Common Man Hour 1

Common Man Hour 1 --Wall of St. Paul --ROK TOK --Rock Rank

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bad common man, common man, no show pep, no solid
plan says the art begins, a sect approach will fail
to it. It's time for common man, com man, common man, charge.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The housewords a con can what you should where we play?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's nonsense on deck today to the man, it's time
for common man.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Why should anybody aspire to be a common man? An
average man? Do you realize what it means to be average?
That means you're the best of the lousiest and the
lousiest of the best. Now, if we demand more and
more for producing less and less while they have not
nations and courage and inspire and indeed require hard work
and maximum effort. If we deify the common man while

(00:57):
they encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well, the end
result of such a luck sided race as that is
too obvious to require elaboration.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I mean it's like, hello, we'll head to.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
A buffalo down the road. I think the weather, of course,
having spent a lot of time in Minnesota, I understand
the see weather pattern, pick up the cow cut of clipper,
swings down, swings up, lake front, influence and out. I
think we'll probably have about forty five degree weather so

(01:32):
it will not be a typical October thirty first in Buffalo.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah wow, Monday night Footfallmer, what are you doing.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
For the state of hockey? And I think that brings
that song. I've seen enough out of cousins. Paul put
him on ice.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'm gonna say some kind of.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Nuts and boats. We got screwed. Time for two more questions, guys, yep,
but I want to win, and I want to win now.

(02:36):
I'm a limited I think we got I think we
have a very good mix right now.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
I mean the Morning show does well comparatively speaking, especially
given what it has to go against.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Dober's and I have done well knock on win for
four years. Common and Hartman have done o.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Camberrera is in my estimation, the prime time play station
and cultivating a couple of kids in the sledge in
Lake and you know, we have the Vikings and maybe
some things down the road.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
So I think we're strong right now. Tuesday Night, you
loud enough.

Speaker 7 (03:11):
But he's the clown from Brown, He's the fourth in
the North.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
This is the common Man, Dan Cole Yah dot, what.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Are you got?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I'm Comedy's Kenneby and you know I don't remember Tennebe.
Maybe you can.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Maybe maybe you can.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
Maybe it's a jog your memory. I don't remember if
it was one. We're now owned by a company called
iHeart Media. iHeart Radio, Bob Bob Ba ba bab, I Love,
iHeart Tannebe loves iHeart, I Love iHeart, I always have
and I always will. We've had like nine different names.
We were owned it when I first started working here.

(03:54):
I don't know it was Evergreen or we've had ever
We've had clear Channel in several other names of a company.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
What was the billboard company called for they that was
clear Channel. Its clear Channel.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yeah, but we had a model called less is more
and you and I like that. Oh, I mean the
less I do, the more you like me. Okay, it
makes sense to me. And so I didn't expect you
to do it today, but I would. I wouldn't have
been disappointed. You put together a.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Wild montage, I mean, honesty, gosh.

Speaker 8 (04:26):
I actually thought about a valsetad related montage. Is another
brick in the wall. Oh, but you're like, usually it's
the goals highlights that are the ones that are sent
to us. Now, sure not goalie saves.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
So I didn't.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
I didn't think we'd have enough save highlights. Well we
had thirty two of them. Be course, you're right. Some
are routine and they're not what a sivy X sabas flop, say,
Bob blocker pad this or blocker pad that. Deuce did
a game himself last. It was a six o'clock started
well himself. Yeah, he does everything myself. Yeah, there's no

(05:03):
there's there's no analyst. Yeah, the camera guy, but no analyst.
He did Lakeville for the price. I mean they paid
pretty good money. Lakeville North, uh girls against Apple Valley
and Lakeville one. I think I think Due said if
I was listening, you know, I wasn't really listening. I
was just waiting for my chance to doze off. I

(05:24):
think during the telecast last broadcast, because they streamed the
whole thing so you could see audio and you get
to hear audio and see video.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
I think that was Lakeville North's first win at home.
But they haven't.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
They have a gaudy record. They're like six and two,
and I think now I have a Valley something like six,
and they're both really good clubs. Anyway, but he came
home and he turned on the wild Game and he
tried to get me up, dad boomer, seven.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Minutes to go one nothing, It's gonna be great.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
I got.

Speaker 7 (05:54):
And fell back asleep. But this the Volstead kid. There's
a goal, the waul wall of Saint Paul. I don't
think he's getting as much attention as he probably should.
Right well, he was just named NHL Rookie of the Month.
It's about time before the game.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Because this is what I that's what I read about him.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
This is coming from fish wrap Factory West Side. I'm
picking through their story. Today.

Speaker 7 (06:29):
Wallstead stopped thirty three shots for his league leading fourth
shutout after he was named NHL's Rookie of the Month
for November. Uh isn't Volstead or Walsteadsted, It's yesper valstad Is,
on a seven game win streak, can improve to eight
h to two overall in his debut season as the

(06:51):
Wild's backup goaltender.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
He's the third rookie.

