Neil Young: Harvest (1972)

[00:00]Well, to be fair, I've got like three Trulies. I've got a bottle of Piggyback 100% rye. The sleeve monster when he's over at Russell's house, he no longer has sleeves. I've got some flavor of bitters I might be telling you guys about later. Some flavors of bitters! Is this what you wanted? I got some sweetness. I got a lot of stuff going on over here. Was that log cabin maple syrup? I'm just saying. Okay, please. We cannot

[00:30]talk about log cabin. You know what? I am actually putting that in the episode. That's going in the episode. So anything you just said, it's it. Wait, hold on. Is everyone recording? I am recording. Hey, everyone's got to pull their mic a little bit forward. I am recording. I am recording. In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest... Wait, Rob. Wait, wait, wait. What? You got to be quiet. Jenny's next door, man. No, Jenny is not next door. I can do whatever I want. Here we go. She doesn't tell me

[01:02]what to do, okay? But I will say, my voice is a little tender today. I did announce a powerlifting meet this weekend, so if I am quiet, it's because of that. It's not because people tell me what to do, because nobody tells me what to do. I'm a wild animal. You can't put this beast in a cage unless I want to be. Think about that. Erotic thought to start the show. In 2020, four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine. This resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music, excoriated

[01:30]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. Beck did it better. From 1972, this is album 72. Guys, we're talking about Harvest by Neil Young. Now, I was blown away when I turned on the radio today because I heard a song by somebody that we know on the podcast. Oh, no. Okay? This is somebody that we know.

[02:00]They wrote a song. It got on the radio. I happened to hear it. You know what we should do? Let's play that shit. What's up, everybody? This is K-Rob. K-R-O. K-Rob. Listen, old man Rob is here. And this week, we got a little bit of a change-up. This week's song was actually written by Aaron's wife at gmail.com. Oh, she's in the house. She's about to be married to Aaron. Ooh, baby, is it both funny and well-written. And it actually rhymes really well. Oh, yeah. Aaron, I'm your wife.

[02:30]320 rebating on this song. Don't you have a clue, sir? Voice is a little rough. Aaron, I love you despite your being a total loser. It does rhyme. That's cruel, Aaron's wife. It does rhyme. How could you say this? Oh, you don't even know it. Oh, by the way, it's the full song. Yeah, I know it all. Aaron, I'm your sweet wife, but you're more of a bore than I bargained

[03:00]for. I didn't realize for the rest of my life you'd text dumb things from the store like Hey, honey, I'm at the grocery. I'm thinking shrimp salad with rosemary. Then I'll talk about it constantly when I'm alone with you. In retrospect, this might be mean, actually. I think this music, it gets worse, actually. It does. How could it? Oh, Rob being mean and Rosie, no way.

[03:30]Hanging out with Aaron is fun for a day or two. In a tiny home with him would be a lot to go through. That's why I told the kid to hit him with a rock or two. Oh, no. I knew it was her. That's terrible. I love how Aaron's listening to this, like, breaking down the harmonies in the background or whatever that's called. Do, do, do, do, do, do.

[04:00]It's true. Do we have Linda Rodstead on the background here? What's Aaron up to? I got a text from him. Turns out he's down biking some old mountains. Uh-oh. I think he broke his arm again. It's like I've got deja vu. Now Aaron's in a cast. I wish working from Homewood and real fast. Now I'm forced to listen to his dumb podcast in our super small bedroom. Oh, my God. Oh. She's a huge fan of the podcast.

[04:33]Maybe not after this song. I don't know. The tempo is really slow. I feel like time has stopped. Yes, it's sad, but true. But true. She said yes. I think I made a big mistake when I said I do. Oh, no. Things are getting dark. I wish I could lie about who I'm married to. Oh, that's not right. That's not right. It's too dark. It's too dark.

[05:00]I'd rather go to 420 on the dial. Listen to Bob Marley. Some people think it's funny, actually. I'm your wife. Please tell me a boring story. Oh, that is just cruel. Aaron, look at our house. It's the size of a dorm of glory. Rosie, if you quit, I quit. You don't have to come to this stuff. This one's rough. I don't know. Listen, if a little bit is true, that a lot is way more funny.

[05:30]That's the way it is. Rosie, if you quit, I quit. I'm thinking about it. We'll see how the episode goes. If Matt has to chime in during the middle of a parody, it's too long. Rob, usually when you have one bad thing about somebody, you've got to say two to put them up. One bad equals two. You said about 38,000 bad things about Rosie there, so you've got a lot of positive things to say about Rosie. That's the episode. Listen, we all know. Rosie's great. We love Rosie, but

[06:00]when I started writing that, I was like, well, I can't just write the part about the store and not talk about the biking. And then when I wrote the biking, I was like, well, I got this rhyme for lying about who I'm married to. That's really good. And so then at the end, I was like, well, I might as well just write this whole song. But then watching Aaron's face slowly get more and more crestfallen as that song went on, made me realize that it was 100% the right decision. I'm a creative genius. I have never done anything wrong. I'll never apologize, and I never will. My beef is, I'm just not sure shrimp and rosemary are really, I don't know.

[06:31]I feel like that's true. I don't know if that works. I'm just not sure. I wouldn't do that. Bay, definitely bay is nice with shrimp and something acidic and thickly, but I don't think rosemary too would be. Shrimp that's not deep fried, way overrated. Are we right? Am I right on that? You know, I'll tell you why I love raw shrimp is that just the sheer volume you can eat. Like you can easily sit there and eat, if they're already like shelled, I can eat like 50. And I wouldn't even blink. I'd just be like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[07:00]I mean, I used to eat them like four at a time. Dip them in that cocktail sauce, put them between your fingers like Wolverine. I just eat the tails now. I spent so much time in money once. Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What did you say? You can eat the tails. You don't even have to like, just go for it. No, no, no. Like the shells? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So now all of a sudden, you guys think I made a big mistake singing that song? You don't, do you? Because you realize

[07:30]that I'm totally right. You can totally eat shrimp tails. It was a lot to sit through. I'll be honest. That was, I mean. So you're on a date with Aaron. Now picture you're on a date with Aaron. Aaron goes, oh yes, shrimp cocktail. I love it. Nope, nope, nope. Then you look over and you hear a crunch, crunch, crunchy go. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. That can't be what I think it is. That can't be what, and then you look over and he's got like a tail fin kind of sticking out of his lips. But how many times have you been in a wedding or somewhere else with past hors d'oeuvres? You're hungry, right? So it's cocktail hour.

[08:00]You're starving. You're eating tails? No. Yeah, because you're standing there. What the fuck? Oh no, no. You don't eat the tail. There are servers walking around with trays of stuff. And all you have, all you have is a cocktail napkin, right? And at some point you're like, why am I holding onto a cocktail napkin full of 27 shrimp tails? I don't want anyone to know how many shrimp I ate. You throw it away. I'm just going to start fucking eating the tails. Like I don't need, you know what I mean? Aaron's saying that he does that to not let people know how many he's eaten. Now I can kind of get behind that. I would think about eating a couple and be like, well, these guys maybe might think

[08:30]I eat too much. That'd be crazy if they thought that. And you know what? If this napkin's here, I might as well eat this napkin too. I don't know. Rob, we need, we need to do the introduction. I spent too much time reading lyrics. You need to introduce us here. I got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Pretty good. Pretty good. Thanks for having me, Rob. I've got Russ in Minnesota. Russ, how are you doing tonight? Well, now it seems forced, but anyways, slipping and a sliding the way you play my domino, lefting and then writing. It's not a crime unless you make me blow.

[09:00]Oh, I thought there was going to be more. But I think that's a lot of good poems that'll end with the word blow. So I get it. I think that's good. And I've got Aaron in California. Now, Aaron, before you say your very serious thing, I just want you to think about this. If you and I switched bodies, would you look at yourself naked? Okay, go ahead. Say what you're going to say. Why wouldn't I look at myself naked? 100%. Yeah. You and I? So you'd look at my body naked? You sicko. Disrespectful. Would you like clean me up too? In like the shower? I mean,

[09:30]well, don't you clean your own body? This is getting weird. Yeah, but if I was your body, I don't know if I would. That seems weird to me. This is the first time where I might suggest we skip rolling going and get to the album right now. Would you shave Rob's legs to make him go faster? Oh, no. So much hair. Anyway, all I wanted to say about this album is that I used to own a pickup and right from the jump, Neil Young starts talking about buying a pickup and it makes me miss my old S10. So that's it. I don't know what's going on. I'm excited to talk about Neil Young. I remember sitting in the middle seat

[10:01]of that S10 between Russ and Rosie driving back from a bachelor party that went terribly wrong when we realized this was the classic 22-year-old bachelor party move where we're like, bachelor party, our friend's getting married. Let's hang out and do bachelor party stuff. So we did. We did. At night, we came back to the house and the guy goes, yeah, actually, you can't sleep here. My mom doesn't want that. Goodbye. And he closed the door and we all looked at each other like, wait, what? It's like two in the morning. Where the hell were we? I don't even know what suburb we were in. Way outside. Way outside of town. Yeah.

[10:30]No idea. It was Invergrove Heights. It was Invergrove Heights. I've been so far from anything. So far. I remember distinctly sleeping under like a flannel jacket and thinking like, wow, this is really bad. Yeah. And then drove home in my S10 with Rob and Russell in the seat next to me. By the way, if I did that now at 41 years old, I would not recover for two weeks. My back would be messed up like permanently. I would look like Quasimodo walking around. It would be absolutely terrible. You know, Aaron, for that song, actually, I did have a rhyme

[11:00]called Boring. Never mind. I'm not going to go back to that song because it was so mean I can't do that bit. It's my bad. Just let it go. We're doing it. I will. You know what I think my favorite thing about this? What's that? If Rob makes fun of Aaron for being boring, it's hurtful. If he makes fun of him for being a peeping Tom, that's all good. Aaron's fine with that. Aaron's never had any comments about that. Listen, Aaron's too sweet. Now I feel, I do feel bad. So I'm going to be super nice to Aaron for the rest of the episode. Good luck with that. That means one of us is going to be made fun of. So be prepared. Plus, I also want to bring up,

[11:32]Matt doesn't know this, but Aaron's wife has a guest over right now and they're in a different room. So the idea that Aaron is like sitting here listening to himself just get railed on his own podcast and then like the wife and the friend are going to come in and go, oh, how was the podcast? And he's going, really depressing. There's a three minute song about how you didn't want to be married to me. And the friend goes, well, I'll see you guys later. I've had fun drinking wine and playing Legos, but I got to go. Rosie, now you know why George Harrison wanted to leave the Beatles, right? Right. We already discussed Aaron and George. You make sense?

