U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - U Talkin' U2 To Me? - U2 Holiday Special

Episode Date: December 17, 2014

Adam Scott Aukerman have seen the U2 signal in the sky and are back for a special holiday episode of U Talkin’ U2 To Me! They'll talk about Bono’s bike accident, U2 playing a concert without Bono, the Songs of Innocence + Experience tour, Films of Innocence, U2's Christmas songs, and their upcoming LIVE UTU2TM show. Plus, the Scotts talk Star Wars in another edition of I Love Films and play a game of Did This Come Out This Year or Not. Get tickets now for U Talkin’ U2 To Me? LIVE at SF Sketchfest over at www.sfsketchfest.com !

It's Christmas. Baby, please come home. Yeah! From boy to breaking waves, every last one of them 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 back to the show. We are back. December once again. Comes every year, but it's always a surprise

It only comes once a year But hey, there are 30 little days Stuffed in there So you may as well enjoy them, huh? Scott, turning it over to you I believe there's 31, but hello Yeah, that's what I meant 30 little days, one big day

30 little days and then the one big day Of course being Christmas. That's right. Because that's the day Jesus Christ was born. He certainly was born, but did he die? And there is no arguing that that is the day he was born. There's no. He existed.

Please don't try to argue with us. Yep. He existed. He was born that exact day. He is our Lord and Savior. He is. And if you- That's what we're here to talk about. He is our Lord and Savior. He is. That's what we're here to talk about.

Try and argue with us, we will punch you in your cunt. We will fucking go crazy. We will go absolutely apeshit. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the show. I want to introduce myself. This is Scott. Hi. Over here, we got Scott going on. Yes. And it's, um, of course, December, and this is our special holiday episode of you talking you too to me. And we're going to talk about a lot of things on this episode. We have a lot to cover. Let me go over some of them.

We have a lot has happened in the world of YouTube. I feel we've let everyone down by not putting out constant updates. You know what? I'm glad that we've let everyone down because now we have an episode chock full. But I feel like the U2 signal has been going on in the sky. Commissioner Gordon has been playing. Oh, like the bad signal in

Batman. No, not at all like that. What do you mean? Sorry. Weirdo. Okay. So what do we have to talk about? We have to talk about Films of Innocence. We're going to talk about that on this program. We're going to talk about Bono's bike accident. We're going to talk about what he was dressed as as he got into that accident.

We're going to talk about their concert that they played without Bono. You too. For the first time ever. Played a concert without Bonobos. Without Bonobos. How does that happen? Who played then? Oh, well, we'll bring that up in just a second.

I mean, they played one without Adam Clay, 2,000 pounds. That's true. One night and one night only, but never without Bono. Because of drugs. Yes, this was not, although I believe Bonobos is probably on drugs currently. You better hope he is. Otherwise, he'll be feeling a lot of pain. That's true, and that is one thing that we as humans do not like to feel.

Nope. Self-medicate out there if you're listening to this. Pump yourself full of drugs, everybody. And then pump your stomachs to get them out of there. If you overdose, yeah, for sure. Certainly. Yeah, that's the first step. Go to the hospital.

Have Richard Dreyfuss pump your stomach. He'll say something charming. Later on, you'll go out on a date, just like in Postcards from the Edge. Okay, I've never seen that movie. You've never seen that movie? No. Scott! You got to see that movie.

You know why? Why is that? Oh, wait, is this an episode of I Love Films? Yes. Hold on, here we go hey welcome to i love films this is scott and this is scott and we're just talking about some of our favorite films here the godfather citizen kane scott this is scott talking listen i love films oh of course.

And I'm not just talking about your run-of-the-mill blockbusters, your big summer spectacles like Transformers and- Transformers 2. Transformers 2 or Transformers 3 or Transformers- Transformers 4, Rise of the Machines. Rise of the Fallen Machine. Rise of the Fallen Machines. Help, I'm a machine.

I've fallen. I can't get up. I mean, I like a good car chase, okay? I love the French Connection. Oh, my gosh. But the French Connection is a film. That's right. Put a car chase like the one in French Connection, but have a robot chasing it?

I mean, then you got something, in my opinion. Well, you got something that's going to make a lot of money, and I just happen to think— And something I'm going to enjoy. I happen to— Shut up. Shut up. I happen to think— You shut up!

No, you shut up! I happen to think it's not shut up. I happen to think. You shut up. No, you shut up. I happen to think it's not all about the almighty dollar, okay? I think that Hollywood. Sure, we worship the almighty dollar. Wait a second, is this, is this an episode of the almighty dollar? I think it is. Hey, welcome to the almighty daughter is... Daughter? Wait, is this an episode of The Almighty Daughter? I think it is. Don't call me daughter. Hey, welcome to an episode of The Almighty Daughter. This is Scott. And this is Scott.

And we're just talking about our favorite daughters. Well... Scott, you have one. I have one because I have a daughter. She's by far my favorite daughter. And I would say that she is the almighty daughter. And who is this now do you not like to say her name on a podcast persephone persephone of course and her last name is jones that's right my favorite daughter is of course my wife cool up she's also your

daughter she's also my daughter of course and man what i do to her. Oh, man. Well, this has been The Almighty Daughter. Don't call me daughter. Hey, welcome to The Almighty Dollar. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we're just talking about dollars. We're talking about how Hollywood is just obsessed with The Almighty Daughter. And sometimes-

Wait a minute. Did I just say daughter again? You did. I guess it's an episode of The Almighty Daughter again. I think it is. Don't call me daughter. Hey, welcome to The Almighty Daughter. This is Scott.

And this is Scott. And we're talking about some of our favorite daughters. Do you like farmer's daughters? I do. You know, from time to time, I like to run on down to Fairfax Avenue and just spend the night at the farmer's... To the farmer's market? No, the farmer's daughter motel right spend the night at the Farmer's Daughter Motel right across the street from the Farmer's Market.

One of the greatest hotels in Hollywood. If you're taking a trip out here, please stay at the Farmer's Daughter. Listen, please do it because Scott over here owns a piece of that hotel. I own a little piece called 100%. Oh, shit. 100. So you make Muco Dolores over there. Of course I do.

I think that means we got to jump right back into- Talking about money. Yep. Hey, welcome to Talking About Money. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we're just here talking about money, and we're talking about the almighty dollar you know sometimes i like to uh just think about all the ducats i got in my back pocket that's me counting my money and making it rhyme here's me counting my money in a cash machine. Ooh, that sweet sound.

10,000. 10,000 buco dolores, ladies and gentlemen. Here's me at a slot machine. You just hit the jackpot, son. Baby. How many jackpots you hit in your life? Oh, two, 3,000. But that's about it. A year. A year. three thousand a year yeah definitely well we're talking about money and

that's an episode of talking about money hey i love films though uh we're back to i love films, and I have to say that, look, yeah, films that chase that almighty dollar, they're great, but films like— But what you got to do is go back to the 70s and really think— Oh, when Postcards from the Edge was out there. That's what—no, Postcards from the Edge was more like early 90s, but still, that's when there were real movies out there, risky movies. Of course.

There were Raging Bulls. There were Easy Riders. Oh, yeah. We had De Palma. Scorsese. Spielberg. Spielberg. Lucas.

Lucas. Coppola. Coppola. Oh, one of the best, One of the greatest winemakers. These were real filmmakers. Like film, you know? Film. And that's, you know what?

Shoot it on film if you're going to. Don't make a movie. Ah, forget it. Shoot it on film. All this digital blah, blah, blah. Hey, what if we run out of ones and zeros? What's going to happen? Exactly.

You know what I mean? What are we going to? Oh, here, I got my movie and just hand them a little SIM card. Yeah's gonna happen? Exactly. You know what I mean? What are we gonna, oh, here, I got my movie and just hand them a little SIM card. Yeah, come on, guys. How about a reel to reel?

Yes. There's a reason it's called a reel. It's because it's real. And it's a reason why they spell it R-E-A-L to R-E-A-L as well,

because it's real. It's real. All right, this has been I Love Films. I Love Films 2. Wow, great eps. Terrific eps. Some of our best.

That's all good. We hadn't done... We hadn't done some of those minis in a while. I think our last episode we did zero minis. We did zero minis, yeah. Hey, you ever do any minis? Is this an episode of zero minis? I believe so. And I hear my little mini. Yeah. Hey, you ever do any minis? Is this an episode of Zero Minis? I believe so. When I hear my little mini.

You. Hey, welcome to Zero Minis. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And you know what? When it comes to dicks, I got zero minis. I got a maxi. I got one mini.

Oh, okay. When I hear my little mini. You. And that was, of course, Zero Minis. And I feel like we were in the middle of talking about what we're going to talk about. Oh, yeah, we're going to play. We heard a little bit of it. We heard, but U2 has three Christmas songs.

We're going to play all three. Do you know about all three? Well, I know about the one you opened with. And then there's two others. What are those? Well, we'll talk about them coming up on the program and we'll also talk about the fact that a certain album we know was voted as

the number one album in Rolling Stones magazine and we'll also talk about the tour and the poster for the tour so much to talk about and we'll also talk about a certain live date that we're doing, you two are not the only people that can do live dates.

Oh, that's right. You and I are going to be doing a live date, and we'll give you a little info about that coming up in the next segment, I believe. Okay. But what do we talk about first? Because obviously— Should we talk about it in chronological order, like the order that shit went down? Yeah, okay.

Do you know the chronological order? I do not. Okay, well then let's take a stab at it. Okay, Christmas Eve happened, right? Oh, wait, that hasn't even happened yet. No. Oh, shit. No, it's December 15th.

I'm way off. What happened first? The last time we talked, the physical release of the record came out. Yeah. And Songs of Innocence, and they put out the bonus disc. Right. Oh, okay. How about this?

How about just, let's just play a little catch up. Okay. Between Scott and Scott. How is the album sitting with you? Oh, okay. Have you been listening to it? Have you been listening to it? Have you been listening to the bonus disc? I have not been listening to the bonus disc since we did our last episode.

I do want to ask you. Yeah. What's up with Hot Tub Time Machine 2? What's going on with it? Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is- Because it's Christmas Day. I canceled all my plans. Yeah, we went over this.

I canceled all my meetings. We went over all of your Christmas meetings? Yeah. I wanted to meet with Santa Claus, get a jump on next year. Santa Claus is incredibly busy resting on Christmas Day. Wait, he's busy or he's resting? You don't make sense. Hey, listen, when you're as tired as Santa Claus is, you either get busy resting or you get busy dying.

