Episode 170: Horsin' Around
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Time Crisis back again
This week it's a horse of a different color as we discuss
controversial cuisine
listen to Connecticut based
progressive jazz fusion
And countdown the top hits of 2006
ready
steady go
This is Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig
Let's begin
They passed me by
All of those great romances
The war I felt
Robbing me
Of my rightful chances
My picture clear
Everything seemed so easy
And so I dealt to the blow
When a bus had to go
It's different I want you to know
One of us is crying
One of us is lying
Leave me lonely babe
Time Crisis back again
Horse meat special
[horse neighing]
We need to add a lot of horse effects for this episode
I want a lot of
Nays, Giddys
Winnies
What are other horse sounds?
SignFolk can I get a number crunch?
What are the top five horse words?
Clumping sounds like the hoof
Oh yeah the hoofs
Maybe snorting
Snorting? Oh yeah yeah
I like playing horse effects
If I think someone's horsing around
You know
Suddenly somebody here is like
[horse neighing]
It's a good way to insert some fun into a conversation
If you have to have a slightly difficult
Talk with a colleague
A child
Even just a friend
That's like "Hey enough horsing around"
By using the sound effect it kind of puts a smile
On everybody's face
So anyway
I hope nobody has a horse sound phobia
Because this is a horse meat special
And we'll be
Playing a lot of
Horse sounds but we're not going to get
Right into the horse meat stuff
I'd also recognize that I don't think we've ever
Talked about the fact that we're going to do a horse meat special
But this has been something that I've always been
Very interested in
I don't think I've ever had horse meat
But I've been curious about it
Because I know people eat it
All around the world and I know it's
Controversial but
I think it's something we've got to get into
So we're going to talk a lot about horse meat
On this episode
But before that
How you doing Jake?
Well
You're eating horse meat?
Yeah
Sorry I'm just catching my breath over here
We were having some technical difficulties
So I took the opportunity to eat part of my sandwich
Drink some brew
The technical difficulties
Resolved quicker than I thought
So you asked me how I was doing
I'm mid-bite
You're eating a dinner sandwich?
Yep
What kind of sandwich?
Steak, leftover steak
Cut up the steak and then what?
Two slices of bread, a little mayo
Very minimal
I just finished work like 5 minutes ago
And I was like
It's like 5.53
I need to clean up here a little bit
And eat something
The show starts in 7 minutes
So you didn't have time to think about flavor profiles
I gotta get
It's show time
When you said steak, do you mean horse steak?
No it's beef steak
When I asked you if you'd eaten horse meat
You said yes
I almost thought you were implying like duh I'm eating it right now
Oh yeah like the
Widely available horse meat
Steaks that you can just go to Vons and buy
It's a specialty item
Well anyway we'll get into that
But just to paint a picture
For the listeners at home
Jake is eating a beefsteak
Sandwich
Where you guys grew up
Is that a phenomenon of a beefsteak dinner?
Are you guys aware of
Beefsteak dinners as a thing?
What is beefsteak?
As opposed to steak?
This is a great question
I was thinking about it
I think because people used to eat more
Different types of meat
You would have to clarify what type of steak you're talking about
And I think you could have a horse steak
Beefsteak
Who knows what else
So maybe that's why the phrase beefsteak
Is so old fashioned because in the modern world
The only steak people are eating is beefsteak
So it became redundant
But there was a thing in the town
I grew up in
It was kind of analogous to a pancake breakfast
You know this phenomenon
Sometimes like at a church
Or a fire station
Or a school
They'll do a pancake breakfast
On like a Sunday morning
Where people, the whole town rolls through
In some community center
And then they serve pancakes
And it's a fundraising phenomenon
You guys aware of this?
That's a classic thing
Jake knows about it, Seinfeld, you got it up north
In Canada?
Oh yeah, we had that too for sure
So I think this is analogous
Where it's kind of like a community oriented type thing
That's built around
An easy to serve food
So it's like a dinner time version of a pancake breakfast
It's a beefsteak dinner
In my town
It's a wrestling team
This is like a funny association
With beefsteaks and wrestling
So it's like
Beefsteaks eating beefsteak
Exactly
And the whole town would come watch the beefsteaks eating the beefsteaks
And
I think I went once or twice
And you go
And all the wrestlers would be wearing
A shirt and tie
Eating beefsteak
Piled very high on bread
And I remember all it was
Was these little pieces of steak on bread
So there would be a lot of talk about
How much bread do you consume
Do you discard the bread and just eat the steak
Or whatever
And I think it's an all you can eat type thing
I remember there would always be like a couple priests there
It's the type of thing that
A priest would go to
Maybe the mayor comes through
People who want to support the team
And anyway, that's what a beefsteak dinner is
And I feel like there's a few
There's a famous one
Is it a political thing? A beefsteak dinner?
Well, there is a
Tradition of it
There's one in LA
That Eric Wareheim
Partner of
Tim Heidecker, friend of the show
Tim and Eric
He hosts a beefsteak
Where you dress up very nice
I think it's like an old New Jersey
Thing actually
Or Chicago thing where everyone would get together
It's very fancy
It's all you can eat beef and you eat it with your hands
It's a big part of it
I think Eric Wareheim
Because Tim and Eric are both from the greater Philly area
Which is right next to New Jersey
So maybe it is kind of a tradition
So Eric Wareheim
He invites a lot of, I imagine, Hollywood people
And comedians
And dress up
Which wrestling team is he raising money for?
The LA Food Bank wrestlers
No, just the LA Food Bank
It's originated among the working class
Of New York in the mid-1800s
As celebratory meals or testimonials
The meal would generally be set up
By an organization wishing to law
To raise money for politicians, newly promoted
Friends or celebrities
Tammany Hall, that was the famous one
Regularly threw beefsteak dinners
Yeah, this has some big Tammany Hall
Energy
It's a little bit like some Gangs of New York
Type sh*t
Like this is probably the first one
It was at the Five Points
And Daniel Day Lewis was there
A lot of scrappy
Early 19th century New Yorkers
Get together and eat
It's from the old weird America
The beefsteak dinner
If he mesmerizes
Each and everyone
And Lord when he smiles
The beefsteak becomes well done
He even makes my grandma
Feel like she's 21
Said the boy can't help it
He was born to please
Can't help it, just can't help it
And if I got to go down to him
On bended knee
Can't help it, just can't help it
And if I got to go down to him
On bended knee
Can't help it, just can't help it
And if I got to go down to him
On bended knee
Can't help it, just can't help it
And because I'm hoping
Obviously
That someday
His answer will be
The boy can't help it
Cause he's in love with me
Can't help it, just can't help it
So just to clarify
Everybody here knows about pancake breakfast
But nobody outside of Nick
Has known or been to a beefsteak dinner
Yeah I mean the term beefsteak
Is like the dinners from old weird America
But we got off on this
Very obtuse tangent
Because of the term beefsteak
Because of the sandwich I'm eating
I've been to steak dinners
You're having a beefsteak dinner right now
The only reason I had to refer to it as beefsteak
Is your recent obsession with horse meat
Which I still
We haven't even gotten to the bottom
I don't know why we're talking about horse meat this episode
I'm very curious to see
How you got on this whole horse meat jag
On the TC thread for the listeners
All of a sudden
The entire thread was horse meat
And I was like, did I black out?
