U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - U Talkin' U2 To Me? - Zooropa

Episode Date: April 9, 2014

Adam Scott Aukerman are back this week to talk all about U2's eight studio album Zooropa. They'll discuss the worldwide Zoo TV Tour, Bono's many alter egos, and U2's experimental side project Original Soundtracks 1. Plus, they’ll give their impressions on the new U2 single “Invisible” and talk about the films of Judd Apatow in the triumphant return of the “I Love Films” podcast. This episode is sponsored by:  Bonobos . Use offer code EDGE to get 20% off  Stamps.com . Click here for a special $110 Bonus Offer! Naturebox: Go to naturebox.com/u2 to save 50% on your first box of delicious snacks.  GoDaddy.com : Use offer code U295 for 85%off for $2.95 own your own dot COM

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My name is Scott Aukerman, and I'm here with my good buddy across the table from me, star of movies, this Christmas Day. I hope you haven't made any plans. Zero plans. I want you to clear your schedule because he'll be in Hot Tub Time Machine 2 coming out that day. And if you do have plans, go back in time and change them. It's going to be on the poster. It doesn't have to be that hard.

Oh, I see, because of the time. Yeah, go back and use a time machine. Not everyone has a Hot Tub Time Machine, Adam. They will on Christmas Day. Really? Is that part of the? It's part of the promotion. Oh, that's fantastic.

You're sending every single. Not me. Oh, that's fantastic. You're sending every single- Not me. Oh, sure. But Paramount Pictures sending everyone a hot tub. Time machine. Yes. Every citizen of the United States. That goes without saying.

When you say hot tub, you mean a hot tub time machine. From now on, just saying the word hot tub automatically means- A time machine. A time machine. Because everyone will own one. automatically means a time machine. A time machine. Because everyone will own one.

If all goes according to plan, everyone in the United States will own a hot tub by Christmas Day. Nuff said. Hot tub, time machine. But yeah. Why do you even say that? We've already... And what about people who live in apartments? I just said everyone in the United States

except people who live in apartments. Did you really? Yeah. Why am I not paying attention to what you're saying? I don't know. So wait, anyone who lives in an apartment, what are they going to do? Well, they don't get a hot tub time. Where are they going to put a hot tub, Scott?

I mean, I guess, you know, I suppose. Where would they put it? Okay. I have a condo for instance i'd put it in the bedroom that we don't use you let me tell you something about a hot like a real hot tub time machine do you want me to talk or do you want me to i'm sorry i don't mean yeah i'll just shut the fuck up that's probably what i should just do. A real hot tub belongs out of doors. It has to be outside.

We're talking about a hot tub with wooden slats on the outside of it. It has to be outside. Is that because of the heat or the condensation? Well, the heat, the condensation, the look of it, they don't look great aesthetically. But a lot of people have shitty backyards where nothing will look good out there. That's not true. I think any backyard space, and this kind of also goes into my sort of backyard aesthetics podcast that I'm starting. Okay, yeah.

Great. That'll be coming out on Fridays, I believe. Yes. Yes. Fridays starting in actually the day before Hot Tub Time Machine 2. Oh, great. December 24. I wish there was a better way to remember that date.

Yeah. Well, they call it here in the U.S. They call it Christmas Eve. Oh, okay. Yes. So you just remember it by that. Christmas Eve. In England,, yes. So you just remember it by that, Christmas Eve. In England, it's All Fathers Day.

And in Canada, it's pre-pre-boxing day. And in Ireland, it's Let's Get Out to the Movies Day. Animated popcorn, anthropomorphic popcorn day. Yes. Anyway, that podcast is starting. We're recording it now. We're going to hold on to it for a while. Is it daily?

It's going to be a daily podcast starting on Christmas Eve 2014. Great. And it'll go all the way until Christmas Day 2015. Oh, my God. So, 366. That's right. Episodes. Or even, no, it wouldn't be 366.

We're not in the middle of a, that wouldn't be next year, 2015. Well, I don't think 15's a leap year. I don't believe so. As far as I know. Yeah, I believe it'll be 216, 2016. 2016. I think it's the leap year. Yeah, boy.

That's another podcast in and of itself. Right? Yeah, called the leap year podcast. I think it would be called that. Well, it would have to be. I think so, if anyone would want to find it based on the topic and subject matter. Google search, please, Leap Year Podcast. Hello, will you turn on my computer for me?

I don't know how. You know what's funny, though, is, and this is funny. Wait, what kind of funny? Is this like Danny DeVito, Twisted Mind, War of the Roses kind of funny? Throw Mama from the Train kind of funny is this like danny devito twisted mind war of the roses kind of funny throw mama from the train kind of funny this is like bill paxton twister funny okay oh the funniest yeah uh if someone did a search a google search a leap year they might land on the movie leap year that i happen to be a part in i have a part in in that movie. What? And as far as I know, there's no podcast solely dedicated to that movie. But shit, you know.

What if we did a podcast starring your character from the movie? Jeremy. What was his last name? I don't know. I think his name was Jeremy, though. Just Jeremy Jeremy? He's still alive in me somewhere. He's in there.

Yeah, he's good. Oh, gosh. We could wake him up if we needed to. There's like a little sliver of him in you like you're a horcrux. Well, Scott, there's a sliver. Oh, wait. You don't know what that means, do you? I don't.

A horcrux? Oh, we'll get to the Harry Potter podcast a little later. How much research did you have to do for Hot Tub Time Machine just on hot tubs? Well, we all went to uh the three other guys uh let's list them off one by one okay i just have to get there at the same time let me get their names real quick here uh crog rope on scene crog rope on scene i think that's right crack crack crack chook crack chook crack chook

crack chook crack chook great is that his name I you know to be frank I don't know who you're talking about so it very well could be

it's not a name I've heard before and then Rob Corddry oh great he's amazing yeah those other guys I don't know um I'm kidding

it's Greg Robinson, Clark Duke. No, that was just, that's the sort of humor you're going to find in the movie. In Hot Tub Time Machine 2. H-T-T, H-T-T, H-T-T-2? H-T-T-

H-T-T-M-2? H-T- H-T-T-M-2? Is... HTTM2? Is there a question mark on the end of this? Hot Tub Time Machine 2? Well, in the sequel, there is. There is, yeah. But all sequels have a bit of a question mark.

That's true. All sequels are a bit of a question mark. Hey, you know what? But sometimes you'll get one of those sequels like The Godfather 2, which in my opinion, and I'm a bit of a centophile, is better than Godfather 1. You know what? It's a controversial opinion, but I'm gonna go

with you on this one. Maybe it's just me, but for me, sometimes a sequel like Empire Strikes Back. Another controversial thing. Some people think it's better than the original Star Wars. I'm one of those people. I guess I'm a little nuts. Wait a second. You're one of original star wars i'm one of those people i guess i'm a little nuts wait a second you're one of those people i'm one of those people wow

that is a bold statement scott you know what i put it out there and sometimes people give me a skew glances a side glances a skew yeah but uh and you call me crazy another 48 hours better than the original well that is just crazy that's not a good movie i don't know why you would watch that it's it's great european vacation way better than vacation just fucking insane right now that you have you are not you do not have good eyeballs beverly hills cop 3 way better than beverly hills cop 2 problem what is your problem i'm doing what you were doing i was saying the sequel like some of the these are bad movies these are the worst sequels of all time why are you saying this beverly hills cop 3 is a bad movie you know now that i think when was the last time you saw beverly hills cop 3 opening night

and closing night axel foley goes to an amusement park i think you're getting his name wrong it's axel rose oh axel rose i'm sorry i was getting it mixed up with the guns and roses the guy in guns and roses is named axel foley yeah exactly what kind of name would that be for a hip guy from Detroit. Axl Foley? Yeah. Come on, it's Axl Rose, obviously. He's a troublemaker from Detroit is what he is. He is.

You know who I would have loved to have seen a spinoff movie from? Is that Bras Nimpancho? Oh, yeah. Bras Nimpancho? Bras Nimpancho. I feel like the Perfect Stranger series was a spinoff of his character. It kind of was, yeah. And so it's

almost like watching a 200 hour movie and the the the spinoff could be called a twist of lemon from the twisted mind of danny devito he should have directed it wasn't that his um i think that was his like catchphrase from that movie he noticed that people in Beverly Hills like to give twists of lemon, and so he riffed it, and a star was born. Very funny in that movie. Very good. Without any jokes whatsoever. He is so funny. Let's drop the jokes.

He was funny in that movie, and then the laughter died. That was, I tried watching Beverly Hills Cop 2 just like a week ago. I watched it recently on a plane, yeah. And it's a really fun like 80s artifact of like, an artifact of like big 80s overblown filmmaking. It's a totally different movie. Yes. It's a Sylvester Stallone-ish Schwarzenegger movie.

Totally. Did I just say? I said his name right, right? Yes. Okay, good. But not as funny. It's more of like a thriller. Yeah, it's kind of like my favorite record, Thriller, by Michael Jackson in the sense of it was a blockbuster.