Of course. And when is he going to i wonder soon yeah we need a new one yeah tim allen has been the same for so long um no but it's coming out next year what's the date valentine's day no february 22nd or 20th or so oh so six so six days after Valentine's Day, I bet. Something like that. And the trailer came out. Trailer came out. The poster came out.

And it looks great. I haven't watched the poster or seen the trailer. It's a funny movie. It's funny. And not only that, but uh parks and recreation yep of which you are a minor character or uh a recurring guest star right you just wrapped your final episode we have not even two days ago three two or three days ago we wrapped i believe on the same day i wrapped i wrapped my on friday yeah i wrapped the 40th

episode of comedy bang bang that i've made this year on uh friday i've made 40 of those i've put out 60 some odd comedy bang bang podcasts i've put out 20 of these made two between two ferns episodes now you made 13 parks and recs we We did in- Sounds fun. We did that. Yeah, but we did it in just a couple of months. Okay. Wow, Scott, you win the I'm busier contest. No, come on. You made some earlier in the year, too.

Yeah, we finished- And you made a great film, which has gotten into Sundance. Yes, it will be in Sundance. And now, when I saw you right after it got accepted, you said to me, hey, I'm taking another trip to the dance. Yeah, I'm going to head on up to the dance. And you went, oh, Jesus. I thought that was gross. You know, the first time I ever heard that was someone saying it non-facetiously. Facetiously.

Can you say who that is? It was an agent's assistant. I don't remember who it was. But they said, hey, man, you going to head up to the dance? Oh, boy. Yeah. And are you in competition? Are you?

We are in competition, yes. Competition. It's a movie that my wife and I produced together with Mark Duplass. Okay. And I act in it. And Taylor Schilling and Jason Schwartzman are also. Is it hard wearing two hats? You know, have you ever seen a person wearing two hats?

I have. It's very weird. It's really weird. Sometimes someone will wear two baseball hats with one bill at the front and one at the back. It just looks strange. It is weird. And my wife on this one, she had like six hats. And she couldn't even walk in a door with all the hats.

One job. We should clarify. My wife, she only had one job. She was a producer on the show. She just likes wearing hats. But yeah, she's a weirdo. Yeah. She's a weird hat-wearing person.

Right. She's a weirdo. Yeah. She's a weird hat-wearing person. Right. Oh, we should also talk about Naomi and Kulop because we got to do an episode with those guys. Really? Yeah, they both want to.

I don't think Naomi wants to. Oh, really? Not really. Kulop does. She does? Yeah, she talks about it a lot. Well, Kulop's used to being on podcasts. Yeah, well, I mean, let's get Naomi used to it. Okay.

Maybe we'll do some just pretend podcasts at my house. Okay, that would be fun. Will you record them, though? Sure. Okay. And then broadcast them. Okay, great. Okay, so now that we're all caught up with what's going on in Adam's life,

when does Parks come back, by the way? Because this will probably be the last episode that comes out before Parks comes back. I believe it comes back second week of January or something like that. What night does it move to? Tuesday night. Tuesday night. I'm not sure which date that is. It's like the 13th or something.

It's two nights after the Golden Globes. The Old Globes, which controversy Amy not even nominated for. What do you got to do? She's hosting the goddamn thing. I know. I thought that was weird, too. That's really weird. Isn't it always weird, the Golden Globes? They're always strange that was weird too. That's really weird. But it's always, isn't it always weird,

the Golden Globes? They're always strange. The GGs. The old Globers. You going to the Globers? No. We weren't nominated for anything. For anything.

That's bizarre. And U2's not gonna be there, so no excitement there. Coldplay. No reason to go. Did Coldplay get nominated? I believe Coldplay got nominated. What for?

for this song that they're doing for the Angelina Jolie film. I heard it. What movie is that? Unbreakable, what's it called? Unbroken? I don't know. But I heard it this morning. And it's just a shitty...

It's like a B-side kind of thing? I mean, it's a fine song, but listeners of this show constantly make fun of me for saying the Coldplay record is good. It is good. I like cool shit too, you idiots. I like FKA twigs and banks and shit that everyone else likes, but I also happen to like. What's FKA twigs? Oh, God, Adam.

You're an old man. Come on. Get with it, my good fellow. What is that? She's a singer. Oh. You're an old man. Come on. Get with it, my good fellow. What is that? She's a singer. Oh. She's a great singer. To put it into Hollywood terms, she's Robert Pattinson's girlfriend.

Does that put it into perspective for you? So if you see them at a party, you'll know who she is. I have never heard of that person. But you know what? I didn't go crazy for that album, but I will say that don't you think Viva La Vida was a really good album? I like this new album way better. Oh, you do? Yeah.

I thought that album had a bunch of good songs on it. I like that song. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. No, I happen to think this new Coldplay record is really good. I like that song. I happen to think this new Coldplay record is really good. But what I'm trying to say is they put out this song that's in this Angelina Jolie film, undoubtedly in the credits, because I think it's a period piece, and I don't think that it would belong anywhere in the actual movie. So they put out a song on the credits.

It's an okay song. I don't think it's a good Coldplay song necessarily. I don't even think it's that great of a song. It's nominated for a Golden Globe. They may win an Oscar for it. And it's like, if they're going to give just some shitty Coldplay song an Oscar, give it to a good song that came out this year. Give it to Iggy Azalea's Fancy at least.

Everyone knows that song. Just give an Oscar to that song. What was that song in? It wasn't in it. Everyone knows that song. Just give an Oscar to that song. What was that song in? It wasn't in it. That's my point. Just because it was in a movie, they're going to give a subpar song an Oscar? It'll probably end up being from like Into the Woods or something that actually wins. I hope what it is is Tegan and Sarah and the Lonely Island for the Lego movie. Oh, yeah.

It didn't even get nominated for the Golden Globes, so now I don't know what to think. But who cares? I mean, I don't know what to think. But who cares? I mean, I don't know. But all I'm saying is... That's weird that Everything is Awesome didn't get nominated. That is a little strange. But what I'm saying is, don't just go giving out Oscars to songs

unless you're going to give it to a good song. Yeah. Like, if all five of them kind of suck one year, just go, you know, we're not going to give it out this year. Don't they do that, though? Maybe, like, sometimes if there aren't enough songs, they just nominate, like, three songs? Yeah, but, I mean, there's, I don't know. Was that last year that there was an Oscar nomination for a song that no one had ever heard before?

I think so, yeah. And they took it away. They took it away, yeah. It's crazy. Anyway, but, so we're all caught up with Adam. So wait, so you finished shooting on Friday as well. Yeah, I did. So now how long until you start shooting again?

I start shooting again at the end of February because we're now trying to write the ones we're about to shoot in February. And I came by and did a little bit for the show. You did a little cam. Did a little mo. That's going to be a good ep. And it's really fun over there. You guys have a nice atmosphere on that, the old set.

Yeah, we breathe air. Last time I was on the show, you were shooting somewhere else. Yes, this is our third studio. You did the pilot, which a lot of people don't know because it was the ninth episode to air, but you did the very first pilot and- Did you end up shooting the series there at all? We did, yeah. We shot the entire first season in a little tiny, tiny like basement in Tim and Eric's old production office. We then moved to a studio for a couple of years.

Oh, right, because I came and did that Oscar thing. Yeah, you did the Oscar thing there, yeah. And then we moved to this new studio, which is great. And you did a really funny cameo. That'll be in the Jack Black episode. Ooh, I shouldn't have said that probably. But that'll be, who cares? That'll be in an episode coming out in the second 10.

But we have our first 10 coming out in a few weeks. I believe right before your season premiere, we are January 9th, which is a Friday, with Ty Burrell and Nick Kroll are both in our season premiere. Great. And we released the list of everyone who's going to be in it this year, including Schoolboy Q and Kid Cudi and Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Maya Rudolph and Dax Shepard and Zach Galifianakis.

And then so many guest stars with like Tears for Fears are in the show. Cool. And a ton of great people, Jim Rash, Horatio Sanz, a bunch of great people. That's Fridays, every Friday. What do you got in that bag? Just water. I'm just water i'm just trying to get it away from the microphone just water get my water in a brown paper bag there's got to be like it has to be in a bottle please tell me it's in a bottle yeah it's a few

different waters okay good it's not just a brown paper bag filled with filled with water um so that's okay are we caught up on what's happening? By the way, I saw your place recently. I went over to your house. Oh, yeah. That was fun. Oh, yeah, you met my children. Uh-huh. Got a little invite over to the Scott household.

Oh, because you were bringing my, we did, oh, we did a. We did Festival Supreme together. A live, it wasn't live you talking U2 to me. It was live comedy bang bang. Comedy bang bang. But is that why I went over there? To bring your parking pass or something. It took me having to give you a parking pass to get an invite to your place.

Anyway, I enjoyed it. But you met, Naomi wasn't there. She was in the shower. She was in the shower. And it was so weird. You asked me if I wanted a peep. Yeah.'s usually i have a special thing she doesn't know about it but there's a little slide slide away and there's a wall and there's a painting in the shower an oil painting in the shower and you put this oil painting in the shower and the eye once in a while

the eyes move around because I have a buddy over. Right. I found it weird that you gave me a very specific time to come over as well. But no, it was a great time. And what else

is going on with you, Adam? I mean, where to now? Parks and Rec is wrapped. Do you go to another TV show? Do you, I mean, are you looking at Sundance and going, you know what?

I could be a legit movie star here. I could really maybe take up- Chew into that mic a little louder. Maybe take up permanent residence up at the dance. Maybe I just become a- We'll just start working at Sundance. So wait, you just want to start working as what?

As like a movie theater usher? Just a volunteer, like a guy that brings people waters. Mm-hmm. Your bags of waters? Yep. Brown paper bags of water. What if at Sundance, please do this. At the screening of one of your films, go up to someone in the audience with a brown

paper bag full of water and just say, water, sir? Sure. I'll do that. And then pop the paper bag right on them. I'll do it if you record it and then we could play it on this show. I guess so. By the way, you made a solemn vow that if you won, what was it, an Oscar, that you were going to say a speech that we had written for you.

