The Clash: London Calling (and the Big Bopper is answering!)

[00:00]i just took a smell another smelling salt here we go ready to go in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by rolling stones magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts and we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree please sit back and enjoy beck did it better this is album 7 london calling by the clash shit wrong phone noise god damn it oh look at that we're gonna call we're gonna call on the beck line yeah it's so weird how that would work let's just pick it up well i have to let that second i have to let that second ring go for reasons i don't want to say hello yeah uh-huh okay what's that you want to talk to these bloody wankers aaron russ and matt that's weird who should i say on the line okay hey guys it's a phone call for us it's london calling

[01:00]i can't tell if that went better or worse because rob took the smelling salt beforehand i've got the perfect podcast for you jack beck did it better all right welcome to beck did it better this is a podcast where we're looking at the top 500 albums of all time and right before we started i did sniff a smelling salt so i am fired up if you cannot tell uh here at 10 o'clock 10 30 now new york time uh so we are going to talk today about the clash and speaking about four people who would never clash let's talk about our co-hosts here and get all our very different voices now this is nobody's favorite part of the show so all you're going to say is just hi i'm rob in new york all right why did i use a fake voice i'm going to say hi i'm rob in new york that makes no sense i've got matt in minneapolis how are you doing matt hey doing good no you can't

[02:00]use fake voices i've got aaron out in uh oak town aaron how are you doing i'm doing great it's raining fire and i happen to be one of earth's only fans of the movie reign of fire starring matthew mcconaughey so i'm all right is that the one about a dragon oh hell yeah mcconaughey and christian bale fighting dragons it's a good it's a good show wow and that's that's one where you go to the theater and it's just you and like 20 other people and you're like oh my god i'm going to be in there and you're like well i guess that's this is the way it is and i got russ in minnesota russ how are you doing i was going to be better when i was going to make my matthew mcconaughey joke but i've been beat up i've been thrown out i've been shown up but i've grown up rob i'm not down no i'm not down i cannot tell you what song that's from because i could not understand a single word that was said during this entire album i have no idea that could be from any album we've listened to i've heard almost no lyrics any of this uh let's get into our favorite segment rolling going it's it's it's time to see what everybody's up to it's time for

[03:04]rolling going oh god damn it every time i forget how dumb that is that oh yeah sounds that's the most inappropriate oh yeah of all the sound clips there's no question i don't even want to know what you were doing or how you made that oh yeah sound rob but if anything is over the line in terms of your sound bites that is worse than aaron's mom one-on-one i will i will say that i think when we're texting each other all week being like guys this podcast is so long why is it so long and then it turns out i just have a sound clip for every single thing we talk about and the sound clips are just getting longer and longer pretty soon it's just literally going to be like a three minute sound clip of me just going oh yeah it's just three minutes of that we're just going to be howling we're we think it's the funniest shit uh and obviously we're right bopper is big bopper on the top 500 we'll get the big bopper there's probably a good chance to use oh yeah hey baby i died in a plane

[04:05]crash baby oh god is there a judy garland album so we can do a little what's that movie she was in that wizard of oz we can do a oh yeah oh it's a wizard of oz guys if the big bopper was watching the little wizard of oz i think it would go something like this oh baby i hope i don't die in a plane crash baby oh no them flying monkeys got me thinking about plane crashes hey baby you can ask me to do other big bopper impressions no no no no no this is my this is this is another one of my patented maybe that's a sound drop i need a patented rob impression oh yeah baby it's a plane crash baby look out our listeners can't see this but about 40 seconds ago we don't really have a sound bite that captures that fully and if we did the oh yeah would

[05:02]certainly not be as enthusiastic as rob there's a movie about buddy holly baby and a movie about richie valens baby what about me baby the big bopper movie it is kind of fucked that he didn't get a movie right isn't that isn't that who the three guys were is a big bopper richie valens and buddy holly i think that's true i mean there's probably a porno called big bopper right oh wow sorry i don't know i'm just guessing there must be you're sorry no you cannot say there's a porno with big bopper and then just say i'm sorry and i will be bringing i will be bringing up the porno with big bopper later so i need to keep it in the episode baby why are you stuck under that why are you stuck under that couch baby you're trying to get something you can't move baby what's gonna happen now i'm showing you how much pornography i know about hey baby we're not you're just my stepsister baby

[06:00]this is a record for how quickly we've gone off the rails on this podcast that movie would be called the step big bop somewhere the big bopper is rolling over his grave right now that's that's just the big bopper that's not you rob because you respect women right i do and it's shameful that the big bopper would be speaking like that but i do think his song i mean he's singing all about chantilly lace it's like it's true it's true it's true it's true it's true the chantilly lace can't can't be anything but about sex right that'd be a great video somebody should bring that back is there is there a rapper called chantilly lace there should be there should be and it should be all about like panties hey baby chantilly lace put it in my face dig through your drawers when you're not around you leave the house you go to town i go when you're under a drawer whoa whoa whoa i feel like you've thought this through previously before before we we started recording this podcast i was telling bat and erin and rob that

[07:00]i was recommending this podcast to a few female friends of mine and i immediately regret that right now hey russell okay i can't do any more big bopper if you big bopper is filthy i don't know what it is about the big bopper but saying dirty stuff in the big bopper doesn't seem bad well if you read his lyrics here we haven't been able to oh here we go i'm gonna be able to expound lyrical readings lately but hello baby yes yes this is the big bopper speaking oh yeah wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute okay go ahead pick it up pick it up answer it oh baby just ignore that phone call baby hello baby yes this is the big bopper speak oh you sweet i don't like it when you read it like this will i what oh baby you know what i like

[08:03]i mean the jokes right themselves do you think he would do anything for love but he wouldn't do that is that what's going on what's that baby what's that oh but oh honey but oh baby you know what i like rolling go on rob i bet the big i bet the big bopper had a very small penis ironically you know what i mean it's like when a huge guy is called tiny or whatever oh no baby let's turn the lights off baby all right i'm not editing that out i don't care and you know the worst part is i had a fantasy football draft with my family and as a joke text i said you need to subscribe to the podcast before you can draft and my mom texted back and go what's how do i subscribe to a podcast and my friend goes oh no don't there you go thank you yep so mom if you're listening oh i'm sorry babe all right pretty soon guys okay i swear to god the next podcast we do

[09:02]we're going to go at least 10 minutes before i do a super dirty joke that we need to all think about whether or not we're going to edit out of this thing put the clock on we'll get this one was my fault i apologize yeah you brought up rosie brought up porn i should never do it it's true so rolling going rolling going matt now that you can think about anything else man is like fiercely googling big bopper penis size uh matt now that you can't think of anything else huge hands he's got huge hands it says oh matt rolling going how's it going it's going well we're starting school this week uh just want to give a shout out to all the teachers i know we're in we're not going to get political on the podcast but you know the at home hybrid in in-person stuff it's uh you know for for the k through three third grade crowd we're not going to get political on the podcast but we're not going i mean having kids in school is just awesome and so for all those people who are making a little bit of a sacrifice to be in schools appreciate you big time and uh you know thanks for all the hard work

[10:04]i would like to echo that real quick my cousin claire who's a ardent listener to this podcast she actually cleans her apartment while while she listens to beck did it better she is actually a teacher here locally so i'm going to give a shout out to claire to it and give her props just like you did matt hey claire baby thank you for cleaning that apartment oh god here we go someone called jenny and unplug rob's microphone i edit this podcast it's just me doing the big bopper for two hours finally my dream has come true my neighbors are going to call down to the front desk of the apartment to be like somebody next door is doing a big bopper impression at midnight yelling stop just won't stop they're like it's rob again we know who it is uh yes teachers you're true heroes okay and you probably should all get raises uh russ how are you doing rolling going rolling going things are going well as you

[11:03]guys know i've kind of started this record quest where i bought my record player a few weeks ago and i bought my first record and what i really needed is pause shh do you hear that it's time to talk about muscle record player muscle record player the record scratch is gold i know and then i paused for like two minutes uh it's so good podcast is so damn long okay go ahead i'm sorry not worth it russell the real reason i bring this up is i actually went into a record store for the very first time last week and there's kind of a weird vibe to a record store and i'm trying to get your guys advice like if i walk into a record store am i expected to buy something can i browse for a while and just thumb through what they have and walk out do i have to talk to the guy who's sitting at the at the counter because a record store is kind of a more intimate story than going to a target or a

[12:02]big store there's literally a person in there watching everywhere you go and they're watching what you're looking at so what is the proper etiquette for going into a record store and thumbing through the records and do i have to buy something i mean i'm the wrong guy to ask about this because i will always guilt buy something if i ever go into a record store but i go in infrequently enough now i will always buy something out of guilt because i if i were going on on the daily i wouldn't but right now i i mean i don't go anywhere now but previously like there are a couple of record stores in oakland i would only go like three times a year in which case i would always be buying a record uh yeah aaron is so bad in a record store that he went in one time and the guy was like buy this 600 record player he's like okay i will i'm sorry the guy's like that record player sucks shit you need to buy a 900 record player and aaron's like okay i will i'm sorry no i think it's like a i oh go ahead man well i was gonna say i go in there usually and i've got something in mind that i want to buy and or if i don't i i think of something like uh i want to buy

[13:05]10 by pearl jam you know because and then just say sir you're here every week by 10 by pearl jam before oh you know i'm just kind of browsing but you know really looking to say your pearl jam selection and typically there's not a pearl jam selection in the record categories and so you know it's kind of an easy out of there so if you're looking to buy a record store if you have something to go in with and say you know i think i'm looking for this and they say oh you know sorry we don't have it it's it's an easy out to not buy anything that's true you could just ask for jethro tell or at this point now you can you be like i was just looking for herbie man push and then if they have it you obviously have to buy it but if they don't have it i posted to facebook that herbie man album got more people replying to me saying oh i had that album i had that album and they all were like this five-year age gap of like i i would guess similar to russell's mom's age where it's just like oh yeah everyone has a record and they're like oh yeah i'm looking for herbie man he was like the most famous guy who totally fell off the map who follows you on facebook uh oh lots of people yeah uh according to the likes about your posts about our podcast

