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

Episode Date: October 16, 2014

It's been a month and a lot of things have happened in the world of U2 but luckily Adam Scott Aukerman are back to dig into the physical release of U2's thirteenth studio album Songs of Innocence. They'll talk about U2: The Definitive Biography, the online backlash of the free digital release of the record & Bono's recent apology, and the bonus tracks on the physical release of the album. Plus, they catch up on the recent live shows they've seen which include Tom Petty & Neutral Milk Hotel and wonder if U2 will ever have a Top 40 hit as they go through listener mail!

from boy to breaking waves every one of the breaking every single every every what is it every break every breaking wave every single Every single breaking wave that is. This is you talking U2 to me, the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things U2. This is good rock and roll music. Welcome to another episode. This is your host, Scott, across the table from me who do we got by the way what what about that um those t-shirts what about what about the u2 t-shirts but the the the you talking you to me t-shirts do we get those tonight yeah are they here for us they took engineer cody cody they told us our U2 t-shirts were here for us tonight.

His eyes just went wide. Let me explain what's happening. First of all, I want to introduce. How do you say that word? Introduce. Introduce. My co-host Scott. Say hello to the nice folks, Scott.

Hey. I would like to say hello to my family. I would like to say hello to my friends. Great. Covering a lot of ground there. I would like to say hello to my colleagues. Colleagues, great. So some colleagues are not your friends.

Interesting. I would like to say hello to my fans. I would like to say hello to you. Thank you very much, Scott. Welcome to the show. Thank you, Scott. You said hello to almost every single person that exists because if someone is not your fan, yes. Oh, I would like to say hello to everyone that exists. Okay, good. Now you have covered everything. I've covered everything. Oh, I would like to say hello to everyone that exists.

Okay, good. Now you have covered everything. Wait, dead or alive? I would like to say hello to all those who have died. Joan Rivers? Well, yeah, she died. Okay. I would like to say hello to Joan Rivers.

Maybe we should just mention everyone who's died. Okay. Just to make sure. I would like to say hello to Genghis Khan. Okay. I would like to say hello to Jesus Christ. Okay. Two of the greats.

Yep. Two of the big ones. Hitting them right off the bat. Greatest hits as far as human beings go. Sure. Very similar guys. Yeah. You know?

Yeah. Really took it to the limit, both of them. Do you think Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, like Khan, they based it on Genghis Khan or Donkey Khan? Yeah, I also think taking it to the limit, the Doobie Brothers. Take it. Is that it? No, that's the Eagles, isn't it? Oh, the also think taking it to the limit. The Doobie Brothers. Take it! Is that it? No, that's the Eagles, isn't it? Oh, the fucking Eagles.

Oh, the Eagles. Fuck them. We're not talking about the Eagles again. But I think they were writing that about Genghis Khan and Jesus Christ. Let me explain

what's happening here. I'm Scott. Scott's across, I almost said the street for me, but Engineer Cody, I wanted to say why his eyes got wide. He looks like a deer in the headlights tonight.

And if you've ever seen a deer in your headlights, that is not a pretty sight. No, it's scary. And they're scared. They're scared? You're scared? Look, it's a couple of scared mammals. I scream. You scream.

We all scream when we see a deer in the headlights. Yeah. scream you scream we all scream when we see a deer in the road yeah um but engineer cody cody um capping off a difficult month for him is that safe to say engineer cody cody this is the cherry on this what do you mean by that do you mean that other than tonight he's been fucking up. Professionally, a difficult month. What's happening? I've been hearing about on a lot of shows, not just my show, a lot of leaving the room, a lot of messing up of cues, a lot of activity on the boards about what's going on with Cody. But you know what? I put all that behind me tonight, and I said, you know what?

I'm really looking forward to seeing Engineer Cody Cody tonight. We get here. We get here. We get here. We get here. We rattle the old doorknob. Locked. Locked.

Lights out, as Peter Wolfe once said. Or as Lisa Marie Presley once said famously. Very famously. More famously than Peter Wolfe? said. Or as Lisa Marie Presley once said famously. Very famously. More famously than Peter Wolfe? Oh, yeah. It was a big single in 2002. Actually, really good song. Okay, I'll take your word for it.

I'm never going to listen to it. I have it on my phone. No, thank you. Well, that was really polite. What was polite? Your no thank you. Oh, okay, great, yeah. Although you that was really polite. What was polite? Your no thank you. Oh, okay. Great.

Yeah. Although you did interrupt me. But Engineer Cody was not here. To be fair, I called him up. He got his shit together immediately. He was here. You said you'd be here in 15. You were here in a good 10, maybe 12.

I liked his excuse, though. It was pretty convoluted. First of all, ultimately, what it came down to was, you want to tell us, Cody, why you were 20 minutes late? First of all, he gave it a my bad. Yeah, there was a my bad in there. And that didn't work. We were just silent on my bad.

Because what do you say to my bad? Well, it's like, well, yeah, obviously well it's like well yeah obviously obviously you're a bad fucking prick it's your bad what is my bad i'm sorry no it's just uh it's just this was my fault which yeah clearly it was it's halfway there what are we gonna take some of the blame for this one i don't think so cody what was your excuse go ahead and tell the fine folks. Get on mic. And nothing about the schedule, none of that, just the very, what it all came down to.

What it all came down to. American Horror Story. You were watching American Horror Story, so you were too distracted. Too engrossed. Engrossed. To remember that you had to go to work. And to be fair, it's late at night. Yeah.

We usually do not. I mean, this show records late at night. Well, it was earlier when we were scheduled to start. Sure, yes. Let me explain what the timing is on this episode. Okay. It's Wednesday night when we're recording this, October 15th, I believe, Wednesday night. We got to start at 10.08 p.m. 10.08 p.m. 15th I believe Wednesday night It We gotta start

At 10.08 PM 10.08 PM We were supposed to start At 9.30 But we gotta start At 10.08 PM I

Have I I was in New York This morning I've been up since 2.30 AM LA time So did you

Fly Here How the fuck Do you think I got here I don't know there's lots of teleportation getting here from new york this morning you can take a train you could take a car you can walk or you can fly there's four options look i do i do i walk pretty slow though i'm only walking like 25 30 miles an hour to get here in the same day only 25 miles an hour yeah so um but i was in new york this morning i had to get up at 5 30 to get picked up at 6 so that's 2 30 a.m our time so

i'm a little loopy at this point it's 10 p.m i've been up almost 24 hours well i've been up since 5 a.m la time so i guess you have me beat but i'm very very tired. You're very tired. I'm very tired, but we wanted to get this one out for the fans. Why is that, you say? Why is that? My name is Yusei. We're tired. Why is that, Yusei? Yusei, over here.

Yusei, Yusei. Why is that? Yusei. You only talk when you want to. You ever ever see her in person yeah lisa lobe yeah yeah yeah yeah very nice person yeah yes yeah yes yeah yeah we wanted to get it out for the fans because um we all remember the last episode which was about a month ago uh was rush released just i believe the day or two days after you two's the day after we recorded we recorded it and then got it out the two days after rush released when hue 2's new record songs of

incontinence was released we got in there we got it it out. Same thing this month. Songs of Incontinence, the physical release, the actual record and CD was released yesterday. Yeah. I was in New York and I flew back. I rushed back here just to get in here in a room with you. This is the only reason you flew back to Los Angeles? I was going to stay there. I was like, you know what i really like it i like you know what fuck it you ever feel like just saying that yeah just fuck it just

fuck it what am i doing you know what jason manzoukas and i were talking i was hanging out with him last night in new york we cares? We were saying, think about this. What if you said, you know what? Like as an interesting challenge, I want to start show business all over again from the bottom. And now obviously you can't change who you are. You're still Adam Scott. But I want to just, I want to see if i can do it all over again and rise to the exact amount of fame um you mean start show business a new you mean enter show

business a new or start a business and entertain start entertainment all over start entertainment all over again from from exactly where you're starting as if entertainment did not exist and you are starting no no no no start your own participation got it got it got it and you would have to tell all all of your friends and co-workers and colleagues you would say hey you know i know it's going to be tempting to bring me in for auditions just because of who i am and what i can do but i want you to pretend i've never pretend you don't know me i'm just, and then see how far you could get Okay. I know it's gonna be tempting, I know

Look, I'm really good at what I do. Hey, listen Try and hold back all the offers Just see if you can do it, as an exercise Just fuck it Moving to New York But no, I came back uh to talk about this record it came

out with bonus tracks we're going to be talking about songs of now did you go out and buy it in new york no so you just you have the i ripped it yeah are you talking about a fart? The gleam in your eye when I said I ripped it. Just, you've never enjoyed saying something more. So you didn't go buy the CD? I did not. Oh. Should I have? Do you have one there?

