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Such a good jam
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guitar jam thing
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it is very much a
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guitar jam. Welcome back to the
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real suburbia. I believe this is
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episode number eight. Yeah,
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crank it
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good. That's a good oww.
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Thank you.
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I liked it that
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was very musical that was very
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1990s oww band.
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Yeah, okay, we're,
0:35
we're living in the past still,
0:38
of course Okay, we're fine with
0:38
it. We're not we're, we haven't
0:42
yet decided to change our name
0:42
from real suburbia to Gen X
0:49
suburbia. But we've been living
0:49
in the 80s and 90s for the past
0:54
few months. And we told you we
0:54
were going to live there after
0:57
we did junior high fidelity,
0:57
Episode Number six,
1:01
it just got to be
1:01
such a happy place. It really
1:03
did though, you know, the COVID
1:03
place and here we have been
1:07
living in reality so it's Let's
1:07
escape the fuck from reality.
1:11
Yeah, so a number one boxes
1:11
checked. Girls are on bed number
1:15
two, hey, the dishwasher is
1:15
running and I think the dogs
1:19
are. Well, the dogs are okay.
1:21
Dogs are okay. And
1:21
our kids are okay. Our kids are
1:24
All right.
1:25
So all the boxes have been checked?
1:26
Well, here's the deal. Like here's the problem with podcasting, right when you
1:28
when you do one and you say,
1:31
Okay, well, we're going to do
1:31
the next podcast about this. And
1:35
the next one about this. It's
1:35
hard not to stick by it. So
1:38
we're gonna stick by it. We're
1:38
gonna live true to our word. And
1:42
in Episode Number six, junior
1:42
high fidelity, we said oh, we're
1:45
gonna do our favorite songs of
1:45
the songs that impacted us from
1:49
our middle school, junior high
1:49
years, which were like 1985
1:53
1989. And then we said in there
1:53
Oh, we're going to do one about
1:57
the movies from our junior high
1:57
middle school years, which we
2:00
did in episode seven. But also
2:00
in Episode Six. We said we'd
2:04
take us through at least High
2:04
School. Which would be 90
2:09
through 94. So this episode,
2:09
we're going to discuss the Songs
2:14
that Shaped us.
2:15
So welcome back
2:15
to real suburbia. Nostalgia
2:20
lane. For many of you that may be the
2:23
soundtrack to nostalgia lane for
2:27
you. For others. It may be this
2:27
one maybe question mark.
2:34
It is like that.
2:34
That's the happier one it is.
2:38
But we promise we promise we're
2:38
gonna take a break from
2:42
nostalgia after this podcast
2:42
This is it. No, actually, I'm
2:45
lying, because we're doing
2:45
music. movies from high school.
2:48
And then we'll go back to more
2:48
real suburbia
2:51
unless we feel
2:51
otherwise inspired because we
2:53
fly by the seat of our pants.
2:53
No, the seat of our asses.
2:57
No, it's the ass of our seats.
2:58
Yeah, we just let
2:58
the wind blow us whichever
3:01
direction we go. And guess what?
3:01
That's why you're hanging on. I
3:04
hope you brought your helmets.
3:04
Welcome back. It's real
3:07
suburbia. I'm Carlos. And that's
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Megan.
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Megan, my love my
3:11
life. My true. Every thing.
3:18
Thank you.
3:18
Are you sure?
3:20
Thanks for being
3:20
here. Megan. Let's get into it.
3:23
All right. Yeah. So we are
3:23
picking songs that impacted us
3:28
from our high school years,
3:28
which were 90 to 94 Oh, what was
3:32
happening in the world? I don't
3:32
even remember what's happening
3:35
in the world. What I do remember
3:35
the things that I felt the
3:39
experiences I had and how it
3:39
relates to music? I can't even
3:43
tell you who was the president.
3:43
Does anybody know who the
3:45
President was? Was the President
3:45
and was there in 90?
3:49
I believe in those
3:49
four years, there was Bill
3:53
Clinton and then george bush before that.
3:55
And he was like,
3:55
I mean, there were precedents.
3:58
Yes. I think we know that. There were there was in fact, a
4:00
president was the president but
4:03
there were no United States
4:03
chance at this time. That
4:09
doesn't come in till 2000. Okay,
4:09
okay. Cool. We don't have to
4:12
worry about it. Let's talk about
4:12
what there was. And that was the
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music that shaped our lives that
4:16
inspired us. Before there was
4:20
internet before there was
4:20
Napster before the the way that
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we consumed music, the way we
4:24
consumed movies, the way that
4:28
film and media drove us and
4:28
inspired us in our youth, as we
4:35
were budding into adults
4:37
God, I hate That
4:37
word budding.
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Yeah. And let's just for those
4:42
of you who are not in our age
4:48
group, we had no internet we had
4:48
no YouTube in all this shit,
4:55
streaming, etc. That's right. If
4:55
we wanted to hear about news, we
4:59
had to go out to
4:59
the little corner boy was
5:02
walking and selling off his
5:02
little papers of news I believe
5:08
they called him newspapers and
5:08
we had to walk eight miles.
5:12
uphill both ways knee deep in
5:12
snow to get there. And that's
5:16
the way that it was. We liked
5:16
it.You recall that? That's an
5:22
SNL. No, I am familiar with the
5:22
last line. Oh, Jesus fucking
5:27
Christ.Which we were really bad
5:27
God Damn. Yo, yes. Yeah, let you
5:33
do your bit venue. She blinked.
5:33
Well. I just stared him blank.
5:37
She knew exactly what I was
5:37
doing. She's staring and
5:40
blinked. I love you, baby.That's
5:40
you. You're your baby.
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I love you too.
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Thank you see? That's good. Yes, and thanks, babe. Okay, all right. We're
5:47
warmed up. motherfuckers let's
5:50
get it
5:50
Well, you're warmed up. That's for sure.
5:53
Okay, so Megan's not warmed up yet.
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I'm not quite. I'm
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not in the old like, I'm gonna
5:59
do my old timey voice. I'm
5:59
like,oh, like he's go Friday
6:04
back in the 1940s. In the movies
6:04
and the papers?
6:07
Yes. Right. You
6:07
know, I've got my big fancy car
6:10
with gigantic wheels, the custom
6:10
built bar in the backseat.
6:14
Ah, listen, I look
6:14
back at a time when you had a
6:16
phone with a big long cord. And
6:16
if you had long hair like me,
6:19
you get your hair caught and
6:19
spin around in your kitchen
6:21
while your mom talked to her friends.
6:22
That's the way it was. And we liked it.
6:24
I didn't like it.
6:26
God damn it. Oh,
6:26
god dammit. Just give me the
6:29
bit.
6:30
I'd hurt my hair.
6:30
My mom would like the cord would
6:32
be so long and she'd be walking
6:32
around the kitchen. And then my
6:36
hair would get tied up in it.
6:36
And then when she'd go to put it
6:39
back, it would like go in the
6:39
cord. Yes, my hair would get all
6:42
caught up God painful.
6:44
Did you have the extra long one?
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You know, we had to live there. There was no extending it was just this long
6:49
cord and it would hang on the
6:53
wall in the kitchen. The cord
6:53
would hang down to the ground,
6:56
right? So you could like go walk
6:56
far with it. But if it was
6:59
stretched, and you got your hair
6:59
caught in it, and then your mom
7:03
walked around like and then went
7:03
to put the phone back. You're
7:06
you get all twirled up in it. I
7:06
don't think young people know
7:09
what we had to live through.
7:09
That was horrible. Oh, God. I
7:13
mean, that was the worst.
7:15
That's the way it
7:15
was. And we liked it.
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I did not.
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God damn it.
7:20
I want you to stop.
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We
7:24
But remember we don't get to do that anymore. Because our kids have COVID-19
7:26
to hold over us. So we don't get
7:30
to be like, oh, when we were
7:30
young, we had to deal with the
7:33
popped colors and the polo
7:33
shirts and not being able to
7:37
call our friends on cell phones
7:37
like our kids beat us.
7:39
They beat
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So when we wanted
7:41
to talk to our friends during
7:43
the school day, we had to pass
7:43
notes, because that's the way it
7:46
was and we liked
7:47
Oh, my goodness
7:47
gracious. Okay. 1990. Let's do
7:51
it. Okay, go first.
7:53
Thank you for sticking through the introductory. I haven't had that
7:54
happen. So sorry. Yeah. Let's
8:00
just hit it off. All right.
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We'll suburbia. That's Megan.
