Whiskey Music Club
Session 4 24 Side A
Saddle up, Whiskey Music Club members, for a wild ride of emotions and tunes, as the fabulous Cristin joins our auditory fiesta. We're unboxing life's latest zingers: from Jackie's home-buying escapades in a market wilder than a roller derby to Jason's deep dive into Angie Thomas's riveting "The Hate U Give." You won't believe the laughter we share over kiddos' literature and those bizarre phases—dinosaurs, anyone?—plus the heartwarming chaos of family life, with lost wallets and sports schedules that test the limits of our sanity.
Our episode's rhythm taps into the heartbeat of personal milestones and the euphoric rush of life's firsts, like strapping on rollerblades to join a hockey league. We venture through the landscapes of love, marriage, and the electric anticipation of travels promising adventures unknown—did someone say South Africa? From hilarious anecdotes about a neighbor's tune dubbed "Africa" to the creative forge of a video project featuring a pot nugget in ice, we've got the stories that'll stick to your ribs and a soundtrack for life's rollercoaster.
Craving a drop that'll make your heart skip? Our musical musings won't disappoint. We're threading the needle between EDM's high voltage and the warm embrace of tracks that fuel our souls. And just when you think the melody has settled, we're jazzing up the podcast scene with a refreshed format. That's right, digestible beats of wisdom dropping every two weeks, with the same Whiskey Music Club charm. So pour a glass, tune in, and find your rhythm with us—no earbuds required.
Saddle up, Whiskey Music Club members, for a wild ride of emotions and tunes, as the fabulous Cristin joins our auditory fiesta. We're unboxing life's latest zingers: from Jackie's home-buying escapades in a market wilder than a roller derby to Jason's deep dive into Angie Thomas's riveting "The Hate U Give." You won't believe the laughter we share over kiddos' literature and those bizarre phases—dinosaurs, anyone?—plus the heartwarming chaos of family life, with lost wallets and sports schedules that test the limits of our sanity.
Our episode's rhythm taps into the heartbeat of personal milestones and the euphoric rush of life's firsts, like strapping on rollerblades to join a hockey league. We venture through the landscapes of love, marriage, and the electric anticipation of travels promising adventures unknown—did someone say South Africa? From hilarious anecdotes about a neighbor's tune dubbed "Africa" to the creative forge of a video project featuring a pot nugget in ice, we've got the stories that'll stick to your ribs and a soundtrack for life's rollercoaster.
Craving a drop that'll make your heart skip? Our musical musings won't disappoint. We're threading the needle between EDM's high voltage and the warm embrace of tracks that fuel our souls. And just when you think the melody has settled, we're jazzing up the podcast scene with a refreshed format. That's right, digestible beats of wisdom dropping every two weeks, with the same Whiskey Music Club charm. So pour a glass, tune in, and find your rhythm with us—no earbuds required.
Hello, hello and welcome to the Whiskey Music Club. We are so glad that you're joining us here on our little humble podcast Chalk full of love, actually Tonight's episode. We're so glad to have one of our best friends of all time. We just crowned you that. Congratulations, kristen. Woo time. We just crowned you that. Congratulations, kristen. We are so glad to have you here and we're excited to see what kind of music we got to share. So let's do a little check in. Jackie, how are you feeling?
Jack:I'm doing pretty good. We are trying to purchase a home. Well, we're, like stuck in this rut of trying to get into a home um in our neighborhood and we were just like out muscled with like somebody just came in with this ridiculous offer that was way over um the home value but, that's just the market we're in, so we're just sitting tight, hanging out, but I feel like you have to like come to the table with like a pint of blood, you know, your first born's birth certificate your third grade report card, and then you have this piece of paper and then they're like yeah, and now you just sit there and just wait tight, you just, you just do that and it feels like the military really just like hurry up and wait.
Jack:So I'm just chilling here with my paperwork, um, but other than that, we are just, you know, rolling through the punches. We're getting through this like season where the kids are going through sports right now, so they're doing track and softball, so we're excited to finally get outside and, like do some things outdoors, not indoors. Yeah, that's cool. How's the driving going? Oh, yeah, so that was interesting.
Chris:My eldest son.
Jack:Yeah, he's supposed to be driving right now, but he lost his wallet on the bus.
Chris:Oh no yeah.
Jack:So if you're going to lose it anywhere for driving, it was like you didn't manage it on the bus, so we've got to go back to the Secretary of State. I tried to say it without the Secretary of State.
Jason:Secretary of.
Jack:State. We have to go back to the Secretary of State and we have to. That's a Michigan thing and we have to go and get him a new license to operate.
Chris:Secretary. How do you say it? How do you all say it? Secretary of State.
Cristin:What's the Michigan thing?
Jason:Did you say Succotash. Secretary of State.
Jack:Nobody else calls it that. They all say the DMV. No, I just gained a new level of awareness. Nobody else calls it that. They all say the DMV.
Cristin:No, they just gained a new level of awareness Holy shit.
Jack:You're a. Midwesterner.
Jason:Wow. Secretary of State.
Cristin:Secretariat of State.
Jack:That's a good movie. Oh yeah, Jason, how are you doing?
Jason:Hey, you know, it's fucking good.
Jack:You know the best answer ever. Because, you know, if I was walking down the street and I was like hey, how's it? Going.
Led Zeppelin:They're like you know, fuck, it All right, I'm not messing with that.
Jason:It actually matches like what's going on, like it's kind of a little bit of chaos and a bit of like hey, it's fucking good.
Chris:Do you tell?
Jason:Yeah, no, I mean it's a mixed bag, but I am really excited for myself personally because I'm about to finish my first book in a long time and that's exciting for me. One of my kids introduced me to the book.
Chris:Let's give it a shout out. What's the book?
Jason:yeah, uh, it's uh the hate they give um or the hate you give, excuse me, by angie thomas and uh, yeah, it's a good book, it's it's, it's uh poignant, it's like it's all of the things with the character buildup and and kind of getting you into like the personal story and being an advocate for the, the narrator, the main character, um, the protagonist you've got 30 seconds, give me the elevator pitch.
Chris:I'm counting okay.
Jason:So it is kind of the recounting of a community and in fact, one one young woman's uh account of being involved in a george floyd or ask um situation in which her friend was murdered by the police and um, it was just uh and and the ensuing kind of personal impact on a neighborhood and on self that ensued.
Chris:All right, it's been 30 seconds, but I just want to say why do you always ruin my phone? That was such a depressing story to have told in 30 seconds. I'm sorry guys, I'm always doing this wrong.
Jason:But it is a very good story. It feels good ultimately because the person takes I don't know, it takes on a personal growth story, and that's what a good story tells. It's like moving the character from A to all the way to Z, right, yeah, so it does well and it's good and I'm excited to finish. Yeah, first book in a long time. I tried to read the. My last book was the Jimmy Carter biography.
Chris:Oh, we should have guessed. Oh right, I was going to guess Green Eggs and Ham yeah.
Jason:Oh dang.
Chris:I just read it the other day.
Jason:Oh right, well, it's pretty good. Yeah, I read a lot of dinosaur stories right now how dinosaurs have manners. Yes, I like that one. Yeah, oh, I can. Well, I can't. I probably could tell you all of the facts about how the dinosaurs went extinct, because that is the latest trend in my house.
Cristin:Oh, my kids went through that trend yeah.
Jason:Right Jesus, oh my goodness, Most kids do. It was a giant asteroid or a meteor. It's fun so yeah, but kids are overall doing well. I'm excited to see a lot of just I don't know. I'm excited to have fun with them on a constant basis and that's the fun part of life is that I've got these five boys that are at all different ages. It puts me back to those times. I love interacting with them at all of those ages on a regular basis. It is kind of fun.
Jack:It never ends either, as they keep getting older. You keep getting older. Then you're like, I get to relive my 20s. That's cool too. Exactly.
Jason:Oh yeah. That'll be fun.
Jack:I know right, A 20-year-old Jameson. Oh, I can't wait for that.
Jason:I can't wait for that either. Actually, I'm counting down the days.
Beyonce:I would like to be invited to that trip to.
Jack:Canada.
Chris:If anyone's going to be a millionaire, it's going to be Jameson.
Cristin:He's going to save the world. For what this kid sounds like, I want to meet him.
Jason:Yeah, and I love all of my boys really, because all of them have this unique ability to conquer the world in different ways, and it is so interesting to look through all of their lenses on a regular basis. It just gives me so much like I don't know, more perspective on a lot of life too, because it's just it things that I see them going through. It's like, oh, that makes sense now, like I guess they got a good role, so I'm excited, it's fun.
Chris:Yeah, lisa yeah.
Jason:And.
Led Zeppelin:Lisa.
Jack:I tried, though, cheers.
Jason:Lisa.
Led Zeppelin:My saint of a wife, by the way.
Jason:Yeah, she is just wonderful and is, like you know, just putting up with all of this chaos in her house and it's just like, ah, she's, she's a saint. For not just like with five boys well, no, well, with five boys, just like putting a foot up of each one of their butts at some point or another part of the process.
Jason:Yeah, right the process so it's probably a lot of walking away oh, my goodness, and oh so, just all right, I'm not going to belabor this, but in a single, in a single evening, damn kristin use the leather to drink use a leather one to drink all right, I know, I love how I called you out on that leave it to me right all right for those who can't see krist, who is often known for spilling things it was water, it was butterfingers, but it was not.
Jack:it was not her fault completely.
Chris:It was only her fault, because she did it twice and the cup holder had a sticky spot on it and pulled with the water a little yeah it's to blame, as always.
Cristin:That's funny. The first time it did Physics is to blame, as always. The first time the first time physics is to blame.
Cristin:Well, what are you going to do?
Jason:Oh, I lost my train of thought like five seconds ago.
Chris:So what are you drinking? And then what's Jackie drinking?
Jason:Oh, yeah right, I even wrote that stuff down. Jack, would you like to go first?
Jack:I'm drinking my, my, my, which was offered up by Adam as a tribute, which thank you very much because this is so good. I've had the MI43 and I really love it from New Orthodox.
Chris:We're talking beer here, for those who don't know.
Jack:Yeah, and then I'm also supporting Liquid Death, which we don't have a sponsor. But if you'd like to sponsor us one day, we like to quench our thirst, All right.
Led Zeppelin:Liquid Death, not a paid sponsor. Yeah right, not a paid sponsor.
Jason:I'm drinking Lux Ro I think it's the Barrel Strength and an Oberon, because it's Oberon season, boys and ladies.
Cristin:And white people.
Jack:What an eclectic bunch.
Jason:We're so diverse, dei works Yay.
Chris:Kristen, how are you doing?
Cristin:I'm good. How are you?
Chris:Good.
Cristin:Good, that'm good. How are?
Jack:you Good, that's good.
Chris:These openers Really good at it. What's going on in your neck of the woods? Tell us a bit about yourself. How do you know us?
Cristin:Oh, how do I know you guys? Well, we met you and I.
Chris:Chris and I met when we were 14. You said you and I, chris, and I Point it to me, but then Jason, no we were 14 because we were freshmen when we got into youth group. Oh, you said, I got it.
Cristin:Yeah, and so then, when we were 15, we met.
Jason:Jason, I was 14 at that point.
Cristin:Yeah, and then, when we were 16, we met.
Led Zeppelin:Jack, I was 14.
Jack:There's a common bonding point at this point, yeah.
Cristin:We did a lot of fun stuff together. Yeah, trauma bonded. Yeah, this is true, trauma bonding. You want a life update.
Chris:What's going on in your life. Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you? Where are you from? What do you do?
Cristin:Okay, so I'm Kristen.
Chris:Hi Kristen.
Cristin:Hi, I'm from Girls Point Park Yay.
Led Zeppelin:Yay.
Chris:There's a place on the map.
Cristin:I still live there. I was married at 20, so really young. Had two kids. Right now they're 14 and 11. Got divorced though Almost 10 years. It'll be 10 years this year, you guys.
Jason:Wow, damn Cheers.
Led Zeppelin:Cheers, to freedom Cheers. I'm celebrating my 10th year now, oh damn.
Cristin:So I'm still single and I'm happily single because I'm just focused on work and kids and school.
Chris:Are you trying to shoot your shot at my audience? I mean, it just needs to happen naturally at this point no more apps.
Cristin:So I work at Rocket Rocket Mortgage. I'm a team leader, hi, team. Yeah, I told my. Well, I've been telling people.
Chris:since you asked me, I'm a team leader.
Cristin:Hi team, yeah, I told my. Well, I've been telling people for, like, since you asked me, I'm like I'm going to be on a podcast, you guys your team is our team.
Jack:Yeah, they're amazing. Shout out to.
Cristin:Keelan yeah, so we've been talking about, like you know, what songs am I going to bring? And stuff and what really cool about my team is. We've been making a playlist because we have a hangout every so. I lead a remote team, so we have to come up with really creative ways to connect with our team and have them connect with each other.
Cristin:So we've been making a playlist and I have people that range from like well, I don't know how old you ladies are, but they're older than me. I'm not gonna call your ages, but lots of zero to 99 different ages and lots of different races and we come from a lot of different places. So, um, we have a really cool playlist going. Um, we actually had our production hangout today. Um, so that's like a really big focus on my team, so I'm really excited to be here, awesome.
Chris:Nice Of your team. Who's your favorite? No, no.
Cristin:Don't get us. We want to know who your favorite is.
Chris:Whose music is your favorite? Oh? Oh wow yeah.
Led Zeppelin:Boom, because You're a blast, my music taste is pretty eclectic.
Cristin:You could say, okay, I like a lot of music, like we were talking earlier, embrace it, right, like I just embrace art, I respect art, Like if you made it that's so cool for me. So I don't know, I don't know if I can pick, I do Good choice, so I don't know. Say a name, I don't know, I don't know if I can pick, I do Good choice. So I don't know, Say a name. I don't know. I need a name Okay, so I'm going to say Lolo.
Chris:Lolo, lolo yeah.
Cristin:Lolo. But I like Sabrina's choices. I also like Anthony's. There's really good ones out there, even Kayla she loves to request Taylor. She's our Swifty on our team. They're all good.
Led Zeppelin:Sorry guys.
Cristin:We have a lot of fun, love working there. Hopefully dive into the tech space one day.
Chris:Rock, it roll. Yeah, I like it here's.
Jack:here's to trauma bonding which is how me and my wife met.
Led Zeppelin:She knows, she knows, she knows.
Cristin:But yeah, my life has been pretty good. You know like ain't dead yet.
Jack:I found, kind of found my stride.
Cristin:Yeah, you know, it's like one beautiful high. Just saw a rainbow on the way here today, feeling good, getting my body right, working out a lot, so so is my wife isn't there a grist song? Uh, it's a. It is a dreamer song. I'm in the parking lot on a beautiful high and I'm still not dead.
Led Zeppelin:Yeah, yeah, I unconsciously speak I wrote.
Chris:I wrote excision lyrics into my wedding vows and I didn't even know about it until I watched the video.
Cristin:I'm like dude what I was like that's where my head was at.
Cristin:Apparently I just went to lost lands. So, yeah, but no, doing really good. The the relationship that I was like we're as good as we can be, we're as close as we're gonna be. It's like you find all these layers you start talking about like, like the future that I was like we're as good as we can be, we're as close as we're going to be. It's like you find all these layers you start talking about like, like the future together and like like the possibility of children, and you just find like, oh my God, there's so much more war, there's such a journey ahead and it's so much wider than anything I've ever done before and I'm fear is the mind killer. For me, boredom is the mind killer. So the new experience, the like brand brave new world, I'm all for that. I love, just like I've never played hockey before, ever, never skated before, joined a 30 and up roller league.
Cristin:I love that jumping in and sink or swim at the rush, the adrenaline rush, you get out of that and just like you need that in life.
Cristin:The fact that I have that me and my partner can like go, can go on this journey together. That's the ultimate challenge, the ultimate test. I'm not going to take it that seriously, but I'm going to take it as seriously as I need to do really well at it. I'm so excited for that. Abby listens to this and I know she knows what I'm talking about. But we're getting excited for that. We're getting excited for South Africa. We're getting really excited for what happens after South Africa, and that's about all I'll say after that.
Jason:Yeah, we're excited too. Yeah, excited for you, man. Yeah, thank you.
Chris:Africa.
Beyonce:Okay.
Jason:I got to tell a quick story.
Chris:When I lived in Detroit, across the street we had a neighbor who this dude was from Africa. Wait, I don't think he was from Africa, I think he was from Detroit but he got his wife from. Africa.
Cristin:Wait, got his wife from Africa. He got his wife from Africa Like shopping cart Amazon style. Don't know the details.
Chris:Yeah.
Jason:Amazon.
Chris:But apparently he was like a singer growing up and he got excited when he released a single called Africa and my brother and I. It's kind of like an inside joke between us whenever someone mentions Africa, and we sing the first line of the song Africa. That's why I said that Now you guys are on the inside of an inside joke, nice.
Jason:I like being here. I'm so confused.
Chris:I feel the depth, so things with me are going very swimmingly. Works good Wife's good. Max is getting into freaking everything. I feel like I'm on an episode of Dora all the time.
Led Zeppelin:Swiper, no swiping.
Cristin:Swiper no swiping.
Chris:This kid's hands are fast. I think he might be a magician. But you know, in training have heavy as the heart or something like that, I don't know. So that's just been really exciting just to see the change in him and like to get like real cuddles Now. It's just like A great experience. And we're getting super excited for celebrating his nine and three quarters party, where he will pick his house, yeah, and we'll see how much a Ravenclaw he actually is. I actually am hoping Ravenclaw, but I'm feeling.
Cristin:Slytherin like his mama.
Beyonce:I think he may be Slytherin like his mama, yeah.
Cristin:Yeah so but we'll see. He could be a Gryffindor though, right.
Chris:I'm a G, yeah so, but we'll see. It would be a gryffindor though, right um, I'm not likely yeah, no, so that's what's going on.
Chris:I feel like there was something else. I was gonna say oh, we're getting ready to make some changes around the house, so we're looking forward to that in work, what you changing and kitchen we're gonna make the kitchen better, so we're excited about that.
Chris:But the thing that I did want to mention, too, is there's just been a lot of great video projects, uh, done some really cool work for skyment, uh, and we had this project where, basically, the idea was to freeze a nug for those of you non-smoking marijuana people out there. It's well context clues, right? Marijuana is what I'm talking about.
Cristin:Weed.
Chris:Putting a nug in an ice cube and seeing a time lapse of it melting Sounds like a really simple idea. I had to take the time to figure out weed is actually buoyant, so you've got to figure out how to stabilize weed and ice for it to melt or for it to freeze.
Jack:I could think of something you could do to pass the time. What?
Chris:could that be?
Jack:I'll watch ice melt. I'm just saying.
Chris:Well, the cool thing was the time lapse. It looks like it takes forever, but it actually took us probably about a half hour to 40 minutes to fully melt the ice cube yeah.
Cristin:Because, it's one of those.
Chris:It's actually like a whiskey ice cube.
Cristin:Oh yeah, so we had a big square block cubes.
Jack:right yeah, Giant block cube.
Chris:We had a heat gun. Yeah, and it just felt so good to do something so cool. So check out Skyman Shell. They don't sponsor us.
Jack:But if you'd like to sponsor us, we'd like to murder our video creation.
Chris:The clip you created, though, is so clean and so cool.
Cristin:It's definitely something like it's above this, Chris, so don't let me insult your talent, but when I go into the dispos, a lot of them have screens and they're just playing looping stuff and it's just cool images like that.
Chris:Yours trumps anything I've ever seen in any of those dispos, but it's like yours would become the meta of whatever they have, so that kind of shit.
Cristin:I'm surprised they aren't jumping all over.
Chris:Well, I got to tell you they like what Roundtable 6 has been doing for them and I'm just their bonus. Yeah, and the creative team behind it too. I just want to give big shout-outs to Tyler and Nick for just generating some freaking awesome ideas all the time, and that's really what keeps me going and keeps me interested is just doing fun cool stuff For Detroit Day 313, they had me go around with a blonde across the city like city landmarks, and that was just a lot of fun, and you guys know how much I love the city.
Chris:It's Detroit, is me. So, uh, without further ado, let's get to some of the music. Uh, kristen, what are you sharing and do you want to give us a little? Uh, intro.
Cristin:Sure, um little. Uh, intro sure, um, okay, so my first song. So I decided my theme um was gonna be my parents, my influences of you know my music choices that I make. You know like what influenced my music? Um. So the first song is by my favorite band, led Zeppelin.
Beyonce:I kind of knew it was going to be a Led Zeppelin song.
Cristin:And this is for my dad. It reminds me of driving in his car going to the farm. We used to have a farm in Canada and spent a lot of time going there as a kid and then as an adult and just jamming out in our pool house to Led Zeppelin, but also Bob Marley there was a lot. So it's going to California. Yeah, one of my faves. I like everything about it, so I'm really excited to share it with y'all. I'm sure you've all heard it, so yeah, piano plays softly.
Led Zeppelin:Spend my days with a woman unkind, smoke my stuff and drink All through my life with a woman unkind, smoked my stuff and drank all of my wine. Made up my mind to make a new start. Born in California with an aching in my heart. Someone told me there's a girl out there With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair. Took my chances on a big jet plane. Never let them tell you that we're all the same. Oh, the sea was red and the sky was grey. One that had tomorrow could ever follow today.
Led Zeppelin:Mountains and canyons started to tremble and shake. The children of the sun began to wake. Watch out. It seems that the wrath of the gods Got a punch on the nose and it's starting to flow. I think I might be sinking. Throw me a line if I reach any time. Meet you up there. And the path runs straight ahead To find a queen without a king, they say. She plays guitar and cries and sings La la la Ride, a white mare in the footsteps of dawn, trying to find a woman who's never, never, never been born?
Chris:Standing on the hill in the mountain of dreams Telling myself it's not as hard, hard hard as it seems.
Led Zeppelin:Thank you.
Cristin:Speak now. Oh please, great pick, yeah. So I battled with what Zeppelin song I wanted to bring, because I really like drums. It's on my bucket list to learn drums. I just got Aaron.
Jason:We know a guy. I just got Aaron that usually sits in that seat, by the way, so I got Aaron a set of drums for Christmas.
Cristin:Aaron's been taking drum lessons for almost a year now, so it's really cool because I also want to do it.
Led Zeppelin:And they are an adult set so I can play hers. Do nice.
Chris:We'll bring Josh over One day.
Cristin:Yeah, so I was a whole lot of love, right. There's like a 20-minute version. I wasn't going to do that, obviously with you guys, but it's so good it's out there. The drums solos are amazing. I'm a big jam band kind of girl and I know people are probably like Dylan Steffens is not a jam band, but they do jam out right Like they do.
Led Zeppelin:Yeah.
Cristin:Okay, all right. Cool, you guys are on my level with that.
Beyonce:Well.
Cristin:I've heard different and maybe it's just the older crowd that would just like debate me on that. But I ultimately went with this one. I just like the lyrics, Robert. This one, I just like the lyrics. Robert Plant's voice is majestic, it's just.
Cristin:Yeah heavenly for sure. Yeah, it just brings a lot of emotions to you. And then the guitar right. Like Jimmy Page is amazing on the guitar, so just hearing all of that throughout the whole thing, like you don't hear a lot of drums in that right, like I don't even think that that john bottom's playing the drums there, but I did yeah, he's getting, yeah, keep you know yeah I think it's just them right so
Cristin:he's just kicking back, yeah, there are definitely two guitars in that song and and yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm not. I love leds of them, but I'm not like a super Zeppelin nerd as to like who's playing in what song. That, if I had to venture a guess, sounded a lot like Jimmy Page recorded over Jimmy Page, both acoustic finger style, because the riffs were like coming together and meeting like waves.
Led Zeppelin:It was very cool.
Cristin:It was like an ascending and then descending pattern, back and forth, but two different guitars doing it.
Chris:Yeah yeah, like a key apart, it descending pattern back and forth, but two different guitars doing it. Yeah, like a key apart, it was really cool and california has waves. Yeah right, yeah, well they say this song.
Cristin:Well, I was kind of like looking at like what's, what's the song about? You know, they haven't really said what the song is about, but there's like stories about it being about joni mitchell, um, and like about plays guitar with flowers in her hair, you know, um, but it's also just about a journey you know and like about plays guitar with flowers in her hair, you know. But it's also just about a journey, you know, and like leaving something and finding something new, so it just resonates a little bit too.
Cristin:Great pick, yeah, I'd love to hear a Zeppelin song that I don't really think I've sat down and intently listened to, so thank you for that.
Cristin:For sure, yeah, anytime. I was going to say, sat down and intently listened to.
Jason:Thank you for that. Anytime, usually it's under different circumstances when I'm rocking out with Zeppelin.
Cristin:I remember I had my parties on my bed with a bunch of people, or in the car.
Jason:Or in the car in Chandler. Park drinking Booms Far.
Chris:Right after your dealer went to your car.
Cristin:We would study what our cop lights look like drinking booms far under the tree, right after your dealer went to your car and we would like study like okay, what are cop lights look like?
Beyonce:we mastered we mastered look for the pigtails. Oh yeah, like we do. Yeah, I can tell to this day good memories.
Jason:But I was gonna say like, yes, I love kind of. So I thought the same thing about Zeppelin being a rock band. Right, that's how I think of them in my mind, right, because they have so many of these jams, right? So I was like, oh, this is the one that goes, it's like the folksy. And then it rides the wave when they start talking about depressing shit.
Jason:And then I'm just like, then they start to jam a little bit, right, and then it's just, but, just like a tease, right, um, but yeah, I yeah, zeppelin was a great pick and it's a great way to start off.
Chris:Yeah, yeah, all of it I don't often listen to led zeppelin but when I? Do. It's always when kristen's around.
Led Zeppelin:We used to listen to Zeppelin together a lot All the time and I can remember jamming out to my first apartment by myself, I had this DVD set.
Jack:But then just last year now it's been two years now one of my best friends, his dad, passed away and I thought I was going to bring a song to Whiskey Music Club and this was one of the ones that I thought about oh, really. Whoa, the anniversary passed not even a month ago, so I'm just like that's pretty cool, You're riding those Wow.
Jason:Thanks for bringing that Wow, jack Wow, that's awesome.
Beyonce:Yeah.
Chris:Yeah, and then I just was going to add the thing that I really love about the song is you said that this is a song that you share with your dad while driving and I feel like it's such a perfect driving song.
Chris:I love the texture. I feel my hair blowing in the wind, but I also could feel the vision of the woman playing her hair in the wind with the flower in it, and almost like you could feel light flickers coming through her hair in the wind with the flower in it, and almost like you could feel light flickers coming through her hair with the textures that they use with the guitar. It's a very beautiful song.
Cristin:Chris, have you looked at enough AI images that you picture that as like an AI generator?
Jack:Yeah, Basically at this point my eyes are just like he's at a higher level. He was at a higher level. What's the hex shade of blue?
Cristin:He has a whole other sense of perception about him.
Chris:Hold on one second. Let me ask Chad GPT real quick? That's great. I think that means Jason. Are you up next? No, I think it's Jack actually. Okay, let's do it.
Jack:Alright, I picked this song just because it's spring and I like running, and so I thought I'd bring one of my favorite running tracks and I had it written down in my notebook here. I'd ask Adam, is this one of your choices? And he said no. So I was like, okay, it's cleared hot, I can bring it because it's definitely not my typical genre. I've got one of those later on, no-transcript.
Led Zeppelin:I could tell how much I love you. I could tell how much I love you. I'm going to cry with you. I'm going to hurt you like I said. I'm going to hurt you like I said.
Jack:Thank you so I think I've said this before I always bring like songs that I like to run to and if you don't know me, I'm really down into running like every single day, like I have trails behind my house and I'll go and do two and a half miles in the afternoon, like it's just like eating cake yeah.
Jack:And it's so good, like I need it. I need to do that. But I also have ulcerative colitis and I had never shared that on air before, but it's like debilitating most days, so like there's some days where I just can't run. It's too much cortisol and I'm just like I can't.
Jack:I can't do that to my body but, on days when I like wake up and I'm feeling like fresh, I'll throw on my cleats, and they're like these bright colored cleats you know, and I'll go out of the trail and I'll cut up and it's like this song has like gear shifts to it I feel it Like as soon as it's like okay, I'm riding a corner and I'll see a hill, Cause I love how it's got like uphill and downhills and I'll just cut into it.
Cristin:I don't care if it's mud or not. I'm in the zone. The pace of the song hasn't changed, so why should I?
Chris:doesn't matter. My mind is the only barrier I think it's funny because, like my notes, it's literally peaks and valleys. Yeah, you feel that through the song.
Jason:Yeah, yeah you know, uh, I actually have game soundtrack in here, because it's like almost you're going through those different like elements and things are changing up a little bit and so, like, the mood changes in every like scene, right, and it's just. Uh, I thought it was awesome. Um, and I don't know, it's probably because you mentioned this at the get-go, like it was a running song, but, like, why, what makes this such a motivating song? Right, like, what makes this the song that you were like, just like, okay, I know simple hook and it keeps you going right, yeah, right, but and it's yeah and it's those breaks
Jason:and those that hook and it keeps you going Right, yeah, right, but, and it's yeah, and it's those breaks in, those that hook and it's like you're coming back to milestones. And that's how it really felt.
Cristin:Yeah, yeah.
Jason:Yeah.
Cristin:Love. I love like category, because I'm like a genre when it comes to EDM, like categorically I'd probably place it as like big room house Okay, and it's definitely has that like Latin gal like.
Beyonce:But it pitch changes.
Cristin:Every gal was like boom.
Led Zeppelin:Yeah. So when you said, like what keeps you motivated, I like how it like builds up, and then it brings you back down and it totally, and then it kicks back into gear and keeps the same track that was going before.
Jack:It brings it right back. The gal, is there a whole that four on the floor gallop.
Cristin:And if you like that Don Diablo and Tujamo T-U-J-A-M-O do a lot of that like big room house all the way to hard style, that have that in it. And I work out to Don Diablo all the time. My wife loves Don Diablo because it kind of has like a Zumba class feel to it.
Chris:It's really good for working out.
Cristin:It's kind of just reminiscent of like when. I heard this song. I never heard of French 79.
Jack:So this is cool, I'm going to definitely look into that because I like their sound. Check the discography Like it changes up, it's all over the place.
Cristin:So it's, it's all over the place. It's not this deep house, this electronic trance. It's got movements to it.
Cristin:Good, pick it took me back to the Works. It was the after hours. Back in the day and then also Tech Fest.
Beyonce:What are the Works?
Jason:It was an after hours Dance club it was a gay bar too.
Cristin:It was on after hours. Dance club it was a gay bar too.
Beyonce:It was on Michigan Avenue. No, that's not the after hours Not that one.
Cristin:No, this one I went with, I'd go with Liz and Bill and Greg and we'd have a great time. Yeah, I didn't really partake in all the things though.
Jason:I just smoked weed and drank, you know but there were other things going on there, oh come on.
Jack:It was after hours Back in the day, weed was illegal. It's not open anymore. You couldn't just take your moot, gummy, and go on your walk.
Cristin:But when it first started, that's where I was, you know. But as you guys were saying, the peaks and valleys, right? So at some point I wasn't there anymore, right?
Chris:And then these vocals came in. I was like where did those come from? I?
Cristin:have vocals written down like question mark. Exclamation point.
Chris:Where did these come from it?
Jack:keeps you invested? Yeah, I really liked it.
Led Zeppelin:I don't listen to enough EDM, but I do love it.
Jason:Kristen will always be known as my club friend. I've been going to the clubs since I was 15 there's no club culture anymore boogie fever. I'm going to be 40 there's no club culture for you.
Cristin:I've heard this I think, because of the pandemic and the people who were at that age when you think about it.
Chris:It's really gross.
Cristin:It's totally gross, but it's so much fun. We were just going to the club.
Chris:We were turning up Pre my wife. It was awesome, it was a great time.
Cristin:What was that like 2018? Look at all days.
Chris:It reminds me, because that was just a funny thing to say. Please, I don't want to be in trouble, I like sleeping in the bed.
Chris:I like sleeping in the bed it was pre-Stephanie, though Absolutely pre-Stephanie.
Chris:No responsibilities. Stephanie showed up to Kaji Cafe and we're all like, yes, chris, yes, but this song, just straight up, makes me feel like what I would call dark and sexy, like there's like this mysterious vibe to it and I could just picture myself, thirsty, sweating and in the middle of a crowd just loving that shit.
Jack:So there was this person in Atlanta when I was going on the freeway and they said hot, thirsty and lost on their sign.
Chris:That's exactly how it feels. That's what this song feels like for me Good.
Led Zeppelin:Hot thirsty and lost. And then the other thing too Write that down.
Cristin:It's a really good song name, yeah.
Chris:I love how this song starts out with that bass, because it almost is hitting like what I would call a bass whip, because it's like you hear the bass and then it's like hitting the, the peak itself, and it's a distortion. That's happening there, uh, which I love. And then at the end of the song the horn, there was something that was super warm about it and it felt nostalgic in a way.
Jack:Yo you wrote those words down. That is how it is described by almost every person on Reddit, anybody that talks about this. They're like there's something so warm and nostalgic about their music.
Chris:It's awesome.
Chris:It's the sound.
Jack:Yeah, it's's cool, it's the vibe, bro, I didn't know there was a sound you could have nostalgia like. Give me some nostalgia in the background yeah right, lo-fi says what sweet jason what you got okay so I am going with.
Jason:I've had this on my. This is one of the songs that I've had on my list for a while that I've just been waiting to bring up. But then I heard the Counting Crows version of this song on the radio and I was like I kind of like, I kind of like this one better. And then, yes, you may, but then I will give it one more clue it was also remade famous.
Chris:Can I guess now Otis?
Jason:Redding yes. A-g-t yes.
Chris:Sweet.
Jason:So the original is just the. I feel like I think it's the original, I feel like Otis is usually the original.
Led Zeppelin:Yeah.
Chris:Well actually no, is this right? Yeah Damn, I'm good. What do you tell the listeners, though? Oh?
Jason:yeah, we're looking at a screen. And this is Otis Redding, hard to handle.
Cristin:Also, what are you drinking? Did we go over that, oh?
Jason:we forgot your.
Cristin:Well, I'm drinking, jameson Say more things about your Irish family. How big are?
Chris:you guys, I'm drinking Jameson.
Jason:Say more things about your Irish family. How big are you guys? I'm Catholic.
Chris:How many potatoes do you go through in a year?
Jason:I had potatoes for dinner tonight.
Chris:No, you had potatoes.
Cristin:I love potatoes, like the little ones.
Jack:That'd be like how many pig feet did you go through? I know I thought the same thing. I'm like damn Like the little one. Wow, that'd be like how many pig feet.
Cristin:Did you go through? It is serious of a fool. Whatever? I know I thought the same thing I'm like damn, I wouldn't, yeah, but they mean different, come on.
Jack:Right, it's hard times. She's Irish now.
Chris:Yeah, that's white people.
Led Zeppelin:It's okay, right, I got it.
Chris:There's a pass for that.
Jason:That's so funny, jeez.
Chris:Oh, we're playing the song. That's what we're doing.
Jason:Oh, that's a great segue.
Chris:Okay, I can give you what you want, but you got to go home with me.
Chris:I forgot some good old lovin' and I got this on in store.
Chris:When I get through throwin' it on you, you got to come back for more Boys and things will come by the dozen. That ain't nothin', but drugstore lovin', good little thing. Let me light your counter. Call mama. I'm so hard to handle now. Yes, sir, I'm so hard to handle now.
Chris:Yes, around Action speaks louder than words and I'm a man with a great experience. I know you got you another man, but I can love you better than him. Take my hand, don't be afraid. I want to prove every word I say I'm not for tired love, I'm free. So won't you raise your hand with me? Boys will call my dime I'm a-lovin', but that ain't nothin'. But ten cents love Pretty little thing. Let me light the counter cause mama, I'm a man on the scene. I can give you what you want. Just come go home with me. I got some good old lovin' and I got better in store. When I get through throwin' it on you, you got to come back for more Boys. You call my dime by my lovin', but that ain't nothin' but drugstore. Love Pretty little thing. Let me light the counter, call mama. I'm so hot, the hell. And I yes, I am.
Jason:I all right. So Otis Redding was one of those like artists that was just regularly um on, I feel, like my dad's playlists and cds and stuff like that. Like I was, I was privileged to have like that as kind of like my background music to literally my life um and uh. So I will always be attracted to any song that has horns.
Chris:Attracted to horns I am attracted to horns.
Jason:I am a horny guy.
Cristin:Oh, my God A horn dog.
Led Zeppelin:you could say Wow, wow, wow, wow. That was good that was good.
Jason:I also just appreciate every artist that really knows how to use their voice as an instrument, and the one here I am is like butter on bread to me, like it is just like my ears need to hear this, like it's a staple in its life, with the kind of just the articulation. I don't know how to describe it, but it's the voice of Otis Redding is just a necessity to me.
Chris:It's a fun listen to your ears. I'm sure have you tried doing the words yourself the way that he does it.
Jason:Oh what, oh no.
Chris:Try singing it, as Otis Redding it's a lot of fun oh yeah, yeah. This is actually.
Cristin:I wrote that down too, Just like his voice, how he sings.
Jack:For your voice. It's like you emphasize everything.
Chris:It's really fun because it is the ultimate, like playing your syllables like drums and when you like, take a breath.
Jack:you feel like that was the right spot.
Jason:Exactly, it's percussive, it really is. I've got this album, I've got the blue album. Do you really we need to jam to?
Jack:that when Micah my youngest, my three-year-old, when we go to play music, he'll always ask for specific records, and he asks for the blue record all the time.
Jason:All the time, yeah, and it gets you going. It's a good one. And the shouts, it's the era. It's the time of the era.
Jack:I feel like Otis Redding was like a James Brown, but calmer, but like a more dulled down James Brown.
Jason:If you dulled James Brown, it's still pretty sharp, right.
Jack:It's still pretty percussive, right I know it was like a dulled James Brown, but it was like good it was like smooth, yeah, like butter.
Cristin:Yeah, I always love the little like cutaways where it's like the ah. Yeah, You're right, not quite James Brown, but it's butterier.
Jack:Yeah, I'm telling you the person in the production box was like, calm down, like lower, yeah, yeah, yeah, right right, lower, lower. And then he's like okay, okay, okay, okay.
Cristin:Put some dryer sheets over that, james.
Led Zeppelin:Brown.
Cristin:Like no, I'm not letting it out.
Cristin:Pull back, pull back. Yeah, it made me want to dance.
Cristin:Yes, that song is just like. I don't think I've ever actually sat down and intentionally listened to that version of it, I'm sure, the first version I've been exposed to was a different one.
Led Zeppelin:That song is just so soulful it's so soulful.
Cristin:I love it.
Chris:One of the things that I like to do in karaoke is take songs that people know as really white songs and I try to blacken them. Or I love taking really black songs and rocking them all. Yeah, right, but this is fun and staccato, and when people hear the beat, drop right away they think about the Counting Crows, and then you go to the Otis Redding version. It's a very rewarding experience.
Jason:I've never heard the Counting Crows version.
Cristin:Oh, it's a rock version of it, right Like it's sped up, the chords hit a little heavy, the dun dun dun, like it's a little bit more pronounced, I can't, I don't know.
Jack:I just can't picture a rock version. I'm trying to. It's a rock version.
Jason:I mean, that's how I would describe it. I don't know Black Crows.
Cristin:Okay, we're going to listen to that. No.
Jason:Oh, I thought it was Sorry.
Chris:I think we might be wrong.
Jason:I think so too. I think it is Black Crows.
Jack:It's been sung by a lot of different people.
Cristin:Yeah, black, okay, okay, black Crows, yes, okay, so I've heard Okay.
Chris:Yes, I've sorry. All right, that's my fault.
Chris:Yes, okay, okay so that's the gist.
Jason:Right, that's my fault. It is totally not counting crows.
Cristin:But it is black crows.
Jason:Well, because counting crows, yeah I know and I know the difference now Maybe it has a break. I feel like they could but they wouldn't no way. You're covering Otis Redding.
Chris:Oh's funny, great pick, yes, but otis redding love jam, yeah, and it's rock and roll because again, it's rock as fuck. Still it is, and I guarantee you it's not classified as rock yeah, but it is right, it definitely is.
Jack:Rock was pop.
Jason:Rock was literally pop.
Led Zeppelin:That was like what you would call alternative music basically.
Chris:Like this was it Right.
Jack:Yeah.
Chris:So I believe that means it's my turn.
Jason:Ooh, what you got.
Chris:So, I was debating about my songs tonight because it's like do I go to the shiny new thing? Is it because you had a friend on, Is it?
Jack:because you want to take out your toys and play Is that what it was.
Chris:What toys.
Cristin:You're sorry, You're like I'm sorry, Whoa buddy.
Chris:I go to church every now and again and I don't harm people. I don't know what you're talking about. Kristen, with your sinner's mouth.
Jack:I've got older kids, so I've been through these different phases. But your kids are like hey, I want to invite you over because I want to play with my toys. It's not because the kid's coming over. They just want to play with their toys in a different way.
Cristin:I knew what you meant, Jeff.
Led Zeppelin:I knew what you meant.
Chris:Thank you, I knew what you meant you haven't had kids over to play dates.
Jason:I know Max is too little for it. No, no, we do play dates and I got to tell you they're overrated.
Jack:For right now For me Right now Wait till one of them launches a monster truck at the other one's face.
Cristin:It's fun being with my friends but I want to drink and rip roar with my friends, not watch our kids Not watching. Kids Not watching kids.
Chris:Yeah, I mean I enjoy it because I love my kid and I love the kids we're around, Adam take note those days, those go by a little bit quicker and they come back later on like way later on.
Jason:This is why I like situations like bowling, because it's socially acceptable to like get a pitcher of beer. And like fuck and wear a uniform.
Cristin:I don't think you should change who you are when you have kids. You gotta find the places.
Jason:Oh no, I'm not saying change who you are, I'm just saying there's more moments of responsibility there are.
Jack:That's what I'm talking about.
Cristin:The level of responsibility.
Chris:Versus.
Jason:Sens kids.
Chris:Either way, I'm bringing out the new. New because I also think it's topical. There's a lot of stuff that I want to say about this, but first let's just do it. It's Levi's jeans, I'm sorry, levi's jeans with Post Malone and Beyonce.
Cristin:I almost switched to one of her new songs.
Jack:I didn't know what was happening right now. I'm so glad you're doing this. I don't even know what we're right now. I'm so glad you're doing this. I don't even know what we're talking about. So glad you're doing this. I'm excited, but I don't know.
Beyonce:You call me pretty little thing and I love to turn them on. Boy, I let you be my leave-out gee, so you can hug that ass all day long. Call me a sexy little thing, snap a picture, bring it on. Know you wish you had my Levi jeans when it's poppin' out your phone? Love you down to the bone. Baby, you play too much. I'm gonna be super shot. I'm looking super hot. I got the perfect pose. I'm a fucking animal. I'm a fucking xenophobe Tattletale.
Beyonce:I love to go Two toes. No, prima donna, possess too much persona. You say where you get that from. You need to meet my mama. She pay a church. I'll pay. Come feed my neck at night so we can run it back and be nostalgia-like. And every time I see you I just wanna grab you and I'll let you touch it and you can't let it loose. Smoked a chocolate. Take car caramel. No, I act a fool. Every hour on the hour is waiting for you. Oh, you're a pretty little thing and I love to turn them on. Boy, I let you be my leave of jeans so you can hug it as all day long. Call me your sexy little thing.
Led Zeppelin:Snap a picture, bring it on. Oh girl, I wish I was your Levi's jeans the way you poppin' out my phone. I love you down to the bone, Baby. You know I'm on my bullshit, I'll let you ride it.
Beyonce:Rodeo in your room, that shoe breaks loose with perfect timing.
Chris:Love it when you tease me in them, jeans girl, you don't need to sign them. And when that thing on hydroplane, baby girl, you the pilot.
Led Zeppelin:And I'll ramble on. I could go on, but I'm going onside, so hop out the phone and bring this shit on, cause I'm going all style and every time you know just what to do. No one ever got me going quite like you, baby.
Beyonce:Let me rattle that snake with my venom. Denim on denim on denim on denim. Give you high fashion and a simple white tee. Give you these blues. It's in my jeans, I'm on denim on denim on denim. Give you high fashion and a simple white tee. Give you these boozes and my jeans. I'm my sister on Celestine. God light shining through the in-between. God got settled. His love, the sea. Come on you pretty little thing. Girl, I wanna take you home.
Led Zeppelin:You know I'd like to be your Levi's chain so I can hug that ass all day long. Call me your sexy little thing, snap a picture, bring it on. Girl, I wish I was your Levi's chain the way you poppin' on my phone, I love you down to the bone. Oh, I love you baby. Yeah, you drive me crazy.
Chris:Need you all night long, you're my renaissance Baby lovin' you.
Led Zeppelin:That's all I see In this crazy world. You're the best of things.
Chris:So, first and foremost, I'd like to say that if I could be my wife's Levi's jeans, I would be amazing. So there's so much that I want to say about this song. First of all, this is what I think is a fucking beautiful song. It's amazing. I love the production value. I love literally everything about it. I love literally everything about it. I'm sounding a little aggressive because, again, I do have a lot to say, as this is from Beyonce's most recent album.
Chris:That's country Is this country this is what I'm going to say and you guys got to understand, coming from a wife who listens to country music.
Jason:The country music today by white people isn't fucking country, it's an alternative rock, so it's literally, if you say it with the twang, and it has a certain theme.
Chris:We're good, we talked about levi's jeans and we got a twang
Jack:I wasn't insulting, I was not, I'm not, I was literally, I'm not firing at you.
Chris:Yeah, I'm just saying there again. A huge part of what I have to say to the world is that just because you say something's rock, it turns out there's a lot of things outside of rock that actually is rock. When you compared apples to apples, just like with the black experience, guess what? Yeah, it's not the same for everybody, and everybody should be able to be in whatever lane that they want to be on, and I think that it's very telling that a woman from houston, who is from fucking houston- has performed at rodeos like oh, this girl, no, she can't do country music right
Cristin:get the hell out of here.
Chris:Yeah, right, right, just any of us I gotta share a really powerful moment for me because, again, like I love my wife so much, because she shined so many truths of myself back at me and one thing that you know I'm famous for saying in my opinion, so I guess that's not famous, that's just a little myself. But when people would ask me what type of music do I listen to, it would be so easy for me to say everything but country. But if I'm really being honest with myself and we've talked about this before in the podcast.
Chris:my grandmother was from the South and we listened to country. Dolly Parton was literally my first crush People would think that that's a trend, but it's not a trend.
Led Zeppelin:That's the one off.
Chris:You lost me at Dolly. But then I want to be like isn't the blues country? Well, it all is about the human experience and it all overlaps, so all of it can just be whatever the hell it wants to be, and I think that's another sidebar of the bike experience for myself. Um, but I just want to say that I the song, the album. It just highlights how a song can be so much more, and just having something be called a country album and having such a prolific black woman uh, be the face of this makes people who are black and in those country spaces more comfortable and more seen.
Chris:And I think that that's powerful beyond the words, beyond the beat. Something else that I want to highlight, that I've just been kind of noticing, is I've been really noticing that, being a black man it's going to be weird to say this, but I'm privileged in a lot of ways being the black man that I am. I'm a light-skinned black dude like right.
Chris:Most people think I'm biracial, which my son actually is, uh, so there's a certain privilege that comes along with that and some things I don't face, but I've definitely caught a nigga and everything in between as well um, and I'm just saying what I'm noticing now and recently is there are still men in this world who look down upon women as no matter what they say is less than or subordinate to right, and it's fucking despicable to me and it makes me just furious, because we're just all here trying to get along as far as we know. We don't get to choose who or where we are as random as hell as as we know.
Beyonce:Yeah.
Chris:So, why not just treat everybody with respect and decency? If people are making great music like this, let them just keep making great fucking music.
Jason:We don't have to have an opinion other than that's fucking good, that's great music. I mean, yeah, I don't real quick.
Cristin:So I said country-ish earlier because it still has that Beyonce flair to it. But I've been listening to this non-stop. It's the only thing I've been listening to since it came out. Like that morning I put it on and I probably cried six times during the whole thing. Like it, she takes you to places in this album that you never thought were possible in like one album. Right, there are so many genres and so many. It's amazing Like she goes into like a, an Italian aria at some, at one point where you're just like what are you what?
Led Zeppelin:is going on right now, and it's just beautiful.
Cristin:And I hate the hate that she's getting, and I agree with Chris. Um, I also think like how is it not okay for her to cross genres?
Led Zeppelin:Right, but it's okay for all of these other people.
Cristin:And, like post Malone, who she's doing the song with, hear me out.
Jack:We're saying genres, right, and genres are just a way to classify.
Chris:I deal with data management all day long.
Jason:Genres are just a way to categorize something. You say tags, genres, labels. The real world is the problem.
Cristin:I think she's pushing like she's totally changing the game right now.
Cristin:What is actually a genre, though, when you do what's expected of you, it's when you're, if you're doing what's completely expected of you.
Jack:You no longer stay in the guidelines.
Cristin:For sure.
Cristin:I love the reach. I love the vocalization, Like I love the harmony.
Beyonce:the country, like like ascending harmony throughout the song. It.
Cristin:Harmony the country, like ascending harmony throughout the song. It's just like uplifting and it's almost like a hook itself.
Jason:Yeah.
Cristin:And I'm not one that goes and listens to Beyonce ever.
Cristin:Not that I have anything against her. Oh, I've been a fan of her since she's child. The first time I saw Beyonce, they opened up for Backstreet Boys in 1999. That's a sad story.
Jason:Yeah, it's good so my first note for this song is sexual elegance. This damn you're nasty I know, but but no, seriously, it's the marvin gay-esque like how do you make something like sensual but being so normal and just like talking like I don't know.
Chris:It's but you're right because you've seen some sexy as.
Led Zeppelin:Levi's jeans.
Cristin:Well and yeah, and I'm like, how many?
Jason:sexy down to. How many times have you heard a song about a woman in their jeans or a man in their jeans?
Chris:for a right? I don't know.
Jason:Is this like a uniquely American thing or something? But we have a lot of songs about people in their jeans.
Chris:I hear they highly value jeans in Europe.
Jason:Yeah right, I don't know that's a status thing Anyway, but this was a great baby making song and I hope that you don't play this too loud in the house because you guys are still dealing with an infant. He sleeps through everything.
Cristin:Yeah, but he's saying he doesn't want you know, unless you want to pick another baby right now. I'm a Catholic.
Led Zeppelin:You know what my name is? And it's strong.
Cristin:You owe the world more smart children.
Chris:Yeah, and I felt like there was something else that I wanted to say about the song. Oh, it was the fact that I wanted to say about the song and oh, it was the fact that when you look at the songs that beyonce chose and the songs that she chose to redo, there just is such a breadth of historical uh stories behind every choice that she made on this album. So if you haven't at least listened and you know, listening should make you curious and the history behind the music is just phenomenal and like it drives me so crazy being a black person and trying to get into these spaces where they're just like you don't belong here, Like that's how it was for me in rock and roll growing up, like right it just I can't highlight enough how segregated it was even in the 90s, we just were not seeing it that way.
Chris:Right, um and steph and I, we went down to nashville and we went to the grand ole opry and it's a day I'll never forget. Grand ole opry radio show, um, but you can come and watch and it's just such a great time of different country acts. I got a call that I told you about. My grandmother was my best friend, her sister, who she looked and had a ton of mannerisms had passed away just before we were going to step into that theater and right after that I learned that the very first act at the grand ol' opry actually was I can't remember how young they were, but, as a black artist, was like the person who opened the grand ol' opry and I just think that these stories that come out are important because, as a black person, you're a person and people exist in all realms of this society and you belong wherever you want to be, and that's what this means to me.
Jack:Very nice.
Cristin:I'm glad you shared that, Chris.
Chris:Thank you Next.
Beyonce:Very nice. Yeah, I'm glad you shared that.
Chris:Chris yeah, thank you. Next, that was Ariana Grande. Yeah, what are you feeling? It's all right.
Cristin:So um Beyonce's new album was only overshadowed by um the new Subtronics album.
Cristin:That was released shortly before, but this song is called Alien Communication off of his new album. And I've listened to Subtronics for a while. My best friend Brad him and I genre whore nerd out over dubstep and now the entire EDM culture, drum and bass, dubstep and deep house trance, all trance, all that. We go to all that yearly. We go to music festivals and we pick it apart. We listen to the artists all year and we find who we're going to go to with these big music festivals and just go there and just we get to listen to all the new songs before they come out with albums and sometimes we get to meet the artists in the crowd and talk to them. I met daniel ratcliffe there, true story little fucking crazy.
Cristin:Thing um and and lately subtronics, has kind of been just the forerunner in the dubstep community of like coming out with like dubstep designed with music theory in mind and a lot of craft, a lot of intent behind his music while still being lighthearted and funny. Like dubstep needs to be um. But he's recently been branching out into other genres and there's a few songs where he's like okay, this is a drum and bass song, this is a house song and on his new album, tesseract, he started to very healthily blend them together and, uh, this song, uh, alien communication, is like a very healthy blend of trance, dubstep, house, drum and bass, you name it. It's just, it's just so cool you don't feel like it's segmented. Oh yeah, new album, new song, and this is kind of the standard for edm music to beat right now.
Led Zeppelin:I'm sorry To come back to me. I set you free. So now run with me. I'm going on. You're not alone with me. Baby, you can go on With me. Can you love me? So when you going Get out of my way. I'm gonna take two. I'm going to take you home to come back to me. I'll set you free. So now run from me. I'm going on on me. Baby, you can go on with me.
Cristin:Thank you. Outro Music I'm out. Thank you, bye. Yeah, subtronics is dope the drop, that first drop.
Led Zeppelin:Yeah, like the first time.
Cristin:I heard that it was just like, and I'm just like, oh man oh shit, I'm fired up now, goddamn. And then I love how in the the second drop that part doesn't come back.
Cristin:He just lets you have that little like detox and it's like most of his songs have three drops and then like some extra little whatever like bridge in them. So, like, that's like not his music style and he's getting really experimental with stuff because he's already like, regarded as like, yeah, he's the best EDM dumpster producer right now. No one is really contesting that, and before he's having his, he's already like you know what? No, I'm trying to do. Let's be be like the best drum and bass and just like, yeah, combine these genres in a healthy way where it doesn't feel like I'm making a drum and bass song now, like he's he's taking it all as as it's fragmented and split apart and bringing it back together and no one else is doing that. It's really cool, that's awesome.
Chris:I think that I got a really distinct visual with this, yes, 1920s, 1930s cartoon, but the characters dancing and the feet are going literally just everywhere all at once and the horns are playing on his butt.
Jason:That's so funny so I thought kind of the opposite.
Led Zeppelin:Can you tell me what the?
Jason:opposite is In the idea that it takes me to a place, not like a vision, right so it takes me to a place. Not like a vision, right so it takes me to a place. Or like a memory, like all of this music does like it, which always leads me to like the live music version of this, no matter what it is. Like the EDM dubstep, like I could feel the sweat and taste the sweat of other people. Oh, while I was listening to this song. You know that.
Cristin:I don't know, it's a visceral, it's a core memory.
Jason:What are you drinking Gatorade?
Cristin:That moment though where? Everybody went. The first time he debuted that song I was there.
Chris:It was just that moment where it was like oh, that was filthy.
Cristin:It was just like that moment where it was like oh, oh, that was it lost lands in ohio. Yeah, so before the album came out, yeah, I had the same feeling, jason, like I was transported. Okay, so another club story yeah, um so do you remember that place we went to? It was like maybe after deluxe or like I don't know, but it was like a basement.
Chris:Yeah, it was like a side door. Yeah, over off of Clay it looked like Bowser's Lair.
Jason:What was that called? Oh, what is that name?
Cristin:I don't even think it's around anymore.
Jason:It was like below a whiskey club, like a whiskey bar, but I was smelling, I was smelling like.
Cristin:I feel like they had, like you know, smoke, like the fake smoke. It kind of smells like the, like candy necklace or like Smarties. There's candy necklaces. Do you think that smells?
Chris:kind of like sweet smell. I think it's called acid, whatever it is, but that's where I was, and I was man.
Cristin:that was a fun night.
Jason:Yeah.
Cristin:Like I was just, we were feeling it was so fun no no, we were just drinking, and then we danced.
Cristin:I like dancing. You guys know that I've been dancing my whole life. There's so much movement in that music style too, they go together so well.
Jason:Right, you have to be moving. It forces movement, almost yeah. Can I also just say, not that I would normally point out lyrics in this type of music. However, the idea of like what was what? Was it going home, but I'll never be like it, just sparked a curiosity with me. Like, oh yeah, I'll go with home, home with you or whatever, but I'm not like ever really going home.
Cristin:I've listened to this song a lot and I keep like I'm like what are the lyrics? Why did he pick these lyrics? Because a lot of time, dubstep lyrics are just there to fill Right. But Subtronics is very intentional and I keep thinking about it. I'm like it's called alien communication. It's almost like we're sending a signal into space.
Cristin:And I know I'm never going to hear the return message, but I'm sending this message anyway. Good call. Yeah, dude, his music. He'll have meme drops in it. He'll have meme drops in it, but it will still have meaning. Yeah, I love it. He's cool dude.
Chris:Or is he the alien? Right, he could be, he's so alien he can see the color of our souls.
Cristin:Yeah, wow, there's a lot of drugs involved in dubstep production, so don't read too far into it. Okay.
Chris:Never noticed.
Jason:Awesome.
Chris:Oh yeah. Was there something else you wanted to say? No, cool. Well, I want to say something Basically. We're going to change our format a little bit. We had some people like the three people we know thought that it would be a better idea for us to split side A and side B so that it's not such a long listen. So, from this point on, we'll see you all listening next two weeks, but we're going to go take a break. Yeah, we'll be back for side B, the B side B side.
Jason:Yeah.
Chris:Oh, I got a button for that.