Aunty Donna Podcast - Four Men Who Are JUST FRIENDS Writing Music With Hans Zimmer Feat. Tom

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

This week Hans Zimmer comes in to talk Coachella, Claudia Schiffer and to help us write us our new theme song.  LINKS  Watch our latest Grouse House series Trope RPG https://bit.ly/TropeRPG Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig  Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com/    CREDITS   Hosts: Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane, & Mark Bonanno   Producer: Lindsey Green Digital Producers: Nick Barrett, Jim Cruse & Tanya Zerek Audio Imager: Mitch Calladine  Supervising Producer: Elise Cooper   Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh  Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A listener production. Folks, we're getting closer to finding the theme song. That is why there is no theme song to this episode. Today is the thrilling conclusion, kind of, to the ending of the theme song adventure. If you'd like to see the visuals or more fun content from the boys, head to the Auntie Donna Club. Auntie Donna Club powered by Patreon. For our Patreon, you know, yeah.

You get it. Enjoy this episode. And we're back on the Aunty Donna podcast. Thank you for waiting, Zach. What was it that you were going to say? Um, wow. Pretty good stuff, Mark. Yeah, last week we ended the podcast.

I was telling you I was going to say something something but really what I was saying was Ernest Hello He said it like six times in the last podcast. Yeah, you didn't rock up if you're just joining us last podcast We've got Tom Armstrong here composer. He's gonna help us make music for our new theme tune We've been trying to work it hasn't quite landed But last podcast we discovered we could summon the spirit of Oscar Wilde with nothing more than saying the word Ernest. But it also turns out that I think he just has a pass into the building and just comes

and goes as he pleases. Like summoning yourself to a party. Whether nothing's better than in the flesh. What? Oh man, I hate Oscar. Get out. Ta ta. My good friends Mark, Zack and Tom.

Yes. If they were your good friends, I would hate Tom. Yes. If they were where your good friends are I would hate to spend a day in your shoes because nobody likes you This is how your good friends treat you. Oh, I'm talking about dead Oscar Wilde who has been annoying Now What my question is what the heck? What my question is, what the heck? Broden, I was just thinking, do you think there should be, and Tom, this includes you as well, do you think there should be an AFL team called the Angels so then the demons can go up against the Saints?

The Saints, yeah. Yeah, the Sinkilda Saints. And now there's gonna be the Devils too, so it'll be like Devils versus Saints, Demons versus Saints, Devils versus Demons. It's gonna be cool. Saints are Angels. I can't wait for those like pre-game, what do they call pre-game packages? Or it's like it'll be like a battle of the, you know, they'll just say. Channel Savage are really good ones.

I know you guys have a good banter. I've really hurt Mark by, by he had a great idea for angels and to immediate, like their logo, do you understand their logo is they've got halos and wings and like they really take on the role of an angel and I don't mean- I thought the halos were referring to the video game. What? I mean if you got devils and demons we could have saints and angels. Tom, I need you, I need a moment. I'm just, I'm just embarrassed. Surely if St Kilda saints were referring to the halo game, they would, what's the

character, what's the main character? Master Chief. Their logo would be Master Chief. Surely you understand that. When I saw the Halos, I went, oh, there must be fans of like Halo combat evolved and stuff. That's stupid. Yeah, well, I'm realising that now, aren't I? I also want to just say saints and angels are different things.

Angels are celestial beings. Totally. Part of God's kingdom. Mary McKillop. Saints are humans that have exemplified themselves to such a degree that they are elevated within the dogma of the Catholic Church. That's like saying- Different things.

That's like saying Archangel from X-Men and Mary McKillop are the same person and they are fucking not. And I know because I went to Mary McKillop Catholic Regional College in Werribee where we learnt about those two figures from pop culture and they are, they have completely, they do completely different things. Different things. Especially in X-Men The Last Stand. Mary McKillop introduced education to rural areas of Australia where there was none. Archangel

from X-Men. He had full wings. He tried to cut them off as a child. Completely different. Completely different. Brett Ratner ruined Archangel. He was the coach of Carlton. In X-Men The Last Stand. Brett Ratner coached Carlton X-Men The Last Stand. Brett Ratner coached Carlton? Yeah. No.

