Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis (1969)

[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 1969 this is album 83 dusty in memphis by dusty springfield guys i have to say okay we this has to be a clean episode i honestly am going to make an effort this time to do a clean episode

[00:34]i editing the last ones i have realized that i think my mom was right and i think i'm too dirty for no reason okay because i was like i was like oh there's quite a bit on here about getting fucked by a gas pump on the one and then the other one we had all our tcb songs and i'm like i know i know i can be funny without resorting to like being dirty i'm funny all the time and like you know in in in polite company like without being dirty hold on rob rob yes you just you uh mute your earphones for a second

[01:04]yes of course okay guys all we have to do is not laugh at one joke and he'll freak out it'll instantly go to cum gutters or something like that so all right so run the play just run the yeah we'll see if we'll see if we can all play along and see what happens all right all right all right we're back okay good so guys and that got me thinking like this album is something that it sounded like something that kind of that a granny would love and so i just looked up granny

[01:32]love online and it turns out there's a lot of messed up stuff out there uh and there's actually quite a bit of tasteful stuff that show that love doesn't have to be uh carrying about a 40 to 50 year old age gap and actually can be quite erotic if you really look at you know what let's not talk about this anymore russ has given me the thumbs up he wants to talk more i don't have time russell let's get to our opening uh radio station which i almost forgot the setup because we haven't been together for a little bit this is k-rob let's turn it just like those grannies let's turn this on what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-r-o-b listen today we're talking about what a nice

[02:06]guy here it is oh you're right or are we oh yeah aaron is the greatest guy everybody likes him because he's fun he keeps his records really clean then he sees his computer screen and his eyes start to gleam he goes on bing and starts to click you know he's looking at kinky shit yeah women

[02:30]that's normal for the freak you're in new women on their porches grilling he needs a sub just to begin these websites that he likes oh aaron's a freak out night a freak a freak out night are you did you remember karen that cypress hill used that as a sample i totally forgot until i just

[03:08]heard that right there i'd say i didn't remember until you just sang it well if i it's actually in my show notes that it was later it's all right they did they did cover it for hits it's i'll be i'll be i'll be looking forward to hearing that later in the later in the show it'll it'll sound great listen uh that was a great show thank you so much for watching and i'll see you next time bye great song and it's shocking that i did that on this and you knew that when you were like son of a preacher man you're like oh man aaron yeah you know what this song is like it's a logical next

[03:32]step yeah you know where you're at i picture you guys at home like thinking about what is rob gonna do for the parody song and i realize like you you do not think about that until i'm like till you're like oh yeah k rob this is part of something he does listen i've got uh matt in minneapolis matt how are you doing today just great rob just great thanks for having me yeah i love that energy i got russell in minnesota russell how are you doing guys this old podcast wouldn't be half as bad wouldn't be half as sad if each dumb shit listener had an unsubscribe button in the morning yes unsubscribe button rob unsubscribe my my wife's uh the spotify kinked

[04:09]out this week or crapped out this week and she's like i can't figure out what it is so i went on there and i was like uh subscribe and beck did it better i mean pathetic getting like one extra download a week i'm like doing god's work here um then she then she's like what's this unsubscribe button and i'm like i don't know what it is i don't know what it is i don't know what it is i'm gonna push it i was like no don't please uh listen and then we have aaron in california who uh he didn't want those kids going to berkeley anyways uh aaron how are you doing today rob

[04:35]you've been crying your face is a mess come here you can dry your tears on my dress let's talk about dusty in memphis uh listen everybody we have a voicemail let's get into the backslide so stupid i can kiss my ass listen if you want to get a hold of us i can't even tell what we're doing you can call 802-277-BECK that's 802-277-BECK and honestly if you can't figure out those last four letters you sound a lot like your listeners because they're dumb as hell all right this is i gotta say guys this is a 817 area code

[05:06]okay do you know what that is no idea exactly this is a caller who doesn't know us ah this is the dream and i'm gonna blow your fucking mind right now so first of all we talk all the time about how people who don't know us who listen to the show must be just subhuman they have the smallest fucking brains ever who would want to listen to us talk about anything mouth breathers just a bunch of just dumb as hell breathers and i'm gonna double blow your mind

[05:31]right now listen to this hi y'all uh my name's charm i'm a pretty new listener and stop pause stop it's a woman a woman who doesn't know us is listening to this show who doesn't listen to us don't you have any self-respect let's check out the voicemail here hi y'all uh my name's charm pretty new listener and um y'all recently talked about how nobody guys not only is she a listener she's also pretty i mean she said that in the call what else i mean i'm a pretty old host i mean yeah

[06:07]what are you gonna do what do you guys think of the y'all little southern accent oh it's guys listen we can't go crazy because this is a woman calling this is creepy that we're like breaking down a woman calling 10 times more than one of our dumb shit brothers we can't get into three seconds into yeah we cannot be enamored with this we can't be enamored with this we can't be enamored with a woman calling us okay here we go hi y'all my name's charm i'm a pretty new listener and

[06:30]y'all recently talked about how nobody asked why the show is called what it is and i've been wondering that for a while so tell us why is it called back to the better um i've been assuming the whole time that it has been about the musician but after listening y'all for a little bit i wouldn't be surprised if it's just about some dude with some big hairy balls or something oh and rob i could not agree more about the bless you thing i think it's this weird cultural norm

[07:00]that we all sort of agree to and i i honestly i'm so ingrained by society to say it that every time i hear a sneeze it just kind of spills out of my mouth and then i'm pissed at myself afterwards for it so thanks for fighting that good fight for us keep pissing people off for the rest of us we appreciate it um all right keep up the great work oh yeah well pretty good work oh wow that was a kind of a crappy way to end it right just use the word ingrained none of our listeners have used the word ingrained before i i'm so confused how how did this person you you would

[07:34]not don't you have ingrained toenails haven't you had toenail problems ingrained toenails he does that god is that god is flaring up his feet are so big uh so so first of all let's let's get to a couple things okay number one i'm not trying i'm not trying to piss people off okay that's the main point of this call i'm not trying to piss people off i'm just right a lot and a lot of people don't see what i'm talking about but you charm you do thank you so much we should not be saying bless you to people when they sneeze

[08:01]you are right uh and you gotta you gotta you gotta really be strong you're gonna want to say bless you and you gotta and stop yourself russell can you explain why this show is called beck did it better i think i can it's been a while and we've had a lot of drinks since then so it might have been ruined from my memory at some point but so before we started the podcast it was the very beginning of the pandemic and i was looking for a way to get people to listen to like a new something to keep me occupied someone to keep me entertained and i was trying a bunch of things i was trying to run a lot that was dying out really quickly i was trying all these things

[08:33]that to make me a better person and none of them were working so no i decided to try to listen to all 500 albums on the list and so i started on the old list and i probably got 20 albums in and i started texting you guys that i was doing this and at one of the albums one of the beatles albums was in the top 10 or something like that and there were some really strange songs on the beatles albums i don't know if it was sergeant peppers or which one it was but i i texted you guys i said you know what i think beck does really weird songs better than the beatles and everyone on the text

[09:05]chain lost their shit over it called me every name in the book i wasn't saying he's better i was saying he does certain songs better than the beatles and everyone lost their mind over it so a few months later we started the podcast and we decided to go with beck did it better is that is that your guys recollection of it or not that's right one thousand percent you should have seen us picking the name and the logo we really thought we're like oh my god we got to pick this perfect logo like hundreds of texts back and forth to something that we realize now it doesn't matter

[09:34]nobody cares nobody listens what color shade of orange yeah exactly so so we're called back to better basically making fun of something russell said which kind of set the tone for the podcast actually right off the bat like i have to say i how do you think charm heard about us how did charm start listening to us that would be a great thing to figure out i would love to know every every episode says aaron likes feet i want to get it trending so my guess is she went out with the guy like feet she googled aaron likes feet just to check him out and it turned out she ended up here

[10:04]that's so good that's such a great idea i'm thinking charm sounds like an intelligent person and like the the intelligent person circle of friends is small enough that she got word of mouth from another intelligent person so i just think that like smart people like to listen to beck did it better i think it's because uh i actually i you know i was listening to podcasts on dusty springfield this week i'm going to tell you right now as shitty as our podcast is there's a lot that are way worse and there's like two there's like two on apple podcasts about dusty springfield

