U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - R U Talkin' RHCP RE: ME? - Return Of The Dream Canteen

Episode Date: December 7, 2022

Adam Scott Aukerman are back with another installment of their comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things Red Hot Chili Peppers. This time, Scott and Scott discuss Survivor, The Mickey Mouse Club, and just what that Y stands for in NYC. Then, as always, they go track-by-track through the Chilps’ new record, Return Of The Dream Canteen, in exhaustive detail.

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The comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things Red Hot Chili Peppers This is good rock and roll Music? Ew Ew? Rock and roll. Music. Ew. Ew? What's that? Did someone say ew?

Did I hear someone say ew? No, it was ew. I thought you were doing backup vocals. Ew. Ew. Just a little short grunts. Ew. What if music had taken a weird turn and every song you were expected to go and during it or the only music was a person going ew alternating yeah uh welcome Welcome back to the show, I believe, episode 77.

This is our, I believe we've been doing... Of the Chili Peppers one? No, just of total, yeah. But for Chili Peppers, we've been doing it for two and a half years now. No. Yeah, we have. Oh my God. In the trenches with the Chili Peps.

And welcome to the show. My name is Scott Aukerman. I'm the co-host of this podcast you're listening to. That would be strange if I was not the co-host and I was doing this much of the heavy lifting. Yeah. And the person doing all of the light lifting is... I.e. nothing. We call him the elegant sniper

because he every once in a while comes in with a very funny joke you know him as Ben Capshaw from Parks and Rec and he has a new show

called Sibilance. I don't know what it's called, but it's on Apple TV+, which costs approximately $50, $70, $100 a month sometimes, depending on which deal you get. Sometimes it can go all the way up to... If you have the high quality premium plan, it's like 1,500 a month, something like that. I would have to check.

If you give me like 15, 20 minutes, I can find out. No problem. Do you want to, should we pause? Let's just take a break. All right, let's take a break. Okay, we'll see you on the other side of this. Okay. And we're back and adam you you found uh you found the you you did find what you're looking for that's our old show um no i need another like 25 30 okay we'll be right back bye bye and we're back and adam what have you come up with

um okay uh this is what i've found out and i have uh done due diligence did you call up tim cook i called tim cook uh but it's a weekend. It's weird that he's, like, his name is Cook. Mm-hmm. And he works at Apple, so you'd think, like, okay, he's a guy who cooks apples? No. Right. Like, are we talking apple pie, like delicious apple pie?

Delicious apple pie. Or an apple crumble? Yeah. If he's cooking apples, I mean. But instead, he's just some rando who like- It's just a coincidence. It's a coincidence. It's a happy coincidence.

So when people call him Tim Apple, that makes more sense. But it's not even that. It's like Tim Computer. Isn't that what Donald Trump called him? Yeah. Just Tim Apple. Tim Apple. What a fucking idiot.

Not Tim Apple, but Donald Trump. No, no donald no no no no no of course not so what did you find out about the the price of apple tv plus well uh what i was able to find out uh and it how long did we take about 50 minutes 50 yeah five zero minutes yeah. It's been almost an hour at this point. Okay. If you buy an Apple device, an iPhone. What else are we talking? An iPad. What about like a USB drive if I buy it at the Apple store?

A USB drive? That's a device, right? Sure. You can make calls on it and watch TV and stuff? Yeah, sure. Anything you can watch television on, once you buy that. If you even buy a phone case at the Apple Store, you can watch Apple TV Plus on it. If you can, if you even just, if you just, Scott, if you just think about a phone, not even an iPhone, just a phone, you can watch Apple TV Plus. Amazing.

But you have to close your eyes. Yeah. And they bill you for it. You get, well, that's what it is. It's three months for free if you buy an Apple device. And then after that, or if you don't want to buy an Apple device, that's fine. You get a Apple TV plus for 699 a month.

That could add up though, because really there's only one show that you want to watch on that. And it's yours. And then you say three months for free. Yeah. You say three months for free, but your show has been out for how long now? A year or something and

i still haven't watched it almost a year so i'd be paying yeah but you don't i'm paying nine months just to watch just to not watch your show that's right you have to pay 6.99 a month to not watch your show no it's too rich for my blood yeah it is a little pricey for your tax bracket uh um anyway uh adam scott is my co-host hello adam what's up bro what's your character's name in your show mark scout why is that funny i don't't understand. I love it. When you get a script and you read your name has to be Mark Scout, what do you do as an actor?

I go like this. Yes. And I pump my fist. Finally. I love it. I wonder if there's ever been a real person named Mark Scout in the world. Well, if you give me 45 minutes, I can find out. Okay, here we go. We'll see you on the other side of this break.

Okay, thanks. And we're back. And Adam, I had lunch while you did this. And how have you been trying to find out this information? Yeah, sorry. I got distracted and kind of went off in a couple different directions, just sort of task-wise. And I forgot about finding out. I don't really care.

Me neither. Yeah. But I did Google Mark Scout just just now and there's just a bunch of pictures of me and so you took 45 minutes to jerk it to pictures of yourself that's that's right um okay so that's so i guess the answer is no then there's no other no other mark is that what that means yeah i, I think so. I mean, I, I think the true way to find out is if you would collect every white pages from every single area code and look under SC. Right, right, right, right.

O-U-T. I can do that. We just need to take a quick, like, 70-day break. And then come right back. That'll explain why it's taken us so long to put out this episode. Although Scout is so close to Scott. Did you ever, like, go up to him and go, can we just change it to Scott? Right.

What if Mark Scott? And then just be like, Mark is so close to Adam. Let's just change it to adam and then it would be very funny like to be in my name on the show was adam scott and you're like no i'm not playing myself i'm playing a different guy named adam scott because sometimes you see people in characters and they they have the same name like woody on cheers right and it's always just like why didn't they just change the name it's on Cheers. Right, right. And it's always just like, why didn't they just change the name?

It's so weird. Yeah. But it happens all the, and because having just rewatched a bunch of Cheers and some behind the scenes little BTS, I found out that it was a coincidence. That was the name of the character when Woody Harrelson came in. But why did they, why did they? Why didn't they change when Woody Harrelson came in. But why did they keep it stuck?

Why didn't they change it to Harrelson? Right. See, that was exactly what I thought. Adam, we're back. We're talking about the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We've been doing this show for two and a half years nonstop. Constantly, like not stopping. A lot of it is research and development, R&D.

That's why we go so long in between episodes. That's a little BTS right there, just a little factoid. It's a lot of R&D. A lot of R&D on this program. And we're here to celebrate the release of the second RHCP. That's what I've been calling him, RHCP. What do you call him again? Well, David Wayne calls them the Red Hot Chill Peps.

Which. So he is taking off two syllables. I'm inclined to kind of follow that lead because I like that name. Yeah. Because how many syllables is their band name? It's Red Hot Chili Peppers. Six. Six syllables.

He's taken off two by calling them the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Right. Saves time. And I'm going RHCP. That's taking off two syllables. But there's got to be a way to shorten it even further, right? Think about the time you would save per year if you never once said red hot chili peppers and only said RHCP or red hot chilpeps. But there's got to be a way

to get it down to three syllables. What about red hot chilps? Red hot chilps. What about just chilps comma red hot? Even better. Because then... Even better, yeah. You say chilps, comma, Red Hot? Even better. Because then... Even better, yeah. You say Chilps, people know what you're talking about,

but just in case they don't, Red Hot, they're all caught up. The Chilps. Hey, I'm listening to the Chilps. Red Hot. Comma Red Hot. Chilps. Do you have to say the comma? Comma, parentheses.

You have to say the comma because then they won't. Oh, okay. That's not saving a ton of time then. Chilps, comma, Red Hot. No, but it is because the comma Red Red Hot part is like under your breath. So they've already moved on. Oh, okay. Yeah, good.

They've already moved on. The minute you say Chilps, they go, okay, bye. You're like, Chilps, and they're gone. But those who don't know what you're talking about, they stick around and they're there for the comma, Red Hot. Adam, have you, and this is a serious question. Have you, have you been to a party lately? Any party? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Why do people talk about at parties these days? The red hot chili peppers. I'm telling you right now that there was so much time wasted at this party. Oh man. The minute you got there, you started talking about the Chilps, comma, Red Hot. And the party was over by the time you got a sentence out. I was only able to say their name once.

