Neil Young: After the Gold Rush (1970)

[00:00]in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better from 1970 it's after the gold rush by neil young listen i i thought i honestly and this is i'm not

[00:30]joking okay sometimes i joke at this part of the album but i'm not this time i thought this album was about my long balls and it was called after the cold flush after the cold flush you know you're getting old when you get on a toilet and you're like are my balls gonna hit this water like not good this is not the first time we've had this joke i know but guys you i'm so stupid all right let's go to k-rob and see what's going on what's up everybody this is k-rob k-r-o-b listen big wolf man rob is down on his knees

[01:03]he's rob can you tell other people about this podcast we're judging ourselves by the number of downloads and that ain't good baby oh yeah we work hard to make this podcast and we hope that you like it too but we have to say to you today can you tell a friend or two

[01:33]we get depressed when we see those downloads and they max out at 92 maybe you can tell a friend today that they need to download this too but i bet you are a total fucking loser

[02:02]and you can't find a person who's friends with you or a friend you're gonna admit that you listen that took a turn that definitely took a turn i like how we moved along from dumb shit listeners to total fucking losers well i mean just imagine sitting there and listening to this podcast and then being done with it being like okay time to go on with my day like what the fuck are you doing

[02:30]with your life this is how vicious we are after 100 episodes think we'll be at 200 oh god oh yeah definitely it's not a linear scale yeah it's going to increase exponentially this podcast is just russ and i after aaron left in a fit and matt just doesn't show up anymore so that's our this is episode 201 the fuck tons by the fuck tons let's listen we've got i think but we're up to like you know we joke but it's it's true we're at dozens of listeners right it's true we're like this close to being able to say we've got hundreds of listeners

[03:01]right and so we do need we need just like a few more downloads so we can bump that up to say we we've got hundreds of listeners i'd love to joke and be like oh i you know this podcast i do it for fun it's a hobby and i do it to hang out with you guys and to make you guys laugh and you know it's a it's a fetish of mine um but it really is true like when i see the download numbers go up i genuinely get excited so i am telling the listeners out there listen i know you're not going to tell somebody about the podcast i get it but how about this why not at work just randomly airdrop it to somebody they won't know it's you i've been

[03:35]doing it on the subway for months okay people love it they can't get enough uh you know people are constantly scanning to see who would be airdropping this to me i can just i can just see on the subway you're sitting there rob you're just looking and somebody just looks up and said you did what yeah who's the who's the motherfucker that did this yeah yeah wait which guy has a podcast on the subway is it the fat 300 pound guy with the curly brown hair

[04:02]no way i can't believe a fat white guy in his 40s to have a podcast that's so weird uh listen let's i i've got three guys here this is back to the better i've got three guys here i've got russ in minnesota russ how are you doing hey guys it's friday night and everybody's going out and having fun but i'm a fool for staying home recording this podcast and having none i can't quite understand how all my dates have set me free oh lonesome me i've got matt in minneapolis

[04:31]matt how are you doing great rob just just effing great thanks for having oh my god i love that energy and before i introduce aaron i gotta say we got a message from the lawyer i gotta i've got a message from our corporate lawyer for beck did better i want to read this message to you guys real quick and i want to remind you this is from our lawyer okay maybe this was like put onto the phone via voice text so i gotta kind of interpret what it actually is supposed to say because it might have been wait is it from the lawyer it is but he voice texted it real late one night right before he went to bed and so he didn't quite check to see if it

[05:02]actually made sense uh oh yeah uh and i'm supposed to read what he wrote me okay uh just to let you guys know you should have never said aaron looks like the adult film actor johnny sins because recently me the lawyer for beck did it better was watching a movie off bing and a johnny sins scene came up and unfortunately i thought of aaron and it actually bummed me out for the rest of the night thank you signed the lawyer of beck did it better the lawyer underlined yeah so that is a real life story from somebody who's not me it's the lawyer that maybe he did

[05:35]see a scene with johnny sins in it was thinking about aaron and it really kind of threw him off for the rest of the night i got aaron in california how are you doing there i'm honored to know that that lawyer was thinking about me at the at that that heightened uh state uh rob i just wanted as we're recording this podcast and i just want you to remember what your good book says that's all i'm thinking about let's talk about some neil young uh my good oh my god i'm trying to think of a book

[06:02]noah's ark that's not even a book i just thought of noah's ark i think that's the book neil is referring to yeah but i don't know god okay noah's ark is exactly the story he had in mind but i could be wrong i mean he's he's probably an animal uh rights enthusiast i'm so stressed out i think about this tomorrow listen we have to get into rolling going rolling going aaron how's it going with you oh man uh it's going great tomorrow's a big day uh i just noticed before i got on the call tonight i noticed tomorrow's a big day uh it's new coffee day in our house so always

[06:33]nice when that coincides with the dead last pick of the most interesting thing we could talk about it's new coffee wow new coffee day let me guess mr irrelevant coffee beans i mean what the fuck are you talking about like new coffee i mean you know we don't we don't know that makes me think shut up for a second that makes me think that every other day at your house is old coffee day that's bad are you just like reusing you're like listen honey i figured out a way we can save

[07:01]a buck 75 we're gonna just reuse a coffee bean you would be you would be appalled at my coffee budget all right russell russell russell rod you guys mute your mute your mics for a second here let me have a rosie how long how often do you uh how often is new coffee day it's around every fifth or sixth day depending on the size of the bag so what you're going you're getting beans and are you picking out specific beans is it the same beans every time or no it's almost always different so i i we always have a good lineup right now so right now i've got some

[07:33]uh i got this peruvian coffee from little wolf uh berkeley roaster i've got the uh bitter sweet from mother tongue which is an oakland roaster and then i've got uh an ethiopia which is another oakland roaster i just keep them in a lineup and whenever we finish a bag then you check and see which one was roasted you know longest ago open that one up and that's what you drink for the next week you don't like you don't you don't have you don't have like two

[08:01]different containers like where you're grinding on saturday mornings and then that's or i don't know how you do it even if you grind it that day or whatever but yeah do you switch up so you got the ethiopian on saturdays and you got the maui waui on sundays or i've thought of that that's that's actually a great idea man i have thought about that we only have one ethiopian coffee bag one airtight canister for keeping the coffee beans fresh so we just do one type at a time but i have thought about getting a second canister so that we could switch off but yeah we just do one one at a time all right rob russell turn your mics back on okay mr relevance done so by the way

[08:34]i just want to say that when aaron was explaining the types of coffee he was just holding up cans of folders he's a liar he's holding up instant coffee he's trying to brag to us oh you know this is a berkeley roaster like we're gonna look that shit up forget about it aaron so aaron what's how are you fucking with coffee like what's what are you doing are you doing a pour over are you doing a french press what are we doing here oh i'm so glad you asked rob uh we for the longest time we were so we have we grind it ourselves you grind it right before you brew it and for the

[09:00]longest time as soon as my son was born oh the longest time this time this story sucks my fucking balls and once my socks said it's really boring that was a good round very nice work when my son was born we were afraid of spilling hot coffee on the baby episode two jesus christ you can't just say that on a podcast we started making ice coffee

[09:32]i've shown you i've shown you my ice coffee setup you you put the chemex on the scale you measure out some ice you do the pour over and then it it's the japanese style ice coffee it drips down onto its flash brewed ice coffee but we stopped doing that we stopped doing that uh last august we bought a technivore mocha master which is a dutch coffee uh drip machine and um yeah that's what we make now and it's it's it's delicious but yeah you still you grind it right right when you're gonna make it and you make some coffees tomorrow morning is it true that when you're making beans