Yeah. Yeah. Is there a guy called Brett Ratner who coached Carlton? Pretty much. What was his actual name? Ratten. Ah, Ratten. Brett Ratten.

Oh, I thought you said, I thought you were talking about. I'm talking about Brett Ratner, the skeezy director who did X-Men The Last Stand. Right. Alright, anyway. Tom's here to help us with the music, but I thought, you know, Tom, you do a great job. Hmm. But I thought, I think it's about time we get someone in who's even more experienced than you. Wow.

I'd like to introduce Hans Zimmer. Hi Hans. Oh, hello there. Hans Zimmer. Wow. Yes, hello. I thought I'd come here. I haven't worked on the accent in a while, but I've come here to help Tom.

I have a question for you Hans. Yeah. When you're, are you married? I don't know. When you're in the kitchen and you're cooking something up. It's sort of half British. You're cooking something up. Yes, well I don't cook much anymore.

Hold on. I'm a wealthy man. I understand. I'm a wealthy man. When you were in the kitchen and you're cooking something up and you've put the pasta in and it's on a boil, but then you need to turn the heat down on the pasta. And then, has there ever been a time when your partner went, how's the pasta going? Have you turned the heat down and have you ever gone, yes, it's simmering. Have I gone, is it good? It is simmer gone yes it's simmering. Have I gone is it good? It is simmering.

It's simmering. No I haven't. Because you understand. Do you understand? Yes. Do you understand what I've. Mark Hans understands. I understand. Do you understand? I'm a hard worker. Explain it to me. Simmer. Simmer, Zimmer. Simmer. Yeah. This is what you're going for. I work with some of the greatest minds in Hollywood, you know. I make me, oh my god. Tom. I spilled some water.

Folks. I spilled some water. It's not a big deal. We're using sushi mangoes tissues to clean it up. Sorry boys. I know you listen. Maffanguulu. This has gone off the rails.

This is the worst podcast we've ever done. What are you talking about? It just started halfway through a conversation for one. Then this character's come in who's got great legs by the way and they look stunning. Thank you so much. I shave? And then you spill water on him. And you're coughing and spluttering.

You're coughing and spluttering all over the place. Mark, pull this together. You are the EP. Wait a second. Could you cough and and spluttering? Coughing and spluttering all over the place. Pull this together, you are the EP. Wait a second, could you cough and splutter again? No, I don't want to do it on purpose. It hurts enough as it is. Broden, could you do a cough? No, cough please. He's a delicate creature. I've composed films starring Matthew McConaughey.

And you did Cool Runnings. I also did Lion King and I bet Sh Shawshank Redemption for the Oscar. Yeah. Thomas Newman. And I very humbly say, I say, you know, we shouldn't have won. You know, Newman should have won for, but secretly I like it. You really think Newman from Seinfeld should have won? No, no, I don't think you understand. I'm talking about the composer Thomas Newman. Do you know that I could kill you with my hands?

I mean, anyone could, really. Daddy Elfman came for me once. Oh, yeah? He made Beetlejuice. Yeah, he was going like... Music for Beetlejuice. And the Simpsons theme tune. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And the Simpsons theme tune. And Batman. Yeah, and the Simpsons theme tune. He came with the Batman. Acknowledge it. And the Simpsons theme tune. So I was at the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars when I won the Lion King and I was flirting with Claudia Schiffer in German and no one else could speak German so me and Claudia

Schiffer were flirting. And then Danny Elfman came at me and he said, hey, did you have the last mini slider? Because there was like a whole plate of mini sliders and he had told me he wanted one. Sliders weren't a big deal in the 90s though. They were in Hollywood. Really? Yes, they were ahead of you. You think, oh I only got sliders in, where are you from, Heidelberg? Yeah.