And before you know it, I'm on my way home. Just thinking like, I didn't even get to finish a conversation. That's right. I'm picking up a passenger. The last party you went to, you drove someone to

and said, hey, do you mind if I come in? And I was like, hey, I may as well go in here. I feel like we're at the age where there's nothing new to say at a party, right? Yeah, I feel like I was at that age at like 22 years old. Yeah, they should shut them down, right? But yes, you're right. Yeah, no more parties. No more parties. Let's just

No more parts. Get-togethers? Not even them. No more gets. No more parts. Parts and wreck, right? No more parts and wreck. That could be like the

BTS about how everyone was cast. You could call it partss and Wreck. Did you think when you got that- Write that down. When you got that role, that it was short for Parks and Recommendations? And then you- That's what I thought it was. I thought it was just like a documentary series about recommending things to your friends.

And so you brought a whole bunch of recommendations. Do you remember your list? Yeah. I had a meeting with Mike Schur and I brought a list of restaurant recommendations and recommendations for clothing stores. And these were long lists. This was like, I mean, I pulled the piece of paper out of my pocket and it unfurled and went all the way down the stairs and like outside because i love

restaurants mike sure that's a guy who should be a microphone you know because the sure part of it you know what i mean like he should be a microphone he's not a guy or he should come out with a line of microphones sure i mean he's a guy with two names of a microphone in his name mike and sure is sure the name of the microphone it's a brand yeah it's a brand of high-end microphones s-u-r-e no s-h-u-r-e but still pretty close he's a guy he's a guy who loves microphones so much that he he both of his names are microphones get the fuck out of here well he changed his name to that because he loves microphones so much really yeah it's m-i-c-s-h-u-r-e is how you spell his name

yeah he did that m-i-c-k-e-y love of m-o-u-s-e did you ever watch the real name is mickey mouse did you ever watch the mickey mouse club and go like oh i wish i was in that i feel like we're a generation or two too late for the mickey mouse club because that was like a thing our parents watch wasn't well yeah although they they had the the reruns i watched it a lot because who had the runs they had the runs they had the all an f funicello had the runs the whole time they were shooting and cubby remember cubby and then they have the new mickey mouse club which uh uh blair from facts of life was in i saw a video of blair from facts of life the other day doing a ventriloquism act before she got famous she was like a little mickey mouse club no no like in a

in a ventriloquist competition and she was like legitimately good in it what was i just told you what i was watching her in a ventriloquist yeah Yeah, I know. But how did, where did that pop up? I saw, I saw a video of it. I, I, some people were sharing it on social media companies. Huh?

Weird. I saw her when she was on survivor a few years back. Oh, that's right. She popped up on there. Yeah. Yeah. Did you watch survivor?

Uh, you've been watching it this year. For sure. Yeah. You always watch, right? You're, you've been in the little

audience i am caught up yeah yeah i love survivor uh last year what last year i thought was great the last season and this one's a little boring for me really i i like owen a lot i'm rooting for owen um but you know it's interesting because the last few years maybe maybe mostly well we'll see i'm i'm about to tell you it feels like since the pandemic the people on survivor have been exceedingly nice to each other yeah it's interesting because it used to be like people fucking everyone over just like i'm gonna cut his throat yeah and now it's like i'm gonna love his throat yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna love on his throat uh yeah do you think that's because of the pandemic everyone's like uh so happy to to be around people i you know

i i think it when the pandemic it's not over obviously but when we were now able to see people it wore off like two days in right remember like getting to see people yeah yeah i remember i remember we saw we we had a get together mid pandemic with some people where everyone tested and then isolated and then six days later or whatever we all got together or something and people were crying because we had just hadn't seen each other i'm so overseeing people at this point yeah i barely want to be talking to you no i mean we're not even in the same room and i'm already sick of it uh remember um on survivor a couple of years ago when...

God, never mind. We shouldn't talk about Survivor. We could do a Survivor podcast if you want. What would you call it? 100%. Are you... Do a Survivor podcast. Are you...

Are you is in the word Survivor. It's flipped. Oh, you're right. It's S-U--r but are you maybe it's you're watching survivor or are you vibing on viber jesus i'm i'm really liking this so far. Okay. So, Adam, you are in New York City.

We buried the lead. We're not in the same room right now. We're over Zoom. You're in New York City. You've gone to see the statue, of course. Yeah, I do it every morning. Yeah. And just read what's written on that tablet that she has. Out loud, yeah.

Yeah, out loud. I climb up there and then read it out loud. Because it's a secret. They don't tell you what's on that tablet, but it's like, what is it? What's it say? It's all Roman numerals. Really? Yeah.

But those are letters. It's like four, six roman numeral letters so it says i think you're just interpreting them as roman numerals it actually says something in english no it just it's all roman numerals i got i don't i i actually don't don't know i figured it was in Latin. Am I wrong about that? Who cares? I don't know. I mean, who gives a shit about what it says? You know what I mean? It's like what it stands for. That's what's important. I just like reading things out loud. And this is just randomly what I've chosen to read out loud every morning.

But doesn't it say at the, it says at the base, right? Bring me your cold, your tired. Yes, it does. You're weak. But the tablets, I don't even know if there's anything on there. Do you measure the Statue of Liberty from the base or from? Every morning. Yeah. From the, no, from, from her big toe all the way up.

All the way up to her elbows. Just up to her elbows. Interesting. I went up, I went up to the top of it once and I peered out of the windows of that little crown she has on. Very interesting. A lot of stairs.

You know, you get to something like that and you go like, hey, this will be fun. And then it's 54 stories or something like that. It's not fun. It's probably hot in there.

Oh, yeah. And it's like, it's not like it's did it in there oh yeah and it's like it's not like it's a wide staircase either it's like i'm sure i feel like uh it's a one-person staircase for a lot of it and you're just like trudging up and going like oh man i can't wait to see outside that crown and then there's exhausted tourists coming down. Coming down, yeah. And you have to, like, pass them and kiss on the lips as you walk by each other. Mwah. Mwah. Yeah, I went up into the old World Trade Center as well, up to the tippy top of that on that trip. And got, it was very scary.

It was, like, very high up. I don't know if you remember it. No, a tall building it was a tall building tall tall buildings um also the empire state building where oh i've been there very famously the movie sleepless in seattle the the uh it ends there doesn't it it sure does Scott also King Kong I don't doesn't he pick it up and scratch his butt

what the fuck are we talking about what are we doing this is the Red Hot Chili Peppers show we're talking about the peps

the chilps tourists destinations and New York architecture but that's the real New York City right those places that I've mentioned that's the real New York City, right? Those places that I've mentioned.

Oh, that's the real. I get a bagel and cream cheese and I go up to the top of the Empire State Building and I look out and I think, what a great city. Every morning after I go to the Statue of Liberty. Could, and this is legitimately, answer this for real. Could, how much would they-

My answer is yes. How much would they have to pay you to go to the Statue of Liberty now? How much would they have to pay me? Yeah, like you would never go for fun, right? Is this Real Talk? This is Real Talk. Yeah, oh, is this an episode of Real Talk? I believe it is. Hey everyone, welcome this Real Talk? This is Real Talk. Yeah. Oh, is this an episode of Real Talk? I believe it is.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to Real Talk. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we're just talking real today. We're just talking about real things. Just two bros just breaking down our real emotions, our real feelings. Sometimes it's good just to look someone in the eye and just get real over Zoom and get real. Can you look, by the way, can we look each other in the eye over Zoom? No, it's, I'm sort of trying. Because if you look into the camera, you're not looking at the person. Oh, that's true. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, still though, we can get real. Let's get real. It doesn't preclude us. Would you ever go to the Statue of Liberty for fun? Yeah, I've never been, and I actually would love to do that. Really?

Yeah, I would love to. And you'd go up the stairs? I don't know about that, but I would like to go and be there. Okay, so then how much would someone have to pay you to go up the stairs? Well, I mean, it's not like something I'm against doing. It just doesn't seem fun uh or reward like it doesn't seem like it would be worth it right so how much would someone have to pay you to do it um not much like four million dollars so that's a bargain for them

i know i i was just throwing a number out there as, you know. Yeah. No, I would do, I would just do it. I mean, if I was out there, I would probably end up walking up to the top. And I'm sure if I was with my family, none of them would do it with me. But if I was there, I would just be like, well, we're here. Let's just do this thing. Can't you just make your, especially your wife. You're the head of the household i can make i can make her i just shove her in there and tell her to walk up the stairs um but uh i would think that they would want to i wanted to when i was a kid and then about

a third of the way up i'm like oh boy this is a mistake you did it when you were a child well 12 years old yeah okay that's it do you consider that that's a child yeah yes if they were 12 they would probably want to do it but now they're teenagers and it's the last thing they would want to do right teenagers boy but i don't want to climb to the top of a statue with their dad that's such a stereotype about teenagers by By the way, just getting them on the boat and out to Ellis Island,

I don't think we would get that far. Well, this has been Real Talk. We'll see ya. Bye. Pretty good. That was really good.

