U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - U Talkin' U2 To Me? - Easter Lily

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Adam Scott Aukerman are back already, as U2 has released their second EP in less than two months - EASTER LILY. Have Bonobos, Thedge, Larry Mullen Sr.'s Son & Adam Clay 2000 Pounds outdone themselves?? Listen along as they venture through sub-podcasts, check in with R.E.M., and eventually react to the new songs!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From boy to bless. Coexist, I will the Lord at all times, that is. This is, you talking you too to me? The comprehensive, the, what? You saying, huh, fucked me up. What did I say? You went, huh? Huh?

The comp, the comp, what do I say? The comprehensive. Encyclopedic, thank you. compendium of all things you two this is good rock and roll la musica music uh welcome back man you know what let me just throw this out there yep when we did an app a few weeks ago six weeks or so ago okay okay i mean you're not wrong right correcting you i'm being more specific in order to to draw the listeners in. Okay.

Let's just consider them drawn in. Sure. Okay. When we did that episode, yeah, six weeks or so ago. It hits them. By the way, what? You didn't know that information,

so you can't say it. I can absorb it and regurgitate it now. Will you give me a fucking break? And regurgitate this. What, your dick? I'm pointing at my penis right now. When we did this episode It had been a long time

It had been a couple years Yeah But now Now it's a mere How many weeks was it? Six weeks or so Right Right

See how that just rolled off the tongue? Yeah well you know the other thing Is The last episode was our 99th episode And we said we were going to do something special For the 100th And so when would the hundredth be? It's this one that we're doing now.

What do you mean? This is our 100th episode. And the last one was 99. 99th. Hold on. And then 30 before that was 69. 30. 60. Oh, fuck.

What did we do for that one? That's my quest. I believe we were just engaged in that particular activity. 69 position the whole time. By the way, Prince, 21 positions in a one-night stand. Oh, let's get that up about. 48. Yeah, give me a break. Talk about amateur hour.

Prince, bad at sex. What if he was terrible in bed? Well, can I tell you a story? Yeah, I'd love to hear it. Okay. Hold on. We just have to turn the mics off for us. Oh, yeah. I have a switch that I think turns the mics off. So let me flip it. Okay. Yeah. The mics are off.

Yeah, I flip the switch at least. Okay. You said the thing about Prince being bad at sex. Right, yeah. I have it on good authority. Uh-huh. Okay. Go ahead and you can write it down.

I'm salivating. I'm salivating right now. That Prince or the artist formerly known as was very, very good at sex. Really? Where did you hear this? In one of his songs. No, one of his songs, he said he was good at sex? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I must have walked out of the room at that point. Oh, you've, oh, okay. Yeah, well, that's why I'm saying it's like information that I have. Wow, this is crazy like insider Hollywood gossip. That's right. Prince, before he passed on, of course. Well, yeah, he's probably not good at sex now, although he might be up in heaven. Do you think there's sex in heaven?

100%. It's like the thing we like doing the most down here, you think, that we would do it even more up there. Of course. Because heaven is all about all of the things that you're good at, right? Isn't that what heaven is? Everything that you're the best at. Yeah, like people playing tennis and racquetball. Yeah. Highfiving. Sure. You're really good at high fives. I meant to tell you that. Thanks. You give a lot of eye contact. Yep. And then a big smooch right afterwards. Yep. Mw-hmm. Um, so anyway, so that's the info. So, Thanks for turning the mics off.

Okay, yeah, let me try to turn the mic. So I think it would be just as simple as flipping the switch again, right? Yeah, it should be. Great. Okay. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed that. Sorry for not sharing that with the audience. That's just sort of...

That's just between me and my co-host over here. By the way, I need to introduce you, don't I? I think that would be... It would be uncouth if you didn't. I would hate to be uncouth, my good... fellow, he is the star of a new movie coming out in a week or so called Ho-Come. I can plug my new movie. Your new movie is on the pod.

Ho-come. That's right. We pronounce it Hocum, but it's up to the listener and the viewer to pronounce it however they want. Viewers, here's a tip. Go see this movie and shout out whatever. pronounce pronunciation, even of that word pronunciation, any pronunciation you want at the screen. And whatever has the most shouts, that'll stick. And the actors will pronounce it that way in the movie. Yes, that's the big hook of the movie is. However you choose to use your pronunciations, the actors will then follow.

And there's several cuts of the film just covering all bases. Yeah, it's like Clue, when Clue came out and Yeah. Who did it. Who done it depends where you saw it. Isn't that what the tagline was? No. Who done it? Who done it depends on where you see it. Okay. Let me look that. You don't remember that? I mean, I remember the three endings, clue. Who done it depends. And then let's see what comes up on this. On where you see it. Who done it depends on where you see it. You're right. Thank you. But I have to say that the theaters around where it was playing where I lived had several endings. And they would play different ones.

So it didn't. Depending on where you saw it. No, but it didn't. No, I'm saying that one theater would have all three endings. And they would just tell you like, oh, this is, do you remember in the print ad? It would have like a little A, a B and a C next to each showtime. Yeah, depending on where you saw it. Shut the fuck up.

I never saw the movie clue. We got to do. Adam hasn't seen. Are you still doing that podcast? Adam hasn't seen. Yeah. Yeah, we're waiting to do the first episode because it's about clear. Scott has.

Yes, I'm still doing it. And what was the latest movie you did? The one that came out last week was Sorcerer. Oh, what did you think of that movie? Yeah, it's a really good movie. I watched for that show. Yeah, it's a terrific. Yeah.

Film. Wait a second. Oh, no. Is this an episode of I love films? I think it is. Hey everyone. Welcome to I Love Films. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And this is the podcast. Look, I'm not going to pussyfoot around here. Please don't. I'm just going to give it to you straight. This is a podcast where we talk about the medium of film. Filmmaking, film watching. Everything in between is bullshit. Honestly, we don't talk a lot about filmmaking. That's kind of boring. Okay, but can I just,

posit one thing to you, Scott. Without film making, film watching wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable. Yeah, but you know, if you, uh, you know that holiday Christmas? Yeah. Yeah. Do you know the, uh, the,

I'm a human being. It's weird that you felt like you had to say that. Well, you are a human being? Yes. Because there's cop rules with being a human being. If you're not a human being, you have to tell me. Of course.

and I would tell you because I follow the law and I'm also a moral being, not just a human being, but a moral. You've opened up your faceplate, and there are wires sticking out right now. I don't know what you're talking about. And you just saw a pretty girl pass by and you stuck out your tongue and it was just a ticket tape. Read what it says on that ticker tape. therefore ipso facto party of the first part, party the second part.

I am a human being. Oh. It's legal mumbo-jumbo. Liga mumbo. Liga-mumbo. Does not compare. Oh, no! He's blade-runnering.

But you know Christmas how there's all these songs about Santa coming down the chimney? Oh, yeah. Sure. Santa riding his sleigh. Talking to Rudolph. Not a lot of songs about, oh, Santa made these toys.

He took out. a hammer and he, you know, and a saw and he made this wooden rocking horse. No, no. It's boring. It's a really, really good point. It's boring. And so that's why, like, listening to people talk about how they made the film, I don't give a shit.

Get to that Santa shit. I'm not, look, I'm not going to, you know, put myself up on the cross on this one. Okay. You can, you can relax. I can put my cross away. Yeah, put it away. Get down off the cross, Adam. I'm not going to do that today.

You know, the fact that you want me to put my cross away and you're so vigorously stating that you're a human being leads me to believe that you are a vampire. Will you stop talking about whether I'm a human being or not? Please. I'm sorry. Anyway, without filmmaking, there's no film watching. That's all.

I'm not saying we need to delve into the details. It's boring and the people who make the films are boring. The people who make them are boring? Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Other than the actors. Actors are fascinating. Everyone else is important.

Isn't that sort of the... That's our... That's what Hollywood. That's what Hollywood is all about. And that's what this podcast that we do, I love films, is all about. How interesting actors are. Yep. So who's the most interesting actor out there right now?

The most interesting actor right now? Yeah. Hmm. It's a really good question. Who do you think? Who do you think I'm going to say? If I had to guess... If I had to guesstimate, perhaps, I would say Scott Ockerman.

Yeah. The most interesting actor out there. I'm doing really good work. Yeah. I have worked on approximately one television show in the last calendar year. A little film or a TV show. I consider it to be a film, though. And so we can talk about it.

Yeah, you can talk about it. It's called Invincible. And, oh, is that the Amazon show? It is. It is. That's great. I did great work on it. I'm honestly, I think I might be up for an Emmy this year.

Yeah. Obviously, that's the chatter. That's the chat around Tao. And you don't pronounce N in the word town. Of course. FYI. Yeah. Listen to that podcast, the Tao.

