Tape 54 - "Monday, Monday"

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Episode Transcript

(00:06):
How many? Now, the making of a good
population tape is a very suppleart.
Many do's and don'ts. First of all, you're using
someone else's poetry to expresshow you feel.
This is a delicate thing. You got to kick it off with a
killer grab attention. Then you got to take it up

(00:27):
enough, then you got to cool it off a notch and.
There are a lot of rules becausewe have, we have shit we do We
do. I have, I have shit rod.
He's such a nice guy. He's such a nice, delightful
guy. So I know takes some blame.
I'm going to take much of the blame for this.

(00:49):
I don't think you should take much of the blame.
Partial 7030 you you're you're 30.
So we're, we're not sure if our guest is gonna show up to the
episode everyone we'll see for everything we'll see.
We, we can't get a hold of them today, but we're gonna record
this thing if they if they make it, they make it.
Hey, is there a way that like inthe future we could do an

(01:09):
episode where we just leave the room open and people could jump
in and out like. Oh, interesting.
Like, yeah, 'cause I can get, I can share AI can share a link.
I don't know if there's like a maximum amount of people that
can be in though at a time. That's really interesting.
That'd be a fun one. That would be a fun one.
I did not verify my tracks versus the monster dock.

(01:33):
Now you go to edit, find and replace.
I appreciate the fact that you moved it in the seasons but also
now it's making this a bigger pain in the ass.
And then you just type whatever you want to look for and find
and it searches for it in all the sheets.
All. Right.
Hey, man. Hey man, what are you doing?

(01:56):
Went pumpkin patching yesterday.Oh hell yeah.
With some people, yeah, like legit patch, like legit put,
pick them off the vine, big old taking it right out.
It's really bullshit what peoplehave started to do pumpkin
patching where they just put them in a field.
Yep, I know. They call it a pumpkin patch and

(02:17):
it's like, I guess it's like a fake pumpkin patch.
This is a this is real like this, this where you grow them
and you could tell they probablygo through in the morning and
they will cut a bunch of them off that are like ready.
But you could find ones that arestill on the vine.
I think I picked mine off the vine.
Excuse. Bless you, bless you.
Leaves are starting to fall, some allergies are starting to

(02:38):
kick off, you know? See, and not even the search
fucking works because here I am.I just so happened to see one of
the songs that I have as an honorable mention.
Fucking hope that one doesn't come across.
This doesn't fucking work. You ruined everything with this
new thing. Find.
Oh wait, I just typed in Oasis randomly to see and it.
Works. It's popped up sheets fine.

(03:00):
Fine, and you click Find again. ASIS find.
And hit find. No more results looping around.
I'll find again and. Then click Find twice.
Oh, it found it. Hey, it found it.
Champagne Supernova was the Oasis sound that we had on here.

(03:20):
Yep. OK, alright.
I forgive you. OK, good.
No, wait. No, no, I don't forgive you.
I apologize. OK.
Yeah, I think that's the more important part.
Difference, yeah, but yeah, it'sit's it was fun and I I assume
you like a good you like a good patch.
I mean, I'm feeling here's the problem.

(03:41):
I would love to feel very autumnal right now, but we
talked about it on the last episode.
It fucking sucks out, man. It sucks.
I saw on the news the other day that in Chicago we broke a heat
record that was set in like 1939or some shit like that, and they
were doing like some kind of wacky thing, you know, like in
1939, a gallon of gas was $0.38.And it's like, this is not fun

(04:06):
or funny. Which is what brought up the
thing that I sent you about radio content.
I also found out that it's not celestial radio, it's
terrestrial radio. As yeah, I guess.
As in it's on earth, I guess. Is that what that means?
So like, when you listen to the radio, you listen to terrestrial
radio, which is like regular home radio regular, like, you

(04:28):
know, typical radio. FM is terrestrial radio.
I thought it was celestial, 'cause, you know, it goes space.
Yeah, like, 'cause it goes in the space.
Right. Like the radio signal bounces
off a satellite and comes into your car.
Yeah, it's not true. Then somebody made fun of me a
bunch and started talking about horoscopes and, like, radio
horoscopes. But when was the last time you
listened to terrestrial radio? Yeah, so I thought about this

(04:49):
when you text me and I can honestly say I don't think I
have. I have personally actively gone
and listened to the radio. It's gotta have been years,
dude. I've listened to the radio with
like, like my parents, like whenI'm back home visiting, they
still listen to the radio. So in their car that the radio's
on. And to the point where I've

(05:09):
realized I'm not even sure how to turn the radio on in my new
car that I've had for a little over a year.
You know what I mean? Like I'm trying to figure it out
no problem. But I, I couldn't tell you right
now how to do it. I've never done it.
So the answer is I don't remember.
It's been too long. I don't listen to it in my truck
ever, obviously, but I have a van.
I have a 1996 Ford Aerostar. It's fucking awesome.

(05:34):
Did you know I had a van? No, yeah, I I think we it has
come up and every time it's comeup it's like I got to tell you
about my van sometime and like it never.
Happens it's set up 'cause like I have a side hustle where I do
car detailing. OK right?
19901996 Ford Aerostar right? It is as fucking awesome as you
would think it'd be. Looks like a spaceship totally

(05:55):
out of like it looks like they plucked it out of 1996 and put
it on the road today 'cause it looks hysterical When I got it,
I got it from Tennessee. It was just disaster.
Cleaned it up really nice it. It's like it has like 100,000
miles on it, which is nothing for a 191996.
But I put an aftermarket radio in it like a Kenwood, you know

(06:16):
where the faceplate comes off and shit like that and the
Bluetooth works. It also has Ausb where you can
plug it in, but like not that good.
You know, it works fine. You know, you can Bluetooth to
it. It works fine sometimes, but for
some reason as soon as you get in that thing and you put the
armrest down on that passenger seat or that driver side seat,
it's like I'm just gonna put theradio on.

(06:38):
And so yesterday I was listeningto the radio and it was a follow
up of like the best of the morning show.
Morning show radio is the worst fucking thing of all time.
It's it's maybe the low point inhuman achievement.
It's awful, man, it's awful. And the big, the big music thing

(07:01):
coming up in Chicago is Twisted Christmas, you know, 4.
Days. Third Eye Blind is playing day
three, you know, and I'm sure you'll be up here for that.
I'd be down. But and they were like, we
should bring coffee tables to crowd surf on on at the Twisted
Three at the Twisted Christmas concert.
It's like what the fuck? What the fuck?

(07:26):
Who in your circle of friends isnot telling you to stop it?
Do you think that our friends would tell us to stop it with
this shit? I think so.
I think they'd be like, it's gotten really bad guys.
I also wonder if they just start, if they're just saying
anything they want to say now because nobody's listening
anymore. You were listening.
Yeah, that's right. They're like, you know what, I
don't know, say bring a coffee table and see if that goes well.

(07:49):
Do you think it says whatever wewant?
Did somebody write it? Did somebody write that joke?
I don't think so. Do you think that shit's pre
written? Maybe they got somebody writing
that shit, I don't know. It was not good.
So yeah, so that was my answer to the radio thing.
I'm curious if other people still listen.
Something came up last night that I was curious on.
We may have talked about this. I don't think we did for

(08:10):
Halloween though. Do you have like a go to like
around October comes around? Are you watching like scary
movies or is that like a you will watch those just year round
but you watch like Halloweeny movies in October or is that a
no either? I'm not a scary movie guy.
Not a scary movie guy. Not at all like I would so much
rather laugh than I would ever be scared.

(08:32):
Like And I can, I guess I can remember more scary.
Like I can remember the scary movies that shook me to my core.
Yeah, which were. I watched the people under the
stairs earlier than I should have and that one fucking got me
bad dude. Like I like.
I vividly remember that as an adult.
So I watched people on the stairs probably very late 12

(08:55):
early teen, 13/12/13. I was like too scary, too
fucking scary. I can tell you specific details
terrified me to my core. I remember seeing like the first
Halloween, not that scary, but Iwas probably an adult when I saw
that. You know the movie that fucked
me up more than anything. You ever seen the movie
Strangers? I look at that was my answer is
is. The strangest, scariest I've
ever seen. It's unbelievably terrifying.

