Have You Heard About Dancing Barefoot on Ice? | S4 E3

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Welcome to what I listen to this week. We're back. We've got a full panel, but instead of Molly, we've got John. [00:00:13] Speaker C: That's right. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Fresh off of a new hand. [00:00:16] Speaker C: Got a whole bionic hand. [00:00:18] Speaker B: Bionic hand. [00:00:20] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:00:22] Speaker B: And, yeah. And Eric's here. He's feeling good. Sergio's back from Japan. [00:00:26] Speaker D: Yep. [00:00:27] Speaker B: Lots has happened since we were last here, so that's exciting. So with that, it's a good segue. We'll start with our normal roundtable of what's new and good. I'm going to throw it to John first. [00:00:39] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. [00:00:40] Speaker B: Bionic hand. [00:00:42] Speaker C: Let's see. Yeah, hand surgery. I was just fixing some tendon issues in my hand, and hopefully next week I'll take the stitches out and I'll be all good again. But, yeah, just one of those things. Be like, nah, fingers aren't working anymore. And then talk to this hand guy. You have doctors or surgeons and stuff where they're, you know, you're talking about Bono and stuff. But they're good surgeons, but they're the worst. Bedside manner is awful. And then you get mad because it's not like you were talking about Japan like that. People are so reverential and kind to each other, but these doctors sometimes are just kind of. Just kind of like, just walk in, look at you. Okay. And you try to talk to them and like, yeah, I know what's going on. I can do it. It's gonna be a release. And then after the surgery, be like, no word. [00:01:44] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:01:44] Speaker C: You know, you wake up from anesthesia and no one's there. I mean, you talk to a nurse and she's like, yeah, everything went well. Be like, I think I'd like a little feedback. Be like, was it really bad? You know, was it normal? You know? I know. I know it wasn't normal, but he's gone on. [00:02:00] Speaker E: He did yours in 15 minutes, and then he's gone. [00:02:02] Speaker B: And then he did eight hours. [00:02:02] Speaker C: He's on to the next one. [00:02:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I know I've had similar experience with ortho doctors. Like, surgeons, like, same exact experience where they're just like, who are you? What's your problem? All right, Bing, bang, boom, you're done out. In and out in like five minutes. And it's like a lifetime of pain for me, but whatever. [00:02:21] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. It's like $40,000. Thank you very much. Goodbye. 40,000 would be cheap, wouldn't it, for knee surgery? [00:02:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, good luck to your hand. Thank you. I hope all goes well. [00:02:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:37] Speaker D: Eric, when is it going to heal. Sorry. [00:02:40] Speaker C: One more week. 30. First they take stitches out, and then I should be able to just do everything is normal. [00:02:46] Speaker D: Nice. [00:02:47] Speaker B: That's nice. That's pretty easy recovery. [00:02:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Two weeks. [00:02:50] Speaker B: Sweet. [00:02:51] Speaker C: Yep. Just don't let it get infected, right? [00:02:54] Speaker B: Yep. [00:02:55] Speaker E: It keeps smelling it. [00:02:56] Speaker C: Oh, it's starting to smell. [00:02:59] Speaker B: Then you get the bionic hand. [00:03:00] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah. [00:03:03] Speaker D: It's like that episode in the pit where there's a homeless person comes in and then smells really bad, and they cut open the cast, and it's, like, full of maggots. [00:03:10] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then my wife just. Quick story. My wife started emptying out the crawl space because she's freaked about radon, and now they got to clean out the whole crawl space. So she's pushing all these boxes up, and they got mouse turds all over them and stuff. And I'm carrying it with my hand, and I realize, oh, my God, it's gonna be a Gene Hackman life for me. It's just like, I'm gonna get hantavirus. I'm just like. [00:03:36] Speaker E: But they're gonna find you. [00:03:38] Speaker C: I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they will. So it's just like. But I think it's been reasonably clean. But I did run over to Walgreens and just pour alcohol over everything. [00:03:50] Speaker B: While you were still in Walgreens? You just did it in Walgreens? [00:03:53] Speaker C: Oh, no, no, no, no. I brought it out. But it probably wouldn't be beyond the pale for their customers to do that there in Walgreens. Especially the ones we see that a lot. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes they drink it. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Well, Eric, what's new and good with you? [00:04:15] Speaker E: I want to commend the Friends of the Longmont Library because they have a little permanent book exhibit where they. It's like a little bookstore in the front of the library, and they have some excellent books. And even though I should not be buying books because that's a bad habit of mine, I bought some books, and they were good books, and I didn't know that they existed. One was a book of screenplays by Bob Odenkirk. [00:04:50] Speaker C: Wow. [00:04:50] Speaker B: Oh, that's cool. [00:04:52] Speaker E: And another one was by Bill Bryson, who wrote a book about walking across Australia. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Oh, I've read that. [00:04:59] Speaker C: Sunburnt Country. [00:05:00] Speaker E: Sunburnt Country. [00:05:01] Speaker B: That might have been one that I donated. [00:05:04] Speaker C: That's a big buck. [00:05:05] Speaker B: Because I donated a couple of Bill Bryson books, like, last year to the [00:05:09] Speaker E: Friends, and it was just what I needed. Just. I didn't know that I was looking for it. Until I found it. But thank you for them. I will go back there sometime when I'm not working. [00:05:21] Speaker D: To Australia. [00:05:22] Speaker E: No, no. I'm such a library indulgent person that I still go to the Boulder Library just so I can go to Boulder, walk down the mall, see what's happening, eat a hot dog. So anyway, Freddy's Hot Dogs. Yeah, there it is. [00:05:44] Speaker C: Yep. [00:05:45] Speaker D: Freddy's. Yeah, the Chicago one, right? Yeah. [00:05:48] Speaker C: Did you know Freddy, like way back in the day, English guy? [00:05:52] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [00:05:54] Speaker C: The rock climber. [00:05:58] Speaker B: I was gonna say. I love the Friends Store. I have found so many great things in there and like in the regular part, but then also like the glass case. They have some really good finds in there. And I've got. [00:06:10] Speaker E: And they're reasonably priced. [00:06:12] Speaker B: Super reasonably priced. I got like an entire matching set of all the Dune books for Jay, I think two years ago for Christmas, because he's one of those. He also buys a lot of books, but he likes to have them all with the same illustrated edition when they do this type of COVID for the whole series. So it was like one of those where it was like all the same. And like, I don't remember what I paid for it, but it was like a crazy deal for however many books there were. Six or seven or something. Yeah. Shout out to the Friends of Longmont Public Library. [00:06:48] Speaker D: Woo. [00:06:49] Speaker E: Woo. [00:06:51] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess. Yeah. As Melanie said, just got back from Japan a couple days ago. Highly recommend checking it out if you want or have interest in going to Japan. We spent three, three and a half days first in Tokyo and then took the bullet train to Hiroshima. We did go to see the. They have an atomic bomb memorial where the atomic bomb exploded above this dome. And it's really the only thing left, which is pretty crazy to see. And then the peace memorial there. And then we went to this island called Miyajima. Fun little. Actually it was a national park. I didn't realize there was like a whole set of national park with a bunch of islands on it. So we. It was beautiful view of like the ocean and the like all these little islands. And then we stopped at a castle on the way to Kyoto and did three days there and then back to Tokyo for another four and then done a little day trip to a mountain town in the hot spring. I almost did not come back. I wanted to extend it for at least another week because I was like, I don't want to come back. But I had to come back. So I just had to. I had to. Damn it. [00:08:13] Speaker C: Someone's got to stop Trump. I Know, [00:08:17] Speaker D: funny thing, some of the Trumps of. Actually we toured the. There's a like a. They call it the Akasaka Guest palace. And I think it's where the Prime Minister hosted Trump in October. And we didn't really know this until we did this tour of the palace. We're like, why are there so many photos of Trump of like where he sat down or the table he used to sign. Shit. And it was because we later found out that the Prime Minister loves Trump and she's also kind of extreme right wing herself. Like, okay, now that makes sense. [00:08:56] Speaker E: Was that until she was make. He was making Pearl harbor jokes. [00:09:00] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. I was there when that happened. I was like, oh man, that was awful. Can't believe he's. Well, I can believe he said that. But anyway, yeah, there's a lot to talk about in Japan. That's probably a whole other episode. But yeah, it was a lot of fun. Good food, mostly good weather. Yeah, highly recommend it. And I am putting a little video together of some footage that we took and photos and stuff. [00:09:30] Speaker B: So nice. Fun. I feel like I don't really have anything for this, which is kind of sad, but I don't know. I ordered an ice cream maker that's coming on Friday. Yeah, that's the level of stress that I'm at. That I spent like $300 on an ice cream maker because I think I need it in my life right now. It's one of the ones that does. So it's like a 15 in one. So it does ice cream, but it also does like frozen margaritas. Ooh, frose. Like basically frozen booze, chili, slushies. Slushies, yeah. [00:10:13] Speaker E: Chili, yeah. [00:10:15] Speaker B: But my sister has the same one and I tried it when I was in Seattle a couple of months ago because I've been like in the market and so I got to test hers out and it was pretty great. I don't know where it's gonna live. I don't have space for it. But it was like the Sunday scaries that I had this week. I was like, I'm just doing it. It's too stressful. Like, I just need something. [00:10:36] Speaker C: Hell yeah. [00:10:37] Speaker B: So that's. [00:10:38] Speaker D: Do you know what kind of ice cream are you gonna make first? [00:10:41] Speaker B: Um, no, I really want to make like some frozen booze first. But Jay really want. So the other motivating factor was actually Jay pushing me over the edge because he really wants to try to make like plant flavored ice creams. So like when I remember when we were in Alaska, we had like Juniper ice cream and pinion ice cream. Well, we had pinion ice cream. And Mexico. Yeah, they had it in Alaska, too. And so he really wants to make ponderosa pine ice cream from the ponderosa that are on our land. And so he. I guess. I guess he watches some YouTuber that makes, like, weird flavored ice cream out of plants and stuff, and he's inspired. And so now he really wants to make, like, plant flavored ice cream. [00:11:33] Speaker D: Cool. [00:11:34] Speaker B: Which. That'll be his thing, but I'll probably do something more simple, like vanilla. [00:11:39] Speaker C: You'll have to buy two because he'll be making his ponderosa pie. [00:11:43] Speaker B: And then everything. Well, and then all my frozen drinks are gonna taste like pine tree. [00:11:49] Speaker C: That's right. [00:11:51] Speaker B: But anyway. Yeah, it arrives Friday. I can't wait. It's my weekend. [00:11:54] Speaker D: Sweet. [00:11:55] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:11:56] Speaker B: Come on over. Frozen margaritas. [00:11:59] Speaker D: Yum. [00:12:01] Speaker B: Cool. All right, awesome. Let's get to the music. Let's do it. [00:12:05] Speaker D: Sounds good. [00:12:06] Speaker B: I think I might be first. [00:12:08] Speaker D: You are correct. The first song is titled have youe Heard by Pat Metheny group. [00:12:18] Speaker B: Yeah, you all. You guys probably know this one. [00:12:21] Speaker C: I know. Well, I know Pat Metheny, but I can't remember. [00:12:24] Speaker B: You might. [00:12:25] Speaker C: I might not. [00:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Cool. Let it rip. [00:12:27] Speaker D: Here we go. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Sa. Me. [00:18:27] Speaker E: Sa. [00:18:57] Speaker D: That was have you heard by Pat Methany group? [00:19:03] Speaker E: Well, I love Pat Methaney group, so I feel like I should even talk about it. But that's one of the Pat Methany, Lyle May's, Dave Gottlieb groups, and early 80s, I believe. Late 70s, early 80s, I think. [00:19:19] Speaker B: I think this recording might be from the 90s, but I don't know. I think there's like a million versions. Not a million, but I think there's a few versions of it. So. [00:19:28] Speaker E: Yeah. It's just so good. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm curious, for those of you who know Patentini, like, where, like, how you like this versus other ones. Other. Other tracks. [00:19:42] Speaker C: Yeah. Because I used to listen to him. It's always nice to listen to him on headphones to, too, because of the separation and everything. But they. He had one really famous one. I can't remember that. It just like. Don't, don't, don't. It just said this and I. That was. I really listened to that one a lot. And it was sort of driving music. It was just so perfect to be, like, driving at night with that. And. Yeah. [00:20:09] Speaker E: Last Dream Home, Last Train Home. [00:20:11] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, it's kind of. It's interesting because no vocals. Obviously, there's vocals but they don't say anything. I mean there is as instruments and I just think the. I thought it wasn't. I started thinking about me thinking about this music and I wasn't really. My mind wasn't wandering but I was into the music but I wasn't thinking about much. I kind of went into a sort of a state. So. Yeah. And it was kind of. I was thinking like because they had this new age phase. Right. Remember new age music. But this was. This was before new age. [00:20:56] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:20:58] Speaker C: And. And. And then people kind of ruined it. Like Yanni. [00:21:08] Speaker B: Yep. [00:21:10] Speaker C: But yeah, Yanni. [00:21:12] Speaker B: I haven't heard that name in a while. [00:21:15] Speaker C: But no, it was. It was good. [00:21:18] Speaker D: I'd never heard of Pat Methany group. I think this is the first time I've listened to it. Listened to them. It was very calming. I think it did not help my jet lags. It made me want to sleep. But I love the. Yeah, it was very calming. I like some of the scat singing a little bit ish. Or some of the vocals. Yeah, it was fun. I liked it. [00:21:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I chose this. Well, he's playing in Boulder on April 7th. Are either he going? Boulder theater? [00:21:55] Speaker E: I'm hoping some miracle happens so I can get tickets. [00:21:58] Speaker B: I know. So