Did we talk about
Horse meat last episode?
Cause there are periods of the show
Where I will zone out for a good 10 minutes
And have no idea what's going on
And I thought maybe it happened then
But Ezra just came out of the blue
And was just like
Well it's funny
We're going horse meat
He sort of soft launched this horse meat thing
On another thread with me
Multiple threads
So I was sort of aware of the horse meat thing
But I remember thinking to myself
When I entered the TC thread
Ezra just said, oh yeah
We gotta talk about horse meat
And I was like, did something happen?
Did Will Smith eat horse meat?
Something
Here's how I recall
I on the thread went
Hey guys, wouldn't it be cool
If we talked about Arizona iced tea
And how their prices haven't changed
And Ezra was like, we're doing horse meat
And that's how it started
And then we were talking about horse meat
For like hours
So is the Eric Wareheim dinner
Referred to as beefsteak?
So it's a callback to the 19th century
Full Tammany Hall
It's not a beefsteak
No, it is you get dressed up
It's served in small bites
You have to call it a beefsteak
No you can't say steak dinner
There's no such thing as any dinner that involves steak
A beefsteak dinner is a specific ritual
It's cut up
And it's all you can eat
And you eat it with your hands
You know, it's kind of medieval in a way
It's a feast day
And I guess also it's a funny mix of some down and dirty
Just all you can eat steak with your hands
And I guess Nick, you're saying that at the Eric Wareheim event
They dress up
And as I recall
In my town, the wrestlers would wear shirt and ties
Yeah
And the threads are going
Time Crisis is going to start hosting a horse steak dinner
And we're going to raise money for
At risk wrestlers
Maybe we'll pick a different wrestling team
That's at risk in some way
At risk of, I don't know, losing funding
Or not going to the regional championships
And we'll raise money for them
(horse neighing)
The horse meat thing
And we'll come back to this throughout the show
But just because you asked
For me
I've always been interested in this school of thought
A kind of line of reasoning
That you sometimes hear from
Passionate animal rights people
Which is
Could very well backfire
But sometimes animal rights people
And vegan people
Their heart is in the right place protecting animals
They sometimes say
And these people who eat animals
They eat their cows, they eat their chickens
They eat their pigs
But they don't eat horse or dog
Or cat
These animals get slaughtered every day in America
There's all these poor dogs and cats on the street
Shouldn't these people be eating dog and cat and horse?
And I've always been interested in that line of reasoning
Because I wondered if one day
You know, America might say
Yes, we'll eat it
Absolutely
So I've been interested in that line of reasoning
I've also been interested in why
You know, just traveling
You know, going to Belgium
In the early days of Vampire Weekend
We always had a great time
With our label guy in Belgium
Jan
And he would talk about how he enjoyed eating
Horse steak
And I feel like he took us to a restaurant
Maybe he ordered the horse steak
And I don't think any of us did
So I was, you know, just broadening my perspectives
And thinking to myself, hey, where I grew up
People ate a lot of beefsteak
But not judging
Alright, in Belgium, some people like horse meat
Going to Japan, driving past a horse meat restaurant
And hearing people talk about
Oh, I ate horse meat in Japan
So I've been interested in it
But the truth is, the reason it was really at the forefront of my mind
Is that I've had a long-running joke
With a friend of the show, Morgan
Who called in the other day
To talk about
Explain to us a little bit about royalties
And how mountain brews can get paid
From Vampire Weekend
Covering the song at Red Rocks
And Morgan's from Kentucky
I don't know why, one time it popped in my head
We were maybe just talking about business ideas
And I said, well you're from Kentucky
There's a lot of horses there
And he said yes, and I said, well maybe we should open a horse meat restaurant
And he said, well I don't know about the legality of that
And I said, well you know
I'm an ideas guy
You're from Kentucky, so you probably got a lot of horse connections
We could do this
And I said, we should open one in Echo Park
Which, if anybody's not familiar
Is considered a hipster neighborhood of LA
And I said, we should start with a cool
Kind of like, a hipster neighborhood
And he said, we should start with a cool
Kind of lunch place in Echo Park
Called Giddy Up, and then do it kind of like
A classy gastropub called White Horse Tavern
Somewhere else in town
And then just from there, I don't know why
It just stayed in my head
It's an idea that comes back to me a lot
That I can't stop thinking of
Ideas for horse meat restaurants
And I think I talk about it too much
I think I've alienated people in my life
Also there's a
I think I talked about this on the show
There's a hot new restaurant in LA
Called Horses, and you can imagine
Maybe I hadn't thought about it for a while
And then everybody starts saying, have you been to Horses?
And I say, was that a horse meat restaurant?
And they say, I don't think so
It's just like a cool new restaurant
And then I'm back on it
And I'm thinking about horse meat restaurants
And I'm coming up
It's not that I want to eat horse meat
It's just that I love thinking of
Concepts for horse meat restaurants
And it's becoming a little bit of a
I don't know, an addiction
Childhood living
Is easy to do
The things you wanted
I bought them for you
Graceless lady
You know who I am
You know I can't let you
Slide through my hands
Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
I've texted you guys about it
Can I share some more of my horse meat restaurant concepts?
Please
Well, alright, so I already talked about Giddy Up
We're going to serve horse and grain bowls
In Echo Park
And we're also going to do smoothies with local honey
So it's going to be a little bit
That kind of neo-hipster hippy-dippy thing
Local
Maybe it's paleo, ancient grains
Local honey, that kind of thing
So it's not a horse smoothie
It's like a normal smoothie
You just have a horse and the grain bowl
And then as I discussed, there's White Horse Tavern
Which is a gastropub with horse steaks and horse burgers
Truffle hay fries
Artisanal beer on tap
And that's going to be in the American Terminal at LAX
Nice
It's kind of like, you know, it's an airport place
But it's classy
Slim pickings out there, so that's going to be a hit
That's going to be a hit
And then I think because we're in LA
Once it's part of Mexico, famous for great Mexican food
We need to do a Mexican restaurant
Called Casa Caballo
Is that how you say horse in Spanish? Caballo?
I think so
It doesn't sound wrong
Is it Caballo?
Well, it's an A. It's C-A-B-A-L-L-O
Oh, okay
Does that sound right? Caballo?