(09:18):
It will mess you up. There's another one coming out.
Strangers mess me up. Oh oh dude.
Based on real events by the way,Which?
Strangers based on real events? Yep, Yep, a fire in the sky.
Oh, I don't know that. Oh my God dude, I don't know
that if you are a scary movie season guy, I don't want to say

(09:39):
spooky season. That's fucking lame.
If you're a Scary movie season guy, watch a Fire in the Sky
alien abduction movie. OK, well, see here.
That's the thing though, is I will watch it.
I'm I'm a fan of a scary movie, but I don't watch them this time
of year any more than usual. Like I don't think, oh, it's
October. Let me watch scary movies.
I guess maybe there is a slightly increased desire to

(10:01):
watch them this time of year, but I have like I get drawn to
like the family oriented, like Halloween movies, like I want to
watch. Kocus and.
Casper and like the legend of Sleepy, the Disney Legend of
Sleepy Hollow, Charlie Brown, Great pumpkin, right?
Like that's the stuff I'm drawn to.
So I had that conversation with yesterday after the pumpkin
patch with my friends. They were like, well, you guys

(10:22):
watch and they all were for the most part, they were all in
agreement too. They're like, it's not they're
like, it's not scary movies likethat's whenever it's it's it's
child nostalgia for Halloween, back when you could trick or
treat and shit. What did you watch?
And so that was cool. We watched Hocus Pocus.
We watched Casper. Oh yeah, it was, it was good.

(10:42):
Good time. Weird movie, by the way, Casper.
I'd forgotten how fucking weird that movie is.
That movie weird. Very 90s, very like 90s Fever
Dream but put a bunch of money behind it.
A couple of great scary movies that I saw relatively well.
I mean not not recently, but like some like the like we
talked about in the last episode, the Mount Rushmore.
I, I feel now like I'm just hooked on Mount Rushmore

(11:02):
everything. I don't know why it was a bad
thing that we introduced in my life.
Mount Rushmore. Scary Movie.
Cabin in the Woods. You know, I've never seen it and
I, and I can't believe I haven'tbecause enough people have told
me how good it is and I've, I'veseen, think about how good it
is. Unbelievably good.
Yeah, well, I, I'll maybe maybe this is the time.

(11:24):
Maybe maybe that's the thing that puts me over the edge.
And I'm like, you know what? I'll just go watch it now.
Give that a shot. Isn't it like, correct me if I'm
wrong but isn't that like a almost like a tongue in cheek
scary movie but still scary? Like I, I can't, I literally
can't say much at all without giving away the movie.
OK. 'Cause there's a lot that goes

(11:44):
into like, what makes that movieso cool?
Oh, another scary one that I watched way earlier than I
should. 13 Ghosts. Oh, dude, that one with Danny
with, not with Tony Shalhoub in it.
Yeah, yeah. Scared me to death, dude scared
me to death. Those ghosts are creatures,
basically. They're horrifying.
The ghost messed me. Up messed me up pretty good.

(12:05):
All right, man, you wanna? You wanna bring in the guest?
You you want some music news first, real quick?
Oh yeah, yeah, that's the Zoom music news.
And then we'll bring in the guest.
I'm not tired of this yet. Oh, I thought of something.
Everybody's heard the new littlegimmicks commercial.

(12:28):
At this point they have well at this point as recording this
they haven't, but as of listening to this.
They will. As of listening to this episode,
they will have heard the little gimmicks.
You outdid yourself. It's the best you've ever done.
Thanks dude did. You have that planned a while
out. Yeah, yeah.
So what happened was I, that wasactually my plan last season.

(12:49):
I've had that planned that long.But what we rolled right from
Season 3 to Season 4 and I didn't have time.
Oh no, I remember what happened.I went to do it and he had
pulled himself off Cameo. So I couldn't do it for season
4. And so I had to audible and
that's when I did the AI voice thing for season 4.
When when season 4 ended, I was like, let me just check again.
And I went back on Cameo and he's back on so.

(13:11):
And I've been sitting on that. I mean, I sent it to you after I
got it. We've had that for a minute,
dude. Like I was, I was like, I'm not
digging around this time. As soon as Season 4 was done,
I'm like shot that out there to get that going so.
Absolutely incredible. I spent because of that and
because I I was talking to a friend of mine that doesn't
listen a ton, but I was like, I can't keep this bottled up

(13:32):
anymore. I have to share this with
someone. And so I showed him the cameo
and then we sat there for two hours while watching the movie
Sidekicks laughing at people that are on Cameo.
Oh yeah, just like looking people up in like, oh, that's
just hell. Are they on Cameo?
Everybody that's on Cameo, like the the I'm a Snake kid is on

(13:55):
Cameo, you know, with. Somebody maybe spill out my
fucking coffee. Yeah, but I'm a snake kid, you
know, Everybody's seen the video.
Yeah. Of course I know.
I'm not gonna do it. Please do it.
I'm not. Gonna do it now.
I'm not gonna do it, but the I'ma Snake kid is on Cameo.
I wonder if I can do a better with note with my missing teeth.
I wonder if I saw more. My, it's more convincing.

(14:19):
I'm a snake. You got it.
It's perfect. Yeah.
That kids on Cameo. All right.
Well, that's fantastic. It's a it's a deep, dark hole.
I wonder what musicians are on there.
We are technically the music news segment.
Tons and some of the things, some of the people that like the
things that they charge because that was The thing is like this

(14:39):
person's on Cameo. Oh, that's crazy.
What are they charging? You got to be kidding me.
You know people charging astronomical amounts of money.
All right, go ahead. Music news.
You just played the song. I'm going to look up if these
people are as I'm reporting the news on them are on Cameo I'll.
I'll be in charge of Cameo. You'll be in charge of the news.
OK, so David Guetta, I guess there's a DJ awards every year
because why not? There's awards for everything.

(15:02):
David Guetta just won best DJ inthe world.
Best DJ in the world. That's the that's the title they
didn't even like. Number.
Well, they write, they literallyapparently it's called top 100
and it's put on by DJ Magazine and it's like a big award
ceremony and I guess they invitethe top 100 DJs and yeah, they
give a best of the year or like award.
It says the award is called World's Number One.

(15:22):
DJ is the name of the award. How do you spell Guetta?
Guetta. David Guetta not on Cameo.
OK. All right.
Hey. Yeah.
Power couple breaking up Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman filed
for divorce. Couldn't care.
About either of those two. Same dude.

(15:46):
Keith Urban. On Cameo.
On Cameo, how much? Keith Urban is on Cameo.
There is a wait list for Keith Urban on Cameo.
Wow, of course there is. Oh no, 2000 fans want Keith
Urban back on Cameo, so he's temporarily gone.
OK, this isn't really music news, but I saw.

(16:08):
It 10/26. His birthday's coming out.
He's a Scorpio. So I thought this was funny.
It's definitely not music news, but fuck it.
Madonna has claimed that she hasbeen able to visit with her
mother on the other side. Her mother passed away in
2/20/23, but she's been speakingwith her on the other side.
I believe her via seances or whatever.

(16:31):
So you know, that's right. Madonna's spiritually in tune.
Dude. Diddy sentence.
Did you see that? Hey, not on Cameo.
Don't, don't cameo. Not on Cameo.
Not available. Not even going to put it into
the search. Yeah, you got 50 months right
now. Is what do you have a pet or is
that your body shining the sun on the couch and it's moving

(16:53):
that makes it look like there's a cat on the couch?
But it's no animal. No, the sun is bright as shit
this morning. Dang, I thought like, you had a
pet and you didn't tell me abouta pet.
All right? Never mind.
Did he? Yeah.
How long did he get 50? Months so.
Not enough months. No, but I don't think I think
that's just for the first set ofcharges.
I I I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure he still has another

(17:14):
set of charges to be tried for and hopefully it's a lot more
than following it. I hope it's quite a bit more.
Dude I I gotta stop doing this right now because just opening
cameo is already like a rabbit hole thing.
I'm already scrolling through just to see who's on here, and
that's a problem. Yeah, it's a it's a mess.
All right, so that that's all I got from Music News today.

(17:35):
Pretty slow week for Music News and I'm also just delaying to
see if our guest is gonna hit meback and he has not.
I'm a snake kid. It's only 25 bucks.
Hell yeah, too bad Little Gimmicks doesn't have an S in it
somewhere. That would have been a funny
one, but. That would be.
We'll have to keep that in mind for the next one.

(17:57):
Guest ain't showing up, man. Let's bring in the guest.
Do you usually play? You play the ad here.
I usually play the ad here. Why hello there.
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the world. If you don't Google it.

(18:18):
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Oh, wait, no little gimmicks. Carl, let me try this again.
Oh my God, you think being the number one comedy podcast host
in the world, I would be really good at AD reads, but I am kiss
legsid. Sorry, dyslexic, I would say the
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(18:42):
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that hold up to this. How to make?

