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O'Brien & Doug Ep180 [January 25, 2024 We Have the Zs, Bizzy and Lazy!] · O'Brien & Doug

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SPEAKER_17: Welcome to the O'Brien and Doug podcast.
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SPEAKER_17: I'm O'Brien.
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SPEAKER_20: I'm Douglas, episode 180.
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SPEAKER_20: 180! 180! We've done a 180!
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SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_17: Have we?
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SPEAKER_17: Yes, we're now a uh we're now a new age.
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SPEAKER_17: Ooh.
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SPEAKER_21: Podcast.
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SPEAKER_21: Ooh! We love everybody.
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SPEAKER_21: Ruby.
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SPEAKER_17: Actually, no, we're not.
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SPEAKER_17: Um so we have a couple of things to talk about today.
0:57
SPEAKER_17: Um because well actually, before we get going on this stuff, let's talk about our gig.
1:03
SPEAKER_17: Let's talk about why we were off last week.
1:05
SPEAKER_20: Because we were we're not good at time management.
1:09
SPEAKER_17: Right.
1:09
SPEAKER_17: So because we so we usually record on Monday nights or Tuesday nights, depending on, you know, if we have anything going on.
1:16
SPEAKER_17: And uh so Monday night we played.
1:18
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
1:19
SPEAKER_17: We had a gig.
1:19
SPEAKER_20: Which was such a weird night for a gig.
1:22
SPEAKER_17: It was a weird night for a gig and it was a weird gig.
1:24
SPEAKER_20: It was a weird gig.
1:25
SPEAKER_17: Um I thought I left there thinking we were the wrong choice uh for them to hide.
1:30
SPEAKER_17: Oh, yeah.
1:31
SPEAKER_17: Because uh, I mean initially in the very beginning it might have been okay because there were a few older people there, but then after the initial because it what it was was a private party.
1:42
SPEAKER_17: It was like a uh a holiday party in January.
1:45
SPEAKER_17: After the holidays.
1:46
SPEAKER_17: After the holidays, because these were two restaurants.
1:48
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
1:48
SPEAKER_17: And you can't imagine.
1:49
SPEAKER_17: I mean, they're busy during the holidays.
1:51
SPEAKER_17: So so it was um two restaurants and they uh so a holiday party and they wanted some live music.
1:58
SPEAKER_17: So we started playing, and then they gave gifts away to their employees and things like that.
2:02
SPEAKER_17: And and then slowly but surely the older people left.
2:08
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
2:08
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
2:09
SPEAKER_17: Leaving mostly 30 and under.
2:13
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, as well as like 20 something and 30 something.
2:16
SPEAKER_17: And um we don't play any music they like.
2:22
SPEAKER_20: Really don't.
2:24
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
2:24
SPEAKER_17: So um we uh the last hour maybe was rough.
2:30
SPEAKER_17: Was work.
2:31
SPEAKER_17: It was It was work.
2:32
SPEAKER_17: It was work.
2:33
SPEAKER_17: Um and I left there thinking, I don't want to do that again.
2:35
SPEAKER_17: No, not really.
2:36
SPEAKER_17: Not just no, not just that show.
2:39
SPEAKER_17: I don't want to play again.
2:41
SPEAKER_17: Never again! I was like, that was I don't want to do that anymore.
2:45
SPEAKER_20: We're done.
2:46
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
2:47
SPEAKER_20: I'm gonna be an art teacher now.
2:49
SPEAKER_17: But you know, you know, I mean, I've said that for years in common crossing.
2:52
SPEAKER_17: Every time we play players show I'm done.
2:54
SPEAKER_17: I'm done.
2:54
SPEAKER_17: I don't want to do anything.
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SPEAKER_20: Week later, hey, we got a gig.
2:58
SPEAKER_20: Right?
2:59
SPEAKER_20: Ready?
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SPEAKER_20: What?
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SPEAKER_17: It's it's funny if it wasn't.
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SPEAKER_20: I think we I think we're just we're just very emotional after a gig because it's we're we're we're tired and you know, and you're just like, man.
3:10
unknown: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
3:12
SPEAKER_17: When it's work like that, it's no fun.
3:14
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, exactly.
3:14
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
3:15
SPEAKER_17: So anyway, so we played Monday night, and then Tuesday, we were supposed to have uh uh Star City Syndicate rehearsal, but there was a snowstorm.
3:24
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
3:24
SPEAKER_17: So and then uh Doug's like, well, I'm not coming to the snowstorm, and I said, I can't blame you.
3:28
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, I wasn't going anywhere.
3:29
SPEAKER_17: So uh actually uh you decided, actually we both decided at the end of the gig on Monday.
3:34
SPEAKER_17: Why don't we just uh because it's supposed to be a snowstorm tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_20: Why don't we just Yeah, and Wednesday was no good.
3:40
SPEAKER_20: Wednesday was no good.
3:41
SPEAKER_20: Thursday we had syndicate practice, and it was just like Yeah, we put on Thursdays anyway.
3:46
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, so it just wasn't gonna work that way.
3:47
SPEAKER_20: So it was usually we know ahead of time when we're not gonna have a week, but we were just like everything was happening all at once.
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SPEAKER_17: Yeah, it was just crazy.
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SPEAKER_17: So we couldn't get to it.
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SPEAKER_17: So we apologize for for being a a week late on on this episode.
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SPEAKER_20: But you know, all 17 of you were just eighteen.
4:06
SPEAKER_17: Oh, was there eighteen?
4:06
SPEAKER_17: There was eighteen.
4:07
SPEAKER_17: Okay, good.
4:07
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, there was eighteen.
4:09
SPEAKER_20: Um just want to give a quick shout out to cousin Larry.
4:11
SPEAKER_20: I hope he had a great time at uh Red Sox Fantasy Camp.
4:15
SPEAKER_17: We had uh should we because we we were had designs on posting some of that stuff on our Facebook page.
4:22
SPEAKER_17: I did anyway.
4:23
SPEAKER_17: I thought it was uh we were gonna do that.
4:24
SPEAKER_17: We were gonna post uh Larry's updates.
4:27
SPEAKER_17: Um weren't we?
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SPEAKER_20: I don't know.
4:30
SPEAKER_20: I don't remember how much I wanted to.
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SPEAKER_17: Um so let's see, because I know that he had sent some uh updates.
4:39
SPEAKER_17: Can I just I want to play the last one?
4:41
SPEAKER_17: Uh let's see, where is it right here?
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SPEAKER_17: Um so let's see.
4:48
SPEAKER_17: Oh.
4:50
SPEAKER_17: No, this was so he was at Red Sox Fantasy Camp.
4:52
SPEAKER_17: Did he send this to you?
4:54
SPEAKER_17: He says, uh, hope you're having a great weekend.
4:56
SPEAKER_17: I don't know if you want or can use this in the podcast, but here's Hall of Fame announcer Joe Castiglione introduced championship game.
5:04
SPEAKER_17: Sadly, we lost four to two, but what a thrill.
5:06
SPEAKER_17: So let's just play this part.
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SPEAKER_20: Yeah, because this was cool.
5:08
SPEAKER_17: He sent us a couple of uh video updates, and you know, I I we just got so busy, and I wanted to post them on our page, but so let's listen to this.
5:32
SPEAKER_21: Yeah, but joke is tickling on it, it's announcing.
5:35
SPEAKER_21: I know, and that's that's the coolest thing, man.
5:39
SPEAKER_21: Is that his walk-on music?
5:40
SPEAKER_21: That's his walk-on music.
5:44
SPEAKER_21: Yeah, that's cool.
5:46
SPEAKER_17: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_20: I mean, that's how cool is that to have that guy announce you.
5:50
SPEAKER_20: Oh you know, and of course he's at Red Sox Fantasy Camera.
5:53
SPEAKER_20: I mean, that was just all the updates he sent me.
5:56
SPEAKER_20: I was just like, wow.
5:57
SPEAKER_17: I know.
5:57
SPEAKER_17: Wow, I know, wow, you know?
5:59
SPEAKER_20: So it's such a cool experience.
6:01
SPEAKER_17: Yep.
6:02
SPEAKER_17: And and maybe we'll get around to posting some of those um updates that he sent.
6:06
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, because baseball doesn't start for a while.
6:08
SPEAKER_17: Right.
6:08
SPEAKER_17: So, you know.
6:09
SPEAKER_17: We are, you know, we're just busy and and lazy and both things that end in Z.
6:13
SPEAKER_17: Um We're just Z's.
6:15
SPEAKER_17: We're just Z's.
6:16
SPEAKER_17: Um so you hence, you know, we don't have a guest for this episode.
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SPEAKER_17: No.
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SPEAKER_17: We just are busy and lazy.
6:23
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
6:23
SPEAKER_17: We're the Z's.
6:24
SPEAKER_17: Busy, lazy, busy, lazy, busy.
6:26
SPEAKER_17: Um busy, busy, busy being lazy.
6:29
SPEAKER_17: Um before we get to oh, so Star City Syndicate uh had our fundraiser uh last Saturday.
6:35
SPEAKER_17: Yes, and it went swimmingly.
6:38
SPEAKER_20: It did, it was very nicely done.
6:40
SPEAKER_17: Um, I think we played well.
6:42
SPEAKER_17: Um I think the crowd, there was a great crowd.
6:44
SPEAKER_20: Oh, very good crowd.
6:45
SPEAKER_17: Very good crowd, very into it and very generous crowd.
6:49
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, very good.
6:50
SPEAKER_17: So we raised a bunch of money for a roostic team leadership camp.
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SPEAKER_20: Yes, it was very nice.
6:55
SPEAKER_20: Um it was a it was a big uh it was a big weight off uh Tia's shoulders.
7:01
SPEAKER_20: She was like, that's that's money I don't have to figure out how we were gonna raise.
7:04
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, so we were talking about this before we started recording, but uh uh I want to give a shout out to Tia and her mom.
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SPEAKER_17: See, so this is an interesting story.
7:12
SPEAKER_17: So Tia, who is now running basically a rustic teen leadership camp, um you've known her for a while.
7:19
SPEAKER_17: Yep.
7:20
SPEAKER_17: And I did not know that her mother I went to a rootic teen leadership camp with way back in the day.
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SPEAKER_20: Yeah, I I didn't know that either till last summer when I was talking to her, and she's like, Oh yeah, and then I meant to tell you about it, and I told you, of course I totally forgot.
7:36
SPEAKER_20: Right.
