Let's go out. Oh who's starting, I'll start, Okay. I was
just I was throwing that uncomfortable silence out there to see who would blinked first,
and it was you. So I win. Episode ninety three. Here
we go play pants podcast. Man, we've got like way too much shit
to cover tonight. I think I think you brought a lot to the table.
I brought some things to the table. We'll probably blow through most of
it, forget half of it, and end up doing a top five of
our top favorite top five favorite in Excess songs of all time. And you
sent this to me today and you're like, dude in excess are you a
fan? I'm like, well, I blew it last episode where I picked
the wrong thing. So I'm like, I'm going in excess because I know
where the fan you are. So I'm like, yes, top five favorite
in Excess songs and uh, dude, I watch some videos today. I
did a little homework today, like where are you with that band? Though?
I mean, okay, you know I love them. I absolutely love
them. I think they're amazing. And I said it because I think there
was some other I'll talk about it. We've got some other good like top
fives coming up like down, down, down the road, right, where
are you Within Excess? You know what? I came to the party very
late because I didn't get into that well. I didn't know of them till
it was already. They were already big. They were in their peak in
the late eighties, early nineties, that was their peak season, and I
was just like, what is this new wave shit. I didn't get into
it. I didn't like it. I didn't think any of it was good.
I hated all of it. I was into the hair metal man.
I was all guns and roses, you know, all that ship white Snake.
So you know, like we talked many times about you had your your
dividing lines, and I wasn't. At that point in my life. I
was not straying outside of those lines. I was very focused on my lane.
I didn't move right or left. I was all about that metal and
Uh. I came to in Excess much much later, and I've grown to
appreciate that band more and more every year. I really do. He has
to go down as one of the great front men. And you know,
they were kind of like a rockier, cooler Dare I say, Duran,
Duran? You know, I mean, because a lot of it dealt with
image with that band, and they were a big MTV band. But they
had the songs though, you know, and Duran Durant had great songs too.
I mean, they just weren't pretty boys, they had great songs.
So the comparison I think is fair because he because I don't discount and you
know, Duran Duran's going into the rock and roll Hall of Fame. But
in excess, man, they have the songs, They've got the catalog going
all the way back to the early eighties. And then kind of like every
other band out there, you know, Nirvana didn't do in excess any favors
like you know, like most bands, and uh, and they were already
on the decline and then Nirvana came in and then just kind of wiped them
out, you know. So we'll get into that a little bit. We
don't have to spend a whole lot of time. I mean, now we've
been doing this podcast for a couple of years, so I'm sure we you
know, at some point a year ago we covered that this is the anniversary
of Elvis's death, so it's forty six years now. I imagine there'll be
a big to do, like on the fiftieth I imagine, you know,
I can see like a television special and you know, doing different things.
Forty six years nineteen seventy seven, Elvis Presley dies and I'm six years old
and I'm outside playing in the street with a tennis racket going, just just
lobbing the tennis ball back and forth with my dad, and my mom comes
out because we weren't in school yet. And my mom comes out and she's
in hysterics that Elvis had passed away. And that for me is like my
first memorable celebrity death. I remember the exact day that had happened, on
that hot August day in in north Tonawanda, New York. My mom was
a huge, as I know your parents were too, a huge Elvis fan.
My dad could give a shit, but my mom worshiped him. Yeah.
Well, think about the time period in your mom, what her age
was when he came out, you know what I mean, Like that was
her guy, you know, and and and Elvis was huge. I don't
remember because I was I was I was much younger than you, Rod uh
So I don't remember when that happened, but I just remember my mom talking
about it at different times over the years, saying it was just it was
just horrible, you know. And she was actually supposed to go see him
because that's you know, that was later years and he was doing the big
stints out in Vegas. Then he would take off and do some tours and
she was supposed to go see him at Melody Fair in the north Tonawandah.
But then he died. Yeah, she's never forgave him for that, she
never got to see him. She still pitched. She's like, Elvis died
before I got a chance to see him. And you know, you mentioned
about the fiftieth anniversary, there will be a huge to do on the fifth.
First, you know, other than the fact that's nice round number is
that they locked away his autopsy report until fifty years is up. Well,
the family wanted to hide it. The thing about Elvis, and this is
where he was kind of an asshole. Okay. He was this big guy
like, oh, I you know, I'm against I'm anti drugs, anti
drugs, blah blah blah, and drugs to him was cocaine and marijuana.
He didn't think all those fucking pills that he was taking was drugs. So
the family wanted to hide everything. He was the biggest pill popper druggie on
the planet, but he didn't consider that drugs correct. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, And when I found out, is it like his his intestines were
so jacked and filled with his own it shit because of the drugs. And
his diet was horrible. Bull he'd lived on cheeseburgers and sodas. That's what
he lived on in the pills. His guts were a wreck, like they
were packing all of that stuff too. Like when you can't sleep and stuff,
Man, that fucks up your balls. I mean, even when you're
taking anything to numb yourself. Because I know this from a couple of surgeries
now, and I remember specifically my back surgery. Okay, so they're numbing
up your back when I had my surgery, I'm not leaving the hospital until
I shit, right, yeah, you can't go. You can't. You
have to go poop before they're gonna let you leave. Now, think about
where they're numbing me up to and think what it's close to, so you're
in that area. So it's just I'm like, I don't have to go,
man, I just I just nothing is happening. So I don't know
if you want to know the horrors what they had to do to me to
get me to go. I kind of don't know. It's after surgery like
that. It's all about pooping. So he is on one dose, he
can't fall asleep. More pills, he can't fall asleep. A third dosage.
Now he's so fucking numbed up. Then he goes to the bathroom and
they're like, don't fall asleep in there. Okay, goes to the bathroom,
falls asleep. So that's it. I mean, you know, well
it's I mean, I'm sure it was a cardiac arrest, but between that
and a cardiac arrest and whatever, you know, they were worried about him
falling asleep, not the shitter, right, because everyone said it was like
drugs that did it. Well, you know, indirectly, it wasn't an
overdose per se like you're you're used to. It's like he was dead by
the time he hit the floor. He was on the hopper, he was
fine, with his ass in the air, his face down, and he
was dead like as soon as he hit the floor, he was already dead,
Like he fell off like if it was a drug overdose he'd have been
like trying to crawl to the door and all this sh So I heard another
pretty reliable story. And again a lot of this is unknown because the family
was covering all this stuff up. But obviously the joke was in the punchline
was that Elvis died on the shitter. But man, I had heard from
a pretty reliable source. And I think back in the day interviewing like one
of the Memphis Mafia or whatever, and again he might still be covering up.
But Elvis's favorite chair was a barber chair, and he had a barber
chair in his bathroom. And I was told that he was in the barber
chair when he when he that's what he fell off of. It was his
favorite thing to sit in. It was his you know, it was a
big I mean, think about how comfortable a barber chair is. Yeah,
that's just inside. But we don't know, you know, I mean,
I think most reports are going to say that, yeah, he fell off
the hopper. He felt his girlfriend at the time, Ginger. She wrote
in her memoir that she walked in, she found the girlfriend, found the
dude, and she said, yeah, assa pants around his his pajamas around
his ankles. And just eyes, you know, bloodshot dead. But then
again, you know who do you trust in that whole thing? You know
what I mean? They want to she wants to sell book, so she's
gonna try and give you some good stuff. I don't know what to believe
anymore. Man. But since we're talking about shitting Rod, I want to
update people. Last episode, at the end of the episode, I talked
about a problem we had at work at the radio station where I work in
New Orleans, And yeah, why don't you get the Sports Center edition of
where what happened? And then I'm so happy you're bringing this up, and
people on the internets are very happy you're bringing this up right now, So
please, why don't you just a you know, quick little backstory. So
somebody was taking a dump at work in the evening and then in the morning
when the next people would come in, like me or some other people,
engineers, general managers, jocks, whatever, they'd walk into the hopper and
there'd be a freaking a gift in the basket. As you would say,
right, someone didn't flush. And so I don't know how I got designated
guy to take care of this problem, but I was designated guy to take
care of this problem. You're the program director, dude, Okay, direct
some programs. So yeah, I want programs, yeah, on the radio,
but not not somebody's asshole. So I'm like, so I did what
any good manager would do at the time. I blew it off twice.
I just didn't give a shit. I'm like, I'm not doing that.
Come on, man, it's this grown man shit figured out, classic classic
middle management. It's brilliant, right, I'm a fucking with that. So
anyway, it came back to haunt me. My GM came in last week
and he's like, what the you know, he's walked into a turd.
He walked into a bomber and he comes out and he's mad, he's yelling
and he's laughing, and I'm like, oh, I I gotta address this
damn thing. So and I said at the end of last episode, I
said, I need to address it, and I will address it this week.
And I did Monday morning. The first thing I did Monday morning.
Forget about music, forget about all the things I gotta do for radio.
Sure, hey, just send on an email about Hey, guys, let's
flush the toilet. But I didn't want to send out just say, hey,
guys, let's flush the toilet. Email. I wanted to be sensitive,
but I wanted to be amusing, but I wanted to be careful,
you know, because this is a it's gonna be an HR thing. You
never know. In this day and age, everyone sens it it. So
here's what I sent. Let me know how I did run because you've seen
these types of emails before. In the subject line of this email, I
said, I just simply put water conservation subject to the email. So that
pops up and you're like, oh, water conservation, this could be interesting.
Where's he going with this here? And I said, while we should
always look for ways to help conserve energy and water, there are times when
that isn't feasible. For instance, a toilet should be flushed every time all
the time. Let's keep that men's room clean and fresh. End of email.
I said it without going into directness. You know what I mean.
Just keep it clean and fresh. Boys, Let's keep it clean and fresh.
I would have liked the word unfea sisible. I wasn't making jokes.
This is something that could end up going to HR. I was not going
to throw jokes, you know. I got to it well, so to
follow up on that. So I set it out just to the dude.
You know, I kept it very in the wheelhouse, right, so you
didn't even put like at the end, they're like, so inclosing, flush
your fucking turds, that's not in there. Damn no, no, no.
I had to be a middle management management man. So I send it
and I'm like, Okay, I think we got this taken care of.
Well no, no, no, no one responds to that email because okay,
which idiot, Because you know, dummies at radio stations, everybody's a
fucking comedian. Oh I'm gonna reply all with my little zinger, and then
I can only imagine a whole afternoon of zingers flying around. None, not
one. Everyone was too chicken to do it. But what happened was everyone
kind of went offline and started texting me, and you know, it was
great. Everyone knew who it was. Everybody said the same dude. They're
like, oh, it's this guy. Did the turd bandit reach out to
you? No? I did not. Everyone else on that email reached out
to be Oh it's this dude. They all hit me. They all everyone
knew who it was. I'm like, I guess maybe I should just went
and talk to the guy, but I couldn't bring myself to have a face
to face with another grown man. So anyway, that that is where we
ended things. And for this whole week now I've been the first guy in
the place. I've checked. Now now it's a thing. Now it's a
thing I check every morning. We've been fresh and clean. So alternate gate
settled. Well. Now see it's only been three four days, so we'll
see how this goes well. I will update us if we have a have
an errant morning. Well done, great, well done? Can I share
an email from Gravy Gang or Moondo, who's been on board with us too.
He's a big yeah, he's a big ladle ladle guy listening to Alex's
podcast Past the Gravy, but man, he jumped right over with us when
we started doing ours and he said, brother rod uh And he's he always
mentions you. You remember Moondo. He's the guy that's got the split shirt
at my tournament and half of it is play pants, half of it is
past the Gravy. I mean, he's just he's the best. He's a
guy with the signs at the wrestling too. Right, Does he say yes,
yeah, he got turned away. He wasn't allowed to bring him in.
There was just a wrestling match, and he said he got no more
signs. Oh that's crap. Would we have more signs because he's gotten on
not only pay per view, but like I don't know, like the Monday
night raws and stuff like that, holding up Playpants pod. We should have
more listeners that kind of marketing. All right, So Mundo says, y'all
should do a segment on your play Pants podcast where you all create a band
with the most overrated members, like most overrated singer and guitarist and drummer,
etc. Or maybe just your overrated bands. I'm curious what you guys would
choose. Continued success loyal listener Mundo, I like that, though, you
know, I mean, is there, off the top of your head,
is there an overrated band or is it just a band that you don't like?
I don't. I never understood the term overrated. I can't. I
never looked up the definition of what that's supposed to mean. Like it feels
like it's just band you don't like, Like, you know, just to
pick out of the sky a creed. Okay, you can take Creek because
ever loves to hate on Creed Right. Are they overrated? I don't know
what that means because they all are talented at their instruments. Mark Tremoni is
great, I mean, lover hates Scott Stamp. Dude can fucking sing.
Right, They wrote some hits, They've sold fifty million albums worldwide. Are
they overrated? They got success? I don't know. I don't know how
much heat you want on this pod? I'm bring it. How much heat
do you want on this pod? Let's do it, let's do it?
Bring it. Beyonce? Wow, overrated, overrated, super talented, great,
awesome. She's a phony. She's not even like a real person.
I don't even think she's not real. It does feel that way, doesn't
it. She's like a robot. There's just I mean, I get it.
You want to be you want this thing. And right now she's getting
her ass kicked by Taylor Swift. But you know, Beyonce, she's from
here. So again, I don't know how much heat you want on this
pod? You want the beehive coming at you or coming at me us.
I don't know if she's just you know, just something about her that just
seems phony to me. Yeah, over something about her seems a little phony.
You know. Is she talented? Does she dance her ass off?
Yes? Sings well, you know, she sings really good. She sings
really good. Does she write her own stuff? No? Is every song
got twenty five fucking songwriters on it? Yeah? You know, jay Z's
cool. I don't know. But again, who's overrated? You know?
It's it's hard because if you just think Miley Cyrus is some pop tart and
you see her out bouncing around to all these awards shows and she's singing,
it's like, oh, why why is this girl? Like? Why is
she the go to girl? You know why? Because she's fucking amazing.
She's great, you know, she's amazing. I don't think she's she's overrated.
I don't know. I don't know who's overrated? Is Justin Bieber overrated?
Can he sing? Can he sing? I don't know. Maybe Spears
is overrated? Britney Spears, Oh yeah, she can't say Britney Spears overrated?
Worse than bors Queen. I think Britney Spears is just sad and laughable
right now? Oh now, oh no, that that that chick needs to
be back in fucking conservative ship man. I mean that she's a mess,
she's a hot mess. She she's she's yeah, this is I don't think
it's gonna end well for her. It doesn't look good. I don't wish
her. I think somebody just sent me something today that she might be getting
separated from that new husband. Yeah, no, shit, maybe breaking news
here on the Playpants podcast. Wow, we are nothing like a couple of
old, white bald dudes talking about Beyonce. Though, by the way,
that doesn't make much sense. Okay, Is there a musician that's overrated?
Is there a guy out there that's thought of? And it's like, you
know what, like Bob Dylan doesn't speak to me, you know, for
me, he's not the voice of my generation. And I don't understand because
he can't sing his way out of a paper bag. But it's personal preference
again, you know. But is he rated a little too high? Oh?
I would say, you know what, a little too high because he
you know, shit's in a brown paper bag and he's on the cover of
Rolling Stone. Every new album he puts out, they're like, oh my
god, Dylan's got a new album. And I'm like, right, it's
not good, but it's getting But it's personal preference, you know, Right,
does anybody think Lars al Rick is a really good drummer? I don't
know, he's not. You know, if if he winds up on a
great metal drummer list, he's overrated. If he's in any kind of a
list, he's overrated. Like that would be a particular that would be a
rating. If he wound up on a list. If you show me a
list of Lars all Rich and he's in the top twenty five metal drummer list,
it's that's an overrating. Well, okay, you know, I know
you love to do this one all the time because we've we've brought this one
up many episodes. You know, Anthony ketis overrated singer. You know he
can't. He's not on any best singer list, so we know that.