[10:35]they were brutal to listen to they were terrible you listen to other podcasts about the albums before we do our what the hell yeah then i sound smart as hell oh man matt do you do that no no no that's why you guys aren't the main host you're not you're not grinding you're not putting in the work that's true okay this is me this is my malcolm malcolm gladwell i'm putting in my 10 000 hours to be fair to charm like just because she knows how to use the word ingrown in a proper

[11:03]context doesn't mean ingrained that that her everything about her voicemail was amazing she made it very clear she did not listen to episode zero in this in this call right if you the the beginning of the podcast came from so yeah hey all of our listeners do not listen to episode zero let's listen to episode zero right now i was telling you about unsubscribe let's listen to episode zero right now aaron aaron aaron how are you doing right now

[11:34]that's what i'm gonna start calling my penis i mean it was that's i mean this that's basically what it was uh all right let's by the way you guys didn't ask me why i mentioned bing in the song but the real ones know the real ones know you i'm telling you you're searching for videos bing is where it's at everybody's up to why is that oh yeah i don't know it just is it's like why is the sky blue you know it's a mystery

[12:08]uh nobody knows listen rolling going rob how's it going uh with me first i'm gonna actually go first today because i've got two things to tell you that are going to affect the show okay okay number one one uh the other day on thursday i pulled an errand okay and it's not what you guys think it means when i say i uh i actually took a tumble off my bike going to work and i am pretty sure

[12:31]that i broke a rib now i have been too busy to go in and get an x-ray uh but it you will not hear me laugh during this episode once because i will pass out if i laugh it hurts so bad and i cannot sit up or get down very easily uh so i mostly just hunch around and uh what was the bike parked or were you moving uh no i was going full speed in an electric bike across eighth avenue and i hit a bump and i was not holding on to the handlebars uh enough and they twisted and i went over the front my helmet hit the ground uh and then i like slammed my elbow into my body i don't

[13:05]have a scratch on my body anywhere but i am pretty sure i broke a rib so we will find out what happens related to that i also had to take my computer to it at work because i got a cookie crumb stuck under the keyboard space bar so i couldn't don't make me laugh here so to write emails i was having to push the forward key to write an email to a parent i had to push wow guys please i had to push the forward key

[13:34]and so i had to go to uh tech and ask them do you have a compressed air that i can just throw under my space bar i think there's a piece of food under there and their reply to me was oh again because i also once got a bunch of cookies stuck in the power inlet in my mac like where the power cord goes in i got some cookies stuffed in there because i had ow ow ow i had cookie ow i had

[14:00]cookies stuffed in my bag and i put my computer in there well it doesn't matter why i had cookie crumbs in my bag don't worry about that but you don't have a separate cookie cookie slot and computer slot you've got you just put it all in one my computer slot are the same that's a problem it's like a cloaca on birds it's all the same hole i gotta get different holes but yeah so i got cookies stuck in my power cord so i had to wedge that out because i also could not charge my computer for a while due to cookies so i i have a real problem i would have just thrown that computer away and got another one i'm not going in to admit that i got food stuck in my

[14:33]laptop it's it's it's so embarrassing did anyone did anyone did anyone see you fall off the bike rob anyone come to see if you were okay or did everyone ignore you or what happened no they all were like there's a there were a bunch of people and they were helping me because i got the wind totally knocked out of me and then i was on the i was like up and i was like okay i think i'm okay but my like it hurt and then i'm like halfway from home and halfway to work and i'm like well what do i do so and so i got on my bike and bike to work you got i went about two blocks and i realized oh

[15:05]one of my airpods fell out of my ear so i bike back to get my airpod right you go back to the scene of the crime i go back to the scene of the crime humiliating okay that's the worst absolutely humiliating and i get there and i see the airpod in the middle of the road and i take a step toward it and a taxi cab just immediately immediately when i'm seeing drives right over it smashes it into a million pieces and i was like yeah at that point the adrenaline adrenaline's still going you

[15:31]might not realize you've broken anything yet like you're still hyped up on well i still you know that was three days ago and i still haven't gone to get checked out i've been pretty busy actually i've been i've been doing a lot of stuff like science might be on stuff so i haven't had time but uh yeah like i can't sleep at night like i can't sleep on i can't twist around in the bed i can't get out in or out of the bed it's a nightmare um but i will jenny does jenny kind of uh taking care of you uh making sure you're okay or how how's it going around the house yeah have you

[16:00]seen her for the last three days is she around she has never tried to sexually engage me more in my life she knows i can't move i can't clench my abs at all and all of a sudden it is like hedonism 1994 yes it's like girls gone wild in my place and i am out totally out of commission it's terrible so remember when you asked us if we'd be sadists or masochists i guess we know what jenny's answer is yeah totally it is it's like

[16:33]my cocks in a metaphorical cage it's terrible uh last case of emotion that's right it's a metaphor it's a matter of you guys think about it are you thinking about it all right let's move on rolling going man how's it going with you yeah so we went to disney um i survived i think going in with the attitude of like no attitude like this either this is not going to be the greatest thing in the world this is not the worst thing in the world we're just

[17:01]going to go we're going to take it day by day hour by hour kind of excitement let the experience come to you let's let it come to me right yeah we'll take it all in and it was great you know so having like i don't know if you get any of you guys are harry potter readers i don't know if you came out a little bit after us and so i did i read it you know if you if you're like a 20 year old reading harry potter you can't read it for the first time now right well now you'll you'll read it with uh with the big with the big with your kid i don't want to say his name in case

[17:31]we're not supposed to say name his name is harry potter jr is the problem aaron's like listen i haven't read the book it's pretty famous though so we are going to name the kid harry potter jr when you're reading with harry potter jr um you know and then you go to universal studios and cities and the castles and everything that they've set up is just unbelievable it's unbelievable to go walk through that and kind of experience that stuff so so it's great um universal you can buy a pass oh matt's at the front of the line right you love the front of the line

[18:05]boom it's great okay so sarah and my mom planned this trip you know they did all the works i just had to go sounds like what i'm wrong but then no but then i i was the one who had to do all the rides of the boys stuff so it was great it went fine i was the one who had to do all the rides it seems like a lot of work to go sit on the teacups for 20 minutes right those rides will fuck you up man so it's not the actual rides it's the waiting

[18:30]in line that is just absolutely horrible right and so at universal we were able to buy passes and you can go and it's basically like the fast lane okay so if you pay 120 bucks for the day you get to go to the front this other line that moves a lot quicker than the the the the common folk like the airport yeah but at disney they've changed it they've changed the fast pass line they basically charge you 15 bucks and about every two hours this is very general it's really it's really

[19:03]convoluted and kind of set up so that if you're going to disney you have to be on disney property to get all of the benefits kind of a thing but every every two hours you can sign up to do a essentially a fast pass on a on a one of the rides so you get every two hours you can start doing it but by the time you're doing it i mean you're going to get on like four or five rides that day in the fast pass what and there's at least 10 rides that you want to go on so no matter what you're going to be if you want to ride all the rides you have to sit in the you have to stand

[19:33]in one of these long lines one of the lines got up to 230 minutes you can see it on an app oh oh my you know for for like the best uh star wars one i forget what's good like the something jedi something or other or whatever yeah 230 minutes if you're just like average and so that's half your day that's the best ride would be b java for five minutes oh exactly and so we essentially did some of that stuff but you know so their thinking is is that it's it's 15 bucks it's not 120 right disney is the happiest place

[20:04]in the world everybody goes everybody everybody has the chance right to kind of have this fast pass thing but it's not just 120 bucks and you're going to the front like it's kind of trying to spread out the equity of it and make it a little bit more equitable equitable for anybody but i tell you what there i nothing nothing i will not go back to disney ever again because of the stupid thing oh because we'll just go to universal and we'll go hang out at harry potter world where we can pay 120 bucks get to

[20:33]the front of the line every time like the time wasted in line like an hour to do some ride and all of a sudden you're like well that was horrible to get to the front of the line and if they're not going to put them at the front of the line they can go fuck themselves well exactly that's it yeah so so overall it was good um i have figured out that no matter what i do in life it's going to be about how fast i can get to the front of the line from now on airports restaurants theme parks skipping through the podcast skipping through

[21:06]the podcast how fast i want to go first from now on so i can uh you know space out zone out for a little while hockey from here on out yeah so i could watch some hockey yep exactly so so overall it went great i would highly recommend universal and disney can go fuck themselves what yes at any point during this trip matt you just get in a fight with your wife just because you're like listen we're on this trip i'm

[21:30]with the kids all day standing in line time to fight with the wife time to just start an argument you know you just say something like you don't even care about me something like that whatever you know what well and so then we we were i didn't want this kind of lemon ice i wanted the other kind of lemon ice yeah you call this a frozen butter beer not a just a straight up cold butter beer yeah that kind of butter what's a butter beer that sounds delicious it's a harry potter it's a harry potter thing aaron how have you not read harry potter you got to read harry potter bro is there so because she's terrible she's the worst we're not going to get into this steal the books just go

[22:01]steal the books from somewhere don't give her a dime i'll say you know what i got a site i'll send you some free pdfs of stolen books there we go i'm also on harry potter i didn't read it i haven't watched the movies i have no intention of doing either i like it russell i'm interested but i mean she's awful you can't but i would still go to harry potter world if i could pay to go to the front of the line i'd go if there's frozen butter beer that sounds great we're so fun it's crazy speaking of which aaron rolling going how's it going with you man it's good i got a lot i got a lot to say about rolling good there's a lot happening in my life um uh i got a quick update for all of our listeners who've been wondering my carnivorous

[22:32]plant still alive fucking killing it it's growing i've repotted it it's been just devouring fruit flies so that's going great i know i know i know i know i know i know i know we still we still don't understand why there are so many fruit flies in the house from the produce i mean you know uh last night at uh cocktail hour i treated myself to some canned oysters so i really enjoyed that oh no i was treating myself no stop stop the crowd

[23:00]shut up canned oysters oysters come in a container it's the oyster like you don't need to take the oysters out and put them in a container they have a natural container it's the oyster but rob do you know that uh the the the little tin of of smoked crown prince oysters i'm gonna stop you right there i'm gonna stop you there no whatever you're about to say no i don't know it because i've never heard of this product in my life a little a little tin of smoked oysters in olive oil there's like 16 of them in there and that's one serving size you can just eat 16 oysters be like yep that was my that

[23:31]was my snack are you serious yeah is it like is it like anchovies where you peel off a film on the top yeah you pull off the top of the can terrible eat them with some crackers while i'm cooking up some pizza for the family oh man it was perfect i'm so happy canned oysters delicious crown that sounds like a piercing you'd get crown prince canned oysters i mean that's okay crown prince oh my god that was number 16 on the porn hub 2021 search i don't know what that is you you guys want to guess i use i'm a

[24:05]guy uh you guys want to guess how much does a can of whole oysters cost do you think 399 it's 325 yeah you're buying a bunch of oysters for 325 not enough to pay for oysters that you are getting these oysters from some fucked up place i don't know where you're getting an oyster for three you're gonna shuck an oyster and put it into a can for 325 i'm still here i 24 hours ago i'm still

[24:30]16 of them 16 oysters yeah like just that was some crackers so good oysters out of a can and that wasn't even your story no like this isn't even your main story that you eat no oysters out of a can no of course not uh second so the last thing uh my son started soccer shots so that's really fun so shout out to him for being enthusiastic about learning how to play soccer he just like jumps right in and yeah they're just kicking balls and cones and that's super fun but what i really want to talk rumor is that he's good at kicking balls right yeah

[25:02]he's like normally my dad and the balls but now i'm doing the soccer ball man what i really want to talk about is you guys are gonna be your dad's face on it and let it rip that's right haha i gotta talk about work for a minute um you guys are gonna be very proud of me uh we've discussed my my career are we close to any holidays where you're gonna lay people off where we stay or what yeah my my boss who i recently learned is leaving the company but prior to leaving the company he nominated me for a leadership university so you guys should be proud

[25:34]of me i've you made you made it i mean it's ridiculous yeah and and now announcing the 2024 leadership university class yeah it's it's it's very exclusive it's just me and about 220 other people

[26:01]yeah so it's a weekend it's a weekend at the hilton you pay two thousand dollars to get to get it but they promise you you're gonna make that money back in a couple weeks okay because they've got some great ideas all you need to bring is a list of the things that you're gonna need to bring to the the list of a hundred friends that you have yes and we're gonna call those hot leads aaron's like i love my leadership committee right and uh this special this is a special leadership university for people at my level so uh it's called going to a special leadership university he thinks that's a good thing he's like yay one of one of my classes is called

[26:34]leading from the middle so this is a special leadership university like celebrating that your middle management yes this is the worst this is the worst this is like the definition of the peter principle is the middle management person who they put in leadership university to like hey we're just going to keep this person down just enough yeah to where they don't have enough ambition to take me out but they'll just continue to do my bidding right underneath me and have no have no goals in a career at all

[27:02]so that's it i knew you guys would be proud i knew i knew i came to the right place for some kudos from the middle what does this leadership school look like like is this actually like are you going like on the top of your head like is this actually like are you going like on the top of your head like certain days or is this a series of videos that you watch where two people are talking about it and then you have to take a quiz at the end i mean i don't want to give too much away there's going to be identifying information but uh no it's like uh get together for some online you know learning together uh there's gonna be quizzes at the end what the fuck do you learn about

[27:31]leadership we're gonna do a simulation where we're like a simulated company and we're gonna you know succeed as a simulated oh my god can you try to plug our podcast on this we've already gone too far i will i will indeed yeah hey we're gonna make up a company so how would you guys deal uh one of your workers is looking for a three and a half percent raise you're only willing to give him three how would you guys deal with it leading from the middle i'm not gonna lie and this is probably the cynic i mean the this sounds like an inatech type thing and just hold on just hold on

[28:04]for one sec so your boss is leaving yeah how many people in your position are like eligible for to take over that boss's position uh is there like three or four of you about four yeah okay yeah so let me guess let me just guess here right there's two no there's either two or three of you who got nominated to go to this leadership academy while this other clown yeah who's going to be taking over for him and now

[28:31]everybody feels good and everybody gets a trophy and nobody feels bad and all this stuff so you guys you're not going to be the boss we're going to send you to leadership training right god man you know it you've got is that what happened is that what's going on yeah you got it 100 and the worst part is is that aaron's jacking off to the top he he he misunderstands it but he's like i'm i'm so excited just honored to be here so yeah i knew you guys are you not going to go for the position i mean i just maybe this is getting too personal but or like do you feel like you want the

[29:02]position are you having fun managing from the middle or what's the deal he doesn't want that i mean leading leading from the middle he's climbing he's climbing that ladder if you get to that next position you gotta like that's like a lot of 4 p.m meetings guys i'm not trying to i'm not trying to work at 4 p.m i mean come on easter or pacific i mean if it's easter you're probably okay or you'd be what's the pay bump what's the pay bump is it a good pay bump or not that much oh yeah it'd be about yeah it'd be like uh 25 30 probably you can

[29:30]probably get regular clams or whatever oysters yeah he doesn't need to buy canned oysters anymore so four four o'clock meetings 30 bump tell him you're eating canned oysters in this leadership school and see if they kick your ass out you're gonna be in leadership school detention writing i will not eat canned oysters on the board a hundred times leading from the middle of my ass can you imagine could they at least come up with a better name for the the one course who gets up and it's like god i'm really excited about this leading from the middle

[30:01]course that i have yeah oh yeah that's gonna be me man i'm i'm fired up i'm excited for it you should show up with a band-aid on your stomach and say i'm bleeding from the middle and then be like wait what no this lettership class is not good and they're like what what's this guy's deal he's a fucking idiot it's just horrible it hasn't gotten any better oh so bad uh russell all right i'm sorry yeah russell rolling going how's it going with you

[30:32]i'm never doing the order like this again this screws me up too bad this is it's too much it's so confusing even sharma is like i don't know what's going on with this show it's going really well uh about a week ago i went to the minnesota food and wine festival at target field so they do like uh the food and wine where they bring in all these food vendors all these wine booze beer vendors and they essentially set it up throughout the whole entire uh i don't know what you'd call it indoor seating area at target field

[31:00]so hundreds of booths there i just want the listeners right now can the listeners just do me a favor okay yeah when you hear the slap can you just pause the podcast i just want you to think about for 10 seconds where's this story gonna go where's russell's story about going to the food and wine expo at target field and did you drive yourself russell no i there's no chance there's no driving involved for this no way yeah good so just pause it right now and think how is this story gonna end why do i have to tell the ending or not all the sounds you could play why