It was really, it was really real. Yeah, it was. Like sometimes things are a little too real. That was not too real. That was like just real enough. No, it was perfect. It was really... I loved it. I loved it.

Well, from New York, from talking about New York to talking about sunny LA. Sorry, is this an episode of talking about new york to talking about sunny la sorry is this an episode of talking about new york i guess it is hey everyone welcome to talking about new york this is scott and this is scott and this is the show where we talk about new y York from upstate to downstate. Yeah. The very south end of New York.

We're talking about it. Wait, is this show about talking about New York City or New York State? Well, this one's talking about New York. There's also, of course, the other podcast talking about NYC. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Maybe this should be an episode of that. I think so. Take a hold of my hand and come with me. We'll be rockin' around in NYC. Hey everyone, welcome to Talkin' About NYC. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we're talkin' about NYC. Oh, the Big Apple.

And we both know what NYC stands for. Oh, we sure do. We definitely know that three little letters stand for three different words. Say them right now. I'm ready. I want to hear these magic, beautiful words. I'll let you start out, and I'll join in very, very strong. All right.

The first N. I'm going first. Yeah, here we go. What? The N. All right. The first N. I'm going first. Yeah, here we go. What? The N. Here we go. The N. The N.

The N stands for new. Of course it does. New. We like things that are new, right? I like things brand spanking new. And this place, every day you walk outside it's new that's right i love things that are new i hate things that are old if there's anything old in my house i throw it away gross the minute i unwrap something i throw it away me too i unwrap it i look at i go fuck this

and i throw it out the window no matter what it is i don't throw your trash out the window i throw all of my trash out the window especially new trash especially especially in nyc i think it's hard to keep like an iphone for instance yeah because the moment i open it i'm like gross and i get rid of it and i but i need a phone all right let's go to the next word that why that little little why that we love so much is right smack dab in the middle there we love that why and it of course stands for this one's yours buddy oh shit uh do you need a uh i need visual cue yeah yeah what are you doing i'm spelling it out in the air but like reverse i can't i don't know i'm spelling it backwards out in the air just so

in case anyone's watching they don't know what we're doing p no wait sorry i'm gonna start over i didn't think it started with a p did you did you know that's a k that's a k k it starts with a y i thought yeah but i'm doing i'm doing it backwards just in case anyone's watching oh okay all right go ahead so i'm doing it okay now i'm doing it frontwards oh that was a Y. That's a Y? Y. Y. Okay. And then 2 and then K. Y2K. Y2K! That's right.

New Y2K. That's right. That's what we're talking about. Yeah, that's right. And then that C, of course. Oh, baby, the C. The C word. We know what it is. Oh, yeah. what we're talking about yeah that's right and then that c of course oh baby the c the c word we know what it is oh yeah what it was city city new y2k city we're talking about it here we love it we love it so much uh nyc nyc you know it's a great it's You know, it's a great place.

It's a great place to visit. It's a great place to live. Scott, I love it. Great app. We're going to go. Bye. Bye. Bye.

And now we're back. Now we're back and talking about New York. That was pretty good. I learned a lot from that one. Yeah, it was great. They have a real passion for the city, which is terrific. I learned that we probably shouldn't be doing this show because they're just better at it. I agree.

All right, bye. Bye. All right, we're back. We're back. We're back. So you, what I was trying to say before we did those shows was, you're in New York, but we're going to talk about an L.A. band here. Oh, man, you said it. Sunny California. If there ever was an L.A. band, it's these guys.

And I think there was. I think this is one. What? An L.A. band. I think this is one. What? An L.A. band. If there ever was one. If there ever was one. I think this is one. And there was.

Yeah. We're talking about the Chilps, and they have a new album, and it is called Return of the Dream Canteen. We're a little late. It came out two months ago, but we're here. We're going to break it down. We're going to be listening to all the songs. We're going to be discussing what we think about it.

We're going to get an update, I think, I believe, on how we feel about the previous record that came out that we've been sitting with. I mean, I don't know what else. For the better part of a year now now we've been sitting with that one i don't know what else you want from an rhcp chilps podcast but we're doing it we're uh gonna have to take a break but when we come back we're going to be talking about return of the dream canteen. We will be right back with more. Are you talking R H C P Rimi?

After this, we are coming back on the other side of this. We'll see ya. hey we're back and that is of of course, Hump De Bump. From the one and only double disc album the Chilps have put out, Stadium Arcadium. But speaking of double discs, this one we're talking about is almost a double disc. We're here to talk about Return of the Dream

Canteen, which is the second album the Chilps have put out this year. My first question. For me or for the Chilps have put out this year? My first question. Yeah. For me or for the Chilps?

For you and also the Chilps Red Hot, comma, Red Hot, is was the Dream Canteen here before? And we didn't notice? Yeah. I don't even think I've seen a Dream Canteen. Well, hold on. Did I i see a dream canteen the other day oh well see maybe you've it's been around people have seen them they're used to them and they just don't notice them anymore i certainly oh not no no no no i saw uh it was a dog

got it okay yeah so no i don't think i've seen a dream canteen even before so to have one return all right maybe it's so small that we can't see it or it's so large that that we can't see it either that could be it that could be it could be it um all right let's break down some info regarding this record came out october 14th 2022 now what were we up to that we couldn't rush a an episode out about it yeah uh that's right around the time i came out here to start severance season two right so i was in the midst of getting all my shit together. Learning all your lines. Come out here.

You learn all your, you memorize all your lines for the entire season. Season, yes. In one night. And I relearn all the ones from season one as well. So you can remember what you said before. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah. So it's incredibly busy. So I was not able to. Very busy time. I think I had something. And I'll be honest sorry go ahead go ahead what i had something going on in my personal life i can't remember what it was but yeah anyway but to be honest what hard to wait a second what was that around the time you and kulop uh had your first child well and then as a result had your first child no hey we didn't even have to have sex for this one it was so awesome really handy

because we all know how much you hate sex i didn't even have to do a handy for this one. They opened me up and drained my balls. Did they really? Yeah. Anyway, yeah. So we couldn't get together to do this until now, but we're here now. You sure are. 75 minutes and two seconds. How long is Unlimited Love, their album from earlier this year 73 minutes

and four seconds yeah so very similar i'm going to just do some quick i'm going to crunch those numbers yeah crunch them the new album i'm just going to throw this out there and again i haven't had time with these numbers i'm going to say the new album's a little bit longer than Unlimited Love. Yeah, it seems to be about one minute and 58 seconds longer. Yeah, almost. See, I told you. Just shy of two. Just shy of two minutes.

I told you. Now, it was a big surprise when this album came out. They, basically, I came home, cool up, turned out all the lights. All my friends were there, hiding behind couches. Surprise! Surprise! And then they gave me this record. And then they all went home because no one wanted to listen to it.

Then they all left. Yeah. But it was a, no one had any conception that the Chilps could put out a second record this year, that they had recorded a second. I mean, we thought Unlimited Love was the start, the beginning, the middle, the end of what the Chilps had to put out this year in 2022. Already a generous helping because it's a 17 song uh 73 minutes and four seconds i

believe both albums are 17 songs long and the new one's just a little bit longer as we said before that as i calculated before a little bit like a few minutes ago yeah a little bit just a just about a minute and 58 seconds see i told you um so they they announced uh at a show in denver that it was coming out there's got to be a way to announce it to the entire world and not just denver yeah and then they just had everyone in denver tell other people and eventually it got to us eventually so there was one guy in denver was like okay i'll travel the globe telling everyone he got about as far as like phoenix before he gave up yeah but a bunch of people in phoenix were excited they were excited but they didn't want to tell anyone.

And then it just sort of died there. It died out, yeah. Now, we have, neither of us have seen a show on this big tour they've been on for months and months. Have they been out? Did they play SoFi?

They played SoFi. They played New York. Have you seen any concerts recently? No. I went to a Nick game yesterday, which was cool. But no, I haven't seen a show in a long time. At any point, did the basketball players put down the basketballs and just pick up instruments and start playing? Yeah, they did that every 10 minutes.

Yeah, so I just can't believe we haven't seen this Chili Peppers show. Yeah. I would love to go see them. There was talk that they were going to replace whoever dropped out of Coachella. Who was it? I can't remember. Someone dropped out of Coachella this year, the headliner for one of the nights. And there was talk they were offering the Chilps a ton of money to do it.

And I think they were probably right to say, like, no, we're on a big, huge stadium tour. Yeah. We don't need to do Coachella. Or we don't need to do Coachella. Like, it would siphon away, you know, sales from our stadium tour if everyone sees it back in April. How about the fact that these guys are going around the world selling out stadiums everywhere? Well, they only have so many stadiums in the world. So that's true.

They're a little restricted in that regard. But didn't they play like two nights at SoFi? Am I wrong about that? They probably did, but... That's crazy. But then, you know, they can't just like... It's not like there's a stadium on every corner like Starbucks, am I right? Oh, boy.

Oh, man. They're all over the place these days. Although, I wouldn't mind it if a stadium was on every corner. Be plenty of parking everywhere. But yeah, when they finish one stadium, they got to look around for another place to play. It's like, is there a stadium here? No.

Is there a stadium here? No. Is there a stadium here? No. And then eventually, they're like, is there a stadium here? And someone's like yeah like cool we'll play here so and that takes so long so it's like like if they if they just if they didn't have to deal with the only playing stadiums part they could play like all the time

i don't think they played two nights now that i look at it i think they only played one I don't think they played two nights now that I look at it. I think they only played one. And I bet it was not so good. Anyway, but they played, they came, they saw, they conquered, Vinny Vidi Vici. And then they put out this new record. And they said in the press for it, they were like,

well, you know, we recorded a ton of songs and we liked them all and we finished them all. Like sometimes you record a bunch of stuff, but you don't actually finish it. But we finished all of it. And apparently what the original pitch to the record company was, was they wanted to put out 40 songs. This is 34. We've had 34. They wanted to take six more and put out 40 songs as one album spread over seven discs jesus christ so there'd be like five or six songs on each disc i don't know why it's that's very weird i read that and it was very strange to me, but that's what they wanted to do.

And the record company said, okay, well, let's compromise. And you put out two separate albums of 17 songs each. And I guess the Chilps just rolled over and took it and said like, okay, sorry. I just wonder why you'd put out this huge album start a giant global stadium tour and then put out another album right in the middle of the tour in the middle of the tour maybe to get excitement for the back end but they're not playing these

songs on the tour right oh they're not i have no idea i think they're just it's still the same show but then they just put out another single that is not on the new album what is it it's uh what is it it's called it's a pretty good song it's called uh just came out the shape i'm taken what it's it's not on the album yeah it just came out, The Shape I'm Taken. What? It's not on the album. Yeah, it just came out on November 25th. The Shape I'm Taking? Yeah. And it's not from either of these records? No.

Hold on. Why did they do this? Let me look this up. Red. How do you spell red? Hold on. Let me look it up. How do you spell

you just put just type in red just type in red just type in red and then okay how do you spell red there we go r-e-d got it i'm in i'm jacked in the shape i'm taking is are you sure it's not on like the japanese import maybe it is i don't know either of these records yeah it's a bonus track on the japanese cd and they put it out as a single of uh return of the dream canteen yeah i don't know if it's like a single with like a video and stuff but they put it out like a week ago or whenever this look if i could say why the red hot chili peppers do anything i'd be a millionaire because i'd be doing it yeah and you'd be writing books about why they do stuff yeah sell millions of copies

um uh yeah it's it's it's weird i guess they're just like whatever no one buys albums anyway so let's just put a bunch of shit out yeah and they're and and they wanted to make it clear this is not like a b-sides record or like unfinished you know bonus tracks this was a full regular album that they finished that they they intended to put out from the jump that they arranged. It's kind of impossible. They arranged two separate records and, and wanted them both to have two kind of separate feelings, supposedly. Do they?

We'll be the judge of that. But yeah, they just, and I, you know, I guess the other, I know each record has one bonus track on the Japanese CD, but that's,

so that makes it 36 so there's still four songs out there that we haven't heard that they are proud of um but yeah anyway so they put out two records and it's a lot like stadium arcadium in a way it's gonna feel like an album of b-sides regardless if you put it out six months later and like why not wait a year and put it out six months later and like, why not wait a year and put it out and then it'll be kind of perceived as a new album. Well, one reason they did it, I'll tell you that much is they made history first,

uh, first rock band with two number one albums in the same year in 17 years since system of a down accomplished this in 2005. Boo. Really? Yeah. So there, you know, that's cool. All right.

Cool. Cool record. Cool. Yeah. Anyway, so, well, first, before we get to Return of the Dream Canteen, we did an episode about Unlimited Love. You've been sitting with it now. It's been out since April 1st, but it was no April Fool's joke. You've been sitting with it since April.

How do you feel about it now? Because you and I texted each other, and you said something interesting, which I'll bring up if you don't recall how you feel about this record. About the new one? Yeah. No, no, no. About the old one. Oh.

About Unlimited Love. I don't remember what I said, but I still really like it. Yeah. I still really think I listened to it a lot when it came out and we went on vacation. So I wasn't like busy with other stuff and I just was just listening to it a lot. And I think it's terrific. Yeah. You, uh, I'm looking for this text.

Did I say the opposite? No, no, no, no. You, you, Oh, I think I, I told you my initial impression of this new record. And I said it was a little more like what I thought they would put out. And you said something to the effect of I like what they did put out. I would just put out that record. um because i was like oh should we try to yeah should we try to figure out like what the good record is between the two different records like should we compile one perfect record and you were like i would just make it the first record because you love unlimited love so much yeah yeah i mean there's like three songs i would i would take off wouldn yeah. Would that be aquatic mouth dance? It would be aquatic mouth dance and poster child. I think I would drop those two. Right, poster child.

And other than that, I really think it's cool, like poppy, you know, arena rock, like how I like them. So, you've been into it. You've been bumping it, as they say, a lot. Meanwhile, I've not listened to it at all. You weren't crazy about it when we went through it initially, like back in April or when you were. I do like John Frusciante's guitar playing. I like the sound.

I think I mentioned that it is a real, it's got a laid-back groove that kind of is good for just, like, having a drink and sitting in the pool. Yeah. Yeah, it's a mellow, it's, by and large, kind of a mellower album. Right. It's true.

So then when I listened to this one, Return of the Dream Canteen, the first song, I think, i think was kind of like a little more upbeat and what i thought the chili the chilps would have come out with initially so why don't you want to listen to it do you want to listen to this is the first track the first single as well um this is tip of my tongue um let's hear it from From Return of the Dream Canteen, this is the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the musical combination, Flea. John, the others. Here we go.

We'll be right back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Well, let's be quick with this Tell me, can you stick to this? I'm on the brink of this And tell me what you think of this I'm in the blue regard Slow me down if I get hard We've only just begun Monkey Monks are on the run We've only just become Monkey monks around the room

Gonna get you with the tip of my tongue And when you walk away I know what the kids would say Gonna get you now Okay, so this and then guitar solo. So I guess the first time I heard this and I texted you, like having an upbeat song at the beginning is a little more what I expected from the past record.

Well, didn't they start with like a bit, I guess Black Summer isn't the most upbeat, but it's kind of a big a big song well it was a it was a single but it's mellow here let's hear let's hear the first track off of uh unlimited love this is black summer um if it ever will fucking start it's well it's but it gets there it's like it gets there i think of it as like a big epic song but you know what i mean it's mellow yeah it's more californication like i'm i'm sort of used to a red hot chili pepper song or album starting with a little more um sure yeah oomph sure um so so this when i heard tip of my

tongue i was like oh okay this is more of the more of a little bit of like hey hey you're right i think i think californication starts uh whatever record that's on and it's a little bit of like hey hey you're right i think i think californication starts uh whatever record that's on and it's a little more mellow and stuff but anyway yeah so this this i was kind of like oh boy i'm i'm primed for a return of the funky chilps yeah yeah it's uh more of the classic chilps comma red hot sound, which I'm, it's fine. I'm not like super into it. Okay, let's hear track two. This is Peace and Love,

which is what Ringo Starr says all the time. So that's fun. Yeah, that's a quote. Is it about Ringo? I hope so. There is a song about another rock star on this record. We'll hear it in a bit. That's true.

