Curtis Mayfield: Super Fly (1972)

[00:00]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 the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research tonight especially i think all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better from 1972 this is album 76 superfly by curtis mayfield now guys i realized

[00:32]this whole podcast i've been making a terrible mistake i got a text from aaron before the first episode we ever did and he said that he wanted us to do a wholesome podcast a wholesome podcast yeah like with wholesome humor it's true yeah that's been my goal the whole time yeah i've been misread it and i've been doing some wholesome podcast humor this whole time and that's on me and i feel bad about it some holes some holes like courtney love the band yes

[01:00]the film with shia labeouf i killed kirk cobain it was all me that was a cut i didn't hear that okay and by the way parody that was parody just for legal reasons all right let's get let's get started let's go and turn on the radio aaron making me say all these terrible things okay wholesome we're gonna do some wholesome humor you know what i'm talking about i'm here for it okay those two holes hey rob will you look at this hole does this look normal

[01:31]well you know i see that hole but i can also see the hole that's above it i'm gonna add those up that's a whole sum right there think about that all right let's turn on i'm gonna reach into one of these holes and let's turn on k-rob what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-r-o-b boy have i got a story for all the doggies and kitties out there listen my buddy aaron he loves us at mcdonald's he loves his fish fillets he loves to buy his son in the backseat

[02:00]milk and just milk to get on the side with those fish fillets the answer will not surprise you oh yeah it's late at night and aaron wants a bite the only place he sees is a late night mickey d's it's excited to pay for his fish fillet yes but then he makes a decision that's wrong aaron skips the fries i can't understand when i talk to aaron this dude gets no fries he just skips all the sides

[02:49]he only gets fish fillets not meal number eight this decision is bad aaron's kid hates his dad can you tell me why why only got a milk and i'm gonna cry

[03:10]ah yeah when you want to do it by the greatest can you see aaron's fish fillets he only gets fish fillets not meal number eight this decision is bad aaron's kid hates his dad son going into school telling his friends about the amazing time he had a mcdonald's where his dad got him a milk and told him to keep quiet we're gonna go to mcdonald's oh my gosh i can't wait to see what my dad i've heard about these

[03:38]happy meals and these toys i'm gonna get okay so i got a milk uh okay and my dad got a fish sandwich with cheese on it with oh no fries whatsoever a true psychopath i'm gonna say it again when you order that order a fish play with cheese and milk okay there is some like lactose hotline that rings and said emergency this is a possible emergency okay look out i mean i agree i

[04:01]think like if i had to do it over again i would get some fries i think i i agree with you that would have been the right choice or maybe two fishes fillet fish fillet fillets of fish fishes i was thinking fillets of fish they're owned by the fish yeah it's it's fillets of fish right yeah that's so it's his he's giving it up to you yeah yeah he gave his life for me to enjoy this sandwich i also made an intro song for you aaron that was clean and about your son so you can now play it in

[04:31]the car that's my new goal i'm kind of like raffy yeah okay if i i'm like if raffy had gray balls is for the children raffy raffy probably does have gray balls from the windows to the walls i think raffy doesn't raffy have a back he's a worm face isn't he dead is he dead he's got worm face is he alive still about worm face that's when you die i can't wait to hear how aaron has to describe what courtney love did to kirk cobain that's gonna be a fantastic conversation in the

[05:00]car ride to school son here's your old milk and here's what happened 1992 dad did she really kill kirk cobain oh no i don't think it's gonna sue us too you know the problem the problem with this whole thing is is you brought up whole thing to go back a couple episodes i think we missed a top or a canadian what was the canadian um mount rushmore not mount rush less mount rushmore no mount rushmore who's the canadian we missed

[05:32]raffy oh he's right he's canadian i bet i bet by number of albums sold he's 73 he's still alive oh he's born born in egypt what yeah what's the most famous raffy song is it like put your head in put your head out shake it all about is that raffy baby beluga yeah oh yes hey i know what we're recording next yeah yeah put your baby beluga in put your baby beluga out as what no one's ever said to me my bloody valentine if you had to

[06:04]listen to one again i'd probably go with the raffy i like the ones where he sings in french like i like when he does the french songs he must be here his kid is like my life sucks hey whatever your name is do you want some fun kids music okay turn it on well we're we're still on the chipmunks christmas i've not been able to get away from chipmunks christmas yet even though it's well after christmas but today we listened to pharaoh

[06:33]sanders on the way home and he didn't complain so that's good here's here's here's my impression here's my impression of uh french raffy ready yeah baby beluga try this that's me french raffy is that french french raffy okay russell i did forget to ask though i know because i know you're you've got a number of friends that

[07:01]really did enjoy my bloody valentine so just to keep the conversation going you've been vocally vocal about your disdain for both uh my bloody valentine and radiohead so no no no i enjoyed my bloody valentine way more than radiohead okay that's all that's all i wanted to know they're not even in the same category matt really okay yeah why why do you like my bloody valentine more than radiohead is it the guitars there's guitars and radiohead i think i i i think it's

[07:31]more about i don't like the arrogant radiohead fans i don't i don't like the fans who think they're better than everyone because they like a different kind of music i'm out on the people yeah so hey foot freaks out there if you're listening right now keep it humble for uncle russ come on oh yes keep it humble speaking of uncle russ let me introduce everybody we've got uncle russ in minnesota russ how are you doing tonight rob your wife's a doctor would you take a quick look at this i've got a jones running through my bone i've got matt minneapolis matt how are you doing great rob thanks for having me thinking about jones running through his bones

[08:05]uh and i've got aaron out in california now aaron and i uh went out to dinner earlier and aaron said this date is going to end up like superfly he said he curtis mayfield me up and then said something about being a pusher man but i don't know what he's talking about aaron out in california how are you doing curtis mayfield how did you how did you ask me how i'm doing and then immediately started talking you asked me how i'm doing you still talked over me what's my cue to come in if you never stop talking what am i

[08:34]supposed to talk okay aaron i'm sorry so what repeat that let's get it let's get a clean listen of it just just start you can't sorry you can't go ahead i will you can't do it i'm aaron i'm i'm gonna try i'm really sorry please i cede the floor to you feeling mean super clean let's talk all right let's get into the voicemail here we go aaron saw that coming from so far away he's like no i'm not gonna fall for it i just made him do it

[09:03]all right so the lister voicemail this week is exactly what i thought it would be i'm not going to i want everybody to look at this picture that was texted to us uh on the becks line okay the becks line uh 802-277-BECK 802-277-BECK now i do want to remind everybody this is a music podcast okay the last music text or voicemail that we have gotten is god only knows how long ago it might have actually been about god only knows i don't know it was a long long time ago instead

[09:34]this is what we're getting now and i just want everybody to look at this sent us is after we were talking about the chipmunks uh last week and what pervs they are and especially of course dave the owner who's having these three uh teenage chipmunks in their house at least the turtles were in the sewer i mean in somebody's house my understanding rob was that he puts peanuts in his belly button so the chipmunks eat about it there was my understanding and in editing that i realized i was like foreskin that's a funnier joke but i

[10:03]didn't say it so i can't i can't go back and change time can't do that uh but peanuts in the foreskin and i said it twice so you can't bleep it out uh but what this person sent us okay and this is a person who's actually sent us a number of pictures like this is uh who is that that's alvin and then who's in the middle there is that simon the green one i think simon's got the he's the tall one with the glasses he's probably got a sexual fetish yeah so that's simon on the right and then in

[10:32]the middle is uh theodore uh so aaron this is a picture if you can't tell of the chipmunks completely railing three female chipmunks in front of them and the female chipmunks do seem to be enjoying it uh they are rearranging their guts they are getting all the way up there uh and so the question on the thing is who's getting the best dick is it britney eleanor or jeanette so i just want to thank i just want to thank our foot freaks out there so much for

[11:00]sending in uh and it was the chipmunks uh having sex with three people and then asking the question have you guys ever heard about rule 34 no what is rule 34 does anybody know what rule 34 is that the one about like if there's a fetish there's something on the internet for it like there's no end to yeah if there's a character if there's a character that exists yeah rule 34 states that there is a picture of them having sex on the internet okay yeah i didn't quite so like like

[11:32]if you if you were like god i wonder what it would look like to see the bfg just railing somebody that's going to town that big friendly giant is going to town rule 34 states that we could find that and there's and there's like you know deviant art and sites that are uh stayed like that is there is there any was there ever a cartoon character when you were growing up that made you realize like oh this is a hot drawing and i'm attracted to it what about jessica rabbit

[12:02]remember the roger rabbit that's the number one yeah that's the number one jessica rabbit right yeah that's it it's crazy how hot jessica rabbit was right it's insane man how about you hot cartoon characters and remember mr t did have a cartoon series i'll go with mr t then yes muscular guy so good and there you have it so yeah so uh what about what about what about jane jetson she kind of had like the short little bob haircut the little red hair red hair i might be a jane jetson guy and then she would serve him

[12:33]the food and she would roll around on that metal wheel oh that was so hot what what oh wait i'm thinking about rosie that's their housekeeper sorry that's my bad was there a machine was there a hot flintstone there might have been right there must have been a hot flintstone yeah barney the two who were the two wives uh betty and wilma oh yeah and then there's i mean then like there's shira from uh he man she was under cash yeah thundercats yeah they had uh sex and thundercats there was a lot of

[13:05]stuff going on with thundercats it's true i mean it's yeah there's no doubt that like it affected us i think big time watching like i was i think her name was chitara and okay okay so that show i'm pretty sure it hasn't been on for about 35 years aaron just pulled out the name chitara i don't know i don't know chitara he's just like looking at his download folder chitara.jpg chitara and chipmunks.avi i don't know what it's like yeah he's moving his

[13:34]life-size chitara pillow that he has behind him not yet we're still going to talk about your chitara pillow we're not getting away from that did this come from a beck slide or how did we get on this uh yeah no a beck the becksters are now uh just barry from just texting us pornographic pictures of the chipmunk so that is where the podcast has gone that's we've and i for one could not be happier this is exactly what i wanted when i started and i've been held back by by the three co-hosts and it's good to know that the governor

[14:03]is off and we are free balling it for the rest of the time listen episode 67 to 500 they're just going to get dirtier and dirtier oh yeah pretty soon we're going to play the conversations we have before the show starts all right let's get into everybody's favorite part of the show it's time for the official beck uh rolling going i was going to say double down it's time to see what everybody's up to it's time for rolling going oh yeah

[14:39]uh matt rolling going with how's it going with you uh good a couple things matt was not expected to be called he's like oh no never get called never called first um there's a couple things i've learned my pants back on close window cancel download there's a couple things i've learned that can be uh you know it's a slippery slope with how much you consume one of those this weekend was uh

[15:06]old fashions it's a slippery slope they went out and they're like oh my god i'm gonna go to the so smooth the other thing is hot sauce i had had some i had some of those bourbon hot sauce on some chicken and rice tonight for dinner and that's a slippery slope my friend and you can't really suck that back off you know once it's on there yeah so matt you don't strike me as a hot sauce guy you're i i was not a hot sauce guy until a couple years ago and now i mean hot sauce on

[15:31]eggs yeah can't get nothing what about on on on feet oh my god i must pass out oh i'm seeing stars that's a hard pass hard pass holy shit matt did you did you get to the light-headed phase were you feeling like you had to lie down or was it like no but like i was sweating profusely like there's a spot on like the back of my head you know that it seems like that sweats even more

[16:02]and so i don't know it's uh you know instantly i know i've had a little bit too much hot sauce but those are just a couple of observations that i've had so far i've had a little bit too much hot sauce the thing that i have to complain about because i can't really complain to anybody but you guys and so nobody cares happy to happy to complain to you guys is and it involves primarily one of our uh least favorite stores here in the twin cities you guys ever i mean there's two there's there's a good and a bad here yin and yang

[16:32]good thing about it their grocery prices are way better than everywhere else that i go shopping and whatever it's uh it's it's great to have that option but every single time you're there one is packed with moms and they don't know how to drive their cars right like we pass on we go down the right side yeah in minnesota i don't know what they do in california but we go down the right side well i got a car question for you though i got a car question okay recently in i haven't been in a for a while but in crowded grocery stores i've tried i've tried it that when you

[17:04]so when you get to the end of the aisle do you ever jump in front of the cart and pull the cart out rather than pushing because you don't want it because like sometimes you push the cart out when you can't see it so i've tried a new move where i where i pull the cart i jump in front and pull it out you're going out first so if anybody's going to hit you it's going to hit you and not your car instead of the car i'm agile as shit man i do what no but like you you're like i don't this valuable you broke your arm parking your bike aaron what so you're pulling

[17:32]your cart along you're pushing he's pushing it i'm pushing then when he gets up front he slows the front of it and then kind of starts pulling it into the aisle you just grab it and then that's a little bit you might run into somebody so that's not that that's not the you see it's like santa claus and his bag of toys that's what he's acting like no a cart is a cart pulling a cart is what a kid does a little kid walks in front of the cart and acts like they're doing something pulling it a adult pushes the cart and guess what if somebody comes by and hits your cart

[18:01]fuck them it is a cart who cares that's what things are for okay and i do you have another cart i have a cart story actually actually i have a cart question in a story so i'm going to do my cart question first number one do you think it is acceptable to go into a grocery store open a soda drink it as you walk around the grocery store and then pay for it on your way out no is it okay i mean probably but what yeah oh i'm with aaron absolutely what are you guys talking about you haven't paid for it

[18:31]doesn't matter you're gonna going to yeah listen this right here's an area for 275 it's a drink you guys are some entitled assholes it's just terrible russell's over by people trying the grapes it's like no oh oh you think they're your grapes already yeah russell it's like i'm sampling the soda it's just like the grapes there is no difference okay rob's like oh this this wasn't the corn syrup i was expecting i'm canceling that that purchase as well that's a funny thought

[19:02]just walking around with an open bottle of k-roll dumping it down or you know just pouring a little bit of straw he's got a straw a little bendy straw do you know where the toothpaste is i'm just pounding corn syrup i'm like do you know where the toothpaste toothbrushes are he made a huge mistake so a soda is okay does that mean other things are okay do you guys bring your kids in and like open toys up and let them play through the whole store or not no i carts used to have a soda like a a cup holder right that's for the soda you get in there and

[19:37]listen if you put anything here's a little that's for the fountain right up front you're just for the fountain drink you get out you guys are you guys in your support all right now i'm on team russell now i'm on team russell you guys at your suburban grocery stores oh that's for the phone up front give me they only serve virgil's natural soda shut the fuck up we're not we're talking about real old school grocery stores when i was like 20 and i would go uh anytime i'd actually go at

[20:02]like an econofoods i i've been known to be in an econofoods and i know that econofoods had cart had to had cup holders it's i went to the cup foods on 66 and so you would like go get in the line and grab a pop out of the cooler right by like the checkout and open it and start walking around no a lot of people don't know this if you put anything on the samples table it therefore is a sample right so they have a thing that says what are you talking about samples samples yeah

[20:31]so if they have a table that says samples and let's say they're giving away like fucking apple slices or something right you take a soda you put it on the table boom that tape that soda now a sample it's the law don't look at me anything is a sample on the sample table matt and i are just shaking our heads for the listeners out there they can't see it no i would buy i would buy the soda on the way out but guess what i'm gonna drink it as i'm walking around buying rutabagas or whatever okay aaron and i are gonna see each other drinking a soda we're gonna give a little soda tip to each

[21:01]other like that's right yeah and then we're gonna compare rutabaga sizes yeah i'm gonna be like oh good thing i saw aaron pulling his cart out from the aisle i almost ran into him i mean see it works it's so smart indy 500 of carts i was i thought maybe that was this you know matt's talking about driving a cart correctly i wanted to know how you do it uh and this is a good edit point just in case that last story didn't work out here's the thing is that aaron's pulling the cart out story doesn't work out when we first moved to new york city costco in queens is a gong show it is wild it

[21:30]is there are no lines like it's everybody's for itself so jenny has the two jenny has her and amelia with her right she's at costco she goes and gets a sample right and she gets one for her and one for amelia and she turns around and walks back and the woman a woman in just in the in the area there takes the sample out of her hand and says oh i'm sorry this is too many samples you should only take one sample did not work there just a woman shopping at costco yes and

[22:00]jenny of course you might this now this part of the story might surprise you jenny started yelling at this person they got in a very big argument about how many samples you can take if you have a kid right so she comes back she tells me the story and i said jenny calm down we just moved to new york we got to be careful relax and she goes okay i'm calm and she takes the cart and within two seconds she takes about five steps forward and then rams this cart full speed into this woman's cart who was yelling at her just slam it just boom like that she goes

[22:31]oh yes i feel much better and she walked around i was like oh my god i am married to an absolute psychopath i was like what do we do now we just walk around this costco after she slammed her i mean it was a full intentional slam aaron you would this is why you don't walk in front of the cart you don't walk in front of the cart rob did you up the her life insurance after that incident because somebody's gonna just take her out one of these times matt what else are you gonna say oh i was just gonna say that it has now decided that they are going to stock all of their shelves at on

[23:02]saturday morning at like 9 45 to 11 30 like the busiest time where the most people are going and so i just i just don't get it i mean did you guys you guys ever experience this i just don't get having like the stocking of shelves at all times of day and so they must just really not care right they just say like well we're gonna get these things stocked people can go around us or whatever but it is the most annoying thing when you've got a pack store and then you've got people that are stocking shelves like i don't know have you guys

[23:35]ever experienced this or my man is it true you were talking about this earlier and you said that after this incident you only went and used a self-service checkout hoping that all those people would lose their jobs as punishment for uh slightly delaying you and i do that because i do pack a grocery bag a lot better than the people that are working that's impressive i'm terrible i'm impressed so yes you know like you gotta get you gotta get in there four bags right you don't want you have four bags you can carry it all in one load if you've got more than four bags and people just

[24:03]willy-nilly just start oh this one's like half full but you know it's a little heavy like no the kind of thing you could dispute the charges about right like target to provide you with a shopping experience that you expected you go home you call your credit card company listen i got screwed i needed to reverse those charges now you go through the self-checkout you hurt the checkers you can go you can hurt the credit card analyst as well just like laughing off jobs i like it right i like so matt in your mind when are they stocking shelves like at four in the morning or whatever

[24:32]yeah or how about like like eight to ten i mean i again i have never worked at a grocery store so maybe it takes a long time and this is the way they can have like half of the they can have like half of the employees doing it that they normally would but yeah i mean that store sits empty from 10 o'clock at night till you know six the next morning right like when as a stocker when you want to be not getting around a bunch of moms and snot nose kids and man can you imagine being in a after hours though wouldn't it just be magical there's a movie about that a movie about it

[25:04]there's a movie that's a good one too and aaron's making his hands at one hand into a shoe and the other one is doing the fucking sign which i was what and i don't like that it's what he wants to do after hours i would i mean i might just go like play the playstation or something or like a bunch of stuff by the way something you can do at home actually some play the playstation oh it's so magical i went and sat in a chair with my family basketballs around you can try on all

[25:31]the clothes again watch stuff on the tv do it at home do it at home none of that magical that's the dumbest magical shit aaron what else give me two other things you would do it you're there after hours so far you would literally do everything a 12 year old boy would do in a garage with stuff i would eat a bunch of snacks i have so matt did matt mentioned matt mentioned the magical groceries i've been i'm forever mad at groceries because they discontinued the salt and pepper cashews and nothing will ever be as delicious as those probably got it back i last

[26:00]time i was there i didn't see him the only spot around here where i can go get my jalapeno cheddar johnsonville brats you guys turkey brats that's the only spot they've got it so if you brought yourself a little hot plate you were there overnight you can cook yourself a brat then you can dribble a basketball you can make yourself an obstacle course i'm sure there's a hot plate yeah over in the uh you know the section by the right part of the country you can crack open a beer you can buy the world's most boring art they always have the shittiest art there it's just the most boring shit i look at the art like who's buying this shit speaking of dribbling a basketball the other day i was in that store and there was this

[26:34]kid walking around he was probably like 14 and he had grabbed like one of those bouncy balls out of like the toy section and was dribbling around the whole store and i almost lost my shit like i almost like just kicked it over to the boys matt matt's blood was like screaming through me and i was like i wanted to be like knock this shit off and i almost lost my shit like i almost lost my shit i almost went and kicked the ball away yeah you did the million dollar man where you're like i'll give you a hundred dollars every time you bounce that ball the first time you just kick it yes that'd be so good well to be fair have you guys ever had a job stocking shelves

[27:03]have any of you ever had a job stocking shelves um not really i worked at menards and would would do that a little bit sometimes i worked at walmart yeah my first job was at walmart but it wasn't like full stocking shelves it was like go fix that end cap and make sure that it lined up or whatever i was i was not like you know get out there take a pallet out and stock a whole you know wait you worked at walmart that's my first job man yeah what the fuck what episode

[27:30]is this 76 i still have just worked at walmart still have the best the best yeah my mom my mom sent me the vest with my name tag and everything i probably wasn't supposed to keep it but i must have just walked off with it so i got that i must have just walked off with my vest that was my first job when i was 16 because here's the thing in my hometown everyone worked everyone worked at everyone worked at hy-vee at the grocery store in my hometown that was the thing like every high school kid first shop was at hy-vee yeah man you guys know me i'm not gonna do what everybody else does no i'm gonna buck the trend i'm my own man yep yep damn the man small town locally owned

[28:05]stores i'm gonna work for walmart so that was my first job baby yeah do you ever you ever put that put that vest on for like a fun role-playing night with erin's wife at gmail.com or not yeah i mean i'd welcome to walmart and give her secrets away roleplay okay honey you're trying to start a union and i'm your manager okay i'm gonna bust that shit up boom that is the best welcome to walmart what can i help you with today hey look at this little

[28:33]pinkerton oh you know what i'm talking about guys i got so many union busting sex jokes it's crazy hey babe does it turn you on i don't have any health benefits do you like that are you into that no health benefits hey i'm gonna have i'm gonna have sex with you just enough until you're just a part-time employee but not more to make you actually a full-time employee right and i'm sorry i said that about your wife and i feel bad this job has full oral benefits if you're in the union by the way

[29:03]man did you have any more no no that was it i would just like somebody to explain to me why they have to stock the shelves at 9 45 on saturday morning can you imagine if erin was your greeter in walmart when you walked in and you were like oh my god i'm gonna have sex with you i did get to be the greeter i got to be the greeter sometimes you took an old person's job when ernest took a break i had to cover his brakes for 15 minutes yeah man it was awesome

[29:32]i left okay so here's what i need people to do i need people to email back at beckdiditbetter.com or can you please uh text at 802-277-BECK and can you just do one line that you think erin would have said as a greeter okay we will make erin read those lines on a future episode and you will see what would it be like to walk into a walmart and be greeted by erin okay he was like just to let you guys know we don't have any more salt and pepper cashews i'd be like what the fuck but who cares that's the

[30:03]most boring flavor i've ever heard of in my life i literally have both those things in my kitchen salt and pepper oh how am i gonna get salt and pepper on these cashews god if only i had something i could like shake and those two things would come out we just don't have the technology special unorganic peanut butter and isle 22 all you gotta do is stir it every time you eat it you just threw it once it's just one

[30:31]it's not that hard see this would be like you agreed being greeted by erin you'd walk out he's talking about the grocery erin screwed up the greeter because he talked to people on their way out with what they had he's like oh what did you get that looks really good dandelion greens grown out in the parking lot two dollars a bushel out in the parking lot hey you got you got you bought new shoes huh pretty cool what'd you do the old ones like all right well now that i've completely railroaded matt's rolling going i do have to say my other

[31:00]favorite thing i'll take up i have a recycling program it's just like a box it's a it's a suitcase and it's erin it just says on there just keep going erin's shoes recycling program like being being the greeter was fantastic like anytime i could cover ernest's break i like being the greeter but but doing the closing call that was where i really shined like i was like i was like when i could like get on the horn and do the like you know attention walmart shoppers the time is 9 45 and we'll be closing in 15 minutes please make your final selections and bring them i mean i loved that that was like when they let me do the call and me ricky d booboo d and you're throwing

[31:32]dougie fresh up there kick it rosie do you still think you know the uh like the you know those things usually they do that on a phone right you need to have like star six nine or something like that and then it goes over do you know what the code is still at walmart i don't think i do i might one of the funniest things a couple friends from richard would do they knew it i forget where we're at but they'd get on and they'd say like my brother's jimmy and mike from bloomington hilarious

[32:00]dude he'd get on and say uh jimmy we have located your tampons in aisle three please come over jimmy to aisle three thank you yes you know it was so hilarious why is it always so much funnier than just talking can we get a price check on very small condoms no he's only buying one a singular very small condom that got a little real guys listen our condom company is not doing well okay i am starting to think naming ourselves very

[32:38]small condoms is bad okay my dad was named very small i'm mr small yeah my first name is very and my son is very small okay so i thought having the name very small was going to be very small very small condoms people would realize it's a family business and they would want to buy our condoms why do they got to be so big yeah look at our neighbor's house look how big it is troy

[33:01]magnum over there he's doing so well i apologize to curtis mayfield's family and anyone who is a fan of the great curse mayfield who may have tuned into this episode yeah sorry that your album is gonna suck compared to these jokes we're doing curtis okay and i'm sorry about the heart attack okay uh that was curtis blow uh all right right curtis blow that's who it was curtis blow had a heart transplant yeah i was thinking of curtis low from the leonard skinner

[33:30]song that's a whole different song okay uh so i think we've only done one rolling going so we are screwed uh aaron rolling going how's it going with you it's really going great i had a list of stuff but i'm gonna try not to take up too much time tonight uh i will say i've been i've been um trying to be more like matt in a lot of ways but one of them is i've been venturing outside the list of albums to listen to and you also stopped listening to the albums that we're talking about like bad ass or not no man you know no this one i mean i know this album but i've been listening i've been diving

[34:03]deep into the into superfly i can just start talking about that right now if you want to but um no thanks my lady's been listening to the new adele album and uh here's another hot take on music for me uh adele pretty good highly recommend the new adele album really enjoyed it it's fascinating how these people are really stepping out on a ledge there yeah i just got an email to the better account it says it's from adele at gmail.com it says can we use aaron's quote as a pull quote for the album yes dot dot dot pretty good signed aaron does not want to share

[34:35]his last name due to us i don't know what getting fired nobody cares have we talked about adele how when she put the new album out it was on spotify you can go listen to it on spotify but you cannot shuffle you can you have to listen to it in straight order do you guys hear that yeah yeah that's such a power i'm all for it that would be like if no one could fast forward through aaron's rolling going and they actually had to listen to the whole whole thing that would be a disaster every word in order that's so important everything i say you see us walking

[35:03]into apple headquarters into their podcast division we're just swinging the biggest nuts you've ever seen in your whole life we're like we don't want people to fast forward through our show we have a really good show they're like who is this is this the people doing all the copyright infringement it's like what no it could be anybody it's aaron it's aaron aaron's pushing a cart through there but ass first or whatever he walks out in front of it he's just ramming people he's pulling you gotta get into it you gotta be in an athletic stance like when you go to pull like when you go to pull your cart out of the aisle you're not just

[35:31]sauntering out you're in three-point position man you're ready for anything and you know what the worst thing is too if you're on the right side you're going north the other person's going south but you're still going down this you're still going you know like everybody's going east if that makes sense so then like you got six aisles or you keep passing that person yeah and every time you're like like damn it there's in minnesota in minnesota there's a lot of oops oh sorry oh my favorite thing to do in the store is to find the single guys in the store

[36:01]right wait what what uh let's let's unpack that a little bit rob oh no crunch and mountain dew and like frozen pizzas it's like meanwhile mine is full of like oh i don't know charity donations and you don't even understand the plight of the single guy the plight of the single guy is like you know what i'm saying like you know what i'm saying like you at the store is we don't get the cart we just get the basket because we're like we're not going to get that much shit and then you end up with like stuff on your arms the basket's overflowing yeah you just have to leave it in some corner where no one's going to see that you've left a bunch

[36:31]of stuff because you can't carry it all the point of the single guy is you don't even get the cart because you don't think you're going to need it and then you remember yeah you remember you're out of toilet paper and you're like shit because it's right those carts are at the front and the toilet paper is all the way at the back so yeah i just go use it in there and i pay for it afterwards in the in the store then i pay for it when i check out i don't like this single ply thing in the bathroom i need to go get the two ply

[37:01]pay for it afterwards mr very small the manager's name is very small as well it's a small town mr very small he's back again and he's doing it mr very small sir we have talked to you about putting the toilet paper into the uh freezer section okay we've had this discussion before please don't do that you cannot use it i picture you as a single guy at the store like you have your cart right and then you're like oh i gotta get toilet paper but the only toilet paper they have is like the big huge pack and then you walk by like some month like monday walking club of like super hot moms

[37:31]and you're like the single guy and you're just carrying this biggest thing of toilet paper you've ever seen in your whole life monday walking club of super hot moms and there's just a there's just a plethora of extra small condoms filled out of my my cart we need a price check on used toilet paper and extra small condoms please and it's for russell he's in a green shirt two l's he's in a green shirt yeah yeah with the sweat stains yep that one okay we're gonna get a price check on

[38:03]this that would be good aaron what else do you have rolling going i mean i've got so much but i'll just stop with this i went sledding uh a weekend like last weekend we were uh up uh north of of the bay area a little bit because the place we were going to go was packed and was snowing you couldn't go but they have these snow parks that are just convenience store parking lots that they convert into snow parks you pay to park there you let your kids get out we bought wallace

[38:30]a little sled that had these little brakes on it and it was fantastic yeah this is such a california shit they're not no no they're not brakes no rosie they're not brakes they're steers yeah yeah he did great he was amazing oh if you recall when i took my kids tubing in central park okay the east coast new york the first thing they did is went way too fast down the hill and then flipped over a metal fence okay that's what sledding's about it's not about this was incredible we had such a good there's dogs running around like the convenience store is open so dad can

[39:02]go get himself an ipa and a 375 a hennessy whatever he needs you know i'm saying like this was a perfect day it was one of the best days we've had i love i just want to take a quick vote right now and i'm not judging you aaron i swear to god i'm not judging you i think you're great i while he was using the sled with the brakes was he wearing a helmet okay give me a thumbs up uh if you think the kid was wearing a helmet let's see what we get from matt and russ was there when i'm gonna go you guys are thumbs down that's crazy that kid was wearing a helmet no it's from iowa

[39:34]like he lives in california all gas no brakes he did wear a helmet for ice skating but not for sledding now he was a good sledder man he's he's a he's a trooper about sledding man i can't believe he's not wearing straight up the hill every time sled right back down it was such a great day nobody got hurt it was beautiful so i let me explain these winter i i don't understand these winter parks because you said that it was a parking lot and then all of a sudden he's sledding i don't get where the connection where's the hill is he going up like the hills that they plow in a

[40:01]parking lot like yeah like the hills that they plow we're like it's you know it's in the mountains like it's a it's in the mountains so there's just little hills all over and it's they got 15 feet of snow so there's just like they plowed the parking lot and then there's all these little hills and then people kind of create their own sledding spots and their own trails it's incredible what do you have to pay to park you pay for the parking and then you're just there doing your own thing after that so so it's amazing so when people had like people had like people were tailgating like people were set up in the parking lot tailgating like and then their kids would go

[40:32]off sledding it was fantastic to quote seal okay when it snows okay my eyes become large and i would look and see that a parking lot so i'm picturing like a parking lot like at my high school has now has like the hills that we used to like push each other off of right those hills right yeah you used to make big tunnels so actually that's totally straight you're in the mountains a natural hill and you are paying money to go sledding in a parking lot like a 7-eleven car somewhere listen no no you think because i'm

[41:08]from the midwest too right like i didn't forget i've seen a lot of snow in my life this is different man this is like you drive up the freeway and for miles the snow is piled up 12 feet high on either side of the freeway everywhere you can't get off the freeway because it's huge vertical but to the right a totally flat parking lot that you have to pay money to go to ah yes but you park in the lot and there's nothing around i got i mean you guys do not you're missing the point

[41:32]there was plenty of hills for sledding perfect sledding there's not a park like right near that in the summer it's a park yeah in the summer when there's no snow it's like a place you can go hike in the winter it's full of snow and you can just pay to park and you go wherever you want now i have to say i'm not a big fan of snow but i'm not a big fan of snow but i'm not a big fan of snow being able to drink while your kid is sledding now that's something i can get behind that's what i'm talking about right there okay very small there was also i will say there was a burger king and i was gonna grab some burger king on the way out but by the time we were leaving he

[42:03]was kind of like having a tough time so we settled for cheez-its from the convenience and pringles from the convenience store and that's that's what he had in the backseat did you pay her before or after he ate them before we paid before yeah aaron do me a favor next time can you tell the good story first okay okay i mean the sequel was better than the first one that's my style right i was like that's a boring story there could be a story that's possibly more boring than that and then

[42:31]it was a burger king story that involved him not stopping at burger king hey why don't you tell us what you didn't order like what are you talking about we got the cheez-its and the pringles from nothing to do with the burger aaron i love you okay it's great you're the best i was somebody was saying to me why are you so mean to aaron you're the best you're the best you're the best and i was like i cannot help it he's like a gift he is everyone no everyone does say it i got multiple texts about robin's too mean to aaron my kid my kid is like why are you so mean to aaron

[43:01]and i was like i can't help it it's like a drug you need to do it to feel normal please he's so perfect blowing out aaron's candle makes mine shine 10 times brighter like the stuff aaron says he is a gift from god to me i i think it's a gift from god to me i think it's a gift from god to me i think about aaron multiple times a day multiple times a day i appreciate like when i heard my kid my kid insulted somebody i was like boy that would be a good insult on aaron like it was like i was like i want to be like you dad are you guys playing wordle oh we can't we can't move on big

[43:33]time i'm texting to my mom my mom and i now text multiple times a day about wordle we love it all right russell what is it by the way this will be come out like 10 weeks later when everyone hates wordle and it turns out the guy who started it has problematic ties russell what do you think what's uh rolling gonna go with you rolling going to go with you i'm gonna go with you you guys know tonight i i came up i'm at my brother's resort up at cole's resort where they do the wife swap yeah you get the deal i was wondering how the commotion behind you was yeah i told him to keep it down at least and put the socks on but so i came up here and it was

[44:03]funny i was i was talking with my brother and my sister-in-law for a bit before i came over to record with you guys and and i said oh i have to go record my podcast my sister-in-law knew i had to do this so she's like well uh you know have a good night enjoy the podcast remember she goes what's the podcast about again and i go oh music and she looks at me and she goes no seriously is it about sports or what's it about and i was like music and she goes you don't know shit about music and i just kind of sat there and waited for her to to leave me alone about the podcast yeah you didn't you didn't bust out

[44:32]with some facts you know so much about music now you didn't lay it on her yeah no excuse me do you know what a whirlwind there is like you know this shit come on you got it you know what aaron the people that really know about music are people like me who go to record stores and then bring their records up north with them so they can go to record stores and then bring their records up and show you the new records that i got on my my trip can i show you guys i had to i had to check out what's your podcast for small condoms well actually yeah that comes up quite a bit raffy

[45:00]we've got a raffy french so so it's a really exciting story i was gonna go to burger king but i i just drove past it and i decided to go to the record store instead so i didn't get any chicken any long chicken sandwiches nothing he called but i was like maybe i should stop at burger king or mcdonald's i didn't stop at any of them i just went to the record store i love it i love it see doesn't feel good to make fun of aaron feels good run through your veins you're like you're alive and so i went

[45:31]to to our favorite that matt and i know no name records in richfield even though i don't think they have the greatest selection as i've said before i'm a roadrunner guy now i've moved on they're in minneapolis you can't put them in richfield unless they want to sponsor us no we love them and you guys know i have i have a system i have a playbook and everything's so i tried to run the playbook the best i could but i had to i had to divert a little bit but so and russell your playbook is that you creep around the edge and pray nobody talks to you is that correct well actually i bring my little record player in my my suitcase one and i plug

[46:02]it in in the corner and i start playing the record and i pay for it when i leave but you're tugging the record player out behind you from the aisle you're like and and then i go to the super small section after record store you know i know what the waveform looks like when everybody says i can see it i don't even have to hear it it's like i'm in the matrix so i cut it out and put the beep in i know exactly what it looks like waveform so because we're listening to curtis mayfield i was like i need

[46:35]to get some soundtracks they have a soundtrack section at the record store so i bought two soundtracks figured i'd share them with you the first one is national lampoon's animal house i got the animal house soundtrack on vinyl what's the title of the song i don't know i don't know the best song oh the best song on there is uh hey twist twist and shout or that whatever here are some of the hits louie louie yeah wow twisting the night away tossing in a turn and

