U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - U Talkin' U2 To Me? - Songs of Innocence

Episode Date: September 11, 2014

That's right, it's been awhile but Adam Scott Aukerman are back by popular demand to dive into U2's thirteenth studio album Songs of Innocence. They'll talk about the U2's live performance at the live Apple event, U2 releasing their new album right into everyone's iTunes library for free, and their current thoughts on every single track on this album. Plus, they share their Top 10 R.E.M. songs as they read some fantastic fan mail, we check in where Adam is with Harry Potter, and the critically acclaimed podcast "I Love Films" returns. Oh yeah, the guys finally get some T-SHIRTS!

🎵 From boy to breaking waves, every single one of them that is, welcome to You Talkin' U2 to Me, the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things U2. This is good rock and roll music. We are back. We're back.

Welcome back. I can't believe this happened. Can you believe you got the two of us sitting in a room again with Engineer Cody Cody. The three of us in one room? And all it took was a couple of texts, some directions.

You didn't have to give me directions. I just had to revisit the directions that are stored in my brain. Well, you know what? The memory is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's like a scar. It heals over and you forget stuff. But in this case, you did not. Well, maybe I did.

Maybe I just needed to rub that scar tissue like you do whenever you need to get a boner. Anthony Kiedis. And pull it off. Scar tissue. And just go, hey, look. There are the directions. There they are. Keep directions folded up in a tiny piece of paper and place it

into cuts in your arms and then let it heal over and then anytime anyone needs directions i rub that scar tissue and i pull it out and then i toss it at the person yep and it sticks on their face yes it certainly does welcome to to the show. This is Scott. And this is Scott. Hey, welcome back. It's been a while. It's been a while. It's been a while. It's been a while. It really has. We've taken the summer off.

When was the last time we released an episode? I'm going to check that out. Pull up the old date board. Here we go. The last episode was released on. Scott, I'm not interested in when it was released. Okay. What are you fucking interested in? I'm interested in. June 11, by the way.

When it was, we sat our big old juicy butts down on these seats and talked U2 to each other. Probably about a week before June 11. Okay. So June. All right. Beginning of June. It is September 11th. Speaking of 11th, let's not forget.

And we are out. We rushed to get this into the studio. We tried to get it out to you ASAP. Well, it's September 10th right now. Well, now it is, but people are listening to it on September 11th. Okay. Dumb shit. Okay.

Fine. Let me set the stage. It is September 10th for us. It is 8.28 p.m. All right, and we're going to do this episode for as long as it takes to get it out yep um but uh and we're gonna try and get this out as soon as we can we're gonna try to put it out tonight so people will be listening to this tomorrow can we talk a little bit about joan rivers r.i.p can we talk how we how we how cool it is that the moment this album came out um we've been flooded

with tweets from people saying you guys have to get your big old juicy butts back your big old juicy dicks back in that studio and start talking that you too shit it's been it's been it's been it's been a while. No, it's been really gratifying to see how many people. It seems like the 500 billion people that iTunes goes out to, they all tweeted at us at the same time. And they all wanted to hear this. So here we are. Let me talk about what's going on with me.

You and I actually planned to do this tonight about a week ago because we had a feeling right something was going to happen on tuesday so we set this date that's right uh you got back to me and said hey bro do you want to record on wednesday night and i said wednesday is not good for me because i am uh it's my first good form me what? is that a joke? yeah okay did you get it Cody?

I'll take it on faith okay forum? is that what you're saying? good forum? no good form like good form good form

and then me look if this is gonna be the level of your jokes for this episode yeah just get the fuck out right now but i said it's not good because uh i started filming season four right of comedy bang bang today this morning i've been up since 5 30 in the morning um and you said i said can we do it on tuesday because i actually had nothing yesterday and you said I'm out of town right and um now personally I gotta call bullshit on that because I think you got back into town yesterday

I did get back into town and you could have done it last night no I couldn't have why because you're too busy clearing the cocks out of your throat yeah There were 17 cocks in my throat. Do you know how hard it is to clear cocks out of your throat when they're not connected to bodies? Really? They're disembodied cocks? No, because I got home from a trip and I needed to be with my family. Oh, Jesus. I'm your family! You're right.

You're right. I keep forgetting that you're my family by the way it wasn't like i presume that you got home late at night or even like late afternoon you were on the plane when i talked to you at this apple conference uh when the apple conference was yeah it was over at noon i landed at about one o'clock when right when the thing ended is that when it ended yeah yeah no it ended at noon okay i i landed at about 1 o'clock right when the thing ended. Is that when it ended? Yeah. No, it ended at noon.

Okay. I landed at probably like 1230. Okay. So from 1230 to 1130, you had no time to do this. I really didn't. You wanted me to add another two hours to my incredibly long day. Listen. Yeah. I didn't want to. It's just I had no choice.

No choice. And we all have long days, right? We all have long days here. I guess so. I guess so. You're right. Although mine was particularly long, so I'm a little loopy here tonight. But hey. I don't care. I'm actually glad that we had this extra day because today we got to listen to the record some more. I mean, I was working all day, but okay today we got to listen to the record some more. I mean, I was working all day, but okay. You got to listen. I wasn't. I listened to the record a lot.

Good, good. You know what? To be fair, though, I listened to it a lot yesterday when it first came out. I actually didn't. I only listened to it like one and a half times. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Once. One and a half times.

One love and a half times! One love! And a half times! That's funny. Okay, we'll talk about the record soon, but I do want to just say to everyone who has fallen in love with this podcast, thank you so much for writing to us and for trying to keep it alive. I said on Comedy Bang Bang, the podcast the other day,

that the show was defunct, knowing we were just about to record this, and people were in an uproar. What do you mean defunct? You said you're coming back. Right. And actually, you know what's funny? The last time that we talked,

June, you know, in early June, you said to me, hey, you know what? I can record one next week. And our plan was to stockpile a bunch and then release it weekly around now. And then we, you and I have barely seen each other this summer. Yeah, at all. We, I think-

No, we saw each other at a party. We saw each other at DK's party. Dan Kell. Yeah. We saw each other at Elsie's party. Elsie's, yes. And we saw each other at Elsie's party. Elsie's, yes. And we saw each other at Elsie's other party. She's been to a lot of parties.

Yeah, two parties in like a week. Yeah, crazy. And then that's about it, isn't it? Yeah. Because I was out of town, you were busy, and it's just the way- It's busy stroking it. It's the way the peanuts shook out of the bag, you know? That old saying.

How many times do you think you've gone to the bathroom since we saw each other last? How many days has it been? Let's see, June, July, August. So it's- Two September. So, I mean, we basically went to, no, you're right, we went to July.

Three full months. Three full months, yeah. How many times have you gone to the bathroom? So that's around 90 days. Around 90. Well, let's round down to 90. And per day, so it's 90 days. So that's around 90 days. Around 90. Well, let's round down to 90. And per day, so it's 90 days. So it's 90 times 90. Okay. So 1800 times? 1800 times. Wow. But you have to times that by two. Oh, okay. 3600 times. 3600 times. Why do you times it by two? Because it's number two? Well, you just have to assume that

just because of my image and my modesty that you're rounding. I'm keeping it low. Yeah. Okay. Good. So yeah. So just twice as much as whatever I say. Okay. Good. Okay. You are a modest guy, you know, and you do have an image. I don't like to brag about how much I go to the bathroom. Yeah. No, I know. What about you, Scott? I went once. Ooh.

And it was the day after we saw each other. Oh, God. So are you feeling okay? No, not at all. I made a pact that I would not go to the bathroom until we did another one. And you said you wanted to do it next week. So I was like holding it. And then you just kept holding it.

A pact is a pact, my man. But you made a pact. Was it like a silent pact with yourself? It was a blood pact. With yourself? With myself, yeah. I cut my thumb. And put it up against your other thumb?

Put it up against the tip of my penis. And so that's just a binding pact. If blood and pre-cum mix. Well, we all know that. So there's no way out of this. There's no way out. So I feel like now you can go to the bathroom. We got a show to do.

Yeah, but. I mean, I might shake a little do off the daisy at a break or something. We're recording this. So we can always just like we could take a pause right now and then people wouldn't even know it. Well, let me see. I mean, I guess I could just go right now and then people wouldn't even know it well let me see what i mean i guess i could just go right now i mean it would just yeah do it it's fizzy well it's been in your body for a long time it's been hot spot oh that felt good oh good well i'm glad you got it all out it's weird that it's

it's only like i don don't know, six ounces. Yeah, I haven't eaten or drinking. Drinking? It's late. It's late. It's late. It's late. Okay, we got to talk about this.

We have some really fantastic fan mail, some FFM since we last met, and I wanted to read some of it because some really nice stuff. Let's see. We got something here from John Elliott. John Elliott from Oakland, California. He says, Dear Scott and Scott, in order of cultural importance,

he's obviously talking about me first. First, I wanted to thank you for the podcast, not to be overly sincere. Hey, you the podcast, not to be overly sincere. Hey, you know what? John, be overly sincere. Yeah, be sincere. We like it. That's what it's all about, man. We like it.

Just because we're postmodern ironic comedy guys doesn't mean you have to be. But it really is an oasis in the wasteland that is my dehumanizing work week. Ooh. Sorry about that um he goes on to say a lot of really nice stuff he says he wanted to give us a gift he put together a bunch of mixes and playlists on a flash drive which is awesome so uh i'll put that in a little later um and he says that he's doing a podcast with a friend covering every REM album. Oh, wow. Which is something we had talked about.

What's the name of the podcast? He does not say. So that's a missed opportunity, John. Yeah. ABC, always be closing. Yeah, always be cranking out the name of your podcast. He does say, don't worry. I'm not going to ask you guys to be on it or even tell you the name of your podcast. He does say, don't worry, I'm not going to ask you guys to be on it

or even tell you the name. He says, trust me, compared to your podcast, ours is a pathetic lump of shit. Well, I'm sorry. Does he really say that? Compared to ours? What does that mean, ours? All right.

Ours is just a lump of shit. This is a pathetic one. I was hoping if you had the time or inclination that you could each give me a list of your personal top 10 REM songs for us to discuss on our final episode of the series. So they're already on their final episode? Or they are going to get to it at a certain point. He did send it. Oh, it doesn't have a date.

Does he say how old he is? Yeah, he's my age. 28. Oh, okay. Does he say how old he is? Yeah, he's my age. 28. Oh, okay. Does he really say he's 28? No. So he wants to know – I know this is off the top of your head, but I gave you about five minutes before we started,

and we both put together our top ten REM songs. And so, Adam, why don't you start? Why don't you go first? Mine is Shiny Happy People 10 times. Okay. That's good. Mine, let me see. I have mine.

Mine is Shiny Happy People 8 times and then Shiny Happy People 2 times. The remix? Yeah. Yeah. There is a remix out there do you remember that yeah i do oh boy oh boy no i uh uh i would have to think about it way more than you but i know that that wait you had me do it you didn't do it mine would all be from like murmur probably i didn't

do it i was gonna make that joke shiny happy people 10 times and then you said you go first oh you should have insisted that i go first yeah i should have but you know i'm not you know why i said you you go first because i knew you were gonna do something like that and i actually even though it was only five minutes i worked kind of hard you worked it well look you do it i'll think of it later you do it talk about it talk about the passion okay so should do you really want me to say this top 10 list? Yeah, I do. Okay, this is in no particular order,

and it might not even be accurate because I did it in five minutes. Jesus, enough of the disclaimers. Just say your fucking list. Number one, life and how to live it. Number two. Why are you saying numbers if it's in no particular order? Just say the 10 things. Because I don't want people to lose track.

If I don't number each one, people will be like, is he on number seven? Is he on be like, is he on number seven? Is he on number nine? How many left to go? Is he on number 15? What the fuck? And then they'll jump out of a- What's the deal with his lit?

What's going on? Jerry Seinfeld, get out of here. I was just here to see George. Jerry Seinfeld, what do you think about REM? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Okay, bye. Weird guy. Yeah. Weird guy. Yeah.

Weird guy. All right, what do you got? I'm not going to read these. Why? I like it. I'm interested. No. What do you mean?

This guy wants to know. You put some time into this. Let's hear it. But the whole bit of it, I fuck, you read your thing, and so. What?

Okay. All right. Should I just read it? Yeah, just read it. and so. What? Okay. All right. Should I just read it? Yeah, just read it. I want to hear. Okay. It'll spark conversation in my mind. It's shiny happy people 10 times.

Fuck you. No, what do you got? I really, I genuinely want to. Life and how to live it. Which one, which, where, what is that from? Fables of the Reconstruction. Life and how to live it. Got it. That's right. Half a World Away. Half a World Away on Out of Time. Wow. Okay. I Believe from Life's Rich Pageant. I Believe.

That's a good song. Try Not to Breathe from Automatic for the People. Bad advice, but good song. Ages of You. Do you remember that song? Ages of You. Yep. Find the River. Hey, why don't you go towards that stream sound?

Now, the next song, if I was going to be technically correct in saying the title, it would sound a little like this. Because there is no title. There is no title to this song. But since... What do people call it? Untitled. Untitled, right. But that's not the name of the song.

It's not the fucking title, bro. Okay? There is no title. There's no fucking title, right. But that's not the name of the song. It's not the fucking title, bro. Okay? There is no title. There's no fucking title. Okay. And that's from- What do you do on your iTunes? Do you, you know, I assume you have iTunes.

Otherwise, how would you get this record that just came out? Exactly. But what, do you call it untitled? In the metadata? It's listed as untitled. You can change that stuff. It's not a blank space. You can change that.