Speaker 7 (06:54):
Goalie in the last forty five years to begin the
season with a point streak of at least ten games.
Since November seventh, the Wild, they're ten to Zho to
two for a twelve game point streak. He's been in
the net for seven of those victories, a stretch in
which he gave up three goals once in two goals twice,

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with the other four starts shutouts. He's the first NHL
goalie in more than sixty one years and only the
seventh since nineteen twenty nine nineteen thirty to have five
shutouts by his tenth career win. Falstead, drafted in the
first round by the while then twenty twenty one, picked

(07:36):
up his first shutout in his first victory two seasons ago.
In NHL history, only Eveloped Native Frank Brimsick required fewer
games than Valsteed's fifteen to post.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Five career shutouts. Brimsick did it nine.

Speaker 7 (07:53):
So if Frank was still alive, and he's not, I
think he passed away in nineteen ninety eight. If you
would have said that five shutouts in fifteen games, you
don went do it at nine and get back to me.
And you know, I've heard the name Brimsic has a
matter a reasonable doubt for reasonable fee. If the trophy guy, yeah,

(08:13):
his kid won the Brimsic So I knew the Brimsick Trophy.
I had no idea how good Frankie Brimsick was. And
tenby let's just say this.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
I was a goaltender. Frank Brimsic and I have a
lot in common. But no, really we do. Of course,
I'm making it about me again, and I don't like
to talk about myself. I really don't.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Brimsic was born in Evelyth September twenty sixth, nineteen thirteen.
Did you know the town of Evelyth produced at the
time for other hockey players who play in the NHL.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Do you know any of these names? Mike Caracas, No,
sam La Presty. I've heard that one. I've heard that one.
I met him, actually, Al Suomi, John Mary Ucci. He
was pretty good. The move then named rink after he
named the rink after him. They call it the Mooch.

Speaker 7 (09:09):
Brimsick and Caracas played on the same baseball team in
high school. Brimsick first started playing hockey when his brother, John,
the second string goalie at the on the level of
high school team, switched to defense and Frank replaced him
in the net. Brimsick found himself spending most of his
spare time playing hockey. Here's where Frank and I are alike.

(09:30):
This is from his Wikipedia A page. Says, unlike most
of his friends who wanted to be high scoring forwards.
Brimsick never showed any desire, any desire, desire to play.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Any other position than goldie. And that was the same
with me. I never wanted to play teddy.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
You probably don't know. This is is being the goal
getter that I am. But I have a lazy streak
in me too, huh, boot hockey. Playing goaltender is way
less physically demanding than it is to play four because
you're running on the ice and chasing the ball and
you're going and you're going and you're going.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
So that's why I liked it.

Speaker 7 (10:10):
But I just I liked playing something about being the
last line of defense and being the guy that.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
You know frustrates the other thing. Yeah, you just agitate,
you know, you're you're you're making saves and.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
You're flopping and and just and and it and it
frustrates the other team and takes them out of their
game ofttimes if you're playing.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, here's what else it said about, Uh, this is
this is where else we were a lot of like
where is it do to do?

Speaker 4 (10:45):
To do to do?

Speaker 7 (10:45):
To do?

Speaker 2 (10:46):
It says.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
It just lists all of his Uh he was he's
in the one he was number sixty seven on the
Hockey This is a ninety eight uh number sixty seven
on the Hockey News is a list of the one hundred.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Greatest hockey players.

Speaker 7 (10:59):
It was a highest ranked American goaltender at forty three.
Then it talks about the you know, guys have finally
broke his records, Tom Barrosso and Van Beesbrook.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I mean, these are these are big names. But what
it said was this is where we were different.

Speaker 7 (11:17):
It says he was a stand up goalie, you know,
and I'm ultimately yeah, yeah, back then, and I'm a flopper,
you know, I'm I think.

Speaker 8 (11:26):
Flurry kind of stole this style from you. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 (11:29):
I think Flury did. I think he even once mentioned that.
But I had no idea Brimsic. I mean, I knew
well the wards named after SA, knew he was a
local goalie, and I had no idea how good he
really was.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
So I got a little bit of a history lesson.
And and then when you are.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
When you are accomplishing things that haven't been done since,
you know, in forty five years, and haven't been done
since like nineteen twenty nine, nineteen thirty, that's I mean,
it's impressive obviously. I mean, it's it's it's and again,
we've seen flashes in the pan before, right, We've had
players in every single major sport, right have great stretches,

(12:11):
whether it's a game, a week, a month, a year,
a couple of years and maybe fade off.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
So we don't know for sure where this goes from.

Speaker 8 (12:18):
Here, but.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
He's now looks very promising. It looks very very promacy.

