Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (1968)

[00:00]In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine.

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

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

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

[00:17]Please sit back and enjoy Beck Did It Better.

[00:21]From 1968, we are all the way up to album 60.

[00:26]All the way.

[00:27]This is Astral Weeks by Van Morrison.

[00:29]Oh!

[00:30]Guys, listening to this made me realize I need to listen to more radio,

[00:36]because there are some songs out there that I would love I just haven't heard yet.

[00:39]So let's, you know what, let's see what's on right now.

[00:41]Maybe there's a great song on the radio, or maybe it's a song that somebody recorded in like 10 minutes on the first take

[00:46]and then didn't feel like going back and maybe doing a better job later.

[00:49]Okay, so we don't know.

[00:50]It could be anything.

[00:51]Who knows?

[00:51]Let's check it out.

[00:52]What's up, everybody?

[00:54]Welcome to KROB, K-R-O-B.

[00:56]Listen, I got a call to the KROB line.

[00:59]It's from four different guys who say they have a podcast and not as many people are listening as they should.

[01:03]So I asked them, are you using your real-ass names?

[01:06]Are you telling people about the podcast?

[01:08]Are you putting any work whatsoever into promotion?

[01:11]And they didn't think so.

[01:12]When we started this podcast, we asked people to listen at first.

[01:18]But then the reaction they would give me, well, it was just the worst.

[01:27]Yes.

[01:27]Oh, geez.

[01:29]Dark place.

[01:30]So now I don't mention it to anyone.

[01:33]Nope.

[01:36]And I don't even post to the back.

[01:40]Did it better?

[01:41]Instagram.

[01:42]Instagram.

[01:44]Instagram's over from me.

[01:46]And if you take a look at our Twitter feed.

[01:51]Oh, go get it.

[01:53]Go get it.

[01:54]You'll notice that it's basically completely empty.

[01:59]Oh, you hear Rob piping on that flute in the back?

[02:03]There's such nice flute on this one.

[02:05]Okay.

[02:08]You ever had a feeling that maybe you made something that was too long?

[02:10]No, never.

[02:12]It's never been too long.

[02:14]It's never been an issue for me.

[02:15]I know it's listening.

[02:17]Is it goddamn on the radio?

[02:19]Yes.

[02:22]It is true.

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[02:31]Oh, maybe I could rap for some ads on Spotify.

[02:40]Yes.

[02:42]I did my Van Morrison voice.

[02:43]Well, maybe, maybe, maybe we should invite a more popular podcast host.

[02:49]Wait, what?

[02:50]Hang on.

[02:52]Am I getting fired today?

[02:53]Well, more pornographic pictures of Aaron Stowe's.

[02:58]Oh, nobody's buying those.

[03:00]I'll tell you that right now.

[03:00]I remember, I remember why we started this podcast.

[03:04]I don't remember ever.

[03:07]There's only one thing I want to do, and that is make these three guys laugh.

[03:13]Yes.

[03:15]Oh, Rob.

[03:16]You're making me cry.

[03:17]No one's listening.

[03:21]No.

[03:23]Wait, is there really nobody listening, or is this a joke?

[03:30]Do you guys hear something?

[03:32]I did used to have friends who used to text me about the podcast, and that has seemingly

[03:40]come to an end within the last few months.

[03:42]Yeah.

[03:42]The text or the friendships?

[03:43]Even my biggest fan here in New York is like, ah, I'm a couple episodes behind.

[03:47]I was like, please don't, you don't have to tell me that, actually.

[03:51]I legit got a text from a friend today saying that.

[03:53]Saying that, that they were at the Prince sign of the times, and that they were taking

[03:57]the week off to catch up on the podcast.

[03:58]That's what they're doing on their time off.

[04:00]That's bullshit.

[04:01]Wow.

[04:02]That's great.

[04:03]They're out in their, they're out in their shack in the woods, writing their manifesto.

[04:07]I'm like, hmm, what do I want to listen to while I'm writing this?

[04:09]What I think about the government.

[04:10]Ah, I've got this perfect podcast.

[04:12]Excuse me.

[04:14]Why does this manifesto have so many references to time machines?

[04:17]I don't know.

[04:17]All right.

[04:18]Welcome to Beckett and Better.

[04:19]We are a podcast where we're going through the top 500 albums as recorded by

[04:23]Rolling Stone magazine, and we're all the way up to number 60.

[04:25]We've got Van Morrison, Astral Weeks, and you know what?

[04:29]Here's a couple of guys I haven't seen for one Astral Week.

[04:31]Sorry.

[04:32]I didn't write anything down.

[04:33]Russell, Minnesota.

[04:35]Russell, how are you doing?

[04:36]Rob, last night I ventured into the slipstream between the viaducts of your dream.

[04:42]Oh, my, my, my.

[04:43]It was a sweet thing.

[04:45]I was wondering why I was so sore when I woke up this morning.

[04:48]I left you no pain, Rob.

[04:50]No pain.

[04:51]I've got Matt in Minneapolis.

[04:53]Matt, how are you doing tonight?

[04:55]Just great, Rob.

[04:56]Thanks for having me, as always.

[04:58]And I've got somebody who has been going around trying to get one of these vaccine booster

[05:02]shots when he found out what it can do to your balls.

[05:04]Aaron, how are you doing in California?

[05:06]I'm just so excited to be here and sit on our own star and talk about the way we were

[05:12]and the way we wanted it to be.

[05:13]So I'm happy to be here.

[05:14]There you go.

[05:15]I like that.

[05:15]Just to let you know, I am editing out that five-minute rant you just went on about your

[05:19]balls, where you talked about them and described them in detail and how small they were.

[05:22]I did get a vaccine.

[05:23]Or a supplement.

[05:23]We can discuss that another time.

[05:25]No booster.

[05:25]Isn't that funny, though, that that was always an insult of like, oh, I bet you have small

[05:28]balls.

[05:28]Actually, it was an insult, right?

[05:29]Big balls is both.

[05:30]Is big balls a compliment?

[05:31]I think it is a compliment.

[05:33]Like Sam Cassell.

[05:34]ACDC says so.

[05:35]Yeah.

[05:35]Sam Cassell was famous for doing the big balls dance after a big shot.

[05:39]I think it's a compliment.

[05:40]It's such a great idea for a dance.

[05:41]I have now grown into an age that when I am wearing tight underwear, it's just balls in

[05:47]the front.

[05:47]You know what I mean?

[05:48]I'm that guy.

[05:48]Remember, you used to see those guys, and it would look like they're just carrying a

[05:51]backpack of water.

[05:53]It would look like just a straight up pouch.

[05:54]And you're like, wait a minute.

[05:55]How does a penis look like that?

[05:57]You realize it's all balls.

[05:58]I think that's the point where I'm at in my life, where my underwear is just round.

[06:02]It looks like a bowling ball.

[06:03]I want to talk more about how you used to see those guys, and then you don't see them

[06:07]anymore.

[06:07]What's changed about your behavior where you used to see a lot of balls, and now you don't?

[06:10]I don't have it.

[06:12]My gym doesn't have a locker room, so I'm changing at home.

[06:14]So my days of seeing balls and stuff, it's gone, sadly.

[06:18]I don't have any.

[06:19]All the gym has is a hairdryer at waist level.

[06:21]So, you know.

[06:22]Who knows what we could do with that?

[06:23]I don't know.

[06:25]Maybe drive my balls like a parachute.

[06:26]Whatever.

[06:27]But the stuff you said, Aaron, I'm editing out.

[06:30]You should get a hairdryer put into your house, Rob.

[06:33]Do you imagine, like, hey, that would get your wife out of the bathroom.

[06:36]You'd have your own private time if you had a hairdryer in there, right?

[06:39]It'd be so good.

[06:40]I'm telling you guys, I am jamming on the separate bedroom idea, like, big time.

[06:44]I am ready for my kid to move out.

[06:45]I've got plans for this bedroom right here.

[06:47]It's going to be so great.

[06:48]What's going to go in the separate bedroom?

[06:49]We're going to get TVs.

[06:50]We're going to get video games.

[06:51]I mean, I'm going to be like.

[06:52]I'm going to be like 50 at the time.

[06:53]It's going to be a podcast studio.

[06:55]I'm going to really get it going.

[06:56]It's going to be awesome.

[06:57]And guess what?

[06:58]I can go to bed past 830 and not get yelled at when I hopped into bed.

[07:01]And we're going to be on album 200 by that time.

[07:03]So we've got plenty of time.

[07:05]Oh, that sounds fun.

[07:07]What would happen if you proposed the separate bedroom to Jenny?

[07:10]Like, now, would she be up for that?

[07:12]Or what would be the response?

[07:13]She'd be thrilled.

[07:14]She hates me.

[07:15]And she hates it when I come to bed late.

[07:19]Listen.

[07:22]Just going to say it again.

[07:23]Marriage is fine.

[07:24]Everything's going fine.

[07:24]But me getting into bed at night, it literally is like I have to be like a cat burglar.

[07:31]But in reverse, like I'm trying to get in to the bed without setting off the alarm because

[07:35]she just hates it.

[07:37]Even if we go to bed at the same time, I'll move around to get comfortable and I can move

[07:40]about six times.

[07:41]And after six times, I know I'm going to get.

[07:42]God damn it.

[07:43]You're moving a lot like stuff.

[07:44]Do you ever just do like the big flop and a lot of turn, like just get it all over in

[07:51]like 30 seconds.

[07:51]And then, you know.

[07:52]You know, like obviously she's going to wake up or whatever, but, you know, just, I mean,

[07:56]don't try to do the cat burglar thing.

[07:57]Just barrel in there and go.

[07:59]Doesn't that work?

[08:00]I know this podcast is supposed to be like fun and joking and everything.

[08:02]Waking her up at night is not a joke.

[08:04]Okay.

[08:04]I don't even joke about that.

[08:06]Actually, it is very scary.

[08:07]You do not want to wake my wife up at night.

[08:09]She will be mad.

[08:10]And then she does this.

[08:10]She goes, God damn it.

[08:12]I can't even go to sleep now.

[08:13]So now I am stressed.

[08:14]And then I look over at her and she's like, so I'm up for another half hour.

[08:17]I'm like, shit, backfire.

[08:19]All right, Rob, Rob, put your, put your earphones.

[08:22]Unmute for a second.

[08:23]We'll do Russell.

[08:24]Yeah.

[08:24]This is a great opportunity for another song.

[08:27]You're great at making fun of Rob's family.

[08:29]So you get, you got the first one and now you can do one of making fun of Rob, Rob trying

[08:33]to get Jenny to go to sleep.

[08:34]Robin is, is, is nightcap is nighttime activities.

[08:38]Yeah.

[08:39]Yeah.

[08:39]So next week you're on, you're up for a song.

[08:42]Okay.

[08:42]You can do a rock him verse about Rob.

[08:44]Good luck on the parody song next week.

[08:47]Trying to do parodies on Eric being rock games, fading full.

[08:51]Oh my God.

[08:52]That last one was so good.

[08:53]Everybody's waiting for the next one.

[08:55]So you, you're up next.

[08:56]No pressure.

[08:57]All right, Rob, Rob, you can put your headphones back on.

[08:59]Yeah.

[09:01]Yeah.

[09:01]Yeah.

[09:01]No.

[09:02]Yeah.

[09:02]You're good.

[09:02]Okay.

[09:03]They had to give me hand signals.

[09:04]Cause obviously I couldn't hear what they were saying.

[09:05]Let's get into the first part of the show that everybody remembers and definitely didn't

[09:10]forget about.

[09:11]It's time for the Beck's line.

[09:13]It's funny.

[09:15]I, I legit figured we had no backs and that we were going to have to have the discussion

[09:19]about how no one's reaching out to us anymore.

[09:21]I'll tell you what my theme song is.

[09:22]The theme song, writing it and singing it made me sad that nobody listens to the podcast,

[09:25]but I have to admit this week, the Beck's people did come in force, which is good because

[09:29]remember that what we talked about in the last one where the guy invited me to the party

[09:32]totally forgot about it.

[09:34]Did not go on a sad party.

[09:36]You didn't think about it.

[09:37]I feel terrible.

[09:38]I feel awful.

[09:39]Someone gave you a public invite and we honestly, we kept like a really boring, like two minute

[09:44]long recording and the podcast.

[09:46]And then you didn't even go to the dumb shit listeners.

[09:49]They don't get it.

[09:49]At least you can show up.

[09:51]I didn't go.

[09:52]You know, I didn't go.

[09:52]No, I did not.

[09:52]Why didn't you go?

[09:53]I didn't even think about it.

[09:55]I should have written it down.

[09:55]It didn't even cross my mind until I was editing the podcast.

[09:59]I'd listen to the voice.

[10:00]I'm like, oh shit.

[10:01]That was this weekend.

[10:02]God damn it.

[10:03]So do you think that's an acceptable reason for someone not to show up because they called

[10:07]and invited you up because they're a podcast fan?

[10:09]No, I should have gone.

[10:10]And then you don't show because they're, you're editing the podcast.

[10:13]Is that a good excuse Aaron and Matt for Rob or not?

[10:15]No, no, no.

[10:18]Yeah, it's pretty bad.

[10:19]Right?

[10:19]Yeah.

[10:20]Hey, I'm taking the time to.

[10:22]Leave your dumb podcast, a voicemail that you can maybe make something funny out of.

[10:25]And, uh, oh, why don't you come to this party?

[10:26]Nah, I'm so busy.

[10:27]Not busy.

[10:28]By the way, a voicemail invite is almost as good as an Evite.

[10:31]Like he might as well have sent you an Evite and you just not no response.

[10:34]That's terrible.

[10:35]No, it's, it's very, very bad.

[10:38]You're still in the yet to respond category.

[10:39]I mean, we've all done the Evite back in the day that the person who doesn't respond is

[10:45]a real asshole, Rob.

[10:46]I'm responding now.

[10:48]This is the response.

[10:49]I'm very sorry that I didn't go.

[10:51]I really am.

[10:51]I feel bad.

[10:52]I feel bad about it.

[10:52]My regrets about the, after their party question for you guys, what would be the worst song

[10:58]to hear at the totally not a scam dentist office?

[11:01]Okay.

[11:02]So Joe Buck is texting in and asking us what would be the worst song to think to hear when

[11:07]you are at the dental office?

[11:09]Now I did immediately think about this song by Anvil.

[11:12]Listen to this.

[11:12]You go into the dentist's office, you sit down.

[11:14]Anvil?

[11:14]Wait, is this Aaron's pick or what are we doing here?

[11:17]Is this a song anyone's ever heard of?

[11:19]No, no, no.

[11:20]There's a great documentary about Anvil.

[11:21]It's about.

[11:22]It's about a kind of a old heavy metal band that was like C-list and then what they're

[11:25]up to now.

[11:26]It's a great documentary.

[11:27]If you get a chance, it won an Academy Award.

[11:29]I think this is called metal on metal.

[11:31]You're in the dentist.

[11:34]You're in the chair.

[11:35]Aaron Dennis comes over.

[11:36]It's a Rob's left field.

[11:38]Take of the week.

[11:38]Ready?

[11:39]Yeah.

[11:39]Rob's left field.

[11:42]Take of the week.

[11:43]This is kind of catchy though.

[11:47]This isn't even like, I don't know.

[11:48]This is kind of poppy guys.

[11:50]It's so good.

[11:50]But the idea of metal on metal.

[11:52]That's what I think about going to the dentist.

[11:53]It's the worst feeling of all time.

[11:55]I thought you guys remember the band, Mr.

[11:57]Big that did.

[11:58]I'm the one who wants to be with you.

[12:00]I think also in their non.

[12:02]So there's, so there's two things.

[12:03]The first thing I do not want to hear the dentist is any song that I am going to be

[12:07]incapable of singing along with, which is most songs.

[12:10]So if I'm in there in the dentist chair with like my mouth propped open and I'm the one

[12:14]who wants to be with you by Mr.

[12:16]Big comes on, I'm going to be trying to sing along and I'm probably going to choke on

[12:19]whatever's going on.

[12:20]That's not great.

[12:21]That would be.

[12:22]It's so hard to not sing along with.

[12:23]I'm the one that wants to be with.

[12:28]Excuse me, sir.

[12:30]Please stop.

[12:31]We're going to have to charge you extra if you keep singing during this song.

[12:34]Yeah.

[12:35]Oh, terrible.

[12:37]It'd be about.

[12:38]You're right.

[12:38]That's impossible not to sing along with anything you're dying to sing along with.

[12:41]That's one.

[12:41]But I think Mr.

[12:42]Big also did some songs where they played their guitars with electric drills.

[12:47]And so I think there are songs out there where like people are putting drills on their guitars.

[12:52]I'm playing them.

[12:52]Like, all right, hold on, Rob, you can have the sound bird back.

[12:55]You can almost passed out just listening to that.

[12:57]That's terrible.

[12:58]Just thinking about that.

[13:00]I almost passed out.

[13:01]Yeah, I think I think Mr.

[13:02]Big was a band that did that, but I'm going to have to look it up.

[13:04]Yeah.

[13:05]All I know is last time I went to the dentist, I was like, you're playing this album through

[13:11]there's some problematic stuff on here.

[13:13]I don't I think I think I'm going to go somewhere in the middle.

[13:16]To me, the when I hear songs, I don't want to hear.

[13:19]First, I'm going to say any Metallica song.

[13:21]I don't want to hear.

[13:22]Master of Puppets.

[13:22]I don't want to hear metal at the dentist's office.

[13:25]So, Rob, I'm going to pile on with that.

[13:26]The other one I was thinking of is I don't want to hear.

[13:29]Oops, I did it again by Britney Spears.

[13:31]I don't want to hear about anything going wrong while this dentist is in my mouth, taking

[13:36]my money and abusing me.

[13:38]I don't want to hear anything about mistakes.

[13:41]Oops, I did it again.

[13:42]So fucking funny.

[13:43]Perfect.

[13:44]Matt, what do you think?

[13:45]You're at the dentist.

[13:45]What song do you not want to hear?

[13:46]Well, probably Let It Bleed by Rolling Stones.

[13:52]You know, I've gotten through the list a little bit.

[13:56]I sent you guys a song today by the Velvet Underground.

[13:58]But anything by the Velvet Underground, just that would send me over the edge.

[14:02]What's the difference between the Velvet Underground and Van Morrison?

[14:06]They both start with V.

[14:07]They both have like two words in it.

[14:09]Like, I have to admit, there may have been some confusion on my part.

[14:12]It's science.

[14:13]And there's a the in front of one.

[14:15]They seem quite different.

[14:17]I guess we'll discuss that when we get to the music.

[14:19]I think Van Morrison seems nice.

[14:21]And Velvet Underground, I don't know.

[14:22]I think Velvet Underground had Nico.

[14:23]One of them is knighted.

[14:26]Yes.

[14:27]Let's just spend the whole podcast talking about differences between Van Morrison and Velvet Underground.

[14:32]We could just do that for an hour and a half and call it a night.

[14:35]My next question about Van Morrison was going to be person or a band.

[14:39]This is like Steely Dan.

[14:40]Is it a person or a fucking band?

[14:42]You don't know that unless you're really into music.

[14:45]You think there's somebody named Steely Dan?

[14:47]Russell.

[14:48]I don't know if it's a person or a band.

[14:50]I got you three.

[14:51]You're well over.

[14:52]You're well over a year into being the tertiary host of a podcast about music.

[14:58]You're way into music now.

[14:59]Rob told me I was the co-main host before you.

[15:01]Steely Dan could be like Slippery Pete or something like that.

[15:05]There could be a guy named Dan and he's just Steely Dan.

[15:08]Guys, I don't want to get into this again, but we have talked about this before.

[15:12]Steely Dan is named after a nickname for vibrators.

[15:15]What is Van Morrison named after?

[15:18]It's a huge vibrator.

[15:21]It's a huge vibrator.

[15:22]It's the biggest size of a van.

[15:23]It's a van-shaped vibrator.

[15:25]Don't even get me started on Limo Morrison.

[15:27]Oh, no.

[15:28]Yeah.

[15:29]Long and sleek, huh?

[15:31]I don't want to talk about Optimus Prime Morrison.

[15:33]That's a whole different...

[15:34]Oh, Eric.

[15:34]So this Bexter also sent a follow-up, which I realize I didn't pull the clip for, but

[15:39]here, let's...

[15:40]If it's not the Lumberjack by Jack Ill, you're wrong.

[15:42]Okay, so he is saying Lumberjack.

[15:45]What?

[15:45]I don't even know what that is.

[15:46]That was Kevin Harlan coming in.

[15:47]He was responding.

[15:48]Goes up high, comes down hard.

[15:50]We call those the high, hard ones.

[15:52]Okay, so he says that this song is going to be very bad.

[15:55]Oogly, oogly, oogly, baby.

[15:56]What's going on?

[15:57]Maybe Jack Ill might be the ones that played the guitar with their drills.

[16:01]Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong band.

[16:03]Are we still talking about the dentist?

[16:06]Yes, we are still talking about the dentist.

[16:08]Steely Dentist.

[16:10]Oh, yes.

[16:15]It's the chainsaw one, yeah.

[16:16]Oh, my God.

[16:17]I think it is the one with the drills on the guitar.

[16:22]So, don't doctors, when they do operations, they listen to music when they put you out?

[16:28]Do dentists listen to music while they're working on you or not?

[16:30]I don't know.

[16:31]Can they?

[16:34]I guess I don't know.

[16:35]This Bexter is probably right, though.

[16:40]You don't want to hear that.

[16:41]This is...

[16:42]Oh, no.

[16:43]You're totally right.

[16:44]You're right, Bexter.

[16:45]That's the one.

[16:45]So, me and this Bexter are on the same page.

[16:47]Yeah, that was on the list of songs you don't want to hear in the dentist and also songs

[16:51]you don't want to hear on this podcast.

[16:52]So, thanks for nothing yet.

[16:54]Okay.

[16:56]What a dumb shit listener.

[16:57]Okay.

[16:59]Parody song ideas, lumberjacking it.

[17:01]Okay, I'm crossing that out.

[17:02]Nobody liked it.

[17:03]Not good.

[17:04]Hey, Rob, we got that covered next week.

[17:06]Don't worry about it.

[17:06]I do like that the Bexter, by the way, both texted a Bex and then answered it with his

[17:10]own thing that was also the best answer.

[17:12]It's like, yeah, that's how you look smart.

[17:13]You have a question that you know the best answer to, and then you ask the question.

[17:16]It's brilliant.

[17:16]Yeah, I was thinking Jackal was on my list.

[17:19]That was next to the one I was going to say.

[17:21]Famous band.

[17:22]All right, let's get into everybody's favorite part of the podcast.

[17:25]It's Rollin' Goin'.

[17:27]It's time for Rollin' Goin'.

[17:31]All right, Aaron, tell us, Rollin' Goin', how is it going with you?

[17:35]Oh, it's another day of a rollercoaster of emotions for me.

[17:39]You guys know how I'm in my feelings a lot.

[17:41]I feel a little bit melancholy, and I'll be honest, Rob, your song didn't help me get

[17:46]out of my feelings at all.

[17:47]Yeah.

[17:48]I really enjoyed listening to this album this week.

[17:51]And I feel excited to talk with you guys about it, because it's not-

[17:55]Wait, is this the rating system?

[17:56]Yeah.

[17:57]Yeah.

[17:57]I put your head out of your ass here.

[18:00]Your Astral Weeks.

[18:01]I didn't know this album.

[18:03]I was kind of not excited to hear it.

[18:05]I was sort of like, Astral Weeks, it's like, you know, I know it's canon, but whatever.

[18:09]And I loved it.

[18:11]I really enjoyed listening to it.

[18:12]And then we got to today, and I was playing it for the last time over dinner tonight,

[18:15]and I was like, man, this is it.

[18:16]Another Smashing Pumpkin.

[18:17]This is it.

[18:18]Yeah.

[18:21]Today is the greatest.

[18:23]I felt an infinite sadness.

[18:25]And I thought about how people might have felt in 1979 listening, and if they had a twin,

[18:32]and they and their twin had the same dream, if it might have been a Siamese dream.

[18:37]That's all the Smashing Pumpkin songs I know.

[18:39]We say conjoined.

[18:40]We say conjoined dream now.

[18:42]So you were sad.

[18:44]So you're rolling on.

[18:45]Let me get this straight.

[18:46]Okay.

[18:46]Let me get this straight.

[18:47]Yeah, let's hear it.

[18:48]You're rolling on is that you're sad that you can't listen to this album anymore after.

[18:51]After this podcast.

[18:52]Well, it's not that.

[18:53]Is that what you're sad about?

[18:54]It's not that, because I know I can still listen to the album.

[18:56]It's more about the time marches on kind of concept.

[19:00]It's that once we've talked about this album on this podcast.

[19:03]Now we're into Metallica.

[19:05]It's the last time we've talked about this album on this podcast, and that's it.

[19:08]And then I just, I start thinking about all the weeks and hours and days we've spent together

[19:13]talking about music, and I feel like I feel a little bit emotional about it.

[19:17]Yeah, I feel emotional too.

[19:19]You're seeking out new music, and you're seeking and destroying.

[19:21]Yeah.

[19:21]So, so Aaron, when you say you get emotional about it, that means you are getting sad about

[19:28]the time or you've been happy emotional, like an arousal or what do you mean by that?

[19:33]What are you talking about?

[19:34]How do you feel about us?

[19:35]Just looking back and thinking about how we've spent the last year of our lives and appreciating

[19:40]the time we've spent together.

[19:41]And then Rob, you made a nice sweet song about how, like, it really doesn't matter that no

[19:45]one's listening because we've got each other and we're making each other laugh.

[19:48]No, I think it does matter.

[19:48]I think it does matter.

[19:50]I think it really matters.

[19:51]I think it does matter.

[19:51]Listen, I mean, listen to this, Aaron.

[19:52]This is what the year of us hanging out and making these sweet memories.

[19:55]Don't get me started about the dew point.

[19:56]I've really, like, I've got a whole page.

[19:58]I've got a whole page.

[19:59]Just you.

[20:00]That also just.

[20:02]Yeah.

[20:03]Containers.

[20:05]I mean, you know.

[20:06]I mean, I've got a whole page.

[20:07]Literally, I've got 50 of these of just clips where I pulled to make fun of you like that.

[20:11]And no one else.

[20:12]No one else is that.

[20:13]No one else thinks about me that much.

[20:15]Like, you know, outside of my family.

[20:17]Like, you're the only one outside of my family who thinks about me that often enough to make

[20:20]clips of me.

[20:21]So that's.

[20:21]That's really sweet.

[20:21]So it's so true that I was going to do my kid has curls to brown eyed girl.

[20:26]And I was like, I cannot do another Aaron song.

[20:28]I've done like four Aaron songs in a row.

[20:29]I'm constantly thinking about Aaron.

[20:30]And then I'm apologizing to him for what I said.

[20:32]I cannot do another Aaron song.

[20:34]So.

[20:34]So you understand the podcast is also like a comedy.

[20:36]I guess.

[20:37]I guess we're under the comedy thing.

[20:39]So you say that you feel sad.

[20:41]It's not a great start.

[20:42]Not a great start.

