EP # 202 The Influence of Music on Our Lives.

Robb (: 00:01

And welcome to another show of Don't Get This Twisted. I am Rob along with my co-host is Tina. Oh, co-host as always, Tina. How you doing, Tina? Oh, I'm tired. Yeah, it's been a it's been a weekend because I spent Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and left today in Lake Havasu. So I had a long, long weekend and. Almost a week. Yeah, it's good times hanging out.

Tina (: 00:08

I'm good Rob, how are you?

Tina (: 00:13

tired.

Tina (: 00:25

Yeah, you had almost a week.

Robb (: 00:32

You know Satan's balls it was just It was it was warm, but it was a good time. I hadn't been to Arizona before so it was a no so it was it was a an interesting Adventure and like going downtown to where the river And I found out that that Lake Havasu is just part of the Colorado River. It's just a big opening I was like, I thought

Tina (: 00:32

Africa hot Yeah, yeah, that's have a sue yeah

Tina (: 00:42

Really?

Tina (: 00:56

Yep.

And you also said that's where you saw London Bridge. Yeah.

Robb (: 01:02

I saw London Bridge, which is really fucking cool. So this is my second weekend going. This was just a longer weekend. But it was a it was interesting and downtown is like super cool. It's a cool little town. I mean, it's it's definitely a tourist trap if you don't know where you're going. Because my friend took me everywhere and she was like, don't go down this street, go down this street. This is like where all the stores are and the local people go. I was like,

Tina (: 01:08

Nice.

Tina (: 01:15

It is.

Tina (: 01:29

Did you take a boat out?

Robb (: 01:29

I you would've... No, I'm gonna try to go one more weekend, at least for now. I think I'm gonna go on Labor Day weekend. And she was like, yeah, we come here on Labor Day weekend. We just walked down to the river one evening after we ate. And right when we were going down the staircase to walk, out of nowhere she goes, look.

Tina (: 01:40

Okay.

Robb (: 01:58

It's butts and boobies. And I was like, what? She goes right there. And she was like, point at this boat. And there was like four young girls with like bongs and pasties on. She goes, and it was, and it was dead then. She goes, we'll come down here at like, you know, noon on a Saturday. And I was like, yeah. She goes, yeah. Just debauchery. I was like, yeah. She goes, it's a good time.

Tina (: 02:07

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 02:17

Yeah.

Tina (: 02:22

everywhere. Yeah.

Robb (: 02:25

But she's like, she goes, she goes, if you haven't never seen it, you got to come down here. Okay. So she goes, we'll just say, and then she's like, we'll gear up. We'll come down here and eat, get a drink. Well, and just walk up and down this, this band right here. And then you'll, you'll get a good idea of the craziness. I'm like, cool. It was a good time.

Tina (: 02:45

Oh yeah, it's a good time. We used to go every year with a group of friends, different group actually, different people every time, but one of my friends' family owns a house out there and we would go and it got to the point where we didn't even go down to the river, we would just stay in the pool because it was so chaotic down at the river, but if you stayed in the pool nobody was there, so it was kind of a nice quiet time. So we did that gosh several years.

Robb (: 03:09

Right. She also said up. She said upriver too is like really nice where like it's not as. Nutty. But then she was she was telling me I forgot what the little.

Tina (: 03:14

several times during the year too.

Tina (: 03:20

Yeah, yeah.

Robb (: 03:24

There's like places on the lake that are known for the just craziness. And she was like, and she knew all the names of them. I'm like, been there? She's like, yeah, we used to go out there all the time and it's crazy. I'm like, yeah, cool. So she was talking about getting like, you know, going out there and going on a boat and just kind of chilling and kind of getting the experience and going and getting going on the ferry. She says there's a ferry.

Tina (: 03:30

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 03:47

gotta do it.

Robb (: 03:51

I was like, okay, cool. So that's probably what we'll do the next time. It's a good time. No, but I would do that. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah.

Tina (: 03:51

Yeah.

Tina (: 03:57

Any jet skis?

Tina (: 04:03

Yeah, I did that on the jet skis. My cousin thought it would be fun to flip me off in the middle of the lake. And, uh, and then it was really fun trying to get back on the jet ski. I was so pissed at my cousin for that. I was like, you ever do that shit to me again? And I will get even just letting you know, because we were tooling around for the longest and then she just wanted to whip me off. But there was so many people that was not the place to do that. And, you know, the drinking, they, they

Robb (: 04:22

Yeah No, yeah

Tina (: 04:33

party out there so yeah and then like I said you can't leverage yourself to get up and then you're wearing the the life vest and so all the attachments were stopping me from getting over that it's not fun yeah yeah

Robb (: 04:42

Yeah, the bike fest. Yeah. Yeah, good times, good times. But I told her I can't wait to go out there in like the fall where it's like 80 degrees and like I took my dog out there both times.

Tina (: 04:57

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 05:04

Your dog had to have been dying.

Robb (: 05:06

You know what not really because he has a double coat so he's insulated he was probably nice he jumped in the pool twice Hey It was it was interesting. He was funny because both times it has like a I forgot what she called It's like a shelf basically like eight foot by five feet that you can just kind of wade in it's like maybe up to your knees and Like you can put like a lounge chair in it and like actually be in the water at the same time well he only stayed on that and because he was

Tina (: 05:13

work.

Tina (: 05:25

Yeah.

Tina (: 05:30

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 05:32

Like terrified and he would just walk really slow like he was in quicksand. But he didn't. I he just hung out with us. was cool. Over the weekend, me and my friend were talking music. And. She's younger than us. By. A few years. By seven years.

Tina (: 05:36

Tina (05:42.126)

Nice.

Tina (: 05:56

Okay.

Tina (: 06:03

Okay.

Robb (: 06:05

So she sent me this playlist on Spotify and it was like all 80s tunes. And in my head, I felt like going, like, you know these songs, but you were little. So I found a cable channel or a satellite channel on her TV that was best of the 80s. And she came home from work and it was on the TV. The whole time she's like, this is a great song. This is a great song. So we were kind of got talking about like how important

Tina (: 06:17

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 06:33

Music is in our life and and like first concerts or Things that maybe we liked or didn't like so like obviously when me and you were in school I liked metal and I would shit on everything else But I would shit on everything else. Well, it's the exception of some is some rap music but like I hated New Wave Just if you liked metal when in high school, you're a metalhead. So you hated New Wave where now

Tina (: 06:47

You totally did.

Tina (: 06:55

right

Tina (: 07:00

You're a hesher.

Robb (: 07:01

Where now I love all that music. Like we were playing, we were jamming like the Cure and Duran Duran and you know Spandau Ballet, like all these really cool 80s bands. And I kind of told her like, for me, I mean I shit talked to them then.

Tina (: 07:04

Right?

Robb (: 07:21

just because you know there was always camps right the new wave kids and the stoner kids and like and then i look at the things now and we were talking about lyrics because i'm a lyrics guy i love good lyrics and she was like have you ever heard this song or this song and she was like playing some cure and i was like yeah this band is really good and i even look at my life now where you know if it's if i'm not listening to podcasts which is my what

Tina (: 07:33

Right?

Robb (: 07:51

one of my second, you know, that's second to music. I still listen to music that I listened to in high school.

Tina (: 08:01

Mm-hmm. I think that that's kind of what everybody does in life. You know, you go to where you were happiest or where you didn't have all the responsibilities and the music that of that time of when you're in school is normally like it's fun music because it takes you back to when you had a an easier life.

Robb (: 08:16

Yeah, 110 % Dina. That's kind of what I was, we actually started talking about. I was just like, yeah, like, and it's so funny, because part of that, so.

Tina (: 08:33

Yeah.

Robb (: 08:39

I haven't seen my friend in 29 years. I dated her at one point. Matter of fact, we've talked about her on here. I bought a house with her. So we hadn't seen each other in like almost 30 years.

Tina (: 08:49

Yes.

Robb (: 08:56

And we started talking about like certain things and you came up about how we how we know each other because she hadn't listened to the podcast yet until actually until yesterday. But she was like, oh, how do know, Tina? And then I told her the whole story about, oh, yeah, I didn't talk about blah. And she laughed. She's like, you didn't talk. I was like. I was like, no, I didn't talk. She's like, there's no way. I was like, I know that sounds odd.

Tina (: 09:16

You didn't talk, no.

Robb (: 09:24

because I won't shut the fuck up now. yeah, then exactly, I told the whole story and she's like, But, you know, and then I started telling her, because again, when I was in high school, she's seven years younger, she was little. So matter of fact, when I started dating her, she was 18 years old and I was 24.

Tina (: 09:24

But I'm here to tell the story.

Tina (: 09:39

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 09:46

Yeah.

Robb (: 09:48

But the weird part about it is like talking about, and not that we talked about it, but for us, like think about music in high school. We had DJs in the quad and people were dancing. Really? that's awesome. See, I didn't know that.

Tina (: 10:02

yeah. I was the one that was responsible for setting that up in student council. That was my job. I did that. Yeah. Yeah. I was quite the nerd. I liked school. I liked student council. That was one of the things I did. And yeah, I was responsible for booking them and then getting them out there and getting them paid. That's what I, that was one of the things that I did on my committee.

Robb (: 10:30

Wasn't there, wasn't it like DJ Hamburger Helper? Wasn't that one of them? Yeah.

Tina (: 10:34

There was a hamburger helper, yeah.

Robb (: 10:37

And it's funny because another Yeah Really? Because another friend of mine is like really good friends with him And I guess he's still Yeah, I think he's still DJs Yeah, so

Tina (: 10:38

Actually, you know what he was I'm sorry. He was You know the song jump by the movement He sang that

Yeah.

Tina (: 10:55

I bet a lot of people for he still lives around here and he still DJs. Yeah. huh. Yeah.

Robb (: 11:03

The wild part was like, and she'll listen to this now and I'm gonna have to ask her off air. But like, I don't think that, I wonder if they'd still have things like that in high school. Probably not, huh? Like bringing DJs in and I think that because it's such a intricate part of, like you said, first of all, who we are, right? I think the music we listen to is an extension of your feelings. Where I listened to, and I,

Tina (: 11:14

No.

Tina (: 11:24

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 11:32

for sure.

Robb (: 11:33

I listen to everything now, like everything. But it's wild when you have a child where I really kind of influenced him, right? I took him to see Iron Maiden at six. So the funny thing is, is I say that's his first concert, but it really wasn't per se. We went and saw the Wiggles.

Tina (: 11:35

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 11:50

yeah.

Tina (: 12:00

My brother took the kids to do that, yeah.

Robb (: 12:01

the Disney guys. It was actually was amazing. If I'm not, I'm not gonna lie to you. It was really good. Cause a guitar player would play like.

Tina (: 12:07

Yeah.

Robb (: 12:09

Journey and Led Zeppelin and all these like songs During they them talking he would play that for us But his real concert because obviously the Wiggles is a concert But he's his music has changed. So my son to this day will come to me and be like daddy got listen this band You gotta listen this band and I've so many metal bands have I've been introduced to through my son which is I Just never would have thought that although looking back

Tina (: 12:28

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 12:40

a lot of like late 70s early 80s groups my dad listened to on eight track in the car. Like the first time I heard Queen or Rush or like some of these bands was in my dad's Mm-hmm. Yeah, all Eagles.

Tina (: 12:47

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 12:53

My dad had a red van and his eight tracks that he used to play like all the time was America or the Eagles and and I could when when I get to listening to the Eagles, it's funny because I almost know the order that all the songs are in. So when one ends, like even if I hear it on the radio, I'm ready for the next one. That's how that's how much we heard them. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Robb (: 13:18

Right, because you know the next track. Yeah.

I was talking about a song with her like we were we were We were playing this game Of cards where you ask questions it's for couples, but it was we were just doing it because we hadn't seen each other in so long it was the best way I thought of finding out things about people and one of them was like an important song in your life and so I asked her what hers like what's a song that you hear that takes you to a

Tina (: 13:40

Getting to know each other.

Robb (: 13:52

Place do you have one I have a special song to every time I hear it? No, but that's I'm saying though, but like you have ones that as soon as you hear it you go. yeah Yeah

Tina (: 13:57

It depends on what situation.

Tina (: 14:06

Yeah, yeah. I like to tell my friends because you know during during our time when we were growing up there was like baby face or my gosh help me out here Keith Sweat or and and so a song will come on yeah all of that and I'll say hey do you see his face and every one of my friends goes yeah I totally can because this song goes with the

Robb (: 14:22

yeah. All that R &B stuff. Right, sure.

Tina (: 14:36

particular boyfriend at the time that they heard the song and and that was one of the things that like I Still say that I'm like, do you see their face? Cuz I know I cuz I've grown up with these people I know who they were and I know I know the stories but I like to I like to say You know because I know what they're thinking when the song comes on they're going to that place that time They're seeing those memories and I like to just poke fun at them because I know I do the same thing so

Robb (: 14:48

Yeah. Sure. Sure. For sure.

Tina (: 15:05

I go, do you see his face? And they just laugh at me. They're like, you're stupid. But yes, I do. Yes, I do.

Robb (: 15:10

I mean, it's very similar to what we talked about umpteen years ago, probably on this podcast about cologne or perfume and a smell and where it takes you. Right. So. like for me, I'll tell you like a family memory, because like it's a big one for me is Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John and Kiki D. When I hear that song.

Tina (: 15:21

yes, yes.

Tina (: 15:32

Uh-huh.

Robb (: 15:34

I think about being in the back seat of my parents Nova going to Redondo Beach. As soon as every time I hear it, I just like, yeah, I just remember because we would go as a family and I had went back after my mother passed away to the side of the beach that we would go and sit. It was just like every time. And so and then I started thinking like, what else or like what certain things like there's an album.

Tina (: 15:40

You

I bet.

Tina (: 15:55

Yeah.

Robb (: 16:03

that our friend, the girl I dated when I was 18, she bought me a CD because CDs were, actually it was a cassette. was a Queensryche. were, it had Silent Lucidity on it. It was that album. So when I hear like that album just in general, I was like, yeah, this was this year, you know, was 89. It was the end of 89. We had just graduated high school, like certain things. And it wasn't even like, I think of her, I just think of

Tina (: 16:11

Who was it?

Okay, yeah.

Okay.

Tina (: 16:28

Okay.

Robb (: 16:33

that particular time period of like, yeah, like she gave me this and at the time she had just got a brand new black Ford Mustang 5.0 and in my head and people who don't know this young lady, I couldn't believe that they got her a car like that. Cause I was like, she is gonna die. Like just the wrong car to give her.

Tina (: 16:55

Right?

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 16:59

So now I start thinking like in my own life like all these certain songs that that when I hear I think of people and places and because we're good. No go.

Tina (: 17:09

times in your lives, yeah. You know there's a song, I'm sorry, speaking of that, there's a song from, my parents had two friends, they each had a friend and they ended up getting married and having kids. And so the oldest daughter, she's a year older than me and she's been married several times, I think like four times now. And she used the same song at two of her weddings.

Robb (: 17:16

Wow. Whoa, really? Yikes.

Tina (: 17:38

I know why. Yes, and every time I hear this song I'm like, I want two weddings with that one. Needless to say, she's not my favorite person, so I would remember like the... I would remember that, but I was like, how could she do that? That's so wrong.

Robb (: 17:45

Hmm hmm Wow How could you invite people back and play the same song that's brutal I Mean look as tacky as it is I wouldn't do it, but it is

Tina (: 17:58

at four at yeah right well I don't think she thought I'd remember but when it comes to her I remember because I just don't like her as a person so

Robb (: 18:13

Fucking funny. It's like Yeah, I mean to be fair though like at least from No, no, no, no to be fair and cuz I'm gonna give you an argument on like Pre pre adult how many times did we dedicate the same song to a different person?

Tina (: 18:14

It's hilarious, it's so wrong in so many ways. But I was like, thank God I'm not marrying her. That's what I thought.

No, no, no. There's no being fair. Fuck that. Like, haha.

Robb (: 18:39

Really? I can't say that. Mm hmm. Right. Right.

Tina (: 18:40

I never did that. I never did dedications. No. I remember going, there's like so many. So here's like a few memories. Like I went to an endless summer jam that Kiss FM was having. It was a concert with like a bunch of artists. And the funny thing is they booed Tom Petty off the stage because it wasn't that type of music or that type. You know, it wasn't the people that were listening weren't going to hear his type of music. But I remember

I with a boyfriend. I'm like just come back for this this two songs He wanted to get something to drink It was a hot day and he missed the songs that we like used to you know like cuddle up with our or or I remember when I was getting divorced Bonnie Raitt sings I can't make you love me and I remember a specific like day that it hit Really hard that song. I don't know why it was there, but I she's a wonderful

Robb (: 19:20

Right.

Robb (: 19:27

Right. Right.

Tina (: 19:38

artist and and I really like that song and it hit at a time where You could feel it like you felt the words to that Or there's also like just just recently. Um I've got the power. It's an it's an 80s 90s song. I remember I remember dancing at least 500 times to it with my friend from el paso like we just It was we would party all we went we

Robb (: 20:03

That was a jam though.

Tina (: 20:08

And when I say party, wasn't to drink or to use drugs because we just didn't do that. It was to go to the clubs and dance like we partied in those freaking clubs and and that song that song hit every time.

Robb (: 20:18

Right.

Robb (: 20:23

I mean, we just think how many places that were like that when we were young that were literally, they had no booze there. What was the one called, Florentine Gardens?

Tina (: 20:33

yeah. Florentine Gardens had a bar though. yeah, but they were an 18 and older club. I lived in that club for a few years. it's crazy.

Robb (: 20:36

did it really? okay.

Robb (: 20:42

Yeah, because I remember hearing like some of my friends that would always go to like places to dance. Someone sent me the other day a meme about skate rinks. And I was like, which would be the exact same thing. Like, you know, there was always like the special skate songs that you would.

Tina (: 20:48

That was me.

Tina (: 20:55

skate land.

Yeah, yeah.

Tina (: 21:04

Do you remember the advanced backward skating song? It was an air supply song for a couple years. Yeah, I remember that with my friend.

Robb (: 21:11

So all these things, music is so important in our lives. And speaking of, I played a song to my friend, this girl, that she played for me. Not to sound horrible, but after she broke up with me, she played this song and she remembered the song, but she didn't remember when she played it until she heard it again.

Tina (: 21:18

Absolutely.

Robb (: 21:41

And I was like, Hey, you remember this song? And I'm, and I wasn't trying to be mean to her. And I wasn't cause I just wanted to like, like rattle her cage a little bit because we were making a lot of jokes to each other about back then, because now it's the past. Like, you know, like I made a joke somehow, like we were talking about something and I'm like, well, I hope you don't sue me again. Right. And, and like for a second she was like, and I was like,

Tina (: 21:55

Yeah.

Tina (: 22:05

no!

Robb (: 22:11

just, it was, I'm being sarcastic, like, I'm just being funny. But, so I played the song and then she was just like, wow, like all these emotions came back. And it was like, and I said, and the lyrics are very,

almost like she wanted me to chase her. And I even asked her like, is that what this was? She's like, you know, I don't know. She's like, I was going through this weird time, blah, blah, blah. But so we just started talking about stuff like that, too, like how songs just influence our whole life. And they have. Since we could listen on our own.

Tina (: 22:48

yeah.

Tina (: 22:54

Yeah, I was talking to my dad's one of my dad's best friends my uncle When there was a time when we were young and we went to stay with him in in Tatchby and there was not shit in Tatchby at the time so he would take us in his truck for a ride and the truck had a little a little shell on the back of it and we were all in the back of the truck and and All I remember is John Denver music and I was telling him that just a few months ago and he said

He said, that's because the damn tape got stuck in the player. So that's all we could listen to. But for some reason, I just thought that that's what he loved listening to. And that was on. But growing up with him, he always listened to 101, K-Earth 101, which is oldies music, right? But this was like back in the day when they were playing that type of music.

Robb (: 23:43

was 40s and 50s.

Tina (: 23:53

Yes, and and so he loved listening to that and everything but I remember when I was in my 30s and I passed through K-earth and I was listening because it was music from when I was in high school and I'm like, my gosh I hit the age that my uncle was when he was listening to K-earth and now my music is on it and that kind of blew my mind because if you grew up here in the valley K-earth 101 was definitely like

Robb (: 24:03

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 24:19

oldies oldies oldies all the time like art laboe was on Sunday nights and It wasn't newer music and then you go from you go from thinking it's your parents music and then all of a sudden your music that you were listening to as you were growing up is is on it and I was like Holy crap. Did I hit that age? Like are we there? You know so that and we I guess we are because we're playing it

Robb (: 24:43

Well Well to make you feel even worse I just looked up K-Earth 101 online so for any of the fans that are listening to the show outside of the state of California and or the country you can look it up there's actually

You can listen to it right now online. The recently played songs are, The Way You Make Me Feel Michael Jackson, I Ran From Flockas Eagles, It's My Life From No Doubt, Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins, and I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight, The Cutting Crew. Which is pretty much everything that we listen to. That is, but I guess now it's not oldies. To be fair,

Tina (: 25:23

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 25:28

It's now a classic hits radio station. But I do remember when it still said oldies and they were playing what you just said. But now they've just changed the tagline. But it was a great, a really good station. Do you think? Like for me, I'm so my friend, she would she was started to send me these.

Tina (: 25:32

Tina (25:44.838)

Yeah.

Robb (: 25:57

songs afterwards and I was like, oh, read the lyrics or listen to this or this reminds me of us 20, 30 years ago, blah, blah, which was awesome because there was like some really cool things. And then I was sending her. Current music, there's a band called Sleep Token, I've told you about them. They're like I'd say alternative music, but they're metal alternative jazzy. It's like a weird fusion of stuff. They wear masks. They're really cool. They're from England.

And I was sending her these songs and she was like, is this mean something or is this just a song? I was like, yeah, like we have to say that, right? Because these songs for all of us have a lyrical meaning where, you know, good dance music, lyrics are, you know, irrelevant.

Tina (: 26:49

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 26:49

It's kind of like old Africa Bambada songs. Like they're bass heavy dance tracks and they're bitchin'. I have it on my, like, if you listen to my Apple music, you'd giggle. Cause you might hear like, you know, African Bambada followed by Slayer, followed by, you know, Hamilton the musical. So it's like all these different things. But I've realized that the music in our lives, not only it's a storybook.

Tina (: 27:04

Yeah.

Tina (: 27:20

absolutely.

Robb (: 27:22

And the best part is that it's ageless. You you can listen to a song that was great when we were in junior high school and it means the same. And you could listen to a song that came out, you know, last Friday that will still make you think of the same person of a different time with current lyrics or a current song. Because it's...

Songs are meant to, you know, uh, make your brain think or your heart wrench. And that's what I love about music. It's. And there's the different genres that will, like you said, like old R and B that old R and B from the nineties. I mean, Oh my God. You think, do you know how many children?

Tina (: 27:58

Yeah, for sure.

Tina (: 28:11

Mm-hmm.

That's some baby making music for sure. Yeah, yeah. That's why I said, can you see his face? Because yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

Robb (: 28:22

Yeah, you're right. mean, and you look at, what the hell were their names? Hold on. I know they ended up.

Tina (: 28:35

I can't listen to Two Life Crew and not think of my brother getting yelled at from my dad as he's singing the song coming out of his room and it's blaring in his room and my dad's like, turn that shit off, daddy!

Robb (: 28:46

Who did, who did, Boyz II Men. Like, Boyz II Men to me, or like Blackstreet, Bel Biv Devoe, TLC, like all these, yeah, they're, but they're party music and they're getting laid music. Those guys hit both sides of it.

Tina (: 28:57

Those are all party music.

Tina (: 29:05

Yeah, that's true.

Salt and pepper will like to this day if I hear one of their songs I don't know how I know all the words all the words I can't remember what I did this morning, but I got all the words to those songs in my head and I remember who I was with and how they danced and what they said I I knew a girl that she was quite a bit younger than me but she was a she was a foster kid having issues with her foster family and all the girls there and stuff and

Robb (: 29:11

Robb (29:20.761)

Yeah.

Tina (: 29:37

I remember her dancing to the Humpty dance at my 16th birthday party and every time I hear that song I still think of her we're still friends on social media and I I see her dancing to that song She's so darn cute. I just you know, you can't forget that stuff. It's weird or like my mom her Rod Stewart if I hear tonight's the night

Robb (: 30:02

Yeah

Tina (: 30:04

Yeah, if I hear that song, my mom always pops in my head. It's gonna be forever, cuz she loved Rod Stewart. She used to say she couldn't look at him, but she definitely liked to listen to him.

Robb (: 30:17

You know, you talked about John Denver. So my friend put on Rocky Mountain High, just out of nowhere. And then she pulled out the greatest CDs of John Denver right from her computer, like right underneath it. And I was like, what the hell? She's like, oh, I love John Denver. And to think like, yes, she's like, what did say, seven years, she's like 48. But.

Tina (: 30:23

Yeah.

Tina (: 30:35

That's funny.

Tina (: 30:42

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 30:44

to think like obviously her parents influenced John Denver on her because they're you know in that age group and it and I I didn't know you know like I was like John Denver that's I would have never thought that but like and then we started talking about like like you said like you said your mom like my mom loved Neil Diamond like I mean and when I mean loved like would go to the shows and like you know just

Tina (: 30:50

Yeah.

Tina (: 30:54

Yeah.

Tina (: 31:06

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 31:13

everything and looking back on that it's like that guy I mean and I'm sure in his day he was a good looking guy because you know but I mean women were throwing a look at Barry White people were throwing panties at that guy like it was a thing to do because they were singers right but so did I mean so did Neil Diamond like if it's your thing

Tina (: 31:24

If you're into that sort of thing, yeah.

Tina (: 31:33

Yeah, but he's got a voice.

Yeah, I guess. Yeah.

Robb (: 31:41

Because like we can argue the semantics of liking someone's voice until we're blue in the face. Yeah. And that was like really pre-videos where like it was still about music. We grew up in the video age, which.

Tina (: 31:47

Of course. But it was something about them that hid home and made you want to listen to them. I get that.

Tina (: 31:58

Yeah.

Tina (: 32:02

grew up I Grew up with we were there I mean I was I can remember where I was sitting at my friend's house waiting for MTV to show to turn on so that we could see Radio killed the video star or video killed the radio star Mm-hmm. That was the first song

Robb (: 32:11

The start. Yeah, it goes radio star, yeah. So, but even that, like think about that. When that song comes on, everything floods about what changed in our, like I remember rushing home to watch MTV.

Tina (: 32:28

That's a memory.

Tina (: 32:32

Yeah.

Robb (: 32:37

We would go over my best friend's house right after school not do our homework like we were supposed to and watch the top 10 like the top 10 countdown where You know probably very similar or like on the weekends, you know, Casey Kasem always had is the show It was the top 10 in the country or top 40 Top 40, but you know, they'd really kind of he'd jump he'd tell you some of the songs and then play some of the other ones It's it's such a great thing and I'm

Tina (: 32:37

Yeah.

Tina (: 32:44

Yep.

Tina (: 32:54

Top 20, 40, 40.

Tina (: 33:03

Yeah.

Robb (: 33:07

I'm a music nut so if I don't like the quiet that's the other thing so like I always have some kind of music on and you know I'm yeah Coast 103 the love song love songs on the coast I wonder if I don't know if they do that or not yeah now that one I

Tina (: 33:13

Right.

Tina (: 33:17

Yeah. Did you used to listen to 103.5 at night as you went to sleep to listen to all the like the eighties? Yeah. Coast one or three for the mush for the love songs on the coast. Yeah, I did that too. I loved them. They still do that. Yeah.

Robb (: 33:37

I did do dedications to people. That I did.

Tina (: 33:41

I never did that I'd have people send me like even now people will send me a text with the song and they'll say this song for some reason reminds me of you or they'll tell me the reason this song reminds them of me and and I I don't know, know I don't really pay attention to like what I'm doing if or if I'm making memories, but it's funny how I will do something and then it

Attaches to the song and my friends will always say you know, if you want to get Tina up You got to play this song or You know it takes two My friend my friend uses that song to get me to dance with her if that song comes on she knows my ass is up She's like that is the song that you were gonna get up every time too. And so far I I guess she's been right Didn't even realize it was like that though

Robb (: 34:20

It takes.

Robb (: 34:33

And

I, but I also do, I send, I love sending songs to people that it reminds me of them or reminds me of a time. And again, like we come from the land of mixtapes, right? know, well, and right. So when, you know, pre-burning your own CDs, and if you didn't know somebody who would make you a mixtape, you had to sit at the radio.

Tina (: 34:41

Yeah.

Tina (: 34:49

Yeah, totally. I had several. And DJs would make us tapes too.

Tina (: 35:04

Yeah.

Robb (: 35:05

and hit record. And it was work, know, that was before you could actually buy an album and then make your own tapes at home.

Tina (: 35:07

Yep.

Tina (: 35:14

Plus you had to sit there and try to write down the lyrics if you wanted the the lyrics and you'd listen to it over and over and over again and hope you got the lyrics right Yeah

Robb (: 35:21

Right, exactly. And, you know, look, again, there are good things about like Spotify and Apple Music where you can read the lyrics while it's playing, you know, and you're less likely to mess up the lyrics now. But, you know, you're right. I think that the mushy songs of the late 80s, early 90s is what made the best, the best.

Tina (: 35:34

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 35:38

Yeah.

Tina (: 35:45

Cheesy 80s love songs are the best. The best.

Robb (: 35:51

where and like which would be like more like modern country love songs.

I guess there is still R &B, but it's kind of a mix of, you know, mixes with hip hop now, where it's kind of this mix. And, but yeah, I mean, we had like, we had Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and, you know, Michael Bolton, like all these people that were like love song masters. Yeah. Yeah. Chicago. And matter of fact, over the weekend, was, Lionel Richie was great.

Tina (: 36:02

Yeah.

Tina (: 36:16

Sharon Peter Satera and yeah Lionel Richie right

Robb (: 36:26

Lon Richie has some good, some good love songs. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of, there was a, think that's, that's why the eighties and the nineties were like, we had a growth spurt. We had good music to make you sit at home and have sex too.

Tina (: 36:29

He's got some baby making music for sure. Yeah.

Tina (: 36:41

Maybe.

Robb (: 36:42

Yeah, it's just good times. I mean, I know that it's a weird thing because, know, it's it. don't think it's the same now, but it probably is with younger people. They just you just send somebody a playlist now. Here's a playlist I made for you, which is the modern mixtape. You know. yeah, yeah, I've sent.

Tina (: 36:58

I've never done that. I don't know why I've never done that I'll just send songs I will just out of nowhere send a song or say hey this reminds me of you and Send the song but not it not not a playlist

Robb (: 37:05

I've made playlists. I mean not like crazy ones. I've made some crazy ones for me. Like my personal ones. Yeah. Sure. I have one just for the gym. That's the most loudest, aggressive, angry, kill everyone.

Tina (: 37:21

yeah, I have one just for when I'm on the trike. It's gotta be a certain type of song. Yeah.

Yeah.

Robb (: 37:35

one music. Yeah. And then, and then I have ones for when I'm a little down and I want to just kind of chill or, and then of course everyone has the, you know, some kind of love song track or they're mixed together with some other stuff. But, I think that thankfully,

Tina (: 37:36

yeah, for sure.

Robb (: 37:58

music is it's cross-generational. You could play something now for your child who's 10 from the 90s or the 80s and you could get them into a band that no longer exists. Which is

Tina (: 38:03

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 38:15

Yeah.

Robb (: 38:18

just wild to me. Like there's a lot of bands my son has heard in the car that never made it out of the 80s.

Tina (: 38:20

Yeah, I was...

yeah.

right? I was with my niece the other day and she started singing a song that was like way older than she is. Her dad wasn't even having sex when these songs came out and I'm like what do know about this music? She goes, I know Thea, I know. my god. But my brother's big on music too so like we do this all the time. Who sings that? Or who sings this song? Quickly.

Robb (: 38:45

Yeah.

Tina (: 38:53

Tell me the answer, you know, to see how much we know. Our trivia is really good on music though. I think his might be a little better. I don't. I still use Sound Hound. Yeah, yeah.

Robb (: 39:00

So do you have Shazam on your phone? Okay, similar thing though. It's the greatest thing ever because like, I'll do the same thing at work. We'll be jamming. And there's a guy at my work named Steve who he's a music junkie and I'll put on like total eighties hits or I'll put on like eighties metal hits.

Because he's in the metal too and like a song will come on I'll be like Stevie tell me what it is and he's like he'll put like put his ear up in the air and he's like and he's really good because he knows some like very I mean he'll I'm not they shouldn't know just ones that are like a little more tricky That weren't the hits from these bands and like one day he was like, oh, this is wasp and I was like, yeah, dude two points for you Like that's fucking awesome that you know this so Music brings us together

Tina (: 39:36

semi-shinning no.

Tina (: 39:41

Yeah.

Tina (: 39:53

Mm-hmm. It's too. I'm sorry. It's to the point with my friends that they'll say Tina who sings this and I'll know the answer and they don't even question I'm like Sometimes it could be wrong guys. You need to you need to need to check

Robb (: 39:54

You know, going... Yeah. Yeah, even to you. I just think that like, you realize what music does to humans when you go to a concert. And to me...

There's nothing better than live music. be part... So the closest thing that I can tell you is me being a wrestler and walking through the curtain and hearing the crowd pop or boo or...

Tina (: 40:24

no, no doubt.

Tina (: 40:38

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 40:40

You know, me being able to make them jump or whatever. That's how I see these rock stars. And I've been to a show in a little bit, but we're going in October. Me and Odin are going to go to a couple of shows. And there's nothing like listening to a crowd. So like when I know there's a special chorus.

Tina (: 40:51

Nice.

Robb (: 41:01

and like the crowd. I like to just be quiet and not sing it so I can hear the crowd because it's amazing to listen to 16,000 people sing the lyrics. It's got to be hair raising. It's just got to be the biggest rush in the world. And to know that your lyrics have made

Tina (: 41:06

Yeah.

Tina (: 41:10

yeah, could you imagine sitting on stage listening to that though? That's gotta be wild.

Robb (: 41:27

a dent in someone's life. I mean, there's, I've heard, there's a band called Kill, Switch, Engage. They're a metal band. And the singer wrote a song called I Am Broken Too because he had, he was at his own bout with mental health. And.

Tina (: 41:28

impact. yeah.

Robb (: 41:47

I had seen an interview with him talking about like how many people have got a hold of him saying that like this song saved my life. Like I was going to take my own life. And I heard this song and decided like that the singer of this band wrote this song saying that you'll be okay. And I was like, wow, like that's like the craziest thing in the world.

Tina (: 42:09

Yeah.

Robb (: 42:16

the social impact that you can have on someone's life. It's kind of like us, right? When I think about the things we say sometimes, you know, I wonder if we've had an effect on somebody that listened and went, yeah, that could be me. They made it. They're okay. Like they've been through this shit. Like mostly both me and you. We've both been through marriage and we've got divorced and we came out the other side and we're okay.

Tina (: 42:21

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 42:36

Yeah.

Tina (: 42:45

yeah.

Robb (: 42:45

You know, and I've tried telling another friend of mine, she's going, going to start going through a divorce. And I said, you're going to be okay because you have to. And she was like,

Tina (: 42:55

Well, because you're going to want to, the burden of being where you don't want to be starts to lift. The veil starts to come up and you see life differently and you start to have your own opinions of it that are not second to somebody else telling you whatever they're telling you. So you get to experience your own life as you see it from your own perception and that's a really good thing.

Robb (: 43:22

Right, and that's kind of like what music will do, right? I said, you can hear, we all can hear the same song. You could have eight people in a room and listen to the song and go, what does it mean to you? And there'd be eight different answers. And that's what I love about music and how it can be melancholy and it sounds like a love song and it's really kind of not.

Tina (: 43:25

For sure.

Tina (: 43:36

Yeah. Yeah.

Tina (: 43:47

Yeah. Have you ever gotten to point where you break up with somebody and you can't listen to music? Like you can't feel it, you can't get there, it's a detachment, because I've experienced that quite a bit.

Robb (: 43:50

I've had that happen to me, but I had to stop listening to certain music where.

Tina (: 44:11

Yeah. Well, I felt that my attachment, I can't get back to that. I've literally had those problems where I can't get to that... that place. I don't know. It's gotta be your body's way of keeping you safe or keeping you from hurting, but...

Robb (: 44:16

OK.

Robb (: 44:22

Right.

Yeah, well, because you know, you can fall into the trap of a love song. So. Yeah, that just hit home, you know. So for me, I have the escape of metal. So it's it's easy to when you're. Raging or angry like it's so funny because.

Tina (: 44:32

for sure. Especially the 80s and 90s ones.

Tina (: 44:41

Yeah.

Robb (: 44:51

People will listen to some of the music I listen to and just go, I don't understand how you listen to that. It gives me a headache. And I get it. And I understand what they're saying. But on my side, I go, this makes me not want to hurt people because it gives me the release of I hear it and just like for a few minutes and then it's, I let out all that anger. And then they kind of got it. They're like, and I go.

Tina (: 45:05

Yeah.

Tina (: 45:12

Yeah.

Robb (: 45:19

I go, I don't have to listen to this for two hours. I can listen to two songs and I feel like a million bucks. So it's. Right, exactly. It's a it's a. Like an a dump of aggression or emotional dump, which is the same as a love song like you can listen to a love song. And if you're crying, it's because you're emotionally dumping something out. So.

Tina (: 45:26

yeah, you got whatever out that you needed to.

Tina (: 45:38

Sure.

Tina (: 45:46

Yeah.

Robb (: 45:47

And for our age, you're right, those love songs from the 80s and 90s, there's been, we've all been in a bedroom somewhere broken up or or, break broken up crying. You know, you know, I think we all either have been or know somebody or was in the room when they, when they were crying.

Tina (: 45:56

making babies or broken up yeah yeah for sure

Tina (: 46:08

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, absolutely.

Robb (: 46:10

You know, so it's just an amazing thing that it's like I said, it's cross-generational. Our kids, their kids, some of these songs will go on forever. And I like that part of it. I'm just a crazy person about music and I, it's an important part of my life pretty much every single day. So.

Tina (: 46:35

Definitely. Definitely.

Robb (: 46:37

I mean, just go to all of our work. I don't know about your work. Do you guys play music in the shop? Right, same in my place. Like I go in there, I, when I, well, when I go back to work, when I open, I crank it. Like, and I, when I mean crank it, I crank the shit out of it. People have walked in and were like, is there a metal show going on here? And I was like, well, and it's funny because I,

Tina (: 46:43

Are you kidding? We never not have music on in the shop.

Tina (: 47:01

I wish we could do that in my shop, but I get you

Robb (: 47:07

We are not supposed to, not like that. And I'm Tina and I play some music that's like screaming at the top of their lungs. And when people come in, I walk over to the iPad and I'm all boop, change it to something else. I'm like, sorry, dude. that's how you know music is such an influential part of our life. It's in car commercials. It's in.

TV shows, it's in movies, it's in everything because it plays to our brain in such a matter that. Danger Zone. Yeah. Yeah.

Tina (: 47:32

in everything.

Tina (: 47:41

So, okay, so here's a question. So, Top Gun, what's the song you hear?

Yeah, exactly, right? See, that's the thing. It's like you could you could literally pull up anything. What's the song attached to it? You know, because there's there is songs attached to it.

Robb (: 48:00

For sure. Yeah, if Kenny Loggins Danger Zone comes on, the first thing you think of is jet planes flying. I mean, or him on the motorcycle or the volleyball game.

Tina (: 48:06

is flying jets.

Tina (: 48:12

Yes, yes, absolutely. But you said exactly what I was thinking you were going to say.

Robb (: 48:16

It was so funny. Yeah. And it's true. Speaking of that, we were, me and my friend were talking about Top Gun. The first thing she said was, man, the volleyball game. It was just like, what? Like, but it's true. All these things. And this is why, if this is my thing on music today, this is what I wanted to talk to this about. All of us, if you listen to this, wherever you are, pick

Tina (: 48:28

Yeah.

Robb (: 48:45

a couple of songs out and send them to your friends that means something to you. Because I guarantee you, you'll get a text back about what it means to them and, and or you, cause it was something that happened or what it meant to them to hear that song. I, and this is something that'll keep friendships together when you only talk to each other once a month. Music will hold it together like glue.

Tina (: 48:50

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 49:03

Absolutely.

Tina (: 49:14

Absolutely.

Robb (: 49:15

Absolutely. Teeners, we're going to roll this up. What do you have to say about music in your life? Yeah.

Tina (: 49:20

listen to more of it. Just listen. I always have music on. I sleep with music on. I turn it on when I'm getting ready. I listen to it in the car. I don't really listen to podcasts still. And if you want to know the truth, I'll turn on the radio quicker than I'll turn on Spotify or Apple Music. I want to hear... I'm okay with the commercials. I'm okay with...

Robb (: 49:45

I mean, you don't even listen to this podcast. Yeah. Every blue moon, you'll listen to one and be like, I should, said that. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Same, same with me.

Tina (: 49:47

I don't, I don't listen to it. So once it's done, I'm like, wait, what have we done?

Well, yeah, because people will say, I can't believe you did this or you did that. I'll be like, I said that? Because, I mean, not that I don't, when they say it, I'm like, oh, did I say that out loud? I didn't realize that. Not that I'm taking it back. just, I didn't realize I had even said it. Yeah.

Robb (: 50:12

And and and I do agree I and pretty much every aspect of my day There's some music playing It's either at home or in the car or at work or somewhere Because it's that important to keep going for me. It's life just share share songs that you With friends that may not even like the genre because you never know

Tina (: 50:21

yeah.

Tina (: 50:27

cut.

Tina (: 50:30

Absolutely.

Tina (: 50:40

Who cares?

Robb (: 50:41

You never know what kind of no because you might make a new fan So I like when people send me new music no matter if I like the genre or not I'll listen to it because I might go. shit. I like that. Who is that? you can check us out on the social medias instagram facebook, twitter All that fun stuff. You can check us out on the every damn podcasting place you can Spotify and apple are the biggest

Tina (: 50:45

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 50:50

Yep.

Tina (: 50:55

Absolutely.

Robb (: 51:09

And it's an opinion show. Don't get it twisted. Keep coming back every Wednesday. For Tina, I'm Rob. We will see you in a week. Later.

Tina (: 51:15

See ya!