And what was the speech? I forget what it was, but it's on one of the previous episodes. I remember it. I'm still holding it to you. So if this Sundance movie that you're so proud of makes it there to the long red carpet, as they call the Academy Awards. I think there's a chance that I'll be walking the long red carpet for Hot Tub Time Machine 2. I think there might be. Although now that it's not out on Christmas, you're not eligible for another year.

It doesn't matter. It's so good. The competition's too tight this year, too. You of glad that uh yeah yeah yeah i think uh 15 will be a better year for us now let's let's talk about it let's talk about you two because that's what we're here to talk about you're listening to you talking you two to me by the way yeah so um so we this is a bike accident kind of the first thing? I think so. So the last we talked, they put out their physical release, and it was all like, okay, now we're ramping up.

And actually, the first thing that happened that I recall was the K-Rock show. Oh, yeah, you seemed really into that. That didn't really register that they were going to do that. I didn't really care. Several years in a row, maybe 15 years in a row, some with Doug Benson. And so I've been to a lot of them, and I casually looked at it, and one of their nights is total shit with System of a Down and all these kind of like metal-y jock bands, and not to single them out because they're probably actually not bad. I have no idea. Okay.

But then another night I just kind of was casually glancing and i went oh cheers for fears and i just done a uh or i was about to do the podcast with them they're on the tv show and uh then i almost missed it because you too is just like it's one letter and one number it's very tiny when you're looking at at a lineup on your phone and then i looked at it and i went uh-huh you too i went you too is playing this thing right and uh i got very excited and i texted you and uh saying hey we gotta go to this k-rock show to go see you too undoubtedly they're playing like a 40 minute set my thing with those things are though is you go for one band and you have to like

sit through a bunch of bands you don't give a shit about. I liked the other bands that were there. Who else? There was Interpol. There was Smashing Pumpkins. Some newer stuff. Alt J. Some people that I like.

I probably wouldn't have gone. What is wrong with you? I don't know. It sounds like – Ball of humbug. What is going on with you? Where's your Christmas spirit? I guess you're right, Scott.

I mean, I just – I guess I just – I guess I just – I guess I just – Hey, Adam. Huh? Okay. God, you slip into that So much Sorry yeah Yeah you've lost

Your Christmas spirit That's too bad What are you giving Your kids for Christmas This year? Just brown rocks? Nothing Nothing?

Not even brown rocks? No I'm gonna give them a nod Really? Just a cursory nod As you get up? Acknowledge them As I walk through

The living room on Christmas morning on my way out the door. Wearing your bathrobe on your way out. Are you, would you say you're a good father? What do you mean? I think it's a pretty easy question to comprehend. I mean, would you say you're a good father? Yeah, but what do you mean?

I don't know. Are you a good father? I mean, come on. I just want to know. Well, I give it my all, Scott. Okay, that's all I want to know. All right. So wait, you haven't been listening to the bonus disc.

I haven't been listening to the bonus disc. I haven't been listening to the bonus disc. Have you been listening to the album? I have. What are your feelings? Okay, I listened to it yesterday as a matter of fact, and I still like it. I still like it a lot. I still don't really care for Cedarwood Road. Oh, really?

Especially with his, I was walking down the road. I like that one. The only thing I ever know. You still like Sleeps Like a Baby Tonight? Yeah, I do. Gonna sleep like a baby tonight. Yeah, I'm still not into that. But I have to say, since you're not asking me, I haven't.

You know what? I don't think I'm getting anything in these headphones. Well, plug it back in, you fucking dumb shit. There we go. I'll ask you. What do you think of the record, Adam? Well, you know, the bonus disc, I don't think I've listened to it since we did our show. That's the exact same thing that I said.

Okay. Okay, go on. I feel like the bonus disc and all the acoustic versions of the songs made me kind of sick of those songs. Interesting. I felt like they were overdoing it, like trying to push these songs a little too hard by doing these different – it's like just leave it alone. The album is great. Like you don't need to prove to us that these are good songs by doing these. Also, I think it's the easiest thing you can do is to do acoustic versions of your songs.

Kind of, yeah. You know what I mean? And we'll get to the easiest thing you can do when we talk about Films about films of innocence, but go ahead. Yeah, I think their point was, look, these are like more kind of classically structured songs. And we're going to prove it by stripping it away. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. For some reason, listening to those versions kind of made me just kind of sick of the whole thing. Are you sick of the record now?

I'm not. And, you know, watching films of innocence the other day, I was like, oh, wow, this album's great. And I haven't listened to it in like a month or whatever. Are you sick of U2 now because of what we're doing here? You know, maybe a little. Are you overthinking U2 now? I'm not overthinking them. I'm just sort of like a little worn out with U2.

But I watched Films of Innocence the other day when we kind of texted saying, yeah, we should watch that. Great recounting of a wonderful conversation. Yeah. And I thought these songs are great. Like I should start listening to this album again. And I hadn't in a while because I kind of got sick of it. Hadn't in a while. I hadn't in a while.

What was that? It's a new song. Oh, I love it. You considering your recording career now that Parks is done? Yeah, absolutely. I hadn't in a while. I hadn't in a while. And that's it.

Just a two-second song. That's the song. Oh, man, it's going to be a hit. Yeah, I know. And that's it. Just a two-second song. That's the song. Oh, man. It's going to be a hit. Yeah. I know. You know, I tend to maybe – first of all, everyone – and it's great. I love it. Everyone sends us every little tidbit of U2 news.

Oh, my God. Which I would miss some stuff without it, so it's okay. I would too. I wonder if that's going to be for the rest of our lives. Well, I now get U2 stuff. I get Phish stuff. I get Cake Boss stuff. I stuff i get cake boss stuff i get andrew lloyd weber stuff like anything even tangentially related to me people send me all day but i i enjoy

it i i love that people are out there listening and so invested in it but um yeah i tend to sort of it's interesting because i sometimes feel that the very act of criticizing something i.e. if you're going to write a review of something, it makes you view it and experience it differently because you are looking for what you're going to say about it rather than just enjoying it. And I maybe think about that a little bit with you too in a way of this show has made me just kind of overanalyze stuff. But I will say, in its favor, I listen to Songs of Innocence way more than maybe I would have if I wasn't doing this show. Because the last record, the How Did I Dismantle? No, not the last one, the one previous.

How Did I Dismantle? How to Succeed in Business Without business without dismantling an atomic bomb. Right. I don't know that record at all. I barely have listened to it. You seem to criticize the bejesus out of it without really knowing anything about it. I just don't really like it. And so I've never listened to it.

I think you need to – before you can decide whether you like it or not, you need to know it inside and out. Why? But no, I can have a... What? You're not allowed to have a knee-jerk reaction to you two. Are you saying that any woman that you decide if you're going to go out on a date or not, you should marry first? Yes. And then decide five years later if you're going to stay married?

And then decide five years later if you're going to stay married? Well, I feel like if you're doing a show like this, it's like I've listened to Sleep Like a Baby Tonight a bunch to try and find the hook in it. Right. It's just not hitting you. No, I just don't really like it. There's something about it that you don't like, which is something that I like. I really like the keyboard sound, and I think maybe you don't like the keyboard sound. I think you like electronic music more than I do. I do.

Listeners know, and not just listeners of this show, they know that I like dance music a lot. Yeah, and I don't. And craftwork and OMD and old kind of 1977 through 1982, 1983 synthesizer music I really enjoy. I do too. 1982, 1983 synthesizer music I really enjoyed. I do too. I'm thinking more of late 90s electronica that really kind of blew up. I never got into that.

Like Daft Punk? I like Daft Punk actually. Are you talking about the Orb? Yeah, shit like that. Orbital Chemical Brothers? You don't like Chemical Brothers? Yeah, I never got into that. Yeah, I liked all that stuff. I watched Omp on MTV.

What was the band that was going to be like, they thought they were going to be like Electronica's U2. Yeah. Like they just, that album came out and they fucking, they like put them on the cover of Rolling Stone. They were everywhere.

I mean. What was that band? I'm a fire starter. Oh, yeah, the Prodigy. Prodigy, right. Yeah, I like them. I never... I think I pretended to like that for a while. Who were you pretending for?

I don't know. I think just kind of... I just thought, oh, I should like this. This is happening now. So what were you doing? Like pressing play in your car? No, I would go and buy... And when you're on a date and going, hey, check this out. This is happening now. So what were you doing? Like pressing play in your car? No, I would go and buy. And when you're on a date

and going, hey, check this out. Probably. Probably. We've already established in the first episode that you'll say anything to get a date. Yeah. Wait, what did I say? That poem you supposedly wrote, the Dire Straits song. Oh yeah, the Dire Straits song. So far away from me. Ladies, I know

he's taken it, he's married, but if anything ever happens and you get out of it, don't date Adam Scott because he's a fucking liar. He's a total liar. But, yeah, so I guess my point is I actually think that because of this show, we gave the record more of a chance than maybe a lot of other people did. And listeners of the show gave the record a chance more than they would have. So in that respect, it's actually good, and I'm glad we're doing the show. Yeah.

And you know, we want to interview the band. That's the thing. We really want to. We thought we were close, and I don't think that we're telling tales out of school to say I was excited for the K-Rock show because I have K-Rock connections. Yeah.

And I thought that we could get in the press line or something and actually get some audio here. Well, I think that maybe, you know, because we're trying to get kind of a quick sit down with the band. Just a quick sit down, just probably 180 minutes. down with the band. Just a quick sit down. Just probably 180 minutes. But I think our listeners, maybe, if they

can help us out, it could... Because I think that it's advantageous because we're so supportive of the band. Yes! We're their biggest cheerleaders! I agree! And we have a huge audience for this show! We have a show that's

about how awesome they are. Yes. And how much we like them. And we are converting people into liking them. Yes. So, goddammit, you... So, if people want to, like... Tell them their stories.

Stop them on the street. And tell them to do our show. If you see any Hasidic Jew on the street, because we found out that's what Bono dresses up like. Do you think that's real? I don't know. It's so weird. But just find any Hasidic Jew and shake them and say, are you Bono? All Hasidic Jews.

Go on, you talking U2 to me. If you're Bono. I don't, okay. So wait, what's the story? Where did that come from? Because I don't know anything about that. So here's what happened. They agreed, U2 agreed to do this K-Rock show.