[10:03]is it true that man you're making coffee japanese style you always want sumo of it what hello is my mic on did my mic turn off again that's fine sumo of it sumo of it i mean maybe if you've hadn't had a tok yo of something you'd like want a little bit of it to balance yourself out yeah that was a good one i quit the podcast goodbye i quit tokyo i get it

[10:32]tokyo japanese i get it thanks man appreciate you uh i also have been listening to some music uh i i needed an exam we're gonna get into this neil young album it's maybe not my favorite album that we've listened to yet so i was i was happy this week to find other stuff to listen to and as i texted you guys yesterday i tuned into mary lucia's last day on the current and she played a tom jones cover of green grease and green green grass of home that will knock you all the way on your ass i have never heard tom jones cover of this thing

[11:04]he is so good i know was it the unapologetic yeah it was right around no apologies yeah yeah no apologies and uh yeah tom jones doing green green grass of home which i know from uh johnny cash uh at folsom prison but listening to tom jones doing man i i did not i didn't really understand how this man could sing it was really fun they're listening to it below you right now it's so good everyone just enjoy the style of tom jones doing green green grass of home

[11:33]okay tom jones is alive right there's certain people in the world where i'm like is he alive i'm not sure stuff pretty sure he is so is tom jones like a vegas guy right like a show person imagine how good of a star you have to be to get famous with the fucking name tom jones like this tom and now the one the only tom jones like it seems like a fake

[12:02]name it's like a fake name that you give to a hotel when you're cheating on your wife you know what i mean like one room for tom jones please will you be paying by check oh no no no cash only please and like a career that couldn't happen now right like it's like guys like him or like wayne newton where like they they got big just like doing live shows i think i'm not even sure but it's bizarre is it i'm telling you guys voice it's if you were alive like in the 60s and 70s you would be bored out of your mind i think if

[12:31]you were our age in the 60s and 70s you would be absolutely bored out of your mind that's how you get to listening things like tom jones yeah tom jones has some cool songs he can sing but he's not a superstar i should not know who tom jones is in 2022 right am i crazy for sex for being like he's a vegas show person right that's all he's famous for that's i mean that's wild imagine a giant poster you go into this casino you are ready you are in vegas you're ready to see the show of your life you see up a name up in lights that name tom jones i mean what what are we talking

[13:02]about here the fabulous i mean how does it compare to wayne newton right exactly i can sing his ass off man yeah guys guess what kids these days they're listening to dua lipa they're listening to lil bow wow okay and in my days we had cash we had jobs and we had hope and now we got no tom jones no way newton finally speaking of what the kids listen to today today today is new king push day new push a t out

[13:30]to those who observe i listened to it twice through today my favorite line was push said y'all are hollering top five i can only see top me and that's what i think about when i think about this podcast you're talking about top music podcast i only see top back did it better so i'm excited to be here tonight and how many other podcasts do you listen to aaron none i listen to no podcasts all right so he is this is his favorite podcast and he's listened to almost a couple of these episodes he's not quite sure it's true and no lots of people in his household listen to the podcast more than aaron

[14:03]does matt rolling going how is it going with you man uh good i'll be i'll be quick this week because i'm excited to get to russell's rolling going but i i was on a plane again so go ahead and start playing that oh wait wrong one that's my bad better plain old story oh we got another another technical issue we can listen to this twice then i'll be done in four minutes i'll be done in four minutes

[14:33]so the only thing i had and you guys know that i've got the issues with do i have bad breath or not and all of a sudden i got a new phobia do i have bo or not like i i take a lot of showers you know i i'm very conscious but i'm walking onto the plane right and all of a sudden i can smell you're a morning you're a morning shower guy right yep yep big time so like there's a lot could happen between your shower and the plane is anyone here an evening

[15:02]shower guy do we have any i mean sometimes but yeah i've been doing that lately but are you not showering in the morning then no these two double double shower day yeah you're showering in the morning every day right aaron no what if you what you just get out of bed and go to work i don't go to i go to work in my living room what are you talking about like yeah i get out of bed i take my son to school and i come back home and work that's wild to me well like yeah even showers are nice i don't know i need that

[15:32]shower to tell my body like this day is starting like i can do that on the weekend but during the weekday can't do it need a shower in the morning so i'm just thinking about matt i'm just thinking i know matt's a morning shower guy so i'm thinking there's there's a lot that could happen between the shower and the airport and and this and this is part of it right so i i went to austin this week and i did a day trip flew down to austin and i was gonna fly back same day okay so that this is this is part of it i get down there i gotta have a meeting so i've got like a long collared shirt on and all this stuff and i'm

[16:01]walking around downtown austin took pictures sent you guys outside of austin city limits and willie nelson and all that stuff it was great time great time right so then i'm getting on the plane it's like a 7 30 flight home right and i'm walking on the plane all of a sudden just wafting and i'm wondering and what's what's it what's in front of me is a very fit lady who looks very put together and very clean and all this stuff right yeah and so she's in front of me behind me there's an older couple but it's not them right kind of a

[16:34]thing so okay you know i have i have i have figured out that it's either me or it's this lady right it's in front of me yeah so i'm trying to do the old you know like you know like just quick like just to see if you can catch you're running the you're running the dipstick you're seeing you're testing yeah and for listeners who can't see what's going on matt was trying to remove one of his own ribs so that he could smell and see how he smelled down there yeah it was just

[17:00]like matt yeah matt actually had a picture of feet that he was smelling it didn't make sense to me why he would think that would smell but i guess okay so so then i go sit and of course you know sitting in comfort plus i'm not sitting in the way back so i sit down and i'm like in row 11 but i'm in the middle c because i got bumped up you know so 11 like i mean like 11b right and who's right behind me is my buddy here where i walked out she's in 12b yeah so we're like again

[17:30]so now we're still only like two and a half feet away from each other so i'm still smelling it i still can't tell if it's me or not so we've got like a two and a half hour flight home and i can't tell if every and i guarantee that everybody's looking at me as like the one that's i just you know it's just self-conscious everybody's looking at me as what so finally i mean this is like four hours of like trying to figure out and i can't just and i didn't i didn't have to go to the bathroom or anything so i'm just i'm still doing the checking and everything oh and so so everybody on this plane is smelling something terrible and they're like who is it who is it and they see a

[18:03]guy in 11b just going yeah and they're like i don't know but that guy's been sniffing himself for the last three and a half hours i think it might be himself it seems like he's i'm not sure unfortunately plane trips over right and i can get off and i go right to the men's bathroom so i gotta take a leak after a long plane ride stuff like that and again i'm checking everything and i can't smell a thing so this nice fit lady who was well put together everything horrible bo so

[18:33]i don't know it wasn't me it wasn't me thank god it wasn't me because that would be so embarrassing to i mean i'm kidding yeah so i mean i don't know that would be that would be what that would be incredible to be like all right on a blind date who is it who is it and just this super attractive woman comes up and you're like oh right finally this is gonna work out this is gonna work great and then it just smells like a cat piss in your socks and hit it away for two years and you're like oh maybe okay maybe this

[19:01]can work okay i can probably get some surgery to adjust my nose like i really think i could make this work still i don't know i it's i i couldn't make it work i i you know i was figuring i was going through that scenario and nope i couldn't make it work it's uh it's too off-putting to me anyways that's pretty that's pretty tough so that's all i had that was my uh that's my rolling going for the week but i missed maybe i missed the end how did you for did you smell her like did you get up in there and smell like do you know for sure you can't just say that no no i

[19:30]don't know i don't know for sure like right so yeah absolutely good but like walking down the jetway you know fell off the jetway again yeah um i that's when i started smelling it and i'm like oh god am i the one that smells and she was right in front of me so then she sits in like 12b i sit again we're not that far apart and i can still smell her yeah stuff like that so yeah yeah excuse me i'll have what she's having back there and it's like well we don't have any food service on this flight you're like you're pulling just a collar you're like oh no can i get one of those