I didn't get tickets like when they first went on sale and then like cheap checked later and it's like they only have resale and there's like four available and they're like $850 a piece. [00:22:08] Speaker E: I saw him a couple years ago and it was like. So. And he did a solo show. [00:22:15] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. [00:22:15] Speaker E: And this is with his new group. So I'm hoping for miracles. [00:22:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, if you find two miracles, let me know. Did he still have his hair a couple years ago when you saw him? Oh man, his hair. So I'm going to send. There's like a YouTube video. It's a live version of the song that I was watching earlier today. I'll send it in the Slack channel. Because it's just. It's so. It's like such the epitome of like that era in terms of like vibe and fashion and. But his hair is just. It's half the show. [00:22:54] Speaker D: What kind of hair does he have? [00:22:55] Speaker B: He just has like this really, really big curly kind of flopp. [00:23:01] Speaker E: It's big. [00:23:02] Speaker B: It's big. [00:23:03] Speaker C: It's big lion mane. [00:23:05] Speaker E: It's not like a fro. [00:23:06] Speaker B: It's not like a. Yeah, it's too like floppy to be a fro. But like. [00:23:12] Speaker E: But he's always had it. [00:23:14] Speaker B: Always yeah, droopy. [00:23:15] Speaker D: Droopy hair. [00:23:16] Speaker E: Except now it's gray, right? Yeah. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it's big. Anyway, yeah, so I. I think I've just been hearing about this show a lot in the radio. Like, I feel like Kubo's been promoting it or something because it's part of the den. I think it's part of Denver Jazz Fest. Like, it's one of locations for that. So, anyway, I've just been hearing a lot about him on the radio. And so then I was reminded of the song because my jazz combo in college attempted to play this. [00:23:46] Speaker E: Whoa. [00:23:46] Speaker C: Oh. [00:23:47] Speaker B: And I just have, like. I don't. I just have, like, vivid memory. I can't remember if it was junior year or senior year, but I have vivid memories of our combo instructor, who. He would come up to my school like, twice a week. But he was. His, like, full time job was at Berkeley, but he'd drive to New Hampshire like, once or twice a week to teach us. And I just remember him getting enraged by how bad we were because he, like, he loved, Loved this tune. Loved it. And so he's like, I'm gonna have my jazz combo play it. We're gonna do it. And we were failing miserably. Wow, it's a tough tune. I mean, we'd take it like half tempo and we still could not do it. It was just like. And I think I was just like, yeah, you're not with your Berkeley kids. Like, we were good, but, like, I don't know if maybe he was used to some different, like, echelon of talent, but I was. I remember at one point being like. Like, I listened to it when he brought it in, and then he's like, go listen to this. So you get a sense of what it is. And I'm like, you want us to play that? Like, what? Anyway, so that's why I picked this one. I just have, like, a lot of memories of the song and, like, playing it over and over and over and over. It's really hard. The. The. The syncopation of some of it is really tricky. It's fast. Yeah. There's a lot of things to it, but. Yeah. So this one has a weird, special place in my heart because I had to drill it for months. I think we did. [00:25:19] Speaker E: So how'd it turn out? [00:25:20] Speaker B: I think we did end up performing it, if I remember correctly. I mean, this is a long time ago, but we did end up performing it. And it was like, fine. It was fine. It was passable, but it's not like. I mean, we were performing into, like, a massive, like, crowd of people, so. But it was okay. But. Yeah. And I. So I think I had a discussion with somebody about the song today before the podcast, and the interesting thing that we were talking about is how it kind of has like, a. I'm gonna call it a soft vibe. Like, it's that new age. Not quite. It's not smooth jazz, but it's like new age jazz kind vibe. We'll call it soft, but it's like a train running off the tracks the whole time, which is kind of interesting to have that juxtaposition of kind of like a softer sound, but like, just intensity in terms of, like, if you [00:26:15] Speaker E: listen to the guitar solo, the guitar parts, it's really. He's really smoking on that so fast. Yeah. [00:26:23] Speaker B: Like, his fingers must be on fire while he's doing it. [00:26:27] Speaker C: Right. And the notes are so short. Yeah. You know, they don't. They don't let it ring out at all. And it. Which is what we're used to. [00:26:35] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:26:36] Speaker C: It's just like. [00:26:37] Speaker B: Yeah. And the hi hat. That's just going for, like, six and a half minutes the entire time is bananas. [00:26:45] Speaker D: But anyway, I have to listen to it again. [00:26:47] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good one. But I'll send the video so you all can see that hair. So good. Cool. [00:26:57] Speaker C: All right, what's next? [00:26:58] Speaker D: All right, I don't know who put this one. It's all in