R.E.M.: Automatic For the People (1992)

[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. We're all the way up, and this is going to blow your mind, guys. Album 96. We are at 96. That is crazy. This is R.E.M.'s automatic for the people. Guys, R.E.M.? That's like when James Bond emailed his boss about M, and the boss replied. Replied what? R.E.M. That was the subject. Oh, oh, look at the email. Oh, we're doing email jokes. Oh, yeah, yeah. Email subject line jokes. Okay, yeah, that's great. 96 episodes, you say, huh? Wait for next week's episode where they blind see.

[01:02]Oh, no, I'm working on my Spanish. Blind CC. Listen, I'm going to edit that. So the huge gap where you guys stare at me is going to be shrunk down. It was so funny. It did hit right away. Got any, like, inner office envelope jokes or something to talk about next, Rob? How's your fax machine joke game, Rob? Oh, my God. Now I'm trying to think of. Somebody asked me for, you know, can I have your contact information today? And I said, yeah. Okay. Okay. One of the things was fax. I just put N.A. Not applicable. I mean, faxes aren't even a thing anymore, are they? I bought one of those off eBay. I bought a fax machine. And every time it would come out and it would say, like, oh, Sherlock Holmes. And I was like, oh, I got duped. This is a fiction machine. Fictions machine. Fictions machine. Not a fax machine. Listen, we don't have time for this. Let's get into K-Rob. K-Rob. Let's just turn on the radio here. What's up, everybody?

[02:00]Welcome to K-Rob. K-R-O-B. Listen, it's been a minute since I've sung a song about Matt. So, let's hear what I'm going to write now. This song is all about Matt's favorite thing to do. Internet. Oh, yeah. The sleeves are long. Yes. And in bite might be something someone's outgrown. And they put it in a cell. Charles1342 at eBay.com. 99% satisfaction. Yes. A sweatshirt in the mail. That's great. That's a great thing. It causes a brightness in his eyes.

[03:02]It's a double sweatshirt that Matt buys. No Matt song in so long. But he's still. It's a part of the show when you want to hear about the greatest times of all time. That doesn't rhyme. There is part of me that is concerned when Matt finished the 500 list that if we get to 100, he's going to have an announcement that he's going to be honest. We've got to be nice as hell. He can't. Once again, Russell. Once again, Russell. You always do this to me. You always come in and you spoil all of my bits.

[04:03]You spoil them all. You stole Matt's material. I don't want to do this podcast bit. It's a version of Matt's stolen valor, but you can steal all of his bits. Listen, guys, if stealing valor is going to Top Gun in full Navy regalia and letting people salute me, then I guess I'm stealing valor. Okay. Sorry. Consider it stolen. Yeah. Also in a wheelchair dressed up like Fourth of July. I mean. Oh, no. Listen, what? The Top Gun is me. I got confused. Am I the only one who got. I got a Top Gun little medal at the premiere. Am I the only one you guys see in my Top Gun medal? I'm showing it to you guys. A little pin. For my stolen valor jacket that I wear out. Congratulations. On the medal, it says most dick put in the popcorn. I don't even. Why would they award that? Excuse me. It's not the Air Force. I'm actually a Navy fighter pilot.

[05:01]Idiots. Top Gun's not the Air Force. It's the Navy. That would explain why this popcorn is soaking wet. It doesn't. Listen. Guys, we talk about the top albums and we're talking. I'm talking. I got three guys here to talk about REM's automatic for the people this week. I've got Russell in Minnesota. Russell, how are you doing? Guys? Now, Aaron, did you hear about this one? Tell me. Is Matt having lettuce for lunch? Rob is impersonating Elvis. Hey, baby. This podcast loves languages. Touch. So much. That was deep. There were layers on top of layers of that one. You like that? I've got Matt in Minneapolis. Matt, how are you doing? You know, Rob, just excellent. Thanks for having me as always. Nice. And I've got in from the Bay Area. Okay. I've got Aaron. Shit, guys. Hang on a second. I forgot my shirt by the water's edge. I'll be right back. Night swimming. Is this going to be a complete skinny dipping episode or are we waiting till that song?

[06:01]We can just start with it, Rob. I just start with the skinny dipping. Yeah. All right. Everyone shirts off. We'll start with the shirts. Yeah. Is there anything scarier than skinny dipping when you're not circumcised? You just know it looks so tasty to fish. What do you mean? Anyway, listen, we don't have time for this. We got to get into this. Let's get into tonight's voicemail. Oh, no. Listeners are dumb shits. We got dumb shits back on the line? Oh, yeah. There's some nice to call us. Dumb shits. Just like dumbest of the dumb. Dumb shits. This is dumbest of the dumb. There's nothing wrong with your podcast player. This is a clip I chose. Did Matt make this or did you make this? What happened? This is still Matt's song. I'm picking bits, but I picked these so late at night, guys. In fact, I'm starting to think I wrote all these jokes very late at night. Fucking rubbish. Dumbest. Fucking rubbish. Dumbest. Fucking rubbish. Hey, fellas.

[07:01]Erin from Minneapolis. I thought I'd call and leave a voicemail. I was listening to the radio the other day and don't stop me now. She sounds so nervous. By Queen. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The kids and I were rocking out and I thought, man, I am surprised there's been no Queen on the list yet. I agree. Not a huge Queen fan, but I feel like they've got some serious singers and they're great. So maybe they just don't have like one album that really sticks out. But my question is, we're almost at 100 albums. What artist or group have you been surprised? I'm surprised is not showing up on the list yet. Pretty sure I know what Matt's going to say, but maybe he'll surprise me. But that is my question. Love the podcast. Keep up the good work. Bye. Listen, first of all, don't say we. Okay. You're not on the podcast. You're not on every episode.

[08:00]You've done like five albums. It's like people act like they're on the basketball team. Get the fuck out of here. Yeah. Just because you wear a full jersey to the game along with the naval uniform you can change it into later doesn't mean you're actually part of the team. Yeah. You're not part of the Air Force. You're part of the Navy. Great question. I appreciate the call. So yeah. What album? It is a great question. This came up for me. We heard Queen a week ago. We were out for lunch and heard Queen and had the same conversation. Are they on the list and why not? I think A Night at the Opera is probably their best selling album. 128. Yep. 128. They're coming up. They're coming up, but they didn't make the top 100. I just don't think they have many total solid albums, right? I think their albums are kind of like for every bicycle or whatever, there's something you've never heard of. Where they're going crazy on a synthesizer or whatever. I'd say about 13% of the stuff we've listened were not solid albums. So they had no business being ahead of any Queen album. Like if you took Queen's worst album, I don't even know what it is. And you throw that Bohemian Rhapsody song on it. That's better than 13% of what we've listened to, right? 13%. At least. And just in case you're interested.

[09:01]In case you're interested, feel free to go back and listen to our catalog. Okay. Russ doesn't mean that, that they're all bad albums. There's actually some good albums. And some of the worst albums are actually our best episodes. So don't. Quickly looking through. I mean, like Taylor Swift, you know, we've got some newer ones lately. I mean, I think 1989 is an unbelievable album. If you listen to it, it's kind of like when we heard Lemonade by Beyonce. Like when it went going into it, it was like, there's no way this is going to be anywhere good. And you listen to like banger after banger. Same thing with 1989 by Taylor Swift. Banger. Banger. Banger. Lemonade's going to be number one next time they do this list. There's no Beastie Boys yet. I don't know. I think they're extremely. I think they're extremely influential kind of in the mid to late 80s into the 90s for where a lot of things went. There's no U2. I hate U2. I really don't like U2. But as a band and how influential and how many albums they've sold and everything, there's no U2 in the top 100. I agree with that. I was going to say U2. I knew it was going to make Matt mad, but I think U2.

[10:02]Listen, Joshua Tree is a top 100 album. That's ridiculous that it's not on here. Yep. And then I think the last one I'm seeing, you know, Tom Petty passed away recently. I don't. I don't think you fully understand Tom Petty until you listen to like all of us. I mean, yeah. And you hear how everybody's kind of like Prince where you all of a sudden, I don't know if people really thought Prince was that influential until he died, you know, kind of the common folk. And then you heard how many people were like, oh, my goodness, he was like the best ever. And he is so influential and stuff. And I feel like Tom Petty is kind of the same way for a bunch of rock artists. Do you think they do you think the hardest part of Tom Petty's death was somebody having to identify that he was actually dead? They're like, well, he's he's he's very white. He's kind of pale, kind of bone emaciated. He doesn't look great, but I am. Is he dead? Because he always kind of looked like the Undertaker, didn't he? It's actually really hard from a data standpoint to know if someone's dead or not. If you've ever tried to deal with that at all, it's like figuring out if someone's

[11:00]actually dead is actually it's a lot harder than you think. I mean, even Tom Petty. How do you normally? Yeah. Go on. Now I need you to go on. I'm not talking about looking at a corpse and knowing. But I'm talking about yours or what are you like if you give like if you send someone a list of 100 people and say, tell me which of these people are dead, they're not going to get them all correct. It's hard to do to know if somebody's dead or not. This is what happens when I'm not leading the conversation here. Russell, what would you say? What would you say for what artist you'd want to listen to? And please don't mention how hard it is to figure out if people are dead or not. There are two of them I would like to bring up. But first, I want to give Matt some props because Matt brought up or actually our caller. I want to give our caller some props, too. I just Googled the best bands ever. And here's who pops up first in a Google search. The Beatles, The Stones, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, U2, which Matt mentioned, ACDC, Queen, Black Sabbath was the next one up on the list. Black Sabbath Radio had the Ramones.