Yeah. I mean, but by far the most interesting actor. Scott Ockerman. And you know who's coming up? close second. Who, who? I'm talking about Aaron Paul. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Excellent. There, and he's a break, from Breaking Bad to... He's the best. Better Call Saul, that one cameo he did, not to spoil Better Call Saul for you. By the way, we have firmly just segweed into talking TV. Yeah. Is there a television podcast?

We can... Yeah, well, this sounds like it's an episode of Talking Teve. Yeah, I think you're right. Hey everyone, welcome to Talkin Teave. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And this is the podcast where we don't talk about films. Ugh. Oh, God. Who needs it? Film bros are some of the most obnoxious people in the world. We talk Teave. And I feel like right now, and this may sound crazy, but I feel like right now TV is at its most important and interesting. Like it's almost like, it's almost like TV. is as good as movies now. It almost is with these shows that only do 10 episodes every three years or so. That's right. And they take so long to film because they put so much care into it because they want it to be as good as a film.

Is it obnoxious? Sure. Can you not remember anything that ever happened in the previous season any time you watch it? Sure. Do you have to listen to a podcast in order to get caught up and remember what happened? Yes. So do you have to dedicate more and more hours? to this that's teave that is modern 2026 teeth that's right um and um have you watched any tv lately

um you know it's really fun is d t f st louis uh is that stand does that stand for you know what i'm do you know what i'm going to say down to fart that's what it is awesome down to for St. Louis. So it's all about a group of people who all want to fart. Yeah. Around other people. They're down for it is what they're saying. Yeah.

That's awesome. I haven't seen it yet, but I think that's what it's about. That's so cool, man. Yeah. All right. Well, I haven't seen any television lately. Good. Bye.

Bye. Huh. That was, I feel like that was similar to our show. Very similar to our show. I don't think there is informed about the topic as they need. need to be. Me neither. One of the hosts brought up a television show and said he hadn't seen it.

Hadn't seen it. And then the other one hadn't watched any TV at all. Right. I don't know if I would read. So why do they have a podcast about television? Yeah. Why did they even record an episode? I guess they need to put out content. I guess so.

But have you seen any movies lately? No. No, neither of I. Bye. Okay. Bye. Wow. That's, I mean, look, it's why we listen.

If that's where you go to get caught up on like movie news. I don't know if they're even focus on the news of it all or anything having to do with the movies. I don't know. Look, I've been listening since the beginning. I really feel that show's gone downhill. Yeah. I've been a fan since the very, very start. Yeah.

And very first episode I was in. I was like pushing my chips into the center of the table saying, I'm all in. Yeah. I invested all of my money into that show. And I meant to say you are, you are, you. you are broke and you're you're wearing a barrel you can tell yeah you can tell that i've run out of money i walked here where'd you get that barrel though because barrels cost money they give them out when you run out of money down a barrel town yeah oh yeah right good old barrel town you can always

depend on them they always have barrels well barrels aren't expensive yeah and it's the only thing the government hasn't cut oh my god thank god the barrel program is still around that's right The government. Good old doge. Good old doge cutting everything but barrels. Everything but the barrels. Ah, Adam. Adam Scott is here.

Did I say your name? E.B.B. Everything but the barrels. Yep. Adam Scott is here. Hocum. Everybody. Scott Ackerman sitting right in front of me. Star of Invincible sitting right here. It also could be like hook him.

like hook him horns. Oh, that's like Austin? Powers, yeah. Yeah, like Austin Powers. Yeah. What is that movie about? Austin Powers. Yeah.

It's about an Englishman. Okay. If I may. All righty then. You know what's really fun? Actually, do you think this is an episode of Films? Yeah, I think we got to go back. Hey, everyone.

Welcome to I love films. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And this is the show. where we don't talk about filmmaking. We barely talk about actual films. We haven't seen anything recently. Well, but we love it.

But here's the thing I want to talk about, Scott. If you'll indulge me. Please. For once, I'm not going to talk about a film. Okay. What are you going to talk about? This is... I want to talk about a movie.

Okay? No, just bear with me. Bear with me. I'll allow it, but watch yourself. Because I had an observation. It just came to me the other night. while I was flipping through my the film encyclopedia you know that it's like a it's like an encyclopedia except it right it has to do with film it's what that the those children's books film

encyclopedia brown were based on yes yeah a guy who just is annoying about movie trivia exactly um and it's a book on how to become that person uh-huh um and i started thinking like the austin powers movies yeah how many were they were probably 28 70 70 70 7d. 7D. 7D. Answer 7D is, I think there were... Oh, that's in the book.

It's in 7D? Yeah, 7D. Like the old Thomas guides? Let me look it up here. That's right. Look up 7D. It's a very wet book. Yeah.

Okay, here I go. Okay, I'm going to 7 and then I go down to A, B, C, D. Oh, there's three. Yep. Three Austin Powers films. Okay. Yeah. The thing that people,

people don't remember or slash realize is that at their core, the Austin Powers films are actually time travel films. Huh. Stay with me. Okay. And people think of them as it's romp comedy. Rompcom. Rompcom.

But the thing that's super interesting about them is things super interesting about what I'm saying is that at their core, they are time travel films, right? Okay, meaning he... He travels through time. Like back to the dinosaurs to Jurassic Park? No, he travels into the future. Which movie am I thinking of where they go to Jurassic Park? They go...

What do you mean? They go to Jurassic Park. Everyone goes, like, I think Austin Powers was there. Everyone goes to Jurassic Park. What is Jurassic? Oh, no, I'm thinking of Jimmy Buffett. You know, remember when that pterodactal attacks Jimmy Buffett in that one movie? Yeah.

And he's carrying margaritas. Yeah. Which movie was that? That's Jurassic World. It is? Yes. That happens to Jimmy Buffett. Yes.

It's like a blink and you'll miss it cameo from him. And he's carrying margaritas. I wish he was carrying cheeseburgers, too. Okay. How many Jurassic Park movies are there? How about that? Stupid question. How many?

I love the beginning of it, though. How many cheeseburgers could you carry it one time? Depends. Am I in paradise? Or am I in Jurassic Park? Park. Let's split the diff. Okay. Half, like you have one foot in paradise, one foot. Yeah, you're straddling, you know, like four corners in the United States.

Listen, if I was a teradactyl, I feel like those would be one and the same. Funny. Do you know what I mean when I say that? No. Well, for a dinosaur, right, being in Jurassic Park, because dinosaur has been extinct for hundreds of years. Yeah. Jurassic Park is like paradise to them. Do you think that they know they've been extinct that long or they're just alive one?

They all know. They all know. In their teradactal language, they're like, can you believe we've been extinct? When Jeff Goldblum. How many years? 3,000, right? No, I think it's like 200. Oh, is that how old the Earth is?

Yeah, the Earth is only 50 years old. Oh, okay. I feel like I'm older than that. Oh, wait, no, your Earth is only 50 years old. Well, for me, the world began when I was like three years old when I started remembering things. Oh, yeah, yeah, got it. Is that when you remember things when you're three years old? Yeah, I think so.

Okay. What's the first thing you remember? I remember going to see Jurassic Park when I was three years old. I think that when you were three years old, you saw Jurassic. I think you're the time traveler. No, I think I was already in my 20s and I was high. But still wearing diapers? Yes.

And sucking on a titty. Yeah. Anyway. Austin Powers is a time travel. It's actually, it's not time travel. He just is frozen for many, many years. But that's a... But for him, it's a way to travel through time.

Yeah, exactly. That's a, that's, I mean, you're, yes, it's not dissipating your atoms and molecules and then having them reform in the future. Right. But in alternate. parallel universe. Right. It is a version of time travel that we're undergoing right now. We're just doing it very slowly. That's right.

We're time travelers. We're time travelers right now. Who's the most famous time traveler you can think of? Probably probably Marty McFly. He's pretty, he's up there, isn't he? Oh, yeah. Yeah. But now I would have to say, Austin Powers, He might be the most famous time traveler. People know Austin Powers and they probably know the name more than Marty McFly, but they don't, they don't automatically go like, oh, that famous time traveler.

They're like the guy who says, yeah, baby, do you fancy a shag? That's why people are always getting Marty McFly and Austin Powers mixed up. Wouldn't that be an awesome? And I, okay, so Back to the Future was universal and Austin Powers was New Line, right? Yes. In this merger, do you think they're going to be able to meet? My God. Like Marty McFly, he goes back in time to the 60s, to the swinging 60s even.

Scott, listen. Hey, can I ask you a question? Yeah, baby. Oh, that's great. We got to get back to the future so we can shag. Oh, that's great. That's great. Yeah.

Let me ask you a question. Who's your favorite, not the most famous, but who's your favorite time traveler? Probably. If you want, you can take two weeks to answer. Okay, yeah, let's do that. I'm going to press pause here. And then we'll reconvene in two weeks. Okay, I'm going to go home.

