October 8, 2025 • 47 mins
Common Man Hour 1 --Wheel of Topics --Peek at the Purple --ROK TOK w/ Brian Oake --Rock Rank
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bad common then common then no show people solid plan
seit aproach will fail to in. It's time for common man,
Come man, common then charge of houseless like no one can.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Shoot where we play's nonsense on activated man, It's time
of common man.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Oh boy, why should anybody aspire to be a common man?
An average man? Do you realize what it means to
be average?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That means you're the.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
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 encourage and inspire, and
indeed require hard work and maximum effort. If we deify
the common man while they encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well,
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the result of such a lopsided race as that is
too obvious to require elaboration.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean, it's like, hello, some joker was gonna write
about what kind of game. He said it was gonna
be crack straight up cash cash out, cash you, cash out, cashing,
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cash out, cash cash.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out,
cash out, cash cash, cash cash out, cash catch out.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Cash Yeah, Rosie, I didn't say that common. Don't put
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words in my mouth.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Ladies and gentlemen, we're seeing what a sophisticated offensive looks like.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You talk about boy who said?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Who said it was a nice run?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Woman's on the way part of your tyman?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Baby, and listen I always lovely? Yeah baby, where's that
going on yet?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Today?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Jesus, we're happy for you. They can't pitch, they can't ship.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
What is what I need to come? Wrote that?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You don't know nothing.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
He's the clown from Brown, He's the fourth in the north.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Is the common man, Dan Cole? You only bring it up.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
It doesn't really matter much to me. It doesn't mean
that much to me to mean that much to you.
You know what song that's from Tennedy. It's a brilliant
it's a brilliant lyric.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Think about it. It's it doesn't mean that much to
me to mean that much to you. I recognize the lyric,
I just can't place it with the song keeps me
searching for a heart of gold. Yeah no it's not.
It's the old Man. It's from old Man. Take a
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look at my life, mama, like you, that's what it's from.
Quite the falsettle you got there? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Not as good as yours? Every day we just get
all sorts of topics dumped into our lapse. Vikings quarterback
controversy continues. The bye is here, the wild, The Wolves
are off the Wolves. Last night Aunt was there.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He played.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
We lose it overtime to Indiana. Two teams that don't
like each other very much. So many topics to get to, Hi,
I'm not sure where to start. Let's spin the wheel of.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Topics Commons golf games.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
What did you shoot today?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Seventy six trombones? Boom, boom boom. I'm playing.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
We played at Loggers Trail where you hit it right
up the gut I'm playing. I had a seven iron
in my hand.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I should have been.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
I'm now hitting my ball again now that I'm swinging
the proper way to all my checklists and not being
fidgety and jumpy, and and I'm now hitting my niner
and one hundred and thirty yards again. There have been
times this year where my seven irons one hundred and
thirty yard club?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
How bad is that? I just I could go over
a shop.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
I might even start a common Man Daily Round podcast
so I can really dive.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
I thought that would be one of those trending kind
of podcasts, The common Man Daily Golf Round podcast where
I go in depth, you know, not just going over
each shop, but what I'm thinking prior to each other.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Look, do you have a headache? Look like you were
just found blubb. You were doing the old.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
You're just thinking? Why am I here? He's talking about
his golf round again. Yeah, I can't help but that
the topic came up on Man's Golf Game.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I hit so many and you know I but I did.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
I made three consecutive movies, and each one two of
my hit bad chips and won a bad wedge. I
let a shank I shouldn't even say the word from
last week get into my head. On sixteen, I had
seventy four yards and I thought, this is the exact
same yard as I had last week when I shanked
this fifty four degree three quarter knockdown punch cut fade wedge,
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and so I chicken winged it and got it halfway
to the green and then couldn't get up and down.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But here's probably what happened.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
After I made a brilliant up and down from behind
the green on the par three thirteenth, again I hit
it too good again, I'm just puring the ball. I
got to readjust my distances on my.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Your scores are off, but you're hitting a grape. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
And I was thinking about how I was when here's
this is how far ahead of myself I got. This
was probably the problem when you when Dark was going
to ask me if it landed on wheel topic, what
you did. If Dark was going to ask me, what'd
you shoot today, I was going to say I had
an experience that was not unlike that of a PGA
Tour player, because that's where I thought I was going.
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I mean, I vogied the first two holes and then
I parred three, four, five, six, and seven birdie eight.
I hit a hybrid into three feet. Then I parred nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
and thirteen. I'm one over stand that I'm fourteen tea box, thinking, well,
fourteen's at short par for the one that you almost
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drove that day. I'm thinking I'll make par here maybe Bertie.
I'm thinking I'm shooting seventy or seventy one is what's
going through my head.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And I got ahead of myself and you can't do
that in the game of golf. But it was fun.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
We take it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
One shot at the time is what.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
You need to do, yes, sort of like remember the
show One Day at a Time with Valerie Burtonelly.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I do not know tend Toby. Which famous rock star
was Valerie Burtonelly married to at one time?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
He's dead now no idea. Eddie van Halen O Eddie?
The answer would be who is Eddie van Hayle. I
didn't even know eddivan Halen was dead dead rocks. I
think he is, well, I don't know. I just don't
know him well enough. Looks like I may have killed
him off and he's not even dead. I think he's dead.
Maybe he's still alive and well, still alive and well
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every now and then, I know, it's kind of hard
to tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Valerie Burtnelly was in a show called One Day at
a Time with Michelle Phillips, who was the daughter of
the Phillips guy from The Mamas and the Papas, and
allegedly this what she claims she was sexually abused by
her dad.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
How what a wonderful way to grow up. And then
I don't remember the name of the.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
The mom in the series, but that dad was it
was an old eighty show at the seventies or eighty show,
something like that. Major development. I have some The button
bar looks different today. Have you noticed different colors or something. Yeah,
everything's different. Yeah, I'll have to show it to you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I have give me one second because this is this
sounder is needed.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
For this.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Breaking news.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Excitement is starting to build in the twin towns of
New London Spicer. Apparently the city council held an emergency
meeting last night and they have declared this coming Saturday,
meat sauce in.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Common man day. Yeah, New London Spicer and the.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Chamber of Commerce says, you know how I always ask
you do you like parades? They're going to have a
parade and meat sauce and I and honor. You don't
believe any of that. We're still doing comedy. Even though
ticket sales have been tepid.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
We're going up there.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
You know, tickets are still available. I think we're giving
away another paradis where Spicer. Is that like a Saint Cloud.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it's something that's sort of that.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Kind of that neck of the woods. Yeah, well ask
Ross and you know him, he knows his, he knows.
It's many Minnesota geography better than anybody.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
He likes.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He likes to go camping and roughing it. He'll go
up to like Cold Spring, which is up in that area.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Did you know there's not a grocery store within twenty
minutes of where one goes and stayed. You know, because
he's always been an urban guy, he's never lived in it.
He's always lived in the Mama Saint Paul.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So wherever he's lived, he doesn't even know, like the
suburbs or or the exit. No, no, he has no idea.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
So where I couldn't tell you, no, no, And so
he doesn't realize that sometimes you have to drive a
little ways to get to places.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You know.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
It's like, yeah, if you're if you, if you if
you have a if you have a secluded place, very secluded.
That's an old inside joke, very secluded. Then you sometimes
you got to drive twenty minutes to get two groceries store.
It's just amazing you do. But he was astounded by.
But the good news for Mark when he when he
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when he travels like that into the wilderness, it's so
refreshing because no one recognizes him. That's That's where I'm
hoping people will recognize this in New London.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Spicer will you more of a New London guy or
a Spicer guy?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Well, I think we're in Spice or proper. Okay, you
know I I but I like them. Both called them
the twin towns of New London Spicers. So we will
be there and I'm i'm uh, I am really truly
looking forward to it. Larry Mandela guy will be our
MC and then Saw Sauce will I'm going to close
again because Sauce Sauce is he's trying to make a comeback.
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He's been working on new material, he claims, and then
I reminded him of some of his Oh go back
to some of your classic old bits, because now he
just goes up there and just starts babbling and wandering
around on the stage and then just leaves after seventeen minutes.
But I think he's he's he's told me he's going
to put his uh put forth his best effort and
he is.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Rare and to go. Let's let's regroup.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
That was a very controversial action pack, fast paced for
a segment. We got plenty to get to. I've not
heard from Brian, ok. He usually texts me and says
are we still on for today? Hey, I have not
received that text he texted.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Me today because he asked me if we were doing
rock rank.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Oh okay, good, so then that means he will be
here at twelve thirty. The legendary Mark Rosen will join
us just before two o'clock. Also five three, four, before
the top of the hour. Other side of the break
controversial Viking's News, pizza interesting the purple.
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Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, it does seem like the show just goes.
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On and on and on and really with with no direction,
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National Football League Power Power Rankings.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Power Rankings, and.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
I believe the world is now standing still because guess
who is the number one team in pro football according
to the Athletic the most City Kitties. I don't know
if they've ever been considered the best team in proof the.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Last two years ahead of a one point do I think?
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Detroit Lions number one? Last week they were number three.
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Speaker 2 (15:34):
The next five games are against.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
The Chiefs, the Buccaneers, the Vikings, the Commanders, and the Eagles.