I only got sliders in Heidelberg around 2005, so surely you didn't have them in 95. We were doing sliders in the 80s baby. Hans, Hans. It's a fascinating conversation about sliders in the 80s baby. Hans, Hans. This is a fascinating conversation about sliders and the 80s. We are at risk of not even being able to call this podcast episode writing a new theme tune. But do you understand what happened here? So this little weasel, he came at me and he said, did you have the last slider? I said, can't, I'll fucking kill you. Jesus. And I got a can't, I'll fucking kill you. Jesus.

And I got a knife out, right? Yeah. And I just, I had a little knife and Claudia Schiffer, she said something in German. I said, baby, you just wait a second. And so I got the knife out and I stabbed the little weasel in the hip. Three times. Did you hit the bone? Tom moved a lot of stuff to be here today. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, hello Tom. Hi Hans, I did your master class. Oh yes, yeah, what did you think of it? I paid like a hundred bucks, I just watched the first three and then sort of stopped. They paid me question. This is a thing I do with the composers. About melody. You know that Christopher Nolan and me are friends. Well, no, he's replaced you with Lewis Gore.

Falling out. No, it wasn't falling out. I wanted to do June. That was my childhood dream. Big mistake. You missed out on tenor. Big mistake. But I got to do the, you know, that's me going, ah, ah, ah.

And you missed out on Oppenheimer as well because of your poor choices. But I got to do the, you know, that's me going, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo in his prime? No. Now I could fucking end him. Randy Newman. Randy Newman? No, that guy fights dirty. Yeah, I imagine he would. God, friend me! Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross together. I'm not gonna do that. Atticus Ross, yes. I have actually hurt him in a brawl. I, it was a sort of a, it was a bit of a scuffle and me and Atticus Ross I did win Treadresna a little bit harder. He knows martial arts

Alright Johnny Greenwood Johnny Greenwood. Yes that little weasel. I am no fucking way I bite his cock This is the thing. This is how dirty I will fight So if Johnny Greenwood came at me, he's the man is a ghost if Johnny Greenwood came at me I would pull down his pants. I would bite his cock off. He could hide from you in a shadow. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Try and hide with a bitten off cock. Nah, he's like a fucking anime character.

I'll go in with a baseball bat until he's down and then I'll bite off his cock. Johnny Greenwood, I swear, he's like One Punch Man, he would fuck you up. I could be wrong. Stone Cold Steve Austin, I believe composed the English Patient. This is not true. No, I can't remember exactly. But could you take him? Could I take Stone Cold? Listen, I only fight us as composers. It's how we get territory in Hollywood. I'm pretty sure he did English Patient.

I've never had to fight him. I've never met Stone Cold Steve Austin. Well, much like the English, I need a bit of patience for this podcast. Listen, I'm here to help. We are getting off topic. I'm here to help. We want to make a new theme tune. All of our attempts so far have failed. Failed.

People really liked Chicken in a Bag. Yeah. We could revisit Chicken in a Bag. OK. We could revisit Chicken in a Bag. Okay. Well, it's in the freezer. It should be fine. Do you know something that worked for me when I did Interstellar? Do you know the story of what happened with Interstellar?

No. I, yeah, like a little bit. Like it was going to be a Spielberg project and stuff. And then, yeah, he was like, just write a thing about a father and a daughter. Yeah. Well, it was a son at the time. A son, what a, yeah, it was a shit. Yeah. So that's what he did.

And I think maybe we could do this with Tom. Tom has his ideas of what this podcast is. Don't tell him it's about outer space. But it's not. Don't tell him it's about wormholes. Don't tell him it's about a podcast, you mean? Sure. Whatever your wormhole is, you just tell him what is the core of the story.

Isn't it funny that both Interstellar and Dune have wormholes in them? One has holes of worms, the other is a technical term. We never think about that kind of stuff. What is your podcast about at its very core? Heightened characters played by, usually by Zach. Yeah, a bunch of friends. Sometimes, no, you're often bringing the ones I've heard. I listened to the last episode.

What did you do? Which one? You were doing Oscar Wilde. But it is your... No, that happened today as well. I was coming in on the way. It's more Zach's kind of... That's his jam.

That's what he likes to do. Well, not good at it. No, he's great. He's great at it. Mark's a few and far between, but they stand out. Yeah, Mark's is very... Man likes cabin, silly boy. Yeah, no, Mark and...

Listen, listen. I want you to make a piece of music, Tom, about three friends being honest about who they are. I want you to compose three friends, you know, because often on other things there's editing, there's writing. This is a more honest portrayal of two friends. You're the maestro. Yes, that's what they called me.

Bradley Cooper is the maestro, but you are another. He just played a maestro. He just played a maestro. I actually am a maestro. You know, with the proper talk beforehand, that's what they called me in bed. You're the maestro. Is it, I think it would help if we told him it was about a podcast and the things he needs to include.

Oh, do you? Do you think so? I'm just asking, is that? Yeah, that's interesting. I have a question. So tell me, when you were composing some music for the smash hit, the smash hit Pirates of the Caribbean, the one that defined the whole studio. Yeah.

When you were composing some music for that, did you have these sorts of opinions? I didn't do that. Oh no, that's right. I did, you motherfucker. Oh my God. Jesus. Now you shut the fuck up, little bitch or I'll kill you. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I have a question in relation to that. Hi, I'm Hans Zimmer.

I know. When you're Hans. Got to go a bit deeper for Hans. When you're at an Italian restaurant and you're ordering a starter, do you ask the waiter for maestroni soup? That's funny. Maestroni soup. And then Wink at him? No, I don't.

I'd have pasta or pizza usually. I mean, it's just for the starter. You know, but often I'd get take away because I'll take out because I am working late into the night composing for films. You know, I did some music for Lion King. Yes, yeah, we know. How are you going, Tom? Yeah, look, I'm just working away.

I think, yeah, something that sounds like a song, something that has got music in it would be my preference. Alexander Desplat. Oh. You know, the guy that did some of the later Harry Potters. Yeah. I killed him. Why?

I fucking, because he fucking came from my turf, right? So he wanted to build a studio where they make some music, right? In my neighborhood. And I said, you fucking back off, right? This is where, this is how I got Nolan's, this is how, and I killed him. And, and we don't normally kill, we don't like to escalate to that place. But I sent one of my guys after him, who does the keyboard and the arrangements usually. I sent him after him and he shot Alexander Desplat on the street so his whole family could see.

And they knew in that moment, okay, and they went back to London, I think, or wherever they were from, and they just knew, okay, this is Hans' turf. What was Coachella like? When I played Coachella? Yes. It was a lot of fun, you know, I got to play the guitar. They said, are you just going to do orchestra?

I said, no, I'll play guitar as well. And I get it out, I go, meh. And, you know, Claudia Schiffer was there there and I flirted with her in German. Did you make out with her? No, no, but we had a conversation in German about the sliders. All right. Well, when we- Oh yeah, I spoke to Margot Robbie with an Australian accent.

What are you talking about? Well, like just because you spoke to Claudia Schiffer, I don't think it's a bragging point guys. What do it mean? It's like someone going, um, oh I've, I've, I've never eaten a whole kiwi fruit. And you're like, wow, you've never eaten kiwi fruit? And they're like, no, I've, I've eaten a piece of kiwi fruit. I've just never eaten a whole one. Isn't that crazy?

Like, no, not really. I don't understand the metaphor here. I'm just saying it's like who gives a shit like if you've never eaten Kiwi fruit. Yeah, that's something to talk about you had a bit of Kiwi. Yeah But if you're like you feel claim to fame is like I've never eaten a whole Kiwi fruit It's a but you've had some you've tried it. You know what it tastes like. Yeah Shut up Okay, sure. Can't wait to hear Tom's music now. Yeah, I made a song about friends without listening to it.

Okay, sure. I can't wait to hear it. I can't wait to hear this. That's New Wave. Yeah. This is very- It's like Beethoven when he was deaf. Yeah. What genre?

Well, I've gone into the sample libraries and I found stuff about friends and without listening to it, I've put it all together. Wow. Wow, okay. But this is gonna- all right, great. I've gone into the sample libraries and I found stuff about Friends and without listening to it I've put it all together. Wow. Wow, okay. I've guessed a mix here so it might be awful. Go for it. Shall we have a listen?

