Sly and the Family Stone: There’s a Riot Going On (1971)

[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, and 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 1971, folks, this is all the way up. We are to album 82, which is mind-blowing. There's a riot going on by Sly and the Family Stone.

[00:31]Listen, guys, this album was basically recorded in Sly's house when he sealed himself off from his family and people that he creatively collaborated with. He set up his recording in his bedroom, and he did all the work and never had to leave. I've never related to an album so much in my entire life. Like that, this is exactly, this is like my life. I'm Sly, and you guys are like my Family Stone, so I hope you enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm also about ready to shut you guys out of my life and start my own solo podcast.

[01:00]Heavy on the drum machine. Recording in your bedroom. It's like the audio quality is not good, but it's a pretty good album still, kind of. All right, let's listen, guys. I've got a new channel today. K-Rob is, we're not listening to K-Rob. That shit's done. We're done with that. Okay, let's listen to my new favorite radio station. Oh, yeah. Welcome to Rob FM. The FM stands for... K-Music. Oh, yeah. Listen, we know all the foot freaks are out there in radio land.

[01:32]Listen to this. Yeah. And I've just got one thing to say to you. Oh, yeah. One thing. Yeah. Looking at your podcast. Okay. You're gonna listen to one. But which one are you picking? Because, man, there are... Who knows? Could be any. You click back, did it better.

[02:01]Why? What about in the shop, Beck? You forget who's in the back seat. Tell your kids, ask why Aaron loves feet. Oh. Thank you for downloading this podcast again. Oh, love it. I want to thank you for listening to me talk to my friends.

[02:32]There we go. Yes. It's funky. I like it. Love it. Let me know, guys, if your Zoom seems behind you. I'm a little suspicious of it, but we'll see. Are you on your 5G? You've been not doing your 5G recently. Yeah, but it's like the halftime show. 5Gs. I've got the perfect podcast for you. I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack. 5Gs. Did you guys hear that? Is the Zoom behind? Did you catch that joke? The halftime show? 5Gs. All right. Listen, this is Beck Did It Better.

[03:01]We are going through the Rolling Stones' top 500 albums because we did not realize how long 500 weeks are. Listen, I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing tonight? Doing great, Rob. Thanks for having me. Oh, love the energy. I've got Russell in Minnesota. Russell, I know you've got something planned to say, so say it, and then I have a very important question to ask you. Rob, your jokes have fallen down. Timber! Is Matt even around? Timber! Aaron's stories will never get old.

[03:31]Timber! Watch out, because my drink is getting cold. Russell, I love it. I tell you, you've got to start doing these songs. I just have to ask you one question. It's pretty much all I could think about this week as I was preparing for this episode. Do you promise to be honest with me? Did I survive the Skittles drinks or not? Did you drink the Skittles drinks? What did happen with those Skittles drinks? Did you drink them? Rainbow, what's going on? Can we get Aaron's introduction first or not?

[04:00]No, because I have a separate joke for Aaron. What was your Skittles drink? I had a purple drink. I had the orange drink. Lager drink? I had the lemon-lime drink. And I believe I sent you all pictures. Matt should have, if he doesn't have pictures for the Instagram, he should have them. But I did not drink the, well, Matt said they're all the same flavor. I don't agree with him. But I did not drink the red one, and I did not drink the yellow one. And then the next day, I decided I was going to pour out all of the Skittles vodka it had to go. Thank you. After that night, I did not consume any more Skittles vodka.

[04:32]I was going to say, if not, we have that picture. We really are taking pictures of these drinks because we're sending them to your personal physician and seeing what he thinks. Yeah, he quit. Yeah, he doesn't seem good because he sent back a thumbs up and a sunglasses emoji. So I was like, well, that doesn't seem like good. He sent me a letter from Neil Young's attorney saying, either get rid of these drinks or I'm off this platform. And he's done. Listen, and I've got Aaron out in California. And Aaron's still mad Eminem didn't perform his hit song,

[05:01]Stan, at the Super Bowl. Stan. I know all the words to that one. That's a good track. Hey, let's do it right now. We've been doing this so long. When I'm talking to you guys, it feels like a family affair. Let's talk Sly and the Family Stone. Nice. Totally agree. Listen, we have some voicemail from our dumb shit listeners. And they have outdone themselves this week, I will say. On a voicemail line. But they're not so great most of the time.

[05:30]Most of the time. Text messages for our show. My friends are now getting super excited when their becks make the podcast. Do your friends text you guys or call you when they make the pod or not? That's what we think. I don't have any friends that listen to the show. No. I don't. Shut this off. What is going on? This is too long. I don't think I have any friends who listen to the show currently.

[06:00]G from up north listens, right? Doesn't she? Oh, yeah, she did. Because, you know, we did get a lot of texts about the rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat on the drum of the Miami Sound Machine. Like that. But can I show you, like, what the beck line gets that I don't show you guys? Can I just show you what the fuck I'm dealing with? Yeah. So picture I'm at work, okay? Right? And I just get shit like this. Like, okay, there's a pig shit in itself. We've seen this. Can you describe it in a little more detail than Rob? I don't know which listener that is. That's when we talked about pig testicles. So then now we have Barry is sending us currently.

[06:32]Barry from Burnsville. These look like people's feet with missing toes and mangled toes. And then he did send us an Aaron special. So we're looking at texts that I'm getting on the beck line. It's just feet. And then look at this one. It's a foot with a picture of California on it. So I guess that's for Aaron. I don't know. I believe those are called tattoos. But yeah. Also those pictures. And then we got a text from the bad news. Bears complimentary movie goer of just a picture of a Perkins menu showing the tremendous 12.

[07:00]Like, oh, they must have went and thought of us. So I guess my question is this. Like, what the fuck does this guy think we're going to do with a picture of a tremendous 12? We've already talked about a tremendous 12. Like, this isn't adding jack shit to our podcast. And that's why I don't read these on air. Okay. At least say something like, oh, how do you like your eggs? Like, do a conversation. Like, this is why you're not the main host. Do a conversation. Pieces of shit. All right. So let's go to this week's voicemail. I like to hang out with my friends and do a conversation. And listen, if you want to get into this conversation,

[07:33]be a part of the conversation with us. 802-277-BECK. 802-277-BECK. Still waiting for our first good voicemail slash text. Although the handjob on the other week was pretty. That was on point. That was actually right up our alley. You guys want Joe Buck or Patrick Stewart? I made both. Patrick Stewart. No question. Everyone loves Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart. Rob, it's only horny robot adjacent, but still you will quite enjoy a little Dickie's interlude

[08:00]in the back half of this tract. So we had somebody send us a... Now, this is so wild to me. They sent us... They know I love robot voices being horny. So they sent me a song called Metta World Peace by the band Francis and the Lights, right? And so if you go to a minute 46... Who in the fuck are these people that listen to this? There's a robot interlude. No, no. Now, I would thought to myself like, oh, because little Dickie is like, he's got a show on FX now and everything. So I know who little Dickie is.

[08:30]Do you know how hard it is to send somebody a song from Spotify that does not exist on YouTube? Can you imagine? I looked for this song on YouTube to put it like into our system, could not find it. So I'm being forced to play this off Spotify. Okay. It's crazy. Like what the... Who are our fucking listeners? Like dumb asses. Like they think Aaron is... It's like too mainstream. I don't know what's going on here. Let's check this out. It could give me a timestamp, of course.

[09:10]It's just on the back half. It's a little drum beat going. I have... I've seen this band live, actually. Oh, shut the fuck up. You are not being serious. They opened for chance. They opened for chance. You're a rapper. Oh my gosh. Why do we even do it here? I sound like I'm in a theater.

[09:30]Oh, here we go. I think you found the robots. I'm robo-sexual. I'm robo-sexual. Oh, okay. I'm robo-sexual. That means that I could love a robot. So I think... Now, listen. Have we all thought about being... Now, I think it's pronounced robo-sexual. I think it's pronounced robo-sexuals, by the way. Just so you know what I know. And yes, I am a fuck-robot, and I am programmed to fuck a lot,

[10:00]and we get that, okay? Rob is short for robot. A lot of people don't know that. My dad was a robot. My mom was a fuck-robot, so I've combined to be a fuck-robot. Here's the thing, right? Is that, yes, do I love it when you send me a clip of somebody saying they're a robo-sexual? Of course I do. But do you really think that's a robot voice that I'm going to get behind? Like, you really think that's one of the best robot voices I've heard? That's not even a robot voice. That's barely even a vocoder, I don't think. It sounds very much conceptual, right? The fact that somebody said,

[10:31]I'm robo-sexual, and then they thought of you, Rob, right away. Yeah, great. You have to be impressed. I have this feeling that Rob is going to tell us if there's a better robot voice out there. I'll tell you what. This listener thinks, oh, I can just make a list. Like, I'm going to say to people what the best robot voice song is. Incorrect, sir. We make the list around here. In your face. Countdown. I didn't have to look this up. I didn't have to think about this. I have five songs with robot voices

[11:01]that are better than that shit on Spotify that he sent me. What robot would I like to fuck the most? Let me think about that. I thought we discussed this two weeks ago. I know, but I think I'm switching it to a... I think I'm switching it to a gas pump at a gas station. Why are you fucking so many robots? What? Why are you fucking so many robots? It's robot-like, a gas pump. Don't you think it's robot? Well, then you're the catcher, right? Yes. That would be it exactly. Fill me up. Okay. Okay. Unleaded. Scene one of Rob sexually standing outside of a gas station.

[11:31]Gas pump gets out of control. It's pumping all over the place. By the way... Rob can't get away for some reason. It's twilight. The sun is setting. Rob's... Small... Smoke... What's your smoke? Smoke appears or whatever. Dye machine. I came back to watch myself get fucked by a gas station pump. What's going on? Rob got his hand stuck in the exhaust and he can't get away from it. I am distracted by the movies that they are showing at the gas station. I want to see what's happening in sports and news. Martha's the best. Yeah, Maria Menounos. She's the best.

[12:00]You know, if you go down two buttons, that's the mute button on every one of those. Did you know that? It's so good. Yeah, two buttons down on the right-hand side is the mute button no matter what gas station it's at. It's very satisfying to mute that video. You feel like you have a lot of power. Listen, you guys are a bunch of pervs. Here's the best robot songs ever. I just thought of this off the top of my head. Ready? Number one, of course, Daft Punk. So many choices. Vote Coder right there. Better, faster, harder, stronger. Simple. Such a good robot voice.

[12:30]Rob. Rob, if you were going to... Listen. Funky Town. Funky Town by Lips. Shout out to the headless. Yes. Listen to this robot voice. Also a vote coder. This one didn't make my list a few weeks ago, but this is also a vote coder. Great call. And you might think, oh, Rob, is that the best robot voice in the song Funky Town? Absolutely not. Here's the best robot voice. Two voices in the same song? Yes.

