A Case of U

[00:00:00] Speaker A: It is now disclaimer time. [00:00:02] Speaker B: We are here to share Prince's works with the utmost authenticity, clarity and precision. This means there may be situations where the material being discussed may be sensitive or offensive to some. However, we have chosen to discuss his work as it was initially produced. We will not alter any of his original work to suit anyone's comfort, including in our own. This podcast is to celebrate Prince and his works. [00:00:29] Speaker C: Thank you for your support and understanding. Now, on to the show. [00:00:36] Speaker D: Hello. Welcome to Alphabet Suite podcast for the Prince Songbook. There are hundreds of songs to choose from. You have chosen. [00:00:47] Speaker E: So welcome to season two of Alphabet Suite podcast. Season two, episode one. I am still your host, Pat. [00:01:06] Speaker A: I am your co host, scared tim. [00:01:10] Speaker E: You should be. [00:01:13] Speaker C: And I am the producer, Aaron, who totally did not expect any of that. [00:01:19] Speaker E: Rock on. Hey, dude. This is season two. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Season two. [00:01:26] Speaker E: Season two. What is season two, you may ask. [00:01:30] Speaker A: I don't know, but I hope we don't get canceled after season two. [00:01:32] Speaker E: We might have gotten canceled after season one, but we're going to keep on going. But you know what? Before we even tell you what we're going to discuss, it is snack time. [00:01:41] Speaker A: Snack. [00:01:43] Speaker E: That's awful. Toss. I'm a little bit afraid. I'm not going to lie. This one has me worried because one, I'm not a huge bee stick fan to begin with. I like jerky. Not really bee sticks. [00:02:01] Speaker A: Jerky. [00:02:02] Speaker E: Yeah. So. But two, we are going to taste Jack Link's Doritos spicy, sweet chili flavored meat stick. [00:02:19] Speaker C: The chips are great. [00:02:21] Speaker A: I think they're gross, dude. Really just don't like them. That is my fault. I apologize. I just wanted it for background starting. [00:02:30] Speaker C: Season two off on a low note, knowing how to be a professional. [00:02:33] Speaker A: Hey. [00:02:35] Speaker E: Okay, so we got Jack Links, right? It is Jack Links. [00:02:40] Speaker C: I am personally not a fan of Jack Links Beef sticks. I'm a slim gym guy. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah, me too. [00:02:46] Speaker E: So we're like, strike one. Strike. I mean, there's. [00:02:49] Speaker A: We might be in trouble. [00:02:50] Speaker E: We might be in trouble here, guys. [00:02:52] Speaker A: Smell it first. [00:02:53] Speaker C: It's going to smell like beef stick with some spice. [00:02:57] Speaker E: That's what it smells like is beef stick with some spoiss. [00:03:02] Speaker C: All right, I'll go first if you want. Are you that scared? [00:03:08] Speaker E: I don't like beef stick. [00:03:09] Speaker C: I've got ice water over here. [00:03:10] Speaker E: Do you? [00:03:11] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, he actually took a meaningful bite out of it, too. Look at that. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Look. I don't know. [00:03:27] Speaker C: Just kind of smells like a Jack link's beef stick. That's why I don't like Jack links beef sticks. They're soft, have a weird pop, and they're extra greasy. [00:03:46] Speaker E: Yeah. Okay. We're really starting this season off on a sour note. [00:03:52] Speaker C: Past the water. [00:03:53] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:03:55] Speaker C: You know, the flavor is not bad, though. It's everything else that kind of sucks. It tastes like the chips. [00:04:04] Speaker E: I'm not a fan of the chips, though. Okay. Yeah. That just reinforced is why I don't eat beef sticks. [00:04:12] Speaker A: It's got a really weird. [00:04:15] Speaker E: It's exactly what it said. It's like a