[20:43]So anything else you feel sad about or like really bummed about.

[20:45]Well, yesterday was.

[20:47]We can still laugh at him when he gets off this tonight.

[20:48]We can still laugh.

[20:49]It's fine.

[20:49]I mean, can you imagine?

[20:51]Can you imagine being made to Aaron?

[20:52]You're married to Aaron, right?

[20:53]And you're like, sweetie, you're down.

[20:55]You look a little glum.

[20:55]What's going on?

[20:56]He's like.

[20:56]Just thinking about the podcast.

[20:58]You're like.

[20:59]Oh, what?

[21:00]You're listening to Van Morrison.

[21:03]And he's like.

[21:03]Excuse me.

[21:05]Think about the time I spent with these guys.

[21:06]Oh.

[21:08]Like.

[21:08]Oh.

[21:09]What am I doing in a tiny house with this psychopath?

[21:11]What is my life?

[21:13]Don't make me edit that out.

[21:18]What?

[21:18]What's up, though?

[21:19]That was too good.

[21:20]That was too good.

[21:21]I know you have.

[21:21]I know you have more, Aaron.

[21:22]Well, yeah.

[21:23]Bought a new.

[21:24]Well, let's see.

[21:25]What do I want to say?

[21:25]Yesterday was John Coltrane's birthday.

[21:26]Bought a new type of green at the farmer's market.

[21:28]Best day of my life.

[21:29]Yesterday was John Coltrane's birthday.

[21:31]So there's been Coltrane all weekend on the jazz station.

[21:34]So that helps lift my spirits a bit.

[21:36]I like to think about John Coltrane.

[21:37]And we bought a new coffee maker.

[21:40]We bought an automatic drip coffee maker.

[21:42]So that's been an exciting time over the last week to learn how to use that.

[21:46]And my son's really pumped.

[21:47]So now he's part of the coffee making crew in the family.

[21:50]So it's.

[21:51]Part of the new morning ritual.

[21:52]Your kid is making coffee?

[21:53]Yeah.

[21:54]Yeah.

[21:54]He helps make the coffee.

[21:55]Yeah.

[21:55]Yeah.

[21:55]He doesn't like the sound of the grinder.

[21:57]But after that, then he's all in.

[21:58]He pours the water.

[21:59]He puts it in the little basket.

[22:02]Puts the basket in there.

[22:03]Puts the top on.

[22:04]Flips the switch.

[22:04]And then he watches the water go.

[22:06]It's very cool.

[22:06]Oh.

[22:07]What a parent.

[22:08]That's great.

[22:08]And then you're like, okay, a little bit of cream for dad.

[22:10]Bring it over.

[22:11]I'm crying on the couch listening to Van Morrison.

[22:12]Right.

[22:13]Are all you guys coffee fiends where you have to have it every morning?

[22:16]So I'm not a coffee person.

[22:17]I've drank less than five cups of coffee in my life.

[22:20]Are you guys, you always have to have it in the morning or not?

[22:22]Yes.

[22:23]Absolutely.

[22:24]It's part of the ritual.

[22:25]Yeah.

[22:25]Pretty much.

[22:26]Yeah.

[22:27]And if not, like in the morning, like that day, you know, like a cup of noon coffee or

[22:32]something like that, you know, but yeah, no, I'm, I was like you, Russell.

[22:37]I didn't have coffee till I was like 34, 35.

[22:39]Yeah.

[22:39]And then all of a sudden it's boom, three or four cups a day.

[22:43]I was the same way.

[22:44]I didn't have coffee till I was 25.

[22:45]And the irony is, is that I was like, I don't know.

[22:47]When I was 24, I was working at Starbucks and I didn't drink any coffee.

[22:51]All I drank were like mochas, right?

[22:53]So the first day at Starbucks, you're in there and you're working the line.

[22:56]They're showing you how to make the drinks and they're like, you can have any drink you

[22:58]want at the store.

[22:59]So to practice, I made like four drinks.

[23:01]I would have that banana bread.

[23:02]I would go be sitting in the corner eating the banana bread.

[23:04]No, they were actually strict about that.

[23:06]The food was off limits.

[23:07]They were talking drinks.

[23:08]The food was, oh, Russell is just saying that made me want to report you to Karen.

[23:12]And she would have gotten on your ass because she was, she'd like to do that.

[23:16]Oh, right.

[23:17]So I had like a double mocha, like a latte, like, you know, just a shot of espresso.

[23:22]And I was like, I'm going to drink all these.

[23:23]I don't want to waste them.

[23:24]Right.

[23:25]That's like when you start working at a food place, you're always like, I don't want to

[23:27]waste this.

[23:28]And so I'm drinking it.

[23:29]I have probably seven shots of espresso within 10 minutes.

[23:33]Right.

[23:33]So then I go back out and all of a sudden it's like, I'm in the matrix, right?

[23:38]The world is moving slow.

[23:40]I feel like Jordan.

[23:41]I know Kung Fu.

[23:43]The customers are Craig Elo and I'm Michael Jordan.

[23:46]I'm just in the zone.

[23:47]Nothing misses every drink.

[23:48]I make perfect.

[23:49]Every conversation I have with the customer.

[23:51]Perfect.

[23:51]Everything laughing is roses.

[23:54]It's, you know, it's everybody's harps are playing.

[23:56]And after about a half hour, I felt like a wave of cold water just hit me and I start

[24:02]to sweat.

[24:03]It's cold, but I can't stop sweating.

[24:05]And I'm like, wait, what's going on?

[24:07]What's happening?

[24:07]And I just felt like garbage for the rest of the day.

[24:10]I was like, this is the worst decision I've ever made.

[24:12]It was awful.

[24:12]So did you keep doing it every day then or not?

[24:14]No.

[24:14]Because I would have gone for the great 30 minutes and just dealt with the rest.

[24:17]The rest of the terrible day.

[24:18]No, because everybody told you, oh yeah, when you start working at Starbucks, you're making

[24:21]like frappuccinos and double mochas and white mochas.

[24:23]And then after a week, everybody's just drinking straight black coffee.

[24:26]They're like, I can't take anything that's not, that has any sort of sweetness because

[24:29]you're just surrounded and you're just drinking it all day.

[24:31]All right.

[24:33]We're only going, man.

[24:34]How's it going with you?

[24:35]Good, Rob.

[24:37]Unlike you, I, you know, I got invited to a party, a podcast listener.

[24:41]And so I was, I was nice.

[24:44]I decided to go, you know, there's lots of people.

[24:47]I feel bad.

[24:48]Damn it.

[24:48]But did you want to go mad or not?

[24:50]Well, yeah, you know, but again, guys, I think, I think we've all had this experience that,

[24:56]you know, we're all, we're much more than this podcast, right guys.

[24:59]But then when you show up at these events and that's all people want to talk about.

[25:02]There's no one else in my life who refers to me as a co-host of anything.

[25:05]So I don't know.

[25:06]Well, to be fair, being married, being married, Russell, nobody considers me a co-host either.

[25:12]I did figure out one thing though.

[25:17]At this point.

[25:17]What's that?

[25:18]8.30 in the evening is too early to start flip cup.

[25:24]Oh no.

[25:25]How old are you?

[25:27]You're 23 years old.

[25:28]This is a 40 year old birthday party.

[25:30]Oh my God.

[25:31]Yeah.

[25:31]One of you guys could sprain a wrist or something.

[25:33]8.30.

[25:34]If you, you know, and we showed up at like eight.

[25:36]So 8.30, we started playing flip cup.

[25:38]That's not, that's not a good recipe anymore, guys.

[25:40]Let me tell you, we're getting a little too old.

[25:42]What time did you end?

[25:43]9.30?

[25:44]8.42.

[25:46]Flip cup.

[25:46]There was a couple of games.

[25:47]You know, it got, it got pretty rowdy, but then, yeah, you know, it was there for the rest of the night and everything, but you really, yeah, it's, we're getting old.

[25:56]It's been a long time since I was over-served in public.

[25:59]My, my usual, uh, but when I say over-served, I mean, over-served by my own choices.

[26:04]Yeah.

[26:06]My usual tactic when that happens is to just kind of stay quiet and try to fade into the background if I can.

[26:12]Although there have been times where I get a little bit, you know, louder than I should when that happens.

[26:16]Matt, what's your, what's your style when you know you've maybe had more than, than you wanted to in a particular situation?

[26:21]Oh, I, I definitely get louder and then I get really tired and I just want to go to bed.

[26:25]I just want to, I just want to leave and go to bed.

[26:28]Right.

[26:28]But no, you know.

[26:30]That's such a dad move.

[26:33]Yeah.

[26:33]That's it.

[26:34]Oh, I used to do that all the time.

[26:36]And it would, it, at first it drove Sarah nuts, but then she was like, well, it's kind of a good move.

[26:41]Just the old Irish.

[26:41]I think we've talked about the Irish goodbye.

[26:43]Just, you know, I gotta go get some, you know, and just go to bed.

[26:45]You guys figure it.

[26:46]I can't do too much damage to my house.

[26:48]Right.

[26:49]So now Russell, it's true that you like to do what you call a coyote ugly, where you go stand up on the bar and dance around.

[26:54]Right.

[26:54]When you're over served.

[26:55]I mean, we're about to get there.

[26:57]We're about to find out.

[26:58]This is a late recording tonight.

[26:59]No more bras.

[27:01]Matt, you were saying, did you host the flip cup party?

[27:05]No, no, no.

[27:06]This was at a, but you know, it was about six blocks from our house.

[27:09]So I was going to say, there's no way Matt would allow beer to be spilled on like his garage floor or like on his lawn or anything.

[27:16]There's no way that would host a beer cup party.

[27:19]Right.

[27:19]Yeah.

[27:21]It would have to be like right before you're about to like stay in the deck.

[27:25]Right.

[27:25]So it's going to get power wash the next day.

[27:27]Anyways, that kind of a thing.

[27:28]So I picture, I picture if you're at a party that's still doing a flip cup, I picture like earlier, you guys are playing quarters, you know, where you'd make the quarter spin.

[27:36]And then if you lost, you had to put the knuckles down and then they fling the quarter into the knuckles as hard as they could.

[27:41]Guys in middle school, just like there'd be so bloody and they're like, yeah.

[27:44]Then you go to Matt.

[27:46]Matt's at the party.

[27:46]Probably been in a racer against his arm for a long time.

[27:48]Like, what does this do?

[27:49]Yeah.

[27:49]This party fucking rocks.

[27:50]It was, you know, we were, we were playing with the red solo cups.

[27:55]Right.

[27:55]And you, you fill them up and there's lines kind of a little one right at the bottom.

[27:59]And then, you know, there's different lines that are supposed to be different ounces.

[28:02]Right.

[28:03]And that's how you're supposed to do it.

[28:04]So we're all playing.

[28:05]We all realize that we're getting old kind of a thing.

[28:07]So we're very barely filling up those, those cups.

[28:11]Right.

[28:11]And then one of some neighbor comes in.

[28:13]You mother.

[28:13]Oh, and they've got a port.

[28:15]They've got to fill them up.

[28:16]The big port is whatever.

[28:17]Yeah.

[28:18]That lady didn't last very long either.

[28:19]So it was pretty good.

[28:20]So at least we're getting a little smarter about how, how high we fill up those cups.

[28:24]But all in all, it was a great party.

[28:28]There was a lot of Beck did a better fans there, you know, and I just wish that they

[28:33]would, you know, I wish they would realize that, you know, we're more than this podcast

[28:37]and we have more to offer to the world in this podcast.

[28:39]Plus, if you, if you ask Matt anything about this podcast beyond, how do you guys sit around

[28:44]when you record?

[28:44]He's not going to be able to tell you too much.

[28:46]Like.

[28:46]There's not, you know, he's not going to be able to tell you like the editing process

[28:49]or the anything about my, my mother-in-law did that the other day.

[28:53]She goes, she just texted me.

[28:54]You do not look like John Candy.

[28:56]And I had no idea.

[28:57]Any reference to at all.

[29:00]I had no idea.

[29:01]I said, I I'm lost.

[29:02]There's something on the podcast.

[29:03]Like I have no idea.

[29:05]So sorry, Patty.

[29:06]I didn't.

[29:07]Rob was big at a game called ping pong pelt.

[29:11]Have you guys ever heard of ping pong before?

[29:13]No.

[29:14]Aaron, have you heard of this?

[29:15]No.

[29:16]Battle pong is what we play, what we call it.

[29:19]Battle pong, if you will.

[29:20]So we had a party at our friend, Manny, I believe it was Manny's house back in the day.

[29:24]And it was ping pong.

[29:25]So people were just playing regular ping pong and Rob or someone decided to bring up this

[29:30]game called battle pong, where if you lost like a point, you would have to stand there

[29:35]and pull your shirt up.

[29:36]And then the other person on the other side of the table got to take the ball and just

[29:41]blast it at you as hard as possible.

[29:43]Yeah.

[29:44]No.

[29:44]Rob, was this your invention or not?

[29:46]No, somebody else taught it to us, but we would play it and nonstop at the cabin because

[29:51]the ping pong table is almost the perfect length where you're only going to hit somebody

[29:55]with a ping pong ball about once every five times.

[29:57]You're going to wildly miss the other four times.

[29:59]But that one time where you hit them and that sound of a ping pong ball striking flesh because

[30:05]the person's shirt is over their head, so they can't see you hitting the ball.

[30:08]So it's a total, it's like the darkness tasting, but every once in a while you get whipped with

[30:12]a ping pong ball when you're not expecting it.

[30:14]And that sound, and it would raise a welt.

[30:16]And they would be like, oh, my God.

[30:16]Oh, you would laugh all night long.

[30:20]Like it was better than drinking, hitting somebody with a ping pong ball.

