Dissect DJs - Randy Newman - I Love LA

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

We're back to break down the ICONIC theme song of the hometown city of your World Series Champions - Randy Newman's 1983 classic "I Love LA"!Is LA really a city worth loving? Has anyone ever got along farther in the music industry with a voice like Randy Newman? And what the hell is Randy really talking about in this song? We break it all down NEXT in Episode 130! GO DODGERS! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We love it down The Imperial Highway We love it! We love it! We love it! Should I let it go? Should I let it? Let's go.

song or we're good stuff? No, I mean, we already stopped it. We're ready to stop. I was going. Let's go.

Let's go. It is your DJs. You like to spit it, mix it, throw it back, and dissect it. DJ Castle. DJ,

DJ, jic-a-dick-jack. What else, Steve? Where was the reverb on mine? I wanted to be cooler. I wanted to add some emphasis. Well,

you're going to need to add some cool points because you're trying to jump on the Dodge Bandwagon when everybody knows you just started that like yesterday. All right. All right, dude.

I got to be honest. I'm forcing it. I'm forcing it, people. I just became a Dodger fan like three months ago. Good timing. Me and my lady decided I was like, you don't have a football team. I don't have really a baseball team

because the Indians are no longer Indians. They're fucking guardians or something, whatever the fuck of that is. So I was like, all right. Yeah, but we stand for Cleveland. You will be a Steeler fan. She became a Steeler fan, diehard.

And I had to become a diehard Dodger fan. So three months ago, I became a diehard for Dodger fan. And guess what happened? We won, baby. We won. I mean... Yeah, good timing.

I think it might have been because of me a little bit. I can see how you would work that out in your head. Yeah. I hate to start off our podcast representing I Love L.A. by Randy Newman, which is what we're covering obviously here today by discussing your bandwagon hood. But it's kind of your thing. It's always been his thing. Except for the Steelers.

That's my one team. And you know that. But, yes, everything else. But yes, we ride for L.A. because we love it. Born and raise, Angelino. Where did you get that? Switch hats. It does not fit at all.

As born and raised, Angelino, Dodger, local, centric. Ombre over here. I love it. This was the time that I've been waiting for. We got to experience a little bit of it, pandemic time. But you know what? This one just felt right. You know, she got to have a parade.

Actually, got to beat the Yankees. How sweet was that? Of all teams, you know, seeing those two teams on the field at the same time just felt iconic. And I've never seen it really in my life other than a little bit of interleague play here or there. But that was a beautiful time. It feels like a long time ago already. We'll start with the Dodgers here and just say, congratulations, Dodgers. I actually didn't watch a single game.

All right, not a good place to start at all. But I did hear that a man by Freddie Freeman. Is that correct? Yes. He was just exploding on the ball. Like, I heard that he just, he would walk up and it was first pitch, goodbye game. Game over and over. Game one ended with one of the most iconic moments that I will ever experience as baseball fan.

Full had a walk-off grand slam in extra innings to take the lead. Okay, it felt very reminiscent of the famous, the most famous Dodger moment I ever grew up with. It was Kurt Gibson's home round when he's like running the bases. Oh, when he's like gimping across the bases. That's right. So that was very similar in that. It was also game one of the World Series against the Oakland A's. But it was not first pitch.

That's the next level shit. Yeah. And also it wasn't a grand slam. and they were tied in that game. This one, they were actually down, so they needed, like... Something. Yeah, they needed that. Like, it was...

The go-ahead home run is possibly... The go-ahead walk-off home run is top three greatest plays in sports. And grand slamming on top of it. Grand slamming it, yeah. And you knew who was over. So we knew it was over right there. And then game two started with Ice Cube walking on the field. I had a group chat with going to people.

I was just like, oh, it's over. I called it right there. I was like, oh, y'all are done. Because, like, there was a Yankee. Thank you fat of the chat. I was talking shit. And I'm just like, dude, Cube took the field.

