John Lennon: John Lennon/ Plastic Ono Band (1970)

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decide to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better from 1970 this is album 85 the eponymous john lennon slash plastic ono band guys this is the first album that john lennon did after his uh primal scream therapy his scream therapy that he

[00:34]did scream therapy i gotta check out that scream therapy myself and i gotta say courtney cox is so good in those movies i couldn't believe it i was just i get why that worked i could understand uh listen let's uh you know what this is i've decided that we're gonna turn um k-rob is actually playing right now uh kind of a serial you know kind of a show that that is uh every week it's a story let's let's listen in right now check it out exciting previously on beck did it better

[01:04]an interesting thing so i go to my middle seat this guy wearing a cowboy hat he gets up out of the aisle and i look and the armrest between our seats is up so he is taking the armrest and put it up so i sit down and then i have to make the decision do i just leave the armrest up and have a little bit more room but potentially sit like like where we're going to be touching each other in the middle of a flight

[01:30]in the middle of a flight russ plays his game yes i kept it up oh my god yes he likes the middle seat best

[02:00]so sweet because then he can lift up both armrests yeah it's his he's robbing touching forearms turns him on yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah , yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

[02:30]yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I kept it up. I kept the armrest up. You use the bathroom and leave. When you return, you can see you rolled up the sleeves. Oh, no. You see why Russ never flies.

[03:04]Comfort plus. Touching forearms turns him on. Yes. Now, yes. It might surprise you that I had a longer version. That song. But that included the rhyme, both armed guards and gets hard. And I was like, you know, the song is so sweet. There's no reason to spoil it. See, these sleeves are all rolled up, Rob. They're all over here. He's raw dogging it.

[03:30]Beck did it better. I kept it up. Listen, everybody, this is Beck did it better. We are talking about the John Lennon, uh, plastic, plastic ono band album. You know, guys, I have been, uh, I've been going, I've been watching videos of old ladies. I've been watching videos of old ladies. I've been watching the Baker games. Yeah, I've been doing, I've been doing my Kareem therapy, Kareem therapy, Kareem therapy. Uh, listen, I've got three working class zeros here. I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? Remember? Remember the 5th of November.

[04:00]Glad to be here. Gentlemen. Love that. Love that energy. Matt is like fully reclined. Matt's in dad mode on the recliner inches away from falling asleep, watching a basketball game on a Sunday afternoon. I've got Ross in Minnesota. Russ, how are you doing? Just makes as much sense as it does in the song. Uh, and I've got Aaron out in California. Aaron is the only guy I know where if you told me Aaron owns a sleeping cap, I'd say, Oh yeah,

[04:30]that makes sense. That makes sense. He's the one guy I know where if he was like, Hey, this is my sleeping cap. I'd be like, I guess. Sure. I've been easier. Scrooge in it up. That's a good thought. I don't have any Harris. Maybe a sleeping cat. You know, I'm thinking we've made such, such inroads with the foot freaks of the internet. Maybe we can find the forearm freaks. After that opening song. So I think, I think we're on to something here. Yeah. Getting a little real, but yeah. Well, we'll, we'll, we'll figure it out on Instagram. Well, I'll let you know if we will, we'll figure it out for sure. I got to say, Matt did the greatest thing.

[05:00]He put like legit foot freaks, like hashtags on our latest Instagram posts. We have never gotten so much interaction with any posts on Instagram. We are in way over our head. We did not, we're not ready for this. We didn't want the smoke with the foot. If you want a real trip, go click on it. Click on their stuff and then go down that rabbit hole of what they're liking and what they're posting guys. There's a lot of interesting stuff out there and it's, it's, I'm not going to lie. I should not have done it on a work computer. Listen guys today, I think I'm going to get a pizza with everything on it.

[05:30]I'm doing Supreme therapy, Supreme therapy. All right. I've got a whole thing pulled up. So, so stupid. We are going to do into our voice. They can't even tell what we're doing. God, they're just the dumbest of the dumb. Last week, I did. I didn't play that sound clip and nobody noticed. Here we go. Hi guys, Matt here, Rob's brother-in-law, short time listener, first time caller. Probably the only time I'm ever going to call into this. So let's just leave it at that. I wanted to start off by saying good job with the podcast thus far.

[06:03]I mean, 500 albums of all time is huge. Not to mention starting with the best and working your way down from there. Seriously. It can only get worse. He's reading a script. It's very Orson Welles of you. Oh, okay. By the way, I'm reaching your 16th percentile of the total albums from your list. Oh God, the 16th percentile family. I can speak for all of us and say how happy we are that Rob has finally found something to keep himself busy. Seems like he's constantly fluctuating with his interests.

[06:31]And at this point, isn't it amazing that he hasn't moved to a new state and picked up a whole new set of hobbies, which is really the silver lining of this whole situation. It's true. And lastly, there was a lot of talk and jokes about the song wonderwall early on in your back to the better journey. Well, they're way back. That's one of all. So I thought I'd close with that. My wife told me to stop singing wonderwall. I said, maybe I said, maybe I was looking at three totally blank faces to that joke at the end.

[07:04]And I was like, Oh, I've got to jump in and save this thing. We're with it. We got it. Thanks Matt for calling. I appreciate it. Listen, I'm going to run my notes down and read it. Why is he calling you out from moving to a different state and final hobbies? Like, listen, I am the King of getting new hobbies. I get new hobbies constantly. I cannot tell you how many like telescopes with camera attachments I have. And like,

[07:30]I got a new bike because of it. Right. Yeah, totally. I got into cycling for a while. It's like, it's new hobby after new hobby for me. So yeah, it is. I bet your neighbors across the way can tell us how many telescopes you've had. Ah, that guy's got another new telescope. I need two. Damn it. I need one, one for each eye. Do you guys ever have new hobbies that go away? Like after a week, like you can't make it past a week or anything or not. Oh, I think I used to do that. I think you used to do that in the twenties. Right. And then you realize you spend a whole bunch of money on something.

[08:00]And then it's like a week later, you have no idea why you even thought like, if you just would have taken 12 hours to just say like, maybe I'll put this on the shelf for 12 hours. And if I still like it tomorrow, I'll buy that. That's right. Scope. It's got three. You know, I think I figured that out. I figured that out pretty darn quick. The classic is, didn't we have so many friends who bought the Mr. Beer barrel of like, make your own beer at home. It's Mr. Beer. And we're like, we're going to fucking brew beer. Right. And then you, it takes forever. The beer comes out.

[08:30]It tastes terrible. Turns out I don't even like beer in the first place. Yeah. So I don't know why I took part in it. And then I was like, wait, beer is something you can just buy. We're not like doing anything that you can't just like go. That is the thing though. Right. Like everybody thinks they want to be a little bit self-sufficient and how they do. All this stuff. Right. No. You know, like I, I, I would really, really love to grow great big tomatoes. I'm a big tomato. Great big tomato guy. I'm a big tomato guy. Rob, I'm a big tomato guy. I think you're a big tomato fan is what you're saying.

[09:01]Oh, I'm a big tomato fan. All right. But you know, you go to one, you can buy a plant for like four bucks. It's already, you know, two feet high. So why start with a seed to begin with? And two, you can go, you can go to any farmer's market and buy a bushel of tomatoes for like 10 bucks. And then three, I mean, if you really want to get into it, if you want to like can them and stuff, apparently the Amish sell them for like an air Rose, you might know this, but apparently on an Iowa, the Amish sell them like by the truck full for like 10 bucks because.

[09:33]Yeah. I think those are a loss leader for their puppy mills. I think that's what's going on. Yeah. Where now there's a hobby I can get into. Yeah. I'm a big fan of the more they're better. I like, I can say things like loss leader when I'm talking to Matt, because I know he's subscribed to the wall street journal. Yeah. So I think he gets it when I say things like that. Yep. I am. I'm going to surprise you guys and say that I have the most embarrassing copy that I tried for a while. It's going to be more embarrassing than the other stuff you've told us.

[10:01]This. Oh God. Okay. Here we go. Hold on. Hold on. Let me check to make sure I'm recording. I need to be recording this. Let's see if you guys can guess. Let's see. All right. Hold that rib, Rob. What do you got? Matt, Matt, Matt, first guess. What do you got? What's the embarrassing? Oh man. Probably like sewing or something. You know what it is? I bet it's, I bet it's painting. I bet it's like watercolor. They were so shitty painting. So small. He can't fit them up on the walls. I have tried drawing.

[10:31]No, no painting that Rob, but Russell, what do you got? Your wife's like, I don't want to sit nude anymore. I'm going to say like you collect key chains or something like that. Here's what, here's what I'm picturing. Here's what I'm picturing is that Aaron's wife, who finds a bunch of nude stuff on the computer. And he's like, uh, I'm getting into drawing. And so then he needs to like, go back and redo this hobby of like, see all these drawings I have in a sketchbook. They're all getting better as I go. They're all like,

[11:01]they're all like short blonde chicks too. They're not tall brunettes. Why do all these drawings have the water, the porn hub watermark in the corner? That doesn't, that's not good. What's the porn hub watermark? I don't know. All these drawings have a URL. I don't know what the top watermarks is. One of my hobbies actually. Aaron, what is your embarrassing hobby? It was early on in our, in our marriage. It was like, man, we're eating yogurt all the time. We're, we're buying all these yogurt containers. Why don't we make our own yogurt?