[30:23]It was so good.

[30:24]Oh, I do remember watching this and there were, we were younger at the time, but you

[30:30]had, there were wives who came out and saw this and were just disgusted by it.

[30:33]And I remember thinking like, how am I single?

[30:34]And these guys working for, for these guys.

[30:36]But yeah, one wife was like, oh, that's a big target.

[30:39]And I was like, I'm, my ears aren't covered.

[30:41]I can hear you.

[30:43]Rob pulled his pants and turned around.

[30:45]I'm right here.

[30:46]Yeah.

[30:47]Yeah.

[30:48]They were like, what are, what's that?

[30:49]What's that ping pong ball?

[30:50]And I was like, oh, my pants fell down.

[30:52]Yeah.

[30:52]Nevermind.

[30:53]They're like, why is it all like sack shaped in the front?

[30:55]Why is there no, shouldn't there be like definition?

[30:58]I thought they were supposed to be white.

[30:59]Yeah.

[30:59]It seems like it's almost like a, it looks like you're wearing a cup when it's just actually

[31:04]your genitalia.

[31:04]All right.

[31:06]Rolling going.

[31:06]Russell, how's it going with you?

[31:07]It's going well.

[31:09]As you guys know, I've, I went to a concert with, it was at the same concert that Matt

[31:13]was at a few weeks ago.

[31:14]I actually went to another concert, but it was a little different.

[31:16]It was a little less, a lower profile.

[31:18]It was a few, this last weekend was in a small town and there was a cover band or if you

[31:24]will, that the guy was playing all Elton John and all Billy Joel songs.

[31:27]That's all he played for two hours.

[31:29]And so I went and watched this and he was really good on some of them and he just completely

[31:34]bombed on other ones.

[31:35]And so one of them, like you couldn't really tell if the mics had gone out or if he just

[31:40]sucked or whatever.

[31:41]And so, but we stayed and we listened and I got to ask you guys, is there more fun artists

[31:46]to listen to and sing along with than Billy Joel and Elton John?

[31:50]Like there's no, no singer or artists out there that I would rather listen to and just

[31:55]sing along with their hit songs.

[31:56]They're, they're amazing, aren't they?

[31:58]They are very nice.

[31:59]And then, you know, they've have often toured together, right?

[32:02]You told me about this.

[32:04]Yeah.

[32:04]Yeah.

[32:04]You know, then they come out together and they got the pianos back to back and yeah,

[32:09]no, it's, you're, you're right on there, Russell.

[32:10]They're, they're a great show.

[32:12]I mean, was this guy, was he piano based?

[32:14]He was, so he, he had a piano.

[32:16]It was an outdoor concert.

[32:18]Not that many people, a couple hundred people.

[32:20]Now, Russell, did you get up and see what kind of piano it was?

[32:22]Were you like, oh, this is a, this is a Horner electric piano.

[32:25]I know the top five artists that played songs on that.

[32:27]I got up there and started talking about the Fender Rose and everyone was cheered for me,

[32:30]Rob.

[32:31]It was amazing.

[32:31]It was the first time anyone wanted to call me a co-captain of anything.

[32:35]That's right.

[32:35]You can be the co-captain of this concert.

[32:37]This guy fucking rocks.

[32:38]Yeah.

[32:39]People loved it.

[32:40]But, but no, they had the piano and then he had two horn players, I think a saxophone,

[32:46]a saxophone player.

[32:47]And then I don't know if the other, or it may have been a guitar.

[32:49]I don't know.

[32:49]They had a, I don't fucking know.

[32:51]There was a guitar.

[32:52]Who knows?

[32:53]There was the main guy playing, main guy playing the piano.

[32:55]One person was playing the saxophone.

[32:57]Matthew with his fingers.

[32:58]That's the co-host.

[32:59]And then there was another person that I can't remember.

[33:01]Maybe I don't know what they were playing.

[33:03]They were playing something else.

[33:04]I'll have to look at the picture.

[33:06]They were playing something.

[33:07]It sounds like Russell's playing flip-flop in the crowd.

[33:08]He does have the best memory of this event.

[33:10]Well, that's true.

[33:11]I mean, you don't go to a local Billy Joel Elton John concert on the, on the Complete

[33:15]Sober.

[33:15]That seems like a bad idea.

[33:17]That probably is.

[33:17]Now, did they, did he do the bitches back and bomb it?

[33:20]Because that's what I'm, the song I'm picturing him just absolutely tanking of.

[33:23]Well, the bitch, the bitch is back.

[33:28]No, they, they bombed.

[33:29]I forgot what the song was, but it was one of the famous Billy Joel songs that they completely

[33:33]bombed.

[33:34]Oh no.

[33:34]And, and at the end, people cheered for it.

[33:36]I looked at, and I was like, wait, this was really bad.

[33:39]Do we have to cheer for someone if they suck at a live performance?

[33:43]Aaron, did you get booed at Rob's wedding or not?

[33:45]I don't, I've not, uh, I've not, to my knowledge, been booed.

[33:50]I, I booed once at a show and, um, and it was not appreciated.

[33:54]Yeah.

[33:54]And I didn't appreciate it.

[33:55]Was it a Halloween show?

[33:56]Huh?

[33:57]And you were dressed like a ghost?

[33:58]Sir, please, if you don't like the music, keep it yourself.

[34:02]I do think though, this is a tangent, but I think it's appropriate to boo villains just

[34:10]in the same way that a wrestler, like a wrestling heel, you know, if they're getting jeers, like

[34:14]they know they're doing their job right.

[34:15]I think it's appropriate.

[34:15]I think it's appropriate.

[34:15]I think it's appropriate.

[34:15]I think it's appropriate to boo villains if the villain did a good job.

[34:18]What?

[34:19]What kind of villain is at a concert?

[34:21]What the fuck are you talking about?

[34:22]Yeah.

[34:23]What kind of villain are you?

[34:24]Do you think like.

[34:24]It's a stage show.

[34:25]Like if you go to a show, like if you, you know, if you went to see.

[34:28]Oh, I see what you're saying.

[34:29]You know, it's like, like people should boo King George at the end of Hamilton.

[34:32]Like that's a sign of respect to like, you know.

[34:34]Or like when Rob tells a bad joke, we boo that shit.

[34:36]Yeah.

[34:37]So you think at the end when the actor comes out and everybody's like the bad person, you're

[34:41]like, boo, you suck.

[34:43]Yeah.

[34:44]That's so funny.

[34:44]I think that's a sign of respect.

[34:45]I think that's what you should do for the, for the bad, you know, for the villain.

[34:48]He did his job so well that you still have these visceral feelings.

[34:53]Yeah.

[34:53]Yeah.

[34:54]I think so.

[34:54]Not everyone agrees with me about that.

[34:56]Yeah.

[34:57]So I did look, it was a guitar.

[34:58]It was a guitar player was the other one.

[35:01]So that would make sense.

[35:02]They had a guitar player, but the two, the one guy, the one guy would change.

[35:06]Well, if they're playing with their hands and head strings, that makes sense.

[35:09]It was a guitar.

[35:10]The one guy would change.

[35:11]The main guy who was singing the songs would change his jacket.

[35:14]So he would do three Elton John songs.

[35:15]He would do three Elton John songs with like the electric looking jacket with the really

[35:18]very vibrant jacket going on.

[35:21]And then he would play Billy Joel and he would go put the dark jacket.

[35:24]Rob, how are you not laughing at how many times you just said jacket in like a 13 second?

[35:28]I'm up above.

[35:29]I'm floating up above.

[35:30]I'm looking down.

[35:31]I'm seeing my body recorded this podcast because I'm in heaven.

[35:34]He just said jacket like six times in 13 seconds.

[35:39]I go up to see the pearly gates.

[35:40]They slowly open.

[35:41]I see a giant figure, not even a person.

[35:44]Smoke or no smoke?

[35:45]No, it's no smoke.

[35:45]I can just feel it's positive energy.

[35:47]Clouds.

[35:48]There's clouds.

[35:48]And a hand comes down and it's on my shoulder and says jacket.

[35:52]And then we both walk in to the light together.

[35:54]Now, Russell, when this guy was doing this, did he, um, did he ever take off his pants?

[36:00]And jacket?

[36:02]He was jacketed.

[36:03]Take off your shoes and jacket.

[36:05]Take off your shoes and jacket.

[36:06]Oh, sorry.

[36:07]Yeah.

[36:07]That's Aaron style.

[36:09]Blink 182.

[36:11]So it sounds like Russell had a busy night at the Elton John.

[36:13]What song do they close with Russell?

[36:15]I'm always interested.

[36:15]Um, my, me and my friend left before the end because they fucked up the one song and we

[36:21]were like, we're out of here.

[36:22]We're going to go somewhere else.

[36:23]So we did not see it till the very end.

[36:24]Will you tell me what song they fucked up?

[36:26]I just think they close with Piano Man, right?

[36:26]Will you?

[36:27]Oh yeah, totally.

[36:28]Yeah.

[36:28]You're, you're right about that.

[36:29]What, what song did they fuck up?

[36:30]Do you remember at all?

[36:31]No, I had too much to drink.

[36:33]It was Jamaican.

[36:35]You think they close with, with Piano Man over Tiny Dancer?

[36:41]Yes.

[36:42]100%.

[36:42]No, actually we, I did hear Tiny Dancer.

[36:45]And I texted you guys this.

[36:47]They sang a special verse.

[36:49]Do you guys know how Garth Brooks has the one song where there's the secret fourth verse

[36:53]or third verse or whatever it is?

[36:55]Friends in Low Places.

[36:56]They sang a special third verse for Tiny Dancer.

[37:01]And he started singing about Tony Danza.

[37:04]Rob, your favorite actor.

[37:06]I was like, this is fantastic.

[37:07]Everyone else at the concert did not get a kick out of it like I did though.

[37:13]I was like over the moon over this whole Tony Danza.

[37:15]Angela, hold me close.

[37:17]Huh?

[37:18]I'm Tony Danza.

[37:19]Oh, Angela, what happened?

[37:21]You're trying to fix the dryer and you got stuck here.

[37:24]Let me hand you a tool that might help.

[37:26]And here's a jacket to go with it.

[37:30]And I'm going to see your headlights on the highway.

[37:32]All right.

[37:34]Uh, so, uh, rolling, going around a little bit, but Tony, you want, I don't want to steal

[37:40]your Tony Danza impression.

[37:42]You begged for it and I gave it to you.

[37:44]Then you're like, oh yeah, that's right.

[37:45]It's really bad and gross and demeaning.

[37:47]I don't like that when you say you begged for it and I gave it to you.

[37:50]That doesn't, I had a physical, I had a physical therapy appointment and we're

[37:53]going to call the guy, we'll call the guy, Dr.

[37:56]George.

[37:56]Okay.

[37:57]I had a physical therapy appointment.

[37:59]My wife recommended this because I was having some knee issues and I was

[38:02]squatting.

[38:02]My wife's like, listen, go into this physical therapy.

[38:04]She's great.

[38:04]He is a little bit out there.

[38:06]And I was like, oh, well, okay.

[38:08]I guess I can.

[38:09]So I go in and I meet a guy in the elevator.

[38:14]Okay.

[38:15]Gets on a drink, no mask, right?

[38:17]No mask wearing flip-flops in Manhattan.

[38:19]Very, I mean, it's a very strange combination.

[38:20]I was like, this guy's going up to the physical therapy with me.

[38:22]This is the kind of people that go there.

[38:23]So we're going up.

[38:25]The guy looks at me and goes, oh, what's your name?

[38:27]And I said, Rob.

[38:28]And he goes, oh, hey, I'm Dr.

[38:29]George.

[38:30]So that was the physical therapist that I was looking for with the no mask in

[38:33]the elevator.

[38:34]And as I walked in, he said, okay, sit down.

[38:37]I'm going to come talk to you.

[38:37]I look at his book collection, right?

[38:39]His book collection has books.

[38:40]I wrote down the titles, actually the supple Jaguar, most dangerous moves,

[38:45]and magnet therapy.

[38:46]Oh, yeah.

[38:47]So I was like, I was going to say, if he starts, if this guy starts doing

[38:50]some healing touch, I just, oh, oh, oh, just wait.

[38:54]So then he's like, he explains to me this whole thing about lymphatic system

[38:58]and nervous system.

[38:59]And then he says, you know, evolution is all about your balls.

[39:02]And I was like, okay, well, now you're speaking my language.

[39:04]We can have this conversation.

[39:05]Like I'm, I'm listening to this.

[39:07]So then he's like, we're going to start.

[39:08]You're going to go spend 20 minutes in front of the lights.

[39:10]I go, what?

[39:11]What?

[39:12]He had me stand in front of a panel of lights.

[39:14]He goes, this is going to happen.

[39:15]I'm going to activate your mitochondria.

[39:16]Okay.

[39:17]That's going to happen.

[39:19]Oh, I love it.

[39:20]I love this kind of shit.

[39:21]I'm so excited.

[39:22]Okay.

[39:23]So I'm standing there.

[39:25]My mitochondria is getting activated and they're like, this is infrared

[39:28]light.

[39:29]And I'm like, well, actually I have a slide on this.

[39:30]I know it's not because I can see the light.

[39:32]So I know it's visible light.

[39:33]Like that's the only kind of light we can see.

[39:34]And then it was so bright that I shielded my eyes and they go, oh,

[39:37]the light's not bad for your eyes.

[39:39]Actually, it's good for your eyes.

[39:41]I was like, no, you can't say that.

[39:42]Like, you can't just be like, it's actually better if you

[39:45]stare at the bright light.

[39:46]I was like, that's, I know that's not true.

[39:47]No, no doctor is like, I highly recommend you go stare at these

[39:50]bright lights.