[47:01]a shamalama ding dong hey paula money and then of course shout you got shout remember we've talked about shout being one of the great wedding dances that would if you put i mean if you had a party and put that record on everyone would have fun the other soundtrack that i got i believe is on the list and i bought it even though i think matt dislikes this album but i got it anyway it's the saturday night fever soundtrack i believe this is on the list isn't it matt uh yeah somewhere listen to the

[47:30]opening song staying alive what an amazing amazing song to start an album right yes yes i i would say the barry gibb one of the greatest singers of all time i'm gonna say that right he's gonna write a song man the bgs could write a song for sure well there's a there's a documentary out about them and how they were like hugely successful where are they from norway is that what they're from oh they're like they're australian aren't they in new zealand they're australian i think australian well wherever they're from right they're huge right and they didn't they're huge but they didn't sing in that falsetto is that what it's

[48:04]called frozen when you sing really yeah yeah which we're going to talk about which we're going to talk about in three hours when we get to yeah yeah but then all of a sudden they started singing that falsetto and they came around right when this album that russell got released and they got you know to do some of this and it just made their careers blow up but they were hugely successful before that and nobody but nobody in america really knew them all that well because they're trying to record and i think miami but it's a great great documentary about i should check

[48:31]that one out i figured out what i'm going to do there man i'm going to pan you guys hard to the left and i'm going to pan russell and i hard to the right if you want to hear what matt said take out your right headphone okay do you want to hear russell and i talk about how russell called barry gibb barry what'd you call him barry barry barry he's the gibb brother nobody talks about as gary bibb i typically pan to the right you ever try to pan like you ever try to go opposite like it's not it doesn't work like you get like you gotta

[49:00]dress one way or the other especially but once you get to our age like that thing is trained you can't switch so i think okay no it does i'm not i'm not doing these jokes gross it's not a joke that's a real thing what speaking of jokes on this album that rob you will like this the second song of the album is how deep is your love how deep is your love one of the greatest songs of all time yeah many many people have covered baby i need to know the pj morton cover of that is so good everybody get out there check that's a killer album russ i think it's one of the best-selling albums of all time actually i it's it's up there so i got another

[49:33]one i got another album and you guys know a part of my system is i try to find the highest album i can find at the record store that's on the list right right yep yeah i got this we all know your system russell no need to explain it well the the pornographic one's coming up next so all right i forgot there's a pornographic component to your system yeah it's one cheap album it's the most pornographic one okay it's the highest one on the list yep it's one fun one

[50:02]and then i forgot what the last sounds like the rules i have for dating women in college okay i'm off my cheap one i'm onto the pornographic one so i went to the highest the highest one on the list that i could find and we've listened to this one are you experienced by jimmy hendrix i got that one i'm on the list of the highest ones on the list that i could find and we've listened to that at the record store it was like a great find right you can't you can't see that not take it and buy it you gotta grab it you don't have to grab it and that's a used copy it is a used copy that's gonna be even better a lot of these new pressings are not great but we'll talk

[50:32]about that another time yeah they they don't they don't skip quite as much as the the used ones right aaron yeah yeah i just love when the used ones skip all the time it's fantastic the next album and i'll let you guys decide whether this was the fun one or the pornographic one and i don't know how to lead into this but i may have to mail this to aaron when i'm done okay this also was in the two dollar bin two dollar record it is called chipmunk punk oh it is the chipmunks singing punk songs i was like i have to get this record okay what's on there pick

[51:05]one song off chipmunk punk i'll play in the background right now oh i can't wait um my shirona by the chipmunks is on chipmunk punk nice okay you're hearing that in the background right now so aaron's good if you've listened this far and you probably have a lot of questions if you have uh enjoy okay i thought i thought you guys would like those records and so that's what i got from the record i think i only got four but i had one more to share with you i had a friend who i love to think it's worth it guys trust me i like to think of russell and i know i

[51:33]made these exact same joke last time we talk about russell system but he puts the chipmunk punk album on and goes pretty pornographic don't you think well you guys know what i buy records i have to stand in the corner and you know hide myself there rob you don't want people to see what you're doing and i gotta rearrange the records in an order where i think i'm gonna get the most respect right from the people working at the record store so how would you guys order okay animal house saturday night fever are you experienced or are you experienced or the chipmunk punk here's the

[52:03]right way i would go are you experienced because everybody's like oh okay that's a everybody knows that album animal house and then you're going well this is it's a bizarre turn but okay then it's the bgs and then you end with chipmunk punk and you say to them pretty pornographic don't you think a rated triple x what did you say no chipmunk 17 if you know what i mean so i thought it was a pretty good haul at the record store man i know i rip on local record stores but that was a win don't you think good one that's a good one you got to get over to road

[52:33]runner sometime russell so i didn't make it to road runner but i thought i could share one more record with you guys quick i have a friend who gave me a record for the holidays and so we haven't talked about this one too much other than we've talked about the cover and it is the rolling stone sticky fingers with nick jagger's the best the best cover ever jagger's privates just he's panning right in those jeans like you would not believe it is literally russell's holding it up it is literally a close-up on mick jagger's crotch but with a that huge record dong moonlight mile and

[53:05]sway those two songs will knock me on my ass any day of the week those are such great songs the only problem with that aaron though aaron aaron i hate to say this to you but neither of those songs are on the same moonlight miles not on that record but uh no sway is right aaron do you want to be our music expert still or do you want to find a new podcast i gotta find a new podcast i thought sway was on sticky fingers it's time to make fun of aaron

[53:31]everybody's getting in on the fun we love it what's on sticky fingers let's hear what's what's the best all right here here's the lineup brown sugar oh sway you're right you got one all right i got one right okay wild horses which we talked about because this album which was really cool that i got this was the one that was recorded and i was like oh my god this is the one that was recorded down in muscle shoals yeah we talked about a few weeks ago uh can you hear me knocking you gotta move bitch i got the blue sister morphine dead flowers and moonlight miles did you say moonlight mile aaron wait i did say moon i said moonlight mile and sway i lied aaron got both

[54:02]this is what my sister a lot of things i shouldn't be talking about music i don't like this where i said two songs on the album in uh in 20 on their 2016 tour they started playing out oh my god i'm panning aaron way up so only if you have headphones where the thing is up here are you gonna hear him yeah what were you saying on the tour oh no no no no you stop i'm gonna say it you guys keep i'm waiting for you man so in 2016 rolling stones had their tour but they hadn't

[54:35]played moonlight mile in like 30 years live at concert and they brought that back it was a big deal and ever and i never heard moonlight mile until that concert and now it is on the top awesome songs of all time list that that i have and so it's on the top of the list and it is on sticky fingers you motherfuckers sticky fingers so congratulations rosie russell would you think i am wrong yeah i didn't get to hear that but you guys remember i did buy a t-shirt at the concert if you guys remember two of them 130 bones right yeah the other best thing about this album it

[55:05]comes in a special collector set where you open it up and there is a t-shirt in the album of mick jagger's crotch you've got you've got the t-shirt that comes with the album are you serious i'm dead serious what size is that t-shirt if it's medium send it to me i have a feeling it might be going to matt next time i see matt to be honest check this out this came in the record and now you got a t-shirt you have a t-shirt with mick jagger's please look up the the front to sticky fingers

[55:34]and picture russell wearing this t-shirt around while he is at the wife swap he is wearing the sticky finger shirt with no pants on he is he is uh pulling a poo bear running around at the wife mick jagger dick up top and the big rustic on the bottom hey hey cabin two cabin four you want to see my sticky fingers no don't oh god don't say that oh that sounds like aaron has a greeter at walmart uh all right rob roland how's it going with you my wife has an issue my wife has an issue

[56:06]okay and i and i've seen this coming now this has happened slowly over time you don't catch it because it's not a quick thing you just get used to it right you get used to it and pretty soon you realize it's happening and you're like oh my god i'm not going to do it i'm not going to do it more and more and really it's happening almost every time my wife has become a restaurant birthday faker no she is officially a restaurant birthday faker

[56:32]that's low if we go to a nicest restaurant she now 100 of the time will say that it is somebody's birthday in the party to get a free dessert at the end oh i don't know what to do about this i am deeply embarrassed discussed how much money she makes she doesn't need a free dessert i she doesn't even eat the dessert she just wants the free i don't know why she does it that's a pathological kind of so i guess my first question was what do you guys think

[57:00]of this i'm gonna skip that question i think i got a pretty clear view from the absolute looks of terror and disappointment that came over your face i don't i don't even i wouldn't even say it's my birthday to get a free thing if it were my birthday right no she doesn't say it's her birthday it's somebody else at the table's birthday so then you're like i almost said tonight oh i didn't know it was your birthday like she doesn't tell this is just like out of the blue can't be doing this right guys what's what's the what's the what's the judgment on this two things two things

[57:32]one it's hilarious to taste it's somebody's birthday if it's not their birthday if they do the old singing thing where they come out from behind happy happy birthday yeah this is your song it isn't very long you know that's hilarious in the birthday hole what what were you guys going out to eat so that's hilarious i mean a couple times a year

[58:00]birthday hole over and the guy sitting on the other side of the wall is like birthday hole i don't think i should be sitting next to the birthday all this can't be good every like 12 minutes they get poked in the ear by some lucky birthday goer yeah do you have a booth no no not by the birthday i made a mistake last time you gotta sit on the inside the inside of a booth oh the worst place