[11:30]So we bought a yogurt machine, a yogurt machine, make our own yogurt. Not only were we trying to make our own yogurt, we tried to make non dairy, like almond milk yogurt, this thing. And we, I mean, we kept it up for longer than we should. Like it was like, Oh yeah, it's good. This is fine. It's good. Like maybe we strain it for longer. And it's more like a drink yogurt. It'll be okay. Like, and we, we kept the yogurt maker, like keeps the yogurt at correct temperature between 40 and 100 degrees, you know, Fahrenheit or whatever. It sits on the counter. You start with your starter at your,

[12:01]yeah, that one was not, that was a hobby that went on longer than it should have. How much, how much did the equipment cost roughly? Oh, I think we probably made our money back. I mean, I don't think it could cost more than more than, you know, 10, 10 servings of big servings of yogurt. Can you imagine just making your, cause I can tell you right now, I know what it's like making your yogurt because when I teach about yogurt in my classroom, first of all, yogurt machine was my nickname. High school year, sophomore year of high school, sophomore year of college, sophomore years of college,

[12:30]please don't, not at home. It was college. So here's the thing is that I know how easy it is to make bacteria. I know how easy it is to make yogurt because when I teach about bacteria, I would tell the kids, Oh, you'll get extra credit if you go and make yogurt at home. Cause it just takes warming up milk and then putting an old yogurt in. So the bacteria eats the milk poops out acid. Listen, you guys can tell what it's like to be in my class. Very exciting stuff. And then some fucking kid did it. I was like, what? I was like,

[13:00]Oh no, I did it and brought it in and was like, Hey, I made some yogurt. Now you can try it. And I was like, wait, I was like, Oh, how about I just give you double extra credit? And I actually don't try it. I mean, cause he brought it out and it was just like, it was like a picture of this Tupperware in a plastic bag. He opens it up. Like, it's like, it's like, it's just milk in a Tupperware thing. And it's a little thicker than normal. At no point are you like, Oh yeah, I should eat this. It would be good for my gut health. Yeah. I remember years ago I got into it.

[13:31]I got into, I wanted to buy all like the old great Western movies. So it was like a fistful of dollars, a few dollars more, hang them high, like all the kind of Eastwood, like the spaghetti Westerns. And so for over like a two week period, I went, I went down by like 15 of these movies at your DVDs. And I never watched a damn one of them again. After that two weeks are so long. They're so long. Once upon a time in the West has like a 15 minute scene of a sweat drop rolling down Charles Bronson's forehead.

[14:00]Like that's something about movies in the 70s where they're like, if we don't, if we don't show this guy walking out the door, walking to the barn, getting on a horse and then riding the horse, they're never going to know how he got to the horse. Like we need to have this. If you watch like, Dr. No, the James Bond, like half the movie is him walking to different cars to drive around. Like it's the, it's the worst thing I did that to Russell. I was like, I'm going to just start owning DVDs. Yeah. And then I was like, I don't even like movies. Like I don't sit and watch movies. It's like the last thing I do. I don't like my family.

[14:31]We watch movies in like 15 minute chunks and that's how we do it. We cannot sit. We do not have the time to sit around. We're so busy. So are DVDs like CDs for you guys? Do you hold on to them? Have you gotten rid of all of them? What have you done with your old DVDs? Rid of all of them. I mean, you can see behind me right here, right? Like I inherited these from father-in-law and they serve zero purpose. Yeah. Sometimes the kid ones, you know, have some sort of that, uh, you know, we'll put that on or we'll just be easier to find it from, from back here. But like, no, I think the first time I realized what a scam,

[15:02]the whole movie thing was, is when you're moving in and out of your college dorm, you know, from freshman to sophomore or whatever. And then you got to haul that stuff back. And you're like, wait, I watched this like two years ago and I haven't watched it since. Now I'm, you know, lugging it around everywhere. So no, I, I think my favorite part to advance DVDs is that they're all alphabetized. So it goes from all asses to Z net naughty naturals. I guess. Of course. Yeah.

[15:30]It's the French. It's the French production. It's the spaghetti. It's the spaghetti Western version. I kept a few DVDs. These that I couldn't part with, but I'm never going to watch them again. So I think I know I kept the sandlot and cool hand Luke, which I stole from one of our part-time listeners and maybe the star Wars, the original trilogy. And then yeah, the rest of them, I trashed, but I kept those few because like, ah, these are important. We still have our wedding DVD. Do not have a DVD player in the house.

[16:02]Could not play a DVD in this house. If we wanted to, not possible. We still have our wedding. Never going to watch it. Have you ever went and watched the wedding DVD, Rob? No, never. Oh, you know what? People, people who watch their wedding, like annually, they're just psychos. Yeah. Except for my sister. She's actually fine. Okay. That's fine. When we watched the wedding at the cabin on the anniversary, that's fine. And then she listens to my speech and criticizes it. I may know one or two of our listeners who actually do that. I believe they're also fans of the song. Let me read it down here.

[16:30]Wonder wall. Yeah. Are they fans of that song, Matt? I cannot confirm or deny that Russell cannot confirm or deny. So let's get into rolling going. It's time to see what everybody's up to. Do you ever think like if you went back and watch your wedding DVD, there might be people in there that hang out now that maybe didn't hang out then and how strange that would be. Wait, what people never mind who hang out then.

[17:00]Never mind. I, I do have to say though, I would love to watch that wedding DVD just to see Russell, like hauling these statues around and then having to sit up front with a driver. I don't think that's part of the DVD. Just thinking about it. So yeah, Russell was also in charge of recording the DVD. So he saw the limos drive away and then you see the camera turned to his face and go, wait a minute. How am I going to, that just ends as he ended the wedding DVD. You know what? A great, a great member like at coach K he had his land. I know we're in NCAA basketball tournament season. I think a week or so ago he had his last game at Duke and they had the game on

[17:33]one part of the screen and then like a little box. They just showed coach K the whole game. Wouldn't Rob's wedding DVD be great if it just showed the real wedding. And then I was just like in one little, I wonder when they showed me the whole time for me getting to add the Russ cam. I mean, I would bet I would buy that DVD like that. I would buy the DVD and I would buy a home theater set up just to be able to watch that. All it is is Russell spitting game. Just all the pickup lines and all the bridesmaids the whole time.

[18:01]Yep. I'd love to see that. Well, geez, you know, this is nice. Cause I've been listening to so much Eric Clapton. I've been doing my cream therapy. So you've got a blind up today. This is bigger. This is, you haven't gone like this. We did the D's nuts jokes on the chronic four 20 a year ago. Well, I thought you guys would be surprised by this cause I'm doing some unforeseen therapy. Oh, Rosie, where are we going? How's it going with you? Oh, it's going good, man. This, this reminds me of the days when Rob would have a, a Billy Banks giving when he was doing Tybo for Thanksgiving joke.

[18:33]You know what? That's the greatest part about teaching. I can do all my Thanksgiving day jokes where I say, Oh yeah, I'm shooting a gun, but there's no bullets. Oh, happy blanks giving. And it's every year. The kids are like, Oh, cause it's fresh. Every year to them. They've never heard it before. New audience every year. Oh, fantastic. Uh, it's wrong. Going good with me. Uh, recent discovery music wise is the, is the black jazz label. This is a label out of Oakland. Um, in the seventies did a lot of soul jazz stuff. Uh,

[19:00]I, I found a, an organ pianist organist called Doug Karn. Uh, so I've been enjoying his album. Listen to that on Sunday morning. So that's a hot tip for our listeners who want to listen to something new. Uh, I am. If you listen to Doug Karn, send a call. I'll call in and I'll give you five bucks. Okay. I'll Venmo. First person to text her Venmo. I'll Venmo you five bucks. If you show me evidence that you've listened to Doug Karn. Rosie, I will, I, I, who, I got it right here. The keys and the, Oh, uh, the keys and OV. What was that? We'll be right in the keys. We'll be right in the keys,

[19:31]right? Like I went and listened to that the next day. I'm going to listen to your, I listened to all of your recommendations. Oh, I appreciate you. Thank you. A good music person. The name Doug Karn is so boring. You can't even come up with another name and make mix it up. Like there's not even someone you can try to mix it up with. Like who would it be? No, it's just Doug Karn. He's actually, there's a, there's a new, there's a series out by Adrian young and Ali Shahid Muhammad called jazz is dead. And they're sort of rerecording, remixing older artists. And Doug Karn's got a joint out on that one. That's pretty fun to listen to as well.

[20:00]So check that out. This sounds like a hobby. I'm not going to start. Actually, this is going to be one of those hobbies. I don't. So that's my recommendation, uh, today. Uh, I was out and about and I saw a gentleman wearing a t-shirt that said Jesus and pizza all day. And I know that John Lennon wouldn't necessarily agree with that, but I thought that was such a great t-shirt. And I was trying to think like, for me, like what would it be if it was like a religion and a food all day? So I was thinking like, it would be like John Coltrane and tacos all day or like Johnny cash and

[20:32]whiskey all day. For you guys, for you guys, what do you got? What would you go all day or religion and a, and a food stuff? So like the question, what do you got? Um, spaghetti Westerns and spaghetti all day, all day, all day. And it's just like Clint Eastwood, just mowing down this big plate with meatballs and everything. And as he's, as he's sucking down the noodle, he gets closer and closer to kissing like the bad guy.

[21:01]Like in that one cartoon. Yeah. They've got three noodles going to all three guys. Yes. Normally it'd be pizza for me. I don't know. I mean, you know, like left the date leftover pizza all, you know, it would be great. But since it's already been said, I'm on this huge kick of breakfast sandwiches lately. Oh yeah. Place downtown called Dave's the Dave's downtown, downtown Dave, something like that. It's right in my building. Okay. And they've got the greatest breakfast sandwiches. And so I would go with Pearl jam and breakfast sandwiches.

[21:31]That's so good. That's perfect. What are you rocking with? What kind of breakfast sandwich are you rocking? I go English muffin. I go English muffin. I go sausage patty. I go American cheese and egg and they wrap it up in tinfoil. And so it gets real messy and it gets real. Yeah. And yeah, by the time I get up, I got to go up 22 floors to get to my office. And by the time I get there, it is perfect. That is marvelous. So much has been said about the breakfast sandwich scene in New York. You know, I always get the bacon, egg and cheese on a roll,

[22:00]extra cheese. And then they always want to put salt, pepper, ketchup on it. And I'm like, no, no, no, no salt, pepper, ketchup. But the other day, a guy ahead of me ordered a bacon, egg and cheese on a French toast. Post bagel. And I was like, Oh, I was like, Hmm, I might as well try that out. This is, this is like when the woman told me to heat up my captain crunch and it kind of changed my life forever. If you can get it, if you can get it on a good croissant, that's the ideal breakfast sandwich. I think because like bagels is just too much. It's just too much. Bagels are too hard. Bagels.

