Russ recorded a song without playing the kick drum. The band had a name, a logo, and studio time. Apparently that was enough.

Robb also revisits the night his bedroom speaker got hijacked from 1,200 miles away. Add some TouchTunes mischief, a St. Ides flavor investigation, a very stubborn karaoke argument, TV tangents, and wrestling briefcase pyro, and you've got this week's Moron Bros.

No kick drum. Plenty of range.

Explicit language and adult humor.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro, drinks and celebrity headlines

04:34 Wallets and school stories

09:00 Quiet Riot and band math

13:54 Tremor: no kick drum required

18:08 Pueblo and the weather report

20:17 Kitchen stories

21:57 Boone's Farm and first-drink memories

23:00 The St. Ides flavor investigation

29:01 Aftershock and a truckload of liquor

31:00 Arlington and family stories

37:35 What we're watching

41:44 Entourage, The O.C. and familiar faces

47:14 Hoodies require commitment

48:30 Captions on or off?

52:30 Dashboard Confessional and Karen

54:21 Stand-up comedy and the big rooms

59:55 MSG and the Hippodrome

01:02:32 Cartoon physics

01:03:53 Theme-park news

01:06:17 Beautiful Girls and the karaoke argument

01:08:06 TouchTunes and jukebox crimes

01:09:38 The 1,200-mile speaker prank

01:11:00 Strokin' and hotline math

01:14:44 Wrestling, Penta and briefcase pyro

01:19:50 Weekend plans and sign-off

Robb went to a comedy show. The chicken parm got the better review. Meanwhile, one alligator staring across the water is all Russ needs to assemble an entire heist crew. Everybody has a job. Somebody's cutting the pool screen.

Before we get there: G.I. Joe twins, dogs who don't care about daylight saving time, childhood fire stories, and the rules for ordering a Coke when you actually want a Sprite. Streaming services have figured out how to put a commercial break inside your commercial break, limited-edition snacks have gone too far, and an innocent character-voice exercise ends with a very reasonable question: why are we doing this?

Russ also talks about Making the Scene, his documentary project on the Nashville and Middle Tennessee nu-metal scene of 1998–2008. Add movie trailers, TV rabbit holes, cartoon memories, and some questionable wildlife planning.

Good food. Dumb ideas. Same two morons.

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We pause for the world's least natural thumbnail photo, then revisit the stories that probably explain a few things: fake IDs, a cigarette run, the ever-changing lights in Robb's Dodge Neon, and the problem with bringing a forty into a movie theater.

From Orbitz and a Blockbuster Yoda giveaway to basement parties and the ridiculous run of albums released in 1994, the nostalgia gets out of hand fast. Then Russ brings us back to the present with Uber rides involving an empty gas tank, a very tired driver, and a five-dollar response from support. Add movie arguments, TV reboots, sandwich orders, and an urgent need for Waffle House.

Decades of friendship. Questionable judgment. Excellent stories.

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