Episode 151: Gentle Jesters
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Time Crisis back again. And guess who else is back again? It's Jake. In breaking
news, he brought some serious energy. On this episode we talk everything from
Olivia Rodrigo to the Grateful Dead, gentle gestures, and so much more. This is
Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig.
Time Crisis back again. Opening a cold one. A cold little one.
It's a cocktail? What is that? Coca-Cola? It's a red can. I just looked in the fridge as we were
starting and you know it's hot, very hot in other parts of the country but it's
hot here. I was like I hope I got ice-cold beer in the fridge but as previously
discussed I don't remember to do beer runs so when the beer is out it's out.
But luckily we did have some Sofia Coppola California carbonated white wine
in the fridge so that's what I'm drinking. Wow wait a second she has her
own line? Yeah it's called Sofia and she and Rashida are friends and Rashida starred in
her film On the Rocks and yeah Sofia's sends us some beverages sometimes.
I recommend it. Well okay. She's following in her father's footsteps of
getting into the wine game. I'm looking at it. So it's produced and packed by the
Francis Ford Coppola winery based out of Geyserville California. You ever been to
Geyserville Jake? I have yeah. Really? Yeah. That surprises you? Well I mean no it
doesn't surprise me. I feel like Jake has been to most many deep towns in
California but like why would you go to Geyserville to go to like a
Francis Ford Coppola winery? Yeah just you know me and the boys were you know
on a wine tasting trip up in Napa one weekend. Well I do know that Jake is a
big fan of the film Sideways. That's a top 10 film. Was there a period where you
ditched brews and you got really into wine for a few years? That's down the
road still. Okay. I've been in that Napa Sonoma area quite a few times in my life.
I can't even tell you why. Usually in route to somewhere else but I haven't
like gone deep on Geyserville but. But you got out of the car. I've gone deep on
Guerneville but not Geyserville. Yeah yeah I've gotten out of the car. So how's
that working out? This wine? Yeah. It's good. It's a decent substitute for beer.
It's in a tasteful little can. Nice lightly carbonated. Good flavor. Yeah not
as dry as some champagnes. I don't like when champagne's too dry. Oof. That's just a
straight headache for me. Yeah yeah. You got to make beer a grocery item. Right. You're
getting your Cheerios, your granola, your Swiss chard. Laundry detergent. Yeah. And
the beer. Pick up at 12. You don't have to drink it every day. Just have it ready
to go so in a pinch you're prepped. Yep I gotta remember that. I'll text you
tomorrow. Don't forget. Hey dude reminder. That kind of sounds like a 90s beer
commercial. Bros remind bros to do beer runs. Or you could also picture like a
whole campaign. This really actually sounds like some like Mad Men Madison
Avenue type sh*t. Where it's like alright people love beer and this probably
actually happened. People love beer but we find for like the very casual beer
drinker, the internet radio show host kind of guy, he's just grabbing like one
beer a week and when he's out he'll go months before he refills. How do we get
that guy to keep the house a little more stocked, squeeze out another you know 50
bucks out of him a year? We got to make beer a grocery item for this guy and
that's what the next three years are about for the Budweiser company. We're
making sure that the casual beer drinker understands that beer is a grocery item
and yeah and then like the it's like I don't know what it is it's like bros
reminding bros just like beer's a grocery item man. It's like two in the
list. It's gotta be the phrase grocery item. Dude it's a grocery item. Yeah
cuz maybe they're like what are the... That's very like very Coen Brothers.
Like a character who says grocery item a lot. It's a grocery item man and like
yeah you have like your weird like Walter Sobchak or Yumi and Dupree type
like just weird beer dude. Beer's a grocery item. Actually you would probably get
John Goodman as Walter Sobchak to be like it's like the the husband and wife
sitting at the table and she's just like all right doing the grocery list I got
eggs I think we're actually out of oatmeal I want to try new detergent
anything else and the guy's like doesn't know if he can add beer he's thinking
instead I don't know can I really add beer to our family grocery list and then
like pans out to Walter Sobchak. Beer is a grocery item dude. Add it.
Samantha add it. I don't know if I consider beer to be a grocery item. Beer
is a grocery item. Mark it in. Add it. Put it down. You think I'm effing around here? I
really think there probably is a type of person maybe like upper-middle-class
professional who probably they don't want beer to be a grocery item they're
like you know what I'll go to get beer at the liquor store I'll see a bottle of
wine the kind of bougie person I'll see a bottle of wine that can sit right next
to my you know the diapers for the baby the brie. I like in this fantasy the
diapers are in the fridge. No no I mean this is their anxiety when they're
checking out at the supermarket. Right right my baby likes cold diapers. I think
what you're getting at is this is like the big Madison Avenue move because it's
not just you're not saying that there's just a guy who they need to sort of
convert to say hey it's a grocery item but you're basically talking about
normalizing beer as a grocery item like it's sort of like that's the kind of
thing that I think really gets Madison Avenue excited is like we're talking
about it's a cultural shift. It's a paradigm shift. Cultural shift. Beer is a grocery item.
Normalized beer is a grocery item. I also think the same way that like probably
certain products benefit just because they became so classic as like
grocery items like I mean I really like eggs but you know it's not like every
culture consumes as many eggs as like the average American that's because we
got in people's heads when you're going to the grocery store you're getting eggs
and there's probably some people who wake up one day after 40 years of buying
eggs they're like I don't like eggs I could have been eating different for
breakfast I don't with eggs I don't bake I don't like eating them why was I
buying eggs all this time it's because that's a top five grocery item survey
says eggs ding you know what I mean they're buying eggs and there's other
like that you just get in people's heads where they're just like I better get
eggs and milk oh milk is a class red I mean first of all straight up Madison
milk is wild Madison Avenue teamed up with the dairy industry to basically say
milk is a grocery item like what are you crazy you're gonna go to the grocery
store and you didn't bring back milk you need milk for every year yeah I wonder
what year like was the height of American per capita milk consumption
it's got to be down from its height but right we'll still rocking it and you go
to the grocery store there's still ample valuable real estate given over to me
literally got milk is normalizing milk as a grocery item right it's saying when
I walk into your house do you better be milk there better be milk in the no and
I bet there are probably all sorts of people who like bought into that where
they were just like I'm lactose intolerant I don't drink me I don't
drink milk but I've been buying like you know a liter of milk regularly you know
just in case somebody comes through who needs some milk
my lover's gone away the bottle stands for a symbol of the door
no milk today it seems a common sight but people passing by don't know the
reason why how could they know just what this message means the end of my hopes
the end of all my dreams how could they know a palace there had been behind the
door when my love reigned as queen I would guess that milk consumption
probably peaked in the 80s and maybe the got milk campaign of the 90s was them
being like whoa we're slipping a little bit what's going on let's remind these
mother they need milk in their house and then the last 20 years have really been
a bloodbath because they got oat milk almond milk coming out of the woodwork
and they're really on the ropes I mean milk consumption is probably
cratering rice cashew do your kids drink milk yeah you want to have growing boys
at the house do your boys drink milk straight up he's definitely not slamming
a glass of milk oh he's not okay I don't know like I used to drink milk when I
was a kid yeah I was at someone's house and was helping them with their espresso
machine I was gonna make them a coffee like a latte and I was like do you have
milk and they said dairy and I was like yeah I'm afraid like a cabinet go you
drink dairy in 2021 cow's milk it's truly a thing it would have been like
whatever you eat gluten in 2018 yeah I didn't know that I mean I guess no I
mean our metal stuff well look in your you know this is probably in a very
specific slice of the bourgeois LA world which we're all very familiar with on
but I'm concerned that beer could go the way of milk because beer a lot of people
associate with gluten these trends do kind of like become just these weird
cultural biases right now I could imagine going to like some kind of
coastal big city and rolling to somebody's house being like you got a
beer and they'd be like beer you know there was a time where I'm sake and in
tequila yeah I can make you a skinny margarita but we don't have beer but
that could spread and if I was a beer executive I'd be nervous about that and
then of course you have the rise of like white claws and actually true Seinfeld's
not on yet I don't know if we officially have a triage thing but I think Nick you
become the number cruncher when Seinfeld's not on yes I accept that so
Nick give me a sense of like where beer sales are at over the past like 30 years
are they down lately this is a tough number crunch I'm on it by the way just
speaking as I look this up milk it does look that just milk sales has been on a
steady decline since the 70s since the seven though they're just there yeah so
basically you know they're just fighting a trend so they're just trying to be
stable but it's been sort of yeah just on a steady decline I'm curious so about
your growing boys though do they eat cereal they put like rice milk on their
cereal what do they do in our house we always have oat milk or almond milk and
I think we have cows milk sometimes well the other thing I was thinking about is
like you like you know when you have like a baby the baby's drinking either
breast milk or formula right then at some point I feel like some parents like
transition like then the baby starts drinking like cows milk like starts
eating food right like real food and maybe formula or whatever but also like
I feel like I've run into this recently I've been you know obviously paying
closer attention to this this stuff I've been surprised we're like I've known a
few parents are just like well regularly give their kids like dairy milk mmm like
you know like a two-year-old or something I mean I'm happy when Max will
drink a glass of milk with you know it tends to only happen if he's like at
someone else's house and their kids will want a glass of milk with something but
yeah you're happy when he drinks a glass of cow's milk yeah I just feel like he
needs to get hit like calcium he just Nick but it's not a good sure these are
lies these are lies that were told relies by the dairy industry you grew up in the
shadow of the in the long big milk in the long decline of the milk industry
and they filled your head with lies there's no calcium in milk man this is
pure nostalgia so I'm just kidding there is calcium I was gonna say that I was
gonna say that it's like the biggest Mandela effect of all Oh milk does not
have calcium man there's more calcium in a beer than milk that's part of our
campaign wake up sheeple there's no calcium in milk although one thing I
will say is um eventually when time crisis goes full Rogan will like have
like a lot of like health people on to like really bear some of the stuff out
for now we'll stay in the zone of just like always speculating well that's what
Rogan does too right but he at least has these people on who supposedly know
about this stuff I have the sense that this idea that you just make your bones