[22:30]You bite in and the egg squirts out. You can't have that. That's why I think the role is the perfect. I know this place is still open. When I worked in San Francisco and Rob, you're going to have to be, keep it above, above board here. There was a place across the street from my office in San Francisco that did a croissant breakfast sandwich. And the place was called munch box. Oh, munch box. Yes. Yes. Named after the guy in law and order detective lunch. Every day, Richard Belzer is there and I'm getting my lunch here. It's very good. This is the munch box. So we went to hope breakfast bars in West end.

[23:02]I don't know, Russell, it'd be a place that you would go if, you know, for brunch sometime. I don't know if you took a date there or something like that, but, but they put, they had fresh someone you're going steady with or anything. Yeah. You know, I don't know. Maybe, maybe if I were to go borrow Rob's wedding DVD, I could find someone who was looking. Hey, uh, you probably don't remember me. Uh, it's gotta be, there's gotta be a bridesmaid or two. Do you remember Rob?

[23:32]Oh yeah. You were in his wedding, but you haven't talked to him for about 15 years. Yeah. That's the one. That's the one. It's as reasonable a plan as any other. I was watching his wedding. I was watching his wedding DVD and you looked pretty desperate. So I looked you up and I'm giving you a call. If you could just return this call. I also have a podcast by the way. Uh, not going to tell you the name. Uh, don't, don't need to bother. You're going to have to call me back if you want. Yeah. Yeah. But whole breakfast bar,

[24:00]West end, Russell, you would love it. It's great spot, but they make, they make homemade biscuits and then do breakfast sandwiches, homemade biscuits. And so I'll bring my good friend Doug there. We'll, check it out. You know what I've been fucking with for breakfast is biscuits and gravy. Whoa. Yeah. I mean, that's a fat guy's meal for sure. It's like, no, it is breakfast. So that does mean gravy. I should have some gravy. I'm sorry. Like this is another meal you can put gravy on, but Oh dang, it's so good. That is the greatest that that is gravy. I'm with you, Rob. That is the greatest, but yeah,

[24:30]I have found, especially like if it's not a high class restaurant, how long do you know that great, how long has that gravy been sitting around? That's part of it. That's part of the charm. Food safety. That's part of the charm. You know what? And then instantly two hours later, again, I get that. That charm comes right back and hits me right through the screen door. Yeah. Yeah. Right. No, no, I've just, I've had those comments before. No, no. Through the screen door. Yeah. No, I would always assume the gravy at a cafe is fresh,

[25:01]fresh gravy made daily. It says it right on the made to order. Yeah. My best biscuits and gravy I ever had was at a gas station in Arkansas. And I've lived to tell the tale. So, I mean, go for it. You ate at a gas station. You ate biscuits and gravy. So like in a car. Yeah. Stop. I like a good gas. So there's like some, there's like breakfast to go in here. Made by the, made by the gas station. Shoot. Sue chef. You see, with a dirty rag.

[25:30]He's like, ah, time to make this gravy. I know Russell is, is anti gas station restaurants. Russell will drive an extra, uh, 50 miles to not go to a burger King that is connected to a gas. Oh yeah. I don't, I don't like fast food restaurants connected to a gas station. Oh yeah. It's it is depressing, isn't it? Yes. It's like, anytime I go and there's like a taco bell on my ways and I drive to the taco bell and it's like, it's a taco bell, Kentucky fried chicken. And I'm like, shit, that's the worst. Which one is it? Yeah.

[26:00]And then you try to order from both stores at once. And it always blows your mind when you're like, uh, I'll have a chimichanga, some, uh, nacho grandes. And, uh, can I get a, a bucket of chicken, please? It's a gravy. And they're like, Whoa, it's like, do you have those deep fried shrimp? This is a long John Silver's too. Like, right. It's, it's all of them together. Please get a Coke and a Pepsi at the same time. Cause they're different. That shouldn't blow your mind. You're right. It's true. Mix them together. Uh, Matt rolling going,

[26:30]how's it going with you? Uh, good. I had the pleasure of taking in a tool concert. We haven't talked. Oh, interesting. It went to the tool. Concert did the day they were on a tour. I can't say that I'm the biggest tool fan. Yeah. Um, you know, and I, same as my wife to go back. I had to go back and listen to see if I knew any tool. And I knew about eight or nine songs, right. And that's why actually, yeah. And I think, you know, it was more than I thought. It's definitely enough to enjoy the concert. They didn't, they didn't play one of those songs.

[27:01]But here's the thing. I don't know this song. Yeah. I had the pleasure of taking, I was taking it in and I was in a suite. Ooh. So I was at the target center and I was in a suite for a concert and it has ruined me because it was unbelievable. Right. One doors normally opened at six at five 45. You could get in and you can go up to the little suite level. Oh, this is like, they've got like a buffet area and they've got like free.

[27:31]I mean, you know, I'm using what Eric wants free beer. I mean like you paid for it as part of the ticket, but they got beer. They've got desserts. They've got pool tables. You know, you can basically just hang out until your band is on. Right. It is awesome. Then you get there, you get to go in the suite, you get a nice plush seat. There's only like 10 or 12 people. Nobody's in front of you. No drunk people headbanging right next to you. All this stuff. It's just pure heaven. And you can see everything. Nothing says middle.

[28:00]Nothing says middle aged white guy, like going to see tool in a suite. Right. So that was going to be my next thing. Like I was going in there and I text it. I don't know if I texted you guys, but I texted a few friends. Like what does one wear to a tool concert? And then what does one wear to a tool concert? When you're sitting in a suite? Like what do you wear? Well, I have no idea. I would guess you wore some sort of zip up, man. I feel like you're a zip up guy. I had a quarter zip. I didn't have a quarter. And so it was the whole gamut,

[28:32]right? There was some dude in there who had like a sport coat on with a button up shirt. And then there was some guy who, who had just gotten off of like some oil rig who had his car hearts on and they were, you know, completely worn down and his boots and all that stuff. And so it, it ran the gamut, but I just have to say, if you ever have the opportunity and Russell, next time Pearl jam comes, we're getting a suite and it's on you. So, so don't worry about it. You'll have this opportunity at some point.

[29:00]Can I, can I wear my spaghetti Western and spaghetti t-shirt all day shirt? Spaghetti straps. Yeah, you can for sure. Yes. But if you ever get the opportunity, you need to take in a concert at, in a suite. And so Nick, Nick from Minneapolis went with me. Shout out to Nick from Minneapolis. We had, we had a great time. It was great. Did you, did you guys just buy two random tickets or was it like a corporate suite that you knew someone or how'd you get tickets to a suite? Uh, you know, Russell, it's not about what you know.

[29:30]It's about who, I do some fancy lawyer who had some fancy law firm who just used this, you know, used it as a, as an excuse to spend some fancy lawyer money. So it sounds like someone you must rub elbows with, huh? I like that idea of like, Oh, now, now listen, listen, I want to represent you. Okay. But first we're going to go see this tool concert. You'd be like, okay. Okay. I guess it's like, well, let's, let's discuss your case of the tool concert. Yeah. The thing is we have to discuss jurisprudence.

[30:03]So don't know any tool songs or lawyer talk. As you could tell from that bit, I just did. So thank you. I think halfway through, I realized you're not talking about toad in the wet sprocket. So that's where I am. What was the deal? Did they play, do they have a new album? Do they play stuff from a new album? They have a new album, you know, so I kind of checked it out afterwards just to, just to see, you know, like set list, whatever that is, is an awesome website that, that, you know, that's people just put in whatever the set list is. So apparently half,

[30:31]they've only played 12 songs, but the concert was like two hours. So they did, they're like a jam band of heavy metal and they're, they're just, they're stupid, right? Like they've been around for 30 years. And again, I've said this number of times, if a band is around for 30 years and they're selling out 15,000 tickets, you know, to some, you know, arena in Minneapolis, right? Like they're, they're a good band. And so, you know, they, they deserve the respect for that. So they played like 12 songs. Six of them were on this new album that came out within the last two years,

[31:01]something like that. And then a couple of them were just some long extended jams of some others. I, again, I didn't know, but then this huge light show, they've, essentially, had like this Kate net thing in front of their whole stage. And then, so then that projected a light show, like, like it was right in front of them. That's cool. And then there was, then there was some stuff behind them. So it was almost like it was really through 3d. And then there's like, I mean, it was an amazing, amazing. I got to say, if you're seeing a band where you don't know the songs, I think a jam band is probably the good way to go.

[31:30]Right. Cause then at least you're getting some musicality and listening. It's like, yeah, nobody's heard this song before. Cause it's a jam band. And then you can just turn to somebody next to you and go like, this is so crunchy. Like this is crunchy. You can just say that over and over. People think, you know what you're talking about. Right. That's a great man. I got to go. Maybe I should do, maybe I should be living that sweet life. I did go to my, my too sweet. We went to a suite for a Knicks game on Jenny, Jenny's boss's dime. And we went up there and it was like all lobster tail and steaks. And Jenny was like, who could eat this many lobster tail and steaks?

[32:01]And I was like, I was like, this is the greatest day of my life. I love it. Yeah. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so my dad used to work for the company that did the, the suites of the domes. Right. And so then he was for 30 years, he was the bartender and the owner suite for the Vikings games. And after, I mean, we lived high on the hog, you know, after Vikings games and after sweet stuff, because again, they're, they're getting $60 cuts of meat. He would say, and they'd eat like three bites and then it would just be sitting there and

[32:32]they'd walk out. So he's like, well, here we go. You know, you get pre-bitten meat at home. That's, they didn't bite it. It was cut. It was cut. Yeah. I don't know what Matt does with the vegetables. His dad wasn't bringing the, the uneaten vegetables home. His dad was only bringing the $60 meat home. But there is, there is absolutely a, a ton of waste, if you will. Oh yeah, that's true. That's great. My dad worked for the Hormel row of fame. So I was pretty happy about that. Uh, Russell, raise your, who's, who's anybody ever been in the whole Hormel?