[12:00]So we've covered most of the bands so far. What about Earth, Wind & Fire or Funkadelic? Wait, I just put something in common. That's I think that's fair. Eric, I just Googled it. That's very fair. Yeah, I think Aaron's white about something, but I can't figure out what it is. But these bands that everybody loves on the Internet, it's so weird. So so the two that jumped out to me, the first one is the album that jumps out to me that I think I don't know if it should have been up here, but I think I don't know where it's on the list. Maybe Matt can check it out. But we maybe mentioned this before. I think Doggy Style by Snoop Dogg. You go back and look at the songs that are on Doggy Style. There's just hit after hit and super awesome songs. And part of me wonders if. If let's say Snoop Dogg made four albums and then called it quits, this would be way up there. I just think he's kind of become a parody of himself. So people don't want to put him that high. But I think top to bottom, it's better than the chronic. I think the chronic brought it up a couple of times. But the problem is, the problem is right, is that I don't think I think when they're picking rap, they've been picking the influential ones, not the I mean, it's Snoop Dogg.

[13:04]Did Doggy Style really influence anything? I mean, he's so unique. That sound. I don't know. It was huge. Yeah, it was huge. But I hear what you're saying. Yeah. From an overall, like, number of hits on an album. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's at 340, by the way. I'm trying to click here just to see. Here's just some of the songs. Gin and Juice. Lottie Dottie. This G-Funk intro is huge. Murder was the case. Who am I? What's my name? Ain't no fun. Right. Yeah. It's just. Yeah. It's a murderer's row of hit songs, isn't it? Yeah. For sure. It's got nothing to do with the fact that album came out when you were like 13. Right. There's no way that the 13 to 18 age range. Yeah. What we think all good albums are. You know what, though, Rob? Bring our listeners behind the scenes. We got a heads up that this question was coming. But, like, what other way is there for us to relate and say, hey, this is the one I really think needs to be there. Like, I'm not going to pick something from the 50s or something like that. I have no relation to that music. That's why we're listening to the list is to be exposed to new music that we haven't

[14:02]listened to before. So the only thing I can go to is go to back to what I grew up with. I like what you're saying. Exposed to nudes music. I'm the other one I'm going to say. And I don't even know this is on the list. I have a feeling it won't be on the list. And I know I'm going to get mocked for it. And I'm not saying it should be up this high. But you know who I want to hear eventually is Bon Jovi. Slippery when wet. Oh, nice. Hits. Hits all over that one, too. And I know it's not like this influential album. But if you look at it, you got living on a prayer, wanted dead or alive. You give love a bad name. There are hits all over that. And I know I know this isn't a popularity. It's not the biggest commercial hits. But that's that's that album's got rocking songs. All over it, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, you're right. It must have. That had to have been number five or one on the list. Yeah, that was it. Had to win five. If there's someone who who sat down with me over a beer and told me they like Radiohead more than that album, we wouldn't be having a second beer. I'll just tell you that.

[15:00]That would hold on a sec. Hold on a sec. I got to get a. Nope. Looking right. Oh, no. You have to end our next happy hour early. Easier when having a beer with Russell. OK, OK, we can continue. Aaron, what do you think? Yeah, I think that I have. Well, I feel like I say something about this every week about the artists that we edit. That should be up there. A lot. We edit a lot. But I think I think Russell is on to something with Bon Jovi because the artist that I thought of last week is Madonna. And I haven't I haven't done. I don't know. I don't know. Madonna's albums well enough to know which one should be up there. But she was so big. But I feel. I feel like the 80s get. I feel like the people who made this list put a lot of stuff from the 80s on that sort of like niche, you know, so from the 80s, we get talking. We get Kate Bush and they sort of look down at pop music from the 80s. But then it's cool to put on pop music from the 2000s because that makes us cool.

[16:03]I mean, for whatever reason. But Madonna is number one for me. And then I would say the two albums that I would put in the top 100 that we have not heard and may not hear at all are Willie Nelson, Redheaded Stranger. Yes. And Madonna. And Nina Simone, Pastel Blues. Both of those should, to me, be in the top 100. So Willie Nelson's at 237. So we will get to that one. Oh, OK. All right. Redheaded Blues and then Nina Simone. Which one? I think Pastel Blues would be. I mean, that's her first album. Yeah. There's Wild is the Wind is at 212. OK. So she's going to. I mean, that's the top half. That's pretty good. Listen, guys. Matt has said it before. And of course, Matt's the smartest guy on the podcast. He's saying the smart stuff there. There has yet to be country represented on this list. And when I think of the greatest country album of all time, it's only got the greatest opening of all time. What do you got? Hello. I'm Johnny Cash. Yes. Live. Wilson Kershaw. I mean, you can't beat it. It's a great album. It is a tremendous album.

[17:02]It just. I mean, it just is like this whole genre of music boiled down. And it's a whole. It's a whole vibe. God, I love this album. I could listen to this. All day. And I have many times. Right. So what are the next country? Well, 164 is that album will be coming up at 164. Just so you know. We're over halfway there, guys. Just barely. Or 2024, maybe. Oh, no. What a day. I mean, I'll give you one thing. That album. I mean, that should at least be like 155 or lower. Because there's something called like, let it be by the replacements or something like that. I was going to say that. Definitely be ahead of that. So it should definitely be at least 155. I cannot. I cannot wait till we skip that album. Matt, I hate to do your own bid on you, but take your earphones out for a second.

[18:03]Okay. Okay. Rob and Aaron, just a warning. I, you know how Aaron's poached my list a few times. I'm pretty sure Matt is named four of my bands on the list already. I think you're right. I think I'm right. Impressive. He's screwing you over. Impressive. He's just taking me out behind the woodshed here. And Russell, I'm drinking all this Sprite. So I don't know if that's coming up later, too. We'll see. We never know. All right, man. Put your headphones back on. Nope. Matt's gone. He's logged off of Zoom. That's too bad. Listen, let's get into Roland going. Normally, I have a joke to move to that segment, but there's no joke about the top 100 albums. Rob, how did you get a hold of the Beck line? That person was nice enough to call in. How do you get a hold of it? 802-277-7000. Beck, 802-277. You can call or text, but honestly, just call. Don't text. It's so much easier when you call it. I can just download that voicemail, put it right in. And speaking of which, guys, I've got a voicemail for my Roland going to start today because I've got big news.

[19:02]Big news? From the voicemail line. Well, guys. Let's hear it. Hey, guys. It's Matt, New York's favorite freak. I just got one question for you today. What kind of person do you think uses Samsung? Samsung podcast. That's it. So we have somehow blown up. So I sat down one morning and I do what I always do. Yes. Okay. I put on my noise canceling headphones to ignore my family and I looked at her downloads. Okay. Which I do more often than I would like to admit. And I looked and I saw that in one day. Now, normally in one day, we'll get, you know, the first couple of days, we'll get maybe a hundred, maybe 150. One day we had 1800 downloads. Great. 1800 downloads. 1800 downloads. That's like Russ's. That's like if all of Russ's old bumble dates listened at once and they were all like, wait, I went to the new, the victory theater with Russell. I want to listen to this too. It's either that or it's my blood alcohol after we get done recording two episodes.

[20:01]It's just going to be Aaron and I at the end. So here's the thing is that we got 1800 in one day and I, I texted the guys and I said, listen, I think somebody at my work found this podcast and I'm fired. So goodbye. This will be the end. I'll have more time to vote for this, but we basically blew up. And it turns out the reason is, is that this podcast was featured. Hey, right next to Aaron's favorite podcast, Joe Rogan. We were right next to him on the Samsung podcast app. Yeah. To which all of us said, what the fuck is the Samsung podcast app? And Russell, you did some investigation. Okay. And we're not going to tell you whose phone you're looking at. It's not a big deal. And how you knew the passcode to get in. I don't know. Who knows? Okay. I didn't know if you guys were iPhone. Guys are not. I'm like, I don't know if the Samsung app is only for Samsung phones. I'm assuming it is, but so I was looking at it and it, I spent like an hour trying to figure out how to get to the Samsung app on my phone. Cause I have a Samsung rate and I legit could not figure it out. Like I went to like the Google play store, tried to download it.

[21:02]Not on there. I went to the Samsung, whatever you buy. I've never bought anything on the Samsung app before. I didn't even know there was one. Oh my God, Russell. I'm at the Samsung store all the time. I love the stuff. They have. They have like TVs maybe. And I want to say boom boxes, but I probably, I probably don't make those anymore. I actually used to go to the Samsung store a lot, but then they put my ice cream under lock and key and I was like, F this. I'm out of here. Fuck these guys. So then I'm looking at the Samsung app and it says it's already down installed on my phone and I'm looking and it's not there. And so I'm, I'm looking through my phone. Can't find it. Can't find it. It's signed for us. It's not good. So then I, um, uh, talk to a listener, a listener. Who also has a newer Samsung phone. And when I was reading that newer Samsung phones come with this app, that's called Samsung free. So I just want to stop Russell right now. Yeah. This is how excited we get about our podcast is Russell's doing this Samsung app or related

[22:00]research where he's calling multiple people, begging people about that. No, it's just so funny that we're like, guys, we got more downloads than normal. And then instantly we go into full like a Perry Mason mode. This is one of my. This is one of my nights with one of our listeners the other night. I'll just be honest about it. It's like, I'm sorry. I go fast. That normally doesn't happen, but I was thinking about all the downloads. That's what she said. Essentially though, it turns out it's on this app, which is on all new Samsung phones and you can get to it on old Samsung phones. If you click a bunch of stuff, that's really complicated, but you're right, Rob. I clicked on it and I found we were featured as a trending podcast right next to Joe Rogan and the number one episode that was download. I mean, we had the, we had the, we had the, we had the, we had the, we had the, we had like hundreds of downloads of almost every episode, but the number one by far was our Stooges episode, which is the one that is currently released. And so I was like, okay, so we have 1800 new listeners. They download the podcast. They're like, oh wow, this Beck did it better. They got a professional looking logo. You know, let's listen to it. And I believe that's the episode where we did an improv skit.

[23:02]If the Stooges were on mushrooms and at some point it involved a clear toilet because we started the episode talking about sitting on the toilet backwards. That's how we started with the backwards toilet. Uh, and then it's actually an AC Slater, Rob, if you remember, right? And then we went into a bit about Rube Goldberg machines and then mushrooms. And I would just like to read this part from the email that Russ wrote about the, uh, episode where he said, and I quote funny episode, but there's a little too much, uh, jacking off humor for me. I was like, oh, that's good. Then that's the one that's getting down to the masses. So listen, for those of you listening on a Samsung app, okay. What the fuck are you doing? Like, think about what you're doing with your life. Delete the app, delete this podcast. Get out of here. We don't need you. You're actually a loser. We don't want you. Okay. If you're listening on the Samsung app, fuck off. Okay. That's my message to everybody who's listening. You're kind of onto something, Rob. Like, can you imagine if you went and bought a new Samsung phone and you like, oh, I got

[24:00]this new app. All the podcasts are right here. And it's like, this is what they're teeing up for me. I don't know about that. No. Well, how about this? How about this? If somebody who doesn't know us found us on the Samsung app, would you please call in and tell us? Anyone. Yeah. Will you please call in and say like, just, just so we know how the hell you can call us, Rob. They can call it 802-277-BECK. Give me your Venmo. I'll Venmo you a dollar. I will just Venmo you a dollar if you do that. That's your job is to see if any of you old ass people with new Samsung phones have downloaded us and then listen to an entire episode about AC Slater on a clear toilet. And then as Russell put it, all the jacking off humor and then listen to two more episodes into the future. I'll give you that. At this point. Yeah. We're three episodes beyond what they would have been initially exposed to. So they're going to have to really have to hang on. And I can tell you the number of people who listen to Samsung podcast apps and have Venmo is zero. Those Venn diagrams are two separate circles. They're a pair of glasses. Happy New Year's. You know what I mean? It's awful. Rolling going, Rosie, how's it going with you?

[25:02]It's been a good week. I've been trying to read again a little bit more and I really like weird fiction. I'm a big fan of Jeff Vandermeer's work and I started to think, well, if I've, if I like, weird fiction, I should try to get into HB Lovecraft. So I'm trying to read Lovecraft, uh, mountains of, uh, I think it's called mountains of madness. I can't remember now. I should have written down the title of the book and I've got my phone locked to, I'm so fascinated with what you think, because I've always wanted to read, read Lovecraft and I've never gotten around to it. And it's, should I, Aaron, is it worth it? Is it worth my time? It's, I mean, so far it's great. It's about it. Well, strangely enough, it's about an Antarctic expedition where like weird shit starts happening. But of course you start thinking, okay, this guy was, it's around in the twenties and thirties, you know, you like, just, just don't look at his, don't look up his views on, you know, people and equality and things like that. That's yeah. Don't do that. HB doesn't love everything craft. No, he doesn't, doesn't love everybody. No, unfortunately. But yeah, I like it. It's, I think it's worth it. I think it's worth the readout, but you know, I like weird fiction.

[26:01]I like the, the mind space it puts me in when I, when I can get there. How do you get your name? How do you think you get your name to just be your two initials? Like, do you just say, oh, my name's HP or is his name something like? Maybe is his name? Hanky Panky Lovecraft. Oh my God. His name is Hanky Panky Lovecraft. I think it might be if you're like a junior and you don't want to go by junior. So it'd be like, if your dad's name was the same name, Robert, don't you and your dad have the same name? How come you guys go by the same name? Listen, call me Mr. Call me, call me Hanky Panky. Mr. Lovecraft. So can we call you like, well, you know, Rob's your name. So like Bob is, you know, typically Bob is the name. So we call you like Bob Jr. We just call you BJ. From now on, Matt, we don't use last names on this podcast. How long have you been thinking of that joke, man? Damn it. I ruined it. You've had that in your back pocket for quite some time. Good afternoon. My name is RW Disco Ball. R-M blank.

[27:00]Hanky Panky Lovecraft sounds like a stripper name for somebody who just kind of gave up. Like they just looked at the words coming up next to the stage. It's Hanky Panky Lovecraft. Put your grin in and drop your lid in. That's what it is. Put your grin in and drop your lid in. I thought it was like, quit your whiffing and start your sniffing. I couldn't remember. Oh, Eric. Eric. Eric. I'm not sure. To all you dumb fucks with a Samsung podcast app, I'm so sorry, Eric. Okay. I'm so sorry. You're a disclaimer. It's like in those porn magazines. I can't remember how the thing goes. So yeah, we're trying to read Lovecraft at night, but it's a little bit spooky. And then I sometimes forget where I'm at. Oh, Lovecraft, baby. But the really exciting news. For me is that I got me a Cthulhu. It's as big as a whale. You don't love craft. To set sail. Yeah. So Cthulhu doesn't appear in this one. I guess that's from another short story. I'm not going to get there yet, but there's some other, you know, paranormal kinds of

[28:00]activities. Well, that's, that's too bad that there's two of them, you know, a paranormal. Well, it's like, hello? No. Yeah, I got it. I got it. I think we can. I. I was going to give you the one on Aaron. I was really excited so far. What's really. So Aaron's rolling on so far as I'm reading a book. Well, this isn't that the usual thing. I mean, the next thing, what's really, I'm telling you, I'm trying to tell you, it's really exciting, which is. And then he's like, and then he's like, oh, I fucked my bread machine and see what happened. Okay. Too dirty. No, Rob. The second part is. I don't want to say no, but. Well, would you say no? It makes me want to come up with a scenario where he's. It's stone fruit season, guys. This is such a fun season. What is stone fruit? When the nectarines start to come out and they're ripe, they're beautiful peaches. But once again, I'm always reminded. Oh, fuck. It's stone fruit season. I haven't had my knife sharpened. What? Stop saying that.

[29:01]We're going to get a shirt that says Beck did a better on the front on the back. It's going to say it's stone fruit season. When stone fruit season happens, you got to have a sharp knife because. And I got to brush up on my technique too, because cling stone fruit tastes better than free stone fruit, but they're hard work, man. Like. I don't know what a stone fruit is. What is he talking about? Yeah, you're going to have to explain. Stone fruit. I don't know. I feel like I'm a stone fruit right now. I have no idea what I'm talking about. You said like cling stone fruit? Yeah, yeah. Cling stone are the ones that. So peaches, plums, nectarines, those are the major ones. How would you rank them from worst to first? Oh, for me, it's nectarines, then plums, and then peaches is number one with a bullet. Oh, God. Get the fuck out of here. Have you ever had stone fruit before? How do you rank those stone fruits in that order? What the hell? Oh, my God. This is your number one stone fruit podcast now. But cling stone fruit tastes better. Cling stone is harder to get off the pit. So as you're cutting into the free stone fruit, I think it's probably like genetically

[30:01]engineered. It just comes right off the pit. No problem. But it doesn't taste as good. But tonight I was trying to cut up a nectarine for my son and I bruised it because my knife skills aren't there. And it was a beautiful, you know, delicious cling stone nectarine. But so I got to work on it. But I'm excited because it's stone fruit season. Matt, you have some thoughts. Do you? You can't possibly have thoughts about that. Can you? I've got none. My brain is an empty void. I'm trying to I'm trying to talk over Rob's that you and I could just have this conversation. I like it. I think I get as excited as you get about stone fruit. I get it about watermelon. And we're coming into watermelon season. You get it. And I could eat. I think I could eat nothing but watermelon. I really want to try for like a week. Just nothing but watermelon. To see what happens. Oh, please. Probably end up like. Oh, my God. You just set Rob up for a ton of disgusting jokes. I love it. Just get him out of your system, Rob. There's going to be nothing coming out of you that feels like a stone fruit. If you're just eating watermelon for a week.

[31:00]I'll tell you what. It's going to be a disaster. I don't think you're supposed to eat the stone part of the stone fruit though, are you? I don't usually, no. That's the only part I eat. I've been throwing everything else away. But I will say, I will rank it, Rosie. I will put a solid peach. I mean, the problem with peaches. Is you have to get them exactly perfect, right? I mean, like you have to get them perfect. And my mother-in-law, Patty, she's a loyal listener. For whatever reason, she's like an expert at finding. That's the mother-in-law that you didn't take to the Rolling Stones concert, right? That's the one you got. That's the one that doesn't want me to talk about my penis so much. That's the one. I wouldn't say she's the only one. She told you. That's not like a lot of mother-in-laws I've seen online, I've noticed. Oh, wait, no. The stepmom. I keep getting that confused. I keep getting that confused. So, I don't know. So, Rosie, these other guys, I mean, I feel your passion. I get it. And I think I'm with you. It's fruit season. And there's nothing worse than like really bad grapes. You know, if you go to the store when they're out of season.

[32:02]And really bad watermelon. Skip it, right? They're trying to like, yeah, they're trying to get. Oh, but we're coming into watermelon season. So, I'm with you. I don't know, guys. I got to be eating more fruit, I think. Yeah, you got to eat some stone fruit. You got to figure out what's, I don't know. I mean, but you're like. You live on an island. I mean, there's no fruit trees on your island, right? So, I mean, like. Well, no, there is the fruit stand. Okay, so this is a real super embarrassing story. There is a fruit stand guy on the island who runs a fruit stand. It's right by the subway. The problem is, is that it's humiliating. Because when I go to the fruit guy and I take a step toward him. The first thing he does is he grabs the bag of potatoes. Because that is the only thing I buy from the fruit guy is a bag of potatoes. It's absolutely humiliating. And he tries to, he's like, hey, do you want some strawberries or some bananas? I was like, no, this is a bag of potatoes. It's just the one bag. And so everyone else is like, oh, what are the Kiwis like? What is this like? And I'm like, I'll take the potatoes. You know, I'm going to make air fryer fries tonight.

[33:00]Like, I'm not eating any stone fruit. I'm not doing anything else. It's absolutely the worst. There's nothing like going to the farmer's market to throw it in an air fryer, right? Like the beauty of going to the farmer's market to throw it in an air fryer. Yep. I love it. Excuse me. Do you have any more jalapeno poppers back there? What are the mozzarella sticks like today? Russ, rolling going. How's it going with you? Okay. Yeah. So I went on a cool adventure the other night. Actually, in downtown Minneapolis, they put up a mural of Prince. It was like seven years in the works, like seven story high mural. I sent you guys a picture of it, but I went to this and they had a DJ. They had a band. And I wanted to ask you guys some questions about like an outdoor festival or an outdoor concert. See how you would react to some of those situations. Yeah. Okay. And Aaron, don't, don't say that you're going to hide in the port-a-potty. Don't say that. Aaron, have you stopped hiding in the port-a-potties at outdoor festivals? I don't think I've ever hidden in it.

[34:01]Well, I probably, I probably have hidden in the port-a-potty. So you stopped. That's good. I'm glad you stopped. Okay, Russell, I'm so sorry that Aaron interrupted you. So this was a great show. You get up there. There's a Prince, or I don't know if you call them a cover band or whatever, but a band that was playing Prince music. I'll have to look up the name of it. I'll get it to you guys in a minute. But they were playing Prince. They were playing Prince. They were doing a great job playing amazing music. There was a couple thousand people there. It was food trucks, a great time and everything. But my first question is at a concert or specifically an outdoor concert, what is someone's dancing radius? So like when you're dancing at a concert, are you allowed to like go outside of like a three foot? Are you allowed to move outside of the edges of your feet? Or if you're moving beyond like a three, four foot spot, is that too much? Or how much are you allowed to dance in an outdoor or even an indoor concert? First of all, let's be very clear. We all know there's a positive correlation between how far away from the stage you are and that radius, right? Okay. The closer to the stage, the closer in the radius goes. I think when you're at an outdoor concert, you can take one step in a direction and then

[35:05]step back that way. I think that's what you have for radius. I think that's it. One step each way. Yep. And honestly, if your hands are going out past that when you're dancing, you got to dance smaller. You know what I mean? Like the hands shouldn't be moving that much anyway. We should just be sitting there be bopping. I don't know. I think it depends on how sweaty you are. You know, the more sweaty you are, the bigger, the smaller your radius needs to get. Does that mean you only get half a step? You get no steps if you're a sweaty person or not? I think, yeah. As the night progresses and you become more and more drenched, you got to get closer. I'm going to have to send some apology emails tomorrow, man. That's some smart shit, Aaron, because it is, there is nothing worse than being somewhere and the sweaty guy rubs up against you. It ruins your whole day. You cannot get that feeling out of your head. It's just like, it's the worst. I am a person who... Who thinks about my spatial relation and how it's being violated at all times when I'm at outdoor events. You'd be surprised to know that. Fun guy. Everybody, yeah. So, I mean, you know, it's a wrap point there.

[36:02]At all times. If you really, I mean, it really depends, right? I mean, if you really want to be like a free-flowing hippie who's dancing and all this stuff, right? There's plenty of room in the back and you can still see most of the time. There's usually a big screen, stuff like that. That's for you. If you want to get up close, you know what I mean? Like you can... You're just... It's this whole social contract thing, right? I mean, like, you have no right to be throwing elbows into somebody else who's right next to you if everybody else is there, right? Now, so, I mean, I always get the wide stance. You know, the people always start backing up into you. So, I just... I mean, you guys are watching me. I always put my finger out. Just put my elbow in and put my finger out, you know, because as soon as somebody backs up and they touch, you know, that's... I mean, they're not going back any farther. That's, you know... And so, you got to poke them in the back. Just to let you know, Matt has his hand below waist level. Slightly. You know? Check it for oil. Seems wrong to me. I don't know. You know? But again, I mean, it's the whole thing, right? Like, everybody's just trying to shuffle to get... And I'm a shorter person, so I'm always trying to get a better view, you know, when I'm at

[37:02]these festivals because there's always a taller person or somebody's got big hair or something. You know? So, you're always trying to just get a good sight but kind of keep it in line with, you know, everything else. You don't want to run up against somebody. And there's, I mean, obviously, there's those concerts where everybody is rushing the stage and things like that. I don't do those anymore. Because that's just silly at our age. But, no, I think, Russell, if you want to be a full-on dance, I mean, you just got to, you have to take it upon yourself to go to the back or find some open area but not invade other people's spaces. Matt, you had mentioned people with their phones up and everything. My next question I had is, what is your responsibility when you're at an outdoor festival and everyone's got their phones up but there's room for kind of people to maneuver to the middle if you want? Do you have to, like, not ever walk in front of everyone? Because they've got phones up and they're recording the whole concert. Absolutely. Just kiss my ass. Walk right in front of them. Did you guys see? Honestly, though, did you guys see this thing? Tiger was golfing.

[38:00]What was it? In the PGA. And then he was in the crowd. So he hit an errant shot. He's in the crowd, right? And so there's this picture. And there's 50 people surrounding him, right? They're all within, let's just say, 10 yards of him. 49 of the people have their phone up and recording it. And there's one dude who's just holding the beer right in the front. That guy got a name, image, and likeness deal. And they made a commercial for him. Like, you know, like, some people are here for the beer or something. I don't forget what it is. But it was so awesome. It was so great. And now that guy's famous. And I wish I could get a signed picture from that guy because it's so great. You know, Matt, you know, Matt, some people, though, I was there for that, actually. And I had my phone up. But I was looking at a Bing search for stuck in dryer. So that's holding it out. But I was trying to see a little different. Yeah. Because you can't zoom in on videos. Do you know that? I think the Bing app is right next to the Samsung. I bet the one where you can't, nobody can find it, right?

[39:00]Yeah. But I mean, like, wait, there's two kinds of people, right? There's the people that just want the 15 seconds for their Insta. And then they're back to, like, the concert, right? All good. Or like, hey, you're at some stage and somebody's, like, coming over to your side or something. Like, get your 10, 20 seconds, right? Right. But it's the people that are holding up their phones for 9,000 hours. And we're going to get in trouble with one of our listeners because, actually, Music Man Mike, Magic Mike 69, has been recording these Pearl Jam shows that he's at and puts them on YouTube. And I love watching them. So he does it. I like it. I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth a little bit here. But he is not, like, holding it up and doing, you know, like, he's putting. Russell, we know that you're the guy with the iPad. You're the guy with the iPad in the front holding up the iPad and taking a video with it. I even have, like, a selfie light. So I've got lighting on me. So I've got a ring light. Yeah, nice. I look. I don't want to have too many shadows. Did you have an experience, Russell, with somebody, like, holding the phone up so you couldn't see anything?

[40:03]I think when you go to an outdoor. So when you go to an indoor concert, it's, like, stadium seating. So, really, there's not usually stuff right in front of you. But when you're outdoors and everyone's just standing, it's like a block party. Everyone's on the same street. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. You kind of have to maneuver and stand certain angles to see. But when 30% of the people have phones up, it's like, wait, am I allowed to walk in front of these people to get to the middle? Or do I, can I not walk anywhere? It's hard to know what you're able to do. Have you ever watched a video from a concert that you took? Like, I've taken videos at, like, the Amy B. Johns. I've never once watched it. Why would I? It's, oh, hmm. I want to relive my memory in a slightly shaky frame. And the sound is bad. And it's mostly just me breathing in the background. I was like. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm going to say there is one instance, and this is what I was referring to it. Krista from Kirsten from Edina had one where she was at a concert, a JT concert, and she was, like, on the rail, but, like, on a far out part of the stage, and JT came around,

[41:03]right? And so she got a video with him and all this. She's, like, five feet away from him. Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I think he goes by JTT. JTT. Yeah. Is this when he went with Goth? Those are my favorite episodes of Home Improvement. When he went with Goth. Home Improvement. Well, like, that's cool, right? I mean, I don't know. I didn't see Grace's home. Watching from 15 rows back, I mean, a concert or something, it's just, it's worthless, you know, if you ask me. So. Do you think my son loves, do you think my son loves Jesus? He's all dressed up like Goth. I don't think so, Tim. All of my concert going was pre-cell phone camera era. I don't even, like, when I was going to first half, nobody had a camera. Hey, next concert you go to, be prepared. I mean, like. Amazing. I didn't even know this. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Wow. And I'm, I'm going to edit this out, but just, do you think anyone's ever made a Wilson from Home Improvement glory hole joke? Where if you pan the camera down, his erect penis is sticking through the fence. And he's, and he's wearing like a, a, a red cable flash condom.