[58:34]the inside of the booth was bad before but then i heard about the birthday hole so the other thing is she's not like paying for this on the tip right so the person's i'm just assuming she's absolutely doing this to get it for free yeah i don't know this has just been one of these things stealing your it's like your wife is gonna go to jail she steals yes i think that's it i she it's like her talking on speakerphone it happens so slowly that i didn't notice suddenly

[59:02]she's become a full speakerphone talker she only talks on speakerphone what else does she do i mean there's gotta be no this is this is not the way to go this is not rob didn't you just get called out for having to turn the podcast off and you're editing a few weeks ago and you're like oh by the way did you heard about it just want to state uh those christmas cards still on the table okay they are almost in envelopes okay it is don't you think don't you think there could be some reasonable reason i think you could ask say it's someone's birthday because sometimes they'll bring

[59:31]out a different dessert that they normally don't have on the menu right like yeah they've got some sort of cake or something that's not on the menu that they're gonna bring out right okay i think so but then you tip them you tip them for that yes bucks or whatever right yes but next time we go out we're gonna say it's russell's birthday if he thinks it's such a good idea i can't wait i'd be out of there so fucking fast we uh rob we can do it this weekend january 14th through the 17th and we're in las vegas together it's magic smike's birthday i i i don't

[60:03]know if i agree to sleep on the side of the room with the birthday hole that doesn't seem like it's doesn't seem like it's good dude i can't bring my cardboard with me we we you're not gonna no you're out on the card board what are you talking about never mind are you talking about rubbing cardboard another cardboard the reference to having sex underwater we made the other episode no oh whoops this podcast has warped my brain when i hear about cardboard i assume it's about having sex underwater

[60:30]my bad i actually thought of you i i thought of you when i thought about having sex underwater this week rob but i'm gonna talk about that later in the episode oh no let's get to the let's get to rob's sentences aaron thinks about me did not come so fast all right let's talk about oh no there's 100 chance one of our one of our dumb shit listeners has to resort to that at some point

[61:01]so listen we are talking about superfly is this this is our first soundtrack right that we've done i was trying to figure that out yeah i don't think it is yeah first soundtrack is it also our first show that we've done yeah i don't think it is yeah first soundtrack is it also our first show artist have we had anybody else from chicago isn't kanye west chicago oh shit oh my god that's such a dumb yeah you're totally right that was so long i don't remember music yeah god and yeah that's a good point because kanye sampled curtis mayfield not from this album but we'll talk about

[61:30]that sorry rob do your thing russell what's your podcast about is it all this toilet paper you bought is that what your podcast is about um just the most insulting thing they think the podcast about what is it about dumb sports or dumb it's like what what do you think of me what other dumb yeah i don't know if i like this have her listen to the podcast and you'll see it's actually kind of academic no we don't want her to listen because we don't want her to hear the cole's resort wife swapping thing remember rob that reminds me if you were find yourself at cole's resort we are sponsored this week once again by cole's resort remember cole's resort go on up it is time it is

[62:05]wife swapping season okay it is the reason for the season keep each other warm yeah keep it in there swap those wives remember a two-person wife swap is not a wife swap it's a two-person wife swap that's just two people that were trying to swap wives and nobody else showed up so uh be there uh and this week only we have a bonus okay it is a 50 bonus i can't think of anything funny here so it's gonna get cut out shit i was thinking of things

[62:30]and i was like don't way way too dirty you get 20 off if you go to cole's resort if you go wife swap yeah go to cole's resort and say i'm a foot freak for chitara okay and they'll know exactly what you're talking about with this podcast by the way that reference is approximately two hours old all right all right we are talking about uh uh superfly by curtis mayfield is the first soundtrack we've done uh and this album actually first of all and this fact comes up all the time but i think it's so bizarre this is the only soundtrack to ever outsell the movie that it's a soundtrack for

[63:03]wow i mean it this this is the ultimate soundtrack album i don't know about quality wise but when people think about i mean you don't even think about this as a soundtrack you find out it's a soundtrack later but it's a soundtrack for a movie that's a soundtrack for a movie that's a soundtrack but this is a another social conscience song a conscientious socially type soul music that's talking about drugs and poverty uh and curtis mayfield really kind of traced the path of marvin gaye in a lot of ways right where he's singing about the same stuff he the same thing

[63:32]with this album where people didn't think it was going to be this big hit just like uh what's what's going on uh and uh and and that just like that turned out to be a surprise mega hit uh same with this one and and what's really interesting about curtis mayfield is that he actually started with the impressions he was actually a kind of a doo-wop singer and he wrote this song see if you guys recognize this song oh yes just heard this one on lady soul right this is the third time

[64:02]this is the third time we've heard this in like five albums because we heard it with bob harley we heard it with aretha franklin and now we're talking to the guy who literally wrote this song and it's not even on this album like it's great songwriter it's craziness and one of the all-time great voices i mean i will say i'll just go ahead and say i watched the movie this week for the first time in my life and the album is it's everyone should see it i think it's a really interesting commercial uh cultural artifact

[64:32]uh some problematic themes definitely some problematic language um kind of near the end but but also you can see how tarantino was like really influenced by tarantino specifically but a lot of cinema was really influenced by films like this so i was glad i watched it and then the album now i don't know how it makes any sense without the movie when when you talk about problematic stuff this makes me go back was purple rain considered a soundtrack yeah i would have to say yes my god

[65:04]russell yeah you're a smart music guy now russell does not miss i'm moving out of the very small section tonight into the big section the big brain check out the big brain on russell yeah i remember that part of the movie where she was masturbating with a magazine that's all i can remember again that's my one prince reference that i have uh all right little child running wild this is the opening i mean these drums and that's one of the big yeah the drums i think are one of the all throughout this album and

[65:36]other work of curtis mayfield's like his first album curtis uh he's using a lot of the latin percussion that we heard on what's going on so that's one of the big parallels between his first album and his first album and his first album and his first album and his first album and his work and and uh is there a chance herbie man is there a chance that herbie man is on this album well no because i've read the credits but i don't shit dude shoot okay aaron i read a lot of

[66:01]the credits too i had a hard time figuring out who played what and what the instruments were on this a lot of times with the albums you can see exactly who played whether it's i don't know if it's congas or bongos but there's a bunch of different percussion on here but you can't always figure out what it was or what was being played did you do you know all that stuff or did you have access to that or not no i same like all i had i mean i looked at wikipedia and other sources for the album credits but no like um there are two different percussionists right so there's ah shit i should have written down the names but there's one

[66:30]playing sort of the traditional drum tyrone mccullen yep and then the other guy master henry gibson i think master henry gibson is the one who's doing more of the african or latin percussion i guess i guess morris jennings plays most of the drum tracks for tyrone plays on pusher man yeah but i think master henry was the one who was doing a lot of the he was from chicago and i think uh was from one of the avant-garde jazz schools in chicago right and then uh was playing a lot of percussion on this album and then the big one for me we're

[67:02]going to get to it later on think instrumental i cannot figure out what that horn is on there and i don't know who was playing it so yeah it's it's not clear i mean we know curtis wrote it all of it um and i think johnny pate did some of the arrangements maybe but uh for the strings but yeah it's it's not always clear pusher man i think this might be the first rap song of all time like to me this is like he's rapping right

[67:31]he's got straight bars and uh we're like we talked on text uh a while ago like my house is now a permanent closed caption house anytime we're watching a movie yes so watching this movie so curtis mayfield performs this in the movie he's like in a bar band but yes he's in the movie he's playing in a bar and when you watch this and watch the closed captions you realize like what he's doing it from a rhyme scheme perspective and it's crazy the way you can just toss these things off easily it's really i i think pusher

[68:00]man is one of the greatest songs that we've heard so far also the pusher man the wah-wah pedal is just sick and out of control isn't here like the wah-wah on this album destroys all these albums we've listened to before don't you guys think i mean this sounds like aaron's kid in the backseat with just a little bit of music and then he's like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my just milk wah-wah i just get milk no fries now surprise surprise this is the highest charting song on this album no other song on this album got up to as higher than this this was number four on the pop charts flight not even the title track not even the titular track and this is the end

[68:31]this is a titular track at the end which is pretty great um but this is freddy's dead oh nice some nice flute in here this song at many points in my life is the song that i play in my head when i walk into a room like if i walk into a room i'm playing this song in my head there's a lot of those songs where if you're that song's playing when you're walking in you're like yeah i'm a badass this is funny

[69:03]thing about the movie there's a character in the movie named freddy this song plays maybe so the songs are pretty roughly chronological order from when they appear in the movie there's a character named freddy they're all in the same song they're all in the same song they're all in the same song already playing this song before freddy even appears on screen so by the time you meet freddy you're like well it's not it's not gonna work out well for freddy like it's not not gonna be freddy walking in he's looking at the band they're like freddy's dead wait what what are you saying wait a minute i think freddy's dead is probably the song that gets played most in the movie and

[69:31]it's pretty much anytime uh priest who's the main character ron o'neill is the actor anytime priest is kind of like on his strut just moving moving yeah smooth through the through the world that's when freddy's dead is playing you can hear it it's great russell you try this song and it's you try this later if you put on that uh bg saturday night fever if you put on that soundtrack and just walk around cabin two you're gonna see what we're talking about that it's gonna make you strut it's gonna improve that wife swap so i think this is gonna work out well junkie chase

[70:00]just listen to this this is just pure 70s isn't it here this is this is a fantastic song from a i think and once again sorry to dominate the conversation in the movie priest is literally chasing a junkie who owes him money through the alleys of you know new york and this music is playing it's perfect it's it's it's unbelievable have you guys have you guys watched any

[70:33]blaxploitation films besides superfly like have you seen shaft shaft would be the only other one yeah i'm telling you watch the movie coffee it is unbelievable this is the opening scene you working at the starbucks and like walking around drinking the double mocha or whatever the extreme drink you got was oh yeah but i had like six of them and i thought i could was in the matrix i could see through space and time yes uh all right uh give me your love

[71:01]ah this is so aaron is this funk soul i'm thinking i'm thinking i would say soul but it's funky it's on the one if you guys look at like uh who sampled who or genius or any of those things curtis mayfield like needs all the credit in the world for all the people that are sampling him right like yeah he gets all these songs on here are just sampled a ton like there is so much of

[71:31]hip-hop music that wouldn't even exist without this album is that isn't that right aaron agree i mean yeah i was thinking of kanye's who sampled uh move on up but yeah i think i think all these grooves are so good and then this um the guitar work is so easy to sample that it's just it's just right for somebody to take this and try to flip it into a beat rob before you move on i have to tell you i have to tell you something important that i thought about because i told you i was thinking about you about

[72:00]underwater sex give me your love is playing during the bathtub sex scene and it is steamy as shit it's ron o'neill and then um i don't remember the actress's name the woman in the film her name her character's name is georgia they're just rolling around in the bathtub it's the 70s the camera is super up close so there's like a lot of body parts that you wouldn't necessarily see on screen now there's a lot of like gratuitous tongue action but then they grow in a while

[72:30]butt prints in the tub or no butt prints were there prints or no prints afterwards there's a lot of butt squeezing but no butt prints in the tub but then you say but because are we talking about the mtv music awards because like i this i didn't have someone robbing text me and they asked why were there prints in the tub they want to know if your butt is dirty or why was there prints no it like wore away the ceramic i think it was there before it wasn't me but once in a while you get like an up-close shot of like some some soap bubbles on on priest's mustache

[73:00]which obviously they would have re-shot if they had the had the money but they're like ah fucking let's roll it yeah and then like some close-ups of priest chest hair it's uh it's worth a watch everybody i'm telling oh that's like i watched a bathroom uh scene recently where there was the birthday hole okay and that's where i actually got the idea from so what if it was just priest in a birthday hole you're like oh bathtub scene it's just him you get okay eddie you should know better man one of your sons is named eddie what do you think of this album so far they spell it different

[73:32]so it's not really screw this album not spelled the right way when is the last time you had to be the mean old daddy and say eddie you should know better i have not ever had to say that he's a perfect kid the love of my life or whatever you know the jewel of my eye or no he's he's actually kind of a whiny little brat right now so all the time six-year-olds i mean i don't know he's got a lot of feelings we're just helping him through all of his feelings shove him down good dad shove him way

[74:01]deep down put him in the birthday hole he expressed he expressed one feeling during 2021 and matt's like too many feelings in 2021 happy new year deflate my inflatables what'd you just say to me eddie happy new year's getting a little effusive time to shove those feelings down all right no no thing on me cocaine song oh this i love this because listen to the lyrics he's just talking like marvin gaye this was the one time i was gonna ask aaron about this this was the one time where he wasn't singing

[74:36]in falsetto it felt like every other part of the album he was singing falsetto air what do you think of him as a singer i think he is unmatched as a singer he's he i and i've been trying to figure out in fact uh i was my wife and i were talking about this this week when we heard it because every time she would hear it like she's really she's not a wah-wah pedal person so typically any 70s music like i love david ruffin if i play that in the house she's like yeah he's good but

[75:01]i don't dig on that like style but this one she's always like he's got such a nice voice and so we talked about is he doing falsetto is he mixing is that just his voice and i think he actually does falsetto less frequently than we think because that's kind of just where his voice is at and he's like mixing down from the top but it's really a special voice there's really nothing else like it and i think a lot i mean you guys know i think about d'angelo like on a regular basis anyway but i think i think definitely d'angelo thinks a lot about it was listening a lot to curtis mayfield in

[75:31]my mind as was prince and d'angelo was listening to prince so it makes sense uh speaking of cocaine can somebody tell me why do people do cocaine am i missing out should i be doing cocaine to me somebody is like doing cocaine it seems like they're stressed and they want to do stuff that is the opposite of me thoughts i think it's because if you if people leave like a little bit under their nose like it demands respect like you know they've been doing drugs where everything else you can kind of cover it up that one you got it you know it excuse me sir is that is that cocaine in your salt or is that a salt and pepper mustache it's like salt and pepper

[76:04]they don't even have that on cashews around here i hate this damn store is that priest wears a on the on the necklace and then he uses that to dip in and sample the cocaine like so throughout the movie he's just like taking a little snort here and there and it's like he's just like we'll take a little snort and then but we actually had a conversation with one of our listeners about cocaine recently uh and and he was like it's fine but like as soon as you are coming down you're

[76:30]like this is terrible i don't like it's awful to come down so i don't know i don't i don't think it's worth it it's usually what i think is we're wrapping up these podcasts i usually think well i feel like we're coming down for sure well i hope your dad's feeling better aaron all right this was i thought one of the most beautiful albums we've listened to in terms of like all the instruments involved there's all these horns the percussion is amazing there's one of the songs i think earlier had i think it was a triangle it just sounded like someone was sending one of those

[77:03]triangles but i really enjoyed it matt what do you think of all the instruments on this one is that a clarinet or what is that i don't know what i think it's an english horn but i'm not sure i think it's an oboe isn't it doesn't it sound like an oboe i would say this album is the best closing song we've heard since the aforementioned purple rain this is the titular track aaron okay it's a titular track right at the end so smart put the titular track at the end superfly tease it and then get to the titular track you get do you ever hear the titular track

[77:36]at the very end like how do you ever hear this well purple rain bye there you go soundtracks no man you know honestly now that you mentioned it i know prince was a curtis mayfield fan he might have done that on purpose yeah he might have been thinking about superfly when he did and what about his brother-in-law butt prince he's a curtis may feel you up fan go back to my

[78:00]joke earlier unless i gotta edit it out because i would call that one funk rap i think that's more more funky than uh the one we did friend than the one we talked about earlier that song this this song i had stuck with me for a long time i think that's more more funky than uh the one we did stuck in my head all week i was singing it all week at work people are probably like why does he keep singing weird different totally different genre songs every week one thing i noticed on this song i don't know rob maybe you can go to the very beginning of the song maybe see if you guys heard the very intro to the song check this out you hear that that sounds like a weero to me

[78:32]guys you know what you guys know i'm the music expert my sister-in-law thinks i don't know anything turns out i know a lot of shit yes and people have been telling me that texting me and they want more weero on this podcast so we're gonna give it to him we're gonna finish this this album with a list on the greatest weero songs of all time we've talked about the weero before we've done give me shelter by the stone stevie wonder don't

[79:03]you worry about a thing anything goes guns and roses right on marvin gaye we've talked about all those before we're doing new weero songs new weero we're giving people the new weero material here this is the hottest weero song of 2022 come to beck did it better for all your weero action you guys know i'm a big weero guy a giant weero fan a giant wow that's a giant weero thanks gilly bibs i appreciate that that was giant bgs by the way

[79:38]gary bibs i think it's called gary bibs you sound great gary bibs but we're going with gary we're going with barry gibbs he's our brother so we're actually going to keep him in the band thanks for coming to the tryout you were really close if you guys remember rob took muay thai classes for a while and he did it i believe

[80:00]under the boardwalk this is the drifters under the boardwalk check out the weero at the beginning do you hear that weero yeah it's super clean it's really crisp i thought it was fantastic so every time you think about a weero just think about this is your penis what it makes it more fun if i agree with that sometimes i do that with different instruments on albums it's actually quite fun it would be much more fun if it made that sound when you when you did that though wouldn't it rob yeah under the boardwalk you just you're walking on

[80:33]the boardwalk and you're like what's that noise the next time the list is tough because we've only talked about this artist once or twice and the one time you guys made fun of him because he played with rob thomas but this is santana oye como va check this out represent yeah san francisco yes that's a weero yeah it's in there and again think about it it's kind of fun

[81:03]where does where does santana rank on the all-time bay area musicians here all-time bears he on the mount rushmore i don't know i'm gonna mess this up but it's gotta be uh it's gotta be that well i can't do like one at a time so it's got to be uh like the escovedo family so pete escovedo and and his daughter sheila e uh it's got to be it's got to be tower of power and then it's got to be short and

[81:33]e40 are they bay area metallica is bay area they're san jose so like i don't know a mount rushmore is only four that's tough because i think you got to put tower of power on there maybe you can maybe e40 and too short can share one and then yeah it's got to be the escovedo family and tower of power and metallica that's it i do only four and have one more go at it you spun around it now like four times have one more i know i know again all right one more time man are you googling feverously

[82:01]right now it's pete escovedo and sheila e it's tower of power it's too short in e40 and it's metallica that's but look at when it comes to new challenger it is me french giraffey he's not from the what the hell with apologies to santana and every other bay area musician who me forgetting off the top of my head all right next up on the list this song is tone loke wild thing check out the interlude where you hear the weir oh oh i didn't know there's a weir on this one