I don't think he think he's rated. He's not overrated. Nobody has rated
him. I would love I wonder if there's like you know, he has
to know, right, I mean, you know, you just know at
this point he must have had conversation. He's like, I'm sorry, guys,
I just can't say. I mean, he tries, he works the
best singer in the band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers, John F.
Shaunte It can sing better than him. Oh buy a mile? Yeah,
you know they used always say that about Ringo. Ringo wasn't even the best
drummer in the Beatles, you know, which is so funny. Anthony is
not the best singer in that band. That that is funny. But is
he responsible for the sound and the style and the presentation and all of that.
Of course he is correct, of course he is. Yeah, you're
gonna get us in trouble on this list. I just I don't I just
don't understand what overrated means. Okay, it's just hard, like you know,
I mean, if you put me in a band and taught me a
few chords, and I and in the band and have gone to number one
and had a couple of hits. Yeah, that's not fair. That's not
good. I'm sure there's plenty of musicians out there that have written the coat
tails of a great singer, and maybe they're underrated or overrated. You know,
that's different, right, It's just not that's just a lack of talent
and get lucky. If we want to get maybe we should do this,
maybe this is these are the kind of list that we should be doing.
And you know, the number one, you know, overrated band of all
time, the Beatles. I mean, really, what did they ever really
do? I mean, if you really break apart those three chords, what
did they create? Nothing? Really nothing? You really couldn't tear apart anybody
though. I mean, and there's people that are way smarter than us,
which is everybody. I imagine you could sit there and dissect every single band
out there and tell me why they're overrated. You know, you're the biggest
band in the world for a reason. You're pretty good. Well, you
can't be fooling. You can't fool all the people all the time. You
just can't. And Beyonce's playing stadiums, so obviously she's wicked talented, correct,
I just you know, there's just something that just all right. When
she announced her privacy, She's like, look at my baby. Yeah,
look OK. But is that a product of that? Is that her?
Is that it is a product of the times we're in right now. With
social media, everyone's gonna make a big fucking deal out of everything they do.
You know, the whole gender Revealed parties where they've blown out of proportion.
It's like, what are you doing? Who gives a shit? Man,
Well you had that for dinner. Congratulations, Wow you can make macaroni
and cheese. You dip shit, you know what I mean? Like,
I think that's part of the product of the environment that we're in too.
I don't know. I still I saw it Beyonce years ago, and holy
shit, dude, Wow, what a show. What a show? I
mean, hands down unbelievable from beginning to end. She's but but you know,
like seeing so many artists we've seen over the years, right, you've
probably been in the same situation where like you might go see a band that
you like a lot, but it feels mechanical because they're just doing their set.
It doesn't they they're not selling it as something that's really badass where you're
really taking with they're not really blowing your minds. Right, everyone wants everyone
everyone's gonna set because you're gonna cocordate with the lights and all the bullshit that
goes with a show. Right, every band does that. But you wanted
to feel organic and real. You know. I even got to the point
where I was watching Van Haler, you know, not to shoot on kiss,
but god damn if I didn't know when the blood was coming or the
fire was coming out of the guitar. I mean, you just but it's
a show. But it was great every time. And for someone who'd never
seen the band, You're like, what, that's awesome. So it just
doesn't feel organic, you know. I think maybe that's part of the problem
with Beyonce. It all feels very stage, very particular, just the just
the formula. All right, I got you, I got you what you
said you brought something in because I'm gonna tell everybody what top five you turned
down today. God damn it. I'm always in trouble. Uh No,
it's funny. I was just and this just happened a little while ago.
I was talking to my wife downstairs and we were talking. That wasn't oh
she's She's like, she's like, yeah, you know. My my nephew
went to kindergarten today and he was wearing a band T shirt. I think
it was the red He was wearing the Red at Chili Peppers, small little
Red at Chili Peppers T shirt to school kindergarten. I'm like rock singer in
the waking awesome right, and then I'm like, I'm like, well that's
badass, and I'm like, well, my son today went to school this
first year in high school, he's wearing a very I think it was a
food Fighters shirt you got him? Did you get him a food Fighters shirt?
You got him something food Fighters did? I can't remember what it is.
Getting a lot obviously. Anyway, he's wearing a Food Fighters T shirt
to school. He wore a Chili Peppers the other day. He's got a
Beastie Boys shirt. And I'm sitting there, I go, fuck all that.
Man. I said, I was wearing fucking granimals when I went to
school. Dude, there were no cool rock shirts when I was going to
elementary or middle school. But okay, you're right, like the little guy,
the nephew, I can understand. Yeah, like our parents weren't cool.
Our parents weren't cool. Our parents weren't putting us in you know,
the music that they liked in those T shirts, right, they weren't is
readily available either. So I guess that's Fred Henry your son starting high school.
Boom. Of course you know you were wearing ship like that in high
school. But the little guy, no, our parents our parents didn't.
Our parents didn't care about being cool. No, it didn't care about us
looking cool. They didn't care. I mean fuck, I had an older
sister. I wore hand me downs from my sister. You think my mom
gave a shit about one person saying, like a winner coat. There's a
picture of me and my sister were shoveling and the coat that I'm wearing was
my sisters. My mom did not give a shit if one person said to
me, ha ha, that was your sister's coat you're wearing yep, and
punched me in the face. My mom would not care, Like I don't
care. It's a good coat, you're wearing it. It works, You're
not gonna die, It doesn't matter. Yeah, no it. I always
felt bad because I was the older brother and my poor my poor brother,
younger brother. I'd wear ship and then there it'd be on him, man,
and it's just what he had to deal with, you know. That's
the way it was. A poor guy would be and I would get like
older cousins shit. So it was always you were always pushing clothes around the
family, man, because it was like anyone had a kid boom. Okay,
well we'll take Jason stuff because I was like the oldest kind of kid
in the immediate family. So that would go over to here, to cousins
and this, and I would get stuff from older cousins to me. And
clothes got a lot of use back in the day. You know, you
didn't just wear a shirt for a couple of months and then gone. I
then got some mileage on it. Everybody's wearing brand new clothes first day of
school. It's awesome. Everyone's you know, stepping on your sneakers because they're
brand new. You're like, fuck, dude, get off by sneakers.
Come on, you know, because for the longest, you know, white
sneakers were such a big thing. You know, some guy would come up
and step on him, be like, fuck, dude, my mom's gonna
kill me. I just got these. First day of high school. High
school for me was ten eleven and twelve yep, So first day of high
school, Jason ginty seven eighty eighty five. I go into school on that
first day. A lot of pressure, man, because the seniors are big
deal. You know. I can only even imagine like what it's like for
Henry's in ninth grade, right correct, ninth the difference between the ninth grade
or and a senior. I was nervous about seniors and I was in tenth
grade. But I wore a ninety seven Rock t shirt nice. I remember
specifically, I wore a ninety seven rock t shirt my first day in high
school. It's a black shirt, it's got the cool ninety seven rock logo
on it. That was the It's I think our whole lives. It's just
been a classic rock station. They kind of maybe played some active stuff,
some current stuff, maybe way back in the day. But that was me
making my statement, you're dealing with a rocker here, You're dealing with the
rocker. Look out, I'll play the drums on your face. I wanted
everybody to know this is who you have coming to your school. Now.
I'm fucking the shit. Okay, I am the tits. I fucking listened
to ninety seven rock. I'm a rocker. I'm here for it. Who's
with me? Yeah, but here's the problem with that. Then when it
got cold or walk around your sister's fucking jacket. Yeah, underneath, I'm
a badass. I remember stressing out that first day of school. I remember
stressing out and I thought that was my best option. The ninety seven Rock
logo. There was a station here. That logo was ripped off from a
station here. I believe that was ninety seven Rock before. And I don't
know who had the logo first, but I do know that Andy Travis,
the program director of w KRP and Cincinnati, had that bumper sticker on his
wall in his office. WHOA, that's kid, the ninety seven rock logo.
Now, whether it was the Houston one or the Buffalo one, I
think you know, everybody in Buffalo would claim that it was the Buffalo one.
But if you remember his office, he had bumper stickers from radio stations
all across America. You can see the ninety seven Rock one in his office.
Back of the day, he used to have those two. Now,
who's got bumper stickers anymore? Because nobody puts shit in their cars unless it's
that weird chalk outlined family on the window. That's all you put on the
back of your window nowadays. You know, my kid, my kid beat
up your honor student, that's always a good one. Or Kelvin pissing on
something. That was about all you got on windows anymore. Man, It's
that's a bit messed up. Yeah, no, it was just weird.
I asked. I asked my son. I said, hey, man,
are like seniors got beards and shit. He goes, oh, yeah,
they're monsters. He goes, are just monsters. They're huge and every big
kid. Yeah he goes. He goes, yeah, I gotta steer away
from him. He goes. First day. First day, he goes out
to lunch, and they'd have like a lunch room, but then they got
like this big ass courtyard. So it's an outdoor courtyard, so you can
go in get your lunch. You can either sit at the tables in the
courtyard outside, you can sit in the lunch room. So he's, yeah,
well, high school is basically just a nicer version of prison. If
you really think about it, you boil it down. And he walks in
and he gets his lunch, and he comes out and he's like looking around
for a table and he sits down, and some senior comes up and goes,
get your asshole over there on the bench. Really, he's just like,
okay, see it, and boom he goes. Yeah, the freshman
all sit on like the you know, they got like trees and landscaping and
shit. And like the little brick shelves or you know, I think the
perimeter, so you like little benches. He's like, oh, the freshman
are sitting there cutting their fucking meat, sit with their plates on their labor.
They don't get the tables. They see the table, they get the
tables. Okay, freshman ain't getting so that. He was saying that there
was a line. There was a couple, because they got a couple different
lines in the lunch room. Right. One was like some shit, he
didn't want to eat and he really wanted a cheeseburger. They got a cheeseburger.
They just served cheeseburgers every day. That's what you're eat. You can
be Elvius and get cheeseburgers every day, but they usually serve something different every
day. And another line, he said, the second day or third day
of school, he's like standing in the one line, he's like, fun,
I really want a cheeseburger. Well, the line the cheeseburgers was almost
all seniors, right, and he goes he's like fuck this, and he
goes over and he stands in line with the seniors, right, and he's
standing there with all his buddies who are freshmen in line for lunch and they're
all looking at him, going, what are you doing? Man? Oh
my god. He's like what, I'm just standing in line. And he's
like, I like, broke some weird code and rule and nobody said shit
to me. He goes, nobody gave a shit. I said, yeah,
but if you said's funny, sit down at the table, bro,
You're done, that's funny. Yeah. I'm like, wow, I'm so.
I'm reliving all these nightmares of my own high school experience through my kid.
It's terrible. I don't recommend it for anyone. It's awful in the
high school halls, in the backs of cars. I don't even know the
words subdivisions, rushions, little drummy, but you know, I get it.
Dude. Let's you want to do the eighties thing after this? Or
you want to do the go right in the inn access shit? Oh well,
it's just the other thing that I sent Jake was Kevin Rowland is having
a birthday on Thursday. When this podcast debuts on August seventeen, Kevin Rowland
is seventy years old. And that's okay. There won't be a quiz.
He's the lead singer of Dexi's Midnight Runners. Come on, Eileen, Oh,
yes, famous famous song played at all this high school dances. Actually,
so my question is because just in case you just did not have any
interest at all in an excess, I always try to have a backup plan,
and I thought best one hit wonders. Is there any denying that if
you do a top five one hit wonder list, Come on, Eileen,
absolutely has to be in that top five yes or no? Wow? I
mean yeah, because it's because our lists are your favorite. Then you could
easily say no. But I'd have a hard time accepting a top five one
hit wonder list without that song on there. How you could do that?
Yeah, come on, Eileen, you could do don't you forget about me?
You could throw in uh tainted Love. I mean that's three of just
from the eighties right there. That's the thing about one hit wonders. Mine
are all lumped into the same three years, you know, Turning Japanese by
the Vapors, brilliant song, Yeah, Devo Whippett, Gary Newman Cars,
They're all like they're all just like old like new wave eighties songs, you
know, But if you look at it is the biggest one hit wonder of
all time, the macarena we style we do that probably is the biggest as
far as YouTube hits. Yeah and stuff. That's why we always do our
favorites and not the biggest because we don't give a shit that Gangham style or
you know who let the dogs out. I'm not putting that on my fuck
and lists back that ass up. God, we are so straight right now,
baby got back? Yeah, yeah, you could do an ice ice
baby bust a move. Funky Cold Medina, Oh my god, we're gonna
be here all night. Holy shit, this is great. You know you
could go a little cooler and do like Funky Comadina. He had a follow
up hit, he did she had a follow up hit? Uh, Funky
cole Meadina. Oh well, wild Thing was the first. Stild Thing was
first, Yeah, okay, I feel Funky Cole Medina was the second song.
So he he's a two. He's a two solid two hit wonder.
What was the biz Markey song We're Just Friends? Got what I Need?
Yeah? That song she can you tell Me just a friend? You could
bust out the violent fems blister in the sun. Yeah, that would count.
That would count. I mean, there's gonna be some nerd that like,
oh dude, everybody knows this song. Sure they don't know Gordon Gano
on here or whatever. I'm not from Milwaukee, come on, I don't
know. I like it. I like it. I think maybe down the
road when we get into a pinch, when we have nothing but guys send
us your stuff though, if you have an idea for a top five,
if you if you don't enjoy what we come up with, you know,
step you're listening to us, man, tell me what you think we should
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it's fun when we do the top fives. It's usually fairly simple.
I'll do a little research and bang, bang bang, I'll knock out the
five tunes. No problem. Right, It's it's maybe five ten minutes of
Google and some shit. Right in excess, I dove in. I started
watching videos, videos that I've never seen before, and I started kind of
going through their catalog a little bit more. Now I didn't have all day,
but I spent maybe twelve minutes, which is a lot more than normal.
And damn it, dude, you're right. I became and like I
said earlier, I've come to in excess later in life, when my appreciation
I grew up, right, my palette expanded. It wasn't just eating meat
and potatoes every day with my hair metal. I've expanded, and I continue
to expand this day. I'm a Harry Styles fan. Now, what can
I say? Would it be fair if you had to describe Michael Hutchins as
a cross between Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop and Jim Morrison. Perfect? Yeah,
thanks, you welcome. Perfect. I just back in the day again,
going off when I knew when I was young and stupid or I think
he was just a pretty boy to me, I was like, who's this
asshole? Who are these guys trying to be? You? Two? Although
they were kind of same time period, you know, I'm like, it
kind of felt that way back back then. I kind of thought that.
And the Duran Durand reference you had earlier, great reference as well. Man,
As I got older, I dug in excess because I realized later in
life the girls liked in excess. So guess who got to become a fan
more of in excess. Yeah, that's how it works, Rod, girls
will do it every time. Yeah, follow the ass, Follow the ass.
That should be in a Hallmark card. Dude, that's good advice.
I like that. I probably won't give that to my son, by the
way. Michael Hutchins died November twenty second, nineteen ninety seven. That night
I was in the then called the Louisiana Superdome and I had gone to the
U two concert and I had heard that Michael Hutchins died on my way out
listening to our radio station. Might have been John Marty talking about it on
the radio, But yeah, I mean there's a huge connection between in Access
and you two. I mean, Bono and him were really really close and
everything, and then you got you know, Bob Geldoff, and it was
there was a mess there going on. There was a crazy mess going on,
and Michael Hutchins was a mess at the end of his life. I
had always heard. And we're gonna have to ask our our PD friend Vince.
I think he could have got in Excess cheap on that first Mojo Music
Festival, and he said that seems out of place. I think he could
have got them, and that would have been my opportunity to see in Excess.
I never saw him live. Wow, I never saw them live.
And if it wasn't him, then it was Dave Stewart. I'll ask them.
