Tom Hanks Top 5. New Foo. Bro help.

Then I click, got it. It's all you men. Why don't you light this candle? Sure, let's go. Hey, what's up everybody? It is the play Pants Podcast. Wow, a couple of weeks in a row. Here. I believe this is podcast eighty six. I am having every possible meltdown of equipment that somebody could possibly have, but still piecing it together. Baby. If you're watching this on our YouTube channel, Playpants Pod, you see that time in a little bit different position over here, and

things look a little different. I'm using my laptop. It's all good. We'll get it done. We'll get it done. We did want to talk a little food Fighters. We've got a brand new food Fighters song dropped on us this morning, and I just went into complete like freak out mode and emailing our my radio wizard, like, dude, we gotta get this on the air, Dude, we gotta get this on the air. So we

did play it this morning, so we'll talk about that. Food Fighters got a kind of a thing they're doing online on Sunday, which could be very interesting. When this podcast debuts, it will be Thursday May eighteenth, six years to the date of the passing of Chris Cornell. So we can touch upon that a little bit. I've got some emails I want to read and Melissa, gee, thank you. She sent in one of the emails that I am going to share with you, and she's the reason we'll be doing

the top five favorite Tom Hanks movies. Hello, Jason Guinty, dude, hell tall are you am? I six ft tall? Why do I look bigger? You're six six flat. I'm like five nine. And you know what, You've always have been damned tall er, just just a little bit taller than me. So we're getting set up because Rod's in his new location in a corner somewhere back. He's backed into the corner like he's being chased

by a bear or something. And you know, I set my chair at the same height every week, and I you know, I got it set up. It's locked as though I walk in hit some buttons and where we go every week, right a little behind the scenes. So I'm sitting here in my chair and like, Rod's heads way up here, and I'm like, I cannot be shorter than you. I cannot do it. You are shorter than me. Oh, I mean you can be, and yeah you are, yeah, but I don't want to appear. You know, it's

the whole A. Hey, we're bugging equals here. Let's go. Let's go, Rod. I got a couple things too, I'm gonna throw around. Yeah. I had an odd conversation with an old friend of mine and he's got a bit of an issue that wants to get some bro advice. And I thought, well, I happen to know a pretty decent bro, and I thought you could. We could shoot the bat, you can run by, you can run any bro stuff past me. I thought this would be a good one for the table, for the room. I will not

be done. I will not be dropping any names. And to protect the weird. Uh so yeah, we'll get into that as well. So you want to start with the emails. We should have talked about this beforehand. Um, well, okay, Well I will start with an email, which this one came in from listener Lee. Um, what up, brother Rod. I was just mowing the yard listening to y'all's plate Pants podcast, and I think somebody farted during the Aerosmith Top five. That was a couple of

weeks ago. I wouldn't remember now, though I'm not saying that I never farted on the podcast, but I don't think I ever farted where it would be picked up by the microphone, he says. Aerosmith Top five, twenty one minutes, thirteen seconds in. He gave us the time stamp when he heard what he thinks, somebody busted ass on this podcast? What type of operation are y'all running over there? Ha ha? Love the pod. My suggestion for a top five, I'm sorry, I'm like looking on the other

side of the room, all right, would be Oh. My suggestion for a top five would be songs with car sounds or more sounds in them, or just songs about cars. I've got a view in mind that would be in my top five. For instance, Kickstart My Heart Motley Crue would be in the top five for sure, just for the intro. Every time I hear a song, every time I hear that song childhood memories going to the Supercross and the Astrodome, well, they would play that song a few times

at those events. Would love to hear what you all would come up with. I definitely found new music because of y'all. I thank both of you all. Y'all. There's a lot of y'all's in there. Did we do, didn't we I think I don't think I wanted to be painted in the corner much like I am now. I don't think I wanted to do just cars. Didn't we do a vehicle list? I think we did a car

list, but I don't think we did songs about it. I like the song Angle, that's nothing we might want to throw in there for next time. Well we didn't do. Now hang out a second. He's kind of talking about something very specific. If you think about Kickstart My Heart, or think about Bad Motor Scooter, Motor Scooter? Would Montrose think about songs that actually have car sounds in them? But I'm pretty sure we did a top I mean, do we need to do We need to get Jordan Welch and

the Machine in on this. Yeah, it seems like Panama would have been a song about cars and driving from Van Halen. You know Bad Motor Scooter. Yeah, I'm sure I did, because I love the Queen song I'm in Love with My Car. There you go. I feel like we've had that discussion before, either here or somewhere else. And Bad Motor Scooter. I'm I'm sure of it because I just said songs vehicle songs. I'm pretty I'm almost positive we did a top five on vehicle songs. We could easily

probably look it up, but we won't. I can't believe we just blew by the who fired on the podcast thing so far. Oh yeah, by the way, he says that somebody he timestamped it for us as well, So if somebody wants to go back and check that podcast out, it was just a couple of weeks ago. Now I've got a leather chair. I

look say. There have been times if you go back and don't because it'll be a waste your time, where I will just starting in the middle of a sentence when Rod is talking, and it's not because of what you said is enlightening or funny. It's because I shipped my pants in the middle of your sentence and maybe it got hurt. So there have been an instances where this sort of situation has happened, but no one's ever caught it. I'm pretty sure I didn't do it at that time, so I'm not claiming that

timestamp. But if you go back in time, if you see me laugh at my ass off for no apparent reason, it's because I just dropped ass. Okay, So I've done it. I like the suggestions. Here's another one, Nolan, who is listening to the podcast. Since you're looking for podcast topics, I guess I mentioned it on the air this week. Keep it fresh, since your daughter London just gave herself a fresh new haircut. More on that in a second, l Every one of my six kids have

done the same thing, so don't worry. Topic could be which rock band or artists have the best iconic hairstyles. Mine would have to be zz Top. Just a little food for thought, Nolan the giant blaylock. Um, that's an interesting one. I gotta be honest, you know, I think of a flock of seagulls. Dude. Yeah, I mean iconic hair. I mean the fact that you didn't bring up Harry Styles first. I mean, who's got a better hair, dude than Harry Styles? Right now?

You know what, I will say this out loud as a grown ass man. I bet it smells good. Oh you know it does? You know it does? It's He probably just rubs berries in it too. He probably doesn't even use like, he wouldn't use traditional shampoo like you or I like, like we use shampoo, but you know he uses He probably just runs herbs and berries. It's it's watermelon juice. I'm pretty sure it's uh yeah. I mean it's hard to beat Lenny Kravitz when he's got those full dreads.

It's kind of hard to beat Lenny Kravitz. That's iconic. Um, It's easier to go and look back at the hair metal days. Well, that was easy because they all it's the same. You think of Cinderella, you know what I mean, you're poison, just tease. David Coverdale had like one of the best lion manes of all time. And I mean, if you go back and if you look at White Snake, and if you look at Rudy Sarzo and when he had John Sikes in the band, that

probably was the best looking group of hair. Yeah, of any of the bands. I distinctly remember the bass player for Cinderella had an awesome palm tree right in the front and then just long, straight down blonde hair. Dude. I remember these things because I was going bald, so I would I would notice, like, damn, what can I have that? Yeah, well, you know, shit happens, right, But yeah, No,

Coverdale always had a great wig. You know, Sammy Hagar's wig was always spectacular, you know, massive, and he never really teased it up. It was just his fucking crazy ass hair. You know, I just spent a lot of time on it. That son of a bitch still has a ton of hair. I mean, it's it is crazy how much Sammy is on social media unless I mean, I get it. I mean I follow his stuff. Are you Are you seeing any of this weird David Lee Roth stuff that he's putting out right now? No, No, I'm pretty glad.

I'm not. Dude, it's weird. It's it's a one camera shot. Okay. It's kind of like how Britney's videos are weird, you know, Britney's instagrams with a weird jerky dance moves and stuff. Dude, get her some more help, So Diamond Dave must have a stage at his house and he's just kind of lip syncing and gyrating and dancing and sometimes he'll bring out a sword and he's marching to songs and it's just Dave being Dave.

