Elvis Presley: The Sun Sessions (1976)

[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 all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better from 1976 kind kind of kind of uh this is album 78 elvis presley the sun sessions uh guys did

[00:33]you know i am now i am actually recording this episode from uh memphis oh yeah i came down i came down to see graceland uh i actually saw it for the paul simon episode too but i never brought it up i didn't think it was that it turns out it's not it wasn't related because i was like what do you guys think of what do you guys think of apartheid and they're like sir this is the graceland elvis uh do you want to see this plane all right so let's uh you know what

[01:04]did you bring any bagels did you bring a bagel to eat at graceland put it i put a bagel in the toilet like you know what i mean it's like putting it's like pouring a part of the 40 out it's like to my i'm also gonna die in the toilet so this is like me communicating with the past no if you go to graceland you can go to see his plane that's one of the things you can tour it's that's what the best thing in graceland is the plane by far you go out there it's the jungle room no no no it just

[01:30]got the big tcb on the tail i mean can you imagine if you came off a plane with tcb on the tail you know you're taking care of business okay you just know it in a flash nobody is falling down the line uh all right guys let's turn on the radio here in memphis and see some local flavor yeah let's see what's on i let's let's see aaron that's kind of filthy to say local flavor and i see you listen to me but you know what i don't see what next tuesday our download number

[02:11]is going up oh no oh yeah our podcast is sucky but we keep on trying we're trying to make that perfect episode people say it's good but they're all lying nice and that might be why nobody downloads

[02:33]we get on the zoom real late our energy deflates we hope that it'll be big time but we know it probably won't we're trying to get a sponsor but no one's buying i should probably talk way less about apparently your wiener too people have complained about how much you talk about your wiener

[03:06]yeah that's my role in going maybe we just maybe we just haven't asked the right porno company to sponsor us maybe we've just asked all the wrong ones to sponsor us rob no i don't want porno companies to sponsor us i just talk too much all the sponsors they're scared by my heart is there a wrong investigation style is there no oh yeah there's no yeah there's a lot of wrong ones i'll just i'm just gonna stop you right there yes the answer is the answer i was

[03:33]hoping for yeah like what rob what would be a wrong one well i'm just saying like chicks in cages excuse me they're women in cages okay let's not just women i get the alliteration i get why you want that but i'm just saying like chicks in cages excuse me they're women in cages okay let's get into it oh by the way my mom is downstairs i just forgot about that okay so uh welcome to better we are all the way up to double sevs we are talking about uh elvis and the sun sessions

[04:00]which is this another kind of compilation album well i'm sure aaron has some 78 actually you know but uh i am here uh with three guys uh i've got matt in minneapolis matt how are you doing bored out of my mind after listening to this album but great to be here hanging out with you guys okay well the reading section is not yet we can wait on that uh i've got russell in minnesota russell how are you doing now everyone listen and i'll tell you dumb shits what i'm talking about we're bringing our bathroom refrigerators with

[04:31]peanut butter banana sandwiches and frozen toilet paper to you so we can play some house yes i don't know if it's frozen toilet paper i've never said frozen that seems too cold just chilled just yeah just cooled down a little bit uh and and cool and i've got uh aaron here who actually thinks the blues singer stole the music from elvis he was saying that before the before the podcast started so aaron that's a weird take that's a strong take problematic problem aaron how are you doing i do love a good banana and

[05:01]peanut butter sandwich if you throw some bacon on there then that used to be my go-to for a long bike ride so i can get down with it let's play house wow so you would make bacon like you would sit there and make the bacon and the whole thing i always want to do that but the bacon takes too long to make wait matt you know how to make bacon it takes what 30 minutes start to finish yeah 20 i mean put it at 425 it's like 23 minutes you put it 400 it's about 26 if you go 375 then maybe you're about three you know three to 30 minutes you just gotta have a for bacon you just gotta have it you gotta have a bag you know you cook

[05:33]a pound or two and you just have a bag of bacon sitting around exactly right keep in the fridge times like this yes you wouldn't want to make your elvis style sandwich he's giving us all dad boners with how much he's talking about how to cook bacon it's like i'm here for it that was so good i'm trolling for that you guys never in the microwave never in the microwave if anyone's just in if anyone lives in minneapolis and they're looking for an amazing elvis treat you have to go to the lowbrow it's this burger place in minneapolis they've got that's a fish stick they've

[06:01]got fish got the grilled fish they've got the elvis sandwich it's peanut butter bananas and bacon grilled on sourdough you can get it with or without bacon depending if you don't like it hey guys guess what sandwiches on sourdough hit the bricks okay i don't need you sandwiches on sourdough this is a this is a hot take coming in sourdough sandwiches don't need you i have never enjoyed a sourdough sandwich every time i eat a sourdough sandwich i always think i wish this was on regular bread and yes i said grilled cheese

[06:31]any sort of grilled tree cheese is instantly better when it's on sourdough put in green put in ham put in whatever you want as long as it's got some melted cheese in there sourdough listen i don't have time to show the guys but the becks line is filling up with hashtag rob is right here oh my god the servers are down we're getting that so much if you think that sourdough can hit the bricks and sandwiches hashtag rob is right if you think uh sourdough is good you can say hashtag sour whoa rob you're wrong i think it's so funny that elvis died on the toilet and i feel

[07:02]like the exact opposite what do you mean every time i sit down and my nuts go in the cold water i feel alive like that's the one time i feel like living guys that's how you know you're getting old by the way i don't want to go into an old bed that's how you know it is getting old listen it is time that's a great visual but yeah i know like if we're all listening i mean like this is a like we can see each other right but this is you listen to this and the visual of that is hilarious it's really poetic these idiots not if you think about if

[07:32]there were a toilet came in there from the underside oh you really have oh no it looks like a bubble right when you're blowing it you know no what the bubble you rob i have to relay a question before we get to the actual voicemail here rob i was i was i was talking with a listener and they did not text into the backslide but they had a question and we started discussing this and i wanted to relay the question okay a

[08:03]few weeks ago you were talking about a birthday hole at a restaurant you said put your dick in the birthday hole loudly yeah this friend of mine and i were discussing and we had a question or a disagreement on is the birthday hole a wall where something goes through the wall or is a birthday hole like a piece of pie that something puts you put into the pie like in the like in the movie american pie is it a wall or a dessert listen i feel like neil pert getting asked about drumming

[08:32]like people keep asking me about this birthday hole that's all they want to talk about uh the correct answer is the birthday hole is just a hole cut in the wall it is a hole in the wall it's a hole in the wall i think you could probably choose what you want on the other side of the wall right like if a pie was your choice like it's your it's your birthday no no you don't get to choose you don't get to choose for the birthday hole you do not okay you just get what you get you get what you get and sometimes guess what you do get upset okay sometimes you get quite upset and sometimes

[09:02]there's long-term ramifications for what's on the other side of that birthday so you got to be careful now don't confuse a birthday hole of course with the meatloaf which is a hole in the mattress with meatloaf written above and below in crayon if you recall i may have just edited that episode so it's very fresh in my brain listen guys we have a great uh text we actually have a message to the instagram the beckton instagram at beckton sliding into the dms if you want to see a picture of aaron uh working at

[09:30]walmart with the walmart vest on that was posted to the instagram russell we need we were talking before the show we need you to take pictures of your drinks and send them to me so i can post them to instagram i think that needs to be a weekly bit we put up russell's drink okay russell's give me a big nod he's giving me a real big nod do you have to see the ingredients or do you just want to see the finished product product first of all i yes i do actually want to see all the ingredients laid out 1000 what i want that would be like a chicken a cage to me i would love to see it stop this can't be the chicken a cage episode yeah free

[10:06]aaron's like free range chicks only um and you know most of them are just in barns actually so you really need to be careful you need to read the fine print not to bring it down again um so we got a message to the instagram so russell's gonna start sending the drinks uh we've got a picture of aaron at his job in walmart but let's hear this very very kind again our foot freaks out there they're being real sweeties are they're being sweeties and guess who this is from

[10:32]it is from magic mike 69 this is our number one fan i missed him in vegas yeah well he he does mention that in the second part of the message so here we go first off rob you're right about milk duds not about ferris bueller or a christmas story but for sure milk duds and the caramel isn't the issue it's the nasty waxy hard chocolate surrounding it now rob i know you said you like three musky tears but can i suggest a compromise take this so soft teeth are not required

[11:02]aspect of a three musky tears and in the culinary compliment that is caramel and voila milky way bar you're welcome okay so first of all it's nice okay you dumb piece of shit how can you imagine that i haven't thought of a milky way bar of course i've thought of it but you think i don't want to switch to be a milky way bar can't do it caramel is a little bit too hard i don't like the caramel when it comes out i think it makes kind of a mess guys i am still on that three musketeers train and i know i'm alone i am the conductor i am the

[11:33]caboose i know and i like it i think there's just nothing to it it's the vanilla ice cream of candy bars you just put it in your mouth and it just goes so well vanilla can be very interesting three musketeers is so plain there's nothing there that's what i'm saying i'm saying this texture it's the same it's like you just put it in your mouth and then all of a sudden it's gone it's like oh this is great eating by osmosis so thank you magic mike for saying i was right about everything i don't know i wasn't really listening to most of the message but

[12:00]he then comments on our recently uh leaked part that we were in vegas and of course we did not want to tell magic mike because we did not want to get stabbed we did not want to get stabbed so he does bring that up and he kind of gives us a lesson in geography second russ i know that you were worried i'd crash your guys weekend but i don't live in vegas i live seven hours north in vegas depressed little brother reno and any stalking that potentially forces me to eat a gas station burrito is nothing i want a part of i have my dignity sir so he says any stalking that

[12:34]would require me to eat a gas station burrito i do not want to take part i did not know reno was nine hours away that i would have lost that bet it's only four hours away from me so actually mike and i could meet up for lunch anytime really yeah i think you might want to delete this no he's he's coming to the live show he's going to be our special guest that we fly and everybody wants to meet magic mike 69 guys still i mean i i did message her back i said we do get such a

[13:01]kick out of you because you are like our one listener who we don't know in real life which is so funny to think that somebody sits down and every tuesday and is like well time to listen to the guys it's like what the fuck is your problem that's the dream we're gonna listen to these guys i mean we made it all right i mean that was see that's the thing i just played this message mike put all this time in to do it and the guy's response absolutely nothing just garbage coming out of these guys as far as a response to because you can't hear us over your

[13:30]voice where is okay let's get into rolling going rosie's take was that vanilla ice cream can be awesome i love it wait wait wait wait you gotta say that with this out clip is it playing so i can get that basically one more time eric i've had this discussion many times i love vanilla ice cream i think vanilla is it's a limited resource vanilla is not something that's just ubiquitous anybody could get it i would wager that wars have been fought over vanilla at various points in history

[14:03]this is an important thing like vanilla ice cream is not nothing man it's it's a it's a real flavor and i love it that's like my favorite flavor of ice cream helen of troy if we're talking about things that start wars i mean what are you talking about i want to hear what russell is he's he's russell's virgin gonna agree with me no i i think i do have to agree with aaron because even me who has had to buy vanilla i think one time from a grocery store and i had to wander around the store for like a half hour to find the

[14:30]the spices section or wherever the hell the vanilla is at the little droplet section where they stuff comes in the little droplet things but like vanilla comes in like this little bottle it's this tiny little bottle it's potent too it's potent you can't overuse it so i think aaron's right i think like imagine if there was a huge like jug of vanilla it would cost millions it would it would war would be started over it but again like isn't it come from a plant isn't it like a renewable resource isn't like trees it's like oh he cut down a tree we'll just plant another one and

[15:01]another one grows okay no this sounds this sounds oh here we go matt and all this climate change all the climate change oh plant another tree oh no the tree fell down oh another one he wants us to pivot right wing he seems like a lot of people are doing that they're actually becoming quite successful renewable resources folks renewable plants another vanilla plant and boom you got some beans and there you go good i don't even think a vanilla plant dies by the way would you take the vanilla beans i don't think that's the case but we're obviously all experts on vanilla so let's get into our rolling going aaron rolling going how's it going

[15:34]with you uh it's going okay so i don't swear to christ if you talk about vanilla by the way i'm gonna lose my god damn it i'm not gonna talk about vanilla but i am and i wanted to i i should wait to give my takes on this album but i'm not gonna wait because i'm so mad i've spent so many hours this week listening to elvis and not one time did i hear suspicious minds i cannot oh my god i'm so mad at the editors of growing stone this is such a oh i'm so frustrated about this album here here is here is

[16:04]a take that will make you convinced this is not a real music podcast elvis is one like his greatest hits album and i'm so frustrated about this album and i'm so frustrated about this album and i'm so the one that came out like in 2005 delightful it is so good it is so there are so many good hit after hit yes it makes you want to get up and boogie it is so good and i sound like i'm one million years old when i said get up and boogie problematic for many reasons and i i don't understand what rolling stone was trying to do here it's like it's like the so have you guys heard

[16:32]the the patton oswalt bit about angelina jolie and john boyd and the star wars prequels no i would love i would love to hear about that i would love to hear about that i would love to hear about that let's hear your version let's hear your version are we gonna get your one joke of the week on the way right off the bat i cannot do the bit but he does this bit about he didn't like the star wars prequels because people who were like oh i gotta know where these people came from and to me this is like that's the whole thing about this elvis sun sessions thing is like let's hear what started at all and pat noswood is like if you love the star wars prequels that's like saying oh i'm

[17:10]like this is the john boyd of albums like i don't care to hear this i just want to listen to what's cool about all this i don't want to hear the other shit but they're in the toilet water erin i mean that's why they look so good they're in the toilet water probably gray probably gray did elvis hit the

[17:30]toilet water beforehand rob or not do you think he was startled by that or not i mean that's the thing too like you don't think about it dying on the toilet but if you really think about it like he probably tried to get over it but he didn't he didn't get over it he didn't get over it he didn't get off right and then like his arm fell in so you know he's got like his waist in there and then he fell then his arm went in and that's how they found him it's like oh it's like that it's not just slumped over with a bagel in the toilet it's going to be really humiliating when they find you it's no good speaking of elvis though i'm a much bigger vegas elvis guy rod you need to pull up this song so we can listen to it right now we're not waiting this needs to be pulled up now i i'm

[18:02]into it i want to hear promised land by elvis this is like vegas elvis it's it's a cover of a and and as aaron would say you're ready to run through a wall or what do you normally say there it's over a car yeah over a car yeah i think what he often says actually is i'm getting hard right now he says something like this is that what you say i'm i'm going from six to midnight when i say it it's so gross what aaron says oh it's so clever all the airheads out there going

[18:31]crazy yeah what song am i playing russell i want to hear promised land i didn't give it to you you gotta go youtube it you gotta get out you gotta get out there on the internet route i'm gonna make this happen while we're talking about it i'm with russell that big mutton chop yeah not fitting into his suit is pretty darn good agree that's what i want to hear i don't want to hear this other you know 19 year old like that's fine it was a big deal but that's not the part i want to hear listen everybody don't don't turn this podcast off okay we gotta listen

[19:02]to the end to see the official radio i'm sorry guys i couldn't i've been so frustrated all week i had to get it off my chest yeah everybody's vamping because it's taking so long to load oh yeah get up now yeah right great band behind him this wait for this to kick in this is elvis that i want to hear yep i'm probably gonna go get me a hockey talk band suit tonight by the end of the night

[19:34]that thing is gonna be here by oh russell you look phenomenal can you see me with the zippers down like right down right above the crotch just like elvis there you have got your halloween costume for the next 15 years oh man look at here he is flying in the helicopter there's not a damn song on this album that's as good as this cover by elvis is there no there is not and can you imagine i mean that's you can you imagine seeing elvis in las vegas in the 60s i or 70s i don't

[20:10]even imagine seeing elvis in las vegas in the 60s i or 70s i don't even imagine seeing elvis in the 60s

[20:40]what a weird life you know i stole a bunch of my records from my mom we've made fun of her herbie man records and everything i did steal some elvis records from her and it turns out she actually saw elvis in person in the 70s at the old met in bloomington whoa wow that's gonna be like an all-time concert right to see elvis yes incredible have you talked to her about it she barely

[21:03]remembers it my uncle remembers more that she went because he was pissed that she got to go and he didn't go oh that is incredible i just can't imagine that's that's marvelous erin tell us more about your week other than the fact that you're pissed about the sell the cell so yeah the other thing the other thing i've been i've been actually been thinking about you guys a lot i think about you guys a lot every day but uh we did uh i think on monday night yeah well to slow down right isn't that isn't that

[21:32]the hell no we're not doing that bit again here come on the uh on monday night we had we had burger night at home and uh this time we just did full uh vegetarian burgers for everyone so we did the impossible meat and every time every time i bring up veggie burgers matt says who is the audience for this like who's the market and i read rob i've learned yeah i finally figured out who it is okay it's guys like me who are married to a vegetarian who that's me though right who but this next part

[22:06]might not be you okay who are dying to recreate that burger mouthful kiss from goodwill hunting like you just like you're just living for that you know that that fantasy of like when they're no like when they're having a penis i've always said like it's the greatest thing you know like okay i might have pushed the wrong one there i'm sorry i meant to push that you know what no sorry it's the same one keep going i'm sorry it's like what are you talking about the burger

[22:34]that that is prime mini driver yeah right that movie yeah so you know and she just says like hey let's well should we just get this out of the way so we get rid of yeah let's just get out of the way and yeah they go for it so right and so if you're if your lady is vegetarian you can't recreate that moment unless you're both having a vegetarian burger so that's it that's i've figured it out so so that's your reward if you go with the uh well i haven't what do you call it i haven't

[23:02]gotten it yet i haven't it hasn't happened yet but you know she does listen to the podcast so okay we'll see how i'm just gonna go i'm gonna i'm gonna go to the lowbrow this weekend get the elvis sandwich with the peanut butter the bacon and whatever the banana and just sit there and wait for some lady to come sit at the bar and see if i could start up a conversation get some fish sticks on the side we can get that first kiss out of the way you know hey do you know the best thing have you been to the lowbrow bar have you seen have you ever seen the action what's in the top of it matt yeah it's made of baseball cards it's all 70s

[23:33]tops baseball cards and they lacquered over it and so that's that's beautiful it's an awesome god it's a great place that's beautiful such a good place some people are gonna strip that out like they do copper wiring out of an old house so rosie rosie so we're we're uh we're setting this up right with rosie's wife at gmail.com does she need to learn to the uh british accent for it too no it's okay i'm not that picky i mean it's not that picky okay that doesn't have to be i'm just trying to set just try to put it up on a t for you here okay i have no idea what you guys are talking about do you know what they're talking about

[24:04]russell i think it's it's some sort of scene from the movie goodwill okay i see do you like apples ah yes that's the one i always laughed i always thought that was funny it was like oh my dad would get the belt or the wrench i was like it's crazy yeah all right why why do i love so much when people are having fun to say something that is the opposite of fun

[24:33]why do i think that's so funny why why would i want to do that i the job of the host should be to bring joy to people instead i want to make people so depressed it's not your fault it's not your fault it's not your fault rob it's not your fault it's not your goodwill hunting it's not your fault so aaron it's not your fault rob aaron what would you say it's not your fault it's off the rails it's not your fault aaron what would you say is your favorite part of a veggie burger the pink is

[25:03]great oh that's good okay that's good to know so aaron's story let me rephrase this aaron's story was that veggie burgers are for the husbands of vegetarians and matt you don't find this do you have you made veggie burgers because i love the impossible meat when i order it out i think it's great i just i again like if you don't want to eat burgers don't eat burgers i it's fine right but right why like am i i hate lettuce

[25:32]am i going to try to find like a meat based lettuce like no wait a minute i love this idea no wait actually it's a great idea i'm actually going to edit this out because i think we just hit a million dollar idea but like i don't like lettuce like i just don't so i don't eat lettuce like if you don't like meat don't eat meat you know i don't know i don't get it it's my and maybe some of like the you know maybe some of the like fancier

[26:00]restaurants if you're at home or something like that when you get kids but like again i think my biggest gripe with it is like burger king i don't think there's vegetarians are not like clamoring saying man i really miss the whopper you know and oh and other than that i don't know it's just me because i want to share a whopper with my lady that's the only way i'm gonna that's the only way i'm gonna do it i want to share a whopper with my lady it's me yeah there you go you want not a very big one no just me i'm the one yep that's what mr penis oh aaron the whopper the what the whopper

[26:34]mine's called the chicken nugget all right i couldn't even say chicken mcnugget i blew up the joke that's too bad uh matt rolling going how's it going with you uh it's going good it's going good uh i'm up to about 375 dang you're gonna make it nothing for the reset nothing is sticking out anymore oh no don't say that man don't say that this is the ghost from christmas future this is very bad you got it you had to have found one one fun thing from one album what's the fun thing

[27:04]what's one fun thing that stood out i haven't i mean there's this group called roxy you know hold on i'm getting to it here this really is like the christmas and like christmas story ghost of christmas future is just death pointing at a grave this is exactly what matt is right now he's pointing at her future being like we found another album that shows some boobs you know and that's one of rob's favorite things and it's roxy roxy music not the album they have is something

[27:31]called for your pleasure which is just not very good but they do have a they do have another album you know when you google it and you see some more boobs uh mc5 sounds like it should be really good but it was horrible jams no it wasn't kick out the jams yeah i i don't know i just don't question aaron on these songs he got really bad at us when we called him out for being wrong about 341 341 since we talked last

[28:01]340 doggy style okay that was at 340 that is rolling boned at 340 yeah that's way better that should be higher that that might that should maybe even be higher than the chronic i don't know that i might agree with you that's a that's a pretty darn good and then siamese dream smashing pumpkins allow them that's at 341 that's probably a good spot there but i have started listening to country music again and i think i've i've coming full circle and i finally i came heard a good song and it's kind of

[28:33]the sarin my song now and so i thought we just played yeah yes you know so i thought we just played a little clip of it and you know so i don't know just to see if you guys are coming around the country these days it's not that it's not the clip of that rob made the inappropriate song about you and your wife that he refused to play on the podcast i didn't refuse i think i was told i couldn't i think that's what i was told because all the country artists across

[29:00]the network like the new casey musker's album is really good but like she's not really country anymore right but casey's god she's great she's good she's good she does some uh brooks and duns covers and they're phenomenal i haven't heard those i do like the message i do like the message of the song i have to say oh i want to hear it you're the keeper of my soul you're the owner of my heart i don't think a day will come we'll ever be apart and i will always love you like no other

[29:33]as long as you don't turn out like your mother so you know it really just i mean it really hits me i think it just me and sarah it really fits well so it's kind of my new favorite song and i'm i'm gonna walk a fine line here i would like it if my wife turned out like her mother but she isn't and that's fine too yes i

[30:02]nailed it i made everybody happy that's so good matt what would you say your wife is most like your mother in law what is the characteristic that you notice that the similarity oh i mean they're both you know very smart uh they're both yes extremely intelligent a lot more intelligent than i am you know very pragmatic yeah no honestly you guys know that patty listens to this and so hopefully for about three minutes there she's freaking out and has called me before i've actually said that

[30:32]hopefully we just get some good laughs patty but that was a hilarious joke i think i found that it's a tiktok thing or a insta thing or a book face thing or something like that some rod rodney carrington was on some tv show and it's hilarious oh it's excellent i thought it was good rolling going russell how's it going with you rolling going you guys may or may not know but the other day i had to fly or i got to fly to miami for a conference i was at a hotel the whole time i

[31:02]have to share some of my travel experiences so can i share some of my experiences and see how you would handle certain things these every time and this is the one where i swear i have made a i swear i've made a sound clip for this thing oh wait a minute plain old story i do have a sound i have no recollection of what this sound clip is absolutely none i knew i made one i cannot remember what it is plain old story what could this be russell

[31:32]what could this be all i want to do is make love to you okay that's the wrong one that's my bad okay here's for real oh it's time for beck did it better plain old story time oh yeah all right these are the stories that i like

[32:02]it's a nazareth version that fucking rocks god i'm so good i'm such a good producer love it so i've got a i've got a bunch of flight a bunch of travel stories we'll get through a bunch of them tonight the first is we've talked before about the the flight attendant who's the comedian they've got to make jokes the whole time you're trying to watch the movie but everything's on pause while they're sitting there making jokes i had the first time this time where the tsa person at security was being the comedian so every time someone walked up they had to make some sort of

[32:32]wisecrack and engaging conversation what are your guys thoughts about the tsa security person who instead of making the line go quickly is the comedian well is it is it just to purposely slow things down so you know you know you got like if you're on the highway and you've got the uh accordion effect where you know the stops and if everybody would just go 25 miles an hour you know you'd get there faster and everybody moved so was the point to slow things down to get it or was this

[33:02]guy just being a jackass and trying to use this as his uh stage i took it as him being a jackass and this being their stage then you could be like maybe that's a veteran move where they just slow everything down right yeah i'm telling you i kind of like the happy tsa guy because it puts me in a good mood for the flight i get it because it's like hey he's interacting he's having fun it's so much better than the normal guy i get who is constantly gaslighting me and he is saying oh you need to

[33:31]slow and it's like no it's slow because you have one station open for this entire fucking airport that's why it's slow it's not me you know and all these powders i have in my bag and don't worry about what the powders are russell you're probably i mean you've probably got the clear and the tsa so i mean like you're literally like two minutes through right like you know what this is where i'm the dumb shit i fly all the time and i still have neither of them oh it's so great it is so great you have russell your life is going to be so much better it is there is nothing better than oh the

[34:01]line is long okay i'll go to the clear oh the clear line is long okay i'll go to tsa and then they all merge in one and they oh you're you got both just go and it's three minutes you're in and out no shoes off don't take anything out just throw your bag through they could care less and go so eventually i get through the tsa line i get onto the plane and um i go to watch the video i turn on the movie and i start scrolling through i don't know what your guys movie style on the plane is but i come across you know there's usually like three movies at once you can kind of see three at once and i saw this set of movies and i thought this has to be the greatest set

[34:31]of plane movies in the history all right nice they consisted of no country for old men great the daniel craig bond movie no time to die awesome office space oh i was like any one of those three could get you through a flight couldn't they yeah how could you choose absolutely i didn't choose any of them instead i went and found the roger rabbit who framed roger rabbit movie so i could watch that perverted scene with jessica rabbit so i gotta say russell did send us a text where he

[35:01]the perverted jessica rabbit scene so not only did he pause so here here is a 40 year old man watching who framed roger rabbit on a plane with a visible erection and then not only did he pause the movie right yeah he then took out his phone and took a picture of the movie so you know people around him are like what's going on i was picturing you russell like elbowing the guy next to you just to be that guy like hey pretty good huh i'm pretty good just to see just to see

[35:31]what the guy would say this is almost erotic as the chipmunks album yeah you guys have to go re-watch this bob hoskins or whoever the actor is who's playing the the detective or whoever he is in that movie this is like a really perverted scene like jessica rabbit is out there dancing and singing and he is like having a moment like he's having to tell like think about aaron constantly to not blow his load in the front of that that studio or whatever eyes popping out it's really bad well that's the stuff you can do back in the 1900s you can't do that now back in the

[36:01]1900s you can do that so i did pause it for a little bit i took a picture but i was curious what is your guy's style when it comes to movies on a plane what are you looking for in a movie action yeah actually you know so the bonds no country for old men all that stuff maybe furious that type of thing yeah actually you know like i i'd like to watch something new and usually delta has a pretty good they've been pretty bad lately um i don't know not not a very good selection but i get on a flight in about six hours here so i'll let you know i go

[36:31]but no i like the bonds anything and i also try to match it up with you know and i think they do this on purpose like you've got two hours and 40 minute flight yeah like i want that thing to be two hours and 45 minutes yeah so that even while i'm taxiing i'm still watching that i don't have to think about everybody's standing up early and all that stuff i love airplanes for catching up on movies that i should have seen i haven't and the great examples that the bond movie i watched it when he flew it to vegas i i was like crying at the end i was like this is so good i like texted my dad when we landed i was like this is

[37:00]this is so great the part at the end with him in the bathroom the balls in the water my dad was a balls in the water guy i'm a balls in the water guy it's just i like my martinis shaken but my toilet water stirred um my thing on planes is uh so my son's still under five and he's just in the last year started to like he's he's fully embraced the tablet on the plane so he just will watch his own movies for for the whole flight but um i don't

[37:30]know i i like to just uh sit quietly and stare at the blank screen in front of me like i don't i don't mind what i've never been so confident in hitting that button in my life you were you were hovering over that you knew this was coming rob didn't you you were i yeah of course i did i like to watch like the planes that have live tv i've i love watching sports without sound like i love watching tennis with no sound uh if football's on i like watching that with my dad and i'm like

[38:00]watching that with no sound maybe maybe i'll listen to some podcast or something you're not the guy because i on the way back this was i just wasn't gonna make my list but now i'm thinking about it the guy next to me on the way back just had the thing up where he watched the plane on the map the whole time every two minutes i'm looking i'm like oh my god we're not even to st louis yet in like every minute i'm looking over i'm like what the fuck why is this guy not making the trip an hour 38 minutes remaining an hour 37 minutes remaining it's fascinating an hour 26

[38:30]meanwhile russell's pausing on jessica rabbit and he's like look at this psycho looking at the speaking of people that were on the plane next to me they were probably watching what i was doing with the jessica rabbit i gotta i gotta ask you guys if you've ever had this on the plane so on my flight out there i'm sitting there and i'm in the aisle it's a guy in the middle guy in the it's a full flight and the guy in the middle is a younger guy he's probably in his 20s and he starts

[39:00]off it was a very early flight numerous times numerous times his head kind of did the bob where he was leading his head on my shoulder and i would do like that like the shake and like then act like is make love to you what do you do if if the neighbor on the plane is like it has their head on your shoulder what do you do i've had that happen to me on the way home from las vegas on the morning after we're leaving las vegas a guy that did that to me and yeah he fell asleep on the

[39:30]tray and then it was like falling off the tray over onto my lap and i just kept having to like nudge him with my elbow but it feels weird like you can't start up you can't start fisticuffs on the plane right so you're gonna sit with it for the next however many hours right you can't say anything no i've had it happen i don't know what to do get up and go to the bathroom right get up and go to the bathroom it's gonna wake him up he'll like like that's the deal right honestly if people are leaning against me on the plane you know what i'm down i'm a people person i'm an extrovert i like are you a leader rob my love language on other people oh no no no my love language is touched so i love it when people

[40:05]are leaning on me it's kind of like it's kind of like an illicit date right if they're sleeping on me i'm kind of like think about where this could potentially go like could this be some sort of a tom hanks rom-com movie where you meet the meet somebody who's leaning on your shoulder on the plane when they wake up and i hand them an envelope with 40 bucks in it and a heart on the outside they're like wait a minute what just happened what happened oh my god uh no but i i think that's you know i love all that stuff but i will say when i'm on a plane

[40:35]right as a big guy you will never see me shrink as much as i do on a plane okay i i get so small i'm trying to because i know that i'm gonna end up like on a internet twitter feed thing where it's like oh this fat guy taking the thing on my plane and like taking up my armrest and that's the last thing i don't want that you know what sleep on me i'm your pillow i'll take it okay yes it's erotic okay but i'm not gonna touch you i'm this on my on my flight back i was also on the aisle and there was a person in the middle and

[41:04]it turned out there's when you're walking down and you're a bigger guy you're looking you're like oh no who's gonna be next to me yeah if it's a big guy it's not good if it's a tall guy it's not good what's even worse is a big tall guy and on my flight home it was a big guy and it was the worst the legs were going everywhere he immediately commandeered both armrests where i'm doing the shrink to the side it was the worst they should not let big tall guys in the middle seat it should be alone you have to no you have

[41:36]to get like you guys can't see what my arm is you know you don't have to be on top right if the big guy is on top of the armrest right you do have to get your elbow right in along that so you set up that wall and you're not coming over on this side of my chair at all but you you get that elbow dug in right there you get that forearm you get that shoulder you take part of the big wall you take part of the arm armrest you're saying no no no i take i you know so you got like the armrest right yeah it's like

[42:03]this thick i put my elbow right next to that and i set up the wall and that wall is going from here to the ceiling right you're not coming into my airspace i love this build that wall so good yeah erin loves that wall uh what i do is i i comment to him i go oh my skin is getting kind of dry and then i go to the bathroom right and i put so much baby oil on my arm and it's just the one arm i just oil that baby up it looks like a freshly cooked hot dog when i come out of there it looks like hulk hogan

[42:33]and i come and i sit down nobody's touching that arm that armrest is now mine hey you want to come over you want to come over and ride the slippery snake feel free but this is you know that's the price you're gonna pay i got the old up arm it's sitting right there yeah the jessica rabbit seat and that person will pull their arms back real quick won't they give it give you give the person a look like what do you think about this well better take out my camera and take pictures yeah that's fine okay so here's the deal i got a call this week from uh from matt right and i was

[43:07]like okay a voice call this is very uh serious this is the end of the podcast very intrusive okay but i was like maybe he wants to trade pics or something i don't know what's going on i don't know if i like this i picked up and he said age sex location i was like what no i so i get a call and it turns out it is matt's uh mother-in-law and she gets on and says and i think i believe i'm going to quote her here just exactly oh no i don't want to hear

[43:34]any more about your penis to which i said oh you sound like my wife i thought that was so instead of talking about my penis this week i have decided we're going to take a little bit of a different tack this week it turns out it is that time of year of course my favorite time of year it only comes around every so often olympics oh came out with their top search terms of 2021 and we are going to talk about them tonight

[44:05]okay what were the top search things on porn hub they broke it down by category we are going to go in because people don't want to hear me talk about myself we are going to go in and look at what porn hubs top categories are so i'm going to tell you right now what's the number one the number one is hentai hentai which is like what it's like i don't know what that is and i don't know either let me look it up ah let's see a genre of japanese manga and anime characterized by sexual characters wow that is

[44:34]i mean who would even look at that right guys that's the number one search that's what it that's what it said that was like the top growing search actually the number two search that defined 2021 on there guess what it was romance russell's mad about romance it's like the mind the mind is your most erogenous yes right yes yeah rob where is that rake on your list of oh number one well

[45:05]first of all none of these rank anywhere on any list i have but i don't know like a romance like you get to see a plot like is this realtor really going to close the sale you know i mean or is this washing machine going to get fixed like i who knows like i want someone are they going to get this person out of the washing machine who's stuck in there yeah that falls under romance yeah by the way the last uh the last search term or the last search term on pornhub is romantic gangbang so i

[45:32]don't not a lot of people looking for romantic gangbang i have been told by dates in the past that my romantic timing is off but maybe i just need to like take them down show my washer and dryer and hope something leads to one thing to another or what i don't i don't get the romance of the dryer thing they're top loading he's like oh i don't know how this is gonna work at all this doesn't even make any sense what what does that mean that your romantic timing is off that would destroy me if somebody said that to me that would wreck me for the rest of my life i would never

[46:01]recover that dating game is so we better just move along you just shows up on the date naked uh your romantic timing is on let's get into everybody's least favorite part of the show it's let's talk about the album we're moving quick this week let's talk about the we're firing it too this bad boy right yeah we should really think about this we should give elvis the respect he deserves so here's the deal this this this is the sun sessions uh it is a compilation album that was released in 1976 but it was recorded

[46:34]from 54 to 55 right uh original list you guys want to guess where this was on the original rolling stone list of greatest albums ever it was like top 15 it was 11 it was 11 it was like yes it is like where like uh purple rain is now like this is so it's it's incredible incredibly high and you but but to be fair i'm going to jump in like once you've listened to it you might think this doesn't belong that high but like elvis was huge at the time like yeah

[47:02]but he wasn't huge when he recorded this right that's the whole that's the whole thing about this album is like all of a sudden rolling stone decided that this list is like the smithsonian of music or something instead of let's make the greatest albums it's let's all of a sudden they're going to say well this album is so important right and like that's fine but it it's at the time he wasn't big this was like the demos or whatever that led to something bigger so i don't know i'm i just want to remind you that last week we were listening to won't get

[47:32]fooled again like yeah and then this week it's like it's like are these guys playing their guitars with a fork that's all i could think of the whole time because you can hear the scratching the whole time it's insane i'm not i'm not even hating on the music like it's fine it's like good rockabilly but for me elvis did went on and did better music and and like i know like you can't talk about rock and roll or music in america without elvis why why choose this it's the wrong elvis collection is what you're saying i think so but what's another sentence rob i do

[48:03]think it's interesting don't rush me for this part i do think that it's interesting how elvis got started which is that his producer sam phillips actually heard him when he came in to do a private recording of a birthday song for his mom and he heard elvis singing it was like holy shit this guy is so good i've got to sign him uh and and get him on the record like that's how elvis's career started was he singing about the birthday hole yeah that song was a happy birthday hole uh slash it's the popcorn box it's weird it's a weird song so hot slash so hot colon

[48:33]so hot um so i do want to i do want to put you i do want to put you in the mindset of a listener though in 54 so i i have collected the top songs from 1954 okay coming in at number two wanted by perry cuomo so listen this is what is top when he's recording these songs oh rob this is clever i like to hear this so you don't say like you're surprised these songs these elvis songs jump out a little bit from this yeah i mean

[49:04]that's the thing right is that we can't compare the hood elvis oh my god this is like my sound except we have to because the list is asking us to do that that's true dang it rosie you're so smart i don't care what these guys say kitty kallen little things mean a lot at number one this is i'm guessing it's from a music or something i'm missing it so every song sounds like something

[49:30]you would hear at disney world at night or something except for the number one song of 1955 it has been on the podcast before guys you know this is you know this is a perez prado joint you know this is cherry red and acid blossom white the greatest start to any song in the history of songs listen to this yes yeah this is russell having poor romantic timing on a date that's what it sounds like i mean he does play the hell out of that horn doesn't he

[50:02]my god it's that now that is good but i think that's what we have to keep in mind when we're i like that i like setting the stage nice work rob so let's get in to and again you sound surprised when you're saying that but okay let's get into the sun sessions number one that's all right mama well that's all right mama it's a pretty good opening it's not dynamite like albums you would hear later in the 80s or 90s or now but it's a pretty good opening but i don't think the rest of the album holds up to this this song

[50:33]is so good i will sing this song all day when i listen to it once it's just perfect 100 if you're gonna have the ability to put together a greatest hits from this i mean you're gonna put this yeah you're obviously gonna put this song is number one i think so yeah it's the best kind of obvious yeah i'll never i'll never forget i had somebody i knew once who said elvis has perfect pitch he was like my wife has perfect pitch she can't listen to a lot of music elvis is one singer where he never misses a note aaron thoughts on that i do think he has a great

[51:02]voice and i think he is a great singer i um and i think that's all right is probably the best performance on the record as as you guys have noted so i haven't thought about it in that way that he never sings out of tune but now that you mentioned it i think you're you're right on aaron i heard that he he had a really a big vocal range do you hear that one when you listen to this album or not no not as much on this album i was like the song that i think about that shows off his vocal range the best is one night which i don't know when that

[51:32]one was recorded but that's the one that to me shows off his his range i don't mean he's really young here too so he probably hadn't explored the whole thing yet but i don't think on most of these tracks you really hear yeah his full breath i read about his his musical talents that at one point his eighth grade music teacher gave him a c in music and told him he had no singing rob do you ever give like a kid a bad grade and then wonder if they're gonna come back and just shove it up your ass or not no no i'm not why would i no maybe they like move away and

[52:06]get like a better education down under or something and they come back i'm gonna show you i work for nasa now i'd be like oh that freaking rules can i come down and like tour your job with you that's awesome great job no because everyone hates middle school like that's just accepted like you hate middle school you hate middle school teachers that's my thing i'm not gonna show you my lot in life i get it it's it's no big deal uh speaking of drinking beers in kentucky blue moon of kentucky put an orange in that shit put an orange in that shit this is a pretty cool song

[52:36]i like it but you guys were mentioning this i think before the podcast when you heard the other blue moon songs before this doesn't really live up to the other one the other versions right yeah this was uh this is an earl scruggs song i mean he sings it so much better than that it's just like it's it's crazy it's classic and then you're thinking to yourself hmm he just sang a song about a moon what could he possibly sing about next i don't care if the sun don't shine this guy loves night time well he probably

[53:03]did he does he loves i mean he loves nights more than maidens i do like i mean i think i think the right time the musicians oh god this is just you don't like it here i mean why is he doing that kind of like bubble gummy kind of thing i mean it sounds like buddy holly maybe maybe he's doing it sounds a lot like yeah that's a good call it sounds a lot like you know i got a c in a class once russell but it wasn't a big deal as a spanish class c all right good rocking tonight

[53:34]we've talked a little bit about elvis's his dietary habits already with the peanut butter banana sandwiches i read that elvis for a year ate nothing but meatloaf tomatoes and mashed potatoes two years straight that's all he ate was the same thing it's kind of weird i didn't know that he ate meatloaf yeah let's let's just let's just hear from hear from the man himself see what he thinks two rings hello hello hello baby that's a big

[54:07]popper speaking you're looking for me baby oh wait a minute you're looking for the guy next door meatloaf okay let me go get meatloaf over here meat baby they're on the phone for you again baby oh yeah uh hey guys we got you yeah please call me meat talk to you again yeah i mean i heard i don't know and i definitely have new jokes this week okay it's

[54:30]not the same jokes as last week meat i don't know if you knew this if you were ever friends with elvis but i read that elvis ate nothing but meatloaf for two years what are your thoughts on that meat uh that listen he would do anything for love including eating meatloaf for two years straight that his tongue got tired you guys don't know what i'm talking about oh hey who's this over here french? our greatest bits are here they're all here he's still alive french yeah well i don't know he's got a ouija board or something i don't know what's going on is elvis there with you meatloaf

[55:04]as elvis made a lot of people think elvis has faked his death and he's he's really out you know living on an island somewhere have you run into elvis in the afterworld meatloaf hey baby this is me this is elvis press how you doing thank you thank you very much thanks very much for calling me or also how are you doing i heard you guys are doing a podcast do you like the album do you think the album's pretty good i'm the king of rock and roll wait a minute i gotta go take a take a dump i gotta go take a meatloaf

[55:30]oh no my arm went in good rocking tonight guys this guy loves night time i mean when is elvis gonna come out with a morning song we did this i do like this i do like this conceit in songs of the time where it's like have you heard the news there's gonna be rocking tonight like i love to think about like the town crier being like hey everybody like right here rocking tonight hey jim is there any rocking tonight no rocky tonight not tonight yeah like think about the

[56:08]nights where there was no rocking right some nights you know right now do you think if you told your wife or significant other uh that you were wanted to get her butter and milk okay would she appreciate that would she get that like i know this was the 50s but how did someone not say hey man this is not a good idea like well let's not okay let's listen

[56:31]so you think he's singing about a cow right and then it slowly transitions into he's singing about a woman and how he's not getting any cream or butter since she's been gone oh he says milk and butter he literally says milk and butter it's not a good look i don't understand how this one ever got out the door well if you're listening to perry cuomo perry cuomo and then you know this came out i mean

[57:03]you might tell us all right to be fair elvis elvis didn't write these so i was gonna ask aaron to you about this so i think one of the reasons there may be hostility towards elvis is these are all covers these are all other songs other people have done before wrote for him right like is that part of the hostility towards elvis aaron or explain yeah the whole thing with elvis is that i mean so it is interesting like to to include elvis on this list okay he's got to be on the list somewhere because american music wouldn't be what it is without elvis but the

[57:32]whole thing about elvis is what he looked like right so he was doing black music and he was a guy he was also very good looking and sam phillips said hey all of a sudden i i've heard this music that i know white people would like if they could get out of their own way let me have this white music and i said okay let's do it and then yeah i mean i don't even i mean these songs i don't actually know about the the the writers of these songs as much it's a lot more country though i mean

[58:01]i think he totally switched to to this right this song i was doing hound dog that was like big mama thornton i mean i think he was i think when he hit it bigger was when he was really ripping off black artists yeah like but like this milk cow blues is from a guy named kokomo arnold which might be one of the greatest names of all time you know he was popular in the 20s and 30s so i mean the song is from the 20s and 30s he's singing in the 50s i mean there's all sorts of stuff like that right i mean chuck d said it right and elvis was a hero to most

[58:30]but he never meant shit to me i mean i think it was like it was a it's it's become more problematic as people started to kind of open their eyes about it and by the way there are a lot of people who do agree with our thoughts on this album because you cannot find this shit anywhere you cannot find this on any streaming service the best place to find this is on a spotify link that i'm going to put on the episode before in the description because you cannot find this shit anywhere you can find these songs i don't know why they don't they don't sell this album anymore it's kind of crazy you're a heartbreaker this was the one that sounded really old to me where when we've talked

[59:03]before about how hey these you know we're listening to music from the 1900s this just sounds really really old to me like if you're if rob's daughter figures out how to open that door again and comes in and ask what he's listening to and he plays that and she'll say wait you were alive when that type of music was being played and she's gonna think 1900s that just seemed really old to me it's pretty dated yeah i'm left you're right she's gone this is about voting uh for bernie sanders these songs

[59:36]are all samey for sure but i i do i mean i i looked up who the musicians are and i forgot but i i do give a shout out to the band here they're tight and i think the rhythm section is really good there's some good guitar work on here and i think it's important to remember too this is before they so they're all just sitting in there with one microphone all playing and singing it's all live everything you're hearing is live but oh yeah uh so i'm just gonna get try to guess elvis's favorite

[60:01]word on this album he should have joined rob at chili's for baby back ribs way back in the day my god that's such a good idea elvis baby back ribs writes itself that writes itself elvis where you going oh the bathroom hey he's been in there a long time do you want to eat his baby back baby back baby back baby baby baby baby baby back a baby baby babe um you know it's funny when he's talking about that milk

[60:37]cow butter and cream makes me look like elvis i'm allergic to the lactose swells me right up all right mystery train i had to go for it mystery train i do love songs about trains where it sounds like a fucking train i love it you like you like you like trains one of the things i liked on this is we've talked a lot of bass before i kept hearing that click and that click and i was like what is that and that's a slap bass right that's that's how they're playing the upper right bass that's a

[61:04]slap bass i started reading about that a little bit and i think is the bass player on this is it um bill black is that the guy's name does anyone have that right yep bill black okay so i was reading that sam phillips the owner of sun records said bill black was one of the worst bass players in the world but man but man could he slap that thing so when he played it was like this real production and so like sounds like his romantic timing was a little bit off and so i kept i kept hearing that throughout

[61:33]the album and i read or i actually saw a couple youtube videos people should look it up paul mccartney was so inspired by bill black's bass playing that he actually bought the bass that he was using on this album that he would use at sun records and you can see paul mccartney talk about it but he talked about i love that bass it's one of my favorite bases i have he talked about how the slap playing was a different skill set that he never had and so i started reading i was like oh there's this whole

[62:00]technique of slap bass so i thought we could do a list of the best slap bass songs of all time this is great yeah i like it now this isn't like flea slap bass right we're talking about an upright bass so we're going to do upright bass so there's different types of techniques and there's there's the slap for the an upright bass and there's a slap for the electric bass and so we've heard flea a few weeks ago and that was a slap technique there's a few other ones that are are do you guys would know but we're going to do is it true to slap the upright bass you need to be standing up because that sounds like it would take a lot of energy and maybe like you're just trying to get

[62:32]to sleep actually it's a young man's game it is executed by hitting the hand against something against the string i was gonna i can't wait to hear your different bass labs i was thinking like is this an open hand slab is it by the way go back to episode one and i'm going to do a little bit of episode two for that joke if you want to go way back the question i needed to ask you before we got to the first song though is i read that there's a technique called left-handed slapping and i was curious rob are you a left-handed slapper if i broke my arm i would just be like

[63:00]well i guess i'm going to explode now because you know you've tried it you're like what is going on how is this possible how is it so off so easy though it's just so natural all right i'm going to give you guys a little bit of insight on the first one we were talking about wow you can really sand that banister really quickly oh yeah i wonder why i don't know must be all the racquetball i play to start on the list we're going to go back to way into the 1900s we've talked about how elvis had taken songs from other one but here's some inspiration for the slap bass and this is the guy who's considered the father of

[63:35]the slap double bass this is bill johnson the song is get the l on down the road check this out so supposedly this guy broke his bow that he used on the bass and then eventually started playing with a slap and he eventually takes his band on the road in new orleans and that becomes like the

[64:02]inspiration for the slap bass that kind of permeated the new orleans jazz scene it goes through new orleans it's crazy that's cool and you can hear it i mean even on that old recording he's really slapping man so that's like the early 1900s it's like hey what should we have really close to the microphone should we have the bass or this woman singing they're like no push the woman way to the back we got to hear this slap so so we're going to move forward um aaron's political guide his is the person who guides his political beliefs charlie daniels once said that carl perkins personified the rockabilly era

[64:35]so we're going to listen to a carl perkins song right now blue suede shoes you can do anything but they offer my blue suede shoes you hear that that clicking that yeah i hear that slap bass that's the slapping bass huh i read that that carl perkins heard elvis on the radio with one of his first hits and he told his wife um when he heard the blue moon of kentucky or whatever that song was that there's a man in

[65:03]memphis who understands what we're doing we need to go see him so he went to memphis signs with sun records right and then he eventually becomes one of the biggest singers in the world and an yeah wrote a lot of songs right he wrote blue suede shoes didn't he yeah then elvis just made it a hit right so he's yeah elvis recorded it like within the within the year he covered it shortly thereafter and he's like he's like we gotta go record this elvis guy he's great and then elvis just takes all of his money he's like okay so that didn't okay time for me to write

[65:32]another hit another hit carl perkins another hit my other favorite thing about carl perkins is he's the guy who decided to put those big american flags at all those restaurants that have the appetizer tremendous 12 the t12 i did not see that joke coming and it hit me like a freight train god damn that was funny russell rob were you a denny's guy or a perkins guy what was your what was your in rochester it was all perkins it was perkins perkins perkins and i would order the tremendous

[66:02]12 like for a meal like i would go in there and order the tremendous 12 and then be like why am i such a big guy and it's like three eggs three pancakes four slices of bacon no self-respect twelve matt what was your perkins or denny's style what do you get oh there was a perkins on like 60th and nicolette it's not there anymore it's where the there's something else is built there but we would go we would go there all the time so perkins i'll never forget i was in a perkins once there was

[66:31]just a chef back there going he just was yelling he goes if another fucking person orders like over easy egg i had ordered like three over easy eggs i was like sorry about that i spent a fair amount of time at perkins with russell after the uh post casino and i think i was probably like an omelet guy from time to time but i did get into i got into some hot water once in a while because what i like to do at perkins was i liked to get a chocolate you're not supposed to heat up that toilet water you got that shouldn't be hot and then take a take what you refer to as a hobo's bath in there i would get i would get

[67:03]the i would get whatever that's well that's good rough you know like whatever breakfast special it was and then like instead of bread i would get a chocolate muffin and then i would put i would put chocolate muffin and people were like what's wrong with you and i was like that's legit what's wrong with butter and chocolate muffin aaron i'm down guess what i'm down with that thank you i appreciate that yeah oh my heart um i like aaron i like aaron going to perkins being like and even there he's asking the the wait staff so what do you recommend are you fucking serious it's a it's all the same

[67:35]just get something i recommend you shut up on the list there's some debate out there over who's the first rock and roll hit well the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the u.s charts was bill haley in the comments this is rock around the clock this is the number two song of 55 behind perez listen to that bass oh yeah that's slapping too yeah the guinness book of world records claims this is the biggest selling rock and roll record of all

[68:07]time behind only white christmas by ben crosby i don't know if the guinness book of world records are you sure they're not looking at the farmer's almanac it's the farmer's almanac from 1958 like what the fuck are they talking about do you think like when wikipedia came out or like the internet came out the guinness book of world records was just like motherfucker no shut it down no my kids still buy them my kids and every time they come home yeah they come home from the book fair at

[68:33]school which by the way they're so excited about still i'm like yes the book fair is alive and well and they'll come home with a guinness book world records like dad look at this person's long you think i ain't seen that shit i have seen that shit for years those fingernails are crazy though i mean those are wild and then they're like dad why why are you and your podcast host on these small bicycles i'm like oh that's not the record you should be looking at it's too fat guys all right all right so i was reading an interesting thing so you have

[69:03]these rockabilly songs in the 50s a lot of them coming out of sun records but then rockabilly kind of disappears through the 60s and 70s and and from an upright bass perspective one of the reasons i read is that it became hard to transport and the audio wasn't as easy to control as an electric bass right right yeah so all of a sudden you don't have rockabilly for a while but then in the 80s it comes back this is the stray cats rock this town check out the slap bass so loud little brian setzer oh yeah and this fits right in

[69:33]jeez yeah they got some echo on the bass too right the i read the the upright bass player in this one Elvis and Carl Perkins saying that the slap bass on those original records blew him away. And that's what got him into the slap bass. You're slapping it, man. That sounds good. You're slapping it, don't you think, Rob? He's slapping that so hard. I mean, that sounds like a right-hand slap to me, though. It didn't sound like a left-handed slap to me at all. No, not at all.

[70:00]Left-hand slap. It's just a joke. I'm 41 years old. I bet by the time I was 55, I could not do a left-handed slap. I bet I could practice all the time. It's still not going to work. All right. Last song on the list is from a band called Bop and B. It's a European rockabilly band, but there's a cool fact I got to share with you. Check this song out. It sounds like some Aaron shit. Yep. Check it out. Hear that slap bass in the background there? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[70:30]Is this a European band? It is. But I believe it is. I could be wrong. Either way, there's only one reason we need to listen. We need to listen to this band. And it's because the upright bass player is also a bass teacher, a very famous upright bass player. His name is Deedee Beck. Deedee Beck is the name of the bass player. And you guys have to check out. I pulled up a solo clip of him doing a YouTube demonstration of the upright bass. Check this out. You guys are going to think it's badass. Yes.

[71:02]Whoa. By the way, this is what my college dorm room sounded like when I brought my bass. I was like, hey, guys, check this out. How do they do that? There's no way that's a left-handed play. I've never been able to play anything left-handed that fast. Can you, Rob? Oh, no. Right now, I'd be like, oh, think about garbage, you know? Garbage, garbage. So I got to ask you guys, when it comes to playing the upright slap bass with the left hand, who did it better? Beck did it better.

[71:31]Russell, that was easily the top five list. People have been texting in, when is Russell going to do a slap bass list? I was like, just patience, please. He's going to get to it. It's a virtue. All right. Only 1,000 songs left. All right. We have, I forgot to remember to something that's longer than the, to forget. Johnny Cash recorded this one, too. I prefer Johnny's recording. Aaron, do you know, I was reading a little bit, so Johnny Cash comes after Elvis.

[72:02]Were they friends, or did they play together, or do you know any of that? I know a little from Johnny Cash's autobiography. I think they traveled together. I mean, I know they played on some of the same gigs, and I think they were friendly. I mean, Johnny wouldn't really say a bad word about anybody, but I don't think they were like close, but they definitely played gigs together. Did they record at the same studio? Yeah, they're both on the same records, yeah. Yeah, so that's like. Well, they have that album, right, where those three and Carl Perkins are all with Elvis.

[72:30]Yeah, they definitely traveled together. Johnny Perkins, it's a great album. They have a brown-eyed handsome man that'll make you cream your jeans, Russell. It's so good. Oh, yeah. Okay, well, I'll never. A lot of Elvis' songs sound like threats. Trying to get a good night's sleep, maybe I'll. I'll never let you go, little darling. It's like a tumble and tumbleweed song, right? Yeah, it does. We've talked a lot about songs that we think we could have sex to.

[73:01]Do you think, just think about it, could you make love, well, you know, like with Dove's Cry, when Dove's Cry. Oh, you talked about that, right? Yeah, you could totally have sex to that. No, I think we all did. I mean, we all talked about it. You think so, Aaron? I think so, yeah. I mean, it was like the early stages, kind of like setting the mood, maybe relaxing. Early stages? What the hell? I love you because. There you can hear a little bit of where, like, that's where you can hear the gospel influence.

[73:33]Like, he was definitely listening to gospel singers. You can hear it on this one. For sure, definitely. Trying to get to you. I love his voice on this one. I think it's so good. I've been traveling over miles. Even to the past two. Yeah. I mean, you definitely hear that country rockabilly influence on him. I've been running all the way. Rob, can you jump to the second half, just later in the song on this one somewhere? Yeah, sure. And again, trying to get to you, another threat.

[74:00]It's scary stuff that he's singing about. I might still run all the way. Maybe trying to get to you. I heard McCartney there. I heard the Beatles right there. Yeah, for sure. God dang it. You guys are so smart. Oh, no, that's great, Russell. I thought of Aaron, like, wasn't it? What was the McCartney song, Aaron, that you used to scream in your room when your family wasn't home? That's what I was thinking. Oh, darling. Oh, darling. Yeah, yeah.

[74:30]That's the one. Yeah, I know. I paid attention. I have to. I edit this crap. Yeah. All right. You might think to yourself, hey. You couldn't possibly have two songs about blue moons on this album, could you? That was like when the Beatles had the two Hottie Pie songs. Yeah. Finally. They need another one about mustard. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Russell, for that response. Oh, my God. This is kind of weird, isn't it? Yeah, but we should probably listen to the whole song. We got, like, some sort of horse moves.

[75:02]To be fair, two things. One, his backup band was, like, the Blue Moons, something or other. Right? And he's just copying these songs as they give them to him. So he's got two Blue Moon songs written by two different people. Right. And they're just throwing them at him and all this stuff. And so, of course, there's going to be two Blue Moons and two That's All Rights and I Love You and all this kind of cheesy stuff. His version of Blue Moon definitely sounds like it should be playing on a jukebox in a Ryan Gosling film at the end.

[75:31]Yes. And the camera's kind of blurry and people are, you know, it's like, oh, this guy's fucked up. I'm sorry this happened. Like, that's what that sounds like to me. Well, I was surprised because, you know, what was really weird is at the end of this, you know, the next song, I was like, he couldn't possibly do another blue song, could he? And this one, I heard some Eiffel 65 in this one. Did you guys hear Eiffel 65? A little bit. A little bit. Now, here's a song, Dave.

[76:00]Here's a song you could make love to. Yeah, if you put both those up, if you transfer, like, if you transfer the transition from Tumbling Tumbleweed to the early stages that Eric calls it, to Eiffel Blue 65 for the later stages, as Rob calls it, I think that's a good transition. Yeah, finish and strong. You got to build to something. Yeah, but I don't think that song would go in my house because it's blue. All right, just because. Ooh, this is the impact.

[76:33]Got a little bit of tempo, right? I love this. See this? I do love this. I mean, listen, here comes the rhyme. Yes. I love the guitar. I got to say, making a parody song this week took me about two seconds. I was like, these rhymes are hitting. It's easy to sing. No problem. Just because we're doing a podcast, it means I've got to come up with a drink for tonight. And so I've got a drink for you guys tonight. Is that all right if I share it?

[77:00]I'm here for it. Let's look at the time. Yes, we have all the rest of my life to listen to this. I could listen to this forever and never get bored of it, Russell. I love it. Let's hear it. So I went and I pulled up Booze and Vinyl, and there is an Elvis album in the book, but I thought Matt wouldn't like it if I covered this album, so I didn't make a drink. The album that they have in the book is Elvis' Christmas album. That was the album they picked. Have you guys ever listened to that before? Oh, yeah. Totally. They got it in vinyl. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. But I thought Matt doesn't like when we talk Christmas albums, so I wasn't going to do

[77:32]a drink from that. So I skipped the mole cider and a grasshopper. Cheap way of selling records. Yeah. Cheap way of selling records. What do we do? Let's put out a Christmas album. Brilliant. Okay. But so we've spent a lot of time talking the Elvis, the grilled banana, peanut butter, bacon sandwiches. So I thought maybe I could try for the first time a peanut butter old-fashioned. Rob, haven't you taken a friend's hearts to get a peanut butter old-fashioned before? I certainly have. I certainly have.

[78:00]How do they make a peanut butter old-fashioned in New York for the gifted and talented people? Well, I think the first thing you do is you pay $25 for a drink. And then they bring it out and then they bring it out. And then you are wondering why you paid $25 for it. So I think it's peanut. Is it peanut butter whiskey that's in there, Russell? Yeah. I started looking and everything almost called for peanut butter infused whiskey, which as you guys know, I got home two minutes before we started and I didn't have time to infuse my peanut butter with whiskey. Oh, this is going to get better. No, I'm going to be disappointed.

[78:31]I wanted to get organic. I need to go actually takes. I need to take a lap around the house thinking about what Russell's going to do instead of peanut butter whiskey. It brings a smile. I mean, you can hear my upturned lips on this podcast. I am smiling so big right now. I thought about just going to get in the organic peanut butter and not stirring it and pouring whatever oil or whatever the hell comes in it into like an old fashioned, but I don't know how, if that's the process works for that. So I didn't do it. I don't know if that's how the process works.

[79:01]I'm going to go on a limb Russell and say, no, that is not how the process works. But it's just like a liquid infused peanut butter infused liquid. Right. Oh, yeah. I'm sure that a bunch of peanut butter oil on top of it's going to sit on top like an oil spill. Russell, like it's going to, it's like a layered drink. Yeah. It's like me. It's like me after I'm washing off that baby oil from that plane ride. Well, ultimately I didn't have any peanut butter infused whiskey. So what I decided to do is I didn't have peanut butter, but I did have butterscotch schnapps.

[79:31]So I decided to make a butterscotch old fashioned. A butterscotch old fashioned. Now I'm actually. I'm actually kind of curious about this. We got whiskey, butterscotch schnapps, bitters, and cherries. What a drink. This is a fantastic drink. Butterscotch old fashioned. Try it out. So. I got to take a picture of that. Has anyone. No, wait a minute.

[80:00]How do we get to butterscotch old fashioned? Elvis, you ate peanut butter banana sandwiches. Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, man, that was a trip. Get on that TCB plane for that. That was a. Sorry to let you down here. And I knew you wanted me to get the organic peanut butter. I just wanted you to stir some peanut butter into some whiskey. I thought that's what was coming to you. I was like, I put the peanut butter in the sun and then I put it in my shaker bottle, shake it up. I think it's okay. I might try that.

[80:30]I don't know. We drink peanut butter whiskey actually with quite some frequency at our place. We love it. We think it's really good. I love it. We love you because alternate take. So for some reason, this album ends with an alternate take. It's important to just a killer of an ending. Just a disaster. Matt, you're, you're, you're just an expert of the little land. What do you think of this as the closer, Matt? Sounds like they just threw a dart at the wall. Came up with a list.

[81:00]Your name talk though is funny. Yeah. And I love you. It's pretty whitey lovey dovey bullshit. At the end, this is not a strong. Can you imagine you are in 1954, you get a record player. You're like, Oh my God, I've heard about this guy, Elvis. I cannot wait. My parents hate him. Oh, everything's so bad. And then you put it on and you're listening to this. What? Because my heart. This is Elvis. Is lighter. But that's the thing. That's the whole, that's the thing about this is, this is all before the mania.

[81:33]Like all of these tracks are from before the real mania. I mean, he was like starting to get big, right? And played on the radio. But this is before, before the pasta mania. Yeah. No, don't have time to talk about that. Listen. No, no, absolutely not. I'm not getting down a pasta mania rabbit hole. That song was actually the first podcast. A lot of people don't realize that he was just talking about how his day was going. About three people.

[82:00]Yeah. Three people listened and did it better. So listen, if you did just fast forward to the end, you missed a whole bunch of stuff in the middle. Aaron, what was some of the stuff they missed in the middle of this podcast this week? What would you say? I think you guys said slap about 138 times. There's a lot of slap talk. How can I not remember anything we've talked about? That is absolutely ridiculous. Listen, this is the rating system. We are all the way up to 77 talking about Elvis, the sun sessions. Probably our favorite album of all time.

[82:32]Guys, do you think, okay, is this a, so here's the thing. You have to think about Elvis. You have to think about this rating system, okay? In the same way of, you know, rating different sandwiches, right? What kind of sandwich? So is this like a rolling well tone? That's kind of like a bologna and cheese sandwich. Listen, it's good. You're going to eat it. Everybody likes it. It's right where it should be. It's great. Is this album a rolling bone? It's better than 78.

[83:00]It should be much higher. It's kind of like a fried peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich. It is so much better than it has any right being. It should have been way higher. We should have. We should have covered this album already. Or is this kind of like just a butter sandwich, which we've all done when we're in desperate times. You just put some butter on a bread. Don't even toast it. Just put it together. That is a rolling. That's what everyone would get at Perkins. That's my go-to at Perkins. That is a rolling groan of sandwich. The butter sandwich, no good. Guys, what do you think? Rolling well toned, rolling bone, or rolling groan? Does this album belong to be as the 78th album,

[83:32]best album of all time? Russell, what do you think? I really wanted to like this. This one, because I feel like Elvis is going to get lost in history. And, you know, our parents remember Elvis. My mom went and saw Elvis. Our parents were into Elvis. But as time goes on, when we're older, I think people are going to forget about Elvis and how big he was at the time. So I kind of wanted this to be really good. I wanted to say it should be where it belongs on the list.

[84:00]But, man, I only enjoyed like two or three of these songs. This is one I didn't want to keep listening to it. I was hoping for anything interesting musically. I didn't want to keep listening to it. I didn't really hear a lot of that other than the slap bass. And for me, this is just a rolling groan. It's too high on the list. Matt, what do you think? Rolling well toned, rolling bone, or rolling groan? First of all, bologna and cheese sandwiches are only good if you also have mustard. You're a mustard guy, Matt? I didn't think you would eat mustard. If there's no mustard, then you really can't have bologna and cheese sandwiches. That is a good point.

[84:30]Matt doesn't seem like a mustard guy, does he? Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. Big mustard guy. I have never... Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Just wait a minute. Big mustard guy. You know what? That reminds me. It's... Fuck. Wait a minute. I have never, ever... Look, I love doing this. I have never wanted an episode to end more than this one. Big mustard guy. Hello? And we keep talking. And we keep talking. Hello? Hello?

[85:00]Who is this? I'm big mustard guy. I'm calling you from Paris. Because it's French's mustard. Why not from Nice? Why from Paris? Well, couldn't think of any other... Listen, that's not important. Thanks for putting me on your bologna sandwiches. By the way, I'm also from a plant, a lot like vanilla, which is also something we talked about in the podcast. Running out of mustard?

[85:30]Yep. Yep. Well, I'm in hell. I'll see you guys later. Goodbye. He said the wrong one. No, that's the wrong one. That's not the hard one. Is that the herp sound? Here's the herp sound right here. Goodbye, big mustard guy. Goodbye, big mustard guy. See you next year. Rolling grown. Rolling grown. That's my answer. Rolling grown. I cannot wait to not listen to this album ever again. Thank you. I wonder if big mustard guy is related to giant mustard guy.

[86:03]He's just torturing that right now. It's so awful. He's going to hang up on us. He's going to be the first ever. No, he can't actually. I've locked it down. It's going to happen. Rosie, what do you think? Rolling boned, rolling well toned, or rolling grown? I like Russell's idea that Elvis should not be lost to history, but this as a collection, as a place on the list to me is one of the hardest groans I've done so far. It's a rolling groan. One of the hardest groans? I've grown hard on this one. Is it one of the biggest groans?

[86:30]It's a big groan. Rob, what's your ranking? I didn't load up my outros. I need to air. I need to air. I need to vamp for a little bit. You did a great job. Guys, listen. This is a rolling throne. I mean, this is the official king of rock and roll, right? It's like, even if it sounds- I don't think it's official. Yes, it is. He has a patch and everything, actually. I saw it. So even if though this album sounds like a jug band playing in the apartment next door for most of it, you have to remember he's the king, and that is why he died with a bagel

[87:05]in the throne. So a lot of people don't realize that. That's why it's a rolling throne, because he did die. That's why it's a rolling throne. He did die on the throne. All right, guys. Next up. I'm tired. Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. Let's just get through this, and let's just not think about the joke very much. Let's just accept that it's a funny joke and move on. Not a big deal, okay? Maybe I thought this was funny. Maybe I wrote this late at night, okay? Guys, I'm tired of hearing about all this German stuff.

[87:33]I'm sick of this Franco shit. Wait a minute. Frank Ocean? Frank Ocean? That's right, next we have Blonde by Frank Ocean That's a terrible joke Yeah, I'm stoked for this Frank Ocean, this album Man, I didn't record it, I have to start over See you, bye Wait a minute I'm so tired

[88:00]Is that a big buster? Holly back? It's collect? Russ, you want it or else I got it? I don't know, I think my right hand may be a little off, maybe if I get that left hand technique going it will improve my romantic timing, thoughts? Liz Phair That was the album with the boobs I was trying to think of it this whole time but I remember it now, it was Liz Phair