I'll ask both of them, because I just recently texted both of them,
and I'll ask hey, did you guys pass up in excess on the
cheap on one of our festivals. Well, because you really do think that
happened, and I'm so angry that they said no to it. Now I
get it, it would have sounded weird, but you know it's a we
look at festivals now. Even back then, when we were doing festivals in
the nineties, you know, everything had to make sense. There was no
like fluff or fringey, Let's just put this guy on because it would be
cool. You know, they didn't do that. You know, they didn't
have a rock show and then like, let's just put jay Z up there
for a couple of tunes, people will go crazy. It wasn't like that.
Everything had to make sense. So in a would have been a little
outside because they were already you know, ninety you know, Nirvana's out already
eight years. But I think we could have got him on the cheap and
had him on a show man. Hey, that would have been cool for
a few people. But again, at that time, they weren't exactly hot,
you know what I mean. So that's that's why that they were.
They were ready to work. They were ready to come out and do a
show and just they were ready to do that sort of thing. God's terrible,
man, It's terrible, terrible, terrible stuff. But at the time,
looking back on it, man, I tell you what, Michael Hutchins,
that was. That was your rock star. Man. That dude was
handsome. Holy shit, wow, I mean cantivating. He was so captivating
and you just couldn't take your eyes off of him. And you know,
you would have to mention in that those three guys that you mentioned. You
gotta put Elvis in there. That that charisma, that young Elvis and even
old Elvis, the charisma. There's just that, you know, I know
the TV show you know is X Factor, but before that, there was
a thing called you know, there's that X factor, and he had that
thing where he's just so unbelievably dynamic and just the coolest fucking dude. You
know, kind of how we talked a little bit about Chris Cornell had that
thing that he just was like the fucking smoothest, coolest guy every room he
was in. Michael Hutchins was like that too. You know, it's early
on and early on that early eighties stuff which is going to play into my
list. He had it from jump. He had it from the get go,
the later stuff when the when the MTV video's really kicking in and stuff,
and he's got the long hair and he's just a damn rock star.
You watch the videos and you're looking at him and I'm like, why are
you even bothering to show the rest of the dorks in that band? Those
are great musicians, but my god, man, like it's like standing around
next to Michael Hudgins, what's the boy? There's no reason nobody cares.
I mean, you gotta give each guy a FaceTime. And there, Oh,
here's the drummer. Click andy klack, you know what I mean.
No, here's the bass player. Doom boom boom. Okay, great,
Now back to Hutchins, Like, you're like, why are they even in
the in the video shot? But I get it. It's a band,
so it's cool. Did they put him in there? But man, you
just look and it's like, this guy is Mount Everest compared a bunch of
dorks on a hill. It's it's unbelievable. And he you know, Michael
Hutchins was a songwriter too. Yep. Between him and the keyboard player.
The reason we're doing this list today is because Tim Ferriss from In Excess is
sixty six, So I don't know there's ferriss Is everywhere. But the keyboard
player, who's the dorkiest guy in the band, he's the guy that writes
the music. He's he's kind of the musical genius. But he worked so
well with Michael Hutchins. There's a great movie that they made and I saw
it on Showtime. It's a two part thing where actors are playing in excess
that could go bad if they don't cast the right people. So it wasn't
big enough to be on the big screen. And I think it might have
even been made in Australia, but you know, it might be called Never
Tear Us Apart or something like. It's a song title and it's really good.
The dude that they get to play, Michael Hutchins, is perfect,
and you know that that's the one that has to be cast, right,
Oh yeah, because it's what's the point, it's you get it wrong,
it's due who's watching. It's really good when you're I'll look it up in
a minute, but I don't know where you would see it. But I
learned a ton about the band, and apparently the band was on board with
it and everything. It's cast really well, it's done really really good.
I'll find the name of it before we're done. Who wants to go first?
Here? You're the bigger fan, Okay. I have a funny feeling
you're gonna have better songs, and I don't. They have a fucking million
great song. Do you agree with me on that that they have a million
great songs? Yes? Because it was weird because I was putting my five
down, I'm like, whoa, oh shit, I gotta I thought it'd
be easy these five. Well then I had like nine and I'm like,
oh shit, this is this isn't gonna be easy. There's five singles on
Kick five singles that were all bangers. Yep. Yeah, yeah, it's
a great shit. You know, that's like, that's the all time thing.
They were. They were you two. I mean they were as big
as you two. I mean they were as big as like you see,
like a cold Play. They got to that level eighty eight eighty nine that
you know they could have been on you know, they could have been on
one of those rolling Stones. You know, here's the biggest band in the
world in excess. They were, they were up there you know, the
Police had their moment. You two's had their moment for a long time,
but in Excess had a moment where they were kind of one of the biggest
bands in the world. Yeah, I think they. I think they were
kind of running on a steam when Nirvana hit too though. They're they're out
their songs kind of like, oh yeah, you know, but Nirvana hits
and then okay, now that I guess not just hair metal, but a
lot of the new wave shit kind of went quiet real quick too, you
know, yeah, absolutely, don't you go ahead and start this thing off?
Okay and see what you got here. Five singles off of the Kick
album. That album is a masterpiece. Never Tear Us Apart is my number
five song. What It's an amazing song, number five. Michael Hutchins vocals
are phenomenal on it played at his wedding, and I believe it's the I'm
Sorry played at his funeral. I think that's the only inex in Excess song
played at his funeral. That's heavy, right, didn't know that? Yeah?
Wow, Okay, that's a big deal. When you pick one song
that you're laying your buddy, your brother, you're laying this guy to rest.
That's the one that was played, So I got that edit. Number
five, it's just it's just an unbelievable song. Number four is uh,
suicide Blonde. Oh yes, I never got into that one. I don't
know why Suicide Blonde. That harmonica yeah, very stones like, Yeah,
that harmonica is so awesome. And I remember the video and you know,
if you didn't have that song, you would never have the seven nation Army
video if you know what any of these videos looks through. Yeah, but
it's it. I love the song. It's it's the follow up. It
came out so Kick was so huge, and then they came out with Suicide
Blonde, and I just thought, oh fuck, okay, because a lot
of times, you know, Bad puts out a huge album, you know,
Third Live, Line five singles, right, Matchbox twenty four singles,
and then you know, tell me, tell me what the second album did,
or you know, the album after that, they came out with Suicide
Blonde, and they fucking punched it in the mouth again. It was awesome.
Yeah, number that's my number four. Number three is Mystify. Mystify
was the fifth single that they released off of the Kick album, right,
and it's just they got the fingers snapping and the piano and I don't know,
it's just I love it. Number three mystify. Number two is the
title track from Kick is Kick, And that's what got me to buy that
album. Man. That song was just sometimes you kick, sometimes you get
kicked, and it was a fucking rocker, and that's what kind of led
me to believe that, Okay, these guys could rock. It's a rock
song. It is an absolute banger. Number two is Kick, and then
number one is going all the way back to nineteen eighty two. You want
to watch a video and you'll see that Michael Hutchins already has it. Don't
change. Yeah, it was covered by the Google Dolls. It was covered
by a bunch of other bands, but the Google Dolls definitely borrowed some stuff
back in the day from in Excess, and they definitely borrowed from that song
and they wound up doing a cover of it. But yeah, in Excess
going back to eighty two, Dude, they're all super skinny. The videos
kind of hockey, but they're still like in the outback, so they hadn't
even you know, they hadn't seen the world yet. But you could just
tell that Michael Hutchins. Even though the movements are very early eighties, it's
very blended. Carlisle, go go. Everybody's got the same kind of move
Yeah, he's got a jaggeresque kind of style in that video. I was
just watching it. Yeah, he's got a bit of a Jagger eighties vibe
going on it if you watch his moves a little bit. But he already
has it, like there's this weird confidence from this young kid. They were
kids in that. Oh god, yeah, yeah, they were kids.