(19:28):
Mix tape. OK, so this is our first no show
guest. Yep.
That you are 30% responsible forand the guest is 70% responsible
for. Yep.
But there's a chance that the guest might show up.
Just mid recording. Mid recording, so if the guest
doesn't show up, we'll go back and forth and then we'll throw

(19:50):
in each 2 honorable mentions. Yes.
Whose theme idea was this? I sent him just like usual.
I sent him a few different themeideas and this is the one he
picked. OK, this was probably top five
hardest themes I've ever had. Was it?
Yeah, really, really difficult. So much so that I had to put a

(20:12):
spin on it. Do you wanna?
Do you wanna tell the audience what the theme is?
Yeah, the theme is Monday Morning Songs, tracks that make
you tracks that you listen to ona Monday morning.
And it's funny because this is awhole stint of the movie, like
High Fidelity, which is, you know, kind of a deep John Jack

(20:33):
Black runs in with the tape. And as I'm walking on Sunshine,
which I wanted to pick but didn't, such a fucking funny
scene in the movie. But so Monday Morning Songs, I
had a bitch of a time. Why was it so hard?
I don't know because so I don't care about a Monday morning.
I'm not like. You don't care about it as as a
Monday, it's just any other morning.

(20:56):
Any other morning like I I got like and this is probably part
of my problems and I'm so fucking routined most of the
time that like I just fall into that day of the week routine.
OK go get a workout in, come back home, get cleaned up, go
outside get the fountain pop cause no more pops in the house
but still drive to the gas station to get a pop every day.
Come back home, fire, open the emails, check the emails, check

(21:19):
the the shit. Get started with the day.
Get in the mix of the call cadence like it's right it's
another day. I'm not bummed out by a Monday.
OK, are you bummed out by a Monday guy?
So it's not bummed out. So this is gonna get into my
kind of how I picked my songs though, is that I?
Can't wait, I can't wait. So who's so?
I have this first. You go first.
I I go first this one. Oh hell yeah, take it, take it

(21:41):
all the way through. OK, well then, so here, here's
what it is and this isn't so this isn't so thought out that
it's like I have a song for every different type of Monday I
have. It's not like that.
It's more sometimes Mondays or just any other morning for me,
like you, sometimes I wake up and it's just another day and
and whatever mood I'm in, I'll listen to music.
Sometimes Mondays do feel sometimes I am bummed for it to

(22:03):
be Monday. Like some I had a great, maybe I
had a great weekend or the weekend felt too short and I am
just in a mood on a Monday. And what I don't do on those
days is I don't try to listen topick me UPS because that never
that feels fake. I usually want to listen to
something that reflects my mood.So sometimes on Mondays, I I do
listen to I, it's kind of, it's hard to explain, man.

(22:24):
Maybe I'll just pick one of those songs first.
It's that like you're kind of anin between move, like I need, I
need to listen to something to try to help my mood, but it's
not like forcing positivity. How often do you go back and
forth between like, these are myold faithfuls versus you know
what? I'm going to spend this Monday
discovering a little bit in new.It's a great question because I
have both on my list. I so do I, I will fucking

(22:47):
acknowledge you as far as I can.You are an unbelievable music
discoverer. Thank you.
Like your approach towards like I'm going to give everything,
I'm going to give everything a shot.
I'm going to give it a couple oflistens.
It's admirable, to say the least.
Thank you. This one is also for Rachel.
Rachel paid for this on Cameo that I recognize you in the

(23:08):
episode. OK, this is true.
OK, OK, so I'll just go with my first one here.
So this is this is a good example of the type of of a
typical Monday for me. And so I'm going to go up and
down with some of these pics. But a typical Monday is
something like this. It's it's upbeat and kind of
positive, but not overly happy. And I'm going to go with the
song The High Road by Broken Bells.

(23:50):
So Broken Bells is. Like like an old faithful.
It is so right. So it's like I could put this
record on on a Monday. So it's got that kind of indie
positivity thing from the shins dude that writes this, but it's
also Danger Mouse. So it's kind of got that like
off kilter hip hop beat thing going on.
It's not too intrusive so I could work to it, but it's also

(24:12):
not like I'm going to have a great day today like in the.
Song that does feel the worst. And so this is this is kind of
my mood most Mondays. This song feels like a Monday to
me is the best way I could describe it.
And so I'm not going to alt pickeverything like this, but this
is a good kick off for me if youwant a little glimpse into how

(24:32):
my mood is typically. So this is we'll see.
But tomorrow's we're recording on a Sunday.
Tomorrow's probably going to be like this so.
Fucking hate what you did to this spreadsheet to make it back
the other way. Go back to the long list.
I'll scroll up and down this newfind.
Alright, alright, I'll switch itup.
Broken Bells is not on here though, if you're wondering.

(24:53):
I'm sure it's not but like my problem is is that I can't find
mine and I don't know if mine are OK.
So I'm going I I took the approach of seasonal Mondays.
OK. Yeah, that's a good approach.
Spring, summer, fall, winter Mondays.
Because I do. We we've talked about it a
million times. We do listen to the music pretty

(25:14):
seasonally, it's true. And I think that a Monday in a
different season could dictate adifferent mood.
So we're coming into fall and I did a a big swing of new artists
and old artists of new music that I found and old music that
I listened to for a long time. First one, we're coming into
fall, so I'm going to go fall, winter, spring, summer to follow

(25:37):
the seasons that we're going through and going into fall.
I did. Hudson Freeman, if you know me.

(26:11):
And this dude is like, relatively, he's been around for
a long time. He has quite a bit of, like some
of his streams have quite a bit of play.
But this song is kind of like a little bit of a what's it
called? Like when a video is called,
when a video goes viral, is thatwhat it's called?

(26:31):
Yeah. Viral.
OK, when it goes viral. It it's going a little social
media viral right now. There's literally just a demo
version of it out. He's averaging a little less
than 500,000 monthly listeners. But like some of his top
streamed tracks have like his top streamed top streamed track
has almost two and a half million listens.

(26:52):
But the song that I'm picking iscalled If You Know Me.
It's got 1.2 million listens. There's only a demo version of
it out right now. He's a little bit of a folk
artist. He looks like he had something
really funny in his about the artist where he calls himself.
Who's the kid from That 70s Show?
I guess he's not a child at all,he's an adult.
Which one? The main guy.

(27:14):
Kelso. No, the main guy.
Eric. Eric Foreman in, I think in his
bio, I don't know if it still says it.
I think it said the Folk. Eric Foreman.
Oh. That's pretty good.
And also no, so I don't know, itmight have been a social media
post, but his current about me on Spotify is I am a folk
artist. It's all it says.

(27:35):
I've, I know this guy, I've seenhim on like Instagram Reels and
stuff because I don't have TikTok even though you try to
keep trying to get me on there. You got to get on TikTok, man.
But this fucking song, it's recorded like again, it's a demo
version so you hear like crickets chirping and it sounds
so fall and this would be a great folk Monday morning like

(27:56):
of like, I don't want anything loud yet.
I'm just gonna get get in the mix and get in my grind.
It's fantastic. Kids voice is awesome.
I could absolutely see this putting on in the morning,
putting this I'm. Excited, like you could feel
like a still a little sun, but it's a little crisp outside.
It is a fantastic Fall Monday song.
Yeah. And this dude, this dude's rad.
I'm excited to see what he does more going forward.

(28:18):
I'm curious as to like his song that does have the most streams.
I don't know if it's because it was in something or if it was.
Is that a feature on Spotify? Do you know?
Can you click on a song and see what else it's on?
Oh, good question. I don't know you can 'cause you
can see other things that artistis on.
Yeah. I don't know if you can do that

(28:39):
with a song. I don't think you can.
OK, well either way, if nobody has listened yet, give Hudson
Freeman a shot. Me and Evan Thomas were talking
about him recently. This song is fantastic.
So this is a really interesting thing that like it's not new, I
guess, but it seems to be happening quicker and more often

(28:59):
now. And maybe this is a bad example
because his his Internet presence is him playing music
basically. But there is this wave of like
artists getting big who got big kind of virally first on TikTok
or Instagram or whatever, and not even always for playing
music, right? Like we've talked about PD all
the time on here. PD is just hilarious on there.

(29:20):
But then sometimes he'll talk about his music and then now
he's blowing up, dude. And then you got like Carter
Vale, same thing, the dirt man guy who's also blowing up and
like makes serious music too, but like, it's funny on TikTok.
And then this dude, like, I didn't know his name when you
said that. I didn't know any of his songs.
But as soon as I saw the photo of him, it's actually the cover
photo of the song you picked, I think.

(29:41):
Yeah, it's the, it's the little video that plays when you play
the song. I recognize this dude.
He's always like, a lot of his videos are this like him playing
in like a field, like a cornfield or something.
So I've seen this guy. So it's interesting, you know, I
mean, I guess Art's going to find whatever medium it's going
to find, but there's a lot of people that are kind of getting
big on on the interwebs, you know, who's that dude, the Tyler

(30:04):
whatever, the guy who would do like emo and pop punk versions
of other songs. And it got big on the Internet
and now he puts out albums of that stuff and like tours and
stuff. I know that there's a dude,
there's a the singer of Irie Terra used to put out reggae
covers of pop punk songs, and now he has reggae covers of pop
punk songs out. Oh, interesting.
So one of my new obsessions and I really shouldn't like this.