Please. Leo, let's do it. Maybe just wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait one second before you hit play. Let's see how well we're doing with potentially going to an ad or not. Ah, this is a shame you didn't have an ad this time. I know. We're back.

Tom, play us your crazy, un-listened to tune. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be more than friends. Just three friends, you know? This is um... It's, it's, it's, it's, I know it's about friend, friendship on one level. Yeah. I would argue it's about, uh, not just like being friends. Can I ask you a question about your podcast?

I don't listen to it often, you know. Except on the way. I'm trying to tiptoe around what I think Kelvin on there. I think the feedback that I'm going to give is dependent on the answer to this question. So I was on the way in, I had to listen to the last episode so I knew what I was in for. Was there an ad? There was not, I'm afraid. Oh fuck.

Now my question is to you two. I know that you're your friends is their homoerotic undertones to the friendship. Yes Yeah, well for some more more for some than others We don't talk about it because it's gotten us in strife before now. I'm not asking if any of them are closeted I'm asking these is their homoerotic the between them? Oh yes, yeah, absolutely. But it just, you know, some people are more comfortable talking about it than others. Sure, okay, sure. Well then this song is entirely appropriate. Okay.

It is actually quite good because it does speak to, I guess, what's happening under the hood. Can I? For all of us. I think that it would be a shame if you didn't at least include it for an episode. Yeah, I think so. Okay. Okay, great. Can you add a little bit where it's like, add a little bit where I can introduce what the episode's about? Absolutely. So what if I gave you like, if it was just guitar for too bad. I actually really like this.

Yeah, I think maybe. I actually think there's something in there. I think it let it settle for a month. Yeah, four episodes. Yeah, yeah. What I love about this is you've had exactly the same realization I had with my Interstellar moment. Yeah.

If I had just gone and done a piece of music for sci-fi, it wouldn't have been the beautiful piece of music it is. Whereas this is really elevating the podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be more than friends. And I think it will re-people will re-listen to it with a different perspective. Well, what it does is, I mean, it'll make people go back and listen to this podcast

from the start with this context because that changes everything. Like let me do a little bump. It's like re-watching Fight Club knowing that they're the same character. Oh wait give it to you. You haven't seen Fight Club? I was busy composing music for other films at the time. No if you haven't seen that if you don't know the twist in Fight Club, it's 2024. The movie's been out for 25 years. You fucking ruined it for me. Oh fuck you. I might have even composed Fight Club. I didn't know for sure. Hi, welcome to the Aunty Donna podcast.

A wacky adventure through improv comedy. This week, Mr. Spoof goes on an adventure to find shoes at the shoe shop. Powered by the Auntynotaclub powered by Patreon. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be more. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be, I wanna be. I'm sorry, but I can't believe we found it. We fucking nailed it.

Well, we fucking nailed it. Hans, we fucking nailed it. Hans, you're a genius. Not me. Can you, I would love to put in just at the very end, just like a, welcome to the... Or it could be like this. Welcome to the future. Yeah, just put that in.

That's what it needs. What even opens is that. So it goes, welcome to the future. No, I think right at the end, right before we go into it. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be, I wanna be. Welcome to the future. Oh, ho, ho, you came in and you cracked this with one note. One simple note.

Don't try and write around the idea. Don't try and write on top of what it is what you do. Just get to the core. Well, you kind of get to the core of what it is that you're trying to say. Don't go under the idea. Don't go over the idea don't go over the idea You've got to go through it. That's you always say that is that what we did he say then the master class Tom I don't think so. No, not from memory. Really? I only watched the first three out of 31 episodes 31

Yeah, this 31 long is an episode. He does like five minutes and gets at you homework Yeah, she's supposed to go away and try what you were talking about. It's a secret. I didn't do any of the homework. They just sat me down one day, paid me $100,000 and let us talk. That's the, that is what all teachers do is you go away and then show me what you did. Yeah, this is true. This is true. Yeah, no, this is great, isn't it? You know, because originally when I was doing the Pirates of the Caribbean theme tune, I was thinking something like pirate, pirate, pirate boy, pirate was thinking something like, pirate, pirate, pirate boy, pirate boy and his little British friend, pirate boy and the rock star friend.