It's really fucking weird. Once you watch and stop one video, you'll start getting him in your feed and you'll see and you're that means you're probably not fin following David ly Roth on and it's probably it's Facebook. He's old, but go check it out. I mean, you know it's David Lee Roth. He's a He's David Lee Roth. I mean there's only one. There's absolutely only one. But I mean he had a great Maine back in the day. He did have a bad I just saw another old seventies picture in

Peak van Halen and it's like they just were fucking awesome rock stars. Look, they had to look the sound. They they were the ones who really put it all together, you know what I mean, Like they just went, uh yeah, and then being fucking handsome helps wouldn't know, but you know what I mean, Like it really helps a lot for those guys. I mean, unbelievable their hair, you know, other whole thing. Back

in the late seventies, those pictures were so fucking cool man. Anyway, Um, all right, well, I like I like that, Thank you, I like that. And then Melissa Gulsby last email, brother Rod, I suggested a few podcasts back uh top Tom Hanks Top five, Robin Williams Movies, What are your thoughts? Both are great actors and both have made great movies. Love Melissa g So that was the one that kind of caught your eye and you immediately said, oh oh, oh man, Tom Hanks,

So you wanted to do that. So I'm all, I'm down for talking some Tom Hanks movies today. Yeah, I mean, actually, I would love to do Robin Williams too. But I know that Hanks just busted out of a book that he wrote, So I'm like, well, he's kind of in the news. Why not we hit a little bit more of a hotter topic right now. But I do want to do the Robin Williams in the near future as well. Two great ideas. Let me ask you

this something that recently had come up that we were talking about. Would you find the person weird if they went out of the way to say that they didn't like Tom Hanks, wouldn't it be their problem? Yeah? Anything else?

Yeah, that's a red flag if somebody told you that they don't like Tom Hanks, Like, I don't like that person, right, I mean it's I mean, you might not like us a couple of movies he's been in, or maybe he comes off as little cocky sometimes in interviews because he's just being at this point, he could do whatever the fuck he wants. You know, there's a clip of him a few years ago about something about

someone asked him like, what do you do with your oscars? Because he's got two of them, right, he says, well, the first one really meant a lot, it was great, and then he says the second one, I literally just duct taped it as a hood ornament to my Mercedes or whatever. That was kind of the running that the joke. He's funny, that's not hysterical, man's It was Tom Hanks's delivery. So it wasn't cocky at all. But it was funny. But I could see where sensitive

people will get upset about that. No, you're right, if someone said I don't like Tom Hanks, I'd be like, what do you like? Then there's only a couple of people, and the ones off the top of my head because Tom Hanks was one of them. You don't have to like her music, but who doesn't like Dolly Parton? And then the other one, and then it just then it hit me, like Betty White, you tell me that is a massive red flag. It's like telling you don't like

puppies. You know, it's just a red flag, Like you're a weirdo. It's that's you. That's your problem if you don't like Tom Hanks or you know right now, I mean the last few years Kiano Reeves too. I mean, he's like this awesome dude, donates money and time and he just makes these awesome movies and it's like, how do you not like that guy? Do? Really? What do you think about it? Yeah? I do? Like I do like the whole the internet buzz for for Keanu

Reeves. Man, he is just an awesome dude. He is an awesome dude. Great, and I think there's a lot of celebrities that do a lot of good things and they don't always demand the camera beyond them when they're doing it and passing out a bottle of water to somebody that just you know, had their house ruined in the hurricane. But Keanu Reeves really never ever,

ever. I mean, can you imagine just because we've caught him doing such really uh like amazing gestures and acts of kindness, can you imagine what we don't know because he doesn't actively put the stuff out there on social media. I mean, there's some celebrities at every time they do anything, it's like, you know, they bring their own camera crew with them, right right, right right, Yeah, But I didn't do that. If somebody said, you know, I don't like Tom Hanks, you're right, that

would be like, what do you like then? And how many people are buried in your backyard? You know what I mean, because that would be a little bit disturbing. I see what you're saying there. Rab The Food Fighters song came down today, the new one. It came out of nowhere and the first one, Rescued or rescue me I should know, yeah, Rescued came out and we were like what it was. I love the song.

We're playing it a million times. It's number one on the Alt charts, the Active rock charts, so it's obviously done what it was supposed to do and it's a good song. Well then today another new song is released and it is called under You, and it's fucking great as well. It's better, Yeah, it is better. It's better. So when the song came down, I knew that it was coming out today because I just saw it on social media yesterday said hey, we got a new song coming out.

So I did. I put a preview on the music blog page yesterday I said, hey, food Fighter has got a new song. I just assumed that, you know, my big massive iHeartRadio. I just figured they'd be on it. No, no, no, not on it. So the song came out about seven forty seven forty five, and I'm like, oh, geez, it doesn't have three thousand views yet. Okay, by the time I get over to YouTube and it was actually before so it was about seven thirty five, and I just said, wow, I hope there's

no swearing in this. And I'm not supposed to do this. I am not supposed to go with live audio off of my laptop. Nope. I had not previewed this song. I had not done anything. I said,

hey, you guys want to hear the new food writer song. And I played it and I potted it up on the board from my laptop, and I'm just praying that there's no cussing in it, right, and from that little clip, and of course I'm really really listening, right and I never listened to the lyrics, but I'm really listening to see if he swears in that minute. I played it for about a minute and a half right there. I declared, it's better. This is a superior song than what he

has already given us. And then when you start dissecting, because I was listening to the lyrics, which I never do, I'm like, holy shit, Yeah, it's heavy, heavy. This is an absolute open letter to Taylor Hawkins, which you know, I got some thoughts on that as well. But you know, it's there's some songs that make you dig and you wonder, Oh, I wonder if that's a about that, and if that's about that. No, it's just I wish you were here and we were

smoking cigarettes together. I mean, it's just I need to be hit over the head. And that's exactly what I was. I was hit over the head. So by eight twenty forty minutes later, we got our ship together. And then I ended up playing it on the air this morning and took phone calls and took all the emails and everything, and just overwhelming. Dude. People were bawling. Yep, they said, Rod, I'm typing this and I'm crying. Yeah, it's awesome. It's a great song. The

lyrics are absolutely amazing. If you if you watched the lyric video, it's great. It's funny because usually when you have a band of this caliber and you know how this goes they are going to the record that it was going to push it out to the program directors like the radio Wizard and me and the other pets around the country and go, hey, here's brand new Food Fights. Like the first single came out and it's like holy shit, and we scrambled as fast as we could get it and put it on the air.

No problem. This came out. We didn't really get much of a heads up. I didn't get anything from the label. They didn't say, hey, we're gonna have another new song tomorrow. I think it was just on their institute's yeah, and then the YouTube was where they released the whole song, right correct, But yesterday on Instagram they said hey, we got something new coming out tomorrow. So and that was it. I was surprised that it wasn't more well that's what I'm worries and everything. It just it

was quite quiet. So what I'm kind of getting two here is that like then at so yeah, same thing with me. I listened to it with my son on the way to school. I'm like, dude, we have bright new Food Fighter checked the shit out and he's like he's like, whoa, that's really good. That is really good. He goes, oh, those lyrics are heavy, man. I like, yeah, it's about Taylor

obviously, right. So then I get this was at like we all we all heard it off of YouTube at like seven forty in the morning or whatever. It was okay, great. At nine forty am. This is two hours later, I get an email from the record label, as did all the pds at the same time, at nine forty hey and Cash amnists that the Food Fighters have announced a new single. It's out now and it's online.

I emailed back, Hey, this is awesome any because you know, we're supposed to only be playing like really high quality dot wave forms on the air. You know, MP three is no bullshit, right, I said, Hey, this is great. You send me all the links to all this shit, and you didn't send me a wave file that I can download so you can play it on the air. Can you maybe do that? This is me going back and forth with the label and they're like, yep, stand by, And then I'm like I'm like, hey, I just

want to spend it a few times because here's what behind the scenes. Let's go back into the weeds a little bit, go behind the curtain a little bit. You see the first single is out there. It's number one. But now what they want to do now that once you get a song to number one, you want it to stay number one for multiple weeks, so you can that's a big selling point down the road. Right, So they wanted this thing to send it number one for ten weeks. Sure, whatever

they want to do. Right. So what happens is because this new song has been played for weeks, now they release a new one. They're afraid all the radio program directors are gonna pull that one down and start playing this other one because you've only got so much room on the air for so many Food Fighters songs. Right, So I said, hey, I appreciate you

sending me the high quality link. I just want to play it a few times because radio needs to do these types of things still, which read between the lines, hey, what the fuck why didn't you send this ship to us last night? Right? Like I'm arguing, well, that's the Food Fighters. They wouldn't have allowed that exactly, but but hey, why not send it out so I can play it on the air, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, and this is why I fought a little

bit. It's because you know, we've had this conversation. You know, radio a dying dinosaur on the vine. Well, these are those little hills that we can still fight on. That's why I fought back a little bit, like, hey, hey, we can do more for you than your little internet at this point, right and still bang shit, we can still get it out there. And that's where I went and fall a little bit on this hill for what we talk about multiple times on these episodes, you

know. Yeah, which, by the way, radio is not dying. It's doing quite well. Yeah. I was obnoxious with my boss this morning. I'm like, bro, work it out, let's go. What are we doing? You know? And I knew because something fucked up with Metallica with them releasing the Metallica and somehow it didn't get out to radio the way that it was supposed to, and I ended up playing luxA Turna off my laptop on the air for the first spin. I'm not I wasn't waiting.

