The Dogg Zzone by 1900HOTDOG - Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 41, Expository Theme Songs with Zak Koonce!
Episode Date: September 22, 2021The best theme songs explain exactly what the movie they're for is about. The best podcasts are about those theme songs. This is the best podcast! It has Zak Koonce from the Auralnauts, for one thing.... It has Feel the Impact, for another. For a third and final thing, it has Seanbaby and Brockway!
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I'm Sean Baby, TV Sean Baby from the internet
and with me is my partner in hilarity
Robert Brockway
I'm gonna give you a Brockway fact today
I once partially skinned myself
just to look cool in front of a girl
Now here's what's different
I will allow one follow-up question
so long as it's the right one
Okay, okay
Did it work?
Hell yeah, it fucking worked
No more follow-up questions
Joining us is our
returning guest, my long time and good friend
from that
oral knots
You gotta make it weird every time
Or a lot
No, that's not it
Zach Coons, welcome
Welcome
You guys, to my
voice, I don't know
It is your podcast
It's a takeover baby
Yeah
This is a zactism takeover
So this was your idea
and I think it's a good one
Can you establish what we're doing
So, we have a tendency to just
fucking go off the rails
so please plug whatever you're gonna do here
because we might just abruptly
end with the theme song you yourself wrote
I like that
I gotta give a
shout out to my partner
Craven from the oral knots too
He's the musical composition genius behind all that stuff
He and I have a YouTube channel
where we make, I guess the easiest way
to put it is if you enjoyed
what Sean used to do
which is just fruit pie ads
We do that to videos
So that's, there you go
Go to oral knots on YouTube, check our shit out
We love the oral knots
We love oral
Today's
concept is
become one of my favorite things to do
which is just talk
way too much more than
the subject deserves
which is bad 90s music
mostly
is about
songs about movies
from the movie that they are in
so the rules are very simple
the song has to be
about the movie and it has to have appeared
at some point in the movie even if it's the end credits
and it has to have been written
for that movie not, you know,
repurposed
I had to veto a couple choices
I came out hard against Sean right away
I was very cold-hearted about it
That's true
I think this was established originally by
I'm sure it existed before this
but Ghostbusters is kind of the first big
success story with this kind of thing
To be clear, I did not suggest Ghostbusters
No, no, no, you went right for the throat though
Right
I said to you the same
seven words I told my fiance
when she said, what's our wedding music going to be
The seven words are
T-U-R-T-L-E
Power
You put it together
a list of killers
You're probably going to win today
I don't even know if
I'm not clear if we decided if it's a contest or not
We've got kind of a bracket going on
We brought three songs each
I think we're just going to present them one after another
and just kind of talk shit about them
Just going to admire the art
of expository things
There's no losers here today for sure
Maybe there's no winners
There's just losers
But they're all beautiful
Beautiful losers
It's a competition of the most beautiful loser
I can get behind that
I was going to say you guys did come up with four discussion prompts
That might sort of
I guess be the umbrella under which we're all competing
If you want to talk about those
Yeah, that's uh
You put a nice little list together here
It's the discussion prompts
I make really nice docs
If you never heard of the movie
What do you think the song was trying to say
And do we think the artist in question
Actually watched the movie
Or did they just
Yeah, they just write the song
Based on a brief elevator pitch
Was this group
Or artist put together
Possibly for the sole purpose of making this song
Were they even a band
Before this moment
And how does the song hold up
Over time
From a long enough lens away from the film
Does it rock on its own
Does it slap enough
And what I like about all of these prompts
Is that
The winner could be decided in either direction
Whether it's very much yes
Or very much no
So
Because like if an artist really watched the film
And like made a very perfect encapsulation
Of the movie and the song
Like that might be really good or it might be a bit too much
But if they just completely fucked it up
And made an insane song
For the wrong situation
I like that too
Yeah, I think we've got both of those
We've got all of that, yeah we've got that whole spread
I think we've got ones that ruled that
Nobody put much of any effort into
And I think we've got ones that like somebody just agonized
Over how to fit a whole movie
An hour and a half movie until like a four minute song
And maybe they did
Maybe they did it
I'm gonna argue that mine did it
So I guess that's, yeah
I was gonna say earlier before we start
To put together overall
The podcast has become
A favorite part of my week
I get mad when I binge it
And then I catch up and then I realize there's no more left
Until like a whole week away
Because you guys
I couldn't be more the target audience for what you're doing
Which is just
Completely randomly like
Picking a subject that is very close to my heart
And then just either forcing somebody
Against their will to come in and talk about it
With you or just to
Shower it with love and praise
Like, yeah, I'm down for either one of those
Sometimes both
The Conan trilogy was amazing
I'm gonna try really hard
I'm a real dynamic of someone like
Discovering something 40 years too late
And like
Yeah, it's my favorite thing to do is to like
Especially when they've kind of heard of it
To be like, okay
Well, here's what it is
And be like, what? This is the thing?
To realize that they've been working for
Acting with a person that is just
The culmination of all these things
Together
It's helped form part of my mind
In a meat suitcase
I'm 3% Conan a destroyer
Like if you cut open my DNA
You could just see chunks of
Yeah, I might be like
21% Conan the barbarian
If I cut you open
You're gonna find the jewels that
Malik or whatever swallowed
On his way out
Organs inside Brockway is the riddle of
Steel. That's how you solve the riddle of steel
That's why everything's going so wrong
With my body
Holy shit, that's probably true
The doctor probably pulled something
Important out to solve the riddle of steel
Is this the riddle of steel?
I need that
I need that to live
I'm happy to be back
And be part of this
It's great to have you back
And so
I think we should just get started
What should the first
Category be?
Or prompt? We have about 3 songs
I think it should be our big one
Our big mainstream flagship song
We went with big
Slightly deeper cut
And then we went wild cards
So those are our 3 categories
So we'll start with the big
I think Robert has the biggest one
I would argue the most
Amplimatic of the genre as well
My particular niche is
Expository raps
I love them so much
All of mine are expository raps
And I have many more that I
Hope we do a sequel to this
So that I can talk about them
We should make a rule now not to mention
The movies that we didn't bring
Otherwise we're not going to do it
Too many guys left in the picture
Or we'll be here for 20 hours
But obviously the king of this
Is Will Smith and Wild Wild West
The lyrics for that and put it in the dock
Those lyrics are like 7 phone books long
Yeah
And most of them are nothing
Most of them are gibberish
Let me start with the
I'm just going to read the lyrics
I'm not doing the song, just reading the lyrics
Alright man fine
Wah-wah
Do-do-do-do-do
Wicked Wild Wild
Wicked Wild Wild
Wicked Wild
Wicked Wild Wild West
We have just entered the song
After all of those lyrics
And it's arguably the best
Start to a song possible
It lets you know exactly what you're in for
And then he just delivers
On that for
My god looking at the lyrics
I want to say this is a 17 minute long song
This is easily
Easily half as long as the movie
I don't remember all these lyrics
Obviously who would but like
Was he just saying them too fast
We couldn't hear them in the 90s
Oh they made a big impression on me
See I remember a lot of these
And here's why just as
An overall take on it
Here's why it's one of my favorites
Is that there's a lot of directions
Like expository raps go
Where it's like you're talking
To somebody else about the movie
You're talking about
Why you like the movie and what the movie's going to do
It can be
You're talking
Like you're watching the movie
You're narrating what's going to happen next
You could be giving a synopsis of the movie
Or you could be like
A character in the movie like you're rapping
For example
An example here
You're rapping as Jim West
And Will Smith does all of that
He takes
All of those angles in one song
He starts talking about the movie
He starts talking like he's in the movie
And then my favorite part
Is about halfway through the song
He does some fucking Charlie Kaufman shit
And he starts writing a diss track
To the villain in the movie
As the character from the movie
Kenneth Branagh
He starts writing a Kenneth Branagh diss track
And he didn't get Kenneth Branagh
For this
Even though his character appears in the video
Barely glinted
And that's not him
They couldn't get him because
Surely they asked him
And I'm such a fan of that conversation
In my head
You want me to say wiki wiki wild
Wiki wiki wild
I'm really disappointed in that
He already did Wild Wild West
You're already in too deep
You might as well just have some fun
And do the fucking hit track
Which would go on to be the most memorable
And successful thing about that entire movie
Easily
Tommy Lee Jones
You're too good for it
That's Will Swaley
Are you going to say no to Will Swaley
Who the fuck do you think you are
With all the cameos in this video
There's no way he didn't ask
Kenneth Branagh to be in the video
And there's no way Kenneth Branagh
Didn't say just no
You want to wrap
About the movie
How vulgar
And just check right out of it
He pretended he didn't get that fax
There's one thing
About these songs too that you
I think was the other angle
That you were missing from your
What a song this should try to do
And one of them was just like
Hey, you went and saw the movie
Let's remember it together
Remember that part?