stronger by slamming stuff that has calcium in it is like you know maybe not
the whole truth I think you make your bones stronger through powerlifting I
don't have the full number crunch but it definitely seems that beer has been on a
decline very specifically this year it's down 2% since the year before huh and I
and there is questions about which it surprises me you know if that has
anything to do with the pandemic because I know alcohol in general there was an
increase but maybe just less people just wanting to like pound beers quarantined
I mean that's just maybe not as appealing it's from a bygone era man
well yeah cuz it's liquor went up 30 this isn't so liquor went up 33% in 20
20 yeah wine Wow what you've I mean I had heard a lot around right alcohol
sales really increased with people stuck at home and you know try trying to keep
things in there going to bar wine sales gonna bars yep wine sales grew 12% but
beer sales went down 2% so that hurts all right we got a problem here the
other sectors are like growing hugely 33% tequila sales went up 40%
all right you lose very hot Wow now we gotta get sweet chili heat going I think
we're - yeah we gotta get sweet chili heat going all right this year we're
doing it sweet chili heat okay I like this in our in our Madison Avenue
presentation like we come in all the beer some guys from like the beer
company we're just like you guys work in the alcohol industry right oh yeah we
work in alcohol I got great news for you guys can we get that first slide up
there alcohol sales are up okay your friends in the tequila sector well
they're really up 40% wines up 12 you guys should feel really good to be part
of the alcohol industry except next slide you guys work in beer you're down
2% everybody else is crushing it and you're slipping this is pathetic you
need a f*cking answer luckily for you we got it beer is a grocery item and then
we show the commercial it could also be like John John Goodman or maybe we like
get like a young star to kind of like recreate the role to kind of bridge the
yeah or something maybe they come over to their friends house they're just kind
of like hey man can I grab a drink from the fridge yeah help yourself opens it
uh looking around not seeing the beer you know I don't drink beer it's a
grocery item what do you mean I don't drink beer it's grocery item for some
people it's a grocery item it's something that you buy when you go to
the grocery store whether or not you drink it is irrelevant but why would I
do that I don't drink it it's a grocery item dude pulls out the gun it's a
grocery item dude okay man okay it's a grocery item so next time you go to the
supermarket you buy your eggs whatever kind of granola you want you grab a
sixer beer it's not for you it's for guests it's a grocery item it's what you
do you go to the grocery store you buy sixer end of story all right got it got
it chill out man okay Ezra you crazy F okay you f*cking psycho put the peace away
psycho I'll buy them I'll buy a sixer beer is the new butter I love that beer
is the new butter
well I thought um a good way we could do this episode is just actually to play
back the last episode and do kind of like a color commentary over it would
love that all right so we got the last episode queued up so the average time
Christ's episodes two hours so I imagine with commentary and stuff this one might
run to like close to four so let's go ahead and bump whoever's up next in the
schedule this is gonna be a long one folks but I think even if you heard you
know this will be valuable so anyway here now okay um that would actually
probably play like a normal time crisis if Jake just listen it was like oh man
well I just chiming in with different okay well Jake the main thing I want to
tell you that we found out on the last episode yeah this is big news drumroll
please we found out on the last episode that the first podcast the very first
the first podcast was a Grateful Dead song
what what do you mean was a song I know so I'm surprised as you are man but the
first podcast was a Grateful Dead song you got a flesh this out for me a
little more what does that mean all right you know podcasts I'm aware of the
form okay but the first one before there were any others was the Grateful Dead
song what which song was it US blues yeah all right part of the problem with
this that we discussed unless I had I had to just hit you with it like that
just to get your unvarnished yeah yeah it's like an excellent fun fact that
doesn't land it's cursed it's a cursed fun fact because on the one hand it's so
good and on the other it sounds so punchy and yet it doesn't actually make
any sense so basically we had despond on we're talking about he you know he has
his internet radio show and how people called a podcast and he just rolls with
it and then we started just digging into the history of podcasts and so we're
researching it live on the show wait despot has a show yeah chillin Island
okay cool soon to be a TV show by the way keep your eyes open for that so
anyway you're doing live Wikipedia we're doing some live week that's called live
wiki work it's a part of the internet radio skill set live wiki work as you
can imagine with something like a podcast there's different definitions of
what a podcast is so there's a little bit of debate about what the first one
was but basically the first time somebody used what is considered modern
podcast technology which is the RSS feed mm-hmm even if you don't really know
what that means like you've probably heard of RSS is having something to do
with like a podcast distribution network as I understand it that's some kind of
digital information distribution protocol that nobody had used for audio
until the year 2001 so the first time anybody used the RSS protocol to
distribute audio which became the whole basis for what podcasts are the first
piece of audio distributed that way was a former MTV VJ who was upset that
George W Bush had just been inaugurated and wanted to use this new internet
protocol that he was aware of to distribute a pithy song choice to make a
commentary about that moment in American history so he chose US blues by the
Grateful Dead and so that's the first piece of audio that ever went onto the
podcast distribution network there's like multiple articles that site Wow
that event as the first podcast Adam Curry he was like oh yeah I'm and of
course you know the naysayers could say well that's not a podcast that was just
a song but he was doing a kind of political commentary on it so you know
he was using the first podcast was a Grateful Dead song man that seems so
fitting and also that song choice it seems very fitting yeah very fitting and
then we were kind of talking about how just like when I tried to hit you with
it it's so close to sounding like a great fun fact that maybe you're talking
to a dead head at a party in Silicon Valley or something you could have sit
down with like hey you know you know it's interesting I actually just found
out that the first podcast was a Grateful Dead song but then everybody's
reaction is just gonna be like wait what does that mean it demands too much
explanation in context to like I know I'm to drop on anybody tempted to ask
you about like the nitty-gritty of the RSS feed by I'm gonna let's not do that
let's let's keep moving forward I wouldn't have the answers but I mean I
like it's that's the dawn of the 21st century the century of American decline
yeah it's perfect it's perfect way that's really very poetic maybe in
between songs at the next Richard Pictures rehearsal you could try it out
hey fellas you know it's funny the first podcast was actually US blues wait what
you think we're actually gonna do that song you're gonna do you as blues yeah
people were throwing it out last practice outside that our first practice
last week so okay so you got a great fun fact to hit them with very excited about
that trying to explain it yeah the first audio file and an RSS that was live at
the old town pub all right guys the next song is one of my favorite dead tunes
it's also the first podcast one two three four and then there's like one guy
at the back of the bar it's like oh yeah Adam Curry file to the RSS feed yeah
very cool you know that man a lot of people forget that this is the first
podcast you know we should have asked Bob we're about that last when he was on
the show you want to know something we asked there's a moment about it oh well
I'll say this is a huge and I I held my tongue oh there was a moment where
Hornsby said to Ezra do you want me to call Bob now he said you want me to call
Bobby and I almost interrupted yeah as we just said nah we don't need to do
that now and I was like oh Ezra I know I know I had mixed feelings about it but I
know you thought I knew you had thought about it to say no but there was a
moment right you know my thought process was it's just like I feel like Bob would
just be like what there's a couple either Bob would have just been like
what are you saying like yeah maybe he's just like what is this like a prank oh
maybe he'd be like put off by it he or I mean ideally he would go you'd call up
and it'd be like Bruce is on the phone it's like hey Bobby it's me Bruce I'm
I'm live I'm live with Ezra on time crisis knees and Bob's like okay and
he's like Ezra just told me something I wanted to hit you to it did you know the
first podcast was a dead tune US blues maybe Bobby just go like you know what I
didn't know that that's very cool Wow just like no questions like yeah yeah
Bob really has no idea what he's saying he's also not gonna inquire what he's
talking about he's just gonna be like uh-huh
well Bob he's got that old wisdom he's seen it all it's true no he's seen some
cosmic he's been to every Grateful Dead show he meditates took a lot of acid
back in the day maybe he would also just get it like instinctually like he's like
you know did you know that Bob and he's like well now I do Wow you know what I
did I just I had a sad thought I don't think he wrote that song but he
obviously he was part of the dead crew and as Bruce Hornsby pointed out he was
a very big booster for the internet and I wonder if J.P. Barlow no no I wonder
if Barlow before he passed away R.I.P. found out that the first podcast was a
Grateful Dead song I'm sure he knew that and even if he didn't know then he
knows now now that it's out in the cosmos rest in power the really deep
version this is the discussion that just keeps on giving two episodes in a row
but I think the really deep version is not even hitting up a deadhead or like
Bob we're about it is just like you know if you're ever at a party and there's
like like one of the guys from like pod save America and you're just kind of
like oh hey like a cool party hey man um did you know that uh hey John love it
did you know that the first podcast was a Grateful Dead song just blank stare
just yeah he'd probably be like what what the fuck does that mean and then
you just be like whoa hold on man you don't have to be a fan but show some
respect to the the audio content that paved the way for what you do today man
like it might not be your cup of tea but like that was the first podcast I don't
give a if you like the dead that was the first podcast and you know you've made
some bank off what that song did hanging out with the woman from call her daddy
you know the first podcast was a Grateful Dead song did that show sell
for a lot of money I heard something somewhere about like a lot of podcasts
are like selling for lots of money recently obviously Rogan yes well yeah
only Rogan's like a huge show this one's a huge show - it started I guess call you
it started on the barstool Network okay so it's a yeah I was at a fancy party in
Miami to celebrate the 60 million dollar sale of call her daddy and everybody
was giving speeches and getting drunk and at some point I started hitting a
champagne glass with a fork and I just said I just wanted to say it's amazing
what you've accomplished with the podcast and I think we all can agree
that we need to have a moment to you know pour some out for Jerry Garcia
because of course the first podcast was a Grateful Dead song not Adam Curry and
I'll say it Adam Curtis a little bit but you know Jerry's saying that song and
just like yelling at the DJ at the club my can you just turn the music off for a
second we're just we're just kind of having a moment here - sir sir we're
gonna do a minute of silence and then I want you to kick in with us blues and
