WEBVTT 00:00:10.879 --> 00:00:13.720 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:16.719 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.339 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:19.500 --> 00:00:22.019 Joining me once again tonight as guest curator 00:00:22.019 --> 00:00:24.899 is my former Toon Styles co -host, Jay Sweet. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.879 Jay, welcome back again, my friend. Thanks, man. 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:30.019 It's great to be here. It's good to have you. 00:00:30.059 --> 00:00:32.020 And I am excited because tonight we are going 00:00:32.020 --> 00:00:35.060 to go down a road that I actually don't think 00:00:35.060 --> 00:00:37.880 in all the years we've podcasted together, we've 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:42.880 truly... Doven into, which is comedy and novelty 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.119 songs. Yeah. When you originally pitched this 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.200 to me, I thought, OK, this is great because I 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:53.939 lived on Dr. Demento forever and we can get into 00:00:53.939 --> 00:00:56.079 it organically when we get there. But, you know, 00:00:56.100 --> 00:00:59.299 I have great stories about almost every novelty 00:00:59.299 --> 00:01:01.979 song ever written that I've ever heard. So I'm 00:01:01.979 --> 00:01:03.460 looking forward to talking about this for sure. 00:01:03.539 --> 00:01:06.739 Me too. And I was actually kind of shocked. That 00:01:06.739 --> 00:01:10.359 a lot of the novelty songs that I picked actually 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.439 in some way, shape or form, be it here in the 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:17.780 U .S. or overseas, charted. So some of these 00:01:17.780 --> 00:01:22.780 songs are actually in the top 100, sometimes 00:01:22.780 --> 00:01:28.159 in the top 40 discussion here, even though they're 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.980 not serious. So believe it or not, people can 00:01:30.980 --> 00:01:33.780 actually laugh. I didn't know if you knew this, 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:37.140 but apparently. at some point in time, people 00:01:37.140 --> 00:01:41.400 were able to laugh at things. Yeah, not so much 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:44.620 these days, but, you know, it's okay. We're going 00:01:44.620 --> 00:01:46.480 to bring it back. We're taking it back. Yeah, 00:01:46.540 --> 00:01:48.560 exactly. And I think we could use a good laugh 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:50.920 tonight. Now, I am going to go on record and 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:53.819 say that a lot of the songs we're going to be 00:01:53.819 --> 00:01:57.060 talking about tonight are not safe for work, 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.280 at least from my bank of songs, I could tell 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:03.890 you right now. So while we'll do our best, To 00:02:03.890 --> 00:02:07.390 keep it as PG as the show normally is, I make 00:02:07.390 --> 00:02:11.189 zero guarantees on this episode because some 00:02:11.189 --> 00:02:13.770 of the songs I picked this evening, let's just 00:02:13.770 --> 00:02:16.750 say it's kind of hard to keep PG, no matter how 00:02:16.750 --> 00:02:19.889 you try. But we'll do our best. All right. I 00:02:19.889 --> 00:02:22.250 can get behind that. There's a lot of stuff that 00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:25.030 a lot of these songs in my bank were written 00:02:25.030 --> 00:02:29.009 with kind of a dark streak. And if you are a 00:02:29.009 --> 00:02:33.150 fan of the Dr. Demento, the Funny 25 or even, 00:02:33.189 --> 00:02:36.090 you know, Dr. Demento's whole entire show, those 00:02:36.090 --> 00:02:38.370 kind of songs, you kind of get a little bit of 00:02:38.370 --> 00:02:43.330 that. Oh. That's dark. Oh, all right. We're going 00:02:43.330 --> 00:02:44.889 to talk about that. Well, I think I'm going to 00:02:44.889 --> 00:02:46.930 balance your dark out because I don't think any 00:02:46.930 --> 00:02:49.569 of my songs are dark in any way, shape or form. 00:02:49.810 --> 00:02:52.509 Mine are as over the top as you could possibly 00:02:52.509 --> 00:02:55.009 get. So I think we're going to strike a balance 00:02:55.009 --> 00:02:58.810 here. But let's see as we go down that road tonight. 00:02:58.930 --> 00:03:01.110 As I mentioned at the top of the show, Jay and 00:03:01.110 --> 00:03:03.610 I are going to be curating the ultimate comedy 00:03:03.610 --> 00:03:06.509 and novelty songs mixtape. And we'll use the 00:03:06.509 --> 00:03:09.159 old cassette deck approach. Jay, as my special 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:11.419 guest, will begin Side A with his first song 00:03:11.419 --> 00:03:13.900 choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel 00:03:13.900 --> 00:03:16.580 best follows up that choice. We'll then flip 00:03:16.580 --> 00:03:19.259 -flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10 00:03:19.259 --> 00:03:22.479 songs for Side A. We'll then give our mixtape 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.039 a proverbial flip, and we'll map out Side B, 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:27.400 only this time I'll kick things off with Jay 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.319 choosing second. Our overall goal for the episode 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:33.159 is to craft the best comedy and novelty songs 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:37.030 mixtape possible through only 20 songs. 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And I want to give a few quick 00:04:22.740 --> 00:04:26.180 shout -outs. Ben from the Too Vague podcast chimed 00:04:26.180 --> 00:04:29.399 in with Tom Lehrer's New Math. Tom Hutchinson 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.860 chimed in with Mr. Baco by Adam Sandler, saying 00:04:32.860 --> 00:04:35.500 it cracks him up every time he hears it. Philip 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:38.540 Bergman chimed in saying, true story, they're 00:04:38.540 --> 00:04:41.339 coming to take me away, ha ha, is actually the 00:04:41.339 --> 00:04:44.379 first song on one of his oldie mixtapes that 00:04:44.379 --> 00:04:47.240 he recorded off the radio, but for a lead off 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:50.310 for the ultimate. comedy mixtape. He is going 00:04:50.310 --> 00:04:53.430 to go with the Water Buffalo song from VeggieTales. 00:04:54.189 --> 00:04:56.850 Chad LaMassa, on a completely different note, 00:04:56.949 --> 00:04:59.170 is chiming in with King Missile's detachable 00:04:59.170 --> 00:05:05.350 penis. Can't believe we went from VeggieTales 00:05:05.350 --> 00:05:07.329 to King Missile, but that's where we are right 00:05:07.329 --> 00:05:11.410 now. Brandon from Virginia is going way back 00:05:11.410 --> 00:05:14.350 to a deep cut for his choice, Dickie Goodman's 00:05:14.350 --> 00:05:18.180 Flying Saucer Part 1. Seeker chimed in from Australia 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:22.139 with Bad News, which is a British spinal tap 00:05:22.139 --> 00:05:25.399 -like mockumentary made by the guys behind The 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.540 Young Ones. And while some people might be familiar 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:31.899 with their version of Bohemian Rhapsody, Seeker's 00:05:31.899 --> 00:05:35.040 going with Hey Hey Bad News, which was recorded 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.920 live at the 1986 Monsters of Rock performance 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:42.259 in Donington as the band was booed off the stage. 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.379 And finally, Sean Goff said he's pretty sure 00:05:45.379 --> 00:05:48.180 this is a novelty song and is chiming in with 00:05:48.180 --> 00:05:51.779 Psycho Sticks. This is not a song. It's a sandwich. 00:05:51.860 --> 00:05:54.560 And if that doesn't count, he's going to go old 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.800 school with Stranded in the Jungle by the Cadets. 00:05:57.899 --> 00:06:00.220 Once again, if you'd like to chime in for future 00:06:00.220 --> 00:06:03.339 My Weekly Mixtape episodes, join the Mixtaper 00:06:03.339 --> 00:06:07.500 community at patreon .com forward slash My Weekly 00:06:07.500 --> 00:06:11.199 Mixtape. And now, Jay, I need a good laugh tonight. 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.639 So I'm going to officially press the record button 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:18.379 on our mixtape and expect some laughter out of 00:06:18.379 --> 00:06:22.459 you. So what song is going to kick off the festivities 00:06:22.459 --> 00:06:25.120 for this evening? Well, we are going right to 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:28.579 the Dr. Demento show. And if you like I mentioned 00:06:28.579 --> 00:06:31.779 earlier, if you are a fan of novelty records, 00:06:32.019 --> 00:06:35.019 if you are a fan of Weird Al Yankovic. You know, 00:06:35.100 --> 00:06:37.639 Dr. Demento, because that's kind of where Weird 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.579 Al got his became Weird Al. He got his start 00:06:40.579 --> 00:06:43.139 there and took off to being one of the most prolific 00:06:43.139 --> 00:06:46.959 and funniest comedy writers, songwriters of all 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.800 time. You know, if you're asking me, but we're 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:52.379 going to start with Dr. Demento. And what I used 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:56.060 to do is listen in on W .A .Q. X. Manly is Syracuse. 00:06:56.060 --> 00:06:59.399 When I was growing up, 95 X used to run on, I 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:02.069 believe it was Sunday nights. Dr. Demento show 00:07:02.069 --> 00:07:05.029 late at night, like I think at nine or 10 o 'clock, 00:07:05.129 --> 00:07:07.230 I remember going to bed, get ready for school 00:07:07.230 --> 00:07:08.990 in the morning. And that was what I would listen 00:07:08.990 --> 00:07:11.069 to. I mean, that's still late at night now, if 00:07:11.069 --> 00:07:12.769 you think about it. I mean, for us, it really 00:07:12.769 --> 00:07:17.529 is. No, it really is. So when I first heard this, 00:07:17.550 --> 00:07:20.850 I, this song cracked me up so much and it goes 00:07:20.850 --> 00:07:23.149 right to that dark heart that I talked about. 00:07:23.579 --> 00:07:26.920 There was a group called Ogden Edsel, and actually 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:29.579 they shortened that from Ogden Edsel Wahalia 00:07:29.579 --> 00:07:33.439 Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizarro Band. And they've 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:37.500 been around since the 1970s, the early 1970s. 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:41.100 And in 1977, they put out a song, the last track 00:07:41.100 --> 00:07:43.959 on the first side of the record, which was called 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:49.350 Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun. With lyrics like 00:07:49.350 --> 00:07:52.589 my puppy died late last fall. He's still rotting 00:07:52.589 --> 00:07:55.850 in the hall. Dead puppies aren't much fun. Mom 00:07:55.850 --> 00:07:58.449 says puppies days are through. She's going to 00:07:58.449 --> 00:08:03.410 put them in the stew. Oh, God. But this is and 00:08:03.410 --> 00:08:06.170 talking about who's that had Tom Lehrer that 00:08:06.170 --> 00:08:08.850 mentioned Tom Lehrer. That was Ben from the Too 00:08:08.850 --> 00:08:11.089 Vague podcast. Yeah. Ben from the Too Vague podcast. 00:08:11.490 --> 00:08:15.790 Tom Lehrer. So 1959. You got to think about that. 00:08:16.009 --> 00:08:18.680 Back when rock and roll was still. brand new 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:20.899 novelty records have been around for forever 00:08:20.899 --> 00:08:25.060 they literally have i i'm sure that your fine 00:08:25.060 --> 00:08:28.300 listeners brian who subscribe to tiktok or facebook 00:08:28.300 --> 00:08:31.379 reels or instagram have come across these videos 00:08:31.379 --> 00:08:38.120 with these oldie timey 1930s 1940s kind of brassy 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:42.440 big band songs about double entendres like really 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:45.950 really on the nose double entendre stuff And 00:08:45.950 --> 00:08:47.850 those are novelty records, and they've been around 00:08:47.850 --> 00:08:50.470 for a very long time. Tom Lehrer had a song called 00:08:50.470 --> 00:08:53.870 Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, I think in 1959? 