U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - U Springin' Springsteen On My Bean? - Working on a Dream

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

Scott and Scott go track-by-track through Springsteen’s sixteenth studio album, Working on a Dream. They also discuss stocking stuffer gifts and their ideal Super Bowl halftime performance before a special guest calls in to recount an encounter with Da Boss man himself.

It's all cold down along the beach And the wind's whipping down the boardwalk Hey man! You guys know what time of year it is? What time? What? What? What?

Oh, Christmas time. You guys all been good and practicing real hard? Yeah. Clients, you been rehearsing real hard now? So Santa, bring your new saxophone, right? Everybody out there been good or what? From born in the USA to death to my hometown, this is you springing Springsteen on my bean.

The comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things Bruce. This is good rock and roll music. music hey welcome to the show you like our new theme song yeah it's great you know should he have uh written something down to say? Rather than riffing? It so sounds like he was like, oh shit, I didn't know what. And so he's like, have you guys been rehearsing real hard? Which, by the way, I think he equivocates himself to Santa Claus. Because Santa Claus doesn't care if you've been rehearsing or not.

Right. Bruce Springsteen does. Right. care if you've been rehearsing or not right bruce springsteen does right so it's like and he he says it's santa claus who's gonna bring clarence clemens a new saxophone yeah isn't as band leader doesn't he need to provide stuff like that is a good question i wonder if bruce is like paying for the gear that's my question too and this is and and because of this it's cluing me in that perhaps all the musicians had to purchase their own gear or wait for santa claus to bring them if i were a musician i would wait for santa claus because

it could be a hefty bill oh yeah going down the guitar center alone oh my god the pics alone like sometimes you can you can fashion your own is this an episode of the pics alone yep The Pixalone? Yep. Hey, everyone. Welcome to The Pixalone. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we're talking about... Look, there's a lot of subjects we'd like to talk about. Sure.

Art, culture, politics. Don't get me started about art and culture. Okay. Well, I can't get you started about it because unfortunately, this show is about the picks alone. Yeah. Nothing else. The picks alone. The picks alone.

We're talking about picks like people who make picks on the weekend. Sports picks. For sports. Yeah. By the way, what are your sports picks for this weekend? We've been getting a lot of requests to hear your picks because of course i think i hold it till saturday and then i let everyone know oh okay on my uh other podcast because oh wait you have another podcast yeah

it's called the pics alone and oh wait a second that's what i'm supposed to be doing oh shit no we're not in the you spring and spring scene on All My Bean Right. We're in the Picks Alone, so we need to know your picks. Okay. You know what? On Saturday, we'll record that episode. Okay. Unfortunately, this is Tuesday. This is the Tuesday after Christmas.

That's right. Okay. Well, I really want to know those picks. I know. God. You never know what to lay your money down on until I make those picks. I know. But on this particular episode,

we're talking about guitar picks. Yeah. You know, the little plastic things that you hold in your hand when you're playing guitar. Oh, yeah. For shredding, you can't get any better than a good old pick. Can't beat it.

It's like a broken drum. Scott, what's your favorite kind of guitar pick? Like brand and model number. I like probably the Mitsubishi White. Oh, shit. Me too. Really? Oh, fuck.

Bye. Bye. Well, the guy seemed very evasive about his picks yeah his sports picks he was yeah it almost sounded like he didn't have any and didn't know what it was almost yeah i i would be curious to hear another episode to see if he ever even acknowledges that he doesn't know anything about sports at all right yeah but maybe he does maybe he does i'll check back on saturday okay okay but yeah bruce uh you know do another draft of your christmas song where you're sitting around going like hey band what do you want for

christmas do you want and by the way they're not just their instruments they They have lives. Right. You know what I mean? You need to go in the intro of the song. You need to go into detail on each of the band members lives, their likes, their dislikes. Right. And what, in fact, they would need to be doing to earn presents from Santa Claus. Exactly. It's not just rehearsing. There has to be other.

No, there has to. I mean, you have to be a good moral person. Exactly. You know, I mean, as I recall the Edible Street Band, the members of the Edible Street Band are only responsible for three murders. So, you know, on a year-by-year basis, if you didn't do one of those three, I think that you're pretty much… Right, because every january 3rd the slate is wiped clean exactly why january 3rd by the way well it's not january 1st isn't the real new year's well also new year's day it's just like there's so much

going on with the rose parade that you might murder someone yeah because of new year's eve yeah exactly well also yeah new year's eve is like it doesn just, no one goes like 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year. And then everyone silently turns and goes home. No, you party. You're still partying for like another good 3, 4, 5, 6 hours, 7 hours sometimes. 8 hours, 8, 9, 10. That's when I really rip it up is after sure the countdown so there's a lot of residual uh feelings that can occur uh where you might murder someone yeah on new year's day it happens and then

january 2nd you know you're sleeping recovering and covering up your crimes sure yeah you're you're trying to get a catnap in while you're mopping up blood. And lying to the police. Sure. While mopping up blood. Right. Has anyone ever done that? This is not blood. They're like, well, we'll take your word for it.

But January 3rd, everything's wiped. Everything's fine. You're all good. So if you can hold out till January 3rd to December 31st, or January 2nd, you're all good. You know, unfortunately, January 6th came after that cutoff point. I know. What a bummer for all those patriots. Thought about it.

It's raining today. It's such a rainy day today. Adam, I believe I traversed the exact same freeway you did a mere- 101? 101, a mere five minutes after you. I think you did. And I don't know whether you escaped the incredibly hard rain on the 101, but it got a little frightening for me in those five minutes. I did.

I was able to escape through an exit. Ah. I was able to escape through an exit. Ah. I was on the freeway for five, seven minutes. And then I saw an exit with a, it was designated with a street name. I bet it had a little arrow too. There was an arrow too.

Yeah. It said Vine Street. And I was like, and then an arrow. And I was able to see it because the windshield in my car is clear glass. So I saw it. Oh, I got it. Right in front of me and so i turned the steering wheel to the right and was able to okay get off on that exit and then i just took

it from there what if they make cars and the steering wheels it was always the opposite of what direction you wanted to go and they're just like this is how it works the way we do it and we would be used to it right yeah because that yeah if it was but if someone like elon musk hint hint came out with a car where the steering wheel actually moved in the opposite direction i feel like people would eventually get used to it this is this is my feeling on um you know the whole driving on the wrong side of the road uh that that they do out there in merry old england oh it's like you're one of the only countries yeah just just change it i know it'll be an adjustment period for about five years where people are trying to figure out but it might just be five minutes

it's not that i mean ireland too uh you get used to it as a driver you get used to it yeah you get used to it like five minutes and just change an episode of you get used to it as a driver you get used to it yeah you get used to it like five minutes and just change an episode of you get used to it i think so hey everyone welcome to you you get used to it this is scott and this is scott and we're talking about things that one gets used to wait what have you gotten used to recently well i guess you know i've gotten used to. What have you gotten used to recently? Well, I guess, you know, I've gotten used to the just general sense of malaise in my life and the existential dread and the fear of death and the constant feeling that nothing you do is good enough and

that no one loves you and that even your friends that you do podcasts with couldn't give two shits about you. Yeah, they think you're a loser. I mean, a loser, I wouldn't go that far necessarily. I was just kind of going on what you're saying. You don't need to escalate my already terrible feelings. Okay. I'll just sit here and listen. Anyway, just that sort of feeling of like, why was I even born when I was born?

Would it have mattered if I had been born 300 years ago or 10,000 years in the future? Yeah, you've made no difference in the world. You have not left a mark. I won't leave i mean i wouldn't say that i mean i have a huge body of work i have a family that loves me i i don't know you might want to check on that which which half of what i said the huge body of work I'm just going on what you're saying. I'm just sort of expounding on what you're saying. I feel like you have some sort of bone to pick with me. No, I was just kind of riffing and jamming with you. Aren't we here to jam?

Isn't that what we're doing? Jamming on what you've gotten used to? I guess so. Let's jam. Okay, you want to jam? Let's jam. Okay, let's jam. What have you gotten used to

uh i've gotten used to strawberry jam it's pretty good well i shifted from raspberry so now it's strawberry but it was an adjustment period right it was i don't none of those little seeds no seeds which is an advantage but i don't like the big chunks of fruit in my jam. Yeah, that's one thing that I hate about jams is when there are giant chunks of fruit. Me too. And then... It's so common in jams. At first, I didn't love it, but now I've gotten used to it.

This is a pretty good jam. Yeah, this is a good jam. You brought it with you, by the way. Yeah, it's right here. These huge chunks of fruit that you always find in jams. Always. They're really distracting. Giant chunks that take up the entire jar.

This is, by the way, this jar, it's just one strawberry in it. I don't even, I don't think it's been liquefied or anything it's just a strawberry is this not jam i think this is a mason jar that you put one strawberry into to try to fool me for some reason to try to make an ass out of you and me stop it you bye Stop it. You... You... You... You... You... Bye. Bye.

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And this medium that we're working in is free to the public. And that we donate our time. That's right. For literally no reason or money. Oh, Adam. literally no reason or money. Adam, speaking of Santa Claus, merry old St. Nick, he visited your house yesterday. How was your Christmas?