[14:04]it's only one person yes and that's my cousin who i pay to call in i think i think russell you have to you have to ask yourself is a record store more like a vape store where you can just go in and look at the bongs and check it out and you don't have to buy anything and you can leave and that's totally acceptable yeah you can go in and see what's going on and it looks cool and you're like oh this is neat and then you leave you don't actually have to get anything i find that does help in social situations the store manager is right there they're watching you see when you walk in if you walk into target if you walk into target you walk around and walk out nobody knows if you walk into the record store and you kind of look around for a while they see what you're looking at and if you walk out they're like well that asshole they didn't buy anything and then there's enough people there's enough people that are in and out weren't buying anything you gotta figure out if the guy's the manager too if the guy or gal is the manager or the owner if they're just the manager ah you're good but if the owner that's why i started feeling a little

[15:00]bit worse because i know this guy's got all his life into it it goes by hair length right the longer their hair the more senior administrator they are so like down here this is manager length and if the guy has hair like down here you know he's the owner but i think a record store is kind of more like uh you you think it's more like an arby's where if you go in and look around and then leave everybody's like what the fuck what happened with that guy why would you nobody has ever gone into an arby's nobody has ever gone into an arby's looked at the menu they've been like oh i don't want this you know that when you go into an arby's you want every time yeah it's the only you want that big montana you want the curly fries part of the intimidation for me going in the record store though is as you guys know as we've gone through this quest i'm not this huge music buff and so if i go in there and i ask for exile and main street is this guy gonna look at me like oh this dude's just asking for one of the most popular albums of and then i'm just kind of some noob who doesn't know what he's doing in there like if even if you are who cares and i don't think exile is actually like a noob record really like it's it i feel like

[16:03]there are certain things that get that garner respect and exile would be one of them regardless i think as long as you're not asking for a greatest hits i think you're set i think i think that's it now this record store did not have exile in main street and i was kind of thrown i just figured a record store would have everything i figured it would be like if you go into a bookstore they've got moby dance and they're like oh yeah i'm gonna go to a bookstore and i'm gonna go to a bookstore there right there's no way you go to a barnes and noble and they don't have moby dick it's like an arby's with no roast beef son moby dick is a fascinating book there's also uh there's a great uh podcast called moby dick energy it's really good they go by moby dick chapter by chapter it's really good is there an audio version with the big bopper doing the audio book i was gonna say i'm i'm pretty sure there's a porno about moby dick isn't it you open the door rosie i like rob's uh vape store analogy because i do find that in certain situations um my the thing i can relate it to is there's a wine shop in oakland that i've always

[17:02]really loved but sometimes it's like too cool for me but i happen to know that one of the dudes who works behind the bar at the wine shop loves to smoke weed and so if i just think like if you just assume that everyone on the other side of the counter is stoned then you just you feel better because you're like oh they don't care what i say they're not like they're not judging me right now they're just stoned so i think you can apply that to the record store you can just assume that anyone who's working behind the counter at a record store is stoned and i feel like there's some freedom in that it's the modern it's the modern imagine the audience naked yes exactly go ahead russ can i take this one step further the only other story i felt this uncomfortable in is about a year ago i went to michael's like the craft store to try to find one particular thing that i was looking for no wait wait wait wait we're not letting you get a lot away with this what were you looking for so i made this really cool kind of kind kind of wheel like the what's that game show with bob

[18:00]barker the price is right yeah you know how they got the big wheel where they spin the wheel yes so i decided i was watching my nieces and nephews for a weekend i had all four or three of the four of them and so i made this it was called uncle russ's like wheel of fun essentially it's like a big wheel where you spin it and it lands on an activity so it could be like we're gonna make rice crispy bars or we're gonna build a fort or the greatest thing i've ever heard in my life there's like a reminder for uncle russ to make lunch so i don't forget to feed them while i'm down there there's you know we're gonna play with wrestling action figures it's got essentially cut this we gotta make we gotta we gotta we gotta make money on this yeah we can't put this on the ether yeah so anyways i was a big boppers wheel of fun why does every time uncle russ come over he starts talking in the big bopper voice but anyways so i was gonna make this big wheel but i didn't have the proper kind of a spinner thing from a game board so i figured oh michaels might have some sort of game spinner that i can put on the wheel and so i walked in

[19:01]there and i immediately walked in and was so overwhelmed and intimidated because there's literally aisles upon aisles of yarn and tag board and all these craft things and i was i didn't i was scared to ask anyone and i just i got terrified and after about 10 minutes of wandering around i just had to leave michaels is super intimidating because for some reason there's like a million just styrofoam balls and you're like who's using styrofoam balls but that's all they have it's like styrofoam balls and like the wooden letter r and you're like what who is doing all this i don't understand that i think that's a perfect analogy russell of like you go into a new place you get stressed out but i like the idea of just thinking like who cares i think you can go into records i guarantee everyone i bet half the people that go into record store don't actually buy anything they're just in there perusing it's just fun thanks for that advice i'll take it next time i go in there and don't buy it wait was that yeah that was the advice corner wasn't it no it was a record corner that's it time's up get out of the corner that was russell's advice how do you know you've made

[20:02]too many drops wait we're in the corner wait record player the whole thing is the whole show is just drops it's the phone ringing again until next week when it's just all hey baby you're in the corner baby that's the big bumper take of the week is rob doing the big bopper voice or the kool-aid man voice oh i think it's transitioning it's a fine line it's transitioning because nobody's going to be like oh rob does such a good joe strummer voice like i can't do that this week so i had to come up with a new one because you guys everybody loves my impressions the back line's blown up they love it uh all right so uh rolling going for me because nobody asked once again so i'm going to tell you how my rolling going is going it is uh did you do aaron yet did we do rolling going for aaron rob oh god damn it this is aaron hey let me try look let me maybe i should be the host for a little bit rob why don't you sit back and work on your your big bopper impression i'm going to take it for a minute here oh no rolling going how's it going man it's uh well it's going all right uh as i mentioned there's

[21:04]a lot of wildfires out here in oakland uh also we sent my son to daycare this week so that's a nerve-wracking experience i don't know if we're doing the right thing or not i find one thing that's comforting in these times is just to have a bucket full of chicken in the refrigerator so i like to cook it and i like to cook it in the refrigerator so i like to cook it in the refrigerator a chicken once a week and i just i really i feel better if i have some chicken in the fridge so i just i cook a whole chicken once a week out on the grill uh and then you know whenever i feel a little bit peckish i can just grab a hunk of chicken and i feel i feel better so what is in the bucket is there a whole chicken in the bucket it's why i cut it up you know i i i grill it or roast it uh lately i've been grilling because it's hot in the house and then i i cut it up into pieces and then i got a nice you know i call it a bucket it's a little stain on the stainless steel you know kind of lunchbox thing i just like to have it in the lunchbox and then i can uh snack on some chicken whenever i feel hungry what does a stainless steel you have a

[22:00]lunchbox in your fridge well yeah it's a box it's like a container it's a you know a little box it's got lunch made out of stainless steel with a uh rubbermaid sort of lid we don't do a lot of plastic in my house um my lady is very you know environmentally conscious so we have a um yeah i like to cook a chicken once a week and cut it up and keep it in there so i can have my snacks what do you take home your thanksgiving uh leftovers in well if we were going to a thanksgiving uh shindig we would probably bring us a steel container with us and throw some leftovers in it they have a cast iron cooler that they bring out on the lake with them they're like oh my god don't drop this in the lake it'll go right to the bottom like when we go hiking and bring sandos then like you like when you after you eat the sando then like the little steel containers kind of clink around in the backpack afterwards which kind of makes it a little bit more comfortable and then makes me crazy but otherwise they're great for keeping see that's why i just wrap my sandwiches in plastic wrap and then i throw in the lake when i'm done it's gone it's clear goes to the bottom of the lake not a big deal nobody can see it yeah but that's what makes me feel better is having a

[23:03]good amount of chicken in the fridge to snack on i have a legit have way too many tupperware use them all the time the resealable resealable things but like thanksgiving leftovers it's like a holiday for me because that's where i just re-up all of my uh my to-go containers every year i just take a and that's that's the best way to get that's the best place to get them you just have like if you're like anything like me you have like six cool whip containers and like you have no idea what's in there you're like okay what's in this one i think i've i've finally come to the realization of why aaron's probably done better with women over his life than i have and it it comes down to chicken choices aaron when he said i've got a bucket of chicken in my fridge yeah in my mind i immediately thought oh he's got a big like a huge bucket of kfc that's exactly what i thought too russell and and because if i were dealing with stress it certainly wouldn't be me out on my grill grilling a chicken and then putting it in like my metal it would be me pulling through the drive-thru when aaron started that i was like oh it's gonna be kfc and then he started talking was like oh no oh no he grilled this chicken and

[24:04]it's probably the healthiest meal he's ever had that's so funny because when he started talking about chicken i of course thought he was just talking about chicken tenders like an enormous bucket of chicken tenders of like chicken fingers would be delicious in the fridge because you know my appetizer sampler take you know i think it's the best meal that you could possibly eat in a restaurant i think that's a great idea all right so actually the fact that i interrupted aaron ignored his rolling going and then wanted to talk about me i believe i'm the host can i finish being the host for a minute rob it's not you're not hey sometimes it's hey rob it's sometimes it's not your night or whatever that voice oh my god is that what i sound like rob oh no oh no baby rob roll it going how's it going uh yeah no i actually i don't like this i'm thrown off by not being in charge of this um so get some smelling salt actually hit the smelling salt quick actually me me ignoring aaron no so me talking over aaron and just wanting to talk about myself is exactly what