00:08:56.889 --> 00:09:01.590 Question mark? Yes, 1959 was on more of Tom Lehrer, 00:09:01.769 --> 00:09:07.710 but this Ogden Edsel was 1977 that song came 00:09:07.710 --> 00:09:13.649 out, and it was on the album Stuffed. That's 00:09:13.649 --> 00:09:15.330 how we started off. We're going to go down a 00:09:15.330 --> 00:09:17.809 hole and we're going to be on a roller coaster 00:09:17.809 --> 00:09:19.450 ride all the way through this. I'm going to say, 00:09:19.570 --> 00:09:21.809 and hopefully not offending too many people who 00:09:21.809 --> 00:09:24.289 never heard it, but it's an older song. And if 00:09:24.289 --> 00:09:28.309 you get Dr. Demento's style of humor, it's actually 00:09:28.309 --> 00:09:31.929 not far removed. I've listened to this song before. 00:09:31.990 --> 00:09:35.090 It's definitely one that kind of just keeps building 00:09:35.090 --> 00:09:37.710 and building and building and getting weirder 00:09:37.710 --> 00:09:42.269 and creepier. And it is. just off the wall. And 00:09:42.269 --> 00:09:46.129 it's everything that encapsulates what Dr. Demento 00:09:46.129 --> 00:09:50.389 was. I mean, there's a certain sense of humor 00:09:50.389 --> 00:09:54.190 that if you are a Dr. Demento fan, you immediately 00:09:54.190 --> 00:09:57.649 get it. But if you're not a Dr. Demento fan, 00:09:57.870 --> 00:10:02.049 it's either going over your head, offending you, 00:10:02.169 --> 00:10:06.129 or you're just kind of staring at the radio blankly. 00:10:06.460 --> 00:10:09.320 And I'm kind of none of those. I find Dr. Demento's 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:12.659 humor pretty hysterical. Absolutely. And I mean, 00:10:12.659 --> 00:10:15.279 if you like you said, if you are familiar with 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.179 what Dr. Demento has done without Dr. Demento, 00:10:18.179 --> 00:10:20.460 we don't have Bob Rivers, right? We don't have 00:10:20.460 --> 00:10:22.360 the 12 Pains of Christmas, which was one of the 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:24.440 greatest Christmas parody songs ever written. 00:10:24.580 --> 00:10:28.220 You don't have Bob and Tom, you know, radio show 00:10:28.220 --> 00:10:31.960 hosts and ONA and even Howard. I mean, Howard, 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:35.129 for the most part, Howard Stern. You don't have 00:10:35.129 --> 00:10:38.409 those funny gags, those radio gags. And Dr. Demento 00:10:38.409 --> 00:10:41.269 kind of brought all of that to us in a lot of 00:10:41.269 --> 00:10:44.649 ways. And in fact, if you remember, we're talking 00:10:44.649 --> 00:10:47.210 about this. And like I said, I'm full of stories 00:10:47.210 --> 00:10:49.750 about this stuff. But there was a song that Dr. 00:10:49.769 --> 00:10:53.149 Demento would play in regular rotation. One of 00:10:53.149 --> 00:10:55.950 them was Star Trekking. And being a sci -fi nerd 00:10:55.950 --> 00:10:58.570 that I am, that was a hilarious song for me. 00:10:58.690 --> 00:11:01.129 But there was also, there was the Dead Puppy 00:11:01.129 --> 00:11:04.649 song. Then there was the Tom Lehrer stuff. And 00:11:04.649 --> 00:11:07.350 all of the Weird Al stuff. And there was a song 00:11:07.350 --> 00:11:12.490 by Kipler called Wet Dream. And it was 100 % 00:11:12.490 --> 00:11:16.350 based on double entendres for, he pulled his 00:11:16.350 --> 00:11:19.149 car into the shop because he had blown a seal. 00:11:19.309 --> 00:11:21.649 And he said, shut up and fix the thing and leave 00:11:21.649 --> 00:11:23.789 my personal life out of it. Like those kind of 00:11:23.789 --> 00:11:26.710 things. Just hysterical. The double entendres 00:11:26.710 --> 00:11:29.509 are great. I kind of, you know, this occurred 00:11:29.509 --> 00:11:33.279 to me this very day, Brian. I think that music 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:38.460 was funnier when you had songs that were creative 00:11:38.460 --> 00:11:41.799 around the topic they were singing about. Shebop 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.480 by Cyndi Lauper, right? Instead of today's modern 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:47.820 era, you're going to get, what were you doing? 00:11:47.899 --> 00:11:50.370 I was sitting at home, you know. In the early 00:11:50.370 --> 00:11:55.549 80s, up until I think around the early 90s, something 00:11:55.549 --> 00:11:59.230 tectonically shifted in music in terms of self 00:11:59.230 --> 00:12:02.190 -censoring. And they were less, I think they're 00:12:02.190 --> 00:12:04.409 less creative about it. I think it suffered a 00:12:04.409 --> 00:12:06.350 little bit. Yeah, it's a little bit more on the 00:12:06.350 --> 00:12:09.950 nose for sure. And when I listen to Dr. Demento, 00:12:09.950 --> 00:12:12.110 I think of songs like Tim Kavanaugh's I Wanna 00:12:12.110 --> 00:12:15.409 Kiss Her, parentheses, but she won't let me. 00:12:15.570 --> 00:12:18.570 However, when you sing the song, it's I wanna 00:12:18.570 --> 00:12:23.210 kiss her, but. She won't let me. Again, all it 00:12:23.210 --> 00:12:26.250 takes is the way you sing the song in the phrasing. 00:12:26.250 --> 00:12:29.409 And it changes it completely. As a kid, I laughed 00:12:29.409 --> 00:12:32.710 at that. You said kiss her butt. But at the end 00:12:32.710 --> 00:12:35.769 of the day, punctuation matters. And you know 00:12:35.769 --> 00:12:39.049 what, Jay? Back to Ogden Edsel. Dead Puppies 00:12:39.049 --> 00:12:42.970 was the most requested song on Dr. Demento's 00:12:42.970 --> 00:12:46.200 radio show ever. So this is not really a deep 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:49.639 cut if you're a fan of Dr. Demento. And it remains 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:52.639 the only song to hit number one on the annual 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:56.019 Funny 25 countdown two years in a row, which 00:12:56.019 --> 00:12:58.980 was 82 and 83. That's right. So, I mean, that's 00:12:58.980 --> 00:13:01.220 as good as a Grammy as far as I would be concerned. 00:13:01.820 --> 00:13:04.820 But I'm going to steer right into this Dr. Demento 00:13:04.820 --> 00:13:08.559 thing and scoop you right away. Because you know 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:10.240 there's going to be an elephant in the room. 00:13:10.299 --> 00:13:12.220 And we could sit here and push this all the way 00:13:12.220 --> 00:13:14.480 to the end of the episode. But let's just get 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:17.500 it out of the way first. This is the big shocking 00:13:17.500 --> 00:13:21.080 reveal. Weird Al. Oh, yeah. We're obviously going 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:22.960 to talk about him. We've done a full episode 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.860 of My Weekly Mixtape on Weird Al Yankovic. Hell, 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:29.000 you and I did episodes on Weird Al back on the 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.840 Toon Styles days. It was done on Playlist Wars. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.200 I'm always talking about Weird Al. Let's just 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:37.149 get it out of the way and get him in. And I'm 00:13:37.149 --> 00:13:39.990 going to go with the title track to the first 00:13:39.990 --> 00:13:43.330 ever Weird Al album I ever owned, 1985's Dare 00:13:43.330 --> 00:13:46.970 to Be Stupid. And for nerds like you and I, Jay, 00:13:47.070 --> 00:13:50.809 it was also featured on 1986's Transformers, 00:13:50.809 --> 00:13:53.889 the movie soundtrack as the double A side to 00:13:53.889 --> 00:13:57.129 stay on Bush's the touch. I mean, as much as 00:13:57.129 --> 00:13:59.990 I love this song and I hear lyrics like burn 00:13:59.990 --> 00:14:02.870 your candle at both ends, look a gift horse in 00:14:02.870 --> 00:14:05.419 the mouth. Mashed Potatoes could be your friend. 00:14:05.539 --> 00:14:08.600 In the back of my head, I'm still picturing Rekar 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:12.480 and the Junkins having their battle during this 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:14.460 song. I remember sitting in the movie theater 00:14:14.460 --> 00:14:17.299 having my mind blown because I had that album. 00:14:17.539 --> 00:14:20.580 So the Transformers were crossing multiverses 00:14:20.580 --> 00:14:23.419 in my brain at that time, which I absolutely 00:14:23.419 --> 00:14:28.139 love. And the song is still in popular culture 00:14:28.139 --> 00:14:33.889 as 2024's Night Bitch with Amy Adams. features 00:14:33.889 --> 00:14:37.350 the song in the movie. Oh, I have not seen that. 00:14:37.409 --> 00:14:39.830 I think I may have to watch that movie. Just 00:14:39.830 --> 00:14:43.149 for that alone. Absolutely. Oh, Weird Al. I mean, 00:14:43.509 --> 00:14:46.070 as you said, we could gush on about Weird Al 00:14:46.070 --> 00:14:48.289 Yankovic and the fact that he's not in the Rock 00:14:48.289 --> 00:14:51.330 Hall of Fame is criminal. And Weird Al Yankovic 00:14:51.330 --> 00:14:54.450 was my first concert ever off the Deep End Tour. 00:14:54.549 --> 00:14:56.450 Got to go to the Landmark Theater at Syracuse 00:14:56.450 --> 00:14:59.090 with my bestest buddies in the whole wide world. 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:01.879 And we all kind of convinced my dad, nope, it's 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:04.159 not a rock show. It's weird out. It's going to 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:05.580 be amazing. We're going to have a great time. 00:15:05.899 --> 00:15:10.639 And I got to go. And we had a fantastic time. 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.360 I think I mentioned this a number of times with 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:16.460 you as well. My dad was in an orchestra. He was 00:15:16.460 --> 00:15:19.039 the band leader for an 18 -piece orchestra. And 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.379 he had a lot of friends in the city who were 00:15:21.379 --> 00:15:23.720 musicians. He's played with almost everybody. 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.440 And one of his friends was my sister and I, my 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.220 younger sister and I. My dad's friend Barry had 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:33.679 two kids, Chip, who was a little older than me, 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.360 and got me turned on to Weird Al Yankovic. He 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:40.419 had the entire discography right up as long as, 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.159 you know, when I first met him. And we went back 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.240 and listened to those records, and that was what 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.980 we did when we first met. And they were, I mean, 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.419 they're just, it's Weird Al. How do you go wrong? 00:15:51.929 --> 00:15:54.070 You can't go wrong with Weird Al, and I'm actually 00:15:54.070 --> 00:15:57.769 taking it a step further and taking the entire 00:15:57.769 --> 00:16:01.009 family this summer to Madison Square Garden for 00:16:01.009 --> 00:16:05.929 Weird Al and Puddle's pity party. Nice. And this 00:16:05.929 --> 00:16:08.110 will be the kids' first time seeing Weird Al, 00:16:08.250 --> 00:16:13.070 and I am so excited to watch the show through 00:16:13.070 --> 00:16:16.129 them seeing him live for the first time, as well 00:16:16.129 --> 00:16:18.850 as enjoying it for myself. That'll be awesome. 00:16:19.549 --> 00:16:21.970 All right. We could go on about Weird Al for 00:16:21.970 --> 00:16:24.110 an entire hour, but let's save that for another 00:16:24.110 --> 00:16:27.690 night. What are you following up dead puppies 00:16:27.690 --> 00:16:31.669 and dare to be stupid with? Let's go direct into 00:16:31.669 --> 00:16:37.269 comedy. And one of the most hilarious comedians 00:16:37.269 --> 00:16:42.169 taken far too soon. And this video was all over 00:16:42.169 --> 00:16:46.090 MTV and you could not get away from this song. 00:16:46.649 --> 00:16:50.769 Sam Kinison's Wild Thing featuring a whole bunch 00:16:50.769 --> 00:16:54.009 of musicians in the video. I think, was it Joe 00:16:54.009 --> 00:16:56.429 Perry and Steven Tyler were in that movie or 00:16:56.429 --> 00:16:58.649 in the video? Oh, here, here, here. Because I'm 00:16:58.649 --> 00:17:00.250 just going to interrupt you and let you know 00:17:00.250 --> 00:17:03.809 that you scooped me, bastard. But the video not 00:17:03.809 --> 00:17:07.430 only featured Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, 00:17:07.470 --> 00:17:11.009 it also featured Rodney Dangerfield, Jon Bon 00:17:11.009 --> 00:17:15.089 Jovi, Jessica Hahn, Motley Crue's Tommy Lee. 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.880 Journey or Bad English, depending on what point. 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:20.799 I think it was Bad English at this point. It 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.299 was Jonathan Cain and Dean Castronovo. You had 00:17:24.299 --> 00:17:27.900 Richie Sambora and Alex John Such of Bon Jovi, 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:31.799 Slash and Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses, Robin 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:36.079 Crosby and Warren Demartini of Rat, CeCe DeVille 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:39.920 of Poison, Rudy Cesaro of Quiet Riot, and Billy 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.700 Idol. Can you imagine the mounds of cocaine at 00:17:43.700 --> 00:17:49.029 this video show? Because the video is one big 00:17:49.029 --> 00:17:52.549 party. I mean, let's be honest here. Yes. This 00:17:52.549 --> 00:17:54.789 was the height of hair metal being exploited 00:17:54.789 --> 00:17:58.230 for comedy. And kids, a little PSA here. Do not 00:17:58.230 --> 00:18:00.970 do cocaine. Don't do cocaine. No. Not good for 00:18:00.970 --> 00:18:03.990 you. But back to the 1980s when I don't think 00:18:03.990 --> 00:18:06.309 it's a far fetch to say that there was some maybe 00:18:06.309 --> 00:18:09.430 on this video shoot. No, that wouldn't be a stretch 00:18:09.430 --> 00:18:12.460 at all. I mean, Jay, realistically, this song 00:18:12.460 --> 00:18:15.640 could fall under several playlists for me because 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:19.619 yes, it's a comedy song, but it's also, if you 00:18:19.619 --> 00:18:21.799 really want to be honest about it, it's kind 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:25.000 of a straight ahead cover. There's some humorous 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.650 moments in it. Like at the end when. Kinison 00:18:27.650 --> 00:18:29.950 just starts kind of going off on his rant, saying 00:18:29.950 --> 00:18:32.170 like the rant guys that are going to use you 00:18:32.170 --> 00:18:34.490 like you used me and take that money out of your 00:18:34.490 --> 00:18:36.809 purse and crawl out a window. And he's just doing 00:18:36.809 --> 00:18:38.990 his scream. But at the end of the day, it's just 00:18:38.990 --> 00:18:41.849 a straight ahead cover and it's a great cover. 00:18:41.950 --> 00:18:45.369 So I have actually used this song on my comedy 00:18:45.369 --> 00:18:48.609 playlists, on my cover songs, playlists, and 00:18:48.609 --> 00:18:51.309 on my eighties hair metal playlist, because of 00:18:51.309 --> 00:18:54.849 that massive list of musicians we talked about, 00:18:54.869 --> 00:18:57.160 they're all playing on it. Or in the music video. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.299 So yeah, it counts as hair metal as well. Absolutely. 00:19:00.819 --> 00:19:04.140 So following that up, I think I'm going to stick 00:19:04.140 --> 00:19:06.839 with the harder, heavier vibe, but I'm going 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:09.400 to jump ahead a couple of years here. And Jay, 00:19:09.500 --> 00:19:12.059 as soon as I say the name of this song, I know 00:19:12.059 --> 00:19:14.140 you're immediately going to laugh, but I'll start 00:19:14.140 --> 00:19:17.700 by saying the song reached number 17 on the US 00:19:17.700 --> 00:19:21.079 Billboard Hot 100, hit number five in the UK, 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:25.180 number six in Australia, number eight in Ireland. 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:29.359 number three in Sweden and was a number one hit 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:35.200 in New Zealand. And Jay, if you want to split 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:38.359 hairs here, this is a song that technically you 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.539 and I both play in the band of, at least if our 00:19:41.539 --> 00:19:45.359 interview with William man speaker means anything, 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.880 I am going to go with green jellos, three little 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:54.079 pigs off of 1992 serial killer. However, Instead 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:56.920 of me going on about the song, Jay, I actually 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.140 went back and pulled a little clip of Bill talking 00:20:00.140 --> 00:20:03.359 about Three Little Pigs that you have not heard 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:08.099 in probably seven years. And I thought you'd 00:20:08.099 --> 00:20:10.400 get a kick out of this. So you and I are going 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.200 to listen to Bill Mann, speaker of Green Jello, 00:20:13.220 --> 00:20:17.400 talking about Three Little Pigs and the Serial 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:20.049 Killer album. Which I will also add, if there 00:20:20.049 --> 00:20:22.710 was any part of this episode that is not safe 00:20:22.710 --> 00:20:27.190 for work, this is it. So, yeah, put those headphones 00:20:27.190 --> 00:20:31.990 on for this one. Well, the challenge was actually 00:20:31.990 --> 00:20:35.809 doing it because, you know, lying about doing 00:20:35.809 --> 00:20:41.130 it was really easy. I just simply told this gigantic 00:20:41.130 --> 00:20:45.130 fish story where not only did I have the world's 00:20:45.130 --> 00:20:47.269 worst, crappiest band, but that I could also. 00:20:48.009 --> 00:20:51.670 make 11 music videos for a super cheap price 00:20:51.670 --> 00:20:55.509 at 60 grand. And the reality was, is I was just 00:20:55.509 --> 00:20:58.250 talking out my ass. I didn't know how to make 00:20:58.250 --> 00:21:01.450 any videos. I worked at E! Entertainment Television, 00:21:01.789 --> 00:21:04.269 you know, as a runner. You know, hey, somebody 00:21:04.269 --> 00:21:06.769 needed coffee or a donut, I was the guy that 00:21:06.769 --> 00:21:10.769 got it. But somehow I elaborated on my job and 00:21:10.769 --> 00:21:13.789 made it sound like I was some sort of video producer, 00:21:13.910 --> 00:21:17.180 director, whatever it was to get the money. And 00:21:17.180 --> 00:21:19.220 then all of a sudden I got the money and I'm 00:21:19.220 --> 00:21:21.079 like, realizing like, oh fuck, I got to do this 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:24.140 shit now. And so I went and, you know, I got 00:21:24.140 --> 00:21:27.700 11 music videos to do. So the first one I start 00:21:27.700 --> 00:21:31.660 off is a song called Serial Killer. And it literally 00:21:31.660 --> 00:21:35.180 took me two months, two months of filming, two 00:21:35.180 --> 00:21:37.880 months of lighting, two months of editing, two 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:40.559 months of stress. By the end of it, I thought 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.779 I was going to fucking die. And I still had 10 00:21:43.779 --> 00:21:47.730 more to go. I was like, oh, fuck my life. What 00:21:47.730 --> 00:21:50.029 was I doing? Why did I tell these people that 00:21:50.029 --> 00:21:53.289 I could do this? I hate this. Oh, my God. And 00:21:53.289 --> 00:21:55.529 so finally, it just came to this choice. It's 00:21:55.529 --> 00:21:58.289 like I could no longer hopefully just make all 00:21:58.289 --> 00:22:01.049 these music videos on the weekend with my friends 00:22:01.049 --> 00:22:03.609 that I would have to actually quit my job and 00:22:03.609 --> 00:22:08.329 focus and actually do this. So on March 17th, 00:22:08.329 --> 00:22:13.849 1992, I quit my job. And every day, all I did. 00:22:14.639 --> 00:22:18.059 nonstop was I shot videos, I lit videos, I edited 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:20.759 videos, I directed videos, I produced videos. 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:25.700 By the end of June, I had made 11 music videos. 00:22:25.859 --> 00:22:29.059 And the last one that I made, I shot it in the 00:22:29.059 --> 00:22:31.440 morning and I edited it in the afternoon and 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:33.599 it was done by the end of the day. And that was 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:36.240 called Electric Harley House of Love. So now 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:39.380 I had all my videos, except for one, Three Little 00:22:39.380 --> 00:22:42.099 Pigs was missing because they were still animating 00:22:42.099 --> 00:22:45.480 it. So I hand them all in, record company president 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:49.720 calls the whole office in, like 50 people, forces 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:53.759 them to watch 50 minutes of shit, man, and cow 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.720 gods are tripping on ecstasies. And after it 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:00.539 was all done and over, it was complete fucking 00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:04.140 silence, not a clap, not a laugh, not a you who, 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:09.680 nothing. And I proudly, I boldly said. I got 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:15.059 one more. I got one more. One more to be ready 00:23:15.059 --> 00:23:18.259 in a couple days. And that was it. And it just 00:23:18.259 --> 00:23:21.980 went brrrr. Like there was no hoorah. And they 00:23:21.980 --> 00:23:24.700 didn't care I had one more. So I called up the 00:23:24.700 --> 00:23:27.460 guy. I was like, dude, man. He was fucking blue. 00:23:27.859 --> 00:23:31.200 This is it. We're got the last one, man. You 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:32.980 got it ready? He's like, no, I'm nowhere near 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:35.279 ready. How much more did you got? You got a minute 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:38.160 and a half. A minute and a fucking half. Fuck 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:41.220 my life. So I took that minute and a half and 00:23:41.220 --> 00:23:44.099 I stretched that motherfucker so long, so hard. 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:47.059 And I brought it into the record company and 00:23:47.059 --> 00:23:49.720 I threw it in there. I said, this is it. This 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:52.619 is it. This is the one. Totally looked at me 00:23:52.619 --> 00:23:56.579 like I was completely nuts. Press play. And by 00:23:56.579 --> 00:23:59.559 the end of it, he was like, ah, that's your motherfucking 00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:02.380 hit song, Willie. This is your million. You fucking 00:24:02.380 --> 00:24:07.059 did it. And within months, 14 million. generated 00:24:07.059 --> 00:24:11.700 over 25 million dollars within one year and i 00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:13.619 could say that my money's part of that bunch 00:24:13.619 --> 00:24:17.960 so you're welcome in that thank you thank you 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:21.720 for me not having a job since 1992 well there 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:25.140 you go well there you have it jay there's a little 00:24:25.140 --> 00:24:28.400 blast for the past there he has a potty mouth 00:24:29.230 --> 00:24:32.390 I was going to say any chance of this episode 00:24:32.390 --> 00:24:35.509 going PG has gone right out the window. However. 00:24:37.670 --> 00:24:40.690 No, I mean, the guy set out to make the world's 00:24:40.690 --> 00:24:43.750 crappiest band, right? That was his goal. And 00:24:43.750 --> 00:24:47.549 I mean, if you hadn't heard that episode, what 00:24:47.549 --> 00:24:50.089 a story. Oh, yeah, man. I completely agree. And 00:24:50.089 --> 00:24:51.829 I think, you know what? This summer, I'm going 00:24:51.829 --> 00:24:54.640 to throw up the full interview with. Bill Mann, 00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:57.180 speaker of Green Jello, as a bonus episode on 00:24:57.180 --> 00:24:59.839 the My Weekly Mixtape feed, because even though 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:02.640 it's not safe for work in any way, shape or form 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:05.000 for an episode, it's a fascinating interview. 00:25:06.059 --> 00:25:09.339 Absolutely. Absolutely. And that song, that video 00:25:09.339 --> 00:25:11.440 was something else for sure. And that song was 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.519 just when you listen to it, you go, the song 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:19.079 is awful, but it's. fan frigging tastic it's 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:21.279 the three little pigs you know the song i mean 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:23.480 it's you know the story you know the song you 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:29.119 know it's perfection it really is all right so 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:31.819 what are you following that up with ah all right 00:25:31.819 --> 00:25:38.309 let's go to let me think this would be 1994 Picture 00:25:38.309 --> 00:25:43.829 it. Syracuse University, 1994. I'm a young, scrapping 00:25:43.829 --> 00:25:47.150 kid looking for a radio gig. And I connected 00:25:47.150 --> 00:25:49.289 up with the morning show host. And I'm not going 00:25:49.289 --> 00:25:51.690 to use the names because the story is god awful. 