This Is Important - Ep 104: Warm Toilet Seat

Episode Date: October 4, 2022

Today, this is what's important: Kyle missing again, the countries of Africa, Ryan Tedder of One Republic, boy bands, public bathrooms, emo music, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on iHeart. I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions like, can we create new senses for humans? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain steers your behavior, your perception, and your reality. Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last season, millions tuned into the Betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception. I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal. Ashley Lytton was helping her husband set up a business Venmo account when she discovered

a terrible secret. I saw it in a folder, and I opened it. What the hell did I just see? Listen to season two of Betrayal on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Between April 1971 and September 1972, six young black girls were snatched off the streets in Washington, D.C. This child was laying on the side of the road. The person said, I murdered your daughter. The killer believed that he may have been seen. I will admit the others when you catch me if you can. Signed Freeway Phantom. Listen to Freeway Phantom on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to This Is Important, a production of iHeart Radio, the show where we only

talk about what is most obviously very crucially important. Today on This Is Important, I'm gonna fist you and punch you in the eye, dude. My ass is fine, and it's been fine for 38 years. Okay, I'm gonna go take a shit. Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! I wish we all had wards. I would like to battle you. What I end up doing with the board is I just make the noises with my voice. I love it. Make the music with your mouth, boy. I'd like to make the music with my mouth. For my favorite, for my favorite boards. I like all of them. We'll make the music with

your mouth, Miss. Let's go! Yeah, a lot of people have been pointing out the fact that you, Adam, are always claiming that everybody hates the board. So, maybe it's you're projecting a bit. I've just gotten a lot of... Oh, do you? I love the board. I don't hate the board. Yeah. But why do you think I'm always doing it with my mouth? That shit's important. I'm doing the board. That shit's important. Who's who? You can't tell. Okay, let's go! Is everyone chunking right now or just me? I think you're the main chunker. Probably just you. You're probably the main chunking prankster. I think you're chunking. It's me. Are you okay? Dude, we can't have this. It's only three of us, dude. It's a three-man crew. We can't be dipping out. I wanted to come in so

hot. Let's go! Can you hear us? Can you hear us? Let's go! You know what I'm gonna do? I'm in a hard liner. Oh, man. This is bad. If it's down to me and Adam, this is gonna be like a weird... The best podcast yet? What were you gonna say? What would we really dive into? Just you and I. What were you therapy talk? Wow! You really liked walking down that path, didn't you? I did. It was enlightening for me. I was like, oh, I'm learning stuff. I'm like... This is cool. Yeah, it's cool. It's no pressure. It's low pressure situation to talk about your feelings. Oh, now Derz is completely froze. Oh, my God. Oh, here we are. So here we are. Derz can't afford internet and... And Kyle had a hard time getting his seat belt off in a van. Excuse me? Yeah. I can afford internet.

Okay. Okay. Let's go. I can. Okay. Did someone say I couldn't? No, you're good to go. I'm not sure who said that. I can afford internet. TII Nation. Maybe we're falling apart. I don't know, man. I don't know what's happening. Hey, it took 100 and what is it? 304? I think we're on four at this point. 104. 104 apps for us two. Maybe let's go is what we need to do. Let's go. Let's actually leave. Guys, we're cutting it off at 104. Give me a hell, yeah. Derz, are you coming to the little BBQ gathering that I'm gonna have on Sunday? Are you not a good friend? No way. Uh-oh. Oh, man. Let's not. Allegedly. Oh, man. I can't. First and foremost, I'll be recovering from the Malibu Triathlon that seems, I mean, when this airs, it'll be weeks ago, but like that's Saturday.

And then my wife, very funny movie, is... It's nice. My wife, she's leaving me. She's leaving for Africa. For a goddamn entire continent. She's going to Kenya. She's going on safari. Can you believe it? Damn. That's sick. Kenya is in Africa. Go ahead. It is in Africa. Can you spell it? Yeah, Kenya's in Africa. She's going to see the great migration. She and her sister are taking their mom to on safari for like her 70th birthday or something like that. That's cool. That's cool that your wife, I've known her to go to Africa like maybe three to five times since I've known her. Maybe more. Way more. Maybe more. So cool. Upwards of the teens. Holy moly. Upwards of the teens. That's so cool. I wish when I was in my 20s, I would have picked

like one country to be like, that's my shit. I'm going to go there all the time and help out and do stuff. Because then it's a lifelong thing that you always get to go somewhere. You always have this. If I may, Africa's a continent. It's a continent. Yes. He's saying he would have picked a country. I would have picked just one. Some people shoot for continents. Some people shoot for countries. Some just go to a city and build a library. She's been to several different countries there. I'm going to build a library in Baltimore. I would just say Baltimore's my spot. Okay. I'm always going to go. Yes. I know what you mean. But she's been to several different countries in Africa. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Fair. And what's your favorite country in the continent of Africa?

Yes. Points. Should I give him points for that? Let me ask you this. I'm so proud of myself for that dumb question. Honey. Wow, dude. Yes. Points. I don't know. I mean, she studied abroad in Senegal, so I think that's where she kind of... That's her home base. Yeah. Can I say that every country name in Africa sounds like it would be a dope name. Hey, and we just had to cut out the rest of what Adam said, but we're back now. No, it would say it sounds like a dope name. Like if your name is Senegal. Oh, you mean like if it's a person's name? Yeah, that's pretty hard. Yeah. Yeah. Human's name. Bro, if my name was Kongo, I would be the coolest bro in the world. Dude. Right. Jesus. If you were Kongo Anderson, my God. Kongo Anderson, WWE's very own. Oh my God. It's science.

Yeah. Oh my God. Here comes Kongo. Kongo Anderson. If your name was Kongo Anderson, you would have an enormous TikTok. Your rap career. It would just be a TikTok. You would have an enormous rap career. Even if you didn't rap, you would just release albums with nothing on it and people would buy it because that's the fucking coolest name. Is it too late? Too late? For you to be Kongo Anderson. I don't want that for me. I don't want that for me. All right. I don't want that for me. I like who I am. And this is my fiance, Ann Gola. I went to a Kongo Anderson concert the other day. Dude, did it smack? Did it smack? Dude, it didn't smack it, but it did slap. It slapped. It slapped. But it blapped a bit. It was flapping wide. There were a few blaps. And towards the end,

it was flapping. So I guess why I failed. It was flapping. At first it was flapping, then it was flapping. It flopped. It was mostly a flop. I went to a one-Republic concert the other day, guys. No! You never thought I would go to a one-Republic concert. Didn't even know. On accident? Did you get caught in traffic or something? The traffic, just you had you veered into the thing. You're like, I guess we're going. Is that too late? I don't know. We can't. Apologize. Yeah, it is. It is. How did I know that? Because I just sang it. That's why it reminded me. Because he was just singing it. He was like singing it up. Come on. There's no team. When I talk, there's no... I'm not thinking of anything before I say the words.

So there's no team. I literally say a thing and then I go, oh, yeah. That's the thing I should talk about. Shook something loose. Shook something loose. The old Snapchat brain. Yeah, I went because Ryan Teter, who is the lead singer of one-Republic. Yeah, of course. Do you guys knew that, of course? I didn't know that. Oh, dude, yeah. Okay, okay. So we're just saying that. Look at my face. Yeah, of course. Well, you talked about it, right? Didn't he like... Yeah, yeah. So he recorded a song for the Pitch Perfect show I did in Germany. And then, so he was in Charleston and was like, I'm coming through town. You guys should come. And Chloe was like, let's go. They have a ton of... You wouldn't know. She was like, what? You wouldn't know. She was like... She said, let's...

She was like, let's go. Sorry. Wait. I'm sorry. I'm also looking for one-Republic songs. Dude, I do a lot on the... Okay? Yeah. Okay, true. Just do the one. Just do the one. No, well, that's not the one at the top, but go ahead. Keep talking. So then, so we go to the one-Republic concert. Too late to apologize. There was... It was wall-to-wall hits. I've never heard of this band in my life. That's what I'm saying. Didn't know them at all. I didn't know Ryan Teter at all. He's a super nice guy. Yeah. Dress is really cool. Has swishy hair. Yeah. It was wall-to-wall hits. I was like, oh, this is their... And by the way, if I may, wall-to-wall. How big is this room? From the window to the wall. How big is this room that's wall-to-wall? It was a stadium. There was

like 20,000 people there. Not literally, Adam. I mean, like, okay, it's wall-to-wall, but like, is it wall-to-wall? A closet of hits? Like, how many hits? Yeah, like, you're saying from the window to the wall. What are we talking, brother? So the sweat drips down your balls? So I'm not saying I'm like a huge one-Republic fan, because it always... All their music sounds like... And even Ryan was saying this. Easy now. This is your friend you're talking about. Yeah, he was like... We have... I'm like, do you ever get sick of playing like a certain song? Because I wonder that a lot with rock stars and stuff. I'm like, do you ever just sick of playing your hit where you're like... Because as a stand-up, you tell the same jokes too much or the same

story, you're like, Jesus Christ, I got to launch it in this fucking thing again. Yeah. But yeah, you still do it. But yeah, you do it. Totally. Yes. Yeah, you have to. People will get pissed if you don't. People love that shit. But rock stars, I'm like, do you? And he was like, yes. I mean, honestly, sometimes they've like, licensed it or like, they like Whole Foods played this song to death. And now it's synonymous with Whole Foods. And I'm like, well, that fucking sucks. Whole Foods, Anthem. Like, I liked this song. And now anytime you go to Whole Foods, my song is just fucking blasting. I'm like, that sucks. But he did a cool thing where he played like five or 10 One Republic songs where I knew all of them. I was like, Jesus Christ,

this is a One Republic song. And then he stops and he is also a prolific songwriter. He wrote a million songs for people. And then for 20 minutes, just played 15 number one hit songs that he's really sick, dude. I love when people do that because he owns the rights to him because he wrote them because he owns the rights. So then he played like it was him on the piano singing Halo by the Beyonce song. Yeah, and just like a slew of other hit songs that I was like, oh, shit, this wasn't number one. Is that my favorite Beyonce song? Halo? Which one is that? Hold up. Let me pull that one up. It's got that fucking beat to it. I feel like I like Halo. Did he write to the left? I like that one too. No. Okay, I'm going to play a bit of Halo just to remember

what it is. I just sang it. Yeah, you did well. I want to skip ahead. When Adam is cycling uphill, he throws that shit on and is just like, I got this shit. Yeah, it's powerful. It's definitely a hit the hill with that one. You're going to go right up that motherfucker. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Hold cruising. So he played that one. What else? Okay, well, okay, this is not a closet. Yeah, this is a bedroom. It was a lot. And a lot of the other songs, I don't know pop music all that well because my knowledge of... What do you know? Kid Cudi. I know hip hop from the early 2000s. You know that one talking head song? Punk rock from the late 90s, early 2000s. And that's sort of... Arguably, all the punk rock that you know

was pop music. Was pop. Yeah. Yes. But I'm talking... I don't know. I don't know. It was R&B. Like Leanna Lewis. Yes. And I didn't know who that was. He's like, this one, you might know her, Leanna Lewis. I wrote this song for her. That's like the graduation sounding song, right? He told the story and then they played the song. And then I knew all the songs. I just didn't know a lot of the people you talk to. She was on Not America's Got Talent or Idol, but I think she's from... She's a Simon Cowell discovery, I believe. Okay. Wait, what was the one he wrote? Bleeding Love? That's the joint. Is that the one he wrote? Bleeding Love. Bleeding Love. And a saying Bleeding Love. That's the joint. Okay. I'm going to play that. I'm going

to play that. We'll know it. Oh, yeah. This is the song. And the stadium, I just... Loaded. Women were flying around me just like, yeah. Oh, we got to skip ahead. That's because you were creepy. They're like, I listened to your pie. Yeah. Wait, so how does this do tap into the mind of like females so hard? I think he's just an amazing songwriter. He just... But he's writing like anth... like power anthems for females. He says that he's able to when he... because I was like, sometimes when I am doing stand-up, you don't mind of the woman. No, mind of the woman. If you've done something so many times, you're almost on autopilot. You try not to be, but sometimes you're like, I've told this story

upwards of 300, 400 times. I know where the punchlines are. I know how to tell it. Yeah. That you're thinking of other things. You're like in your head. You're doing grocery lists. You're speaking to an audience and you're thinking... you're in your head, you're like making dinner plans. Yeah. You're planning things for the night. You're like, oh, I forgot to do this or whatever it is. I'm like, does that happen to you? He's like, it happens to me so much that sometimes I'll be writing other songs while I'm performing a song. Whoa. And I'm like, oh, that's a whole other level. I like how he says that. He's just skooly telling you. Oh my god. I'm actually a genius. Yeah. I'm super talented. I'm like, oh, I'm not writing other stand-up bits.

Thinking of a great idea for a movie. I'm literally going like, how much should I drink tonight? Are we really going to go after tonight? Dude, what cheeseburger are we getting right after this? How many double patties am I going to have? Should I go for the single chunky one or the double smash? What are we doing tonight? But even the thing that's tripping me out is he's not like writing for himself. He knows he's writing for other people. But here's what I think, dude. Okay, you're the writer. Go ahead, Derz. Put us in the brain. This is what's fascinating is that he's still a guy writing songs that women are singing. And if you go back and you listen to like old songs about like a woman who's singing certain lyrics about how she misses her boyfriend

or whatever, and a guy wrote it, it's not a guy writing for a woman. It's a guy writing for what he wants a woman. He wishes a woman was thinking or saying. In his defense, a lot of these songs, he's writing with them. So he'll go to their studio, they'll come to him, whatever the case may be. And then they'll be like, he wrote in a Dell song. And I guess he told the story on stage that she was like, and I'm blanking on the name of it, but she was just like over it. And she is over it. That's it. Essentially, yes, he's like, okay, let's write that song. You're like over it. I'm totally blanking on the name of the song. Whatever. Yeah, but I get it. But yeah, he and then he really like is just like, okay, let's write that song. And then they

create the song together. Right. So she's like, I don't feel good. I've got IBS. IBS. IBS. It's a whole bunch of BS. Okay. Oh, rumor has it. Oh, yeah, rumor has it, the Adele song. You might want to queue up Adele rumor has it. Because she was like, she was like, oh, rumor has it that I did this rumor has it that I did that I didn't do any of this. But rumor has it. And then he was like, wait, wait, shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Stop talking. Can you imagine calling your friend who's a songwriter and being like, yeah, um, last night, my, my dad, he, uh, shut up. He got hit. The song is my dad and the elevator shaft. And he's like, shut up, shut up. And then he's just like falling. What? Nothing, nothing. Dude, are you writing a song about my dad

falling in an elevator show? That's like the greatest scene from extras. Remember when it's David Bowie? My love's going down. Oh, she left. Pudgy little fat man. It is amazing. We'll post that for sure. Okay, well, I'm going to play a little bit of rumor has it. Thank you. Let's see. Oh, Jesus. Who's at the door? Someone let her in. You know this shit. Damn, I can't say I know that one. Well, you, you know it when it hits the, the hook. Rumor has it. Damn, I, I just played all the intros and he has some long intros. So, uh, yeah, he's taking them on a ride. Yeah. Well, what was crazy is when he did these songs, when he did these songs, they, they all sounded like a one republic song. Right. They all say,

I mean, of course he's the lead singer for one republic. So it makes sense, but they all, it took like a, that female voice or that other artist voice and put their stank on it that made it feel totally different. Yeah. Like when he sang Beyonce, it sure as hell didn't seem like a Beyonce song. Like her halo. It felt like a totally different song. Right. But she made it her own. Yes. So here's his list, uh, that he's written songs for Adele. I'm gonna go take a shit. Leona Lewis, Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran, Jonas Bros, Jennifer Lopez, Camila Cabello, Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, every person you name is the fattest paycheck as well. Oh my God. Isn't that kind of part of it? It's like, hey man,

you wrote this smash hit for this person. So we're going to give you one for that person. Like, and then if you, it's like a batting average. If you kill it enough, you just keep getting opportunities, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. If you make a huge hit for Taylor Swift, then all of a sudden Ariana Grande is like, but also me, right? One for me too. I'll take one. I know. I just kind of wish you would reach back a little bit, like just some smaller artists, like get like Lil Xan and like just drop a real, real banger on them and just put them in a topless chart. I don't know if that's necessarily his lane, but it could be. All you need is a song from this road. Blake, do you want the podcast to yourself for a moment to kind of make that

plea or no? Hey, Blake, should we turn the headsets off and you? What was, what was this guy's name? Ryan Teder. Teder. Ryan Teder. Okay. We're signing off so you can talk directly to Ryan Teder. Ryan Teder. Hey, what's up, dude? Man, this is Blake from TII. I just saw this documentary called American Rap Star and I saw Lil Xan there and you know, it looks like he needs a hit. He needs a hit right now. So if you could just write him a big banger and get him to the top of the charts, I think the whole community would be very, very excited for that. So thank you. Everybody can turn up now. Oh, we're back. Cool. We're back. Okay, we're back. How'd that go? Not great. Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on iHeart. I'm a neuroscientist

and an author at Stanford University and I've spent my career exploring the three-pound universe in our heads. On my new podcast, I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions so we can better understand our lives and our realities. Like, does time really run in slow motion when you're in a car accident? Or can we create new senses for humans? Or what does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain steers your behavior, your perception, and your reality. Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last season, millions tuned into the Betrayal podcast to hear a shocking

story of deception. I'm Andrea Gunning and now we're sharing an all-new story of Betrayal. Ashley Lytton was helping her husband set up a business Venmo account when she discovered a terrible secret. I scrolled down and that's when I saw a hidden folder and I opened it. What the hell did I just see? I was scared that he was coming home. What Ashley discovered that day was a secret so dark she feared for her life. She was like, oh my god, I gotta get out of the house. He's gonna find out that I've seen this, he's gonna come kill me. Listen to season two of Betrayal on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get

your podcasts. Between April 1971 and September 1972, six young black girls were snatched off the streets in Washington D.C. It took four murders before the police finally realized that one person was responsible. I will admit the others when you catch me if you can. Signed freeway fan. This child was laying on the side of the road. It appeared that she was probably either dragged out of the car or thrown out of the car. The person said, I murdered your daughter. The killer believed that he may have been seen by the mother. That guy is, he's out of sync with even the worst people. I thought that they would catch him. I thought it was just a matter of time. Is it possible that the killer is still alive?

Listen to Freeway Phantom on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I mean, wasn't that the whole thing with that, what the fox say song? Is that like, that was some huge producer and then it was basically like, what the fox say? Yeah, kids love it. Kids love it. It was some talk show in Sweden or something. They were like, do you think we could make a pop song about almost nothing? And they were like, sure. And then they did it and it became like a smash. Who wrote that though? I did not know that that's the story. I think it was some big producer. Oh, really? And they did it as on a lark, which is a very fun word to use. It became, it like, actually like, the thing that they were joking about.

Oh, well, see, it's that easy. I guess so. It's not hard. He wrote a song for Blackpink. That is that Korean all girl band? Yeah, they're, they're a super big K-pop band. So I was on some talk show. I think it was like Corden or something. And, uh, no, I think it was Frank Corden show. I don't know. One of those talk shows. And I was one of the guests. Doesn't even know. But they were the musical guest. Yes. And so the musical guest is, is on a little later. That's huge. So I'm up first. And my twi, I was like, just looking at Twitter while it was on, not, not even watching. I was like out or something. And my Twitter was exploding with hate of like, who the fuck is this guy? Get him off the stage. We're ready for Blackpink.

And I've never heard of Blackpink before in my life. And then that's when I tuned in. And to see, you don't want those K-pop groups, uh, they're fan based to turn on you. Right. They, they have armies. They have armies, like the BTS army. They, they were true, true. Yeah, like they will come for you hard. They will come for you hard. But they're coming. Do not come. Blackpink. I think kind of. Do not come. Blackpink eye? They, Blackpink eye is our band. It's when you get punched in the eye. And, and then someone parts in your, also in your eye. Someone who's been punching poo all day. Right. Dang. No, no, that's, that's when you get, someone punches you in the eye and then they

pull their pants down, presses their asshole directly against that eye and then lets one rip. Takes a Blackpink eye. Can I do my version? Can I do my version? Okay, okay. Yes, you may. They fist you. Okay. And then they punch you right in the eye. Oh, that's why I'm that's a Blackpink eye. That's a Blackpink eye. Yeah. I'm a fist you and punch you in the eye, dude. That ain't happening. Blackpink is a, is a song. I wonder where, how they came up with that name. Oh, I never thought of that. Yeah. Yeah. Like I wonder if they were like, this is two colors are two favorite colors. It'll, it'll go with everything. We can sell the merch because these bands are like put together. They're, you know, it's, it's like how the boy bands in the early

2000s, the Backstreet Boys and the in-syncs and the 98 degrees and other bands. Wait, wait, what? Yeah, dude. They weren't friends before they were in a band. Yeah. That cool, that cool Husky pervert dude was like, I'm going to put you in the band, the other boys. Yeah. The fact that I haven't done his bio pic yet, I don't. Pizza, pizza. Yeah. What is his name? Ron Perlman. I don't know. This is all legendary. Is that Ron Perlman? That's Elboy. Elboy, bro. It's something like that. It's something like that. It's like Larry Perlman. Dude, when I was in Japan, there was a billboard for some like all boy group. I think it was an all boy like boy band. And their name was Black Monsters. Yeah. Yeah, they're not going to travel that well. I don't know if that's going to pop off here

in the States. What the hell? Black Monsters. Wow. I mean, I was laughing so hard I was crying in the street. That's crazy. Although like, what if they got embraced? If they got embraced, it's like, fuck yeah, dude, that could be interesting. They are the Black Monsters. Sure. Okay. You never know, man. Rumor has it how many people are in Blackpink? Because I know BTS is like 12, right? There's like 15 of them. Yeah, there's, there's no, no, no, Blackpink. There's a goddamn squad. Is it not? Or am I, am I mixing up my Korean girl? But isn't BTS many, many dudes? I think it's like six. No, no, no, it's way more than that. No. Yes. Okay. Who are the biggest groups? Wu-Tang Clan is pretty huge. That's a pretty big one. Okay. Oh, so you're talking, you're talking groups from 30 years ago?

Well, I'm trying to think of like, there's four members in Blackpink. Is it really? Yeah. What the hell? Yeah. You guys are like shouting out big numbers. I'm saying probably the largest group as far as music goes is Wu-Tang Clan, right? It's like 13 dudes. Hang on. Hang on. Well, how many people are in BTS seven, four members in Blackpink? What's that Canadian band? What's the Canadian band? Uh, Bear Naked Ladies? No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh my God. BTS has seven? Seven. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. Wait, but the fucking, what's the Canadian fucking band? Beiber. What? No, Ben Rush. That's three people. Mike Myers. The guy, the fucking honkies with the arcade fire. Arcade fire. Thank you, Todd. How many people are on stage at arcade fire

I'm pissed now there's a lie that's got it. They have a squad. Oh, yeah And and they're like there's one guy with a trombone. The other guys just banging trash can lids together, right? There's one person just some just dancing around like do they is everyone getting paid. Oh, yeah Yeah, five bucks to tour with that amount of people where a guy's just like he's just rubbing sticks together and starting a fire Our producers saying there's 16 people in our kid fire. Are we telling jokes back there? We need the facts I'm seeing she goes 16 people. I think we're not paying you to think We need our back. We can do did you guys hear the end of our last podcast where it was like a robot saying

Actually, the actress from Sopranos is not John Turturro sister. It's his cousin. I was like what? Oh, really? I did not yeah. Yeah. Oh, we were corrected after the yeah That's open in the can of worms if you're gonna start correcting us Hey Allegedly, we just gotta never mind. We gotta say it more arcade arcade fire There's 16 people in total who've been involved over time Okay, so the six people but then I because I've seen them in concert like at festivals and stuff mm-hmm two or three times now There's always 10 to 15 people on that stage. Yeah doing weird shit. Yeah, just doing random shit. Do you like them, Adam?

Yeah, I mean, they're great. I don't drive around listening to them, but they're great at a festival. Who do you drive around listening to? I like that. That's like the I mean, I don't drive around listening to them But like no, they're great at a festival. Their sound is so huge that Sweeping that it does feel like if you're listening to it with a hundred thousand other people like we did at Bonnaroo I'm like, this is it was special. This is yeah. Yeah, but no, they're not they're not my I Did I did just find a new band. I bet Blake knows about them. No pressure A new punk band. Oh, yeah, wait, what? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, the bitch pressure who the hell is no pressure

I don't know. I might have that who the hell is that check them out. They're good. They're they're pop punky Ron Perlman put them together Hellboy we self put this band together. Hey, you guys are gonna be a band now. No, they're really good Check them out. I will say that though I do have a soft spot in my heart for arcade fire because if you remember like Sean Clements always brought in that one We had a very select few of records we would play in the workaholics writers room And I think the the arcade fire album the suburbs came out while we were writing some season It is correct and we would listen to that shit

So, you know, if you listen to a record enough, even if you don't initially like it It starts to just click in your head like, oh, okay. Well, it takes you back to a certain time Yeah, you know what I mean like you're transported like I know exactly what you're talking about And I'm I'm sitting on that shitty chair that smelled like farts That was duck together in the workaholics writers room. It transports me back there. What song is on the suburbs? I'm sitting there watching a guy get head From a mother of four in a parked car in the parking lot while sitting in the workaholics writers Yeah, we did we did see that we did

That would happen you I feel like you're adding some facts to it, but we I think that's fun I feel like Sean and Kevin Etten had very different musical tastes from what I had They liked like the national and they liked on arcade fire, which is kind of like white dad rock, but I Started to get a ear for it because we would just listen to it every day. I was like, hey Blake You're a white dad. Yeah. Well, by the way, where was I? I wasn't I was just teetering at that point. Yeah, I Cannot listen to the national okay, go where was I when this was happening go off King You were in the room brother trust me is the national the guys like he basically sounds like the crash test dummies a little bit Okay. Yeah, I'm not yeah, not for me

I don't know let's see Kevin was always like me you like the national to me And I think I was just trying to be cool. So I'm like, yeah, I don't know if I know a national song They were a hot hot band in 2010 if you went to a wood fire pizza a wood fire oven pizza place in 2010 the national was playing If you went to if you've been to a brewery in the year 2011 yeah, exactly you are listening to the national if you were drinking an IPA with a funny name In the 2010s you might be listening to the national Here's your sign if you have a haircut that's buzzed on the sides

But kind of long on the top like a weird Nazi, but you're not you might listen to the national Yeah, you look like you are in the picky blinders drinking a maple brown Stout you might be at the national if you if you've got multiple selections of beard oil in your In your bathroom cupboard you might listen to the national if you're a kid is named after a country in Africa If your child is named Congo Anderson You might be listening to the national if you went axe throwing multiple times and bought your own and never used it Yeah, my listen to the national