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I'm Carlos. Thanks for joining
8:03
us.On tonight's episode of The
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Real suburbia podcast, we're
8:11
talking about the songs. It's a
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continuation of the last few
8:14
podcasts where we talked about
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music and movies that shaped our
8:18
lives. And tonight we're talking
8:22
about music the years that
8:22
tonight we'll be taking us from
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1990 through 94.
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Correct.
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Alright, there it
8:28
is. So hopped into this. I just
8:32
screen grabbed a couple of
8:32
things. I did a quick Google.
8:34
Here's where my research went
8:34
through. It was like, Oh, God,
8:37
let me think back. What song
8:37
that year? No, we're googling
8:42
it. Yeah. What's your what's
8:42
your 99 1990? Well, according to
8:46
Google, and when I went in and I
8:46
punched in Billboard Top 100 of
8:52
90 it was one where you know,I
8:52
know it's strange. Um,why was it
9:02
at that time that we were
9:02
wrapping ourselves up in these
9:04
chains? these chains these
9:04
chains?
9:08
Hold on for one more.
9:09
That was it. Yes.
9:09
I knew that. There was pain,
9:13
betcha. Oh, hold on for one more
9:13
day and yeah, break free from
9:18
the chains. Oh, man.
9:21
They were like
9:21
sisters, there was the whole
9:25
music legacy in there beach boy
9:25
style. Yes. Yeah.
9:29
And I'm gonna tell you, it didn't strike me as anything at the moment. At that
9:31
time in 1990. I knew it was a
9:35
big hit. It was a fun song. It
9:35
was a little bit of a lift from
9:40
everything else that was
9:40
happening musically. At the time
9:42
and they kind of Wilson
9:42
Phillips. I mean, normalcy still
9:46
sticks but like, you know
9:48
was brought back
9:48
and movies. The one I'm thinking
9:51
of is bridesmaids. Okay, that
9:51
was fun at the end of that
9:55
movie. When they actually showed
9:55
up. Yes wedding and they did the
9:59
show.
9:59
Write often Yes.
9:59
Yeah, absolutely.
10:03
The only one the
10:03
only name of the three women in
10:07
the group I can remember is
10:07
carnie. Wilson. I can't remember
10:11
the other. I remember what they
10:11
look like. There was a short,
10:14
blonde haired girl and then the
10:14
redhead girl. And then there was
10:17
Carnie. Right. Yeah, that's all
10:19
that.
10:21
And I think that
10:21
the the point of of this song
10:24
for me is not so much of what it
10:24
was for nostalgia. But what it
10:28
is now for nostalgia. And like
10:28
you mentioned with bridesmaids,
10:33
it's almost sounds like Oh, you
10:33
know what, here's something that
10:36
is going to strike nostalgia and
10:36
everybody and for me, it was the
10:39
Dan band. Oh, yeah. And, folks,
10:39
if you're not familiar with the
10:43
damn band, just google um, find
10:43
them on there. It takes you five
10:46
seconds and they are a cover
10:46
band. Dan Finnerty is a is the
10:51
front man for this group.
10:52
But what's so
10:52
great about the Dan band is
10:55
there in so many movies that you
10:55
know and love from?
10:58
Yeah, they were an old school. They were in Wedding Crashers and they always
11:02
play like the wedding band. But
11:06
the thing is that like, just
11:06
like they got started getting
11:08
put into these movies, because
11:08
they have what they were doing
11:13
in LA at the time, which be
11:13
probably the early 2000s, mid
11:17
2000 2005. I mean, I'm like
11:17
that. And they did cover songs
11:23
in a slightly faster version
11:23
sung by a male the vocal lots of
11:27
swear words added in like they
11:27
did I fuckin need you more than
11:32
ever. Yeah, that's if you don't
11:32
recognize him by that then you
11:37
must Google if you do recognize
11:37
him now that that you know
11:39
exactly what I'm talking about.
11:39
And honestly, it's just the
11:42
nostalgia. It's the point of
11:42
this of now that song means
11:46
more to me now. More than it did
11:46
as what it struck me then. So
11:51
maybe I'm maybe cheating at this
11:51
game a little bit.
11:54
Well, I will, I
11:54
will forgive you. But also, it
11:58
has a place in our wedding. And
11:58
I tried to get the damn band to
12:01
come play at our wedding as a
12:01
surprise for Carlos but they
12:06
were charging like 40 grand to
12:06
come in. I was like, well,
12:09
that's not happening.
12:10
Not happening.
12:10
So instead I got
12:10
Dan Finnerty to do a little
12:14
video.
12:15
It was the most
12:15
amazing moment ever. It was
12:18
fucking surprise.
12:19
And I yeah, I
12:19
didn't tell Carlos and I had the
12:22
wedding venue set up this huge
12:22
screen in the is where we had
12:28
our dinner and in played this
12:28
minute long video of Dan
12:32
Finnerty of the Dan Band
12:33
and I remember
12:33
like it was you know, a year one
12:36
year three weeks and seven six
12:36
days ago that was fun. Yeah, it
12:40
was really fun.
12:41
So hold on was
12:41
number one from that year was
12:45
number two was Roxette "Must
12:45
have been Love but.. we got
12:53
nothing compares to you Sinead
12:53
O'Connor. Do you remember when
12:56
she was on Saturday Night Live
12:56
and ripped the bible
12:59
by highly highly
12:59
political and very very
13:02
outspoken about it?
13:03
Yeah, we got
13:03
poison from Bell bibbed which
13:07
was about poison. I believe it
13:07
was episode six.
13:11
Yeah about your
13:11
road trips with your dad played
13:15
poison and the discomfort of
13:17
juicing was also that
13:17
year number 11 you want to know
13:20
mine
13:21
I have to say an
13:21
honorable mention was pump up
13:26
the jam pump it up Pump up the
13:26
jam pump it up
13:30
while your feeder
13:30
are stomping
13:33
Oh a, a place to stay get your booty on the floor tonight, make my day.
13:35
Oh yeah. What am
13:35
I do do the flow I will do that.
13:38
I will get my booty on the floor
13:38
and i and i will make your day
13:41
Yeah, that was you
13:41
know what maybe I should have
13:45
picked
13:45
c&c music factory.
13:46
No
13:47
Oh, ah, god damn
13:47
it. How about Salt N Peppa?
13:50
No,
13:51
I'm the worst at this game.
13:52
Yeah, it was.
13:53
This beat is this
13:53
beat is this beat is techno
13:56
tronic
13:57
Oh, Techno tronic
13:57
was the name of the band.
14:02
Yes.
14:02
Okay. Yes. So band album.
14:04
And we had
14:04
opposites attract by Paula Abdul
14:08
The the one featuring mc skat kat.
14:10
I
14:10
I believe that's right.
14:11
Oh, no, we never
14:11
learned about trying to
14:14
intermingle. Like live action
14:14
with animated characters. Never
14:18
works.
14:19
Doesn't work. Don't do it.
14:20
I think maybe
14:20
Paul Abdul's music video from
14:22
MTV actually did do it the most
14:22
effectively. You hear that?
14:26
Roger Rabbit? Yeah,
14:27
I guess I really
14:27
liked the song Rub You the Right
14:30
Way by Johnny Gill.
14:33
How does it go?
14:33
I wanna rub you
14:33
the right way, show me I didn't
14:38
listen to the song beforehand
14:38
and I remember when I was in LA
14:43
It was like my last summer
14:43
there. Some co workers and I we
14:46
got tickets to like the 90s
14:46
whatever the 90s got, what is
14:50
it? What was it called? The 90s
14:50
tour, whatever it it was Bobby
14:54
Brown and Keith Sweat and Johnny
14:54
Gill did en vogue show up. I
14:59
don't know But it was so
14:59
amazing. And everyone got a
15:03
great reception and then Bobby
15:03
Brown came out and the entire
15:07
crowd started booing him. And I
15:07
want to say it was Johnny Gill
15:12
that came out was like, Why are
15:12
you like dissing my boy? And it
15:17
was just like, so bizarre. But
15:17
so, so fun.
15:21
I feel like
15:21
Johnny Gill should have known by
15:23
2006 Why the fuck people were
15:23
booing Bobby Brown at that
15:26
point.
15:26
Yeah, I mean, and
15:26
he didn't do so well. So that
15:30
didn't help
15:31
Yeah, that was
15:31
probably the specific show
15:35
itself. Yeah, that show him
15:35
actually asking that question
15:38
may have been the end of his career
15:40
maybe there were
15:40
there was a lot of ones that you
15:43
guys would know,The Power by
15:43
Snap I believe that may have
15:51
been our freshman year
15:51
homecoming theme. The power now
15:56
Oh, yeah. If I'm wrong
15:56
platteville class of 94 let me
16:00
know. I remember the that was
16:00
right. Rhythm nation by Janet
16:05
Jackson. Oh, that's a great one.
16:05
I just want to mention a couple
16:08
other ones because they're just
16:08
fun. Janie's Got a Gun. Oh,
16:12
yeah, Aerosmith. Huge. Blame it
16:12
on the rain. Milli Vanilli.
16:18
Oh, God. Spandex
16:18
all day every day.
16:23
Rest in peace. And
16:23
then I love the song everybody
16:26
everybody. By black box,
16:26
everybody. Everybody, everybody,
16:32
everybody. That's the only car
16:32
that the one I picked. probably
16:38
wasn't the one I danced to in
16:38
the mirror in my bathroom. The
16:42
Humpty dance.
16:44
Digital Underground. Yeah, yep.
16:46
Okay, but I picked
16:46
enjoy the silence. Oh yeah.
16:54
Depeche Mode. Yes, I did. That
16:54
was number 66. Well, it wasn't
16:58
up there in the top 10. Like if
16:58
my dad were to hear Depeche Mode
17:02
it would have been like, what is
17:02
this? What is this junk? You
17:06
know, like, it just wasn't top
17:06
40 stuff. But of course don't
17:09
make number 66 No kidding. Like,
17:09
like in creative writing class
17:14
freshman year, they'd be like
17:14
bring in lyrics to your favorite
17:16
song. And of course, I would
17:16
bring in Depeche Mode lyrics.
17:20
Like Personal Jesus and Enjoy
17:20
the Silence and I'd read it all
17:23
dramatically in front of the
17:23
class and everyone be like, what
17:26
the hell is she talking about? I
17:26
spent a lot of time alone in my
17:30
room. Let's just say that. Oh,
17:30
you know, Tori Amos, Depeche
17:34
Mode. You got it. That's me. I
17:34
do think that I should go into
17:38
my 1991 song just to show you
17:38
how different like my tastes
17:43
were like all at the same time.
17:46
Just for that like to go into my
17:49
please do okay, go for it.
17:52
This just I love
17:52
this fucking song. I love it
17:54
today. loved it, then. Here we
17:54
go. You ready?
17:58
Okay, I've got my
17:58
listening ears on
18:02
Motown Philly's
18:02
back again. doin' a little East
18:07
Coast fling. Boys to Men going
18:07
off. Off not on
18:14
I am way off.
18:15
Not too hard. Not
18:15
too soft.
18:17
It's long overdue but now. Like,
18:17
I just love that like boyz to
18:22
men, ABC, BBD. The East Coast
18:22
family never missed. No.
18:26
skipped. They never skipped a
18:26
beat na, while cooling on South
18:29
Street. Jet black benz, plenty of friends.
18:30
Thank goodness. I'm not the only one.
18:32
And all the Philly
18:32
steaks you can eat all right. I
18:34
was born in Philly. My dad grew
18:34
up in Philly like we spent our
18:37
summers there. Look, I love Boyz
18:37
II Men so much like I have like
18:42
this recurring dream where Boys
18:42
to Men just like shows up. It's
18:46
bizarre. Oh, hello boys to men.
18:53
I
18:53
I want to hear
18:53
more about this dream. Where are
18:55
you the boys the men are showing
18:55
up at a party and like this
18:58
recurring dream with like, show
18:58
up. They just arrive you arrive.
19:02
Then you're like, Hey, what's up
19:02
party? I'm here and then the man
19:08
enters and you're like winter?
19:08
Never mind. I don't count and
19:12
then you're like, I'll just go
19:12
back into my room. Lock the door
19:15
and listen to The Cure.
19:16
That's not Yeah,
19:16
that's probably. I don't enter
19:18
parties like that. Like oh, look
19:18
at me. Nope, I'm just at the
19:21
party. And then they're just
19:21
there. And then like the guy
19:25
there was like the guy that had
19:25
the low voice that was always
19:28
like, ooh, yeah baby or
19:28
whatever. And like one of them
19:32
had like the walking cane and
19:32
they'd be in my dream and I'd be
19:36
like, Oh cool. What's up boyz II
19:36
men like you're in my dream
19:38
again.
19:38
I feel like that was the time like to like they come and they had like the big
19:40
suits. It was like this new
19:43
iteration of like the old school
19:43
Zoot suits from the 40s were
19:47
like in fashion like in r&b like
19:47
fashion hip hop in modern
19:52
fashion.
19:52
Like it's suddenly
19:52
like took that throwback,
19:56
throwback, right but then they
19:56
were talking aboutThey were
20:00
talking about things that were
20:00
happening now. They were
20:02
throwing shout outs to other
20:02
East Coast bands. And then they
20:08
would break it down and do some
20:08
like, on the street corner
20:11
almost like barbershop type
20:11
stuff and
20:17
I had up. Hi,
20:17
yeah, yeah, (Carlos sings)
20:23
If there was like,
20:23
the firing squad, they should
20:26
show up right now and take us
20:26
out.
20:29
You know, baby.
20:29
You know what I'm getting. You
20:33
know, I've been struggling with
20:33
this real suburbia nation I've
20:36
been struggling with. What do I
20:36
get Megan, for Christmas. And
20:41
the Christmas gift I think is
20:41
going to be vocal lessons for
20:45
me. So she doesn't have to
20:45
struggle through this. Either
20:48
that or just some really like
20:48
good, serious like therapy. To
20:53
get me to shut the fuck up when
20:53
it comes down to attempting to
20:56
sing.
20:57
If you go to
20:57
Philly, got a cheesesteak. And
21:00
if you know what Wawa means. God
21:00
love you.
21:03
Is that no
21:03
Pennsylvanian for water?
21:06
Nope. Okay, I will
21:06
later on listeners, I will tell
21:11
Carlos what a Wawa is, if it
21:11
they know what a Wawa is? Not if
21:17
you know what a Wawa is. You
21:17
need to write to
21:19
[email protected] and tell
21:19
me about your Wawa experience.
21:23
Because we don't have wawas we
21:23
do not have wawas or tasty cakes
21:28
here in Wisconsin. And it's a
21:28
damn shame. That's all I have to
21:31
say about that.
21:32
No, why was that a food? Okay, you said
21:34
Tastycake is a is a food.
21:37
That was my
21:37
nickname for you last night.
21:39
a hoagie. Get a good
21:39
cheese steak.
21:43
Other songs from
21:43
1991 that were well let's see.
21:48
Number one in 1991 I see is
21:48
everything I do. I do it for you
21:52
by Bryan Adams.
21:53
Yeah, that was
21:53
from the soundtrack of Robinhood
22:00
Prince of Thieves. It wasn't
22:00
Kevin Costner that it was
22:02
Yeah, it was also
22:02
we went through a we went down a
22:05
tire rabbit hole for the number
22:05
two song in 91 for the band
22:10
Color Me badd. Remember? Well, I
22:10
was like, What? Where are they?
22:14
And I and I found out what every
22:14
single member of that band was
22:17
doing now. I couldn't tell you
22:17
as the pandemic done this for
22:20
you to god I'm so sorry.
22:23
Real Suburbia
22:23
Nation have you been going down
22:24
I wanna sex you
22:24
up, tick tock you don't stop.
22:25
rabbit holes? Yeah, I found out number. Do you
22:27
remember that one day, this past
22:31
summer I looked up every member
22:31
and I was like, look what this
22:34
guy's doing. And this guy Can
22:34
you believe this is the same
22:37
lead singer. He looks different.
22:37
He's like 200 pounds heavier.
22:41
And this one went to be like a
22:41
crazy like preacher.
22:45
And the hilarious
22:45
thing was that we like I think
22:47
that we managed to make some
22:47
kind of a joke based on like any
22:52
of their songs or something
22:52
about any of their circumstances
22:57
at the time and it's like well,
22:57
I guess he didn't have that but
22:59
they were like it was fun one
22:59
day of like, three hours. What
23:03
happened to Color Me badd? Non
23:03
Stop puns, specifically based on
23:07
Color Me Bad songs. That's another thing about this pandemic. If it's not music or
23:09
movies like what's a random
23:13
weird fucking rabbit? What
23:13
rabbit hole? I
23:18
do.
23:20
Carlos 1991 What
23:20
is your song?
23:22
Oh, God. Oddly
23:22
enough, it's don't go chasing
23:24
rabbit holes.
23:27
Not waterfalls.
23:28
Yes. Oh, hey,
23:28
ladies and gentlemen, real
23:33
suburbia nation. Yeah, that's a
23:33
quick call back.
