Louder with Crowder - April 30, 2020


LwC's Favorite Books & Albums for Quarantine | Ash Wednesday | Louder with Crowder

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A Man for All Markets by Edward Thorpe
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Steven Crowder
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Gerald Nickelback George Gilder Edward Thorpe Dracula Yuval Noah Harari Stevie Ray Vaughan Jackson Brown Greatest Hits Bob Dylan Sapiens Steven Doom Joel C. Rosenberg Creedence Clearwater Thomas DiLorenzo YouTube Premium Boondock Saints Doug TenNapel Quarter Black and 11 more
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16

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On this week's episode, the boys discuss the quarantine of the podcast's newest member, Gerald, as well as a bourbon pairing with Four Roses and American Rebel Robusto. They also discuss Gerald's recent book purchase, and Gerald's new book obsession.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, before you enjoy this installment of Ash Wednesday—or you may not enjoy it, frankly, I don't care—this is actually the last installment of Ash Wednesday that you'll see here on the YouTube, because usually it's behind the paywall for Mug Club members, and this is Mug Club Quarantine Month, so sign up at lidoofcreditor.com slash mugclub if you want these shows that you've been enjoying this month every day.
00:00:21.000 Well, you get to continue enjoying them every day.
00:00:23.000 Otherwise, you'll still get to We've got a clip here and there.
00:00:26.000 So ladderwithcredit.com slash Mug Club, enter in the promo code QUARANTINE, you'll get $30 off.
00:00:31.000 We hope that we've been here for you during this quarantine.
00:00:35.000 And as we move forward, after all of this is said and done, we hope that you join us.
00:00:41.000 Enjoy the show.
00:00:43.000 ♪ Intro Music ♪ There's nothing I love more... Small miracles... than that
00:00:57.000 intro song.
00:00:58.000 Every time I'm singing it, in my head, in my heart, with my hips, all of it.
00:01:03.000 Well, you just sang it out loud.
00:01:05.000 That's the small miracles that our mics were turned off.
00:01:07.000 I know.
00:01:08.000 But see, here's the thing.
00:01:10.000 Normally, when I have not taken the seat over and kicked Steven out, I'm over there singing to myself silently.
00:01:15.000 Are you?
00:01:16.000 Yeah, I love it.
00:01:17.000 It's a great little thing.
00:01:18.000 That's why you're always so happy.
00:01:19.000 Popping around.
00:01:20.000 I love it.
00:01:21.000 So I've got the pipe here today.
00:01:22.000 We're going to be doing a little bit of a pairing.
00:01:24.000 We're going to have a couple topics.
00:01:27.000 We have gotten rid of whoever the guy that normally sits here.
00:01:29.000 Whatever his name is.
00:01:31.000 Coronavirus I think got rid of him.
00:01:33.000 So it was a really long con that I planted a disease in Wuhan and then let it come all the way over here. 0.95
00:01:40.000 And then gave it to Stephen.
00:01:42.000 Well, he doesn't know I gave it to him.
00:01:46.000 He thinks it was community spread.
00:01:49.000 Alright, tell me, do we have a pairing?
00:01:52.000 We have a pairing.
00:01:53.000 It is from Mr. Brodigan.
00:01:56.000 Four Roses, Single Barrel, with an American Rebel.
00:02:00.000 Habano Robusto.
00:02:02.000 Wow.
00:02:03.000 OK.
00:02:03.000 That sounds pretty great.
00:02:04.000 A lot of pausing.
00:02:05.000 It's dramatic.
00:02:05.000 You know, I'm going to tell you.
00:02:06.000 I have no idea whether that's a real cigar.
00:02:08.000 It sounds like someone just picked out four words in a cigar random generator name thing.
00:02:12.000 It is a cigar.
00:02:13.000 But Four Roses single barrel is excellent.
00:02:16.000 So Four Roses, the regular, the single barrel, everything they make is really, really good and a great value.
00:02:22.000 And a lot of people are looking for bourbon these days.
00:02:23.000 And they're like, oh, well, you know, I'm going to try and get Eagle Rare.
00:02:27.000 Or, you know, Steven likes Wild Turkey.
00:02:29.000 And, you know, it's for the value.
00:02:31.000 No, no, they're really good.
00:02:32.000 Don't get me wrong.
00:02:33.000 I don't know if people are like, ah, f***ing Eagle Rare!
00:02:36.000 It's the best!
00:02:36.000 It is really good.
00:02:38.000 But, now you've got Four Roses.
00:02:41.000 Excellent stuff.
00:02:41.000 So, let's jump right into our first topic.
00:02:46.000 First topic is, what was the last book you finished, and what are you reading now?
00:02:50.000 Mmm, where do you want to start on that?
00:02:52.000 All right, so we know Gerald can't read.
00:02:54.000 Oh, come on! 0.99
00:02:55.000 Cooked on Phonics worked for me.
00:02:58.000 Oh, excellent.
00:02:59.000 How do you say a silent Q?
00:03:03.000 Good work!
00:03:05.000 He's hooked on it.
00:03:07.000 I thought I was going to get him.
00:03:08.000 We're going to go best to worst here on books.
00:03:13.000 That's definitely Wade.
00:03:14.000 We're going to start with Audio Wade.
00:03:16.000 Audio Wade, purveyor of the English language.
00:03:18.000 What are you reading right now?
00:03:20.000 Right now I'm reading Dracula.
00:03:22.000 It was my first time reading it.
00:03:23.000 I'd never gotten into it.
00:03:27.000 One thing that I've really picked up on is how well paced it is.
00:03:30.000 A lot of times when you go back to a lot of classics you sort of They don't have the same kind of end on a question kind of chapter structure and that kind of thing, but it's so well-structured and so well-written.
00:03:43.000 It's written from all these different perspectives, and it's basically a bunch of journals.
00:03:48.000 It's written with the structure of being a collection of journals at the end of this kind of saga that happens.
00:03:55.000 So it's been really, really good.
00:03:56.000 It doesn't at all feel like there's...
00:03:59.000 Sometimes when you read a classic, you can feel like you're having to traverse, like, a river every time.
00:04:04.000 I have to read ten or twelve pages in order to even get into this thing.
00:04:08.000 To get a chapter of good.
00:04:09.000 Yeah, but this one, tone-wise, I've also been really struck by how, really, how Christian the book is.
00:04:16.000 I hadn't really thought about it before.
00:04:18.000 It was actually recommended by Doug TenNapel, a friend of Mr. Garrett's here, and he had told me that that just really Yeah, I don't want to sort of, I mean obviously it's...
00:04:27.000 You can just spoiler alert your mom.
00:04:29.000 Yeah, spoiler alert. 0.95
00:04:31.000 Turns out he's just a sock puppet. Is that the end of it? 0.73
00:04:33.000 Or, you know...
00:04:35.000 Really, there's a lot of religious imagery in there that I wasn't expecting.
00:04:39.000 And it was a real treat.
00:04:41.000 You know, this reminds me of something people often talk about.
00:04:44.000 We may have talked about this a little bit here on the show, I think we have, which is, you know, people would criticize the creator of the Doom video game series to say, oh, it's celebrating demonology and Satan, etc.
00:04:56.000 But the guy who actually created it was like, um, have you played the game?
00:04:59.000 All you do is kill demons.
00:05:01.000 Those are the bad guys, I don't know. 0.83
00:05:03.000 It's because we're on God's side.
00:05:06.000 Wait, so you're saying you're not into killing demons.
00:05:10.000 Yeah, if you walked away from that with like a pro demon stick, I don't think you were paying attention.
00:05:15.000 If you start shooting the other good guys in Doom, there's something wrong with you to protect the demons.
00:05:19.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:05:20.000 How dare you?
00:05:21.000 Now, I do understand the question and concern.
00:05:21.000 It's not their fault.
00:05:23.000 I think whether it's reading or video games or any type of media, you have to expose children in an appropriate way and in an appropriate context.
00:05:32.000 So, I definitely understand that point.
00:05:34.000 But, again, in terms of pro or anti-demon, I think both Dracula and Doom fall clearly on the anti-demon side.
00:05:40.000 Have you read Dracula?
00:05:41.000 I have.
00:05:42.000 So, no sock puppets.
00:05:44.000 Okay, I'm excited to get to the end.
00:05:45.000 I really am.
00:05:45.000 You're going to like it.
00:05:46.000 I'm loving it.
00:05:47.000 Yeah, so good stuff.
00:05:48.000 Well, alright, so who else reads here?
00:05:50.000 Okay, I'll go.
00:05:52.000 So the last book that I finished was 21 Rules for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari.
00:06:00.000 He has three books that deal kind of with the beginning of humanity.
00:06:04.000 It's called Sapiens, and then he has a couple other books as well, but this one talks about a lot of really important things that are affecting the world right now and have been affecting us recently.
00:06:14.000 Including the rise of biotechnology and AI, and kind of how is the world going to deal with it?
00:06:19.000 And I really found it to be not just, you know, your page turner is the imagery, like every page is a new idea.
00:06:25.000 Paragraph to paragraph is new and interesting ideas about how we will think about the time in which we currently live.
00:06:32.000 Because people will say, oh, you know, you ask a question, oh, how many years from now will it be until a vehicle is deciding whether or not to kill a human being or not?
00:06:39.000 People will say, oh, one year, five years, ten years. 0.99
00:06:42.000 Some idiots will say 20 years. 1.00
00:06:44.000 But it's actually already happened. 1.00
00:06:45.000 It happened in 2019.
00:06:47.000 A vehicle chose to kill its own occupant rather than go on a sidewalk to avoid a collision where it would have hit some other people.
00:06:53.000 And so we're already in this world, and it's talking about, you know, what are we going to do when we have a class of individuals who are not trainable to keep up with the changes in technology, and how will we deal with that?
00:07:04.000 So it's a really fascinating book.
00:07:07.000 I've only kind of more recently gotten into a lot of nonfiction books and a lot of things that are more forward-looking.
00:07:12.000 I don't know, it's probably because I'm old.
00:07:14.000 Gerald, how long have you been reading boring books?
00:07:17.000 I reject the premise, sir.
00:07:20.000 So, yeah, I tend to read books that are like that too.
00:07:24.000 I love learning about things that I don't really know anything about or have just some, you know,
00:07:28.000 something that's just kind of a fun thing and I dive into different categories for a little while.
00:07:32.000 And then I'll pop back out and read somebody like Joel C. Rosenberg who writes these really great
00:07:36.000 fiction novels that have a lot of Christian kind of threads through them.
00:07:40.000 Obviously talking about end time stuff or whatever it may be.
00:07:43.000 He's got a new one coming out really soon, so I'm very excited.
00:07:45.000 He's the guy that I read in three days.
00:07:47.000 As soon as his book drops, I'm just reading it all the time.
00:07:50.000 Recently, I read The Problem with Socialism, which was a fantastic book.
00:07:56.000 If you needed examples of why socialism sucks, this gives you great ones, but you shouldn't need them. 0.99
00:08:00.000 It's pretty obvious why it sucks. 0.88
00:08:02.000 But this one gave you a lot of great information on why socialism doesn't work for people.
00:08:07.000 Not just on the economic side, but what it does to you as a person.
00:08:09.000 And so, that was really good.
00:08:11.000 Yeah, do you remember the author name?
00:08:12.000 The author, yeah.
00:08:13.000 I've got it on my phone.
00:08:13.000 Sorry, I just don't remember all these things.
00:08:15.000 Thomas DiLorenzo.
00:08:17.000 Which, that was a lot of fun.
00:08:18.000 So, is there any counterpoints in there?
00:08:19.000 Are there like any moments where like, yeah, you know, socialism is great, but only if you were at the very top of the food chain.
00:08:26.000 Well, it doesn't just make the case that socialism is bad.
00:08:31.000 It talks to you about what socialism does and in some ways lets you go, okay, do I want that or do I not want that?
00:08:37.000 But then it says, well, these are the consequences of doing that.
00:08:40.000 And you do walk away knowing, okay, well, if socialism happens, I need to be at the top.
00:08:47.000 It's like a multi-level marketing scheme is good as long as you're at the top, you're fine. 0.93
00:08:51.000 If you're somebody else down on one of those leg things that they talk about, it sucks.
00:08:54.000 And then the next one, so it kind of follows right in this one, is called Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder, which is a new edition for the 21st century, so there's some updating to it.
00:09:04.000 And it's great, like fundamental economic principles, but also talking about some of the current things that we've seen.
00:09:10.000 So I'm in a financial kick right now for some reason.
00:09:13.000 George Gilder also has a great book called Life After Google.
00:09:16.000 Yes, I read that too.
00:09:17.000 That's where I came across this one.
00:09:18.000 Top notch.
00:09:19.000 Really, really good.
00:09:20.000 It was Life After Google and he did one more that was like a life after thing.
00:09:23.000 I can't remember what it was.
00:09:24.000 Life After Television.
00:09:25.000 Television was the earlier one, right?
00:09:27.000 Yeah, so essentially he basically predicted the move of entertainment and news away from TV and back onto the internet.
00:09:35.000 Fascinating, fascinating stuff.
00:09:37.000 George Gilder is top notch.
00:09:38.000 So where's it going after that?
00:09:40.000 Life after Google.
00:09:40.000 Life after AI.
00:09:41.000 Yeah.
00:09:42.000 So basically what he predicts is that they'll move away— Spoiler alert.
00:09:46.000 Very much so.
00:09:47.000 If you want to read the book.
00:09:48.000 He predicts that companies will move away from the free service but paid advertising model, so like interruption ads, or moving more towards subscription services, which is basically what Mug Club is.
00:09:59.000 That's what's happening.
00:10:00.000 And YouTube Premium and stuff like that are the models for life after Google.
00:10:08.000 You heard it first here.
00:10:09.000 Mug Club.
00:10:11.000 Media of the future!
00:10:13.000 I've got to say this because our conversations off-air have been a lot about the forgotten depression.
00:10:20.000 It's really funny because I'm scrolling back through and I think about a year and a half ago I read a book by James Grant called The Forgotten Depression all about 1921 and what happened and what didn't happen.
00:10:28.000 Did you realize it was in that moment that Audie Wade was just cribbing that book and having conversations?
00:10:32.000 No, he was quoting somebody else.
00:10:33.000 Like in Good Will Hunting where he's like, and then you're going to quote this page, 682.
00:10:37.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:10:39.000 The Commonwealth of Virginia.
00:10:41.000 Agrarians.
00:10:42.000 Nice.
00:10:42.000 Yeah?
00:10:42.000 Is that it?
00:10:43.000 No, it's not it at all.
00:10:44.000 Which one of you had the apples?
00:10:47.000 No, I didn't.
00:10:47.000 I didn't.
00:10:48.000 All right, so, Quarter Black, tell us what you're reading. 0.65
00:10:51.000 Currently right now, I've started rereading The Lord of the Rings.
00:10:55.000 Oh, wow.
00:10:56.000 Nice.
00:10:56.000 I'm just in the first, you know, Fellowship of the Ring.
00:10:58.000 I haven't gotten too far in it.
00:11:00.000 Sure.
00:11:00.000 But yeah, I'm just getting through all those songs.
00:11:03.000 Is this the second time?
00:11:04.000 That's kind of through, or multiple times?
00:11:05.000 Multiple times.
00:11:06.000 Okay, gotcha.
00:11:07.000 The one I recently finished was, recently last year, Lord of the Flies.
00:11:12.000 Just because I wanted to go back.
00:11:14.000 I wanted to go back and read some of the ones.
00:11:19.000 Lord of the Dance is next.
00:11:20.000 It goes downhill from here.
00:11:21.000 Listening to a lot of Lord.
00:11:25.000 But yeah, I like that book a lot.
00:11:27.000 It's very interesting, kind of how he breaks down the psyche of a boy.
00:11:32.000 I heard that they're remaking it and making it all about girls, but it completely destroys the whole theme of it.
00:11:40.000 Are they going to be bitchy? 1.00
00:11:41.000 I don't know, but yeah, like how we have the society that we live in it almost like
00:11:41.000 I don't know.
00:11:46.000 You know all the right now Corona stuff ish It's like you take these elements of society out and then
00:11:52.000 they they try to create the society themselves And then it slowly deteriorates and yeah, yeah, and then
00:11:58.000 the way the book in spoiler alert is they get The whole island gets set on fire like all the kids are
00:12:04.000 killing each other they're chasing each other and they chase the lead all the
00:12:08.000 way down to the beach and There's a military ship. Yeah has found them and he shows
00:12:14.000 up and he's just like oh you kids you kids are crazy let's you know, I'm trying to save you and it's kind of
00:12:18.000 like The adult looks down on the kids saying like you you're
00:12:23.000 having this crazy battle Everything is destroyed. But really they're they're an army
00:12:28.000 and Their society is also doing the same things as the little
00:12:31.000 kids are doing So I don't know, I thought it was a... It's very interesting.
00:12:34.000 A lot of symbology.
00:12:36.000 Symbolism?
00:12:36.000 Symbolism.
00:12:37.000 Symbolize.
00:12:39.000 That's a Boondock Saints reference.
00:12:41.000 I love Boondock Saints.
00:12:42.000 THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!
00:12:45.000 Wow, he's seen the trailer.
00:12:48.000 I saw the movie in college, but it was still like a cult B movie.
00:12:51.000 Now it's everywhere.
00:12:52.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:12:53.000 Now it's spread just like viruses.
00:12:56.000 Hey, can I ask like a follow-up question?
00:12:58.000 Absolutely, I've got one too.
00:13:00.000 Like what would be, and I have one to answer this question because I wanted to recommend this book, but I thought it'd be cool to hear.
00:13:05.000 I do have another question.
00:13:05.000 Okay, so I'll be very quick.
00:13:07.000 What would be a great recommendation for somebody to read?
00:13:10.000 Maybe your next book or a book that you've read in the last year or two that you're just like, man, one of my favorites that I've read.
00:13:15.000 Very interesting, very cool book for people to read.
00:13:19.000 So one is that same author you all know, Harari.
00:13:23.000 He wrote Sapiens.
00:13:26.000 It's going to challenge your beliefs, especially a Christian, in our interpretation of where In our understanding and belief about where humanity came from. 0.95
00:13:37.000 I have the book, I haven't read it yet though.
00:13:40.000 There are a lot of things in there where I am equally, so every morning I'd read first websites that are of beliefs that typically are the ones I don't hold.
00:13:52.000 And I start from there and then I go to the other side.
00:13:55.000 Right, yeah.
00:13:55.000 I'm reading Teen Vogue.
00:13:58.000 You don't believe Teen Vogue?
00:13:59.000 I don't believe in teens.
00:13:59.000 Why not?
00:14:00.000 I don't believe in voguing.
00:14:02.000 I don't believe in any of it.
00:14:04.000 No, I mean, I read Slate.
00:14:05.000 I'll read CNN.
00:14:06.000 You know, CNN is, you know, if it has anything to not do with politics, I'm fairly okay with taking CNN at face value.
00:14:14.000 If it has anything to do with politics.
00:14:16.000 Even a whiff of politics.
00:14:17.000 I'm right there, just, you know, buckets of sodium.
00:14:22.000 I literally go get a pretzel from down the street at a cart and I eat the pretzel and I lick the salt off and then I read CNN.
00:14:28.000 So reading Sapiens was in a similar way because there are some very interesting sociological points but also just from a biological standpoint and going through what I consider to be easy to read, straightforward, full of citation, Position on the history of sapiens, of homo sapiens and the other types of human life.
00:14:49.000 And hetero sapiens.
00:14:51.000 All types.
00:14:52.000 All types.
00:14:53.000 Everyone in between.
00:14:54.000 It was an okay dad joke, yeah.
00:14:57.000 What about you guys?
00:14:58.000 Oh wow, we've got a train pulling through the studio.
00:15:01.000 Incredible, I like that.
00:15:02.000 Is this Mr. Rogers and we have a little train coming?
00:15:05.000 It is.
00:15:06.000 It's the train to your imagination.
00:15:07.000 Everyone put your car to get on.
00:15:08.000 Nice.
00:15:09.000 I actually had a follow up question as well, but I also want to hear the answer if anyone
00:15:12.000 has one on.
00:15:13.000 Go ahead.
00:15:14.000 You want to go, Gerald?
00:15:15.000 So one of my favorite books that I've read was A Man for All Markets by Edward Thorpe.
00:15:19.000 I don't know if you guys have ever heard him.
00:15:21.000 If you've seen the movie, what is it, the blackjack thing where the guy comes up with how to beat blackjack?
00:15:26.000 Counting cards, 21.
00:15:27.000 Yeah, 21, but it was based on a guy who released a book called Bringing Down the House, I believe.
00:15:32.000 And I believe that was Edward Thorpe who did that.
00:15:34.000 And just like phenomenally gifted person when it came to numbers and the markets and everything else.
00:15:41.000 And so it follows his life doing all these.
00:15:43.000 Like that would have been good enough, like you could just sit back the rest of your life
00:15:46.000 and be like, I beat Blackjack.
00:15:48.000 You know, like I brought down the best game in Vegas.
00:15:52.000 I'm done.
00:15:53.000 And he just kept going from there.
00:15:54.000 And he went up from there and the things that he did.
00:15:56.000 But he also, it didn't have that kind of circle back where he fails and it's horrible
00:16:00.000 and like he ended up losing his family and his house blows up or none of that happened.
00:16:04.000 And so you're like, oh, it's kind of a happier ending.
00:16:06.000 Like he kind of went off into the sunset doing this the rest of his life
00:16:09.000 and it walks you through all the stuff he did.
00:16:10.000 Really interesting, very cool book.
00:16:12.000 How come you didn't say spoiler alerts?
00:16:14.000 I didn't. 0.99
00:16:15.000 You're a terrible person. 0.99
00:16:16.000 I'm just realizing it now. 1.00
00:16:18.000 On air.
00:16:19.000 Let me ask an alternative question.
00:16:20.000 Thank you for that recommendation, Edward Thorpe.
00:16:23.000 When you mentioned earlier that you had read Lord of the Rings multiple times, are there, I want you guys to think and I'll give you mine, books that you've read multiple times?
00:16:31.000 And I will tell you one of the books that I've read multiple, multiple, multiple times is Ender's Game.
00:16:36.000 So I've read almost every book in the entire series and I've read Ender's Game now north of 26 times.
00:16:43.000 Didn't they make a movie about that?
00:16:44.000 They did make a movie, which I have not seen.
00:16:46.000 You haven't seen it?
00:16:47.000 I haven't seen the movie.
00:16:48.000 I'm scared to see the movie.
00:16:49.000 I thought it was interesting.
00:16:50.000 I'm scared to see the movie.
00:16:51.000 Sure.
00:16:51.000 Didn't do well.
00:16:52.000 My imagination of what is happening in that book... Right, yeah, it's probably going to let you down.
00:16:57.000 Nothing is going to trump that.
00:16:58.000 So, do you guys have any other books that you're reading that you've read multiple times that you would recommend?
00:17:04.000 So there's a book that I'm basically always reading.
00:17:08.000 The Bible.
00:17:09.000 It's a book called Orthodoxy by G.K.
00:17:10.000 Chesterton.
00:17:13.000 G.K.! 0.51
00:17:14.000 In case anyone wasn't listening closely, you had your audio down, which is wise.
00:17:23.000 There again, we've got Gerald hitting slash slapping his own chest meat.
00:17:28.000 chest meat. That's what that sound is. Yeah. I'm gonna have bruises. Like two mating gorillas. 0.73
00:17:36.000 All right. So anyway. Go ahead Chesterton. So yeah, GK Chesterton was a journalist. He
00:17:42.000 wrote the, he wrote the Father Brown stories. A lot of people know him from
00:17:44.000 that. But yeah, Orthodoxy is basically, it's a book, yeah, it's a sort of book
00:17:51.000 where when you read it the first time you underline everything because it's
00:17:55.000 all like perfect.
00:17:56.000 Every sentence you go, wow, I never thought about anything that way.
00:17:59.000 And then you go back to it later and you don't remember any of it because everything was so brilliant that it basically just washes over you and you forget all about it.
00:18:07.000 So it's the sort of thing that you have to reread.
00:18:09.000 I've found that with Chesterton a lot.
00:18:10.000 But yeah, I'm pretty much always reading that one or always listening to it.
00:18:14.000 It's one of my favorite books ever.
00:18:16.000 Amazing.
00:18:16.000 I'm gonna have to go get it.
00:18:17.000 I love it.
00:18:18.000 Excellent.
00:18:18.000 All right, so we do have another topic, so we're gonna move on to that one.
00:18:22.000 And our next topic is, if you could only listen to two albums for the rest of your very short coronavirus life, what would those two albums be?
00:18:36.000 Ooh.
00:18:36.000 Gerald.
00:18:36.000 I know.
00:18:37.000 Alright, so, uh, Def Leppard, uh, Pyromania.
00:18:40.000 Nice.
00:18:41.000 It's a pretty good one.
00:18:41.000 They have, I mean, like, five or six of their best songs were on that one.
00:18:45.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:18:45.000 So, very, very good.
00:18:46.000 And then, I don't think, and somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think Coldplay has, like, a greatest hits album that I know of.
00:18:52.000 I'm sure.
00:18:52.000 I would do that.
00:18:52.000 If that was out, I would do that.
00:18:54.000 Maybe they do, and I just have never seen it, but if not, I would pick Rush of Blood to the Head.
00:18:57.000 Someone's got some, like, mixed USB out there with all the... Well, I've made one, but I'm saying, like, mass marketed.
00:19:05.000 So, it would be those two.
00:19:06.000 Coldplay is like, you know, I got my 80s stuff, which for some reason I love, even though I didn't love it when I was, you know, in the 80s.
00:19:13.000 I went back and started liking it, so it's kind of funny.
00:19:15.000 But he learned to like it.
00:19:17.000 And Coldplay, as we know, is the greatest rock band in the world.
00:19:20.000 As the movie yesterday said, it's not Coldplay.
00:19:23.000 It's not Fix You.
00:19:25.000 Ladies and gentlemen, in an effort to contain the Coldplay virus, I will be locking the doors and burning this entire studio to the ground.
00:19:34.000 Yeah, it's probably safe.
00:19:36.000 We'll take precautions.
00:19:37.000 Thank you, and God save the Queen.
00:19:40.000 Gerald, seriously, you have equated yourself terribly here.
00:19:44.000 Okay, if they're not on the list of the top ten greatest bands in history, what criteria are you using?
00:19:50.000 Good criteria.
00:19:52.000 I get if you don't like them and that's fine, but I don't like the Beatles and I know they're a top ten band in history, okay?
00:19:56.000 Look, I'm gonna tell you Gerald, I have terrible taste in everything, but I have better taste in people.
00:20:01.000 At least you know Coldplay!
00:20:03.000 Their first album's pretty good.
00:20:05.000 I'm not saying they're a bad band, I'm saying I hate Coldplay.
00:20:08.000 And in fairness, this is your own personal hell that you have to live in the rest of your life by picking these two albums.
00:20:14.000 I mean, Nickelback.
00:20:14.000 Oh gosh, no.
00:20:16.000 What the hell's the matter with you? 1.00
00:20:19.000 If the choices are between cutting yourself and listening to Nickelback, I'm gonna probably cut myself. 0.99
00:20:24.000 But some people might choose Nickelback instead, right?
00:20:26.000 I'm gonna end it.
00:20:27.000 They'll choose Nickelback and then cut themselves.
00:20:29.000 There's no sweet without the sour.
00:20:31.000 Nickelback is the sour.
00:20:32.000 Alright, audio away.
00:20:34.000 Two albums.
00:20:34.000 Racist.
00:20:35.000 It's hard to narrow it down to two. 0.94
00:20:37.000 If I had to...
00:20:39.000 That literally is the premise of the question.
00:20:41.000 You do have to.
00:20:42.000 Were you listening?
00:20:43.000 I have to.
00:20:45.000 Probably Paul Simon's Graceland.
00:20:48.000 I think that's got to be number one.
00:20:51.000 And then maybe it would either be another side of Bob Dylan, one of the early Bob Dylan records, and Jackson Brown I don't know.
00:21:04.000 That's kind of my stuff.
00:21:07.000 It would be really hard to choose between those three, but something like that.
00:21:11.000 You're a sweet guy, we're gonna let you have three.
00:21:13.000 You've earned it, you've earned it.
00:21:16.000 In this fictional universe, you've earned a third album.
00:21:20.000 Alright, Quarterblack, tell us all about your two.
00:21:23.000 As everybody knows, I love Cody and Cambria, so In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 is one of my picks.
00:21:30.000 And my second would be, I can't I don't remember the name.
00:21:33.000 I think it's Texas Flood by Steve Ray Vaughan.
00:21:36.000 I know they have the song, but I think the whole album was named that.
00:21:39.000 If not, just The Greatest Hits by Steve Ray Vaughan.
00:21:42.000 No rap?
00:21:44.000 I'm curious.
00:21:47.000 Gerald, every time I think there's no way that Gerald can become more racist, then all of a sudden I imagine that... There's a 25% chance!
00:21:56.000 I just imagine that little music video where... I mean, I can't even remember what the song is now, but I think it's Lil Jon.
00:22:03.000 Where there's a dancing Asian guy and he's humping the air so hard he slams through the ground and the whole video is like people dancing even more and slamming through more floors of this apartment building down and down and down and down and that's you. 0.98
00:22:16.000 It is.
00:22:17.000 On Racism.
00:22:18.000 It is.
00:22:18.000 It is.
00:22:20.000 Stopping me.
00:22:22.000 If I could only listen to two albums with my terrible taste.
00:22:24.000 Tupac.
00:22:26.000 The first one would be, a little cheating here, Creedence Clearwater.
00:22:31.000 Okay.
00:22:32.000 Greatest Hits.
00:22:33.000 Greatest Hits is still fine.
00:22:34.000 They have a Greatest Hits.
00:22:35.000 It's an album.
00:22:36.000 It was offered.
00:22:36.000 It was real.
00:22:37.000 It wasn't a mixtape.
00:22:38.000 Yeah.
00:22:38.000 I like it.
00:22:39.000 There are so many songs that every time they come on, I think, man, I'm in a good mood.
00:22:44.000 Yeah.
00:22:46.000 Some really amazing stuff.
00:22:47.000 A lot.
00:22:48.000 And here's the thing that came to my mind when I was thinking about this criteria is There are a whole range of emotions that music helps to either bring you into or to help you out of.
00:22:57.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:22:58.000 And I think there's a broad variety of music on that particular album.
00:23:01.000 My second album would be Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette.
00:23:05.000 Really?
00:23:06.000 Yes.
00:23:07.000 This is a lot of emotion.
00:23:08.000 It's like rain.
00:23:08.000 A lot of emotion.
00:23:10.000 Her early album?
00:23:12.000 Yeah, the first one.
00:23:12.000 The 90s?
00:23:13.000 Yeah.
00:23:13.000 That was, yeah.
00:23:14.000 1998?
00:23:14.000 I think her first commercial success one.
00:23:16.000 Isn't it ironic, I guess?
00:23:17.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:23:17.000 It's the song that was the lead.
00:23:19.000 Yeah, you ought to know.
00:23:20.000 Amazing stuff.
00:23:21.000 Gerald, would you go down on him in a theater?
00:23:25.000 Wait, what?
00:23:25.000 That's one of the lyrics.
00:23:27.000 Oh my gosh. 0.99
00:23:28.000 You guys are terrible.
00:23:30.000 I knew the lyrics, but I chose not to.
00:23:32.000 So here's sub-question, sub-question.
00:23:35.000 When I was in college, I worked at a company that was in the firearms industry, and I had a gentleman who I worked for in a particular department who told me he had been given... It's very vague, all of this.
00:23:46.000 A particular company and a gentleman in a particular department.
00:23:50.000 I'm just going to let it ride, aren't you?
00:23:51.000 I had a lot of respect for him, and I thought he had really good focus at work, etc.
00:23:56.000 And I just asked him, I was like, hey, what are you always listening to every day?
00:23:59.000 Are you listening to certain music?
00:24:00.000 And he said, I'm listening to this one album called December, and it's just instrumental Christmas and hymn music from the winter holidays and Christmas holidays.
00:24:10.000 And he's like, here, let me give you a copy.
00:24:13.000 And I still have the same copy that he gave me, though I've now downloaded to put it on my phone.
00:24:17.000 But whenever I need to crank out work, I put on this instrumental Christmas music all year round, and I just get in the zone.
00:24:25.000 Like, if I had a montage, instead of Eye of the Tiger, it would be this December album.
00:24:30.000 Well, but that's the thing.
00:24:31.000 Sometimes you need your brain.
00:24:33.000 Classical music is a great thing to work to.
00:24:35.000 For me, it's Coldplay.
00:24:36.000 I used to listen to Coldplay, no lie, counting cash.
00:24:39.000 Because I used to run a racetrack up in Ohio, and I would count $20,000 to $30,000, and it would take like seven or eight hours to allocate it to the right places.
00:24:47.000 Drug money is what it sounds like, I know.
00:24:48.000 But I would listen to Coldplay, and so now when I listen to it, it doesn't distract me at all.
00:24:52.000 I can do whatever work or whatever focus that I need to, so that's my version of yours.
00:24:56.000 I will say, though, Gerald, as a lawyer, I'm not your lawyer, but I would recommend that you not talk about your money laundering.
00:25:02.000 I deposited all of it.
00:25:04.000 I filled out all the paperwork.
00:25:06.000 I walked into a bank one time with $100,000 in a duffel bag and they're like, can you come around the counter please?
00:25:11.000 I could have been hit like easily and the money taken from me.
00:25:14.000 Okay.
00:25:14.000 Um, let me grab a pen.
00:25:16.000 What racetrack was this?
00:25:18.000 I was a part owner of Lorain County Speedway up in Ohio, right out of college.
00:25:22.000 It was a three eighths mile asphalt, high banked racetrack, NASCAR sanctioned, one of a hundred in the country.
00:25:27.000 Yeah.
00:25:27.000 Did you race?
00:25:29.000 I didn't race, but I jumped in a car every once in a while just for fun when the track was not going.
00:25:33.000 Gotcha.
00:25:33.000 You were the Belichick, not the race.
00:25:35.000 Yes, exactly.
00:25:36.000 But I did compete in a demolition derby, which was all kinds of fun.
00:25:39.000 That was fun.
00:25:40.000 Yes.
00:25:41.000 We won.
00:25:41.000 Our team won.
00:25:43.000 Incredible.
00:25:44.000 I like it.
00:25:46.000 So those are our topics for the day.
00:25:48.000 Super excited to hear all the different comments we could have from people, so go ahead and post at S Crowder.
00:25:54.000 Tell us about your albums that you're listening to, and if you had only two that you could listen to, go ahead and tell us all here at the show.