Japanese. [00:27:04] Speaker C: Must have been Eric. [00:27:04] Speaker D: It must have been Eric. I brought the song, obviously. I think the song title translates to Ichigo Parfait, and it's by this group named Tokyo Tome. I'm probably butchering at 25. So here we go. [00:27:45] Speaker E: Sam, foreign. It. Nam. [00:30:18] Speaker A: Kama. [00:31:22] Speaker B: Do you know what she says at the end? [00:31:24] Speaker D: Oh, no. [00:31:25] Speaker B: Okay. [00:31:26] Speaker D: I have no idea. I have no idea what this entire song says, except for Ichigo Parfait. [00:31:34] Speaker C: You were singing along there, though. [00:31:36] Speaker D: You know, it's catchy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:31:39] Speaker E: It sounds like the soundtrack. The ending soundtrack of a movie or maybe the beginning soundtrack of a television show. [00:31:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought the same thing. Especially the beginning of the song sounded like the beginning of a show or the beginning of a movie. [00:31:58] Speaker C: Like animation. [00:31:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. [00:32:02] Speaker E: Yeah, I'd say that is kind of funny. [00:32:04] Speaker B: Yeah. The thing that came to mind when I was in high school, my favorite snack was Skittles and Mountain Dew. Code Red together. So, like, just disgusting. Like, I don't think I could eat that now without making myself so ill. This feels like the song representation. Like, just like, it felt like I was Shotgunning soda. [00:32:35] Speaker C: Same feeling exactly. Yeah, Yeah. I just imagine, like, people dressed up as cats and unicorns and all sorts of, like, you know, it's interesting because [00:32:49] Speaker B: it's like, there aren't probably any, like, real instruments on that. It's probably all, like, synthesized digital, like, sound bites and stuff like that. There was one little sound bite. It was like a whoop that kept happening. And it's the same sound at the beginning of that Madonna song. Don't go for Second best, baby, whatever that one is. But it's like the same Respect yourself. Yeah, that one is the same. Like, that's at the beginning of that song. They sampled it a few times in this one. Anyway, that was one thing that I noticed in the. In this. I was like, oh, that one. I did, like. It was interesting that there was a couple points where. I don't know if it was of the chorus or the verse or whatever, but, like, they had some interesting, like, melodic choices. Like, they didn't, like, resolve it, like tradition in, like, traditional resolution way. And then they went and did it. That was kind of cool. But, yeah. Oof. That was like, overload. Especially after the Pat Metheni song, which is also very, like. [00:33:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:57] Speaker D: Tonal whiplash. [00:33:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:59] Speaker C: Wow. So we do hear this out on the streets. [00:34:01] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I'm. [00:34:02] Speaker D: Yeah. So Ellen and I ran across a cherry blossom festival. So while we were there, cherry blossom started happening. Blossoming. There was a cherry blossom festival at one of these parks that we. Our hotel is nearby, called Ueno Park. And they had a bunch of different food stand, food stalls, and then live music. And I was like, we gotta check out the live music. So we went for like, two days. Like, two different days. And this group performed. Huh? [00:34:32] Speaker E: How many? [00:34:33] Speaker D: There were three women. They seemed very young. I don't know, maybe 18. I wouldn't be surprised if they were under 18. And I. It was really fun, like, hearing them perform and everything. Crowd was like, there were a bunch of dudes wearing strawberries on their heads. And I was like, I don't. I don't get it. What they're chanting, like, pumping, you know, pumping. It was really fun. I have video of it, so I'll share the videos. So then I did a Google, you know, song search, and it came up. And today I started doing more research on it, and it makes me even more confused about what happened or where the song comes from. But basically, the. So Ichigo is. Means strawberry in Japan in Japanese. So it's about strawberry parfait. I don't know. I could not find lyrics about the rest of the entire song. They don't exist. Euphemism, maybe. I also found that the band was actually formed in 2010 and this was from an album in 2014. And the band is supposed to promote Ichigo. I think it's called Ichigo. Or maybe some other. There's another. There's a prefecture, kind of like a county north of Tokyo that this band is from. And apparently they grow strawberries there and it's like a way for them to promote, I don't know, agriculture and their product. So they created this pop band to. Yeah, just think about this. But I was like, there's no way that they would. I just don't under. I don't know. Maybe they just swap people or swap girls and join, you know? I don't know. Yeah, because I was like, there's no way if this came out in 2014 that they looked that young, to be honest. Anyway, that's all I could find. So it was. It was a fun song. I have some other random Japanese songs from that as well as from a