Okay, bye. And we're back. And... Did you notice my enormous beard? Yeah, that's... What is that covering? Because you grew... It looks like you grew it out for a reason.

You're right. Check this out. Oh, my God. He's taking off. his beard and he's showing his chin to me. He's got elephant man disease now. What happened to you? It's just my chin.

Oh, it's your chin. Oh, that's a trunk. You're growing it for a roll. You're growing an elephant trunk for a roll? Yeah. What kind of role? I can't tell you. Were you playing bar bar?

That's really funny. So, Scott, who's your... I'm just laughing at my fucking. I know. It was really funny. Oh, who's your favorite time traveler? Benjamin Franklin. Great. Thanks.

All right. No problem. You know he didn't invent all that shit. Electricity, bifocals. Right. He just went to the future. Yeah, he's like, oh, interesting idea. Let me bring this back. Although some would say like bring an iPhone back, asshole. Yeah. Really.

But then they didn't have Wi-Fi back then, so it would have been pointless. But what if they did? Okay. Let's just... What if Ben Frank... And the founding fathers had Wi-Fi? Would everything have been different? Oh, my God.

Think about how much quicker they could have signed. They could have done... They could have e-signed. Yeah. Just everything. For all of the signatures on the Declaration of End. We should get Lynn Manuel in on this to write a musical about this. What if the founding fathers had Wi-Fi?

100%. Yeah. What would it be... And if they liked rap at the same time. Well, I think it's clear that they liked rap. But I think the Wi-Fi would kind of help them along with why they like wraps up. Sure. And they'd be like sharing files.

They could find, if they had Wi-Fi, they could find a rhyming dictionary on Amazon and get it delivered. Yeah, yeah. There wouldn't be one online, I'm sure. But I mean, they would. What if the founding fathers had Napster? Ooh, that's interesting. That's, I mean, everything we talked about before is stupid. Fuck all that.

This is interesting. First of all, would they get caught by the police? Oh, that would be so funny if the founding fathers were sued and then they were like, guess what? We just made an amendment to that constitution that we just made. Right. That we can have Napster. Music is free and Lars Ulrich can go fuck himself.

Go fuck yourself, Lars Ulrich. Sincerely, Andrew Jackson. Founding fathers. Was Andrew Jackson a founding father? I don't think so. I think that was like a hundred years later. Was he really? Was Andrew Jackson? He was a very bad president.

Not according to this Google search because the first thing that comes up is, was he a good president? Well, maybe they say no. He was not a founding father of the United States. Was it like 100 years later? He was part of the post-founding generation, GenPF, becoming the seventh U.S. president. Not 100 years at all. No, but he was. But he was a tyrant of sorts. I mean, look, this is not a political podcast, so I'm not going to take a stand on that.

Not at all. I don't want to offend any of Andrew Jackson's followers. Yep. Hey, you know, who had, who didn't need thousands and thousands of followers? He only had 12. A little man named Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah. I knew you were going to bring it back.

Good Lord. Speaking of which, Easter. Oh, yeah. Easter. We just celebrated. What did you do? Is that, is. Did is I love films are we?

No, we're still in I Love Films. Okay, good. That's what I thought. What'd you do? For Easter? Yeah. Watch a movie, I hope. I did.

Which one? I watched. Harvey, I hope. I watched, wait, what did I watch? I did watch a movie. It's got to have a bunny in it. Got to have a bunny or an egg. I only watch.

Jurassic Park has an egg in it. Remember when that dinosaur comes out? Harvey has a bunny in it. What are other movies? Harvey. Oh, Harvey, the, the bunny guy with the, with the little bunny. It's not little.

I've never seen Harvey. It's giant. It's like as bigger than a human. It is. You never saw it. Movies with bunnies or eggs. Okay, what will it give me? Hop.

Oh yeah, I saw Hop in the theaters. There you go. I had little kids in the, in like the 2010-11 era, which is when hop was a thing. Yeah, hop was a thing back then. I feel like little kid movies have. gotten much better in the last like 15 years. I think so. I mean, what have I seen in the theater? I saw Lady and the Tramp. That was, I mean, that was great. That's, I mean, yeah, that's, that's from like the 40s. No. It was new, wasn't it? No, it's from like the 1940s. No, no, no.

This is the movie where, like, the dogs eat spaghetti and the Tramp. I mean, I would imagine it's like late 50s, early 60s maybe. Oh, really? Because you said the 40s. I did say the 40s. Why don't you look it up, you fucking prick? I'm not. You know what? I'm confident it's new. I'm so confident I'm going to end this episode. Okay. Bye.

Jesus. Huh. Well, that ended on sort of a tough note. Sour note. I don't know that they come back and do another episode. Is that it for them? That might be it. I mean, look, if I ever got into a fight with you like that on this podcast, I don't think

we could ever do another episode. I don't think we could come back. I don't think either of us could look each other in the eye ever again. No, I would prefer. not to look at me. I would never speak to you or myself again. How often do you speak to yourself? Every morning, I start the day by speaking to myself.

Every morning I start the day by speaking. Speaking. Speaking to myself. That's right. Then I jack off. Then I jack off. Hey, guys, can we do a second pass on these lyrics? Yeah, you said you wake up and you talk to yourself and then jack off.

Yep. That's the song. Honestly, probably not that different than the actual lyrics. Sugar Ray sessions. When was the last time you saw Sugar Ray play live? Play live? Back in the early 2000s, I think, at a K-Rock show. I was just going to say, was it the weenie roast?

I think it was the weenie roast. And then I went to see the Dan band, and he was at our table. Mark McGrath. Yes. And then he was in the episode of No You Shut Up, uh, that Paul F. Tompkins show, uh, and the three of us did a scene together.

Wow. Nice fellow. And what was the scene you did? Uh, it was, it was, uh, I know it was sort of like saved by the bell, but for ski school or something. That makes sense. I can't really.

I, I, I, we were all dressed up in winter clothes. Okay. Okay. Okay. But, uh, nice fellow and, um, we love you and we hope you pull through. with whatever is going on emotionally or physically in your life.

I think Mark McGrath is doing just fine. You're doing great, but everyone goes through stuff at all times. You know, you never, until you walk. If he goes through something, we want him to. We want him to pull through. Yes, absolutely. We're thinking of you, Mark. Yeah.

We got your buddy. We got your back. And that will never change no matter whatever comes out about. And this is with all of our friends. Yes. That will never change. No matter what information. is eventually released.

Uh, oh, I'm getting an email about my good friend Jeffrey. Jeffrey. E. Yikes. E for Eikes. Okay, speaking of a yikes, we have to take a break here. Um, but when we come back, we're going to be telling you why we're doing another episode. Oh, yeah.

That's pretty exciting, right? Yeah. So we're going to come right back. We'll be right back with more. you talking you two to me to me

suck it to me welcome back you talking you two to me the comprehensive and encyclopedia compendium of all things you too is a good song this is one of my favorite singles

that they put out in the last in the new millennium yeah this is a little bit more it sucks that it It feels like it was the lead single off their next album, and then it got a tepid reception. And so they just, like, relegated it to a...

It got kind of a tepid reception a little bit when it came out. I just fucking said that. God damn it! No, I'm asking, is that... What did I say then? Listen to what I say, and maybe you'll get the fucking information that you're looking for. Okay.

Let me rephrase. Did it actually get a tepid reception? I don't really remember. It didn't. Oh. Oh. interesting uh welcome back to you talking you to to me

the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things you too this is good rock and roll out music so what are we doing here today scott yeah it's a good question because you and I we said we were going to come back with a special 100th episode and we were going to do something special for it to celebrate the uh what do you what do you call that a centennial I guess Yeah. A hundred episodes of anything, that's no small feat. No. And so we wanted to really celebrate with a special 100th episode, special guests.

Yeah. Maybe the people involved in the bands, you know. Hmm. We've interviewed most of them. But, you know, they wouldn't mind talking to us again, right? Oh, they would love it. But, um, no, but we've been spending all our time since the last episode trying to figure out what the hundredth, the centennial episode would be. Yeah, I was in charge of party supplies. Yep. So, um, I went out to, to Toy City and I got a bunch of streamers. Really great stuff. I got decorative plates, paper plates, obviously. Yeah. You know, I mean, you're not going to spend all that money on real plates and only use them once and throw them away. I like plastic plates, though. Uh, yeah, I prefer plastic, but these days, you know, I mean, you're not going to spend all that money. I'm going to spend all that. I'm a lot of days, you know, when you want to be environmentally conscious. So I got paper plates. They have Bell from Beauty and the Beast on him. Oh, that's, and she's eating a cake with Beast.