I know, but I don't Okay Too busy? A little I guess you could Just delete the letters Yes I just said that Scott

I heard you So why are you saying it like It's your fucking idea I guess you could delete the letters Why are you you saying it like it's your fucking idea i guess you could delete the letters why are you talking about it like you're the only one that knows how to change change the list because adam you are a guy who has listeners have pointed out doesn't even know how to use your fucking search function on your phone i'm trying to help you i do. I use it 85 times a day. 85? Only 85. That's five less times than you go to the bathroom, supposedly.

It's Control-I, and you can change any wording on your goddamn iTunes. Yes. That is true. Exhuming McCarthy. What do you think about Exhuming McCarthy, like the title of it? It's a little like 1980s were really political and in our 20s good song

it's a good song Hollow Man and the theme to the Kevin Bacon thriller yep and then Diminished

is the 10th one those are the songs but you know I don't know if that's accurate but hey that's what you could come up with right now

that's what I came up with bro John thank you for your flash drive and talk about those on your own podcast and if uh people are fans of rem go out there and listen to that that sounds uh really cool i might listen even though we don't know how would we find it he didn't tell us what it's called aria i don't know put his name into it i look you know what john you fucked up you fucked up. You fucked up, bro. You fucked up. All right. This comes to us from, by the way, and this is less a letter than it is like a manifesto. This is pages and pages long.

All right. And it's from Mark. All right, Mark. You just need to calm down. I believe it's Mark Cleaver. Oh, boy. All right. And by the way, I think it's two separate letters, both written to Scott.

Oh, geez. Oh, no. One is written to both of us and one is written to me. So that's nice. Oh, gosh. He used to work at Vagrant Records. I'm just going to read highlights. Used to work at Vagrant Records.

I saw some Vagrant band posters in an episode of Party Down. Cool story, huh? But seriously, I really like Party Down. Good job. Hey, Adam, I've never asked you this. Ah, beast. But you've never said your famous Party Down catchphrase on the air. What's that?

The, you know what it is. No, I don't. Like I said, I have scar tissue over my memories. You know what it is. No, I don't. Like I said, I have scar tissue over my memories. You know what it is. It's the... What is it? It's getting hot in here? What is it?

Yeah, it's getting hot in here. No, it's... Is anybody horny? Yep. No, what is it? Really, what is it? It's... Let's get going on the cheeseburgers no real but i mean seriously

you do have a catchphrase what you just you just held up a piece of paper like you had a note that i needed to read that, quite frankly, I thought was going to be, hey, I don't want to do my catchphrase. And instead, it was just a picture of a spewing dick. Yes. Why? But the dick has a face on it. Oh, okay. It has X's for eyes and its tongue sticking out.

All right. Okay. I guess that's all right. Why would you show that to me? I don't know. I just completed it, and I thought you should see it. Okay. All right.

You know, I really only have one thing to say to that. Yeah. Adam, that's not funny. Nope, that's not funny, Adam. It's not funny. That wasn't very funny. Oh, really's not funny, Adam. It's not funny. That wasn't very funny. Oh, really? The timing of that.

Okay. Look, you try to work this iPod jack. Okay, so... Can I see that thing for a second? Yeah. There you go. Gotcha. All right.

Okay, anyway, so Mark sent us some cool shit. So what is it exactly? It's just a long letter. It's a super long letter. Can I see it? Yep. Here you go. Did you read the whole thing?

No. I got you with that one. You actually did. Are there coupons in here? What the fuck is all of this? I don't know what it is. The Vicious Kisses. Oh, he what it is. The Vicious Kisses. Oh, he has a band, The Vicious Kisses.

Oh, okay. That's a cool name for a band. That is a cool name. Okay, someone else, and by the way, I apologize because I don't know if I got this person's name, but someone else sent us t-shirts. Some fucking t-shirts, Adam. T-shirts? Look.

Fucking t-shirts? Lookie. Some cool fucking t-shirts. Wow, that's cool. They made those? Yeah, they made these. This is, I think it's whoever designed this design, but it's you and me as the Fly and McFisto.

And sent us various sizes. What are you, an extra medium? Super small? What does extra medium mean? What are you? I got a medium here for you you is that what you are or are you a small mark wrote a six page full six page letter yeah and then another one and then another one just to me uh no but then he at the bottom it says me okay here you go here's a small here's a medium thanks you don't have to say what

you are and who sent these i i i don't know didn't send any larges thanks a lot um but then we also got by the way and this was crazy we got a letter adam from guess who the man the manager of guess who Satan who is Satan's manager probably L. Ron Hubbard is that his duties down there in hell he became the manager

he was really successful at that religion he created no we got a letter and a package even from the manager. Adam just got me and needed back. Uh, I totally forgot about it. That felt great. We got a package from the manager.

It may not be the manager or someone who works at the label of old sourpuss himself, Brian Eno. Are you kidding? Brian Eno, someone who works with him at his record label, sent us a big package of his records. Nuh-uh. Yes. Are they here?

They're at my house. Oh, great. Look, it's been three months. Wait, is it all vinyl? No, no, it's CDs. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, so a lot of his recent work. So his recent work with, I believe it's Carl Hyde from Underworld.

The last two records of that and maybe another Green World. He did a David Byrne. He did that, but he didn't include that. But I think a reissue of another Green World maybe um awesome and he t-shirts do you know what are you fucking kidding me this motherfucker old sourpuss old sourpuss yeah not throwing the t-shirts in the box oh hey uh brian do you mind if we throw some t-shirts into this box? I hate T-shirts. T-shirts are too catchy. Why doesn't anyone make our shirts?

God, shut up. Why always T-shirts? You ever think about them? I'm not spilling my tea onto them, am I? Shut up. Did you know that now if you put Brianrian eno into google you knew this right someone sent this to me the other day and you put brian it's like number three or four the third prompt that google gives you is old sourpuss oh poor brian poor brian we were big fan we are big

fans of brian eno and we started this Calling him that just because we're in conversation. But the person who works at his label, whose name, I'm sorry, all of this stuff is at home, thank you so much to those. And he said he's a big fan of the show and wanted to keep us abreast of what Old Sourpuss was up to. So thank you so much to him. Also, we got, and this is really interesting, we got a letter. Scott and Scott, Bono here. Love the show.

Wait, what? It's so comprehensive and encyclopedic, even I learn a thing or two, and I'm Bono. I'm in the band. Holy shit. You too. I've heard your request for t-shirts, and although I wasn't able to get a proper one, I did procure these misprinted ones from the 360 tour that have been sitting on my bedroom floor for years you can you can just send me the payment for them whenever you get the chance bono wait payment he wants us to pay

for the t-shirts he wants us to pay look at this t-shirt it's a totally black t-shirt that is with the tiniest white lettering that says you too oh my god once on it really super tiny that is fucking great um where is there another one yes there are two and this one's yours here you go that is uh keep up the great work i look forward to hearing you talk the new U2 album to me whenever we decide to finish it all of the members of U2

The Edge Larry Mullen Jr Adam Clayton and myself Bono appreciate your fandom I hope you found what you're looking for wow

Bono thank you so much that is pretty amazing Bono we finally got the t-shirts yeah but he expects us to pay for them although not only does he expect us to pay for them he's not giving us like the premium t-shirts. No, the premium tees. He gave us the misprint.

That are lying on his bedroom floor. From 360. Yeah, I don't expect that. I don't know. This doesn't really count. It doesn't sit well with me. No, me neither. And also, you know what?

I'm not going to pay for this. No, I'm not paying for this. A misprint? He's right. It was laying on the floor of his bedroom. It smells like shit. Are we to presume that Bono shits on his floor? I don't mean shit like literally shit.

Oh, I see. I mean, it just doesn't smell great. It doesn't smell great. Scott, it was lying on the floor of his bedroom. It's lying on the floor of his bedroom. It was lying on the floor of his bedroom. I mean, can we talk here? Okay, Joan Rivers, RIP. I mean, look.

Are you trying to take over her catchphrase? Calm down. Are you trying to do that? But can we talk? What? I'm just saying. I thought your catchphrase was something about having fun or something. Can we talk?

You're just gonna start saying this from now on? He sent us fucking t-shirts He sent us t-shirts Okay That was nice That's what we wanted But these aren't the right ones They're not the right ones

This isn't the t-shirt I want Look, I know Am I an asshole? You're not an asshole If you're an asshole, I'm an asshole Can we talk? Stop it It's not right.

She's barely in the ground. This is bullshit. We're not taking these. You know what? Can we send them back? Yeah, we can. He has his address right here. Liverpool apartment 3B.

Yeah, we'll send them right back. All right. Sorry, Bono. This doesn't cut it doesn't cut the mustard yours bono all right we got one more thing that was in the pile of youtube fan stuff that's been sitting in my car for three months uh oh no this is not uh a letter to us this is my parking directions for the Emmys. Oh. Weird.

It's weird that you... Can I see that? Yeah. Here you go. I don't think that's for the Emmys. I think that's for the HBO party. Oh, this was for the HBO party. Did you go to the HBO? How do you know the directions of the HBO party by sight?

It says HBO on the back of it, the part that's facing me. Oh, that's true. Well, it was the Emmy party, and we got to talk about this, Adam, because how long have you been on Parks and Recreation? Four years. Four years at this point, by my count. Yeah.

And you have not received one single Emmy. I haven't. And yet I made something that wasn't even a TV show. Never aired on television. Never. That's not once. And somehow is eligible for an Emmy Award. Hey, they decided to give it one.

Huh. Yeah. And it was like seven minutes long? Less. Yeah, less than seven minutes long. Yeah. And you got an Emmy Award for it. Yeah, I did.

Huh, that's interesting. I did. Well, well deserved. Thank you so much. Well, well deserved. Let me ask you this. Yeah. Remember that video that you made for the Obama thing?

Yeah. Yeah, what Emmy did that win? Hold on, let me – where's my computer? Here we go. I have to just look this up real quick. Of course. One sec. I just need to click into this one website right here.

Hold on. Hold on. Let me go into my email folder titled Emmys Related to Funny or Die Video for the Obama Campaign, i.e. Related to Healthcare. Okay. Here we go. None. None? No. Oh, I'm so sorry. No, I did not receive an Emmy Award, nor... Oh, I didn't get nominated. No, no, no, no. Not for that.

But you know what the funny thing is? Since it was just like a Funny or Die video, there's no way in the world that I thought I deserved one for that. That's interesting because I knew I did deserve it. That is weird. Yeah. Super weird. Super weird, isn't it? did deserve it. That is weird. Yeah. Super weird. Super weird, isn't it?

Yeah. Because it's not a TV thing. Because I thought, I'm just doing this dumb video and it's fun and stuff, but it's not on TV. It's just on Funny or Die.

Why would it get a television award? Why would it be better than Parks and Recreation and your performance on it for four years? Exactly. Why would it?

It's weird. Yeah, it's super's super who can explain it anyway no wow sorry about that um in all seriousness congratulations thank you on your emmy award that is so much very very that's really amazing thank you i haven't talked about it publicly nor privately i have not spoken don't you do like an hour of, two hours of comedy every week on your podcast? I do. You've never talked about it?

I have not talked about it. I don't really talk about personal stuff on the other. No one's asked you about it. No one's asked me about it. That's weird. Okay, I will ask you, how was it? How was the day at the Emmy Awards?

Well, Adam, it was fun. It was long. You haven't been to the- Technical Emmys, no. It's not technical. It's creative arts. Creative Emmys. Basically, it's a different ceremony

for anything they don't want to air during the actual ceremony. Anything that's too boring. Right. Although they do give out guest actor awards at this. Right. That's weird that they don't do that at the i mean i can understand why they don't do like the short form thing the one that you won although that's becoming an interesting category because it's always like children's hospital hospital now what and i voted for this but the greatest event

in television history wasn't nominated it was not nominated i voted for it to be nominated yes thank you that i um i only voted for two things yeah you and me that's very nice um no it it was not we tried i mean the the the show is so small that naomi and i had to try and like make dvs to send out. Because you know how usually like there's a big production company who makes DVDs. Yeah, I mean not if you're Comedy Bang Bang because IFC will include, you know, Spoils of Babylon and Portlandia and Maroon, but not Comedy Bang Bang. But anyway, go ahead.

Did they really not include? No, of course not. They didn't even submit it the first year. Oh, my God. Because they said you have no chance of winning. Oh, I remember Starz forgot to submit Party Down. What was your catchphrase on that? Let's grab some tacos.

So good. I love that. So we tried. We, like, made DVDs, but, you know, we just didn't have the- The DVD burner? The DVD. We didn't have enough- How are you trying to make them?

We didn't have enough of them to, it's so boring. We didn't have enough of them to send. Whatever. It was- Well, hey, you gave it the old college try. Gave it the old college try. I was so psyched when you guys won. That was really quick.

That's really nice of you. And you know how I feel about your work on Parks and Recreation. I think that it's fair. C plus. C plus. Exactly. Which is the highest grade I give. No, but I do want to ask you about this and not to put you on the spot.

Yeah. But there was a big fan campaign since we've been away. Yeah. SNL, Saturday Night Live, which is weird. You have to agree. Day? Night? Both of those are in that title.

It's confusing. When do I tune in? Well, I think what they're saying is it's Saturday and it's at night. No. Saturday is just a reference for a particular day of the week, just like Monday or Tuesday. You've totally lost me. And by the way, I think that Saturday should be 12.01 a.m. through 11.59 a.m. And then Saturday night, noon to 11.59 p.m.

Change the name of the day. So you think if it's 1 p.m., it should be called Saturday night. Yes, of course. But it's during the day. Okay, tell you what, what we'll do is we'll go sundown, sunup. So you don't call it Saturday anymore? You just call it sundown?

No, no, no, no, no. You call it, you say- Saturday sundown? You say at sunup on Saturday, you call it Saturday. Right. Sundown, you call it Saturday night. Right. Sundown, you call it Saturday night. Right.