Y'all done. And then I did see the bloopers from the final game is what I watched was Aaron Judge missing a ball that I played literally, okay? I was an All-Star 11 and 12-year-old beast. And there's zero chance I would have missed that ball, Aaron Judge. If you're supposed to be the next Babe Ruth or some shit, get out of here. Do not miss that pass. And then the little dicker.

That pass. Whatever that was. I think it was a hit. ball to the outfield. He missed it. Yeah. Easy, was it hit? Yeah.

Then a little third base missed where the guy threw it, like half-armed it. I feel like he was, I've done that little league where you're like, you know. And then the pitcher being an idiot. Like you're supposed to go to the back. What are you doing, dude? All the way since 11, we knew those were supposed to be rules. And this guy just blew it in the MLB World Series final. And actually it was funny to me.

Crazy thing about that was like, yeah, we're down 5-0. early on in that game and I feel like me and along with other people were like, you know what? It's fine. Let them take this. We'll take it back game six. We got game six and seven at home. We'll finish it up there. I was already thinking that. And then all of a sudden the wheels just fell off, which, by the way, it just occurred to me like yesterday.

It's too late to make it now. But I actually would have loved to have made a video where it's like all those fuck-ups that the Yankees had in that one fifth inning and then like cut to Al from Angels in the Outfield. And he's like kicking the ball around. and they're like, oh, well, I remember that part. Well, Angel, when the A's have, like, 17 errors on one play in Angel The Outfield, because Al's just kicking the ball around and making everybody, like, he's, like, ruining people's lives because he's making them look horridness on TV, and he's just, like, having fun with them,

dicking around, like, oh, now the ball's on the pitcher's head, and everybody's going to attack him for some reason, because that's how you go, get a ball. Yeah, so then suddenly next thing you know they have lead, I'm like, are you going, let's do it now. Let's go ahead and do it now. I've been watching this team way too long and been seeing way too much. many things that just go wrong that suddenly you're just like you know what this we just got to put this away right now yeah when you see the opportunity to seize and take that home that championship

you got to nail it so that's an early salute to the dodgers that i just with there's two reasons that we want to cover the song one obviously everything we just talked about dodgers won the world series not a thing that we've actually got to experience a lot of come a lot close a lot of times but we have to seize that opportunity to wait shouldn't that be one of the reasons that we tell them why we love LA we should keep we got to hit him with it hit him so that's one reason obviously it's the perfect time to celebrate LA perfect time to celebrate Dodgers baseball but here's the other reason this song Randy Newman saw some wild shit and I feel like we need to actually get into that a little bit does he I didn't pay attention yeah I was waiting for I love LA because that's the only part of

this song it's kind of crazy so it has the perfect sound for being sort of like an LA feels like a West Casillas, a little beachy, feels very celebratory. It's a perfect song to play after like every Dodgers win. So good on you, Randy, for capitalizing on that. But then you start digging into the lyrics, which is what we're going to do here. And yeah, this guy, I don't even know where the hell you went. There's so many ways that you could celebrate L.A. in lyric form. Real quick, I literally have no idea what he said.

Like, I'm trying to think, like, do I even know anything? All I know is rolling down the highway, I think, at some point. But other than that, I really don't pay attention to the song. until he says I love LA. I'm just like the beat and I'm kind of happy with it. So I am honestly blind to what you're about to tell me. All right. Now, I did realize that we started on the upbeat on this song.

That's right. So this song actually has a weird slow start that everybody always skips to. And we couldn't start there because we didn't want the episode to start off one. It's a really stupid idea that they do. And there's a reason that everybody always cuts right to like the exciting part. I don't know if it was a time period thing, but there was no reason to start with like this slow, sad, weird. Randy, he's just Randy Newman's all over the place.

So yeah, you want to go ahead and play the first part before we get into the lyrics? Because that's actually a great time to start dissecting the lyrics. So let's do that first. Hate New York City. It's cold and it's down. And all the people dressed like... Like what?

Stop that. They're dressed like what? Do you say monkeys? That's exactly what he said, yes. What ethnicity is? He's an old white man. Oh man, wait a minute, dude. What is this?

It's true. I don't have your opinion. He said monkeys? I'm telling you, dude, the lyrics in this song are wild. I don't even know what that's supposed to me. I don't know if that's racist. I mean, it sounds like it feels racist. But then it's also like, maybe there's just drops warm in like fur coats,

like a monkey's body. I don't know, man. I don't know what this is. That's his issue with New York City. I don't, I was like, what? Just like monkeys. How do monkeys dress? How are they supposed to be?

Yeah, I don't know, man. That was that thing for a little. That's why I was like, wait a minute, dude. Castle wasn't even telling me to sell. I stopped myself and he was like, yeah, you got to stop there. That was a perfect time because I don't know what he's talking about, man. Fucking dress like monkeys. Maybe because they're wearing like fur coats.

I don't know. Because his body covered my fur and it's like warm. But do monkeys? Well, they call like, back in the day they used to call like a three-piece. suit like a monkey suit or something like that or oh that might that maybe that's what it is I don't know we're giving a good benefit of the doubt but yeah there's like the part I always remember learning that

because in Roger Rabbit when the guy Eddie he's like gone to the security guard's like this big like ape and he's like cartoon ape and he's like wearing a suit and he looks at him he's like nice monkey suit my dad remember being like that's what they used to call a suit back in the day I'm like got this password Walt sent me

monkey soul. Why is this? Then that's got to be what it is. Yeah. So maybe that's what that means. I don't know. So that's New York. That's Randy's take on New York and why he hates it.

Because people dress like monkeys are brownies. That's it. And it's cold and it's damp. Cold and it's damp. Let's see. So Chicago got Eskimos? Chicago's got Eskimos apparently. I've never seen or heard of any Eskimos.

I think that's his way of saying it's cold. I don't know. It's got to be. Weird guy, Randy. Weird guy. That time, a little bit too rugged, you and me. You what? What was the last thing he said?

A town is a little too rugged for you and me. You bad girl. Oh, he's kind of a smooth talk. He's trying to. Wait a minute. How did I? When was he talking to a young lady? This whole thing is like him trying to get at something.

He's like, all right, you bad girl. This is a little rugged. Take it a west. you bad girl bad girl's funny he's gonna keep going tell somebody you a bad girl yeah it's just funny

alright just keep going oh shit here we go here we go pause big what next to suicide it's okay this is a lyric that was so heavily

debated when I was a kid before like it was very easy to pull up lyrics. We're like, I remember listening to this over and over again. We're like, me and my brother were like, did he just say a big nasty redhead on my side? This is like the second line. That is what he says.

100% what he says. This is his second line about honoring the city of L.A. And he chose to discuss about how his big nasty redhead at his side. I don't know. He's talking about his wife. He was just hawking the game at some bad girl. Maybe that's all, I don't know. I literally, I couldn't tell you.

Randy needs to answer that question. But he does also call out Imperial Highway, which is the street I use to get on the freeway over here, onto the 105. So I respect that little tip of the cap to Imperial Highway. It's a good line. And you know what? It goes all the way down to Fullerton,

where we met in college. So, yeah, it's a good lane. It's a good street that runs all three. through Southern California. So tip the cap to that one. So he's got a bad girl, big redhead. Big nasty redhead at his side. All right, let's discuss that.

First of all, roll down the window, pop down the top. That's how you should have started it. I would have gone right to that before discussing. Justin the big nasty redhead on your side. That's just me. But that's, that's L.A. right there, okay? I used to drive with the top down.

Me and Justin have different opinions on that. He didn't like it. He had a little convertible at one point. I had a convertible. I used to love riding the coast with the down. He was like, I don't like it. You get a sunburn in fucking eight minutes, dude. It's the most pointless.

