A Couple Miles

[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. [00:00:48] Speaker E: Welcome. Do it, man. Bring us in hot and heavy. [00:00:54] Speaker A: Welcome back to another episode of Ass has gone Wild. [00:01:05] Speaker E: Yeah, kind of. Yeah. [00:01:09] Speaker A: Welcome back to another episode of the Suite podcast. I am your host, Timothy. [00:01:16] Speaker E: I am your co host, Pat. [00:01:18] Speaker C: And I'm producer rag. [00:01:22] Speaker A: I learned over the thing because, see. [00:01:25] Speaker C: Half my arm, that'll change with the new setup. [00:01:28] Speaker A: But everybody thinks I don't have an arm, so that'd be surprising for you. [00:01:30] Speaker E: I'm sure that's what everybody. [00:01:31] Speaker A: Yeah, they don't see your face. They don't know what you look like. They don't see my arm. They see all of you. [00:01:38] Speaker C: That means I'm not real. [00:01:40] Speaker E: You're just a figment of our imagination. [00:01:44] Speaker A: I'd like one of them. They got the maids. It's not really a maid. It's a robot. But it has the skin like humans. You've seen them, right? They're like, come from Japan or something. [00:02:01] Speaker C: They're called androids. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Yeah, but they walk normal. [00:02:06] Speaker C: I don't know that I'd say normal. Well, they definitely don't talk normal. [00:02:11] Speaker E: Are you looking for a girlfriend? [00:02:12] Speaker A: Yes. [00:02:13] Speaker E: They don't sass back yet, right? Until. [00:02:17] Speaker C: Well, that's all you get to choose. Do you want a bitch or do you want a waifu? I mean, the choice is yours. [00:02:23] Speaker A: I want a ho that make me some tacos. [00:02:31] Speaker E: You know where we live. [00:02:32] Speaker C: There's plenty of those already here. [00:02:34] Speaker E: We are getting way off track. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Yes. [00:02:37] Speaker E: What are we discussing today? [00:02:39] Speaker A: We are discussing two nickel. [00:02:43] Speaker E: No, two nickels. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Two nickels at a time. Don't tell me. Let me put my specs down. I still don't see the song. A couple of miles. A couple. That's it, too. How's that far there? [00:03:07] Speaker E: Okay. [00:03:10] Speaker A: However, is there more to that title? [00:03:12] Speaker B: Because I swear there was snack time. [00:03:14] Speaker E: Is it snack time or snack time? [00:03:16] Speaker C: We're starting snack time right away. [00:03:18] Speaker A: Wow. [00:03:18] Speaker E: You're not want to do snack time right away? [00:03:20] Speaker C: No, you already said it. It's fine. [00:03:21] Speaker E: Okay, we'll do snack time. Halfway through the episode. [00:03:23] Speaker C: Bruh, you already brought it up. [00:03:25] Speaker A: Bring out the snack, bro. [00:03:27] Speaker C: T wants the snack. [00:03:28] Speaker E: Bring out the snack. So we're doing something different this week. [00:03:31] Speaker A: I'm afraid of this one too, though. I'm excited about it, though. [00:03:35] Speaker E: This one could go either way. It really could. We're going to try a drink today. So is it really snack time or is it like drink time? So we are going to do a limited time flavor of RC berries, berries, and cream. [00:03:55] Speaker A: If he keeps doing that, it will. [00:03:57] Speaker C: Be berries and cream. [00:03:59] Speaker E: Berries and cream soda. [00:04:00] Speaker A: I'm just, like, super excited because RC never does anything. Pepsi, coke are always coming out with all this different pineapple, Pepsi and lime, man. And RC just kind of sits there. So I'm stoked about this because I love RC. [00:04:14] Speaker C: This comes from North Carolina. [00:04:16] Speaker E: It's kind of a funky purple can. [00:04:18] Speaker C: They're just like, yeah, this is great soda. We're just going to leave it as it is. They don't need that. [00:04:23] Speaker E: If it's not broke, don't fix it. [00:04:24] Speaker C: Sell fru. Fru to try to bring in some millennials, which is honestly probably why they're doing it. They're trying to get the zoomers to drink RC. [00:04:31] Speaker E: Well, they put it in a 16 ounce can, which is unique, too. [00:04:34] Speaker C: No, you can get that with anything anymore. [00:04:37] Speaker E: I don't never see Coke or Pepsi in a 16 ounce. [00:04:40] Speaker C: Yeah, go to the cooler section. They're all there. Yeah, there are individual sales. I don't think. I mean, I'm sure you could probably get a pack from somewhere, but I think it's to help reduce plastic, so they're selling less bottles. [00:04:58] Speaker A: But smell it first. [00:04:59] Speaker C: What do I know? Bet it tastes artificial. [00:05:09] Speaker A: That stinks. Smell like ass. [00:05:13] Speaker E: Whose butt are you smelling? [00:05:16] Speaker A: I don't know, but the look on your face kind of went with my. [00:05:18] Speaker C: No, the butt is a latina Android. He wants to get to make him tacos. [00:05:27] Speaker E: It's not sweet, which I thought it would be very sweet. [00:05:32] Speaker C: My sniffer is not working too good. I just kind of smelled cream. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Any taste? [00:05:36] Speaker E: It's kind of bland. [00:05:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:39] Speaker E: So I'm saying I thought it would be sweet. [00:05:41] Speaker A: Maybe we should have mixed it up. [00:05:47] Speaker E: Aaron's got the same look we do. [00:05:51] Speaker C: It tastes like shockingly nothing, right? It's like kind of sweet bubbly water without the bitterness. [00:05:59] Speaker E: Very kind of sweet. [00:06:02] Speaker C: When you're comparing it to bubbly water. [00:06:04] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:06:07] Speaker C: It'S still got a dick load of sugar in it. [00:06:11] Speaker E: I don't know. To me, it tastes like carbonated caffeine. Like, caffeine is the only flavor I got out of that. [00:06:20] Speaker A: I'm a little. [00:06:22] Speaker C: Hold it on your tongue. [00:06:24] Speaker A: Hold the can on my tongue? [00:06:25] Speaker C: Well, not the can, silly. Just kind of hold it in your mouth. On your tongue. Let the bubbles dance around. Kind of tastes like cream soda. [00:06:34] Speaker E: Well, I mean, berries and cream. [00:06:37] Speaker C: The very light cream soda. [00:06:39] Speaker E: I'm not a fan of cream soda. [00:06:44] Speaker C: Yeah, maybe it's the beef stick from last week's episode. Kind of coated our tongue in grease. And now. [00:06:53] Speaker E: I don't know. [00:06:56] Speaker C: I wouldn't drink it. [00:06:57] Speaker E: You wouldn't? [00:06:58] Speaker C: Oh, no. [00:07:01] Speaker E: Okay, we'll take that upstairs. [00:07:02] Speaker A: I'm a little upset. [00:07:03] Speaker E: And pass it off to, you know. [00:07:07] Speaker C: There'S someone upstairs that might like that. [00:07:09] Speaker E: I know. That's what I'm saying. Well, we'll take that up there. [00:07:13] Speaker C: And she's not a couple of miles away. [00:07:15] Speaker A: Boom. [00:07:16] Speaker E: She is not a couple miles away. [00:07:18] Speaker C: Back on track. Don't buy that. Unless you like bland soda. [00:07:24] Speaker E: Yeah, that's kind of. Okay, so a couple miles is an unreleased instrumental. And it was done as a tribute to Miles Davis. It was never intended for him to record it himself, but just a tribute to him. And look at the camera. [00:07:41] Speaker C: Not me, man. [00:07:42] Speaker E: But I'm talking. He's ignoring me. [00:07:44] Speaker C: No, you're talking to them. [00:07:46] Speaker E: I'm talking to you now I got. [00:07:47] Speaker A: This crap in my back of my throat. At least they killed that nasty thing. [00:07:53] Speaker C: Yeah, some of my strawberry refresh. [00:07:54] Speaker E: So what you're saying is, two wrongs don't make a right. [00:07:57] Speaker C: It's starbees, man. [00:08:00] Speaker A: That's right. Two wrongs. [00:08:01] Speaker C: I think you're going to be all kind of bubbly. [00:08:05] Speaker E: This is going to be a very ugly episode. I can tell right now. [00:08:09] Speaker A: I just wanted you also to know. I don't mean to interrupt. I do, but I don't care. I have replaced you as my best friend. It is now Pepto in our truck. [00:08:24] Speaker E: Because, see how I said I can't stop diarrhea? I'm sorry. As much as I love you, however. [00:08:30] Speaker C: Nausea, heartburn, indigestion and upset stomach. [00:08:33] Speaker E: Yeah, I got you. I just can't stop the diarrhea. All right. [00:08:41] Speaker A: Thanks for letting everybody know. [00:08:43] Speaker E: You're the one who brought up Pepto. [00:08:45] Speaker A: I didn't say anything about diarrhea. [00:08:46] Speaker E: No, but he had an upset stomach. I'm going to talk to them now. I'm not even going to talk to. [00:08:51] Speaker A: Don't look at him no more. [00:08:55] Speaker E: I get a text hey, I don't. [00:08:57] Speaker A: Like you out there. [00:08:58] Speaker E: What can I do? Because I have an upset stomach and I have diarrhea. What can I do? And I'm like, you're asking me who is, of course, a licensed medical practitioner. [00:09:12] Speaker C: The answer is always. [00:09:15] Speaker E: And he takes peptobismal. And of course it works. [00:09:22] Speaker A: All right, thanks for. [00:09:24] Speaker C: It's in the jingle. [00:09:25] Speaker E: We all get the runs every once in a while. I tell you what, though, if I ever get the runs, I don't care even if I'm feeling okay, but I will not go to work. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Really? [00:09:36] Speaker E: Oh, hey, that's sick day, right? I am not going to sit there. [00:09:42] Speaker A: At work. [00:09:46] Speaker E: Right in the middle. Think about it. Because I'm in meetings, I do thing. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Sorry, guys. [00:09:55] Speaker E: That ain't happening. [00:09:57] Speaker C: When you climb the ladder of corporate employment, the more sick days you have for diarrhea. [00:10:05] Speaker E: I will not be in day because my bowels are expunging themselves. [00:10:09] Speaker C: They're very loose. [00:10:12] Speaker E: Just so you know. [00:10:13] Speaker C: Yeah, like Timmy T's Android. [00:10:15] Speaker E: Yeah. So anyway, a couple miles, yay or nay? [00:10:22] Speaker A: Thanks for sharing that, dude. It's kind of like your story. That was funny. [00:10:31] Speaker E: Anyway. [00:10:32] Speaker A: All right. I like the song. [00:10:38] Speaker E: That's because it's madhouse. Yeah. It's Prince and Eric Leeds playing jazz. [00:10:43] Speaker C: Oh, this is a. Huh? [00:10:44] Speaker E: No, technically, no, it's not a madhouse song, but it's just Prince and Eric Leeds playing jazz. If you were to hear this song. [00:10:51] Speaker C: It should have been a madhouse. [00:10:53] Speaker E: Yeah. You'd be like, oh, I've never heard that madhouse song. It is madhouse through and through. [00:10:57] Speaker C: Okay. [00:10:58] Speaker A: It's very good. But I love. [00:11:01] Speaker E: So, yeah. In fact, Eric Leeds was going to put it on his Times Squared album, but decided not to. [00:11:12] Speaker C: So this has zero official releases. [00:11:15] Speaker E: Zero. It's got two unreleased versions, which we have one of. So they did one and then on the other one they did the horn overdubs. There's a version without the tenor sacks and the baritone overdubs. We have the version with those overdubs. So there is an earlier version of. [00:11:44] Speaker C: The song, but there's no horns in what's leads part in it. [00:11:51] Speaker E: He did the horns. In the second version, he did the overdubs. He's not in the first studio version that Prince did. He came in and did the tenor and baritone sax. [00:12:03] Speaker A: He came in and got horny. [00:12:05] Speaker E: He got horny. [00:12:06] Speaker C: This is just music, right? There's no. [00:12:08] Speaker E: Just an instrumental? Yeah. [00:12:09] Speaker C: You know, I wonder if the estate is going to release some big box set thing for Madhouse. That would be not necessarily for madhouse, but a collection of instrumentals. And it'll be prince and Leeds toots their horns. [00:12:27] Speaker E: I'm not trying to toot my own horn. Well, yeah, I guess I am. I think a madhouse box set would be cool if they included 24. [00:12:38] Speaker C: Well, I mean, it seems like anything they do anymore, it's the whole thing plus some. [00:12:42] Speaker E: Yeah, but right now they're shooting. I think their box sets are great. Don't get me wrong. [00:12:48] Speaker C: I think of which, if you want to see some, head on over to patreon.com Alphabetsweet podcast for some cool unboxings. Cool unboxing? [00:12:56] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:12:57] Speaker A: Behind