I said this, We listened to it. It was a clean and I said, listen, we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go. Now it's different because you know, I'm excited and I'm like playing it up with everybody, and you know, people know that I'm excited about a new food Fighter song. There's not another radio station in the market that's going to beat me to it, right, That's what it used to be like back in the day. But I still have that we gotta get this on

the air, though. We've got to get it on and let people hear it because I think it's special. I really radio is magic. And if you go back to when you and I were young and you heard a brand new song on the radio, and if you can remember hearing songs for the first time, I still want to create that. No other radio station in this market is going to beat me to it, but YouTube is going to beat me every time because food Fighters put it on their own YouTube channel.

And that's great, and I'm sure people still get excited about listening to its ship on the computer. But I still I want to keep the magic while while I'm on Watch in the morning from six to ten, I'm still trying to create that magic, the thing that got me excited when I was not only a kid, but like onto when I was older and hearing these things

and these announcements and songs and concert announcements. That's me genuinely excited about that stuff because I used to be excited about hearing them, right, So that's why I get crazy, like you were, we gotta get this on the air. I don't want somebody to go fucking listen to it on YouTube. Well, then we want to share it. I want to hear it with them for the first time. I want you to pick up the phone. I want you to call me because I am live in the studio. I

want to talk about it. What did you think of that's line, What did you think of the song? Did you like it? Did you hate it? I want That's so important to me to do that while I can while I'm live on the air for those four hours, right, And it's important to radio in general. Like, like, there was another band that I did some stuff for and I did all this prep work with them, and I'm like, okay, cool man, So you know, give me

the song. I'll world premiere it, right. I'm like, you know, hey, we're cool with that, right, Like I'll play it first and everyone else to get it. The world will get it. All this stuff because of all the prep work we were doing with the band for the launch of the song, and said no, no, we're gonna deal with YouTube, So I think there's probably like I would sit there and go in my immediately thinking like, hey, why aren't we going as a radio collective

group? Right? iHeart Odyssey, Cumulus, those are the three bigs and all go hey, record labels, how about you give us an hour, Give us an hour, send us these big songs, Give us one hour to all get our ship together, get it all on the air, let

her do our thing, and then release it to the worldwide web. Help radio still remain a little bit relevant with some of these acts, you know, But there's probably so much money in all these other contracts with as I'm thinking this in real time, with YouTube, and then you your channels that you want to have it first, so people do dive on your YouTube channel. Maybe that's what that's the problem, probably, right am I thinking that? Right? You are thinking that, right? They want they want the

hits, They want the hits on their personal channels. It's right, which they would still get they would correct them, correct, but that radio has to come together with the labels and go, guys, come on, give us an one hour, one fucking hour. So this Sunday, two o'clock Central time, YEP, and I know you've got the u r L over there. The food Fighters are going to do something online and it's I don't know much about it. It looks like it's a little behind the scenes as

they are maybe rehearsing as they're getting ready to go on this tour. I think the title of it kind of alludes to like getting ready to go on tour. And I think this is where we're going to find out who the drummer is. Yeah, I think so. I mean, how do you not at this point they're gonna be rehearsing. It's it's it's recordings of them rehearsing for this upcoming tour. If you surprises along the way, they say, that's really what it is. R. It's going to be on a

Sunday, Uh eight p I'm sorry, Sunday, May twenty first. It's two o'clock Central time. Yeah, two o'clock Central time. Uh. The U R L is Uh Foo Fighters dot Veeps v e EPs dot com. Up with the link up here when we post it. Um, Yeah, Foo Fighters dot veeps dot com. Um. I think it's gonna be cool shit and you I think this is where we find out about the drummer situation, whatever it may be, I I doubling down on all of my comments earlier. And this is where you can, you know, you take chances.

But I think I'm doubling down on everything that I've already said after listening to under You today and see and listening to Dave and looking at those lyrics and hearing Dave pouring his his heart out and sharing his feelings with us. No fucking way is some new guy gonna play the drums on that song. It's no way. Now. Dave can't do it live, and he's going and moving forward. He will, he will get a drummer, take him on the road, obviously, and then okay, then he's going to allow

him to do the stuff in the studio. I think no fucking way is something not even Josh Freeze. He's not playing on this album. This is Dave's tribute to Taylor. Yeah. So what it used to be is Dave was the drummer on that first album, and he was actually the drummer on the second album. Then Taylor became the touring drummer and then officially joins the band, and then Taylor does all the drums going forward. Now Taylor has talked talked about this back in the day. He's like, damn, I'm

in a band with Dave Grohli's one of the all time great drummers. I'm trying to make sure that I do things that he likes, and you know, and then they start working together and you know, and Taylor is just was this amazing rummer two. I think a complete role reversal is happening. And all my chips are on this. Dave Grohl is the drummer on this album. There's no doubt in my mind. Yeah. Yeah, and he's doing things now. I think Taylor would have done this on this song,

complete fucking mind flip. Yeah. I mean listen, I will be the first person I say, okay, man, Damn, I got that one wrong. There's no way Dave's allowing somebody to play on this personal an album. No, and I've heard that Dave played all the drums on the album. But to your point about and which would be great to have the opportunity to interview Dave Grohl, which is gonna be very hard to do because he is not gonna want to spend a lot of time talking to a bunch of

mooks. About this situation over and over again. But when you hang out with people, right, you start to act like those people, you start to catch on the phraseology of the two or like us. You know, people hang with us there like, well, you fucking guys have your own language when you talk to each other, you know what I mean, Like, there's shit like that, and you do get that, and you pick up that, and I'm sure shit, and I'm sure how do we know

we're not flies on the wall? Which we were, But like you know, Dave was like, fuck, dude, that's that's a cool part. I never thought of that, you know what I mean? Like you do. That doesn't matter how good you are at anything, You're always going to learn new shit. So maybe maybe it was a subconscious thing that would be That would be the question to ask Dave, birl. That would be a

great fucking question to ask him to see what his response would be. As I'm fit, you know, sitting around and I'm thinking about this and I'm you know, I'm exhausting all of this, I realize it gets, you know, I start getting to that rock and roll Hall of Fame thing. Does anybody else? Does anybody care who's playing the drums on the new Food Fighter album. I mean, there's got to be just a little bit of interest, right, I mean, we're not talking about something that nobody's interested

in. And that's that's my biggest fear. Now people are interested, I'm interested. I'm pretty sure he did all the drums on this album. I how would you let anyone? I mean, it's Dave's band anyway, you know him? Yeah, And it only makes sense, like, how do you have Yeah, Hey, hey, Bob, come on in. You know nah, I don't feel like I think you're right. I think this is this is him tributing and kind of putting all together in honor of Taylor.

One other thing, this is just an observation. Everybody was dissecting all of those early Food Fighter songs and they're waiting for Dave to do some kind of a tribute. And I remember hearing my hero for the first time and we all just assumed, Okay, there it is. He's finally doing a song about Kurt. And he never really did. He never shared that with us, coming in so raw after Nirvana, he didn't just sit around and pour his heart out about his friend that passed away. He just didn't do

it now. He's a different guy. We've all we're all different from when we were twenty five years old and now we're you know, we're all the same age. So you know, Dave's fifty three and hearing this song today and you could even hear in Rescue, you can hear lines like, man, you can tell he's he's thinking about Taylor. This song today is just all about it. It's an absolute tribute to Taylor. He did not do that early in his career, and he flat out said my hero. Sorry

man, it's it's not just about one person. So you know, if you want to think it's about Kurt, that's fine, But yeah, he just didn't sit around and wallow about you know, Kurt Cobain. He did know, but did the same relations doing here. Look at how quickly he's turn it around an album. It's funny. I had the same conversation with my fourteen year old son today in the car. He's a huge Food Fighters fans, right. Uh. You know, we went to LA and we

saw the tribute thing back in September and we were talking about it. I said, I said, man, I said, this is a tough thing. I said, because there's a lot of And I don't know how you blocked this out as an artist either, because I said, look, I would imagine because we said the same thing. I said, the first song, I like, this one's better. You've got two great songs right now on a new album, which doesn't happen very often, this late in your

career, I said. But I said, if you look at any great art, it's either the first thing you produce, your first album, or some horrible shit happens and then you've got a new muse and you look. Man, that's why they call it a tortured artist. You know, great art doesn't come from sitting around looking at fucking rainbows. Usually it usually does not. It comes from fucking awful things that happened. And this is an

artist's response. I told my son. I said, dude, I said, but this is a hard thing because, ay, you're the food fighters. You can't get all weepy and cry on a whole fucking album. You know, you gotta have some bangers, you gotta have some fun shit. And there, I would think, So there's a fine line you have to walk. You know, there's gotta be adults in the room who are gonna be like, you know, Dave, this is not an Alison Chain's record.

This is not Mad Season, you know what I mean? Like yeah, like yeah, the Food Fighters. You know, nobody would ever, you know, there's not a whole lot of Mopi Food Fighter songs, no, none, And these aren't either. These two songs we haven't heard the man. These are great. I love them both. Yeah, it was just an interesting conversation about like, wow, where do you go? How do you how do you handle this? And obviously they figured it out so

far these two songs. No problems here. I'm I'm I'm want the vinyl that offers it in black record and a white record. Looks cool. That's cool. Yeah. So who is your money on being the drummer when the Food Fighters go out on the road. My money, My money's still on the Queen's kid. Uh Um, the guy these drums for the darkness right now? And what tell's his name? Rufus Taylor? Still there? I mean he does look a little too much like Taylor. It's a little weird,

the Taylor connection. The thing is the whole thing's bizarre. Um, why not that's I'm still there? It could be anybody. I don't have any insight. I really don't. I know, you're you're You're still what Josh Freeze? Right, I'm still I'm still rooting for Josh Freeze. Um I am. I just think he would be such an awesome addition to that

band. Yeah, there would be. And again, I listen the Taylor Hawkins, how much he loved Queen and how much he worshiped Roger Taylor, and then you've got you know, the kid, his son looks like Taylor and yeah, it's just Taylor's everywhere. It's yeah, and I get all that, and nothing's gonna make me upset. I don't care. I mean, who's gonna question anything that Dave any decision that Dave role makes. At this point, you know, he's made pretty good decisions, so he's gonna

the right decision for them. But I think the world needs to know who Josh Freeze is. He's such an awesome drummer. I don't know if anybody followed the homework assignment of going back and watching A Perfect Circle's Judith video good it still holds up. So Joe I watched it afterwards, I'm like, holy shit, is this a great song? Is it good? I mean everybody's great in that video pass on bass like like we talked about because that

was that was in my mother that was on my mother list. But I said go back and just watched the drummer and just tell me that that guy should not be behind Dave Grohl. Oh yeah yeah. And in the tribute shows, he was all over the place. He was popping up throughout both nights, the one over in London and the one in la he kept getting up, coming down, back up. Here's Josh Bam bam. So he played as he was like the ultimate utility guy. Yeah, and he could

play anything anywhere, anytime. He's amazing. He's absolutely spectacular. So we don't find out. I would say this Sunday special, two o'clock Central again food Fighters dot veeps dot com. It's called food Fighters preparing music for concerts. I think it's gonna be fun. I hope it. All I know is I know what I'm doing Sunday now. I'm cranking the ship out of that and chilling back and watch it. Yes, Sunday at two o'clock. Man, it's gonna be interesting. Do they just come right out and say,

wammo, look who's in the band. Right. You see this guy, he's playing the drums. Now, let's move on like it almost has to go quick like that, you know what I mean, like just fucking everyone in the world, especially these two dopes. I've been making a deal about this for a year, you know. Yeah, And uh, there's a reason they're holding back because they knew this would a little bit of excitement. I really think it is. They could have just came out and say,

here's the drummers. Who cares? Okay, well, okay, that's nice. I feel like they've done this on purpose a little bit, and there's gotta be a reason. I hope they explain it. Yeah, I don't know, or are they out there right now on this on fucking Hollywood Boulevard going hey, anybody know how to play the drums? I mean, does it come down to that? And they've not made a decision I do. Holy shit, dude, could you imagine? No? I can't. It would be too much, we can't, too hard to do. I'd

have to get on the treadmill. The cardio for a food show. One song, dude, the cardio for a food fighter show. You're right? One song I'm dying okay song? And they'll be like, all right, we're gonna need another guy one song. I mean, like, give me. It's why it's why Taylor looks so ripped because he just fucking two and a half hours of that. We're talking, Dame, I'm not ready for the next song yet. How about we just do an acoustic set with the drums. Wait, God help me, oxygen. Yeah, listen, we're

gonna take a short little break. Um, we're gonna do Tom Hanks. We're gonna do our favorite Tom Hanks songs before the break. Let me just throw this off the movies. Let's do a little let's do a little guy talk. We gotta I got a thing from a buddy. Oh yeah, yeah, I forgot you got this thing? This is we need some bro

have we gotta gather. It's like, uh, you know Ted Lasso brings in what is it the Hounds when all the boys get together and they're all, oh, you know, they all got boy problems, which, by the way, I wish I had that years ago. That was pretty cool. Um. Anyway, my buddy says, hey, um, I got this chick I've been with for about four months and he says, look, he goes fun fact that I learned the hard way and didn't really think about

it. She's got a tattoo of her ex's name on her back shoulder, and he says, so, anytime I'm delivering some backshots, oh, I'm staring at its name. How do we fix this? So he's he's given it the old hey, what suck dog? And you know he's just looking now, going hey, Bob or whatever the dude's name is. I didn't get that far into the He goes, what are we doing about this? How do we fix this? I'm like, who is we? Like? You just go hey, look at this point, you gotta you gotta,

you gotta scratch that shit out or something. So this comes up from time to time because a lot of people got tattoos down. This has to happen more often than not, right, correct, So when this happens, if it's in the morning, I will take the time and I will say, okay, you know, like you're talking about ted Lasso the Diamond Dogs, as I need you all to assemble right now. I will just It's as

simple as this. This is how many people have this. It's as easy as saying I need three of you right now that have somebody else's name that's not your child or your mom, or your brother or sister tattooed on you. I need you to call and I need you to tell this person right here, what a stupid idea. It is. Every phone line rings, bro, every single phone line. Okay, well here's what you got, Rod. Now, if somebody is trying to get it removed, this is

a fact. It fucking hurts. Now, if you're one of these tough guys that doesn't think a tattoo hurts, then okay, you're cooler than me. It hurts every one of them hurt. Tattoo removal is worse, really, So don't get something that you're gonna have to get removed. Do not get a boyfriend, a girlfriend, a wife, or a husband. I hope you guys stay together forever. I really do. Okay, love wins

with me. Okay, I wish you the best. But there's so many other people whose name that you could tattoo on you that would even mean more. Sorry, but it does. Okay, your kid will always be your kid. You don't have a kid, great, you got a dog, boom. Any of that is better than somebody that you're dating. Yeah, yeah, I've never thought that was a good idea in my entire life to put somebody's name. It's the kiss of death. It's the absolute kiss of

death. Once you get it on there, boom, you're on the clock. Nikki six was dating Vanity back in the day. Wow. Remember she was like kind of like a prince girl and she had her own solo project and he got he got a big V on his arm. Okay, well, his name is Nicki six, So he had a contingency plan that if it didn't work out the V and an ie. Now he's got Roman numeral

six, so he had a contingency plan. I remember talking to who's the director of Clerks Smith, Kevin Smith, and he must call his wife Jenny's. Her name's Jenny, and he got it down his forearm and I'm like, bro, what are you doing? I said? And then I told him the Nicki sixth store and he said, well, he goes, I could maybe turn it into Denny's. I'm like, okay, there you go. You got a contingency plan. Hey sounds cool, but okay, well it's like Johnny Depp had when he was with a win on a rider.

He changed Onenota forever to Whino forever or some shit, so you can change it without getting removed. But yeah, my guy's like, well, so how do we fix this? And I'm like, well, you just fucking tell her to get it fixed, change it or cover it up or put up. You can't tell her to get it fixed if you're dating. I don't think you can. I mean, how long how long are they dating?

Three months? Dope, it's there, that's there for another three I mean, if you if you're if you marry this girl and it's a problem, she should be cool with working with you on that. Yeah, there's a conversation down the road. She should be pretty cool. And you know what, they can do some great cover ups right now too. And I don't think it's being petty. I don't. There's a lot of things as you get older, Jason fifty now except you. But everyone else gets a

little cooler as they get older. For some reason you haven't caught on yet. If not, but less and less But you are like this, like less and less. You know this to be true. Less and less bothers you as you get older. I gotta be honest with you. I wouldn't lose sleep over it, but I would want it taken care of if I was to marry her. But Rob, what should it matter. You can't erase her past. I can erase that that's it's painful, or we can cover it up. You know what. My advice was, keep your shirt

on. I mean, don't do it in the first place. I get all of that. Put your hand over strategically. I don't know. You gotta figure this out, bro, He's like, yeah, it's just weird. Three months you're stuck with it. Yeah, you gotta ride that. You could literally ride this out for a while. Yeah. Nuts, all right, I think we got that solved. That's good. What else we gotta solve? Nothing? Cool? Let's do Tom hanks favorite movies. Jason

Guinty Still no ink? No, you know what's weird. I was thinking about the other day, not about getting ink, but I was thinking about the fact that I don't have ink, and I'm like, and I just literally like the other day I started thinking about I'm like, if I want, if I really was thinking about it seriously, what would I get? And that's as far as I got. So there's a reason why I don't have ink. I don't have anything. I want to get are you is

there an is there any moral opposition to it? Or is there there's nothing like that? Right? No, no, nothing, No. I just never Henry ever say anything about it. Why I don't have ink? No? Has Henry ever brought up, hey dad when I'm eighteen, can I get a tattoo or said a word? He's never mentioned ink at all, And if he wanted to do it, I'd be okay with it at eighteen, I mean, yeah, should I would? I would certainly go. You know, you might want to wait a minute, because you're gonna have

different opinions in a year. You're gonna have different thoughts, You're gonna have different art that you're gonna like. You know, be smart about it. Don't don't just do it to be a horse's ass. Don't be doing it to be rebellious. If you want a piece of art, and that's what it is, in my opinion, a piece of art. On you think about it, Yeah, just don't go to the fucking tattoo shop and go I want that dolphin. Don't do that. That's a bad way to do

it, in my opinion. It's no, that's uh, that's solid advice right there. That's what all I got on the tattoo thing. I don't. I don't carry the way so cool to look at it, like like people got tattoos. I'm like, oh, that's cool. Nice. What where did is it okay to ask people about their tattoos? Like? Wait, what's that mean? What? What is it? What's it representative? Do people get offended by that kind of thing? No? I no, it's cool. It's like, hey, man, I like that. Can

you tell me about that? I mean, I think that would be a good way to approach it now. And I think even if it's a tribute tattooed is somebody that passed away or whatever, it's fine. You know. Now, you know, you start asking people about, you know, their tear drops on their faces, and I don't know why you got that. I don't know what it means when you, you know, killed somebody in prison. I don't know what the spider web on the on your elbow means.

But there are some tattoos that have some meanings that you might want to stay away from those. I will definitely the tear drop when I got I'm like, no, I heard about that one years ago. I'm like, no, we don't ask questions about that. And the multiple ones mean, woly shit, you've killed a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, I stay away from that. I see people that get um solid bands, yeah, and I believe those are like people that have passed away. So that

might be another one to maybe stay away from what. I don't think. I don't think you'll stay away from it. Man. If it's something that you like, it, you appreciate, and they're putting it out there for the world, I mean, I would not mind anybody asking about anything. It just it's like, yeah, you have it out there. It's like you know, it's on your body. And I don't know. I don't I don't know how the fucking rules work with anything. Now. No,

I've given up trying to find out. I just sit quietly. Now, Hey, how you doing Okay? I can't even tell like a chick in the office that she looks nice. I don't know if you can even say that anymore? Crazy? What kind of nut? How much h time you want to spend, how many forms you want to fill out? What look nice? You can't say, hey, man, it's a really nice dress today. Oh my god, you're just fucking hands and worms just spilling out everywhere right now. Holy geez, I don't think you can do that.

I know it sucks. It sucks because it's it's it's not that, it's the you know, your pants are on your ankles and the whistle is probably is really scared them off when you say that my pants are up button zip. Alright, alright, okay, make sure because that's bad coming up. Thank you Melissa Gee for her suggestion. We're gonna talk about our top five favorite Tom Hanks movies, one of the all time great actors. But first

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tonight. I gotta be honest, have you lived in I think ten I think ten duck duck sized bears would fuck you up. You believe we're answering this question. I think they fuck you up. I think that there's ten of them. I mean, well, they're this side of ducks. Just kick them all coming at you at once, like a little mini ewoks coming at you. Ten of them. Yeah, with the I'd go with the ten duck sized bears. I think I could kick a lot of them. I think he could shake off. Yeah, I would go with that.

A bear sized This is the weirdest conversation of one bear sized duck. Okay, I think Grizzly that beak, he's gonna be like two surfboards being Yeah, it's gonna be huge. It's gonna you're done ie, ten of them. No, that's you gotta be you gotta your heads are gotta be in a swivel rod. Anyway, I just thought i'd bring that up. So wait, wait, can you can you beat up? Can you beat up a seven year old? Probably not at this point, one seven year old?

If I had to, I'm trying to think of a seven year old. Yeah, I probably could. Two gets a little harder than Can you take two seven year olds? Jason, I might be able to. I'm not three. Three now I'm dead. You can't take on three seven year olds. I bet they would kick my ass. I'm not super strong. I'm a little guy. Why am I fighting seven year olds? By the way, what did they do? When the hell have you ever seen a fucking bear sized duck? Okay, if you're allowed to ask dumb questions,

I can, that's true. Yeah, well I don't think I would want to. Three I would. I would probably be Okay. Four, now you're getting if they were smart and strategic, they would definitely kick my ass. Four of them would absolutely because seven you would handle five. I think I could. I could take five seven year olds. You're bigger dude. Yeah, six is a problem, but five seven year olds. I'm hanging in there with him for a little bit. Yeah, yeah, this has

gotten really weird. I didn't I didn't mean for this to happen, but yeah, what's going on? You said, Tom Hanks has a movie or a book coming out? He wrote, I didn't. I should look this up so bad at this? Um, he wrote a what do you call it? Uh? Nonfiction means real, right, and fiction means is real? Fiction is Yeah, fiction is Star Wars. He wrote a fiction book. So he just wrote a start what. I don't know. I didn't read it. I'll fucking figure. You were all excited, You're like,

yeah, let's go with Tom Hanks. He's got a book coming up. That was as far as I went into it. I didn't really get in that much research. You know, I don't do a whole lot on this, for fuck's sake. No, I was way carefuling. That's the first time that's been said on the pod today. I didn't. I want to be real careful on when I brought it up. I wanted to make sure

I was just gonna kill So I was holding it and holding it. No way did I spend an hour the other night just fucking scrolling that poor dudes. Is that dude? That dude's awesome, isn't he? And you know what, he's so like genuine with it too, Like no, Wick, I can't believe I fucking didn't know that. Like I'm the same time, like I didn't know that either. Like there's so much I learned about that dude, the no Way guy on Facebook. I don't even know if he's

got other social media platforms. I'm assuming he does. I know he's selling merch now and stuff. I'm like, you go, boy, you go? Do you? Man? Tom Hanks? Who cares if it's not a tell all about his story and him bagging Rita Wilson. Nobody cares. I really don't care about a fiction Tom Hanks book. So the making of another major motion masterpiece, a novel, that's what it's called. So I don't know. I ain't reading it. I ain't read it. I got enough

books to read here. I ain't gotten that one. So let's talk about his top five movies in our opinion anyway? Is he bigger than Tom Cruise, meaning wow, I know he's taller. Is he bigger and I don't have all the box office numbers and everything. Who's a bigger star boy? That is great because those they've both been around forever, from the eighties, they've you know, you think about Tom Hanks, it seems like he's always got movies come out, and um um Cruise is like he's got these big

gaps, you know. But you gotta think about Tom Cruise. All those Mission Impossible movies are fucking great, like his are blockbusters, right, like like, well, how you would characterize and how you would actually the definition of blockbuster that seems to be every Tom Cruise movie. I don't think Sully is a blockbuster, you know what I mean? But big? But yeah, it winds up being big though, and there's gotta be something for volume. I mean, Tom Hanks must have more movies out than Tom Cruise.