[12:00]I'm going to leave and you guys are going to have to track me down. You don't have to put up with Paul's shit. You can just get out of here. Text 802-277-BECK or call 802-277-BECK and tell us which one of us is which Beatle. We want to hear it. But right now, let's listen to a voicemail we got. We got one. Hey guys, it's Matt, New York City's number one foot freak. Calling with a question that I think you guys are asking. I have a lot of expertise in. I've noticed a newfound

[12:30]flurry of fanny packs at my crunch gym in Greenpoint. And just curious if this is nationwide, the meathead specific, just general thoughts on the fashion tips on what you should be doing at the fanny pack at the gym. Thanks, guys. Aaron is no longer depressed. He's aroused. Six to midnight. He's back. I'm back, baby. You're the sweetest

[13:00]on the podcast, Aaron. Why don't you go first? What do you think about wearing fanny pack to the gym? Thoughts? To the gym? Of course. You can put your liquid chalk in there. You can put whatever else you need. Maybe some gummy bears if you need a little pick-me-up in the middle. Easy on, easy off. You know, depending on what lift you're doing. Don't mix up the chalk and the gummy bears, though. Otherwise, you'd think you have sour gummy bears and it's just gummy bears covered in chalk. True. And then your mouth is covered in chalk and then a girl you like at the gym actually comes up to see you and goes, oh, hey, Rob, I noticed you have chalk in your mouth. And you're like, what? No, I'm so tired. I'm so sweaty

[13:30]from working out. You can put multiple phones in there. Mine has like a separate cell phone pocket. I can fit two phones in mine. I mean, a fanny pack is a great multipurpose. I'd take it to the gym if I were going to a gym. Matt? I thought that all civilization started in like Central Park and moved out into the world. Like, anything that was cool happened in Manhattan. And so how is this like cool thing of painting? Of fanny packs just getting to New York? I mean, that must mean it's not cool, right? If it didn't originate in New York? I have to admit,

[14:00]if you remember me talking about, I was talking about wearing a fanny pack weightlifting last June. Okay? So I was way ahead of this curve. And I do want to point out one thing fanny packs do that a lot of people don't realize is if you pee your pants a little bit, okay, that fanny pack will cover it up almost perfectly. So that's something to think about. I will say I was wearing my fanny pack when I broke my arm on my mountain bike. So that's one demerit for the fanny packs is that I happened to be wearing one when I broke my arm. Maybe it threw off my center of gravity enough that I broke my arm.

[14:30]Which, my arm is fine. Thank you guys. I know you've been really, you've been asking a lot of questions about how I'm doing. How's my recovery? I appreciate all your concerns for me as a human. Can we move it along? We don't want to hear about how you're feeling. It's a little bit sore with the cold weather lately here, but I'm getting, I'm okay. Aaron, I'm actually really worried about you. So that's great. Thank you. I do picture Aaron though falling on his bike and then looking into his fanny pack and he's like, where's my phone? No, not that phone. That's my second phone. And then he's like, okay, I've got my tortellini and I've got a chicken in a metal bucket.

[15:00]Like it's just pulling the stuff out like awesome powers. No, yeah. Gummy bears. Oh, here's a picture of me when I broke my arm earlier. I shouldn't have packed that much. Dandelion greens. Dandelion greens, everything you need. So listen, you can, Russell, what do you think? Are you, will we ever see you wearing a fanny pack, Russell? No, I'm not interested. I don't need to cause any more attention I mostly sling mine over the shoulder though. Like most of the time I sling mine over the shoulder. Like you just wear crossways like a, like, like a messenger bag

[15:31]kind of a thing. Yeah. Or just like, yes, I like that idea. Russell, if you did have a fanny pack, what would you put in there? Do you think if I had to put something in my fanny pack? Yeah. I don't even have an answer. This is way beyond what I've ever considered having a fanny pack. I don't know. Russell said that he didn't want to say anything, but he did hold up a pack of Magnum condoms and pointed them and wink at us. So that's pretty cool. No, that's true. Magnum condoms for his big dong. Perfect place for condoms. Maybe that should be my dating advice corner

[16:01]is if, if I go to the gym and I'm wearing a fanny pack and I accidentally spill a bunch of Magnum condoms all over. Yeah. Will it help my dating life? Oh yeah. You're the first person to ever think of that. No, they would never know what's coming. Okay. Some people, some people would say, Oh, well, maybe I can see it. I don't know. I can see it. Then she comes home and you're putting it over your balls. And you're like, I don't know what I'm doing. I thought this is what I needed. Huh? Does this go on your feet?

[16:30]I don't understand. I got to ask Rob a gym question. You guys, we have had some gym moments. We've talked about like people cutting in before where it's like, Hey, I need to, can I get a setting? Can I jump in real quick to get one? So I had a time the other day and I was at the gym and I'm doing like one of these shoulder press machines or something like that. And I did like one set. I'm sitting there ready to do the other one. This person comes up, guy comes up. He's like, Hey, can I just jump in for one? I was like, God damn it. I'm like, fine. I just like, fuck it. And I'm like, yeah, go for it. I just left. I'm like, I'll go do something else. Oh no. And then I noticed

[17:00]right afterwards, he did one set and then went to a different machine. Why couldn't he have gone to the other machine first? Why did he need to kick me off my machine? That is a bunch of bullshit. I don't care if you have a fanny pack or not. That's bullshit. I can tell you, I can tell you right now, there's something weird going on in fitness right now where people are doing more research online because the number one way you get stronger and in shape is you go lift weights. But people think if they read online that they're going to find a mystical, like magical order that you do weights in

[17:30]or like a tip or it's like, it's like, well, I don't actually do that because I don't need to work. I don't need, I only need to lift for 20 minutes. I get a 20 minute workout and it's all I need. I'm actually doing opposite muscle groups. So I'm getting, and it's like, no, actually the best thing you can do is come five days a week for three years and then you will start to get stronger. Like that's, that's literally what it takes. So this guy is doing some cycle order and I can tell you this because I currently teach high school kids in the weight room and they tell me the dumbest shit I've ever heard of where they're like, I actually don't want to squat really deep because that's not how my legs go when I run

[18:00]and so I don't want that to be. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Like you do five by fives with three lifts. Like what the hell? Yeah, no, they don't want to do that. They're like, I heard this about shrugs. I'm like, you should not be doing shrugs. Like you should be doing big muscles. They are so dumb at the things they say to me. And here I am like literally a world-class power lifter and they're like, I don't know if I should be. You're a world-class power lifter in the old man division that's not allowed to do steroids, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't say that stuff to them.

[18:31]No, they don't, they don't announce you guys like that, do they? But they're like, okay, fine. They're lecturing me about squats and I'm like, well, let me look up the American record who's got that. Oh yeah, that's right. It's me. Dumb shit, sit down. Okay. So Rob, it's bullshit. If you're, if you've got another machine you can go work on, you can't interrupt someone to do one set, right? No, not if he's doing a circuit, just do get that one in later. The people are so crazy. They're so nuts. I don't get it. I think YouTube is a part of the problem, right? Like when I say this as a person who watches a lot of fitness videos on YouTube,

[19:00]like the best way to get in shape is to watch fitness videos on YouTube. That's it. That's how you do it. If you're bored and you want new ideas, I think all that stuff is great. If you don't know where to start, you just go in and do a workout. Any workout will do. Yeah. It does not matter. You will get stronger no matter what. It's just the way things go. Speaking of getting stronger, this podcast has got to get stronger as we go, guys. We got to think of funny stuff to say. I can't imagine what started this off with a not so strong note. How did we get that?

[19:32]That is true. That is true. Hey, the parody song that no one's allowed to laugh at without feeling bad might not have been the way to go, Rob. I have to stand by that song. I actually, I'm really just, I'm honestly shocked by your reaction because I thought that song was so good and so funny. And when I listened back to it, I was like, yeah, that's pretty good. I was more worried about my voice. And then you guys were like, this is actually stepping over the line. And I'm like, what? Like that didn't even occur to me. Like other people's feelings, it just. In for a penny,

[20:00]in for a pound, Rob. You got to stand behind it now. It's your, it's, it's, it's, you gotta, then you have to sleep at night tonight, only six hours and then get up and go teach the youth of America. Yeah. I don't know how I'm going to do it, Aaron. It's going to be so, it's going to be so tough. That didn't sound, that sounded really sarcastic. And I'm sorry, because my voice is gravely. So a lot of what I say is so sarcastic. It sounds like I mean, so, oh, Aaron, I'm so sorry, but that's just my normal voice right now. So I apologize. But Aaron, rolling going, how's it going with you? We're all interested in what you have to say. I have a lot to say. It's, it's going really well.

[20:30]We've been listening back. We have a lot of better related content in my rolling going tonight. I guess that's kind of meta. This last weekend, you know, it's Christmas time ish. So today is what? The 14th of December. So we've been getting into the holiday tunes. And somehow my wife mentioned that she'd been going back and listening to last year's Christmas episode of Beck Did Better. So we were in the car and my son, my son, I think I've mentioned this. He's four and a half. And he was like, I want to hear the Christmas episode

[21:00]of Beck Did It Better. So we're like, no, yeah, okay. Let's, you know, see what happens. I want to hear the Neil Young episode, dad. My son has a pretty, pretty incredible ear for memorizing music. So he's memorized the first four days of the Beck Did It Better Christmas song. Let's listen to the first four days. All right, let's just hear it. Yeah. On the fourth episode of this funny podcast feed, records from Russell's mom,

[21:31]Matt's a mean old daddy. Russell, he knives and Aaron wants to see feet. So my own son, number one, he said, he did say, that's not very nice to say Matt's a mean old daddy. And then he's been walking around the house singing Aaron wants to see feet. He's even gotten the last one where he says, Aaron wants to see those dirty feet. You guys made it through the whole four minute version song? Yeah, he listens to it. He's in the car. He sits back in his car seat,

[22:00]laughs his ass off. And now he's got it memorized and he sings Aaron wants to see feet. Listen, Aaron, that is great parenting, okay? You got to let your kid know up front. Listen, kid, this is what I'm into. I'm into these feet. Wait till you get to a couple episodes ago where it turns out I'm looking at my neighbor's window. I think that's great. You got to level with your son. And then when he's like, why am I so weird? He thinks back. He goes, oh yeah, my dad was on that podcast where they sang about feet and I sang it at school and we had to have that big meeting about it. Yeah, I mean, that's where we're headed. But on a much sweeter note

[22:30]about my son and the podcast, he listens to more episodes? No, but we still, so just like, you know, we do the podcast. And then typically amongst the four of us, we have a postgame show where we discuss the pod. Typically the next morning at breakfast, after I've recorded the podcast, I have a postgame with my family where my wife and son ask me how the podcast went. Tomorrow's going to be fantastic. Yeah, it's going to be. Daddy, why are you crying? Take all the knives off the table. And last week or last episode,

[23:04]I had some app issues with my recording app. And so I think, I think you will have heard it by now, our loyal listeners, that my sound quality wasn't great. I think Rob had to take my, most of my sound from the Zoom. And so next morning, I'm talking to my family and I said, yeah, I think it went fine. You know, we talked about Marley. That was cool. I think my rolling going was okay. Not great. Do you make your family listen to the music talk again? Do you talk more about the music? Well, we just do a rehab.