00:25:52.250 --> 00:25:55.150 But it's so great. The morning show host was 00:25:55.150 --> 00:25:58.049 dating the news director at the time. And they 00:25:58.049 --> 00:26:04.150 broke up very, very badly. And he calls me. I'm 00:26:04.150 --> 00:26:06.009 in the production room, right? I'm just the producer 00:26:06.009 --> 00:26:08.250 for the morning show. Not even the executive 00:26:08.250 --> 00:26:10.609 producer at this point. I was just the producer 00:26:10.609 --> 00:26:13.569 for the show. And he calls me from the production 00:26:13.569 --> 00:26:14.829 room. He goes, can you come in for a minute? 00:26:14.970 --> 00:26:17.890 And I said, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they had 00:26:17.890 --> 00:26:20.109 just finished the news at the top of the hour. 00:26:20.150 --> 00:26:24.589 So she had gone out to the newsroom to write 00:26:24.589 --> 00:26:27.869 the next 15 minutes story or whatever. And he 00:26:27.869 --> 00:26:31.099 closes the studio door and he goes, listen. I 00:26:31.099 --> 00:26:34.720 feel really awful for what happened between her 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:37.319 and I. And I'm going to, I got, I got this song 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:39.900 and I'm going to play it for her. And, and it's 00:26:39.900 --> 00:26:42.599 gonna, it's going to bring her back. I know it's 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:44.500 going to, it's going to win her over. And I said, 00:26:44.539 --> 00:26:49.819 okay. So he drops Adam Sandler CD. They're all 00:26:49.819 --> 00:26:52.400 going to laugh at you. Oh no. And he queues up 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:58.970 at a medium pace. Oh Jesus. This song, I'm so 00:26:58.970 --> 00:27:03.690 sorry. This song is not safe for work by any 00:27:03.690 --> 00:27:06.910 stretch of the imagination. About four seconds 00:27:06.910 --> 00:27:10.150 into the song. That's all you get. This gorgeous 00:27:10.150 --> 00:27:13.670 acoustic guitar intro. And then he starts singing. 00:27:14.089 --> 00:27:16.230 Put your arms around me, baby. Can't you see 00:27:16.230 --> 00:27:19.410 I need you so? Hold me close against your skin. 00:27:19.470 --> 00:27:21.789 I'm about to begin loving you. That's all you 00:27:21.789 --> 00:27:24.910 get after that. Do not play that song anywhere 00:27:24.910 --> 00:27:30.829 near human beings ever. And I heard, I just started, 00:27:30.990 --> 00:27:34.009 I mean, you know, like. when you're in morning 00:27:34.009 --> 00:27:36.890 radio and you just eat whenever you can. Well, 00:27:36.970 --> 00:27:39.569 I had milk coming out of my nose, Brian, because 00:27:39.569 --> 00:27:43.789 I was drinking a carton of milk and it had, I 00:27:43.789 --> 00:27:47.769 was dying. I'm like, Oh my God, what did you 00:27:47.769 --> 00:27:52.369 just play? And he took the CD out and I went 00:27:52.369 --> 00:27:56.609 home and listened to that CD on loop and laughed 00:27:56.609 --> 00:28:00.750 harder every time I heard it. I think we're going 00:28:00.750 --> 00:28:03.349 to show our age here because you definitely scooped 00:28:03.349 --> 00:28:06.170 me on it. 1993s, they're all going to laugh at 00:28:06.170 --> 00:28:10.369 you. I mean, that album for years became a staple 00:28:10.369 --> 00:28:14.009 that's quotable by anybody that kind of grew 00:28:14.009 --> 00:28:17.329 up with Adam Sandler, that era of SNL. And here's 00:28:17.329 --> 00:28:19.890 the thing. It had the SNL hits on it. It had 00:28:19.890 --> 00:28:22.769 the Thanksgiving song. It had Lunch Lady Land. 00:28:22.970 --> 00:28:26.470 So it sucked a lot of us Saturday Night Live 00:28:26.470 --> 00:28:29.869 fans into buying the album. Then you get to add 00:28:29.869 --> 00:28:32.970 a medium pace and it's not Saturday Night Live 00:28:32.970 --> 00:28:35.509 friendly at all. Not even close. And we're not 00:28:35.509 --> 00:28:37.529 going to go down that road. If you want to listen 00:28:37.529 --> 00:28:39.369 to the song, it's going to be on the playlist 00:28:39.369 --> 00:28:43.029 at myweeklymixtape .com. But the show takes no 00:28:43.029 --> 00:28:45.410 responsibility. If you happen to listen to it 00:28:45.410 --> 00:28:47.930 at work and you get in trouble, that's on you. 00:28:48.009 --> 00:28:50.829 The warning is coming from us. Do not listen 00:28:50.829 --> 00:28:53.329 to this song at work. You will get in trouble. 00:28:53.490 --> 00:28:56.130 However, the first time I heard this song, I 00:28:56.130 --> 00:28:59.640 laughed so hard it hurt. And I cannot tell you 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:04.160 how many people I sat there and said, I got this 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:07.059 new ballad and it is so good and you need to 00:29:07.059 --> 00:29:10.119 hear it. It's just such a beautiful song. And 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:11.960 then right when you get to, I'm about to begin 00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:19.200 loving you and the look on people's faces. I 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:23.400 loved watching people's reaction to that song 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:27.099 for the first time so much because it was so, 00:29:27.900 --> 00:29:30.519 convincing that you were about to just get a 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:34.940 soft acoustic ballad. And it's just wonderful. 00:29:34.980 --> 00:29:36.980 I'm so happy you picked it because you definitely 00:29:36.980 --> 00:29:39.839 scooped me. And I think we did a good job of 00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:41.559 finding a way to talk about the song without 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:44.180 actually talking about the song. You have been 00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:47.900 warned. And with that being said, I am going 00:29:47.900 --> 00:29:50.460 to follow that up with a song that also comes 00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:53.579 from Saturday Night Live lore because we're in 00:29:53.579 --> 00:29:56.039 that realm right now. But I'm going to fast forward. 00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:59.799 A decade and a half. We're going to go to 2009. 00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:03.279 Obviously, if you're talking Saturday Night Live 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:05.279 and music, the Lonely Island's going to come 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:07.279 up. And there's so many songs we can go with 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:10.819 here. However, there's one that I could listen 00:30:10.819 --> 00:30:14.440 to for the most part with my kids, at least my 00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:17.279 oldest. And we could still laugh at this one. 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:20.019 Because as long as you've got your swim trunks 00:30:20.019 --> 00:30:22.660 and your flippy floppies, we're going with T 00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:26.769 -Pain, I'm on a boat. from 2009's Incredibad 00:30:26.769 --> 00:30:31.849 hit number 56 on the US Billboard Hot 100. This 00:30:31.849 --> 00:30:36.789 was a top 100 hit. It hit number 62 on the Canadian 00:30:36.789 --> 00:30:40.930 Hot 100. And it also hit number 14 in Australia 00:30:40.930 --> 00:30:45.509 and number nine in New Zealand. I mean, all the 00:30:45.509 --> 00:30:47.950 Lonely Island stuff is hysterical. I could have 00:30:47.950 --> 00:30:50.799 went with. natalie portman's rap i could have 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:53.599 went with lazy sunday i could have went with 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:56.960 captain jack sparrow jack sparrow mother lover 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:01.940 favorites three -way d in a box but i'm on a 00:31:01.940 --> 00:31:04.740 boat there's something that's a little less not 00:31:04.740 --> 00:31:07.519 safe for work it's not safe for work but it's 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.400 not not safe for work at the level of adam sandler's 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:14.400 at a medium pace it's just not safe for work 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:18.380 at a different level but Still hysterical nonetheless. 00:31:18.539 --> 00:31:22.960 And every time I get on a boat, I hum it. I don't 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.759 care. It's too funny. You have to. Very, very 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.180 funny story. My friends got married in Orlando 00:31:30.180 --> 00:31:33.940 and they got married on a boat. And every time 00:31:33.940 --> 00:31:37.210 that. that Janelle would tell us that she was 00:31:37.210 --> 00:31:39.789 getting married to Mark, the wedding venue was 00:31:39.789 --> 00:31:42.329 on a boat and she would sing it. I'm on a boat! 00:31:42.789 --> 00:31:45.490 It's great. I'm like, well, you guys win. You 00:31:45.490 --> 00:31:47.329 win weddings. I don't know what to tell you at 00:31:47.329 --> 00:31:49.789 that point. But The Lonely Island, it's another 00:31:49.789 --> 00:31:52.009 one of those great. I thought for a minute you 00:31:52.009 --> 00:31:54.029 were going to go with Wayne's World with Aerosmith. 00:31:54.170 --> 00:31:56.509 Oh, that was good too. Mike Myers and Dana Curry. 00:31:56.509 --> 00:31:58.549 Yeah, that was great. That's great too. Great 00:31:58.549 --> 00:32:01.279 stuff. If you do not like it, you're a sphincter 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:05.799 boy. But no, Lonely Island is, I think Lazy Sunday 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:10.480 was the first, right? With Parnell. Lazy Sunday 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:12.720 was the breakout hit for them. If you want to 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.039 quote unquote call it a hit. Yeah. And then they 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.380 did D in a Box with Timberlake and everything 00:32:17.380 --> 00:32:20.880 went crazy meteoric for them. All four of those 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:23.420 albums. And then I watched the movie Popstar 00:32:23.420 --> 00:32:26.539 Never Stop. That movie is hysterical if you haven't 00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:28.279 seen it. I died laughing. I died laughing and 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:30.680 then it had to be reincarnated and laughed again. 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.059 It's just. But Captain Jack, Michael Bolton being 00:32:35.059 --> 00:32:38.359 Michael Bolton. Hilarious. But yeah, T -Pain, 00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:39.619 where they're sitting around at the beginning 00:32:39.619 --> 00:32:41.500 of the video and they're sitting around eating 00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:43.779 breakfast. And he's like, oh, hey, I just want 00:32:43.779 --> 00:32:45.779 to cruise for me and my two of my closest friends. 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:49.970 Who are you taking? I'm taking you and. It's 00:32:49.970 --> 00:32:52.970 like just randomly sitting there enjoying breakfast 00:32:52.970 --> 00:32:56.730 cereal. Okay, perfect. He goes, word. That's 00:32:56.730 --> 00:33:01.630 so great. Oh, that's so great. Wow. Where do 00:33:01.630 --> 00:33:09.730 we go from? Wow. All right. 2013. We'll speed 00:33:09.730 --> 00:33:13.869 it forward a little bit. I had taken a gig at 00:33:13.869 --> 00:33:18.240 Fox at the time. And because of that fact and 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:21.880 the timing, you couldn't throw a stone in any 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:26.039 direction without hitting this song. It was everywhere. 00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:29.799 And YouTube, I mean, most downloaded video on 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:33.220 YouTube for 2013. I know where you're going with 00:33:33.220 --> 00:33:37.359 this. Yes. And it is the stupidest song ever 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.500 written. It really is. It can't get much worse 00:33:40.500 --> 00:33:47.319 than Ylvis' The Fox. I love it. You know what 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:51.019 it is, Brian? It is our kid's version of bird 00:33:51.019 --> 00:33:53.160 is the word. A hundred percent. And I'll say 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:57.240 this. I sent that video to my oldest's godfather 00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:59.880 the first time I saw it because I couldn't breathe. 00:33:59.960 --> 00:34:02.380 I was laughing so hard. And he responded saying, 00:34:02.539 --> 00:34:05.539 I don't know if I should thank you or hate you 00:34:05.539 --> 00:34:09.699 because it's stuck in my head. And I can't lie. 00:34:09.860 --> 00:34:12.579 We've watched it five times in a row where it 00:34:12.579 --> 00:34:16.159 was hypnotic. And here's the thing. At the time, 00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:18.519 We went to the kindergarten dance, and guess 00:34:18.519 --> 00:34:21.539 what the song of the night was? The Fox. And 00:34:21.539 --> 00:34:23.500 these kids loved it. Of course it is. But guess 00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:26.099 what? It was still on the radio. My parents thought 00:34:26.099 --> 00:34:28.940 it was funny. This thing crossed generations. 