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TV on the Radio-Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)

• djsaccoccio • Season 3 • Episode 9

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We're HOWLIN' FOREVER! In this one we review "Return to Cookie Mountain" by TV on the Radio. Debates are had, arguments emerge, hearts are broken. A never before heard rendition of "We Are Young" by Fun is performed for some ungodly reason and the final trivia of the season!

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SPEAKER_00

Hello! My brother is a hit- Come on, Dave! You can do it! And come on, Steve! There's nothing to it!

SPEAKER_01

So diarrhea gives you energy.

SPEAKER_02

Did you not hear what I said? No. Oh, well then shut up! Topical intro, baby! Greaching like some horrible animal, and now we're here. Okay, so overall, not bad. Steven, what did you feel about the Apple pie? Stupid mother cat! Fucking roll my top screen.

SPEAKER_00

You guys are gonna die in my arm like a cat curling up on a warm window. $19!

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna cram that copy directly in your ass! Yo, David? Fuck you! Yes, I would. You didn't say there was any other rules to that David Off the rails. Shut up and do trivia.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

unknown

Alright, we are recording.

SPEAKER_00

Hello! And welcome to My Brother Is a Hipster Podcast, a music review podcast where we review influential hipster in the albums. I am Mike, your resident hipster, and I am joined here with my two brothers that are not hipsters and don't like that music, and I try to convert them. They are David and Steven. Yeah. Hooray! Guess what? They're my hey, hey, my playmates, and they lay hands on me. Because we're Tropical Intro.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that was like That was like topical sexual assault almost. Yeah. Yeah, I should have reworded that. Yeah. Yeah, no. They're howlin' forever. I don't know if that's better. No, I wasn't. I understand why you went with the first one. Yeah, topical mistake. Topical mistake. Topical mistake. When the moon is rounding, foo gonna teach you tricks. Still weird. Okay. Because we're reviewing.

SPEAKER_00

You're just swinging at the fences, aren't you? We're reviewing Return to Cookie Mountain, released in 2006 by TV on the radio.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Woo! Totally. Whoa. I was a lover. There you go, David. I know. I just read the first song. That was the first line of the first song. There you go. Oh, it was a first- it was an actual line? Yeah. I'm just looking at the playlist.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Good. Yeah. So, a little bit about TV on the radio. They're a band. And so they What the fuck? This album was released in 2006 on Interscope Records. Wait, you want to call them a band? Oh, Steven, don't you star with me right now. Don't you star in the presence of my t-shirt.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, blues from down here.

SPEAKER_02

Nope, that didn't work, David. Topical intros are done, David. We're moving on. Alright. This band is a it's an indie art rock band. Um, post-punk. It's a lot of hi-fies. They are several high-fies.

SPEAKER_04

Many high-fies.

SPEAKER_02

But they're they're a band that I feel like goes under the radar a lot. Yeah. I think they're a type of band that was, it's pretty known in the indie scene, but like some people might know some of their singles, but overall, they're not necessarily getting the accolades or the attention that other people in the indie crowd would. So that's because at some point they actually sound okay.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, David.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god, look at these sneak previews. Yeah. Steven full-on dumpster fight. Steven! What? What? It's so it's dumpstery, but let's get into general thoughts. Yeah, David. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So general thoughts is like uh when I first pressed play, I was like, oh, sick. Another one of these.

SPEAKER_02

I had a feeling the first track was gonna fuck you guys off. I I thought that it was gonna fuck you guys off. Absolutely. And everyone following. Yeah, I was like, fuck you, Michael, you did it again. Like thank you. I was a lover. And he did. So here's here's the thing with I was a lover, right? Not a song. Steven. I was a lover, I feel like does a really good job at like kind of painting the soundscape of what the album is. You start to hear the samples and the ambient noise and the s and things going on in the background. But if you don't like falsetto and kind of like Noise and garbage. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Bad falsetto. No, no, no, no. The problem with the whole fucking thing was is that like don't start your album with some god-awful bullshit because you're set in the mood, and then all of a sudden, three songs in, you're actually like, it's it was like a learning experience for the band. It's like, hey, we're gonna play garbage balls, and then we're gonna find our way down the line. Well, it's interesting because Did I ever find it? I honestly Steven, so here's here's my thing with it is that since we've been predisposed to a lot of garbage, um I immediately thought, like, fuck, this is gonna go down wrong. But then it started picking up a little bit. So I did see some light points in it. I think that's called Stockholm Syndrome. At what point did it pick up for you? Um honestly when it ended, dude, honestly. I feel like the first one does not belong on this track on this album. I was a lover in hours, I feel like is really deep into like the C scape, the soundscape of like what's going on, like what the just crack it, Steven. There's no it's just a sprite. I just so everybody knows you think Steven's cool.

SPEAKER_03

He's not no, it's just a little I just need a little sippy. I forgot to open it before we started. I apologize.

SPEAKER_02

I had a feeling, so when I was listening back to this album, I've listened to this album several times, but like when I was listening back to it, I thought to myself, Steven is going to hate at least the first four songs because they do blend, they are creating the soundscape, they are that's the same. If they're creating the soundscape, like that's a thing. So here's the thing. TV, I'm not gonna be able to do it. There was ungodly noise for the first couple of songs. I'm trying to be cognizant of you guys not wanting too much information on the band or else you turn on me.

SPEAKER_03

Pause, pause, pause, stop. We didn't give our things.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yes, you didn't. So don't worry about it. Yeah, pause. We this is uh the second to last uh time. And by the way, I did check the scores recently and it's close.

SPEAKER_03

And I already really I already made my guess just from the first few minutes of talking. I know I'm wrong. Yeah, we gotta catch this earlier. Well, yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_02

That's why I thought no change in your shit. So you do realize that when he asked me for my shit, I give it like right off the copy. We are we are guessing again what David and Steven are guessing what they think. I am rating this album. It is a season-long game. All right. Steven guessed that number. And David? Uh it's whatever Steven's number is, only closer to yours. Steven, look away, David. Uh yes, yes, yes. All right. So we have those. So Steven. I think I may have given that number probably every single one. I gave a lot of numbers at the same time, Stanley. No, but I think like Michael's got a very like specific tell when it comes to like certain albums. Like you can tell.

SPEAKER_03

And then sometimes you're so wrong.