[23:30]We just do a postgame. They asked me how the podcast went. We discuss. And so. Can I just say something right now? I'm so insanely jealous that your house cares about this podcast. I would kill to talk to somebody about this podcast. Jenny couldn't care less what's going on in the podcast. And my kids actively despise the podcast. So what you're saying, so what you're saying is you're jealous of Aaron and then maybe by some Freudian slip or whatever, that's why all these songs come out beginning because by you making fun of Aaron, that's actually helping

[24:01]because you're actually jealous of him. I can tell you, if I am going to single white female Aaron, it would be easy because I just have to shave my head. I don't even have to get a wig. I can just shave off my hair exactly the same. I like squeeze into your tiny house. I barely fit behind the kitchen table. It's like, honey, something seems different about you. So in the, in the breakfast post game, I told my family like, yeah, I had, I had app issues last night. I think, you know, I think Rob's going to have to take my, my stuff from the zoom and I'm, I'm kind of upset about that. And so my son turns to my wife

[24:30]and he says, he says, ah, cause he's been like, he's been very focused on what, like what to get me for Christmas, which is super sweet. And he says, mom, we can get dad. And I'm like, I'm going to get a new app for Christmas. So now he's very focused that they're going to get me a new app for Christmas. And we're not sure how we're going to like, make that come to fruition for him because it's really, it's, it's become really important to him. So we got to figure out how we can let him know that he got me a new app. And now I'm able to record. You got to print, you got to print off a sheet of paper and then he's just going to hand you the sheet of paper

[25:00]that says, here's your new app, dad. That's a good idea. Well, to be fair, to be fair, your son and wife can just get you a better microphone and they can actually help the problem. We don't have to act like there's not a problem. They can just get you a better microphone. Yeah. I do appreciate that your four and a half year old cares more about the audio quality of the show than Aaron does. He's the guy who was the vocal performance major and had a music scholarship. Doesn't give a shit about the quality of his audio. Man, can you imagine, can you imagine if I went back now

[25:30]and said, Hey, people who gave me the Winston-Castler scholarship for music to St. Olaf College, would you like to listen to this podcast and all the things I've done with my music education since then? Oh, I would assume they would, they would give you three scholarships. Like that's three times as many. That's actually really good. Here's my favorite part of the album. Again, I'm picturing the guest over at Aaron's house listening through the wall. And it's just Aaron saying,

[26:00]you're really mean to me and then laughing for the next five minutes. But since we discussed Daniel Lane Green's in the pregame, I also want to mention. Yeah, no, this is, like, this is for real. I made my tonight. I'm just, just tonight, not even thinking about it. I made my new favorite Daniel Lane Green recipe. And at the very moment that I was making sure that Daniel Lane Green's had enough salt, I was in the kitchen. I heard my family celebrating. We got a Stephen Curry broke the all-time record for the most three-pointers made in a career.

[26:30]I missed him making, I missed him hitting the final three-pointer to break Ray Allen's record because I was trying to salt the Daniel Lane Green. So now I got to like watch it. I'm going to watch it later on Twitter. Oh my God. Your house rocks. Your house is so much cooler than mine. It is. It sounds like it's really fun. Like everybody's like those in the positive category, a house where everybody is not just in their room. And then they only come out for dinner. And like, maybe if you ask somebody to take out food for dinner this today to help you out, they didn't do it.

[27:00]And like, and it's not a big deal. Like, it's not hard for me to maybe just make dinner for everybody. Right. When I come home, even though I've also been working all day, but I'm so jealous. Like you guys are watching this. I'm watching basketball and having fun. Meanwhile, I'm watching a movie. Jenny says to Alexa, play Christmas music. I'm right there. It is the same room. I was like, I am watching a movie. You are playing Christmas music over my, I mean, it's a real alpha move and there's nothing I can do about it. I'll talk to you between my legs. I put in my AirPods and synced them with a computer. Pathetic. Aaron doesn't do that.

[27:30]Aaron's out cooking Daniel Lane greens. He's like, I don't care about anything. I'm cooking these Daniel Lane greens. So by the way, what was the recipe? Take get Daniel Lane greens, put in garbage can. What was it? It's like, it's lentils. It's a cone scented lentils with tomatoes and Daniel Lane greens. It's so good. It's nice. And then I, you know, my son and I had some pork. He didn't eat his pork chop, but I had pork chops and then I had a veggie sausage. It was beautiful. I love, I want to be at your house so bad. This is going to turn into a single white female situation for sure. Russell,

[28:01]what were you going to say? I'm sorry. I got nothing. That's it. That's where we're going. Russell Russell rolling going. How's it going with you? Rolling going. Things are going well. I actually have a couple of things. The first one is I went out for a musical adventure with Matt. The other night I went to, I went to a local bar called the ice house where they do. It's a bar. They've got kind of a small stage for a band, Matt. We went and saw a band that has been on our podcast before seafair,

[28:30]right? That's right. That's right. Coach Patrick, coach Patrick. Yep. So we went, we went and saw Matt. How would you describe what is seafarers music style? How would you describe it? It's kind of like early to mid to late night. I mean, it's got a very much of a, of a radio head vibe. It's got a little bit of a smashing pumpkins vibe. You said it right. When it's a little bit of a Roy Orbison vibe to it. Oh yeah. It's a, it's a rock. It's a rock and roll band that you know, I, I don't know. It's a little bit softer,

[29:00]but man, like I was pleasantly surprised at how well they sound for not having played for like two. This is our first live show in two years. Yeah. And they had a couple of songs. I was like, Holy cow, this is a great song. So I don't know. What, what, what did you think Russell? I thought it was really fun. It's been a while. Sometimes when you go to a smaller place to watch music and you were right in the mix of it is just a much more enjoyable event. Yeah. Sitting up in low, you know, road, double Y Y 300 level at the U S bank stadium, but they were really good.

[29:30]It was really fun. And my favorite part was we listened to the music and the band was there. There were some friends and family of the band there. And I was talking to one of the friends or family of the band. I believe they may be a listener to the podcast, but they were asking me what I thought. And I was like, you know what? I thought it was really cool. And I said, it was a cross between Roy and the smashing pumpkins. I was like, they had this really cool. There was like the drum beat with a pretty woman song, but it sounded like the smashing pumpkins. Yep. And I said it to one of the, the family members of someone in the band. It was, it was Patrick's wife.

[30:01]It was the lead singer, the lead singer's wife. I said it. And she was like, she's like, Oh, you're the guy on that podcast. And I was like, yes, I was like, yes, technically, but I don't know shit about music. So like, it's a cross between Roy Orbison and smashing pumpkins should probably be taken with a grain of salt. Cause I don't know what I'm talking about. Nope. You're on a music podcast now and you've done more than 75 episodes. You are an expert. Like your opinion matters. You're a tastemaker. You're an influencer. It's a cross between Wilson Phillips and Wilson Pickett.

[30:32]But she kind of was like giving props to my opinion of the band. And I think it was, I think it was a fair, a fair, a fair combination, Matt. Absolutely. Yeah, no, I hadn't thought about that. And that's what, you know, I was stealing your take earlier. Cause you're the one who said that. And I'm like, absolutely. I can hear the Roy Orbison and everything. So yeah, it was great. And we were literally front row. We had a table, we were front row. Uh, you know, my ears started to go a little bit, they opened up for a band called Moombahto who's,

[31:01]who's been on the current and they were really good too. And they kept playing a bunch of Beatles. They were kind of riffing at the beginning. They were playing a bunch of Beatles stuff. And I knew it instantly. And we started singing all the songs. Yeah. They're on there. But then even the Moombahto, um, again, like when you see, and I'm not trying to, uh, railroad your rolling going here, but when you see people who have a passion for something, and then they're actually like doing it, you know, like, like Rob, when we see your face, when you're done squatting,

[31:30]right. I mean, like you're so pumped that you're the American record holder for the 40 plus raw, whatever it is, you know, all that stuff. Like, like, like, that is awesome to see. Right. And so you see these guys up there and there's one gallon Moombahto or just, I mean, the drummers are just going to town. Right. And there's literally like maybe 50 people in this bar. Right. It's not, it's not a big show by any means, but it's awesome to see people doing things that they love. And again, some of these guys like Moombahto for sure, their lead singer, like that guy,

[32:00]he can't, the way he's dressed. I mean, he's just a quirky looking tall dude. Right. And like, but as a lead singer of the band Moombahto, he looks like a fucking Greek God. Right. I mean, like that is exactly what he should be doing. Kind of a thing. You know what I mean? And so it's like, yeah. Matt at one point said to me, he goes, what else in the world could this guy be doing? And then being a lead singer of a band, he can't, he can't do anything else. Right. Yeah. He had a weird, like Lloyd Christmas, kind of a haircut. Oh, Harry, Harry done. He had the Harry. It was more of the Harry.

[32:31]It wasn't Lloyd. It was Harry. Yeah. You know, and he had like this, he had white pants on or, you know, commenting like who in the world wears white pants after Labor Day. Right. I mean, no, no, no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, stop. We were not commenting on that. Matt was commenting on that. Yeah. I had no opinion on people wearing white after Labor Day, but Matt made a point to say, you're not supposed to wear white after Labor Day. Russ showed up in his Boyz II Men look with the white pants and the white shirt. He looked like a painter. I talked about that. I talked about that. But one of the things I was going to bring up to you guys about this concert,

[33:01]and I told the band members this, so this is not stepping out of line. I don't think Matt, you, correct me if I'm wrong, but you know what? I don't want to see when I go to a concert. Yeah. I don't want to see my band members plugging all the stuff in and setting up and taking stuff down. Right. It's bullshit. It's like, I don't want to know that my pilot has a life or like friends or goes out. I just want to know that they're a major drinking problem. I don't want to know that my doctor goes to like a college reunion. I don't want to know any of that stuff. And I don't want to know that my band members have to plug stuff in,

[33:33]carry stuff out, carry stuff in. There needs to be a roadie for that. Matt was not being a roadie for him. And it was like, it takes, it takes a lot of it out. I don't want to see the people like down on their hands and knees, like trying to plug in amps and stuff like that. Yeah. Every band needs a roadie. No band should ever have to plug their own shit in. Right. I thought Matt was going to be a roadie. Did that not happen? I, I, you know, my application's in and apparently I'm much more, I'm more, I'm more management material, I guess, you know,

[34:00]like, you know, I'm not necessarily like the, the grunt worker kind of a thing. Stuff carrying things out. If only there was a spouse of somebody in the band that listened to this and maybe heard this plea and used her feminine wiles to make this happen. And it would kind of be a dream come true for the podcast and give us much needed content because some of the content we've relied on in the past, it turns out it's wrong and hurtful and we need to kind of cut down on that. So if we can get Matt a new job, that would be great. Matt's going to be the band stylist and just going to suggest over and over, no white sweatshirts with double reverse weave after Labor Day.

[34:33]We were talking though, like this, this, this bar we were at, we were sitting there. It would be the perfect, perfect place. Yes. To host our 100th episode live and in person. I have an audience. Yes, guys. Right. And then we thought maybe, you know, maybe we could have a seafarer open up for us kind of thing. Wow. But, but then seafarer played and we're like, Oh wait, no, we'd be opening for them. Can you imagine you're the band and you open for us and then we come out and of course

[35:01]we're fumbling with all our own equipment. We're like, okay, wait, how do we record? Okay. What's going on? Okay. And then we were talking about like, so he's still in California. He's on a big screen behind us. But then we were talking like, could we have a live episode or because of all of our gaffes and whatever gets cut out and all this stuff, but that just completely throw us into a big funk. I don't know. I'll tell you what, a live episode would be really dangerous. And here's why. When I go super dirty, it's because of one reason only I am desperate for attention.

[35:31]I am desperate for a laugh. Does this sound like what I said to you or not? Yeah. Yeah. I would be in such big trouble because I would look out and I would find that one person who is like not smiling. And I would look at that person. I'd be like, Hmm. I wonder if I talked about putting my balls in the condom. I bet they'd laugh at that. I did it out of that one episode, but not going to do it this time. I'm going to go for it. And then like, can you imagine you own the bar and you're like, Oh yeah, we'd love to host your podcast. And I'm up there for a music podcast going, Oh yeah. I shit my pants the other day. Stuff like this is legit.

[36:00]Word for word. The conversation that I had, I don't know. Rob might try a little, a little too hard to be funny or that you might start getting laughs and you might never be able to pull them out of it. I, but I, but the idea of me telling Aaron to shut up or something or to stop talking under me and then having a whole bar laugh at him, just, I would make you so happy. Or boo you. I don't know. I may not. I mean, I'm very likable. I think, I mean, I think I would win in this. I think, I don't know, man.

[36:30]Like, I don't think you want to get into that with me. I keep thinking I'm the likable one. And then I edit this and I'm like, Oh my God. And my kid goes, why do you talk to Aaron like that? And I was like, uh, he's a really bad guy. Actually. I'm, I'm the good guy. I'm the hero here. I want to say though, I, I just want to interject really quickly. I, I love that experience of seeing a band in a small venue and being part of a small audience. My best memory of that is seeing the teenage prayers at the 400 bar. And I swear there were not more than like eight of us in the audience, but somehow I knew the teenage prayers and knew a couple of their songs.

[37:00]And that, like that camaraderie that like looking right at someone. And, and they know that you like their stuff and you're right there and you're supporting them is super fun. So kudos to you guys for going in and, uh, being there for seafarer. But it admitted Aaron, when you hit, when you had to see them like carry their own amps up there, you were like, well, this is kind of bullshit, isn't it? They're never going to hear it. Admit it, Aaron. Hey, no, listen, that's important. That's actually important. Listen, teenage prayers. If you are listening to this episode.

[37:31]All right, Rob, you're free, free flow. Do whatever. No, no, no. We should, we should respect what Aaron has to say. This is what you guys want. There was a version of brown bottle that you guys played live on the radio. And it was the, one of the top five songs I've ever heard in my life. And it was on an iPad that I had an iPod that I had stolen. I cannot find it anywhere. So teenage prayers, if you are listening, please email the Beck line with an MP3 of your version of brown bottle live,

[38:00]because if I could ever get it back, I would pay anything. Okay. Let's continue with the show. Hey, I, I know you've told that story on the podcast before, because I remember it. They might be listening now. You never know. And B, I just looked behind you to your wife and their friend and they have passed out. You might want to check your carbon monoxide detector or something. They listened to that story and they both immediately passed out. I can't believe that happened. That's so crazy, man. Just so you know, we, yeah, we can't do a live episode. I changed my mind on that. It's over. All right. So Russell, why wouldn't you want to do a live episode and let's ignore that nobody would show up or the guys that would show up would harass us during the podcast.

[38:32]I thought the live episode would be a great idea. My only comment to Matt was I was worried if Rob either wasn't getting laughs, it would be a disaster. Or if he got any laughs, he would, you would, he would go down a rabbit hole. You'd never be able to pull them out of. That's true. Like you, you might, you might do like a 45 minute bid on one thing before we even got to the intros. Oh, that'd be so good. We could, we could, we could easily, we could round up a hundred people and it would look like that. It would, it would look like that place was full.

[39:00]Oh, for sure. If you came back, I do it put out on Facebook and all your, and all your weirdo linemen that used to play football with, you know, if they knew they would come, right. Matt knows a hundred people who would come right there. Like Matt could hook that up. No problem. That's like the mayor of Minneapolis. Oh my God. This is a great idea. Actually, this is the best idea I've ever had. Okay. We got to put this together. So let's make this happen for sure. This is great. But like that venue, that venue would be perfect for it. Don't you think? What if we coordinated this with the liars and saints reunion concert with that?

[39:31]And there's a, there's like a, there's like a second level. That's a VIP. Section. I mean, that's for like Manuel and Steve. Yeah. That's Steve. You know, like they can hang out up there. If you left a message on the voicemail, you get to be in the VIP section. Do you guys think I could get all my horrible dates to come in and make cameo? Oh my God. Like an autograph signing with the girl who was pregnant. Only a pregnant chick. Yep. I was going to say only a pregnant chick comes and she's going to bring a kid. With two dudes in the same day,

[40:00]but not wrestling. Yeah. What the fuck is this place? What the fuck is going on? What the fuck is going on here? And it's like, Oh, I know who that is. That's Russell's date is more too much. That's so good. The one girl comes out and sends back the steak for me. Medium. Well, don't ask Russell. I know you, I know you guys give me the approval and I'll get these texts going again. Oh, I have them all there by episode a hundred. Don't ask. I'll ban you. And don't forget, don't forget.

[40:30]Still my favorite Russell date, which I don't think it gets enough play is the one where Russell got his computer. He had his computer stolen and then I had to go back in and ask his date. Did I have my computer with you? And she was like, what are you talking about? Leave me alone. I don't want to see her again. I want my computer back. So Russell and Matt hung out. Aaron and I apparently are breaking up, but I do have a recording that Matt made of Russell at the concert. So let's listen to it right now. All I want to do is make love to you. Well, that's nice. I think that's really good. Did Matt ask you permission to record that?

[41:01]He asked me, he asked me permission. Oh, to Russell. No, Minnesota is a one record state. So, uh, rolling, going, Russ, Russell or Matt. How's it going with you? Rolling, going, man, I was going with you. Uh, good. Uh, I got a couple of things. One, I need to get an apology out of the way. Oh, that did a better apology. A Beck did a better apology. Apparently someone better. You got to wait, Rob. He's got to apologize. Oh, God damn it. Yeah. We know it's no live episode.

[41:30]This is a disaster. I'm sorry. That one of our, our loyal listeners and their family, uh, you know, maybe misconstrued our conversation about why, why someone might shave their legs. Okay. I'm listening. Aesthetics, pure aesthetics because they look better. Yeah. Yeah. I guess apparently if you shave your legs, your leg muscles look better. So somebody really care about what their leg muscles look like. I don't know. I guess I've got pretty good looking calves,

[42:00]but I should maybe try shaving my legs. I've been shaving my stomach for years. My, my abs, my abs are still struggling. This has been a problem here. I would say it doesn't matter what I shave that I would shave my legs. If I think it would leave less pubes on the toilet at work, there is something about the toilet at work. And it's not just me. I think everyone who works there has like a piece or something. There's something going wrong. The toilet at work. I work with all professionals. There is so much pubic hair. It looks like somebody shaved. Rob, Rob, you work with all professionals and like a thousand students.

[42:30]No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is the staff bathroom I'm talking about. Oh, and it is, there is stuff going on all over the place. I don't understand what's going on. Well, you know what I do? I, anytime I pee in that bathroom, I take a towel and I clean anywhere where P could have gotten. Cause, cause you know who people are going to blame for a bunch of pubes and pee being in a toilet somewhere. The big fat guy who just came out, right? The big world record holder in squats. Yeah, exactly. And instead it's not me. Cause I am cleaning up after myself. I don't know what's going on in that bathroom,

[43:01]but if it took, if that's what it took for, for that, stop happening to me, I would shave my legs. No problem. So Rob, when some, when you're up like in there cleaning up, do people ever walk in and then you've got to scramble to like walk away from the, the, the urinal cause you're wiping it down or not? It's a single, it's a single bathroom, which is a blessing. Okay. It is a blessing because you can do whatever you want and nobody's going to bug you. Nobody can tell, but it is a curse because the ant, the spray that's in there to get rid of smells has a very distinct orange smell. So if anyone walks back in the office and they smell like an orange,

[43:33]it's like, I know, I know exactly what you're doing. And out of respect to Russell, I'm not going to talk about it, but it's, everybody knows like this guy over here, too much milk this morning. You know what I'm talking about? Diarrhea. That's what I'm talking about. And you're sliding into home and your pants are full of foam. Aaron said before the podcast, Hershey squirts, which was a term I haven't heard in such a long time. We should bring that back though. I think. So Rob, my question is, my next question is, so let's say someone before you has left a mess.

[44:00]Yes. And then you go in and use it. Clean it up. Do you clean up afterwards? Yeah. Even if it's someone else's mess. It doesn't matter. Don't you clean it up first? You don't sit in their mess, right? You clean it up first. And then you do your business. I think Rob's saying he's not sitting. He's not sitting. Oh, gotcha. No. Okay. It's too messy. Yeah. You just want to come out smelling like orange. And that's the difference is that I'm lifting up the lid and it literally is like the arc of the covenant. Every time I pull it up, I don't know what I'm going to see. Sometimes it's nothing. And sometimes it's those ghosts that come out and make my face melt.

[44:31]That's what it's like. I think this is terrifying. Is this how it's, how did we, is this mess rolling going? Yeah. Yeah. I thought that's what he wanted to talk about. Shaving your legs. So, and apparently shaving your legs also helps cool your legs. So like if they're sweaty in bed or something, it helps cool them down and stuff. So I don't know. It's a weird place for sweaty legs, but okay. Yeah. So I just wanted to say, I'm sorry that that Becker head, you know, feels that way about shaved legs. I know this person. I don't think he probably identifies as a Becker head.

[45:01]He might listen to the podcast, but there's no way. He, um, some self is one of our listeners. I want to say once again, they're called foot freaks. Um, so I guess like my question is shaving your legs. What would you guys do? Would you start up high or down low? You'd start down low, right? Start at the ankles and move up and move up. Start down low. Yeah. Okay. Cause then I'm thinking like, what if you want to go to your left leg? You just switch over to your left hand. Cause I'm thinking like the back of my left leg with my left hand, that's asking for all sorts of Nixon cuts. I'm going to be in big trouble. I feel like,

[45:30]I feel like this Becker head has, it's not like a, it's not like a razor. It's a trimmer that you use more than anything. Extra erotic. But then again, I'm, we'd worry about pinching stuff with it. Well, if you, I mean, if you got a, if you got a number one guard on or whatever, you'd be just fine. Oh, that's a scary. That seems really scary. I mean, that seems like a night at Madison square garden, right? Nixon cuts. Hey, I'm open. No, no. Oh, that's pretty good. I don't wait out. Oh, yes.

[46:00]Nicks and cuts and screens and rolls. Yeah. I noticed that he shaved his legs. Yes. And it was from the bottom up. Ankles up. Ankles up. Looks so good. I can take a big bite. Yes. Rob in front of a live audience. Didn't get a big enough laugh. So here's an hour of his Marv Albert impression. Yes. Matt, what else is going on with you? Oh, I just, I, I had, I, I did. I had lunch by myself today. It was great. So sweet. Vacation. So good.

[46:30]I went to the local sandwich shop right near your house, Russell. Right by where I used to live. I've been to that one. Between the Chipotle and the, what is it called? You got a six inch meatball sub from subway. No. And what's the pot belly pot belly. Yep. Oh yeah. And so I, again, everybody we've, we've discussed this. People have called in other foot freaks have called in and, you know, said what kind of vegetables Matt? I don't like lettuce, right? I do not like lettuce. I don't like lettuce on my sandwiches.

[47:00]And so what do I see? Like I order a sandwich. I get an Italian on wheat comes out of the little thing. And I say, you know, what do you want to just a little bit of mustard. So of course, when you say a little bit of mustard to, they put lettuce on, they put a ton of mustard on whatever. And so then I see the guy and he, and he's going to fold. You put, he takes a knife and he's going to put it on there. He's going to fold it over then cut it. Right. So what, what is sitting all over the knife? No, it's like the toilet. It's like my toilet at work.

[47:30]Cause he's taught. Yeah. Cause he's talking to whatever somebody about like a strawberry thing, pulls up this knife and I can see it. And I can, you can only see just, just a little bit of what's going on. Right. But he like, it's like, he was just me. It's like, he was doing it on purpose. Right. Like, Oh, this fucker doesn't like lettuce. Well, let me show you. It's like, he took his knife. Yeah. He was like a maestro. He stuck it down to what comes flying down as he goes. There's like 15 lettuce pieces from the last sandwich he cut. And so then, you know, it's me. And did I say anything, Rob? Did I say,

[48:00]you're a walker, not a talker. You don't say anything in that situation. Like I just, it's not worth it. So again, it's like, whatever, go, I opened the sandwich up. There's 15 pieces of lettuce. I take it all out. You know, I get halfway through my, my sandwich. And of course I missed a couple. And so I bit down on a couple pieces of lettuce and is might as well. Oh, it's just gross. It ruined it for you. It ruined it for me. I left like the last fifth of it. Cause I just couldn't take it anymore. Oh my God. Lettuce was in there.