Midnight, you call it sun night. Okay. To sunup, you call it Sunday. To sundown, you call it sun night. To midnight, you call it Monday night. So it goes sun night until Sunday and then back to sun night. Yeah, exactly. And then it's Monday night until Monday and then back to Monday night. Yeah, it's not confusing until monday and then back to mon night yeah it's not

confusing when you say it like that you're right it would make you know what it would make so much easier so is uh the calendar application on my goddamn phone i cal i cal uh go see i cal hey there's gonna be a new uh iphone come oh wait you know what? We'll get to that. We'll get to that. But there was a big, SNL had a big campaign of, hey, send to us on social media. Yeah. And you know, I have to say social media,

everyone's staring at their phones. It's kind of making us antisocial. Yeah, exactly. Everyone's thinking like, oh, we're so connected now. The world is getting smaller. You know what I think? I think the world's getting more and more,

people are getting more and more far apart. I do. Everybody's looking at these little graves in their hands. Excuse me for calling them graves, but I think that it's sucking the life right out of us. I mean, are we really better off? Who knows? Who knows?

I'm starting to think, no, we're not. Anyway, I don't mean to get off on a tangent. Me neither. We're talking about a tangent. I'm getting off on a rant over here. Oh, my gosh. New rules. You're just going to join in on the music?

I thought you were going to go into a new rule or something. Okay, new rules. From now on, when you tell me there's an email in my inbox, please give me a little warning if it says penis enlargement before I open my mail application. Give you a warning

if it says penis enlargement? Yeah, that's what I want. Good rule. But no, SNL had a big thing of tweet us, Tumblr us, Facebook us. Hey, we'll take MySpace. Maybe some Friendster if you got it. MySpace.

What's that? I didn't say MySpace. Yeah, you did. No, I did not. Rewind the tape. MySpace. See? I guess I did.

I guess I did. Weird. I guess I did. I guess I did. Weird. But please contact us here at Saturday Night Live with your suggestions for hosts for this, our 40th year, as well as musical guests. You know the first person I thought of when Don Bardo passed away?

Who? You. It was so fucking sad. And by the way, we kid around, but Joan Rivers, that was very sad. You know, I just did her show like three weeks ago. You did the In Bed With Joan? Yeah. Fuck.

You know what? I was going to do that in January or February, and I didn't have anything to really promote, so I just thought, you know what? I was going to do that in January or February, and I didn't have anything to really promote. So I just thought, you know what? I'll do it at the end of the year when I have something. And so I put it off, and now I just really regret it because I actually asked if I could do the show, and then by the time they were shooting again, I didn't have anything. So I'm so bummed that I didn't get to do it. Well, that's a good lesson for us all.

I mean, don't put stuff like that off. so how was it was it awesome it was great she was look i respect her uh i think she's great i treated her with a lot of reverence she in turn was very nice to me and everyone said that she took a spark to me oh and uh really liked what i was talking about um i haven't watched the episode because the day it came out, I looked at the YouTube link and I saw the very first comment was, boy, this guy is boring. She sure needed to stretch to find anything interesting about him. And I went, oh, well, maybe I didn't do a good job.

And then I heard from like countless people like, wow, that was really, really funny. So maybe it's funny. Maybe that one dude's right. I have no idea. But she was great. She was- I'm gonna go with the YouTube commenter on this one.

Hey, I don't blame you. Judging by your long monologue about your first impressions. Anyway, I think that she was fucking awesome. And I'm- She she was great i'm so bummed that i didn't do that but was it fun you actually get into bed with her you get into bed you actually went out to it was either her house or melissa's house i'm not sure i think it was melissa's melissa's okay they take what's the address uh yeah one one two two boogieogie Avenue. Up your butt with a coconut. Up your butt. With a Connecticut, I'm sorry.

Connecticut. And what's the zip code? 69696.9. And did you say it was Beaver Lane? Yeah, I did. And what's the, is it Vagina Sucasa? I don't know what's going on. Well, back to musical guest, a flying horse.

Is that the name of a band? No, he's literally talking about one flying horse. What? What's the name of that band? The Kisses? Oh, yeah. Let's say, hey, flying horse. What? What's the name of that band? The Kisses? Oh, yeah. Let's say, hey, let's- Musical guest.

The Vicious Kisses. Yeah, R.I.P. Don Pardo. We've been talking about it for a couple of weeks on Comedy Bang Bang. Oh, yeah. But a super talent. Yeah. Amazing. What a career.

Didn't he record a lot of those in his house in arizona he did recently from what i understand i have no actual knowledge of it other than it's just such a bummer what are they gonna do well you know and if you don't if you already listen to comedy bang bang i apologize for repeating it but we were saying that he's recorded 40 years of names right snl should just cast people with those names already. Right. And they can be any combination. I mean, from hosts to musical guests.

I wonder if the combination Scott Aukerman is in there somewhere. Somewhere. I mean, he's probably said Scott somewhere. So you're covered. You know he said Adam. Really? When Adam Baldwin hosted. That's right.

That was a great app. That was a great app. Do you remember when Francis Ford Coppola directed an episode? No, he did? George Wendt was the host. George Wendt! And directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Really?

Yes. With Seth and Amy? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he came out. I remember he came out and the camera angle was like way down below George Wentz. So you're like looking up at him and it was in black and white. That's a good view.

It was really beautiful. That's the way to look at that man. No, but I think, you know, just if you're out there and you have a name that's been said on that show, I mean, I think you're in. That's actually a good idea. You know, like if your name is Nazeem Red Hot Chili Peppers, you're in. There you go. That's good. Carmen Sands.

Carmen the band, of course not carmen miranda anyway but there was a big writing campaign of hey who would you like to be on the show and a lot of fans out there uh sent and it's a picture of and it says like next week and then it says the host and the musical guest. And it said, a lot of people sent this picture to SNL. Host, Adam Scott, musical guest, you too. So that's really cool that people were. Yeah. And there was a grassroots sort of call for that. I don't know if I saw that. You don't know if you saw it?

Oh, it was everywhere. Hundreds of people sent it. Oh, that's nice. So I don't know if you saw that. You don't know if you saw it? Oh, it was everywhere. Hundreds of people sent it. Oh, that's nice. So I don't know if you got the call. I hate to put you on the spot. You know who's hosting the season premiere? Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt.

Did he take Bill Murray's place, I read? I don't know. Bill Murray was, they put out a press release saying Bill Murray was hosting the season premiere for the first time since 1999. And then almost immediately they took it down and said, Chris Pratt!

He hasn't hosted since 1999? That's what I just said. Well, you said the season premiere for the first time since 1999. That's true. I guess you could get confused. We're like, oh, he hasn't hosted a season premiere since 1999. You'd have to be a fucking idiot. Well, so he hosted

for the promotional duties for Rushmore, I believe. Everybody's gonna be happy. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Yeah, so Pratt, that's awesome. But when are you, have you gotten the call? Has U2 scheduled their date? What's going on? U2.

U2. It's weird that Bono didn't mention it in that letter he wrote. They reached out to me and I reached back and so we're just reaching back and forth trying to figure out. Kind of a reach around situation.

I want you to do this. Well. When are you going to be in like a Chris Pratt thing like that guardians of the galaxy a marvel movie yeah i mean rudd's in one pratt's in one pratt's um was so great in that movie so great did you see it um i'm gonna wait till video you're gonna wait till it's on tv yeah gonna wait till it's on ktla sat Saturday Night Movie. Literally in nine years, you'll see it. No, it was great.

Yeah, he was awesome. So good. Yeah. Tell him to do my show. Has he never done- We've been waiting around. We've been trying to schedule it. Give him a push.

Yeah, sure. Give him a push. I do want to check in with one last thing before we have to take a break. Okay. Where are you at with Harry Potter? Oh, uh, actually about three quarters of the way through the third book. Mm, my favorite one. Is it?

Yes. It's really good. Mm-hmm. I'm enjoying it tremendously. It's scarier. It's much more, like I'm feeling like- Boo! That's pretty scary, what i just did yeah i'm feeling like um maybe we take a break for a couple of years before going to the fourth because

it's starting to get too scary for them for my son yeah because he's eight he's about he's almost eight and the kids are now like 14 so i feel like we should probably wait and let them catch up are they start off in sixth grade so they this would be sixth grade seventh grade eighth grade yeah so i think harry is 13 in this book yeah i you know what i although kids like to read at a level above them about five years for sure but i would say i would say see you later Cody engineer Cody Cody just laughed just took off what is this boring

now it's just you and I in this okay now there's just you and me okay yeah let's talk about this what the fuck is going on with Cody what the fuck is up with Cody

I don't I don't know I don't get it I don't me neither it's like he's sitting there like he's on the controls like he's in control

of everything or something it's like hey man I don like he's on the controls like he's in control of everything or something man i don't need judge judy sitting here at the end of the room saying don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining right oh you got you got yourself a wooden leg oh really why don't i start a fire and see how much you like dancing on the flames wait a minute she has a wooden leg judge judy yeah yeah she has a wooden leg she has two wooden legs she has two of them yeah where she keep them she keeps them uh and you have you have you ever watched judge judy i mean yeah she's sitting down during most of it as i recall before she sits down she walks in and the bailiff opens that briefcase and she takes out two legs, throws them on.

Whoop-psh, whoop-psh. Yep. Wow. Amazing. I have not seen that. That's pretty crazy. And then the bailiff goes, Judge,

the plaintiff and the accuser are ready. She goes, Why don't you lick my pussy? Why don't you lick my pussy? Oh, I wonder when Cody's going to come back. But yeah, Harry Potter is going well, and that's great. I mean, yeah, this book's really good.

But yeah, the fourth on— The Prisoner of Azkaban. Azkaban. Azkaban. Azkaban. Azkaban. Azkaban. Azkaban. Azkaban. Prisoner of Azkaban. Aznacaban. The prisoner of Azkaban.

The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban? The Prisoner of Azkaban? The Prisoner of Azkaban? The Prisoner of Azkaban? The Prisoner of Azkaban? The, uh, mm, the, uh, the, uh, the Prisoner of, uh, of, uh, Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban.

Oh, the prisoner of Azkaban, jolly good. The prisoner of Azkaban. Oh, the prisoner of Azkaban. Oh, the prisoner of Azkaban. Oh, the prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban.

The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. The prisoner of Azkaban. Prisoner of Azkaban. Prisoner of Azkaban. I think that's enough.

Okay. Okay. We have to take a break. When we come back, we are going to be talking all you two all the time. We will be right back with you talking you two to me. hey everyone scott ackerman here and i want to let everyone know that my ex-girlfriend kulop who i had to break up with her in order to marry her. She is in the final days of her Indiegogo campaign to complete her documentary, Origin Story. This is a really wonderful film, and there's some great perks that you can get on the Indiegogo campaign.

We just lowered the amount of money that you have to put in in order to be on Comedy Bang Bang and say a line. You'll get paid to be on the show as well. You'll probably even get some sweet zids, residuals. And that has gone down to five grand. And, you know, maybe it's gone by now. Maybe it's not. But snap it up.

There's a lot of other great stuff uh lunch with kulop and june diane raphael and uh sitting in on and how did this get made session all sorts of stuff you can go find it at origin story doc.com the doc doesn't stand for doctor welcome back to you talking you too to me we are talking you too exclusively on this show and you can tell because we are playing a you too song currently yeah that's how committed we are. By the way, I want to thank Bernard Shakey. Bernard Shakey made a pretty cool cover for this podcast. He was assuming it would come out, and I don't know if you saw this, Adam,

but I'm going to show it to you. This was the cover art he made for the podcast. Wow. That's really cool. It is a sort of take on the new U2 record cover, which is a white label cover. The U2 cover has U2 just stamped on a white label, but he made it so it was stamped U2TM.

That's awesome. And then instead of, instead of, what does it say? CD, where is it? No, it says LP in a circle written on it. He put EP 17, EP 17. Yes, U2,

we're talking about them this episode because they put out a record, Songs of Incontinence, yesterday. Innocence. What's this? Songs of Innocence. What? Yeah, Songs of Innocence. Wait, what?

It's not Songs of Incontinence. It's Songs of Innocence, Scott. Yeah. You must have thought that was an insane title for the album. I kind of thought it was. I mean, it's strange, definitely. I mean, you're right. Yeah.

Innocence. Innocence. Oh, my gosh. Okay. i guess i gotta re-examine this record by the way speaking of weird titles um do you mind if i read these tweets from you or not tweets these texts from you that you sent all right you look at those i wanted to post these but i wanted to ask you if we could first these but I wanted to ask you if we could first when was this it was a while ago it's very funny sure all right here we go so Adam texts me when was that? It was a little while ago, but not too long ago.

But Adam texts me, how crazy would it be if you two named their new album Finger in My Pussy? And I wrote, I think there's a 99% chance they might. And then you wrote, I don't think they will. I said, you need to have hope. You wrote, fuck you. And I said, hey, don't shoot the messenger. And you wrote, you're right, sorry, bro. And I said, phew, that was a close one.

You said, sure was, Holly weird, right? And I said, I prefer Holly wild. And you said, ha ha, you said it, not me. And I said, well, I typed it. And you said, that's what I meant, you fucker. And I wrote back in all caps fuck you so yeah we have fun we spent some time doing that was almost like a mini up of the podcast when when was that i don't know you can't how many times are you gonna ask me all right

look at the date stamp. That was... It doesn't say. It literally does not say. Oh, wait, wait, wait. August 2. Aug 2. Aug 2. And you know what's right above it?