SPEAKER_02

Like sometimes he's in sometimes, yeah, no, sometimes he does throw a curveball, but most of the time he's in eight-nine territory with these albums. Yeah. So Steven, so, so this album, so TV on the radio, right? TV on the radio, first of all, it should be noted, and this is a fact that I'm gonna give you guys Are you gonna say anything? You just circled for like five minutes. Listen, I'm gonna talk about TV on radio. Well, we should be talking about the best person in these albums. So TV on the radio, okay? Their first EP and album was like this, only more stripped down. And this was their kind of magnus magnum opus of finding that sound and making it full.

SPEAKER_00

What the fuck? Magnum opus. Oh fuck you. Hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out. Wait, wait, what is your investment? Wait, listen, right? Magnum opus. Listen, listen. Listen, can I tell you something really cool?

SPEAKER_02

Yes. So they're all actually, they have a background, all of them in visual arts as well. Okay. Tounde, the lead singer, actually did work on Celebrity Deathmatch.

SPEAKER_04

Really? Really?

SPEAKER_02

So he was a visual artist for Celebrity Deathmatch. Well, that's good because that alright, so that helps me.

SPEAKER_01

That heightens me a little bit more than that.

SPEAKER_03

It actually helps me because the fact that they were a visual artist is good because I had some notes wondering if this was the first time they ever picked up instruments.

SPEAKER_02

No, no. So they're all very tight.

SPEAKER_01

So wait, so wait, so yeah, for sure, for sure.

SPEAKER_02

When you say like he was a visual artist on Celebrity Deathmatch, is that like hey, he checked the hue colors after the final edit. Who cares? It's still awesome. No, I don't know about him. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't shit on Toon Day's accomplishments. What? No, first off, I no, listen, I hope he did more. I hope he did more, because it will greater impact my feelings on him.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. I don't care.

SPEAKER_02

But like, you know how they throw credits out on there? Like, I don't know how great of a visual artist he was. Maybe they grabbed him and they were like, hey. Can we talk? Wait, wait.

SPEAKER_03

He was the one who wiped the ass of the animator, the claymation artist.

SPEAKER_02

It could be. He could have got his porta potty out.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Or Mom, bathroom! Bathroom. Bathroom! Bathroom!

SPEAKER_00

So, by the way, Playhouse, the fourth track on the album. Yeah, it is. Can we just talk about the drums in that in that?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I have note on that. Oh, here we go. So, um, this is uh hold on, the fourth. Well uh let me see. Where are my note on that?

SPEAKER_02

Oh good, Steve. Oh Steve, so you upgraded to a phone and now you can't find your notes? So that's fucking sick. So that song started to your tiny fucking notebook.

SPEAKER_03

That song started, and my immediate thought was, alright, seriously, um I would I really don't think I can do this. Okay? Then it went on to what the fuck did this drummer just get his kit today? What? That's fucking terrible. It sounded like somebody who nothing It sounded like somebody who just learned a basic 4-4 beat and then tried doing roles and high hi-hats and he was basically beating. And he was so shit about shit. Oh fuck you. You're no shit about nothing. It sounded like when the per like the guy who goes to the guitar center and asks for the sticks to play on the drum kit, and then you're just like shows off the four things he knows about all the kids.

SPEAKER_02

Michael, you know what I mean? I remember your mind. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That's like when Michael learned a 4-4 beat and then started playing like Neil Pert, like over like overdoing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Like where you should just Neil Peter, you should just be keeping beat, but you're like obnoxiously like. And then tries to do a drum roll and hits the rim every time. Yeah, yeah. That's not what was happening here.

SPEAKER_03

No, it was not just talking, it was not beautiful. And by the way, as a drummer, the fact that you said it was beautiful is fucking a you should be ashamed. Oh my god, as a drummer. It was like free jazz. It was horrible. Jazz expensive jazzes? No. It was it was horrible.

SPEAKER_02

You're just handing jazz out around.

SPEAKER_03

So bad, dude.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Well, free jazz. So so far, generally positive. But we I do have I do have other notes. Okay, tell me your other notes. They seem like they're gonna be really good.

SPEAKER_03

So, well, no, no, no. The first song gave me a headache immediately. I figured it would. I will say it was way too long.

SPEAKER_02

Way too long. Um it was setting the sound.

SPEAKER_03

The falsetto was terrible throughout. You're wrong. It was so the second song, don't care about the name. Uh the second song, it immediately immediately sounded like something from Mighty Boosh, like one of the songs they would sing, but much worse. Oh, like not in a good way. Like not no, no, no. Like the Mighty Boosh songs, that like melodical and how they sing in the in the music and everything.

SPEAKER_02

You can add a lot of words to see. But worse. Melodical is not one of a word in the in the That's a good word, Steve. Thank you. Did you just read that one today? Uh Melodical's not a word. Yes, it is. Melodical? Yeah, yeah. We're gonna look it up real quick. Yes, please do.

SPEAKER_03

Don't worry. Um, stop the high pitch shit. It's uh sounds like you're stepping on Alvin the Chipmunks' nuts. Nope. Wrong. Um then on the third song, whatever that was, I said, What the fuck are we doing here? How did I get here in life? Jesus Christ, four minutes and thirty-seven seconds. You already know about the notes for fourth song. Yeah. And that, yeah, we're caught up.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. So now we're heading into their first single in their breakthrough hit, which is Wolf Like Me. Right. I Wait, what? What? I don't know if melodical's a word. Yeah, I know it's not. You didn't have to Google it. Yeah, no, no, no. It's a word.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, molecular is what's coming up.

SPEAKER_02

No, melodical. Melodical's not a word! Yeah, no, it's a word.

SPEAKER_01

Um, Steven, I'm gonna really try here for you, buddy.

SPEAKER_02

Can you display to me, explain to me the definition of what melodical is? Like, like, like a uh like a like a melody. Stephen, I'm still I'm still not getting it here. Like very like methodical? No, melodical. Oh, Steven, no. David, he definitely just conjoined the methodological methodical and melody. It might be a word I created, but it's a word that makes sense. I'm trying, all spelling.

SPEAKER_03

It's a word that makes sense. So basically what it is, is it's M-E-L-O-D.

SPEAKER_02

Melodical is not a standard English word, but frequently a typo for frequently a typo. Yes. Oh shit, it might be a word. It's not a word! What is it? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Melodical? M-E-L-O-D-I-C-A-L.

SPEAKER_03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02

Hold on. Give me a second, guys. Everybody listen.

SPEAKER_03

I'm waiting.

SPEAKER_02

This can't be an urban dictionary. No, no, no, no. We're going straight to Googs. The Goog machine. Melodic. Yeah, huh? Melodic means relating to melody, the tune of the song, or a piece of it. Melodic! Melodic! What a second! Not melodical! Wait!

SPEAKER_01

Umodical word.