[48:30]And so unfinished sandwich. I can't imagine. I know. That's, that's how much like traumatized I was by this scenario. I mean, so Matt, what was it like eating lunch by yourself? It sounds like this is a thing where you don't get to do it very often. How was it? Well, so I had a major decision to make, right? Like I was around driving, I was driving around. I had a couple of errands. I, I won the raffle at the Richfield youth basketball day at Richfield high school the other day. And so I got my Yeti. I got a brand new Yeti cooler. Those are fucking awesome.

[49:01]Oh my God. For real? Those are like some ball in his ass. Ball in the cooler. So I had to go pick that up. He is in full dad mode. He has a huge dad boner. He has taken dad dog off Viagra. And this thing is Cardinal red. So it's the color of the Richfield Spartan. And I, and I bleed Cardinal red. I love my Richfield Spartans. It was so great to go to a basketball game on Saturday with Leo, my nine-year-old watch. And he's excited about it. And the Spartans beat the Kennedy Eagles. Those, you know,

[49:30]weirdos from Ken. I mean, can you imagine going to Kennedy? It'd be rough. It'd be, I mean, Kennedy would be a tough place to come from, right? Yeah. There's a lot of tough kids that come there, you know, but they, you know, I've seen, I've seen some kids from Kennedy come up and do big things in Minnetonka. Pretty big things. Pretty big things. So Matt's watching this game with his son and just pulling beer after beer out of this giant Yeti cooler from behind him on the bleachers. And everybody's like, Oh my God, who's that guy? He's like, look, that turkey is still frozen solid.

[50:00]It's fine. I put it in there three days ago. Yeah. It's pretty darn good. It's still good. It's still good. But so I had a decision to make, do I go and do I eat my sandwich in the car while I'm driving around doing these ads or do I just sit down for five minutes in a booth by myself and go, and so that's what I decided to do. This is a new thing for me. 40 years old. This is a new thing to just sit in a restaurant by myself at a table and, you know, enjoy the meal. So it was great. Were you, were you paranoid about like being the person sitting by yourself?

[50:31]Like, you're not, you're not used to doing it or not. No, I think I see it as a waste of time, right? Like if I'm sitting there, I'm just doing nothing. Right. And again, there's a, there's a pandemic in downtown Minneapolis of dorky white guys who are balding. And I'm like, I'm kind of part of this. We're on their phone, like walking and just are obsessed with their phones. And it's got this thing that I can't stand watching these dorky nerds just staring at Twitter, looking at what's going on right while they're walking,

[51:01]like just, just walk, get where you're going to look at Twitter, do whatever. And so I didn't want to be that guy. And so I, I literally, I just, I was at 76 in Lindale. That's where it is. I could see out over to the old folks home across. And so I just sat there, took five minutes going Aaron. It was nice weather out. It was great. Yeah. So it was, it was putting like five flakes of lettuce sandwich. My first time with you guys in Las Vegas as a dad, the first time I went to Las Vegas after my son was born, he would have been about seven months.

[51:30]I don't ever remember. Aaron coming with us. It must not be very memorable. We went, we went because you told us that you were going to have a baby. So then we were hammered off our ass. And every time we were cheers and it was to Rosie's baby, to Rosie's baby. And then we'd make a bet. Oh, well, we might as well double down for Rosie's baby. The next year. So the next year, Aaron came out and he was like, listen, guys, my wife just had a baby three hours ago, but I got on this plane and I got out of here. This is right. So when I was there after my son was born, I got there at around like two in the afternoon.

[52:01]I went straight to the casino, found you guys at the blackjack table. I played blackjack with you guys from two until about five 30. I lost. I don't even know how much money. And then at a certain point about five 30 in the afternoon, I was like, I have to go to in and out by myself. Like this is what I absolutely have to do. And I left the snuck out of the casino. Went and had no, it was Shake Shack that time. It was, we were staying near Shake Shack to do snuck out, ate a Shake Shack, Shake Shack by myself at five 30 PM. And then at eight 30 PM, when you guys were like,

[52:30]well, is it time to go get some Shake Shack? I was like, yeah, let's go get a Shake Shack. So did you tell us the first time you left or you're just like, I just need a moment. And I just snuck out left. No, I just snuck out and went like, I just went and you guys are still gambling. Nobody knew. That shows a sign of maturity to just leave the group and go get, you know, Hey, you want, you want a meal, you go get it right. Whether it be Shake Shack, all you can eat crab legs. You know, you say potato, I say potato. It shows some good maturity. It's your time. You go by yourself. If you have to. All of us love our families. We love our families.

[53:00]We love our family time. We think it's so great. Matt did text a picture of him eating lunch by himself to all of us and said, Hey, check this out. And we all multiple, like we often will send something that nobody responds like music stuff. Nobody responds. Nobody says anything. Matt texts a picture of him eating by himself. We're all like, Oh God, that looks so good. Oh, I'm so jealous. I wish I could do that right now. That's so awesome. Oh, pathetic. Rob Roland going, how's it going with you? Well, I'll tell you what. Okay. I don't, uh, want,

[53:30]to cause any trouble. Okay. I don't want to cause any trouble. Well, you just blew that already too late for that. I think my wife needs an intervention. Okay. And not in some like, I don't want to cause fake trouble. I'm going to cause trouble with my wife. Intervention or injection. Yeah, no, no, no. See, that's, that's the joke way. She needs help. She is a fixedly addict. She is officially addicted. She's a dick puzzle. It's addicted. Even worse. It is puzzles. She is now need,

[54:00]deep into puzzles. I got it. So let me tell you how this puzzle is set up, right? So there's a table in front of the couch that I just put my feet on when I'm watching movies. That is my foot table. That's where my feet go. That's it. That's what it is. Socks on or socks off? Socks off. Of course. Okay. Socks on animals past three 30. Socks are off baby. Socks on just waiting for anyone to take the socks off. Just anyone just begging for someone to take them off. I've been begging them and I'm like, can I just film you taking my socks off? So I can send it to the guys and everyone in my family goes, no, that's weird.

[54:30]I'm like, come on. It's funny. It's a funny bit. There's hope for her. So she is doing a puzzle on my foot table, right? She's. And then if anybody, so this foot table is in the middle of the room. It's like the middle thing. If anybody touches the puzzle or gets close to the puzzle, she freaks out because it's like a thousand piece puzzle. She's been staying up to like 1130 at night doing this puzzle. Like I don't get it. I do a puzzle. I last about five minutes and I go, this is the most boring thing I've ever done in my life.

[55:00]I can't figure out how these pieces go together. Okay. What is it with puzzles? What is your guys' opinion on puzzles? Are puzzles yay or puzzles nay? Mostly I'm puzzles yay, but I think kind of like, you know, your song about Aaron and really, you know, deep down, you're just jealous of him or something, you know, like I think that she's got something, we've got to figure this out. We went to get her on the podcast. Like she's got something she's got to focus on or she's got to block out or something that she's taking all of her energy and focusing it just on this puzzle. So it's anything,

[55:30]anything happened in the last week or anything, or I can't imagine what she would want to block out. I have lots of good stories that I tell. Actually, I made a great shrimp rosemary salad the other day and I was telling you about it. It could be the whole point in your life where you realize my husband has a table that he puts his feet on. Like that's like, well, I've got this table when I'm watching my computer screen that I put my feet on. That would probably make me do. Rob calls it my table. And she says, Oh, contrary.

[56:00]It's a coffee table, but no coffee goes on there. It's the foot table. And then, so I have to move my feet when she's puzzling. And then when I have to sit up on a couch, I mean, what am I at manners, Ms. Manner school? I don't need to sit up. I should be fully relaxed. Okay. So the real question, Rob is how many pieces have you taken away from the puzzle, but she goes to bed at night. That's so sick that you'd think I'd do that. That's terrible. Let's, let's just pause it for a second. Tell us how many. Okay. First of all, Rob, Rob, we're in pause.

[56:30]How many? That's a classic dad move. My dad has done that to my family. Cause my family loves puzzling my cousins and stuff. They love puzzling. My dad will always take a piece and then come in at the end when they're looking for it and go, Oh, and then put the last one in himself. You think it's so great. This is also the man, by the way, that once my aunt was reading a book, my dad just ripped out the last three pages, physically ripped them out of the book. So when she got to the end, she goes, what? And he goes, ah, I ripped out these pages. It's such a weird joke. I mean, who knows if we're related?

[57:00]Like who knows? You know, nobody knows there. So Rob, does she invite you to participate in the puzzles? Are you kids do the puzzles with her? No, it's her own thing. It's actually impossible to participate with her because she also organizes the puzzle pieces in three different bins, depending on their shape. And I know what you're thinking. Like, Oh, the edge pieces. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, all the edges are in. This is literally like, she splits them up into like, okay, if it's the male parts, if there's three of those, it goes in this bin. If there's only two male parts, it goes in this bin. Oh, well,

[57:30]yeah, that's one word for it. Advanced. I would say, yeah. Advanced stage of being nuts. Like about puzzles. I, we need help over here. It's, it's terrible. I've heard. Yeah. I mean, the, the issue that I've heard is that Rob can only do it for five minutes and Jenny needs it for much longer. So that seems like, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, sometimes the male parts of the puzzle goes up high, comes down hard. We call those the high heart ones. From a strong side to weak side. We tried to saw a strong side.

[58:01]I had a flash of somebody making a joke about me during the live show and everybody laughing at me. Just be enraged. Just the thinnest of thinnest skin. I can barely take any sort of criticism. It drives me nuts. It's called being a Minnesotan Rob. I'm used to it. I live it. I get it. I got slightly criticized the other day. Since you guys don't want to talk about puzzles. I got slightly criticized the other day because I mentioned that I mentioned that your best role and going at weeks. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? That was great.

[58:30]I mentioned at work that I read an article where you can replace rice crispies in a rice crispy treats. You can replace the rice crispies with crushed up potato chips. And so I said to the group, Hey, do you think that sounds good? Somebody goes, I don't think that sounds very good. I immediately was enraged for no reason. I never said like, Oh, I think this sounds good or we should do this. But they said, I don't think that sounds good. And I slightly disagreed with them last night. I made crushed up chips, rice crispies. I, I brought it to work. It was so good.

[59:00]No, it's, it's so good. It's like rice crispies, but instead of being sweet, they're savory. Oh my God. Aaron, do you kind of have a little bit of a food boner right now? Stand up. Let's see. Do you have a little food boner? I mean, I would try it. It's so little guys. I just saw it. It's so little sweet, savory kind of thing. There's, there is no Venn diagram of people who choose to eat dandelion greens and the potato chip rice crispy treats. That person doesn't intersect. It doesn't happen. There's no, the guy in the farmer market stall. He's got crushed chips,

[59:30]rice, crispy treats, and dandelion greens. He's like, he's holding a big bag of weeds and a bag of potato. I don't know. I don't know. He's like, they're waving up and down. Folks at home, try that recipe. It is really good. I highly recommend it. In fact, I think you need to add a little extra salt, believe it or not. I use salted butter and everything. Oh, it's been so long since I've had potato. It's Russell. It's such a good idea. Just like you guys are kind of, I don't know what I'm talking about. I like to call them potato Oli's myself,

[60:01]but I hear you. Oh yeah. Oh God. A pound of them. Oh, it's so good. Do you guys puzzle at all? Like, do you have any time during the year where you puzzle like in the summer, but you guys don't get summers off. So I don't, what's your summers like? I mean like at, at home, no apps at home, not even close, but like if we're at a cabin, you're up North or something like that, then yeah. I mean, there's just like a puzzle that's hanging around. Yeah. So at home, no, I've never pulled up. Well, I guess the kids, it's been a while, but I hate it. No.