Speaker 7 (12:24):
Now. I also read that despite the fact that they
have Connor McDavid and dry title, that Edmonton isn't really
great right now, right, they're just okay, I mean, those
two guys are really good, but they're offenses not the
problem though, Yeah, okay, right, and so you know, and

(12:44):
I'm not trying to take anything away from the victory,
but still to.

Speaker 8 (12:48):
That, it's not just it was a great defensive performance.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
I did see the goal, by the way, I was
up for the goal and you know there was there
was only one and that was a one timer by
Brodee And so, uh was that a power play goal?
I don't believe some of this stuff face off, but yeah,
it was. It's impressive.

Speaker 8 (13:08):
You know, Uh, Goroka priestles first year here, a year
into it I said, he's already the best player in
franchise history.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh dang, it happened again, you.

Speaker 8 (13:23):
Know, like Maryon Gabrick was always our best player and
it wasn't ever close. And after a year, I go, uh,
Coroka Priestole is better than Maryon Gabrick. I'm I'm already
getting to that point with Volsted. No goaltending is such
a mental psychological position where this can change, So I

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don't I need to get more time. But right now,
to me, he looks like the best goalie we've ever had.

Speaker 7 (13:50):
One other thing about the wall that I'm not sure
if we're aker, And now maybe you know because you
pay closer attention. Anytime I played goalie in one of
my teammates had the puck behind the other team's net,
I would always yell wrap around, wrap around. I would yell,
does the wall yell wrap around when he's in that

(14:11):
same situation?

Speaker 2 (14:14):
I don't know, because I always.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
Yell wrap around, rapperun because that's my favorite goal in hockey,
is the wrap around.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
And I always you know what, I just look. I
can love talking hockey.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
I wish Gore was on so two great goaltenders like
gorg and I could talk, because I think I've told
you before that the other part about goltending when you
when you're really feeling good, when you're feeling it, you
intentionally make the guy that's gonna shoot think he's got
an opening either the left or the right of higher
up blowing. He sees it and then he just go like,
let's say it's glove side of pie. You know you're

(14:45):
making you're kind of you're you're edging over to the right, and.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
He's going he's leaving the left.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
Upper corner open, and a sudden he just go punk,
grab the puck and just kind of show him to
like that there rap around, I miss boot.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Close surrogate to the clowns. How was the name of
our team? Because what are the guys on our team
wore clowns?

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Here?

Speaker 2 (15:07):
When he played.

Speaker 7 (15:09):
For the Clowns, we just terrorized love that one. I
will take a break, We'll come back. Is it what
I'm thinking of rock talk?

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Next?

Speaker 7 (15:18):
Rock Talk?

Speaker 2 (15:19):
And what is part what is it going to be
part of rock Talk?

Speaker 7 (15:21):
Not?

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Then rock Rank, Rock Rank, all of that and more,
including Mark Rosen. Just before two o'clock right here on
the fance headed to the Sundays Showdown with Washington.

Speaker 8 (15:44):
Swing by the Plaza outside US Bank Statum and ask
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Dame Meal deals for a year. Details of kip in
dot com, Kybard Calendar a couple of thirteen fourteen past.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
I'm common.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
He's tend to be excited and delighted to be joined
in studio by the legendary Brian Hulk.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
I am happy to be here. And before we go
any further, I need you to either confirmed an iruer.

Speaker 7 (16:14):
Please about you? Oh no, no, okay, I've heard you
have a podcast. Oh that's is that true?

Speaker 6 (16:20):
That's actually true. Yeah, it's called Brian Oaks Show. In fact,
this morning just recorded two episodes. Were called it a
double header in the business when we're taking care of
it because we do two a week and we can
bunch them together. Then we can focus on other important
aspects of our lives like rock talk. But yeah, the
Brian Oakshow podcast is out widely available hundreds hundreds hundred

(16:41):
of episodes in the archives for people to enjoy, and
it's largely centered around the Twin Cities, specifically the music scene.
But we've talked to a lot of other people on
there as well, and who knows, one day might have
the common man on there. But that's a story for
another time. But in the meantime, people want to check
it out, they can use the iHeartMedia Heart Radio app
that's right there on their handheld device and enjoy it

(17:04):
whenever and wherever they might like.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
You just had Nick Bockwinklaw No, no, not Nick jump.

Speaker 6 (17:08):
And jump Man part of the high Flyers, and that's
just it, you know, so largely it's music. But we
want to talk about Minnesota in the Upper Midwest, and
we want to talk about a brand new artists. We
want to talk about legendary high flying acrobatic strong men.
The guy held the state record for the high jump
in that's how he was able to actually do his leap,

(17:30):
his signature leap and hit people at face level, being
completely perpendicular to them. And he was one of the
greatest characters we've had on one of my favorite conversations
ever on the podcast.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
The number of weeks or maybe even a couple of
months ago, I don't remember exactly when I received a
package from might have been I don't know if it
was mailed to me from a listener who said, I
thought you'd enjoy this book. I didn't get a chance
to read because I lost my eyesight. But anyway, so
I think he went blind. But anyways, he sent me
a book and I just started reading last night, and

(18:00):
I wish I could remember the name of the artist.
But it started as a as a series, I think
in the New York Times. It's the anatomy of a song.
Forty five songs starting with uh good Lotty, miss Plotty,
all the way up to I Don't.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
The last song in it is Lose my religiligion by
and everything in between, just and and there.