I think he asked to I wouldn't even think that would even be close, right, right, But it was a bigger star man. Well, you know how you get you get white hot when your movies coming out, you know, if you go if you do Tom Cruise, when Top Gunner got released, well, ain't nobody touched him. It was a bigger celebrity today. Who's a bigger star, Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks expects the exercise.

Tom Cruise gets more fucking white hot heat because he doesn't do a lot of interviews, so there's more what Tom Hanks will talk to anybody, you know what I mean? It always feels that way. Hanks does. Seem like he's rolled up on people and taking selfies with people and done some of that cool stuff. And while I do think Tom Cruise is cool, I don't think Tom Cruise can get around like Tom Hanks can. Tom Hanks with a hat on and kind of going out, and I think he I think Tom

Cruise is a bigger celebrity. Yeah, I think because he doesn't, he's not as available. You know, it feels like he's very private, very quiet as scientology. I guess I don't know whatever it goes on there, but he's very like he just doesn't show up until all of a sudden, Oh it's a movie time, Okay, I'll go out and do a couple of interviews and then I'll go back into hiding and disappear again. You know, did you see? And I never watched one episode because I don't I

don't want him out of business with late night TV. But did you see anything with James Cordon going away? I did not watch any of that. I've the only time I ever watched him was if like the Foo Fighters were on the carpool thing or the Chili Peppers cartfull karaoke. Sure, and that was just one bit. You gotta give him that. I mean, I you know, he seems like he's a really talented guy. As a matter of fact, now that I'm watching a few things on him, I didn't

know he was that talented. He got Tom Cruise on his last show to come on and join a Broadway play with him, and they went out there maybe doing Lion King or something, and Tom Cruise shows up and you're just That's what kind of made me think, Jesus Christ, it's the biggest celebrity in the world, and and he's helping out James Gordon on his last show.

Now, I don't know if they have a ton of history and there's these legendary appearances that he's had on the show, I don't know, but I think Tom Cruise has gotten James Cordon to do some of those crazy stunts with him over the years, so that he said okay, I'll do something with you. And I think Cordon comes from maybe a theatrical background, so he got him to go. But they were a part of the Broadway play. They were a part of the actual show, and he got him to

sing, so that was cool. I mean, I think Tom Cruise is a pretty cool dude. Now when you go look on YouTube, there's you gotta go see the first one so then you can see the second one. Years ago, Tom Cruise took James Cordon surprised him. So Tom Cruise didn't do an interview with James Cordy didn't go sit on the couch. He invited him out and then surprised James Cordon, who's a bit of a Doughey dude, and took him up and they skydived. And James Cordon does not fucking

like heights. He does not want a skydive, but his genuine fear in Tom Cruise just being the cool guy that he is, gets him through it and they do it. Yeah, I was like five or six years ago, so before Top Gun was finally released to theaters. I don't to ruin it, but Tom Cruise invites James Cordon out to an airfield and it just gets fucking crazier from there. It's weird that he aligned himself with you know, that's the third biggest guy in Late Night, it's the biggest guy in

Hollywood. You would think that you're going to align yourself with Fallon or Kimmel, you know. Nope, nope, nope, he did. And it's spectacular, the flying and the whole thing they do, and those two those two bits are fucking greatly so that it makes a little more sense why I saw what I did. Anyway, Yeah, we both agree, all right, Tom Cruise is bigger. But who would be more fun to have a

beer with? Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks? You're like, Tom Hanks is just a guy to sit there and he talked to you for a while. He would just chot and take all your dumb questions. Hands down, he would be the guy to have a beer with. Yeah, although I'd love to do it with Tom Cruise. And I feel like after a couple minutes he'd be like, okay, board and then be like all right, we'll go, you know what I mean. I feel like that he's got his

he's limits. He's intense, he can be intense. He's he can be intimidating, you know, and like Hanks just seems like, yeah, let's have a couple of bruise And again could be completely wrong here, but yeah, I would say Tom Hanks. Yeah, so what are your hop by favorite Tom Hanks movies? Man, there's gonna be a ton of repeats between

our lists, huh. I could probably say at least three, okay, um in at number five, all the toy stories what, no way, all the toy stories I had, I had too, I'm sorry, um okay, yeah, no, absolutely, those are fucking great Woody Is. It's a phenomenal franchise. It's a phenomenal franchise. I mean and even you know when you start getting a toy story three and four, like it's it's a tear jerky. I mean, it's these these are good movies. Man,

um my kids nup that into him yet. And I don't want to force it, because I like anything, You force something on your kid and it's like, oh I don't like it. If she gets a whiff a whiff that like I like something and she doesn't like it, then like, well that's no, We're doing what I want to do. So I'm really treading lightly on. I want her to be into those, but she's not into him yet. She will, she will because they are great, but

they feel a little bit older. But man, you know what a great I remember when I first saw the first one and my kids, my daughter was younger. So I'm watching it and I'm like, this is brilliant. This is absolutely brilliant. The toys come alive when you're not around. Why didn't this never be thought of before? It's so awesome. You know, Number five is all the toy story franchises. Number four Castaway, Castaway Wilson,

he's got to act. It's just him. He loses all the weight, grows his that's his hair, they said, I mean all of that, it's just you know they talk about, you know, Robert de Niro and Raging Bull when he lost all that weight, like when or you know, nobody does it better than Christian balee Christian bale what he's done to his body or you know it look at even it just it just seemed like that was one of those movies that took a long time to make. They had

to naturally let him lose the weight and do all of that. It was great, and he's acting in his co host is a volleyball for half of the movie. It's awesome. Yeah, it's a great movie. Plus, I mean, who hasn't never dreamt of being stuck on an island by yourself? Like, Oh, I could do it, I could do it, And then you start watching movie You're like, no, I couldn't. I'd be dead. I'm not that smart. I'd be dead. Dude. When he jams that fucking ice skate into his mouth to get rid of that tooth,

that is he just passes out afterwards. And that's when remember then after that is what he catches the fish, and he like, he totally looked different. That's like he he jams the ice skate in his face and then that's a rap. We'll see you guys in six months when Tom loses thirty pounds. Yep, it comes that he looked different after that. And I hadn't seen that movie in a long long time. It's such a great flake. You're right, I love that movie. Uh. Number three is Forrest

Gump. Awesome, how do you Absolutely awesome movie, brilliant. Number two is Apollo thirteen. Number one is Saving Private Ryan. There you go. That was easy. Yeah, that wasn't bad. Um. I mean, I just I couldn't have I've never done a more obvious Yeah, no shit, rod, Um have I seen every Tom Hanks movie, No Biden, but those are the best ones. And you know, I'm not gonna just I'm not gonna put Bachelor Party on there. It wasn't his wasn't his best

movie, but I love it. It wasn't his best work. I will say, you know, um good list. I you know what. I went back and forth on a couple uh and then I'm like, nah, I really like this. But then I'm like, nah, shit, So yeah, I'll change this tomorrow, you know, but this is my five. I really really really like number five the Da Vinci Code when it came out in two thousand and six. That's where he's in Paris. He's unraveling that. That that when it was David Brown Dale Brown, Hell's his name,

the author anyway, Dan Brown, Dan Brown. I knew i'd get it eventually. Um, that whole code where that guys like the Albinol dude is whipping himself in his own back and all that ship they're drive around Paris uncovering the codes. It wasn't exactly his best performance. But that's something about the movie. I love it, and he was great in it. He had weird hair Langdon Langdon. So yeah, because it happened so long ago.

I don't know that I've ever read a book before I saw a movie, and that's the one time because I hate when fucking people say it, but it's the only time I can say it. So the book was better. The book is almost always better. It's shove it up your ass. Only I don't know another movie that I read the book and it's sad it is such a bug a boo of mine. But that's the only movie I think I can say that too. The book was better, of course. Number four Apoble thirteen loved it, you know, I mean, that's so

great. The whole thing is just that whole movie is just great. The look of it from the from the sixties or early seventies whatever whatever year that was. Um, can I tell you my I've seen the movie one hundred times. Yeah, but the time that I saw that I was the personal time that I saw this. I don't know if I've ever shared this with you before, but you're you're firstborn and uh and her mom they came to They came here to Houston and they came to visit, and and I took

Julia to NASA. Oh yeah, So we went to NASA and she's I don't know, like thirteen, you know, she's in that she's in that age range. We we go to NASA and we're seeing everything, and you're seeing mission control and everything, the old one. And they even say when when you're looking at it, like this is where they filmed the movie. This was this was really mission control. This is where they used to steer it from. But now we have a whole new mission control, but this

was the old one. Is there preserved and that's where um the movie's shot. We come we'd drive back from NASA and my other house I had a like a movie theater room. Dude. We watched Apollo thirteen. I got to watch it with her after we were at NASA the same day, dude, and it was awesome, and I, you know, you'd like to think that she was just blown away. I don't know if she was. I was, though, like I just thought that was such a cool experience.

That's that's my one of my favorite movie watching moments of my life. Yeah, that is cool man. Wow, that that doesn't happen very often, you know what I mean, Like, um, yeah, the whole time the movie's play, we were right there. Oh yeah, we were right there. We were right there. Was excited about it, so that was cool. That's good. That's good man. Number three a league of their own. That's a baseball chick movie. And he's the coach. He's

great. There's no crying in baseball the whole his his fucking drunken I don't give a fuck attitude to those girls. He said asshole the whole time. I mean, it's so great, and it's kind of off. It's not him. He's not that lovable guy. He's kind of a dick the whole time. And that's what makes him so cool. You know, it's a great movie. It is an awesome movie. It's a great movie. There's a little bit of history involved in it. And you're right. He isn't

He isn't that you know, Sleepless in Seattle, that lovable guy. So help me, God, if you have Sleepless in Seattle, I'm gonna jump through this zoom camera and punch in the nose Number two sleep no kidding, I can't watch that shit, number two Gump and number one Private Ryan. There you go. That was easy. And I hate that I don't have Castaway on there because I do love that fucking movie. Love that movie. And this is what I don't know. I mean, the Castaway win a

ton of awards. I don't think it did. Um. I think what I don't like about Castaway was the ending, Like he's just fucking in the fact that he held that stupid fedexbox with the wings on it. I'm like, all right, that's a thin ascid. But they had to end it somehow, you know what I mean, like like they're doing great, Like he went and saw the old wife and he's like, oh, said, I'm so sad. Okay, then just drive off to the sunset. I guess that was the way to drive off and and says I, Oh,

he's gonna go meet that girl. You know. Yeah that ending felt yeah, you know, yeah, he's not great. Didn't love that part of it, But I guess how do you end that? You know, he just went back to life. Okay, great, it could have been worse, but it wasn't a great ending. But yeah, I don't know that Castaway won a ton of Awards, like neither one of us had Philadelphia on

there Oscar winning performance that so I feel like Tom Hanks. He I mean, there's no question how huge he is, but I don't think he's been nominated. He's not like the he's not like the male Meryl Streep. There's no I mean, there's only one Meryl Streep, I guess. But I mean every time Tom Hanks is in a movie, there's always got to be a little bit of hey, you know, is he is he back in the running for something on this? You know, because he's so good,

you know, and I think he chooses his projects wisely. You know, when you're that level, you you get the best scripts coming at you too, you know, Dude, Bachelor Bachelor Party is awesome. And the other one that I wanted to mention, which clearly it's just such a long time ago. It's early in his career, and you know, not Joe versus the Volcano and I think he did some suburb movie. But dude, the money pit is legit. The money pit is legit. Fucking funny, laugh

out loud funny. And that's right when the Shelley What's her nut? From Cheer? She was at the top of her game as well. But he is legit amazingly funny in the Money Pit and they're working on this house and it tears them apart. And it's a classic story, you know, one that I talked about. You know, you're renovating a house, man, you can get a little chippy with your spouse, you know, when you're

we have a lot of work getting done. And there's a scene in the movie where he falls in a hole in the floor and he's just and he's like Brad, Brad bad, but Nana Benna bot bat and he's like taking He's got little dollar bills and he's shooting paper airplanes and the wife can't find him. I laughed my ass off. It's so funny. It could have been in my top five. It could have been in my top five. But these are just every one of him is a banger like Matt Those are

his bangingist amazing movies. But man, the Money Pits great. I love that movie. And you know what a movie I also like a lot is Catch Me if you Can. That's the one with Leo DiCaprio and he's trying to chase him all of the world. Stuff is that more a Leo movie totally. Yeah, yeah, but I mean Hanks has a very unique role in it. Captain Phillips was good but not great, but I thought he played on the captain now yeah, yeah, I thought he was great in

it, but it was great in that it wasn't a home run. And then Big is fucking fun. Big was the other one. Big. I think Big is his best early movie. See he's got, he's got like the Golden age of Hanks. You can say, Okay, you know what early eighties he was hot. You know, you had the big you had Bachelor Party, had the money pit and Turner and Hooch Turner and who and then you kind of got quiet and then the golden Golden Age of the nineties

with uh, you know Gump, Private Ryan Philadelphia. He was just banging him out, Monster monsters, but full black, curly haired Tom Hanks. Big is his best early movie. Oh it's it's a great role. I mean it is. It is awesome. How he how he does that almost like there's a little bit of genius in how Will Farrell portrays Buddy the Elf. And I got to think that he had to borrow a little bit of what Tom Hanks did to act like a little kid as an adult. That

makes sense, you know, like it just it was so good. And I don't know how many things that Tom Hanks had to look at to kind of create that, but I think Will Farrell had to watch Big before he did Elf. Yeah, because there's a lot of that elments, like how do you become a kid and then you have that curiosity and that wide eyed look in your face all the time. You know, absolutely one hundred percent. So yeah, Big Big would have been my sixth Ye Big Big would

be number six. I'd have to get money picked. Um. I why I like? I love the Elvis movie. I don't like the way it was told. I don't like it coming from Colonel Tom Parker. I don't like his colonel Tom Parker. I hate the real Colonel Tom Parker. Is that Tom Hanks fault that I don't like Colonel Tom Parker? What? Why? Why not Tom Hanks mentioned in Elvis if I'm one hundred percent with you on that one, because I always feel like it's just I'm watching Tom Hanks

in a fat suit. And it didn't. It didn't, I didn't. I wasn't fooled. Ever, I was never fooled. If it made you hate him, then Tom Hanks did his job, you know. If he did that, and if he got that emotion out of me, he did his job. But I just still it should have been nobody. I hate the story being told through Colonel Tom Parker. I guess I don't know. I didn't mind that part of it. It was kind of a unique angle

to come at it. But if it was just anybody, because you know what, you want to elevate Elvis, right, you want that kid to just shine. I think having Tom Hanks at that distracting Tom Hanks fat suit, it just felt weird to me, and it was it was always felt like, oh yeah, there's Tom Hanks's Colonel Parker. I could never get past him. You know, they didn't need him. They didn't need him.

Now they might have thought they needed a big celebrity to go on and promote this movie, you know, because because the kid wasn't proven yet. But the killer was so good that I didn't feel like I was distracted by Tom Hanks. I would have been distracted by anybody in that suit and in that role. I don't know, I just he was. I mean, it's not like he was a killer. He just there's something that was still

very hateable about him. Oh yeah, that It's just I can't find one nice thing to say and it, I mean, it's a part of Elvis's story, so it has to be told. But I didn't want I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Tom Parker is a fuck face. He's a piece of shit. I mean, that's the real dude. Was just garbage and just ruined everything. I mean, you know, Elvis would have probably had an opportunity to live a little longer had it not run for

that guy. You know. And I'm not saying anything that not a bazillion people who haven't already said by saying that. So I'm three years older than you. Did you watch Bosom? Did you watch Bosom Buddies when it was on TV? Or no? You know what, I was pretty young, but I remember seeing it going why are those dudes wearing dresses? And I just never got into the show. I would assume it was probably funny. I've never really seen it. Him concept Peter Scolari, Yeah, Peter Scolari,

I remember it well. They couldn't find a place to live, and there was some sort of an apartment complex that only allowed women to live there, so they dressed in drag and that's how they got in and out of the building every day. And they were fooling everybody. And obviously it's a it's a silly sit in thirty minute sitcom ee eighties. In the nineteen eighties there were men wearing dresses on TV. Pretty Dude. Tom Hanks plays a

thug and opposes Fonzie in an old Happy Days. That's how old Hanks is. Oh, oh, you'll never And we've talked about this, the Family Ties episode where he fucking punches Alex Pete Keaton. He's uncle Ned or something.

He's uncle Ned and he's an alcoholic. And at first you're like, you love the guy and he's so cool, and he's like, oh, it's cool, uncle Ned or whatever his name was, yep, And it comes out he's like drinking the vanilla extract out of the spice shelf and he's got fucking he's an alcoholic, and it ends up punch and Alex Pete Keaton and you're like, nobody punches Michael J. Fox, What the hell is this? He was in that and Family Ties as old as fuck. That

dude's got to be a vampire. He's like sixty six years old. I think pretty sure he is like sixty six, sixty six, Yeah, I mean he was probably young, but yeah, he was a thug type character. There's an episode of Happy Days. Really I didn't know, and then Fons he put him in his spot. Don't worry, don't worry. The fawns took care of him. There's nothing the fawns couldn't do. Yeah, he's sixty six, born in July ninth, nineteen fifty six. So yeah, sixty six. He's got He's got one, two, three more.

He's got three movies coming out the next year and a half. This dude doesn't quit working. What do you know about chet Hanks? Nothing? Is he the weird fucked up kicks. I know he's got Colin Hanks, who's an actor director who's doing pretty well for himself. Right. He's really good. The first time I ever saw him was the movie Orange County with him

and Jack Black. They were great. That was a great man. He kind of sounded like his dad, and it's like wow, okay, And he's really good and everything that I've seen him in and he's the one that made them the Tower Records documentary. That's right, all things must pass. So he's really talented, he's really really good. And then you have chet Chet Hanks. I'm just gonna warn you if you it's kind of like googling Steven Tyler's feet if you if you start looking into Chet Hanks, he's pretty

hate herbal. Yeah, he's a rapper. He kind of had a whole hot Dude Summer going on a couple of years ago. He's kind of an embarrassment because his mom, Rita Wilson, can sing her ass off. I don't know Tom Hanks to sing in any of his movies, but I haven't seen them all, but Rita Wilson can sing her ass off. I mean she has like a really like a killer voice. And Chet Hanks tried to go in that direction and kind of wrapped and he was embarrassing. He was

absolutely embarrassing. In the social media videos that he posted Tom hanks Son, it started out with the word chet. I think that's where they started wrong. Chet Hanks. Yeah, white hot, hot dude summer, white dude summer, something like that. You can go go google it. No, I probably won't. You know what I'm pretty sure I will not take the advice on that one. Yeah, I don't want to give out like false homework assignment on this podcast because you will not be you will not feel good

about yourself. It's just you will feel dumber for watching anything that Chet Hanks has on the internet. I didn't exactly feel smarter after watching about forty five minutes of what No Wave videos the other night, but I was like, this guy's at least doing some good for the world. He's showing us, Hey, look at these little life acts as a dude you can have in that garage, you know what I mean. So I don't feel bad about watching that. I'm not gonna sit around watching Jet Hanks videos, man,

though, I'm just saying they're available. Probably won't Probably will not be doing that. Rodney, I have I have some stuff in a folder and it's um no, it's right next to my Corey Feldman folder. So just to give you an idea of where you would prioritize, you might someday might be feeling like, you know, you want to see something of Corey Feldman, maybe a performance, and then maybe you'd want to Chet Hanks to break it up. But you would, you would have to be in that same mood

like that. That is a real scrapage of the bottom of the as they say, yes, but I think that gives you a better idea of, you know what, what folder to put it in. Like Corey Feldman, I'll be like, all right, I got some curiosity. I'll see what this guy's got going, but I'm not gonna go down that hole. Yeah. Oh it's horrible. It's bad, It's embarrassingly bad. I don't want to do it. No thanks, any final thoughts, rod Uh Yeah, just trying to get the rod Ryan Showcare store up and running, and I'm

hoping to have the store for the first time ever. It might be up next week before more Memorial Day weekend, which I know people got you know, grilling and chilling and you know, and that's not why you do Memorial Day weekend. Okay, it's those that made the ultimate sacrifice. But there's no shame in getting ready to grill and chill and hang out at Jason's pool and do all that fun stuff. So I'm trying to get the store up

and running. That means we're gonna start raising money for backpacks for kids. So it's weird. It's hard to get people fired up because kids are still in school, not for much longer. But I'm going to start asking people for money for backpacks for kids to start school next year very soon. Let the kids get out of school, like we don't want kids. You gotta work ahead, bro, I gotta work ahead. So I'm working on all the T shirt designs and all of that, and I got all the design

set so we might have the store up and running next week. Dude. My fun thought is some parental guidance. Rod um. My son is uh, he's moving on. He's going to go on to high school next year. He's very excited about that. All good, Right, So he's just coasting these last few last week or so at school, Like I mean, he goes, I go do what you're doing at school? He goes nothing, nothing, And I'm like, well, how many more days could you

miss? You know what I mean, Like, I'm thinking, I'm trying to work with a kid here, you know, because he's not doing anything. He's bored and he has or anything like I've already done it. All all good, It's just it's just just those extra days day of the year in case there's you know, a fucking hurricane or something they got to take. Is he still got a couple of weeks? I mean, what is he looking at. He's got the rest of this weekend, part of next

week and then he's done. So it's he's out before Memorial Day weekend. Yeah, yeah, he's done. Okay's done. So the other day, Uh, there's a bit of a dust up at the school. He was not involved, but he said it got pretty wild and and um, you know a bunch of kids got you know, after a fistfight in school in the lunch room, those kids were told you are no longer allowed to come back for the rest of the year. Okay, and this is gonna go

on your record and all this shit. So we're in the car after listening to the Food Fighters song this morning on the way to school, and I said, so, when you got planning for school today, what's going on? He goes, nothing, I'm gonna sit there. I go, here's what you're gonna do. I go, you find a kid next year it's not too big and not too small, and you go punch him in the face and get into a fight. Boom, you got the rest of the year. Off, dude, he goes, But he goes, I don't.

I don't think that's probably the best advice to give. Yeah, no, dude, you're looking for an out right. Here we go. And then I said a record, and you know, I don't go on your record, And I said, don't punch anybody, don't be dumb. And but he's like, I couldn't. They said it pretty serious. He looks at me, He's like, I don't. I don't. I don't think that's a good idea, does he? I mean, how old is Henry now? Fourteen? Going to be fifteen soon? So so our camps out

of the question. Obviously, he's too young to get a job. He's in that weird he's in that weird space. Is there plans for him to do something? I mean, you guys have probably got some family vacation, do you know. I know, you guys go to the beach a lot and stuff like that. But is soccer and all that stuff over with for the summer too? Soccer is almost done. He's got a couple of weeks

of prepping for high school. They got some different camps and ship that they do for that to get them kind of warmed up for it, which is I think fu I wish we would have had that. You know. I walked in one day and I'm boom, here you go, and I'm like, what the fuck? Where are we? You know? But yeah, he's got that, but really not much. It's a weird summer. He's

got nothing super planned. He's got a couple of little things. Some people have said, hey, you want to come work for me for a week or two and learn the ropes on this business, and I'm like, fuck, yeah he does. So he's got some opportunities. Yeah, it's kind of cool that way. So it's like you can't officially work or anything. But he's you know, he's smart and he gives a shit, so he's gonna go learn a few things. I'm like, let's do it. Maybe

hanging out doing nothing mostly, which is great. Wo dude, you got your whole life to do dumb shit and work all summer. You know, I don't mind it just pissing around all summer. And it isn't as long as you think. I mean, most kids, you know in the South, I think he's done right before Memorial Day. He's going back and like the first week in August, it's a short summer. You know, they're getting more time off during the year, which is weird to me. Let's

just get it done. Let's just hammer through this shit and give me a long summer. Yeah, it's weird they're giving more time off, and I think there's some kind of a you know, obviously there's a teacher shortage and they're trying to like give teachers more time off, and yeah, I'm finding it difficult. My kid has like weird times off and it's what what what do you mean of a mid It's not that's not spring break. There's like some mid spring early year break. I'm like, what is this? What

do you call this? You were just off for Christmas. It's there's some weird there's some weird things happening right now with kids in school, well with time off. The teacher thing is the scariest part because even my son's like he's like, man, I've had like six science teachers this year, Like they don't stick. I'm like, how can you learn anything when you you know? And it's like and the kids recognize it, and it's like I get it. This is not shitt again teachers at all, because they've got

one of the hardest jobs on earth and they don't get paid. Shit. Who wants to do that? You know, you the beating you take. And I can't imagine, like you knew, like when we were in school back in the nineteen hundreds, that teachers had a hard job then because we were assholes, but you know, they had a little more leniency to kind of keep us in line. I can't imagine. You know, you got these moms groups now and the Karens of the world. How could you be

a teacher. You can't teach anything anymore. You can't say shit to anybody. Yeah, I can't imagine being a teacher. I can't even imagine, No, not at all. Anyway, all right, guys, thank you for checking this out. I'll see if I can get back to my normal sitch. But this wasn't so bad. It's worked just great. This wasn't so bad. But uh yeah, download smashed a subscribe button. Don't miss

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