Yeah, okay
So Casa Caballo, horse tacos and fajitas
Then I had an idea for kind of like a
Slightly fancier, trendier one
Called Stallion
And that's a clubsterant
From a restaurant I learned recently
There's a famous place, there's one in West Hollywood
And there's one in New York
And there's probably one in Vegas and maybe Miami
Called Catch
And it's a big seafood restaurant with really loud music
And people call it a clubsterant
Because it has
It's a restaurant but it has the atmosphere of a club
So Stallion is a clubsterant
It's like Catch, except we're doing horse meat
Instead of seafood
When I go to a restaurant, I'm always like, I wish it was louder in here
I mean if there's a great DJ
I wish the music was worse and it was louder
Yeah, I mean I think a lot of people feel that way, Jake
Clearly
You go out to a restaurant, it's quiet
It's kind of like embarrassing
You got awkward pauses and conversation
People want loud, loud music
Weird lighting
And a lot of people yelling
And then the last idea that I had
And this unfortunately
As we'll get into
Is probably the only one we could actually do
Is a vegan
A vegan restaurant called
Horse of a different color
And we're going to do impossible horse meat
Sandwiches there
And we're going to have a great selection of vegan desserts
And
As I'm learning, as I start to try to raise money
For these restaurants
And pitch them to restaurateurs
And things like that
I've realized that horse meat is
Not exactly legal in the US
So unfortunately
It doesn't really make sense, but we're going to have to start with the vegan one
Like normally you would start
By getting people interested in horse meat
And having these hit horse meat restaurants
And then you could say
Well here's something for the vegans
But we're going to have to do it backwards
We're going to have to start with impossible horse meat
And anyway, that's horse of a different color
It's going to be like really kind of cool
Alternative vibes
Like you know, get local artists to do murals on the wall
Things like that
[Horse neighing]
That's the initial
Horse meat restaurant business plan
Just to get everybody
Excited. We'll return to it
And we can talk about the history of horse meat
In a little bit
But before that, we got a really great email
After talking
On the last episode about royalties
Then we were talking a little bit
With Morgan about
What he referred to as the black box
Of music publishing
Which he said at one point
Was almost a billion dollars worth of unclaimed royalties
Just sitting there
We talked about the fact that
Alright, it's very unlikely
That Bruce Springsteen
Is leaving like 40 million dollars on the table
He's got a team of
Managers, lawyers, whoever
Who are out there vacuuming up all the nickels and dimes
What do you think?
Who's contributing to this billion dollars of
Unclaimed royalties in the black box?
It's going to be people
And families
Who just don't even
Know that it's there
Somebody who wrote a song a long time ago
Let's say the family
Of a musician who died
And these are people who, again
Maybe they're not missing a million dollars
But
They might be missing enough money that it could make a difference
In their life or help them out in a tough time
So anyway, we got an email
That's exactly that type of story
From a guy named Andrew Neely
Let's go to the time crisis mailbag
Howdy dudes
Your recent music industry episode
Reminded me that my best friend's
Stepdad got a sizable
Payout. He's my best
Friend's stepdad
My best friend's stepdad got a
Sizable payout from the black box
Of music publishing that helped him out in a
Really material way. This is what we're talking
About man. Ray
My bud's stepdad
Isn't that just such a good stepdad name?
Ray? It's perfect
Hey Ray
You know you could call me dad
Man. It's cool Ray. I like calling you
Ray. All good buddy
Dude your stepdad is so cool
Oh man. Ray's the man
And Ray actually is. Sounds
Very cool. So Ray
The bud's stepdad was a
Has been a hardworking musician for 50 plus years
And he was in a rad jazz
Fusion band called Flying Island
That I think you guys would enjoy. And I checked them out
And I do enjoy them
And they're like "If you do a bogus deal with Vanguard
They never saw a penny"
So this is one of these stories. Damn Vanguard
Yeah you think Vanguard would be a little
That's like a well known label. You think would have been
Yeah. A little more above board
And I checked out Flying Island
Like you wanna throw on a little Flying Island Matt?
Yeah I wanna hear it. It's cool
It's like um
You know it's got a little bit of like Maha Vishnu orchestra
There's like a violin
It's pro. It's like cool
70's progressive
With a violin. Hell yeah
What year did this come out by the way?
We know it's the 70's. Love to know the actual year
This is 1976
Like already I just like
This
Like if I knew somebody and they're like
"Hey you wanna hear my new band?"
And they played me this I'd be like "You guys are great"
This is excellent
Yeah I'm not hearing
So far I'm not hearing really like
Jazz fusion it sounds to me more like
Yeah like
In Rainbows or something. Oh yeah
Just kinda rock
Yeah actually so far it's very modern. You're right this could be like
Like some like Chicago like slowcore band
Yeah
Oh yeah totally
Okay now we're getting a little more harmonically complex
Yeah now it's like a touch of like
A little bit of like Matheny type guitar
I like just the
Solo unaccompanied guitar
Oh here we go
Hmm
I wonder what Ray did in this band
I mean I think Ray might have been the guitarist
It's a little bit unclear
Okay
I'm really just enjoying listening to this
Yeah
Did you mention that you were the guitarist
I'm not sure
I'm not sure if you were the guitarist
I'm not sure if it's illegal to eat horse meat
Although couldn't you see like a funny like Tucker Carlson segment on Frankie Biden?
Like Hunter Biden style like the president's brother
Yeah enough already with the Hunter Biden we're talking about Frankie Biden
No I can totally picture Tucker Carlson just being like
And while you may not enjoy eating horse meat, me personally I prefer beefsteak
What gives you the right to tell your fellow American that they cannot eat this?
Is it because the Biden crime family decided that no longer shall any American eat this?
Is this what America is becoming?
That one person can ban this type of meat?
Well hold on a second, really think about it
Is that the America you want to live in?
There's nothing about meat in the constitution
Bernie co-sponsored the Safeguard American Food Exports Act
Which would prohibit the slaughter of horse for meat
So Sanders is very decidedly anti-horse meat
Pro-horse, anti-horse meat
Well hey you, what's the matter you
Can't do all the things that we used to do
And it sucks, and it's bad
And who's a good boy, what's the killjoy
Got some money now we're fighting over new toys
Isn't it sad
I'm sitting in my usual chair
Feeling the walls around me closing
I'm in a state of disrepair
I try to make it till the morning
It's not enough, it's not enough
Every single day I'm on the ground
Horses don't seem like
Also like the most efficient kind of vehicle for
Raising a lot of meat
They're very slender animals
I still wouldn't think that
In the years that it takes to raise a horse
You're just not going to get
A lot of bang for your buck
Which is kind of a disgusting way to look at it
Maybe part of the issue is that
In America we do use horses for so much
We watch them race, they pull our carriages
So much
So there are a lot of horses in America
So maybe part of the issue is that
Are there horses being slaughtered
And that meat could have gone towards
Feeding the hungry
Is it an issue like that?
Because again, I said this at the beginning
I've seen this argument before
Where sometimes pedotypes will say
All these dogs and cats get put down all the time
If people want to eat meat, they should eat that
People say this
And I don't know what the counter argument is
That's an interesting argument
And then you'd also just get into the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness thing
You'd just get somebody like Seinfeld
He comes from a country, in a city, where people eat horse meat
That might have emotional connections to him
That might have a cultural resonance to him
And the idea that there could be enough horses in America
To at least supply
One kind of hipster LA restaurant
Where a guy like Seinfeld can go and eat horse meat
That, you know, it's not ruining your life that you can't have it
But it's like, when you
You know, the aroma, the taste
Brings you back
These are, you know, food is culture
Food is emotional for people
I feel like this is a misrepresentation of my own relationship with horse meat
And I want to distance myself
No judgment to anybody who does consume horse meat
I just want to sort of, you know
I don't know why you're backpedaling
I mean, you know, I wasn't pedaling anywhere
No, but seriously, Seinfeld
So you're saying there are still multiple Montreal horse meat restaurants functioning right now?