[39:51]Like that's my treatment for you.

[39:52]So I'm like, okay.

[39:53]So then Dr.

[39:55]George comes up and goes, listen, we're going to do something I

[39:57]invented.

[39:58]It's called the guts.

[39:59]So right there, by the way, something that we're going to do

[40:01]something that I've invented, always a worrying line to start

[40:04]your physical therapy.

[40:04]He goes, I'm going to do the gut smash.

[40:06]So I lay down and I, he takes a kettlebell, like a 45 pound

[40:10]kettlebell.

[40:11]Isn't this how Houdini died?

[40:13]Oh yeah.

[40:14]That's trust me.

[40:14]That's what I was thinking.

[40:15]I was thinking about, see, he's rubbing.

[40:16]He goes, okay, I'm going to rub your small intestine.

[40:18]So he's rubbing my small intestine because he's like, the

[40:22]reason you're having trouble in your body is that you had your

[40:24]gallbladder removed.

[40:25]And so everything in your body shifted.

[40:27]So when that shifted, it's screwing up your muscles,

[40:30]connecting your legs.

[40:31]And I was like, it has nothing to do with the fact that you

[40:32]squat 800 pounds.

[40:34]You probably don't need to be doing that.

[40:35]And then he goes, okay, go lay down on this bed.

[40:37]There's an electrode thing on the bed, right?

[40:41]I lay on it.

[40:42]He then puts a wand next to my liver.

[40:45]And stimulates it for 10 minutes.

[40:47]And it's just pulsing.

[40:48]How do you stimulate it?

[40:49]With electricity.

[40:50]He's running electricity through my body coming out on the right

[40:53]side of my liver.

[40:54]So it's pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse.

[40:56]Then hooks up.

[40:57]Even Aaron wouldn't move to New York after listening to this

[41:00]bullshit.

[41:00]I don't even know if I'm halfway through.

[41:03]I then lay on my side.

[41:04]He pumps my liver.

[41:05]He goes, okay, we're going to pump your liver for a little bit.

[41:07]So about five minutes, he's giving my liver CPR, pushing it up

[41:10]and down, up and down.

[41:11]Mind you.

[41:12]How appalled would you be if Aaron brought this story?

[41:15]Can you imagine if this were my story?

[41:18]I guess I don't get, I don't understand what you're saying

[41:20]because this story is totally normal and it's actually a pretty

[41:22]funny story.

[41:23]And definitely not a weird thing to do at all.

[41:25]And definitely not to pay money to have somebody do it to you.

[41:28]Hooked up two electrodes to my ears and ran electricity through

[41:31]my vagus nerve for 10 minutes.

[41:33]So my, they were running electricity through both ears.

[41:35]You have a Las Vegas nerve?

[41:37]Yeah.

[41:37]Yeah.

[41:38]Double down, baby.

[41:39]And then, so then they're doing some stuff and they're like,

[41:43]okay, we're going to need to massage.

[41:45]The inside of your pelvis.

[41:46]Oh no.

[41:47]Right.

[41:47]So I have to lay like spread.

[41:49]I knew this was, yeah.

[41:50]Takes his elbow and starts scraping at it.

[41:52]Okay.

[41:53]At any point, do you have a, a, an, a moment of a rumble?

[41:57]Are you like counting down from 99 to one or what are you,

[42:02]how are you keeping it from happening?

[42:04]He's like, sir, I need to push aside this giant mound so I can

[42:06]get into your pelvis, you know?

[42:07]So then, um, I'm on my stomach and he's stretching out my hamstring

[42:12]side to side.

[42:13]And he goes, okay.

[42:15]What do you, what's your opinion on needles?

[42:16]And I was like, I'm down with needles.

[42:19]He's like, okay.

[42:20]So he starts jabbing me with a needle in the hamstring as he's

[42:22]stretching it side to side.

[42:24]And then all of a sudden he's like, okay, that's it.

[42:28]Uh, do you have 15 minutes to kill?

[42:29]And I was like, you know, I do.

[42:30]Let's do it.

[42:31]He hooks me up to electrodes on my quads, blast those for 15

[42:34]minutes.

[42:35]I could barely walk afterwards.

[42:36]Then as I'm leaving, he says, okay, I need you to send me a

[42:40]videotape of you squatting next time.

[42:41]And I need you to send me a text telling me about your body.

[42:45]I want to hear about your next three bowel movements.

[42:46]Oh no.

[42:48]He goes, he goes, I want to hear about your next three bowel

[42:51]movements.

[42:51]He goes, we're hoping that on the third one, it's going to be a

[42:54]little bit like yellow fat.

[42:56]Cause I mean, we've got some impacted stuff coming out.

[42:58]Rob, we need, we need to move this along.

[43:00]No, this is important.

[43:01]I, now I need to know.

[43:02]Nope.

[43:03]Now I got to know the end.

[43:04]I got to hear a bunch of bowel movements.

[43:05]No, Rob.

[43:05]I'm sorry, everybody.

[43:06]The third one was totally yellow.

[43:08]I couldn't believe it.

[43:09]I yelled when I saw it.

[43:10]I was like, what the hell?

[43:10]This guy knows exactly what he's doing.

[43:12]It was the greatest experience.

[43:13]And I can squat like crazy.

[43:15]Now I'm going to, I got to get one of those fucking lights

[43:17]for my apartment.

[43:18]I'm going to stand in front of it and have the mitochondria

[43:20]be activated.

[43:21]So your poop was exactly as he described.

[43:23]It would be 100%.

[43:25]It blew my fucking mind.

[43:26]I was like, I like got woke up Jenny and told her about it.

[43:30]She was furious.

[43:31]It was a terrible decision.

[43:32]That's crazy.

[43:32]Come take a look at this.

[43:33]It's yellow.

[43:34]Russell's so mad.

[43:35]All right, Russell.

[43:36]Fine.

[43:36]We'll get to nobody's favorite part.

[43:37]Let's talk about the album.

[43:38]Oh, let's talk about some music after that.

[43:41]Oh my God.

[43:41]Russell's like, we could keep talking about it.

[43:44]No, Russell's like.

[43:45]Talking about pimples is probably the worst thing we've ever done

[43:47]on the show until today.

[43:49]All right.

[43:50]So we are talking about astral weeks.

[43:52]Wait, is this, is this what you talk about to your wife when you

[43:55]go to bed?

[43:55]Is this why she gets bad when you go to bed?

[43:57]Like, is this your pillow talk or not?

[44:00]And then she goes, she goes, oh, he's never talked to me about that.

[44:03]I was like, what?

[44:04]Like how, why am I getting this treatment?

[44:07]He's looking at me and being like, oh, that guy's really impacted.

[44:09]She gets a pelvic massage from him, from the doctor.

[44:13]Yeah.

[44:14]I don't know.

[44:15]She showed up by the way.

[44:17]She showed up halfway through my appointment for her appointment.

[44:19]And you know what the physical therapist said to us?

[44:20]Don't you guys have two kids?

[44:23]So the physical therapist is doing a better job at childcare than we are.

[44:28]Cause we were both like, oh yeah, what's, who's feeding them?

[44:30]We're both here.

[44:31]You're doing the Spider-Man thing.

[44:33]Both playing.

[44:33]I was there from three 30 to eight.

[44:37]I left at eight o'clock.

[44:38]No way.

[44:40]It was so great.

[44:41]Four and a half hours.

[44:42]Four and a half hours of just people worrying about me and like,

[44:45]rubbing me and stabbing with needles.

[44:46]I was like, this is heaven.

[44:47]I can't get enough.

[44:48]Oh my God.

[44:49]Let's talk about Astral Weeks.

[44:52]This is Van Morrison's 68 album.

[44:53]By the way, we've been hanging out in this time span for the last,

[44:56]I don't know, four or five albums, kind of 68, 69, 71 was Led Zeppelin.

[45:00]This is Van Morrison's second album.

[45:02]When he played for them, the producer came afterwards, came and said,

[45:06]listen, you got to do a record for us.

[45:09]Okay.

[45:09]And we're going to put out four singles.

[45:12]So Van Morrison recorded four songs.

[45:14]It was going to put out four singles.

[45:15]They actually released it as an album,

[45:18]as a Van Morrison album without his knowledge at all.

[45:21]One of those songs was Brown Eyed Girl.

[45:23]And he didn't know that they had released it as an album until one of his

[45:26]friends said, Hey, I just bought your album.

[45:28]It's pretty good.

[45:28]And he's like, what album?

[45:29]He didn't know he had put out anything.

[45:31]So after that producer died,

[45:34]there was a lawsuit where he could not play any of those songs anymore.

[45:38]And he couldn't perform in the New York area.

[45:40]So Warner Brothers eventually bought out his contract,

[45:44]but he had to submit it.

[45:45]He had to submit 36 songs to the old record label as part of the bargain.

[45:49]And so he recorded 36 of the fastest revenge songs ever,

[45:53]where he's doing it with an untuned guitar.

[45:57]And he's making these songs just to get out of his contract.

[46:00]So here's one of the songs.

[46:02]It's called Want a Danish by Van Morrison.

[46:04]You want a Danish?

[46:08]No, I just ate.

[46:09]I've just eaten.

[46:10]No.

[46:11]Like I want some bread up front.

[46:14]Is this about Newhart?

[46:15]Oh, bread up front?

[46:16]You want a sandwich?

[46:17]Hey, let me tell you about baseball.

[46:18]It is pretty similar, isn't it?

[46:20]It sounds like Bob Newhart to me.

[46:21]This could be the lead track on any Radiohead album we've listened to so far.

[46:26]So basically then for this next album,

[46:30]they brought in these jazz musicians and they say that,

[46:35]let's see,

[46:36]they say that Van Morrison barely even talked to the musicians at all.

[46:41]For the most part, Van Morrison was in the booth with guitar.

[46:43]He'd show these musicians,

[46:44]okay,

[46:44]this is how I want the song to go with chords.

[46:46]I don't care what you guys do.

[46:48]You guys do whatever they want.

[46:49]They would do about one to two takes for each song.

[46:51]They recorded this whole album in three sessions

[46:54]with the strings being overdubbed later.

[46:56]And basically the main leader of the group was this bassist,

[46:59]Eric Davis,

[47:00]who I think we're going to hear a lot of.

[47:01]This is a very bass forward album.

[47:03]It's good bass.

[47:04]And that's it.

[47:05]I mean,

[47:05]that's the whole album is basically it's a,

[47:07]it's when I was going to listen to this album,

[47:09]I was like,

[47:10]oh,

[47:10]Van Morrison,

[47:10]Brown Eyed Girl,

[47:11]Moondance.

[47:11]But instead,

[47:12]this is like if you combine folk music,

[47:14]and jazz music together,

[47:16]and this is what comes out,

[47:18]it's a crazy,

[47:19]crazy,

[47:20]crazy album.

[47:21]I never,

[47:22]I didn't know till we were listening to this,

[47:24]that Van Morrison is in fact Irish.

[47:25]And he's a,

[47:26]he's a knight,

[47:26]right?

[47:27]He's Sir George Ivan.

[47:28]And I feel like the only Irish connection.

[47:31]That's a way better name,

[47:32]by the way.

[47:32]From North Ireland,

[47:33]right?

[47:33]So I don't know if they claim being Irish or how they,

[47:36]what they,

[47:36]what their feelings are.

[47:37]But I remember seeing him on like PBS with the Chieftains,

[47:41]like playing Irish music.

[47:42]But I always just thought he was like a dude who loved Irish

[47:44]music.

[47:44]I didn't know that he was actually from there until we were,

[47:47]it's so,

[47:47]so crazy.

[47:48]This is such a hole in my musical knowledge.

[47:50]You thought it was a band and not a person,

[47:52]didn't you?

[47:53]I definitely didn't think it was a band.

[47:55]Van Morrison,

[47:59]I mean,

[47:59]smaller,

[48:00]it'd be Car Morrison.

[48:00]You guys know what I'm talking about.

[48:02]Yeah.

[48:02]VW Microbus Morrison.

[48:04]Astral Weeks.

[48:06]So,

[48:09]this side one is called In the Beginning.

[48:12]The lyrics are kind of a,

[48:14]a stream of consciousness.

[48:15]But it also is like this.

[48:18]Every song builds and builds and builds and builds.

[48:22]I got,

[48:22]I'm telling you guys,

[48:23]I love this album.

[48:24]This is a voice that you couldn't miss.

[48:27]This is an unmistakable voice.

[48:29]Like there are parts of some of these songs.

[48:31]I'm not crazy about what he does,

[48:33]but it's a,

[48:33]it's an absolutely unmistakable voice.

[48:35]Oh,

[48:36]yeah.

[48:36]You wouldn't put it.

[48:37]Beside you,

[48:39]Van Morrison,

[48:39]listen to how he's kind of playing back and forth as classical

[48:42]guitar here.

[48:44]Did you guys like this song?

[48:49]To me,

[48:49]this one was not one of my favorites.

[48:51]I thought it was a little too long.

[48:52]There's a part where he's yelling at you.

[48:54]The first two songs are a little too long for you,

[48:56]for me.

[48:57]You don't like songs where the artist is yelling at you,

[48:59]Russell?

[48:59]No,

[49:00]there's a part where he starts yelling at you later in this song.

[49:03]Do the dishes,

[49:03]Rob.

[49:04]How come you never do the dishes in your home?

[49:07]I'm editing the podcast.

[49:08]Cause it's fucking Roy was supposed to do the dishes.

[49:11]I did find parts.

[49:14]Parts of this album.

[49:14]We're,

[49:16]we're sort of hard to listen to like in a,

[49:19]you know,

[49:19]like a mental way for me.

[49:21]Like I,

[49:21]I would try to put the album on if I was doing other things.

[49:23]And I just,

[49:24]I felt like it scrambled my brain.

[49:25]I don't know if it's some of the repetition.

[49:27]Cause he does sort of like get into a groove and just stick with

[49:30]it.

[49:30]And it happens over and over again.

[49:32]So,

[49:32]yeah,

[49:34]I think beside you was one where like,

[49:35]it's kind of in this groove.

[49:36]And then once in a while,

[49:37]he just goes like,

[49:37]and you're kind of like,

[49:39]what Jesus van?

[49:40]Like,

[49:40]I think the,

[49:41]I think the best way to think about this album is to think about,

[49:44]as a jazz album and his voice is just another instrument.

[49:46]Don't listen to the lyrics.

[49:47]You don't have to hear what he's saying,

[49:49]but if you think about him playing off with the basis and the other

[49:51]instruments,

[49:52]I think it makes a lot more sense.

[49:53]Matt,

[49:54]did you see that line on Wikipedia too,

[49:55]or not?

[49:56]I haven't got there yet.

[49:58]I'm still,

[50:00]I'm still a van Morrison growing up in Belfast.

[50:03]Matt,

[50:05]have you listened to this album this week?

[50:06]Yeah.

[50:07]Tell us about all the research you did.

[50:08]All right.

[50:09]Sweet thing.

[50:14]Now we're back.

[50:14]We're now we're back in the groove.

[50:15]Some of these songs.

[50:16]Let's build.

[50:17]It's kind of some cool drums on this one.

[50:21]It's a little different.

[50:22]Yeah.

[50:23]The instrumentation on this one is like nothing we've really heard for a

[50:26]while now.

[50:26]Just this album.

[50:30]I'm telling you.

[50:31]And I'm going to,

[50:31]I'll say it right now.

[50:32]I think sweet thing is the third greatest pop song ever recorded.

[50:36]Wow.

[50:37]God only knows we've got hot for teacher.

[50:40]I'm officially declaring three sweet thing ahead of backdoor Santa,

[50:44]for number three on my favorite songs.

[50:46]I bet I listened to this song a hundred times this week.

[50:47]Never disappointed in it.

[50:49]I love the song.

[50:50]I just,

[50:51]uh,

[50:51]almost a perfect song.

[50:53]Do you think it's a better sweet thing song,

[50:55]but then whoever sings,

[50:56]Whoa,

[50:56]the sweetest thing who sings that song.

[50:59]That'd be you too,

[51:01]right?

[51:01]That's another Irish guy.

[51:02]You too.

[51:03]They love talking about those sweet things.

[51:05]There's,

[51:05]there's gotta be a sweet thing deal over in Ireland.

[51:07]They're both singing about it.

[51:09]Didn't Chaka Khan do a song called sweet thing and Indie RE might've covered it.

[51:12]Oh,

[51:12]yes,

[51:13]they did.

[51:13]Sweet thing.

[51:13]Sweet thing.

[51:14]And if you're looking for karaoke tracks,

[51:15]like on YouTube,

[51:16]maybe like at the last possible minute and you actually pull up Chaka Khan over

[51:19]and over,

[51:19]it gets a little frustrating.

[51:20]Don't you know you might am.

[51:21]One of my,

[51:22]one of my favorite lines in this song was,

[51:24]and I will drink the clear,

[51:25]clean water to quench my thirst.

[51:27]But you guys know on this podcast,

[51:28]I do not drink clean water to quench my thirst.

[51:31]Okay.

[51:32]What is he possibly drinking for astral weeks?

[51:34]I don't know if I do want to even hear about that.

[51:36]as you guys know,

[51:36]Van Morrison,

[51:37]whether it's a band or a person is from Ireland,

[51:39]correct?

[51:40]So I am doing what is called an Irish,

[51:43]eyes cocktail.

[51:44]Can you guys see this?

[51:45]It's a bright green cocktail.

[51:46]It's a bright green.

[51:48]Show it again.

[51:50]Show that shit again.

[51:51]I got to see a white cup to the microphone.

[51:54]So our listeners,

[51:55]to be fair,

[51:56]to be fair,

[51:57]I think I may not have the right proportions.

[52:00]This is an Irish eyes cocktail.

[52:02]This involves Irish whiskey,

[52:05]green cream,

[52:06]cream to men.

[52:07]Oh no,

[52:08]he didn't.

[52:08]And cream and a maraschino cherry.

[52:11]But I may have overdone the cream.

[52:13]I think,

[52:13]I think that my proportions are off.

[52:15]It looks more like,

[52:16]like a foggy green drink and not quite the drink I was hoping for.

[52:21]Okay.

[52:21]So Russell,

[52:22]I got to know.

[52:22]I got to know.

[52:23]Yeah.

[52:23]Okay.

[52:24]Did I,

[52:24]did I go to the grocery store and check out with cream and maraschino

[52:28]cherries?

[52:28]Yes,

[52:29]I did.

[52:29]Wow.

[52:30]I did do that today.

[52:31]I can't believe it.

[52:32]What on earth are you going to do with the rest of that green Russell?

[52:34]I mean,

[52:34]it's just going to sit there.

[52:35]I think we know what he's going to do.

[52:37]He's going to find a teacher and play hot for teacher and do recreate

[52:40]varsity blues.

[52:41]Oh,

[52:42]you got to whip the cream.

[52:43]First,

[52:43]but I was thinking that when you bought it,

[52:45]Russell,

[52:45]did you say cash rules,

[52:47]everything around me at the checkout?

[52:49]That'd be so fucking good.

[52:50]Yes.

[52:51]So what did you,

[52:53]did you have cream to meth?

[52:55]I had to go purchase that.

[52:57]Oh my God.

[52:58]So you had everything for this drink.

[53:00]I had everything for it.

[53:02]I think I put too much cream in it.

[53:04]There's something off.

[53:05]It does not look like it was supposed to look.

[53:07]I've never been more disappointed in Russell that you have every ingredient

[53:10]that really actually pisses me off quite a bit.

[53:12]Part of the,

[53:13]part of the reason I wanted to try this is it looks so bright and green.

[53:16]Like when you guys get a cocktail,

[53:18]how important is it that like,

[53:20]it looks cool because there's something about a cocktail that has like a

[53:23]cool presentation and maybe you can go with it if it doesn't taste great,

[53:27]but it looks really cool.

[53:28]So how important is the aesthetics of a cocktail?

[53:31]I,

[53:31]I got an old fashioned today and it was served to me in a cup that looked

[53:35]like the cups that had an old country buffet,

[53:36]like the little glass cups that were kind of bulgy.

[53:38]I was just like,

[53:40]I don't want to drink it out of this.

[53:41]Like,

[53:41]I don't want to drink this shit out of a cheap cup.

[53:43]Get out of here with this shit.

[53:44]The thing is you eat with your eyes first.

[53:47]Although I don't,

[53:47]I mean,

[53:48]I'm,

[53:48]my cocktails are usually a shot in a beer,

[53:50]but if I were to go to a place and pay more than $6 for a cocktail,

[53:54]I would want it to look nice.

[53:55]Can I tell you guys,

[53:56]can I tell you guys a dirty little secret?

[53:58]Nope.

[53:59]Okay.

[53:59]Aaron's giving me a big thumbs up.

[54:01]Oh,

[54:01]now he's doing stuff.

[54:02]I don't think that's appropriate.

[54:03]I love that's not a thumb.

[54:06]Frozen cocktails more than regular cocktails.

[54:08]I love frozen cocktails.

[54:09]I will drink frozen cocktails,

[54:10]a frozen mango daiquiri.

[54:13]Just give it to me.

[54:14]Oh,

[54:14]I love,

[54:14]I'm like a child with a slushy.

[54:16]It's terrible.

[54:16]Rob,

[54:17]we went out for a happy hour this week and I was already done with my

[54:20]drinks.

[54:20]And then I noticed that the bar had a Thai iced tea slushy that you could

[54:24]add rum or whatever to it.

[54:25]I'm,

[54:25]I'm still kicking myself that I didn't order one.

[54:28]You want to know,

[54:29]do you have a machine in your,

[54:31]in your apartment?

[54:32]Do you have a,

[54:32]something to make a frozen slushy?

[54:34]Actually,

[54:34]I do have an ice crusher machine that I keep in my closet,

[54:37]my bedroom.

[54:37]Cause there's no more space in the kitchen.

[54:39]It's terribly dangerous.

[54:40]All it is.

[54:41]I bought it off Amazon and I knew it was bad because it was

[54:43]like $15.

[54:43]All the instructions were in Mandarin.

[54:46]So I was like,

[54:46]okay,

[54:46]this is dicey.

[54:47]It is just a thing you put ice into.

[54:50]And at the bottom,

[54:50]there are whirling razor blades.

[54:52]There is no form of protection whatsoever.

[54:54]There's no like cover to not cut yourself on the razor blades.

[54:56]You just put your ice in and just hope that it doesn't like,

[54:59]I don't know what fly across the room,

[55:01]but I got to admit,

[55:02]it's about as safe as the medical care you've been receiving lately.

[55:05]Yeah.

[55:05]When,

[55:06]when I put some liquor on ice like that,

[55:08]I feel like it's,

[55:09]it's heaven.

[55:09]It's the,

[55:09]it's just awesome.

[55:10]I love it.

[55:11]All right.

[55:13]All right.

[55:13]Cypress Avenue.

[55:14]This is the song that closes live show for years.

[55:19]We got a little harpsichord back here.

[55:21]It's been a while since we had the harpsichord on some Beatles albums.

[55:24]You guys hear that harpsichord?

[55:26]Oh yeah.

[55:26]It sounds nice.

[55:27]Hold on.

[55:27]Hold on.

[55:28]Yeah.

[55:30]That's crazy.

[55:31]Cause if you really listen in the background too,

[55:33]you hear that?

[55:36]There's a harp.

[55:37]Maybe they misordered that.

[55:39]Maybe they wanted the harpsichord and instead they were like,

[55:42]ah,

[55:42]just get the harpsichord.

[55:43]What's the difference?

[55:43]No big deal.

[55:44]Uh,

[55:46]the way young lovers do.

[55:49]Aaron,

[55:50]what do you think they mean by that?

[55:51]I never knew this was a Van Morrison song.

[55:54]I knew this from the Jeff Buckley cover and I never,

[55:57]I didn't know until we listened to this.

[55:59]It's a Van Morrison song.

[56:00]And the thing is,

[56:01]I always thought that the Buckley cover was sort of like laid back.

[56:03]He Buckley takes it in a darker sort of direction,

[56:06]but he does kind of,

[56:08]although it's just voice and guitar and the Buckley cover,

[56:11]he kind of recreates this sort of flamenco,

[56:12]you know,

[56:13]wild feel in a way that I didn't really realize until I listened back this

[56:17]week.

[56:17]So the way young lovers do this at the beginning of side two,

[56:20]I thought it's such a fun way to start off the second side of the album,

[56:23]like total change of pace.

[56:25]It's,

[56:25]it's upbeat.

[56:25]It's funky.

[56:26]It's like,

[56:26]yeah,

[56:27]this is what young lovers do.

[56:28]Like they're staying up all night,

[56:30]you know,

[56:30]doing stuff or whatever,

[56:32]maybe learning about stuff and,

[56:34]and learning about themselves.

[56:35]Drinking these,

[56:36]drinking these over foamy Irish cocktails that don't really quite work out the

[56:40]way you want it to work out.

[56:42]You got to stop holding that drink up with the camera.

[56:45]My stomach rumbles every time you hold it up.

[56:47]No,

[56:47]no.

[56:48]Like this.

[56:49]Yeah.

[56:49]I don't know if anybody's ever caught diarrhea over zoom,

[56:52]but I got a feeling I got to be calling Dr.

[56:54]George a couple more times.

[56:55]It'd be like,

[56:55]this is yellow ass shit up in here.

[56:59]George.

[57:00]One thing I really loved about that song is you guys kind of hear that

[57:03]bass.

[57:04]It was like,

[57:04]it felt like a jazz song a little bit,

[57:06]didn't it?

[57:06]Absolutely.

[57:07]Heavy album.

[57:07]And,

[57:08]and the song,

[57:09]it's really shining.

[57:09]You know,

[57:10]we've heard some,

[57:11]we've heard some,

[57:12]bass before,

[57:13]but we've never really talked about the upright bass.

[57:15]And that's what they're playing here is it's called a double bass,

[57:18]which is the same thing as an upright bass,

[57:20]right?

[57:20]Yeah.

[57:20]So I thought we could do a list of the greatest upright bass songs of all

[57:26]time.

[57:26]Can we do a list?

[57:27]Can I interrupt just really quickly though?

[57:29]Yeah.

[57:30]Can I just say how perfect a choice this is?

[57:32]Because today is the 30th anniversary of the release of low end theory.

[57:36]So this is perfect,

[57:37]which was an album inspired by the double bass.

[57:41]His ass is way.

[57:42]Eddie,

[57:42]Aaron,

[57:43]Aaron,

[57:44]you know what?

[57:44]We're going to go out of order this time.

[57:46]Just for you.

[57:47]First song on the list is by a tribe called quest.

[57:50]This is bugging out.

[57:51]Check out this upright bass on this song.

[57:54]Oh,

[57:54]thank you.

[57:55]Russell.

[57:55]Microphone check.

[57:57]One,

[57:57]two.

[57:57]What is this?

[57:58]Is that bad?

[57:59]Chant for boo on the base.

[58:01]Yeah.

[58:01]I mean,

[58:02]I play,

[58:02]he's not playing the bass,

[58:03]but that's great.

[58:06]That's art Blakey.

[58:07]If you guys haven't heard,

[58:08]that's art Blakey on the base.