[20:02]big macs yeah yeah oh you guys have fish fillets on this flight this is so good thank you so much i think it smells like somebody's got like three or four of them back there could you i'm gonna i'm just gonna turn around to 12b and see who's got these fish fillets on this flight it smells like a fish plate oh no okay oh you yeah i don't know do you think do you think you could just go up to her and say listen you have bo maybe you change your life maybe it's for the better i again the the rule is i forget who told me that i wish i could remember that who told me

[20:34]the rule if it's if it's fixable in five seconds you tell them it's not five second i think it was me man i think i told you that rule was it yeah yeah that was very good advice i use it all the time i think it was very good advice i use it all the time i think it was very good advice i use it roland going things are going okay in in the real world that's so funny things are going okay in the real world in podcast land and not so good

[21:07]things are how's your life going okay imagine that on your tube so russell russell here lies russell things are going okay in the real world things are going okay in the real world things are okay do you know anybody though do you know anybody where you ask them like hey how's it going oh you know not that great you're like oh fuck i didn't really care i just you know i was just trying to be nice get out of here now listen i was on this plane and somebody thought there's a

[21:31]bunch of fish fillets and they turn around it was me i am not having a good day actually thanks for asking what album are we talking about after the gold rush is this ever the rating system okay so sometimes life's going good and then you're like oh my god i'm not having a good day and then you're recording a double podcast and the main host has had a few screw-ups to make the time go longer and then god damn sometimes when you use a computer and it does one of these automatic it has to do updates yep and you hit you hit ignore ignore ignore and you

[22:01]ignore it like 20 times eventually it just shuts that shit down yeah and you lose everything that you had open so in in the real world things are okay in the podcast world they're going shitty struggle you know struggle bus i was thinking like i bet that's like me all these emails i'm getting from my uh physician like just i see it i'm like delete delete delete and then you got to the computer shutting down part and i was like well that that hasn't happened so it's not like that at all it's so stupid why would i even think of that you know but but in

[22:30]other worlds you guys know that they may be eliminated by this point but uh i can turn on and be a sports fan and i love going to the big events and so the timberwolves finally made the playoffs again yes a few weeks ago from when our listeners will listen to this oh wait no no wait wait wait i have a believe it or not i have a basketball boom shakalaka is that it well what do you mean is that it i mean is that something you hear every day boom shakalaka listen okay if you go to the basketball game and you yell boom shakalaka

[23:05]you're gonna have at least four to five people turn around and be like oh were there mildly fun he's on fire that hey buddy that was okay in the real world so back in the real world when i was a sports fan i used to be a big timberwolves fan aaron and i had season tickets with some buddies i'm a big timberwolves fan it's me luke longley good day he's got an australian accent rob yeah i said good day

[23:33]yeah one of my favorite basketball seasons of all time 2003 2004 gagey mvp put another shrimp on the shakalaka yeah boom shakalaka yeah that's not a knife this is boom shakalaka see it's he's on fire he's on fire oh yes i've got that one okay so the timberwolves finally are in the

[24:02]playoffs again and the game was happening the other night i was like i have to go i love going to big sporting events i'm super excited for it so i go to that all right you uh i just have to interrupt you because yeah you know just to give it back so rude you got like you got like free tickets right i mean you you you got free tickets to go to the playoff game nope i paid for the tickets oh okay okay it's good to know just check it in just check it in okay so what's the what i

[24:30]don't get the question though oh just that you that you paid your you paid to go to this i did important background information just like i'm not sure i don't know how the story turns out but it's probably important to know good yeah i paid just under the amount i would have paid to go to a rolling stones concert a while back so actually i got pretty decent tickets so we got in got in and went to the game the problem is this event started the same way the rolling stones event went where you had to

[25:01]wait in line for an hour to get into the stadium so you get there a half hour before the game and you think oh we'll get in in 15 minutes or so you'll see everything it's 45 50 minute wait to the first half of the first quarter missed all the introductions and there were lines out the door there were thousands of people hundreds of people behind us tons of people missed the first half of the game what people yelling and getting pissed off you know what people weren't yelling but what happened is they filter everyone at target center through the same doors there is no regard for what

[25:33]covid used to be or anything and they just jam-packed people in there and there were railings and so you couldn't really tell where you're supposed to go so there's a point where you're and you're in there for 20 minutes and you can't move and people are just jammed in there people are trying to go the wrong way and you're just slammed in there like sardines it was a horrible horrible way to start off that sounds so erotic i think jammed together like oysters would be more erotic for uh yeah yeah there's a can just with oil and everything i was like

[26:03]filet of fish out here in this line it's so weird especially when i was waiting in line the whole time next to luke longleast and he's so tall he's like smashing his junk up against my face the whole time horrible bo he's got horrible bo so then i go to the game and the game's going well the timberwolves are crushing them they're up by 25 in the first half and they blow the first half lead they go into halftime only up six so you're like okay tip a little timberwolves we'll see what happens in the second half they build another 25 point lead they blew it and lost by 10 i was at

[26:36]one of the biggest collapses in minnesota sports history i can't like we were texting about this and rob was like russell you're at one of the biggest collapses ever and i was like no this isn't even top 10 like this couldn't even be top 10 and i wasn't watching the game full disclosure and then when i read about it it's shocking what happened to them it's like two 25 point leads like i've never heard of such a thing i watched like the last like four minutes so i didn't know that they were up by that much

[27:02]i just i saw literally like when the like tyus jones minnesota's own tyus jones yeah three rude to go up right to go up by like two or something like that and so then i'm watching through and the after the after russell you didn't hear it because you were there but the after part of charles barkley and whoever else they've got in like the tnt after show charles barkley is just saying this is the dumbest team i've ever seen that is embarrassment to basketball what the hell is going on how you have to be dumb to lose a 25 point lead in the playoffs twice you know no he's

[27:35]just ripping on him it was brutal and the roughest thing about it is timberwolves fans are so starved for any sort of success right like you go in and the atmosphere was amazing it felt like a finals game because everyone is just we want one home win in a playoff game and people were standing the whole game so i was in the lower deck behind the hoop but all of the lower deck other than like the first few rows were standing the whole game most of the upper deck standing the whole game was like

[28:02]it's been a long time since i've been to a sport a sports game like that or a sporting event like that right yeah but yeah but i was going to share some of my experience is and see if you if this is your style at a game or what you would think of this all right let's hear it so the first one is and matt will probably have a have thoughts on this because he is a referee in his non-podcasting time but the people in the stadium that are bitching about the referees the whole time so there was a point where there was a clearly a bad call they showed the replay

[28:30]it was clearly a bad call but and the guys behind us are screaming obscenities the whole time saying that the nba is rigged and they wouldn't let it go for like 20 minutes what are your thoughts on people that are bitching about the refs the whole time i never i never understood people who think that anyone wants to hear what they're thinking at the game right i used to sit in front of guys like that at the vikings game and they'd be like you gotta pass it and i was like who exactly are you guys talking to do you think like denny green is down there like oh my god this guy back in

[29:01]section 113 says we gotta pass it i didn't even think about that the guy from section 131 is who we thought he was yeah i mean and that's why he yelled the advice yeah i think i think if so so by the numbers home stadiums are one of the only things that could that can sway calls right i mean we know that home teams win more often so you do have power as a fan but just yelling indiscriminately doesn't work you gotta you gotta pick your spots