(30:26):
Like I'm kind of morally opposedto this and yet I watched them
anyways. There's a, there's a page called
Fake Music, and whoever does this is really good at AI shit.
And they do AI funk and soul songs of whatever.
So it'll be like like they did Killing in the Name by Rage
Against the Machine. They did.
They'll do like metal and hip hop and all kinds of stuff, but

(30:47):
whoever's doing this is so fucking good at getting it to
sound like legit 70s funk and soul music.
And some of these songs sound sounbelievably incredible.
That's like, like, I'll start sending them to you, dude.
I want to not like it 'cause I know it's AI and it it says it's
AI, it doesn't try to hide it. But I'm like, man, if a band out

(31:08):
there, if there was just like a band like a funk cover band that
was doing dope, like hip hop, metal, punk covers of shit, I
would go see that all day. All right, well, this part of
this is me delaying while I'm trying to figure out what song
to pick, because normally this would be somebody else's turn,
but they ain't here. Yeah.
So do you want to just keep going back and forth and then do

(31:30):
an honorable mention? Let's go back and forth and save
honorable mentions for last, because.
In case he shows up. I I guess in case he shows up.
And in case he shows up four of his songs at the end, I would be
so stressed out to go all four at the same time.
Yeah, that would be uncomfortable.
Yeah, I'm just double checking again.

(31:51):
Yep, no message from him. All right, here we go.
Oh man. So I'm gonna go, I think this is
this is kind of a, a similar vein of like mood where it's
like it's kind of happy, but notlike overly happy.
It's it's got this like underlying tone of like, I don't
know how to explain it like thatMonday feel, but it's kind of

(32:12):
throwback and it's very on the nose.
But I, I love this song and I I do listen to a lot of this kind
of shit. It's Monday by Mamas and Papas.
Monday, Monday. Can't trust that day.

(32:32):
Monday, Monday. Sometimes it just turns out that
way. Oh, Monday morning you gave me
no warning of what was to be. But I I do.

(32:54):
It is, but I'm cool with it. I do listen to, I do like to
listen to some like Throwback 60, like I'll put some Fleetwood
Mac on or I I want, I don't wantto name too many bands because
you might pick one, but I'll, I do like that kind of stuff in
the morning, especially a Mondaymorning, honestly, especially
like an autumn Monday morning. I want some 60s.
I would lean this more Sunday morning.

(33:17):
Yeah, it's just Mamas and Papas in general.
OK, so first of all, is it the Mamas?
It's. The Mamas and the Papas.
The Mamas and the Papas. OK, no.
So like growing up Sunday mornings, we're clean the house
day, like in my home as a child.And we listen to a lot of The
Beatles, right? It was usually breakfast.
The Beatles is what we clean too.

(33:38):
So like that's what sets this tone of like 56, like 60s, 60s,
seventies, probably stuff that Iwould grow up listening to on a
Sunday morning of like this is what you clean the house to.
So if this feels a little bit more cleaning the house Sunday
morning to me than it does Monday.
But everybody's, everybody's journey is.
Yeah, but I think that's what this is, is it's almost like a

(33:58):
weekend or Sunday hangover. It's like, I like, you don't
like, I don't want to let go of the weekend yet.
And so I'm having to transition into the to the work week kind
of a thing. Maybe that's a good way of
putting why I like to listen to this type of stuff on Mondays.
I don't know. Yeah, I am one of those grumpy
Monday guys. Not always, not every Monday,

(34:19):
but a lot of Mondays. I'm kind of one of those grumpy
Monday guys and I got to put something on to try to Get Me
Out of that. Not all again, not always, but
like Mondays are a slow go for me.
I was just having this conversation with somebody.
Recently great weekends. You have good weekends.
Don't they? I try to.
I try to. Weekend.
Well. I I, I do think I've been
weekending well. Recently shows all the time.

(34:42):
Yeah, you're a good Weekender, so I get it.
I had this conversation with somebody recently though.
T swift double who? What's up?
The new T Swift double we. Didn't talk about the new T
Swift in music news. Yeah, I, I kind of purposely
left it out 'cause it's, it's just so all over my feet right
now. I didn't want to contribute to
it. It's out.

(35:02):
It's out and it's getting mixed reviews.
Yeah. But OK, All right, back to you,
back to what you were. No, I was just saying, I was
having a conversation recently with somebody who they're like,
as I get older, I actually kind of love Monday mornings.
And then they're like, I can't even really explain why.
I just really like them now. And it's like, when do I get to
that stage in life where I like Monday mornings?

(35:23):
I'm not there yet, Don. I get it OK.
So yeah, little little singer-songwriter E group.
Yeah, there. We haven't talked about that
genre much, really. Whatever you'd call that.
Like folk? What is that?
Like pop folk? Like 60's pop folk stuff.
Yeah, just. Just just good shit.

(35:44):
Well, who else would you put in the mama's and the papa's
bucket? For like Simon and Garfunkel and
Carly Simon. Maybe like early Carly Simon
stuff. James Taylor.
Yeah. James Taylor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That like Royal Canyon crew.
Yeah, yeah. OK, I get it.
So any of that, any of that would be great.
I'd, I'd, I'd listen to some James Taylor on a Monday morning

(36:05):
for sure. Fire and fire and rain.
Yeah. Hell yeah.
Hell yeah. OK alright, I am Fall Winter.
This band gets a bum rap, rightfully so.
Not one of my favorite bands butGod damn it do they have a few
really great fucking songs and it's Greta Van Fleet.
Like they are a direct fucking replica of Led Zeppelin.

(36:26):
We can all agree to that. Like it?
It's as if you took Led Zeppelinand just they all went away and
then we redid it. I'm not going to deny that.
But man, they've got a couple ofgreat songs and the Heat Above,
it's just called Heat Above is my winter song, even though the
title is Heat Above. Because I feel like this is

(37:10):
Monday. Cold snow outside, sun shining,
window cracked to let a little cold fresh air in.
OK, and this is I got. You I like the this.
I like the picture you're painting.
Yeah, for sure. So sun, sun is out.
You know, it's probably 8/30, 9:00 in the morning because the

(37:32):
sun comes up so late in the winter.
I'm gonna crack the window a little bit and I'm gonna let
that cold breeze in. And this is the song for that
Monday morning. I'm gonna let it kind of crisp
up a little bit. Yeah, OK.
And I'm, I'm listening. I'm listening right now.
I don't know this song like I know them from some of the like
the bigger songs. I mean, this is 121 million

(37:53):
plays. It's not like it's a small song,
but right? It's I don't love Greta Van
Fleet, I don't dislike them, butman, what are your thoughts on a
band that has completely just emulated a previous band?
I think well for First off this song sounds like Rush so.
You think? I think so big time.
But I think it's something that should not be really done.

(38:16):
But if you're going to do it, you have to be so good and you
have to have such good songs. And they have both of those
things. They're obviously very talented
and they have really good songs,so I think they get away with
it. Like I, I will listen to some
Greta Van Fleet too. And the whole time I'm thinking,
man, this is like the best Led Zeppelin song Led Zeppelin ever
wrote. But that only works because it's
a good song, you know what I'm saying?

(38:37):
Like. I can listen to 8 Greta Van
Fleet songs and then I'm I'm good.
I, I love all eight of them. I'm like, fuck, these are great
songs. Great.
Like the like musically, their fucking music is fantastic.
Like the song, the songs are outstanding, the vocals, the
lyrics, whatever, but the songs themselves are so good.

(38:59):
And then you bring in his vocals, in his, in his lyrics,
and it's fucking, it's Led Zeppelin, but.
It is. Yeah, after 8 I'm like, I don't
want to hear this kids voice anymore.
I'm good. But this song specifically is my
Monday winter. Crack the window.
See my breath in the office. They also kind of came up after
that like classic rock revival stuff happened though, where

(39:20):
those bands weren't like rippingoff another singular band, but
they were like going back to a sound like the Darkness and Jet
and some of that stuff that we're doing like, yeah, but I'm
but they were Greta Van Fleet were like so young when they
started, weren't they? Like in high school when they
started? So I I guess, I guess if I'm
giving them some grace, it's like maybe they came up
listening. They probably didn't.

(39:41):
They probably just came up listening to Zeppelin and
classic rock and we're like, I can sing like that.
I I don't know, but maybe they came up under some of those
other bands and we're like like Wolfmother, that kind of stuff.
Like, but see those bands did itwhere it's like, it's kind of
that sound, but it's original still.
It's like an original band. I got a I'm a little worried
about my summer song, but we'll we'll keep cruising.