Yeah. Everyone had a copy of Thriller in their old record box. And everyone had a VHS copy of Beverly Hills Cop 2. BH2. Hot HTTM? HTTM 2? Um, now, Adam, we never got to... Oh, by the way, you're listening to you talking U2 to me.

Ha ha, that's right. The comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things U2. Speaking of U2, you never told me what research you did for Hot Tubs. You did a little bit? Oh, I did a lot. The previous guys, the guys that are returning for the sequel had done it. They had done a ton of it. So did they just kind of give you a crash course?

No, I had to go out on my own. Oh, yeah. They kind of said you're on your own for this one. It's kind of like doing boot camp whenever you do like uh like saving private ryan if they had done a sequel to saving private ryan and there was a new guy in the sequel hanks would have been like you know what i did boot camp i'm an officer now hanks ed burns all those guys would have been like look we already did this i'm fucking matt damon he would have probably passed. Is that his name now? Isn't it? His name is I'm fucking Matt Damon? I think so, isn't it?

I guess so. I'm not up on showbiz. He should say, like, I'm fucking Matt Damon. Right. So, yeah, I had to go out and do all the research on my own. Do you know how to fix one? I know how to fix one. I could build one if I had the materials.

What materials would you need? The wooden slats that you mentioned before? The aforementioned ones. You need some sort of a... You're miming something. It looks like you're painting your Tom Sawyer white wall washing the fence. What do you paint on wood to make it sort of look nice?

Stain. Yeah, you need a stain. It's been a while since I shot the film, so all the terminology... Paint on wood to make it sort of look nice. Stain. Yeah, you need a stain. It's been a while since I shot the film, so all the terminology. I'm sure it's been a while since you ever painted anything as well. Yeah, so you need that. You need a tub, some sort of waterproof. You need the innards of the tub and the stuff that makes it work. You need a motor of some sort.

So you could build one if... All I need is all the materials, and I need someone who knows how to put it all together. Okay, good. Who would direct you, or you would just tell that person to put it together? I would make sure they had everything they needed. Mm-hmm.

I would... Six-pack of beer and a pizza. Yep. Six-pack of beer, a pizza, and a couple of kick-ass Van Halen records. And then I would just take off for a few hours. And you'd listen to U2. Yeah, I'd take off. Well, just jokers listen to Van Halen.

Throw some two on the old box. And then find my way back and then get in for a good soak. Yeah. There you go. Do you own a hot tub, by the way? Me, personally? Yeah. I do not.

What's going on here? I don't know. I don't know. Well, come Christmas Day, you're going to have one. Oh, yeah. This is exciting. What about you? Do you have a hot tub?

No, I've always wanted one. Yeah. Why? Because I've never been in water why because i've never been in water before you've never been in water ever no not completely submerged no so you shower of i'm assuming uh i have so you know those uh watering cans that you do with flowers yeah i know what that i have uh cool up stand above me so no no shower coming out of the main water line in your house. I don't know.

What do you mean when you say that? Well, main water line. Well, I just said main water line. Main water line. Main water line. Main water line. People have showers in their house where you... What was funny about that?

You said something funny, so I'm laughing what is it i mean a shower in your house is funny kind of funny to me i mean i don't know like it is weird when you think about it like oh there's an entire little room where for 15 minutes out of your day water's going to come out and rain upon you it is It's super weird if you really think about it. It's weird. It's dumb. And then it's weird. We have these like soft beds that we just lay down on.

And then you just go and you like don't exist for six or seven hours and you sleep. Yeah. It's so trippy. Just if you think about it. Dude, you are blowing my fucking mind right now. Well, it's weird. I feel like there's a lot of everyday things where if you just kind of think about them. If you really analyze them from a different angle.

From all sides. You're coming at it from the Adam Scott angle right now. Well, I'm coming at it from just kind of organically where I come from. And where you come from is a little skewed, yeah. A little bit. It is. I've noticed that about you. Thank you.

This is our seventh episode, and kind of what I'm getting out of you is that, you know, things are a little off with you. You're a little random sometimes. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes things are coming out of my mouth. I'm like, did I just say that? Hey, you know what? Or, even more funny, did I just say that out loud?

You got to own it, though. You know what or even more funny did i just say that out loud you gotta own it though you know what i mean but what i find sometimes scott is say i take a uh i don't know a step ladder and i put it on the ground and i'm looking around the room then i just step one step up on the step ladder and look and look around the room again it's like you're seeing things from my point of view yeah Yeah, things look different. And then I immediately think, wow, this must be what it's like to be Scott. Ackerman. Speaking of Scott, over here, Adam Scott,

my co-host for You Talking U2 to Me. He just cracked open a beer. We are fucking getting high tonight. Adam, we have to take a break. Okay. Okay, really? Yeah, why not take a break? Sure.

When we come back, we have big news. Yeah. Big news on the two. We're also, hopefully, going to cover Zoo-ropa tonight. Zoo TV. Yep. Big, big. We're not doing pop tonight, though.

We're not doing pop. We might do, let's see how it goes. We might get to Passengers, original soundtracks, okay? All right, when we come back, we're going to talk about the big news that just occurred. Occured? Is that how you say it? Occured? In our life, Adam's zoning out on an email right now.

He looks like his his mother just died what well you got some bad news on that no my mom just sent an email though really what happened what's what's going on nothing nothing nope you had a look of just just depression did i really yeah did i really you had to look like like you were a little boy again and you were getting scolded and she took away your dessert. No, that's not what happened. Are you sure that's not what happened? No, but I'll read you the email off air.

Oh, off air. Okay. We'll come back and we'll decide if this is an email that should be discussed or not. And we will talk about the big news right after this. You talking you two to me? Two? Hey, everyone. Scott here.

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Is he? Yeah. We started playing recently when we did a show together. I bet he would be good at that. You know what? He's taken some bad beats from me. Oh, shit. For some reason, I won the first 10 games in a row, and he was freaking out about it.

What was weird was i just felt like i was getting all the right letters yeah i could tell he was a good player yeah but he was freaking out and he's also bought an app in the words with friends app that tells him how many times he's lost or won and so his record against me is terrible but then he started winning again but anyway i think he's i think i just think he's despondent about it or something because now he'll he'll go five days in between before we were playing eight games at a time all the time yeah now it's like five days go by you play eight games at a time with one person sure boy oh boy because i mean if you want how do you have time to do that you have like three jobs it's not always you talking U2 to me. Yeah. I zone out sometimes. Do you count this as one or two jobs?

Two jobs, probably. Because doing this podcast as one and wrangling you, that's a full-time job. Keeping track of me. Where's this guy? Hey, you are listening to you talking U2 to me? Two? HTTM2? You two to me?

Two? HTTM2? And now let's set the scene for the listeners because we've talked about it briefly on the show, but maybe this is your first time listening. I doubt it. Yeah. You guys are old pros at this point. But so here's the deal. So we're recording this in advance of its release we're doing this several months i'm

in the middle of uh season three of comedy bang bang filming and adam is in the middle of parks and rec filming and so we're just stealing away any time that we can okay tonight happens to be 9 p.m again i don't know you love the 9 p.m well that's that that means i can put the kids to sleep and then uh and then uh shake on down the hill and meet meet up at earwolf you live on the top of a big big hill don't you i live on top of the building oh okay great so um i'm forced to come here at nine because adam has kids forced i've been up since five have you really yes and i have a 6 30 call but you know what do you really yes oh my god i was what are you doing here you know what i like hanging out with you all right i was uh i was a little tired and i was dragging and i was like you know what

this is not fun tonight and then the minute you walked in here i was like you know what let's talk some youtube it was like a cup of coffee walking in i. I do have to say that on my way down here, I was like, wow, it feels like it's been a long time since we've done one. It's only been maybe a week. Maybe a week. But I haven't been able to talk about U2 with anyone. Like the new song came out. Yes. And I was up at Sketch Fest and it came, and there was no one I could really talk.

No one cares. It's all a bunch of young comedians. Yeah, and no one cares. No one cares. Speaking of which, so that's the big news that we're talking about. Last week, if you listened to last week's episode, we knew the big song, new song, new single was about to come out. We had some theories. I don't know if we talked about the theories on the show.

Did we? Yeah, maybe we didn't. You had a theory where you were saying, I think, and this is a Super Bowl ad, by the way. This is how far in advance we're doing this. in advance were doing this. The new song came out in a Super Bowl ad, and you felt that they were going to announce a whole album coming out. Imminently.

Imminently, like on Tuesday, download the whole album. Yes. That did not happen. I thought they were going to like how Beyonce did that, which I thought was a brilliant move. And it may have happened by the time people are listening to this. Yes. I feel like it's something that could happen.