I got it, yeah. Did you? Let me see it. That's weird that you didn't go buy it. I was in New York. What am I supposed to do? Oh, they don't have CDs. My entire-

There it is. Let me see it. Asshole. Okay. We'll talk about the. Oh, that's an attractive release. That's what he said. The cum that just came out of my dick when I saw Larry Mullen naked.

All right. We'll talk about the record a little bit later. This is, of course, the songs of innocence what in innocence uh physical release special and we also want to talk about we're gonna in the next segment talk about the book that just came out you to the definitive biography how dare they by the way that that book made no noise whatsoever i have not heard a peep about that book. And you've been listening to baby chickens. Yeah. And not one peep

was attributed to that book. What if on the back of the book it just had a blurb that was peep in quotes and then it said a chicken? That'd be great, Scott. I mean, I don't know what you want me to say. Alright, fine. Now, Adam, I don't believe I've seen you.

No, not since the last time. Not since the last time. I mean, it's been a month. It's been a while. It's been a month. And what have you been up to? Tell me about it. I know that you went to a concert recently because I saw some pictures from that show.

Yeah. Yeah. Saw some pictures from that show. I went this past weekend, this past weekend, I went to see Tom Petty. Thomas Petty. Thomas Petty. And I'm free. Now, wait.

We talked about Tom Petty once on the show. You're like in the- I'm okay. I like him, but not- You're not one the... I'm okay. I like him. But not... You're not one of those Tom Petty is the greatest people. Yeah. I'm not one of those Tom Petty is the greatest people.

Oh, by the way... He's not the greatest people. What about the t-shirts? Do we have t... Do we get them tonight? Cody has no idea. I want my t-shirt. I was told they'd be here.

Did you get an email saying... Yeah, we did. ...we have your t-shirts? Next time you're in here recording, you're talking you talking to me, the t-shirts are here for you. But where are they? Oh, cool. What's that? I'm looking into it.

He's looking into it. Oh, boy. Oh, I do want to say about the t-shirts, the fucking t-shirts. Apparently, there was some issue with whomever Earwolf was using as a merchandise company. Uh-huh. And so they were taking a long time or something. I would continually get tweets from fans saying, hey, where are my fucking T-shirts? Yeah.

I felt like Bono. Yeah. Listening to us. Yeah. Which we know he does. I feel bad about it. Excuse me. Why did you hold that up to the mic i thought it would sound cool

um i i feel bad about it but people have been getting their t-shirts uh recently they've been sending me different it's a different they switch companies then because i think that one was fucking up so now it's a new company and people have been sending me pics of them in the t-shirts. I don't know if you've been getting them. Yeah, I've seen a bunch. It's a cool shirt. How many have you jerked off to? Twelve.

As many as there were disciples. Real, real funny uh so i'm looking forward to having one of those t-shirts is a cool shirt yeah it's a cool shirt it's a kind of an aquamarine yeah like the movie sort of what movie aquamarine a movie? Yeah, it's about teenage mermaids. You've never seen Aquamarine? I guess not. It sounds really fascinating. Hey. Yeah.

Yeah. Tom Petty. Tom Petty, yeah. Oh, before we start on Tom Petty, a little point of correction here that I have to go into. This happened yesterday as well. This is another reason to do the show. But apparently this Christmas day just

got a little less merry. Do you know why, Adam? Why? Why? Because a certain film that Do you know why, Adam? Why? Why? Why? Why? Because a certain film that a certain Scott is in. Oh, yeah. Got pushed to 2015.

That's right. That's right. Hot Tub Time Machine 2. A movie near and dear to my heart. Yeah, you're very excited about this. Very excited. Anytime I would introduce you, I would talk about it. Right.

It got moved. It got bumped. Yeah. It got skledooshed. Yep. What happened? I don't know, but it comes out February 20th now. So you can go enjoy yourself on February 20th, Scott.

What happened, though? You know what happened. Tell the fans. I think there's just too many movies coming out that day. Why did they pick Christmas Day in the first place? It's insane. I think that, honestly, I think that when the Seth Rogen movie, the interview moved to that day. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 wasn't going to be the only comedy on that day.

Can't compete with Rogen. No. Like, I can't wait to see that movie. You're going to have to. No, I'm talking about the Seth Rogen one. Yeah, I know. Oh, yeah, I'll have to wait until Christmas.

Yeah. So sorry that you can't wait, but you're going to have to, so fucking deal with it. So I would imagine that's probably why. I don't totally know, but I would imagine that's why. Is it depressing to you that your SNL hosting is going to have to wait until February? That's right.

That's right, yeah. It's eating me up. We haven't talked about that on the show, by the way. The fact that you're never going to get to hear a certain Mr. Don Pardo say, Adam Scott and musical guest, you too. Did we not discuss Don Pardo dying on the last episode? We may have. I just want to bring it up again.

Do you think he's – I was at SNL this week. Do you think he's upset he never got the chance to say, Hosea! I would imagine he was freaked out about that or is freaked out about that. I had never once heard of that person. Oh, he's great. On my show, Comedy Bang comedy bang bang which by the way here's another reason that we need to reconvene comedy bang bang i need to get a plug in this is

a very popular show plug comedy bang bang is back on friday ifc 11 p.m yeah back for 10 more episodes before the end of the year and then 40 come the new year. So this Friday we have- Hold on. Stop the clock. Stop the presses. Why do I have to stop the clock and the presses? I'll wait while you stop the clock and then the presses. Hold on one second.

Jesus. All right. Here we go. Cody, give me the goddamn clock. The presses control is right over there. Oh, let me do that first. Pull that lever. Okay, presses are stopped.

I can't reach the clock. Okay, so now that the presses are stopped, we'll deal with the clock later. Okay. 40 in 2015. Yeah, your favorite U2 song, 40. They were singing about my season four. That's a lot of episodes.

It's a lot. You must be worn out. I'm going to rise to meet the challenge. But we're back on Friday. Okay. We are back. Great. I want everyone to watch it.

Everyone who, I'm very proud of the show. Okay, so why were we talking about that? Oh, we were talking about Hosier. On the show, our sound person last year, way before anyone had ever heard of him said hey i really like this guy hosier and and kind of guilted me into buying the record right in front of him like like if i didn't buy the record then he'd be very disappointed because he recommended it and it had that song take me to church church. Bang-a-ding, bang-a-ding. Is that a hit?

Yeah, it's a pretty, it's an alternative hit. I liked, I watched him and thought it was, Congratulations. He was good.

Congratulations. Congratulations. But I'd never heard of him. Yeah, he's good. And I met him afterwards, him and his family and his friends.

And guess what, Adam? What? Hosier? Yeah. Hosier. Yeah. Bigier! Yeah. Big Comedy Bang Bang fan.

Oh, yeah? Does he listen to you talking U2 to me? I hope so. If you're out there, I bet his brother does. Oh. So, hey, Hosier and Hosier Bro. Is his album called Hosier? I don't know.

I just bought the goddamn thing. This one? Yeah, that one. I'm going to purchase it right now. Purchase it. He's good. I liked him a lot. What did you think?

I thought he was great on SNL. Yeah. What did you think compared to Carmen? Who's that? Did you not see Carmen? I like Carmen. Okay, I gotta say. I don't know who that is.

Everyone, everyone talks about me having shitty musical taste, by the way. People who listened to the last episode, they talk about me online. They say, Scott Ackerman has shitty musical taste. He likes U2 and Coldplay. Guess what? I like all the shit you like as well. Oh, right. You freaked out about the new Coldplay album. I think that's a great record. Okay. And you know what? I like all the shit you like as well. Oh, right. You freaked out about the new Coldplay album.

I think that's a great record. Okay. And you know what? Several alternative publications back me up on it and say people are sleeping on it. Yeah. But just because I like things that these people consider to be shitty, I also like stuff that is really good. I just like more music than people. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm not afraid to say i like you know poppy whatever yeah i mean i just bought the hosier album uh but carmen is like a it's a it's they're young i think were they on snl they were on snl they were probably it was they were probably too young to be on snl they were kind of universally derided for it when were they on they were on maybe a year and a half ago. Like right after Lana Del Rey when people were like,

come on SNL, get your shit together musically because she was too, she was too new and she was too nervous. Yeah. And they were a little too new and nervous.

But they're like a young couple. They're probably like 22. I think they're boyfriend and girlfriend. They rose to fame doing YouTube covers of popular songs

where she would kind of rap and sing. Ugh. But I liked them. Anyway, I like Carmen, but I just think it's funny to – Who was hosting when they did it? I'll look that up. Can you fill the silence? Great fucking job.

Have you been doing any concerts lately? I went to Tom Petty. Did you? Talk about it. It was good. It was a good show. You know, his shows are very no frills. There isn't really a, like a.

He can't afford frills? He can. I think he's kind of making a point of we're just going to play these songs and there's no light show really. There's no. They don't have lights. Well, they do have lights. What about a spotlight?

Like there are certain points where I just kind of thought, wow, you could this song like they are a great band and they sound amazing. There were certain points where I even of thought, wow, you could, this song, like they are a great band and they sound amazing. There were certain points where I even thought like, wow, you could kind of spice this up with a little bit of light action. Man, that is the last time that I ask you to fill the silence. You are fucking boring. Have you ever noticed that?

No, I thought that was terrific. I think it was Zoe Deschanel hosted. Oh. Do you want to hear a little bit of Carmen? Sure. But have you been to any concerts? Yeah, I went to a couple of concerts at the Hollywood

Bowl. I found out that I can... Oh, you went to like Neutral Milk Hotel and stuff? Yes, I went to like neutral milk hotel and stuff yes i went to neutral milk hotel with the breeders oh this is an ad you know what let's listen to it you help me pour the simple grains of rice krispies they're made with rice 17 seconds till the video. Let's just sit through it. Is it in your tummy? A gentle grain that's easy for little tongues to digest.

There's no option to skip at this point. Yeah, but I don't know. I'm kind of into this one. Kellogg's See You at Breakfast. The simple grains of Rice Krispies. Is Kellogg's like telling me it wants to fuck? See You at breakfast? Ladies and gentlemen, Carmen!

She's dancing around. She's sort of like a Gwen Stefani type. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Come on. Yeah. I don't like it? I don't know

Not really There's so little time until we die Do we really need to fill it listening to Carmen? No I like him though Is that a Band of Outsiders shirt? Oh, wait, hold on What? What was hold on what what was that the shirt you have on no it's not hey i have a gift for you scott oh by the way this will make how long ago did i get

you a gift about a week ago okay did you acknowledge it uh i wanted to talk about it on the show so i but did you acknowledge it with like a thank you no i wanted to talk about it on the show so i but did you acknowledge it with like a thank you no i wanted to talk about it on the show oh so you were waiting till the show to thank me for it if if i were to thank you it would be on the show and i thought that you would understand that well i see you have a physical copy of the book i purchased that's what i wanted to talk about does that mean you did not i never even opened the one you sent me. You didn't even open the one. Because I had already bought it from Amazon and had it same day delivered to me. Oh.

Can you help me get a refund on that? No. All I can say is sucks to be you. Okay. Well, I have another gift for you. Okay. Oh, I love gifts. What is this?

What is? Oh, it's a rattle and hum coffee mug. They sell those. Where? At Amoeba. Why? I don't know. I just saw it there and I couldn't believe it.

I love it. Oh my gosh. And I got one for myself that's under the blood red sky. Oh, you got the cooler one. It's way cooler looking than that one. This is great though. I love it. And then I bought the, you got the cooler one. It's way cooler looking than that one. This is great though. I love it. And then I bought the physical copy of the new album.

And so I went up to the cashier at Amoeba with two coffee mugs and the CD. Hi. And you're Adam Scott. Yeah, I thought like if by any chance there's someone that knows this podcast and sees me doing that. Just would be like, this is the most you talking YouTube to me moment of their lives. But there was not anyone that called me on it. Well, I was reading this book on a plane and there was a nice young man I met who's a fan. Oh, really?

Sitting right by me. And I was just like, I pulled it out and I I was like, oh, boy, here it comes. But he was very nice and never made mention of it. Oh, he didn't? Yeah, but I just knew. Because I had to read it, because that was the only time I had to read this book was on that plane ride. And I was like, I really don't want to read this book in front of this guy.

That's so funny. So, but SNL, it's going to have to wait until February. How close are you? can you talk about it if if you really were in talks to host snl could you say something about it could you give a sly little wink to it to the fans right now oh my god fuck you why literally it it I've used the analogy before that it's like having a conversation with a step-aunt at a Christmas party. I want you to do this. Shut up. Out of the two of us, I think that you have a better chance. Stop.

Although I do have to say I went to the show. Which is a very fun fun exciting thing to do it was it was very exciting and this is my third time i went to the bill hater show i went to the bill hater show and bobby moynihan was nice enough to take me and a group of people around on stage and i stood out up there on the stage and i said bobby i'm calling it right now i'm gonna host this show by the time i'm 45 now that is in july so i need you to pull some strings and did he say you got it yeah he said you got it he said you're there you're there um but no i think i think that i think you can do it. Stop. Please.

Look, NBC Synergy, Parks and Rec final season to promote. You too? Please. Please stop. What sketches would you want to do? Would you want to do a Gilly or what would you do? I'd want to do a sketch where I kill Scott Aukerman. Do you think they'd go for that? How was The Breeders

and Neutral Milk Hotel? Was it like, were you like, oh my God, everyone's old? No. I have to say that I was lucky to go to that show because Neil Campbell, our executive producer on Comedy Bang Bang and head writer, had tickets, but we were shooting.

And we were scheduled to go pretty late that night. And we said, you know what? We'll just go whenever we get off. Yeah. Weirdly enough, we flew through all the scenes. We were doing a ton of pages, but we flew through them. Flew through all the scenes. We were doing a ton of pages, but we flew through them.

We were off like three hours early, and we looked at each other and said, we're going to not only make this show, but even get to see the openers. We got there right when the breeders started. Wow. So Neutral Milk Hotel was the headliner? Yeah. Oh, wow. And they filled the Hollywood Bowl.

I don't think they filled it. It's one of those events where they go, you know what? You can probably fit. If you get the right opening acts, you can probably fill half of the bowl. Right. And it's worth it. It's just a great – it looks really good for you. It's just a nice and a great place to see a show. Yeah.

So we went – we got there for the breeders who were – look, I love the breeders. I saw them at Bonnaroo – not Bonnaroo. Lollap Palooza? No. What's in Seattle? It's – Fuck. I can't remember the Seattle.

Oh. What is it called? Bumbershoot. Yeah. Summit Bumbershoot stood on stage during their recreation of the whole album. Oh, wow. And I really like that. For the Hollywood Bowl, it was a little small.

Yeah, yeah. It just kind of stood there. But Neutral Milk Hotel was great. Really? So are they really, like I've never seen them live, so are they big performers? It's interesting. The dude, and I have to say that I'm not like Jonah Ray. I'm not the, you know,'m not the – Right, right.

I don't sit there, as he described it, like in tears listening to the record. Yeah, me neither, but I do like them. But I like them a lot. I like their sound. The dude – so I don't know their names or anything, but the dude, he started off just singing on his acoustic guitar, and it was just him. Right. And then he went pretty long, like two and a half minutes where I was like, oh, the first it was just him right and then he went pretty long like two and a half minutes where i was like oh the first song is just him all of a sudden like two and a half minutes in

the rest of the band careens out of the wings runs to their instruments the minute they get to their instruments they start playing wow that's cool and it just was very energetic and there's a lot of them um there's like an old guy who looks like Santa Claus who's playing on the old trumpet. Wait a second. Was it Santa Claus? I think it was. Oh, my God. I think it actually was him.

Oh, my God. I mean, he's got to be free the other 364 nights a year. Yeah, I mean. Unless he's yelling at those elves. Get a move on. Is that how he sounds? I think that's how Santa Claus sounds. It was great.

The whole show was awesome. Now, they only have, what, two albums? Yeah, maybe some EPs. And they're all in a box set that just came out recently. And he doesn't play a lot. I know he plays some solo shows, but it was just fantastic. And it just seemed like a celebration, like, hey, everyone likes us. That's so great.

That was awesome. I also saw The Simpsons show. Oh, yeah. Was that fun? It was okay. What? It kind of felt like a scam to me. What do you mean?

It was really under-rehearsed. Oh. It just felt thrown together. It was like Hank Azaria was out there rehearsed oh like it just felt thrown together it was like hank azaria was out there just kind of like what was it i don't even know what they were were they like doing um scenes from the show they were doing songs from the show but if you recall all of the songs there are like a minute right maybe a minute and a half. Right. So they would have like Conan O'Brien come out and sing the monorail song, which is a 60 second long song. But you can't just have Conan O'Brien

come out for 60 seconds. So instead they get him to do like 10 minutes of bits, non-Simpsons related bits. So everyone was like that. Like John Lovitz, who was really funny, came out and did like 10 minutes of material and then sang- One minute. One minute. So it didn't feel very Simpsons-y really funny came out and did like 10 minutes of material and then sang one minute one minute

so it didn't feel very simpsonsy and it also felt a little tacked together like no one had rehearsed all that much so that was a that was a bit of a bummer um considering i had spent a lot of money on those tickets uh but what what else have you seen nothing that's the i think that's the only concert i've tom petty tom petty i i've seen tom petty a bunch of times he's always great uh the crowd is not getting any younger at a time they're sort of aging up with him i it was nice because i felt young which you usually don't at shows no because you're usually the shows you go to are shows yeah like if i i'm sure if i went to see i think i saw vampire weekend once but if i went to see vampire weekend i would be some very old what clues do you need to learn if you saw vampire weekend or not no fucking idea I'm pretty sure I did see them.