23:37
Man used to I know that you're
23:39
gonna.
23:43
Okay, what was
23:43
your song? I used to love TLC?
23:49
Cuz I'm laughing because I
23:49
didn't talk to a good friend.
23:52
His name's will. I won't say
23:52
last name for a while and he was
23:56
like, Oh, you're married. Now
23:56
you married a guy named Carlos.
23:58
Did you take his last name? Is
23:58
your last name Lopez now? and
24:01
I'm like, Yes. Megan "Left Eye"
24:01
Lopez. Yep, that's me now.What's
24:10
your 91 song?
24:12
oddly enough?
24:12
It's none of the above.
24:16
Okay. What is it?
24:20
Uh, let me tell
24:20
you left eye. I um, it's
24:22
actually um, here's the beauty.
24:22
You were mentioning. You said
24:27
all taste was all over the
24:27
place. I think that was the
24:30
beauty of the early 90s is that
24:30
every style of music became
24:35
popular. Boom. All in one go my
24:35
finger snap to give me a high
24:39
five on that.
24:40
Oh, okay.
24:41
You mentioned in
24:41
yours and your honorable
24:43
mentions. You had mentioned
24:43
Aerosmith. you'd mentioned like
24:45
he's our MP group. So mine was
24:45
there was a it was a quick hot
24:50
flash in the pan. Oh, extreme.
24:50
Oh, okay. Oh then is all I have
25:00
I needed you to know.
25:06
Then you wouldn't
25:06
have to say.
25:10
Yeah, I sorry, I
25:10
had to start. I'm googling vocal
25:13
lessons right now. Ladies and
25:13
gentlemen, in real suburbia
25:17
nation. I promised that I will
25:17
not get better as a singer. I
25:23
will never improve my sing ging
25:23
skills. But I will never Oh my
25:29
god, everybody. That song has
25:29
been period. It's been like,
25:34
Oh, God, they have
25:34
like long hair too. It wasn't
25:38
the Nelson brothers. No, but it
25:38
looked a lot like well, they but
25:41
I think they had darker hair.
25:42
But yeah, no, the
25:42
Nelson brothers had like white
25:44
hair. Yeah, but this was
25:44
extreme. Okay, so it was
25:47
extreme, Mr. Big and Nelson and
25:47
they are like hard rock bands.
25:54
But then they had their kids.
25:54
And I think that this song is
25:57
one of the ones that exemplified
25:57
hard rock. But it's a hard rock
26:02
ballad. And oh, did you hear
26:02
that?
26:05
Yeah, it wasn't,
26:05
me, I turned my phone on.
26:08
It's actually it's a message from the person that I've been reaching out to.
26:10
It's the anti singing therapist.
26:15
They fucking respond fast. That
26:15
was a great one extreme like
26:18
everyone knows that.
26:19
Jimmy Fallon has a
26:19
funny like version of it. We'll
26:22
look it up at some point and
26:22
others some was up there on that
26:25
list. Tell me about I will tell
26:25
you summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff
26:31
and The Fresh Prince. Number one
26:31
DJ Jazzy Jeff had the first
26:34
billing of that whole other band. But it wasn't like Will Smith.
26:38
It wasn't like The Fresh Prince.
26:45
Oh, yeah, it was DJ Jazzy Jeff
26:45
and The Fresh Prince.
26:49
Yeah, look, we're
26:49
there but but remember when the
26:52
like on like, because he was on
26:52
the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. But
26:56
then every now and then. He
26:56
would show up and yeah. Bring in
27:00
like DJ Jazzy Jeff to like, and
27:00
he's like, come on, man. Let me
27:03
let me try and let me get to it
27:03
and he could not act. Yes. And
27:07
it was like, oh, man, it was
27:07
like oh, you see him now let's
27:10
see that. Look up Motown Philly
27:10
thing that East Coast family
27:14
thing happening because Will
27:14
Smith was from Philly, right.
27:19
Let's see West Philadelphia
27:19
born. playground is where he
27:23
spent most of his day. I think
27:23
it kind of reads back to that
27:26
boys to man. Like there was a
27:26
very big bond man. Live Devo,
27:32
ABC. They did no, they never
27:32
mentioned they never gave a
27:36
shout out to DJ Jazzy Jeff for
27:36
the Fresh Prince, which is
27:40
either I don't know. But you
27:40
know what i do think, though. I
27:45
mean, you think they're all pals
27:45
now? I don't know. I'm curious
27:48
as to whether or not what, bell
27:52
boop boop, boop,
27:52
let me I've got Will Smith on
27:55
speed dial here. Let me ask.
27:55
Alright. So summertime, I
27:59
thought you know, I'm going to
27:59
bed early. Like he and jaida are
28:02
like they go to bed by like, 9pm
28:02
It's fine.They are regimented.
28:11
Like they have their shit
28:11
together. We do not.
28:14
Jesus, You know what, we're gonna go ahead and we'll just send them an email.
28:15
Number one, I want to know the
28:17
regiment because we need to get on that.
28:19
Oh, yeah, we'll
28:19
get on it real soon. The chorus
28:22
was like, summer, summer, summer
28:22
time.You know, it was like an
28:27
easy thing like sit back and
28:27
rewind. Anyway, so what I was in
28:35
high school, I was asked to be a
28:35
part of this band. And they're
28:39
like, okay, we're gonna do a
28:39
cover of summertime. But you
28:43
know, we live in Wisconsin. So
28:43
it's going to be wintertime and
28:45
we want you to sing. That chorus
28:45
part would be like, okay, I'll
28:49
do it. And there were other
28:49
lyrics but it was like, winter
28:53
winter winter time. It's cold
28:53
outside. We perform it church
29:00
dances. so dumb.
29:03
Anyway, guys, I
29:03
just have to give you the visual
29:06
that I'm looking at as Megan is
29:06
like prepping to say more like
29:09
her winter version. She's got on
29:09
she no shit. We're down here on
29:14
the podcast studio, but she's
29:14
like in the basement. But she's
29:17
like got on like her scarf and a
29:17
winter jacket. It's very it's
29:21
cool, man. We are now into 1992
29:21
I'm ready for the first one.
29:26
Want me to go from 1992 Let's
29:26
see. You know what the number
29:31
one song was? In 1992. Let me
29:31
take a guess. Okay. Because
29:35
again, I'm I'm riffing off this
29:35
idea where like music taste was
29:40
changing every other week. There
29:40
were so many different styles.
29:44
I'm, I'm going to Was it a
29:44
country song?
29:47
Absolutely not. .
29:47
It was the same artist as my
29:54
1991 pic. Alright, so it was
29:54
boys, two men.
29:58
Oh, not Wilson Phillips.
30:00
No
30:00
Jesus, I need to
30:00
get together right now and do
30:04
what they do.
30:06
wouldn't be so
30:06
weird. They got to pull.
30:08
Yeah, like the
30:08
whole Run DMC Aerosmith thing.
30:11
It's time to reboot them but
30:11
we're doing it Wilson Phillips
30:13
DJ. And DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh
30:15
Prince bring those bring it up
30:18
bring them all on. Fresh Prince
30:18
DJ Jazzy Jeff and yeah, Fresh
30:22
Prince. Not fresh anymore. No,
30:22
but you know what? It's time for
30:25
expired either way. It's time
30:25
for Bell Biv DeVoe and the rest
30:28
of the East Coast family to go
30:28
ahead and accept Will Smith and
30:32
his jazzy friend Jess.
30:33
Think Will Smith
30:33
needs to accept them because
30:36
he's kind of the end of the
30:36
road. Oh, yeah. To the end of
30:44
the road. Oh, number two was
30:44
Baby Got Back. Sir. Mix a Lot.
30:50
Yeah. Number three was jump by
30:50
criss cross.
30:54
You're gonna make
30:54
us wear your clothes backwards.
30:58
So I mean, the top
30:58
three were kind of in the same
31:01
vein. And then And then number
31:01
six was Tears in Heaven by Eric
31:05
Clapton. like Oh, right. I don't
31:05
want to I don't want to say
31:08
you're right. But En Vogue
31:08
remember En Vogue and loved En
31:12
Vogue? I'm loving. You're never
31:12
gonna get it. Never.
31:19
Again, I'm never gonna
31:19
get an ever gonna get
31:26
delete.
31:27
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
31:27
And that's exactly why I'm a
31:31
recording artist.
31:32
What did you pick? I'm
31:32
too sexy. That was also in
31:37
there. Right? Said Fred. Number
31:37
13.
31:41
Somewhere
31:41
somewhere. In our video, VHS
31:46
tapes. There is a video of my
31:46
brother and our neighbor. And
31:49
his neighbor friend Brent.
31:49
dancing around in my bedroom,
31:52
too. Right, said Fred. I'm too
31:52
sexy. Yeah, and I have to find
31:57
that. There is a video of them
31:57
prancing around my bedroom doing
32:08
that. I have to find it. It's
32:08
sort of he was like the he was
32:12
like the original Gangnam Style.
32:16
Today mean?
32:16
Like, we're like,
32:16
please, you're kind of making
32:18
fun of yourself, even though
32:18
it's like a catchy song. And I'm
32:22
like, I'm not really a model. It
32:22
was like Gangnam Style, you
32:25
know? Like he was like, I'm not
32:25
really yeah, like this star like
32:29
right dance. It was just like
32:29
this. Like, it's like it's a
32:32
fad.
32:32
It was all of the
32:32
right pieces of the puzzle
32:35
coming into play at the right
32:35
time. I remember watching it and
32:38
just being like, holy shit.
32:38
Well, this isn't anything
32:40
especially talented or special
32:40
or anything. It's really catchy.
32:44
Now Mariah Carey
32:44
singing my heart out and only
32:47
number 16 while Right Said Fred
32:47
is ahead of me with I'm too
32:52
sexy. You're Like what?
32:54
Like honestly like that was kind of an exposition of things to come of
32:56
how music or that where talent
33:00
no longer got you there, but
33:00
publicity definitely did. And
33:05
she Yeah, yes. And it was catchy
33:05
it was it was kitschy it was
33:09
saying it was catchy.
33:13
Yeah. catchy. What
33:13
was your 92 song?
33:16
I'm glad you asked that question, Megan.
33:18
I'm so glad I did.
33:19
I just wanted to
33:19
pontificate about like, yo,
33:21
like, get it going? Because I
33:21
want to know
33:25
what you're thinking. There is
33:25
some things you can hide.
33:30
But it's your song. That's not it.
33:32
Ladies and gentlemen wall. I've hidden this one long enough. It's time to
33:34
liberate my song. Bring it it
33:39
was Baby Got Back. Oh, hi, sir.
33:39
Mix a lot.
33:42
Yep. I did I say
33:42
that. I think you did. You had
33:45
mentioned number two. But it was
33:45
huge.
33:47
Number two, why
33:47
are you I believe that it was
33:50
you know, it was catchy for a
33:50
lot of reasons.
33:54
Everybody knew like the whole
33:54
part. Oh, my God, Becky, look at
33:59
her.
34:00
But My anaconda
34:00
don't want none unless you've
34:04
got buns. Hon.
34:06
You know, I it
34:06
was it was something where like,
34:09
I think that a lot of the you
34:09
know, hip hop stuff was really
34:13
starting to come into
34:13
mainstream. And I started to
34:16
realize it when my dad came home
34:16
from, you know, wherever, as a
34:22
fighter pilot, he had been out
34:22
to a fighter pilot bar with
34:24
other fighter pilots on their
34:24
base wherever they were at and
34:27
came back and he's like, and it
34:27
was like three months straight
34:31
where my dad would just walk in
34:31
the door and just go funky cold
34:34
Medina. And he's like, Oh, my
34:34
God, that's so great. And it's
34:37
like, Dad, you're not allowed to
34:37
know you can you can do that.
34:40
Yeah, you don't get to bridge
34:40
the gap with the youth. No, I'm
34:43
sorry.
34:44
No, it reminds me
34:44
of when I have so I have sisters
34:47
that are like 16 and 14 years
34:47
younger than me and I was in
34:50
high school. And I came home one
34:50
day to my mom feeding my baby
34:55
sister in the highchair and she
34:55
didn't see me come in and she's
34:59
going Oh me so hungry. Oh, oh oh me so
35:01
hungry and like, feeding her and
35:06
that is 2 Live Crew. Um, no. And
35:06
she was like, No. She's like,
35:10
it's just it's a Weird Al song.
35:13
Member No, no,
35:13
it's Yeah, he do a version of
35:15
that third l did not cover 2
35:15
Live Crew. He didn't
35:18
Okay, well, but
35:18
my, my eyes got so big and I'm
35:25
like what's happening? Mom, you
35:25
have to stop. It's not like, oh,
35:29
here comes the airplane. No, no,
35:29
none of that it was Oh, me so
35:34
hungry. And I'm like, scarred
35:34
for life. It's over. Get the
35:40
therapist on speed dial. I'm
35:40
laughing hard. She was totally
35:45
clueless though. Like, that's
35:45
how innocent my mom was like,
35:48
What's wrong with that song? I
35:48
don't understand. That was very,
35:51
very disturbing. When I was like,
35:55
Yeah, no, you don't get
35:55
to bridge the gap. No, you don't
35:58
get. And I think that was
35:58
probably a moment for both of
36:01
us. And we're just like, Why are
36:01
my parents listening to popular
36:04
music? They're supposed to be
36:04
listening to Oh, Peggy. Oh.
36:11
No, they're supposed to be listening to Phil Collins. Like, I'm fine with
36:13
that. You can listen to popular
36:17
people, but it's got to be like
36:17
elton john.
36:19
Yes.
36:19
And Olivia Newton
36:19
John, all the Johns, but not
36:24
Yeah.
36:24
Olivia Newton john. You know, they're planning they're planning at mom's
36:26
jazzercise. Not a big deal. You
36:30
know, Huey Lewis in the news, I
36:30
won't even I won't even leave
36:33
that as fair again.
36:35
You can have that you could have Huey Lewis in the news and then have to live crew
36:37
No, absolutely not. You cannot
36:40
have Bell Biv DeVoe. That's not
36:40
right. No, nope.
36:44
My like 1992 was a hard one for
36:44
me to pick. Yeah. So mine was a
36:49
little bit tight. Well, it was
36:49
tied up here. It was damn so by
36:54
honorable mention my second
36:54
runner up first runner up.
36:57
Pardon me? was one by U2 because
36:57
that's just such a it's a one on
37:03
one. Yeah. Yeah. So good. I
37:03
mean, just I don't know there
37:08
was something about that song
37:08
that my like, like hopeless
37:11
romantic thing got to me it was
37:11
a romantic it was I think it got
37:15
to everybody.
37:15
I think that one
37:15
like kind of it went across like
37:19
boundaries very musical. Very
37:19
good songs.
37:21
Like that was but
37:21
that was number 60 I picked the
37:24
number 44 song of that year 1992
37:24
oh gosh 44 and it was just tell
37:32
you or do you want me to sing a
37:32
little bit of it? Well, let me
37:34
let me take a guess. The single
37:34
random verse that are random has
37:38
a subtle lyrics that I might never face and is put her right back with
37:42
the rest that's the way it goes.
37:45
I guess. Baby you send me dead
37:45
adrift a memory but the serve
37:51
you love that song. What's the
37:51
song title and set a drift on
37:57
memory bliss by pm dawn pm dawn.
37:57
love that song. It's very
38:01
special to me and a good friend
38:01
that I grew up with in Parag.
38:07
Parag, Parag. Oh
38:07
yeah,
38:10
it was just one of
38:10
those for me and there's a part
38:12
in it where he's like, talking
38:12
about Christina Applegate. And I
38:16
don't know it was just a thing
38:16
that we bonded over he was such
38:20
a close friend and there was
38:20
just a mellowness about that
38:24
track. Like just it was just
38:24
very it was just like cool it's
38:29
like oh this like I don't this
38:29
is so lame. But it'd be like
38:32
well that's a chill song. I
38:32
think so No like oh no way lady
38:36
like that's a very chill jam.
38:36
Oh, like oh for sure.
38:40
No, you betcha
38:40
tiama super chill. Oh I really
38:42
was but you know you should be
38:42
prepared to do your next set of
38:46
jams in in more of your of your
38:46
jarring and canning later on
38:51
this
38:51
I have it I have a
38:51
I have a special COVID jam out
38:54
called the Christina Applegate
38:54
jam.
38:57
Oh, I love it you
38:57
know it's gonna go great with
38:59
your apple pies but you know you
38:59
better go check on that hot dish
39:02
it's in the oven. It should come
39:02
out real soon
39:04
Well yeah. Oh
39:04
yeah, that guy no it really like
39:07
it was like if you just listen
39:07
to it it's just like
39:12
like it I don't know there was
39:12
just something it was like go
39:16
listen to it.
39:16
Oh holy shit you
39:16
know there's something special
39:20
about this time and that no
39:20
kidding like music was all over
39:23
the fucking place all over and
39:23
all different styles of music
39:27
were like just loading exploding
39:27
changing and yet like going
39:31
across all boundaries of tastes
39:31
like everything was popular You
39:35
didn't have to be like a certain
39:35
you know group you know also how
39:38
it was given to us whether it
39:38
was TV which was the radio
39:42
wherever whenever assuming it
39:42
How was somebody giving you like
39:45
a bootleg whatever, but like for
39:45
me in LA I didn't I didn't have
39:49
any like underground people
39:49
handing me Yeah, but like so
39:53
yeah, so it would go from like I
39:53
said before we go from like the
39:56
cure or Depeche Mode to like
40:00
pm dawn and Jenna
40:00
Jackson like, I liked it all.
40:03
I feel like at that time, it was
40:03
like you had a popular music
40:05
station. And they played
40:05
everything. And it was probably
40:09
right about that time the schism
40:09
happened where they're like,
40:12
okay, we just have to be adding
40:12
metal station. We just have to
40:15
be an indie stage or like, you
40:15
know, an alternative station. I
40:19
this is kind of been a nice
40:19
little reality check in and some
40:22
to kind of think back and be
40:22
grateful for in something that
40:25
we experienced. You hear that?
40:25
COVID? Kids, our children? Yeah,
40:29
I hope they get to listen back
40:29
on this. Oh, you're fucking
40:32
COVID guess what we live
40:32
through, we got to watch music,
40:34
expand and explode into all
40:34
these different genres take
40:38
that. Or don't you know, or do
40:38
or, you know, please,
40:42
or don't? Here's the deal. I
40:42
don't journal. I don't blog. I
40:46
don't do any of that crap. Our
40:46
kids will have our podcast. Like
40:50
later, like later when they're
40:50
adults, they'll have you don't I
40:53
mean? Like, I honestly feel
40:53
like, if nobody listens, you
40:57
know, and we're long gone, our
40:57
kids will have this, you know,
41:02
like, that's, that's, I think,
41:02
more than a lot of people have.
41:07
So that's, that's what I think
41:07
will will keep us going. is if
41:11
even if no one listens. It'll
41:11
almost be like a diary Journal
41:15
of, of this time to learn a
41:15
little bit about what it was
41:20
like, when we clearly will, they're gonna understand us more, but
41:21
they're still gonna be like, I
41:23
don't understand what the fuck
41:23
they know. It'll make
41:26
make them very worse all the
41:26
time. But, uh, but I mean, I
41:30
would love to have that if my
41:30
parents can, I would, I would
41:32
give anything to have, like a
41:32
history of my parents talking to
41:36
each other to go. Button a click
41:36
of the button, I can go to this
41:42
link. And I can hear hundreds of
41:42
episodes of my parents just
41:45
talking to each other about their lives about their childhood. I would give anything
41:47
for that.
41:51
Oh, God, I need
41:51
some of that Prilosec maybe a
41:54
Tums. God, I'm showing my age.
41:57
The number one song for 1993 was
41:57
I will always love you. Um, God
42:01
bless your ears. You don't have
42:01
to listen to me sing. Whitney
42:05
Houston. Uh, excuse me attempt
42:05
to vocally work my way through
42:10
what Whitney Houston can actually sing.
42:12
And you know,
42:12
Dolly Parton wrote that song.
42:14
Yes, that's correct.
42:16
I think a lot of people know but if you didn't, there you go.
42:18
And the best recording of that is actually performed by Linda Ronstadt, one
42:19
of the best vocalists of all
42:23
ages. She was amazing. She was a
42:23
little Mexican American
42:28
firecracker, and you know what
42:28
I'm proud to call her one of my
42:31
own. Others are Mexican
42:31
Americans and Latinos is young,
42:37
and still got pride. I may look
42:37
like a white guy, but my name is
42:40
Carlos. So we're other ones.
42:44
To shake my hand and take my
42:44
whole heart too. Because I can't
42:54
help falling in love.
42:57
Okay, I'm with
42:57
you. assuming you're referring
42:59
to the UB 40 version.
43:01
Elvis Presley.
43:01
That's right. Oh, correct. Oh,
43:07
baby. You're so good. You're
43:07
right on top of it. Way to go
43:10
girl. No, that's not my number
43:10
one song but you'd be 40 came
43:13
into play and all of a sudden
43:13
there's like this. Like red red
43:21
wine you make me feel so fine
43:21
you keep my rockin' all of the
43:24
time. You keep me rockin all of the
43:24
time. A red red one. I love you
43:28
right from the start.
43:29
I feel very
43:29
there's something very very
43:31
wrong about us doing that.
43:33
But nonetheless.
43:33
Well, there are a bunch of white
43:35
guys from Britain worth a
43:38
there was
43:38
something wrong about them doing
43:40
Yes, I know what
43:40
well played. Let's move on. That
43:44
was number three for the year
43:44
1993 number four was that's the
43:48
way
43:52
that slowly
43:54
goes that's not
43:54
even Janet Jackson. timbit cool.
43:58
Oh, that's part of the one of
43:58
you know what i have no musical
44:02
a it's a running theme here from
44:02
my side of the podcast studio
44:07
over here. This microphone over
44:07
here? Yeah, that was uh, yeah,
44:11
that was number four for the
44:11
year mine was Yeah, that's me DC
44:16
me and my boy Steve Rollin
44:20
tag team back again
44:24
Yep. Party on you know that and that's your
44:28
song but when I did a it takes
44:33
to
44:35
to make a thing go right. Yeah. And you were like, Oh, I didn't know Oh, that one
44:37
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And
44:41
you were like that's where our
44:41
childhood took a schism but now
44:44
you're saying won't there it is.
44:44
is one of your top songs. I
44:46
don't think I don't think we
44:46
schism this far out as you think
44:50
we did. Because that's in the
44:50
same vein.
44:52
All not disagree.
44:53
Okay. That's it.
44:53
That was a good one. Why why'd
44:56
you pick that one? It was huge.
45:22
Our friend who
45:22
was driving her parents car,
45:25
they had like this cool SUV that
45:25
had a sunroof in the backseat,
45:30
and an awesome stereo system,
45:30
and it was blasting that song.
45:36
And we were like, heads out the
45:36
sunroof on the fucking highway
45:40
going down. I 25 in Denver, like
45:40
just like, blaring it out, like
45:45
a bunch of white kids from you
45:45
know, the southeast Denver
45:50
suburbs,
45:51
White kids in
45:51
Denver, oh my god. No.
45:57
was just like, it was a
45:57
huge song. It was it was
46:01
more of the memory of that. It
46:01
really is you pick that song.
46:04
But it was also probably the first
46:04
hip hop song that I ever like,
46:07
stood out of a sunroof and like,
46:07
just, like, railed off as loud
46:12
as I possibly could to nothing but
46:12
a GE thing. Because that was
46:17
number 11. This is the one I remember most.
46:18
I like it. But yeah, and even
46:22
today, I mean, I think it still
46:22
holds up, you know?
46:26
Now that one comes on and
46:26
definitely
46:28
well, Megan, like, Oh, yeah. Do
46:28
you remember when we were
46:31
shopping for a location to to
46:31
install our cycling studio? And
46:40
you were like, hey, I want you
46:40
to come see this space. I really
46:43
think it's cool. I think it'd be great for this. I want you to see this space. And I'm like,
46:45
okay, cool, but
46:49
I don't want to
46:49
be me. And you're like, Oh,
46:51
yeah, no, no, you have to be
46:51
somebody entirely different. And
46:54
you basically threw a challenge
46:54
at me to not be me. But to be
46:57
somebody totally ridiculous.
46:57
We're going to a professional
47:00
meeting with a builder with a
47:00
real estate agent with, you
47:05
know, the landlord, the
47:05
landlord, and, and you're like,
47:09
I don't know you need to be. I'm
47:09
like, Well, I can do Eastern
47:12
European. You're like, okay,
47:12
your name is Elvis bierbauer. Mm
47:15
hmm. Do you remember that?
47:16
I do remember
47:16
this. Yeah. So Carlos acted
47:19
like, this, like Eastern
47:19
European designer that I brought
47:23
in. you need to be careful, like,
47:43
whatever. And then she went
47:47
without me around and tried to
47:47
get Elvis Bierbrauer. Like, she
47:52
was like, Here's my card. Oh,
47:52
yeah, I know, all the
47:54
restaurants in town. I'm like,
47:54
bitch, watch out for him. And
47:58
when I find out later that
47:58
you're basically hitting on him.