In the credits
Let's all reflect on our experience
And the music video is like
A lot of times videos like this are original material
They'll go back and they'll reshoot
It's like you get a little
Directors commentary
When you went home
You're like let's put on MTV
And see this additional part of this movie
That I like so much
I want to see the low pan wrap
I would love to see the low pan wrap
I also love
I'm not going to interrupt the low pan wrap
No, I don't think I have a low pan wrap
He's like a hype man
He just drops in every once in a while
He did the pieces out
I would marry the most
I was hoping there was a low pan wrap
One of the things I love about
Wild Wild West is that he sampled
The Cool Modi song which was
Basically about murders and the hood
It was about people coming in
And shooting up his parties with his friends
And stuff and how they had to fight back
But then he made it
Yeah, he made it this
Just family friendly
Disney ride
Of a video and song
And it's so wonderful
I love this song
And if we're going through
Our categories
I'm going to say
If you never heard of the movie
What would you think the song was trying to say?
Oh boy
Let's see
I think
See where the bad guys are to be found
And make them lay down
Making them die
Yeah, that's like for the kids
They're defenders of the west
Crushed all pretenders in the west
Oh, he did the little Wayne thing
He rhymed the same word twice
Touch my breath, it was right there
Different emphasis
I don't know if I would understand the movie
Gave it low pan looking fine in that vest
I mean that's just right there
You could have had it
You already have the word west so many times
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West
Wild Wild Wiki Wild
I would stop the bum rush
It's maybe about like a violent
Theme park
Maybe it's kind of a west world
Is what I would get
Where anything goes you may be asked to lay down
Forever at any point
Yeah, there's a lot of drama
It feels like the interpersonal drama
At like between the employees
Of an amusement park maybe
That's a good point
This would be the diss track from one employee
To perhaps a shitty
Manager at a west world like
Theme park
I think that's what this song is about
If you've never heard of the movie
I'm just trying to wrap my head around some of these lines
To any outlaw, trying to draw, thinking you're bad
Any drawing on the west
Best with a pen and a pad
Don't even think about it, six gun, weighing a ton
First of all, get it
You might want to think about a different gun at that point
You're going to be so slow
That's the thing though, he's like you're so slow
That your gun is going to feel like it weighs a ton
As compared to my speed
Right
Do you think this is the only wrap
With a shout out
To Kevin Klein
With Artemis
From the start of this, running the game
Now who are you going to call, J Dub and AG
So
It may be on record
It's the only song that shouts out Kevin Klein
That's
Kevin Klein, I would be like I'm in a rap song
Was there a fish called Wonder Wrap or anything like that
Is that a...
I don't know
There should be
I could see like a Monty Python style
Fish called Wonder Wrap
Did the artist actually watch the film
He was in it and he summarized it pretty well
This is an easy one
He nailed it
Definitely watched the film
Not an artist or band possibly created
Totally to make this song
But he may have been hired
Solely
To make a song
That seemed to be like a winning formula back then
If you got Will Smith as an actor
You were almost guaranteed to get Will Smith
As a music producer
To help hype
Do you think they sought him out for that
Because I feel like I always assumed he said
Okay, I get to do the
Video for this though
I am your theme song
I think they knew that though
And they're like, let's get him
Because he's going to do the thing he does
Where he raps about the thing he's in
It works
I remember when everybody was just so enthusiastic
About this
That we have to do one of these
The whole world is going to love it
I remember feeling exhausted by it
I remember going to see that in the theaters
And being like, I guess we'll go see Wild Wild Bless
It seems like they spent so much money on it
We'll fucking go see it
And it was just on the radio all day
We were like, yeah
We should play this four times an hour
We have to, right?
Except Brockway
This had a big impact on him
For me, usually
Shaved me as a person
Tearing me down
For me and the people I hung out with
It felt like it was for us
I don't think I knew anyone who was
Against sci-fi blockbusters
Or westerns or anything
And of course, you know I've been down
O.G. Full O.G.
Oh, are we talking about the movie?
No, fuck the movie, I don't care about the movie
Just the song
Okay
It started my love affair with
Expository Rack
That's fair, I like that
That's an okay path to go down
So how does the song hold up over time
Separate from the film
But I also think it's
Enjoyed a healthy lifespan
Without the film
It can live without the film
The film cannot live without it
Oh, that's a good way to put that
And as a final note, I just want to say
I can't believe he didn't put the giant spider
Anywhere in this rap
It could have been the first rap about Kevin Klein
And the giant spider
Everybody hated that fucking giant spider
Will Smith hated it
It's between the lines
The omission
It's just clear
I would argue that the South Park version was
Do you remember the South Park version where Cartman
Did this rap
Did his version of it
And his was basically
And it was just
The whole song
And I think it's better
The caption is clear
We don't have one of those in the categories
Was there a parody of this
That was much better
If you had that category
There is one thing about Wild Wild West
That I love
In my household, I walk this weird line
I'm like the ambassador
Of kind of white stuff
For the blacker side of the family
For those that present blacker than I
I can relate
Being ambassador of the white stuff
For instance, my brothers
No fucking clue what Steampunk was
They do now, but back then
Jim West was their introduction
To Steampunk
I remember I was trying to show my brother Bioshock
And I was like, dude
I'm never going to see a better video again than this
Bioshock is it
The game has changed
And he goes, he saw my shotgun
He's like, what's this Jim West ass looking shit
And I was like, dude
You just completely dismantled my love
Of Bioshock
With one comparison
This is just a ripoff of Wild Wild West
Isn't it? It's some Jim West bullshit
Right here
That is a really solid Bioshock burn
I didn't have a Jim West gun too
I didn't have a Jim West gun too
It said it pipes on it
Random clockwork nonsense
That probably didn't need to be there
Like that's heartlessly sliced me open
If you had to
Take a cultural anchor from the black community
And describe Steampunk
How would you do that?
So you didn't have something to show
You couldn't just show them Bioshock
Let me explain Steampunk to you
As someone who only knows black things
I mean
It'd probably be Wild Wild West
I'd start there and just be like
So there's a whole community like this
You take this terrible movie
That everyone hates
The look and aesthetic of it is a lifestyle
For some people
They dress like it
Some people live like this
They want to be Jim Westville all the time
They want Jim Westworld in real life
So that's something to think about
When we're rating these later
We've got something that brings a lot of communities together
The Wild Wild West song
Yeah, it's going to be hard
To beat the impact
That mine had on the world itself
That's a good segue
That's true
It's a good segue to mine
Which is
T-U-R-T-L-E power
I was going to say feel the impact
We're going to argue about which one's your mainstream
I think turtle power is way more mainstream
Way more mainstream
The way you listed it though
You listed it like it was the wild card
Yeah
Feel the impact
Ninja Turtles
Yes, I'm going to talk about turtle power now
T-U-R-T-L-E power
It was made by Partners in Crime
Which was one white guy and one black guy
Both of them very corny
Bringing races together
Once and for all
This was the end of racism
That was going to be my transition
Oh man, sorry
You said impact and I was like feel the impact
That's so good because we're going to feel the impact next
Yeah, it would have been good
Probably better than mine
But mine I was focused really on the race thing
I'm always trying to think about how we can fix these racial issues
You're trying to undo your racism
But it's just not in the cards man
I just can't do it
It's always getting fucked up
Okay
So
Now
If you've never heard of the movie
What would you think the song was trying to say
I think this song very clearly
Describes
Ninja Turtles
It's so perfectly
Describes the movie
It does a little else
It just details the lives
And like diets
And practices
I'm not sure he'd briefly
Dives into a flashback that gives you the origin
Then he goes all right nevermind
That let's back to the story at hand
And he brings us back
He's jumping around in time
Yeah
Very good
Heroes 4
I would argue
A terrible song
I think we suffered through it because
Ninja Turtles was very important to everyone when we were children
But
We did not hold up over time
I think if you showed that to someone who
Wasn't familiar with the movie
They'd be like this is one of the worst songs they've ever heard
And they'd be right
But not
Not at the time it aired
They would have been wildly incorrect
They would have gone to the mall and bought this tape
That's true
My older brother did have this on cassette single
Shout out to
Lieutenant Colonel Riley
Four tours in Afghanistan
With partners in crime
And none of it matters
Because now he's the turtle power guy
The white guy in partners in crime
Is named DJ Keymaster Snow
Keymaster Snow
I had to look into him to see if he later
Went on to become snow
Because he kind of looks like he could have been
He looks a little bit like in former snow
But it's a different
Here's my theory
There's a future ama joke where all the aliens
Were registering for classes alphabetically
And every section was empty except for
At the letter Z there's this huge line
And I think that that's what it would look like
If you looked up white rappers
I think you just wouldn't find a lot until you got to S for snow
Where there's just
600 DJ snows
And so
He does seem like he's a little bit obsessed
With being a white rapper
I found an interview with him with a hip hop blog
In 2009
And they asked him just like hey how's it going
And the first thing he says is
I was always into more traditionally black music
All through high school
Out of the gates with like
Yeah I'm kind of the black white guy
Yeah he's like I gotta pass
I use the N word, no big deal
Yeah no big deal, I get away with it most times
I got the card
So I think he was happy to have a black friend
When they made partners in crime
Which I think was absolutely formed for this movie
Yeah, they have no
Footprint
Anywhere else before this
I found it in my notes like three days ago
They did some other soundtrack movie
They did
They have three songs basically
Right
What was the other soundtrack they did
What a great idea for a band
Is just to form up and do raps
That explain various movies
I mean you only had
Top 10 years
Or so where that was a really good idea
And
Man but it was a great idea for those 10 years
I would have loved an album
Of just
Raps songs about movies
I'm gonna put a Spotify playlist together
Maybe this could be a thing we send people
To go look at
Zach's curated
Movie songs about the movies
They're in playlists
There are so many
Good lines, so many good rhymes
In total and what was
Your favorite rhyme
My favorite is how he made a Domino's
Pizza reference
Rewarded it to work with his rhyme scheme
He's like
They'll be there with the quickness
He's like I'm not talking about
A half an hour because they display
Turtle power so he got the 30 minutes
Or less joke in there made it about pizza
Still made it about turtles and I'm like
That's how you fucking rap
That's what rap is
These guys are not afraid
They're not afraid of a very long walk
To get to where they're trying to
Right
That's what makes it more of
Less of a rap and more of
An epic poem
I think these guys are up there with Homer
A little bit
I think I might shout in Cowabunga
As they hit the
Out of the dark came an awesome sound
Shout in Cowabunga as they hit the ground
From the field of weeds
The heroes rescued the flower
Because they possessed turtle power
I think that one is
The field of weeds they rescued the flower
Is very, very epic
A great way to put
The crime ridden streets of New York
Yeah
I think mine has got to be
Now this was beyond her worst dreams
Because she was cornered by some wayward teens
Worse dreams, yeah they
Changed the actual cliche
The popular phrase
To fit their rhyme scheme
But he still had to say it as
Cornered by some wayward teens
Worst nightmare and beyond was to be cornered
By wayward teens
They could terrorize and be angry youth
And they'd mug the people who needed proof
I'm gonna throw this out there
With one other fellow Raphael
He's the leader of the group transformed from
The norm by the nuclear goop
Also you got that wrong
He got it wrong, yeah
He singled out Raphael in a way where he was like
Oh he's gonna talk about his emotional issues
There's like what leader and
Not the leader
Pizza's the food that's sure to please
These ninjas are into pepperoni and cheese
Comes way late in the song
It's like the second or third pizza reference
I feel like it just takes a turn from there too
He just has to remember
He's like wait, pizza's the food that's sure to please
These ninjas are into pepperoni and cheese
Alright back to the song
Just had to toss that one out there
He gets a little bit of the
Tautological here
He's like splintered as the teacher
Yeah, that's the typical
Dynamic when one is the teacher
They were once normal
But now they're mutants, splinters the teacher
So they are the students
Look, we hadn't really
Invented flow
Yeah, that was
Definitely a 90s thing
Where we got it
Before that, it was just kind of like
Some people had it, some people didn't
You didn't really define it
Most people didn't
This did it for me
The video did everything that I needed it to do
When I got home
Which was show me more turtles
This video had it all
People in turtle costumes hanging out with the
Rapper, so there was turtles there
Doing something that we haven't seen yet
There's scenes from the movie, I could be like
Oh yeah, because we don't have YouTube yet
And I can't just go watch these clips
I have to wait for this music video to come on
Music videos were on YouTube, it's true
There's a weird scene where cheerleaders
Like moon us
And it has turtle power written on their ass
Yeah, this is
Out of nowhere, risque
It was very traumatizing for me
Because I wrote about Sarah's and Mai
And seeing turtle power on somebody's butt
Is just
It just wounds me now
See that
Lits something inside me
A sexual fire that I have yet to quench
Turtles, nerd stuff and sex
Yeah, I need
Until the day comes when I
Make love to 12 cheerleaders with turtles on their butts
I don't think that'll ever be quenched
And I'm like aging out of where that's appropriate
Like you don't want to be the 50 year old
Trying to work that out
Meanwhile, it's just giving me flashbacks to my Vietnam
Of those butt sucking turtle boys
Butt sucking turtle boys
Yeah, it's true, that's a real thing
He wrote an article about butt sucking turtle boys
It's a real thing
The Japanese make very problematic cartoons
Oh man, I'm gonna need a link
I'm in the dark here
But those butt sucking turtle boys
And you both were like, yeah
Yup, that's our job
That's our site, that's what we do
We share that experience together
Well, I think this song is
It did its job, I think it's pretty amazing
I think that it
If you haven't seen the movie
I know for a fact
Because my mom got tired of hearing this song
She's like, I feel like I've seen this movie
Because of this goddamn song
So from
We have positive user review
That it did its job well
I think the artist
Absolutely
Watched this film
They messed up the Raphael part
But for the most part
They kind of nailed all the other beats of the film
I mean, it's possible that just Raphael
Was his favorite
Like he's everybody's favorite
He thought if he locked it in
Then they would have to change the movie
It's not too late to just make something canon
I can do this shit
And then another guy in the group
Is named Snow
He's the toughest one
Every time I hear that part
That build up to Raphael
From the first time I listen to it
To now
I keep thinking he's gonna talk about Casey Jones
And then there's one other guy
It's like, why are you singling out this turtle
In a way that you should be talking
About somebody else completely different
Because he loves him
He goes to see Critters in a trench coat
It's no joke
He's creeping around New York City
In that sexual predator outfit
Yeah
In the Fantastic Four
That's how the thing would get around the city
So for me that just felt super normal
Like I didn't think of him as a pervert
I just kind of thought of everybody as a pervert
In New York City in that era
Somebody not from
I just assumed like if you want to blend in
You'd look like a pervert
I guess if I did see him
In real life I would just
Almost guarantee he's gonna pull open that trench coat
As soon as I get close to him
And so you would avoid him
Which makes it the perfect disguise
And then he makes that weird sound
That turtles make when they have sex
Muah
Muah
Everybody does
It's different
I did get my daughter a turtle
When she was one
And it was a tiny little baby turtle
And so I got to watch it go through turtle puberty
And there was a time
When like anything that fell into
His cage
Which was mostly just lettuce
But if it was too big a piece of lettuce
And
And so I have seen
A lot of variations on turtle sex
And heard a lot of variations of turtle orgasm
That's turtle power
That's turtle power right there
He's not gonna fucking for a half an hour
Because he displays turtle power
Muah
Muah
Muah
So Zach you got a tough
A tough battle here
You have to be wild wild west
What's your main stream
I'm an asshole
I got so worried that I would miss out
On being able to select these ones
That I just jumped the gun and just chose
Like the off the beaten path
Ones right away
I wasn't trying to be like
I wasn't going for the win
I was going for the street cred
You didn't want us to take your cool funny ones
And the expository
Street cred
These streets are dangerous
Inclusively the streets where they explain things
To you through rap
And I chose Big Trouble Little China
I love it
By John Carpenter
John Carpenter's Coupe de Ville's Big Trouble
Big Trouble
And Little China
Somebody had to do it
It's not unusual for John Carpenter to make music
For the movies that he
That he directs
Fucking unusual to do that
He's
Very good at it
The Halloween soundtrack is one of the most iconic
Horror sounds out there
He made that
But this one was weird because he made a band
To do it this time
He's like I want there to be a sexy
Expository song
And I want to sing it
And the band itself is
Kind of weird too
It's
Other horror movie icons
Including
Michael Myers himself
That's Nick Castle is in the band
The guy who played Michael Myers
And the other guy is a dude named Tommy Lee Wallace
Who also directed
He directed like Halloween 3
Or something
The It miniseries on TV
So it's not really musicians
It's just three horror dudes
Singing this really cheesy
Kind of awesome kind of bad song
Right
Yeah it's just like John Carpenter's movies
It somehow crosses the line
Depending on your mood
It's really cheesy or super awesome
Yeah and the whole score
Of the whole movie is pretty good
There's some very tonally
Perfect stuff
For the dangerous parts
And the action parts
A lot of his weird synthesizer stuff
And then there's this song
His whole goal
He said was to make this
Chinese centric film
He's like I wanted to be careful that the score wasn't
Quote unquote
Rinky Tinky Chop Suey
Yeah
But we all know what he means
We know what he means but what's you could have put that in a better way
Yeah it's a different time
I didn't want to be like
You know how it goes
If anybody's gonna do it
It's gotta be our boy
And yet they do use that sound clip
So they do
So the rest of the score is fine
It's exempt from
Rinky Tinky Chop Suey
But Big Trouble Little China goes into
It kind of
It kind of leans on that stuff a little bit
I can take you there
Like it does the
You know kind of racist
These sounds like if you were like hey make a racist Chinese song
And you would use that same
The sound that they make
Is a sample
Yeah that's probably what it says on the keyboard
It's racist Chinese sound
They just had it pre-programmed
In a button
I don't think there was a gong though
I feel like a gong could have added some whimsy
To the racism
It could have taken it so far that it would have been okay
Yeah comes back around with the gong
Especially if one of the guys actually plays the gong
Man I love watching somebody play a gong
Just one big strike
They know that's their moment
Preventing the nerds has that
Where Takashi is just like
An American Indian
Like has the gong
He just like bashes it and he does like this
A ninja pose after he's done
He's so proud of himself
Just lasagna of racism
They found something
For everybody to do and they were all super happy to do it
That um
Yeah I don't know
This song is pretty fantastic
It's also very
We got Takashi banging on his gong
The boys and the moos are clapping along
Break
We weren't allowed to bring up other
No songs
Well
We'll fix all that
We're gonna slip every once in a while
It's bound to happen
I didn't think that would count anyway
I don't think that was ever released as a single
Yeah I don't think it's really about
The movie I guess it kind of is
They describe themselves and what they do
Yeah
They explain their whole vibe
It's as much of a theme song
As any of these I would imagine
Yeah
Well now you can never bring it
No I can't bring it forever
That's fine
Whatever points you get from that
Get added to Big Trouble and Little China
Well this
We got
Big Trouble and Little China
Pulls ahead with a little help from Avenger the Nerds
What did you say
It's way too complicated to explain
These lyrics
For this song
Are puzzling because
John Carpenter made the movie and he made the song
But his song isn't
It doesn't do a very good job of explaining
What happens
I would argue that
Of course he made the movie
So clearly he's seen the movie
But I would argue based on the criteria
We've laid out
He didn't watch the movie
Exactly
He doesn't look back
The man that made the movie
Didn't watch it
Run until they take us away
Yeah this was totally
If you had hired like an outside band
And they turned this in you'd be like
Just watch the fucking movie
Like I see what you do
When you looked at the cover
You thought you could get away with just like
Some generic bullshit
We better run
Run through the mystic night
So here's my theory
John Carpenter and the Coupe de Ville's
Wrote this song and they were like
This song would make a fucking awesome movie
We should make
Big Trouble Little China into a movie
And so the movie is actually
A movie about the song
With a beholder?
Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual
Then I would argue
The movie did not listen to the song
Either way
They can't win
There's a dude in Big Trouble Little China
That gets so pissed off that he explodes
And that's like how they beat one of the minibosses
He just
Find a flaw with it
He just like he rage quit
He's like man my fucking team's dead
I'm carrying this damn team
They have another miniboss
Who shoots lightning and when
Except he can't like control it
So he'll like sort of shoot lighting and never hits anybody
And then there's the scene where he just
Fucking goes crazy doing his like
Lightning kata just shooting
Lightning everywhere except his enemies
Love it
It's kind of like the Tourette's
Of mystical kung fu power
Yeah I think that's
They're the best villains
They're amazing
They're playing by rules we can't understand
And they just
The one thing that bummed me out is we never got to see
Lightning
In his casual
Civilian clothes
And I don't think he ever had any control over his lightning
He's just in lightning mode
These other two suave motherfuckers could be like
Put on a three piece and go give
Sightseeing tours
I could help you
I could help you
That other dude was
I think he made a appearance in The Golden Child
Oh yeah
He was great wind
That could have benefitted from
A golden child song
That could have benefitted from John Carpenter
And the Coup de Ville
And Murphy doing the
Yeah I want the knife
I mean you could have just
Just give that to any hip hopper
They could have made a whole song out of it
You know what? We should just do it
Let's just do it
And then they'll have to make
We're making a rap, a golden child rap
It'll be big trouble in Little China
We'll do the song and then they'll have to make the movie again
It's called
It's really hard to rhyme with
Dear sweet brother Noomssee though
We'll do it
We'll find it
Tootsie
Sure I guess we're going for the soft rhyme
Yeah it's gotta be a soft rhyme
Yeah
Anyway we'll make this but it'll be
The platinum child
We'll get it done
So who do you have
Big Trum, Little China
Wild Wild West, Turtle Power
Mmm
I'm thinking
Turtle Power for me
I'm Turtle Power
Even though it's my own if I'm allowed to
We're allowed to
I'm not pending from Wild Wild West
So we got Turtle
It's good that there's three of us because there's always going to be a winner
Unless we all vote for our own
One round which you know
I'm going to vote for mine
I think everyone should just be eliminated if that happens
Podcast is over but just cut to the theme music
Einstein who did
Cut to a live version
We'll just have you do it
Big Trum, Little China was a dark horse
I
Mostly just wanted people to go look this song up
And watch the video
I knew there was no chance this was going to
Beat either of those entries
Sure but it's one of those nice surprises
You kind of forget about it because I don't think it was ever on the radio
I don't know if I've ever heard anyone sing it
Until of course today
Yeah and you got a little trivia
You know Michael Myers on keyboard
That's cute
The leprechaun on bass
So who wants to start this round
We're going to go
Second round is
What was the criteria
What's the
Your deep cut
Yeah your deep cut
Do we just stick with the same word?
I think you were Sean
Should start
I think you have less deep cuts
I got
Yeah and I also
Got zero votes on the last one
So maybe I should go first
I'm going to get zero votes again
Because it's a weird deep cut
It's not cool
It's the pet cemetery song by the Ramones
So this is
I think it's cool as hell
It's a great song
It's also the song that introduced me to the Ramones
I didn't have a whole lot of like
Punk rock
Or like white people music influences
Who has the time for a Ramones song
Right
Two minutes
You don't have a minute and a half
I heard this song and I was like
This is cheesy as fuck
But that song is awesome
I loved it so much that I had to
Open up the TV guide
And find out when pet cemetery was going to play again
So that I could try to
Hold a tape recorder up to the TV
And record this song
This is how we lived back in the day
It was no way to live
It was a savage realm
Where was I going to play that tape
The Ramones played a song
Called pet cemetery
It is adorably bad
The lyrics are so
They did not watch the movie
But that's by their own admission
The first two lines are legendary
The first two lines are like
No you did not watch the movie
But then they reference actual things
So here's what happened
I don't know this song
Stephen King
Unsurprisingly
I should have guessed this huge Ramones fan
They were playing in Baltimore
Wherever it is he lives
He invited him over to his house
He gave them a copy of the book
Pet Cemetery
Didi Ramone
The resident fuck up and junkie
Of the group
Took it to the basement and spent an hour
Reading it but then he came back
He was like
I wrote a song about the 30 minutes
Of pet cemetery that I read
Which is why you get references to Victor
Like
Very heavily in the beginning of this song
And then like no other references
To the story
He very clearly got the gist of the
The beginning of it and was like
I could write a whole song about this thing
That's all I need to know
It's going to be two minutes long
We're not going to have time to get into the story
We're going to introduce Victor
In the ancient goblins and warlords
Which opened the book
Hit us with a bunch of old woes
Ramones style
The lyrics are wonderful too
Because they also qualify for one of two
Things that the Ramones are usually about
Which is either
They want to do something
Or they don't want to do something
That's every Ramones song
It's one or the other
They don't want to be buried
And they don't want to live their lives again
So that's
These lyrics were so inspiring that
Markey Ramone, the son of a bitch
I guess there had been a talk about
Didi starting his own rap group
Like his solo career to be a rapper
Based on these lyrics
Markey goes, I think this is it
Man, I think you can do a
Rap career
And so that's how we got
These lyrics are so killer
Because this all happened under Stephen King's roof
Didi King
Funky Man
I encourage you to go look up Didi King's Funky Man
It's widely regarded as one of the worst
Recorded albums of all time
I do not know it
I'm going to get so much hate from your Ramones fans
Because it has
They hold it in very high regard
They love this album
I can't tell if it's ironic
All my friends were huge Ramones fans
And I had never heard of this album
So I think
Maybe there's a subset
That may be what makes this a deep cut
You just discovered the Ramones rap side project
Funky Man
Yeah, it sure qualifies as a deep cut
I certainly knew the song
I did not know the backstory to the song
And it's just a great song
I knew cocaine led to this song
But I didn't know it was Stephen King's house
With the Ramones at a party
Amounts of cocaine
This is a supernatural
Amounts of cocaine
I loved how
It was just
In the video
They're just wandering around a cemetery
And then playing in a grave
And it's just
It was never more clear
That Joey just did not know
How to pilot that body
He was always so physically
Awkward just everywhere he went
What do I do with every part of my body
He was like a Jim Henson character
Being operated by three different people
Like watching a toddler try to operate a crane
So maybe
He didn't want to get buried in a pet cemetery
Because he saw his brother already go through it
He's just
Being
Puppeted around by mysterious forces
Yeah, that's games
There's a weird thing in that video
They all kind of look awkward and weird
Well, they do all that all the time
Because they're also like
They seem to be like
Vacuum sealed into these jeans
With their jackets
So they don't have full mobility
So they're trying to navigate these tombstones
And they all just
Are almost falling on their asses the whole time
While they're trying to look cool
As they stalk through this cemetery
They couldn't look dorkier
I love them, they're so adorable
Yeah, that's the rules all the time
They never had full mobility
They were not an agile band
They were not, but they do that weird
Like
They separate their feet
They do kickstands off to the side
And get real low while they play their bases
Yeah, you need the jeans for that
Gotta have the jeans
I can't do that
You need those Chuck Norris kicking jeans
Those
Flex jeans
What are those called?
Splits jeans
Chuck Norris kicking jeans
What do you fucking think they're called?
I said it
I guess that's a good transition in the mind
If we're ready
Chuck Norris kicking jeans
Chuck Norris' famous song kicking jeans
Chuck Norris
And the kicking jeans
Country ballad
Right, it's a love song
You wouldn't expect that
This is from Double Impact
Which isn't a deep cut
It was a very mainstream movie
But very forgotten, I would say
It was the 11th movie
Well, it was the
Junk Club made, I think,
Five movies where there's two of them
This was the first one
Yeah, he finally got creative control over his movies
And he was locked into a three-picture deal
And then he finally got to go off
And do his own ideas
And his first idea was, what if there was
More me
And so the song
Is called Field the Impact
And we haven't done these yet
But I'm just going to perform it in its entirety
Now, if you
I knew this was going to happen
Of course, now if you want to beatbox along
Go ahead, at home
If you want to bang something together, go ahead
Because this song is so anti-melodic
So rhythm-less
There is no way to get it wrong
The beat of this song, so here we go
This is, I'm not making fun of this
I kind of am, but I'm going to do
A very sincere
Recreation as best I can
It goes like this
And get ready
Because I'm going to even the score
You thought I wouldn't be back for more
But I feel the fire
Burning in my soul
It kept me holding on to my goal
And I'm sure that now you know
You're going to get what's coming
To you from me
I'll make you see you never should have done me
No wrong
Because this time I'm twice as strong
I aim too true for you to overcome
You don't even know what I hold inside
And that's why
I'm going to make you feel the
Impact of my soul
Of my soul
Of my soul
There is a singing part after that
Where it goes
I've been waiting
For this moment
All my life
I'm going to take everything
That I've got in my heart
And let it all out
With you the impact
Now that's the whole song
Then it does feel the impact
Feel the impact
Like on a sampler
Feel the impact
Like the Ferris Bueller keyboard
Feel the impact
And then it plays
Everything you just heard me do again
It's entirety again
Five minutes long that song is
It is straight control V
Control P that
That song
I love how bad that song is
I bet most people won't even believe me
That that was a faithful recreation
And maybe I'm not as talented as
Jen was the musical artist
Jump back
I don't know man I nailed every one of those
Claps and also the
Hitting a water bottle with my pen
That was
That was spot on to what happened in that song
Yeah so
The beat doesn't match those lyrics at all
Because it's like some punches
Some punch sound effects from the movie
Something chaotic
It felt like multiple musicians
Were fighting and like
Maybe they all went off to do their own thing
But then they made up and were like
We'll just get it all together
This is the first song on the list
I think
I'm just guessing based on what I could find
That was a rap song
That was commissioned
The composer of the film
They asked the composer
Hey can you do a rap
And he said yes
It is not the only
Yeah
This is the first one though
I can't find
Anything on Jen
I don't know that Jen actually exists
Yeah I think it's
I think it's the composer
That did the soundtrack
Yeah that's Arthur Kemple
Right Kemple
It was like just a journeyman
Composer like his greats are all
Like Remington Steele
Well he did the
Arrival the Charlie Sheen one
Was his biggest
Probably his biggest most commercially
Viable one next to Double Impact
His profile picture
On YouTube so whenever there's like
A verified artist
They'll do
YouTube will upload copyright material
Right library so that
In order for it to exist in that library
So you can't steal it
They have to post the video of it
So it's like a conversation about
Arthur Kemple
And his profile picture is
Zane Ziminski from the Arrival
It's just Charlie Sheen
That's the best profile picture you could get
Charlie Sheen from the Arrival
I think that's lucky
It could have been two Van Damms
It's true
It's definitely not as good as two Van Damms
Look at it
It's just a shot in the Arrival when you first see their knees
Break the wrong direction
Yeah that'd be a good picture
The broken knees in the Arrival is the three tits
Of Total Recall that's the only thing people
Can remember about
The knees right yeah that's all you need to know
There was a scene where they're in the elevator
And the aliens just suddenly start talking alien
And it's just like
And the humans are in there
Trying to act like oh no cool
We know what you're saying
Like they're trying to infiltrate the aliens
I love that scene
But honestly don't remember anything other than
Those two things
That old Peter Jackson movie Bad Taste
Did you ever watch that?
I don't think so
They were trying to infiltrate an alien group
And all the aliens started puking into a bowl
And passing it to each other
And they all puked at it
And then they all had to take a drink from it
And the humans had to take a drink from it
And Peter Jackson started that way
And then became like the beautiful elf guy
Right
The fucking patron saint of New Zealand
And then all anybody remembers is like
Oh you do those beautiful scenes
With the elves that just
Got a drink puke
I got my start with a puppet fly
That flew over with a spoon
To eat shit
Feel the impact
Feel the impact
Gen
I don't know anything about the performer either
So clearly I don't think it's Arthur
The composer rapping
At least I hope not
They hired a youngster to come in
And do the raps
What's funny about these raps
And we're gonna have a couple more
I think on this list
Of raps that were clearly composed
By the score composer
Their knowledge of rap
Is so fucking tame
And mild like white bread shit
This is the late 80's
Early 90's
Kids like my age are listening to
We're in NWA at this point
But old people still thought like
Man Debbie Harry opened the doors
For them
We can all do this
They still thought it was like the
Furious Five
They're still doing that goofy shit
This is very much like a local car dealership
Level of rap
It's so bad
Like if this is a
I don't know
It's aggressively anti-rhythmic
And I'm not a big
Rap like
Guy I guess
But my knowledge is deep enough
That I know this is bad
I'm 100% sure it's bad
It has all the bad
They're
So these songs are all
Kind of unique in their beautiful
Awfulness
They stole
Flow from
Milly Vanilly
The flow is very similar
Dude you bit
Milly Vanilly out of all
I can see that
Yeah
Just said that weird funky
We're not rappers
But we got some flavor
Right
You can blame it on the ring
That's very feely impact
Intermediate rap
Intermediate rap
Use car salesman
Rap is perfect
Local commercial
So do you think
Feel the impact of these deals
They actually watch the film
Deals, feel the deal
I don't think so
Like this is so generic
It's like they've seen one martial arts movie
And they're like it's kind of about overcoming
Personal limitations
They're not wrong
It works here
And it can probably work in several other places
Double impact was mostly
About the dichotomy
Between one super tough Jean-Claude Van Damme
And one super fruity Jean-Claude Van Damme
Which was the war within himself
Yes, of course
Black silk and the wears
Because of the karate and my super strong legs
I could do splits
No problem
Back and forth
To be clear, when he got full creative control
His first movie was
Two Jean-Claude Van Dammes
And it opened with him doing the splits
Right in front of a bunch of girls who were just super into it
They were just coming all over the place while he was doing it
All day long they were coming
Rivers
His WAP all over that gym
I feel like that's all I have to say about that song
It's a great song in its
Terribleness
That's the song to beat, gentlemen
Well, there's only one left
It's mine, it is Maniac Cop Rap
That's my deep cut
And this
This was also
The composer just decided
They gave it to the composer of the soundtrack
Jay Chattaway
You're writing a rap now
And I assume he went
Fucking what?
Let me look up rap and this Encyclopedia
Yeah
It doesn't have the whole definition
But I'm gonna go with it
His
Whatever entry he looked in the Encyclopedia
It was a far more detailed
And sophisticated one than Feel the Impact
Cause this one
Nails the movie
I had never saw Maniac Cop 2
It's not a great song
I understand what the movie is about
I know there's a jacuzzi scene
I would be shocked
If there was not a jacuzzi scene
In Maniac Cop 2
Don't actually remember a jacuzzi scene
We shot it with an oozy
It shows up in a jacuzzi
So they hired
Josh Barnes and Brian
Ddubs Woods
To bring in these lyrics
Who also have no past
I found out nothing about them
I'm assuming they were his cousins
They're Manchurian candidates
Who read specifically for this purpose
And then
Executed
Here's my favorite part
Everything that you said is why I brought it
Which is that it's the perfect
Expository rap and that it explains
Everything about the movie
And just does its job
It comes in and it's like here's the movie
Is this scene, is it the first act, the second act, the third act
The characters
But it opens with a primer
Just in case
I haven't seen the first movie
Here's that primer
You better watch out when you hear that sound
That means that the Maniac Cop's around
Once upon a time he was a super cop
But the bad guy framed him
To make him stop
They put him in prison where they tried to kill him
But he broke out
Now he's the villain
Bullets don't hurt him
I know it should like Jive
But we're not sure if he's dead or alive
So good
Where they do a little acting
At the beginning
They do a little skit at the beginning
This is just like
The sum up
You don't even have to watch the first movie
Now if you listen to this rap
You're good
You're caught up
This is a previously
On Maniac Cop
Done so concisely
And so well
Previously on Maniac Cop
You better watch out when you hear that sound
Something is sneaking around the corner
And the next line is
Here he come, here he come
I think it's that Maniac
You gotta get this right
He goes hold on
Raw
Some of the best acting
I can only assume that the acting in the film
Was at least on par
With what we heard there
I don't know that anything is on par with that
I don't see any mentions of Robert Zadar
In these lyrics
That's true
Robert Zadar rhymes with car
Going too far
Which is classic Maniac Cop
Shooting up the bar
Any number of things
They do refer to Maniac Cop
So
It's gotta count
Maybe he was so lost in the role
That he was like don't put me
I am the Maniac Cop
I need you to address me
As Maniac Cop
While I'm in uniform
I think you've already hit on it
But my favorite rhyme is set him on fire
I shoot him with a newsy
But he'll show up in your jacuzzi
If there's not a jacuzzi scene
In Maniac Cop 2
I'm gonna be fucking livid
I think
The best one is you won't
Get a ticket or pay a fine
You might as well be dealing with Frankenstein
Cause that implies not only is he unkillable
But he was like an idiot
Like he can't reason with him
Oh the next line is
That's kind of a low key shout out to Zadar
He's big and ugly with a busted jaw
Aw come on man
That's not makeup
That's just Robert
Single tear rolls down his face
Continues rolling trying to crest the jaw
But it never will
He broke my jaw
Robert Zadar was 100% born
He wasn't getting out of there
Unscathed
Or
Or somebody
Didn't make it out of childhood
He left a body
Yeah that's the origin story
Yeah we'll google that
Make sure we leave that in the podcast
He might have exploded his mother
I always like one of my favorite moves
Especially in like
Early 80's 90's rap
Is when they
Can't figure out how to match
The amount of syllables in a line
So they just put gibberish in
And here it's
They killed him once but he came back
He's the muh muh muh muh muh maniac
That's it
That's the shitty high school students
Way of like patting an essay
With the same word
I couldn't figure it out
He's the very very very
Very very maniac maniac
Muh muh muh muh maniac
Muh muh muh muh maniac
And they do a lot of laugh
Wrapping in this too like laugh beats
Ha ha ha
Yeah
I really like the line I guess it's from the movie
Where it goes you have the right to a mortician
If you cannot afford one we'll take your ass out
Just nonsense
Just not
What if I can't afford a mortician
Am I then am I okay
But then if I can't afford a mortician
Can you tell me because that's
That just gets awkward
Does that mean you're not going to embalm me once I'm dead
Like why did you bring up the mortician
Yeah
Because it's about death and dark shit boy
The other
The other meta thing I love that this song does
That no weather expository rep
Does was
It ends with an open endorsement to just watch the movie again
Ha ha ha
Man did you see him? I don't know
I think we should check out the movie again
We should
You have the right to remain silent forever
So stupid
It's like they fucking rap
It's like they went through their like diary of ideas
Of maniac cop rap ideas and they're like
Fucking these are all too good put them all in
I think we just read the diary
I don't even think we need more work on this
Yeah it's good
Which is good because we're recording today
Today
Anyway don't just give the rap
To the extremely white composer
For his sake
Yeah because they do all the same tricks
They use
The early 90s
Are very recognizable for
All the orchestral hits
I think we even did it in the
In your theme song but that's just that one
Single strike was like
Yeah
It's a whole orchestra up just one little
Note at a time
When you hear that
You know it's a dead giveaway
Some white guy produced this
Yeah
Brockway did you have to transcribe these lyrics yourself
Or did you find the lyrics online
Just online
I had to transcribe feel the impact
I don't know if that should count for more
But I had to listen to that song and type them out
Because nowhere on the internet
You probably had to rewind it
Like I didn't have to rewind
I got really caught up in the
In the song like as bad as it is
I get super pumped about the fire I have inside
And how like
Well before we make your argument
I just want to go through the prompts real quick
I would argue just like turtle power
If you never heard of the movie
The song is clearly about a maniac cop
And it's got several warnings
About what he will do and why he does it
And where you can find him
So yeah this is a song about a maniac cop
Did the artist actually watch the film
Absolutely he probably did
Nothing but watch the film and then just
Write down stuff as he saw it
Was the artist band
Possibly created solely to make this song
Completely
Imagine if this was a band
That existed before and after
This song it's just
It's impossible there's no reality
And of course
Does not hold up over time
And does not separate from the film
I would say in a strong way
I don't think for the purposes of
Today I think
The fact that it's so forgotten is
Fine I don't think it's true
It's kind of impressive
It's the deepest cut for sure
That's what I was going for
Somebody is going to happen across double impact
You can watch it on anything right now
It's going to come up
A maniac cop too
Lessor chance of that happening
Right
And then remembering the rap for it
I feel like
Brockway my vote goes for
A maniac cop rap
That's funny
I'm going
Feel the impact
Because you had to transcribe the lyrics
Nobody had put it online
So you had to be
You had to be the guy
And I think it is now your civic duty
To put that online
So that somebody else
You got uploaded
I'll put it on the podcast right up
Put it in the comments under the YouTube video
Yeah somebody is looking for these right now
You could save
So many people
Up to four people
And I'm going to set a precedent
I'm going to fuck this whole thing up
And I'm going to vote for the Ramon song
Because I think it generally rocks
It holds up very well
It's got a weird backstory
And it led me to discover something
Horrifying
That horrified me probably more than the movie itself did
Diddy King
Good point
Luckily
Yeah luckily we have
Two more
We have no rules
No rules
Is the fight over
I don't know
In the event of a three way tie
We're all right
So here's our third round
And this is the wild card round
Who's going to start
In order of
Absurdness
I think maybe Robert should go first
Oh see in order of absurdness
I was going to say you should go first
Well at least absurd
I'm thinking we should build up the absurdity
Okay that's fair
Start pretty commercially friendly
And then just kind of go off the rails
At that point
Well I brought number one spot by Ludacris
Now he did this song
Four
I would argue that as bad as
Feel the impact was melodically
This is worse
I'd see
I disagree I think he made a pretty
Standard song for the time
What makes this my wild card pick
Specifically
Is that he just wrote
A song that wasn't about the movie
Right
That has happened plenty of times
Write a song for our movie specifically
And then they just write a rap song about
Happens all the time
But then it's like somebody told him
So that halfway through the song
It starts becoming more and more
About the movie
Until it's almost entirely about the movie
I just think that's a bonkers way
To do that
He's constantly not talking about the movie
He's not explaining the theme of the movie
So it doesn't fit
That's why it's a wild card
But he makes so many references and jokes
From the movie
Seamlessly
It's like a teenager just after seeing
Borat and all of the jokes
No commentary
Yeah
And he
He does some great shit
He does some of that Will Smith shit
Where he starts taking multiple angles too
He starts saying
I am Austin Powers
He's the character from the movie
But then he also in the same breath
Will talk about himself so that
There's now a version of Ludacris
That travels through time and bang sluts
It's great
Like Dora
These swipers can't swipe me
My whole old so many in my white teeth
Nobody likes skin
To ripen harder since iced tea
You disagree take the Tyson approach
Invite me
That's good rap
But written by a lunatic
That's pretty typical of Ludacris
When you pull him in on a project
He's like hey Luda this is what the song is about
He's like cool
I'm not going to do any of that shit
I'm going to tell you what I've been up to
What I'm going to make you feel right now
In the present
And then I'm going to tell you about my future plans a little bit
And then maybe if I have time
I'll talk about your little thing
You're going to rap about the snacks here in this green room
Yeah
You're going to rap about the town car right over here
I think this is a good wildcard entry
Because Ludacris as a contracted
Songwriter is a wildcard
Yeah he's the professional wildcard
Professional wildcard
You bring him in when you just need to fuck it up
Fuck it up and then he'll make you something that is
Completely just corny
This goofy as shit
Still family friendly somehow
But also kind of dope too
Like the beat is like
It moves you
Like it's not a bad beat
Like if you just didn't listen to the lyrics
And you just let it play in the background
Walk out to a fight to this song
I could you know
Pick up chicks with this song
I'm shocked to hear that
Because to me it sounds like
Like that Austin Powers little riff
He brings that out in the start
He brings Quincy Jones who wrote that song
And he makes him say
I am begging you to take this song
And put your mojo on
Put your mojo on baby
Basically he has to say I'm honored Mr. Ludacris
That you're about to make something good
With my song
30-40 years power move
It is
And I would argue he does not
I think it's fine
It sounds like you guys like the song
Even though Quincy Jones picked it
As far as like a movie I never watched
And I just hated the idea of it
I was so fucking over the whole Mike Myers thing
Like
I couldn't be less interested in
A movie than Gold member or whatever it was
But I was like that's not a bad song
If you're gonna try to get me interested
Good attempt
That's...
It was entertaining and I felt something
From that
I generally like Ludacris
I agree he's somebody's wacky uncle
That is actually pretty good at rapping
But he still brings wacky uncle
Energy to everything he does
But I also sometimes I need that
Yeah
And then I just based on what I know
From Quincy Jones
If he didn't want to do that skit
He would not have
He's so powerful and just takes no shit
There's so many stories of him just...
It's such a power move to make him do that
I don't know if he may have just been like
You know legit man this is one of my
I don't give a shit about this song
I farted this song out of my ass in my sleep
You know like take it
Do whatever you want to it
I'll make it seem like a big deal
I wanna talk real quick before we exit this song
About the part where he starts
To be Austin Powers
With making Austin Powers references
And then accidentally says that I've
I've actually been sent back in time
I hear the licks
Causing lyrical disasters it's the master
Make music for many me's models
And fat bastards
These women trying to get me out
My pale pale they strip off my clothes
And tell me get in my belly
Not quite
Stay on the track hit the ground
Running like Flojo sent back in time
And I've never lost my mojo
See you were specifically making Austin Powers references
And talking about yourself
So now
There is a universe
She's post
Austin Powers mojo era
Yeah
So now there is a universe where ludicrous
Is just unstuck in time
Desperately like quantum leaping
Through sluts trying to get home
He's a watcher now
He sees it all at once
And that's what these raps are about
That's why he can't make sense of them
He's just trying to tell you
It's 1967 and I'm making people randy
It's 1998
I'm graduating from high school
And I'm still super horny
It's 2001
The towers are falling
Oh boy
Yeah I don't remember that one
I remember that ludicrous shame
The watchers are falling
That bastard is calling
That bastard is calling
So okay
Prompts I've never heard the movie
What do you think the song is trying to say
I think it's pretty clear for most of it
That it's just about
He's coming for that number one spot
It's about ludicrous
That's about himself
And then I guess towards the end
He has joined some sort of terrible orgy
That he's not entirely happy with
Did the artist actually watch the film
I think there's a chance he did
He watched enough to be like
Oh there's a joke I'll use that joke
In the lyrics I make about myself
He likes the jokes
I don't know if there's any awesome 3 references
But there's a lot of awesome powers
He made the pancake joke
There's a gold one
For sure
He watched the movies
I don't know that he respected the movies
But he watched it
Definitely not created solely to make that song
Although maybe he was born to
I think you could make a case
I think you could make a case
His ultimate destiny was always
To do this bizarre thing
I do think it holds up over time
Specifically because
It does such a bad job
Of being tied to the movie
He made the right call
You could never hear the movie
And you'd be like it's kind of a weird one from ludicrous
But considering ludicrous
Not that weird
He calls in line with the rest of his shit from that era
That move bitch
Get out the way
I'm coming for that number one spot
It's all the same
He's always some bitch in his way
I am arriving
And you are in my way
The thesis statement of ludicrous
Whereas Joy Ramon would have gone
I don't want to be stuck behind a fat bitch
Ludicrous is quite correct
I want her out of my way
That takes us to maybe yours now
Sean
Because mine is not very ludicrous at all
It's from Flash Gordon
But not the Flash Gordon theme song
I chose The Hero
Which I think is maybe not the better song
But it's kind of the more rad song
And one that people might not remember as well
And
This was
It played during the movie
During the climactic action scene
With all the Voltan and the Hawk people
And it's just like
Queen
Just fucking going guitar crazy
It's just like
It's awesome
And the lyrics are
Just kind of random
Heroic sounds
It's hard to even explain
So you feel like you ain't nobody
Always needing to be somebody
Put your feet on the ground, put your hand on your heart
To the stars, the world's your father taking
It's hard not to sing this song for me
But
I love it because it's sort of about Flash Gordon
And
You said your song like Ludicrous was born to make that song
I don't think in the history of the world
Anyone's been more born to do anything
Than Queen was born to do the Flash Gordon soundtrack
And
It rules so hard
And they clearly
Put so much passion into it
But also I don't think they
Even got the log line in this movie
They were making it to the Flash Gordon
Maybe they
Brian May is a huge nerd
So yeah, he probably did watch the movie
But by the criteria of this song
That is just about nothing
It's about just generically
Believing in yourself
That was probably one of the least things
Of Flash Gordon
He did not have a big problem with believing in himself
That's kind of his whole deal
He believed too much in himself
No, you did not watch the movie
I believe the video for the actual Flash theme song
Is them literally watching the movie
As they play and I still don't think they watch the movie
They weren't paying attention
His eyes are closed
Look, he's not watching
This is more
This is more like generic
Struggling in the gym
Music like this will get me through it
That's what these lyrics are meant to do
They're very empowering
But like the main Flash Gordon theme song
If you listen to him
They're specifically not about Flash Gordon
He's talking about saving children
And getting the Holy Grail
Yeah, he's just making guesses
None of those things happen in the film
He's just describing big moves
A big move in anyone's world
Grab the Holy Grail
That's what Flash would be about
Flash Gordon does
So
We don't think they watch the film
If you hadn't heard of the movie
You'd probably guess that the song
Was about a movie where some dude
Kicks a lot of ass, I suppose
The artist or band created
Sully to make this song, of course not
But they did set aside an entire year
To make this album
And they delayed their greatest hits album
To do it
It's also not just
The two excellent theme songs
With lyrics, but they scored the movie
They did the whole score, right?
And so
The whole movie rules
Flash Gordon is one of my all time favorite films
And I think the song holds up
Except from the film
Kind of
I feel like it was meant to do that
When this movie is
When this movie is dust
There will only be Queen
They knew that when they were making this song
Don't make it too much about Flash
Because this shit is gonna
It's gonna be fire
Flash Gordon is about Queen
It's not about Flash Gordon
And I think if you found like a kid
Who was getting into guitar, who didn't know who Queen was
And you said, okay, here's a song
With some sweet guitar
They don't ironically think it's the raddest shit ever
So
It's a weird one, I mostly just love this song
It's not like funny or strange
But it rules
I'm not expecting a win, but
I'd like to talk about it
Yeah, that's most
Of my entries, I'm like, hey you guys should just know about this thing
I'm just happy to be here
Let's talk about this
You're up next with my favorite one
Out of all of these
I've really fucking brought it for my wild card entry
This is strong
Wildest fucking card
A lot of people, they don't believe me when I tell them this exists
But it's called
City of Crime
It is performed
By Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd
For and about the movie
Dragnet
In canon
The continuation of the old
1950s TV show
Dan Aykroyd was like Joe Friday's nephew
Tom Hanks was
Kind of a rigs
From lethal weapons
Played by your own rules
He said Mahoney
Mahoney
He was Tom Hanks
And so
I don't know if it was the Ghostbusters thing
Maybe Dan Aykroyd had the Ghostbusters bug
He's like let's do that
That worked so well for this last movie I was in
We can do it again
You and me Tom
We don't need Ray Parker Jr
We can both rap
I'm promising you
Look in my eyes Tom Hanks
We can rap
And they fucking did it
So hard
They made an original music video
With them as the characters
Interacting with a whole separate narrative
They made a mini episode
A spin off
My high level notes
My high level notes for this is that they both
Suck
Tom Hanks
Very lovable and Dan Aykroyd is super
Super not
That's kind of the crux of their character arcs
In the movie too
Tom Hanks does go for
I don't think that was entirely intentional
But I think that's how it works
I think Tom Hanks did his best
With this Beastie Boys type
Scream wine
Rap
He's got a little like Danny Brown vibe
To Dan Aykroyd's kind of laid back
MF Doom vibe
But of course terrible
Both terrible
Read them their rights
Read them their rights
He's just so committed to this character
That it just spoils the entire rap
The lyrics are amazing
They're mostly just them explaining
Police procedure
To a bunch of dudes in Goat
To rap about your rights
The whole movie was about pagans
Was it people against
Goodness and normalcy
They're dealing with more pagans
In this music video
Who I think
Here we are once again at
A song that I think was
Written by the composer of the film
Stop doing it
And I think what you're seeing in this
Goat costume is the composer of the film
I was wondering
Because why would
Well that's nice of them
That's very generous to give this bit
Actor
A huge breakdown of his own
Complete with the set pull away
And choreographed dancers
Why does the Goat man get this?
Because the Goat man wrote the whole Dan thing
That's his
That's his baby
Here's me copper Mr. Crime Stopper
What is wrong with what we're doing
We just like to dance in our goat skin pants
Around this ancient ruin
Dude's got a point
Dude has a point
It's harassment man
Religious freedom is being violated
That uh
Man
I haven't watched that movie in like 20 years
Does that hold up?
I don't know I haven't watched it at least that long
I loved it
Yeah exactly
I was just into whatever Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks were doing
Yeah I remember that was
I remember they did a goofy dance
And they're like goat skin pants
They had to do the
They had to go into cover with the goat skins
They did the weird dance
And I thought that was just hilarious
That's what I thought that like
Drugs were just pills
Because they had like the pill tray that they had to like
Eat to again
To fit in
It's like the drug videos they show us in high school
What you're gonna be offered drugs
And they'll try to make you take them
They're all gonna look like big giant
Morpheus pills from the Matrix
That beware of those
Did anybody else just get real disappointed
And kind of feel like a little rejected
When you had to actually ask for drugs the first time
Like nobody, nobody just gave them to you
We're out here just handing out drugs
Felt like the girl at the dance that nobody asks
Just
We're gonna
Is that you think why our generation has the self-esteem issues
Is because we were told
We were gonna be offered all these free drugs
And it just never happened
Yeah, I had to ask for them
And then they made me pay for them
I did not feel good about that interaction
It just feels so uncool
Maybe that was the goal
I don't even want the drugs anymore
I'm just going through these lyrics now
I'm getting like secondhand embarrassment
Just reading them
We're just in time
We have stumbled into a major crime
They've got the girl in all the fight
I can't even do that Tom Hanks voice
That's not nice
He makes me so happy
How hard he commits
There's a pretty great clip out there
Who's the British
talk show host guy
James Corden
Maybe, he's like
From what I understand, you're a rapper and Tom Hanks immediately
I'm sure it's all pre-rehearsed
But he does a very good job of being like
I can't believe you've done this
Like, why are we talking about this?
Right
And then he raps
Does he rap there? I didn't finish the clip
I didn't finish the clip
I'm just assuming
That's the only way to take ownership of that situation
As Tom Hanks is, you have to just bust up
I think
I think his son, Chet
Is punishment for him trying to do this rap
Yeah
That's right
You all caught up on this guy?
Not all caught up
But I am aware that he is a problem
Do you see the videos?
He's a problem that came from Tom Hanks
Who does not seem like he deserves a problem
He seems to have two other wonderful children
I don't know where this one came from
And one huge problem
So you're saying he's revenge for this
Chet Hayes is comic revenge for city of crime
That makes sense
Have you seen Chet Hayes?
Whenever I'm feeling down
And I just need to pick me up
I pull up a link of Chet Hayes doing the Jamaican
Patois
I think I saw that one
When I say I know a little bit about him
I think that's the one thing I know about
He was at the Golden Globes with his dad
And somebody decided
To interview him for some reason
And he was just doing this bit
He was just Jamaican guy
He was like, why is it wrong that I
I want to do this voice
And yet it is
His justification
Of it was that
Hey, I know a black guy
That's snowboards
Why is it okay for him to be into snowboarding
But I can't be into wanting to do this voice
That's for the whites
That's what the whites do
Take that question you just asked
Put it into Google
Or just let literally anyone answer it
Just lock up all the guns
So that Tom can't get to them
And then ask Tom that question
That's the only video here
With a choreographed goat man dance
It is my favorite
A carefully choreographed
Extremely long
Goat man dance
Everybody has to stop and watch this
This lyric sheet may be longer
Than Wild Wild West, I'm not sure
This song may be a half an hour long
If we're going through the discussion prompts
If you've never heard of this movie
What would you think the song was trying to say
This is not just the movie
This is the character development of the movie
And it has villains that come in
And have parts
I'm homely and I'm lonely
But the state cannot disown me
It's more than anything an adaptation
Of one piece of art
Or one piece of media into another
Yeah, this is absolutely
Like you could
If Dragonet didn't exist as a movie
And this song became big
This is the movie they would make about the song
This is The Purple Rain
This is Tom Hanks
This is Dan Akroy's Purple Rain
I was going to say it was Tom Hanks' Purple Rain
I know it's Dan Akroy's baby
I'll give it to you Will
It's his baby but Tom Hanks stole it
He kidnapped that baby and he ran away with it
As a kid I was more excited
To see Tom Hanks do his Tom Hanks thing
Than Dan Akroy would be a total stick in the mud
And as an adult too
I'm going to re-watch this soon
If I can get my hands on it
I have a feeling it's going to be hard
I may have to pursue dubious methods
To get my hands on it
You might have to do crime
The city of crime
We arrive just in time
So the artist actually watched this film
That's for sure
The artist or band created
Sully to make this song
I mean, pretty obviously
I love to think
I love to believe not though
I love to believe that Tom Hanks and Dan Akroy
We're secretly rapping together
About movies
And then they just came together on this one
This has to be our debut
We're in the same movie
If we're ever going to do this
It has to be now
And then they did
The predator handshake
I don't think it holds up over time
I honestly
I don't think it held up when it came out
I don't even remember hearing it back then
Yeah
But I still think it
With no modesty at all
That this one runs away
With this category
Absolutely
The city of crime
I feel like
Did I win any?
No, no, I think you did
You got turtle power for sure
I got the easy one
You got the easy one
Zach got city of crime
In Brockway
I don't think Brock got any
It was a wash on the
The deep cuts
It was fucking Rob
It's a long tradition
Of Brockway losing every game
You fucking nerd
You can't even win the nerdy movie
Saw it won
I'm so bad at sports
It carries over into whatever the fuck this is
You just got beat up by
Two jocks once again
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Shit in the hundersaw
Come on, Sean
You kiddin' them all
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