Bob Marley and the Wailers: Exodus (1977)

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums is decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy back did it better from 1977 this is album 71 exodus by bob marley uh folks we have not gotten together now for over

[00:31]a week we are primed we are pumped we literally have been talking for a half hour before this and we're like okay we should probably push recorder at some point and get started on this but it is good to see you i hope everyone has had a good week oh i'm already bored talking to you guys this is crazy how long that did not take me okay thanks guys great conversation react to your joke That's right you guys want me to speed through this so we get to the rolling going part what is everybody doing guys let's turn on the radio it's been so long and maybe you know what maybe

[01:01]there's a holiday song there's probably not here we go let's check it out nice what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-r-o-b this is the lone wolf wolfman rob but sometimes the lone wolf wants to run with the pack sometimes wolfman rob stares out the window and wonders what's love you ever find somebody maybe the answer is just staring me in my wolfman face this gets weird i'm just gonna tell you guys what

[01:33]it sounds really awesome wait am i dating rob or someone else oh yeah many people haven't told me now russell sounds really great i do hey let me tell you that i agree i bet he'd be fun to date i wouldn't take him for a walk

[02:00]all right all right but we'd go to museums yes he'll buy me a cocktail with rum and a shirt with a giant tongue i'm dating russ so good oh yeah we'd only see half the musical

[02:36]leave it in a mission now ah russ is a great guy and he's really rich i would definitely try to have sex with him he'd make sure we both had come

[03:03]he's gone when i wake up but i still think he's great that's what it's like when you're dating russ when you want to hear about the greatest so that was a song about what i think it'd be like to have sex with russ i don't know but you're just going to have sex with russ you're just going to have sex with russ you're just going to have sex with russ you're just going to have sex with russ you're just going to have sex with russ you're just going to have sex with russ i see we i see we somehow lost bribe.com at some point there's a bribe.com i still think he's great if you listen to the actual song

[03:33]the rhymes work out and then sometimes i was like what rhymes with rum uh-oh well i guess i know which direction this song is going so and you might notice that also i'm sure our astute listeners realize that that's also the same song i did the parody song last time we did bob marley but this time it's the same song instead of the stud russ it took a little bit of a turn i don't know it was a subtle turn i don't know if you guys picked up on it but listen welcome to becky i am really great one of our specialties

[04:00]we are talking about bob marley's exodus and i've got three guys here who probably thought of something to say matt in minneapolis how are you doing matt good wax vax boosted ready to go let's party there you go i've got russell in minnesota russell how are you doing guys rise up my fallen co-hosts rise and speak again our dumb shit listeners have stopped calling the beck line and run away but we live to pod another day i thought you were doing the altered beast bit rise from your grave

[04:31]that's the one sound effect i can do really well it's a good video game that game rocked my sister and i literally will call each other sometimes and just say rise from your grave rise lord vader is that from the hit game altered beast said nobody ever are we going to talk some are we going to talk some uh christmas cards again we are not no jenny is here to make sure everything is good everything quality insurance and i'm not going to say anything

[05:00]because last time not only was i dealing with you three clowns i was also getting texts saying uh hey we need to talk and i was like i've also got aaron aaron did you know that the average american has sex 54 times a year this last week in december is going to be crazy for me i can hardly wait this is gonna be crazy aaron how are you doing end of the year you gotta get those that stuff in your head right you gotta meet your yeah you get the stuff you're back to zero on do the stuff and what are you talking about eric is that what you call it disrespectful

[05:30]rob when it rains it doesn't rain on one man's house what it did though on yours you're still in the kitchen that's everywhere it rained that's why your garage collapsed it totally it totally rained on your house that's why that's why you're not in the garage it doesn't rain on one man's house that's what bob says oh okay folks we don't have time to talk about this talk about maybe who's sitting next to me and listening to this conversation or what we've got to get to our voicemail someone called again i thought everyone stopped calling we asked

[06:00]i'm sure it's listening to her very happy with oh hold on new new new intro line but they're not so great most of the time it's true text messages for our show do these idiots not realize we only do audio our listeners are moronic that's what we think yes well it's a pain to hear what they say

[06:32]if you think they're bad you hear the ones we don't play you're too dumb i won't make it complex just call 802-277-BAD you're too dumb i won't make it complex just call 802-277-BAD you're too dumb i won't make it complex just call 802-277-BAD That rhymed. That was good. Yeah, nice. That was fantastic. You know, this is Aaron's dad. And I don't really mind as a lifelong Iowa picking on Iowa that much.

[07:04]But man, when you take shots at the Drake Relays, that's a whole other story. I told you guys. How many Olympians have you seen run? And have you seen Mitch Potter, famous 400-meter runner from the University of Minnesota, throw up after a race? Oh, God. I've gone for 49 consecutive years, soon to be 50. And man, you are missing a good thing. I got 10 tickets for the Relays. You guys can come down anytime and watch it.

[07:30]Now, the other thing I have a problem with is, Rob, you dissing Milk Duds. Are you effing kidding me? Milk Duds are awesome. And how can you go to a movie without eating Milk Duds? Man, Matt knows. I like this guy. Thanks a lot, guys. You take care. Okay, so let's get – one thing is one. Don't ever call and criticize me again, ever. I don't care whose dad you are, okay? I will not stand for that, okay? If we see each other face-to-face, it's on, on-site with me and Aaron's dad, okay?

[08:01]First of all, oh, oh, let's send Russell a shirt. Let's tell Aaron about, you know, pulling into the cider or whatever he was doing that one time. What are we going to do with Rob? Oh, let's criticize the candy that he likes to eat. No, that he doesn't like to eat. Damn it, now I'm all confused. Shit. My question is – I didn't do that personally. My question is, which is longer? The length of that message or the amount of time it takes someone at those terrible relays to run around once on the track? Is it about the same amount of time?

[08:30]It is because that message actually was 51 seconds, which is about like a high school 400. Well, I bet Mitch Potter ran that in sub-47, I would bet. Well, and I know Drake's a big, like, sports fan. He's like, you know, an owner of Toronto and stuff. But when did he get into track? I like how his selling point was like, hey. Have you guys ever seen somebody barf their guts out after running a 400? I was like, hmm. Well, now I've changed my mind on these Drake relays. So I do have a semi-heart erection now. Keep going.

[09:00]He was a warrior, man. He would get out there and go beyond his limits every time. And then, yeah, my dad's seats are right on the finish line. You can see all that stuff. Guess what? He could have come and visited Russell on his 21st birthday. He could have seen exactly the same things, okay? This is not – You do not need to be a great athlete to barf because you did something too much. If you had invited him, he would have been there for sure. Yeah. He did that. My kid did that once where basically she was like – I don't know how old she was. She was like two. And we got her ice cream at a restaurant. And these psychopaths brought her out like four scoops of ice cream to a little kid.

[09:31]Idiots. Okay? Now, of course, Jenny and I did our normal hands-off parenting where we didn't do anything. And we're like, well, she'll just eat ice cream until she doesn't want to eat anymore. We were wrong. She ate all the ice cream. We were woken up that night by a kid barfing up ice cream into our bed, which sounds fun. It's not at all. Not good. I don't know what the fun part is. No. None of that is fun at all. Just watching a kid vomit vanilla ice cream. And now that I think about it, she likes chocolate. She doesn't like vanilla anymore. So that actually makes sense.

[10:00]That tracks. Aaron, did you know that your dad was going to be calling in? Has he communicated with you recently that he did not like us ripping the Drake relays? Were you surprised by his connection with the Beck line or not? I was not totally surprised. I did have a bit. I had a bit of an exchange, and he let me know that he had some thoughts. And I encouraged him to share them, and I'm glad that he did, because I knew that he would. So I was not. I didn't know about the Milk Duds part until more recently.

[10:30]But I knew the Drake relays thoughts were coming. You can't get that by him. What does your dad do? He's a doctor? He's a physician, yeah. Yeah, okay. So Milk Duds. Yeah, smart guy. It makes sense. Oh, my God. It's great that he has such a good job, because I'm sure buying the 10 tickets to the Drake relays put him back at least $12.50. You know what I mean? He's got to be like, this is one of those events you go to, and everyone in the parking lot is like, I'm selling, I'm selling, I'm selling.

[11:00]Everybody's like, no, I'm selling. These are great tickets. They're right on the third turn. They're fantastic tickets right on the turn. Do you see the barf on my shoes? That's from last year, okay? You could be me if you really wanted to. Yeah, but you guys, now you have an open invitation. You can go down there and check it out with us. Aaron, I'm fascinated. What do you get as candy at a movie theater, okay? Or are you some sort of sicko perv freak that doesn't do any sort of... No, don't look at me like that. You're looking at me like, wait, am I a sicko perv freak?

[11:30]You're like, you're questioning. You're like, maybe I am, but I've never thought about... Don't put your head down below the camera and pop it up like you're peeping. Yeah. When Rob accuses you of being that sick freak. I'm a pretty strictly popcorn guy at the movies, but if I had... I mean, do they have those mini Butterfingers sometimes? I might get like a... Oh, yeah. Yeah. A sleeve of Butterfingers. I would do that if I was going to get candy, I think. I like those mini ones because the chocolate is all the way around. I feel like regular Butterfingers, there's too much Butterfinger, not enough chocolate. The ratio, Rob.

[12:00]Better ratio. Yeah, totally. I will say this. I have abandoned popcorn at movies. I am done with popcorn. Why? Popcorn, thumbs down. Don't need it. It's filler. I'm going to stop you. If you fucking say, why not just get ice cream? Ice cream is so good. If you start talking about ice cream again, Rob, we got to cancel the podcast. Generally, you don't like any dessert. There's no dessert that you just talk about ice cream. Well, I was going to say it would be really nice if they served ice cream in movie theaters, but I'm not going to say that now. That's what I thought. I just think like a popcorn in a movie theater is like when you look at dog food and it's

[12:31]mostly grains and you're like, wait, dogs don't eat grains. That's what popcorn is. It's total filler. Like it's not... Nobody's ever eaten a bag of popcorn and goes, wow, that was really good. I'm glad I ate that whole bag of popcorn. No, no, no. I got to stop you. You're wrong. Yeah. You're wrong. I think there's a bottom level of grains. Like the bottom... 15% is grains. Like you're saying, Rob, it's just like these little kernels, but I think they do that on purpose. And I think what happens is you get to the end and that's all that's left is that little shit at the bottom. And then you don't eat it and you can put it down and you can say, well, at least I

[13:03]didn't eat the whole bucket. There's like some level of like feeling good about yourself because at the end, you're not going to eat that. You put it away and you don't have to feel bad about yourself. It's like that classic move I've done where I'm like, well, I'm not going to finish this plate of food. And then if the waiter doesn't come in the next time, I was like, well, I'll just have a little bit more. I'll just have a little bit more. And movie theaters are where popcorn's best, right? I mean, that's where you've got the big machine. You've got the actual real cooker. It's not a microwave thing. And you've got the real butter. I mean, I'm using my air quotes, real butter. You know, I don't know what they use, but they've got the actual like liquid butter

[13:33]that you pour on and stuff. I mean, that's like how it's made, how it's supposed to be made. The nectar of the gods, movie theater butter, the nectar of the gods. I think it's called Flavacol. I just was reading about this in a holiday gift guide for foodies. Okay, wait a minute. Flavacol! We haven't had a left field take of the week in a while. God, where is it even? That's what I'm going to start calling my penis. Oh, gross. You're going to start calling your penis Flavacol?

[14:00]Oh, that goes back to what we were talking about earlier. No, thanks. Oh, that was Aaron's left penis. Reading about Flavacol is tough. Yep, guy. I can only picture Aaron's wife constantly pretending like, oh God, that stops fast. Aaron's life constantly pretending she's asleep next to him. You know what I mean? Like she sees him reading like a magazine about Flavacol and she's like, oh shit. And she's like. It was in a gift guide. Helen Rosner, who's an excellent food writer, writes for the New Yorker.

[14:31]And then she did a holiday gift guide for people who like food and one of her things was like, well, if you're stuck at home watching movies, you can actually get the real stuff, the real chemical that they use at the movie theater. It's called Flavacol. So I happen to be reading about it. Some call it the nectar of the gods. The nectar of the gods. Please don't get me Flavacol. Okay. I know it's going to be like a funny bit that we're going to send it to each other. Do not send me Flavacol. I don't need it. Jenny sneaks in food into a movie theater. And you know what she sneaks in?

[15:00]This is sick, by the way. This is perverted. You know what she sneaks in? Chicken and cabbage. Real chicken breast. A tub of chicken. She sneaks in microwave popcorn. Well, that's just diseased. It's weird. Just go buy some popcorn. Sneaking in microwave popcorn. Sneaking in microwave popcorn into a movie theater would be like if she went to the movie theater, faced the back, put on her front-facing phone camera, looked at it over her shoulder, and watched the movie that way. Like, they have the superior product right there.

[15:32]Why would you bring in this cheap-ass microwave popcorn when the good stuff is right? It makes absolutely no sense. I mean, does she have a, like, what's her game for getting by the guards who would stop her? Like, she's got a smelly popcorn, right? I can tell you right now, the guards in New York, do not care. If you are not actively jacking it in the theater, okay? If you are not jacking off in the theater, it is okay. You're doing it wrong. You can tell them, like, I'm going to go jack off, and they're like, okay, well, okay, we're keeping an eye on you.

[16:00]That's like you're sitting in a chair, and so I don't know if that really works. Maybe every time she sneaks popcorn into the theater, she marks it down as money she can save towards getting a first-class ticket on an airplane while you and your kids sit in the coach. Oh, no. Oh, Russell. The fact, the idea, the idea that you think we save. We save money going to a movie theater is laughable. I'm going to laugh so hard, I'm going to barf up this vanilla ice cream I've been eating, okay? Because I can tell you what she does. We go to the movie theater, right? And first of all, do you think Beyonce brings microwave popcorn to a movie theater?

[16:33]Oh, my God. She's getting full buckets. You know Jay-Z is like, hey, dig in this popcorn. There, man. I had to. I was, where was I? I wasn't at work. I couldn't have been at work. Purple legs, purple legs. I work at a school, but I was with somebody, and I did it. I was talking about the popcorn trick at the movie theater. And just to let everybody know, okay? What's the popcorn trick? Who's not as cultured as I am. The popcorn trick is where you put a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket and insert your erect penis.

[17:00]Okay? Now, you would only do this with somebody. You would only do this with somebody who consensually, you've said, I'm going to do this, and they would agree. Obviously. Otherwise, it's very wrong. But I was explaining it to somebody. They go, I've never heard of that. So then I started talking about it, and they looked at me. Like, you would look at somebody who's explaining it. Explaining how to put your penis into a popcorn bucket from the bottom. And I was like, actually, you're right. You're right. The way the three of us are looking at you right now. Is that similar? Yeah. But you know what's worse than that? I would rather. I would rather reach into a popcorn bucket and be like, what is this?

[17:34]What? What is this? It feels like a bedpost. What is that? What is this? Okay. But it's warm. It's like a warm bed, but it's really warm. Actually, it's like dangerously hot to the touch. You'd rather do that than what? When Jenny goes to the bathroom. She goes to the movie theater with me. She not only sneaks in microwave popcorn, which is sick. Like, if she got arrested, she would go right to the psychiatric evaluation. I'm pretty sure. Does she eat it, like, out of the bag the whole time? No, she puts it into a plastic Ziploc bag.

[18:00]So none of this makes any sense, right? It's like cold. No, it's sick. So then she goes and she buys a large soda to go to the Coke Freestyle machine, which, by the way, I don't think gets enough attention. It's probably the greatest creation in the last 10 years. The Coke Freestyle machine. It never works the way you want it. It's never quite as good as you want. The good flavors. They're not there, but it's amazing. You know what I'm talking about, Aaron? You're looking at me with that look again. I've never seen a Coke Freestyle machine. You fucking idiot. What the fuck is your problem? To be fair, they might not even allow sugary beverages in Aaron's towns anymore.

[18:33]Those things might not even be allowed out there. They haven't been in the movies now for, like, two years. I'm sure they get them in the movies. I was going to say, have you ever been in a Five Guys? But I won't yell that at you. Have you ever been in a Five Guys lately? They have Freestyle machines in there. I actually have not been. Five Guys is a hole in my burger education. I'm going to explain to you what a Freestyle machine is. A Freestyle machine is, imagine you're in Star Trek and they're drinking pop. This is what a Freestyle machine is. You walk in. It's got all the kinds of pop you want.

[19:01]What kind of pop do you want to drink, Aaron? I would say Coke or Dr. Pepper. Okay, so you select Dr. Pepper. Now, what flavor do you want to add to Dr. Pepper? What would be your dream? Cherry. Yeah, cherry. Guess what? You can. Cherry, vanilla, grape. Whatever you want to add, you can add it. You can do it as much as you want. No problem. My wife, and this is how sick this is, she buys a large soda at the movie theater, which, by the way, costs, oh, I don't know, probably $25. Well, she saved money bringing her own pop for a new camera.

[19:30]Yeah, she's fine. Yeah, they're practically paying her to go to this movie. She gets soda water from the machine. She gets a large soda water, bubbly, straight-ass soda water. That's what we're spending money on that. Are you kidding me? You guys seem let down by the end of that story. It was a good story, actually. I was trying to make it clear. I was trying to make an ass soda water joke. I was just trying to make a good joke about ass soda water. See, this is why I go back to the penis and the popcorn, because when I tell normal jokes, you guys don't react, so I have to go blue. Sick, my in-laws are right next.

[20:00]They can probably hear me yelling about this. Can you imagine them looking at each other and just be like, you're doing the penis and the popcorn bit again. Real hot. Are they shaking their head about that or the soda water? Probably the soda water. They're like, I was with him until you said that she got soda water. That's sick. Are you guys people that sneak things in because you're too cheap? You don't want to pay for something at the baseball game, so you sneak things in? Or what's your sneak it in style? Well, as up until about five years ago, you could bring your own stuff into AMC movie theaters.

[20:30]And I figured this out. My brother was dating a gal who worked at the AMC theater. And she goes, no, you can bring in whatever you want. So it was legal to bring in your own stuff. Until about five years ago, then they changed that. So forever, everybody was trying to sneak stuff in, and the people who were working there, literally, they were laughing at people who were hiding stuff under their coats and stuff. It's like, yeah, you can walk right in with this. But then they changed it. So there was no limit. So if I wanted to bring in a rotisserie chicken, I could. Yeah.

[21:00]In a bucket. In a bucket. Ooh, that'd be so good. Yeah, that sounds great. I would not dream of cheating a nice company who was giving me a service by sneaking things in, though. It's part of the experience is paying $25. I'm sure a milk duds and a small pop and then maybe some popcorn. Let me ask you this, though, man. What happens when your kids go old enough where you're taking the kids and their friends to a movie and now you're buying snacks? Is that going to change your mind a little bit? You love sucking on the tea to VMC that much where you want to shell out

[21:33]$150 for an hour and a half movie? Aren't your kids old enough where you're not even going with them anymore, where you're just dropping them off? Like, they don't want you going to the movie with them anymore, right? Or have you not realized this? This is like this lack of self-realization. Like, you're, like, going in with, like, a bunch of, you know, 12-year-old girls and you're like, this is great. And they're like, we need Mr. Rob to get the hell out of here. I wish my dad would have told me that he can't be in here. So this goes out to Rosie's dad.

[22:00]This is what you get when you leave a message. This is what happens. This last conversation is what you get. All the way off the rails. Yeah. Already. Drake Relay sucks. All right. We always drink beer. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're sneaking beer into the movies? Yeah, that's just standard procedure. Like, how many beers are you talking about? How many are you sneaking in? Like, two to four, depending on how long the movie is. Nice. Like, when I was going, like, when we would go, when my wife and I would go together, you know,

[22:31]one or two for each of us, depending on. So at some point, you're going to be old enough where your son, when he stops punching in the nuts, you're going to take him into a movie theater. Are you going to be bringing in a beer with the kid? Because I think if you get caught bringing in a beer with a kid, that's going to be an issue, right? Yeah, hadn't thought that far. Like, when he goes to school and they ask, how was your weekend? He's like, well, we went to a movie theater. My dad got caught with a bunch of beers up his sleeve. Okay, when you put it that way, maybe we'll knock off. I mean, we've still been back to the theater probably.

