S6 – Ep 20 | Critics vs. Sales Charts, Nick Hakim & Styx in 2017

This week, Craig and Kevin kick things off with an interesting music-industry comparison: the most acclaimed albums versus the best-selling albums. Using a list of Time Magazine's top-rated records, the guys compare critical darlings against commercial giants and explore what separates artistic acclaim from mass appeal.

From there, they dive into their featured year: 2017.

Craig spotlights Green Twins by Nick Hakim, a soulful and adventurous release that blends psychedelia, R&B, and indie rock into a uniquely immersive listen. Kevin counters with The Mission by Styx, the veteran band's ambitious concept album that proves there's still plenty of creativity left in the tank decades into their career.

The conversation touches on critical consensus, commercial success, musical evolution, and the different paths albums take toward finding an audience.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Schizophrenic Music is a signal syndicate production.

SPEAKER_03 0:21

Alright, welcome into Schizophrenic Music, aka Schizo Music Pod. My name is Craig. I'm joined here, of course, with Kevin. Alright, we're gonna talk about some music. We're gonna feature an album. If you're joining in for the first time, or if you want a little recap, what we do is 1960 to 2025. So 1960 to last year, we do we present to you albums we think are overlooked or underrated or both. Once again, today's date is 2017. Excited about that. As always, we'll have uh some riffing to do. We'll talk about just some random stuff, just whatever's on our mind. But the tradition goes like this. If you're new, welcome to Beercast. All right. Attention please, okay. Kevin, I've got uh this is bearded iris uh attention please, which I guess is a double hazy IPA. It's definitely a hazy. I don't know if it's a double or not, but yeah, really good stuff. What you got? Yeah, it's a double.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

This is the first I went to the store a little while ago and uh I have not had this yet, but it's from Monday Night Brewing. Oh, sweet. Called Gasoline Dreams. I have never seen that, which is a hazy New Zealand style pale ale.

SPEAKER_03 1:46

Nice. I really enjoy a New Zealand pale ale. I've had several, they're really good.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

They're different. So I'm gonna I have not tried it yet, so we'll see. And hopefully, I like it. I don't know. Let's crack it open. I'll count us down this time.

SPEAKER_03 2:02

You ready? Three, yes, sir, two, one. All right. I got a little bit of information for you here. I was curious about this because I don't I've mentioned this on the cast. I know I've talked it talked to you about this a couple times, but I'm almost certain that I mentioned this on the podcast when I had a bearded iris or a scofflaw, but I talked to somebody at Scoflaw and he she said they were merging, and that was incorrect. They weren't merging. I found an article. Bearded Iris joins Atlantis Scofflaw Brewing to create Indie Brew. All one word, Indie Brew.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

A shared brewery collective created to consolidate business operations and distribution to help them compete with the big dog. That's pretty cool. But however, this partnership has since evolved into July 2025 Memphis Days Wiseacre. I've had several of their beers, uh acquired bearded Irish. So bearded Irish was acquired, but it wasn't until last year that it was Wiseacre. So yeah. I thought that was interesting. Three breweries to put it on vacant.

SPEAKER_03 3:18

Look at that. See, that's a good looking beer there. That's nice. It's not as dark, but it's nice and hazy.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

That's nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

I love the New Zealand stuff, dude. I really do. What makes it New Zealand? I'm an extra my uh particular hop, I don't know. I'd have to look up the hops, but it's a particular type or a variation of different hops that are only grown in New Zealand, if I'm not mistaken. Could be wrong. But I know what I know when I have one, it's different. Uh very crisp. I don't know if I've had a hazy though. I've had New Zealand pale elves, but yeah. Anywho. Alright. Well, as we said before, we're gonna get into our albums from 2017 this week. Overlooked, underrated, or both. I uh I think Kevin went lat first. Pardon me, I did.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

It's a hot forward refreshing pale distinguished by its use of distinctive New Zealand hot varieties. It balances a light crisp malt profile with bold aromas and flavors of tropical fruit, passion fruit, citrus white wine, and sometimes a signature diesel or herbal note. Interesting.