Because the kiddies really haven't you know, you look at
strength to schedule. They beat the Bears, the Ravens, the
Browns and the Bengals. Now going into the season that
Ravens Bengals, both of those seem like you know, really
difficult games, and I don't had the Ravens lost They
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lost the one pointer of the Bills for the Kiddies game,
I believe, so it wasn't as though they had fallen
off the face of the earth they gave the bill
or did they lose after the kiddies game? Do you
remember because the Ravens lost back to Bell when they've
only won one game they lost to they either lost.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
To the Buffalo game when that was the first game
of the year.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Because I don't remember, That's why I'm asking. I don't remember.
I can barely remember what I have.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I can tell you each shot I hit today, if
you want me to go over it, I could.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Anyway, they've not beaten anybody really, to be honest with you,
Tampa Bay at number two, what do you think make
of that?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Is that because of that victory or where they just
be quality team? I mean they're a playoff team.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
They've obviously won a bunch of games in dramatic fashion here,
so they've they've shown that they can step up when
it's Baker Mayfield, can play when the when the lights
are on the brightest and they need just good points,
they good points so Tampa Bay definitely should be. You
could argue who's number two, But you know, if you
want to put him in the top five, top six,
I think yes, they deserve to be there.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Do you believe this?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
I saw, you know, according to my Power Rankings, which
is the standings. Okay, they are tied for the best
record in football.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yes. I also saw ESP and yesterday.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
You know, they do these panel shows and they're always asking,
you know, questions about this.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You know, like who's the best at this? You know,
who's the Power rankings for everything?
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Right in issues teams face and one of the questions
on the crawl was is Baker Mayfield the top five
quarterback in the NFL? I think I'd made no bones
about it for the past few years. I've been a
big Baker Mayfield guy. Particularly.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What really struck me more than anything is is.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Remember when he played for the Browns and he actually
lived at at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I mean he would turn off the lights and everything
for him. You know, that was to me, going above
and beyond the qual of duty. But I like him.
He's excited, he's fun to watch.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Yeah, he'll make he'll he'll he'll try to force the
ball into places sometimes that he shouldn't and he's he'll
turn it over on occasion, but I like him. They
have Philadelphia ranked at number three tennebe followed by the
Buffalo Bills and for there's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Four and one teams. All of these teams are four
and one. Buffalo's for one.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
The Jacksonville Jaguars are at number five after beating the Chiefs.
They're also four and one. San Francisco is six, Indianapolis seven.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
They're both four and one. Then it's Green Bay at
number eight.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
They are two one and one, followed by the La
Rams at three and two, the Rams at number nine,
your Broncos at ten, three and two, Commanders at eleven,
Seahawks at twelve, Steelers at thirty team. The Steelers are
three and one, and there's several three and two teams
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ahead of them, which you know, that's why you know
power rankings aren't in exact science and even standards. Sometimes
you look at a three and one team, it spence
who they played, right, Just because there's three and one
doesn't necessarily mean they have to be ahead of a
three and two club. Chargers Chiefs at fifteen and they're
two and three that's the respect they have for them.
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Then you're Minnesota Vikings check in at sixteen ten to me,
so they're basically the.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Best of the lousiest and the lousiest or the best.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Here's what here's the paragraph for the Vikings that reads
as follows a well earned and then it has in
parentheses and probably much needed break is on the horizon.
After becoming the first team in the league history to
play back to back international games in two different countries.
It hasn't been the prettiest start for this team, and
the Vikings haven't exactly beaten top teams. Kevin O'Connell got
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Jordan Addison rolling late after an early benching, and things
trend towards JJ McCarthy coming back after the bye, which
again we've been debating, you know, yeah, since since he
first sprained his ankle and missed a game.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I think Mark Craig wrote.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
I think it was Craig because we've had the debate
rose in yesterday things absolutely positively, when McCarthy's ready, he
should come back in.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
And I.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Do you think it's a bit more complicated than that, right,
or do you think automatically he.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Should be back in I don't think automatically should be
back in. I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
I think what they're gonna do is it's going to
get this time this week. He's gonna start practicing, but
they're gonna do the old Well, he's not fully back
where he can do all the things that he previously could.
We'll let Carson Wentz get another week.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Now. The danger there is.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
If you did want to bring JJ McCarthy back, is
it actually better to have him started home against Philadelphia?
Just a little bit easier of an environment. Offensive line
protection is probably gonna be a little bit better at home.
You know, if Carson goes out to play text on
Philadelphia doesn't do well, and then you want to make
the change. Now you've got to throw JJ right back
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in the mix of two road games at LA and Detroit.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Maybe somebody can help me with this. I thought it
was Mark la is not the most ruckous crowd, right.
I thought it was Mark Craig who wrote. I know
I read it last night. Maybe it wasn't Mark Craig.
I'm looking through the.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I'm looking at the fish wrap factory west Side, and
I'm looking for the latest from Mark Craig. But I
don't see it, but I think it was either Craig
or maybe it was somebody with the Athletic wrote, I
wish you could basically that if a guy's on, if
a guy's playing well, you stick with them. You just
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you don't have to go back to somebody else who
was in. And that's how I feel. And even that
can be complicated as well. For instance, let's say Patrick Mahomes,
who's the backup of Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I believe it's Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Now, okay, so let's say Mahomes gets injured, he's out
for three weeks, he's ready to play, and Gardner Minshew's
playing playing pretty well. I don't think you look at
Mahomes and have to sit on the bench for a while, Patrick,
because Gardner Minshew is on a roll.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So that you know, every situation has to be treated differently.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
And I'm I'm now starting to believe though, and you're
right with with with the way they're they're kind of well,
it might be a Remember it was going to be
a two three week thing, now it's a four to
six or whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But I still get the feeling that if if he's
ready to.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Go for the vite against Philadelphi, that he will start
the game. I think they're going to force feed him.
And you know, and you could make that what Rosen
has and other people, and we got to see what
we've got. I've had some spirited debates with salespeople, you know,
all of the say, all the young guys here are
all duckies and buddies, and you know, they all want
to see what we've got with with uh, with McCarthy,
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is he for real? So far what we've seen you
probably say, we don't. But that's only two games.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We'll see how how that works out.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
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Speaker 8 (23:43):
Rank, I'm common, He's gonna be Brian Oak of the
Brian Oak Is Where is it called the Brian Oak Podcast.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
It's Brian Oaks Show podcast. Yeah, exactly where where can
people fight? That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Comedy.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
Yeah, it's I just did episode five hundred and twenty
one and it is available where you get your podcasts,
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I'm like showing up here.
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But you know what, we know what this does. It
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Speaker 8 (24:41):
And then it does give you a four up tune
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Go, oh this guy, oh yeah, he does talk too
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sound of their own voice.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Ive rock and Roll Hall induction ceremony will be Saturday,
November eighth.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Okay, Well, how did I miss the inductees? I had
no idea. I guess I might have missed them too,
I'm not I didn't realize it was coming up.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
We can.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Inductees include go On, Outcast, Yeah, Cindy Lapper, huh, Bad Company,
the White Stripes, and Chubby.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Maybe we did talk about I guess maybe.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
We talked about it when it's when they first, like
the broader list of nominees got came out because these
all sound like familiar names. But I don't remember hearing
that it's been whittled down to those right there.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Industees are Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Cindy Lapper, Joe Cocker, Outcast,
Sound Garden, and The White Stripes. Musical Influence Award goes
to Warren, Zebon and Salt and Peppa Yep, Salt and
Peppa and every one of them.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Musical Excellence Award goes to Peter Frampton.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Oh well, well again, I got to admit I don't
go as deep on the Frampton catalog and legacy as
you do.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
But I again that one. None of these make me mad,
and I'm not.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
These are all pepeople who are deserving of lifetime achievement
style accolades. I think they all belong in there now.
The people that are performing. Elton John who I know
who he is?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, yes, you do.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Yes, I've heard of Doja Doja Doja Cap and I
couldn't tell you anything about Doja cat a.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Doja Cat is an incredible young artist.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
She is you know, hip hop, R and B, kind
of more hip hop, but definitely something for the kids
and the slightly older kids, not for people like you
and I.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That being said, I enjoy a couple of her songs.
Who's Missy Elliott?
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Missy Elliott? Come on, man, missy Elliott is? Tenna is
going to know who Missy Elliott is. Missy Elliott is
somewhere between this modern era of your Dochies and your
Doja Cats and the real old schoolers like Queen Latifa
and mc light. She is sort of spans the gap
you know when Diddy when he was at the height
of his popularity. She was also there. She was one
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of those people that also hired Hype Williams to do
her video. So she has these groundbreaking videos, but she's
also got real talent and real skill. Went away for
a while, then came back a few years later, lost
a ton of weight, still could spit her game, and
Missy elliott Is is a legend in American hip hop music.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
I did not know. I'm not a hip hop Following
she did a great song that covers Tina Turner's Can't
Stand the Rain, which is fantastic.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
But she's also got a song called watch Me Now,
not watch Me Now, but oh, I can't think of
this song.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I do like better.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
What was that one of you just said, Tina Turner
can't stand the rain? Can't stand the rain? Or who
will stop the rain?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Or blame it on the rain? Or blame it on
the rain? Oh, not that one.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
Although I don't mind, dude, I got a Millie Vanilli
story that would curlier your hairs, young man.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I so we're not going to get any trouble, No, no, no,
nothing like that.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
Years ago, in fact, my first or second year in
professional radio, I worked at a station call.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
They were the ones that were lip syncing and weren't
real they doing and they.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Got busted, but which again was such a lie because
do you know how many people had ringers come in
to do their studio performances? Everybody and so But yeah, no,
they were both model handsome and wore tight likera shorts
with big chunky boots and had the dreadlocks and did
a lot of dancing.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
What's your story? They were international superstars anyway.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
They So when I first started in the radio, I
worked at Rev one oh five and every year there
would be an outdoor music festival called cedar Fest over
on the West Bank, and one year G Love was
playing and I'd been asked to do security. I've never
done anything like this before. Well you know, I was
doing We were all doing so intros or no. But
I just had to stand at the velvet rope essentially
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at the VIP area and one of the two members
I'm not sure if it was Milly or Vanilly, but
his real life name was Rob Polaitis and he walked
up and I recognized him immediately.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
He was like, hey, man, can I get back there?
Speaker 9 (28:57):
I'd really like to meet g Love, and of course
at this point I was young and naive and didn't
want to get in trouble and didn't know how the
game worked. Of course, you let Rob Polaitis backstage at
some silly, little Upper.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Midwestern music festival. I said, I can't do that.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
I did say that, and I did not let Rob
Polaitis backstage at a crap he must have aside from
the fall of Millie Vanilli, having some young, long haired
punk like me telling him, you can't go backstage to me,
she love.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
And then, sadly, the real tragic end of this story
is that years later Rob Polaitis took his own life.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, so it doesn't have a.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Happy ending, but I carry shame on that one because
I did it wrong well and with the lesson I learned.
But then the guy left, and I just hope I
was not a contributing factor.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I recanted this tale to you and you side it
with security.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
It was a number of years ago, four or five,
six years ago here at the studio ce performance, and
Melissa Etheridge was going to be now Melissa's best days
of coming gone, I think right, of course, she was
a huge star. My wife could say the same thing
about us. My wife's a huge fan of SETH. So
she was there, I thought, you know what, I'll go
sit in and watch and watch her set.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah. So she's hag a couple of Diddy's about.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
Jack and Diane, and then she went to the little
green room there and as I was walking back and saying,
I'm just.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Gonna stick my head in there and say, hey, that
was really good. My my wife loves you. Security guys there,
I said, hey, nope, and was it some was it
some intern or stand?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
No, it was somebody had security. And I'm like, I
look around. I'm like, it's I work here at the radio.
It's a radio, I am. But I'm thinking to.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
Myself, I'm it really, I mean, this isn't like we're
at Madison Square Garden and it's chaos and stuff. It's
like and there's thousands of and I just went really
said yeah really, I said okay, and I just watched
because it wasn't that big of a deal to me,
but I just thought, you go, yeah, make it quick
and just hey, Melissa, my wife loves you.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Thank you exactly.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
And I again, so if I sided with security when
you first told me that story. It's not because I
think you did anything egregious, but let's be honest. Managers
and handlers their single job is to insert themselves between
the public and the artist, right, And so I've run
into that a ton of times where I've tried to
be like, hey, can I say quick cloat? Nope, okay,
even though I just didn't throw the set. No, okay, okay, okay.
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And so you just you know, that's their job and
it doesn't really get anybody anywhere by fighting with them.
So unless it's someone near and dear to your heart
and you want to show the artists the tattoo of
them that you got, I wouldn't fight it and just
move along.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
The last week we talked about the Super Bowl halftime show.
The performer it was announced it's bad bunny. Correct, not
good rabbit, but bad bunny.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Bad bunny. If I was an artist, I would because
this would get you pr I would I would call
myself good good rabbit. Well, but you know what, no
bad bunny. That means you're like a bad boy.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
No. What I'm saying is that people would go well,
they would have either go well, who's good good Rabbit.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
See what I'm saying. I would just play off the name.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
I understand to try to do that, but not everybody's
thrilled with the choice of bad Bunny on the halftimes.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Well, and again, I do not want to make this
political because it's not really about that. It's about lack
of perspective. We talked about this last week with the
selection of bad Bunny. Does it make sense why is
he on there? Because the outrage, once again has been
wildly outsized for what It's just the super Bowl halftime show,
So everyone needs to relax. And Trump made some offhanded
comment a couple of weeks ago about how he didn't
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even know who that was.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I did know, the people don't know. But does that
make it a bad choice? I don't think well.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
US House of Representatives, House Committee, the Speaker, he has
come out now, I don't know why the administration is
getting involved in Super Bowl halftime entertainment.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Just kidding. I totally do, but we're not going to
talk about that here.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
But he, the House Speaker of the entire United States,
told a reporter that this was a terrible decision and
went on to say, quote, he didn't even know who
Bad Bunny was, but so you can say it's a
terrible decision without having any context or any knowledge whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
He what did he say? He had a great line.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
He said, he sounds like someone who is He sounds
like he's not someone who will appeal to a broader audience,
which is one of the most ignorant things that's ever
come out of any elected official's mouth. And that's saying
something right there. I just wanted to mention a couple
of things that Bad Bunny's done. He was on SNL
this past Saturday, not as the musical guest, as the
actual host. This guy is such a cultural phenomenon here
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in the US. Like it or not, whether or not
you stay well anyway, what a bad break from he well,
but he had a very interesting monologue where he addressed
the fact that he wasn't in. But just a couple
of the statistics to let you know, Like I said
last week, the NFL is not about making rash decisions
or dumb decisions. They are about growing that multi, multi
multi billion dollar empire they've created up to it and
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including the halftime entertainment for their single biggest spectacle of
the entire season, So why would they choose bad Bunny. Well,
he's thirty one years old. He holds the record for
being the first Latin artist to have one one hundred
I repeat one hundred career Billboard Hot one hundred songs
one hundred one hundred has been meaning that he's either
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a producer or a performer, or that he's been involved
with one hundred, as well as having the very first
in all time Spanish album to reach number one on
the Billboard two hundred album chart back in twenty twenty
with l Ltimo. He also has tied Taylor Swift's record
for the most number ones on the Billboard Global two
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hundred of any solo artist Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That's what a big deal this dude is right here.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
He's also recorded the single most streamed album of all
time on Spotify.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That was his twenty twenty two record Unverano.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
Cn T, and he's consistently one of the most stream
global artists, holding the top spot for three consecutive years
while wrapping up eighty million monthly Spotify listeners over the
course of his career. Eighty million. So for them to say, well,
he just it makes you think and again, I don't
care about the political affiliation of the administration. First of all,
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why does the government care about who's playing at the
halftime show? But then to make such wildly ignorant comments
on such a massive stage. Well, I've never heard of him,
but he doesn't sound like that kind of person that
has a very broad appeal. You can't pick another name
right now. Well, we're talking about globalism at a time
where the NFL is trying to expand their global reach
like never before. You can't tell me another artist that
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fills the bill better than Bad Bunny to help the
NFL reach their ends and their goals. But to say
he doesn't have a broad appeal, it's just it's backwards.
It's super super ignorant.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I can name one one that would be more popular.
Goskally Wabbit. Have you ever heard of a Wasskaly Wabbit?
I appreciate what you're doing. Gaskally Wabbit is my favorite artist.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
I'm believab Do you know who, uh, the House speaker
Mike Johnson said, would be a better option than Bad Bunny.
Who eighty three year old singer songwriter Lee Greenwood, who
who performed his now legendary song proud to be an
American at the one of the most recent conventions for
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the Republicans. And also we just you know, you hear
his song at least once during every fireworks display.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Name one of the Lee Greenwood songs. My name one
Lee Greenwood might be my choice? Or Ted Nugent.
Speaker 9 (36:21):
There you go, one of those two. But again, you
have to remember why he was chosen. I mean, either
people just don't know and they're ignorant, and that's fine.
We all age out of things after a while, but
that's not the game the NFL is playing. You're a
racist because he's got all Spanish albums that don't use
any English, And how is that acceptable? How is that
entertainment for me and my football loving needs. I just
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the people who are so vociferous about this, that are
so bent out of shape about it, they're just wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Bad Bunny is again and I don't even really like him.
I don't like his music. That's not for me.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
But to say it's a bad choice just because you
don't like it or you've never heard of him, or worse,
if you've got racial tendencies, do you.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Think that might be in let's be careful.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
Oh yeah, I think there's a ton of racists out there,
and that's why they hate a ton.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I thought you meant to speaker might be no, no, no,
I'm not in seeing you any.
Speaker 9 (37:10):
Anything about the government. I'm not being political. But there
are absolutely people. Did you see the response to Kendrick
Lamar playing last year? There is no question that there
are is. I thought, just in this case with no, no, no, no,
I'm not saying that he says for that reason, but
one can never be show.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I like Waskly wabit, that's well, you know, that would
remove a lot of the controversy. I've never watched a
Super Bowl halftime show, and never one, not one. No,
it doesn't do anything because there are some legendary ones.
But I can let them. I can let most of
them go.