And they said, you know, what if you just remove all the lyrics and just do something a bit more fun? How does it go? I can't remember. You coded that with Klaus Bedelt. Oh, well, you know, you say that, right? But that little motherfucker. Oh, God. I would, I would, I just, you know, you say that, right? But that little motherfucker.

Oh God. I would, I would, I just, you know, he was a candy ass. There's plenty of work out there for... Candy ass. Klaus Bedelt. Klaus Bedelt is a candy ass. Well, you heard it here, folks. I was doing all the work.

He was in his trailer getting sucked off by supermodels. Oh, Klaus Bedelt. Yeah, right. Okay. Well, what. Yeah, right. Um, okay. Well, what, what, what? It's hard to know. It's hard to know what to do from here. I guess we just need to keep tweaking this. Um, I mean, you could also just keep asking me questions, you know, I could give you more

advice about composing, tell you all the, all the, um, as a composers I've had turf wars with. I mean, if you're not interested though, I could go back to Los Angeles. I mean, it's up to you guys. Thank you for coming over by the way. I have one idea to sort of pitch. Maybe we could get some pizza. Oh, you've got an idea too? Yeah.

Are you guys done talking about pizza? I just thought maybe I could get some pizza we could hang out after this. Maybe let's just see. I mean I can go if you want it's up to you. Where would you get the pizza from? I don't know the area but I just Uber Eats it. We can go to 400. Let's go to 400 Grady. Yeah you want to go to 400 Grady.

It's nice let's go big. Yeah you want to go big. Go bold. Because I can go home or we could keep hanging out if you want. No no no we'll get a pizza pie after this. But I want to just pitch an idea, but then Tom you have an idea. So now I don't know what to do. No, no, no. You go your idea. I'll do my idea.

Because I was thinking we could potentially merge the original theme tune that we have with something like this. Because I love to get up and go at the start of, Welcome to the Auntie Donna Donna so it's Like did it did it did it welcome to the auntie Donna podcast you're doing this bubba but now get ready for another Ripper podcast Boo, I I I wanna be more than and then it goes into that. Yeah, I thought that could be fun I think you get a little bit of the little bit of the old little bit of the new Yeah, it makes it creates a sense of the unexpected. Yeah, that change of rhythm is so important. Yeah Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so but what was your idea? Yes, so there's one last thing I've been working on as well. Oh, and now it's a piece of music

Yeah, and I wasn't gonna bring it today, but I think it's very in line with what what you were saying So maybe I'll play that for you guys. What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? It goes like this. This is like a remit. Feels familiar. Oh yeah, I know this. Oh wow. It's back. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Nick, I can't, it's, unless it's saying I want to be more than friends. You can't do it. I can't. Oh, it's, Mark, I was really moved by that. Were you? You know, the mores and friends, remember that bit? Can you play the mores and friends again? Yeah, let's see, I know you were moved by that, but I can't.

That seems like he's gone to a lot of effort. He's really nailed the brief of taking the old, updating it, sure. But listen to this. I think we could have both. I think there is a world that exists. Welcome to the future. Come on man, welcome to the... The new one that Tom's doing doesn't have welcome to the future at the end. You can't just slap that on. Can I hear the old one with welcome to the future at the end of that too? Because I think that's just our tag for whatever we do from now on.

Yeah, absolutely. My worry here is you've got two pieces of music. One is correct. One is... Is that more than Friends? No, it's the second one. The one where you've reimagined the old scenes. Fuck yeah. And it's right on every level, right?

Intellectually I listen to this, I go, it's got the right rhythm, it sets the tone, it's fun, it's an update, so it's not like the old. Everything about this is right intellectually. But my heart is pulling me towards mores and friends. You know, see this conflict here. Can I just hear the end of the traditional remix with Welcome to the Future at the end? Okay, I'll give you the whole chorus. So you can appreciate my vocals that I spent several hours on. Yeah, they're great.

Did you do new vocals? Yeah. Great track, though. Yeah, they're great Welcome to the future no So I good. I do think there's a world where we do both. Yes. Yes. I think listen to to this. And you do it. Well, this week, it's where guest is Maria Bamford. And join the club, Aunty Donna powered by Patreon. Welcome to the future. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be, I wanna be.

Welcome to the future. Okay, that's just back to back. Yeah, it's just back to back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the vibes are similar. Can I hear them both over the top of one another? Yeah. I also think it's important that in any intro we do now, that we just address the fact that

we're all just friends and nothing else. And like, hey, we're just friends. We're just three mates. Yeah, welcome to Nandini on the podcast. Three mates who are just friends and that's it. And nothing more from each other. Do you think this loses the sort of implications of the piece? No, well, what I think it does is it strengthens it because it creates layers.

Right. What's the number one thing we're told at podcast school to do? Buy a gun. I've not been to podcast school. Create confusion about what you're doing and why you exist in the medium. So if we're like, we're just friends and then it's, I wanna be more than friends. Then people will go, well, are they just friends? And then they'll listen to the podcast,

hear the sexual tension, make up their own mind. Maybe in the intro, are you talking about the intro, the pre-recorded intro? So in that moment where it's like, hey everybody, in today's podcast, three guys who are just friends meet a funny new character. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

that's what I think. So, could I pitch one thing before you move on to the new pieces of music? Sure. I think that one after the other is really good, but there was a big gap for talking again and I think if you do that you should just do the intro again but sort of reworded. Okay. So could I even do a pitch?

Yeah sure. I mean can I try mine first please? The mashups? The mashups? Yeah. Okay, okay you go. So you want it from the very top Mark? I think I would love to try the remix intro that you've got.

Right? So it starts with that and we go with three. It's Brodenmark and Zach who are just friends it starts with that and we go with three. It's Brode Mark and Zach who are just friends and nothing else. And today we go on an adventure. You know, it's doing that. And then as that builds, then it goes into like a some sort of like glitchy thing that mixes us into I want to be more than friends. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Cool. Into the vocal. I just want to try that. No, is this is better than my idea? And then we can go back and do what I was thinking.

Yeah, we can experiment. This is a legitimate offer from a real boy. I just want to try. I just need to use my ears for a second and just hear something. Yeah, go believe it. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be more than friends. I like that. They're actually the same tempo, would you believe it? I do believe it. I would believe it because I am a composer.

Yeah, of course. Well, yeah. I mean, that's I've felt it. That's why I thought it would work so well. This is a really strong offer. Could I just, could we go back to that original and I'll give you an offer? I'll do an impression of Zack doing intro. I mean, that's not quite what I...

No, no, no. I think I've got what you want. I think. I think. I just want to hear it. I just want to hear it. Oh, you've done it. Oh, yeah. Welcome to the Aunty Donna podcast where Broden, Mark and Zach, who are just friends, go on a fun adventure through time and space, much like the mighty Bush, but nowhere near as good. Sometimes it's pretty good actually. So please enjoy this episode of the Aunty Donna podcast. And go to patreon.com slash Aunty Donna to give us your money. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be more. I wanna be more than friends. I wanna be, I wanna be.

Welcome to the future. I'm gonna fight back. With greatest might. That's good. Something like that could work. That's getting there. That's getting there. That's good. Although I do think the lyrics through the, when it kicks in should still just be, I want to be more than friends. I want to be more than friends, yeah, of course. Now could we go back? I just want to do my offer of a double intro. Please.

Double intro, okay. Go back, take a... So is this back to when you had just the two pieces of music next to each other? Pretty much, yeah. Okay, sure. But I had them blended before. Do you want to keep it blended? No, what you had, but like back then, that first offer.

Yeah, so I think we kept more than friends going. No, no, no, because you want to do a double intro. Yes, I want to do a double intro. Okay. Hey everybody. Welcome to the Aunty Donna podcast. This week we're playing some silly characters, having some goofs and gags. If you like what you see, check out the Aunty Donna Club powered by Patreon. Sorry, I got cut off there.