Speaker 7 (18:28):
There there's a couple of countries, and there's some R
and B and some this, but it's just and then
it has little snippets of interviews they did with either
the artist that did it, maybe the songwriter, the producer
and such. It's a fascinat I'll pass it along team.
I know it.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's really good.

Speaker 7 (18:43):
I've read like about four or five songs so far,
because you know each song it's you know it's not
it's it's certainly not a difficult read. And it's like
she's about three or four pages, but it's really good.
But it's it's I just love the idea where they
talk about how they come up with the idea for
a song, where they met got you know, get this
musician to do this. So far, it's been a lot
of the motown stuff Verry Gordy and such, and it's right.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
And the backstories are fascinating and all that connective tissue
of how it all comes together and exactly how many
moving parts they are.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Are.

Speaker 6 (19:10):
To hear your favorite toe tapper on the radio, there
are a couple of current podcasts that do exactly that.
My favorite one is called Song Exploder, where they basically
go in and sometimes they break it down track by track.
They always have interesting backstory. If they can get anybody
for interviews, they'll do it. But they completely dissect a
given song over the course of an episode of the

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podcast and it's endlessly fascinating to me. So for people
who are interested in all of the to see how
the sausage is made, that stuff is out there and
I look forward to reading the book because I love
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Twenty twenty five is about to come to a come
to a close. I'm told it is. And do you
know who is the most streamed artist this year.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
I know what Apple picked is their number one song,
but I don't know the most stream. Are we talking
worldwide or just in the US, because I think it's
going to be a different end, sir, but just for
twenty twenty five. Boy, if it's not at the top
of the list, it's absolutely in the conversation that would
be it. Pick any of the songs by Hunters from
K Pop Demon Hunters could be Bad Bunny.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's Bad Bunny. It is Bad Bunny. Taylor Swift. Yeah, well,
I mean again for people who are like, why would
you have that guy?

Speaker 6 (20:18):
He came but he doesn't even sing in English, Well,
he's the biggest pop star on planet Earth right now.
And so from the NFL's from the very first time
we talked about it, I think it's a master stroke,
not only for tapping into what people are listening to
and cultivating the younger end of the demo, but clearly
the NFL is hell bent on making this a worldwide

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effort and that this is a beautiful step towards doing that.
So yeah, now I'm not surprised Bad Bunny is that big,
followed by Swift. The weekend really still Drake and really
eilish in that order, Drake, when is that gonna stop?

Speaker 7 (20:55):
For the last two years, Swift has commanded the top
spot globally, claiming it into only twenty three and holding
it for twenty twenty four, having to thrown Bad Bunny.
He held the coveted title for three years in row
beginning in twenty twenty. He's now back on top in
the US. That must have been worldwide. In the US,
the most screamed artist list looks somewhat similar there Who's there?

Speaker 3 (21:18):
There?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Spell it?

Speaker 7 (21:19):
T h E r E.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
What's the next word? It says there commas. Swift leads,
oh there, meaning on that particular list, you know what
the names and groups now weekend I thought maybe maybe
there was a group. What's that is?

Speaker 6 (21:34):
An artist in her also an understamed him. Yeah, but
I don't think we have a they yet. As far
as the official name that there is close the exactly so.

Speaker 7 (21:44):
Swift leads, followed by Drake, Morgan Walland comes from Western
Guy and Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Bad Bunny is at fifth in the United States.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Well, but again still a massive going, you know, and
internationally huge. The fact that he can even be in
the conversation with Taylor Swift or on a list very
close to her in any regard above or below her
on the list is it's indicative of just what a
big deal he is. And again I think a brilliant
masters stroke by the NFL getting him for the super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
The most screamed album globally Bad Bunnies Debbie Tihr Moss photo.
I can't sure. I can't. I'll take your word for
it because I don't know follow my K pop Demon Hunters.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
That's what I just said. I'm telling you, man, that
there hasn't been sound of music wasn't as big as
K pop Demon Hunters is worldwide, as far as a
movie related soundtrack, and as far as a cultural phenomenon.
Go ahead and pick your favorite one. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
I don't care more people are singing along with We're
goin Up Up Up. It's I love it personally, but

(22:49):
but thanks man, I appreciate it. You know, I was
an All state choir. Yeah, it's K pop Demon Hunters,
and we can't keep it in stock at the record
store that I work at. If you don't, if you're
looking for somebody, whether it is that special tween who
loves the K pop in your life, or even the
fifty seven year old former radio guy in your life

(23:10):
that loves it.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's a good holiday gift.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
The am after K Pop Demon Hunters three releases from
twenty twenty four. Of that, Billie Eilish has hit Me
Hard and Soft, Sizza Sisa, Sizza, Sos Deluxe Lana, and
then Zabrina Carpenter's Short and Sweet and It's in that order,
and then in the US slightly different Wallin's I'm the Problem,

(23:34):
followed by did you say It? Sizza or Sizza Sizza, Sizza,
Bad Bunny Capop, Demon Hunters soundtrack and Lamar's g MX.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
That sounds good.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
I've got some other year end stuff two as well
to share on the other side of the brain.