[33:01]No, it's a dream. It would be a dream come true. You were there, Annie and Jeff from Apple Valley. And I went to a, it doesn't help. I need to Vikings game. And we were in the Hormel row of fame. What? What? God damn. That makes me more jealous of anything. You get a free hot dog. And what else? And then you're, you know, you're Manny, you know, Manny, big strong guy. We can make you a wiener winner. And so then you're on long dog.

[33:31]That's what I'd yell at the end of that. You're on, you're on the jumbotron, right? And they're showing you, you know, everybody. And, and Jeff is a very large, large man. And Manny is very strong guy. And I'm just sitting in the middle and we're jumping up and down and I'd be going to fall down the stairs. Yeah, it was fun. I've tried to sprint to the Hormel row of fame. That's where my head's at for a lot of these. Have you tried to get in there? Russell rolling going, how's it going with you? Rolling going. Things are going great. I feel like I need to run back to the dating advice quarter. I need some advice from you guys. I came across a situation.

[34:01]I need a little guidance. Okay. Okay. It's time for Russell's advice corner. Oh yeah. It's been a while since I've been in the corner. You, well, you've taken our advice. So things are working out so well. I think that's why. So, so as you guys know, we're in the middle of March madness right now, this will be coming out, I think right before the final four or somewhere in there. But I was wondering when you start dating someone and you're a guy and let's say you're into sports, even though I'm not as much into it recently,

[34:30]you find a way to not pay attention to a game at the bar. Or if you're at somewhere, you don't have the game on all the time. Right? So at, at what point when you start dating someone and you're out at a bar, can you just ignore them the whole time and like watch a basketball game without acknowledging almost immediately? No, you need to establish your dominance right away. Russell, it's very important that you don't get their expectations up too high. They need to know that you're a piece of shit right from the beginning. So then when you're a piece of shit later, they're like, well, I did marry this piece of shit all along.

[35:00]Yeah, exactly. I said yes to. Yeah. I just, I sent you guys a text, right? I was at the bar. It was Saturday afternoon. Afternoon, something like that, right? Like, so our kids are with grandma and grandpa, Sarah and I go for a walk around Lake Harriet. We stop at a spot and just have a quick happy hour. You know, and so literally I'm like, Sarah, I have this game's close. I just have to, I'm just going to send a picture quick. So the guys think I'm cool and I'm watching this game and having a beer, you know? So I said, Hey,

[35:30]well you just, I just got to take a, yeah, that's fine. But after that, no, you gotta, I at least, I mean, you just gotta shut it down and you gotta be with the person you're with and you gotta, you know, you can see, you can sneak some peaks, but there is no going and ignoring. No. And you know, no going in your life. I mean, this is a good question. This question comes up at a good time though, because I'm going to go into the podcast advice corner and say that our next scheduled recording after this is during the next Iowa state cyclone game. So can I go on a podcast and ignore my podcast friends while I'm recording a

[36:02]podcast and watch the Iowa state cyclones on a third screen? Like how long before I, that doesn't ever, every recording you're fine. I would say ignoring somebody at the bar is fine. I don't know what Aaron was saying there, but I think ignoring somebody at the bar is just fine. Yeah, of course, Aaron, you can have the game on and ignore us, man. It does it all the time. Don't worry about it. Let me tell you, it's fairly easy. Yeah, it's fairly easy. Don't you say like, you'll be just fine. Like, like what do we tell us to tell me two things we've talked about this episode. I couldn't do it. I have no idea what we just talked about.

[36:30]Warm cap and crunch. And yeah, something about yogurt, baby. Yeah, exactly. And we've done that. It's fine. Russell can be a winner. I think some people, there are some people who they just want to have you listen to them. When you're sitting with somebody and you hear that, you hear the sentence and like this, you go, well, what do you think? And then I'm watching this game.

[37:00]No, you cannot say that. You cannot say you're watching the game at any point. No, you cannot admit that. That's, that's very, very bad. You need to lie. You need to lie. You need to lie to this person. But my buddies, we've got, we're, we bet on all the underdogs. We all bet $16 at all the underdogs. I'll give you a hint. They do not care about that. That is the coolest thing ever. And it is a cool thing to talk about and maybe send approximately 800 texts over the weekend about, but people, but people who are going to drinks with you, I'm just going to tell you right now, they couldn't care less. But like I said, you,

[37:30]they also don't care if you're listening to them. They, they don't want your advice. They don't want you to hear. They don't, they're going to tell you the same story. He's 10 times again, later that weekend. Don't worry about it. You can catch up. Then it's like a little recap. All you have to do is when they go down and then you go, well, what do you think? And then it just keeps going. It keeps going. And you're watching the game. You're having a good time. Trust me. Sorry, Rob. I was trying to watch the game over here. I was going to say, who are you going to trust? These two guys are me. Who do you think is in a way happier? But what about,

[38:02]what about staying at home, Matt? So you and your wife are at home and you want to watch the Vikings game and she wants to sit down and have like a three-day game. It's a three-hour conversation. What happens? Well, I think I told this the first time that Matt looked over his shoulder, by the way, before he started talking. He's like, well, the day, the day Sarah moved in, right? The day Sarah moved in. I just told this story the other day too. I remember, I remember this like it was yesterday. I went and I sat down on the couch, you know, we got home from work, whatever, sat down on the couch. I turned on the twins game. She says, what are you doing?

[38:30]I said, I'm watching the twins game. She says, I don't want to watch the twins game. And then literally that, that was a big, like, Oh man, what are we going to do here? Kind of a thing. Cause you know, what, I mean, what are you going to do? Right. I mean, and again, this comes back to your point, the twins game off, then throw out your microwave, right? I would go, I would go see your lawyer friend at the tool concert and be like, listen, but it comes down. I mean, it comes down to like, if you're watching a Timberwolves game on a Tuesday night in the middle of

[39:01]January, you know, right. As opposed to hanging out with that person, you're a sicko and I've been there, but you can get out of it. Yeah. We've all, I think we've all been there. Right. But then you kind of realize like, well, it's the first round of the playoffs. Timberwolves haven't been there ever. I got to watch. What I would do. Russell is just bring up every time you've been stuck with them doing some dumb bullshit and you didn't want to do that. And then just remind them of that. And they'll say, you know what? You're right. Okay. Yeah. Actually, you know what? Rob's right. This, this, you know, Rob is totally right. He, I, he came to all this dumb bullshit.

[39:31]So just once I have to sit in a bar and watch a game, I'm definitely not going to complain. And Russell, if you spring that up, they, they won't be mad about it. That's what I would do. Rob rolling, going, how's it going with you? What were you in charge? That's the bottom line. Okay. You got to set the standard. We made mistakes. Russell, we kowtowed right away to what they wanted. Huge mistake. Don't do it. Listen, my life is a disaster right now. Jenny has been out of town since Thursday right now. Yeah. Today is Monday. Just now. Just like today. Okay. So when she's gone,

[40:01]I don't know what's going on. Good. My life is in a, a total tailspin. Like she's gone and I'm not working. So I have no, like we're recording this now and it's like, what? 1130 at night when we're done with this, I'm going to watch a movie after this. Like there is no, I might as well be in like a windowless cell somewhere. Like just doing whatever I want. I woke up today at noon. I woke up at noon and I was like, well, does that mean, does that mean your kids got themselves up and went to school while you were still sleeping? Of course. That's amazing.

[40:30]I'm not a terrible parent. I was like, what'd you have for lunch? She's like, I, I packed my own. I was like, you're so sweet. I love you so much. And then I woke up at noon and I was like, well, I better get to the gym today. I got to the gym at six. Like what? If you saw a list of what I ate today, it literally like handfuls. It just would say handfuls for a lot of the foods like Captain Crunch, handful, cinnamon toast, crunch, handful, anything that has crunch in it. I was eating by the handful today. Just a disaster. I don't think I've drank any water in three days. I'm pretty sure I haven't drank any water.

[41:01]Like there is nothing tethering me, to reality right now. We have ordered out every dinner tonight. I ordered from two separate restaurant. Cause my girls wanted two separate things and I did not want to deal with it. So I ordered from two places and I got myself a half meal from right. Like the gas station deal. Yeah. One wanted long John silvers. So I don't, I, there's nothing that I can say about this because it's just like, I don't know what to do. Like, how am I going to get back on track? I was like, well, maybe I'll just wake up at six tomorrow. But then I was like,

[41:30]well, no, why am I going to do that? No, you got to sleep. You just got to wait till she gets back and then you'll, you'll crawl into bed. She'll get, you'll let you for making too much noise. You won't get any sleep that night. You'll be at right back. And that's the thing is she's coming back tomorrow night, guys. There's so much laundry that has to be done. It's crazy. Like if you look at my dishes right now, my daughter today was like, do we have any clean bowls? And I was like, Oh no, not for days. We haven't had clean bowls for days. Mom is going to be a service. This is Lord of the flies up in here. Okay. And I don't know where the conscience it's under. It's under a pile of clothes somewhere.

[42:01]Nobody knows. I don't know what it is. It's just takes so little for me to just be totally untethered. I need a routine guys. What do you do when you like, how do you set up a routine when you're not like on a vacation or on a break or whatever? I like my, my recent move has been doing, I never was a list. Like I write down things, but now one thing is that thing that works for me is I start writing down my list of what I want to accomplish for the day. And then I cross stuff off. And then when you start crossing stuff off, you build momentum and you want to keep crossing stuff off.

[42:31]So, I say you go with the list. You cross shit off. I have, it's taken a very long time, but I have every night. I make sure that the dishes are done and the dishwashers run no matter what, there could be two spoons in there, but I run it every night so that no, someone forgot to clean those spoons. Put the spoon in the dishwasher. Go back and find that joke. If you really want to. God about that. Matt just had to look upstairs.

[43:00]Like he looked up to a different level of his house. He just had to acknowledge something and so no, but the routine, at least if the kitchen is clean in the morning, at least it feels like, you know, something you wake up in the kitchen is clean and I make a pot of coffee and all that stuff. There's not a dishes sitting there. So I thought the only really the only routine is to make sure that the kitchen is clean every night and then at least the dishes are done. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Cause then your kids have clean bowls when they need them.