[58:09]You guys know,

[58:09]I think he's not playing the bass,

[58:11]but it's an art Blakey song.

[58:12]Yeah.

[58:12]Oh no.

[58:14]Hey,

[58:15]Russell,

[58:15]instead,

[58:16]I'm going to send you a Spotify link that you're never going to listen to.

[58:19]How about that?

[58:20]That's a classic Aaron move.

[58:22]Hey guys,

[58:23]listen to this.

[58:24]No response for three days.

[58:25]I'm used to it.

[58:27]All right.

[58:27]Next,

[58:28]next up on the list,

[58:29]Aaron,

[58:30]I think you actually might like,

[58:31]you actually might like this one too.

[58:33]This is the Marvel.

[58:35]That's Mr.

[58:35]Postman.

[58:36]This is much more faint.

[58:37]You got to listen for it a little bit more,

[58:38]but there's a reason we got to listen to it.

[58:42]I hear it back there.

[58:45]I hear it kind of lingering back there.

[58:48]Oh yeah.

[58:48]Jeez.

[58:50]What a song too.

[58:51]Holy shit.

[58:52]But Aaron,

[58:55]I think you've talked about this guy once before.

[58:57]The guy playing this was like one of the greatest bass players ever.

[59:01]James Jamerson,

[59:02]right?

[59:03]Is that one of the greatest bass players ever?

[59:05]He was the bass player on what's going on.

[59:07]I think he did do the thunder to see song.

[59:09]Is that right?

[59:10]He was on what's going on.

[59:11]He was,

[59:12]oh,

[59:12]bass player.

[59:13]No,

[59:13]but,

[59:13]but like Paul McCartney says,

[59:16]like this guy is the God's gift to bass players.

[59:18]And what I was reading was that at in Motown,

[59:21]he was like the only upright bass player and they would schedule all these songs around this guy.

[59:26]This was the guy who played on all these Motown songs.

[59:29]And I just thought that was super cool.

[59:31]We had to give James Jamerson his props,

[59:33]right?

[59:33]I like that Russell.

[59:34]Yeah,

[59:34]I think he was mercurial.

[59:36]I think he drank a lot.

[59:37]So they probably had to,

[59:37]uh,

[59:38]they had to probably apply him with booze and wait for him to be.

[59:40]Oh,

[59:41]that's the guy.

[59:42]Lay down some lines.

[59:43]That's the guy who they,

[59:44]he recorded that whole song on his back,

[59:46]right?

[59:46]One of the Marvin Gaye songs.

[59:48]Oh,

[59:48]I totally remember that now.

[59:49]Yeah,

[59:49]exactly.

[59:50]Don't you know,

[59:52]bloke?

[59:52]He's my favorite bass player.

[59:54]It's me.

[59:54]Paul McCartney.

[59:56]I had to announce the name at the end.

[59:58]That's why you know,

[59:59]it's a good impression.

[60:00]You have to say the name and everybody goes,

[60:01]it's like,

[60:02]it's like Russell at the Billy.

[60:03]It's like Russell at the Billy Joel guy.

[60:05]He's like,

[60:05]are we going to,

[60:06]are we really going to clap for that?

[60:08]Like,

[60:08]it's totally quiet.

[60:09]You hear Russell say,

[60:10]are we going to clap for that?

[60:11]Like,

[60:12]wait,

[60:13]I shouldn't have done that.

[60:14]I kept talking about the jacket.

[60:17]I don't know why people weren't having that.

[60:19]I don't know.

[60:20]That's his third jacket.

[60:22]I'd be so thirsty.

[60:23]Sir,

[60:25]that's the 10th time you've said that.

[60:26]Please.

[60:27]Okay.

[60:28]Kind of hydrate.

[60:30]If you're going to lose a lot of fluid there.

[60:34]All right.

[60:36]Next up,

[60:37]we're going to move forward a few years.

[60:38]This is soul coughing,

[60:40]super bonbon.

[60:41]Check out the,

[60:42]the upright base on this one.

[60:43]Whoa.

[60:46]Yes,

[60:49]Russell.

[60:49]They got it really amplified there.

[60:51]You hear that?

[60:52]Yeah.

[60:52]This is famous.

[60:55]It's on a few of like the Michael Jordan movies where they show Michael Jordan.

[60:59]He's always walking through the crowd and they're playing move upside and let the man go through.

[61:03]It's a bad ass song.

[61:05]Can I just say how great it is that Russell's list have really gravitated towards separate instruments.

[61:09]And then when Russell went to a concert,

[61:10]he was like,

[61:10]it was a horn or guitar or something.

[61:12]So you can tell Russell's knowledge is all text base.

[61:16]It's like when you read a word and you've never said it out loud.

[61:18]You're like,

[61:18]Ooh,

[61:19]I don't know quite how this word works.

[61:20]His knowledge is great.

[61:22]But if you ask him to show like what a clavinet looks like,

[61:23]he's like,

[61:24]I don't know.

[61:25]I do you blow into it.

[61:26]I have no idea.

[61:26]Well,

[61:27]speaking of things where my knowledge has been limited lately,

[61:30]let's talk about the bare naked ladies.

[61:32]They also use an upright base.

[61:33]You guys remember the bare naked ladies?

[61:35]This is a little more faint too.

[61:36]If I had a million dollars,

[61:38]they used an upright base and almost all their songs.

[61:41]This is instant.

[61:42]Turn off these days.

[61:43]Why is on the radio?

[61:45]I still unironically love this song.

[61:50]I will always love this song.

[61:52]It's so dumb.

[61:53]Is it over being overplayed for you?

[61:55]Overplayed.

[61:56]I just can't listen to him anymore.

[61:57]And they're a little,

[61:58]they're a little chorus here.

[61:59]It's like chalk,

[62:05]you know,

[62:06]but not a real green dress.

[62:08]That's cruel.

[62:09]Like,

[62:09]okay.

[62:10]I've heard that joke too many times,

[62:11]but I,

[62:12]I like the sort of Dixieland feel of the,

[62:14]of the upright base.

[62:15]There makes me feel like I'm a Delano's on head up an avenue.

[62:19]I was telling,

[62:20]I was talking to Russell before podcast.

[62:21]I was like,

[62:22]if you would have told me in the year 2000,

[62:23]that bare naked lazy is going to be huge band for the rest of your life.

[62:26]I would have said,

[62:27]absolutely.

[62:27]That's absolutely true.

[62:29]Bare naked ladies are going to put out a million albums.

[62:31]They're all going to be good.

[62:32]And then I just never heard about him again.

[62:34]Like ever.

[62:34]Like I think I,

[62:35]like,

[62:36]I think I saw him on a casino sign and I was like,

[62:37]Oh no.

[62:38]You know,

[62:39]stuff like that.

[62:39]What do you see that?

[62:41]I like the idea.

[62:42]So that was not the mass first dance at the wedding.

[62:44]He's more of a ring of fire guy for sure.

[62:46]Yeah.

[62:47]Ring of fire.

[62:48]Also,

[62:49]also had an upright base on that.

[62:51]But until,

[62:52]until Johnny cash makes the list,

[62:54]we're not going to give any Johnny cash out to the people.

[62:56]He needs to be on the list.

[62:57]Yes.

[62:58]Agree.

[62:59]Russell,

[62:59]Tennessee two out,

[63:00]not on the list tonight.

[63:01]Agree.

[63:02]Russell,

[63:02]bare naked ladies,

[63:04]by the way,

[63:04]also a band that was invented before a SEO before Google,

[63:08]because there's no way you'd want to name your band bare naked ladies.

[63:10]Now.

[63:10]Yeah.

[63:11]Yeah.

[63:11]Disaster.

[63:12]Although for my work computer,

[63:14]something to think about Rob,

[63:16]technically we could put bare naked ladies into our writeup on this episode.

[63:19]It might help us out.

[63:20]Right.

[63:20]It's so good.

[63:21]And can you imagine if I misspelled it?

[63:23]Right.

[63:25]So they show up,

[63:26]they got a big claws,

[63:27]a furry,

[63:28]about 800 pounds.

[63:29]And you're like,

[63:29]Oh my God,

[63:30]these are bears.

[63:31]Naked ladies,

[63:32]bare snaked ladies.

[63:34]Oh,

[63:34]how about that?

[63:35]Okay.

[63:35]So there's a bear with snakes on the back and then it comes,

[63:38]turns into a woman and it's a bear snake lady.

[63:40]Bear snake.

[63:41]Lady.

[63:41]Yep.

[63:42]Exactly.

[63:42]God damn.

[63:43]So good.

[63:44]Or maybe,

[63:45]maybe it's a bear with snakes and he's on a boat.

[63:48]So it's a bear snake.

[63:50]Maybe

[63:50]Russell and the crowd.

[63:56]Do we have to cheer for that?

[63:57]Really?

[63:57]Wait,

[64:00]was that a good joke or not?

[64:01]I think it was.

[64:03]I think it was.

[64:04]Let's clap for that one.

[64:05]Snaps all around.

[64:06]Snaps all around.

[64:07]Well,

[64:08]if the name of that boat was named Deborah,

[64:11]it would be done by Beck because that's the last song on the list.

[64:15]Let's go to Deborah by Beck.

[64:16]Check out the upright face here.

[64:18]Oh,

[64:22]yeah.

[64:23]Listen to this.

[64:24]That's really nice.

[64:25]Man,

[64:27]this is a funny song.

[64:28]It's a pretty bad ass upright bass song.

[64:35]Is it not?

[64:36]It's so,

[64:36]so good.

[64:36]And yeah,

[64:37]it slides around.

[64:38]Ooh,

[64:39]I like it.

[64:39]So I got to ask you guys,

[64:41]when it comes to the upright bass,

[64:42]who did it better?

[64:43]Beck did it better.

[64:46]Nice.

[64:47]So good.

[64:47]I was so excited for that because I thought it was deep raw.

[64:49]Russell,

[64:51]that was a top five list.

[64:53]41 year old man getting excited about a bra.

[64:55]Excellent list,

[64:57]Russell.

[64:57]Excellent.

[64:58]Enjoyed the bass.

[64:59]Nice.

[65:00]I like the shout out to James Jamerson.

[65:01]Not going to lie.

[65:04]Hoping you would have called it the bass for the whole bit.

[65:06]The bass.

[65:06]We never would have corrected you,

[65:08]but you've only read about it.

[65:09]So you call it the bass.

[65:10]Honestly,

[65:11]you guys,

[65:11]no,

[65:11]I'm confused on instruments.

[65:13]Did you guys know that if you start searching for double bass,

[65:17]you also get drum players who play a double bass.

[65:20]It was very confusing.

[65:21]John Barlow used to play or not.

[65:23]People thought he did,

[65:24]but he didn't.

[65:24]Well,

[65:25]let me think.

[65:25]What could be one of the most famous double bass songs of all time?

[65:28]Oh,

[65:30]listen to that bass.

[65:32]Cause he's playing at Russell.

[65:35]He's got the two pedals with both feet.

[65:37]So he can just go like that.

[65:38]Metallica.

[65:38]Teacher double bras,

[65:40]right?

[65:40]Rob.

[65:41]Do you think that's hotter?

[65:44]Russell,

[65:44]a double bra.

[65:45]I don't know.

[65:46]I'm getting everything else wrong today.

[65:48]It's probably a good sign.

[65:49]Russell's mouth,

[65:51]by the way,

[65:51]it's just a green circle around the mouth.

[65:53]It's a green milk mustache all around.

[65:56]A girl takes off her shirt.

[65:58]Russell goes,

[65:59]Oh,

[65:59]one bra.

[66:00]It's like a single bass at the airport.

[66:05]I want to see two bass,

[66:06]right?

[66:06]Yeah.

[66:07]She's double layers.

[66:08]She's telling her friend.

[66:08]She's like,

[66:09]I don't know what's going on.

[66:10]He,

[66:10]he said one bra.

[66:11]So,

[66:11]I,

[66:11]I was very confused by that.

[66:14]He's very sad about it.

[66:15]Well,

[66:15]the second one,

[66:16]I guess that's probably my favorite thing is when I take a joke.

[66:19]That was really funny.

[66:20]And then extended about 30 seconds too long.

[66:22]Oh God.

[66:23]That's so good of me.

[66:24]Uh,

[66:25]all right.

[66:25]So I would imply there was a funny joke at some point.

[66:28]All right,

[66:31]madam George.

[66:32]So this for me was actually my favorite song on the album.

[66:37]I,

[66:38]I love this song,

[66:39]even though this is absolutely the,

[66:41]the most rhyme.com song we have heard of any song we've heard on this podcast.

[66:47]He's just taking the last word.

[66:49]It was like,

[66:49]Oh,

[66:50]Lorenzo chance.

[66:51]Oh,

[66:51]dance tops stops over and over.

[66:54]But I love this song.

[66:55]I don't care.

[66:56]Yeah.

[66:58]You,

[66:58]you don't,

[66:59]I'm telling you the voice is an instrument.

[67:01]Do not listen to the lyrics on this.

[67:02]Cause when I was going through the lyrics for sweet thing for my parody song,

[67:05]I was like,

[67:05]oof,

[67:06]some of these rhymes,

[67:07]oof,

[67:07]they,

[67:07]I don't care if you're Irish.

[67:09]This rhyme does not work.

[67:10]Absolutely.

[67:11]All right.

[67:13]Here we have ballerina.

[67:15]Matt,

[67:17]this was composed when he was with them.

[67:19]With them.

[67:21]Yep.

[67:22]With who?

[67:22]No.

[67:23]Yes.

[67:25]No.

[67:26]But guess who?

[67:27]No.

[67:28]Them.

[67:30]Nice vibes on this.

[67:31]Them.

[67:31]He has no love of vibes.