maid cafe that we. We went into. [00:36:50] Speaker C: Wow. [00:36:51] Speaker D: Which is a different story. [00:36:55] Speaker E: Which might be good, but maybe it [00:36:58] Speaker D: is a good story. No, it's PG [00:37:02] Speaker B: and Strawberry Parfait. [00:37:04] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:37:05] Speaker B: I feel like they should sing it to the tune of Raspberry Bar. [00:37:08] Speaker C: Yeah, barely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:37:13] Speaker B: What was the name of the prefecture? It's like, oh, man. [00:37:18] Speaker D: No, it's not Ichigo. [00:37:20] Speaker B: Hold on. [00:37:22] Speaker D: I was going to make some joke to Prefecture. [00:37:25] Speaker B: Okay. Strawberry Parfait, the kind you find in [00:37:29] Speaker D: to the band's name. Tokyo Tomy 25 is a name that combines Tokyo Tome, the top harvested strawberry variety representing Tochigi prefecture, with Natsuotome, a variety developed to be eaten even in summer. [00:37:48] Speaker C: That's weird. [00:37:48] Speaker D: Anyway, so hence why people were wearing strawberries Wild. It was like, okay. [00:37:55] Speaker B: What a wild and crazy thing. Neat. [00:37:59] Speaker C: So it's just an advertisement? [00:38:01] Speaker D: I think so, yeah. [00:38:03] Speaker C: Gmo. [00:38:03] Speaker D: I think so. [00:38:05] Speaker C: It's like Monsanto. [00:38:10] Speaker D: All right, the next, which is another tonal whiplash from this is called Join Ice by Jesse Wells. So let's hear what Jesse has to say. [00:38:31] Speaker F: Well, if you're looking for purpose in the current circus, if you're seeking respect and attention, if you're in need of a gig that'll make you feel big, Come with me and put some folks in detention. Just last week was kind of tough. I put a kid in cuffs. I zip tied a lady to a van. We can sneak over, go around Town hunting working folks down I hear they got a great benefit plan Join ICE Boy, ain't it nice. Join ICE Take my advice if you're lacking control and authority Come with me and hunt down minorities Join ICE. Well I failed the academy the cops on weren't having me the army didn't sound that fun so I found me a pair of military operation that was keen to hand me a gun I got picked on in school I never felt that cool There's a hole in my soul that just outrages all the ladies turned me down and I felt like a clown but will you look at me now I'm putting folks in cages at ICE for respect and power Join ICE I hear they got great hours There's a sign on bonus of 50 grand they're in need of you needing to feel like a man Join [00:39:50] Speaker B: us [00:39:53] Speaker F: Look at em go. Well if you're looking for purpose in the current circus if you're seeking this expecting attention if you're in need of a gig that'll make you feel big Come with me and put some folks in detention See I failed the academy the cops weren't having me the army didn't sound that fun so I found me a paramilitary operation that was keen to hand me a gun Join ICE Boy ain't it nice? Join ICE Take my advice if you're lacking control and authority Come with me and hunt down minorities Join ICE. [00:41:16] Speaker D: That was Join Ice by Jesse Wells. I've heard this song before. So I mean everything is on point with what Jesse's saying. So it did remind. When you brought it, I was like. I remember in a previous episode you were talking about how there was no like protest. [00:41:39] Speaker C: Right? That's. I was with. I brought Green Day. That one. Yeah. American Idiot. And I. Because they updated it a little bit and I was like, why is the music out there? And so anyway, there's something kind of Dylan esque. Yes, very much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I think it's absolutely fair game to rip off Bob Dylan because Bob Dylan was just a complete social construct himself. Bob Dylan took. Woody Guthrie invented where he's from. I'm from Oklahoma, but he's not Minneapolis, he's from Duluth. And so. But he. He just created himself, you know, like the Gatsby or something. And. But Jesse Wells. Yeah, with the. The harmonica, the tradition and stuff in the whistling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I thought the lyrics. Yeah, the lyrics are pretty great and. And funny at the same time, which makes it more powerful in some ways. And you know, I was thinking about Like, Country Joe just died. [00:42:46] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:42:46] Speaker C: Country Joe McDonald. And, you know, a lot of the 60s protest music. Arlo Guthrie had this comic edge about a very serious subject. And I thought. I thought this guy kind of has it. Kind of has it. And some of his lyrics and just the rhythm, I think it's pretty good. [00:43:08] Speaker E: I didn't know anything about this guy. [00:43:10] Speaker C: Yeah, he's going to be in Lions at the Folks Festival in August. I first saw him, he was on Colbert. Oh, he had him on the Colbert Show. And. And, yeah. So kind of a shaggy, shaggy kid from Arkansas. Probably 28, 27 years old or something, but definitely into the harmonica. Folk singer, humdinger, folk singer stuff. But a lot of his songs have a lot more Dylan. This kind of reminded me of sort of Masters of War almost. Yeah. [00:43:50] Speaker