(40:03):
Well, I've got, let's see which direction do I want to go now.
So I I also, I do tend to go Britpop on Mondays quite often
too. I actually did think about doing
some Oasis, but I'm not going todo Oasis for this.
I love this song. This does start to put me in a
better mood on a Monday. But I'm going to go with the

(40:24):
laws. There she goes.

(40:52):
Oh for sure, thousand people have covered this.
This song is so good. It's perfect.
It's a perfect song. That's not an OG take I think.
I think Yossi, she does those. She did a few of those like
perfect song episodes on bands playing and I think one of them
is about this song and I agree it is perfect.
Don't change a thing. Don't cover it, people.

(41:14):
I know you have already, but don't because it's perfect.
But this album is really good too.
And I know this is an an album podcast, but people should they
only put this one album out? They have one yeah.
And this whole album is great. Go listen to the laws.
It's self-titled big ol eyeball on the cover, you know, but this
is. Just such a only released one

(41:34):
album, That's crazy. Pretty sure.
I believe you. Yeah, when I mean it's just one
album. There's there's some like live
sessions and you know, like there's somebody's trying to
stretch some shit out of them, but they only had one studio
album. So, but this is this song is
just kind of like a, it's like such a feel good song.
It's like, it's like all the movies it's in.

(41:55):
It's in all those like ROM coms and all those like just make you
feel good. Yeah.
Absolutely type of movie. That's 'cause that's what kind
of song it is. So this, this'll this'll
usually. How many movies this song is in
dude? That should be an app because
it's even hard to find that justGoogling sometimes like.
Can we spend the Patreon money to create the app of how many

(42:17):
movies? Fuck.
Nobody steal this idea. Nobody take this idea from us.
We're gonna, we're gonna use thePatreon.
You guys all be contributors. I just wonder if I do.
He already has a section of there where you can search songs
'cause if they don't. I just wouldn't end the mic.
Up on their part. My Google and the last thing I
googled is what does it mean when grasshoppers are in your

(42:38):
dreams? And I need to know.
Dreaming of grasshoppers can symbolize various meanings,
including freedom, independence,and enlightenment, but also
represents indecision or fear ofcommitment to a task.
Alternatively, depending on the context and the culture,
grasshoppers can symbolize good luck, prosperity, or fertility,
or conversely, famine, disaster,or financial loss.

(43:01):
Fuck, let's hope it was positive.
I had a lot of are you trying toare you trying to unleash a
famine upon, upon the world, Don?
Maybe. Don't do that.
No, I won't like in Joseph in the amazing Techniclare
Dreamcoat. I had the Elvis solo and the
Joseph Medley in high school. Did you?
Singing on the streets of Disney?
Yeah. Fuck yeah.

(43:21):
Wait, singing on the streets of Disney?
Yeah, my choir. You.
Performed at Disney. Yeah, choir did, and I sang on
the streets of Disney. How am I just now learning this?
You were singing on the streets of Disney.
I thought we talked about this. I wore a Elvis wig.
Yo. I wore an Elvis wig and Elvis
glasses for when I did my solo. Did and you?
Did you dance too? Fuck yeah I did did.

(43:43):
You do the moves. Hell yeah.
I know that I did many moves. I had a choir robe on.
Right. Yeah.
Little, little, little, little this action at least.
Yeah, a little back and forth sway.
I had the Elvis wig under my choir robe and I put it on
before I did my part. Oh shit.
That's fantastic. Dude, we've fallen dramatically
off. Did you find?

(44:03):
Out how many years? No, I couldn't find it.
I just hope it's some. I just hope someday you just
randomly get on the pod with an Elvis wig on and just don't
tell. Me, damn it.
Yeah, and then I pick songs fromJoseph in the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat. Yeah, it's it's too hard to find
like it. Google always gives you a
handful of movies, but it's always like, yeah, but it's
definitely more than this. But right off the top, it's in
So I married an Axe murderer. Great movie.

(44:24):
Parent Trap, the 98 version, it's in Snow Day.
Great fucking movie. It's in.
Bring it on, it's in girl interrupted.
What else? So I married an entrepreneur.
It would be a great movie soundtrack, song, movie
soundtrack. Mix tape it.
Would be, yeah, Yep. So it's in a lot.

(44:48):
All right, what you got? Spring, summer.
No no, I did fall, winter, spring.
I'm in spring. Dude.
We talked about them recently and I originally I thought it
was a joke and I was like, this is kind of a fucking joke.
And then the more I've listened to, the more fucking fantastic
he is. And Carpet Man is incredible.

(45:08):
And so my spring song is Carpet Man.
You will never know it. 21 million streams, 1.7 million

(45:41):
listens. I can't remember where he's
from. Son of a bitch.
I should have had that on on. On deck.
On deck. Yeah, that's the word I'm
looking for. Absolutely incredible.
He's Ukrainian. I.
Don't know if he's writing the songs, I don't know who's
producing it. I don't know where it came from.
He's unbelievable. It is like if Steve Riola from

(46:03):
his episode likes Pale Jay. You need to dip your tone carpet
man because it is so good. Yeah, I've I've heard some of it
and I remember the first time I ever saw him it was on I think
it was on Instagram or somethingand I thought the photo was like
AI like 'cause he wears cause the weight it's so tight and
stuff and it's. Not so tight.
It looks so clean, like some like, and it's his whole body,

(46:25):
it's not just his face. Yep, but another one of these
masked singers, man. Yeah, I don't know enough about
him, but I it's something I am very much so looking into,
digging into. And I will tell you this,
another big highlight about Carpet Man Chicago not in the
top five list. Not in the top.
There's no American cities on there.

(46:45):
There's no American cities on there, but Carpet Man is
crushing, and this song is. So good having that it has that
like new newish like country hiphop vibe to it.
Really, I guess this song does alittle bit, but like all of his
other stuff, does not. OK.
It's just kind of soul. It's a little bit like soul R&B.

(47:07):
It's great, dude, it's so good. Fucking great.
And like, I'm not. It's really funny because, like,
do I love a gimmick? I don't care.
But like, what a hard gimmick tolean into to make such good
songs. Yeah, very good.
I'm here for Carpet Man. I'm here for this song.

(47:28):
I'm here for a lot of the stuff I've listened to quite a bit at
this point. I thought it was a joke.
I'm glad that it's not. Carpet Man's the shit.
I'm glad that it's not too. Yeah.
That is the one, I guess that's the one kind of downfall is you
have to breakthrough the is it ajoke barrier first?
That's true. And then I mean, once if you
become established or big, then you know, then you're fine.

(47:48):
But like you probably do have tobreakthrough, breakthrough that
barrier of like, is this what isthis this joke?
Is this? This fucking guy, his face looks
like a fucking rug. Yeah, a nice rug though.
Like a Persian. Rug really tie the room
together. I'm gonna go with my other kind
of on the nose one. OK, all I got left this summer.

(48:10):
Yeah, you guys. Summer left.
I'm gonna go with another sort of on the nose vibe wise.
It's it's not as on the nose from a.
It's not like it's called Monday.
Is the word Monday in the song. No, it's not.
Blue Monday. No, it's not by orgy.
It's well, I'll just I'll just throw it out there.
But it's it's in my way, maybe the best way to start just like

(48:32):
start a week like if I'm if I'm if I'm not thinking of it just
as a Monday and I'm like, I got to really kick my week off this
week. I need like a pump up my This is
almost like my version of a pep talk song, which is today by
Smashing Pumpkins. Oh, that's cute.

(49:14):
Honestly, and it might be a little corny, but it really
works, dude. I listen, so it's part of it.
Is the whole album like this is my if I need to legit shift my
mood, I can put Siamese Dream onand I will come out the backside
of that album in a significantlyimproved mood.
It really does make me happy. And the song is is probably at

(49:36):
the center of that from like a mood standpoint.
It's not necessarily my favoritesong on the record, but it is it
is just a jam. I want to I want to head bang.
I want to sing along to it. I want to be in the ice cream
truck in the music video or get ice cream from it at least.
I want to run around in a field.I want to be spun around in a

(49:57):
big tractor tire down a downhill.
So you know I'm gonna do all those things.
So I did a, this has nothing to do with Monday mornings, but it
has to do with today. So and we had a film, we had
like a the I don't know if they still do it at my high school,
but somebody they had the idea to do like a Film Festival my

(50:20):
senior year of high school at myhigh school.
And a lot of people entered it was pretty cool and they like
showed the movies in like the auditorium, like on a big screen
and everything. And like, people attended and
they gave gave rewards and shit are very good.
They were OK. I mean, they were fine for high
school movies. My friends Matt and David, they
did a movie, so they filmed it, but they didn't know how to edit

(50:42):
or do any of that shit. So they're basically like, hey,
and they asked me after they'd already filmed it, but they were
like, Hey, can you actually editthis for us?
And so I edited, edited and soundtracked it.
And there's a moment where a dude wakes up to an alarm clock.
Typical, you know, cheesy movie moment or like alarm goes off
and then he hits the button or whatever.