It's powered by Patreon. That's not a club, powered by Patreon. Also we're playing silly characters. I think I mentioned that. We're playing silly characters and we're just friends. And Brodin does a funny thing in the second half of the episode. We're playing silly characters and we're just friends and Oh Broden does a funny thing in the second half of the episode. Enjoy. Right now. Yeah.

Right now. Oh we're close. I can fucking- Welcome to the future. Oh yeah. I'm going to put my hand up. Please. And it might just be all, you're all moving in one direction. I'm not, I think this is the worst it's ever been.

No. I think we had two great pieces of music. And they are- You think they're being compromised? I think we're compromising each. What I would put out there. Yeah. A couple of weeks of one, a couple of weeks of the other.

And see what fits. And see what fits. Yeah. I think we should do at least a couple of weeks of the other. And see what fits. And see what fits. Yeah. I think we should do at least four weeks of want to be more than friends and just see what the people think. Or maybe we are, you know, for the rest of this podcast's existence, we alternate. Maybe we don't have to pick. Maybe one week it's I want to be more than friends and the next week it's the... And then chicken in the bag the week after.

Well, yeah. Why? All right. Here's what I would propose. I want to be more than friends for like wait, really No, he's the song. Oh, sorry. Sorry. And by the way, I'm sorry Sorry, it's a where's where Hans left cuz I did that needed he needed me for the intro So yeah, so is he he's gone. We tapped out. He's out. He's out. Is he getting pizza still or I kind of told him to fuck off He was I don't know if you know my god But he was like whenever you were looking away was like going on your phones and sending messages as you and so my god

I messaged Claudia Schiffer. Oh Yeah, pretty full on man. Wow. Sorry go on dude. Um What I would propose is four weeks if I want to be more than friends. I can adjust on that. Then new theme that Tom just pitched. Then chicken in a bag. Then we go to a vote. To do what?

Which one of those three? Was there any other ones that were contenders? Can the three votes be one of them or the four that you vote on is one of those three or all of those three alternating forever? Yeah. So here's the vote. I'll put a man on the moon as well. Okay.

So we're playing, oh yeah, man on the moon. No, let's not put man on the moon. So we're going to do man on the moon. Man on the moon was not a successful choice. So here's what we're gonna do. And you gotta remember this, because the vote's not happening for nearly two months now. We're gonna play I Want To Be More Than Friends four times. Then we're gonna play Tom's Pitch for the actual theme tune. Then we're gonna play Chicken in a Bag, then we're gonna play Man on the Moon.

Then that will be seven weeks. On the eighth week... He rose again. He rose again. On the eighth week, we're gonna do a poll, and that poll will feature as individual choices, all four... All each as an individual choice, four playings of More Than Friends. It splits the vote, but I have confidence in More Than Friends.

Yeah. All four More Than Friends, proper theme tune, that other ones, plus alternating forever between those options. That's the vote. And then, that vote is 50% of the vote. We then get a vote as well, which is worth 50%. Right. Each of us, each four of us gets a vote.

Fuck. And that's worth 50%. So it's 50% to the fans, 50% to us, and then the winner is decided. Fuck. What do we think? What do we think about that? Look, I think there should be another option on the poll. That we decide next week?

Which is, yeah, which is find a compromise, which means is there a way that all of these tracks can exist, can all of these ideas exist in a single track? So man on the moon, more than friends. Not man on the moon. Chicken in a bag. Not man on the moon. Not man on the moon? Not man on the moon. I think we could. Not man on the moon, more than friends, chicken in a bag. Not man on the moon. Not man on the moon. Not man on the moon.

I think we could. Not man on the moon. I think we could re-appropriate the lyrics for this. So it could be like, we want to put chicken in a bag instead of we want to be more than friends. Chicken in a bag. If, wait, was your suggestion to get rid of we want to be more than friends? And then mash up, you know, we could do, you could hear more than friends.

And then after more than friends, you could be like, we gotta put the chicken in the bag. This is all really good stuff. Join us next week while we tackle the idea of combining four, three bad songs and one good one. Can it be done? You'll find out next week. Find out next week on the Aunty Donna podcast. You've been listening to the Aunty Donna podcast. Thanks for joining us for another RIP episode brought to you by AuntyDonnaClub.com.

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