They were teenagers Jesus and talented out of the gate, you know. Yeah,
and this is before he had a long haired was a badass. You
know. Wow, good list. Don't Change. And I think even with
all the hits that they had, I believe even though I never saw him
live, I think they used to close with Don't Change, so they kind
of knew, you know, this is the one that kind of put us
on the map, that at least, you know, opened up the doors
for us. Obviously the Kick album put them on the map. But when
you when you hang on to something old, it's it's it's Metallica, you
know, ending with Seek and Destroy right now, they're going all the way
back to kill them all and you kind of know, like that's your walkout
music, right right, Well, disappear it's a banger, you know,
first of all, it's got tempo and you know you don't want to walk
out after never Tear Us Apart. It's kind of a bummer, you know,
all it would be great, but like don't Change makes sense. Plus
you're you're you're herketing back to like, hey, we were like twelve when
we wrote this song. It was awesome. You know, there's probably a
lot of emotional ties to go into it for the bad you know, yeah,
like you're not going anywhere you need to hear all of don't Change,
you know. But I think that when they played that, you knew it
was over. Like Van Halen, I hated that they would go out with
Jump. I know, it's the biggest song. It was the worst song
to end on. I would fucking open with Jump, just be like,
fuck you here we go. At that point, they had so many songs
everybody knew. No one's there to see Jump really at the end of the
day, unless like somebody's wife who doesn't know anything. Good list man,
Wow, we have a couple of similar tunes on here, but a different
order. I will say number five favorite in excess tunes. Number five,
nineteen nineties X album Disappear, great song, fucking great. And I may
have this wrong because I listen to a lot of in accessing. It's that
do Do Do Do Do However he do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Just that is awesome, like you Get Away with So Disappear
in nineteen ninety from X. Number four from Kick eighty seven, Needs You
Tonight. Oh yeah, I mean those you can't go wrong. All of
those songs are just you know, fuck if you got a devil inside,
I can't. They're all great. They're all great, man. Everything off
that album is amazing, so cool. Number five for three nineteen eighty five.
Listen like Theeves. I don't know why I like that song. I
don't even know where it came from. It was on my playlist. I
must have downloaded it at some point. I listened to that song all the
damn time, even today. I don't know why. I have no idea
love it. Listen like these from nineteen eighty five, going back pretty far.
Number two, same song from Kick eighty seven, never tear us apart
head number two, just because it's so fucking good, so good, that
would be the song that you would say, to quote an earlier moment in
the podcast, follow the Ass, Follow the Ass. That's the song,
and like but great back in the day, that had to be played at
every wedding, right weddings, absolutely every wedding. That had to be the
fucking prom song that year, all that shit. Eighty seven. Yeah,
I can only imagine, you know. And then oddly enough, this is
got a fucking Sack solo in it. This is this is wild. I
don't think we've had the same number one. God, it doesn't happen very
often. Don't Change nineteen eighty two, Shaboo Shooba album eighty two. Don't
Change. Now. What's interesting about that, Rod, It's like I said,
I came to this band much much later. I didn't take the original
wave. I learned about Don't Change because of the Google Dolls cover and Buffalo.
We played it up there for a while and I was like, damn
it, this is and I knew it was a cover. I mean,
I knew that they had covered it. I'm like, this is fucking great,
and I'm like, and I love the energy of it, and I
went, well, let me go. I always want to go back and
listen. If I don't know a song that's a cover, I want to
go back and hear what they did from the original. How did they change
it? And all of the google dolls, what really did with it is
speed it up a little bit and get a little more rockish. But that
is so great. That is such a great, great freaking song. And
they look like they're twelve in the video. They come in that warehouse and
they're dancing around like jag Offs and they're right, but they're looking at them.
You're like, you're all skinny, skinny, skinny. But for eighty
two that was in the pocket. That's why I kind of got the utuo
vibe off of them. You know, they had that early YouTube vibe looking
and you could see where their similarities kind of happening, and you're like,
wow. And Michael Hutchins again looks got a little bit of that Jagger esque
moves. He's it's like it's like he's doing them. Then he's like stopping
himself from doing doing those Jagger moves because he knows it's fucking Jagger. When
you watch the video for Don't Change It, you can feel it. You're
like, oh, don't do that one, because that's Jagger, you know
what I mean. You could just see him kind of sorting it all out,
and then as he got older, it's just like fucking rock star,
absolute rock star. Yeah, the Devil Inside. I think that was the
song they play in this In the one scene in the movie rock Star with
Marky Mark after they do the first show, they go to that party,
he takes a pill. He takes a pill, and then and then Jennifer
Aniston, fuck it starts making out with that check. It's so great.
Oh my god, let drink that in front. Gotta love that movie.
The last song that they really had a hit with was Beautiful Girl, and
It's come to me so much to me. Andrew Ferris wrote it for his
daughter, right right, and uh, beautiful Girl is this great video and
it's long before people started using the and again it's so funny, like a
lot of this in excess stuff. We don't do this anymore with bands,
at least I don't, but I associate these songs with videos. The imagery
was so important with you know, a band like in excess because of everything.
How we're just doating over Michael Hutchins. But they just they made cool
videos too. But I just remember the Beautiful Girl video and it really if
you want to go back and look at this nineteen ninety two, who else
was doing this? It was total like this body positivity with all these different
girls in shapes and sizes and everything in this video, which is so commonplace
right now, But it wasn't happening like that in ninety two, you know,
And I mean even go to Suicide Blonde. They're using the hot models
boom boom boom, they're hitting you in just hot chicks, the whole thing,
but a little classier than hot for teacher from Van Halen. They were
just a little classier, but they were still using they were still selling sex.
That Beautiful Girl song man, I think he'd be impressed with that video.
They were ahead of their time on that and he wrote it about his
daughter. And it reminds me because it's such a good song. It's almost
an answer to and I do think Andrew Ferris is that good a songwriter.
He's the keyboard player. John Lennon had that song beautiful Beautiful Boy that he
wrote for his son, right, and uh, Sean Lennon and uh,
this is kind of like his version of it. It's it's it's pretty fucking
great. But that was kind of the last time that they you know,
Nirvana was already doing their thing when when that song came out, and In
Excess was already kind of it's weird to think about it because Michael Hutchins died
young, but he was you know, he was thirty seven when he died,
and In Excess was old news. Yeah, he was old news.
The world was changing and it was not taking in Access along with him.
No, no, And when you think about eighty two, we just talked
about it, don't change nineteen eighty two, nineteen ninety seven. You said,
that's a hell of all run. That's a long, long run.
And at the end it was spiraling out of control. I mean, they
weren't on the radio Munch anymore. And then obviously he had some issues,
a lot of issues, you know, with drugs and stuff. You know,
the way he went out was just awful. You know, I remember
hearing about it going he what what? Oh, Yeah, this is the
first time I had ever heard of auto erotic asphyxiation. Never I've never heard
of it before, you know, And it's like what I mean. I
mean, if Jack and Offs are saying enough, like you gotta bring yourself
to the point where you're choking yourself and passing out. You got a belt
around your neck and you're hanging yourself trying to trying to finish before you fucking
die. That's how Bill died. Yeah, David Charity, I don't know
it was David David or Keith Charity, David Krty David. He did the
same thing. I'm like, you know, obviously you can't put yourself in
someone else's shoes, but you're kind of like, I get that if I
did it, it would people go, yeah, that could see that.
Michael Hudgins unbelievably great looking dude, cool rock star, kind of thought he
could maybe get a girl, a chick. Maybe you know, that's not
why you do it. You know, you know, you were all I
go out that way. People would just go yeah, yeah, I totally
get it. I believe the movie that I'm talking about is Never Tear Us
Apart, the untold story of in Excess, and again this is where they
went out and got people so the guy who played Michael Hutchins is Luke Arnold,
and yeah, the Fairest Brothers, and everybody that played the Fairest Brothers
everybody looked unbelievable. You gotta get somebody to play Bono because Bono plays a
big role in Excessive story. And then the guy that put together Live Aid,
the guy from the Boomtown Rats Geldof, Bob Geldoff. He plays a
big role in this because Michael Hutchins starts banging his chick and then he has
a baby with her and wants Bono to be the godfather. He's like,
I can't be the godfather this kid, fucking Bob Geldoff's my best friend.