Speaker 7 (23:46):
We'll do that. It's Rock Talk also once again during
the final segment of Rock Talk will have rock Rank
Rock Rank. We're looking forward to that right here. I'm
the common Man program with common tend to be in
Brian open the film.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
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Speaker 7 (24:44):
Rock Talk here on the fan, I'm comed he's Tanning Bee,
Brian Okus here, Hello, Rosen will join us just before
two o'clock. Not for rock Talk, for sports talk. So
you have said you have some other you know, this
tis the season. It's always the end of the year.
There's always list years in radio, you know.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
It's always responsible if you're a taste maker or a
music head or whatever and whatever you're into films, books, whatever.
People always loved to put their best of year end
lists together, right, and now we live in an advanced
age of conveyor belts and bubble cars, so you don't
even have to do it for yourself. Spotify will do
it for you. For people who are regular Spotify or listeners,

(25:22):
they already know about Spotify Rapped. But really, in the
last three four years, this has become a huge social
media event because and it just started I think it
went live today where Spotify will compile everything you listen
to for the entire year.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
They can break it down by any metric.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
You've got genres, singer songwriters, hard rock stuff, everything. What
did I listened to in the summer as a post
of the winter?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Whatever?

Speaker 6 (25:44):
You can break it down whoever you like, but it'll
tell you how many times who your most favorite artists are.
All that kind of stuff, And this is the time
of year where people, if you are on social media
actively and you have music fans in your life, this
is the time of the year that they will talk
to you about you know what it is that they're into.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
And you know, it's a little performative because well.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Like all of us, right, like, I like cool music,
I think, and I want other people to know just
how cool my music is and how committed I am.
So there's a little bit of a performative aspect to it,
of people showing.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Out a little bit.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
But if it's about music, I'm all for it because
there's not a style or genre of music that I hate.
And I often find that when I take the time
to listen and pay attention to what people who have
different music tastes are talking about, that I learned something
and I grow it. Maybe it's not going to flip
my mind and I'm going to suddenly love bro country.
But you know, getting perspective is always a good thing
and learning about things. So if you haven't seen them yet,

(26:38):
prepare to see them on the regular. And if you
don't know how to post your rapp, trust me, they'll
tell you everything you need to know.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's Spotify. Well, you know what's interesting is is I
love me some Spotify, I love me some.

Speaker 7 (26:51):
iHeartRadio app and you know YouTube stuff because then the
videos with YouTube, right, So I play a lot of YouTube.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Stuff because I like watching some of the videos.

Speaker 7 (26:59):
So I think they do what you're talking about with Spotify,
because all of a sudden it told me the song
I listened to the most. Yeah, all year, You're not
gonna you know what song I listened to more than
any song. It's It's called Baby Bye Bye by Gary Morris.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Baby Bye Bye. Do you know who Gary Morris is?
I got nothing. Gary Morris was. He went, he went country,
he went, and this was that more than any other song.
I listened to the song over and over and over again.
Pull it up ten mey and play a little bit
of it. What's his name? His name is Gary Morris?

Speaker 1 (27:32):
I want number one?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
He also did to do with a Crystal Gale. He
was a country guy back in the in the eighties.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
He was actually he worked opera as well. His voice
is so spectacular. I fell in love with the guy
his voice. There's a song called Baby Bye Bye, the
number one, and we played it at the radio station
worth It and I'd forgotten all about the song and
it came up and I played. I've probably played it.
I'd say hundreds, hundreds hundreds of times. Wow, well, I

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mean you Spotify, I will tell you exactly how many times.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Even in the system. Is it tennaby?

Speaker 8 (28:03):
There's four Gary Morris songs, but none of them are
Baby Bye Bye. How about the Wind, the Wind beneath
by Way? That's yeah, that was what didn't last? Oh
the Moon, Yeah, I didn't win. Beneath My Wings didn't.
Also Bett Middler I think did that as well.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Uh huh, yeah. It's good song exactly.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
And a young Gary Morris when he's got the real curly,
bushy hair and the heavy beard, he's got kind of
a Peter Dinklage thing going on. I don't know who
Peter dinkl Oh, you know, did you ever watch Game
of Throwers?

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Right here?