They were going to do this concert in New York to benefit the Red, which I still don't even know what it is, by the way. Isn't it a charity for kids in Africa? I guess so. They sell T-shirts or something. I don't know. But they were going to do these things in order to sort of publicize the on sale of their tour. And I think doing a couple of things like this big, huge charity thing in New York and

the K-Rock show was in order to sell tickets. Excuse me. Are you okay? Oh my gosh. I had a little burp come out of me. Scott? Yes? Are you all right?

I think I'm okay. Oh, hello. Did you hear that? So they set up these two things. They're going to be huge successes. And suddenly Bonobos, he's biking around like a maniac. Like he's- Just without a care in the world.

Like he's Joseph Gordon-Levitt in that biking movie. Yeah. Which I can't remember the name of. I saw that. You did? Yeah. What's it called? Pourquoi?

Why? Yeah. Hotel room. Oh, okay. What is it called? Jacking off in a hotel room. Oh, man. Were you jacking off to the bike or to JGL?

To Michael Shannon. Okay. That's what does it for you? Oh, yeah. Boardwalk Empire? Mike Shannon. Oh, boy. Zod?

What is the name of that movie? I don't know. But I do know it was Quicksilver is the Kevin Bacon. Yeah, Quicksilver. Sure. But in any case, he's- Did you say Kevin Dakin? I don't think so, but I wish I had.

So Bono's out there in – it's Central Park, right? Yeah. That he's biking around? It's a park in New York City. What state is that located in? New York – hold on. Yeah, look that up for me. New York City. Here go hold on New York

oh shit I just wrote Bu York I'm gonna back here. Hold on. You got to go all the way back to the beginning? Yeah. Oh, man. Okay. City. Okay. Okay, you got it? Yeah, it's in New York State. New York State!

Of course, that's the one I was trying to think of where it was. Yeah. And they call it Manhattan. They call it Manhattan? They call New York State Manhattan? No, no, no, no. The city. It's actually an island.

It is? Well, technically, yeah. It's surrounded by a couple rivers and then the ocean, but it is an island. Oh, that's interesting. Three-hour tour. Surrounded by, it looks like river water to me. Three-hour tour. A bunch of different neighborhoods.

There's what they call Midtown Upper East Side. Middletown? Like Middle Earth? I would imagine that's what it means, but here they're just calling it Midtown. So like Middleton is probably what it stands for. Oh, yeah. I guess so. Like Kate Middleton. West Village.

Oh, my God. Kate Middleton went to Middleton recently. Good stuff. Premium Rush is what we're looking for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Premium Rush. The most premium of rushes. So he's biking around like a jerk.

And by the way, I hear that there's a big problem in Central Park with people biking too fast. Oh, really? I think something like that. They're introducing legislation of some sort to make sure that people don't bike around too fast or something. I think he's part of the problem in that regard. And then the edge. So he gets into a big accident. He breaks so many of his bones.

Yeah, he got fucked up. He got so fucked up. I think his face got fucked up. I think his wrist got fucked up. I think he might have hurt his little butt. Oh. Yeah. His little fanny.

He may have. He might have broke his dick too. We don't know. they don't talk about that kind of thing come on scott bono come on the show please uh no but he he really did get into a serious accident really serious you know and i think that i i wrote to you because they canceled something that was oh no they were supposed that was the other thing they're supposed to do fallon five nights in a row that's what that was what it was. That was what it was. That's right.

And this was, I think, the night before or something. They canceled everything. And I wrote to you saying they canceled Fallon because we were all set to record. We were going to watch all five nights and put out an episode. That's right. And I said, they canceled it all. And you said, why? And I said, because of this bike accident, thinking that we all knew about the bike accident and none of us had heard about it.

And I said, because of this bike accident, thinking that we all knew about the bike accident and none of us had heard about it. So he gets into this bike accident, just fucks everything up, and it's made them cancel everything. They canceled the K-Rock show and No Doubt went in and played instead. They canceled the Fallon thing. And we'll get to what they did with the Red concert. So the Edge is talking about this and saying why they canceled. And he lets slip a bit of information that he didn't – he needn't have said. I'm not sure why he did. I feel like it's a joke.

You think it's a joke? Because I think as a joke, it's kind of offensive. I think that he actually – like if he's joking about it, I think it's kind of a tasteless joke. I think that he actually, like if he's joking about it, I think it's kind of a tasteless joke. He basically said, oh, yeah, Bono. Someone said, why didn't anyone see Bono have this accident? Why didn't anyone film it? Why didn't anyone report that Bono was in this bike accident? And he said, oh, it's because he dresses like a Hasidic Jew when he bikes.

he dresses like a Hasidic Jew when he bikes. But wouldn't it be difficult to get a workout, to have room to really bike around if you have- Those locks in front of the hair? Well, also the big wool coat and- Yeah. Because they wear a suit. And also the fake glasses with the giant nose and the fake beard like i feel like when you're biking you have to have like shorts and you know

i mean you dress shorts are the uniform of the biker yes bicycle like when you say the word bicycle just say the word bicycle bicycle i just thought of a pair of shorts. Certainly. That I got at Bonobos. Great. You ever see those guys with the clothespin around their cuff? Sure. Their pant cuff?

Yeah. No, wear some shorts. Shorts. Cut off your pants if you're going to get on a bike. Hey, guy on the bike wearing pants with a clothespin, stop being a fucking asshole. Get some shorts. Carry around a pair of scissors.

I understand. You don't always plan to go on a bike, but if it happens that, oh, man, I gotta get on this bike, cut off your goddamn trousers. Cut the fucking things off. Guess what? Hey, look over there. Walgreens.

Guess what they have? $3.99. Pair of scissors. $3.9999 yeah really is that cheap or expensive it's incredibly expensive but it's worth it because you get a pair of shorts out of it i i haven't bought scissors in a couple of months but uh the last pair i bought were 150 dollars yeah well if you want good scissors. You know what I mean. Yeah. So, yeah, he – So he said he dresses like – I just can't imagine that that's – I think it's true. I think it's true because let's reenact this.

Say I'm the edge and I'm – let me do it as a joke and it just doesn't sound like a joke that he would make. So you be the reporter. Okay. Mr. Edger. Just call me Fedge. Mr. Edger. Okay, and he fell asleep. Well, that was a good reenactment. No, that particular reporter passed away.

He passed away. Yeah, he died. Oh, no, I didn't read about that. Oh, that's a sad story. Well, we hate to hear about something like that. But I think it's real. I think he's out there and he literally is – That's really clever if that's how you're disguising yourself, I guess.

How else – It's a good disguise. I guess he could wear a werewolf mask or something like that. Yeah, the Benicio Del Toro werewolf. Yeah, exactly. I guess he could dress up like C-3PO or something when he's out on a bike. That would be very warm.

But then people would mistake him for the bike. Chewbacca. He could dress like Chewbacca. Are we going to talk about the Star Wars trailer, bro? Is this I Love Films again? I think it is. Hey, welcome to I Love Films. This is Scott.

And this is Scott. Talking about Star Wars. By my count, pew, pew, pew, pew, by my count, there are about four Star Wars films that already exist, and they're gonna make a few more.

There are six Star Wars movies. No, I don't think that's correct. You're right. There's four. There's right. There's four. There's Return of the Ewoks. There's The Empire Strikes Them. Uh-huh. There's Grandma Tarkin.

And there's Chicky Chicky Chewbacca Town. Uh-huh. That's my favorite, Chicky Chicky Chewbacca Town. And they're about to make a whole bunch more. They're about to make 100 more new star wars films and uh we just saw the first uh five of them that were released it's an exclusive uh trailer for the first that was a trailer i thought it was five films no that was a single trailer it was only like a minute long oh i thought it thought it was five 20-second films. No.

That makes more sense. Movies are usually hour and a half to two hours long. Ooh, that's too long in my opinion. I don't got that kind of time, Star Wars! Okay, well, this was a trailer for the new Star Wars movie. What'd you think, Scott? I thought that it looked like they were warring with each other. Uh-huh.

And a lot of, quite frankly, a lot of those scenes seemed like they were in space. Scott, what did you think of the special effects? I thought these effects were special, definitely. A lot of films just have effects. And, I mean, sure, there's spaceships flying around, but they're not special. Yeah. These were truly special effects. Scott, what did you think of the performers?

I thought that Chewbacca was the best. He's my favorite ever since Chicky Chicky Chewbacca Town. Love him. He's my favorite, and I can't wait to see him. Scott, what did you think of the spaceships? Ha ha! Great question, Scott. I thought there were two of them. ships? Great question,

Scott. I thought there were two of them. Scott, in conclusion, from one to 150,000, what do you rate the new Star Wars trailer? Scott? I give it a three! Okay!

Alright, that's been I Love Films. Good ep. Yeah, good ep. We really broke it down. Good ep. Good ep. We have to take a break, Adam. Okay.

We'll see you on the other side of this for you talking you2 to me. It's Christmas. What are the other favorite places to come home? Yeah! The snow's coming down. Hey everyone, this is Scott Aukerman,

and I want to remind you all that Comedy Bang Bang, the season finale, season three season finale, is this Friday with The Lonely Island as our special guest. They're singing songs. We also have a great supporting cast for that, Bruce McCullough of The Kids in the Hall. Alan Tudyk is there, and James Urbaniak is there. It's a really great show.

And then season four, we take two weeks off. And then season four starts January 9th with Ty Burrell from Modern Family and Nick Kroll, our special guests on that. And we're doing 40 episodes. And that's going to be pretty fun. Right, Adam? Yeah. Are you going to watch? Yeah. Have you Adam? Yeah. Are you going to watch? Yeah.

Have you ever watched the ones that you're not in? Yeah. Do you like it? Yeah. So watch that IFC 11 p.m. on Fridays and enjoy it, right? Yeah. You know what I mean? Great show.

Great. Thank you very much. I appreciate Yeah. You know what I mean? Great show. Great. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. You're welcome. Thank you. Goodbye. Wait a minute, that's not Bono. Hey. What the fuck is going on?

That's not Bono. Yeah. You seem really upset about this. Yeah. That is Chris Martin singing from Coldplay, the aforementioned Coldplay, singing... What's the name of that song where the streets have no name? Wizard Wissassu. Wizard Without You.

Yep. Wizard Without You, one of the great wizards, descendant of Gandalf, the Grey. Comes down. Mm-hmm. And he's like, hey, I'm wizard without you. Where is everybody? Wizard everybody. So Bonobos injured severely.