He's, he's like feeding it to her. That's super cute. And he's like, you're beautiful and I'm so ugly, like, in a little word blue. And they're really good plates. Anyway, I was in charge of supplies. And then you were, you were going to be in charge of, like, concepts. You're the idea guy in a group. conceptual, and what that involves under the umbrella of that is like lighting. Yeah, you,

I have to admit, you focused a lot of the last six weeks on the lighting. I'm very, very, I'm a bit of a stickwear for the lighting. It's very dark in here. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, I like it. I don't like any overhead lights. Yeah. But I also don't like any lights that are at eye level.

Or below, I noticed. Or below, except where you can't see the, I don't want to notice the light. You know? Exactly. Yeah. In fact, we're not noticing them so much that it's pitch black in here. Yes. But I will say, and you may not be able to place it, there is a light in it in this room.

Okay. There's one light somewhere here? There is a light. Okay. Because I, it's like a fully enclosed space in here. There are no windows. There are no doors. There's always my way out. But there's also, it's also very stuffy in here. There's barely any air. And it feels, honestly, the more we talk, the more lightheaded I'm getting, it feels almost as if we're running out of air. Well, it's CO2. Whatever we're exhaling, we're breathing back in. Which is not good.

No oxygen coming into the room. Yeah. So I, and, um, you had someone lock us in here. That's right. As well, with nothing but this recording equipment and two small chairs. And one light. that you haven't been able to place yet. I honestly am not that concerned with the light anymore

as much as I think we're going to die of suffocation in this room by the end of the episode. Okay. Well, that's part of the atmosphere and the concept. Is this the light on your iPhone, which is in your pocket? Well, it's not in my pocket. Okay. Is it in nature's pocket?

Be more specific. You're but full. What? Excuse me? Your butt hole? My what? Your butt hole. Oh.

But my butthole? Yeah. Did you stick your iPhone up your butt? Yes. With the light on? Yes. That's genius. Like, wait, I can see it coming out of your mouth right now.

Yep. Any time. There it is. Okay, we're going to need that to escape. Okay. Well, then whenever you need light, just tell me to open my mouth. Okay. Yeah, that's a good plan.

Anyway, I think we can still complete the episode. For sure. Yeah, definitely. By the way, do you have an iPhone because your show is on Apple TV Plus? Everything I do and say is because I have a show on Apple TV. Adam is, of course, not only in Hocom, but he's in a show called Certainty. That's right. Certainty. By the way, Hocom does come out in a show called Certainty.

out in theaters May 1st. Yeah. And it's very scary. Yeah. And was that intentional or did everyone watch the movie go, shit, this is actually scary? This is so scary. We should market this as a horror film. And you know that when a movie comes out May 1st, that's the kickoff of the summer movie

season. And this is going to be wild. Have you ever done a horror film before? Well, you did Hellraiser, too? I was in my very first movie I was ever in was Hellraiser. or four. Four. Bloodline.

Now, did you find making that film that there's a fine line between pleasure and pain? I remember thinking there was a fine line between... Well, I remember... Between being a good movie? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because part of the movie took place in space, not the part I was in. Oh. And I remember walking through the set, and they had a set for the interior of the spaceship next to the set that I was shooting on

and I saw a set dresser standing in the spaceship set with a plastic like arrowhead water bottle, a small one and he was just spray painting it silver and then stuck it up on the wall like it was part of the set decoration. Yeah, the spaceship like a module or something. Oh, that's great. In space they probably have water bottles.

100% and they're made out of silver and you place them on the wall. Remember when in the Mandalorian, when they were running down that hallway and there was this guy in jeans there. Is that real? Yeah. And then they had to digitally erase him because they didn't. But it made it onto TV. It made it onto TV. Wow.

But my whole thing is like, you're telling me that in space they don't have jeans? There's no jeans? What about when you just want to chill? Are there sweats? Like, you know, when Darth Vader gets off, you know, a long day of, you know, doing whatever he does? Or what if the Mandalorian needs to do a little woodworking? Yeah. He's not going to wear his whole thing.

He's going to put on some jeans. Put on some shorts, at least, Mando. Yeah. Or when Grogu needs to. Grogo is always in that robe. It's like, what's under that robe? Some jeans, I bet. Some skinny jeans.

Yeah. So why bother digitally erasing this guy? Exactly. Yeah. Keep them in there. Let's keep the jeans in the Mandalorian. That's our, that's why we're doing the episode. We want everyone to know our big, big, ambitious.

Keep the jeans. And you know what we're talking about when we just say keep the jeans. Yeah. By the way, Mandelorian and Rogu. KTJ comes out, I believe, three weeks after Hocom. Does it? Hocom. And do you think you're still going to be?

to be number one by the 100% yeah 100% I'm excited to see this movie yeah it's good it's scary yeah what uh what's give me give me just a tease of of some well some of your dialogue we shot it i don't care what it's about okay we shot it in ireland i don't give a shit so well no i'm oh this is a shoehorn into the dialogue oh okay go um since it was shot in ireland there is a line in the movie where i look out of a window and I say, wow, Ireland. Every movie contractually, look, you get a lot of tax rebates. Yeah, depending on where you shoot.

Where you shoot, but there has to be a line in there, which is why every Marvel movie at some point goes like Atlanta. Yeah, we love it here. Atlanta, every single Marvel movie. Or now it's all 50 of them. London. London. Captain America, have you ever been to London?

It seems like you are only in the United States. Well, you hold on a sec, I have to go grab my diet Coke. Okay, yeah, you're going to grab your diet Coke from where? Oh, you put it in the fridge? Yeah. So we've been doing this episode for now 40 minutes, and you wanted it, yeah, shut the fucking fridge. You wanted it completely ice cold. And now what are you doing?

Now you're walking away from the mic and you're going over the... Why circle the entire table just to come back to where you were? Okay, anyway, he's got his diet Coke. It's how he keeps trim. He's circling again. He's making another pass. Oh, no. It's how he keeps trim for his television show.

He wants to make sure that he doesn't pack on the extra pounds that a regular Coke would bring him because his character's thin as a rail and will always be thin as a rail. Wouldn't that be great, though, if you gained like 50 pounds in between seasons. That would require a lot of explaining. so you don't have time in your 10 precious episodes every eight years yeah uh anyway you got your coke everything good i think i'm all right yeah if you ever need to burp because that is a carbonated beverage please do you have a burp button yeah yeah it's a button that you press that says hey i'm gonna burp it makes a funny sound and then you burp into the like it creates a loud fart noise so you can burp so everyone just thinks you farted instead of burping

Anyway, what were you talking about? Oh, Hocum and Mandalorian and Grogu. That's right. And May 1st is when it comes out. May 1st is when it comes out. Oh, and it shoots in Ireland, so we had to have the line in there. Hey, it's Ireland. I also want to tell everyone that tickets are now on sale for the Comedy Bang Bang,

the first half of the Comedy Bang Tour. And I'll be starting that on Memorial Day here in the States. Toronto. That's our first show. And we're doing the Midwest and the East Coast and the South. But not the West Coast. That'll be coming soon. The West Coast and England and Ireland, or sorry, the UK and Ireland. I don't want to leave out Scotland. That's very exciting. And the Southwest will be on sale soon. But anyway. Memorial Day weekend, that's another surefire sign of summer movie season kicking off. Oh, my God. That's when you really want to see one of these movies.

Oh, yeah. When you should be thinking about all of the people who have died in service of the country. Instead, go see Grogu wandering around. Anyway, so we had this. Oh, my God. The air is really getting thin. Yeah, sorry about that. Can you text?

There's nothing we can do. The person who locked us in here and maybe, like, get him to open the door or anything. That person was me. So yeah, I can text myself, but... Wait, so is there a lock from the inside? We can just open and get out of it. We have to wait for a passerby to help us out. But this is a soundproof room, so they don't know we're in here.

Well, if I were a passerby, I would probably open up any door that I saw. Of course. Any door I passed by would open up in case people were, you know, suffocating inside. I would... Yeah, that's natural. So I think someone will come by. Since there is a sign below the doorknob that says, do not touch electrified. Right. Yeah. I would guess that's a joke novelty sign. That's right. And there are probably people suffocating inside. Yeah.

Anyway, so you focused primarily on the lights and the soundproof room. And you never got to the ideas of what we were going to do with the 100th episode here. Is that what I am gleaning via context clues? I think while we were both preparing our separate sections of the event, I mean, I did more than preparing. I completed all of the tasks. The checklist that we made about all the party supplies, I got every single one. Clearly, I completed my part of the task as well. Look at where we are. But that was only one thing that you were.

Try an inhale. Taking tiny sips just so I. Yeah. See, I completed my task. Okay, well. Mission accomplished. So more like Mission impossible. But we...