Speaker 8 (37:38):
But what they do is they do a medley of
songs and they have dancers and fireworks.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
And that's not your texicular it's it's it's not supposed
to be an intimate little singer, songwriter, storytellers.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Cons I just want to.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
Tell Okay, but again, singer, you're you're about the part
of the demo that the NFL is trying to cultivate.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
No, I get that that's but literally the number one
reason they chose anybody. I was just stating why I
don't I understand I won't see Bad Bunny perform once
they once they go to halftime in the big game.
That's when I go get something to eat, use the restroom,
and do a couple of other things.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
One of the sweet commercials there during the halftime though,
and then I would want to they pay extra to
be no clost to that performance.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
And then h and at that point I I checked
back into the game. I understand Rock Rank, Rock Rank,
Rock Rank, Rock Rank, Rock Rank, Rock Rank, Rock.
Speaker 8 (38:35):
Rank, Rock Rock Rank, Rock Rank.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
I feel like this one's been kind of a one
to eighty from Bad Bunny. But uh, I did not
tell this one because I don't feel like he needs
to press He told me.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
He told me he said, normally checks with you because
he likes to at least have a general idea, and
he said a vague idea research for this one. And
this time he.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Said that you told him you don't need any research.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
And I also want the come man, Dan Cole, I
actually want you to go first. I actually want you
to go first on rock Rank because I'm sure you
put a lot of thought into this before.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I will say Wascally Wabbit would be.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Top top five Beatles songs of all time. Oh, Mancy,
this is the kind of you that you need to pop.
That will be common so many good yeah, common go first.
He's thinking about the five best way all of them.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
It would be. I don't I'm not gonna do order.
I'm just gonna name off my.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
Five favorites, okays to rank them. Well, I can't write
off because, like you say, right off the top of
my head, I they have two hundred and thirty two songs.
I like two hundred of them. Thirty two don't do
much for me. So the two hundred I have to
think because I don't want to leave any out. I
would say my favorite. That's that's easy, Strawberry Fields Forever.
It's my favorite Beatles song of all time. And I
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can't I can't argue absolutely positively my favorite. Also my
next favorite song it it it they It can change
from day to day or how I feel.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 8 (40:05):
My Dear Prudence song number two, side one White album.
I think it's simply a brilliant song. It's about me
a Pharaoh's sister, who was also on the trip to
see the Maharishi, and John Lennon wrote it about her.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
A Day in the Life. I guess I have to
put in this.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
It's a great song everybody. Most people rank that as
the very best song they ever did. It's not for me, but.
Speaker 9 (40:34):
That's on Sergeant Pepper, right, Yeah, I mean most people
regard that as the pinnacle of rock music creation, certainly
in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, then I would probably it's too hard. I can't.
I would have needed more time.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
This one needs more prep than than any of the
other ones we've done so hard, just because there are
so many and it's so esoteric and it is. There's
just it, and it depends on what you like. The
right thing about the Beatles and part of their entering,
I'll tell you they did something for everybody.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
Here's what I'll tell you. Why don't we do it
in the road? I just thought, huh, don't we do
it in the road? And that's the whole I mean,
like top five albums would be easy for me. I
also like to dig It, dig It, lack a Roll
and Stone. Did you know that's actually like a seven
eight nine minute jam that they just took that, like,
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you know, forty eight seconds and put it on the
Let It The album.
Speaker 9 (41:34):
It doesn't surprise me because at that album they were
trying to you know, I mean it was that was
that was probably the most tumultuous period of their entire existence,
was the Boy when they record because they recorded abbey
Road after Let It Be.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
But Let It Be came out after abbey Road. Then
another song that I know you don't like because I'm
gonna let it Be. My favorite album that they ever
did is is Let It Be?
Speaker 8 (41:56):
That's my favorite album. Yeah, And I love the song
I Dig a Pony And I know you think that's
kind of and I just think it's a brilliant piece
of work.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I just like the one after nine nine Family. No,
that's actually that's not even what they didn't write that one.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
That's that's that's a song that they did when they
played they just decided to throw it on there because
they always liked it. That's when they played the Cavern
Club when they were doing covers and stuff, right, and.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
They just did that.
Speaker 8 (42:19):
They just said they always liked the song, so they
just wanted to add it. But I was not a
big one after nine or nine guy, No, that's why
off that album. That's probably my least favorite song after
I love Across the Universe. Most Lenin Stuff is my favorite.
Speaker 9 (42:31):
Across the Universe would be in my top five, but
also so would because because it's another brilliant song. I
like some of the early stuff. I love some of
the early stuff like Help, Help is A or Hard
Day's Night. Either one of those would occupy one of
those early big giant solo because they were a cover
band when they started, and then they started to change
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the entire game. But you look at Revolver like Tomorrow
Never Knows is an absolutely brilliant song. But if you're
looking for like incited, insightful, incisive, biting social commentary, tax
Man is brilliant. Eleanor Rigby might be the most beautiful
baroque pop song ever written in the history of popular music. Yeah,
narrow it down to five and trying to put them
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in any sort of cohesive order.
Speaker 8 (43:16):
I Am the Walrus is a Night of Lennon song.
It's just it's a brilliant piece. You know the story
behind that, I do. People were trying to decipher Beatles
lyrics all the time Lennon was informed that he goes
let him try to decipher this one.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
He just wrote, you know, it's it's just what do
we say about what's that phrase? Word salad?
Speaker 8 (43:36):
It's kind of just words. He just mixes a bunch
of mix some British stuff in there. Surreal imagery. Yeah,
and it's literally about nothing.
Speaker 9 (43:43):
Well. He was told that by a former teacher that
the school that he attended was now doing classes about
Beatles lyrics.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
He's like, oh are they?
Speaker 8 (43:52):
And you put another brilliant piece of work he did
was for the for the benefit of mister Kite and
he got that idea from just a poster for a circus, right,
he said, you know, I think I could Another one
is Happiness Is a Warm Gun. That's the White album is,
and he got you know how we got that. He
said he saw a magazine was like Guns and Ammo
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or something like that. It's a story teller was Happiness
is a Warm Gun and he just came up with
it and it's like it's like three different songs in
one and it's it's very well done.
Speaker 9 (44:23):
Another Harrison song off White Album, Savoy Truffle is just
this crazy cool jam, also off white album. Everybody's got
something to hide except for me and my monkey A
Lennon jam, super upbeat, super cool rock and roll. Obviously
Helter Skelters on that record.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Paperback Writer is one of your favorites.
Speaker 9 (44:40):
Absolutely one of my. I mean that's definitely, that's for
sure top five. How about Back in the USSR Might
be in my top five? How about in My Life?
That's okay, but I think it's simply brilliant. You know, again,
I can't argue with that. That's a great song.
Speaker 7 (44:55):
You got thirty songs in your top five, that is
what you're saying, well that the Beatles, Yeah, and that
even narrowing it down to thirty might be tough. But
you know, this one would require real thinking because there's
so much meat on that bone there. Because I haven't
even had on like my top five song We Love
of Be is my favorite. Yeah, that's a good one.
I know it's cliche, but I like Yesterday at number two.
There's nothing wrong with that either. Another song that I
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really have no idea what's going on in the song,
and maybe it's just Lendon putting words together, but I
like it. And I know common has an attachment to
it oh Blood, O blao.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
D blood, oh Blood. That was actually a McCartney so
oh was it okay?
Speaker 8 (45:26):
As a matter of fact, the during the making of
that album, the other three members hated O Blood Obla
and they were bitter because McCartney wanted to put so
much time and effort but they spent hours and hours
and they're like, they didn't say it, but they said,
this is an awful song.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
We want nothing to do with it.
Speaker 9 (45:42):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
Yeah, It's a goofy sort of tin pan alley type
of you know, it's the same with Maxwell silver Hammer.
That's another one on McCartney, and and everybody in the
band hated.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
I like, I like that, I hate I wasn't a big.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
Fan, and I like, while my guitar gently weeps perfect,
that's a that's a high water Market, that's.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
That's that's that's a Harrison song.
Speaker 8 (46:07):
And actually Eric Clapton plays the lead guitar part on
that and on the White album. But I think everybody
knows about when they did some kind of I don't
It was some kind of a concert benefit.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
And Prince played the guitar guitar solo on that. If
you watch that, that is simply.
Speaker 9 (46:27):
I mean, I watch how he ends his guitar solo
by simply launching his guitar into the audience.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Here's here's I mean.
Speaker 8 (46:33):
I always knew Prince was a great guitar guitar until
I saw that, because I don't know if I'm not
suggesting that's his greatest performance ever.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
But for me, it was I'm gonna like Prince.
Speaker 8 (46:42):
I mean, I don't go deep into Prince, you know,
but when I saw that, I went, oh, yeah, he
can play guitar.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
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That means you're the.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
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 encourage and inspire, and
indeed require hard work and maximum effort. If we deify
the common man while they encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well,
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the result of such a lopsided race as that is
too obvious to require elaboration.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean, it's like, hello, some joker was gonna write
about what kind of game. He said it was gonna
be crack straight up cash cash out, cash you, cash out, cashing,
(01:27):
cash out, cash cash.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out, cash out,
cash out, cash cash, cash cash out, cash catch out.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Cash Yeah, Rosie, I didn't say that common. Don't put
(01:56):
words in my mouth.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Ladies and gentlemen, we're seeing what a sophisticated offensive looks like.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You talk about boy who said?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Who said it was a nice run?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Woman's on the way part of your tyman?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Baby, and listen I always lovely? Yeah baby, where's that
going on yet?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Today?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Jesus, we're happy for you. They can't pitch, they can't ship.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
What is what I need to come? Wrote that?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You don't know nothing.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
He's the clown from Brown, He's the fourth in the north.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Is the common man, Dan Cole? You only bring it up.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
It doesn't really matter much to me. It doesn't mean
that much to me to mean that much to you.