then we'll kind of start parting again thank you
and white
blue suede shoes I'm uncle Sam how do you do
give me five still alive
ain't no luck I learned to duck
check my pulse
it don't change
stay 72
come shine or rain
wave the flag
pop the bag
rock the boat
skin the goat
all right we're now joined by Seinfeld back in the mix hey what's up so last
week I was browsing the internet and I saw a picture of a man wearing a t-shirt
that said breaking news with a kind of graphic in the style of like cable news
or like a new slick newspaper magazine I like a little bit of Fox News it's a
little Fox News yeah totally and it says breaking news in a big font and then
underneath I don't care with an exclamation point so it's kind of it's an
interesting it's like a fake out so it's like breaking news really official and
then it's like I don't care and I saw a picture of somebody wearing it and I
said this is a great shirt and immediately for whatever reason I was
like I bet Jake could rock this shirt wait I'm so sorry Ezra yeah have I
misunderstood the shirt this whole time I thought the breaking news is I don't
care yeah yeah no that's what I'm saying oh I thought you okay I thought you're
saying there's I'm just saying it's a fake out in the sense that the breaking
news is really official it's like breaking news didn't end it like and
then it's like okay I don't care yeah that is the breaking news that I don't
care I think you can interpret the shirt either way it essentially means the same
thing but I don't care about your breaking news and also breaking news I
don't care I just don't care about anything so anyway it's not even Jake's
not you're not even a cantankerous guy at all well but I also feel like I just
felt like a good shirt for you why just feel like a little backstory for the
listeners I feel like on the TC text thread every now and then though someone
will post like a funny shirt yeah and it'll be like could any of you guys rock
this right like we've definitely riffed on the idea of like wearing like a
really like aggro like terrible t-shirt in like a like a hip coffee shop in LA
yeah that's become a that's been like a running joke for years if for some
reason it's me yeah it's always Jake wearing just like a weird algorithmic
aggro internet shirt just to like a very hip LA coffee shop yeah and so I tracked
it down there's a lot of versions of this but I think I found the best one
for you got it to Jake and you know three or four days and then today you
took it on the road award all day breaking news I don't care
I wore to the south I wore to the South Pasadena dog park where it drew no
glances well you don't know that but no no con yeah people in the dog park are
you know free spirits people there with their dogs you know they understand yeah
they don't care either yeah and then I was driving with my dog Al to the down
to the studio to work for the day and I stopped in at cafe de leche on York
Boulevard in Highland Park now there's three coffee shops on York yeah there's
collage there's cafe de leche in there's kumquat now cafe de leche is definitely
the oldest and like least hip of these three coffee shops like more like a nine
I think it's been around for like it's been over like 20 years it's definitely
like one of the first businesses that's still standing to open on York as it
sort of transitioned into the kind of the gentrified era right I imagine it's
it's not slick it's not slick and there's not really a line ever collage
and kumquat especially kumquat really blows up and I've only been to kumquat
once which is an insane name for a coffee shop and it was like the kind of
thing where I got the cold brew at kumquat and was like too strong yeah
like I drank a quarter of it and I was just like I'm gonna like if I drink the
rest of this I'm gonna like out like a marble cuz I'm gonna be so dehydrated
like I'm gonna like go into cardiac arrest I like this guy this is all part
the fantasy of the guy wearing the breaking news I don't care but also
complains that his coffee's too strong right he's like this angry dude loves to
complain but also is like I don't care coffee's a little strong you walked into
like the hippest coffee shop in his neighborhood got the cold brew came back
cut the line was just like what the fuck is this I just want a nice iced coffee I
hate this whole vibe everything here sucks I paid seven dollars for this
bullshit I can't even finish it and like the person behind the barista is just
like sir I based on your shirt I never thought you'd react like this you seem
like a guy just doesn't give a fuck but clearly anybody who wears a shirt
advertising that they don't care might care
you look stupid and wow with you you look you look dumb with you I got a
million trillion things I'd rather do then to be with you little stupid and I
don't give a fuck I don't give a fuck I don't I don't give a fuck look I don't give a fuck about you or anything that you do
I don't give a fuck about you or anything that you do I heard you got a new man I see you taking the pink
then you post it up thinking that it's making me sick I see you calling I'll be
making the quick I'm an answer that shit like I don't with you I got no feelings
to go I swear I had it up to here I got no
feelings to go I mean for real how you feel it's too sensitive and going towards
the bill yeah and every day I wake up celebrating why cuz I just asked the
bullet from a crazy person I stuck to my guns that's what made me rich that's
what put me on that's what got me here that's what made me this and everything
that I do is my first me I cheese chase bread all day if she got a bird brain
ain't nothing but trilling me oh man silly me I just bought a crib three
stories that the trilogy and you know I'm rolling with this nothing Oh I got a
bitch that takes me she ain't got no clothes on and then another one takes
me yo next and I'm a take your back like I don't with you so anyway I went into
Cavendish a which still requires masks so I was rocking my camo mask we hit why
do you have a camo mask I don't know I just ended up with it somehow and I like
the fit of it okay but I didn't read yeah it's like a cool combo the camo
mask with the I don't put the breaking news I don't care wearing a campbell
mask gonna get the cold brew um got the cold brew from Cavendish a didn't really
again the shirt I think we're like maybe overestimating its power it's it's
pretty pretty innocuous but no and by the way we're just getting started
because this shirt is very subtle most people probably wouldn't even see what
it says and even if they read it they might not even think you're that aggro
but we're gonna work you up week by week with slightly more aggro shirts
culminating with a shirt Seinfeld found which is as you I'm not gonna wear that
no you got it you got it you got to put the baby in the stroller roll the kumquat
in the future that's the final test I can't do it it reminds me that that
reminds me I was like I remember like a really funny memory of like being at
this like you know friendlies restaurant it's like an East Coast yeah they have
ice cream I remember being in a friendlies with my grandmother and my
brother when we were like teenagers and this dude in the booth next to us was
wearing a baseball hat that said oh yeah it's an old school and like my brother
and I were laughing so hard and my grandmother was like basically legally
blind and I couldn't see the hat she's like what are you boys laughing at so hard
anyway so I'm in Cafe de Leche and I ordered the iced coffee I get no reaction
from my shirt I'm kind of bummed I turn around I'm leaving and I see there's an
older gentleman in line behind me wearing a shirt that says your screen
place sucks and so I was upstage I was upstaged well you told us that on the
thread I've been thinking about it two crazy shirts in this one's in Kevin I
mean to roll up to a Los Angeles coffee shop wearing your screenplay sucks shirt
is so aggressive it's so mean and aggressive cuz like it's also like is
that guy it's like said like 55 year old guy like is he like a failed screenwriter
is he a successful screenwriter is he just like it go either way contractor is
he just like a forklift operator who just like can't believe how many lame
people move to LA maybe he's a born and raised Angelino forklift operator and
he's just like I hate what this town's become man every time I go to get a
coffee I have to look at these losers right in their screenplays and then he's
like where's the shirt for me and he found it so yeah he's way more
aggressive although I would say if you guys had a face off your shirt Trump's
his because he would look at you and his shirt would say to you your screenplay
sucks and then you would look at him and say breaking news I don't care so you
actually beat him logically speaking they were nihilists breaking news yeah
I feel like your shirt the breaking news could be interpreted also as like satire
of like the current cable news world where I don't know if you guys remember
but like in the 90s you know CNN would reserve breaking news for like you'd see
it like once a week and now if you watch it's like breaking news like every every
hour it's like they'll break news on a story they're already reporting on it's
just like it's lost all all value so I feel like breaking news there's a story
developing in Los Angeles it seems two men with very powerful t-shirts are
engaged in the type of Mexican standoff at a local coffee shop one has been
identified as Jake Longstreet American Painter and radio American Painter radio
personality Jake Longstreet and tick-tock personality I think it's good
we got the ball rolling with this shirt I feel like Seinfeld maybe you could
work on this I think we could do a slightly more personalized one version
that's maybe a little more in like Jake's voice and maybe is a little more
eye-catching that's maybe some like breaking news I don't give a s***
oh I thought you're gonna say breaking news your script sucks oh we could
combine them breaking news f*** you oh breaking news the first podcast was
Grateful Dead's R.S. Speed. Part of why I was thinking about this is that I
was in a Whole Foods in New Jersey last week that really felt good just being in
a Whole Foods in Jersey that's tight and there was a dude walking around wearing
a t-shirt that said something along the lines of like basically like I'm not
always an a***** dot dot dot just kidding f*** you it definitely said f*** you on the
bottom damn everybody's wearing masks so I couldn't like totally get a read on
this guy's vibe but I was thinking like that's pretty aggressive to actually
have a f*** you I respected it in the Whole Foods is funny but there's so many
variations I feel like back in the day there used to be like one or two just
like shirts that telegraph some sort of like disgust with humanity but now
there's so many I can't deal with the F you on the shirt it's just like like
Seinfeld had sent to the thread just a shirt it was just gray shirt with black
text all caps and syrup it just said F you I was like what is that's not a
shirt no that's but that's where it's heading that's that's not clever it's
that's the final frontier oh my god I mean it's like the band like like there
was a band called F right by which you mean f*** yeah you know but like they bleep
out the swears on this internet radio program right okay yeah when Jake says F
he means f*** yeah there was a band called F and it's just like where's the poetry
there so I'm not there's no way of wearing a shirt that does but I'm saying
I think there's visual poetry if you got your dog your little baby daughter in a
stroller and you're wearing the f*** you shirt when I see that tableau I'm
intrigued I say this is an enigma this is a good man taking care of a small dog
and a small person and yet he wears this mysterious f*** you shirt who is he
saying f*** you to he seems like a good dude I'm fascinated I want to know this
guy that's art
look inside your tiny mind and look a bit harder
cuz we're so uninspired so sick and tired of all the hatred you harbor
so you say it's not okay to be gay well I think you're just evil you're just
some racist who can't tie my laces your point of view is medieval
I hate what you do and we hate your whole crew so please stop staying tight. Cue, cue, you're very, very much. Cuz your words don't translate and it's getting quite late
so please stop staying tight.