[25:01]went wrong with my weekend uh and is the the subject of my rolling going and i am going to need some advice on this so my wife's birthday uh get to the corner bro my wife is the corner rob rob you need to go to the advice corner we don't give advice for free get get get get to the corner the corner it's time for russell's and bob's corner oh yeah oh yeah you guys see when i'm running the stings i was right on point when i'm the host everything is right on time whereas rob you usually have to tell him i was right on that rob whenever you're ready to step aside i'm ready to fill in all right no tell us what's fine you can do blonde and blonde we'll let you do take charge of that actually that sounds great um so we there's a porno about that hey we gotta save the blonde on blonde porno jokes for next week let's not jump the gun rosie open the door that's all i gotta say hey baby don't make those jokes today baby save some jokes for tomorrow like we're

[26:00]gonna run out of porn jokes try so hard to think of sophisticated jokes rob roland going how's it going what happened with your family weekend wife's birthday was this weekend it is right before school starts every year it is the worst time to possibly have a birthday okay and the problem is i say that jenny like 29 i think i said yeah she is yeah she just turned 19 so here's the thing is uh is that we went to a hotel in new jersey out in the mountains in new jersey really pretty we actually went hiking every day it was really fun it was a great trip went to the pool with the girls every day like it's we haven't had a chance to do a trip with just the four of us so it's been nice to like just hang out with them however when you book a trip with a family in a hotel room and then when you actually go to the hotel room with your family it really is like two different totally different ideas of what's going to happen at all times like it's just clothes every square inch of the floor is covered in clothes that people have just taken out their suitcases and thrown down you never have any amount of privacy everybody's in there like the kids are watching tv and they're like what's going

[27:03]on with all these ads why are there ads like they don't understand the concept of ads and just everybody is at some point everyone is naked at some point like you're just naked walking around the hotel and it's just like it's very awkward it's it's is it that much different you guys you have an apartment in new york is it that much different than being in an apartment in new york that's what i thought too is it's going to be like an apartment but like the apartment the girls have two rooms we've got a bedroom there's none of that the bedroom is the room like it's like having a studio apartment and nobody ever closes the door to the bathroom so it's like having a studio with a toilet in the middle it's like a jail cell really like with a toilet in the middle of the jail cell that's what it's like going to a hotel with my family is like being in a jail cell no that being said i had a great time here's the thing is that it was my wife's birthday okay now i am not a gift person the problem is is i don't think about other people a lot okay i'm mostly thinking about myself at all times that's why i'm bad with names that's i've realized i just i'm constantly thinking about myself and whatever your guys's names are here's

[28:05]the deal is that she bought okay so i i'm just gonna tell you right now i fucked this up okay and i know i did i'm sorry i did you're wrong never admit you're wrong uh okay so she bought her own birthday cake and she bought her own birthday cake and she bought her own birthday cake was was it a was it a fried chicken cake or what did aaron grill a chicken and send it to her and put it in like a cake pan she bought her own birthday cake i'm just gonna say that again my wife bought her own birthday cake brought it on the trip and then bought her own candles at the grocery store at no point did i have a gift for her ready to go i'd ordered them the day before we left and of course they all came later and of course she hated she hated almost i got her a i got her uh i got her a bunch of nespresso pods it turns out she had gone the day before and bought all the same exact nespresso pods that i had bought you bought the right ones that's a win it's not your fault i bought her some shirts that she can bench press in that have a textured back

[29:02]and she turns me and goes i can't wear a crop top so literally i struck out every single gift was terrible but here's what happened i'm gonna i'm gonna go update my bubble profile and say if we ever if something ever happens here i will make sure to never forget candles for your birthday that i'm gonna change that right well so here's here's the problem the grocery store screwed me over because we bought the candles we lost them somewhere between the grocery store and the hotel room we lost the candles well you said we bought the candles who bought the candles well you know i like i did i pay for it i think she might have paid for him some of it i think i was like dealing with the kids she i think she paid for me and loaded in the car guys this is not my this is we come back jenny says listen we have to go to dinner in 45 minutes we're gonna have the birthday cake before dinner with candles my family's gonna be on the phone i said okay so in my mind i have like a half hour before we do the birthday cake right she goes i can't find the candles anywhere

[30:03]i said oh oh that's too bad i then sit down and start playing our podcast and editing it out loud without a headphone timeout i'm time time timeout why would you do such a thing timeout rob you are putting you are associating our podcast with your stupidity and the mistakes that you're making in our life you cannot do that this is not fair this is not fair to the three of us who you don't remember our names we deserve better i will say we did have one of those fights where she was kind of like upset in the bed next to me when we're all going to sleep at night and i said what's wrong and the word podcast did come up about five times during the during the hour-long fight in the dark with our kids listening to us as we fought each other uh as we argued with each other i should say so it was really good that the podcast yeah is now permanently associated with everything everything so i'm sitting there editing the podcast out loud and being like we have a we have a sting where it's just called rob's a dick for associating the podcast with the stupid behavior

[31:00]oh no i'm editing the podcast meanwhile she is taking the her own birthday cake out of the box putting it down and she says to me again we don't have any candles and i say oh that's too bad and i continue to edit the podcast gosh so then you're laughing at your own jokes and just going i don't know why russ sends me these edits these these jokes are so funny i'm like sweetie what do you think of my what do you think of my mick jagger impression uh so then i actually end up going to go i realized then that she's very mad sounds like ringo i run to the store to go get candles can't find any store because i don't know where anything is late coming back late for the phone call with her family late cake late getting to dinner it was absolute disaster and it's all my fault and that was my so my question is this how do you buy a gift for your wife what's your gift buying style because i think that was my only problem is i didn't buy the right gifts if i would have bought the right gifts i think this would all blown over so matt how do you buy gifts for a spouse how do you do it i think well i i think we've what's your gift

[32:05]style man it out yeah i think we figured it out where she's about as bad as uh my mom's never gonna listen to this castle i can say this my mom is not a very good can't take it back rob doesn't delete anything i know but like wait a minute a very good gift hey rob i'm taking over here it's it's time for one-on-one with eric matt man i was right on point with that sting you see how i did that rob that was great that was great rob you got some lessons to learn i'm having i'm having a tough week for sure i i think i was scarred growing up and i just i never like birthday gifts i don't like christmas gifts it's just it's one of those things i think if you if you want if you want to get if you want to get you're an adult now rob you make money you've got a you've got a daytime job if you want a new bike you go buy a new bike if you want a new pair of shoes you go buy a new pair of shoes you don't need to wait till christmas to get it or something so i don't know i'm and so sarah you see you see

[33:02]a gift i have for matt i'm putting it now slowly behind my back like oh okay so sarah is kind of the same way and it's just it's enough i mean i i kind of sympathize with you rob it's enough to just wrangle the two girls right and get everything situated and i mean we've got tens of listeners to this podcast that needs you to edit it and get it out on time and so i i think it's kind of being a little selfish on jenny's end matt not that's exactly what i wanted to hear this whole thing is jenny's fault she should why'd you bring your cake the cake is what messed it up now what is she doing she's just squatting and now i know i can dinner now i know i can email her and say hey i know why the the podcast said it was so late last week because you made rob out going by no but sarah and i you know wrapped up wrap up your question sarah and i i think you know we've just kind of got it down where we don't really buy each other presents anymore and it's more of like well do you need anything do you want anything and it's not like i need to surprise

[34:00]her she doesn't need to surprise me with a you know a new shirt or something like that so i think we've got it down good could have picked any other example except for what i bought jenny benching shirt or fanny packer aaron rob i'm running this part of the advice corner if you just want to go sit in the corner and chat with me i'm going to go sit in the corner and chat with you for a while that would be helpful aaron what would your advice to rob be uh as a married guy how do you handle gifts i mean we we still do full-on gifts uh i don't i'm trying to recall what i bought anna for her birthday this year it was in january um you know we have a tough one because the birthday comes right after christmas so um yeah i try to like do the shopping all at once uh anniversaries are pretty easy we both like stick to the the script of the uh traditional gifts so we try to like that at least helps it gives you kind of a category so you choose a category from the traditional anniversary gifts uh and um you know go that way but yeah you do that you do like like the fifth year is like you're the guy yeah you're like you're the

[35:03]one fifth year is paper so here's some paper handcuffs oh six years you're some brass handcuffs or whatever you know you're seven the bucket of chicken well we're not getting some brass underwear you know what i mean uh so anniversaries are easy um yeah birthdays i i think i end up i don't know rob like i feel like the bench shirts are nice like i typically buy anna a lot of clothes like i always feel like clothes are like you're thinking about what they use and can like yeah you know you try to keep things useful um man i do not recall what birthday was this year so maybe i'm striking out but i think i think you have to like listen to the stuff they want and things they might want to use yeah that's my advice rob maybe you need maybe you need advice from a advice from a single guy on gifts i would love that so so far i've got i've got two people saying jenny's the problem here so

[36:00]russ what do you say i think generally the guy's probably the problem here i've in my online dating extravaganza over the last few years i've only given gifts or even flowers a hand handful of less than a handful of times and every time i've given someone flowers it's been a complete complete disaster it's either been the response is oh i'm not really into flowers i'm like well now i feel like a jackass who says that who do you give flowers to and they go i'm not really into flowers i mean you're not just like it's not like roses you're not just like giving it to them like in the airport or something i mean like on the street like these are women you're on dates right you're not just going up to them and giving them flowers oh i'm giving it to them in the airport if you know what i'm saying i'm gonna get on the plane baby give some to the big bob before i get on this plane it's definitely gonna land baby can i tell you guys about the most embarrassing gift i've given in the online dating world no we gotta keep this by guys yes of course russell we cannot wait five

[37:00]hours i don't care let's go we might need to delete this we may need to delete this get ready mark this right here rob i promise i get full approval rights on this one all right i promise to delete it so i'd gone out with uh with this girl a handful of times or whatever and she invited me over to her place what's her name i yeah that's not happening and she invited me over to her place we're gonna she was gonna make dinner or something so i'm like oh i should bring flowers or something i should bring like bottle of wine i should bring something right so i'm like oh i know she went to arizona state so i'm gonna get sunflowers that's those are the colors of her school i'm like at least it's creative it's probably a stupid idea but like i'm creative and i like that idea that's nice it's good yes how are they maroon yeah they're like the same color as the minnesota gophers right right the sunflower maroon in the middle yeah what the hell else is it like black whatever so i went and bought these sunflowers that i thought looked

[38:02]like arizona state devils sunflowers or where do you think i went to iowa yeah i would have dated and so this is again i went into another store i went into another store bachman's which i was extremely uncomfortable in so it seems like any store i go into i have a problem shockers subtext that was a visual joke man so anyways i go in there i go in there and i buy these sunflowers i'm like oh this at least it i'm thinking about who she is at least there's a there's a thought process it might be deranged but there's something there and so i bring them in there and i get him she's like oh that's really nice and she seemed like uh happy about it i was like oh this is going well and then she's like here cut these put them in this vase and i start cutting them and i can't cut them and she gives me a knife i can't i can't cut them it turns out i was so stupid i bought fake sunflowers like the fake like plastic yeah you're in michael's it

[39:00]turns out you're in michael's by accident you're like oh shit here's the worst part so i go up in this store that i'm super uncomfortable i walk up with like you know a handful of these like sunflowers out it's like in a vase i'm like oh they gotta be real and so i have them like wrap them in like the wrapping paper oh no and so i think i'm i'm being dr smooth here at least trying at least giving an effort and i walk in and and literally i bought her fake sun is what was my gift so rob they don't ever buy your wife any gifts they must well they must have thought you were the dumbest person at the flower shop and they're like okay this guy wants to wrap up plastic flowers but i guess you see now why i don't want to go in michael's and i don't want to go in the record store oh my god every time you go into michael's it must be like ptsd it's so many fake flowers in there you're like oh matt then you buy one it's a real flower you're like oh no it's just it kind of comes back to the simpsons and the wisdom of homer homer simpson jay simpson that trying only leads to failure so just don't

[40:04]even try anymore you know what matt that is some smart shit you're doing you're doing it right now and because i'm controlling the board tonight i'm going to play hey matt that's some smart shit that was matt's smart comment of the week oh that's a smart shit you're good at this board uh i will say i did say to my wife you know in classic like argument mode like what should i have done and she was like you should just ask me what i wanted and bought me that and i was like actually correct that's actually 100 correct and of course i didn't say that i said something like you're so much like your mom you know something just really hammer home this fight like he's like we're not going to bed for another hour i'm going to really drop a bomb on you by the way she is she is like her mom and i love bernie too she's the my mother-in-law is amazing okay go ahead the correct answer to get you out of the corner here we're going to give you this last piece of advice go to your wife and say hey look there's a reason we're married and people like russ are single did i ever get you fake sunflowers for your birthday

[41:03]that's true oh no that's it time time's up get out of the corner that was russell's vice corner yeah i will say i like the idea though did you go try to return the plastic flowers and they're like sir why are these all cut up about a fourth of the way up like why are they all hashed no so we're there and i start cutting them and i can't cut through it but i'm like what's going on here and then there's all of a sudden the wheels start turning like oh i'm a complete moron these are fake and so she starts trying to cut through and it took her a minute to realize they were fake too and she starts thinking oh you did this on purpose it's like a joke and i'm and i just admit i'm like hey this wasn't a joke i'm just an idiot oh my god russell that is the greatest story of all time and i just i i never ever gonna listen to radiohead plastic trees i think about it the same ever again it's so good yeah that that i would love to have a reenactment of that with that song playing over

[42:02]the top of it i think it'd be so great oh but by the way just for the record that was the last time i saw her also so she's somewhere on a podcast now telling a story about a guy who brought her fake flowers and she's like i wish i could see that guy again that was so clever i'm sure she's thrilled my wife would have been thrilled with plastic flowers russell she would have been so much happier with you than she was with me that night oh my god you know and asking hey what do you want you know and then you're there's always the good chance you're gonna get to uh you know i don't know and then she forgets and then you say oh well i did ask you and you're like oh i don't know and you didn't give me anything and then you're off the hook that way too well she did get back at me though because we were planning on doing a hike at 6 a.m the next day and then we stayed up discussing the issue until like 11 30 and she got air quotes and she's like yeah there were definitely air quotes there and i did and she was like okay it's too late we won't go on this hike tomorrow 5 45 she wakes up she goes we're going on the hike get up i was like oh no this is the

[43:00]ultimate payback waking me up early and making me go hiking the only thing i've been thinking about over the last 20 minutes is we need to get our llc agreement figured out so jenny can't take a quarter of this podcast here in the next week but we should move on we should move on hey let's move on to the album let's talk about london calling we're one hour into the podcast why don't we talk about our experience with the band and the album rob you know what i'm gonna be i'm gonna be fair and i'm gonna turn them i'm gonna turn the the the mic back over to you and let you kind of lead us through the rest of this i i know i've i've i've been carrying us for a long ways this podcast but i'm gonna let you do it the rest of the way russ has been hosting so long he had to really think about what a microphone is uh all right so what is your experience a fake microphone or a real one wait why is this microphone not growing in the water i'm trying to cut this microphone it doesn't work uh all right so my experience with the clash or this album in general is none but i also want to expand this to talk about what's your experience with punk rock music in general because i kept i

[44:00]honestly with this band i kept confusing the clash and the sex pistols in my head i was like the clash is hardcore for me and even last week if you hear me i'm like guys we're doing the clash next week it's going to be like two minutes a song i was thinking of the sex pistols because i always think it's like end of the song and then and when i heard this album i was like holy shit like this is a incredibly musical like album like this is like the most i could understand i could understand him more than bob dylan i could understand him more than the last rolling stones album it's crazy i didn't even think about that they did rock the casbah and should i stay or should i go on i have no experience with the clash beside their hits and i have almost no experience with punk except every kind of punk music that i have listened to i've liked i just have never gotten into it it's i'm almost intimidated to like start with punk music i don't know who wants to talk about their experience next i i have pretty much the exact same experience just knowing their hits i don't know if i've ever listened to this album um heard london calling i don't know if it's a

[45:06]i don't know if i was ever really into it you know any more than just having like green day yeah that's me too they were you know they were influenced by it and maybe like a some 41 and some of these other ones but um other than that like it's never really been my genre and i have almost no experience with the clash i i will say that before i move on i do say this is why i love going through this list is finding an album like this and a band like the clash i just it really is like what have i been doing my whole life not listening to this i also think russell i would like to see you go into a record store and say i i want to see the punk album and when they ask you what punk album say like 182 they say like see if you get kicked out of the record store like i don't know they're punk are they punk are they pop punk or what like that's why they're definitely pop oh because that's why it's so intimidating i think of them as a punk band and i would get laughed out and i would have a green mohawk because i'm trying to because you know me i immediately tried to go like way into whatever i've been doing like a

[46:01]wallet jacket that says like god save the queen on the back but that's not what it's supposed to say it's supposed to say something else okay uh russell what's your experience with the clash or punk music or whatever i don't really have any meaningful experience with the clash or punk music when we've been kind of going through the the quest we came across the ramones because that's considered punk music right yes 100 right aaron yeah i think so i mean i'm not a punk aficionado either man i like i've got you haven't even gotten to me yet i don't know the the interesting new york punk scene but yeah i think the ramones are probably they're not but the the interesting thing is that the interesting thing for me was when when i was listening to this album when i was about to listen to this album i just figured the clash is kind of like your typical rock band and then you start listening and you hear punk if you want to call it that but you hear there's like reggae there's ska music what i would call ska music there's like pop music on this album and it was very different than what i had associated with what the clash was well joe strummer was a man of the world i think he really was taking influence from a lot of places but but the one thing that i thought

[47:03]was really interesting is when you listen to this there's other types of music it's not what i would consider punk music even though i'm by far not a punk aficionado but i also watched a documentary on joe strummer in the story of the clash and it was pretty interesting but it seems like this album is essentially the clash moving a little bit away from punk music it's kind of similar to bob dylan moving away from from what he was doing right or the it was a really interesting story and but i didn't really have any meaningful history with the album but i did enjoy listening to it i mean or it's like it was a really interesting story and but i didn't really enjoy listening to it i mean or it's like but i think the big difference there is the beatles and the beach boys and bob dylan they had such huge success and then they said oh i'm just sick of playing uh the what's super popular yeah and you know the clash started moving away because i think the research that i saw was that they were afraid that they were about to fizzle out and have to go get day jobs they almost did

[48:01]it reverse where they're moving away from the counterculture following that they have and moving into like a more pop culture right it's kind of like sugar ray interest from the 90s right i mean he was a big hardcore guy then he played that one song and all of a sudden he's a big doo-wop bebop that was matt's smart comment of the week oh that's a smart shit damn you guys are so smart i said some dumb shit and then you came in and said something so smart shoot all right uh russ or i'm sorry aaron aaron god damn it yeah russ has got me all thrown up hey i gotta know hey aaron aaron what's your history with this album my history with this album is i'm uh so when i first graduated uh college when i went to college together i got a job yeah i got a job making um 11 and 22 cents an hour uh which at the time seemed like a lot so every other week i got paid and i would buy a few cds and i remember buying this cd and thinking i really should figure out the clash because all i knew was um train in

[49:05]maybe should i stay or should i go so i was like i should really get into the clash and um so i i know this album pretty well i know very little else of the clash um i really liked a couple of joe strummer's late career solo records i loved the song he did uh called mongo mondo bongo for the mr and mrs smith soundtrack uh i am one of the only let me play that real quick hey aaron i'm gonna queue this up for a second uh man you just got up and left but this is of course is mondo bongo i know you know this is mondo bongo but this is mondo bongo i'm one of the world's only fans of this of the movie mr and mrs smith uh with with brad pitt and angelina and i just i vividly remember the two of them dancing to this song in the movie so i was into that one uh also really got into uh it might have

[50:00]been joe strummer's last album called streetcore uh with joe strummer and the mescaleros there was a point in my 20s where i was super into old dudes singing about their own mortality and the song silver and gold to me was just like one of i just really loved the song silver and gold by joe strummer i'm gonna go out dancing every night i'm gonna see all the scared goes to the record store goes can i go to the section about old guys just thinking about it yeah you got that section that's just me man they probably like when aaron comes in because he walks in like with his own bucket of chicken i walked into the record store with a kfc bucket it was really embarrassing well when aaron walks in they think he's coming to pick up the next shift they're like oh good you're here to work aaron's got that right this was off the street which i really loved uh my history with punk music is i i like when i growing up i grew up in ankeny iowa i thought green day was punk music uh and yeah and then my other ex i never got into punk as a kid so i've tried to get into it as i've as i've gotten older it's like it's hard to get into punk as a

[51:04]40 year old but uh the punk albums i i i really i like bad brains a lot um and bad brains their first album came out in 1982 i looked this up today because i went back to their first album which is well after london calling and their sound is much more i think uh sort of traditional punk with like really thrashy guitars and poor sound quality on the vocals uh and then the other song a punk song that i know really well that i would shout out is called this is not a photograph by uh which i was hit too by a friend of mine um which is a great punk song and is is a like a real good kind of a piece of art uh in and of itself but i never got into punk as a kid oh that was aaron's left what the photograph of burma is a song that nobody else has ever heard of that is i don't even think that was a stretch i could hit that button almost 30 times last time

[52:04]kfc i brought up photograph of burma and they looked to be like who the is this guy the band is called mission of burma the song is this is not a photograph you have a you have a bouquet of fake flowers and you're asking for a bucket of extra crispy sir i'm going to tell you right now as a manager of kfc i have to tell you this date is not going to go well i'm going to advise you to go straight home and i just got to check off all these things i thought i was doing right all right so now no no russell i don't know what to do next rob we should we should go over like what's what's what what's the story of this album oh okay so the story of this album basically this is their third album they've put out two beforehand uh by the way nobody has ever emailed or said like oh my favorite part is where rob blabs on endlessly about the album so i'm trying to keep this part kind of short but basically they showed up they had no songs written for this album so they're super worried they've had a writer's block for a year they have nothing going on so what they do is they start having a rehearsal once a day or actually twice

[53:03]a day but they kick out all the hangers on they won't let them be in there because they don't want them to judge the music that they're playing and they start playing covers so they start playing reggae covers they start playing pop covers they start playing all this music they've never played before and they realize that their drummer is actually super talented at playing all this and all of a sudden they feel they realize they can expand their musical horizons but they said they came in and played every day from 10 to 1. they went to the pub had a drink went out and played some foodie and then had another rehearsal in the afternoon and literally just did that for like six months until they felt comfortable enough where they were right in the middle of the night and they were writing all these songs of all these different musical styles so the reason this album has so many musical styles on is because what they were practicing had so many musical styles and then they they basically uh this is a major change in their tone if you listen to the earlier works and definitely don't listen to i fought the law on the law one because that's not a punk song and everyone knows that okay and only an idiot would play that as an example of punk song and take the time to download it cover take the time to download it and put it on only to find out that it's totally the opposite of the point he was trying to make and don't do that that would be a

[54:03]not going to not fall asleep tonight thinking about that but that is basically how the clash came out and thinking about the big bopper that's what you're going to fall asleep the story about the rehearsals is important to me though because especially coming from the album we just came from this album is super tight and precise and the like you can hear that they were rehearsing this stuff this is a clean and precise album but and i'll talk about that i'll talk about that later rosie you know where i feel like this is kind of analogous to to rolling stones a little bit like you know rolling stones everybody thought they were these big blues guys right but they basically just copied everything in the beginning it seems like you know they put their own spin on everything yeah is the clash as un-punk of a punk band as there's ever been kind of a deal like is it that everybody who's not in punk you know they're like oh we're gonna call this punk you know but anybody who is an actual punk artist is like those sellouts it seems like this is not punk

[55:03]right yeah it seems like somebody said oh these guys introduced punk to the world you know but all the punk guys the ramones the ones that i know i don't know a lot of them yeah you know this i mean this is super tight super clean that's that's not that's not punk is it so are these guys not punk because it's they're so musically talented and clean and they've got you know they've got they're playing all these covers musically talented or or to me it's melody right and and you know longer songs varied tempos lush textures i think all those things are a departure from punk not just being musically talented because i i think you could you know i'm sure you could find plenty of examples of punk bands being musically talented but i think they jumped off from the sort of minimalism of funk maybe here in this album and then that was they've got the punk message russell one thing i learned watching the documentary about because it's not just the sound it's the way they dress it's the way they acted before this they kind of they didn't dress up but by this album they started wearing suits all the time they didn't

[56:03]do this in the first few albums it's more than just the sound it's the way they carried themselves so there's definitely like a specific goal for them to move away from that sound and and that the way they were playing before it's kind of like all those girls that played in robert palmer's band when he was addicted to love they're all back there with suits on uh i i do think matt made a good point before i cut him off though and that is that there are there are there's a punk message on a lot of these songs right i mean it's it's they're talking about yeah again we're talking about police brutality i mean let's let's let's get into it london calling is the first one right they're talking about nuclear proliferation they're talking about police brutality they're talking about the thames oh do i know how to pronounce the thames correctly yeah that's right i call it the thames i'm a man in the world they talk about it flooding and and covering up london like it's all these same things so here's the first track off the album london calling and i know rob and i are going to talk about bass for this entire rest of this

[57:03]episode but the bass on this whole album is so great it's i loved it i thought i wrote in my notes it's so bass forward i think it's a lot of bass really interesting sounding and and i never knew i never knew topper heaton's name before doing research for this album but when you when you read about the drumming and then you listen to the whole album just the the diverse styles that he was able to play as a drummer i think makes the whole thing it's a great op this is by the way is one of these albums i think is put together really well great opening song great closing song and it's got some awesome london guys doing reggae in the middle just what i want in every album hey i read i read mon rob is there any way we can play the beginning of the song because i think the beginning of the song is super interesting too because this is where it really matt matt always describes this really well it's beginning of the first song really catches your attention and pulls you in if you listen to this i think this is about as good of a beginning of an album as you could ever listen to right yeah you absolutely could not sequence this album in any other way this has to be

[58:03]number one you're russell you just went to the record store you come back you it was a nervous experiment you're a wreck you stopped at kfc on the way home you i got like four sides i did the appetizer sampler signs you now put on the record and this is what you hear mac and cheese here we go right coming up that is awesome where would you guys put this on the all-time kind of title track opening track where does this rank compared to what's going on by marvin gaye or the beatles sergeant peppers where does this rank in that list i think second below what's going on i was going to say the same dang yeah hatred agreeing with you was boring but yeah i would say what's going on in this one you don't like this one you say it's not it's not i do but i mean like the the you know think about tax man is pretty good you're right oh that's the seven that's seven of

[59:03]seven oh no that's 97 of seven like a rolling stone is considered the the greatest song of all time do you put this ahead of that song rolling stone wouldn't it be nice yeah i mean what that's way better than this song but that's my opinion all right moving on i i mean i i don't know i think this is a great for this album i think you couldn't pick certainly it's the best song you could pick off his album to be the opener this album yeah yeah for sure i but i do think i agree with matt taxman is better all right next one brand new cadillac this is a uh cover from vince taylor and his playboys and this is their warm-up song so here we go do we know when the original was written or first reported is it a 50. i think so this is what they would use when they were doing like their sound checks they would always play this song so they just threw it on the rock ability to me i always wonder if prince listened to the clash i'm sure he listened to the clash i mean i'm sure what else did he do with his

[60:03]time like he didn't do jack he just he was rosie he was like you except if you were a world famous musician if i were telling you you don't know what i'd do when i'm listening to the clash what yes every time we listen to a album i try to pair it with a new wine or a new drink and so tonight i'm drinking it's called the calling cabernet from alexander valley out in sonoma there we go the wine presents black cherry vanilla spice aromas and ripe raspberry but the coolest thing about this wine i'm drinking tonight is it's a partnership with some entrepreneur named peter douche as i would call him and and the famous sports commentator jim nance jim nance the voice of like the nfl is part of the partnership that put this together but so this is what i'm drinking while i'm listening to this album but a really interesting thing that we didn't get a chance to touch on with with the first song was did you guys know when they were playing that song joe strummer was playing the piano on london calling and their producer didn't

[61:02]like the way he was playing it so he walks in and he pours a bunch of red wine all over the joe strummer's piano because like i hate the way you're doing this and he pours red wine all over it so i got such a kick out of that and i feel like i had to just jump in with my my pairing of the week at this point that's a good pair good pairing my wife comes in and just pours red wine all over my computer when i'm recording this podcast podcast is the worst thing in our marriage on her birthday so as you guys know i have notes and and the next thing on my notes was can you imagine if every time rob did something on this podcast that jenny would walk in and pour red wine on his keyboard there'd be no keyboards or red wine left in the state of new york we don't need four of us we could just have one of us because we all think of the same jokes every single time that's the way it is all right so we're going to go ahead and get started with the next one and we're going to get started with the next one and we're going to get started with the next one it is all right so next up we have jimmy jazz i there's no notes about the song on wikipedia but i loved it i thought this was such a cool switch up and sounds yeah this is one when i was just playing the album in the background like you'd stop and take notes and be like what's going on

[62:01]here this is such a fun swingy beat and you start to hear some of the really interesting guitar stuff in it like this really cool kind of like jumping in and out of the fray with that that is it mick jones is the guitar player i don't i could be wrong just like really cool counterpoint going on yeah mick jones mick jones joe strummer mick jones paul simon and and then the drummer uh yeah i i thought that was a great song okay moving on we have hateful hateful this is an all-time i think headphone album too because they do a lot of like background singing on the left side and i think yes it's one of those where yeah it's great in headphones and like it's also cool to blast super loud in the house but when you play with your headphones you hear all this like joe's drummer doing background vocals for himself just like great stuff yeah this was