You know what song that's from Tennedy. It's a brilliant
it's a brilliant lyric.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Think about it. It's it doesn't mean that much to
me to mean that much to you. I recognize the lyric,
I just can't place it with the song keeps me
searching for a heart of gold. Yeah no it's not.
It's the old Man. It's from old Man. Take a
(03:58):
look at my life, mama, like you, that's what it's from.
Quite the falsettle you got there? Thank you?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Not as good as yours? Every day we just get
all sorts of topics dumped into our lapse. Vikings quarterback
controversy continues. The bye is here, the wild, The Wolves
are off the Wolves. Last night Aunt was there.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He played.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
We lose it overtime to Indiana. Two teams that don't
like each other very much. So many topics to get to, Hi,
I'm not sure where to start. Let's spin the wheel of.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Topics Commons golf games.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
What did you shoot today?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Seventy six trombones? Boom, boom boom. I'm playing.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
We played at Loggers Trail where you hit it right
up the gut I'm playing. I had a seven iron
in my hand.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I should have been.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
I'm now hitting my ball again now that I'm swinging
the proper way to all my checklists and not being
fidgety and jumpy, and and I'm now hitting my niner
and one hundred and thirty yards again. There have been
times this year where my seven irons one hundred and
thirty yard club?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
How bad is that? I just I could go over
a shop.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
I might even start a common Man Daily Round podcast
so I can really dive.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
I thought that would be one of those trending kind
of podcasts, The common Man Daily Golf Round podcast where
I go in depth, you know, not just going over
each shop, but what I'm thinking prior to each other.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Look, do you have a headache? Look like you were
just found blubb. You were doing the old.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
You're just thinking? Why am I here? He's talking about
his golf round again. Yeah, I can't help but that
the topic came up on Man's Golf Game.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I hit so many and you know I but I did.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
I made three consecutive movies, and each one two of
my hit bad chips and won a bad wedge. I
let a shank I shouldn't even say the word from
last week get into my head. On sixteen, I had
seventy four yards and I thought, this is the exact
same yard as I had last week when I shanked
this fifty four degree three quarter knockdown punch cut fade wedge,
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and so I chicken winged it and got it halfway
to the green and then couldn't get up and down.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But here's probably what happened.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
After I made a brilliant up and down from behind
the green on the par three thirteenth, again I hit
it too good again, I'm just puring the ball. I
got to readjust my distances on my.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Your scores are off, but you're hitting a grape. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
And I was thinking about how I was when here's
this is how far ahead of myself I got. This
was probably the problem when you when Dark was going
to ask me if it landed on wheel topic, what
you did. If Dark was going to ask me, what'd
you shoot today, I was going to say I had
an experience that was not unlike that of a PGA
Tour player, because that's where I thought I was going.
(07:13):
I mean, I vogied the first two holes and then
I parred three, four, five, six, and seven birdie eight.
I hit a hybrid into three feet. Then I parred nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
and thirteen. I'm one over stand that I'm fourteen tea box, thinking, well,
fourteen's at short par for the one that you almost
(07:34):
drove that day. I'm thinking I'll make par here maybe Bertie.
I'm thinking I'm shooting seventy or seventy one is what's
going through my head.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And I got ahead of myself and you can't do
that in the game of golf. But it was fun.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
We take it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
One shot at the time is what.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
You need to do, yes, sort of like remember the
show One Day at a Time with Valerie Burtonelly.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I do not know tend Toby. Which famous rock star
was Valerie Burtonelly married to at one time?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
He's dead now no idea. Eddie van Halen O Eddie?
The answer would be who is Eddie van Hayle. I
didn't even know eddivan Halen was dead dead rocks. I
think he is, well, I don't know. I just don't
know him well enough. Looks like I may have killed
him off and he's not even dead. I think he's dead.
Maybe he's still alive and well, still alive and well
(08:22):
every now and then, I know, it's kind of hard
to tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Valerie Burtnelly was in a show called One Day at
a Time with Michelle Phillips, who was the daughter of
the Phillips guy from The Mamas and the Papas, and
allegedly this what she claims she was sexually abused by
her dad.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
How what a wonderful way to grow up. And then
I don't remember the name of the.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
The mom in the series, but that dad was it
was an old eighty show at the seventies or eighty show,
something like that. Major development. I have some The button
bar looks different today. Have you noticed different colors or something. Yeah,
everything's different. Yeah, I'll have to show it to you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I have give me one second because this is this
sounder is needed.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
For this.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Breaking news.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Excitement is starting to build in the twin towns of
New London Spicer. Apparently the city council held an emergency
meeting last night and they have declared this coming Saturday,
meat sauce in.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Common man day. Yeah, New London Spicer and the.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Chamber of Commerce says, you know how I always ask
you do you like parades? They're going to have a
parade and meat sauce and I and honor. You don't
believe any of that. We're still doing comedy. Even though
ticket sales have been tepid.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
We're going up there.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
You know, tickets are still available. I think we're giving
away another paradis where Spicer. Is that like a Saint Cloud.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it's something that's sort of that.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Kind of that neck of the woods. Yeah, well ask
Ross and you know him, he knows his, he knows.
It's many Minnesota geography better than anybody.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
He likes.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He likes to go camping and roughing it. He'll go
up to like Cold Spring, which is up in that area.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Did you know there's not a grocery store within twenty
minutes of where one goes and stayed. You know, because
he's always been an urban guy, he's never lived in it.
He's always lived in the Mama Saint Paul.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So wherever he's lived, he doesn't even know, like the
suburbs or or the exit. No, no, he has no idea.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
So where I couldn't tell you, no, no, And so
he doesn't realize that sometimes you have to drive a
little ways to get to places.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You know.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
It's like, yeah, if you're if you, if you if
you have a if you have a secluded place, very secluded.
That's an old inside joke, very secluded. Then you sometimes
you got to drive twenty minutes to get two groceries store.
It's just amazing you do. But he was astounded by.
But the good news for Mark when he when he
(10:54):
when he travels like that into the wilderness, it's so
refreshing because no one recognizes him. That's That's where I'm
hoping people will recognize this in New London.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Spicer will you more of a New London guy or
a Spicer guy?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Well, I think we're in Spice or proper. Okay, you
know I I but I like them. Both called them
the twin towns of New London Spicers. So we will
be there and I'm i'm uh, I am really truly
looking forward to it. Larry Mandela guy will be our
MC and then Saw Sauce will I'm going to close
again because Sauce Sauce is he's trying to make a comeback.
(11:30):
He's been working on new material, he claims, and then
I reminded him of some of his Oh go back
to some of your classic old bits, because now he
just goes up there and just starts babbling and wandering
around on the stage and then just leaves after seventeen minutes.
But I think he's he's he's told me he's going
to put his uh put forth his best effort and
he is.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Rare and to go. Let's let's regroup.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
That was a very controversial action pack, fast paced for
a segment. We got plenty to get to. I've not
heard from Brian, ok. He usually texts me and says
are we still on for today? Hey, I have not
received that text he texted.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Me today because he asked me if we were doing
rock rank.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Oh okay, good, so then that means he will be
here at twelve thirty. The legendary Mark Rosen will join
us just before two o'clock. Also five three, four, before
the top of the hour. Other side of the break
controversial Viking's News, pizza interesting the purple.
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Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, it does seem like the show just goes.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
On and on and on and really with with no direction,
the direction unknown and place go who. Athletic released it's
National Football League Power Power Rankings.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Power Rankings, and.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
I believe the world is now standing still because guess
who is the number one team in pro football according
to the Athletic the most City Kitties. I don't know
if they've ever been considered the best team in proof the.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Last two years ahead of a one point do I think?
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Detroit Lions number one? Last week they were number three.
Here's what it says. The season opening loss to the
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Speaker 2 (15:34):
The next five games are against.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
The Chiefs, the Buccaneers, the Vikings, the Commanders, and the Eagles.
Because the kiddies really haven't you know, you look at
strength to schedule. They beat the Bears, the Ravens, the
Browns and the Bengals. Now going into the season that
Ravens Bengals, both of those seem like you know, really
difficult games, and I don't had the Ravens lost They
(15:58):
lost the one pointer of the Bills for the Kiddies game,
I believe, so it wasn't as though they had fallen
off the face of the earth they gave the bill
or did they lose after the kiddies game? Do you
remember because the Ravens lost back to Bell when they've
only won one game they lost to they either lost.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
To the Buffalo game when that was the first game
of the year.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Because I don't remember, That's why I'm asking. I don't remember.
I can barely remember what I have.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I can tell you each shot I hit today, if
you want me to go over it, I could.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Anyway, they've not beaten anybody really, to be honest with you,
Tampa Bay at number two, what do you think make
of that?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Is that because of that victory or where they just
be quality team? I mean they're a playoff team.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
They've obviously won a bunch of games in dramatic fashion here,
so they've they've shown that they can step up when
it's Baker Mayfield, can play when the when the lights
are on the brightest and they need just good points,
they good points so Tampa Bay definitely should be. You
could argue who's number two, But you know, if you
want to put him in the top five, top six,
I think yes, they deserve to be there.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Do you believe this?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
I saw, you know, according to my Power Rankings, which
is the standings. Okay, they are tied for the best
record in football.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yes. I also saw ESP and yesterday.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
You know, they do these panel shows and they're always asking,
you know, questions about this.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You know, like who's the best at this? You know,
who's the Power rankings for everything?
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Right in issues teams face and one of the questions
on the crawl was is Baker Mayfield the top five
quarterback in the NFL? I think I'd made no bones
about it for the past few years. I've been a
big Baker Mayfield guy. Particularly.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What really struck me more than anything is is.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Remember when he played for the Browns and he actually
lived at at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I mean he would turn off the lights and everything
for him. You know, that was to me, going above
and beyond the qual of duty. But I like him.
He's excited, he's fun to watch.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Yeah, he'll make he'll he'll he'll try to force the
ball into places sometimes that he shouldn't and he's he'll
turn it over on occasion, but I like him. They
have Philadelphia ranked at number three tennebe followed by the
Buffalo Bills and for there's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Four and one teams. All of these teams are four
and one. Buffalo's for one.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
The Jacksonville Jaguars are at number five after beating the Chiefs.
They're also four and one. San Francisco is six, Indianapolis seven.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
They're both four and one. Then it's Green Bay at
number eight.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
They are two one and one, followed by the La
Rams at three and two, the Rams at number nine,
your Broncos at ten, three and two, Commanders at eleven,
Seahawks at twelve, Steelers at thirty team. The Steelers are
three and one, and there's several three and two teams
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ahead of them, which you know, that's why you know
power rankings aren't in exact science and even standards. Sometimes
you look at a three and one team, it spence
who they played, right, Just because there's three and one
doesn't necessarily mean they have to be ahead of a
three and two club. Chargers Chiefs at fifteen and they're
two and three that's the respect they have for them.
(19:22):
Then you're Minnesota Vikings check in at sixteen ten to me,
so they're basically the.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Best of the lousiest and the lousiest or the best.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Here's what here's the paragraph for the Vikings that reads
as follows a well earned and then it has in
parentheses and probably much needed break is on the horizon.
After becoming the first team in the league history to
play back to back international games in two different countries.
It hasn't been the prettiest start for this team, and
the Vikings haven't exactly beaten top teams. Kevin O'Connell got
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Jordan Addison rolling late after an early benching, and things
trend towards JJ McCarthy coming back after the bye, which
again we've been debating, you know, yeah, since since he
first sprained his ankle and missed a game.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I think Mark Craig wrote.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
I think it was Craig because we've had the debate
rose in yesterday things absolutely positively, when McCarthy's ready, he
should come back in.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
And I.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Do you think it's a bit more complicated than that, right,
or do you think automatically he.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Should be back in I don't think automatically should be
back in. I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
I think what they're gonna do is it's going to
get this time this week. He's gonna start practicing, but
they're gonna do the old Well, he's not fully back
where he can do all the things that he previously could.
We'll let Carson Wentz get another week.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Now. The danger there is.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
If you did want to bring JJ McCarthy back, is
it actually better to have him started home against Philadelphia?
Just a little bit easier of an environment. Offensive line
protection is probably gonna be a little bit better at home.
You know, if Carson goes out to play text on
Philadelphia doesn't do well, and then you want to make
the change. Now you've got to throw JJ right back
(21:15):
in the mix of two road games at LA and Detroit.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Maybe somebody can help me with this. I thought it
was Mark la is not the most ruckous crowd, right.
I thought it was Mark Craig who wrote. I know
I read it last night. Maybe it wasn't Mark Craig.
I'm looking through the.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I'm looking at the fish wrap factory west Side, and
I'm looking for the latest from Mark Craig. But I
don't see it, but I think it was either Craig
or maybe it was somebody with the Athletic wrote, I
wish you could basically that if a guy's on, if
a guy's playing well, you stick with them. You just
(21:52):
you don't have to go back to somebody else who
was in. And that's how I feel. And even that
can be complicated as well. For instance, let's say Patrick Mahomes,
who's the backup of Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I believe it's Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Now, okay, so let's say Mahomes gets injured, he's out
for three weeks, he's ready to play, and Gardner Minshew's
playing playing pretty well. I don't think you look at
Mahomes and have to sit on the bench for a while, Patrick,
because Gardner Minshew is on a roll.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So that you know, every situation has to be treated differently.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
And I'm I'm now starting to believe though, and you're
right with with with the way they're they're kind of well,
it might be a Remember it was going to be
a two three week thing, now it's a four to
six or whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But I still get the feeling that if if he's
ready to.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Go for the vite against Philadelphi, that he will start
the game. I think they're going to force feed him.
And you know, and you could make that what Rosen
has and other people, and we got to see what
we've got. I've had some spirited debates with salespeople, you know,
all of the say, all the young guys here are
all duckies and buddies, and you know, they all want
to see what we've got with with uh, with McCarthy,
(22:59):
is he for real? So far what we've seen you
probably say, we don't. But that's only two games.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We'll see how how that works out.
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Rank, I'm common, He's gonna be Brian Oak of the
Brian Oak Is Where is it called the Brian Oak Podcast.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
It's Brian Oaks Show podcast. Yeah, exactly where where can
people fight? That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Comedy.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
Yeah, it's I just did episode five hundred and twenty
one and it is available where you get your podcasts,
but of course recommended. The nation's really the world's number
one destination for podcasts is the iHeartMedia, our radio app.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You can find it right on there whenever you like.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
And if you find it and you listen to it
and you like talking about music and finding out more
about Minnesota and the regent scene, then you will have
a deep, rich archive to go back and filter through. Yeah,
we've been doing it. We're coming up on our six
year anniversary, which is crazy. And it makes money what
it makes money, it does you gotta like that.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I'm like showing up here.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
But you know what, we know what this does. It
doesn't fill my bank account. It fills my heart account,
is what it does.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
And then it does give you a four up tune
announce that you're authors. People are gonna go, hey, you
know what, maybe I'll check that out, and then they
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Speaker 9 (24:49):
Go, oh this guy, oh yeah, he does talk too
much yeah, No, he does love the sound of his
own voice. But I'm assuming if they like listening to you,
then they're probably already okay with somebody who likes the
sound of their own voice.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Ive rock and Roll Hall induction ceremony will be Saturday,
November eighth.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Okay, Well, how did I miss the inductees? I had
no idea. I guess I might have missed them too,
I'm not I didn't realize it was coming up.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
We can.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Inductees include go On, Outcast, Yeah, Cindy Lapper, huh, Bad Company,
the White Stripes, and Chubby.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Maybe we did talk about I guess maybe.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
We talked about it when it's when they first, like
the broader list of nominees got came out because these
all sound like familiar names. But I don't remember hearing
that it's been whittled down to those right there.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Industees are Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Cindy Lapper, Joe Cocker, Outcast,
Sound Garden, and The White Stripes. Musical Influence Award goes
to Warren, Zebon and Salt and Peppa Yep, Salt and
Peppa and every one of them.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Musical Excellence Award goes to Peter Frampton.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
Oh well, well again, I got to admit I don't
go as deep on the Frampton catalog and legacy as
you do.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
But I again that one. None of these make me mad,
and I'm not.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
These are all pepeople who are deserving of lifetime achievement
style accolades. I think they all belong in there now.
The people that are performing. Elton John who I know
who he is?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, yes, you do.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Yes, I've heard of Doja Doja Doja Cap and I
couldn't tell you anything about Doja cat a.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Doja Cat is an incredible young artist.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
She is you know, hip hop, R and B, kind
of more hip hop, but definitely something for the kids
and the slightly older kids, not for people like you
and I.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That being said, I enjoy a couple of her songs.
Who's Missy Elliott?
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Missy Elliott? Come on, man, missy Elliott is? Tenna is
going to know who Missy Elliott is. Missy Elliott is
somewhere between this modern era of your Dochies and your
Doja Cats and the real old schoolers like Queen Latifa
and mc light. She is sort of spans the gap
you know when Diddy when he was at the height
of his popularity. She was also there. She was one
(27:02):
of those people that also hired Hype Williams to do
her video. So she has these groundbreaking videos, but she's
also got real talent and real skill. Went away for
a while, then came back a few years later, lost
a ton of weight, still could spit her game, and
Missy elliott Is is a legend in American hip hop music.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
I did not know. I'm not a hip hop Following
she did a great song that covers Tina Turner's Can't
Stand the Rain, which is fantastic.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
But she's also got a song called watch Me Now,
not watch Me Now, but oh, I can't think of
this song.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I do like better.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
What was that one of you just said, Tina Turner
can't stand the rain? Can't stand the rain? Or who
will stop the rain?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Or blame it on the rain? Or blame it on
the rain? Oh, not that one.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
Although I don't mind, dude, I got a Millie Vanilli
story that would curlier your hairs, young man.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I so we're not going to get any trouble, No, no, no,
nothing like that.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
Years ago, in fact, my first or second year in
professional radio, I worked at a station call.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
They were the ones that were lip syncing and weren't
real they doing and they.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Got busted, but which again was such a lie because
do you know how many people had ringers come in
to do their studio performances? Everybody and so But yeah, no,
they were both model handsome and wore tight likera shorts
with big chunky boots and had the dreadlocks and did
a lot of dancing.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
What's your story? They were international superstars anyway.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
They So when I first started in the radio, I
worked at Rev one oh five and every year there
would be an outdoor music festival called cedar Fest over
on the West Bank, and one year G Love was
playing and I'd been asked to do security. I've never
done anything like this before. Well you know, I was
doing We were all doing so intros or no. But
I just had to stand at the velvet rope essentially
(28:46):
at the VIP area and one of the two members
I'm not sure if it was Milly or Vanilly, but
his real life name was Rob Polaitis and he walked
up and I recognized him immediately.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
He was like, hey, man, can I get back there?