[23:01]Excuse me, sir. Is that a real fake leg? They just dump it out. It's just full of beer. All right, rolling call. Let's get into rolling call. It's, it's, it's, it's time. Beer can in your pocket. Are you just happy to see me? It's time for. Excuse me, sir. Are you trying to sneak in a tuna can? Oh, wait, never mind. Are those three tuna cans stacked on top of each other? So hot. Why is it so hot? That doesn't make any sense. Guys, listen, I'm not going to lie.

[23:30]You see this, these bang energy drinks. I've had two of these. I've had two of these. How long have we been recording for? Oh, 29 minutes. And I've had two of these and a serving size is like a third. So that's not good. So I might be flying. That might be my bad. Fired up. Fired up. Perfect. So Aaron rolling going, how's it going with you? Oh, this was for me. Uh, it's going pretty well. It's been, uh, it's been a couple of weeks since we talked. Um, I saw a coyote today, so that was kind of cool, but was it on like a, on a website

[24:03]or in a book or in live at a live? No, in my neighborhood. Like we were taking a walk this afternoon. Was it in my neighborhood? Was it Jeremy? There's a deep cut for you. It was Phil Kessel. It's Phil Kessel. I don't even, I don't know. Pro hockey team. So these, these jokes do not fly. The good news is nobody's listening anymore. So we can say whatever we want for the rest of the podcast. This is just for us. Oh, well, as long as we're just among the four of us.

[24:34]You want to hear that song where I talk about fucking Russ again? Aaron, were you intimidated by the coyote or anything? Did you have to run inside or were you afraid he was going to attack you or anything like that? Yeah, for sure. I, well, I didn't have to run inside because Anna has been reading about what to do. In case of, in case you're encountering, this is like straight up just in our neighborhood. Like we were just taking a walk in the neighborhood and there's only everybody's neighborhood. Yeah. Yeah. They're all just around. Is this, this is the neighborhood where you're out of control.

[25:01]This is the neighborhood where Aaron houses many rats in his garage. And also I believe you guys don't, isn't it like a pot belly pig in one of your yards or something like that too? Not my yard, but in the neighborhood there's a pig. Yeah. Oh, Kiwi. I, so, so here's what I'm picturing, right? Like you're lying in bed, you're looking at a full, like you do the playboy thing, you know, where you pull out the centerfold. It's just movie butter. It's a picture of movie butter. And you're like, Hey, check this out. Your wife over there is reading a book like coyotes for dummies.

[25:32]And she's like, Oh yeah, this is very interesting. Then one day you're like, this is, it's unbelievable. This has both been useful for us. I know. It's about right. So did you, did you run in and then realize the kid was still outside and went back and grabbed him off his bike or what? No, we were, it was just the two of us. Off for a walk. And then we came upon this woman who was like, Hey, I think that might be a Fox down there. And she had kind of this little dog, which a coyote would tear to shreds. Yeah. And we took one look and she was like, no, no, no. We were like, no, that's, that's a coyote. So, uh, didn't have to do anything, but, um, and I did learn that if you encounter a coyote,

[26:05]you should pick up a rock and throw the rock at it if it, if it charges you. So, uh, it's a PSA for all of our listeners out there who might run into coyotes. So your kid is way ahead of the game. Yeah. Right. I was going to say. I just have a kid that punches you in the nuts. It just comes out swinging at you. He's been whipping rocks at you for weeks. This is great. Haven't we talked about this before? What level of animal you could take in a fight? Aaron, don't you think legit if a coyote attacked you, you could, you don't think you could

[26:33]take the coyote? I think I know I could. Ooh, I don't know. They're fast, right? I mean, I, I mean, I feel like if you put up a fight for long enough, it might move on to something easier. Maybe that would work. I don't know. I don't think I could like take a coyote. Like it was like me. I think it's a no win situation for you though. If the coyote attacks you and you lose, you can't look your wife in the eye. Right. But if you win, what are you supposed to do? Like, Oh, I beat up an animal.

[27:00]It's a no win situation. Yeah. No, exactly. How big is a coyote? Like, like how many pounds are we talking here? I'd say there's like 50, 30, 35. That's bigger than I thought. That is going lower. I mean, they're pretty, they're pretty, you know, they're pretty slender with me. And I was picturing one, like a little wiener dog. I was like, I think I could take a wiener dog. Yeah. So did it stay away from you guys or did you walk, turn around and go in or what? How did you handle the situation? Well, we were on the sidewalk and it was kind of down in this little ravine.

[27:32]So by the time we looked at it, it had turned and taken off. So we didn't have to like do much about the situation, but I was ready. If I had to pick up a rock, I was looking. It was 15 to 46 pounds. And they travel 35 to 43 miles per hour. Oh, that's pretty fast. That's fast. That's where your wife, your wife, Rosie, Rosie's wife at gmail.com. She was just bending over, starts tying her shoes. Right. And you're like, what are you doing? Like, well, I got to, I don't, I don't need to, I just got out.

[28:00]You know, I just got to beat you in a race. Let this coyote go. And so she, she was not worried at all. She was just going to let you. I looked at her. She was halfway down the street. Yeah. Aaron looks down at his shoes and he's like, Oh, I'm wearing leather flip-flops. I bought in Peru. Like, this is not good. I'm not going anywhere. No, that's outrun the coyote. It's got outrun you. Yeah. That's what happened. I still haven't seen her. I know it was yesterday. She, she, what happened? I called her, asked her where she was. She said, she's out running the coyote. She'll be back in a couple of weeks for sure. But don't call her anymore.

[28:30]She's like, listen, honey, I love talking to you about fake butter at night. It's great. But listen, there's coyotes all over the place. I'm out of here. Don't do find my iPhone. Russell, rolling going. How's it going with you? Rolling going. I might need to go to the dating advice corner here. I might need to go get some advice from you guys. Big trouble. Russell's in big, big trouble. This may be a letdown. Maybe I shouldn't have let into this like this. Get, get, get, get to the corner. I'm confused because the dating advice corner is right by this one. Advice corner. So I was like, well, which one am I going to push?

[29:01]Checking my dinger. So as you guys know, we've talked about this before. Rob, you said I'm a great conversationalist and a date. I can keep conversations going. I've got fun things to talk about. But with the holidays coming around, I believe Christmas is occurring. Right? Right after this episode is coming out. So this is kind of our, our holiday episode, I believe. And I was thinking when I'm out on dates, I need to have new, new and fresh, fresh and clean conversation starters, right?

[29:31]Stuff that's going to start a conversation. So what I thought we could do today is I could bounce some conversation starters off you guys that are about the holidays and see what you guys think about these conversation starters. How would you respond? And then you can let me know, are these good starters for a date during the holidays? So we're going to say, are these conversation starters ho ho ho or ho ho? No. Yes, exactly. All right. First, first conversation. The whole bit of silence was a ho ho no.

[30:03]All right. First, first question. If you had to live in a holiday movie, which one would you choose? You guys had to live in a holiday movie. Which one would you choose? Well, the obvious answer is no. It's the home alone, right? I mean, that house in Chicago is pretty bougie, right? It's a pretty rad house. Yeah. I'd probably go with a Christmas vacation, live in Clarkers, Wald's house. Yeah. But the thing about home alone is that there's a tarantula crawling around and

[30:31]it never gets solved. Like they never come back to it. They never, there's just a tarantula and it's in like four scenes. It's crawling around. Nobody, nobody ever says at the end, like, oh, you're good. Here's a tarantula. That thing is fucking in that house somewhere. What they don't show you is the mom comes back. She loses a foot because it bites her. It gets infected. They cannot get to the hospital in time. There's too much ice. It's terrible. Or she steps on those Christmas ornaments or the micro machines. Like there's gotta be environmental hazards all over that house. There was tar all over it. There's frozen back steps.

[31:01]It's that's a death trap. And plus you step on that nail. You're going to get a communicable disease that Harry had. Cause you know, he had like hepatitis C at least. That's bare minimum. Okay. Hey honey, how'd you get hepatitis C? Oh, I stepped on that nail downstairs. Throw the pellet down. I would say Rob, we should start a company that gives people excuses for how they picked up a disease that they shouldn't have picked up. Yep. Like, like for $9, we'll give them the, I sat on a Peloton.

[31:32]I wasn't supposed to for 1299. We'll give them. I stepped on a nail at the home alone house when I was in Chicago. So sir, we've got you down for the $25 package where we mail you a syringe that you can prick your finger on. Okay. That's going to give you a lot of options for excuses. Of what you got from that. Okay. That's our deluxe package, sir. It's very good. Okay. And, and if, but I'm going to tell you right now for $50. Okay. You can upgrade. We will meet you at the beach.

[32:00]You say you don't have a swimsuit. We'll share a swimsuit with you. Listen, you get chlamydia with a shared swimsuit. Everyone's going to buy that every time. Don't worry about it. Hey, I got chlamydia in Mexico. Oh, I shared a swimsuit. It's my bad. That's not me. Can you guys, can you guys tell that Rob's the trick? Here's a notarized letter from the guy who let me borrow it. Borrow the swimsuit. I'm literally just roped up on caffeine. That's it. There's nothing else. No, no, I can't tell. Yeah. I would live at Colin Firth's country home in Portugal.

[32:32]And yeah, love. Actually, I would take that one. Oh my God. That's a good one. That's right. That's love. Actually, Aaron, you always bring that up around this time of year. It's a, you're right. It's a great movie. It really is. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what movie I'm not going to be part of Russ. I'm going to go the anti version. I'm going to go the anti version on this Christmas story. That movie sucks with the leg lamp. It is a bad movie. The movie is not good. This is like Rob saying Ferris Bueller. I'm starting to think Rob is not a good judge of good movies.

[33:00]So you're telling me that when a Christmas story comes on, you go, oh, good. Let's watch this movie. Yeah. Everybody in that movie is gross. The kid is gross. The dad is gross. The bully and like his, they're just like gross. They're gross. Little, they're gross people. They don't like it. What about the neighbors? The bumpuses with all those dogs? Guys, I don't know. I don't know this movie. I don't waste my time watching the Christmas story. It's the worst. And then everybody's like, oh, the leg lamp, the leg lamp. Yeah, we get it. It's that's the best part of that movie.