00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:35.059 It was so dumb, but it was so needed that generations, 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:39.760 kids to grandparents, laughed at this song. It 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:43.000 reached number six. On the U .S. Billboard Hot 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.039 100. That's bananas. Number 19 on the Canada 00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:49.500 Hot 100. Number 17 on the U .K. Singles Chart. 00:34:49.699 --> 00:34:52.900 Number 9 on the Australia Aria Chart. And it 00:34:52.900 --> 00:34:55.519 was a number one hit in both South Korea and 00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:58.559 Norway. This song, believe it or not, recently 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.559 came on in the car when I was with the whole 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:05.139 family. And I went to skip it and both my girls 00:35:05.139 --> 00:35:07.960 said, Dad, what are you doing? They still think 00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.769 it's funny. They still think it's funny 12 years 00:35:10.769 --> 00:35:14.769 later. Absolutely. All right. I'm going to go 00:35:14.769 --> 00:35:17.170 with one that I actually played them recently 00:35:17.170 --> 00:35:21.650 because my youngest is in that age where butts 00:35:21.650 --> 00:35:25.750 are funny. Brian butts are never not funny. I 00:35:25.750 --> 00:35:27.389 was going to say, I think I'm still in the age 00:35:27.389 --> 00:35:30.889 and I'm in my late forties, but I digress. We're 00:35:30.889 --> 00:35:34.210 going to go back to 1999 for this one. And this 00:35:34.210 --> 00:35:37.420 is one that you and I talked about. Back in our 00:35:37.420 --> 00:35:40.679 radio days in the early 2000s. Because it kept 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:44.880 popping up in popular culture. Because Eminem 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.739 in 2000 released a song called The Real Slim 00:35:47.739 --> 00:35:51.099 Shady. And in 2002 he released a song called 00:35:51.099 --> 00:35:55.800 Without Me. And both songs interpolated this 00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:01.059 1999 song from Tom Green. And I am going to go 00:36:01.059 --> 00:36:05.730 with Lonely Swedish, The Bum Bum Song. The song 00:36:05.730 --> 00:36:09.469 actually became a hit on MTV's total request 00:36:09.469 --> 00:36:13.389 live or TRL as the kids remember it. However, 00:36:13.590 --> 00:36:17.110 MTV actually pressured Tom green into retiring 00:36:17.110 --> 00:36:23.530 the music video because newsflash TRL was not 00:36:23.530 --> 00:36:27.610 always live. So they had already taped the following 00:36:27.610 --> 00:36:31.670 week's episode and the producers had no idea 00:36:31.670 --> 00:36:36.159 that the bum bum song. hit the week prior. So 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:39.619 they ignored it. So what happened was they just 00:36:39.619 --> 00:36:42.840 retired the song as it hit number one so that 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:45.559 Tom could basically go on air and say, and I 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:48.300 quote, I'm retiring it because it's not fair 00:36:48.300 --> 00:36:52.300 to 98 degrees. But believe it or not, the song 00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:57.340 was on the ascent. And here we are 26 years later. 00:36:58.110 --> 00:37:00.630 And there's documentaries going out about Tom 00:37:00.630 --> 00:37:02.610 Green now. He's putting out stuff on Amazon. 00:37:02.889 --> 00:37:06.550 And he's doing new specials. And this is part 00:37:06.550 --> 00:37:11.329 of what made Tom Green a superstar at that time. 00:37:11.469 --> 00:37:15.690 You don't get Freddy Got Fingered if the Lonely 00:37:15.690 --> 00:37:18.530 Swedish Bum Bum song doesn't become a viral, 00:37:18.550 --> 00:37:22.769 at the time, viral hit. It was viral prior to 00:37:22.769 --> 00:37:26.739 the word actually meaning something. Absolutely. 00:37:26.739 --> 00:37:29.139 And it's a toss up. Which one is more stupid, 00:37:29.260 --> 00:37:33.619 the Fox or the Lonely Swedish? But holy cow. 00:37:33.739 --> 00:37:36.760 I mean, these cultural phenomenon that just kind 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:39.440 of lightning in a bottle. I never meant for that 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.760 to happen. And now I had they called me from 00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:43.699 MTV and said, listen, you got to retire the song. 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.900 And he's he's done a whole bit about it. And 00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:50.239 it's it's fantastic. I love the song. And I love 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:52.500 when these moments happened because they happened 00:37:52.500 --> 00:37:56.389 naturally. They happened because of the fact 00:37:56.389 --> 00:37:58.269 that at the end of the day, the songs are funny. 00:37:58.710 --> 00:38:00.949 Whether they're offensive or not, they're funny. 00:38:01.090 --> 00:38:02.989 It could be stupid. It could be offensive. But 00:38:02.989 --> 00:38:06.349 if enough people laugh, it becomes something 00:38:06.349 --> 00:38:09.250 that gets shared and passed around. Nowadays, 00:38:09.369 --> 00:38:13.670 it happens via, you know, a text or sharing it 00:38:13.670 --> 00:38:16.630 on social media. But back in the late 90s, early 00:38:16.630 --> 00:38:20.880 2000s, it was phone calls. It was reaching out 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:22.920 to your buddies. It was burning it onto a CD 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:26.579 and bringing it in your car. So, Jay, what do 00:38:26.579 --> 00:38:31.139 you got for track nine? Wow. I want to go to 00:38:31.139 --> 00:38:36.639 one of the greatest, highest overrated. That's 00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:39.460 a new word. I just made it up. Highliest overrated 00:38:39.460 --> 00:38:45.320 guitar player in musical history. And I don't 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:48.619 say that lightly, but. You wouldn't think of 00:38:48.619 --> 00:38:52.380 it because every song this guy wrote was just 00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:57.719 out there. Whether it be solo records or with 00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:02.179 the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa is a huge 00:39:02.179 --> 00:39:06.840 name. I mean, the entirety of Joe's Garage is 00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:10.880 such an underground cult following record. With 00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:15.099 some amazing, the entire second record of that 00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:19.079 is just amazing guitar work. And Zappa wrote 00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:24.340 some crazy stuff. And one of them was featured 00:39:24.340 --> 00:39:27.239 on the Dr. Demento show as well as a whole movie 00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.880 named after it. And that is Valley Girl. Nice. 00:39:31.179 --> 00:39:35.019 From 1982's Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a 00:39:35.019 --> 00:39:38.119 Drowning Witch. The song reached number 32 on 00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:41.280 the U .S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 18 on 00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:44.300 the Canada RPM top singles chart. I just want 00:39:44.300 --> 00:39:48.440 to say this. Lyrically, Frank Zappa was very 00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:51.460 much and dove in and out of novelty. However, 00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:58.500 make no mistake, Frank Zappa was a musical genius. 00:39:59.219 --> 00:40:02.599 No question. One of the greatest composers of 00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.530 rock music. He did things. That were completely 00:40:07.530 --> 00:40:12.030 unheard of in music, incorporating jazz and progressive. 00:40:12.289 --> 00:40:15.510 And there are stories about him having the black 00:40:15.510 --> 00:40:19.929 page one. And it was basically one of the hardest 00:40:19.929 --> 00:40:22.610 drum compositions ever. And Terry Bozio, who 00:40:22.610 --> 00:40:26.429 is a phenomenon on drums, talks about how complicated 00:40:26.429 --> 00:40:30.329 this is. The guy is a goddamn genius for music. 00:40:30.389 --> 00:40:32.769 And he just happens to have a twisted sense of 00:40:32.769 --> 00:40:36.139 humor that plays out. in a novelty sense, but 00:40:36.139 --> 00:40:39.980 make no mistake about it, take no respect away 00:40:39.980 --> 00:40:44.099 from Frank Zappa's music. He was so good, he 00:40:44.099 --> 00:40:46.860 could be funny and impressive simultaneously, 00:40:47.300 --> 00:40:50.219 which doesn't happen often. That's right. And 00:40:50.219 --> 00:40:53.820 this song featuring his daughter, Moon Unit Zappa, 00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:59.219 was an actual, like he woke her up in the middle 00:40:59.219 --> 00:41:01.500 of the night. That's according to the biography. 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:03.719 Woke her up in the middle of the night, took 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:05.420 her down to the recording studio to recreate 00:41:05.420 --> 00:41:07.760 a conversation that she had had with some friends 00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:11.059 in school. Right. And it was all the Valley girl 00:41:11.059 --> 00:41:14.239 slang like, oh, for sure. Like totally the way 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:17.159 we all talked in the 80s. And then Terry Motormouth 00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:20.780 Young, he's a DJ nightjack on Philadelphia's 00:41:20.780 --> 00:41:24.320 WCAU FM. And this is one of those those radio 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:27.510 pranks that's like. Yeah, right. It's like when 00:41:27.510 --> 00:41:29.670 you walk into a diner, you pump a bunch of quarters 00:41:29.670 --> 00:41:32.070 into the jukebox and you hit the same song over 00:41:32.070 --> 00:41:37.289 surfing bird, for example. This guy played that 00:41:37.289 --> 00:41:40.469 song 10 times in a row. He got suspended for 00:41:40.469 --> 00:41:44.300 it. So. We could go down a whole rabbit hole 00:41:44.300 --> 00:41:46.280 with Zappa, but Zappa was very instrumental in 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:49.699 that whole PMRC thing too on Capitol Hill where 00:41:49.699 --> 00:41:52.440 Tipper Gore and the parties were trying to pass 00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.639 the parental advisory lyrics. That's where that 00:41:55.639 --> 00:41:58.699 all came from. And Zappa was very vocal in DC 00:41:58.699 --> 00:42:02.599 about that underpinning and about how that, that 00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:04.639 led to a very, it could lead to a very difficult 00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:08.820 slippery slope. yeah here we are yeah i mentioned 00:42:08.820 --> 00:42:10.960 at the top of the show yeah i think they've taken 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:13.400 all the fun out of the creative part of it and 00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:15.320 it's kind of the music has suffered a little 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:19.199 bit for it but zappa was he's a you're right 00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:22.960 he's a genius he's a pioneer but the band in 00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:27.099 and of itself and the musicality of frank zappa 00:42:27.099 --> 00:42:30.239 the mothers of invention you can't overstate 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:32.280 the contribution that they've made to the music 00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:35.920 industry not at all and i think to close out 00:42:37.050 --> 00:42:41.230 Side A. I mean, there's no way musically to reach 00:42:41.230 --> 00:42:44.429 the heights of Frank Zappa because he is one 00:42:44.429 --> 00:42:45.909 of, like we said, one of the greatest musicians 00:42:45.909 --> 00:42:49.610 ever. So instead of paying tribute to one of 00:42:49.610 --> 00:42:52.989 the greatest musicians ever, we'll just pay tribute 00:42:52.989 --> 00:42:57.050 to one of the greatest songs ever. Because even 00:42:57.050 --> 00:42:59.230 though it's not the greatest song in the world, 00:42:59.329 --> 00:43:04.150 it's just a tribute. 2001 Tenacious D. Did I 00:43:04.150 --> 00:43:06.510 say tribute enough times? And while it didn't 00:43:06.510 --> 00:43:09.510 chart in the U S it actually hit number one on 00:43:09.510 --> 00:43:12.809 the UK rock and metal chart, number four in Australia 00:43:12.809 --> 00:43:15.789 and number nine in New Zealand among others. 