SPEAKER_02

If you're taking this long to find it, it's not!

SPEAKER_03

Wait, he might have spelled it wrong.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god. It recorrected me, okay? Calm down. Melodical relates to or features melody in music. It means having a tune that is memorable, tuneful, or pleasing to the ear. Where the musical Look, melodical! It's a no, no, no. It says melodical. It says melodic wait, no, wait, no, it's a variant of melodic. It says, It says it's a variant of melodic. Yeah, like in that's that's that's Google AI. That's a word. That's Google AI reassuring you. Find it in the dictionary. Okay, fine, I will. Oxford, is the Oxford English dictionary good enough freaking big D have they been compromised? No, yeah, yeah. He got melodical, it is multiple origins, possibly of Latin descent. Yeah, fewer than 0.01 occurrences per million words in the modern rhythm. No, no, no. Literally nobody uses it. Yes, because I mean it's known use of the I am I am a visionary. You are very far from any better evolutionary earliest use, late teens, late 1500s.

SPEAKER_03

If something, so melodic is a word, so something can be melodicul because melodic is a fucking.

SPEAKER_02

No, I think it's just like giving you the Latin root. You. Okay. Anyway, so how do we feel about wolf like me? So hold on. Hey, melodically is a word. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you. You were wrong.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, I was wrong. How do you feel about wolf like me? So I'm so glad that we were right because I was looking at the bullshit.

SPEAKER_03

So um uh it's only the only one on the album that isn't painful, like physically. Yep. Um and um it's still not good.

SPEAKER_02

Uh bullshit? How do you say it's not good? Oh shit, did I listen to the extended version? I did too. Oh Christ, there's only 11 songs on this one. Yeah. Yeah. How long is the full fucking song? God damn it! It's only 56 minutes. I listened to like an hour and ten minutes.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, me fucking too. Found that out afterwards. Yep. Oh, I'm sorry. Um, it's the only one that's not physically painful. It's still not good because they're all off beat, and I wondered if they just uh if they ever played instruments before. So you listen to Wolf like me. They literally weren't on with each cohesive with each other. I know what happened.

SPEAKER_02

I know what happened. It became background music for Steven again. No, they they weren't they weren't fucking I swear to god, you listen to that song, they weren't playing songs together. What the fuck's going on? They weren't playing together. I thought you were gonna feel that way. But when it starts going out, it starts like tapering off decent. I got like a little bit of punky feel, I got a little bit of garage bandy feel. Okay. I got a couple of different like feels where like kind of I had pains and feels in my asshole. Okay. How did you feel about Wolf Like Me? Um, it was um definitely a song on this on this album. Are you guys kidding me? No, I'm fucking with you. Um this is where it started to turn for me. Okay. Okay. As I'm listening, so the first three songs put me into that paralyzed fucking state of like, oh, here we go. I'm just gonna go ahead and do something while I'm listening to it. Yeah. Okay? Then it started kicking in, okay, and that's what we're talking about, right around Wolf Like Me, a method. A method is awesome. That's when it started kicking in for me, where I was like, oh, wait a minute. Is this the same band? It's gotta be the same band.

SPEAKER_03

Is a method the song after a wolf like me?

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Oh, okay, cool. I got notes on that too. Oh, good. Wait, so how did you feel about a wolf like me? Because a wolf like me is like a top 10 song of all time for me. Really? Yes. I mean That's sad. So is that sad? I feel bad for you like that.

SPEAKER_00

It's so amazing. The driving drums I actually have.

SPEAKER_02

I hear driving drums. That's what you call that? Yes. Can I be honest? Super melodic! Can I be honest? Alright? This is where I started to fade back in. Okay. Okay. So then I started hearing the drums. I started, I'm like, ooh, is this this is where I literally had the moment of, oh shit, did I already finish the album and now I'm into the next Spotify song? It is when you're listening to the album in full, Wolf Like Me does feel very out of place. But that was how I was for the rest of the album. Yes. Like from Wolf Like Me, we're talking about like it took a jump. It was like, why have the first three songs? You just put me on a shitty mood for the first three songs, and I can see where Steven got pissed off and then immediately jaded for the rest of the album.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

But me, I was like, oh, wait a minute, like, let me my ear perked up. I think it's a like a perfect combination between like what the album was building in the beginning to then like what you said, like the album became. I almost feel like it was like it was a real it was a real transition. Yeah. Like it went from being like it was like, let's scream into the mic and roll.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, fuck you. Oh, do you know what Cookie Mountain Mountain is about? It's about capitalism. Consumerism. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Can I ask you a serious question? When you do research on all of these, do you just find the facts that you like? So that way when I ask you, like, hey man, what's up with the name? And you're like, I have no idea.

unknown

What?

SPEAKER_02

Returning Cookie Mountain? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

No, like the literal name of their band.

SPEAKER_02

TV on the radio?

SPEAKER_01

The reason I'm saying this is because I did a thing where I literally for a full shift on Monday.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I was like, you know what? I haven't really given them a listen. Let's go straight through. Okay. And I noticed that every single time I had a legitimate convers uh legitimate question for Michael about like, hey dude, what's up with the name?

SPEAKER_02

He'd be like, I have no idea. And I'd be like, like, I'd be like, oh, like, what was their influences for the Mystica code? And he's like, no clue, but it's cool, right? Like every single but but he'll have this weird information. Why didn't you know about the name of the band? But you'll be like the album started in New Jersey and then bought a freaking small apartment with a puppy dog. Yeah, and isn't that rather than the bigger? They recorded on the roof, but they only did it when the hydrangeas were in bloom. Yes. So that the so that the microphone Everyone knows what the microphone's dependent with the hydrangea's in bloom! Okay. Anyway. But yes, it's important to know those things for the album comes up. What were you saying again? Oh yeah, well, it's Steve. Alright, so Steven. Steven, how did you feel? Um, Steven, how'd you feel about method? A method. It's the sixth song on the album. It's uh four minutes and twenty-eight seconds.

SPEAKER_03

I put uh Magical Mystery Tour meets Mighty Boosh. Is that a is that good? So no. Uh and then I put uh it's fucking plain and boring. Uh somehow, with these guys, it's plain and boring because they weren't plain and boring, they were just terrible. Now they were plain and boring and terrible. Um Steven didn't have a good time with it. And then the next, I don't know if it was the next song or maybe the song after that, because I think I blacked out. Okay. And um You do that a lot. There was one song that said I I put notes that just said uh it sounds like a soccer rally song sung drunk on a trolley. Seriously, what the fuck is happening?