[33:31]Question mark. All right. So what do you think? I'm going to be more positive here on out. Russell positive. Was that a good conversation starter? Should you ever use that one on a date? Which, which holiday scene would you live in? Okay. Everybody let's, let's silently give a thumbs up or thumbs down. And I'm going to tell the crowd whether or not it was a good conversation. It was a whole, no, you can't go middle. We got three people. We need you. Okay. That was a ho, ho, ho. Two to one, two to one. Nice job, Russell. All right. Next, next conversation started. I'm kind of curious. I'm curious for you guys.

[34:01]Is it really the thought that counts when it comes to gifts? Would you rather get a gift that is something you like, or is it really the thought that counts? This feels like a trap. Did you hear anything? Send you this question? Like this feels really bad. I'm going to say right now at this point in my life, I got to say it's a thought that counts. I mean, it's so easy to buy what I want. I think if somebody is taking the time to get me a gift, I think it's sweet.

[34:31]I mean, honestly, I'm going to go with a thought that counts, especially when you have kids is the stuff they're giving you. Oh my God. It's like an egg carton cut up with a face on it. And they're like, oh, buy your own stuff. Give us, give us. Yeah. Give me, give me some cash. I do think it's, it's the thought that counts. Now, is this a conversations? Oh, this is a conversation starter. Yeah. Matt, what do you think? Is it the thought that counts? Well, I think it's, I think it's twofold, right? Like if somebody actually really did think about the gift, you know, like said like,

[35:01]oh, I, you know, I knew that you loved driving an RV. So, you know, I got you this book about RV parks around, you know, things like that. Right. Like that's the thought that counts. Right. Right. But if it's literally somebody just grabbing the first book they saw at a book, bookstore, and then, you know, saying, oh, you know, I don't know. I couldn't find anything for you. So I just, you know, then it seems like they're going to get away with, that's the thought that counts there, you know, but like they really didn't put any thought into it. So yes, I am with the overall, it's the thought that counts.

[35:31]You think there's some people lying out there about putting thought into it and really they're just emptying their house of junk. Absolutely. Yeah. 100%. Just checking a box. Aaron, what do you think? Is it the thought that counts? 100% the thought that counts. All three of you say it's the thought that counts. This is such bullshit. Yeah. The holidays are hard. There's a lot to remember. There's a lot going on in everybody's lives. If someone takes the time to think of you, that means you mean something to them. And so. Okay. So let me, let me ask you this. Now I was going to do this and I'm not anymore. Okay. We all know that last year for a holiday gift, I got you guys a picture of myself in a Speedo

[36:03]on a towel. Okay. It's gotten a lot of play. A lot of great. It's just great. Now this year I had a different idea from an Instagram ad that popped up. I am not going to do it, but I'm going to run by, run it by you to see what you would have thought. A lot of this there, there is a company that will put your picture on women's underwear. So I was going to put my picture on women's underwear and send it to your significant others.

[36:30]Okay. Do you think they would have? Now, Hey, I'm going to ask you three questions. Would they have appreciated it? Yes. Would they have worn it? Okay. Would it be erotic if they wore it? They wouldn't even wear it salty. What are you going to do? Send it back. I mean, use it for stuff or something. Yeah, no, I actually had holiday gifts for you guys too, but I'm also unwilling to do

[37:03]it and unwilling to send them because it's too much work, but here's what I was going to get you. I was going to get Aaron a bicycle hat with the Beck did it better logo on it. Oh my God. That's such a good one. I was going to get Rob a singlet with the Beck did it better logo on it. Oh, that's so good. And then I was going to get Matt a custom blow up with the Beck did it better logo on it. You can actually get custom blow ups, but like I was like, you, you can't just order it. You have to call and talk to a person and I'm like, fuck that. I'm not calling to talk to a person.

[37:30]So do you think we can get the four of us? We got to get the four of us and then assign the Beck did it better. And then just have a blow up for people's needs. That's the blow up that you need. It'd be life-size true to size too. So can you imagine being working the blow up hotline? God, how do I get that job? That's the job. I want, okay, listen, here's what I want. Okay. I want a popcorn bucket and then get like three tuna cans, stack them up inside. Yeah. And can you make it hot? Can you make it like really hot? Like hot to the touch, like scary hot. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. I know that's what fake butter is.

[38:00]I read the article with the flavor. Uh-huh. And you can put flavor coal into the blow up. I actually lost. I'm kind of confused now. So what do you guys think? Conversation starter on a date? Is it the thought that counts or is it, am I sitting to myself up for disaster? Cause I would always say, no, it's not the thought that. Russell, that is a strong ho, ho, ho. Okay. Aaron's going thumbs down. Did like that conversation. Oh, that's too bad. All right. You guys want one more conversation starter? I got to see if you guys want another one here. Yes, please.

[38:30]Cause a lot of this podcast is going to get edited down. I'm realizing. All right. Here's the next one. Should a Christmas tree be decorated with store-bought ornaments that have a common theme or random ornaments that have been passed down and have meaning for each ornament? Oh, random ornaments. Yeah. Yeah. You got to have cool ornaments that you, someone gave you that, but they put some thought behind it. What kind of sickos actually really care? Like, Oh, this, these, these bulbs match, match the tinsel match the, you

[39:00]know, the star on the top. Who, what kind of sickos actually really care about that kind of stuff? Yeah. It's gotta, it's gotta be fun. How do you, how do you get those? Because you can't get all meaningful ornaments. And when are you really going to have a tree with like two meaningful ornaments? Like you, you have to put some junk on there and then fill it up with stuff that matters over time. Right? Right. Yeah. That's the idea. Right. Cause we've, I mean, we've got so many ornaments where it's like, Oh, here's our first Christmas together. And I'm like, Oh, okay. And then we've got one where it's just a video game controller.

[39:30]And I'm like, Oh yeah, I like that too. So maybe, you know what, Russell, you're right. Jenny, what do you think? If we're getting ornaments, should we have just ornaments that look good or ornaments that are meaningful? Both. What do you mean both? This is what you get when you bring somebody who orders soda water from a Pepsi freestyle machine. Sick. But her hair does look good. I don't know what you mean that her hair doesn't look good. Her hair does look good. It's sick. Rob's got a domestic conversation going on, but we're going to get me out of the corner. Matt rolling, going, how's it going with you?

[40:01]Good. Good. I, uh, that's it. Time's up. Get out of the corner. Time's up. I was kissing her goodnight, but I was hitting the guys. I was, I've committed to this bit. Can you imagine Aaron? You come home. Your wife is wearing underwear with my feet. Face on him. Erotic. I cannot imagine. Erotic nightmare. So great. Your kid sees that your kid sees it. Uncle Rob. Matt rolling. Good. How's it going with you?

[40:30]Is your face on the front of the back or what was your, what was, what was your thought here? We only see it if their leg were up on a balance. No, the face. First of all, I know what you guys are going to ask. The face is facing out. Okay. You're seeing the front of my head. Not the back. I'm not sick. All right. Not disrespectful. Hey, but I'm also smiling. I'm like, Hey, you know, cause I know this is for you. It's not for her. She can't wait. Can people see their underwear? Have I been missing out this whole time? Oh my God. I think I might be too fat.

[41:00]Shit. Imagine seeing your underwear. Can't be me. Matt. Russell. Rolling. Going. How's it going with you? All right. Uh, you know, I've realized, uh, it's been friendly getting our first snow here in Minneapolis. Um, kind of the first significant one. I realized that I, I, I didn't know what I was, I don't know what I'm doing with blowups. I've got issues, you know, the bigger you get, the more you have to hammer them down

[41:33]and nail them into the ground and deeper, you know, things like that. So my blowups are all over the place. So I've had to like actually shut them off, which is just, Oh, what's me to shut them. Yeah. Well, it's so windy out. Cause I haven't properly, uh, you know, tied them down, tethered them down. So no, I got, I got it. I got issues. So I got to get better for next year. Um, I'm up to about three 55 on the list. Well, uh, what have you listened to recently? Lana Del Rey, an album called Norman fucking Rockwell is unbelievable.

[42:05]What kind of music is it? Taylor Swift came out with a lot of this new, like, uh, I don't know, earthy folky kind of, um, Southern rock kind of, uh, vibe, you know, the last couple of years. Well, Lana Del Rey did it before she was the Taylor Swift before Taylor Swift was the new Taylor Swift and it is fucking good. I mean, it's awesome. So Norman fucking Rockwell, Lana Del Rey, um, summer three 21 on the list.

[42:31]So that's my recommendation for the week. I know Rosie told you to listen to it. I don't know if you listened to it or not. Absolutely. Yeah. We put that on, I got a text from Matt. Oh, it's great. It's like, it's this kind of atmospheric, you know, um, it's very cool. She writes her own. So she's, uh, I think she's from New Jersey, Rob. So she's, she's almost one of you, but, uh, you know, she's kind of got that vibe. So great album. I've been listening to nothing but Lana Del Rey, uh, as much as I can lately because I think she's wonderful. So, um, other than that, the Beatles documentary, I don't know if you guys, I forgot about that.

[43:04]Yeah. Let it be right. Let it be. Did you guys finish it? Get back. I'm finished it, Matt. Why don't you give our listeners an overview on what it is? You know, from what I know, um, the Beatles. Beatles had planned, and this was a McCartney thing. Um, he wanted to do, uh, like filming them, writing the process of their next album. And then they were going to have it as like a one hour documentary and then culminate it with like a one hour live show.

[43:31]But I mean like a show to be recorded in front of a studio audience kind of thing. He was doing it to sort of save the Beatles. He thought they needed like a goal. They needed a, something to work towards like deadlines, like a 500 album type thing. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. Something to occupy their mind. Like they were all, they're all going all over the place. They didn't have anything to kind of tether them down. They didn't have a tour. They didn't have to put on album, all this stuff. So he thought they would do this. And so they started, they got this documentarian guy who's kind of a dink.