There's like a 20-minute window in a day that you can ride with your top-down and it'd be legit or not cold, not over sunny. Get out of here. You can't hear your music correctly. I like it for sunset. buddy you're like ayah

no you do it oh yeah it's great right all right now it is different if you're like riding shotgun or even it's terrible if you're riding in the backseat but if you're in uh just you driving then I love a good

and sunset conditions I think that's when you do it that's the only 20 minutes so you get this expensive ass convertible for 20 minutes that you get to ride with your top it does feel different though it's almost like you're not like another car like you kind of almost

just feel like you're on like a ride like you're turning driving around into like being like a spectac cool almost you feel different when you're doing it you're like a parade float people are looking at you and you're checking out you're like yeah it's right got my see bring that was what my fucking convertible was the seabring you're fucking bugs in your teeth and shit it was cool that you got to like well i mean dude how low is your window you had a small one you had a little

his convertible was tiny it was like anyways anyways that's a he's cranked up the beach boys which i think the song was done in 1983 so they were still quite quite I don't know, man. I thought that. I was like, I saw what I would listen to, but like. He could have thought of anybody else. Yeah, but Randy Newman is this old white guy who did this in the early 80s who refers to people dressing up in New York looking like monkeys.

As monkeys. Yes. And thinks that Chicago's for the Eskimos. So I'll let it slide. When I was growing up, I remember the Beach Boys were like a California thing. I was never a really old fan of them, but I always thought they were kind of cheesy. They always seen cheesy. Yeah.

Even as a little kid, even as a little kid, I always thought that the Beach Boys were super. Like, shut up, dude. Yeah, they were kind of late. I thought so. But I respect him. I actually enjoy it when it's time to dance.

We're going to ride it like we can't ride it no more. Great line. Then he references my hood. From the South Bay to the Valley. I didn't even realize he gave the South Bay a shout out. You very, very, really. hear people reference the South Bay but that's my home beautiful area man I hate driving out here but once you get here it's a beautiful area yeah because he lives all the way do

does he live in the valley dude does he take us to the valley is that what you refer to it i go to the valley so he literally just referenced like our drive from one to the other yeah so he covered everything from the west side to the east side everybody's very happy because the sun is shining all the time you know what that reminds me of you ever seen the first scene of la la land Oh, you should. Okay, I'm low-key at second. At the beginning, like it starts at the beginning. Yeah, they do a whole.

I might have seen it only because I only watched the first five minutes of movies. So they might have been. Very LA, in that they do a whole entire musical number on the freeway, which the hilarious thing about that is it's about how it's traffic. But then everybody's like, oh, it's another day of sun. And the whole thing is about, it's another day of sun, things to love about L.A., but it's the same time, in order to shoot that,

they actually had to create all kinds of havoc all over. the different freeways and streets of L.A. While singing about the joys of living in L.A., so that's kind of rich. But I love that scene. I mean, low-key, it's one of my all-time favorite musical scenes. It's like that and several things in Greece. West Side Story.

Yeah, but Greece is better than West Side Story. No, when the Jets and the... The Sharks. There you go. That's the Puerto Rican's. When the Jets and the Sharks are about to beat each other's ass and they break out into a musical number, there is nothing better, sir.

I remember watching that one. when I was a kid and I just remember them doing a bunch of this and then it was like oh this is what gangs were like back in the day and then suddenly they all started doing like ballet and I'm just like I thought these gangs looked a lot tougher like 15 minutes ago but and kind of lost me with all the ballet shit yeah half that movie was just a lot of like snapping

and just walking towards each other Greece is way cooler than that yeah everybody always like to talk west side story because it's Puerto Rican so my Puerto Rican family is always like I talk about that's our thing I'm like and you try to force yourself to like it. I can hate that shit. I hate that way. I hate that play.

All right. So Greece is better then. Greece is the best. Greece, La La Land, and then the West Side Story way down here. You know, but yeah.

So what else? Randy, what other weird shit is Randy about to get into? Then he just starts going into, I love L.A. Can we talk about this little Keys breakdown right here? Yeah.