Ghost protocol. We were... Fallout. We were interrupted in our preparations by the drop of what, Scott? By the drop of you dropping all these tasks and not doing them. If you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. That's funny.

Well, you know, we... We are a U-2 podcast, as you've been hearing over the past 45 minutes now. And we are the primary source of all things you two. People come here anytime. I mean, they listen to us primarily because they're always listening going, any YouTube news? Yeah. And, you know, we put out an episode six weeks ago because the band, of course,

who we were talking about, Hugh, too, They put out And by the way, the members of the band Oh yeah, we know them. We know them intimately. We know the names. The names intimately, that's what I meant.

Do you want to start? No, I kind of want you to start because I can't remember the band. Okay. First, on drums, we have Larry Mullen Sr.'s son. Yeah, and he's he's the guy with the sticks.

He owns... The sticks in the band. Sometimes before a song starts, what he does is, and I'm just using two Sharpies, but Okay, so it's not going to get the real sound, but it's going to approximate. But I'm approximating the sound that he likes to make, which is when he's counting down to start a song, he will tap his two little drumsticks together like this. Is that what he's doing? Yeah.

I always thought he was doing it with his tongue, like, no, he's doing it with his drumsticks. Again, these are just Sharpies, so it doesn't sound like that. But that's what he does. That's what he does. And why do that, though? Well, I think there are a bunch of reasons. Okay, name 12. Okay.

One, it helps the band kind of count down and get into a particular time signature before they start the song. That makes a lot of sense, actually. Yeah. So they can keep the same beat going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the drummer. Yeah. And the other half of the rhythm section.

Wait, what happened to the other 11 reasons he does this? Well, I'm getting to those. Oh, okay. With the other 11 members of the band. Oh, okay. The other half of the rhythm section is the bass guitar player. Yeah. And his name is Adam Clay 2,000 pounds.

Oh, right. Yeah. The wild man. The jazz man of the group. Yeah. The Harry and the Hendersons of the group. That's right. And like, it wouldn't be weird if you were wandering around in the

woods and then suddenly Adam no, what's his name? Yeah, Adam Clay 2000 pounds. Started wandering around Bigfoot style, just hair all over his body, naked, just Harry Dong flapping. And you're like, hey, can we adopt him? And then suddenly he goes,

oh, I got a little base here. And he straps it on, you're like, oh, shit, are you Adam Clay 2,000 pounds? And he's like, I'm in a band, you too. Yeah. Maybe that's what Harry and the there since it was about and we just couldn't tell. I think in those movies they should have shaved him and found out it was Adam Clay

2000 pounds. That was a great movie. Are we continuing on? Yeah, sure. Then on guitar, we have the maestro, fedge. The maestro with the bistro. And when I say bistro, I mean bistro. He owns a bistro.

Yeah, he has a nice little restaurant. He owns Pete's coffee. Yeah. All the whole chain. Yeah. And some would say like, why not call it Thedge coffee? And he's like, what do you think I'm an idiot? He's like people like the name Pete more than Thedge.

That's right. Anyway, yeah, he's on the six-stringed instrument. Yes. That we call the guitar, the get fiddle. Or as, you know, as he calls it, the shred machine. Yeah. Which gets, you know, he's obviously he has stolen a lot of government secrets from the U.S. government. And so it's very confusing for him when he's trying to shred those after he doesn't work.

Send them, sends them to China or wherever. And he's like, oh, hand me the shred machine. And then he's just like, ding, dang, dang, dang. He's like, oh, no, now I'm locked into a groove. Oh, God. That's the basis of most U2 songs is him trying to. to shred papers. And actually, most of the lyrics that the lead singer, who will name in a second, sings are these government secrets.

Yeah. That Fedge has stolen. Falcon and the Snowman style. Usually, he gets invited to these fancy parties where he's telling off George W. Bush or whatever. And then he slips into the government secret room. Yeah. He goes upstairs. Yeah.

With his microfilm camera that's inside his guitar. He takes pictures. Yep. He keeps it in his shred machine. And then Bonobos just sings about it. It's like, early morning, April 4. Yeah. Shot rings out in the Memphis guy.

That was text. That's about a submarine. Yeah. And speaking of the singer, we have the singer of Hugh two. Look, there have been a few people who have sung Hugh two songs. He sings most of them. I would say he sings 98% of them. Well, I don't know about that, but at least 60% of them.

Well, I don't know about that, but at least 59%. Okay. I don't know about that, but at least like 20%. He's, I know he sang one song. Yeah, I know for a fact he sang one verse of a song. He sang the title of the song. Yes. He sang the first word of the first.

The! Yeah. And then someone else took over. That's right. As far as I know. As far as we know, we have no information about this, even though we are the preeminent YouTube podcast. That's right. We are talking, of course, about bonobos.

Bonobos. There he is. The man with the microphone, that was, you know, that's how he got the job. It really is. He owned a microphone. He owned a microphone. Because he used to work at the grocery store, and it's what he used to, he'd be like, uh, clean up, aisle four.

And that's the mic he still uses in arenas. all over the world. And most of the songs, the early drafts of the lyrics are all about cleaning up certain aisles of the gross aisles. And then people have to tap them on the shoulder very gently and say, like, excuse me, do you think you could maybe sing about something more like about religion or politics or something like that? Yeah, no one wants to hear about restocking the, you know, kidney beans. And how often do these kidney beans need to be restock? No one likes they're so fucking popular. Oh, that's right. I love. I love kidney beans.

Yeah, because they're shaped like a kidney or like a swimming pool if your swimming pool is shaped like IAK. IK BL. What? No, I L. I KB. I L KB. I L KB.

Anyway, bonobos, Fedge, Adam Clay 2,000 pounds, Larry Mullen, senior son. That's who we're talking about. Yeah, and out of nowhere, six weeks after the last one, Days of Ash. Days of Ash. They drop another EP. They drop another one. And they are like another one.

And they dropped it. And it's like another one. And we couldn't believe it. Adam, I texted the news to you on Thursday night. They actually dropped it at 9 p.m. Pacific. That's the great thing about living here on the West Coast. And I was on the East Coast. So it was midnight where I was.

What are you doing, my good fellow? I was in New York. Were you building a second statue of liberty? Yes. So I was in the midst of building the second statue of liberty. And we're going to give it to France, right? Yeah. And I get the text and I'm like, holy shit, bro.

It was crazy. I think I sent you the new. In fact, I'm going to look it up exactly when our text was. So it came out April on Friday, right? It came out a good Friday, but really Thursday night. Yeah. Right. But at midnight, so it's actually Friday.

Fucking shut up. And guess what? But that was my birthday. No. This EP came out on my birthday. I'm sorry. I didn't say happy birthday to you. I guess I don't have it in my calendar.

Well, you gave me the greatest birthday gift of all. 921 is when I sent it to you. Okay. So 1221. It's your birthday on the midnight side of it. Yes. And that's incredible. And you're building a second statute of liberty.

Oh, I drop my phone. That's the birthday gift I was giving myself. was, yeah, building the second statue of Liberty. And you reply, I just sent it to you and you replied, let me see if I want to quote you accurately here. I want to make sure that I get exactly what you said. You said, whoa. I did.

Yes. You know, there's another thing that happened before we get too deep into YouTube. Okay. What else happened? There was a great new Michael Stipe song that came out. Yes, it is the theme to a show called Cuckold Roosters awake. Rooster on HBO. And it's Michael Stipe and Andrew Watt, and it's really good.

It is very, very good. I believe you want to hear a little bit of it. Yeah. What's it called again? Sorry, is this an episode of Are You Talking R-E-M-R-E-M-R-M-E-Me? Shit. From, help me out here, from video free, no. No, it would have been something on the EP maybe.

Oh, yes. From Chronic to Collapse, Town and Into Now. Yes, that is. This is, are you talking REM, read me, the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things REM. This is good, rock and roll, um, music. And big news from the REM camp. Yeah. Emergency Epp.

We convened mere seconds ago. Michael Stipend, lead singer of R.E.M. He put out a new song. Yeah. Yeah. With Andrew Watt. And it's the theme.

to a little show called Roosters awake. Rooster. And starring Steve Carell, who you worked with on the office. You were on the office, right? Never was. Huh. But is Parks and Rec considered... I've watched all of it.

Is it considered the office? Yeah. So I've essentially worked on the office, right? Anyway, so your castmate on the office, rooster man has a show. Anyway, Michael Stipe has a song on it. Let's hear a little bit of it. It's called I Played the Fool? No shit. This is the story of you on Parks and Rec. How dare you? Oh, I, oh, I played with a good guy, bad guy, punchline frown. The joke fell flat, I'll come around. Sounds

Look who Volunteered to play the fool Se change came It knocked me down I'm setting up The punchline now Look who tried too hard To play it cool

Sounds good We're getting into the pre-chorus here But pretty good Yeah I liked it a lot Me too It kind of reminds me of the Great Beyond in a certain way. In a great way, I mean, I love the Grey Beyond.