[82:32]oh oh isn't that the weir oh yeah that weir is doing the wild thing you guys know the weir oh i mean look at that i thought you would like that one you know what i realized though no one refers to it as doing the wild thing anymore was this like an 80s thing like do you ever like rob do you ever nudge the wife when you're in bed and hope she wakes up and you're like hey i'm ready to do the wild well i do say to her i say well you know this is what happens when body starts slapping from doing the wild thing

[83:01]and that's all i need to say i think the movie major league charlie sheen's character i think wild thing out the wild thing as a sex term i think the wild thing became a crazy picture instead of a sex term you think charlie sheen beat tone loke when it comes to wild freaks out there we're gonna do it right now this next week can you please next time you're about to have sex look at the person you're gonna have okay look him in the eye all right and say hey you two i

[83:30]was once like you and we're gonna do the wild thing all right let him know you know russell the problem in my sex life is i have recently run out of my bottle of a funky cold medina that i used to have so that was supposed to be an aphrodisiac right that's true remember when tone loke was an actor right but every time you saw him in a movie you'd like damn that's tone loke because you'd always be like oh hey let's talk to harry the gas station attendant he'd be like hey you two what's up i'm here at the gas station i was gonna be like damn that's tone loke i recognize that voice well now no one will ever be able to listen to tone loke the same again

[84:04]they're going to realize he isn't the master of the wiro i don't know if he played it i couldn't find the credits on it so i don't know if he played it or not hey russell this is me tone loke i just want to tell you i did not play the wiro next song on the list this is one of our favorite artists that we've listened to before this is david bowie this is the man who sold the world this was the song that got covered by nirvana i think right yes all right you hear it in there yes the wiro sticks out

[84:39]the wiro's right in there i honestly i never i never knew this was a bowie song i always thought it was a nirvana song it's not it's a bowie song i am humbled so good god damn russell knows a lot about music last song on the list sometimes all i want to do is podcast with you and so we're going to celebrate that by singing or listening to all i want to do by cheryl crowe check out

[85:02]the wiro on cheryl crowe song you hear it yes it's over on the right on the right erin i'm listening also is that a slide guitar or a steel guitar yes it sounds like a slide not a slide guitar god how many times did you hear this song like when you were like oh so many times 13 1 million times i was like geez so that one was played all the way out and i still like it and then she fucked

[85:38]dude no didn't she fuck kid rock or they just did the song i think they just did a song together right i put your picture away she was with uh lance armstrong i thought yeah lance armstrong the guy who took the steroids and rode the bicycles oh that's right she did rock we better watch out he sued a lot of people we don't we don't want to get

[86:04]i would love lance armstrong kid rock killed kurt cobain i would love bring it on bring on the uh lawsuit we need the publicity we are too lazy to run our instagram lance has a podcast now we could cross promote maybe whose podcast you think is better ours or his ours no doubt ours we have eight testicles on our podcast how many does he have below average tell you that but you know the average number of testicles is below whatever number you thought it's

[86:34]take one more take one away it's less than it's one fewer than you thought and i didn't forget about women actually it's okay never mind it's actually problematic around this podcast this is like a really important thing because the average is probably much different than the the mean right aaron or the median yeah i would say the mean and the median are very different in the median of my testicles that makes me think that sticky fingers album russell that was a great list features moonlight mile and sway that's true we double

[87:01]check that great list i don't know i already know we're gonna edit out aaron aaron calling me out wrong on the music stuff no i can't wait till this podcast is over we can talk more about who the greatest uh musicians are in the gold in the bay area all right you and you're not even going to include the bay city rollers they're the bay area aren't they i don't think they're from i think they're from australia do you walk d-a-y nine i f-u-c-k-e-d-k-i-d-r-o-c-k rock that's if the

[87:31]bay city roller guy fuck kid rock that'd be the song he'd sing sly and the family stone airplane c-r no more john fogarty journey third eye blind oh third eye hughie lewis in the news you missed aaron sly is the only miller band we talked about them a few brothers yeah i would put hughie lewis up there the problem is i gotta kick my great for sly i can't you know what i mean billy joe armstrong aaron you met him in person and didn't you had like a dinner dinner in the same place as

[88:03]him and that's weird because he hammer tupac is from the bay area it says we know billy joe went to high school green day wasn't from there oh you also missed a huge one oh mc hammer bay area listen hammer the bump pumps in the bump you can't dispute hammer's influence but i would put too short an e40 on the mount rushmore above hammer and that's no that's no chance to hammer man oh that's don't hurt him hammer come on there's no shots he's like guys major props to

[88:37]the sound clip already when it comes to when it comes to bay area musicians you can't touch this oh all right let's get into the rating system the rating system you guys call it a rating system or ranking so it's a rating we're not ranking these we're rating them i call it just waiting it out till i can go take a piss at the end of the podcast well i'll tell you what matt in the

[89:01]fall he's got a raking system gets all the leaves up all right so called a blower is this a rolling well toned at 76 okay it's right where it should be it's perfect okay when we're thinking about what's the 76th best album we think superfly okay right behind kanye this is the perk for perfect place for it we thought call it rolling well toned did it get rolling boned it should have been much lower on this list we should have heard it already or is this a rolling grown you know what didn't like this don't need the soundtrack this before the uh bodyguard soundtrack

[89:32]what's going on here okay it's something that seems wrong uh matt what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling grown uh you seem to be losing my voice i'll keep it really short i'm gonna say rolling well toned i think you have a condom idea for you yeah do tell it's really short kind of yeah okay i can't remember what the name was in the joke originally so i apologize

[90:01]mr small or very small mr very small very small yeah that's right uh so i'll just you know i think you absolutely hear the influence that the music arrangements had on a lot of different genres moving forward uh particularly adding in a couple sets of percussions and uh you know some of the orchestral stuff into kind of a funk jazz rock album so i think it's uh you know that's 76 it seems like a good spot so i'll say rolling

[90:31]well toned all right aaron what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling grown i think curtis mayfield as an artist is rolling boned on the list i think he should have been higher and we i mean we talked about voodoo so long ago but i think about d'angelo when i think about curtis mayfield and uh for the for curtis and d'angelo to be this far apart i don't think it's right i don't think it's right for him to be this far below two prince albums uh i don't think it's right for him to be this far below two kanye albums but i will say i

[91:02]don't know if this is the right album from curtis to have in this spot i think his debut album curtis has some bangers on it move on up uh the makings of you which i think is one of the all-time great love songs so i'm going to call this album itself rolling well toned russell what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling grown uh matt mentioned earlier i love the percussion on this this might be the best percussion album we've listened to where it's got to be up there from like all the different drums what's that it's like i mean i would still put love supreme

[91:33]ahead but it's that's a different point is it's up there it's up there with all the things that were going on the horns were awesome on this i love the song some of the some it felt a little um repetitive to me it felt like a lot of the songs were the same and that might have been because the wah-wah pedal was just used non-stop throughout the whole album but i really enjoyed it i i would listen to this again i i might have to go to the record store and buy more soundtracks if they're all as good as this one so i'm going to say rolling well toned

[92:01]guys this gets a rolling popcorn oh didn't sound good on paper hopefully there's no hole in the bottom of the box this is a rolling i'm going to edit that out this is a rolling popcorn because this is the i mean this is going to the movies this is watching a movie hearing the soundtrack you and now that aaron tells us that it's all chronologically you can see it like all happening you can you can kind of track the movie with your brain even if you've never seen it you can be sitting next to your best guy aaron you know you could be having some popcorn on your lap okay you can reach in and say wow this popcorn bucket is so hot it seems

[92:33]really hot uh there's a lot of hot and this is Is that flavor call on my hands? So that is what we get for this one. Next up, okay, Matt, who's next? Who is next? No, no, no, no. It's the who. Yes. Yes. No, no, no, no, no. But guess who? I don't know. Yes? No. The band? Who? Who? No, guess, the band. The band.

[93:01]No. No, no, no, no. Guess who? The who is the band. The who is the band. I don't know who the band is. No, no, no. The band is not the who. This is guess who? Rob, I don't know. Yes? Well, what's the other one we had to get out of this bit? I can't remember what it was. The band. There's no way out of the who. You guys might have single-handedly just ruined improv comedy right there.

[93:30]Next up, it's an owl's favorite album. Who? Who's next? Wait, is that a Grizzly Tower? I don't know, Aaron. I don't do any research for the album we're talking about. Much less the ones in my band. Who's next? Beck did it better. Target price check in the record section.

[94:02]Price check on Superfly by Curtis Mayfield Me Up. My name's Aaron. The greeter. And I'm looking for someone to Curtis Mayfield Me Up. I don't need a birthday hole. I just need a birthday half. It's not that big. Very small. I thought you were thinking of putting a birthday hole in that popcorn box. Seriously, though. When you buy condoms, it's already embarrassing enough. You've got to check out, and they check you out. Can you imagine if you roll up with the super small, and it's already open,

[94:32]and you're like, well, I'm just going to pay for these once I'm done? I'm just going to pay for the one I already used. It's back in the back. And I should get it for free, because it's my birthday. And they're like, you're having sex in the back? You're like, no, I was just trying on the condoms, and I thought I should pay for the one I opened. Oh, so you never jacked off in a condom to see what it's like, and then realized it's really not that great. Occasionally, I think I could tell my friends about this podcast.