I feel like Invisible, now that it's out, and it's... I feel like they may want it to sort of marinate a little while and just sort of... Get people used to it. Because they want this song to be hugely popular, and then they want to put the record out. I think what I heard is they want this song to come out

just to sort of, with the Super Bowl ad and remind everyone that they're here and they're kind of making new stuff. And then they're going to put out the single for the album, which is not Invisible. It's going to be some other one. I've got to say, Invisible is a good single. I'm very fond of it.

As opposed to Ordinary Love, which was the Mandela song, which may or may not be on the record, but it's the first new U2 we've heard in a long time. We both were kind of like, I don't know, on it. But let's hear just a little bit of it. This is a little Kraftwerky right here. Also Larry Mullen. The drums are cool, too, just how subdued and just sort of disciplined they are at doling it out.

Yeah, his drum patterns are really interesting, but they're doing kind of the... This is kind of a familiar beat for them. It's sort of like Beautiful Day. Yeah. But even before he starts singing, there are two different melodies happening, which is really interesting. It's very hummable to me yes and then the chorus is particularly let's skip ahead to the chorus here we're pumping our fists right now okay this is more like the pre-chorus. Or is it? This is the chorus.

You know what's interesting about it? For a single, it's a real grower. You listen to it a lot. Like, at first I was like, wow, I'm not sure the big hook is there. I gotta say, let me read our texts, because we promised we would text each other

when it came out. You too. I'm gonna turn it down because we probably can't play. But then the more I listen to it, I'm like, wow, this is an incredibly catchy, hooky song.

It's just, it's really good and so you, it's a grower. I find that a sign of a really good song is when you listen to it over and over, and it really kind of expands as you listen to it. So here's what happened. It was supposed to come out at 3 p.m.

They had a countdown clock, and we were all ready to listen to it at 3 p.m. At 8.34 a.m. It's pretty early for a text. What if you'd woke me up yeah you're right you know but you were excited you were excited i happen to be up because we're filming i happen to have been up for three or four hours i was awake you were awake on a sunday filming yeah you're filming on a sunday no we weren't filming i just oh now that i'm in the groove i happen to wake up at five every single day got it i woke up early because i had to get I was at Sketchfest and I had to get back home.

So that's why I was up. Mama, I'm coming home, as Ozzy Osbourne used to say to Sharon. Absolutely. Uh-huh. So now at 8.34 a.m., here's the text from Adam. It's available now on iTunes. Not even available. You're so excited.

I was in a hurry. Okay, so that's 8.34 even available. You're so excited. I was in a hurry. Here's, okay, so that's 834. Yeah. I don't get it until 856. I don't know why. You don't get my text. Well, I had the phone down. I was doing some other stuff. Masturbating. I pick it up. Okay, I was masturbating.

I pick it up and I write back, what? Did you really? Yeah. And then I write, I can't find it because i did a search on itunes doesn't come up that's right then i say did you get it you're you're not getting back to me this is at 856 okay you're not getting back to me at this point i'm assuming you're deep into listening to it several times in a row. I think I was... Yeah, you say, I can't find it. Did you get it?

Wait, I got it. Yeah. I finally, I think someone tweeted a link to it, like Judd Apatow or someone tweeted a link to it. I was able to follow it from there. You know, Judd Apatow just always saves our asses, doesn't he? He really does. Can we talk about his movie? Can we do a little bit of I Love Films

about his films for a minute? Okay, so I Love Films, and he started out just as a producer. He did The Cable Guy, Anchorman. Then he comes in and he does the 40 year old virgin well first he was in television you have to mention the ben stiller show of course larry sanders so i mean writer producer gary shandling award shows did so much but then just in film he comes and we're talking films yeah we're talking films yeah no this is i love films um he comes in and he does 40 year

old virgin and i'll be damned if it isn't a hit huge hit and very funny scott and that enables him to follow it up with more films and he's made as far as i'm concerned four maybe of them at this point and that's a great career well let's count them we got 40 year old virgin noctope noctope um phoony people is that is that phoony people and then uh the 50 year old virgin what's next no uh 40 another these us 40. This Us 40. Another movie with 40. He's so obsessed with the number 40. It's almost like U2 and their song, quote, 40, unquote. Hmm.

What if he had used that as the theme song to This Is 40? The song 40? Uh-huh. Which is like a song about human rights yeah okay so finally you get me back you go wait are we done with the episode of oh yeah that was i love films so finally you get me back yes i got it doesn't sound very hopeful to me then you write not sure yet so in my mind you're not digging this meanwhile i had by the time you wrote back to me i had listened probably twice at this point okay when i said i'm not sure yet yeah and i'm digging it i'm saying this is a hit i say

interesting beautiful day drumming slash tempo and then 9 9.15, I'd listened to it by six times already. I hadn't heard what you thought. Why do I not have time signature or time stamps on my... I don't know. You're a fucking moron. I say, I like it. And then I say, thank God the get on your boots era is over. And then I say, I declare this to be a hit, just wanting some kind of feedback from you. I think at this point I'm going down and getting into the car.

Or your driver is like opening your door for you. It was, you know, the really helpful young people that drive you around at Sketch Fest. Yes. So then finally, 942. I'm so sorry. This is an eternity. An hour goes by. You go, I'm so sorry. This is an eternity. An hour goes by. You go, I like it too.

It's a grower. Like a certain penis I'm familiar with. And then I write back, you're not the only one familiar with it. Tell me you love me fans have had an eyeful. And I did not respond to that. No, because you don't like jokes about that project, I guess. I will never respond to a joke about that project. Because you took it very seriously because you wanted to show your penis in a thing.

And then all of a sudden everyone jokes about something. Then the ad comes out. No announcement. We write back, hmm, no announcement. You say love the ad, really dig the song. Wait, you said first Sunday, 4.09 p.m., well, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, exclamation mark. And then another text that says no announcement.

So at this point, had you gotten on board with my suspicion about this? I had a sneaking suspicion something was going to happen. Because it just seems weird that a band this big would just put out a song with a Super Bowl ad and that's it. And that's it. And it was merely to, you know, for Bank of America to get on board. Yeah. By the way, did we ever find out if Bank of America is going over the two million mark? I think they are, yeah. They did, because at a certain point they were like, 2.5 million. I was like, you're not paying that extra five. Right, right. Okay, so then what do we think now in retrospect? Invisible, I think it's a good

one. Me too. I think it's really, really good. I like it a lot. Now, then I just, while we're in the texts, I got to read this new series of texts from you. Feb 4, two days after the Super Bowl, I'm sitting there. You're at work. I'm at work. You write, YouTube album just posted on iTunes. With three exclamation marks. Three exclamation points. Points.

You didn't even give me any time to search it out or anything you backed off immediately and you were at jk and then a little winky emoticon meanwhile i'm at work i happen to be with nick offerman and i tell him what you did and does he think we're idiots for doing this show? For everything? Probably. Yeah. So he, I made a video of him and I texted it back to you.

And I'm going to play the audio from this video. Adam, that's not funny. Just very seriously. I think it's just, it was really funny to me just because just thinking about nick giving a shit about you two putting out an album and it's really funny just dragging your way i do get time stamps but only when i move my thing over to the side like that your penis yeah okay how did you get the time stamps to stay i think i have an older phone than you yeah mine's pretty new yeah adam that's not funny you can say that whenever at any point you can play that during this show adam that's not funny so uh invisible you know what maybe the album's out by the time people

are listening to this and this is old news but to, this is a chronicling of what we're going through as we're waiting for this U2 album to come out. And we just thought we would document. And I like the song. I'm hopeful. I like the song more and uh uh single edit yeah or red red single edit so i feel like this is a bigger song this is a longer song and we'll have it would be interesting if they edited it to be longer this one yeah and the actual the album version is one minute yeah and they're like you know what let's

tack on a couple extra minutes for these that would be interesting well it's got me hopeful for the record and you know obviously we've talked about it the the final episode of this we're going to be uh reviewing the record the same way that we're reviewing all of their records that have come out and uh we're doing it at a slightly slower pace than we thought we would yes but but we have plenty of time as it turns out as it turns out yeah maybe as far as we heard from bono this may not be coming out until june so we'll have to do some filler episodes well there's there's been a couple interviews this week one was with the edge where the edge said who the edge is a guitar player and U2. Oh, okay.

And he said that they are putting the finishing touches on the album, and they have to make sure that there's nothing indulgent on the album, and that it's all the best lyrics and best melodies that they can possibly make. And he wouldn't say when the album is coming out he said in the next couple months but i will say that i'm going to be very busy this summer oh which people are taking a second job people yeah he's probably because i hear he loves subway sandwiches and he is a bit of an artist when it comes to them. Sandwich artist. So maybe that means the album comes out in April or something.

And then they're touring. But wouldn't the tour announcement, how could they keep that secret? Because wouldn't- They have to book places. They have to book places and all that kind of stuff. Well, you know what? That's above our pay grade. Look, I'm not one to speculate.

Oh, just period. Wow. Usually people follow that up with but. And then they speculate. Not me. Oh, wow. I don't know. Adam, that's not funny.