Speaker 2 (28:31):
This is a song list time.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
You just made a little mailbox money for Gary Morris
four days before his seventy seventh birthday. He'll be turning
seventy seven on December seventh. Very good, Yeah, Happy birthday,
Gary Morris.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
And great song.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
And you know what, here's the thing is like sometimes
I'll listen to the other good thing about these best
of year end listen who listened to?

Speaker 3 (28:49):
What?

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Nobody can know everything about music. I try to pay attention.
I try to stay up to date, but there's just
no way. And when you see an artist kind of
popping up on multiple people's lists, or someone whose musical
taste you respect has a frankly more current listening habit
than you do, it's a good way to stay on
top and to listen to what's going on in the
world of music around you. Again, you don't have to

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like it, but you have to at least pay attention. Yet,
if you want to be part of popular culture, you
got to at least pay attention.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yes you do. I that's my feeling. We talked.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
So did you have some lists like you say? I, Well,
not a list. I don't have any lists actually up.
But what I did have was some information.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I don't want to.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
I don't want to fast forward the holidays. I love
the same of year. I love holiday music. Both the
podcasts I recorded today chock full of holiday music. In fact,
they were talking about upcoming holiday specials and shows here
in town. But once we get through the holidays, then
it's New Year's and this year, once again, I think
it's been going on for I can't.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
I don't have it in front of me here. Since
the early seventies, so.

Speaker 6 (29:50):
More than forty five years, close to over fifty years,
maybe every New Year's Eve. The number one destination always
been Number one is Rock and New Year's Eve, which
started with Dick Clark. Most of it was Dick Clark.
In fact, the very first year, Dick Clark was just
a correspondent on it to report. The very first year
was called three dollars New Year's Rock and Eve, with
three dog Nights, two years Rock and Eve.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
They were the.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Featured musical performer of the first two years of it.
And then it became evident that this was Dick Clark's thing. Man,
he was supposed to be there, so he became the
face and the host of it. But it was always
big bands and a whole long thing. And it grew
from several hours of counting down the drop of the
Big Ball to these hours and hours long because obviously

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we're a huge country, so we've got all these different
time zones. This year is going to be the longest
rock and New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest in the
modern day and age, with about eight and a half
hours of live programming.

Speaker 7 (30:49):
And a half hour what do I think that the
super Bowl pregame show? Because that's as long as the
Super Bowl Breagain I was waiting for the drum for
the rim shot.

Speaker 6 (30:58):
Yeah, no, this is the going to be led by
Ryan Seacrest, Rita or they're both going to be in
Times Square. But that's where it starts, right, and then
we slowly move across the country and then people want
to stay up and do their partying. But there is
going to be and almost and it's also going to
be available, should I mention on the free iHeartRadio app.
So maybe you can't be glued to your television set, but.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
You can, would you say? Eighty over eighty artists?

Speaker 6 (31:23):
Yes, eighty five artists I believe, and some of them
are big, big deals. Chapel Rohan's going to be on there,
Mariah Carey, the self proclaimed Queen of Christmas, post Malone,
Charlie Pooth and that's right, all three women from Hunters
aka the K pop demon Hunters.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
They're that big a deal.

Speaker 6 (31:41):
They are going to be a very prominently featured part
of this year's New Year's Rock and Eve.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Plus there's going to be some old schoolers.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
Rick Springfield's going to be on Goo Goo Dolls, New
Kids on the Block, four non blonds are going to
be there. Oh I'm sorry, I got that wrong. It's
thirty eight performers are slated to appear on New Year's Right,
and what was what eighty number.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Did I get?

Speaker 7 (32:02):
Is? I was gonna say, that's just that's like half
a song and they just put the hook on their own.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
Pay Well, thirty eight is still you still get a lot.
But yeah, it'll kick off on eight pm and run
until four a m. Eastern time the next morning.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
My teeth will be in the glass.

Speaker 6 (32:16):
I was going to say, you and me like, whether's
someone because I don't go out and I did a
little bit when I was young out of a sense
of obligation. But let's be honest. That's Amateur Hour all
night long, and it's just I'd rather sit at home,
cozied in.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
I'd like you.

Speaker 6 (32:29):
I'm off in asleep before midnight. But even if you
stay up afterwards, I always flip by. I don't sit
there for six hours and watch it go down, but
I like to flip by and then you can watch
the ball go down in different cities across the country.
They're gonna have a Chicago host for the first time
ever this year, Dick Clark.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't.

Speaker 7 (32:48):
I don't know how many of the younger listeners we
have recognizing anything. A lot of people still do older ones.
Of course, you know he was an American Bandstand. Did
you watch American Bandstand? I did.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
I as a kid, just thought it was great.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
All the time because it was the widest variety of
stuff too. There was absolute sugary pop, pablum pop. Prince
early Prince was on there. I mean, it was a
little bit of everything. Even back in the sixties. Man,
there were some groovy, edgy counterculture stuff, but they weren't
so edgy as to say no to a chance at
public National Television.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Five Stuardy Audience. They do an interview with Dick.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
They would sing their big hit and that I'm assuming
they were lip syncing, but I don't know. Maybe they
were early and then later they weren't.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
I'm not sure how. I don't know either.