tangy. [00:04:18] Speaker A: I don't taste tangy. It tastes like a. [00:04:20] Speaker C: It tastes like spicy sweet chili. [00:04:22] Speaker E: Yeah, that's what it tastes like. [00:04:23] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:04:24] Speaker E: I can't. Okay. [00:04:25] Speaker A: It tastes pickles. [00:04:30] Speaker C: All right, I'm going to finish this. [00:04:33] Speaker E: I hope someone does. Yeah. So now let's get back to why we're really here. Yeah. Snack time was not good this time. Producer Aaron's going to go season two on a low. Okay, so why season two, you may ask? Well, we're going to tell you why season two. Can't get that taste out of your mouth, can you? [00:05:08] Speaker C: You're regretting not bringing a drink, aren't you? [00:05:11] Speaker A: I'm glad that you like that, though. [00:05:13] Speaker E: I wouldn't say I like it. [00:05:15] Speaker A: If Slim Jim did this. [00:05:16] Speaker C: It would be fantastic. [00:05:19] Speaker A: Slim Jim has a better. [00:05:21] Speaker E: They're all greasy. [00:05:22] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. Better texture. [00:05:23] Speaker A: The pops better. [00:05:24] Speaker C: Yeah, really greasy. [00:05:26] Speaker A: And be smoking some jerky. Come on. [00:05:29] Speaker C: Kind of gross. [00:05:29] Speaker E: Jerky is much better anyway. You like jerky? If it's done right. I had some. [00:05:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I had some with this. [00:05:37] Speaker E: If it's done right, jerky is great. Well, I'm trying to. I'm trying to explain why we're in season two. [00:05:45] Speaker A: Oh, you were my fault. [00:05:46] Speaker E: And you just wanted to go off on your little tangent, which. [00:05:50] Speaker C: Well, that's back to normal. [00:05:51] Speaker E: Yeah. Ready? I've been ready. I'm waiting on you. So we have decided. Actually, I say we decided. [00:06:03] Speaker A: I had no idea about it. [00:06:04] Speaker E: You had no idea? It was producer Aaron's idea to break this up. And it was a great idea. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:10] Speaker E: Which is why we have a producer. [00:06:12] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:13] Speaker E: We're going to break this up into seasons by letter. So we did all the numbers. That's season one. So now we're starting the A's. Season two, which says after 27 seasons, we're done, if not, sooner. [00:06:33] Speaker A: Might cancel us. [00:06:36] Speaker E: Cancel culture. [00:06:38] Speaker A: Well, our producer might cancel us. [00:06:40] Speaker E: No, he likes us. We give him snack time. Yeah. Whether he likes the snack or not is snack time. [00:06:50] Speaker C: It's all gone. We're good. [00:06:51] Speaker E: It's good. Yeah. He ate it. He finished it. So this episode, first episode of season two, is actually a cover song that Prince covered by Joni Mitchell, maybe called a case of you. [00:07:10] Speaker A: If it had more. [00:07:14] Speaker E: Anything, I don't think anything would have saved. [00:07:17] Speaker C: It's in the back of my throat. [00:07:19] Speaker A: So I'll keep thinking about it. [00:07:20] Speaker E: It reminds me of this joke that I could tell, but it's kind of a dirty. Don't know. I don't know if we want to go there. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Does it have to do anything with Virgins from Virginia? [00:07:32] Speaker E: No. [00:07:33] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:33] Speaker E: It has to do with other things. Fellatio. [00:07:41] Speaker C: Wrong show. [00:07:42] Speaker E: Wrong show. So anyway, a case of you. [00:07:50] Speaker A: What is fellatio? [00:07:53] Speaker E: If you don't know, I ain't telling. [00:07:55] Speaker A: You guys do this to me almost every episode. I'll be like, what are you talking about? You don't know? Okay. [00:08:01] Speaker E: It has to do with cowbells inserting certain male organs into females mouths. [00:08:08] Speaker C: Oh, pinky toes. [00:08:12] Speaker E: So anyway, now you know what fellatio is. [00:08:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:21] Speaker E: So a case of you. A case of you. [00:08:28] Speaker C: Sounds expensive. [00:08:30] Speaker E: It could be. You get a case of Prince. So this is a song that Prince did. [00:08:40] Speaker C: He covered. [00:08:41] Speaker E: He's always been a Joni Mitchell fan. And technically, there's three versions to this song that Prince did, but one version is just an edited version of another. So technically, there's really only two. [00:09:02] Speaker A: Why is there no just instrumental of the song? Yeah. [00:09:07] Speaker E: Why? [00:09:08] Speaker A: I think I would like that. [00:09:11] Speaker C: There's editing software out there that'll do that for you. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:09:18] Speaker E: So you just don't like the lyrics of the song. [00:09:20] Speaker A: I'm just not a fan of it. I don't know both ways song that I heard just lyrically just incorrect. I would have wrote it different. [00:09:38] Speaker E: He wouldn't have wrote it at all. That'd be very different. He didn't write it. He did not write it. [00:09:45] Speaker A: I would put it on the shelf. [00:09:46] Speaker E: And leave it be so blame it on Joni Mitchell. [00:09:49] Speaker C: Joni Mitchell. [00:09:50] Speaker E: And funny thing is, Prince's version eliminates the first and the third verse. He only sings the second verse in the chorus, through the song. [00:10:00] Speaker C: So he was lazy in his cover, too. [00:10:06] Speaker E: Pretty much. I don't feel like singing that much. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Is this where he left out to old Canada? Right? [00:10:12] Speaker E: Yeah, that was in the first verse. [00:10:14] Speaker C: Or maybe. [00:10:17] Speaker A: Really? [00:10:21] Speaker C: Maybe he didn't like her lyrics either. Those were just a few that he was like. [00:10:27] Speaker A: There we go. [00:10:27] Speaker E: Well, even when he performed, why would. [00:10:29] Speaker C: You cover the song? [00:10:30] Speaker E: But even when he performed it live, he never sang the first or third verse. He just always. The second verse in the. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Why. [00:10:39] Speaker E: And his version is so much more musically produced than hers. Hers is just a very. Because Johnny Mitchell is a folk singer, an old folk singer, and hers is just something. Natalie something. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:56] Speaker E: Natalie Portman. Natalie Cole. [00:11:02] Speaker A: She sung like that. Like Joni Mitchell. Her name. Natalie. I think it's when I went on my long vacation and this is what we would listen to in the room. [00:11:14] Speaker E: That was. [00:11:15] Speaker A: No, no. Natalie Cole. Who's that? [00:11:17] Speaker E: Nat King Cole's daughter. [00:11:18] Speaker A: No, no, this is a white lady. [00:11:21] Speaker C: Really? He named his daughter after. [00:11:23] Speaker E: Huh? [00:11:24] Speaker C: He named his daughter after him, I'm guessing. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Nat King Cole was actually a very good singer. [00:11:30] Speaker E: An excellent singer. So was. [00:11:34] Speaker C: Like. [00:11:35] Speaker A: I like that when they did the dad together. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Like George Foreman with less children. [00:11:43] Speaker E: No, because he named all his kids George. Yeah. [00:11:46] Speaker C: So I said, like George Foreman. So less children. [00:11:49] Speaker E: I don't know how many kids Nat King Cole had. [00:11:52] Speaker C: I named one after him and it wasn't the son. So that's kind of weird. [00:11:56] Speaker E: Yeah. Anyway, it was big. [00:11:59] Speaker C: There's my tangent for this one, for this episode. [00:12:04] Speaker E: Well, I don't know how many kids he had. [00:12:06] Speaker C: George Foreman. [00:12:08] Speaker E: No, 49. King Cole. [00:12:10] Speaker C: I think. [00:12:11] Speaker E: George Foreman. [00:12:12] Speaker C: I think he actually has eight. [00:12:13] Speaker A: I don't think he knows how many he has. [00:12:15] Speaker E: No, that's Nick cAnnon. [00:12:18] Speaker C: No, they don't. I think he has twelve. [00:12:22] Speaker E: Nick. Yeah. Nick's got like twelve kids from 18 different women. [00:12:33] Speaker A: Was he the one that was married to Mariah? [00:12:35] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:12:36] Speaker A: And they had liquor in the hospital room after the baby came. [00:12:40] Speaker E: Did they really? [00:12:41] Speaker C: George Foreman has seven daughters and five sons. [00:12:46] Speaker A: And he called his daughters George. [00:12:48] Speaker C: Just seven daughters. Natalie, Frida, Michi, George, Jetta, Isabella. [00:12:57] Speaker E: You said George Foreman. That's Nat King Cole, bro. [00:13:00] Speaker C: This is. Yeah, there's no. You said George Foreman has seven daughters. Yeah, I'm on Google right now. [00:13:07] Speaker E: Oh, okay. So anyway. [00:13:11] Speaker C: Oh, no, he does have sons. [00:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm not a fan of the song. [00:13:18] Speaker C: And they are all called George. [00:13:20] Speaker E: George, yeah, five of them. Right. [00:13:22] Speaker A: Man, I called the girls George. [00:13:24] Speaker C: Yeah. Junior. The third, the fourth, the fifth. Wait, 12345. Yeah, five. [00:13:32] Speaker E: And then his last son is Alfred. [00:13:37] Speaker C: And then the seven daughters, two of which were adopted. [00:13:42] Speaker E: That's a lot of kids, man. [00:13:45] Speaker C: Well, when you're loaded. [00:13:47] Speaker E: Yeah. Apparently Nick Cannon had a lot of kids, but he was loaded in a different way. [00:13:53] Speaker A: Yeah, he. [00:13:57] Speaker C: Not. [00:13:58] Speaker E: The song's. Okay. I can listen to it. I can listen to Prince's version. Not a fan of Joni Mitchell's. It's just her and guitar. What are you laughing about? [00:14:07] Speaker C: Nat King Cole has five kids, the Natalie and then a son named Nat. [00:14:14] Speaker E: Are any of them named George? No. Because George had a daughter named Natalie. [00:14:20] Speaker C: Yeah. All right. [00:14:25] Speaker E: So, yeah, not super. Did he did the version on one night alone. Then he did a shortened version for the NPG Music Club, and then it was on the piano and a microphone, 1983, where he was just basically messing around at the piano and singing. But even on that one, he only sang the second verse. So I don't know if maybe he doesn't know the other two. Never learned them or he just hates Canada. I don't know. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Poor Canada. [00:15:02] Speaker E: No, I like Canada. It's not even a real country. [00:15:06] Speaker A: It's not. [00:15:07] Speaker C: Yes, it is. [00:15:07] Speaker E: We saw it. We did see it. But according to South park, it's not a real country. [00:15:13] Speaker C: Well, we're not South Park. No, that's in Colorado. [00:15:16] Speaker E: It is in Colorado. All right. So, yeah, not much about this song. The song is about as good as that beef stick, actually. I did enjoy Prince's piano playing, his musical. [00:15:36] Speaker A: It was good and I didn't feel like it was too much. Enjoyed the. I enjoyed the music, not the lyrics. [00:15:45] Speaker E: Yeah. I can drink a case of you and still be on my feet he. [00:15:53] Speaker A: Did a lot with the song, musically. [00:15:55] Speaker E: Yeah. Joni was on the guitar. [00:15:58] Speaker A: It's just more like a generic. [00:15:59] Speaker E: Well, because she's folk, so it's just her and an acoustic. I'm not taking nothing away from Joni Mitchell. Very talented woman. I don't