I found a few dig that maybe you'd be interested in that these are a little
bit in between this these are both black t-shirts with just white text like no
visual poetry one is rough this one is it's not that I don't like you dot dot
dot oh wait yes yes it is okay here's another one I'm an a** if you don't want
your feelings hurt don't talk to me oh my god can I get the cold brew um just a
little dash of oat milk a little simple syrup this could be another one I like
nowadays with like COVID they like if you like you like pay with the card and
then they like turn the screen and like would you like to add a tip for the
staff nope read the shirt breaking news I don't tip oh man a simple one that
just says don't talk to me big big white letters on a black shirt and then we
send you out for a day in LA to you know Home Depot the garden supply store
hipster coffee shop and you just gotta you got to talk to as many people as you
can that sounds miserable sparks fly so guys I think one of the reasons I've
been so into this thread is that uh because I only basically wear shirts now
that are playing tees I know I don't really wear I like icon shirt graphic
shirts and one of the graphic shirts and one of the reasons is is when I was in
college in New York at Columbia I found this one downtown that on the front
said wine me dying me 69 with like six exclamation points and then on the back
said avoid hangovers stay drunk and I just thought it was so funny and it was
like the most offensive shirt I'd ever seen and so I like kept in my closet and
finally I was like I'm gonna wear this out one day and I did and to Nussbaum
and woo if you remember that oh yeah and I got a late night yeah big old spot
uptown and I and I wore it out and I the first person I ran into was my favorite
professor and his family like he's like 13 year old daughter and I was wearing
this shirt and I never really worn a shirt that said wine and died me 69 me
and then when I had to leave he just did avoid a stay drunk and like honestly
since then I was so embarrassed I've never worn a graphic tee since and so
the idea that you let your shirt speak for you is so funny to me and it's the
idea of Jake sort of and I think this might lead into what we're gonna talk
about next which is this idea of like a sort of dad prank show where we sort of
test each other in this well yeah I want to I want to get into that because we
were I mean there's probably even some listeners now hearing us talk about this
they're just like yeah what's the big deal just wear the shirt but we were
kind of talking about how this is almost like our version of jackass is these
very timid pranks that's just like yeah we're a slightly awkward shirt to a
coffee shop 99% odds no one gives a shit maybe 1% somebody somebody looks at is
like weird our vibe is kind of just like these very timid pranks that look at
this 45 year old loser standing in line at the coffee shop your screenplay sucks
is so harsh no I think you're lucky that that your screenplay sucks guy he took
all the the negative vibrations for that day everybody was like I f***ed that other guy
he's just he just doesn't care this other guy's just mean although Jake I
think you got to start wearing your shirt - it'll really hit I think when you
start going to like some like barbecues and stuff art openings yeah breaking
news I don't care at the art opening but we were talking about yeah these are our
kind of pranks and we could probably amp them up a little bit more you know if we
want to turn into like incredibly low stakes very low stakes but then I
realized I think Seinfeld you said this is kind of like our jackass then I said
well it's almost more like impractical jokers in the sense that it's a group of
friends daring each other to do just slightly awkward things not like jackass
or people like breaking bones and like vomiting it really is just putting
people in uncomfortable positions and ours is even just like so much mellower
and then we started thinking about what our types of pranks could be and we
started talking about names for the show Seinfeld had a great suggestion which I
still like which was practical jokers which I think technically what the f***
could impractical jokers do to us guys you can't be practical jokers like
you're in it's like literally the opposite thing and our whole thing will
just be like very reasonable pranks and then we were trying to take it a little
further away and we're looking up synonyms for jokers and I found jesters
jester is a very funny word in any context other than like a medieval court
to like refer to a person as a jester it's just like a hilarious word in a
modern context so as we were kind of coming up with this idea and at some
point it became kind of like a kind vibe low stakes prank show collectively we
came up with I think the perfect name gentle jesters and to me this name the
name is so good I just think we have to do something with it gentle jesters it
doesn't have to be a duration I mean we could get a bunch of old hippies get the
Bellamy brothers to do a cameo and just like very very mellow pranks and I think
a lot of the pranks actually should be about brightening somebody's day I like
I hadn't can't believe we didn't think of this I think like one of the pranks is
Hornsby having to go to Bobby and it's like walk into a party and say did you
know that the Grateful Dead was the first you know podcast oh yeah no I'd
love to get Hornsby in on it we could do a super cut that's Bruce just rolling to
different situations just like a man on the street Billy Eichner except it's
Bruce Hornsby just taking his time walking through the streets of Richmond
Virginia just going up to people with like a microphone be like hey can I ask
you a question people like are you Bruce Hornsby said yeah don't worry about it
did you know that the first podcast was a Grateful Dead song and then just like
the people like uh no I didn't and then it's gentle just general jesters
he turned 35 last Sunday and his hair he found some gray
but he still ain't changed his lifestyle he likes it better the old way
so he grows a little garden in the backyard by the fence he's consuming
what he's growing nowadays in self-defense he gets out there in the
Twilight Zone sometimes when it just don't make no sense
one of my ideas was that we this would be like an impractical jokers type thing
is that we make Jake work at Cafe de Leche or some kind of coffee shop and we
get some spy cams in there people walk in and we're blasting Neil Young on the
speakers and every time somebody walks up to the cash register Jake goes how
are you doing man and points the speaker goes Bob Dylan gotta love him and it's
like obviously Neil Young gentle jesters old man take a look at my life
Bobby D man oh man Bob after his motorcycle accident at the average like
vaguely hip coffee shop you'd probably get corrected so much or just thought of
people being like no this is Neil Young man I think I'm pretty sure it's Bob
pretty sure it's Bob it's incredibly slow can I pitch one yeah this is like a
real minimal one you know those cans the classic sort of like can of Pringles
can or whatever you open it up and like the snake thing like goes flying out
yeah okay so you're at a party no I mean maybe not a party you're in a social
situation and you have like a can of like almonds and it says like whatever
like blue diamond almonds and you're like hey you want some almonds but then
when the person opens it up it's cashews that is pretty sick I like that
that's gentle and it uplifts their day right cuz cashew is sort of like a
higher yeah I think we could be very cameo heavy just get like some like some
ogs like some of the 60s survivor types go to a steak restaurant and Van
Morrison's the waiter I was just picturing Bruce Springsteen's working
behind the counter at Cappadilly and like the bit is just sort of like yeah
it's sort of like how many people whether it's Van Morrison or Bruce
Springsteen how many people are like are you Bruce then Morrison is very few
people would recognize Van Morrison get recognized a lot yeah yeah people like
is that are you Bruce Springsteen and he's just like yes gentle gestures I
know you want to know saying I think that the bit for him is that Bruce
Springsteen's working there and they're playing Bruce Bruce and he's like I love
Bob Dylan that's very gestures I love I can't do a Bruce impression yeah and
then our segue the general nice mocha then and it's just really short the jet
and then the gentle gestures logo flashes on there's some wind chimes and
gentle gestures you know what I love about this is I feel like um you know a
lot of people would get involved because I you know I imagine that a lot of
people probably passed on punked because it was too mean or like oh yeah oh I
don't want to make that sure it was horrible to scaring the shadow people
stressing them out where Brad Pitt got kidnapped and thrown into the van that
was the most such like so memorable oh yeah no but punk they would really they'd
make like ludicrous think his house burned down that was like punked I
wonder if Bruce would even be down like if we could like get a line to Bruce and
just be like this is a real show it's gonna be on Netflix your buddy Barack
Obama already has a deal with Netflix so let's like let's hook it up and like you
just come to this coffee shop in this like mellow part of LA and you work by
in the counter and we roll the tape for an hour and see what happens
we have an hour of footage of Van Morrison working at antennas at antennas
nobody recognized him we made sure he gave out he brought some he gave some
free dessert to a lot of the patrons he was very reluctant to do that but he did
do it it was very gentle you know van put out a full-length record after we
did his a deep dive on his kovat songs did we listen to why are you on Facebook
on the show yes I think we did did we Matt I think we listened to the other
the lockdown songs okay we got to throw on wait can we why are you on Facebook
yeah why honestly the van was good I think friend of the show Stephen Hayden
wrote a review of it I was like this kind of like basically this sounds very
good van is like on point vocally yep and like the tones are sweet and like
the songs are fine and like the lyrics are just completely out there but
actually I was I remember I listened to why you're on Facebook and it's like
kind of a good song I mean it's like kind of like a it's a great question
this is probably the best song that he he's dropped so far probably best on
he's put out in the in like the 21st century although I don't know his deep
catalog 21st
why do you need second-hand friends why do you really care who's trending
or is this something you're defending do the light is it that empty and sad
all right you have to something you can't have you kiss the girls and run
away now you won't come at the play
Oh
great question man the song is a bit of a t-shirt itself totally couldn't you
see that I mean this song is breaking news right if I've ever heard one that
be cool elite elite period Ben Morrison album called breaking news I don't care
some kind of twist the game put yourself in the frame what's up people work very
hard to attain or are you looking for a scapegoat the blame is your opinion
again why are you on Facebook why are you on Facebook why are you on Facebook
I mean it's just a good song yeah it's like this rules either you're into the
lyrics are you not but it's a good song
oh yeah
nice organ solo beautiful
well the funny thing is this is really addressed to Vans like his generation
people his age you know right his generation yeah like I'm sure a lot of
people instinctually just write this off as like oh just a cranky old anti guy
being anti technology doesn't like what the kids are doing but no he's actually
probably looking at people his own age and just being like man what are you on
Facebook right come on dude you've been alive for 60 or 70 years and this is
what you're doing all day all the shit we've seen in our lifetimes and you're
frittering the day away getting in fights on Facebook Facebook sucks I
mean I'm fully with Van on this there could be a gentle gestures segment where
we just do man on the street with like a pair of headphones and just grab random
boomers and say have you heard the new Van Morrison song and just film them
listening to it oh check it out it's be like oh whoa okay
what do you think the reaction of a like a van van first concert out of quarantine
they're out there they're so psyched and he plays why are you on face why are you
on Facebook opener yeah pretty tight actually I mean a strong choice and
what's the album called it's called latest record project volume one I mean
maybe Vans like just rediscovering his sense of humor that's like Kanye style
that's it yeah that was just the file on his computer on his like producers
computer then what do you want to call the album I don't know man latest
recording project volume one why are you on Facebook I mean it's like honestly
so it's tight people get mad when artists like don't reconnect with like
the the vibe of their early work people want that look at Vanny's delivering
back to basics dude the funny thing is is that if if the lyrics were a little
harder to pin down or more mysterious or whatever I bet he could this album could
be seen as like might have been received like the last Bob Dylan album just like
a beautiful returning that early simplicity of his best work you know
right and just delivers like some real wisdom over the course of his 70 plus
years and yeah like if he is delivering wisdom I know I know it's just you know
it's not what the people want to hear yeah it's not what the intelligence is
looking for if the lyrics to this had been some kind of like recontextualized
nostalgic version of brown-eyed girl through the lens of like you know the
ups and downs of a long life people would be like absolutely beautiful like
yeah he's just keeping it too real very banal very real yeah I wonder what the
Van Morrison fan communities reaction to this is that beds is like a love-hate
thing yeah but I'm sure some people fuck with it I'm sure some people love it I
love it love anyway if anybody has any I feel like we're missing an element for
gentle gestures right now it exists in kind of like a art project vibe like
very slow and vibey but if anybody has any ideas for some kind vibe pranks that
brighten people's days that could be pulled off by a crew of kind of old
hippies gray ponytails let us know because I'd love to get gentle gestures
off the ground it could be big on tick-tock also if you're an old hippie
you dress like a hippie you look old and you enjoy doing gentle pranks hit us up
because we're casting do you think of Van Morrison worked like an eight-hour
shift at a coffee shop in in Silver Lake or Highland Park you'd get recognized
it's a great question I mean it's so on it's so inconceivable that that Ben
Morrison would be working at a coffee shop so even if someone did recognize
him they'd be like that guy looks like Van Morrison there's no way that's me
what if they hear his Irish accent right Vance talking to his manager and it's
like all right man so this is a new show called gentle gestures it pays scale
basically you got to fly out to LA for three days and basically the premise
that the producer worked up they want you to work for eight hours at a coffee
shop and see if anybody recognizes you they're kind of just curious it's in
this neighborhood Highland Park fans it's like all right I'll do it
you can take all the tea in China
put it in a big brown bag for me
sail right round all the seven oceans
drop it straight into the deep blue sea
she's as sweet as a triple oh honey
she's an angel of the first degree
she's as sweet as a triple oh honey
just like honey babe from the deep blue sea
wait but Jake one last thing about the merch I sent one to the thread that I think is right on the line of
wearable and it's a parody Taco Bell sweatshirt except instead of saying
Taco Bell it says go to hell would you rock that one I would yes would prefer
t-shirt okay I'll find a t-shirt yeah I don't want to do full hoodie that on a
hoodie seems weirder I mean it's more of a commitment yeah taking up more space
in the drawer valuable drawer space you're willing to wear a go-to-hell
t-shirt at the coffee shop in the dog park and I'm willing to wear yeah a
Taco Bell parody go to hell say no more I'm not gonna wear an F you fair enough
that rides the line all right Seinfeld you're gonna get the you t-shirt Jake's
getting the go to hell wait I gotta wear the view yeah to work oh no that's gonna
be I mean that's career suicide I don't think that's gonna fly can wear a
sweater over it sure what about a thin sweater so you can sort of make out a
little bit I like this I think knowing where you work you're on I like this
idea that you're on a zoom it feels totally normal and then just like the
middle of it sort of a group you know like much Monday zoom you're like I got
to use the restroom and they wake up like did his shirt say it's like it's
Seinfeld's version of Jeffrey Toobin oh - well he came he was redeemed he's back
I know Jake you're pro you're pro to been your tube and guy right great I
mean the OJ book was great you know I feel bad for the guy I feel like one I
don't think he was like purposefully trying to like front of his co-workers I
feel like the guy made an honest mistake it's really embarrassing it's messed up
like I can't even imagine how mortifying it would have been like it's messed up
I'm glad that he's getting a second act you know you gotta send him a breaking
news I don't care shirt to be like there's only one way to live in this
world just lean in breaking news don't care
Jeffrey Toobin's first CNN interview he's just wearing a t-shirt this episode's
a little all over the place but you know we're getting our groove back got Jake
back in the fold well Jake I think you told us that a while back a fan reached
out and asked us if we knew about the Jonathan Richmond Grateful Dead
connection do you remember any of this right so yes there's like a rumor that
he played his like first show opening for the Velvets who were opening for the
dead in like Massachusetts exactly in Worcester, Mass. So this was like on a
Grateful Dead forum or some but some kind of forum on the internet seven
years ago somebody said Jonathan Richmond's first live gig was opening
for the Velvet Underground in the Grateful Dead in Worcester, Mass. in 69
or 70 but there doesn't seem to be any pictures nobody recorded the show no
tangible evidence. It's a ghost show it's like the Zeppelin show in Maryland. Right did it
actually happen? There's no cooperation. And then people started like talking
about it and people seem to back up that it could have happened. In 69 or 70? Yes
Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground said that somebody else was
supposed to open and didn't show up and then the Velvets suggested that their
friend and major fan Jonathan Richmond could fill the spot and then Jonathan
played four or five songs in front of a befuddled audience. And how old was he at
that point like 17 or 18? I guess he could have been or a little older or a
little younger I don't know. Hold on. This is a very mythical show. He was born in
51 just okay anyway so he would have been yeah 18 or 19. And I do know that
Jonathan Richmond was a Velvet Underground superfan. I mean obviously.
Obsessed with them his biggest inspiration. I think like yeah maybe he
got he moved to New York to try to meet them like so Jonathan Richmond and the
Velvet Underground make a lot of sense together. The weird one and we might have
talked about this on the show before is that there's like a whole history of
beef between the Velvet Underground and the Dead. Yeah I think we've touched on it.
I think we've touched on it like if you go deep you can find some people talking
about like the whole history that like the Velvet Underground and the Grateful
Dead played multiple shows together in different parts of the country back then.
Which is amazing. I guess it just made sense to people they were both
kind of like experimental bands and the truth is they really are two sides of
the same coin. They both jammed in a sense. Grateful Dead yeah being more you
know led by a guitar solo and the Velvet Underground being more like droney
noisy jams. But they're both into like letting things cook. But over the years
there were a lot of like very mean-spirited quotes from Lou Reed
basically being like the Dead suck. Jerry's not that good at guitar. That's
pretty hilarious. And there's also this kind of East Coast West Coast thing that
the Velvet Underground probably like we're cool we're from New York San
Francisco is like this like funny hippie scene we're not down with it. The Velvet
Underground I mean yeah it's basically like the forerunners of like punk and
indie. Right. Which like the Dead are not that. No. So it's like way different ethos.
The Velvet Underground were like yeah like all the things you associate with
like post-modernism and indie warhol like detached ironic glib. Right. Trying
to like make beautiful music and they did. That's why we remember them right
because of their songs. Some excellent songs. Yeah I mean it's fascinating to
think about that like those two worlds collide like the like Velvet Underground
heads that in Worcester in 69 70. You know who went there for the see the
Velvets really more than the Dead. Right. And then vice versa. Some awkward chatting
backstage. Yeah. I wonder if like Jerry and them even knew that the Velvet
Underground had like hated on them or if he might or if he even had an opinion
about them. You mean at the time or like later in the 80s or 90s? Yeah like later.
Yeah. Maybe that by that point. Oh hey man. Yeah.
She was just five years old. There was nothing happening at all.
Every time she puts on the radio there was nothing going down at all. Not at all.
Then one fine morning she puts on a New York station. You know she don't believe what she heard at all.
She started shaking to that fine fine music. You know her life was saved by rock and roll.
Despite all the imputations you know you could just go out and dance to the rock and roll station.
It was alright. Hey babe you know it was alright.
Wait have I ever told my Lou Reed story on the show? I've heard it but not on the
show. Yeah you got to bust this out. I lived in New York in 2010 and 2011 which
I think we've talked about on the show a little bit. Yeah. And it was not a good
period of my life. Didn't like New York but there was some like funny weird
things in New York. So I became friends through my brother with the
writer Michael Azarad when I was living there. And we would like go Michael
Azarad wrote the Nirvana book "Come As You Are" and he wrote the book about the
American underground in the 80s "Our Band Could Be Your Life". So I knew I read
his book his Nirvana book when I was in high school. And when my brother's band
Dirty Projectors was sort of like gaining some buzz or you know
noteworthiness in New York in like you know whatever that was 2008-2009.
Azarad was a fan and so he introduced himself to my brother and so they became
friendly. So when I moved to New York you know I became friends with Michael
because we just hang out and like drink beers and talk about rock music and we
would go on hikes sometimes in upstate. And he was friends with Laurie Anderson
who was Lou Reed's I don't know wife or life partner or whatever. And so Michael
was turning 50 I guess this must have been 2011 maybe and he had his 50th
birthday party and like Laurie was like yeah well let's I'm gonna host a dinner
for you at my place you know where I live with Lou Reed. And so it was a
pretty it was like maybe like 15 people maybe at this dinner and I go there and
Lou Reed's not there. And I'd asked Michael I was like are you
friends with Lou Reed too? Like is like you're friends with his lady? And he's
like no I've met him a few times but you know we have like you know I go to
movies with Laurie we go for walks in Central Park yada yada. So I go to the
dinner and then like maybe like 45 minutes into the dinner Lou Reed just
kind of like ambles into the apartment. And it's Lou Reed you know and it's
like a lot of like New York like indie rock musicians at this birthday party.
And everyone's just sort of like well all the conversation just kind of like
draws to a hush you know. And everyone's just like oh yeah it's Lou Reed okay cool.
And like he just like kind of plops down at the end of the table. And he basically
just showed up at the party to like eat dinner because Laurie had made like a
big dinner for everyone. Then he starts holding court and he started he's in the
middle of working on his Lou Reed Metallica album at that point. Which I think
might have been his final album. Yeah because he died in 2013 I think and so
this must have been like two years before that. So he's holding court about
like how like what geniuses Metallica are and yada yada. And then he starts
talking about the Kanye record My Dark Twisted Fantasy. Is that what it's called?
My Dark Twisted Fantasy? My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy yeah. I knew I was
forgetting a word. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. He's like oh man that
Kanye record's incredible. I love that record. I want to listen to that right now.
And then I was like oh Lou you know I actually have that on my iPod. iPod? Apple
product. You know it's like in my it's in my pocket. And so he's like okay cool.
So then I walk over with Lou over to the stereo and then he finds
like an eighth inch aux in cord. But it's not hooked up to the RCA cables in
the back you know. And so then it's me and Lou and like there's an entire table
like a party of like 12 other 13 other people who for some reason like this has
like stopped all conversation in the party. And they're all like kind of like
looking at us and we're both like kind of like leaning over the back into the
stereo trying to find the RCA input for this aux cord to hook up so I can play
the Kanye song he wants to hear. And we're both showing just full-on like
plumber's crack. Just like a good like three quarters to an inch just top of
ass crack of Jake Longstreet and Lou Reed. Tell me somebody got a picture. No this is
ephemeral. Damn. This is just this is just for the history book. Maybe somebody's
got a story you've ever told. And then like the dinner was over and then like
Lou very abruptly is like "Lloyd we're going to that movie right?" And she's like
"Yeah." And they're going to some movie and Laurie was just like "Okay guys well
just lock up when you leave." And so they left and then it was like me and Michael
and like six other people and we were feeling the spirit of the night and we
just listened to Master of Puppets at full volume for like 40 minutes. And then
there was this whole fantasy of like Laurie comes back at like 1 in the
morning with Lou and like we're still there like listening to Metallica.
But that's my Lou Reed story. Any small talk? Did he look through your iPod? Not
really. He was very focused on the Kanye. The other thing is like I was I'm
not like a huge Lou Reed guy. Especially in 2011 I really was not. Like I've
grown to appreciate his work a lot more since but I really there were definitely
people who were. Including the Velvet Underground. You just were not. I mean I always liked the
Velvet. It's just not a Velvet or Lou Reed was never a band that like hit
hard. So you were just like sitting there with him just like "Hey Lou you know I
read that you did shows with the Grateful Dead before. That's awesome. I'm
a huge fan of them." Yeah Lou it's so funny that you guys were both called the
Warlocks. I mean what are the odds? I mean also you know there's an early version
of ZZ Top called the Warlocks. Why were there so many bands called the Warlocks?
Is that like a male witch? Yeah. Yeah I mean there were definitely people at that
party who were like completely quaking in their boots because they were in the
same room as Lou Reed. I just was not you know if it was a Robert Pollard or
Jerry Garcia I might have been quaking in my boots. But you know I was sort of
just like yeah I know who Lou Reed is but I'm not like you know. So I wasn't
like losing my mind. I could tell some people were. That'd be a tight story to
tell it up around a campfire. It's the exact same story except instead of Lou
it's 2011 Michael Azarad's birthday except instead of Lou Reed walking in
Jerry Garcia walked in. Just zombie. You're like what? He sat down and he started
talking about how much he loved the new Kanye album and I said Jerry I got that
on my iPod. The two of us rolled over to the speakers full plumber crack
hanging out. I finally got it on. He left to go to a movie never saw the guy again.
Weird. Only problem is Jerry you've been dead for 16 years. Why are you here? And
then he vanished. If I can make a TC call for submissions to our email
8minutecapecod that's the numeral 8 at gmail.com. I'd love to see some fan art
in tribute to the butt crack aux cord moment. No I think that could be a really
good picture. That'd be a great t-shirt. Yeah. Yeah. Did you figure out the
aux cord together? Sorry I just or did he I mean did you team up? I mean who
figured it out? I took charge on that. I'm not the most technologically adept person
but I took charge on that situation. Double plumber crack.
up to the sky things like that drive me out of my mind I watched it for a little
while I like to watch things on TV
satellite of love satellite of love satellite of love satellite of love
at some point well I guess we should go deep on Jonathan Richman but just real
quick Jake are you a Jonathan Richman fan? Yeah I am and I again I haven't gone
deep I mean I love like I know the big songs I don't know like deep modern
lovers cuts or you know but you know that summer feeling and stuff love it
that is a deep song cuz that's not on the first is it I mean I feel like that
his the first modern lovers album just kind of like dwarfs everything else that
has like Roadrunner yeah Pablo Picasso there's some amazing clips of him like
playing like on TV shows in the 70s oh yeah he's a great performer which and
a great songwriter you know it's crazy too like he like I remember like a few
years ago he played at the bootleg theater which actually just I just heard
just closed because of COVID which is a bummer but that was like you know like a
maybe 300 cap like all ages club that like Richard Pictures might have played
at he would play like weird small venues like he seems like the type of dude who
though could like randomly be like really big in like France Portugal oh
yeah beloved figure Jonathan Richman are you a big fan I mean it seems like you
would be a big fan yeah I love that first album and and growing up my friend
Andre who put me on to a lot of music we both had this phase around the same time
we're both like hyper interested in punk but particularly like early punk and
like New York punk in the history of it so Jonathan Richman is this kind of like
adjacent figure to that because the modern lovers first record came out pre
punk and you know Jerry Harrison who became a member of the talking heads was
in the band so they're like all these like cool connections and I think the
Sex Pistols covered Roadrunner and and so I really got into that album and and
that album is just so um just truly nothing like it you know Roadrunner is
cool it's like it's his rock and roll song but I always like these other songs
like the weird sad ones like there's this ballad called the hospital that
just goes like when you get out of the hospital please let me back into your
life actually like the tone of that I feel like is so like 90s indie like it
really presaged a lot of things that was a great impression by the way oh thank
you I listen I've listened to it many times in my life he's just like a very
idiosyncratic dude and and I always liked um he had like this this weird
kind of like conservatism you know because like a lot of his songs were
about like missing the old days and like not being into the hippies. That summer feeling.
and yeah because you know he has that song I'm straight that's about how he
doesn't do drugs basically he's telling a girl like I'm straight like I don't
which people I guess used to say to me not that you're you're heterosexual but
that you don't partake. Straight edge. Straight edge. Right. And it was basically
about how like he wanted to take the place of like the the stoner dude this
girl's dating like I'm straight and I want to take his place and there's a
part he goes I'm certainly not stoned like hippie Johnny and you get the
impression that he like really felt that like he really was like an earnest dude
who probably just like saw some like hippie Johnny dude and just like man I
can't believe this stoner dude getting this girl that I like man I'm straight
and I want to take his place so he had that kind of like not down with the
hippies and he had this song called the old world where he's just basically
talking about he still likes his parents and I still like the old world you know
well I mean his music is like old I mean it's very grooted in like old-fashioned
rock and roll like Buddy Holly or something right yeah he probably was not
down you know what I mean he wasn't down with a 25-minute Dark Star he wasn't
down with Zeppelin it means it seems like he was into like Buddy Holly and
like the Everly Brothers. Simple old rock and roll. Yeah the thing is he was into
that stuff but it wasn't just like a throwback there was like a contemporary
edge to him. There's a social conservative edge to it we need to
return to the era of Buddy Holly. Yeah he'd be a good guest. Have you seen him play before?
I've never seen him live before. No but I've also gone down like YouTube rabbit
holes where he's playing like his song about the lesbian bar on like Conan O'Brien
in 1992 and you're just like damn he's a great performer. Yeah he really is. Man we
should go if he comes through and plays a club in LA TC Field Trip. Oh I
definitely would. Because I remember like a few years ago I was like I missed it
and I was like whoa wait Jonathan I think I was like at the bootleg for
something for a friend's band's show and I was like looking at the calendar and
I was like wait Jonathan Richman was here like two weeks ago like what the
hell? Damn no and I'm sure yeah he seems like he'd be a great person to go see I
bet he's probably like talking and telling stories and being funny and
charming. I mean maybe he we should try to get him on the show and see if he
actually played that show. Oh that's a good idea. All right Jonathan Richman
you're invited on TC. We should get Jeff Kruelick on. Who's that? The guy that did
heavy metal parking lot but he also did the movie about the Zeppelin show. Oh yeah
that's cool. I told you I interviewed him years ago. Oh yeah yeah. I think he'd be an
interesting guest. Yeah that's cool. He's done like I don't know I have it somewhere in
like my collection of like old DVDs I think you can probably find him online
because he he had an idea I don't know if it was like an idea for it but he
basically had a series right so he did heavy metal parking lot then he did Neil
Diamond parking lot which is definitely worth watching but then he also did
Harry Potter parking lot which is people waiting out like early on like capturing
like the Harry Potter craze. At like a bookstore? At bookstores. And he's wait out front for all of the
like Harry Potter heads. That's sick. And it does seem like if now you're like oh
that's an easy Netflix show right this is like easy you could just do this
forever of just like you know parking lots. Yeah parking lots like deep heads and
yeah he and he is I mean it's been so long but he is like he was such a nice
guy. I mean I just I watched the first ten minutes of heavy metal parking lot a
few weeks ago it's so fascinating is it's like everyone's talking they sound
like they're from the 60s still because it's like relatively close to the 60s
closer to the 60s than now. Yeah I think it's like 83 or something and it's a
it's a Judas Priest show in like 83. And everyone's like yeah man we're yeah
dude like we're here to like rock man and like. They still like earnestly
believed in the power of rock and roll? Oh my god yeah and like just like the
intonation and their voice was like it reminded me of like footage from like
Altamont or something which was only like you know 14 years before. Now that's
hilarious to think that heavy metal parking lot is 14 years past the 60s
that'd be like yeah us comparing now to 2007. Just like one day somebody's like
listening to like somebody's listening to a time crisis episode from 2021 be like
it's funny man they still seem like they sound like the same as people from 2007.
I called this number three times already today but I I got scared I put it back
in place I put my phone back in place I still don't know if I should have called
up look just tell me why don't you if I'm out of place cuz here's your chance
to make me feel awkward and wish that I had never even called up this place I
saw you go today walk by with hippie Johnny I had a call up and say how I
wanna take his place so this phone call today concerns hippie Johnny he's always
stoned he's never straight I saw you today you don't walk by with hippie
Johnny look I had a call up say I wanna take his place see he's stoned hippie
Johnny now get this I'm straight and I want to take his place now look I like
him too I like hippie Johnny but I'm straight and I want to take his I said
I'm straight all right we've covered a lot of ground today but our top five
today is built around the fact that the first modern lovers album came out in 76
I believe it was recorded earlier but yeah it came out in 76. Yeah it took them a while to
put that record out cuz I mean he's been playing shows for six or seven years. I feel like it recorded
two or three years earlier but so we're gonna compare the top five hits of 76
to today but we're gonna do a speed run
for the top five on iTunes. The top five song in 76 Captain and Tennille shop around
what's this like a cover this is like a 60s song like a Motown cover yeah like
you better shop around right yeah
now from what I understand in the 70s Captain and Tennille were like the
epitome of like uncool I've never even heard of them they're like a big Vegas
act and they're like a duo and the captain wore like a captain hat and yeah
I feel like they were like a real staple for like Liberace time and then into the
80s like of and maybe you know into the 90s like as far as I know I once went
had a for another time this ended up in Vegas with a bunch of old people and
they were all very excited to see captain like night yeah big it very
excited and that would have been 98 so I think yeah and I think one of them died
like sometime in mid 2000s I mean I will say this this is very uncool like the
delivery yeah it sounds like all right moving on no we'll give them another
shot in the future hey I just want to pitch real quick next t-shirt Jake where
it just says your music sounds like I listen to your album it sounds like
your album sucks what about just you suck at guitar and it's like roll into
the music store or honestly the same thing in Highland Park rolling into the
coffee shop it's what it will hit the same with us as the script t-shirt coach
no but in Highland Park people will be like yeah I don't care about guitar my
DJ whatever right your DJ sucks
maybe it's a t-shirt this is aux cord DJ oh that well that definitely exists
yeah yeah breaking news beers a grocery item that's pretty kind the number five
song right now is new from Doja Cat in the weekend you right
Doja Cat's just killing it we've been seeing a lot of her in the top five
lately so she linked up with the weekend hold on I got I mean this already sounds
like a t-shirt but it's just the t-shirt is a graphic of a like a grocery list
you know it yeah it says like grocery list and it just one item on it and it's
beer beer that's it that's it it's a grocery item
and on the back it says beer it's a grocery breaking news ass you brutal
I can't help it I want you I'm looking at the notes here Doja Cat said that the
weekend became obsessed with this song oh that goes back to my obsessed theory
one of the most overused words of 2021 sounds pretty good did you guys see that
the weekend is going to write star and produce in an HBO series oh yeah yeah
what's it about really from you for you oh wow
very on brand the idol it's called where he plays a pop star yeah the series
follows a pop singer female pop singer who starts a romance with an enigmatic
LA club owner who's the leader of a secret cult is that the weekend yeah I
have to assume the weekend is the club owner but maybe not but you said he's
starring in it it's his vehicle he's writing it with Sam Levinson who created
you for you and I yeah there's like a criminal element to it uh-huh cool I'll
watch that the weekend's got a new miniseries for HBO it's all about this
legendary Jonathan Richmond velvet underground Grateful Dead show I mean how
much more interesting would that be it's about the the weeks leading up to it
he's executive producing a new documentary about the first podcast it's
called us blues all right solid solid nude doja cat weekend song the number
four song in 76 oh this is a great song hauling out Sarah smile
yes you ever watch that short like early YouTube video the yacht rock so the
outrock series of course they popularize the phrase yacht rock yeah a hundred
percent did created by a great writer JD Rizner who did a great episode about
Sarah smile oh it's like the backstory of the song Sarah's back the back yeah
there's one episode that's a backstory of Sarah smile which I definitely
recommend this group watch
when I feel cold yeah won't be and when I feel free free out rock it's a little
too like yeah this is actual this is like a vibe the R&B song yeah it's a
little too good for yacht or if they recorded this in like 81 it would have
been yacht rock but I mean some people would call this yacht rock but you know
some yacht rock is very tasteful no I like some yacht rock I just I wouldn't
I'm splitting hairs here I think it's like about the scene no I get that I
mean there are some Hall & Oates songs I would more easily categorizes yacht rock
but this is just like just a little too early a little too pure that's just me
I'm just splitting hairs for the unacquainted what are the characteristics
of yacht rock as you see them people haven't seen the YouTube series I think
when people joke about yacht rock they mean kind of like cheesy slick breezy
yeah white people music that's like vibe although yeah the look the thing a
little overproduced yeah but then the truth is like at the end of the day a
lot of yacht rock really is just like excellent music beloved by people of all
races like to me the epitome of yacht rock would be like Christopher Cross
sailing yeah which is actually a beautiful well-produced song I like the
song there is like a sad like Eileen's car kind of like hollowness it's a very
yeah it's sad which I don't feel here yeah
the number four song this week in 2021 is Drake wants and needs featuring
little baby that's a good title wants and needs
beginning kind of many like Peter Gabriel or something yeah
leave me out of comments leave me out of nonsense speaking out of context people
need some content trying to keep up it's not a contest whipping bands concept
heaven sent God sent Lisa's what my mom says proof is in the progress money's
not a object busy denim you know how my job get barking up the wrong tree you
know how the dogs get having falling off yeah come with a classic they come around
years later and say it's a sleeper the ears are rare the petty Israel my
trust my ex for a feature deposit the money to Brenda Latisha
Linda Felicia she came to me twice I didn't even know for once you know I'm
a pleaser 42 millimeter was made in Geneva yeah I probably should go to
yeshiva is Drake a recent dad he's got like a four-year-old I think okay
famously he had a beef with the rapper push a tee who revealed that that he had
a child on record and it sort of won the battle so Drake had a kid that he didn't
reveal to the public until push a tee in the midst of a very heated sort of back
and forth revealed it you think history will recognize push a tee is the winner
of that battle that's pretty weak I mean you don't bring people's kids and stuff
that yeah well I you know you know the funny thing is about it is like he
didn't even I think in a way the fact that Drake had a kid people didn't know
about yeah like what is that doesn't reflect poorly on Drake and he came back
with like a famous line later on he said I wasn't hiding my child from the world
I was hiding the world from my child all right fair enough but the thing yeah
it's like the idea that somebody really famous like Drake would want to like
spare his child some of like the the nonsense of crazy people and paparazzi
and all that is pretty reasonable I think people gave it up for push a tee
just almost as like an award for excellence in research like he didn't
uncover he didn't uncover like something like Oh Drake I found out that you're
actually like a huge loser or a coward he really was just like my research team
is excellent and people are like yeah research it was investigative it original
research and actually just to add to that if you remember the the album single or
the single cover was also research-based it was it was a photo of Drake in
blackface that had not been seen oh yeah before so there were like layers of like
investigative reporting right true excellence in research just it almost be
like if he if he just like in the middle of the freestyle is just like and Drake's
Hulu password is and just like said it and again it's like Drake you know
that'd be a minor inconvenience Drake would probably change it immediately but
it would just get people talking just like push it he has an excellent
research team how did they figure that out he hired some very steadfast PIs
yep in order he lists all the books on Drake's nightstand from top to bottom
and Drake's just like wait that's just weird were you and were you in my house
no this is like a Chappelle's show sketch or something like right on the
record he's like rapping about what Drake is currently doing yeah he's like
listening to it like looking around he's just sending Drake hours of VHS footage
of the front the front of his house Drake's like come on man we're supposed
to be just like hurting each other's feelings this is just creepy yeah I
don't want to live in some Michael Hanica movie. What was that movie called Caché?
yeah dudes getting videotapes of his front of his house just like damn that
would be some next-level sh*t is like you're in you're in like a rap battle
with somebody and you just drop a song called Caché it's just like a song
that's mostly instrumental and the whole video that you drop is like from like
that day just like foot footage inside their house and just everyone's so every
like once in a while you just go Caché
Caché and just like it's like a slow zoom into their house like this is against the
rules this is just weird please stop filming me. The new single Caché from Stalker
the new single Caché from Stalker. All right well we'll probably hear this song
again go deeper I caught that Drake said he's gonna go to Yeshiva that's
interesting you know what a Yeshiva is Jake? What's that? No. It's like a Jewish school I think it's
where you'd go study Torah. Okay. Good luck at Yeshiva Drake. The number three song
this week in 1976 Dorothy Moore Misty Blue
I've never heard of Dorothy Moore. I think it's a nice title. Yeah. Yeah I don't think I know the song.
That sounds very old-school. Yeah I mean even in 1976 this must have felt a
little throwback right? Yeah I mean it sounds very 60s. Oh the song was written
in 66. There you go. Oh yeah you're right okay I'm seeing the notes here. She
received a phone call from producer Tom Couch. It's a cool name. She went to the
studio recorded the whole song in one take.
That one take note reminds me of did you guys watch the T-Pain episode of that
Netflix show about autotune or about pop music? No. It's pretty fascinating
friend of the show friend of Nick T-Pain talks about the depression that he felt
after Usher told him that he ruined music and he became sort of a laughing
stock of the music industry for a bit and then his comeback was pretty good.
Wait why did Usher say that? Well the the popularity of autotune and sort of
dominated pop music and kind of messed things up and and there's a T-Pain tells
a story about Usher sort of confronting him on a plane and saying like hey man
you kind of you kind of messed up music by making autotune you know the
ubiquitous force that it became and that sent T-Pain like sort of spiraling. Oh
man because it's not like T-Pain was like okay I'll use this to really a
really extreme effect and then I will change music forever. No. He was sort of
like I'll do this it sounds crazy. I wasn't going for you yeah ubiquity Usher.
You gotta believe me Usher I wasn't going for ubiquity. I'm just one man. I
don't have your vocal skills Usher. But he is an excellent singer. No Usher I mean
come on Usher doesn't need I mean you know what I'm saying. Yeah perhaps he's
no Usher. Usher's a natural virtuoso yeah. But the way he talks about it too I mean he
was getting like there was like a pile-on with the Jay-Z stuff with
everything you know like the Jay-Z, D.O.A. you know death of autotune and
everything but the way he tells the story is that he was like Usher asked to
see me and we're on a plane and obviously T-Pain's very popular but he's
also very young and when I met him he was like really young and Usher in Atlanta is
like this force you know he's so famous. He's been famous since the 90s. He's been
famous for yeah since everyone was a kid so certainly T-Pain grew up with him. He's
like Usher wants to see you and he was like whoa Usher wants to see me this is
amazing so he so even though he was like riding high he's like oh my god this guy
wants to see me what does he want to say maybe even like just be like oh my god
another like fellow in the music industry is you know on the plane he's
like you f***ed up music and I don't like you for it and he was like what?
Oh he was actually but Usher seems like such a nice guy. He does seem like a
kind vibe guy but I think... Was he smiling when he said it? No not it sounds or if
he was like... He was frowning? I think he was grimacing? Certainly it sounds like he was
grimacing or it sounds like he was stern when he said it basically like you did
this thing that makes all the way I read it or heard it and and I mean I
experienced I was there through part of this but you know Seinfeld tell me how
it sounded to you is basically he was like you've ruined music in that you've
let all these other people think they can do this and there's like no you
basically lowered the bar for artists which as you just pointed out Ezra and
as the Masked Singer has shown like he can actually sing like it was just
something he was doing because it sounds cool. I guess that wasn't Usher's
point maybe he was saying you and I we're both real singers what you've done
you've betrayed our sacred brotherhood now all sorts of idiots who can't sing
are gonna be doing this sh*t. Well I'm sorry to hear that about Friend of the
Show T-Pain he seems like a great guy he shouldn't let stuff like that get him
or feel bad about it Nick if you have his mailing address I'd love to send
him a breaking news I don't care shirt.
Definitely will and that should a hundred percent be the sort of Christmas
gift of TC right? Oh definitely. We've sent everyone a breaking news wait I do
have a question. People are gonna think we don't give a sh*t. Yeah well now that now does become an iconic Jake
shirt I don't think Jake you have self-esteem problems but you know you're
a cool guy you believe in yourself you speak your mind you don't give a sh*t
and now that this shirts associated with you I think we could give it to people
who maybe need a little like pep talk when they look in the mirror at the
coffee shop people who give too much of a sh*t they need this shirt now. Hey Usher
breaking news. Imagine if T-Pain had just said to him breaking news Usher I don't
give a sh*t he would have walked away and gone made went made ten bangers but
instead he got. Well I wonder what year that was was that before the Kanye 808's
record must have been. No it was after. It was after. Yeah that was the one that was
like they really were just like wow okay people are just going in. Yeah that was
definitely like an inflection point in the auto-tune but I yeah it just
that was Kanye being kind of a contrarian by saying all these other like
rappers think this sh*t sucks I want to like understand it myself. I'm gonna
triple down on it. Guys I just had a thought that almost made me feel like
almost emotional should it our version of the TC Christmas shirt shouldn't it
be breaking news I give a sh*t. Like I actually like. Like Faith L'Amour I care a lot.
I care a lot like I know Jake's walking around going into places being like yeah
I don't give a sh*t but you know what guys breaking news I care. It's two sides of
the same coin it depends what you care about. Deep. We should really kill it at
Christmas if we do like a seven shirt set that's for every emotion you might
possibly have you give it to a t-shirt lover in your life it ranges from
breaking news f*ck you to breaking news I could really use a friend. Breaking news for
every day of the week. I'm heartbroken. Valentine's Day breaking news I love you.
Oh that's sweet. Breaking news I love you is very idiocracy. Welcome to Costco I
love you. What was that movie with um. Breaking news welcome to Costco. Do you guys remember an obscure like romantic
comedy I feel like it was Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Oh cool. There's a Celine Dion
song on the soundtrack. Okay. Wait is it Random Hearts? Oh that sounds kind of like it.
My dad worked on Random Hearts. That's really? Yeah we have like a Random Hearts
jean jacket somewhere. What? No. So tight. Dude rock that man. I gotta go yeah I
gotta ask my parents if they still have it. They like meet on a plane or like
they're like. Yes and then the plane goes down or something. No no like like their
their spouses die on a plane. Yeah that's Random Hearts. And then they meet
because like all of the survivors or like the relatives of the dead are
meeting and yeah. That's right yeah my dad was a set dresser on Random Hearts.
That's cool. Okay the number three song right now is Doja Cat featuring SZA
Kiss Me More. I'm making executive decisions. Alright this is. We've heard this enough. This is the
Olivia Newton-John thing. Yeah. Okay let's move on. Okay the number 276 song. Now this
is a good song. I'm pretty sure you like this song Jake. Starland Vocal Band
Afternoon Delight.
Starland Vocal Band members songwriter Bill Danoff said I didn't want to write
an all-out sex song I just wanted to write something that was fun and hinted
at sex.
Starland Vocal Band members songwriter Bill Danoff said I didn't want to write an all-out sex song I just wanted to write something that was fun and hinted at sex.
Starland Vocal Band members songwriter Bill Danoff said I didn't want to write an all-out sex song I just wanted to write something that was fun and hinted at sex.
Starland Vocal Band members songwriter Bill Danoff said I didn't want to write an all-out sex song I just wanted to write something that was fun and hinted at sex.
He wrote this song over six months often on Sundays while he was watching the Washington Redskins now known as the Washington football team games.
He added all that energy coming out of the tube gets my creative juices flowing.
Oh my god. Some dude watching NFL.
Just slowly writing the lyrics afternoon to like just chipping away.
Also, this is a good song.
They need to come up with a different name than Washington football team.
They need to come up with a different name than Washington football team.
I think it's temporary.
It's pending.
Yeah.
I know we're not talking about this anymore but the film was called Up Close and Personal.
It came out in 1996.
Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer.
It was in the newsroom.
There you go.
Romance. Yeah, I was mixing them up with Harrison Ford.
Does the phrase afternoon delight come from this song?
Or is that a thing people already refer to as having sex in the afternoon?
It's afternoon delight.
It's a great question.
It's afternoon delight.
It looks like the song preceded the idiom.
According to dictionary.com, because of the song's popularity,
afternoon delight became a well-recognized term for a midday sexual encounter.
Midday sexual encounter.
That was the original title for the song.
Midday sexual encounter.
But he didn't want to write an all-out sex song.
So, he's like...
Encounter.
So together make the sparks ignite
And the thought of loving you is getting so exciting
But the song I'm thinking about, the 70s song that you actually like is
Dancing in the Moonlight
Which weirdly these songs, they remind- I mean maybe just because they rhyme with each other
Dancing in the moonlight
Afternoon delight
They kind of go together
We get it on most-
Wait, I think the lyric of that is
We get it on most every night
We don't fuss and we don't fight
Everybody was feeling a woman right
Matt at the end, we should go out on Dancing in the Moonlight
By King Harvest
Which is also a great name
A great title
A great band name
The number two song for this week, 2021
Tyler the Creator with What's Ya Name
Oh I heard he's got a new album
Beautiful album
Oh yeah, people have been saying it's good, I want to listen to it
Oh it's fantastic
I'll pick up my-
I'll try to do a split
Call me when you get lost
Aw, you look malnourished
Let's get some bread, fried an egg, yo
You're trying to deserve
I pick a tail number and we could be tourists
Let's go to Cannes and watch a couple indie movies that you never heard of
Watch a couple indie movies
Like Richard Linklater?
I think he's saying let's go to Cannes
He's like let's just catch whatever they're showing at Cannes
Oh that's tight
Some Romanian films
I think that's on your chest baby get it off
You are my type, you are bright like
I'm like a moth, this is not a game
Don't be fooled, we start
Full throwback
Good vibe 90s
Yeah
This is very kind
What's ya name
What's ya name girlfriend
What's ya name
What is your name, what do you bring
I think that I got what you need and I'm willing to do anything that you please
I'll take it down to the root of the alp or the deepest I could in them jeans
My clan like sonic I ain't speed no
No you can't eat my lean no
Baby tell me where them beats go
Cause I'm lost
Your body compared to the fashion I hope you ain't tired of the shit that I bought
Cause money ain't don't mean a thing
I value the time that I take you out
One minute it's a beautiful scene
That young boy never broke again?
It is
That's one of the best names of the modern era
Young boy never broke again
What's ya name girlfriend
What's ya name
What's ya name girlfriend
What's ya name
What's ya name girlfriend
What's ya name
Yo
That's one to know
Hey this is so 90s
I'm like a hater
This could be a good album for you to throw on at the studio
Curious what you'd think
Listen to it front to back
I'll listen to it too
The number one song
This week in 76
This was a very 70s
A kind of like AM radio 70s list
You know
Just kind of light
Yeah
Little corny
Pretty thin
The number one song
This is a song I've heard a lot of people hate on over the years
Although interestingly it was written in response to hate
It's Paul McCartney
Or I guess Wings
McCartney
Wrote the song in response to John Lennon
And music critics accusing him of
Predominantly writing silly love songs
So he said you know what
News flash
Suck my d**k
Breaking news
I don't care
Breaking news I don't care
Here's some f**king silly love songs for your ass
You'd think that people would've had
Enough of silly love songs
You'd think people would've had enough
Right
When I look around me and I see
It isn't so
The bass is going off
Yeah I see it isn't so
Some people wanna build a world
With silly love songs
I mean this song does suck
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go
Again
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go
Again
I'd love
I'd love
It's hard to describe but it's like
It is kind of like a witty song
You know the fact that he goes opens up like
You'd think people would've done with silly love songs
And by the way what's wrong with that
'Cause here I motherf***** go again
I love you
Like it is a pretty good flow
Even though it's not
That far from his coolest song
Great wings this ain't it
What is the best wings
Wangs
I mean I would say like Jet
They have this like fun funky song
From the late 70's called Coming Up
Uh huh
The whole Ram album
Hmm
Let Me Roll
That's on rules
And then there's some stuff just under his name I get a little confused what's what
But Uncle Albert
Yeah Uncle Albert's sick
Is that not wings is that just
That might just be Paul Sella
The Ram album
Wait dude Matt throw on Let Me Roll for a sec
The guitar riff on that is so sick
I know this is a classic
Top 5 deviation but whatever
The guitar riff that drops in is almost like some like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Soundgarden s**t over some like
50's rock
The guitar riff on that is almost like
Oh yeah, could open with like some
Big Beatles song
Let me know that
Let me know
Let me know that
Alright we got one more song
Yep, Jake's favorite
This is the number one song
On Apple Music right now 2021
Olivia Rodrigo with
Good For You
I can't remember which one this is
Good For You
I guess you moved on really easily
You found a new girl and it only took a couple weeks
Remember when you said that you
Wanted to give me the world
Courtney Love recently called out Rodrigo for her
Sour promo concert film
Promo. Love claimed on
Instagram that it's reminiscent
Of Hole's 1994
Live Through This Album cover
Rodrigo posted in the comments
Love you and live through this so much
I mean yeah
She referenced it. Breaking news
I don't care
I mean it's like
A prom queen with her makeup running
It's not like Hole invented that
Motif
And that probably was the reference but it's also like
Once you get past like 20 years
On something
It really becomes like part of like
The fabric of
Space time. Somebody's just like
Like it'd be one thing if like you did
Something in a year or two later somebody
Did it and you're just like come on
But like once you're
We're talking 20, 27
Years later you're like
Yes this is a reference to some old
Sh*t. And it could have been like yeah
And I also was really into
The film Carrie
And I was really into the show Euphoria
Right
Is this the top 5 of Rodrigo for you Jake? This song?
I haven't revisited the record since we discussed it a few weeks ago but yeah
I'm down
Her next album could be called
Breaking News I Don't Care
Cause this album is like very hung up
On like the
The eggs and the relationship
And like album 2 Breaking News I Don't Care
That'd be a pretty 90s move
It's like
The young pop star and the album cover
Is just Jake wearing the t-shirt
At the cafe
Everyone's like who's that dude?
She's found this picture of this dude wearing this shirt
And put it on the album cover
It's like the Contra cover
Oh yeah
You guys just found a random photo of someone
[Laughter]
You know what would also be a good cover?
Is the ebay
Like shirt sale
That would be tight
Like a screen cap
Like yeah
1999 for the
Breaking News I Don't Care shirt
Breaking News
It could also be a good chorus
For a song
For like a pop punk song
Breaking News
I don't care
I don't care at all
Breaking News
I don't care
That sounds like a song
I really don't care anymore
[Mimics song]
Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack
Breaking News
[Laughter]
Breaking News I don't care
I really
Don't give a sh*t
[Laughter]
It's also so funny
Because I kind of think that like
Breaking News is like kind of a
Gen X
It's a dead idea
Like it's basically trending topic
It's like trending topic
I don't care
Trending topic I don't care
Breaking News
What's breaking news?
It's always trending topic
Why do you care what's trending?
Alright
Wait Van does say that
He does say something about trending
Alright good to see everybody
Another great show
We're going out on King Harvest
With Dancing in the Moonlight
We get it almost every night
Enjoy
And when that moon gets big
And bright
It's supernatural delight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
Was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody
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