7:37
SPEAKER_20: And and then when she came on Saturday, I was like, Oh, wait a minute.
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SPEAKER_17: Hey! Yeah, and it was really nice to see her.
7:43
SPEAKER_17: She's come to a couple of my things.
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SPEAKER_17: She uh believe it or not, I've met Tia before.
7:47
SPEAKER_17: Oh, have you?
7:48
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, which I totally forgot about, but I I guess I wouldn't have recognized her.
7:52
SPEAKER_17: They came to I did a um songwriting uh workshop.
7:56
SPEAKER_17: Oh at um, I think it was Upward Bound or uh it was no, it wasn't Upward Bound, it was um Young Authors.
8:02
SPEAKER_17: Young Authors Instagram, yeah.
8:04
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
8:04
SPEAKER_17: And uh one Miranda was running, right?
8:06
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, yeah.
8:07
SPEAKER_17: And her her and her mom came to my my workshop.
8:10
SPEAKER_17: Oh yeah.
8:11
SPEAKER_17: Which was which was awesome to see.
8:12
SPEAKER_17: But you know, it was great to see her Saturday night.
8:14
SPEAKER_17: And uh we raised we can say this because they just posted it.
8:17
SPEAKER_17: We raised four thousand dollars.
8:19
SPEAKER_20: Four thousand dollars, yeah.
8:20
SPEAKER_17: Uh in addition to another, or no, was it it was four thousand dollars together.
8:24
SPEAKER_17: All together.
8:25
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, yeah, you know, because the washer washburn uh rotary did a fifty-fifty and they got nine hundred dollars out of it.
8:31
SPEAKER_17: And they donated their half to yeah.
8:33
SPEAKER_17: I was just like, wow.
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SPEAKER_20: Yeah, it was incredible.
8:35
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, no, it's all good.
8:37
SPEAKER_20: They gave a lot of they gave out of the raffled off a lot of gift cards and gift certificates, and we raffled off another uh syndicate practice.
8:45
SPEAKER_20: Did we see did we know who got that?
8:48
SPEAKER_20: I did.
8:49
SPEAKER_20: They they came out and talked to Chris after.
8:51
SPEAKER_20: They did, okay.
8:51
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, so okay, so I don't know who they are.
8:54
SPEAKER_17: We'll be having guests at our rehearsal in the future.
8:57
SPEAKER_17: Yes.
8:57
SPEAKER_17: So that's cool.
8:58
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, so it was a very very successful uh Saturday.
9:02
SPEAKER_17: Um this weekend, um, I am just out.
9:07
SPEAKER_20: I'm just gonna watch football.
9:08
SPEAKER_17: Are you?
9:08
SPEAKER_17: I will I wish I could.
9:10
SPEAKER_20: Well, we got the you know, we got the championship games this weekend.
9:12
SPEAKER_17: So yeah, did you see so so it's gonna be San Francisco and uh Baltimore?
9:17
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, because it's already been posted.
9:19
SPEAKER_20: Right.
9:19
SPEAKER_20: It was posted like last week, right?
9:22
SPEAKER_17: Jude was like, Dad, if you buy into that, you know, that's not you know, that's that's just a host.
9:27
SPEAKER_20: But if it actually happens, something's up.
9:29
SPEAKER_20: Everybody's gonna be like, wait a minute.
9:31
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, something's up.
9:33
SPEAKER_17: But then I th the Niners were losing, and I was like, aha.
9:36
SPEAKER_17: So this is you know, I hope they don't, but they pulled pulled back.
9:38
SPEAKER_17: Pulled it out, yeah.
9:40
SPEAKER_17: You know.
9:40
SPEAKER_17: Um, so it'll be interesting to see.
9:42
SPEAKER_17: I there's two games on Sunday, one's at like three and one's later.
9:47
SPEAKER_17: I can probably see the later one because I'm we're we have this is uh just No, there's only two games this weekend.
9:53
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, two games on Sunday.
9:55
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
9:55
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
9:56
SPEAKER_17: One at three, yeah, yeah, and one a little bit later.
9:58
SPEAKER_17: Right.
9:59
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
10:00
SPEAKER_17: So um I don't know what ti I don't know what what time we'll get home on Sunday.
10:04
SPEAKER_17: Because we got Eli has uh two basketball games.
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SPEAKER_17: He's got a game on Friday night downstate.
10:12
SPEAKER_17: So we're going down, we're staying in a hotel.
10:15
SPEAKER_17: We're going to his game.
10:16
SPEAKER_17: Saturday, Myra has her coyote uh basketball tournament.
10:23
SPEAKER_17: So she has two games Saturday morning.
10:25
SPEAKER_17: Eli has a game downstate Saturday afternoon in MDI.
10:31
SPEAKER_17: So we're going to that.
10:32
SPEAKER_17: Staying in a hotel.
10:34
SPEAKER_17: Myra has her hoop shoot, her state hoop shoot challenge Sunday morning.
10:40
SPEAKER_17: If her team wins on Saturday, they also play on Sunday.
10:43
SPEAKER_20: Oh.
10:44
SPEAKER_17: She may miss that depending on what time.
10:46
SPEAKER_17: So anyway, it's just gonna be like, I'm just gonna be like, oh, just tell me where to go, what to do.
10:52
SPEAKER_21: Must drive.
10:54
SPEAKER_17: It's just gonna be uh I'm gonna be wrecked on Sunday.
10:57
SPEAKER_17: But yeah, I'm looking forward to watching the Niners game.
10:59
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
11:00
SPEAKER_17: For sure.
11:00
SPEAKER_20: She's gonna be a good game.
11:01
SPEAKER_17: I am gonna be a good game.
11:03
SPEAKER_17: In case you're wondering, I am I am uh suffering a cold, getting over a cold.
11:07
SPEAKER_17: At least I think I'm getting over it.
11:08
SPEAKER_17: It's not that severe, but uh definitely noticeable.
11:11
SPEAKER_20: So that's all right.
11:14
SPEAKER_17: Uh let's see.
11:15
SPEAKER_17: Before we get to this news, I wanted to share something with you uh real quick because I think it was pretty cool.
11:21
SPEAKER_17: Our buddy Jay just posted something um on Facebook and he tagged me in it.
11:29
SPEAKER_17: And I don't know that you've ever heard any of this, what we were working on.
11:34
SPEAKER_17: There was a band that Moneymakers.
11:38
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, yeah.
11:38
SPEAKER_17: Our our friend Jay had started and invited me to be a part of.
11:42
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
11:43
SPEAKER_17: And we started rehearsing and we were on to something really, really cool.
11:47
SPEAKER_17: Uh but you know, everybody's busy, and so nothing actually happened.
11:52
SPEAKER_17: But he shared he shared a cover song that we recorded apparently in one practice.
11:57
SPEAKER_17: Oh, okay.
11:58
SPEAKER_17: So I just want to say this is a Joe Bonomassa tune.
12:03
SPEAKER_17: And I didn't I forgot how cool it was.
12:06
SPEAKER_17: So I just want to Andy Martin sounds like Joe Bonomassa, the drummer.
12:10
SPEAKER_17: Yep.
12:10
SPEAKER_17: So I would just want you to hear just a piece of it.
13:06
SPEAKER_17: In this song, anywhere in this song, maybe the live version, did they go into deep purple?
13:12
SPEAKER_20: I don't know.
13:13
SPEAKER_20: I've never heard one.
13:15
SPEAKER_17: Because we did.
13:16
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
13:16
SPEAKER_17: And I wasn't, I can't remember, it's been a lot so long now.
13:20
SPEAKER_17: That whether we put it in there or whether it's something that Joe Bonamasa did.
13:26
SPEAKER_17: It's been something Joe Bonamasa did.
13:27
SPEAKER_17: Because I don't think any of us are smart enough to do that.
13:30
SPEAKER_17: Let me just fast forward here.
14:23
SPEAKER_17: Probably.
14:23
SPEAKER_17: Because I can't I can't imagine we did that.
14:25
SPEAKER_17: But I just thought that was kind of a neat little kind of a neat little um blast from the past.
14:31
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, we just put a microphone up in the middle of the room.
14:33
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, that sounds good, right?
14:34
SPEAKER_17: Um, and uh but we were doing we were doing Johnny Lang stuff, we were doing Bottomasa stuff, we were doing Z Top.
14:40
SPEAKER_17: I mean, it was fun.
14:42
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
14:42
SPEAKER_17: But sadly, nothing ever came of it.
14:44
SPEAKER_20: That's too bad.
14:45
SPEAKER_17: So um What was it?
14:46
SPEAKER_17: Something in the Moneymaker?
14:48
SPEAKER_17: JG.
14:48
SPEAKER_17: JG, yeah.
14:49
SPEAKER_17: JG in the Moneymaker.
14:50
SPEAKER_17: J G the Monkey Maker.
14:51
SPEAKER_17: Yep.
14:51
SPEAKER_17: Uh great name.
14:52
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, I thought so.
14:53
SPEAKER_17: He said he couldn't take credit for the name, which I don't remember who named it, but um so before we get to we have a list from uh another website, but before we get to that, I want to share uh a teaser because this is big for me because I'm a huge fan.
15:10
SPEAKER_17: So back in the 90s, Billy Joel released an album.
15:17
SPEAKER_17: Uh and said it was his last one.
15:20
SPEAKER_17: Do you remember that?
15:22
SPEAKER_17: Vaguely.
15:22
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, he uh it was uh River of Dreams, I think was his last album.
15:28
SPEAKER_17: His last album with lyrics.
15:30
SPEAKER_17: Okay.
15:31
SPEAKER_17: Um because he said he didn't have any more to say.
15:34
SPEAKER_17: He released an album of classical music, a classical piano.
15:38
SPEAKER_17: Um but he has since not released any well, I think he did a cover of like a Frank Sinatra thing once.
15:46
SPEAKER_17: Um but now he's teasing a new a new song, a new album.
15:52
SPEAKER_17: Um, which I'm really excited about.
15:55
SPEAKER_17: Uh so let's see.
15:57
SPEAKER_17: Uh it's funny.
16:00
SPEAKER_17: The last song on the album, River of Dreams, is called uh Famous Last Words, I think.
16:07
SPEAKER_17: And the chorus is These Are the Last Words I Have to Say.
16:09
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
16:10
SPEAKER_17: Um kind of prophetic, actually.
16:13
SPEAKER_17: Uh so let's see.
16:15
SPEAKER_17: Billy Joel to release first new song in nearly two decades.
16:21
SPEAKER_17: So uh actually it was on.
16:24
SPEAKER_17: You know what?
16:25
SPEAKER_17: It was on.
16:25
SPEAKER_17: It's called Turn the Lights Back On.
16:28
SPEAKER_17: His last studio album, Fantasies and Delusions, arrived in 2001.
16:31
SPEAKER_17: It was followed by two non-album singles.
16:34
SPEAKER_17: Uh he just it just felt like it was time for me to stop writing songs.
16:38
SPEAKER_17: This is back uh in the day.
16:39
SPEAKER_17: Didn't have the same motivation anymore.
16:41
SPEAKER_17: You need inspiration to create good new music.
16:43
SPEAKER_17: This guy has not had to worry about it.
16:45
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, it's not like he's hurting for he's had a uh residency at Madison Square Garden that sells out.
16:51
SPEAKER_17: Oh, yeah.
16:52
SPEAKER_17: Which ends in July.
16:53
SPEAKER_17: Oh, okay.
16:54
SPEAKER_17: So that finally ends and that that's been years.
16:58
SPEAKER_17: Um and that finally ends in July.
17:00
SPEAKER_17: So I I don't know if this means that he's going to release a new album or if this is just a new song.
17:08
SPEAKER_17: Uh now seeing.
17:14
SPEAKER_17: So I mean it and it sounds like a Billy Joel song.
17:19
SPEAKER_17: Oh, come on.
17:20
SPEAKER_17: Come on, come on.
17:23
SPEAKER_17: I should have pre- I should have done this.
17:24
SPEAKER_17: Let's see.
17:25
SPEAKER_17: Pre-ordered iTunes.
17:26
SPEAKER_17: I don't want to pre-order it, I want to listen to it.
17:28
SPEAKER_17: He teased it, he only teased it, so I bet you I can go to Billy Joel.
17:43
SPEAKER_17: Yes, this is the teaser.
17:44
SPEAKER_17: It's only 30 seconds long.
17:49
SPEAKER_17: See?
17:50
SPEAKER_17: He said he just turned the page on a lyric sheet and said famous last words.
17:54
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
18:15
SPEAKER_17: February 1st.
18:16
SPEAKER_17: The new song, Turn the Lights Back On, comes out.
18:19
SPEAKER_17: I'm excited.
18:20
SPEAKER_17: I hope it means a new album.
18:22
SPEAKER_17: I really do, because 20 years is a long time to long time to trade albums.
18:27
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
18:28
SPEAKER_17: Um, so I'm excited about that.
18:30
SPEAKER_17: Yes.
18:31
SPEAKER_17: Just briefly in passing, I know that Mr.
18:33
SPEAKER_17: Big is on a farewell tour.
18:35
SPEAKER_17: Yep.
18:36
SPEAKER_17: I know I just heard that Lynch Mob, George Lynch's um I was gonna call it a side project from Dawkins, but it's really not.
18:43
SPEAKER_17: It's kind of his thing now.
18:44
SPEAKER_17: It's his own thing.
18:44
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
18:45
SPEAKER_17: Um that is going on their final ride tour.
18:49
SPEAKER_20: Um not surprised, but Yeah.
18:52
SPEAKER_20: I am I am, but I'm not.
18:54
SPEAKER_17: So Yeah.
18:55
SPEAKER_17: Uh Mr.
18:56
SPEAKER_17: Big Um they want to go out on top.
18:58
SPEAKER_17: They want to go out while they still like each other.
19:00
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah, I I get that.
19:01
SPEAKER_17: And they're actually, funny thing is, they're because I I listened to our friend Eddie Trunk today.
19:08
SPEAKER_17: Um, and they are in the process of writing a new album.
19:13
SPEAKER_17: Really?
19:14
SPEAKER_17: Which is something that you wouldn't do if you were fairly retiring.
19:18
SPEAKER_20: Write write an album, not tour with it.
19:21
SPEAKER_17: So according to Billy Sheehan, the bass player, he said that he envisions uh because they're doing it backwards, because normally what you do is you record an album and then you tour the album.
19:31
SPEAKER_17: Right.
19:32
SPEAKER_17: Well, they're getting done touring, and then they're gonna put out the album.
19:35
SPEAKER_17: And it's he says, I envision Goodbye Cream.
19:40
SPEAKER_17: You know, where they're all there's three of them on the cover and they're waving goodbye and they just release the album and they're done.
19:46
SPEAKER_17: So it's interesting.
19:46
SPEAKER_17: That's an interesting album.
19:48
SPEAKER_17: And uh Eric Martin, the lead singer, said that their last studio album, Defying Gravity, he wasn't happy with.
19:55
SPEAKER_17: And he doesn't want that one to be the last Mr.
19:58
SPEAKER_17: Big album that they're known for.
20:00
SPEAKER_17: So they're working on a better one to put out to kind of cap off the career.
20:04
SPEAKER_17: So I thought that was pretty cool.
20:06
SPEAKER_17: That makes sense.
20:06
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
20:07
SPEAKER_20: When you put it that way, it makes sense.
20:09
SPEAKER_17: Alright, so let's move on, because we talked about this a couple weeks ago.
20:12
SPEAKER_17: We were gonna do this, and then we said we're gonna save it uh for this week.
20:17
SPEAKER_17: And uh it is the 30 most depressing country songs ever.
20:24
SPEAKER_20: I am very excited about this.
20:25
SPEAKER_20: Um, as as depressing as it is, I'm very excited about it.
20:30
SPEAKER_17: I haven't uh I I should probably um I should probably have these queued up, but I don't, so I probably let me let me I don't think I want to uh hear that one.
20:41
SPEAKER_17: But let me just get a couple of these cued up.
20:44
SPEAKER_17: So um I don't know if this is depressing.
20:52
SPEAKER_17: But certainly I I like this song.
20:57
SPEAKER_17: Uh let me see.
20:58
SPEAKER_17: Let's do a couple of other ones here.
21:00
SPEAKER_17: Just so I can I can get ahead of myself.
21:04
SPEAKER_17: Uh some of them are new country.
21:09
SPEAKER_20: Well, that doesn't count.
21:10
SPEAKER_17: No.
21:13
SPEAKER_17: Okay, so then I I guess I won't uh I won't get some of that new stuff on there.
21:17
SPEAKER_17: Uh let's do that one.
21:26
SPEAKER_17: I got a couple queued up.
21:27
SPEAKER_17: Okay, so let's go.
21:28
SPEAKER_17: So according to taste of country.com, which is a website that is like a sister to Ultimate Classic Rock.
21:38
SPEAKER_20: It's Ultimate Classic Rock, but for country.
21:41
SPEAKER_20: Exactly.
21:41
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
21:42
SPEAKER_17: Uh although it's it's a little more because I guess country fans are more introd interested in the personal lives of their artists, because it's like so and so's having a new baby.
21:52
SPEAKER_17: It's like I don't care.
21:54
SPEAKER_17: Oh, so it's like a tabloid.
21:55
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, kind of pretty much.
21:58
SPEAKER_17: Um Country songs can be.
22:00
SPEAKER_17: Morgan Wallins and Alien.
22:02
SPEAKER_17: See page three.
22:04
SPEAKER_17: Country songs can be sad, angry, dark, or tragic, but nothing meets these 30 tunes for sheer bleakness.
22:10
SPEAKER_17: The difference is artists sing these songs from the perspective of pe of people who've got no hope left.
22:15
SPEAKER_17: At least it feels like it.
22:16
SPEAKER_17: The results are downright depressing.
22:19
SPEAKER_17: Number 30.
22:20
SPEAKER_17: I should probably blow my nose because it's not fun to listen to.
22:25
SPEAKER_17: Shania Twain?
22:26
SPEAKER_17: When?
22:27
SPEAKER_17: I've never heard this song.
22:28
SPEAKER_17: I've never heard of it.
22:30
SPEAKER_17: Do we want to?
22:32
SPEAKER_17: I don't know.
22:33
SPEAKER_17: Let me just uh let me just pull it up here.
22:36
SPEAKER_17: I don't own this song, so Shania Twain.
22:41
SPEAKER_17: When?
22:42
SPEAKER_17: Let's just get a bit of a piece of it so that I can blow my nose.
22:49
SPEAKER_17: All right, let's listen to this.
22:53
SPEAKER_20: Not depressing at all.
23:18
SPEAKER_11: But I don't see that happening anytime soon.
23:22
SPEAKER_11: I don't mean to sound so pessimistic, but I don't think that cow really jumped over the moon.
23:30
SPEAKER_17: Okay, this is this is uh this is really bad.
23:32
SPEAKER_17: I I it's not depressing at all.
23:34
SPEAKER_20: No, I was about to say this.
23:36
SPEAKER_20: I'm I'm far from depressed.
23:37
SPEAKER_20: It's kind of lame, actually.
23:39
SPEAKER_20: Maybe that's the depressing part.
23:41
SPEAKER_17: Maybe.
23:41
SPEAKER_17: Let's see what they say.
23:42
SPEAKER_17: The song sounds bouncy enough, but it's actually a wistful take on Love Gone Bad without any hope of making a comeback.
23:48
SPEAKER_17: Alright, whatever.
23:49
SPEAKER_17: That's not that's not what I envision as depressing.
23:52
SPEAKER_17: Uh I like this song, uh, and I I I don't I don't necessarily find this depressing either.
24:01
SPEAKER_17: I mean, maybe lyrically, is that what they're talking about?
24:05
SPEAKER_17: This is Joe Nichols in Broken Heartsville.
24:09
SPEAKER_20: Well, the name has it right there.
24:11
SPEAKER_17: Right.
24:12
SPEAKER_20: Broken Hearts, man.
24:13
SPEAKER_08: You owe that cowboy had to cover up his horns.
24:22
SPEAKER_08: We talk and forget tongue had a tempting chong.
24:31
SPEAKER_08: Before I turned around that girl's gone.
24:40
SPEAKER_08: All I can say are gender for me to hand.
24:47
SPEAKER_08: Here's to the past, they can get my fat.
25:04
SPEAKER_17: So there's a difference between depressing and uh That's kind of country music.
25:10
SPEAKER_17: It's what country music is.
25:11
SPEAKER_17: Yes.
25:12
SPEAKER_17: I thought when they said the most depressing, I thought it was like, well, see now whiskey lullaby.
25:18
SPEAKER_20: That's depressing.
25:19
SPEAKER_17: I think of that as a sad, depressing song.
25:22
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
25:23
SPEAKER_17: Um and maybe we'll get to that.
25:25
SPEAKER_17: But that's see, this is just a country song.
25:26
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, that's what I was saying.
25:27
SPEAKER_20: This is I was like, what's depressing about this?
25:29
SPEAKER_20: I mean, you know, this is like every other country song.
25:32
SPEAKER_20: Right.
25:32
SPEAKER_17: You know.
25:37
SPEAKER_17: Sad songs and waltzes.
25:40
SPEAKER_16: I'm right.
25:41
SPEAKER_16: Willie Nelson.
25:42
SPEAKER_16: A song about you.
25:48
SPEAKER_16: A true song as real as my fear.
25:55
SPEAKER_17: Gosh, I love this country.
25:56
SPEAKER_17: This kind of country.
25:58
SPEAKER_16: This is real.
25:59
SPEAKER_16: This is real country.
26:12
SPEAKER_17: Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.
26:15
SPEAKER_17: That's that's cool.
26:18
SPEAKER_17: But not depressing.
26:19
SPEAKER_17: How you cheated.
26:20
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, no, it's a country song.
26:22
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
26:22
SPEAKER_17: You know, it's I I I don't um let me see.
26:28
SPEAKER_17: Number 26, Dirk's Bentley, say you do.
26:30
SPEAKER_17: Dirk knows he's in denial and say you do, but he's ready to cause himself some pain in exchange for one more night with a woman he loves.
26:36
SPEAKER_17: This is country music.
26:38
SPEAKER_17: Jelly Roll, featuring Laney Wilson, save me, number 25.
26:42
SPEAKER_17: Uh he's way too new to be depressing.
26:46
SPEAKER_17: Right.
26:47
SPEAKER_17: Miranda Lambert, Ugly Lights.
26:50
SPEAKER_17: Um In Ugly Lights, Lambert picks some less than healthy coping mechanisms to nurse her broken heart.
26:56
SPEAKER_17: Cigarettes, alcohol, and a little too many hours, hanging out in the back of dingy barrooms.
27:01
SPEAKER_17: This is country music.
27:02
SPEAKER_17: That's country music.
27:03
SPEAKER_20: I mean what's depressing.
27:04
SPEAKER_17: Uh okay, so Doug Stone from the 90s, I'd be better off in a pine box.
27:10
SPEAKER_20: Okay, that's depressing.
27:11
SPEAKER_17: Well, I mean, it's like, uh, let's see.
27:14
SPEAKER_17: What's more depressing than being left lonely by the one you love, being forced to watch them move on with someone new?
27:19
SPEAKER_17: Um, I'd rat I think I'd rather die and go to hell and face the devil than to lie here with you and him together on my mind.
27:26
SPEAKER_17: I'd I'd be better off in a pine box.
27:28
SPEAKER_17: That's a little depressing.
27:29
SPEAKER_17: That's a little depressing.
27:30
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
27:30
SPEAKER_17: Uh Cody Johnson, I always wanted to.
27:33
SPEAKER_17: Is there anything more depressing than end of life regret?
27:36
SPEAKER_17: Johnson plays the part of an old man in this song looking back on his life and thinking about all the things he wishes he'd done differently.
27:42
SPEAKER_17: Okay.
27:42
SPEAKER_17: I get that.
27:43
SPEAKER_17: Let me listen to that one.
27:45
SPEAKER_17: Because that could be depressing.
27:46
SPEAKER_17: That could be depressing.
27:47
SPEAKER_17: Uh or just is it depressing or is it just sad?
27:51
SPEAKER_17: You know, there's a di- I think there's a difference between sad and depressing.
27:54
SPEAKER_17: I think so.
27:55
SPEAKER_17: Uh what's the song called again?
27:57
SPEAKER_17: It is called I Always Wanted To.
28:00
SPEAKER_17: Um I think yeah, this is just this is just call uh country music.
28:07
SPEAKER_17: Uh Cody Johnson.
28:09
SPEAKER_17: Cody Johnson's a new a newer singer.
28:11
SPEAKER_17: Uh I like him a lot.
28:14
SPEAKER_17: Okay, so this is already sad.
28:17
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, any piano music is already you know, already like, ah.
28:21
SPEAKER_17: So let's see what this is all about.
28:39
SPEAKER_05: Outside there's a rusty pickup underneath the shed, mocking birds nest in the tail pie, empty feet sack in the bed.
28:54
SPEAKER_05: They took away my keys, saying I'm too old to dry.
29:02
SPEAKER_05: It's like they're trying to bury me while I'm still alive.
29:10
SPEAKER_17: I was wanted a son.
29:12
SPEAKER_05: I always wanted a wish.
29:16
SPEAKER_05: Always wanted to drive an open range.
29:24
SPEAKER_05: Even take shoes we never take.
29:27
SPEAKER_05: Memories will never make still fake.
29:31
SPEAKER_05: I never did all I wanted to do, but I always wanted to.
29:37
SPEAKER_05: Okay, that's a little sad.
29:38
SPEAKER_05: That's a little sad.
29:39
SPEAKER_05: That's sad.
29:39
SPEAKER_17: That's it.
29:40
SPEAKER_17: And it's a good songwriting.
29:41
SPEAKER_17: Not depressing.
29:41
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, it's good songwriting.
29:42
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
29:43
SPEAKER_17: This I would call really sad and depressing only because of the context that it's in.
29:48
SPEAKER_17: So Gary Allen, uh he started in the 90s, he's still going.
29:54
SPEAKER_17: Um, uh putting my misery on display from 2005.
29:59
SPEAKER_17: Now, he recorded this after his wife committed suicide.
30:02
SPEAKER_17: Oh.
30:07
SPEAKER_17: Well, it doesn't sound like a sad song.
30:10
SPEAKER_17: Just, you know what I mean?
30:11
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
30:20
SPEAKER_12: I'm living my own world on 18 wheels.
30:27
SPEAKER_12: Playing music and riding songs about the way I feel.
30:35
SPEAKER_12: Tonight I'll play my guitar for you.
30:42
SPEAKER_12: I pour my heart out, and tonight it's blue.
30:50
SPEAKER_12: So gather round and watch me play and put my misery on display.
30:58
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, see, I I I don't find that not really depressing or sad.
31:02
SPEAKER_17: It's not.
31:03
SPEAKER_17: It's true.
31:04
SPEAKER_17: I mean, it's it's it's um uncomfortable, yeah.
31:08
SPEAKER_17: Yes.
31:09
SPEAKER_20: Well, knowing the subject matter.
31:10
SPEAKER_17: Right, but I think he's put it into a song that's that's uh I don't know, it doesn't bring you down.
31:16
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, not really, no.
31:17
SPEAKER_17: Um so this one, let's see, where is it here?
31:21
SPEAKER_17: Because I had it.
31:23
SPEAKER_17: Uh this is kind of sad.
31:25
SPEAKER_17: This is John Anderson, and again, not depressing, sad.
31:31
SPEAKER_02: There's a difference.
31:32
SPEAKER_02: When our baby Kate was born, it was the biggest day of my life.
31:40
SPEAKER_02: Lying there, little bows in her hair in the loving arms of my wife.
31:46
SPEAKER_02: I was the proud topper in the US, making a living on the road somewhere a thousand miles away.
32:01
SPEAKER_02: It was a happy day.
32:08
SPEAKER_17: So he was away.
32:09
SPEAKER_02: Right.
32:10
SPEAKER_02: I wish I could have been there.
32:14
SPEAKER_02: I wish I could've been there.
32:17
SPEAKER_17: I wish I could have been there for that.
32:21
SPEAKER_17: Again, a great song.
32:23
SPEAKER_17: I just don't think it's depressing.
32:24
SPEAKER_17: I think it's sad.
32:25
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, it's sad.
32:26
SPEAKER_20: It's not depressing.
32:26
SPEAKER_20: It's maybe like, uh.
32:28
SPEAKER_17: And then there's uh Patty Loveless's version of a song that written by Daryl Scott, but Brad Paisley did a great version of it.
32:36
SPEAKER_17: Um see if you recognize it.
32:51
SPEAKER_13: In the deep hills of eastern Kentucky.
33:01
SPEAKER_14: That's the place where I traced my bloodline.
33:08
SPEAKER_20: It's actually a great song.
33:18
SPEAKER_14: You'll never leave Harlan ali.
33:26
SPEAKER_17: I get I get it.
33:27
SPEAKER_17: I mean it's I again, uh is it sad?
33:29
SPEAKER_20: Uh I don't even know if it's sad.
33:31
SPEAKER_20: It's more of like a fact of life kind of thing.
33:37
SPEAKER_20: I don't know.
33:37
SPEAKER_20: I just maybe that's depressing.
33:40
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, like that that I can see depressing.
33:43
SPEAKER_17: I can see because you're stuck.
33:44
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
33:44
SPEAKER_17: You know, you're stuck in a way of life that you can't get out of.
33:47
SPEAKER_17: Right.
33:48
SPEAKER_17: And this is this is what it's gonna be like for the rest of your life.
33:50
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, basically.
33:51
SPEAKER_17: So I guess that's kind of depressing.
33:52
SPEAKER_20: That'd be depressing.
33:53
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
33:53
SPEAKER_17: Um Chris Stapleton.
34:08
SPEAKER_15: There's a bottle.
34:10
SPEAKER_15: Oh, yeah, this is yeah.
34:12
SPEAKER_15: On the dress of your ring, and it's empty.
34:19
SPEAKER_15: So right now I don't feel the thing.
34:23
SPEAKER_15: I'll be hurtin'.
34:25
SPEAKER_17: Gosh, I love this guy.
34:26
SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
34:26
SPEAKER_15: Oh, my word.
34:27
SPEAKER_15: When I wake up on the floor, and I'll be over by now.
34:38
SPEAKER_15: That's the difference.
34:40
SPEAKER_15: Between whisking.
34:45
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, any uh Chris Stapleton can sound both sad and depressing if he wants to.
34:51
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
34:52
SPEAKER_17: Uh he's good at it.
34:53
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
34:54
SPEAKER_17: Uh I had.
34:56
SPEAKER_17: I thought I had.
34:58
SPEAKER_17: Maybe maybe I thought I had James McMurtry in here.
35:04
SPEAKER_17: Because I just bought a James McMurtry at all.
35:06
SPEAKER_17: There's a song on uh called South Dakota by James McMurtry.
35:10
SPEAKER_17: Uh it is a military service member describes the joy of being discharged, but he soon struggles with the harsh realities of life in rural South Dakota.
35:19
SPEAKER_17: Ultimately struggles to make a home for himself anywhere except in the life he knows.
35:23
SPEAKER_17: Uh, the military.
35:24
SPEAKER_17: And the lyrics, I won't get nothing here but broke and older, I might as well re-up again.
35:30
SPEAKER_17: That is depressing.
35:31
SPEAKER_17: That is depressing.
35:32
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
35:33
SPEAKER_17: Uh Cole Swindell, Dad's old number.
35:36
SPEAKER_17: That's sad.
35:37
SPEAKER_17: I don't know if it's depressing, but you know, his dad died.
35:41
SPEAKER_17: Uh so he gets a phone call from his uh, let's see, what is it?
35:45
SPEAKER_17: Uh a song about his green parts of his father's uh Well, that song is beautiful, even darker is dad's old number.
35:50
SPEAKER_17: A song about a son who calls his dad's phone for help fixing a truck, forgetting that his dad isn't on the other end of the line anymore.
35:56
SPEAKER_20: That's sad.
35:57
SPEAKER_17: Again, it's a and it says heartbreaking.
35:59
SPEAKER_17: It is heartbreaking.
35:59
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
36:00
SPEAKER_20: But it's not depressing.
36:01
SPEAKER_20: It's not depressing, yeah.
36:02
SPEAKER_17: Um Tim McGraw, if you're reading this.
36:05
SPEAKER_17: You know that song?
36:06
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
36:06
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
36:07
SPEAKER_17: Um about a soldier who who uh sends a letter home, and if you get this letter, then I didn't make it.
36:15
SPEAKER_17: Right.
36:15
SPEAKER_17: Basically.
36:16
SPEAKER_17: Uh but not sad.
36:17
SPEAKER_20: Sad, but not depressing.
36:18
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, I mean yeah.
36:20
SPEAKER_17: Morgan Wallen, Living the Dream.
36:23
SPEAKER_17: I purposely don't uh pay attention to Morgan Wallen because he's Nickelback of country.
36:30
SPEAKER_20: I I actually heard a song today by him.
36:32
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
36:33
SPEAKER_20: I didn't care for it.
36:35
unknown: Yeah.
36:35
SPEAKER_20: To be honest with you.
36:36
SPEAKER_18: I don't understand the hype.
36:37
SPEAKER_20: I I don't either.
36:38
SPEAKER_20: I mean, I just it sounds like everything else.
36:41
SPEAKER_20: I mean, I hate to say I keep harping on that.
36:44
SPEAKER_20: It just sounds like everything else.
36:46
SPEAKER_17: He has had so much success in the past few years, like like multiple songs in the top ten at the same time.
36:52
SPEAKER_17: And I just don't get it.
36:54
SPEAKER_17: I don't either.
36:55
SPEAKER_20: You know, what you know, whatever.
36:56
SPEAKER_17: And I I mean more power to him, but okay, so this is I don't know if this is depressing, but this would be sad.
37:04
SPEAKER_17: Um because of the circumstances.
37:11
SPEAKER_17: So the late great Glenn Campbell uh was dying.
37:16
SPEAKER_17: He had uh Alzheimer's.
37:19
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
37:19
SPEAKER_17: I was dementia, basically.
37:20
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
37:21
SPEAKER_17: At the end of his life.
37:23
SPEAKER_17: And let's see.
37:27
SPEAKER_17: The Wrecking Crew.
37:28
SPEAKER_17: He recorded with the Wrecking Crew, his last album.
37:31
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah, that's right, I remember that.
37:33
SPEAKER_17: This song is called I'm Not Gonna Miss You.
37:36
SPEAKER_06: I'm still here, but yet I'm gone.
37:40
SPEAKER_06: Because his mind is don't think it's so definite.
38:26
SPEAKER_06: I'm not gonna miss you.
38:31
SPEAKER_17: He's not gonna miss them because you're not gonna remember.
38:34
SPEAKER_17: Right, exactly.
38:35
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
38:36
SPEAKER_20: I don't know if it's sad or if it's like, you know, good noing, you know.
38:41
SPEAKER_20: I it's hard to say.
38:42
SPEAKER_20: Right, because it's all perspective.
38:44
SPEAKER_20: It is, yeah.
38:45
SPEAKER_17: And and I and I can see uh I don't know, I guess I can see how there could be a little bit of comfort there.
38:52
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
38:53
SPEAKER_17: Um this one, this is an old folk song uh from Towns Van Zant.
38:58
SPEAKER_17: Now Towns Van Zant was a uh uh acquired taste.
39:02
SPEAKER_17: His singing was not great, songwriting was impeccable.
39:06
SPEAKER_17: This is waiting around to die.
39:09
SPEAKER_20: Okay, that's just depressing right there.
39:12
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I don't know where this dirty road is taking me.
39:19
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I don't even know the reason why.
39:24
SPEAKER_00: But I guess I keep a gambling and lots of booze and lots of rambling.
39:32
SPEAKER_00: Well, it's easier than just a waiting round to die.
39:38
SPEAKER_20: Uh I don't know.
39:39
SPEAKER_20: I'm kinda I don't know if it's sad or depressing.
39:44
SPEAKER_17: It's about uh uh an addiction.
39:46
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
39:46
SPEAKER_17: Basically.
39:47
SPEAKER_20: Well, then that's sad.
39:48
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
39:49
SPEAKER_17: Um, so let's just go through a couple of these.
39:52
SPEAKER_17: So Pistol Annie's Best Years of My Life.
39:55
SPEAKER_17: This is Miranda Lambert's trio that she's got.
39:58
SPEAKER_17: Oh.
39:58
SPEAKER_17: Uh I picked a good day for recreational piroche.
40:02
SPEAKER_17: Uh let's see.
40:04
SPEAKER_17: Best years of my life describes being stuck in a dead-end town and a dead-end marriage where the only comfort is the occasional opioid or cocktail.
40:12
SPEAKER_17: That's kind of depressing.
40:13
SPEAKER_17: That is depressing.
40:14
SPEAKER_17: Uh, he stopped loving her today.
40:16
SPEAKER_20: That's sad.
40:16
SPEAKER_17: That's sad.
40:17
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
40:17
SPEAKER_17: Not depressing.
40:18
SPEAKER_17: No.
40:18
SPEAKER_17: Sad.
40:21
SPEAKER_17: Reba McIntyre, she thinks his name was John.
40:24
SPEAKER_17: Uh, so it's about a woman dying from AIDS who contracted the disease from a one-night stand with a man she can barely remember.
40:33
SPEAKER_17: As her health slips away, the woman struggles to remember details of the encounter and mourns all the life she's missing out on due to that one fateful night.
40:40
SPEAKER_20: Well, that's that's basically Jenny from Forest Gump.
40:44
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
40:44
SPEAKER_17: Pretty much.
40:45
SPEAKER_17: You know what I mean?
40:46
SPEAKER_17: Which is sad.
40:47
SPEAKER_17: That's sad.
40:48
SPEAKER_17: Is it depressing?
40:48
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, kinda depressing, I guess.
40:50
SPEAKER_20: I guess I guess it's both.
40:51
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
40:52
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
40:52
SPEAKER_17: Whiskey lullaby, we mentioned that.
40:54
SPEAKER_17: Oh man, that's that.
40:55
SPEAKER_20: That's just like Paisley.
40:57
SPEAKER_20: I just rip your heart out, man.
40:58
SPEAKER_17: Um I mean, that's well known.
41:00
SPEAKER_17: Do I need to play that one?
41:01
SPEAKER_17: That's well known.
41:01
SPEAKER_20: Nah, everybody knows that one.
41:02
SPEAKER_20: If you don't know that song, go you know.
41:05
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
41:05
SPEAKER_17: This one.
41:06
SPEAKER_17: Go get your some culture.
41:07
SPEAKER_17: This one I need to hear a little bit of because um Dolly Parton is a fantastic songwriter.
41:13
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah.
41:14
SPEAKER_20: Um what is this big Hubble right going on right now about some at her birthday celebration?
41:23
SPEAKER_20: L King.
41:24
SPEAKER_20: I don't even know who that is.
41:26
SPEAKER_20: Well, you do.
41:26
SPEAKER_17: Um, X is Andos.
41:28
SPEAKER_17: Uh she was a pop singer, is a pop singer.
41:30
SPEAKER_17: She went country.
41:31
SPEAKER_17: Uh she's Rob Schneider's daughter.
41:33
SPEAKER_17: Oh.
41:34
SPEAKER_17: Um anyway, she was uh on the Opry stage and they were doing a tribute to Dolly, and she was just blind ass drunk.
41:41
SPEAKER_20: She couldn't remember the words together.
41:43
SPEAKER_17: She was just she was drunk.
41:44
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
41:45
SPEAKER_17: And people were giving her a hard time, and it's like this is country music, this is country music, right?
41:50
SPEAKER_17: George Jones used to do that all the time.
41:51
SPEAKER_17: He didn't give him a high.
41:54
SPEAKER_17: You know?
41:55
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
41:56
SPEAKER_17: Um this is, let's see.
42:00
SPEAKER_17: Song called Down from Dover.
42:03
SPEAKER_17: Uh, from Dolly Parton.
42:05
SPEAKER_17: I wish that he Oh, let's see.
42:10
SPEAKER_01: I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I have tried concealing.
42:19
SPEAKER_01: When he left, he promised me that he'd be back by the time it was revealing.
42:27
SPEAKER_20: So she got pregnant.
42:28
SPEAKER_20: Yep.
42:29
SPEAKER_01: The sun behind the cloud just cast a crawling shadow over the field of plover.
42:46
SPEAKER_18: So she's on the wet.
42:47
SPEAKER_18: Yeah.
42:48
SPEAKER_01: She's been gone when he left And I've got the twist twice.
43:22
SPEAKER_17: The only reason I'm playing a little bit more of this is because it says um When the child finally arrives, a tragic twist makes the story even more depressing.
43:33
SPEAKER_17: So I want to hear what the twist is.
43:55
SPEAKER_01: That everything would be alright, but soon you would be coming down.
44:09
SPEAKER_01: I loved him more than anything, and I could not.
44:13
SPEAKER_17: Oh my word, that is depressing.
44:15
SPEAKER_21: I just read the lyrics.
44:16
SPEAKER_21: Oh, okay.
44:19
SPEAKER_01: He was the only one I'd loved, and I just can't believe that he was huge.
44:26
SPEAKER_17: Okay, I'm not gonna play the rest of the song, I'll just read it to you.
44:29
SPEAKER_17: Um so my body aches the time it's here.
44:33
SPEAKER_17: It's lonely in this place where I'm a lion.
44:36
SPEAKER_17: Our baby has been born, but something's wrong.
44:39
SPEAKER_17: It's too still, I hear no crying.
44:41
SPEAKER_17: I guess in some strange way she knew she'd never have a father's arms to hold her, and dying was her way of telling me he wasn't coming down from Dover.
44:50
SPEAKER_20: Oh freaking around! Holy cow dolly! Wow! Wow That's put a gun in your mouth, bad.
44:58
SPEAKER_18: That's depressing.
44:59
SPEAKER_18: Holy crap!
45:01
SPEAKER_20: Leave it to Dolly Parton.
45:02
SPEAKER_20: Man! That that should be the number one.
45:07
SPEAKER_20: Why that why that's not number one, man?
45:09
SPEAKER_20: I don't know.
45:10
SPEAKER_20: Right.
45:11
SPEAKER_20: Oh, wow.
45:12
SPEAKER_17: Um yeah.
45:14
SPEAKER_20: I thought it was depressing just because he was from Delaware.
45:17
SPEAKER_17: Dover.
45:18
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
45:18
SPEAKER_20: I mean, I would just be like, right, you know, anybody anything from Delaware, just like meh.
45:24
SPEAKER_17: Uh let's see.
45:29
SPEAKER_17: So, uh, and then there's um Johnny Cash hurt.
45:33
SPEAKER_17: Oh, yeah, that's right.
45:34
SPEAKER_17: Which is actually a Trent Reznor song.
45:36
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, that's yeah, nine inch nails song.
45:38
SPEAKER_17: Yep.
45:38
SPEAKER_20: Um But I I don't think I think the way he does it makes it.
45:41
SPEAKER_17: Yes, because of his his situation.
45:44
SPEAKER_17: His uh condition that he was in.
45:46
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
45:46
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, and the and the video is is the more powerful.
45:51
SPEAKER_17: Um so let's see.
45:54
SPEAKER_17: So that's uh that's Johnny Cash.
45:57
SPEAKER_17: Okay, so number one, Jason Isabel.
46:00
SPEAKER_17: Who's an alternative question?
46:02
SPEAKER_20: Wait, wait, this is the number one depressing song?
46:04
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
46:05
SPEAKER_17: Oh, that was fast.
46:06
SPEAKER_17: It's called Elephant.
46:07
SPEAKER_20: Elephant?
46:08
SPEAKER_17: Yes.
46:09
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
46:09
SPEAKER_17: And I have this.
46:10
SPEAKER_17: There's a swear in it.
46:12
SPEAKER_17: Um but it's I have to tell you, it is um it's pretty how do I want to say this?
46:28
SPEAKER_17: I'm just gonna play it.
46:29
SPEAKER_17: Um, because there's a swear.
46:32
SPEAKER_17: But it's pretty powerful.
46:35
SPEAKER_17: Uh it's about cancer.
46:36
SPEAKER_17: Okay.
46:37
SPEAKER_17: So uh let's see.
46:38
SPEAKER_20: Oh, I think I've heard this song.
46:40
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, we played this song.
46:42
SPEAKER_17: We did?
46:43
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
46:44
SPEAKER_17: Who did?
46:44
SPEAKER_20: We did.
46:45
SPEAKER_20: Live?
46:46
SPEAKER_20: No.
46:46
SPEAKER_20: We were talking about this song.
46:49
SPEAKER_20: I think when uh The Wall of Tunes, when they were We played this on the Saint Andy you're better than your farm past.
46:57
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, I remember that.
46:58
SPEAKER_07: Winked in me and drained a glass, cross-legged on a bar stool like nobody sits in.
47:06
SPEAKER_17: Basically, it means the elephant in the room.
47:08
SPEAKER_17: Right.
47:09
SPEAKER_17: Is that she's got cancer.
47:10
SPEAKER_07: Said Andy, you're taking me home, but I knew she'd plan to sleep alone.
47:18
SPEAKER_07: I'd carry her to bed, sweep up the hair from her floor.
47:23
SPEAKER_18: Sweep up the hair from her floor.
47:26
SPEAKER_07: If I feep her before she got sick, never hear the end of it.
47:34
SPEAKER_07: She don't have the spirit for them.
47:38
SPEAKER_17: If I slept with her before she got sick, yeah.
47:41
SPEAKER_07: We just drink cat drinks and laugh out loud.
48:00
SPEAKER_17: So yeah, I'm not gonna play the whole thing.
48:03
SPEAKER_17: So I'll just I'll just I'll read you a little bit more of it.
48:06
SPEAKER_17: Um so she said, Andy, you crack me up, Seagram's in a coffee cup, sharecropper eyes, and her hair almost all gone.
48:13
SPEAKER_17: She was drunk, she made cancer jokes, made up her own doctor's notes, surrounded by her family.
48:18
SPEAKER_17: I saw that she was dying alone.
48:20
SPEAKER_17: I'd sing her classic country songs and she'd get high and sing along.
48:24
SPEAKER_17: She don't have a voice to sing with now.
48:26
SPEAKER_17: We'd burn these joints and effigy, cry about what we used to be, try to ignore the elephant somehow.
48:31
SPEAKER_17: I buried her a thousand times, giving up my place in line, but I don't give a damn about that now.
48:36
SPEAKER_17: There's one thing that's real clear to me no one dies with dignity.
48:39
SPEAKER_17: We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
48:42
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, that's that's a good that's a good song.
48:43
SPEAKER_20: Oh man.
48:44
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
48:44
SPEAKER_17: Jason Isabel is is uh handy with a pen and paper.
48:48
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, there we go.
48:49
SPEAKER_17: For sure.
48:50
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, that that is definitely a depressing song.
48:51
SPEAKER_17: I would say that's I would say that's a depressing song.
48:53
SPEAKER_20: And I would say But I think Dolly, man, nailed it.
48:56
SPEAKER_17: Oh yeah.
48:57
SPEAKER_20: Nailed it, man.
48:58
SPEAKER_20: Wow.
48:59
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, that was uh that was that was pretty yeah.
49:02
SPEAKER_17: She was number three.
49:04
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, I that should have been number one.
49:06
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, I think that was uh uh I didn't want to listen to the whole song and then I because I looked it up so I saw the lyrics and be like, oh my word.
49:13
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, that's that just like wow.
49:15
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, so there you go.
49:18
SPEAKER_17: Uh I can think of more depressing songs, I think.
49:20
SPEAKER_17: If I if I if you gave me time.
49:22
SPEAKER_20: Oh, well, I mean, you know, but I think like it's it's a very subjective though.
49:26
SPEAKER_20: True.
49:27
SPEAKER_20: You know, song you would find sad and depressing, somebody else might be just like Right, because everybody deals with grief and things like that in their own way.
49:34
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, exactly.
49:34
SPEAKER_17: So I mean, you know.
49:35
SPEAKER_17: That's true.
49:36
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, so uh let's see.
49:38
SPEAKER_17: That's it.
49:38
SPEAKER_17: Uh that's so let's do um while we're right here.
49:42
SPEAKER_17: Um let's do uh what do we do right now?
49:46
SPEAKER_17: Do we do a hard days right now?
49:47
SPEAKER_17: No, that's before the Well that's uh that's for the wallet.
49:50
SPEAKER_17: Right, right, right.
49:50
SPEAKER_17: So we don't do anything right now.
49:51
SPEAKER_17: Oh, Michael McDonald moment.
49:53
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
49:53
SPEAKER_17: I don't have one.
49:54
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
49:55
SPEAKER_20: Well then uh Well, I don't know what to do now.
50:02
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50:04
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50:11
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50:18
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50:21
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50:25
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50:28
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50:35
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50:49
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50:54
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50:54
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52:15
SPEAKER_21: Did you get a snack?
52:16
SPEAKER_21: I no, I didn't get it.
52:17
SPEAKER_21: I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to everybody else.
52:19
SPEAKER_21: Did you get it?
52:20
SPEAKER_21: Did you?
52:20
SPEAKER_21: Did you get it?
52:21
SPEAKER_21: Did you get it?
52:21
SPEAKER_21: Was it so good?
52:22
SPEAKER_20: Was it tasty?
52:23
SPEAKER_20: Did you get a drink?
52:25
SPEAKER_20: A beverage?
52:26
SPEAKER_20: May I have a cup, so I may need to tasty beverage.
52:29
SPEAKER_17: We gotta tell that story sometime.
52:31
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
52:31
SPEAKER_20: That's a Shane story.
52:32
SPEAKER_17: That is a Shane story.
52:33
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
52:34
SPEAKER_17: So you got uh the book Hard Days Right.
52:36
SPEAKER_17: Hard Day's Right.
52:37
SPEAKER_17: So are you gonna just pick one at random?
52:38
SPEAKER_20: I just picked one at random.
52:39
SPEAKER_20: You already did?
52:40
SPEAKER_20: I did.
52:40
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
52:41
SPEAKER_20: I just like flipped it open and I was like, ooh, that's a good song.
52:44
SPEAKER_20: Well, because the first couple were uh covers, and I don't want to do a cover.
52:48
SPEAKER_20: I want to do an actual Beatles song.
52:50
SPEAKER_20: Yep.
52:50
SPEAKER_17: So okay, so you start that and I'm gonna climb the wall of tombs.
52:54
SPEAKER_20: Okay, well, this is a short one.
52:56
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
52:56
SPEAKER_20: Uh the song is off revolver, it's And Your Bird Can Sing.
53:01
SPEAKER_20: So this will be uh it's hard to see how John could have dismissed And Your Bird Can Sing as a horror in 1971 and a throwaway in 1980.
53:12
SPEAKER_20: Even if the lyrics at first seemed a bit impenetrable, but John had always known how to play games.
53:19
SPEAKER_20: He suspected that even some of Dylan's lyrics were garbage, dressed up as poetry, and claimed he could do the same himself.
53:28
SPEAKER_20: At the time, with its talk of green birds, prize possession, and seven wonders, it was assumed that with Andrew Bird Can Sing, John was probably really on to something.
53:39
SPEAKER_20: That he had had a vision of another dimension which most people couldn't fathom.
53:44
SPEAKER_20: Whereas in 1964, he would have knocked off a made-to-measure love song to fill out the empty spaces on an LP, but by 1966 and under pressure, he was capable of coming up with a perfectly tailored piece of meaningless psychedelia.
