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| The other thing that I wanted to say that made me think about that Drowning Pool song that related to something that's a big part of this, and Alexander, you already mentioned this, but a lot of this is stepdad music, right? | |
| It is, yeah, yeah. | |
| And I'm going to say that I have a kid that's from my own DNA and it's hard to love her all the time. | |
| It's hard to love her 100% of the time. | |
| You listen to this music when you want to feel like a stepdad to her. | |
| I'm saying this is the music that, like, I've been stuck in my house with my family 24 hours a day. | |
| My kid doesn't go to school. | |
| My wife doesn't go to work. | |
| I've now been forced into, like, bad stepdad mentality. | |
| Like, I'm into, I've become, like, this year just hit, I'm a homeowner now, and I'm a middle-aged man with, white man with the blues. | |
| And so this is the music that I have to listen to. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Acoustic Metallica and fucking Seether are crossfade. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| Go to Chevelle. | |
| Chevelle is safe. | |
| But I think something about it really cures what ails me, though. | |
| I laugh at it. | |
| Like, I know, like, Brett, you're indulging some horrible feelings right now. | |
| Just do that and get it over with and be done with it. | |
| But I do think that, like, a lot of this music seems to be also for, like, guys that had kids before they were 25, too. | |
| Or just, like, you don't want... | |
| You signed up for something, you have a life that you don't want at all. | |
| So these problems you can't escape are ones that you created and you know that everybody's too nice and no one wants to be mean to like get out of this situation so you just feel like you're trapped in a cage. | |
| That makes a lot of sense because I feel like a lot of this music is for people who don't have the internet. | |
| For people who don't have time to go on the internet. | |
| Yeah, that too. | |
| And like, find bands, you know? | |
| You're like, you got kids when you were fucking 21 or whatever. | |
| Like, who fucking cares about an underground music scene? | |
| That's on the money. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| It really is just like, number one, it's also job site music. | |
| Like that's my big experience with this stuff was like being on a job site. | |
| This is the only music that played all day. | |
| It goes on 99.7 The Blitz. | |
| Don't fucking turn the channel. | |
| If you turn the channel, you can maybe listen to some classic rock, but the guy who plays the classic rocks gets his balls busted because he listens to classic rock. | |
| He listens to old music. | |
| You're right. | |
| It is. | |
| I mean, at this time, you're right. | |
| The radio was allowed. | |
| The radio isn't going to break any protocols at any job site. | |
| So it's like, this is the hardest shit I can listen to at my job. | |
| That's what we're going to do then. | |
| We're going to listen to Here Comes the Rooster. | |
| It sounds good coming out of a DeWalt radio. | |
| It sounds good coming out of a DeWalt job site radio. | |
| And it just fucking slays. | |
| Take your six battery pack from your drill and throw it right into that portable radio. | |
| It's so funny. | |
| you fucking brought up the rooster because like i was thinking about the relationship between god smack and alice and chains you know that they're a song who wrote a song that they're named after which i'm going to get into in just a second and i was like it's weird that they're in this navy commercial these navy commercials but they're like based on a grunge band you know his name and then i was like oh yeah | |
| they alice and chains has a song about war called the rooster and like i went back and looked at the lyrics and it was like they spit on me in my homeland yeah all right maybe it makes sense yeah Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| All right. | |
| That clocks. | |
| Can we play Crying Like a Bitch? | |
| Yep. | |
| Here we go. | |
| That rips there. | |
| Strut on by like me. | |
| Telling everybody they know nothing. | |
| It long lives what you thought you were. | |
| Nothing lyrics. | |
| Oh. | |
| Oh, that sounded bad. | |
| Oh my God. | |
| Can I tell you guys? | |
| He is singing. | |
| He is singing into one of the mics hanging from the ceiling. | |
| Those mics. | |
| And he's, he's got his hands taped. | |
| Like he's in a fight. | |
| He's got his hands taped up. | |
| Like he's in a fight in the video. | |
| He's just, you're crying like a bitch. | |
| I'm not trying to like height shame anybody, but Sully Erna is like five foot three or something at like, and it's so funny that he's taking this tough guy posture with his navel tattoo and his like multiple rings and shit. | |
| It's very weird. | |
| Uh, Lane, he's put himself into, uh, I'm going to read more lyrics from here. | |
| Uh, I'm tougher than nails. | |
| I can promise you that step out of line and you get bitch slapped back. | |
| Oh God. | |
| And you can run your little mouth all day. | |
| But in the, but the hand of God just smacked you back into yesterday. | |
| That's the important line, okay? | |
| The hand of God just smacked you back into yesterday. | |
| This is a reference to the name of the band, God Smack. | |
| Right. | |
| The hand of God just smacked you back. | |
| He's talking about himself, like, beating up a guy, right? | |
| This is about himself bitch slapping a guy. | |
| He alludes to his own hand as the hand of God. | |
| Yeah! | |
| Slapping you back into yesterday. | |
| The hand of God just smacked you back. | |
| So, juxtapose this with Alice in Chains. | |
| The song God Smack by Alice in Chains is about being addicted to heroin and how it fucking sucks. | |
| But hey, don't judge me because also like some people are addicted to God like it's smack. | |
| Oh yeah, okay. | |
| That's what the song God Smack is about. | |
| It's like, yes, heroin is fucking awful and it's a destructive thing, but don't judge others, basically. | |
| And it's a very, it's an interesting song with like interesting nuance and it's like from a guy who is fucking actually in pain. | |
| From a guy who actually has like troubles, problems, right? | |
| Real problems, okay? | |
| We have a band that named themselves after that song who turned the name of their band into fucking up somebody who was talking trash to you. | |
| Yeah. |