I love Christmas. I know. The music. The music. The visuals. Do you know what I mean when I say the visuals? I think so. You mean the mise-en-scene. Yeah, that's what I mean. That's the visuals i think so you mean the mise-en-scene yeah that's what i mean that's what i love most about christmas is the mise-en-scene

me too the mise-en-scene you know uh the abyss has finally been released digitally i know there's a by the way this is i love films that's right hey everyone welcome to i love films this is scott and this is scott and we're talking about the abyss ah james cameron's the abyss his name may as well be right above the title as far as i'm concerned his name may as well just be changed to box office gold as far as i'm concerned excuse me mr box office gold yeah uh your your table is ready uh avatar 3 directed by box office gold um so the abyss was released i used to love the abyss i saw it many times when i oh yeah i remember i was profoundly stoned when i first saw The Abyss with my friends.

It has the great, and I don't want to spoil it, but it has the greatest person trying to revive a person who's about to die scene, I think, in film. That's right. And one that played upon a lot of films that had come before it um and but i'm hearing a lot of and i'm not sure whether this applies to the abyss but i'm hearing a lot of negatives about the recent james cameron uh 4k digital uh movies that have come out what do you mean that they look bad seriously yeah oh that do you mean? That they look bad. Seriously? Yeah. Oh. You mean like this release?

This 4K release? These 4K digital releases that they've just put out that a lot of the movies look bad. And film buffs are all complaining that they hope the 4K discs aren't bad.

Like The Abyss. What else did they release? True, I think it was True Lies and, oh, Aliens. A lot of people complaining about Aliens. No shit. Yeah. What's the problem? Motion smoothing.

Like Paul, this is truly an episode of I Love Films, by the way. Oh, yeah, really. We're really drilling down. A lot of removal of grain, I guess, that James Cameron didn't like how much grain was in the film, and he would have used a different film stock, but that was all that was available. Interesting. So they've smoothed everything out,

gotten rid of the grain. Paul Reiser's face, I guess, looks just totally smooth. Because I'm in the process of trying to convince my family to sit down and watch The Abyss. So I haven't seen, I bought it and I haven't seen i'm

so excited um are they do they say things to you like dad life is so short what precious what they say is no what was the last movie that you okay here's a here's a question what was the last movie that you were like we gotta watch this and they loved and then flip side what was the last movie you said we gotta watch this and you realize like oh this is not playing um there was something recently the other night we watched parasite and it was fantastic yeah that's a terrific academy award winning film that's right donald trump doesn't think it's uh it should have been really i don't remember that did he have an opinion about parasite yeah apparently something to do with them not speaking english i think um that's amazing um yeah i there was something recently that kind of didn't quite land and i'm

not really remembering was it the aviator although they did a lot of landing in that no it wasn't um god i don't even there was something that was the best part of the aviator for me is like my scenes when you'd see those planes just like landing on the tarmac. I love a good landing on a smooth, clean airstrip. I would see a super cut of just like planes landing on tarmacs. Me too. You know what? Don't you love kind of YouTube compilations

where it's just different things just over and over again over and over and over like a plane landing over and over again i love stuff you know youtube you know yeah it's uh i don't know what you're saying yeah so you know what i'm saying i died okay i don't i don't oh you all right um um so anyway uh the james cameron re-releases people are complaining about they are i don't know about the abyss but i i was that was the one i was looking forward to because i don't do you hear these grumbles i'm plugged in man unlike letterboxd i look i got my ears to the streets boy boy. Which ones? Maybe you've heard of Hollywood Boulevard. No, which ears?

Oh, mainly my left and my right. Okay. That's fun. And I'm excited to see The Abyss again because I love it so much. And last time it was released was like regular dvd i think i think so yeah i saw i saw it when it came out in theaters a couple of times then i think they re-released a like extended cut right yeah there's a different in theaters different ending which is probably a

better ending look let's talk about chris elliott chris elliott's in the abyss in the abyss now that means something to us probably not in 1989 when that movie came out and i first saw it like i said profoundly stoned i applauded when he appeared on screen i didn't know he was i like to think you would do that stoned or not stone yes no i would have um but it was super exciting because i i had met him a year earlier in new york uh with my brother which why did why were you meeting your brother for the first time with chris elliott chris elliott and i were super tight when i was a teen uh and my brother lived with him grew up with him never met him never met him and so so i so

chris was like an emissary between us right right go between it was it was really nice and then like a year later the ab Abyss came out. Wow. Crazy story. Yeah. Have you ever talked to your brother since? No. We correspond through snail mail.

Which is actual mail carried by snails. Like the snails in that movie Turbo? Yes. This is Isla Films. Yes. Are we still in i love films yes yes okay thank god thank god thank god because we started talking about turbo and i was very worried no we we are safely in i love films and that is quite a film well i i i really want to know if if you guys ever watch Abyss together.

I'm at the edge of my seat about this. Will you give us an update on our next episode? If my brother and I watch the Abyss together? I will. Yeah, I will. Next episode, we will find out if my kids- If they ever agreed. To sit down and watch the-

Do you have to make bargains with them? Because the Abyss is like, there's no me saying, I want to watch a almost 40 year old movie with you that's awesome with nascent cgi effects that they've never heard of ever once of course uh it's it's a tough and it's only like two hours and 45 minutes it's a good film though it is i would love to watch it again the the scene where he, Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio have to make that decision when they're trapped in the pod. Yeah, it's gripping. I think they would like it.

I actually do think they would like it. Gripping is a terrific word for it. Yeah. Because you're gripping not only the edge of your seat, not only your popcorn, but your cock. Okay, bye. What a weird fucking episode. They got very specific about technical specs of recent 4K releases

and then they ended with talking about grabbing their dicks at the theater, grabbing popcorn and their dick. Like what? Those guys look, God bless them for continuing to do. I love films, but it was at the longest. I love films.

I think it might've ever. Yeah. Jeez. Wow. Wow. I'm pulling for that guy and his brother. I haven't introduced you yet, and I know you want to say some words to the people who are closest to you.

This is Adam Scott is here with me. Thank you. Thanks, Scott. Listen, happy holidays to everybody, no matter where you are in the world. When you say holidays, by the way, Christmas is over. You mean stocking day. That's right. Happy stocking day to everybody, no matter where you are in the world. When you say holidays, by the way, Christmas is over. You mean Stocking Day. That's right.

Happy Stocking Day to everybody. Coming up tomorrow. No matter where you celebrate Stocking Day, I know we're all gathering around the hearth and staring at our stockings, waiting for them to be filled once again. Refilled. Refilled. Free refills on stocking day. So anyway.

I don't think we ever, by the way, we never figured out what is going into these stockings. What types of presents? When you say a refill, is it candy? It's,

listen, what do you think of when you think of stocking presents? Because, I mean, every once in a while you'll get like a mug a mug yeah don't you think that's a little heavy for a stocking not if you come on have a strong

enough hearth hearth is it hearth i would say hearth you want should we look it up i don't know you don't want to be wrong let's say her say her arth how about her arth well now this this gives the a with two a little umlaut above it how would you then that would probably be hearth because there's an e as well right i know it's just h and then a with an umlaut r and then th really big like you're supposed to to it to Wait, the TH is capitalized? Yeah, so are they trying to say you got to really hit the TH? So it'd be like hearth. Yeah, I think it's hearth.

Hearth. Hearth. I'm going to say pronunciation, and then I think- Yeah, they'll pronounce it for you. I think a YouTube thing will- Okay, here we go. Ready? Hearth. Pretty clear.

Can I hear it one more time? Yeah. Hearth. Do you want to hear it in a sentence? Yeah. Hey, look at that... Hearth. Okay, I got it. Why did I think it was hearth? Well, it's spelled like hearth. It's spelled like earth. I thought you said there's? Well, it's spelled like hearth. It's spelled like earth. I thought you said there's no E in it. No, not in the... Oh, the pronunciation. Oh, I thought you were actually spelling the word.

I was confused. Let's see. How do you pronounce this word? Oh, gotta watch an ad. No, no, this is the intro. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Fuck. Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, please subscribe to our channel and help us pronounce every word in the world. What's that? What? Penis. What's that? Adam, what? What? Penis.

Why am I just discovering this now? I think I knew this technology existed, but this is great. Good stuff. I love that. Please subscribe to our channel. Yeah. Where we can say fuck over and over again um adam it's great to have you and uh happy stocking day to you of course if i don't see you before then i doubt i

will as stocking day is tomorrow uh i doubt we'll fit in another sesh before uh tomorrow well you never know you never do that's the thing about stocking day little old me may come but here back to my back to my point yeah what is in stockings? Because I'm imagining like a Halloween. Well, what kind of shit do you put in a stocking? This is what you keep asking me. I'm asking you. Stocking stuffers, as they call them, are usually just like kind of, you know, the kind of stuff you throw out like within a couple of days. So like, but other than candy, like maybe a word a day calendar i think i got one of those

in a stocking one shit like that but why would i a mug and a word a day calendar both sound a little big a little heavy for you i would say like like uh you know like a one of those one of those like a a 10 pack of gum or something you shove that in there and then uh maybe a starbucks gift card or something like yeah yeah yeah there you go okay so so i like the idea that you give someone a gift card and then two days later they've used it already and you gotta give them the exact another gift card. Another one, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you find your way to wherever they've put all their gifts, and you take that gift card and rewrap it and put it back in the stocking. Yeah, sure.