Did you see those? Those pics. We texted each other. That's why we were texting. We sent each other pics. We finally got our pics. We finally got our pics of um ourselves and our wives with uh president obama and michelle obama uh just these insane picks i haven't posted mine to any kind of social media have you kept yours private yeah they're they're

private pics but uh kulap looks as she put it insane and uh we were all freaked out we were freaking out and we were recording a mini-ep of the podcast right before those seconds before these pics were taken uh speaking of mini-eps i think it's time for a mini-ep of i love films up of I Love Films. All right, Adam, what have you seen since June? Are you going to introduce the podcast? Oh, sorry. Hey, welcome to another episode of I Love Films. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we're talking about films here, and we're talking about good films. Scott, can I interrupt you for a second? Hey, I wasn't talking anymore, but feel free to talk. I just want to say I love films. You know what?

I love them too. I love them! Me too. I just love watching them. You know what? I think that as many frames as you can fit in per second, I'll watch them. Whatever it is.

Hey. 50, 100, I don't care. I don't give a shit. 3,000 frames? Sure. Give them to me! Great. I'll watch them. Whatever it is. Hey. 50, 100, I don't care. I don't give a shit. 3,000 frames? Sure. Give them to me. Great. I'll take them.

Take them. I'll eat them up like a breakfast omelette. Scott, have you seen any films lately? Well, to be honest, I don't care much for the summer fair.

Oh, the big blockbusters and such. Hey, pew, pew pew pew pew you know what i'm not interested in robots thank you big explosions and stuff no thank you you know every once in a while i like a good popcorn movie i'm not gonna lie i mean i like popcorn i like sitting down in a theater throwing back some corn and uh and having a good laugh or maybe even, you know, seeing some stuff blow up, maybe a car chase or two. Yeah, maybe like a big robot trying to look for the all spark. But by the end of the summer, I'm just like, enough. Enough already.

I've seen every single movie that's come out. Bring on some stories about people. Yes. You know? Thank you. People fighting aliens and robots. Exactly. Yes! Thank you, people fighting aliens and robots. Exactly. Yes.

I want movies about people chasing other people, shooting at them with guns, and jumping off of buildings and landing on

a moving airplane and going up and pulling out more guns and blowing shit up. make some of those guns laser guns. Laser guns.

Thank you, Hollywood Studios. Oh, boy. Anyway, this has been an episode of I Love Films. Okay. Good ep. Great ep. Great bit. Wait, is it time for an episode of great bits

I think so ah that was a good bit yeah great bit do we end it? I guess so. All right.

Okay. Great bit. Great bit. Great bit. So, yeah. Were you watching the Apple conference live? You know I was because we were texting each other. But I didn't know you were.

Well, no. I asked you if you were. So, I guess I didn't say I am. Okay, yeah. So, yeah, I was. Like I said, yesterday, Tuesday, I barely had anything going on. It was the day before we started shooting, and I had sort of an off day, even though I went into work for three hours.

Yeah, boy. But I barely had anything to do, and it just fit right in that slot of time in between when I had to go to work. And right before it, I was just pumping iron. Yeah. Just like bench pressing. Pushing out a set or two. Whoops. Whoops.

Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Oh, look at these. I was – were you talking about your muscles? These? Yeah at these. I was... Were you talking about your muscles? These? Yeah, these.

I was on the plane. That's a weightlifter character that I'm doing. Ooh, look at these. I was on a plane, and I got the Wi-Fi on the plane. You know, every once in a while on the plane, they'll have Wi-Fi? Every once in a rare while. So you can connect. Wirelessly. You're 3,000 feet up in the air, and you can connect on the plane they'll have wi-fi every once in a rare while so you can connect uh you're three thousand feet up in the air and you can connect on the internet remember when you were

on a plane you used to have to plug in a plug in order to get back in the 60s to get the internet to get the internet you were in the aviator you remember yeah yeah in the 1940s in order to get internet service that's exactly right you had to plug it right into your computer. Plug it in, plug it in. So I was trying to get the Apple thing. And so I would get like four seconds at a time of the conference. Well, I got to tell you, that's about all most people got. Yeah, it wasn't great.

It was not great. Let's talk about it. Okay, what happened was yesterday, Tuesday, Apple, who make products like... The iPhone. Yeah, the iPad. The I don't know anymore. Exactly. So many devices, so little time.

I don't get it. It's like a maxi iPod or mini iPad. Like, when do they Benjamin Button and meet in the middle? Exactly. ipad like what's you know when do they benjamin button and meet in the middle exactly anyway but they had a big conference and rumors were abound that you two were playing we had heard these rumors about a week in advance and we said we checked in with each other and said hey something's happening with you two yeah we need to watch this thing we need to be ready to record yeah um so i was watching it live we figured they were gonna release their single and then like announce a date for their album also there was talk that

the album would be pre-loaded onto every new iphone so that's kind of what i thought was gonna happen was like a week from now or two weeks from now whenever the new iphones come out then we would hear the new record yeah or there would be like an app you could download. There's an app for that. And that would have the album on it, like Jay-Z did. Like Jay-Z did. But I quite frankly was semi-flabbergasted that they released the whole thing right then. Right.

I was not ready for it. And for free. And for free. But let's talk about exactly what happened because uh maybe people weren't following it so uh people came out they talked about the new iphones then they talked about these watches that they're trying to sell these apple watches what do you think about this the watches the watches i want one you do want one yeah i kind of want one just because i'm like i want to show off that i'm like a rich asshole right yeah yeah yeah good maybe one for both wrists yeah i want i want to make them kiss

i want 12 for each arm but i do i i think it's it's uh it it's cool i i think it looked like a cool little thing i want what i can't figure out like, what does it do that your phone doesn't do? Nothing, right? Right, but we said the same thing about the iPad and now I use it every single day and I love it more than anything

in the world. Even your children? Yes. Wow. That's saying something. No, but that's the way everyone feels

about their iPad and their children. Yes. Yeah. So, okay, so then they talked about this and then all of a sudden

Tim Cook, who who you know what it's like change your name i think you're a cook right every time every time they say tim cook i'm like oh yeah i'm getting hungry can i get some lasagna please uh hey uh eggs medium please yeah oh hamburgers yeah that does sound good yeah thanks, thanks, Tim Cook. It's like, I can't eat an iPhone. No. Although, gosh darn it, I have tried. And sometimes if I get a photograph of food on my iPhone, it's so realistic looking because the camera's so damn good.

I try to bite it, and hey, it's just a piece of, it's a little computer in my mouth. I've broken all of my teeth trying to eat my iPhone. Every single tooth. Every single tooth. Did you try to sue tim cook i did me too like hey pal change your name or else i'm gonna sue you yep my dad's a lawyer he ignored me he did yeah um but this guy comes out and he goes hey um well we got something else going on, and people are setting up instruments behind him. Oh, by the way, before that, the live stream's terrible.

Okay. If you're watching it live, it's awful. Because I was on the plane, so I couldn't. Okay, I don't know if they fixed it from the recorded version that you watched, but every probably 10 seconds, it went out and went to color bars. Why the fuck was that happening? It was crazy. It was nuts. They started it.

The guy walked out on stage. Tim Cook walks out on stage. Color bars. You got to refresh. Then all of a sudden it's like access denied. They had no servers. I don't know what was happening. And then, not only that, anytime you were watching for the first 45 minutes, it's incredible.

There is a woman speaking loud Cantonese over the entire thing. Oh, I heard about that. Yeah. Yeah. Was that in the recorded version that you saw or did they get rid of it? No, it's all gone. You can watch the whole thing now. About halfway through, all of a sudden, someone went, hey, maybe we should check in on reaction to this live stream we're giving.

And someone went, oh, everyone can still hear the Cantonese? So at the end, by the time U2 came out, was it still... It was fixed, actually, by then. So there was no Cantonese and there was no color parts. No Cantonese and the live stream was good. Right. Whatever they did, whatever switches they flipped, you know, they finally did it. So everything was... It's all tape.

It's all tapes. Yeah. Roll wings. Reel to reels. Yep. So they say, hey, ladies and gentlemen... I don't know if he said ladies and gentlemen. Maybe. Maybe he did. Yep. So they say, hey, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know if he said ladies and gentlemen. Maybe. Maybe he did.

Would have been polite, quite honestly, if he had. Welcome, you two. I don't think he said playing their new singler. He just said, you two is here

or something to help us. Yeah, he said 10 years ago, he referenced the Vertigo commercial from 10 years ago. The Vertigo iPod. Yeah, and said-

My favorite iPod. And he said, ladies and gentlemen, U2 or something like that. U2. Okay, U2 comes out and we hear the sounds of their new single, which sounds like this. Now, I remember on the plane, I got the last, it was like the last minute of the song, I just heard this part, the, oh, wow. And I was like, wow, that sounds crazy. And then it stopped. I got like four seconds of it.

Yeah, I, what was your impression of the performance? This is the first time we're hearing this new song, right? Had you heard the new song when you went back and watched it? Had you listened to the, you'd listen to the record. I listened to the album. So,

so you and I had very different experiences because I was hearing the song for the first time and hearing it in a live setting. Yeah. So what did you think? I was underwhelmed. Uh huh. I didn't, I, I thought it was,

I thought it was kind of shruggable uh-huh i thought it was um it didn't sound that great to me it sounded just kind you know what it doesn't sound bad it sounded just kind of plain like right rock music yeah rock music right rock music um it's it was just okay. And I kind of went, well, I'm not crazy about it. Like if that's all it was, if we were just getting a single again.

And if we were just getting that performance of the single, it kind of would have been like, well, I don't know what to think. But even if it was like, okay, now the single's available on iTunes. Like they did with Invisible. Right. You'd be like,

okay, I'll download it, but you wouldn't have been super psyched. I wouldn't have been psyched. I got to say Invisible, I think is a way better song. Still? I love, we haven't talked about this. I walk around singing Invisible all the time.

Yeah, me too. It's been, actually, I've been listening to it lately, and I think it's great too. It is such a good melody. I sing it all the time. It's one of those things that I just find eminently hummable. But I have to say, today I listened to Miracle a bunch of times, and now I'm humming this new song. It's really good.

It is really good, but what is it about it? And I know we're getting into talking about the album, but that's okay. What is it about it that is not good, like gives you a not good feeling? I don't know. That four-second i hear because here's what what happened to me the plane we were starting to come in for a landing yeah and i ladies and gentlemen we are approaching los angeles weather is pretty clear 33 degrees we uh so uh 73 degrees we're uh coming in uh i really appreciate you flying with us

excuse me who are you oh i'm captain stubing who are you captain stubing that's my name what's your name yeah i'm captain pussy fart and I am the captain of this... That's impossible. I'm sitting here. I don't... I'm sitting here. I have a co-pilot. Hey. Oh, you're to my right. How's it going?

Hi, are you Captain Stubing? Yeah, are you Captain Pussyfart? I'm Captain Pussyfart. Are you Captain Stubing? I am Captain Stubing. I used to work on a boat, and now I'm flying a plane. Oh, that's a good story. Well, thanks for being on a boat. Now I'm flying a plane. That's a good story. Well, thanks for being on my plane.

No problem. Oh, no. We forgot we're landing. So, yeah, you're on this plane. Was that an episode of Good Bits? I think that was an episode of Great Bits. Oh, Great Bits? Great. So, I hear that like four episode of Great Bits. Oh, Great Bits? Great.

So I hear that like four seconds. And it was that kind of chorus part with the, oh. Yeah, let's hear it again. And there was something like so familiar about it that I was, my immediate reaction was, oh, that's all they're doing? It didn't sound like a new sound or anything. But I think for them, it's a good choice for just a first impression for the general public. As far as the sound goes, it's great.

You know what? The more I listen, and I listened to it on a big stereo yesterday. There's a lot of really cool nuance in it. Yeah. I think. Which is really cool. Especially the studio version. Yeah, the studio version.

Something about it seems like a big, dumb rock song to me. I don't know. For sure. I don't know. But not in the way that Vertigo was. Vertigo was like, this is a stupid song. They were just like basically shaking you and going, we're doing something stupid right now.

This is just more like, I like the lyrics a lot. Yeah, me too. We're talking about, of course, the song The Miracle, and the parenthetical is Of Joey Ramone. The Miracle of Joey Ramone is the song title. And what he's talking about is he's talking about when he and the Edge were kids, basically 12, 13, somewhere around that. They heard –

And Larry Mullen Jr. Was Larry there as well? Yeah, the four of them went to see the Ramone. Larry Mullen Sr.'s son? Yeah, Larry Mullen Jr. was the drummer. Wait, by the way, we need to go into the names. We haven't talked about this. We have Bonobos is the lead singer.

Bonobos. We have Fedge. Fedge. He plays guitar. In U2? In U2. Okay.? Yeah. In U2. Uh-huh. Okay.

We have Larry Mullen Sr.'s son. Yes. He's the drummer in, wait a second, U2. U2. And then we have Adam Clay, 2,000 pounds. And he, let me check here for a sec. He plays bass guitar in... bass get fiddle the band one second uh you too you too okay so we got the members so they're and all four of those guys are in the band one second One second here. You.

Sorry, one sec. Two. You two. You two. Yeah, they're all in the band. Are they original members or are they still in it? One second. Bono. Bono.

Bose. Bono Bose is the lead singer. Let's see here. Fedge. Guitar. Adam Clay, 2,000 pounds. is the lead singer let's see here uh veg guitar and adam clay 2000 pounds uh bass guitar and uh larry mullin senior uh son drums one second please sorry uh yeah original members of uh you one second uh sorry two you two the band yeah yeah okay so there are the members by the way here's the breakdown i want to turn it up just a little bit see this is good they're doing like an adam and the ants kind of thing here and queen too

i think it's a good melody, too. And I kind of respect them for pushing it as a single because it's a real grower as far as the melody goes. Yeah. Oh, but we were saying what it's about. It's about those three guys. Four guys. Oh, well, all four of them were at this gig?