Severely. Because I've never heard about him missing a show at all. I've seen shows where he's like, I have laryngitis, but he still makes you pay for it. He doesn't give you 10% off. Still makes you pay full price. But guess what? Still gives you a show. Still gives you a show in the sense of you watched something.

Would you say U2 is one of the best live acts you've ever seen? Let's see. Let me go through all the live acts you've ever seen? Let's see. Let me go through all the live acts I've seen. Okay. I saw a magic show when I was five. Okay. Starting at the beginning. I saw another magic show when I was five and one day old.

Lots of magic shows. I saw two magic shows the next day, five years and two days old. Tons of magic shows. I saw 26 magic shows. Saw two magic shows the next day, five years and two days old. Tons of magic shows. I saw 26 magic shows the next day. For one day. And then didn't see anything until U2. Okay.

And so I've seen 30 concerts, one U2 and 29 magic shows. And I would say U2 is in the top 30, definitely. I'd say it's number 30. So the 30th best live show I've ever seen. Wait, are the magic shows included in that? Yeah. Okay, so 29 magic shows and then U2.

And then U2. So they're the best live band you've seen well live show was what you said no but i'm saying within the within the framework of live shows if you're going to create and in fact the worst if you were going to create a subset of just live bands i wouldn't do that that, though. But if you did... That's not my thing. I would not do something like that. If...

It's not how I was raised, Adam. Let's just say it was your thing. I'm not raised... I'm not wired that way, Adam, okay? I'm not hardwired like you are. Scott, it's purely hypothetical. Yeah, well, guess what? I'm not a hypothetical guy.

Clearly. I'm a guy who does what he does and likes what he likes. God damn it. Anyway, yeah, the worst. Definitely the worst I've ever seen. Okay, so Bonobos couldn't make the show. Couldn't make the show. And what do they do?

Cancel? Do they cancel the show? What, do they cancel? Because here's what's going on. They got this big thing out in the middle of Times Square. Times Square? Right in the middle show? What, do they cancel? Because here's what's going on. They got this big thing on the middle of Times Square. Times Square? Right in the middle of New York City. It is?

Yeah. Weird. And they have Slick Willie himself introducing them. Yeah. Tricky Bill. He comes out and he says, hey, New York City, I want to reiterate, I did not have sexual relations with that woman. It's crazy that he said that. It's so weird. It's like, we're like, we've moved on. You're not on trial anymore.

Moveon.org, Bill. Yeah, exactly. I just want to say, it depends on what the definition of is is. We're like, Bill, come on. Come on, dude. He's like, but I still would enjoy a Monica from Hillary. I don't get it. Okay. So, but he goes out and he says, ladies and gentlemen, you too.

He turned into Don Pardo? Yeah. Don Pardo's very soul inhabited Tricky Bill's body there for a second. And out comes you two, and they bound up to the stage with just boundless enthusiasm yeah and uh and then suddenly who comes out but old chris martin and he's wearing a substitute two two it was substitute i thought that was you too clever some clever shit it's like he he went to uh the t-shirt maker that day and said, I got a great idea. I got something for you.

I wonder if he went to the same t-shirt maker that Goop uses. Like when they got divorced, you know? I mean, maybe they. There aren't too many t-shirt places out there. So he's probably like, you know what? Gwyneth uses this t-shirt place. Still, it's the only one I know. But you know what?

Maybe they're totally cool with that. Maybe they're cool. We'll use the same the only one I know. But you know what? Maybe they're totally cool with that. Maybe they're cool with it. We'll use the same place. It doesn't matter. You know what? I really don't want a chance seeing her at this t-shirt shop, but I need this funny t-shirt in a hurry. Right. I don't know any other t-shirt place.

Right. I'll just risk it. Right. Yeah. So he gets the insane t-shirt. It's really fucking crazy. They probably had a chuckle over that one had one chuckle definitely uh and then he got to put on after that well he got to time square and

who do you think he showed the t-shirt to first uh i wonder because you got three members of you too the band that you're parodying with your t-shirt right in front of you and it's like which one do i who do i show first maybe he was like guys guys guys come here band meeting i have something to show you and they're like band meeting he thinks he's in the band yeah and he's like well now that i'm a part of you too i got something to show you guys he whips it out oh man oh man and they're and i bet they went i i think they probably enjoyed themselves quite a bit. They seem like they have great senses of humor.

Oh, yeah. So he's wearing it. Good old Chris Martin from Coldplay sings a couple of songs. He sings Beautiful Day, and he sings the one that we just heard, Wizard Without You. And then— Was that it? Was that all he sang? I think so.

That's all I saw on the YouTube thing. Did he sing more? He might have sang more. I've only seen two songs apiece from each of these singers. Yeah, I think that was it. Okay. I thought he did a good job. I thought his voice actually suits those songs very well.

Yeah. And then he says, That's it for me. I've been Chris Martin. And we are U2 fronted by Chris Martin. And everyone went crazy. It was a bunch of people just going. It was actually really quiet.

They were not screaming. It was very quiet. It was like a whisper. And he steps off the stage. and then they start playing again. They start playing. No. What happened was he steps off the stage, and then they had like an hour and a half of other acts. Oh, they did?

Yeah. It was like Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, a bunch of big. It was like a huge bill. It was crazy. Speaking of huge bill, tricky bills out there. Oh, man. This a huge bill it was crazy and then huge bill tricky bills out there this is huge bill oh man looking for some strange that guy's always got something up his sleeve yeah it's usually his penis oh man um so um yeah so then you two comes back on at the end of the night and they're like all right well now we got, you know, another

person to fill in. A human being. Yeah. They made sure that we all knew it was a human being. It wasn't like, hey, an alien is going to sing. And what song did they play? Uh, ... ...

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But before that, they sang... Oh, did they sing something before? Wait. There was I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Where the Streets Have No Name. Those were the two songs they played with this gentleman. And I'm going to find it right now. I thought he did more than that.

Okay, maybe they did all i've seen are the youtube youtube clips that have two songs a piece on them so and i'm gonna play a little bit of the first one right now oh yeah you're right get used to that feeling, dipshit. Hey, this is U2, right? This is exactly what we want to hear out of U2. Yeah, I wonder when Bonobos is going to start singing. Obviously

that Chris Martin thing was just a fluke. Yeah. Bonobos has got to be waiting in the wings. lengthy intro long enough you two hey guess what this intro ain't over yet just because the drums have kicked in Hey, guess what? This intro ain't over yet, just because the drums have kicked in. It's just about when Bonobos would usually come out, and all of a sudden... Oh, here's some guy in a leather jacket with a hoodie. A hoodie leather jacket? That sounds like something Bonobos would wear. Let me look up to his face, because I've just been looking at the jacket.

Alright, I've got to the chin. Looks pretty familiar. Bonobos has a chin. Moving up to the nose. Wait, it's Bruce Springsteen. The boss. Doubles? Doubles?

I wanna run. I wanna hide. I want to run. I want to hide. I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. I want to reach up and touch the flame. It doesn't sound bad. It doesn't sound bad. It doesn't sound bad. I watched it right after it happened,

and it was just weird seeing someone else performing. That's the thing. Bruce Springsteen, I love him. I've seen him a lot of times. He's the best. He's da boss, as far as I am concerned. But he sounds a little weird not singing Bruce Springsteen songs. He sounds like a parody of himself when he sings a different song. Yeah.

You know? But it was cool to see. It's an interesting thing, definitely. I kind of, you know. And that's hard to do. Like, sing with that band and sing their songs. Sure, and in time. Yeah.

Yeah. You know? I mean, that, look, you know, you could be singing at a totally different time. You could be singing three days later. Mm-hmm. You know? And then I'll go, I missed it. If you're in Australia, 21 hours later.

Yeah. You know what I mean? But I thought it would have been, those obviously were the two U2 songs that Bruce Springsteen would sing. Yeah. Those two. Those two. I thought it would have been funnier if he would have came out and sang Volcano or something.

I thought it would be great. Vol-ca-no! Or if he did Get On Your Boots. Oh, God, no! Future needs a big kiss. Get on your boots! Oh, I would have loved that. Just like totally

squandering this opportunity singing their shittiest song. Singing Playboy Mansion. Terrible. Oh. So that was a lot of fun. I thought that was a cool thing. They did say,

hey, we're never going to do that again. They did? Yeah. They said that was fun for the one thing, but we're never going to do that again because we're you two with Bono. We're not you two with someone else,

which I thought was cool. I thought it was cool that they didn't cancel it and they figured it out. Although, isn't it something where I sometimes view these guys with like they have craven – they see things as business opportunities. And I think that the timing of that big concert was being right before their tickets go on sale you know yeah it's a big nice thing for charity but it's also like let's pump up our business for sure yeah so yeah i don't know but uh that was cool so then they then they canceled the k-rock show and no doubt took their place but then uh the tickets went on sale for the songs of innocence and experience tour and people are all wondering if we're gonna go are we gonna go yeah we're gonna go we're gonna go yeah totally it's a two-night event apparently if you go in each city it's kind of a pairs of shows yes now you don't

buy tickets and you get to come two nights no you have to buy two nights yeah but one night is innocence and the other night is experience now we just have theories about this no um adam clayton spoke about it about how the shows are going to be it's going to be two different nights of two different completely different concerts do you think then they're putting out a new record before this comes out? I would imagine Songs of Experience will come out. I'm excited about that. I think Songs of Innocence is really cool,

and I actually lyrically really enjoy the theme of it. But I'm really interested to hear about what they're talking about next. I'll even go a step further and say I think the lyrics are the best they've been since Aktoong Baby. Yeah. Since what?

Aktoong Baba Aktoong Baby Aktoong Baba Yeah, I think I mean but I am looking forward to songs of

experience as well and you know what? I'll even go as far as to say I'll listen to it. Well, yeah. I mean, I would imagine you would listen to it. I'll give it one listen. That's as far as you're going to go?

I'll give it a spin. I'll give it one spin. Once? Yep. One spin. And by the way, that's a record. I'm just going to let it spin around 360 degrees, and then I'm going to turn it off. Oh, you're not even going to listen to it.

Nope. I'm going to let it spin one time. Kind of like you, uh, how you listen to How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, huh? Fuck you. Hey, Scott, fuck you. Guess what, motherfucker? Fuck you!

Hey, Scott, see this? Read between the lines, fuckface. Oh, you got me, you motherfucker. He held up his full hand. Yeah, I pulled down a couple of fingers, so I was just flipping the old bird. Yeah, boy. So are we going to go two nights?