54:01
SPEAKER_20: That's interesting.
54:02
SPEAKER_17: That is interesting.
54:04
SPEAKER_20: I never would have thought of that.
54:06
SPEAKER_17: Neither would have I.
54:07
SPEAKER_17: Or exactly neither would have I.
54:10
SPEAKER_17: Neither would I have.
54:11
SPEAKER_20: Oh, before we get going.
54:13
SPEAKER_20: English is hard.
54:14
SPEAKER_17: Before we get going, um I wanted to um give you a g some gifts.
54:20
SPEAKER_17: If you want them.
54:21
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
54:21
SPEAKER_17: You probably don't want them.
54:22
SPEAKER_17: How do you know?
54:23
SPEAKER_17: Uh I'm keeping this one.
54:28
SPEAKER_17: I want to.
54:29
SPEAKER_17: Was there another one?
54:30
SPEAKER_17: I was gonna kick it.
54:30
SPEAKER_17: I was gonna try to keep that one.
54:32
SPEAKER_17: Okay, so um went to uh Bull Moose.
54:36
SPEAKER_17: Boom because what did we have?
54:38
SPEAKER_17: We had a game uh downstate uh when did I go to Bull Moose?
54:43
SPEAKER_17: Recently.
54:44
SPEAKER_17: No no, recently.
54:46
SPEAKER_17: Recently.
54:47
SPEAKER_17: It wasn't this weekend.
54:48
SPEAKER_17: I knew where you were.
54:51
SPEAKER_20: Okay, maybe.
54:54
SPEAKER_17: Anyway, I got some stuff at Bull Moose.
54:57
SPEAKER_17: What do I James McMurtry?
54:59
SPEAKER_17: Uh oh, and I got uh here it is, right here.
55:04
SPEAKER_17: All those?
55:05
SPEAKER_17: No, no, not all these.
55:06
SPEAKER_17: Oh uh all these.
55:10
SPEAKER_17: All those.
55:11
SPEAKER_17: All these.
55:12
SPEAKER_17: Um so I got James McMurtry, Childish Things.
55:16
SPEAKER_17: And uh I got George Winston, solo piano.
55:20
SPEAKER_17: It's Montana, a love story.
55:22
SPEAKER_17: Ray La Montagne, Till the Sun Turns Black.
55:25
SPEAKER_17: Okay.
55:25
SPEAKER_17: And uh Guitar Virtuoso, the late great Michael Hedges, the best of.
55:31
SPEAKER_17: Cool.
55:31
SPEAKER_17: I also got I don't know if you've seen these before that uh Bull Moose has a grab bag.
55:39
SPEAKER_17: They they put these um they put a bunch of stuff in a bag, and for five dollars you can take uh um DVD TV.
55:48
SPEAKER_17: So it's a TV tur TV series, but you don't know what they are.
55:51
SPEAKER_20: Oh.
55:52
SPEAKER_20: Oh so it's like a mystery gift.
55:53
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, so they have blue Blu-ray and DVD and um but it's all TV series or movies or things like that.
56:00
SPEAKER_17: So I just I just bought a grab bag for five dollars.
56:02
SPEAKER_17: Nice.
56:02
SPEAKER_17: And I regretted it.
56:07
SPEAKER_21: So they're probably laughing.
56:11
SPEAKER_17: It truly was it truly was a grab bag because I have disc five of One Tree Hill, the complete third, the complete third season.
56:20
SPEAKER_17: So I'm gonna keep that.
56:21
SPEAKER_17: I've never seen the show.
56:22
SPEAKER_17: Okay.
56:22
SPEAKER_17: Um I have the third season, uh, disc three of Friday Night Lights.
56:28
SPEAKER_17: Okay, that's random.
56:30
SPEAKER_17: This is so random.
56:31
SPEAKER_17: And these ones I have no desire to watch.
56:33
SPEAKER_17: Okay.
56:33
SPEAKER_17: I have uh the third season, disc one, two, four, and five, and six of Charmed.
56:47
SPEAKER_17: This is the the Shannon Doherty, Alyssa Milano.
56:51
SPEAKER_20: Oh, yeah, the witch show.
56:52
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
56:53
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
56:53
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
56:53
SPEAKER_17: So I don't want that.
56:54
SPEAKER_17: Do you have any desire?
56:56
SPEAKER_17: Okay, zero.
56:56
SPEAKER_17: So I'm just gonna toss that.
56:58
SPEAKER_17: I also have disc two three and three and four uh of American Horror Story, the complete first season.
57:10
SPEAKER_17: Okay, I'm just gonna toss those two.
57:12
SPEAKER_17: Okay.
57:12
SPEAKER_17: Because I have no desire to watch those.
57:16
SPEAKER_17: I figured I'd ask.
57:17
SPEAKER_17: Uh that is random.
57:20
SPEAKER_17: Right.
57:20
SPEAKER_20: I and I th I was like It's gotta be just stuff they find in the home finding.
57:24
SPEAKER_17: I think people probably just like give them, you know, uh all their stuff and or or sell it to them or something.
57:31
SPEAKER_17: I don't know.
57:31
SPEAKER_20: They just get maybe they're the only sellable ones, like the other ones were like scratched up or not even there.
57:38
SPEAKER_17: But it's like a whole wall full of grab bags.
57:40
SPEAKER_17: That's crazy.
57:41
SPEAKER_17: They just kind of oh, let's put this one over here and this one over here.
57:43
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
57:44
SPEAKER_20: That's hilarious.
57:45
SPEAKER_20: So it's all just like TV DVDs?
57:47
SPEAKER_20: Yes, that's all it is, is not music or anything.
57:49
SPEAKER_17: No, there's no no music.
57:50
SPEAKER_17: It was it was TV or I think there were movies.
57:53
SPEAKER_17: Oh, well.
57:53
SPEAKER_20: I should have grabbed the movie one.
57:56
SPEAKER_20: At least you might have find, you know, a couple that would have been like, oh, that you know, I'd like to see, right.
58:02
SPEAKER_17: Uh okay, so I have uh an album.
58:06
SPEAKER_17: I have climbed the wall of tunes.
58:07
SPEAKER_17: All right.
58:08
SPEAKER_20: And I started found an album.
58:11
SPEAKER_20: I found an album.
58:12
SPEAKER_17: I have it, so let the guessing begin.
58:15
SPEAKER_20: Is it a band?
58:16
SPEAKER_20: No.
58:17
SPEAKER_20: It's a solo.
58:18
SPEAKER_20: Yes.
58:18
SPEAKER_20: Is it a man or a woman?
58:20
SPEAKER_20: It's a man.
58:21
SPEAKER_20: It's a man.
58:22
SPEAKER_20: I don't think we've done this artist before, but I could be wrong.
58:25
SPEAKER_20: Alright.
58:25
SPEAKER_20: Umbook.
58:27
SPEAKER_17: Yes, it's right there.
58:28
SPEAKER_17: Yep, we got it.
58:29
SPEAKER_20: Oh, there is, okay.
58:30
SPEAKER_20: Um height of popularity.
58:34
SPEAKER_20: I would say the 80s.
58:35
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
58:36
SPEAKER_20: What genre?
58:37
SPEAKER_20: Pop rock?
58:38
SPEAKER_20: Pop rock.
58:41
SPEAKER_20: Pop rock.
58:43
SPEAKER_20: Uh you play an instrument?
58:46
SPEAKER_20: He's not known for it.
58:48
SPEAKER_20: I'm assuming.
58:51
SPEAKER_17: I will say, let me give you a couple hints.
58:52
SPEAKER_17: So this is a collection of this artist's work, and some of it he is in a band.
59:01
SPEAKER_17: A lot of it is solo, but some of it songs that you will know that he's in a band.
59:08
SPEAKER_20: John Wade.
59:10
SPEAKER_20: How are you?
59:16
SPEAKER_17: Howard John, maybe this is so every time I pull a CD, I I think we've done that.
59:37
SPEAKER_17: And I feel uh about this one, but I could be wrong.
59:45
SPEAKER_20: Is he still around?
59:46
SPEAKER_20: Is he still dead?
59:47
SPEAKER_20: He is not still around.
59:48
SPEAKER_20: He's he's dead.
59:50
SPEAKER_20: Passed on.
59:50
SPEAKER_20: He's passed on.
59:51
SPEAKER_20: He's expired.
59:53
SPEAKER_20: Um, okay.
59:57
SPEAKER_17: Let's see what else I can do.
59:58
SPEAKER_20: Um Did he just come out of nowhere in the 80s and just like No, he had a career in the 70s.
1:00:04
SPEAKER_17: He did.
1:00:04
SPEAKER_17: Um kind of a small career in the 70s, but he I think mid- early to mid-80s, he had a big like success.
1:00:17
SPEAKER_20: Does he have like iconic songs?
1:00:19
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, I think so.
1:00:20
SPEAKER_17: He he had a lot MTV had a lot to do with his career.
1:00:25
SPEAKER_17: Um He was uh always dressed kind of classy.
1:00:35
SPEAKER_17: Um I almost want to say Blue Eyes All.
1:00:40
SPEAKER_17: But that might not be the right.
1:00:42
SPEAKER_17: That might not be the right turn.
1:00:44
SPEAKER_17: Um very well known cover.
1:01:11
SPEAKER_17: We used to do one of his songs and you and I just started doing one of his songs.
1:01:21
SPEAKER_17: Probably his biggest song.
1:01:26
SPEAKER_21: You're like, what are we just starting doing?
1:01:31
SPEAKER_17: Uh let's see.
1:01:34
SPEAKER_17: Well, if I give you this hint, then he he in the late 80s, mid to late 80s, he joined up with two members of a huge British pop.
1:01:48
SPEAKER_20: Oh, is it Robert Palmer?
1:01:49
SPEAKER_17: It is Robert Palmer.
1:01:51
SPEAKER_17: Okay, yeah.
1:01:52
SPEAKER_17: Where's my where's my bell?
1:01:53
SPEAKER_17: I gotta get my bell.
1:01:54
SPEAKER_20: There it is! It is.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_20: We have done Robert Palmer.
1:01:57
SPEAKER_20: Have we?
1:01:58
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:01:59
SPEAKER_20: Positively?
1:02:00
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:02:00
SPEAKER_20: I know he's in I know he's on the list.
1:02:03
SPEAKER_20: Because that's it got me back into the power station.