Speaker 7 (33:27):
But then my favorite part of the show was one
they would always have just you know, a couple of
Joe Q public guy in a galcam up. They would
rate the song that was, why do you like this one?
I give it an eight because I like that, you know,
you're able to dance to it.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
I kind of liked the beat.

Speaker 6 (33:41):
And they would rate songs that was the old cliches
like I'll give it a forty five.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
It's got a great beat.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
And I could dance to it, and I mean and
that was because you're talking to teenagers and so they
weren't exactly the most eloquent, but they got it figured
out and there was a great vibe. And all those
dance shows, Soul Train and that, there were a bunch
of them that were very good. By the way, I
figured out where I got my eighty five number from.
With the additional nineteen minutes of programming this year, more
than eighty five songs are set to be performed by

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thirty eight plus artists. So yeah, but no American bandstand
is legendary for a reason. Also, you know, it would
be easy to slag on Ryan Seacrest just for being
so milk toast and so generic and just. But he's
like Dick Clark in that he doesn't make a mistake.
He's live all the time, and you you do not

(34:27):
have to love him, but you absolutely have to respect
him because coming from what you and I do for
a living, there's just he.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
He is flawless.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
He may he may be dull, he may be a
little milk toast, but that's why he has a universal appeal,
and he just doesn't make mistakes.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Are correct.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
It's a great ton of fit Cherald Liner for the
next time, My man, thanks, he was very good.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
I think it's time for.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
Rock Ran Rock Rank Rock Rank Rock White Rock Ran Rock,
WI like rock bran rock.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
Oh to two weeks ago when I was here with
you last we did your top five.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
We did one were it sounds like it was a
fun one. Yeah, I just didn't know if you knew
we did it.

Speaker 8 (35:10):
Yeah, you told me, yeah, because I asked you what
you did, because I want to make sure.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I don't even remember. What's your name again? Bryan?

Speaker 7 (35:18):
It is?

Speaker 2 (35:19):
It is two weeks ago.

Speaker 8 (35:20):
We did top five artists after the year two thousand,
right already told him, hey, next time and we're gonna
do top five bands. But when I was out last week,
I wanted to see whether he did that one or not,
and you guys did not.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
So now we're gonna do it band names, and that
was fun.

Speaker 8 (35:33):
Top five bands post two thousand all right, rock ran
number number five?

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Number five? Are we both going, by the way, I
don't know?

Speaker 7 (35:44):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (35:44):
All right, all right, that's name five. That's why I
asked that I name now number five and five there.
I'm gonna need your help on this. And Roune five
could have been in the conversation, although technically their roots
go back a little further than that, but the at
number five had I love hip hop. Hip Hop has

(36:07):
been with me since I was a teenager, the earliest days.
I still remember the first time I heard those very
obscure twelve inch run DMC singles that my friend found,
and I'm like, what are we listening to? And it's
obviously woven itself so deeply into the culture that it's
part of country music now it's part of everything. Hip
hop culture is pervasive and has only gotten more so
over the last fifty plus years. But I can't break it.

(36:30):
I have to pick one, and I can't pick between
Outcast and the Roots. They are both brilliant, both in
different ways, but they're both on the more literate end
of hip hop, and they're less about the cars, money, girls, drugs,
pimp and all that stuff and just more about telling

(36:52):
the story. And the level of creativity in both of
those bands, to me, it sort of rises above the
mean the average of the Well, I guess the Roots
is more like a fand definitely a band, not really
a band in the sense that there's more than one
of them. You know it's a group, all right, Well
then fine, you know the one's not playing a guitar

(37:13):
and one's playing the drums. I don't think that there's
a wrong answer in there, but I'm so I'm still
going with the Roots. Then if we're making bands, because
the Roots do have a lot of instrumentation outs with
a K, you're correct, correct?

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Where are they from? Well, they're outcasts, so at the
ends is what they are? Well done?

Speaker 6 (37:31):
Actually I knew, I knew cast is really good. Yeah, yeah, no,
they are spectacular and the roots just always interesting, deep,
ultra talented, some of the best wordplay I've ever heard,
So the roots.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
Are in for me.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
At number five, number four number.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
This is an Irish band, although the Scots lay claimed
to them too because they all met while they're in Scotland.
Even though they're of Irish heritage, this band has done
nothing but crank out amazing, amazing ballads and absolute smashing rockers.
And they are to this day one of the best
live bands I've ever seen, and only get better. Every

(38:08):
show I've seen was better than the one that came
before it. You know, their music, they've had tons of
hits in America, way more over in Europe where they're from.
You're talking you two, I'm not. I wouldn't consider them
post two thousands. Well, but you two did go on
to have massive in depth in YouTube. But I also
stuck to that where bands that really stretch back to

(38:29):
the eighties or even in midway into the nineties, I
kind of avoided them because, you know, I'd love to
have Radiohead and you two on this list. People would
want Pearl Jam, Weezer, even the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
but Red Hot Chili Peppers came out with their first
release when I was still in high school.