This is Peace and Love. Sounds a little like Bust a Move, which, of course, Flea played on. Bust a move Bust a move! Stele! Stele! Stele! Bust a move! Stele! Call me darling, I'll be on that train That man had the message for us all Shout out to my lonely friend

Message that I'm here to send I got peace and love for you right now When I see my little sis A middle-western genius She's got peace and love for you somehow Bust a move! What do we think of Peace and Love? The concepts.

It's, oh, the concept, I think it's about time we have a little bit more of it. How do we feel about the song? Yeah, it's fine. I haven't really listened to this album that much. Why are we doing this episode? I'm realizing. What's that? Why are we doing this episode?

Well, how much have you listened to it? Well, I listened to it all morning just so I could be ready for this. Yeah, me too. I mean, you listened to it well i listened to it all morning just so i could be ready too i mean i listened to it today of like a couple times but um i think it's pretty it's it's uh it's good it sounds like uh it like an unlimited loves song and that's the bar that's the bar for you well yeah i guess i don't know it doesn't sound it's it's like sounds like it should be on that album but it's not quite as as good as what finished and good as i felt like that one was okay interesting what do you think um i think it's fine i do i do sometimes feel like after after listening to both of these records like does he have anything to say anymore like it

when i was listening to that i suddenly i suddenly flashed back to under the bridge where he was talking about something very real to him and now it's just a bunch of gibberish all the time you know like with like other lyrics that he's used but like you know shout out to my lonely friends i was like oh yeah he sang lonely in another song and it was better but i don't know but also the tip of my tongue it's like i'm an animal yeah okay right uh maybe we don't like yeah i mean i think no it sounds like no i i think both of these songs are totally fine and like beautifully played but i i like the i like the the backing vocals i do i do believe John and Flea's backing vocals are great. Guitar sound is good.

Totally. Totally. I'm just like after that album, it's hard to see like it feels lateral more than like they're doing something. But it is lateral because it's like the same writing sessions. Yeah, you're right. All right. Let's hear track three. Track three is called Reach Out, which is a good thing to do if you want to grab something.

Sure, if you need something off the shelf. Yeah. Yeah. Drop another snake bomb, it might shake i confused it with an earthquake mass confusion in a mason jar texas blood flow in a biker bar stick to bluegrass guns We are riding with the flying nuns Tell me all the dirty things you have seen Are you laced up? Well, are you really clean?

I'm a loser if I do not find out Something to reach out All right, what do we think of Reach Out? This is where I, like, go to grab, like, a couple hot dogs and... You reach out to grab a couple hot dogs. ...beers and Diet Cokes during the concert. I don't care for this. Yeah, it's not really for me. But this is another example of, like, what is he trying to say, you know? Like, it's just all,

he's using his voice as percussion. I get it. And he's just doing like gibberish, but like, someone better reach out. What? Okay. Let's,

let's talk about this. And just the big, um, kind of cock rock chorus. Mm. Is, it just sounds kind of boring yeah someone better reach out it's like um all right the next song uh they released as a promotional single it was before

the record came out it was like the second song that they put out um but it's not an official single this is a tribute to eddie van halen and i i believe that the lyrics are written in uh the persona of eddie van halen kind of talking about his life um this is eddie is that what you call it a promotional single if it's not like yeah a single single yeah i mean that's what I personally call it. Okay. This sounds like something you'd like. Yeah, I like this. Like, I'm on board for all of this.

Yeah. And then, uh-oh. Uh-oh. The same from Amsterdam Does that make me touch? Please don't remember me For what I did last night, oh Please don't remember me Lord have children Please don't remember me It's only 1980 It's only 1983

Smoking the weed So that's Eddie. I think it's interesting to do a song about Van Halen that doesn't sound anything like a Van Halen song. Yeah. Yeah, I like this. I think it's cool. And he's actually saying, like, he's got a point of view.

It's not just gibberish. He's kind of tough. So, you know, it's interesting. I can't remember if the guitar ever gets, like, searing. I think he does at the end, like, kind of shred it up a bit. What do you say we skip ahead a little bit? Sure. Here we go.

Yeah. I think that qualifies as shredding, right? Sounds like a fax machine. Turn it down! yeah i like that i think it's cool so you you would swap out aquatic mouth dance perhaps for eddie that's a good yeah that's a good kind of that's a good swap way of thinking about it i would swap that out for a quote okay so so far you would you would not swap any of the songs no i wouldn't so far except that one i would except for that one all right all right but there's a few kind of great ones on here. Yeah. All right. But that would be my first SWAP. That's your first substitution.

Okay. This one's fake as fuck, stylized as fake as fa and ka. Fawk. And this is a song about someone who is very fake, I think. So let's hear. Or as fuck. Sure. Sure. beyond well misdirection waves its magic wand everybody sing that song

tuesday morning comes along i've read the news it's all gone wrong the facts of life have left Never gonna leave my room Black Capricorn will blow the horn For all the love that can be born today Everybody walk away Uh-oh. Here we go. all right all right all right all right how do we feel about fake as fuck uh i think it's fine i'm not like passionately feeling one way or the other about it. It feels like it's definitely created around the same time as Unlimited Love, particularly the Great Apes from Unlimited Love,

which I think is a great song. And this feels like a slightly inferior cousin. Got it. Just less realized. Got it. How do you feel about your cousins? Yeah, I sort. Got it. Just less realized. Got it. How do you feel about your cousins? Yeah, I sort of remember it. Do you want to hear The Grape Ape?

Sure, yeah. Put Great Apes on. All right. Here we go. So The Grape Ape is track six from Unlimited Love. Meanwhile, Fake as Fuck is track five.

Isn't that interesting? Interesting. Weird how things like that happen. All right, here we go. She's a boxcar rolling by So when you say it's similar, does it get, it gets fast? Yeah. Okay.

Nice baseline. Yeah. Nice bass line. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, and then it goes a little faster. I don't know. What if it did that exact same thing? Fake as fuck. All right.

Yeah, so I don't know. It's fine, but I think it's, you know, they did a little better sort of somewhat version of it. I don't know. It's fine, but I think it's, you know, they did a little better sort of somewhat version of it. I don't know. Okay, all right. So no substitution here. No, but I think it's pretty good. Okay.

All right, let's hear track six. This is Bella. I wonder if it's about Bella Hadid. Probably. Probably. Probably is. I don't even know if I know who that is. She's, I don't know either. Interesting.

Here we go. Surprise, surprise. Funky crime, we were standing in the line And now we're walking Melrose down to Vine Well, I was asking her to live on my farm And she was telling me no, not today I was telling her to do no harm And she was telling me she could not stay She'd rather live in L.A. Down in Marina Del Rey I love her

I need her Can't stop until I beat her I want her so badly Hell no, my name ain't Bradley I'd wash her and clean her Please tell me have you seen her I'll last her and clean her. Please tell me, have you seen her?

I'll last her, drive past her. Margarita gonna be my master. Bella cries and that's all right. She's weaving all my stories. All right, all right, all right. He says that several times. No, my name's not Bradley. Yeah, that's like a big part of the song is that

you just need to make sure. He just wants to reiterate everyone knows his name is not bradley he talks about uh remind him he's a pretty famous person he doesn't need to worry about that yeah his name's anth anth anthony i believe yeah tony maybe tony yeah people call him tony hey you ever walk hey tony oh you ever walk from hollywood all the way to uh melrose and vine hey tony uh what do you think of that what did you think of that last song fake as fuck you didn't even say sherry i don't care jesus what are we doing what are we doing i don't i don't really like fake as fuck i i don't really like bella all that much either

although it is kind of like like i say a little more upbeat than the previous record so when i hear it i'm a little like oh and then i like this she wants to live in LA. I'm like, okay, not bad. But then it's a bunch of nonsense after that. Yeah, I kind of like the chorus. He wants her. He needs her. Something like catchy about that. Yeah, but would you sub? Whatever.

Would you sub it? No. No sub? No sub. All right, let's hear track number seven. This is Roulette. And this is based uh i believe this song is based upon the famous game in las vegas game of chance where you drop a little ball

into a spinning wheel i've heard of this by the red hot chili peppers Peppers. so clean my love and if I stay much longer my feelings for you they might get much stronger now a motor roller coma sleep your way into a deep diploma

girl at the dormitory You come to pull me One of your best stories And I feel your face Getting wet Like the color Red of the land

And I place my Losing bet on your side And I see your rise of regret But you gave as good as you get Like the message you sent straight Running wild A pair of dusty jeans Roulette.