[29:30]you gotta make a noise that carries like that's everyone needs that's why booing works because you gotta do it together you can't just yell for no reason that's not gonna work but you will be able to pressure a referee and you're gonna be able to pressure a referee and you're gonna be able to do a call later in the game at some point and i saw aaron um he does have an influence on the game because i saw aaron on the instagram post say hey can some uh beck to a better fan please uh cover their hand in glue and can you run out on the court and try to glue your hand to the floor and that was aaron's idea and it worked out so thank you all to so much of that foot freak who decided to i don't buy i don't buy tyson chicken but matt had a thought matt knows better than i

[30:03]i mean all of this now right like the guys that are nba refs are unbelievably good right and i try to explain this referring to referees but i don't buy tyson chicken but i don't buy tyson chicken and i try to explain this other people too like there are times to make calls and there's times not to and they are so good at knowing when to make a call when i mean because you could call a foul on every play right it's like it's like holding in football you can call holding on the offensive lineman every single time there's something that goes on to understand like the ability to not make calls versus make calls when to do it and then like how like precise they are

[30:34]and good they are and yeah they're gonna miss one or two right or if you're scott foster you're gonna miss them all who do you who do you think i mean like yeah i don't know i don't know i don't like who who is listening to you like boo okay yeah like what like actually yell at somebody and then say it's rigged like these guys make hundreds of thousands of dollars and after all that betting stuff the amount of analytics that goes into there's websites dedicated to which refs are beating the over under on on everybody you know and the nba knows that and so now they're

[31:02]tracking it they're they're tracking all these betting lines and everything right and so it's you you cannot get away with any sort of yeah good i well i just don't get who are these adults who yell yes at sporting events like i will yell maybe twice a season at the vikings but i don't like if i was in the stadium i don't think anybody wants to hear what i have to say it's your job as a fan your your job like that's what home court advantage is so okay we figured out rosie rosie we figured it out people who go to the game and think it's their

[31:33]job to yell at the refs instead of just enjoying the game like yeah not yell i'm not saying yell at the refs i'm saying when an actual bad call happens because they do not that often when an actual bad call happens it's your job to boo the ref because that's your one chance absolutely just that's your one chance to influence the game as a fan yeah and if you want to think that you are going to influence the game is also foolish of course it's but it's foolish to go sit in a stadium and watch grown men throw a ball in a hoop

[32:01]but i'm not exactly like yeah it's already foolish endeavor just to be there the next the next experience i had is just people adults who get so people get so into this stuff and i used to be a fan who would get so into it i would live and die with these games i would get upset if they me too they lost it'd be high as hell if they won and i'm no longer like that and so i'm watching all these grown adults scream obscenities at the team calling players on the other team trash losing their mind with every call and i'm like are you guys past that

[32:30]point like is is it a personal thing or is it an age thing where people are just like i can no longer live and die with this and i now find it entertaining i think that it ruins someone's day that they lose there is nothing better to me there's nothing better than watching these clowns who sit on the first row and they're they're like 50 year old white men who are dressed like 25 year old rappers and they're up yelling and screaming at people and thinking like they're trash talking these nba players like it actually matters you look like an idiot when you do that right and so yeah i i mean i think

[33:01]it's a it's a maturity thing right i mean like when you've got nothing else going on and i was here in the 20s in your 20s right like i'd watch every twins game because there's nothing else going on and i'm like i'm not going to watch every twins game because there's nothing else going on on is either going to the bar getting drunk with their buddies or watching twins games whatever so that's what you do when you get a real job and you got kids or you get girlfriends wives or lives and everything else going on yeah or like some kind of situation where like we're not sure what the label is but it still seems important but nobody's totally certain exactly what you'd call it

[33:31]yeah yeah or if it's just like i don't have time to watch i don't have time to watch sports it's new coffee day i got all these bins of coffee or something i wasn't really listening but i got to organize them or something like that and i'm like i don't have time to watch sports it's new coffee i don't know what's going on i think you grow out of it russell i mean i i at least i did i know but you know it people who don't grow out of it i don't they got something else going on in their life that they need to use this as an outlet and so that's like i've always wondered about those vikings guys who are in suits with the vikings horns and i was like what the fuck are you guys

[34:02]doing like i got the one year where they were on tv every time i was like okay then they started showing up at fucking away games i was like are you fucking serious you were getting on a plane and flying to fucking pittsburgh to watch them play the steelers and dressing in that outfit and just praying you get on tv for 10 seconds like that viking guy who's in the front row in the end zone he he's from he lives in winnipeg he comes down in for every home insane dresses like that and then you know wangs on his shield or whatever i don't i don't i mean i would

[34:32]love to tell you guys that i'm not gonna live and die with the warriors in these playoffs but i still have not gotten over games five six and seven from 2016. i still can't get over the 2019 game six when clay got hurt and i wanted to tell these guys i would never watch them again when they moved to san francisco but i love clay thompson and dream on green so much hey now that you're a new car owner of a honda you like you're you're kind of you're high class you know you're at least in that new car it's true maybe i should

[35:02]try to get to a game the playoff game this this spring so when the warriors inevitably don't win the title this year i don't know if i'll be able to record an episode that night we'll see how it goes well let's just hope they win the western conference at plus 230 not that it's a big deal to anybody but that would be really nice if they just pulled off the western conference i think that would that would be the final question i had was how about the adults so in the in the third quarter they come around and they give away these little bags and you're like what's in the bag and i immediately know what's in these bags what's in the box what's in the box yeah thunder sticks are

[35:35]in the box oh what do you think of adults who to open up the bag like the kids i'm all for it right you know i can see a 10 year old kid having a blast taking these thing out blowing them up and hitting the thunder sticks but what do you think of adults who take the thunder sticks out blow them up and hit the thunder sticks at the game are you even watching the game you can't see the damn game if the thunder sticks are in your way that's bullshit i you cannot be a grown man putting together two big balloons or woman or

[36:02]non-binary person it's like well it's kind of carl anthony towns uh and then me i'm kind of the six i'm kind of the sixth player here it's like shut up like just i mean i i think anything in a stadium would you do it in your living room and if the answer is no don't do it in the stadium like you should not be banging two things together like i mean i would do that in the living room or the kitchen or like anywhere i'm not that picky right i mean i do it every night for all the nurses still but that's totally different i've got two thunder sticks i'm going every day for the nurses uh and

[36:31]they kick me out of the female bathroom over at the hospital and i'm like this is for the nurses what nurses can be men too aaron think about that for a second my final question is and this may have this may have to be deleted but my final question is yes what if you go to the game and you get a you get a drink or two you get a beer and one of the beers is on the ground and the person you're with just accidentally happens to kick one of the beers over what would your response be how nice are your shoes not nice oh then no worries then just go get another beer

[37:02]so like what's the scenario are we like dating this person long-term dating is there like plans to stay with them for a while or i mean what is what is the scenario with with this person it's just a much broader question man it's a much broader question than that i mean if this was somebody i was first dating i'd be like oh my gosh are you okay i'm you know what i'll get up i would say maybe if you've been married i don't know 17 years and six months or something like that i would be like what the fuck you always do this i think that's one of my

[37:31]favorite ways to start an argument is you always do this and then just let it go from there i think that's a good way it's like starting up a chainsaw like you're always ruining my night like i just want to do i might as well have taken your mother to this game jesus i well i'll tell you what you i mean so so that's the game for you right for me here's the game i'm sitting down i'm watching the playoff game on tv my wife and my oldest child are flying to london right the next day just about sit down the game starts in five minutes and my wife does a very cool thing

[38:03]of looking through all the passports and then turning to us and saying uh yeah i fly out tomorrow i can't find my passport anywhere yes and i was like i what i am i am this is the one thing i want to do today is just watch this game and she's like yeah here's something you can stress about all day until i find it at the very last minute and i was like this is always the last place you look too right rob yeah and now she's in guantanamo due to a timely call by me rolling go on rob how's it

[38:31]going with you listen listen here's the deal somebody today at the duane reed first of all i went my daughter wanted ice cream you have a lot more than two duane reed stories i i went to get ice cream and i was like i thought they had a lot of lockdown i gotta be a hero for my daughter you know my wife's out of town so you know i'm in a spiral you know i'm staying up all night you know i'm eating like 10 000 calories a day my daughter wants ice cream and i think to myself i cannot tell my daughter no you can't have ice cream because i'm too scared to get it at the

[39:01]store i can't say that i gotta be a man i gotta be a dad i gotta go down and do it so i have it i'm gonna go down because the ice cream they have now attached a buzzer button to it there is now an electronic button on the ice cream thing that you can hit and it makes a noise so they know to come and open the ice cream oh god is it loud enough so the whole store knows well here's the thing the ice cream is right next to the checkout so anyone who is waiting in checkout would turn and

[39:31]automatically see me a large man waiting sadly for somebody to open up the ice cream i get in there and it was a miracle the ice cream cabinet i was i had a plan i was going to take a picture of me myself pushing the button i was gonna take a video i was gonna send it to you guys my ultimate humiliation it was unlocked the freezer was unlocked i could do whatever i want so i got two things of ice cream i bought them and walked out but i did go check the deodorant just in case that was unlocked too still locked down could not buy the deodorant disaster but then i got

[40:03]up to the cash register and the guy working there was an absolute hero because i scanned and he reached over and when it said would you like to make a donation to such and such a charity he pushed no for me i didn't have to basically say with my fingers fuck those kids no no you know whatever it is just no i don't think it's right that stores ask us i agree donate to things for

[40:32]them i think it is so rude and then you sit there and i and all the buttons are green except for no so you feel terrible pushing it it's awful do you guys ever donate a store when they ask you to it's a disaster right no i'm out i'm out and i don't donate at the stores and i especially get annoyed the lower the quality of the store and i know this is bad but like if i go to my gas station you guys know my gas station where i get my ice cream and whatnot i was gonna say like the old ice cream when they're like when they're like hey will you are you willing to donate to this i'm

[41:02]like what the fuck well i'm just trying to get like a pint of ice cream and some gas or whatever like i don't want to i didn't come in here to donate money but if i wanted to be a nice person i would do that on my own leave me alone yeah i donated before maybe i told the irs how much i donated this year exactly aaron you're donating aren't you i often click yes i mean i'm skeptical that it's actually going anywhere but yeah it's like a dollar and i was like yeah i'll go ahead

[41:32]but i i'm i'm skeptical like i haven't seen the receipts to see where it's actually going but yeah can you just imagine mr reed of the duane reed fortune sitting on a caribbean beach laughing at aaron as another dollar goes into his bank account i mean he's just watching his bank account grow and oh good now i can donate this as a tax write-off for my giant business you dumb piece of shit aaron why would you push one dollar it's one dollar how much the dollar costs so other than the donations at the store what is your thoughts about when now when you

[42:02]go into a store let's say you go into this has happened to me at a subway restaurant you go into subway now and if you go through they flip and they ask you do you want to tip are you guys now tippers when you go into a some matt when you go to chipotle do you tip on your bill or not if those things pop up i tip you know if if they're ballsy enough to say you know and but it i don't don't like i'm going to like cbs to pick up something you know and it's like hey you want to run up a dollar for the children's network of america or whatever like i never do though oh totally yeah

[42:33]let's get into the album let's talk about rock and roll all right it's time for nobody's favorite show let's talk about as russell said what album are we talking about uh so we are talking about after the gold rush this is neil young's uh album that was right before uh harvest the last neil young album that we did they got tons of downloads thanks to him getting kicked off spotify and people asking to listen to neil young and instead listening to

[43:00]our podcast he didn't get kicked off of my life he didn't get kicked off he resigned true so i like to think of people saying like oh my god i don't know what to do with this i don't know what i'm saying like oh i think i'll listen to some neil young and then it comes on and they get to hear my five minute long parody making fun of aaron uh over and over and over that's what people are listening to they think that's the new neil young it gives me a bad you still feel about it about that i'm over it uh so it so this was uh this is really neil young post kind of uh buffalo springfield

[43:30]and really this was he he recorded this album kind of in the middle of being with crosby stills nash young obviously when he's in it and it's funny because that band uh when he joined crosby stills and nash as kind of a songwriter kind of rhythm guitar their first gig was in chicago and there's a tape of them saying hey listen just thanks for having us tomorrow we're going to be to go to this place called woodstock we've never ever heard of it woodstock the the the concert that arguably made crosby stills nash and young so famous that was their second live performance ever together

[44:02]they had that was that was i mean it's crazy so he's coming off of that and they're going to be and basically of course everybody gets in a fight with each other in that and they come out and uh he records after the gold rush and what's wild is that he recorded uh this album based on a movie script written by dean stockwell who is a friend of his do you guys know who do you recognize that name dean stockwell is he from quantum leap he is al from quantum quantum leap he is the robot

[44:32]hologram ziggy computer guy that is always with him when he finds out and talks to him about what situation he's in by the way a show i think i may have seen every episode of i think i may have seen every single quantum leap i watched that show a ton growing up it's a classic right oh it's so good uh and then when this album came out it's so funny because rolling stone basically said none of the songs here rise above the uniformly dull surface they hated it and then five years later 1975 rolling stone was quoted as saying

[45:02]it's a masterpiece so i love that in five years they're like actually this is really really really good let's get into after the gold rush by neil young uh guys just like my math teacher said tell me why did you guys get that tell me why typically he's asked does neil young do everything in falsetto or is this a falsetto or is this his normal voice voice man like he's he has a unique and the most

[45:35]strict sense of the word unique voice there's no other voice like this i've never heard an interview with him i i must have but does he talk like that it's it's a little higher it's yeah i mean you know it's a little higher you could tell when you hear him talk it's not like he's down here like this and then sitting up here you know like you can tell that that's it's not what a range man has yeah hey this is me neil young i mean it sounds like he's like just got done with the long run

[46:05]matt what do you think is the opener you're you're a big neil young guy no big neil young will show up later john might visit us later but what do you think of the opener compared to harvest uh i you know i don't want to give away too much about my takes but like this album is not the best album in my in my mind and it doesn't start out well and there's a couple great songs but i think he really gets going it really gets going more on harvest yeah for this kind of

[46:35]from his uh buffalo springfield crosby stills national young days to more of a solo career i gotta tell you though this this after the gold rush song this i think this is a banger i think this song is so good there's a version of johnny cash doing this on his american collection it's so good i don't see how you can call this a banger though this is like the exact opposite of a banger right yeah it might be an enjoyable song but right i think it's a banger i i

[47:05]love it i get excited when the song comes on i think it's and is he singing about climate change and environmentalism or not absolutely i mean he's singing about that but this is also the song the reason it's so weird that's like knights in shining armor and then the earth running you know and the 1970s is because that is a song based on that dean stockwell script so basically he was having trouble writing songs he got the script he's like this script is so good i gotta write a

[47:30]song about it and then the song makes absolutely no sense and then you'd be like well who'd watch this movie it doesn't make any sense only love can break your heart and it makes me think again about aaron at that dance getting dumped by that woman running into the boyfriend makes me laugh every time i think about it you know i did speak with my brother who uh didn't know that story but he does know the uh lothario in question and he reminded me that that gentleman was a drake really his champion so it's not like it's not like i lost out to just some some schmuck right sean was a

[48:05]like that open thing where anybody can just come run that one yes he was an 800 me he was a four by eight champion that kind of like just you know just sign it up for like a 10k or something like just as long as you get your application in time yeah folks welcome to the drake relay tonight's attendance is a record six and dad and that's five other people five if you do not count me the announcer man yeah