[60:30]Rosie puzzle. What's your puzzle style? I mean, right now it's just like, if my son will get into one, we'll do a puzzle, but we don't, we haven't done, you know, the 500 or 1000 piece puzzles. It's not, that's not been anything we've, we've tried yet. So we're still at like the, you know, 60 piece puzzle at the max. Okay. Russell just pulled out a fanny pack full of puzzle pieces. Russell, what do you think about puzzling? Sorry, I got to move the condoms. Give me a second. Oh no. All right. No, I'm just confused. I've got, you know what? Puzzles for me are the thing where whenever I walk through that stupid store,

[61:03]I said, Rob, when I woke up, I always noticed there was like a puzzle section. I was like, well, I should get into puzzles. It's like something you should get into. Like, it was like, it's going to challenge your mind. It'll be something like a hobby that you can kind of spend time doing, have a sense of accomplishment. And then I'm like, no, I'm not doing this shit. I'm not, I'm out on this. It's like adult coloring books. All of a sudden, that's a cool thing. How about a puzzle that has a bunch of, a bunch of naked people on it? You know what I mean?

[61:30]Like, I think that would be fun if there wasn't a box you just put together. And at the end you got to see naked people. Like, it's like the pen that turned upside down. That's how I learned how to write, you know, in the naked person, the clothes fell off. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? The pen, when you turn it upside down, the woman's clothes come off. Do you know what I'm talking about? Guys, I don't. I know there's some foot freaks out there who know exactly what I'm talking about. Please. I'm begging you. I look crazy. Call 218-802. Back and let people know about the pen.

[62:00]Aaron, you have any clue? Am I the idiot here? What's he talking about? I don't know what he's talking about. I don't know. All right. Rob, I'm not leaving because I'm going to skip your album intro. I'm leaving because I need to get more ice. Russell is, is totally alpha to be on this podcast. Okay. Fuck it. If Matt's leaving, I'm leaving too. All right. Let's get into everybody's favorite part of the show. The, the album. The album. Oh, I got it. Check this shit out.

[62:30]I got to buy that. He's got it. Harvest. Now, Russell, is that a purchase from the store that shall not be named? Or is that a snuck it out of your mom's basement in the middle of the night? This was snuck it out of my mom's basement in the middle of the night. Yeah. You can see it was from my uncle, who is the father of one of our loyal listeners given to my mom. Autograph saying, Hey, from, from, from me to you on Christmas, 1975, he wrote on a cover of it.

[63:00]He said, actually, it looks like it's from my mom to my uncle. It's my mom's fault for writing on the cover. Yes. And then she took it back from the uncle, but we got before Rob does his bid. This is a fantastic album cover, isn't it? Yeah. It's, it's really good. Yeah. The simplicity album cover ever or not. Yeah. Unmistakable, right? Like you can't have it up there. I think it, I think it conveys. And when you look at that cover, you know, exactly the sound you're going to hear when you turn on the, when you listen to the album, like it, it's perfectly, you just are like,

[63:30]Oh, I'm out at the, I'm out looking at the sun and there's some cool texts going by. It's exactly what I think of when I listened to this album. It's great. So three things about this album is what I still have written under the section. Although it's not just three things. The album harvest may never have been made if it wasn't for Neil Young, seeing the movie diary of a mad housewife. He instantly fell in love with the actor, Carrie Snodgrass found out where she was doing the live show at the time and instantly asked her out when Carrie showed up for the first date. She found Neil Young confined to a hospital bed with neck brace on,

[64:00]but the singer must've put on a good show because soon they were dating. And within months he had written a group of songs that were inspired by Snodgrass. His newfound love and debilitating back injury forced Neil to skip his classical electric guitar for a lighter instrument and harvest was mostly written on an acoustic. The result was an album recorded in Nashville with a hundred percent live band. However, he did not do it alone. A solo acts in 1970, Neil Young was still a master collaborator and this album was no different. He had his ex bandmates, Crosby, still a Nash.

[64:30]He has ex bandmates, Crosby, stills and Nash on background vocals, right? Who cares? Crosby's still, still my God, this is too much. There's only one. Okay. I'll just, I'll just pluralize all of it. He's had ex bandmates, Crosby's stills and Nash on backgrounds, vocals, Nash's Nash's. Dang it. I screwed it up. And asked James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor, to contribute. And you know what, Aaron, thank you. I appreciate it. This easy sounding album set the stage for a newer,

[65:02]quieter kind of laid back folk rock that ended up being the number one selling album of 1972. This album beat out Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits, Ziggy Stardust, and even exile on main street. Even though Rolling Stone magazine declared it was simply after the gold rush, but with a steel guitar harvest became Neil Young's only number one album. It also gave him his only number one single ever. Let's listen to harvest. By Neil Young. What was the number one single? Uh,

[65:30]heart of gold, heart of gold, man. How the hell was Simon and Garfunkel already having a greatest hits up in 1972? They barely even broken up at that point. It came in at like 64, didn't they? I mean like 63, 64. So they were like, it's like, it's early to do a greatest hits. You know, again, back in this day, everybody, all of these record producers, and you saw it on the Beatles thing, all they want to do is make money. They just had, well, we'll put out this, we'll put out a Christmas album. We'll put out, you know, greatest hits. We'll get the blue, you know, all this stuff. And so it's just completely different.

[66:01]Rich. Um, I, I, are you surprised we haven't done Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits yet? Doesn't that seem like a weird album? No, no greatest hits. Play the music. We don't need to talk greatest hits. Play the music. Let's hear some Neil Young. Let's hear this nice thump, thump out on the weekend. These first two notes, right? Just like, yeah, the depth just gives you an idea where this album is going. I love the guitar playing on this album. And that's why it blew my mind.

[66:30]When all of these are recorded live together with the band, like it sounded this good. I saw somebody talking about recording with Neil Young and they said, whereas with Bob Dylan, you would do something that's a hundred times. Neil Young, you do it like twice. And he's like, that's good. We're going to go. Like it was just high energy the whole time. Is it just me? Or is the harmonica on this album more pleasurable than some of the Bob Dylan ones we've listened to? Oh, well, it's very soothing. I mean, it's very, very laid back. That's a perfect word. I, you know, I think Bob Dylan's, when he brings his in,

[67:00]he brings them in as like a hammer, you know, to kind of like amp the song up or bridge some two verses or something, you know, like as a different thing, whereas Neil Young is kind of the background, easy melody of the, of the song. But I also think it helps that Neil Young was probably on painkillers and weed. Whereas Bob Dylan was taking speed. And if there's one thing you don't want to give a guy on speed, it's a harmonica. It's a terrible, terrible. I mean, right. We could redo this list and just do it based on which drugs the performers were taking when they were recording the albums and just

[67:32]talk about that. Rob, you were talking about him being on painkillers. This gets back to the band that Matt and I saw. Like, I don't want to know that my band is on wearing a back brace. I don't want to know that the rock star is wearing a back brace and has to like, can't play certain instruments because their back hurts so bad. Like it's not what I want from my rock stars. It's just not. I can't play my electric guitar. I got to sit down and play my acoustic. It's too real. Sorry. Like, like I threw out my back plugging in my amp over here. Like,

[68:00]because that's right. Like this is supposed to be like a more like calm, soothing album because he could only play so fast, right? Like you can only play at a certain tempo. Is that right? Cause he'd hurt himself. Yeah. And you can hear it when Neil Young comes in with his classic Neil Young electric guitar. I mean, it's, it's aggressive sounding. His electric guitar has always been super aggressive sounding. Well, we don't hear that until much later. What do you think of that as the opener? Matt, you like you're a huge Neil Young fan. What do you think of that? The opening track here for this album,

[68:30]you hear the drum beat and the couple of chords or notes or whatever he's playing in the guitar and you get exactly, you know, exactly what you're in for. Right. I mean, it's just, it's laid back. Like I texted you guys, it's the perfect amount of harmonica is the perfect amount of steel guitar that we'll get into some of these other songs and it's laid back. And this is one of the albums out of the 72 that I just, I played it constantly. I know you guys do have a, kind of have a routine of playing it every day at work or,

[69:00]you know, a couple of times during the, you know, like I rarely do that. Right. Shocker. But you know, like this one, I, I just had this on constant repeat. There's a couple of songs that I'd skipped, but I mean, you know, the out of the weekend, Alabama, some of these ones that aren't as popular. I mean, they're, they're great songs. He's, he's a great to me. And again, this comes to me. He's a great musician who puts together songs with a lot of instruments and a lot of backup vocals and they're great songs. He's a great songwriter.

[69:30]That's why I like him. I liked earlier when you said you're a huge Neil Young fan. Cause I was picturing like you at a stadium and then out comes this giant 30 foot Neil Young. And he's like, Hey everybody, a huge Neil Young. I don't like, I don't like normal size Neil Young. I just like, you're like regular size Neil Young. You suck. And then imagine this with echo, which is always funnier on this podcast. Hey everybody, who wants to hear about my giant heart of gold? It sounds like physic.

[70:00]Anybody want a peanut? I am the blue squad harvest. I think Rob cut out my, anyone want a peanut joke a while back? I don't think it made it. I think it got cut. I hadn't anybody want a peanut joke. I don't even think I ever heard it. I don't know. I think it's, I think Rob's keeping me down every time I make a funny joke. Well, okay. Well, if we want to, if we want to get real about this, you cut out the one where I asked you guys to talk about your favorite, favorite toe. And you said like, Oh, it's because I think it drags here. And then I listened to it and I was like, this is the part where I asked everybody what their favorite toes were.

[70:31]And nobody answered me. And then Ross cut that out. So I think that is, I think this is going both ways. By the way, the fun part of this second track is this is where you learn that this album is hard to sing along to. Like as soon as you start, the second track comes in and you're trying to sing along and you realize like, wait, his voice is like no one else's. You cannot sing along. Play some more of him singing. We need to hear more of him. Yeah. It's totally unique air. When you, when you said that I had written down Ubu,

[71:00]this is when Aaron talked before about one perfect voice or Ubu ugly, but useful. This to me is ugly, but useful. Is that right? Aaron is absolutely this. This voice moves you. And like, it's weird and nasally and high pitched and it, but it makes you feel things. It's perfect. But again, I mean, again, we're going to move this along. I think I know that, but like, no, man, don't. Oh no. You know, when Rob is back there and he, constantly doing that waving motion, like, let's go, let's go. You know, I mean, the pressure's on, right. The pressure's on. So, you know,

[71:30]like honestly his voice and you hear him with Crosby, Stills, Nash and young, and you hear him on Buffalo Springfield and all that stuff, you know, like they're, they're, it's, it's weird. Right. Like if you, if it's just got a weird ass voice, but he writes beautiful lyrics. In my opinion, he's got great melodies. He's got a great sense of using other instruments and then using backup singers for these different harmonies. And I don't know what it is, but I mean, like, it's like, to me, it's the quintessential,

[72:01]like, this is a musician, right. Who like, likes the sound. He knows what's going on. The kind of a thing he knows what the sound in his head, what he wants to get out. And he's great at doing it. And on top of that, he's an audiophile. And so, you know, he's, he's deeply concerned about like, Hey, let's go record in a barn because we like to hear, you know, hear a little bit of feedback and see what goes on there. Wow. This is great. Kind of a thing. So I don't know. That's he's a musician. He's a professional musician. And, and some people would say, maybe if you're trying to copy his voice on a song, it's really hard because sometimes you feel like you need to sing really

[72:32]high, but you can't do it. But then when you sing low, that doesn't sound like him either. He's got this, he's got this, yeah. Another worldly voice, but useful. A man. Okay. I'm going to say it. It's like a penis. I was sitting, I was like, I'm not going to say it. I agree with that. Let me, let me write this down. You don't think penises are useful. Aaron's like, what do I do with this thing? It just sits here. I don't do anything with it all day. Aaron, you need to see a doctor immediately. You should be doing lots of, I've always said, no, like I love having a penis.