1:02:07
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
1:02:08
SPEAKER_17: So so, well, I guess um But I don't know which album we did.
1:02:13
SPEAKER_20: Well, it's the only one.
1:02:13
SPEAKER_17: Because I don't think I have.
1:02:15
SPEAKER_17: Well, then we probably did this album.
1:02:19
SPEAKER_17: Uh but it was a while ago.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_17: This is the one we used to do with couple of.
1:02:23
SPEAKER_21: Yeah.
1:02:24
SPEAKER_21: Right.
1:02:29
SPEAKER_17: But he had a great career, huh?
1:02:30
SPEAKER_17: He did have a great career, man.
1:02:38
SPEAKER_17: There it is, perfect.
1:02:40
SPEAKER_17: So we did do it.
1:02:41
SPEAKER_17: We did crap.
1:02:50
SPEAKER_17: This is the one we just started doing.
1:02:53
SPEAKER_18: We do like a acoustic blues version of this addicted to love.
1:02:57
SPEAKER_18: This was his biggest, I think, right?
1:02:59
SPEAKER_20: Well that I mean, I don't know if it's the song or the video that everybody's.
1:03:05
SPEAKER_20: That's what I'm saying.
1:03:05
SPEAKER_20: That's what I'm saying.
1:03:06
SPEAKER_18: It was an iconic uh MTV had a lot to do with with this.
1:03:10
SPEAKER_18: Um we have this.
1:03:29
SPEAKER_17: Simply irresistible.
1:03:30
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, right.
1:03:31
SPEAKER_17: Great song, great song.
1:03:32
SPEAKER_17: All of these songs are great.
1:03:34
SPEAKER_17: Uh there's another one.
1:03:39
SPEAKER_18: I didn't mean to turn you on.
1:03:41
SPEAKER_20: Oh, that's such a great song, man.
1:03:45
SPEAKER_20: Such an easy song, man.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah.
1:03:55
SPEAKER_18: Oh, I know, right.
1:04:23
SPEAKER_18: Like it's like all right.
1:04:25
SPEAKER_18: Yeah.
1:04:33
SPEAKER_18: First to first to me, back to back list, I want you.
1:04:36
SPEAKER_20: Oh, I didn't.
1:04:37
SPEAKER_20: I I don't know if I've ever heard of that.
1:04:38
SPEAKER_18: Oh, he did a great job with these, yeah.
1:04:48
SPEAKER_06: Uh oh yeah.
1:04:51
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:04:54
SPEAKER_20: I think you can find this on uh you know yacht rock.
1:04:58
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah, yeah.
1:05:06
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah, yeah.
1:05:14
SPEAKER_18: Every kind of people.
1:05:15
SPEAKER_18: Yeah, that is fly in the family stone, right?
1:05:18
SPEAKER_20: Pretty sure, yeah.
1:05:26
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, I just I I love rubber ball, right?
1:05:29
SPEAKER_17: Of course, or the power station.
1:05:31
SPEAKER_17: We talked about the power station.
1:05:33
SPEAKER_20: But this is a this is a T-Rex.
1:05:36
SPEAKER_18: This one is, yeah.
1:05:37
SPEAKER_18: Yeah.
1:05:39
SPEAKER_20: I thought they did an awesome job with it.
1:05:40
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah, but it's so unique.
1:05:42
SPEAKER_20: I I like it way better than the T-Rex version.
1:05:44
SPEAKER_20: Me too.
1:05:44
SPEAKER_20: You know, it's just so unique.
1:05:46
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:05:47
SPEAKER_17: All the technology that they use back then.
1:05:49
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_20: Well, I mean, you're with the Taylor brothers, so I mean, what do you Right.
1:05:58
SPEAKER_18: That's a common misconception, by the way.
1:06:00
SPEAKER_18: What's that?
1:06:00
SPEAKER_18: They're not brothers.
1:06:01
SPEAKER_20: They're not brothers?
1:06:02
SPEAKER_18: They're not even related.
1:06:03
SPEAKER_20: Oh, I thought they were brothers for some reason.
1:06:08
SPEAKER_18: Let me let me confirm.
1:06:32
SPEAKER_04: Do the thing and sweet on that.
1:06:40
SPEAKER_03: You got the teeth of the eye up on your oath Do the discount, do my gut.
1:07:02
SPEAKER_19: Okay, that's that's pretty definitive though.
1:07:05
SPEAKER_10: Does that answer your question?
1:07:08
SPEAKER_17: Interesting because John and Rod Roger Taylor was the drummer.
1:07:15
SPEAKER_17: So Roger Taylor and uh John Taylor was the bass player.
1:07:18
SPEAKER_17: Right.
1:07:19
SPEAKER_17: And Andy Taylor was the guitar player.
1:07:21
SPEAKER_17: None of them are related.
1:07:22
SPEAKER_17: They were all Taylors.
1:07:22
SPEAKER_20: That's so funny.
1:07:23
SPEAKER_20: Isn't that funny?
1:07:25
SPEAKER_20: Um if they were just like, uh, what's your last name?
1:07:28
SPEAKER_20: Taylor.
1:07:29
SPEAKER_17: Right.
1:07:29
SPEAKER_20: You want to be my band?
1:07:31
SPEAKER_17: Alright, last one.
1:07:36
SPEAKER_18: This is another power station song.
1:07:39
SPEAKER_18: Something like it hot.
1:07:50
SPEAKER_17: It's just such a unique sound.
1:07:52
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, that's I think that's what I really dug about this.
1:07:55
SPEAKER_20: I mean, they only had the one album.
1:07:56
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:07:57
SPEAKER_20: But it was such a great album.
1:08:05
SPEAKER_09: I don't know.
1:08:13
SPEAKER_09: I don't know.
1:08:21
SPEAKER_09: I don't know.
1:08:28
SPEAKER_09: I don't go.
1:08:39
SPEAKER_20: Well, I wouldn't, I would I definitely wouldn't classify him as blue eyed soul.
1:08:44
SPEAKER_20: Robert Palmer?
1:08:44
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:08:45
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, I guess you're right.
1:08:46
SPEAKER_20: He's more of a rocker.
1:08:47
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
1:08:47
SPEAKER_20: But he does a lot of different, like, uh I mean he's he I mean he's a chameleon.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_20: He can do whatever he wants.
1:08:54
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
1:08:54
SPEAKER_20: But I would never, he's not really to me, he's not blue-eyed soul.
1:08:58
SPEAKER_17: I just go because he did the Marvin Gaye, and he did a couple of the the other Yeah, you're probably right.
1:09:03
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, you're probably right.
1:09:05
SPEAKER_17: But I loved his stuff, and I still do.
1:09:07
SPEAKER_17: And that uh again, listen to that stuff just gave me a goosebumps.
1:09:10
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, I love it it's it does.
1:09:12
SPEAKER_20: It's I mean I'm a fan of Robert Palmer, but I'm more of a fan of Power Station.
1:09:16
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
1:09:17
SPEAKER_20: Only because it's Robert Palmer, one of the Taylors, and another Taylor, John and Andy Taylor.
1:09:24
SPEAKER_20: John and Andy Taylor.
1:09:25
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:09:25
SPEAKER_20: And then some drummer.
1:09:29
SPEAKER_20: Nobody knows the drum.
1:09:30
SPEAKER_20: I think his name is Michael or something like that.
1:09:32
SPEAKER_20: Did you look it up?
1:09:33
SPEAKER_20: No.
1:09:33
SPEAKER_20: I was just I'm just trying to remember.
1:09:35
SPEAKER_20: Uh but yeah, nobody I mean, he basically did that, and nobody's ever heard from him since.
1:09:42
SPEAKER_20: You know what I mean?
1:09:43
SPEAKER_17: Let's see.
1:09:44
SPEAKER_17: Uh conversation where a British American 80s, 90s rock and music super group.
1:09:52
SPEAKER_17: Uh was it Robert Palmer?
1:09:54
SPEAKER_17: Former chic drummer Tony Thompson.
1:09:57
SPEAKER_20: Oh, that's what it is apparently.
1:09:59
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
1:09:59
SPEAKER_17: And Durander members John and Andy Taylor.
1:10:01
SPEAKER_17: Bernard Edwards, also chic, was involved on the studio side.
1:10:04
SPEAKER_17: Uh Power Station's manager, the band was formed in New York City.
1:10:08
SPEAKER_17: During a break in Durandoran's schedule that became a lengthy hiatus.
1:10:11
SPEAKER_17: They were named after the Power Station recording studio in New York where the first album was conceived and recorded.
1:10:16
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, Tony Thompson was.
1:10:18
SPEAKER_20: Tony Thompson, okay.
1:10:19
SPEAKER_20: I thought he was just some no-name drummer.
1:10:21
SPEAKER_20: No, I would say he's no, he's he's a he's a name.
1:10:23
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, right there.
1:10:24
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, yeah, there he is.
1:10:26
SPEAKER_17: Yeah.
1:10:27
SPEAKER_17: Oh, great, great stuff.
1:10:29
SPEAKER_17: Yeah, great stuff.
1:10:30
SPEAKER_17: Absolutely great stuff.
1:10:31
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, I love Power Station.
1:10:33
SPEAKER_17: All right, well, that's episode 180.
1:10:36
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:10:37
SPEAKER_20: We made it.
1:10:38
SPEAKER_20: We did.
1:10:39
SPEAKER_20: Wow.
1:10:40
SPEAKER_21: Yeah.
1:10:41
SPEAKER_17: Wow.
1:10:41
SPEAKER_06: Wow.
1:10:44
SPEAKER_17: Or as uh as uh Light in Between says, Wow.
1:10:50
SPEAKER_20: Sorry, you just know what we'll think is.
1:10:57
SPEAKER_17: I know what the sound clips are coming from.
1:11:03
SPEAKER_17: Alright.
1:11:04
SPEAKER_17: Uh I guess until next time, until next week.
1:11:06
SPEAKER_20: Uh unless something comes up.
1:11:09
SPEAKER_17: Something comes up and we're all too busy.
1:11:11
SPEAKER_21: Well, you want to do 181?
1:11:15
SPEAKER_21: Wait, can we do it Friday?
1:11:17
SPEAKER_21: Post it next Thursday.
1:11:18
SPEAKER_21: Let's do it Friday, jump in our DeLorean and then post it.
1:11:22
SPEAKER_21: How about that?
1:11:23
SPEAKER_21: That'll work.
1:11:24
SPEAKER_21: We can do that.
1:11:26
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