[48:35]jim ducken who was the longtime announcer of the drake relays his famous saying was everybody sits everybody sees i i was thinking wait a minute so wait so it's such an exciting event yeah that the announcer is telling everybody to sit yeah yeah because otherwise i mean it's pandemonium otherwise like people are gonna go nuts you know you gotta remind people to sit down so they can all see just bedlam that four by four finishes it's yeah drama mayhem

[49:05]exciting stuff aaron to be fair though four by four if he's a relay person means he's not that fast to even run his own race he's gonna run as part of a team four by eight because they didn't have individual events at the drake relays so you had to wait for the state championship like iowa basketball where you're not allowed over half court i don't is that why they have to get

[49:31]into all these they can't run around the whole track yeah i got a gold medal in the shot put catch they wouldn't let us do any individual things i had to be on a team that was an event i would watch that i would watch would you like can you imagine there was a shot put catch and a javelin catch yeah oh yeah aaron i like to see people got it javelin catch would be that would be a great event discus catch i'm in with oh let's let's do this ice cream catch i forgot i'm here how about high jump catch you got to catch your partner

[50:05]before he hits the ball i cannot hit the bat or partner high jumper you get to launch your partner over the over the bar was there anything better in high school than just jumping into the high jump practice like if you could get any chance i was at track practice and i could jump into that high jump pit i took it 100 of the time i would jump and just fly through the air and land in the pit and be like this is this is heaven this is great we were we were in college baseball

[50:30]right playing in the field house we'd practice right and and so of course it was like how far when you throw it to an outfielder that he has to go and dive into that pit oh and you're like yeah 22 year old adult and it's like the funnest thing in the world i dive into the i had a friend in high school who told me after high school he goes you know i had sex with some girl on that high jump pit and i was like that would be the best thing ever that's like heaven on top of heaven it's like having sex with a cloud

[51:00]in heaven that's how good it would isn't it like a car though where you wouldn't want to tell anyone because then that's the half the fun is that other people don't know that you did it like your parents in that van rob i don't know what you're talking about i'm pretty sure all that his dad i mean his dad knows what's going on we finally know the trick to move rob onto the next song yeah we did it we found it talk about his dad's sex man all right so this song kind of fits

[51:30]into that whole rivalry that he had with leonard skinner right yeah i mean this is seven years before uh sweet home alabama comes out right but well it's kind of a it's kind of a duo with alabama off the next album right where he's basically like hey there's this whole section of the country who's not taking civil rights as seriously as they should or are actively stopping it and i'm pissed off about it i mean right it's it's interesting to have a artist who is like socially conscious like

[52:00]neil was i think i think it's it makes the songs way more interesting i was actually reading that between this and the alabama song he actually had some regrets about some of the what the lyrics that he had in the songs and that he actually went on and wrote songs for leonard skinner afterwards it's kind of like a reconciliation i thought that was interesting yeah and he yeah and he covered sweet home alabama in in some live shows i think i'm pretty sure i i thought this was one of the better songs on the album what did you guys think

[52:30]i think it it to me it finally picks up a little bit yeah and i don't know what it is and i should dive in just a little bit more but it feels like i jump it the first three songs right are like two guitars and maybe a couple backup singers and that's about it you know and you're finally getting into you know maybe a piano in there but now you're finally getting like a full band behind it um starting off with southern man and this is this is the neil young that i like um not like the

[53:00]really soft songs but when you've got the full band and the full backup behind them so i think in the electric guitar this might be the first like real you know rock rhythm guitar that we hear and then some solos on this album right i yeah i hate to say negative stuff i cannot stand the song southern man and it is 100 because of his voice it that it rates on me it is i mean i just the idea that you would be sitting there being like huh what song should i let's do a song okay i'm gonna listen to southern man it's just like way it's like okay thank you deal we

[53:33]get it things are things are not great that's what i was asking about the falsetto because all the songs are like that right that's his voice yeah he doesn't change i mean that that's i thought he kind of has like to me this was like the distinct sound of neil young like this is what i heard in harvest maybe maybe i'm wrong matt knows these albums better than i do but this sounded more like harvest to me but you know what you guys were mentioning earlier how he's resigned other artists out there that are still on spotify that do neil young type music and one of them is

[54:03]beck oh you guys know beck has a song that was inspired by neil young the song is called say goodbye and it's from morning phase which i believe was the album that won the best album the one year check the song out to say goodbye is this the album that screwed over who taylor swift or beyonce or it wasn't even beyonce oof doesn't this kind of have a similar vibe to a neil young album so this was like he said this kind of had like a california vibe for him and

[54:35]he wanted to was inspired by neil young so i thought when it comes to doing neil young music on spotify neil young's not there anymore so who does it better did it better till the morning comes gonna give you till the morning come paul mccartney come on in here it is a paul mccartney song it totally sounds like mccartney right because there's this like french horn or whatever on it yeah yeah it's actually a flugelhorn here

[55:00]i think i knew that guy in college i read that playing the fugal horn is essentially the same as playing a trumpet same basic technique same fingerings rob same key but less expansive range weren't one of you guys a trumpet player back in the day rob or matt or one of you guys no i was a trombone like aaron i was uh i was first chair yeah the flugelhorn is like a bigger trumpet i should have known that was what it was there's a pretty awesome flugelhorn solo on this one i don't

[55:31]think we'll be able to find it at this point of the night but our listeners should go check it out oh by the way who has to who has to listen to this album by going to youtube and typing in neil young after the gold rush full album and then having to listen to it via youtube videos not a fun process we'll take you back on spotify whenever you're ready neil i respect it i respect his principles but my method of now listening to his music is not

[56:00]not a pleasant i i gotta admit some of you guys right now do you know how i do you know how i consume all my music right now how amazon music amazon music it is me and jeff bezos i think we are the two guys who use amazon music no i still got that yeah matt uses amazon music right my amazon music yeah i'm amazon music as well do you pay for it because i pay for it so i can play it on multiple echoes yeah i think i think sarah pays for she yeah hooked me up on it a lot well yeah at least jeff bezos is getting buff like for every buck i give for amazon music he's like well time to get

[56:33]super jacked like i wasn't in high school it's great and wear a vest it's like it's like a dream it's like well i was a fucking nerd in high school time to get super jacked and wear vests now as i look at my closet and see that i actually also have two vests oh lonesome me this is such an impressive reimagining of this song and i can't listen to it it's hard for me

[57:01]it's just such a downer and i can only hear johnny cash in my head and that's the only one i want to hear yeah but this sounds to me like like uh to me it sounds like it's something like a shoegaze band would have done like 30 years later 40 years later put a little distortion on there and just let that ring for the whole song maybe not have the lyrics where everybody knows it yeah it's perfect and and aaron i know what shoegaze music is now pretty much totally because of this podcast and honestly it has i have to say shoegaze has come up like three or four times in my life in the last like six months i'm like

[57:32]hey i feel smarter for knowing what this is good stuff don't let it bring shoegaze expert don't let it bring you says aaron don't shoegaze.com uh aaron uh i own that i'm squatting on that yeah foot freaks make me an offer he's literally squatting on it you should see his computer it's so weird it's like a it's shaped like an alexa all right never mind don't let it bring you down i'm desperate yeah i got nothing on this i don't have the right order of songs here

[58:04]what does that mean i mean whatever i've written down is not the right order and it's not the right song i mean let's hear birds so let's just go to the part where you wrote stuff down for don't let it bring you down it doesn't have to be in the right order no i don't have that song on my list i told these guys before the podcast goes i go listen guys i did not plan very much for this

[58:30]podcast russell's like don't worry got you covered i got every song covered and then for the first time in 100 episodes he's like i don't i this is wrong i don't have anything this is a disaster it's like yeah we can just let it play and like move on instead of announcing like we're fucked this is our hobby this is what we do we are getting lazy we are actually not preparing as much can you see what can you see what i'm giving you in the in the in the zoom right now what am i well it looks like one of the birds i'm giving you both the birds watch this look at these look how small my birds are i mean i can't give my end takeaway but like

[59:07]what's the what's the setting to listen to this album like when would you put this on it's it's a hard listen for me but actually we've talked about this before i've done neil young drinks from booze and vinyl but booze and vinyl has after the gold rush in the book all right so what are the problem is the last time we talked neil young i got a little liquored up because i drank i drank side a and

[59:30]side b the good way to go yeah but this was the one if you remember aaron it was before you dropped the needle you need to pick up around the house grab some groceries and light a few candles you got this that's what booze and vinyl said okay okay there's a sun sunday mornings at our house um pancakes and bacon and then um acoustic sunrise right yeah so when acoustic sunrise is done it goes immediately sarah's what does she got it's called like uh modern folk or modest folk or something like that right where it's just

[60:03]something in the background while you're reading the paper and you know so you got that's a very very soft slow song but then you get the melody and then the harmonies that come in yeah it kind up a little bit and so it's bad it's great background music that's the best way to describe it bad is spot on it also says when to spin when you're making him or her dinner during sweater weather i read this this was about um comforting your lover that you're about to leave like have you ever had to do that when you're about to break up with someone rob or you had to comfort

[60:33]your lady in your sweater vest before you broke up with her or not and just be like okay is this worth it like could i break up with her tomorrow morning could i break up with her later tonight could i break up with her maybe two weeks after i start dating this other girl like that would work too right like i think all that would work how did that breakup go rob you've told the story about how when you were broke up with once you got angry and drove fast home and announced you were going to drive fast home what do you think what was the

[61:02]reaction when you broke up with that other lady that had some overlap uh well first of all i don't think i did it very well because she kept showing up at various places in my life uh i told you that one time she showed up at the football game and uh she was on one side uh she brought you chipotle right yeah she brought me two chipotle and i was like yeah oh this is tough this is a tough life decision i think i should have been like we can't you can't show up and bring me chipotle like that's part of this breakup we can't do it i don't know it's you know you you hate to you hate to see it

[61:37]happen where people can't see me naked anymore like that's just not a part of their life anymore they're not going to see me nude walking around and you know that that's a major part of their life that's over they're not going to get to examine uh every square inch of my body russell so you can imagine it's it's heartbreaking for them um and it's tough for me is that like the kind of thing they would do when you dance when you dance i can really love to examine every inch

[62:03]of your body is the part it's in parentheses i think so this is one of the ones that kind of lasts this is this is last of the test of time so you like it well it's very much like cinnamon girl i hear cinnamon girl yeah you know so the cinnamon girl yeah you're right i i do i sometimes think about neil young sitting

[62:32]around going how can i make my guitar sound more annoying than my voice ah this is so tough what knobs can i turn so my guitar bothers rob more than my voice does you know what the answer is don't you what's that he he has double drop d tuning so he's dropping two of the he's dropping two of the i don't know enough about guitars essentially he's changing he's changing two things and he's dropping them to d's so the e goes to d and another one goes to d so he has a very

[63:00]distinct sound because he's doing there's drop d tuning where you tune one down and then there's double d double d drop tuning right double d drop oh my computer's slowing down i better turn off my video while i search this sorry guys so i i don't have a list on this but i was reading that a lot of famous songs use double d drop tuning because it's an easier chord to play so a lot of famous rock songs use he calls it d modal d modal i don't know what the right pronunciation of it is but

[63:34]i think that's why we've done a whole episode on modal jazz russell we i think we've talked about whatever three hours i didn't listen to that part fat bottom girls is one of those songs that's a yeah but so double d drop d tuning isn't that kind of why his guitar is so distinct or it's so recognizable as he does that tuning right yeah i can hear that where it's that you you go a little lower i just think the tone on his guitar i it just drives me i don't know it drives me right up the wall uh but you know what russell i believe in you glad somebody does oh no things are okay

[64:06]with russell they're going okay i was reading i was reading i saw neil young was playing the vibes and i was like what's the vibes but then i remembered last week we talked about the vibes vibes we talked the vibraphone with erica badu we did it's a vibraphone vibraphone wait a minute i gotta change my bing search here never mind yeah and so so aaron you had mentioned who was it that we were talking about last week

[64:31]the godfather of neo soul roy airs roy airs so so i started like researching a little bit reading a little bit about the vibraphone so i thought we could do a list of the greatest vibraphone songs of all time yes i'm excited for this and part of the reason is we had to clear up some confusion because aaron didn't know what a vibraphone i didn't know what it sounds like i know what it sounds like but i couldn't define it so what does it sound like help me make that noise right now please oh god he did it i think that's actually right it's it's got a mellower and damper sound

[65:05]compared to a xylophone which is crisper oh and so so a xylophone is medium size wooden bars medium wooden okay i'm out all right glockenspiel is smaller with metal bars okay well now i'm back in i'm kind of back in a marimba larger with wooden bars or pipes and then a vibraphone is larger with metal bars or pipes that have a vibrating sound so i think aaron you were right with kind of a mellow damper it was wrong aaron was right thanks so much appreciate it so the

[65:34]first song on the list is from the blaxploitation film coffee oh so good i love that this is aaron's guy is it randy ears or roy ears help me out yep roy ears the godfather of neo soul check out check him out on this song check out the vibraphone it's badass i want to hear it this is back oh shit go to the one that says roy here no oh he's so listen to this

[66:00]by the way if you're watching this video and you're watching this video and you're watching this video you've ever seen the movie coffee this is even funnier because it's just like pam greer beating up people with a chain that's like the whole movie it's so good does aaron and his wife make a cameo when they have a new coffee day or the coffee week or whatever i'm gonna play this tomorrow when i grab my coffee i'm gonna be making this beautiful peruvian coffee coffee is the color ears oh yes russell thank you the next the next song on the list is from a hip-hop artist named guru this is jasmine taz volume one the song is taken out of the

[66:34]look check it out yeah guru got way who's he got in the vibe you hear that in the background yeah who's playing vibes oh that would be roy ears if you just heard him yes he's back he's back he's a badass vibraphone player this is awesome yes yes you know russell who who uh who sang that song it's guru is is the name of the artist i bet he's good at the vibraphone because he's got those

[67:03]forearms when he's fighting raiden and sub-zero guru goro i don't think there's any more okay listen if you got that mortal combat joke type in to the beck line hashtag goro hashtag goro hip-hop music who is your guys go-to mortal combat character i was always a scorpion guy back back forward seed get over here what was your guys who did you take in mortal combat i was not a mortal combat player so i have no idea what you're talking about

[67:33]i think i did sub-zero when i could but i was bad at it i did johnny cage because that was the only one where he did the splits and punched you in the nuts and i thought that was the funniest thing of all time he's obviously the worst character in the game but he did punch people in the nuts which me in middle school thought was the height of culture i thought the right the world could have ended right there and i've been like happy punch some guy in the nuts in a video game next song on the list i don't know if she's made the list very often but what aaron's one of his favorite artists is whitney houston this is from the album whitney love will save the day check out

[68:03]the vibraphone now i have i have a suspicion that this is is this roy airs again russell i will say this is the last roy airs song that we're going to be covering on the list but he is an amazing vibraphone player and i had to play this one because we've talked about aaron and his tempo