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For what? You didn't tell me it's 50% off your first box. Look, you have to do it now. It's almost free. Go check out naturebox.com slash you two today hey anyone can sound like drums welcome back we are talking you two which is why we decide to call this podcast you talking you to me by the way i wanted to mention this every episode i say from boy to boots wouldn't it have been better to say from octoon baby to zuropa like that's a to z you know i was thinking yeah but that's only covering half of their discography kind That's kind of what I meant from like Boy, I used the Bs, Boy, Boots, the two Bs.

Yeah, but- One at the beginning, one at the end. That makes sense because Boy is their first album, Boots is on their last album. Their most recent, yeah. That's what I thought, but then alphabetically, Octoom Baby to Zoropa. No, I think you made the right choice. Thanks, buddy. Speaking of Zoropa, let's talk about it let's get

into it zuropa is a really interesting wow you are really chomping at the bit i'm ready this wow okay i'm ready what are we doing here scott let's get to it let's get to it sorry it was made as kind of a throwaway like they made it like literally for people to buy it and throw it away right into the garbage which then all of a sudden you know for people to buy it and throw it away. Throw it right into the garbage. Which then all of a sudden, you know, for all of their high and mighty ideals about the environment, it's like, come on, guys. It is weird because back then it was all CDs. Yeah. And cassettes.

It's like, why are you making these things for us to just throw them in a landfill? Did they want us to fill the landfills with their albums? I don't get it. I don't understand. But yeah, let's talk about the history of it a little bit so uh they put out actoon baby actoon and they then uh book a tour and uh i watched a little bit of a documentary about the Zoo TV tour and it talks about how kind of what they were doing and Brian Eno had this idea for the tour to be like sort of sensory overload where they're going to have a lot of different TVs all over the stage.

I think he wanted even more and it was unrealistic. But so U2 knows a good idea when they hear one, especially from old sourpuss Brian Eno over here. They're like, oh, you're finally piping up long enough to give us an idea? I forgot you even had vocal cords. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. So they go, okay, you know what?

That's a good idea. It sort of fits in thematically with acton baby but you know not nothing on acton baby really says goes into the themes of zoo the zoo tv tour really that much uh i mean zoo ropa more but zoo ropa i think is more a result of the tour that's what i'm getting to okay Okay. But I do think that, I mean, you admittedly don't know Octoom Baby as well as other records.

I mean, I don't have to admit anything. Well, you don't have to admit it because last time... Play the tape. Play the tape. Should we go back

and play the tape? Play the tape. Is that what we're doing? Okay, play the tape. Yeah, so I don't know Octoom Baby all that well

or at least as much as the other records. Huh? So what do you think, Scott? Did you say it or did you not say it? I'm so embarrassed right now. I feel like Tom Sizemore.

I mean, I don't remember saying it, but I'm not denying that I said it. Why do you feel like Tom Sizemore? Because he said that thing about Clinton having sex with Elizabeth Hurley. But he did?

Oh, news from two months ago. I did not uh two months ago when people hear this it just broke today um yeah never mind okay not important but um so you think you think the themes of baby tie into this uh sensory overload theme definitely with the fly and with zoo station and even better than the real thing okay what does he what is he talking about when he says even better than the real thing is he talking about like yogurt or he's talking about coca-cola okay great but i think that i don't you know you know what was interesting you know what's interesting about Zoo TV? Please tell me something interesting. If you go look and look at the set list of the Zoo TV tour. Yeah, which I could do right now.

Here we go. At least when I saw it, which was sort of at the beginning, like March of 92. Yeah, they did. Look, this is, they toured the shit out of this. This is. They toured for like three of this. Yeah. This is- They toured for like three years, didn't they? This is back in the old days when Metallica could tour for four years on one record. Yeah.

You know, this is- Can you look up the Zoo TV set list from early March, like March 9th, 1992? Is it March 9th? March 9th, 1992. And you know the day that you... I think that's the day. Zoo TV, March 9, 1990. At the LA Forum, I think.

I remember I saw Tom Cruise there. Tom Cruise at the show? Or you saw him perform there? Yeah, he opened for you too. He just did the risky business thing? He just slid out? Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Just slid out and then he was gone.

It's coming up. It's coming up. So, yeah, they toured for three years or so on this thing. And so they had several legs. And the first leg was just right after Octoong Baby came out pretty much. Okay, so we have the set list. This is at the—oh, this is in New York, March 9, 1992. Oh, really?

Do you want me to go—I'll just say instead of March 9, 1992, I will say Los Angeles. And it's at the Coliseum, you say? I thought it was at the L.A. Forum. Oh, the Forum. Okay. There's a Dodger Stadium date, leg one, 1992. Anyway, so as I'm looking this up, I'll just kind of rattle off some information. So the first leg – oh, Los Angeles Sports Arena maybe. Yes.

The first leg of the tour was right after Octoom Baby came out. They're just doing songs from Octoom Baby. That's what I was going to say that was so cool about the tour is you know the album is great when the first like hour of the show is only songs from the new album like no one here we go i got the set list zoo station as far as i'm concerned that is the first song on actoon baby well you can be concerned because you're right okay great what date is it this is april 13th oh wow you're a little bit off my friends a little how about a lot off how about it i'll take that okay then you're going into The Fly, which at this point is a single, so it's pretty front-loaded. Because this is one of the more popular songs from the record.

Although, as you see the tour go on, it gets deeper and deeper and deeper. Because no one likes the song The Fly. That's not true. All right. Then you have Even Better Than The Real Thing, Mysterious Ways, One, Until The End Of The World, even better than the real thing mysterious ways one until the end of the world who's gonna ride your wild horses and trying to throw your arms around the world and trying to throw your arms around the world is what brings them out onto the little mini stage then they go no then they go to the b stage i mean maybe they they're walking while they're playing trying to i don't know

how that worked okay so but that's eight songs, and all of those eight are on Octoon Baby, right? That's pretty ballsy for a super group. Hugely ballsy. But people were crazy about this album. At this point, people are crazy about the record. Okay, so then they do... Everyone except Scott Ackerman. So then they do, they go over to this little tiny stage,

which is a cool idea. When I watched the DVD, they basically went to the other side of the arena, right? No, it kind of jets out into the middle of the arena. In the middle, but you know what I mean. It was a new idea back then. No one had done that. Because back then when you would see a show, the band would be on the, if it's sort of an oval, they would be, I don't know how to describe it, in the skinny part of the oval on one side of the arena.

The skinny part of the oval? I don't know how to say it. If I were a mathematician. They would just be on the stage, like where one of the baskets would be in a basketball arena. Okay, you're a jock. You know these things. Okay, that's right.

They'd be where the baskets are, and the people on the other basket would be so far away from people it's kind of a bummer yes so what they then do is they walk out into the middle of the arena and they go on what they call a b stage they play angel of harlem they play an abba cover dancing queen they play satellite of love their lou reed cover um do they play the rest of the record there or is though are those the only three that they play there then they walked back yeah just a few songs and they play them like acoustically acoustically yeah um which was a real treat for a 19 year old uh aps over here well especially like being an unplugged head like you oh man Oh, man. I was all unplugged.

Oh, my God. I mean, you never plugged it. Especially when I smoked weed. Tune out. So then they go back and they do some old hits. Bad, Bullet the Blue Sky, Running to Stand Still, great song. Where the Streets Have No Name. Oh, all of a sudden hits are coming back.

Pride, In the Name of Love. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For closes out the main set. Then they come back and they, meanwhile, they haven't returned to Ak-Tung Baby at this point. You're right. They're just doing hits.

They come back out and they go, D's I, I, I, I, I, you're. Yep. Ultra Violet, Light My Way. That's, okay, hey, we're going to play one of our least popular songs off this new record. Yep. Sneak it in there.

Sneak it in. Okay, but people are still riding the wave of, oh, thank God you came back out. Yeah. With or Without You, classic. Yeah. And then ending on Love is Blindness. Am I right? Downer.

The Downer Love is Blindness, which, and then they just walk the fuck off the stage. Oh, they get off stage, they go get in a fucking bus, and they get the fuck out of Dodge. They're like, fuck this place. Let's blow this fucking taco stand. Let's get a vamos a la playa. Edge, give me a Budweiser. They only drink Budweiser. One Budweiser.

That'll do me for the entire trip. Give me a freshly squeezed Budweiser. They only drink Budweiser. Give me one Budweiser. That'll do me for the entire trip. Give me a freshly squeezed Budweiser. So you're at this show. Meanwhile, I'm not even listening to the record at this point. So wait, did you see this tour? No. I did not. In fact, when Lance Bangs was here a few weeks back, what did he say?