(51:03):
And I kicked it off with today by Smashing Pumpkins and but I
made it loud as fuck and they won best movie or we won.
I guess. I got a certificate too.
I put a lot of work into editingthat too, because they gave me
raw camcorder kind of footage, you know?

(51:23):
Do you still have the certificate?
Somewhere I do, and somewhere I still have the VHS tape with
that movie on it. Probably at my parents place.
It was a. Really depressing film.
Actually, really depressing movie.
But short film. They're all short films.
Would you? Would you do the pumpkins on a
Monday? I don't know that I would do the
pumpkins by themselves. If I put on like an alt rock

(51:47):
playlist and the pumpkins came on, I would be totally fine with
it. OK, I don't know that there's a
lot of pumpkins that I would just I I I'm not.
I don't dislike the pumpkins. I dislike Billy Corgan.
I don't dislike the pumpkins. Sure, but I don't know that I'm
gonna jump into a lot of Smashing Pumpkins albums.
I mean, I just listened. I just listened to the 1st 17

(52:11):
seconds of today and I'm alreadyin a better mood.
Hell yeah. That wasn't even a bad one, but
it's better now. Your Siamese dream is my Weezer.
The Blue Album. I could totally see it.
That's that's my album that OK first track to last track.
There's like I have maybe 3 albums, Weezer, the Blue album

(52:34):
through being cool. There's probably a couple others
that it's like this is the albumto fix what's broken.
Yep, yeah, yeah. That's a great way to put it.
Like something's up and then youget I got to fix it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I got Siamese Dream
self-titled Foo Fighters, and you're not going to want to hear
it, but probably Beck Odell. It's safe to assume.

(52:56):
Although you probably talk aboutWeezer as much as I talk about
Beck to be. Fair.
You think? No.
You bring up Beck more than I donow.
Here's the here's the difference.
There are two good, There's 2 1/2 good Weezer albums.
But I think Beck's catalog is great, right?
Beck's catalog is pretty good. It's great, Yep.
That's fair. 2 1/2 good Weezer albums you know so.
All right. Yeah, my last scooting.

(53:19):
And scooting into summer now. Summertime.
Summertime. Monday.
Monday, Summertime. Scooting on into summer.
Monday morning summer, The BlackKeys tighten up.
I wanted love. I needed love most of all.
Most of all. Someone said you love was dead

(53:44):
and I'm bound to fall. Bound to fall for you.
What can I? Do yeah, that's a good pick.
You're not stoked on that pick? I was.

(54:06):
Scared. You were nervous about your
summer one. I was scared that The Black Keys
were on another mix tape and I can't find them because you
fucked up the Google Doc. I was scared that it was a
little too close to Greta Van Fleet.
And like when you were talking about like that vintage rock
revival, The Black Keys kind of fell into that as well.
Sure. Different, yeah.

(54:27):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. But I feel great about the role
that that song would play in a Monday morning in the
summertime. Yeah.
Like that's a a great Monday summer track.
Is this? So First off, a couple things.
One, I just double checked, it has not, they have not been on
a, they've not been on a playlist before.
So this is a first, first Black Keys pick.

(54:48):
Did you get into them at this record, which is when a lot of
people got into them 'cause thisis the record that started to
blow up? Yes, this is when I got in The
Black Keys. OK, I was not a cooler enough
person to get into The Black Keys prayer I think.
One, I think this song's been covered a bunch.
I don't know that for sure, but I think I've heard other
versions of the song, but this is the original.
So they did the song originally,which is dope.
This album's great. The two shit no, they had like 4

(55:12):
albums before this didn't they? They.
Had a ton. Yeah, so I this isn't what like
AI was cool. I knew them before.
It was more like Zach. It is when I lived, when I lived
with Zach. Zach got me into The Black Keys
and I I got really into Rubber Rubber Factory, which is one of
their early ones. I don't know, they're all out of

(55:33):
order on here, but they, yeah, they had the freakness.
They had magic potion attack andrelease.
Yeah, all that shit was before this.
But yeah, this album blew them up, dude.
This album was massive. I mean, for Christ's sake,
Howlin for You has half a billion streams.
Yeah. Which is off this album.
This was I think the first single off this album.
And then tighten up. I don't know which one came

(55:53):
first but both are great. Fucking.
You mean as singles, you mean? Yeah.
Oh, that's a good question. I'm trying to put myself back in
those back in those places and. What's crazy is that Lonely Boy
has more streams than both of these, and Lonely Boy was on the
album after this. Yeah, that album was huge, too,

(56:14):
though. Yeah.
Gold on the ceiling. I remember how big that song I
was playing that that that became like a stadium, like a
sports stadium song for a while.Yeah.
So the side, side note, but thisis something that Spotify does
that annoys me. And I guess Spotify doesn't do
it. I, I guess it's whoever's
putting who, whatever the distributor is that puts the
music on the streaming platforms.
But like, if you go to their discography on here and you go

(56:38):
all the way back to their first album, The Big Come Up, then
Thick Freakness in 2003, then The Moan in 2004, on and on and
on. It says Rubber Factory came out
in 2016. Well, after these other ones.
It didn't. It was like their third or
fourth. So it must have been reissued in
2016. And you mean that the reissues
reflect the dates when they werereissued versus the original

(56:59):
release? And then it makes it look like
it came out after all this otherstuff we're talking about.
And it didn't it was like their third or fourth record.
And I don't know why that it kind of bothers me because like,
I know that about this band, butwhen I'm going looking in band,
I don't know, like I won't kind of want to look at if I'm
looking at their releases. I want to know it's the actual
order that they have released, you know?
Yeah, but they have a new, they have a new album out in that No

(57:21):
Rain No Flower song or they haveone coming out, I think, but I
don't know it's out. No Rain No Flowers is a good
song dude. OK, I'll give it a whirl.
I put it on my 2025 playlist that I keep for myself.
That's adorable. All right.
So that's, that's it for our normal pick, right?
Yeah. That's 8. 2345678 that's 8.

(57:45):
So now we're into now Mike's picks.
We're into Mike's picks. Yeah, Mike's picks.
Had we even said until now who? Who stood us up?
We hadn't. Now we have.
Fuck dude we got stood up holy shit.
We got stood up. Damn, have you?
Ever been stood up before? I don't know, I'll have to think

(58:06):
about that. Probably safe to assume.
I'm not sure either. Probably have, probably have.
I'm going to stand you up on thenext episode.
Just not going to show up and it's going to be you and the
guest. Don't do that.
That's mean. I don't.
You booked the next guest and I don't.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Neither do I.
That's fair. Yeah.

(58:27):
All right. Honorable mentions here.
Wait, these are these are like honorable?
These are real though, Sorry. Here's your wait.
They were in my honorable mentions.
They are now official picks on this mix.
Yeah, these carry these carry some weight, OK.
So I I think you know this song,but you probably got you
probably won't know from me, me saying it, so you have to go
listen. But you know this song, this is
probably honestly what I legit put on the most on a Monday.

(58:50):
It just almost felt to me of a pick, if that makes any sense at
all. But it's I was kind of trying to
avoid it, but now that we're in these, I'm going for it.
So the song is called So Easy, but the band, if I am
pronouncing it right, which I don't know that I will, is
Royksop. You know, Royk SOP.

(59:38):
No, nobody knows. Fucking Royk SOP.
Yeah, they do. ROYS or sorry, ROYKSOPP.
RO. YKSOPP.
Nobody knows Royk SOP. Yes you do.
First off, 2 easy 2.4 million monthly listeners.
So don't be that OK. It's like chill electronic

(01:00:01):
stuff. Is there a Reich SOP song that I
would know because I don't recognize this.
One if you let it play. I don't know.
I don't believe you. No, I don't know Reich SOP I.
Don't know, they've done a bunchof stuff with other people.
The O has unlouts K. The O has unlouts.
Yep, they've done stuff with like Robin.
They did a whole album with Robin so you'd probably know

(01:00:23):
those. Do it again.
I love Robin. Was, I think the was I think the
big single off that record. They're done stuff with Bjork.
I think they're Icelandic or no?They're no.
I get why I get why. You're absolutely right.
This is a very Roderick pick. It's a very me pick and it's
it's and it's real. This is like a legit Monday
morning for me. I probably put on Melody AM or
I'm going to put on, you know, some if I if I'm feeling more

(01:00:45):
popular, I do like that EP, the Robin EP, I'll put on do it
again or something like that. But it's good shit.
Yeah, they're Norwegian. It's got that does have that
kind of like I only see sun fivemonths of the year.
Is that Norway like that? I know Iceland's like that,
whatever, but it's got that vibeto it, you know?
So but yeah, no, they're big just in this kind of music.