Like hit us with the national song. I don't I don't know if I know If you've got red-wing boots that are crispy clean and you keep them nice and tidy you might listen to the national If your favorite baseball team is the Montreal Expos you might listen to the national If you have a baseball hat made out of Japanese denim, you might listen to the national Damn, okay. Well, this one's from 2000 if you've washed your body with charcoal If more than three items in your house have charcoal if you use charcoal to pay

You might listen to the national charcoal lemonade I have charcoal to face I have charcoal soap If you bought a t-shirt that has the name of a pretend gas station on it you might listen to the national Okay, let's see what this one is 2013 break us off All these songs I'm playing today have slow start if you wore a bolo tie to work Yeah, this is the crash test. I mean bro Sean Clements is right enough the funniest script you've ever read Yes, writing a workaholic episode where dang I can't even go into his voice. Can I skip ahead and just let us have it It's that it's that driving maestro

Oh No, they all sound like they like they want to be Bruce Springsteen so bad It's adjacent. It's a Jason This is a song where white dads are holding up their kid looking at him like you can be anything you want to be and that song is Playing, you know, bro. If you work hard in this country Turn the burners down, bro. We fucks with the national I will give you my red wing boots and old car heart work jacket and you might listen to the next turn The burners down, bro. We fuck with the national

They help so is there music like that that doesn't that's not Popular anymore. No, it was a time. It was it was 2010 1113. Well, I went to The black keys concert of a couple weeks ago and I saw our boys Pat and Dan Mm-hmm. I don't know Pat's our boy anymore man. Come on man. He's into hot water No, no, his wife is his wife hit him Legitly I think that I just read that they're reconciling Good good. I hope so. Look at this. Look at our little our little goss up music podcast. I like Sipping tea welcome to bitch for with the boys three

Hey, bro Okay, it's taken too long Yeah, we just bitch about music so I saw our guys there but admittedly the crowd Was like I was one of the younger people there. I think for sure I think that style of music had its heyday 10 years ago. Yeah, you know rock and rock It's because I love the black keys. I'm a big fan But it like I feel like that style has just it's not caught on with the you One Republic who's been around forever

Mm-hmm was all teenage girls. That's why I was there Yeah, I don't know if this episode's airing I do listen to old music with like a bands and I'm like Is there just no appeal to being in a band for youngsters like jump saying like the idea of like Getting together with your friends and doing something together. Is that over is that the whole thing where it's like because in a band There's conflict, right? We're like, hey man, I'm gonna do this bass and people have to be like actually we don't love that Let's go with something else sure this conflict our kids just like not down for conflict at that They're conflict free

I'm gonna be in my lab by myself playing all the instruments on a computer and you can't tell me what to do because I'm gonna do it Although no one can tell me what to do because I'm doing it all my own Yeah, you know, is that what it is? I mean, we're we're a band as well. There's politics to it It's hard it's hard We come from a different time where we can say shut up. Well, yeah, we could just say hey I love what you're saying, but shut up real quick. Shut up what you have to realize I don't have to do anything that every but a shut up We have to realize I don't is with all that fighting

Everybody who comes together is bringing something to the band or the group and as soon as you take that person away Except for Kyle as you can see we're running and gunning without him. Yeah, I'm pretty good pretty funny He had a hard time getting that seat belt off He's still in that van somewhere Oh, no, man, but is that is that part of it? Like what or are people just like hey, man I'm gonna get famous on my own and not split the check Which is something we were always told where it's like man sketch groups are tough to like get people paid

Because if there's six of you in this thing keeping them alone. Yeah, that's what our manager. Yeah, dude I mean, what's the deal? Yeah, mate I bet it I bet that's part of the equation like it's way smarter to just like blow up on your own All you have to do is face your camera forward and do it or whatever or like if you're in a band you have Yeah, I mean I know but isn't it more fun like kicking it I I would say when we were first coming up and and people were you know, we're Being like wow, it's so cool that you guys have a show like are blowing up And I'm like the coolest part about it was is it wasn't we weren't by ourselves

Like we got to experience it together. Yeah, so cool about being in a band is like Hopefully those guys are some of your very best friends. Yeah, and then you get to experience this amazing, right? like life-changing event that Usually as an adult you don't get to experience that with a group of friends. Yeah, it's fucking way So it it was the best it was so how much fun was it when we all went and bought cars? And then we showed up to the work all its office and in our new cars It was the most fun the fact that we could go to nice dinners together Right and like actually have a good time and not be like freaking out about if someone ordered an extra

An extra Cobb salad or whatever the fuck because before all this if somebody You would make a scene no, I was always poor with money Even going to the South by Southwest with each other before like a premiere like at least we're rolling as a Friend group. It's so sick that we have all these like collective memories. Yeah collective salt Because because I forgot about all of it. I need you guys to remind me about You guys remind me we really have to keep churning it up Emma's always like where when did you go to so-and-so? I'm like, I don't remember. I don't know. We started drinking in the airport on the way to the place And then I just woke up back in my own bed somehow that I mean that happened

Man, I blame Isaac I blame Isaac It was 2010 that we started to do stuff and then 2011 Was when the show came out and then it was just off to the racist from there on to the racist Did you say it's off to the racists? Yeah, that's what I said. Okay, we're gonna talk to you Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called inner cosmos on I heart I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford University and I've spent my career exploring the three-pound universe in our heads on My new podcast I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling

Unusual questions so we can better understand our lives and our realities like does time really run in slow motion when you're in a car accident or Can we create new senses for humans or what does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain Steers your behavior your perception and your reality Listen to inner cosmos with David Eagleman on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Last season millions tuned into the betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception I'm Andrea Gunning and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal

Ashley Lytton was helping her husband set up a business Venmo account when she discovered a terrible secret I Skilled down and that's when I saw a hidden folder and I opened it What the hell did I just see I Was scared that he was coming home What Ashley discovered that day was a secret so dark she feared for her life. She was like, oh my god I got to get out of the house. He's gonna find out that I've seen this. He's gonna come kill me Listen to season two of betrayal on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Between April 1971 and September 1972

Six young black girls were snatched off the streets in Washington, DC It took four murders before the police finally realized that one person was responsible I will admit the others when you catch me if you can Signed freeway phantom This child was laying on the side of the road. It appeared that she was probably either dragged out of the car It's thrown out of the car the person said I murdered your daughter The killer believed that he may have been seen by the mother That guy is he's out of sync with even the worst people. I thought that they would catch him

I thought it was just a matter of time Is it possible that the killer is still alive? Listen to freeway phantom on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Okay, we're back we just talked to Adam yes Congo Anderson The it was that that's when we you know, huh we were off to the races and We really got to do all this fucking cool shit and You I forgot about so much of it. It's so nice to see like the 10 year like this happened to you 10 years ago today

Like a decade ago, and you were like holy shit. That was South by Southwest What do you mean this happened to you 10 years ago today like all the old Facebook photos and things Have you lost your mind no have you ever lost a phone Adam? No see that's fucking cool. Well not I mean not Forever like I've lost a couple phones in my life and like a lot of my memories are those photos So like I'm not connected to the cloud. You don't you don't shoot your shit up No, I was really like not trying to hit the cloud. I was a little Like thought they were like stealing my shit or something Okay, but like so there's like two years you thought you're about to be in the fat

What's coming for me bro? Yo, did you see Blake Anderson's happening dude? I would love to see Blake It's just him jerking off in a mirror or something like what? It's just him checking out his own butthole in a mirror being like what does it look like? Still do that It looks like yeah, I get older buttholes Hey, here's a question when you get older does your butthole get more wrinkly? Ah, that's a great question I think the butthole is the one thing maybe we need to start extracting Butthole serum and putting it on the corner of our eyes to make the wrinkles what and what to you is butthole serum

Butthole serum just jamming it took about 40 minutes, but we got we got two wrinkly buttholes, which Which I'm hyped about super and so do we think if as you age your butthole gets more wrinkly absolutely not the exact same No, no, it does it does for sure cuz the more I Absolutely not no Blake, of course it does the more it's dying you shit the more It's like it's like the more you raise your eyebrows through your you you're gonna get more forehead wrinkles and shit It's science Blake is notoriously shitting once a week though. No, like you haven't I can see like hella youthful Where you were like scared of shitting as a kid. I could see that for you

No, I was not for sure. No, I was not. Yeah, he just he wasn't scared of it He just couldn't do it because I can play Fuck off, bro. Don't treat me like Kyle I Shit no actually Wait now that I started to think about it. No, my thing wasn't that I was scared Okay, my thing was that I didn't want to like leave Whatever situation I was no whatever we were playing right like didn't I was like oh shit

I have to shit, but we're playing kick the can or we're playing Nintendo like I'm not going to that's every kid Every kid's like I'm in the middle of something and then suddenly like pause it and they fucking hightail it to the toilet Oh, I got a shit my pants. Yeah, dude. I did it a lot So Blake if we are at a will you shit in the party or will you shit in a gross bar bathroom if you have to go? Okay, well now you're talking to like an older me. I was talking me as a as a kid I feel like I knew you to be a Tentative shitter. Mm-hmm. I woke Adam. That's why I love being in a group with you I love being a part of your band brother. Yes, because

I met you one of the parks of being in the back because when you meet people who have completely different like Completely different philosophies on I'm gonna come completely different philosophies like Adam, you know, like it was like what I don't He's like dude like Adam doesn't give a shit. He'll shit anywhere anywhere. I know does not matter That's well documented true like you I don't even think he lays down toilet paper on the seat does not matter He just goes down sits down. What's your ass is for I wipe it down if there's piss on it I'll take some toilet paper and wipe the piss off Fucking butthole spend all that time. I'm gonna sit. I'm gonna shit. I'm gonna stand up and wipe my ass

I'm sorry that guy when I shower See I'll shower later and get the grossness off my ass Adam Adam Adam out of 100 times where you've sat down with no toilet paper and Taking the shit. How many of those times did you take a shower within the hour? No, not within the hour when I go when I'm taking a shower Later dude the human skin the next day skin can take you so well then you would just like with Toilet but for and guess and guess what my ass is fine, and it's been fine for 38 years

Dude gnarly Not gnarly not gnarly I guarantee you I bet it's a 50-50 split. This is like stand-up wife Oh, I truly feel most people don't do that. No, your whole bathroom routine is fucked, bro But go ahead. I mean, I hate I'll say it Yeah, I know you stand to why or porta potty and it's fucking our job brand names If I'm in a Gump Andy Gump Andy Gump Andy Gump If I'm in a sh like it's absolutely filthy then I'll do something but nine times out of ten or even