Are those the kind of shenanigans that you're... That's the kind of mischief that the stocking day elves get into. Wow. You never know. It's coming up tomorrow, so this is very exciting for our listeners. Yeah. It's pretty exciting. Mm-hmm. What else did you want to say to the people you're closest with?

Thank you. I just wanted to say to everybody out there, my friends, my family, and also, Scott, to you. Thank you so much. Yeah, I just wanted to say hi. Hi. Thank you so much for including me I just wanted to say hi. Hi.

Hi. Thank you so much for including me. You know, sometimes it's just as simple as that. You just say hi. Thank you so much. That's why it's my slogan. Just say hi. Just say hi.

Just say hi. It's very, I mean, I got to say it's a little similar to Just Say No, the Nancy Reagan drugs. Well, that's where I got it. I'm in partnership with the Nancy Reagan Foundation. Really? So you guys are like teaming up on this. We're out there. We're hitting the streets.

We're just saying hi. As well as no. And also no. After you say hi. No. It's important to say no. I'm trying to imagine a situation where that would actually come in handy, where you come up to a stranger and say, hi.

Hi. And then, no. And then whatever it is they want, say no. I love it. Well, I appreciate the hi. I appreciate the no. Thank you. And everything in between, Adam.

No. Because this is truly the season. We're coming up on New Year's Eve. We already talked about the countdown and how hard we rage. It's so fun. You know what's fun is watching the East Coast. If're on the west coast if you're a west coaster sure if you're one of those types who surfs in the morning and skis at night every weekend i like to start my saturday by uh by skiing yep you do it the reverse. Yeah.

By the way, you surf at like 9 p.m., which is too late to be doing it, first of all, because the waves are no longer there. They're going the opposite direction. It's extremely dark. Yeah. Very, very dark. No lifeguards.

No lifeguards. Do waves go the opposite? I mean, they go... Yeah, after 5 p.m., they go the opposite direction. They just like go... So you can surf a wave. if you get the right wave you can surf it all the way to catalina yep and in australia people do surf at night because everything's backwards there that's right um and we want to say hello to our friends in australia who are

listening right now with their surfing santas it's summer there for them right now it's great i love seeing a santa on a surfboard it's so funny hell yeah because mostly you see santa in colder environments yeah pretty much uh his the whole his whole mise en scene is uh very wintry winter yeah just the gloves themselves but then he hits that the southern hemisphere and if it's summer hey you gotta take off that peel off that red santa suit think about santa as he's wearing those gloves right yeah is that so he doesn't leave fingerprints anywhere yes that's i mean primarily because no one's ever gotten like a hair follicle or a trace of his DNA. I mean, have you dusted for fingerprints up in your hearth?

I haven't now. Oh, wow. You're saying it so correctly. Thanks. I haven't. No, that's a good question. I mean, Santa just visited us yesterday. He gave us all new SUVs.

That's nice. It's really nice. Yeah. How did he fit those down the chimney? I don't know. To be honest, if I ever meet him, that's the first question I'm going to ask him. You must have rehearsed a lot during the year to earn all those SUVs. Yep. I thought I was going to get a brand new saxophone. Wait, Adam's leaving. Where are you going, buddy?

What? You what? You're throwing something in the garbage? Why are you doing this in the middle of the show? What was it? What? What was it? It was a piece of gum I had in my hand.

I had to get rid of it. You could wait for the break. No, I couldn't. It was gross. I love it. You just turned around and walked out of the room. Well, you were talking. I figured rather than calling it out, you would just keep talking.

Hey, this is podcasting. We call out everything on this. New Year's Eve coming up, and that is, of course, taking us into a little year called 2024. Leap year, buddy. Huh. You excited for the extra day? Yeah. Is it really a leap year hell yeah who am i talking to i'm talking to mr leap day himself hey um did we start doing the podcast

in 2014 or 2013 2014 the like very beginning of 2014 yeah in like march or something i don't know we're coming up on the 10-year anniversary how How are we going to celebrate? I'll tell you one thing we want to do. Get anyear anniversary? Here's my question, though. Yeah. I feel like we started in late 2013. Why? Just because I said it was 2014? You want to be a fucking dick? Their album came out in, what, the fall of 2014? Yeah, and we thought it was coming out earlier than what it was.

I'll check on the actual day here while you talk, but give me your opinion. I thought that it was like late, like fall 2013 when we started. So it was like, by the time the album came out, a surprise release, it was like, holy shit.

I think we had heard like, oh, we think it's probably coming out later this year year i think that's right february 18 2014 2014 was our first episode and then when did february 20 well that was our preview february 26 was the first episode when is the true tenure songs of innocence come out songs of innocence i would say like september songs of innocence came out september 11 well that was our no that was our uh uh episode that we released it on so i think it probably came out like september 9th or something like that that's so crazy because i feel my memory is we had been doing

the podcast for a long time and suddenly the album came out but it was only like six months sometimes things are just different than than than your memory of them wait a minute was that an episode of the most fascinating conversation i think it was i think i don't there wasn't a theme song or anything so i have no idea but uh but it clearly clearly was clearly was so interesting oh my gosh hey adam we're going to be talking about a bruce springsteen album today working on a dream i've been working on one dream um yeah working on a dream we're going to be talking about it today we're going to be going through all the songs and we're going to be talking about our opinion of the album does that sound fun to you yes it does right yes sounds fun

to me too what do you say we take a break when we come back we will talk about the album working on a dream on a little show that i like to call you talking you two to me we'll be right back after this Hey, welcome back. You springing spring scene on my bean. I just saw a really cool headline I wanted to share. Oh, yeah. You know me. I have always considered myself to be the successor to Jay Leno's headlines. Well, this one will fit right in.

Hear something. Masked singer and loser John Schneider calls for public executions of President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden. By the way, they could probably get rid of the words masked singer and the headline would still loser John Schneider. Yeah, it would still make sense. John Schneider is the Dukes of Hazzard guy. Yeah, Smallville, Pa Kent. Jesus Christ.

Why does he want them to be public? Like I say, keep those private. I mean, you why does he want him to be public like I say keep those private I mean you and I both want him to be executed keep them private let's keep that under wraps I mean what then let's put some body doubles in there although I know that's already happened we're on our third or fourth Joe Biden at this point. Wow. So crazy. Did he say it on The Masked Singer? And then Jenny McCarthy laughed and Nicole Scherzinger just shook her head. Is she on that show? I have no idea.

I didn't even know that was... What does that mean he's the loser? People guessed who it was singing? Do you not know how The Masked Singer works? I do not. Okay, so in your mind, this is what I'm getting. In not know how the Masked Singer works? I do not. Okay, so in your mind, this is what I'm getting. In your mind, the Masked Singer is,

if any of those judges, Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy. Wow, those are the judges? Yes. Wow. Dr. Ken. Ken Jeong? Yeah.

And then Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls, right? Whoa. Quite a collection of people. And they're around Jenny McCarthy and no one's wearing masks. So you never know if you're going to catch Rubella from her. But she's an anti-vax person. Oh, I see. So in your mind, if one of those judges ever guesses the person they're disqualified

yeah well in my mind people come on with with masks on that's an important part you're right i skipped over that i'm so sorry and singing and you try and guess who it is singing all of that is yes okay you you are correct so if someone guesses hey that's john schneider singing then john schneider loses that is not the case the mass singer the mechanics of it are merely the judges are there to give their opinion to perhaps influence voting uh and then to offer their opinion of who they think it is sometimes i believe they obfuscate who it is as not to give it away. So the judges know who it is?

No, the judges do not know. But every once in a while you can tell that one of the judges automatically just knows whose voice it is. And they sort of play around like, oh, maybe it's this person, maybe it's this person. But by the time they give their final guesses, they're like, yeah, I know it's, you know, like a shocker con for instance, but how would anyone guess John Schneider? That's the point. Yeah.

So, uh, but there are clues. Um, there are little packages. Like he was one of the two Duke brothers. It's, I mean,

that's more than a clue. Right. Unless you're talking about David, I can't think of anything else that would cause a person to guess John Schneider. There are video packages that you wear that have visual clues, like subtle visual clues with the person's voice. It's so tiring. Honestly, I feel like I've worked out for about three hours after I watched the show. Yeah.

But if they guess, there is no effect on it because it is merely a vote total from the audience at home voting for who their favorite is. I see. And people are eliminated. Oh, I see. So it's like Dancing with the Stars. In the sense that it's on TV, yeah. It's like Dancing with the Stars.

It's like I Love Lucy. But isn't Dancing with the stars 100 percent uh audience no is the audience at home voting on oh boy i really do think this is an episode of explaining reality shows to adam hey everyone this is explaining reality Hey, everyone. This is Explaining Reality Shows with Adam. This is Scott. And this is Scott. I mean, listen. I was glued to the Survivor finale this week. Don't spoil it, by the way.