48:02
weirdo.
48:03
I put on like, I
48:03
don't know, like, where I'm
48:05
like, I don't know, corduroy
48:05
pants, a corduroy sports coat.
48:10
And then I have like, little
48:10
like square glasses that I put
48:13
on that were like yellow tinted.
48:13
Yeah.
48:15
And a T shirt on
48:15
that said Harvard Law. And then
48:17
in parentheses in smaller print.
48:17
Just kidding.
48:20
Yep. And now it's
48:20
super funny. And he asked and
48:23
the whole point was like, we're talking about sound because we're building a cycling studio.
48:25
There's there's a professional sound
48:27
engineer guy who's been like in
48:30
this industry for 50 years. And
48:30
he's like, oh, we're gonna need
48:34
to use at least like three
48:34
eighths inch thick stainless
48:37
steel and embedded in the walls
48:37
doubling while you go and spend
48:40
all this money you spend on
48:40
steel on these things. They
48:44
thought I was totally serious.
48:45
But here's the
48:45
best part. And it's like, I'm
48:47
trying not to like pee my pants.
48:49
But he's
48:49
explaining Yeah, the the sound
48:51
engineer He's like, no, it's
48:51
when you get this bass in this
48:53
repetitive dum, dum, dum, dum.
48:53
And he's like, you know, you
48:57
start getting this and it hits
48:57
these certain and he starts
48:59
getting into technicalities of
48:59
wavelengths and all this other
49:02
stuff. And he's like, you know,
49:02
that's that's what you have to
49:07
defeat and you have to you can't
49:07
just absorb that sound you have
49:10
to defeat that sound. And I'm
49:10
like, Oh, yes, like, okay, you
49:16
talk about these wave lengths,
49:16
is like, you know, MC Magic
49:22
Mike. The booties in motion
49:22
Whoomp there it is right.
49:27
Now, he was
49:28
He's magic Mike's
49:28
at rump shaker Holika DJ magic
49:33
Mike rump shakers you know and
49:33
whoomp. And it was at that point
49:37
that the that the landlord agent
49:37
and the builder Eric, they
49:43
suddenly went fuck is happening
49:43
here and I'm just like sitting
49:46
there with a straight face.
49:48
And Eric the
49:48
contractor, I'd worked with him
49:50
for years.
49:52
He kind of looks at me
49:52
like, what the hell Megan like
49:55
who are you? Who is this guy?
49:55
Why is he like a part of this at
49:59
all? And he was like,
50:00
Like no this guy
50:00
is he's like this guy's joking
50:03
he has to be and you just see
50:03
this like on his face and I'm
50:07
like, Oh yeah. Oh yes I
50:07
understand all the best music
50:10
like DJ magic Mike rump shaker
50:10
booties in motion right now.
50:14
There it is. It was just like it
50:14
was really great or it's like
50:18
breaking. He's like looks at me
50:18
He's like, wait, wait, no Oh
50:20
wait, no and I'm like, Oh shit,
50:20
he's onto me. And he's like, Oh
50:24
wait,
50:24
and I'm like I just kept it straight face. He's like, Oh shit, he's seriously it
50:26
looks
50:30
like I'm like biting my lip, but
50:30
he's looking at me and I'm
50:33
giving him No, nothing but it
50:33
was like weeks or months later
50:37
that I was like, Eric, this is
50:37
my boyfriend. It's my fiance
50:40
like we're getting married.
50:40
Like, though we were pulling one
50:43
over on you and he was like, he
50:43
didn't even like I thought he
50:45
was gonna laugh. He was just
50:45
like, Yeah, I thought something
50:48
was strange. That seemed right.
50:48
So my song. I'm going to give
50:52
you my honorable mentions. Okay. Do you remember that? I believe
50:55
they were a Swedish band called
51:01
Ace of Base.
51:01
Oh, the were they
51:01
not Swedish as a bass? I don't
51:04
know. They were something like
51:04
that. Danish. Danish,
51:07
Copenhagen. But
51:10
I don't know if
51:10
they were number one. My number
51:13
one deadline but was all that
51:13
she wants. In parentheses( is
51:17
another baby). Oh, that she
51:17
wants is another baby. Then what
51:21
happens? Oh, she is Oh, that she
51:21
wants is another baby. Are you
51:25
sure? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay,
51:25
well, she must be really sure
51:29
that they weren't even that
51:29
great. But they were everywhere.
51:32
Of course. What is love by
51:32
haddaway? That one maybe should
51:36
have been my pick. But I'd
51:36
already talked about another
51:39
podcast. That was one that I
51:39
would before Saturday Night
51:42
Live. got a hold of that one. I would.
51:43
And then night at the Roxbury
51:45
Yeah, I would put
51:45
that song on in that one
51:48
bathroom. We had our little
51:48
boombox and I would play that
51:50
and get ready. And that was
51:50
that's the way love goes by
51:53
Janet Jackson. And then I tried
51:53
to make you do this at karaoke
51:55
with me, but you had no idea. It
51:55
was I've got a man by positive
51:59
K. I've got a man. What's your
51:59
man got to do with me? I've got
52:02
a man. I'm not trying to do
52:02
that. See? I thought that'd be
52:06
so fun for Carlos and I did
52:06
doing karaoke. And I was like,
52:08
we need to learn that. I loved
52:08
love that song.
52:11
That song was such a flash in the pan
52:12
that it was just I
52:12
had to say it because I loved
52:16
that one.
52:18
What was your favorite?
52:19
I picked I picked
52:19
you've got to show me love by
52:22
Robin S.
52:25
Is that you got to show
52:25
me love.
52:30
words aren't so
52:30
easy to say. You've got to show
52:34
me love. No, it wasn't for you
52:34
later.
52:39
I actually I feel
52:39
like that was the music video
52:42
did have a lot of spandex in it.
52:43
Probably.
52:44
I feel like it was like a lot of dance routine like fly girls kind of stuff.
52:48
So baby if you
52:48
want me. You got to show me
52:51
love. Robin S. I'll play it
52:51
later.
52:54
I feel like she
52:54
was another Paula Abdul. Like
52:57
former Lakers Oh no, she was
52:57
that people and old people out
53:01
there. You know what I'm talking about?
53:02
We got to wrap it
53:02
up. Who's going first? You do
53:09
it? Okay. Great. So honorable
53:09
mention, which was okay, this I
53:14
apologize. All that she wants
53:14
Ace of Base was not the number
53:17
one song of 93 but the number
53:17
one song I mentioned before was
53:22
Ace of Base the sign oh yeah sign and it
53:24
opened up my eyes. I saw the
53:30
sign. I had a thing with that
53:30
song. I think I went to like
53:33
some theme park in Ohio. Like I
53:33
can't remember what it was
53:36
called. Was that big theme parks
53:36
I told you I went to
53:39
Oh rollercoaster
53:39
capital of the nation right of
53:43
the world. what's called Cedar
53:43
Point. Yeah, Sandusky, Ohio.
53:48
They had a they
53:48
had a recording booth. And I
53:51
did. I did that song. I did the
53:51
sign. Another honorable mention,
53:56
which was number 22. Regulate by
53:56
Warren G featuring Nate Dogg,
54:01
regulate regulator. That was huge. I love that song.
54:07
That's a song that I will go
54:09
play at a bar and get free
54:09
drinks because we will be like,
54:11
Oh my god, I forgot about this.
54:11
Who played this? And like, that
54:14
was me shots right here. Thank you.
54:16
And I tell you what, yeah, Senior High School love it. Yeah, that was the
54:18
point where like, us kids had
54:21
jobs. We were all about like,
54:21
like, a lot of my friends were
54:24
starting to get like really good
54:24
audio systems into their pieces.
54:27
That shit like, Oh, I can be
54:27
down vehicles and stuff. And I
54:31
tell you what, to this day, that
54:31
is my true measure of a good
54:35
sound system and is in a car.
54:35
It's an amazing song. I mean,
54:39
musically, and just like from
54:39
from a composition perspective,
54:42
I think it's fucking outstanding.
54:44
Yeah, and just to
54:44
show you like, the difference of
54:47
what was happening back then.
54:47
Yes, loser back was also up
54:51
there. But uh, my song was
54:51
number six that year. Do you
54:57
want to take a guess Carlos
54:59
Smells Like Teen
54:59
Spirit was I need to believe
55:02
that was but no,
55:04
It was You say
55:04
only I only hear what I want to
55:10
say. by Lisa Lowe in parentheses
55:10
(I missed you) by Lisa Loeb and
55:15
nine stories.