SPEAKER_02

Steven, but honestly though, if you told me that, if you if you said that, hey, this song. Your brain picks weird pictures.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but I'd be like, it sounded like there was a bunch of people on a trolley coming back from a soccer rally. That sounds awesome. That they're just like, What?

SPEAKER_02

Why a trolley? Ah, because they come on like a bus, like a team bus?

SPEAKER_03

No, like trolley. Like they're in like the Englands.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, they're in England. Yeah. So they all use trolleys. How do you guys feel about the trolley? How did you guys feel about tonight? I got a real emotional reaction from tonight. That's the one. I say tonight. That's the song you guys. Oh wait, hold on. We gotta do full cental like him. Holy f I'm editing all those fucking spikes out. Oh my god, if you just saw those fucking spikes out. Wait, no, is that not how he does? No, Steven. What's his name? Oh my god. I wish you were fucking Tonday. Toon Day. Toon Day. He put Toon in his name. That's ironic. His name is Toon Day. He didn't put I'd be like saying, I'd be like saying, no, he names Mike. That's not a word. That's not a name he chose. No, Steven, it's his name. He's African. His name is Toon Day. Toon Day. Is that one word? Is that his first and last name or just no? Last name is Adamante. Oh.

SPEAKER_03

So he was so- I thought he chose the name Toon Day and put Toon in his name. I thought it was ironic. Now that I know that, it's not ironic. No, it's not. It's just his word. He was born to make music.

SPEAKER_02

That actually makes me feel better to know that he didn't choose Toon Day and his name's. I'm glad that feels better in your racist heart. What the fuck? Why the fuck is all of a sudden this racist? What the fuck? What turn did that just take?

SPEAKER_01

Oh no, it sounded racist.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you're um What are you talking about? I didn't even know. Poor Toon Day. I didn't even know Poor Tune Day. I didn't even know.

SPEAKER_03

I'm not saying anything about that.

SPEAKER_02

I just thought he was a singer. I don't really give a fuck. Either way. How do you guys feel about tonight? I had a really emotional feeling tonight.

SPEAKER_00

I was about to sing again. If you did that, I was gonna punch you in the mouth. What?

SPEAKER_01

I think everybody would want to hear a fist fight between us.

SPEAKER_02

Could you imagine? You guys can't even tell me who sings that song.

SPEAKER_03

What?

SPEAKER_02

Who sings that song?

SPEAKER_03

Tonight. Set the world on fire.

SPEAKER_02

That's not the name of the song. It's called the We are you.

SPEAKER_03

We can go higher. To the stars? Yes, okay. Don't ask me.

SPEAKER_02

I have no fucking vote. It's by fun. Fun, that's right. I did know that. What a shitty band. I did know that. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03

I did.

SPEAKER_02

I forgot.

SPEAKER_00

And the lead singer of Fun also was the lead singer of the format. Oh! Shitty band format? It happened to be the opening act for my first concert.

SPEAKER_02

Oh! Shitty name! And your first concert was Taking Back Sunday. Oh, shitty band.

SPEAKER_00

No, David, don't you dare. They have like four songs.

SPEAKER_02

Taking back four songs. Yeah. Like four good ones. Yeah. Shut up! You shut the hell up! Shut up! No! Alright. How did you guys feel about tonight? Because I don't care. I don't even remember what that was. To me, this sounded like 2006. I started getting real nostalgic. I started getting real nostalgia.

SPEAKER_00

I started getting real nostalgic about like my high school friends, and like I really like felt like an emotional reaction.

SPEAKER_02

I want to hit you. Why? I don't know. I just had this uncontrollable. I'm not allowed to have emotions? No. We're men. Music has an emotional reaction. This is this is where I really started listening. He got real emotional. Yeah. After like I said, after Wolf like me, I really started listening and dude. I'm sorry, but you give us these shit albums and shit albums! Sometimes I want to go clean the garage while listening to them. I can't help it. Just wait till you hear what NME has to say about it. Oh god. I actually don't know what that's about. We'll find out together. Why what? That doesn't make any sense. You gonna look it up? Yeah, okay, look it up. Look it up on the internet while we're doing the podcast. Yes, we'll do everything. You don't prep shit. I do prep shit. I got multiple pages. You just don't let me talk about the things I have. Because most of the time it's about the fucking like where they lived and their bed size. That's relevant to the album. No! By the way, California King!

unknown

What?

SPEAKER_02

They all sleep in the same bed? Yes. Um You're missing the important part. What? Is there a so Today's the day I brought my dog home years ago? Shut the fuck. Why are you scrolling through Facebook right now?

SPEAKER_03

No, I just got a notification and it's cute. It's my puppy.

SPEAKER_01

Look through your notes. Hey, real quick. I mean, I don't mean to totally skip over tonight, real quick, but is Wash the Day Away a famous song?

SPEAKER_02

No. No.

SPEAKER_03

None of them are.

SPEAKER_02

Why did you feel it?

SPEAKER_03

By any of them.

SPEAKER_02

Dude, I was listening to it, I'm like, I swear to God, I've heard this before.

SPEAKER_00

Maybe you have. Maybe you have a good taste of music in hell.

SPEAKER_02

No, but no, legit, I'm not joking. Wash the Day Away. I was listening to it and I go, I have 100%.

SPEAKER_03

Wash the Day Away is how I felt after listening to this album.

SPEAKER_02

Actually, it was a good song.

SPEAKER_03

I wanted to scrub with a Brillo.

SPEAKER_02

That was a good song. I like that song. Thank you, David.

SPEAKER_03

Brillo pull up.

SPEAKER_02

No, but I swear to God, I heard it before.

SPEAKER_03

That is the bleach in a Brillo pad. That is this album's radio. Scrub and raw.

SPEAKER_02

You think so? Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_03

Over my ears.

SPEAKER_02

I I think that's what you know what? You know what? Even better? You want to scrub bleachy Brillo pad on my tank. That's the song you adopt for a Toyota commercial. I hated it. I don't know why. Something about it stuck out and it was like, I have 100% heard this one. Either way, I've heard the song, or it's like super. It's interesting you say that because TV on the radio, Wolf Like Me, I'm pretty sure they played Wolf Like Me into a like a commercial break during the Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_01

See, and that's the funny part about it, dude.

SPEAKER_02

I feel like Wolf Like Me Wolf Like Me is a weird song because it doesn't fit on this album. But isn't that kind of the case for a lot of singles? Like, isn't it funny how when you ha hear a single for an album and then you listen to the album and you're like, where the fuck did that single come from? It really in my opinion, it really does matter about the album and the artist. Because sometimes you go sometimes you listen to that single, and then all of a sudden you go back to the album and you're like, oh, there was a build-up to the single. But can't you even make the argument to like think of it like an album that you really enjoyed, right? Like Battles. Yeah, right? Atlas doesn't really fit that album. It kind of comes out of nowhere. But that's the thing. I believe it does. Okay. I believe there is a build-up to that song. There's a build-up to that freaking song. That song is the freaking standout song. That's their freaking encore song. But I think that that there is a s. But I feel like there was a nice transition between like the fifth track and Wolf Like Me. No. When you switched it up, but the problem is, is in my opinion, that like that so the fifth so Wolf Like Me is the fifth song.

unknown

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, fourth song is Playhouses. Yes. Playhouses is when it is around the time where I start listening and I'm like, okay, are are we making a transition?

SPEAKER_03

Totally.

SPEAKER_02

And then we're Playhouse kind of like plays the role of transitioning. Playhouse supply. I don't like that album. Like, I feel like you've really set me like I'm gonna punch you in your dumb face. You pissed me off at the beginning of this goddamn album, and then now I'm So you guys can't get over it.

unknown

What?

SPEAKER_02

What? So the first three songs piss you off, and then that's just it. No, the whole album sucks. You suck.

SPEAKER_03

I'm not getting it. It's not that I'm I didn't get over it. It was not an intro.

SPEAKER_02

I literally was counting the fucking minutes until this shit ended. It fuck it fucked up my listening.

SPEAKER_01

So I started listening to it and I go, it's gonna be one of these albums. I'm just gonna throw it on in the background and go ahead and go about my shit. Then all of a sudden I'm doing what I'm doing, and I go, wait a minute, this perked up, and then I started listening, but I feel like I missed a lot of shit.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? What are you doing? Can you get off your phone?

SPEAKER_03

Saul is video calling me. Deny it. I know, but that's just funny to me. I think I did it to him by accident. What the fuck is going on? I'm sorry, my phone's just like a lot of things.

SPEAKER_02

You're not invested right now. No, I'm the least invested in this. I don't think any of us are invested in this album because this album is weird. It's it it it's half absolute indie garbage, and then it's half like, okay, why didn't you just make the whole album this? Because that wasn't their that wasn't their sound scheme. I don't give a shit anymore about this crap. It's always an excuse as to why they don't do something. They want it to be different. Yeah, but what are you looking for? I'm looking for somebody who knows what the fuck they're trying to do. Yeah. And it doesn't sound like they're working everything out. But hold on. I would make an argument that this does sound like a band that was that had an idea of what it was that they were looking to do. Of course, it was bad. It wasn't good as well. Because can I tell you something? Can I tell you something? Go ahead. Okay. So I listened to this album, right? I'm glad. And then right after it, okay, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna listen to Led Zeppelin. So I put on that Led Zeppelin album. No, let me finish. I put on that Led Zeppelin 2 album. Right. And what I noticed was that that album is just an album full of songs. It's not an album. It's not like a cohesive art. But we've made well hold on, but we've made the argument. Hold on. Hold on. Holster it for a second. Let me say what I gotta say. But haven't we made the argument that that doesn't matter? Some albums and some artists do just so. What I'm saying is that I feel like you guys both like albums that are just ten songs on a record. Like, not like it wasn't. That's fucking horseshit. I'm the one who's always backing up story albums. Yeah, but this isn't a story album. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_03

Fuck that. I want to listen to an album, listen to some good songs, and that's it. It shouldn't have to be this whole fucking thing. It should just be that you put on an album, you like the songs, you move on.

SPEAKER_02

I'm in the middle with the story album and just regular song album. Like, I don't care. Like I've always said, if it's a good album, it's a good album. I don't care what your freaking format was. But the problem is that why is your format typical hipster screeching at the first couple of songs and then all of a sudden lean into you guys showing off that you guys are actually decent artists. Does it help to know they're from New York? No, it doesn't. And when did they show off that they're decent artists? Steven, Steven, they had fantastic musical sounds on the side. I think there was fuck you. There was some dude, Steven, go back and listen. Yeah, you weren't getting it around. Wash away the day. Nope. Or whatever the fuck it's called. Wait, wash the day away. Refuse. Go back to that fucking song and listen to it. It's not a bad song. It's not a bad song. You got poisoned You know what? Fuck this! So okay. Let's Steven, you're an asshole. David, fuck you! David, I appreciate your efforts. So why don't we just give like general general wrap-up of like, all right, let's try this. Okay? Let's try this. If you were going, somebody said, Hey, I'm thinking about listening to TV on the radio Return to Cookie Mountain. What would you Okay, thank you, Steven. What would you say to them? Like, what are they getting gonna get prepared to listen to? You want to give Stevens first? Yeah, sure. Um, I would say you're gonna hear a lot of noise.

SPEAKER_03

Um, nothing's gonna be cohesive. You're gonna hear some guy wailing as if he's murdering a ferret. Um, and then you're gonna hear a couple of songs that make you go, not bad. And then you're gonna hear some more dog shit, and then you're gonna go, okay, that was not fun, I guess. Thank you, Steven.

SPEAKER_01

You should work for Pitchfork. David. Uh so what I would say is that my experience with TV on the radio is they have some good songs, but I wouldn't consider them an album band. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Um but they definitely I definitely think that they've got some random hits here and there. Yeah. So if you're looking to listen to them, I would say go for Wolf Like Me, Um, Wash the Day Away, and I mean Method Mason too. So I'm also I'm starting to see where I might have made a mistake. You don't have to be a little bit more than a little bit. I'm gonna tell you right now, this entire season you made a mistake with the fucking. I wanted to listen to TV on the radio. I wanted you guys to hear it. And I was stuck between their three like major albums, which are Return of the Cookie Mountain, Deer Science, and Seeds. Okay. Okay. And Seeds? Seeds is a very I think it was released in like 2012. It's like a very You would be shocked to hear some of the songs on Seeds. You picked the wrong album. And then Dear Science is like this, only more stripped down. It's not as abrasive. And I thought, I don't I I kind of want them to hear like the full picture of a like TV on the radio.

SPEAKER_03

No, I don't think you made a mistake because now you made what you did was you you gave us this album, which I listened to and now I know what I'm just watching TV on the radio.

SPEAKER_02

So this episode is over, and I would suggest if anyone's listening to this, right? Go listen to the video. Hey, by the way, Instagram and also the Gmail, by the way.

SPEAKER_01

Uh yeah, go check out uh my brother's a hipster uh on Instagram or my brother's gmail.com.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, do that, but definitely don't listen to anything of like any other new things from T on the radio.

SPEAKER_02

Also hit us up with a um on Spotify, give us some comments or uh some likes, definitely follow us on Spotify. Do that. Uh Instagram we usually throw up right away when we are doing a new episode.

SPEAKER_00

Yep, we put clips on there. Yeah, a lot of it's Steven being a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely do that.

SPEAKER_03

Just don't follow TV on the radio.

SPEAKER_01

Also, if you got any ideas, hit us up on Gmail. My brother is a hipster at gmail.com. Totally and just definitely uh let us know how you're feeling. If you like it, you don't like it, if you got any uh suggestions, and uh working on different ways to uh extend out. So just uh, you know, definitely we thrive off of your uh feedback.

SPEAKER_00

If your capitalistic brain was something TV on the radio would write an album about, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So just um do everything David said and avoid whatever Michael's gonna say.

SPEAKER_02

I'm tapping into the uh I'm tapping into the Deltron. So wait, so hold on. So I think this is a good transition into ratings, but I do want to say, when we are done recording this, yeah, I am going to play Happy Idiot by TV on the radio. No, I'm not gonna listen. And I want you to hear it, and I want you to it is I'm open to it, so no. Okay, so anyway, um so let's get into critical reception.

SPEAKER_03

Yay!

SPEAKER_02

We heard we heard your reception.

SPEAKER_03

I bet it's gonna be fucking awesome.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, now wait until Michael has to look all this up.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, because I I bet I bet it's gonna be like 17 out of 10 stars.

SPEAKER_02

You don't know that's I bet it is.

SPEAKER_01

Who is the one, dude? I was laughing my ass off because I went back and listened, and there was some rating site that didn't put the number but just put the stars. Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and I couldn't really see which one.

SPEAKER_01

I was fucking losing my shit over it.

SPEAKER_02

I dude so much like because in all realism, okay? If you're gonna give a rating, yeah, just give the number. You can give the stars, but give the number next to it. Or make the stars like bigger. Why give just the stars? She's gonna sit there like an asshole and go one, two, three, four. So I have bad eyes. So let's talk about critical reception. I'm ready for critical reception. Metacritic gave this album an 88 out of 100. Okay. Oh, come on. All music gave it five out of five stars. Fuck you with all rusty scores. See, the glowing reviews are the problem for me. The A V Club gave it an A.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

The Guardian gave it four out of five stars.

SPEAKER_03

Stupid.

SPEAKER_02

Pitchfork gave it nine point one out of ten. What a year bad. When they start hitting points, it makes me angry because it's like you could have you sat around. I like points. How are we gonna do a point system? Let's do 0.5. It's hard though. No, no, no, no, no. Let's do every single day. You know what it's like? I want to do 0.3, I want to do 0.4. I've got the album I listen to.

SPEAKER_03

Pizza review time with Dave Portnoy. Wait, I listen to it. 7.3. Yeah. Fuck you. Fuck you.

SPEAKER_02

2.5 or 8, you piece of shit. Fuck you. I rate every album that I listen to. I have an app. I rate every album that I listen to. That's that's actually not okay. And so I use a decide. No, that's weird. I do use a decimal system because sometimes you're like, all right, this is not an eight, but it's not a seven. Michael, but yeah, like 0.25, 0.5, 255. But the 100%. You really gotta get down to 0.3? Because sometimes like something is a 7.5, and you're like, I like, I think this album is a little bit better, so it should be like a 7.7. Then give it an eight. Yes, no, give it a 7.75. If you I swear to God, it's not an eight.

SPEAKER_03

If anything you have is like a 7.57, you should kill your cat. No, no, 7.5 or 7.

SPEAKER_02

But ultimately, I think like the whole .5 system is enough. You really if you really want to push it, go 2.5, no, five, and then 7.5. If you really want to push it, but you're saying, like, here's what I'm saying. What if something's 7.8? But if you give something that's holding it doesn't exist. If you give something a 7.5. Yes. Okay, you're ultimately saying it's not a seven, but it's not an eight.

SPEAKER_00

But what if it's not a seven point five?

SPEAKER_02

I think that's- What are you gonna do? I think that's the acceptance that we all need to have.

SPEAKER_00

I can't.

SPEAKER_02

Seven and five eighths? Michael, this is why you got fucking decimals taken away from you. I got nine point like a nine point two. Oh, fuck you. Fuck you. Anyway, continue. We think of flying fuck up a hill. So Rolling Stone gave it four and a half out of five stars. Oh, fuck. And Spin gave it four out of five stars. And then David and ME. David's enemy. Yeah, those British bastards, gave it a nine out of ten. So we're talking across the board, A's nine out of the city. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me say, okay, this has become kind of there's a pattern here, okay? If it's shit, if it's shit, they get rave reviews across the board. If it's good, if it's good or decent, they get meh reviews. My god, you guys and your doors. If me, shut the fuck up. If me personally, if I'm like middle ground for it, they always go one or two below top score. Yeah, but why are you the litness test? Because maybe you're just a salty bitch. I feel like honestly. I think David's too liberal. Uh no, I think a lot of the times, dude, I'm very middle ground. Yeah. And I will give something a chance if it's good. Okay? But here's the thing, dude. There's a lot of stuff you've given us that is not good. I disagree. Uh-huh. All right. But dude, it's like, there's so much shit. There's so much shit that hits my ears that I think is good. Steven hasn't broken a six in the case. No, I know. Dude, I actually, no, I haven't. No, you know you haven't.

SPEAKER_03

The highest I've given is a six. I know.

SPEAKER_02

You're fucked up on all these choices. No, I dude, I just think that there's an eight. Like a nine. Me and Steven can agree. You're a shit. Alright, that there's music that we like that you don't like, and whatever like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Like good music. Yeah. Yeah. The highest I've ever given is an eight, and it's Modest Mouse and tied with Nirvana. Oh no, Manchester Orchestra. Sorry. Not Modest Mouse. What the fuck am I doing? Yeah, Modest Mouse. I like Modest Mouse, though.

SPEAKER_01

Modest Mouse is decent. But anyway.

SPEAKER_02

So Manchester Orchestra thought of Modest Mouse. I just, it pisses me off that like things like anime and fucking like and and You guys are negative. You guys are negative. No, it just upsets me because it just further puts into fucking concrete that these rating systems are bullshit. I'm not negative, I'm honest.

SPEAKER_03

And at the end of the day, I'm not gonna sit here. Spoke of like a true dick. I'm not gonna sit here. Spoke like a true 75-year-old dick.