I don't want to. I will not. I don't know. Okay. So, Dancing with the Stars. Here we go. Dancing with the Stars. There's the judges.

There's the judges. They give them a point total. But the home audience votes. Yes. Let me explain it. Sorry. So, Dancing with the Stars. Why are you clapping along with every syllable?

I'm doing it like a Twitter thread. Here's, I'm going to explain it. Okay. The judges give their vote totals between one and 10. There are three judges. Um, currently, uh, of course, Len Goodman is no longer with us. Okay. It's the Len Goodman Memorial.

Uh, one of the judges passed. He passed away and they've named the prize after him now. Oh. Uh, now we have Derek Huff, I believe. Yeah, sure. Uh, we have Carrie Ann and inaba as the announcer says when they introduce her okay uh and a third i can't remember um oh no bruno bruno yeah the bruno that's who i was thinking was the person that passed no len was the english gentleman uh when i think uh at about 12 17 p.m on 17 okay uh hell you're by the way no i did i just wanted to know

in your off hours you're a coroner right that's right and so you like these details you can look up his a bit after the show i think but um so they give uh three judges give their vote totals between one and ten they'll they'll tally those up it's usually between you know 16 and 30 sometimes they'll get a purse okay you know all right then the audience calls in only in that hour on the west coast by the way during which it is on. So if you're on the West Coast and you're trying to vote for a Matt Walsh, you got to do it before you ever even see what he's dancing like.

Matt Walsh was on Dancing with the Stars? Thank God this is an episode of Explaining Reality shows to Adam. I did not know Matt Walsh was on Dancing. He was on The Season, yes. How'd he do? Eliminated first. Really? Yeah. That was on this season. Yes. How'd he do? Eliminated first. Really?

Yeah. That makes him the coolest. Way cooler, yeah. Nikki Glaser? Eliminated first. I didn't know she was on it either. That's always the coolest person, except Tucker Carlson. Didn't he go first too?

I have no idea. I think he did. One of the only seasons I watched, the dude from Cobra Kai, you know, the guy who ran the Cobra Kai? Martin Kove. Yes, Martin Kove. He got eliminated first because he wasn't, he was, I don't know why. If I were to speculate, it would be because of age. He wasn't even dancing.

He was like walking around the dance floor sort of prowling and pointing. Oh. But never dancing. It was pretty good. In any case, the half of their final score is from the judges.

Half of it is from the audience. Oh, I see. So it's a mix of the two. Bye. Bye. This is absolute reality. Reality. And sorry, maybe. the two bye bye and sorry maybe okay we're going back in hey welcome to explaining and this is scott so with the masked singer, is it the same deal?

No, the judges have no effect on the scoring. They're just there to entertain. They're, and they do a great job. Well, Ken Jeong is awesome, and I'm sure he does entertain. He is very fun. Yeah. He is normally just doing joke guesses. Good. Fucking right on.

Meanwhile, Robin Thicke actually can can pretty if it's a famous singer especially from the 70s or 80s he's usually someone who can go like i know this is chaka khan she has a very distinctive voice this is chaka khan i believe that um and then the other two are you know got it so john schneider was a loser in that the audience did not vote for him. He never, you know, there are probably, I would, if I had to guess how many Masked Singers there are at any given time out there in the world.

Yeah, they're among us. The Masked Singers. There's probably 16 or 12 per season or something. Okay. He's one of the 11 that did not win. So did he like take his mask off after he lost and go, I would like to see Joe and Hunter Biden publicly executed? And then Ken Jeong like went, ah!

Jesus Christ. Yeah. All right. But, you know, as ideas go. Sounds like I need to watch The Masked mass singer i have seen dancing with the stars but i've never seen you never retain that information though that i'm telling you i thought it was audience purely purely determined by the audience so with those numbers that everyone held up now that you say that of course that probably has bearing but i just didn't remember

bye bye all right sounds uh sounds like one of those hosts is needs to study up honestly i don't know if there'd be a show if that particular host studied up so that's true so all in all not bad um adam we're we're here um mainly to to explain reality show rules to you but but our side gig is on our other shows yeah we talk about these bruce springsteen albums working on a dream and uh we're here talking about working on a dream and do you want to do stats yeah all right all right all right all right all right all right all right all right um the last album magic that we covered came out in 2007 and that came out i believe in uh this one september of 2007. This comes out a mere one year and four months later.

This comes out in January of 2009. Wow. That's pretty fast. That's PDQ. I remember listening to this album when it came out in my trailer while making Party Down.

Oh, cool. Season one. Season one of three. That's right. Yeah, that must have been season one. January of nine. January of nine. You're looking at your calendar right now

or you're looking at the partydown.com? I was looking at the date on Wikipedia of the release, which, yes. January 27, 2009. By the way, i texted you this the other day but you're uh i i had the pleasure of interviewing your co-worker in the movie torque john doe oh yeah he's awesome uh and uh he was over here doing cbb fm which is a music show i do over at cbb world and uh it was a pleasure and uh he's rad yeah it was great then i went to go see x that night at the roxy oh cool were they incredible yeah they were great yeah

put the x in roxy i remember he and i talked about rem oh really what did you wait a minute oh yeah yeah this this i mean this is an episode of Are You Talking R.E.M. Re-Me, the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things R.E.M. This is good rock and Roll Music. Hey, welcome to the show. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And you were telling me before the show something really interesting. You were saying that John Doe, the member of the seminal punk band X, Los Angeles punk band x uh you uh uh were starting a film with him called torqua torque torque and uh when everyone was talking about twerking by the

way like oh i like to twerk did you think they were talking about torque and yeah like getting excited i excited i was getting really excited um yeah john John Doe was in the movie, and I was super excited because I love X, and I just love John Doe. And so I walked up and immediately introduced myself and wanted to jump right in and talk about music. And I think he was a little weirded out. about music and i think he was a little weirded out um because the torque the set was a it was a fine set but it wasn't the kind of set where everyone was uh super excited about john doe and los angeles right punk music right so you wanted to make sure that he had a safe haven in you that's right and meanwhile he's here thinking like man another weirdo yeah i just want to act on this thing but uh slowly over the course of the couple days we worked

together we were chit-chatting a lot and stuff and so if i remember correctly i had just seen rem it must have been the up tour because this was 02 so it must have it was a couple years since they had toured but we were talking about bands and longevity and i was saying like the re the last rem show i saw bye That was a great app. That was great. Wow. Good stuff. Well, he asked me to say hi to you because he, I think he knew we do this show together.

Unprompted? Unprompted, yeah. Really? Yeah. He said, hey, you know Adam Scott? And I said, I do. We have this show about Springsteen. And he said, please say hi to him.

I did a movie with him. That's so nice. The whole time I was like, John Doe is way too cool for me, this movie. I'm just kind of surprised that he remembers that. Still a big fan. It's cool. Okay, so working on a dream. Guess who's back?

Back again. That's right. This album is by Bruce Springsteen. But also we have the Edible Street Band is here. We have all the crew from

the previous album Magic. We have it's produced by Brendan O'Brien. Brendan O'Brien. That's right. Do you think he's Irish? Let me say his name with an Irish lilt and we'll figure it out.

Brendan O'Brien. Yeah, I think he is. He's Irish. Yeah, he's definitely Irish. Let me say Bruce Springsteen with an Irish lilt. We'll see if he's Irish. Bruce Springsteen. He's Irish.

He's Irish, too. Let me say Adam Scott with an Irish lilt. Adam Scott. No, not Irish. Maybe a little Irish, but mostly like Scottish and Sicilian. Okay, let me do you like Shrek. I got to get into it. Donkey, donkey, Fiona, donkey, donkey, Adam Scott.

Wow. The warmup to get into Shrek was the best part of that. Jesus. Oh, my gosh. Okay, yeah, so Working on a Dream, 16th studio album by Bruce Springsteen. Wow, that's one more than 15. No one can argue with that.

Top the charts in nine countries, including the US, where it was his ninth number one. charts in nine countries including the u.s where it was his ninth number one um and this was a busy little period for brucey um he put out this album he also did the super bowl halftime show in uh i believe the week after or maybe a few weeks after this came out he was up there shaking his little butt while cheerleaders and football players were all going i'm so fucking tired i can't go back out there they go a lot of times football players at halftime they go back in the locker room and their coach gives them some of the business, right? Yeah, yeah.

What are you doing out there? Are you kidding me? Yeah. With that poor showing of effort. And most of the time, the players are like, you're right, let's just leave. Yeah, and they walk home. And the coach is like, no, I'm sorry. No, no, no, no.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. We love you.

We love you. But this time, they're like, coach, stick a pin in it. We're going to go watch the boss. That's right. This was the only Super Bowl halftime where the players all just stayed on the field yep and in formation information they played a mini game during it for in time with the music that's right um it was a crazy experience.

Did you see that Super Bowl halftime? Yeah. I've talked about it on the show already. I don't remember it, but I'm sure I saw it. It's great. Go check it out. You can see it on YouTube. It's really great. The funniest part is when a fake referee comes out

and throws a flag in the middle of the thing saying they're partying too hard or some shit. They're shredding too hard or yeah something something to that that effect just bruce does a slide i've talked about how i was over at uh jimmy kimmel's house watching this and uh and i was jamming along i was by myself i'm jamming along i look to my left and ben affleck is sitting next to me and i'm embarrassed. Because you were getting way too into it. Yeah, because I think everyone was sort of like cynical about it a little. I'm not saying like, you know,

Jimmy was or anything like that. I'm saying that. Just like a fucking half-time show. A bunch of comedians and like, oh, let's make fun of stuff. Sure. And I'm here going like, this is rad. Well, there have been some great,

I mean, Springsteen, Tom Petty. You too. Prince is the best of all time prince was incredible and the one a few years ago with eminem and dr dre and snoop that was pretty good yeah i thought that was awesome um the rihanna one i thought was fine i that was last year sure oh it's who is it this year again it's uh um wilco i think the cure yep no it's depeche mode i just saw them by the way you know who it should be who should and i'm not joking fucking duran duran that would be awesome quality is job one with duran duran duran duran ltd quality is job one yeah sure sometimes safety safety is maybe job one so quality will slip to two because they want to make sure everyone's safe no they don't want anyone to die during one

of so quality yeah it can be job two occasionally. And then, you know, sometimes just the music is job two. But they're playing. So it'll slip to three. Quality will slip to three. They play so well. But the thing about a halftime show is it always should be a medley of hits. And they have so many incredible songs. They have so many hits.

But I think that the audience that would. Yeah, they probably wouldn't know those songs. Yeah, I mean. But that's the thing. I feel like everyone... Like, those songs are at the grocery... Like, everyone knows those. The grocery?

The grocery store. That's where you listen to your music? No, but that... Did you listen to this album at the grocery? In preparation for the show? I go to the grocery. And I listen to... And you slip them a disc.

Uh-huh. I'm like, could you put this on, please? And then I just dance in the aisles one of the songs by the way would fit very well yeah you're right um okay so brendan o'brien is back um they here here's what happened with this record duran duran is an absurd suggestion for the super bowl what am i talking about i have a i have a story I'll tell you about in the break involving Duran Duran. Okay. Why don't you tell it here?

I don't want to. Okay. Not regarding them personally, by the way. I've never met them, although I did hang out backstage at one of their shows. It's where I met Susanna Hoffs of the Bengals. Wait, you've never met them, but you were hanging out backstage at one of their shows. We went to see them at South by Southwest. Were they awesome?

They were great. Jon Hamm was there. I texted him and we met and he is like, oh, I'm here with the Bangles. Yeah. And so then we all went backstage and uh i i never personally uh went up to them or saw them but maybe the were the bangles awesome too oh they're

great yes they're so good they're so good they're uh they should do the super bowl halftime show the bet this is what i'm saying the bet here and here's the thing. Susanna's married to Jay Roach. Yeah. Let's get Austin Powers in there too. Yeah. Austin Powers. Jay Roach can direct it. This is perfect.

Super Bowl halftime show. Ready to go. Let's get Austin Powers. Austin Powers. Ace Ventura. Ace Ventura. Bill and Ted. Bill.

Ted. The dude where it's my car guys. Wayne's World. Wayne's World. Wayne and Ted. Bill. Ted. The dude where it's my car, guys. Wayne's World. Wayne's World. Wayne and Garth. Swing. That's right. Let's get all of them.

Meanwhile, the Bengals are just jamming. Shredding. Oh my God, this is the perfect Super Bowl halftime experience. Yeah, it is. Pepsi. Pepsi. Get Pepsi involved. Yeah, they'll be.

They're dumping just tubs of Pepsi on everyone. And everyone's drinking it, and then one person drowns in the Pepsi. Live on stage. Yes, a drowning. So we want Austin Powers, Ace Ventura, Bill and Ted, Wayne's World, the Dude Where's My Car guys. We want the Bangles. We want J. Roach to direct and we want one drowning yeah okay great all right back to working on a dream so this came out relatively

quickly after magic and i guess here's the process from what i'm gleaning um brendan and brian says like let's not wait another because i think it was five years in between uh we can't wait that long can't wait that long let's just wait that long. Let's just get this going right away. They go on the magic tour. Yep. And when they're back, Brendan O'Brien's like, let's do it immediately. And

Bruce, by the way, how long is this record? 51 minutes, 20 seconds. A little longer than magic. I will say, if you take out the bonus track. The Wrestler. The Wrestler, that gets it at around 47 minutes. Is that a bonus track? It's regarded as a bonus track.

But it's on the album. I know. It's just recorded a couple years. No, I think because it was made for the movie, it wasn't made for the album. But it's on the album. I know. It's not a bonus track but it's listed as a bonus track it is yeah oh i mean then it's not on your phone

it's a bonus track if it's listed as a bonus track that would be a bonus track my friend look right there it's in the title um it's raining cats and dogs out there i'm looking out this window and don't see anything. Yeah, but look out that window. Oh, my God. Do you like the expression, it's raining cats and dogs? How did it start? Because it doesn't make any fucking sense.

Okay, the etymology is, a number of possible etymologies have been put forward. By the way, this has got to be an episode of Etymologies. Oh, yeah. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Etymologies. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we're talking about the etymology this episode of It's Raining Cats and Dogs. Yeah. And this is the show where we explain, you know, why we say what we say.

Right. The nomenclature and where it comes from. Can I say one thing to you before we dive in? Sure. The expression, it's raining cats and dogs. Mm-hmm. I love it. You love it? Why do you love it? I love it because rain, by and large, is seen as a negative.

It's inconvenient. Although it helps our crops. Just shut up for a second. Oh, shit. But like you were about to say when you interrupted me, it's good for our crops. It's great. It's great for the earth. it's great it's great for the earth i would say it's great for the environment shut your mouth for two seconds but for me

you're just living in a city it's largely inconvenient especially los angeles don't get me started traffic goes crazy people panic when it's raining fuck fuck now fuck the thing is though when if you like this people say it's raining cats and dogs i think it's fun i think it's it kind of it's lighthearted there's no cats there's no dogs no go ahead all right well look one possible explanation involves the drainage systems on buildings in 17th century europe which were poor and may have disgorged their contents including the corpses of animals i don't see it as like is that really that's one possible explanation i just don't i don't buy it because i don't think that people i I don't think that, say you were in that situation,

you're in 17th century Europe. Are people putting their dead pets on the roof? In the drain? I think down the sewers or whatever. Oh, I see. So say you're walking around in 17th century Europe. Suddenly there's just like pet corpses everywhere. You're not going to be like, boy, it's raining cats and dogs out there.

Right. You know what I mean? It's just too lighthearted for what is a bad situation to be in. Yeah. Okay. Here's another one. Cats and dogs may be a corruption of the Greek word katadupe, referring to waterfalls on the Nile.

Possibly through the old French word, catadoupe, waterfall. In old English, catadoupe meant a cataract or a waterfall. Cats and dogs. What? Cats and dogs may also come from the Greek expression catadoxa, which means contrary to experience or belief, meaning it's raining cats and dogs, aka unusually hard.

That's a little more easy to take. But I just don't buy any of this. But there's an online rumor largely circulated through email claimed that in 16th century Europe, animals could crawl into the thatch of peasant homes to seek shelter from the elements and would fall out during heavy rain.

I buy that one. That's the one you like, Adam? I love it. Then that's the one it's gonna be. Ding, ding, ding. We've got a winner, everybody. I actually think it's the following one, which is there is no logical explanation.

It may have just been used for its nonsensical humor value. Yeah, that's probably right. That's probably right. All right. Bye. Bye. Pretty informative show. That was really good. Sounded like one of the hosts was just reading off Wikipedia.

But he did a good job of a cold read, I have to say. It kind of sounded like the other one wasn't really listening. I buy that. Okay. So here's the process for working on a dream is i think brendan o'brien says bruce let's get going let's let's uh do this right away yeah and bruce here's what i can tell oh god okay i don't think brendan o'brien likes this album i that's really that's just me reading his quotes about it what does he say every single song he seems to say like i don't really get this one but bruce really wanted to do it okay he also says like this is around the time when an artist is getting tired of being told what to do

and just wants to do their own thing and is this the last record they made together yes and then another one was sort of like i had no input on choosing what songs would go in or not and none on the instrumentation because he pretty much gave this to me with uh pretty complete demos and just said why don't you mix this? Or let's record it this way. Oh, I see. Let's just re-record this. Yes, in the exact way. Is that why the album opens with a song called Outlaw Peak?

He did not want that to be the opener and said, but Bruce really, really wanted that to be the opening song. And so it is. Yeah. So I'm reading between the lines a little bit that that this isn't a true collaboration the way that the previous two records were and i think it's i think it's safe to say that magic was a triumph of sorts it was a huge album and the rising both of them and the rising yeah we're we're just incredibly but i would say magic is probably his

best album since like born in the usa yeah i think so and and so i think brendan o'brien is here saying like let's keep this going and let's not you know let you go off and do another see your sessions or whatever yeah yeah yeah let's keep let's keep the momentum going yeah and bruce is And Bruce is like, hold on, here's a bunch of shitty demos. So we'll hear it a little later. Bruce doesn't even really talk about the process behind it in his book. He just mainly writes a whole chapter about the Super Bowl. Right. And, you know, it's a schizophrenic album,

I would say. Yes, I would say so. It doesn't really have a cohesive theme, nor does it have really a cohesive sound. No. And the cover is weird.

