299: Album of the 5ummer!

Episode Transcript

[0:00:25 – 0:00:35] Erik: Bootros, Bootros, golly.
[0:00:36 – 0:00:38] Erik: It’s Tumble Home 299.
[0:00:38 – 0:00:41] Erik: Where were you when episode 299 came out, Adam?
[0:00:41 – 0:00:43] Adam: Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
[0:00:43 – 0:00:45] Adam: Lighting off fireworks in the shed, Eric.
[0:00:45 – 0:00:46] Adam: Wow.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:47] Adam: Before I got here?
[0:00:47 – 0:00:48] Erik: Yeah.
[0:00:48 – 0:00:48] Erik: Snaps.
[0:00:48 – 0:00:51] Erik: I thought there was a smell of sulfur in here, but I thought it was something else.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:55] Adam: Yeah, I had a couple big fountains.
[0:00:56 – 0:00:56] Adam: Wow.
[0:00:56 – 0:01:01] Adam: And one small stick of TNT.
[0:01:01 – 0:01:02] Adam: One small stick?
[0:01:02 – 0:01:06] Adam: I’ll take your smallest, most low-powered TNT, please.
[0:01:06 – 0:01:07] Erik: Low-powered, yep.
[0:01:07 – 0:01:09] Erik: You practiced that order from the dispensary.
[0:01:09 – 0:01:11] Adam: The TNT dispensary.
[0:01:13 – 0:01:16] Erik: One of your lowest-dosed joints, please.
[0:01:16 – 0:01:18] Adam: Oh, no, this is still too high-powered.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:20] Erik: Bam, it took my finger off.
[0:01:22 – 0:01:25] Erik: Welcome to Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:01:25 – 0:01:27] Erik: After a week off, we are back in the shed.
[0:01:27 – 0:01:28] Erik: It’s mid-September.
[0:01:29 – 0:01:29] Erik: I mean, August.
[0:01:30 – 0:01:31] Erik: Oh, my mind is in September.
[0:01:31 – 0:01:32] Erik: Yeah, you’re ready.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:39] Erik: My hands are rubbing together like a sick little housefly waiting to eat a chunk of your pancake.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:41] Erik: I cannot wait.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:42] Erik: September’s going to be a good one.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:45] Erik: I’m going to be on the water for like half the month.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:46] Erik: Yes, sir.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:47] Erik: It’s going to be a good time.
[0:01:47 – 0:01:48] Adam: Yes, boss.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:49] Adam: Yes, boss.
[0:01:49 – 0:01:50] Adam: Yes, boss.
[0:01:51 – 0:01:55] Erik: We got a bunch of things on the docket tonight, right?
[0:01:55 – 0:01:56] Erik: Yes, sir.
[0:01:56 – 0:01:58] Erik: Yes, boss.
[0:01:59 – 0:02:01] Erik: A little trip recap.
[0:02:01 – 0:02:06] Erik: We got to talk murals and everybody’s favorite episode of the summer.
[0:02:06 – 0:02:12] Erik: We’re getting into the albums of the summer because it always is albums.
[0:02:12 – 0:02:13] Erik: We say it’s an album, but…
[0:02:14 – 0:02:18] Erik: And I do have an album, but the list is five or six deep.
[0:02:19 – 0:02:21] Erik: Yeah, we’re not going to play a bunch of clips either.
[0:02:21 – 0:02:23] Erik: Unfortunately, we don’t get to play any clips.
[0:02:23 – 0:02:24] Erik: I mean, we could.
[0:02:24 – 0:02:29] Erik: We could just fully, say, F it and play the music, but I don’t know.
[0:02:30 – 0:02:37] Erik: It kind of gets in the way a little bit, and it just inevitably gets us flagged, and it also just…
[0:02:39 – 0:03:03] Erik: i don’t have any trouble it behooves all of you listeners if we speak clearly yeah go check it out tell you what the albums are you can go and do your own research i’ll do my best i find music writing interesting because it’s one of those things that it’s uh it’s so it’s not even like being like a movie critic trying to like describe music is uh
[0:03:05 – 0:03:09] Erik: It’s a challenge to try and not sound like you’re just describing the same thing over and over again.
[0:03:09 – 0:03:16] Erik: That’s why I always like reading music reviews or people that talk about music who can’t actually play it.
[0:03:16 – 0:03:20] Erik: Even with movie reviewers or critics, they can always throw a clip up.
[0:03:20 – 0:03:23] Erik: It’s pretty easy to describe an emotion.
[0:03:23 – 0:03:26] Erik: But like music, it’s subjective.
[0:03:26 – 0:03:32] Erik: And it paints a unique and specific picture in every individual’s mind.
[0:03:33 – 0:03:34] Erik: So to try and…
[0:03:35 – 0:03:58] Erik: compelled one to listen to an album based on a description i think that takes a lot i just quick finish my list up here while you’re giving the intro on the music just quick uh i mean the decisions were made i just like hadn’t typed it out yet over there sharpieing on your palm it’s gonna be at the end of the show so i just want to make sure like i didn’t forget something
[0:03:58 – 0:04:00] Adam: You know, I’m getting up there.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:04] Adam: I’m mid-40s now, and I got to keep writing stuff down or just doing it right away.
[0:04:04 – 0:04:07] Erik: Yeah, your mental faculties are deteriorating?
[0:04:07 – 0:04:08] Erik: Is that what you’re saying?
[0:04:08 – 0:04:09] Adam: I think they are.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:09] Erik: Yeah?
[0:04:10 – 0:04:10] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:12] Adam: I’m just tired, boss.
[0:04:12 – 0:04:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:38] Erik: tired it is that time of year though i mean mid-august i was telling you right before we fired up the mics that uh grand marie kind of felt um felt like a state fair out there today i ended up downtown and it was just like i felt like i was in the raw like i felt like i had to get that fudge higher i just had to a quick stop at the fudge santa shop saturday in august just want a little santa
[0:04:39 – 0:04:46] Erik: It’s like I was just, my vehicle was just plopped down in the middle of like Dan Patch Avenue at the State Fair in front of the grandstand.
[0:04:46 – 0:04:50] Erik: I was like, what am I, is this road open?
[0:04:50 – 0:04:56] Erik: People were just darting out from behind cars, packs of five deep, walking down the sidewalks.
[0:04:56 – 0:05:00] Erik: I mean, it’s always nice to, you wouldn’t want to see your town dead.
[0:05:00 – 0:05:00] Erik: No, no.
[0:05:00 – 0:05:04] Erik: My God, it’s a little crazy trying to find a parking spot.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:08] Erik: At least they got those two 15-minute spots in front of the liquor store that are almost always open.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:10] Erik: Yeah, you can always count on those.
[0:05:10 – 0:05:11] Adam: I park in those ones for hours, too.
[0:05:11 – 0:05:13] Adam: You can just park down on the beach.
[0:05:13 – 0:05:14] Erik: Yeah, right down on the beach.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:16] Adam: I’ve been telling the staff to watch out.
[0:05:16 – 0:05:17] Adam: Santa’s watching.
[0:05:18 – 0:05:19] Erik: Oh, it’s getting to be that time of year?
[0:05:19 – 0:05:20] Erik: You’ve got to use Santa.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:21] Erik: He’s already watching?
[0:05:22 – 0:05:23] Adam: He’s always watching.
[0:05:23 – 0:05:25] Adam: He’s always watching.
[0:05:25 – 0:05:26] Adam: I’ve been telling a couple of customers the same thing.
[0:05:27 – 0:05:28] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:28 – 0:05:30] Adam: Do you have any of this?
[0:05:30 – 0:05:32] Adam: You know, Santa’s always watching.
[0:05:33 – 0:05:34] SPEAKER_00: What the hell does that mean?
[0:05:34 – 0:05:36] Adam: It’s August, sir.
[0:05:37 – 0:05:37] Adam: Yes, ma’am.
[0:05:39 – 0:05:41] Adam: I’m real polite in August.
[0:05:43 – 0:05:45] Adam: Always saying my pleases and my thank yous.
[0:05:47 – 0:05:48] Adam: I thought I have some new murals.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:54] Adam: We were talking about the big mural project, and I did want to talk about the big mural project a little.
[0:05:54 – 0:05:55] Erik: You want to get to a sponsor?
[0:05:56 – 0:06:00] Adam: Yeah, we should get to a sponsor, but I’m just saying, like, I thought of a couple more murals.
[0:06:00 – 0:06:02] Erik: You really got to get these murals off your chest.
[0:06:02 – 0:06:03] Erik: Otherwise, I’ll forget.
[0:06:03 – 0:06:04] Adam: I never wrote those down.
[0:06:04 – 0:06:07] Adam: All I have in my notes for this section is just murals.
[0:06:07 – 0:06:08] Erik: Get them going before you forget.
[0:06:08 – 0:06:14] Erik: I wouldn’t want that early onset dementia to affect this episode.
[0:06:14 – 0:06:18] Adam: It was last week we had the full moon, so at least we’re off of that stuff.
[0:06:19 – 0:06:23] Adam: If you had the full moon aligned with this weekend, Lord help me, friend.
[0:06:23 – 0:06:24] Erik: Yeah, there’d probably be a murder in town.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:28] Erik: At least a donut stabbing.
[0:06:29 – 0:06:32] Adam: We got a large Hy-Vee bag.
[0:06:33 – 0:06:33] Erik: Hy-Vee?
[0:06:33 – 0:06:37] Adam: Better just get the whole bag up here.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:40] Adam: I pulled this one out of the bottom shelf of the mini fridge.
[0:06:41 – 0:06:43] Adam: Lean in, sir.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:44] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:47] Adam: Comes with a… We got a note on a paper plate.
[0:06:47 – 0:06:47] Adam: Yes.
[0:06:48 – 0:06:57] Erik: I think we need more notes that come with the beers on the most ridiculous, like, last-second, haphazardly-grabbed item.
[0:06:58 – 0:07:01] Erik: This note is written on the back of, like, a Dixie paper plate.
[0:07:06 – 0:07:14] Adam: It just says Tumble Home Art Supplies from Nate Clow and my daughter Sage.
[0:07:15 – 0:07:16] Adam: Thanks for all the content.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:17] Erik: Hell yeah.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:18] Adam: There you go.
[0:07:18 – 0:07:20] Adam: And this came in on the summer solstice.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:24] Adam: Just as on the whiteboard is Large Hy-Vee Bag.
[0:07:24 – 0:07:25] Adam: Large Hy-Vee Bag.
[0:07:25 – 0:07:26] Adam: Wow.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:28] Adam: Thank you, Nate and daughter Sage.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:30] Erik: Thank you.
[0:07:30 – 0:07:31] Erik: What do we got here?
[0:07:31 – 0:07:31] Erik: Sage Comb.
[0:07:31 – 0:07:32] Adam: Sage Comb.
[0:07:35 – 0:07:38] Adam: What was it?
[0:07:39 – 0:07:41] Adam: This means good as gold, right?
[0:07:41 – 0:07:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:43 – 0:07:43] Erik: Good as gold.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:46] Adam: We always said we’re a multilingual podcast here.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:48] Adam: Well, at least bilingual.
[0:07:49 – 0:07:50] Adam: We are definitely bilingual.
[0:07:53 – 0:07:54] Adam: Indeed.
[0:07:54 – 0:07:58] Adam: And this is purple.
[0:07:58 – 0:08:05] Adam: It’s a purple, gold, and cream can with a lion peeking over a large castle.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:08] Adam: This is from Lion, or maybe it’s a bridge.
[0:08:09 – 0:08:11] Adam: Lion Bridge Brewing Company.
[0:08:11 – 0:08:14] SPEAKER_00: You guys should probably think about changing your name to Lion Castle.
[0:08:14 – 0:08:16] SPEAKER_00: Lion Castle?
[0:08:16 – 0:08:18] Adam: Majestic Beast Hazy IPA.
[0:08:18 – 0:08:23] Adam: 12 ounces tastefully put together here.
[0:08:23 – 0:08:25] Adam: Catalyst to conversation and community.
[0:08:26 – 0:08:30] SPEAKER_00: We got some… Pew, pew.
[0:08:31 – 0:08:32] Adam: Ipas in the house.
[0:08:33 – 0:08:33] Adam: Thank you.
[0:08:33 – 0:08:34] Adam: Thank you, thank you.
[0:08:34 – 0:08:35] Adam: Perfect temperature.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:36] Adam: Perfect temperature.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:41] Erik: Icy.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:47] Erik: Yeah, that is good.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:50] Erik: From Cedar Rapids?
[0:08:51 – 0:08:52] Adam: What’s the secret ingredient?
[0:08:53 – 0:08:53] Adam: Lion.
[0:08:55 – 0:08:57] Adam: Val Kilmer shot us a good one.
[0:08:59 – 0:09:01] Adam: We got to put that on the whiteboard now.
[0:09:01 – 0:09:02] Adam: Ghost in the Darkness.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:04] Adam: Wow.
[0:09:05 – 0:09:10] Adam: I can’t believe we both were on the same page there.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:13] Adam: Yeah, it’s a Val Kilmer sniper lion thriller.
[0:09:13 – 0:09:13] Adam: Yep.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:18] Erik: Sniper Lion Thriller.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:18] Erik: Highly recommend.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:19] SPEAKER_00: It’s Lion Month.
[0:09:20 – 0:09:20] SPEAKER_00: Lion Month.
[0:09:20 – 0:09:21] Erik: What else is there?
[0:09:21 – 0:09:23] Erik: Jungle Book.
[0:09:23 – 0:09:24] Erik: Lion King.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:25] Erik: Lion King.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:26] Erik: Yeah.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:28] Erik: We should do Lion Month.
[0:09:28 – 0:09:32] Erik: Speaking of TCCs, we are back in the mezzanine tonight.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:33] Erik: I know all of our…
[0:09:34 – 0:10:00] Erik: patrons five dollars a month patrons have been clamoring since uh they’re waiting at the yacht auction house for us yes since pocahontas and oh boy we’ve got a real i don’t know why uh we’re doing this but uh it’s uh it’s got its moments and there are definitely things to say about uh 1995 92 i think two wow 92 strikes again
[0:10:01 – 0:10:04] Erik: Captain Ron, they’re on the water.
[0:10:05 – 0:10:07] Erik: They got the Wanderer and they’re going to fix it up.
[0:10:08 – 0:10:16] Erik: We got elements of Final Destination where multiple things happen that almost kill people in the movie.
[0:10:18 – 0:10:31] Adam: You got a situation going on like in Down Periscope where the boat is real rickety and made with spray paint to look old and crusty at the beginning and then slowly through the course of the film they fix her up.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:33] Erik: I feel like it’s just an entirely different boat.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:34] Erik: Shine it up.
[0:10:34 – 0:10:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:36] Adam: You think so?
[0:10:36 – 0:10:37] Adam: It’s definitely the same boat.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:38] Adam: Kurt Russell’s…
[0:10:38 – 0:10:39] Adam: They made it look shabby.
[0:10:39 – 0:10:41] Erik: …premiere performance.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:43] Erik: It’s got a glass eye.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:45] Erik: Yep.
[0:10:45 – 0:10:47] Erik: Someday I’ll retire to Wisconsin.
[0:10:48 – 0:10:50] Erik: What if someday never comes and this is all there is?
[0:10:50 – 0:10:53] Erik: That’s the impetus for Martin Short.
[0:10:53 – 0:10:54] Erik: Marty!
[0:10:55 – 0:10:59] Erik: To buy… To sail the bequeathed boat from…
[0:11:00 – 0:11:12] Erik: Some mysterious European-esque seeming island to Miami to make a bunch of money because they are double mortgaged and they have a lot of credit card debt.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:18] Erik: So we’re going to get into Captain Ron tonight and then maybe we’ll talk about what Lion Month might look like going forward.
[0:11:18 – 0:11:22] Adam: That was back when you still had to use the like thing on the credit card too.
[0:11:23 – 0:11:23] Adam: Yeah.
[0:11:23 – 0:11:24] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:29] Adam: You got to really be trying to ring up a big credit card debt with those machines.
[0:11:29 – 0:11:29] Adam: Yeah.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:30] Adam: Takes forever.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:36] Erik: How many identities were stolen back in the 90s when it was just carbon copies of credit card numbers?
[0:11:37 – 0:11:41] Erik: Sitting in cash register garbage bins.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:44] Adam: No, that’s when the shredder business really took off.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:47] Erik: Yeah, there was entire companies who would show up.
[0:11:47 – 0:11:52] Erik: They still do exist, I think, specifically there just to shred your paper.
[0:11:52 – 0:11:53] Adam: You’re not man enough to shred me.
[0:11:53 – 0:11:55] Adam: You can’t shred your own papers.
[0:11:56 – 0:11:57] Erik: You need a box truck for this.
[0:11:57 – 0:11:58] Adam: That’s a really nice shredder.
[0:12:01 – 0:12:02] Adam: That’s a really nice shredder.
[0:12:03 – 0:12:05] Adam: I thought of some other murals, though.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:07] Adam: Yes, mural chat.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:13] Adam: You put me on the spot with some other good murals, and I was like, what about the nice trout on the gas tank?
[0:12:13 – 0:12:16] Erik: Yeah, the fish on the propane tank at Como.
[0:12:16 – 0:12:21] Adam: It is a nice trout on the gas tank, but it’s not really a fine example of a good mural.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:32] Erik: Yeah, I guess when do you draw the line between just like a painting to I feel like a mural is like got to be a wall and more than just like one thing.
[0:12:33 – 0:12:34] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:12:35 – 0:12:39] Adam: As long as it’s like in a highly visible spot, I’m okay with a small mural.
[0:12:40 – 0:12:40] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:40 – 0:12:42] Adam: But if it’s in a key location.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:48] Adam: But like I’d say the tank counts as a big piece of like painted artwork that’s right on 61.
[0:12:48 – 0:12:50] Adam: You can see it going right through town.
[0:12:50 – 0:13:12] Adam: yeah but it’s on a gas tank so i mean deduction for sure deduction you know but uh yeah we were talking about the one on the back side of the beaver house i think because there’s a lot of neat stuff in town where you can like see like an old sign or something that’s used to be covered up for a little bit and now you can see it again like old history stuff like that but that’s also not a mural
[0:13:12 – 0:13:19] Erik: Yeah, there was some glammy, I couldn’t tell if it was like senior picks, a little late in the year for senior picks.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:35] Erik: I don’t know what it was, but there was some, you know, skirted, nicely dressed woman posing, like kind of like leaning up against the blacksmith, the old historic Billy Blackwell, what is his name?
[0:13:35 – 0:13:36] Erik: I think you got it.
[0:13:36 – 0:13:38] Erik: Yeah, the old blacksmith shop just south of the…
[0:13:40 – 0:13:53] Erik: one stoplight in town getting some photo ops done that’s cool i like that i mean i could see it yeah you know that’s a great place for a little photo op but yeah the murals in town i feel like are uh
[0:13:54 – 0:13:55] Erik: Kind of few and far between.
[0:13:55 – 0:14:03] Adam: I give a shout out to the big water tower going up the Gunflint Trail with the iconic Gunflint Trail scenic byway moose.
[0:14:04 – 0:14:04] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:14:04 – 0:14:05] Adam: That’s cool.
[0:14:05 – 0:14:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:05 – 0:14:06] Adam: I remember…
[0:14:06 – 0:14:07] Adam: I’m not sure it’s a mural, though.
[0:14:08 – 0:14:08] Erik: It’s…
[0:14:09 – 0:14:11] Erik: I mean, it’s a painting of the…
[0:14:11 – 0:14:16] Erik: I wonder who ever designed that Gunflint Trail logo, but it’s a classic.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:16] Erik: It is.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:17] Erik: Really good.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:21] Erik: And I love that that’s incorporated into the water tower for Grand Marais.
[0:14:21 – 0:14:23] Erik: It’s a symbiosis of…
[0:14:24 – 0:14:38] Erik: the town and that road that i feel like is cool that uh it’s not just grand marais on it it’s a kind of a welcoming point to hey you’re heading up the gunflint trail yeah on a similar note you know by the library they still have the old lake
[0:14:40 – 0:14:40] Adam: Gateway.
[0:14:40 – 0:14:42] Adam: The arch thing there.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:42] Adam: The old arch.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:43] Adam: Yes.
[0:14:43 – 0:14:44] Adam: That’s our arch.
[0:14:44 – 0:14:45] Erik: That is cool.
[0:14:45 – 0:14:45] Erik: I like that.
[0:14:45 – 0:14:46] Erik: That’s like the original.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:47] Erik: Yeah, with the boat.
[0:14:48 – 0:14:49] Erik: The bear like sinking a boat.
[0:14:50 – 0:14:51] Adam: Yeah, the bear’s piloting.
[0:14:51 – 0:14:53] Adam: The bear’s the captain now.
[0:14:53 – 0:14:54] Erik: The bear is the captain now.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:55] Erik: Bear month.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:56] Erik: We’ve already done bear month.
[0:14:57 – 0:14:57] Erik: It’s time for Lion.
[0:14:57 – 0:15:01] Adam: So that one’s cool too, but that’s also maybe not a mural.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:09] Adam: I don’t know that Grand Marais is a town of murals or whatever, but there are a lot of cool public artworks like that around.
[0:15:10 – 0:15:13] Adam: I think we’re in agreement, though, that our favorite is the one on the beaver house.
[0:15:13 – 0:15:15] Adam: I don’t know if I’m in agreement with that at all.
[0:15:15 – 0:15:16] Adam: Yes, yes, he’s nodding.
[0:15:17 – 0:15:20] Erik: I mean, I could do that mural, I think.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:21] Erik: I don’t know if you could.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:30] Erik: I could draw bears standing like humans, just full frontal nude bears that look just like humans, creepily…
[0:15:30 – 0:15:33] Adam: Now you know what people are seeing when they think they see the Sasquatch.
[0:15:33 – 0:15:41] Erik: It’s like the page out of the high school health book that’s pointing out the parts of the body.
[0:15:41 – 0:15:44] Erik: They’re just standing upright looking directly at you.
[0:15:44 – 0:15:45] Adam: It’s a diagram of a bear.
[0:15:45 – 0:15:46] Adam: Yeah.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:47] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:15:47 – 0:15:48] Adam: I think it’s charming.
[0:15:48 – 0:15:48] Adam: It is charming.
[0:15:48 – 0:15:49] Adam: Very folksy.
[0:15:49 – 0:15:55] Adam: And it goes along with the building that has the giant walleye sticking out of it, which is also great.
[0:15:55 – 0:15:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:55 – 0:15:56] Erik: I’m not anti.
[0:15:56 – 0:15:57] Erik: I just think it’s…
[0:15:58 – 0:16:00] Adam: It’s one of my favorite buildings in the whole world.
[0:16:00 – 0:16:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:16:01 – 0:16:02] Adam: And it’s a great mural.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:03] Erik: It’s a great mural.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:05] Erik: I’ll just say it’s a great mural.
[0:16:05 – 0:16:05] Adam: Thank you.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:06] Adam: I think so.
[0:16:07 – 0:16:08] Adam: I think that one’s my favorite.
[0:16:09 – 0:16:18] Adam: There’s another one, though, that I think you’ll agree is a pretty good one that could be overlooked, but it’s right by the SOB on the retaining wall.
[0:16:19 – 0:16:20] Adam: Oh, yes.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:21] Adam: Down across from the Muni.
[0:16:21 – 0:16:23] Adam: That needs to be refinished and touched up.
[0:16:23 – 0:16:24] Adam: It really needs some touch up, yeah.
[0:16:25 – 0:16:27] Adam: The Edmund Fitzgerald mural that’s there.
[0:16:28 – 0:16:30] Adam: Which is really, really good.
[0:16:30 – 0:16:30] Adam: Yeah.
[0:16:30 – 0:16:33] Adam: But it’s pretty decrepit at this point.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:33] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:37] Erik: Whoever decided to commission or do that, because it’s hyper-realistic.
[0:16:37 – 0:16:38] Erik: It’s old, yeah.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:39] Erik: It’s got stats on it.
[0:16:39 – 0:16:40] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:40 – 0:16:40] Erik: How many died.
[0:16:40 – 0:16:43] Erik: And it does need to be…
[0:16:43 – 0:16:45] Erik: I think it should be retouched up.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:45] Erik: We should…
[0:16:46 – 0:17:08] Erik: petition the county commissioners to refinish and retouch go in there in the night or just do it let’s just go in there in the night and touch it up yeah just get like a battery powered like a big standing like dewalt like we’re just need night vision we’re just night vision stealth we gotta do we gotta banksy this thing we gotta sneak it in there
[0:17:09 – 0:17:16] Erik: Yeah, someday they’ll cover it in plexiglass so you can’t mess it up like so many Banksy artworks in the wild.
[0:17:18 – 0:17:19] Adam: Yeah, that one’s pretty great.
[0:17:19 – 0:17:20] Adam: I can’t believe we missed that one.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:21] Adam: That one is great.
[0:17:21 – 0:17:22] Adam: That one’s the number one obvious.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:27] Adam: You know, there used to be the cool seagulls on the public restrooms that got tore down.
[0:17:27 – 0:17:28] Adam: Those are kind of fun.
[0:17:28 – 0:17:29] Erik: I like those ones.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:30] Adam: Those are pretty grammar-y, I’d say.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:32] Erik: I do miss those bathrooms.
[0:17:32 – 0:17:38] Erik: I don’t want to go into a county, like, I don’t want to go into City Hall to use a public restroom anymore.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:39] SPEAKER_00: I don’t like it.
[0:17:40 – 0:17:41] Erik: It’s just not the same.
[0:17:41 – 0:17:42] Adam: It’s just not the same.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:46] Erik: You used to be able to just fully access those 24 hours a day.
[0:17:46 – 0:17:46] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:46 – 0:17:48] Erik: You need a little night action in there.
[0:17:49 – 0:17:50] Erik: Night action.
[0:17:51 – 0:17:58] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[0:17:58 – 0:18:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:18:01 – 0:18:07] Adam: Yeah, this Lion’s Castle Brewing Company is pretty tasty.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:07] Adam: Icy.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:08] Adam: Do you got any more murals?
[0:18:10 – 0:18:11] Erik: I can’t really think of any.
[0:18:12 – 0:18:13] Adam: Those are the ones I just wanted to shout out.
[0:18:13 – 0:18:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:19] Adam: There’s little things all around Grand Marais that I’m noticing still to this day.
[0:18:19 – 0:18:28] Adam: Like if you walk the harbor beach past like Superior Trading Post, like towards Artist Point, you make that little cut through there.
[0:18:29 – 0:18:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:29 – 0:18:36] Adam: There’s like a strange little miniature copper canoe propped up with a paddle sculpture.
[0:18:37 – 0:18:37] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:38 – 0:18:44] Adam: And then I one time saw like a child’s sled had been like jammed underneath it in the springtime.
[0:18:44 – 0:18:46] Erik: There was one, I think it was like two years ago or something.
[0:18:46 – 0:18:47] Erik: I was walking through there.
[0:18:47 – 0:18:50] Adam: I was like, has this always been here?
[0:18:50 – 0:18:50] Adam: That’s what I said.
[0:18:51 – 0:18:52] Adam: Where did this come from?
[0:18:52 – 0:18:55] Adam: I was doing laps and I was like, I’ve walked through here a hundred times.
[0:18:55 – 0:18:56] Adam: I’ve never noticed this.
[0:18:56 – 0:18:58] Adam: Yeah.
[0:18:58 – 0:19:01] Adam: But it says like established, you know, many years ago.
[0:19:01 – 0:19:01] Adam: Right.
[0:19:01 – 0:19:03] Erik: And it’s like dedicated to…
[0:19:03 – 0:19:04] Adam: Dedicated to somebody.
[0:19:04 – 0:19:05] Adam: Somebody, but…
[0:19:05 – 0:19:27] Adam: that one’s in there too but um i don’t know there’s a new king in town on the mural there’s two new kings in town uh two new two new kings in town for the mural game this summer started in july the co-op has a big mural going on it if you haven’t heard about this that one’s great it’s incredible and you should definitely you won’t be able to avoid it you have to check it out
[0:19:27 – 0:19:34] Erik: I love the inclusion of the magical porpoise and or whale or whatever that’s breaching the water.
[0:19:34 – 0:19:35] Adam: I believe it’s a sturgeon.
[0:19:37 – 0:19:38] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:19:38 – 0:19:41] Adam: I didn’t actually ask the artist on this one, but it looks like a sturgeon to me.
[0:19:41 – 0:19:41] Adam: Sure.
[0:19:42 – 0:19:46] Erik: You can call it a sturgeon if you want, but it sure looks like a dolphin, and that’s what I’m going with.
[0:19:47 – 0:19:48] Adam: Whatever you want it to be.
[0:19:48 – 0:19:49] Adam: I do love that.
[0:19:49 – 0:19:50] Adam: That’s how murals work.
[0:19:50 – 0:19:51] Adam: Yeah.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:52] Adam: The co-op commissioned…
[0:19:54 – 0:20:03] Adam: Sam Zimmerman and Adam Swanson to paint the entire north side of the building.
[0:20:03 – 0:20:06] Adam: And it’s a pretty large side of a building.
[0:20:06 – 0:20:13] Adam: It used to be a really, I’ll just be polite and say it was a very vibrant color of light green.
[0:20:14 – 0:20:17] Adam: And there’s a lot of people that did not like that color of wall paint.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:19] Erik: It’s an off-putting color, I would say.
[0:20:19 – 0:20:20] Adam: It was pretty bright.
[0:20:21 – 0:20:25] Erik: It’s a great wall to stand next to six feet apart from people in a line during COVID.
[0:20:26 – 0:20:29] Adam: I didn’t mind it, but a lot of people didn’t like that green wall or whatever.
[0:20:30 – 0:20:42] Adam: Yeah, they commissioned these guys to paint it up, and they had a rendering of it they released earlier, which was pretty odd to see because it’s just a computer rendering of what you now see as the painting.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:43 – 0:20:47] Adam: And it was, like, basically with a disclaimer of, like, this is not in any way what it’s going to look like.
[0:20:47 – 0:20:48] Adam: This is just a basic concept.
[0:20:49 – 0:20:49] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:49 – 0:20:51] Adam: So you get the layout idea of what we’re going for.
[0:20:51 – 0:20:54] Adam: But, like, it’s going to look like our paintings, not, like, this Photoshop thing.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:56 – 0:21:02] Adam: And so, yeah, then all of a sudden one day in July they just, like, I showed up for work and they had started, like, on just sort of sketching it in.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:06] Adam: And then over the course of the next, like, month they pretty much completed this.
[0:21:06 – 0:21:31] Adam: yeah they went pretty quick honestly for what it is they had scaffolding up first some youngsters came in on scaffolding and like primed the whole wall yeah and then yeah these two guys came in and they’ve just been going nuts on it i think it looks great it’s incredible yeah i was the full moon last week yeah and uh we weren’t going to record and i was like trying to convince myself to go down to the beach for like a beach fire on the full moon
[0:21:33 – 0:21:42] Adam: And that day at work, I was coming out and it’s the sturgeon moon, which is why I just, I already thought it was a sturgeon leaping from the lake in the painting.
[0:21:42 – 0:21:47] Adam: But I noticed when I was leaving work that they had painted in the full moon, on the full moon.
[0:21:47 – 0:21:48] Adam: Nice.
[0:21:48 – 0:21:53] Adam: And I like, Sam was working and I just said, oh, you put the moon on.
[0:21:53 – 0:22:21] Adam: and he goes yeah on the full moon and he goes very serendipitous and i just was like all right i’m leaving very serendipitous it was serendipitous though yeah and i think it is it was the sturgeon moon so even more so for my interpretation yeah it’s wonderful i like they put in like these um very magical little like vined flowers overlaid on top of the scenery there it’s uh
[0:22:22 – 0:22:41] Adam: yeah it’s incredible anyways next time you’re in town you will be checking it out if you’re listening to this whether you like it or not you can see it from up on 61 pretty easily and if you dip down into downtown by the blacksmith shop for your prom pictures you definitely want to go check this out i’ve seen every day i see people like taking pictures
[0:22:42 – 0:22:42] Erik: That’s great.
[0:22:42 – 0:22:45] Adam: I think it’s a new destination.
[0:22:45 – 0:22:58] Erik: Yeah, I think it adds to the character of Grand Mariah, which I’m still grappling with, but I think is a pretty great place in general.
[0:22:59 – 0:23:00] Adam: Yes, boss.
[0:23:01 – 0:23:06] Adam: Kearse has been doing a great job of documenting it and putting it up on the socials for the co-op.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:10] Adam: Both artists, I believe, also have their own channels.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:15] Adam: You can check out videos and all sorts of good stuff on the project on those channels.
[0:23:16 – 0:23:16] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:17 – 0:23:18] Adam: Yeah, it’s pretty great.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:25] Adam: Drive down the little hill and park the truck there right by the mural every morning and gives you a little something to look forward to on your way into town.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:27] Erik: Yeah, there’s always something else to see.
[0:23:27 – 0:23:28] Erik: What have they done now?
[0:23:29 – 0:23:30] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:23:30 – 0:23:37] Adam: I’d be really interested to hear what kind of paint they’re using, and there may be ways to find that information out, but are they going to seal it?
[0:23:37 – 0:23:38] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:23:38 – 0:23:40] Adam: I can’t wait to see what it looks like in 10, 20 years.
[0:23:40 – 0:23:42] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:23:42 – 0:23:43] Erik: It seems like it’s probably going to hold up.
[0:23:43 – 0:23:44] Adam: They’ve got to figure it out.
[0:23:44 – 0:23:44] Adam: They know what they’re doing.
[0:23:44 – 0:23:47] Adam: There’s another one that got painted on the side of Stone Harbor.
[0:23:49 – 0:24:11] Adam: or whatever northern goods northern goods and like they didn’t like prime it or something right and got like water underneath it right away oh no it’s a fun little scene over there but yeah it’s like i think they were able to like get it get it like figured out so it’s not going to be destroyed quick salvage it yeah they had some water issues with that one because the the water like got behind the paint
[0:24:11 – 0:24:11] Erik: No, no.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:13] Adam: That’s not good.
[0:24:13 – 0:24:14] Adam: That’s not good for anybody.
[0:24:14 – 0:24:15] Adam: That’s our mural rankers.
[0:24:16 – 0:24:17] Adam: Mural rankers.
[0:24:17 – 0:24:17] SPEAKER_00: Pew, pew, pew, pew.
[0:24:18 – 0:24:22] Adam: Episode 299 of Tumble Home, a proud independent podcast.
[0:24:22 – 0:24:24] Adam: Thank you to our Patreons for your support.
[0:24:25 – 0:24:33] Adam: And yeah, I do want to give a recap of our trip to John Lake before we get to our music.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:24:34 – 0:24:35] Adam: Our musical pick.
[0:24:35 – 0:24:35] Erik: Let’s do it.
[0:24:35 – 0:24:36] Erik: We haven’t really talked about it.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:40] Erik: We talked a lot about what you had planned and leading up to it.
[0:24:40 – 0:24:43] Adam: Yeah, I did re-listen at 297.
[0:24:43 – 0:24:50] Erik: Discussed what that trip actually ended up looking like, even the last time we were together, I think after you had gotten off the water.
[0:24:50 – 0:25:01] Erik: But we were just so busy reading up and fact-checking all of the Wikipedia entries into the Tumble Home Wikipedia page that we just didn’t have time.
[0:25:01 – 0:25:03] Erik: It needed its own separate little space here.
[0:25:04 – 0:25:07] Adam: Yeah, I agree.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:13] Adam: And it was a great trip, and I did want to, like, I promised I was going to give a recap.
[0:25:13 – 0:25:14] Adam: I didn’t bring the field audio with.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:18] Adam: I wasn’t trying to, like, lay down tracks out there on John Lake.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:22] Adam: So I don’t have any, like, in the field audio for you.
[0:25:22 – 0:25:32] Adam: And I do have some pictures, and I haven’t really, like, posted any pictures of this because I wanted to wait until this episode came out, and then I’ll post the pictures once you have the context of the story we’re telling.
[0:25:32 – 0:25:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:33] Adam: So I don’t know.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:35] Adam: A lot of people come out and they immediately post their pictures.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:39] Adam: I don’t think I’ve posted any pictures from this trip yet.
[0:25:39 – 0:25:40] Adam: Where do you even post your pictures anymore?
[0:25:41 – 0:25:47] Adam: I would put them up on Discord or use them in a video on Blue Sky or something.
[0:25:47 – 0:25:47] Adam: Oh, sure.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:49] Adam: I haven’t done anything like that with these.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:51] Adam: I was listening to 297, though.
[0:25:51 – 0:25:57] Adam: I think I explained pretty much the pre-trip mentality reasonably well on what we were aiming for.
[0:25:57 – 0:25:58] Adam: Keep it simple.
[0:25:59 – 0:26:01] Adam: What would it take for this trip to become a success?
[0:26:03 – 0:26:17] Adam: The goals were one good night in camp, catch a bass on a leech, eat some s’mores, eat pizza biters, and collect a couple of toy truck loads filled with pine cones, and then swim a bunch.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:43] Adam: then we hit all those i was gonna say yeah we did all that we did make it a night and we did catch a bass we caught a bunch of bass actually didn’t you do two nights well we were gonna do two nights but we did not actually stay out for two nights oh i thought you did no that was always the plan was to do two nights but the goal was just like well as long as we get one night and we’ll be set kind of had a little bit of a wild weather weekend if i remember correctly
[0:26:44 – 0:26:51] Adam: Yeah, like the pre-trip forecast was like it was going to be really hot, which was great because I really just wanted to swim a bunch.
[0:26:53 – 0:26:55] Adam: And there was like, I don’t know.
[0:26:55 – 0:26:56] Adam: So we were going in.
[0:26:57 – 0:26:57] Adam: Let’s see here.
[0:26:57 – 0:27:03] Adam: We were going in on a Saturday, and then we were going to try and stay like Saturday night, Sunday night, and come out Monday.
[0:27:04 – 0:27:11] Adam: And I think like the forecast was like basically like there’s a 20% to 30% chance of thunderstorms throughout the
[0:27:12 – 0:27:17] Adam: But it sure seemed like the better chance for Thunderstorms was going to be like Sunday night.
[0:27:18 – 0:27:19] Adam: So Saturday was looking good.
[0:27:20 – 0:27:21] Adam: Sunday was looking pretty reasonable.
[0:27:21 – 0:27:25] Adam: Like maybe we get something Sunday night and then Monday looked really nice.
[0:27:26 – 0:27:27] Adam: Like, okay, that seems okay.
[0:27:28 – 0:27:29] Adam: So yeah, we got in there.
[0:27:29 – 0:27:31] Adam: We weren’t like trying to get in too early.
[0:27:31 – 0:27:38] Adam: We just figured like, we’ll take it easy, get down to McFarland or up to McFarland by like middle of the day.
[0:27:38 – 0:27:43] Adam: And that way, like if anybody’s actually camped on John, they’ll probably have like gotten out of there by then.
[0:27:43 – 0:27:47] Adam: So we would figure we’d have like our choice of all the campsites when we got there.
[0:27:49 – 0:27:52] SPEAKER_00: And yeah, we got up there and it was a beautiful day and super hot.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:56] Adam: Got everything loaded in the canoe somehow.
[0:27:56 – 0:28:02] Adam: It felt like we had enough stuff for like a week, but it’s like almost car camping in this scenario.
[0:28:02 – 0:28:03] Erik: Yeah, you got to bring the trucks.
[0:28:04 – 0:28:12] Adam: Yeah, we had to bring the dump trucks and a tent and a screen tent and a rain fly and all the fishing stuff.
[0:28:12 – 0:28:15] Adam: We didn’t bring a bin of firewood, but we basically could have.
[0:28:16 – 0:28:17] Erik: No portaging, though.
[0:28:17 – 0:28:27] Adam: There’s no portaging, and we had gotten a bunch of rain, so I was reasonably confident we weren’t even going to touch a rock going through those little riffles or whatever from little John to John, which…
[0:28:28 – 0:28:29] Adam: It was true.
[0:28:29 – 0:28:32] Adam: It was just easy, kind of easy little paddle.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:34] Adam: Nice.
[0:28:34 – 0:28:38] Adam: Float down into John, and we get in there right away.
[0:28:39 – 0:28:42] Adam: Before we got through there, we did encounter a group that was leaving with gear.
[0:28:43 – 0:28:45] Adam: It was actually somebody I know from town.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:48] Adam: We were just like, hey.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:51] Adam: I actually haven’t seen this guy since then.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:58] Adam: I mean to ask if they were on the campsite that we ended up staying on because I suspect they were, which then made me think,
[0:28:58 – 0:29:19] Adam: yeah like the timing on end of like let’s not get there too early yeah in case there is somebody let them give them a chance to get out of there and i’m pretty sure based on what we like saw in camp it looked like somebody had been there the night before but i don’t know it also just seems like the kind of campsite that people stay on all the time yeah pretty popular on the other hand how many people are staying on john
[0:29:20 – 0:29:26] Adam: I mean, how many people are doing what I was trying to do, which is just get in and shut it down immediately on the easiest possible route?
[0:29:26 – 0:29:29] Erik: Seems like a nice option for locals, I think.
[0:29:29 – 0:29:33] Erik: But I don’t know if there’s too many people driving up from the cities that are… Well, that’s the thing.
[0:29:33 – 0:29:37] Adam: We saw this local family and the guy I know.
[0:29:37 – 0:29:39] Adam: I see him in the co-op all the time.
[0:29:39 – 0:29:40] Adam: We sort of waved at him.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:41] Adam: It’s like, oh, hey, it’s him.
[0:29:43 – 0:29:46] Adam: They’re on their way out, and then we got in there, and it’s like, yeah, I bet they were on this spot.
[0:29:47 – 0:29:48] Adam: So, yeah, I don’t know.
[0:29:48 – 0:29:50] Adam: Maybe it’s a local secret spot.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:55] Adam: Also, if you’re coming in from a trip, would you go all the way to John and then stop there?
[0:29:55 – 0:29:58] Adam: I mean, you can definitely hear boats on McFarland from there.
[0:29:58 – 0:29:59] Erik: Yeah, I’m sure.
[0:29:59 – 0:30:00] Adam: But it is just beautiful.
[0:30:01 – 0:30:02] Adam: It’s a nice spot.
[0:30:02 – 0:30:03] Adam: All those campsites in there are good.
[0:30:04 – 0:30:05] Erik: Yeah, especially that spot you ended up getting.
[0:30:05 – 0:30:16] Adam: Yeah, so we did get the camp, and then I did say in the previous episode that I was just really wanting the campsite by the Royal River, like the farthest to the east campsite.
[0:30:17 – 0:30:21] Adam: Which was, we came around the corner and the first little campsite on the point was open.
[0:30:21 – 0:30:22] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:22 – 0:30:23] Adam: It’s like, okay.
[0:30:23 – 0:30:31] Adam: And then I looked across and there’s, because the first campsite or whatever across the way didn’t look like anything was going on over there.
[0:30:32 – 0:30:36] Adam: Came around the corner and then the Royal River spot, you can see right away, there’s nobody was in there.
[0:30:36 – 0:30:36] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:37 – 0:31:02] Adam: it’s kind of a big wide open spot definitely not anybody in there so we’re like all right cool and actually there was a canoe like kind of over here to the west so we just sort of like got around the corner and we didn’t really even have to put the speed on we just sort of cruised in there and grabbed it so i mean that feels great doesn’t it yeah we always say like just be happy with whatever you get take it as it comes but when you get what you want
[0:31:03 – 0:31:15] Adam: But when you have an ideal scenario in your head, and you got your three-year-old kid with you on his first trip, and you get the spot you really wanted to get, and it’s like, okay, this is going perfect so far.
[0:31:15 – 0:31:16] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:17] Adam: And it was.
[0:31:17 – 0:31:24] Adam: I mean, honestly, I really don’t have any complaints on the trip other than we didn’t get to do the second night, which was kind of a bummer, but…
[0:31:25 – 0:31:47] Adam: you know we got that site and like kind of got half set up and jumping in the lake right away and getting a bobber in and like caught a bass right away and on a leech on the leech baby yeah and i was able to find leeches like i was wondering if i was even going to find leeches but yeah bucks had like two little containers of leeches in their fridge somehow and i got one
[0:31:49 – 0:31:50] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:31:50 – 0:31:51] Adam: You’ve been in that campsite.
[0:31:51 – 0:31:52] Erik: Yeah, it’s a nice one.
[0:31:53 – 0:31:58] Adam: I think we reviewed it on episode 15 or something briefly.
[0:31:58 – 0:32:02] Adam: I did download that episode, but I never actually re-listened to it before the trip.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:05] Erik: I missed out on probably a whole boatload of information, I’m sure.
[0:32:06 – 0:32:10] Adam: But I think we did stop in that site and take some pictures at one point.
[0:32:12 – 0:32:12] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:32:12 – 0:32:14] Adam: Maybe I’ve only just seen it from the boat.
[0:32:15 – 0:32:21] Erik: Yeah, we must have done those John Lake campsite reviews on the whatever.
[0:32:22 – 0:32:25] Erik: Was it an overnight trip that we were doing, or was it a big day trip?
[0:32:25 – 0:32:28] Erik: I think it must have been an overnight trip we were doing out at Clearwater.
[0:32:28 – 0:32:30] Erik: I don’t remember when I got those ones.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:30] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:33] Erik: I think we maybe came down from East Pike.
[0:32:33 – 0:32:35] Erik: Lost to the fogs of time, maybe?
[0:32:35 – 0:32:36] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:32:36 – 0:32:45] Adam: Like I said, I didn’t go back and re-listen, so I’m not sure of the circumstances, but for sure we did review John Lake as an entry point, and we reviewed the campsites.
[0:32:45 – 0:32:50] Erik: Yeah, there’s still pictures up on ClearwaterHistoricLodge.com’s website.
[0:32:51 – 0:32:51] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:51 – 0:32:52] Adam: All of those campsite reviews.
[0:32:53 – 0:32:53] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:32:54 – 0:32:57] Adam: I should have went back and read those reviews on it.
[0:32:57 – 0:33:02] Adam: But on Paddle Planner, all three of the sites on John have pretty good reviews.
[0:33:02 – 0:33:05] Adam: I think it’s like three-star, three-star, four-star or something like that.
[0:33:06 – 0:33:07] Adam: I mean, they’re all very nice sites.
[0:33:08 – 0:33:09] Adam: I would have been fine with any of them.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:35] Adam: i was mainly like the the there was a scenario in my head of like somehow all three of those sites are taken like we’re gonna have to like case we’re gonna have to do the portage up to east pike yeah and then you have a couple more like four star sites up there it’s like a 180 pretty reasonable portage i mean still a portage it wouldn’t have been ideal but yeah whatever you come around the corner and see that the one you wanted is open it’s a great feeling
[0:33:35 – 0:33:36] Adam: That is a great feeling.
[0:33:36 – 0:33:36] Adam: Swimming in the lake.
[0:33:38 – 0:33:39] Adam: It’s Saturday.
[0:33:39 – 0:33:41] Adam: This is like, you know, ideal conditions.
[0:33:42 – 0:34:06] Adam: there i would say this though there was some like youth that came over in a canoe at one point and we’re like fishing so you’re like basically set up on the moving water yeah going into that little like last part of john before the royal river begins there’s like a little upper pool before it turns into a proper river maybe that’s part of the royal river at that point i guess no anyways yeah you jig in there get any leeches in there at all
[0:34:06 – 0:34:06] Adam: I didn’t.
[0:34:06 – 0:34:08] Adam: It’s not that easy to get out to the moving water.
[0:34:08 – 0:34:09] Adam: I eventually did.
[0:34:10 – 0:34:14] Adam: Like I got myself in it because it’s pretty rocky and it doesn’t drop off that steep.
[0:34:15 – 0:34:17] Adam: So you can’t just like swim over or float over.
[0:34:17 – 0:34:19] Adam: You got to kind of walk the rocks.
[0:34:19 – 0:34:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:25] Adam: And so I did find like a nice big stick and was able to get over to the moving water that way.
[0:34:25 – 0:34:31] Adam: But we didn’t really like hang out out there all that much because it was like a little too much for the little guy to manage that.
[0:34:31 – 0:34:35] Adam: And then to hang out over there, it’s just so much nicer to hang out and camp.
[0:34:36 – 0:34:36] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:36 – 0:34:41] Adam: And you can hear the riffles and you’re like, if you put your bobber out, it’s like definitely going.
[0:34:41 – 0:34:42] Adam: So, I mean, there’s current in there.
[0:34:42 – 0:34:43] Adam: So I don’t know.
[0:34:43 – 0:34:45] Adam: The whole thing’s a good spot to fish, I assume.
[0:34:46 – 0:34:51] Adam: But yeah, some kids came in there with a canoe and were like fishing in the water there, like in that moving water.
[0:34:52 – 0:35:00] Adam: And so they were kind of close to our campsite, which I wasn’t crazy about, but they were polite and weren’t being hellions or anything.
[0:35:00 – 0:35:06] Adam: But then this other group of youth came up the Royal River and portaged through there, and they were kind of being hellions.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:07] Erik: Wow.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:08] Erik: Hellions?
[0:35:08 – 0:35:13] Adam: They were whooping it up and, like, capsizing their canoes and, like, swimming a bunch on a hot day.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:14] Adam: So, I mean, what the hell?
[0:35:14 – 0:35:16] Erik: What are these kids thinking?
[0:35:17 – 0:35:18] Adam: Swimming on a hot day?
[0:35:18 – 0:35:20] Adam: We’re the only ones allowed to swim here, mister.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:22] Adam: Misters?
[0:35:23 – 0:35:24] Adam: Yeah, I mean, obviously, it’s a cool spot.
[0:35:24 – 0:35:27] Adam: So, it was a Saturday, you know?
[0:35:27 – 0:35:27] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:30] Adam: So, I’m not surprised that we did see some people around camp and then
[0:35:31 – 0:35:39] Adam: They’re all kind of playing and splashing, and then all of a sudden we all started hearing thunder in the distance.
[0:35:39 – 0:35:41] Adam: So they all kind of got together and got out of there.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:45] Adam: And, you know, like, okay, it’s thundering.
[0:35:45 – 0:35:46] Adam: It probably is going to rain.
[0:35:46 – 0:35:49] Adam: I mean, there was like a 30% chance of thunderstorms this afternoon.
[0:35:50 – 0:35:52] Adam: So we were all set up at that point.
[0:35:52 – 0:35:53] Adam: I had the rain fly up.
[0:35:53 – 0:35:54] Adam: I had the tent up.
[0:35:54 – 0:35:58] Adam: I had, you know, we got everything kind of situated as you would do in this scenario.
[0:35:59 – 0:36:04] Adam: Finished up our like lunch snacks and then we kind of hunkered down under the rain fly and all…
[0:36:05 – 0:36:11] Adam: All of a sudden, man, it’s just one of those where you just see the like wall coming at you from the west because you have a full look down the lake.
[0:36:11 – 0:36:15] Adam: It’s not a huge lake, but I mean, you can see the full length of John from that site.
[0:36:16 – 0:36:16] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[0:36:16 – 0:36:22] Adam: And it’s just, you’re not seeing so much a wall of rain as just like you’re seeing the far shoreline just disappear.
[0:36:22 – 0:36:23] Adam: Yeah.
[0:36:24 – 0:36:25] Adam: And it’s coming at you.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:30] Adam: And but it wasn’t like turning weird colors or anything, you know, and so we’re just we’re hunkered down.
[0:36:30 – 0:36:31] Adam: We’re fine.
[0:36:31 – 0:36:33] Adam: We’re like in our swim trunks and it’s hot.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:36] Adam: So it’s like even if, you know, we get a little wet here, it’s not a big deal.
[0:36:36 – 0:36:37] SPEAKER_00: Mm hmm.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:41] SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it was like some of the craziest wind I’ve ever seen in camp, period.
[0:36:41 – 0:36:42] SPEAKER_00: The wind came in.
[0:36:42 – 0:36:46] Adam: The wind came in, and we had a fold-up camp table thing.
[0:36:46 – 0:36:50] Adam: It was like the only thing we kind of left out in camp up by the fire grate.
[0:36:50 – 0:36:57] Adam: Wind hit into camp, and it just picked up that table and picked it up and threw it into the trees behind us.
[0:36:57 – 0:36:58] Adam: Oh, wow.
[0:36:58 – 0:36:59] Adam: We all saw it.
[0:37:01 – 0:37:02] Adam: It went like toppling.
[0:37:02 – 0:37:04] Adam: It was like a scene out of Twister.
[0:37:04 – 0:37:08] Adam: The table just went flying up into the trees, which we were able to later recover it.
[0:37:08 – 0:37:11] Adam: Poking at it with a stick.
[0:37:12 – 0:37:17] Adam: We had the rain fly set up in a little grove of cedars kind of down by where the canoe is parked closer to the landing.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:20] Adam: And the tent was, like, up on the hill.
[0:37:21 – 0:37:28] Adam: There’s, like, three big tent pads up there, wide open, like, no trees around them, but it’s kind of, like, exposed to the wind.
[0:37:28 – 0:37:29] Adam: It’s a big, tall tent.
[0:37:31 – 0:37:34] Adam: And, yeah, that Timberline 6, like, it was getting, like, bent down.
[0:37:34 – 0:37:37] Adam: Like, the wind was, like, hammering the tent.
[0:37:38 – 0:37:43] Adam: And then at one point there was so much rain coming down with the wind that you couldn’t even see the tent from the rain play.
[0:37:44 – 0:37:44] Adam: Wow.
[0:37:44 – 0:37:47] Adam: And this all, like, maybe lasted 12 to 15 minutes.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:37:47 – 0:37:49] Adam: But, like, it was pretty intense.
[0:37:50 – 0:37:53] Adam: And we got the kid with us, and we’re just both, like, play it cool.
[0:37:53 – 0:37:54] Adam: It’s fine.
[0:37:54 – 0:38:02] Adam: We’re having fun, you know, making some jokes about, you know, it feels like we’re being a fish up on land now, huh, kid?
[0:38:02 – 0:38:05] Adam: And he’s just sort of like, well, we’re fine.
[0:38:05 – 0:38:06] Adam: He’s fine.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:31] Adam: i was watching the trees though yeah out of the corner of my eye like there’s a couple that were kind of these big pine trees that are like a little lean and inland or whatever huge white pines on that side yeah there are some big like double huggers in there yeah and i wasn’t really thinking they were gonna come down but i was watching them and they weren’t like aimed at us like we were in a good spot but i still was keeping an eye on everything as you should do in this scenario
[0:38:32 – 0:38:35] Adam: Meanwhile, trying to like play it cool like this is no big deal at all.
[0:38:36 – 0:38:44] Adam: And yeah, we had the like jug of margaritas with us in there and we just had fun and hung out for the afternoon as the storm like rolled through.
[0:38:44 – 0:38:55] Erik: No, it sounds nice when you can experience a storm like that that’s kind of right on the edge of being dangerous, but also like right on the edge of being exciting because it’s maybe going to be dangerous.
[0:38:56 – 0:38:56] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:56 – 0:39:01] Erik: Yeah, I think that every trip… You know, I love a storm in camp.
[0:39:01 – 0:39:02] Erik: Oh, once you’re in camp?
[0:39:02 – 0:39:03] Erik: Yeah, for sure.
[0:39:03 – 0:39:12] Adam: We’re all set and like all the knots held, all the stakes held, nothing ripped, but like a couple of the poles on the tent like got severely like bent.
[0:39:13 – 0:39:13] Erik: Wow, really?
[0:39:13 – 0:39:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:39:14 – 0:39:17] Adam: I had to end up, so, yeah.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:23] Adam: Because I had to, it was kind of set sideways at the wind, and so it’s a big, like, A-frame tent.
[0:39:23 – 0:39:25] Erik: Timberline 6 just, like, wants to catch the wind.
[0:39:25 – 0:39:26] Adam: I can stand up in the middle of that thing.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:27] Adam: Yeah.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:27] Adam: That’s why we brought it.
[0:39:28 – 0:39:29] Adam: It’s the big car camping tent.
[0:39:29 – 0:39:29] SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
[0:39:30 – 0:39:56] Adam: and it like it like took that wind on the side and so like the front side was like curved in like where it had like took the brunt of the wind but then the back side like curved out it looked like a big wave oh by the end of the storm yeah like once the it abated and we could see the tent again it’s like jesus christ that tent like looks like a full-on like a side profile of a wave sure we get over there and like yeah both the front posts were like
[0:39:56 – 0:39:57] Adam: Bent bad.
[0:39:58 – 0:39:58] Adam: Bad.
[0:39:59 – 0:40:06] Adam: And then the little pin that the post slides onto, there’s a ring with a pin down in each corner.
[0:40:06 – 0:40:09] Adam: One of those rings just completely exploded.
[0:40:09 – 0:40:09] Erik: Wow.
[0:40:09 – 0:40:13] Adam: And somehow it didn’t move enough to really cause any problems.
[0:40:13 – 0:40:15] Adam: So we had to piece that back together.
[0:40:15 – 0:40:20] Adam: And then I took the poles off and went over to the log by the fire grate and sort of bent them back.
[0:40:20 – 0:40:21] Adam: Straightened them out.
[0:40:21 – 0:40:21] Erik: Nice.
[0:40:21 – 0:40:22] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:22 – 0:40:27] Adam: And we also had the vents kind of half open because I wasn’t expecting that.
[0:40:27 – 0:40:29] Adam: And there was a good amount of water in the tent.
[0:40:31 – 0:40:32] Adam: Sideways rain got in?
[0:40:32 – 0:40:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:40:33 – 0:40:36] Adam: Sideways rain floated the tent mildly.
[0:40:36 – 0:40:39] Adam: But it was just on enough of an incline where it was all down by the door.
[0:40:40 – 0:40:45] Adam: So we just kind of opened it up and turned the tent inside out a little bit to get the water out of there.
[0:40:45 – 0:40:45] Adam: Yep.
[0:40:46 – 0:41:04] Adam: straighten the tent poles back out and right as rain yeah just let the door open and let it kind of dry out because it was it wasn’t as humid as it was the other day it was only mildly humid and just nice and hot and then the sun came back out and literally everything was dry in like 15 minutes just a little passing shower
[0:41:04 – 0:41:11] Adam: And then, yeah, we were, you know, we just kind of let the tent dry it out, and then we were back on the lake swimming, like, 15 minutes after that.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:41:12 – 0:41:13] Adam: It was no big deal.
[0:41:14 – 0:41:20] Adam: He had gotten him a little, like, Paw Patrol push-button fishing pole before the trip.
[0:41:20 – 0:41:26] Adam: Well, I got him earlier in the summer, but, like, this was the first time I actually put a hook on there for him, and we did get a bass on it.
[0:41:26 – 0:41:51] Adam: oh nice but it was just like both our fishing boats were just like sitting down by the shore and then after the storm we go down there and he’s a little pike is like oh no his paw patrol rod is like way out in the lake and you can just see it because it’s bright white with blue stripes on it underwater it is it’s way out there and i think oh no went out and retrieved the fishing pole and got that back for him operation
[0:41:51 – 0:41:55] Adam: And then, yeah, the little camp table was retrieved from the trees.
[0:41:55 – 0:41:56] Adam: Stuck up in the limbs.
[0:41:56 – 0:41:56] Adam: No problem.
[0:41:57 – 0:41:59] Adam: Yeah, we got that back, and I don’t know.
[0:41:59 – 0:42:00] Adam: Everything was fine.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:01] Adam: It was great, actually.
[0:42:01 – 0:42:13] Adam: It was kind of an entertaining afternoon, and, you know, the firewood got a little wet that we had already, and we just, after that, then went and found, like, some better, drier firewood and sawed that all up, and, like, we were set.
[0:42:13 – 0:42:40] Adam: yeah it’s like free entertainment it was honestly so a little quick show not bad yeah um yeah we survived it and everybody was still having a good time so that was the main goal so yeah we had a good night uh yeah pike stayed up you know basically almost till dark and got him to bed and then caught a few more like you know a few more like bass right at like the twilight and then pulled that all in sat by the fire for a
[0:42:43 – 0:42:43] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[0:42:44 – 0:42:46] SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, slept pretty good.
[0:42:46 – 0:42:49] Adam: The bugs did get pretty bad, like, right before I jumped in the tent.
[0:42:49 – 0:42:58] Adam: But then I got up in the middle of the night to go out and pee, and, like, it was just one of those, like, super twinkly bright star kind of nights, too, which was great.
[0:42:59 – 0:42:59] Adam: Nice.
[0:42:59 – 0:43:00] Adam: You sort of linger.
[0:43:01 – 0:43:12] Erik: You guys kind of caught a non- or not-as-smoky weekend, which is nice because some of these weekends slash weeks have just been, like…
[0:43:13 – 0:43:17] Erik: Boy, this sure would be a really nice day if it wasn’t a blanket of smoke on everything.
[0:43:19 – 0:43:26] Adam: Got a couple other notes on this trip, and then I think we can wrap it up, and I can explain why we ended up not staying.
[0:43:29 – 0:43:30] Adam: What did we do?
[0:43:31 – 0:43:33] Adam: I did bring some cheese from the shed.
[0:43:33 – 0:43:34] Adam: The shed Hennings.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:39] Adam: The six year cheddar that we had in the tumble fridge back there.
[0:43:39 – 0:43:41] Adam: Which was actually now like a seven year sharp cheddar.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:43] Adam: That was devoured.
[0:43:43 – 0:43:43] Adam: So thank you.
[0:43:44 – 0:43:46] Adam: Whoever sent that Hennings cheese last year.
[0:43:48 – 0:43:56] Adam: This site on the shoreline does have a couple of big double huggers that we noted already, but there is pretty much almost a full dolmen.
[0:43:56 – 0:44:00] Adam: A massive boulder right down on the shore that is all propped up.
[0:44:00 – 0:44:02] Adam: You can see directly underneath it.
[0:44:03 – 0:44:16] Adam: So I did make an offering to the Maymagueze, and right when we got there, too, and we were kind of walking around camp, Natalie just goes, this really reminds me of Maymagueze Island, which is one of our favorite campsites up on Sag.
[0:44:17 – 0:44:23] Adam: Just the structure of the rocks and the shoreline and the trees in it, it’s very eerily similar to that.
[0:44:23 – 0:44:24] Adam: And then we later found this, like,
[0:44:25 – 0:44:45] Adam: rock that you can basically see all the way under that was a pretty good size like shore boulder yeah and then when the storm like was pushing bigger waves in there they like made this crazy sound because they were like getting up and underneath that rock and like doing a weird like wave echo yeah it was super distinct i was like what is that and it’s like oh it’s the waves going under that boulder i guarantee it it was pretty sweet
[0:44:47 – 0:44:49] Adam: Yeah, so I don’t know.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:53] Adam: I don’t think it was like a full-on Dolman, but it was close enough.
[0:44:53 – 0:44:54] Adam: Questionable Dolman?
[0:44:54 – 0:44:56] Adam: Close enough where I left the offering.
[0:44:56 – 0:44:58] Adam: It was definitely a May-Maguese rock.
[0:44:58 – 0:45:00] Erik: Always leave an offering.
[0:45:00 – 0:45:01] Adam: There’s a big oak tree.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:02] Erik: Oh, yeah?
[0:45:02 – 0:45:06] Adam: Like right behind where we had the tent set up, like after we had set the tent up.
[0:45:06 – 0:45:10] Erik: Yeah, I suppose there’s some weird stuff that goes on in that river adjacent area.
[0:45:14 – 0:45:32] Adam: riparian zone you get some different trees for sure yeah yeah you’re over there on the far eastern edge of the boundary waters and there’s a big oak tree looking very good just like right there at the back edge of the main camp there yeah so we had that going for us which was nice
[0:45:33 – 0:45:38] Adam: We did eat like a full-on 55-pack of biters in there, and we got a new one.
[0:45:38 – 0:45:39] Erik: You said you ate like 40 of them, though?
[0:45:40 – 0:45:41] Erik: I ate a lot of them, yeah.
[0:45:41 – 0:45:42] Adam: You ate most of them, yeah.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:50] Adam: We also had like twice-baked potatoes from TGI Friday brand in the freezer section that we threw into the pan as well, and we did have a nice Smith grate there.
[0:45:52 – 0:45:58] Adam: I only dropped like two in because I was trying to, you know, that 55 pack just doesn’t quite fit into the cast iron pan.
[0:45:58 – 0:46:04] Adam: So I had to have some like out on the actual rails, living the life of danger out there.
[0:46:04 – 0:46:14] Adam: But yeah, we had a new, I had brought a big bag of condiments and for whatever reason, Pike wanted to use only yellow mustard as his dipping sauce for the biters.
[0:46:14 – 0:46:15] Erik: Okay.
[0:46:15 – 0:46:18] Adam: So we were laughing that that is now Pike style biters.
[0:46:18 – 0:46:18] Adam: Pike style biters.
[0:46:18 – 0:46:20] Adam: Yellow mustard.
[0:46:20 – 0:46:21] Adam: It’s actually pretty good.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:21] Adam: Yeah.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:21] Erik: Yeah.
[0:46:22 – 0:46:43] Adam: i i gotta say you might be onto something with this just like ketchup and mustard yeah i don’t know pretty much i can’t say i’ve ever tried that yeah that’s all it is uh yeah we were in the lake a lot and when we’re in there and i think this is the next day on sunday we were out swimming in the morning and the sun was out and we saw like this baby pike go swimming right by us
[0:46:44 – 0:46:44] Erik: No.
[0:46:44 – 0:46:48] Adam: I’ve never seen like a pike that small, but even a small pike is pretty big.
[0:46:48 – 0:46:48] Adam: Yeah.
[0:46:48 – 0:46:51] Adam: Compared to your normal minnows that you would see like in close like that.
[0:46:51 – 0:46:53] Adam: And it was like translucent.
[0:46:54 – 0:46:55] Adam: It was just the way the light was hitting it.
[0:46:55 – 0:46:58] Adam: It was just these little like striped little pike.
[0:46:58 – 0:46:59] Adam: You could see its bones.
[0:46:59 – 0:47:00] Adam: Yeah, almost.
[0:47:00 – 0:47:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:47:00 – 0:47:03] Adam: Yeah, it was like, hey, look at you, little skeleton fish.
[0:47:06 – 0:47:10] Adam: And there’s one more occurrence other than the storm.
[0:47:10 – 0:47:18] Adam: While we were riding out that first storm, bright red scarlet tanager landed in the cedar tree right by us during this storm.
[0:47:18 – 0:47:18] Erik: You saw it?
[0:47:18 – 0:47:19] Adam: Yeah.
[0:47:19 – 0:47:19] Erik: Nice.
[0:47:20 – 0:47:46] Adam: natalie immediately was like what’s that and i looked and like here it came in like we all saw it like come in and like land kind of right at the edge of our rainfly which i this new life list bird for me for sure yeah it’s probably sure like where i was like wow that’s for sure what that is and i didn’t even have the merlin app up or running i just was like we all saw it i was i immediately was like that’s got to be the scarlet tanager that has to be it so we pulled up the picture later and sure i’m sure it was
[0:47:47 – 0:47:47] Adam: That was pretty cool.
[0:47:48 – 0:47:52] Adam: So, I mean, overall, I’d say that site is like a five-star, like A+++.
[0:47:52 – 0:48:00] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know why some of the websites that review sites do what they do, but that one always seems criminally underrated.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:09] Adam: The only deductions for that site are that you can definitely hear some motorboats or motors over on McFarland, depending on the wind.
[0:48:09 – 0:48:13] Adam: And because you’re on the route, essentially, you’ll have a little bit of extra traffic.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:14] Erik: Yeah, sure.
[0:48:14 – 0:48:16] Adam: But I’m willing to take it for that kind of sight.
[0:48:16 – 0:48:19] Erik: The sight in and of itself, though, is pretty damn near perfect.
[0:48:19 – 0:48:21] Adam: 25 minutes from the truck, no problem.
[0:48:22 – 0:48:24] Adam: Easy peasy paddle back out when we left, so…
[0:48:26 – 0:48:35] Adam: Yeah, the only other gripe was that we were out there, and then I do have satellite texting on the phone, and we knew there was a chance of storms the next day, too.
[0:48:36 – 0:48:44] Adam: So it was like we were eating lunch and, I don’t know, just hanging, and Natalie gets a text from her parents, and it was like,
[0:48:44 – 0:48:52] Adam: There’s a 70% chance or no, it was said 70 mile an hour winds tonight at 7 p.m. Oh.
[0:48:52 – 0:48:58] Adam: With a chance of golf or ping pong ball size hail was the current forecast for that Sunday night for our area.
[0:48:58 – 0:48:59] Adam: I was like, Jesus Christ.
[0:49:00 – 0:49:02] Erik: We’re going to do it again, except there’s going to be hail.
[0:49:02 – 0:49:05] SPEAKER_00: We made it through one, and now they’re going to throw hail on top of that, too.
[0:49:05 – 0:49:10] Adam: So I don’t know what kind of wind we actually went through on Saturday, but I don’t think it was 70.
[0:49:10 – 0:49:11] Adam: No, probably not.
[0:49:11 – 0:49:15] Adam: And so then I was like, okay, so there’s going to be an even worse storm tonight is the forecast right now?
[0:49:15 – 0:49:20] Adam: So this was early enough in the day, and the forecast was for it’s later.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:22] Adam: So that’s when we threw all the pizza biters on.
[0:49:22 – 0:49:24] Adam: We’re like, all right, we’re going to get the pizza biters in.
[0:49:24 – 0:49:25] Adam: We had s’mores the night before.
[0:49:25 – 0:49:27] Adam: Let’s eat the biters and go.
[0:49:27 – 0:49:30] Adam: The only thing left on the list to do is finish to eat all the biters.
[0:49:30 – 0:49:32] Adam: So we ate all the biters.
[0:49:32 – 0:49:34] Adam: We had a huge lunch.
[0:49:34 – 0:49:36] Adam: We basically just ate everything we were planning on eating for dinner for lunch.
[0:49:37 – 0:49:43] Adam: And then we just swam the rest of the afternoon and then leisurely packed up, and we just went in after dinner time.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:45] Erik: I think a storm did roll through.
[0:49:45 – 0:49:46] Erik: I don’t know if there was any hail.
[0:49:46 – 0:49:48] Adam: I haven’t seen any hail this year.
[0:49:48 – 0:49:50] Adam: The worst of it all ended up missing us to the north.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:55] Adam: So, like, literally, if we would have stuck it out, probably nothing would have even happened.
[0:49:55 – 0:49:56] Erik: Yeah, I do remember that now.
[0:49:56 – 0:50:01] Erik: It was, like, very, like, severe warnings.
[0:50:01 – 0:50:02] Adam: Oh, no, it was, like, alarming.
[0:50:03 – 0:50:08] Erik: You pulled up the radar during when it was all happening, and it did all just kind of slide to the north.
[0:50:09 – 0:50:11] Erik: It looked nasty, what went to the north.
[0:50:11 – 0:50:17] Adam: Yeah, when the grandparents text you and are like, hey, the forecast is an abomination.
[0:50:17 – 0:50:18] Adam: You need to get out of there.
[0:50:18 – 0:50:21] Adam: You just say, okay, we got our one night in.
[0:50:21 – 0:50:22] Adam: We’re going to get out of here.
[0:50:22 – 0:50:24] Adam: So we went home and slept in our beds.
[0:50:24 – 0:50:25] Adam: It wasn’t the end of the world.
[0:50:25 – 0:50:30] Adam: But then, like, driving out, there was, like, stuff all over the Arrowhead Trail, like debris.
[0:50:30 – 0:50:31] Erik: Debris.
[0:50:31 – 0:50:34] Adam: A lot of downed tree limbs and all that kind of stuff just all over the road.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:37] Adam: So, like, geez, that really was a crazy storm the day before.
[0:50:39 – 0:50:40] Adam: But, I don’t know.
[0:50:40 – 0:50:41] Adam: Overall, great success.
[0:50:43 – 0:50:44] Adam: Didn’t get the second night.
[0:50:44 – 0:50:44] Adam: That’s okay.
[0:50:45 – 0:50:46] Adam: Pike had fun.
[0:50:46 – 0:50:47] Adam: We had fun.
[0:50:48 – 0:50:50] Adam: We achieved all our goals for the trip.
[0:50:51 – 0:50:53] Adam: And, yeah, he wants to go again.
[0:50:53 – 0:50:53] Adam: Good.
[0:50:53 – 0:50:54] Erik: What else can you ask for?
[0:50:54 – 0:50:55] Adam: We did good.
[0:50:56 – 0:51:01] Adam: The only thing we did forget, a third paddle, and he definitely wanted to try paddling.
[0:51:01 – 0:51:07] Adam: I have a little, it’s like a display model of a bending branches that Natalie had gotten back in the day.
[0:51:08 – 0:51:08] Adam: Sure.
[0:51:08 – 0:51:09] Adam: And that’s his little paddle.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:12] Adam: We didn’t bring that or a big paddle.
[0:51:13 – 0:51:14] Adam: But yeah.
[0:51:14 – 0:51:16] Erik: Well, we’ll keep him excited for something next time.
[0:51:17 – 0:51:20] Adam: There’s this other group that came through, too.
[0:51:20 – 0:51:24] Adam: At one point, they were adults, and they were not hooligans or hellions.
[0:51:24 – 0:51:28] Adam: And they were kind of paddling through, and he’s down by the shore.
[0:51:28 – 0:51:30] Adam: He’s just waving at them.
[0:51:30 – 0:51:34] Adam: And they wave back, and he goes, Hi, my name’s Pike.
[0:51:35 – 0:51:36] Adam: And they’re just like, what?
[0:51:36 – 0:51:37] SPEAKER_00: He’s like, my name’s Pike.
[0:51:38 – 0:51:39] Adam: They’re like, okay.
[0:51:40 – 0:51:40] Adam: All right.
[0:51:40 – 0:51:42] Adam: So then when we left…
[0:51:42 – 0:51:44] Adam: very friendly with everybody, you know?
[0:51:44 – 0:51:49] Adam: And when we left, there was like a group with like another little guy, like his age.
[0:51:49 – 0:51:52] Adam: And then he was just like doing this.
[0:51:52 – 0:51:53] Adam: Like, I’m not saying a word.
[0:51:54 – 0:51:56] Adam: There’s another child.
[0:51:56 – 0:51:57] Adam: I’m not going to be friendly now.
[0:51:57 – 0:51:59] Adam: Like there’s a child on the boat launch.
[0:51:59 – 0:52:15] Adam: yeah and then uh yeah i don’t know it was pretty funny the disparity i’m like he’s yelling at people paddling by the site yeah like there are good friends we don’t know these people but then when there’s another one and another little kid he’s just like competition yeah who are you
[0:52:16 – 0:52:17] Erik: I’m the big guy.
[0:52:17 – 0:52:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:19] Adam: So, I don’t know.
[0:52:19 – 0:52:19] Adam: It was all funny.
[0:52:19 – 0:52:21] Adam: It was, like, great.
[0:52:21 – 0:52:25] Adam: Like, we all took pictures for each other at the boat launch because it was, like, their first trip, too.
[0:52:25 – 0:52:26] Adam: Oh, nice.
[0:52:26 – 0:52:28] Adam: They had gone all the way to Moose with, like, a three-year-old, though.
[0:52:29 – 0:52:29] Adam: Crazy people.
[0:52:29 – 0:52:31] Adam: Way up to Moose.
[0:52:32 – 0:52:34] Adam: But they rode out that same storm we rode out.
[0:52:34 – 0:52:34] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:52:35 – 0:52:38] Adam: I think there was a lot of tumble homies in the field that weekend.
[0:52:38 – 0:52:41] Adam: I talked to a couple other people that basically wrote out the same storm.
[0:52:43 – 0:52:44] Adam: Pretty much the same story across the board.
[0:52:45 – 0:52:46] Adam: Where did that come from?
[0:52:46 – 0:52:48] Adam: It was not in the cards at all.
[0:52:48 – 0:52:57] Erik: Yeah, it seemed like the weather that was expected was that Sunday afternoon storm that didn’t occur, and the one that did hit was kind of unexpected.
[0:52:57 – 0:53:06] Adam: Came in earlier and sneaked in there, but it gave us the warning of the thunder, and we were ready for it, as much as you can be for something like that.
[0:53:08 – 0:53:09] Adam: Yeah, beautiful spot.
[0:53:09 – 0:53:11] Adam: Honestly, John likes the real beauty.
[0:53:11 – 0:53:13] Adam: That whole area is awesome.
[0:53:13 – 0:53:18] Adam: I would like to go back just for a day trip, do a little paddle around John and just…
[0:53:19 – 0:53:24] Adam: mess around, sit in a campsite for a little bit, and then head back.
[0:53:24 – 0:53:26] Adam: That would be an awesome day trip scenario too.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:28] Adam: But for an overnight, also good.
[0:53:28 – 0:53:29] Adam: Also good.
[0:53:29 – 0:53:30] Adam: One a day, I believe.
[0:53:31 – 0:53:36] Adam: But, yeah, I looked the other day, and there’s no permits available for John the rest of the year as of right now.
[0:53:36 – 0:53:37] Adam: Yeah, that makes sense.
[0:53:38 – 0:53:40] Adam: Yeah, another good reason is check it as a day spot.
[0:53:40 – 0:53:43] Adam: And there definitely were people in there just day paddling around.
[0:53:43 – 0:53:46] Adam: There was numerous groups we saw that probably weren’t overnighting.
[0:53:47 – 0:53:49] Adam: But, yeah, we got to.
[0:53:49 – 0:53:49] Adam: We did it.
[0:53:50 – 0:53:51] Erik: You got to and you did it.
[0:53:52 – 0:53:52] Erik: Sounds nice.
[0:53:53 – 0:53:53] Adam: What a beauty.
[0:53:54 – 0:53:56] Adam: So I got to actually spend the night on John.
[0:53:56 – 0:53:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:53:58 – 0:54:02] Adam: So, yeah, there was a thread on the subreddit saying, like, how old is the right time to bring a kid in?
[0:54:02 – 0:54:03] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:54:03 – 0:54:03] Adam: Three.
[0:54:04 – 0:54:06] Adam: If you’re doing an easy trip like John, three.
[0:54:06 – 0:54:07] Adam: Three is good.
[0:54:07 – 0:54:07] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:08] Adam: No problem.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:10] Erik: Sure.
[0:54:10 – 0:54:11] Erik: Depends on what you’re doing.
[0:54:11 – 0:54:13] Adam: Oh, one more landmark achievement, too.
[0:54:13 – 0:54:17] Adam: He was able to do the full-on just like pee in the woods, no assisted.
[0:54:18 – 0:54:18] Adam: Oh, nice.
[0:54:18 – 0:54:23] Adam: Standing pee in the woods move has now been achieved, and now he’s trying to pull that off all the time.
[0:54:25 – 0:54:26] Adam: All over the yard.
[0:54:26 – 0:54:27] Erik: And he will for the rest of his life.
[0:54:28 – 0:54:28] Adam: It’s a great move.
[0:54:29 – 0:54:29] Erik: Yeah, it’s a great move.
[0:54:29 – 0:54:32] Erik: I might have to go and pull that move right now.
[0:54:32 – 0:54:33] Adam: Shorts right down to the ankles.
[0:54:33 – 0:54:34] Adam: Yeah, there you go.
[0:54:35 – 0:54:36] Adam: Somebody’s paddling by.
[0:54:36 – 0:54:38] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:38 – 0:54:39] Adam: Hi, my name’s Eric.
[0:54:41 – 0:54:45] Adam: So, yeah, episode 299, we finally camped on John.
[0:54:45 – 0:54:46] SPEAKER_00: No field audio.
[0:54:47 – 0:54:51] Adam: I didn’t get any song of the Tanager, but you can imagine it, friends.
[0:54:51 – 0:54:53] Adam: It was a real beauty.
[0:54:53 – 0:54:53] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:54 – 0:54:58] Erik: Well, thanks for sharing that, what sounds like a pretty great experience.
[0:54:59 – 0:55:01] Erik: I love the fact that there was a little storm involved.
[0:55:01 – 0:55:03] Erik: You got to have a little bit of adversity.
[0:55:03 – 0:55:07] Erik: Otherwise, you just, you know, it’s not as memorable in my opinion.
[0:55:09 – 0:55:09] Adam: Yeah, no doubt.
[0:55:09 – 0:55:18] Adam: There’ll be a lot of good memories off that trip, but yeah, I don’t think he still understands, but that was one of the worst storms I’ve ever camped through, for sure.
[0:55:18 – 0:55:20] Adam: I’ve never really had tent damage.
[0:55:21 – 0:55:22] Erik: Yeah, that sounds crazy.
[0:55:22 – 0:55:24] Erik: I don’t think I really have either.
[0:55:24 – 0:55:25] Erik: Maybe a little bit, but…
[0:55:26 – 0:55:28] Erik: Not super sustained like that.
[0:55:28 – 0:55:31] Adam: Now we had to take the whole tent apart to do repairs and then put it back up.
[0:55:31 – 0:55:32] Erik: To re-bend the poles back?
[0:55:32 – 0:55:33] Erik: I’ve never had that.
[0:55:33 – 0:55:35] Adam: But yeah, we managed it okay.
[0:55:35 – 0:55:41] Adam: Also, we did bring a battery-powered fan for the tent that night, but it wasn’t charged enough and it didn’t make it.
[0:55:41 – 0:55:41] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:55:42 – 0:56:02] Adam: unfortunately and then the bugs are bad and i got it in the tent i didn’t have like my clothing bag with me so i didn’t have like i couldn’t roll up a hoodie to use as a pillow oh no so i just sort of but it was so hot that night that i wasn’t even really in the sleeping bag i just sort of like rolled up the sleeping bag and used that it was fine yeah so sounds about right good stuff hot hot nights
[0:56:03 – 0:56:04] Erik: Hot nights on John.
[0:56:04 – 0:56:05] Erik: Hot nights on John.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:07] Erik: All right.
[0:56:07 – 0:56:12] Erik: Well, I’m going to go show my ass to the woods.
[0:56:12 – 0:56:15] Erik: We’ll be back with, boy, we’re pushing an hour.
[0:56:15 – 0:56:16] Adam: Albums of the summer.
[0:56:16 – 0:56:17] Erik: Albums.
[0:56:17 – 0:56:18] Erik: In briefly.
[0:56:18 – 0:56:20] Erik: Of the summer.
[0:56:21 – 0:56:22] Erik: Hit it.
[0:56:22 – 0:56:23] Erik: We’re back.
[0:56:24 – 0:56:26] Erik: Part two of 299.
[0:56:27 – 0:56:30] Erik: Maybe the title of the episode, but I’m not sure.
[0:56:31 – 0:56:32] Erik: This is the fifth one of these we’ve done.
[0:56:33 – 0:56:34] Adam: Album of the summer?
[0:56:34 – 0:56:34] Adam: Yeah.
[0:56:35 – 0:56:36] Adam: Yeah, probably.
[0:56:36 – 0:56:36] Adam: Is it five?
[0:56:39 – 0:56:50] Adam: It’s either… We’ve maybe done four of the album of the years, maybe only three album of the summers or something like that, but we do like talking about our music.
[0:56:51 – 0:56:58] Adam: One of my favorite parts of the show is the whatever, figuring out what chiptune or song Eric’s going to tag on the end of the episode.
[0:56:58 – 0:57:02] Erik: Yeah, I wish we just lived in a free world where I could just put on whatever I wanted into the end of that.
[0:57:02 – 0:57:04] Adam: You can’t do whatever you want.
[0:57:04 – 0:57:06] Adam: You…
[0:57:06 – 0:57:09] Erik: I got to circumnavigate or just roll the dice.
[0:57:10 – 0:57:11] Adam: You know, just little clips.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:12] Adam: So I don’t know.
[0:57:12 – 0:57:17] Adam: We’ll maybe be able to take a little clip of one of these on to the very end of this episode.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:18] Adam: We’re feeling brave.
[0:57:18 – 0:57:21] Erik: It’s not going to be like a previous album or…
[0:57:23 – 0:57:27] Erik: Album of the summer or album of the year where we kind of just like play music in the background.
[0:57:27 – 0:57:29] Adam: I really like the album of the year from last year.
[0:57:29 – 0:57:36] Adam: I came over to your place with the big speakers and we just like blasted music for like two hours right in front of the speakers trying to record.
[0:57:36 – 0:57:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:57:37 – 0:57:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:57:38 – 0:57:38] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:57:38 – 0:57:39] Adam: That was great.
[0:57:39 – 0:57:40] Adam: I think that one still exists.
[0:57:40 – 0:57:48] Erik: I think if you’re like talking over the music, it’s like it can’t get caught as much, but then also it’s like sort of a distracting listen.
[0:57:48 – 0:57:49] Erik: So I don’t know.
[0:57:49 – 0:57:51] Erik: We’ll try one without music and…
[0:57:52 – 0:58:04] Adam: we’ll put up a poll and see i kept my list way shorter but also just because i i don’t know i only have i don’t have that many albums of the summer right now so my list is short also so that will help
[0:58:05 – 0:58:26] Erik: yeah well uh my list is obviously uh i always try and like keep it short but then it kind of went long but i will keep it short and if we’re not going to be sitting and actually like putting the music on we should be able to rip through these real quick so get your pens get your paper down we’re not putting this in the show notes
[0:58:26 – 0:58:27] Erik: Write them down.
[0:58:27 – 0:58:28] Erik: No, they’re not going to be in the show notes.
[0:58:28 – 0:58:30] Erik: This is for anybody who’s hung out for an hour.
[0:58:30 – 0:58:36] Adam: If you guys put up with my Scarlett Tanager stories for an hour, now you’re getting the real prize.
[0:58:36 – 0:58:37] Erik: That was a good story.
[0:58:37 – 0:58:38] Adam: That was pretty cool to see, man.
[0:58:39 – 0:58:42] Adam: They’re like even brighter red than a Cardinal.
[0:58:42 – 0:58:43] Adam: How is that even possible?
[0:58:43 – 0:58:44] Erik: Yeah, Cardinal.
[0:58:45 – 0:58:50] Adam: I’ve only gotten Cardinal up here just from the Merlin that heard it, and I heard it.
[0:58:50 – 0:58:52] Adam: I was like, that’s a Cardinal, huh?
[0:58:54 – 0:58:54] Adam: Sure is.
[0:58:54 – 0:58:56] Adam: You know your Cardinals, and it shows.
[0:58:57 – 0:58:58] Erik: Yeah, it shows.
[0:59:00 – 0:59:02] Adam: So what’s your order?
[0:59:02 – 0:59:05] Adam: Are you going to do your number one album in the summer right out the gate?
[0:59:05 – 0:59:10] Erik: You know I’m going to end with what my actual choice is, but I’ve got to lead up to it.
[0:59:10 – 0:59:10] Adam: Okay.
[0:59:11 – 0:59:11] Erik: Do you want me to do…
[0:59:12 – 0:59:12] Erik: I mean…
[0:59:13 – 0:59:13] Adam: I’ll give you one.
[0:59:14 – 0:59:15] Adam: How many do you have?
[0:59:16 – 0:59:16] Erik: One.
[0:59:16 – 0:59:17] Erik: You better go first.
[0:59:17 – 0:59:18] Adam: I only have three.
[0:59:19 – 0:59:20] Adam: Three, four.
[0:59:20 – 0:59:21] Adam: I have three, maybe four.
[0:59:21 – 0:59:28] Erik: Five, six, seven, eight, and then five honorable mentions, which is just going to be basically listing them.
[0:59:28 – 0:59:30] Adam: We’ll list those at the end.
[0:59:30 – 0:59:30] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:59:30 – 0:59:31] Adam: I’m guessing.
[0:59:31 – 0:59:33] Erik: I think there are like six that I could actually say something about.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:34] Adam: Okay.
[0:59:34 – 0:59:35] Adam: Well, then you should go first.
[0:59:36 – 0:59:37] Erik: Well, I don’t want to step on…
[0:59:38 – 0:59:46] Erik: I mean, it’s not necessarily the album of the summer, but I am still regularly listening to the Panda Bear album, Sinister Grift.
[0:59:46 – 0:59:46] Adam: Oh, good.
[0:59:47 – 0:59:53] Adam: I didn’t list it, but I thought about putting it on there because I’m listening to that at least a couple times a week still.
[0:59:53 – 0:59:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:54 – 0:59:55] Adam: Sinister Grift.
[0:59:55 – 0:59:55] Erik: Yes.
[0:59:55 – 0:59:56] Erik: Panda Bear.
[0:59:56 – 0:59:57] Erik: You all know we love Panda Bear.
[0:59:57 – 1:00:01] Erik: We’re a couple of real Noah Lennox heads over here.
[1:00:01 – 1:00:02] Erik: This is probably the best Panda Bear album.
[1:00:03 – 1:00:05] Erik: It’s up there for the most part.
[1:00:05 – 1:00:05] Erik: For me, it is.
[1:00:06 – 1:00:07] Erik: Fun-loving Panda Bear.
[1:00:07 – 1:00:15] Erik: Echoey and unique percussion, pleasing repetitiveness, trippy reggae vibes, and angelic vocals.
[1:00:16 – 1:00:19] Adam: I’ve been listening to Pet Sounds a lot, too, since Brian Wilson died.
[1:00:19 – 1:00:21] Adam: And this is very Pet Sounds.
[1:00:21 – 1:00:22] Adam: Yeah.
[1:00:23 – 1:00:24] Adam: Pet Sounds adjacent.
[1:00:24 – 1:00:34] Erik: But then there’s Elegy for Noah Liu, which is a soaring headphone creeper that always takes on a different bittersweet meaning in my mind every time I hear it.
[1:00:34 – 1:00:36] Erik: And it finally had to go on.
[1:00:36 – 1:00:39] Erik: And do maybe a little research on who the hell is Noah Liu.
[1:00:39 – 1:00:44] Erik: And there’s an interview with Noah Lennox about who Noah Liu is.
[1:00:44 – 1:00:50] Erik: And this is his response to, it’s actually on Substack.
[1:00:50 – 1:00:51] Erik: There’s an interview with him.
[1:00:52 – 1:00:54] Erik: Um, his response to who is Noah Liu?
[1:00:54 – 1:00:56] Erik: He said, this is a sad story.
[1:00:56 – 1:01:00] Erik: Noah was the son of some friends of mine who tragically died a couple of years ago.
[1:01:00 – 1:01:04] Erik: The title has nothing to do with the subject matter of the song.
[1:01:04 – 1:01:07] Erik: The song isn’t about Noah Liu in any way.
[1:01:07 – 1:01:10] Erik: It’s just meant as an homage or to honor him.
[1:01:10 – 1:01:17] Erik: It’s been a minute, but I suppose because we share the same name while I was writing this song, I just kept thinking about him a lot.
[1:01:18 – 1:01:26] Erik: I can’t say exactly why, he was just around, and because of that, I asked my friends if I could title the song that in a remembrance.
[1:01:27 – 1:01:35] Erik: The song itself seems to me to be about a child considering his mother and how the dynamic of that relationship shifts as one grows older.
[1:01:36 – 1:01:40] Erik: There’s a longing in it for a kind of acceptance or a searching for love.
[1:01:41 – 1:01:45] Erik: It was written first as a commission to be featured in someone’s film, but it didn’t get used.
[1:01:46 – 1:01:55] Erik: And it’s funny because the character in the movie was supposed to be an amateur musician, kind of clumsy, and the song was meant to be emotionally vulnerable and kind of embarrassing.
[1:01:56 – 1:01:57] Erik: Not goofy, but clunky.
[1:01:57 – 1:02:03] Erik: The lyrics I’d written weren’t the same, but over time, it actually became super, super meaningful.
[1:02:04 – 1:02:10] Erik: I find this to be truthful, that if you’re behind a mask, sometimes deeper stuff comes up.
[1:02:12 – 1:02:12] Adam: Wow.
[1:02:13 – 1:02:13] Erik: Yeah.
[1:02:14 – 1:02:15] Adam: You got notes and passages.
[1:02:16 – 1:02:17] Adam: I got notes and passages.
[1:02:17 – 1:02:19] Adam: This is like a book report episode now.
[1:02:19 – 1:02:20] Adam: This is very good.
[1:02:21 – 1:02:25] Erik: I’ll do another one here because it’ll set the stage for, I think, both of us going forward.
[1:02:25 – 1:02:26] Erik: Okay.
[1:02:26 – 1:02:26] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:02:26 – 1:02:26] Erik: I…
[1:02:28 – 1:02:38] Erik: I don’t know if this is my album of the summer, but it’s probably, unless something changes wildly in the fall, definitely going to be if we do an album of the year, which I would love to.
[1:02:39 – 1:02:40] Erik: We always have fun doing that.
[1:02:40 – 1:02:42] Erik: Oh, we’ll do it.
[1:02:42 – 1:02:44] Erik: It may very well be my album of the year.
[1:02:45 – 1:02:50] Erik: I don’t think it’s my album of the summer, but Cameron Winter’s Heavy Metal has to be mentioned.
[1:02:51 – 1:02:52] Erik: Yeah, it should be mentioned.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:53] Erik: I haven’t listened to that one in a while.
[1:02:54 – 1:03:01] Erik: My take on it is that it is a modern astral weeks, and by that I mean a soul visionary stream of consciousness.
[1:03:02 – 1:03:05] Erik: It’s a timeless masterpiece that will be in my heart forever.
[1:03:06 – 1:03:08] Adam: Yeah, I should look into getting this one on vinyl for sure.
[1:03:08 – 1:03:24] Erik: Love Takes Miles, which is the third track on the album, should actually be playing loudly on every top-down hot rod radio like it’s 1979 while it cruises down a street jostling with scraped youth, chasing varieties of shaped balls of varying resilience.
[1:03:24 – 1:03:38] Erik: But alas, we do live in a hellscape of heads with smoothed-up brains, shortened stems, and seven points of input that have been conditioned to prefer consuming art the equivalent of mouth-mixing uncooked noodles and Velveeta cheese goo.
[1:03:40 – 1:04:04] Adam: jesus i think you could uh i was i don’t know why i was listening to the one about the oh it was from the wikipedia with the fingers the liquid fingers you’re arguing that like hot water wouldn’t cook a noodle but i think it would cook a rice noodle yeah probably you could cook a rice noodle with that kind of liquid finger dispenser but yeah yeah mouth mixing them though that would take a while
[1:04:04 – 1:04:06] Adam: Damn, Cameron Winter.
[1:04:06 – 1:04:10] Erik: But it is the lyrics from Drinking Age, the fourth track that always gets me.
[1:04:10 – 1:04:15] Erik: Today, I met who I’m going to be from now on, and he’s a piece of shit.
[1:04:17 – 1:04:19] Adam: I think that was my album of the spring.
[1:04:20 – 1:04:20] Adam: Yeah.
[1:04:20 – 1:04:26] Adam: I was listening to that a lot in the spring, and I need to listen to it again, actually.
[1:04:26 – 1:04:28] Adam: It’s still in there.
[1:04:28 – 1:04:32] Adam: The way I organize my Spotify, I don’t have to scroll too far to find that one in the list.
[1:04:32 – 1:04:34] Erik: We listened to that on the way up to Quetico.
[1:04:34 – 1:04:34] Adam: We sure did.
[1:04:35 – 1:04:38] Adam: Highway 11, God’s Country.
[1:04:38 – 1:04:39] Erik: Those two are just my…
[1:04:39 – 1:04:40] Adam: The Arctic.
[1:04:40 – 1:04:40] Adam: Yeah, sorry.
[1:04:41 – 1:04:43] Adam: We entered the Arctic listening to Cameron Winter this year.
[1:04:44 – 1:04:49] Erik: I couldn’t talk about music that I am still listening to without mentioning those.
[1:04:50 – 1:04:55] Erik: My official list for album of the summer starts now.
[1:04:55 – 1:04:55] Erik: Good.
[1:04:56 – 1:04:57] Adam: Let me have another beer.
[1:04:58 – 1:04:59] Adam: From Lion’s Bridge.
[1:05:00 – 1:05:02] Erik: But I don’t know if you want to mention one of yours.
[1:05:03 – 1:05:04] Adam: I’ll mention one.
[1:05:04 – 1:05:06] Adam: I have one that just came out.
[1:05:06 – 1:05:07] Erik: Oh, nice.
[1:05:08 – 1:05:08] Adam: I’m excited.
[1:05:08 – 1:05:10] Adam: This is my album of the week.
[1:05:10 – 1:05:12] Adam: We should start just doing that every week.
[1:05:12 – 1:05:14] Adam: This is my kiddie pool album of the week.
[1:05:14 – 1:05:15] Adam: What are you listening to right now?
[1:05:15 – 1:05:18] Adam: I’ve been listening to this one in the kiddie pool this week more than any other.
[1:05:18 – 1:05:20] Adam: Where the hell are my notes?
[1:05:20 – 1:05:21] Adam: They’re not even up.
[1:05:21 – 1:05:22] Adam: Oh, God.
[1:05:22 – 1:05:23] Adam: He’s fumbling it.
[1:05:23 – 1:05:24] Adam: It just came out.
[1:05:25 – 1:05:27] Adam: The band is Folk Bitch Trio.
[1:05:28 – 1:05:31] Adam: Have you listened to Folk Bitch Trio yet?
[1:05:31 – 1:05:35] Adam: Everybody out there, I don’t have any lyrics pulled up at all.
[1:05:35 – 1:05:44] Adam: I’m going to look like a real daydreaming Johnny here, but the name of the album is Now Would Be a Good Time, and it just came out in end of July.
[1:05:45 – 1:05:46] Adam: Folk Bitch Trio, baby.
[1:05:47 – 1:05:48] Adam: It’s like a lot of acapella.
[1:05:48 – 1:05:49] Erik: Oh, nice.
[1:05:49 – 1:05:51] Erik: So like the beginning of Captain Ron?
[1:05:52 – 1:05:53] Adam: Just like that.
[1:05:54 – 1:06:01] Adam: Yeah, we’re walking through downtown Chicago listening to Folk Bitch Trio.
[1:06:02 – 1:06:09] Adam: We’re going to go trade some stocks and eventually uproot our family and we’re going to sell the house in the suburbs.
[1:06:09 – 1:06:10] Adam: Learn how to be a husband.
[1:06:10 – 1:06:12] Adam: Yeah, learn how to be a captain.
[1:06:12 – 1:06:13] Adam: Exactly.
[1:06:14 – 1:06:17] Adam: I don’t have anything else to say about it, but it’s my album of the week.
[1:06:17 – 1:06:18] Adam: Album of the week?
[1:06:18 – 1:06:24] Adam: And it made it onto the album of the summer list because I listened to it in a kiddie pool more than once.
[1:06:25 – 1:06:26] Adam: So it’s in.
[1:06:26 – 1:06:28] Adam: It’s not the typical, though.
[1:06:28 – 1:06:31] Adam: I’m always looking for like, it’s got to be, I don’t know.
[1:06:32 – 1:06:34] Adam: It’s got to be like poppy and it’s got to be a bop.
[1:06:35 – 1:06:39] Adam: I have this idea in my head of what an ideal album of the summer would be.
[1:06:39 – 1:06:40] Adam: This is not it.
[1:06:41 – 1:06:43] Adam: This is like Elegy for Noah.
[1:06:45 – 1:06:48] Adam: It’s like a sad Fleet Foxes song.
[1:06:48 – 1:06:58] Erik: It’s like a reverse diamond in the rough on that whole album, which is generally like kind of fun and kind of got like actually does have like some summer vibes.
[1:06:58 – 1:07:01] Erik: And then you get no elegy for Noah Lou.
[1:07:01 – 1:07:04] Erik: And it’s like, all right, I guess I have to do some thinking now.
[1:07:05 – 1:07:09] Adam: I feel pretty good right now because you haven’t heard about the Folk Bitch Trio.
[1:07:09 – 1:07:12] Adam: And I saw Will Moore down this week, too.
[1:07:13 – 1:07:16] Adam: And I was like, hey, Will, you know about Folk Bitch Trio?
[1:07:16 – 1:07:19] Adam: And he was like, I actually do, but I haven’t really gotten to listen to it yet.
[1:07:19 – 1:07:21] Adam: But what I’ve heard, I liked, he said.
[1:07:21 – 1:07:21] Adam: Oh.
[1:07:22 – 1:07:22] Adam: Nice.
[1:07:22 – 1:07:26] Adam: So I think I’m in on the ground floor on these ladies.
[1:07:27 – 1:07:28] Erik: You got that going for you.
[1:07:28 – 1:07:30] Adam: Yeah, I’m pretty cool.
[1:07:30 – 1:07:30] Adam: Yeah.
[1:07:31 – 1:07:32] Adam: So go check them out.
[1:07:32 – 1:07:33] Adam: I will.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:34] Adam: Let me know what you think.
[1:07:35 – 1:07:36] Adam: What’s the name of the album?
[1:07:37 – 1:07:37] Adam: Huh?
[1:07:37 – 1:07:38] Erik: What’s the name of the album?
[1:07:38 – 1:07:39] Adam: Now Would Be a Good Time.
[1:07:39 – 1:07:40] Adam: Now Would Be a Good Time.
[1:07:43 – 1:08:04] Adam: don’t even know where i first heard of it but it just came out and uh natalie had to do like a run to duluth this week and uh as she was like leaving i just screen grabbed that and sent it to her i was like play this and then it was like today and i was like did you ever were listening to it in the kiddie pool i was like did you ever play this on the ride to duluth i did not
[1:08:04 – 1:08:04] Adam: Yeah.
[1:08:05 – 1:08:07] Adam: It’s not on her radar quite yet, but it’s going to be.
[1:08:07 – 1:08:08] Adam: Disappointed.
[1:08:08 – 1:08:09] Adam: It’s going to be.
[1:08:10 – 1:08:13] Adam: I had a couple other suggestions from her.
[1:08:13 – 1:08:19] Adam: I did try them out, but I haven’t listened to any of those enough either, so I’m not going to add those to my list.
[1:08:19 – 1:08:20] Adam: So this is my list.
[1:08:21 – 1:08:21] Adam: Damn it.
[1:08:21 – 1:08:21] SPEAKER_00: I’m a man.
[1:08:21 – 1:08:22] SPEAKER_00: This is my list.
[1:08:22 – 1:08:26] Adam: I’m the captain of my own sailboat here, and it’s got a boom box.
[1:08:28 – 1:08:32] Adam: Did the Wanderer have a record player on it?
[1:08:33 – 1:08:36] Erik: Probably, but I don’t think I ever saw them play a record.
[1:08:36 – 1:08:40] Adam: Yeah, if a sub has a record player, a sailboat definitely should.
[1:08:40 – 1:08:41] Erik: It should.
[1:08:41 – 1:08:44] Adam: It’s probably way smoother sailing below the waves, though.
[1:08:44 – 1:08:51] Erik: It would be pretty in line with Captain Ron’s character to just travel with a record player.
[1:08:51 – 1:08:53] Erik: This is before the days of a Bluetooth speaker.
[1:08:53 – 1:08:55] Adam: I’m surprised nobody in that movie had a Walkman.
[1:08:56 – 1:08:56] Erik: Yeah.
[1:08:58 – 1:08:58] Adam: Alas.
[1:08:59 – 1:09:00] Adam: Alas.
[1:09:00 – 1:09:04] Adam: I’ll have to sing an acapella on the decks of the endurance.
[1:09:05 – 1:09:06] Erik: Of the endurance?
[1:09:06 – 1:09:06] Erik: Oh, my God.
[1:09:09 – 1:09:10] Adam: Was that one officially on your list?
[1:09:10 – 1:09:12] Adam: That’s officially on my list.
[1:09:12 – 1:09:16] Adam: My album on the summer list is pretty shabby this year, but I’m including it.
[1:09:16 – 1:09:17] Adam: This is how I roll.
[1:09:17 – 1:09:18] Adam: Yeah, this is true.
[1:09:18 – 1:09:21] Adam: It doesn’t take much for me to add one right into the list like that.
[1:09:22 – 1:09:22] Adam: Right in.
[1:09:22 – 1:09:23] Adam: You’re on.
[1:09:23 – 1:09:26] Adam: Well, had we recorded this episode last week?
[1:09:27 – 1:09:28] Adam: Folk Bitch Trio would not be on the list.
[1:09:28 – 1:09:32] Adam: That’s how fickle and ever-changing the list is.
[1:09:32 – 1:09:34] Adam: That’s the nature of summer.
[1:09:34 – 1:09:35] Erik: Yeah, it is.
[1:09:36 – 1:09:42] Erik: I guess I’m going to start properly in actual reality listing.
[1:09:42 – 1:09:52] Erik: What I think are four or five albums that could be in contention, and then I have one for sure standout unequivocal album of the summer.
[1:09:52 – 1:09:52] Erik: Okay.
[1:09:53 – 1:09:54] Erik: Midnight Generation.
[1:09:54 – 1:09:56] Erik: The album is Tender Love.
[1:09:58 – 1:10:01] Erik: Now we’re getting into some summer albums.
[1:10:02 – 1:10:06] Erik: It’s a Mexico City electropop crew that is straight fun.
[1:10:07 – 1:10:13] Erik: Put your skates on and lime green Borat one-piece swimsuits for this one.
[1:10:13 – 1:10:18] Erik: It’s funky, daft, punky, and at times, above all, danceable.
[1:10:19 – 1:10:21] Erik: This one is elevated Velveeta.
[1:10:22 – 1:10:23] Erik: Elevated Velveeta.
[1:10:23 – 1:10:25] Erik: Nice.
[1:10:26 – 1:10:28] Erik: I also have the Viagra Boys album.
[1:10:28 – 1:10:32] Erik: Viagra Boys album.
[1:10:32 – 1:10:35] Erik: Cynical and straightforward pop punk with some of the finest lyrics of the year.
[1:10:36 – 1:10:36] Erik: Catchy as hell.
[1:10:36 – 1:10:40] Erik: Do you know the difference between a swamp and an ancient bog?
[1:10:42 – 1:10:43] Adam: Give me all the upbeat rockers.
[1:10:43 – 1:10:45] Adam: Full of bodies, I think.
[1:10:45 – 1:10:46] Adam: But if I have…
[1:10:47 – 1:11:07] Adam: uh yes you were like singing the bog body song like on that crazy cash lake portage i believe oh it was in my mind for sure um and we had enough roger sweet rogers lte that we could actually i think we downloaded and listened to it on our final night on trousers island yeah we were listening to viagra boys yeah
[1:11:08 – 1:11:09] Erik: All the upbeat rockers are great.
[1:11:09 – 1:11:10] Erik: I love the album.
[1:11:11 – 1:11:15] Erik: But if I had to take one for the time capsule, I’d pick Medicine for Horses or The River King.
[1:11:15 – 1:11:16] Erik: Forlorn Horns.
[1:11:16 – 1:11:17] Adam: Medicine for Horses.
[1:11:17 – 1:11:18] Adam: What a great song.
[1:11:18 – 1:11:23] Erik: Wistful backup singers, piano, lovely vocals, and hopeful?
[1:11:23 – 1:11:23] Erik: Lyrics.
[1:11:23 – 1:11:24] Erik: Yes.
[1:11:24 – 1:11:25] Erik: I love…
[1:11:25 – 1:11:33] Erik: I love me some Viagra Boys, and their latest album has been hitting me hard this whole summer.
[1:11:34 – 1:11:37] Erik: It’s probably an all-year album, but it seems summery.
[1:11:38 – 1:11:39] Adam: It’s very summery.
[1:11:39 – 1:11:40] Adam: Yeah.
[1:11:41 – 1:11:41] Adam: All right.
[1:11:43 – 1:11:51] Adam: My next one, I can’t explain how I found this one until later, but I can put it on the list for now.
[1:11:53 – 1:11:54] Adam: Are you a big fan of Broncho?
[1:11:56 – 1:12:12] Erik: I know I sent you this one I listen to it’s weird because I can almost I can always track like an album or a vibe or a feeling of the summer because I only get
[1:12:14 – 1:12:18] Erik: About two songs in before I get to work, pretty much wherever I’m located.
[1:12:18 – 1:12:18] Erik: Right, right.
[1:12:18 – 1:12:19] Erik: That’s the thing.
[1:12:19 – 1:12:21] Adam: You can’t listen to a full album going in.
[1:12:22 – 1:12:32] Erik: The latest release from the Geese upcoming album, which is Cameron Winter’s band, which I cannot wait for.
[1:12:32 – 1:12:34] Erik: I’m not a huge fan of Geese.
[1:12:34 – 1:12:35] Erik: I prefer him on his own.
[1:12:35 – 1:12:36] Erik: But the…
[1:12:42 – 1:12:44] Erik: Just fully blanking on the…
[1:12:46 – 1:12:47] Erik: Taxes is the song.
[1:12:48 – 1:12:48] Erik: The single.
[1:12:49 – 1:12:55] Erik: I think you played for Natalie, who she thought it sounded like Radiohead, which it kind of does, actually, weirdly.
[1:12:56 – 1:13:01] Erik: I didn’t think that until you said that, and then I listened to it like somebody thinking it was Radiohead, and I was like… Could be.
[1:13:01 – 1:13:02] Erik: Could be.
[1:13:02 – 1:13:02] Erik: It could be.
[1:13:03 – 1:13:04] Erik: Yeah.
[1:13:04 – 1:13:07] Erik: But that one has been a for sure morning.
[1:13:07 – 1:13:10] Erik: I get two songs in before I get to work.
[1:13:10 – 1:13:11] Erik: And the other one is the…
[1:13:13 – 1:13:15] Erik: First track from that Broncho album, Imagination.
[1:13:16 – 1:13:16] Erik: Imagination.
[1:13:17 – 1:13:18] Erik: Which I really love.
[1:13:19 – 1:13:25] Erik: The whole album is great, but I do think Imagination is a special song.
[1:13:25 – 1:13:29] Adam: This album cover is like a sun-soaked bee.
[1:13:29 – 1:13:33] Erik: Like hyper zoomed in macro shot of a bee and a flower.
[1:13:33 – 1:13:34] Adam: Just sucking pollen.
[1:13:34 – 1:13:34] Adam: Yeah.
[1:13:35 – 1:13:36] Adam: This came out in April.
[1:13:37 – 1:13:41] Adam: I just started listening to it, I don’t know, three weeks ago.
[1:13:42 – 1:13:44] Adam: It’s super, super chill.
[1:13:44 – 1:13:55] Adam: None of my albums of the summer are the normal kind of upbeat, big drum kind of fun summer music I like to usually go towards.
[1:13:56 – 1:13:57] Adam: This is super chill.
[1:13:57 – 1:14:02] Adam: I feel like I’m riding a motorcycle with Peter Fonda somewhere.
[1:14:02 – 1:14:04] Erik: Yeah, it’s a little bit more gazey.
[1:14:05 – 1:14:05] Erik: It is.
[1:14:05 – 1:14:06] Erik: More of a vibe.
[1:14:06 – 1:14:08] Erik: This is like, it’s a smoky summer.
[1:14:08 – 1:14:09] Erik: I think this is it.
[1:14:09 – 1:14:09] Erik: Ooh, yeah, nice.
[1:14:09 – 1:14:10] Erik: I like that.
[1:14:10 – 1:14:14] Adam: There’s too much smoke in the air, and all my albums of the summer are smoked out.
[1:14:14 – 1:14:14] Adam: Yeah.
[1:14:15 – 1:14:16] Adam: This is Broncho.
[1:14:16 – 1:14:22] Adam: The name of the album is Natural Pleasure, and it features a bee sucking pollen on the front, which is all you need to know.
[1:14:23 – 1:14:26] Adam: Imagination is the first track, and it’s amazing.
[1:14:26 – 1:14:35] Erik: I think besides Imagination, it’s a really good night album.
[1:14:35 – 1:14:37] Adam: A hot night album.
[1:14:37 – 1:14:37] Adam: It is.
[1:14:37 – 1:14:41] Adam: It’s also a good album for sitting in a kiddie pool in the night.
[1:14:41 – 1:14:46] Adam: Track three, Cool, is very, very good.
[1:14:50 – 1:14:51] Adam: You can listen to it all the way through.
[1:14:51 – 1:14:52] Adam: It’s not a very long album either.
[1:14:54 – 1:14:59] Adam: But, yeah, it’s just they’ve been around a while, I guess, too, and I’ve never heard of Broncho.
[1:14:59 – 1:15:03] Adam: It’s all in caps, too, like a really good Gavin Newsom tweet.
[1:15:03 – 1:15:03] Erik: You like that.
[1:15:04 – 1:15:07] Erik: I love the all caps yelling, Broncho.
[1:15:08 – 1:15:16] Erik: Any politician at this point is, if you’re not tweeting or blue-skying in all caps as a politician, what are you even doing?
[1:15:17 – 1:15:17] Adam: Speak to the people.
[1:15:18 – 1:15:18] Adam: Yeah.
[1:15:19 – 1:15:41] Adam: broncho all i’m normally all lowercase too so it’s hard for me when somebody’s in all caps but broncho overcomes uh that no problem because they’re so chill yeah music’s good um i don’t know anything about broncho i have nothing else to add to this but go check out natural pleasure it’s um it’s amazing it’s really good album yeah i like that one um
[1:15:42 – 1:15:43] Adam: So that’s my number two.
[1:15:43 – 1:15:45] Adam: That’s number two on my list.
[1:15:45 – 1:15:46] Erik: Okay.
[1:15:46 – 1:15:48] Erik: Well, I got to do a couple before I get to my number one then.
[1:15:48 – 1:15:51] Adam: Yeah, I’m waiting because I think we may have some overlap.
[1:15:52 – 1:15:53] Erik: I got sports team.
[1:15:54 – 1:15:56] Erik: Boys these days.
[1:15:56 – 1:15:56] Erik: Boys.
[1:15:57 – 1:16:08] Erik: From top to bottom, there is not a skipper on this hooky, wildly overlooked UK rock album filled with concept songs about serious and not so serious subjects.
[1:16:09 – 1:16:17] Erik: Whether it’s the sax heavy opener about being in love with your Subaru Impreza, quote, feels like driving a throne.
[1:16:17 – 1:16:17] Erik: Ha ha.
[1:16:19 – 1:16:23] Adam: I can’t get enough saxophone lately either, so… Yeah.
[1:16:23 – 1:16:25] Adam: Any song that’s got a bunch of sax in it.
[1:16:25 – 1:16:31] Erik: Or the effervescent driving head to space that can get you up and ready to accomplish anything.
[1:16:31 – 1:16:32] Erik: I’m here for all of it.
[1:16:34 – 1:16:35] Erik: And yeah, it’s 10 tracks.
[1:16:36 – 1:16:37] Erik: Quick, easy.
[1:16:38 – 1:16:38] Erik: And each song is…
[1:16:40 – 1:16:47] Erik: It’s not one of those albums that kind of, I mean, it all has like the same feeling, but each song stands on its own.
[1:16:48 – 1:16:50] Adam: Do you have this on a playlist that you can send me?
[1:16:50 – 1:16:51] Erik: I can and I will.
[1:16:51 – 1:16:59] Adam: Because then I can, I’ll add mine on and then I can upload the full playlist of like just a track from each album that we’re mentioning maybe to the subreddit.
[1:17:00 – 1:17:02] Erik: Immaculate Leather and Chrome.
[1:17:05 – 1:17:08] Erik: The latest US girls album, Scratch It.
[1:17:08 – 1:17:10] Adam: Yeah, I have listened to that a few times.
[1:17:10 – 1:17:12] Erik: Megan Remy, one of the best voices out there.
[1:17:12 – 1:17:15] Erik: She’s getting even farther back in time.
[1:17:15 – 1:17:16] Erik: Mid-century at this point.
[1:17:16 – 1:17:17] Erik: Mid-century country.
[1:17:18 – 1:17:19] Erik: Vegas lounge singer.
[1:17:20 – 1:17:24] Erik: Always an underlying instrument in the background that compels.
[1:17:25 – 1:17:26] Erik: Organ fun.
[1:17:26 – 1:17:27] Erik: Guitar.
[1:17:28 – 1:17:29] Erik: Harmonica.
[1:17:29 – 1:17:29] Adam: Is that what’s going on?
[1:17:29 – 1:17:31] Adam: She’s going through time backwards?
[1:17:31 – 1:17:33] Erik: I don’t know if she’s intentionally trying to do it.
[1:17:33 – 1:17:34] Adam: To our perspective.
[1:17:34 – 1:17:35] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:17:35 – 1:17:46] Erik: But how the song The Clearing only has 46,000 listens is a fucking abomination that continues to speak to the loss of engagement in actual art.
[1:17:46 – 1:17:48] Erik: 1,000 of those listens is probably just me.
[1:17:48 – 1:17:49] Adam: That’s just you.
[1:17:49 – 1:17:51] Adam: It would only have 41,000 without Eric.
[1:17:51 – 1:17:52] Adam: Yeah.
[1:17:52 – 1:17:55] Adam: Is it like the second to last track on the album or something?
[1:17:55 – 1:17:56] Erik: No, it’s right up there.
[1:17:56 – 1:17:59] Erik: It’s the third track and it’s the top contender for song of the year for me.
[1:18:00 – 1:18:05] Adam: It wasn’t released as a single five months in advance, so that’s why they couldn’t juice the numbers.
[1:18:05 – 1:18:11] Adam: It is weird when you see an album, though, and one song just has way less listens.
[1:18:11 – 1:18:12] Erik: I was like, why is this the song?
[1:18:12 – 1:18:13] Erik: This is my favorite song.
[1:18:13 – 1:18:15] Adam: I always listen generally all the way through.
[1:18:16 – 1:18:16] Adam: But also that.
[1:18:17 – 1:18:18] Adam: So they’re all getting the same amount of listens for me.
[1:18:19 – 1:18:24] Adam: But it’s like you said before, though, when you’re driving to town, you only get like the first four to five tracks of an album in.
[1:18:25 – 1:18:28] Adam: Generally, then I just start the album again when I’m going home.
[1:18:28 – 1:18:31] Adam: So my commute is about one album back and forth.
[1:18:32 – 1:18:36] Adam: So I can listen to the A side going in and then the B side going home.
[1:18:36 – 1:18:37] Adam: You know what I mean?
[1:18:38 – 1:18:39] Adam: So they all get their listens every day.
[1:18:40 – 1:18:40] Adam: Yeah.
[1:18:41 – 1:18:43] Adam: I really only have time for like one album a day just driving.
[1:18:43 – 1:18:47] Adam: And then it’s, well, if I get out in the yard maybe or put one on later.
[1:18:48 – 1:18:48] Erik: Yeah.
[1:18:48 – 1:18:50] Erik: I don’t know if I’ve ever… Maybe I have.
[1:18:50 – 1:18:51] Erik: I’m sure I’ve mentioned.
[1:18:51 – 1:18:52] Erik: But I do…
[1:18:53 – 1:18:55] Adam: I don’t get to listen to music at work right now.
[1:18:55 – 1:18:59] Erik: …for to listen to albums from beginning to end.
[1:19:00 – 1:19:09] Erik: But what I do is I usually find myself gravitating towards one or two or more songs from that album or maybe just one.
[1:19:09 – 1:19:09] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[1:19:10 – 1:19:18] Erik: And I take those songs and I put them on a large playlist, which is like close to 2,000 songs now.
[1:19:18 – 1:19:20] Adam: The songs of the life.
[1:19:20 – 1:19:21] Adam: Yes.
[1:19:21 – 1:19:23] Adam: The songs of the life list.
[1:19:23 – 1:19:29] Erik: And so whenever you’re just like, I don’t know what I want to listen to, you just put on the big playlist, put it on shuffle.
[1:19:29 – 1:19:29] Adam: Yep.
[1:19:30 – 1:19:33] Erik: And you’re always inevitably like, oh, yeah, that song.
[1:19:34 – 1:19:35] Erik: Maybe I should check that album out again.
[1:19:35 – 1:19:38] Erik: So you’re like, I’m always kind of like never forgetting.
[1:19:38 – 1:19:41] Erik: Because that’s always the thing where it’s like, I really like this album right now.
[1:19:41 – 1:19:44] Erik: And then a year later, you’re like, I haven’t listened to that album in forever.
[1:19:45 – 1:19:45] Erik: So.
[1:19:45 – 1:19:46] Erik: That’s the way I do it.
[1:19:46 – 1:19:49] Erik: And it’s not to say that’s the way to do it, but that’s how I like to do it.
[1:19:51 – 1:19:53] Erik: I have two more before I get to honorable mentions.
[1:19:53 – 1:19:56] Erik: Should I do one more and then you can do yours and I’ll do mine?
[1:19:56 – 1:19:58] Erik: Or do you want to have the grand finale of yours?
[1:19:58 – 1:20:00] Adam: No, you know more about music.
[1:20:00 – 1:20:01] Adam: You should have the grand finale.
[1:20:01 – 1:20:02] Adam: Okay.
[1:20:02 – 1:20:03] Adam: I just hope you choose correctly.
[1:20:03 – 1:20:04] Adam: Choose wisely.
[1:20:04 – 1:20:07] Adam: Because I still feel like we’re going to overlap here at some point.
[1:20:08 – 1:20:10] Erik: I guess I don’t know if these are necessarily in order.
[1:20:10 – 1:20:16] Erik: I know that my top one is number one, but I don’t know if this is necessarily number two.
[1:20:17 – 1:20:24] Erik: But I would say these next two are the most summary for me, and it’s Smurz.
[1:20:25 – 1:20:26] Erik: Smurz.
[1:20:26 – 1:20:31] Erik: Smurz, S-M-E-R-Z, Big City Life.
[1:20:31 – 1:20:34] Erik: It’s the most unique album of the summer so far for sure.
[1:20:35 – 1:20:38] Erik: It’s like lo-fi, pop, R&B.
[1:20:39 – 1:20:41] Erik: Very cool.
[1:20:41 – 1:20:43] Erik: I just feel cool listening to this album.
[1:20:44 – 1:21:08] Erik: smurs yeah the biggest challenge is not being cool enough to know when to listen to it it’s like a weird uh i don’t know i mean i imagine this is like what what’s playing in the big over ear headphones of people walking down the streets of like a hip up-and-coming neighborhood in brooklyn it looks like that’s what they’re doing on the cover here yeah i’m chess
[1:21:08 – 1:21:10] Erik: I love the album.
[1:21:10 – 1:21:18] Erik: I love that it’s minimalist, mysterious, kind of sad, but always surprisingly catchy when you least expect it.
[1:21:18 – 1:21:20] Erik: And I just keep coming back to it.
[1:21:20 – 1:21:21] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:21:21 – 1:21:24] Adam: Well, I feel pretty cool because I just downloaded it.
[1:21:24 – 1:21:26] Adam: I’m not listening to this yet.
[1:21:26 – 1:21:30] Adam: That’s always an exciting feeling, too, when somebody vouches for an album in this way.
[1:21:30 – 1:21:32] Adam: You’re like, Jesus, how have I never heard of this yet?
[1:21:32 – 1:21:34] Adam: How have you not told me about this one?
[1:21:34 – 1:21:42] Adam: You send me music all the time, and I generally download everything you recommend and at least listen to it a couple times, and I don’t think that you sent this one over.
[1:21:42 – 1:21:46] Erik: I think I sent this to you with the Paco Cathcart album.
[1:21:47 – 1:21:47] Adam: Paco!
[1:21:47 – 1:21:49] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:21:49 – 1:21:51] Adam: Somehow I missed it.
[1:21:51 – 1:21:52] Adam: It’s fine.
[1:21:52 – 1:21:55] Adam: So now it’s a new excitement to look forward to for my Sunday album.
[1:21:56 – 1:21:57] Adam: Maybe later tonight.
[1:21:57 – 1:21:58] Adam: When’s the right time to listen to it?
[1:21:59 – 1:21:59] Erik: Whenever.
[1:21:59 – 1:22:01] Adam: In the kiddie pool in the dark, that’s when.
[1:22:01 – 1:22:06] Adam: I love the song Feisty.
[1:22:07 – 1:22:07] Erik: Feisty?
[1:22:08 – 1:22:15] Erik: I love the song You’ve Got Time and I’ve Got Money, but everything in between on this album is…
[1:22:17 – 1:22:24] Erik: You think you get to a point where you’re like, I think I’ve heard all the ways that you can arrange things and be a creative artist with music.
[1:22:24 – 1:22:26] Erik: There’s an unlimited amount.
[1:22:27 – 1:22:31] Erik: Not that it’s pushing the boundaries of anything, but it’s simple.
[1:22:31 – 1:22:33] Erik: It’s good.
[1:22:33 – 1:22:34] Erik: It’s great.
[1:22:34 – 1:22:35] Adam: Check out Smurz.
[1:22:35 – 1:22:36] Adam: I’m going to do it.
[1:22:36 – 1:22:38] Adam: That’s next up on my list.
[1:22:39 – 1:22:40] Adam: All right.
[1:22:41 – 1:22:43] Adam: I mean, are you… Am I ready?
[1:22:43 – 1:22:44] Adam: Oh, I mean, yeah.
[1:22:44 – 1:22:45] Adam: I know you’re ready.
[1:22:45 – 1:22:46] Adam: So you have one left?
[1:22:46 – 1:22:48] Adam: That’s your for sure album of the summer?
[1:22:48 – 1:22:54] Erik: I’ve got one for sure, and then I’ll throw some honorable mentions that I don’t really have a bunch to say on.
[1:22:54 – 1:22:56] Erik: I’m just going to throw them out there if anybody wants to check them out.
[1:22:58 – 1:22:58] Adam: All right.
[1:22:58 – 1:23:03] Adam: Well, I mean, we got to talk about Sophie.
[1:23:04 – 1:23:04] Adam: Right.
[1:23:05 – 1:23:07] Adam: Are you going to talk about Sophie?
[1:23:07 – 1:23:10] Erik: I mean, she hasn’t had a release this year.
[1:23:11 – 1:23:12] Erik: That’s the problem.
[1:23:12 – 1:23:14] Erik: It’s not a problem.
[1:23:14 – 1:23:15] Erik: Yeah, we always talk about this.
[1:23:15 – 1:23:18] Erik: It’s not like whatever you’re into now.
[1:23:18 – 1:23:21] Adam: Yeah, the other stuff I’ve talked about is all like brand new music.
[1:23:22 – 1:23:24] Erik: We’re talking about Sophie Royer.
[1:23:24 – 1:23:24] Erik: Sophie Royer.
[1:23:25 – 1:23:31] Erik: Who was on, I believe, she cracked the top 10 of my album of the year last year.
[1:23:32 – 1:23:33] Adam: Yeah, and I don’t know.
[1:23:33 – 1:23:35] Adam: Somehow that didn’t register for me.
[1:23:35 – 1:23:39] Erik: And I had the opportunity to go and see her live.
[1:23:39 – 1:23:42] Adam: Yeah, this was my first clue.
[1:23:42 – 1:23:44] Adam: And Eric’s like, we’re going to see Sophie Royer.
[1:23:45 – 1:23:46] Adam: And I was like, no way.
[1:23:46 – 1:23:48] Adam: And then I had to go back and look it up.
[1:23:48 – 1:23:49] Adam: And I was like, oh, yeah.
[1:23:50 – 1:23:53] Adam: And then that’s when I actually started really listening to Sophie Royer.
[1:23:53 – 1:23:56] Adam: It was when Eric was like, we’re going to see her play live.
[1:23:57 – 1:23:57] Adam: Yeah.
[1:23:58 – 1:24:00] Adam: This is how it works for me sometimes, folks.
[1:24:01 – 1:24:01] Adam: It’s fine.
[1:24:02 – 1:24:02] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:24:02 – 1:24:04] Adam: Music finds you in mysterious ways.
[1:24:04 – 1:24:07] Adam: Like Eric tried to tell me about Sophie Royer last year.
[1:24:07 – 1:24:09] Adam: I didn’t get the message at all.
[1:24:10 – 1:24:10] Erik: Which album, though?
[1:24:11 – 1:24:12] Adam: Well, that’s the thing, though.
[1:24:12 – 1:24:14] Adam: I’ve been listening to Harlequin like crazy.
[1:24:15 – 1:24:16] Adam: Yeah.
[1:24:16 – 1:24:16] Adam: 2022.
[1:24:17 – 1:24:17] Adam: Right.
[1:24:18 – 1:24:20] Adam: Because then I said something like, oh, I’m going to play it.
[1:24:20 – 1:24:23] Adam: And you’re like, yeah, Sweden Espresso.
[1:24:23 – 1:24:25] Adam: You got to listen to Sweden Espresso.
[1:24:25 – 1:24:27] Adam: That song’s incredible.
[1:24:27 – 1:24:30] Adam: And then I just listened to that song like 12 times in a row.
[1:24:30 – 1:24:30] Adam: Yeah.
[1:24:30 – 1:24:31] Adam: It’s that good.
[1:24:32 – 1:24:34] Adam: Yeah, the opening track on Harlequin.
[1:24:35 – 1:24:36] Erik: Damn near perfect song.
[1:24:37 – 1:25:02] Adam: pretty much perfect yeah yeah and then i’m like wait who is this sophie royer she’s a bit of a she’s a bit of an enigma yeah an art school kid i don’t know like today i was listening to young girl forever all day um yeah just all day just uh keep playing play it again i want to let like i was listening to when you got here i just want to play it again right now yeah young girl forever is a great album that was uh from november though
[1:25:03 – 1:25:07] Adam: That came out when we were frolicking around Toronto, I guess.
[1:25:07 – 1:25:09] Adam: Right.
[1:25:09 – 1:25:13] Erik: I was shocked when I went to that show that there were so few people there, first of all.
[1:25:14 – 1:25:20] Erik: And then second of all, which shouldn’t have been a surprise, is just how much she can thrash the violin live.
[1:25:20 – 1:25:26] Erik: I was like, oh, I shouldn’t be surprised because she is actually holding a violin.
[1:25:26 – 1:25:28] Adam: Winning blue ribbons for violin play.
[1:25:28 – 1:25:28] Adam: Yeah.
[1:25:31 – 1:25:37] Adam: My current favorite is not which I butchered in the opening.
[1:25:37 – 1:25:40] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[1:25:41 – 1:25:43] Adam: I still can’t do it, even if you put it right in front of me.
[1:25:44 – 1:25:45] Adam: I forget.
[1:25:45 – 1:25:46] Adam: I’m so young.
[1:25:46 – 1:25:53] Adam: When they get to the hardcore sleigh bells breakdown, I’m just literally like, I can’t help it.
[1:25:54 – 1:25:54] Adam: I cannot help it.
[1:25:55 – 1:25:55] Adam: I am…
[1:25:56 – 1:26:24] Adam: emotionally aroused by that uh by that song it’s very good yeah i was at that show like i said with i don’t know what felt like 20 people saturday night just another saturday night baby we had i was we were listening to it during dinner and fast beander comes on and natalie’s like is this german like that or austrian i don’t know it’s the same language right
[1:26:24 – 1:26:26] Adam: Pretty close.
[1:26:26 – 1:26:27] Adam: Yeah, so…
[1:26:28 – 1:26:28] Erik: I was just…
[1:26:28 – 1:26:28] Erik: I mean…
[1:26:30 – 1:26:54] Erik: how are you not a bigger star at this point i don’t know i was surrounded by people i mean surrounded by like 20 kids because this is one well i think i’ve said why yeah the whole the whole preference for uh whatever the the easiest and quickest and best tasting but like that’s sort of
[1:26:56 – 1:27:10] Erik: The whole Velveeta argument I was making before kind of flies in the face of what Sophie Royer is because she’s like a combination of both, like an actually talented artist who’s making music that is…
[1:27:12 – 1:27:18] Erik: pretty poppy, pretty acceptable, pretty earhole friendly, but I don’t know.
[1:27:18 – 1:27:24] Erik: I saw her at the tiniest venue you can possibly go to in the cities with kind of a half-empty room.
[1:27:25 – 1:27:32] Erik: I was just like, this is kind of sad, but also I feel really privileged that I’m able to be here.
[1:27:33 – 1:27:39] Erik: I just don’t know how the whole music industry works, but I think it’s generally not great.
[1:27:40 – 1:27:41] Erik: I think so, yes.
[1:27:42 – 1:27:46] Erik: So check out Sophie Royer if we can get her, like, let’s get her.
[1:27:47 – 1:27:48] Adam: Sophie, if you’re listening.
[1:27:48 – 1:27:49] Erik: She might be.
[1:27:49 – 1:27:50] Adam: Hit us up in the email.
[1:27:50 – 1:27:50] Adam: Yeah.
[1:27:51 – 1:27:52] Adam: Tomohomcast at gmail.com.
[1:27:53 – 1:27:54] Adam: Roast us next week.
[1:27:54 – 1:27:55] Adam: Sophie Royer roasting.
[1:27:55 – 1:27:56] Adam: Being your lamest fans.
[1:27:57 – 1:27:57] Erik: Yeah.
[1:27:58 – 1:28:20] Adam: um i now i can i reveal i can now reveal how i found broncho because i came up with a theory and that um you were telling me about the concert and i was like where was this seventh street entrance yeah which is the tiny little side club this is like a shed room while there’s a wwe wrestling match going on in the main ballroom or whatever
[1:28:21 – 1:28:29] Erik: Yeah, you could hear, like, so it’s basically in the same building that first Av is in, and you could, like, hear the slamming of, like, the bats in the background.
[1:28:29 – 1:28:30] Erik: It was so weird.
[1:28:32 – 1:28:34] Adam: So then I came up with this idea.
[1:28:34 – 1:28:42] Adam: I was, like, instead of trying to, like, because I think I was in, like, a heated text message exchange with my brother.
[1:28:42 – 1:28:44] Adam: I’m like, where’s the best way to find new music?
[1:28:45 – 1:28:48] Adam: Because music review websites aren’t what they used to.
[1:28:49 – 1:28:53] Adam: You can’t trust anything you find anymore on the internet ever.
[1:28:54 – 1:29:02] Adam: So I was trying to come up with a clever way to find new music that wasn’t reliant on somebody else’s website to tell me it was good.
[1:29:02 – 1:29:04] Erik: There’s not even that many of those websites anymore.
[1:29:04 – 1:29:05] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:29:05 – 1:29:09] Adam: It’s becoming harder and harder to just do that.
[1:29:10 – 1:29:13] Adam: So then you were telling me about this venue.
[1:29:13 – 1:29:16] Adam: And so I just went on and went into their schedule.
[1:29:16 – 1:29:19] Adam: And I started checking out every band that played 7th Street Entrance.
[1:29:22 – 1:29:30] Adam: and just sort of listen to a track or two from them, and that can pretty much immediately tell yes or no, like this is something I should listen to more of, or no, this isn’t for me.
[1:29:32 – 1:29:36] Adam: And I don’t know when they played there, but Broncho played 7th Street Entrance.
[1:29:36 – 1:29:38] Adam: I’d never heard of Broncho in my life.
[1:29:38 – 1:29:43] Adam: And I played Natural Pleasure immediately, and I was like, yeah, no, I think I can like this band.
[1:29:45 – 1:29:48] Adam: And it turns into one of the albums I’m listening to the most this summer.
[1:29:49 – 1:29:56] Adam: It was all just because you saw Sophie Royer at 7th Street Entrance and Broncho had played there previously in the summer.
[1:29:57 – 1:29:58] Adam: That’s how I got there.
[1:29:58 – 1:29:59] Erik: Check out Broncho.
[1:29:59 – 1:30:00] Erik: Check out Sophie Royer.
[1:30:00 – 1:30:01] Erik: Both albums.
[1:30:01 – 1:30:06] Adam: That’s like cool venue surfing.
[1:30:06 – 1:30:07] Adam: Yeah.
[1:30:07 – 1:30:08] Adam: You don’t have to go to the show.
[1:30:08 – 1:30:10] Adam: Just if it’s a cool venue…
[1:30:10 – 1:30:16] Adam: If it’s a venue that’s cool enough for Sophie Royer, then anybody else who’s playing there is probably at least half cool.
[1:30:17 – 1:30:22] Erik: Yeah, they’re either up and coming or they’ve kind of plateaued and both are fine.
[1:30:22 – 1:30:23] Adam: Yeah, I didn’t see a lot of that, though.
[1:30:23 – 1:30:25] Adam: I didn’t see anybody where I was like, oh, them?
[1:30:25 – 1:30:26] Adam: Yeah.
[1:30:26 – 1:30:28] Adam: Like, Bush isn’t playing.
[1:30:28 – 1:30:28] Adam: No.
[1:30:29 – 1:30:30] Adam: No, no.
[1:30:30 – 1:30:32] Adam: I go with them or whatever.
[1:30:32 – 1:30:34] Adam: Like, the washed up old bands aren’t on.
[1:30:35 – 1:30:36] Adam: That’s not the club they’re playing.
[1:30:36 – 1:30:36] Adam: No.
[1:30:37 – 1:30:38] Adam: That’s the kind of thing, though.
[1:30:38 – 1:30:43] Adam: It’s like the kind of club or up-and-coming group that nobody’s heard of that you all should have heard of.
[1:30:43 – 1:30:45] Adam: That’s the kind of group playing there.
[1:30:45 – 1:31:09] Erik: or just seems like they’ve been around a long time so yeah there’s also just like so many bands and or performers that they just that’s the level they get to you get to the seventh street entry level yeah that’s the best you’re gonna do that’s fine i mean maybe not for them but it’s fine for me whereas for sophie that’s beneath her i guess i don’t know not for now i’d like hey she just seems like
[1:31:10 – 1:31:19] Erik: There are so many influences and sounds in her music that should be taking her to a higher level.
[1:31:19 – 1:31:21] Erik: I don’t know why it’s maybe not happening.
[1:31:21 – 1:31:21] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:31:22 – 1:31:26] Erik: And I don’t really care to investigate any further, but…
[1:31:27 – 1:31:27] Adam: It’s surprising.
[1:31:27 – 1:31:34] Adam: Well, I’m glad that I finally got into it because it’s a great album.
[1:31:34 – 1:31:34] Adam: Two of them.
[1:31:34 – 1:31:35] Adam: Two of them.
[1:31:35 – 1:31:36] Adam: Two great albums.
[1:31:36 – 1:31:36] Adam: Yeah.
[1:31:36 – 1:31:37] Adam: They’re both amazing.
[1:31:38 – 1:31:42] Adam: So is that your album of the summer or do you have another one that’s certified?
[1:31:42 – 1:31:45] Erik: Well, I will always be here.
[1:31:46 – 1:31:48] Erik: I’m a Sophie stan always, but no.
[1:31:49 – 1:31:52] Erik: I gave her her shout out last year on my album of the year.
[1:31:53 – 1:31:56] Erik: My album of the summer is Carol G. Yeah.
[1:31:56 – 1:31:58] Erik: Tropicocchietta.
[1:31:59 – 1:31:59] Erik: Yes.
[1:32:01 – 1:32:05] Erik: If there was ever a defining example of summer music, it’s this.
[1:32:05 – 1:32:06] Erik: Now we’re talking.
[1:32:06 – 1:32:06] Erik: Yeah.
[1:32:06 – 1:32:10] Erik: Luxuriously sexy and sweeping hour-long journey.
[1:32:10 – 1:32:14] Erik: Running the gamut of my most favorite genres of Latin music.
[1:32:14 – 1:32:24] Erik: We’ve got cumbia, reggaeton, mariachi, big, sweeping, string-heavy love ballads, spicy Rosalia-esque two-minute bangers.
[1:32:25 – 1:32:28] Adam: We saw her play it when we crashed our sailboat on the wrong island.
[1:32:28 – 1:32:28] Adam: Exactly.
[1:32:28 – 1:32:29] Adam: And grew up in a carnival.
[1:32:30 – 1:32:30] Erik: Yeah.
[1:32:30 – 1:32:45] Erik: And in the distance, underneath an impossibly large and stylish sombrero, a fluttering sundress clings to all the best parts of an exotically unapproachable woman staring into the horizon at noon.
[1:32:46 – 1:32:52] Erik: Also, a couple at moonlight, with the light glinting off their eyes in droplets of ocean.
[1:32:53 – 1:33:01] Erik: Recently removed from the ocean, it gets the hips swinging and the tongue ready for icy cold Pacificos.
[1:33:02 – 1:33:05] Erik: And the lyrics are intelligible enough for someone still learning Spanish.
[1:33:07 – 1:33:08] Adam: It’s a good time.
[1:33:08 – 1:33:11] Adam: How do you say fetch me a brewski in Spanish?
[1:33:11 – 1:33:11] Adam: Fetch?
[1:33:12 – 1:33:16] Erik: I have no idea how one would say fetch.
[1:33:16 – 1:33:19] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:33:19 – 1:33:20] Adam: You need a brewski beer?
[1:33:22 – 1:33:29] Adam: We watched Barbie movie like last week and the whole sequence when the Kens take over Barbie town and then.
[1:33:30 – 1:33:39] Adam: brewski beer becomes like the coolest thing you can ever do that’s right hey is my big thirsty guy need a brewski beer I’m like I do actually yeah
[1:33:41 – 1:33:42] Adam: Why can’t they just say beer?
[1:33:42 – 1:33:43] Adam: It’s always brewski beer.
[1:33:44 – 1:33:47] Adam: And then we were watching Captain Ron last night, and he’s like, get me a brewski.
[1:33:48 – 1:33:48] Adam: Squab.
[1:33:49 – 1:33:50] Adam: Yeah, hey, squab, get me a brewski.
[1:33:51 – 1:33:53] Adam: You can get one for yourself, but you owe me $2.50.
[1:33:54 – 1:33:55] Adam: Oh, God, yeah.
[1:33:55 – 1:33:57] Adam: Yeah, brewski, though.
[1:33:57 – 1:33:59] Adam: It’s the summer of brewskis.
[1:33:59 – 1:34:02] Erik: He’s just on the level with that kid more than anybody else.
[1:34:04 – 1:34:07] Erik: Yeah, so Carol G, that’s with a K. Sure is.
[1:34:07 – 1:34:08] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:34:09 – 1:34:15] Erik: Some people may not be into it because, I don’t know, it’s Spanish or whatever.
[1:34:15 – 1:34:17] Erik: But there’s some English.
[1:34:17 – 1:34:19] Erik: She speaks English occasionally.
[1:34:19 – 1:34:26] Erik: There’s these weird occasional covers that you kind of hear, but it’s not a cover of a song.
[1:34:27 – 1:34:29] Erik: It’s just a cover of the…
[1:34:31 – 1:34:35] Erik: like a couple of notes from the song that happens occasionally.
[1:34:35 – 1:34:36] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:34:36 – 1:34:41] Erik: It’s just a, uh, I’ve been listening to it pretty much constantly.
[1:34:42 – 1:34:43] Erik: And every time I think I’m done with it,
[1:34:46 – 1:34:48] Erik: I got some honorable.
[1:34:48 – 1:34:51] Erik: Not even, but whatever above honorable is.
[1:34:53 – 1:34:57] Erik: Hyper honorable mentions for recency and otherwise.
[1:34:58 – 1:34:59] Erik: Scorching mentions.
[1:34:59 – 1:35:01] Adam: We got Little Sims Lotus.
[1:35:01 – 1:35:02] Adam: That album is great.
[1:35:03 – 1:35:05] Adam: Yeah, that I have listened to a bunch.
[1:35:05 – 1:35:06] Adam: This is very good.
[1:35:06 – 1:35:11] Erik: Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band, New Threads, New Threats from the Soul.
[1:35:11 – 1:35:12] Erik: Sorry.
[1:35:12 – 1:35:13] Erik: That is an incredible album.
[1:35:15 – 1:35:16] Erik: Adrian Quesada.
[1:35:16 – 1:35:21] Erik: You turned me on to this one from Beavers.
[1:35:21 – 1:35:22] Erik: Told you about this.
[1:35:22 – 1:35:23] Erik: Boleros Psychedelicos II.
[1:35:24 – 1:35:25] Adam: Yeah, shout out to Beavers.
[1:35:26 – 1:35:27] Adam: It’s a really good album.
[1:35:27 – 1:35:29] Adam: DJ Beefstar, are you listening?
[1:35:29 – 1:35:43] Erik: And two, just literally from like last week slash maybe even yesterday that I’m still coming to terms with but have been spun a few times in my mind.
[1:35:44 – 1:35:51] Erik: We’ve got Racing Mount Pleasant, self-titled, and then I’m a Ray’s Black Star, which is really good.
[1:35:51 – 1:35:55] Erik: There’s one track on that that I have been listening to almost on repeat.
[1:35:56 – 1:35:59] Erik: Can I mean Coke and Molly?
[1:36:00 – 1:36:03] Erik: Yeah, those are all great albums.
[1:36:03 – 1:36:08] Erik: And obviously everything that I have mentioned, we’ll see how many of these may end up on the end of the year.
[1:36:10 – 1:36:13] Erik: I’m sure Panabare and Cameron Winter will, but.
[1:36:13 – 1:36:14] Erik: I think so, yeah.
[1:36:15 – 1:36:17] Erik: It’s been a good summer for music.
[1:36:17 – 1:36:17] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:36:17 – 1:36:18] Erik: Every year.
[1:36:18 – 1:36:22] Adam: The summer is fun because you can go anytime and, you know, anytime.
[1:36:22 – 1:36:23] Adam: Yeah.
[1:36:23 – 1:36:26] Adam: But for the album of the year, I feel like those albums do have to come out that year.
[1:36:26 – 1:36:27] Adam: Have to be of the year.
[1:36:27 – 1:36:31] Erik: Yeah, that’s why I didn’t give you too much grief for the Sophie Royer.
[1:36:32 – 1:36:38] Erik: It’s what I hear you listening to quite often, and I’m happy for you because of it.
[1:36:39 – 1:36:43] Adam: We’re an honest podcast, and we’re honest with our listeners.
[1:36:43 – 1:36:44] Erik: At the very least, we’re honest.
[1:36:44 – 1:36:48] Adam: We’re honest with ourselves, and that’s what’s on my boom box right now.
[1:36:49 – 1:36:51] Adam: So that’s what you get.
[1:36:51 – 1:36:55] Adam: That’s the album of the summer, and that’s our albums of the summer.
[1:36:58 – 1:36:59] Erik: So hot.
[1:36:59 – 1:37:09] Erik: Try and figure out one of the songs from any of the albums that we’ve mentioned to end this episode with without getting removed from Spotify.
[1:37:09 – 1:37:09] Erik: Who is…
[1:37:11 – 1:37:14] Erik: Just a great, great organization.
[1:37:14 – 1:37:18] Adam: I’m really glad we have a partnership with Spotify for all these years.
[1:37:18 – 1:37:18] Adam: They’re incredible.
[1:37:19 – 1:37:20] Adam: Yeah, it makes me feel really good.
[1:37:21 – 1:37:29] Erik: Keep listening to those AI bands and basically just providing them with free money, which is essentially what those are.
[1:37:29 – 1:37:36] Erik: And then give cents on the dollar to actual acts and actual musicians.
[1:37:36 – 1:37:39] Adam: Don’t worry, Spotify is not making any money off of this show, though.
[1:37:39 – 1:37:40] Adam: No, they’re not.
[1:37:40 – 1:37:42] Adam: They’re just having to spend resources trying to police us.
[1:37:43 – 1:37:46] Adam: Actually, we’re sticking it to the man.
[1:37:46 – 1:37:48] Erik: Yeah, actually, I will go back through retroactively.
[1:37:48 – 1:37:53] Erik: I’m going to put Stairway to Heaven at the beginning of this episode just so they have to work on getting us pulled off.
[1:37:53 – 1:37:54] Adam: Make them work a little bit there.
[1:37:54 – 1:37:55] Adam: Yeah.
[1:37:55 – 1:37:56] Adam: Yeah, make them earn it.
[1:37:57 – 1:38:02] Erik: Big interlude in the middle with some, I don’t know, some Beatles in there.
[1:38:02 – 1:38:04] Erik: That’ll get us kicked off for sure.
[1:38:07 – 1:38:09] Adam: Well, thanks for sharing your albums of the summer.
[1:38:09 – 1:38:12] Adam: This has been a real delight, this episode.
[1:38:13 – 1:38:15] Adam: And it’s always fun recording in August.
[1:38:15 – 1:38:18] Adam: It’s a special kind of energy when we get in the shed in August.
[1:38:18 – 1:38:18] Erik: Yeah.
[1:38:19 – 1:38:22] Adam: And there’s been no infiltration of the mosquito yet.
[1:38:22 – 1:38:22] Erik: Not yet.
[1:38:22 – 1:38:25] Adam: We do have bug spray with us, and we do have extra beer.
[1:38:25 – 1:38:32] Adam: But thank you to the Paper Plate Society for these delicious Lion’s Castle beers.
[1:38:33 – 1:38:35] Adam: Majestic Beast Hazy IPAs.
[1:38:36 – 1:38:39] Adam: Thank you for dropping these off in that Hy-Vee bag.
[1:38:40 – 1:38:43] Adam: They’re really going down well.
[1:38:43 – 1:38:47] Adam: We are thinking of letting it be for episode 299.
[1:38:47 – 1:38:47] Adam: Yes, sir.
[1:38:49 – 1:38:53] Erik: We’re going to get real high and talk about Kurt Russell’s best performance of his life.
[1:38:53 – 1:38:55] Adam: We’re getting our eye patches out for sure.
[1:38:55 – 1:38:57] Erik: Double eye patch society.
[1:38:57 – 1:39:00] Adam: Rig up the diesel.
[1:39:01 – 1:39:05] Adam: In addition to getting some ice cold beers, I do have many cans of oil.
[1:39:05 – 1:39:07] Adam: We’re going to dump it right into the engine.
[1:39:07 – 1:39:08] Erik: Don’t forget the oil.
[1:39:08 – 1:39:09] Adam: Yeah, plenty of oil.
[1:39:09 – 1:39:10] Adam: Don’t let it seize up, Eric.
[1:39:11 – 1:39:11] Erik: Nope.
[1:39:11 – 1:39:12] Adam: All right.
[1:39:12 – 1:39:15] Adam: For episode 299 of Tumble Home, a proud independent podcast.
[1:39:16 – 1:39:21] Adam: Can’t wait to see you guys next week, whenever that is, for episode 300.
[1:39:21 – 1:39:22] Adam: Woo!
[1:39:22 – 1:39:23] Adam: Holy smokes.
[1:39:24 – 1:39:29] Adam: And until then, remember that every day is precious and life is a miracle.
[1:39:29 – 1:39:30] Adam: Good night.
[1:39:30 – 1:39:30] Adam: Good night.
[1:39:41 – 1:39:42] UNKNOWN: Thank you.