Speaker 9 (28:57):
I'd really like to meet g Love, and of course
at this point I was young and naive and didn't
want to get in trouble and didn't know how the
game worked. Of course, you let Rob Polaitis backstage at
some silly, little Upper.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Midwestern music festival. I said, I can't do that.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
I did say that, and I did not let Rob
Polaitis backstage at a crap he must have aside from
the fall of Millie Vanilli, having some young, long haired
punk like me telling him, you can't go backstage to me,
she love.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
And then, sadly, the real tragic end of this story
is that years later Rob Polaitis took his own life.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, so it doesn't have a.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Happy ending, but I carry shame on that one because
I did it wrong well and with the lesson I learned.
But then the guy left, and I just hope I
was not a contributing factor.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I recanted this tale to you and you side it
with security.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
It was a number of years ago, four or five,
six years ago here at the studio ce performance, and
Melissa Etheridge was going to be now Melissa's best days
of coming gone, I think right, of course, she was
a huge star. My wife could say the same thing
about us. My wife's a huge fan of SETH. So
she was there, I thought, you know what, I'll go
sit in and watch and watch her set.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah. So she's hag a couple of Diddy's about.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
Jack and Diane, and then she went to the little
green room there and as I was walking back and saying,
I'm just.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Gonna stick my head in there and say, hey, that
was really good. My my wife loves you. Security guys there,
I said, hey, nope, and was it some was it
some intern or stand?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
No, it was somebody had security. And I'm like, I
look around. I'm like, it's I work here at the radio.
It's a radio, I am. But I'm thinking to.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
Myself, I'm it really, I mean, this isn't like we're
at Madison Square Garden and it's chaos and stuff. It's
like and there's thousands of and I just went really
said yeah really, I said okay, and I just watched
because it wasn't that big of a deal to me,
but I just thought, you go, yeah, make it quick
and just hey, Melissa, my wife loves you.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Thank you exactly.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
And I again, so if I sided with security when
you first told me that story. It's not because I
think you did anything egregious, but let's be honest. Managers
and handlers their single job is to insert themselves between
the public and the artist, right, And so I've run
into that a ton of times where I've tried to
be like, hey, can I say quick cloat? Nope, okay,
even though I just didn't throw the set. No, okay, okay, okay.
(31:16):
And so you just you know, that's their job and
it doesn't really get anybody anywhere by fighting with them.
So unless it's someone near and dear to your heart
and you want to show the artists the tattoo of
them that you got, I wouldn't fight it and just
move along.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
The last week we talked about the Super Bowl halftime show.
The performer it was announced it's bad bunny. Correct, not
good rabbit, but bad bunny.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Bad bunny. If I was an artist, I would because
this would get you pr I would I would call
myself good good rabbit. Well, but you know what, no
bad bunny. That means you're like a bad boy.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
No. What I'm saying is that people would go well,
they would have either go well, who's good good Rabbit.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
See what I'm saying. I would just play off the name.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
I understand to try to do that, but not everybody's
thrilled with the choice of bad Bunny on the halftimes.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Well, and again, I do not want to make this
political because it's not really about that. It's about lack
of perspective. We talked about this last week with the
selection of bad Bunny. Does it make sense why is
he on there? Because the outrage, once again has been
wildly outsized for what It's just the super Bowl halftime show,
So everyone needs to relax. And Trump made some offhanded
comment a couple of weeks ago about how he didn't
(32:24):
even know who that was.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I did know, the people don't know. But does that
make it a bad choice? I don't think well.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
US House of Representatives, House Committee, the Speaker, he has
come out now, I don't know why the administration is
getting involved in Super Bowl halftime entertainment.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Just kidding. I totally do, but we're not going to
talk about that here.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
But he, the House Speaker of the entire United States,
told a reporter that this was a terrible decision and
went on to say, quote, he didn't even know who
Bad Bunny was, but so you can say it's a
terrible decision without having any context or any knowledge whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
He what did he say? He had a great line.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
He said, he sounds like someone who is He sounds
like he's not someone who will appeal to a broader audience,
which is one of the most ignorant things that's ever
come out of any elected official's mouth. And that's saying
something right there. I just wanted to mention a couple
of things that Bad Bunny's done. He was on SNL
this past Saturday, not as the musical guest, as the
actual host. This guy is such a cultural phenomenon here
(33:24):
in the US. Like it or not, whether or not
you stay well anyway, what a bad break from he well,
but he had a very interesting monologue where he addressed
the fact that he wasn't in. But just a couple
of the statistics to let you know, Like I said
last week, the NFL is not about making rash decisions
or dumb decisions. They are about growing that multi, multi
multi billion dollar empire they've created up to it and
(33:47):
including the halftime entertainment for their single biggest spectacle of
the entire season, So why would they choose bad Bunny. Well,
he's thirty one years old. He holds the record for
being the first Latin artist to have one one hundred
I repeat one hundred career Billboard Hot one hundred songs
one hundred one hundred has been meaning that he's either
(34:08):
a producer or a performer, or that he's been involved
with one hundred, as well as having the very first
in all time Spanish album to reach number one on
the Billboard two hundred album chart back in twenty twenty
with l Ltimo. He also has tied Taylor Swift's record
for the most number ones on the Billboard Global two
(34:28):
hundred of any solo artist Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That's what a big deal this dude is right here.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
He's also recorded the single most streamed album of all
time on Spotify.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That was his twenty twenty two record Unverano.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
Cn T, and he's consistently one of the most stream
global artists, holding the top spot for three consecutive years
while wrapping up eighty million monthly Spotify listeners over the
course of his career. Eighty million. So for them to say, well,
he just it makes you think and again, I don't
care about the political affiliation of the administration. First of all,
(35:02):
why does the government care about who's playing at the
halftime show? But then to make such wildly ignorant comments
on such a massive stage. Well, I've never heard of him,
but he doesn't sound like that kind of person that
has a very broad appeal. You can't pick another name
right now. Well, we're talking about globalism at a time
where the NFL is trying to expand their global reach
like never before. You can't tell me another artist that
(35:24):
fills the bill better than Bad Bunny to help the
NFL reach their ends and their goals. But to say
he doesn't have a broad appeal, it's just it's backwards.
It's super super ignorant.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I can name one one that would be more popular.
Goskally Wabbit. Have you ever heard of a Wasskaly Wabbit?
I appreciate what you're doing. Gaskally Wabbit is my favorite artist.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
I'm believab Do you know who, uh, the House speaker
Mike Johnson said, would be a better option than Bad Bunny.
Who eighty three year old singer songwriter Lee Greenwood, who
who performed his now legendary song proud to be an
American at the one of the most recent conventions for
(36:09):
the Republicans. And also we just you know, you hear
his song at least once during every fireworks display.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Name one of the Lee Greenwood songs. My name one
Lee Greenwood might be my choice? Or Ted Nugent.
Speaker 9 (36:21):
There you go, one of those two. But again, you
have to remember why he was chosen. I mean, either
people just don't know and they're ignorant, and that's fine.
We all age out of things after a while, but
that's not the game the NFL is playing. You're a
racist because he's got all Spanish albums that don't use
any English, And how is that acceptable? How is that
entertainment for me and my football loving needs. I just
(36:43):
the people who are so vociferous about this, that are
so bent out of shape about it, they're just wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Bad Bunny is again and I don't even really like him.
I don't like his music. That's not for me.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
But to say it's a bad choice just because you
don't like it or you've never heard of him, or worse,
if you've got racial tendencies, do you.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Think that might be in let's be careful.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
Oh yeah, I think there's a ton of racists out there,
and that's why they hate a ton.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I thought you meant to speaker might be no, no, no,
I'm not in seeing you any.
Speaker 9 (37:10):
Anything about the government. I'm not being political. But there
are absolutely people. Did you see the response to Kendrick
Lamar playing last year? There is no question that there
are is. I thought, just in this case with no, no, no, no,
I'm not saying that he says for that reason, but
one can never be show.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I like Waskly wabit, that's well, you know, that would
remove a lot of the controversy. I've never watched a
Super Bowl halftime show, and never one, not one. No,
it doesn't do anything because there are some legendary ones.
But I can let them. I can let most of
them go.