[42:07]Planned. I mean, planned. Not cable flash, planned. You can only see half of that head too. That's brilliant. There's another fence down below. It's like, he's like in the glory hole. And then there's a fence. And then there's a fence. And then there's a fence. It's like, just like here, you can see it's just, just a little bit. So you can't quite identify it. Right. I also ran into, we were talking about people with the phones. There was a guy standing a few feet over from me and he was one of the people recording the songs. And then he was looking at the video and started playing the video for about 45 seconds. Instead of listening to the live band, I was listening to this guy's music blaring through his phone. And he just complete unawareness that, Hey, I'm ruining this. I'm ruining this for other people. Oh my God. I would tap him on the shoulder and be like, Hey, you're ruining this for other people. Like I would just tell him like, you, you actually absolutely cannot replay what I just

[43:00]saw. It would be like, nevermind. It's just this. Okay. Listen, if you're going to make a sex tape, you don't watch it right after. Right. You don't watch it. Like you don't just get done and be like, Oh, you know, what we should do is watch what we just did. Like I drank so much coffee before we did this. I thought it was going to work out fine. It didn't. What? The hole in the fence was too big. It turned out. That was a problem. Too big. What does that even mean? Sorry, Russell. Rolling going. Who else has got something? Matt. Matt. What's up? I don't have much this week. My question for you guys. Yeah. I've been trying to figure this out because I went out for my wife's birthday yesterday and we were, we were at a place, Rob, you and I went there, a place called Rosalia in Minneapolis. And I think it might be. The best pizza that I've ever had. I've been there a number of times, but then I got to thinking, cause the boys were asking, like, is there, is there really a bad pizza?

[44:02]Have you guys had bad pizza and is there a kind of bad pizza? And I'm talking about like frozen pizza, stuff, crust, deep dish, thin crust. Is there a bad pizza out there? Yeah. Did you guys, did you get, did you guys have those rectangle slices on your school lunch tray? They were like soggy and kind of gray on the top. That was bad. That was bad. That could be bad. Mad produce. But at the time, was it bad for you? I don't think so. At the time. I tell you what, I tell you, I've got my favorite day of my favorite day of the week. Rosie is Tuesday nights. Cause Tuesday nights, I don't have to make lunch for the boys for the next morning because Wednesday is pizza day. That's the only one that the boys will do hot lunch for. So I don't have to make all I got. I got to do this. Aaron has the same thing. He's like, oh, Tuesday night. This is great. Cause Wednesday is stone for day. My kid is going to go crazy on this thing. He just pairs. Yeah. But I just, I just don't, I mean like there might be a couple like really bad frozen pizzas,

[45:03]but like a good Jack's pizza, like four bucks and a Jack's, you know, for Jack. Actually, I have a hot take on pizzas that are not good. You guys ready to hear this hot take? I want to hear it. This is what I came for. I think sausage pizza is horrible. Oh, any pizza from any pizza place. That is a sausage. Only pizza is horrible. Only pizza is awful. Like why would anyone get a sausage pizza over pepperoni or anything else that was available? Anyone who gets a sausage pizza, get the fuck out of here. You have terrible tastes in food. Then Russell goes on the internet, looks to see what a pepperoni looks like when it's not cut up. And he's like, oh my God, it's a sausage. Russell, that gets my hot take and bake of the week. That was a great pizza take. Sausage is garbage. And so are olives. People who are putting olives on pizza. Please go download your Sam's Sam. I mean, yeah. Black olives, Kalamata olives, green olives with pepperoni.

[46:01]Just load them on there. I'm with you, man. I think Godfather's might be bad pizza. And I think that might be where Russell's sausage issues come from. Don't say Russell's sausage issues. We don't need to talk about my sausage issues. Russell has sausage issues. They use those little tiny sausages that are kind of gross. You don't need to completely sell me down the road about talking about my little sausage issues. Places that have the big meaty, craggy kinds of sausage. They put them on there raw in big clumps. That's what that was. Gross. I'm a neighbor. I'm having little sausage issues. So I think Godfather's might be bad pizza, but I haven't had it for many years. I was trying to make a pizza dough nude and this gloopy mascot. I mean, I can't get off. And you know what Tim would say? Needs more flour. Needs more flour. This is our home improvement episode. That's where we're at. So, Aaron, so you say Godfather's.

[47:02]That says there is no bad pizza. How about you, Rob? You're just saying olives. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. Have you ever tried to make your own crust of a pizza and then cook that pizza on a grill? And then that crust immediately goes from a perfectly thin, nice crust to a misshapen, Quasimodo-type pizza that none of your family will eat even though you put all this time in. Got to poke holes in that crust, Rob. Got to poke holes in that crust. If only anyone on here knew something about making pizzas. I just, I cannot make a good homemade pizza and dough to save my life. It is absolutely, it's a nightmare. I'll tell you, the biggest, don't try to make your own dough. Just go up to a, I think we've probably talked about this. Yeah, we 1,000% have. Yeah, go to a pizza place. We have new listeners now. They need to hear this. Tell them. Say, listen, I've got a little sausage problem. I need some dough. Please. Either go to your pizza place and say, look, can I just buy a ball of dough? Let them, you know, they've done all the work. Or there's places that sell them.

[48:00]Most places just sell them. They'll give it to you for five bucks or something like that and go from there. Don't make your own dough. Worthless. And don't use your own little sausages. So, thoughts. Homemade pizza or homemade cake. What is better? Homemade pizza or homemade cake? Homemade cake. Homemade cake. Yeah. Homemade cake. Never, never, ever good. Pizza's never work out. No. I've never had good luck making pizza. No. And it's always like, you're like, oh, this will be good. And then somehow you put too much cheese on there. And you're like, wait, I've never had. And it's like thick and wet. And it's like, I don't. You know what else I don't like in pizza? This is going to be another hot take. Uh-oh. People who cut their pizza in not in a triangular fashion and cut in like squares all the way across. What? Party cutting. Hey, hey. Who loves the middle of the pizza where you have nothing to grab onto? What? This is like a triangle, like a normal pizza. What the hell? This is a party cut. Come on. You didn't love. You didn't love Bill's and Basil's back in the day with the party cut. Like those little squares. It's like. Party cut. It's like eating a potato chip. You just like one, like one whole square at a time.

[49:01]Yeah. I was going to argue against you, Russ, and say no. Because that. Your old pizza right now. What? That your old pizza, right? Yeah. I was like, I was like, Russell, you're wrong because. And then I realized what I like is the piece on the edge with the crust and everybody can have that. Yeah, that's what you want. Everyone just picks around those middle ones. You're right. Oh, I like the party cut. I'll eat. You guys, we should get together and eat pizza. I'll eat the middle pieces. You guys can eat the outside pieces. It's great. Aaron's probably the guy who's like, oh yes, I like the new way Subway cuts their bread for a sandwich. Get out of here, Aaron. The old way is better. And they still legally have to do that for you. There's a new way? They still legally have to do the old way if you ask. Okay. And you can actually make quite a scene. Okay. And be like, oh, do you think I served four years in the Navy for you not to make this sandwich the way I want to? What is the new way? What is the new way of cutting the bread? I didn't know there was a new way. So you used to like cut like a bowl out of the middle of it, right? Okay. So first of all, I can tell you guys are not big fat guys because you do not. You have not thought extensively about how Subway cuts their sandwich.

[50:01]Subway now cuts their sandwich like a Muppet's head, right? Where you cut it and it becomes the mouth. It's like this. Okay. It's time to put on makeup. It's time to dress up right. The Subway used to cut their sandwiches where I like to call the Mr. T style, where they would take a Mohawk out of the top, lift that up, stuff it full of meatballs and meatball sauce. Kind of like a bread bowl, right? Yeah. And then put that little tiny Mr. T Mohawk strip back on and boom. You had a sandwich that you could grab. You could fondle it. You could work the shaft of the sandwich like crazy. And there is none of that meatball juice is going to come out. You can have as many little sausages. Is this like 20 years ago they did this? Because I guess I've always just thought they just sliced right down the middle. Okay. I don't want to sound weird. 27 years ago. Okay. Yeah, you're right. That doesn't sound weird. Don't worry about that, Rob. But I remember for a while they're like, well, we'll cut it the old way if you want us to. And I'd always ask them to. God, they hated me. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. You're a sandwich artist and you're not doing commissions, I guess.

[51:00]Get out of here. Listen, we're talking about the album. We are talking about. Oh, Aaron. Aaron. What? Let's talk about some music. Aaron. I don't like if Aaron's not going to say, let's talk about some music. Is this a music podcast? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We are talking about REM's Automatic for the People. So REM at this point, you've got to understand where REM is. Right. They have come out. The album before this was Out of Time, which had the song Losing My Religion on it. A song I saw on MTV approximately 1 million times. Right. Before that, the album was Green with Orange Crush and Stand. And before that, the album was Document with The One I Love and It's the End of the World. So they've had three albums. One of them is Out of Time. Two of them is Out of Time. One of them is Out of Time. And the other one is Out of Time. And the other one is Out of Time. And the other one is Out of Time. And the other one is Out of Time. And the other one is Out of Time. And the other one is Out of Time. And the other one is Out of Time. And the other one is Out of Time. And they've come out with three albums, almost one million times. Right. Before that, the album was Green with Orange Crush and Stand. And before that, the album was Document with The One I Love and It's the End of the World. So they've had three albums, bangers. And they toured like crazy for Green. And after Out of Time, Michael Stipe said, I'm not touring. I'm exhausted. I'm not going to do it. They only got bigger without touring for Losing My Religion. And so now, out comes this album, Automatic for the People. Yeah. Yeah. crazy for green and after out of time michael stipe said i'm not touring i'm exhausted i'm not going to do it they only got bigger without touring uh for losing my religion and so now