[31:31]the slap well it's a short one what am i supposed to play like this okay when i play rum shaker think about what is russell's it ends with the rump shaking uh can i have the your pinot noir and i do want to zoom zoom but no no no hold the boom yeah boom boom i'm actually i'm leading from the middle i don't

[32:01]have time before i tell you about the ending i thought what i could do is share some experiences i had at the food and wine festival and see what would be your guys style it's this type of event and do you think this type of behavior is the way to go at this type of event i love oh man love talking proper behavior yes russell for the wines for the wines did they have any flights could you could you get flights of wine at this thing oh here we go so essentially you could go in and there could you get flights of wine it was a yes or no question yeah you could

[32:30]get whatever you wanted and it sounds like you were on a flight tonight baby yeah a flight of wine all right all right these are the stories i do like this story and the ironic thing is i have another song too you know what hey i'm gonna before you get going russell before you get going i think

[33:08]i think you know we'll have it this is an in podcast editing session or whatever we should just cut off the first half hour of this thing skip the song skip me and rob and just start with rosie talking about middle management it picked up this podcast picked up rosie talked about oysters he did not talk about middle management i want to be very clear on this so russell first you went to the canned oysters booth and they were the line was so long you couldn't get there

[33:33]what did you do i was just peeling the film off the top of those little cans over and over it was fantastic oh my god you're eating multiple cans you're eating multiple cans you're eating multiple cans so there's there's there's hundreds of booths set up different types of food wine booze uh beer everything you can ask for booze and the first thing i was the first thing i was going to ask you is if you go into a food and wine type event and there are vendors that are selling stuff but not giving out samples is that bullshit or is that okay no what are you gonna go fuck themselves what are you doing there if you're not gonna give out samples oh i'm sorry is this the store

[34:04]no i paid a fee to get in here idiots table steaks like yeah if you want to be there you gotta like i mean you can hand something out right you can open like one bottle of something and pour an ounce for everybody you could have a can of oysters at the right time let everybody take one with it please right feed 16 people by the way man the fact that you said delete the song like i felt that was pointed you said let's delete the song that was one of the things i thought it was a good song you're in the freak i like that one i was just

[34:31]trying to see if i get you start talking dirty not gonna happen clean go ahead russell well either way so so once i i walked by and there was all these vendors that didn't have anything out it's like what are you guys trying to do you like think people are just gonna come and start talking to you about their product or what what are you doing you gotta people aren't paying for that they're paying to eat free food and drink free wine yes right now absolutely russell i need to set the scene i need to picture this in my head are you alone on this or is this a date night activity i was out with there was definitely a friend with me at there was a date that was it was there was two of us but

[35:02]there was because i was gonna say going to the food and wine expo on your own i think we would actually have to stop down and have a little bit of intervention well technically that has happened once before oh my you want to hear the story on that or not i got eight i got all night i'm on spring break and my ribs like i said chop off the first half hour and just start with this i actually cannot get out of my seat it hurts too bad so i'm here i'm listening so i have gone to a food and wine expo once by myself before it was about two years ago i would do that and i had gone out on a date with a lady a couple times and we i thought we

[35:37]type people and we were all also both baseball people and i was like oh this food and wine thing at target fields coming up what a great like idea for a date right for if people are into that right and so i asked her hey do you want to go to this she's like yep absolutely so i get the tickets and we'd only been out a few times and i got the tickets oh no and like the day after i got the tickets i texted her about something that she called me and was like i'm not going to be able

[36:02]to go i'm not really into this um i'll go with you but it would only be as friends and i was like oh gosh so i spent like 200 bucks on these tickets or whatever right oh now now russell now i'm just going to ask you i'm going to ask you guys russell don't say anything yeah okay i want to see a thumbs up or down did russell still bring the woman as a friend thinking well maybe there's a chance i want to see thumbs up or down did russell still bring the woman russell i say yes matt and aaron both say no russell did you still bring the woman to the date

[36:31]no i did not even consider bringing the woman oh my god you're so strong russell i'm so proud of you i held strong and i just i said on the phone hey appreciate you being straightforward but yeah i'll just i'll figure out a different plan i gotta give her credit she did offer to send me money for the ticket because i think she realized like i asked her and she said yes and then spent money on it so i was like but of course you want to take a vote did i take the money or no of course you didn't wrestle you're a joe god damn right i took the money i'm gonna buy so many canned oysters with this i'm a

[37:01]psychopath so so i this whole thing might need to get deleted out this isn't gonna end well but um the the so man so i get i get dumped we want to hear that i get dumped for my date to the the food and wine expo target field it's like three days before and i'm like well what am i gonna do i'm gonna go i refuse to just like just because some girl's not gonna go with me i'm not gonna just ditch on it yeah right so i reached out to this other lady who i had known before nice and

[37:31]i was like hey this is where you're coming this is this is where it's coming in i think russell's below the middle on this plan and so we had kind of been having a conversation the i you know i wasn't seeing the first lady seriously or anything like that so i talked to this other lady and i said hey i've got these tickets to this i thought it'd be fun you want to go with me she's like yeah absolutely so i've got a different date set up like great this is we'll have fun two days before that we're ready to go we're all set and everything morning of i get a text i've got food poisoning i

[38:05]can't go oh so i got that i got the straight rejection and then oh oh that is certainly a lie that is a like morning food poisoning has never happened morning food poisoning so i got bailed on twice for the food and wine expo a few years ago and then i was like well i could either be bummed about it or i could just go and have fun and that's what i did but one of the things i have

[38:30]to say this one of the things i always try to take a learning lesson from something like that and my learning lesson was never ever pre-spend a bunch of money on a date with a woman or any person i should for that matter that you don't know well enough like it was a mistake for like a third date to spend like 200 bucks on food and wine tickets mistake right yeah yeah now which number date was the rolling stones concert what number day was that was that like four you're like i learned the lesson but not really like i didn't learn that that was all day of stuff though that was i was i purchased tickets

[39:04]day off oh right you're right you're right yeah it wasn't spending ahead so he did learn zero planning went into that ahead of time trending in the right direction as far as i can tell but so so anyways the phone call i received last week on saturday is any indication it seems like it's turning in the right direction just for those of you keeping up the back to the better wiki online i just want to let you know that was russell's first food and wine expo story okay uh and maybe not even his first that was just the first story so let's move on to chapter two

[39:33]very thoughtful i would i would go to a food and wine expo with you i would never tell you that i had food boys and russell you're a good guy i would never now russell can i ask you did did what did you think of the um vendor that was selling skittle vodka did you go to the skittle vodka and inform them it's not flavors that was the one where i spent my my matt said i've got one excuse for i could just stay up front the whole time that was the one i picked uh can i sample the purple more than once this week my son said what what's the dad what's the name of the candy that he put in the

[40:03]drink like that's become a oh my god joke in our household wait which which candy did he put in the drink dude your leadership school finds out you're showing this podcast to kids you are going to get kicked out of leadership that is bad leadership i think the real question i had about food and wine tastings is what is your guy's style when it comes to going up and the person who's the expert the the sommelier or whoever the wine person is starts talking to you about the product do you have to act like you care

[40:33]or can you just stick your glass in the glass and you're like oh my god i'm going to get kicked out and be like fill it up and let me move along what's what's your style when it comes to talking with the expert while they're explaining the product 30 seconds they got 30 seconds to tell me whatever they're selling i mean because that's the whole point of the thing right i mean like they're there they paid a bunch of money to be there they got to get their information out right yep but like it's got to be 30 i mean maybe a minute whatever it is but like there's a there definitely is an uncomfortable amount of time and an oversell i'm happy listening to them i like to

[41:01]let that yeah like they got a job to do happy to listen to them but when it comes to that moment and they look at you for what you're gonna say that's the part i don't like like i don't know what i mean like yeah like talking about how wine tastes like i don't like that's like talking about how sex feels like just drink the wine and keep it moving yeah do we need to bleep out the last half hour of what you were just talking about aaron or not that would that would explain why my wife got so bad when i mad when i said oh this was full-bodied what

[41:34]oh this has an oaky oaky aftertaste no no what this wine tastes like mulch it has hints of canned oysters cleanse the palate cleanse the palate oh okay you did have your minute there but it's over oh okay this was not our