I like that. You like this. You were air drumming. Yeah. Really well. Really well. You're like technically proficient. Thanks. Yeah, I like this a lot. is a good you like roulette okay so this this one is you'd you'd swap it out for uh

for i you know what i would drop this poster child in place of is not the one which is one i didn't mention before but i oh you don't like not the one either okay interesting so roulette that's a winner for adam scott what do you think of that song i wouldn't say it's i saw you kind of bobbing your head i was enjoying you enjoying it um i wouldn't say it's my favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers song in the world. Well, no. But we all know

that's Aquatic Mouth Dance. That's a catchy chorus. Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean, it's, and it's also a bit of sunlight. Yeah. You know, when things can be a dirge.

Let's go to track eight. There's no pleasing you, Scott Aukerman. This is My Cigarette. And this is a song based upon the rolled tobacco cylinders that... Oh, I was wondering what this was, what they were referencing. People put in their mouths and light up. This is My Cigarette by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cigarette.

Oh, boy. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cigarette. One minute, please, while I sit back and reflect. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cigarette. Sip from this glass of ours. We pass like faulty towers. My sweetness, it's not... Faulty Towers reference.

Black holes wink when she devours. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cigarette. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cigarette. Weak to me, I don't speak Latin. Island calling must be statin. That King Cole and Dick Van Patten. New York dolls all dressed in satin. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cigarette

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cigarette Just one possession in the life that we get My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cigarette Talking about a cigarette, Adam, what do we think? Uh, you know, sure. This, I guess, during the recording of this album, John Fiersciante wanted Chad, the drummer, to do some more stuff like the electronic music that he likes to record.

John Frusciante likes to record. So he asked him to record a bunch of break beats. So he would play 10 seconds of a beat or something like that, and they would sample it. This sounds like one of those songs. That's what I was going to say. I was going to say, I like that there's something on it that kind of veers into the electronic music that John Frusciante is into and has made several albums of.

Basically exactly what you said. So I don't mind it. And I like what Flea's doing and the noodling that Frusciante's doing with his guitar. It's kind of cool. Sounds a little like a Dre song in a way. Yeah. Hold up.

Ay. I will not sing any other lyrics of that. Yeah. What do you think of it scott well i wish he was saying something other than my cigarette and he says it quite a few times quite a bit i don't know um i think it's fine it's different it sounds different it's different yeah everything else yeah all right let's let hear track nine. And this will be halfway through the record. This is Afterlife. This is a song about the concept of where we go

after we shuffle off this mortal coil. Some people say it exists. Some people say it doesn't. Let's see what Anthony Kiedis has to say. This is Afterlife by the Red Hot Chili Peppers someone's laughing someone thinks it's hilarious We're gonna board up on the bike to the great unknown Well, that's all I'm saying now Hear what I'm playing, yes

High on the light from above You're somebody special Well, someone to wrestle now Take on the length of your love Long after we have been gone from this song All right. How do we feel about afterlife? I'm not sure quite what he's trying to say about the afterlife, but it sounds exciting.

Oh, you put on a glove, Adam. I put on a couple gloves. Cool. What for? Yeah. Are you doing elegant jewel heist soon? That's right. I'm doing an elaborate robbery while we record this podcast

cool i thought there's a chance it could get cold in here it's not cold at all right now but in case it does i'm ready by the way these are thick these are winter gloves winter thick winter gloves you put on it's cold it gets cold no you said it was not cold no but it gets cold. No, you said it was not cold. No, but it's cold outside in New York City right now. Oh, by the way, New York City, great place. New Y2K City. I like this song. I like what Flea's doing on it, especially in the chorus. I'm getting a sense of the formula here, though,

which is the verses, he sings a lot of words that are that are all don't fit together and they're all just and then he kind of slows it down during the chorus and goes comes up with a catchy nice melody yeah but then, why don't, here's my suggestion. Then dives right back into the. Into the flippy, floppy, flappy, dippy. Are you just now figuring out the Red Hot Chili Peppers formula? Make the whole song the chorus.

We don't want to hear. Like make the whole thing catchy? Yeah. We don't want to hear the flappy dappy. You don't want the flappy dappies? Why not, man? You got to have the flappy dappies if you want the sing-songy lovelies. You got to have the flappy dappies why not man you gotta have the flappy dappies if you want the sing-songy lovelies you gotta have the flappy dappies because it makes you want the sing-songy

lovelies it's it's a it's a trick it's a trick of the mind for anthony keys to be like hey we suck and you're like oh oh that's right they suck but then the chorus comes in you go oh no oh no this is really good this suck. But then the chorus comes in and you go, oh, no. Oh, no, this is really good. This is good, actually, because it sucked so bad before. All right, we're halfway through. I like that song. Let's take a break. You like it.

I do. You don't like it? But you like the chorus. I can't even tell anymore. I like what Flea's doing. All right, let's take a break. All right. Let's hear the song you referenced

that you don't like from Unlimited Love on our way out. When we come back, we're going to hear the second half of Return of the Dream Canteen. We're just warming up, everyone. We're going to get through the second half of this record.

We'll be right back with more Are You Talking RHCP? Reme. I of this record. We'll be right back with more. Are you talking RHCP Remy? I like this song. I'd keep this one. Scott, fuck you. I'm not the person that you Ah, Tangelo. Welcome back. You'd keep this one.

Yeah, I would. So there's only three songs. You only get three substitutions. I only get three? Well, there's only three songs, not the one post no sorry yeah aquatic mouth dance not the one in poster child those are the only three that you said you wanted to swap oh right uh because we need to one of the rules is we need to keep keep 717 yeah

exactly okay so you only get three i going to hold off on swapping out. Because I've already swapped out two, right? Well, you swapped out Eddie. And then you like roulette a lot, right? Did we say it was a swap? Yeah, that's a swap. Eddie's a swap. So you know what?

We got two swaps at this point. I'm going to keep roulette. I'm going to keep Eddie and Afterlife as maybes, just sort of floaters. Okay. Okay. So, I've only got two more spots. Will you? Oh, wait.

So, Eddie is not a definite or Eddie is a definite? Eddie is not definite. Oh. Roulette is. Roulette is a definite. Okay. So, that's the only. So, Eddie and Afterlife are maybes at this point.

Okay. Maybes. That's right. We're burning through the back half of the record. This is a little song called Shoot Me a Smile. And this is what I like to tell women on the street who want nothing to do with me. Who aren't smiling. Yep.

Hey, shoot me a smile. Life would be a little bit better if maybe you were to smile. They love it when you do that, I've noticed. Swimming around with something new to be found in such a beautiful sound

beneath your feet on the ground. Swimming around and I will sing you a song always My daughter, come by, you'll be the sun to my dial I'll be the rank in your file, just come with me for a while My daughter, come by, then I will shoot you the breeze always Flowers in bloom, I get them off of the moon And then my baby go boom, I put my grease in your spoon

Flowers in bloom and you're the colors of June some days Here we come, we're not far away And I'll tell you more when I come to stay Shoot me a smile and I will show you the love always. Here we come and we're very close and I'll give you more with this microdose.

Shoot me a smile and I will show you the love always. I don't know that I got some All right. Shoot me a smile, Adam. I'm going to keep this as a maybe as well.

Really? Yeah, I like it a lot. I'm a little colder on it. Why? I don't know. It's just kind of iffy. I don't know. It's kind of laying there for me.

But again, nothing in here other than almost everything Anthony Akita says is like offensive listening to me like I I I do think the back half of the album is a little slow we'll we'll find that out in the last few songs I think but like perfectly fine album both of these are fine albums to turn on and veg out to, right? Like, I wouldn't mind listening to that. Veg out? What does that mean? Just like sit there and stare into space and listen to it?

Yeah, just sit there staring into space trying to clear my mind of anything. Okay, so next track is called handful and this is about the perfect amount of titty for a woman anything more too much jesus christ this is handful by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Oh my God. What is this podcast? Sounds like the police. I'm gonna splash some water all over my face I'll stick a movie, no, I don't feel no disgrace I'll take it all off so everyone can see

The damage that I am, all the troubles that I beat Someone to roll me right over Handful of love when it's time to get on lovin' There's a chapter in my book that I don't want you to read There's a chapter in my life where I fail to succeed I wanna take your smell inside my dirty mind You put a spell on me, no I'm not the dying kind

Someone to roll me right over Handful of love when it's time to get older Someone to love for the rest of your day Out All right.