[52:00]out comes this album automatic for the people michael stipe they don't tour at all for this album michael stipe does absolutely no press for this album and what's weird is that all the rem songs before it i mean if you think about like orange crush or stand they're almost like jokey like fun kind of like it's almost like they might be giants vibe where it's kind of like a just a happy go lucky and all of a sudden this album comes out and everybody's like oh this is a different rem from what we've heard before there's it's not this pop sound and basically it's a lot of ballads on this album it's it's darker but what you're listening to with this album is rem at the absolute height of their creativity in fact after this they only really had one hit single which is what's the uh frequency which honestly when you listen to that you're like oh this isn't actually that good it was just i love that song i do too deep guitar yeah that's okay well i guess i like that one okay listen to this isolate this i was wrong oh there we go i said that

[53:02]basically like this album is all about michael stipe is kind of like i he's he's dealing with death there's there's something going on where it's just this dark song after dark song and because of that a lot of people thought that michael stipe had uh aids during this when this album came out and because he wouldn't come out and talk to people they said oh he's sickly and let's look at these lyrics everything's terrible and michael stipe to his credit said you know i'm not even going to comment on it because anything i say can be taken you know negatively and i don't want to stigmatize this stuff but it's just so ridiculous but listen to this album it is pretty much what did you guys think of this the mood of this album feels like a college band that has grown up big time and has seen it all and is now just like f it this is what i want to do and this is what i'm feeling right now and i've got the you know we always talk about this right like so the first album is all it's like you got 10 years of this backlog right and you got all these hits from when you were a kid

[54:01]all the way up and you could put them in your first album so the second album's hard right but you're still trying to put out hits and create a buzz and create a band and you know but once you reach that plateau where you're like well you know i'm michael stipe i could walk in the any record you know i can walk anywhere people are going to listen to what i have to say well then you start really getting into the deep dark uh bowels of these guys minds and what they really want to get out and that's what i think comes out here and i think they they they got the permission to do it um from losing my religion that was such a big hit yeah you know and like you said robin you saw it on mtv i mean it's like depressing you know watching them dance around in that room and i'm like what the hell is this so that's that's the band that i thought rem was yes that this was the kind of band they were until you started hearing and some of the older stuff from the mid 80s so first up we have drive so a lot of this is a rough start for me like

[55:00]i didn't enjoy the opening moments of the album really i think this song is a banger it's a little too like 70s rock it just sounds like the eagles or something to me dude i love the eagles so you'll hear a string arrangement and the strings on this album are actually done by don paul jones the bass player from led zeppelin from zeppelin oh wow yeah like i felt like aaron doesn't like this because he was never good at hide and go seek and people be ollie ollie ollie income free that's right that's terrible i didn't see because i was poking my head my head was always poking out it's like i was always terrible because i'd be like hey what are you doing let's chat you want to hang out you want to do you want to just talk for a little bit what are you doing let's chat do you want to just talk for a little bit what are you going to do and he was like oh no i have to go home try not to breathe he basically said the song was about his grandma who was passing away at the time and he's like

[56:04]i wanted to sing a song from her perspective it's like whoa what a bummer i i uh again i didn't know a lot about this band until like probably the 2000s kind of a thing like when i found out that they were from georgia and they're kind of a southern same thing with tom petty right i mean he's from jacksonville florida all this stuff like you kind of start to feel where that southern rock comes in and you kind of get to where they're at like i had no idea that's where they're from and now every time i hear songs like the first two i'm like oh i can totally hear the southern rock kind of vibe that they've got coming and where they came from and so again it's like it keeps turning new pages with rem you keep getting more and more information from for me again because all i wanted to do was get rid of that losing my religion song i wish i never would have heard that song by them because i think i would have liked them a lot a lot more totally i'm in the same boat with you aaron you referenced kind of the vibe at the very beginning what when do you think you listen to this song that was the thing i kept going back

[57:03]and forth in my head was trying to understand when when what type of mood is this supposed to put you in when do you listen to this i mean it sort of worked for me as background music but otherwise i wouldn't yeah it's not it's not something i'd want to put on for any real if i came home and my loved ones were listening to this as background music i'd be like hey whatever you want to talk about let me know i'm happy i'm here for you let them you could you could it worked better for me it worked better for me first thing in the morning than any other time like first thing in the morning and it's like if i'm making coffee or in the kitchen it's like it's kind of okay for that well i actually think i know the answer to the question of when you're supposed to listen to it because okay who's in vinyl automatic for the people is in booze and vinyl and if we're at 96 and there's any album in the book we got to cover it right we're getting to the point where there's going to be nothing left one thousand percent so this says before you drop the needle you should water your plants don your cardigan and lie down and let this gentle and delicious album wash over you rob

[58:02]oh can you see yourself lying down with this album or not you know there's lots of times where i lie down guys it's not just in the bathroom what would be washing over you have you ever done a lying down shower before no lie down into oh god i used to do that all the time very disorienting very very disoriented don't recommend it so i actually have a i have actually have a cocktail on side a and i may have one inside b2 oh no side a is recommending an el diablo have you guys ever had an el diablo before i don't think so it's like a rare flower rising up from the california desert it pops with fragrance and color this ruby elixir makes for easy drinking and packs delicious flavor you guys want to know what's in it i of course yeah i don't know it sounds like a georgia o'keefe painting so far we have rip asado tequila so we got tequila robb cream de cassis i don't even know what cream de cassis is just shut up for a second there is a zero percent chance that russell is gonna say oh and then i

[59:05]added the cream de cassis maybe he's got some blackberry liqueur or something fresh lime juice okay you got it we know actually i need fuck my garnish is in the other room i even bought it too oh fresh ginger beer ginger beer did i say lime juice you have to say it again you put it in twice you put it two things of seven up it's also a garnish with a fresh blackberry and i actually went on but blackberries and they're sitting in my kitchen and i can't go get them and drink them i actually do have the cream de cassis i don't even know what it is and i don't know when i'm ever going to drink it again but i have it all here right here cheers russell turns out he's definitely allergic to cassis oh no it's actually a pretty good drink sounds good to me man but i appreciated booze and vinyl because i can't drink it couldn't tell when i was supposed to listen to this but they gave me a little bit of

[60:01]advice next time i'm laying down and something's gonna wash over me so this blows my mind russell not only did you have cassis but you have limes like at your place i bought i bought a little airplane bottle of tequila because i can't do tequila so i bought the smallest one i can but i actually bought blackberries i didn't even know where the blackberries were i've never purchased them before we're next to the blueberries next to the blueberries i was gonna say russell in my experience they're right above the potatoes thank you i don't want any blackberries i'll just go home with my bag of potatoes i'm good i'm good i'm actually good so now they try to come in they come into the lighter song the sidewinder sleeps tonight and they actually paid i don't know who the tokens deferred lion sleeps tonight oh there's such a good documentary about how the the tokens stole the backbeat for the one yeah let's see so what you're hearing here is the second most misquoted song lyrics of all time

[61:06]he says call me when you try to wake her up do you want to guess what the number one most misquoted lyrics in a song ever excuse me will i kiss this guy yep it's excuse me will i kiss this guy from jimmy andrews purple haze i thought it would be bingo jet air had a light on but it's not what about that i hear i see a bathroom rising or the bad moon rising a bathroom rising people think is that are you yeah oh no that's next week never mind yeah yeah i was i was gonna say you might say oh that's one of the best uh the lion sleeps tonight songs i've ever heard and you're dumb shit okay listen to this it's they might be giants with the lion sleeps tonight it's a better take on a weema wep a weema wep it does kind of

[62:04]the african baseline so good sounds kind of like lamb this is a staple at they might be giant shows folks go out i'm there every show i got my ipad max i'm filming it i'm filming it and then immediately editing the film to make sure i got a good shot okay so not a big deal also dancing with my arms straight out and kicking kicking kicking kicking elbows flying so that was a fun song right great yeah oh my god everybody hurts he does i mean he does really sing the hell out of this song like this this is great it's hard to listen to but he he sings the hell out of this one i read that he originally wanted to do a duet with patty smith on this song how would this have been different if patty smith if this was a duet with patty smith i would have heard of patty smith then before this podcast for

[63:05]sure there's a 100 chance i it would have been much more uh and hippie and you know i think it would acoustic i think you really i think it would add some more edge to it maybe i mean it's kind of edgy but i don't know i'd like to hear it i'd actually like to hear it that song went out to his fans to tell him because he it was like a sincere that's the thing about the rem is that these songs are just so sincere he's telling them like oh if you have a bad day don't worry there's better days and it's like well this is like a singer and actually i don't know it's just so it's so out there for me rob can you hit that clip again just play one more time you guys heard this one thing that's come up on a lot of episodes recently is the drum machine and it turns out that they didn't use the drummer wrote this song and then they didn't use him they used a drum machine so they he wrote the song they used a drum i can hear it yeah it's very

[64:03]and so this has come up a lot recently and it seems like aaron is not down with the drum machine when it comes to rock music so what i thought we could do is maybe a list of the best songs ever that feature the drum machine on rock songs we can see what aaron thinks about oh okay all right i like it i like it russell i'm sure you're gonna change my mind you always come up with some good stuff you know what i bet nothing beats this list it's about it's a drum machine maybe one of these will be the sneaky beat of the week let's see we have five sneaky beats of the week coming up i've combined my sneaky beat of the week more than that it's just like you're gonna get sore well if you're gonna if you're gonna have a sneaky beat of the week you're best to do it while being a sharp dress man this is easy top to bottom and you're gonna get sore sharp dress man check out the drum machine here god this is a good song yes wow i never would have thought about this video of course it's so metronomic and you know russell are you gonna