[13:00]Now that's a fucking robot. This is like the unleaded fuel pump coming after Rob and now the diesel pump is coming after Rob. Rob, are you getting a little movement listening to this? Are you just getting just a little bit of movement? I love that song. I love... I mean, the band is called Lips Inc. It's so good. Like, it's the perfect song. It's the perfect band. It's awesome. And then I have one of my favorite bands of all time, of course, is Flight of the Conchords. Okay? It's a comedy duo and they have a song

[13:30]called Humans Are Dead where they do... This is not altered in any way. This is their real voices doing a robot voice. It is so good. I'll just confirm that they're dead. Affirmative. I poked one. It was dead. If this is one of your favorite bands, you deserve to be an exact opposite match whenever that girl was in high school. Listen to this. This is terrible. Listen to this. Listen to this. Because they are dead. Binary solo. Zero, zero, zero, zero,

[14:00]zero, zero, zero, one. Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, This is funny shit. Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, one, one, one. This is good. This is funny. This is funny. This is not like talking about getting fucked by a gas station because you immediately panicked on the bit and had to come up with a dirty joke, okay? Now, of course, you know my favorite band. Guys, you know there's a robot voice from They Might Be Giants. Robot Parade. They close with this song a lot. It's so good in concert. In a future time, children grow up together to build a giant cyborg.

[14:31]By the way, this was on their children's album just to give you an idea of what's going on here. Robot Parade. Wave the flag that the robot... But there was only one best robot song ever. Rob has just totally usurped my whole list from last week and blown my list out of the water. These are fantastic. I got to show you This is not showing you. This is showing the caller. Like, oh, here's a song you might enjoy. Oh, really? It's a robot song? How about this song? The best robot song of all time. There's a computer that still listens to the radio. If you want to hear

[15:03]about the greatest albums of all time. That's it. It's a fucking song. It's a radio head-opener. I'm just too lazy to look it up online. Now, dumb shits. If you want to hear four guys who chat and then they get off track, it's so good. So good. Guys, you know what? That's a bigger turn-on than any radio head song right there. The robot version of Rob's intro. That was easily a top five list. That 100%.

[15:30]Great list. Great list, Rob. Dumb shits. Don't know anything about robot voices. Like I said, join the conversation. 802-277-BECK. We're here listening to you. All right. Let's get it. We're listening to you. Yeah. Listen, if you just say, please don't make fun of me, we won't make fun of you. Okay? That is the best. That's what I expected about a promise. We are here. Listening to your text read aloud by Patrick Stewart. Yeah. And another thing, can you guys just make voicemails? It literally makes my life so much easier. Why are you still texting? I thought we've talked about this.

[16:00]All right. Let's get into everybody's favorite part of the show. It's rolling going. I wonder if it's, remember the one guy who called in the one time from his car and he was like all out of breath and everything. I wonder if people are afraid of those types of moments. I think maybe the fact that we have made fun of every caller that's called in for the last, about 81 episodes or so. I think maybe that's what's causing the dearth of phone calls recently. They get more self-respect than I do. I'm still here. So they learn to walk away. Yeah, really?

[16:30]Yeah. You think we're rough on the callers. I'll try being Aaron. Yeah. He would leave, but he's trapped in a tiny house. He can't even go anywhere. Yeah. I left. I went from the garage and now I'm in my house. That's as far as I could get. And what a house. Aaron, explain to us what's going on. Rolling going. How's it going with you? I had a moment last night. I thought of you guys. I thought you'd be really proud of me. Went to the neighbor's kid's play at the local school. Okay. Six-year-old neighbor was in the play. Stop, please. Stop, please.

[17:00]Six? I was not expecting this right away. You went. Let me get this straight. Yeah. You went to your neighbor's kid's play? Yeah. They invited us. So they were nice to invite us. How old is the kid? Six. She's in first grade. How dare they do that to you? They invited you to a six-year-old play? Yeah. I go to my own kid's six-year-old plays under protest, okay? I would never. That's why I don't talk to my neighbors. I would never. Oh, my God. If my neighbor said that,

[17:30]I would immediately be like. I'd move. Yeah. I'd just put up a fence. I'd put up the biggest fence you've ever seen in your life. It would be like, I would have a moat. It would have gators out front. It'd be, I'd be like, oh, yeah, hold on. Let me think about that. Immediately fence goes up. Well, my son was excited about it, so we went to check out the play. They did it outdoors in the schoolyard, so it was easily accessible. So we walked over there and checked out the play. Did you see, what's that kid's name down there? Julio?

[18:00]Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Me and Julio down by the schoolyard. That was worth it. So this, the play was The Rainbow Fish, and then the soundtrack was largely sort of disco funk, but they put their own spin. Actually, it did parody songs. Like, they did, they did, they did Rob-style parody songs to We Are Family, Flashlight, some others. Okay, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. We Are Family, I'm going to go with... Oh,

[18:31]geez, should have interrupted with all the joke in mind. Well, Rob, I'll tell you, I couldn't understand a damn word they were saying, so I might as well have been in the third deck, but I enjoyed the show anyway. At the end of it, when there was a standing ovation, did you sit down and be like, these kids suck? Yeah. No. So that's the thing. I don't need to stand up for this shit. Go back to preschool. Number one, these smart, smart kids manufactured their own standing ovation because they did a closing number and they asked everybody to stand up and clap along

[19:00]with the closing number and then pretty soon you got a standing ovation just baked right in. So that was smart. Russell, we got to do that at the end of the show, Russell. We got to tell people to stand up and clap with us at the end. It's like, we got a standing ovation. It's brilliant. Matt doesn't like when the performers engage the audience and make them engage right, Matt? Remember when it was in a green day where they were doing the callback stuff? You don't like that. No, not even close. If you can, I purposely wear two pairs of socks to every concert because one of them I just hope

[19:30]gets rocked off and if they're not rocked off and you have to stand and they have to tell me to take off my second pair so that they're rocked off. That's just horse shit. So no. I agree. Exactly. Can I ask you something, Aaron? What do you think of My Dog Eats My Wife's Panties as a parody song to We Are Family? That's what I came up with. I think it's pretty good. It's pretty good. Yeah, it's not bad. I don't know how you're going to fit all those syllables in there. The important thing for you all to know is that

[20:00]some of these performances were not the best but I did not boo. I didn't boo a single person at the first grade show. we all grew up at some point, right? Rosie said you're doing an excellent job. Your dad will be proud of you. Yeah, you'll all be proud of me. So I didn't boo anybody at the first grade show. So can I ask you what did you do after the show? So like at the end of the show everybody goes and like sees their kid and their parents and you just mill around or like do you talk to other kids or do you like We knew our neighbor.

[20:30]We went over and said hey, great job, Sage and then it turned out And he was like what the fuck are you guys doing here? This is weird. I'm even embarrassed my parents have to come watch this shit. And also isn't your kid in school? Why is everyone at this school? This makes no sense to me. Well, no. It was after school. It was in the evening. It was after school. It was in the evening. Oh my God, it was in the evening. That's even worse. It was at 5 o'clock in there. You blew a whole night on this. I can't believe it. I'm not for sure you were there during work hours. I can't believe you took your own time to do this. Yeah, at 5 o'clock. So then when you're done they're just

[21:00]they're out there in the schoolyards. All the kids all jumped on the playground. Oh God, this sounds horrible. There's a couple other kids that Wallace knew. I mean the true story Julio was there. Yeah, Julio was there. The true story is he had to poop super bad but he wouldn't stop playing to poop so then he started like doing this crazy walk on the playground and I had to be like we gotta get home. Your son or Julio? I've been there. My son. And I couldn't get him to poop and I was like dude, you just just go home and then Julio, get off the merry-go-round. Get over here.

[21:30]Oh no, he's going down the slide. What I did after the show was to try to convince my son he should come home and take a poop while he played on the playground. Is he a non-public pooper? No, no. You know, that's something I got over when I was about I don't know what 30, 38 years old. It's not a big deal. It's not a public issue for him. He just has this incredible willpower over it. I don't know how or why. He just Is it FOMO? Is he having fear of missing out of playing? Yeah. Will not stop doing what he's doing.

[22:00]Well, what a night. I mean, when I think of what would be a great weeknight, you know, because really life is so fleeting. I mean, you have so much limited time with your family. Kids are growing up and you know, by the end of this podcast, Aaron, that kid's going to be off to college. Yeah. And you chose to spend and you know, as this kind of lockdown eases up, like we're kind of exploring trying to get back in the scene and so you said, oh, let's go to a elementary school play and everyone just said, oh, that's a good idea. Like, well, the neighbors invited us there. Is your wife like, oh, I'll stay in the car. Please keep it running.

[22:30]We walked. We didn't take it. We walked there. The school's in our neighborhood. We just walked there. You're all laughing at the other parents who invited, but would you guys ever do that? Would you guys ever, are you selfish enough to think, well, people would want to come watch my kids do stuff? Outrageous. Matt, would you go, hey, go ask the neighbor, do you want to come see Leo play baseball, play t-ball at the park for two hours or not? Absolutely not. That is just pure insanity and your neighbors are probably nice people, Rosie, right? But God,

[23:00]they probably got a little bit of, what's that word? It's just, they're pretty self-centered. The world revolves around them, right? I mean, sure. I mean, that's, yeah. But here's, I mean, here's the other thing, though. Have you guys, like, when was the last time you tried to entertain an almost five-year-old between the hours of four and five or five and six p.m.? Well, Matt's done it in the last two weeks. You don't do it. You don't do it. That's a good point. This was, take him over there. He watches the play. If he doesn't watch the play, he runs around on the playground and then that hour of the day is conquered.

[23:30]I will give you that. Back, I specifically remember like three-year-old Leo being like, you just got to find something. So we would go walk up and down Menards, right? Go up and down the escalator and things like that. Well, that sounds way better than going to some six-year-old's play that's not even related to you. But I get it. You know, like you just find any reason. Oh, a play? Sure. Yeah, we'll go. You know, and if you're there for five minutes, great. If you're there for the whole thing, great. Like, yeah, I get it. My best parenting move ever is I showed my kids how to spell youtube.com and then just type this shit in

[24:00]and leave me alone. Matt, rolling, going, how's it going with you? Good. I got a long list, so we got to keep our questions and responses. Oh, Matt doesn't like the way a bit string is. No, he doesn't like that. Rob, I got a question. First of all, your opening bit to this thing says that all opinions are our own unless you disagree. Right. So if somebody disagrees with us, then our opinions, they're not our own anymore? Or what's... No, we're flexible. You know, we'd listen to our audience. We want to take what they think. I think we've been doing

[24:30]some marketing research and we're finding some interesting things about how much people want to be talked about getting fucked by a gas pump. Gotcha. Oh. Gotcha. I figured out there's a new low on ESPN. Oh, no. Oh, no. There's a new one. Why are you watching this? Well, because I go to the gym, right? Like, I'm sitting on the bike and there's the, you know, I listen to the morning show and I can watch ESPN and figure out who won last night and all that stuff. So the NBA All-Star game... Porn, porn, porn. Oh, we got ESPN. Yeah, here we go. Dan Patrick's back.

[25:01]So the NBA All-Star, it's NBA All-Star weekend, which nobody cares about because who the hell cares, right? But ESPN was breaking down the top 10 moments of the future game from all past futures games. I swear, Matt doesn't even listen to our podcast. He doesn't even know what we do here. They were like, 2011, Luka Donovich or whoever that is, you know, like, double-crossed Kyrie Irving and Jim, you know, and all this. And they're like, they're breaking down... Hey, Kyrie,

[25:30]meet me in Applebee's while I buy some riblets and then he doesn't show up. Oh, what a double-cross. Everything about that is incorrect. There's no... Every piece of that, the year, the guys involved, every piece of it. Rosie, I might be, I might be, doing that on purpose. I do know that Kyrie was in 2011. He was in there and he crossed up Isaiah Ryder Jr. But I'm not going to pretend like I actually care about this stupid thing. But how are they breaking down the top 10 moments of the future game of all time? Because it's fun.

[26:00]Who cares? Oh, my goodness. You watched it. Who watched it? There's only one thing worse and that would be to talk about it. Yeah, I'm with you. That's what's on the TV. I can't change the channel at the gym, right? Otherwise, I would. Otherwise, I would. Oh, the TVs at the gym are always showing the worst stuff. Always. And anytime you get on the treadmill, it's like, oh, it's a cool movie. Guess what? Ads. 10 minutes of ads. Sorry. You hate running. Watch 10 minutes of like laxative ads while you run. Sorry about that. My favorite is when they have like the financial channels up there and you're like, oh, yes,

[26:30]give me more NASDAQ. I'm running faster because the New York Stock Exchange is up seven points. Yes, give me more. I feel so smart when I watch that. I'm like, hmm, interesting. All my investments are winning. I think Leo has... Gold is down. Oh, yeah. Get another setup. He's been singing a They Might Be Giants song, something called Istanbul. Is that a song? Oh, yeah. Istanbul. That's the most famous They Might Be Giants song. I would say that's the one that most people know.

[27:00]No, but it's about the Turks. So now Leo's a fan, Rob. Leo's a fan. I'm not going to lie, man. If Leo went to a They Might Be Giants concert, he would see a lot of people there that looked a lot like Leo. Like, there are a lot of Leo-looking people at that. They're coming. Yeah, in a couple months. Oh, you got to go. It's so good. You might have to go. Please. Had a beer alone again tonight. I reffed a basketball game. It was awesome. And I got caught on the corner of the bar waiting for a pizza to be done. And I got to hear drunk 20-year-old talking to drunk 50-year-old

[27:31]about their favorite scratch-offs and how, you know, depending on which one you do. And so it was about the most depressing thing on a Friday night that I've ever heard in my life. I don't know. I got it second. Two people at our camera discussing their strategies for scratch-offs that they bought at the S.A. behind the bar. Meanwhile, Russell's holding the melting thing of strawberry ice cream like, stop fucking scratching those off of the counter. I got to get home. Do we need to redeem them right now? We can't redeem them in five minutes?

[28:00]Yeah. I'm making a sly and a cherry stone drink tonight. Like, I don't have time for this. Yes. Last thing I got. Last thing I got. I've got two authors that every time they put a book out, I buy the book. I buy the book. Malcolm Gladwell, big fan of Malcolm Gladwell. Chuck Klosterman has got a new book out on the 90s. And I cannot wait to write it. Yeah. I think it's all, I think it's right up our wheelhouse. So if anybody, have you guys ever read Chuck Klosterman's books? What is one

[28:32]Malcolm Gladwell book and one Chuck Klosterman book that you would highly recommend, Matt? I liked Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. I like, what's the other one where he talks about Big Fish? How close are we to 10,000? I don't know. 10,000 hours on this podcast. We've got to be getting there, right? Because I feel like we've really mastered our craft. I think we're getting pretty good. Yeah. We're getting pretty good. I'm trying to remember the one that we talked about, Big Fish, Big Fish, Little Pond or Little Fish in a Big Pond. But he's got a new book out by the 90s and I got it just in time

[29:00]for vacation and I can't wait and I hope my kids leave me alone long enough so I can read it. What's your book strategy? Did you buy this on paperback, Matt? What's your book strategy on vacation? For vacation, I don't really have a strategy and again, so it's more of the collecting of these. I like these two authors, right? And so I'll just, you know, I don't buy books just to buy books, not like records or I just have them out displayed, but I do buy these guys. So whenever they come out right away, I kind of support them

[29:31]in buying the hardcover, you know, I guess, and buying their book and things like that. I think hardcovers are the worst. I'm all about the paperback. Carrying around a hardcover book thrown in the back I don't like to cover. I mean, what is it? What is it called? The jacket. The jacket. I get rid of those things right away. Yeah, I don't throw them away. Put them up on the shelf, but I get rid of the jacket right away. Yeah, so you would, you do, you take off the jacket. I take off my shoes and jacket. It's a quick, I take off my pants and jacket. So it's a quick jacket. Like you don't have the jacket on there

[30:00]very long. Yeah. So Rob has someone else take off his socks and jacket. Oh God, I have been asking people at my house to take off my socks now for months and they will not do it. It drives me crazy. I heard it. Thank you. No, it's not a sex thing. I just want my socks taken off by somebody else. Okay, I'm going to say it again. It's not, it's not that weird of a thing to do it. I'm going to tell you guys right now, if you're not reading books on a Kindle on vacation, you're fucked. I don't know what's going on with you. You just bring a tiny Kindle. They light up at night now.

[30:30]You can just have them lit up. It is the best way to read. I have the font now approximately the size of like my thumb because apparently I'm just going blind. It's huge font. I'm on old person font reading the Kindle. It's great. I love it. I have found, I mean, I have found that, you know, like on your phone, on your phone, you can get, I mean, Wall Street Journal gives you every 35 days to give you a free book if you're a subscriber kind of thing. So I've got a ton of books. I read a lot of the books that they provide to you and I read them on my app on my phone.

[31:00]And I just, I would, it seems like the same thing as a Kindle to me. Absolutely not. I would rather have a book and turn the pages. It's nice to have, it's nice to hold a book in your hand. No doubt. I like both. I like, I like to have something going at all times. What are you reading, Rob? Metallica was wrong. Don't turn the page. Get a Kindle. Okay, click the button. It's going to the next page. Hey, but you know what? Bob Seger was right when he said turn the page. Turn the page. Oh, I thought it was Metallica. I was doing the Metallica one. I am reading Wheel of Time still.

[31:30]I'm still doing my fantasy. I'm still on my, I like it. I'm still on my shit. I haven't listened to it yet or read it. But I will say we have a, we have a thing on Amazon it turns out where we are, we are Audible members. Okay, now this was unknown to me until yesterday. It turns out that every month they give you one credit for Audible books. Now we are paying for this, of course. We now have seven credits for audio books. None of us listen to audio books. Don't know what to do with this. And if we stop, guess what? We lose all the credits.

[32:00]So if I cancel the membership, we have now lost all the credits. Otherwise, I got to sit here and listen to seven audio books to pay for it. It makes absolutely. Audio books are great. I like audio books. Oh, you got it. Kids book. What the fuck are you talking about? What are you talking about, Aaron? Aaron, what are you? Wait a second. Wait a second. Please, let me play this. Audio kids book. So let's picture this, right? Aaron and his child lay down. Oh, son, how was your day at school? Oh, you're talking about the first school I went to or the second school where I had to go see that shitty play.

[32:30]Okay. And speaking of shitty, like, you know, there's my whole day. Like, okay, so we get the bit, right? So you lie down with, you lie down and Aaron just pushes play. And Apple ran. And ran. And ran. And ran. And Apple ran. And ran. But he likes, he likes, he likes audible books. He likes, he listens to podcasts too. But, uh, that was, I mean, please subscribe. Great reviewers. No, you guys know he's a big fan of Beck Did It Better. But my, you know, what I was saying is, Rob, if you don't want to listen to all of seven books

[33:01]and you just need to use your credits, you can use them on kids books and they only last like six minutes. Oh, actually, that's a good point. But I'm distracted now by something you said. And that is the idea that your kid at some point is going to just listen. Imagine you turn like 20 or like whatever, 15, right? And you find there's thousands of hours of people just mercilessly destroying your dad. Just making fun of your dad like crazy. Just fucking roasting him

[33:30]hour after hour making songs about him. So many other thousands of hours of his dad saying just brilliant world bending shit. It would psychically destroy me to have like, oh, here's my hero. Here's somebody I so look up to. And then it's just hour after hour. This guy likes to fuck feet. That's a new thing. Do you guys think that there should be, you know how the, when you're carry on, there's like a thing that you have to put it in sometimes if it's too big and it won't fit in that thing at the airport. They won't let you take it on. Do you think there should be one of those for books?

[34:00]Like you should not be allowed to carry a super big book. Should you? I had a person in my, I have a person I know and I went on a trip with them once. This sounds strangely vague. They had a backpack and a carry on like most of us do on a trip. You do some sort of backpack and a carry on, right? Yeah. And this person I know, great person, decided they were going to bring the book 11, 23, 6. What is the Stephen King one? 11, 23, 64.

[34:30]Is that what it is? 11. It's about the JFK assassination time travel. The JFK Stephen King book. That's like a thousand pages long. And when I saw this one come through security, I was like, damn, that's pretty good. Probably not the book I would have taken to turn this cram into my carry on on a cross country flight, but to each their own. I feel like there should be a limit on the size of the book you could take. Well, some people might say that too. Like maybe if you're bringing like a couple carry ons and a purse and it's all full of like protein powder and various white powders and then you get stopped. My wife once got stopped

[35:01]at the airport and she had in her bag a Nespresso espresso machine and 100 pods. 100 espresso pods. Which of course they made her take out. And then it turned out that she had to perfectly pack it to fit in her bag. So here she is in the middle of security on her knees. Pods of espresso pouring out of her bag. Just dumping all over. People walking by

[35:30]like putting on their belts not really looking. She's trying to stuff espresso pod after espresso pod back into this bag bag. Like some sort of psychopath. And meanwhile, my kids and I are just howling. We are laughing so hard. Literally it's what we bond over is making fun of my wife. It's actually probably not great actually how I'm raising them. Russell, at any point prior to that trip did you ask this person not to bring a giant book? No, I didn't. I didn't think I needed to ask. I'm just going to be quiet.

[36:02]But I didn't think I would need to suggest not bringing a giant book. Well, if this person needs to listen to an audio book please reach out and contact me. I have seven Audible credits. I am trapped. Okay? I'm not going to have you guess who signed up for Audible in the family but it wasn't me. Oh, right. Russell, rolling going. How's it going with you? Rolling going. I don't know if Matt's going to let us play the soundbite but I was flying again. I had another trip to Texas this week. So I had another experience

[36:30]in the airport and on the airplane I was going to share. I don't think we need to. We don't need to play. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes we do. It's so good. All right. All right. These are the stories that I like. Tell us about the trip you're on. We're going to hear about I figured out another really bad Fly tonight. I got one at the end for you too, Russell. But maybe it'll come up in your list. All right. The first, I had an amazing

[37:00]probably the greatest flight experience ever on my way out to Dallas. Mile high club. I don't even want to share this tip for people but I've got a person. Matt calls these a pro tip. This is a pro tip about flying. The way to go is a Tuesday night flight seven o'clock or something like that. You go on a Tuesday night at seven o'clock and there is nobody at the airport. I have never ever gone through Minneapolis St. Paul Airport before where there were zero line and zero people going through security.

[37:30]I walked in with through security belt on belt off belt around the neck belt on belt off into the back room belt on belt off. Shoes on, shoes off Nespresso pods on off everything. And I was in through security and out of security in under two minutes. It was like all the horrible security moments are worth it for having the one moment where you're like, oh my God, I don't care what happens to me today. I made it through security in 45 seconds.

[38:00]Did they still do the thing where they're like, sir, the bins move. The bins are like, sir, show me your ID. You're holding up the line. You're like, no, there is no line. This is just me. Yes, there was a bald man. Bald man. Yeah. A poorly bald man that was yelling at just me. Yes, there was. Because they gaslight you. And we've talked about this. Now, is it true, Aaron, that you would never fly on a Tuesday night because that is a play night for you and that's when you go to your elementary school play and hang out. Yep, that's exactly right. Couldn't miss theater night. Yeah. So for all of you that have a choice of what night to fly,

[38:30]hey, choose Tuesday night. Tuesday night. The right night to fly. There is no security lines. You get right through. It's the most relaxing experience in the world. Do they do taco specials at Chili's or anything? That'd be extra good. No, but I did have an experience about food when I did get to Dallas and that's what I really wanted to ask you guys about. I got a few other plain things, but Aaron's going to bring up food. I got to get to it. Let's get to it. Actually, it was at the airport. It was why I had so much time. I had enough time to go sit at the bar at the airport and relax and have a drink. It's so relaxing.

[39:01]It's the best. But the lady, a few seats down from me, she was at the restaurant and she ordered a salad and some cheese curds, which I thought was kind of a strange combination, but go for it. You knew you were saying, right? And then the bartender came up and it's like, well, what do you want with your cheese curds? The options were ranch, marinara or ketchup. And she chose ketchup. And I about damn near had like a coronary. I almost lost my mind. Well, but wait a minute. Now, can they have catch

[39:30]at the state fair at the cheese curd? They have huge vats of ketchup. It's a lot of dumb shit out there. Right. I'm with you with their cheese. I'm with you, but it's a thing. What would you been? I thought you were going to say marinara because that would be the one that would offend me the most because like Rob, we've already determined like your food tastes are terrible, right? You sent us a text earlier how you were excited to have one of those Cadbury eggs later. Those things are the worst. Oh, you better fuck off. I am not going to gauge you

[40:00]about Cadbury egg shit. But it is true that I've eaten my surplus of calories today and I have to wait till midnight to have a Cadbury egg. Okay. And I, and I'll tell you what, when I saw the Cadbury, it's midnight, it's midnight at your house. You could have one right now. No, I'm not going to go get it right now. I have too much to say. I'm too mad about Russell. You don't like Cadbury eggs. No, those are the, those are gross. You're so fucking stupid. You're the stupidest piece of shit I've ever met in my whole life. Should we take a odd vote? Okay. Yeah. Let's take a, let's take a thumbs up, thumbs down. On Cadbury eggs? Yes, absolutely.

[40:31]Way down. Way down. Team Russ and Ty. Okay. Once again, Aaron and I are getting married. Hey, Aaron and Rob, look at who you're, who you're on the same team with. You're going to be eating dandelion greens by tomorrow. I'll tell you what, Aaron likes fun. He is a fun guy. He wants to have fun. Okay. He doesn't want to not eat Cadbury eggs. Oh, I don't like Cadbury eggs. They're too tasty. They only come around every once in a while. So they're actually a very special treat. So you guys think ketchup is actually a good,

[41:00]a good side to cheese curds. No, I think ranch is the best. Yeah. If you don't have an aioli or like a nice mayonnaise based dip, which I think is probably what a cheese curd needs. There's no way Matt eats that shit. No. What? No way. No, like a wasabi mayo dip. Oh, that'd be good with a cheese curd. Matt strikes me as not a white dip guy. Matt's like a no dip. Sounds like a no dip guy. Well, not with cheese curds. Well, yeah, but we have to pick a dip. If they're being fresh, I mean, I agree. You just shove them, shovel them down as quick as you can. Now that's the question.

[41:30]Is it strange that they're asking for a dip with cheese curds? Like that's kind of fucked, right? I'd be like, yeah. I always just thought marinara was like the basic. What? That's what it always comes with. Huh? I'm pretty sure it does. Cheese curds at the fair? No, like in a bar. Where have you been for the story? We were at the airport, didn't you? I mean, did you hear this? We were at the airport. This is the point of this song. It's not fair. All right. I was talking about the, you know, theological,

[42:01]spiritual underpinnings of the cheese curd. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Maybe if one of our listeners who's not, if they could take a break from sending in pictures of feet, they could send us in a Bex. Barry. Give us a breakdown. What should be ordered with, what should be ordered with cheese curds? Marinara, ketchup, some sort of white sauce or Cadbury eggs or whatever Rob's doing these days. Here's the thing though about ketchup, right? It's kind of like a burger, right? There's cheese. You put ketchup on a cheeseburger. You guys eat ketchup

[42:30]with your grilled cheese sandwiches? Yes. I did at the pause. Yep. I sure do. All the time. So that's, that's kind of what I think of, you know, I don't know. Oh, gross. I mean, I hear it. Oh, okay. Well, maybe Russell has bad taste. Actually, it turns out Rob's right. So then I get, I finally got on the plane and as you guys know, we've been talking about airplane movie styles. Matt gave me the advice office space. Okay. I'm sorry. Office space. It is an amazing, is an amazing movie to watch on the plane. The scenes are great. Like,

[43:00]and you know what I was thinking? There's the one scene in office space where he goes, he, he's meeting with, he's meeting with his buddy and he says, what would you do with a million dollars? And the guy goes, two chicks at the same time. And he goes, the other guy says, well, I don't think all women are into that. And he says, the type of chicks who double up on a guy like me are. But I started wondering, what would you guys do with a million dollars? What would you, what would be your, what would be your thing with a million dollars? Russell, I'm a, I'm a experiences over things guy. And so I would go

[43:30]right to Paris and I would get the most expensive muscle. Like top shelf, like sweet that you could get overlooking, you know, the city of Paris. Yeah. And I would put on like a robe or something like that because it probably comes with a robe, right? It should. It better come. Yeah. It better come with a robe. If you're up in Mount Mart, you're definitely getting a robe. No doubt. Yeah. And I would sit on that balcony and I would call Rosie and ask for one of his J's and then smoke that J

[44:00]while eating some fancy food and looking out on the city of Paris. So that's what I would do. Wow. Excuse me, sir. Thank you for coming to our hotel. I have the cheese curds. Now, let me ask you a very important question. Do you want the ketchup or the marinara? That joke should have been faster, actually. I delayed the punchline even though everybody knew what it was. Could I get the mustard to go with this? Can I get some mustard? What the fuck, sir? That is the weirdest thing I've ever requested ever. My French accent is breaking down

[44:30]the very rock. For a million dollars, I'd just like, I'd stay home and listen to music and then like zoom in. No, no. You can't just like pay off your bills with it. You got to go spend it on something, Aaron. I mean, I'm just saying that the one guy says he'd do absolutely nothing. So like I'd stay home and listen to music and then I'd want to like zoom with my buddies about it. Mrs. Henderson. Yeah, well, what a dumb idea that is. Listen, Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Henderson, come here. There's been a huge endowment to our elementary theater program. I can't believe it. It's unbelievable. It is funny

[45:00]because like it's like, yeah, I don't know. I probably if I had a million dollars, I would probably send it to Aaron. To hire somebody to put his kid to bed so we could start this before 11 at night. But I don't know. I mean, you can do whatever. I think or whatever, you know, he's close. Russell, how about how about at their apartments that the walls are so thin and the guy is always hey, Peter, man, the breast exams are on again. That's my neighbor. Don't worry. He's cool. Speaking of which, speaking of which, I think somebody is moving into the apartment in the wall that's right in front of me

[45:30]when I'm doing this podcast. There has not been anyone living there for the last four months. So when they move in up the hole or not, they might be. They might be like the birthday. You didn't patch it up or what? You get some spackle or something to patch that thing. They just move in. I don't want to sleep on that side of the bed. I keep getting jabbed in the ear and what the fuck's going on? Yeah, it's like it's like it's like a home improvement, right? Except instead of Wilson, I'd be the neighbor.

[46:00]Johnson. Johnson, are you there? Oh, yeah. Give me a 30 second. You can only see his eyes looking through the hole. Now, let me ask you this, Russell. When you go through security now, do you think about me trying to give myself a little boner walking through? Huh? Chubbing up? Well, you have to. And it's really hard when you're holding a dog and walking through with your two kids. People do not like that. That's big trouble. TSA all over the place. What's your last thing, Russell? What's the last thing? I did have one music thing

[46:30]to share from you from my flight. I told you guys I saw the James Brown movie. The movie, the biopic or whatever they call those types of movies where it's... Biopic? Is that right? What they call it? Biopic? A biopic? But anyways, I only watched a few minutes of it and they did show the scene where he brought the gun in and was like shooting holes. The guns episode and it was actually kind of funny, personally. I laughed at it. But one thing he said, one thing he said to the people... You see Russell on the plane TV, he's like, Chuck Berry biopic search.

[47:03]Oh, no. No, it's not on here. That's too bad. I watched all the way to the end. There were no cameras on that one. Yeah, that's what he loved is the end and what came out of it. But part of James Brown's opening speech in the movie, he walked around to the people in this room after he'd shot the hole in the ceiling and he said, you may not own my records, but you can bet your bottom dollar that every record you got has been touched by James Brown. I was like, that is such a great quote. And when you listen to what we've listened to and you listen to that

[47:30]James Brown, it's like everything you listen to has been touched by James Brown. And I had to write it down and share with you guys. I loved it. It's so good. Rob, rolling, going, how's it going with you? Listen, I had a day-to-day at school where I was interviewed by a coworker, right? And they asked me, what is an inspiration? Like, who has inspired you? Who has? Because first of all, she was like, what do you do? Like, they were asking me about what creatively I do. And I was like, don't mention the podcast. Do not. You cannot mention the podcast. And because they were like,

[48:01]I was like, yeah, I don't watch TV. They're like, how do you keep busy? And I was like, they're not going to ask the name of it anyway. This would have been the perfect test case. So they said, who inspires you? Right? And I said, it's actually my wife. My wife is an inspiration to me because I got to get whatever fucking job she's got. She is on the couch all fucking day long. I left today at like seven. She's on the couch. I come back today at six.

[48:30]Her ass is on the couch. And she's like, can you get my purse? Can you get some Did she leave an imprint when she got up? No, I would never. That's disrespectful. Say about my wife, Aaron. You're going to say about my wife. Did she leave an imprint? You're a sick fuck. Couch imprint guy. What the hell are you talking about? I can't believe I'm going to tell her you said that. So inappropriate. I mean, I'm talking, I'm making a joke here. Someone just changed their email to embarrassedAaron'swife at gmail.com. I would never ask if your wife makes an imprint on the couch. That's terrible. No, but I,

[49:00]and actually it was true because my wife, the story, I told is that she inspired me with the powerlifting because I was working out with a trainer at Equinox and then my wife found this powerlifting coach and like, you know, the rest literally is history because I do have a number of records. But it led me to, once again, look up my old trainer on Instagram and I will tell you guys an update. Okay. My trainer is no longer into polyamory, no longer doing coaching for polyamory.

[49:30]Oh, that didn't work out? No. That's so surprising. Benching to Frenching too. She is now a full-time, she helps people with being a dominatrix. So she is into, she actually gets dominated herself. So I'm not sure what the opposite of a dominatrix is, but that's her. But she's a third member of that wrestling tag team, Demolition, Axe, Smash, and Rob's powerlifting coach. I think so because a lot of her Instagram now is showing off various collars she owns

[50:00]and what she thinks of each collar. She is not a sex worker. Like, I want to be called She's not a sex worker. She just literally has a polyamorous relationship where she enjoys, I mean, if you really want to get technical here, okay, she enjoys being a brat where they boss her around and then she says no. And I got to admit, when she writes about that, I do, I'm kind of like, well, wait a minute. I kind of like this. Imagine your wife telling you, like, you better take out the recycling or you're in big trouble. And you're like, ooh, I don't know if I'm going to. I'm feeling naughty.