SPEAKER_03 4:37

Okay. Diesel. I like it. I wasn't thinking diesel. I wasn't uh I don't know, yeah. But they used to say, what what did they say? Sorry, ma'am, something got in my throat. They used to say that Heineken had what formaldehyde in it, or somebody said that I was like, come on, people, that's not true. We're not drinking formaldehyde.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

All right, but you were you were about before I so rudely interrupted, you were gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

No, I'm glad you did because it's like something flew in my throat. I'm trying to I'm trying to get my voice back.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

Trying to be like that other dude that looks everything up, uh whatever on your podcast.

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Your other one that we're not doing anymore.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

No, no, no, no, not that one. The the Seinfeld dude or whatever the other guy.

SPEAKER_03 5:30

On um, yeah, um, Time Crisis with Deser Koenig. Time crisis. Yeah. Love those dudes. Mention, I I told Kevin the other day they mentioned uh some uh Walter Wanderly the other day. I thought he was gonna love that. I was like, man, I'm telling you, the more they talk, the more they're going to appeal to Kevin's ear for sure. You're you're gonna dig them. Um, 2017. So before we get into the albums, I'll I'll start first this time because uh I like to let you go first, but I'll start first this time because I got two different lists here. I thought I would pull up the top 10 albums according to critics, uh, and I just pulled up, you know, Time magazine. I pulled up a big one. I didn't pull up any of the indie magazine, pitchfork, anything like that, just the big ones. Right. I wanted to compare that with the top ten selling albums per unit in that year. Alright. So here we go. As far as as far as the critics go, and I don't know if this is it, it's the top ten albums that stood out as the absolute best in 2017, according to Time magazine. We'll see if any of these, if you're familiar with any of these, I think you were familiar with at least a couple. All right, number one. I I don't know if this is in particular order, but this is their top 10. Uh, Kendrick Lamar, damn. Lord Melodrama. What was that one? Lord Melodrama. That's her second album, I think. Uh Sizza Control, abbreviated C T R L. Uh, I know we listened to this one. There's a couple here that have a wand tinge here, have a have a wand flavor. This one, Tyler the Creator, Flower Boy. Remember, he had us listen to that. Um, LCD Sound System, American Dream. I guess that was their last album that they released. Uh St. Vincent, Mass Education. I remember that one. The XX, I see you. This is one of this one I'm not familiar with. Khalila, Take Me Apart. Don't know. Yes. Uh Futuristic, uh, it says a futuristic, icy yet emotionally resonant RB record that hailed as one of the most innovative vocal and electronic collaborations of the decade. I gotta check that out. I like that. Uh Perfume Genius, no shape. And the last one, this one came as a surprise to me. I'm glad to see this on uh Time magazine, especially. Like I said, I think some of this is coming from other ones because I'm seeing some reviews links from other sites, but Mount Erie, definitely a one. Uh A Crow Looked at Me. It's a devastatingly beautiful and heartbreaking acoustic folk album that documents the raw, immediate aftermath of aftermath of grief and loss. Very, very lo-fi. Uh it's good, it's very good. Okay, okay. So that's the top ten critically albums. All right, this is the top ten selling albums. We'll see if there's any carryover. Number one, Ed Sheeran, divide. Our boy Ed Sheeran. Number two, Kendrick Lamar. Damn. Had to know that was gonna be in there. Massive, massive album. Uh you listened to that, right? The Kendrick Lamar. That's a good album. That's good.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:56

Uh number three, Taylor Swift, Reputation, of course. Number four, Drake, more life. Number five, Bruno Mars, 24 carat magic. Number six, post Malone, Stoney. Number seven, Migos, Culture. What happened to those guys? Are they still doing it? Or is Amigos still around? Um, the weekend, Starboy. Number nine, the soundtrack to Moana. And number eight, really interesting to see a soundtrack in there. And then 10, Khalid American Teen. Um, so I'm just thinking, like, when I look at these lists, this is 2017, right? So we're almost, what, nine, almost nine years removed, or nine years removed from this. I'm not seeing a whole bit of difference from 2017 and today. I feel like the music hasn't really evolved that much. What do you think? Because most of these seem like are still right. Artists that they're maybe not the specific artists. I mean, Drake's always out there, Bruno Mars is still out there, Post Malone is still out there, The Weekend is still out there, Khalid, all of these artists are really, are still in the limelight. So I don't feel like a whole lot has changed.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

