143 - Dr. John, the Night Tripper - Gris Gris - Wayne Federman

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The 500 with Josh Adam Meyers

Episode 143: Dr. John, the Night Tripper – Gris Gris

Guest: Wayne Fetterman
Date: September 10, 2025
Album: Gris Gris by Dr. John, the Night Tripper (#143 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums)

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Episode Theme & Purpose

In this episode, host Josh Adam Meyers and comedian Wayne Fetterman take a deep dive into Dr. John’s 1968 debut album Gris Gris, an enigmatic and influential piece of psychedelic New Orleans “voodoo” music. Neither host professes to be an expert on this particular record, and much of the conversation rotates around discovering the album in real time, their impressions, and its unique historical place — leaning on humor and personal anecdotes. The episode also includes musical samples, some loose factual exploration, and tangents about travel and life on tour.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Life Updates & Travel Antics (06:05 – 19:20)

• Josh is on tour in Europe with Jelly Roll, breaking his wrist in a scooter accident, hanging around with celebrities (John Kerry, President Zelensky), and getting into misadventures in Paris and Amsterdam.
• Humorous discussion of Amsterdam’s red-light district: “I went to the same [sex worker] twice… she was just, I mean, drop dead gorgeous.” (12:48)
• Light-hearted talk about memorable figures he’s suddenly connected to, like possibly meeting the Pope via a performance at the Vatican:

  “Of all the people that don’t deserve any of this, it’s you. It’s incredible.” – Wayne (16:56)

2. First Impressions of Gris Gris (19:28 – 24:49)

• Neither Josh nor Wayne really knew the album before preparing for the episode.

• Both are unsure why the record ranks so highly; acknowledge it’s not Dr. John’s most popular nor most accessible work.

• Discussion of how Gris Gris is revered by critics and musicians (not the general public), with Wayne making a case that “intellectual people” see this as the quintessential Dr. John.

  “It never charted. There’s no hit songs. It’s just, like, intellectual people like, ‘This is the right Dr. John record.’” – Wayne (23:02)

3. Why Is This Album Important? (24:50 – 25:53)

• Struggling to pinpoint its influence, compared to other legendary “prototype” albums.
• Both hosts try to place it within musical lineages—New Orleans R&B, voodoo soul—but find it’s more a standalone oddity than a clear forerunner to later hits.

4. Dr. John’s Story & Persona (28:04 – 30:09)

• Wayne gives a concise history:
  • Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) was a New Orleans musician, originally a guitarist, got into trouble, moved to LA, became a session player.
  • Gris Gris was recorded in Los Angeles, despite its authentic New Orleans sound.
  • Dr. John’s persona was borrowed (“Night Tripper”), and the voodoo aesthetic was a radical and theatrical move at the time.

5. Album Listen & Musical Impressions

a. “Mama Roux” (Track 3, 30:15 – 31:27)

• Marked by playful New Orleans imagery and humor about voodoo souvenirs.
• Discusses the meaning of “Gris Gris” — a voodoo charm or amulet for protection or sexual energy.
• Performance and production sound: “It sounds like he’s recording using, like, the shittiest microphone you can find.” – Josh (33:08)

b. Production Context & Studio Talk (33:27 – 34:15)

• Gris Gris was recorded at Gold Star Studios in LA, the same place as Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound.” Despite that, the album feels underproduced compared to those pop masterpieces.

c. Other Tracks & Vibe (44:02 – 45:13; 50:09 – 53:14)

• Focus on the album as a mood piece rather than a collection of potential singles.
• Track Highlights:
  • “Danse Kalinda Ba Doom” (Track 2): Used by Josh for an Instagram story—evocative, cinematic, “Paul Thomas Anderson movie soundtrack” vibes.
  • “Jump Sturdy” (Track 6): Wayne’s favorite, for its traditional flavor.
  • “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” (Track 7): The album's signature “creepy voodoo soup,” later sampled by Beck and Oasis (see below).

6. Cultural Impact & Samples (53:20 – 59:54)

• “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” has proven culturally durable:
  • Covered and performed by The Allman Brothers Band, Humble Pie, Jello Biafra, and others.
  • Sampled in Beck’s “Loser” and Oasis’ “Go Let It Out,” tying its DNA to major 1990s hits.
  • “That might be the best song on the record. … It has the most cultural weight and tentacles through music right through the years.” – Wayne (58:01)

7. Album’s Unique Place in History (Throughout)

• Even as both hosts love Dr. John in general, they note:
  • This isn’t his piano-based music or his chart-topping work.
  • Its value lies in its rootsy, swampy, psychedelic atmosphere and its role as an artistic statement.
  • “If you just want to go into a different world … this is the album for you.” – Wayne (65:22)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the record’s “art house” status:

  “It’s like people who love art house films … ‘Oh, you think Titanic’s great? Well, have you seen Hiroshima, Mon Amour?’”
  – Josh (23:31)

• On Dr. John’s influence:

  “He became this incredible piano player after all this … then he had that big hit ‘Right Place, Wrong Time.’ But there’s no piano music [here].”
  – Wayne (58:16)

• On personal discoveries:

  “Sometimes you gotta lose an organ to have a great time, you know what I mean?”
  – Josh (64:03)

• On album’s uniqueness:

  “It’s a mood album … there’s no hit songs on this. It’s not that kind of album.”
  – Wayne (69:18)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Travel & Tour Stories: 06:05 – 19:20
• First Thoughts on Gris Gris: 19:28 – 24:49
• Album Significance & Influence Debate: 24:50 – 25:53
• Dr. John’s Backstory/Persona: 28:04 – 30:09
• Music/Track Samples & Impressions: 30:15 – 36:24; 44:02 – 45:13; 50:09 – 53:14
• Song Sample Connections (Beck, Oasis): 53:20 – 59:54
• Favorite Song Choices: 61:52 – 63:09
• To Skip or Not to Skip Discussion: 66:02 – 69:43
• Fun Facts & Dr. John’s Legacy: 69:46 – 71:55

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Final Thoughts & Album Verdict

• Both hosts enjoy the record more as they listen and discuss it, appreciating its vibe if not its accessibility.
• Wayne underscores that if listeners want to be transported into a different, atmospheric musical world, Gris Gris is a unique portal.
• Josh: “I think this is a great record. I don’t know if it deserves to be on the list, but I think it’s a great record.” (66:02)
• No definitive answer on its list placement, but a newfound respect for its influence and ambiance.

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Guest Plugs & Upcoming Projects

• Wayne Fetterman:
  • Mel Brooks and Maria Bamford documentaries in progress.
  • Upcoming acting appearance in CBS’s “Elsbeth” in October.
• Josh:
  • Ongoing travels and live shows; see website/social media for details.

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Overall Vibe

Conversational, irreverent, and playful — with two comedians finding their footing on a lesser-known classic, sharing life updates, musical impressions, and plenty of laughter along the way.

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Next episode: #142 – A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector

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Transcript

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[Wayne Fetterman]

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[Wayne Fetterman]

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[Josh Adam Myers]

A little red and blue that is Mamaroo. It's by Dr. John the Night Tripper from the 1968 album Grigri, which I thought was Gris Chris. It's also number 143 out of 500 on the 500 with Josh Adam Myers Wondering why it still sounds like well, I am in Amsterdam right now still on tour with Jelly Roll, having the time of my life. We'll be back soon. I think maybe mid September. I'm not sure. But you are surely listening to the only podcast where comedians going through Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums from 500 down to 1. Yeah, I'm having the time of my Life. I'm in Amsterdam. We got in yesterday. I'm at the Sofitel, right next to the red light district. So there's a lot of skadoodling going on down there. It is raining out right now. Jelly's playing basketball. I broke my wrist. I can't do anything. So I said, why not record my intro before Adam and Peter start sending me messages. I'm on the road right now. When I get back, heads up, we bump Sydney in Melbourne, Australia. We're going to be doing those in early 2026, but I will be in Bahrain with Bill Burr on 925 Saudi Arabia at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, 926 through the 27th. The Naples, Florida, New Westminster, but it's really Vancouver, Santa Ana, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Phoenix, Arizona, New Orleans, Baltimore, Charlotte and Connecticut all will be finishing out the maybe something on New Year's. Usually I do something, but either way, go to Josh Adamyers.com for tickets, okay? Okay. Yeah, everyone speaks like this here. That is not true. But I love it here. All right, subscribe to The Patreon, everybody. Patreon.com backslash the 500 podcast. Me and our guest today, Wayne Fetterman with DJ Morty Coyle and of course, my main man, JT. Man, we had a good time in Ibiza, I'll tell you that much. We almost got arrested by police, but that's another story for Master Fleece Theater. So find out about it. Enjoy yourselves. Patreon.com backslash the 500 podcast. $5 gets you the pod, 25 gets you merch in the pod and a bunch of other stuff. Help this beautiful show finish strong. All right? Oh, and then YouTube, YouTube.com backslash the 500 podcast. Also, I'm at Josh Adam Myers on all social media. Help me out. All right, so let's get to the meat and the potatoes of this whole thing. So originally we had a guest and we were supposed to record when I was in Zurich. It just couldn't happen. And so my good man Wayne Fetterman had to step in. Truth be told, it was one of my favorite things to do on this trip. I love talking to him. He's man, if every episode was Wayne and I know Emily would be like, josh, go fuck yourself. It's just so fun. I get along with him. I feel comfortable with him. I mean, not saying I don't feel comfortable with the other guests. I just love him. And so that's. That's our guest today, dude. So let's dig into it, rate review and most Importantly, subscribe to the 500 listen free on all platforms or anywhere you get your pods. Follow me at Josh Adam Myers on all social media and the podcast at the 500 podcast. Email the [e-mail]. Follow the Facebook group run by Crazy Evan. And for all things 5 00, go to the website the500podcast.com. All right, y', all, not left to say, but, ah, here we go with number 143 out of 500 with gris by Dr. John the night Tripper. We're doing it. We're doing it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

We're on the clock. We're on the clock.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We got one hour of power.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Let's do it. Where are you exactly right now? So I know what.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Right now I'm at the Intercontinental Hotel in Paris, France. Two days ago. Or maybe it was yesterday, because, I mean, these days are just going by so quickly. Yesterday, there were armed Secret Service everywhere. And I mean everywhere, dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Like, wait, are you talking about. You're still. You were in Paris yesterday?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I was in Paris. So we. So we've been. I mean, I've been everywhere over the last. The last two weeks have been crazy since I joined with Jelly's tour. Yeah, the. But before that, I. I went to London for a week, a visa to CJT for four days, right? Then I went to Paris by myself for two nights, three days. Then I went to Amsterdam for five days. Was only going to do two nights, three days, but then I linked up with Queens of the Stone Age, and I just did a bunch of stuff with them then. Let me turn this off. My glasses are talking to me. Then I went to Berlin. Was gonna have a layover in Copenhagen and stay there.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Let's just. Can we get to the streets and the cops, please, with the itinerary?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, yeah. You asked me where I've been.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, I did not ask you that at all. I said, where are you?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Okay. So I. So we basically, we've been in. We had. So the London shows got canceled because there's a tube strike. So we were just staying in Paris for four days, but today. So it was cool. Like. Like last night we went to see Jim Jeffries at a theater. Like, I took out all the. All the crew and stuff, and it was great. And then tonight we flew to Hanover, Germany, did a show, and then we immediately flew back to Paris. And now we're in Paris for the next three nights. Yeah. Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night we're going to ufc. Oh, I have. I have, like, front Row. Then we're going to a Drake concert on Sunday night because he's friends with Drake and then he is. He's friends with everybody. Dude. I was. I was in the car with him. I just like to go like Barbra Streisand. Do you know her?

[Wayne Fetterman]

And he's like, what is the big song that jelly does? No, Hendrick does about Drake is. He ain't one of them.

[Josh Adam Myers]

They're not like us. Yeah, he does not.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So when he sings that. Now that you go to Drakehounds, he's talking about you now. Right?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, that's. That's splitting hairs there, dude. I mean, I'm just. I'm just a bystander.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Look at the water bottle they give you. They give you an official intercontinental hotel water bottle.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, that is in town. Look at your living. So.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, dude. Let me tell you something, Wayne. So I didn't get to finish that story. So there's armed guards everywhere. Guess who I run into. Senator John Kerry. Yeah, he's staying at our hotel.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You mean ex presidential candidate John Kerry?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And then Vietnam war veteran John Kerry.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Swift boat, flip, flop.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Thing is, the guy that was the. He was wind sailing. Was that what it was?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Heinz ketchup wife.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Right, right, right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I know. I. I said all that. He. I was like, can I get a picture? I was like, I'm a huge fan. Swift boat, Heinz ketchup, flip, flop. You didn't flip flop. You're not a flip flopper. I did all that. You did not want a picture with me? Guess who that. Guess who then I see.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wait, is that why all the security is there for John?

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, I said that. Then I see president Zelensky. Oh, walk in. They were having. I don't know if you saw in the news. They were having the meeting.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I'm watching u. S. Open tennis is what I'm doing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Okay. All right.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So Zelinsky is in Paris.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Zelinsky and all of the heads of, of the.

[Wayne Fetterman]

The euro. Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I would call them the allied nations, you know, the positive people. They're signing an agreement that if there is a ceasefire and Russia attacks, they'll all attack.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, Right. Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And they're gonna have. They're gonna have. They're now going to go to president Trump and present it to him. It was all happening at my hotel.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right, well, at least euro is stepping up. I appreciate that. It's. It's right in their backyard. Right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, it's.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Suddenly I'm the expert on inter. International political.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, so that's why all the security was there.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. And then did you see this?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, my God. I see that you're. It looks like you have a cast on your wrist.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Flip, flip, flop.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Crazy boating accident you had on one of the yachts of the Cary family.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So I was trying to open up a champagne bottle for people because John and. And Clea. I'm assuming that's her name. Clea. No, I. I fell off a scooter. I. I've been telling people this much longer story where I, you know. Yeah. It's for the comedic effect, but.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And it works.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You fell off a scooter?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I fell off a scooter.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Did you know it was bad as soon as you hit the ground?

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, I thought it was. I thought. It's not bad. It is just a fracture of the tiniest bone. Right. Is that. That's gonna be. It's literally healed right now.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

A few days ago. I mean, it's not healed, but it's like, I still. Actually, I felt that they probably shouldn't move it that way still.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So if it was. They said if it was a crack on the other side of the arm, I would need surgery. And because it was where it is, it'll heal within a week, and then it's just a matter of laying off it for, like, four more weeks and. But this could come off at probably like three or four days, I think. Probably four days.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know this is the area. You know, I don't like talking about this, but tell me about masturbation. Do you have to go to the left? Do you have to.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I've always been left. I've always been left.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So I write with my right, and I use the. I use the computer. You always use the mouse pad with your right hand. So I learned. I trained myself how to use my left.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, okay. All right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, but also. But also, you know, I was in Amsterdam a bunch, so hookers. I did. I went. I went to the same one twice.

[Wayne Fetterman]

How old. How old is she?

[Josh Adam Myers]

She was young. She was in her early 20s, but good God, was she drop dead gorgeous. And when I, I. I was like. Because I was in Amsterdam for four days. How much?

[Wayne Fetterman]

How much?

[Josh Adam Myers]

It was a little expensive.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Ballpark it for me.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, they get you in for a hundred euros, and then they get you started, and then you're like, all right, can I touch you?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wait a minute. They up charge you in the middle of it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

They pull out a menu, and it just kills your. Your already you know, your erection. And then we discuss money. And then it goes from, hey, well, I want to touch you naked. But I. But.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So wait a minute. They swipe, like, a credit card right at the beginning.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, dude, I got points for this. I got MX points.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I can fly to Portland for free. Oh, my God. You know, I've never been to. I've never been to. I don't think I. I think I go to the grave without going to a prostitute.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But you're not missing anything. But. But I'll be really with you. Amsterdam. It's awesome. And. And I went there when I was in my early, early, early ear. I was 18 when I went there, and I had no money.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I gotta go back. Was she, like, in a window? Like, when you're.

[Josh Adam Myers]

She was in the window. She was in the window, yeah. And first time I saw eye contact and do. Oh, yeah, they pull you. This chick's so hot. Like, she's just like. You're like, all right, dude, I'm in. And I didn't even, like. Usually they. You try to talk to him at the beginning. I was like, yeah, I'm good. Me and you, let's do this.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Like, he didn't have to charm you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You're my type. We're good to go.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And you have to sign. Do you have to sign a release?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Nothing. No release. You just go in and then you just discuss money, what you want, and then you pay her first, and then you do it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What about, like, protection? Do you do or you, like.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, you know, it's funny. I went to one before her.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And she gave me a hand job wearing this plastic glove and then touched my balls with a paper towel. And I was like, this is very transactional. This is. This is not what I signed up for. I've never had anybody do this, but this girl. No glove. No paper towel. So I was like, I'm in.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And HJ for an hj.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Hj. No glove with hand.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And then I do like balls. Yeah, I do like J. By the way. Just.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Who doesn't. Who doesn't know?

[Wayne Fetterman]

A lot of people think it's like high school. I love them. I love. Let me tell you why I like them.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Why?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Because I like to connect with the person I'm having sex with. So you can still kind of be face to face. Do you know at all when. I know you're yawning, but exactly what.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You'Re talking about, dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, I really enjoy the. Yeah, yeah. I really enjoy that part of it. And. And it's super safe. I mean, there's a. You can't. I mean.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Callous.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I. I've never had the paper towel version of it, but I guess I'm open to that.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, you're not. No one's.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I love it. I love it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So what's funny is what a life.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Adventure you're having, man. Hanging out with. And Carrie and getting a hand job and.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? I got the last thing to throw on top of this.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Let me. This is the. Wait. This is the dessert. This is the chair. This is.

[Josh Adam Myers]

This is. This is as good as it gets. This is. This is me being the most Forrest Gump that I could ever be. Forrest Gump. Are you ready? Who I'm meeting? Because I. I have to cancel.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I have an idea. Can I take a guess?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Take a guess. You're not gonna get it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Is it the star of Evita on the West End? Rachel Ziegler?

[Josh Adam Myers]

No. Even. Dude, this is like. The fact that I'm about to meet this person is insane.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You won't give me just one hint just so I can have a little fun with it? Just.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Conclave.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Conclave.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, Ray finds meeting the Pope.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, that's a step down for breakfast. Wait, how was that even. You're going to the Vatican or.

[Josh Adam Myers]

See, Jelly is performing. Jelly is performing at the Vatican. So I'm going to get fitted for a suit because I'm going to be with him, and we're going to meet the Pope.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, my God. Of all the people that don't deserve any of this, it's you. It's incredible. That's beautiful, man. That is incredible.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Of Forest Gump. Dude, this is the. The greatest summer of my life.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I can't stress to you how nervous I was about going out on my own. And all I've done is just have the. I don't want to come home. I do not want to come home.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, it sounds like you're living a dream over there.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I've extended. I've ex. Because, like. Like, Jelly was, like, healing, you know, he was like, you know, he was like, yeah, you want to stay on for the end of the tour? When. When I met him in Berlin, and I was like, yeah, I'd love to. And then I was like, well, I gotta go back to do this benefit, you know, for the jam. But I'm kind of like. I just think Steve Burns got. It's too much fun. It's too much of a lifetime opportunity. Steve can host the jam. It's his show anyway. And I'll talk to him, and hopefully he understands that and, you know, and I love him to death. And the band can handle it. It's like, all I would do is the opening. And I'm not missing meeting the Pope to go to Pittsburgh.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No way. Wait, no way. No way, Jay. No way.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, but.

[Wayne Fetterman]

But you're incredible. I'm so. I'm just kveling.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, but let me tell you, dude, let me tell you the funniest thing, because I don't know if there's a joke here, but, like, when I. I won it when I. We went back to. We went back to Amsterdam like two or three days ago.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Just for them to do a show.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And then for. Let's do a show and then we go to. And then they. They had something to do during the day. So I had the whole day to, like, go into Amsterdam. I was like, I'm gonna find the no paper towel girl. I'm gonna go find her again. And my buddy tells me, just drop you off in the center of city, right in the red light district. Within two minutes of searching, I find her. And it was. It was like, oh, my God, it's you. I found you. You remember me. Remember? From the time with the thing. And you're, like, trying to explain. She's like, who are you? And you're like, right, Right. Come on. You remember me at all? Like, I had sex with you, right? No. No Glove. Remember? You didn't know Glove. You still do that? You still do. No Glove.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So you want that?

[Josh Adam Myers]

That's nice. I went back to the. Well, best summer of my life, dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So exciting. So. And now, unfortunately, you're going to talk about this album that neither one of us knows.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No. Well, here's the deal.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You don't know this album. There's no way you know this album.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I don't know it at all, but I like it a lot. I really. I. I like. I like. I didn't give it a chance on the first listen, and then I just re. Listened to it and I was like, oh, I like this. I actually like the second song on the record. I think it's the second song. Yeah. Dance Calenda da boom. I actually used one of that song to show a video of the. Of the venue we were at today. So it's like, I did this, like, really. Because it's, like, really, like, noisy and stuff. Here's the thing, and this is why I'm actually looking forward to this break. Being able to sit down and talk to you is.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, is.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So we had another guest and they were, I guess, a huge fan. And then they canceled and I assumed they canceled, but no, but they can't. But they can't.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Really?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Went right to Fetterman. It never happens.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Frantic text message four hours ago. Somebody canceled.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But no, he canceled. He was supposed to do it a couple days ago and then we were supposed to do two back to back. And then he canceled. Yeah, he canceled and then we just did the one.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And you know, all due respect to Emily and her sister Amanda for helping and God bless her souls, but it was like I. With my schedule, it's like I can't commit to anything.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Of course you're dealing. Paper towel lady.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, I give a paper towel lady. I've got no paper towel lady.

[Wayne Fetterman]

The wet nap lady. She's incredible.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I've got. I got hot towel lady. I've got squeegee lady. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ShamWow lady. I got them all.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Good reference. That's the one. That's the one. Yeah, yeah. Perfect, perfect.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Thanks, man.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Perfect.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You don't get. You don't get. Listen, I. I love talking to you. It's been a minute. Of course, originally I was hoping to get me, you and Morty, and then Morty could have gone off and just. We could have just the humor and then we gotta, we gotta, we gotta.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, no, no. I mean, I know a lot about Dr. John, but this album I've never heard until 3 o' clock today. Like, never. Really never. So, you know, I know a lot of music, but this is a lot. You know, this is. Yeah, this is beyond. But let's get into it, right?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, yeah, to open this. And this is so, of course, the openness and just to kind of go with. What you're saying though, is like, if it's funny that you don't know this one because this is the only record that stayed on the 20, 2500 greatest album re rank. So this originally is what we're at now, which is at 143. Wow, that's so low. That's so low for this, for a.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Record Wayne Fetterman's never heard of. Yeah, that is low.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I. I mean, actually, I didn't even think about it in that context. Yeah, but this, this actually stayed on the list.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know, I know. I just, you know, I have a. Theories.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I lost you. Your audio went out, you know. Audio. Hold on, hold on. Your audio went out.

[Wayne Fetterman]

How about now?

[Josh Adam Myers]

There it is. I saw that happen. I have A theory about this period?

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, you don't have to hear my theory. It doesn't matter. Let's get to. Let's get it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Give me your theory.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I just feel like it's such a, like a roots music kind of thing that. I don't know, it's just, it's not his most popular record. It doesn't have any of the hits on it. There's no hit songs. It never charted. It's just like, intellectual people. Like, this is the, this is the right here. And I was like, all right, maybe.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Maybe I, I, Look, I, I.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You know what I'm talking about. Like, it's not even.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I, it's, it's, it's almost one of those things, so. One of those things? Yeah, it's like people saying, oh, God, who can it. I'm trying to think of another way to put this, because I see it. Well, like, it's just like the, the people that love the, the art house films that are like, you know, you, oh, you think Titanic, great movie. Which it is. And you say you think Titanic's a great movie. Well, have you ever seen Hiroshima Man Amore? Like, yeah, that is true art. You're like, okay, well, I get French against guess. French New wave cinema is important in the history of cinema. But I mean, you cannot say Titanic isn't a better or more like, like, there's other records.

[Wayne Fetterman]

My question for you is some. Here's my question before we get into it, and I'm here to sing Dr. John's praises because I love that guy. Is there's someone who just listened to the record. Can you think of any kind of influence? You're like. Because usually, like, when I, we talk about, oh, this was prototype punk. This was. This, this led to that. This is why Sun Records is important. Like, I don't even know why this record is important. Well, without you, can you hear anything where you're like, oh, yeah, this is, is. This is just like, I don't know, Professor Long Hair. Well, Professor Long Hair predates this band.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Okay, now I'm. Now I'm out of everything because.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And all of that stuff that I love and Alan Toussaint and all. Yeah. Anyway, that's my take on it. But to your ear, was there anything. You were like, oh, my God, not really. I can totally hear what David Bowie is doing. And like, like, heard this record and went nuts. No, that's my point. That's.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I don't know. I mean, I mean, maybe you just heard it. Yeah, I know that. I'm trying to think of who I could compare it to. I mean, maybe it's, you know, like funk and maybe some, some of the. I don't know. But you really be. Really be stretching the, the, the. The flower to get the sauce on this thing.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Like when we did like those. Earl. That George Clinton record and all of that stuff, I was like, oh yeah, of course. This is A, B, C, D. This is C in this development. Anyway, let's go. Let's. I don't wanna. I don't want to be too negative about things.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We can talk about that. Brian, do you have any of the songs ready to go or could you play some of them if we ask buddy? And Brian, he's guest. I would call him dj. Guest DJ tonight. Brad Rye, right? You want to hear something funny? You need something funny? This is.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, I don't.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Okay. Jesus. All right. My God, let's go, let's go. Dab myself. So. And this is. And Wayne. This is something I've noticed in Europe is that if I look at like, if I'm in like Paris and I see like a black dude in his like 20s, he looks like a European black dude. Does that make sense? Like you can look at him and go, yeah, dude. You just. You're not American. I could tell immediately your pants are too tight, you're dressed like Migo seven years ago, like, for sure. But then I saw this like 65 year old Paris black dude and I was like, that black dude could be in Detroit, he could be in Philadelphia, he could be in Los Angeles. It was just because he just everything about. He had a Newport hanging out his mouth. He had like his hair like, he had the like. What do you call it? Like, like Adidas tracksuit. And just the. You can just see like the weight of, of. Of a black gentleman having to live in like a white predominant country and being like pushed down and the way that like, it's. Does that make sense to you guys? Like he was. It's still an older black guy and you could see him even if he is. He could just be like, like, bonjour, like it was without a doubt. All right, I'll come back in two weeks when that's funny. I'm sorry, guys. I really thought. I'm really trying to make this, this work.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I got you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yo, pass the fro maj. 3:00am here, guys. I don't know what you want.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Of course, of course.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Thank you for doing smoking. I've been smoking Jelly's weed for the last week and it's Crazy.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Do you want to hear a song, like the first song from it where he talks about being the.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I don't want to hear the first one.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Not Day Tripper.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Get the second one ready. Let's read Morty's thing that he sent us because.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, that's just. I think. Yeah, I think we should get.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We should get. Listen, we give a little bit of context. He worked really hard on this. It is.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, I have it all memory. I have it all memorized. You wanted to say it then, for the most part. Well, I mean, you can, you know, you do it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You do it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Mac Rebennek. Is that how you pronounce his name? I hope I'm getting. Yeah, well, we know him as Mac. Yeah. Was a New Orleans kid, dropped out of high school. His was into music, was a local guitar guy, which I had no idea. I always thought he was a piano guy from the get go and gets in trouble, you know, assimilates all of that music from New Orleans down Bourbon street, all of that stuff, and ends up going to jail for some narcotics and prostitution stuff. So he has to move out of New Orleans, goes to LA and becomes, believe it or not, a session musician in la. And this is where, believe it or not, this alb. This authentic New Orleans swamp music. Swamp. What would you call Voodoo. Voodoo soul music is the way I described. This whole album was all done on Santa Monica Boulevard and Vine. It was like right over here. You would think it would be in like the third Ward or something.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

But it's. But anyway, he created this Persona and it was supposed to be another guy. And the guy was like, I don't want to do it. So he adopted this Dr. John Persona and that's where this album comes from. I mean, there's more to it, but that's basically. I literally thought, oh, my God, I love Dr. John. I've taken his piano instructional videos. I've done the whole thing. There's no piano on this to really speak of. This is not piano music at all. So I was like, okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

At all.

[Wayne Fetterman]

As a rule, there's not really piano songs on here. There might be in the background and stuff, but it's.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'm gonna.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So that was. That was really surprising. So let's listen to a track and you'll get a sense of this.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, let's put on. Brian, put on track. I wanna. All right, we're gonna go out of order a little bit because I think the first track that you should hear off of this, that really sounds Like a. Like a Dr. Johnson would be track three. Mama Rue. Mama Rue. Go ahead. All right, go ahead. Let's do it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

One word. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You want a crawfish at to pay?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Would you like a po.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Boy?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Would you like some gumbo with that Sassafrats?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Sassafras is a Kentucky thing.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Just thinking of. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, gumbo, crawfish at to.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Shrimp Po Boy. Oyster Rockefeller. Yeah, my mama. Mama love a good oyster Rockefeller.

[Wayne Fetterman]

By the way, the name of this album is Grigri. I thought it was risk. Gris. Not. It's not. It's pronounced grigri, which is a voodoo, like a little satchel that people wear around their neck to ward off the spirits and give them sexual energy.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Interesting. Well, yeah, I'll take two. I'll take. All right, let me get that. Three Wind Catchers. Two. Two Palo Santo Sticks and agree Reach.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Can you give me for me and my wife? We like the ticket of the voodoo tour. We like that.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, honey, they got postcards. They got Dr. John postcard. Should we get some for everybody? We'll write a note and send it off so they can all know we were visiting the. The 11th Ward.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Awards. The parishes down there. Cities.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. Honey, I think that's the Preservation Band hall of Whatever the they're called. That's just a little black boy dancing on some nicklas.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Look at this. Why the umbrella during the day? It's insane.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, great. Another.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, oh, let me guess. The saints go marching in there. It is. Okay, I'll show you one.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'll show you one titty. Because the other one was part of the side of my body that had a stroke.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Here we go.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, you can't tell me this isn't great. Even though he sounds.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It'S like he sounds like he's just recording his mic. He's. He's just recording using, like, the shittiest microphone you can find. Like, he's not. He's in a big room. It sounds very. It doesn't. It's. I don't feel. This is. This album is produced very well as much as. As. As much as it. Like.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, here's an interesting thing. It's produced at Gold Star Records in Santa Monica, which was what, a little hint, A little foreshadowing? Where Phil Spector did his whole. All his wall of sounds, where the Beach Boys did Good Vibrations, where hundreds of hit songs in the 60s and 70s, really, I would say the. Probably. The Wrecking Crew probably played there more than any other recording studio. I might Be wrong about that. But it's like that was. Where's I got you, babe? Right there. All of those.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I did see. Hold on. Is that where I saw the. It's.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, yeah. The same producer. The same producer. Yeah. Batiste was the producer of I got you and so many other songs.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Did you say that in 68, he created a psychedelic voodoo Persona called Dr. John the Night Tripper, originally for a musician friend of his, but after the friend declined, Matt took it on and recorded the for. You didn't say that. Yes, I didn't say gold stuff.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, I didn't say it wasn't as verbose as that, but it was off the top of my head. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. What is. What does verbose mean? Confident.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, that means too many words.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Verbose. I'll be using that now. I don't want to be.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Let me just say the opposite of verbose is succinct. Just use the sync.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Just verbose is a lot. It's too many words to sink is just the right.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Just the right of it. No, no extra.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No fat.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, no fat.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, no fat. I love that. First. Continuing.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So I. And why do you think it's not recorded? Well, this is what I'm very curious about.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Play the vocals again, Brian. Brian, play the vocals of. Of dance Kalinda. Again. Start. Kept up right where you were at. Because I feel like you can hear it as it goes. The. The. The. The. The mama. They're killing it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's the harmonies in the background.

[Josh Adam Myers]

The harmonies sound good.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's just.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I feel like his. Brian, kick us off with the little bit. Brian. Brian. Falling asleep. O.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Thank you, ma'.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Am.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Bam. Thank you, ma'.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Am.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Come on, boys, now fight for me. I like these. I feel like they're not too processed. Like it's very up close and it's not super echoey, but, you know, that's. That's me. And I like the timber of his voice. Oh, you know, here's the crazy thing. I am enjoying the song more listening it through this than when I was just. I don't know what that is.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You know what I'm saying? Dude, I'll tell you this, Wayne. I listened to it one time while I was at the gym in. I think in Amsterdam, and. Oh, no, it's in Zurich. I'm sorry. And because I only stopped. I haven't worked out since Zurich because I broke my arm.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That should be the name of your new blog, I haven't worked out since Zurich. Your sub stack. You can do something.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I haven't worked out. Sincere.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I haven't worked out. So. Craziest flex I've ever heard.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So it's a humble brag.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. I couldn't be more. Couldn't be more of a brag. I just haven't worked out. Yeah. I don't have and tell.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'm a little Zurich. Really messed me up.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. Sorry, sir.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So I. I listened to it then.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And then I listened to. And I didn't. I was like, why is this on the list? This is not what I want to listen to. You know, I get like that sometimes. I get like, come on, man. Let me just, like, listen to, you know, Queens of the Stone Age or whatever band I'm, like, obsessed with at the moment.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Right?

[Josh Adam Myers]

And. And then I listened to it today on the private jet with Shelly on the way here.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And, you know, it didn't work out before the private jet either. I couldn't. I couldn't work out. Or after.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Was it. Were you playing your. Your Gucci?

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, no.

[Wayne Fetterman]

For your phone.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Have a Remova case. But it's like. Okay, you have to cut my finger on it. No, I think, you know, while I was eating the Thai food that Ashley the steward was giving us and drinking my. My, my mineral water, right. Watching the boys play Mario Kart, I decided to listen to Grigri by Dr. John.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And I thought it was the Night.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Tripper, not the Day Tripper, not the Night. Not. Not to be confused with the Night Crawler. Yeah, Night Crawler.

[Wayne Fetterman]

They used the fish to go down there and get some gator. That's what we do, honey.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Should we buy a gree Green for Sarah? You think Sarah will wear a gree Green?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, they're two for one.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Buy one, get one free. We should get more.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I mean, it would be crazy not to. It would be crazy. Oh, my God. You actually could do a spot on impression of him.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Listen, I mean, it's like you're in the same vocal range, the whole thing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I will play Dr. John in a biopic.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Adam Myers]

If they ever do the Night Tripper.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So I wish there was a song on this album that was like, oh, this is the hit. Or this was the song that was in the movie Vanishing Point. Or this they used. They were none of it. There's none of this on this album. And Dr. John does have hit records and was in the movie the Last Waltz and is in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. This guy's got. He's got the credits to back it up. Here's how I know.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Guess why? What doesn't have a Grammy Award? Why is this album on here?

[Josh Adam Myers]

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[Wayne Fetterman]

It's interesting because it's on Atlantic Records on their rock and roll, which was Atco Records. So it's. I mean, it got a release. It didn't chart, didn't do anything. But he. I will say this. It was. In its defense, it's unique sounding for this year for, you know, right in the middle of all the psychedelic Jimi Hendrix and all of that. All of a sudden, you have a completely different vibe, sound, vocalization. So I know that's faint praise, but it's something, right?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, yeah, dude. It's all right.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Listen, you want to listen to another track? What other tracks?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, put on. Well, I. This is not. Put on track two.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Please dance.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Please, Brian.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Thank you, Jesus.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Please and thank you. Put on Dance. Kalinda da Boom again.

[Wayne Fetterman]

We've already heard it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, we haven't. We listen. We listen to Mama Roo.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, oh. Dance calendar.

[Josh Adam Myers]

That was track three. Because I think Gree Gree. Gree Gree. The. The first song. Gree Gree or the gumbo Yaya.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I. I just think that's like him. Like, I am the.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know, but, yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

With your mama slipper. I love this. This is. This is a Paul Thomas Anderson movie soundtrack. All right. You can turn it off because it just goes back over this. I love this. I think this. I heard this, and I immediately use it as an Instagram story. Here, I'll show you.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But I thought it was, like, really. It was really cool to use that image.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, no, that did work. And again, it's not that I don't think this music is compelling on some level. It's just shocking. Of all the albums. Anyway, I. You know my opinion about it. So what is this song? What can I tell you my favorite song on the album.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We're ready to do that already. I'll do that.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, no, no, no. I just to play it. I don't care. Oh, oh, I see. You want to do it at the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I got some facts about it, though. Grigri was released in 68, but Atlantic Records president, you know, very famous. What's his name?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Ahmad Erdogan.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yep. Reluctant to release. He didn't want to release it. He said, how can we, Mark? He said, how can we? He was Turkish, how can we market this booga? He called it boogaloo crap.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What did we call it? Swamp gumbo voodoo. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Etoufe a crawfish. Et tuve bake. Ambiance. Setup.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, we're on the same page as. I'm on Earth again.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So why did he. Good question. Why? I mean, I wish we had somebody here that could answer.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I wish Ahmed was still. He's dead, unfortunately. You know, I met that guy, I'll tell you that.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, you didn't. Did you really?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Him.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Wait, when did you meet him? You can hear me still? I'm still going, so let's talk.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, I. What? Okay. Just walked away.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, I'm still here. I'm trying to find my nasal spray.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, my God. Did you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Keep going, dude. Why?

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right, I will tell you. I met him at the Comic Strip in New York city.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Probably 1980 is my guess. Yeah. He had just tried to get into a club called Xenon. This is before your time, but that was a huge disco and in Midtown, couldn't get any shows up with two. They can only be described as not dead gorgeous women. And they were just like. Yeah. We decided to. They had the limb out front. They're just like. Like, let's stop here for a drink. And so I went to. Okay, this is. I hate telling a story without somebody listening right here. I know, I know, I know. But anyway, so I went to the edge of the bar and I said, are you Alma Nerd again? He goes, yes, I am. And all I wanted to talk about was Led Zeppelin. And all he wanted to talk about was Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. So it was, I'd say, about 20 minutes we talked, and there was a comedian named Barry. Barry. I know that sounds insane that there was a comedian by that name, but Barry. Barry was there, and he was like, I can't believe you guys talk to that guy. Go, look, I know about him buying that Led Zeppelin album in, you know, in 69 or maybe 68. So. Yeah, but he was. That was it. That's the whole thing. That's the whole story. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I remember he was like, we couldn't get into Xenon. They didn't know who he was. Can you imagine the head of Atlantic Record, like, the guy at the door, like, no, you weirdo. With these two girls? No.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, that. That kind of. Like, we. Like last night when we went to see Jim Jeffries.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It reminds me of that, because I had that moment Where I was, like, checking in. I. I was too. We. We smoked a bunch of weed because we had the night off, and we were like, let's go see Jim. And so we're riding these scooters from Paris from our hotel to Jim's place because Jelly loves scootering. And I love scootering now, too. Even with the claw.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Wasn't the scooter's fault. This was my fault. And we get to the front, and I'm way too high, and I forgot we were supposed to go around back to go meet Jim or whatever. And so we go to the front, and I say to the girls, and there were tickets for us, but I was like, can you get us in quicker? Like. Like, I have. She was like, wholly. You're trying to, like, you know this person? They're like, nope, no idea. And you're like, okay. You don't see the team of security with this guy, like, week. Please move him through quickly. And I felt embarrassed.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, all right. Let's get back to this album.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Okay, never mind. I guess you didn't like that story.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, no, no. It's just like it was. Yes, I did like the story, but a little anticlimactic.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Was it. Did I use that right?

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, that was correct. It was correct.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Okay. It was an anticlimactic story.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That was correct.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right. Well, it was when I was talking about. Usually Adam gets a bunch of facts from every song, and it's not just Wikipedia, it's song.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, okay, let me.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I only got one. One song.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Which one? Which one?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I Walk on Gilded Splinters. Play a little bit of that track. Track seven, Bri. Or do we want to hear anything before that?

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, let's just. That's the final track. That's the thing. Yeah, that's the final track.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We're jumping there. Okay, cool. We did the top three, and now we're doing track six, seven. And this one, I bet in this one, he goes. I got the gumbo rising and the mama flying and the kookaburra wings. That's not this. We already heard that one.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Soup. Oh, look at this. I like this review of this song. I'm gonna read this critics review of this, the album's most durable song. A creepy voodoo soup that boasts smoldered with ominous forbearing and simmered with temptations of sensual delight. Let's listen.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Walk through the fire Fly through the.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Smoke See my enemy at the end of the road Walk on pilanita See what they can do Walk on gilded splinter with the cane of the Zulu.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's here at 68. When did Marvin. When did Marvin Gaye really start putting out like this? This. That sounded a little bit like some Marvin Gaye.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, he's. He's. He's around at that time, definitely.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, but I mean, this sounds more like the.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Like, I'm a little more like, you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Know, like, you know, but my hands. You know, I hear. I hear a little bit of that.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Like, so many success. But yeah, it's his soul.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, but it's. It's. It is definitely, you know, skewing. New skew, Nolan.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, but.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But I, I, I can. I can hear. I mean, I'm trying to make the connections. I've got the board up. I'm trying to put the string from one picture of the mob boss all the way down to the underlings, but I can't make the connection. This RICO case is not gonna stick, dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's funny.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You know what I mean? It's like, I. It's very, very hard. But I mean, there are R and B elements, and I guess this is what's cool about this. I mean, it's just another. It's in my opinion, why it's on here. It's probably because this is a. Another. It is combining. You got. You got your R B. Yeah. You got Nolan's traditional New Orleans, and now on top of that, you have this, like, voodoo character.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. I see a lot of people covered this song, so. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Who else?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, I'm just. Again, I'm reading this. Johnny Jenkins. Johnny. The famous Johnny Jenkins. Allman Brothers Band used to perform this song. Humble Pie performed this song. Jello. Another Jello Biafra. Do you know that guy?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, Jello Biafra.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Drive By Truckers. Sunny and she. Oh, no, never mind. Not Sunny and Chair. Yeah, so that's, you know, produced by Johnny. I don't know. God, I wish I knew who. Johnny Jenkins. That's. I'm gonna get some bad stuff on the. On the Internet that. I don't know that guy. But no, I, I don't mind this song. Again, I just. They were. It's not the kind of thing you would ever hear on the radio, which was, like, kind of my domain at that time, you know, just listening to hit songs on the radio. So it's a little. It's obscure, and I don't mind it. I mean, that's. I actually like this song, and I like the song right before it. It. That's. That's. My favorite song in the album.

[Josh Adam Myers]

On a sneeze. Hold on.

[Wayne Fetterman]

God bless you. God bless you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, I'll say this, man. I will say this. It's not a bad record. It's not bad.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, I didn't say that.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, I know you didn't, but, you know, you insinuated.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's true. I like these words we're using today.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, Morty can't be here, so it's all me, dude. I'm trying. I'm trying the best. Any interesting facts about the guy to close this out because. Or I could just talk about us stuff.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, no, we can. It's a. Look these. It doesn't have to be an hour thing, but.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I didn't know about 12 minutes.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, we do. Okay, I got a fun fact. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Johnny Jenkins. Yes.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Please tell me version of I walk.

[Josh Adam Myers]

On Gilda spit slingers is.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Was sampled for Beck's loser. Oh, there we go. That's why this.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Play it. Can you. Can you play it so I can hear? I would love to hear what the sample is.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Hey, here's another interesting fact about Johnny Jenkins. Are you ready? You're gonna love this. Johnny Edward Jenkins, he's dead. Was a left handed blues guitar player who helped launch the career of your idol Otis Redding. His flamboyant guitar style also influenced Jimi Hendrix.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I love that. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait. Before you say that, Brian, I love you to death, but do you mind turning the mic off when you. You hit the keys? I can hear you typing in your. Your, like your. Your iPhone password it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wait a minute. Hold it. It's also. Hold on. Another thing. The COVID Dr. John's I walk on gilded splinters has been sampled not only by Beck on Loser, but by a band that's playing a rose bowl tonight called Oasis on a song called Go let it out. Do you know that song?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

They're not. They don't. They're not playing that tonight. Oh, they're playing the rose ball tonight night, I believe.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Or tomorrow night, I think. Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night. I know they're in town this weekend. That's all I know. He's in the Georgia music Hall of Johnny Jenkins. I'm gonna now deep dive on this guy. This guy sounds cool. Left handed. He went to Vietnam. Holy cow.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I And love Oasis. I Love Oasis. Also, Dr. John did the. Wrote, did the vocals for the Popeyes chicken and biscuit song. Love that chicken for Popeyes. He did.

[Wayne Fetterman]

He's incredible.

[Josh Adam Myers]

He did the drums.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Is this Johnny Jenkins?

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, now Play Beck. Loser. Did you hear the drums?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, they definitely.

[Josh Adam Myers]

They definitely amped it up a little bit. But it's. It's definitely the drum. They sampled the drum beat. Damn. I Walk on Gilded Splinters is a song. Dude, that might be the best song on the record.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, it's certainly the most sampled and the most. It seems like it has the most cultural weight and tentacles through music right through the years.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Are you watching? Are you watching Alien Earth?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Of course not.

[Josh Adam Myers]

How do you keep your glass. How do you keep your glasses clean?

[Wayne Fetterman]

I don't. I. I have a friend of mine that always is like, you're the worst at it. He knows how to clean them underwater. I just need him to read now. I'm at that. It's just. It's all sad with me now. It's all sad. It is a little bit. So. So. But anyway, again, I'm going to reiterate that Dr. John, I took his piano course. I. He's. That he became like this incredible piano player after all of this is just like. He takes it to another level. And then he had that big hit. He's a one hit wonder with Right Place, Wrong Time. Do you know that song Body?

[Josh Adam Myers]

In the Right Place. They'll be in the wrong time. Yeah, maybe in the right place.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And so that.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I really sound like Dr. John, dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know, I know, I know.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I am the nation's top Dr. John impersonator. I should start.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I call it Physician Bob.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I call it Evening Tripper. Not Night, not day.

[Josh Adam Myers]

The Day Quell. Yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Evening Tripper. Now he's.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'll see. Here, listen. Here's back. Back. Loser. Great song.

[Wayne Fetterman]

The drum.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's the drum. But they. They're definitely like an effect on it. That's it. It's just the drums. It has to be the drums because that's. I heard it immediately I was like, oh, that's back. Loser.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Do you like that song better than two whatever.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Two DJs in a microphone or two.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Turntables in a microphone.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Turntables and a microphone. Yes.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Of those two, which one do you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Loser. Loser's the best one.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That is it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

That loses an anthem. Loses an anthem. It's an anthem.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, here's another question for you. There's no right or wrong. Just totally opinion in between Loser and Creep, which is a bigger anthem. Let it sink. Don't. You don't have to answer right away.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's Creep. It's Creep.

[Wayne Fetterman]

More than losing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yes.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Same theme, right? The same theme. Like you don't belong here. We don't. We're ugly. We don't belong here.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We're losers now. But I'll say this. Oh, I would say this. Is that creep?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yes. I'm curious.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Creep transcends, like, what's his face Had a really funny joke about how white people lose it for creep.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who is that? Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It was Patrice o'. Neill. It's a funny, funny, funny clip. And. And so not to be like, I love Beck and I love Loser. It's not my favorite Beck song that. I love that version of Beck, but I think the Beck. The better Beck version is Becky doing acoustic songs like Sea Change and Morning. Morning.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What's going on? Is that you?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, it's this.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, Jesus. And yelling at the poor guy about his microphone.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, don't Forget, it's the 500 with Josh, not 500 with Brian.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Brian. Brian. By the way, thank you. All of these songs we asked to get pulled up. You did it. It. We really.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You made me want to start playing music again on the podcast. I feel like we need to start playing music again. I don't.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yes, please. Okay, so tell me what you want. The Quite. You want my favorite song on here?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, let's do it. What's your favorite song?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, if I had to get. If I had to. If I. And I do like. I do like some of them, but I like the one right before. It's called Jump Sturdy. Jump Sturdy.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Can we play a little bit of Brian?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Brian.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Sorry. Can you play a little. Play a little bit of Jump Sturdy.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Additional sounding song.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Let's hear that. Let's hear that. That'll be a good way to take.

[Wayne Fetterman]

But I'm gonna. As soon as this podcast is over, I'm gonna listen to some Johnny Jenkins. I want to know more about that cat.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You're a huge fan of Johnny Jenkins.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I don't even know who he is. Until today. Until it happened right now. People say she used to dance with the fish Some people say she juggled fire in a ditch Midday on the Bayou St. John she raised her hands and caused electrical storms she was a treacherous lady she never met much harm One day she ducked past the station.

[Josh Adam Myers]

High Oh, I love it. No, it's a vibe. I. I don't. I don't hate anything about this.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I do not hate anything about this.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Yeah. And I almost feel like it. It has the vibe of, like, you're walking down some side street in the French Quarter, and then you just hear, like, in, like, a Little house party. This band playing this weird music and, like, what's going on in here? You go in there and you get, you know, obviously you get attacked and you're mugged. You know, it's New Orleans, very dangerous down there. You lose your mind. But you have a night.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You have a great story, you have a great night. You might end up in a bathtub with your liver gone. But.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Exactly. Exactly. But it says, yeah, night down there.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, I. I get it. Listen, I eat. Sometimes you got to lose an organ to have a great time. You know what I mean? And there's nothing wrong with that.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Organ Harvesting is one of my favorite songs ever.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Really? That's a lie. That's a lie.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Organ Harvesting by two Live Crew. Okay, listen.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Honey, how many gree greens are you gonna wear this week? I've got three out. Should I put. Can I put one away?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Does this gree gree go with this blouse?

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, honey. Should I wear this Dream catcher or the gray? Gray.

[Wayne Fetterman]

The gray.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Gray.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I got a black one, I got a beige run. Both neutral colors. They go with almost everything.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Money, go grab my Dior Grigri.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, anyway, this was so fun to learn about this record.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Wait, we still got more stuff. We got more stuff.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, okay, let's do it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

What don't you like?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Or.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I got a better question. My new thing is going to be, is this a no skip record? And if it isn't, what do you. What do you skip over?

[Wayne Fetterman]

I don't know. Maybe dance Veronic. I don't. I. I'm not even pronouncing it correctly. I was just. This is like. You just want to go into a different world. If you want to go into a different vibe, then, oh, I'm gonna listen to the Jefferson Airplane, or I'm gonna listen to some, you know, la, The Doors or something like that and go like. Okay, I want a whole different mindset. Then this. This is the album for you. Because it is like nothing that was on the air, because this was never on the air. But it did influence some people, and they've sampled it in great songs, including the Allman Brothers.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I think this is a great record. I think this is a great record.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I love it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I do. I don't. I don't know if it deserves to be on the list, but I think it's a great record. Okay, do I think it's a skip record? I mean, I would skip over the first track. It just. It doesn't offer anything other than the setup. It's just Imma talk to you.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Right? Right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Because I'm the night crawler, baby.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I think it's. It's sort of. There's sort of a theatricality to this album that I do like that first track because it sets it up like, oh, I'm doing this character. I'm a doctor, even though I might be a voodoo doctor or whatever's going on down there. And, you know, I'm gonna put a curse on you. And so I, I, it just has a good. I, I like the vibe of this record. I like the vibe of this record. Again.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Woke up this morning. Never heard of it. So. Just only interested in what Carlos Alcarez was going to do today. And I want to. My whole life has been changed. Thank you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I want. I want to see if I can buy. Buy a Grigory real quick on Amazon.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, yeah. See what they got. See what they got.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, you can. Bo Greegris and the Apocalypse. Oh, that's a band. All right, hold on.

[Wayne Fetterman]

1.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Grigri bags. Got one.

[Wayne Fetterman]

How much?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Not. Not on Amazon. Oh, here. Can we. Dude, Brian, I'm gonna send this. Can you put this up on the thing? Because this is hilarious.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, now you're putting it. You know, the Grieger inside these bags, I think there's, like, paper with, like, words on it and.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yes.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, this.

[Josh Adam Myers]

The, The. Dude, I. I can make a Grigory bag. Anybody? Anybody? Guys, if you're wondering, if you're thinking it's hard to get a grigri bag. Any of you.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What if you're not good at sewing or.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, you don't need, though. You don't need to sell. You need a bag and rope.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You know what the Grigory bag actually reminded me of? It's Jewish. Is a mezuzah. Like, you know.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, there's so many different Grigri bags, but the one that, that. Yeah, it does. It's very mezuza, like. All right, hold on. Let me see if I can.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You know what I mean? There's like, a piece of paper in there. There's a curse or whatever. There's good luck to your home. This you wear around the neck wards off the spirits.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's literally just a bag wrapped up with, like, a rope around it. It's a Grigory.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's greenery. It's a classic Gregory Classic greenery. Yeah, I did it. I took it to my senior prom. My date had.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Agree, agree.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And a corset. Corset. Is that right? Now it's not even the right word.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, here's the question you hate. You ready for it?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, no. Yeah, I know. Is this a song you can make out to?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Sure.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. I like Jump Sturdy. I really feel like that you could definitely. Even the last song. Even that last song. I feel like are both good. I Walk on Got Got Gilded stuff. Sprint Splinters.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Could you put it on right from the beginning and get to town? Or no.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Is that a euphemism? I'm not sure what you're.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Could you. Could you put the album on right at the beginning?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And skadoodle. Let it play. Put it on. No, Skip.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Again, it's a mood album. The whole thing is a mood album. Like, it's. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'm the Night Tripper.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You couldn't see that at some party like in the back, you know?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not saying it's. I'm not saying it's not.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I'm just saying I feel like, yeah, it's a mood. It's almost like. Yeah. There's no hit songs on this. It's not that kind of album.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And you know that's what I'm drawn to. Right? You know, I'm drawn to, like.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Trust me, I know, Lane. I know. Let me see if I got any interesting facts about him before we go, because you already kind of said he's the winner of six Grammy Awards.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Not six. Except for nothing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

For Greek nothing. Agree.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, he's incredible. To do it. His version with Eric Clapton of St. James Infirmer. I. I can go on and on about this dude. But, yes, he's a. Was kind of a legend. That Mac out of New Orleans really did it. Came to LA and made it happen.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Did he die?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yes. Yes, sir. 7. I believe it's 77 of a heart attack. He was bit over. Oh, look at this. Thank you. Oh, that's what you look like.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, that's the greenery bag. Yep, there it is. Gree. Grace, why do you think I wanted to show him the joke? Doesn't work. The joke doesn't work 20 minutes later. But if we would have had him right up. Oh, we would have died laughing. You are. You already said the. You already said the thing that needed to be said, which is final.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, I mean, besides professor long hair. And there was a guy that came after him who sort of started playing standards in New Orleans style named Harry Connick Jr. And sort of eclipsed him because he was super good looking and all of that. But. But there's so many great piano players. It's incredible. The whole town. Louis Armstrong. The whole thing. Buddy Bolton. I was. I was trying to say. Course. What is it? What is the flower that you give the girl on the senior prom.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Corset.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, it's a corset. I think is what you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Chrysanthemum.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay. This is the worst moment of my life. There it is. Corsage. Thank you for the win. For the win. Of course, I couldn't remember the name. Corsage and corset. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, that's. That's it, guys. Thanks for listening. Any other final questions?

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, I don't think we. We. I think you said also the finale. Finale thing that I thought was perfect. So my question to you.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Is what are your. What do you have coming up? Mel Brooks. You guys are working on the Mel Brooks?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, the Mel Brooks documentary. There's also a Maria Bamford documentary I'm working on. I. Oh, here's the big news. Over the summer, I went to New York City and booked a little acting gig on a show called Els Beth. Have you ever heard of it? It's on the Columbia Broadcasting System. Cbs.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, I'll be on. Yeah, I'll be on that show in October. Just one episode. Classic.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Congrats.

[Wayne Fetterman]

A little acting work. A little acting work. I'm still in the game. Still in the game.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Classic. Fetterman. One episode. Fetterman.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No arc, no arc.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, there's an arc. There's an arc of the.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You. Oh, a single episode.

[Josh Adam Myers]

What episode? So here's the season. Season's here.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And that's it. So El. It's called El.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's got El, and it's about the. The witch from Wicked.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's close. Yes. No, it's. That's short for Elizabeth, like a shortened version of Elizabeth. It's a crime show. It's a crime show.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You don't IMDb.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You don't even know it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I don't watch television, dude. I watch Alien Earth, came out in 2024. Who's in it?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, yeah, Preston, right? Carrie.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Carrie Preston.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. She's hilarious.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, Wendell Pierce.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yes. He's the cop.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yes, I know him. Oh, I know. I've heard. I think.

[Wayne Fetterman]

A mo. A television series from New Orleans. Yes. Wendell's incredible. I just saw him in Spike Lee's movie. The Highest to the Lowest, I believe is the name.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, yeah. How is that? How is that? It's what? Did you watch it?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, I saw the whole thing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, you know the rule. Right? Right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You know, it's, it's, it's a movie for sure.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's the rule. And I've seen everything Spike Lee's ever done.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You know, I, I got to hang out with him on a flight from New York to LA. 6am he was, he'd been drinking and we got to talk for like an hour.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, my God, I love it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I had my dog. I was wearing a Redskins jersey. We talked football, we talked. He's the best.

[Wayne Fetterman]

He's.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, we're not friends, but it was cool to have a run in with him.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Cool. He's so cool, that dude. And big sports fan. Huge US Open.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Always there. New York Knicks.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Knicks, obviously front row. Do you ever read his book? He wrote a whole book about being a Knicks fan when he was a kid. He used to get this tickets because he was in school. They would get like half price tickets at the furthest to the top of the arena. And through the years, as he got more successful and moved down to the, the orange, the data, the red section, the blues, until front row. It's just an incredible aspirational story. Spike Lee. Love you, brother.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I love you too.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And I love you.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Same, same, same. I love doing this. I'm gonna see you in a couple weeks. I'm doing another episode. You probably don't even know about it. Don't worry about it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, I was supposed to go to Australia, but I'm staying out here now.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So I'm gonna. If it's in September, I'm only gonna be home for a couple days and then I go to Dubai.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Love it. Love it. We're right now. It's on September 11th. We're taping it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, I won't be here. I'll be in, I'll be in Lisbon.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, well, we'll do. Can we do it from Lisbon?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, yeah. We still got to do Phil Spector for you too, by the way.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, that's the one. That's the one. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, well, we, we can just do it right now if you want. No, I'm kidding. It's three. It's, it's three. 44 in the morning for me. I have to go to bed. I love you, buddy.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Love you too. Thank you so much for producing this, by the way.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Thank you. Brian.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Brian, I'm talking. Thank you. Thank you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

What I tell you? What did I tell you? The one and only Wayne Federem. Follow him on Instagram at instafetterman and everything. He said at the end to promote Check it out guys, for new music this week Instead of what? Instead of well, because of 1960 Grigri by Dr. John the Night Tripper Our new music pick this week, brought to you in part by Distrokid, our proud sponsors, is a taste of our good friends at Collective Soul's new song Mother's Love. And you can find links to the music on our website, the500podcast.com and if you were in a band or directly influenced by one of these albums or artists and you want your music featured on the 500, send your song to 500podcastmail.com and put the album and artists that influenced you in the subject line. Next week it's 1:42 with Phil Spector's Christmas gift for you from Phil Spector. You got some music to listen to. I know it's not Christmas season, but it's getting there, y'. All. Dig into it and we will talk to you soon. Love all my strength from Mama's love no sleep through night no rest through.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Day.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No minutes to talk no seconds to pray Guess we're all misunderstood to what we can and what we should still find above all my street with mother's love sat and what we should still find above all my street the mother's love Guess where I misunderstood to what we care and what we shine still by a blood on the street the mother's love Sam the 500 keeping it fleecy for the fleece nation on.

[Wayne Fetterman]

The 500 the 500.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Your sausage McMuffin with egg didn't change.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Your receipt did the sausage McMuffin with.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Egg extra value meal includes a hash brown and a sweet potato small coffee for just $5 only at McDonald's for a limited time.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Prices and participation may vary.

[Josh Adam Myers]

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