It sounds like a happy birthday as well. Like a mixture of it. Yeah. It sounds like a early 90s R.E.M. Yeah, yeah. It kind of sounds like that one that has the video where they take the same 17 seconds or whatever. We like that song. Oh, the, it's been so long since we've done a.

an episode. I can't remember any of their songs. Wait, what's that song? You know, I know what you're talking about. You know, where they take the same clip. Oh, from Reveal, the big single. Oh, from Reveal. Isn't that the song? Video same seconds. R.A.M. Video, same seconds. Imitation of life. Yeah. It sounds like something like out of time automatic era. It's really good. It's just great songwriting. My question was, okay, let's do ten of these. Yeah, me too. What's going on with you guys? Remember when Mike Miller promised us?

I know, a solo album. But he did put out that great single with Hootie. That's right. Oh, yeah, they have a band. Yeah, but they only put out like one song. Anyway, but that's going to be it for us. Bye. We hope that you found what you're looking for.

Bye. Good. Yeah, that was great. It was great to hear from those guys. informative as a lot of info. Almost info laden. I was getting too much info. A bit dragged down with all the info that they

Anyway, so that came out and we were like, I mean, that's cool, but we're not going to waste the 100th episode on it. And then suddenly, you know what happens when Hugh two puts out stuff? we're kind of duty bound to put out an app anything we we've put out an up for every single thing that you two's ever done and have we we have okay um since we started doing the show yeah we've put out every every single release official release they've put out okay we have put out an episode and so we're sort of duty bound to do it and so here's here's what i'm proposing Hopefully we get out of this airtight soundproof room.

Passer by, probably will come by and let us out at something before the end of the episode. I say let's celebrate with the 101st episode. You know what I mean? Because that's breaking off another hundo and it's like, you know what I mean? It's like everyone celebrates their hundreds or whatever. Let's do the 101. We'll have a big just blowout. Okay.

But for now we just go through the new EP. Yeah, probably. Okay, that's fine. That's fine, right? Should I open the door then? Wait, you can open the door? Yeah, it's not even locked. Yeah, open the door.

Okay. Is that better? Yeah, it's a lot better. God, okay. Thank you, yeah. Okay, oh, yeah. I'm feeling rejuvenated, actually. Fine.

Fane. All right, you want to do it? You want to take a break? And then we'll come back and we'll listen to a little bit of this record they just put out? I do. Very much. All right, well, we're going to come right back. When we come back, we'll be talking about the Easter Lily EP.

Finally, we say the title. On you talking you two to me? There's that shaker. Remember when Larry showed us his shaker? He was like, I played this on last night on earth. We were like... This last night on earth? Yeah.

And we were like, that's cool. It's shaped like an egg. You think you'll ever make an Easter-themed record? And he was like, I'll never tell. This is a different mix of last night. That's a single version. Ah. They redid all of these songs.

I know. Trying to figure out it like, okay, maybe if we do this mix, maybe people like it. Look, I like this record a lot, Pop. Me too. Are they ever going to do a deluxe of this? Come on, guys.

But the single mixes all feel a little more cooked than the album versions. Well, that's what happens when you put something back in the oven. Yeah, it just gets more cooked. Pretty much. Overcooked? Not for me to say. Not for me to say. Look, what do we have opinions on these songs?

No. That's not what this show's about. Hey, let's go through the new record and give our opinions of the songs. Sounds great. All right. What are we talking? We're talking Easter Lily EP. No, yeah.

No, go ahead, go ahead. I don't know. What was I going to say? Well, the great Jack Knife Lee produced again. Yes? The great Jack Bauer also was probably doing something on this day. Oh, yeah. He always works on the YouTube material.

But Days of Ach was Jack Knife Lee as is. As his Easter. This was released April 3rd, Good Friday. And a mere six weeks after Days of. Ash and this was a surprise release. Nothing leaked, I think, about this. Everyone kind of, how did you feel when Days of Ash came out? Were you like, okay, that's probably all they'll do before the new, because they're supposedly

putting on a new record in the fall? Yeah, but I take them saying there's an album coming this fall with a grain of salt because it usually takes much longer than that. Four years. Yeah, it's like waiting for a TV show that you're reading. But it has been nine years since their last. proper release. Yeah.

They put out the stop gap of all of their old songs done acoustic. But yeah, nine years. Nine years. Why? I don't know. But you know what's great about these

is, and we talked about it on our last episode, they kind of like, they feel like their stuff that they just kind of rushed out, which I love. Because we've always thought that they overthink things

to such a degree. Yes. That their latest stuff takes nine years to come out. And these just, they, from what they say, they were putting them out, didn't really fit the new record, but they all were writing to these themes. And they just felt like they had to put them out. I love that.

Yeah. And they all felt right for this time of year, for Easter, for the need for kind of hope that they feel the world needs right now. But also, I kind of felt like Days of Ash. It's still, there's, it's good, but it's still not something I've totally connected to, But this EP, I kind of from immediately, from the start kind of... You connected to it. You super glued your fingers to your computer.

I did and it's still stuck to me. I kind of thought it... I don't know. I think it's, dare I say, we're moving into a place called Bangor City. Oh, shit. Population Adam and the band. So they talk about in their new propaganda issue, they talk about how... They put out Days of Ash, which was very political and very talking about issues of the day and a lot of conflicts and a lot of people dying and tributes to people dying due to political reasons lately.

Very important issues. Which was great. And we talked about how necessary that is for bands to do. And then I guess in the studio, they turned to Jack Knifely at one point and said, you know what? We also want to put out another EP that's about our feelings about all this stuff and our feelings of hope as well. Yeah. And we want to put that out on Easter and these songs feel a little more baked than the Days of Ash songs. To me, it feels like Days of Ash was all about the political moment.

These feel like they've been maybe in the hopper for a bit longer and a little more kind of developed. Look, we talked earlier about putting things in the oven and sometimes like if you're if you're making a schnitzel, for example, you put it in the oven. One second later, you're like, oh, better take it out and check. Yeah. That shit's not going to be done. You put it back in. Yeah. Two seconds later.

Take it out. It's pretty much the same as when you put it in there. Like not much is going to change. That's right. You know what I mean? So what you really have to do is you have to look at grandma's recipe and say like, how long am I supposed to put this fucking thing on here? How long? And that's what you too, it seems like they've been doing.

They've been looking at their grandma's recipes when it comes to these songs. And they've been saying like, oh, we need to work on these songs this amount of time. Right. Okay. Got it. Right. And that's what Easter Lily. EP is all about. Now, the title, Easter Lily is a reference, they say, to the Patty Smith

album, Easter. Yes. It's also like a major holiday. Maybe they don't know that. Came out on Easter or Good Friday. Now here, the lyrics run the gamut. They're all pretty hopeful. And the music is major key hopeful. There's no songs about the Easter Bunny. And I thought that was. Yeah, it's kind of weird, right? It's a little strange. When you think about Easter, what do you think about? You think about the Easter bunny. You think about an egg hunt and you think about ham. John Ham.

John Ham. Yeah, you think about John Ham and you wonder, I wonder what he's up to. Yeah, where is he? Is he out there? Is he on the album? Let me see if he does a feature. I'm looking at the credits. No.

He's not involved. Did I tell you after the Michael Bolton's Big Sexy Valentine's Day, we came to Netflix and said, okay, now let's. do a special John Ham's Easter ham. And they said no. Because no one watched the Michael Bolton one. That you were so gracious to be in, of course. It's my best work.

By the way, you haven't been pressing that burp button. Well, you haven't been hearing those big farts. Let's hear one right now. Well, it's time to burp. Here I go. I'm going to press the button and the biggest. fart I've ever heard. I have to admit. Oh, should I push the big fart button? Yeah, yeah, press a big one.

Okay, should we go through this EP? Yeah, so Easter Lily EP. It is six songs produced by Jack Knife Lee, with the exception of the last song, which we'll talk about when we get there. Oh, boy. All right. All right. I know, I know. I know exactly where you're going to say. All right. Let's hear track number one. this is a lot of people would be surprised this is not about the supercomputer in the movie 2001

this is song for how by a band called Hugh To Did you hear forever Was it play soft and

It's not a song You So we got the chimed Delayed guitars back And a new lead singer Yeah

If you're wondering, we talked about Bonobos, we knew he sang at least the first word of one U2 song. Yeah. It's not this one. No, he didn't sing the first word in this one. I kind of expected him to. I was like, I just at least sing the first word. And the first time I heard the song, I didn't notice that it wasn't in. Well, I think the person who sings this song actually has a very similar voice, almost as if they're from the same part of town.