know. Yeah, you don't know. I do. [00:16:10] Speaker A: I know this Natalie girl, though. [00:16:13] Speaker E: I don't know who Natalie might not even be. Your Natalie Grant? No. Natalie Wood. Natalie. [00:16:21] Speaker A: You're not even going to get it. [00:16:22] Speaker E: Why are we talking about it? [00:16:24] Speaker A: Because she seems like. Reminds me of Joni Mitchell. Her voice. Not the way, like, Joni Mitchell sings, but her tone. Yeah. [00:16:33] Speaker E: Oh, okay. [00:16:35] Speaker C: Let us know in the comments if you know who. [00:16:37] Speaker E: Yeah, who's a Natalie girl? That sounds like Joni Mitchell. [00:16:42] Speaker C: I forgot the nickname that you had for the show. [00:16:47] Speaker E: For the show. Alphabet Sweet Podcast. [00:16:54] Speaker C: Tim's nickname. [00:16:56] Speaker A: He had too much of that case of you, bro. Put it down. [00:16:59] Speaker E: He's the kid. Tim's nickname. [00:17:02] Speaker C: Yeah, we had a little nickname for him. [00:17:04] Speaker E: It's on the Patreon for Tim. Yeah. [00:17:07] Speaker C: Timmy T. Timmy T. Yeah, there. Timmy T. And I ain't dead. Tell Timmy T who Natalie is in the comments. [00:17:20] Speaker A: That would be great. [00:17:21] Speaker C: While you're down there, though, hit the like and subscribe to the show on. [00:17:25] Speaker E: YouTube and the little Bell. [00:17:26] Speaker C: You can subscribe to the show and like Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify and Patreon. Check out the Patreon. I'm not going to do all your sales, but check out the Patreon page. Patreon.com Slash Alphabetsweet podcast. [00:17:41] Speaker E: I think we should start making like shirts and hats. We should come up with a logo. [00:17:45] Speaker C: We have a logo. [00:17:46] Speaker E: Oh, we do? [00:17:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:48] Speaker E: We should start printing that. [00:17:51] Speaker A: I like that. [00:17:52] Speaker E: Yeah, we can do that. I know a person who knows a person who knows a person. [00:17:57] Speaker A: I know a person that knows all dumb people. [00:18:00] Speaker E: Do you? Yeah. Producer Aaron. [00:18:03] Speaker A: Yeah, he'll get it done. [00:18:04] Speaker E: He'll get it doNe. He's gonna get it done. [00:18:06] Speaker C: Three degrees from Kevin Bacon or whatever. It's one of those. [00:18:14] Speaker E: Don't even. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Don't know. [00:18:15] Speaker E: If you don't know, we're not telling you. [00:18:17] Speaker C: This is old news. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Kevin Bacon. [00:18:21] Speaker E: Do you know who Kevin Bacon is? The Footloose guy? [00:18:23] Speaker A: Yeah, in the movie theater, through the nerds. [00:18:30] Speaker E: We were young when we went to go see Footloose. We were what, 1314? Somewhere around there. I mean, really young. And we went to go about when it came out. Yeah, we went to go see Footloose in theater. Yes, people. Theater left our home, paid money, went into a building with a movie screen and watched a movie with no electronic in our hand, no electronics whatsoever in our hands. However, what we did, we went to the store and we bought like 20 boxes of nerds. All the different flavors they had at the time. [00:19:11] Speaker C: There's different flavors of nerds? [00:19:12] Speaker E: Oh, dude. Yeah. Each box you bought, if you bought a little box of nerds, they had two different flavors, one on each side of the box. [00:19:19] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember that. [00:19:20] Speaker E: We had like 20 different boxes and we bought multiples. Now, you got to remember at the time, I think a box of Nerds was like twenty cents. Twenty five. Or $0.35. Early. [00:19:32] Speaker C: Eighty s. Yeah. [00:19:34] Speaker E: So picture that at $0.35 we spent probably $1015 on Nerds. [00:19:39] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. [00:19:40] Speaker E: Took them and put them all in this big gallon Ziploc Baggie so we could take them to theater with us. [00:19:48] Speaker A: It was a great idea, too. [00:19:50] Speaker C: You took them out of the boxes and put them into a bag because. [00:19:53] Speaker E: We wanted all the flavors mixed together. [00:19:56] Speaker C: That's the only way they sell them anymore. [00:20:01] Speaker E: But that's what we did. So we had a bag full of nerds. It's not like it was a full bag. I mean, it filled a gallon bag probably. I don't know about that far. But we would eat them while we're watching the movie. Well, there was these two girls, like, I don't know, seven, eight rows in front of us that were just annoying every time Kevin Bacon came on the screen and just constantly just couldn't hear half the movie, right? So about, I don't know, half hour into the movie, every time they screamed, handful of nerds, banning would whip them at them and then just sit there and it just. And they're like looking around and we're just sitting there watching the movie, man. Took about what, four times? [00:20:57] Speaker C: People screaming at Footloose because they liked Kevin Bacon. [00:21:00] Speaker E: They thought he was super hot. [00:21:02] Speaker C: Oh, that's so silly. [00:21:03] Speaker E: Yeah, well, that was teenage girls in the 80s. [00:21:07] Speaker C: They can't hear you, stupid. [00:21:09] Speaker E: So about four or five handfuls later. [00:21:13] Speaker A: You were talking to me. [00:21:15] Speaker E: Are we going to finish the story? Are we going to. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:17] Speaker C: I'm sorry. [00:21:17] Speaker A: Well, you said, hey, stupid, something. I don't know. [00:21:20] Speaker C: He wasn't even listening to me. [00:21:22] Speaker E: He can't hear you, stupid. So about four or five handfuls later, they finally got the. They quit. I don't know if you remember this. When they were walking out, I could see nerds all in their hair. They were just plastered with nerds. They got jacked. [00:21:46] Speaker A: You know what's funny? [00:21:47] Speaker E: What? [00:21:48] Speaker A: If these girls actually ever watch our podcast, they're like, that's the mother ones. [00:21:52] Speaker E: Who threw nerds at us 40 years ago. [00:21:55] Speaker C: I hope everybody spreads this episode around. Let's reconnect. [00:22:01] Speaker E: Let's reconnect. We'll watch Footloose together. [00:22:04] Speaker A: There we go. [00:22:05] Speaker C: Sans nerds. [00:22:06] Speaker E: Yeah. Oh, no, there will be nerds. So anyway, case of you. Beef stick. Definitely no. [00:22:18] Speaker C: So if you like Jack links, beef sticks and spicy sweet Chili Doritos, you're going to enjoy it because that's exactly. [00:22:28] Speaker E: What it tastes really is. Self descriptive. So season two, episode one is in the books. [00:22:38] Speaker A: Yes. [00:22:39] Speaker C: So, like, subscribe, comment, review, hit us up, review, spread us around, share Twitter, Instagram. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I ain't spreading for nothing. [00:22:48] Speaker C: You're going to do a TikTok. Social boy. [00:22:51] Speaker E: You doing a TikTok? Do you do TikTok? I got banned. [00:22:56] Speaker C: Well, stop showing your nipples. [00:22:58] Speaker E: I did. [00:22:59] Speaker A: No, I posted like three pictures of Prince. [00:23:06] Speaker C: Interesting. So there's no TikTok. [00:23:09] Speaker A: Screw TikTok. I didn't like TikTok anyway. [00:23:13] Speaker C: All the links are down below that. [00:23:16] Speaker E: We'Re not banned from. Yeah, you didn't even make season two there. All right, till next time, people. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Peace, peace, peace. [00:23:34] Speaker C: If you're interested in this extra content and so much more. HeaD on over to our Patreon [email protected]. Alphabetsuitepodcast.