00:43:15.869 --> 00:43:20.250 So once again, the U S gets it wrong because 00:43:20.250 --> 00:43:23.530 tribute is a fantastic comedy song. And I'll 00:43:23.530 --> 00:43:26.690 just be honest with you. I actually have it on 00:43:26.690 --> 00:43:29.590 my two thousands playlist because at the end 00:43:29.590 --> 00:43:32.840 of the day, even though it's funny, It's still 00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:36.179 just a damn fun song. It's fun to play. It's 00:43:36.179 --> 00:43:40.260 fun to sing. And it's a good song. I mean, Wonder 00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:42.219 Boy or Tribute. I could have went either way, 00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:45.380 but I think coming out of Frank Zappa, Tribute's 00:43:45.380 --> 00:43:49.800 the way to go. No effort gently? Not on this. 00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:51.679 I mean, you already, I figured you took care 00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:54.219 of that without a medium pace. That's true. I 00:43:54.219 --> 00:43:56.099 think you covered all the bases with that one. 00:43:56.239 --> 00:44:01.559 The early 2000s on MTV were, we had some really, 00:44:02.090 --> 00:44:04.329 good stuff come out of that. You had tenacious 00:44:04.329 --> 00:44:08.090 D you had the flying, um, not the flying, the 00:44:08.090 --> 00:44:11.110 flight of the Concords. I mean, the music out 00:44:11.110 --> 00:44:15.250 of those fantastic. And you got tenacious D who 00:44:15.250 --> 00:44:17.789 went on to do a couple of different movies. The 00:44:17.789 --> 00:44:19.690 pick of destiny was great with Dave Grohl in 00:44:19.690 --> 00:44:22.769 it. And, and meatloaf as his father, RJ Dio, 00:44:23.010 --> 00:44:25.449 who, uh, who unfortunately, you know, passed 00:44:25.449 --> 00:44:28.070 away, but what a great, you know, just speaking 00:44:28.070 --> 00:44:30.769 live from the poster. It's so great. And again, 00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:33.659 Stupid humor, dick and fart jokes all day long, 00:44:33.719 --> 00:44:37.780 but funny. And again, it never stops being funny 00:44:37.780 --> 00:44:42.300 because that's who we are. Well, there you have 00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:45.159 it, mixtapers. Side A of the ultimate comedy 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:48.059 and novelty songs mixtape, which consists of 00:44:48.059 --> 00:44:51.340 Ogden Edsel's Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun, Weird 00:44:51.340 --> 00:44:54.260 Al Yankovic's Dare to Be Stupid, Sam Kinison's 00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:57.039 Wild Thing, Green Jell -O's Three Little Pigs. 00:44:57.449 --> 00:45:00.630 Adam Sandler's At a Medium Pace, The Lonely Island 00:45:00.630 --> 00:45:03.889 featuring T -Pain's I'm on a Boat, Ylvis' The 00:45:03.889 --> 00:45:06.949 Fox, Tom Green's Lonely Swedish, The Bum Bum 00:45:06.949 --> 00:45:10.110 Song, Frank Zappa's Valley Girl, and Tenacious 00:45:10.110 --> 00:45:13.889 D's Tribute. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com 00:45:13.889 --> 00:45:15.989 to hear all the songs we've discussed in this 00:45:15.989 --> 00:45:19.250 mix through the playlist embedded on the episode 00:45:19.250 --> 00:45:22.769 page. And now, Jay, I get to kick things off 00:45:22.769 --> 00:45:26.170 on side B, and I'm going to go with a song that... 00:45:26.539 --> 00:45:29.199 Also harkens back to my high school and college 00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:32.519 days, similar to the way Adam Sandler's. They're 00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:34.280 all going to laugh at you did because these albums 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.420 came out in the same year. And I'm going to go 00:45:37.420 --> 00:45:42.039 off of the 1993 album, no cure for cancer. And 00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:44.239 I'm going to go with Dennis Leary's asshole. 00:45:44.739 --> 00:45:48.179 Once again, it didn't chart in the U S because 00:45:48.179 --> 00:45:52.059 the U S got it wrong, but it hit number 58 on 00:45:52.059 --> 00:45:55.489 the UK singles chart. number 79 in Scotland, 00:45:55.650 --> 00:45:59.469 number 22 in New Zealand, and number two in Australia. 00:46:00.130 --> 00:46:04.170 I remember vividly, I was a huge fan of MTV Unplugged, 00:46:04.170 --> 00:46:06.909 and we talked about this on the Unplugged episode 00:46:06.909 --> 00:46:10.050 of My Weekly Mixtape, but Dennis Leary has an 00:46:10.050 --> 00:46:13.230 episode of MTV Unplugged, and if you look it 00:46:13.230 --> 00:46:16.309 up, it's really, really funny, and they do a 00:46:16.309 --> 00:46:19.090 version of Asshole on it, and it's great. And 00:46:19.090 --> 00:46:21.309 I mean, the song is getting a resurgence here 00:46:21.309 --> 00:46:25.099 in 2025 because, Dennis Leary just performed 00:46:25.099 --> 00:46:28.519 the song on Jimmy Fallon, which introduced it 00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:33.420 to a whole new generation of TikTokers and Instagrammers 00:46:33.420 --> 00:46:37.360 and YouTube short people because it went viral 00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:40.340 again, like everything Jimmy Fallon does. That's 00:46:40.340 --> 00:46:42.460 right. And they're realizing that a song that 00:46:42.460 --> 00:46:48.179 is 32 years old is still funny. When I hear that 00:46:48.179 --> 00:46:52.219 song, I am immediately back in the backseat of 00:46:52.219 --> 00:46:56.920 my buddy Mike's grandma's oldsmobile and back 00:46:56.920 --> 00:47:01.420 in the 80s and 90s general motors put out top 00:47:01.420 --> 00:47:05.960 of the line audio systems like the bass was booming 00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:08.360 that car with i mean we didn't need hydraulics 00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:10.780 the bass was hitting in that car so hard but 00:47:10.780 --> 00:47:14.159 i remember being in his gram was taking us somewhere 00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:17.059 and he's like here pop this in and he put the 00:47:17.059 --> 00:47:23.900 tape in and we're just everybody And we're just 00:47:23.900 --> 00:47:25.679 cracking up. And his grandmother is just like, 00:47:25.780 --> 00:47:29.000 oh, I don't know that I like that. So great. 00:47:30.019 --> 00:47:32.119 I'm telling you, I got it. I got stories for 00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:34.719 all of this stuff. Because again, these are Mike 00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:37.460 and me and my friend Tim and Stan, Charlie. We 00:47:37.460 --> 00:47:39.920 all grew up in this tight group all the way through 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.199 high school. We would listen to Dr. Demento every 00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:45.960 week. And it was great. And that song, it just 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:48.880 brings you right back to that car. And I'm telling 00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:51.380 you, his grandmother is great. She was a saint. 00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:53.739 I was going to say, it's not the kind of song 00:47:53.739 --> 00:47:55.659 I would normally think to play in front of my 00:47:55.659 --> 00:47:57.539 grandmother. But, you know. You wouldn't think. 00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:00.719 Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American 00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:02.880 dream. But instead of doing that, Jay, I'm going 00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:06.119 to pass it back to you for track two. This one 00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:09.960 comes from the sub cockles. Maybe even the cold. 00:48:11.470 --> 00:48:16.769 So in middle school, my grandparents picked up 00:48:16.769 --> 00:48:21.449 a summer home on the St. Lawrence River in Cape 00:48:21.449 --> 00:48:25.789 Vincent, New York. And my uncle and my aunt had 00:48:25.789 --> 00:48:28.130 just, I think they just got married or they were 00:48:28.130 --> 00:48:30.789 about to get married. Timeline's a little jumbly, 00:48:30.829 --> 00:48:34.150 but he had an eight track player and a bunch 00:48:34.150 --> 00:48:36.900 of eight tracks. And one of those eight tracks 00:48:36.900 --> 00:48:39.239 had a, uh, had a, uh, it was a novelty eight 00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:41.500 track. It wasn't a Dr. Demento one, but it was, 00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:43.960 it had a whole bunch, like it had nervous, nervous 00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:46.800 on it. It had Ray Stevens on it, the streak, 00:48:46.940 --> 00:48:50.480 which is fantastic song, but it also had a song 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:54.880 from Johnny Cash. And Johnny Cash did a couple 00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:56.539 of Shel Silverstein songs, like the boy named 00:48:56.539 --> 00:49:00.780 Sue, but he also wrote a song about this car 00:49:00.780 --> 00:49:05.019 that he used to work at the factory at the. Cadillac 00:49:05.019 --> 00:49:09.500 factory and he would bring home a piece of the 00:49:09.500 --> 00:49:12.559 car at a time and he put the car together. And 00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:14.699 at the end of the whole thing summed up with, 00:49:14.739 --> 00:49:16.840 I would get all sorts of weird looks, you know, 00:49:16.860 --> 00:49:18.980 as I drove it down the road, it was a 57, 58, 00:49:19.099 --> 00:49:22.840 59, 63, like, but one piece at a time by Johnny 00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:26.269 Cash, a song about his first car. And it hit 00:49:26.269 --> 00:49:29.369 number 29 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100. So 00:49:29.369 --> 00:49:32.969 top 40 hit. Hit number 40 on Canada's top singles 00:49:32.969 --> 00:49:37.130 chart and topped the country charts in both countries. 00:49:37.429 --> 00:49:40.510 It also hit number 32 on the U .K. singles chart. 00:49:40.809 --> 00:49:43.510 What I love about this song, Jay, is if you've 00:49:43.510 --> 00:49:47.030 ever heard of the subgenre Psychobilly, meaning 00:49:47.030 --> 00:49:50.190 groups like the Cramps, the Reverend Horton Heat, 00:49:50.449 --> 00:49:53.809 and Tiger Army, that all comes from this song. 00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:58.159 So you can thank Johnny Cash for the term psychobilly, 00:49:58.260 --> 00:50:00.320 which I love. I think that's great. Well, we 00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:02.860 have so much to thank the man in black for. And 00:50:02.860 --> 00:50:06.300 I think that's just one beautiful thing about 00:50:06.300 --> 00:50:09.239 it. Well, I think to follow that up, I'm going 00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:11.460 to stay in this country vibe here and go with 00:50:11.460 --> 00:50:14.079 another country song. And I'm going to give a 00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:16.360 little bit of a hat tip to our friends up in 00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:20.039 the great white north as this group hailed from 00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.789 Alberta, Canada. And I'm going to go off their 00:50:22.789 --> 00:50:25.789 1980 album, Welcome to the Rodeo. Now, this is 00:50:25.789 --> 00:50:28.829 kind of a deeper cut, but I'm going to go with 00:50:28.829 --> 00:50:33.309 Gary Lee and Showdown's The Rodeo Song. 13 years 00:50:33.309 --> 00:50:37.389 later, due to extensive airplay on BBC Radio, 00:50:37.650 --> 00:50:40.690 this song actually charted and hit number 43 00:50:40.690 --> 00:50:43.809 on the UK singles chart. But the reason I am 00:50:43.809 --> 00:50:47.309 familiar with this song is every time, and I 00:50:47.309 --> 00:50:49.650 don't know if this is just a regional New Jersey 00:50:49.650 --> 00:50:53.840 thing. But every time I have ever been to karaoke, 00:50:54.300 --> 00:50:58.880 the rodeo song is played. And the rodeo song 00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:01.199 is one of those songs that you might not think 00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:04.139 you know it, but you might actually know it. 00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:07.340 Well, it's 40 below and I don't give a, got a 00:51:07.340 --> 00:51:09.300 heater in my truck and I'm off to the rodeo. 00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:14.039 And for some reason, every single time I went 00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:17.179 to karaoke, this song got played. It's just a 00:51:17.179 --> 00:51:22.659 silly, funny. offensive country song that for 00:51:22.659 --> 00:51:25.900 some reason, if you, I'm curious, it's been a 00:51:25.900 --> 00:51:28.440 long stretch since I've done karaoke in New Jersey. 00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:30.599 I'd be curious if this is still getting the airplay. 