[42:04]finest year i'm not gonna lie to you this gave me bitter beer face this was better this vintage was actually better a couple years ago um but a lot of people think actually with some weight loss they could actually come back to the vintage that i was before uh and actually this year they were pretty tired because they worked a lot and it was you know a change it was you know it's tough so i eventually came to a i i think i have the answer for how you how you

[42:30]should deal with a over-aggressive salesperson at food and wine okay please this i guess i think the rule is if you don't make eye contact with them you can just stick your glass in and get out of there yeah but if you if you make eye contact with them then you're stuck then you've got to acknowledge that they're a person and they're not just pouring stuff for you you got to interact is that a fair rule you think i like that rule i like it so this gets to the end of the story while why aaron's probably like hell all of you could be laughing at this point so i had quite a bit of wine at this event and i'm realizing like food and wine expos i

[43:02]might just not be good for them and i i overdid it let me ask one question russell yeah at any point okay and i want you and you have to be honest here okay yeah did you go back to the same place twice and act like it was the first time you were there like oh wow this is oh really you know what i really don't have any shame if i went back i would act like oh this is a great product and then i would let them talk to me about it so and then here's the move here's the move when you go back you make sure you take the card like whatever their their advertising material is yeah you

[43:32]take the card you go back you look at the card you put it in your bag and then you take that wine and you go drink it so there you go russell you're so smart do i have a sound clip for russell being smart all right we'll see if i'm smart when we get to the end of the story right it's six pence no i don't i don't have it that's a bummer so anyways i don't the problem with these like these tastings is it's just never ending right you can go and you can keep getting little sips of wine over and over and it doesn't really dawn on you that hey i've probably had too much right

[44:03]yep it sneaks up on you it sneaks so eventually i eventually i clearly had had too much and i i got back to the end of the night and i did something that i haven't done in a long time i started drunk dialing my friends i got back and i was like i need to talk to my boys for some reason and so i started like going into my phone and looking and any any of my buddies who i thought well maybe they would be up and what i tried to do is not call the ones that i knew had younger kids right but so i

[44:33]just started drunk dialing a bunch of my buddies i was and if people would pick up they would pick up but i barely remember talking to anyone i barely remember any of it so i was going to ask you guys like when is the last time you drunk dialed anyone and like do you ever still do that or what's your thoughts on drunk my problem is is that sometimes if i'm under the influence i will text people or my phone will just be in my phone and i'll be like oh my god i'm drunk dialing and i'll be like oh my god i'm drunk dialing and i'll be like oh my god i'm drunk dialing and i'll be like oh my god i'm drunk dialing and i'll be like oh my god i'm drunk dialing my hand right and i one time did at three in the morning call uh the guy who does our taxes

[45:05]and so i called george at three in the morning uh and unfortunately he texted back who is this why did you call me and i had to say oh i'm rob you do my taxes i'm so sorry i did i didn't i'm like going to the bathroom i didn't mean to call you like absolutely humiliating what a bummer your taxes or no oh yeah of course that guy's leading from the middle right there

[45:32]they're very easy because he's like you've spent too long you've spent a hundred thousand dollars this year on canned oysters this is crazy rob you have you have drunk dialed recently matt or aaron or have you guys ever i don't know if i've drunk recently or not it's fun as hell i mean my my uh drunk style if there is such a thing is to just go to sleep right so i'm not like hanging out there and like keep going and so i just don't i think as i got older the opportunities are just not there i just can't do it anymore because i'm

[46:03]just gonna go right to sleep so but no i i miss that and i i miss drunk calls from people too they can be fun it was i was uh i yeah i was so honored to get the call aaron you're one of the people i called yes i know i was excited it was no no i wasn't that wasn't a statement that was a question yes oh yeah we had a nice conversation i was so excited and yeah i haven't drunk down anybody for a long time part of it is like i'm on the west coast so by the time i'm sauced up everybody i know is probably sleeping

[46:32]so i but i mean i think we should all drunk down more often aaron can i make a promise to you if you drunk dialed me i would pick up i like that rob now that is not that is not true as it turns out it sounds like you didn't pick up when i called because russell called me and i was talking to where was i i was like doing your tax accountant i was talking to somebody and i got a call from russell and i go oh and i hung up on him and then immediately i panicked i was like oh no russell's in big trouble why on earth would it be voice calling and so i like texted him back i was

[47:02]like russell are you okay is this an emergency and he's like food line expo canned oysters i was like yep he's doing okay forgot it's friday night leave it at that yeah exactly russell i mean that's so good oh so that's how we're gonna end the segment me saying that's so good one more thing i have a i have a tip i have a tip a pro tip okay if you guys ever do drunk dial people and you wake up the next morning you're like oh shit what did i do and you're starting to get it texts from all these people saying asking you questions that you don't know the answer to right

[47:32]you want to know the number one move do not look at your your history you just ignore what you did like there was part of me that wanted to look and be like well who all did i call because this could be bad but i just decided i was going to keep it in the background and i wasn't even going to look at who i called i think that's the move if you drunk dial you don't look back you just look forward i like that i had that i had my brother's uh 40th birthday party up at hermontown a couple and i had had we got there like five and i had it's very similar that if you don't remember

[48:04]signing the uh your check you know at the end of the night you know closing out your tab same thing just don't look at it just don't even like bother to try to figure out how much it was and then and then i was pleasantly surprised when i got my credit card bill that you know it wasn't as bad that's because you're drinking up north where drinks cost like 75 cents let me tell you it was awesome and they have like drinks you've never heard of you know but they like are closer like oh do you want you know jacoby wakress and you're like what i've never heard of that they're like

[48:33]it's 75 cents you're like yes i'll have 10 thank you very much and i'll take two of those canned oysters as well but i like that russell just just deflect just shove that down don't even think about it just don't even bother but yeah i like that so folks if it's friday night and you're friends with any of us and you hear you know pick up it's time you got to pick up unless you have young kids and i i tried i don't think i called the people with younger kids except aaron because he was west coast yeah i think i was up man russ next time say i'm drunk dialing

[49:03]and then call me and i will answer as the big bobber the big bob will talk to you the whole actually you know what happened i you know i did i did not answer russell called me but i was putting my son to bed when he called but i called him back and russell did answer so russell drunk answered my call that's so good that's i love it listen let's get into this album we have to no we all like the show let's talk about the album all right i forgot what we're doing here let's get to let's oh god i just opened up my phone you

[49:34]know what popped up a picture of canned oysters i almost threw up i was looking at them they do not look good right now go online look at what canned oysters yeah the smoked ones are really nice listen we are talking about the album dusty in memphis which might as well be called is the album with son of a preacher man on it right because that is pretty much what this album is known for son of a preacher man it's a straight up banger it is crazy good but what's crazy about this is that dusty springfield is this english singer right 19 in the late 1960s she's kind of

[50:03]had a string where she's starting to kind of fall out of relevance and she's like you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna do what my idol aretha franklin did i'm gonna sign with atlantic and i'm gonna work with this guy named jerry wexler the producer because jerry wexler worked with aretha and uh i think jerry wexler is kind of an interesting character too he actually was before this he was a journalist at billboard magazine and his claim to fame was he is the guy who came up with the term rhythm and blues oh and you know why he came up with the term rhythm and blues

[50:32]no it's because he thought the term race records chart was not good and they should change that so it used to be called race records chart and then he was like how about rhythm and blues so yeah kind of a he so this guy brings in a bunch of songs for dusty springfield he's like listen we got this woman she's got a great voice she's a well-known singer in the uk we're going to bring in a bunch of songs dusty says i hate all of these and actually dusty springfield claimed later that she was super nervous about recording in america and and for an album that she didn't actually

[51:02]produce this is the first one and so she said yeah the reason that the memphis because this is called dusty in memphis update most of it was actually re-recorded in new york city the greatest city in the world the greatest city in the world i mean if you want to see a giant fat guy fall on a bicycle new york city is the place for you i don't know rob i think it would be funny if you did it in memphis or new york city i have to agree oh um so so she records this album right and it's and it's this guy was kind of a proponent of that stack sound and the uh muscle shoal sound