[67:35]So do you get who it is,

[67:37]Matt?

[67:38]It's them.

[67:40]Yes.

[67:41]No.

[67:41]Let's kiss.

[67:44]This is where we got to talk about,

[67:46]you know,

[67:47]we have to talk about,

[67:48]Hey,

[67:48]is the greatest song ever by this artist on the album.

[67:50]And Brown Eyed Girl is not,

[67:52]but that last song sounds a lot like Brown Eyed Girl.

[67:54]There's a lot of Brown Eyed Girls on this album.

[67:56]This is a good album,

[67:57]right?

[67:58]I'm this album could be in the top 10 of the Rolling Stone list.

[68:04]In my mind,

[68:04]it's that good of an album.

[68:05]It's,

[68:06]it's,

[68:06]it's,

[68:07]it's unlike anything we've heard.

[68:09]When I come into work,

[68:10]I listen to the album.

[68:11]Once a day,

[68:12]that's my rule for this.

[68:13]Every day I came in and sat down to listen to this.

[68:15]I was thrilled.

[68:16]I was thrilled to be able to be listening to this again.

[68:18]Okay.

[68:18]Now at the end of the workday,

[68:19]my coworkers are like,

[68:20]why are you crying?

[68:21]And I was like,

[68:22]I can't tell you about the podcast or I'll get fired.

[68:24]So this is the rating section.

[68:25]Rob,

[68:26]here's the thing.

[68:27]I,

[68:28]I agree with you to some,

[68:30]to some extent that it's unlike anything we've heard.

[68:32]Good.

[68:33]Okay.

[68:33]Let's get to the rate.

[68:34]Oh,

[68:34]I,

[68:35]so,

[68:36]I mean,

[68:36]you guys know,

[68:37]I think about voodoo one today anyway.

[68:38]So maybe this is just my brain,

[68:40]but something.

[68:41]And I,

[68:41]and I like Russell that you brought up James Jamerson because I know he was a

[68:44]major inspiration for voodoo as well.

[68:45]Something about this album made me think of voodoo where it's sort of like,

[68:49]it's like star Wars where it's,

[68:52]it's creating a universe.

[68:54]So he's created a universe with the sound.

[68:56]He's created a whole different place.

[68:58]The whole album lives in this place with this sound.

[69:01]I don't remember the names of a lot of the songs.

[69:04]I don't always know what's going on,

[69:05]but it puts me immediately into a mindset.

[69:07]I could listen to the album over and over again.

[69:09]And for me,

[69:09]the only other thing that does,

[69:11]that is voodoo.

[69:12]And that,

[69:13]and,

[69:13]and when we think of voodoo,

[69:15]right,

[69:15]we think about his muscles on his body and I'm not going to call him,

[69:18]but you think about star Wars,

[69:20]what was the music they played in star Wars called jizz.

[69:23]So it kind of goes together too.

[69:25]Style of music and star Wars is jizz.

[69:28]Look it up.

[69:29]What?

[69:29]Type in music style.

[69:31]Just,

[69:32]just man type in music style,

[69:34]star Wars.

[69:34]See what comes up.

[69:35]Name of music in star Wars.

[69:37]Okay.

[69:37]So I'm still on Wikipedia.

[69:39]He's gone.

[69:40]He's gone.

[69:41]He's looking at,

[69:41]he's looking at what I'm reading about Belfast.

[69:43]Like what,

[69:44]what the population of Belfast was like.

[69:46]Don't bother.

[69:48]Yeah.

[69:49]He's got a,

[69:49]he's on a whole rabbit hole of Irish history.

[69:52]All right.

[69:53]Slim,

[69:54]slow slider.

[69:55]Final song on the album.

[69:57]40 minute album.

[69:58]It's a quick one.

[69:58]Yeah.

[69:59]I think of this as the closer killer.

[70:09]You think so?

[70:10]Oh,

[70:11]it's a killer.

[70:11]This album,

[70:12]it took you up the mountain and it brings you back down to put you to bed at

[70:15]night,

[70:15]baby.

[70:15]It's a sweet,

[70:17]sweet ride.

[70:17]I just don't know what to do.

[70:22]Matt,

[70:23]what do you think about this as a closer?

[70:25]You're a construction manager.

[70:26]Uh,

[70:27]I mean,

[70:28]I like it.

[70:28]I like when it kind of brings you down and like you said,

[70:31]it just sets you down nice and gently and says,

[70:34]here you go.

[70:34]Go on.

[70:34]You're gone with your day.

[70:35]Have you guys ever made your spouse tuck you into bed?

[70:38]Huh?

[70:39]Not in a long time.

[70:41]Sometimes I do it.

[70:42]Sometimes I'm like,

[70:43]Hey,

[70:43]can you just tuck me in?

[70:44]Like put the sheets around?

[70:45]We tuck me in nice and tight.

[70:46]How does it go for you?

[70:48]I don't know.

[70:48]It's weird.

[70:49]It turns out to be pretty weird with memories.

[70:52]It's mixed emotions.

[70:53]I don't know.

[70:54]Why did I bring this up?

[70:54]Sickos.

[70:55]All right,

[70:56]let's get into the patented and very popular rating system.

[71:01]By the way,

[71:02]I put all these in a row so I can find them now.

[71:03]60 episodes in nailed it.

[71:07]The patented and very popular Beck did it.

[71:10]Very popular.

[71:11]By the way,

[71:12]do you know what?

[71:12]The other day we released our 69th episode,

[71:14]nary a peep for many of us.

[71:17]Oh,

[71:17]we missed an opportunity there.

[71:18]Yeah.

[71:19]All right.

[71:20]So is astral weeks at 60.

[71:22]Is this rolling?

[71:23]Well toned.

[71:25]That means it's perfect at 60.

[71:26]Hey,

[71:27]go 10 times six.

[71:28]Guess where you are.

[71:29]You're at 60.

[71:30]Uh,

[71:31]will you still need me?

[71:33]Will you still feed me when the album's at 60?

[71:36]Uh,

[71:37]that'd be rolling.

[71:38]Well toned.

[71:39]If you think that's a good idea,

[71:39]rolling,

[71:40]like when I looked at Aaron's face,

[71:45]he's just kind of disgusted.

[71:46]He's just,

[71:46]I think he was rethinking.

[71:47]He's like,

[71:49]wait,

[71:49]what?

[71:50]Why was I upset?

[71:50]Why was my wife consoling me about this?

[71:52]Uh,

[71:54]is this a rolling,

[71:55]uh,

[71:56]boned?

[71:56]Should this have been much higher on the list?

[71:58]Higher than 68 got rolling bone,

[72:00]or is this a rolling groan?

[72:02]You did not enjoy this.

[72:03]It should be lower on the list or off the list.

[72:06]What?

[72:06]So ever is the word I definitely meant to say whatsoever.

[72:10]And we're just going to skip that and not make it easy for me to edit out

[72:14]whatsoever.

[72:15]All right,

[72:15]Matt,

[72:16]what do you think?

[72:16]Rolling tone,

[72:17]well-toned rolling bone or rolling groan?

[72:18]I,

[72:20]you know,

[72:21]Rosie often comes up with,

[72:23]uh,

[72:23]you know,

[72:24]some of these albums that he thinks they're rated higher,

[72:28]but the ones that are lower,

[72:29]which means they've got a higher number.

[72:31]So they're further down the list.

[72:33]Exactly.

[72:33]Or actually better albums for him.

[72:35]And I have this going on with Van Morrison.

[72:37]I think moon dance is a better,

[72:40]better album than this one.

[72:41]Um,

[72:42]specifically,

[72:43]you know,

[72:44]I think into the mystic might be his best song ever.

[72:47]Absolutely.

[72:47]Um,

[72:48]you know,

[72:49]way ahead of brown eyed girl in my,

[72:51]in my opinion,

[72:51]but you know,

[72:52]and that has,

[72:53]uh,

[72:54]moon dance has into the mystic.

[72:55]So I would,

[72:56]I would put moon dance ahead of this album personally.

[72:58]So for that reason,

[73:00]I think this,

[73:01]uh,

[73:02]album is rolling groaned,

[73:04]which means it's too high in the list,

[73:06]which means I want it to go lower.

[73:08]So I get a higher number.

[73:09]Yes.

[73:09]Is moon,

[73:09]is moon dance,

[73:10]is moon dance on the list somewhere or not?

[73:11]Yeah.

[73:11]One 20.

[73:12]Oh,

[73:12]so it's coming up.

[73:13]It'll be coming up a year or so.

[73:15]A year from now.

[73:16]We'll catch it a year.

[73:17]Imagine what color Rob's poop will look like in a year.

[73:19]Siri set reminder for one year,

[73:24]start eating fish sticks,

[73:25]then make a song called into the fish sticks.

[73:28]I'm all set.

[73:31]But I got started eating fish sticks like three weeks out and then talking

[73:34]about a lot of the podcast.

[73:35]So it's just so good.

[73:36]I make my own content.

[73:37]Uh,

[73:39]Aaron,

[73:39]what do you think?

[73:39]Rolling?

[73:39]Well-toned,

[73:40]rolling,

[73:40]boned,

[73:40]or rolling grown?

[73:41]Yeah,

[73:42]I had such a nice week.

[73:43]Listen to this album.

[73:44]I don't,

[73:45]I don't even,

[73:45]I don't know the moon dance.

[73:46]You might say I had a great astral week listening to this album.

[73:50]Matt,

[73:50]Matt,

[73:51]I appreciate when you say it,

[73:52]it makes me really uncomfortable.

[73:53]Actually,

[73:53]if you say it,

[73:53]please don't say it anymore.

[73:54]Shout out for moon dance.

[73:55]I'm gonna have to check that one out.

[73:56]Cause,

[73:57]uh,

[73:57]I enjoyed this far more than I expected.

[73:58]Um,

[73:59]I think it's some really nice musicianship and,

[74:02]uh,

[74:02]just it's one that I know is going to stick with me and I'll keep

[74:05]listening to.

[74:05]So I'm going to call it a rolling.

[74:07]Well-toned and Russell,

[74:09]what do you think?

[74:09]Rolling?

[74:10]Well-toned rolling,

[74:10]boned or rolling grown.

[74:11]This was one.

[74:13]I,

[74:13]I kind of thought I was going to come in and,

[74:15]and not like it.

[74:17]I thought for sure I was going to say rolling grown on this one,

[74:19]but Aaron mentioned it all.

[74:21]There's all these instruments going on.

[74:23]There's the harpsichord.

[74:24]There's flutes.

[74:25]There's,

[74:26]is that a guitar?

[74:27]What do you call it?

[74:27]What was that other instrument?

[74:28]A guitar.

[74:29]Yeah.

[74:29]Yeah.

[74:30]Guitar guitars on this.

[74:31]It's an upright base.

[74:33]There's a ton of fun things going on.

[74:35]It's not brown.

[74:36]I grow.

[74:36]And I don't,

[74:37]I don't think they have a song as good as into,

[74:39]is it into the mystic matter?

[74:40]What's the stick?

[74:41]Yep.

[74:41]And I don't,

[74:42]so I don't think they have the,

[74:43]the huge crush for songs in there,

[74:45]but I think Aaron put it best.

[74:47]Like you hear these songs and you think of van Morrison,

[74:49]you think of those songs that you really know,

[74:51]and they're all kind of in that,

[74:53]in that zone.

[74:54]And I really enjoy listening to it.

[74:55]I'm going to listen to this again.

[74:56]So I'm going to say rolling well toned folks.

[75:00]Unfortunately,

[75:00]the correct answer is it's a rolling van Morrison.

[75:07]Oh my goodness.

[75:08]Listen,

[75:08]I was so busy.

[75:09]I don't have a lot of time for this anymore.

[75:10]I'll tell you right now.

[75:13]This is you.

[75:14]This album is unlike anything.

[75:16]I have an confession to make.

[75:18]I have a dirty little secret.

[75:19]I don't especially like the song brown eyed girl.

[75:22]I don't,

[75:22]I don't think it's fun.

[75:24]I don't like listening to it.

[75:26]I think it's overplayed.

[75:27]And so I just don't,

[75:29]I really don't.

[75:29]I think there's some things about like a guy in junior high played it.

[75:33]And then he was super popular and it made me jealous of him.

[75:35]So I think maybe I know I hate the song.

[75:37]I might be a psychopath,

[75:38]but I think I just worked something out with you guys.

[75:42]So thank you.

[75:43]I appreciate it.

[75:44]But it's,

[75:46]it's,

[75:46]I was dreading it because I was like,

[75:48]it's just going to be those songs over and over.

[75:50]And instead it was like this trip that was like the base.

[75:54]As soon as it started,

[75:55]I was like,

[75:55]boy,

[75:55]this sounds pretty jazzy.

[75:57]And it just never stopped the whole album through.

[75:58]I got such a kick out of this.

[75:59]And I think it's,

[76:00]it's fun to have this really unique album this point in our journey.

[76:04]Speaking of unique albums,

[76:06]guys,

[76:06]next,

[76:07]next up,

[76:07]we have an album.

[76:08]That's about my friend,

[76:09]Peyton,

[76:09]Peyton full by Eric B and Rocky.

[76:14]That's a shift from what we've been listening to the last few,

[76:19]right?

[76:19]Yes.

[76:20]It's a fun,

[76:20]the guys,

[76:21]the list is fun.

[76:22]We are kind of,

[76:23]kind of on a fun journey going from Led Zeppelin,

[76:26]a talking book to Van Morrison to Peyton Full.

[76:30]I've got the perfect podcast for you,

[76:34]Jack.

[76:34]Beck did it better.

[76:37]Do you guys think the next day to go on,

[76:41]I should make them one of these Irish eye cocktails or should I just show them my new jacket move?

[76:46]Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.