Speaker 8 (38:44):
So No.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
Number four is Snow Patrol, Gary Lightbody and his crew
just it was going to be cold Play, but I've
decided that for me personally, Snow Patrol is as good
basic music just like you know, they're not They're not edgy,
they're not hip hop, but they are beautiful, they are poignant,
they are emotive, and they just write songs that resonate

(39:07):
in my head. They're like a dire Straits for me.
They're they're that important to be in terms of songwriting
and what they put out. Snow Patrol at number four,
number number three, number three is another British outfit. The
main guy behind them was a band that was huge
in the britpop scene in the nineties and he is
a tireless creative type.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
And you're not talking Dave Clark. Five.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
I'm not talking Dave because again two thousands having a
wild weekend with the Deep No No, although I'm not
a terrible band at all, really know this one though,
went on to sound nothing like the bands that came
before it, and this band incorporates elements of electronic, of
hip hop, of straight ahead rock and roll, dreamy, weird, psychedelic, surreal,

(39:55):
very beat driven. I just love everything about them. And
they're not even a real band the tunes. They're a
cartoon band. My third favorite band of the two thousands
is Gorillas. Interesting Gorilla, that's interesting, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah, no, I know that.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
See I'm expecting some blank looks, but I mean, Gorillas
have an incredible body of work and there they don't
ever put out the same record twice.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Are you familiar with mcgilla Gorilla?

Speaker 6 (40:21):
I am familiar, Yes, I of course I am with
a little The little hounddoggy guy that had the little
straw hat was his buddy, right. I remember Hong Kong
Fui number one, super guys, sure I know all the guys.
That's number three for me is Gorilla's number two, Gorilla three, number.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Two, number two.

Speaker 6 (40:37):
The frontman this band's no longer around, but the former
frontman of this band just performed when the Kiddies played
on Thanksgiving Day. Jack White, he had a couple other
bands like Goober and the Peas and such that gooberber
in the Piece was one of his earliest bands, and
he also worked with some other bands as well, but

(40:57):
he has come to become the face of at least
in rock and roll Detroit music over the last twenty
five years. And they they're just among my favorite bands
of all time, probably in my top five all time,
certainly top ten all time. But the White Stripes, every
record they put out mattered. There is a lot of
stuff that's cut from that same crunchy, sort of slightly

(41:19):
underproduced blues skrunk that they always did because.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
It was just ye skrunk. I've not heard about the descriptives.
I like it. That doesn't have a definition, but you
know what I mean, it's you know, it's that was
their signature.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
But the made that word up. I know, Well I
may have made it up, but I've certainly used it before.
Signature skrunk.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
Signature skrunk. Nobody's got it like the White Stripes. I
just think as American rock and roll goes, they are
easily the second bad best band American band of my
my last twenty five.

Speaker 7 (41:53):
Years, generation White Stripes and number two, number one, number one.

Speaker 6 (42:00):
Well, this one's going to be a little bit of
a letdown because I've already said hundreds, hundreds hundreds of
times that they are my favorite band on planet Earth
and sentence, it doesn't matter what qualifier you want to
put on, what kind of band they are, what kind
of music they make. I have not enjoyed anybody's output
their body of work more in the last twenty five

(42:21):
years than Josh Amy and his band's Queens of the
Stone Age. I just I think they're as as good
and frankly important an American band as most of us
have experienced in our adult lives.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
They did a song about where an American band? Yes, no,
I would say grand Funk, but they're not.

Speaker 6 (42:39):
Again, I would love for you to have to spend
like a whole night googling just to try to see
five bands, just to name five of them that you
could well, White Stripes okay, good, call good, the good starts, oh,
cast Drugs.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I wouldn't really consider them a group.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
No, no, what are they just a vocal duo like
a Shields and group and then where we had a
Shields in your and ow they're big.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
They are big.

Speaker 6 (43:02):
Well that again, they are big. They're fastable headliners. But
I know I have to listen to the because you
brought them up thirteen fourt There are so many bands,
you know, Lincoln Park. There are tons of other bands
that could have been on this list, but these are
just my personal favorites because TENN has told me again
and again, at.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Your favorite air and that's what you got? Or do
we find your podcast? Oh, it's easy to find.

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All five hundred and thirty six episodes are available by
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you should have because everything is available up to an
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Speaker 2 (43:33):
You are correct, Thanks so much for coming in again.
We'll see pleasure all right AT's Ryan.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
Oh, we'll take a short break, come back and Mark
rows and joins us next year

Speaker 4 (43:40):
In the fan