Handful by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Adam, how do you feel? I think it's good. Is that a sub? It's a maybe. It's a maybe sub. It's a maybe. All right.

I think it's good. We haven't heard a slam dunk, though, other than roulette for you. What about for you for that song? I was not paying attention. I was checking tweets. I feel like you think it's, if you were paying attention, you wouldn't like it very much. Oh, really? Why?

I don't know, but I like those big California. California choruses. Yeah, those big California... California choruses. Yeah, those big... Soaring. But then harmonizing. They sound good together. They sound good together. And that's what you want from a band.

That's what I like. I like that shit. Track 12 is called The Drummer. Now, the drummer in this particular band is Chad Smith. We'll hear who he's singing about on this song, but this is the second single. This is the second official single. One night I was on

Seth Meyers. I walk out there. Guess who's playing drums in the band? I have no guess. Alright, never mind Stay awake Fall asleep Take a look at what you're thinking

What you really need to keep My atoms are indivisible Shut it up Run it down Live a life that's on the ground A hidden love that's not allotted Dum-dum club is inadmissible Let's make a wish as we enter the lift

Cause the systems are eligible The drummer is leaning without any meaning Outside of the club troubadour A little bit of a different sound for them. Yeah, listen. There's a reason this is the second single from this album, right? You enjoy this one, then? I think it's awesome. I would definitely drop this in as a sub.

This is a definite sub. Okay, wow. This is a definite sub. We found two of our subs. And personally, I think Eddie should be the other one, but we'll see. I know you think that. What do you think of this? Or do you still not care?

I don't know that I like this. It's a weird single. Right. I don't know. Do you think it's a weird single because it doesn't sound like their classic sound, kind of? Then this happens. I don't know. You got to have a bridge in there.

I mean, he was under one for one of his biggest hits. Hey, listen. Do you think that's what that song is actually about? I don't ever want to. He hates bridges and songs. He's like, I don't ever want to do another one. All right. Let's see.

This next track is called Bag of Grins. Hmm. Okay. I don't remember what this sounds like, the title between this and shoot me a smile they're really kind of hammering at home as far as trying to get turning that frown upside down yeah when the night Oh I thought that was actually coming Out of the song In my day

I could hear them say Mr. K was awfully close This sounds like Heavy Wing What's Heavy Wing? It's on unlimited love oh okay the heavy wing i was saving time i think this is bad so far what do you think? Well, let's wait for the...

Okay. Come on, bro. All right. I'm good. Bag of Grins, definitely not a substitution. No, not for me. How about for you? I do not like it.

Yeah. It sounds a little like the Dave Navarro album that they put out. In the middle of the grunge era. You know, there's people that like, are like, Dave Navarro era Chili Peppers

One Hot Minute apologists. People that are like, I don't know, that album is pretty good. I saw Jane's Addiction recently,

and Dave Navarro was not there, unfortunately. But they were really good. I gotta say. I heard they're awesome right now on this tour. But they were really good, I gotta say. I heard they're awesome right now on this tour. I heard they're great. I mean, you know, with their original- Why wasn't Dave Navarro there?

He has long COVID. Oh, shit. Yeah. So who was playing guitar? Was it, it wasn't Caporno for Pirate. Oh, no, it was, what's his name, from the Queens of the Stone Age. Can't recall his name, but he's great um and it was a really good show and also also speaking of the red hot chili

peppers uh he was playing with him no josh klinghoffer came and played like five that's cool and and i guess he's going he's going around on tour with him and just comes out for like five songs i saw them once and flea was playing not instead of eric avery i saw that tour as well it was not good he's the wrong bass player for that band yeah was eric avery he's back in the band he's back yeah and great that's awesome yeah they were really good they opened for the smash pumps and how was that it was oh not as good as i wanted it to be yeah um i i came out of it going like huh wow what a weird song choice well you know i'm sure they're doing different songs every night and this one just didn't gel and then i looked at their set list of every other night

and it's exactly the same and i'm like what are they doing were they playing a lot of new stuff or something i don't even mind the new stuff it just was like weirdly sequenced and strange like strange strange pics strange pics i don't know any of their new stuff did they play all the hits uh it's you know they played like 50 of the hits hmm they should play all the hits yeah you got to play all the hits all right this is a song called la la la la la la la la la la la la la la that's eight laws and this is a song by the red hot Chili Peppers, track number 14 on Return of the Dream Canteen. Can't wait. Well, you don't have to because it's playing right now. Oh, is this it?

This is it. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. I want to spend my life with you. Ooh, thank you. Mess around with things to do. We could start a family few. Ooh, thank you. Ooh. Chris Columbus solitaire Whistle when you want me there Hear me, your hornet I won't spend it in one place Bending it to get a chase

I wanna spin my wheels with you Win and lose some deals with you Tell me how it feels for you To order happy meals for two Alright.

Is there a chorus or was that the chorus? No, no. He sings La La La. I just went to order Happy Meals for two. You think you're like, I'm out. I'm fucking over this. 100% out. I don't know that a song being this slow, his lyrics can really stand up to this kind of scrutiny.

Yeah. He's getting to the laws, though. Here we go. Is this it? Yep. Listen, when you put out two albums in a year with 17 songs each, you're bound to have... I would rather they put out two records of 10 songs

yeah or one record of an hour and 20 an hour and 16 minutes is just too long at this point like it it was it was kind of interesting when they had a ton to say, you know, when they put up Blood Sugar Sex Magic, and it was like, oh, wow, this is like 70 minutes long or whatever. But at this point in their career, it just is like, we're just going to put out everything we can think of. He can't come up with that many lyrics. But you listen to Blood Sugar Sex Magic now, and you can get rid of like five of those songs.

Sure, sure. But yeah, I don't know. I would put out 20 of these songs and call it a day. And maybe most of those would be off of Unlimited Love. Yeah. I like that that was something completely different without drums. Yeah. It kind of sounds cool.

I don't know. I haven't really heard it that much. But it's not a sub for me. Not a sub. Not a sub for me. Not a sub. Not a sub. Are you interested in hearing a song called Copper Belly? Yes, I am.

Well, that is going to be track number 15 of 17. This is a song called Copper Belly, and it's by a band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Huh. From Return of the Dream Canteen. Dancing on the cold roof while your lemon tree cries Anyone can see dearly that you've got to bring them home Never make another bed where your enemy lies Tread not away from your heart Sweat not right from the start

Copper belly had an out there in every mirror Copper belly tried to fill you with meaningless fear Someone's in love with emotional pain Keys to this kingdom that come with your Copper Belly, Adam. copper belly adam

copper belly you know it might be a grower not sure it's a shower but for now it's not it's not a shower for me it's not a sub for me it but it's not it's not bad again it's sort of just too much it's too much stuff it's too much stuff we can't process the same world as everything else yeah yeah it's like if they had just put out 10 songs to start us out and just were like here's 10 red hot chili pepper songs you'd be like holy shit this album is slam dunk all the way through which in basketball is not as many points as you can get because technically a three-pointer is two yeah is more effective so i i don't know why they don't start saying like wow that's a three-pointer

instead of a slam dunk you know i uh yesterday at the next game i saw a few slam dunks they happened right in front of me. But as far as the team is concerned, I bet they would have preferred shooting those trays. Oh, absolutely. You get three points instead of two. Even as a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, it's not like, you know, four months after Unlimited Love came out,

I was thinking, boy, I wish they would put out another album. Yeah, I've had my fill of this one. I need another one. after unlimited love came out i was thinking boy i wish they would put out another yeah i i know i i've i've had my fill of this one i need another one yeah i need another 17 songs right away yeah i mean anyway it kind of reminds me of uh the uh in stadium arcadium no not of state because i think stadium arcadium was like they were trying to it kind of reminds me of the getaway where that's 13 songs and then they put out like all those b-sides as well it's just like it's too much to to sift through in a way but i mean people would say that about prince too i mean it's why Warner Brothers was like, hey, you got to slow down your output. And he was like, but he is a genius.

Yeah, but some of those albums, I don't know. Well, we got to do a show about Prince. We do. Maybe not.