I saw Vampire Weekend, and I was right next to Jude Law. Oh, wow. Did he lay down the law? He did. He just laid down in the middle of the crowd. He was like, I'm laying down the law, get it?

We all went, Jude, we don't get it. Hey, Jude, we don't get it. Hey. Hey. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Ba, ba. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. Ba, ba, ba, ba.

Do, do. Oh, man. Boy. Good stuff. We got to go to the mail. We got a couple of pieces of mail. That took a lot out of me, that trumpet. Yeah, are you all right?

Oh, my gosh. All right, we got a couple of pieces of mail. took a lot out of me that trumpet are you all right oh my gosh all right we got a couple of pieces of mail keep the mail coming we got something from kate fries it's it's written like french fries but it's got to be freeze right i guess unless she's awesome and then she pronounces it fries yeah did i ever tell you, by the way, about my neighbor? This is a really funny story. Okay. Do I want to tell this story or not? I don't know. Okay. My neighbor where I used to live, he moved in and his name, I don't want to say his first name, but his last name was F-A-G-O-T. Okay. Okay.

How do you pronounce it? That's what I wondered, because it got put on the mailbox. Yeah. And it was him and his wife, and I was like, how do you pronounce this? I don't want to embarrass myself. How do you say this guy's name? Either way you pronounce it, it's bad. So we met the wife first.

Yeah. And she said, hi there, my name is, and said her name, Faggo. Faggo. Faggo. And I went,

oh, that's how it is. Okay. Then I met him a couple days later and he stuck out his hand and he said, hi there, my name is, his name,

Faggot. I don't like saying that word, but in this case, it is a story of something that happened to me. And I just thought that was such an interesting disconnect. Like she had not made peace. She had altered it. Yeah, because she was embarrassed by marrying this guy

and he was just like, I am who I am. I don't give a fuck. I'm Edward Faggot. Which by the way, as a to edward scissorhands is not bad a movie called i'm edward faggot i apologize for that word being said on this show well we're saying it in the context of someone's name um kate fries kate quote french unquote fries she wrote a really long letter um

but uh really nice uh uh she runs she says she can't send us any t-shirts unfortunately but she did buy a you talking you too to me t-shirt from the earwolf store and since she traditionally listens to the podcast while running she'll wear that shirt to one of her next races and take a pic to send on twitter that's really nice she brings up a question adam uh she says on the next episode if we could bring this up, we talk about songs of incontinence. We make a lot of comments about songs that sound like hits. She wonders in today's fragmented music climate, can you two have a legitimate hit? Do they need to?

And does it even matter in terms of their legacy? Oh, well. Yeah, I mean, they could have a hit i mean people have hit songs it's not like there aren't hits anymore who's like the oldest person to have a hit song recently boy um i don't know it's an interesting question like who's who's a legacy artist that they actually would have a hit they actually went oh shit they actually had a hit the the oldest ones i can remember were first of all you two with vertigo i thought that was kind of one of the yeah that was a big hit but aerosmith when they had jaded if you recall they sang jaded at the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony because it was a hit and it just had come out. I don't remember that song. Ooh, j-j-jaded.

How long ago was that? Probably 2000 or so. Let me look it up. But that is like one of the oldest ones I could remember that it was like, oh, wow, Aerosmith had a hit even though the last hit they had had been like five years earlier or something like that. Well, Coldplay is a different generation, right? Because they just had a hit. Yeah, they did. But they're definitely like – they're Radiohead imitators and Radiohead are sort of U2 imitators. Right. Jaded was December 21, 2000.

Well, that's quite a while ago yeah so i mean what i mean i feel like every breaking wave could be a hit right but who's playing in that's the question who's playing any of these songs anywhere the only time i have ever heard anything from songs of innocence was in the apple commercials and i actually heard uh i heard the miracle of joey ramone in a subway yeah i mean they play it on like adult alternative stations and rock stations do they yeah i mean apparently that's what i read i don't really listen to the radio but um i don't know if i don't think they're playing it on like you know where you'll be hearing taylor swift and all those together please make a point well that was my point that they're not going to play it on pop radio i don't

i mean i don't think they are but i don't why every breaking wave is, you know, they have like Ryan Tedder producing it so it can fit in on one of those. But that's the point. Like back when 1 came out, that was what? A number 3 or number 2 hit. Will they ever have a top 40 hit again? I don't know. Adult alternative, maybe they'll have hits, but I don't even know. Do you think they'll have a hit like on?

I don't think they ever will again. Really? think it's they're done for really yeah i don't think they'll they'll have a hit record in the way like not a big but not a single yeah never again what and why do you think that is i just think that no you know i mean god they're they're almost going to be 60 when their next record comes out. You know? I just don't see it. Interesting. Is it?

No. Okay. We have to take a break. When we come back, we're going to talk about the book. I want to get your insight into it. We're going to talk about the book, you two, the definitive. Did you mark some pages and stuff? Just, I kind of came

so they're all sticky does that count yeah I did because I just have mine on my iPad not to brag I have an iPad and I so my when my iPad's all covered with cum there's nothing I can do it doesn't mark

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no you have to test every single patient a lot of tests um welcome back we're talking about songs of innocence this entire show

the physical release with uh how many bonus tracks like ten ten bonus tracks can I see that CD again I just want to see

what the songs are here you go. Fuck you. Should we go through the... No, let's talk about the book first. Oh, okay. So I think this book is terrible. It's a piece of shit. It's a piece of garbage.

I didn't know what you thought about it. You kind of checked in with me. First of all, okay, yes, you you gave me this i just sent you the itunes version of it but i mean yeah i thought like i was excited for this book to you have been talking about this book i know forever months ago you sent me the pre-sale link to it like look i did what the fuck is coming out but i just because it was like the unauthorized biography it'll have all this dirt in it and i just thought it was like the unauthorized biography, it'll have all this dirt in it.

And I just thought it'll be so interesting to hear all the behind the scenes shit. Look, I like scenes just as much as the next guy,

but even better than scenes. What the fuck is behind those scenes? I want to see the other side. Demolish that fourth wall. Get behind the scene and look around and tell me about it i wish that

on happy days when we were at al's right i just want to get behind that place go behind al's i want to get back alley sally style see what back alley sally style just to see that dumpster so but this book is fucking bullshit it's it's what okay it's so boring first of all it's so boring there is no narrative uh drive to any it's just a list of facts yeah okay and hearsay it goes back and forth from two things. Just a list of things anyone could fucking look up on the internet. Right. It's just a bunch of quotes from like Spin Magazine. Yeah. And this happened, and then this happened,

and then they sold this amount of records, and then they got this guy to produce their record. It literally was just like reading the internet. Right. A really long Wikipedia thing. It's like a Wikipedia page, basically. But then they also mix in just, because it was almost, it was like a jiki it's a wikipedia page basically but then they also mix in just because it was almost it was like a jolt every once in a while because you'd be reading this long list of

facts and then you'd read something like and larry was so pissed at bono that he decided he'd never talk to him again what i was just reading all these there's that unsubstantiated rumor it's ridiculous there's the one chapter on the joshua tree tour he has one source that he uses for all this gossip and it's the stylist that was apparently on the road with them right and this stylist the chapter is basically one long quote from this one woman who is pissed at them yeah who just tells these ridiculous stories they're really funny like bono sees larry after a concert they're all taking a shower at the stadium and he sees larry putting on his underwear and it's the underwear that

bono has and he gets mad that lar Larry bought the same kind of underwear that he had so they start wrestling nude in the shower while the Edge and Adam are also naked just watching them wrestle and fight. So you'll get a story. What the fuck is that? You'll get a story like that right after a bunch of-

Which is probably just not true. And if it is make the whole book that right or lead up to that story with some sort of narrative drive so that is they would fight a lot do a whole chapter on they would fight a lot and then talk about all their fights but it really was like the chapter would be the unforgettable fire and then it was like a long laundry list of things and then all of a sudden sudden, oh, by the way, in the showers, they wrestled naked. It's so stupid. It's so weird.

Who's the guy that wrote it? John Jobling. How did he get this published? It's so weird. By the way, he's probably a fan of the show, undoubtedly. I'm sure. He probably got a lot of his information from it. Probably.

Such as band member names. You know what that – it actually reminded me of when we were Bono and the Edge backstage at Zoo TV. Remember when we were – when you were the Edge and I was Bono? Oh, yeah. That was as substantive as this book. And then it kind of runs out of steam what's really weird is it's just facts facts facts and then it gets to the end of um fuck i'm blanking on their last record what it was called the previous no line on yeah it goes to no no line on the horizon kind of runs

out of plot yeah and then just goes into rumor for the last chapter basically just about how larry's quitting the band soon no closure on that it just brings it up just all this all of all of a sudden by the way sorry everyone um and says oh by the way larry decided to give the band two more years right uh and then he's gonna quit no follow-up on that right no like no source no source and nothing of saying well he changed his mind right just that's hanging out there at a certain point right and but then it just gets into basically their big long lawsuit with that stylist and how they tried to bury her and how oh wait they got sued by her i just jumped around i didn't read the whole book well yeah they they know they sued her and basically like put her in the poor

house because she wrote a book um and they didn't sue her for the book they sued her for some uh costumes that she had that they that she said well you gave these to me and they said we would never give you these things and bono went and testified um really and then admitted in the test of the testimony that um they were all pissed at her for writing this book so basically she had no money and they won the lawsuit and she's in, she's kind of in the poor house. And so she's the source for all those ridiculous stories. Yeah, exactly. Jesus.

So, but it kind of ends on, it ends on that and it ends with Bono, with all of his band members being pissed at him for basically giving his whole life over to politics. Right. And. Which is so boring, and you can kind of get that from any article that's not like...

Yeah. And it doesn't really go into his whole buying the capital. What is that, the thing that he bought? The Elevation Capital thing. Yeah, Elevation Capital. It doesn't really go into that, but it does kind of go into... It doesn't seem like he likes paul mcginnis very much

no he kind of goes after him he keeps talking about him at like a bruiser or you know yeah i don't know it's just terrible it's just a shitty shitty book and i was i i thought it was going to be like can i see it yeah i guess so i thought it was going to be sort of like william goldman william goldman's lennon book or something. Like something or Kitty Kelly's Sinatra book, something that at least has some dirt in it and is entertaining. And it just. Who published it? Like St. Martin's Press, like it's an actual.

Yeah. It's terrible. And even the cover is, it says you two and the you and the two are made of photos from their career. And there's two photos from Zoo TV. There's two photos from the same photo session for the Around Boy era. Two and two. Chuck Woolery.

Like even on the cover, they don't span the entire career. It's like almost – like it's just so haphazardly and shittily done. So don't get this book. Certainly don't buy three copies like we did. Right. Jesus. John Jobling is a British film and music journalist. Jesus.

John Jobling is a British film and music journalist. Over the years, he's interviewed such personalities as Julian Anderson, Mick Mankind Foley, and Karen Oh. So he's interviewed three people, one of whom no one has ever heard of? My God. And one who was in the X-Files years ago jesus john jobling suck my dick i mean in a good way it is embarrassing it's a pretty embarrassing book if you if you're a fan by the way we apologize and hey we put about what would you say about70 in your coffers? We really did. I personally purchased two copies.

I personally purchased one. Your copy cost $26.99. Yeah. Gee whiz. Terrible. Just awful. Yeah. A piece of garbage.

Yeah. It literally is a piece of garbage because I'm going to throw it away. Yeah. Unless there's – who out there wants this book? You know, we could – We should sign it for someone. Yeah, we should sign it. We should have a contest.

Yeah. What do you want the contest to be? Whoever – the object of the contest would be to win this book. To win this book, and we'll send them the book. Yeah. Okay. And we'll autograph it, and we'll get all of the members of U2 to autograph it. Okay.

How about once this... Engineer Cody Cody will autograph it as well. How's that? If he can get there in time for the autograph session. Once this episode droaps. Sure. Which will be in a matter of hours, I believe. Oh, is it drooping tomorrow?

I believe so. Which will be in a matter of hours, I believe. Oh, is it droping tomorrow? I believe so. The first person to tweet us a photo of them. What do we need them to do in the photo? Why are you pointing at me? Because I want you to.

Okay, tell you what. The first person to tweet us with a picture of them in their You Talking U2 to Me t-shirts, well, that's kind of not fair because some people got them late. Tell you what, first person just to tweet us a picture of them with a sign that says, give me the book, I love pussy. Jesus, really? Yeah, you'll get the book. But just to make it fair, it can also say, I love dongs. Like if you're not- If you're not into pussy, we got it. Right.

I love dongs. I love dongs. Give me the book, I love pussy or I love dongs. You get this book. You'll get the, and the first person to tweet both of us. Yeah. You got to tag both of us.

You got to tag Scott Aukerman. And who are you? Mr. Adam Scott. Yeah. And it'll be signed by me, Scott and Cody. Engineer Cody, Cody and Everett.

Fedge. Fedge. Bonobos. Adam Clay, 2000 pounds. And Larry Mullen, senior son yeah yep

we'll get it out to you alright we gotta take a break when we come back we will be talking exclusively about Songs of Innocence and we'll be going

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You talking U2 to me. And this is the Songs of Innocence physical release special. And it's been a while. It's been a month. Kind of month. It's been a month since it came out. A lot has happened. Yeah.

Like crazy backlash to the album. Yeah. People were not stoked. No. So many times I wished we were recording because I had so many thoughts as it was all going on.

Yeah. I mean, it seemed like every day you'd get a new thought. Congrats. One thought at least three times a week. What did you think of all that? Because people really freaked out.

It was in the media, the lamestream media. Oh, man. Boy. Tell me about the left media. Oh, boy. They picked up on this stuff. Here's what I got to say, though. I think that they, you know, there's sort of a pile-on mentality these days with media stories.

And I think everything is clickbait now. So I think what is sexier and what's going to get clicks saying, hey, a couple of people don't like U2's record, or saying, people freak out at U2. Yeah, I remember the day it was released, Vulture had a headline that you needed to click on to read the article that said, everyone is mad at U2. Yeah. I can't stand that kind of stuff.

So I was trying to just kind of realistically gauge the backlash. Right. It seemed like there was a lot of backlash from young kind of hip hipster right music websites websites that i frequent that i like pitchfork or stereo gummers or the like it seemed like there was a lot of backlash from them saying everyone hates it. Right. But what,

who do they represent? Well, it was interesting because journalists, music journalists and critics that I respect like Pitchfork and the guy that writes for New Yorker. I thought, I thought the Pitchfork review of the album was kind of embarrassing a little bit. It read like a parody of a pitchfork review. And it read like the person had listened to it once and really just thought about the backlash.

They were mostly reviewing the release. The release, yeah. And what's interesting, Adam, is that, and God damn it, Adam, I got to tell you this, is that, please, please do. Is that. People were writing me. By the way, my name is Scott. Oh, sorry, Scott. People were writing me and presumably you saying it's weird that we were the only people who gave this record a fair shake and reviewed it in an interesting manner

and actually reviewed the music. We talked about it on the last show. Don't review the release strategy, release the music. And people were saying, I do have to say, it's gratifying to hear that a lot of people have written to us and said, you know what? I wouldn't have listened to the record, but you guys went through it track by track and convinced me to listen to it and i like it right it's it's it's it's good did you read the new yorker review i didn't read it tell me about it it's um it's incredibly harsh again it's mostly about the gall that they had to release it in the way that they did and uh sasha jones sasha um baron cohen my wife i don't know exactly how to pronounce his middle name so i won't try fuckface yeah sasha fuck no i mean he's a great music critic but his the review is like really um ridiculous

and again it's mostly about the gall that they had to release it and the fact that Joey Ramone's name is in the title of the song seems to really offend. Well, I mean, I think Jake Fogelnest, who's an internet wiseass, I think he was making jokes about how upset the Ramones would be or something like that. But look, I mean, the thing is, I think it's, as Bob Odenkirk told me once when there was a Bad Mr. Show review, you know, he was saying every person writing a story needs an angle. And you can't just write something.

You need an angle and you need like this is what the article is about and i think that that you two made it easy on writers for the angle for sure of just like look how obnoxious they are look look how stupid this was that everyone got this a few people are upset about it so everyone is upset about it And no one gave it a fair shake. Now, I think that who is actually really upset about this? I think it's a small minority of people and it got blown up. Well, I think also if you're ambivalent about it, but then you hear that people are upset. Like, yeah, that's fucking bullshit. This is, I think that it's a little, you know, you get, people are really quick to get fired up

about really dumb, stupid, small things. But at the same time, I have to say, if I was 22 and someone put an Eagles album. Got a 22-year-old Adam Scott. That is fucking prime beef right there. You could just lick your spoon, my friend. I could just do anything I wanted to you? Well, I don't know about that.

Okay, so what is this hypothetical situation? If you were 22 and I had just the ability to tie you up and do anything I wanted to do. Jesus Christ. What? Why are you just... Is that what the situation is? You think you could just tie me up and do anything you wanted to me? Yeah.

Just because I'm 22 years old? Sure. Who do you think you are? You're not 23 yet. That's true. I'm not the legal age 23 yet. Everyone knows when you turn 23, other people can no longer do anything they want to you. No, then all of your rights kind of activate.

Revert back to yourself, yes. But if you were 22 and someone put an Eagles record into your iTunes. I could see myself getting way more upset than is than is, yeah, apropos. Meanwhile, 20 years later, you'd probably go, oh, I wish I had that Eagles record

that I deleted. Right, right. But at the same time, I saw a lot of ridiculous, like, complaints of people. I saw one, I don't know if it was a tweet that tagged me for some reason or if it was a comment somewhere.

Someone just saying, I have spent years carefully curating my iTunes library. What? And it's just the general attitude of you shouldn't use the word curate, first of all, if you don't work at the Met. But also I do get it too like it is obnoxious but it is but at the same time it's not people were acting as if their rights were being infringed upon and when you agree to itunes to automatically download any anything but also that just the contract you're signing when you press agree. Yeah, that no one reads. Right.

So I get people getting upset, but I think it got really, really stupid. And people saying it's creepy. Right. No, it's not. You have an iTunes account. You're the creep. It's kind of stupid. But you know what I thought was interesting is I was reading all these think pieces, as they say, about U2 and about how wrong it is and about how everyone is mad at it. Right.

And then I go on to, you know, you look at the charts and all of U2's records, all of their back catalog has shot up the charts. Oh, everyone hates this so much that they're all buying their records right no it worked it worked for a large large number of people people who aren't reading these younger websites oh i think the what they were setting out to do 100 worked because i mean first of all there's that website that the Tumblr that somebody put together, which was called What Is U2 or whatever. Oh, yeah, but which was everyone's. A compilation of tweets of people complaining about it. And basically, and a lot of people sent this to us, they're saying, what is U2 and why is it in my iTunes?

Exactly. Which just goes to prove that no matter how huge something is, a large part of the population of the world has no idea what it is. Right. But at the same time, guess who's now heard of U2? Yeah. All of those people.

All of those people. And even if they've deleted it, they now know what U2 is, and next time they see it in a store, it might go, oh, that's that thing I've heard of. So mission accomplished, I think. Mission impossible, I think.

Which Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton. Yes, that's what I'm trying to say! Oh, my God! They did the theme song, too. Which I've heard complaints that we never mentioned on the show before. Look, we'll do a whole special on Mission Impossible. Oh, yeah, we will. By the way, I think we should do a word-for-word recreation of our Spider-Man episode.

Okay, good. So we'll read a transcript of it? Yeah. Okay. I do think that, I mean, what is it? 81 million people have listened to the album. 26 million people have downloaded it. So I feel like they did successfully cut through the noise

and get their record out there what they didn't do is that all they were trying to do in the press and in the court of public opinion supposedly which is a bunch of you know people on the internet kind of being snarky it was a public relations disaster right so much so do you think it was a disaster i think it was in the sense of so many people piled on about it yeah that it became i believe sort of depressing for bono and depressing for the u2 camp of like oh boy that didn't work out the way no matter what the good that we're not hearing about it is it it seems like fuck i mean i'm sure they were they were uh anticipating some sort of backlash i don't think so i think that they were thinking people would go free record awesome like you know how they gave away invisible for free yeah and only a certain amount of people actually

downloaded it this is them going like who's gonna complain at a free record this time we'll just make sure it gets to everybody and in their minds it was like who's who would who in the fuck would ever complain about a free record i doubt it i bet that they knew that taking dismiss what i say taking that extra step and inserting it into people's collections was going to some people weren't gonna like that but i'm sure that they thought even that could feed the story but they probably just didn't anticipate that it would be have so much negative i hope we get to ask him that yeah when he comes on the show because i i honestly believe that he just was like everyone's gonna love this yeah maybe and now that the now

that um it's sort of backfired on them i I think – and you sent me an interesting Q&A, question and answer. Question and answer is what Q&A stands for. From the band Hue 2 on – All four members were there. All four members. Who were they? Bonobos. Bonobos, of course.

Fedge. Fedge. Adam Clay, 2,000 pounds? Yep. And Larry Mullen, Sr.'s son. Right. All four of them participated in this. Was it for a website?

Was it for thefacebook.com? Facebook.com. Thefacebook.com. A social media website. And they participated in this Q&A, and someone sent in a cue, which they in turn had to A by the compact of the Q&A. And it said something to the effect of, hey, will you stop sending people albums and putting them in their iTunes? It's really annoying. It's really rude.

It's really rude it's really rude rude rude guys get your fucking priorities straight rude i mean rude is like a telemarketer or someone taking a shit on your face that's super rude that's super rude i would always wonder when telemarketers would call and people go, not during dinner. How the fuck am I supposed to know when you eat? Last night, a telemarketer called my house at 8.30 at night. And they said, they started their spiel and I said, excuse me, please don't call here. And the woman said, why?

Why are you so fucking special? You can't be called. And then for a second, I felt like I had called her. What was she selling? I don't know because then she hung up on me. What? Yes, fucking. I tell you.

But anyway, Bonobos responded sheepishly. Yeah. That he was sorry about the whole thing. And that in their verve and sort of hubris and concern that they spent so much time on this record and no one would listen to it, they went overboard. Yeah. And, you know, sorry is basically what he said i think it was effective because i saw that everywhere today yeah auto apologizes yeah boy the news cycle huh hey we live in a fast fast age scott information boom boom boom you know what i'm saying i'm no me neither well anyway they're they're uh contrite

what do you think the lasting effect because they're going to be asked about this in every interview for the rest of their career and the rest of their lives i think on their deathbeds some of them hey what the fuck was up with that and they'll be like the body farts when it dies but do you think this was a huge blow to their career or do you think overall the good will outweigh the bad if chris brown can beat the shit out of rihanna yeah and three years later everyone's fine with him like do you think when they go on tour it will have any do you think we're gonna see like no arena's not full because of this? No, this will be fine.

They'll be fine. If anything, I think it's made them more popular. Yeah. It's definitely better than if they had released a record and no one bought it and no one talked about it. Right. There's no press like bad press. What is that? There's no such thing as –

Show business. There's no such thing as show business. There's no such thing as show business. Show business is a myth. Yeah, there it is. I think they'll be fine. Are you looking forward to them being on tour? And are we going to bro out there? I'm looking forward to recording a special episode of this program at a U2 show.

I cannot wait. When do you think it is? Are there rumors? I think they start next summer. Oh, that's good for me. Okay, I won't be taping the show anymore. I'm so glad it's good for you. Jesus fucking Christ. How has the album

been sitting with you, Scott? I know you're a busy man. I have been taping the show. The last episode we taped was the first day we started taping the show. It last episode we taped was the first day we started taping the show. It was the very first day

of our shooting schedule. Which was a little more than a month ago. And we have since been shooting every single day until I had to go to New York. Yeah, I've been working too, but on the way to work,

you can listen to things in your car. On the way, okay, it takes me 15 minutes to get to work. What am I supposed to listen to? That's what, three songs? Maybe.

Maybe three songs? But I have to stop and take a shit every five minutes. Right, I forgot about that. So I haven't listened to it as much, but I have to say I still like it. Okay, a lot of people were saying to me, let's play a little bit of Raised by Wolves, by the way. Still the best song on the record a lot of people were saying to me that they were making fun of me saying that it had too much new car smell on it when i declared it to be better than zuropa okay and even you were a little

dubious about that well i just thought it was a little early to... Too early to say. I would say now that, yeah, I think it might be better. You think it might be better than Zeropa? Yeah. I think I was high. Oh, you don't think... I don't think it's better than Zeropa. Okay. It's still a couple of dodgy aspects to it that...

I just think it's their best collection of songs in a long time. In a long time. They're all straightforward pop songs. And I really like that it's just sort of no frills, great songwriting. You hate frills. Yeah, tonight I'm against frills. Wait, you wanted them with Tom Petty.

I wanted more frills with Thomas Petty. What is the right amount of frills for you? Tonight, I don't want you two to have the frills. For real? For real. I think it's probably not as good as Zoropa, but that's the only one that I, in my ranking. Definitely better than No Line on the Horizon. Definitely better than that.

Way better than How to Dismantle horizon definitely better than that way better than how to dismantle an atomic bomb i'm so sorry to say your either favorite record or your fourth favorite we'll never find out um you know larry mullen jr in an interview the other day came out and talked came out and talked a lot of shit about no line on the horizon did he what'd he say he said it was not fun to make that the record is a mess it is and uh and the songs weren't there but can you imagine like feeling that way about an album and then knowing you have to tour for two years yeah that must be so fucking depressing the one thing i do have to say in that book that we read that piece of shit that yeah one of you can win um that it did say what we suspected which is that record there's a good version of it out there yeah but all this all of a sudden um

bono decided to record those three shitty songs in the middle of it right get on your because he felt like there wasn't going to be a single that went to the top of the charts so he recorded get on your goddamn boots get on your boots stand up comedy comedy and i'll go crazy if i don't go crazy tonight two of those songs i like i actually like despite their dumb titles yeah but Get On Your Boots. Will there ever be a worse song ever written? Now, Camp Down Races is not a good song, but I could probably listen to it more than Get On Your Boots. I still think I like the chorus for Get On Your Boots. Get on your boots.

No, not that. I like the. That's more of an intro though. Yeah. I don't like the... No. And I don't like... Oh, that's what I like.

I like that. But I wish it was in a different song. Different song, yeah. So wait. So how do you like this record, though? I like it a lot. I think I kind of feel the same. You know what's really grown on me on this is Cedarwood Road.

Now, you said that you hated that title on our last episode. I did? You were very dubious about it and said, oh, boy, here we go. And now let's hear a little bit of Cedarwood Road. Here it is right here. It's a really good song. And I think on disc two, if we're talking about that. We will be, yeah.

In the acoustic sessions, they do a version of Cedarwood Road, and I think it transfers very well over to the acoustic version. This is Cedarwood Road, a song that has grown on Scott. Has it grown on you, Scott? Let's hear a little bit more of it. Okay, I do have an opinion on this. Because in the acoustic version... I will say, I'm not...

You barely got to hear any of that. Okay, all right, all right, all right. I want to make a point before it moves on from this section, because people are listening to this. I just, in general, am not a big fan of this style of guitar lick. Bang-a-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga- to me or it's too simple or i just not really bluesy you mean just like generic generic rock yeah yeah i just think it sounds good oh but then it changes it doesn't stick with this for no yeah but this part of the song i like that i also i when i was younger and in a band, my friend and I made fun of any band that started a lyric with I was going down the road.

Right. Or traveling down the road or just any road imagery. I made fun of a lot. But it's cool that you like it. I knew I was looking for a soul that's real a lot so but but yeah it's cool that you like it um sleep like a baby tonight i'm still not into but i like it the the rest of it song 10 is my favorite song on the album is it really this is where you can reach me now wait this is raised by walls where is it here we go no wait this is Raised by Wolves. Where is it? Here we go. No, wait.

This is track six. No, this is track ten. Oh, it is? Yeah. And it's funny because this and Invisible are about the exact same thing. What are they? Just like saying fuck you to your dad and joining a band. Why would I say that to my dad?

Because if you want to join a band, you have to say fuck you to your dad. Every single person who's been in a band has said fuck you to their dad? Scott, is this new information for you? What? Come on. You don't say, really? Yeah, don't let that song play. I didn't turn it down.

You don't say, really? Yeah, don't let that song play. I didn't turn it down. Mr. Meister on the boards decided we should fade it out. Mr. American Horror Story over there? Sorry to eat into your Ryan Murphy time. How about you what what what american horror story bitchcraft over here what what songs are are marinating well i love raised by wolves i think it's so good yeah it is good um i will say the miracle the miracle of joey ramone i heard it in that subway and i was like singing along i was like what song is this and then i

realized it was the youtube and every time i hear it on the apple commercial uh i think it's i think it's good i i weirdly i just did not like it as the single because because of this part of it the that part no not this actually i like this with the adamant kind of sticks yeah it's uh it's the the main guitar hook i kind of thought was too simplistic this part I guess I thought it was a little how to dismantle an atomic bomb in a way. But I tell you, the chorus is really good. Yeah, I agree. Yeah.

I think Raised by Wolves is actually the only song that doesn't really transfer well to the acoustic session. Yeah, you know what? Let's talk about the bonus stuff. Yeah. Okay, so... Is this Lucifer's Hands? This...

What is... Sorry, sorry, sorry. No, okay, Lucifer's Hands. Let's go to it. This is the first track on the bonus CD. Now, the bonus CD is made up of two new songs. Then it has one, two, three, four, five, technically six acoustic versions of songs from the record,

an alternative version of another song and then a different mix of one of the different songs so let's then a new mix of invisible yeah so as a hidden track which we should talk about when it comes out but let's let's hear one of the two new songs and let's get the patented scott and and Scott take on it. This is Lucifer's Hands. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, This sounds like a B-side to me. I think it's terrible. You do? I kind of like the chorus.

It sounds a little like a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club song to me or like a modern cult song. The cult, I mean. It sounds like a YouTube B-side from like 1992. Yeah. It also has no, like, as far as I can tell. Wait, let's hear the chorus. Okay. Sorry.

Sorry. You really got a hold on me Yeah, I mean, it's kind of catchy. It's just not that interesting. It's not interesting. It also has no lyrical cohesion as far as I can tell with the rest of the record. Like, what does it have in common

with the Songs of Innocence? That's probably why they didn't put it on there, though, right? But it's on there in terms of a bonus disc. Yeah, which doesn't really count as part of the album. But it sort of does. I mean, it's, you know, like, why not just put out a B-Sides record? Because they needed a reason to sell the physical. That's my point.

It doesn't have anything to do with Songs of Innocence. So why is it even, you know, just put out a B-Sides? I don't know. Well, that's why they didn't put it on the album is because it's thematically different. But it's on the album. No, it's not. It's on the bonus disc that you can buy as an option. As an option?

Yeah, that you can buy just the regular album or you could get the two-disc special edition that has all this stuff on it. I know, it's it to me to me I don't know all right here I understand it's not great it's not great but here let's hear the second new song the crystal ballroom by the way I think putting that song first Lucifer's hands was meant to

like shake you up and go this is a rocker right mission not accomplished all right here is the crystal ballroom. This is better kind of interesting yeah it's a little like rock the casbah a little bit

yeah a little Duran Duran maybe yeah life begins with the first glance the first kiss and the first dance all of us are wondering why we're here The first kiss and the first dance.

All of us are wondering why we're here. In the crystal ballroom underneath the chandelier. Wet the glass till the glasses sing. We punish our hearts till the heart bells ring. Heart bells ring? Yeah, heart bells. I kind of like this. Let's hear the chorus.

Ooh, I like that. I like the chorus. Yeah, it's pretty good. The only thing I would say is, without really knowing what the lyrics are about i again don't know that it really fits in lyrically to what they were trying to do but i i definitely think it's an okay song yeah it's it's okay yeah no i think it's pretty good it's pretty good it's good but it's it's it's not as strong as the album yeah if they made a whole record that sounded

like that like almost like Duran Duran's most recent record where it was like a throwback to the the Rio sound it would be interesting and you would kind of go oh that's not the great that's not a single but it's interesting I feel like they're saving the the best stuff for that songs of experience that they say they're going to put out. Well, that's what I want to talk about because, you know, I downloaded this stuff and I saw Sleep Like a Baby Tonight, which is the last song on this bonus disc, was 10 minutes and 28 seconds. Right. And I went, oh, wow, and this is an alternative mix.

I was like, oh, it's like a long dance mix, like what they put out for pop. Right. I was surprised it faded out, you know out four minutes in or five minutes in. And I was saying, what is going on? And they put Invisible on as a bonus track. Right. And I was stunned. I'm so sorry.

I hate it when you get stunned. But I wanted to talk about this and i i almost went into it last episode but i thought i had assumed they were saving invisible for songs of experience which we talked about last time is their next record supposedly the flip side to songs of innocence where it's i had assumed they were like that's a great song but it doesn't belong thematically with this record let's put it on the next one they've relegated it to a hidden bonus track on the bonus disc of their record but they had already given it out everyone who wants it already has it who gives a shit make the, it's such a good song. Make it track one instead of Lucifer's Hands. Yeah, I mean, but everyone already knows it.

But it. I was expecting it to be a totally different version if they were going to put it out again. Mate, I don't know. I mean, it's a great song. Yeah, I really like it. They're basically burying it in their history. Literally burying it in their history. I don't know that they're literally burying it in their history. Literally burying it in their history. I don't know that they're literally burying it.

Well, it's buried within a boring mix of a boring song. It's not literally buried. It's hidden. I mean, it's not even literally hidden. It's just it exists. No, it's buried under the dirt of sleep like a baby tonight. But I just – and someone wrote to me and said, you're right, anything that they feel is a failure. Yeah, maybe so.

They just say, they write it out of their history and their revisionist history. It's like, no, no, we didn't mean for that to be a big hit single. That's just a hidden track. It's not even listed anywhere in these minor notes here. It's so infuriating because I think that's one of the best songs that they put out.

And I like this mix of it too. It's a lot longer. And now what about the acoustic sessions? What did you think of that? I think that they are musically really interesting. They do acoustic sessions of every breaking wave, California, without Santa Barbara, by the way. Thank you.

Raised by Wolves, Cedarwood Road, Song for Someone, and they do what they call a busker version of The Miracle of Joey Ramone, although I think it's just an acoustic version. Yeah, I don't know why they call it that. I don't know. They're fucking weird. I think musically they're actually really interesting. They even have string sections on Song for Someone. Yeah. I think they sound good,

and some of these could be alternative versions that could have been played a la, say, the acoustic version of Everlong that the Foo Fighters put out. But the one thing I would say about it is Bono, his voice, I wish they would had done like professional vocal tracks oh really yeah i think he sounds good on these he's it's pretty obviously like a live recording right he's kind of all over the place like it's not bad i think he sounds good but it's obviously a live recording it's not something that he perfected.

Right, right, right. It's like he's kind of just singing it live. But I heard him say that the reason they did the acoustic sessions is just to show that these are- Songs are good songs. Yeah, that they're just straight- Because usually a U2 song, you can't really pick up an acoustic guitar and just play, unless it's like Angel of Harlem. By the way, let the record show that Adam just strummed an invisible guitar. Just in case you didn't know what I meant by play an acoustic guitar.

So I think that's, you know, they just wanted to show that these are really straightforward pop songs. Let's hear a song for someone, because I think that's such a good song, and with the strings it sounds really good. They're performing these promotionally right now, like this, like in the acoustic sessions. There's a bunch of these performances online. I kind of like that it sounds rough a little bit. I'm not afraid of anything they've seen.

I was told that I would feel nothing. Is that what you mean? Yeah, just slightly off where I kind of go, you know what? If you would, like, I guess what it is is, hey, we did these songs live. Right. And we recorded them straight to tape. I kind of think the arrangements are so good. Just get into the studio and make an acoustic version of these.

Right. It's a little like, hey, spend two more days on it. Yeah. To me. And perfect it. But I like them. Yeah. Now, what about the truck?

I really like the version of California. Yeah, let's hear that because it's without the Barbara Santa Barbara that seems to irritate. No, more people than me. A lot of people have written me about it. Name them. Name every single one of them joe biden oh shit this sounds really good i i would almost prefer this to the barbara santa barbara version if the vocal were you know a little bit better let's hear the vocal California Where no cars go

Then we fell into the shining sea The weight that drags your heart down Where no cars go That's what took me where I need to be It does kind of sound like that, huh? Which is here Out on Zuma Watching you cry like a baby

California Those horns sound cool. Yeah. Are they real horns? Hide the guess. Yeah, they are. I doubt it. I bet it's a keyboard, but it sounded cool. No, it says horns.

Oh, it does? Yeah. Oh, wow. Who's doing them? Jack Mack and the Heart Attack? Nate Walcott, Sean Billings, David Moyer, and Adam Schrader. Hey, guys. Great job.

I bet you never thought you'd hear your name on a podcast said by two celebrities. Adam Schroeder. It might be Schroeder. He spells it like John Schroeder. Maybe John just pronounces him as weird. I think he does. So, yeah, that's one of the more successful ones, I have to say. Yeah, the only one that doesn't really sound suited it I think

is raised by wolves yeah let's hear a little bit of that cuz that's my favorite song on the record but let's hear the acoustic version this is a little like a dude at a party yeah face down on a broken street there's a man in the corner in a pool of misery I'm in a white van as a 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 anymore.

Cool piano. This reminds me of something on war, too, like New Year's Day or something. Oh, for sure. Sounds so good. Especially the studio version. Yeah. That sounds good. Yeah?

Those horns? that sounds good yeah those horns oh i have a question what do you think of the album cover oh we haven't talked about that that was released since our um last episode and if you haven't seen it, it's basically Larry Mullen Sr.'s son hugging his son around the waist. And I got to say, when I first saw it, I thought it was cool. Yeah. I thought it was a little like Boy. You know what I was thinking about though is i i would it have been cool to to have it just be the kid from boy and war but yeah as as old as he is now yeah since it's kind of like a throwback to that it seems like they were sort of going in that direction like trying to figure out like a sequel

to that in a way yeah i it definitely is i i you know i hate to hey, here's my pitch. Maybe they even thought about it, and that dude is like, look, man. Hey, fuck off, guys. Hey, Bono, fuck off. They called him. They're like, hey, Joseph, we have this idea. And he said, fuck you. But I think it is sort of like a throwback to those records. And I like it better than, I don't know, No Line on the Horizon where they basically ripped off some other album.

I don't know. It's cool. What do you think? Yeah, I like it. It's totally cool looking. I think that it's creepy looking. I don't know. I just think it's like more U2 hate of like, these guys suck.

So what do you think? I think that we did our job here tonight, Scott. I think that for being two people that spend time making a U2 podcast, this has been a very busy month in the U2 world. It has been. And like you say, I almost feel like when something happens, when an article comes up, I wish that we could just rush in here and record five minutes and then go. We should try to record an episode sooner than a month from now just because so much shit goes down. So much happens.

What if nothing happens, though? What if that was it? Well, we should make some shit happen. Let's try to release... Look, if we can only release once a month, that's one thing, but let's try to record sooner than later. Yeah.

You know? I think I'm going to sign this book right now. Okay, great. And whoever gets that book God bless you Thanks for loving pussy or dong Whatever is your preference Whatever your pref

And um Adam What's on the horizon for you? Scott There's no line on my Ha ha ha Ha ha my... I don't know. Hopefully another episode of this glorious show. What do you got for Parks and Recreation?

When's it come back? Have you announced it yet? I have no idea. Mid-season at some point. Yeah, January or February. How many of you recorded at this point? How many of you filmed? We've done.

We're on the ninth one right now. Really? And we're only doing 13, so we're almost done. That's great. You're almost there. Yeah. How's it feel? You glad to get out of that shithole?

It's fine. Now it's going to be really sad in a few weeks. Yeah. But right now it's fine. Who do you think you'll still speak with after the show ends oh no one yeah because first of all pratt is the one guy you would but he's beyond he's not talking to any of us anymore and amy not a fan no we're not fans of each other really yeah um aubrey i never ended up meeting i thought i saw a scene between you guys like stuck in a parking garage yeah we've been in many scenes together is that a split screen

situation no we were in the car together shooting the scene we just never got around to actually meeting um nick offerman um he keeps himself enclosed in glass at all times. They keep it very clean. So on camera, it looks like he's actually in the same space as us, but he's in a glass booth. He's in a booth. How is that even possible? Well, you know, a lot of things are possible.

Well, I guess things are possible, but are they probable? Aziz Ansari. He is a digital creation now he just played madison square garden uh that was a um hologram that was a holo really yeah that's amazing well i mean um what are you going to move on to you know know, are you sure you want to know that? Or do you, are you more interested in your phone at this moment? Well,

you know what? You mentioned, uh, someone and I was trying to, I gotta find, I gotta find a separate like, uh, thing for this,

but, uh, so it's easier to find, but, uh, basically I, I, everyone knows what's coming i can't even find the fucking jack on this jack on the fucking jack adam that's not funny i just wanted to play that i gotta make a separate list or it's pretty good timing uh how about you scott what's

what's what's heading our way in the Aukerman world? Well, you know, I just got I got these last ten episodes Okay, so moving on Totally kidding, bro. Do you want people to watch Comedy Bang Bang? I do And I think you need to plug it

some more. You wanted to keep going, right? I heard that these episodes coming up are very important to our future. The ratings. Seriously? Seriously. Oh, well, then let's all watch. We need people to watch these episodes coming up so that they're, I mean, season four.

You mean so season five can have 90 episodes? Yeah. Jesus Christ. Cody, if you yawn a fucking gen, you are never going to watch another fucking episode of American Horror Story witch bitchcraft ever again. Cody, is this your, do you do this for free or do you get paid to do this? You better be paying us to do this. Fucking Christ. No, do you get paid to do this?

You do. Of course he gets paid. You get benefits, do you get paid to do this? You do. Of course he gets paid. You get benefits, don't you? You get benefits. Do you get benefits for watching American Horror Story?

He gets benefits from watching it with his girlfriend, I bet. Oh, shit. Shit. Oh, man. Shit, Ben.

I think I know what you mean. Yeah. She, she fucking J you off during American Horror? That's gross, man. I've never seen that show, but that's gross. That's gross. Is she fucking jacking it while you watch that?

Dude. All right. This is it for us. Yeah. We are approaching the... It's time to go to sleep. Look, we is it for us. Yeah. We are approaching the... It's time to go to sleep. Look, we're approaching midnight here. Oh, my God.

Can you believe it? Although I'm glad I did it, even though I have to get up and do Kevin and Bean in the morning. You've been up for 21 hours. 21 hours, and I need to get up at 6-something in order to go to Kevin and the Bean. But, hey, I'm glad I did it. It's always great to see you. I'm talking to Adam, Cody.

You too, my friend. You too? Hey, that's pretty... Pun intended or no pun intended? What do you mean? Okay. All right. Well, that's going to be it for us

for a little while. We'll see you as soon as we can. And until we do, we sincerely hope that you have found what you're looking for. Bye. Bye. You can hurt yourself trying to hold on to what you used to be. I'm so glad the past is all gone. Being out in the wild. Being out in the night.

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