That's what your research is showing?
That's what my calculations were showing
Can you pull up the menu on one of those?
Yeah, give us some more info on one of these
Like, are we getting steaks?
Are we getting, like, uh
Well, Jake and I have had a similar experience
I think we may be the only two then on here
If Seinfeld's telling the truth
That have eaten horse meat
And we both ate it in Japan
Separately, separate trips
I would love to go to Japan with you, Nick
It's the same
Horse meat date
But I was served at an Omoka Pasta restaurant
Like course number seven
They brought out
And I really didn't know, you know
They don't really, sort of, don't know what you're eating
But they brought out horse carpaccio
So, just thinly sliced raw meat
Just thinly sliced raw horse
This is raw
And is it, what, they squeeze some lemon on it?
It's like Italian
Some lemon and pepper, yeah
Was it similar to beef carpaccio?
Very, and it was good
It is, it's a little bit sweeter
I mean, the idea is a bit, maybe, sort of
Unsettling or off-putting at first
But it was very good
And it was one of those situations where
It was very small dining
And I just felt like, oh, I have to eat this
I wanted nothing to do with it
But she also didn't want to look like her plate was full
So I had to eat all of hers, too
And so it was really an overload
So it looked like we had cleaned the plate
And then later I was talking
To a friend of mine in Japan
I said, where do they get it? And he said, oh, it's interesting
And this is similar to what we've now discovered
Which is
That it is such a delicacy
And it is so expensive
Typically there, because
They bring in the
Horses from North Carolina
Or wherever, they have to ship the horses
There, and then they're
And then they have to slaughter them in Japan
Yeah, and that's a trip
Yeah, moving live horses
I mean, I wonder if they're flying them
Probably, by some weird
Animal cargo plane
Oh, God
That's so heavy
Jake, you also ate horse meat in Japan
Did you fly to Japan just to do that?
No, I was there
I was there
20 years ago
On tour with the American indie pop band
Dear Nora
Oh yeah, friend of the show
Friend of the show, Katie
Yeah, we were at a sushi train kind of place
You know, where there's the
Carousel kind of going around
You can pick dishes
And it's all fish and stuff
And then I remember there was one dish
That kept passing me by that was like
Just blood red
Just like the deepest
Burgundy
Like just, and then there was like
The chef standing there, and I was like, what is that?
And he goes, horse
And I was like, alright, well, one in Rome, one in Tokyo
And honestly
I don't really remember it
I mean, it was just sort of like rich
Kind of like meaty
Yeah, there may have been like a sauce on it
I honestly don't really remember it
You know it's never easy
To even try to please
Me
Sometimes I'm such a tease
And sometimes I'm a liar
I've seen you get frustrated
I've seen you aggravated
I've seen you agitated too
It's so easy to take the blame
When everything I do comes back again
And I have no idea
What I'm doing
And I'm not even sure
What I'm doing
And I'm not even sure
What I'm doing
When everything I do comes back again
And I haven't felt the same, my friend
Since you went away
All those times I made you cry
And I didn't have an alibi
There are things I can't deny
Since you went away
Away
It is funny that you can eat venison
In America
Because I've had venison
At least once or twice
And actually, can I just do a quick poll here
Are you guys grossed out by the idea of eating venison?
Honestly, yeah
I have a very unadventurous palate
And so I'm a little grossed out by it
By anything that's not horse
Seinfeld is a very unadventurous palate
Anything outside of horse
He's like, "Ugh!"
A lot of people consider chicken
Is a regular
Kind of regular thing in Seinfeld
But this is interesting
I'm seeing chicken through your eyes
It's just like a horse meat guy
The feathers
The beak
This pale, weird color
I can see how for a horse meat guy
Like you, chicken is gross
And that's what's interesting about this whole conversation
Is that everybody has a different POV
You know, I'm starting to feel like a horse myself
Because I'm being branded
I'm being branded
Somebody who enjoys horses
And I just want to dispel that notion
I just want to, you know
Get that rumor, you know
De-circulated
You were asking about
How a horse was prepared in Montreal
And I'm looking at an article
From Montreal Eater
So a lot of these restaurants
This is from 2014
From what I can tell are defunct
But a couple are still in business
I'm seeing, there's a horse burger
That was served at a restaurant called Brisket's
I'm seeing
A lot of
Horse tartare
So that's raw again
Right
There's a lot of raw horse being eaten in this world
Yeah, for sure
And then it's a restaurant called Tripes and Caviar
That serves horse marrow
Snails and morello cherries
Jesus Christ
What the hell is the name of that restaurant again?
Tripes and what?
It's called Tripes and Caviar
Jesus Christ
Tripes and Caviar in Montreal
That kind of makes me think of, there's a pet store
In Burbank called Scales and Tails
Oh, I spend a lot of time at Scales and Tails
Oh, you go to Scales and Tails?
Once a week
Open up a restaurant in Montreal called Scales and Tails
And then finally there's one here called Joe Beef
And Joe Beef still seems to be in operation
Oh, Joe Beef is a famous
Oh, I know Joe Beef is a famous restaurant
I've been there too
They serve horse?
They serve horse and Joe Beef?
At Joe Beef in Montreal, they serve a bacon wrapped
Tornado
Of horse, that's like a fillet
With beef frank and foie gras sauce
So I mean you gotta have a real
Rare find
No, Joe Beef is like an influential, beloved restaurant
I've never been there, but I've heard a lot about it
Oh wow
People who are really into food will be like, oh Joe Beef in Montreal, that's a great restaurant
Oh, Joe Beef serves horse
They gotta open a Joe Horse
*horse neighing*
Alright, well I think we learned a lot about horse meat
I'm still not interested in horse meat myself
But uh
You are interested in the business of horse meat
I'm interested in the business side and
I do think the vegan argument is compelling
If you're gonna eat animals
Like what are these bizarre lines you're drawing
I can see from
It's really not hard to understand the point of view of somebody's like
I don't wanna eat any animals
And then somebody's like, well
Yeah, you're not gonna catch me eating horse
But I would eat all these other
The vegan perspective, it's like
What are you saying man?
It doesn't make sense
We've talked about um
How Ted Turner
Oh Ted Turner, he's a horse guy
No, well he might be, but you know he's a buffalo guy
Oh
And just to your point of like where do you make these distinctions
He really sort of doubled down
On all Ted's Montana Grill
Which is an eatery in Atlanta
Oh right
And it's sort of a chain
They serve only buffalo
And I know a lot of people who would eat a buffalo burger
Who probably wouldn't eat horse
I mean it's not hard to understand where they're coming from
But okay
Anyway, the next seven episodes are also about horse meat
So you know we're just
We got a lot to get into
Um, now it's time for the top five
It's time for the top five
Five
iTunes
This week
We're going to be comparing the top five songs
Of 2006
This week in 2006
On the billboard charts
With the top five songs on Apple Music
Today
Why 2006?
Anybody?
Well that was the year of the bombshell legislation
That banned horse meat
It was probably the worst year of a lot of
American horse meat lovers lives
2006, but there's some great music and let's jump into it.
The number five song this week in 2006,
Mary J. Blige with "Be Without You."