It's like, dude, you're putting me in a weird spot here. Man,
you I love you, but you're banging my best friend's ex wife and
now you're asking me to be the godfather. This was all in this movie.
It's I'm telling you, I don't know where you can watch it.
Trust me when I say the casting on this it's just like you how much
you loved Austin Butler. That is it's Elvis, Elvis, Listen, this
isn't a made for TV. This isn't a made for the big screen thing,
but if you like in Excess, I promise you the guy that plays
Michael Hutchins is nails. Really, Yes, that's cool. I was just
sit there thinking about how we always talk about like what what band would deserves
a big screen In Excess doesn't deserve the big screen treatment. But I think
I think if someone did, like Moley Crude did like the Dirt and did
it for like Netflix or whatever a streamer, I think there's enough meat on
the bone there with all the hits, all the songs and starting out at
eighty two and all the backstories. If you can get the band to sign
off on the real stories, that'd be something worth watching, you know.
I mean, this sounds cool what you're talking about. This is it.
I think this is what's they because I mean, this is what they had
for the Australian audience. And then it probably played everywhere in the world.
But I mean it played on our channels here. I saw it on Showtime
or something, and it's two parts and it might be you know, it
might be you know, an hour and a half, two episodes, you
know, three maybe maybe maybe four hours. But man, it's just it's
it's compelling and you just you see them as their somebody from the band.
I don't know if it's Andrew Ferris, one of the Fairests. I don't
know if the if they how closely they monitored this, but it really talks
about the creativity and how these songs came together. And dude, I mean
just like you're watching the you know, Bohemian Rhapsody, and it's like they're
putting an ideas are coming and you know, boom boom boom. Yeah,
you know, like they in the movie, they show like, hey,
this this came to me, we should try something like this. They're talking
about these songs that became these huge hits and these ideas that were flowing,
you know, in Accessment had this run where just like everything they tried was
working, and the movie does a really good job portraying that, telling you
it's great. I will have to check that one out because like I've already
seen The Bear, I've finished it, so now I'm gonna find some other
things to watch. And I don't I don't want to dive into another series.
It's there's just too much of a commitment, you know. But this
I could do. Plus it's music and stuff, so that that's kind of
cool. I'll have to check that thing out, man, very cool.
I don't know where the heck can find it, though. Let me before
we wrap this thing up here, listen, I was just in New Orleans.
It's awesome. I'm sure it's hot, but man, people were there
party in red dress. I got to see my friend Jason. If you
head to New Orleans you can see Jason. He does tours. It's Pirates
of the Quarter. Pirates of the Quarter dot Com is the website. It's
a French Quarter walking tour, but it's different than every other tour that is
available in the city. Real pirate history, the stories of like how New
Orleans became New Orleans, the history of New Orleans. It's all like fact
based and it's fun. You're gonna come away like knowing cool stuff. Book
your tour at Pirates of the Quarter dot com. If you already took the
tour and you maybe didn't get the merchandise because he didn't have it yet,
well they got it now, so check out the shop page at Pirates of
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is at Pirates of the Quarter dot com. Everything on socials is at Pirates
of the Quarter and they're making moves over there, so I can't wait for
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as much as the Pirates of the Court would love you to buy a
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That's more important to me right now. All right, don't worry about that
other the Pirate ship. But when you come to Nworance, come see the
Pirates man before we wrap up. Rod. You know, we always talk
about like albums and music and all that. It's kind of our wheelhouse.
So I just Google did a little work today and I dug up the top
selling rock albums of all time according to the website Yard Barker dot com.
I'm not sure how credible they are, but they said they did a lot
of research and looked at the numbers, the record industry charts and graphs,
so it's legit. I looked at him like, oh, this makes sense.
So I'm not gonna boy you with all the details, but I just
wanted to kind of go through this, so people got an idea. Like
when we talk about like certain albums were like, oh, Creed did this
and Nickelback did that, people are like, well, what's the context in
that? Right? So if you look at it, and I'll just go
I picked the top ten. But then I realized I had to throw at
number eleven because it's really something that we talk a lot about. This is
the top selling rock albums of all time. Okay, can you guess number
one? You probably know it. Eagles Greatest Hits. Congratulations you win the
prize. Number eleven didn't. It didn't sell. It didn't sell more than
like say, Michael Jackson's Thriller. But we're just talking rock albums now,
right, So Michael Jackson wouldn't be on here, or Garth Brooks wouldn't be
on here. Garth wouldn't be on there. Michael Jackson and for some reason
fits on this list, and I don't know why. I guess really any
interesting, Well, I mean it's weird. I mean whatever. Lordlines,
number eleven, Appetite for Destruction, Guns and Roses, eighteen million albums.
I've bought in probably four over the years. So You're Welcome Slash number number
ten. Fleetwood Mac Rumors twenty million albums. Pretty just played here. Stevie
Nicks just played here. And it's funny. You got a guy on my
show, Alex who's you know, thirty five, doesn't know anything about Fleetwood
Mac nothing. Why would he? You know what I mean, he shouldn't.
But Daisy Jones and the Six and then he deep dives, which he
does because he's this obsessive guy, and then boom, he goes to see
Stevie Knicks and his mind is blown, you know, by something else.
Daisy Jones and the Six, which he's watched twice now start to finish,
got him to go to go see that, and you know he can tell
you all about rumors and you know how important it is. And it's funny
how something got him. There's that is actually kind of cool about that.
Twenty million number nine. Hoody with their album Cracked rear View Mirror twenty one
million albums. Hooty out sells Rumors which you know again, Pink Floyd the
Wall twenty three million at number eight. Billie Joel's Greatest Hits twenty three million
at number seven. The White Album from the Beatles number six twenty four million
copies. Zeppelin four twenty four million copies. That's the one with rock and
roll and staring with Heaven. Number four ac DC Back in Black twenty five
million albums sold. Number three Eagles Hotel California twenty six million. Number two
again, not sure why it falls into the rock category, but I think
I don't know who gives a shit why Number two Michael Jackson Thriller thirty four
million copies, and then Eagles Greatest Hits number one, thirty eight million copies.
I wonder if those numbers the recording industry artists of America are I a
a right? I wonder if those are true album like sound scan numbers.
And I wonder if they've taken and weighted the download factor and all of that,
because that probably is like that that sounds to me like a true album
sale number. What I mean by weighted is I don't know. It's such
a crazy thing to explain, but if you download an album, I don't
know that they give you credit for selling an album. I think you have
to download X amount of albums to count as an album sale and singles,
and if you download a certain number of singles they'll give you. They've got
some algorithm which we all have heard that before. There there is a way
to figure out what is the equivalent of all this downloading and streaming. What
is the equivalent they have. That's why all the numbers are off when you
when you look at all of this stuff, Drake is gonna have the top
everything. Drake is gonna Drake's gonna outsell the Beatles because they're they're waiting and
they're looking at all these streaming numbers and everything. Now, it's really weird.
You can kind of I mean, you're the program director, you should
know this ship. I don't. I don't know. I couldn't even begin
to explain it to somebody. But they have come up with a mathematical formula
that if you get x amount of streams, well we're going to count that
as buying the single. It's weird, Yeah, it's it's a weird formula.
They gotta read, they gotta redo everything. So if you want like
asterisks and all of that, there's gonna have to be there's gonna have to
be pre this and pre that, right right, Well, you think about
that situation, who's buying albums anymore. They're just there's not the album sounds
like they're used to because you don't need to. People are smart now you
can buy the songs you like off an album. You don't gonna sit through
the shitty songs. I mean, back in the eighties and in nineties especially
four, we switched over to everything is streams and buying singles as you had
to buy the album, so there might be one or maybe, if you
were lucky, two good songs on an album the rest of his ship a
lot of times, but you bought the album, so that was an album
sale, and that's where a lot of record that was made so much money.