(01:01:08):
So I'm actually a little surprised.
You don't you? I feel like in that era of like
early 2000s when like some of those like dance bands were
getting those like indie dance bands were getting big.
I feel like this these guys werebig then, but maybe, maybe that
was just me listening to that stuff, not you.
Probably hold on trying to find Carlina's episode throughout all
of these fucking tabs. Songs that make your eyes leak.

(01:01:31):
What season was Carlina on? Season 1.
Pretty sure she was pretty sure.What?
What did you title the episode? Songs that make the eyes leak.
OK cool. It must have been an honourable
mention then. OK, well fucking A the eels
you're have. Did you put novocaine for your
soul on or do we both honorable mention that?
I think I had it as an honorablemention unless I put it on an

(01:01:53):
unlucky once. OK, so the Eels, the album is
Daisy's from the Galaxy. I think the song is a springtime
Monday song and it's called I Like Birds.
I. Don't care for walking downtown.
Crazy auto car gonna move? Me down.

(01:02:15):
All the people like cows in the herd will I like birds.
If you're small and all the search, I've got a theater for
you to. Come do I know this song?

(01:02:37):
Nope, but this album is a fucking masterpiece.
This album's great. I do know the song 'cause I know
this album. Album's unbelievable, and the
album isn't necessarily a lot ofupbeat shit, but they're like,
this album is a roller coaster of emotions.
Like there are songs everywhere.Daisy's From the Galaxy, the

(01:02:59):
song that the album is titled after is a masterpiece.
It's a mother fucker is a masterpiece.
Like this album is so good. But I Like Birds is the perfect
spring song. It's perfect Monday morning
spring song. So this is a great pick.
I'm very happy you picked the song.

(01:03:19):
This album is amazing. If anybody's into this kind of
like quirky 90's rock indie rocks.
Like I know Eels maybe even got bigger in the 2000s 'cause they
had that Hombre Lobo album that had like a couple big songs on
it and they like they did the theme song for Peaky.
Was it Peaky Blinders or what song?

(01:03:42):
What song was the theme song Fresh Blood?
What? What was that?
The theme song too? Fresh blood.
Yeah. Anyway, this album that you're
talking about, dude, Daisies of the Galaxy, I remember, I think,
I think the reason you you were worried it came up before is
because I remember when I was talking about how he used to
record like, music videos and live like late night
performances of bands on like VHS tapes.

(01:04:04):
Yeah, I talked about Eels because they did a performance
during this album cycle on ConanO'Brien where the eels dude was
playing like an organ and went crazy and like flipped the OR
like was hanging upside down from the organ and like doing
all kinds of wild shit. And I still remember that to
this day. It's really, I can't find that
live performance on YouTube, butI know it exists and it was on

(01:04:28):
this album cycle. It was on Daisies of the Galaxy.
It's crazy because of their top 10 tracks, I like Birds is #7
otherwise there are no other songs from Daisies from the
Galaxy in their top 10. Nope.
Which is nuts because like, Eelsare great.

(01:04:48):
Been around for a long time, done the thing for a long time.
But like, this was their crescendo man.
Like Daisies from the Galaxy is perfect Track 1 to track 12 or
however many are on it, it's perfect.
I think this is their best album, but they I think that's
why I kind of brought that up isthey put out more albums that
got that kept them relevant. So I think they like in the

(01:05:08):
streaming era, they've had some more hits.
And so like I think it pushed those old songs out of their top
10 on here. But you're right, like, well,
they had a two run. Was it A2 run go cuz beautiful
freak. That the girl, The one with the
eyes. The girl.
But I had novocaine for the soulon it, so like that was.
Huge. Huge.
Track huge. Yeah.
So what was the single? Sorry, what was the what was the

(01:05:31):
other single off of Daisies of the Galaxy?
Because I Like Birds isn't the song I remember them playing
live on like late night shows? Fuck I know what it is, but I
got to see the title. Was it flyswatter or?
Nope, no, hold on, I'm scrolling.
Packing blankets maybe? God, they've released so much
music, man. They've released a lot of music,
dude. As I'm scrolling through their

(01:05:52):
album list. I think Flyswatter is what they
were playing on Conan O'Brien, but I could be wrong.
So that was my first exposure tothem I think.
But now I have to know what showFresh Blood is the intro on Damn
it. Yeah, make that happen too.
Shit. This is a Monday morning track.
This is a Monday morning mixtape.
But I'm going to listen to this album as soon as we're done.

(01:06:13):
What's your second or last honorable mention slash Real
time pick? This is my last pick.
This is your last pick. My last pick yeah, I'm going to
go with game time decision here.Game time decision I'm I'm
actually going to go with kind of like a similar vibe to well,

(01:06:33):
different musical vibe to eels, but band that was like kind of
well, they they were never as relevant as the eels Nevermind.
I'm not going to compare them, but they did put out like one
really good album that I think is underappreciated because it
has a a single that overshadowedit.
But did you ever, I feel like wetalked about this recently, did
you ever actually really listen to Marcy Playground outside of

(01:06:55):
just sex and Candy being on the radio?
I do feel like we did. I think Jason, this came up with
Jason, but nobody cared about that band.
Outside of Sex and Candy, nobodydid.
I did. I had their first two albums and
Dork, and actually if you go on their Spotify, they still have,
they have a lot of listeners still.
How many? And by the way, Sex and Candy is
not my pick. They have 2.65 million monthly

(01:07:18):
listeners. First, most listen to track.
Is sex and candy, But how many of the rest of their top all has
more than two million listeners?Candy 311 million.
What's the next track? 21 million.
Not a relevant pant man, not a relevant Oh, I didn't.
Say they were relevant. I'm just saying like. 2 million

(01:07:39):
monthly listeners are listening to Sex and Candy an A Alt Rock
90s playlist. What I'm saying is that that
first, that album is a good album and it it shows Like they
have like 5 albums, but all seven of their top 10, No 8 of
their top 10 is just all off that album.
Yeah, it's 'cause the only thingthey did that was relevant.

(01:07:59):
The thing I'm putting on keep. Trying to sell me on Marcy's
playground. Shapeshifter is a good album.
Go listen to Shapeshifter. Shapeshifter doing it, poppies.
From the ground, some magic they've found.
I'm something far better, I'm told.
Yeah. Poppy.

(01:08:32):
Yeah. Talk to me about the Monday when
you're listening to Marcy's playground.
It's it's it's straight up 90s alt rock, which is my kind of
wheelhouse. But it's weird.
It's got that like underlying weirdness of his voice and the
creepiness of their lyrics. And it's got this cool, kind of

(01:08:55):
like, almost, almost like Toady's esque rhythm to it, to
the guitar riff, which, you know, I'm a fan of that kind of
stuff. Yep.
And the chorus is just a one word chorus, which I I can
appreciate. It's just the word poppies.
OK, I don't know. I'm I'll you will have crowd
listeners would have crowd listeners.
I've heard it by now because I would have played a clip.

(01:09:17):
And maybe you all go and you listen to the 1997 self-titled
Marcy Playground album and maybeyou discover an alt rock band
that was better than being reserved being a one.
And while you're at it, if you want to go listen to
Shapeshifter, especially the opening track at Saturday, which
is a great song. What's the Monday from Marcy's
playground look like? Monday from Marcy's Playground

(01:09:39):
as I just got to get through this day.
I just, I just got to get through this day and I'm, I'm,
I'm resigned to the fact that I'm not going to be in good
mood. I don't, that doesn't
necessarily mean I'm grumpy or in a bad mood.
I'm just like, I got to get through this day and I'm
probably just jamming all day tolike 90s alt stuff, which is
probably why I'm getting deep enough to listen to Marcy
Playground. Might have started with some

(01:10:00):
Third Eye Blind, yeah, maybe some pumpkins, maybe some
Nirvana even. But so eventually I'll get to
Marcy Playground so. Deeper in the mixtape, deeper in
the playlist. Got it.
Do you have any honorable mentions left since Mike forced
us to use our honorable mentionsfor his tracks?
Yeah, but hold on. I just got a message from him.
Oh my God, dude. I'm so sorry.

(01:10:21):
Very unlikely. Very unlike me.
Are we? Am I doxing him right now?
Is this considered like? Yeah, yeah.
We're doxed being doxed. We're.
Unlike me to miss an very unlikeme to miss an appointment.
Ended up having to babysit my niece at the house all weekend.
My phone died, so I missed my own reminder.
For this, I'm very sorry. I mean, he's a, he's a, he's a
delightful man. He's a delight.

(01:10:42):
Absolutely delightful. Man, I don't disagree.
Probably. Do we give him a do we give him
a rain check? Does he get an episode on the
season still or did he miss his?Yeah, yeah, I know he can get an
episode on the season, OK, But let me tell you, let me tell you
right now, the ridicule is coming fast and loose.
Yeah. So he can have an episode, but
it's going to be a tough one forhim.