Are you down for that? I am, and we had talked about, you said to me, does Kulop want to go? And I said, I doubt it. But then I checked in with her. She said, I think that would be fun. What ifomi and uh she said what if what if me and naomi went one night yeah and then i texted that to you and you never wrote back and your face right now indicates that you don't think it's a good idea no i i forgot to ask her i would imagine she'd

want to go that'd be fun i think that she's when i ask her she's gonna roll her eyes and say so hard okay yeah yeah yeah yeah tell her it's cool off and then we'll have a good time yeah i mean i I think that she's, when I ask her, she's going to roll her eyes and say. So hard. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell her it's cool off and that we'll have a good time. Yeah. I mean, I think she's just, she would love to go see you too. I think she just gets a little embarrassed for me when I nerd out on stuff like that.

But we've gone to see them. I think we went. We've gone a couple times. She always loves it a couple times um uh but we gotta go both nights we gotta go both nights each night record an episode right we should definitely um or we'll record one episode after both nights yeah maybe that's it depends on how much time we want to spend with each other um but that's in may so i'm looking forward to that yeah it's gonna be fun it's definitely gonna be so I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, it's going to be fun.

It's definitely going to be fun. So if it's two different nights, do you think like the first night will be Songs of Innocence plus all their hits and the second night will be Songs of Experience plus all their hits?

Or do you think they'll be two? Like, I can't imagine they would play a show without still having, you know, Streets Have No Name or whatever. And I'm going to predict the future right now.

Okay. I think they will play selected cuts. They're not going to play the entire record. Right. They're going to play selected cuts from each album on each of these days, okay? Right. So on the Songs of Innocence Day,

you're going to hear, how many songs are there, 11? Something like that. Something like that. You'll hear six or seven of those songs. Right. And then the rest of the hits that they play around it will be ones that connect thematically with those themes. Like Pride. Yes.

Stuff from War, maybe. I think it'll be... I mean, maybe they'll do this. Maybe they'll do on the Songs of Innocence days, because it's all about when they started a band, they'll do all old, old songs. Yeah, that'd be cool. And then the encores will be their hits.

Right. And maybe Songs of Experience, they're going to play more new Octoon Baby type stuff and stuff off the new record, and then the encores are's other hits i don't know we we have no idea what's gonna come but they're doing four shows in la yeah four nights at the forum which is crazy yeah but you have to when you do the forum because it's right there in the title i think we should go what forum for oh you thought that was funny you thought that was a

funny joke you really think that was funny adam you like that you like that joke you thought that was funny? You thought that was a funny joke? You really think that was funny, Adam? You like that? You like that joke? You like that joke, Adam? Oh, no? You don't like that joke anymore? No? You have a tummy ache?

Why did you barf on me? I think that we should go the second two nights because they'll be blowing it out, right? Well, you said you were going to take care of tickets. I'm waiting. Oh, yeah. I'll do that. There's a Subway ad for this tour you wanted to talk about. Oh, I just wondered if you had seen it.

I don't know where I saw it. I think someone took a picture of it and put it on twitter or something it was uh an ad that someone took a photo of on uh the new york subway new york city uh subway system uh underground oh god please please get it together it was just a poster for the physical release of the album and at the bottom it had reviews quotes, and one said like five stars Rolling Stone, something from whatever other review. And then the final review, it said, the guitar playing is extraordinary,

and it said The Edge. So he put his own quote on the poster. That's kind of funny. I thought that was funny. Speaking of Rolling Stone, we have to talk about it because according to Rolling Stone. We have to. Speaking of Rolling Stone, we have to talk about it because according to Rolling Stone. We have to. According to Rolling Stone, the little lads from Liverpool have put out the best album of 2014.

And that album is called Songs of Experience. That's right. The lads from U2. Songs of Innocence? Or whatever. What are we talking about? Yeah, they named it their number one album of the year. Widely derided for that.

It was pretty controversial, huh? Well, controversial in the sense of everyone said, well, yeah, that just proves Rolling Stone is. But look, Rolling Stone, every single year, they say that a legacy act is the best record of the year. Springsteen, I think, probably last year. Well, Springsteen was number two this year, and that album was like... Some of those songs had already been out on other... Yeah. Or they were like B-side, some of them.

Yeah, that's not the best Springsteen record in a while. No. It was kind of just him having a bit of a laugh. Yeah. Having a little, having a laugh. Bruce Springsteen decided when he woke up this morning to have a little laugh. Yeah, so Rolling Stone named it their best. Where's it land for you?

Well, I would have to think about other albums that came out this year. What do you even like? Like, what do you listen to? Well, was Vampire Weekend this year? That was last year. Yeah, that was last year. But that's a great record. I love that one.

What came out this year? It's hard to... A million things. Well, yeah. Here, let me go through the old pod. The old PD. What about... Let me play songs for you and see if you've ever heard them before.

All right? Here we go. Ready? My anaconda don't... My anaconda don't... My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun. Boy, toy named Troy used to live in Detroit. Familiar? No, what is that?

I'm just kidding. You've heard this? Yes. Did that come out this year? Yeah, of course it came out this year. Alexander McQueen, he was keeping me stylish. Now that's real. Yeah, this is great came out this year. Yeah, this is great.

I love that. All right, let's see. What else came out this year? Okay, you tell me. Let's play. Did this come out this year or not? Okay. All right.

So let me find another hit. All right, here we go. Ready? Okay. Well, who's the lucky man? Hey, nonny, nonny, is it you? Hey, nonny, nonny, nonny, no. Hey, nonny, nonny, is it you?

Hey, nonny, nonny, nonny, no. Yes, this came out this year. Correct. This, of course, is Carol Burnett in Once Upon a Mattress. What the fuck is that doing on your phone? I bought it, and on your iPod, you can stream anything. Hey, how about this? Okay. Do you want the cord?

Hey, you fucker. that was a real one this is acdc from the razor's edge back in the 90s is it not not? Yeah. Oh, you know what I'm really liking this that came out this year is this Foo Fighters record. I think it's okay. Have you heard the album? Yeah, I mean, not...

I mean, I have it. I haven't really listened to it. Were you watching the HBO show? I... No. It doesn't sound like it. I have it all on the DVR, but I haven't I have it. I haven't really listened to it. Were you watching the HBO show? No, it doesn't sound like it. I have it all on the DVR, but I haven't watched it. The show was great. I've been making a TV show, Adam. I don't have a little supporting role where I get to work one day a week.

There's a bunch of great songs on it. It's probably good. I like them. Oh, you know what? I think my favorite, I know it came out technically last year, but the best record of the year, in my opinion, Beyonce.

Titchler. Titchler, Beyonce. She puts the tit in Titchler. But that didn't come out this year, did it? Well, it came out at the very end of last year. So I think it's... I do not have that. You don't, meaning you don't count it, or you... I don't have it in my possession. Oh, it's I do not have that you don't meaning you don't count it

or you I don't I don't have it in my possession oh it's so good it's one of the best records of all time of all time I don't know

it's probably not true stop it what are you playing right now oh this is the I'm just looking for stuff that came out this year alright here here's something

that came out this year hand me the thing give it to me I knew it was coming I'm just looking for stuff that came out this year. All right, here. Here's something that came out this year. Hand me the thing. Give it to me. I knew it was coming. I still hurt myself trying to get it. Okay. I think this is one of the best songs to come out this year.

Let's hear a little bit of it. Oh, the Tweety album was really good. Here we go. But yeah, this came out this year. I mean, we went to go see him at the Hollywood Bowl. What about that Real Estate album? Did you like that? I do not have that. Is it good? I've looked at it a few times and said, should I buy this? Yeah, it is good.

You know what? Finally, they finally re-released the had been out of print four years with Sam Kinison's first album. Oh, really? The one with Wild Thing on it? No. That wasn't his first album? That's his first album. Oh, really? The one with Wild Thing on it? No. That wasn't his first album? That's his second album. Okay.

Um. Louder Than Hell, they put it on iTunes. That's great. Because I've been looking for it for years on Amazon. It was like 300 bucks for the CD. Really? Yeah.

So it's out there now. It's so, so good. All right. Um. Oh, Cheap Girls. I love Cheap Girls' album. Oh, I don't know that one. Yeah, it's called Famous Graves.

Okay, I'll check that out. This is a great record. This just came out this week, Charlie XCX. This is a good record. Oh, Jenny Lewis. Oh, Jenny Lewis. That's a great record. Good old Jenny Lewis, friend of the show. That's a great record. Good old Jenny Lewis.

Friend of the show. The Tom Petty record was good. No thanks. You don't like Tom Petty? He's fine. I saw him at Bonnaroo last year. It was fine. He was fine?

I mean, he was fine. Tom Petty is one of the greatest ever. I like his Traveling Wilbury stuff. Oh, come on. So you thought Tom Petty was fine, but you listened to this. Yeah. Oh, this is a great record. This one came out this year.

This is maybe one of my... I think it came out this year. This is one of my favorites of the year. This is Churches. is maybe one of my i think it came out this year this is one of my favorites of the year this is churches all right we have to take a break when we come back we are going to go into youtube's holiday songs because those are uh it is the Oh, the Jack White album was great. And we're also going to talk about our live show, which is coming up. We'll be right back with you

talking U2 to me. This is U2. What? That song sucks, whatever that is. Fuck you. I'm the mother we share. We'll never keep your friend. Hi, everyone.

This is Scott Aukerman. And this across from me is... This is where you say your name. Sorry? This is where you say your name. Oh, hi. This is where you say your name. This is where I say my name. This is where you say your name. Sorry? This is where you say your name. Oh, hi. This is where you say your name. This is where I say my name.

This is where you say your name. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Say your name, not just Adam. Hi, Adam. My name is Adam.

Is that wrong? That was right. That was right. No, you got it right. Hi. Do you want to tell everyone about Parks and Recreation? Parks and Recreation, the television program on NBC,

starts up again on January 13th of 2015 on NBC. And my name is Adam. Do you want to spoil the final episode for everyone, please? Sure. What happens is, final season, January 13th.

January 13th, and it's all set in the future. Is that right? That's true. Oh boy, that's exciting. So if you want a little glimpse of the future. Well, it might be all set in the future. If you put down Blade Runner and check out something, it's going to happen a little sooner. This ain't your mama's Parks and Rec.

Okay. No, but say hi to her because because we're all mark walberg wasn't that the catchphrase i think so um and uh now back to your regularly scheduled bullshit little up where have you been naughty naughty hey that's right all the naughty you keeping me from my rounds? I'm late as it is. Now stay put. Don't go anywhere until I get back.

Understand me? Nice. Welcome back to You Talking U2 to Me. This is U2 with Christmas and Hollis. What is this? This is U2 playing Christmas and Hollis. I don't think I've ever heard that. It's good. Turn it up.

I beg your pardon. I stand corrected. This is Run DMC. Okay, so I'll say that the Jack White album, the Parquet Courts album, and the First Aid Kid album were all great, too. I don't know the First Aid Kid. I have the Parquet Courts one. That's a really good one. Jack White's okay.

You know what? And I think he's probably cool personally, but I saw his Bonnaroo set. Yeah. Why does he talk like that when he's doing the whole weirdo preacher thing? Hello, everybody. We're going to have a good time tonight. We're gonna play blues music for you. He's putting on a show, and there's a whole persona,

and he's great. I don't know. That Neil Young album that he recorded in that little booth is really great. Speaking of a little booth, your butthole. Would you put your favorite album of all time, the Coldplay? What cold what wait is the cold

play album better or worse than the beyonce album do the beyonce is the best beyond the beyonce self-titled record is the best that's a great one that is that is by that it's such an artistic leap for her uh every song is a classic i mean when she did i think it was the mtv awards recently and she played every single song from that record there's a reason because every song on that record is so good calm down that's gonna be that i think that that is one of the best albums of the decade are you are you all right um you're gonna be okay no i'm not why are you why do you gotta make fun of me for liking something i think you like it Maybe a little too much What does that mean

You like it a little too much You're just a little too excited What does that mean You're too Like I can like something I can be fucking enthusiastic About something Oh Future Islands

That's a great album That's a great album Friend of the show Seasons change See how we're waiting on you Was back this year Was that this year Back. Was back this year? Was that this year?

Back? Yeah, was back this year? I think it probably was. Morning phase? That was really good. That's a good record. All right, but we're here to talk about you two. We come not to bury them, but to praise them.

Tis the season. Weather report, frightful. So wait. But the fire is so delightful. You told me that they have other, the only Christmas song of theirs that I know is that. Let's hear that one. Here we go.

This is Christmas Baby Please Come Home from the Very Special Christmas Record. This is really good, right? This is great. I like this. Baby, please come home. Yeah! Have you ever heard my parody of this? My Halloween version of this?

Let me see if I can find it while we listen to this. They kind of went for the full Phil Spector on this. I like the way it sounds. I did a Halloween version of this with Amy Mann on backup vocals. Do you want to hear it? Yeah. All right, here we go. It's Halloween. E.T., please phone home.

Yeah! Yeah! Halloween The leaves coming down Halloween I'm certain it's fall. Halloween. In this suburb town.

Halloween. E.T. please phone home. Halloween. My mom's a cat lady. Halloween. And E.T.'s a ghost. Halloween. She took a flash picture. Halloween. E flash picture et please phone home your finger is my friend

i don't want our friendship to end how i wish you could stay right here but you'll be dead by Christmas this year Yeah. When did you do that? I did that for one of our charity records. Was it before we started this show? Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. It was maybe two years ago.

Oh, you've never heard my version, my parody of Vertigo. No. Do you have parodies of every U2 song that you've never mentioned before? Do you want to hear it? Yeah. See if I can find it.

But, oh, boy, here we go. We've never talked about it on this show, and people have wondered why not. All right, this is Weirder Scott Aukerman with Tangelo. Dose! Trace! Vitamin C! Hey, man, you want to try this new fruit I bought? Oh, what is it?

Something called a tangelo. Oh, all right. I take a bite. It's good. The pulpy juice tastes better than it should. And even though I usually hate fruit, I like this cross between an orange and a grapefruit. It's a wonder timing fruit with fruit when just ate a thing called a tangelo

as sweet as anything i've ever grown because you give me something i can feel what what did you make this for this was episode episode 20 of the Comedy Bang Bang podcast. That's really good. It is. That's really good. It's all about a guy who has a Tangelo farm, and then he starts losing money on it, and then he tries to sell it.

And does the song do well for him? The song? Well, like he puts out the song to promote his tangelo farm? No, no, this is a song with an omniscient narrator. He doesn't know he's in the middle of a song. Oh, I see. Do you think that the people that songs are about know they're in songs? So like, you know, Uptown Girl, for instance, does she know that she's in the middle of a song?

Yes, absolutely. know that she's in the middle of a song? Yes, absolutely. But I thought you were saying that this guy, he couldn't figure out how to sell his Tangellos, so he wrote this song. In order to be an advertisement. Since you're going to say Tangello like that, I'm going to say advertisement.

No, that is not what I was saying. All right. Although it would be interesting if the subjects of any song knew that they were in a song. Little ditty about Jack and Diane. They know I'm singing about them. They're waving right now. They're sitting here with me

on this guitar stand. Okay, so yeah, U2 has three Christmas songs. They have two that not a lot of people know about. They have that Christmas Baby Please Come Home. Then they have, this is one called I Believe in Father Christmas. And this, they just, they filmed them singing it. I don't think they officially released it as a record, but they put it out as a video.

And I think it was maybe for their red charity or something like that. But let's hear a little bit of I Believe in Father Christmas I Believe in Father Christmas Is this like an old song? I think so. I'll look it up. Veiled tears for the virgin birth I remember on Christmas morning A winter's light and a distant choir And a peal of a pear, a Christmas tree smell

Eyes full of tinsel and fire Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer recorded this. Really? Originally, yeah. They sold me a dream of Christmas. They sold me a silent night. They sold me a fairy story. But I believed in the Israelites. I believed in Father Christmas. I looked to the sky.

It's pretty good. It's pretty good. They recorded it in 2008 for the Product Red campaign to fight AIDS in Africa. That's what Product Red is. They sell you stuff. They sell you T-shirts and they give half of it to Africa or something. Yeah, I've never been 100% clear on all that either. But pretty good.

Pretty good song. It puts me in the Christmas mood, I believe. And then, of course, they have this song, which a lot of people don't characterize it as a Christmas song, but I hear it played in stores during Christmas. And it specifically talks about December the 25th. December the 25th. So let's hear a little bit of a B-side that you two recorded during their sun sessions, during the rattle and hum sessions. Oh, yeah.

This is originally done by Big Star. This is Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah. This is a Christmas song? I think so. This is a Woody Guthrie song. Oh, wait. You're right.

I thought it was the other Jesus Christ. Oh, the big star Jesus Christ? Yeah, don't they sing that too? I don't know what song that is. Okay. They don't sing Jesus Christ. Oh, man. Maybe I thought they just did. Okay.

Hold on. Let's listen to this one. This is... You're one. This is... You're right. This is the Woody... Oh, yeah. I can skip this ad, or should we just listen to it? Is this an ad?

Yeah, this is... Use playlists to bring your songs together. Yeah, we may as well just sit through it. Cut it out. Yeah, we may as well just sit through it. Cut it out. Oh, man, I always just have seen the title, and I assumed it was the Big Star one. I guess they do only have two. Because that was on that Folkways album or whatever.

Yeah, okay. Well, let's listen to the Big Star version. Here we go. This is Big Star with Jesus Christ. Angels from the realms of glory Stars shone bright above Royal David City Was made in light of love Jesus Christ was born today

Jesus Christ was born Jesus Christ was born today And that's a little taste of the song that I thought you two recorded. That would be great to hear them play. I would like to hear them do that. Let's talk to them about that. Look, Bono, we just want 170, 180 minutes of your time. We're going to pepper you with questions,

give you song suggestions of covers you should do. Would you say Sister Lovers is a great big star album? I would say that out of their three or so records,

it's definitely up there, yeah. Why, are you going to get it? I used to have it and I don't have it anymore and I forgot. I don't know if I ever really got into it. It's really good, yeah. Why, are you going to get it? I used to have it, and I don't have it anymore, and I forgot. I don't know if I ever really got into it. It's really good, yeah. That other album of theirs I was really into. Number one record?

Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one. It's amazing. They're great. Big Star, fantastic. The best. Buy one of their records this holiday season for someone you love. Or someone you love. Or someone you love.

Aha. Well, I guess I was wrong about that. You two doing three Christmas songs. So they did two Christmas songs. They did two Christmas songs. But at least, you know, I stumped you with one. But that second one, I believe in Father Christmas, is not readily available.

I can't find it. It's not. Basically, what I had to do was they put out the video of it, and they didn't put out any audio or MP3 of it. And so I then, using a computer program, taped the audio off the video of it and put it in my – Yeah, a computer program. Yes, ones and zeros, my dear lad. Very interesting, Mr. Bond.

Just kidding. Just kidding around. Oh, boy. So, Scott. Yeah. bond just kidding just kidding around oh boy um so scott yeah um what have we learned today that you uh love beyonce more than almost anything in the world that you're gonna sound so stupid making fun of me for liking that record no i don't class i i know that it's a great album and everything i'm just making fun of you all liking that record. That is a Stone Cold classic. I know that it's a great album and everything. I'm just making fun of you. All right.

But I really wish you'd knock it off. It is a great album. I really wish you'd knock the shit out. What else? We've learned, you know, that a Hasidic Jew costume is sometimes the most concealing thing you can wear. But we should talk about, Adam,

that, you know, you two is going to take it on the road, and we're certainly going to be out there watching two nights, but we're going to be taking it on the road as well. Yeah. Isn't that true? That's true. We have decided to do a live version of this. Yeah.

Of whatever this is. We're going to sit in front of people, and we're going to do a live thing. Mm-hmm. And we're going to do it in february and we're going to do it at san francisco sketch fest uh which is in the uh state of california and it's going to be on february 6th at 8 p.m. to 9.15. They're only giving us an hour and 15 minutes. Can we do it in that little amount of time?

I guess when we don't have that much to talk about, we can. Is it really an hour and 15 minutes? Yeah. Are you going to San Francisco just for an hour and 15 minutes? I guess I am. Wait. I thought those shows were longer than that. Well, this one sure isn't.

I don't know. The greatest event last year. You know what? It probably was only about an hour. It might run late. Who knows? Maybe we'll just do it for 45 and go, you know what? Fuck this and drop the mic, Chris Rock style.