I was talking about it. I mean, it was joyous. I mean, I feel like this is when Randy's cooking, because, like, he's clearly not a good singer, but he can be like, he's a piano man, and he's like, all right,

let me rolls out my keyboards. And he starts, like, cooking a little bit. And here's why it works. Because it's a little change of pace for the song, but it leads into one of the great buildups that, like, any song will ever have. And it almost feels like you're, You're going up a roller coaster and you're hitting that first hill or that second hell, I guess.

And you're like, oh, here we go. It's about to get fun again. That's what it leads into right here. Which, by the way, I just got back from Knott's yesterday. And by that third one, I'm about to throw up, dude. Yeah, I could see you not being a roller coaster guy. It used to be. You get sick, like, really easy.

He can only, like, drink, like, one kind of thing now. Like, everything gets his stomach on. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I could see you not handling roller coasters. I still love a good rollerocococos. I haven't actually spent a day doing it. I got a question for you. Do you actually love L.A.?

Absolutely. No, I can't stand L.A. Like the actual city of L.A.? Take your jersey off. Take off my Kobe jersey. Have you ever been to 7th Street, dude? Like. In downtown?

Yeah. All right, so I love downtown L.A. Yeah, I walked right through there. Everything's like beautiful. You're like, oh, look at this amazing street. You make a right turn and then a left, and you are in pretty much hell. It's what I would describe. what this would look like.

This is part of loving LA though. Get the fucking... It's rocky in some streets. That's any city. That's part of the beauty of L.A. People in New York would love to talk this shit up. You have to enjoy the shit. And as well as get out of here.

I think it's only because you live in this area. You know those places in the world where everything's clean? Like you could make her right and left and... Where? Dubai. Okay, yeah. We're going international with it. Sure.

We're talking about it. Why is that not the case in one of the big cities of the United States? Are you right? I'm about to make a case for L.A. And this goes, and this goes, this goes to, like, by fandom and everything. Because you want to know something else you deal with when you live in L.A., you get people telling you you're a bandwagon fan.

Oh, you're a Dodgers fan. You may as well be a Dallas Cowboys fan. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Let me tell you something. All right? Yeah, no, I fucking heard this. When you have to rep L.A., people want to come at you and be like, you're just like the same teams as everybody else.

Like, you just jump on bandwagon. So let me say this. I was boring. on this wagon, okay? And you want to know something that you realize when you live here? You have a whole bunch of people that turn into a melting pot of people come into your city. And I'm welcoming. I'll take them.

I'll be like, yeah, all right, yeah. We have somebody from Indiana over here, somebody from Ohio over there. This guy is from Chicago. That's all well and good. I appreciate the melting pot. But where I don't stand for is when they want to come at me and try to make me feel like I am joining the team that everybody else is on. Because you know what it feels like when everybody wants to jump in the wagon that you were born in,

that you actually came to and came up with? What? What? What's it feel like? It's fucking bullshit. All right? I actually was born on this train and I've been riding it ever since. It was blessed with me.

Yes. And you know what? Everybody else gets to be like, well, I have my home team and then I have the, you know how often I've been asked, oh, where are you from? I'll be like, I'm from L.A. And then they'd be like, yeah, yeah, but originally. I'm like, no, L.A. motherfuckeruck. I was born in Santa Monica Hospital.

Yeah, but you'll claim Indians like just as even. equally. Yeah, because my family's from Cleveland. I like that. I like them too. This is what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying. You can't have two teams.

I have fucking assholes like this who wants to put on a fucking Dodger jersey. Driving my podcast and be like, oh no, I decided three months ago. I'm a Dodger friend. And I'm going to ruin a high five. And guess what? If the Dodgers suck next season, he'll be like, Dodgers suck, dude. I deal with the Lakers all the time. People love to fucking get on the Lakers bandwagoners every time they make a championship run.

And then when they suck for a few years, people are like, the Lakers suck. Like, it's embarrassing that we'd ever support them in the first place. I support my teams from the beginning. I have my same teams. I've got to tell you right here, I've had them from the whole life. Dodgers, Indians, Lakers, and the Niners. That's my team.

And who's your other football team? That's the only time. I mean, I ride for Ohio State football too and UCLA, you know, but I'm not a huge college football guy. You're down for Browns. No, not really. The Browns are a team where it's like, I, my family being from Cleveland, like, if they're good, I'm like, oh, I'm happy for them. But I have wasted not one iota of strength caring about the Browns Because it would drive me fucking crazy.

Okay, I don't give a fuck about the Browns. I'm happy when they're good. I hope they're good, but I don't really spend any energy on them. The point is. You know how much we paying gas more than the rest of the country in Illinois? Yeah, that's part of it. Look, we got to pay more than most people to live. All right, it's not easy to live on an apartment that has an ocean view and everything like that.

And I just eat that every month. I don't. And I have to fucking do what I have to do to thrive, but I love living by the beach, and I love being able to say I was born in this area because people love to come crowded up and then try to take credit and then tell you what you're a bandwagon for because they joined your fucking cause,

and then you know what else? They like to tell you how to live. They tell you how LA is. You know how much I get told how LA is? Like what it's like to sit and live in this area? What it's like to be like, oh, well, this is the type of people. I hate the term L.A. people. because it's mostly referencing those that come here and try to ingratiate into the society

and then they determine how they want to be treated. They want to treat people. And I'm fucking sick of all the people that want to explain to me what it is to be a real Angelino. And my people that are actually from here, they know who is. And you know where I see those people more than anything? Actually, in Dodger Stadium. That's one of the last vestiges of some of the true most down L.A. homies that we have on the block. Tell him again, Randy

That bum over there man He's down on these women Ain't nothing like him No well You have to pause that That needs to be discussed I'm poor bumbs on his knees Let me tell you something

Randy Randy Newman is a weird guy But this guy has been to L.A. Okay He does encapsulate it Whether or not it's glamorous or not You got your mountains You got your trees

You got the bum over there he's down on his knees. Yeah, this guy has walked to downtown LA. Yeah. I don't know how. Why would you love LA because of this? This will be a reason why you, like, I can't stand LA because of that. You will see a bum.

Part of the ride. Unfortunately, you will see a bum and you will have to realize, oh, I live a much better life than I give myself credit for. And all the trials and tribulations that I go through. And I'm like, man, I really should like be this and be that. You step back and go, actually, the fact that I don't live out of a trash can should be enough for me to be thankful, you know? Like, and then there's people can do nothing to get out of that.

Most of them are mentally, have mental issues where they're stuck. Like, you're not getting out of that once your brain is in a spirit, a whirlwind like that. And we just talk about them in a song. But you go to Venice Beach and you'll see some of the most talented homeless people you have seen in your life. They perform. They almost be like, all right, what's your grip? What's your skill?

If you're going to like Venice Beach, I'm just got to be like, all right. So I do magic tricks over here. So we exploit. So we exploit them. I play drums and something. They're not being exploited. They're trying to make money. They're like turn it into a show.

Be like, I do artwork. I don't know. Venice Beach, most talented homeless people. I feel bad in one respect because some of them put themselves there in a thing, but then once you're there, like, I don't know.

Like, it's part of the LA culture? Is it okay? Just walk by that and be like, sorry, dude, your life sucks and you just walk by, you know? I don't know. That tells me for a little bit. Part of the LA culture.

I don't want to dwell on it too hard, but they need to be touched on because Randy told us. I think about. Yeah, he covered it. But the girls are out here. Ain't nothing like him nowhere. Ain't like one, I don't know here.

I agree. Yeah. It makes a good point there. In personality and in looks, and the combination of which there is the, you know. Katie Perry said it best. California girls are undeniable. Sixth Street?

Yeah, it's in downtown. That's right by 7th Street, which is there was some crazy shit going on. so late that's downtown though it's like you can literally turn one street there's pop shit there's got like i know that's not your scene i know that at the moment i'm off the freeway in l.a i'm like what where why i need to get the fuck out of here so those are all like downtown streets basically Santa monica i remember being a kid think i was going to party in san an monica a lot i was like i'm going to party down i used to i never did i referred to santa monica when i was a kid as the the area with the dinosaur plants

with the giant like dinosaur chia plants that are like spitting water. I remember that was like my main takeaway from it as a kid as I remember seeing those giant like plant dinosaurs would be like a T-rex and it's like a spitting water out and there's like a stagosaurus. What? Right there on the...

Of course a kid would see some shit like that. Yeah, I mean it's still there to this day. There's probably a bum on his knees right next to that. They're guaranteed you there's a bum on his knees right next to that. Just around the corner, yeah. Let's see what else. This guy talks about this. We love it.

It's a big-ass breakdown here at the end. We love it! You know what movie I actually watched ironically last night, which is the first time I really remember this song from, is Naked Gun. And they have the whole breakdown of when they're playing the game at Dodger Stadium. It's actually supposed to be the Angels. It's Angels and Mariners.

They act like it's an Angel Stadium, but it's Dodger Stadium. And, yeah, they have that whole montage in the game. That's like the best... Have you not, like, seen that movie? Thank you, it. It's been a long time. All right, cool. Well, I rent it on YouTube so we could watch it right after this. And I literally just want to show you the baseball scene.

Because, like, the whole from beginning to end, the part when they're at Dodger Stadium is one of the best 15 to 20 minute, like, get in the car. We're gone for a joy ride scenes that I've ever seen in a movie. Like, it's so funny, a combination of, like, goofy, but also smart, hilarity, moves the story forward, ends with O.J. Simpson going down on the wheelchair, and doing, like, a, Triple flip and okay. I remember that. Yeah, yeah, that's how the movie ends. It's so good.

Anyways, yeah, yeah, shout out to Naked Gunn because that was the first time I actually remember the song from it. It always reminded me that montage. And it fits perfect. It's a perfect song for that whole scene. Because this song does always remind me of like Dodgers and like baseball and possibly because of that. But it's perfect for it.

However, I want to talk a little bit about Randy Newman for a second. Has anybody? Has anybody ever dined harder on a career with less talent than Randy Newman? Because he is not... Wait, he didn't do any... Like, he wasn't the guitar there or the piano or anything? I think he was the piano and he did those keys break down. That's not talented.

Yes, but like he made a career off a voice that is objectively not like a good singer. I don't think there's anybody that would be like, you know, Randy Newman, he's got some pipes, dog. However, we're talking about a guy who has 22 Academy Award nominations. He's won two. He's won three Grammys, seven Golden Globe Awards. Basically became for a solid decade plus the voice of Disney and Pixar. Oh, okay. He became...

I knew that's what it was. You got a friend in me. Yeah. That Monster Zink was something in there. Any Disney Pixar movie, he made the... McQueen and... and Sally opening race in a car. Yeah, he did the lead score track of nine different Disney movies.

Damn. Yeah. He won a governance award in 2007, whatever the hell that is. I don't know, sounds prestigious, but it does sound. You got that. He was inducted into the songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. He's the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame now. How fucking is not a single song?

I guess I love L.A. was pretty good. That's what I mean. and his song gets played after every Dodgers and Lakers win. I'm sure he gets royalties for all of it. This song right here is the first thing you'll hear when the Dodgers win. It's the first thing you hear when the Lakers win. And you know what? It's the perfect song to play every time.

It fucking works. I actually feel like if it wasn't for this song, we wouldn't have had Randy Newman be the voice of so many Disney movies. He was nominated 22 Academy Awards. Like this song he really dined out on it, but he fucking nailed it And he starts the song off But I talk probably hates New York Because everybody dressed like monkeys

Yeah Never forget Well I do love the fact that I am currently a Dodger fan So go Dodgers And I currently also love the fact that I can't stand L.A. And I will never love L.A. And so I disagree there with you with that You love L.A. I can't stand it

But I come out here from my boy Stee's Because he's got the studio for us Inodastic DJs, this is what we do It feels like this is similar to a relationship with Drake You're like, I love Drake I hate him For years he was bringing out here But he got slammed out recently

Kendrick put him in his place Tough here for my man Jersey But no L.A. is the reason that I actually Got to say I love the song And I'm here for the criticism I will say a lot of people like to talk about the L.A. type of person And the last thing I would like to leave everybody with is those people are probably not the actual Angelinos.

You're talking about the people that came here and gray shade of their culture and then like imposed what they wanted this city. Oh, then not as good? That doesn't rep L.A. What? Why not? That's how you said it was a mix of it? It's part of it.

Oh, so why don't you know? You're contradicting yourself. No, I'm not. I said it doesn't represent LA. It's part of it. So how is that not representing it if it's part of it? Because I'm talking about what actually represents those who are actually Angelinos, Warren Ray's.

People that like to say that they, live in L.A. don't necessarily rep the culture that they came from. So everybody else gets to be like, oh yeah, yeah, I have an L.A. person, but I'm actually from Ohio. I'm actually from Mansfield. I'm actually from Sue Falls. I'm actually from Redding, Pennsylvania. I'm from Fontana. Everybody's got their own, like, backstory. You know, some of us actually, this is. Fontana. I came up with right here. So, all right, so that's why I love it. All right. We'll rate the song. Snaps and slaps.

All right. So clearly then, out of five slaps, I have to give Randy Newman's L.A. Give me a reverb. We love it! Okay, so four and a we love it. You know, like falling down the well, we love it. Okay, got it. All right. Because I was going to say five, you. I was going to be real mad. No, the slow start of the beginning is weird. Randy says some wild shit.

You can't be overlooked that he's not a good singer at all, but the song has the energy that I I think embodies what LA is best at. And that's like beach life, fun times, good energy. You get a good group of people together and that energy thrives. And this is why this is where everybody wants to come to in America. That's our West Coast representation. Oh, then why do they? If they don't want to come here, then they don't need to come here.

All right? Let us have our city to ourselves. All right. What do you give? I love L.A. Out of five slaps, let me hear. I'm fighting you. It's all it gets, man.

It's all it gets, man. It's an awkward song. He talks about monkeys. It's not that cool of a song. I hate L.A. That's your problem. I'm a Dodger fan because of my girlfriend. Dodger fan is like two weeks ago.

Like, you're not really a Dodger fan with us. Been through the grind with us? I really didn't enjoy it. Like, yeah, Dodgers win. I got money on the line for the Steelers. like I'm going to shit myself. I might like literally poop. But with this, it was just like, you know, whatever.

So one. All right, fine. I'm going to further this fight off camera. I don't want to fully attack you. I mean, we've already, we've already actually been in a boxing room before, so we know how that goes. Yeah. It's like Tyson versus Jake.

And anybody that was there. And you know it's going down. Yeah, but it hasn't happened yet. It was a recording of this. It happens tomorrow night, so. I don't know. Why you're just working as such stupid? Yeah, because then once this comes out, it's going to already be a thing.

You're messing up. Man, I had it. You could have acted like it happened, and then I could have been Tyson. Yeah, wasn't that a good fight? Remember that? It was crazy when Mike did that whole thing, and Jacob was like, what? And then Jake was like, uh, it doesn't matter. The fight's stupid.

I'm not really. I'll watch it because it's free on Netflix, but I'm not expecting much. I'll throw that shout out there. Hey, guys, remember when that fight happened and it sucked? It was mostly kind of boring, and we all watched it anyways. And it was in LA. Is it? I think it's in like Vegas or something.

I don't know. I haven't actually looked into anything. We're rambling. We ended up talking about fucking Jake Paul because you're dumbass. After you wanted to rake it one second. One slap! I'm pissed off that you ruined this. I love L.A.

You know why? Because this is my city. And we love it. Next!