[63:05]the first song on the album where i started hearing like these 90s pop bands that played in like the movies like american pie where you start hearing like to me i'm hearing some 41 i'm hearing blink 182. yes i'm hearing kind of those bands that were always in like the mid 90s that really arose at that time yeah no doubt i do they obviously were listening to this stuff yeah and no doubt yeah yeah you know gwen's funny no doubt yes boom yes damn that was so good russell walked right into that spiderweb oh the bachmans but no doubt into that spiderweb uh some 41 a.m what i was going to say is okay that didn't that was not as smooth that's what russell did dang it all right i need to take do i need to take the conch back from you rob do i didn't know the next song is rudy can't fail yeah hateful what are we on this is no this is this

[64:00]is a rudy can't fail this is uh the reggae song and i i'm going to tell you guess what i i kept thinking they were talking about an nba player during this see if you can guess which nba player they that they thought this is the the first reggae on the album but eric don't guess let him let him say don't stop here it comes okay any data oh no this is not the part where the player i just wanted to know the reggae part the one i fought the law and the law won so were they writing about an nba player no no no hold on let rob let's play the other clip let's get to the right clip here tom janovich in due day ebay

[65:04]i thought for sure they were talking about rudy gobert there and i was like what is going on like it really took a long time for me to figure out what the heck they were talking about i was like why are they singing so much about rudy gobert i the only thing i heard when i was listening to this song too was rudy gobert too i'm like how do these guys know rudy gobert is going to be this amazing player like 30 years in the future but it it made me start wondering what is the greatest song ever about a basketball player who is seven foot two or greater and it's not the rudy gobert song by the clash it is the yaoming song i'm gonna queue it up right now Y'all mean, y'all mean, y'all mean, y'all mean, y'all mean. Good drums on this. Yeah. Won't believe what he does with the rock, y'all. This was the first dance at my wedding. A lot of people don't know that. This really sounds like Hamilton to me.

[66:02]Y'all mean, y'all mean, y'all mean, y'all mean. Everybody's fired up. I got to say, my one other Green Day-related anecdote about Rudy Can't Fail is that there used to be a restaurant in Oakland called Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe owned by Billy Joe Armstrong, but now it is an adult arcade. It was okay. It was fine. It was there for a long time. But now it's closed and it's an adult arcade. Hey, Billy Joe's Rudy Can't Fail failed miserably on Saturday. They only served grilled chicken that had no deep fryer. Yeah. Failed miserably. I think the problem was on the menu, they had a dookie sandwich, and everybody was like, ugh. This is the low point of my podcasting career. I came up with a joke about Yao. Ming's song, and Aaron's the only basketball fan in the world I know at this point, and he immediately just went right into, like, this restaurant above that didn't serve fried chicken. I was all in on the Yao Ming song. I would never turn my back on basketball. Hey, baby, you want to hear my song about Wilt Chamberlain? Going from state to state.

[67:01]20,000 women. Pretty girls taking him down in the bed. Sexual intercourse is what he had. He got a lot of STDs. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Rudy Gobert. I'm going to get on this plane, and I'll be fine. All right. I don't know why I keep going back to that. It's like the meme part. Spanish bombs. Rudy Gobert, also a king of infectious disease. Go for it. Spanish bombs. Do you think the big bopper liked feet? Oh, yeah. Oh, burger. I was going to say, actually, that would be like. Matt just pulled the string at Rob's back and lit him up for another minute. Where's that smelling salt? I'm going to take some more of that smelling salt. Oh, yeah. Here we go. So I think the key. Is I was thinking about Russ's uncle, Russ's wheel. And I was thinking that half of it would just be rub Russ's right foot. And the other half is rub Russ's left foot. It's like he was like, hey, we got the wheel of fun. And then the kids are like, oh, no, not the wheel of fun. Don't love me into this. Like, I mean, it's time to rub the right foot. I may be a bad date, and I may buy fake flowers because I'm a moron, but I'm not a bad uncle.

[68:03]I think you owe me an apology. I think if having your nephews and nieces rub your feet is wrong, I don't want to be right. Hey, baby, does somebody say feet? Oh, I don't have any joke. I've been trying to this whole time to rhyme lace. Chantilly lace was something about feet. And I kind of Chantilly lace. Put those dirty feet in my face. The stinky they are. The more I like Russ's uncle. Wheel spins. It says rub my feet. All right. So next song is Spanish bombs. This song is great. This song is great. It's a song about the Spanish Civil War. I read a quote on Billboard.com. That said, had Lennon and McCartney written a song in 1964 about the Spanish Civil War, it might have been half as good as this song. Oh, wow. Here we go. I like the Spanish they're speaking.

[69:01]Apparently, it's some sort of they called it clash Spanish with two ends. The admitting is basically pigeon Spanish. But this is. At times in my life, this has been my favorite song on this album. So I ride for this song. I love it. I love everything about it. But I did start thinking a little bit about this song. I had some thoughts. Oh, that's that's your dog. When people start thinking, it's not good. It started me thinking. And I was thinking, I really like that when they're talking about Spain and they're talking about Spanish bombs, they start speaking in Spanish. Oh, yeah. And they really do their best as some non-Spanish speakers speaking some Spanish. And then when you read kind of how they were doing it, they were trying to do it in a sort of vernacular. And I also got to say, like, very impressive. They sound like someone who spent a semester in Spain and came back and said, well, I was in Barcelona. So when they say quote-a-thon, they use the theta.

[70:01]So I got to give them props for all of that. But do you guys want to go to the do you guys want to go to the tapas place downtown? And then they go and they're like, these aren't as good as tapas. I was in Spain. I was actually abroad for a semester. Yep. That's exactly who they are. I started wondering. The best Amstel lights I've ever had were definitely in Greece. And I bring that up all the time. These Amstel lights are not like the Amstel lights I had in Greece. Those famous Grecian Amstel lights. Do you know how you get money in Greece to buy Amstel lights? You Grecian earn it. Okay, Rosie, talk to us about Spanish. And he's back. He's back. And as I kept listening. To the chorus or the little riff where they say, I thought, this is great. This is really good. But is it possible that anyone else, any other white guys, any other white guys have recorded some songs in Spanish that could be possibly better? Que ando, Guerrero. And it's our namesake.

[71:04]It's our guy. Give it to me. And I think it's close, but this is also some slang. He's bringing in the slang from where he grew up. This song's a jam. This song's whales. This is it. I got to put this on the top 100. Can I tell you, there's no question. Hey, who did it better, Rob? Matt, do you have another suggestion? Yeah, no, I do. And I want to give Rob time to see if he can pull it up. Or if he will pull it up. Hey, Matt, I'll pull it up while Rob's doing it. I'm pulling up. Caress Me Down by Sublime. Okay, so I am just going to go to my browser, and I'm going to type in Caress Me Down, and then I'm going to go to Caress Me Down Now Videos. All right, so Beck's song might be better than this,

[72:04]but Caress Me Down. We don't have a podcast. It's true. Matt, let's allow Matt. There's shit all over Aaron's Beck Did It Better. Yeah. It happens to me about every week, so it's about time it happens to Aaron, too. I'm out here trying. Well, I guess now it's a question. Did Beck do it better or not? We're going to have a vote. We're going to have a vote. I know what it is. This album is so good. Also, Sublime has to be very Clash influenced. This song, I mean, they listen to Clash for sure. I fought the law. I feel like my biggest. I think it's Bradley, and he's singing it. I should not have gotten the Sublime in cursive letters across my back and tattoos over the last year. Like, I thought that was going to help me, and whenever I lead with that as my profile picture, it's been a disaster. That would be so good. So what do we think? Who did it better? The Clash, Sublime, or Beck?

[73:00]I put my drink under a lime at Sublime. Yeah, this album does slap, actually. I do love this Spanish song, but I'm going to have to say, Beck did it better. Oh, yeah. When I'm running the podcast, we all say it at the same time. All right, we're going to clap on four, and then we're going to say Beck did it better. One, two, three, four. Beck did it better. Okay, that sounds four times better than when I do it. All right, the right profile. It's like when the Beatles brought in four pianos for the last chord of Day in the Life. This is one of those where I can't understand anything British people are saying ever. I don't know what the fuck this song's about. Don't you think this sounds like the song The Boys from New York City? Do you guys remember that song? Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, cool, cool, kitty. Oh, yeah. You know what I'm talking about here?

[74:00]Obviously, all of this music is derivative. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just here, if you guys hear the same beat, and maybe there's a thousand songs to this beat, but this is what I thought of when I heard this. It's the same beat. That's the whole thing about this album. Every song you hear on this album reminds you of another song. So you know they were just listening to all of this back catalog stuff. Is this good podcasting, what I'm doing now, just playing these both at the same time? Great podcasting. Hey, man, what's happening? Hey, where are the eggs at? Where are the eggs at? Hey, Rob's not here. Why is not Rob not here? Oh, he didn't get his wife birthday candles for her birthday, so Rob's not going to be at this. Hey! Hey, what's happening, man? Oh, yeah. Rosie's mom. Rosie's mom. You can mark on your calendar, when did the podcast go insane? And it was somewhere around at this point. Why is Rob not here?

[75:00]Oh, I think he's lost in the supermarket. Wow, that's amazing, Russell, because that's the name of the next song. I'm going to... I'm going to scroll down to it. This, I love this song. It's about living in the suburbs, and I think it has the perfect tone and the perfect name of a song about living in the suburbs. Like, I went to a supermarket in New Jersey this weekend. It was so much bigger than what I'm used to in New York, and it was almost intimidating. That's what she said. Hey, bro. Man, just keep ripping that string. I feel this, though. Like, my whole family in Iowa and Minnesota go to Costco, and Costco is just way too much for me. For me to comprehend, I would be totally lost in Costco. You just do get this impression of, like, you could listen to this song walking around a giant supermarket, and it would make total sense. It's so... I think it's just brilliant. I love it. I think we should open a supermarket and just play that song on loop. Wait, did Linda Ronstadt record that? I don't know. It sounds like it. This is...

[76:00]The next one is Clampdown. This is the second single off the album after London Calling, and this is about basically everybody, and it sounds pretty familiar. I don't want to get political, but it sounds pretty familiar of everybody was saying, listen, we need to clamp down on these protests. We need to clamp down on these strikes. We need to clamp down on all these agitators. And they're saying, guys, you need to be part of the problem here. Like, look for the clampdown. Sorry, Beto. Miss you, man. I'm telling you guys, I loved listening to this album. Clamp down. They put up a poster saying we are all the new and working for the clampdown. We will take charge. We're not getting away, baby. Somebody say clampdown? That doesn't make any sense. One thing we never talked about when we kicked off this album is the cover of this album. We've never talked about the cover of this album.

[77:00]And if you guys go check it out, the cover of this album is the bass player smashing his guitar on the ground. And on the side, the lettering of the album is pink and green. And it's interesting. You need to go check it out because it's essentially a ripoff of Elvis' debut 1956 record. It was the same pink and green font as Elvis. But in this case, they're smashing the guitar upon the ground. I never ripped off anybody. How could somebody rip off my album cover? Guys, another impression. What? Ringo? But so it's interesting because the story goes that the clash is bad. They're playing in some arena out in New York in 1979. And the crowd is either not into it or the story goes that they keep standing up with the bouncers at this club and tell them you need to sit down. You can't stand up during this performance. So the people keep sitting down in the clash. All the artists are getting so annoyed. They're getting so frustrated that the people aren't into it and they're not into it

[78:00]the way they want them to be. So this bass player for the clash gets so frustrated and pissed off that he starts slamming his guitar on the ground. And it was caught on camera and it becomes this iconic picture which is the cover for this album of the bass player slamming his guitar on the ground. And one of my favorite quotes about this performance when he's slamming his guitar on the ground he says, unfortunately, you always sort of tend to destroy the things you love. And so he's destroying his guitar because he loves it. But it started to make me think there's something about smashing guitars that just screams rock and roll, doesn't it? Oh, totally. In honor of the honky-tonk man who we talked about last week, I've put together a list, a list, Rob. Oh, wait a minute. About the greatest guitar smashers in the history of music. All right. I got a long sound effect. Oh, wait, rock sound effect. Sorry about that. Russell, take control.

[79:01]No, that was the right sound. I love the honky-tonk, man. I have to put that in our permanent soundboard so that will be there forever, though. Four, three, two, one. This one's so long. For another other bit. Did it better. Count five hours. No, I mean that sound clip is so long. It's just like, it's way longer than it has to be. All right, here's the list. That's what she said. I thought it would be a cool list to put together the greatest guitar smashers in the history of music. So I've put together a top four list for you guys to decide on who's the greatest guitar smasher ever. Number four. Number four. Is Nine Inch Nails. This is Head Like a Hole. Now, Nine Inch Nails used to have these really chaotic concerts where they would attack each other on stage and dive off the stage and their concerts would end with them destroying all of their instruments, all the guitars, all the drums, all the keyboards.

[80:00]And I read this really cool quote on Ultimate Guitar where it said, the front man, Trent Reznor, once said that when an instrument falls on stage, it mocks you and it must be destroyed. Oh God, that's so good. I had a friend of mine who went to a Nine Inch Nails concert when they came to Rochester, Minnesota for some reason. And he said that he spent the whole time throwing quarters and hitting Trent Reznor with quarters. And I was like, that surprises me zero. I bet Trent Reznor gets hit with quarters like every single concert. I mean, the people that would go to a Nine Inch Nails concert, it does not surprise me they're winging quarters at Trent Reznor. That's probably why he's scoring movies now instead of doing more concerts. He got hit by so many quarters. Matt, have you listened to him? Have you listened to any Nine Inch Nails recently? Yeah, I mean, they're number 200 on the list. I forget the name of the album, but that song is on the album. And I think as a 13-year-old when this song came out, I was just dead afraid of what the hell the Nine Inch Nails were. Their videos. Their videos were scary as hell.

[81:00]But then, like, the lyrics, right? But when he says, I want to violate you, you're like, wait, is that a thing people can do? You let me desecrate you. You let me penetrate you. You let me complicate. I mean, like, as a 13-year-old. Talk slower now, baby. Yeah, you know, then Hurt is on this album as well. You know, and it starts out, I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. You know, a kid growing up in white America, everything's going perfect, upper Midwest. You know, that was like, oh my goodness, what the hell is this band? You know, and so I think I was dead afraid of them, of what the hell this band was. But now I listen to them as a 39-year-old, and I can't get enough of this album. It's phenomenal. So I'm back on the Nine Inch Nails. Matt, do you think Nine Inch Nails, that album being ranked 200, is rolling bone, groaned, or where should it be ranked on the list? I mean, it should be higher so that the number is lower. Oh, God. Is that how it works? Don't mock my system. Do not mock my system. Very insulting. Lower. One is overrated

[82:00]or underrated. It's absolutely underrated. Completely underrated. That should be a top 25 album. It's so funny you bring up hard times growing up in suburban white America. I remember one of the most depressed moments of my life was one time on Sunday, the clock shifted due to the daily savings time, and I missed America's Funniest Home Videos. And so I basically went home and sat. I didn't go home. I was at home, but I sat in my room and just listened to this, and I was like, Trent, I really get what you're talking about. I missed America's Funniest Home Videos. I don't know. That super American song they have, is it the only one? Coast to coast, America's Funniest Home Videos. America. I mean, that song was like almost our national anthem at the time. It's very strange, and I missed it, and I was so depressed. Nine Inch Nails is... Is that the Bob Saget days? Yeah. Oh, absolutely. And I'd just be seeing people get hit in the nuts, and then, like, it's like, why are they filming this guy painting on a ladder? Like, who films that? People fall in the grass. And I missed it, and it's still, like, it affected me where I remember that now.

[83:00]So that just shows how hard my life has been. So Nine Inch Nails is kind of this band where Matt was saying, you got to check it out. You have to go check out this album. And they were kind of famous for smashing guitars, but there's more bands who are famous for smashing guitars. And the next one is, like Nine Inch Nails, Kurt Cobain from Nirvana would often express his anger on stage by smashing guitars at the end of concerts. Nirvana. Doesn't anybody smash a guitar for being happy anymore? They smashed them on SNL, right? Didn't they smash the guitars on SNL in Iran? It's interesting, Aaron. They actually destroyed a Fender Stratocaster or whatever the name of this popular guitar is in the studio while they were recording Endless Nameless on the album Nevermind, which is 17th on our list. And I wanted to pick that song for this right here. But honestly, I think the song's terrible and I didn't want to make anyone listen to it. So I just, I wasn't going to, I wasn't going to put it on the list, but Nirvana actually smashed a guitar in the middle

[84:00]of the recording album while they were playing that song. God, that'd be so badass. Yep. It's got to feel good. Number two on the list. And I'm, and around that time, I'm crying about missing America's Funniest Home Videos at home, so. Rob's smashing Jenny's birthday candles into a wall. You will not have a fun birthday. Light. Goddammit, light. No, that would have, that would have made me maybe buy some candles beforehand, before her birthday. Oh, and you know, I forgot to put the quote on that story. Today, it turns out was our dog's birthday and my daughter bought like a banner and cards and balloons and hats. Hats for everybody and dressed everybody up and made us take pictures. And my wife is like, we're literally doing 10 times more for the dog than you did for me for my birthday. They're still in trouble. It's never going away. We might need to take a hiatus from the podcast. And then I went into her room and she was just sitting there with this. She was like, I was like, hey, how's our marriage going? And she's just, you know, turns this up louder.

[85:01]Okay, I'll just come back later. Thank you. Well, I have, I have to say, if I were to say, if I were Rob's wife, I would probably take his guitar because I believe, Rob, you're a guitar player, right? Yes, an expert. If I were Rob's wife, Jenny, what I would do is, is take a little lesson from The Who. And because The Who is the original guitar smashers. I think I can pause so long if you said The Who. So Pete Townsend is really the pioneer of guitar smashing. He smashed his first guitar in 1964. And supposedly in 1967, he smashed 35 guitars Oh, my God. That's excessive. That's almost one a week. Like, it's, after a while, don't you get tired? You're like, guess I got to go smash another guitar, mate. Kind of bored with it now. I'm pretty sure Jenny would smash all 38 of your guitars right now if she had a chance, Rob. It wouldn't even take her the whole year. No, being married, being married to me is gift enough is something I think she would say. The interesting thing about The Who with this is Pete Townsend

[86:01]was not one to be outdone by his, the other members of his band. So the drummer of his band, who was also playing, they were playing the Smothers Brothers comedy TV show, and the drummer loaded a bunch of explosives into the drum set. Oh, yeah. And he detonates this on this comedy show in the late 60s. And it causes, Keith Moon, is that the drummer's name from The Who? Yeah, yeah. It causes him to, like, light his hair on fire. He loses his hearing in one ear for, like, the rest of his life. And the thing that made me laugh the hardest is Betty Davis, who's, like, this famous actress or whatever, who was on the show that night, faints when they blow up this, when they start smashing guitars and they blow up the drum set. Can you imagine? That's how lame it was, like, in the 50s and 60s, is that a drum set explodes and somebody goes, oh, and just faints. Like, that's, like, nothing. Well, Herb Alpert was the number one album in 1966 or whatever. I want more whipped cream delights, not drums blowing up. I'm going to give you guys

[87:01]the number one guitar smasher ever, but what I want you to think about is, if you were smashing a guitar, how would you do it here? But I'll give you the number one, the number one guitar smasher ever. There's one way to smash a guitar. What are you talking about? Oh, oh, no. It's about to get real here. You put your feet on the guitar part and you use it as a pogo stick? Like, I don't know how else do you smash a guitar. For the head, baseball bat style. See, sometimes you got to be a little creative, Rob. You get so, you get so, like, in your lane, you don't think about other things. Kick it. Jimi Hendrix, on the other hand, was famous for smashing guitars, but the coolest story comes in 1967. And Hendrix is playing at this festival with The Who, who is famous for smashing their guitars. And they kind of have this back and forth about who's going to go on first because they don't want one to upstage the other. They don't want to follow each other. And so The Who ends up, they flip a coin and The Who goes on and they smash their guitars. And Jimi Hendrix comes on and he's like, I need to top them. So how does he top them? He smashes his guitar at the end

[88:00]and then he takes a lighter and he lights his guitar on fire on the stage. Hard to top that. You can't beat that. He set it on fire and he's the voodoo child. I would smash the guitar. I would light it on fire. And then I would use that fire to cook a hot dog that I would then play a guitar with for my next song. Topped it. I'm better than Jimi Hendrix. Oh my God, I'm so smart. If I was going to destroy a guitar, I would destroy Rob's guitar after I swiped on Jenny's Bumble profile down the road. I would take his guitar when he had to be out of the building for whatever their agreement. I would take his guitar, light it on fire, and then for her birthday I would use that to light the candles. Oh, she would be so happy. She would just be thrilled. Just the fact that she has somebody lighting something in her life, she'd be like, I don't care what's going on. He can destroy all my stuff. This is better than being with Rob. Oh, he brought me flowers. Let's just cut these flowers real quick. Okay, I'm just going to... I think it would be cool to destroy a guitar by throwing it out of an airplane

[89:01]or maybe skydiving, playing a guitar solo, and then when you're when your parachute opens, you give the rock and roll sign and your guitar falls to the ground another 2,000 feet and smashes it on the ground. Maybe that's what I would do. That rock and roll symbol you made with your fingers looked extremely inappropriate, Aaron. I'm just going to say that right now. Is that how you... I don't know. Matt, how would you destroy a guitar? Hey, baby, somebody took the last parachute out of this airplane. Oh, no, baby. The big baba's going down. Literally and... I've always wanted to take the guitar and just hit whatever the big drum is, the foot pedal drum, and just drive a guitar right... The bass drum? I don't know. Yeah. And just drive it right through there. Just cut that thing open. So maybe it's more destroying the drum than it is the guitar. You guys don't think my idea of using the guitar like a pogo stick and holding the top of the guitar and stepping on the thing and then hopping around until it smashes,

[90:00]I think that's a great idea. Except you're going to fall on your face and then you're going to look... You're going to look bad. It's going to be so punk. The funny thing for me is that Aaron and Rob do not remember a famous moment when we were in college about a guitar bashing moment. And as Aaron will never admit to this, and he's going to deny it immediately when I say this, but Aaron was a great singer. He still is a great singer. But in college, he used to always sing in the dorms and play the guitar in the dorms and try to pick up women with his musical skills. And if Aaron denies this, just don't believe him. He's making it up. He's trying to act like it didn't happen. So there was this one time in college where Aaron started singing in the dorm and people got so sick of it. And Rob walked over to our dorm and he took Aaron's guitar. And what happened, Rob? I think we have a recording of it. Let's listen to it here. Yeah, because I took the video and I actually sent it in to America's Funniest Home Videos. Russ is going off the list again.

[91:05]Russ brings it home off the list. Guns of Brixton. This is the one song written by and sung by the bass player, Paul Simon. Another reggae beat. This song's too slow, I think. I mean, it's a great song. Great message. It's just like, let's turn up the beats. Bad boys, bad boys. What you gonna do? Another police. It's another police brutality song. But it's just kind of... I mean, yeah, I don't want to pick on it because it's a great message. You gotta speed it up. This sounds like a reggae song, right? Yeah. Well, not as much as... I mean, I think they were big into reggae, right? They were, yeah. Not as much as Wrong and Boyo. I think there's a difference between reggae and ska, though. My understanding is ska is like more punchier. It's quicker. It's faster. It's also the guitar, so... Did you guys hear about the ska pizza place that opened up? Oh, God. No.

[92:00]You can get it for delivery or you can pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. This was the song that really reminded me of all, like, the 90s ska bands, like Real Big Fish and Sublime and the Boss Tones. Ska Skank Redemption out of Minnesota. I do have to shout out Dave Hagedorn of the Minneapolis St. Paul jazz scene who was my music theory professor, senior year of college. He described that a ska sound is where the guitar goes. Ska, ska, ska, ska, ska. And a reggae sound is where the reggae is where the guitar goes. Reggae, reggae, reggae, reggae. And now that you've heard that, you will not forget it. Okay, okay, wait a minute. And you'll know the difference between ska and reggae. Shout out Dave Hagedorn. Here we go. Who's talented for much more? Reggae, reggae, reggae, reggae. I do hear it. I hear it. Reggae, reggae, reggae, reggae. Okay, now wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, yeah. Ska, ska, ska, ska, ska, ska.

[93:02]Dude, I love this professor. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Let's get him on the podcast. He knows what he's talking about. He knows way more than I do. He's a great jazz percussionist. He knows way more than me. Shout out Dave Hagedorn. But do you guys hear like those 90s ska bands? Like, remember like Rancid? They played Time Bomb. That's like right up this alley, right? Yes. Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska, Ska. When I was doing background search on this, I came across... What am I looking at here? Hopper penis size Google. All right. Death or Glory. This is when Aaron requested a long play on this one. So it's going to be a little long. Yeah, I got to hear more of this one. It's about rock stars who say they're going to die before they get old. Rob, you're a talking heads guy. This sounds like Psycho Killer. Yes, I say. This song is such an anthem.

[94:01]And the thing is, I've always loved this album. And I love this song regardless. But what you guys don't know about me, the weird thing that I haven't revealed about myself yet is that... The weird thing you haven't revealed. That I have not yet revealed. Hold on. I'm going to have to take another drink of my calling wine. Is that... Are we recording? Are we sure we're recording? We don't want to miss this. Of all of the TV shows I've loved in my life, Friday Night Lights, Parks and Recreation, what's going to happen here? Oh, Boy Meets World. Yeah. America's Funniest Home Videos. My lady and I are absolute devotees of the late aughts comedy, New Girl, which was on Fox, starring Jake Johnson and Zooey Deschanel and Lamorne Morris. And there is a famous episode, famous in my house, of New Girl where they play a game called True American,

[95:01]which is a drinking game, which is a totally insane drinking game. And at least one of the times when they play True American, they play Death or Glory as the soundtrack. And so I cannot... I love the song so much anyway, but I can't hear Death or Glory without thinking of True American and New Girl. So that's what that song means to me. And it's a great song. It's an anthem. What? What? That was Aaron's second left field take of the week. Not one, two. I have for sure seen every episode of New Girl at least three times. It's like the kind of... It's the kind of thing where we've had a night of drinking. It's like, what should we do before we go to bed? Oh, let's watch a New Girl episode. Wow, that sounds like the opposite of my weekend. All right. Hey, what should we do? What should we do after we go to bed? Oh, how about have an argument in front of our kids? Oh, yeah. Coca-Cola. I don't know what this song is about, but it's so great.

[96:02]I just... What's about cocaine? Oh, it's like cocaine. Yep. Could be about anything. Who knows? That little bass lick into the bridge, like... It's so great. Oh, Aaron, when you're doing bass licks, I just love it. Oof. Hey, did somebody say bass lick, baby? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Now you're talking big babas. Okay. Bass lick is where you lick my... I'm going to have to edit out so many of those. Oh, jeez. God dang it. Card cheat. Double album again, guys. There's just so many songs. Sounds like Herb Elbert. You get long. Not to rip on... I like this album, but this has got to be about the low point of the album, right? Yeah, this is where I think... I mean, maybe... Aaron said it last time, like, they have a couple extra songs, and I'm like, oh, shit, now we've got to put on all these extra songs that we have. The only... Yeah. The only research I did was that they had this brass band that came in. When I figured out that they had, like, this background bass or brass band that came in,

[97:01]I mean, what punk is that? That's not punk at all. Were they... Were they from Tijuana? Did they rip off Herbert Elbert's Tijuana brass band? That's what I was wondering. I think they were listening to Phil Spector, man. That sounds like a Phil Spector song to me. Oh, God. Wait, I see that. I just see... To me, it's the wall of sound that they were going for. I don't know. I could be wrong. Prove me wrong. This comes back that... This comes back that AdLibs, when I was talking about earlier, though, they're taking those... Yeah. It was the Rumor Brass Band. They also played on... Walking on Sunshine. So, you've got the same people that have... They're playing with The Clash, and they're also playing with... What is it? The Waves. Yeah. 1980s classic, Walking on Sunshine. That's not very punk. I agree with Aaron. I think the Ronettes are very punk. All right. So, the next one, we have Lovers Rock. That's a different sound, isn't it?

[98:04]Is that Sade? Yeah, this is by Sade. This is my shit right here. This is my comfort zone. This is, of course, Sade's Lovers Rock. This is what Aaron puts on once a year when he lights his birthday candles that he purchased for his wife for her birthday cake. That he purchased. It's my night. I get to put on some Sade's. This is Aaron's night after watching New Girl, and here's Rob's night after getting in a hotel bedroom that was about five minutes away. $500 a night. So, let's listen to that. Yeah, this is actually very reminiscent of what the conversation sounded like. You don't think about anyone else. You bought the presents at the last moment. I saw you on the computer doing it. Podcast is horrible. You added the podcast when I'm taking out my own birthday cake. I wish you would think about me. Jokes are not funny. She didn't say that, man.

[99:02]Take that back. After I've purchased fake flowers for someone and I'm walking back to my car knowing I'm never going to see this person again, I usually listen to a song called Poor Horseman. Oh, no. You have a song all queued up? It's usually by Metallica, but this one will have to do. Oh, no. I can just picture Russ in his car with his fake flowers and they're somehow already dead and leaning over and he's just in his car like, oh, no. Oh, no. I might have to just get a guitar to smash after my next terrible date. That'd be so good. That'd be so great. Okay. Hey, Russ, what are all those Herb Alberts in the backseat? What is that guitar there for? You do not want to know. Hey, Russ. Just enjoy these fake flowers. Hey, Russ. Great date. Yeah. You know what? I'll call you when I think we should go out again. You just see him out of his car. Smash, smash, smash. Topped around on a guitar like a pogo stick. All right. This is getting too real for me. We need to move on to the next song. Four Horsemen. Licking them dry.