[68:32]before getting up and going fast faster slower with his personal business but i read that that was the fastest tempo song on the album whitney here and it was the fastest tempo song it is because the rest of the album is like very low low beats per minute yeah this is the only upbeat uh track on the album russell that's amazing that's whitney houston whitney houston that's the album no it's whitney it's her first album whitney okay her second album is whitney houston her first album is just whitney her third album was named houston really confusing it's so whitney houston is on the on the list of

[69:03]249 but whitney is not on the list just so you know this is i i don't understand what's going on at all i'm totally confused by this whole conversation let me ask you guys this would you buy a shirt where it had airs jordan and it was michael jordan playing a vibraphone is that an idea did i just have an idea yes yes and you just see michael jordan and he's like and i took that personally you know you know who else would buy it rob who

[69:33]are fucking loser listeners that's who airs jordan beck did it better somebody's like can you explain the shirt to me and they're like actually no i can't and i won't do it the next song on the list and there is some argument on this one whether it's a xylophone or vibraphone but i saw at least one website that called it a vibraphone so we're going with it you can't put anything on the internet that's not true violent femmes gone daddy gone check this out oh yeah

[70:03]no it's hard to tell deeper it does sound like wooden bars maybe i don't know it's close and if you jump forward rob if you jump forward to the next time cue there's actually a vibraphone solo which is amazing check this part of it out listen to that yeah that's rad i mean can you think of anything else but a skeleton playing this on his own ribs it's the only thing i can think of when i hear this

[70:33]that's your best joke in like a month all right last song on the list sometimes you know what we just need to kiss the list goodbye so this is na na na na hey hey goodbye by stream check out the vibraphone on this one oh yeah that's it isn't it yeah yeah matt have you ever done the na na na na at a sporting event a long time ago

[71:03]back in the 1900s here's the tough part though is that this band stream right they opened with that song at their concert and it was so confusing people it was a disaster or they did it before the before the encore they did it yeah the last song then they did the encore and everyone was yeah their encore was a lesser-known song hey please come back

[71:33]do you guys want to know who one of the backup singers on that song was yes absolutely tommy mottola who went on to be the husband of mariah carey brob wow what yes he's driving around that red snowmobile what a lucky dog russell that was easily a top five in fact i'm gonna go so far as to say russell that was the best vibraphone list i've ever heard in my life such a good list hey did it give you good vibes that list

[72:03]good vibes only my dude how about this it's a picture of roy airs coming out of the grave playing his ribs like a xylophone or a vibraphone shit i didn't say it right and then underneath it says here's jordan coffee's getting hot in here my coffee's getting hot my coffee's heating up he's out of a grave you can see on a map he's in the country of jordan

[72:30]and it says airs jordan i can't stop and i won't stop okay guys i'm i mean the grind is real for me you gotta own it you gotta own it the grind is real for me i do this all day and it's not even a big deal to me no big deal cripple creek fairy oops what is that what's this what's the deal with this song like it's such a weird track what is it what is folk singer's obsession with cripple creek cripple creek right why does everybody feel like they need to sing about cripple creek i don't know i don't know

[73:01]where is cripple creek is it a canada thing i think it's a colorado thing okay i think it's a colorado thing but this brought me back i almost tried to do another rewind of my cripple creek cocktail which was the one with the pomegranate juice if you guys remember we can't go back to that russell but i couldn't go backwards we were always moving forward on this podcast so i didn't bring it back looking back is a bad habit i can see i kind of like these minimalist i like the

[73:30]minimalist neil young songs but i don't like the minimalist neil young songs but i don't like the minimalist neil young songs more than i do when his guitar and him are yelling at me i think it's i don't know i get it i like that more uh listen let's get into the very popular and patented rating system and now it's time for everybody's favorite part of the show the patented and very popular beck did it better rating system oh yeah yeah i mean that clip right there is 25 seconds long like we have a 25

[74:01]seconds long sound clip that we play every episode it's insane to me it makes it this this whole thing is it was wild if you think about it and you know what else is wild the fact that rolling stones came along and said rolling stone magazine came along and said this is the 89th best album of all time neil young after the gold rush we love the sound okay we didn't the first time five years later we thought it was a masterpiece uh do we think that 89 is a great place for this album okay that would be a rolling well tone they

[74:30]did it perfectly rolling stone hats off to you listen if you think it's perfect at 89 that is rolling well toned if you think that this uh album should have been higher up okay and much like maybe a rib it got rolling boned then insert uh vibraphone sound here this that would be a rolling bone or do you think that this album should be lower on the list it is a rolling groan what do you think

[75:01]matt rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling groan for neil young after the gold rush uh as i mentioned earlier this is not one of my favorite neil young albums um i'm looking at the list now there's six neil young albums on the top 500 it's probably a couple too many see you guys last episode goodbye yeah so we got 72 yeah 72 90 302 311 407 well the 296 is uh neil young with crazy horse but

[75:38]you know my favorite albums from 1992 uh harvest moon is not even on the list so again there's i i dig into a lot of neil young this is not one of my favorite i think this is a turning point for him to kind of get to the solo career and get away from kind of the 70s and into his um what i like is a million different instruments with a million different singers and a million

[76:03]you know a huge band uh behind him kind of a thing and so i think he's getting to that but this album on a whole is is rolling groan it should well i don't even know if it should be on the list let alone top 100 so russell what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling groan i i've been thrown off by hearing that he's got six albums on the list i i thought it was just fine it was an enjoy it was an enjoyable listen for me i i didn't dislike it by any means i enjoyed listening to it but for me it just felt like a less exciting version of

[76:34]harvest it i where was the wow moment on there and for me i just didn't have a wow moment so i thought it was an interesting album it was a good album but it wasn't one of my favorites so i'm gonna say it's rolling groan too high on the air and what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling groan tough listen for me there's a couple tracks i really liked but i will not be revisiting this album um i did like harvest a lot i feel like if you could ditch a couple of the tracks that have strings from harvest and maybe throw some tracks from this album onto that one

[77:04]you've got like a close to a perfect album but for the most part i have a hard time listening to this one and i'm gonna say rolling groan unfortunately guys once again for the what so many weeks in a row you are incorrect this is a rolling environmentalism right appreciate that environmentalism yeah i mean it's not since marvin have we heard one of these guys sing about how fucked the earth is which reminds me i would like to announce an exciting new partnership between beck did it better and exon exon working

[77:34]hard to make the planet better and not so fucking smoky all the time not so fucking smoky so that is great we are excited about that new partnership it's going to bring in was that patented and trademarked yeah don't don't don't try to copy that uh it's ours listen next up is your kink hearing a guy from new jersey about the size of his engine if i got if i got the man for you it is bruce springsteen darkness on the edge i don't know i don't know if i could wait till we report that i'm excited

[78:03]this is a fucking mess guys we have set ourselves up for failure this is a disaster if you want to hear four guys who chat what are the chances of us doing another vibraphone list before 500 it's 100 right it's i mean those are so fun i loved it did it you guys i i did i failed to share one one detail about the violent fem song gone daddy gone it

[78:30]turns out that the vibraphone was played by their bass player brian ritchie who was also proficient at playing the shakuhachi which is a japanese bamboo flute rob i know you've referred to other things as a bamboo flute before haven't you have you been playing the bamboo flute yeah are you gonna play sumo bamboo flute tonight rob hey give me some more with that bam i can't what is the joke even i

[79:00]don't even know that's good man i'm not gonna not gonna no no it's not gonna work here any longer the the bamboo flute's not gonna not gonna be vibrating not gonna be vibing anymore oh my god yep this is this is where we're at the bamboo flute jokes okay guys listen i could have gone with i'm not gonna i'm not gonna okinawa that i'm not gonna wait okay you got it not gonna not gonna not gonna no you got no worms i believe i'm not

[79:33]gonna open that okinaw worms oh god oh you nailed it stuck the land in