This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Guess what, Mango? What's that? Well,

so over the years, we've been to so many good concerts together, also so many bad ones together.

But we were just telling a friend the other day how we'd actually road trip to see fish in college, right?

Yeah, we were at a bar.

We were talking to Annie from food stuff. Well, and the thing is, is, you know, she's a little bit younger than us, so I'm not sure she's as familiar with some of the bands that were big in the 90s or so, but I think she actually thought we were going to look at fish, like one really pretty striped bass or something like that.

She did. I think it's because food is always on her mind just being the host that look at fish, like one really pretty striped bass or something like that.

She did. I think it's because food is always on her mind just being the host of that show. I didn't think about that. You're probably right because she road trips to see fish as well.

But, you know, just thinking back on the list of bands that we've seen, I know we saw Lady Smith Black

Mombazo, George Clinton, the Roots, Moby, so many different shows over the years.

But there is one I'm a little disappointed that we haven't seen, and that's the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.

So when I hear a name like that, I feel like it's got to be like the string cheese incident or some sort of like, you know, lesser known jam band.

No, this is not the case at all.

I mean, they've been around for about 20 years now, and it's pretty incredible what they do.

So the musicians actually go to a farmer's market on the day that they're performing.

Then they pick out some vegetables in order to make their instruments out of.

Like they'll make trumpets out of zucchini, then they'll slice up an eggplant in a way that claps together, all of these other fascinating instruments. And they do this all the day of the concert? Well, yeah, of course. I mean, your veggies have to be fresh when you're making instruments, you know, if you think about it. Sure. And then they take the parts of the veggies that they don't use for instruments, and they cook it all into a soup.

So this just takes them like two or three hours to make the instruments, and they're cooking this whole time.

And then they have this really long sound check, because as you might imagine, it takes a while to tune, an instrument made of vegetables.

But then they put on these shows, and it's amazing, Mango.

Like they cover everything from classical music to, of course, craft work.

You know, if you've got vegetables, you might as well play some craft work.

Yeah, German electronic music.

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