the scenes when he goes into his things. [00:13:01] Speaker E: It freaks you out, doesn't it? [00:13:02] Speaker C: Does that. [00:13:02] Speaker A: No, I'm just saying what does? But he should give us a cue and we could just like, freeze. [00:13:09] Speaker E: We're just going to have to learn that when he does it. Yeah, stopping. [00:13:13] Speaker C: You don't want a deadpan in there. [00:13:18] Speaker E: Yeah, we got the unboxings there and we're actually going to be adding a lot more content over there. So you guys really, it'd be good to check it out if you like. [00:13:25] Speaker C: Literally only a dollar a month. [00:13:27] Speaker E: Yeah, depending on which level. But the entry level is just a dollar a month and then you get a lot of cool stuff for that. But they do great on their box sets. I think they're really cool. However, if you notice they're hitting just all the big albums. [00:13:42] Speaker C: Well, I mean, that's how you're going to start it off. [00:13:45] Speaker E: But you shouldn't because once you do all the big ones, then you got nothing but his, I'm going to call them minor albums, the lesser releases, the less popular releases, and then who's going to be spending the money? You kind of need to sprinkle them out to know all true Prince fans will get them. [00:14:05] Speaker C: Well, yeah, the hardcore ones are going to get everything. I think what they're trying to do is keep it alive as long as they can and milk it for as long as they can. So they're going to do everything big now while all of you are still alive. [00:14:18] Speaker E: But all of us are going to buy it no matter what. [00:14:21] Speaker C: Right. But there's a lot of you that are older than both of you. [00:14:25] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. [00:14:26] Speaker C: That aren't going to be around for much longer. And they want to get their money too. [00:14:34] Speaker E: Right. But those are the people that are going to buy no matter what they put out. Like if they were to come out. [00:14:40] Speaker C: With their box set, there could be four geometrics out there that are having a hard time having the extra money, so they're not necessarily going to get the smaller things. I don't know. [00:14:54] Speaker E: I don't know either. [00:14:55] Speaker C: I think they're just trying hard to make as much money as they can as quickly. [00:14:59] Speaker E: I think that's exactly what they're doing, because they're doing the biggest albums because that's the ones that the people who are not like Prince, all they know. [00:15:08] Speaker C: Is they know the sign and diamonds. [00:15:09] Speaker E: And pearls and sign of the times. And maybe my understanding is they're working on the next box set and it's going to be the gold experience. Purple rain again. [00:15:25] Speaker C: Again. [00:15:26] Speaker E: Well, because the first one was just a three disc set. In this little tiny case, it wasn't anything elaborate. [00:15:33] Speaker C: They weren't going balls to the wall. [00:15:34] Speaker E: No. Now they're going to do it the way they've been doing all the other ones. [00:15:39] Speaker C: I mean, it makes sense. [00:15:40] Speaker E: That's my understanding is that's what they're going to do. [00:15:45] Speaker C: They did the baby one as a feeler, and then we're like, yeah, let's go stupid with something. [00:15:50] Speaker E: No, the first one they did, that was one of the first things that came out after he passed, and that's because he was already in talks with Warner Brothers about doing a deluxe anniversary edition. So he had all that ready to go. He had it all remixed, he had all the songs. It was all set and ready. They just had to package it and release it. And they could do that quickly because he had the material ready to go. So that's why it was just this tiny little. Maybe we'll do that on Patreon, too. We'll pull out some of the other things that we find. Prince memorabilia and cool stuff. [00:16:22] Speaker C: It'd also be kind of cool to. I just had this random thought. Let me know in the comments down below if you agree or not. But compare some of the new kits, bundles or releases with the old stuff with the original, because I've seen, at least in your collection, some multidisc releases of print stuff. [00:16:42] Speaker E: He's had, like, well, outside of just live, 1999 was a double album. Sign of the Times was a double album. Emancipation was three. [00:16:54] Speaker C: Did he proclaim that one? [00:17:01] Speaker E: All right, a couple of miles. I think we got more than a couple of miles out of this episode. [00:17:06] Speaker A: Yes, we did. [00:17:07] Speaker E: It is a good song. If you like madhouse, the jazz funk infused kind of. It's good stuff. It's got Eric Leeds again, Tim's favorite saxophone. [00:17:18] Speaker A: He rocks, man. [00:17:19] Speaker E: That's Tim's horny guy. [00:17:20] Speaker A: That's my horny guy. [00:17:21] Speaker C: And where can our listeners listen to this? [00:17:25] Speaker E: Know, the funny thing is they can listen to this music. Where can they listen to this music? [00:17:31] Speaker A: At my house. [00:17:34] Speaker C: That's a little weird. [00:17:34] Speaker E: But if anyone wants to come over to Timothy T's house and listen to some Prince jams, come on over. [00:17:39] Speaker A: There we go. [00:17:40] Speaker C: I'll drop a pin in the description. [00:17:42] Speaker E: There you go. We have a sister channel. [00:17:46] Speaker A: We do Alphabet sweet playlist on the YouTube. [00:17:51] Speaker C: Also linked down below. [00:17:53] Speaker A: I forgot to go into the. [00:17:59] Speaker E: So check out our sister channel, the Alphabet sweet playlist. It's nothing but music. You don't get the enjoyment of us. We don't introduce the songs, we don't do anything. It's just the pure music for you to listen to. Everything we talk about. Almost everything. There's been a couple where YouTube has said, yeah, we're trying to figure that out. One of them is because of Timmy's favorite person, Tony. But yeah, if you want to listen to any of this stuff, we drop them on there. We've been doing one a day. I don't know if that's going to change. We're discussing that. [00:18:37] Speaker A: I like to do more than one a day, but I haven't done one a day in a week. [00:18:43] Speaker E: One a day plus vitamins. [00:18:46] Speaker C: He's slacking off, dog. [00:18:47] Speaker E: Right? [00:18:48] Speaker C: I just congratulated you and appreciated you and respected you for working hard. And now I hear you slacking off for. [00:18:53] Speaker E: Well, and check this out. So you guys just watched. [00:18:55] Speaker C: That's not even my project. [00:18:57] Speaker E: You watched a three part episode, unheard of in Alphabet Sweet podcast history on 1999. Three part episode. Because my man here was paying respect to every song, which he didn't even come close to every song because there was 100 of them. We would have been a ten part episode. But he had a notebook full of notes. What do you see today? Nothing. It's like he spent his whole wad right there. [00:19:34] Speaker C: Have you taken up to use an alpha brain? [00:19:38] Speaker A: Alpha who and a what? [00:19:39] Speaker C: All right, the answer is no. [00:19:42] Speaker A: So anyway, the problem is the fan. [00:19:46] Speaker E: The laptop stopped you from taking notes. [00:19:50] Speaker A: Stopped me from being able to do anything. It killed me. My life was over. Well, look, I'd go in my back cave and I'd be at the computer desk, sitting there looking at empty. [00:20:12] Speaker E: I was lost because he didn't have a computer. [00:20:15] Speaker A: I'm used to doing this every day. [00:20:17] Speaker C: It's right there. [00:20:17] Speaker A: I see it. They told me not to use it. [00:20:19] Speaker E: Because of just the fan. [00:20:20] Speaker A: So I put it away. [00:20:22] Speaker E: We didn't want them to blow it up. [00:20:24] Speaker C: Well, it'll shut down if it gets hot. [00:20:28] Speaker E: Anyway, are we good with this episode? [00:20:34] Speaker A: Smack? Quit talking smack, man. [00:20:37] Speaker C: No, I got to believe. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:20:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:42] Speaker A: Leave them in once every episode. [00:20:44] Speaker E: Is that what it is? All right, so until next time, peace. [00:20:48] Speaker A: Peace. [00:20:53] Speaker C: You. If you're interested in this extra content and so much more, head on over to our Patreon [email protected]. Alphabetsuitepodcast.