Dissect DJs - DNA, Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

Episode 148 takes us to the mysterious, melodic world that exists in Tom's Diner, as laid out by Suzanne Vega in 1987. What is Tom's Diner? Does anything happen there? And why does it sound so... magical?This song has been reworked countless times, and we go through as many of them as we can, some of them are memorable, some of them you're better off never hearing by artists that may surprise you.The Dissect DJs go on a rainy day stroll through Tom's Diner NEXT!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Starting point is 00:00:00 D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-T-D-T-D-D-T-D. Oh, yeah, it's the Dicec DJs with a song that everybody knows. But before we get into the song that everybody knows they didn't know they knew before they knew it, we've got to introduce ourselves. We've got the Dysk DJ. DJ in the building with my boy, Steve! What up, Steve? Because we are the DJs is like a spit-it.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Mixed, broke back, and dissected. And that is Tom's Diner. That mystic sound. You've heard that before. I guarantee it. I was like falling into like a slight trance. As I always do. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:00:55 Like it feels like something that you kind of fall asleep to. Have like a little spiritual moment with. Actually, what year is this? 1990 is what this ran? 1990. I thought it was so much older than that. No, no. It says it all my thing.
Starting point is 00:01:07 I'm not sure that's right. But I'm pretty sure. All right. Well, let's use mine. Mine says 1987. Wait, wait, wait, wait. 67?
Starting point is 00:01:15 I'm using my glasses. I'm sorry. Bring it out. Castle's eyes are done from editing. Yeah, I know. But, like, it's because it's a very small fun. 1987. April, 1987.
Starting point is 00:01:27 So what, I don't know what your source is, but. Bullshit source. And it's by an artist called Susan Vega. So there you go. And we've all heard it. This is one of those songs. You didn't know the name of it, though. I can guarantee.
Starting point is 00:01:40 because I never knew it. It was like, what? I wouldn't say that. A lot of people know this name. It's a famous song. I didn't know it for many years, but I heard it like eight years ago, and now I always know it as Tom's Diner. Why is it Tom's Diner?
Starting point is 00:01:54 What is Tom's Diner? Is it a figma of your imagination? Is it an actual physical location? I would like to go to Tom's Diner. I bet they have fantastic French toast. Maybe some pancakes. French toast is better. They probably don't have good steaks, though.
Starting point is 00:02:07 No, they got the cheap steaks. They got the own. like the surloins that are like the stuff that got at norms hey by the way what's the best part of about norms open 24 hours it never fucking closed never closes Justin used to live like around the corner
Starting point is 00:02:22 from a norms right there and every single time we drove by it I'd say you know the best part of norms places never fucking close never fucking close go there and never was I used to hit that place up randomly for the we did yeah it was a great thing to have around the corner a couple things about this song number one
Starting point is 00:02:38 the lyrics of this song are very interesting we're going to go over those pretty quickly here that's what we do on top of that number two is the amount of times this song has been redone oh this song is legendary in the atmosphere of music like so many people love the beat the general vibe it's so relaxing and smooth and easy to work off of a lot of artists have been like i think we can rework that let's workshop that so um yeah we're going to cover some of those and yeah try to figure out what the hell this song is about do you want to use one of those chips right now to play one of those versions that we had. Yeah, let's get into one of them.
Starting point is 00:03:15 And then we'll talk about the lyrics as we go through. Yeah, let's start with one of those. This one's a crazy one. This one from Fallout Boys. You may know it's called Centuries. So I don't know if you guys heard it. It was at the beginning. It was at the beginning.
Starting point is 00:03:49 He started getting in there his song. Of course they heard it. Let's go back again. No, I don't want to hear it again. Stop it. Stop it. There it was. There it was.
Starting point is 00:03:59 You guys heard it. Such a soothing. to start a song. That's why they did it, obviously. It literally feels like it lives in your brain, in your psyche. It just relaxes you. All right, so let's see. Did we get to the part where they actually started, like, sang the lyrics?
Starting point is 00:04:15 No, no. You want the actual, let's go back to that. Let's hear what they got to say a little bit so we know what's up. Because here's the thing, none of us know why the song is named Tom's Diner. Again, we could always research it. That's not what we do here at the dice. We don't research, people. If we research, we would.
