Limp Bizkit – "Nookie" (1999)

I did it all for the nookie, the nookie

So you can take that cookie

And stick it up your (YEAH!)

[NOTE: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, 2 or 3 lines is temporarily suspending its series of posts featuring records that I heard on Steven Lorber’s legendary “Mystic Eyes” radio program.]

Last Thursday, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo (whose state has a population of just over one million) declared war on New York (whose population is 19 million plus).

That’s a bit of hyperbole.  What Governor Raimondo actually did was order anyone coming to Rhode Island from New York to be quarantined for 14 days.

“Right now we have a pinpointed risk,” Raimondo said. “That risk is called New York City.”

At the time the governor issued the order, New York had 44,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus.  Rhode Island, by contrast, had only 200 cases.

The next day, Rhode Island erected signs on I-95 northbound directing all New York drivers entering Rhode Island from Connecticut to pull over at the first rest stop so state police could talk to them.

National Guardsmen were stationed at the Providence airport and Amtrak station to intercept passengers arriving from the Big Apple.  The National Guard was also directed to go house-to-house in Newport and other tony Rhode Island beach towns where a lot of New Yorkers have vacation homes.

Rhode Island National Guardsman hunts
for Amtrak-riding New Yorkers

Not surprisingly, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo lost his sh*t and threatened to sue his fellow Democratic governor unless she repealed her order.

Click here to read a Providence Journal exposé of Governor Raimondo’s shady financial dealings with the state.

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For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been beginning my day by watching an hour or two of CNBC.

CNBC spends most of its time reporting on the stock market, which has been acting as crazy recently as Carrie Mathison after the Russians threw her in prison and took away her lithium.

In order to cover the financial markets, CNBC has to talk about the coronavirus pandemic – what’s being done to contain it and treat those who have gotten sick, what’s happening to businesses and their employees as a result of everyone being told to stay home, what’s in the stimulus legislation coming out of Congress, and so on.

CNBC’s coverage is blessedly free of Monday-morning quarterbacking and sensationalism, and the network’s on-air people include exactly zero former office-holders, zero wannabe office-holders, and zero campaign consultants for former or wannabe office-holders.  (If you’re a left-wing or right-wing fanatic who wants someone to work you up into a frenzy, go elsewhere – CNBC ain’t gonna do that for you.)

I can honestly say that I have no idea whether any of the CNBC anchors and reporters I watched over the course of the week are Democrats or Republicans – not a single one of them said a word that indicated who they will vote for in November.

Last week, the network had lengthy live interviews with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, Speaker of the House Pelosi, and Vice President Pence that focused 100% on facts.  I could hardly believe it.

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Another reason to watch CNBC is their evening and weekend programming.  When the markets are closed, they air reruns of Shark Tank, Undercover Boss, and the undisputed #1 TV game show of all time, Deal or No Deal.  If there’s a cable network with a better lineup than those shows, I’d like to know what it is.

It appears that CarMax has snatched up almost every minute of the available advertising time during those shows because I must have seen this commercial a hundred times on CNBC:



Limp Bizkit’s “Nookie” is the best possible song to choose for that commercial.  And including a cameo by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst – he’s the confused dude in the crosswalk who turns and looks at the car whose CD changer is stuck playing his biggest hit (which even he is probably sick of hearing by now) – was sheer genius:

Bravo CarMax!

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I’m shocked that I haven’t previously featured “Nookie” in a 2 or 3 lines post.  I’m second to no man in my love and respect for Rage Against the Machine and Eminem, but RATM and Eminem only wish they had recorded a track as good as “Nookie”!

Click here if you’d like to read a truly great 2 or 3 lines post featuring a different Limp Bizkit song.  Written by an old friend of mine who I will call “Linda” (because that is her name), it tells the story of what happened when she drank too much coffee while waiting for her son to get to the front of a really long line of people waiting to buy tickets for a Limp Bizkit show in Kansas City.

Click here to watch the official music video for “Nookie,” which was released on Limp Bizkit’s second studio album, Significant Other, in 1999.  (A little-known fact about that video – which was been viewed 85 million times on YouTube – is that not a single one of the hundreds of people who appear in it has a three-digit IQ.)

Click on the link below to buy the song from Amazon: