Rock Hall of Fame 2020 Inductee Podcast

2020 Rock Hall of Fame 

Place listening Paris France - continues to lead the list, Mountain View, CA and San Jose CA, Amsterdam and long lost friends in Ashburn VA all checking in the top 5 or 10 places listening this week 

France, USA and Netherlands are the top 3 countries - also UK, Spain, Australia, Iran, Turkey and Iraq - based on episode 299 - not shocked on those countries listening 

Bad Boys for Life aka part 3, I’m all over it. Feel like it’s rare in hollywood to take like 7 years before part 2 and then like 17 more years before part 3. Both Spiderman and Batman have been rebooted twice each between Bad Boys 2 and Bad Boys 3

For the first time in 7 years the winner of the fan vote didn’t get inducted. And this year it was first time nominee, Dave Matthews Band.

Fans are up in arms, 1,000,000 people voted for them, USA Today is covering it — and frankly — I’m not a big fan of snubs — but this Manufactured Controversy is probably good for the Rock Hall’s awareness in the public consciousness.

Getting In: 

Whitney Houston — the second biggest oversight of the past 3-5 years after Janet Jackson and now they are both in

The Notorious BIG - this is a no-brainer for me - but the Hall Has snubbed LL Cool J - so it’s great to see them get one right. 

Depeche Mode

Nine Inch Nails

Doobie Brothers 

T. Rex - they are about to spur on a spinoff podcast titled “Who is the worst act inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame”.

I voted on November 7th - My Votes were Biggie, Whitney, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden (soft spot for Cornell), Dave Matthews Band. I felt the biggest LOCK was DMB. 

At the Time of My vote in November: 

DMB was leading with 385,656 votes  (Only the beatles and rolling stones have had more #1 albums)

Pat Benatar was 2nd with 363,191 votes (this is a huge snub as well) - 8 gold albums from 1979-1988 including 6 straight going platinum. Her “You better run video” was the 2nd ever to be on MTV. 4 straight GRAMMYS for female performer of the year. 

The Doobie Bros were 3rd with 328,435 votes  HOF 

Soundgarden was 4th with 325,264 votes (first Seattle grunge band to sign to a major label)

Judas Priest was 5th with 286,131 votes 

Depeche Mode was 6th with 265515 votes  HOF (arguably the best version of synth-pop out there) 

Whitney Houston was 7th with 247,791 votes  HOF  (Basically invented the national anthem as a spectacle at Super Bowl 25)

8th Thin Lizzy 

9th Motorhead

10th Nine Inch Nails  200,116 votes  HOF  (Godfather of pop/ industrial rock)

11th Todd Rundgren

12th T Rex 150,692 votes  HOF  (There are people saying they essentially invented Glam Rock when they left “Psychedelic Folk Music”- welp 

13th Biggie Smalls 148,173 votes HOF  (Biggie is what this is all about. Larger than life persona who did his version of music at the highest level possible). He’s always listed on the mount rushmore of MC’s - he’s gotta be in. I’m stoked and shocked that they got this right. 

14th Kraftwerk 

15th Rufus ft. Chaka Khan 68,852 votes 

Nashville Podcast

Nashville Bachelor Party Sites and Sounds 

Places listening France by a mile or a kilometer actually, USA clear #2, UK, Canada, Kenya, Seychelles, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Germany, Philippines, Tanzania, Ukraine, Maldives, Pakistan, Marshall Islands, Indonesia, South Korea, Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, Latvia, Mexico, Bermuda, Guatemala, Sweden, New Zealand.

Top Cities listening - Paris, Moorestown NJ, Bernalillo NM, Atlanta, Miami, Nairobi Kenya and Portland Oregon 

Shout to out to Big Larry, Dan O’Brien, Doug Brown, Andrew Brown, The Navyator, The Aviator, Mikeviator  

People never talked about the 1900’s version of the 'teens when we were kids. Heard about 20’s -70’s - lived through the 80’s and 90’s and then came the ‘Aughts which we called the 2000s, and we never really switched to the “teens” for these past ten years. We called the the 2010’s — which is fine - but the past 7 years were the teens.

Tyler Seguin and two teammates

NHL Players in fancy suits on Bird Scooters saying stuff - that’s a wild confluence of events. 