[50:30]Like, isn't that erotic for you guys to think about me doing that? Aaron's thinking about naughty next week. Next time, Aaron's wife at gmail.com tells him he's got to go to some six-year-old's play. Wait, I accepted the invitation. I'm not going. I'm not going today. Sweetie, I promise I'm going to take out the garbage today. Don't worry about it. Ooh, I'm a naughty boy. Does that turn you on that I didn't take out the garbage? Which one of us would be the most likely to be a brat? Who would be the one to say no or whatever voice Matt was making earlier

[51:00]when he was impersonating it? I think Russell could be a good brat. Don't you guys think he'd be a good brat? I think he'd be a good brat. He'd be a good brat, Russell. I'd love to boss you around and then sometimes you'd be like, no, I'm actually being naughty. I'd be like, ooh, that's very bad, Russell. No. No, I'm going to eat marinara with these cheese curds, Rob. Oh! Oh! Okay, that's just... Actually, this might fit better than I thought it was going to. Oh, can you imagine? I could only imagine a collar, putting on a collar, right?

[51:30]I got a collar. It's my favorite collar. I put it on. I don't know what... Do you put a leash on it? You must, right? Like, what else do you... It's got to be some spikes. It's got to be spikes, right? Your daddy walks you around. Okay, so I get walked around by my daddy. Great. I then take off my collar. Like, we're all done. You know, I'm done being a brat. I'm like, okay, see you later. Thanks, you. You know, thanks for coming over or whatever. I take off my collar and then can you just imagine looking at your collar and how big it is and then you're like, Jesus Christ, is that how big my neck is? Like, you would just look at this collar and it would look like a, you know, it would look like a top of a garbage can.

[52:00]You'd be like, oh my God, is my neck that big? And you go look in the mirror and you'd be like, Jesus, my neck is huge. So here's this thing that's supposed to give you pleasure and instead you realize just how thick of a neck you have and it disgusts you. You've got to go to like the big and tall section of the S&M shop to get your collars. Like, you can't get a, like a normal, normal collar. You've got to go to the big and tall. What is the tall section? It's like a tall collar. It's like a massage table with a hole on the bottom but the legs are short so you can get on in case you're not tall enough. What? Never mind. What?

[52:30]I'm thinking about tall sex shop, like for tall people. Isn't this a music podcast? Like the swings, the sex swings have like way longer ropes. It's like, oh, if you're really tall. I need to go get some more ice. Like, there's no way I can drink another one of these without ice in it. Guys, I got a feeling this might be a long episode today. We'll see. All right, let's get into Aaron's favorite part of the show. We're going to talk about the album. It's a music podcast. Let's talk about the album. Oh, yeah. It really is.

[53:00]I'm thinking about the size of my collar. It would be just bumming me out like crazy. So, I was talking to Aaron before the show. This might, I think, be the most interesting album we've ever covered. Like the story behind There's a Riot Going On, the story behind Sly and the Family Stone is absolutely fascinating. And the more you know about this album, you appreciate it so, so, so much more. Just to be clear, I am a huge Sly and the Family Stone fan. Had their anthology their compilation, listened to it nonstop,

[53:31]love it, you know, everything. I just love Sly and the Family Stone. I was immensely disappointed the first time I listened to this album because I was like, there's no hits on here. There's like, you know, I just, the sound was weird. You'd have these eight minute, you'd have these weird eight minute bass jams and then a 0.0 second song, which confused me. Like, I was like, what is going on? But you have to understand like Sly and the Family Stone at this point, they are a band in 68 who is, is multiracial, unheard of at the time,

[54:01]right? There's two females in the band with the guys. Very, very strange to see that as well. And they are kind of an anti-Motown group, right? Where they're not dressed the same. They're all totally different. They're all doing totally different things. And at this point, that this album is released in 71, in 69, Sly and the Family Stone is one of the biggest groups in the United States, right? They've done Woodstock. Carlos Santana said it was the best act at Woodstock. They have the album

[54:30]Stand come out. Huge hit after hit after hit. The record company's like, listen, this is hot. We got to ride this wave. For two years, they got nothing, right? They got a single, Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again. And they got, and they released the greatest hits because they didn't know what else to do. And it turns out that Sly was basically holed up in his house, in his bedroom, recording this album. He set up a recording. Yeah, he set up a recording studio in his room so he could not get out of bed and just stay there all day and play with

[55:00]this new thing he discovered called a drum machine. He played with this new technique about overdubbing, which is where you get a lot of the sounds of this album. This is a murky album because it has been overdubbed 1,000 times. The audio quality degraded every time he did that. And that's why this album sounds so strange. And basically, what was happening was Sly and the whole band, or Sly at least, was getting hooked on cocaine and back to PCP again. Guys, this is another PCP album. And so,

[55:30]a whole bunch of this album is about drug use and drug culture. And at the same time, Sly was getting way into the Black Panthers who were demanding that he takes the two white members of his band out. They wanted this out. And meanwhile, he's recording this instead of with the band, he's recording it solo. He's bringing in Ike Turner on guitar for this album. He's bringing in Billy Preston on the keyboard. Bobby Womack. It's this album of a transition from being a hit

[56:00]to what happens when the recluse star of this album records it. So let's listen to There's a Riot Going On. First, we have Love and Hate. Hate spelled like Haight-Ashbury. Aaron, explain Haight-Ashbury. You're a Bay Area guy. What's Haight-Ashbury? Yeah, that's a good question. You know, I caught some flack from some of our listeners when I was trying to do Bay Area Mount Rushmore when I didn't include the bridge of bed. But yeah, Haight-Ashbury was like the center of the, the groove scene in the,

[56:30]in the Summer of Love in 67. It's a street, right? It's a cross street. It's a cross street in the Haight neighborhood in San Francisco. There's a gap in a Ben and Jerry's there now, so it's different. I'm not going to be like, I don't want to be a guy who's been to San Francisco guy, but it's not just, I mean, now that corner is not, you know, it's commercial and it's not, you know, what it was. But you can, when you're there, you can imagine what a sort of magical, inspirational place it was. It's close to Golden Gate Park. Some days, it's really foggy and dense. Occasionally, the sun breaks through. You can kind of understand

[57:01]how it's sort of a magical, cosmic place to be. It's like I'm there and you're painting a word picture. I don't need Audible. I've got Aaron. Like, this is great. I'll send you some tracks. You can send me those credits. I need it from my kids' books. Matt, what'd you think of Love and Hate for the opener here? Does it kind of set the tone for what you're going to expect the whole thing or what was your impression? Yeah, I mean, again, you know what you're getting from the album. I heard a ton of outcast. I think Andre was a huge

[57:30]Sly and the Family Stone fan and there's a lot that comes out of this and I hear it in that first song. Did you mention me? No. You can't take me higher because I'm huge Sly and the Family Stone guy. I'm as high as you can get. I don't think Rob gets the way the big guy gets. I tried to explain it to him last time but he didn't quite understand. He'll notice a lot of that is not actually in the episode. So that song, the lyrics, if you want to, I mean, this is what you're getting into.

[58:00]It's a drug album. Listen to these lyrics. Feel so good inside myself don't want to move. Sounds like the perfect night to me. I'm not going to lie. Just like a baby. I mean, his voice. If Aaron and I before the show were watching live Sly and the Family Stone performances, you got to get on YouTube and check him out. They are, he is, you cannot take your eyes off of him. Yeah, he's a great performer. I think we're, you know, Matt mentioned Outkast and Three Stacks, which is perfect. I think almost every one

[58:30]of these tracks we're going to be able to think of someone who was, who might have launched a whole career just based on the track and, you know, I came to this album via D'Angelo. Rob, you came to this album via Sly, which might be why when I first heard it, I thought, oh, now D'Angelo makes sense and when you first heard it, you thought Sly doesn't make sense anymore. Yeah, but this to me is D'Angelo. I love that. Can I share an unpopular opinion? Yeah, fuck yeah. I think this is my least favorite second song on an album that we've had on the list so far.

[59:00]Where was Taxi? It is like six minutes of the same thing for the whole, for the whole track and it's just, it just drones on and on and on. I'm not saying there's not talent and it's not creative and stuff, but honestly, I started this album about 12 times over the last week and I stopped it about 12 times on this song. For me, this song was just, it droned on and on. I like, I like it. I like it. I like it. I want to like it, but that song, it broke me on the album. I'm going to tell you. I'm going to be honest. I think the drone of this album is what I enjoyed. I was sitting at work

[59:30]and I would just be like bopping my head. No idea what song it is. No idea what's going on. I could see that. But this was an atmosphere. This was a mood. Like, I think this is an album where if you were in college sitting with friends, you could put this on, you look cool. It's, it gives the, it gives the room kind of a strange, maybe like stay in bed. Oh man, Crazy Game of Poker by OAR. That's all you can play. I think you're good. That's going to be one of the pull quotes for that book about the 90s. It's just going to say OAR, sign bad. Perfect.

[60:00]Next song, Poet. This is where you hear a lot of Parliament. And he's come out and said, yeah, it's a huge influence on me is Sly and the Family Stone. Yeah, they started a lot of this stuff. Aaron, I read that George Clinton used this as a big inspiration for what he was doing and is George Clinton after Sly and the Family Stone slightly? Or what was kind of the relationship between those two groups? I mean,

[60:30]I think Parliament and Funkadelic probably got big after Sly and the Family Stone. But yeah, as Matt said, they would have been contemporaries because George Clinton was writing music for, George Clinton spent a short period of time at Motown, I think, and was writing music for other people. But I was, the Parliament's first hit was I Want to Testify, which might have come out before this. And then Parliament's biggest albums came out like in the 70s. So I think there was probably a lot of sharing back and forth. That came out in 67.

[61:00]So it was, it was, yeah. So they were, they were right on top of each other. Yeah. Family Affair. Love that song. Oh, is that a wah-wah? What is that? What is that noise? Is that the guitar? There's a guitar, but there's also a Fender Rhodes going on back there. And Russell, do you want to guess if you could think of a fifth Beatle who was playing that Fender Rhodes, who do you think that would be? Is it the dead Paul McCartney or is it a different

[61:30]fifth Beatle? Wait, was Billy Preston, was he one of the fifth Beatles? I'm confused. You got it, Rob. You got it, Rob. I also saw that, Rob. I saw Billy Preston played the Fender Rhodes on that. I got it. I was ready for it. And I'll tell you what, that, so that has his sister Rose Stone on backup. His brother was also the guitarist in the band, Sly Stone's brother. This was a number one hit. This was the first single off the album, the number one hit. This is the first hit in the history of Billboard to do what? I think it's the first hit ever.