Yeah. Or the same band. But that is, of course, Fedge singing. I think it sounds great. And this is Song for Hal. This is about a gentleman, Adam, that you know, and I met backstage at a YouTube concert. Do you want to say?

Yeah, the great Hal Wilner. I met Howell working on Stepbrothers. He was the music supervisor, and he would come hang out. And he was just the coolest guy. He was considered the third stepbrother. Yes, no, the fourth stepbrother. Who's the third? I'm the third one.

I mean, if you think about it, I'm also a step. It's not really about me being a stepbrother, but he would be like with me over in an alternate movie. Okay, got it. Yeah. But he's, he did all of the music for sketches on S&L from 1980 on. He put together that great stay awake. That's right. Disney tribute record.

and so much stuff. And I've been reading his name, you know, since the 80s, just being involved in so much cool shit. Anyway, so we met him backstage at a, at a huge concert. Yeah, how was the kind of person, whenever you run into him, you could just pick up where you left off the last time and just talk about music.

And he was always, he's not a snob at all. He was just the coolest guy. And really close with you too. Really close with those guys. But when we were there backstage and he walked in the room, He just like saw you lit up and came over and start chatting with you. Anyway, he passed away during COVID. He was very early COVID casualty.

And so it seems like reading about it, it seems like Fedge was maybe closest to him, although who knows. But so Fedge wrote, started writing this song about him and thought that Bonobos would sing it. And Bonobos was like, I'm tired. I don't want to. Please. Take this one. Please. Do you have a pillow?

I need to lie down. No, he just thought that Thedge should sing it. And so he does, and it sounds great. Yeah. It's a good song. Okay. If I had one criticism, love the vibe. This is the one on the record that I feel is the most underbaked somehow.

Oh, really? I do. Yeah. So are you like, why open the album with this or the EP? No, I like it. I just, I feel like, I feel like it's one that, like, I would love it if Hugh two were to hire me to be a Rick Rubin type who'd just line around on a couch and saying, like, cut that part. Uh-huh. Move the chorus over here.

Yeah. And like, you know, I would have it have a little, like leading to a little bit of a crescendo. A little bit more of a lift somewhere. Yeah, yeah. I think this has the potential to be a pride in the name of love style, banger. And it's not quite there. But I love that they just put it out. Yeah.

Yeah, me too. I haven't, I'm still like processing, getting to know the album, but I really love it. And it's, every time I listen to it, it kind of grows on me more and more. And so I think it's really beautiful. And, but that very well may be true that it could have, you know, I don't know. Could have used maybe three hours of me bossing them around. I'm saying like, hey, cut, cut that. As you lie on a couch, dozing off. wandering around Hawaii without Jews. That's right. On Airpods telling them what to do. Okay. Let's hear track two. This is called In a Life, and it's by the band Hugh Too.

Hew too. There's a sticks you were talking about. Only you'll meet you there. We were going to chorus? Nah. Not so fast, Bucco. The shopping list of all you missed. Let's go there.

I meet you in the joy you steams and sticks. There we go. Kind of a city of blinding lights. Yeah, kind of a classic, uh... Classic YouTube vibe there. You know, for me, a lot of this EPI. he feels, you know, on songs of experience, I really like songs of experience,

but there's a couple moments like, you're the best thing about me or get out of your own way where it feels like they're reaching for something. They're shooting for it, but not quite getting it. It's just like. And also the lyrics are a little whatever of get out of your own way. I don't know what it is. It just kind of feels collectively like they're almost there,

but not quite. This feels like effortless, And they're just, it feels like, oh, yeah, this is, we can do this in our sleep. Totally. It kind of feels like, yeah, this one is cooked. It's great. Thedge says he can't wait to play this one live. Can't wait to see it live, bro.

And, yeah, this is really good. This is my either second or third favorite on the record, I think. I think you, me too. This is a good one. I'm trying to guess what your first favorite must be. Oh, I'll tell you. It's the one we heard first. Oh, yes.

No, it's not. Okay, let's go to track three. This is a song called Scars. Now, this particular song is by a band named Hugh, too. Wait. You too? Yeah. Okay.

You found trouble when you went, you got some scars. Some other suffer reaching for the... Don't cover your scars. They're your scars. Hey, you don't want to cover those things up. No, imagine if the Lion King did that, by the way, and covered up scar, everyone would be like, what's Simba's problem? Yeah.

Or, like, tell that to the makeup artist in the hair and makeup trailer on a movie. Yeah, exactly. Don't cover up your scars. Joker. Yeah. Like, what? Wait, you don't want me to put the Joker makeup on? Right.

That's the whole point. Okay, I want, I guess. He wears makeup. And then suddenly goes to sell it is like, like, where's the Joker makeup? fucking makeup. It's like Bono told me not to cover up the scars. Can you imagine? No, I can't. That's what's so great about this song is we can't imagine Heath Ledger ever doing that. No. Okay. What do we think about scars? This is the most post-punk of the song. Yeah, it's very like joy divisiony and... Sedge mentioned Susie and the Banschey. Sometimes I feel like they, anytime they turn up Adam Clay 2,000 pounds base, they're like, this is post-punk.

Yeah, yeah. Because that's the way he plays. It is. That's his style. It's kind of how. I really like this song. It's great. It reminds me of how to dismantle an atomic bong. Oh, isn't that what it's called?

How to dismantle an atomic bong? Hell yeah. Oh, fuck yeah, bro. That's what it's called. It feels live. It feels like they're playing together. Do it live. Fuck it.

Yeah, I love it. Let's talk about Larry. Because Larry had to learn a new style of drumming. Yes. Which, what does that mean? Is he hitting the bottom of the drums now? Yeah, he doesn't. He uses his feet.

It does sound different, though. It has a different feel. Different feel to him. Not just this song, but all of it. It's like a different approach. It's very interesting because anytime, you know, someone leaves a band or passes away and then they get a new person, it changes everything.

Like look at Haurium. Yeah. But they didn't change anyone and it has a slightly different feel. I think that's a fascinating point I just made. Very, very good, Scott. So what did you think of this song? I like this song. This is probably my fourth favorite out of six.

And I like it. So that's... Yeah. I like all of them quite a bit. And this would probably be my... fourth favorite too. Okay, whatever. All right, let's go to track

Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Let's go to, now we're getting into the real Easter-e-themed songs. Let's go to track four.

This is Resurrection Song. This is by Huteau. Not subtle. The title of this one. Not at all. Because a guy who got resurrected on Easter, Jesus Christ. He had 12 followers.

Do you think if he was on social media, he would only have 12 followers? Yeah, that would be really funny if he just kept it to 12, and it was all those guys? Yeah, he just denied everyone else's like, no thanks. Hey, guys, you too. Hey, we're in the middle of a podcast. We don't have much time left. Can you start your song? Resurrection song, Adam.

What do we think? I think it's great. This is my least favorite song, I think, on the record. heard, but I still like it. And what's your, uh, what's your glitch? What are my gripes? I think the lyrics are a little, uh, uh, bonobos out his most first drafty. Yeah, you know, he's like using stuff that other people said to him or bits of like

poetry that he heard one, or you know what I mean? Like it's, uh, also he says, he says a couple of times. If I sound ridiculous, I'm not done yet, you know, like, so. Which is funny, but I don't know. You know, like this, the stereotypical comment about Bonobos is like, God, he just sounds ridiculous. And I know he knows that about him. And so it's cool to be like.

It's self-aware. It's self-aware. It's meta-textual almost. Yeah. Anyway, but I still like it. I like the music especially. Yeah. Lyrics are a little clunkers for me.

I don't mind the lyrics. I haven't really thought about it in that way, though. I'm just been enjoying it. I think it's really fucking good. Again, it doesn't feel like they're reaching anymore. It feels like they're in a sweet spot. They're locked in. Yeah. They're in the groove.

And again, it sounds like, and I think in the propaganda thing, I read that they were recording live together a lot of the time, you know? Which is good because it's in the name band. Yeah. We've banded together. we're playing together. It's like, oh, yeah, no shit. Yeah. Yeah, man. Idiots? Bro. Yes. Just play live together.

Okay, so that's track four of six. We have a couple more. And this next song is track five. And it's a song called Easter Parade. We're totally in Easter territory right now. And this is by you too. Fedge Bonobos, Adam Clay, 2,000 pounds. Larry Mullin, Sr.'s son. All of them together.

In one band. Maybe a keyboardist, Jack Knife Lee might be playing here and there. Oh, yeah, he plays guitars all over this, too. Yeah. Adam Clay 2,000 pounds is digging in. Listen to that. Easter parade, Adam. I think this is your favorite song on.

This is my favorite song, yeah. Why do you think? How could you tell? Well, first, there's only two left. There's only two left. But also, it's my favorite. Oh, great. Oh, we agree.