[65:04]say the thing about the drummer go for it well you know what his name is it's easy top it's frank beard and guess who in zz top doesn't have a beard that guy the guy with that fucking frank beard no beard whatsoever only guy no wonder they essentially kicked him out of the band or he wasn't around so they replaced him with uh synthesizers and drum machines yeah hey hp beard play those drums stop doing all the hanky-panky what a callback next on the list is we were talking a little uh what was that band slippery when went bon jovi another band from this era 1983 from pyromania this is photographed by def leopard check out the drum machine here i thought wasn't the drummer from def leopard always famous he was the one-armed drummer this was a drum machine on this song i what that's actually do we know why why he had one arm he

[66:08]flipped over his car here and i don't know why they would have chosen the drum machine rather than having the drummer do it they essentially just replaced him with a fairlight synthesizer which actually if you remember we talked about a lot on the kate bush album right yeah right and so the only thing that uh i think leave is it rick allen or i don't know the guy's name i might yeah rick allen is with the drummer for them but they only use him for the cymbals that's all he did on that song was playing the cymbals can you imagine being the drummer and that's all they let you do is play the cymbals you're like if aaron was on the podcast and couldn't talk he could only laugh at rob's jokes that'd be dead i mean i mean let's be clear like he plays the drums like that guy you know just on that song right yeah he's a he's an animal yeah he's great and he uses his feet to you know to produce everything you would never know

[67:00]and you know but it's a fascinating song it's a fascinating song it's a fascinating song it's a like why would they have chosen the drum machine there must have been something about that particular beat that they they felt like they needed it to be yeah i don't know it's interesting must have been a sneaky beat this is the sneaky beat of the week the third one next song on the list matt actually mentioned this guy earlier this is from 1985 the album southern accents tom petty don't come around here no more this is a drum machine oh of course yeah it's so good it makes sense when you say it's a drum sound yeah but it's yeah it's more than this one they're kind of echo like you couldn't really get that from a live what an interesting sound though i've never really listened to this song i've been like oh what's going on and it might make sense so i read that some of the band was taking time off and tom petty started working with dave stewart who was with i thought he was with the open a's but it turns out he was actually someone from the eurythmics so that's why kind of tom petty had a bit of a different sound i believe if we talked about this before wasn't this the album where he's the the mad hatter and it's the alice in

[68:04]video is that right the scariest video and always what would come up right after tlc video the worst another one that matt touched on tonight is from 1987 this is you too with or without you and there's this is a slow drum beat and i think i don't know how you can play this on the drum it's too slow and soft right larry mullins jr wait no it's like a heartbeat right right very minimal yeah a lot of a lot of foot pedal work to get to it it almost kind of creates an kind of an atmosphere if you will right no definitely oh god i love that song this one didn't make the list but a similar one is you guys remember the drum fill on in the air tonight the phil collins one yeah oh yes the whole rest of that song is a drum machine and then the only part that's really drums is the big fill at the end isn't that crazy there is a video on youtube that's at least 10 minutes maybe longer of just that drum loop on

[69:05]loop i dare you to go listen to it as many times as you can and i'm going to play it for you guys it will change your whole mindset one thing i saw that why would i do that i know matt doesn't like youtube but with or without you was actually played on two episodes of friends and we all know that the band who starred on the friend song was the replacements right so i thought we could end with a replacement song that features the drum machine this is within your reach from the replacements 1983 check this out and that was the replacements uh edited oh yeah it's definitely yeah so this goes after those dumb shit listeners who've been calling us about the replacements all the time never heard this song i do i think they went through a bunch of drummers i wonder if they were like between drummers at this time or maybe they were just trying to do a prince type thing but russell that was that was easily a top five list by the way

[70:03]aaron i looked at that video of the 10 hour drum fill phil collins collection it's actually the number three podcast i've ever heard of it's the number three podcast i've ever heard of it's the number three podcast on samsung podcast so i think we're set if we keep striving we're gonna get there yeah if it beats us we're fucked some old ass granny in her car just listening to phil collins for 10 hours and all of that telling everybody else to fuck off that's really gonna backfire we're really gonna look like we got egg on our face listen it's either i'm listening to this drum fill or these guys are talking about a glass toilet aces later i don't know which is better all right new orleans instrumental and guess what number one it is an instrumental i don't like when they tell you it's an instrumental it's immediately like skip skip it's true i hear some back in this song russell oh yeah you do go back oh my god i saw that rem released an album in 1996 new adventures

[71:07]and hi-fi um spin magazine called that album the 11th best album of 1996 turns out the same year called beck's odelay the number one album of 1996 they also called beck the out the artist of the year in 1996 so when it comes to being the most decorated artist by spin magazine in 1996 who did it better beck did it better oh that was a good one i like that one sweetness follows did you guys like the strings on this i we've talked about i think this is the guitar i come this is the guitar right here you like it oh yeah but do you like all the strings man or not i know we talked neil young a few months ago where we there's too many strings but i like the strings on this what do you guys think i do i like it i i like the way this album i don't like the way it sounds necessarily but i think the vibe it's trying

[72:02]to go for is like almost like you're out on a misty swamp walking around and here's boo it's michael's type and he's singing to you and it kind of is like that kind of like spooky depressing like at a cemetery at night vibe i think for me a lot of this album sounds like well probably 10 000 maniacs sounds more like rem than rem sounds like 10 000 maniacs and other than russell what are you doing everybody i've got a i've got a side b cocktail to get rid of the second like a polaroid picture yeah i would say you're doing this polaroid picture but i would say it was like uh this kind of you know churning guitar mandolin kind of string arrangement stuff like i'd probably rather hear natalie merchant's voice even though i don't know that band that well either but uh yeah i'm i'm i other than a couple of times i'm which we'll talk about it doesn't really reach me russell's cocktail looked a lot like a cock flail i thought there was something going on over there when he was shaking that shaker hey rob warning i'm gonna be slapping something else when this cocktail comes up with you in a

[73:03]minute oh oh you too neighbor monty got a raw deal so this is the the first side of the album is called the right side this is called the drive side uh oh i'm sorry yeah the right side and drive monty cliff the actor who i think was in the closet got in a car accident got a scripture addicted to painkiller pills basically that was his all the rest of his time so again michael stipe bringing not a song you'd play like at a birthday party i guess worst song on the album don't worst song on the album don't you think you guys have any good monty cliff stories monty cliff stories anybody i do know that they used a bouzouki which is a greek instrument that's famous instrument you know for zorbas all right neighbors are like god damn that guy over there rocks the bouzouki

[74:06]there's a bouzouki on that one when when have we heard a bouzouki on any album so far haven't hasn't happened you keep saying bouzouki i don't know what is that it's like the little greek guitar oh i thought you were talking about that cookie dessert what's that cookie dessert where they cook it up that's a bouzouki bouzouki okay cookie parade cookie ignore land here he's where he's mad at uh reagan and bush i didn't get any of this i mean maybe i just i don't know i i i felt more like mad on this one i didn't listen to any of the lyrics so like you're telling me what all these songs are about i'm like oh that's fascinating i didn't like he's really he's really pouring a lot of thought into these songs and i i missed it all

[75:01]i honestly think that michael stipe though is one of these guys where when he writes lyrics he can write nonsense lyrics with the best of them he's very good at it and he's also a guy that does not like talking about what the songs mean so he's another one where when you go look he's like oh yeah this was a song where uh like night swimming i i switched jobs with a night watchman but then he said he'd sue me so i made it night swimming and it's like no that's a lie like that's that story is obviously bullshit you just don't want to talk about this like which i get but it makes when you have a music podcast that is probably one of the most popular podcasts on samsung podcast actually it makes it tough to do the research for it i think i know why aaron might not really connect with this album and this is going to get personal but i'm going to say it anyways so i was reading that after this like during this album this is where he was michael stipe was starting to go bald and he was kind of famous for having long hair beforehand and so he starts true and so he starts getting this age and i believe he shaved his head shortly after while they were promoting this album so i was like maybe aaron had like a

[76:01]moment there where it's true man it's too much i don't like his girlfriend was ripping his hair i don't like to think about it yeah i've been on the same journey with michael so a quarter life crisis for those of us that are going to live long enough right this is just a video of us panning zooming out from aaron's tear on his face showing his bald there's an old picture of me when i did have hair where somebody told me that looks like michael stipe like i'm not kidding i'm not kidding i you know i was gonna say it a number of times but i didn't want to say it but you you got a little bit of a michael stipe vibe right those glasses right now and everything yeah yeah starby kitten now for this one they were gonna call it fuck me kitten because it's the last line of the song but meg ryan came into the studio and they were like hey we hope you don't do any more popular movies from now on and she was like okay first of all i'm gonna take that advice thank you second of all i wouldn't buy be allowed to buy an album that had fuck me kitten as one of the songs so they said instead we're gonna make the swear word

[77:03]star like star star star let's start me kids i mean meg ryan in like 94 was it like that's that's like you got male territory right right yeah sleepless in the other right just like top of her powers so what what has she been in the last five years not a lot she got pretty messed up by some plastic surgery she's probably been in a swimming pool full of money just like hanging out yeah can't think of a joke for that all right man on the moon i gotta ask matt on this one tell me matt is this on your hundred greatest songs ever or on your playlist this is what this has got to be on the list of greatest songs ever no really what do you mean no it's so good it's so like you don't want to sing along with this well you know the song but i mean like it's kind of hokey and made for i don't know i mean this is like a top 20 rem song