He said what? You saw U2, the Pixies. Who what you saw you two the pixies who else opened i saw the pixies opened at that show uh-huh when i saw them like six months later on halloween it was public enemy and the sugar cubes opened right i think what lance's point was you saw like this incredible bill of you two the pixies and a couple other bands and you said no i'll pass but i was in theater school i was devoted to my craft at this point hey i don't blame you um and it paid off look where i got you i have my own tv show you know what i would say adam you don't have your own tv show you're right you're not number one on the call list are you

no i'm not you're not is that what they call, a call list or a call sheet? Okay, I should learn these terms. So. Call list. I don't know. What the fuck are you talking about? Someone had to, John Hamm had to explain camera one to me recently. Really? Yeah, he was like, that's the one pointed at you, idiot.

Okay, now, I did watch the DVD of this show the other night, okay, because I had heard about it, and I had never seen it. And so I got this DVD of it, and I watched it. So you still hadn't seen it? Still had never seen it. I had seen the pictures of it. Mainly, I had just seen pictures of it. And I'd read it described, as we were talking about, by Robert Hilburn, who had seen them and would describe what happened in them and so i felt like i had kind of seen it you know but i i hadn't and i have to say coming from the joshua tree bare bones rattling hum uh you know nothing up there but a

spotlight shining on old edge yeah old edge head yeah um to this huge kind of production was really, really cool. Yeah. And I was surprised watching it yesterday at how well it's aged. I mean, obviously the technology has moved beyond the types of screens they had up there, but still the idea of it is still really cool and fun to watch. And basically what they were doing is they had a lot of TV screens on stage and they were playing a ton of different stuff. Some of the stuff that, sometimes stuff that was live happening right then.

Right. And they would sometimes do, they were messing around. They were like doing Bad Grandpa up there on stage, but live. They were playing with the form. Yeah. They were goofing around. They were like doing Bad Grandpa up there on stage but live. They were playing with the form. Yeah. They were goofing around. They were like, they would call up George W. Bush and, or H.W. Bush and that'd be weird if they would call George W. Bush.

Yeah, no one even knew who he was. Yeah, no. Oh, I hope George H.W. Bush knew who he was. Well, he certainly did. It's his son. But they would goof about. They would make prank calls and stuff like that and they were not taking them. Order pizzas Bush knew who he was. Well, he certainly did. It's his son. But they would goof about. They would make prank calls and stuff like that. And they were not taking them. Yeah, order pizzas.

Not take themselves too seriously anymore. But not only that, they had a lot of cool shit like a belly dancer comes out in the middle of Mysterious Ways. Yeah. Who, by the way, Edge married. Yep. I just found that out. Isn't that crazy? Edge had just gotten a divorce.

That's what Octoon Baby is largely about is Edge's divorce. Yeah. And then he's out there getting some road strange from the belly dance. And then he puts a ring on it. Is that what you on the road comedians call it is road strange? Yeah. And then he fucking puts a ring on it. Is that what you on the road comedians call it? His road strings? And then he fucking puts a ring on it. He's so into it.

I don't know. I don't know if I would get a divorce and then immediately put a ring on a belly dancer. But Edge, hey. Listen, Edge is out there every night entertaining thousands upon thousands of people. If not millions. If not millions.

Every night. And he sees this beautiful belly dancer every night seductively. Undulating her stomach muscles. For his best friend, El Bono, over there. He's probably like, hey. His best buddy. Yeah. His best pal.

His full-on bro. He probably was, after a while, he's like, hey. He's like, hey, man. Break me off a piece of that. Let's get married. You know what? Hey, it ain't no fun if the homies can't have none. Bono.

So Bono's like, you know what? Have at it, Edge. Yeah, hey. This is just an act up here. That's for real. But at one point, we all know Edge came to Bono and said, hey, man, we got to talk. Yeah. That girl that you are kind of like leaning around,

trying to touch her belly on stage, I love her, man. Yeah. And Bono is probably just like, I understand. Hey, she's very beautiful. And I'm married. So go for it. I support you, Edge. We should write a screenplay about the Octoon Baby tour.

We should. This is a good scene right now. It's very good. This is powerful. As an actor, this is the type of scene that you want to play, right? Should we play out that scene one more time? Okay, great. Here we go.

Hey, man. Hey, Edge. Hi, Bono, I should say. Oh, that's all right. I know who you are. I know you, too. You're Bono. Oh, you, too. Did you hear what I said?. Oh, that's all right. I know who you are. I know you, too. You're Bono. Oh, you, too.

Did you hear what I said? It's the band we're in. Great show tonight. Hey, I just wanted to say great show for you, too. Oh, thanks. You hit some notes that I never hear you hitting. Oh, my voice is so tired. That's okay.

You know what? The great thing about doing a show is you got 24 hours until the next one. You can rest. Yeah, but you know us. We're party animals, and now we have this whole ironic image to keep up. How's this ironic image going for us, do you think? I think it's working. I mean, the people are really showing up. They're buying it. Tom Cruise was there tonight.

Oh, did he open for us? No, he was just in the crowd. The Pixies opened for us. Oh, okay. You know how badly I wanted him to get out there and just do that risky business thing, though? Oh, my God. That would have been so amazing. I have the shirt. You know, I bought the shirt from the actual movie.

Oh, you did? And I presented it to him. I said, hey, man, why don't you strip down to your skivvies? And he just looked at me. He, like, took his Ray-Ban sunglasses off. And he said, I wish i had a couch right now i could jump on it because i'm so happy uh to get this shirt back but never in a million years am i gonna strip down on my skivvies what a bummer yeah you know he's probably just preoccupied

with his film far and away that's coming out this summer yeah it's gonna be a big hit i think huge it's gonna complete me i would think i don't know what you're referring to it's going to be a big hit, I think. Huge. It's going to complete me, I would think. I don't know what you're referring to. It's just kind of a term I have about something kind of filling that puzzle-shaped hole in your heart. Hold on, let me write that down. Okay, I'll wait for you to write it down. I'll either use it in a lyric or I'll just tell Cameron Crowe about it. Okay, he's a good guy. I love him.

So I got to talk to you. You know that belly dancer? Wait, which belly dancer? There's, I would say the one who's on tour with us right now. On tour. The Actung Baby Tour. We call it Zoo TV. Zoo TV, Zoo TV.

Belly dancer. Oh, the one that's in the show with us. Oh, yeah, the one who's actually in the show, not the other. Yeah. Sure, yeah. She comes out and she dances during Mysterious Ways. During the song. Is that what that song's called?

Mysterious Ways. Yeah, it's on our new album, Octoon Baby. I guess I never realized that's what that song's called. Definitely the name of the song. It is, here, here's the CD. Thank you. Yeah. No.

Oh, yeah, there it is. I've heard it so many times. I guess that phrase doesn't mean anything to me anymore. Yeah, well, now you see that that's what it's called and you've found what you're looking for. Another one of our songs. Really? I still have...

Well, it's called I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. I never knew that was it either. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's the strangest thing about you, Edge, is that you... I'm not really listening to the words. You never listen. Yeah, but that's fine the strangest thing about you, Edge, is that you never listen. I'm not really listening to the words.

You never listen. Yeah, but that's fine. I have too many cool licks. I'm paying attention to those. You have a lot of kick-ass licks. It's like most of the time I'm listening to like... You're playing Mysterious Ways right now. Oh, I call that song...

That would be difficult to put on the track listing i guess so but don't you think that like for one of our records we should call the songs what i want to call them like i'll tell you record after the next one we can just call all the songs what you want to call them oh great i have some great ideas i hope you don't I hope discotheque isn't one of them. Yeah, you know it is. Also, there's this dead man I want to wake up. In any case, talking about the belly dancer.

Oh, yeah. What about this belly dancer? Remember when you broke me off a piece of that? This is a long conversation we're having. Well, you know what? i would love it for it to be about 90 minutes movie length sure why not i call i i sometimes call conversations movie length

if they last 90 minutes maybe it'll be like the steve jobs movie not the one they they they're going to make in 2013 but the other one that someone else is going to make where it's just him backstage and so the whole movie is just a conversation backstage oh yeah that would be great yeah are we out of the movie now by the way no no oh this is you're still in it okay uh i love the belly dancer and scene why why'd you say that, Bono? Why would you say such a weird thing? I just sneezed. Sorry. And scene.

Oh, bless you. Sorry. And scene. I love you, Bono. I love you, too. And scene. Oh. Pretty good.

Gesundheit. What are you talking about? That was really good. I hope someone was writing all of that was that was really i think i hope someone was writing all of that down i hope so i hope someone recorded it otherwise why are we doing this um all right so let i i'm watching the dvd yeah so what were your impressions of the zoo tv show i was it's 22 years later It's 22 years later. It's 22 years later. I was very

impressed with these new songs being so front-loaded. I was like, this is... You know what? They're coming out swinging hard. They're like, forget everything you know about the old U2. On the DVD, it's Zoo Station. Fly. Even better than the real thing. Mysterious Ways.

One. Then they go into Unchained Melody. Oh, wow. And then they go into Until the End of the World. And this is later in the tour. This is Australia. This is at the very end, almost one of the last ones. Then all of a sudden they go into New ding ding ding ding new year's day oh cool pretty uh which is different than when you heard him because they wouldn't they were playing all those hits real

late yeah for this one they're putting it in then they go into numb okay and which gets us to sort of zuropa they they're on this tour they have a bunch of leftover songs from acting baby. Yeah. And they say, you know what? Let's put out an EP for fun, for fun. They have like,

um, six weeks off a break in the middle of the tour. And you know, who loves working more than you two? Um, Huey Lewis did. Yeah. He was working for a living.

Yeah. He Yeah He enjoyed working But They have six weeks off And they go Hey let's Let's fuck around in the studio Let's do some songs Let's put out an EP

Like a five song thing Yeah Sounds great to me right Yeah Cause they were writing on the road They're writing on the road They're in just this period Where like

It's like People love what we're doing Yeah Let's write some more I love you They heard that every night I love you bono you should play wolverine in the x-men movie bono you're a good singer you sing well have you taken lessons adam clayton i like the way you play page you're the spiritual heart of the band. I like your hair.

So they're writing stuff and they go, they all of a sudden, they come up with this record that is sort of expounding, expounding or expanding? Expanding. Probably expanding upon the themes of the Zoo TV tour.

Yeah. Of alienation, of media saturation. Yeah. And they all of a sudden, they put it together and they're like, motherfucker, we got a whole album here. Jesus Christ. But this is weird. Not since the early years have we put out one record every single year.

We're superstars now. We tour for three years what is it going to be another three years before we put out this stuff no let's put it out as an album let's put it out now immediately right now right effing now so it comes out a year and a half after Aktoon Baby. They're still on tour. On tour, they put out a full album. So meanwhile, they have all these kick-ass songs from Aktoon Baby they're playing,

and now all of a sudden they got hits they didn't even know they had from Numb. Boom. Big song. We were rapping along to it earlier. Numb was huge. You probably thought it was an improvement maybe, but Numb was huge. The video was very influential. I remember when it came out, it was like, what?

U2 did what? They have a new record? What? Yeah. What, what, what, what, what? I remember as a fan, I wasn't ready for a new U2 album. You're still digesting the early one. I was, and usually it's like this big event, and this was just kind of like, okay, here, this is out.

Hey, guys, we have a new record. Here you go. Here you go. Why don't you try this? I remember I went to the Video Music Awards in 1993. Are you a well-known actor at this point? Is that why you go? No, a friend of mine got tickets,

and we were like way up in the nosebleeds. But the Edge came out and performed Numb and he came out and just sat in a chair surrounded by TV screens. I remember this. And performed Numb. And I remember just thinking like, man, this is me as like a 20 year old,

man, you two so huge. They can just like send a representative from the band I mean Edge hey he's you know at least a quarter

of the band I would be happy with just one edge sure you know what I mean one edge of a box but uh

yeah pretty incredible and um they were so big at this point they were huge so but getting back to the Zoo TV they put it, and so they're doing songs like Numb.

Here's what I was surprised by with the Zoo TV tour, because I'd heard a lot about Bono's alter egos for the Zoo TV tour. I'd seen pictures of them. Let's talk about his alter egos. You got The Fly, the classic The Fly. We talked about him on the last episode. You had fly glasses. He's the guy with the big sunglasses. He's the rock star.

He's wearing leather. I was very surprised in Zoo TV just how much goofy choreography Bono's doing. Really? I don't... he's he's doing all these kind of like fake elvis moves and they're really like haha isn't like isn't it funny that i'm a rock star yeah it was a big well it's funny because you think about all the what you were talking about watching rattle and hum and how he was walking around like just like like i'm jesus i'm the most fuckable person in the world and then it's on zoo tv he's doing something very similar except he's kidding but he's not kidding

well it's funny because he's it is all exaggerated and stuff but you have to think oh when we were all at that concert in 1992 only a couple years earlier they weren't kidding at all they weren't kidding and they were so serious and when i was watching it and he's doing all those exaggerated moves all i could think about was rehearsal like right does this look good right right right right how big should i go with this right that's all i could really think about is like like the whole band and and paul mcginnis choreographer going, well, Bono, I don't know. Maybe you could do it a little bit bigger, you know, just to make sure that it reads to the back seats. Right.

That's all I could think of when I see something that calculated is how much thought goes into it. Yes. I think, you know, with shows this big, it's almost like a Broadway show because there's so much to it. The Great White Way. Yeah. It's like being on the Great White Way in New York City. Treading the boards. Yeah. Yeah.

But so his alter egos, you have the fly. I was not wrong when I was talking about this recently. You did have the fat lady. He considered that to be one of his alter egos. Really? Not really in tour, but in his operatic like falsetto voice that was one of his alter egos but not one that he trotted out on tour now you saw in the early days you saw the mirror ball man right correct for desire for desire he had like uh shiny pants that were reflective or something like that, a shiny suit.

And walked out with a mirror. Yeah. And what was that? That was sort of Elvis, right? Yeah. He was sort of doing. Well, it was a comment on Rattle and Hum. It was like big silver cowboy hat, silver suit, comes out with a mirror and said like,

you are so fucking beautiful. And then they start playing Desire. So they're kind of saying like, hey, look at how serious we took ourselves. Yes. Okay. So now then halfway through the tours, or I don't know if I'm getting that fraction right. Could be, you know, five-eighths. It could be really anything.

I think it was like, I think you're right with like four-eighths. Four-eighths. Okay. He, Bono, I don't know why he did it. I haven't been able to get any research about why he changed gears and decided not to do Mirrorball Man anymore. But I think he just like had this new idea for this new character. Let's talk about this new character. Is that McFisto?

This is McFisto. That was for Zuuropa though, right? That's when that started. I guess. Did he start doing Macfisto for the record Zoo-ropa or something? That was a new character for- For the videos or something? Was Macfisto in the Zoo TV thing you watched?

Yes. It was? I never saw that. Okay. Watch this Zoo TV thing, by the way, because all I'd ever seen were pictures of it. Yeah. ever seen were pictures of it yeah and by the time this is rolling around uh bono is grading on me a little bit the goodwill that they bought back with octoon baby and everything is grading on me a little bit when i see pictures of him dressed with these devil horns right and if i

had seen macfisto in person I would have done an about face on you too because you gotta see MacFisto I feel like it's funny because then they're joking and making fun of themselves and they're on tour for a couple years and then people

start telling them they're the greatest thing in the world and how funny they are and then it's like oh, now I'm really funny. Here's one of my new characters. So what, refresh my memory of Mac Fisto. Okay, he's wearing devil horns. Right. When the song starts, which I believe, what song would it be?

Maybe Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crash Car. I'm not really sure exactly which one it is he's backstage he's looking in a mirror and he has like a a camera pointed at him uh-huh and he's wearing like a i believe a gold lame suit or something like that i remember that and he um and he sings it all kind of in the mirror like like, I love myself, and I'm the devil. But the way he talks, I expected it to be, like, just typical Bono, like, hey, I'm McFisto, or whatever.

He's doing some weird character where he's, like, very English and very proper. I forget what he... I read somewhere what he was basing it on, but he's like, I got this new character. He went to everyone, I got this new character. He's a guy who talks like this new character. He's a guy who talks like this very much. Oh, boy.

He does a monologue in the middle of this show. Really? Now, I enjoy a good monologue in the middle of a concert if it's not, like, I'm a huge Elvis Costello fan. Sometimes his monologues,

they're too rehearsed for me. Springsteen does a lot of monologues. Those are usually pretty good. Frank Sinatra does an amazing monologue in his Live at the Sands. He does a 12-minute monologue of jokes in the middle of his concert that are terrible, but it's really funny. Bono does, like, he's a very soft spoken character yeah and he does a monologue like this for a really long time what is it about i don't know it's about maybe you've heard how we are going to call up george push with our telephone calls he did so they're doing the same thing he's just doing it as a different character and he's he's calling up he's he's like i'm not going to call george bush today maybe because they were

being filmed i don't know what what the deal was but he called someone else as this character and he was doing all these takes to camera when the person's like who is this yeah yeah my name is mr macfisto what what is that a made-up? And then he would do a take to the audience like, Ooh. And was the crowd going crazy? They were going crazy for it. Like, Bono,

you're, you're great. Having sat through too many bad showcase, one man show, SNL auditions. Yes. I was not impressed. Yes.

Yeah. I would imagine that at that point their confidence was uh had no bounds oh my god they are just they cannot be taken down ever again and it's funny because it happens a few another time with yes pop and pop mart like they're no it happens twice more it happens twice more pop and then it happens with uh really uh how to dismantle slash uh uh no line on the horizon it keeps happening to them well no line on the horizon was not a hit album but the tour was like the top is top grossing oh i know but but with their what keeps happening to them you'll see the cycle with them over and over is they find something that works they beat it into the ground people hate it on like the third record they make like it and then they go oh holy we up yeah we

have to do something when really they should make two records with it yeah do an about face but instead they can't get it through their heads of what yeah you're right i i was listening to zoo ropa today and i was thinking like this is there's a lot of good stuff on here but they should not have gone even further in this direction which is what they did with pop like they should have changed gear like they should have done the all that you can't leave behind in 96 yeah exactly now, I have what is maybe a controversial opinion on Zeropa, if you'd like to hear it. I like it better than Ak-Jung Baby. Yeah, I don't at all.

You don't at all, really? No. Okay. Let's talk about the record, okay? Let's bring up the tracks on it, okay? You don't like it at all no i do like it i just don't think it's anywhere near really okay octoon baby let's talk about it first you got zuropa okay starts off with static which is sort of the theme of the tour you

know like interference in between stations um this ambient music, which is really cool, then goes into a really cool sounding song and then goes into a different song. So it's like three songs in the middle of one. It's really great. It's really cool. We can hear just a little bit of it. But yeah, I really like Zoropa.

Here we go. We're playing a little bit of Zoropa. All right, it's fading up. Yeah, I really, I think it's a great opener. Yeah, me too. It's a really, it's kind of a new technology, or at the time, new technology take on where the streets have no name or something.

Yeah, definitely. This is kind of boring to listen to, but trust me, it's a cool song um they have 10 songs on this record out of that i love eight of them which ones do you not care for two i'm not that uh baby face i'm not that into and dirty day i think is a bad song see See, I was going to say Dirty Day to me is like the sort of forgotten great song. Okay, here's maybe why I don't like it. Watch the Zoo TV tour then. Yeah.

The Live from Sydney DVD. They play it on there. Yeah. And it sticks out like a sore thumb. Oh, really? It is. Something about, I hadn't listened to Zoo Rope in a while, and I watched Zoo TV first, and he's just floundering during it.

No one likes it. It's got no tune. It is a little bit better on record. I listened to it again today, and I was like, you know what? Maybe I was too harsh on it. I still don't love it. Live it was not. Live it's bad.

I still don't love it. Babyface and Dirty Day are not my favorites on this record. That's totally fair. I think that the thing about the album is it's good that it was throwaway now

looking back on it because a lot of the songs are. I think a lot of the songs like Babyface, Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crash Car, Some Days Are Better Than Others.

I love that song. They're good, but they're all really hooky, good songs they're like groove oriented songs they're not with big hook like the choruses are really catchy but i think that they they don't lyrically they don't reward repeat listening lyrically they're not dealing with a lot of weighty stuff it's all other than stay i say. Stay is a Stone Cold classic in my opinion. Lemon is a really good song too.

Lemon's great. I just, this one I can listen to a lot and maybe it's because I listen to the sound of a record a little more than I listen to lyrics. Yeah. And I just prefer the sound

of this record and the choruses a little more than Aktoon Baby for my... Yeah, I get that. I mean, I just think Aktoon choruses a little more than octoon baby for my yeah i i get that i mean i just think octoon baby is a little more lived in and feels a little more uh i i i can't stand the fact that i'm using the word organic but the the um love it in my food. Why not for records? The reliance on electronics for Zuropa, it just sounds a little flimsier to me than Octoon Baby. Octoon Baby is just a deeper album. But Zuropa is really good.

The one thing I would say about their electronics usage is I love it when they go for it with the electronics because in my opinion, one of the best songs and the best sounding song on the record, what do you think I'm going to say? Best sounding song? Yeah. The coolest sounding song on the record. Just the one that I like constantly, whenever I listen to it, I go back to and go,

man, this sounds so cool still even now. Zoropa? That would be a number two for me. Lemon? No. The Wanderer? The W a number two for me. Lemon? No. The Wanderer? The Wanderer. Yeah, it's fucking awesome.

I listened to it on the way here tonight. It sounds great. It really does, yeah. The fake bass line. I know. The bass line is basically the lead guitar line. Yeah. And it's just Adam Clayton just playing it on a keyboard.

Yeah, it sounds like that. It sounds great. And they usually aren't this gutsy yeah to put out something that's just kind of like cheesy and weird i know um we'll talk about pop on our next uh episode but the times where they go for it hard yeah i love on pop yeah and the problem with pop is it doesn't go hard enough sometimes. Yeah. And there were just weak songs.

Yeah. But we'll talk about that next time. But this sounds so good to me, let alone the Johnny Cash-ness of it. I just think this sounds like a cool U2 song. Me too. I think it's terrific. Yeah. And the lyrics are amazing.

Great. And then you have Johnny Cash, who at the time had not been going through his career resurgence and just was like, it didn't feel like they were co-opting him the way that they did with Stuff and Rattle and Hum.

It just felt like they were like, hey, we got this fucking weird song. Yeah. It didn't feel that way because it was an electronic song. Yeah. For no reason, let's have Johnny Cash

sing the last song on our record. And it just was like, it wasn't them going, we're sing the last song on our record. And it just was like, it wasn't them going, we're here to honor Johnny. Right, exactly. It just was like, let's do this weird fucking thing.

And they gave him a kick-ass song instead of Love Comes to Town. Yeah, exactly. And I remember on the album, it said The Wanderer

starring Johnny Cash instead of featuring Johnny Cash. Yeah. I like this record. Yeah, me too. I really do. Me too.

I really do. Listened to it a few times recently. It's up there for me. I really enjoy it. I did want to talk about this issue, which I think is really interesting. You keep saying that it's a throwaway record. Yeah.

I don't... Let's talk about the psychology of U2 and their throwaways. Yeah. I don't – let's talk about the psychology of U2 and their throwaways. Yeah. Because I don't think that they thought it was a throwaway record when they released it. I think they treat it like a throwaway record now. Well, I think that – just because I remember pretty vividly when it came out. It came out in the middle of the summer when they were, like you were saying, in the middle of their worldwide domination of everything

and everyone thought they were just the coolest. Could do no wrong. And because they couldn't, because they were doing something interesting on a... On a global scale. Yeah, I mean, like I was saying at the Music Awards when The Edge comes out and just sits in a chair surrounded by TV screens and the band isn't even there.

They're just trying new shit. It's just cool that they're, as big as they are, doing weird shit. Someone, I read recently about you two, someone said that they seem like four squares who have cool friends who tell them how to do cool stuff. Yes. Well, I think it's true.

I remember I had a friend, a friend when Octoom Baby was out who was really cool and into all the cool music. Yeah, sort of like art school type. Yeah, and he was just like, oh, they're just fucking taking all the cool shit and making it there. But they're taking the cool shit and writing great songs and applying it to it. It's not like they're just ripping something off. They do write these great songs and applying it to it. It's not like they're just ripping something off. They do write these great songs.

And not only that, but yeah, they are doing that. And you can maybe say that about Radiohead, although Tom York did go to art school and everything. I mean, you could say that, yeah, they're taking influences and stuff. But how many bands in their position don't do that? Bon Jovi? You know, I mean yeah a lot of bands just do the same thing and these guys were trying something new so yeah yeah they are so rich that they can't afford to pay people to come up with good ideas but how different is that

than me with my tv show i have a staff of people who come up with ideas right and you just roll in like three minutes before yeah i'm just like come on on, baby, turn it on, turn it on. Why did I get here three minutes ago if the cameras aren't rolling? Point the camera at the money. So, but what I guess I mean is that they do things as they say throwaways. Yeah.

But I think they have a secret hope that it's going to be the biggest thing in the world. Oh, sure. I'm sure. And then when it doesn't become it, they treat it like an afterthought. Well, Zuropa was huge, though. It was a big album. This is my point.

Zuropa is huge and deserves to be treated with the same respect as the other records in their discography. They do not treat it that well. It's true. Like I got the Octoon Baby 20th Anniversary box set. It's a bonus disc. Yeah. I thought that was weird too. It's weird.

Yeah. And this is the psychology. They go, you know what? It didn't become as popular as our most popular records of all time. Yeah. Let's just let's pretend that we didn't mean it well i i think it's it was kind of in the it wasn't a complete change of pace and it wasn't a complete revolution within the band that octoon baby was sure but it was a

an after effect of octoon baby i know technically makes sense, but it was a big record. It was huge. Had, like, some big hits on it. They should put out an anniversary edition of that record as well, you know? I mean, I don't get it. And you see the same thing with the Passengers record, which we can talk about a little here, too. The Passengers record, they did just as a lark they did it with brian eno who they've been hanging out with old sourpuss over there yeah this is like mr no vocal cords it's just like hey brian

okay we'll do a record with you geez and it was between zuropa and pop and they were just hanging out they're just hanging out and they're like and he's like ryan's like please can we do a record where i'm in the band that's right and they go oh brian the brother but my point my we can talk about passengers in detail maybe in the next episode but my point is they they put out things that they as fun ideas yeah which is admirable. Yeah. And then they have secret hopes in them that it will become the biggest. They're like, you know what? This was just a goof-off, but what if it becomes the biggest thing in the world? It's so crazy, it just might work. And then when it doesn't, they get their feelings butt hurt,

and then they disown it. Because they've disowned the Passengers record. A lot of them have. What do you mean? A lot of them are just like, yeah, I don't like it anymore. Really? Yeah. I believe Larry Mullen Jr. is like, yeah, I don't hear any good songs on it.