(01:11:04):
All right, you, you get another.You have one more pick before we
do honorable mentions. Oh, yeah, I do.
Yeah, you do. OK, summertime.
I'm picking another summer Monday.
OK, another Monday in the summertime and I'm going to go
cool and collected Sublime With Rome featuring Slightly Stupid
I'm feeling. Cool, cool and collected.

(01:11:51):
You're going to make me write down Sublime With Rome featuring
Slightly Stupid. Yep, cool and collected Sublime
With Rome featuring Slightly stupid.
Are you typing? Are you physically writing?
Nope, typing it in. This is a very.
Dawn Monday. Yep, here's here's the Monday
that it is. This is Memorial Day.

(01:12:14):
OK, I ain't working today. I'm off this.
Oh day off Monday. Oh day off Monday.
Three day weekend dog. I'm off this Monday.
Wow. And I am just feeling the extra
day off and it feels great. It feels good.
It feels cool and collected, I'll tell you that much.

(01:12:34):
OK, I'm taking the day off. This this does feel very day
off. Totally.
It is. And it's an it's an unexpected.
Well, I mean, it's expected because it's Memorial Day, but
you have the day off. If we listened, if we didn't
talk about ourselves on this podcast at all, right, like if
we if it was strictly music picks and we had gotten to what
is this, episode 54 and people were just listening, they would

(01:12:56):
think you were such a pothead, dude.
Yeah. The amount of you're you just go
hard for reggae. I do and sublime and.
Stuff, you know, and I'm not saying that you have to smoke
because you obviously don't, butI think people might think
you're a pothead, dude. That's fair.
I'm OK with that. Yeah, I think it is.
I mean. But for Christ's sake, this
band, the pick that I had, is featuring a band called

(01:13:19):
Slightly. Stupid spelled ST0 0PID.
So, so fucking bad. And you know the guy in cart,
guy on the covers holding the. I mean, I'm a I'm a self
deprecating reggae listener understanding how silly it is.
Right. But I have no qualms with how

(01:13:41):
much I love it. Forever ago someone shared an
Instagram post with me of a picture of someone that they saw
that was a doppelganger of me, but the reggae version.
But they had dreads. Please tell me they had white
guy dreads. They do have white guy dreads.
I'm going to look for it, but I need you to fill time in the

(01:14:03):
meantime because I'm going to find it in my photos.
Do you have any honorable mentions that?
Well, yeah, let me go through myhonorable mentions while while
you're looking for that. I really only, I mean since we
went into ours, I really only have one honorable mention I
guess which is just another alt song but Counting Blue Cars by

(01:14:24):
Dishwalla. Oh.
OK, yeah, you're listening to more alt rock.
Yep. I mean, if I had to go, if I had
to go even deeper than that withsome kind of like off the cuff,
off the cuff ones, I would say maybe like like back on 74 by
jungle, Like if I'm trying to get in a good mood, you know,
like really cool, upbeat, dancey, kind of so like jungle's

(01:14:47):
just a mood and you know, I'll pop on some jungle.
Yeah. Not jungle the genre, jungle the
band. Just to clarify, you still you
still looking I'm? Still looking.
I understood a good job of organizing my phone photos, but
I only had one honorable mentionthat wasn't on it and I'm so
stoked that I didn't have to useit because it has been on a

(01:15:09):
previous mixtape exact song. OK.
And it would have been All at Once by Pete Yorn, which we
talked about. Yeah, we have.
And it was on the unlucky. So it was almost like an
afterthought then to be an afterthought again.
Two time afterthought. Two time.
Yeah, but I didn't have to use it.

(01:15:30):
It's not a real pick. It's not a real song that I had
to use. So we're safe, thank goodness.
You being a big Pete Yorn fan isa little bit of a surprise to me
and I don't know why. Like I, I should.
I mean, you have a diverse musictaste, but I don't know.
Yeah. Let me tell you something as I'm
still scrolling looking for thisphoto, which I don't think we're
going to find, so I'm going to have to find it post podcast to

(01:15:53):
send to you, OK? I have so many photos in my
phone and I only recognize the photos that I have based on what
they fall next to, like old, oldphotos.
And I think I'm getting close. No way to tell.
Got it, got it. Yeah, dude, every time I see

(01:16:14):
every time I fucking see this. Photo It'd be great content for
the. Patriots, it weirds me out a
little bit more. Tell me that that is not the
reggae version of me. Oh my God, dude.
Dude. Oh my God.
Oh my God, right. It's a dude.
It is, it is. It's like 70% reggae, 30% Blues
Traveler. It's so creepy how much I feel

(01:16:36):
like that looks just like me. Dude, that is uncomfortable.
I'm uncomfortable looking at that photo.
I don't want to look at that anymore.
He's an artist. Like visual artist or music
artist that I can look. Up visual artist Visual artist A
Brooks art at a Brooks art. I'm so happy I found that.
Aaron Brooks, this is name. Do we still look a lot alike

(01:17:00):
because that photo was from a long time ago?
He still has got the dreads. Hell yeah.
I'm in the video a little bit less because he's talking and
obviously you guys speak differently, right?
Like the way you move your face and stuff.
But like I could in a still image, he would still look like
your doppelganger, yes? That's awesome.
I'm so stoked on that. Dude.
It's crazy, right? His art could also be the could

(01:17:23):
also be slightly stupid album art.
For sure, absolutely. Maybe it has been.
I hope it has been. All right, well, so that was an
interesting little audible of anepisode there that I had felt I
felt under prepared for having to pick extra songs and and and
fill more space. I feel good about it, sure.

(01:17:43):
I think we did a great job. Hopefully, I mean the episodes
are just the two of us don't tend to do as well, so hopefully
people. I'm going to order you an A
Brooks art Fingerboard you. Know me so well.
You know me so well, Brooks Art.Oh, do you know me well, Sir?
All right, you want to you want to read through the list.

(01:18:04):
Let's fire out this bitch. OK?
Cool. Broken Bells.
The High Road. Hudson Freeman, if you know me.
Mamas and the The Mamas and the Papas.
Monday. Monday, Greta Van Fleet.
Heat above the laws. There she goes.
Carpet man. You will never know it.
Smashing Pumpkins today The Black Keys tighten up.
Fuck. Say it again.

(01:18:25):
Say it, Royksop. Royksop so easy.
The Eels. I like birds.
Marcy's Playground. Poppy's cool and collected
Sublime With Rome featuring Slightly Stupid.
There we go. Now some.
Little Mix tomorrow, what I hopethat this episode, episode
episode does do well because I I'm stoked on a lot of my songs.

(01:18:50):
I'm very stoked on Hudson Freeman.
I'm very stoked on carpet man, carpet man.
I hope I didn't waste these. Yeah, yeah, I, I'm, I'm actually
stoked on this, this mix tape too.
I guess I have to. I guess it's on me to sync with
sequence this because you did the last unlucky ones.
You know what make Mike sequenceand still.
Make Mike do it. Yeah, fuck.
Yeah, Mike, sequence this fucking mix tape.

(01:19:12):
Sweet. I will.
I like that. That's good.
Hey Mike, you got homework, bro.You don't show up, you get
fucking homework. How too many?
That's two in the bag now, man. What?
Do you mean 2 for season 5? It's 22 episodes in the bag.

(01:19:34):
I know I've got. We got to really, we got to
really backlog some of these before you go to Japan.
November 5th November 5th through.
The know what I mean? We gotta have a grip.
In fact, I'll record as much as you want because I can be
editing while you're in Japan putting these things out, so.
We record the 13th so we'll haveanother episode then all.

(01:19:56):
Right man. Right buddy.
Well, enjoy your Sunday. I'm going to farmers market now.
I'm going to farmers market. I'm going to bike ride.
This is a real. Enjoy the day, hey go you go.
Weekend hard. I'm going to weekend part of
shit and then I'm listen this mix tape tomorrow morning and we
should sequence it and also we should make Mike sequence it and
then berate him for doing a bad job.
See, you did better. Oh, Speaking of which, we both

(01:20:18):
agreed that Tony's sequence was wrong.
Tony did it wrong. Yeah, that's unfortunate that he
sequenced it so incorrectly. And I'm the best part about him
doing it wrong is that you and Iwere aligned with doing it the
right way. We both sent each other the same
message at the same time. It was one of those situations
where I was messaging you what he should have opened with and
as soon as I went to him send use, I got a message from you

(01:20:39):
saying the same thing, which is he should have opened with
Thursday. Yeah, 100% yeah, he.
Should have opened with Thursday.
Yep. Sorry, Tony.
All right. Thanks buddy.
Thanks dude. Bye.