[51:35]so you're going to kind of hear that same grainy quality but it's strange having basically a diva singer with that quality of an album where her voice i think on this album is way to the back i think it does it a disservice i think the voice being so far back in the mix is not that great but she's probably most famous for telling uh the record company atlantic hey i got this friend named john paul jones i don't know if you know john paul jones i don't know if you know john paul jones and he's in this band called led zeppelin you should sign them and he was like oh okay and i

[52:02]just want to point out this out too we this album sounds old as shit like that's the point i made with the granny stuff earlier and we don't need to get into that if it got edited out or whatever but i want to you want to hear other albums that came out the same year 1969 right first of all there's a little something called woodstock so imagine you go and see woodstock and then you come back and you put on this new dusty springfield album you'd be like well no this is what my parents listened to i'm not listening to this uh led zeppelin's first album abbey road velvet underground velvet underground like there's so much

[52:30]stronger harder music coming out and then dusty springfield comes out with basically son of a preacher man so at the time total flop uh let's listen to it right now and then somehow it's gotten big again i'm not quite sure even how that happened geez i can't imagine what would be appealing why would people listen to this record over other records by people from memphis it's so strange what would the what would the you said you weren't gonna get into your list do you have like uh the source of your comments that this is popular again i swear to god it's

[53:03]just like you know you can like sort of make things up on wikipedia it could be a couple of podcasts that maybe i tried to find i tried to find you know like negative reviews of this album and like pitchfork has it as the 19th best album of the 60s all these write-ups have it as like just like these sterling reviews of it well let's get into it i i enjoy it hey listen just like it's good just like uh aaron who should i make fun of not me i'll take it so just like aaron's wife says hey just a little

[53:34]loving oh that's a small penis well that would have been too real too real i know i didn't want to be hurtful yeah this is wrong just a little love i mean you can't do you can't front on her voice i mean you're right it's a it's a great voice what do you think of her as a singer fantastic i mean it's great it's a great voice smoky seductive it's got range it's good but the problem is right is that every song starts to sound like this song is it is that rosie

[54:05]i honestly i have no idea so i have to add i ask honestly is this better than like the average lounge singer in las vegas who would just go and sing this song i maybe i think so because i think when she gets into the bigger louder moments where it's when the world wouldn't be half as bad i mean i think there's both moments wait what did she do does this ring for you i think it goes like this here and it's like the rat to tat tat to rat to tat

[54:31]i think there are places where it soars but i can't i can i can hear where you'd be like like like like yeah that hurt not like not like open source oh are you like yeah speaking of russell i mean i could it's a valid question matt i agree with you i but i have to say this album i tried to pick parts of the songs where it does soar because i think it's the most dynamic part otherwise this album is basically the one person i thought of listening to this album was my grandmother like i was like

[55:01]this is exactly what my grandmother would listen to and love it on the record player maybe that's why i liked it it was kind of installed i thought the first song was a decent song there were some strings going on the drums were okay there's some good backup singers i i enjoyed the first song i feel the same way about this one as i did about uh neil young's album where the the songs without strings i much prefer to the ones with string but that's just me no i i get you i hear you so just like when a woman is with russell or i so much love well no wait that was supposed to be a penis

[55:30]joke too but it didn't sound like damn it we could do it this song is written by carol king just to give you an idea of how long carol king has been writing songs for it makes sense doesn't it yeah yeah and is this the sweet inspirations didn't carol king work close with jerry wexler too or not yeah i think so yeah like that phrase like what she just did that's not easy to do like i that's the thing that i don't think a you know the average lounge singer could so so bring her up

[56:00]feature her voice like don't we should we should actually go to a lounge and hear a singer sometime when we go to las vegas i'm so busy uh but that's that but that's why so bring her up make it a diva album like bring it i don't want to hear this with or it's not that good i mean you know like i mean is there a reason that it's back there i'm going to i'm going to stop this is a carol king repeat you guys are going to regret this a week from now listen this is too harsh you cannot tell listen to this this she should have done 10 songs like this it's so good yeah this is the groove

[56:34]she's way up front the problem with it yeah but it was written for aretha she turned it down and so she's like coming in at second third right to do this yeah and then aretha's like oh well it's a popular song i guess i'll take it as my and then it's more popular as an aretha franklin song what's wild is you know why aretha didn't take the song she is the daughter of a preacher person she yeah she she she thought

[57:03]it was disrespectful to preachers which is so strange because later she came out and said her favorite movie was spotlight i was like well that doesn't the wait the one about the journalism catholic church priests who don't have kids i read that this was her biggest hit that charted it got to number nine but i like you i think when you guys were saying earlier rob was it that the album wasn't very popular when it came out is that right yeah so absolutely i remember this song being super popular but i don't know if it's because

[57:32]of this or before or after but it's pulp fiction right this was in pulp fiction and every it blew up after that is that right yeah it's just like john travolta it got big because of pulp fiction and it's just like pizza which is why john travolta is big now i was gonna say are you sure it's not because of hits from the ball yes cypress hill it's from the bong you're hearing that you're hearing in the background right now let's just listen to the voice on this i don't want to hear it anymore

[58:00]you don't got to be rude about it rob i don't want to hear it anymore i don't know i just speed it up like a lot of oboe a lot of oboe you know i never felt like oh i gotta turn this off but i did feel like well there's other stuff i probably want to listen to yeah i gotta admit this does not pass my college dorm room test like if you went into somebody's dorm room and they're playing this album you'd be like oh boy okay well i will see you later yeah do you guys think sharma or color from earlier

[58:35]will continue to listen if my story about the food and wine expo is longer than our discussion of the album yes yes yes my keeper yes this is this is another part of the show people do not listen to us talk about the music just let everybody know we know that i love this now this is what this album does really well is this tempo change but why is it so far back in the mix and this is where we're getting like this is the motown sound like i thought this was great

[59:10]yeah this was an absolute jam this was the the best song on the album don't you think or second best one of the best better than son of a preacher man it's it's it's those two i think it's a don't forget about me is a great song do you think aaron part of this is that this was a mono album like so it's just not me it can't be mixed but that can't be true because this is like led zeppelin's coming

[59:31]out the same year i mean you put on led zeppelin and then this album and you're going to be like can i give you my deep dark take on why i think all this is going on so yes have you heard the sound of silence by the disturbed singer yes okay i think it's phenomenal right and then there's this guy brian in the background rob what is what does it sound what does it sound like but there's this guy brian oak who's like this local radio dj who's like kind of the godfather now of all things indie rock and all this stuff right and so he claimed

[60:05]he hadn't heard the songs his radio shows as soon as they played it he's like yeah but all they're doing is hiding with behind all these strings and all these drums and everything right like it's not that great with him singing it it's just they got all this stuff in the background right you know like get rid of all strip all that out i feel like this was a motown record all these songs were just cast offs otherwise they would have gone to somebody who's a little bit more motown or a little bit more authentic you know and so the people that were mixing this putting

[60:34]this together are like oh man we can't have this lady you know singing these songs so they try to do everything to prop up the songs except for the voice and she actually does it seems like she's got a very good voice but it just seems like all this mixing and everything was to try to save the song because they didn't believe in the singer that's just my my take on this i think it's that just feels like i just can't imagine what are you doing in there having to rely on putting your

[61:02]voice way at the back just because what you're doing isn't that good like this i'm gonna go one i'm gonna go one step further into the deep dark secrets which is that uh i don't know when so this this was released in this was released on uh january 18th 1969 january 18th is my birthday so i'm not sure i'm i'm conflicted about how i feel about that so i don't know exactly when all of this you weren't born yet yeah don't worry about it but i don't know exactly when

[61:30]all of this recording happened but i have read interviews uh and maybe we've all read this with um was it with spooner oldham or dan penn about how after and this is going to get dark uh after the mlk assassination black artists wouldn't work a lot would not work with a lot of these white musicians and a lot of these studio musicians are white and either this was dusty was willing to work with those guys or this was well we know we've got to do something to sell r b records to

[62:00]white people and maybe dusty is our our face of that but that's just you know that's like the deeper darker side of stuff that we don't usually get into i don't care what charm said earlier you guys actually come up with a lot of good points and it's not just me saying the right things all the time i mean that was really good aaron i was really impressed the only one well especially in memphis right i mean you would this would be an especially sensitive topic in memphis i it's brilliant but i had to get that because you do you do bring up but again i'll i'll we'll just continue the circle jerk rob you do bring up a good point that she's got she's way in the back