[44:00]I don't know. I, the guy drove me bonkers. Cause all he kept trying to do was sell them on this. We got to do this live show. And none of them wanted to do, none of them wanted to do the live show. It's so good because you realize like here he is talking to the greatest band of all time. They've done whatever they want. They're all like, they've, they are more experienced than anyone else. And you have like Charles St. Puffin or whatever his name is. He's in there like, well, you know what guys, actually we could do a show. Like we could go down to Libya and maybe do a show down there. And they're like, oh yeah, that sounds like a great idea. They're like, they're so sarcastic.

[44:30]Like, oh, it's so good. Ringo was like, I'm not traveling. Right. And they were like, well, Ringo won't travel. That's it. Like that was amazing. He's like, no, I'm not doing it. But so Matt, the idea is that they had all this footage that they had taped for this original documentary. 50 years ago. And now Peter Jackson, I mean, from what I know, they put it out, you know, and like the albums you see there, right? Yeah. And you see the, you know, the stuff on the roof with, uh, I'm trying to remember the songs that they actually have on the album. Let it be. Um, yeah.

[45:00]Get back. There's two or three of them that they were actually about a pony. Yeah. Oh, it's that one called guys. We're the leading music podcast these days. But then, but then Matt, so essentially what happens is Peter Jackson, the guy who made the Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. Or one of those fucking shows takes all that takes all the footage. I think it was Star Wars. Lord of the Rings. Yeah. He takes, he takes all the footage. Like they had like 60 hours of footage from this and they make this really cool documentary with it. Right. They, they remaster all the color and everything.

[45:31]And yeah. And then there's spots where like, they've got audio, but not videos. They kind of put some of it together, but I mean, there's things and like, I'm trying to figure out. So Ringo and all are still alive. They're technically producers on this thing. You know? And so it's at the end after watching it, I mean, it definitely has a, a, a twinge towards not being controversial, right? Like George Harrison walks out, you know, two weeks, two weeks before they're supposed to do some sort of live thing. He says, I'm done.

[46:00]I quit. They try to get them a couple of times, come back and forth. And I'm trying to be quick about this, but you know, like you don't see any of the controversy. All you see is Paul McCartney is like, basically takes over kind of the writing process when they're in Twickenham, Twickenham, Twickenham, however you say it. And so. So, you know, I don't know. I just, you know, and then you kind of, it seems like, uh, I think George was eating too much popcorn with flavor colon and his fingers were slipping off the strings and it pissed, pissed Paul off. I, yeah, it's so funny. So first of all, I know that, uh, George Harrison's estate and Yoko's estate had to sign off on

[46:35]it. So I think they did, I think intentionally they had to make it where it wasn't, it was totally kind of vanilla bland. I'm also going to say, if you are a, if you're going to watch this, you have to know that it's like eight hours long, right? You can't just be like really long. You can't just pop it. I had it on just in the background and I was doing other stuff and then I'd watch it and it really was, I thought really fascinating to see what does a band do when they've been turning out hits for eight, nine years, they're starting to, okay.

[47:01]And I, this is not about us. Okay. I know you're going to try to apply this as they're starting to get kind of sick of each other, maybe doing the same things over and over and kind of doing the same, maybe like not respecting some people's opinions and just kind of doing whatever they want and maybe a person. It's kind of always around when they're trying to record and it's like, Hmm, that's kind of a thing where you got to take that into account too. Um, but, but I just thought it was really interesting to see just how you, you realize how genius they are. Right. I mean, cause part of the process was them listening to George Harrison play a song and

[47:32]they're like, no, that song's shit. And guess what? Yeah, it was, it was. And then I'll be like, Hmm, let me try something. And all of a sudden he just writes, get back. Like it's to watch him write, get back was mind blowing because he starts playing it. And I'm like, Oh, I recognize that song. And you're literally watching him do that. I read a great article about how they did that, where they basically set up all the cameras, covered up the lights to show they were recording and just left them on. So they didn't know they were being recorded. So you got like real unfiltered footage of it. It was awesome.

[48:00]So I, you know, I thought it was a little vanilla for like, if you're trying to figure out who broke up the Beatles and all this stuff, like I thought it was pretty vanilla there, but to actually watch them, like Rob was saying, create the songs and how they were going through, you know, and working the words, you know, and it says like, Jojo was a man who was thought he was a, whatever, you know, you know, how they're coming up with all these words and they're workshopping and just how that all worked. I mean, that was fascinating to see how those guys work, you know, kind of the other stuff was just ultimately it was pretty vanilla, I thought. So overall for the eight hours, absolutely loved watching it, but you know, there was

[48:33]nothing controversial, I guess, in my opinion on what you saw. But I don't think, is there going to be any more controversial stuff with the Beatles? That thing they've got, the rights have to be so hammered out. They have such, they're going through. Everything with a fine tooth comb. And I just don't, I don't think that's, is that what really, what we're interested in is like, oh, let me think, don't you blame the breakup of the Beatles on a woman? Like we've done for years and years in this really like kind of sexist, like, and

[49:00]probably problematically racist way of like, oh yes, it was this woman or was it the guy who started taking heroin? I wonder if it was the guy taking heroin that maybe was part of the problem with this. And don't you think ultimately what they're shooting for is like to leave their legacy with something positive where people can watch it and enjoy like the creative process, right? Like, like it doesn't do them any good to put anything else out there. They want to leave, my guess is Paul and Ringo want to leave their legacy with something positive and interesting, right? The only thing I'm going to say there is if you have umpteen hundred hours of video, right?

[49:33]Yeah. Like you kind of think like, well, we're not, we're going to get like deep down into the, you know, and they had like these, uh, they, they hit a microphone in a pot of, you know, some flowers on the table and they didn't. I know they're being recorded. Like that was about the most controversial thing they talked about. And they're trying to go back and get, uh, George Harrison back in that things like that. So like, I, again, am I expecting anything? No, but like, if you're going to say like, oh, we took all of these hundreds of hours of film, you know, and what, what you got out of it was everything you already knew

[50:01]anyways. I mean, like, so I don't know, that was kind of the only disappointing thing I thought, but, but I think you get to see it. That's the cool thing for the first time is like, you can, we've talked before about how it was becoming Paul's band, right? Like, I don't know if it was the white album where they were. He's kind of doing their own things. Like wasn't Sergeant Pepper's, uh, a Paul album essentially. But like, you can see when they're sitting in there, he's telling everyone what to do. He's running the show. And so to kind of see that in action, I could see like now for the first time to watch it and be like, I wouldn't want to play with that guy either.

[50:30]Like I know it's a genius, but if you're a talented person, you think you don't need to tell that guy to tell you what to do all the time. Right. I also think too, Paul's the kind of person that just says what he's thinking all the time. And you kind of are like, okay, like we don't need to hear all your thoughts, but that's how he got through it. And it was just like, it, it, it did wear on you, but it was also, I thought it was really interesting too, to see, I thought Paul and John at that point, we're going to be fighting all the time. Right. And what you realize is that they were just buds hanging out. And every time they did get an argument, it was blown up because it's like, they're the

[51:00]Beatles, you know? Well, it wasn't let John had already like resigned himself to, he was, he was done at that point. Like he was, he was going through the motions, but he already knew he was done. Yeah. And then you hear a story, you know, like I was doing much, you know, they, they were hanging out all through the seventies, you know? They were, I mean, it's like, I don't know. I just, I, I don't, I'm not, uh, that big into what actually happened and what happened to all that stuff afterwards. So, but I mean, I think it's certainly worth runs its course, right? They just, they would have, they would have done reunion tours in the eighties if those guys had lived, right? I mean, I think stuff like they, they might've just run out of new stuff to do together.

[51:34]Tonight at the Metro Metro Metro dome, it's the avatars and the Beatles tickets, $35. If we do a reunion tour after the five. 500 albums, which album do you think we'll cover first? Like in 2052, what album are we going to cover in a reunion tour? It's going to be radio head for sure. No. So the last thing I was gonna say, you know, like George, George Harrison brought up, you know, he was, he obviously didn't feel like his voice was being heard.

[52:00]He had all these songs he'd written. They weren't Beatles. So my role in going, I would say is that I, I think that's a funny bit. Go ahead, man. We're going to have to talk Madden to come back after this. So the only thing was that it was, George was talking about going out and doing his own solo album at the time. And John was kind of like, yeah, it sounds great. Like the fact that, you know, people do that all the time now, and they got side projects and doing solo albums and all that stuff that they didn't, you know, it's kind of seems like that was probably one of the first weird super groups to kind of do that.

[52:36]So just the thought of it, I mean, like, yeah, he should have just gone, done his own thing. Still doesn't be, you know, whatever. It'd be like, if someone on this podcast made a referee podcast. Yeah. Made their own podcast. Yeah. Or maybe they got hired at the inflatable hotline. Okay. And cause they was, they would get erotic calls and they liked it. And finally, somebody would talk about erotic stuff with them and not keep saying, oh, let's talk about normal stuff and albums. I mean, come on, what are we doing here? Rob rolling, going, how's it going with you?

[53:01]He says that as though we haven't been listening to him for most of the night. You don't need another one of those bang energy drinks. Can you, can you text in to 802-277-BECK and tell us, which one of us is which beetle? I have a clear idea in my head, but I think it's going to make everybody mad when I say it. If you, if I were to guess based on what happened when I was watching the documentary, I would say Rob is clearly Paul. He's telling people what to do. He's the boss. Yeah. Russell, Russell is clearly, no, Russell's clearly John.

[53:31]Cause he's, you know, there's going to be a girl that's going to start breaking up the podcast. I think Matt is Ringo. Ringo didn't say five words in an eight, in eight hours. He didn't, I don't even think they let him talk. Matt's Ringo. And then I think Aaron is. The guy who is hitting the anvil during Maxwell's silver hammer and just smiling away. He's having a great time. That's Aaron. That's the beetle. He's clearly the George Harrison. He's the one who's uber smart. Great at his thing. You guys just don't ever take any of his suggestions. And eventually he's going to go off, have his own podcast and he's going to be successful.

[54:01]And you guys are going to rue the day that you made fun of Rosie. I love the idea that everybody thinks maybe Aaron's like emailing like, Hey guys, I got these ideas for a podcast, blah, blah, blah, blah. Let's do this. Let's do this. Oh, please give me a break. I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to get fired. I hope I don't get assassinated by magic Mike or one of our fans or anything like that. No, I would like to marry a woman leg. Okay. That is something where I'm kind of thinking about it. Oh no. Why are you rolling going? No, that's what Paul did. Rob rolling. My name could be balanced. So what I'm going to talk about is I went to a restaurant by myself.

