So if TikTok is getting shut down, who are the videos for?
Oh, YouTube.
Yeah, I don't think it's actually going to get shut down.
Did you see the weird pandering thing the CEO of TikTok did?
It was a Go Trump video.
Oh yeah?
Mm-hmm.
Well, I mean, he credits TikTok with one of the reasons why he won.
Really?
I didn't know that.
Yeah, that and podcasts.
I believe that one.
I think I'm on the wrong side of TikTok for that one to make sense to me.
Thankfully.
All right.
All righty.
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Okay.
So your three things for today are what do the Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey movie,
a film school essay, and fan fiction about Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy have in
common?
Oh man.
I couldn't even begin to parse out the similarities between those three things.
Optimistically this one was going to be a little too wordy I think to figure it out.
Full disclosure guys, I'm sorry this was a last minute thing because I could not for
the life of me find three things.
Alright so no guesses?
One more time, what were they?
Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey.
Great film.
One of the best.
Sure.
A film school essay and fan fiction about Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy.
I don't know, you still got me.
They are sometimes questionable takes on other people's works.
Okay.
And I have had a, I've had several people recommend this one specific fan fiction of
Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy to a point that like I feel like I'm giving off the wrong
vibes.
I don't think I'm the target demo for that.
But anyway, so our topic for today is parodies.
For all the people who have listened to the classic American Pie and thought what if it
was Star Wars?
What if?
Who would much rather it be about Star Wars than about Vietnam?
Is it about Vietnam?
I think so.
I know the people marching, the band refusing to leave the field because they're protesting
Vietnam.
Oh, that makes sense.
I always took it in like a more of like the music standpoint and less of the historical
standpoint for it.
Yeah, I definitely think that obviously there's a big tie in with the day the music died with
the big bopper and Richie Valens.
Yeah, La Bamba.
Right?
Yes.
Yeah.
So I know that there that is like the main point, but then there's also stuff in there
about anti Vietnam and all that.
Listen, listen, how sultry my voice is right now.
I'm fighting something, but the listeners are winning.
If I get sick again, I will come back to Dallas and fight you.
Yeah.
Oh, that brings up a point that we're is this a is this an on the road show?
Is this a traveling show?
Or are we just going to consider this home base number two?
We are now a fully Texas based podcast for all of our two loyal subscribers that aren't
the two of us.
We are no longer only based in Dallas.
We did I tell you that I was I was approached by a fan?
Yeah.
Was it your son?
It was.
Yeah.
What did he have to say?
What was his feedback?
Well, last time we had spoken about this, he informed me he didn't inform me.
He was curious and then just relentlessly mocked us for having two subscribers on a certain
platform and then next time I saw him, he informed me that he followed.
Oh, yeah.
Really?
So now we have to be a little more we have to lean into the family friendly part of it.
Dag nabbit.
Which, I mean, I don't really think that we've strayed too far from that.
I think there's been a few times where topics have gotten a little hairy, but I think for
the most part, you can listen to us in the car.
There have been some edits made for sure.
Without a doubt.
But for most people in other countries, if we said that we were now doing this show three
hours apart, that could be in two completely different countries.
That could be in two completely different states.
But we went from the top of Texas to now just the middle of Texas and it's like a three
and a half hour drive.
It's a nice enough drive that I made it three separate times in a day and a half.
There you go.
See?
Ten ish hours of driving.
What's your favorite thing about here so far?
My favorite thing?
The people are so nice.
Oh, yeah?
The ones that I've experienced so far.
I did see one fight over a trash can.
That was that was an interesting introduction to downtown.
But other than that, everyone's been real nice, real polite.
The food's really good.
What was the housing status for the people that were fighting over the trash can?
You know what?
I don't speculate.
I don't know what their housing status was, but they were fighting over a trash can.
So I'll let you make whatever decisions you choose to about that.
I had a run in earlier today at an intersection with a gentleman that could probably be best
described as unhoused, holding a sign that said, when hobos starve, we eat each other.
And I'm not completely sure on on what exactly the meaning is of that.
Do the hobos what the implication is?
I don't know.
That's what is this an eat the rich situation?
I have no clue.
The house that seems a little messed up.
I mean, all of it is a lot messed up.
I mean, I don't know.
There's theories about all these California wildfires that they were started by unhoused
people that got a little little jelly gel and wanted to bring all these celebrities
down to their level.
Oh, interesting.
But I mean, if you're going to go with that theory, one thing they don't take into consideration
that is that the Gwyneth Paltrow's and the Miles Tellers of the world are just going
to go from Malibu to their house in New York City or Aspen or Jackson Hole.
I think that's a big celebrity spot now.
It is.
Yeah.
So I mean, if that was their goal, if they allegedly allegedly over all this conversation,
because I don't want to get sued by these unhoused people on a they come to court with
a squirrel as an attorney.
God damn it.
On a separate note, if Nate is still listening to this podcast, he is going to pop a blood
vessel at the fact that you have used the word unhoused 15 times already.
Well, he's not trying to avoid being canceled.
I have to we got to find another.
I'll make one.
I'll make a sound bite for that.
OK, do it.
I'll have to figure out how to do that.
Stop talking and do it.
Anyway, I wanted to start with the kind of the behemoth, the the biggest name that there
is in parody.
Cletus T. Judd.
Go on.
Obviously, Cletus T. Judd.
How many people do you think knew about Cletus T. Judd in his heyday?
I completely forgot that he existed until I started researching this episode.
And it was like Weird Al Yankovic and then Cletus T. Judd.
And it had like Rodney Carrington, maybe.
I don't think he's a parody artist.
He's just like a comedian.
I mean, yeah, he just makes funny songs and like a couple of YouTubers.
But yeah, I completely forgot that Cletus T. Judd existed.
And then right before you got here, I was listening to It's a Great Day to Be a Guy.
And there was another one that I just listened to that was My Cell May Thinks I'm Sexy.
It wasn't that one.
That's a classic.
It was, I think it was I Love This Bar.
It's the parody he does on that one.
NASCAR.
NASCAR, which really took me back.
Yeah.
It was an interesting part of our childhood.
A simpler time.
Back to a simpler time.
But anyway, the king of parody, Weird Al.
First of all, what is your favorite Weird Al song?
Probably Amish Paradise.
Okay.
That's a strong choice.
His Poodle Hat album gets a lot of play in our house, especially his song about eBay.
Man, I do love eBay.
The song, not the platform.
And then I don't bid on things.
I've gotten my my little heathens into all of his polka remixes.
Yeah.
I do.
I do love the Hamilton.
Hamilton soundtrack you did, the Hamilton Polka.
It is.
It's a good one.
Yeah.
I don't I don't much care for the the song mashups.
Have you ever wondered what a Taylor Swift song would sound like if it had an accordion?
Have you ever wondered what Billie Eilish would sound like if it was from Bavaria?
Bavaria.
Yeah.
The answer to both.
That's better.
Yeah.
So my favorite Weird Al song is I do love eBay, but Trapped in the Drive Thru will forever
be my favorite Weird Al song.
I I kind of have an issue with that because I feel like Trapped in the Closet was already
its own parody.
Sure.
But it's also Trapped in the Closet for people who care about cancel culture and can no longer
in good conscience listen to R. Kelly.
So you want to listen to R. Kelly, but you don't want to support someone that.
Well, I guess he's in prison for it.
So you can say something even though we've been alleged about it.
So you don't want to support him.
So instead of listening to the trials and tribulations of Sylvester and Bridget and
Chuck, you are going to listen to a man on a quest to get his food through the drive
through only to realize at the very end.
I can't believe there's no onions.
I mean, I guess, yeah, you got a point.
Incredible song.
No notes.
And what?
It's like 12 minutes long.
It is.
Yeah.
So it's a tenth of what actual trapped in the closet is.
Yeah.
There's what?
Like 30 parts of that song, something like that.
Yeah.
Something egregious like that.
I love the Poodle Hat album.
I also love Ode to a Superhero, but I think my favorite album is straight out of Linwood
because white and nerdy.
Also incredible.
I remember how pumped I was when that came out and how I had to watch it on launch.com.
Did you give the family computer all of the viruses from launch.com?
Launch.com was a legit site.
It's where you it was the whatever Vivo is.
I can't even tell you what Vivo is now.
YouTube music.
Oh, it's YouTube music.
OK, so and they shut that down.
Before Vivo, there was there was a launch.com and that's where that's where I saw a white
and nerdy for the first time and loved it in like 240p.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, very, very grainy video.
But you know, I got the gist of it.
Had no clue that that was key and peel until like a decade later.
The two gangsters in the lowrider.
What?
Key and peel.
Well, the second that we wrapped this episode, we're watching the white and nerdy music video
because I didn't know that.
Works for me.
Weird Al is the the goat, the king of parody.
I could I could kind of take or leave the polka stuff.
It's incredible that he has those skills.
But yeah, yeah, it is not for me.
It's how you say an acquired taste.
Oh, definitely.
And I know a lot of people who do not want to acquire that taste.
And that's fine.
The accordion is a divisive instrument polarizing is very polarizing.
I think that might need to be my next my next instrument purchase.
Did you know that the most legitimate prolific accordion player is also surname Yankovic,
but there's no relation at all?
Oh, yeah.
I don't remember exactly what his name is, but he is his last name is definitely Yankovic
and there's no relation.
I find that pretty crazy.
There's a weird episode of hot ones.
Frankie Yankovic.
Frank Yankovic is a fantastic name.
Was he around recently enough that that was funny or he too old for that?
Let's see.
Died in 1998.
America's polka king.
Oh, he's America's polka king.
I mean, I would have just changed it to Frank of it.
I have a friend whose dad's name is Frank Franco, which is also sweet.
Yeah, right.
That's pretty sweet.
Weird Al Yankovic wants to bring sexy back to the accordion.
The accordion is actually a beautiful instrument, a very sensual instrument.
Yankovic says I'm just trying to bring sexy back to them.
To the accordion.
Oh, that was a waste of a click.
I do want to point out there's not a rabbit hole.
I need to go down right now, but the accordion will not be my next purchase when it comes
to an instrument.
These things are at least $600.
There's a lot of working parts.
I mean, I understand it.
And is it worth $600 to drive everyone around you completely crazy?
Because you know what's worse than someone that is very good at the accordion?
What?
Someone that is very bad at the accordion.
It would be a fun instrument to learn.
Other people be damned.
You know what you need?
You need the version of the accordion that like drummers get full plastic kits.
It's like the rock band drum set, but you pay like $500 for it.
Can our shark tank idea be rock band but with nonsense instruments?
You get the banjo, you get the lute, you get the accordion, the theremin, the hand thingy.
I would play the hell out of that game.
Is DJ Hero far from that?
I would think not.
What is DJ Hero?
I gave it.
I had a whenever I gave you my PS3, I gave you DJ Hero.
It was it was Guitar Hero, but instead of the guitar, you literally had a DJ deck.
Oh, okay.
And then you had a slider, so you did the record with one hand and then you did the
slider with the other.
Okay.
And then there was like three buttons on the record that you had to hit, just like the
buttons on the guitar for Guitar Hero.
I don't remember that at all.
I would love to play DJ Hero.
I wish they would bring it back.
It's probably at mom's house somewhere.
Do they make it for the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360?
No, just like I mean, they don't make any of those peripheral games anymore.
Man, I just want them to bring back bring back a rock band.
Yeah, the simpler time was man.
But hey, we're about moving forward, not living in the past.
No, absolutely not in that case.
Okay, well, I guess I'm wrong then.
I want to play Black Hole Sun.
There's a first time for everything.
Are there any weird out songs that you don't like?
Oh, yeah.
It's all about the Pentiums, which is a parody of it's all about the Benjamin's.
Okay.
There's a lot of his songs that are not parodies that are his own creation.
And yeah, no, I don't know if that's a parody, but I do also really love Skipper Dan.
No, that's not and that's another that's another favorite at our house.
I think about that song a decent amount.
Yeah, as you should, you should.
It's very culturally important.
I mean, they made a whole movie about it.
They did.
With the rock.
Yeah.
To be fair, that man will say yes to any movie.
Emily Joint.
When did she downgrade?
Is there a difference between the two?
I don't know.
Is that an actual question because I can't explain it to you.
You'd like.
Okay.
Yeah, we're gonna put in a disclaimer here.
Just give us about like 30 seconds.
Just turn that knob down and then 30 seconds from now crank it back up and go.
Okay, that's not a lot interesting.
And we're back and we're back.
So one of the coolest things about Weird Al is that under parody law, you don't technically
have to get permission from the original creator to be able to make something about their work.
But Weird Al, because he has just this really great respect for all of these creators and
believes in the integrity of the art form, has reached out to every artist that he's
covered and will get their permission, sometimes with a few exceptions before he'll release
a song.
One of the things that he tried to release but wasn't able to was a parody of Michael
Jackson's Black or White.
Previous episode alert.
Oh yeah.
Also a quick side note, we are about to find out if they are going to cast or who they're
going to cast for the Michael Jackson biopic.
They already did.
They did?
Uh huh.
It's his nephew.
That's another Jackson.
That's kind of climactic.
I know.
Damn.
But, but we did call it, we had no clue that they were going to do a Michael biopic.
Yeah.
We were just, just waiting for it.
Look out for maybe a biopic part two, because I got lost to say about silly little.
About Robbie Williams.
Chimp man.
Yeah.
We should have postponed that episode for just like a couple more weeks.
I have, I have watched an obscene amount of those videos that are just like curious George
figurines.
Or King Kong.
For the next two hours, your ass is mine.
I can't even play a song.
And then goes into the softest, softest song you've ever heard.
You think you're about to hear Metallica or Slipknot?
No, you hear like Taylor Swift if it was a British dude.
That is a, I was thinking the like California girls album of Katy Perry.
Oh man.
That is just, we have to watch better man.
We do.
Whenever it's actually available for streaming.
Cause I will not pay to see whatever that movie is.
We will and we'll, we'll come back with a micro review.
We're not going to dedicate an entire episode to, to it, but.
So whoever the hell Robbie Williams is.
I'm here to upset the Brits.
Basically he did, I would assume in promotion for this movie, he did New Year's Eve in Australia
and ended up letting the crowd sing about 90% of his song.
I'm amazed that the crowd could sing 90% of his song.
I mean, they're closer to, to British than we are.
Yeah.
So, I mean, I kind of get it that he would have a little more clout there, but it's so
funny seeing all these Brits getting a tizzy because Americans don't know who this man
is.
Who do you think the American equivalent of Robbie Williams is?
If you ask any of them, it's Taylor Swift, which I would hard, do a hard disagree on
that.
So like the Brits don't know who Taylor Swift is?
Everyone knows who Taylor Swift is.
Because Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift in England and literally the rest of the world.
Okay.
But Robbie Williams, if I had to compare him to somebody, it would probably be like a country
artist that is big here.
And again, I don't really know how the British people could just be jerking us around.
This is actually some dude that nobody really cared about.
And they're like, you know what?
This is a social experiment.
They're just here to mess with us.
I'm not convinced the movie is a hundred percent real.
Because it stars a chimp?
Because it stars a chimp and because everything, everything that I know about this movie came
from TikTok.
So it's not out of the question that this isn't an actual movie that exists and the
internet has just conned us all.
Well, counter argument.
I see a lot of movies in theaters and that trailer is before every single one of them.
Oh, okay.
So I do believe it exists.
I don't think that it's going to have the cultural significance that the British really
wanted to have.
But maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe it's going to be a sleeper and then in 20 years people are going to revisit it
like The Room.
Maybe it's like the British version of The Room.
Have you seen The Room?
No.
It is a...
I think I've seen enough clips about it.
It's a watch.
To have seen it.
You've met Tommy Wiseau, right?
Several times, yeah.
Several times.
So an old friend of mine used to be just obsessed with this man.
Could not feel life with me, tell you why.
So every time he would come to Dallas, we made a whole like day trip out of it.
And so we would hang out in Dallas and then if you are vaguely familiar with The Room,
it's a nonsense movie that had a way higher budget than it should have and it makes absolutely
zero sense.
The man who made it stands behind it wholeheartedly and still goes on tour with the movie.
Oh hi Mark.
You're tearing me apart, Lisa.
That was very Mort from Madagascar of you.
Nailed it.
Oh thank you.
Thank you very much.
I definitely recommend going to watch it in a theater, not just at home because they throw
spoons.
It's a whole like event and stuff if you see it in theaters.
So I could watch this awful movie and also be assaulted?
Sign me up.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
There are footballs that are thrown around the theater.
It is a lot more fun than it sounds.
And he has a sex scene in it, doesn't he?
He does, but he's aiming a little too high.
He's at about belly button range on this girl.
You don't know what her situation is.
Don't assume.
You know what?
You're absolutely right.
Who would have thought?
You're out here talking about the unhoused and I'm guessing someone's gender.
That I would be the more culturally sensitive one out of the two of us.
Not me, I'll tell you that.
I blame the city.
The city has already done things to my brain.
Oh yeah?
Has it made you any weirder?
Not yet.
I'm going to give it a week into starting work, I think, before I delve into it.
It's not going to be my personality like it is with a lot of people.
That's my hard line in the sand.
That's not what's going to be turning people off.
No, I'm going to get weird hair colors.
About five more facial piercings.
That is very ATX of you.
I'm going to shave my eyebrows off.
Okay, well, we're starting the video portion of this podcast then.
That's what I was about to say.
Enjoy these eyebrows while they last, guys.
Circling so far back.
One of the things that got denied for Weird Al to parody was Black or White because Michael
Jackson was a massive fan of Weird Al, which obviously, because he did Fat and Eat It,
which are two of his biggest songs of all time.
But Black or White was supposed to have this parody called Snack All Night, I think.
Michael Jackson turned it down because Black or White was too serious of a song to get
a parody.
And so Weird Al was trying to fill this hole.
You watch that video and tell me if it's a serious song.
I showed you that video.
You did show me that video.
And I still am not totally convinced that it wasn't just a big old joke.
Okay, so there are two videos for it.
This one that's like a legitimate one and then the one where it's just like anamorphs
through races.
But it's weird that he was going to do a third eating song for Michael Jackson.
I wrote that down.
I was like, why were all of, to be fair, though, a lot of his stuff was food themed back in
that era because on top of that, he had I Love Rocky Road, My Baloney, Lasagna.
This man could eat.
Oh, man.
Was he going through something in the 80s?
He's always been super skinny.
Yeah.
So what's that about Al?
Yeah.
Answer us, Al.
You coward.
Oh, on a side note, I would kill to be Weird Al.
Oh, hell yeah.
We looked up tickets for when he's coming to town.
Yeah.
How bad?
I mean, tickets that were still left were mid twos to 300 plus.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, on the upside, at least a decent amount, I feel like of the show is going to
be his newest album, The Apocalypse.
And I hate that album.
Why?
I think it's because I didn't like any of the songs that it really came from.
There's like Word Crimes, which I don't like blurred lines.
Yeah.
I didn't.
No, no, that's you're thinking of Mandatory Fun.
Mandatory Fun.
My apologies.
Apocalypse.
Is Apocalypse the one with Skipper Dan?
Yes.
OK, never mind.
That's 2011, though.
I take that back.
Word Crimes is 2014.
Yes.
Mandatory Fun.
I don't want to listen to the songs for Mandatory Fun because on top of Word Crimes, there's
Foil.
Kids love Foil.
There's Tacky.
Yeah, that gets on my nerves.
Those grind my gears.
Because I don't like Happy.
Happy?
Yeah.
Handy's not too bad.
I don't like Handy because I don't like Fancy.
Yeah, I don't really like Fancy, but I like Handy.
Handy, not Handies.
Reminds me of the Gutter people.
Terrible.
Yeah, I mean, I think his latest, yeah, I think his latest album is called Fancy.
Yeah, I mean, I think his latest, yeah, Mandatory Fun is his most recent from 2014, 11 years
ago and he's still going on tour with nothing new and people are selling out.
If the tickets weren't $200 or $300, do you know how fast I would buy them?
In a heartbeat.
If they were within my price range, I would buy them the second that I was able to.
So anyone that has any kind of clout, reach out to Al.
Lifelong fans, our dad would probably have a heart attack if he got to meet him.
And then we would probably never need to get him a present ever again.
Please.
Al, when you're in Grand Prairie or Austin, hook us up.
Is he coming to Austin?
I don't know.
I know he's going to Grand Prairie.
He's going to be in Oklahoma too.
Any of them.
Anyway, we'll travel.
The southern part of the middle of the United States.
I travel further than that, if I were to.
Anyway, while you are looking up, I assume, other locations that he's touring at, a couple
of the other notable no's were Prince and Paul McCartney and actually Coolio.
So the biggest Weird Al song, I think the biggest Weird Al song, Amish Paradise was
actually not greenlit by Coolio.
He did once it got posted because there was some kind of miscommunication.
Weird Al thought he had said yes.
He thought that he had said yes.
And so he went ahead and put out the song.
Coolio was pissed.
And then after listening to it for a little while, he was like, no, that's not that bad.
Did you know?
RIP Coolio.
That he didn't know that Weird Al was going to parody him on the cover of his Bad Hair
Day album?
I didn't know that.
And to add fuel to that fire, they were presenting a VMA together and Al did his hair and Coolio
did not know beforehand.
So he walks out on stage and sees Weird Al's hair.
And we almost, we almost lost Alfred that night.
Oh, really?
Okay.
Uh huh.
That is a great look.
Man, Weird Al's the best.
Did you know that he's touring with Puddles?
Puddles the pity party clown or something like that?
Or is it Puddles pity party?
Puddles pity party.
It's a very fun thing to say.
I have no idea who that is.
It is.
I think it was on America's Got Talent.
Okay.
He's on one of those shows, but he's, he's very...
What does he do?
He's very gasey-esque.
Oh God.
But he does like operatic versions of songs.
It's, it's, it shouldn't work, but it works.
Okay.
That's pretty good.
You should check them out on TikTok while it's still here.
I think TikTok is gone.
Right now?
I think so.
Cause it was supposed to get taken down at 12 o'clock Eastern, I think.
Oh my God.
Is it gone?
Sorry.
TikTok isn't available right now.
A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the United, in the US.
Unfortunately, that means we can't use TikTok for now.
We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution
to reinstate TikTok once he takes office.
Please stay tuned.
Oh man.
What a time to be alive.
I will say that I've spent a decent amount of my day-to-day doom scrolling because the,
the band playing as the Titanic Sink was just so funny.
Like all of the, all of the big like blue checkmark brands saying their goodbyes and
all of the influencers that were using that, it's the family guy sound where it's like,
since we're all about to die, I didn't care for the Godfather.
Didn't care for it.
And so they were just admitting to just all kinds of things that if I made a whole platform
that was paying me for something, I think I'd take that to my grave, maybe.
Well, I missed out on a lot of those and I'm kind of bummed.
RIP TikTok.
What am I going to do while I'm sitting on the toilet now?
I'm about to be so productive.
I can't just-
Or spend time on, no, I don't want to use Facebook or Instagram.
You got X.
Do you want to keep up with a short message from your celebrities and then do a little
more scrolling and see a dead body?
X.
I don't think we're on the same side of the internet.
I mean-
No, I'm going to go to Red Note and sell my information directly to the Chinese government.
Okay, there you go.
See?
See, I'm just glad you got a plan.
Can we actually just use this to bring back Vine?
For real.
I want this.
Two, three days ago, I don't know, whenever I guess I should have been saying my good
byes, I came across a TikTok that was TikToks that would have made grapevines.
And you know what?
I agree.
They were good.
They were very vine-ish.
And how old were you whenever Vine was big?
It was big.
You want like 07?
No, no, because I was out of, I was post 2011.
Okay.
Then I would have been 12 to 15-ish.
So were you on the free Shavakadoo?
I was.
Train?
Look at all those chickens.
I mean, I have a road work sign specifically for that Vine.
Well, I sure hope it does.
Hey, that's my line.
I took the sign and everything.
That's a legend for all of those listening.
You just admitted it.
You can't say, hey, I did this thing.
Here's the proof, allegedly.
That's not how that works.
Do you see a road work sign?
We're on video now.
Do you see a road work sign?
There's no hiding it.
It's massive and neon orange.
I could find it.
I could totally find it.
Sure, yeah.
Maybe.
If it exists.
We don't know.
But anyway, yes, they did spend a lot of time on Vine.
I didn't know it already went through.
You know, you always think you have more time.
But then you wake up and then you just.
Now would be the perfect time for you to cry like a single tear.
I could zoom in on you.
If I keep trying that, I'm either going to produce a tear myself.
So along the line of musical parody, we have the country version of Weird Al.
He did a big play in our house, too.
He did.
Cletus T. Judd.
And as I said earlier, looking up the actual music that Cletus T. Judd made just brought
back so many memories because it's not great quality music.
I don't think parody artists are known for their vocal acumen.
He takes the twang to a hundred.
It's intense.
It is a lot to listen to.
But if you aren't familiar, listen to I Love NASCAR.
Yeah.
Or there's my cellmate thinks I'm sexy.
Or there's It's a Great Day to Be a Guy.
Or what do you think his biggest one was?
I think it's I Love NASCAR.
I just saw that that message.
I love that it says we need to take a minute.
Will you mourn Tick Tock?
Maybe.
Just another day in parodies.
That's a good one.
Oh, man.
He's not even big enough to have his own have a picture.
Oh, that's so sad.
Cletus.
I Love NASCAR is number one.
My cellmate thinks I'm sexy.
Plowboy, which is a parody of Cowboy.
Goodbye Squirrel.
That's a good one.
How do you milk a cow?
Every bulb in the house is blown.
That's actually that one's actually a pretty good one.
Goodbye Squirrel.
It's just 10 out of 10.
No nuts.
Garth must be busy.
Man, I forgot about waiting on Obama.
Yeah.
I mean, it was a different time.
He could do that and not be completely ostracized by.
But but did you know that he went through and came out the other side of a huge addiction
issue?
No.
And then came back and seems to be doing all right.
I saw him on Tick Tock.
That's how I kept up with his life.
How am I gonna?
How am I gonna know where Jared Reddick is?
He texts me every once in a while.
I don't know how, but I signed up for the bowling for soup link mailing list at some
point or someone else signed me up for the bowling for soup mailing list.
So every once in a while, I get a text and say, hey, it's Jared.
I'm like, who is Jared?
And then I read the rest of it and it's like, we just dropped some new merch.
Oh, man just keeps introducing himself to me.
Do you think he would remember that time I took you to trees when you were way too young
to go see him?
All right.
That was a good show.
And it was it was it wasn't crazy.
No, it was mostly family friendly.
Unfortunately, though, one of my biggest takeaways was like the core memory that I have from
that show was when the drummer put a Listerine strip on his balls.
Yeah.
And so he was he was struggling in hindsight, like two songs in hindsight.
Probably not my my best move.
I still a fun show.
That was a weird moment of a very fun show.
I was 18 or 19 and that would have made you 12 or 13 at a very adult club.
I mean, it wasn't like it wasn't like it was an all age show.
Yeah.
And you know, you got to hear the Phineas and Ferb theme song, which I'm pretty sure.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the only reason you want to go.
No, I love bowling for soup because that's that's all you bugged me about the whole time.
You think they're going to play it.
You think they're going to play the Phineas and Ferb song.
And then I was ready to yell it out for you.
Hey, play Phineas and Ferb.
But then they just they launched into it on their own.
And Jared, we would love to have you for episode 100.
This is true.
I will drive to Denton.
There's not a lot of reasons that I would drive to Denton.
Yeah.
But you know.
Circling back to the the Vine and TikTok in that kind of era, there were a lot of YouTube
parody people.
Did you listen to a lot of those?
Key of Awesome.
I listened to a lot of Key of Awesome.
Mark.
The main guy from Key of Awesome.
Yeah, I don't remember.
But I remember when I saw his video saying that he was leaving YouTube.
That was a lot more recent than I thought it was.
I looked it up today.
It was 2018.
Like six years ago.
I thought that they had gone.
I thought they had stopped making music like at least eight years ago.
I'm sure it's hard because the issue and whenever you talk to any of these guys and any of these
people that do a lot of parody and stuff like that, the issue they run into is that they
have to they have to hear something and then rewrite it, do whatever their idea for their
song their version is.
And then they have to get it produced and then get it out before everyone is like, oh,
what the hell is this?
Oh, this is a song from like six years ago.
That's fair.
And Weird Al talks about how that was an issue.
I couldn't imagine doing that on a platform like YouTube where they just expect you to
upload like once, however many times a week.
And that just seems like such a beating.
I feel like with Key of Awesome specifically, they also went really they all just kind of
like disconnected from it whenever they got copyrighted for one of their songs.
Yeah, because they did.
It was a parody of a Black Eyed Peas song.
I don't remember which one it was, but they had used a clip of like an actual like an
actual song and it got flagged for that one.
And so they had to get the entire video taken down, which you could tell had taken a lot
of work and a lot of time.
And so I think everything after that looked a little bit weaker.
They're like they didn't put in as much effort for a lot of the stuff in the back nine, which
sucks.
But I mean, there's all kinds of people that talk about that.
I just watched a video of a guy on YouTube, what's his channel called?
Heavy Spoilers.
And he did a whole thing about how he because he does movie reviews and stuff, but he did
a movie review for No Country for Old Men where he would use clips and then he would
talk about it.
He would be interspersed in it and like sometimes it'd be like talking head.
But the studio attorneys came after him and this video was like, I don't know, like 50
minutes.
And so their claim is that you're showing over half the movie and almost all of it is
clips from this movie.
You're essentially just showing the movie but talking over it.
And so he was talking about how that just beat him down and how he had to take an entire
year off because of all these copyright claim or copyright issues and putting all this work
and money and his videos are well produced, putting all that work into it just to get
it taken down and get nothing.
And it's got to be so disheartening, especially if you got it like monetized or if your channel
is monetized.
Yeah, you have to lose something that had got how many ad breaks would you have in a
50 minute video?
So that's what I think.
That's why I think one of the reasons Al is so adamant about making sure that he gets
their approval first, because it's just such a beating to put all that work into it and
then just have it go into the trash.
Because there was there was also some sort of drama between him and Marshall Mathers.
Really?
Yeah, I don't remember exactly what it was.
But there was some issues with him doing a parody of his song, which I mean, he does
he has Couch Potato that got released.
And that's a parody of lose yourself.
Oh, also a great song.
It is.
Yeah.
At the time that was released, I understood maybe like two thirds of all the references
because he references a lot of old TV shows and stuff.
I can't imagine how much of that how many of those references today's kids would understand.
Do you think that Max and Cooper would recognize recognize any of them?
Maybe I mean, there's stuff that's still on the air that he talks about in there like
Survivor, one of them's willing grace.
They wouldn't get that one.
Let's find out real quick.
Flintstones they would get that one.
Okay.
Simon Cowell, probably not.
Is he still on America's Got Talent?
I don't think so.
I don't even think they would know who Ozzy's family is.
I would hope not.
They're not old enough in the best of scenarios to know who Ozzy and his family is.
The Ali G show.
I don't even know what that one is.
What you don't know Ali G.
Who's Ali G?
It's Sasha Baron Cohen before he did Borat.
Oh, but he was like a British rapper.
I know the character.
I've never seen the show.
So what are your.
Did you have anything else about Al?
No, that was basically it.
My next thing was parody movies, which dropped off from what I could see it dropped off really
heavily in like once we got past the odds.
So like as soon as we got into 2010, they just like dropped off completely.
Thanks a lot Obama.
Hey, we still got Vampire Suck, date movie and I think one of the scary movies once Obama
was in office.
Is that happening?
Which one are we on now?
I don't know.
I think they are bringing it back with the Wayne's Brothers again this time.
There was something and an affair is hopefully something about them.
Well, she's the money now that her house is gone.
Best of luck to you on a hero.
We're not going to have that anymore.
We're not going to have her.
Did you not know that was her from like scary movie for I can't think of what you're referencing
and then she just does.
She's talking to the kid from the Grudge Kid.
Okay.
Yeah.
Any Hanna Mitsubishi.
God.
Anyways, no, I don't know there and there was some drama with the scary movie stuff
too and it got stolen from the Wayne's Brothers.
Oh really?
And then whatever company went off and did them on their own without the Wayne's Brothers.
So they did they did one and two and then three was without him.
Three was actually really good.
It was a lot of signs and eight mile stuff in it.
A lot of the ring.
Yeah, that's how it starts out.
Cindy the TV is leaking.
And then I think there might be like four and five.
One of them has Shaq and Dr. Phil.
That's a solid scenario.
And then cuts off the wrong leg.
Oh man.
But no, I'm pretty sure I heard that they're bringing it back with the Wayne's.
Definitely going to see that.
I was a I am still a really big fan of the scary movies.
Yeah, scary movie movies.
Did you know that's originally what scream was going to be called?
Scary movie.
I did not.
And they didn't know that when they named scary movies, scary movie.
Did Wes Craven come out afterwards and be like, I had it first.
I don't think so.
He's is he dead?
I don't think so.
I think he is.
Is he?
I think he died maybe like four years ago.
Jamie, look that up.
Ten.
Ten years ago.
Well, nine and a half.
Did not know that.
So on the on the topic of like the parody movies, the ones that I'm talking about are
a very specific genre of like where there is weird amalgam of like all of the things
in that genre.
So not another teen movie, which covers she's all that.
And I don't know why that's the only one I can think of that that movie actually like
parodies directly.
Or city blues.
Yeah.
So there's not another teen movie, which is my favorite of the ones in the genre.
There's like date movie superhero movies.
The 40 year old Virgin who knocked up Sarah Marshall and felt super bad about it, which
I will admit I practiced how to say that so that I could actually get through the whole
thing because it's one of my favorites.
It messed with my brain.
I'm not sure if I've seen it.
It stars.
What's his name?
He's in Saturday Night Live.
How I Met Your Mother.
He's in the Fighter and the Kid Show podcast.
It's Brian Callan.
Yes.
He's the Steve Carell stand in.
But those movies, I like those movies.
I don't I'm not expecting like them to win an Oscar.
No, they're not.
I'll watch them.
They're terrible movies.
The Starving Games.
I like The Starving Games.
Vampire Suck is one of my favorites, too.
That's a good one.
And you know what?
That one was that one was making a comeback on TikTok.
It was all just because of that.
I'm not sure.
It was all just because of the cactus.
Oh man.
Just for for quick reference.
If you haven't seen that movie, as I imagine most people haven't.
In the first scene of Twilight, Kristen Stewart comes in with this itty bitty cactus to remind
the audience that she's from Arizona and in Vampire Suck she's carrying a cactus that
is roughly the size of her whole torso.
It's incredible.
With all the streaming services that are available now and the quick turnaround, do you think
that those would be easy pickings for people to just be able to just turn those out like
crazy?
You'd think, but also when was the last time we got a whole slate of original movies where
you had like, because you wouldn't be able to have the 40 year old virgin who knocked
up Sarah Marshall and felt super bad about it.
And yes, I will use that as many times as I can.
If you didn't have all of those individual movies, but everything now is all reboots,
sequels and all that.
I guess that's true.
And then you, yeah, you don't have those.
You just don't have those type of comedies anymore.
Yeah, that are the parodies are based off of or the parodies themselves.
Like, how do you make a parody of a sequel?
Do you think you could?
Do you think you could do what they did with like, I don't know, for scary movie three,
eight mile and signs and the ring?
Do you think they could find three sequels to do that too and be able to mix them together
like that?
Did I just hit a jackpot idea?
I think you could theoretically use smile too.
Like, I think you could use a fire fire three.
Yeah.
Any other like horror movie sequels that have come out recently?
Blood and Honey to bring you right back around to the beginning.
Also in terms of the sequel thing, there was a Fast and Furious based one of these movies.
So it was like it was a whole bunch of the movies, but the main one was Fast and Furious
and it's based on Tokyo Drift.
Or maybe too fast, too furious.
Which Tokyo Drift itself feels like its own parody, mainly because Vin Diesel comes in
at the end and you're just like, well, what did I do all this for?
I was about to say, if you slander that movie, we're going to have some words.
It's my favorite in the franchise.
That's not true.
I do love the original Fast and Furious, but.
Just for reference to make you feel extra super duper old.
The Fast and Furious people in the original were robbing a convoy of merchandise trucks
that had TVs with VCRs attached to them.
It might be, it might have been a little, a little more updated.
It might have been VCR slash DVD slash TV, but the point still stands that these are
cathode ray tube televisions with either a VCR or DVD or both attached to them.
And that was the height of technology that was worth all these street racing hoodlums
looking in to these trucks going down the highway, risking their lives in order to steal
and hopefully resell for more than $5 a piece.
That is what that entire movie is based around.
And that loses, that is lost so much when we think about the fact that they went to
freaking space like nine movies later and it all started out with combo TV slash VCR
maybe DVD player.
You want to talk about humble beginnings.
What a time to be alive that we're in the space era of Fast and Furious you guys.
They're going to beat Elon to Mars.
Hey man, as long as the family is there.
That's all that matters.
Do you think they still sell Corona on Mars?
They better.
Labels out, Vin.
You got to make back that budget somewhere.
Did you see that?
First off, I do not take Vin Diesel seriously as a person whatsoever.
The fact that he made millions of dollars by saying, I am Grooved is just ridiculous.
My favorite bit of because because that is just him.
That is that that is the level of conversation you can expect from Vincent Diesel.
What is this man's actual name?
It is not diesel.
I know that.
I want to know, did the diesel come in because of Fast and the Furious or was it afterwards?
Okay, it's Vincent something.
It's not.
It's not Vin.
It's Mark Sinclair.
I knew that.
Yeah, that.
Okay, but when when when did Vin Diesel make its triumphant debut?
Oh, he took it on as a teenager.
He just knew.
Oh, okay.
He was made for this part.
I wonder if I could do that.
I mean, that's kind of like manifesting.
The name then comes from his mother's married last name, Vincent, and the name diesel came
from his friends who thought he was always full of energy, which makes no sense at all.
No, it's really because he's fuel efficient.
That's where diesel comes from.
What could I manifest?
Let's see, if I were to change my name today, do you think I could get people to call me
and in all seriousness, like whenever whenever people say my name, like they say Vin Diesel
without a little chuckle, do you think do you think I could get someone to unapologetically
with all seriousness, I'd be able to put this on legal documents, moneybags, big winger.
Are we are we hyphenating?
I mean, I know moneybags one word first name.
Okay, that's done.
Moneybags will not be like, hey, moneybags, just like they're like, hey, Vin, hey, moneybags.
I will never be able to watch the Fast and Furious movies without looking at Marc Sinclair.
And then I guess big winger.
I guess I guess big winger can be if anated and then I can I can have some.
I can have some some sort of background story for that.
Like, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you know, moneybags.
It's a whole family name, you know, from like Italy and the winger.
I mean, it's actually Cherokee.
It's ancient Cherokee for an eagle with a big wing.
Oh, man.
Do you do you think people do you think I get convinced people support it and then just
subpar acting paperwork?
I am.
Big winger.
Hold on.
You can't have subpar act.
You have to be Oscar worthy.
Oh, OK, because you have to get nominated for.
OK, so that with the name.
So that is big.
And the nominees for the Oscar are Adam Driver, Vin Diesel and moneybags.
And Charlize Theron is just there up on stage and and the winner of Best Lead.
Oh, oh, my moneybags.
Big winger.
And then people people will not know whether to applaud or boo because they realize this
is the farce that their career has become.
And then I'll go up on stage and I'll be like, I tricked all you idiots.
It's all a joke.
Moneybags big winger.
I mean, I love the cash exchange from humble beginnings.
Moneybags big winger.
Oh, man.
You know, that segment that segment would have gone great on Tick Tock.
That would have been our first, you know what?
Whenever Trump gets back in and and reinstate's Tick Tock and he talks to Xi Jinping and he's
like, hey, man, listen.
Listen.
Sell it to Elon.
You'll still get all the information.
You just have to go through an extra step.
And then when we get Tick Tock back, that is going to be our first ever talk.
Tick Tock, what are they called?
They're just tick tocks.
How old are you?
Tick tock.
A talk.
Find me on the tick.
Under the handle.
Moneybags big winger.
Don't forget the hyphen.
Where does it go?
The world may never know.
The moneybags or the big?
The hyphen.
Oh, so I think we both have a strong love for for parodies in all their forms.
Yeah.
I did want to give an honorable mention to Adam Ray.
I was I was looking up in the research for the show.
I'm still not 100 percent sure what the difference is between an impression and a parody.
I think that there is one, but I don't know what it is.
So I wanted to give an honorable mention to Adam Ray because he has made an entire platform
being a parody of Dr. Phil.
And it is awesome.
I think the difference is that a parody is a is a is like a heavier exaggeration than
an impression would be.
So I think I think an impression is you do it with the mannerisms and the cadence and
the you want it to sound like that person.
But a parody is where you're doing everything but to the nth degree.
I think that might be the difference.
OK, so whichever way it goes, did you watch his Netflix special?
Now I have Netflix anymore.
That one came out a couple of months ago.
I definitely recommend watching it if you have Netflix sometime in the near future.
We'll get it back whenever Squid Games season three, season two, part two comes out.
So it's it's with Dr. Phil.
Yeah.
Yeah, I saw I saw clips of that on a certain platform.
It's not nearly as Dr. Philly as you think it'd be.
He's only in it for like 20 minutes.
Yeah.
Of the hour.
So that's it's weird because I think it's I think it's odd to build your entire persona
because I mean, he was around before he started doing the Biden stuff before he started doing
the the the Dr. Phil stuff.
But I think if you were to show someone a picture of this dude, they would just say,
oh, that's the guy that does Dr. Filler.
That's the dude that does Biden.
And I think I think that just puts yourself in a weird place.
Like I'm glad that he was able to jump from Biden to to Dr. Phil.
But then I feel like now he has to go from Dr. Phil to just being someone else instead
of being himself because he's set that precedent.
Yeah.
On a related note, did you know that Adam Ray's in Barbie?
No, I did not.
It makes a quick cameo.
It doesn't he's not in it for very long.
Yeah, he's in Barbie.
Is he a kin?
He is not.
He's a cop that arrests Barbie and kin whenever they're they do something on like the where
they steal clothes.
Yes.
So yeah, they get arrested in Malibu and he's the arresting officer.
We had to rewind it because he to Malibu.
Oh, like to who?
Yeah, he's in it for a little bit.
Well shout out to Adam Ray, who I think probably lives somewhere near here.
Probably with all his other stand up bros.
Thousand other comedians.
So what is something we can take away from this episode?
Other than the fact that I found my stage name.
Parodies are great in the right hands.
They are.
We need to bring back original things so that we can have a new slate of scary movie and
not another teen movie and all that nonsense.
It's time for a comeback airplane.
That was another parody movie.
Yeah.
Austin Powers.
I would love to see another Austin Powers ish movie.
Another Austin Powers.
Oh, word on the street is a P four is is a green lights.
I thought they canceled it because of Vernon Troyer.
I thought they decided that they couldn't make another Austin Powers without many me.
No, I think this is pretty recent when I heard him being real coy about if we were ever going
to see Dr. Evil again.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I would watch Mike Myers and basically anything.
Did you ever see the Pentavarate?
I did.
I did not enjoy that, but I did watch it.
Did you like the Shrek cameo?
There was a Shrek cameo.
I also watched the Gong show, which was terrible.
I mean, it was originally like a British remake of the game show.
Yeah.
There was no American.
Was it?
I mean, there might have been a British version of it before the American version, but there
was an American version in like the 70s where it was like, I mean, it was like American
Idol was back in the good old days.
Back when they sprinkled in some just truly awful, awful performances and then they hit
the gong and then they were gone.
We should have more gongs today.
I'd love to be able to punctuate things with a gong.
If you get that job, it'd be Gong City.
Would you have to learn any Japanese?
Konnichiwa.
No, the menu is deeply American.
Welcome to Shrek.
You go from the unhoused.
Hey, we're of Asian descent.
Sure.
We're from we're we're partly from the continent of Asia.
We can claim all of them.
We can we?
I think so.
I think that's how it works.
Even Asians don't claim most Asians.
Well, I guess I'm just more progressive than them.
Wow.
Okay.
So maybe we need another Vietnam and teach them some good old American values like accepting
everybody for who they are.
Good Lord.
But on that note, we'll be right back.
Oh, brought to you by Red Bull.
It gives you wings.
You got anything else?
You know, I don't.
But I will say that I am very pumped to start my life as Moneybags Big Weiner.
And I can't wait to see all the good fortunes that come with that.
I'm very pumped that I've lost my ability to doom scroll.
I'm about to be the most productive person I've ever met.
I am not.
We're going to get it back soon.
It'll be different.
But what how will that help me tonight?
I mean, you could have done what half of the TikTok population did and just saved a bunch
of videos that you could doom scroll through your gallery instead, which is just the saddest
thing I think I've ever heard.
Full disclosure is I did like some videos today because I thought the band was tomorrow.
So that way I would have reference points for having our goodbye to TikTok episode.
If you have a VPN, are you allowed to say that you're not in the States?
I don't know how that works.
Because I mean, if you already downloaded it, it's not like it's going to disappear
off your phone, right?
But is it worth having Canadian TikTok or Mexican TikTok just a bunch of videos of Chihuahuas
or that's what I assume goes on down there?
I don't know.
I've never been.
You've been to Mexico?
I have not.
Well, our next road show.
Mexico?
Viva la Mexico.
Or not.
Maybe we'll just do it from a Mexican restaurant.
That's the same thing, right?
Live from El Chico.
Do we have to block out all of the fajitas sizzling past us or?
No, what we'll do is we'll go in there beforehand and we'll get a sizzle reel.
A sizzle reel?
Oh, that was on accident.
Imagine if I was actually trying.
So we go there and then we get some sound bites of the sizzle and then we just do a
consistent sizzle throughout the entire thing.
Just like there's an end.
Just like there's a balloon being deflated the whole episode.
Just an endless train of fajitas going past us the entire episode.
So be on the lookout for our ode to Mexico with a never ending train of sizzling fajitas.
Oh man, did you come up with something profound to say at the end of this episode?
Because I didn't.
I don't end any of my episodes with anything.
I know, but can you this one?
Because just off the top of your head, what's the most profound thing you can think of right
now?
Now that we've lost TikTok, take this opportunity to go touch grass.
Be very demure, very mindful.
Why would you do that to me right now?
Why would you do that?
That is the sign off for TikTok.
We lost it today.
It's fresh.
I want to give it a proper eulogy.
You couldn't say, hey, we had a good ride.
You had to end it with very demure, very mindful.
It is, yeah.
Well, that being said, I guess be very demure, be very mindful.
Hopefully we get TikTok back, so it doesn't have to be productive.
And yeah, catch you on the next one.
See ya.
Look forward.