0:07

Such a good jam

0:07

guitar jam thing

0:10

it is very much a

0:10

guitar jam. Welcome back to the

0:15

real suburbia. I believe this is

0:15

episode number eight. Yeah,

0:23

crank it

0:27

good. That's a good oww.

0:29

Thank you.

0:30

I liked it that

0:30

was very musical that was very

0:33

1990s oww band.

0:35

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

3:10

Megan.

3:11

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

4:16

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

4:24

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.

4:42

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.

5:44

I love you too.

5:45

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.

5:55

I'm not quite. I'm

5:55

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?

6:47

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.

7:17

I did not.

7:18

God damn it.

7:20

I want you to stop.

7:23

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

7:41

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.

8:00

We'll suburbia. That's Megan.

8:03

I'm Carlos. Thanks for joining

8:03

us.On tonight's episode of The

8:11

Real suburbia podcast, we're

8:11

talking about the songs. It's a

8:14

continuation of the last few

8:14

podcasts where we talked about

8:18

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

8:26

1990 through 94.

8:27

Correct.

8:28

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

Motown Philly is back again.