No, uh, no. I mean, obviously, there's new bands that you know that are whatever, shaking things up a little bit now and things like that. But everybody that not everyone, but a lot of those, most of those that you mentioned are still relevant right now. Maybe not as in the limelight, some of those, but everybody's it's not like most of those haven't disappeared, right? I mean, there's you know, you got like Post Malone and Bruno Mars, and you know, of course, Kendrick Lamar and yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:51

I was looking up for some reason I'm feeling like Migos, uh, they were 2008 to 2023 and then 2026 to present. Did they they may have lost a member? Did one of the members from Migos pass away? I should totally know that. He did. He died in 2022. So that all apologies, Migos. That's what probably took you out of the line. I don't know a whole lot about them, but that's I haven't heard their name in a while. But it seems like that 2026 to present looks like they're getting back in it, so that's kind of cool. Um, yeah, I thought it was interesting. Not a lot of carryover of bestsellers except for the Kendrick Lamar uh and critically acclaimed albums. And that I'm telling you, Kendrick Lamar is just next level. He just is. He's yeah, I I like a lot more old school hip hop as does and Tyler the Creator too is another one that a good portion of that album I really, really liked. I did.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Yeah, I I I like his stuff. I like real quick, again, now just really quick go through the the critic, critically acclaimed, like just okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

So the critically acclaimed uh are Kendrick Lamar Dam, Lord Melodrama, Sizza Control, Tyler the Creator, Flower Boy, LCD Sound System, American Dream, Saint Vincent Mass Education, The XX ICU, Khalila, looking forward to listening to this take me apart, Perfume Genius, no shape, and Mount Erie, a crow looked at me. That's a pretty diverse list, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

Right. That Khalila is is excellent, by the way. That's I mean, it's just a good RB, you know. I haven't pulled it out probably in a couple years, or I remember when I listened to that. But that Sizza album is excellent as well. I mean, that's good. That there's some good stuff on there on that list. Another one I gotta check out.

SPEAKER_03 12:43

I've always seen the name, but you know, I'll have to check it out. Um, all right. Well, let's go into our albums. And I felt this is one reason why I felt like it's perfect for me to move in this, especially now that we talked about Khalila, because the album I have for 2017, my overlooked and slightly underrated, but maybe it's rated okay. I've only seen a couple of reviews, and all music gives it four stars, but it is in the RB category, but it is very different. This guy in 2017 single-handedly kind of changed my perception of uh of RB and soul, and I have been chasing this vibe forever. Uh, his name is Nick Hakeem. He put out his I saw that on there, and I was like, I think, you know, I thought you might go that debut album, Green Twins, telling you this guy is it's like if Stevie Wonder was on an acid trip. It's spacious, it's psychedelic, it's real sparse in ways to where you could just his voice really stands out. Uh it's super chill and kind of mellow, but it never gets somber per se. I freaking love this guy's stuff. Um, there's several other things I've seen with he's collaborated with other people. I wish I had this album. I just realized I only have Komita, his most recent uh solo album. He's done some collaborations with other people, he's done some guest um placements on albums that I really love. But um, yeah, I just I love this guy's music. Uh, it is in it, it's it's in its own category, I really feel like it's a style of RB that I think is more popular now, but at the time I wasn't in anything like this. And when it was on my top 10 list, that was the one that all of my friends commented on. Who the heck is that? And then when they listen to it, they go, Wow, look at you getting, you know, it really got me into modern soul and got me to take chances and listen to some of the stuff. Um, yeah, love Nick's voice, love his style, uh, and everything he's done. He did an album after this, uh, real quick, that was it, it was pretty spacious. It was spacious, it's pretty spaced out, pretty. It's called uh Will Will This Make Me Good. Um, it was released during COVID in 2020. Um, but it's very different. It's very uh it's him kind of branching out, getting a little bit darker. Um, but he put out Komita in 2022, and I love that album. That's very close to Green Twins. I think those two are I need to go back and listen to that second one, but uh yeah, I love this guy's sound. Um, and there's only a handful of people I think that come close to capturing it, it's just very unique, very distinct. So um, there you have it, Nikakim Green Twins.

SPEAKER_01 15:43

What about you? I need to I saw that, I'm like, it's one of those that you know, I remember you were definitely were and we were doing best of or ear ends and whatnot. I know that was on your list. I need that. I saw that. I'm like, I thought you might go that route. I need to pull that back out and listen to that a little bit more. You know, I don't visit it as much. Like there's too much stuff, but uh but yeah, I need to listen to that again for sure. Good stuff. All right. Uh well I I thought back when we talked about this, and there was one of those like albums, and I thought I I found I think I found out about this album after the year end, or I would have put this on there, and I just think it's an excellent, excellent album. If people are like, okay, whatever. But so obviously, this band is not overlooked or underrated. Some people might not think they're the best band in the world, but obviously they've had this is their 16th album.

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Oh wow, holy mess, all right.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

So they've had a couple, right? And and some of them were absolutely positively huge, right? Okay. That means they and they still tour to this day with at least two original members, but great band. Sometimes they get lumped in there with that whole people. There's certain ilk that don't like they're maybe too smooth or corporate rock or yada yada yada, but so this band hadn't released an album since I think 2003. So 14 years since then, they threw one out in 2017, and it got four out of five stars on AllMusic. There's Stephen Thomas early on gave it, you know, said it was gave it four stars. I mean, he does some good stuff, right? And uh said great things about it and like pulling back like some of their like hey, late 70s prime and things like that. It's technically, I guess, a concept album, but it I just think it's an excellent album. I saw them in concert after this, and they pulled out like four or five songs off of the new album. And usually you're going to see a band from the 70s or 80s, and they were like pulling out four or five songs off the new album, and you're like, all right, we you know, no, right. But but it was excellent. The band I'm talking about is Sticks, and they released an album in 2017 called The Mission, and it's technically like a concept. I mean, all the songs, it's basically about a mission to Mars. And it just, I mean, if you like sticks, if you don't like sticks, you're not gonna like this album. But if you like sticks like from the 70s and 80s, whatever, it is just strong. I mean, it's just uh song after song, good songwriting, good. I mean, it's you know, definitely kind of concept and proggy in in parts, you know, and it's just like it's just good. And I was like, man, I didn't expect anything from it, you know, like oh six releasing, oh, these you know, a band from the 80s, 70s, 80s releasing them, you know, oh new stuff, like, yeah, whatever. So I mean got four out of five stars, and they're definitely not an overlooked band, but nobody knows this album. Nobody, you know, I'm sure it sold two copies or you know, whatever. It's you know, but since then, I think they've released two more since this one, or two or three more since this one. And they're I have not spent as much attention to those, but they're good, but like it's just a solid, I mean, it's like not a band from that's just phoning it in trying to release something or like reinvent. I mean, it's just like it's good, solid rock and roll. If you like sticks or anything like that from the 70s, I would highly recommend listening to The Mission. It's just it's just good.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

I so the I do I do not understand. I I still remember the joke, the running joke on that 70s show because Eric Foreman loved sticks, and all the other guys made fun of him, and I go, Sticks rock. Right. With too much time on my hands. That is one of the 45s I had. That was one of my favorite 45s ever. I mean that Paradise Theater, right? That from that, that wouldn't I mean that's uh that song alone, like literally, if you listen to it, it is a sonic masterpiece. It is just so good. I love that. I love that band. I really do. I would have gone to that show, I would have gone to that show with you for sure.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Because I just think they're you've got what Shaw and Tommy Shaw and James Young are there still the members originally.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

See, that's huge because he's the voice of the band.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

So and then I mean Dennis Deeung, who I love Dennis D Young, and I've seen them with I saw them with Dennis. I always thought I hoped he'd come back, has been gone for years, but they have the uh his replacement is Lawrence Gowen, who's a Canadian guy who had a who's he was big in Canada, had a band called Gowan, well we never really knew much about here in the States, but he's been singing with them forever, and he's talented as I mean, he's great. I mean keyboard and sings, and I mean he's not Dennis E. Young, but I mean he does it. He's not like some higher gun type of young dude rolling in there. I mean, he's been around for years, probably the same age as the rest of the guys. The bassist, what I can't think, I can't think of his name, Pinoza. He he's not well, but he comes out, he tours with him and comes out for like one song. So he's still there, he's just not able to tour and play all the time, right? And the drummer has passed.

SPEAKER_03 21:30

So, but like the other guys, two of the four core guys are still with him, and one guy would be a good one. And the other be with them if he could.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Right. And the other the bass player that plays with them is like uh uh Ricky, can't remember his name. Ricky's I mean he's no Ricky Nelson, Ricky uh, you know, if I didn't ask me, I would have told you. Uh Ricky Phillips. Ricky Phillips has been, he's played with like tons of people, like played with you know, 15 bands and stuff like that. So he plays. So it's not like it's it's old, not old, I'm gonna say old dudes, but it's like journeyman guitar journeyman musicians playing with them now. And they I mean they sound great. I mean, are they you know sticks from the 70s and 80s? No, but and is there some cheesiness with sticks? Sure, maybe that's why they gave him a hard time on that 70s show. But you know, I didn't think it's this strong, it's strong stuff. I mean, back in their heyday, don't don't just yeah, I so they got what he said in the interview in the review, you know, the mission is designed as a concept album, blah, blah, blah. In a sense, it's a sequel to Paradise Theater containing the same kind of overbaked story, and more importantly, a bunch of songs that sound like sequels to Too Much Time in My Hands and Rock in the Paradise. Yeah, but it's not necessarily Mr. Sticks Crafty's operatic rockers so well. I mean, it's just like they're just I mean, it's just good stuff. So hey, not you know, good stuff. I must stand by it.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

I love it. No, no, I get it. I totally get it. Uh I love it. That that's a band that uh I didn't invest a whole lot of I haven't invested a whole lot of time recently with, but that is a band I'm very nostalgic for, and it's a sound. I put them in the same category with like Boston, uh, in that it's very, very well produced, it's very well done, it's very well thought out. Uh is it corporate? Yeah. I mean it's it's it's kind of corporate. I don't care it rocks. I mean, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

I mean they got L'Ands. Go back and listen to that.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

Boston album, it is amazing. It's absolutely amazing. So uh and same thing with sticks, I just think they were a great, they were so tight that it kind of served to their detriment back then because a lot of the 70s stuff was pretty dirty and and and a little bit maybe grittier, but I dig them. I I dig them. So I'm right there with you.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

I would have totally smooth or too polished, and that and that, and there's a certain people that maybe like there's that maybe it's smidge older than me that just hated these bands and they lumped, they kind of like you know Boston sticks, Foreigner, Foreigner was the next one I was gonna say. You know, Journey, they don't like Journey, you know, they don't like, you know, those they did not like Kansas that that was not their, you know, it was too smooth, it was too whatever, you know. But right, I don't know. You know, it was playing all over the place when I was growing up, and it's just good stuff. I'm not gonna, you know, is Foreign or Four smooth and kind of produce? Sure. But that was a great album that I'm not gonna, you know, that's just the way it is.

SPEAKER_03 24:52

But listen to any band that you mentioned, uh, with the exception of Boston, just just buy the Boston, the the so just buy the Boston Boston album. Just buy it. It's it's amazing. Uh but the greatest hits on any of those bands, and you'll be surprised at how many of those songs you will know. Like every single there's some greatest hits, you know, they'll throw in some fodder and stuff in there, and it's like, yeah, I'm sure that was a single. Was that a hit? Uh, probably not. That foreigners greatest hits, like there's ever it's just banger after banger after banger. Same thing with sticks. So uh all right, we'll we'll wrap things up with a little digger dump. It I've got uh a little list here I'll pull from real quick to see if we can have some fun. Um let's stick in the music catalog category to start. We'll go with um Kevin digger dump an artist retiring and coming back.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

I gotta I gotta dump that. I mean, it's just like it's I'm okay with somebody retiring, but if they go on a farewell tour and make a big deal out of it, right? That's Motley Crew, that just that's annoying, you know. Yep. I I I don't know, coming in a few weeks I might go see them. Uh I want to see Tesla and Extreme or probably them. But uh it's just that's kind of annoying. I mean, I know that the Who thing with the farewell, it's kind of a joke, but I let them slide. But there's too many bands that you know.

SPEAKER_03 26:26

Well, especially if they do stop over and over and over again. Like, how many times can you bait people to pay a premium for your last tour? Uh by the way, I just saw that tour because you know I do booking and I look up venue, I look up venues, and there was two different venues in California I was trying to connect with, and both of them had that Motley Crue, Extreme, Tesla. That's gonna be a good show. I mean, and I'm like Tesla, Extreme, and then Motley Crue personally.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

I saw Motley Crue twice on their farewell tour, that the real the first one or whatever. One because I mean I I like Crew, but I do too. Alice Cooper warmed up open up for them both times, so that was just like you know, I needed to see that when they came through town. So I saw them at the beginning and at the end, which was great. But I mean, yeah. I Tesla Extreme.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

I mean, my I was a Molly Crew fan, but I was more of a fan of the other two bands that are Molly Crew, though.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

Right. I mean, Vince, I'm sorry, but he can't just really can't do it anymore. He can't sing anymore. I know they got what, like John Five, right? Yeah, so and that's he's incredible.

SPEAKER_03 27:49

One of my favorite, like look, there I mean, Tommy Lee's amazing. Uh I've always thought Nikki Six was one of the coolest guys in rock and roll. I just do. I think he's I think he's cool as hell. But I think Mick Mars is that band. I mean, for me, Mick Mars' guitar is what made that band. And so I but I like Too Fast for Love. I like Shout at the Devil. Those are the two albums I like. Right. I don't really care for I mean I did like Theater of Pain. Uh once you started getting the girls, girls, girls, and Dr. Feel Good, I they just kind of lost me.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

I never I know that that's like that sonically, it changed. You know, everyone wanted to sound like it, but I never got I was never really that big a Dr. Feel Good fan. I just didn't see it.

SPEAKER_03 28:29

Same here. I thought that didn't do it for me. Bloated, bloated album. I don't I never and from that point forward. I actually like the Karabi album better than that. The self- It's good. I thought it was good. I I love John Karabi though. I love the scream. Yeah. Alright, we'll do another musical and then we'll move on to some goofy stuff. Um what do you feel about all right, digger it up at artists explaining their songs publicly?

SPEAKER_01 28:56

Like publicly, like a storytellers or publicly like Song of Madness. I love a nice I love storytellers or someone talking about a song, but then it's almost like you want like to not know exactly what somebody was saying because you want to you've painted a picture in your own mind. Unless you're like right. It's kind of cool learning years later, like something you thought, like, oh, it was about that. Oh, I mean, it's kind of that's kind of fun, but you know, you gotta leave it a little bit to the imagination, right? Or let the the listener kind of determine what what's up. So yeah, it's I love a storyteller's thing, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

I like a storyteller's thing too, and uh, there's certain things like you know, of course, like the infamous songs like um, you know, police every breath you take and stuff like that. And it's like what here's what it here's what you think it's about, here's what it's really about. But to me, I like the mystique of there's certain artists like REM's a prime example. Half the time you couldn't understand what Mike Stipe was actually singing. So let me keep the mystique.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Let me just you know or there's songs you hear you've heard for years, and you go like, what is you know, like you just I don't know, you never really I don't really know what it's about. I've just been singing this song for years, but what's uh you know, right? I don't know, yep. All right, Space Hog, what's in the meantime about? I don't know. Well, you know, it's like you've been singing that forever, but I do love it. Is Possum Kingdom about a uh you know, I'm just whatever, you know.

SPEAKER_03 30:38

So you pick you picked two good 90s songs there. I love both those songs. Uh all right, we're gonna go with some food here, man. Uh gas station hot dogs, dig it or dump it.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

I have I haven't hit the roller grill in in a in years. So I, you know, I I I mean I had no issue with it, but uh, you know.

SPEAKER_03 30:59

I I gotta say, um Becca had had gotten into this thing because she was traveling so late, and you know, where she's like two hours away from Atlanta and Chattanooga. She went to QT and got uh God, what are they? Um like almost like empanadas. And she I was like, really? Like the roller? Yeah. Uh I can't remember what they're called. It's not an empanada, but it's like an empanada. It's like a round like taquito? Taquito, taquitos. So uh and she would get the chicken and cheese, and I'm like, oh, I don't know about that. And she said, try the pepper jack, just a cheese one. And so she had me try one one time, and I'm like, damn it. It's really good. I mean, it's good.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

Some of that stuff, I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna dump it because I mean I'm not gonna I'm not better than that or anything. But that's you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:50

So here we go. Uh digger or dump it, sharing food.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

You know your wife. You know your wife. I'm cool with that.

SPEAKER_03 32:06

I I can I can Well, here's the thing too, though. It's when somebody gets you to somebody that gets you to order something that you know damn well, they want it more than you do. And it's like, come on, man. Like, just order your you like I don't know if your wife is like this, but like you can't order the same thing. So you end up getting something separate, but she really wants the meal that you got and you don't want the meal that she got.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Right, right, right. You know.

unknown 32:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Oh, we can share. I'm like, oh, I don't want that.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

Right. I don't want to share that with you.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

But I'm cool with sharing, but me too.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

Right. All right, one last one and we'll uh we'll wrap things up. We're doing this, we're doing this way too much on the fly, but that's all right. Um dig it or dump it. Watching YouTube more than traditional TV.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

I see I I go I have my go-tos on YouTube. I don't like just go and like explore on YouTube. I have a few things I listen I watch on YouTube.

SPEAKER_03 33:27

Same here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:28

But I don't really don't do traditional TV either. I I'll do street, I'll do like streaming, like Netflix Prime, stuff like that, but I don't watch TV.

SPEAKER_03 33:39

You know, like that's that's my thing is like what do they consider what is considered traditional TV? Because to me, traditional TV might be more Netflix than anything else. But I will say, like, if I'm not watching something, some TV show or something in syndication just randomly, or like what we've got, we always have like two or three series that we'll stream, we'll binge watch. But if I'm not doing that and watching TV on my own, it's always YouTube, and it's always like a whiskey show. I I follow Bruisel, I follow uh you know, a thing on Georgia Tech football, I follow several things on music, like what's in my bag, of course, track star, stuff like that. I'm always watching this the car videos, yeah. So all right. Well, uh, we rambled a little bit on this episode, but that's all right. We're just having a little bit of fun. Uh tell us what you think about 2017. You don't have to go back that far. I mean, legitimately next week, just wait. It's 1963, so it's going way, way back. Uh, but it's interesting. It's interesting, though. The dynamic uh it's changed a little bit, but it hasn't changed that much since 2017. And it's hard to believe, Kevin. 2017 was nine years ago. Doesn't seem like it. Uh but yeah, tell us what you think. Hit us up via email at schizomusicpod at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_01 35:10

Yep, we would love to hear from you.

SPEAKER_03 35:12

Uh and give us a pick for any year. It doesn't matter. 2017, any year, it could be this year. Uh let us know what you think. All right. Well, uh we are going to go ahead and sign off. We will see you next week. And until then, take care. All right, take it easy.