[62:00]This might make Aaron really angry, though. I think it's the first number one hit song ever to use a drum machine to ever make it to number one. Is that right, Rob? You are 100% right. This is the first U.S. Billboard hit to have it. I know. Explain yourself. You've ripped the drum machine before. Explain it. I know. And the thing is, I realize this. It's the Maestro Rhythm King MRK2. I hear a lot of Alanis in this song, for sure. Yeah. I mean, I hear Prince, right? Because Prince used drum machines, too. So I've realized I knew this was coming

[62:30]and I have to develop a more nuanced point of view on drum machines because some of my greatest musical heroes and favorite artists use them extensively. So maybe I need to go back and rerecord the Alanis episode. I do have to say something. I was trying to look for a drum machine list, but there's so many things out there that are drum machine that it's hard to narrow it down and they're so narrow of a pot of MRK2 drum machines that I couldn't find a middle ground. But Aaron, I had to share this with you. I know you will love it. Quest Love,

[63:00]he's this drummer out of Philadelphia. I think he's famous for being on the Tonight Show. But he said that the greatest ever drum machine guy was Prince. He said he was the best ever at programming or working with the drum machine. I thought you would like that. I'm glad to hear it. That's so great. Oh, I love it. Have you guys ever heard that song, Jack Off? What was that song I played last week? I can't remember now. Jack You Off. Jack You Off. That's the best one. That's part about the drum machine. It keeps it like a steady rhythm going. There's no mess ups, right? Like I know Ringo was a, like they never had to look at Ringo.

[63:30]He always had the beat going, but the drum, the machine's not going to screw that up. I mean, it's not going to run out of, it's not going to run out of energy like right at the wrong time. You know what I mean? Like right at the wrong time it's not going to be like, I can't do this anymore. I don't have any more energy. Like, is this song almost over? And you're like, no, the song actually takes longer than you think, especially since I'm older. I think it's something with like my iron. I don't know, but the songs take longer than they used to. I also believe that Sly used to call it the drum machine, the funk box. So I don't know,

[64:00]Rob, if you also call it the funk box, but I thought that was a pretty cool name for the drum machine. The funk box. That was my nickname in middle school, but I think it was mostly the smell. I think it is what it is. It is a, this idea is what Prince and then D'Angelo, they took the blueprint where they, where Sly started making everything more on his own. And then they said, well, I could, yeah, Stevie, also I can do a whole album on my own if I just have enough drum machines and synths. I love your D'Angelo comparison. I think that's so, it's so smart. Sometimes I, sometimes I learned so much from Aaron

[64:30]about music on the podcast, but I wish I would have never heard him mention Alanis and the drum machine because then when I read about this and then I started hearing, I was like, this is really artificial. Like I want to, I want to hear Steve Gadd or whoever these people we've been listening to the last few weeks. Like Mitch, like we've heard all these amazing drummers and then I've got to hear this stupid machine. It's like, let's change it up here. I'm so impressed because like almost everything Rosie says is so smart. The pink is great. Okay, well, it's true.

[65:01]It's true. Africa talks to you, the asphalt, something. Can't read it too long. Speaking of too long, this is eight minutes and 45 seconds of this. Right. Long jam. This was the one where there's the falsetto on this. Aaron, I was curious if you could talk about his voice. He jumps into the falsetto here. What, what do you think? What do you think of his voice? I never think, I never thought of him as one of the great soul singers, but then you hear this album and he does, he has a lot of versatility, a lot of power behind it. So yeah.

[65:30]Check out his live performances. They are so good. Brave and strong. So here we get the drum machine pretty strong on this one. You can hear it too on this, especially the audio degradation from him over dubbing. And copying himself and doing this. And I saw a couple of people compare this to Kid A, right? Where you can't quite tell what he's saying on most of his album. And then also a really interesting comparison I thought was Exile on Main Street,

[66:00]right? Where it's that same idea of like, you can't hear crystal clear what's going on, but it doesn't matter because the groove you're hearing is so strong. Yeah. I put this song, I played it through my TV the other night for reasons which are far more boring than you might imagine. And Apple Music puts the lyrics up. It's more boring than this story that you're talking about. That's what you're telling? No idea. This is the story. Seeing the lyrics, I'm saying like, man, I never knew what most of these lyrics were. I've listened to this album a bunch. I gotta know why you were listening to this album on your TV.

[66:30]The listeners will revolt if I don't ask this question. Because, Rob, I switched from Spotify to Apple Music, but I'm not certain that I'm getting lossless audio when I stream to the Sonos. Oh, my God. Aaron, you were right. But I could potentially be getting lossless audio if I go straight from the Apple TV into the soundbar. But the soundbar isn't the hi-fi speaker in the way that the other speaker is. So I don't know the difference that I'm hearing. It's a Sonos soundbar,

[67:01]but it's not the... Oh, you know what? If this was the big decision I was making in my life, I would go to the six-year-old's concert, too. I don't blame you, Aaron. You know what's messed up, Aaron? Is I totally get what you're talking about about wanting lossless audio. I totally want 1,000%. I had to listen to Love & Hate on one speaker via the AirPlay streaming and then another speaker via the... through the TV on the HDMI and out to the soundbar just to make sure I knew... if I wasn't sure if I was hearing. But then it's not the same speaker,

[67:30]so I don't know if I'm hearing... Can you imagine if the difference I'm hearing is due to the lossless audio? Listening to this podcast for the first time, they're like, I love watching ESPN and then fiddling with my sound setup. What is a podcast for me? Ah, yes. I found it. What is the dirtiest, weirdest podcast on the airwaves? Well, better write an email to them and have them roast me for 10 minutes. You had mentioned something being too strong. What did you say was too strong there? I don't... You just said something that was too strong. Uh... Well, I don't know

[68:00]what it is, but tonight I'm drinking a strong drink in its honor. So, Sly and the Family Stone not in the booze and vinyl book. I'm realizing the farther we get into the list, the fewer amount of albums that are in my book making the book less valuable than it was earlier in the list. Your physician just texted a big thumbs up when they heard that. They actually said very good. There was a liver in a green light. I don't even know there's a liver text. How did he do that? And while Aaron forgot a few weeks ago that Sly and the Family Stone

[68:30]was a Bay Area band, I fortunately knew that. And so I started looking. I was like, well, what can I drink with Sly and the Family Stone? And I started looking at like, what are the Bay Area's most famous drinks? And it turns out, did you guys know that the martini was actually invented in a bar in Martinez, which I believe is kind of a Bay Area, a city, Aaron, in 1874. Did you guys know that? I didn't know that. We did not know that. You keep asking. We do not know this. There's a cocktail called the Martinez and I've heard the joke that the plural of martini is Martinez.

[69:00]Martinez is a cool town. It's up on the North Bay. Well, there's actually, when you go up there, Aaron, there's a bar and they've got a, they've got a statue type thing where they say this is where the martini was invented. I didn't know that. Can you imagine taking credit for inventing the martini? Get the fuck out of here. A martini is like vodka and then like an olive? Like that's not a fucking thing you can invent. Jesus, Rob, you don't even know how to make one, so this is why you're not allowed to talk about it. But the reason I brought it up, Rob, and I was going to set you up for this, was that there's also

[69:30]a bar in New York who disagrees with Martinez and says, no, we are actually the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York says we were the one that invented the martini. But I was going to get some martini advice for you guys. I'm drinking a martini tonight. I thought I could tell you how I made it. See if you guys have suggestions on how to make a martini different. Is that all right? Yeah, for sure. Please. Yeah. Different. Let's add a second ingredient. I mean, what are we talking about here with martini? So I've got a hint. I've got four ingredients in this one other than ice. I'm not counting ice because I know Aaron doesn't like when I count ice

[70:00]as one of the ingredients. You have ice in your martini? We got to talk about this right now. That's how you shake it up, Rob. You shake it up and then you pour it in. Yeah, I've heard Taylor Swift sing about that. And you're supposed to put ice in if you want flakes, icy flakes in your martini. You should also stir instead of shake. I mean, it's up to you. Drink your martini. Actually, well, we'll discuss. Oh, this martini is so bruised. I like it. I like it. Here's what I put in it tonight. I put in gin. Yep. I put in dry vermouth.

[70:30]Yes. I also found a recipe that called for orange bitters. That's the way they did it in martinis. I got orange bitters in my martini. Wow. Yeah. And then I finished it off. I read that you can do a lime, but I did blue cheese stuffed olives in my martini dime. What do you guys think? Oh, that's so nice. Gotta admit, that sounds pretty good. So nice. So what did I do wrong, Rob? Wrong, Rob? You're saying it should only have two ingredients. I got four. Yeah. I mean, I'm thinking

[71:00]of like a martini. I don't want to get into it. What do you mean? This is the whole point why I brought it up is to ask. The drink sounds good. I don't know. That sounds good to me. I'm down. Martini, though, is always just like it's for people who just want to drink gin out of the bottle, but know they can't do that. So they order a martini. That's like you want to drink hard alcohol. You want to get fucked up. Order some martinis or maybe you love pearl onions. I don't know. You're bad that I took put two sprinkles of orange bitters in there that ruin. Yes, Russell. That's the point of my story. I'm mad you put in two sprinkles of I like the bitters

[71:30]in the martini. That's a nice touch. Is it good, Russell? Let me ask you that. Is it good? It is good. But then I was going to ask you guys. So there's the whole James Bond shake and not stirred. I read that you shake a drink that doesn't have juice in it. This doesn't have juice in it. It means you shake it. Is that correct or incorrect? I thought you shook the juice drinks. I think you stir the juice drinks. Isn't orange bitters a juice? What is orange bitters? Where am I? I don't know. Go eat your Cadbury egg, dude. Let's move into lunch the next time. A Cadbury egg drink. Now that's what I'm talking about.

[72:01]That'd be so good. Darren Moskowitz at the City Pages famously said the best martini is the third one. Well, actually, I believe the quote is, Aaron. Oh, no. Aaron, you dumb shit. Hold on. Hold on. Let me find it. Give me one second. Okay, yeah. I want to hear it. Piping in martini glass naked woman tattoo howtogetcollar.com Hold on. Still looking. Collar through security airport question mark.

[72:30]Excuse me, sir. Can you put everything in the bag? Oh, yeah. This is my collar. Can you take it off? I don't want to. I'm a brat. Sir, we're going to have to pat you down. Oh, no. Don't do that. Oh, actually, the quote, Aaron, is humorous. James Thurber once said one martini is all right. Two is too many and three is not enough. Yes. There you go. Would you guys consider me? Would you guys consider me a humorist?

[73:00]Right. Depends on what episode. If I wrote a short essay about like getting fucked by a gas pump, people would be like, oh, that guy's a humorist. Right. I just need to write this shit down. Can somebody transcribe the podcast? Please. OK, I'm begging you. Can somebody trans? Here's what I want. One gas pump is all right. Two gas pumps is too many and three gas pumps is not enough. Is that guy cross-country skiing out there? No, he's got three gas pumps. Oh, humorous Rob. So here's the thing. I just did a very funny

[73:31]hand motion to the group. Hands motion. So here's the thing, right? I think what I really want somebody to do is to take like the first 10 minutes of this podcast, right? I want them to write this down. I want you to transcribe it. OK, I then want to get that transcription. I want to see that in like an article type form. Then I want somebody to read it as an audio book. So what I really want is this podcast presented back to me in the audio book. I will give you up to seven audible credits if you do that. OK, so if you can do that

[74:00]and get that back to me, I think that would be great. Brave and strong. Wait, we did this one. Oh, OK. So then after this, there's a riot going on. The song. Hey, I just played it. Now you might be thinking, Rob, is there some audio trouble? Does Russ have to write you a text after you've released the episode and you have to go back and edit it at the end of the day, which is actually kind of a pain. Here's the deal. OK, no, there's a riot going on is a zero minute, zero second song that is silent.