Speaker 8 (37:38):
But what they do is they do a medley of
songs and they have dancers and fireworks.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
And that's not your texicular it's it's it's not supposed
to be an intimate little singer, songwriter, storytellers.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Cons I just want to.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
Tell Okay, but again, singer, you're you're about the part
of the demo that the NFL is trying to cultivate.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
No, I get that that's but literally the number one
reason they chose anybody. I was just stating why I
don't I understand I won't see Bad Bunny perform once
they once they go to halftime in the big game.
That's when I go get something to eat, use the restroom,
and do a couple of other things.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
One of the sweet commercials there during the halftime though,
and then I would want to they pay extra to
be no clost to that performance.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
And then h and at that point I I checked
back into the game. I understand Rock Rank, Rock Rank,
Rock Rank, Rock Rank, Rock Rank, Rock Rank, Rock.
Speaker 8 (38:35):
Rank, Rock Rock Rank, Rock Rank.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
I feel like this one's been kind of a one
to eighty from Bad Bunny. But uh, I did not
tell this one because I don't feel like he needs
to press He told me.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
He told me he said, normally checks with you because
he likes to at least have a general idea, and
he said a vague idea research for this one. And
this time he.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Said that you told him you don't need any research.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
And I also want the come man, Dan Cole, I
actually want you to go first. I actually want you
to go first on rock Rank because I'm sure you
put a lot of thought into this before.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I will say Wascally Wabbit would be.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Top top five Beatles songs of all time. Oh, Mancy,
this is the kind of you that you need to pop.
That will be common so many good yeah, common go first.
He's thinking about the five best way all of them.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
It would be. I don't I'm not gonna do order.
I'm just gonna name off my.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
Five favorites, okays to rank them. Well, I can't write
off because, like you say, right off the top of
my head, I they have two hundred and thirty two songs.
I like two hundred of them. Thirty two don't do
much for me. So the two hundred I have to
think because I don't want to leave any out. I
would say my favorite. That's that's easy, Strawberry Fields Forever.
It's my favorite Beatles song of all time. And I
(39:49):
can't I can't argue absolutely positively my favorite. Also my
next favorite song it it it they It can change
from day to day or how I feel.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 8 (40:05):
My Dear Prudence song number two, side one White album.
I think it's simply a brilliant song. It's about me
a Pharaoh's sister, who was also on the trip to
see the Maharishi, and John Lennon wrote it about her.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
A Day in the Life. I guess I have to
put in this.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
It's a great song everybody. Most people rank that as
the very best song they ever did. It's not for me, but.
Speaker 9 (40:34):
That's on Sergeant Pepper, right, Yeah, I mean most people
regard that as the pinnacle of rock music creation, certainly
in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, then I would probably it's too hard. I can't.
I would have needed more time.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
This one needs more prep than than any of the
other ones we've done so hard, just because there are
so many and it's so esoteric and it is. There's
just it, and it depends on what you like. The
right thing about the Beatles and part of their entering,
I'll tell you they did something for everybody.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
Here's what I'll tell you. Why don't we do it
in the road? I just thought, huh, don't we do
it in the road? And that's the whole I mean,
like top five albums would be easy for me. I
also like to dig It, dig It, lack a Roll
and Stone. Did you know that's actually like a seven
eight nine minute jam that they just took that, like,
(41:31):
you know, forty eight seconds and put it on the
Let It The album.
Speaker 9 (41:34):
It doesn't surprise me because at that album they were
trying to you know, I mean it was that was
that was probably the most tumultuous period of their entire existence,
was the Boy when they record because they recorded abbey
Road after Let It Be.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
But Let It Be came out after abbey Road. Then
another song that I know you don't like because I'm
gonna let it Be. My favorite album that they ever
did is is Let It Be?
Speaker 8 (41:56):
That's my favorite album. Yeah, And I love the song
I Dig a Pony And I know you think that's
kind of and I just think it's a brilliant piece
of work.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
I just like the one after nine nine Family. No,
that's actually that's not even what they didn't write that one.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
That's that's that's a song that they did when they
played they just decided to throw it on there because
they always liked it. That's when they played the Cavern
Club when they were doing covers and stuff, right, and.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
They just did that.
Speaker 8 (42:19):
They just said they always liked the song, so they
just wanted to add it. But I was not a
big one after nine or nine guy, No, that's why
off that album. That's probably my least favorite song after
I love Across the Universe. Most Lenin Stuff is my favorite.
Speaker 9 (42:31):
Across the Universe would be in my top five, but
also so would because because it's another brilliant song. I
like some of the early stuff. I love some of
the early stuff like Help, Help is A or Hard
Day's Night. Either one of those would occupy one of
those early big giant solo because they were a cover
band when they started, and then they started to change
(42:52):
the entire game. But you look at Revolver like Tomorrow
Never Knows is an absolutely brilliant song. But if you're
looking for like incited, insightful, incisive, biting social commentary, tax
Man is brilliant. Eleanor Rigby might be the most beautiful
baroque pop song ever written in the history of popular music. Yeah,
narrow it down to five and trying to put them
(43:14):
in any sort of cohesive order.
Speaker 8 (43:16):
I Am the Walrus is a Night of Lennon song.
It's just it's a brilliant piece. You know the story
behind that, I do. People were trying to decipher Beatles
lyrics all the time Lennon was informed that he goes
let him try to decipher this one.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
He just wrote, you know, it's it's just what do
we say about what's that phrase? Word salad?
Speaker 8 (43:36):
It's kind of just words. He just mixes a bunch
of mix some British stuff in there. Surreal imagery. Yeah,
and it's literally about nothing.
Speaker 9 (43:43):
Well. He was told that by a former teacher that
the school that he attended was now doing classes about
Beatles lyrics.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
He's like, oh are they?
Speaker 8 (43:52):
And you put another brilliant piece of work he did
was for the for the benefit of mister Kite and
he got that idea from just a poster for a circus, right,
he said, you know, I think I could Another one
is Happiness Is a Warm Gun. That's the White album is,
and he got you know how we got that. He
said he saw a magazine was like Guns and Ammo
(44:13):
or something like that. It's a story teller was Happiness
is a Warm Gun and he just came up with
it and it's like it's like three different songs in
one and it's it's very well done.
Speaker 9 (44:23):
Another Harrison song off White Album, Savoy Truffle is just
this crazy cool jam, also off white album. Everybody's got
something to hide except for me and my monkey A
Lennon jam, super upbeat, super cool rock and roll. Obviously
Helter Skelters on that record.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Paperback Writer is one of your favorites.
Speaker 9 (44:40):
Absolutely one of my. I mean that's definitely, that's for
sure top five. How about Back in the USSR Might
be in my top five? How about in My Life?
That's okay, but I think it's simply brilliant. You know, again,
I can't argue with that. That's a great song.
Speaker 7 (44:55):
You got thirty songs in your top five, that is
what you're saying, well that the Beatles, Yeah, and that
even narrowing it down to thirty might be tough. But
you know, this one would require real thinking because there's
so much meat on that bone there. Because I haven't
even had on like my top five song We Love
of Be is my favorite. Yeah, that's a good one.
I know it's cliche, but I like Yesterday at number two.
There's nothing wrong with that either. Another song that I
(45:15):
really have no idea what's going on in the song,
and maybe it's just Lendon putting words together, but I
like it. And I know common has an attachment to
it oh Blood, O blao.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
D blood, oh Blood. That was actually a McCartney so
oh was it okay?
Speaker 8 (45:26):
As a matter of fact, the during the making of
that album, the other three members hated O Blood Obla
and they were bitter because McCartney wanted to put so
much time and effort but they spent hours and hours
and they're like, they didn't say it, but they said,
this is an awful song.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
We want nothing to do with it.
Speaker 9 (45:42):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
Yeah, It's a goofy sort of tin pan alley type
of you know, it's the same with Maxwell silver Hammer.
That's another one on McCartney, and and everybody in the
band hated.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
I like, I like that, I hate I wasn't a big.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
Fan, and I like, while my guitar gently weeps perfect,
that's a that's a high water Market, that's.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
That's that's that's a Harrison song.
Speaker 8 (46:07):
And actually Eric Clapton plays the lead guitar part on
that and on the White album. But I think everybody
knows about when they did some kind of I don't
It was some kind of a concert benefit.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
And Prince played the guitar guitar solo on that. If
you watch that, that is simply.
Speaker 9 (46:27):
I mean, I watch how he ends his guitar solo
by simply launching his guitar into the audience.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Here's here's I mean.
Speaker 8 (46:33):
I always knew Prince was a great guitar guitar until
I saw that, because I don't know if I'm not
suggesting that's his greatest performance ever.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
But for me, it was I'm gonna like Prince.
Speaker 8 (46:42):
I mean, I don't go deep into Prince, you know,
but when I saw that, I went, oh, yeah, he
can play guitar.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Really good game.
Speaker 9 (46:49):
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Speaker 2 (47:06):
Here's where we miss it allowed. You were supposed to
recap your when you went to see Queen's Rake in Chicago.
Speaker 9 (47:13):
Queens of the Stone Age, Well, let's talk about it
next week because it was brilliant. It was way too
quick a turnaround to drive to Chicago one day and
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Speaker 2 (47:24):
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