Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

[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 1978 this is bruce springsteen with darkness on the edge of town guys did you hear the big news about bruce what's the he actually took a class called leading from the middle and he's no longer

[00:34]the boss he's now middle management yes middle president that does not quite have the same ring does it i knew he was out there singing for the it's it's so weird because his newest album is called actually i don't think you can take pto in the next couple weeks so i i'm not sure it's gonna be a big hit but i think it's pretty good all right let's turn on let's turn on it's also super depressing all right never denied a pto request listen let's turn on k-rob k-r-o-b listen

[01:06]we are on a voicemail pledge drive we depend on listeners like you to leave one two or three voicemails let's drive ask us a question about our favorite ice cream or call in to make fun of aaron no matter what it will get played oh yeah well i ask our listeners every episode yes yeah you know that's the middleman manager right there i just say could you take a second out of your stupid day leave us a quick

[01:39]voicemail well could you ask us a question that we could try to sound profound i'm just telling you right now it's a good lesson to listen through your parody songs to make sure you don't need to

[02:21]lower the levels of the backup singers that's a good lesson for me can we at least announce what the backlight is i think part of the problem is we've stopped announcing the backlight so maybe you got to give the people a heads up on that i've got the perfect podcast for you

[02:33]802-277-BECK just call it you're sad it better beck did it better yeah call it's a 91-1 dial it into your phone that'll get you right to the back of the line tell your kids uh you're gonna be right there what russell that's what upsets you is yeah that's 91 by accident we have aaron's son listen aaron's son listens to this podcast you'll be dialing that tomorrow big dad i need your phone there's numerous kids at woodbury there gonna be calling people they're not supposed to right now i have done that twice in my life

[03:02]can you believe that i have accidentally dialed 911 two times twice once i was at my dad's law office and as a joke i mean a joke i was like 911 and i hung up the disco ball is too bright in here the voltage they're gonna set a fire it's unsafe and the cops showed up and my dad was like why are you here and they're like somebody called and of course i was like what i was like huh maybe it's you dad maybe you called 911 like i just i just as a parent now you realize like kids

[03:34]are so bad at lying they cannot do it they're just awful at it yeah and then the other time i was um uh 27 years old and i was in a coffee shop and i had the guy's phone as a joke i dialed 911 when it wasn't turned on turns out it was on and it called and once again the cops called back and i had to tell them that i had called them as a joke so that was me uh about six years ago that i did that did i say 28 was that six years ago it feels like it was i think i'm i think we're set

[04:00]i'm not following the math here i've got three guys who were all saying bruce we weren't booing we were all saying bruce i've got matt in minneapolis matt how are you doing great it's so great to be back after a long layoff i can't wait to get into this album here i've got russell in minnesota russell how are you doing rob you've done your best to live the right way you lay down every morning and get to work on that bamboo flute each day but then your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold because when you stand up you're too weak to explode i feel so bad about

[04:32]editing out that bamboo flute joke from the last episode that makes me feel terrible now that you brought that up as one of your quotes and listen i've got aaron and i've got a special report that aaron's wife is trying to spice things up in the marriage she came home the other day with a brazilian a brazilian and aaron said ronaldo get out of here what are you doing why are you still here so i've got aaron in california aaron how are you doing rob i ain't a boy i'm a man i believe in the promised land but you know what's funny i was in candy's room earlier and i think i saw each

[05:00]one of you guys there before me so i'm not sure that's a weird coincidence we all ended up in candy's room i don't know how it happened isn't there a name for that type of thing when you all kind of visited the same destination i got like one gray sock and one white sock too and i was disappointed because i literally thought it was a candy's room i'm furious i'm yelling i mean this is like a reverse willy wonka situation where it's just a regular factory and i work there now and i'm getting i'm trying to take pto

[05:31]my middle management boss won't like where are the robin's eggs in here yeah i was promised candy what are you talking about are you due to doubleheader for a podcast you've already lost your mind within the first five minutes of the new episode no no what all right let's get to our first segment this is a brand new segment as you heard in the song folks we are desperate for voicemail we've got lots of voicemails but i don't want to play them right now but the number is 802-277-BEC

[06:01]we are begging just call and ask us a question or don't you know what don't you sick fucks don't do it okay don't don't make me happy you get off on that this is a direct message to matt's friends matt's on this podcast for one reason because you fucking losers call us and text us so get on it get on it and we won't make fun of you we won't do it okay we are so wait wait a minute so if my you know what i'm saying no that's not true i wonder why nobody's calling in guys

[06:32]phone lines went dry what happened so listen we are in a brand new segment which i am calling facebook comments that makes rob angry play the theme song here we go let's go you know we're good for that facebook comments that made facebook comments what is that you know i know this is a good thing i'm going to do this i'm going to do this i'm going to do this this is uh this is the this is the theme song because these comments totally blue they were

[07:03]very bad comments okay they're blue it's going to be about the french election on friday aaron sunday i guess it's on sunday sunday these hey rob these comments weren't some kind of cool they were some kind of blue we're this this lapal versus micro shit is serious if people are commenting on that it's going to make you upset listen aaron i know you want to talk about frenching erections we don't have time right now okay we have to talk about these facebook comments where somebody slightly said something somewhat negative to me okay here we go ready so i made the terrible

[07:35]mistake of posting to a podcast facebook group the saddest place if you want to see a bunch of fat white guys reply to your comments this is probably the number one place you can go on the internet to check it out and i said a little real do we really have to use that term while i'm sitting here rob can we not call us something else it's it's it's it's a tough place to post to and so i posted this on friday and i said i'm going to post this on friday and i said i'm going to post this on friday and i said i'm going to post this on friday and i said i'm going to post this on friday and i said listen i have some audio questions i think our podcast sounds a little bit too compressed you

[08:01]know i'm doing techie stuff it's not a big deal literally at no point did i ask for anything else just say can you listen to the quality of the sound and see what you think wait no like you were like i'm talking about my balls in the toilet but i'm not sure if they're like no i was like sound quality is perfect i was like can you listen to this five minute song where i make fun of my friend mercilessly for absolutely no reason and tell me if uh what you think of the eq on there pro tip i think you can hear me just lower the level of the water in your toilet bowl rob pro tip that's true can you you can just

[08:32]lower the level in your toilet bowl how do you do that you just you change the yeah absolutely yeah change the one aaron you were saying something put that little ball in the in the back of the toilet put it down what just put it down how do you just put it down you can change the level because you you can change the length of the chain on there that yeah you know the greatest thing was ever there was a place where for some reason i'm gonna disagree with you that this is the greatest thing ever i'm just if this is like i'm gonna just tell no matter what comes

[09:00]out of your mouth right now it's not the greatest thing ever okay i'm gonna say aaron's child oh aaron how do you feel now you don't think that's the greatest thing ever you piece of shit you're a piece of shit aaron you would say that so i the the greatest is there's a place where was it where they had hot water in the toilet so it was warm water what when yeah so when you sat down in the morning now i also had a friend i have to admit in high school who confided in me this is

[09:30]like junior year that in the morning he's like i'm tired when i sit on the toilet so i sit reverse and then put my head down on the tank and it feels good i like it and i was like whoa this rules this is a great idea this is flip my world upside down i highly recommend if you want to spice up your life let's get that reverse toilet sitting going on folks what would you guys think let's say you know the door wasn't locked or anything and you got up in the morning weren't paying attention you walk in and your spouse or someone else who's at your house for whatever reason is turned flipped

[10:05]up the other way around with their head down on the toilet the back yeah you know you could you could never talk to that person again you could never talk to him again is this a bicycle built for two and then you hop on the back it's got the long lip it's got the long seat you know the long seat that nobody likes nobody's like oh i wish my toilet seat was way longer i love these long you hop on daisy daisy what do you what do you think the hashtag is rob there's got to be a

[10:31]hashtag right so hashtag long toilet hashtag proof for two let's see i mean i came up with that off top of my head is it two to the loo or that would be 10 times more awkward than walking down rob's stairs when he was a high schooler and he's got to flip the channel quickly off the aerosmith video or whatever he was watching can you how you could never talk to you again you could never you that would be divorced territory right oh yeah it i think my parents are like god this kid is always watching qvc when

[11:01]really like the channel up was the grind you know what i mean like this guy's getting this kid's getting really worked up watching qvc so anyway i recommend it hey hey call in 802 277 let us know how your reverse toilet adventures go it could be life-changing it could be like heating up your captain crunch and just be awesome you don't know that exists but that's not the segment okay the segment is not talking about how we sit on the toilet the segment is somebody saying something slightly mean to me on facebook and now i'm complaining about it so this guy replies now again i ask for audio advice

[11:31]okay not the dumbest fucking advice in the whole world i would add that whoever you question mark does the opener so already we know we're in bad state because we know that the opener has been criticized before okay we've asked for advice on the podcast twice this is and this came up the last time too didn't it when will i learn the the opener needs to slow down and get to the point where i'm like okay we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state we're in bad state he is speaking faster than the words can come out of his mouth what does that even mean

[12:04]you're a fucking loser of a main host that's what it means i think you piece of shit fuck you fuck off hey let me enunciate this go fuck yourself did you catch that kevin my favorite part of this is imagining how many times rob has practiced this alone in a mirror today like this is i know this

[12:31]has been eating at rob for the entire week he's been doing these monologues i and i salute that rob like that is a level of petty that i think is healthy and for the both openers tonight we're doing a double header tonight for both of them this is all i could think about when i was doing the intro and it made me so mad piece of shit kevin go to hell rob you've been talking about doing your first open mic night what if what if kevin is sitting in the middle of the room the front row of your open mic night he's like this fucking comedian's talking faster than he

[13:00]could think but what what does that even mean yeah i'm talking fast do you want me really to say the intro slowly like what are you talking about and plus you know what okay you know what i'm gonna this is the example we gave him we're gonna play the hunky dory episode i'm gonna play it through my speaker okay we're gonna see 20 24 friends decided to listen to every one of the pretty fast yeah because it's boring as hell well then why do it music excoriated the order and led us to making this i don't know i don't know why i do it why do it rob maybe this kevin guy's not so fucking maybe he's not a fucking loser you can't take kevin's side

[13:35]this is terrible you can't come to us and say well the opening is boring as hell then why are we doing the opening oh my god i feel like aaron at the dance getting dumped by his date after we took pictures together and i have a question after that dance did you develop the pictures like did you go to a photo place and say hey please develop these pictures then you get them back here like oh that's right that sucked yeah you know honestly so here's here's a here's a uh district my my mom

[14:01]is listening to the podcast regularly uh she's not like it's it's it's it's time for one-on-one with eric's mom oh yeah so i think she's not you know she's a few episodes behind but she did text me recently and let me know that she listened to the beyonce uh episode uh during which russell warned me that my mom was listening so that was great but uh i warned you didn't i yeah you did you definitely did and you were right and she told

[14:31]me she told me over text russell warned you that your mom was listening uh and so she definitely has photos at her home of this of the night in question so uh when she gets when she gets around to hearing this episode uh i will ask her to text some photos into the becks line of uh me and my date at the crystal ball my freshman year oh my god it would have been uh 1994 oh my god and you guys can see the photos wake up get out here he's gonna text the photos like literally i'm

[15:01]excited i'm gonna go wake up my kids and tell them about this this is a big deal i cannot they're at my mom's house so yeah the photos exist the instagram for this show is just gonna be aaron at walmart and then aaron at the dance is like every stage of aaron's life like aaron's door on his car we're gonna throw that up on the instagram great such a good idea aaron we heard the story about like what happened that night but what was your response over the next few days when for the people that haven't listened to this episode essentially you you went with the date

[15:30]a lady asks a guy type of dance turns out she hooked up with her old boyfriend while you guys are at the dance right what was your response like the next few days like when you go into school that on monday morning people are like how was the dance are you just like oh it was great or are you telling people like no it was a disaster who's who's crying in the bathroom stall next to me during lunch yeah we were in like we were facing the wall while they're where their heads out of the toilet yeah i did a lot of i did a lot of backwards toilet sitting just like a lot of thinking that's a whole new guy i'm gonna try that that's gonna be my new daredevil it's gonna be like

[16:12]oh i'm jumping the grand canyon and i'm always like oh yeah i'm sitting backwards on public toilets i'll be like what the fuck dude are you serious holy shit i would have like a helmet on oh my god guys this is gonna be the greatest youtube channel of all i gotta go goodbye wow we were in the same biology class like i had to go like on monday morning like i had to go to

[16:34]biology class with angie and be like oh hello no and then no that was my freshman year of college of high school it was her sophomore year i don't think we spoke another word to each other for the rest of the time we're in high school together she just like pretended that i did not exist can i can i make an admission that's more embarrassing than the backwards toilet seat sit uh sorry russell we've run out of time sorry we gotta go get out here again so a few weeks ago i was listening to the episode where aaron got dumped

[17:07]on the date and he said the person's name and i was so curious that i started googling this person and i did like i did like the deep dive and like who is this person now what is their life like now yeah if you want to google it our listeners can google it and figure out what this person's up to now i thought she was smart and her whole family was smart she's probably doing great things yeah we'll move it along

[17:30]she dumped your ass here and forget her aaron looks at her facebook is just a picture of her kissing that guy in high school he's like why not more again his wife comes in honey are you sitting backwards on the toilet again are you having a bad day i i will say this i didn't pay enough attention but i don't think whoever she is married to now is the same guy that you got dumped the the 400 meter relay champion oh no definitely not no it was definitely not no he he uh he might have fallen off by by uh at some point in high school but

[18:01]he ran with a different crew he was like a muscle car guy okay so listen the comment's not over uh for what it's worth let's bring it back to rob's i feel like here like rob is listening some stuff out i was quiet while you guys were talking about whatever i feel like the podcast has kind of a 90s morning radio vibe rather than a podcast what the fuck that sentence makes no sense it is a podcast it sounds like a podcast no it's not a podcast it's a podcast it's a podcast okay no to be fair the last time we asked for feedback we put it on you said it to some guy who

[18:34]reviews podcasts and then you listen to his podcast review and the first thing he did is call us a morning zoo show he essentially called us the exact same thing i can't believe that anybody would think that this show as i mean we take i mean really we're talking about things that are serious you know i think there's a lot of things going on in the world right now that we need to address and i think the fact that we that we take it seriously is is important

[19:00]we talked about the congress people juice drinking aaron wants to talk about the french election yeah yeah this stuff's important yeah oh yeah aaron uh i know we have biology class together but uh your girlfriend and i have french class later today after school see i held my tongue for that joke okay comment continues there's more rather than a podcast again it is a it sounds like a podcast but that might work really well for the kind of audience you're trying to reach with it yes that is now you are correct kevin the fucking losers are fucking

[19:35]losers like this 90s radio shit and then you know what's even worse is then i go to the bottom and this is the horse shit i'm talking about steve says comments steve says music nut here very interesting segment about the beckstein piano yes what the fuck that's a props to me you know my hilarious bit about the xxx parody hunky dory gets no love whatsoever russell's bit about a

[20:03]hundred year old piano people love it guys do i not understand this 90s zoo show zoo crew landscape that i've set up for myself it makes no sense fucking losers that listen to us they don't even know how to call in anymore dumb shits all right this let's guys let's get a lesson learned don't don't put the podcast up for for feedback ever again oh rob right yeah well i asked the guy hey could you consult for the audio and see

[20:30]how we could make it sound better he goes yeah it's 125 bucks an hour i said what what how could it be 125 bucks an hour for you to listen to the podcast and tell me if it's good or not it makes no sense how do you charge 100 bucks an hour for physics advice when you didn't know shit about physics yeah that's a good point you can't trust anybody out there it's terrible yeah yeah i thought about this podcast and i was like hmm is this worth and then he goes oh it'll take two hours i was like i bet it fucking will take two hours let me think is this podcast worth 250 of my money to make it

[21:00]sound slightly better uh fucking no go fuck yourself our audience doesn't even call in get out of here how could they how could they only do two hours when it takes four hours for us to record one fucking episode tonight because no one no one knows how to record anything yeah step one how do you get it so your computers don't shut off mid-recording every night so weird uh rolling going russell how's it going with you things are going okay i had a great moment this week where i got great feedback on my podcast i don't know if you guys

[21:32]know i'm the music expert on a podcast and i got great feedback on my beckstein piano at trident studio list so some people some people might not have gotten good feedback on if you guys have your own podcast you might not have gotten great feedback but i got great feedback on my podcast but the other thing i was going to share tonight is a few weeks ago we talked about gifts how i got a great gift from my nephew gave me baseball cards you know what tonight i'm enjoying another gift and i was going to share show my gift with you guys and as you can see i am drinking a moscow

[22:05]mule at the beginning well i was drinking a moscow mule for the last episode and into this episode too but as you can see i'm finally drinking it russell our last episode was a week ago jesus christ you got a problem same mule as you can see i am in an official moscow mule copper mug i've never had these before those are that's beautiful rob has always commented that i'm not using the right type of glassware for my drink set but

[22:30]i am now in the world of having the correct glassware for a moscow mule i have a set of four copper mugs yeah and i've also it came with this is um i should give credit to my my mom actually got me i think mother's day is coming up but when this recording comes out oh true and so it's it's it's it's time for one-on-one with russell's mom oh yeah so as you can see along with the set of four mugs i got a big copper spurring you know stirring spoon that goes with it or a spurring spoon yeah

[23:03]yep and then i also got uh copper straws that come with it and then the best part of it is this little thing that the stick that goes into the straws to clean out the straws and so i thought i just would share that like like i am officially becoming you guys have ripped on my drinking my bartending skills before but if i've got the whole set you guys got to start giving me for what i've got my setup we get nothing to say about that yeah so who who did you who did you get this from russell i'm gonna give props to my mom my mom got me these for christmas this last year

[23:33]so i'm kind of curious um mother's day is coming up share your greatest mother your mother's your favorite moment with your mom oh wow that's okay i'm gonna edit out the minute of silence that we just had while we all looked at each other blank my mom my mom was here on mother's day last year so i'm 42 years old i was 41 last year on mother's day and it was one of the first post-pandemic times where

[24:00]my mom could come visit and so uh my mom was here on a mother's day which was beautiful so like i was here with my mom and my wife who is the mom of my son that was fantastic i i think we had a good day we gave my mom a little salt box for a gift it's like a little olive wood thing i think she still uses it in her kitchen so that's the most recent but a fantastic memory to have been able to be here with my mom in california on mother's day was there any sort of rivalry like how do you

[24:30]allocate your mother time when you have when you have your wife and your mom she's in town she's not she's not just there for an hour she's there the whole time right yeah what turned out great was that um we did like we did a little bit of stuff together um my mom and her husband um brought over some donuts and some croissant sandwiches uh and so we ate some breakfast together and then my wife took some time to hang out with some friends and i was like oh my god i'm gonna be like just moms with no kids and we went down to the lake with uh with my son and and my mom and

[25:00]uh it was all it was all love man and then like and then in the afternoon my wife and i got to go out for a little cocktail it was beautiful my mom is such a boy and this is a new new term that i didn't really know about but like boy mom um so that she you got three boys right and so i i think i was a kid and she was such a boy mom that she was our official scorekeeper for all of our baseball games and still even in like when we were doing like adult yeah she was she was keeping score and

[25:36]stuff like that so she was that much into what we were doing and knew that much about baseball that she was the official scorekeeper i thought i always thought that was pretty cool definite and the laundry thing let's not forget that she comes over still man who's 41 bad to stare daggers through us he was not happy about that call out uh no she no no no she she full she folds the laundry she folds i do

[26:00]the laundry she i'm gonna interrupt to just let rob twist in the wind a bit longer on this and because we know this is one of the things he loves to talk about most and say that i have some great memories of russell's mom too because russell's mom was so good to us when we were in college she would overnight us the vhs of monday night raw and uh and monday nitro that was amazing yeah we went a whole we didn't even talk about any wrestling last week rob i know you're disappointed about that oh we can know wrestling that was yes that said our wrestling uh addiction she was great for that she came she showed up to

[26:34]my recitals both she was junior and senior she came to my recitals and uh yeah so i had some great memories of russell's mom too so props there too i i've i've had good memories with aaron's mom as well we stayed in ankeny iowa we did a road trip down there and we stayed there and the the favorite memory of this happens actually happens to do with aaron's mom's dog at the time who proceeded to hump one of our one of our friend's shoulders the dog was a constant

[27:02]humper if you yeah she would really go after it yeah listen i've i've got to say okay that probably my favorite memory rob don't bring up the the minivan backseat thing favorite what's what's your dad's favorite memory of your mom man if kevin brings this up while rob's on stage during his his his comedy show it's gonna be a disaster do you know how long while you guys have been talking about your

[27:31]bullshit that i've been trying to think of something funny that is spelled m-i-l-f so i could make some joke and i haven't been able to do it bullshit everything we said was true nobody was bullshitting right now you think your mom's a milf no it's okay so here's the deal bad this is why i'm glad i edited it yeah mom i'd like to facetime because i like talking to my mom on the phone nice nice thank you listen the favorite thing my of course my mom listen you can imagine raising me uh she gave me

[28:05]lots of uh uh constructive feedback and you can imagine how well i took that i was very open to other people's ideas of how i can improve i liked uh i like that when when that happened but the greatest thing that my mom has ever given me is this picture um you know what why don't i i'll text it to you guys you guys have your phones on right now i'm gonna text it to you guys i'm gonna so this picture is i have a picture of me simply eating eggs i am simply eating eggs in the kitchen and my mom is behind me yeah looking at me so this is a picture of my mom just staring daggers

[28:37]into the camera well a young rob who looks exactly like 42 year old rob same hairstyle same look in his eye is eating the largest forkful of eggs that you've ever seen and you can just tell that my mom's like what the fuck like this is what this is i've worked hard this is my progeny this is what i'm dealing with so i gotta say happy mother's day to all those moms out there who have put up with us

[29:02]uh and i you know it's just like my mom is the absolute best it's it's it's unbelievable although i will say this i'm going to edit this out but my mom has started taking cbd gummies with all this stuff that's going on and so she'll now call my sister and be like straw have like one hole or like okay mom good to talk to you it's great like nice to see you she's like you know money is just like something we made up it's like wait what like i see green and you see green but the same green

[29:35]you know what i'm saying like hey rob take your headphones out for a second all right i'm editing all this out so whatever you say it's out erin and matt maybe we should see if rob's mom can host the podcast she does the intro a little bit slower and kevin would probably take kinder to it clean initiation and good diction all right you're good rob rob flag him down matt so happy mother's day uh to all those moms out there actually russell can i do my rolling going

[30:07]now because it is a mother's day related rolling going rob how's it going and i gotta say my rolling going is that my wife uh jenny is currently in london with my oldest daughter there's one reason why they went to london and that is my daughter my daughter is a giant fan of uh the band lil mix and they're playing one of their final concerts before they break up

[30:34]in london so i'm calling it pause my wife and daughter flew to fucking london for a concert across the pond as we like to say we flew across the pond uh and that's amazing and my daughter went to this concert and i gotta show you what she says post it's so great concert she said this and this is really and i realized like as a parent like my daughter says things like oh is this what

[31:00]a roller coaster is like i'm like what the fuck have you never been on a roller coaster how are you 13 years old you've never been on a roller coaster that's me she told me once she has never been in an arena to see a basketball game i was like what am i doing as a parent so this she she posts a picture of my daughter she has been in a plane to go overseas to see an arena though right oh and that reminds me fucking this weekend when we were flying around my daughter and my wife are sitting first class and i am not i am in the back of the plane my 13 year old is flying first class

[31:30]i was like how does this work what is going on it was a nightmare that's straight insanity she she posts a picture of her russell you'd love this she is crying post-concert her makeup is running all over the place she's crying she goes i sobbed the whole time i'm honestly speechless and this is what she writes on instagram my daughter my head is burning fire all i can hear in my ears my left ear gave out at the very end of the show and now i can't hear out of it and yet this is the best night of my life i saw a little mix and i'm speechless everything was better in person vocals costumes dancing accent everything iconic and talented incredible show

[32:03]that i'll remember forever thanks mom what the hell i helped too like i'm here with the other one you didn't take care of that concert the other one you're sitting in an apartment in new york she's in london you're talking to your friends some fish and chips after the concert right rob yeah well hey i spent time with the younger one today while she was on her phone while i hurried tried to prepare for a podcast i didn't have nearly enough time to prepare for it's equal things are equal parenting's tough the bet my favorite favorite favorite part of this is today rob's

[32:34]feedback was about how he's a terrible podcast host and jenny's feedback was about how she gave her daughter the greatest night of her life yeah it's tough by the way rob yeah happy mother's day where i have to now cook breakfast oh boy i can't wait to eat breakfast till father's day where i get to cook dinner like it's such bullshit this whole thing is bullshit that's always that's always the joke right it's like mother's day it's like kids stay away from

[33:00]your mom it's her day let's let her have her thing and then on father's day it's kids let's go hang out with your father it's father's day you know go out and do something with your you know so two things should should i know who this band is yeah i don't know this band we yeah i feel like we need to play some of their music on the podcast all right here is shout out to my ex oh okay oh by the way they were also excited because they went to madame toussaint's wax museum and my wife was bragging that oh yeah we bought the fast pass tickets so

[33:30]we don't have to wait in line i was like who the fuck is waiting in line to go to a wax museum who wants to go to a fucking museum and see wax figures to be fair to be fair some of us waited in line to see the timberwolves get worked yeah oh my god yeah wax defensive carl anthony towns but i was like i was like i was like oh wow i get to see a wax figure of ed sheeran already one of the ugliest men on the planet he looks like a hobbit he his

[34:02]body looks like my big toe he was an extra in game of thrones yeah they needed more ugly redheads yeah so then so then i'm so then my wife's like oh good i we skipped the line apparently the line was 90 minutes to get into the wax museum oh i'm real so so she says having a 13 year old daughter is great because my wife also jenny also and happy mother's day again i love you very much she tripped outside the wax museum and spilled

[34:30]her popcorn all over the floor and was picking it up and putting it back into a container and my daughter took a video of it and posted it to instagram so gotta enjoy making fun of those moms russell the last i mean like the flight the flight to london from new york is like it's it's less than a flight from new york to l.a. l.a. it's like seven hours oh yeah for sure yeah it's like six hours yeah yeah so i mean it's like the same like if you really think about it it's not i mean yeah you're going to their country it's like a new york to vegas type of thing yeah so it's not it's not like they're like flying to australia or

[35:04]something and i didn't realize this until you're out there and you're like well fuck yeah if i lived in new york i'd be going over there all the time or ireland all that stuff what i don't get is how they can carry the tickets around because i looked and it says that the tickets were 70 pounds like those are the heaviest tickets i've ever heard of in my life you're gonna need a backpack to kilograms quickly or not 32 can't have a can't have a fanny pack for that one oh guys that was

[35:30]such a strong joke so that's that's my rolling going uh aaron rolling going how's it going with you oh i wanted to give a brief car update because i know everyone's uh interested uh in how my car life is going yeah picked up the car on tuesday so tuesday this week uh my wife went to work in the office so that hasn't happened for two years so she had to be in the office happened to coincide with my son getting another fucking cold so he was home sick on tuesday when she went to the office so uh he got more uh television time than he's ever had in his life uh but the car was finished at

[36:05]the body shop so i i we went to pick up the car on tuesday i had to talk him into it uh and then of course once we got there he thought that that you know the body shop was amazing there's like all these machines and stuff so he was into that um the car was finished at the body shop so i had the car is fine um but i do have to give it you know i still when i drive around in the car i feel like an absolute baller but i gotta say the thing i like the most i would i wouldn't feel like a baller after what i did to that car well there's that there's that but it's fixed now you wouldn't

[36:32]even know how paranoid were you driving out of the body shop being like i swear to god if i back into something here i'm yeah i mean well no here's here's the thing tonight i came home and i backed up the driveway and i and i was like i was trying to be like real real slick with how i backed it up because i gotta back it up to the garage to be able to plug it in uh so i backed up to the garage and then i realized once i got into the garage like oh this is the exact parking spot that i was in when we messed up the door the first time so tomorrow when we leave the scene of the crime if

[37:01]you will yeah so tomorrow when we leave when we leave we're gonna have to have someone like be a spotter on the front end of the car uh to to get out but uh my favorite thing about the car or just don't hit it just don't hit the thing when you're backing out well i don't know maybe just do that yeah no smart my favorite thing about the car is it's got automated you know seat memory like oh you remember is like where my seat was or my where my wife's seat was when we when we uh you know are done but it knows that like the driving position and the getting out of the car position are not

[37:34]the same so when you turn the car off yeah it kind of like slow motion slides the seat back so that you can get out of the car and i that that moment like to quote rob that's my vacation that moment where i get home from preschool my son is strapped into his car seat i turn off the car and i know for this moment two seconds three seconds the the seat is gonna move itself back slowly and to get out of the car position that's my vacation right there because

[38:02]i'm not gonna rush it the car knows i need this time that's my favorite thing about the car imagine you writing a letter imagine you're like 18 right and you get a letter from yourself as a my car seat goes slightly back when i open it yeah totally have have fun by the way i'm a middle manager yeah speaking of middle management this album that we're going to talk about which i love so much uh is so much about jobs and the working man and labor what album are we talking about and

[38:34]we can't be the bruce springsteen anymore it's about the working man we were talking a little bit in the interlude spoiler alert double album double recording tonight for us we were talking a little bit about hiring and firing at work and uh i've done it a little bit mostly hiring very little firing um but rob asked me about some strategies my favorite question to ask in an interview is what is a job that is not on your resume so i'm asking you guys what was a job that

[39:02]you've had in your life that is not on your professional resume i've told you guys before i was the worst soccer referee ever i would forget to start my watch i would not call hands i did not call any sort of foul i just wanted the time to get over when it was halfway through the game and parents are yelling me they were like ref how much time is left i was like look at my watch realized i never started i'd be like five minutes i didn't call any penalties but i did get certified to make more money but

[39:30]i have never advertised to any employer that i was a certified soccer official certified soccer official love it matt what do you got uh i think i i uh along and i sold those knives if you guys i was waiting for that one i was waiting for that one i love them knives i did have it on my resume for a while and people kept asking so you were there for two days what happened i was like yeah sorry matt but you're up i worked for a long time at menards good spot you know and so

[40:04]big money you save big money when you shop this money is 70 pounds this is big money i saved What did you do at Menards, Matt? Me and my friend Kevin from Nashville now, we were the world's greatest cart gatherers at Menards. Nice. That's a good job. I kept asking for a promotion, Rosie. Like, I want to move into the hardware department.

[40:31]Or I want to move into electrical. That was the big one. That was a good department to move into. And we were so good at being the cart guys. Too good? We just said, nah. Too good? It's tough. It's tough. You can't get too good at your current job. I've done a real cool thing at my new job where I'm the guy who doesn't read email well, and everybody just knows it. And it's wonderful. It's wonderful to have that reputation because you can just be like, oh, I didn't know we were doing that. And they're like, oh, yeah, you don't read email well. Nobody judges you.

[41:00]Like, I thought being bad at your job, people are going to be like, oh, this is a bad thing. It turns out it's a great thing. Nobody expects me to read my email. That's a good one. The other thing that somebody told me one time is never, like, everybody knows who's calling now, right? Everybody's got caller ID of something. So, like, my job where people call and I know that they're calling or whatever, I never say, like, oh, hey, Rob, how you doing? You know, so that they know I'm calling. I always say, hello, this is Matt, you know, kind of a thing. And so they never know that I know that they know

[41:30]that they know that I know that they... I follow this. I comply with the strategy 100%. I don't want them to know that I know that they're calling and I'm not answering their phone call because it's them calling kind of a deal. We might need to delete this, but Matt, were you fairly paid? Were you fairly paid when you worked at Menards or not? Yeah, I mean, I don't remember, you know. Did I ever tell you guys one of the first major interviews I had was to be an attorney, a corporate attorney at Menards

[42:00]out of law school? Really? I didn't know this one. So I did all this, like, on-campus interviewing at all the big firms downtown. I didn't get any of the jobs. I was like, what the fuck? I made a huge mistake. I paid all this money to go to law school. I got good grades. I did everything I was supposed to and I can't get a job. And the job market was terrible. So I interviewed at Menards and it was like a corporate attorney where you do, like, workman's comp stuff. You do whatever type of stuff for Menards. So I had a first interview and it was at the Richfield Menards. Maybe that one was new,

[42:30]so you wouldn't have worked at that one, Matt, but at local Menards, right? Well, that one was new. Funny, funny side story. That one was new in 2012. No, 2013, right? So I worked at the old one. It was 2013. It was 2013 because Leo, my son, was the first ever person through the doors when they opened that new Menards because my father-in-law is such a huge Menards fan. Oh, what? And they were closed, right? That one was closed, Russell, for like, I don't know, five months

[43:00]while they redid it. Well, they bulldozed and expanded, right? Yeah, and so it was close. And my father, it was like the worst thing ever. And so, again, sorry to take up too much. I'm railroading your thing here, Russell. No, you're good. My father-in-law hated it. So then when it was opening up again, and that's all my father, and I would talk about, like, you know, like, hey, you know, Menards, about a month, about a month, it's going to open up. And so then we got up at 530 on whatever, it was like March 13th of 2013 and got there because they were going to open up at six o'clock. And there was one other guy there that had our idea.

[43:32]And so my father-in-law grabbed Leo, who was one at the time, and he ran ahead of this guy to be the first people into that Menards ever. So, yeah, sorry, Russell. So, yes, it was 2013. That's when they redid it. Hey, Kevin, on Facebook, guess what? Does this sound like a 90s radio show to you? Go fuck yourself. This is real Minnesota stuff. You can now get more Minnesota podcasts than four guys talking about various Menards around the Twin Cities area. This is real work. This is working person life.

[44:00]This is what Bruce Springsteen was singing about. This is why he made music. So I'm going to interview for a corporate attorney job. I'm out of law school, like an entry-level attorney job. And they wanted me, so their headquarters are in Eau Claire, so probably a two-hour drive, Minneapolis area. But before an interview at the corporate headquarters, they wanted me to interview with one of the managers of a local store. And so I throw on the suit and everything. I get my resumes ready. I walk in just to the local Menards

[44:31]because that's where my interview's going to be at. And so I go in, and I'm waiting for the person to come meet me or whatever. And so they have me sitting in the little lobby area where the staff has their lunch, like in the middle of the store. Oh, God. I was picturing, I thought they'd put you in the patio furniture section. Like, hey, you know what? There's a chair here. I put it together yesterday. It's great. Sit here. It's so funny. So I'm sitting there in this little lobby area. There's probably four tables where the staff has their lunch.

[45:00]And this 15-year-old kid is sitting next to me, and he's like, oh, are you here for an interview? And I was like, yes. He's like, what are you interviewing for? And I'm like, well, a corporate attorney. And he's like, holy shit. And he's like, he's like, the guy who, you know, it's his job to, like, move the patio furniture around or whatever. He's like, I'm a cart expert. Wait, like, were you wearing a suit? And he was wearing, like, patio furniture moving? Yes. He had his blue vest and his gloves and his little box cutter. He was ready to go.

[45:30]And so I'm like, I'm sitting there. I'm like, oh, my God, this is my life right now. And so eventually, I get through and I pass the interview. I had a good first interview or whatever with them. So they set me up for the interview with, like, the corporate team in Eau Claire. So middle of summer, I drive my car out there. My car air conditioning is dead. My air conditioner has died. So it's like 900 degrees. I'm wearing the suit. I'm driving out to Eau Claire. So I go to Eau Claire. Be Eau Claire. And this is like, it's hard to get a job. Everything is just rejection.

[46:00]It's terrible. So I get out there and I go through the interview and I crush the interview. And normally, I'm very hard on myself. I find every fly I can. But I was like, I did really well. And so they offer me, they're essentially offering me the job and they're saying like, hey, we'd love to have you join us or whatever. And they do the thing, Aaron, you're a middle management, so you may do this type of thing. They don't tell me what they're offering me financially. They slide a sheet of paper across the table with the numbers written on it. In person? Oh, yes. You got to walk.

[46:30]You got to walk and sleep on it. Yeah. Guess what the number was. Guess what the number was. And you know what? I don't want to judge what anyone was being paid. But I was a law school graduate at this point. I had a bachelor's degree and graduated from law. I graduated from law school. And they slide it across. It was 16 bucks an hour. No. What? It was 16 bucks an hour. And I was like, I was staring at it. I was like, I was in shock. And so I'm looking at it and I'm like, wow. And they're like, well, the thing is, we'll ask you to work overtime.

[47:01]And so you'll get paid time and a half for the overtime. So that's where you'll wake up a lot of the time. 24. Nice. And so the whole time I'm sitting here looking at this, I'm like, hell no. I went through the Menards in-person interview, the drive out, and I thought I crushed it. And now I've got to do the drive back with no air conditioning, knowing I've got to reject the offer if they give it to me. And so I got home, they gave me the offer and I said I couldn't do it. Yeah. You knew you were in trouble when the kid in the patio furniture was like, yeah, I passed my bar

[47:31]on the second try. I don't know. I had trouble with it, but I got it. So I'm making 60 bucks an hour now. I'm sad, actually. This is great. So I'm sure it's a great company. I can commend Matt for getting his son in there the first get in there, but my recollection is they were a little stingy. That's a depressing story, but I'm so excited that we talked about this because this is what Bruce was singing about all the way back in 70, whatever it was. Like he was already singing about the plight of the working person. I got to ask you, I know Aaron's trying to get me to do something that I don't want to do,

[48:00]but Matt, I got to ask you. Wait, what do you mean? Aaron, you just got to talk about the van in the backseat. That's the way to do it. No, no, no. Disco ball. How pissed off were you when people didn't return their cart? Like, did that put you into a fury or was that maybe it's kind of fun and you get to go do the cart thing and that's fun too. Yeah, I mean, it was fine, right? But like to this day, I returned my cart to the cart corral. Because you're a good person. Yeah. You're a virtuous person. Let me ask you, Matt, you might be interested in this.

[48:30]It's a YouTube channel and I recommend everybody go watch it. It's a guy called Cartnarks and he is a guy and you got to watch it sometimes. He's a guy that has like a body cam on, right? Hold on, hold on, hold on a second. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, Rob, Rob, Rob. What? Mute your thing for a second. Okay. Rosie, this is where you're going to jump in right now. You're going to say, Rob, I want your fucking job. What the hell do you do all day that you can watch the cart? All right, so hold on. We'll let him start talking. You jump in and do just the reverse thing

[49:00]he does to you every day. Okay? All right, Rob, go ahead. So what are we watching? It's a YouTube channel called Cartnarks. Rob, what the fuck? Rob, I was, today I was building an MS Teams power app for my boss. To track our projects. I didn't have time to watch fucking Cartnarks. What do you do for a job if you're just watching Cartnarks all day? I'm a semi-professional MILF hunter, okay? I am trying to get by in this world. But these MILFs are getting harder and harder to find. It's tough. So you're looking

[49:31]on Cartnarks for MILFs? So yeah, well, hey, you got to do it again. So listen, Cartnarks is this guy who will catch people not returning the cards and then run to them, stick a sticker on their car, he'll stick like a magnet on their car that says, I don't put my card away and he'll stick it on their car. Yeah. And then the people come out and scream at him and he's filming the whole thing. And the whole time they'll be like, what the fuck are you doing? He goes, well, I'm a good person. I guess I want to put my card away. You don't, you're a bad person. You don't want to put it away.

[50:00]And he's just like that most annoying person and I cannot stop watching it. It is unbelievable. He's running. People are sprinting after him. He's like, oh, you could have worked this hard to put the card away as he's like running from somebody with a crowbar. So that's funny. He doesn't do it. He doesn't put it on any like big trucks, does he? Like he's just going after the old. Just every Prius. Just like finding every Prius on the Civic. Do you think we could sponsor him? Would he put back to the better stickers on people's cars or not? That's one step above my idea of airdropping

[50:30]this in the subway, which is our next marketing move. The car dark. Yeah. And then in the airdrop it's going to say, skip the first 20 seconds. Nobody likes the intros. Go fuck yourself, Kevin. I'm still mad at you. Roll. Roll and go on, Matt. How's it going with you? Good. My roll and go on this week is a little bit of podcast cleanup and feedback that I've gotten from. Yeah. Is it about Rob sucking or not? This is the worst. No, but I've gotten more than once now in the last couple months or so. People have started saying like,

[51:01]why don't you guys like speed this up and like do like three or four albums in one episode? And I'm like, what? Matt's talking about himself. No, I'm not. Why don't you guys just end the podcast and maybe let me go to bed or whatever? Right. No, I've told this. I've told people like, look, I at like episode 20, I was like, let's do this. And I think people are trying to get us to move along and want us to want our podcast to be over. They don't want to listen anymore. So what the hell? I mean, if they don't want to listen, don't listen. Right. Why are they trying to push it?

