob, that you didn't, you know, really pump this up,

[92:41]but I, I love the way he takes hip hop.

[92:44]He makes it, he makes it really neighborhood specific.

[92:47]He makes it New York specific, but he's still shouting out other references.

[92:50]He's shouting out the West coast.

[92:52]Uh, he does shout out underground Kings from the South, uh, UGK.

[92:55]It's at another point in this album.

[92:58]So I like, I like where this is still, he's fighting to be the King of New

[93:03]York, just the way, you know, public enemy was doing the way Biggie was doing.

[93:06]And I don't like to give New York too much credit, but, but hip hop definitely

[93:12]came from New York.

[93:13]And at this time, it was still right.

[93:17]It was still New York.

[93:18]You had to be the King of New York if you cared about hip hop.

[93:21]So, um, I think it's, it's right for this album to still be on the first page

[93:25]of, uh, of the Rolling Stone, um, website.

[93:29]And I don't think it necessarily needed to be any higher.

[93:32]Um, so, cause it's such a polished, perfect sound.

[93:35]Uh, but it's very commercial.

[93:37]So I'm going to stop talking and call it rolling.

[93:39]Well-toned Russell, what do you think?

[93:42]I was kind of torn on this album going into it when I saw they redid the album

[93:47]and I saw Jay-Z was at 58.

[93:48]I thought, oh, he's just so influential.

[93:51]They have to put him super high on the list to kind of, you know, give this the

[93:55]list credit.

[93:55]And I think Jay-Z wrote articles about this list and some of the albums on the

[93:59]list.

[93:59]So I think I kind of came into this thinking, oh, this is going to be

[94:03]bullshit.

[94:03]He shouldn't be this high.

[94:04]He's just, he's too.

[94:05]Famous.

[94:06]Now he has to be up on the list.

[94:07]I got to tell you guys, I was shocked.

[94:09]I'm super into this album.

[94:11]I loved it.

[94:12]I think you guys saw Aaron, you talked about the samples and how you can't

[94:15]no album can do this anymore.

[94:17]It's too expensive.

[94:18]They're sampling so many things, but I just loved all the music that was

[94:22]played under it.

[94:22]And I think I'm a Kanye West guy.

[94:25]I honestly think I just, I loved a lot of the songs of this album.

[94:28]I know the hip hop heads like Aaron might say I'm wrong.

[94:32]And I would defer to Aaron on this, but I would.

[94:35]Much rather listen to this than the Nas album.

[94:38]I think this is much more enjoyable.

[94:40]I'm going to say this is rolling bone.

[94:42]It should be higher on the list.

[94:43]And I think it should be way higher on the list.

[94:46]This for me is one of my 10 favorite albums we've listened to.

[94:49]I don't know if it's influential, but if I had an album to relisten to,

[94:53]this is on my list.

[94:54]Rolling bone.

[94:55]Wow.

[94:56]Aaron, you just got ethered, man.

[94:58]What do you think?

[94:59]For a lot of the same reasons, Rosie mentioned, I think it's

[95:05]rolling.

[95:05]Rolling well toned.

[95:06]You know, I would rather listen to this than Nas personally.

[95:11]But again, we know my whole take on New York rap to begin with.

[95:15]So, you know, I don't want to get into the, you know, 50 for Jay-Z seems

[95:19]like a great spot on this whole list.

[95:21]I, again, most, I'm just going to reiterate most of the things that

[95:26]Rosie said and go along with that line of thinking.

[95:28]And so I'm going to say rolling well toned.

[95:30]All right.

[95:31]Well, the correct answer is it's rolling self-promotion.

[95:35]Guys, telling everybody how great you are is the number one way that

[95:41]people know how great you are.

[95:42]Nobody's going to do it for you.

[95:43]You got to get out there and say, I am the best rapper.

[95:46]And people will just say, I'm the best rapper.

[95:48]It's just the way it is.

[95:49]And Russell, I want you to take this energy into your dating profile.

[95:52]Hey, hey, you guys hear this?

[95:54]I'm the best podcaster.

[95:55]Yeah.

[95:56]My balls are the most gray.

[95:57]I've got the most gray balls.

[95:59]My balls are so gray.

[96:01]It's crazy.

[96:01]My pubic hair is so patchy.

[96:03]It's the patchiest.

[96:04]It's like weird.

[96:05]It goes down one leg, but not the other.

[96:06]It's the best.

[96:07]Like, you got to be confident in what you're saying, Russell.

[96:09]I think that's great.

[96:10]The good joke comes at the end of the podcast, of course,

[96:13]if nobody's listening.

[96:13]All right.

[96:16]Next up, we have an album that's going to be a little controversial.

[96:21]Okay.

[96:21]And I'm hoping that we can handle this in a mature way.

[96:23]What is it?

[96:24]It's the Chuck Berry Great 28.

[96:26]Now, Chuck Berry was arrested in the 90s for setting up a series of

[96:31]toilet cams.

[96:31]Now, toilet cams, as I have researched online, are cameras that people will put

[96:35]in toilets to film people going to the bathroom.

[96:38]Okay.

[96:38]Oh, no.

[96:39]Now, a lot of people think, I mean, Chuck Berry, it's classic rock.

[96:44]A lot of people think that this album should be number one or two.

[96:46]A lot of people dump on this album, but I think it's a golden stream when it

[96:50]comes up on Spotify.

[96:51]A lot of people think this album leaked too early, but that idea always puts

[96:55]me down in the dumps.

[96:56]Some people think it stinks and it should be wiped from the list, but I

[97:00]think we need to get to the bottom of this and do some close-up privates

[97:03]investigation.

[97:03]Next up, we have.

[97:05]Chuck Berry, the Great 28.

[97:07]I love how Rob had 22 jokes for that, but he didn't have our opening joke

[97:15]ready at the beginning of this podcast.

[97:18]He had to put us on pause for 20 minutes to figure that out.

[97:21]A lot of people think this album stinks and should be wiped from the list.

[97:26]We should do a privates investigation.

[97:29]Speaking of stinks, you guys, my rump shaker got out of control.

[97:35]Can you hear me?

[97:35]Can you guys let me know?

[97:36]Does this smell like garlic?

[97:37]Oh, my God.

[97:40]We've all been ethered.

[97:41]Thank you.