[43:30]Cause I came home from the gym today. And I was like, this place is a fucking disaster zone. Like I, this is a disaster and there's absolutely nobody to blame, but me. Like I made all the mess. I haven't done anything with it. It really is like, if I didn't have like kids or anything to tell, I think I would just like, I don't know what would happen. I'd go tense. Kaczynski or something. How much cash you got in your wallet right now? You got that big fat wallet. Yeah. Like 200 bucks. Cash is usually what I have. So you could probably pay each of your daughters like 20 bucks to at least do the dishes. Right? Well,

[44:00]you heard the going. Read for Rob's daughters, 75 minimum. They're trying to buy nail polish, man. 20 bucks. Doesn't make a dent for them. You saw before the podcast, how they get money from me. My oldest one came on and said, I need money for lunch. And then I gave her money. Like that was it. That was the extent of the exchange. Like there was no like, Oh, can you walk the dog or can you do this? Because the oldest one, and I got a whisper in case she hears me, the oldest one, if we try to argue with her, it's not worth it. She digs in and then you're like, God, I shouldn't have started this argument.

[44:30]Fine. I'll take out the garbage. I, I will take out the recycling. I'll do whatever it takes to make you happy. Cause she's a lot like somebody else in my life. And I don't want to say who it is, but you just will do anything. You can just make him happy. Even if it means sitting like a mummy in bed, even when you're not sleeping, just don't move. Is she anything at all? Like anyone in Russell's life? No, not at all. Like I said, we were out to lunch and she was like, my daughter was like, are you talking to, are you listening to what I'm saying? And I was like, Oh my God, my wife is in Los Angeles. What's going on?

[45:00]And I said, yeah, what, what are you, whatever you think, you know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, So that's, that's what's going on. So if you guys notice like, like, and it was really bad because like the other day, I took a picture and send it to you guys on the text. And the next day I took a picture again and I was wearing the same shirt in both pictures. That's bad. Cause I took off that shirt and then put it back on. I chose to do that. Guys, let's talk about this album. Nobody's favorite. Hey, I'm excited to talk about this album. I'm so excited that I've been diving down underwater a lot.

[45:31]I'm in sub, I'm in submarine therapy. Submarine therapy. Yes. Is there anything better than a good submarine movie? Cause I always like, there's a lot of like looking around and waiting. It's always, everything's red and it's very sweaty. And they're like, how many good submarine movies are there? You five, seven, one. Hunt for Red October. Hunt for Red October. My dad had this VHS. It was a hot semen. I thought I could come up with something better.

[46:02]I thought your dad's VHS would have been like disco balls. Too bad. That's going to get it. Disco balls deep. Yeah, there it is. Disco balls deep. You cannot talk about the plastic Ono band album without talking about the timeline. This is this, this album is one of these that when I did some personal, when I did some research and, and I got the background and I listened to my two podcasts today about the album. I, you just get so much more out of this album because you realize when this happened,

[46:31]right? This album is released. So here's the deal. This album is released in December of 1970. Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the Beatles in April of 1970. All things must pass. George Harrison's solo album was released in November of 1970. So the month before, and if you listen to all things, it's like the Wu Tang. Yeah. If you listen to all things must pass, you can just tell Harrison had this musical blue balls, right? He had so much ready to go. Like he released a solo album.

[47:01]It was a triple album, a triple, a man. We're going to have to do this album guys. I bet it's on the list because they kept him down. It's a triple album and it's got like my sweet Lord on there. And when you listen to it, it is like hundreds of instruments. You can tell it's like, they've got a full orchestra. It's huge. It's basically what the Beatles were doing, but even more so this giant production, right? So that's where George Harrison went. Yeah. It's number 368. It's number 368. We're going to get there. Oh my God, guys. It is 300 albums away. Six years from now, six years from now.

[47:30]I'm still going to be like, Jenny's gone to LA. My life's a disaster. I don't know what to do. It's still six years later. My daughters are walking all over me. So basically this album though is, is kind of the exact opposite, right? John Lennon went, instead of going to that big Beale sound, it's totally stripped down. There's only like four people on this whole album. You got John Lennon, John Lennon on guitar. You got Klaus Wurman on bass, who was kind of like a Beatles buddy. He was on a bunch of their solo albums. And guess who's playing the drums on this album?

[48:01]Ringo. It's our guy Ringo. I mean, it just, and he's playing his ass off. I gotta, I gotta say he's kicking ass on this album. It might be time for you to issue Ringo an apology here. Remember when you used to call him a shit drummer on a weekly basis? And I was wrong. I, he plays the hell out of this album. And it turns out, I send Aaron TikToks all the time about how good Ringo is, but it turns out that like this, this, this, I, when, when I saw Ringo was on this album, it filled me full of joy. The same way when I saw that Beatles documentary and you saw what a nice guy Ringo was,

[48:30]you're just like, Oh, Ringo's like the best. How can anybody ever say anything negative about him ever? But the big thing with this album is that it came out after John Lennon had completed or was going through with this guy named author Jan of a primal scream therapy. So it was this thing that was big kind of in the, in the, in the, around this time. And it was basically trying to relive traumatic events by screaming, screaming like you're just being born. And that's how you're going to get over, you know, things that are causing you pain. And for John Lennon,

[49:00]there's a ton of that, right? Because his dad was in the merchant Marines or whatever he took off and he was super young. His mom gave John to his aunt Mimi famously. And then when they started to reconnect, she got hit by a car or something, some tragedy, some tragic stuff over and over. And then of course, at this point, John Lennon is also deep, deep into heroin. Like he's got so much stuff going on that he's one of the most famous dad shows up again. His dad shows up. And his life again. Hey, what's up, son? I'm now another dad, like double dad. Like, Hey, welcome back. Welcome me back to your life. You know,

[49:30]heavy, heavy shit. Do you know his dad's name? You know, his dad's name. Oh yeah. What was that? I saw that. What was it? You want to play a quick game? I'll give you a hint. Let's do word. Give me. It is a character from a TV show. We've joked about before that Rob has wondered what his butthole looks like. Oh, Raymond. His name is Alf. His dad's name is Alf. I don't think I ever told you guys about my Raymond bit. I have, but basically you're hearing all that,

[50:03]that pain come out on this album, right? Like it's a, it's a, it's a crazy personal album. It's a, it's a, it's yeah. And you hear him say that, uh, and the song toward the end, that God song. And then he's talking to his son of like, Hey, Jules, don't do the same stuff I did. Like, it's just this, this shit's painful, man. There's a lot of stuff on here. That's too heavy. But the first time I listened to this album, I was like, it's not really, it's, it's too, it's not Beatles. It's not big. It sounds fucking good, but man, it does sound really good. Let's get into it.

[50:31]You might say, you're right, man. You might say, Hey, is hell's bells. The only album you're going to listen to this week. That starts with bells. And the answer is no, no, we've got, I give you the under mother. Right. It's crazy. Like was ACDC doing a Plastigono band homage now that we've heard? Yeah. Yeah. They must've been right. Hold on. Hold on. Ready? Great. I mean, it just, this is right into a wall. It's pretty great.

[51:00]Yeah. And like, we talked about John Lennon's voice a long time ago, Russell, cause he's high up on the list of all time. Great. It was top five. I remember being surprised by that. Me too. But I mean, he lays it all out there in this album. He shows the full range and like, it's really good. Like he emotes and he lets you know what he's singing about. And he famously, he famously does not like his voice. He doesn't think he has a good voice, but this album, he can't hide. There's a maximum of three instruments playing with him at any time.

[51:33]Yeah. And it sounds so good. And when you listen to these words, you know, you had me, but I never had you like, it's just like, holy shit. Like, uh, we got hold on, hold on. I, this, I love this song because the combination of, uh, the, the, the tremolo on the guitar makes it very relaxing. What's the tremolo. You hear that waviness of the guitar. Yeah,

[52:01]that's a tremolo. And then the drumming though, is so like tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And then his lyrics are kind of this off kilter where you get the smooth sound, but it, it also sounds choppy on it. I just love it. But this is also the one where he drops the cookie monster in the middle of it. Right. What the fuck? Why does he, why does he all of a sudden yell cookie in the middle of it? I love this song. Here, let's listen. We'll edit it. It's only, it's only an hour, a minute 52. So we have to hear it.

[52:30]Okay. Waiting. Cookies. Famous Lennon sense of humor, right? See, do we, I, I heard today that, uh, Sesame street came out, a year before this album, which is wild. I will say that that song, it started off me thinking something, you know,

[53:00]he repeats phrases like throughout, you know, that whole song. I forget what it, you know, hold on, hold it. And he does that all the songs in this thing. And it starts to drive me bonkers. How much he repeats or kind of stutters through lyrics on this album. It's the only thing about me. The music is phenomenal. I love, I think I'm with Rob, you know, like I think it's, it's great. It's kind of, it's kind of a classical rock kind of a feel, but his lyrics start to drive me nuts. I mean, we'll get it, but don't you think this is where it would be fascinating to see where if at the last

[53:33]minute, he said, you know what, Paul, I got these songs. I think they're pretty good. Can you help me out? Take a pass on them. Let's just make this a Beatles album and see what you can do. Cause you know, Paul would put it in a fun bridge or he'd put in some more, it would get more technically complicated and you would have more layers, right? It would have been too much, right? That's to me, that's the charm of this album is it is stripped down. But it would be so, I mean, why not have both? Why not have a speaker box love below where they're releasing it like together? Well, because these are after watching a documentary,

[54:02]right? Like these are John Lennon songs, right? And as soon as you introduce Paul, then they're not John Lennon songs anymore. And I think that's the whole crux of the discussion, right? Like why they broke up. Isn't that, isn't that. Yeah, I think, I think he would, he would turn it into granny songs. There's no granny songs on this, on this album. I also think too, like, I think Paul, I think Paul would take these albums and they'd have to do it a million times. Like, oh, bloody, oh, bloody die. And then you fucking say, this shit sucks. And then you have to leave over again. Yeah. Whereas this,

[54:31]you know, he's doing a few takes and then he's literally singing to Ringo and Klaus, like his feelings, like emoting it and to Yoko. And so you just get a much more raw sound where Paul probably, you're probably right. He would have reworked it over and over. I found out. The freaks on the phone won't leave me alone. Well, it's like, it's not our listeners. We got to make this the new sound clip for these. Yes. This is our new sound clip for Waste Mails.