[54:34]Okay. One of my joys in life eating by myself. And it was a Mexican restaurant. The salsa was in a ketchup squeeze bottle, two different salsas, ketchup, squeeze, bottles. So instead of dipping the chip into salsa, into a ramekin of salsa, you squirted on. I am squirting salsa onto each individual chip, like a psychopath before I eat it. And you know what? I loved it. I thought it was great. I could control the amount of salsa. What do you guys think about squirting salsa onto a chip individually for each one?

[55:03]Craziness or brilliant? I've never done it, but that sounds brilliant. That sounds amazing. It's the PR you can keep your proportions, right? It seems like a fun activity. It's like, it's like, uh, eating crab legs where you're. You're cracking stuff open and you're eating it. There's like a process to it. I like it. And you know what? I think the big greatest part was, yeah, what I've gotten in arguments with people. I love, okay. People that bring microwave popcorn to movies or not, it could be anybody.

[55:31]Okay. I love people that don't own microwaves. When they dip chips, they dip it vertically and do not actually get any salsa. They get like a scent of salsa on it. You know what I mean? Like it gets kind of people. Yep. That was, that was, that was going to be my argument. They're dippers, not scoopers, dippers, not scoopers. So wait, Matt, Matt, you just like the hint of salsa. I like the hint of salsa. Yep. I, you know, I like the hint of salsa. So I was going to say that you're pouring your squeeze bottle, ketchup thing. You know, that was going to get, that was gonna put way too much on my chip.

[56:02]There's no way I'd go for that. But you're the problem because now let's say Matt and I are eating chips together. Right. I'm, you know, kind of universe genius brain. I'm looking at the amount of. I'm looking at the amount of salsa. I'm doing math in my head. I'm doing the ratios. You're scooping what you think is an appropriate amount. When I, when I, no, it doesn't even matter what's appropriate. I will change it based on how much salsa and chips are. They bring more chips. Guess what? They're getting less salsa. They bring more salsa. Guess what? I'm doubling up the amount I put on the chip.

[56:30]When the chips are done, the salsa needs to be done. The ramekin needs to be empty of salsa. So with the squeeze bottle, I felt no pressure to finish the salsa. Whatever I ate was what I ate. I thought it was great because I don't. I am obsessed with finishing the salsa. Why? I have no idea. But is the salsa like, is that expected to be one serving? Like, do they expect you to finish it? Or if they come back and the bottle is kind of like, what the fuck? You ate the whole bottle? No, I mean like the bowl. If it's a bowl of salsa, I'll finish it every time. Yeah, but I'm asking about the bottle.

[57:00]I'm asking about the bottle. No, the bottle is ketchup. If you sit at a restaurant and you have to finish the ketchup bottle, you're a psychopath. Nobody would do that. That's the great part of it. So the guy who was sitting at your table before was squeezing out of that bottle. So you're getting that, guys. Yeah, you're getting that guy's leftovers. Fecal matter, probably. No, it's in a bottle. Do you feel that way? This is insane. You guys are, you guys are the dumbest thing. I mean, can you be sure the guy who had a little before washed his hands? You can't be sure. It's a bottle. It's brilliant. You know, he didn't take it into the bathroom with him and leave the toilet seat up when he flushed.

[57:31]Listen, you guys want to be real. Took his toilet paper out of the refrigerator. You guys want to be real Luddites and get your salsa in bowls? Guess what? I'm moving on. I'm in the 2000s. I'm in the, well, that's not the future anymore, but I'm in the future. I love the squeeze bottle idea because I don't like, I don't like when you're trying to dig the last bits out of the corner of the ramekin and you're like, I want to get, I want to finish this. I like, I like my salsa from the 1900s, you know, in a ramekin. I'm telling you what, even buying a jar of salsa, I would rather buy it in a squeeze bottle.

[58:00]I would rather buy salsa in a squeeze bottle. Jars of salsa out, squeeze bottles in. So we are talking about, among other things, we are talking about 1977's, uh, Exodus by Bob Marley. So in 1976, there was an election happening in Jamaica, raising the always simmering tensions to a boil. The sitting prime minister called for a Bob Marley concert before the elections to deescalate the situation. Unfortunately, many saw this as political maneuvering and the person, and the person broke into Bob Marley's house

[58:31]with a gun, hoping to stop the concert. Bob Marley was sustained minor arm and chest wounds, but his wife and backup singer, Rita Marley, sustained serious injuries along with their manager. Marley ended up performing the concert, in fact, stretching the one song commitment to 12. When asked why he performed the concert with chest wounds from getting shot, he said, the people who are trying to make this worse won't take a day off. How can I? However, it affected Marley to the point where he left Jamaica for two years and went into a self-imposed exile and lived in England where he recorded this album.

[59:01]While his heart must have been broken, the album he created, Exodus, became one of his best charting albums in Britain. It was on the charts for 56 weeks. While the sound on the album is still rare, you can hear the influence of British rock with driving drums and liquidy bass. When Marley returned to Jamaica two years later, he asked the heads of political parties to shake hands on stage at his next concert. The conflict that caused Bob Marley to get shot, exile himself to Britain, and write Exodus was put to rest by the power of music.

[59:31]Let's listen to Exodus. And here we go. We're starting off with Natural Mystic. And you might be like, wait, I don't hear anything. That's because it's a slow fade in. I love it. I love it. Every album should do this. It's so good. It does sneak up on you. But you know right away, you mentioned that bass. You hear that bass right from the jump. This is a song that I didn't know until... The bass is the family man, Barrett, right? This is the guy with all the kids, right? The family man? Every track?

[60:00]Yes. That bass is pretty badass. And Rob put it best, liquidy bass. I saw that written, liquidy bass. I don't know how else you would describe that, but the bass here is badass, isn't it? I feel like this album... I don't know if it's the best album we're going to listen to, but I do think the mix, once again, is really good. There's something about reggae albums that they feel like every instrument is so separate and you can hear it. And if you listen to this album on Amazon Music, for example,

[60:30]it's in Atmos HD, and it sounds so good if you crank it up all the way. It's great. It's panned all the hell, though, right? I mean, in headphones, it seems odd. There's that separation. You get a lot of hi-hat in one ear, and all the bass in the other. Yeah, it's a Russell special, where if a headphone falls out, you're screwed. You're like, I thought Bob Marley sang on this album. I was just listening to a lot of cymbals this morning on this one. It was pretty rough. Matt, what do you think of that one as an opening track on this one? I mean, for what it is, right? I mean, reggae, it's pretty good.

[61:03]You know, rock albums, you kind of want them to hit right away. I mean, I feel like reggae sets a mood, and that song sets a mood right off the bat. Aaron, I might edit this out, but can you explain to us what reggae is? Like, what's the beat structure? You know me. I love time signatures. I want to get into it. Reggae, reggae, reggae. Didn't we already go over this once? Oh, yeah, that's right. Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott. Yeah, I think it's about the backbeat in the reggae. It kind of duples.

[61:30]So, yeah, Russell's got it. God, we're quoting ourselves. We're so dumb. Yeah. We're like, remember that? We're all like, yeah, we do. Scott, Scott, Scott. So much to say. It's a song about man. Yeah, this is where you first hear the backup singers. Are they the I3s? Is that right? Yep. So, Bob Marley's wife was in there. Guiltiness.

[62:00]Guiltiness. This has, there are, and maybe, I don't know now, because I've read a bit about Jamaica at the time and in general, but some of these tracks have this kind of sinister quality. Yes. Somehow, and you associate reggae with sunshine and happiness. And then you read more about what Jamaica is about and what Bob Marley was singing about. Well, I think, yeah, I think it's extremely political up front, right?

[62:33]And you kind of get more loose towards the end of it. But I think they clearly thought about where these songs are going to be based on what was going on at the time. And put kind of the political ones right up front. Yeah, good point. Well, you can imagine, I mean, you're living somewhere, right? All you want is you want happiness and peace in that country. And it gets so bad that you get shot, you leave for two years. And then what kind of album are you going to write after that? I think the history behind this album is fascinating. I think what's unfortunate about this album

[63:01]is that it's not the one everybody knows, right? It's not legend. So, like, you have a song like Guiltiness, which I think could be a good song, but I haven't heard it 100,000 times. Like, I have Buffalo Soldier, for example. But this album I read has the most songs of any of his albums that are actually on legend. Yes. So this is the one that's got the most hits out of the standard studio albums, right? And I'm going to tell you, the front half of the album is not those. The front half of the album is all the political songs. They're not the big hits. The back half of the album is where he gets horny.

[63:31]Bob Marley gets horny on the back half of this album and they start to slap big time. Well, maybe it's time to skip to side B. Oh, yeah. The Heathen. This is one of my favorite songs. There's just kind of this sharp guitar, the really deep bass. Yeah. It just seemed a little bit different than the other ones. Listen to that. Bob Marley was really good with guitar sounds. Whatever he's doing with pedals and whatever,

[64:01]he always has a creative sound for his guitar solos, which I love because reggae, I mean, the beat of reggae is pretty much the same for every song, right? Like, I think the drum player in Bob Marley in Bob Marley's band was probably like, hmm, what am I going to do for this one? Oh, I know. Do, do, do, do. It's, it's, it's, but the guitar sounds so unique on each one. Yeah, I should look. I don't know who his guitar player was, was, I mean, like on the Heathen, I don't know if it's Marley playing guitar or not, right? Some of these would have had session musicians.

[64:31]I think it's Junior Marvin is the guitar player. The rhythm guitar is Marley. The bass is Family Man Barrett. There we go. Although the rhythm, yeah, you're right. The rhythm guitar playing was nice. I mean, it's like the musicianship on this album is super tight. Like these songs, I keep trying to figure out like, why, why do I know Bob Marley so well? Like, why did I never understand how great this music was if I knew him so well? It was always just like, oh, he's this mega star. And then you start to listen and the music is,

[65:01]is on point. The musicians are on point. But part of it too, don't you think it's so, it sounds so the same throughout the whole album. Like you could put this album on at a party anywhere in this album. It's going to sound exactly the same. I mean, after a while, like I would listen to this album and just be like, okay, I've heard it. I don't know if they all sound the same for me. It's the tempo. The tempo is kind of slower. And to me, I heard the same tempo from song to song. So that's where I feel when I was listening to it, I would get so many songs and I'd be like, the tempo is never changing.

