BARguments! Best Lead In To A Song? 12-26-25

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the Hammer and Nigel show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
You.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh it's Friday, Baby, turn the radio up. Let's punk
some testosterone at you. It's the Hammer and Nigel Show.
I'm Jason Hammer. Nigel's out, Chris Hammer is going. And
the man that coined the phrase arguments he loved it

(00:37):
so much he bought the company. Dan Levy, my man,
how are you good?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Christmas post data all of you? Hello?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
So how was your Christmas? Hanukkah? Festivuts and all the
crap you celebrate?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Dan?

Speaker 4 (00:52):
It was jolly to me with all the pancakes I
could have.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
So, if I understand this correctly, you are of the
Jewish faith, but your wife is not. So how does
this work?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
I get the most, the best, the best of both worlds.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
I get the light, the candles and watch the and
eat all the sugar cookies I can handle.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's awesome. You don't say no to anything. That's that's fantastic.
What is our topic for tonight?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
The argument would be the best song that is out
there with the best intro that's at least thirty seconds long,
if not more so.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
A song that comes on and has got such an
iconic lead up or intro at least thirty seconds. That's
the topic. All right, get us rocket and rolling here, Dan.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
All right, if I'm gonna get the one started, mine
wins bar none and it is scorpions Rockuli gard.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh, turn it up a little bit. Here we go
with one right there, defend your argument, Dan, argument.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Listen to that from the guitar all the way to
the way the feet starts to kick in. It plays
at every sporting event, and that song is iconic and
one of the few songs that has never gotten old.
You never said, oh my god, I've listened to that
thought too many times. I can't airny Cat. It is
good every time you listen to it.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
When I think about like awesome intros, I ask myself
this question. If I were to walk into a room,
would I want that song playing? Like if I'm coming
out of a bullpen like Ricky Vaughan, almost what I
want that song playing? And damn it, that's a perfect
one there.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Now. That one instantly makes me want to go to
the gym and watch other people at to wait.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's gonna be tough to beat. That's gonna be real
tough to beat. If you're on the YouTube chat right now,
jump in, let us know what your choice is again,
best song that has a ramp or a lead up
of at least thirty seconds. Kurt, who's filling in for Allison,
the floor is yours. Listen. I don't know if I
could top that.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
I didn't even think of that, but I chose this
song based strictly on the things that makes me feel,
and it takes me back to good times, and that
is baba O'Reilly.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Okay, this is such a beautiful song.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Uh huh, and it makes me want to go back
to the summer, to concerts, to having fun. Now, us
young gentlemen like myself and Chris understand that feeling.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Okay, shots fired at the old balls guy, but maybe
this will help you too remember things. So the who Now,
I wouldn't have been mad if you also would have said,
won't be fooled again, because that's another great thirty plus
second leader.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
The Soults used to use that as their intro song.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, the Colts used to run out to that. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
Falan had some good suggestions too. We're gonna have to
get with engineer Faling and he'll tell you he had
some good ones too.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
For you.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Dan your thoughts on Kurt's pick of Baba O'Reilly.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
I Meanson song. That's a thaw You've got to you.
I will always have to be in the moody hear
that song, so you're like, all right, I guess it's on.
I'll jam out to it. But I still think score
being that being comes on. You're turning every channel for
that one.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
I was hoping it was like ten degrees outside, because
then I would have been like, oh, it makes me
feel like summer.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
But it's sixty one in Indianapolis right now. So you
do what you can, all right. I'll go ahead and
take the keys here. I'll drive us for this one.
And I don't think this really needs any explanation. Kurt
hit it.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Metallica's Enter Sandman.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
That is awesome.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
As I said earlier, when I walk into a room,
or if I'm a relief picture coming out of the bullpen,
I want to have a song that people can get behind.
And for so long, this was the greatest relief picture
of all times. Entrance Marianna Rivera.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
If you were a baseball player in the two thousands
and you heard this song, the game's over.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
You don't even need to take your at bat and
the game is over. Chris, my question to you when
you hear this, do you think of Virginia ten coming
out for a football game or Mariano Rivera coming out
of the bullpen?