[55:01]But it's got a groove here. Oh, so good. There's a number of songs where the tempo changes, you know, and they're great. This bass is so crunchy down here. It's another album that sounds like every song begat a whole band, right? It's like when you first listen to this album, you're like, well, does this really belong to me? I'm at 85 and then every song makes you think of a band you've heard. Like, Oh, is this black rebel motorcycle club or, you know, Ben folds five or someone like you can hear so many,

[55:32]so many people who have definitely studied this up. What's really interesting too, is if you look at like the chords on any songs, it's never normal chords. He's doing so many changes that you wouldn't expect. He hated to do a normal like G C D chord structure, you know, like a normal fifth stuff. He was always toying with it, which is why some of these songs, they don't go the place you expect them to. He was an off kilter kind of dude. Maybe he didn't want to do the expected. Listen guys. It turns out that I'm, I'm doing some, I'm working on some stuff where I keep hitting my instrument.

[56:01]I'm doing tambourine therapy, tambourine. Oh, listen, when I wrote this bit down on my notes, I think I wrote not a good bit. Don't do it. And then I was like, you know what? That doesn't, that's not going to stop. There's a Prince tambourine. That's really good. You might have to play that. God damn it. I am now. You're making me do that work. Shit. I'm like Matt, whatever Aaron suggests, I do it. Working class hero. Makes me hungry for a sandwich.

[56:30]This sounds like the early Dylan albums, right? totally like masters of war or well, we know Bob Dylan was a hero of his, although in one of the songs, he literally says, I don't believe in Zimmerman, but it sounds like a song from my, my spaghetti Western collection. I kind of like, yeah. And this is about, I don't really get the purpose of the song. Like, Hey, some rich musician ripping on like the peons.

[57:00]You have to like work for a living. Is that what he's doing here? What's going on? I mean, but doesn't this seem like a response to on in their game, right? Cause, uh, Dylan, Dylan sings about the poor remains only upon in their game. And, uh, John Lennon says the same thing about that. He said, there's room at the top. You just have to, what's he say? You have to lie about killing people. Shit. I can't remember what the line is now, but I think it's the same kind of idea. I got it. I got it. I think it's cookie. I,

[57:30]I, God damn it. You're so smart, Aaron. It's so good. I do have to say though, there is, he, he did do that Dylan thing though, where he tried to do, you know how Dylan would write these super long songs just to see if he could memorize the lyrics as like a challenge to himself. Play that guitar drum kind of thing. Yeah. And Lennon did that except he fucked up and he forgot a verse. And so they had to go back and edit it in and you can hear it 100%. Listen to the guitar. Change here. It's going to be about 10 seconds in listen to the guitar and voice change pitch. You can tell they re-recorded this.

[58:00]You hear that right there. I mean, it totally, it's a totally new recording and they just literally dumped it into the middle of a song, which I don't know. It's so interesting. Why they wouldn't just be like, well, let's retake the song. Like we're, we literally have all day. We can do whatever we want. That's a Paul McCartney thing, man. That's a Paul McCartney thing.

[58:30]He just said, no, we're not going to do it. Cause that's what Paul would do. That's an interesting idea. I think he probably was like absolutely not fuck overdubbing. We're not going to do that. I don't want to do that shit. Especially, you know, after hearing George Harrison's album and you know, there's, there's stories of him and George getting together during this album and still having a great relationship and being friends. Right. But, um, and I think, I think everybody wants the Beatles to hate each other. And they just got sick of each other. Like, you know, you, you got four guys and they're together all the time trying to do something creative. Probably always wanted to watch NCAA basketball tournament.

[59:01]And those guys wanted to hang out and write songs or talk. Some of the guys are real dumb shits, you know, and they won't let you talk about all the stuff you want to talk about with the riblets. They wouldn't actually, they actually made you edit quite a bit of that out. That got really dirty, really fast. Um, so I, I get it totally. Um, Hey, if you were dating somebody and they wrote a song just called isolation, would you be worried about the red flag? Just a boy and a little girl trying to change the whole

[59:31]one of the things I liked. I don't know if you guys heard near the end of the song. He's playing an organ. Did you hear the organ? Should we, should we go to the organ? Yeah. Let's jump forward and go to the organ. You hear it there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There it is. It's John. Now to me, that sounds, that is John. That's a sound I'm familiar with.

[60:00]I wonder if that's a, that sounds like a big organ. It is an organ and it's, it's a Hammond organ. I don't know if you guys know anyone named a Hammond, but this is a Hammond, a Hammond organ, a Hammond. Have you guys ever heard of the Hammond organ before? Our Hammond organs really small. Fifth beat of Billy Preston, fifth beat of Billy Preston played the Hammond B3. He did. Billy did. Billy Preston did play the Hammond, but, but I was reading a little bit about the Hammond organ and it was an instrument of choice for military chapels. And then in the sixties, um,

[60:30]it became a big part of rock music. And so I, what I thought we could do is celebrate the Hammond organ by doing a list of the greatest Hammond organ songs ever. Russell, this is my absolute shit right here. You might be bad. We were talking about, we're talking about working class heroes. We're talking about working class heroes, but I'd like a hero with Hammond organ on it. And, and cheese, a supreme therapy, right? Got to have mustard. Yeah. Some cream cheese. There's one thing I should say is the Hammond organ was really big with jazz

[61:02]blues R and B. We're doing a list on the greatest rock songs featuring the Hammond organ. This sounds like, this sounds like some of Aaron's Friday nights in college where it's hand on Oregon on Oregon and on Oregon. Thank you. I like it. So the first song is, I'm going to say, thank you. It's from 1962. This is Booker T and the MGs. The song is green onions. Oh yes. Yeah. That's that access a bit. This is the stacks house band. Yeah. This is one of the person who hates green onions.

[61:32]I love the song, but he's the onions. Yeah. Yeah. You can't, you can't, you can't not want to nod your head when you hear this. Did you Russell, did you hear that? This song came out too early. I didn't. They almost named it leaks. The leaks leaks, but Aaron, you were, you were mentioning that this is out of Memphis, right? This was the stacks recording. This is the house band for a lot of stacks recordings. And so I was actually reading that John Lennon was actually a big fan of this

[62:00]band. And later on, I think in 1970, the Booker T and the MGs actually recorded a whole cover of Abbey road. You guys know that? I didn't know that. Oh, that's cool. Wow. I should listen to that. Pretty cool. That's cool. Hey, can I just go back and make a correction? Okay. Uh, when I said that, okay, so when the album came out early, they should have called it, uh, scallions. Cause that's the other name for green onions. I thought it was leaks. So that's my, I was confused. Cause I was like, well, leaks are a whole different vegetable. I don't know. Like I was like, maybe he's trying to like relate spring onions to leaks.

[62:32]I don't know. I mean, it's, it's all, yeah, I'm just going to go back in and edit me saying magic. I was feverishly deleting is correct. You emails, you know, that 10% of the, uh, of the human race when they eat scallions, it tastes like soap. I didn't, I thought cilantro. Oh, we're a mess. We're a mess. You guys are eating as much, as much green stuff as I am here with my wife. God, the only green stuff I'm eating is diet Mountain Dew by the carnival. I literally bought 24 cans of diet Coke the other day. We now have three.

[63:01]I bought them yesterday. So you're getting your water, Rob. I don't know what you're talking about. You're getting your hydrating water. Oh, is it hot in here? Oh, it's hot in here. Next up on the list. I've never heard of the band name before, but you guys will know the song. This is the Spencer Davis group. Give me some loving. Oh, I got it. I got it. You hear that? I got, you hear that? Hell yeah. This song. When I was in the high school pet band,

[63:30]this was one of my favorite, one of my favorite songs, both to play and also to joke around with my favorite, uh, high school band instructor, Mr. Joel Poppin of Ankeny, Iowa, because when Mr. Poppin would stand up there and say, okay, give me some love. And I would say, Mr. Poppin, I don't think that's a good idea. Like, I don't really, I don't think he, we had a love hate. I mean, I loved him. He hated me. That's kind of how it went down. And then when he did go to prison, you wrote him letters. So you were like, Hey, you were serious. So what'd you get for putting me in third chair?

[64:05]You old piece of shit. You know who the lead singer for that band was? I'm going to assume it's Spencer Davis. I'm guessing Sam Moore. It's not. It's Steve Winwood. Oh, Steve Winwood was the lead singer, but they named the band after the guitar player. I was like, that's crazy. You never see that. Do you know? It was rare. No, no, I met Steve. If I went Steve Winwood, I would say now would you go?

[64:30]What? I'd say another crazy thing about this song. So the version that I really know is the blues brothers version. Remember, we've talked about the blues brothers that that movie having all the music. So they covered that in that movie. Two of the members of the blues brothers, Steve Cropper and Donald Duck done. We're also members of Booker T and the MGs. Wow. Oh my God. This is yes. Okay. Wait, I want to go back to the guitarist on. I've been loving you too long by Otis Redding because it was mostly. Yeah. Yeah. I want to go back and correct my joke.

[65:01]Okay. Okay. Wait, how many jokes? Somebody would say all of them. How many jokes? All of them. I can edit it. No, that's no, there was no, there was no green vegetable joke that got edited where I just said Scali. It made sense. No, it still doesn't make sense. He would say Steve Winwood. And I would say, well, in the morning, usually Steve Winwood in the morning. when would, well, nevermind. Okay. I'm going to go back and edit that again. Wait a minute. Late at night.

[65:30]Make myself laugh. Steve Winwood in the morning might have wet dream therapy, right? Oh, that's good. That's really good. That's my dairy to hell's bells. That one, Rob, are you eating breakfast sandwiches in your bed? So much cream cheese in here. All right. Next up on the list. We've been talking a little bit, about this guy earlier tonight. This is Bob Dylan, like a Rolling Stone. Check out the Hammond organ at the beginning of this one. Right away. Yes. Fantastic.