Yeah. Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Clayton, The Edge, and Vaughn. So they snuck into this Ramone show when they were young. They didn't know what they wanted to do. And the song is basically about how thunderstruck they all were of like, oh, that's how you do it. Yeah. And what I like about it is if you told me a week ago that, hey, the new U2 song is called The Miracle of Joey Ramone. Right. I would have said, ugh. Right.

No. Right. Because it would have sounded to me like other songs that they've put out where it's like Bono comes up with a subject and tries to do almost like a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech. Yeah. to do almost like a rock and roll hall of fame induction speech where just like he tries to say what what joey ramone means to the world and what he accomplished and this is just like it's a very personal story of hey we went to go see this guy and it made me really reevaluate reevaluate reevaluate what the fuck am i trying are you? Are you all right? Bertation. Re-eval. A worthy up.

A worthy up. Cody, do you have the defibrillator? A worthy up. A worthy up. Okay, hold on. Lie him down. Lie him down. A worthy up.

A worthy up. You didn't say clear. Are you all right? Oh, sorry. Cody, are you all right? It's too late. Cody, are you all right? No. It's too late. Cody's down.

Cody, defibrillate him. Here we go. You didn't say clear. Oh, no. Adam's down. Cody, defibrillate him. Clear? Cody. Great bit. Great bit. clear cody great bit great bit that truly was an episode of great bits um no but it's it's just very personal it's very personal it's just about how he re-evaluated his

life yeah and how much of his life has been really great because of that one chance day that they went to go see there's a lyric in there about like i've gotten so many things i don't deserve which i think is cool and i think that this is a narrow um scope of the subject of what they're singing about it's just infused with so much energy from all of them. And it's something that I feel runs through the whole album of just, it's just injected with so much energy. I think energy equals MC squared, as far as I'm concerned. But it's something immediately, the whole album,

it's like I now realize what was missing from the last album which is just i mean the last album now sounds like it was made by like computers 70 year olds right or something like this is there's so much life in this album right we'll talk about the whole album um but this song is a great kickoff i think and yeah it it didn't sound like it when they played and it didn't sound that great i think i think yeah i think the live version of it leaves for some reason it left something to be desired i don't know why but they played it and then tim cook came out and i don't know whether this was in the version you saw the edited version but he came out and he goes over to theg and he goes man you guys are fucking great no he

said freaking great really he did on the one i watched with seth and amy wait really with seth and amy do you ever say that to amy all the time that's great all the time that's great uh no he said freaking i don't know which is much more like Apple executive. I look, yeah, that's true. I did look it up though. And there were several blogs saying he said fucking. So I don't know. We'll never know.

But I did. I like to think that he's just this dude who's on one of the biggest events of his career where he's got to sell these watches and he's out there just going, you guys are fucking great. Um, and then he and bono started this yeah this thing like this bit it was it was an episode of great bits by the way it was yeah it really was and uh did they play the themes the great bits they never played it but they they needed to where they started talking he's like wasn't that a great single everybody wasn't that the best

single you've ever heard yeah everyone cheers and then he says i wish we could get a whole album of that and then bono says oh well we got one bro yeah he was like we everyone's saying we haven't made an album in so long the the thing is we've made several we just haven't released them he goes and then tim cook goes well can we put it out yeah and bono said uh hey you know what you have so many itunes subscribers i think is it 500 million million okay you have 500 million itunes subscribers wouldn't it be great if you sent it to every single one yeah tim cook goes, it would have to be for free. Yeah. And Bono then,

which I think he went off script. What do you think about this? But he goes, Yeah. He goes, you have to pay us. You have to pay us for it. Because I'm not into this whole music is free thing.

Which I feel like it's a weird time to get that in there. But I think, and I've seen him say it in a few interviews since i think it's an important distinction for him saying hey we're not devaluing our music saying we're just giving it to whoever wants it like they're paying it it is interesting that he's made that point a few times and i think it's commendable that he has because i think he's also saying let's not just start assuming that everyone needs to give their music away he's made a point of saying apple paid us for this because they're you know people who aren't as successful as you two that need to sell their

music to make a living look i mean not only make a living but i think you two out of anyone probably spent millions on this record i mean they fuck around more than anyone in the studio yeah i think like a smaller band studios are expensive but a smaller band can you know put out a record for 25 grand or something you two probably spent millions but i want to ask you about this how much do you think they actually paid the number probably will come out. I was wondering that too. Because look, here are the numbers. If they just put out the record and people actually paid for it, which a lot of people don't, first week sales are maybe $150,000.

Probably something like that. Something like that. Because I think No Lie on the Horizon was like $300,000 and you can assume that it would be cut in half because people just don't buy music as much anymore. But also you think about – Apple had to project like how much money would this album make if it came out. Let's assume worldwide it would sell $4 million. Because what did No Lie on the Horizon? $5 million worldwide, and that was a flop. I will look that up. $4 million, $4 million. Because what did No Line on the Horizon? $5 million worldwide, and that was a flop.

I will look that up. $4 million, $5 million? It was $1.1 million in the U.S. But yeah, you're right. Worldwide, they'd have to think about that. But there's other things to factor in. I would imagine it was part of a larger deal. Like they and U2 are now in like, it sounds like they're in a deal for a few years.

Yeah. Okay. So here's what I wanted to really, really talk about. Okay. So they can't just be like, oh, we'll pay you whatever you would have made off this record. Because basically they're doing so much promotion for U2. Right. U2 should be paying them in a way.

Right. Like they put out this big U2 basically commercial. Right. They paid for it. Commercials are very expensive. Right. U2 should be paying them in a way. Right. Like they put out this big U2 basically commercial. Right. They paid for it. Commercials are very expensive. Right. It's like a video.

Right. And they're airing it on the air all the time of like, hey, new U2 record, new U2 record, which is basically

an advertisement for go see U2 when they come out. Right. It's an advertisement for like U2, the brand. So in a way,

Apple's like paying for all of that and bankrolling the new U2 thing. In the same way, I think the Bank of America bankrolled the Invisible song to the tune of $2 million. So I don't think that they paid them like market value on the record because they're paying so much more. And what does U2 basically give them? U2 gives them a little bit of street cred well i think also you two is going to add because beats is another thing like the album's going to be on beats uh music what do you like beats the the vegetable right okay um so they're kind of they're going to be i mean i think you two is just going to be integrated into itunes and Apple products over the next couple of years. So.

Which is, seems like it benefits U2 more than it benefits Apple. I don't know. I mean, maybe it brings more people to, I would just assume, I don't know. I don't know. I would just assume. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe people are buying.

Because when they did the iPod, the Vertigo iPod 10 years ago, that brought a lot of people to go buy the iPod. People were like, ooh, this iPod is cool. Yeah. I don't think Apple needs U2 anymore. I don't know. So I wonder what the economics are. Yeah. I don't know.

But I don't know. What do you think about? Because then they explained that the album, they're like in five seconds. In five seconds, everyone's going to get it. And I'm there at home like live going. So what did you do? I went to, they said everyone will have it in their library in five seconds. So I first went to my library under U2. Yeah.

Was not there. Right. I then went to the iTunes store, nowhere to be found. Right. And I started going, well, where is it? Yeah.

You said five seconds, everyone's going to have it and they should have explained a little better. I still think they should explain it better. Why don't you and I do it? Because here's what you need to do.

You need to go into purchased. You need to go to the iTunes library under purchased and it's just sitting there for free and you need to just click on the thing that downloads it. Unless you have a thing that automatically downloads purchased stuff. Right, unless you've checked that box, which I did. Okay, great.

But still, the plane landed, and I saw that the album was released for free, so I just go to iTunes and searched U2, and there the album was. It wasn't up for like a good half an hour, hour or something like that. Right. It wasn't. I had to search U2. Right. Found it, downloaded it. I was searching U2, and it wasn't up there when they first said it was.

Yeah. Because I didn't know yet about the – I thought it was just up on iTunes for free. I didn't know they were already putting it in everyone's library. Which we should talk about for a second, putting it in everyone's library, which we should talk about for a second. Putting it in everyone's library? Yeah. She said that. Hey, I want to put this in your library.

She said that, bro. Who said that? Sotomayor. She did? So how do you feel about that? Because a lot of people are like, that's so spooky. It's so weird. What do you think about that?

About just putting it into everyone's library well andy richter had a funny tweet today of they should have called the album spam which is it it's like something in your spam filter right uh or folder i mean it's i thought it was just perfect it's the perfect you it's the most you two thing they could have done really is really is. It's so U2. Yeah, we've talked about it. It's the pushiest thing they could have done. And they were just like, they said, it's the biggest album release in history. 500 million people have the record. And Bono was like, we want everyone to hear this record.

It's so U2. We've talked about it on this show about what is their obsession now with we have to break records we have to do things bigger than anyone has ever done it before i and they did something that none of us ever even imagined someone would do which is insert their album into 500 million people's lives whether they want it or not whether they want it or not i just thought it was i just think it's brilliant and it's it's like oh of course they would figure out because it's like okay their last album didn't do that well they were on a two year tour which is the biggest tour of all time going out there every night and they would play

by the end of the tour they're only playing like three of their new songs a night and no one gave a shit and they were probably like this we can't let that happen we can't there is nothing that we can yeah we whatever we have to do we just can't and so that's never happen again so we need to give a half a billion people our album and make sure they give a shit about this do you think the invisible single was their first attempt at that of like okay let's get bank of america to give it away for free right uh for two million dollars right anyone can download it for free and it's stiffed kind of it's stiffed well it just didn't become a thing it didn't become a thing yeah so i mean i think that they looked at that and went whoa because i think they were about

to release the record then and that maybe that didn't become a thing and they went fuck i wonder how different the record would have been back then well we do because ryan tedder hadn't tink tinkered with it yet. Yeah. Ryan Tinker hadn't tinkled all over it. Um, we, I mean, I do want to talk about that a little bit because, um, uh,

there, there supposedly is a new record out there that that's supposed to come songs of experience, songs of experience. This one is songs of incontinence. No, it's, it's, wait, let me check my files innocence really yeah it's songs of innocence that's a totally different record songs of incontinence is it doesn't exist all right well he um he he put out a letter on YouTube.com. And first of all, here is just proof, absolute fucking proof that he listens to this show.

Because. Who? Bono. Oh, okay. That he listens to our show. Let's read this. He says, hello, remember us. Pleased to announce myself, Edge, Adam, and Larry have finally given birth to our new baby, Songs of Innocence.

It's been a while. Oh, yeah. He said that. He says that in his thing. That's code to us, man. Yes, it is. It's a direct message to you and I. Bono, we're listening.

We're here. I can't believe you didn't mention T-shirts in that thing. What the fuck is going on with the T-shirts? Why? Where are they? But he says at the end of this big long thing about what he's doing and we're not sure free music is really that free. It comes at a cost to the art form and the artist, which has big implications. So he makes it clear that Apple bought it as a gift for all of us,

and that they're going to be doing cool stuff with Apple over the next few years. And then he says, stay with us for songs of experience. It should be ready soon enough, although I know I've said that before. So he's hyping a new record, which he's done a lot of companion records. They did the same thing when No Lie on the Horizon came out. Yeah, he's like, oh, no, no, a new record's coming out after this, which never came to pass. Right.

But I think it might be true. Yeah, maybe. I mean, he's been talking about there being two records since earlier this year. Because I think, and we haven't talked, you know what? Let's take a break. When we come back, we will go a little more into- Let's go track by track. Let's go track by track.

Before we, can we just tease for a second? Overall, what's your feeling about this album? I want to do it after the break. Okay. Let's do it on the other side. When we come back, we will go into Songs of Incontinence. Hey, everybody. Scott Aukerman here again. And just want to let you know that season three of Comedy Bang Bang is starting back up again on your TV screens October 17th.

October 17th. We have some great guests this year for these 10 episodes. We already just actually released the people in the musical world who are going to be on the show. We have Wayne coin of the flaming lips is on our Halloween show, which airs Halloween night. We have future islands. We have the national is on our season premiere on October 17th.

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get ready to get some comedy bang bang in your eye holes and your ear holes and quite frankly your butt holes welcome back you talking U2 to me. This is Scott. Scott is across the table from me. This is Scott. Reunited.

Feels so good. It does. I can't believe this, actually. I can't believe they put out that album. You did. And you know what? Everyone's saying you called it. Yeah, kind of. of i mean sort of i mean you basically read something on a website that said that they

would probably pull a beyonce no no that was an organic thought that i thought maybe they would go there but you know what actually really happened that way my dick my dick is organic um you did call it, though. I got to give it up to you. You said they were going to pull a Beyonce and just all of a sudden put out a record, and it came to pass. But then they did something so far and up. Even crazier by giving it away for free and just putting it into everyone's phone and computer. Hey, bro, check your pewds.

It's there. Check your pheon. into everyone's phone and computer. Hey, bro, check your pewds. It's there. Check your fjorn. Check your pewds. I just can't. It's so, it's still not, I haven't completely accepted that they not only gave it away for free, but they just,

whether you wanted it or just, it's, whether you wanted it or not, it's just, everyone has that album now. Yeah. It's crazy. How many people? I mean,

does it make the album less special if everyone just has it? I don't think so. I mean, I mean, they're looking to make a communal experience. Yeah. Like that's what they've always been about

is like everyone knows all of our songs. Yeah. So now just everyone will know this song, but is like, everyone knows all of our songs. Yeah. So now just everyone will know this song. But how many people are listening to it? I don't know. That's...

But... And how do you quantify that? Like, does it count? Oh, science! No, but does it count? But does it count as... Like, how do you measure...

Poetry in motion. I don't know that song. Does it count as album sold? I don't know that song. She blinded me with science. She blinded me with science. I don't know that song. You've never heard that song before?