[73:01]I've always said like, it's, it's the greatest thing now. Like, yes. If you go to a public bathroom, like the second best thing about having a penis is that you don't have to touch anything in a public bathroom. Like it's very useful. And, and the world is your bathroom. Just find a tree. You can touch things a lot in a public bathroom too. And that's fine too. That's you. You, you, you do you Rob. Well, that I'll tell you about that. That was my sophomore year of college in that public bathroom. But I mean, it's just,

[73:30]can you imagine anything uglier than a penis? It's just not good looking. Like nobody's ever looked, even the best looking penis ever. Nobody's ever looked and been like, like David. Cornholes. Maybe cornholes or. Oh no. A man needs a maid. Is this where the symphony shows up? I'm curious what you think of this. I want you guys to talk first about the orchestra. What do you think of it? I hate it. I do too. I cannot stand it. It is so out of place. Isn't it? Like the question of this album is like,

[74:01]it sets this tone. It sets this feeling. It's like, I can just put this on and relax and enjoy it. And then all of a sudden there's this bizarre orchestra showing up in like two or three stars. It's like, what the fuck is this man? What is this shit? Yeah. You know, you hear this, you heard this on the Beatles, right? And let it be where all of a sudden Phil Spector started throwing all of this stuff at him. Right. And Paul McCartney's like, no, that's not what I want. Well, Neil Young made the decision to do this. So I, you know, like you got to respect him for what he did.

[74:30]Kind of a thing. But like, yeah, I, I can't, I can't take it. I just want to hear, I want to hear heart of gold. I want to hear Alabama. I want to hear old man. I want to hear, you know, those songs. I don't want to hear an orchestra on the back. You know what we all want to hear? Heart of gold. Matt wants to hear heart of gold. I'm picturing, I'm picturing a bunch of people at our live show with like violas and violins getting up and shuffling out. Like mad when we say something bad. Like the eight people Aaron knows that came in are just like, fuck it. Fuck these guys. They don't like the orchestra. We're out of here.

[75:00]Hello. Some people love us. I'm on record as not liking the orchestra on this album either. I don't get it. But it is interesting. One of my, I said our old live show. We can't, we can't do a live show. It is fun because one of my favorite releases of 2021 and Matt and I texted about this is Pharaoh Sanders and also, you and Matt have a separate text chain too. Absolutely. Oh my God. This is ridiculous. Matt calls Rob, Aaron and Matt have a text chain. I'm just sitting over here like the fucking students. We go to live music together. Russell, we hang out in person.

[75:31]Yeah. You see each other in real life. We texted about Pharaoh Sanders and floating points with the London symphony orchestra. Same, same symphony. Maybe even some of the same players. I probably not. Maybe, maybe. And I love Aaron so much. I take, I take time to make a song about him. Okay. So actually some people would say that's the best kind of, but you know what? Let's just hear heart of gold. Russell's right. Let's do it. Oh my God. Jesus. It's so good. You've talked about like you're, you're trying to put together the perfect songs. A list of that.

[76:00]Is this one on it or not? This, this, this is like a, like a 20 to 40, you know, like this is like not the top of the top. Yeah. This would be like in a top 50 kind of a thing. Right. Pretty high. Especially because they're like, this is right here, right here. You know, this, that music, the musicality that he's got with how he, how he's doing this. Cause I have no idea. Right. Like I'm just a donkey who doesn't never played an instrument in his life. Yeah. And or hauled an instrument, but whatever he does there and how he gets it going. And then towards the end of it, and then you get the harmonica that comes in.

[76:30]I mean, it's just, it is a great song. My only beef with this song. And actually, maybe it's like, maybe it's actually a positive. This song is too good. Don't do this. No, but when I, when I learned it was Linda Rodstadt and James Taylor and he uses them so minimally that, you're like, man, like you had James Taylor and Linda Ross that, and you just like, kind of just like sprinkled them into the mix, like just a little, but then it also makes me think like, well, that's cool because that's like, he knew it would be decadent to just like give the full Ron stat.

[77:01]So he was like, I'm just going to have a, I mean, how really popular were they in 1970 and 71? They weren't. I mean, like, I don't know. Like they were, they were kind of like a, you know, an up and coming. They're probably in their twenties, kind of a thing. Like Linda Ronstead went on to make, like hundreds of country songs, right? That other people, you know, unbelievable, unbelievable songs and unbelievable albums. But I don't think, I don't think she was as well known right now as she was. So it's kind of like having, you know, it's,

[77:30]it's like how Rob sprinkles us into the podcast and how the three of us are going to start our own comedy podcast. This is going to be way more funny than the one I'm less. I would love that. The only thing I'm going to be 10 minutes late and you guys can start the show. I would love to start a show. That'd be my favorite. So Neil, so Neil, Bob Dylan and Neil, you know, kind of the same timeframe, whatever Bob Dylan said that he hated this song. He said, cause he thought that Neil Young was, yeah, he thought Neil Young was sounded just like him. So he thought it was his song.

[78:00]So he hated the song. So he's like better. Don't you think Matt, you're a, you're a Dylan guy, which you enjoy more of this or Bob Dylan. I enjoyed, I enjoy this better. Yes. I saw that quote so many times and I got to think it's because he's just fucking around with the media people. I do too. I'm sure he's asked this question. A million times. And finally he goes, actually, I hate the song. Cause I should be singing it. And he thinks to himself, that is so dumb. What I just said, nobody's ever going to take it seriously. Right. And it's on every Wikipedia article. It's on every genius article. It's like, he no musician actually says that that's crazy.

[78:31]Especially Bob Dylan. You guys know, I can't do this podcast completely sober. So I decided to have a cocktail tonight. Oh, on side eight cocktail. I may have a drink on side B2, but we're on side eight. And I went back to my book, booze and vinyl. As you guys can see, I got, I got the book back. It's been a while. You know what's that one chick sells, right? I mean, I like the book, but don't get me wrong. They don't even have harvest in the book. They've got after the gold rush instead, but I figured if it's Neil Young, I can listen and drink.

[79:01]It's got to be close enough, right? Matt, you're a Neil Young guy. Is it close enough? Good enough for the women. Yeah. Close enough. It used to be your theme when you're making drinks. So, so this says before you drop the needle on this one, you're supposed to pick up the house, grab some groceries and light a few glasses. Two candles. You got this. That that's what it's telling me that like, that's how it's getting me pumped up. I'm supposed to pick up my house, light candles and pick up groceries. Okay. Did you do that? No, but it says when I'm supposed to spend this is when you're making him or her

[79:32]dinner during sweater weather. So you listen to Neil, Neil Young during sweater weather. Is that right? I think that's actually, I like that. The idea of he is Canadian. So he's, yeah. So, so side a for the other album. Cause I mean, what the fuck? I can't believe, they got the wrong album in here, but whatever. Yeah, it's pretty bad, but either way, this is a drink called the gold rush. Have you guys ever had a gold rush before? No, no, no, nobody ever. It's balanced and delicious.

[80:00]This is one cocktail to always keep in the quiver. If you will, it's two ounces of bourbon, fresh lemon juice, and three quarters ounce honey syrup, which I'm drinking tonight. A gold rush on side. Have you guys ever done a gold rush? Okay. Hold on. Did you make, did you make honey syrup? Yeah, no, no, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Rob, I'm going to blow your fucking mind. No, please. You want me to tell you how I made the honey syrup?

[80:30]Well, maybe you didn't have syrup, but you at least had honey, right? We're not doing anything else. Okay. So here we go. So the honey strip, it says it, it gives you advice on how to do it. It's just one-to-one honey to water. So all I did is I brought my drink out. I let my ice cube melt for like 20 minutes. Oh God. And then I just, I poured honey in there. Cause it's like, well, that's the perfect amount of honey and water. Is that right? Oh yes. Yes. That's right. Yes. That's not how this works. What do you mean? It does. Now it works. You should write a book,

[81:00]Russell called booze and vinyl ish. It's like, ah, this is pretty close. Who's final and dumb shit listeners. This one's going out to giant Neil Young. Are you ready for the country? We might want to move it along. I've got another one of these companies. Oh, Oh my God. Oh my God. This is the one song to me that is like Dylan ask in sound, right? It sort of sounds like highway 61 and other stuff. Yeah. I love the, the drop in pitch at the end of these lines where you think it's always going

[81:34]to go up. Matt, one thing you sent Matt sent a text to us. I know we're not allowed to talk about our private text chains anymore. Now that I know you guys have all these separate ones, but Matt sent a text to all of the groups. He's inclusive of everyone on this one, but he said, this has the perfect amount of slide guitar. Matt, you said that, is that right? You like the slide guitar. I like the slide guitar. I, you know, I'm go ahead. So in honor of Matt liking the slide guitar,

[82:00]I thought we could do a list of the greatest guitar songs ever. One time way back in the day, we did a Beck song on slide guitar. We've never done a list on the slide. And so my understanding is a slide guitar. They just, there's something to like push against it. Is that right? Or Rob, do you know how that works? How does it slide? What's that thing called? Like the bar that you kind of, you're, I, I, what, why am I, I don't know. You're the main host of the podcast on music. You should probably tell us that.

[82:30]Oh, you mean like in their, in their Fred hand? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They have a little, uh, uh, what would you call this? Yeah. Slide. They have a slide. It's a slide. I mean, it started from like blues players would use a Coke bottle, right? Take the top of the Coke bottle and you can do that. So, so let's go. Let's start with the blues player on this one. This is Elmore James. Dust my broom. Check this out. Okay. This is a movie. Yeah. Oh my God. I was like, I just flipped over a car. Let's just let this song play. Let's just,

[83:00]let's just play this whole song. Holy cow. Never. Right. This one down. Yeah. That's better than anything we're going to say. Right. Right. Okay. Wait a minute. Let it breathe. Here it comes. Here it comes. I feel it. Oh, I pushed the mute again. But one of the things I read about this is a lot of times people talk about blues influence players, which is basically another way of saying players who are influenced by Elmore James. It's players.

[83:30]It's blues is influenced by this guy right here. This guy is known as the king of the slide guitar, Matt, the king of the slide guitar. You got to love it. Don't you? Nice. And a lot of people don't know dust. My broom is another, another term for when you start getting great pubic hair. That happens. No, no. When? If you just check out the toilet seat at Rob's school, you'll know who's dusting the room. Okay. I was going to go to song two on my list,

[84:01]but I'm going to go down and make a note about dusting my broom in the bathroom. Yeah. Just for men. Exclamation point. My broom. All right. Next up on the list. Hold on. Well, I had to go get my notes to update that final joke. Oh, next up on the list. This band is never, I don't know if Matt, I don't know if this band's on the, on the list at all or not. This is the almond brothers. The song is Statesboro blues.

[84:31]Check this one out. They're on somewhere. They better be live. Don't worry. Oh, nice. That is a slide. Good. Isn't it? Yeah. It sounds like he's playing a slide. This is Dwayne Allman. Supposedly he like brought me. He made the slide guitar kind of mainstream a while back, but you know what I was wondering? Like I always thought they were called the almond brothers, not the almond brothers.