[78:01]it's not even a top 10 rem song well i'll tell you one guy who thought it was a top 20 rem song for sure and that's eddie vetter he actually rem performed this song with eddie vetter they were inducted to the rock and roll hall of fame eddie vetter inducted him nice i mean who could be better at doing the yeah yeah yeah right so man might not like it but there's this band named pearl jam that should maybe be on the list that should we all i mean i'm pretty sure i saw the man on the moon movie with russell and it's a strange thing right that should we all care more about andy kaufman he has a whole movie and a song about him it's so weird right andy kaufman is a guy who like four famous people loved and so then we're we are objected to him constantly in popular culture jim carrey loved andy kaufman jim carrey was like hey you know what i'm not going to do anymore make funny movies i'm now going to make a movie where i'm andy kaufman who by the way is so rando and crazy like yeah that's all the humor is these

[79:03]days that's all it is random and crazy booze and vinyl has a second drink suggestion on this and this could be the last one that's in i don't think there's i don't think there's an arcade fire album in this book so it could be the last one we ever get to do all right throw that book away then they are suggesting something called a desert derby have you ever had a desert derby before no don't russell why are you asking that question if never what kind of question is that well rob you're gonna love the stuff that's in this drink we got two ounces of rye whiskey oh good start two dashes of liters okay fresh red or pink grapefruit juice lime juice which we discussed that i have a quarter ounce of honey syrup which we've also discussed i just pour honey and water and mix it up a little bit and then here's where this this really sets me apart uh-oh fresh sage leaves sage leaves i thought i was just gonna guys ask you guys for some sage

[80:06]advice but i actually went and purchased some sage leaves and you're supposed to smack the last one clap them okay i'm putting it in there so right now i'm enjoying this derby wow we must have finished that el diablo quick tune in for next week to see if russell's still drunk from this episode this this drink is so good it tastes like thanksgiving like this isn't a double episode recording night is it we never do that what i got a text from russell's liver it just says help it's so strange listen guys i'm i'm honestly i'm kind of heartbroken because you know what i just realized man on the moon it's a lot like four guys on zoom i fucked this up god damn it that would have been a i think this album ends with three of the best songs this might be the top last three songs that we've listened to

[81:03]on an album night swimming is so good yep yeah this is my this is actually my problem with this is i do not care about anything that comes before the first 10 tracks i don't care i just want to get to night swimming that's all i care you don't care about being on the moon either don't care no i just want to hear nice really frustrating for me i just i love this song i just i don't want to hear anything else gorgeous song this was the fourth single off the album you recognize this piano you recognize this piano uh from ben folds fives this is the same piano that was about i mean it's a classic story okay guy has a friend guy fucks the friend's wife yeah he writes a song about fucking the friend's wife this is the piano used on leila is the same piano as night swimming the tale as old as time do you guys know i'll tell you this we have i'm gonna ask you if about skinny dipping just to warn you okay okay my

[82:06]family goes skinny dipping every summer and when i say family i don't mean me and the girls and my wife i mean me my kids my parents my sister we are all in the lake nude once one time do you want to be do you want to be admitting this on the good for you man that's great i think that's wonderful i mean we're out there that's fantastic we're night swimming like crazy and then my dad always does the same thing turns on the porch lights as a joke thinks it's so funny when everything is brightly lit up it's got a okay actually now it's not funny there's probably fish biting all over the the family clan because i don't know if any of you guys are getting the snip down there are you got a bunch of fishing lures dragging around the shallow waters russell i edit this out every time you ask

[83:03]about my dad and nephews if they're circumcised i edit that out every episode like that well what is your well hey go back night swimming real quick what do you got you got a comment there that chris martin and russell do we know who chris martin is yet did you figure that one out i think he invented yellow tail wine yep so he he said what did he what did you have a note here i just chris martin says this is the most perfect song ever you guys agree matt is this on your hundred greatest it's not but it's going to be now i mean like yeah i agree you have a little piano in there you got the lyrics everybody can hear and just like like rosie said it's just a beautiful song so you're thinking about me going out to the dock taking off my clothes with my mom and dad we all jump in the water it's so cold there's only one ladder out we all need to wait to get out we all do not want to be in there very long it's terrifying swimming at night

[84:02]night swimming night swimming i've referred to as night swimming okay we've got our castles made of sand on the beach we're out night swimming have you guys ever gone skinny dipping russell okay wait a minute guys thumbs up or thumbs down has russell ever been skinny dipping what do you think gotta go we got two thumbs we got three thumbs up russell that's a death you guys don't know me well enough that's a 100 thumbs down i am way too cautious and rational to to get caught night swimming i just i thought there might have been one time when you're a kid like in a cabin or something maybe there would have no no i was i was gonna go thumbs down but i thought maybe there was one chance it no russell i'll tell you what this is going to be a good song for you summer you want in a little family tradition huh you want to hang out in the water i promise i won't swim underwater okay family tradition i won't pull what my family calls a wilson where i swim underwater uh matt you've ever been skinny dipping or aaron either one of you have no i don't

[85:06]think no i don't think i have like guys aaron hasn't been skinny dipping i would have lost my house on that i thought for sure no not a lot of lakes in iowa though no there's only one it was pretty gross yeah hey kids are in our pool stories about that one find the river what's like the thing about the night swimming would be it's not night swimming it's the awkward moment where everyone's getting out of the lake that's like that can't be a fun moment can it russell we're all bringing some space right it's can't get too close to that ladder when somebody else is crawling up it right funny story once actually i got stuck i got something stuck on the ladder you guys won't believe what happened listen there's a perfect joke to do the songs

[86:01]all right listen is this album at 96 is that a rolling well toned it is perfect at 96 we like it aaron 96 nice uh 96 is for you and the wife are done and you want to go to sleep back to back all right so here's the thing 96 well toned it's right where it belongs shouldn't be any higher should be in the top 100 just like the caller earlier was talking about that caller i think was about three hours ago uh then that is a rolling well toned it's perfect at 96 this is right where this rem top album of rem should be is this a rolling boned should it have been higher should we have seen this album already and when i say seen the album i do mean seen because i've seen all the videos for this album so many times should we have listened to this already should it be a 95 it should be higher up on the list which again is a lower

[87:01]number but earlier in the podcast so those of you that have the samsung podcast feel free to go out and download all those episodes from earlier and see oh is rem on here it's should they be in on here anyways you got to listen to all of them uh including the early ones which i listened to by the way the other day disastrous or is it a rolling groan you did the wrong thing you did the wrong thing not like this album should be higher than 96 waste of our time shouldn't be talking about it so much should be talking more about night swimming and how exactly you get out of the ladder in the dock the key is russell you bring your own towel you've got to bring your own towel and again don't do the joke my dad likes to do which is throw the towels in the water disastrous very very bad what do you think rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling groan rosie what do you think i don't love this album it uh hasn't been my favorite thing to listen to i i like i said it mostly was background music but i think it's a really good album and i think it's a really good for me but i night swimming is so good i have to give it a rolling well tone i can't i can't say anything about rolling well tone because of night swimming and uh and russell we know what you think

[88:03]about man on the moon but what do you think about the album automatic for the people rolling well toned rolling bone or rolling groan i keep in mind aaron looks a lot like michael stipe so think about it i had i had a hard time with this album i didn't really know when to listen to it i didn't know what the vibe was i didn't know how i was supposed to enjoy it it was kind of somber but i i enjoyed the strings i thought it was interesting to listen to but i'm gonna do the very same thing that aaron said but the exact opposite and to me if you've got the song man on the moon on the album it's got to be rolling well so we just picked it we're picking a different song i like it there's some fun songs of this so i'm gonna say because of man on the moon i'm gonna say it's rolling well toned matt what do you think rolling bone rolling groan or rolling well tone did that out of order threw me off you guys are gonna be surprised uh we've got a rock and roll band that plays a lot of alternative music where they're trying to get in touch with their feelings so of course i like them couldn't be mad i love this i really wish much like uh

[89:05]i i wish i had not heard prince's purple rain because i think it ruins what i think of prince i don't like that song i think it's overplayed and all that i wish i had never heard um what's what's losing my religion losing my religion because that's all i associated with rem with for a long time i know i had monster the album that came off after this and i liked it that was much more upbeat than this i think i never really heard this album kind of got lost in the in the shuffle with everything i like this album i think it's uh you know we're kind of getting into that 100 range where you know should things be in the top 100 i don't know if it should be in the top 100 but for me personally um you know i think it was great i think rem is great it's one of the highlights of listening to this doing this whole thing and i think it's a great album i think it's a thing for me was getting back into kind of figuring out who rem is and so for that reason

[90:00]um i'm gonna say that it's rolling well toned but i mean i'm not gonna argue if somebody says it shouldn't be in the top 100 but it should definitely be on the list and rem is a has a place in uh the rock and roll history if you if you want my opinion on it so i'll say it's really well toned listen this guys you're wrong this is a rolling dang it deep rest shown six in a row it's a rolling deep rest shown if you listen to this album he hits on here and i was like oh i love this song i listen to the song but when i sat down at work and i listened to this album in a row i'll tell you right now when you are blasting everybody hurts in a workplace environment people come over and are concerned for you so actually it was great for me here i am fully dressed as a navy captain playing everybody hurts getting lots of attention at work it was great i loved it next week okay guys we finally get a happy album after this this is a rolling deep restaurant we have a happy album okay it's about puppies and it's about training them yes so sweet so lovable wait a minute oh no i

[91:02]misread it it's master of puppets it better have something to do with more power or wilson's dick it's caught in the fence i don't know i gotta get it out don't we i've got i got the perfect podcast for you jack did it better oh look at it look at my dad's out on the dock at night he's having some stone fruit stone fruit oh never mind we're just skinny dipping beck did it better and on the back it says we're it's not stone fruit season we're skinny dipping night swimming with disco balls there's always gonna be a disco ball oh the night swimming works much better when you have that disco sorry son i've got other things going on while that disco ball's rolling