[51:30]And they're like, well, you're never going to get to 500. They go, well, yes, we will. Yeah, yeah. We're probably what happened and what happens if we get to, you know, instead of being at episode like 250 and being over, you know, we're at the 500. What is the difference? I mean, you know, if you get, I don't know. So if we make it to 500, we're done. If we make it to 500, that's it. And we're done. The fucking loser listeners out there that have nothing going on in their life. They just have to find fault in our lives. I can't focus on their own

[52:00]and be positive. Blowing out our candle doesn't make their shine any brighter. Right, Russell? Amen, Matt. I hear you. I was just, you know what? I used to be on that train and then you guys got me back onto straight and narrow. Why the hell would we do that? Why in the world would we try to speed this thing up? So I was just doing a quick podcast check-in. Make sure you guys are still aligned with the mission and the goal. Now I have to admit, my plan is to quit at 139 right before that Replacements album. I think that's going to be

[52:30]one of the greatest gags of all time. I'll be there for you because you're there for me too. It's going to be so great. We should do like 498 and then just be like, I don't know. Here's the thing, right? Is we know that they're going to change the list again. Right? You know that before we're done, they're going to change the list again. Guys, lemonade is going to be number one. Like for sure, lemonade is going to be number one before we get to you think so? Yeah, I think when they change top five, top five. But yeah, no, Matt, we are. Listen, man, we're in it. We're in it to win it to win it.

[53:00]Okay, we cannot quit. We are going to be doing this until like our kids are all grown up and out of the house and I'm still staring at these dumb little boxes on a Friday night. We're in it to be criticized by Rob's Facebook friends. Guys, at what point at what point am I still going to be making dick and balls joke? You know what I mean? Like I'm going to be like 78 years old and I'm still talking about balls. Like is that that's my life? I mean, guess what? Sign me up. I'm in for it. I love that idea. At that point, you will have had to adjust the height of the water in your toilet

[53:30]numerous times because of sagging issues. Apparently, it's easy to do. Okay. Reversing that toilet. By the way, Matt sent me a very funny text. Floating ball down a bit. Matt sent me a text picture of just somebody sitting reverse on a toilet with a, prodigy. It's like a desk that you could say that. Fucking Rob. Rob, he sent all of us. Rob calls the podcast my podcast and he also says Matt sent me a text about this. He sent all of us the text, Rob. Listen, I'm not good at reading my text. Some of us are not multitasking on this podcast, Rob. We're focused

[54:00]on the task at hand, which is talking about Bruce Springsteen. Uh-oh. The boss. Oh, wait. I thought he was speaking about the album and it's the spanking of the week. Sorry, Aaron. You can do it. You just got the spanking of the week. All you have to do, keep your head on the toilet tank, lift up your butt a little bit, and it's time for the spanking of the week, okay? Oh, no. Yep, that's exactly what it is. All right, listen. Send that clip back to Kevin. See what he thinks of that. Say you need some audio advice on that one. Oh, you think the spanking of the week is a Zoo Crew bit?

[54:30]Dumb piece of shit. Dumb shit. Let me click on this one that just says cheesy porn music. This is a normal podcast shit. Anyway, let's get into it. Let's talk about the album. Cheesy porn music? I like the drums there. I was wrong. It's cheesy porn. Music. Cheesy? Like American cheesy? Yeah. It's... Gouda. Gouda cheesy? It's a little stink to it. I have binged... I have binged Brie before,

[55:01]so I think that makes sense. All right, let's talk about... It's time for nobody's favorite part of the show. Let's talk about the album. Oh, yeah. Listen, we are talking about Darkness on the Edge of Town. Bruce Springsteen's... What unanimously online people say is Bruce Springsteen's second best album after the other one we've already done. Everyone's like, guys, this is a great album. Definitely not his best,

[55:30]but it's good. Like, that was great. What was the first one we covered again? Born to Run. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was pretty awesome. Which you might remember from the hit parody song Born to Pun, where I asked you guys not to talk, and then it led to this awkward silence where you didn't laugh at any jokes, which I then got mad at, if you recall. I was very mad for the rest of the episode. So, healthy stuff over here. 42-year-old man who can take no feedback whatsoever, positive or negative. That's called being Minnesotan, Rob. I don't know. It's true. You're not alone. It's true. So, basically, I mean, there's not much

[56:00]to say about this album except there's a four-year break from the album before this to this one where basically he was going through a lawsuit with his manager at the time because I don't... What was it that he essentially sold away his publishing rights to the manager? Is that what it was? There's something going on and he had to figure all that out with a lawsuit before he could put out this album. So, this was kind of like a pimple being popped, if you will. Like, all this stuff he had built up over years and years was kind of all gushing out of him on this album. It's a much darker album. You can hear this guy is angry now at the business. He's angry at his manager.

[56:31]You can hear he's a little bit downtrodden. But it's just more Bruce Springsteen. Like, I tried to look up more information about this album and it's definitely not because I was late getting prepared. This week, I just couldn't find, like, there's not that much going on here. I didn't know any of that stuff and that's all interesting and I love this album and I do not care. I, like, Bruce Springsteen is the artist that I like the most and know the least about. I know nothing about him except that he has a great band

[57:01]and a great voice and rocks hard and that's enough for me. Other artists I like to read about and learn the story, like, I don't care with Bruce. Like, I just love listening to his music. And this was after Born to Run. Is that right, Rob? Yeah. So, the one thing that I thought was interesting is that it sounds like really what this album is is taking the same characters you had in Born to Run and then now they're older and so it's like a somber, more somber album and it's a slower album because it's like you had these characters with all these hope in the first one and now they're kind of older

[57:30]and they've lost a little bit of that and so it's more like about suffering and losing hope, if you will. Is that fair? I would recommend if you're getting older and losing hope in what's going on, I would, I would start a podcast and then ask random strangers on the internet for criticism of that podcast. It gives you a new jolt and a new lease on life and it's pretty much all you can think about actually for the last couple days. It's worked pretty well for me. I'm making good lists. It's true. Your last list, Russell, was an absolute crusher. And there's no way this list today

[58:00]could be as good as that list. That'd be crazy. Matt, were you going to say something? Well, I just, this happens with a lot of bands that have been around for a long time and at this point, you know, they've been around, Springsteen has been like a live musician for a very, very long time at this point, 1978. And so, relatively speaking to everybody else, right? But like, probably like 15 years, right? Like you've been playing, like they've been playing a long time. Yeah. So you get to this point where I think, this is my thesis, is that you're so into

[58:30]these just huge ballads and playing and live music, blah, blah, blah. And then you start getting, we're like, that's just kind of getting a little boring and you start getting a little, you start pivoting to being more, a little bit more introspective maybe is the best way to say it. And I think you kind of hear that on this album come out that he's getting a little deeper, a little darker, a little more, you know, prophetic maybe. I don't know. So I liked it. I thought of Matt often listening to this album because Matt always says, well, I'm not a lyrics guy. I don't listen to the lyrics. This is a perfect album for Matt. I could barely understand

[59:00]what he was saying for about half these songs. He was like, and I was like, yes, I'll take it. And like, yeah, people who are huge Springsteen fans, like, yeah, he was the next Dylan and all, and they love the poetry. And when you do catch a lyric here and there, you're like, that's amazing. But I don't know what any of these songs are about. Like, I didn't know Candy's Room was about a prostitute until I read it on the internet. Like, this is amazing. And not a candy room. Okay, well, I'm going to write that down because that's actually upsetting. And I feel like I did that joke already,

[59:30]but I can't quite remember. I hate Candy Room bait and switches. It's the worst part of life is going to a candy room where you think there's going to be peeps and whatever those Cadbury eggs are and then it's just prostitutes. It's never what you signed up for. Don't put, don't put peeps and Cadbury eggs in the same sentence. Just like they're the same thing. That's fucked. They're both terrible Easter candies that are only come around once a year because they suck like the shamrock shake and like the pumpkin pie. They're bad. I've never said this to you before, Russell, but go fuck yourself. That's a terrible opinion

[60:01]that peeps and Cadbury eggs are the same. I just, it is mind blowing to me. That same thing. It's just like, what is going on? Listen, if you wanted to get Black Hills Gold as apparently every girl in my high school wanted to do, they were going crazy for Black Hills Gold. I highly recommend you head to The Badlands. The Badlands. That's the best South Dakota themed song ever, right? Yeah. I don't know. I loved, I loved

[60:30]Tom Sawyer by Rush. Is it, is it a Russia, South Dakota band? That was, that was always one of the funniest onion headlines ever was South Dakota unsure what it's going to put on that state quarter. Hmm. I wonder if it's going to be more fucking rushed for it. Jack shit going on in that state. I think the boss, Bruce Springsteen, we've talked about this before. He is the king of the chorus though, right? Yeah. He builds to these choruses. They're always fun. There's even a part

[61:00]where he's humming the chorus at the end and you can't help but like hum along with him. The boss is the best. I do enjoy this. He's just great. We gotta, we gotta let this one play. Just to get to the, I just clicked not, don't play right when you said that. So sorry. I didn't do that on purpose. I swear. Skip ahead to the chorus. Rob, we need to hear the chorus. You can edit later. Oh, can I? Thanks, Aaron. Give me permission for doing what I've done

[61:30]in 90 fucking episodes. Oh, what are you going to do? Have a time with your family where your kids aren't just looking at you in headphones, laughing at your own jokes like a psychopath. There you go. Go get it. Go get it, Bruce. So I think while we get to this, here it comes. I think that Bruce Springsteen

[62:00]said a new way of writing songs that, you know, a lot of like the grungier bands and a lot of like the really sensitive bands kind of did where you start off really slow. And you just ramp up to this huge ending with a big, you know, finale and everything. And I think he's the one who kind of set the bar for how to accomplish that. And so every time I hear these songs, you know, I think of even like you think of like Mumford & Sons these days, right? This is exactly start off slow. By the end,

[62:30]it's just banging and banging and drums and everything going. And it's like this new, I don't know if anybody really did that kind of form beforehand. And so that's where I think he's very visionary. Well, he, I mean, he famously was a proponent of the Four Corners idea, right? Is that you have a banger to open, you have a banger on the close of side one, you have a banger to open side two and a banger to close the second part of the album. And you have it on this album and it swells in those periods like crazy. We have Adam Raised a Cane.

[63:01]I get it. What do you guys think of this song? I don't understand it, but, but when he gets into the guttural howl, I'm with it. So this is about his relationship. We're talking Mother's Day, but this is about a relationship with his dad, right? Like how he went wrong. He went sideways with his dad, right? Is it? I don't know. It is. Okay. That makes sense.

[63:30]Makes sense. The one thing I did pull up, Booze and Vinyl, as you guys know, did Born to Run and the last time that Born to Run is in the book. So this, this album isn't in the book, but I covered, I did a Boilermaker last time. If you guys remember, that's a shot of whiskey and then a shot of bourbon and a cheap beer. Yeah. One of my favorite cocktails. They do have a cocktail suggestion on Born to Run that we didn't get to yet and it's called a New Jersey cocktail. Have you guys ever had a New Jersey cocktail? New Jersey? What's that? It's just like

[64:00]some grappa and some brevue. It is two ounces of Apple Jack. Oh, yeah. Okay. Rob, I know, I know we're drunk. I know we're drunk and I know we're high, but we got to play my music here. Two dashes of bitters and a teaspoon of, I don't know how much sugar I put in that, a teaspoon of granulated sugar. So that is, that is a Jersey cocktail. Apple Jack, bitters,

[64:30]and sugar. What do you get for, you get the Laird's Bond and Apple Jack or what do you get? I got the Laird's Bond and Aaron, remember we had this a few weeks ago. I know you have Apple Jack. I love that Laird's Bond. And it's, it's, it's perfect. They say when you're supposed to spend this is Friday after work. And where are we? It's Friday after work. No, after another podcast. It's Saturday already. After, after work. I love it. Do you feel like they missed an opportunity to call that drink born to rum? Well,

[65:01]it's not, it's not rum, it's brandy technically, but it's the oldest American spirit, even older than whiskey. I know, but they would make a drink with rum in it and call it born to rum. You guys. They did. They made it with Apple Jack. You guys are a bunch of Kevins. Okay. I didn't want to say it, but you're being a bunch of Kevins right now. I don't need this in my life. All right. All he asked us for air was audio advice and we were like, no, it's with Apple Jack. It's Apple Jack. It is true.

[65:31]I asked for advice and I can't stand it when I get it. Take it. Something in the night. That's what I love. That sound. I could, listen to him do that all day. You like it? Yeah. I love it. It's a rich sounding album too, isn't it? It's like thick. Like I've said before, I'm not the biggest Bruce Springsteen fan. I don't get it, but this album sounds so good and it's like, it's emotion. Like you say, it's emotion. Again, no idea what's going on.

[66:00]I think a lot of it's about engines. I'm not sure, but man, it's a great example of ugly, but useful, right? This is ugly, but useful. It's your spot. You know, I, I, I jotted down to myself. I have no idea what this is about. It just sounds like complete gibberish, but I'm into it. Yeah. The one thing I didn't like about that, it's really slow. Like we've talked slow tempo before with Carole King. Remember you guys, I got to remind you guys, you all rip Carole King about a year ago. Pretty hardcore because their song was slow. That was a pretty slow tempo

[66:31]song right there, isn't it? Right now. You're right, Russell. Yeah, but it's, I mean, you feel listening to this. It's so good. Okay. So here we, like, wouldn't you love to actually talk to the, biggest Springsteen fan? Like Robbie said, you're not the biggest Springsteen fan. Like, can you imagine talking to the biggest Springsteen fan in the world? Hello. I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. Wait, wait, my name is Kevin

[67:00]or is, no, you're not, I'm not Kevin. I really blow. I think Bruce Springsteen is actually, he's like 5'5", isn't he? So, yeah, big Bruce Springsteen. I don't want to know that. Yeah, it's all I know. All I know, you know, when we were listening to these albums and we, we talked about it with a few of the different artists and albums we've got is that anybody who's ever seen a Bruce Springsteen concert live, and I haven't, and I should, but I just can't pull myself to do it, says it's like

[67:31]the greatest show ever. He plays three hours, lays it all out on the stage, and it's like the greatest thing ever. And you're instantly a fan after that. And so every time I hear these songs, even the slower ones, I just think of them live and all the musicians they've got and how dialed in they are. And it's got to be just an awesome show. So I think we're all missing out by not seeing a live show. I wanted to go to a Bruce Springsteen concert here in town, but my wife said, no, we'd have to travel too far and it's too expensive. So we're not going to go to that concert. I have. Did I tell you? Did I already tell this story?

[68:00]I have seen, I have seen Bruce Springsteen live. Did I tell this story? No. Yes, I saw him, but I saw him in the summer of 2006 in Des Moines when he was doing the Seeger sessions. And so he had, when he was doing all those old, like, get out of the way, old Dan Tucker, you're too late to get your supper. Oh God. How can a poor man stand such times and live? But he had a 19 piece band on stage with him. And he,

[68:30]yeah, it was at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. It was like a 5,000 seat auditorium. My dad bought the tickets. Shout out to my dad. Thank you. And it was an amazing fucking show. And yeah, they did all these old, you know, it was the Seeger sessions tour. So they did all these old American, you know, folks on classics. But then he came out for his encore and did like Johnny 99 and some of those incredible songs. And yeah, he played fucking forever and rocked it all the way out. His band was amazing. So you're, you're totally right, man. But I haven't seen him do this stuff

[69:00]with the E Street band, but I did see him once and it was incredible. Have you guys heard about this Candy's room? I'm kind of interested in what's inside. I have, I'm excited. Peeps. I've been here. Get out of your head. Shut up. I put up with a lot of shit. The worst, the worst part about it though, Rob, is you got to call the attendant over to unlock it so you can get the peeps. No thanks. If they, if they put the Cadbury eggs under lock and key at Duane Reade, I would weigh 102 pounds. I'm convinced of it. So then I read this song

[69:33]was about a date with a stripper or a seduction fantasy about some, you know, a woman he wasn't supposed to ever be with. You would never get this just listening to this. You have no idea what these songs are about. I mean, this is built. It's fast. I like, I think this one over the last one. I like the higher tempo ones. It's funny. You know what? I like to think about, I know, we know Bruce was a Prince fan because he, he eulogized Prince on stage after Prince's death, which was yesterday. The anniversary of Prince's death

[70:00]was yesterday. Rest in peace. But I think of this one as like a sort of companion piece to Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red Corvette. Obviously, Candy's room came first, but to me, they're like kind of, you know, kind of similar. What the fuck? What the fuck, Aaron? All right. And now in a totally unrelated note to what Aaron just said, racing in the streets. Russell's so mad. All other things going Russell. Okay. In real world. Aaron has no idea. Aaron's blowing up

[70:30]like three spots today. He doesn't even know it. Wait, what? The one thing I was noticing is there's a lot of Springsteen songs that are about cars. We've talked about Aaron's car recently. He's got a Thunder Road is kind of about cars. There's Pink Cadillac is about cars. He's got a lot of songs about cars. This is another one of them, right? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. He's lighting them up and shutting them down or whatever they say in cars. So in the right, the well, no, Aaron, go. No, go. Didn't he write

[71:00]blinded by the light wrapped up like a fucking loser. And this is a shit. I don't believe you piece of shit. You dare you fuck a piece of shit. See, Russell feels good, doesn't it? It does feel good. I'm just kidding. Aaron, that was a great point. I really appreciate you contributing. That's yeah. I was kidding, too. Shit. But we've talked about we've talked about Mustang Sally. We talked about low rider once before. We've talked about songs with cars numerous times, but I thought we could do a list

[71:30]of the greatest songs ever that are about cars. I love it. Yes. To honor Aaron's vehicle recently because Aaron's car has gone through a war. It's been through some stuff, but it's doing OK now. Yeah. Just a reminder to everybody. When we talk about Aaron's car accident, it was Aaron backing into his and over his retaining wall. So if you think this is actually backing in, I was going forward, but we don't have to get into that because apparently I will say this, too. I didn't say this on Facebook and I hate to do this right now, Russell. But another comment was and this is for real.

[72:00]Maybe you should think about putting the parody songs at the end where your super listeners would be because there's a bunch of inside jokes. Oh, yeah. I'll put the parody song at the end. You dumb piece of shit. Fucking A. Oh, put the parody song at the end. Yes. Let's introduce everybody and let everybody in on all our jokes. What are you talking about? You want to get you want to get some jokes. Go back and listen to this shit. We put the time in. How many of these comments were made by Magic Mike? That asshole. I know Matt's been getting along

[72:30]with him recently. Magic Mike is a perfect fan of ours. He said he tried to correct us on something. We told him to go back down. We said shit, you piece of shit. And he goes, yeah, I will. And actually, you're great now. That's what it should be. When I tell somebody to eat shit, they should come back and say, how much, sir? Thank you. Do we know if he's still listening? And likely not. Right. Well, he hasn't. Hopefully not. I don't need him showing up in Vegas any time. He interacts with the at the Insta page a lot.

[73:00]Stuff like I wouldn't know if he's listening because he's not leaving any fucking voicemails. Oh, maybe I'll put those at the end of the show. Piece of shit. Doesn't know what he's talking about. What was his first thing, too? He called up and corrected something. Right. Like it was something very it was something very minor. And we didn't even pay attention to that. And then we yelled at him. And then he went so far as to change his. He changed his review on iTunes to be like, I'm so sorry. He has the greatest review on iTunes for us.

[73:30]It's very, very funny. Yeah. All right. First on your list. Here we go. First song on the list. This was actually a Michigan band, but they moved out to Berkeley. So this is a Berkeley band there. And this is where kids get preschool, preschool spring breaks out in Berkeley. It's true. This is Commander Cody and his lost planet of airmen. This is Hot Rod Lincoln from 1971. You guys know this one? Yes. It's a great song. He said, son, you're going to drop me a drink if you don't

[74:01]stop dropping that hot rod Lincoln. Oh, I don't know this one. Great song about a hot rod Lincoln. That's a fun song. Yeah, it's so good. You guys, you guys were talking about how the boss, how he has like these diehard fans. I found out there are diehard fans with Bruce. There is a website called BruceBass.com where it shows every single concert or every single performance Bruce has done. Every track that was played, everyone who was there.

[74:30]Yeah. It turns out that Commander Cody, the lead singer for this song, actually performed. Once with the boss in 1975. Nice. At Greed's Folk City in New York City, Rob. Greed's Folk City. I don't know if you know where it's at. Oh, I'm there every day. But he played on, they sang happy birthday for the owner of the bar. And it was actually the first time that Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen ever met in 1975. And his commander Cody was singing

[75:00]happy birthday with those guys. Wow. And think of it. We're spending our Friday, Friday night's making a podcast. What the fuck? We could be out there with Commander Cody. That's right. Do you think, do you think Kevin would have, would have, would have criticized Commander Cody's song about the hot rod Lincoln or not? Yeah, probably. Oh, I think you should put that really good, cool guitar part at the end where only some people are going to listen. You parody song is the most work anybody does on this show. Come on. All right.

[75:30]Next song is a few years later, 1978. This is from the movie Grease. This is Grease Lightning. Check this out. It's about the car, right? I've never seen the movie Grease, but I know the song. Yeah. Have you seen it, man? I mean, it's been on. You've been overwatching movies. And yeah, I don't know if I've ever paid attention to the whole thing. That sounds like a high school makeout session.

[76:01]Yes. I'm reading between the lines. You know what else? It sounds like a high school makeout session. It sounds like a high school makeout session. It sounds like. What's that? 12 bar blues. And it's also inspired by, we don't have the song, but the song White Lightning by the Big Bopper. It turns out Grease Lightning was inspired by the Big Bopper. Hey, baby. Grease Lightning. That's what hit our plane when we went down. Oh, no, baby. You will, I what? Survive this flight?

[76:31]Oh, I don't think so, baby. You know what I like. You know what I like. And what I don't like on Facebook was that comment. Did not like. Now, Russell, is it true that in the song, what is Grease Lightning going to do to all the women? I don't know. Do you know? Yeah. It's actually going to make them cream. Yeah. It's actually going to make them cream as part of the song. What? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That can't be what it says. Oh, no, it does. 100%. Start it up again. Start. Go ahead. Put it. Play it again. Play it again, Rob.

[77:06]I'm going to find it here. It's coming up. Here it comes. Oh, jeez. Yes. Yes. And again, I feel like this is the kind of that candy room situation where I was misled. Baby gets switched on you. Yeah. Oh, cream.

[77:30]That'll be great. All right. What song on the list? I believe. Aaron, what you were just talking about Prince and Little Red Corvette. The next song on the list. One of the greatest songs about cars ever is a metaphor. Sex metaphor with a car. It's Little Red Corvette. Oh, it's such a great song. Now, Russell, is this the song you think is the greatest song ever? Is that right? No. Raspberry Beret is my favorite Prince song. But the reason I really was interested in this. I read that he fell asleep in the backseat of his backup singer's 1964 Mercury

[78:05]Montclair Marauder. And so I was just kind of wondering what else you think has happened in the backseat of cars that you guys have borrowed from people. This is fucked. This is fucked. Bring this up. You know what? Kevin's right. We need to put all this stuff at the end. We're only the super listeners. Listen, this is totally terrible. One thing you guys were talking about earlier, though, is how Springs. Aaron, you were saying on Springsteen, it's one of the greatest live

[78:30]performers ever. And that's what everyone always says. Like a Springsteen show is like no other. Is that right? Yes. Yeah. And so I saw this interview with him and he was talking about how Prince was kind of one of his inspirations, even though I think Prince is a little younger than him and came to prominence a little bit after. But he essentially said, like, there's never a moment under the spotlight that wasn't worth taking advantage of. And he learned that from Prince. Whenever Prince had the opportunities, like, I'm going to make the most of it. So I think that's one of the things that has made the boss.

[79:00]One of the great live performers is being inspired by Prince. It's so good, Russell. It's just perfect. And to think that John Travolta said it would make them cream and not Prince. I mean, I would have lost a thousand dollars on that for sure. That's crazy. All right. Next song on the list. This is Tracy Chapman. Fast car from great song. Yeah. Is it 80, 98 or 88? And I agree with what I just edited out that Aaron said, where he said, this is the funniest song. Oh, this sounds good.

[79:32]So depressing. This song is such a. It's a bummer. Why do you think it's a bummer? It's so good. This song bums me out every time it comes on. It's so beautiful and so great. And then when you go away, it's like the most depressing, hopeless getting. It's like, oh, we're going to do all this great stuff. And we can't do any of it because. And then, yeah, nice and smooth sampled it for sometimes where I'm slow, sometimes where I'm quick. That's another sad song. It's a sad one.

[80:00]It's a terrible. Oh, it makes me so sad. Great song. Great song. She actually performed. She actually performed another song with the boss in 2004. Is it hometown? Is that the boss song? Hometown? My hometown. My hometown. Oh, really? Your home. So she actually performed that with the boss. She actually performed that with the boss in 2004 as part of a vote for change tour, which was encouraging a vote for Aaron's son's favorite PT boat captain, John Kerry.

[80:30]Yes. He loves it. He's obsessed with those boats. He likes the PT boats. Those are his favorite boats. So he does. He loves them. They're his favorite boats of all time. Yeah. So. It's like, this is a great song. Fast car, Rob. So funny. Rob, do you think you listened to the song fast car when you drove away fast or no? It would. I should have. It was like, it was a depressing, depressing time. The girl who would stick out their tongue. Last song. Last song on the list. Once again, you do not have to share that with people.

[81:00]No one's, no one's forcing you to continue. I'm desperate for attention, Aaron. I'm desperate. Last song on the list. This goes out to Barry from Burnsville. One of our favorite listeners. He has been calling in. Maybe. Hey, Barry from Burnsville. Give us a call. Give us a voicemail. Yeah. You dumb shit. Yeah. What's the number, Rob? 802-277-BECK. 802-277-2325. So I know for certain that Barry from Burnsville is a big gopher football fan. And this is the gopher kickoff song. When they kick the ball off at all their games.

[81:30]This is Skrillex and Rick Ross purple Lamborghini. A great song about cars. Holy shit. This is some fucking shit we haven't heard yet. I like it. This is great. For the people who are listening at home, we are all dancing to this. This is great. Wow. Damn. That's a great song, Russell. God, I could see getting hyped for that on a kickoff. If you're playing that, I'm like, fuck yeah, let's go.

[82:02]I can't confirm that. I've ever been to a game with Barry from Burnsville. But if I had, I would say we would enjoy that song. So do you guys know what one of Rick Ross? So I don't know a ton about Rick Ross, but his nickname, supposedly, do you guys know his nickname or not? I don't. It's Dub Boss. Yeah. Dub Boss. Oh, OK. So he has the same nickname as Bruce Springsteen, the boss. And it turns out he recently did this thing because he's lost a bunch of weight.

[82:31]And he did this thing called like Rick Ross's or his weight loss plan. And at the very end of his video, he gave a little bit of a fuck you to Bruce Springsteen, the boss. Rob, maybe you can play this here. I would never give a fuck you to Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. There'll never be another boss big as me. Not even Bruce Springsteen. Oh. Fuck Bruce Springsteen. Oh. Rick Ross, the boss, called out the boss and said there's only one true boss.

[83:00]Fuck Bruce Springsteen. That's fantastic, Russell. I love it. And, you know, thinking about. Being between bosses makes me think about Aaron's job. Oh, the promised land. Ooh. Nice harmonica. A little harmonica, right? I mean, this is like. What if it was a little harmonica? What if he was playing the world's smallest harmonica? That'd be pretty impressive. Yeah. What if he was a big fan of the little harmonica too, Rob? Oh, my God. How would that even work? This song is like readily on like the best of Bruce Springsteen.

[83:34]Next up, Factory. I like this one. It's slower. I know I'm kind of corny, but. I don't like the slower. I don't like the slower songs. I don't like the slower ones. I mean, you can hear where he was going. Like, you can hear where the Nebraska album came from when you hear this. Yeah, totally. And he was really interested in exploring those themes.

[84:01]But I also can hear why, like, you might not want to vibe to this. So, Streets of Fire. Woo-hoo-hoo! I mean, when that comes in. Jesus. Because the whole, like, leading up to this is kind of that mumbly shit. And I texted you guys the other night because I was doing some edibles. And something happens to me when I take an edible where, like, I feel like my hearing is heightened. Like, I feel like I can hear every sound in the world. Yeah. And when that came in, I was like, yo, his voice is so loud.

[84:34]I was like, am I going to wake up my whole neighborhood shit? Like, this is incredible. Like, I love that moment. The one thing I really liked about that song is the piano. And so, the E Street band, the piano player is Roy Baton. And we talked about him once before. Do you guys remember what album we talked about him on? Ooh, Russell, I don't know. I remember bringing it up, but I can't. Is it Born to Run? It was not Born to Run.

[85:01]We specifically talked about him. He played on Station. Station with David Bowie. Oh, right. And do you guys remember what other artist he is famous for playing the piano opening on? Is it Bang-a-Gong? Is that the T-Rex guy? That's not him. It is not. He played on Bad Out of Hell with Meatloaf. He also played on I Would Do Anything for Love. Rob, Anything for Love. This is the same guy. Here we go. That's right. That's the guy. This is the guy from the E Street band that we talked about on Station to Station.

[85:31]Tell us his name one more time, Russell. I don't remember because I'm getting a call right now. There's a phone call coming through. I don't know if you can hear the phone call. Who is calling you? 1 a.m. Who could be calling at this time? Put it on speaker. There's a phone call. Put it on speaker right now. Let's go. Hold on. It's got to ring twice. It's got to ring twice. You got to let it ring twice. Hello. Who is this? I would do anything for love.

[86:00]But I won't do. That's how you do it. I just crawled all the balls of hell. I'm back. How are you? And listen, when I wrote that song, it was about my wife. Whoa, meatloaf, meatloaf, did your wife ever travel to London for a concert? Wait, did I have an accent before? I feel like I had an accident or something, right?

[86:30]It was just like it was a very like. I'm sorry, Russell. What were you saying? This is meatloaf out of hell. Meatloaf, did your wife ever travel overseas with one of your kids for a concert? Oh, absolutely. And that's when I wrote the song Bag Out of Hell. She was in a real old bag. Hey, meatloaf, did you ever get any feedback from a guy named Kevin about your hit songs? Yeah. Kevin said I should put all the cool piano part and the part where I'm singing at the end,

[87:03]where all the super cool stuff is. All the super listeners listen. What the fuck are you talking about, Kevin? Get out of there. Yeah, he said, oh, yeah, I was singing so faster than the words could come out. Shut up. Meatloaf, you've been proving it all night. Thank you, Russell. Well, I'll see you guys later. Back to hell. We'll see how much of this got edited out. I might have said actually very little on the podcast. We'll see. Oh, God, that song, Meatloaf song is good, though. Prove it all night. Prove it all night for you.

[87:33]I read this. It's about a four minute song on the album, but for their concerts, they turn into like an 11 minute just all out jam session. I can see the pianos and guitars and everything. So you could do that with any of these songs, right? I mean, all these songs are immensely jammable. And finally, to close it out. Hold on. Hold on. There's one person in the world who hasn't proved it all night. If you guys remember, that was Conan O'Brien.

[88:00]Remember about 10 years ago when he was the Tonight Show host and he got fired because he wasn't any good and they brought Jay Leno back? Yes. Yeah. Allegedly. So whatever. Eventually, he didn't prove it all night and he got let go. And so on his last episode, he had a super group of some of his favorite artists come out and play the song Freebird. You guys remember this? I do. Oh, I don't remember. So the super group had Will Ferrell on lead vocals and the guitar players were Conan O'Brien

[88:30]played guitar, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top play guitar. Ben Harper played guitar. Wow. And then Max Weinberg, who was the drummer on the East Street Band, who played for Conan all those years, played on the drums in this final show. And there was actually one more guitar player that was playing with the super group. Don't do it. Who do you guys think? Who was the other guitar player on the super group? Russell, this can't be connected. You can't have it connected. No, no. Couldn't have been. It turns out Beck was the other guitar player on this song.

[89:01]Rob, hit this song. This is the super group. This is the super group that played on Conan O'Brien's last show. We got Beck and all these other amazing artists in the super group playing on Conan's last show when he couldn't prove it all night. So I got to ask you guys, when it comes to playing on the final Tonight Show episode with Max Weinberg, the East Street Band drummer, who did it better? Beck did it better. Wow. That's a pull. That's a pull, Russell. That's a good pull. You guys have to go look it up.

[89:31]Watch Will Ferrell sing. Free Bird. It is fantastic. So good. To close out our fourth corner, Darkness on the Edge of Town. This is, I think he's still reaching back to like the Phil Spector, Darlene Love influence. I did read a little bit of stuff about this album where people said this is where he fully left R&B behind and embraced Heartland Rock or whatever. But this to me, he's still reaching back to R&B and Phil Spector.

[90:02]You're so smart. You guys remember Jungle Land? It was a great close to the album. I thought this was, you guys, Rob, you've been talking about the corners theory here. Everything has got a start and end really strong. I thought it was a great end of the album, too. Like, The Boss might be one of my favorites when it comes to starting and ending an album. Put some thoughts to it. He does a great job. I mean, every one we've done of his, it's a... And, like, I can't believe we, like, I can't, I'm not going to be able to go to bed tonight

[90:30]without hearing that full song. Like, we only got to just the... Like, just the point where he starts doing, like, the really getting into his vocals. Like, now I'm going to have to, like, as soon as we hang up from this, like, an hour from now when we get through the rating system, I'm going to have to put on Dark Side of the Edge of Town. Yeah. It's almost like we played just enough for fair use because we are doing critical review of this music. So, something to think about. And Aaron, you sent us a picture. You have this on vinyl. I do. Yes. And then you said you were surprised you still had it. Do you give records away or why did you think you didn't have it? I do on occasion get it. I thought I might have sent it to my brother in, like, a swap kind of thing.

[91:02]And also, like, I really love this album, but I don't listen to it often because it's a little bit intense. So, I thought I might have sent it to my brother, but I was excited to know that I still have it. In fact, he might have sent it to me in the first place. I think swaps between family members is not cool. You can't do that. Leads to awkward holiday gatherings. Yes. I'm so tired. I cannot figure out what you guys are talking about. I have no idea.

[91:32]Well, some people are good at setting up albums, and some people are actually good at setting up podcasts, and they put the rating system at the end like a normal podcast. Not like I read it. Don't see it. Everybody's favorite part of the show. The patent and very popular Beck Did It Better rating system. Oh, yeah. So, this is album. What are we up to now? 90?

[92:00]Is this 90? 91. 91? Oh, so I was wrong in the last episode. This is 91, The Darkness on the Edge of Town. If you think this is a perfect amount away from the edge of town, so it is perfectly dark, you can't see any of it, that would be a rolling well-toned, okay? If you think that this should be a little bit closer to the middle of town, which in this case is the number one album, so imagine a town, and in the middle is What's Going On by Marvin Gaye. And as we go, we're kind of going out to the suburbs, we're moving out, and we've come

[92:31]across this album. It should be closer. It should be closer to number one with this beautiful analogy I set up. That is a rolling bone. The album got boned. It should have been higher up. Or is this a rolling groan? You do not want to hear this album now. Why are you forcing me to listen to this? It should be farther out of town, okay? It should be way out in a cornfield somewhere. That is in the total darkness. I mean, that's so far out. It's so dark out there. You're not even on the edge of town anymore. That would be a rolling groan. So, is this a rolling well-toned?

[93:01]A rolling bone? Bone at 91? Or is this a rolling groan? Matt, what do you think? Again, we're going to get into a little bit of stats. There's five Bruce Springsteen albums on this list. That's a lot. Yeah. I mean, it feels like a lot. Like Born to Run, Born in the USA. For whatever reason, I remember liking Nebraska a lot. I got to go back. I love Nebraska, yeah. Yeah, I got to get back to that one. But I think this one kind of gets pushed out when you got the rest of those albums.

[93:31]And, you know, at 91, like if you told me it was like in the 300s or 400s, I'd get it. But much like the last album we did, there's like three or four great songs. And then there's a little bit of filler. And I just don't get it for a top 100 album of all time. So, I'm going to say it's rolling groan. It's weird because it's almost like every album we're doing is getting a little worse. And I don't want to think about how that's going to end up, like what the end point of that journey is. So, we're just not going to think about it. It's not a big deal.

[94:00]Rolling groan. Rolling groan. Made fire, which absolutely got rolling boned at 500. That's at 500? Yeah, that's bullshit. It won't be by the time we do this list a third time, guys. Rosie, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, or rolling groan? Man, this is tough because Matt is making such good points. It's hard to disagree with him. But I also, I think it's probably too much Bruce in the top 500. This is probably not a top 100 album. But I just can't say that the boss is rolling groan. So, I got to call it rolling well-toned.

[94:31]Russell, what do you think? Rolling well-toned, rolling bone, rolling groan? How close to the darkness on the edge of town is this album? Russell, please get it right. We're like 0 for 90. Please get it right. A lot of our super listeners aren't listening now, apparently. So, you can say whatever you want. Kevin's a dumbass. Oh, wait. They are listening. Shit, I don't even know what he's talking about. I enjoyed a lot of it. I enjoyed the piano. We never really talked about the saxophone with Clarence Clemons.

[95:01]Again, on this one, we talked a lot about him last time. But there's a ton of great sax moments that we didn't really even get to. For me, I thought a lot of it was awesome. There's too many songs that are too slow for me. The tempo's too slow. They drag a little bit. And so, I didn't really love that part of it. But listening to this back-to-back with the Neil Young album, there are wow moments on this that grab you and get you into the music and kind of grab you right by the stomach and the heart, right? Right by the sax. Right by the sax.

[95:30]Right by the sax. And so, for me, although there were some songs I didn't love, I think it's rolling well-toned. To me, this blows away what we just listened to by Neil Young on the last one, even though I thought some of the songs were a bit slow. So, I'm going to say rolling well-toned. Unfortunately, you guys are incorrect. Okay? And this is going to blow your mind. Gosh, shit. This gets a rolling... I couldn't understand you. I couldn't understand you there.

[96:00]Rolling well-toned? Yeah, it was... Yeah, or was it... Yeah, he was on his motorcycle going home. Like, we just don't know, you know. Vibraphone? Yeah, he's a middle... Eating an ice cream cone? He's in middle management-tation class. I don't know. So, listen. This album is great. No idea what's going on in the album, but it is lush. It is full. I love a well-produced album. This hit, you put on big headphones. You're in it. Okay? Aaron's right. You hear those sounds. You just want to jump up and yell. It sounds so, so good. But next week, okay? Think about this.

[96:30]Next week. The next week's album answers the question. What if Jimi Hendrix got way, way, way too high? What would happen? It's acts as bold as love for Jimi Hendrix. Yes. Nice. Rosie, you know what we got after that? What do we got? Super Duper Fly by Missy Elliott. Missy Elliott. It's going to be fun. It's a good pivot. Yeah, that'll be fun to do. If you want to hear four guys who chat and then they hit off back.

[97:00]I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack. Beck did it better. Rob, I brought my computer into the bathroom. As you can see, whenever I try to sit backwards on the toilet, my knee hits my bathroom fridge. Should I move the bathroom fridge to that corner or what corner should I move it so I can sit backwards on the toilet? You got to keep that toilet paper cold. So you got to be within reaching distance. You got to be able to reach it, right? So it's tough.

[97:30]Dave said, another one. I would consider moving the song parody filled with tons of inside jokes to the end of the show where the super listeners are and not be the first thing. Oh, okay. Okay. We'll see. Okay. Do you like this? Is this better? Let's hear the parody. R-K-R-O-B-K-R-O-B. This feels like we're starting over. This makes no sense. We're talking about our favorite ice cream. We're calling it.

[98:00]Make fun of Aaron. Who wouldn't be listening still? Well, I ask our listeners every episode. What's the number again? I ask to no avail. 802. I just say, could you take a second out of your stupid day? Leave us a quick voicemail. Who are the stupid idiots who listen to this for audio feedback and give it to us? And the thing is, when I give comments on the page, they're really good.

[98:38]I give good advice to other people. That's the weird thing. And then when I ask, I get really bad advice. Tell me shit.