And then when singles started coming out, you're like, oh, I
could just buy the single. Oh that's cool. And that's why when we
went to just downloading and streaming, record industry went, oh shit, yeah,
that's why we are where we are. To say now, personally,
I've gone back to vinyl in the last few years, and I've bought albums
and I'm only gonna buy albums now that they are either like something I have
no idea about it, through jazz or whatever, or bands that I'm like,
oh, okay, this will be worth buying this album because I know
it's going to be good. They're not going to put a bunch of shitty
filler on there. You know. I bought the new Food Foot Food Fighters
album. Great start to start to finish, both sides awesome, you know,
but it's it's rare. I'm not buying albums. You know. If
I if I hear a song, I like it, all right, I'll
download it. You know, I'll get the Chris Stapleton song you talked about.
I'll go get me some Hairy Styles singles. Not buying a fucking Hairy
Styles album, just not doing it, although maybe I should. I don't
know, maybe I should. That makes me a real fan. Final thoughts,
Jason, I don't buy albums. I wear suits now, but I
don't wear I buy albums now. I buy albums. That's what I do.
I buy albums now. This guy, this guy, I'm like,
dude, the Bear. You watch the Bear. You watch the Bear.
The Bear's great, Bear's great, Bear's great. I'm so glad you finished
it. The Christmas episode I said, I said, it's the Red Wedding.
Is that a pretty good way to explain what that explosive episode is it's
just shocking. Emmy nominations everywhere. Okay, Emmy's for everybody. There's so
many special guests in it. I don't want to ruin it because it's still
pretty new. Yeah, you just throw them out into the room and go
here. You just just grab yours. It's like throwing a Halloween candy on
the table. Just grab what you want. It's good. Everybody grab one.
It's cool. You'll see you later, put your name on it later.
But Jamie Lee Curtis just won an Academy Award. I promise you,
she wins an Emmy for this. I promise you. Now keep him on
the Emmys. That just came out in the nominations. That was for season
one of The Bear Correct everything that came out so and it was nominated,
it pretty heavily nominated. And uh and that's before most people even knew,
like what the hell this show was. So I had no idea. When
season two rolls around, forget about it. It's gonna everybody's gonna be up
for everything. But I promise you special guest at whatever, Jamie Lee Curtis.
I'm just gonna say that that's not rooting anything. I don't think so.
And I think I said the same thing when we were watching it.
I was like, I was like, Oh, there's your Emmy, you
know, right there. She just kills it. She kills it. Although
there's plenty of people in that scene there in that episode that you're like,
well everybody, everybody there, heavy hit shit, heavy hitting. Yeah.
Yeah, you gotta watch the Bear. If you haven't one yet, do
the Hulu thing. Watch it. It's not a lot of episodes. It's
pretty freaking great. I've learned a lot through it. It's inspired me to
do better cooking now. I've actually i've been doing a little more, a
little more cooking, Rod. I don't know if that happened to you,
you know, if you started going, ah, you know what fun that
I'm gonna throw a little more, a little more action than in my dinners
now I have. I've done that. I've maybe taking a little bit more
time plating my stuff up, I mean, rather than just slapping it on
the plate. Those fudgation you know. You know when I had my kid
that mac and cheese, you know, I wiped the sides a little bit.
I'm I'm polishing her little you know, her little frog fork I'm polishing
it up and stuff. You know, I got a little I have a
little presentation now when I'm serving up my kid, you know, toast points,
cut the crust off. I got them on there a certain way.
Now. Yeah, yeah, I honestly have. I really have, because
I I've done the same thing. I actually was standing the other day and
I'm looking at a fork and I'm I'm a napkin. I'm polishing the fork
as I'm like kind of standing and waiting for something to finish in the microwave.
I'm like, you gotta watch it and all of this stuff will make
sense. It's really good. It's a well done, well done series.
Rot Any thoughts, final thoughts, Yeah, completely shameless. Man, one
more time, one more plug. This is it. This is my last
time telling you, please, man, go in the rod Ryan show Cares
online store. It's my last time telling you go into the store until I
tell you to go in the store again and go buy for something else.
Because we're gonna start Boob's Rock. We're gonna be you know. Prostate Cancer
Awareness Month is in two weeks, so I'm looking to get like my store
offline for two whole weeks and then fire up a whole new line of stuff
and we'll get into we donate money for breast cancer research. I got a
golf tournament, I got all this stuff coming up. I mean, this
is the season that it's just there's no rest at all. But so yeah,
this is it. Saturday, we pass out the backpacks. I'm gonna
keep the store open all weekend long. So we're recording Wednesday night. This
goes up on Thursday, so Friday pay day, it's not too late.
You're like, well, Rod's passing out backpacks tomorrow. He doesn't need my
money. Fuck I don't I need your money. And I'll let you go
shop all weekend long. The Rod Ryan showcares online store. Just google it.
You'll get there. You'll get there. Language language, Come on,
man, you're passing off backpacks the little kids. You gonna talk like that
out there? And what's up, cousin, No, I will not.
It's awesome. It's gonna be hot, but it's gonna be great. It's
awesome. Well, congratulations on all your work on this, and it's a
big deal. I don't think people realize, you know, you don't.
We're all just victims of going Oh that looks cool. That's cool. Good
for them. Nobody realizes the work that goes into these things, you know
what I mean, Like anything like that, any of these charities, any
of the races you see, anything that anyone does. There's a shit ton
of work that goes into behind this these but we all just kind of go,
oh, that's cool. You know that's cool. But that guess works.
And I've used this one in podcasts before. You know, people have
asked me, hey, man, you know I bought a T shirt?
Can I come and pass out backpacks? That sounds like pretty fun, man,
it sounds pretty rewarding. It's really rewarding. It really is. We
just have so many people out there that your heart's in the right place and
thank you for helping. But this is my reminder, and this is anybody
that's listening in New Orleans and Jason, you've worked with different charities. Man,
What doesn't cost you anything but just your time is volunteering at these places.
So I work with Houston Children's Charity, there's the Houston Food Bank.
I know you have first harvesters over there. They need people, they need
boots on the ground. So you know, you hear me and I'm always
asking for money. At least I'm trying to sell you a T shirt or
buy a you know, a fucking couzi or something to get something from your
doage. I know, but because so many people ask me because they know
we're going to be there and they know we're passing out backpacks. And it's
one of my favorite days of the entire year. It really is. I
mean it may it's not. That's not lip service either, man. That
it makes all that hard work kind of worth it. You're passing off these
backpacks, and it really is. It's very rewarding. But the Houston Furniture
Bank and the food banks and all these they need help, man. They
need help, man, and they could use you on a Saturday. And
I tell people that want to pass out backpacks, well, Houston Children's Charity
they do a mattress program, they do a store at Christmas time. They
need your help. So if you're hot right now because you want to pass
out a backpack, keep the heat going, man, call someplace. Hey,
can I volunteer? Can I volunteer? Everyone's got a website and everyone
has a place click here if you want to help. You know, it's
not of course, everybody wants your money, but man, they need your
time. They need you to go down there on a Saturday and spend a
couple of hours, maybe sorting through clothes and stuff. You know, that's
everybody. Would it be fair to say that they maybe need hands? Rod
hands, I need hands. This guy's obsessed with the bear. Oh my
god. Every time, like, I'll hear it in the garage. My
wife will come back. I need hands. I'll come running. There you
go. I'm I'm in New Orleans a red dress run. Jason's on his
way down. I'm at this bar that he used to go to that I
still go to boondocks saying, I'm like, all right, let me know
when you get close and I'll meet you. And this girl's sitting next to
me and she just happens to say she's from Chicago. I'm like, did
you watch the Bear? She goes fucking right, I watched the Bear.
It's awesome. The show takes place in Chicago. I'm like, did you
watch the Bear? You're from Chicago. I didn't ask her if she watched
Chicago Er or Chicago Hope or Blue Bloods or whatever. There's all those Chicago
shows. You think I asked her about anything. I go, did you
watch The Bear on Hulu? She's like, yes, of course, that's
awesome. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah. I mean obviously
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