Yeah, I know that song. You know that song. By the way, I read recently a thing with Thomas Dolby, and I think the guy who's saying, science! And you know how, and Paula Tompkins and I have talked about this. You know how he goes, she blinded me with science? This is the weirdest read. I think Thomas Dolby says he thought it was a weird read too and didn't like it. Yeah.

And tried to coach the guy to do it differently. Yeah. And he was like, no, that's the way I do it. And then it became this like interesting thing. Who cares? So. Fuck you. Like are they just taking themselves out of the album sales game?

I don't think it counts. I think Prince tried to do this. He's the last one that gamed the system this way when he – No, but Jay-Z's did count. Did it really? No, I think Jay-Z's app sales didn't count. Yeah, they did. They did?

I think. But even regardless of all that, this is completely new. It's in – everyone has it. So it's not like they're counting it as 500 million copies were sold. It's technically not released. I think that's the difference. I think it's released in October when the physical release comes out, and they'll count it then.

And here's a question. Where does it debut on the charts? Exactly. In October. Everyone already has it. Right. Maybe number one. Because it's not on the charts even on iTunes.

Okay, so yeah, iTunes, I don't believe they count free stuff on the charts because they don't want like someone giving away a single and then going to number one. Right, right, exactly. But again, it's not even free. There's been a lot of gaming. It's just given to you. like if you sell something on Amazon for a dollar, a lot of people try to do that. Like Lady Gaga did that with one of her last records saying like they want to push it so that it gets to number one or sells a million the first week or some sort of sales thing. So they'll sell it for a dollar.

Right. But I think they have to sell it for something. Huh? It's really weird. It's weird. Anyway, they, let's talk about the cover. Yeah.

Which some people are saying isn't going to be the cover when the album is actually released. Maybe that's- This is just like a temporary thing. Maybe that's how they're trying to get you to buy the actual record. Maybe. There's a deluxe version that's going to come out. Yeah, I'll definitely get that.

With like four bonus and boner tracks. Four boner tracks? Yeah. And then and then a 34 page booklet yeah great i'm gonna read that every day in my goddamn life yeah you probably will you stupid you're probably gonna read it because you love you too so much you're probably gonna read it because you love your penis so much and the whole booklets is gonna be pictures of your penis really yeah do you two is this the cloud again no wonder they're with apple they got all your penis pictures but the cover that they released is pretty i like it i think it's cool i mean um it looks like nothing else out there it's basically as they put it a white label record which has you two stamped on it and then just in marker LP on it. And then

you see the label, a handwritten label through the hole in the record. It's very striking. Doesn't look like anything out there. And more importantly to me, I think goes back to the theme of the record. And let's talk about the theme of the record here. This is, some would call it, and they have even called it akin to quadrophenia but some would call it a concept album on youth on youth exactly that a lot of the lyrics focus on stuff that they were going through when they were 12 years old yeah 13 years old, hey, even 14 years old, up to about 20 maybe. But it's looking back at things retrospectively, but through the prism of them being 50-year-olds now,

a lot have said, oh, looking back at youth through the eyes of 50-year-olds who can't forget what they've learned, which I think is interesting. who can't forget what they've learned. Yeah. Which I think is interesting, but I, it's, it is a really interesting record because I don't think that it really holds together musically as much as it does thematically and lyrically.

I think it, it feels like an album. I know we talked about how, I don't think that how to dismantle feels like a, an album to me. It feels like a album. I know we talked about how I don't think that How to Dismantle feels like an album to me. It feels like a bunch of collection of songs. This is more cohesive to you. It is, but it feels like Atomic Bomb a little bit musically. It's like every song, well, I guess maybe not.

I think the second half, the more kind of rock half, feels Atomic Bomb-ish. That feels like a different record to me than the first half. So what I'm trying to say is it doesn't, like, it's not like I listen to this going, wow, one band went into the studio, banged this out, they found their sound. Every song kind of sounds different. But what's holding it together is what they're talking about.

Although I will say, like, okay, so it opens on the miracle of joey ramone and then every breaking wave and california are both real poppy yeah those really those sounded to me when i first heard him i said okay this is the typical this is what i expect from a youtube record yeah like poppy yeah they sound good but there's an extra there's a new sound in there too i think it's the the Ryan Tedder kind of influence. Definitely. There's bleeps and bloops and stuff that we haven't heard before.

Which I really like. Let's hear a little bit of Every Breaking Live. It's produced definitely differently. Yeah. But it's something where the first three or four, even five songs, I was kind of like, yeah, this is kind of what I thought the U2 record would be like. Okay. This is the second song, Every Breaking Way.

I just didn't know how they would negotiate that modern pop sound into their stuff. Kind of like with Octoon Baby and Pop. Octoon Baby! Octoon Baby! Octoon Baby and Pop. Octoon Baby! Octoon Baby! When they had, like, dance music influenced in there and kind of new sort of Manchester sound kind of in there.

I was, like, not into dance music at all, so I didn't know how I was going to feel about it, but they took it and put it into their sort of song craft, and I really loved it. Similarly, I feel like that kind of modern pop sound that i don't always like very much they've harnessed it and used it in such a way that i think is great and it's all really earwormy and catchy but they've used it in a really quality way and yeah a lot of modern production techniques that they haven't used in a long time.

Yeah, an old sourpuss would be no part of. Right, that's why the last album now sounds so sluggish. Because it just sounds like rock, dad rock. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So this is just so, like I said, this song, the chorus is so catchy. That said, I guess my point is, yeah, I was like, oh, some new sounds.

But I guess what I'm trying to say is the first five songs was kind of like, yeah, this is about kind of what I expected. Okay. You know, of like, yeah, catchy songs, but they sound like songs. It doesn't really sound like a statement or an album or anything like that. So, I mean, let's talk about generally what we think because that kind of leads me into what I'm trying to say. Sure, go to the next one, California.

Well, let's not go to that yet. Let's just talk generally about it because I want to go track by track when we do it. Okay, but halfway through, all of a sudden, by the way, a lot of people are saying, hey, why do you say all of a sudden? All of the sudden. Apparently, that's wrong. You say all of the sudden.

All of the sudden. All of the sudden. Because I was with my parents over the weekend, and I realized, oh, they say it, and that's why. Look, my parents were simple country folk. All right? Your parents say all of the sudden? Yes, which about, I would say a third of the population does.

I have never once heard anyone do that. Well, you know what? If you look it up online, there's a debate about what is right, what is wrong. And people go, all of the sudden, it doesn't make sense. Guess what else doesn't? All of a sudden. Just say suddenly. I'm going to look this up yeah go ahead have a ball

big wheel like a georgia cotton wheel okay i put in all of the and all of the sudden doesn't even come up bull from shit google bullshit bullshit oh okay all of the sudden or all of a sudden is a debate. Is a debate. And yeah, all of the sudden is wrong. But you know, like those things like- According to Google, it should be all of the sudden, though 22 million results say otherwise. Which one is correct? Yeah. Here's my point. When you say, I could care less, that literally doesn't make sense. Because you're saying- You're supposed to say- Couldn't. I couldn't care less that literally doesn't make sense because you're saying you're supposed to say

couldn't i couldn't i couldn't because you're saying i could not care less but it's become so fashionable to say i could care less that it's almost becoming right all of a sudden all of the sudden it doesn't make neither makes any sense no they're gibberish words yeah why why are you popping my stones about it? Don't pop my stones. You know what? It's time for an episode of You Popping My Stones. Oh. Yeah.

Hey, welcome to You Popping My Stones. I'm your host, Scott. And this is Scott. Hey, Scott. Yeah. You popping my stones? Whoa, I got one question for you. What?

You popping my stones? Oh. Oh. You just popped me up. All right, good ep. got one question for you what you popping my stones oh all right good app great app great app okay anyway so what was i trying to say you were saying i was you were just oh okay the out suddenly halfway through suddenly halfway through the record takes an abrupt turn from kind of modern this new take on what YouTube would sound like. Yeah. With very little edge-sounding guitar, by the way.

Yeah. Well. It's pretty light on the kind of ding-a-ding-a-ding-a-ding-a-ding-a-ding. Yeah. All, fuck, I'm about to say it again. All of a sudden, Track 6 Volcano goes into, basically for three songs, it sounds like it's 1980 again yeah it sounds like boy or boy it sounds like war or boy yeah three songs in a row

yeah and they're fucking really good great they're really good songs and if they had put out the entire record like that maybe i would have been happy maybe you would have been happy i don't think the world would have cared. I think they needed this new type of song that they... I don't think a whole album of it is necessary or necessarily a good idea, but it's awesome. But it sounds great in the middle of this record.

It sounds great. Yeah. And then they go into some new sounding songs at the end. It's a really interesting album, I think. I do too. I think it's I love it. I mean, again, it's only been a day and a half. But I

think it's really good. Me, too. Like, the only song that I feel isn't, like, reaching out and grabbing me and I can't really get into is Sleep Like a Baby Tonight. I like that one.

You do? Okay, I just need to listen to it more. I think this is where you can reach me now is one where I kind of zone out. Oh, that is my favorite. That's your favorite? Okay, I'll re-listen to that one. But there's very little bad Bono-isms. No, the lyrics are so good. The lyrics

like we were saying, they're all, and we'll talk about each good the lyrics like we were saying they're all and we'll talk about each song as we go along but they're all about really personal stuff which it seems like he's been trying to

sing globally for so long I know it's great that it's just this like very personal yeah and musically

it's every song is kind of different and it's but somehow it holds together. I think it's really good. And I feel like Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton,

the bass guitar player and the drummer, are like right up front. Adam Clayton plays one second. One second, sorry. Bass, guitar. Larry Mullen Sr.'s son plays one second i'm sorry senior's son wait drums drums drums sorry drums he plays drums drums drums you too drums um drums those guys the rhythm section are like i haven't heard the bass this loud in quite a few records awesome um especially volcano which we'll talk about when

we get to it okay so we were playing every breaking wave we've heard a lot of the miracle of joy ramon um what do you think of every Breaking Wave? Every Breaking Wave... Sounds like a hit. It sounds like a hit. Like I say, it sounds like... It doesn't sound unexpected to me where I'm like say With or Without You where I went, well, that's interesting or that's new. Yeah.

It just sounds like kind of like oh, yeah, yeah, that's a U2 song. I get it. Let's hear it again from the beginning. Here we go. But it sounds really good and the melody is the melody is cool it's really good and for me it's just like yeah you two is this band that should have hits because they sounds a little like with or without you it does but they write fucking great songs so yeah get Ryan Tedder. Like let's, you guys should have a hit. Ryan. It's the lovable lads from Liverpool.

Um, yeah, I really like it. And it takes those kind of production elements that bug me sometimes, uh, kind of modern shit you hear on the radio. Like what, what do you hate?

Name like the biggest offender of what you hate about the radio. I'm trying to think because I don't. Because someone might want to guest star on Parks and Recreation. No. The chorus, like right here, how at the chorus it just gets incredibly busy. Yeah. Just a wall of production. Yeah.

Sounds a little like Coldplay in a way. Yeah, a little. Which, by the way, I gotta say, and this is off topic, and the people who make fun of us for what this whole podcast is about, who hate U2 and go, you have terrible musical taste. Look, I like a lot of stuff. Yeah. Coldplay's new record

is really fucking good. Is it? It's really good. I haven't listened to it that much. I have been, I've dipped in and out of Coldplay.

It got, like, bad reviews and I really like the, what's that song? There's, Magic is, as far as I'm concerned, single of the year so far. Really?

It is great. And I say this unironically I I they took their sound and which is what I sort of expected you two to do a little bit and did like all of a sudden they have songs that sound like Bon Iver and yeah uh they just kind of took it into this new place where I was like that's not what Coldplay sounds like yeah but it does on this record anyway it's really check it out I listened to it a couple times and just kind of didn't. Call it magic. Anyway, great song.

There's a song on there that I loved, and I can't remember which one it was. Anyway. Was it My Name is Adam Scott and I'm Here to Say? It's from the Rock and a Coldplay way? Yeah, that one. So anyway, those production elements that I find kind of annoying in modern pop, I really love it here. They've used it really, really well.

Yeah. This is a good song. Yeah. That's a good song. And then this song is fucking good, too. Okay, let's talk about this. This is track three. It's just pure pop.

When I say there are very few annoying Bono-isms, we've talked about them over the previous episodes. We have the song New York. Yeah. We have the song, I feel like Las Vegas is one. What's on pop? Miami. Yeah.

When he talks about places, I don't know why it bugs me. Also, stand-up comedy is one that bugs me. We talked about this. Yeah, I like that song. If they came out with a song called Parks and Recreation, and they were like, Leslie Knope is a woman like you'd kind of go you know what what are these guys who have nothing to do with parks i know exactly what you mean but i don't feel like this song really does it i think he kind of we're talking of course about this song california which i kind of was

like when i saw that title i went oh, oh, great. Here we go. Here's a song about breaking waves. He's going to talk about the Hollywood sign. He's going to talk about Spago. Right. But it's a song about the first time they as a band ever went to California. And they stepped off the plane, as he says, and was like, wow, this is the most beautiful place we've ever seen. I don't know that it excuses it that much.

I kind of, because I really like this song. I wish they would have called it something else. Yeah. I wish they would have done one more pass on the lyrics and not made it about California. And especially, I got to say, the most egregious U2ism that's on the record is the very start of this song and let's hear a little bit of it and you may like it okay but it's something that kind of by the way that's big ben they actually that's why the record was so expensive they went out to big ben they recorded you mean when he just says california at the beginning of the no he's not saying California oh this yeah Barbara

Barbara Santa Barbara Barbara Barbara I don't I don't mind this I think it's a

it sounds cool it's a Beach Boys inspired thing where they're trying to say ba ba ba ba ba ba ran yeah they're trying to be like hey we're singing a song

about California like the Beach Boys so they go Barbara Barbara Santa Barbara I don't know what it is go Barbara, Barbara, Santa Barbara.

I don't know what it is about growing and going to Santa Barbara a lot. They're saying Santa Barbara? They're saying Santa Barbara. Oh. They're saying Barbara, Barbara,

Santa Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Santa Barbara. What do you think now that you know that? I don't mind it. I think it sounds cool. I think they produced it

in a way that it sounds cool. It's a cool intro to the song. It sounds okay. I mean, I go back and forth. When I first heard it, I went, oh, Beach Boys thing. But they're saying Barbara, Barbara, Santa Barbara. I just don't know. I thought they were saying Baba, Baba Ran, like the Beach Boys song.

They're not. Do you want to take a look at the digital booklet that comes with the record? Oh, does it say Santa Barbara on there? Yeah. Here we go. Let's take a look. Well, play the song. Well, hold on.

Can I do fucking one thing at a time? Shithead. And there it is. Big Ben. One last time. I'm looking at the lyrics. Barbara, Santa Barbara. Barbara, Santa Barbara.

I don't care. think it's turn up oh yeah they are doing that Yeah, I don't know. I just... By the way, this song sounds and is produced exactly like No Cars Go by Arcade Fire. It does sound like No Cars Go. No, no, no sound like no cars go with a little huh yeah i hear a lot of arcade fire on this album actually you know what i'd rather listen to an arcade fire record if i'm gonna hear arcade fire

no i no i i think this this song's good, and they avoid just name-checking shit. They do name-check Zuma. Yeah. I don't know. But it is his personal experience. That's the thing. It's his personal experience. And to the millions, if not billions, of people who don't live here,

I think there's billions, probably, who don't live here in L.A. Billions. It probably sounds exotic. Yeah. It's like if I went to Liverpool once and wrote a song about, like, Liverpool, I ate some liver and I sat in a pool. A lot of people would think that's glamorous. Yeah, they would be like, oh, my God, he's actually been there.

Okay, so. But this song, like, musically, I really like it. And he cuts the Barbara bar barbara santa barbara shit immediately i think it's really cool and i think again since it's so personal it's hard to as long as they're not doing something super stupid it's like yeah you risk sounding dumb when you're putting out something so personal but i buy it i buy it because it means something to them, and so I buy it. And even though it sounds like Arcade Fire and No Cars Go,

I do like it. Yeah, me too. I mean, it's really catchy. I have to say his melody game on this record is tight. It's tight, and the singing sounds great too. Singing sounds great too. Singing sounds really good. How to Dismantle sounds like by the numbers melodies to me

of like if you just laid down a riff and him kind of going a lot. He put a lot of thought into the melodies of this, I think. They did not. They knew they could not fuck up. They didn't skimp.

No. All right, let's go to the next song. You're talking about hits. I think this is a zonker hit. It could be. Or it could be a flop. Who knows? But I think that this could be, if people give a shit,

this could be played at a lot of weddings. Yeah, song for someone. Song for someone. And this is a song presumably about he met his wife, Allie, who starred, a lot of people don't know this starred in cape and alley the tv show that's right it's her and jane curtain yep um he met her when they were 12 or 13 and this is a song to her go over to the trash can and put it in there don't like do a big fucking swish for three points.

Yeah, you took it to the paint, I got to admit. This is called Song for Someone, and it's a song sort of about them meeting when they were young. Let's just hear a little bit of it. Again, this doesn't sound... This doesn't sound like... This doesn't sound like Q2. It sounds like Iron and Wine or something.

Or some dude at a party with an annoying acoustic guitar. I have to say, every time a song starts and I'm like, this is going to be one of those songs I skip, it redeems itself. The chorus is good. Yeah. And the melody, it doesn't sound like he's just treading water. It keeps going and changing.

You've got a face not spoiled by beauty. I have some scars from where I've been, which is another theme throughout the album of the tragedy that happened to his mother. You've got eyes that can see right through me. You're not afraid of anything they've seen. I was told that I would feel nothing the first time. I don't know how these cuts heal.

But in you, I found a rhyme. This is a total wedding song. This is a wedding song. I mean, this is like... There's a light you can't always see. There's a world we can't always be. There is a doubt that we shouldn't doubt. And there is a light. Don't let it go out.

And this is someone. Someone. This is someone. Yeah, it's really good. That's a great melody. A lot of previously in previous albums, I could hear him saying just, this is a song. Yeah.

But they add the extra, this is a song. Yeah. And then Edge in the background going, ah. Yeah. Anyway, it's really good. And some of the lyrics.

It's really clean and tight and good you let me that's what she said so do my work what um here's a lyric i like you let me into a conversation a conversation only we could make i think that's cool like you let me in like you included me in this conversation and it's a conversation but that the two of us were going to have

I think I think that's really interesting yeah anyway I think this song is very strong cool

it's only got one religious reference unfortunately that is something I wish he'd knock off well he's a devout Christian is a devout christian is he devout i don't know hanging out on all those boats with young women i don't know

he mentions uh the hill of calvary i don't know he mentions pilgrims and ones anyway it's got a lot of that kind of stuff pilgrims are in uh miracle yeah that's what i'm saying okay so what's the next one? That's a hit. Okay, this next song is called Iris, parentheses, hold me close. Which is his mother's name. His mother, her name was Iris.

She, when Bonobos was 12, his grandfather passed away. Yeah. His mother passed out at the funeral and died a couple of days later yeah and this is so sad very sad and this is a song about her and this song is fucking good and what's weird is it's not a weepy like the previous song it's actually kind of a rock song which is kind of a very u2 It's a very U2 stadium. But it's not like that last one where it's like delicate,

which you would think a song about his mother would be. There are so many songs here where it's like, wow, this is going to be a roof raiser in the old arenas next year when they tour. I mean, these are going to be great live songs. You want to go to one of their shows, by the way? Yeah, we should. we should record an episode there for sure okay this is Iris Hold Me Close this is terrific

I mean listen to how U2 this is this is the most U2 it's sounded so far yeah yeah for sure which you wouldn't expect about the song about his mom you'd expect like songs about Martin Luther King

being the U2 ones that's why I I love this record is the subjects they're touching on are really delicate but they're just

powering through them and it makes a song like this all the more powerful alright professor cause like what's the song on Atomic Bomb? Happy Birthday?

Yeah, Happy Birthday. What's the song on Atomic Bomb that's like, you're so beautiful? City of Blinding Lights. Right. In the City of Blinding Lights. That's trying to be universal. Yeah, and it's trying to be universal. And not specific.

It's a little airy. It's not about anything. In the city of blinding lights, what are you talking about? And this is like about his mom. About his mom. He's saying stuff like, Something in your eyes took a thousand years to get here. Something in your eyes took a thousand years.

Hold me close, hold me close, and don't let me go. Hold me close like I'm someone that you might know yeah i've got your life inside of me yeah so it's very personal stuff but said in this like kind of jammy stadium way it's interesting good sounds good so that uh you know i i give it my highest recommendation c plus that's it's so weird that that's the highest you go. Like, you don't even do, like, B-? It's average. It's above average.

It's what the plus is for. C-plus is not above average. So C is average. C is average, C-plus. And you will not go higher than that. I will not. I will not go lower than a C-minus. Good Lord.

Oh, okay. So right after the album came out, I think I was driving back home from the airport, listening to the album, and I remember texting you. What is Naomi doing, by the way? Was she with you? No. Okay, so this is a solo bolo plane trip.

Solo bolo. Jetting in. solo bolo plane trip. Solo bolo. Jetting in. And I texted you. Let me find it here. Yep.

Use your search button. Here we go. Oh, boy. Okay, you said, on a flight, I said, on a flight, downloading album now. You said, this might take more I said, on a flight, downloading album now.

You said, this might take more than one F. Duh. I added the duh. And then you wrote, listening now. And then in the car, I wrote, early favorite volcano. Yep. And that's the next song. And then I said, sounds like boy. Sounds like boy.

And I didn't want to write back because I didn't want to. I know. And then you didn't write back, and I was like, oh, he's saving it. I'm saving it. I'm saving it for the pod. And you'll be glad I did because here we go. Okay, this is your early favorite. This is where all of a sudden those previous five songs sound pretty U2 but like new U2.

Here's what we're talking about when all of a sudden it takes an abrupt left turn into 1980. Oh, I can – you know what? I'm sorry. I needed to turn up my volume all the way. Has that been a problem? Sorry. Oh, boy. Stupid dumb shit.

And some, by the way, some dude wrote to me and said, when you turn up your volume on the computer and it's plugged in, hold down the whatever button and we don't have to hear it. If that's the worst fucking thing you have to hear today.

Who cares? Who cares, asshole? No, thank you for listening. You're probably cool. if that's the worst fucking thing you have to hear today who cares who cares asshole no thank you for listening you're probably cool um okay it's turned up all the way now all right this is volcano and this may be my favorite song on oh good okay here we go all right i mean listen that sounds like adam clayton in 1983 it does joy division yeah and this this song the lyrics specifically, I don't know what they're really about,

but it... I think it's about being a young man and being ready to explode at any moment and kick the shit out of someone. But musically, listen to that.

He hasn't used that guitar sound in a long time. I know. To me, it fits thematically because it's like the songs that they were playing

35 years ago. Yeah. Those hand claps. Great chorus. Great. It sounds like war. It sounds like war. It sounds like it's fantastic. It's awesome.

This is the music they used to make. It's so good. And again, live, this is going to be so fun. If they play it. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure they will. Look, I'm not going to predict the future here. I'm psychic and I'm seeing clearly that they will.

Have you found that $5 bill I lost? Yeah. Where is it? It's in my wallet. Motherfucker. I'll give it to you in seven years. Those claps! This is a great song. This is great. So fun. I love this.

And if the whole record had sounded like this, I think people would have shrugged. I would love it. I loved it. I love post-punk. They listen to a lot of music they listened to when they first wanted to be a band when they were making this record. Suzie and the Banshees, Joy Division, all that kind of stuff.

I love this. Listen to the edge. It's bad. This is good. This is really good. I don't know. I have no complaints c plus i would at least like you seem to really love that song maybe my favorite song i think you

should up it to like a b plus i don't even know what that is it's great anyway but uh that song and the next song raised by wolves i I believe were produced by the same people. Produced by Declan Gaffney. Yeah, he's a longtime engineer for them who had never gotten production credit before. He's the solo producer on that. Produced by Declan Gaffney. On Volcano. Yeah.

What about Raised by Wolves? Produced by Declan Gaffney and Kenny Takahashi. Who's this dude? Kenny Takahashi. No, I'm sorry. Produced by Declan Gaffney and Kenny Takahashi. Who's this dude? Kenny Takahashi. No, I'm sorry. Produced by Declan Gaffney and Danger Mouse. Engineered by Kenny Takahashi. I'm going to say right now,

Danger Mouse did a kick-ass job on this album. Danger Mouse, hey, great job. Let's hear Raised by Wolves. Now, when I hear the title Raised by Wolves, I kind of go, uh... Wait, NME gave this a 4 out out of ten i'm just finding this on what fucking dicks enemy come on enemy you're the enemy he says that you two devalued their own brand with the release strategy because shut up don't review a release the fact

is it makes free the fact it's free makes it seem cheap. Shut up. All right, here we go. This is Raised by Wolves. Do you agree with me that I don't sound hopeful or that's not a song title that makes you feel hopeful about the song? Like Raised by Wolves. Raised by Wolves. That sounds like maybe Miami or New York or, you know what I mean? I was kind of like when I saw that song title, I was like raised by wolves. Yeah, okay. But this song kicks a little booty. This song is, yeah, it's. And this is about the.

It's great. It's not generally about the IRA. It's the one political song. It's a political song like the songs they used to write. Yeah. But it's not generalized about like. No, it's a specific incident about a specific dude who bono was saying that he on any day he could have been at the record shop where this happened this bombing but instead he decided to go to school that day but

his friend was there and it fucked him up for life yeah and this is the friend that he wrote bad about yeah he was a drug addict yeah that's right so this is like friend that he wrote Bad about. Yeah. Who's a drug addict. Yeah, that's right. So this is like a specific song about that day. All right, this is Raised by Wolves. Already sounds like war. They haven't used a sound like that in 30 years. There's a man in the corner in a pool of misery. I'm in a white van as the Red Sea covers the ground. Metal crash, I can't tell what it is. But I take a look and now I'm sorry I did.

5.30 on a Friday night, 33 good people cut down. I don't believe that it's lost. I don't believe that it's lost. Face down on a pillow of shame.

There's some girls with a needle trying to spell my name. That guitar sound is so good. So good. Anyway, I'm enraptured by the song. I don't want to talk over it, but let's... The chorus gets so good. Yeah, here it comes. I love that they wait so long for it, too. Here it comes.

Raise the world Stronger than fear Raise the world We were raised by war I never thought I would hear them make music like this. This is so good. I know. I love it.

This might be my favorite song. This is so good. I know. I love it. This might be my favorite song. This is so good. C plus. So good. Again, C plus denotes You're right, C. It's average. It's as if you're saying it's not very good. Just to the outside world. I don't know what you're talking about.

This is, I mean, come on. Those last two songs? Great. Oops, I started it come on. Those last two songs? Great. Oops, I started it over. Never mind. Anyway. Now, the next one is the title that made me kind of brace myself, but I really like this one. Cedarwood Road.

Do you know what that is? It's the street he grew up on, right? Street he grew up on. Cedarwood Road. All right, let's hear Cedarwood Road. This is for Googie. Who's that? that's his friend that he grew up with that's in the in the lyrics it says for googie does it say it like that yeah it says it says please say it like this and then it describes how to say it. For Googie! So again, another just like rock song. This sounds so good.

This is the most kind of atomic bomb-ish that it's gotten so far. Yeah, I will say that, yeah. But this, it's gotten so far. Yeah. I will say that, yeah. But this, it's huge. I like the piano in that. The one thing I'll say as opposed to the last two songs,

this is a little more Americana with the acoustic guitar. It's less European. It's a little less European so I don't like it as much as the last two songs. But it's pretty good. I really like the chorus, though.

It's like, when it comes, it's not immediately. Immediately. the green and all the gold the hurt you hide the joy you hold the foolish crime that gets you out the door yeah i really like it i think it's it me... This is kind of an interesting parallel, but it reminds me a little of Oasis after their third record. When they got real kooky.

Yeah, or even like their third record single, the Do You Know What I Mean. It sounds a little like Do You Know What I Mean. Yeah, it does. From that whole album. Yeah. I went back to that album recently. It sounds good. Yeah, there's some really good stuff on it. It's a little like it. Yeah, yeah, it does. From that whole album. Yeah. I went back to that album recently. It sounds good.

Yeah, there's some really good stuff on it. It's a good record. But that's like the cocaine album. Yeah, definitely. So that one, I like it. I don't love it. But it's... Yeah, it's good.

It's good. Okay, now here's the song you say you don't like. And I... This is track nine. And another all of a sudden like, what? What am I listening to? I really like it.

I think it ends really great. This is Sleep Like a Baby Tonight. I just haven't gotten into it yet. Again, European, craftwork-y. Yeah. And not trying to sound like you too craftwork-y, trying to sound craftwork-y. Uh-huh. Never thought I would say craftwork-y.

It turns into, where it eventually goes reminds me of Love and Peace or Else, that song. But I really haven't listened to it that much. Then shut the fuck up and listen again. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, guys. Why don't you You dress In the colors of forgiveness Your eyes as red as Christmas Do you hear the popping of the P?

Let me pause it one second. The popping of what? The P, when he goes purple. No. He pops the... Listen to this song again. He's... Don't start it from the beginning.

No, I'm not. But remember when we. And don't tell me what to fucking do. Listen. I am. Do you hear that? What? There's a ghost.

Oh, my God. Remember when we were talking about Spidey? Yeah. And the fact that he wouldn't fucking turn off the dark. Listen. Listen. Why don't you use your Spidey sense and fucking turn off the dark? listen why don't you use your spidey sense and fucking turn off the dark thwip thwip spin a web any size and turn off the freaking dark okay hey get married

jane get her to pick up a daily bugle newspaper bring it on over here and why don't you turn off the dark but remember when we were talking about it and we and we were talking about his 75 microphone or 200 i can't remember exactly what reeves carney was saying like well he sings on this shitty microphone and i sing on something more expensive and then a lot of people wrote to me saying um oh well there's this one microphone that is really cheap that actually sounds pretty good it sounds like he's singing on a shitty microphone because the the peas are popping it's intentional but it's like an effect it's an effect but it's almost like ah you know what don't clean it up it sounds weird i like it a lot i mean let's let's hear a little more

you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight i heard that T. In your dreams, everything is alright. Tomorrow turns like someone else's suicide. You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight. Yeah, it's just not my favorite. I like it. It sounds experimental in a way that they haven't you know that that's one of my main complaints with modern u2 is they don't sound like they're experimenting and this sounds like a it's not a like a jam song as much as it is just like we want to create a mood yeah and we have never put out a song that sounds like this, and so let's try.

I applaud them for the effort. I think it's cool. C plus. All right, so this is the next song. This is the one I can't really get into, but you love. This is my current favorite. Really? This is where you can reach me now.

It's a tribute to Joe Strummer. Yes. Which I don't like about it but anyway you don't like joe strummer i like joe strummer i don't know that i like this song anyway let's listen to it it sounds very oh by the way okay listen to that seagulls yeah why are you putting seagulls on your record because seagulls are the key to the it's bad enough i got it's bad enough i gotta hear these guys during my lunch hour, my lunch break. Now I got to hear them when I'm listening to a U2 record? Don't eat your lunch in the water down at the beach.

I'm sorry, but that's where I love to eat lunch. Why every day do you insist on catching fresh fish for lunch? Look, I'm a bear. Catching fresh fish for lunch. Look, I'm a bear. We all know you're a bear, but you live in, you wear human clothes and you live in a civilized society. You need to learn to eat a hamburger every once in a while. How about a hamburger? Get those birds out of here.

Sounds a little stones-y. Also sounds like the guitar tone from One. Uh-huh. They used that on another song, too. Cool. Story, bro. Oh, they're troubles, actually. I just think this is great. And then it gets kind of dancey here. I do like this.

Good, right? This sounds like war. Can you turn it up a little? Can you stop ordering them around? Sorry, Cody. What's that mean? It's great. It is great. It's good. I like it.

When I first heard it, I was like, it's a little trying to ape the Clash too much. Yeah, it is very Clash-y. I do like it. So the last song... The last song does not sound like, I think, anything they've ever recorded. No. It sounds very Danger Mouse-y.

It sounds kind of Broken Bells. It's really, really interesting. This is... And who's the singer? Who's the guest singer? Licky Lee. Licky Lee, who if you don't know, has I think two or three really great albums. She's really awesome and not someone I would have ever said,

oh, you know what? Licky Lee is going to kind of like do the hook on a U2 record. This is a song called The Troubles. And yeah, let's hear it. This is a closer. We've talked a lot about closers on you two records and sometimes they fumble that ball i think this is a great closer which you know what in football is not such a good thing no you don't want to fumble the i don't know much about football but i know you do not want to fumble the ball because in the other team what

do they do you know what they do? They can kick it. They can pick it up. They can do whatever they like with it. I'm going to stick it up their yin-yang if you know what I'm saying. I don't know much about football, but I know if you throw that ball through those goal posts, you get a couple of points on there. Absolutely. At least two.

At least two. But I think they nailed it with this one. I think this is a really interesting song. This is The Troubles. Again, very catchy. Like AIDS. Somebody step inside your soul. Somebody step inside your soul.

Little by little, they're out of soul. To someone else who house in France. Oh, this is the one that people taped? People taped, and they thought this was sung for someone. And they thought that was Adele. Oh. They were fucking wrong, bro. Bro, you called it.

Two times heard that. It sounds a little like pop. A little. In a good way. Yeah, it has a poppy sound. I was you And you think it's easier To know your own tricks Well, it's the hardest thing you'll ever do I had a willful survival

So you can hurt me and hurt me some more i can't really deny you but you're not my troubles anymore Yeah, it's great. It's cool. I will say, without Lickie Lee, I maybe would have relegated it to one of those pop kind of downer numbers that are just okay. But there's something about just her singing on it. It's a great hooky chorus. And I think if there were... This album's sequenced really well.

I think they really, really obviously put a lot of thought into the sequencing. No, I think they just put it on random. Yeah, you're probably right. But I think it's... The slower songs are spaced out really well. Yeah.

I think this is a really good closer, but I think the other, like every breaking wave and song for some someone and i guess sleep like a baby tonight are the kind of slower paced songs and they're really spaced out really well speaking of spaced out it is 10 55 here we've been going at it for two and a half hours i'm start so hungry, I'm eating Tums just for food. Well, so, preliminarily,

and that's, I certainly hope that's a word, but our preliminary view of the record, I think that we're in accord on this. We both like it. Very much. Very, very much. If you had to place it in your list of top 10 u2 records at this point and we've only heard it for you know not even 36 hours at this

point which by the way when you did your top u2 albums in order you had clearly said your favorite is how to dismantle for a long time and then it was like number three when you on our very final episode some people were calling you out on that it was yeah you'd said it over and over how to dismantle your number one and then when you were on the spot and had to put them in order you put it at like number three i did yeah um i think you put actoon baby is number one maybe and then joshua and then I had to put them in order. You put it at like number three. I did. Yeah. I think you put Actoon Baby as number one maybe and then Joshua and then- Maybe I reconsidered because- Yeah, you were.

The amount of songs that are on it that I don't like kind of- Yeah. Are more than the amount of songs I don't like. Right. I don't know. So where would you place this in the pantheon? Dead Last. I agree.

I don't know. I mean. I know how to stack it up against recent work. That's about all I can do. Yeah. Okay. Let's talk about. Let's go backwards.

And say if you like it better than the previous record. Okay. So I'm going to go. much more than no line on i think no line on the horizon it pales in comparison to this okay no line on the horizon um has too many shitty songs yeah has some songs with with good, but it is really inconsistent. Really inconsistent. I think the lyrics are very inconsistent on that album. There's some real zingers in there.

So better? Much better than that album. Much better than that album. I agree. Okay, we've got that. How to Dismantle Anatomic Bomb, one of your favorites. One of my favorites. Is this better than H-T-D-A-A-B? I don't know.

I mean, there are some songs on there I really don't like, and there aren't any songs on – like, there's one song that I'm indifferent about, but I love every single other song. And I don't like them saying Barbara, Santa Barbara, but that's literally 45 seconds of a good song. I mean, I don't know. I would have to sit with it longer because I love Atomic Bomb.

Don't sit with it any longer. Just like right now, do you like it better? Which would you rather listen? No, that's not even fair to say because you want to listen to a new thing more. I just love, Atomic bomb has amazing songs on it um i don't know right now i'm i'm i i love this one just because it's all new and stuff but i don't know i would have to sit with it longer right now i'm gonna say yeah i like it more you like it more okay i like it way more because as established

i don't like how to dismantle yeah all that Yeah. All That You Can't Leave Behind, is it better? Well, it's certainly more consistent. It certainly is because as we've talked about, All That You Can't Leave Behind has six great songs and then some stinkers. Yeah. So I like it better. Yeah, me too.

And I love songs on All That You Can't Leave Behind. And maybe I like a few songs better than any song on this record, but I like this record better. I like it more than pop. Definitely. I just, you know, what's great is the blank record cover, the fact that it just arrived.

There's no, you know, there aren't a ton of interviews that came out before the album. So like Octoon Baby, nothing has shaped my perception of this album. It's all just listening to it. Yeah.

So I'm still trying to formulate what it is look we're we're trying to process this but let's just talk about it pop i like it better than pop and i like pop yeah you're a big pop person um and by the way people really responded to my uh reordering and recently they did pop yeah they they what about my all that you can't leave behind i think people really like that too. Someone said on Twitter to us that they're waiting to listen to this, Songs of Incontinence, until we tell them what order to listen to it in. Oh, really? Yeah.

And let's just, I got to say the sequencing is pretty good on this. Yeah, it's great. I would just keep it as is. In the future, I may say, you know what? I would shift this or shift this, but at this point, I like it. Okay, better than Zoropa. And you know that I like Zoropa a lot, more than you. Right now, it's still shiny and new, so I'd say yeah.

I like it better than Zoropa. Really? I do. I like it better than Zoropa. Better than Octchtung Baby, widely considered one of their masterworks. I don't know. I need to listen to it more.

Right now, I'm going to say probably not, but... I'm going to say it is. Yeah, you're not a big Achtung Baby person. I mean, I like it, but I like Zuropa better, and I like this better than Zuropa. Wow, you love this album. So far, I really like it. Yeah, me too.

I do too. Rattle and Hum, better than Rattle and Hum? I mean, you love this album. So far, I really like it. Yeah, me too. I do too. Rattle and Hum, better than Rattle and Hum? I mean, Rattle and Hum has a place in my heart that will never be Yeah, because we were so young when

but yeah, it's better than Rattle and Hum. Yes, it is. Joshua Tree. Yahshua-wee? Yahshua Tree. No. Probably not.

I'm just gonna say no. No, I'm gonna say no. There's, I mean, there's just too much classic about Joshua Tree that is timeless. You can't really touch it. You can't touch this. Master of Ceremonies, Hammer.

MC Hammer. Unforgettable Fire. I don't know. I mean. No. I don't know. No. War.

I don't know. That's going too far back. You can't. October. Yeah. Yes. Boy. Yes. Probably better than Boy. I can't. I don't know. I don't know. That's going too far back. You can't. October? Yeah. Yes. Boy? Yes.

Probably better than Boy. I can't. No. I think so. I don't think so. Boy's probably better. No, come on, dude. But for modern youth.

It's better than Boy. I don't know. It's better than Boy. We'll never know. Look, we need time. We rushed to get this out for you guys. Adam's already zipping up his goddamn backpack. Here's the thing.

What we need to do, this album needs to marinate in our souls, our brains, and our buttholes. And what we need to do is re-examine it a few times. What do you say? Should we do a few eps on this album? I think we need to do a few eps on this album. I mean, we've been waiting so long for this. We need to bring a few eps on this album i mean we've been waiting so long for this we need to bring other fans in we need to bring people who've asked to be on the show who couldn't fit it in the last

time we were doing like andy daly we should bring harrah the dog in here since he doesn't like you too and let's get him in here while they're his favorite band now for recording yeah so we got to get lance bangs back in here we got to get todd glass we we gotta put some reverb on this thing get some reverb on it play it through an amp get a live drummer on this look we need to do more reps about this we can't do them consistently no

but we're just gonna drop them into your inbox just like you two did with this record it's everywhere now this podcast is everywhere whether you like it or not it is in your itunes from now on anyone who has itunes can get this podcast yes and that is our promise to you and it is free just like you too we're gonna do more eps this is not the end we're they're not gonna be on a regular weekly basis because as i said i immediately start filming and um you know

all of my time is taken. But we're going to try to get together as much as we can. That is our promise to you. And for everyone who tweeted at us about the show and everyone who talked about it all summer, it really is gratifying to people like this. I mean, before this news broke yesterday, I was still getting you talking you too to me all the time all the time um but then since it happened i mean it was crazy like probably like a thousand probably a thousand tweets since it's so crazy and thank you so much everyone we really like it um we're gonna take you out with uh raised by wolves again because i'm in charge of the computer. Terrific. So this has been Scott.

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