9.8 times out of ten. I'm not doing that. I will hey, so how about this? Have you ever sat down directly on a seat? Right after someone else got up and it's still warm. I love it Do you feel like a connection? I could do that person right? You look that person in the face as the exit and you enter and kind of nod or do this go That's our hot tub time machine. That's our hot tub Who's our who's us? Who's our on this situation? No, this is we're writing this movie. Oh, that's how you get yeah You you're able to get all of their memories if you sit down and they're hot hot Contact although you start like dude and then like they're like they the bad guys start to realize

That's what you're doing So you're like good trying to get there before it cools down and they're like holding you back and Adam puts his big It writes itself Yes, it's like jumper. I've never is jumper a movie. It's like jumper is jumper Jumpers a movie. It's also a song. I wish you would now that's an anthem wall to wall Hey, by the way, hey, dude saw them in Bonnaroo. They did have more hits than I thought they did the guy Semi-sonic that's right, right? Oh, hey bands, you know you ask oh, I'm so sorry to offend you guys. He was wearing a leather

You were a leather kill what a savage bro, I love that. Yeah, that's nice Yeah, he was ready to clean the fuck up. Hey, is this a is this a is this a strong? What are they called a something take then hot take? Wow, dude. Yeah, what is he about to unleash on us? I like third-eye blind more than I like arcade fire. No, that's not that. No, that is a hot take No, I don't think so. Oh Blake you don't think in today's day and age that it's not a hot take to like third-eye blind More than arcade fire in this day and a that is for sure a hot Hot toilet seat take I like jumper more than any arcade fire song more than the one that goes

Yeah, I don't really love that song. I'm telling you right now third-eye blind pops off harder now Then it did when it came out and they were a super hit band back in the day Right. Hey, you don't got to tell me I like third-eye blind too, but I'm saying as far as semi-sonic societal norms third-eye blind is a straight-up pit now It's a pit now like those songs go so hard people go crazy for that Oh, I wish you would step back from The mattress that's when you're gonna go in and start throwing some Kongo

That shit goes so freaking hard that that's just window break That's Kyle kick the fucking windows out music now as a DJ and someone who actually goes out Blake Have you heard anybody throw that down like? Mid mod like people playing like it's from now hits from now hits from now And then they throw on when I because I know smells like Teen Spirit is like the new go-to like now That one's weak if you reach for that you could get four other songs from that album that go way harder No, no, but I'm saying if you want to like have a throwdown are there ones that throw down harder than when I graduate Well, you know, it's like the emo renaissance. So we talked about it, but it's like basically like we started it

My chemical romance all that shit goes like way hard if you start to drop that shit because I feel like third eye blind What we were little when that shit came out like my step dad were in eighth grade He was I know but like my chemical romance came out a little later something great Yeah, I don't know who that is is that hold the damn door open my chemical romance came out No black parade black parade is a true banger that song is a great song Yeah, I don't know any other what's the one that's like a close in the goddamn door like that one is that fucking people go Absolutely, mania. Who is that? Yeah, pull up boy. Yeah, that's not fall like that's all yeah. Yeah, that's like a that's like that's not follow boy

It is it is closing the goddamn door is not fallout boy. Mm-hmm. It is no, it's not it is closing the goddamn door No, yeah, that's not fallout boy. What is it? Who is it? It's not Todd Who is it? Panic at the disco Because you're a liar and you like all this music they're from Chicago those guys are from Chicago Yeah, no, you try to play it off like you're some cool guy. I like some Panic at the disco songs Out boy. Does anyone have any fallout boys? They want I would like to get flowers to panic at the disco my bad

I thought you were fallout boy for a second and I was wrong. Okay. Yeah, my pop punk knowledge is not where it should be I love it and apologies to fallout boy. I'm all you guys have so many hits We just lumped this one in with you. Yeah real hit factory It won't happen again. It will happen again, and I would like to give an apology to the national I know my boys came at you really hard, but Sean Clements. Thank you so much for introducing them to me I had a great you were shitting on them too. I know I was dude I liked it when it played in the room at Workaholics, and I think it it fed some of our greatest episodes I'll take that to the bank and shout out to Sean Clements

I just did his podcast Hollywood Handbook if you want to get into this business out here in Hollywood Be sure and listen to Hollywood Handbook listen to the handbook It gives you the the ins and outs of the industry the what's to do's and what not to do's Pretty hardcore, and I would like to give Some condolences to our listeners for not for this No for not getting to hear start over just take that again. Just take that again. I Would like to give condolences to our listeners Uh-huh for having to listen to this podcast without Kyle because I know the aruguloids are pissed that he's not here that he

Couldn't get that seatbelt off, but yeah, and you guys the fans you guys all went in on us about yelling at Kyle. Guess what? This is what it is This is bitchfork, okay Sometimes you get poked dude ever since that episode Kyle has been gone. It's three episodes now Bye, bitch In it Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called inner cosmos on I heart I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling

Unusual questions like can we create new senses for humans? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain Steers your behavior your perception and your reality Listen to inner cosmos with David Eagleman on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Last season millions tuned into the betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception I'm Andrea Gunning and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal Ashley Lytton was helping her husband set up a business Venmo account when she discovered a terrible secret I saw a hidden folder and I opened it. What the hell did I just see?

Listen to season two of betrayal on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Between April 1971 and September 1972 six young black girls were snatched off the streets in Washington DC This child was laying on the side of the road. The person said I murdered your daughter The killer believed that he may have been seen I will admit the others when you catch me if you can sign freeway phantom Listen to freeway phantom on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts