The Audience Won't Like It

The Wanderers (1979): Everything an Adolescent Boy Wants, Nothing He Needs | Ep 34

Rob and Leslie Shoecraft

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We stand “in line” for an Outkast concert and let the conversation wander from parenting math and bedtime TV to a full-on breakdown of a movie that entertains us while also making us feel genuinely uneasy. We end in our happy place, geeking out over Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, why Outkast keeps evolving, and what it really takes to learn a song well enough to perform it. 
• third-child “dog years” and what content feels age-appropriate 
• why 24 still works as a cliffhanger machine 
• the Jeffries Data Sheet and why we want it to become a searchable app 
• What We Do in the Shadows as a mockumentary and the Norma Tanega theme song 
• The Wanderers (1979) as coming-of-age drama with genre whiplash 
• the classroom scene, what it normalizes, and why it hits so wrong 
• soundtrack highs, scene pacing lows, and the parts that feel unresolved 
• Outkast’s debut album, Organized Noize, and Southern hip hop history 
• covering rap songs by singing the whole verse and practicing with intent 
Hey, why don't you go ahead and write in um the comments? What age, what yeah, how you think it works? Dog years for the third child. Way in on that. 

Here's the Jeffries Data Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ldtSRbUtmIVvhDSMZiClQS02gNFfIjFqE9OgBdoM85M

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Theme Song And Cold Open

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On this episode of The Audience Will Like It.

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But I wrote, I missed the days when groups of high school boys used to hang out on the street to cop feels instead of inside playing video games.

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That's really applying yourself. Every single scene in this movie has is premium entertainment value for an adolescent boy.

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Maybe as someone who was never an adolescent boy, that's why for me. I just remember what it was funny, but was it trying to be funny?

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I don't know.

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It was a zombie movie, but was it trying to be a zombie movie?

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Kind of everything. So like they're they're almost like hip-hop Beatles in the way that they constantly evolved and it always worked. The key. Okay, two two two keys are gonna sound so stupid. If you want to do a song well, know learn the song really well.

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Know the song.

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Say. And two, practice the song a lot.

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Hey, I think you can be a teacher. Sing to me while I take notes.

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Oh, okay. Hey, how'd you know I was gonna sing to you?

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Ah, it's got a feeling.

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Oh, here we go.

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Two married friends in a basement room.

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Oh, well yeah.

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Yeah, I just wondered when you were ever going to be able to sing it without hesitation.

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With two microphones. They got in a car crash. She died in his own song.

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Oh wow. It's been a minute since it's been two weeks. We have, it's been two weeks. This is good though.

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This is our theme song. He kissed her lips. Cause she was still oh, sorry. Warm. The audience.

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They'll like this least of all. It's okay though. I liked it. I liked it. Isn't that all that matters?

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Yes. No, it's not. The audience. Oh yeah, no, it doesn't matter if the audience likes it. I always forget the name of our show.

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It's good if they don't like it.

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How important it is to us uh for us to devote ourselves to the uh continuity of that claim that is the title. You ready?

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I think so.

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Okay.

The Show Premise And Outkast Twist

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Hey guys, this is a show called The Audience Will Like It. It's a podcast. It's also a video a video podcast.

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A video cast? Hey, what does pod refer to?

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Oh.

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Um like you're inside of a green bean?

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I don't know. Joe Rogan invented it. He did? No.

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Shut up.

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Uh what does pod stand for? Why don't you introduce uh this podcast?

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Okay, well, welcome to our show, you guys. My name is Leslie Shoecraft.

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Make sure you tell them we're standing in line.

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And I'm the wife of Rob Shoecraft. Um this is a line simulation podcast. Waiting in line simulation. So if you like waiting in line, if you don't like waiting in line, you might also be in the right place. But you know, we it's just like as if we were waiting in line. You can see here that we're waiting in line. We have some turnstiles, stanchion type material here.

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I've learned a lot of great words of great terminology for those metal bars that keep you in line. I had known turnstiles, I just hadn't really used it very often. Yeah. Stanchions.

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That's a definite that's actually the velvet rope, right?

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Yeah, but I think you could probably have well, I guess I don't know.

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We do have a little bit of red on here.

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Oh, there you go.

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See, it's a stanchion.

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That was a strategy.

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Um and so basically what we're doing is waiting in line for a concert, and I'll finish and then you can talk. Okay. And we're waiting in line for a concert every time you tune in. You never know who we're gonna be going to see. This this night, we're gonna be going to see Outcast.

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Outcast.

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But the super secret twist is that it's not gonna be Andre 3000 and Big Boy. Look at you. It's gonna be Rob Leslie boys. That's us guys. The boycrafts. Um, and while and while we're waiting for the concert, you're gonna you just never know what kind of things you might talk about with your waiting in line partner or the stranger next to you. So that's the premise. And now you know what a podcast is for here and also what is the word pod stand for.

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iPod. It's an iPod iPod broadcast.

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Apple. They just are everywhere.

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Aren't they special? Freaking hate Apple.

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I know you do.

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They make a good product and they know how to uh they got a tight business model. They just irritate me. They're a little proprietary. So do so does my family.

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Um what?

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And friends.

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I don't go around tootin' Apple's horn. I just use their products.

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Sometimes I just get a little just a little bit of a guilt trip. Not too much from our from market.

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Oh, well, yeah, because your your messaging ruins our messages.

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Right.

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Well, I can suppose like someone was outside playing with the snow.

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There are dozens of us.

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Dozens.

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From Rust of Development,

Third-Child Dog Years Parenting Debate

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one of the ultimate bedtime sitcoms. One of them. I was reading up on uh while going over. Oh, what?

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Well, you know what, my friend Holly.

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Oh she was we were laughing at Do you know what comma my friend Holly because I'm your friend Rob, I'm your husband.

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You know what, my friend Holly?

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Remember, remember me.

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Wait, am I still warm? Uh anyway, Holly was saying that she wanted to find a new bedtime sit comment. And she was like, I really wish it could be arrested development, but people at that I keep asking people and they keep telling me that it's not good for a seven-year-old for her family to watch. And I guess I have to agree, but it's the third child, so does he count, Holly?

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He doesn't count. I'd say there's probably she should know.

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She's the youngest of three. There's probably oh, yeah.

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Then she's she got away with a lot, right?

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Oh, yeah.

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So I would say this is interesting. Hear that, Holly. Here's an interesting conversation, Holly. Uh, or to anybody out there. I agree.

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Ah.

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There should be like a you know how the like we have a dog here. Yes. Name's Gruber. Somebody brought him in line.

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Oh, he smells like a skunk. Smells like he brought a skunk in line with him.

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Grober, did you bring a skunk in line with you, sir? Oh, no one can. He's trying to talk, though.

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Be quiet. Be quiet. What is it, buddy?

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He's so concerned. All right, so. Oh, so dog years. Uh-huh. You know, you multiply by seven, except the first year is 11 years.

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Okay, so like your third child.

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But is there other third child years? When it comes to what kind of content to show them, how much effort to put into them to maintain their well-being.

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Yeah.

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I feel like there's a there's a bit of inflation. I'm sure it's on a curve, I'm sure it's on like a chance.

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I feel like it's it's diminishing returns of parenting by the time you get to the third parent. I mean the third child.

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Or the third parent. Three different sets of parents raising. All right. So I'm gonna say, what would you say? Um I would say that but by the time my sister Julia, who's there's a nine-year difference, and I pay I paved away pretty good. My brother and my brother came through and just basic everything else. And then Julia just got her own boat.

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Basically.

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Like if I got, you know, something brought something home like Sound Garden or Stone Temple Pilots or Having Forbid Dave Matthews band. Um, which I don't really know what I was doing with a Dave Matthews band.

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I don't like I don't like Dave Matthews.

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I don't love Dave Matthews.

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I don't hate him, I just he's not for me.

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This there's a there's a there are a lot of songs that I do like or parts of songs that I like. Respect him as a musician, songwriter, etc. Don't like his voice. It's pretty much what it comes down to. Okay, so um I would say that she she so she could I she my mom was like listening to like 50 cent candy.

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What's the uh take me to the candy shop shop.

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It's like they were singing and I was like, this there's no way you would be singing along with me in this like this song is about some stuff, anyways. I would say you four years. Holly? Yeah, four years. Whatever, whatever your age is after Okay, so he's eleven.

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What's your potty? He's essentially eleven, Holly. We think that you can watch rest of development this summer with your family.

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You think about even like um like Tommy watching diehard with us?

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Yeah, of course.

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Austin and Clark were like ten and eight, so Tommy was like four or five.

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Three, he's five years younger than that. Uh Austin.

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Okay, anywho, that's an interesting conversation. We'd love to. Hey, why don't you go ahead and write in um the comments?

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What age, what yeah, how you think it works? Dog years for the third child. Way in on that.

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For the third child dog years. Or yeah, let's let's leave it at that. Okay. Okay. Um we can talk a little 24.

Watching 24 And TV Logic

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You wanna oh, how did you say while you're holding a laptop up in my face with the two? We've been watching 24.

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We have. We did not I never watched it ever. Did you watch any of them? Okay, so this is all new for you as well.

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It's all new for me. My parents I remember they were talking about how they were binge washing. Yeah. We're we're in it about a quarter century uh after it aired. I think they were both.

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Gee, when you put it like that, it makes it sound really old.

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I know. I feel like I should be wearing a type top hat and mascot.

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And uh high-waisted pants, turtleneck pants.

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Anytime you say the word century, you have to dress like uh like you're from another one, a different one.

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Perfect. From the past.

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Very elegant, elegantly phrased.

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Anyway, it's great.

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It is great.

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In case you're not familiar with 24, it came out in 2001.

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Yeah.

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And every episode takes place in one hour over a 24-hour period, and so thus there are 24 episodes per season, I guess.

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I think.

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We don't know yet, because what are we on? Like 10?

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Like halfway through the first season. Are we on 12? Something like that.

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I don't think we have made it to noon yet. It started at midnight.

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I think you're right.

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So one thing I'm looking forward to finding out.

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We watched three in a row. That was like the I I want to know what you're looking forward to finding out, but I think that was the first time we watched it three episodes of something in a row, and it just went right. What would have been the last time?

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Like I can't I can't remember.

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I think we might have watched two of the I think we watched the Bus you last episode of Andor into Rogue One. That was kind of a bit of a yeah.

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And we also, but I was gonna say, I feel like we watched a couple Sandmans back to back the last season that came out.

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Yeah.

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I definitely watched a couple of Bridgertons back to back, but not three.

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So tell me what you want to find out.

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I'm excited to find out like in subsequent seasons if they all start at midnight. Or if they start at any time per day and then just go to the next day at the same time. Don't tell me. Do not write in. Do not comment.

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Yeah, I I do I I got a lot of questions. That's that's definitely up there for me too.

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Do you have any loves or hates about the show?

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I mean, there's a lot of the there's a lot of stuff that's just little gotchas and loopholes and it's like.

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Well, you don't like how many times he racks a gun before he shoots it.

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No, that's that's that's just generally a TV slash movie thing. I I hate what I'm talking about, guys. Is when uh whoops, is when any variation is gonna be a good thing. We're gonna talk about guns, so trigger warning.

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Oh look at your gun. Go pun.

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Um you take gun.

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Gun pun. Gun.

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Somebody's got a gun up to somebody's whatever, pointing it at them.

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In this case, it's kefer Sutherland.

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Kiefir. I always want to call him something else, but I'm not going to expand it. Jack Bauer. Jack Bauer. Is it okay if I burn up my adult family earmuffs up front?

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I don't want them in the show. Okay. So you can burn them after we're done recording. Okay. Okay.

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Sometimes I like to say his name with a cue. I understand.

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I knew exactly what you were gonna say. I was just ignoring it.

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Okay. If I had a if only I was in his own.

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Uh you basically are getting there.

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I'm getting there, I gotta I gotta shave. But they got a gun, you know, they're pointing a gun threateningly anytime you point a gun at somebody's threatening. Right. Keep that in mind. Safety first. Finger off the trigger, right? But what they do is now when they're serious, like really serious.

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They like rack the pull back.

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You thought I was pointing a gun at you, you thought that was serious? Wait till I make it useful.

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Wait till I put a bullet in their chamber.

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They either rack the slide or pull the hammer back. Or it's just but racking the slide is the worst. Or shotgun.

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Yeah. It's just like But you can't do that again until you've shot one out, right? But they just keep showing it.

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Yeah, there's one scene I swear he racked it three times before he actually did it.

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It's when he was in that what is that thing where they're like in like it's a spillway? It's like a concrete river.

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Yeah, it's what the in Terminator 2 where they're chasing, he's ch chasing him in the truck. Yeah. Is that thing called a spillway? Yeah, it's like the LA River kind of thing.

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Yeah, I don't really know. I'm not familiar with what the purpose of that is.

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Yeah, I'd say that's what it is. And I also think it's cool movie scenes for killing people and running from robots. Yeah. Yeah. And also LA's pretty progressive.

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I I just want to say, like, you're trying he's he's taking this guy for somewhere for like privacy. But like the only thing that stands out in this concrete river is your limousine. I don't feel like he's very hidden. He's not very well hidden, I guess, is what I'm trying to say.

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There are these kind of incogruous things that are they just don't quite work.

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Like go to an overpass.

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But I'm totally fine. I'm I'm going to it's I gotta say, as as m as goofy as some of the hacking scenes are, they could be so much worse. So much worse. I showed you that like that cloud, you know, that was NCIS, the two people on the cue.

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I mean that that looked like it was a parody.

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This isn't that bad. Like the way that what's it?

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But it wasn't.

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No, it wasn't. Yeah. It's it's it's un it's unfortunate. I'm glad they made it. But uh yeah. Any anywho, I love it. I love the I like a good cliffhanger setup. A show that's just made you made I feel like we've watched a lot of shows. Great shows lately, but the episodes are almost I don't want to say too good, but almost too standalone. Yeah, like TV. Like you don't feel like you have to watch the next one. Where 24 you're just like, oh my gosh. You know, they really that's that formula, they they they can make a good drug. So anything else you want to say about that fine show?

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I'm enjoying it.

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Yeah, okay. Me too. I hear the uh I hear it gets r I hear I hear it stays strong until like six season six or seven. One of them is look at us.

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We're like cool kids. We say six, seven.

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Moving on, twenty-four. So we've been watching that. We've been watching uh what we do in the show.

The Jeffries Data Sheet Explained

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If you don't know about our bedtime sitcoms, there's an app. Before we talk about what we do in the shadows, can I just talk about my sweet, sweet Jeffreys data sheet?

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Yeah, so this is a great plug for the Jeffries data sheet.

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Okay. I'm already rebuilding version two.

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Wow, rebuilding it.

SPEAKER_00

Well, building it right now, so it's a it's a Google Sheet. Can you explain Jeffrey's data sheet?

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I can try. Is that kind of like a you kind of want to see what I think?

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Yeah, it is.

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Okay, so it's a spreadsheet tool where it basically catalogs everything we've ever talked about in different categories. So, like my personal current favorite category is people we've mentioned on the show, and that's anyone from people in our personal lives to celebrities to theoretical people to ideas about people. Um, did you put the lyrics one on back in there?

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No, what what Leslie's talking about is I I I've I've been experimenting with different things we could put in here, a lot of inside jokes and goofy stuff like that. Um, but the evolution of the theme song that I always it has changed a lot.

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Anyway, also things you can look up that might be actually more meaningful to you would be like books we've talked about, movies we've talked about, music, um, artists, TV shows, uh I don't know, all kinds of stuff like that. So you can look at it and and it'll you could search. Can you does it have a search function?

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It doesn't. That's that's what I'm building. Basically, right now it's just a glorified Google sheet.

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Yeah.

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And you have tabs at the bottom. I don't even know if it's really that glorified. It's you're right, it's not, it's just a Google sheet. But uh yeah, you could go through. I mean, there's thousands and thousands of entries. I separated them in discussions, references, and name checks. So discussion would be like our conversation about Jeffree's data sheet would be a discussion. Gotcha. Kind of a self-contained thing.

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There probably aren't very many discussions on there. I feel like we don't discuss no discussion.

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Usually it winds up being anytime we talk about something for at least 45 seconds and it's complete thought. Although it it I've so I built the whole I built the whole thing with an AI code.

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Complete thoughts.

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Oh, no, I don't. No, I never have actually.

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Actually, Renee was laughing. My friend Renee, she'll be featured in the Renee in the Jeffries data sheet. She was laughing because she when she was listening to we did one recently where we were giving out movie superlatives, and she was like, Well, if Rob can't stop talking, then why would you you should just do less movies? But then she's like, and I realize it wouldn't really matter how many movies you were doing because Rob just really, really has a lot to say.

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Yes.

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And I was like, that's accurate.

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Uh Leslie, so we look up Renee here on the on the Our People tab. Uh Renee, Leslie mentions her friend Renee, who told her about the Instagram account, preachers and sneakers.

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Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.

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Leslie credits her friend Renee and Julie for sharing her love for Michael Jackson's music in high school.

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Aww.

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Leslie described, and there's a link to each one of these.

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Yes, you could find a timestamp in the episode.

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And it'll take you exactly right to that part of the video. It has all of our covers on it, all of our episodes.

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We do do that as well.

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Um check it out. I'll put a link in the description. I'm going to make this. I know no one cares except for me. Maybe, except for maybe Jeffrey. This is named after Jeffrey's.

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It's his namesake.

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Except we change it to Jeffrey's, like it's the last name, Jeffrey's. Because it sounds like it's really official. Yeah. And of course, third reason it's for Jeffrey's Everywhere.

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That's right. It is for Jeffrey's Everywhere. Unless you're a bad Jeffree. And then you can find another data sheet. This one's not for you.

SPEAKER_00

Well, so what I want to do is turn it into a proper, we'll just call it an app, and then make it so that anybody with crazy abstract long form content like ours who wants to get people to have their own Jeffries data sheet. Because if we just send it to somebody right now, yeah, exactly. They could it's gonna be a Jeffries data sheet in like GitHub. So you can go on, feed your stuff, feed your your uh uh SRT files, your uh what do you call them? I don't know. Subtitles, like your transcript. Oh, captions, your transcript. Feed your transcript, it'll build a transcript for you if you don't have one, feed the transcript to this thing. It figures out how to categorize your show, and then it will uh break it down into essentially like data sheets, databases, and that's what I'd ultimately for it to be, and then uh have like a front end that you can search for and it's really snappy, and the video just pops up. You don't have it's not a freaking spreadsheet, you know. But I had to get something out.

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Yeah, well, it's out. Nothing.

SPEAKER_00

So it's out, okay. Check it out. Cool. For your health.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, for your health. And what were we talking about before you said, oh wait, let's talk about the Jeffries data sheet.

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We were talking about what we do in the shadows.

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What

What We Do In The Shadows Music

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we do in the shadows, the show. We what we did watch the movie, which is what this is based upon, correct?

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Yes.

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Now, is the movie made by the same? I know it's made by um Jermaine Flight of the Concords guy.

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Clement? Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_03

But was the movie also made by Jermaine?

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That's a good question. I don't know. Keep talking about the show.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, well, anyway, it's a documentary about I guess it's a mockumentary.

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Yeah, it's like this is Spinal Tap or Yes.

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So they um it's about three, well, really four vampires, and it just basically follows them around in their daily lives.

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You might know Christopher Guest from his work on um Almost Heroes.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I I know Christopher Guest from his work on other things.

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That's probably his worst thing. Anyways, continue.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know if I have I ever seen Almost Heroes. It's uh Is that the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the toys?

SPEAKER_00

No, that's okay. Well, you could okay, that's that was trolling.

SPEAKER_03

I'm just trolling you.

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How dare you be? That's small soldiers and is that chingle all the way. Have we had this conversation?

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I'm trolling you.

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All right.

SPEAKER_03

I bet that's gonna show up on the Dave Jeffrey's data sheet now.

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Yes, twice.

SPEAKER_03

Twice. Uh okay. But anyway, and it's of course ridiculous and hilarious. It's got um, what's that guy's name?

SPEAKER_00

Matt Berry.

SPEAKER_03

Matt Berry. What's his name? Robert was he Robert California? He was not Robert California. No, that was they remind me of each other. I can't but Matt Berry was on um the IT crowd, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yes, he was.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Also, that's a great show. I wish it had more episodes.

SPEAKER_00

Me too.

SPEAKER_03

Um, and it has actually he's the only person I know. But it's made by the guy, one of the Flight of the Concords people. So if you're a Flight of the Concords fan, you probably would like this show.

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Yeah, he was a director on it. Jermaine Clement Clement Clement Taika Watiti.

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Yes.

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Uh I don't know if I'm saying the name right.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I thought I wasn't aware that was a name.

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Oh, it's a name, baby. You know what else is a name? What? Uh Norma Tanega. Or Tanega. I'm sure you say her name. She wrote this theme story. Song, You're Dead.

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It's a great song.

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It's a great song.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It's a song, just like the show, it has grown on me, where I was just like, I'm not sure if I like this. Well, but it's interesting. The music. And then I'm like, oh.

SPEAKER_03

I had to every night I'm like, does this work? Every night. Every time I hear it, I'm like, is this working?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And it does somehow does. Yeah. Raw kind of mess that's it kind of reminds me of sorry. The um that true blood. I thought I love that theme song of the true blood. Which I can't remember off the top of my head.

SPEAKER_00

I know I've heard it too. I've I think I remember liking it.

SPEAKER_03

There's like a whole genre of music called like dark country. And some of it's really poppy, but some of it's like that.

SPEAKER_00

Gotcha. Well what when would you guess that song was uh was written and performed?

SPEAKER_03

That that it's not, it wasn't written for the show.

SPEAKER_00

No. Doesn't it sound like it was?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Like even the lyrics and everything.

SPEAKER_03

I I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00

Just guess.

SPEAKER_03

1965.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's an excellent guess. 66.

SPEAKER_03

What?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I would have thought it was like a kind of like a it sounds like an old song. What's it about? But I thought it was a new song.

SPEAKER_03

Did you listen to the whole thing?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Uh it's about her. So she's a kind of an accomplished songwriter. She had a hit too. Um I listened to it. I can't remember the name of it. Uh my dog. It sounded like I'd heard it before, but I don't think I had. Uh I liked it a lot.

SPEAKER_03

Will you say her name one more time?

SPEAKER_00

Norma. Norma Tanega. Tanega.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

T-A-N-E-G-A. Um She wrote like she wrote for Dusty Springfield and like she was she had a bit of a bit of umph. But what the song is about is her experience in New York, which is kind of funny because that's what the show's about with the vampires. Yeah, they live in Staten Island. But her experience in New York trying to make it as a songwriter, and basically people saying, like, you're dead. You're dead. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Stay dead.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. And yeah, 1966. It sounds it sounds ahead of its time to me. It sounds scary. It reminds me of do you you know the song? Uh I think we've talked about doing it before, Coffee Cold by Galtman Dermot. You played it for me. So Uncle Dan, who's all over the Jeffries dishes. Oh, yeah. Uncle Dan uh turned me on to Handsome Boy Modeling School. And there's a song they have called, I think it's called Truth, and it uses that. And that song's like from the 60s, too. But it's got this. Some songs are just it's great. Yeah, they're just great and and you and they come from nowhere and they they're kind of buried. Like these dudes. I'm not saying that Golden Dermer wasn't successful in his own right, but he certainly wasn't all over hip hop albums. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03

Exactly. I know exactly what you're doing.

SPEAKER_00

You know what I mean, baby? Yeah. We're gonna talk about a little hip-hop today. Oh my gosh. A little Southern Playlist catalog funky music. Anything else you want to say about?

SPEAKER_03

Nope.

SPEAKER_00

What do you want to talk about? You want to

Choosing The Wanderers

SPEAKER_00

talk about a little uh wanderers?

SPEAKER_03

A little wanderers. So tell everyone, tell everyone. Hey mom, look at me. That's how I feel every time I pretend that there's people here that we're talking to. Watch this. Uh tell everyone. Tell everyone about how you sent me movie options, and then that was the one I selected.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so I sent you. I said, hey, let's uh this this time let's watch something and talk about it. Because we have different different formats.

SPEAKER_03

We try to keep you guys guessing. Guessing.

SPEAKER_00

If you'd like to hear what we've discussed, check out the Jeffree Stage. Thousands and thousands and thousands of things.

SPEAKER_03

How can they access the Jeffrey Stage? Are you gonna link it in the description?

SPEAKER_00

I'm gonna put it in the description. I'll put it on the YouTube on YouTube. Yeah, I'll put it on YouTube. I'll put it in the uh remind me to put it in the about like the YouTube about. Yeah, and then I'm going to make a website.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I could stick it in the Instagram. I've not done anything with Instagram. I'm sorry, I'm a terrible. That's all good.

SPEAKER_00

We've uh we've had stuff going on. We still do. So um what was your question?

SPEAKER_03

Uh what movies did you suggest?

SPEAKER_00

I'm Swiss Family Robinson from 1960.

SPEAKER_03

Which I've read the junior novelization. We'll do that someday. But I don't think I've ever seen the movie.

SPEAKER_00

I love that movie.

SPEAKER_03

Um sorry, just pause on that. Is that the same movie that of the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse that you can go to at Disney World? Yes, it is. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Which is now what, Tarzan?

SPEAKER_03

No.

SPEAKER_00

Oh. It's still a Swiss Family Robinson tree. Tarzan somewhere. Maybe it didn't have a working. Maybe that's what it is.

SPEAKER_03

I've never been there. Who cares?

SPEAKER_00

Uh Better Off Dead.

SPEAKER_03

Better Off Dead, which we've already watched.

SPEAKER_00

We've yeah, we have watched that before.

SPEAKER_03

And that has um John Sack. I know things.

SPEAKER_00

Curtis Armstrong's in it.

SPEAKER_03

It's a skiing movie.

SPEAKER_00

There's a oh who there's quite a few other people in it. Oh gosh, what's his name? He's got the saddest eyes. I love that movie. We're gonna watch it for sure.

SPEAKER_03

Ew at the Sad Clown Eyes.

SPEAKER_00

I can't remember his name. Anyways, what was the fourth movie I gave you as an option?

SPEAKER_03

I don't remember. That's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_00

Is it a weird one? Those are all kind of.

SPEAKER_03

I I hope I was hoping you would remember.

SPEAKER_00

I don't remember. But Leslie said The Wanderers. And I was surprised because I thought that would be the last one you'd want to watch.

SPEAKER_03

It said it caught me because in the description, I swear to you, it said something about being a thriller.

SPEAKER_00

Well, that's the thing about this movie. It is multiple genres.

SPEAKER_03

It's checking a lot of boxes.

SPEAKER_00

It is.

SPEAKER_03

Even when it shouldn't be.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know what that's supposed to be.

SPEAKER_03

Pick Elaine, the wanderers.

SPEAKER_00

So it's a little racist and misogynist and homophobic.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

What isn't?

SPEAKER_03

I mean, I I wrote I had a my overall

Why The Movie Feels Bad

SPEAKER_03

takeaway from the movie. Do you want me to say it now or later?

SPEAKER_00

Let's talk about the genres.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

You know, why don't you give me a takeaway? Actually, I'm I'm more interested in that.

SPEAKER_03

The overall feeling that I got when I was watching the movie was just like, this makes me feel bad. I have sad, bad feelings watching this.

SPEAKER_00

Care to elaborate?

SPEAKER_03

It was good though.

SPEAKER_00

You you thought it was good?

SPEAKER_03

So I when we first turned it on, and there was just like that whole classroom scene with all the racists back and forth, I was just like, this makes me feel sick. I really don't like it.

SPEAKER_00

That was insane.

SPEAKER_03

But it was just this side of too much.

SPEAKER_00

And then it was too silly to take seriously.

SPEAKER_03

Yes. Which is basically like the theme of this entire movie.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

And like you had said before we we watched it, you're like, it doesn't know what it wants to be. No. And I think that's really true. But um what was I saying? Why did I feel that way?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it made you feel bad. You're watching the race war in the classroom.

SPEAKER_03

I just was like, all these no one's talking about no one's taking care of these kids. Like everyone has terrible parents. Even the rich kids' parents are just out doing their own things, and these kids are getting into trouble. Yes, bullying mafiovos.

SPEAKER_00

Bully mafiosas and white shirts.

SPEAKER_03

Um lots to unpack. Lots to unpack. We'll get into all of it. But it's just like overall, I just felt like sad for the kids because they're just having this like we're pretending to be adults and just getting into trouble. And then like the Ducky Boys that was like some like foray into zombie movie for a second. Yes. No real explanation. No resolution.

SPEAKER_00

I know. Well, it's a 70s movie.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I didn't really 70s movies.

SPEAKER_00

I'm telling you, I'm not an aficionado, but I have seen a lot of them. Didn't I tell you, didn't we say this real?

SPEAKER_03

You said it. You're like, well, it's the 70s movie. And I was like, what does that mean? You're like, they don't end.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they just kind of finish.

SPEAKER_03

They just like pan out. They do. They literally pan out.

SPEAKER_00

Every single one of them. Okay, what I just watched uh Cooley High. I don't remember when that was made, but it's the same kind of coming of age movie that's just like it doesn't really go anywhere. I mean it does, but it doesn't, you know? Yeah. It's just like this huge set piece carousel. And it's just adventure after that movie also doesn't quite know what it wants to be.

SPEAKER_03

Like I think I remember you saying that.

SPEAKER_00

Every 70s movie has somebody who dies. I mean, I guess you say the same about Disney movies.

SPEAKER_03

The other thing I was wondering about the timeline, which we'll go, I'll give you my my famous plot synopsis here in a second. But the timeline of this movie, I couldn't did it, was were things taking place over because they were like, we're gonna meet them on Saturday, but then like half the movie happened.

SPEAKER_00

You mean like not 1963, like no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03

I mean like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, like how much time was passing between each scene? It they did not explain any of it to you. Then all of a sudden they're playing their football game, which I actually thought all along I thought was gonna be just a rumble, like a fight. I didn't really know they were.

SPEAKER_00

They sort of settled that in the bowling alley because the the dads of the two when they made I mean, there's a lot of racially insensitive things being said in this uh movie. But you know, it was it was kind of a they're not all bad comment, and then he goes up and shakes hands with them and shows that they're all like I mean, honest to God, the white people were the worst people in the uh yeah. I mean white people almost always are. I think I could say that.

SPEAKER_03

Like they were like the trashiest, the evilest, they were the baddest.

SPEAKER_00

Well, the Ducky boys are all white, too.

SPEAKER_03

We're all white.

SPEAKER_00

Goodness gracious. So anyway, what I'm what I was saying was they they worked it out. Like when they're saying you know you're having some some problems with uh we'll just say the Dell the Dell Bombers. Yeah. We'll go by their gang name and not their skin color. Well, you know, they're not some some they're not all bad type comment. And then he goes up and shakes, they all shake hands, they all know the dads, and I think that's when they organize the football game. But they don't say it's they don't really say I get a feeling that a ton of this movie got cut left on the cutting room floor. In fact, there's a si there's six supposed to be six more minutes of of just solid football field fighting that they with the ducky boys with the ducky boys that they cut out. All right, well, should I should I start scene the plot synopsis?

Plot Walkthrough And Genre Whiplash

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Well, what look real quick though, what would you say the genres are? You said horror.

SPEAKER_03

I didn't say that's what caught my eye. Oh, maybe I was thinking horror. It wasn't. No, but that it I mean I would say if you if I had to pick one, I would just say drama.

SPEAKER_00

There's yeah. I'd say like coming of age.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00

Um but also comedy.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, it is It was funny, but was it trying to be funny?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

It was a zombie movie, but was it trying to be a zombie movie? It's kind of everything.

SPEAKER_00

So like this was made with made from um let me let me look it up. I got who who made it. Okay. It was a book.

SPEAKER_03

Oh wow. Oh yeah, I did see that at the beginning.

SPEAKER_00

It was a book uh by Uncle? Uncle Baby. Baby. I don't know. It's a book by I thought I wrote it down. Anyways, Philip Kaufman did it. Um Richard Price. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03

I said Richard.

SPEAKER_00

Did you really? Yes.

SPEAKER_03

I did not even know.

SPEAKER_00

Richard. What are you watching? Adult Family Airmuffs.

SPEAKER_03

Is that from Black Sheep?

SPEAKER_00

Getting warmer. Scorching.

SPEAKER_03

That other one with Chris Furley and David.

SPEAKER_00

Are you the only person in the world?

SPEAKER_03

Fat Man in a little coat.

SPEAKER_00

This is Black Sheep before Tommy Boy.

SPEAKER_03

Tommy Boy is what I meant. I just couldn't think of it.

SPEAKER_00

So it was yeah, a novel by Richard Price in 19 uh 74. I looked up some other books. I I'd recognize other books that he wrote. I wish I could pull them off the top of my head, but he's you would you would recognize him too.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, another reason I didn't really like it that much is there was no protagonist. I can't, it's hard for me to watch a movie where everybody's just gray.

SPEAKER_00

What about Game of Thrones?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I mean, Jon Snow was pretty protagony. He had his moments, but he was pretty protagony.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he's pretty protagony. Yeah. I guess you're right.

SPEAKER_03

I mean he was about the only one with any sort of and Sam. Right? Was his name Sam? Samuel Tarley.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Is that his name? I was trying to think of Sam from Frodo. Yeah. What was his name? Sam from Frodo. It's been a couple weeks, guys. So, but this was a book, and it was written on this guy's uh Richard Price's kind of upbringing in the in this area.

SPEAKER_03

What color of skin was Richard Price?

SPEAKER_00

I think he was an Italian gentleman.

SPEAKER_03

Oh.

SPEAKER_00

The Wanderers Olive.

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Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So he he wrote this book about real gangs like ended in his neighborhood. So like the Baldies, they were real. The Ducky Boys were real. You know Ace Fraley? From Kiss?

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

He was a Ducky boy.

SPEAKER_03

In real life. Yeah. Whoa. What?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. He's one of the guys who chased turkey up the uh line.

SPEAKER_03

Did music save him from his gang life?

SPEAKER_00

I think it did. Music guys. I think Ace Fraley is said that he's quitting. He's not gonna uh practice guitar anymore because he knows everything he he ever wants to know.

SPEAKER_03

No, he did not say that. I think that was he ever wants to know?

SPEAKER_00

Something like that.

SPEAKER_03

That's different.

SPEAKER_00

It was a little different. I don't, whatever it was, it was like certainly felt better. It was like just a dash of arrogance and just a dash of relatable burnout.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Um, but so he was a ducky boy. I guess it's that ducky boy attitude.

SPEAKER_03

And then the wanderers was the other gang.

SPEAKER_00

The wanderers, though, was not a real gang. It was like a culmination of three gangs in the area, all Italian um derogatory terms that I don't I don't know what I can say or what I won't say.

SPEAKER_04

You can't say any of them.

SPEAKER_00

So and then the Dell Bombers, I think, were a real gang.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

But there were some anachronisms, like the Baldies weren't a gang during this time.

SPEAKER_03

Um and what's an anachronism?

SPEAKER_00

Like something that doesn't actually belong in that timeline.

SPEAKER_03

Like Is that why it's anachronism? Like just look up.

SPEAKER_00

Look up all the issues with like Braveheart. Like, well, they didn't invent that till you know 14. So it's um there was something else I was gonna say about it. I don't remember. It'll probably come up later if it's important.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_03

What?

SPEAKER_00

Let's tell the plot.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah. Alright, so this movie is talking about it talks about it's a it's focuses on a few members, a few core members of a group called the Wanderers, and they're like these boys are all in high school. I have to assume they're seniors, juniors and seniors. They seem like older upper classmen.

SPEAKER_00

Old enough to smoke and drink in class.

SPEAKER_03

And do all yeah. And also, were there no girls in their high school? Well, because there was no girls in that racist classroom.

SPEAKER_00

No, there definitely were not. So I don't know. They would not do I don't think they would do well in that class. No. I don't think that would be very fair to put a girl in that class.

SPEAKER_03

Uh-uh. Or maybe in that high school. Anyway.

SPEAKER_02

Were there girls in the high school?

SPEAKER_00

When they're walking down the hallway and they're showing all the gangs, which is, by the way, I wrote down it's it's this is the high school the Napoleon Dynamite was talking about.

SPEAKER_03

It was not a buttload of gangs to join. Right? Yes. Um this is it. So anyway, and it follows them. Uh and it looks like they're maybe maybe getting close to graduation because Turkey wants to join a different gang because he can't be in a wanderer's gang forever. Yeah, so he wants to become a Baldi shaves his head. Um so then you meet the Baldies and and opens with a pretty adult scene.

SPEAKER_00

Does it open like right off the bat?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, because I was like, do you want to invite Clark to watch this with us? And you hesitated before you said no. And I can't believe that. That was a hard no. That was a hard no.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. This movie I've I thought this was the coolest movie I've ever ever seen in my life. Yeah, I'm sure Clark would love it. I saw this movie when I was when I was about Clark's age, probably. And I it had it has everything that a that a high school boy every scene is an entertaining See, that's the thing.

SPEAKER_03

It's everything that you think you want, and it never is good for you. No. Never good for you. But it's entertaining to watch for two hours, I guess. So anyway, um, then they get for some reason, uh unbeknownst to me, the teacher has the the white kids talking to the black kids and calling each other the most racist things they can think of.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, like totally egg and mod.

SPEAKER_03

And like he started the discussion. I really don't know what his purpose was.

SPEAKER_00

I don't either.

SPEAKER_03

But we'll come back to that. I'm still telling the plot.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, please.

SPEAKER_03

And um, and they end up that ends up with them having to like meet, you know, meet on the weekend to have a big fight to like work it out. And then flashback to the girlfriend from the adult scene at the beginning.

SPEAKER_00

Can I ask a quick question?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Are we gonna go back and talk about all these scenes? Because there's a lot going on in all these scenes.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's true. Well, let's just let's just slow our roll and we'll just talk about it.

SPEAKER_00

You might slow our roll a little bit? Okay.

Soundtrack Love And Opening Shock

SPEAKER_00

So can we talk about that uh sex scene?

SPEAKER_03

So here was my very first note. Quite the opening scene.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So you go from that to Well, but I have one more thing to say about that scene.

SPEAKER_03

I'd like to know. I wrote in quotes, I promise I will never die. Oh yeah. Totally. We've seen Team America. It's basically that scene. It was a little more. Instead of without without puppets, it was two real people.

SPEAKER_00

It was a little more orthodox, I suppose.

SPEAKER_03

I guess so.

SPEAKER_00

A little, a little ritty. Um and it goes from that to what? Walk. Well, to walk like a man.

SPEAKER_03

Best song. I love that song.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, there's a lot of four seasons on this.

SPEAKER_03

The whole well, I also one of my other like overall was the soundtrack is bomb. Yeah, it's and it's used well. It's used well with the scenes, I feel in some scenes.

SPEAKER_00

It's played like a jukebox. Like in the strip poker scene. Like it's on they play four songs in a row. That scene was long.

SPEAKER_03

That was a yeah, that was another one.

SPEAKER_00

But um, yeah, I I have the soundtrack. I mean, they they had Mr. Moto was on there. That's like a uh surf, surf, surf music instrumental um with by the Bel Airs. I love that tune. Um, yeah, Walk Like a Man, uh Big Girls Don't Cry, My Boyfriend's Back, Sherry, the Wanderer, of course, Run Around Sue, Times Their Are Changing, Soldier Boy, Baby It's You, Isley Brothers Shout, I Love You, Pipeline, Stand By Me.

SPEAKER_03

Why you wrote all did you write all this down or did you look it up?

SPEAKER_00

I just looked it up. Wipe out, do you love me? You really got a hold on me. And then um Several, several, they had a lot more as well. And then there was like a I think an original score, too. And I just I I did. I love the way they use the music. I love the way Walk Like a Man was playing while Terror was eating an entire slice of pizza in one bite and shoving it.

SPEAKER_03

I said, I said put that big guy eating pizza on Glutton Forum. Rob has a channel called Glutton Forum from a really long time ago. So if you ever want to see some young Rob Shoecraft eating some disgusting stuff, you should go there. I wrote real skinheads exclamation.

SPEAKER_00

The Fordham Baldies.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And so wow, then then what's his name? Terror? Terror. Terror's the main Baldy. Yes. Well, he's the biggest of them. He has a girlfriend that looks like a little androgynous street urchin. Um, but actually at the end she's very cute. Yeah. She's like not wearing her hair slicked back like a boy.

SPEAKER_00

She's one of the only uh she's one of the only actors in this movie that really had much of a career other than like Karen Allen or was Karen Allen Nina? Yes, yeah, she was Nina. Yeah, she was um you know in Indiana Jones and uh you ever see Starman?

SPEAKER_03

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

With Jeff Burgess?

SPEAKER_03

I don't know. I think we've talked about that, and I don't know if I've seen it.

SPEAKER_00

It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_03

Well, anyway, so one of the wanderers uh uh terror. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I won't talk about terror a little bit more. Okay. Terror is feeding that pizza to his fellow gang member. And then feeding, he's got this weird relationship over all the time.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So he it's a very weird.

SPEAKER_00

The guy who played terror.

SPEAKER_03

It's a very off-putting movie, but also somehow very good and entertaining. I can't I just can't put my finger on it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's just super entertaining.

SPEAKER_03

The guy who played terror, did he die of a heart attack immediately after?

SPEAKER_00

He did die of a heart attack. I don't know how you guessed.

SPEAKER_03

He looked like he was about to die of a heart attack.

SPEAKER_00

He was like a trained opera singer, apparently. Have you you haven't seen Running Man, have you? He's Dutch, by the way.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, his voice. I also wrote Wow, Terror's voice. Where did I write that? Oh, I just wrote Pee-wee, wow, and Terror, her boyfriend.

SPEAKER_00

So Terror was in uh I wrote down all the name. Every so every he's only been in four movies. Okay, here. One of the characters, so he was terror in this movie. The guy's name is Erlen Van Lithejude. I don't know if I'm saying that right. He was growing. Ghostburger and Stir Crazy. I don't know. Ronald Fatty Elster and Alone in the Dark and Dynamo and Running Man. Oh my god. Poor guy never actually got a real name. Dynamo and Running Man is the he so he's this is the guy. If you've seen Running Man, who has all the lights on him for no real reason. He has electricity and he sings opera. Schwarzenegger makes pretty quick work.

SPEAKER_03

Have I seen Running Man? Do we watch that?

SPEAKER_00

No, we gotta watch that. Okay. We've talked about watching it, you haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

You'll like it. Is it the one with the enjoy yourself?

SPEAKER_03

Toys.

SPEAKER_00

If by toys you mean Richard Dawson. It is the one with the toys.

SPEAKER_03

Um all right. And yeah, when he opens up his mouth to talk, it's not the voice you expect.

SPEAKER_00

No.

SPEAKER_03

Um then I wrote, okay, so then so then he says something. So then the high school kid says something. Or sorry, one of the wanderers. Is his name Joey?

SPEAKER_00

Joey, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

He says something nasty about the way the bald is looking.

SPEAKER_00

Salek uh comment commentary with ears.

SPEAKER_03

And so then they start chasing him. And I wrote down everyone's butts look great in those jeans. The jeans that they were wearing in that era were very flattering, all the butts of the boys.

SPEAKER_00

Like terror.

SPEAKER_03

No, there's the wanderers. I didn't really see any of the butts of the other guys. The butts of the Dell Bombers were also great.

SPEAKER_00

I did not notice the butts, but uh huh.

SPEAKER_03

I guess that's the difference between you and me. Is that it? Is that what you're it's one of them? Um, alright, and then so then they he's gonna beat Joey up, but then this big guy steps in and he says, Leave the kid alone.

SPEAKER_00

Leave the kid alone.

SPEAKER_03

And he basically, that's basically what I think you looked like.

SPEAKER_00

That's exactly what like your build and just like Oh, you think I look like uh like your build. So I only I will forget At that age.

SPEAKER_03

At that age.

SPEAKER_00

At that age? Oh that age I was like 5'11.

SPEAKER_03

Well, but I mean in college, it was like it was like you were big and muscular, but you still almost didn't look like you were done, like growing.

SPEAKER_00

I gotcha.

SPEAKER_03

Now you look like a regular settled in man.

SPEAKER_00

What was his name? Uh uh Perry. Perry, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Perry.

SPEAKER_00

Perry. Uh that was uh Joe or Tony Tony Ganeos. So did you ever see he was 6'4. Greek Italian.

SPEAKER_03

You are 6'4. So see how I was right about that.

SPEAKER_00

He have you ever seen Porkies?

SPEAKER_03

I've seen scenes from it. He's been on in our life together. It's not a movie I ever want to watch, though, I can tell you.

SPEAKER_00

That's another movie that I fell in love with immediately as a as a teenage boy.

SPEAKER_03

I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00

It so, anyways, he plays Meat. Um, it's not his real name in the movie, but he gets that name from it's another phallic reference.

SPEAKER_03

Uh-huh. And we should put a warner up at the top if you're gonna listen to this episode with your children.

SPEAKER_00

Well, honey, that's what adult family earmuffs are for. The whole episode phallic is basically like a we're we might as well be doctors right now.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's true. That's true.

SPEAKER_00

Or at least or Greek uh literature uh experts. That's true. I'm sorry. Yeah. I apologize. That was rude. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03

Enjoy your classic documents.

SPEAKER_00

If you're a doctor or a Greek literature expert, it's a way to help you. Yeah, sorry. It's a way to help you.

SPEAKER_03

Um but yeah, so he comes in, saves the day, and then Joey wisely befriends him and gets him to join the Wanderers.

SPEAKER_00

That was a good that was a good move.

SPEAKER_03

That was. Joey was Joey reminds me of some people I feel like I've known in my life.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, me too. Like he even looks like somebody I know.

SPEAKER_03

He kind of reminded me of some of your friends from high school.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I get that. Um I don't know who.

SPEAKER_03

They're just kind of like the small, smart guys who can't keep their mouth shut, but they're still smart enough, like street smart enough to like truly stay out of trouble.

SPEAKER_00

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03

Probably because of his horrible home life. Why can't anyone have nice parents?

SPEAKER_00

Joey's dad, Emilio. Oh my gosh, that dude is out of control.

SPEAKER_03

I feel like that's who he was just playing himself. I feel like they were like, here, just read these lines.

SPEAKER_00

William Andrews, I think was the guy's name. I was trying to find more information on him. I mean, he's been in some stuff, but not a whole lot.

SPEAKER_03

What were his stats? Did you look those up?

SPEAKER_00

Gosh, he was, I think he was like 6'4, 6'6, somewhere around there. He was 6'4, I think. He was huge. That dude was built.

SPEAKER_03

And he also, he was probably like 30 in that movie. That's what we've come to discover is that people we think look like they're 50 are younger than us now.

SPEAKER_00

During that fight, I I don't I don't suppose you've seen Happy Gilmore enough to know who uh Mr. Larson is. Do you? The giant the giant who he played Jaws in the James Bond movie.

SPEAKER_03

Uh no, just keep talking.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. The guy who Billy Band or Happy Gilmore shoots with the nail gun.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Yes, yes, yes. Well, at the end, he's like kind of like a big face. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

At the end he's chasing a shooter. He's leading the charge, and he's like, ah, it's this close-up of his face. That's the exact same face.

SPEAKER_03

Of that guy.

SPEAKER_00

That Emilio made. Do you think they were like Right before he punched Joey in the gut, inexplicably.

SPEAKER_03

Do you know why he did that? I just assumed he didn't know who he was.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that or he's just bloodlusted and didn't care. Well, it was like uh there's this character called Logan Ninefingers in the Joe Abercrombie books I like.

SPEAKER_04

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00

Who is this great guy? Well, Emilio's not a great guy, but he'll turn into it's like a Jekyll and Hyde kind of thing. Like juggernaut. Top notch. Top notch. Kill everything.

SPEAKER_03

Nice.

SPEAKER_00

Doesn't matter. It kills everyone. Anyways, another time.

SPEAKER_03

Another time.

SPEAKER_00

He couldn't have to be a few.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe I'll finally rip off the band-aid and read one.

SPEAKER_00

I would actually love to see somebody doing Logan Ninefingers versus the Ducky Boys. Yeah. Maybe you can have the. Do you know who Mike Hagar is?

SPEAKER_03

Oh my gosh. Are we ever gonna get through the Wanderers route?

SPEAKER_01

I want to talk about Emilio.

SPEAKER_03

Just so you know, we've been talking for 50 minutes. Have we? Yes.

SPEAKER_00

About the Wanderers?

SPEAKER_03

No, period.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. About period?

SPEAKER_03

About 50 minutes a period. They'll bring that up again. I've been getting questions at the wazoo about that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I mean I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_03

All right.

The Classroom Scene And What It Normalizes

SPEAKER_03

Perry steps in, Joey befriends them. The next scene, they're I think is in the classroom.

SPEAKER_00

It might be.

SPEAKER_03

And they're in high their high school classroom, which I also wrote, only adults go to this high school because none of these people look like children.

SPEAKER_00

No, it's serious like 90210.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they're all like 30. Um and then I said the race classroom discussion. Wowza.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, the teacher just kids are in that class, like 90?

SPEAKER_03

34, I counted.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Because he wrote down how many were of each.

SPEAKER_00

He did the bath for us.

SPEAKER_03

34 students. Boys only, where are the girls? That's what I wrote.

SPEAKER_00

That quote where he's like, Do you know who wrote this? And they're all like, You did. That I read that is uh and he's like, No, Abraham Lincoln. And it was actually a Thomas Jefferson quote. Yeah. Like the teacher was just a moron.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Well, I didn't, and I kind of wondered too, like that just keeps making me think the director did know exactly what he was doing.

SPEAKER_00

So the author of the book said about the director or said said about when he saw the film, he said it's nothing at all like the book.

SPEAKER_03

We have a lot of coughing tonight. But I loved it.

SPEAKER_00

He said it's nothing at all like the book, but I love it because it had its energy. Whatever that means. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

So who knows?

SPEAKER_00

Apparently they were all kind of going for just Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So what did you want to say? Anything else additional about that scene where he just exit like the teacher's like, All right, you know, Italians, what what are all the terrible things you can think of to call black people? If yeah, if you haven't seen this movie, they go off like every single racial slur for every ethnic group of all time, including white people's ethnicity.

SPEAKER_00

And I gotta I gotta say, like I hate to sound like I'm getting like a political soapbox or something, but this movie definitely you're talking about like not showing this to kids. At least when it comes to racial racial stuff, it's probably a good idea because it really makes it seem like it's okay to call somebody You mean because the teacher is inviting the class to have this debate. Let's not be that bad.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So we were talking about the classroom racist discussion and how it made s makes it seem like it's okay. And it's not.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Let's just uh racism's bad.

SPEAKER_03

And then I wrote, was high school ever actually like this?

SPEAKER_00

I so I had some crazy No. I I never went to Oh, you mean like in the 60s?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Because I had a class that was all guys, except for the two girls, and we What class was it?

SPEAKER_03

And why was it like that?

SPEAKER_00

Because Well w I was in it.

SPEAKER_03

No, no, why were there only boys in it? Is what I want to know.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I don't know. It just worked out that way. And the teacher, I mean I I love the teacher, but he did the never mind. We it was it was an absolutely chaotic class, it was insane.

SPEAKER_03

So that was a yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And it was great. Did you learn anything? That teacher is the one who ran the detention, or my brother, where we were all taking ginseng supplements, and my brother got up on the uh this is detention. My my brother got up on the desk, and because but both both my brother and I were in detention this time. Together, wow, yeah. I skipped class and he I don't even know what he did, but we're both in there, all dudes. Mr. Uh Mr. W is running it. He just loses control immediately. He wanted to. He didn't care, he wanted to be entertained.

SPEAKER_03

He didn't care.

SPEAKER_00

I say, Joe, do Magic Mountain. Joe gets up on the desk.

SPEAKER_03

Magic Mountain, is that in the Jeffries data sheet?

SPEAKER_00

Um I don't know. It should be. We talked about it. Look it up. It's when my brother can suck air in and blow it out. He gets up. Yeah, puts his butt up in the air on top of a desk, and he's just and you can hear it to the point where do I talk about in and out?

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. You want me to move on?

SPEAKER_03

I well, finish the detention story.

SPEAKER_00

That's the teacher. That's the teacher who ran in class. Yeah, yeah. The teacher who will let that go on detention.

SPEAKER_03

So then the end result. The end result of that is that they end up having to schedule a big fight, which I think is hilarious. It's scheduling fights. And then I wrote because everybody keeps walking away with this swagger in these big groups, and I kept I wrote, I keep waiting for the big musical dance numbers, but they never come. Because it feels like it should be like right into like a West Side story.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, they they even have doo-op.

SPEAKER_03

They do sing in the car later. I was like, this is what I've been waiting for.

SPEAKER_00

Singing that uh Stranger, I tried to find that song. Apparently, it was written for this it was original.

SPEAKER_03

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00

They all just yeah, spontaneously go into doo-op and then wind up in Ducky Boy country.

SPEAKER_03

So they think the next scene they're at the bowling alley.

Bowling Alley Politics And Gang Alliances

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Or it get there pretty quick.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And they're all my favorite thing is they're all wearing these wanderer jackets, which are like satin, maroon, and gold, but they're all a little different. Some of them have like baseball style sleeves where the sleeves are different. Any of this. The sleeves are a little different. The sleeves are green, or sorry, what did I just say? Gold and maroon.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

The sleeves are gold and the jacket's maroon, or vice versa, on somebody else. Or somebody had a fully gold jacket with maroon logo. It's also like this is great. Because it's probably like whatever year you got inducted into the Wanderers is just like, this was the jacket of that year. That's how I like so. I that's what I think. That's what I want.

SPEAKER_00

I've seen this movie, I think, four times, and I uh I said I like how jackets are a variation on a theme.

SPEAKER_03

So then the butts.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my goodness. So they're at the bowling alley.

SPEAKER_03

And the girlfriend from the very adult opening scene is there.

SPEAKER_04

What is her name?

SPEAKER_03

Dip Disby? Disby. Dispy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Disby? She's something weird. She's really pretty. She plays like a complete dit.

SPEAKER_00

She's a bit she's a bit of a misophonia nightmare.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, she's a lot of gum chewing and snacking. Anyway, so she comes to talk to her boyfriend Richie, one of the wanderers, and by the way, he has absolutely gorgeous green eyes. I'm not sure I've seen someone with green eyes like that before.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he would uh David Lopin would be all over all over him. Sorry, it's blue in the microphone. Um, I really want as a wonder with green eyes.

SPEAKER_03

Indeed.

SPEAKER_02

It's an Italian boy with green eyes. Kind of messed up teeth.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know how much before it was. It wasn't that before.

SPEAKER_03

What year was it filmed?

SPEAKER_00

I feel like he might have made it. He might have had a more successful career if he uh had braces.

SPEAKER_03

What'd you say happened to him? What was the real name?

SPEAKER_00

Some kind of accident. He had a little bit of success on TV, but not not much.

SPEAKER_03

Um really great eyes, so Richie with the green eyes.

SPEAKER_00

You know Stitch? Remember Stitch? From from the Dell, he led the Dell Bombers.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

He was at he was he's been in some stuff. Did you ever see Money Talks with Chris Tucker and Charlie Sheen?

SPEAKER_03

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00

He's Aaron, the like weapons dealer with a really deep voice who has a rocket launcher. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Wow, there's still some stuff. I know.

SPEAKER_00

I love this is all this is all your favorite. I love this.

SPEAKER_03

Uh so anyway, while they're at the bowling alley, the girlfriend comes over and she's like, My dad wants to talk to you. And so he goes and talks to the dad, when the dad's basically like, I oh, because they also try to recruit some other gangs to help them fight the bombers.

SPEAKER_00

She's trying to unite the clans.

SPEAKER_03

And what was the first one's names that said no?

SPEAKER_00

I don't remember. So they're not the ones with a gun, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they were the ones with the first one. Those kids were about to be. So that was the guys that were hiding behind the first group. What was the I don't remember what any of them except for the third guys who showed up.

SPEAKER_00

Did you ever see the Warriors?

SPEAKER_03

Warriors?

SPEAKER_00

So this came Warriors came out the same year. Oh. 79. Another gang, another New York gang movie with a lot of wild gangs.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

A bit darker all the way through. You know, different movie. Kind of the same in some parts. Anyways. Um The Rogues, I think that was the name of the, you know, the Warriors. What'd you just say? Yeah. Um, they had guns.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

And I don't know which which came first, but they very much reminded me of the rogues, just punks. Like who are willing to murder somebody?

SPEAKER_03

We're should shoot them. Like and they were like, no, no, no, no guns. So you can't come. It's like, well, then we're not coming. So two two of them say no. And then what's the name of the third group?

SPEAKER_00

Well, you got the wongs. The wongs. The wongs are hiding the whole time. We we were here early. We'd just been waiting to show up.

SPEAKER_03

They were some synchronized artists. Steady wag. Some synchronized martial artists.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my gosh. I love the I thought the wongs were so freaking cool when I first saw this movie.

SPEAKER_03

I bet you did. You really love a martial art, an Asian fighting.

SPEAKER_00

Every single scene in this movie has is premium entertainment value for an adolescent boy.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe as someone who was never an adolescent boy, that's why for me.

SPEAKER_00

I just remember watching this. This is Carrie this for the first time and being like, what is this? Like, and I did I for whatever reason I couldn't remember what it was called, or I didn't I didn't know. I picked it up in the middle of it or something. Uh and by the time it came around the second time, I was all over it. And then I bought the DVD and whatever. But um, yeah, you know uh do you know Sonny Jeracey? No, okay, you know, you know the song Time Won't Let Me?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And Precious and Few.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Uh his son was friends with my This is like me trying to oh yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, Justin. And he had a Ducky Boy shirt on one time. And I was like, wait a second. Is that from the wonders? He's like, yeah. I'm like, like he was immediately like the coolest kid. Yeah. Plus, he could also play the guitar really well too. Figured that his dad was a rock star.

SPEAKER_03

Um, all right, so so then the dad says, I heard you're having some trouble with some gangs, we can help you out. And basically kind of like takes control of it. Kind of doesn't really seem like Richie wants to get the dads involved. I don't think so. No. And so then they go set up a a good good thing with the dads of the dads? Are they the dads of the Dell Bombers?

SPEAKER_00

I think so.

SPEAKER_03

The adults of the Dell Bombers.

SPEAKER_00

Who are the we think they might be men of the They look like pimps, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe that's just uh men of the night. The men of the ladies of the night.

SPEAKER_00

One of the gangs was literally called the Pimps. You know? Like maybe it was just a uh 60s thing. I I don't know. Maybe that's just how you dress when you're uh dress nice.

SPEAKER_03

I also wanted to talk about bowling alleys just in general, because as someone who only ever went to the bowling alleys like after bowling alleys were like the nice places to hang out, like the bowling alley I ever went to was just like clearly a tired place, which you've we've been to. Looks the same, essentially. And it's like this bowling alley looks like super clean, super nice. Like it's obviously like culturally like where people were hanging out, right?

SPEAKER_00

Well, if you misbehave in there, they're gonna break your hand.

SPEAKER_03

Well, if you go and try to hustle some people, so then my favorite scene was when they when they um beat up those kids and he punched them in the stomach and all the money cash just exploded.

SPEAKER_00

It's a literal money shot.

SPEAKER_03

The money punch, yeah, that's what I wrote.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's a nicer way to put it.

SPEAKER_03

Uh so yeah, so now they're so now Richie's in with the dads.

SPEAKER_00

They Richie's watching that whole thing, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and so then that's like he was basically saying, if you don't play football, which we didn't know that's what they were gonna do, but basically like you gotta win it. We got money on this now on your fight with

Emilio And The E.T. Street Game

SPEAKER_03

the guys. So then it takes you back to the apartment building with Joey, and you get to meet Emilio, his dad, and he's wearing a purple house coat. And I wrote, I don't like Emilio or his purple house coat. And he's and Joey's like painting this incredible mural.

SPEAKER_00

He's like, That's weird.

SPEAKER_03

His dad's like, Well, people like look like weird people. Doesn't like doesn't even really make any sense. Like, have you ever seen a sign, dude? You know what I mean? Like, it's not that weird.

SPEAKER_00

Every scene with a guy's dad. Every scene with Amelia.

SPEAKER_03

What was he saying when he was having his wife measure his muscle? About his bust biceps.

SPEAKER_00

He was like Schwarzenegger and puppy, just like talking about the pump.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so then they introduce the dad as a real jerk. Yeah. And also in the meantime, you find out that Perry's mom, he says she's got blood pressure problems, but really she's an alcoholic.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

And once his face is taking advantage of that.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, but we don't know that yet.

SPEAKER_00

True.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so then I wrote, and you can tell you can you can describe this scene, but I wrote, I miss the days when groups of high school boys used to hang out on the street to cop feels instead of inside playing video games.

SPEAKER_00

That's really applying yourself. Dude, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03

Video games have ruined society.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, let's go play adult family earmuffs. I'll say it once. Okay, yeah. And then I'll call it E.T. from now on.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

They play a game called Elbow Tit.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, okay. Um I was like, how does adult family earmuffs translate to E.T., but I'm with you now.

SPEAKER_00

So we'll just call it E.T. Yeah. Okay, take your adult family earmuffs off now.

SPEAKER_03

Off of your adult family.

SPEAKER_00

If you're adult family, take them off.

SPEAKER_04

They're not for you. They're not for you.

SPEAKER_00

So uh E.T. is a game where game played in the Bronx by high school boys and high school boys and southern jackets. 30-year-old high school boys and southern jackets.

SPEAKER_03

The best kind of high school boys are 30.

SPEAKER_00

You walk up to a woman. By the way, what were brawls like that big?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they were.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. They're really torpedo-y.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Kind of cool. So they that was not an anachronism.

SPEAKER_03

No, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, good. Alright, so they they're walking down the street, and then the game is that you kind of bump in to accidentally, quote unquote, bump into a woman with your elbow. With your elbow to her T, and you might co grap uh cop a feel while you're doing it. While you're doing it.

SPEAKER_03

So they're just standing there.

SPEAKER_00

And then kind of like gaslighting these women.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Oh, you but you bumped into me.

SPEAKER_00

And all the guys are like, eh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Like also, like they're just standing there waiting for women to come.

SPEAKER_00

Chewing all matchsticks.

SPEAKER_03

Loudly, yeah. Loudly talking about what they're about to do. These women are like, I'm just I can't imagine being any less than a block away and not knowing what they were all up to.

SPEAKER_00

And then that one uh woman who's gotta be taller than Perry and Amelia on each other's shoulders.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Who they they did that that thing. They did they didn't really do this. It's kind of like almost surreal. Like it was a woman, she kept morphing. She kept getting bigger and bigger as he got closer. Uh because Joey. I didn't notice that. Yeah, she she turned into three she started with it was three different women.

SPEAKER_03

I didn't notice that. I guess I was too busy looking at the jacket differences.

SPEAKER_00

Well, that's the that's the trade-off of you. Check out checking out Joey's butt.

SPEAKER_03

You miss the uh the miss the woman that you were checking out. It's for a transforming woman. She has more than meets the eye.

SPEAKER_00

So she uh basically throws Joey through a wall.

SPEAKER_03

I made a Transformers joke to see.

SPEAKER_00

More than meets the Oh my goodness. Here, come here, come here.

SPEAKER_03

Guys, it's hard to be funny with Everyone's like, that wasn't that funny. That's why you didn't stop.

SPEAKER_00

It was a really good joke.

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That was great.

SPEAKER_00

That was nice. You did you the rhythm of it was really I want to play some meat tea with you real quick.

SPEAKER_03

No, I don't want that.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, watch where you're going.

SPEAKER_03

Hey, you ran into me.

SPEAKER_00

Why are you moving so fast in this? Why are you moving so fast in this line? Supposed to stand in line.

SPEAKER_03

I'm standing still.

SPEAKER_00

I'm standing here. So we gotta speed up. Okay, okay. He meets Nina. Nina comes down. Nina knows just what they're up to, but she likes it.

SPEAKER_03

Seems to.

SPEAKER_00

It's really weird. They're playing Stranger on the Shore by Acre Bilk while Richie and Nina are talking. You know that song?

SPEAKER_02

Bone.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, but I don't know. Okay, I'm I'm speeding it up. It's really strange juxtaposition there between like this really beautiful tune and a molesting.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and she like basically accuses him of molesting. But she's like, but she's like, but later I'm gonna call you and go to a party with you. It's cool with me, though. And he also tries to act like he's setting her up with his friend Joey, but he because he has a girlfriend already, Dipsy. Dispy.

SPEAKER_00

Dipsy. Let's call her Dipsy. They both um Dipsy. They both know what they were up to. Yeah, they did. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So anyway, so hop in the car.

SPEAKER_00

They go to Saint Break out and do up.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, that's when they break out and do up.

SPEAKER_00

Is that when they got it real fast?

SPEAKER_03

That's what I'm asking you about the timelines and stuff. All of a sudden it's night.

SPEAKER_00

I read something where there is, I don't I don't know about that specifically, but there is something where like with the scene with the girl that morphs that you missed, they do this kind of like what Stand By Me did, or like what the Sandlot did, where they kind of make make these situations where you're not exactly sure if it's if it's the way they remember it, or if it's the way that you know what I mean? Sure.

SPEAKER_03

Perception or reality.

SPEAKER_00

Like a Bo is a like a really subtle version of Bo is afraid. You haven't seen that, I haven't. We'll move on. So they've wind up in Ducky Boy country. The Ducky Boys are weird.

SPEAKER_03

They don't talk, they're all really weird, they don't make any noise.

SPEAKER_00

They don't yeah. They hang out in a church.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

They that church scene was kind of unsettling. Like it was really weird.

SPEAKER_03

And they like creepily smile. But anyway, Perry gets out of the church.

SPEAKER_00

Perry thinks he could take all of them.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and he tries and they break his hand and they just barely get out of there with their lives. Which is foreshadowing for poor old Turkey.

SPEAKER_00

Poor old Turkey.

SPEAKER_03

Because he doesn't get out of Ducky Boy territory later on with physics. They just chase him and then he and then he just falls off and dies on his own. Of up that tower thing. So anyway, then they end up at a party at the house of Dipsy. Because her

Party Scenes That Drag

SPEAKER_03

parents go out of town and they invite this girl that they just felt up all over the street. She comes.

SPEAKER_00

Wait a minute. Emilio. Well, she calls Joey. Emilio's like, hey, Joey, some dame's been calling you. She sounds like a librarian. You got books overdue? I wrote that down. Something like that. I I that cracks me up. I love Emilio. He's terrible.

SPEAKER_03

He's the worst, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I gotta get an Emilio shirt.

SPEAKER_03

I don't want you to be.

SPEAKER_00

What do you say we get a big picture of Emilio right now?

SPEAKER_03

No. Is that you think that's what our buddy Seth wanted for the of his arms? You think that's what Seth had in mind for the green screen? That's right. Just like a we pick a character from whatever we're talking about, and that's what's on the backdrop of the day. Like they're right here with us.

SPEAKER_00

My buddy, our buddy Seth, who I put played bass with at church, he Well, Seth isn't the only one who plays bass.

SPEAKER_03

Rob Rob doesn't play bass with him.

SPEAKER_00

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_03

He plays bass with Rob.

SPEAKER_00

He's like the coolest dude ever. Like he he's not like he's like, I'm not trying to tell you guys, you know, how to do your show with him.

SPEAKER_03

Also, here's some free gum mints because they're always bringing us things. So nice.

SPEAKER_00

He gave me a whole thing of icebreakers. So thank you. Thank you, Seth. So Seth said, we'll give you uh we'll give you. Seth said it'd be cool if it looked like you were standing in line with people.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know why he thinks it doesn't look like we're standing in line, Seth.

SPEAKER_00

So I'm gonna get a green screen. I've I've been looking into it.

SPEAKER_03

Are you gonna paint these babies green? This is what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_00

This is what I'm thinking. I'm gonna run it by you real quick and then we'll zoom through wanderers. Okay. We've talked about a lot of the scenes already.

SPEAKER_03

We have.

SPEAKER_00

This is what I'm thinking. We you know, like around the holidays when you're watching, like, like if you're at your parents watching Dish Network and that's Santa's workshop comes up and things randomly go across the screen. Yeah, I want to do that.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00

Like I feel like we can make a dad could help you plan that out. Squeeze out a little bit of audience retention if somebody just wants to see just watch a mouse pickets.

SPEAKER_03

Amelia lift a weight. Measures by work punch a high schooler. Or 20,000.

SPEAKER_00

Break a break a wooden plank like he's freaking hacksaw Jim Duncan off of Dugan or whatever it's like off of a bench. Like a football field. Throw use ducky boys as weapons. He's like, this plank bores me. I'm gonna beat up your I'm gonna beat you up with your friends.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so like ultimately get into some fights about the at the party, and finally they let's just say that they arrive at the woman, the older woman, his friend.

SPEAKER_00

He's like hammered, he's drinking tango, like just taken to the dome. She's like, and he pukes in the trophy. Yeah. She's like, she's like, how am I gonna get home? Yeah. Like if you don't notice this dude's been sloshed for like six hours. Okay, go move on.

SPEAKER_03

So then they end up at the football field.

SPEAKER_00

That's where they play strip poker, by the way.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah, that scene I wrote. I wrote, what did I write?

SPEAKER_00

You can't exactly just skip over that.

SPEAKER_03

I wrote this poker scene is literally killing me. I also wrote the way they wear suits to parties. Like all the boys were wearing suits.

SPEAKER_00

And call out the dance moves?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That was kind of fun.

SPEAKER_03

I want it, I want, I want that.

SPEAKER_00

You you want to do that? You want to go to a party where they call out the moves?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I'm gonna know like two.

SPEAKER_03

Well, yeah, but you could learn. But anyway, they have this incredibly long strip poker scene that just doesn't really ever go anywhere at all. And she's like, I never played this before. But she's like sitting there with no clothes on.

SPEAKER_00

And they're both just sitting there like oggling.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, it's so uncomfortable. I don't even really want to talk about it.

SPEAKER_00

Anyways, I did count. It went on for over three songs. This boom, they played like a jukebox. Boom, boom, boom. Wow. Three and a half.

SPEAKER_03

The whole song.

SPEAKER_00

I wrote down the movie would only be an hour if the strip poker scene wasn't in it and the never-ending nesting box.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah. At the back at the end.

SPEAKER_00

Keeps opening the box.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, his smaller and smaller boxes.

SPEAKER_00

It ends up being a uh a prophylactic.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00

Like that. Put it on your phallic. So anyway, they finally get phallic prophylactic.

SPEAKER_03

They finally get. Oh, at the football game, does he know that his girlfriend's pregnant?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. She's so they're hooking up at chur in a some sort of catacomb?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, like under a Catholic church. It's so weird, you guys. Don't ever do that.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, we breezed over where the Baldies all got recruited to the Marines.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah, they're all drunk and they went and this guy was like, damn it, don't you? And Pee's like, don't.

SPEAKER_02

Damn it, you know what you did.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I want to talk about this movie for seven more hours. I can't wait to do that. You can't. I'm sorry if we're going to go.

SPEAKER_03

So they're playing football, and the black kids show up, and they are like in incredibly fine football uniforms. Like very nice, very put together.

SPEAKER_00

They have real quick, I do want to get to that. Let's just say Richie did knock up Desby.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, right.

SPEAKER_00

Mr. The Galoso brothers or whatever are in on it. They take kind of take them in. Shotgun wedding.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

What's he say? Um, you know, uh, you know, I hooked up with all sorts of whatever, but then he's like, but I never did nobody's daughter.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Some good lines.

SPEAKER_00

That guy is something.

SPEAKER_03

He doesn't look like someone that had a lot of girlfriends. Just saying.

SPEAKER_00

He doesn't, exactly.

SPEAKER_03

He looks like maybe he said you'll grow into it.

SPEAKER_00

It's like Larry Flynn, kind of.

SPEAKER_03

Well, he gave him that big oversized Tawaian shirt, and he was like, You'll grow into it once you get married. So I guess you're gonna get the founders.

unknown

Jeez.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It was a what a guy.

SPEAKER_03

It was a time.

SPEAKER_00

So Del the Del Bombers and their and their football finery.

Football Game Brawl And The Wongs

SPEAKER_03

The Del Bombers and their football finery. Yes. And they have a a squad with male cheerleaders that come out with some incredible gymnastics.

SPEAKER_00

It's like the Blues Brothers uh church scene.

SPEAKER_03

It was great. I like that.

SPEAKER_00

Much better than the Ducky Boys church scene.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's true. So the uh the wanderers are like literally wearing jeans that they have rolled up to their knees. And they're not the tight-fitting jeans from earlier, they're like loose work jeans. And they're just they can't do Richie's not playing because they're all mad at Richie because he stole Joey's girl.

SPEAKER_00

Richie's a bit of a jerk.

SPEAKER_03

He's kind of a slimy. He's a child. Kind of a sleaze. Yeah. He's about to be a father, though. So he's got to straighten up. So he sees how badly they're getting beaten by the Dell Bombers, Richie does. So he steps in, he's like, I'm gonna be the quarterback, and Joey's gonna be the halfback. And then they start winning, right?

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Which seems ridiculous. Yeah, it's yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_00

It's every it's every movie ever.

SPEAKER_03

Then the Ducky Boys show up. For whatever reason, we do not know.

SPEAKER_00

Andy Sandberg shows up on the scene for a stiletto. Jake Baralta. I swear that dude.

SPEAKER_03

It does look like maybe it's his dad. Find out. Not on this podcast, but next for next time. So he so then for whatever reason, there's like trillions of Ducky Boys there.

SPEAKER_00

They just keep popping up like a horror movie.

SPEAKER_03

Like the way they brought them on was that has to be like the one and only element of thriller.

SPEAKER_00

Hitchcock. Yeah, very Hitchcock. That's great. That's great. Makes look at me. I'm working on my Cenophile ship.

SPEAKER_03

So anyway, then they have a big brawl with them. Looks like the Ducky Boys are winning there for a minute.

SPEAKER_00

Well, the Wongs come in. The Wongs come in. Because they're just sitting there watching. The Baldies weren't in it. I wish the bodies were in it. I really want to see Terra fight. He was a wrestler too, apparently.

SPEAKER_03

Weren't they in the Marines by that point?

SPEAKER_00

I guess they ship them off that quick.

SPEAKER_03

Because she well, that's my question. Because then she's crying about how the Marines don't write her letters. Yeah. I'm like, well, how long have they been gone?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I I felt I I I I was I swear I was listening to you before, but you're you're you're really making sense right now. I d I don't I don't know. Her hair grew out too.

SPEAKER_03

Well she styled it differently, too.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, I guess that's not much about hair.

SPEAKER_03

So they're fighting the duckies, the duckies look like they're winning, but then the tides turn. I don't really and there's no clear for like they play this awful like horror music. Yeah. And then for about ten seconds, they play like poppy sixties.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And then they go back to the horror music. It's very jarring, doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_00

They must have done the music with those six minutes. To say something something had to have happened where because the Ducky Boys It almost like they were sort of winning.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and then they just start leaving.

SPEAKER_00

And Amelia was there there are pockets of the battle where the wanderer's side was definitely winning. Sure. Basically anywhere where Amelia Mike Hagger uh was, but I'm with you. It's it was a cool fight. I enjoy the heck out of it.

SPEAKER_03

But it wasn't that great. I felt like it was very fake.

SPEAKER_00

It was. When I say a cool fight, I mean like um you haven't seen uh They Live, right?

SPEAKER_03

Oh my gosh. Everything is this reference to the floor. Okay, that's why we had to make the Jeffries data sheet.

SPEAKER_00

There's yes. There's some fights. I hate the Jeffries data sheet. There's some fights that okay, here's a good example. Deep Space Nine Triples fight. It's this terrible fight. As far as choreography goes, it's terrible. But it's just great.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I understand that. But yes, I just wanted to make sure you knew that it wasn't good. No, I did think You know that was a bad you're right.

SPEAKER_00

I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said nothing. I'm sorry, Tara.

SPEAKER_01

Tara You know what you do.

SPEAKER_03

You know what you do.

SPEAKER_00

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03

So then whatever, then they all unite together. The Dell Bombers and the Wanderers.

SPEAKER_00

They're friends now. Are they all pals?

SPEAKER_03

And then like one of them comes to his bachelor party where with the nesting boxes full of one condom.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, kind of Teddy Wong was there.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

The Ending And What Never Resolves

SPEAKER_03

And some random lady singing The Wanderers.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, the lady busts out Dion, she's not afraid.

SPEAKER_03

But then Perry and Joey, they have to get out of town because Joey's dad has been sleeping with Perry's mom. And he shows and Perry after oh and and sorry. Joey's dad punches Perry. Bart. Joey's dad punches Joey in the stomach really hard. And so then he's like, I'm never going back there. And so he's sleeping across the hall with Perry. Perry's mom is in the hospital with alcoholism. We don't really know. And he's like, I'm never going back to my dad's. I'm never gonna live there again, or whatever. And so then they decide they're gonna go to California.

SPEAKER_00

Dad shows up.

SPEAKER_03

The dad shows up to sleep with the woman with alcohol.

SPEAKER_00

So he's like getting this just he's a predator. Yeah. He's at all for as much as I love Emilio. Emilio needs to go down. Yeah. Emilio needed something harder than a big one.

SPEAKER_03

Unfortunately, though, Perry has a broken hand. So I feel like he's at a disadvantage because I think he probably couldn't have taken Emilia.

SPEAKER_00

But also, but Perry had there's like kind of this old school they never quite developed.

SPEAKER_03

He's like, You that's your dad.

SPEAKER_02

He's like, That's your father. You don't hit your father like that. You shouldn't have done that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. You know, there's like this weird kind of honor thing in there. It's like you should just let him beat you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. You deserve this.

SPEAKER_00

Because you know that Perry Perry fought what, like eight bodies at once? Yeah. Who's those dudes are massive, by the way. They're not small.

SPEAKER_03

And so then Joey cracks us, cracks the bottle over the dad's head and knocks him out. So then they're like, we gotta get out of here right now. So then they go to the bachelor party bachelor party and then they leave. And that is is that it?

SPEAKER_00

That's it, pretty much, yeah. We I know we skipped some details of several scenes, but did you have any other comments that didn't get made? Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'm sure I did. But I said how much time do we have left to talk about Southern Play listening?

SPEAKER_03

Like 15 minutes. The scenes with the Ducky Boys are too much, I said. The fight scene in Tidy Whitey's is so sad. And then I said, This is if Disney made kids.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. It was like a yes. That's that's great. That's a great way to put it. We'll leave it at that. Um, with that comment anyway. I said they were singing Volare. Do you know the song Volare? Volare.

SPEAKER_04

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

They're singing that in class while they were like chanting terrible things at the Black Gang. Um, but I do love that song. I'd like to cover that sometime. I gotta learn some Italian. Uh a cappella car scene. We talked about elbow. We talked about ET, magic stick chewing. I think we talked about that. Money punch, strip poker.

SPEAKER_03

I think we covered it all.

SPEAKER_00

We we actually did Chubby's uh motorized chair stair lift.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, wow. I know. I was like, maybe they had those back then.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you yeah, Leslie's uh Leslie has one of those.

SPEAKER_03

I I don't have one. My mom and dad have one.

SPEAKER_00

The way they kind of just shoved JFK and Bob Dylan into it, like this is now like a thought piece.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so now we're all crying about it and yeah. Wait a minute. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I wrote down Richie's just having a bad day. His friend hates him, his girlfriend's bad. He got her pregnant, the president got shot. I wrote, our pets' heads are falling off.

Outkast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik Deep Dive

SPEAKER_00

Alright, outcast, baby. That's a dumb and dumber. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Tell us the name of the song because you kept saying it to me, and I kept being like, I'm gonna need you to just write this down because I don't know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_00

The name of the song. And album, actually. The name of the song and the album, yes. They shared the same name. Southern Playlistic Cadillac music. In the hook, it's Cadillac funky music.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. 1994, I believe. Outcast debut album.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, that was their debut album. What else was on there? What was like the main track off that?

SPEAKER_00

The biggest hit on there was Play As Ball. Um that actually got a bit of that that put them on the map. Organized Noise was you asked me who Organized Noise was.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, I did.

SPEAKER_00

I don't I don't know. I don't remember why you asked me.

SPEAKER_03

It was in the credits of the when I was watching the words go by on the Apple.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, gotcha, gotcha.

SPEAKER_03

It was at the end. It was written by Andre3000.

SPEAKER_00

So Organized Noise is what put this is the the I guess the record producer that would put this together.

SPEAKER_03

Is that a person?

SPEAKER_00

No, I don't believe so.

SPEAKER_03

A company?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

And so they did Goody Mob. Like you know when they end the song where it's like in the dungeon, good uh Big Gip, Goody Mob, PALCA, Southern Playlistic. Okay. Well, do you know CeeLo Green?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

He was in Goody Mob.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

So they kind of came out about the same time.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

They were both under organized noise. And Big Boy and Andre 3000 were probably 18.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my gosh, the babies.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So like they met at the mall. Like this song is like almost about like what they it's like. It's super childish, but also kind of like. Like they weren't like real. They gotta throw in like the you know, the token gangster talk. Yeah, but they weren't really gangster. Talking about, you know, got the the the P U M P for anybody talking, you know, although I should know the lyrics because I just sang them. But you're a rap singer. I'm a rap singer. But uh it's just funny because they they didn't they kinda they kind of stopped the hard, like kind of the violent um rapping.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Violent lyrics in their later albums, like A.T. Aliens and Quem and I and Stanconia, I think was out when we were in college. Um I had like bombs over Baghdad on it. They've kind of became a bit more into the I wrote down that they're they're almost like hip-hop Beatles, and the way that they constantly evolved and it always worked. I mean, I was crazy for the Southern hip hop, like the way the Beatles brought the UK. I know I'm really preaching here, but the way the Beatles brought helped bring England into, you know, mainstream rock and roll, they did with like Southern hip hop. Like all these people followed behind of like ludicrous. I mean you'd have like some folks at Flowrider. Yeah, for real.

SPEAKER_03

Like he's from Southern. Flowrider owes a lot to uh to Andre 3000 and uh Big Boy Big Boy.

SPEAKER_00

So, anyways, I love speaker box. I do love outcast, yeah. Speaker box and uh what was the The Love Below. Love Below, yeah. They just always they always have great stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they're very, very fun and very there's a lot going on.

SPEAKER_00

Crumbling Herb was on this album. I I didn't really get into Outcast till probably college. Dwangle was uh like I knew some of I knew like Elevators from like ATL Ians. I don't even know if I'm saying that right, but ATL IENS is their second album. That's when they really kind of started.

SPEAKER_03

Atliens is what I would have said.

SPEAKER_00

Atlions, that's probably what it is.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know, but I don't know. Well I'm always saying Atlanta, like ATL, like Atlanta Airport.

SPEAKER_00

Anytime I hear them refer to Atlanta, they're calling it ATL. So I just who knows? But Dwangle listened to this album a lot, so I listened to it too. But Crumbling Herb is another great tune on here. I love uh it's a great, it's a really good album, like all the way through. Yeah, I listened to it and I was background, but I think you'd love.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I do love that.

SPEAKER_00

So the way we did this song was I can't remember if I did this song with the bendables or not.

SPEAKER_03

Uh what was the song you were doing the night we met?

SPEAKER_00

Crumbling herb.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

That's the one I completely screwed up. I've the I blanked on I tried to memorize the whole thing like the day before, and I was all torn up of whether how to sing the hook because I don't want to head words in it that I shouldn't be. You don't want to be saying. Yeah. Like like race war words.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

SPEAKER_00

So, anyways, I I just bombed it. But I think we did something playlistic kind of like music too. Anyways, the way that we did this, you and I, as uh I played acoustic guitar, you played keys, with the uh funky whatever kind of effect, kind of a sort of a remote.

SPEAKER_03

It was called funky EP.

SPEAKER_00

Funky EP.

SPEAKER_03

Mm-hmm. Electric piano.

SPEAKER_00

And I sing um that makes sense. I sing the I sing the the the rap.

SPEAKER_03

You did, and I love that.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know why that's not more popular. Like, I want to hear more people do that.

SPEAKER_03

I just want to hear you do it.

SPEAKER_00

I I like doing it, I enjoy doing it. I feel weird actually rapping it.

SPEAKER_03

Did you feel less weird singing? Sing rapping.

SPEAKER_00

When we did the next when we did the next movement.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00

When we did uh well we haven't done it yet, but I've been kind of messing around with I ain't mad at you for a while.

SPEAKER_03

Um I got nothing but love for you.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's got a sick piano part on it. You could sing the hook, you'd be Danny Boy. But there's so many Uncle Danny Boy? Uncle Danny Boy.

SPEAKER_03

How about Danny Boy? Uncle Dan could be Uncle Danny Boy.

SPEAKER_00

Man, we gotta get we gotta get Uncle Dan. Uncle Dan down here to do I ain't mad at you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. You hear that Uncle Danny Boy?

SPEAKER_00

There's so many hip hop songs that are extremely Have a lot of musicality. And there's just no reason you couldn't sing.

SPEAKER_04

Sing, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And there's some folks like Bone, you know, Bone sang a lot, um, Ferrell Mach sang a little bit. You got like CeeLo Green, sort of, Nate Dog sort of. Honestly, the person who I've probably where I first got the idea to sing rap songs or hip hop songs is um Jack Johnson, Rodeo Cons. It's basically what he's doing.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

He's basically rapping.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, that's cute.

SPEAKER_00

But there's so many, I mean, I don't know. There's there's uh I'm not saying like I'm the only one doing it, I'm sure that's not true. But if you know a good example of it doesn't have to be acoustic, but just a rap uh a classic rap cover with a singer on it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Where they're singing the rap, not just a hook.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, where they're s yeah, not just a hook, they're singing the whole rap. Um there's so much potential there.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe this is your niche, you finally found it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Well, hey, if it gets somebody else to do it, or if you can find something that's I'm gonna keep we'll keep doing them. We'll keep working them in, but because I got a million of them I'd like to do.

SPEAKER_03

Just have a real way about you when you do them.

SPEAKER_00

I enjoy I enjoy it because I love that I love this song. I don't normally like singing, but I I feel like you don't like to sing.

SPEAKER_03

I that's a real question. You don't like to sing.

SPEAKER_00

I really don't. I don't dislike it. It's I feel uh I feel kind of vulnerable when I do it, although this this this this is helping me, this whole venture venture is helping me get way more comfortable with it. But I I get a lot I get a lot more personally out of playing the guitar. Like I feel like that puts me in the zone more.

SPEAKER_03

All I want to do is sing.

SPEAKER_00

When I'm playing when I'm just playing lead, I just or when I just get into a groove, I get there way faster than singing is like it takes me out of the groove that the guitar has me in. But singing like this keeps you in the rhythm, kind of. I'm not I didn't I didn't plan how I was gonna sing anything. So I'm kind of I'm not doing anything crazy, but I'm sort of improvising.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And that's fun for me.

SPEAKER_03

You just following that chord structure that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so and so I'm I kind of try to play it like I maybe would play it on the guitar. Guitar I'd do a a bit more, but anyways, it's uh it's it's a good time. And and you you sang the uh the hook on it and played the keys.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And you I didn't do a lot, but it was fine.

SPEAKER_00

You learned that about what five minutes? Did you play the first time you practice it five minutes before?

SPEAKER_03

Everyone who listens to it's gonna be like, yeah, clearly she spent five minutes on that.

SPEAKER_00

But it sounded good. It was what it sounded grid.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you. It could have been better, but this is not my ideal environment for playing an instrument. It's so hard with like all these lights shining behind the music and the keys are dark and the the keyboard stand is moving. I have a lot of excuses.

SPEAKER_00

No, I'm I'm with you.

SPEAKER_03

It's way better than the closet we used to film in, so I'm not saying anything bad about it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and we you know, if you I don't know when the last time we said this, but we take two takes. This one we just took the first one. Yeah, basically, the way it works is if we get it in one and it's like it could have a few screw-ups, whatever. Um, we don't do more than two. Right. There was one that was five because we had it some sort of just couldn't. Yeah, we were just both having a hard time and we hadn't practiced.

SPEAKER_03

Remember when I made us do the girl is mine, and it was way harder than we thought it was gonna be. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00

That was so hard. That was such a hard song to do. Oh

Cover Ideas And Learning Songs Right

SPEAKER_00

man, you've really I got I've said this a million times now, but you the key okay, two two two keys are gonna sound so stupid. If you want to do a song well, know learn the song really well. Know the song, say and two, practice the song a lot.

SPEAKER_03

Hey, I think you can be a teacher.

SPEAKER_00

But for real, if you I don't I know that sounds stupid, but honestly, I just started doing that. Yeah. This is the this one I've mentioned this before, one of the reasons I want to do this this podcast is because I wanted I want accountability to learn some music. Yeah, because I've just been noodling on a guitar for 20 years. So this is it's hard, but it's fun. But I so I've been reading some tidbits on like how to get good at playing guitar. And every like great guitar player is just says, practice the song that you're gonna play. Just do that. Just the whatever song you're gonna play or songs if you got a set, drill them, drill them, drill them until you can screw them up. That's it. Like basically, it's just a bunch of people saying variations of that. If you're if you're if you're a jam, if you're jamming.

SPEAKER_03

This is a message for you guys. I already know this.

SPEAKER_00

I know you do, but if you're jamming and you want to, you're you know, kind of doing improv and stuff, get all the landing places right. Learn what intervals work in the song, and then jam around that, but play the song. Play the play off the bass line. Play, you know. I've just never done I know it's obvious stuff, I've just never done it before.

SPEAKER_03

Is there anything else you want to say about Outcast?

SPEAKER_00

Well, yeah, we got uh besides our besides our it's got um it's a uh Grover Washington Jr. song called Knucklehead that they sampled.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

And you know the you know um the We Gonna Get Ya that is a sample off of Lady Marmalade.

SPEAKER_04

Oh.

SPEAKER_00

Where it's some part of the song where they're uh really something by 11, I don't remember the the group who did it.

SPEAKER_03

But like the original Lady Marmalade.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it was like uh uh I don't know if it was the original recording, but it was a group doing that song.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

But as far as other people covering it, nothing. There's I found one drummer kind of playing on it, but it no awards for you guys then. I can't yeah, I couldn't find anybody.

SPEAKER_03

You get the award. I want you to cover it.

SPEAKER_00

We do, honey.

SPEAKER_03

But it really was you.

SPEAKER_00

We get the nobody award.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, you get the nobody award. I just want you to have the nobody award. I will gift my portion of the nobody award to you. You get the double nobody. You're double nobody. Oh, Tara. I don't know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_00

Are you uh you're Pee-wee, I guess.

SPEAKER_03

Uh yeah. Duh.

SPEAKER_00

What's up with Joey beating her up at the end? And then being like, oh, Pee-wee.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

Just lots of It's almost so bad it's good, but it's not bad. Yeah, I know. It's so weird. It's just distraught.

SPEAKER_03

We can't talk about the wanderers anymore.

SPEAKER_00

It needed to be like four hours long.

SPEAKER_03

No, it didn't.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Alright. So we're talking about uh this is the part where we talk about covers. Yeah, anything else you want to say about the planet? No, I liked the I wanted to play solo stuff. I wanted to play solos on that so bad. But the words and singing them and breathing and all that stuff, like No way, it it was so tricky, and I had to edit it too because I'm reading the words with all the actual lyrics on it, and I'm just remembering, okay, what am I gonna say for the in-word? You know, well um the family earmuff words, the family earmuff words, especially. So, anyways, I I this is a good song to jam on, is what I'm getting at. It's it's it's pretty nasty. You can play all sorts of stuff on it.

SPEAKER_03

One more time, what's it called for the audience? Southern playlistic Cadillac music. But it's got lots of Z and stuff in it.

SPEAKER_00

So Alcast is really good at making up words.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Do they have a filibungulator song? I feel like they should.

SPEAKER_00

They should have a filibungulator song. They got a song, one of my favorite Alcast songs ever is Spottyati Dope Alicious. It's the one that's got the horn on it. And it's just it's singing in in spoken word, and it's the coolest tune. I could let it go on forever, and I'd just be totally fine with it.

SPEAKER_03

It'd be fine. You take it to your desert island.

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Yes. Uh yeah. Yeah. That was another app we did if you wish. Check it out. If you want to cruise the Jeffries data sheet. Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, what's your B side?

SPEAKER_00

Oh crap, I gotta get that out.

SPEAKER_03

What the heck? My I I whipped one up in the last two hours.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, did you?

SPEAKER_03

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I mean, Spotty Audi Dopealicious would definitely be a good candidate. Um that's not probably the one I'm gonna pick. What else did I put in here? I got Crumblin' herb. That's I uh that that might be my favorite song on the album.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so you're going with just outcast songs.

SPEAKER_00

I'm just I'm working through it here. I'm thinking I was thinking uh Supercalifragilistic XPL Discord.

SPEAKER_04

Oh my gosh! So they actually say a superfragic. I saw that.

SPEAKER_00

Super caliphragic or what's it kind of like superfrag I can't remember. Yeah. Uh I it's one of those things, it's like saying the ABCs where I have to like say the I have to wrap the entire song to get the lyric. Calephragic, can you handle it?

SPEAKER_03

Expiala expialistic coupe de ville.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, expialistic coupe de ville. They remind me a lot of like Camp Lowe. I know you don't okay, never mind.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, what's your B side?

SPEAKER_00

So my B side is You have to pick up. I'm gonna go with uh Street Talking by Um Slick Rick.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know it, but I love it.

SPEAKER_00

It's uh so this is kind of a street talking by by kids, basically. Okay. Street talking's a little more adult version and it's got Big Boy on it. Oh. And it's a slick rick song, killer song. I would actually like to do it sometime.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, well, I went with this is my worst of the three, but I went with Nice and Slow by Usher.

SPEAKER_00

Do I know that song?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. It's seven o'clock. Oh, yeah. What made you kid uh just cars talking about because that talks a lot about Cadillacs and stuff like that, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00

Two-fat uh ladies uh in a Cadillac brome. Yeah. Thick like a two-fat girl sitting off at a brome. Their lyrics are so ridiculous, man.

SPEAKER_03

And honestly, it was probably out around the same time.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I was in eighth grade, I think, when that My Way album came out. Well, I was in eighth grade when My Way. My Way. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

So that's my that's my weakest for the three.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. What about cover? If you could hear anybody cover this song, who would it be?

SPEAKER_03

Tell us, Rob.

SPEAKER_00

Well, first let me uh let me tell you who it's not.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_00

I thought I thought CeeLo Green and uh CeeLo Green in the front, because he he's actually on this album um with Goody Mob doing what I'm doing, singing the lyrics all the way through. With have you ever heard Tom Mish? Dan Dan Steve's brother, Tor's brother, told me about it. I was listening to him cool with like him. He's kind of got like a real funky guitar playing. Okay. Or Nigel Hall or Lettuce or my Dirty Dozen Brass Band that could flow in like Spotty Eye Devilish or something like that. But I think I'm gonna go with postmodern jukebox, and this is what they have a version of something because what I'm about to propose might be the answer to what I was talking about before.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

I want postmodern jukebox to have like a troupe that they just do hip-hop stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And they do like recreated songs with a killer singer singing singable hip-hop songs.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Are you gonna send that into Bradley? I'm sure his name Bradley.

SPEAKER_00

I'd be like every time I've it entered candy and video game ideas, the companies are like, that's a great idea, but we don't take unsolicited advice. He never even read my idea for candy shell candy bars.

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Candy shell candy bars.

SPEAKER_03

Like a giant um Cadbury mini egg.

SPEAKER_00

Or donuts that have multicolored sprinkles on both sides.

SPEAKER_03

Ugh. Well, you think you know why they can't do that?

SPEAKER_00

Because it's a mess?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, they would get everywhere.

unknown

I don't care.

SPEAKER_00

So do wings.

SPEAKER_03

Those are like contained.

SPEAKER_00

Wings with sprinkles.

SPEAKER_03

Sprinkle wings. Alright, well, mine was Marcus King.

SPEAKER_00

Winkles.

SPEAKER_03

And the Marcus King band.

SPEAKER_00

Nice. You know, so is that why you listen to all the Marcus King earlier?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Because I just don't I just I feel like you have such I don't feel like this. I know that you have a deep burn well spring of musicians to draw from when you're coming up with covers. And I'm like, I just have like the same ten people that I'm like, oh, I want to hear Tyler Childers do this, or I want to hear CR Farrell.

SPEAKER_00

It's like it's what you want to hear.

SPEAKER_03

So I was like, I I was like, well, it would be kind of a cool blues. That hook is because it's in a minor key, but it also has that sax that plays the blues on there. So I was like, I think Marcus King could do this, and he could get his hot wife to stand next to him.

SPEAKER_00

I was listening to this week, too.

SPEAKER_03

Were you?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he's he has but I think he's been in our covers before. I know I've said him before at some point, but no, he he'd he do great. And um the sax on this song.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Sorry, I couldn't even c begin to catch up with that.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, the other song that I thought said it would be cool if we did was Streets of New York by Cool G Rap.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

And they they got a sax on that. I swear. I I I tried to see if it was the same sax player, but anyways. Um soundtrack. Soundtrack.

SPEAKER_03

Mine's more I'll I'll go with mine if you want to hear it. It's it could be a cover too. But I was just thinking, let's go full circle and get those pimp dads from the wanderers to do this song.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, they're in the movie.

SPEAKER_03

In the movie.

SPEAKER_00

Oh.

SPEAKER_03

Like how they had that random doo-wop car The Wanderers did, but now it's the Pimp Dads from uh the Dell Bombers.

SPEAKER_00

Now that would be an anachronism. But it would be fantastic.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, wouldn't it? Fantastic. They just all turn around with their long coats on and their top hats, and they just start singing and rapping that song.

SPEAKER_00

I'd I'm I'm in.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. What's your soundtrack?

SPEAKER_00

Uh, pretty on the nose, but I'm gonna go with hustle and flow.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Do you ever see that?

SPEAKER_03

No.

SPEAKER_00

Do you know what it is?

SPEAKER_03

No.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

You can say what it is.

SPEAKER_00

It's a song about a dude trying to get into it's like southern hip hop, and he's trying to get into it. Yeah, he's trying to build a pair.

SPEAKER_02

You know what's hot out here for us.

SPEAKER_00

That's from Hustle and Flow.

SPEAKER_03

And is that based on a true story?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. Ludacris is in it. My it's not my Luda. I I don't love that music. I don't like the it's kind of like the dawn of trap rap, sorta. Like the the rap the so-called mumble rap today. You know, it's not my favorite. That's an understatement. Um some of it, it's not all bad, but whatever. Um I think this song would be great in it because that sort of paved the way for folks like the protagonist. I can't remember Terrence. Um, I can't remember his character, but it'd be a nice there's a lot of songs on that on that album I did not like, and I would love liked to hear I would have liked to have heard some of the more roots kind of southern hip-hop stuff like Yeah. You know, Scarface. I like the root and the well roots are from Philly.

SPEAKER_03

Roots like their beginnings, the start.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Gotcha. From once they grew. Awesome.

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We are gonna do another week off, right?

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Yeah, I thought we were doing it for a while.

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