[66:01]Isn't it? Yeah. It just sings. Doesn't it? Just a great song. You like it, Matt? The organ. Once upon a time. Yeah. That's so great. I was reading the guy who played the organ actually came in to play the guitar and they found out there was another session musician that was better than him. And he just said, he sat down and started playing the organ and unlike when they were taking a break and they ended up using it. And supposedly if you turn and you listen back, the organs off like half a beat. So if you listen to the beginning,

[66:31]it's off a little bit and it's because the guy had never really played the organ before and didn't know what he was doing. But I was going to ask you guys, have we talked about this before? Was it Norwegian wood? Did we talk about this before to Rob or Dylan and Lennon didn't get along because like they were mirroring each other's songs for a while or something like that. You guys remember that? Yeah. We talked about that a little bit. I, yes, there's something with that. Okay. Also, Norwegian wood. One of the most beautiful Beatles songs. Also a great book by Haruki Murakami. You're reading it right now. Got it from the library. Shit. I should have my ruling going about the library. I think his ghostwriter's name is Doug.

[67:01]Aaron's like, well, I went to the library, man. Do I love looking at porn on library computers? I don't have to tell my wife I'm getting a figure drive. Oh, that's what guys do at the library all the time. So there, Oh, you ask somebody who's a librarian, how much porn is getting looked at on public. They don't like that a lockdown or anything. No, no, no, no. It's an issue that they're dealing with all the time. Free game. No firewalls. First amendment, man. No, excuse me.

[67:30]When I typed in double D's, I was looking for the Dewey decimal system. Thank you so much. Oh, that's a good joke. All right. Next up on the list. I'm not editing that one. That's a final edit. Thank you. You guys know the band Procol Harum. The song is called the whiter shade of pale. Check this out. Yeah, I know. I've always thought Procol Harum sounds like something that a doctor would do. And you weren't happy about it. This song is so good. I hate this song. You don't like it? I've always hated this song. I can't stand it. Have you heard? Well, it just makes me realize that I think if this song was a darker shade of brown,

[68:05]it would make more sense. I would get, I would make more sense to me. So good. Do you guys hear me? I'm going to turn on the music. Darker shade of brown. Darker shade of brown. But there is a great favorite of the podcast. King Curtis. He of Memphis souls to a fame. Also covered whiter shade of pale and it's great. So check it out if you're interested. And he's just, he's just recovering from his heart attack. This version was big in the summer of love. 1967.

[68:30]John Lennon was a big fan of the song. He said, it's the best song he'd heard in a while. You play it when you take some acid and. Too sweet. He liked it. I believe it. Isn't the summer of love 69. No 69 is when it all went wrong. 67 is the summer of love. Dumb shit. Dumb shit. What? That's not, that's not what I was trying to say. Be kind. Yeah, we got it. You're right, Aaron. I heard that. I heard that. Yeah, Matt. Sorry that Aaron would teach you like that. I heard that.

[69:00]All right. Last song on the list. He's not a band conductor, Aaron. Don't talk to him like that. That's not on the list. We talked about this one once before. I believe it was for like the one hit wonders where they were, they were the big artists that only had one number one hit. But this one also features a Hammond organ. This is Janice Joplin, me and Bobby McGee from 1970. Oh man, this song. Holy shit. Chris, Chris, that organ is a jam, isn't it? Yeah. Is there, is this big brother in the holding company? What was her band's called?

[69:30]What was her band's name? I don't know. I forgot the guy's name. The guy was playing the organ on this one was big brother. Oh, so good. 389. But I was reading, she was actually a big Beatles fan. And before she died, Yoko Ono had reached out and had, was going to have her record a song for John Lennon's birthday. And she died shortly there afterwards. The last recording session she ever had, was writing a song for John Lennon. Gee, that's a killer way to end on a positive note, right? Literally. Literally. Wait a minute.

[70:00]Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hello. Hey everybody. Hello. It's me. It's double J. Janice Joplin. I just wanted to call in, tell you guys that I loved only the big Beatles. I was a big Beatles fan. A big Beatles fan. Oh, it was a big Beatles fan. Lonnie, Lonnie, Lonnie, Lonnie. Yeah, me and Bobby McGee, we'd ride the rails or on a truck or whatever the song was about. Listen to the Beatles. And I'd say, if only they were a little bit bigger, the lads from Liverpool were a little too short for me. Then I barfed on my back and now I'm dead.

[70:33]I'm in hell. Okay. Well, see you guys later. Why is everyone in hell when they call in Rob? I don't understand. Like there's gotta be other options. That was double J actually. Janice Joplin, Aaron. Yeah, that was, you have to ask, ask her. Okay. And that was a tasteful way to end that list. So that was 100%. It was. Yeah. I mean, when Russell, that was a top five list. I love those Hammond organs. I mean, anytime, anytime the Hammond organ comes out, I 60 midnight every time.

[71:01]Beside ham and cheese. It's my second favorite Hammond. And you know what? And you know what? The third is Michael Jackson. Hammond. All right. Let's get into. Is that what he was saying there? Hammond. He wanted more Hammond organ. I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so. Weird Al lyric. I think, I mean, no one knew. Michael was saying, then we don't get mad about weird Al again. Every time I get mad over it. Uh, Hey, listen, let's come up with some more fun. Let's talk weird Al or weird Alf.

[71:30]John Lennon's dad. Seems Alf. Hey, this is, this is the Ben Fold song. This is the guy. I feel like Ben Fold studied this song and then made a whole career on it. And I've only heard like three. And this is the song. So this is the one, two of the lyrics. It's just, just, reminds me bonkers. How slow the lyrics come out. It's like, he's trying to say something. Sounds like Mr. Blue sky. It does.

[72:00]This sounds like a, this sounds like a upbeat, kind of a more upbeat, even though if you actually read the lyrics for that song, it's a little depressing. What he's learning, what he learned in therapy, not the, not the most fun thing. This was the song that they, did they want to put this out on a single? This is Phil Spector who produced this album, right? But it's a very, very strange Phil Spector production because he doesn't have his wall of sound. There's only three people. Yeah. And, and apparently what they did is that John and, and Yoko pretty much mixed this.

[72:30]Then Phil was in charge of the final mix. But if you listen to this, this is not, it got, I think it got remixed better in some of the remasters, but it's a little thin, like the drums. If you listen to it, it's a little thin. You think this is love? I think so. I, yeah. Interesting take. I mean, I was thinking that we don't know really anymore what the original mix sounded like, because that would have been on vinyl, or a track or something. And we're listening to it over, you know, streaming, but it sounds loud to me. Like, it sounds like, I mean, this is not a loud song, but yeah, like it sounds like the mix is like still Phil Spector going for like a

[73:01]big sound, even with it stripped down. This is hard for me to say, Aaron, but I might be wrong. You might be right. No, I know. I think you hear, I think you hear it on the first song on mother, right? You get the bells and then it goes boom, right? Yeah. Lyrics. So this, um, this next song was originally, it was called good, good, good until my mom came in and corrected his grammar. It's well, well, well, this song grew on me.

[73:30]Me too, man. I like, I got to make an admission here. I remember when we started this list and we started the quest before we did the podcast. I remember specifically where I was, I was in a grocery store and I had my headphones in and I was listening to this and I'm like, this is the worst song I have ever heard in my life. And I remember texting you guys saying, this is a, just a complete disaster. But then the more I listened, I was like, wait, it's either the worst song ever or it's the best song ever. It's up there. And it's up there.

[74:00]This really grew on me. It is, it is amazing, isn't it? Yeah, it's a great group. I could do with, I could do with the absolute screaming at the end. I could do with a cut down a little there, but like, you know, you hear about everything that he's going through with the screen therapy and all that, you know, but like, it's a great song. I heard somebody say this on a podcast today, but I think you can hear Ozzy Osbourne in this when he's singing with the guitar. It sounds just like, you know, I am Iron Man and all those Ozzy Osbourne. Do you think you also hear that in that bass drum that just keeps banging the

[74:31]whole song? Yeah. I kind of heard like the Iron Man type of thing. When you just hear that bass drum clicking through the whole, the whole song. Fucking beating on this thing. Right. He's playing it loud. I love it. Um, I'm see how strong I am. I'm not going to make a joke there. Thank you. Okay. I went through my head and I was like, beating on it. What was he doing? The thought went through my head, but I'm not acting on it. Steve Wynwood. No, thank you.

[75:00]Not right now. Thank you. Look at me. I mean, does this sound like the Beatles or what? This sounds like the white album. How do you guys describe this album? Is it beautiful? Is it sad? What, how do you describe it in like one word? What do you take from it? Like, what are you supposed to feel from this album? I think, I think it's almost emo. I mean,

[75:31]even this song, which is like, it's got the Travis picking, you know, that it's, it's you hear on like happiness is a warm gun. It's supposed to sound happy. It still sounds so sad to me. Like him. Just this is very reflective of like, this is the Beatles. I mean, what I want to hold your hand was like eight years before this album. Like that's, eight years of him being the biggest name in the whole world. And it's all just crashed like literally five months before. Like it's, it would be incredibly depressing to be John Lennon at this time and realize

[76:00]like it's over. Like we're done. I think it's a little different. I think it's freeing. And I think it's exactly what he wants to do. And this is how he's always wanted. Cause you hear it, right? You hear it in the last few Beatles albums. You have songs like that. Those aren't McCartney songs. Those are clearly Lennon songs, right? And then you got old blood, do you old blood out, which are McCartney songs, right? And so I don't know. I think he's do this sounds exactly to me.

[76:30]And then you watch that documentary that came out recently, you know, and you kind of, he's just, he's literally off in his own world with Yoko. And he just wants to do his own thing. And Harrison's the same way. And it seems like Paul McCartney is trying to control, bring them all in and get this huge sound and everything. I think it's, is extremely freeing. It sounds very, I don't know. Emo sounds right. I mean, that's a good way to describe it, but I think it's in a good way for, for him. And I would say, you guys said it right. The one word I would say is feel. This was John just feeling what he was feeling.

[77:01]So some songs he's feeling sad. A lot of songs he's feeling free. Like you guys nailed it. Oh man. Doesn't that just make you sick? Just like, imagine sitting there thinking about your feelings. I don't think so. He's free. He's not thinking about him. He's just feeling him. And then whatever he feels on the next track, that's what he's feeling. He's free. He's present. He's in the moment. Do you think it chaps McCartney's ass when he sees this list and, and Lennon's got a, a solo album of above his, does he have a solo album on the list? Do you know how much money that man is worth?

[77:30]Absolutely. They gotta have egos, right? He does not. I mean, he doesn't give a shit. But it is funny because when this album came out, it didn't like, people didn't go crazy. This is the lowest selling solo Beatle album that came out. Interesting. This Ringo's came out before this and sold more. Harrison's came out and crushed this. Nobody listened to this album. Cause, everybody was still listening to George Harrison's triple album. It was, I mean, it is a fascinating, like I would love if I could sit down with Paul McCartney, I would love, I would ask him so many questions, but also I would also love to ask him like, do you have any idea where your albums sit on the Rolling Stone at 500?

[78:03]He would say like, yeah, I mean like, what would he say? Like, like it would be awesome if he did pay attention. Like that would be amazing. But also, if he didn't want to be awesome, what is it? Ram one album. Ram. Yeah. Paul McCartney and Lynn McCartney is at four 50 on the list. And then there's the wings album, which I'm surprised is not, is not on the list. Really? Is not. And Ram's not even on here. Ram's a great album. Ram is on Ram is four 50. That would chap his ass. If he's at four 50. No, no,

[78:30]no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's terrible. Yeah, that's where shit. No, but I get it. I get it. I think this is, I think this, I think this album is why so many people think Paul McCartney didn't contribute as much as John Lennon, because you hear this album and it's taking another step. Like when you listen to like this, when you listen to, like this, for example, God, this song is like the next level of music. This is not baby. I'm amazed by the way. I love you all the time, which is Paul McCartney's single off his album. I mean, listen, listen to this.

[79:00]God is a concept. I mean, what? All right. By which we've made Billy Preston on this one. Yeah. Yep. And, and, and what's wild about this. I mean, this is really the last song on the album. I know that it has, my mummy's dead, but I think that's more of like a, I don't know. It's almost him making fun of Paul McCartney or something like doing a little, like just an unthought out song right at the end. But listen to this part in God where he talks about what he,

[79:30]he doesn't believe. Yeah. I don't believe in yoga. And we have Billy Preston on a grand piano here. I don't believe in kings. Okay. I don't believe in Elvis. I don't believe in Zimmerman. Here's a shot at Bob Dylan. Listen to this. I don't believe in pizza.

[80:01]Oh, it's kind of soul crushing, isn't it? Yeah. And there, when he comes in, there's nothing on his voice. It's just him. That's what he believes in. Well, and you and Yoko. He believes in Yoko. Cause I think Yoko might've been standing there like, well, that is a reality. He believes in Yoko. He was trying to watch the game. And she's like, no, man, you, man, you put it in the net. Going to get real deep here. Right. But like,

[80:30]aren't we 40? We're all in early forties now. Right. Don't you kind of feel like what he's saying here? Like you used to worship watching the twins play. I used to worship all this stuff. Right. Yeah. You know, you know, and right now who cares? And I think that's exactly what he's saying there. Right. Like it's not that he really doesn't believe in Elvis, you know, or the Beatles and all this stuff. He's just like, it just doesn't matter. It's more like it doesn't matter. Right. And so I don't know. I like the song. I like the message. And I, it's a genius song. Like you can hear so much music come off of that song.

[81:00]This album is just, it's so fascinating to me. Now, nothing sounds like my mommy's dead. We're just going to, it's fine. We don't have to say anything about it. All right. But that God is such an unbelievable song. And of course they didn't release that as the single because they were like, well, we can't have you. The song off the album could not be released. It could not be about you not believing in God. He already got in trouble for saying they were bigger than Jesus. It's like, he knew his, he knew he was getting into it. Like he, you can't say I don't believe in Jesus, but I mean, it's a great fucking song. And yeah,

[81:30]you know, like at the end of the night, like when you sneak into your bedroom and you get your eyes closed and you're trying to get to your bed, like it's only you, like you don't have anyone else. And I do. I also think that that God song is, it sounds a ton like his next album. It sounds a lot like imagine. I think he kind of knows where he's going on this next album. Listening. Oh yeah. No, that's a good point. Big time. Thank you, Aaron. That's just what I said. Okay. Let's see here. That's what I say to myself every morning in my morning. Wynwood. Good point. Let's get into the rating system.

[82:03]Steve Wynwood, a radio mix on any of your Spotify or. No, you keep saying that. I got a set up a Pandora station. You said that that was good. Yeah. Unlike you. I don't listen to any of your guys' recommendations. What was the super group that had petty and Wynwood and Harrison and all those guys? What? Oh, that was traveling. Wilburys or something. Oh, right. It's Zimmerman. That's true. Right. Zimmerman too.

[82:30]Prince kicked all their asses on the stage. And the guy that my wife unfortunately has a fetish for Roy Orbison. I got to dress up like Roy Orbison every night. No wonder your hair is dyed. I like the Lego looking hair. It's like, the plastic, like perfectly round hair. We know she's into transition lenses, so it makes sense. That's her thing. She's into transition lenses. It's so smoky in here. Listen, this album is 85 on the list.

[83:02]Okay. Where does that sit with us? Well, well, well, let's talk about this. If it's perfect at 85, this is a rolling. Well, well, well toned. Okay. If this should be higher, it's a rolling Steve Wynwood now boned. Okay. It should be higher. It should have been higher on the list, which in this case is a lower number. We should have seen it already. Or is this a rolling grown? And there's no need to think of a clever pun for each one of these. It's just not important. Although I will tell you guys,

[83:30]I have been working on just drinking out of this metal container. I'm in canteen therapy. Canteen therapy. Aaron, what do you think? Rolling? Well, toned rolling bone or rolling grown plastic? Oh, no band. I mean, as you guys know, I'm a big John Lennon fan, but I will be honest. Big John Lennon has no access. Big John Lennon,

[84:01]big John stud tag team from the eighties. Well, well, well, hold on mother. I found out that you're a working class hero. Remember love. Well, well, well, look at me. God. Don't do it. Don't do it. It's you don't attempt fate. Don't do it. If this is the last thing she hears, you don't want to say it. All right.

[84:30]I will say goodbye. See you later. Goodbye. Big John Lennon. I love John Lennon. I have actually never listened to this album until what's going on this journey. I don't know why I was really just Beatles strictly. I didn't really get into their solo stuff. I was, I was really surprised how much I liked this album. I'm sure we're going to hear stuff after this. That is sort of better or more interesting. I don't know, but I love listening to this album is an album that I'll probably come back to, except for some of the tracks that are so sad and hard to listen to.

[85:03]So I'm going to give it a, I'm going to give it a rolling well tone. I think it's great. I think it'd be a good dorm room album. I'm going to put it out there. Give it to your kid, take it to college, play it in the dorm room. Yeah. So you comes in and then know that those people are probably not the most fun people to hang out with. If they want to, to listen to music like that, be bummed out, uh, Matt rolling, well-toned well, well, well-toned rolling boned or rolling grown. Well, I think it's well, well, well, well, well-toned. Um,

[85:30]there, there, there, there is, there's obviously better. I mean, not obviously, but to me, there's better albums that I'm more of a fan of, but from a music standpoint and who John Lennon is and where it is in history, I mean, 19th is 1970, right? I mean, you, like you said, you hear so many things that, um, that probably have some sort of influence from this album, at least that I could tell. I don't, you know, I don't know. So I'm going to say it's well-toned, uh, 85 seems like a decent slot for it. Russell rolling,

[86:01]well-toned rolling bone or rolling grown. I was expecting to go into this one and not like, and I remember listening to this a year ago, like I texted you guys and I said, I don't understand it. He's just screaming well over and over. They screaming at the end of songs, but, but coming back to it, I just thought it was, I had a hard time describing it, but beautiful haunting reflective. I don't know the way to put it, but I just thought it was fantastic. I don't think it's one of my favorite albums ever, but it makes me go back and start thinking about the Beatles.

[86:30]Cause we've talked about the Beatles before. And I think a lot of us kind of said we were McCartney guys. We liked the McCartney songs better, but now I'm listening to this. I'm like, maybe, maybe I wasn't giving him the credit he deserved on some of those later albums, but I really enjoyed it. I'll say rolling well-toned. You, there's no doubt. This album you're listening to it. And you're like, Oh, he is a goddamn genius. If you were wondering before, if you were on the, on the border, I mean, it's not even close. Listen guys, this is a rolling Stallone. So we got it wrong. 85 in a row.

[87:00]Dang it. Like a rolling Stallone. Cause this album came out when I was doing my creed therapy. It doesn't even rhyme. My God, I wrote that one down. That's the one I picked. Nobody was listening to this point. Next up. I am going to go. Oh, no, Rob, I'm going to continue my banana cream therapy. And next week I'm going to break on through to another pie. It's the doors. Honestly, when I started this episode, I thought that joke was going to be so good.

[87:30]I was like, God, this is going to get so many laughs. This is going to be the new D's nuts. Russell, this could be the greatest ending song of any album. We listened to just so there might be a Hammond organ on that album. There might be a couple might be littered with through all the organs of that one. Yeah. I think if you like organs, you're going to love the doors. I got a shitload of them. Rob, the one time I was actually at the twins game and I was ignoring my date during a game and I was actually, I did get nominated for the Hormel row of fame, but it wasn't that great because I'm a big mustard guy.

[88:02]They didn't have any mustard. How would the mustard guy handle the Hormel row of fame? Please squirt out what's inside of me all over those hot dogs and consume it. That makes perfect sense to me. Big mustard guy. Would be mustard guy be into people using mustard? I think so. I think so. He's a big mustard guy. I guess. Like, yeah, that makes sense to me. Yeah. Big mustard guy. But if they didn't have any, if I didn't win the Hormel row of fame, I would just go up and I would get some,

[88:30]I get to the, go to the taco stand and get a burrito supreme therapy. You know what? That joke holds up. Russell. Nice job. You saved it. Damn. That's good. Nice work. Burrito supreme therapy. So stupid.