00:51:30.619 --> 00:51:33.300 It did back when I would do karaoke all the time. 00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:36.619 I don't think I've ever heard this song at a 00:51:36.619 --> 00:51:39.400 karaoke. I've heard it at a couple of bars. Really? 00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:41.099 But not karaoke. I don't think I've ever heard 00:51:41.099 --> 00:51:43.619 of anybody karaoke in New Jersey. Maybe it's 00:51:43.619 --> 00:51:46.059 a New Jersey thing. I don't know. It might be. 00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:50.909 Yeah. Again, he has a potty mouth, very potty 00:51:50.909 --> 00:51:52.710 mouth. Yeah. We're not going to talk about the 00:51:52.710 --> 00:51:56.289 lyrics here. No, no, I don't think I like that. 00:51:56.510 --> 00:52:00.750 Um, was this ever on Dr. Demento? It was part 00:52:00.750 --> 00:52:04.789 of Dr. Demento as it was featured on the Demento's 00:52:04.789 --> 00:52:09.230 mementos album in 1982. Ah, very nice. All right. 00:52:09.269 --> 00:52:11.699 All right. The only difference, if my childhood 00:52:11.699 --> 00:52:14.619 memory serves me correctly, is that this version 00:52:14.619 --> 00:52:18.139 had beeps on it. And if you get the actual original 00:52:18.139 --> 00:52:20.519 version from Gary Lee and Showdown, you get the 00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:22.780 uncensored version, which is probably what more 00:52:22.780 --> 00:52:24.860 people are looking for anyway. But I digress. 00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:30.119 Well, let's see. Let's go back to Saturday Night 00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.840 Live. And no, I'm not going to go with Wayne's 00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:39.380 World. This actually, when I say the artist's 00:52:39.380 --> 00:52:42.559 name, again is one of the brightest spots of, 00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:46.019 of standup comedy. Steve Martin, one of the most 00:52:46.019 --> 00:52:49.099 prolific comedic actors in the eighties and early 00:52:49.099 --> 00:52:52.840 nineties, just great, great stuff. And he wrote 00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:56.320 a song called King Tut. Yes. It's a song born 00:52:56.320 --> 00:53:00.719 in Babylonia, moved to Arizona, King Tut. So. 00:53:01.469 --> 00:53:07.650 That is, he's my favorite honky. So great. But 00:53:07.650 --> 00:53:09.130 he had a whole dance with it and everything. 00:53:10.070 --> 00:53:12.909 Very, very funny guy. Steve Martin is a very, 00:53:12.929 --> 00:53:16.429 very good funny guy. He's also a wild and crazy 00:53:16.429 --> 00:53:18.489 guy, which is the name of the album that came 00:53:18.489 --> 00:53:21.409 from. That's right. And it was performed by the 00:53:21.409 --> 00:53:25.670 Toot Uncommons, otherwise known at the time as 00:53:25.670 --> 00:53:28.039 members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Oh, no 00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:30.179 kitten. I'll see that. I didn't know. Yes, it 00:53:30.179 --> 00:53:31.960 was part of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performed 00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:35.400 the song. It reached number 17 on the U .S. Billboard 00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:38.820 Hot 100, number 23 on the Canada Top Singles 00:53:38.820 --> 00:53:41.360 chart. If you want to hear a fantastic version 00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:44.420 of it, in 2011, Steve Martin put out an album. 00:53:44.539 --> 00:53:47.739 It was a bluegrass album by Steve Martin and 00:53:47.739 --> 00:53:50.539 the Steep Canyon Rangers. It's called Rare Bird 00:53:50.539 --> 00:53:54.639 Alert. It also features guest spots by Paul McCartney 00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:58.710 and the Chicks. However, the album closes with 00:53:58.710 --> 00:54:02.170 a bluegrass version of King Tut. And it's incredible. 00:54:02.329 --> 00:54:05.670 Incredible. Oh, that's fantastic. I will be checking 00:54:05.670 --> 00:54:07.809 that out for sure. All right. So we're going 00:54:07.809 --> 00:54:10.429 to veer out of country because I even brought 00:54:10.429 --> 00:54:12.809 another bluegrass reference there. And we're 00:54:12.809 --> 00:54:14.710 going to come up a couple decades. We're going 00:54:14.710 --> 00:54:19.150 to go to the 1990s because I think at least over 00:54:19.150 --> 00:54:24.250 the last 25. nearly 30 years and change, you 00:54:24.250 --> 00:54:26.469 really can't talk about comedy and not bring 00:54:26.469 --> 00:54:29.329 up South Park in some aspect. So I'm going to 00:54:29.329 --> 00:54:31.610 go to a song that was originally featured on 00:54:31.610 --> 00:54:34.530 the show, but then was released in 1998 for the 00:54:34.530 --> 00:54:37.550 Chef Aid, the South Park album. And I'm going 00:54:37.550 --> 00:54:40.989 to go with Isaac Hayes, Chocolate Salty Balls, 00:54:40.989 --> 00:54:44.670 P .S. I Love You. This song reached number one 00:54:44.670 --> 00:54:48.820 on the UK singles chart. And it also claimed 00:54:48.820 --> 00:54:53.000 the top spot in Scotland and Ireland. It also 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:57.179 hit number 14 in Australia. But once again, the 00:54:57.179 --> 00:54:59.599 U .S. showing that it had no sense of humor. 00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:03.519 It did not chart here. But a fun fact about the 00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:07.219 hysterical song, the song and the album as a 00:55:07.219 --> 00:55:13.780 whole was produced by Rick Rubin. Wait a minute. 00:55:14.019 --> 00:55:18.760 What's this man? I mean, look, the fact that 00:55:18.760 --> 00:55:21.260 they were able to get Isaac Hayes, because Isaac 00:55:21.260 --> 00:55:24.579 Hayes is a serious artist. The fact that they 00:55:24.579 --> 00:55:27.119 were able to get him because he performs the 00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:30.639 song as serious as he would any other Isaac Hayes 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:33.039 song. And I think that's what's so funny about 00:55:33.039 --> 00:55:37.659 it. There is zero comedic tone in Isaac's voice. 00:55:37.739 --> 00:55:40.960 He delivered that as if it was any Isaac Hayes 00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:43.639 song. And I think that's the brilliance of why 00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:46.840 it's so damn funny. Absolutely. He doesn't play 00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:49.059 to the laugh at all. No. And you could have gone 00:55:49.059 --> 00:55:50.760 with the chef aid album. You could have gone 00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:53.260 in any different direction because was it now 00:55:53.260 --> 00:55:55.300 is the time for making love with Meredith Baxter, 00:55:55.300 --> 00:55:59.780 Bernie? Yes. And then he has, uh, the, is that 00:55:59.780 --> 00:56:02.099 the one with meatloaf where meatloaf starts going 00:56:02.099 --> 00:56:09.650 off on the Jim Steinman? Like, and he goes, That's 00:56:09.650 --> 00:56:11.090 not what we're talking about, man. We're just 00:56:11.090 --> 00:56:13.170 talking about making love with Meredith Baxter 00:56:13.170 --> 00:56:17.030 Booney. So great. So great. I think, you know, 00:56:17.110 --> 00:56:20.750 unfortunately, the way that that relationship 00:56:20.750 --> 00:56:23.590 soured between Isaac Hayes and Trey and Matt 00:56:23.590 --> 00:56:26.849 is a very, very sad kind of a, you know, fallout 00:56:26.849 --> 00:56:30.070 and how they kind of wrote Chef out while funny 00:56:30.070 --> 00:56:34.110 was kind of, oh, oh. You guys were cool for like 00:56:34.110 --> 00:56:36.650 15 years at that point. It's a shame because 00:56:36.650 --> 00:56:39.809 they made some hysterically funny moments throughout 00:56:39.809 --> 00:56:43.489 the show and in song, obviously. That's right. 00:56:43.849 --> 00:56:48.949 All right. So that's a hard one to come out of. 00:56:49.469 --> 00:56:55.429 All right. Let's go back to some stand -up comedy. 00:56:55.949 --> 00:56:59.250 And another fantastic comedic actor who also 00:56:59.250 --> 00:57:02.030 was briefly with Saturday Night Live, if I'm 00:57:02.030 --> 00:57:05.389 not mistaken. And see, a lot of these comedy 00:57:05.389 --> 00:57:07.969 people I heard. So I don't know if you know, 00:57:08.010 --> 00:57:11.389 Brian, Richard Marks has a podcast. He just started 00:57:11.389 --> 00:57:14.130 up and stories to tell. Giving him a shout out 00:57:14.130 --> 00:57:17.630 with if you want to sponsor this, feel free to 00:57:17.630 --> 00:57:20.989 contact Brian. No, but he had Chelsea Peretti 00:57:20.989 --> 00:57:23.739 on. From Brooklyn Nine -Nine. She's a stand -up 00:57:23.739 --> 00:57:26.619 comic. And she made a comment about, they were 00:57:26.619 --> 00:57:28.659 talking back and forth about performing on stage. 00:57:29.099 --> 00:57:32.139 And she said, you know, I think that musicians 00:57:32.139 --> 00:57:35.829 want to be funny. And comics want to be rock 00:57:35.829 --> 00:57:38.010 stars, right? Stand -up comics want to be rock 00:57:38.010 --> 00:57:40.170 stars. And so there's a lot of overlap in those 00:57:40.170 --> 00:57:43.190 two kind of sub -genres of the entertainment 00:57:43.190 --> 00:57:47.570 field. And I think that when we talk about someone 00:57:47.570 --> 00:57:51.730 like a Sam Kinison or a Dennis Leary or Steve 00:57:51.730 --> 00:57:55.230 Martin and this artist, you kind of see that. 00:57:55.329 --> 00:57:59.969 Where Billy Crystal had a song called You Look 00:57:59.969 --> 00:58:02.880 Marvelous. Based on a character that he did on 00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:05.320 Saturday Night Live called Fernando, right? And 00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:07.920 don't be a schnook. It's not how you feel. It's 00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:11.019 how you look. And darling, let me tell you, you 00:58:11.019 --> 00:58:15.440 look marvelous. And that is my middle of the 00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:18.840 pack for Side B. Just looking into your eyes, 00:58:18.900 --> 00:58:21.599 darling, I can tell you have the legs of a dancer. 00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:25.340 I mean, this song is basically it's a skit put 00:58:25.340 --> 00:58:28.119 to music and it works so well. And I'm not going 00:58:28.119 --> 00:58:31.369 to lie. I, as soon as you said that song, I knew 00:58:31.369 --> 00:58:34.889 exactly where I was going because it's the exact 00:58:34.889 --> 00:58:39.369 same style of comedy. It is this person's standup 00:58:39.369 --> 00:58:42.909 routine just put to music. And it happened two 00:58:42.909 --> 00:58:46.949 years earlier. Although this guy was not on Saturday 00:58:46.949 --> 00:58:49.690 night live. I think he's hosted, but he was never 00:58:49.690 --> 00:58:53.710 on as a cast member. And I am going to go off 00:58:53.710 --> 00:58:58.920 of the album of the same name, 1983. Rodney Dangerfield 00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:03.079 rapping Rodney. Very nice. Written by J .B. Moore 00:59:03.079 --> 00:59:05.760 and Robert Ford Jr., who were the same songwriters 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:09.380 who worked on The Breaks with Curtis Blow. This 00:59:09.380 --> 00:59:13.219 was basically a rap song where Rodney Dangerfield 00:59:13.219 --> 00:59:15.719 did his stand -up routine and made it rhyme. 00:59:15.940 --> 00:59:18.960 And it worked. It hit number 83 on the U .S. 00:59:18.960 --> 00:59:21.980 Billboard Hot 100 and earned him a Grammy nomination 00:59:21.980 --> 00:59:25.760 for Best Comedy Recording. I had this on cassette. 00:59:26.840 --> 00:59:29.760 probably wore this damn thing out because I thought 00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:31.820 it was the funniest frigging song I'd ever heard 00:59:31.820 --> 00:59:35.699 in my life. And I actually have it on CD. Now 00:59:35.699 --> 00:59:40.579 rapping Rodney is not on CD. However, Rodney 00:59:40.579 --> 00:59:44.280 put out an album of all love songs, like a serious 00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:47.900 album. What? Yeah, dude, it came out in 2005 00:59:47.900 --> 00:59:51.840 and it's called Romeo Rodney. And it's actually 00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:55.260 kind of a serious album. All right. I mean, He 00:59:55.260 --> 00:59:58.239 does strangers in the night. He does fools rush 00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:00.960 in. He does. They say you're laughing at me, 01:00:00.980 --> 01:00:04.159 but at the end they plugged rap and Rodney on 01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:06.019 at the end. So I had to have a copy of it. Oh, 01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:08.079 that's hysterical. Awesome. And I still love 01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:11.699 it to this day. Oh, that's so good. Again, it's, 01:00:11.699 --> 01:00:13.880 it's the eighties. Everyone was on cocaine and 01:00:13.880 --> 01:00:16.840 the movies were reflective of that caddy shack 01:00:16.840 --> 01:00:21.699 and back to school. Oh God. What, what was it? 01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:24.159 Easy money. Easy money. That's the one I was 01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:27.480 thinking of. He's fantastic. I don't get no respect. 