B: I didn't know. I don't know him, and I didn't know the song. But when I saw it on the playlist, this is exactly how I imagined it to sound. I don't know why. I don't know why, but I was like, I bet I know what it sounds like. Yeah, I. It's super clever. Like, it. Yeah. Funny. It's like a funny kind of, like, cheeky way of getting your point across, which I think is very hard to do. I think that's. It's. There's some talent there. I think my problem with it is that, like, there's a lot of people who would listen to this and not know that. It's like, he's being sarcastic. I think they would listen to it and go, like, yeah, this guy makes a lot of, like, really good points. [00:44:34] Speaker F: I know. [00:44:35] Speaker B: I mean, I don't. That's a very cynical point. But, like, I was listening to it, and I was just like, I need. I. Can you be harder on this somehow? Can we, like, hit harder? But I do think that there is likely some folks who would listen to this and not realize that it's, like, a kind of more subversive protest song. [00:45:00] Speaker C: So ICE could use it as a recruitment $50,000 bonus. [00:45:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I mean. Like. [00:45:09] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:45:09] Speaker B: I don't know. Also, people, like, don't listen. Is. The other thing, too, is like, they. They'd hear what they want to hear. [00:45:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:15] Speaker B: Anyway, that's my. That's my one critique. [00:45:17] Speaker C: Maybe Trump will retweet it. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:45:21] Speaker E: That's retreated from this show. [00:45:23] Speaker B: Yeah, well, he will, but it. [00:45:26] Speaker C: But in honor of no. Kings Day, which is coming up again on Saturday. Right? [00:45:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:31] Speaker C: Little protest music. [00:45:33] Speaker D: Do you know what the like, feedback has been from this for the. For. For the song. Like, if people have liked it or [00:45:40] Speaker C: hated it, I think it's pretty popular. I mean, it did get on. He is kind of exploding right now. And he got on Colbert and, you know, he was. I just googled him, and he's accepting an award at Trinity College in Ireland, you know, for wow. And just all of a sudden, it's. [00:45:59] Speaker B: It's people. [00:46:00] Speaker C: It's just this giant void, you know, this artistic community in this huge void. And it's like, you know, everybody is like, oh, Jesus, what's happening? Democracy going down the drain and all that. And I think everybody's so hungry for something that someone will come along and be like, here's our new troubadour. Right. So. But yeah. [00:46:22] Speaker B: Did he play this on Colbert? [00:46:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:24] Speaker B: Oh, he did. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. [00:46:25] Speaker C: In front of a big American flag. Huge American flag. It was a much better version. [00:46:30] Speaker B: Oh, interesting. [00:46:31] Speaker C: This one. Acoustically, it was so much smoother and nicer. [00:46:34] Speaker B: Yeah, this was. [00:46:34] Speaker C: This was very rough, but that's cool. [00:46:39] Speaker B: Neat. [00:46:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:40] Speaker B: Wow. Yeah, that's. It's heartening. [00:46:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Check out the Colbert version. [00:46:46] Speaker B: Okay. [00:46:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:47] Speaker B: Cool. [00:46:48] Speaker C: Yeah, it's got kind of a mullet. [00:46:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that's part of the. That's part of the look. Yeah, I can see it. I can see it. Cool. Thanks, John. Good one. All right. [00:47:01] Speaker D: All right. The last song of the episode is titled Hold On Dancing Barefoot by Patti Smith. Here we go. [00:47:24] Speaker A: She has been addiction she is addicted to the she is the root connection she is connecting with me Here I go and I don't know why I feel so useless could it be he's taking over me? I'm dancing bandwidth heaven crossing Some strange music draws me in Makes me come on like somehow. She is sublimation she is the essence of the she is concentrating on Eve, the chosen She I don't know why has burned so ceaselessly could be he's taking over me. I'm dancing band but heading for spin Stats change Music draws me in Makes me feel my life somehow. She is recreation she, intoxicated by the she has the slowest sensation that he is levitating with sheep like girl I don't know why I spin so ceaselessly Till I lose my sense of gravity. I'm dancing vampire in mid air I spin Some strange music draws me in Makes me come on like some heroine. Oh, God, I felt for you Slide away Bright light sweats in the dark like a face the mystery of childbirth Childhood itself Grave visitations what is it? That caused us. Why must we pray? Screaming? Why must not death be redefined? We shut our eyes, we stretch out our arms and we're on a pane of glass. An asphyxiation Affix on anything. The life, vine of life, the limp tree, the hands of he and the promise that she is blessed among women. [00:51:33] Speaker D: That was dancing Barefoot by Patti Smith. [00:51:40] Speaker B: Well, I know that song, and I like that song, so I don't have any. I probably don't have anything super articulate to say. I just. I love Patti Smith. I love. I think one thing that I really like about her is her voice. Just, like, the register she sings in. And, like, her sound is just so much, so different from so. So many other singers that you hear. I've never actually, like, listened that closely to this song. I realized I sort of forgot about the speaking part at the end. [00:52:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:11] Speaker B: Like, once it happened, I was like, oh, yeah, I think I remember this. But it's like one of those things where it's like, I've probably heard this song I don't even know how many times, but, like, never listened to it in, like, in stereo like this before and, like, paid attention to it. I kind of forgot about that spoken word part, and it sort of threw me for a loop because I'm trying to figure out, like, how that fits into the rest of the song, which [00:52:35] Speaker C: is kind of deliberately difficult to hear because she's also got the chorus going on behind it. So she's singing and then speaking over her singing, and it's. I think. I think it's an interesting thing because it's. It's hard to hear. Next time you hear it, you're like, okay, now I think I got a couple more pieces. [00:52:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:58] Speaker C: Piecing it together. [00:52:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:00] Speaker C: But I totally agree with that. Her range is so limited, but so good with. With the drums and the bass and everything that, you know, it's. It has so much energy, that song. Yeah. [00:53:15] Speaker D: This is the first time I've heard this or heard of her. Yeah. I didn't know what to expect, but, yeah, it was. Yeah. Just like, the energy throughout the song and. Yeah. [00:53:29] Speaker C: The. [00:53:29] Speaker D: The range and just. It sounded very familiar to me. I don't know. Felt kind of dreamy. Ish too. I don't like. I definitely want to. Yeah. Check out some of her other stuff she's done. [00:53:41] Speaker E: She's been around for a long time. She's still out there and still doing music. [00:53:46] Speaker C: Writing books, too, right? [00:53:47] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. She's a poet, too, but. Don't know. I was Listening to, like, old music today. And it was either this one or David Crosby. I chose this one because I like the lyrics so much. And it's, you know, she's talking about sort of the eternal feminine and connecting. It's very spiritual. And a lot of people, a lot of singers don't delve into that realm at all. And she does it a lot, and I think she did it really well with this one. [00:54:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it's interesting you say spiritual because when I hear her sing, she and he and the. In my brain, all those are capitalized, which would be like. That's very, like, Bible Y. It's not Bible, but, like. You know what I mean? Like, when you read, like, spiritual texts, those things are capitalized, which is interesting because that's how I always, like, interpreted it. [00:54:52] Speaker E: And she's talking about spinning and dancing barefoot, like the. Like the Sufis, I would imagine. [00:54:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:00] Speaker E: Do that twirling, that whirling dance. And I think that's what she's sort of approaching. But I really like Patty Smith. [00:55:11] Speaker C: Do you know what year. [00:55:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna ask. Do you know what year this came out in? [00:55:14] Speaker E: 70s. [00:55:16] Speaker B: Okay. [00:55:16] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:55:17] Speaker B: I feel like it's got. It's reminiscent of a lot of 60s music. Yeah, there's. There's a lot of. I think there's a lot of influence there. Like, kind of the. Like I'm dancing in the leaves and spinning and twirling and. [00:55:31] Speaker C: But not folky at all. [00:55:33] Speaker B: Not folky, but like that kind of droney sound to a lot of 60s music that's just sort of like, going in the background. I sort of got that vibe, you know? [00:55:42] Speaker E: She was married to Fred Smith, who was a member of the MC5, which I think we brought in. MC5. But she came out of the New york scene at CBGB's and that realm with television and some of the groups like that New York Dolls. But she was doing something entirely different. Yeah, but, yeah, she's cool. [00:56:10] Speaker C: It's held up. [00:56:11] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. [00:56:12] Speaker E: It's held up. [00:56:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, television. I haven't thought about them in a little while now I want to go listen to them. Cool. Nice. Good. Nice. Classic pick, Eric. I like that. Nice job. Well, I think that's it for this week's episode. Thanks, everyone, for tuning in and listening to these tunes with us. Don't forget, if you have something you want us to listen to, you can drop a comment below the video or email us. Hello at lamokpublicmedia. Org. Until next time. Bye. [00:56:42] Speaker E: Bye. Bye.