- I wonder if the legislation sort of colored the music.
- Oh, this song is sick.
Oh yeah.
- Man, this brings me back, man.
- Duvap.
- The final thriving days of American horsemeat industry.
- All the horsemeat restaurants starting to close their doors.
♪ Neither one of us knew why ♪
♪ We didn't build nothing overnight ♪
♪ 'Cause a love like this takes some time ♪
♪ People swore it off as a phase ♪
♪ Said we can't see that ♪
♪ Now from top to bottom ♪
♪ They see that we did that ♪
♪ Yes, it's so true that ♪
♪ Yes, we've been through it ♪
♪ Yes, we got rushed ♪
♪ Yes, see baby we've been too strong for too long ♪
♪ And I can't be without you baby ♪
- Oh yeah, that's a great song.
♪ 'Cause I can't sleep without you baby ♪
♪ Anybody who's ever loved you know just what I feel ♪
- Is this song about horsemeat?
♪ Nothing can replace it ♪
- I don't think I realized the context at the time.
The U is horsemeat.
♪ I got a question for ya ♪
♪ We already know the answer ♪
♪ But still I wanna ask you ♪
♪ Would you lie ♪
♪ No ♪
♪ Make me cry ♪
♪ No ♪
♪ Do something behind my back ♪
♪ And then try to cover it up ♪
♪ Well neither would I baby ♪
♪ My love is only up and up ♪
♪ Yes ♪
♪ I'll be faithful ♪
♪ Yes I will ♪
- 2006 I was doing a lot of grocery delivery
in San Francisco.
- Listening to the radio?
- Yeah, a lot of radio.
I don't think, yeah, it was like
I was driving my boss's old beat up minivan.
So like there was no way to do like an aux in on the iPod.
- Right, just listen to the radio.
Just rocking San Francisco radio.
♪ Nothing can replace it ♪
♪ Call the radio if you just can't be without ya baby ♪
♪ See this is real talk ♪
♪ Come on always stay ♪
♪ No matter what ♪
♪ Good or bad ♪
♪ Thick and thin ♪
♪ Right or wrong ♪
♪ All day every day ♪
♪ Now if you're down on love ♪
- All right, let's move on to this year.
The number five song on Apple Music right now.
Now this is a very interesting story.
This is a giant hit.
I don't know if we've talked about it on the show,
Glass Animals with "Heat Waves."
So Glass Animals, basically people describe them
as like an indie band.
And then this song has become like
one of the biggest songs ever.
This song went to number one on the,
yeah, this song is giant.
It went to number one on the US charts.
Wait, so what do you mean it's one of the biggest songs ever?
- It's like the biggest number one from a UK artist
since the Spice Girls.
It's like been on the charts for like a year plus.
- It was released in 2020.
- Yeah, so that's another element.
It took almost two years to go to number one.
♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
♪ Heat waves been faking me out ♪
♪ Can't make you happier now ♪
♪ Sometimes all I think about is you ♪
♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
♪ Heat waves been faking me out ♪
- Wow, it was in the Australian top 10 for more than a year.
♪ Usually I put something on TV ♪
♪ So we never think about you and me ♪
♪ But today I see our affections clearly in Hollywood ♪
♪ Laying on the screen ♪
- I mean, I like the song.
I would not have called it to be like
a giant number one smash.
- No, I mean, sounds cool.
♪ Off the road ♪
♪ It's gone now the night is gone but ♪
♪ Sometimes all I think about is you ♪
♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
♪ Heat waves been faking me out ♪
♪ Can't make you happier now ♪
- He's saying heat waves have been faking me out.
I thought he said freaking me out.
- I thought so too.
I like freaking more.
- Yeah, like.
- Like, damn it's hot.
- Like, it's a little too hot for a June night.
- Yeah, it's a little uncomfortable.
- He's talking about having kind of like a delusion.
Road shimmer, wiggling the vision,
heat waves, I'm swimming in the mirror.
♪ Sometimes all I think about is you ♪
♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
♪ Heat waves been faking me out ♪
♪ Can't make you happier now ♪
- So what is the classic album story?
Is he sort of like a solo guy,
kind of like a Tame Impala kind of thing?
- I think it's kind of a Tame Impala
where it's like a band,
but it's really built around this guy, Dave Bailey.
He wrote and produced this song.
So that puts him in kind of like that rare camp of people,
like Paul McCartney, Soulja Boy, Prince,
who performed, wrote, and produced a number one single.
♪ Sometimes all I think about is you ♪
♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
♪ Heat waves been faking me out ♪
♪ Heat waves been faking me out ♪
♪ Sometimes all I think about is you ♪
♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
♪ Heat waves been faking me out ♪
- Who's that Australian dude with the one word name,
like Goitier?
- Oh, Goitier. - Goitier, yeah.
- Goitier.
- Goat-y, eh.
- He hasn't released any music since-
- That huge hit?
- Yeah.
- Really?
That was like, when was it?
Like five, six, seven years ago?
- I think that was like- - I think it was 2012.
- 10 years ago? - It was almost 10 years ago.
Good for him. - That's all right, dope.
- I really respect him just laying back in the cut.
He's probably got tons of money.
Like why does he need to rush?
Why does he need to put out any music?
- I mean- - Thank you.
- Yeah, at this point, it's sort of like, I mean,
yeah, maybe he's just like moved on.
Nailed it.
- His record label calls him 10 years later
and he's like, "What's the need to rush?"
- Yeah.
Don't rush me, man.
You want another somebody that I used to know,
I could need a little more time in the lab.
It is what it is.
Bag off.
The number four song this week in 2006,
the year the horse meat died,
James Blunt with "You're Beautiful."
(gentle music)
I didn't know James Blunt had like huge hits like this.
- This was his giant hit, yeah.
- I mean, it's kind of interesting
going from the Glass Animals over to the James Blunt,
like kind of solo British guy.
- Right.
Except Glass Animals has almost like a hip hop beat.
- Yeah.
♪ My life is brilliant ♪
♪ My love is pure ♪
♪ I saw an angel ♪
- Oh wait, dude, I'm, okay, I'm totally confused.
I was thinking of James Blake.
- Oh yeah, yeah, no.
James Blake is like an electronic musician.
- Who sings too, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking of.
I was like, James Blake had a huge hit.
- Oh yeah, okay.
- Sorry, that's why I was confused.
This is like singer's--
♪ You're beautiful, it's true ♪
- No, James Blake is a beloved, very talented musician.
- Who has--
- Who has big songs, but not like a number one
billboard kind of thing so far.
- That's who I was thinking of,
and I was like, what the hell is going on?
James Blake?
Okay, James Blunt.
♪ You're beautiful ♪
- James Blunt is a little bit Twitter famous
for being very self-deprecating when people try to
drag him. - Oh yeah.
- Yeah, it's sort of like a well-known,
like I'm looking at some of his best stuff.
- Like, is this the type of thing that he would tweet?
Just like, Vladimir Putin, like, exit the Ukraine,
or I'll make you listen to my hit 2006 single,
"You're Beautiful" on repeat.
Just like, I don't know if that's appropriate, dude.
- No, well, yeah.
A, the song's not that bad.
B, I don't know if it's appropriate,
you inserting yourself into the suffering
of the Ukrainian people.
- Well, wait, what are some actual examples, Seinfeld?
- It kind of reminds me of like, the Eve Six guy, too,
being like, "Hey, Kamala Harris,
"do you like the 'Heart in a Blender' song?"
- Yeah, it's like that.
- That is funny.
- Yeah.
- It's like that, but about one, just the one song.
Like, okay, here's some James Blunt.
A fan, not a fan, somebody on Twitter tweeted at him,
"Why does James Blunt have a million followers?
"He stopped being relevant in 2009."
James Blunt quote tweets it and goes, "2006, actually."
Another person says, "There's a best of James Blunt?
"Really?
"James Blunt?"
Yup, it's called "Greatest Hit."
Greatest hit single.
- Damn.
- That's sad.
- Twitter kind of ruins everything.
Like, that'd be one thing if you met James Blunt
at like a dinner party and some ass (beep)
at the party was like,
"What are you doing at this fancy dinner party?
"You haven't been relevant since 2009."
And he's just like eating his horse steak
and he looks up and goes, "2006, actually."
If you were somebody, you'd be like,
and then you'd leave that dinner party and say,
"You know, I was dining in English High Society recently,
"and you know who's actually quite a wit?
"James Blunt."
And you'd tell that story and people would be like,
"That's funny as (beep) wow.
"He came up with that, he's like Winston Churchill.
"He came up with that on the fly."
You'd be like, "That's amazing."
Yeah, and then this other ass (beep)
at the party said like, asked him what he was up to
and he said, "You know, they're about to release
"my greatest hits."
And he said, "You have a greatest hits."
And he said, "Well, in all truth,
"it should be called a greatest hit."
And I was like, "Damn, this guy's just funny."
He's funny, you know what I'm saying?
And then there's something about--
- Oscar Wilde.
- Yeah, he's Oscar Wilde.
- James Blunt is the Oscar Wilde.
- James Blunt's low key this Oscar Wilde.
And then the fact that it's happening over and over again
on Twitter is just like so much less cool.
I mean, whatever, I'm not dissing James Blunt.
These are just the times we live in.
I was once a Twitter user myself, I can't.
But I'm just saying like, the story would be so cool
if it was just like this word of mouth thing
where you're just like, "My friends."
- It's the difference between,
we really need to invite James Blunt to the dinner party
to guys, we cannot invite James Blunt to the dinner party.
- Yeah.
- You already heard all his best lines.
- Yeah, do you think James Blunt has,
this is a bit of a different tone.
Do you think James Blunt has run out
of his "You're Beautiful" money yet?
James Blunt quote tweets it, this was a year ago.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, no."
- Nice.
- That's also when it's like,
it went from being charming and self-deprecating
to a little bit of just like, "Go (beep) yourself."
I want James Blunt not even looking up from his horse stake
and saying, "2006 actually."
- Woo!
But also I do wanna say,
James Blunt's a very interesting character
'cause you know he was a NATO soldier.
So actually now I take it back,
he might actually have some-
- Maybe he is handling the peace negotiation.
- I feel like there is some story.
Yeah, no, it's true.
There is some story that some people credit him
with like averting World War III in the 90s
because he was like serving in like Kosovo or something
and his commander told him to like, I don't know,
kill Slobodan Milosevic and James Blunt was like,
"No sir, I won't do that."
Whatever it was, he didn't do something
that would have exacerbated a situation.
I guess now we might as well look it up.
- Here's another example of one of his witticisms,
self-deprecating witticisms.
This one did make me laugh though.
So right in the middle, 'cause this one seems unprompted.
This is just inserting himself
into the Joe Rogan, Neil Young fiasco.
If @Spotify doesn't remove @JoeRogan,
I will release new music on the platform.
(laughing)
- Okay, you're right.
That is funny.
- It's a little convoluted, but this is on bbcnews.com.
Headline, singer James Blunt, quote,
"Prevented World War III."
The kicker is he told the BBC he refused an order
to attack Russian troops
when he was a British soldier in Kosovo.
Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial
by rejecting the order from a US general,
but he was backed by British General Sir Mike Jackson
who said, quote, "I'm not going to have my soldiers
"be responsible for starting World War III,"
et cetera, et cetera.
- It really does fit into the current conflict.
James Blunt, as a soldier, recognized that
NATO troops attacking Russian troops
would cause quite the quagmire.
Apparently, when the American general gave him the order,
James Blunt said, "I won't do it,
"and if you ask me again,
"I'll release a hit song called 'You're Beautiful.'"
(laughs)
And the guy was like, "I don't get it."
And he said, "Oh, you will.
"I will release a song called 'You're Beautiful,'
"that it'll be a bad song."
And he's like, "If it's a bad song,
"how would it be a big hit?"
He's like, "Don't worry about it.
"You seem like a nice guy.
"I don't understand why a song you release
"would be that bad that I would regret
"giving you this order."
And James Blunt's just like, "Oh, you just wait and see.
"It'll be absolutely terrible, and everyone will love it."
He needs to quit beating himself up.
The number four song right now, Lil Durk, "Aha."
(hip hop music)
(laughs)
(hip hop music)
- Oh yeah, we listened to this before, right?
I like this.
Oh yeah, 'cause this is part of a back and forth
with NBA Youngboy.
- Yeah.
(hip hop music)
- Do you like this one, Jake?
- It's funny, I was walking down York Boulevard yesterday,
and a car pulled up to the red light.
And as soon as they, I was walking right past them,
and this song started in that second.
And this car must have had the most amazing sound system,
because the voice in the beginning sounded so crisp.
And honestly, it sounded amazing.
Just the first 10 seconds of the song.
And then the lights turned green and the car sped off.
And I was like, "What was that?"
And honestly, just hearing it right now,
the best part was before the drums came in.
(hip hop music)
(hip hop music)
- This flow comes from dun, da-dun, da-dun, da-dun.
What was the first hit rap song with da-dun, ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-bum?
- The first hit rap song? - You know what I'm talking about?
- Yeah, Soulja Boy, Pretty Boy Swag,
I think is probably what you're referring to.
- Oh, that's dun, da-dun, da-dun, da-dun.
- Pretty Boy Swag.
(hip hop music)
- Okay, the number three song back in 2006,
Ne-Yo, So Sick.
Oh yeah, this is very evocative for me.
You would have been hearing this one on the radio, Jake.
- I like that title.
So Sick, dude.
- So Sick, produced by Stargate,
famous Norwegian production team.
- Oh yeah, this one.
Damn, this is like-- - So Sick of love songs.
- This is so specific, like songs I heard a lot
over like, whatever, a six month period.
♪ I'm alone ♪
♪ 'Cause right now it says that we ♪
♪ Can't come to the phone ♪
- Wait, pause it for a second.
I might have told this story before,
but for a long time, my friend Andre
had his answering machine on his phone.
Somehow he got it to just be the opening lines of that song.
And if you knew Andre, it's like so random
that he picked this song.
But so you'd like call him, and he'd be ringing, ringing,
and then you just go,
♪ Change my answering machine ♪
♪ Now that I'm alone ♪
♪ 'Cause right now it says that we ♪
♪ Can't come to the phone ♪
And then just end.