SPEAKER_02

No, I'm not gonna sit here and lie and pretend.

SPEAKER_03

Racist, I'm honest! No, I'm not gonna sit here and lie and pretend for a fucking podcast that what I'm listening to isn't fucking dog shit.

SPEAKER_01

Or this one, this is my favorite one.

SPEAKER_02

I'm not racist, I hate everyone equal. That's right. No, I'm saying this this is. Spoke it like a true bigot.

SPEAKER_03

No, I'm not gonna sit here and lie and pander these fucking bandits.

SPEAKER_01

None of us are the bigots.

SPEAKER_02

Steven, I want you to stop being racist. Yeah. I've what?

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What?

SPEAKER_02

Why? I don't get it. Oh, come on! This is bullshit. You didn't take away my creative freedom? Okay, so now we've heard their critical reception. Let's hear. Let's hear. Let's hear your critical reception. So remember, this one goes to 11.

SPEAKER_00

So let's start with um Let's start with Steven. Steven, what did you give this album? Two. Fucking two?

SPEAKER_03

Two.

SPEAKER_00

You rated this equal with geese?

SPEAKER_03

And front bottoms. This was so quick. You're fucking. And Modest Mouse. Actually, I didn't like Modest Mouse. Modest Mouse was a two, two. Two two! And Sonic Youth. You're just a piece of shit. Yeah, the only one that's worse is Slint.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that was fucking shit. You're just a piece of shit. Alright, David. What did you do? Oh, and Radio Head. Um, I'm gonna give it like a really fucking soft five. A soft five. Eh no, you're not fuck it. Soft four.

SPEAKER_03

Phrasing.

SPEAKER_02

Hard for.

SPEAKER_03

Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

SPEAKER_02

Really hard for. Hard for. Hard for. God damn it! It's not, it's not quite wait. Are we really not doing freezing? Guys, I think we should talk about getting freezing back in the mix. Um, no, but really, like, it's not a five for me, and it's not a four for me. Maybe like a four point six? Maybe like a four point two. So wait, it's a what is it? It it's a hard four.

SPEAKER_03

Fuck, I already wrote five. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Well, you know, there's this really cool thing called scratching it the fuck out and writing a fucking. No, I need wait out. So David. Are you serious? Is it that serious?

SPEAKER_03

I'll wait it out later. It's not a big deal. Are you fucking kidding me?

SPEAKER_02

If you ranked this lower than MacDamarco and uh Kings of Leon. Um I did, huh? Okay, yeah. Surprisingly, Fugazi, Steven ranked higher than David.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know why. Fugazi? Yeah. I told you. It wasn't I I didn't fucking hate it.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, I just hated everything you told me.

SPEAKER_02

This is a dumb question. Yeah. But would you buy it on vinyl? Well, we gotta see what the fucking vinyl looks like, buddy.

SPEAKER_03

If it looks anything like that fucking t-shirt, then no. I think she's actually that looks like fucking old Greg.

SPEAKER_02

It looks like a it's a picture of a bird's nest. Again, Mighty Boosh. Looks like old Greg. It's a it's like ripping off Mighty Boosh? No. That's a werewolf. Hey, buddy, the I don't know if you want to see it. I did, it's horrible. It's a picture of a bird. Okay, so I'm gonna go with no. Yeah, no. I said no. Give me better listen, guys. If you're gonna do weird, weird fucking albums, give me better album art. Like, that's all I can say. Yeah, we should go back in time and tell them 20 years ago. This is a 20-year-old album. Yeah, well, you know what, dude? Now we can see the mistakes they made. Well, David, I disagree. Listen, dude, there are some very big mistakes here. Well, don't lead with your shittiest fucking songs. You guys don't give me a fucking bird's nest as your album cover. You have a great name for both the album and the fucking band. Yeah, how do you feel about the band name? What? I think it's great. Yeah. TV on the radio is like. That's a fucking great name. That's a fucking sick name. Yeah. Alright. The fucking return to Cookie Mallon? Fucking hilarious. Love it the shit out of it, and it's great. You fucked up, though, on every other aspect.

SPEAKER_00

How do you feel about the band name, Steven TV on the radio? I don't care.

SPEAKER_02

Alright. Alright, perfect. Alright, so, guys. What? This is the last one of the season. No, it's not.

SPEAKER_04

No, it's not. No.

SPEAKER_02

Can you let me finish my fucking sentence? Alright. I know what the fuck I'm doing. What? What? This is our last trivia. Oh. Well, maybe if you led with this is our last trivia trick. Well, you didn't let me throw like a bunch of pieces of shit. Yo, fuck face. Well, first of all, wait, wait, wait, wait. Shut the fuck up. You didn't give your ranking, dumbass. Oh, yeah. Oh my god. Just let me know. We're gonna get rid of this whole fucking ranking thing there.

SPEAKER_03

And by the way, hey, what why would we Hey, I mean, I'm listening why would we do trivia if we're not picking the next album?

SPEAKER_02

Because also, I gave it a nine. Oh, fuck you. Yeah. Okay. I had an idea. Yeah, I thought I thought it was nine or eight all day. So, it's time for trivia. So, David, buzzer's over there. Steven, yours is blue, as always. We're gonna have, I think, David go first to reveal our buzzers for this trivia. So, David, reveal your buzzer for TV on the radio, return the Cookie Mountain trivia.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I didn't know where that was going. And that's amazing. Why are they getting longer? That one was shorter. I tried to make it shorter. Alright, that was David's buzzer and then Steven.

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Steven.

SPEAKER_03

That's fucking amazing.

SPEAKER_02

I went rapidly. I think hip hop might be the next play. Hip hop is pretty much. Very hard because it's fast. All right. Question number one to pick the last album. Which is that we already know what it's gonna be. For the right to choose IJonathan by Jonathan Richard. Here we go. First question. Which legendary artist contributed backing vocals to the track Province after becoming an early champion of the band? A big fan. He became a big fan of the band. Was it A, Lou Reed? B, David Bowie, C, Trent Reznor, or D, Brianino.

SPEAKER_05

Some call me Ludo Chris. Some call me Mr. Steven.

SPEAKER_03

Steven. Um fuck, I forgot his name. The first one. Lou Reed? Yeah, Lou Reed.

SPEAKER_02

That is incorrect! Oh, really? Okay. David. Uh I'm gonna go with C. Trent Reznor? Yeah. That is incorrect. It was David Bowie. Really? David Bowie was a very good thing. I wasn't gonna go with that because that was He was in the studio and became and loved their sound so much that he was a huge fan of the band and err uh lent his vocals to Pro. No shit.