[74:31]OK, and a lot of people thought this was because they actually caused a riot in Chicago by not going on stage on time. Sly later claimed that he made it zero seconds because he wanted to do it. OK, so I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. Because he wanted no more riots. To which Quiet Riot said, oh, come on, feel the noise. I wrote that joke down. Am I a humorist? Is this the second week in a row where we've had a song with no with nothing on it for the whole length of it? Didn't Aaron share a song like that? Oh, my God, you're right. Yes.

[75:00]And now we've got another one. I was getting across the finish line. OK, let's do You Caught Me Smiling. This is kind of like the one moment of sunshine on the album, right? It's kind of like Yeah. More joy than a lot of the other soap opera. But when you realize how this album was made, you can totally hear it. You can totally hear this is some guy in his apartment. Now, is it true, Aaron? Did this apartment studio get turned in

[75:30]to the fuckfest studio from Fleetwood Mac? Is that what I'm thinking right now? I think it did. Yes. It's not clear on Wikipedia. Beds as floors. I'm going to remind you. There's mattresses that are floors in that studio. Yeah. This was the record plant in Sausalito, which I think was owned by Sly for a while. But then it also sounds like he recorded in his apartment in Bel Air, which is in Southern California. But yeah, I believe this was also our waterbed episode if you go back. Yeah. Yeah. Prince's first record also recorded there. Tons of stuff recorded it.

[76:00]That's right, because we talked about the finger cymbals, guys. The record plant. Yeah. We are back in the waterbed corner because we did mention this is the waterbed episode part two. I've got the notion of the motion of the ocean. Oh, yeah. Do you think we could do a podcast that's 24 hours long and should we try it right now? What song are we on right now? What is your guys' problem? Why did you get through this album? We are having fun. What song are we on? We just didn't time. No, we did. You caught me smiling. Can't remind. Yeah, you caught me smiling. I have one thing to add on smiling. Did you guys know the guy playing bass on this,

[76:31]he used to play in, I think, more of the Sly songs was Larry Graham. And we mentioned him a few weeks ago because he was actually the inventor or the pioneer of the slap electric bass. We're not doing an electric bass list because I can't keep track of all the bass lists we've already done already. But I just figured we had to give him a shout out because he's really the pioneer of that style of playing. And Rob, you know how that works. You hit it with your thumb and then you pluck. There's two different ways, right? You got to slap and pluck.

[77:00]You got to do both. Slap and pluck. Slap and pluck. I thought it was going to be a Jehovah's Witness list and it would just be Larry Graham and Prince. Yeah. He was Prince's spiritual advisor and got him into being a Jehovah's Witness. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, because he was like, Prince, what do you hate more than anything else? And Prince was like, Halloween and my birthday. The guy was like, listen, have I got good news for you? Jehovah's Witness. All right. Here we go. Time. Boy, they're really

[77:33]slowing down here. Is that just a keyboard or a harps? What is that? Is that a keyboard? I have no idea. Yeah, it's some kind of synth, right? And then it's that same. I don't know what it is. Yeah, same kind of tinny hi-hat on the drum machine. Spaced Cowboy. Spaced Cowboy. This is such a weird song. I love it. What is he doing? Well, I believe technically, Aaron, he's yodeling.

[78:00]Oh, he's yodeling. That sounds great. And so, for those of you that don't know, I mean, you guys know yodeling, it's like a European thing, but it's actually, technically a form of singing where you have rapid changes of pitch between your chest register and your falsetto. Did you know that, Aaron? You're a singer. I didn't know that that was the, I mean, I know what it sounds like, but I didn't know that was the definition. I am going to start using Russ's technique of just asking people, did you know that? After I say that. I was going to say this. You're going to have to label this as the question podcast. There's a lot of questions. Rob, did you know that

[78:32]I'm about to engage in an eight-minute conversation that Matt's going to be pissed that I'm going to bring up? Because we're doing a list. It's time for a list. We're doing the greatest songs ever featuring yodeling. I guarantee this is going to be a top two list of the night. Oh, yes. This might not be the first one we have to delete. No, positive, Russell. Positive, positive. Don't do that. We need positive, Russell. If you guys remember, this isn't the first time we've talked about yodeling on the podcast. Cripple Creek at the end of that one song.

[79:00]Remember, there was a yodeling, yodeling, yodeling. You guys remember that one? Yeah. Okay, so the first song on the list, I don't know if you guys will know this one. This is The Vogue's Five O'Clock World. I know Aaron doesn't like working till five o'clock, but check out this song. It's true. It's late. Yes. I like this song. Yeah, yeah. Was this on the Good Morning Vietnam soundtrack? Look at that yodel. Yeah. This also, this is a record

[79:30]that sounds really fucking good. Like, this is really a good mix with rock. I love this. This is one of my favorite Did you guys ever have like a cassette tape when you were kids when you would go on road trips? This was one of the songs that was on like our family cassette tape. We always heard it on road trips. What was your guys' road trip song when you were kids? We actually listened to Audible audiobooks. Listen, you go to Amazon right now and you can get a deal where your wife signs you up for Audible and then you get them for the rest of your life even though none of you listen to Audible books.

[80:00]Check it out. I remember the Pretty Woman soundtrack pretty well. My mom had that one and so the King of Wishful Thinking by Go West was on that one. I was the King of Wishful Thinking. That's a big one for me. Big one for me. How about you, Matt? What was your road trip cassette tape back in the day? I remember some Rod Stewart ones. I'm trying to remember the album but I remember a lot of Rod Stewart. Some Amy Grant I can remember. Yes. Oh, yeah. That's going to be in that Chuck Coleserman

[80:30]book for sure. The tipping point, right? Yeah. Amy Grant. 10,000 hours of Matt listening to Amy Grant. One thing that I thought was really interesting about that song though is it was recorded in Nashville and the musicians who played backup were actually the Fame Gang. It was the original group that would play down in Muscle Shoals and they left. Remember, there was a group that left and then the Swampers came in and ended up being the famous group. The Fame Gang was the one who played on that song Five O'Clock World.

[81:00]Now, Russell, I did notice you didn't ask me about a cassette tape. So I'm just going to say What was your cassette tape? We had my uncle made a mix. tape and for some reason we had it. Unknown how we had Malcolm's Megamix but it was in the car. We listened to it all the time. Greatest tape of all time. It had the Beatles places I remember but the number one song off that Megamix that I got pumped every time it would come to is Erasure. What is it called? Erasure. Try to discover to me.

[81:31]I got to sing the song to get the name of it. Hey, Rob, don't worry. I'll play in the background. Why don't you just sing it all? Oh, my God. I really respect. That's the name of that tape. It's so good. It had that song and then it had Aha. So it was an all-timer singing high cassette tape. Yeah. It was all about singing high. My uncle loved people singing high. Weedus does a cool cover of a little respect to. I like Weedus. And guys, if you like Weedus, please text in 802-277-BECK.

[82:01]Okay? Do you like Weedus? I don't like that Weedies come with no like berries or anything in there. It's like, hey, let's do cornflakes or like a super boring cereal with nothing fun in there. Weedies. Weedus is before it's a wavy. Next song on the list. This is an Aaron Favors. This was actually covered later on by De La Soul. I was going to put De La Soul on there, but they don't like doing putting up on Spotify and I was going to spend all my songs on Spotify tonight. So we didn't do De La Soul, but we're going to do the band that they covered. It's Parliament

[82:31]Little Old Country Boy. This is from the 1970 album Oze Meum. Check this out. Oh, yeah. You're looking, you're looking Yes! Did you know this one, Aaron? No, I don't know. This is Parliament. How much money could you win by playing this for somebody and being like, this is Parliament? Listen closely coming up and I can tell you why Aaron likes Parliament. Listen to what he sings about. He's singing about

[83:01]being accused of being a peeping Tom. No wonder Aaron likes the Parliament, the Funkadelic. I would have to say two hobbies that do not go well together. Yodeling and peeping Tom. Do you hear that? That freak next door is back, I think. Open your shade. Open your shade. Siri, record on my phone. Wait, did somebody outside just say Siri, record on my phone?

[83:31]Why is he using voice prompts? The other reason I didn't use the De La Soul song is because I thought Matt would get mad because the name of the song was Potholes in My Lawn. And I know Matt probably doesn't like potholes in his lawn, so I thought I better not play that one. No, you gotta fill those things. You gotta cover over the tree roots. You gotta spread it out. Two or three times a week. Make sure you get one inch of water. All right, next song on the list. We've never talked about this performer on our album.

[84:00]She was part of a yodeling family as a kid, if you guys remember. This is Jewel. The song is called, Chime Bells. Check it out. Remember Jewel? Wow. Yeah. Whoa. That's cool, isn't it? Yeah. Fantastic. I f***ed off a lot to Jewel, too. You may be like, is that hard to do? And the answer is, not really. Afterwards, you saw many pieces of you the same name as her album, right?

[84:30]Oh, groggy. Now I might have to keep that in. Great. Thanks, Russell. Love the podcast. That's so good. I have to leave it in the house. An interesting thing. I'm curious to see what you guys think of this. I was reading how she became famous. She went on some talk show and Sean Penn saw her on the talk show and just decided, oh, she's attractive. I'm going to call and set up a date. I was like, can you imagine if you lived in a world where you're like, and so then he started dating Jewel. Like, can you imagine if you're just like, oh, I saw someone on TV and I'm pretty famous now where I can just like, I can have a date

[85:01]with this person. You come over and I'm just having dinner with the Hamburglar. And I was like, yeah, I just got slid. How did you get a hold of him? Yeah. Oh, you lucky duck. Robble, robble. Are you talking to me? I'm a robble sexual. You're sitting around dipping your fries in a ranch and the hamburger was pissed. He's like, what kind of date are you taking me on? We're not using marinara for these fries. And then he says, robble, robble. Yeah, robble, robble. Oh, no, you robble, robble.

[85:30]I'm a nasty brat. I'm not going to deal with hamburgers. Robble, wait, wait a minute. Are you telling me the Hamburglar is a brat? So the Hamburglar comes in and has a collar on. You're like, hey, hamburger, go steal those hamburgers for me. And he goes, robble, robble. And I'm doing, by the way, the brat motion. Robble, and you're like, oh, you brat. God, you turned me on. You're my McDonald's play place. I don't like that joke at all. Rob and the Hamburglar are going over to get in the ball pit. And Rob's like,

[86:00]no, I'm not going in the ball pit tonight. Oh, my God. Two brats? We're two brats in a relationship. Just both of us ratting out? That's not going to work. No. Hey, where do you want for dinner? What do you want for dinner? What do you want for dinner? Oh, we're just too turned on to go to dinner. Speaking of what nobody ever wants for dinner on Thanksgiving, this next album on this next on the list is by the Cranberries. It's Dreams. Check this out and look for the yodel. Finally, something we can agree on. Yes. Oh. Adorous. Beautiful. Look at that yodel.

[86:30]Yeah. What a voice, man. So good. By the way, first song I ever played in a bar on guitar for an open mic night was Dreams. For real? How'd you learn that one? Oh, wow. How was that your first one? It was good. I don't know. I mean, what was your question? Like, did you know? Did you know that was the first song you played? Well, I'm just saying, like, what prompted you to play the Cranberries, Dreams? You didn't like the food? I think it was all the words I could play, which was most of it.