I don't like it. It's crazy because I remember when that came out, I got it and I looked at, like, I knew that they were involved. out i got it and i looked at like i knew that they were involved but then i looked at like the liner notes and stuff and i was like this is a new u2 album yeah it is but i mean a lot of it's instrumental yeah but there's yeah there's like real sarajevo is an incredible song but they but they treat it like yeah no we didn't we didn't mean it we and and they they they just disown it in a way that like it's, if it's not popular, the same way they don't put Gloria on their best ofs. If it isn't viewed as the best record of all time, we're just going to go,

you know what, we didn't care. It is weird that they don't put Gloria on their best of albums. Yeah. To me, it's a lot like Jerry Seinfeld with stuff like, did he do The Marriage Ref? Is that what it was the marriage ref and comedians and b movie comedians getting coffee in cars like what's the deal with the super bowl commercial for a web series what's the deal with getting seinfeld back together like

i think that he thinks he has a hope like everything's going to be as big as seinfeld when it's really you're just doing a web series, which is great, a really great web series. Right. But it doesn't need the hoopla. Right, right. You know what I mean? So that's the weird psychology. I think when you've been at number one

to that level, Yes. you kind of hope everything will be at number one at that level. Yes, and when it's not, it's, you kind of have to back up a little bit and abandon it.

Meanwhile, Comedy Bang Bang podcast number one across the world, I don't expect this one for anyone to listen to it. And that's fine by me. I don't think you have to worry. Hey, how about, do you want to listen to a song or two from Passengers? Yeah, okay. Actually, yeah, why don't we talk about it a little more? There are a couple songs on here I don't really,

I was really into this album when it was out. What's it called again? It's called... Original Soundtracks 1. Original Soundtracks 1. I just listened to it the other day. And I... The first song is so good. And the second song is so good, and the second song is so good,

and I was like, man, this is kicking ass. Let's hear, this is the first song, United Colors. Here we go. This is from Passengers, original Soundtracks 1. They're a collabo with brian eno where each song was supposedly a sound uh a soundtrack to a movie that did not exist all the three of them did exist and they they did uh one of the songs was used in heat yeah so but supposedly they watched movies while they were playing oh really sort of

tried to sounds like they were doing a lot of drugs back then boy sounds like they were getting high on their own supply you know what i mean we do um obviously this is experimental but it sounds cool it is yeah it's cool let me fast forward a little bit. This sounds cool. Yeah. I love listening to soundtracks. Yeah. And just weird instrumental stuff.

Run, Lola, Run. The Lost Highway soundtrack. I love, you know love just Inception. I have a feeling this is just what Brian Eno always wanted U2 to do, is just make an album like this. Exactly. We talked about how he, like, for Octoon Baby

was like, I really like it, except for that horrible song One. Yeah. Shut up, Brian. With Coldplay, too. I think we talked about that, how Coldplay was like, yeah, Brian's really cool, except he'd be the guy on Viva La Vida to be like, can you take out the string part where it's like,

dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Okay, then you go to track two, Slug. Slug's a great song. I don't remember Slug. Well, I'm going to play it for you right now. Meanwhile, I'm going to look up Passenger's original soundtrack so I can talk about it from a position of intelligence. Because I will say, I don't really listen to this record.

I haven't really listened to it that much. Obviously, I know Miss Sarajevo, and I know Your Blue Room, which is sort of the hidden gem of the U2 catalog according to a lot of fans. Was Your Blue Room... No, Always Forever Now is the one that was in heat, I believe. Oh, okay. Your Blue Room, they actually put Forever Now is the one that was in heat, I believe. Oh, okay.

Your Blue Room, they actually put on their best ofs. They do? Not in the... They put it in the B-sides part of it, but almost like, hey, pay attention to this song because everyone loves it so much. Will you put that one on? Yeah, here we go.

This is Your Blue Room by Passengers. This is more of a traditional U2 type song. This is a good song. With lyrics. Yeah, this is good. Yeah. And then, I remember liking Elvis 8 America.

What? Because I was just about to get to this. Is it not good? Elvis 8 America is the worst Because I was just about to get to this. Is it not good? This is the... Elvis 8 America is the worst song they have ever recorded. Let me hear it. We have... I haven't listened to this in years. The Elvis 8 America song gets into the nexus of everything that U2 started to...

Is it like the Playboy Mansion or something? Like one of those dumb songs? Yeah, dumb songs. Let's play it. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is not good. We gotta listen to a little bit of this just because you say you love it.

Oh, yeah, this is shit. And this is where he says the N-word in the song as well. Really? Yeah. I feel like this is like his poetry that he wrote about Elvis for like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or something that he set to music. It is so terrible. Well, at least they didn't put it on one of their albums. Almost, though, because pop has some dodgy songs on it.

Oh, yeah, it does. Playboy Mansion. Oof. Oof, magoof. Miami. pop has some dodgy songs on it oh yeah it does playboy mansion oof oof my goof um miami yeah miami we'll talk about pop next episode and by the way i do i do want to hype and this is something that you can do adam yeah i was listening to pop yeah and i was kind of listening to all the b-sides and getting my feelings about pop, and I watched the Pop Mart tour. Yeah. I put together a better version of the pop record.

With B-sides? Using B-sides and mixes and all sorts of stuff. Okay. I put together, and maybe you- Maybe I'll do that, too. Try that, too. Put together what you would have done out of all the material on pop

do you have all the b-sides and stuff yeah I don't know if I like that album enough to do I'll do that but the b-sides

are mostly covers right there's some but there's some originals there are yeah maybe I'll send you some yeah

and but but just put together it's a long record it's 63 minutes i believe put together an a version that you like that you're like you know what this isn't bad i would have listened to this i feel like i would take up there's one classic u2 song on that album let's let's not talk about it right now but you know what there's also different mixes of the songs you like you

know that yeah they can't they are constantly remixing that record. Yeah, because they knew it was not ready. Not ready. So we'll talk about it next time, but that's just a little fun challenge, I thought, that I put together my version. We're going to be playlisting. Where I'm like, you know what? I like this as much as Zuuropa.

I've done that with REM albums, too. I've made my own versions of albums where they didn't sequence them right. Al albums where they they didn't sequence them right or they albums where they didn't sequence them right albums where they do um that was to the tune of uh of uh the end of the world as we know it uh-huh leonard bernstein um i think that wraps it up for yeah is there anything yeah zoo tv zoo ropa anything else you want to say about these guys i don't think so they're veering into not being tolerable anymore at the very tail end of this and we're gonna get to that next time yeah once again they sort of have to learn a lot like just as a little teaser they announced their pop mart tour at kmart yeah and and at that point i remember thinking like wait are they just like a

joke band now are they weird al because the discotheque video is them we gotta save this we gotta save this we got there's so much to talk about with Pop. Absolutely. We might bring in a guest, too, to talk about Pop. Because I know there's one comedian who wants to be on this show that I remember when Pop came out. Was just reading lyrics from it on stage. So I'm going to see. I think I have a pretty good guess as to who that is.

So maybe we'll have that. But I declare this episode to be a win. Yeah, it was good. I feel like we really dug into this little cultural moment. I think we did, you know. And I think that, you know what? I like hanging out with you, even though I've got to be up in another five hours. I'm sorry about that.

That's a bummer. No, it's good. It's good. I really like, I. It's 1045. You wake up at what? Five? Because you have to be there at six?

I have to be there at 630. So I'll have to wake up at five. Shower before bed. I just did before I came here. Great. Get home. Crash out. Meaning go to sleep.

Oh, I was confused. And then sleep until the last possible moment. So what are you saying, like 4.59? What time do you have to be there? Well, I got to wake up at, usually I would wake up at five. To be there at six? To be there at 6.30.

I always wake up two hours before my call time because I like to have a cup of coffee and read the morning news. What's going on in the world? Yeah. You know what I mean? Is there a new YouTube record today? Right.

Nope. Okay. Go back to sleep. Honey, make room. By the way, we didn't talk about this. A few episodes ago, you were mentioning how your wife does not want you to talk about you too anymore right my wife is extremely bumming out on this show she is uh she laughed at the first one really enjoyed listening to it and now all i'm doing is watching

you two dvds listening to you two songs making my own playlists of U2 songs. She says, is this U2 all the time now? Yeah. And it's just, you know, we're in the middle of it. She's over it. Yeah. I've been doing that too. I broke out the Octoon Baby box set with all the DVDs.

I'm watching all that shit. Oh, boy. We, hey, you know what? We're enjoying ourselves. Why else do we buy all these things? Yeah, really. We got to watch them at some point. I know.

Hey, you know, at some point, let's talk about the Harry Nilsson box set that I bought. Great. All right. That's it for this one. That is another episode. This has been Scott and Scott. And this is you talking you too to me. And I'm Scott Aukerman and for Adam Scott

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