SPEAKER_03

Wow, I think less of him.

SPEAKER_02

I wasn't gonna go for David Bowie because I thought that was too mainstream.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Yeah, I think less of them now. Anyway. Question two. Score down.

SPEAKER_02

I never really thought much of David Bowie.

SPEAKER_03

Me neither, but now it's less.

SPEAKER_02

The opening track, I Was a Lover, prominently features a lyrical interpolation/slash reference to a song by which classic funk and soul group.

SPEAKER_03

Hold on, wait, pause for a second. I apologize. There we go. You're gonna get on my ass about melodical, but you just said interpolation. Interpolation. Interpretation? Interpolation.

SPEAKER_02

Interpolation. Interpolation. That's a word. Yes, it is. David. That's very well known. Interpolation is a musical term when you don't sample something, but you like replay it yourself.

SPEAKER_03

Pause, please.

SPEAKER_02

It's a very common way to get around like copyright. I-N-T-E-R-P-O-L-A-T-I-R. That was none of those letters went where you were meant to do.

SPEAKER_01

Interpol interpolation.

SPEAKER_02

What the Interpolation.

SPEAKER_01

Interpolation! So it is a word? A mathematical and statistical method you estimate the unknown value that falls between two known things.

SPEAKER_02

Nope, Dave, you gotta do it for music. Oh no, fuck you.

SPEAKER_03

See?

SPEAKER_02

It's a math term.

SPEAKER_01

Interpolation. A music. In music, an interpolation is the process of recreating an exact melody, lyric, phrase, or chord progression from another song and recording a call track rather than copying the original recording itself.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you. Just like I said, with all my words.

SPEAKER_01

I am turning into a fucking live fucking dictionary. That's cool.

SPEAKER_03

Well, David, well, Michael's goes and looks up words in Webster for these fucking podcasts.

SPEAKER_00

Was it Parliament Funkadelic? The Temptations?

SPEAKER_02

Or Earth, Wind and Fire, or Sly in the Family Stone? Uh um Parliament. That is incorrect.

SPEAKER_05

Some call me, Mr. Steven.

SPEAKER_02

Steven. D. D. Sly in the family stone. Yeah. Congratulations, Steven. You are one away from having one point. That's incorrect. That's a weird one. It was Earth, Wind and Fire. Fuck Earth, Wind and Fire. Which core m-Call about Parliament fuck whatever. Which core member of the band officially joined the lineup full time during the recording of Return to Cookie Mountain, anchoring their live rhythm section.

SPEAKER_00

Was it J. Lee Bunton? Kip Malone? Gerard Smith, or Dave C Tap?

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DV E.

SPEAKER_02

Dave? Gerard Smith? Yeah. Ooh. How does zero point sound? To you, that's correct! Oh shit, I guess.

SPEAKER_00

So we are up. One nothing, David. David one nothing. The score is zero to one, David.

SPEAKER_01

Just in case you weren't paying attention.

SPEAKER_02

What core metaphor does Toon Day use in the frantic breakthrough single wolf like me? Is it like a copy of this of D then? Alright, see? C. Apocalyptic climate change? Yes. That's wrong. David, was it lycanthropy or slash werewolves? Vampirism or corporate greed? Corporate greed?

SPEAKER_03

D.

SPEAKER_02

So in the song Wolf Like Me, the options are werewolf, vampire, apocalyptic climate change, and corporate greed. You went with corporate greed? I thought it was gonna be something interesting. You fucking wrong! I thought it was gonna be something interesting. Werewolves! Oh, really? Go fuck yourself. God, you guys are so I got it! David Bowley was obvious too, and I didn't pick him!

SPEAKER_00

Alright. Be ready with your buzzers.

SPEAKER_02

I'm not!

SPEAKER_00

I'm not even gonna give you options. I'm gonna see if you fucking listen to me. Before TV on the radio became a full-time musical endeavor, what television related creative job did Frontman tune the out of behold?

SPEAKER_05

Stoop DOM!

SPEAKER_02

He was a visual dude on Celebrity Deathmatch. That is correct! Woo!

SPEAKER_00

Wow. Steven, give me your buffer. You're not allowed to have buffers anymore.

SPEAKER_03

Steven Celebrity Deathmatch.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, good job, Celebrity Max. Alright. So, David, you won trivia! So you get to choose. You get to choose. Oh, yeah. Do you want to do let me get it? I Jonathan. So, David, this is your options.

SPEAKER_00

IJonathan by Jonathan Richmond, released in 1992.

SPEAKER_02

Do I have any more options? Nope. Alright, um Good Choice! Alright, cool. Alright, so there you go. We're gonna be recording iJonathan by Jonathan Richmond. Steven, give me your buzzer. You're interrupting me. Give me your buzzer. You've lost buzzer options. This is ridiculous. Steven, ridiculous. Steven, guess what?

SPEAKER_03

What? You're not picking the album.

SPEAKER_01

Steven guess what? What?

SPEAKER_02

Here it did.

SPEAKER_01

Steven guess what? What?

SPEAKER_00

Are you playing the John Cena theme song? Why have you taken so many shots?

SPEAKER_01

What? Why not?

SPEAKER_02

Alright, we're gonna get copyright fringe. Okay. Anyway, so we listened to TV on the radio, Return to Cookie Mountain. Yeah. Um, Stevens, a bitter piece of shit, did not like it. It was a fantastic album. David liked it kind of, not really under a five. He's also a piece of shit. David won trivia. So therefore, he chose the last album. And the last album we were listening to is Jonathan Ritzman's iJonathan released in 1992. Alright, so that's what we're gonna do. Mad Damon. Mad Damon. Alright, thank you guys. Alright. So as David said earlier before the alcohol took effect, we want to Listen, if you want content, you gotta have alcohol. No, David, we have a David, stop, relax. What? We're gonna listen to iJonathan.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna punch you guys both in the face. I was messing around on the rails. And I fell into the gorilla bed. I had blueberries in my pocket, and the gorilla is attacking. Are you proud of yourself? My brother jumped in to save me. Okay. Gorilla.

SPEAKER_02

Took him out. Congratulations, David. That was fantastic. Great monologue.

SPEAKER_03

If you could promise me right now that you would never die. I swear I would have sex with you right now.

SPEAKER_02

And we unplug his. Alright, Steven's microphone's unplugged. So we will see you next time when we review iJonathan by Jonathan Richard.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my god, I hope you. Okay, here we go. This has been off the rails. We'll see you next time. Okay, bye.

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