Cover, if you like the color blue blue you're in heaven at this point because i would say a good half of this dang album cover is blue and would you say that work the the the title working on a dream and the song working on a dream is tied at all to because the album came out just a few days after Obama was inaugurated and the song was used in his inauguration. We'll talk about that when we when we hear the song, because there are some choice quotes about it that I think we'll we'll talk about. But yeah, it's an oddity, I think, in his discography. It's an oddity, I think, in his discography. But we're going to listen to it and kind of try to make sense of it here. You ready to do this? We're going to take a break. Yeah.

When we come back, we will be listening to Working on a Dream on You Spring and Springsteen on My Bean. Working on a Bean. on You Spring and Springsteen on my Bean. Working on a bean. Welcome back. You springin' Springsteen on my bean. We are talking about Working on a Dream today, which is the album that came out in 2007. I did one-

2009. Sorry, 2009. I saw the seven in January 27, and I mixed it up like a little broken brain guy. One thing I did want to mention is that they were saying that Bruce was going to be super, this was going to be like the busiest time period of his life because this album was coming out,

he was doing Super Bowl, and they're like, and obviously he'll be nominated for an oscar for uh his song yeah and so they were all prepping that like it was a fait accompli like it was uh for the wrestler and he did not get nominated and uh but it's sort of like you've seen those like steven spielberg uh those old home movies of him like watching the academy awards nominations being uh not being announced for jaws and he doesn't get one and it's like they had set up cameras and like to record it it just seemed like it was gonna happen and then when something like

that doesn't happen i have not seen that footage it's pretty interesting um it uh the the song was uh nominated and won the uh golden globe though so i guess but but they were like well he's going to be performing at the oscars oh god um and so we got to fit that into a schedule around the super bowl and around you know this album release thing and that did not happen um as far as personnel uh we have uh the edibles are back we even have uh maybe on a few tracks uh the late danny federici is uh playing on so we got he was able to complete some of the sessions before he passed away and we talked about it it's a fucking weird album

when it came out I remember being like yeah it's good yeah me too yeah it's like magic right Outlaw Pete okay don't know about that Queen of the Supermarket don't know about that but yeah I mean it's like and then just gradually, I've never listened to it again.

Yeah. Until, so it's obviously didn't really stick with me until we started doing this, but let's hear it. We've talked about it. This is the first song. This is called Outlaw Pete. This is by Bruce Springsteen. He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail.

At six months old, he'd done three months in jail. He robbed a bank in his diapers And his little bare baby feet All he said was, folks, my name is Outlaw Pete I'm Outlaw Pete I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm outlaw Pete, can you hear me? A 25'o Mustang, Pony heated steel And it rolled around and round on heaven's wheel Father Jesus, I'm an outlaw, a killer and a thief And I slowed down only to sow my grief

I'm outlaw Pete, I'm outlaw Pete I'm outlaw Pete Can you hear me? He cut his trail of tears Across the countryside And where he went Women wept and then died One night he went Okay, so Outlaw Pete.

Outlaw Pete. This song goes on for eight minutes. Yeah. It's about a bank robbing baby in diapers. It is? Yes. It's about a bank robbing baby in diapers it is yes it's about a baby it's about a baby they put out a um graphic novel in coordination with it uh with artwork by frank caruso uh about this little baby you can see the cover here if you maybe just click on Outlaw Pete yourself. You can...

Look it over my shoulder. It's... Here's the other... It is about a baby. Yeah. So is it a children's book? I don't know. Here's the other interesting bit of trivia about this.

Kiss fans, fans of the band Kiss, immediately probably figured it out when we started playing that song. It is the melody of I Was Made For Loving You. Really? I was made for loving you, baby. You were made for loving me. Okay.

Kiss is quoted, Gene Simmons is quoted as saying, there are some people we sue. We've sued a lot of people and made a lot of money. Bruce Springsteenen we don't sue because we think he's cool okay well all right sure but it is just that over and over for eight minutes that i was made for loving you baby uh over and over and over for eight minutes um what do we think about la pete um you know it's it's really weird that it opens the album when the first time i heard it i was kind of like oh interesting yeah me too when it was like oh that's a that's a swing same but it's like it's not like about jesse james or it's outlaw

pete yeah who's a baby who's a baby i wish i wasn't aware i just thought it was super specific and not it didn't feel like it was really about anything yeah i don't sense him having any like they call it like a meditation on sin fate and free will and stuff like that but i i don't know that it's really about anything you know we talked about before this album isn't really cohesive thematically i'm not quite sure what he's saying with it like i think each individual song is its own thing about its own thing. It also has its own sound. Yeah. And so none of it is like an album. It doesn't stick together.

But that was Outlaw Pete. So that happens for eight minutes. And then we go to track two. This is called My Lucky Day. This is by Bruce Springsteen. In the room where fortune falls On a day when the chances are In the dark of this exile I felt the grace of your smile And you're my lucky day. Honey, you're my lucky day.

When I lost all the other bits of me. Honey, you're my lucky day. My lucky day, Adam. I love this song. I would say this is the best song on the record. Me too. As far as I'm concerned, it's an SEC. Really? I love it.

As far as I'm concerned, it's B-plus Springsteen. Okay. But it's good. This is definitely where i kind of go like okay i've forgiven you outlaw pete yeah now we're back anyone anyone can start an album like you know it's like the first five minutes of any movie you give it a grace period where it's like i don't care if this is credits i don't care if it's boring you know like who needs a movie to start just like boom drop you into something you you know well i this sounds like lucky day sounds like a second song like a really great second song

i just think the opening song there's other choices on this album that would have worked so much better outlaw pete should be like the night song or the yeah or not on the record not um okay but my lucky day we're giving that a thumbs up yeah um now we go to track three um by the way my lucky day was the second single um from the album i saw it was just a week released just a week after the first single. That is true. Yes. And this is a couple months before the album comes out. I think that, honestly, this is like when the internet is, you know, and blogs and stuff like that and people's attentions. It wasn't like, new Bruce Springsteen, we're going to focus on this for three months.

It was like, okay, this comes out one week and we need to follow it up immediately so people know this is happening. I also don't know whether anyone took to the first single Working on a Dream, but we're going to hear it. This is the first single.

This is Working on a Dream. This is by Bruce Friesen. Out here the nights are long The days are lonely I think of you I'm working on a dream I'm working on a dream. I'm working on a dream. And the cards I've drawn to rough and dark, I straighten my back in. I'm working on a dream.

I'm working on a dream. I'm working on a dream I'm working on a dream Though sometimes it feels so far away I'm working on a dream I know it will be mine someday Working on a dream, Adam. I like this song a lot. I think it's good. Yeah.

The quotes I was talking about, about what he has to say about it, he says that, I'm going to paraphrase a little bit and then I'll quote, but he writes a lot of songs about the. He says that, I'm going to paraphrase a little bit and then I'll quote, but he writes a lot of songs about the possibility of things happening,

of what he thinks could happen, what he hopes would be real. And then he says, I don't see that often. A lot of what I see is the opposite, less economic justice,

democracy eroded. And then suddenly, election night, suddenly the place you've been singing about all these years, it shows its face. You looked at the crowds, you saw people crying crying people who lived and worked in the civil rights era and you completely understood it's real it's not just something

i dreamed up it can exist this was played at the inauguration that was the other part of why they said he was going to be so busy by the way as he was doing the inauguration so this was just going to be a super packed jam-packed couple of months for him so he played this song at the actual inauguration i believe so yeah and he also played it in the super bowl this is the one new song he played in the super bowl it's kind of where everything in the super bowl sort of slows down a little bit like this new kind of mid tempo song yeah not incredible but very good yeah um but uh you know i've always like genuinely liked it yeah i can't say that i like really it's it would be in my top spring scene song right not like queen of the supermarket oh boy here we go this is queen of the supermarket

by bruce Springsteen. And everything you've longed for is at your fingertips Where the bittersweet taste of life is at your lips Where aisles and aisles of dreams await you The cool promise of ecstasy fills the air At the end of each working day She's waiting there I'm in love with the queen of the supermarket As the evening sky turns blue A dream awaits and I'll remember too With my shopping cart I move through the heart of a sea of

So this song is apparently, was inspired by, like a new Whole Foods opened up in his neighborhood and he went to it and thought it was big and shiny and was kind of like, started imagining like what, I don't know why, but he was like, what, what do they want us to do here? They want us to have sex on the floor? Is one of his quotes. And I think it's, you know, he's, wait, what do you mean? That's one of his quotes. He's, he's in talking about his writing process about this.

He, he went to, let me, let me find the actual quote so I can, uh, say exactly. Do people want to shop in this store or do they just want to screw on the floor? What? Because there's someone so attractive working there is that because it's there's a sensual subtext to the store's endless gleaming bounty is what he says yeah i don't know what what he's talking about and nor do i get this song i mean it's i i always viewed it as like even though you're in a relationship you see see someone that you know you're never even going to talk to, but you start imagining like, oh, wow, if we ever did talk, what would life be like? Right.

