[23:25, 5.4MB, MP3] Recorded 2005/10/25
Complete schedule of the show:00:00 Welcome to One Big Happy Podcast #013, "Lucky Number"
00:04 ♩ "Opera Singer" by Cake from Comfort Eagle
00:29 Meet the Family: Happy Birthday to my Dad
03:30 ♩ "(She's) Sexy + 17" by Stray Cats from Greatest Hits
03:52 Kitty Update: She's Fern, and she costs money
11:05 ♩ "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age from Songs for the Deaf
11:19 True Sayings: "Who Cares?" is a new favorite, but kids inspire the darnedest sayings.
20:26 ♩ "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" by Scatman John from The Best of Scatman John
20:32 Wrap-up: Planning the next show already!
22:59 ♩ "Take Back the Beat" by Church of Rhythm from Church of Rhythm
23:25 End of podcast
As the short durations probably make clear, the listed songs are excerpted very briefly.
From Friday to Monday, with Thursday looming, this is definitely a casual chat.
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Article comments
1 - Phillip Winn
Two days, two podcasts. We're taking today off, but we should be back tomorrow!
2 - DJRadiohead
You fell for it! That's awesome.
3 - DJRadiohead
Comrade Phillip and Comrade Herself. This is how you two should refer to each other until the end of time.
All about the Communism. Now I am jealous.
4 - Phillip Winn
I was so darned annoyed with myself, I really, really thought about editing it out. The shame! I've been married to this woman and her clever "dumb little me" act for eleven years, and I fell for it on the air.
Sigh.
5 - DJRadiohead
John Mayer isn't music. He's a punishment!! Come to think of it, so is Maroon 5. :)
My friend... I wish I could take credit for it... the first time he heard the infamous "Your Body is a Wonderland." He immediately thought, "I could have come up with this. It's just so obvious. How did this song not get written before now?" His delivery was better than my typing it out... but you know what I mean? It's just one of those songs that seems to have always been there. Mayer just happened to write it and people went nuts for it.
So now I have gotten off on a tangent and totally missed the point of the podcast... which wasn't John Mayer. I look forward to the Halloween discussion. I would like to hear your perspective on that. My folks put the kabosh to Halloween when we were kids. I want you two to prove they were dopes. Good show.
6 - DJRadiohead
Comrade Phillip... be more disappointed when she can't still surprise you and sneak one by.
7 - Phillip Winn
I have a like/dislike relationship with John Mayer. Nothing so passionate as love or hate, of course. I think I'll scribble a few notes on an index card and save it for a future 'cast. :-)
8 - Phillip Winn
I'm sure I'll undermine my case in the eyes of many of those who completely eschew Halloween by using Halloween-oriented musical bits. (Yes, I'm planning to use the already-overused Thriller.) I'm not really an advocate, anyway. I'm just explaining where we're at.
And I spent too many Halloweens playing mini-golf with church groups.
9 - Mark Saleski
dj radiohead may reach out across the internet and smack me for this...
but i have to say that i enjoy John Mayer more than Elliot Smith.
(duck everybody!)
10 - Phillip Winn
I like Conor Oberst much, much less after hearing "When the President Talks to God," a pile of crap far beneath anything John Mayer has ever writter.
Yeah, that's about right.
11 - Mark Saleski
yea..and i like Conor Oberst because of "When the President Talks to God".
it's a big 'ole world out there.
12 - DJRadiohead
IT'S... GOING... TO... BLOW!!!!
Your bubblegum lips and... what? That's better than Elliott. Tell Mayer to take a cough drop, quit trying to sound like Dave Matthews, stop plaguing Buddy Guy records, and knock off the third-rate, eigth grade poetry. OH... MY... GOD!!! Saleski! I'm too fat and in too poor health to take these things this early in the morning. Pain. Why, Georgia, WHY?
This cinches it. I have to do another Elliott podcast. This offense cannot stand. I need aspirin. And Vodka. I need to shut up now.
13 - Phillip Winn
It's "candy lips, and bubblegum tongue," for starters.
I still don't have the new Buddy Guy album, but I've got B.B.King's 80 on which Mayer is featured. I'm telling you, the kid can play the guitar. But yeah, his voice -- despite the effort to sing in a bluesy style -- just doesn't measure up to King's.
Jealousy, DJ, is a terrible thing. :-)
14 - Mark Saleski
dj: you're forgettin: i don't listen to the words.
calm down.
15 - Mark Saleski
plus, pwinn is oh so right...mayer really can play that guitar.
16 - DJRadiohead
I... can't... calm... down!! :)
Jealousy is indeed a terrible thing. I am jealous. I do wish I had come up with that when I was single. Man... if THAT'S all it takes... boys, I might have had some fun. I'm telling you.
Marko, it's one thing not to pay special attention to the words. It's another to go out of one's way to ignore inane utterances and intolerable banality (did I overwrite there just a little bit?).
Yngwie Malmsteen can play the guitar but I am not listening to that, either! Give me Buddy Guy. He can do both! Give me Muddy Waters.
Oh, hell. I am being silly. Jealousy is a terrible thing. And I am terrible. Damnation!
17 - Mark Saleski
i don't have to go out of my way to ignore anything...it's automatic and effortless.
on the other hand, the music is much more interesting to my ears than Elliot Smith.
hey, blame dawn olsen for this...she encouraged me to go out and by the Mayer cd.
18 - Phillip Winn
You know, Mark, I've heard that Mayer has put together a "John Mayer Trio" and will be releasing a straight-up Blues album under that name.
19 - DJRadiohead
You've heard correct, Phillip. iTunes has a one-track sampler from the upcoming project.
I'll admit... I might be curious to hear what that sounds like. My guess is Stevie Ray Vaughan lite but now I am just being snarky.
20 - Phillip Winn
Many good Blue artists could be called "SRV Lite"; that doesn't make them not worth hearing!
You can hear 30 second samples each from two songs from the John Mayer Trio at iTunes.
I also spotted a few songs on which he'd partnered up with others that I'd somehow missed. Hmm...
21 - Phillip Winn
"Blues artists," I meant.
22 - DJRadiohead
Many contemporary blues artists, perhaps. It's funny. I still love SRV and if we were having this conversation a few years ago I would have been in fuller agreement with you.
Over the past couple years I have been on a blues discovery path of my own... going back to the 'originals.' I still love SRV and his music but have become quite attached to the artists who inspired him.
I guess what I am getting at is: the derivative is good. The derivative of the derivative gets... well, less good.
Plus I just don't like John Mayer. Didn't realize I was opening this can o' worms. Let's talk Halloween. ;)
23 - Phillip Winn
You mean the satan-worshipping holiday? ;-)
24 - DJRadiohead
That would be the one.
25 - Phillip Winn
We're currently aiming to address that topic on the 31st. Episode 15, I think. :-)