I think it's... We're two agreeing, boys. I think these are all bangers pretty much. Like, I really think it's terrific. This is like perfect. It's like a perfect U-2 song. It's got, okay, first of all, it has, it's leaning into like Depeche Mode, New Order,

synth bass, which I love. Yeah. Would love to hear it even go even. Is that all synth bass in there? That's not. Don't, no, no, Adam's playing, actually. But like for the other parts, like at the beginning, and during the chorus.

Then you have the Easter parade, which sounds like early U-2. And then you also have Pride in the Name of Love guitars in the background. I found it interesting. Fetch was talking about, okay, so he wrote this originally and brought it to the band

and it just sounded too much like all other U-2 songs, he said. And he said that Jack Knife Lee and I think Bonobos like saved it is what he says. Like they took it in this. direction, which I think is great. I love this direction, honestly.

Me too. It does be invisible, too. It does sound like you too, but it also, there are new elements. It sounds different. It sounds surprising, yeah, while still being anthemic. Hugh, too. Yeah, I really like this one. Me too.

And, you know, obviously, you know, singing about song of devotion and Easter. and all that kind of stuff. Yes. This is, you know, the most religious stuff on the... But it's not overly religious. Does he sing Curier-A-Lézon in this? I think he does, right? I don't know.

Yeah, he does. A little later, he starts singing that Mr. Mr. Starr's... Oh, that's right. I know it's more than a Mr. Mr. song, but... Anyway, good shit. Yeah, it's awesome. All right, let's talk about the elephant in the world.

Okay. Track 6. Yeah. Bye, Jackknife. Thanks for your service. Look who's back. Back again. Oh, boy.

Here we go. Oh, wow. Your downturned mouth entered the room before the rest of your body. Mr. cranky pants. That's right. Old Sourpus is back. Now, I believe Jackknife is still producing. It's just the soundscape is.

Yeah. Who are we talking about? We're talking about he walks in the room and he goes, I'm tired of my last name being in every crossword. I want to make music with you too again. That's right. Old Sour Puss himself, Brian Eno. He's back.

He's working with the band again. And this is, well, we'll talk about it after we hear it. This is a song called Coexist. I will bless the Lord at all times. with a question mark. I intentionally said it that way. I will bless the Lord at all times. Is that parenthetical, that last part?

Yes, coexist is in caps. Coexist is all in caps. And then I will bless the Lord at all times. Will I? This is Eno and but no. Boes. Am I the best or the worst? Are the worst of the best she sang?

I scream smile wide as a mile back then. Say a nice prayer, be a good girl. Finger on my lips. When she returned, her lipstick, get learned, how not to kiss. I can't fix her. Can only love her. I can't keep her pocketful.

I can't keep her face and smiles. Someone stole the most beautiful. I can't sing her home to me and ride. bless the Lord old times bless the Lord old times I will bless I will bless the time pray for a new day to rise every morning when the sun shows up it's still a surprise

any child is every child in any mother's eyes I will bless the Lord I will bless the Lord at all times. I will bless the Lord at all times. I will bless the Lord. Bless the Lord at all times. Okay. Now, this is a almost seven minutes on.

We can't hear all of it. And it does say soundscapes. No, it does say soundscapes by Brian Eno, right? Is that what the word they use? You know, I don't know. Let me do a search for soundscapes on Google, and maybe it'll pop up. Soundscapes. What's the first thing that pops up?

Wikipedia. Just Google say, fuck you. A Reddit thread. What does soundscape actually mean in music? Who knows? Anyway, very kind of almost bonie ver. Let's hear a little bit of it, has it? Now he's talking.

Consciousness. Um, this is, Adam, this is my, probably my second favorite thing. Really? Yeah. I like it a lot. Because it's unique. New York. Unique, New York. Um, it's unlike really anything in their catalog.

It's a little like Boni Vair. Sure, you could maybe knock it for that. But, um, I don't know. I like, I like it a lot, especially towards the end when he's really kind of getting up there and wailing a little bit. I'm stalling because Adam's texting. No, I'm not. I'm looking for the credits on this. Oh, the credits.

Oh, it just says... This is a part of it. Yeah, this is really cool. I like it too. I am not afraid. Anyway, I don't know. I really think it's a cool and... I think it's cool, too.

It doesn't sound like anything else. Yeah. And in the propaganda, notes, Edge is like, I had nothing to do with this, but I love it. He goes, it's the song, I barely have anything to do with it, and it's one of my favorite things we put out recently. Yeah. Yeah, and he says that Bonobos went all jazz man on it.

That is just a word they love. Which, guys, that's not a selling point to me. I really like that one, and I think it's a cool, you know what I did this, morning, Adam, which maybe you might want to do in your personal time. I listen to both of these EPs back to back. Oh, interesting. As one record. It's a 55-minute record if you listen to.

I was thinking that it is basically, we have a new U-2 album now. They sound really good together. So the last track on Days of Ash is my least favorite out of all of them. But you know what? When it's not the last statement of the band. and it just goes into the Easter Lily EP it's like I don't mind

there all that much and it just sounds it flows together really well it's it's kind of like two different versions of you too huge

I wonder if you mix them up a bit like start with an Easter Lily song go into Days of Ash song and kind of go back and forth

should do that God we didn't we didn't prep that I feel like we should I feel like we should come up with a a track listing?

Yes. Where we mix them into a new U-2 album. Yeah. Maybe I would take off one song, yours eternally,

make an 11 track. Who knows? Maybe we'll do this. So it's 6 and 6? Is that what it is? It's 6 and 6, yeah. And my question is

everyone's treating this, they keep calling it bookends, like they're done with these EPs. What if the next holiday They just put out like Mother's Day.

You know, it's all songs about their moms and shit. Like every holiday they have. Yeah. Like Flag Day. Then they're like dads and grads. They actually did have a song called Flag Day, didn't they? I think so, yeah. Yeah.

So it's not that out of place. No, it's not. You know, like what if they just keep putting these out? But I honestly think that these are the only two they put out. But what do you think? Yeah, I think so too. And I think the album comes out in like a year. That's an interesting prediction.

Maybe in the fall, it seems like they're working very fast and they have a lot of material. Like if they're willing to put 12 songs out and they still have an album they're working on, they have a lot of stuff. Now, I worry a little bit because Bonobos in this propaganda magazine, he says like, we still have a full record coming out in the fall and it's loud and. Yeah. And rock and roll and meant to be played live. And I'm like, uh-oh, are we getting back into? Like this, these two have been, maybe a couple songs are undercooked or whatever, but like, it's such a breath of fresh air to hear them, like, sort of getting back to what they do really well. Yeah.

I worry a little bit that suddenly we're back into vertigo land, you know, which I know you love. But into like Joey Ramon, like, reaching for that. Or that song they did with Kendrick, you know. Well, I feel like this, particularly the Easter EP, is showing that they're not forcing it. doing what they do and they're comfortable. These have been very well reviewed and received in major

publications and websites. I wonder if that is surprising to them where they're like, oh, shit, maybe. I wonder if that affects what they're doing. Is the Easter Lily one been received really well? Yes, both of them have. But this Easter Lily in particular, a lot of people are saying it's the best thing they put out

in decades. Yeah. Which I don't know. If I agree with that, but it's it certainly is great to hear them. I mean, especially when you say decades, they haven't put out a record nine years. So it's like, it gets, it gets to be decades. But like since, for me,

maybe since atomic bomb or bong. Atomic bong. For me, since, you know, the one before that, all that you can't leave. Yeah. Yeah. The first half.

You think it's the best since that. I don't know. Maybe, you know. It's very early. It's very, it's too early to decide. We're going to have to wait till our 101th episode. Yeah, until we're able to make a call like that. Look, we call balls and strikes here.

That's right. On you talking to you two to me. We're not willing to do that at this point. We need to check the replay, check the computer. That's right. Still, it's great to hear from the lads, the lovable lads. Yeah, the Liverpool. The Liverpool.

The Leatherbaudlings. The best. And if it is truly like these were going to be B-sides, I think this is a good B-sides record. Honestly, it makes me hopeful for the new record, even though I'm a little trepidacious. Me, too. Hugh, too, that is. Hugh, too.

Well, Adam, anything else you want to touch upon before we go upon our merry way here? No, ma'am. I think that's about right. I don't really have anything myself. We've said it all. This is the definitive take on the Easter Lily EP. That's right. even though we're not willing to call balls or strikes quite yet.

No. That's not what we do. That's not what we do. All right. We're going to come back for our 101st episode down the line a little bit. Who knows when that'll be, but it's been great seeing you, Adam. You too, buddy. I love that they put out records just so I can spend a little time with you.

That's right. And that's why they put them out. We're going to come back next time. But until then, we sincerely. Hope that you've found what you're looking for. Bye.