[65:30]So for me, it was the tempo always being the same, not necessarily the instruments and whatnot. And I, you know, the first four songs I went to, I saw the Wailers and I was trying to figure out if any of the Wailers, they're actually the real Wailers. And I don't think they are. I think they're all kids of the Wailers now and kind of carrying it on. At first, I went with Charlie from Minneapolis and I went. And, you know, the songs, like the first four you heard, kind of the slower, more political ones. I mean, you can't, they're not good live songs. What we hear coming out of this now, moving forward.

[66:02]I mean, you put those live in a show and it is electric, right? And everybody's bouncing and dancing and it's great. And so, you know, while they have those songs, I mean, the first four, they're just, you don't think of them as party songs. They are political, you know, and you don't think of them as getting your head bobbing too much. But, you know, from here on out, man, they're great. I think what's funny about that band you saw where it's all their kids is that the band has 12 bass players. Like, it's just all weird. It's so strange.

[66:30]14 backup singers. Exodus. Yeah, I mean, this is like, you want to make a dance floor, right? It's good. I mean, this one is driving. It's oof, all the way there. Right. It's long and, you know, it kind of starts, it's going after a while. And there's something, too, about the echoes I really like. I don't know. I could see where if I, if you saw this live, it would be, they could extend this out to a 30-minute jam. I'd be riding it the whole way. Forget about it. Aaron, how do you describe Bob Marley's singing? What is a musician or someone with a vocal performance background

[67:04]think of Bob Marley's vocals? Oh, I'm glad you asked, Russell. I've been thinking about it a lot this week because, again, like I said, I'm like, I've listened to his music. I've listened to his music a lot and enjoyed it. But I think he has a great voice. I really do. Like, he's just good. He has a naturally gifted voice. I think you can hear he borrowed a lot from American R&B and then American R&B took it back. I don't think his voice has the power of someone, say, like Otis Redding or even like Little Richard,

[67:32]but it has a lot of subtlety and he's really flexible with his phrasing and his movement up and down. But I think it's, I think it's like an all-time great voice. Next up, guys, just like me when I played basketball in high school, we're jamming. Jamming. Okay. If you were able to legit dunk a basketball in a hoop, how much money would you be willing to pay if in your life you were able to physically do that? $10,000. $10,000?

[68:00]$20,000. Yeah. $20,000. Matt, can you beat $20,000 or not? No. No. Wait a minute, Matt. What's Matt doing? He's taking his computer. He's taking his computer out to the driveway. He's getting, oh my God, he just dunked a basketball. I can't believe it. That's crazy. I got one of those hoops that lower it out. If I had, for a video of me dunking a basketball, $10,000. For a video of me dunking over somebody, $35,000. Easy. Easy.

[68:30]I have, do you guys ever have like ongoing dreams like where you have, like you constantly have like a similar dream? I have a dream and it probably happens every six months or so where all of a sudden, I'm playing basketball and I'm, I'm just like, you know, schlubby me where I can barely, I can't touch the net, you know? But then all of a sudden I jump up and I touch the rim and I'm like, wait, I'm much more skilled than I thought I was. And then all of a sudden I barely get a dunk in and I dunk it and everyone's like, damn. And then all of a sudden I turn into like Dominique Wilkins by the end of this dream.

[69:00]I am just the human highlight film. I'm throwing down like 360 windmills and then I wake up and I have to look at myself in the mirror and I was like, God dang it. It's such a disappointment. Russ wakes up to the hottest, hardest boner he's ever had in his whole life just from dunking it over and over in his dreams. It's so hot to the touch. I think that I dissed Jammin' as a song the last time we talked about this song and I was incorrect. I think it's actually a really good song. I was wrong when I said that before.

[69:31]This one also has a political, I don't know. I just listened to it enough that I thought I enjoyed it. I just think it's a better song. I feel like... It also has a strong message that I was missing before. So, yeah, I think it's a great song. And when you see these songs live, like the backup singers, if you really pay attention to how active the backup singers are and how much they're a part of the band, I mean, it's pretty sweet to watch them do their thing live in person. Matt, you were... Aaron mentioned the backup singers before

[70:00]and I heard the backup singers and that was one of my favorite parts of the album. I don't know for you guys, but that was one of my favorite parts was the backup singers and I believe that's the I3s, right? You know, I think that's right. Marsha Griffiths, Rita Marley, who Rob mentioned in the opening and then Judy Mowalt. And so these were like the most... This is the most like successful vocal group in the history of Jamaican music in terms of a female group. And so I thought we could do a list of the songs that have the greatest backup vocals of all time. Oh my God. Wasn't everybody's dream at one point

[70:34]to be a backup singer? That's everybody's dream, right? Not me, Rob. I wanted to be out front and I wanted to be the main star. The main host. All right, before we get into the list, I'm worried about Aaron because he's going to have so many bands he wants to be on this list. But so one thing, one caveat I have is it can't just be a group band. It's got to be like a solo artist with backing vocals. So no Supremes, no Temptations where it's just a group

[71:00]where they've got one person taking the lead and everyone else is singing backup. It's got to be one lead person and backup vocalists that you don't know who they are. Is that fair? I mean, I'm with it. You came up with this list and you also made the rule. So I'm not sure why. You are the captain of the ship. All right, first up on the list. I don't think this guy's ever made the list. He was originally really high on the list. He got bumped way down. I think he's coming up in a few weeks. This is Elvis Presley. The song is Teddy Bear and the backup singers are the Jordan Ears. It's so good.

[71:38]Is that badass or what? I mean, they must have just reversed the hell out of this, right? They don't miss a note. I was reading something super cool about this. So this is this quartet. Out of 700 Elvis songs, the Jordan Ears were on 341 of them. Almost half of the Elvis songs these guys were singing with. Isn't that awesome? That's incredible. Can you imagine? I hope they all get paid. They got the lyrics for that

[72:00]and it just says, bop-shoo-wah, bop-shoo-wah, bop-shoo-wah, a teddy bear. They're like, yes, we're in. Next up on the list. I think Rosie will like this one. This is, Sam Cooke, Bring It On Home To Me. Check out the backup vocals here. Oh, there's something. I'm picking up something on Aaron's computer. It's so hot. I don't know what it is. What's going on? Aaron, who's Lou Rawls? I've heard the name, but I don't really know who he is. I don't know Lou Rawls that well either,

[72:30]but I know he's a soul singer. Maybe he's from Philadelphia. I don't recall. Lately, I've been digging on his Christmas album. It's really good. I don't know him. I do own his Christmas album, but I'm, you know, I said I've been digging on it, but yeah, I think he's the one singing backup there. Is that right, Russell? That is right. It's Lou Rawls. I read he was like a music producer and then his most famous song was a song I'd never heard of. So I was like, well, maybe I should kick this off the list, but I didn't have time to do it. So it had to stay on. I mean, it's a great song. I love that song. I love to hear Sam let it go a little bit.

[73:00]All right. Next up on the list. This is a guy who we all started to dislike because he had a super long country music album on the list, Ray Charles. But this song is pretty awesome. And check out the backup vocals on this. The song is called Nighttime is the Right Time. Yes, listen. These are the Ray Letts, Marianne Fisher and Margie Hendricks. Now, were they the ones

[73:31]that were in the Diet Pepsi commercials? Oh, I forgot about the Diet Pepsi. What? Because they were the Rayettes, right? Were they? Was that what they were? I think so. Yeah. Or were they computer generated? I can't remember what. Like, I think there was one and they copied it three times. One interesting thing about this song. You know who else recorded this song? James Brown also recorded this song. He may have had to ask for permission. He would have said what? And I record this song.

[74:03]But it was funny. The one thing James Brown said, that was different about his version of Ray Charles is his version had a gospel backup and Ray Charles had those backup singers, which kind of set Ray Charles apart. I thought that was pretty awesome. That was, I love that backup. Just hear it. It's so clear. Oof, so good. Next up on the list, The Lady of Soul. I believe this album is coming up in a few weeks. Matt, am I right? Lady of Soul by Aretha coming up within the next month or so. So this is,

[74:30]You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman and check out the background vocals on this. These are the sweet inspirations we've heard. Oh baby, what you've done to me What you've done to me Coming up at 75. 75, so coming up. That backing music is awesome. I don't know if I've heard of Aretha's song with that good of backing music. I don't know. I've got to dig into that. I might have to do another version of What's Aaron's Meal, but this time it's the Aretha version

[75:01]and not the Carole King version. Every time we play the sweet inspirations because it's with us, Whitney Houston's mom, we have to be careful that Aaron's not around any popcorn buckets, right? Hey, there's no kernels at the bottom. It all popped. It's so hot. All right, last song on the list. This is Joe Cocker. We've talked about him a long time ago because Rob thought he was the ugliest dude on the history of an album cover. Look it up. But this is Joe Cocker with a little help from my friends. Check out the backup vocals on this one.

[75:31]Oh, yeah. Just killing it. I mean, this reminds me of sitting down and getting ready to see the most beautiful face on TV, Wayne. I mean, that guy was gorgeous. Wayne. Hey, wait. Did you say Wayne? Hold on. I got to go get my popcorn bucket. So good. Do you guys know who played guitar on that song? George Harrison.

[76:00]I used to know. God, who was that? I did know that, yeah. Jimmy Page. Oh, wow. Also, the really cool thing. We were talking about the Beatles earlier. So the Beatles also did that song. They recorded it a year earlier, but they didn't release it as a single. And so they liked Joe Cocker's version. They liked it so much. They sent him a telegram of congratulations and also placed an ad in the newspaper giving him congratulations. Can you guys imagine how awesome we would be if one of our Beck Did It Better fans, one of the Beckerheads, posted a notice in the newspaper

[76:31]saying how great our episode was? Like they posted in the podiatry section or what's a foot doctor? Our dumb shit fans can't even call and leave a voicemail the right way. Every one of them is like, they're never going to get their act together and leave a news. Plus, what newspaper would they put it in that we would see it? Well, Matt would see it, I guess, but that's about it. So in honor of Matt, Aaron, and I being the backup vocals for Rob, I thought that was a pretty good list. That's a good list. That's a heck of a list.