[87:00]It was like, okay, search for G, C, and D, and maybe not too much C. Actually, it kind of hurt. Matt, Aaron, are you guys Cranberry guys for Thanksgiving or no? Not music? Yes. Thanksgiving? No. I would listen. Yeah, I'd listen to Cranberries on Thanksgiving. I refuse to eat anything grown in a bog. I am not eating stuff grown in a bog. Don't eat it, okay? I am not a bog dog. Doesn't drink scotch. Nope. Doesn't eat Cranberries. Yeah. I'm a bog brat. Hey, pick those Cranberries. I'm not going to.

[87:30]Robble, robble. I'm getting very confused with all their stories. Can somebody draw the Hamburglar in a collar being led around by a leash by Ronald and he's being a brat? If you draw that, I will get a tattoo of it, okay? Or a drag on your foot? A tattoo, please, of the Hamburglar being led around like a brat by Ronald. I just repeated the joke. Man, I'm sorry. Last song on the list.

[88:01]We've talked about this song before. It's been quite a while. It was a David Bowie episode. If you guys remember, Beck covered a song by Bowie or some music by Bowie and this is Sound and Vision. He recorded this with a 170-piece orchestra and it turns out there was also a little bit of yodeling. Check this out. You hear that yodeling back there? There's nothing the guy can't do. He can do it all, right? He can do it all.

[88:30]Except actually get a lot of listeners for a podcast. He can't do it all. He can't do it all. He can't do it all. He can't do that. So I got to ask you guys. Sly, I do not believe the Family Stone had 170 pieces. It was just a handful of pieces in that group. So when it comes to yodeling on a song with a 170-piece orchestra, who did it better? Beck did it better. Russell, that was a top two list. Easy. Top two list? It is tonight. A top two list to delete before this episode's over.

[89:00]I think even like, even Reese's would think, wow, that's a lot of pieces. For a band. You know, can I just tell you guys something? What do you guys like better? Reese's pieces or peanut butter cups? Oh, peanut butter cups. Yeah. I mean. Do you ever have an urge for the other one instead? Nope. No. Sure. Switch it up. I mean, Reese's pieces can kind of be nice. Now, Russell, do you think Reese's pieces are different flavors? Do you think the different colors are different flavors? Orange, yellow? Yeah. Ooh, this is pumpkin. Orange and lemon lime? Yeah. One of the brown ones.

[89:32]And again, they kind of look like the Hamburglar. If you think about it, it's like, it's like Hamburglar's color. Hamburglar. It's all coming together, you know. Just like the Hamburglar. Just like the Hamburglar and Ronald when they're both brats. No. Can I just say this? I don't like when rock bands, I was watching a thing of, I was watching ELO concert tonight playing Mr. Blue Sky and they had a ton of instruments like violins and they had a whole orchestra. I don't like it. I don't like it

[90:00]when bands play with orchestras and I'll tell you why. Why? They're just playing a song. They're not like jamming. They're not going to do anything unique. They're not, because it's all written out. You know, some, you're not going to get 30 cellists to be like, hello, there's a change there. Yeah, I'm not. It's like, it's. Every time the conductor moves his stick around to make them play differently, they're all brats. They say, no, we're going to play whatever's on the sheet music. I'm playing 7-8 time. Ooh, I'm bratty. Oh, yeah. There's nothing like going to watch a band and they're all playing. They've all got their music

[90:30]up on the, like the podium in front of them. They're all playing off the sheet. It's not fun. Aaron's like, actually, a lot of elementary school bands are very good if you. There's several just in my neighborhood. I just went to a recorder concert that blew me away. My kid wants to play recorders so bad. I'm going to hook him up to the Apple TV for some reason. I forgot already. All right. Running away. It's different. It is.

[91:00]It's so popular. It sounds like it could have been on the Juno soundtrack. This is on their Greatest Hits Anthology. It's a banger. The Juno soundtrack? Yeah, you remember that one, right? Juno soundtrack was good, by the way. If I was going to go soundtrack, I was going to go, what's the one where there's the little girl in the bee costume? Oh, Sunshine? Loomis Sunshine. Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. I thought that would be on this. I thought that would be on that soundtrack. I like that. That's such a good movie. A lot of people don't know this, but Aaron actually saw

[91:30]the Blind Melon Bee Girl at her original show. at her elementary school on that Monday night. That's what Aaron does for fun. And he was the one that nobody clapped and she ran away, and hence the video. The last song, Thank You For Talking To Me, Africa. Now, this is kind of an interesting one. If you listen to the words here. So this was a remake of the single that they had put out in the space between the two albums when they were desperate for songs by Silent Family Stone. They actually put out

[92:01]a single called Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself. And then they redid it. Thank you for letting me be myself. Yeah. And then they redid it as that song. Listen to the original version of it, Russ. Listen how much better it is. Well, this is the, this is Larry Graham. This is the first slap bass song ever is this one right here. This is also the song that was our opening number, even though it's not on the album, but I didn't mention it at the time. You might notice the version I did for the parody song was not actually on the album, but this whole thing has been a fraud. Well,

[92:30]a fraud. I, I don't want to do a song that's on the album. I'm a rat. Can you imagine if that was my trainer? She'd be like, do this workout. I was like, no. And she's like, no, we're actually working on it. I'm like, oh, sorry. But I mean, this didn't happen for me this week, but I felt, I mean, I guess running away is a kind of, kind of a weird one, but you know, this could be, this could be a crossing the finishing line song for, I was thinking maybe

[93:00]the back half of this album could be. No, we're not doing this. We're not doing this conversation. We're not talking TCB anymore. It made me, when I edited that, it made me ill. I'm just saying. It's music. What do you think music's about? Well, this, this album is actually about sitting in your bed and taking drugs, which is kind of, hmm. Fair. Yeah. I mean, can you guys imagine recording like your whole creative career in a bedroom? I certainly can't imagine that. I wouldn't know what that's like. All right, let's get to the patented and very popular rating system. Very popular. So popular.

[93:31]You guys have watched as my kids, because now there's not as like many stuffed animals behind me. It's very popular. Beck did it. More like books. Rating system. Oh, yeah. All right. 85s. Listen, is this okay? Think about if you were having to rank these albums, you were hired by Rolling Stone. Listen, we're going to come out with a top 500 list. Some idiots just started a podcast. We got to change that list. We got to see what they're going to do. It's going to be so funny. And, and then they say,

[94:01]listen, you need to pick, what album do you think is the 82nd best album of all time? And of course you say, well, I'm not going to do that. I'm a brat. I don't want to pick what album it is. And they say, you have to. And you go, Ooh, I love this job. If you didn't do that. Okay. And you said this album should not be there. That is a rolling groan. This album should be later on the list. Ooh, I'm a brat. This album goes later on the list. It's not as good as 82 Rolling Stone. Okay. Or do you think this album should have come sooner? Okay. It is a jam. It is like revolutionary.

[94:30]This is like one of the greatest funk, certainly the roots of the funk album of all time. That would be a rolling bone. It should have been higher up on the list. Or is this rolling well-toned? You think this is perfect. Okay. And it should have been an 82. And hence, you were actually not a brat. And I wanted you to be. So that actually does make you a brat. It was a reverse bratting. I wanted you to be a brat and you weren't. And that makes you a brat because you weren't doing what I wanted. So am I supposed to wear the collar ad in the post-game show or not wear the collar?

[95:00]Can you send me a separate text, Rob? I just want to make sure I understand what you're looking for. Yeah, I'm at eight and a half. I'm at eight and a half hat size. My collar is a 12. Okay. What? I don't know. Listen, guys, it's so late. It's so late, man. It's so late. Let's get this moving, Matt. Please don't distract us anymore. All right, Matt, what do you think? How would you rate this album? Rolling well-toned, rolling boned, or rolling grown? And avoid saying you're a big something guy because I will do it. I am a big, big fan of music.

[95:31]I'm a big music fan. That's why I can barely hear you. You got the big phantom. I think I hear out of this album just a ton of stuff that came in the 90s, late 80s, 90s, you know. And I think this list, for the most part, when we have albums like this, they've been way up front, way up higher when they've got ones that have this long tree, if you will. We talk about coaching trees and football. I feel like we've got musical trees, but I personally think

[96:01]this is better than any Stevie Wonder album that's out there. I would take this over any of those. And so I absolutely think this has got Rolling Boned if there's three Stevie albums ahead of it. Wow. Strong take. Love that strong take. Russell, what do you think? Rolling boned, rolling well-toned, or rolling grown? Normally when I don't like an album, I try to be nice and say nice things about it. But tonight I'm going to be a brat. I'll say one nice thing. Call her on or off

[96:30]when I do this, Rob. Please don't say that to me anymore. Oh, okay. You know, I can see where this would be like amazing music for rap and hip hop to be sampling this. When you were looking at like who sampled who, there's all these songs you can tell where this is the foundation for a lot of rap and hip hop, I think. But for me, the songs just drug on and on. I thought they were kind of boring except for that zero second song, which got over really quickly. Ultimately, I thought it was really interesting musically, but it just bored the shit out of me. I couldn't make it through ever and any of my listens. So I'm going to say it's Rolling Grown.

[97:00]Aaron, what do you think? Rolling Well Toned, Rolling Bone, or Rolling Grown? Yeah, Matt makes a good point there. I mean, I'm the biggest Stevie fan on the podcast, but there's too much Stevie in the top 100. This album to me is kind of that. Whoa, that's the biggest Stevie fan. It's the same joke. I was hoping you could come up with something different. I can't, I'm so tired. This one sort of, yes, it's the influence

[97:30]and it's the, do you enjoy listening to it? For me, the influence is so big. There's probably no Prince. There's probably no D'Angelo without it. So that's hard for me to get away from. And I always thought of it as an influential piece that I wouldn't really listen to, but I enjoyed listening to it this week. I put it on on repeat multiple times. So I'm going to say it's Rolling Well Toned. Unfortunately, you're all incorrect. What? You're being kind of brats, actually. Oh, this is a Rolling Oscar nomination. For what? I guarantee in the next 10 years,

[98:01]you will see a Sly in the Family Stone movie. Oh. Sly Stone is still alive. He is still alive. When he passes away, it's going to be big news. You will see a Sly in the Family Stone movie. It will get nominated for an Oscar. You heard it here first. If that happens, okay? Then what? Aaron has to get a tattoo of the Ronald McDonald walking around the hamburger on a collar like a brat. Listen, next up. Next up. By the way, do you think that's a good take

[98:30]that there's going to be a movie about Sly in the Family Stone? Oh, for sure, yeah. Incredibly interesting. That's a good take. He's incredible. Like, watch his YouTube. Watch his YouTube videos. They are magnetic. You cannot look away. Next up, guys. We have an album where there is a song about Frankenstein Jr. Huh? It's the Son of a Creature Man. Oh! Oh, Dusty in Memphis. Dusty in Memphis. When you want it, you go about it. Can I tell you the alt I had for that?

[99:01]This album made me want to fuck the son of a preacher man. For real? Oh! Seemed like we were too dirty. It sounds so sexy to be the son of a preacher man. It is, man. There's such a nice little drum roll in there, too. Maybe we could just skip the album. Aaron just covered it. Yeah. Beck did it better. Hey, Rob, if the Hamburglar was going to be on the yodeling list, what would he sound like? What would his yodel sound like? Oh, my God.

[99:32]It is so late. How did it get to be this late? Matt, are you tired? Do you think we should end the podcast? I'm not going to end the podcast. We're going to keep going because I'm a brat. Matt, we could really end it now if you want. We're not going to end it now. We're not going to end it now. Oh, I'm lightheaded.