Starting point is 00:04:33 It was the fun. Here's the thing. We like to figure it out on the fly and learn as we go alongside you. We're strapped in next to y'all. So we're going to figure out why this song is called Tom's Diner. And then you'll hear us figure it out. And maybe we don't. But either way, let's eat some pancakes.
Starting point is 00:05:55 Groovy, relaxing song. However, I feel like she's just talking about. Hanging out of a diner. Her basic experience. Hanging out of a diner. But that's fine. Honestly, It's like the most simplest, it's really confusing.
Starting point is 00:06:08 Honestly, that's fine. It's like if you're singing about Tom's Diner and you're making it a relaxing thing, like it almost feels like sometimes when you think about what a diner is, it's like it exists as a place sometimes where people have a wind down, beauty of diner, like we talk about dorms. Or a startup, like your breakfast kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Start of your day, end of the day, it's beauty of thing is like that both people could be crossing paths at like six in the morning. You know what I mean? True. And the activity in a diner generally pretty, pretty casual, pretty common. You can almost put your own experience
Starting point is 00:06:38 in that existence. So it's like whatever you're going through, people might be coming off like a gnarly trip and be sitting there in their booth like I need some coffee. Coffee with milk. So write the lyrics real quick. The next booth over, they might be existing in like the start of their day and being like,
Starting point is 00:06:54 I got a crazy job interview today and like, sure, I got to like it. And it's like what is happening around them. That is what is existing at Tom's diner. And as the lyrics saying, I just read through it. I am sitting in the morning. She's sitting in the morning. The diner on the corner.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Diner at the corner. I am waiting at the counter for the man to pour the coffee. Very generic stuff right now. So far. I just, but I see it. I got it, yeah. And he fills it only halfway. And before I even argue,
Starting point is 00:07:24 she's getting ready to fight about that. I would be too. I'd fill my coffee halfway. Let's go. Fill it up. I need at least three of these. How many cups of coffee did I pay for, one? Why am I getting charged half?
Starting point is 00:07:35 No, you get unlimited once you get coffee. That's a great thing. I know, but at least one, not half. Fuck that. And then what you say that? So what happens there? He's looking out the window at somebody coming in. All right.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Somebody coming in. Yeah. And then what's the next part? Go right. She goes into all the didda-da-da-da-da. Which is also, by the way, when you look at the lyrics on screen, it's funny how many da-da-da-da-da. It's about like 48 of those. They might have even cheated us a few.
Starting point is 00:08:02 None of us are keeping track. What if somebody actually counted all of them? We're like, oh, you guys left out eight does? You guys missed the does. Yeah, yeah. They might not have. They might be perfect there. And then the next, go through the next line.
Starting point is 00:08:13 What does she got? It is always nice to see you, says the man behind the counter. To the woman who has come in, she is shaking her umbrella. And I look the other way as they are kissing their hellos. Kissing him. So that's like they're exchanging kisses as a hello. and I'm pretending not to see them and instead I pour the milk
Starting point is 00:08:36 That's a very generic Setting that I don't even think this would play in like a Nonfiction novels where they like have enough Yeah they're like where's the action Is there anything is there anything? She made it selling something like setting was happening like hey you only fill up half my coffee And he was looking out of the window and then there's like oh somebody's coming in And then here's my question here's what irritates me about this whole thing is this lady comes in
Starting point is 00:09:00 He said hey it's always good to see you she shakes her umbrella. Is she shaking that fucking thing inside? Like is there a bunch of water going on? Did she shake this? Do that outside of the door? You do that outside. So it sounds like she's doing that shit inside.
Starting point is 00:09:12 At least one step outside. She sounds like she's doing it aside. If she's doing this side, she's a fucking asshole. But I guess she does it often because the bartender already said, or not even bartender, I guess it's the cafe clerk, whatever they call? I don't know. What's the name of them? What's the name of a person that works at Tom's diner?
Starting point is 00:09:28 A waiter? A waiter. I guess, yeah, that would be it. came in and he, yeah. All right, what's the last? There's one more and one more line, right? Did we get to that point yet? No, we'll play it in a second.
Starting point is 00:09:36 Just read it and we'll play it so it sounds good. Oh, man, just based on the first line, I'm already like, I feel like... I would like to know what finishes the story. This is the most mundane... I kind of want to know if it goes anywhere. There's a reason I never actually follow the story. I open up the paper, so I'm immediately like, oh, what...
Starting point is 00:09:51 Nothing really exciting ever usually happens after that sign. Really? Yep. There's a story of an actor who had died while he was drinking. Okay. It was no one I had heard of, and I'm turning to the horoscope. She's done with that story already. She's got over it. Oh, somebody died.
Starting point is 00:10:10 This is just a person that's, like, bored to read the paper. Oh, like a actor died. I don't know how that is. What's my horoscope today? And I'm, and looking for the funnies, literally just, like, sifting through the paper. I'm like, skip right past the dead guy. When you go to the funnies, you're literally out of, like, interesting stories. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:27 And I'm feeling someone watching me. Oh. And so I raised my head. Did, did, did. I can't wait to hear the rest of the story. You think it's going anywhere? I hope so. I hope so.
Starting point is 00:11:46 Come on, give it to us. Oh, I think it's going to go somewhere. It better or not, it better. Go. Let's see it. It might be. Do we go on it further? No, let it go.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Go with me, Castle. That's the whole story. They ended with a cathedral sound and some bells going on and stuff. Like, what? Hey, I have an idea for a new name for this song. A redundant. Redundant diner. Woman goes through boring-ass day.
Starting point is 00:13:29 And nothing happens. So she sings about it. Fortunately. That story goes nowhere. The singing is very melodic. It goes nowhere. We can enjoy the beat. So what was the last two lines?
Starting point is 00:13:41 Man, she wouldn't know. I don't even want to read, dude. I know she went to, heard a cathedral sound. It was all like. And then the sounds came in for a second, and then she was like, and. It was literally the most boring Monday day, like, just drawn out. And, like, and you know what? Because this beat is fucking dope, and it kind of makes you feel like something exciting is happening.
Starting point is 00:14:01 You kept, like, getting left on a hook. And every time of it. You know what it was like, it was like watching a TV show from, like, the 60s where, like, they end the commercial break with like a knock on the door and everybody's like who could that be and then the now and the sounds make it like sound like and like some famous act some famous actor walks in everybody cheers not even the door opens and it's like hey i'm your neighbor phil just let you know your newspaper got put in my yard instead oh thank you phil have a good day they close the door and they're just like hey should we go
Starting point is 00:14:46 of the cathedral? You guys want to pray a little bit? We could hear the ring bells. Like, nothing happens in this entire thing. Nothing happens. He said, some guy says hi to the girl. She does her umbrella. Then she goes over here.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Then she takes them from the cathedral. There's no substance to this entire thing. She made this whole, like, dramatic point that, like, this woman was looking in. And then she took, like, three. Okay, look, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what you said. Yeah, read the whole last two lines. That would we get a good understanding of just.
Starting point is 00:15:16 how nothing the song goes. There's a woman on the outside looking inside. Does she see me? No, she does not really see me. Because she sees her own reflection. It's how windows work sometimes. And I'm trying not to notice that she's hitching up her skirt. And while she's straightening her stockings, her hair has gotten wet.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Because it's raining outside. All right, last one. Last one. Oh, this rain, it will continue through the morning. I'm listening to the bells of the cathedral. I am thinking of your voice and of the midnight picnic once upon a time before the rain again and I finish up my coffee.
Starting point is 00:15:58 It's time to catch the train. This bitch is literally like went to a coffee shop. Didn't even see anything exciting happening. Like, focused way too much on... Read a bad story. The person that delivered her coffee and the random lady that walked in. Did he ever refill her coffee?
Starting point is 00:16:16 I don't think so. That wasn't addressed, I don't think, later. She didn't even have the stones to be like, hey, refills. There's nothing to talk about this. There's nothing to talk about it. Other than the redundancy of how nothing this song does. It's crazy, because I feel like nobody's actually paid attention to the lyrics of this. And the fact that it's so redundant and nothing is like amazing.
Starting point is 00:16:36 It's almost astounding. But do you know why it works? This fucking beat is fucking classic, dude. And the rhythmic tones of her doing that right there? Are you kidding me? It's just so soothing. I'm relaxed. I'm relaxed.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Listen, I don't even know how we're talking about it right now. I kind of feel like laying on the floor and just chilling on a fucking... So peaceful. And then the beat. Beat, dude. It comes in. That's why it's been reutilized. So many times.
Starting point is 00:17:11 So let's go ahead and we do that. We can talk about some of the ones. Let's go into a Latin vibe one with Mikey Towers and... Yes, let's get a Latin vibe on this. Wait, wait, wait, what's his name, though? The band. Benny Blanco or something? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Oh, yeah, Benny Blanco. Benio. And it's called Di Gondere. Degesire. All right, I'll do the... I sent the name to you in a text, so now I feel like I need... Degeneri, dude. Oh, yeah, Dejanere.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Ah, see? He thought he was going to say it any better than me. Because I think it's Dehernen... Deherneede. It's a weird name. I will point out that you said it way where it's the first time, But it is by Mikey Towers And it's featuring Benny Blanco
Starting point is 00:17:55 That's what it sounds like. As you could see, right at the beginning. A fucking cool version of that song. As you could see. Love what you all did with it. I don't know what he's saying, but it sounds just like the other one, right? It's like he's like he speak another language or something.
Starting point is 00:18:39 But he put words on it. So that's cool. Yeah. As long as you work with that. And by the way, we looked up like 20 different, there's so many different reversions of this. Some of them are really bad. Some of them are really bad by artists you know.
Starting point is 00:18:54 Do you want to hear one on them? Oh, what are we doing? Let's go, you know, one of the most asinine, just ridiculous ones. Do you want to hear one of them? It's frustrating because. Spide an artist you won't believe has a track is bad. It's really bad.
Starting point is 00:19:06 So we all know them. Gangster, gangster, gangster. That's why, you know, hit them up. Hip-hop legend. Mr. Tupac. Let's see what Tupac did with this. Tupac. Show us something special, please.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Drinking, Hennessy and Cold Brew, after smoking, stop the no cheese plus some soul food, so we start at the local barbecue. It's just another boring Monday, and there's nothing else to do. Now, as we stepped out of the car, I heard someone behind me fighting, so I turned to look and find out,
Starting point is 00:19:48 what's the cause of this excitement? And brother was a dope being And the other was a dope man And a dope man at an AK Said he'll spray and he's not joking Well, it seems to be That's not getting better I thought he was gonna
Starting point is 00:20:05 I thought he was at some point go And do you tell me Yeah you would tell Like Tupac Tid Tupch You come in like She goes on for 15 minutes I don't know how long guys I haven't got that by
Starting point is 00:20:14 My goodness Tupac that was That was one of the bad tracks Of it was sometimes Five hit pop and singing a need to be addressed as they hit the
Starting point is 00:20:24 they meet that corner and they like turn around and they're like in the intersection to be like stop all right look I understand
Starting point is 00:20:32 that you're kind of doing to do this with a rap vibe and this song kind of needs to be more sung and you're sort of doing this cadence
Starting point is 00:20:38 stop we did a little more something on it a little more gangster dude like I need a little more gangster vibe from you sir
Starting point is 00:20:46 you cannot do that you know who tends to do the singing thing in songs though and is decent at it and hip hop you got to give it to him and he also do this you got to give it for drake and the juice track that he came up before that i just had to say i think that's the worst teupac song i've ever by far like by a lot there's a reason you haven't heard that it's not even close it's that's not when you showed me that earlier i was like that's not too i was almost disrespected that it was
Starting point is 00:21:10 too pot i was mad i was mad to find it very disappointed but only those kind of things can be covered here on the top six all right let me hear how drake did it Go ahead. Yeah. Boy wonder. We almost don't even know to go to the lyrics. That's fantastic.
Starting point is 00:21:43 He turned the beat into the and turned it into a beat and now it's legit for a hip-hop song. I don't want to hear what he's going to say because I feel like he's going to blow it if I go into any lyrics. We have to. We have to push forward.
Starting point is 00:21:53 I like the, at Kamala House has like a video game, like an old school video game sound with what he did to it. He's going to blow it from your castle. I don't want to play anymore. He had to push through. I can understand.
Starting point is 00:22:15 My flow is sitting right. Right inside the pocket on my pants I'm still fly You can float Run this shit You same boat Dope It turned dope
Starting point is 00:22:24 It turned up It hit hard I honestly we're gonna hear where it goes with this Maybe yeah but I don't want to We have many other texts You still afraid he's gonna ruin No no it's just it's good And then now we're gonna start dissecting a different
Starting point is 00:22:34 Let's get out on a high It was good I gotta give it credit David Drake good shit baby That was nice And that takes a lot for Justin Like No I was like
Starting point is 00:22:43 Oh no this is about it Yeah Justin's always ready to hate on Drake, but like that was... Then it hit. It gave me a little shoulder jiggled. I'm going to listen to that one later. That was the best one yet, I would say.
Starting point is 00:22:52 Yeah, I agree. Let's go to another hip hop. Like, one of my favorite producers and best that could possibly make this sound good, my boy Timbalin and Alia. Let's see what you got. Did you guys hear it? There's at the beginning.
Starting point is 00:23:31 No, Timbalin was doing the da-da-da-da-da-da. You guys... You know what's awesome about this is this is such a great exercise and just like hearing what from producers we'll do with something and here we'll take it. Because like that had such a Timblin sound to it.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Drake's song had such a Drake sound to it. I don't really know what the fuck, Teabox was. I kind of wish I could get a duo from Tupac because I feel like he could have done like something way better. That was like a bad off day for him. He probably had something like Jada was fucking with him that day or something. I don't know. And then you even heard
Starting point is 00:24:03 what Fallout Bill I did with it. But like here's something I've always wanted. I've always thought this would be the coolest competition for like a music series. You got one hour, here's a beat. Here's what, yeah. I almost understand why it can't be done because of like copyrights of music,
Starting point is 00:24:18 but like let's take a sick beat. Somebody makes a dope beat. Maybe like an up-and-comer, like beat maker, right? And then they take in some of the best music producers in the world. Top 100 producers, you got two hours. No, no, you don't need, you just give me like three or four.
Starting point is 00:24:31 And then we're going to be like... Either way, competition. They hear it, how it's coming together. Yes. You guys take a day with it? No, not day. I need it quick. I need it four hours.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Best producers. I'm fine with the day. I disagree. you on this. Okay. I want it to be a TV show man. Two hours. It doesn't need to be a live show. Two hours. Two hours live show. No, it doesn't even fuck the live show. It's it could be like a fucking cut to tape edited like. No, I don't like it. And then we see what each person did with it. And this is why I'm okay with it taking more than like 30 minutes. It's because then they can go get their their artist on it. What singer do you want it? What rapper do you want in it? Where do you want them? How what do you do with it? Because so many of these songs, when we hear the beat, it becomes associated with like, Like that's that song that we know is this. But what if they all didn't know about what that other person was going to do with it? And you could hear a wide spectrum of how all these different artists hear this beat and what they can do with it. And it could turn into completely different songs.
Starting point is 00:25:26 That could be a good season. Good season show. Is then like which song lives. Then they all live in perpetuity as like their own enterprise. And it's like which song is like the real song. And we could have this dope beat that doesn't exist in a single property. So that's why it won't happen. But I always thought that would be an awesome reality show.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Like a producer reality show. Yeah, just to show like the best for you. Like USC except producers. Yeah, exactly. They all fighting. Should that be funny if they're fighting? They steal each other's beats? Oh, you stole my beat?
Starting point is 00:25:53 Oh, you heard that shit? It would turn into, there would be some sketchiness going on. I guarantee somebody would be like, oh, like somebody who would like Snoop Dogg would be like, oh, yeah, I actually just got a call from other home dude. He's trying to get me on this track. And then they'd be like, you're trying to poach Snoop Dog for me? I wanted Snoop Dog. I had Snoop Dog's idea on this track.
Starting point is 00:26:10 I'll go with the money. You're the money yet? That's where I go. Yeah, yeah. It would get interesting. I'm just saying, interesting. I'm saying Netflix,
Starting point is 00:26:17 put me on as a producer. All right. Figure it out. Let's keep these versions. We got two more versions of this. We got a, let's go into this one. More of an EDM,
Starting point is 00:26:27 David Getta decided to do it. Let's go EDM with that. You know how David Getter likes to put together any redo. He's almost the pit bull of EDM. Right? Let's see what, let's hear what he had to do it. Change it up then.
Starting point is 00:26:37 Let's see. And I'll show you love the way. I thought they did a good job. Turning it into a happier song. Yeah, it's like a joyous. They turned it joyous. Joyous, tropical. Before it kind of had a vibe, and this is the thing I'm talking about,
Starting point is 00:27:15 but this is a serious idea. Pinacolada on the beach. It had this idea before of sort of being like a rainy day, which is cool. Kind of a rainy, mundane day, but you're like in your own head and you're thinking about stuff. Maybe you're overthinking stuff. Maybe you're over-analyzing stuff.
Starting point is 00:27:29 That's what I got from the original version. A lot of the other people have done the same. thing with that. David Gettettuk, kind of took it him as like, let's make it sort of like a happy uplifting. This is going to be a good day. Like, we're going to dance today. Yeah, let's have a... Doodoo. We're going to have Peter Klaus on the beach and be hanging
Starting point is 00:27:44 out and relaxing and get out of here. I mean, I just don't like David. You got a music. You're afraid of anything he does. You don't like that version? Yeah, it was all right. It's just... He sounded like he took Tom's Diner and then mixed it with another beat that he found that was a
Starting point is 00:28:00 tropical beat, put him together and was like, see what I did. I am David Geta, I am very good at doing this. Like, no, all you did was put two songs together. Yeah, probably. And then he goes in DJs and he doesn't know what he's doing. If he heard the David Ghetto when he put MLK behind a track? MLK. Yeah, Martin Luther King, and he had the freedom speech behind a track.
Starting point is 00:28:20 Okay. Wait, I feel like I did hear this song. I don't remember what he did. It's so bad. But him trying so hard to really make an impression. Stop it, David. I do feel like that song was about to have a good pickup. If we got to there, we were going to take way too long to get there.
Starting point is 00:28:35 Probably is going to be like two and a half minutes in. But I feel like that song was going to get joyous and like, we could have danced to it. We could have. I'm sure. All right. Explain this one because you're the one that brought up this genie's diner. Did you hear about this? Did you watch it?
Starting point is 00:28:47 All right. Were you a Nick and Knight fan as well? It was came after what we used to watch, right? What was it that we was there was something that came out at nine and then Nick and night came out at 10. And I remember being like, oh, I was thinking nine. I'm going to bed. But I usually watch like a half hour of the next show.
Starting point is 00:29:00 Let me explain Nick and Night too. Yeah, yeah, explain that to us. So, like, when I was a kid, first of all, I didn't have cable when I was, like, a young kid. We would go to visit my family in Ohio, and they had cable. And because I'd be like, holy shit. Yeah, and because, like, we'd be there for like a month in Ohio in the summer. Yeah, you went to a house for a month. Yeah, we would like, because we had a bunch of family in Ohio, at least sometimes, maybe just a few weeks.
Starting point is 00:29:22 A month is a fucking visit. At least a few times we did that. I can see two weeks. I could see a week. Maybe it was a couple of weeks. At least once we saved for a whole month, yeah. And, yeah, it was a big summer vacation. We'd go visit all our family at there, but like we'd stay with like my grandma, and like
Starting point is 00:29:35 she would have cable, and I would be so excited to finally get cable channels, mainly like Nickelodeon when I was like a kid. Like I always wanted to watch Nickelodeon never got to. And I was like excited to like watch it like every day when I was like six, seven years old. I got a little bit older. I got more excited about like MTV and like VH1 and some of those shows and stuff like that. But Nickelodeon would turn into Nick at night at like five o'clock sharp. and it was a hard turn every day.
Starting point is 00:30:03 I remember the hard turn too. Because it would go from like... I think so. I feel like... I feel like I remember it being like it was after eight myself. It should have been, but I feel like it was... Yeah, but it wasn't though. And that's what I remember being frustrating.
Starting point is 00:30:16 I was like, I'm not... I'm just not bedtime for me yet. Like, what the hell? Like, but immediately it would go from like kids happy-friendly, like... Nickelodeon splats everywhere. And here's a random foot with the Nickelodeon logo. And all these cartoon... characters and all this and all of a sudden it'd be like here's some shows from the 70s and like
Starting point is 00:30:35 for the longest time it took me a while to actually like get into watching those eventually as I got older I started being like I do like liver and surely I could watch happy days like I could get into some of these like shows that are cooking up on nick and night I drew a genie back then was one of the main shows that they would always put on and this was an ad I remember seeing when I was like it was honestly like my first memory of this song was this ad and as I got older and like heard the regular version a lot like literally just a year ago I randomly was like is that something that I remember correctly in my memory because I remember seeing an ad for I dream of Jeannie on Nickadnight that was basically this song and I looked it up and as
Starting point is 00:31:18 YouTube has the answers they do and I found it and yeah so now I got to play it as long as we're talking about Tom's dad with that said also required the research it did start at 8 p.m. Eastern time and Pacific time. All right. Well, I was a kid. I don't remember everything that happened then. You just didn't want to go to bed yet. I didn't want to go to bed, dude.
Starting point is 00:31:37 It was like not even dark yet. That, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. I am sitting, da, da, da, da, da. I am sitting. on the sofa there's a TV in the corner I am watching Major Nelson he is played by Mary Hagman and he found a little bottle and out Pop Barbara Eden but she couldn't show her belly button all she did was blink da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Starting point is 00:32:26 oh uh good evening major nelson Tony Nelson works at NASA with suspicious Dr. Bellows. And there's also Roger Healy who would become Howard Borden. Jeannie! And Jeannie always means well, but they get in wacky trouble. She folds her arms and blinks her eyes. It's kind of like bewitched. Oh, all right.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Not bad. I bet you thought that was hilarious as it could to. Jeannie! Well, yeah, and I remember the cool thing about it. I was like, I had throughout the video of it, she was like dancing around and her like genie outfit, like kind of like, but it was like it was done in sort of a Tom Zatter music video sort of way that like they, as they were splicing in footage.
Starting point is 00:33:16 Very clever, I thought. And because I always associated the song with I dream of Jeuma Jeannie just from that memory of singing one time as a kid. Isn't it funny? Like when you're a kid and you see something on TV, It always like sticks with you. Sticks with you. Now you could find it.
Starting point is 00:33:29 If you just remember something you saw when you were eight, yeah, that's kind of how that was. Like the one thing I remember, the pizza hook commercial before Teenage Muti Ninja Turtles. Do you remember that commercial? Maybe. Out in the distance, the game's riding on.
Starting point is 00:33:44 There strikes on the batter and runners are on. No? Can't say I do. And suddenly every week. I can look at this video. I bet you if I saw it. My mind has been wondering, what could it be? they point to the sky and I look up above
Starting point is 00:33:59 and a baseball falls into my glove. No. The last part kind of sounded a little familiar, but I'm going to say... I'm going to say you need to go find that for me now because now I have to put it in, but I don't want to do the research. Now, you don't have to do it right now.
Starting point is 00:34:14 I'm just saying like when we put this... Yeah, you got to do it. I'll put it in right here. Off in the distance, the game's dragging on. There's strikes on the batter. Some runners are all. that suddenly everyone's looking at me my mind has been wondering what could it be
Starting point is 00:34:34 they point to the sky and I look up above and our baseball falls into my club my sister and I sing that song to each other I could believe that. I will say that second verse on the I Dream of Jeannie Nick and Night thing started kind of just being like her naming actors on the show Like And Tom Norris plays show Jackson
Starting point is 00:34:59 And James Like it was like a little Got a little bit less clever It started it started cool though But still I love the vibe of it Oh the song's mellows fuck Did we finish it already Are we already get out of it?
Starting point is 00:35:10 I can't remember Yeah no we did get out of that Yeah we're done with that Because it was If not we were listening to the whole thing And then I wanted to show you The one EDM song That I am all about
Starting point is 00:35:19 When it comes to this song This is the version That you might be hearing This is I don't know if they are hearing it But this is the version I enjoy when I'm playing it because it hits nicely. I'm sitting in the morning
Starting point is 00:35:31 at the diner on the corner I am waiting at the counter for the man to pour the coffee and he fills it only halfway and before I even argue he is looking at the window at somebody. I'm waiting for the coffee
Starting point is 00:35:48 I am waiting the coffee the coffee the coffee the coffee Coffee, coffee, coffee. A song hits. I actually think that was the best version, to be honest.
Starting point is 00:36:21 Yeah, it hits good, right? Yeah. You get a little dance for anything. Like, hey. Yeah, I enjoy that. I mix that mid-party. Everybody's like, oh, shit. It pays proper homage to the.
Starting point is 00:36:32 original. It gives you good energy. It still tells the story of nothing that the original and has a solid dance beat behind it. And it gives you a, yeah, give a reason to get hyped, yeah, and start dancing at something. So, yeah, I think,
Starting point is 00:36:46 to pick a cap through whoever, who did that one, give them proper. That was done by, um, a chap tech. What? A remix. I'm certain you're saying there. Chap, CH, A-A-A-P-T-E-T-E-C.
Starting point is 00:36:59 What? Tech with a C-K. T-E-C-H. Okay Chap tech Chaptek remix Cool good job guys Sounds German as fuck
Starting point is 00:37:08 Yeah probably Well with that man We have gone through the most Asinine and Pointless The most nothing story With a beautiful beat With the beautiful beat that we all love
Starting point is 00:37:20 Great example that you don't actually need to tell a story To tell a story with music You know what I mean Yeah We felt like we're going on an adventure this whole time I always felt like we were in the past And then we never actually reached a destination We just kind of just kept like, oh, I guess.
Starting point is 00:37:33 Just kind of sat down and had a single half a cup of coffee. Half a cup of coffee. Put a little milk. Watch some lady. I didn't think we got to the milk. A lady walked in from the rain. Then I poured the milk. Oh, yeah. Lady walked in the rain.
Starting point is 00:37:45 I just kind of looked at her a little bit and like. She got her hair wet. She was fixing me a blouse. I don't. I'm going to go walk to church. And that's it. Give me your slaps and snaps on the fantastic Tom's diner. All right out of five slaps.
Starting point is 00:37:59 I'm giving Tom's diner. Go. nice three slaps on the wait three slaps on a all right so that was a three slaps and waiting for your waitress three slaps yeah yeah the waitress walked in
Starting point is 00:38:22 the door and there was a little bell at the door took a few steps and I was like excuse me ma'am can I get a I can't oh okay thank you oh yeah so it's three slaps and a waiting for the coffee and I got a refill the coffee
Starting point is 00:38:35 there we go yeah nice so that was that was that could I say our slaps and snaps have gotten out of fucking hands stupid no out of control like how do you even like measure well imagine like a year from now another one gets like that one actually got
Starting point is 00:38:51 two slaps and a waitress walking in with the doorbell then like took a few steps past and I wait for her and then she fills up my coffee they've never had a reading yes it's kind of be it's like a who's lines it anyway you know if we actually were to create a graph of like all the ratings they're like at all
Starting point is 00:39:07 our stupid shit in there oh that one had four snaps like 14 slaps and And that also, then it had four slabs and a woman jumping off the side of a clip and yelling Geronimo and then like throwing a series of darts at a blimp that was passing by because that was how that song hit. But you know what? Sometimes you just feel the vibe. Very visual, by the way. My brain just thought it's all the darts. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:39:28 That's what I do. Just like this song. My slaps. My slaps. My snaps. Do, do, do, do, do do do do do do. I lost count. Whatever we at?
Starting point is 00:39:46 I gave it a I did, I lost count of snaps, but I felt like there was a four-slapper with a lot of dot. It's four and four and four. Okay. It's good balance.
Starting point is 00:40:07 It's one of those songs, especially with the last mix I just did. It made it like a dance song. I could throw this in anywhere. It's just like it relaxes me. It has a great rhythmic beat that it's like, you guys heard it right? Let me do it one more time.
Starting point is 00:40:21 Just so you guys know. what I'm talking about. This thing. That beat right there. I can do anything with that beat. You can do anything. I can relax. I can run.
Starting point is 00:40:30 I could almost just hear it on a loop. I'll clean my whole house. I'll clean my whole house. I'll do the dishes. And an hour later, be like, oh, start freestalling in the middle of it.
Starting point is 00:40:39 I'll start, like, dancing and break dancing in the middle. Why'd you stop it? Because it's done. It just wanted to show you. And then you got the other one. You got the other one that's,
Starting point is 00:40:46 uh, peaceful, relaxing. I know the song well. You know the song well, but we all never knew what the song. was actually talking about and those are my favorites ones those are my favorite songs
Starting point is 00:41:00 they mostly get speckyous the ones that that tell a story that we all and we all heard it but never actually paid attention to and this one is successful in it so I'm giving it four and four man and a did what you got for it and it turns I gave mine yeah shit I waited for the woman to walk by and like that's right yours was the fucking bell thing that's why I was like wait too much my brain went nuts on yours it feels like such a vibe it turns out it's just a normal ass Wednesday morning at tom's diner. That's it.
Starting point is 00:41:28 And I don't know who Tom's diner is, but it's a vibe. Let's later here one more time and then we'll do. Next!

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