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Christmas Past Songs from 2009 Podcast

Christmas Past (2009 Pop Song Redux) 

The return to podcasting after surgery begins

Places listening - Heavy in France, especially Paris thanks to Deezer podcast service 

We’re also on Spotify now so subscribe 

Places listening France has been number 1 for 2 weeks. USA 2, UK 3, followed by Canada, Pakistan, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Kenya, Australia, Philippines, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Seychelles (Say Shells), Poland, Peru, Netherlands, East Timor aka Timor-Leste, South Africa, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Tanzania, Lithuania, Sweden, Bahamas  

25 countries on 6 continents — tell your friends doing research on Antartica that we want to go 7 for 7 

Little know fact - New Zealand is part of a submerged continent and Italy is also part of a submerged continent that smashed into europe and was most buried beneath it. Welcome to Plate Tectonics 

Top Cities: Paris by a mile followed by Tampa, Karachi, Georgetown (cayman), LA, Miami, NYC, Nairobi, Cairo, London, Walpole Mass, and Las Vegas  

Lightning round: Only in Boston’s twitter feed had a list of Billboard’s 2009 top songs - immediate reaction to them

#19 Kiss me thru the phone (garbage from Usher, he’s better than that)

#18 Live your life (Fire)

#17 I know you want me (Our introduction to Mr Worldwide, Mr 305, Pitbull — aka Mr. 1234 uno dos tres quatro

They skipped 16

#15 knock you down (can’t remember it)

#14 Use somebody (KOL’s coming out party was def in 2009)

They skipped 13

#12 Dead and Gone (can’t remember it)

#11 You belong to me (taylor swift’s coming out party in 2009 as well)

They skipped 10

#9 Heartless - can’t remember it

#8 Single Ladies (FIRE - prob most popular song on this list)

They Skipped 7

#6 Right Round (can’t remember it)

#5 Love Story (T Swift Killing it)

#4 I got a Feeling (Looking back, Black Eyed Peas we jumping the shark soon after 2009)

#3 Just Dance (Lady Gaga blew up in 2009)

#2 Poker Face (Like I just said Lady Gaga blew up in 2009) - this song is fire still

#1 Boom Boom Pow — this song looking back, was the beginning of the end for Blacked Eyed Peas magical run

Take aways - Taylor Swift, Pitbull, Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon were the Big Pop Music winners in 2009 - and they all kept it rolling  

Vocal Chord surgery - podcast aftermath

Gavin is on Vocal Rest Podcast

Places listening - after the US, Canada, UK, Kenya, France, Romania, Bermuda, Sweden, Colombia, Indonesia, Angola, South Korea, Greece, Austria, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Vietnam and Barbados

the top city listening Paris, Montreal, Nairobi Kenya, and Ploiesti Romania

unofficial sponsor of the week: "Text to Speech" App from apple store (more on that later)

Also shoutout to Two Scoops Creamery in Charlotte for featuring Gavin in their “it’s friday, this guy knows how to party” IG Post.

Freestyle is now on Spotify so follow it and for those of you using the french service Deezer - you can subscribe to the Freestyle there, too.

Why Gavin is on vocal rest - and how hard it is to communicate

biggest development of the week - becoming a Damien Woody fan - First Take

Gavin selected a British Accent version named “Daniel"

Fake Band Name Speed Round

Questions I can answer ‘yes” or “no” with a Ding.

Do you miss drinking a pot of coffee a day?

Do you find it difficult to not talk out loud to yourself?

Do you wish you’d paid more attention to American Sign Language in the 6th grade at Johnson Middle School?

Is it true that your cousin is Bob Piano of Axis Mundi Records?

Should people go download his music on Spotify ASAP?

Were you shocked to find out that the thing that Bob Piano and Cindy Harrington have most in common is an incredibly passionate interest in 90 Day Fiancee?

Can we do a deep dive podcast on that show co-hosted by Cindy Harrington and Bob Piano?

Cards against humanity style answers to questions - Gavin can only use phrases he’s already used to answer the following questions:

What is the recurring joke in Mike Birbiglia’s Netflix special the new one? (I saved your best friend’s life)

What’s the first thing you thought of the day after surgery? (Am I allowed to Drive today?)

What’s the second thing you thought of? (Want me to go to Trader Joe’s?)