And that's sort of what it is, is just him. Yeah, maybe don't write a song and put it out publicly. Oh, boy. All right. This is. What do you think of that song? I don't like it. Yeah. This is, what do you think of that song? I don't like it. Yeah.

This is track. Oh, by the way, he has a really weird F bomb in it where he's like the whole fucking world. Yeah. I don't even remember that. You never make it that far. I'm sure I did,

but, um, all right, this is a track five. This is what love can do. There's a pillar in the temple where I carved your name. By Bruce Springsteen. What Love Can Do. Pretty short song, so I'm fading it out.

What do you think, Adam? I like it. I think it's fine. I think it's's good it's like mid-tier springsteen yeah i like the kind of momentum of it it's a cool sound there's incredible momentum like they finished they actually finished the song whoa they get all the way to the end that's's a lot of momentum. One interesting part of that, but the production that I was reading is Brendan O'Brien really liked Springsteen's first vocal take. Usually like you'd throw that one away. He really liked that. So he decided to use it,

but that meant he was stuck with a really loud acoustic guitar that Bruce was playing along with it. But I like hearing the acoustic guitar. Me too. I think it sounds cool um so good but you know you know not what i would call like so far nothing really except maybe lucky days at the level of what magic consistently was doing

exactly and and my lucky day, I feel like, if it was on magic, I would be like Stone Cold Classic. Yeah. But because it's on this, I'm a little like iffy. Okay. This is track six.

This is This Life. Bruce Springsteen is the artist on this. A bang, the stardust in your eyes A billion years or just this night Either way it'll be alright A blackness Than the light of a million stars As you slip into my car The evening sky strikes black This life This life, Adam. Kind of veering into Burt Bacharach territory.

It's like Very Beach Boys at first. Very Beach Boys. He says it uses chords that the E Street Band has never used before. I don't know if that's... I like it. It's like 70s AM radio. Honestly, this is a lot like, I think,

an album that's coming up, Western Stars, where it's trying to do sort of like Glenn Campbell-y type stuff. On a different album, maybe you're like, oh, that's a cool change of pace.

On this, it's like, what are we listening to? I could even see the melody fitting in on Magic somewhere. The production's kind of different and weird and cool. But on an album where they haven't really locked into a groove, it's just kind of like.

Yeah. But I like it. All right. This is the next track. This is track seven. This is Good Eye. This is by Bruceuce springsteen I was standing by the river Where's the cold black water I was standing by the river

Where's the cold black water I had my cry to the dark And my blind eye to the sun I had all of the riches I had each and every one I had all of the riches I had each and every one But I had my cry to the dark Yeah, my blind eye to the sun Good-bye.

Good-bye, Brucie. Good-bye, Brucie. This was, I guess, on his solo tours. He was running his... Occ his uh occasionally he would sing songs where his uh vocal mic was running through his harmonica amp or something he'd have that distorted effect so he decided to record one like it um for this record um i'm realizing every song sounds like a b-side to me yeah like a really good b-side where it's like oh that wouldn't fit on an album well let's put it on as a b-side but he has albums like that that are like like the

next like high hopes is kind of like that or not the next one yeah high hopes is a bunch of b-sides that they after trying to re-record it right yeah try to make an album this is that's what this kind of feels like it also feels like leftovers from a great album yeah which kind of is sort of i don't i know because he this was all recorded after that yeah it just kind of all feels like um oh this is something weird i'll try yeah this is cool and it is cool it's cool but it's song by song yeah it's not really all right this is uh next track this is Tomorrow Never Knows by Bruce Springsteen Where the cold wind blows, tomorrow never knows. Where your sweet smile goes, tomorrow never knows.

You and me, we've been standing here, my dear, waiting for our time to come. A lot of strings. Tomorrow Never Knows. I like it a lot. It does sound like it would fit well on Western stars. Yeah. Again. It's kind of Dylan-ish in a way. But it's that AM radio, like string section, gloopy strings.

But I like it. Yeah. It's fine. but I like it. Yeah, it's fine. It also shares a title with a very famous Beatles song. Yeah, I've told this story maybe even on this program before but I remember a friend of mine had his brother's demo and was like, here, check out my brother's demo and he showed it to me and i i said oh wow they do a cover of eight days a week he goes no that's an original i was like you can't

you that is such a famous title that is not used in any other and they came up with that yeah it was ringo was just like it was a saying that he came up with like oh it feels like i've been working eight days a week that's ridiculous yeah tomorrow never knows i don't know it's not as famous as eight days a week or like octopus's garden or what have you but it's yeah i don't know that you can call your song tomorrow never knows or even the sentiment within it right is like it's already you know well-trod territory a little bit okay this is the next track. It's Life Itself by Bruce Springsteen. There in that curve of darkness where the flowers of temptation grow I left the rest for the others, it was you and nothing else You felt so good to me, baby, as good as life itself

You were life itself Uh-huh. Yeah, it's not my favorite. I can't make it without you. Yeah, it's not my favorite. Features some backwards solos from Nils Lofgren. Okay. Nils Lofgren is amazing, but I'll take his word for it. What do you think of Life Itself? It kind of reminds me of maybe that song that's mid's mid magic, which we all kind of go like, all right.

I mean, it's a breather. It's an opportunity to take a breather. It's definitely song number nine. Yeah. Um, all right, let's go to song number 10 kingdom of days by Bruce Springsteen. As they fly I don't see the summer

As it waits Just a subtle change of light Upon your face Walk away, walk away Walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away. This is our kingdom of days. I watch the sun as it rises. Kingdom of Days You know, I feel like this album

is almost like it's another kind of Jimmy Webb-ish Yeah, uh, 70s Yeah, Payon Yeah, and I really like it but it's weird, there's like a few of these on this album

because when you I guess I wasn't really putting my finger on it but that's really what a lot of these songs are and i really like this one i think that's a good one yeah it's just weird to to have it be on what's marketed as a rock album i guess uh or or when none of the other songs are like this as well yeah like like i i think we'll we'll talk about western stars on a future app i think but when the whole album is that it's like oh this makes sense you know it's just a little weird the strings by the way get really ornate and syrupy as it goes as the song goes on which is not it's not it's never but but i like that style of you know jimmy webb type stuff um just weird to have then you know having queen of

the supermarket and then good eye and songs like that in between them um okay this is track 11 this is surprise surprise which is what i said to my wife when we had a birthday party for her this is yep a birthday party for her. This is by Bruce Weiss. Yep. Come on, open your eyes And let your love shine down Well, surprise, surprise, surprise Yeah, surprise, surprise, surprise Well, surprise, surprise Come on, open your eyes And let your love shine down Well, today is your birthday

We've traveled so far, we two So let's blow out the candles on your cake And we'll raise a glass or two And when the sun comes out tomorrow It'll be the start of a brand new day And all that you have wished for I know will come your way Surprise, surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise, surprise, as Gomer Pyle used to say. I love Gomer.

I loved when I was homesick as a child and there was nothing on television except fucking Gomer Pyle and stuff like that. Loved it. I like this song a lot. I think it's good. Yeah. I think it would fit on a magic

type record or whatever. Yeah. It and Lucky Day are kind of a similar poppy, fun. Yeah. But it's, yeah, it's interesting. It's interesting how he's sort of zeroing in on this 70s pop kind of thing. Yeah.

But it's almost. It's half-assed a little bit. Yeah, it hasn't quite formed. Yeah. But that's a, I really like that song. I'm getting a message from one of our fans here who wants us to call him.

Oh, you really are just calling me. Yeah, hey. I hear that one of our fans wants to talk to us on You Spring and Springsteen on my bean. Can you, mystery caller, can you hear my co-host Adam here?

Hey, mystery caller. I can hear Adam's call. Okay, great. Now, Adam doesn't know who you are, but... Oh, this is good. Is this Edgar? Oh, he does know who you are. It is hey man oh that was that didn't last very long

no i mean i was gonna give him clues and everything oh well um what were the clues yeah i'm curious uh this guy's nice um um hey edgar i know you're is this an episode of i like film i think i think okay we've never done that show before, but okay. Sure. Hey, everyone. Welcome to I Like Film. This is Scott. And this is Scott.

We have a very special guest here. He's made films, and we've liked some of them. Please welcome Edgar Wright. Some are. Tough crowd. uh he's made films and we've liked some of them please welcome edgar wright hey this is an episode of i like films this isn't an episode of i love when i say i like film i i i like one film we could we could we could easily have edgar on an episode of i love films yeah we can have edgar on an episode of i love all of his films. But this, unfortunately, is I like films. As dictated by Edgar himself. That's right.