He probably did it like once as a joke and forgot about it,
but I remember hearing it many times over the years.
This is a good quote from Neo.
He went to go meet the Norwegian guys
who produced at Stargate, and they played it for him.
And he was blown away.
And he said later, he couldn't believe
that these two white guys were making such sultry music.
And played again.
♪ And I know it makes no sense ♪
♪ 'Cause you walked out the door ♪
♪ But it's the only way I hear your voice anymore ♪
♪ It's ridiculous ♪
♪ It's been months ♪
♪ For some reason I just ♪
♪ Can't get over it ♪
♪ And I'm stronger than this ♪
Honestly, the keyboard part is very like,
It's kind of spot music.
Like Kid A, about, listen to that.
Oh yeah.
♪ Clunk, clunk, clunk ♪
Like the song Kid A.
Not this part.
Yeah, the bop.
Yeah.
This part right here.
It's like track two in Kid A.
Yeah, yeah.
Tip to the track.
♪ You were still here ♪
♪ Said I'm so sick of love songs ♪
♪ So sad and slow ♪
♪ So why can't I turn off the radio ♪
♪ Gotta fix that calendar I had ♪
All right, let's keep moving.
Song number three in 2022.
Kid LaRoy and Justin Bieber's "Stay."
This is a very good song, the more I hear it.
♪ The sun is the same ♪
♪ Nothing that I never would ♪
God, their vocals on these 22 tracks are so crazy.
They're so crushed or something.
They're so loud.
They're so loud, yeah.
Like this song and the last song,
I feel like the vocals in the beginning are so loud.
And then when the beat drops in,
it sort of levels out more.
Yeah.
♪ If you can't be right here ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
That's a good opening line to a song, first verse.
I get drunk, I wake up, I'm wasted still.
I mean, I would say Kid LaRoy
or whoever wrote this melody is like,
it's such a perfect distillation of somebody who grew up
with like pop, R&B and pop punk.
You know, it's like truly, it's all there.
It's all synthesized.
It's like, it's not like some awkward mix.
It's a perfect distillation of all this.
♪ Everybody else is good as you are ♪
♪ Can you stay, can you stay ♪
♪ When I'm away from you, I miss your touch ♪
♪ You're the reason I believe in love ♪
The number two song in 2006.
Wow, 2006 is such a very particular vibe.
The R&B, the James Blunt, and now this legendary song,
Daniel Powder, "Had a Bad Day."
You don't remember this?
Oh, you'll know it.
Daniel Powder, "Had a Bad Day."
I think they'll recognize it.
I really would have thought the song was just called
"Bad Day," but it's called "Had a Bad Day."
♪ Where is the moment when you need it the most ♪
This is like some dentist's office waiting room, pharmacy.
Daniel Powder, get on Twitter.
Start cooking up some James Blunt jokes.
You know, I looked him up.
He has 8,000 followers.
Yeah, he's earnestly promoting his new projects,
No Attitude, 8,000 followers versus James's million.
Just doing his thing.
When you said you should get some James Blunt jokes,
do you mean in style jokes,
or you should just start attacking James Blunt?
You should attack James Blunt and say,
"Listen, man, we both had big, easy listening hits in 2006.
Stand behind it.
Don't diss your work.
You're not a real one, Blunt."
♪ 'Cause you had a bad day ♪
♪ You take it one down ♪
♪ You sing a sad song just to turn it around ♪
I can't believe this was a big hit.
It's like, it's very catchy.
Yeah, like the verses almost could have been
like a Badfinger song or something.
Yeah, but there's always room for like a piano ballad.
Oh, an American Idol used this song as the theme
for the goodbye for departing contestants
who are voted off the show in the fifth season.
It's a relatable sentiment.
I mean, we've all had a bad day.
Yeah, and also this is playing at the dentist's office.
It's playing at some other office
where at least 50% of the people are having a bad day.
Oh no, we just lost Ezra.
♪ What she said ♪
♪ And I don't need no hearing her ♪
♪ I had a bad day ♪
♪ You take it one down ♪
♪ You sing a sad song just to turn it around ♪
♪ You said you don't know ♪
♪ You tell me don't lie ♪
♪ You open a smile and you go for a ride ♪
♪ You had a bad day ♪
♪ You tell me don't lie ♪
♪ You come the back of down ♪
♪ And you really don't mind ♪
♪ You had a bad day ♪
♪ Sometimes the system goes on the fling ♪
♪ And the whole thing turns out wrong ♪
♪ You might not make it in the bag ♪
♪ And you know that you could be well off ♪
♪ That's wrong ♪
♪ And I'm not wrong ♪
A billboard named Daniel Powter,
the top one hit wonder of the 2000s.
Oh no.
Damn.
♪ Oh you and I ♪
♪ You kick up the leaps and the magic is lost ♪
♪ 'Cause you had a bad day ♪
♪ You take it one down ♪
♪ You sing a sad song just to turn it around ♪
♪ You said you don't know ♪
I mean, this was an international mega hit.
Triple platinum in the US, double platinum in Japan,
Australia, Canada, Denmark, platinum.
Just a monster.
Bad day was the top selling digital download of '06.
It was part of a shift towards digital distribution
of individual songs.
In America, the album sold 500,000 copies,
but the single was downloaded over 3 million times.
Oh yeah.
That doesn't seem that crazy.
I mean, 500,000 copies of the album isn't bad.
Yeah.
I mean, imagine the ringtone sales.
This must've been a ringtone classic.
Did you ever pay for a ringtone?
No.
In your day, Jake?
No. Never did.
Definitely.
What part's going to be the ringtone?
Like, wait, I got to take this call.
♪ I had a bad day ♪
Hey, mom.
All right, moving on.
I guess we lost Ezra.
The number, what are we on?
Is this two or three?
The number two song in 2022,
Kodak Black, "Super Gremlin."
We've heard this one a few times too.
♪ When we could be superstars ♪
♪ We'd be rather wrecking cars ♪
Hey, what up, guys?
Ezra, Jake has taken over.
Yeah.
In your absence, Jake has filled the seat.
So he's inter-
I think let's just swap positions.
It was always a matter of time.
All right, I'll try to run the show.
He's talking about "Super Gremlins" right now.
Yeah.
♪ We're gonna get to you ♪
♪ Say you might be your killer ♪
♪ Nobody gonna play with you ♪
♪ I'm not a shoo-in' on which ♪
♪ Go against ending ♪
♪ Like this little skeet ♪
♪ All third on bitch ♪
♪ I put an end for you ♪
♪ I spend for you ♪
♪ What love you with ♪
♪ I'm with it ♪
♪ How you gon' cost a nigga ♪
♪ A rockin' witch ♪
♪ I got you lit in the city ♪
♪ I've been multitasking ♪
♪ Rapping and being a ♪
What do you have to say about "Super Gremlins," Jake?
Has it grown on you?
What you been talking about?
We were just getting to it.
I'm just trying to-
Get reacquainted here.
I'm not a huge fan, gotta say.
I feel like we've covered this enough.
Yeah, we've covered this song.
I will say, without Ezra for a moment,
and Jake doing it, really had this AM radio,
talk radio vibe.
The whole energy shifted.
It was so good.
I don't care if Ezra can't hear the music.
I think just the way he just said,
"Okay, so we're listening to 'Super Gremlins.'
I think we've heard this one before."
It was so interesting.
There was a market vibe shift.
I can't say for the better.
I mean, this is Ezra's show.
He is the-
We're co-hosts.
We need to-
We could use a Jake takeover.
A Jake over.
Hey, Ezra, did you ever buy ringtones back in the day?
Like the early 2000s?
I don't think I ever did.
I was kind of late getting a phone, actually.
Did you, Seinfeld?
No, I could never figure it out.
I think I probably didn't have the type of phone
where you could properly buy them.
I had a flip phone for a while.
Oh, sure.
But it would be-
Because 2006 is like a pure ringtone era?
Yeah, I was sort of saying the Daniel Powder track
was probably a big ringtone hit.
Oh, yeah.
What years did you guys get your first cell phones?
Probably right around 2006.
That is pretty late.
That is late.
No, maybe-
No, dude, we were on tour in '05.
You had a phone.
Yeah, no, maybe I had a phone,
but I didn't have texting.
I remember I was really behind having texting.
Here's what I remember.
I got to college in late 2002,
and a lot of people had phones,
and I was like, "Oh, okay.
I don't have one.
So maybe 2003 I got a phone,
but I didn't have texting until 2007.
So, yeah.
Okay, no, I had a phone.
Texting was very challenging, though.
Those early days,
you would have to push the same button
to get a different letter.
You couldn't make them long.
No emojis.
Oh, yeah, very difficult.
♪ I'm a time traveler ♪
♪ And so we found all the skating tracks ♪
♪ Don't know maybe for a trial ♪
♪ But they were errant ♪
♪ I ain't slammin', I'm rhymin' ♪
♪ The way you put it on me ♪
- The number one song in 2006 is Sean Paul "Temperature."
Why don't we go out on that?
'Cause we've covered quite a bit.
And anyway, this is the Horse Meat Special.
It's not about the music,
but it's not corporate food either.
It's yet another category.
- It's like anti-corporate food.
- Yeah.
- Pagan.
- All right, well, thanks for joining us for--
- Ancient cuisine.
- Our Horse Meat Special,
this is Sean Paul "Temperature,"
the number one song this week in 2006.
We'll see you in two weeks.
Goodbye.
♪ The girl dem skill hotty ♪
♪ Chander Paul ♪
♪ So me give it to ♪
♪ So me give it to ♪
♪ To all girls ♪
♪ 5,040,000,000,000, naughty shorty ♪
♪ Baby girl ♪
♪ All my girls ♪
♪ All my girls ♪
♪ Chander Paul say ♪
♪ Well, I'm on the way to time ♪
♪ I wanna be keeping you warm ♪
♪ I got the right temperature ♪
♪ To shelter you from the storm ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
♪ Girl, I got the right tactics ♪
♪ To turn you on ♪
♪ And girl, I wanna be the papa ♪
♪ You can be the mom ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Me can see the girl dem bro ♪
♪ Go out from the floor ♪
♪ From your door ♪
♪ And a walk with his papa, ma ♪
♪ From your door ♪
♪ And a man work here ♪
♪ Turn you on, girl ♪
♪ Me can see you when dem a fall, yeah ♪
♪ Can't stand for the long ♪
♪ Nah eat no yum ♪
♪ Nah steam fish ♪
♪ Nah no green banana ♪
♪ But down in Jamaica ♪
♪ We give it to you ♪
♪ Hot like a sauna ♪
♪ Well, I'm on the way to time ♪
♪ I'm cold, I wanna be keeping you warm ♪
♪ I got the right temperature ♪
♪ To shelter you from the storm ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
♪ Girl, I got the right tactics ♪
♪ To turn you on ♪
♪ And girl, I wanna be the papa ♪
♪ You can be the mom ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Pump expose and girl, you got to dress out ♪
♪ But you no wear a suit ♪
♪ 'Cause girl, you ain't dressed out ♪
♪ And if you dress out ♪
♪ And me, you fi test out ♪
♪ 'Cause I got the remedy ♪
♪ Fi make you dis dress out ♪
♪ Me have fi fly to be coming ♪
♪ God bless out ♪
♪ And girl, if you want it ♪
♪ You have fi confess out ♪
♪ And a life where we need set speed ♪
♪ Me have fi test it, me dress out ♪
♪ Well, I'm on the way to time ♪
♪ Cold, I wanna be keeping you warm ♪
♪ I got the right temperature ♪
♪ To shelter you from the storm ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
♪ Girl, I got the right tactics ♪
♪ To turn you on ♪
♪ And girl, I wanna be the papa ♪
♪ You can be the mom ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Girl, though, some a crazy ♪
♪ Now this straight up ♪
♪ It's an original time flavor show ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Time for me make baby now ♪
♪ So stop cry like you a get shady, yo ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Woman, don't play me now ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm a feds and fuck not grady, yo ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ My loving is the way to go ♪
♪ My loving is the way to go ♪
♪ Well, I'm on the way to time ♪
♪ Cold, I wanna be keeping you warm ♪
♪ I got the right temperature ♪
♪ To shelter you from the storm ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
♪ Girl, I got the right tactics ♪
♪ To turn you on ♪
♪ And girl, I wanna be the papa ♪
♪ You can be the mom ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ When it roll with a player like me ♪
♪ With a brother like me ♪
♪ Girl, there is no other ♪
♪ No need to talk it twice here ♪
♪ Just spark it right here ♪
♪ Keep it undercover ♪
♪ Come here lover ♪
♪ You're fitting on your blouse ♪
♪ And you're fucking on your jeans ♪
♪ I'm a wildest lover ♪
♪ Everything about you, baby girl ♪
♪ Can you hear when me utter ♪
♪ Well, I'm on the way to time ♪
♪ Cold, I wanna be keeping you warm ♪
♪ I got the right temperature ♪
♪ To shelter you from the storm ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
♪ Girl, I got the right tactics ♪
♪ To turn you on ♪
♪ And girl, I wanna be the papa ♪
♪ You can be the mom ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ I can see the girl ♪
♪ Them rug up on the floor ♪
♪ From your door on the workplace, papa ♪
♪ From your door on the man ♪
♪ Where you turn you want, girl ♪
♪ I can see you and him upon you ♪
♪ Can't stand for any longer ♪
♪ Can't eat no yam ♪
♪ No steamed fish ♪
♪ No, no green banana ♪
♪ Fun down in Jamaica ♪
♪ We give it to you ♪
♪ Hard like Rasana ♪
♪ Well, I'm on the way to time ♪
♪ Cold, I wanna be keeping you warm ♪
♪ I got the right temperature ♪
♪ To shelter you from the storm ♪
♪ Hold on ♪
♪ Girl, I got the right tactics ♪
♪ To turn you on ♪
♪ And girl, I wanna be the papa ♪
♪ You can be the mom ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Time crisis ♪
♪ Time crisis ♪
♪ Is it so hot ♪
♪ It'll melt your face off ♪
(audience cheering)
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