55:16
You know that was
55:16
a one shot music video
55:20
Yeah, yeah yes yes
55:20
the walk yeah walking around
55:24
she's in the apartment it's like
55:24
but they did it all in one shot
55:27
the cats.
55:28
It was non stop
55:28
they didn't end the film. There
55:30
was no editing involved in the
55:30
film from visual perspective.
55:33
And it was directed that that
55:33
video that music video, Ethan
55:37
Hawke was directed by Ethan
55:37
Hawke, who was dating Lisa, love
55:40
it.
55:40
Do you remember in
55:40
our Valentine's podcast, how I
55:44
told you that I used to go to
55:44
karaoke to sing with my cat
55:48
eyeglasses and I would take
55:48
stuffed cat stuffed animals cat
55:51
stuffed animals and place them
55:51
around the stage. And then like
55:55
aimless aimlessly walk around
55:55
the stage with the microphone
55:58
singing the song to recreate the video.
56:00
I Love you.
56:01
So weird. But
56:01
yeah, that one I just I mean, I
56:05
love the song. I sand it in high
56:05
school in a band. It was it was
56:10
fun. And I'm trying to get
56:10
Carlos to learn that one all the
56:13
way through on guitar so that I
56:13
can sing it and relive my glory
56:17
days.
56:17
And I know a little bit of it. Actually, I keep learning. I don't know I am
56:20
performing here on the podcast.
56:24
Well, we'll do our
56:24
debut song as a couple.
56:27
I'm getting better. I'm getting
56:27
better at guitar that's been my
56:31
as my as I can attest my COVID
56:31
skill has been learning guitar.
56:34
I'm getting better at it. I do
56:34
not yet know a complete song
56:38
from beginning to end, but I'm getting better. I'm getting smoother learning all these like
56:40
random little parts of every
56:42
just learn once not just one
56:42
song all the way through that
56:45
I'm learning technique.
56:45
Goddamnit no learn time.
56:49
Patience. And I thought what I felt was
56:51
simple. And I thought that I
56:55
don't belong. Now that I am
56:55
leaving. Now I know that it did
57:01
something wrong because I
57:01
missedyou, your 94 song
57:09
before it.
57:10
It's a great 94
57:10
it was my gosh, your 94 song I
57:14
think it spoke so much about
57:14
Yeah. All right. Like I was sad.
57:18
No, just the time.
57:19
Oh, yeah, for
57:19
sure. It was like again Singles
57:22
and Reality Bites. Yeah, it was
57:22
like she wasn't like grunge but
57:27
like she fit in with that. Like
57:27
that every and there were so
57:31
many different varieties of
57:31
music that were happening at the
57:34
time there.
57:34
There really were
57:34
I mean, it was such a breakout
57:36
time I again, I mean, I said it
57:36
a little earlier and I just
57:39
become like, stepped into like
57:39
this realization that like that
57:44
time these four years in our
57:44
life were one where like music
57:48
really fucking broke out into
57:48
just like very strange. It was
57:52
like, I'm here. I'm there about
57:52
like, Where do I I like them
57:56
all. But can I am I allowed to.
57:56
So Rolling Stone dubbed 1994 as
58:01
the alternative outbreaks
58:01
greatest year, and it just talks
58:06
about how 1994 specifically was
58:06
the biggest breakout year and
58:10
the best year for this whole
58:10
schism of alternative music and
58:14
all of these different things
58:14
just in 1994. And it was because
58:19
of bands like Nirvana. It was
58:19
because of bands like Stone
58:21
Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains,
58:21
you know, and it was like, wow,
58:26
this is like rock. It's kind of
58:26
like heavy metal, but it's so
58:28
different. It's so but then I
58:28
went to college, my freshman
58:32
year, all of a sudden, I'm
58:32
surrounded by these other kids
58:35
from all over the US in my
58:35
dormitory, and I live right next
58:39
door to this guy from the west
58:39
coast and he introduced me to
58:41
punk rock, huh, okay, and bands
58:41
like NOFX, penny wise. And like
58:49
it was massive. It blew my mind
58:49
wide open to like holy cow. Not
58:55
only is this explosion of music
58:55
happening on radio, but here I
58:59
am now getting exposed to
58:59
something that is just the norm
59:02
for these people out on the west
59:02
coast where they've been living
59:04
it up and getting even more
59:04
exposure to even greater
59:07
different types of music. And
59:07
that really opened my mind to
59:10
punk rock I was a punk rock fan
59:10
as a result. So ultimately, my
59:16
song of 1994 is not a popular
59:16
one. It's by a band called NOFX.
59:21
And it's called linoleum. And it
59:21
truly taught me that poeticism
59:26
exists in all different forms
59:26
even in those where you have
59:29
expected it to be If you're not familiar, the band
1:00:00
is NOFX. N, o, f, x. That's how
1:00:04
it's spelled. It's called nofx.
1:00:04
Check it out in the 1990s. I
1:00:09
mean, that really opened the
1:00:09
door for me and I went on this
1:00:12
long, long decade to probably 20
1:00:12
years long stretch of time,
1:00:18
where I became heavily kind of
1:00:18
entrenched in the world of punk
1:00:23
rock music. And even now like, I
1:00:23
mean, it took a while to step
1:00:27
back out of it, and kind of
1:00:27
reopen the doors probably 2010 I
1:00:31
think I finally like, close the
1:00:31
door on punk rock music a little
1:00:34
bit and open my mind to other
1:00:34
varieties of music. I take it
1:00:39
back. It was 2008. But yeah, but
1:00:39
94 was a year that that I
1:00:44
basically made a choice and said
1:00:44
I've got all these choices all
1:00:46
these things are happening and
1:00:46
this is mine. And that's what I
1:00:49
put what I truly embrace for a long time.
1:00:51
That's cool that
1:00:51
like you have something that
1:00:53
spoke to you that strongly.
1:00:55
Hey, you know, party on party people. Let me hear some noise GCS in the
1:00:57
house. Jump jump for joy.
1:00:59
There's a party over here the
1:00:59
party there. You gotta Wave your
1:01:02
hands in the air. You know what?
1:01:02
Shake your derriere, but I'm fam
1:01:06
pum pum pum mama hoo ha. Come
1:01:06
on. Come on.
1:01:10
Later. Okay. Oh,
1:01:10
no. Are we gonna do some
1:01:13
dramatic readings from next door?
1:01:15
Sure.
1:01:16
We
1:01:16
We have to we
1:01:16
haven't not. Wait that's a
1:01:19
double negative. We've never not
1:01:19
Oh, wait, that's also done. No,
1:01:23
Double, double. I know. I was
1:01:23
trying to be funny.
1:01:26
We don't ever not
1:01:26
stop ever not continuing or
1:01:31
holding on to consistently not
1:01:31
Yeah, perform the next door
1:01:39
dramatic readings. Ladies and
1:01:39
gentlemen, real suburbia nation.
1:01:42
It's time it's time for dramatic
1:01:42
readings from next door.
1:01:52
A reading from next door posted
1:01:52
by Stephanie of Parkwood Hills
1:01:59
that is. Who do I call about a
1:01:59
bubbling spring at the end of my
1:02:11
driveway. That's it That's
1:02:11
that's the post
1:02:20
A reading from
1:02:20
Nextdoor posted by Katrin, also
1:02:26
of parkwood Hills Two young chickens I was just
1:02:30
introducing to my other two
1:02:34
chickens flew out of the yard at
1:02:34
9:30 this morning. A golden and
1:02:40
a blackish juvenile chicken in
1:02:40
the Everglade circle area. This
1:02:44
has never happened in the years
1:02:44
I have had chickens. Oh dear.
1:02:52
Please contact me if they are
1:02:52
sighted. Thanks.
1:03:03
Hey Carlos. I really really
1:03:03
really hope that that woman
1:03:09
figures out why there's a spring
1:03:09
at the end of her driveway and I
1:03:11
really hope those chickens are found
1:03:13
and I really hope
1:03:13
that tag team comes back again
1:03:17
to check it correct it and you
1:03:17
know i mean it's time to
1:03:19
beginning you know,
1:03:20
I feel let us they
1:03:20
told us they would be back
1:03:22
again. And I think they should
1:03:22
be back yet again.
1:03:26
And I hope that
1:03:26
you find sir mix a lot to be one
1:03:29
of the finest rappers of all of
1:03:29
them for making that a wrap.
1:03:34
Oh my goodness,
1:03:35
real suburbia
1:03:35
nation thanks for sticking
1:03:38
around!
1:03:38
Let me leave you
1:03:38
with this. Enjoy the silence.
1:04:07
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