It's a caveman talking about the one film that he loves. I like film. Edgar, you're a fan of you springing Springsteen on my bean. You listen to it. I do. You once told me that you had a story about bruce springsteen and if you were ever on the show you wanted to tell it what i'm glad you're calling me about this i don't feel like i know enough about um uh the boss

the boss um i don't know enough about him to be in your posh accent I love hearing da boss I'd like to point out I'm a comprehensive kid not a posh out all British people sound slightly posh I guess I have no idea what you're saying lower middle class

oh okay lower middle class and by the way you say it middle class middle class Lower? Oh, okay. Lower. Middle class. Okay. And by the way, you say it class. Middle class. So already. Middle class. Middle class. Okay, so yeah, I do have a Springsteen story because it's one of those occasions where I thought this joke will never happen ever again. And I was just glad that I made it. so the only time I'd been in the room with Bruce Springsteen was at the 2019

premiere of The Irishman in London at the London Film Festival which was at the Odeon Leicester Square and Miles Corsese, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino were in attendance and I'd been invited and I was allowed to go to there was a little green room before the film and the thing is you know there are three titans on the red carpet Scorsese, De Niro, Pacino and so when I went into the green room I wasn't expecting to see Bruce Springsteen standing in the corner and it was one of those moments where you're in the in the green room with somebody and

they're the only other person in there and you do both do that thing when you look at each other and go hi he did that just to look you know we just gave each other the look as if to say he doesn't know who i am but i obviously knows who he is and he gives me that high look back anyway this is not the story so i'm just like wow bruce springsteen's here but i don't feel emboldened enough to go up and talk to him um what would i open with uh so i i just don't i've been in that situation before where i've met like a rock legend and been so stumped how to like explain who you are like oh well you could like you could say hey excuse me do you like film which by the way reminds me we're still in an episode of that so we gotta leave bye bye

okay now we're back to you springing springsteen on my bead okay right so uh we're back to you, Springsteen, on my beat. Okay, right. So we're getting to the story. The 2019 Premier of the Irishman, Odie in Leicester Square, Bruce Springsteen is in attendance. I've already sort of awkwardly made eye contact with him in the green room. But then we go into the actual screening, and me and my friends are sitting a couple of rows back from Bruce Springsteen in the balcony. And I nudge my friend and I point at the back of Bruce Springsteen's head and go, that's Bruce Springsteen.

And a couple of seconds later, this old couple, old British couple, sort of coming down the aisle. It's already very full by this point. And the lady of the couple goes up to Bruce Springsteen and says, excuse me, I think you're in my seat. And Bruce Springsteen looks at the number on the seat and obviously says, oh, I'm sorry, and moves one over to the seat he should have been in. And then I nudge my friend and I say, she just told him who's boss. Which, when else are you ever going to get to say that joke?

I can't think of any other situation. Wow. That was the story. I really wish that the woman who told him that he was sitting in her seat was, what's her name from who's the boss oh yeah alissa milano or either alissa milano or judith light yeah one of those or katherine hellman sure why not any of those or tony danza well edgar that's a phenomenal story. Yeah. And it was worth me calling in, right? 100%. And,

and we know that Bruce is listening and he's a fan. really? So next time that you see him, you can easily just go up to him and say like, Hey, I've been a guest on not only I like films, but also you spring and Springsteen on my bean and he'll know what you're talking about. Ah, are you, are you, and springsteen on my bean and he'll know what you're talking about

ah are you are you what album are you on now we're doing working on a dream right now and we're just looking for any excuse not to talk about it i mean you guys have really been stringing out the preamble on this series i think it's quite heroic so i don't know what you're talking about yeah you mean an hour and a half qualifies as maybe like 90 minutes before you get to the album most of the pre and i mean i think all of the preambles on the episodes are longer than the entire 100 by the time we get to the album it's like we got to get out of here but i mean people love the preamble the preamble is the show right i don't know yeah but okay i guess whether they like it or not that's true um edgar uh we gotta go but thank you so much for calling in always a pleasure to hear from our fans

well you know as you know i'm a noted bruce springsteen fan and aficionado sure clearly but uh next time come on and talk about one of his albums i i i listen i listen to your uh show to learn so you know i haven't i haven't heard every bruce springsteen album but i i do enjoy the rundowns and i i i like it when i like it when you just uh sort of like uh get very affectionate about them and uh it's it's very when it gets sincere it's very sweet oh i know you joke around a lot but it's i know this is it's christmas it's that time of year so i'm just uh complimenting when you get i like when you do your little play playlist and you sort of,

you, you agree on things. It's very sweet. Well, it's almost stocking day. It is the holiday. So we appreciate that. Um,

uh, Edgar, I'm being very sincere when I say, thank you so much for calling us. All right. Bye. Thanks Edgar. Oh,

wow. A star studded afternoon. All right, we still have two songs to get to. Okay. Let's hear the... This is the last song on the album proper. This is a song called The Last Carnival by Bruce Springsteen.

It has a slow fade up. This is the sequel to Wild Billy's Circus Story that Danny Federici played on. And this is kind of a tribute to him. guitar solo We won't be dancing together on the highway Facing the lines with you at my side anymore

We won't be breathing the smoke and the fire On a midway. Hanging from the trapeze, my wrist waiting for your wrist. Two dead devils high upon the wall of death. You throw in the knife that lands inches from my heart. The last carnival, Adam. It's really pretty. I think this is a good last track. Yeah.

It sounds like it's from a completely different album than everything that's come before. By a different guy. Yeah. Yeah. It's come before. By a different guy. Yeah. Yeah. It's really weird. But I think it's a beautiful song. Yeah. Great guitar parts and a lovely melody.

Just some kick and licks in there. Kick and licks. Edgar, by the way, has written to say the one film he likes is Jodie Foster and Nell. Okay. Thanks, Edgar. I'm going to tap ha-ha on that just so he gets some closure on that. All right. So there is a bonus track.

See, on Wikipedia, this is a bonus track. On Apple Music, not so much yeah it's it's crazy you hate it when i mention apple music yeah well yeah i know you're on apple tv plus and so you're contractually obligated to say apple music at least five times a day apple music apple music um this is the song that he wrote for the Mickey Rourke film The Wrestler and this is the titular The

Wrestler by Bruce Springsteen. One, two, three. Have you ever seen a one-trick pony And feel so happy and free If you've ever seen a one-trick pony Then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged pony, then you've seen me. Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog, then you've seen me.

Then you've seen me come and stand at every door and you've seen me always leave with less than I had before you've seen me but I can make you smile when the blood it hits the floor tell me friend

can you ask for anything more tell me can you ask for anything more? Tell me, can you ask for anything more? The Wrestler, Adam. Did you see The Wrestler? Starring Todd Berry. I did.

I loved it. I loved Todd's work in it. He was great as the star of that movie. I like this in the movie. Me too. Yeah. It yeah it's good song i think it's a good song um again sounds like a different guy than then it doesn't really fit with this album but yeah probably not really part of it yeah it's a bonus track um there is one other track that i want to play that was supposed to be on the record and was in fact listed as on the record for a long time and then ended up to be on the record and was in fact listed as on the record for a long time and then ended

up not being on the record and then he just put it out on his website for free around Halloween. This is A Night With The Jersey Devil by Bruce Springsteen. He was 13 yeah that really that's bruce brucey it was it was listed on like in the preliminary track so he was even more all over the place with this album yeah before he took it off he and he he must have thought, like, this is too much or something.

But it's about the Jersey Devil, the, you know... What do you call that when it's, like, the Loch Ness... Urban legend? Yeah, there's a more specific word for it that I can't recall. Bullshit? Cryptids? No. Everyone's screaming at their podcast.

I'm smarter than you. I know it. So it's a weird album. It's a cryptid. Yeah. Yeah. What do we think, Adam, about Working on a Dream? I think it's a weird album.

I think there's a bunch of really good stuff on it. But I feel like, you know, it's cool that there's another Bruce Springsteen album, but maybe he needed to marinate a little longer to come up with a more cohesive thing. it's um i feel god i had a thought on it what was my thought adam um it definitely just feels like it's it's all over the place um more of a b-sides records i i think that this is maybe one of the most severe drop-offs in quality. Album to album. Between albums that maybe we've ever covered on this show. Like I was trying to think about U2 didn't have this severe of a drop-off from like, oh man, classic to what the fuck is this? REM didn't, right? It just, you know it it really i mean you can say like oh i

maybe don't care for the bill berry albums or whatever but it wasn't like it was a severe like what the fuck is this this is one of the ones where i'm just like oh my god magic is so good and this is so disappointing in a way but well it doesn't surprise me to hear that the producer was kind of half in yeah and not really feeling it it just it feels like tentative and not completely it feels a little like if i were producing it i would be like bruce you're not getting out of this studio until i give you a spanking because of all these demos no it does feel like he probably want wanted to say like hey let's work on this a little bit more and maybe come up with more songs and stuff. And Bruce was just like,

no, go fuck yourself. I'm going to take a shit. I'm going to take a shit. Remember, that's what he, at the end of his concerts, we talked about that last time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, well,

next week we are going to be talking about his, we're not going to be doing the promise uh which we both love but we're just running out of time before adam has to get his little tush back to new york so we're going to skip over the promise if you were trying if you do your homework along with this and listen to the records before we do. We're going to be doing Wrecking Ball next week. And that's going to do it for us for this episode. Adam, always a pleasure to hang out with you. You too, bro.

We will see you next week. But until then, we hope that you have found what you're looking for. Bye. Outro Music