01:00:27.539 --> 01:00:29.780 He's so great. And the delivery, it's all about 01:00:29.780 --> 01:00:32.039 the delivery and the frenetic energy that he 01:00:32.039 --> 01:00:33.900 brought to the stage. And it was just, it was 01:00:33.900 --> 01:00:35.800 great. Yes, and a delivery, which unfortunately 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:37.199 you did not have in that impression. I did not. 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:41.179 That was terrible. Terrible, sorry. So Jay, what 01:00:41.179 --> 01:00:42.960 are you going to follow up Robin Rodney with? 01:00:43.119 --> 01:00:46.940 All right. So I talked to, we've done some standup 01:00:46.940 --> 01:00:50.480 comics who crossed over into music as well. And 01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:54.260 this kind of was a thing that happened with radio 01:00:54.260 --> 01:00:57.800 stars as well, who also were actors in a lot 01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:01.159 of cases and also did some music. And in fact, 01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:03.360 this is is a double whammy. So we talk a little 01:01:03.360 --> 01:01:06.820 bit about Casey Kasem and he was a radio DJ, 01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:09.659 but he was also the host of America Top 40 and 01:01:09.659 --> 01:01:12.340 then went on to the weekly Top 40. But he was 01:01:12.340 --> 01:01:16.599 also a cartoon voice for so many cartoons. Scooby 01:01:16.599 --> 01:01:19.440 Doo being. the biggest, Transformers. He was 01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:22.199 the voice of Cliffjumper in Transformers. He 01:01:22.199 --> 01:01:24.900 was also Robin in the Justice League, Super Friends 01:01:24.900 --> 01:01:28.559 in the Justice League. But when he stopped doing 01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:32.460 America's Top 40, then Rick Dees took it over. 01:01:32.900 --> 01:01:36.860 And Rick Dees wrote a song in 1976 called Disco 01:01:36.860 --> 01:01:41.059 Duck because disco is so popular that he just 01:01:41.059 --> 01:01:43.800 wrote this goofy, awful, terrible, horrendously 01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:46.489 fabulous, funny song. So that's where I'm going 01:01:46.489 --> 01:01:48.530 to come out of Rodney Dangerfield with Rick Dees. 01:01:48.750 --> 01:01:51.230 I'm going to kill you. That was, you totally 01:01:51.230 --> 01:01:54.170 scooped my last song pick of the night. Reach 01:01:54.170 --> 01:01:58.210 number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, as well 01:01:58.210 --> 01:02:01.389 as the top spot in Canada. It also hit number 01:02:01.389 --> 01:02:04.989 six on the UK charts and number four in Australia, 01:02:05.050 --> 01:02:09.679 among others. I had this 45 growing up. I honestly 01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:12.159 thought it was Donald Duck as a kid. And I thought 01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:14.219 this was the Donald Duck dance song. And I thought 01:02:14.219 --> 01:02:16.199 it was the greatest thing in the world. Yeah. 01:02:16.260 --> 01:02:18.300 Before we had the barking dog singing jingle 01:02:18.300 --> 01:02:21.659 bells, we had Disco Duck. And as bad as, oh God, 01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:24.380 the song was great. I'm sure I'm part of the 01:02:24.380 --> 01:02:27.000 reason. Absolutely. It was number one. Absolutely. 01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:32.599 I remember Z100 did something called the jukebox 01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:34.980 from hell. And it was always like they always 01:02:34.980 --> 01:02:37.260 put the worst songs ever. And they always would 01:02:37.260 --> 01:02:40.239 include Disco Duck in there. I'm like, come on. 01:02:40.260 --> 01:02:43.619 This song is great. I love Disco Duck. It's like, 01:02:43.619 --> 01:02:46.099 but people who think that We Built This City 01:02:46.099 --> 01:02:48.599 is the worst song ever. Stop. Oh, they're wrong. 01:02:48.659 --> 01:02:51.099 Get the hell out of here. I love that song. Get 01:02:51.099 --> 01:02:54.039 out. Unapologetically. Plus, it was in the Muppets 01:02:54.039 --> 01:02:57.599 2011 movie as a montage. Hell yes. So there will 01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:00.519 be zero We Built This City hate on my weekly 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:04.219 mixtape. But dude. Oh man, you're killing me. 01:03:04.260 --> 01:03:07.559 Now I got to go through this list. Man, you suck. 01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:10.000 Cause I got to close out with something else 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:14.519 now. All right. We talked about some of the songs 01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:16.920 that have like a, they're funny, but they also 01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:21.320 just are awesome on top of being funny. I'm going 01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:24.880 to go with a song to close out. That is so awesome. 01:03:25.300 --> 01:03:30.119 It's been covered by corn scatterbrain. the Rollins 01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:35.179 Band, Soundgarden. Wow. And the two live crews 01:03:35.179 --> 01:03:39.219 sampled it for Dirty Nursery Rhymes on As Nasty 01:03:39.219 --> 01:03:43.500 As They Wanna Be off of their 1974 album, Cheech 01:03:43.500 --> 01:03:46.420 and Chong's Wedding Album, Earache My Eye. There 01:03:46.420 --> 01:03:49.300 you go. Reached number nine on the US Billboard 01:03:49.300 --> 01:03:53.219 Hot 100, number 26 in Australia. I mean, let's 01:03:53.219 --> 01:03:55.340 be honest. The song is funny and it's stupid, 01:03:55.519 --> 01:03:58.269 but... It kind of rocks. I mean, at the end of 01:03:58.269 --> 01:04:00.550 the day, the song's awesome. That's another one 01:04:00.550 --> 01:04:03.570 of those artists, Cheech and Chong, who late 01:04:03.570 --> 01:04:08.909 70s, early 80s movies were, I mean, just hilariously 01:04:08.909 --> 01:04:13.610 stupid funny. And they did the comedy record 01:04:13.610 --> 01:04:16.889 bits, right? They did Sister Mary Elephant and 01:04:16.889 --> 01:04:19.929 Dave's Not Here. And then, of course, you've 01:04:19.929 --> 01:04:22.349 got Eric Maia where they come out on stage at 01:04:22.349 --> 01:04:24.369 the school and they do the whole song. It is 01:04:24.369 --> 01:04:28.280 just... The reaction is, oh, this is ridiculously 01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:31.840 stupid. These two stoners are just going off 01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:34.679 on the school. It's great. It's perfect. Yeah, 01:04:34.699 --> 01:04:37.639 I love, love, love Up in Smoke. It's a classic 01:04:37.639 --> 01:04:40.920 70s comedy. All right, you get to take us home, 01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:45.280 man. We've got 19 funny songs. What is the 20th? 01:04:46.059 --> 01:04:48.500 I'm sure that there are people who are screaming 01:04:48.500 --> 01:04:51.039 at their car stereos right now or their Spotify. 01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:54.420 Because we could go in a hundred million different 01:04:54.420 --> 01:04:57.599 directions. I mentioned great artists like Nervous 01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:01.440 Norvis and Kipler and Tom T -Bone Stankus from 01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:04.539 the Dr. Demento show talking about, you know, 01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:07.440 we really didn't add any Tom Lehrer stuff in 01:05:07.440 --> 01:05:10.480 there. We have a volume two. Let's just be honest. 01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:13.260 We definitely have a volume two here. And even 01:05:13.260 --> 01:05:16.300 Ray Stevens with The Streak, which is just, again, 01:05:16.440 --> 01:05:18.539 it's one of those. It's criminal we didn't make 01:05:18.539 --> 01:05:22.559 it. I apologize right now. I am sorry. Yes. I'm 01:05:22.559 --> 01:05:24.639 just going to say it because by the tone of your 01:05:24.639 --> 01:05:26.639 voice, you're not going to go with it. No, I'm 01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:29.559 actually going to go. I'm going to our neighbors 01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:33.099 to the north. And in fact, we're going to take 01:05:33.099 --> 01:05:36.659 off to the great white north with Bob and Doug 01:05:36.659 --> 01:05:40.400 McKenzie featuring Geddy Lee of Rush. Hilarious. 01:05:40.420 --> 01:05:43.079 I mean, there's another one of those Second City 01:05:43.079 --> 01:05:45.900 Television. Joe Flaherty and Rick Moranis' characters 01:05:45.900 --> 01:05:49.320 created a great movie with Strange Brew. Just 01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:52.639 a stupid movie, and it's so funny. And that song 01:05:52.639 --> 01:05:57.679 is fantastically funny. They did the 12 Days 01:05:57.679 --> 01:06:03.099 of Christmas Canadian style. And a beer? It feels 01:06:03.099 --> 01:06:04.639 like something else had to be in there, right? 01:06:04.699 --> 01:06:07.960 To just kind of fill it out, right? Take off, 01:06:08.079 --> 01:06:12.980 eh? It's great. It's excellent. From 1981's The 01:06:12.980 --> 01:06:15.800 Great White North, reach number 16 on the Billboard 01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:18.840 US Hot 100 singles chart. And Jay, I'm about 01:06:18.840 --> 01:06:23.079 to blow your mind here. Take Off reached five 01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:28.400 spots higher than Rush's highest ever US charting 01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:33.179 song, New World Man. On one hand, I'm not. How 01:06:33.179 --> 01:06:37.980 in this world does that happen? I'm thinking 01:06:37.980 --> 01:06:39.619 it has something to do with different genres, 01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:45.130 but. that is criminal right i mean i love take 01:06:45.130 --> 01:06:48.650 off don't get me wrong but i mean the fact that 01:06:48.650 --> 01:06:52.130 that charted higher than any rush song ever blows 01:06:52.130 --> 01:06:56.190 my mind but it also unsurprisingly hit number 01:06:56.190 --> 01:06:59.489 one on canada's chum charts so at least that 01:06:59.489 --> 01:07:03.750 makes perfect sense yes but with that mixtapers 01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:07.239 We conclude side B of the ultimate comedy and 01:07:07.239 --> 01:07:10.039 novelty songs mixtape, which consists of Dennis 01:07:10.039 --> 01:07:13.380 Leary's Asshole, Johnny Cash's One Piece at a 01:07:13.380 --> 01:07:16.300 Time, Gary Lee and Showdown's The Rodeo Song, 01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:20.059 Steve Martin's King Tut, Isaac Hayes' Chocolate 01:07:20.059 --> 01:07:23.380 Salty Balls, P .S. I Love You, Billy Crystal's 01:07:23.380 --> 01:07:26.340 You Look Marvelous, Rodney Dangerfield's Rappin' 01:07:26.340 --> 01:07:30.159 Rodney, Rick D's Disco Duck, Cheech and Chong's 01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:33.320 Earache My Eye, and Bob and Doug McKenzie featuring 01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:37.480 the incredible Geddy Lee, Take Off. Head over 01:07:37.480 --> 01:07:40.139 to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs 01:07:40.139 --> 01:07:43.519 we've discussed in this mix through the playlist 01:07:43.519 --> 01:07:47.619 embedded on the episode page. Well, Jay, this 01:07:47.619 --> 01:07:52.300 has been a hysterically fun episode. Thank you 01:07:52.300 --> 01:07:54.940 so much for joining me again on My Weekly Mixtape, 01:07:54.980 --> 01:07:57.929 and I look forward... to our volume two on this, 01:07:57.969 --> 01:08:00.710 because at the end of the day, we could all always 01:08:00.710 --> 01:08:05.369 use a good laugh. I call the streak. I think 01:08:05.369 --> 01:08:07.590 we got to start with that. I think the next one, 01:08:07.630 --> 01:08:09.690 you have to start with that or else you gotta. 01:08:09.969 --> 01:08:13.210 Yeah, for sure. All right. So we'll, as people 01:08:13.210 --> 01:08:15.190 remember from the two styles days, put a pin 01:08:15.190 --> 01:08:18.270 in that for now. And I will remind the mixtapers 01:08:18.270 --> 01:08:20.529 that you could find my weekly mixtape on almost 01:08:20.529 --> 01:08:23.729 all the social media haunts at. My Weekly Mixtape. 01:08:23.869 --> 01:08:26.609 You can also head to myweeklymixtape .com to 01:08:26.609 --> 01:08:29.449 check out the full catalog of My Weekly Mixtape 01:08:29.449 --> 01:08:31.789 episodes. And finally, if you like what you're 01:08:31.789 --> 01:08:34.050 hearing on the show, you can help me out by either 01:08:34.050 --> 01:08:37.130 telling a friend or multiple friends. 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