[62:30]right she is way in the back and i didn't notice until you brought it up but thank you they have everything else she is in left field compared to the instrumentals that are going on and so i don't know they're hiding something or somebody had the conscious effort to hide something very and i think yeah i don't know very interesting now we can criticize this album all we want i still think it's a fun album i think it's fun but you got to admit this song breakfast in bed this is a killer it's such a good song listen to these lyrics what's the hurry don't eat and run

[63:00]what's your hurry i mean right this is steamy shit right here steaming shit yeah like a steaming pile of shit or what do you mean this is steamy i mean i should call the shit food i'm saying it's steamy it's like can you imagine okay just just look at my face this is what it'd be like to make love to aaron right is that you're

[63:32]like really close aaron put your close face close to the camera so if his aaron's face is close oh my god okay wait oh oh oh so here's the thing oh is that aaron's face is close and you're like really getting into it then aaron's like this is some steamy shit no stop aaron stop please you can't do the close camera thing he's mouthing dirty words into the camera oh my god oh i'm gonna pass out oh god that's so funny what is your guys breakfast in

[64:03]bed style do you guys do breakfast in bed ever or not never i if i ate in my bed my wife would kill me i i once said i'm gonna eat a pretzel in bed and she almost like divorced me on the spot you cannot eat in bed i don't think i've ever had breakfast in bed but i could i think i could do a breakfast burrito with like just like minimal salsa so that it doesn't like drop into my lap i think i could do it and keep it pretty clean russell's just asking this because he's told a bunch of women like oh yeah i was eating a bunch of egg whites in bed yesterday you know

[64:33]why the sheets are so crusty it's like egg whites oh oh oh oh and a little uh jam but that was an issue i had i worked out oh no no no pepper jam uh hey russell what's your breakfast clean keep it clean oh keep it clean you're right i'm also not a breakfast in bed or a that's shocking to me russell that is shocking to me that you don't get a breakfast in bed every

[65:02]once in a while well i was hoping one of you did so i could ask like well is this like do you guys have a little tray that you eat like off a plate or what do you what do you like how do people do breakfast in bed i'm not a breakfast in bed guy well i think you're you're only breakfast if you have a tv in your bedroom right i mean otherwise what's the point of isn't breakfast in bed like a mother's day thing where you're like oh happy mother's day and the mom is like oh i'd rather be sleeping you came in like who eats like the instant they get up too that's what i never quite understood like i mean do you do you go and make breakfast like two minutes

[65:32]waking up i think in this case of this song they've been working out for a while in the morning and now it's time to replenish like that's what's going on i'm starting to think breakfast in bed is actually like a simile in the song i think it's i think it's symbolism i think we're missing something i can't figure out what i think aren't we all like haven't we all reached the age though we're like like isn't it a rite of passage as a guy to be able to lie on the floor and balance a plate of food on your stomach and still eat yes it's like absolutely shouldn't we all be able to do that it's like when you're eating in the bathtub and you're eating a bologna

[66:00]sandwich in the bathtub and a little of the bread gets wet and you're like oh my god i'm so hungry i can still eat it it gets wet in my mouth anyway it's got cheese and mustard on it right it's got cheese and mustard on it yeah well yeah it's warmed up a little bit your dad warms it up for you we know matt's a big mustard guy i'm back it's mr french yes i'm back and i i kind of forgot what we're talking about actually so i'm just gonna say i'm in hell i'll see you later goodbye uh just one smile written by randy newman

[66:31]there are a lot of strings i mentioned i didn't mind it on the first one but there are a lot of strings when you guys talk about covering stuff up i i hear it here i will say i will say do you think one of these songs won an academy award for best original song oh yes the answer is yes and it was this song but it wasn't this version so they they heard this song uh the windmills the windmills the windmills windmills speaking of breakfast in bed windmills um um

[67:00]um um um it's a windmill um did you guys get that um it just wasn't that funny okay so moving on uh the windmills your mind it was actually in the thomas crown affair uh yeah that came out in like 69 and so then they heard this and like hey let's put this on this album like that's wild again that is wild that would be like doing a movie a song from a movie this year you can't just like you're just doing the bond song it's a good song this song confused me i

[67:30]thought the first half was just a complete abomination i thought it was just a disaster but then it really ramps up in the second half of the song they got those castanets or whatever those clickers are in the background it's a fun song it's gotta be donkey like if you're talking about windmills and you're doing spanish castanets you gotta be thinking about donkey hodday right that's what i think of when i hear yeah like might have a lunch type shit yeah i got thomas crown affair as a top five saturday afternoon channel nine movies you have to watch this is

[68:00]in the land in the land of make-believe and i'm just gonna say no song is ever good when the lyrics start like this just listen you are not having a banging song when it starts with in the land of make-believe it never goes to like a hardcore you know elven fuck fest or something like that like that's that's what led zeppelin was singing about that's what i wanted you do you guys know what city has made a bunch of great songs that are not on this album and potentially not even on this list at all what is the city of memphis oh memphis tennessee has made so much great music and i thought that some of this music

[68:34]is never going to be on this list and this is our chance to talk about some great memphis songs so let's let's let's do caller against sham i think it was sham you nailed it sham if you want to go back and listen because i know you don't listen to the old episodes because you just skipped ahead but if you want to go back aaron's gonna have a great list here on memphis and didn't we have a list once with the best songs about memphis back in the day you guys remember that yes we did russell did the best songs about memphis soul stew on there that was on a dylan album right i think

[69:01]so yeah we're not even a fifth of the way through the list guys we're fucked we're gonna have like 80 lists about memphis by the time we're done we're like oh these songs all rhyme with memphis all right so i'm gonna leave i'm gonna leave otis redding and al green off of this list because i think we're gonna get to them eventually on this side so let me be clear highlight this is a list of memphis that songs recorded in memphis that you like yeah exactly that's it it's very simple this is a list of memphis songs recorded in memphis that you like yeah exactly that's it it's very simple it's just songs recorded in memphis the top that i like that i might like better than any song

[69:30]in this album except for breakfast in bed and the first one and you're gonna recognize some of these hip-hop fans a lot of these have been sampled the first one is by william bell this is i forgot to be your lover oh great you're gonna recognize that oh there i hear that right away you know and then here comes the oh william bell one of the all-time great voices here he comes have i told you oh this is fantastic what are some of the hip-hop songs that have sampled this erin russell

[70:02]wholesale he did i forgot to be your lover that's the one so shout to william bell one of the great mostly forgotten soul singers this one you're for sure going to recognize this is actually i didn't realize this linda this is linda lindell who is also a white woman who sang what a man you're gonna you're gonna recognize this right away let's hear it linda lindell doing what a man yeah oh fantastic great groove this is a great one

[70:36]great guitar work this song is good any day of the week and listen to her voice oh what was her name again linda lindell so what are the big what are the big studios down in memphis uh well stacks was a big one obviously william bell was on stacks uh linda lindell may have been on stacks um this next one next two may be coming up are from the gold wax label so next we got

[71:05]james carr doing you've got my mind messed up i haven't used gold wax since the incident this is i don't use wax ever since i had a problem and this guitar is reggie young uh same guitarist who worked on the um oh this is fantastic can't keep it long to my head this is 19 000 times better than any listen to how far forward the voice is he sounds like he's in front of the band

[71:30]yes not behind him like off stage uh this album this album is i believe the album is called uh i think the album is called you got my mind messed up it also has um dark end of the street on it which is just outstanding uh so worth a listen the next song up on the list uh is by ovi right with his band the keys this is a song that was written by roosevelt jameson um made famous also by otis redding but this is ovi writes version this is that's how strong my love is that's how strong my love is that's right

[72:01]ovi right in the keys with that's how strong my love is listen to that and all you know all this obviously is gospel influence right so they're just this is like a mount rushmore of a mount rushmore of memphis songs it's pretty good right i would say this is the mount rush most rush most it's the best i mean this imagine aaron is the perfect you

[72:31]know who aaron is the perfect college roommate you go in your freshman year college no no no aaron had two freshman roommates that didn't make it through one year so i don't think he was the perfect what happened i don't know what i did the same thing he had the same thing you must be very smart and yeah yeah i'm telling you those poor guys listen you go into a dorm in college and the your roommate's playing this music and you're bringing some ladies over and it's just like oh yeah we're hanging out on friday night that just means they're gonna go home with aaron and not you