Who knows? But we're doing this February 6th, 8 p.m., and tickets are on sale now. You can go to Sketch – SF – sorry. Let me start over. You can go to sfsketchfest2015.org, and you can get tickets of it. Let's see. Is it sold out yet? Because we're playing at Cobb's.

I don't know how to buy tickets on this. I assume it's not sold out yet because no one wants to come to this. But we'll see. I don't know how to buy tickets on this. I assume it's not sold out yet because no one wants to come to this. We'll see. I wonder if anyone will come to see this. I think some people will be interested a little bit. I would not be surprised if like 10 or 15 people ended up being there. I will say we have some competition because I think there's a tribute to Weird Al that's happening at the exact same time which you

know I would just go to that you don't want to see us maybe we should skip our thing and just go see that yeah let's just skip our show let's cancel our show what is a tribute to Weird Al

mean like other bands are playing his songs oh that would be so good what is it it's sketch fest tribute Weird Al Yankovic moderated by Chris Hardwick with guests

Garfunkel and Oates Harden Firm, and Jonah Ray. Guess who wasn't asked to be a guest? Yours truly. Yeah. Even though good old Al himself. By the way, did you hear about his name? No.

This is so strange. He's changing it to Weirdo Al. What? He's 30 years in the business. He's changing his name to Weirdo al yankovic like uh as a joke like a p diddy type no he's just he's just weirdo al weirdo al yankovic it's bizarre i don't get it it's weird because it's the same amount of syllables weirdo al weird al no no it's one more syllable yeah you're you're wrong on that score

very very wrong about that but what is also strange is dr de meadow he's taking the o out of his name and giving it to al so it's just dr de mint that's really weird it's a bizarre story as far as i understood it you could use as many o's as you want you don't need to take those are free other names you don't have to buy vowels anymore this isn't wheel of fortune people with your names like if you wanted to change your name uh to scottam yeah we wouldn't have to find someone with um in their name and or i wouldn't have to give you my m hello i have an m in my name that's true yeah and my name would just be ada ada no it's bizarre that's why i don't know

how these two guys got together and decided this and who is advising them i would hope they have managers is he really changing his name yes weirdo al yeah it's it's it's a strange story anyway hopefully they'll talk about it up where did you hear about that it's pitchfork really yeah it's just it's look it up when you get home look it up but i i have a phone i hope you'll ask him about this um in february when we see him at sketch fest anyway i was not invited to that um even though he had a huge part on the comedy bang bang tv show the other day so um but that's okay we got our own thing going on. Oh, we're also up against Sashir Zameda and Nicole Byer.

Well, that's a good show. I don't know why anyone would come to us instead of that. Yeah, a bunch of stuff that people would rather be at.

So, but anyway, it'll be fun. Judge John Hodgman is up against us. Dana Gouldauer. I mean, there's,

wow. We're fucked. We're fucked. You have Gravid Water with Scott Atzit, Lauren Lapkus, Ian mean, there's, Oh, wow. We're fucked. We're fucked. You have Gravid Water with Scott Atzit, Lauren Lapkus, Ian Roberts, and more.

Why would anyone go see us? Why would they put us up against all these great things? I don't get it. I think no one's going to be there, but prove us wrong. Try to come see us. And,

we're going to, I think we have something pretty special planned for that show. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Adam? Yeah. Yeah. I think it might be worth your time. Yeah. I think people are going to be pretty excited to see what we have in store for that show. Yeah. Yeah.

Definitely. Yeah. Hey, man. We don't have anything planned for this show, do we? Shut the fuck up. Shit, what are we going to do? I don't know. I don't want to do this show.

What, are we just going to get up there and just talk about fucking YouTube? Just talk about YouTube for an hour and 15 minutes? It's ridiculous. I feel like, like I said before, I'm even kind of sick of YouTube. I don't even like U2. I just did this because you said you wanted to do it. What the fuck are we going to do? I never listened to a U2 record before this year.

How much are tickets? How much are tickets? Oh, God. Let's see how much tickets are. $350. Are you fucking kidding me? $350 a piece. How much of that do we see? How much of that do we see?

How much of that do we see? Zero? Zero dollars? Zero Dolores? That's, what's the opposite of mucho in Spanish? Or buco. Buco Dolores. Hey, look, we have 88 attendees on this already.

So 88 people supposedly are coming. But guys, you may want to make other plans. No, we'll have a bunch of fun. Look, I don't want to spoil it, but we're bringing you two to this. They're coming. Shut up, dude. Shut up. I want to make sure that it's full.

I want to make sure that it's a full house. Well, it'll be full and then some. Wouldn't you have felt terrible if we never mentioned that U2 was going to be there and then suddenly we go out and there's, you know, there's only 20 people there? What if U2 played a show at Sketchfest and there were 15 people there because

we never mentioned. It was under the cover of being you and I. I think it'll be a lot of fun. We do hope to see you. No, it's going to be great. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. It's going to be really great.

It's going to be great. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. Scott? Oh, it's going to be great. Dude, we haven't even talked about films of innocence. Oh, shit. The whole reason to do this. Oh, my God. god okay we got to do this really quick because i'm my rap party is happening right now i'm doing this instead okay films of innocence yeah

by the way i was on your show just like a week ago was i invited to the rap party we don't invite talent there which is why why I'm going. Okay. Okay. What did you think? Did you watch all of it? No. Not a fan. I thought it was boring as fuck. Yeah, me too. I thought it was fucking boring.

Okay, I didn't know anything about it. All I heard was, you two made videos for every single song on the record, which Beyonce did, and it was great. Which R.E.M. did with their final album which no one seems to uh acknowledge that they were kind of the first to do this for runners um so i heard okay oh you two made videos you know what they did they're not in any of the commissioned videos fuck that and you know what it is pretty boring there i thought the raised by by Wolves one was pretty cool. Did you see that one? I watched it all the way up to Raised by Wolves, I think. Or no, I watched Sleep Like a Baby tonight.

A lot of them have... The fifth time it happened, I was like, what is going on here? But the first video was all about a dude painting a mural on the side of a building. I watched that entire thing. Okay, I watched that, and it was a dude painting a mural. the side of that entire thing okay i watched that and it was a dude painting a mural i was like okay kind of boring yeah who wants to watch some guy paint something and then the very last shot is oh the mural yeah then uh the second song was something different and then the third song was all about a guy painting a mural on the side of a building like whoa this is i mean i felt bad for the two directors, especially the second one, to be like, oh, I made a video too about a guy painting a mural?

They must have just, because they commissioned artists, not necessarily video directors. Here's what it is. It's all based, the third and fourth time it happened where someone's painting something on the side of a building, I was like, what is going on here? I looked it up. It's all based on these murals that are in Ireland that are political murals. And so they were inspired by these political murals that are on the sides of walls and buildings in Ireland and reached out to these artists and said, do something like this. And that's why they all tread very similar territory. Also, there wasn't a lot of, because there were just tons of images of,

like, the streets of Dublin, of like, of like, the kind of broken down neighborhoods that the songs are about. Like,

they just kind of went and a lot of it's kind of on the nose, just shots of, um, Like if they say they're on a road, it's a road, yeah. Yeah, and it I'm on a road, it's a road.

Yeah, and it does get really – I started skipping around a bit. It was so boring that I just turned it off. I was like, I know – it felt like homework to me. But it did let me listen to the record, but at a certain point I needed to do something, and I was like, I just can't do this anymore. The Raised by Wolves video is really cool. They're all fine, but I wouldn't say that any of – and I really like music videos. I wouldn't say any of them are incredibly compelling story-wise.

No, it would have been cool if they actually made 11 music videos. Yeah, actually starring them, but they seem like guys who can't, I mean, Bono's biking around like a Hasidic Jew. You can't nail him down to star in a video anymore. Anyway, that was the reason we got together. We were like, oh, those are coming out.

We got to talk about them. We barely talked about them. I wonder if – because they actually put some promotional muscle behind the Films of Innocence thing. Like I – we at least heard about it through – wasn't it advertised somewhere or something? Wasn't it? Yeah, well, it seemed to be on every music blog. They put them all out streaming for free the first day. That's what it was.

That's what it was. And then we both rented it. Yeah, it was like five bucks. Five dollars I spent it. But then again, they gave me the record for free. That's true. Yeah, not great. But at the very least,

they're doing something different and whatever. I guess so. Again, the album is great. It doesn't need that, I don't think. Yeah. Or it could have been a good version of it, maybe. All right. Well, that's about all that we have time to talk about here, right?

I mean, I don't know. I think so. You got anything else? I don't think so. I'm trying to get to a video, but I can't skip through this. What's this for? 520 hotels in 70 countries. SLH.com.

What is this for? Have a view outside your window. You'll experience exciting days. Jesus, this ad is so long. This is 35 seconds to go in this ad. Yeah, it's terrible. What are you trying to get to? Just trying to get to a song to take us out.

What song? None of your goddamn business. You'll hear it right away. What? Oh, I can press this thing that says skip ad? Oh, God. Are you on Spotify or something? No, I'm just on YouTube.

Okay, so I got a song to cue up for the end. Any last words? Good for you. No. How about you, Scott? I just, this has been a cool, this is our last episode of the year. That's true.

It's been fun to do this this year. These have not, they started airing within 2014. Within 2014. You know what? I'm glad you pointed that out, Scott. Thank you to everyone who's listened to this. People really like this podcast, which is insane because we pretty much thought no one. No one would listen.

No one. And we did it as a lark. And it's really sweet and kind and lovely that everybody likes it. And we have a lot of fun doing it and we'll continue to do it for as long as you two. Spirulatically. We'll do it every few months for as long as you two continues. Putting out stuff, which may not be that much longer. Yeah, who knows?

Do you think Songs of Experience will be their final album if they do? I hope not. I mean, I have a feeling it's going to be really good. I'm optimistic about U2 now for the first time in a while. I think that the debacle of the release which I did not think was a debacle a public relations thing maybe

the album is so great and I think the next one will probably be great too alright well let's in that spirit we want to wish everyone a happy holiday and we're gonna

take you out I did find one more U2 Christmas song on the internet we're gonna take you out with that right now and you know this has been great Christmas song on the internet. We're going to take you out with that right now. And, you know, this has been great,

and we want to thank everyone. And this is Bono. Love it. I love this YouTube Christmas song. Okay, everybody. All right. Thanks for listening, and we certainly hope that you found what you're looking for. Bye.

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