[85:00]No, not something else. No, no, I thought they were named as the nut Russell. The almond brothers or oasis. I can't remember. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But what are your guys' thoughts on almonds to begin with? Like a good snack or not a good snack? I like, I like almonds. The band that was worse than the almonds brothers was the mounds brothers, man. Here's the thing. Here's the thing about almonds. I used to eat a lot of almonds. They do take a lot of water by the list. Cause I thought we could talk about almond milk.

[85:30]Yeah. Take a lot of water to farm and which like, okay, everything takes resources. I don't worry about it. And then I, and then I'm going to get on my horse. I read an article about, about how up here in the sec, like in Northern California, in the Sacramento Delta, they're diverting water that could go to the salmon and using that for almond farming. Like who the fuck would choose almonds over salmon? Like salmon are dying so that people can eat their almonds. Well, to be fair, you can get like a bag of almonds at the gas station for 99 cents. That's the piece of salmon cost you like $12.

[86:01]But that's what's happened. If salmon were more plentiful, it wouldn't be so expensive. Aaron, if I need to switch from almond milk, what would you recommend? I switched to, I think oat milk exists. I don't know. I mean, I just have milk milk. Yeah. I just do like, Oh, why don't I have milk milk? I'm going to send you back to dusting my broom. I cannot do that. Okay. Then I will have major orange smell all day. If I am drinking regular milk in the morning, I think oat milk is a thing now. I don't know. It is. But literally almond milk. We talked about this a long time ago. Isn't it like 48 gallons of water compared to like one gallon for cow's milk?

[86:33]Terrible. Right. And then the salmon, I don't get to eat the delicious salmon because they put limits on that stuff. 48 gallons of water. Sounds like me. If I drink regular milk. Oh no. What? One thing Rob has never been accused of is being a joker. And that's the next song on the list. This is Steve Miller, the joker. Check out the slide guitar here coming up. Oh, right. And this must've been for most of us.

[87:02]This must've been our first exposure to slide guitar, right? Like this was all over the radio when we were kids. Yeah. This, I mean, early, you know, like there's a lot of country, you know, music. Oh, that's true. The eighties, they used a lot of slide guitar. But one thing I thought was interesting about this song is, do you guys remember the, the line where there's, he says like, it's the pompatous of love. What's the pompatous? You guys know? He, uh, he made that word up because it fit the lyrics. What? I thought it was like a hairdo. No,

[87:30]he, he made that, he made that word up because it fit the lyrics. Yeah. Russell, there's no such thing. Google it. Um, I have the notes. It means to, to act with pomp. And I don't, I, I was taking notes too fast. Let me put on pause. Oh God, please. I like how he, what if he would have said, it's the pomp and circumstance of love. And then in the middle of the song, it would have gone done, done, done, done, done. And then, and then the macho man comes on,

[88:00]starts dropping elbows on everyone. Compatous. It does exist. It's in the Oxford English dictionary. It means to act with pop and splendor. Pump and splendor. Splendor. It's nice. But if you Google pompousness of love and Steve Miller, it says he just made up the word because it fit in, in with the, uh, rest of the lyrics. And he learned that from Paul McCartney. He says, don't worry about what the words say. Just make it. So it sounds, uh, phonetically. I did that all the time, right? Yeah. Yep. So I'll tell you what I feel. I'm feeling pompous right now.

[88:31]For sure. Next up up next on the list. I don't know if you guys will remember this one. This is fog hat. Slow ride. This is a guitar. Check it out. I don't know if you'll remember this. What? Oh, this is a classic rock staple. I read about this. Okay. I actually wrote my notes down this time. This song is about the love theme.

[89:01]That's common in R and B music, but the tempo is more like rock and the guitar riffs change speeds and climax near the end. Effectively. Simulating a lovemaking session. Oh, all right. You're supposed to climax at the end. That slow ride simulates a lovemaking session. Yeah, I guess. Rob next time it's going well with, while you're puzzling with, with your wife, you can say you can put on some fog hat and see if it'll help you with your lovemaking session. I don't know. Cause I'm wearing headphones, watching movies and she's listening to Christmas music.

[89:30]There's a lot of stuff going on in her house. Yeah. She's puzzling. I'm looking at my phone and watching a movie with headphones on. It's a mess over here. All right. Last song. the list this band has not come up so far yeah but this is a pretty cool band this band was huge when we were younger this is white zombie more oh this is a slide guitar here yeah russell dorm room classic that's pretty badass slide guitar isn't it go yeah this is what i love when we were listening to this stuff on napster you never thought about the fact that there were real humans playing

[90:03]instruments on this stuff this stuff all just sounded like it fucking landed from mars and it was made by computers yeah like nine-inch nails and some of that stuff yeah yeah it just never occurred to me that there were humans playing these instruments oh i mean there's a drum machine there too but like yeah oh you you oh aaron and aaron's mad now i don't mind the drum machine it can get overdone in the 90s and 2000s you also got to give rob zombie white zombie the band at the time credit like they were way ahead of like the zombie apocalypse thing like that's like a

[90:32]normal thing now there's tv shows about the zombie apocalypse it's a question on all the dating apps rob zombie way ahead of the zombie apocalypse right he was way ahead way ahead props to rob zombie i love that band he started to called the zombies you know i started saying that sentence and i was like you can just stop and then i did yes now you're getting it rob now you're getting it and i'm doing it over a sound effect so i won't be able to edit very much god dang it russell that was easily a top five list nice job i love it good slide guitar uh what are we sure they were

[91:04]slide guitar songs or were they steel guitar songs well i was gonna bring it up but i didn't want to bring up their steel guitar songs you know old man according to some websites they were all slide guitar man i'm looking i know he's got an old man player though he's had one they had for like the next 30 years yes an old man the the old man part here is a steel guitar because the guy's sitting there um playing it on his lap it's on a table kind of a thing and

[91:32]i didn't do the list an old man i did the list are you ready for the country what is this podcast gonna be like after russell goes to side b of that book i can hardly wait old man i gotta i gotta finish the first one you don't have to uh this song to me i've had this song in my head all week i think this is the most singable song on this album and the banjo by uh james taylor listen to that listen amazing moment right here

[92:04]have you guys ever seen jimmy fallon does a neil young impression on like the night show and there's a version where he's out there and he's singing this song he does about the first half and the lights go down and all of a sudden there's another stool sitting next to him fucking neil young sitting right next to him and all of a sudden they start singing together i demand that all the becker heads out there including the ones who shave their legs to make their calves muscles like bigger go check out neil young and jimmy fallon doing old man

[92:32]together it will knock your socks off that little moment there of the banjo and then the steel guitar sliding in with the banjo that sounds like 27 beck songs that i've heard that sounds like back listen to just those three seconds over and over and built whole albums around it yeah to me that sound song sounds like it exists no matter what like even if neil young never existed i feel like that song would just be there like it feels like it's just always been in the universe like important it's

[93:01]like the perfect song like it's singable it's it's it's deep lyrics it's perfectly engineered it sounds great it just is like this is a great song and i just feel like if if neil young hadn't come along somebody would have to write that song because it's just a smart thing you said rob oh thank you aaron finally a compliment from aaron oh let's add up all the compliments aaron gives rob it's not very many actually and it's hurtful it makes me you know what that's true if to be honest to be fair rob was kind of mean today calling aaron boring but i don't remember too many times aaron where you said rob you're

[93:34]not super boring or anything i don't remember well the problem with that is the problem is is that rosie wasn't digging down you know he wasn't punching down at rob he was only you know he just kind of stays level he just doesn't say anything good or bad about rob so thank you i appreciate that i am a smart guy sorry man i wasn't you know like that song like so old man you know that was that was an actual i mean that was based on an actual conversation with uh an old man who was

[94:02]essentially the caretaker of his farm that he bought after he became a rich hippie and hated his life because all of a sudden he had all this money and he was a big you know he's gotten away from his roots and everything but you know it's kind of cool that it was an actual converse yeah he had an actual conversation with a guy and just said hey that's very cool you know you know so i don't know it's not i like when you have when there's when there's background to songs like that that they're you know it was actually about somebody and made him think about somebody that was close to him so the weird thing is that he said hey old man take a look at my song and i'll

[94:30]man take a look at my wife oof i have to go poo and the guy was like that just doesn't sound very good he's like i'm gonna work on it matt what song do you like more old man or heart of gold um i like heart of gold better um you know but again i mean it's like it's like choosing your children russell like who do you love more really you've got one but you can never tell one thing that really brightened my week up that it was related to this album once i read that linda ronstadt was i don't know i don't know i don't know

[95:00]singing back up on this one and on heart of gold uh so as i'm as we mentioned in the lead-up it was it's december 14th today now december 15th for some of us on the east coast and come out for like another three weeks this is the time of year where i'm like i need i gotta have a different christmas album in my life i've heard all of the soul christmas play this i can listen to i have listened to the rat pack christmas i've listened to sufjan stevens i've done frank sinatra we've done every christmas album we can think of and when i when i realized

[95:30]this was linda ronstadt i was like i wonder if linda ronstadt has a decent christmas album psa for all the listeners out there linda ronstadt's christmas album is fantastic her voice is great there's a great choir on there highly recommend for anybody so that's that was a bonus of listening to this album for me can i introduce you to a my new favorite christmas album now you know that i love and you're hearing in the background right now i love backdoor santa by clarence carter i think it's the greatest christmas song of all time it expresses what we all think about on christmas which is uh getting out and getting some ass and acting like we're santa claus uh but we're

[96:03]actually having sex with women i love how i love how erin's family their two christmas albums that they're allowed to listen to are the linda ronstadt one and the one where rob's singing about matt being a mean old man those are their two exposures to christmas music it's so good i was recently at a is this on the album is this next yes this is holiday express it's not the village people this is disco santa i heard this at a drag queen show listen to this hey perfection

[96:34]it was pretty good actually yeah yeah it's the best christmas song now listen you go farther in the song but wait there's more okay because you go farther in the song they're going to totally switch it up now there they are saying i want to be a santa claus which is strange so now we get into ymca listen to this

[97:01]yes don't get it yeah it's so good disco santa look it up i bought it on itunes are you guys kids old enough do they do the ymca like if you go to like a football game do they do the ymca do they know that one or not no russell no absolutely not that's insane why would they not know it matt come back they might know it but i don't know i was just looking at you know you brought up again

[97:35]i'm like guitar oh i've gotten us out of this every time because i was trying to figure out there was another pretty famous country singer that did a lot of backup singing um with neil young and on some of his later albums and it's emilu harris i was trying to figure out how old she is she's 74 years old and she might be the hottest looking 74 year old girl i don't know if this ever existed in the history of the world i don't doubt that at all just wanted to open for

[98:01]a live podcast or not she might she might rob prepare your emilu harris jokes baby works from oh my god the hottest looking 74 year old ever well tell me tell me another one have we talked about old man yet or not which song are we how old is dolly now i mean dolly is the dolly she's 87 come on aaron you've got what are you talking about it's so sick your wife and your friend are

[98:30]in your your hotel or whatever you live right now all right we better get moving i think there's a world now listen i don't want to listen to most of the song just listen to these notes can i ask you a question listen to these notes oh god this is horrible horrible can you move on to the next excuse me excuse me i have a bit here what song does that remind you of can you give us an answer i don't know it's the same yeah i was like the first one again

[99:04]oh yeah i've seen giant neil young in concert at the iso it's like four to five times yeah talked with his wife about music and everything like that's giant neil young i'm a giant neil young fan

[99:32]you know some people say that with that little bit of ah ah was really a little bit of neil young a little bit of giant neil young so giant uh alabama guys it's not just dixieland delight it's also a song on this album it's a protest song to kind of go along with this ohio southern man it's all about how basically alabama's like hey you're totally dropping the ball with all this civil rights stuff