Red Sox Dodgers World Series 2018

Red Sox vs Dodgers world series 2019 

Places listening - Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Jawalakhel Nepal, Cape Town South Africa, Budapest, Los Angeles 

Top Nations listening The Phillippines, UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic 

Chappelle show had a skit in which Dave shared his views on the world at 18, 24 and 30

Pats have essentially been great in the regular season this whole 17 year period 

But with the Sox it’s more of a “check in” when they’re really good. They have the highest payroll or a top 3 payroll each year... but baseball is so random it doesn’t always work. 

So if I look at where I was when Sox clinched ALCS in ‘04, ‘07 and ‘13 it’s a very interesting  look at the past 14 or so years 

‘04 - living in Worcester Ma. Working 3 part time jobs. Sting of 03 Brett Boone homer still fresh. Sox still viewed as cursed. 

The come back in the series from Down 0-3 to the Yankees. Winning in yankee stadium. 

Francona bringing out Pedro for no reason and yankee stadium and the ghost of babe Ruth rising one last time to chant who’s your daddy as 56,000 people with one voice. 

The World Series sweep being an epilogue, as opposed to the climax - dude to the yankee history. 

Andrew Patterson walking down Lexington ave in head to toe Sox gear and spike lee acknowledging it, without saying a word

The idiots concept. The Red Sox needed a team of utter free spirits and irrational confidence guys - in order to escape the baggage of the curse 

2007 proved that the Sox could win as front runners, but not without drama. 
The JD Drew grand slam. Josh Beckett being a stud before he was acting like an entitled turf 

I was in philly - I was 28. I was in a new job, in a new city, more playing a the role of a “grown up” than actually being one at the time. This title gave me the ability to “breathe easy” for a bit, especially now knowing some very tough sledding that was about to occur. 

2013 - 34 years old - living at walnut academy - working in NH

Tigers series. Rosco and I were playing a show in Northampton Ma. David Ortiz hit that famous homer. With the cop in the bullpen

Changing the words of Daft Punks “get lucky” on stage as an homage to big papi. 

This was the marathon bombing year 

Celebrating with my brother and my cousin Doug - reminded me of the 1999 alcs when the Sox lost, but we were in college, so the fun of just having beers and screaming at the tv with friends. 

This was “The beards/ facial hair” team - a facial hair zenith. A perfect blend of youth, veterans having career years and health. Team came out of nowhere. 

The bridge title between the bruins and the pats 4th Super Bowl win

2018 - 39 years old. Living in charlotte, NC.  Best regular season team in sox history. An amazing outfield. David Price getting “over the hump” to win a series clincher. 

Cindy Harrington narrating the end of game 5 as I drove home from Winston-Salem a bullpen that is still a nightly adventure. Dustin Pedroia in the final days of a career that’s already ended, but thinking how vital he was to the 07 and 13 teams and thinking of the full circle journey. 

I have no idea what will happen- I can’t believe that two former Sox world champs Alex Cora and Dave Roberts are the managers. 

Imagine rooting against Dave Roberts ??  Only in baseball 

You’ve celebrated all but 1 of Boston’s 21st century championships in LA. The only real comparison to this would be the 2008 and 2010 NBA Finals — what’s it like to live the Boston/LA rivalry in LA?

If it wasn’t the red sox - would you be pulling for dodgers under every other circumstance? 

what’s your best guest on the ratio of Sox fans to Dodgers fans in Dodger Stadium?

What do the Dodgers do better than the Yankees or Astros that has you worried? 

You know how our grand parents had to live through the depression, and that period of time really shaped their sense of always conserving resources? To me that’s a little like sports. I can’t shake the feels that this run will end at one point, almost to the point of being too nervous to fully embrace it. 

Name that tune of the dodgers organ player during world series 

Is Lenny Kravitz more handsome than Khal Drogo?

Is Lenny Kravtiz better looking than Khal Drogo?

best songs about dogs podcast 

Places Listening - Netherlands is second place and Russia is 3rd

Canada, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, Sweden, UK, Germany, Kenya, Ireland, Guatamala, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Trinidad & Tobago

Concord NC, Ashburn, VA Walpole, MA Amsterdam Moscow (hope that’s uncle mike and not Putin), Surabaya Indonesia Stockholm Sweden, Colombo Sri Lanka, Hornby NZ, Nairobi Kenya, Melbourne, the Bronx, Edmonton  

Who’s more handsome Lenny Kravitz in his prime or the Actor who played Kahl Drogo on Game of Thrones, Jason Momoa. Lenny is currently like 54 - Lisa Bonet is 50 

mind blown a zillion percent

We learned that Shep from southern charm has a “one that got away”

What do you think of the fact that T-Rav is claiming that leaving Southern Charm is “essentially mutual” / his choice

First off their are also songs by Artists with Dog based names. Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Lil Bow Wow

Regulators by Nate Dogg and Warren G is about Nate Dogg and Warren G’s adventures around town one night. 

Doggy Dogg World and Who am I (what’s my name)? By Snoop Dogg are songs by snoop about snoop

There’s a song called Puppy love featuring Snoop and Nate Dogg - but that’s probably overkill

Feels like DMX needs to be on this list - also apparently loves Godsmack and requesting his ow songs

Outlandish theory - My best friend’s girl - by the Cars — if a dog is man’s best friend… could be a song written from a Dog’s point of view. 

Dr. Dre’s Next Episode features both Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg— and it might be a top 5 “pop rap” song of all-time. And it’s all boosted by one of the most memorable closing lines of all time from Nate Dogg - “hold up…. HEY!” to “Hey hey hey hey … Smoke … everyday “

best local charlotte coffee Central Coffee or Smelly Cat Coffee?

best charlotte sit at the bar brunch, Zeda Jane’s or Jack’s Beagle or a workman’s friend?

favorite charlotte brewery vibe

How'd you like Kindred ?

Got a lot of these from a list of songs about dogs from the american kennel club

Who let the Dogs out - Ba Ha Men 

Hair of the Dog - Nazareth 

Jessie - Paw 

Hound Dog - Elvis 

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin 

The Dog Days are Over - Florence + The Machine 

Old Shep - Elvis

Old King - Neil Young

Like my Dog - Billy Cunningham 

Me and a Dog named Boo - Lobo

Feed Jake - Pirates of Mississippi 

Walkin’ the Dog - Aerosmith 

Ol’ Red - Blake Shelton

The more boys I meet - Carrie Underwood

Little Boys Grow Up and Dogs get old - Luke Bryan

Black eyed dog — Nick Drake 

Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog - Johnny Cash

Maga Dog - Peter Tosh 

Seamus - Pink Floyd 

Diamond Dogs - Beck 

Dogs of War - Pink Floyd 

King of the Dogs - Iggy Pop 

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 

Mama Told me not to Come - Three Dog Night (really any song by them) 

Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog 

I love my Dog - Cat Stevens

Martha my Dear - Beatles 

I’m Gonna buy me a dog - The Monkees

How much is that doggie in the window - NOOOOO! AWFUL — Not on our list 

I love my dog - Sublime - Also Lou Dog gets shouted out by Sublime a ton on their first record 

Chldrens’ hit B-I-N-G-O - might web the most well known, for all the wrong reasons 

Jennifer Aniston break up & Winter Olympics in Peoyong Chang hot takes

Places listening Philadelphia #1 Macungie PA #2 huntersville NC #3 Mountain View CA #4 Edmonton Alberta top international place listening

New places listening Kyrgyzstan, Haiti, Iran and the Netherlands

Just watched the third period of USA vs Canada Women’s Hockey from the winter olympics on Tape Delay — winter Olympics are tough to keep up with “out of time zone” cuz people are busier and the sports calendar is busier. Pyeongchang 2018 is 14 hours ahead of us - South Korea

Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston split up — you know what this means… Justin Theroux is BACK ON THE MARKET

Winter Olympics is home to sports that make you ask, “so how’d you get started doing that for a hobby?” 

They have danger (Ski Jumping, Luge, Skelton, Freestyle skiing)

They have misery (Cross Country skiing, biathlon) 

They have stuff that your grand parents could do (Curling) 

I get why Norway and Canada are better than the US in the winter Olympics — but Germany (good for those guys). 

Also, figure skating has judges (but why does ski jumping?) shouldn't it just be who stays in the air the furthest without crashing? 

Luge has single men, single women, but only pairs for men — i mean pairs luge seems like the most frivolous sport of all time — but to not offer it for women seems ridiculous

The Biathlon folks must have a heck of a time checking their bags (clearly not a “carry on” situation with the TSA

Key West Curling Academy = Million dollar idea of the month // is there a rant of the month for Andy Maslin? 

Should Ice Fishing be an olympic sport? How about ice fishing with dynamite?