All right. There's a lot, a lot of music. This is track 16. A lot of great music. Yeah. This is Carry Me Home, which I'm not sure if this is track 16 yeah this is carry me home which um not sure if this is about jesus walking on the beach when there's only one set of footprints we'll find out when we listen to it it

is um this is carry me home by the red out chili peppers a little Hendrix-y tone to the guitar. Soldiers coming from the rain Murder my smile but please leave me my pain All those good people they don't even try Stealing the truth while they pay for your lies I'm about to lose the things I never saw before You wanted me to know the ups and downs Away we go to get another hit The hit, the blood that she's about to spill You go your way and I guess I'll go mine

We'll both arrive at the very same time Please give me your time This album is running out of gas, am I right? It's just too much, you're right. That's kind of it. It's just too much stuff. If this were a Hendrix song, would it be good? It might be. He's an incredible guitar player and any opportunity to...

Yeah, this is Jimi Hendrix playing, right? They got him to play on this? No, I mean, this does sound a lot like it has the kind of like... Yeah. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. It reminds me of a Jimi Hendrix song where it kind of stops and he gets quiet before going into all this. But I don't know. Yeah, it's not working for me.

Again, song number 16 is where you put that song. No. Well, track 17, this is the last track. no um well track 17 this is the last track and this is the second red hot chili pepper song that i can think of that has the word snow in the title this is called in the snow what and who knows what it's about i mean presumably it's about a human being who is in the snow, but it might be an animal. Hmm. Little electronic drums starting off. The 808s. This is a six-minute song, by the way, Adam. Of living in a kindred cloud Not that kind

This is a six-minute song, by the way, Adam. They cuddled up with kittens born Puddling their beds at home I still can't find Tell me what you wanna see Tell me what you want And I'll take my time. And I move it forward now.

Do you want to come with me? Do you want to come? And I take my time. And I move it close. And I check my stupid phone. He has to have repeated melodies, right? He only has so many. That's from another Red Hot Chili Peppers song, isn't it?

I think it's from several. I think also when Frusciante's in the band, he writes some melodies too sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't think this is bad. Frusciante's doing some yeoman-like work across the entire album. Yeah. He's incredible.

It's just the record. Oh, that's him singing. Oh. All right. Record just kind of ends on a whimper. It's weird. It's weird. It's a little weird. All right. Record just kind of ends on a whimper. It's weird. It's weird. It's a little weird.

All right, let's settle this sub issue. Before we do this, do we want to hear the bonus track, The Shape I'm Taken, the one that you mentioned? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like this. Just see if this is a sub. Because this isn't even on the album proper.

It's on the Japanese pressing of the record. This is The Shape I'm Takin', which is short for taking. He just took off the G. Yeah, it's an abbreviation of sorts. And made a little apostrophe. This is The Shape I'm Takin'. You wanna beat it but you're never gonna leave this town In the jungle where the fever comes and idiot crowns I'm alone with all my friends Fireworks and a pussy band

Shaking up that new west end Don't get too close, my style bends I'ma do my thing this time Hutton River, serpentine Everything we overheard It's just me, I'm dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty Don't you love me, baby The shape I'm taking

At the Latin girl The trouble fuck is on the floor Okay, you know, I would maybe not swap it for some of the songs on this album. For sure. I would for sure. Like, it's not a sub for me for Unlimited Love, but for sure sub it out for something on this album. Okay. All right. So speaking of subs, you're allowed to sub three songs and three songs only because you love every other song on Unlimited Love, right? Yeah.

Can we hear Roulette again? Because that's one of my for sure subs and I'm not so sure now. All right. Oh, you're not so sure about Roulette? Well, Eddie, I don't think is going to be a sub. Let's try Roulette. Eddie's not going to make it. Okay, let's try Roulette.

This is Roulette by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Second time we've played it on this episode, but Adam wants to hear it again. This is Roulette. Oh yeah, this is good. Okay, let's try Afterlife again. All right, Afterlife by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a possible sub. Let's try it.

This is Afterlife about that age-old question what happens when we die well i could do without that i could do without that. I could do without this. Going all night with the rocking and the roll. You're somebody special Well, someone to wrestle now Take on the lake of your love Long after we have been gone from this song Well, the afterlife sings one for me That's the part I like. What do you think, Adam? Let's go to show me a smile shoot me a smile

honestly shoot me a smile it's it's hard to listen to the red hot chili peppers because the verses are so bad so it's like half the album is on this one an album of choruses? I'll tell you what I would like, and someone edit this for me. The intro is always good. Then when the verse starts, go to the pre-chorus. Just cut right to the pre-chorus and then do the chorus. And that would be one of my favorite albums of all time. Interesting. of all time. I will shoot you debris as always. Flowers in bloom, I get them off of the moon.

And then my baby go boom, I put my grease in your spoon. Flowers in bloom, and you're the colors of June some days. Here we come, we're not far away. And I'll tell you more when I come to stay. Shoot me a smile, and I will shoot you debris as to stay sounds like a stadium arcadium song okay interesting now handful and then and then i'm gonna make my what about eddie though let's hear eddie just like next to all of those and see if you still feel the same way about it this is eddie by a band by the name of the red hot chili peppers or just red hot chili peppers occasionally I think it's better than the ones you've been picking. Okay.

Now, handful, and then I can make my choice. Then you can make your final decision. I love we're doing this in real time. I'm not actually doing this. People are actually listening to this. This is handful. Did you watch Duran Duran get inducted into the Royal Hall? Yeah, I watched the whole thing.

It was awesome. Sounds like a Duran Duran guitar. Oh, yeah, sort of. I'm gonna splash some water all over my face I'll stick a movie, no, I don't feel no disgrace I'll take it all off so everyone can see The damage that I am, all the troubles that I beat Someone to roll me right over Okay. where I fail to succeed. Okay, I think what I'm gonna do is sub out those three songs

from Unlimited Love and put in Roulette. Roulette. The Drummer. The Drummer, right? The second single. Got it. Yeah.

And then either Show Me a Smile or Eddie. You think no question it's Eddiedie for me it's no question of eddie although i remember when it was released like everyone was talking about how bad it was but i think it's because it was like they were really because it was considered the second single and they're like no no this is just an album it's like promotional it's just a song off this record but when you look at it through that lens, I think it's okay.

I think it's, let's just compromise, okay? Okay. Let's pick Eddie. We'll pick Roulette and we'll pick the drummer and we'll swap those out. Although I do think Not The One is good. So here's what we do. We keep Not The One.

It's doing what I want to do now. I know. I never, I always skip that song if I'm listening to it. Well, I don't know. I don't know that we're going to solve this. Okay, here, listen, listen, listen. Yep. Listen.

We'll keep not the one. Yep. Okay. We'll put in Roulette, the drummer, Eddie, and a bonus track. So it's an 18-song album. So it's 18. Okay, that's okay. And then there's a bonus track so it's a 18 so it's 18 okay that's okay and then there's a bonus track yeah there's a bonus track of show show me a smile okay that you get that's like a separate single that comes with the record like a separate seven inch single that's what happens that's exactly what what they should do

do i'm so glad we settled this jesus wow well we we did it is the last we'll hear from the chilps uh for a while comma red hot do you think they'll come out with another record probably not 2023 right they couldn't possibly but 2024 i don't know at this rate they may at this rate that I mean they're there they have a lot of wind in their sails I believe return of the dream canteen is Anthony Kiedis is trying to say that like his muse has returned because they

were having such a good time making these records it's a little like that episode of The Sandman where the muse is captured and locked up and a person can't stop coming up with things because they put out way too many songs. But hey, they're all free. If you buy the record, it's like, you know, you could either put out 10 songs or 18. Yeah. They chose to put out quite a few. Any last words on the Red Hot Chili Peppers before we put this episode and perhaps the series to bed? I feel like I couldn't possibly have anything else to say that's how i feel

well adam it's always a pleasure talking to you i mean honestly we we just do this show just so we can hang out together always fun and you know what i feel like there might be some youtube activity that we need to talk about yeah Yeah. On another app, maybe? Yeah. Yeah, not right now. I haven't read that book, so maybe if we read the book, then we can talk about it.

And neither of us saw the show, unfortunately, because we were both busy. But that's all for this episode. Are you talking RHCP Remy and um we'll be back talking about something else pretty soon I would imagine but until then um

I certainly and I know I speak for Adam when I say this I hope that you have found what you're looking for. Bye. Is this the Danger Mouse album? Yep. That's right.

You're right. We will do our thing tonight. All right. Take me through the future It's time you'll find just another