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
That is a that is a very tough one right there,
because I firmly do believe that the Virginia Tech football
interest is the best one in college football. You could
tell me others have more tradition, but in terms of
getting me most amped up for a football game, I
even say Virginia Tech's interests better than some NFL one.
So that is a tough one right there. But I
got to give it to Rivera. I mean, Hall of Famer.
There's no song that if you played baseball, especially in

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Major League Baseball in two thousands, you heard that song Fear,
instant fear, the game was over. Everybody could go home.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Dan your thoughts on Inner Sandman.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Eder Samad is a song when I used to do
morning radio and I would be driving in Chicago at
three in the morning with the windows down in that
song blasting all the way up, driving ninety miles an
hour was a really good way to wake up early morning. Hours.
So that's a good one. And by the way, you'll
big scorpion over it. But that's a I think a
Mariano Rivera. Whenever I see that the college football one

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and they're all jumping up and down, I'm like, wow,
that is a massive feeling right there.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
By the way, Happy sixty second birthday to Metallica drummer
Lars Ulrich. Today you can you can celebrate by downloading
his music illegally because he loves that, all right. Chris Hammer,
who's in for Nage, give me yours?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
All right, great, great suggestions by both of you, guys.
But if we're talking about lead ins to a song,
none better than Guns and Roses. Welcome to the jungle
right now?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Oh here we go.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Just the intro of this song right here, I mean
the crescendo and the way it just hits when it
comes in.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
If I'm coming out of the bullpen.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Or I'm making my wwe entrance, this is the song
that I want blaririn at volume ten with fireworks and
pyrotechnics coming out behind me. One of the greatest intros
to a song ever made.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
And you could make a case that there are other
Guns and Roses songs that can fall into that category,
Sweet Child, of Mind, of Paradise Idy, both of them.
This great song.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Guns and Roses overall, just hype songs. If you want
to get hyped up or you want to hype yourself
up for an event, put some Guns and Roses on
because they've got some bangers in that department.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
So I feel like we got some good ones here, Dan,
Can I walk you through some honorable mentions that some
folks in the YouTube chat have selected.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
I would love to hear what I'll that you bring.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Up Kid Rock when he first kind of came on
the scene with Ball with the.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Ball and a kid and you go down to YouTube
part deck and what what's dog ninety nine? That's a
pretty off of intro.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Right, Like just when he gives you that kid rock
and then boom it drops. That's pretty sold some older
ones here, right, because we've been kind of going more
eighties even some early nineties here. I think this may
be not only the greatest intro, one of the greatest intros,
but great guitar riffs of all time. Smoke on the Water.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
That is really good one right one, And this.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Goes on for a while, right, So it's well over
thirty seconds, so it falls into the category. But when
you hear this guitar riff, you know exactly what song's
coming on.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Right.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Oh, pretty sad, that iconic, And Dan, I got one more.
That's option, that's another good one. And we're just coming
off the anniversary of where Rocky Balboa ended the Cold
War by defeating a van Drago in Russia on Christmas. Right, Uh,

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we got time for one more here? Dan, your thoughts
on this of the greatest lead ends of all time?

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Oh, that's all collect itself right now.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Chris, you and I saw a C d C this
past year in Nashville. You saw Thunderstruck live. I did
do the guys still have it?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yes, they definitely still have it.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Every song they had they were bringing the energy and
they still sound like ac DC, because you know sometimes
with these older bands, you know they're older and it
doesn't sound but no, they hold up, they stand the
stuff that they stand the test of time. Easy for
me to say, but yes, definitely if you have an
opportunity to go see ACDC, go see them.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
War Pigs is being suggested on the YouTube check as well.
If somebody wants to take part in more arguments like
these are the type of questions that happen all the
time with the Barguments podcast and social media network. Here
where can they go? Dan?

Speaker 4 (09:28):
You can always just download it simply anywhere your podcasts, iTunes, Spotify,
all the good stuff. You can watch it on YouTube,
and if you want to do daily arguments, jump on
the Facebook group Arguments the podcast and there are a
lot of arguments going on multiple hours of the day,
a lot of good ones funneling through that one. It's
always a good time.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Hell yeah, man, I love the Arguments Facebook page. I'm
in the mix on that thing all the time.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
There was a question that was up there recently. What
arcade game did you spend the most money playing growing up? Now?

Speaker 4 (10:05):
I'm pretty sure I was not able to go to
college because I spent all of it on NBA.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah. That's awesome, my man. Thank you so much for
taking time to join us here on this little holiday deal.
We're off next Friday, so I look forward to having
more arguments with you in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
No pleasure is all on the side of twenty twenty five.
Thanks for having me. Get wait to do it again.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Next year it's the Hammer and Nigel Show. Oh yeah, baby,