[73:00]like that's not a good roommate at all no it's great you gotta have that why am i hanging out with the guy who's who's not eating canned oysters like you're in a loser i'm gonna remind you my roommate my freshman year constantly played the back to the future soundtrack so when i brought ladies over it was we're gonna go back in time do you think in a bizarre world in a bizarre world where he's talking about his roommate who used to always listen that they might be giants what no i was a great roommate you can imagine being married to me or being well married never

[73:31]mind why are you marrying your roommates last song on the list this is the queen of memphis soul carla thomas this is back to the stacks label carla was the daughter of rufus thomas who was a songwriter for stacks this song however was written by david porter and isaac hayes also known as shaft and uh in our generation as the chef on south park yeah i don't know if you've heard of him uh he was one of the great songwriters for stacks uh this is from her album the queen alone it is called stop thief nice we got booker t and the mgs laying down the group on this one oh yeah

[74:08]stop the he stole my heart god dang it these are just just some songs that i love from the city of memphis that didn't make this album probably didn't make the list at all and i would encourage them out thanks for thanks for going along that ride with me as far as memphis lists go that's a top two list for sure easy next up on dusty in memphis easy way down i thought it was no easy

[74:36]way out there's no easy way out oh my god russell's making his own list listen i cannot i cannot usually we leave the cocktails to russell but i did decide to go ahead i decided tonight yeah i tonight i'd go ahead and have a drink i don't usually you know i don't usually do that but i thought i'd have a drink for this podcast so yeah you know yeah so i was gonna i was going to uh you

[75:02]know i was gonna make myself a nice fancy cocktail but i didn't have anything uh fancy i was gonna make a uh you know like like a slow gin fizz or something to you know like um you know model after the slow tempo on this album but um i don't have anything except for some you hold up aaron i'm gonna get out my notepad so i can take notes so i can make an amazing drink so let me let me write down all the the ingredients russell's notepad i saw a page of it it just said 30 small glasses of wine from when he was at the expo that was the drinks he liked so i decided to make my favorite cocktail

[75:35]which has two ingredients and that is a glass yes and some tennessee whiskey and tennessee whiskey is memphis i like it just pouring that george dickle right into the glass and that's what i'm drinking so that's my talk i don't know if that's what are you talking about george dickle going at the glass yeah first the oysters are not george dickle i mean cocktail for tonight there you go i thought i swore to god aaron was gonna hold up a can of oysters and just be like oysters and oil can't make it alone

[76:02]okay it's a little repetitive that was a little too repetitive isn't it has dolly part never recorded that song i'd like to hear dolly sing that song god you're so smart and you say the smartest i really and it sounds sarcastic when i say it now so there's no way i can win but it's really good you know the worst part is is i was hanging out with aaron one day and i said you know can i actually try some of those oysters uh and he said uh no and i said well that's that's so

[76:32]shellfish i don't know are they they're they're buddies are bivalves shellfish or not if they don't come with the shells i don't think it counts as shellfish no i mean bivalves let's buy you know four cans of boxed oysters or whatever i i don't know the bit anymore i don't care uh rating system this listen listen is this album at 83 rolling well tone that means it fits perfectly at 83 this is the album that you thought of when you think of the 83rd best album you're

[77:01]like hmm we've only done one led zeppelin album we haven't uh we haven't touched pearl jam yet we haven't hit any pearl jam yet or whoever yeah or rush alica you know rush canadian band as well uh world name's not um but this is 83 this is great it's a rolling well toned bravo rolling stone magazine you're great is this a rolling bone this album got boned it should have been way higher on the list we should when we're scrolling through that website our favorite

[77:30]website uh the top 500 albums and it's taking forever to load because they have so many images and we're scrolling we're scrolling we get to this one really late and i know what you're thinking wait isn't it lower album higher on the list why would it be later it's because the rolling stones website for goes from 500 to 1 unlike this genius podcast that goes 1 to 500 okay so as we go it's actually getting harder and harder and harder and harder and harder and harder and harder and harder to find good karaoke soundtracks or is this a rolling groan okay this album should not be at 83 it should be farther back or perhaps off the list at all rolling well toned rolling boned or

[78:04]rolling groan aaron what do you think i i did on this album on cd i enjoy listening to it i celebrate every uh everything that uh comes out of the city of memphis and any rhythm section in the city of memphis and any rhythm section in the city of memphis and any rhythm section in the city of memphis and any rhythm section in the city of memphis and any rhythm section in the city of memphis and any number of other soul artists and albums from memphis we've heard nothing from otis redding yet we've heard uh nothing from sam cook no nina simone uh you guys know i'm gonna go on the on this uh

[78:34]diatribe so uh still no johnny cash no willie nelson so i gotta say this is a rolling groan uh russell what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling groan it's it's it's rolling what's too high on the list it's rolling groan this is not it's not a great album i don't know it may be a great album it's too high on the list um i'm gonna treat this like i treated the people when i was at the food and wine and just not look you guys in the eye and not say

[79:00]anything about it and walk away rolling groan matt what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling groan this is the first album where i thought maybe we got it wrong by starting at one and going to 500 like maybe if we had listened to some of these other ones that have been here like in the 400s we would have thought this was a little bit better you know as we as we're leading you know this is the first time i've thought oh maybe those guys got it right but really they don't ours is our system is much better starting at one but overall i think yeah for everything

[79:30]we talked about and i'm on russell's train of thought here just say it's rolling groaned and move on with life so we can get to the next album well the correct answer unfortunately you're all incorrect uh but you all did agree on that that's interesting this is a rolling old-fashioned okay old-fashioned yeah you want to sit around and feel old as fuck you just listen to this album like it is it is crazy old like it just lives like my headphones turned off at work and this came through the speakers and everyone i was working

[80:00]with looked at me like what the fuck like this is what you're listening to old ass man what are you doing listen next up guys it's the band that everybody knows about the first 25 of their lyrics we've got ac dc back in black oh it's a fact something something something be back up huh oh wow guys can you imagine what this parody song next week is going to do to my voice it's gonna be bad news but you're just too lazy to look it up online

[80:34]if you want to hear four guys who chat and then they get off track i've got the perfect podcast for you jack beck did it better guys well well aaron went to the bathroom i know we're not allowed to talk about that but i went and got a can of those canned oysters and they're so good i'm so excited my cock is out of its metaphorical cage jesus christ i forgot we said that love it though here's my impression of a uh oyster in the can guy

[81:07]at the uh food fair that russell went to let's hear it let's say yeah so sir if you can see these oysters we got them in the can we got a farm sir oh didn't make eye contact nothing i could do walked on helpless oh what about the guy who keeps coming back and gets more oysters you got to ask and be like so are these oysters pacific ocean or atlantic ocean oysters yeah uh oh yeah i'll take your

[81:30]card oh oysters in a can.com yeah well while you have a web counter on there it has two hits so how long are these good for my cupboard like up to three years or how long are they good for forever man nuclear winter whatever like oh my god canned oysters you're right man we should just kind of fuck this beginning i mean the thing i didn't say is i got a i got a can of herring in there for a celebration when my uric acid didn't mention the can of herring are you still recording yeah i'm sorry you better be you piece of shit because i'm putting this in there

[82:04]you had a whole thing of pickle there you got the whole fucking ocean in there in a can i do i got some good stuff yeah you got ocean he opens one up it's just a six pack with a turtle in it and you're like oh aaron why is this in a can norwegian bristling sardines yeah i got i got good stuff man what the fuck you let us do these jokes at the end and you've got norwegian bristling sardines in a can did you stop recording i mean can you imagine aaron's like oh what you know what i love about you how you smell like oily fish all day long you smell so much like oily fish in this small

[82:35]ass house you got oily fish all over aaron's wife at gmail comes home and like walks into the kitchen and looks in the garbage can there's just all these tins of oily fish yeah and everything's just everything's greasy he's got greasy fingers and the cat's away you know how it is oh no all right i'm done recording that's i am now going to open up a can of oysters and eat them said no one ever i didn't i honestly did not know that existed you're going to blow some minds with that if you didn't know if you are surprised by canned oysters text in 802-277

[83:06]back i'm still recording so this is still going this is going to be at the end this is the secret track all by myself no one was looking i was thinking of you Thank you.