[77:00]That's a good list. I was going to say Russell. That was a good list. That was a good list. That was a good list. Oh, I don't want to do the deep-faced way. We found out more information about that. Now we don't feel good about that episode, do we? Nope. Going to have to go back and scrub that one before we get canceled. Next up, we've got waiting in veins. Guys, just like cholesterol, according to my doctor, waiting in veins. Vains. Oof. This was about the frustration

[77:34]with waiting on a relationship and not knowing if it's going to work out. I was curious, when did you guys know that your relationship with your spouse was going to work out? Probably when that pregnancy test was positive. I think that was about when I was like, hey, this is going to work. When the baby came out looking like you, Rob? She had a mustache and a cool haircut. You were like, yes, this is my child. Honestly, I think it's when she said, yeah, I'll go get dinner with you sometime.

[78:00]I was like, well, better marry this way. No more waiting in vain. This is not going to happen ever again. So I have to... My favorite part of this episode so far is having the moment where Rob's energy drink is worn off of him and now he's scratching. I was going to ask if anybody thinks we should have him drink a little bit more. It could either be a caffeine crash or it could be, you know, maybe it could be my wife is sleeping next door and she came in like 10 minutes ago and yelled at me that I was being too loud. And I said, we're going to be done about 10 minutes ago.

[78:31]So maybe I'm just keeping it on the down low so we don't get in trouble. My mic is automatic. Should we all just... Should we just do the podcast? No, we can't. Is it time for the rating? I told you, nobody... Rob, when you creep into that room, make sure you turn the lights down low, okay? Yeah. The fact that you think my wife and I have been sleeping together this week is a joke to me. I have been telling my... I have been in the room with my eight-year-old, which she hates because I keep telling her... This is baby making music here. I keep saying... Yeah, that is baby making music.

[79:00]Yes, absolutely, right? Well, then I shouldn't be telling this story, I guess. Wouldn't it be great if the line worked? Like, if you could just say, I want to give you some good, good, loving, and that works. Like, that would just be... It probably works for Bob. Sometimes, you know, if you really want to have an intimate moment with your spouse, again, who raised your children, got together, I find what really works, you know, sometimes it's turn the lights down low, sometimes it's just... Bang! Bang! Just bang. Just pathetic. Three little birds. So, can I tell you guys,

[79:32]the song I was going to write for the parody song was... Three little turds. And it was going to be by you guys in the podcast. But I thought it was so mean and I hate the word turd more than almost any other word. I hate the word. So I was like, I cannot sing a song about that. Rob, your Excel spreadsheet list of things you hate includes all desserts except for ice cream, the word turds, and what else do you not like? Milk duds. Milk duds. Chris Buehler, Christmas Story. It's crystal clear.

[80:02]I don't know what you guys think the problem is. All right. Speaking of the rest of this year, one love. Great way to end the album, right? It's a bang. Classic song, yeah. Curtis Mayfield. Is that the guy who had the heart transplant? No, it's Curtis. Oh. Curtis Mayfield. Oh, let's not act like everyone knows the difference here. Come on. Curtis Mayfield?

[80:30]Is it Curtis? Yeah, that's true. The idea of Bob Marley collaborating with a Curtis Blow song, that was very funny to me. For the impressions. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. All right. So that brings us to nobody's favorite part of the podcast. It's the very, actually, guess what? It's very popular. It's patented. It's the rating system. For some reason, my notes had cake going the distance coming up next, and I'm not really sure why. Cake going the distance. Going for speed?

[81:00]Yes. She's all alone. That was the first dance of my wedding. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. That was one of those songs where Sarah's friends in high school really liked, and I just never got cake. I don't know. They never really spoke. No. No. They're terrible. Listen, this song, 71 on the list. Okay? This is kind of like... Rob, Rob, stop. Energy up. We got to finish strong here. I know you're crashing. I'm going to get yelled at. It literally is me getting... The sleeping arrangements

[81:30]have changed because my in-laws are in the bedroom. My wife is right next door, so I cannot yell anymore. I will be killed. This podcast will be over. You're done in like five minutes. It'll be all right. This album comes in at 71. Okay? So think about this. Okay? We are in London. We're walking down the street. We're trying to find Bob Marley's recording studio. We look. Oi, govna. This is 69. This is 70. This is 71. We're going up the street. Okay? In a similar way, we have decided in this podcast what's cool is to do all the really good albums first,

[82:00]and then as we go, it's only going to get worse and worse. Actually, much like these episodes. Is this... Is this album well-toned? It deserves to be at 71. This is a perfect place for it. Okay? If it was further down the street at 73, 74, 75, maybe even at Twidbury Place, okay, or the Circus, whatever that is. There's like circuses in England that are just streets. Would that be the most disappointing thing ever if you saw an address that was a circus and you went and it's just an avenue? That's like when you went to that restaurant, Circus Circus, and they had changed the big rat from Chuck E. Cheese to these other animatronic animals,

[82:31]rodents. Disappointing. And then you move the sign and it says Circus Circumcise. And it's a whole different restaurant. Trapeze. Man, there's something there. Okay, I'm going to get back to that next week. You know what? They just don't have the same effect when you're talking like this, Rob. Clown car. With the most humor, Rob. With the most zest. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. This is survival mode. Okay? We have to do this to survive. Is this a rolling well-toned?

[83:00]It's perfect at 71. Is this a rolling boned? We should have seen this earlier. This is a great album. It is laying down. It knows what it is and it's the best at it. It deserves to be higher than 71. Or is this a rolling groan? We didn't like it. We could see it later or maybe not at all on the list. Okay? As we are realizing now that we're going to be meeting on Friday nights until the day we die. But don't, probably not to think about that right before we do the rating system. Matt, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, or rolling groan? And please keep in mind. Well, I do. Oh, hey, Aaron,

[83:30]is that some popcorn you have? So hot. Well, I do really, like this album and I do really like Bob Marley and I want to thank my buddy Nate from Richfield for getting me into Bob Marley because I've enjoyed him over the years. You cannot be low energy too. I need you to, I'm begging you. No, Bob. I'm just trying, you know what? As the Ringo of this quartet we've got here, I need to adapt to what the Paul and John are doing. So that's what I'm doing. I'm just, I'm adapting to what's going on.

[84:00]Okay? So I will say that I think this is rolling well-toned, I think most of the albums in the top 100 that we've got that we've said are rolling grown, which means they should be higher on the list, which means a lower number. They've had some sort of influence and we can see that they've like blossomed off into this other sort of kind of area of where everybody's copying them or, you know, using them for inspiration. And I just don't see that with the reggae. You know, I think it's kind of a, sounds bad,

[84:30]but I think it's more niche-y than anything. I think some of the punk stuff's a little niche-y. But, you know, that's like one of my favorite philosophers. Yeah. Niche-y? Yeah. He's a good dude. As an album, though, I mean, this is a real, this is an awesome album. As a standalone album, this is great. So I think it's, at 71, this is rolling well-toned. Thank you. Aaron, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, or rolling grown? And keep in mind. I'll bear that in mind.

[85:02]Okay, good. I think it's great to hear because we're all, at least, I think those of us who've discussed this on the podcast, we learned about Bob Marley from the Legend album, and so, which has, obviously, great songs on it, but I think it's really cool to hear a Bob Marley album that was made all at one time and in one, you know, generally one place, and you hear what's great about him and his voice and his band. I will gently disagree with Matt. I think you hear a lot of reggae influence in modern R&B

[85:31]and hip-hop, but all the influence aside, or not, I think that this is a great album. It's a great picture of what reggae music and the Bob Marley phenomenon was about, so I'm going to say Rolling Well Tone. Russell, what do you think? Rolling Well Tone, Rolling Bone, or Rolling Grown? And please, keep in mind. Oh, wait. Wrong one. That's my bad. Is this the influence? Keep in mind.

[86:00]Yeah. I really enjoyed the album. Yeah, I kind of wish we hadn't have listened to Legend earlier because Legend was so good, but it's the greatest hits and it shouldn't have been on the list from my perspective. I wish our first experience with Bob Marley on the list would have been this album because I think if I would have heard this the first time, you know, there's four songs, I think, that are on Legend, maybe more. If I would have heard this the first time, I would have said it's Rolling Bone. Totally. No question. It should be higher, but we've already gone through it once, so I don't think I was blown away by it,

[86:30]but I think, I wish we could get rid of the Legend on the list, but for me, I love the guitar, I love the bass, I love the whole album. It was a little bit slow for me, but overall, Rolling well-toned, I enjoyed it. Guys, unfortunately, Russ pretty much took my bit, 100%. It is a Rolling, not a Compilation. Yes. Legend is a better album, but in my mind, this is the first Marley album we've had and it totally satisfies my soul. Satisfy my soul. You didn't wait in vain.

[87:00]Guys, just like Live at the Apollo was more fun than Star Time, this one is at least, you're getting a picture of like, Bob put this album together. He had a message. You can tell the tone of what was going on in his life. It's a great album. Put it on. Listen to it. Next up. Oh, God. I wrote a singing part. Oh, no. How do I do this? Are you guys having trouble hearing Rob? I think Rob needs to speak up. I can't hear him very well, but you guys. Old man, take a look at my life. I'm a lot like you. We've been doing this dumb podcast forever. We're only up to 72.

[87:31]We've had five good episodes. And a lot that blew. Guys, this is Harvest by Neil Young. Yes. Matt, have you ever been more pumped for an album? Yeah. Well, once we get Pearl Jam up in 168 or whatever, it'll be a little more pumped. But no. I can't believe Neil Young could do that. But I don't want to wait for Rob's family. So I'm trying to keep my, I'm trying to keep it down

[88:00]over here. Beck did it better. Guys, I have a big problem. There's something leaking. I can't tell if it's the flavor coal I poured on my microwave popcorn or if there's a major problem with my liquidy base. This is where I'll put in a Seinfeld bar that goes, whoop, whoop. Yeah.