February 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Lauren and Russ are back with a quick and fun discussion about "Cable TV" from Dare to Be Stupid! It’s an okay song, and this is an okay-length episode—so why not give it a listen? 😆
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome everybody too, yet another episode of the beard All Podcast,
the podcast about two of the greatest things in the world,
beer and weird al And you'll notice by the lack
of can crack. I don't even have.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
A beer today, more like wine alt.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I know, I know it's weird Winekovic. No, is that
a stred though, I'm gonna forget I did that. Hello,
So I'm Lauren. I'm here all the time. And it's
a small room today. Russ, the man who loved the
podcast so much he married the host.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Is here small room for I would argue a small song. Yeah,
this is really nothing to write home about, but it's
still a weird else song. Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And we're gonna do it because this is the next
to last track. It's the penultimate track on the Dare
to Be Stupid album, So we're gonna do our due
diligence and have a little conversation about it. I've also
decided I'm just gonna forego the whole format situation that
I usually do with this, and we're just gonna have
a conversation about the song. And I will take a
little ad break at some point in there to pay
(01:35):
the bills. But we're not not gonna be anywhere near
a structure today with the what's good what's bad. We
are gonna write it on a scale of one to
twenty seven, but that's fair. Other than that, we're just
gonna have ourselves a conversation about cable TV. So we
were we were out and about this past weekend, and
(01:56):
in preparation for talking about cable TV, we listened to
it several times in the car. And one of the
fun facts I suppose that exists about this song is
that it's a style parody of the song Hercules by
Elton John. Now, this is something that I have known
(02:19):
for a while and like no insomuch as I know
that this is a piece of information that exists and
was confirmed by John Bermuda Schwartz and one of the
ask Bermuda things that that happened. So I'm like, all right,
I'll take this at face value for what it is,
saying like, okay, sure, it's a style parody of Hercules
by Elton John. I never really heard it though, you
(02:43):
know what I mean. So, so, which.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The interesting thing about this was that when you said,
oh yeah, it's supposed to be a style parody of
Hercules by Elton John. I was like, oh, okay, well
I've never heard that song, so I'll check it out.
So we brought that up on streaming, and you were
kind of like, I don't really hear it, and the
Hercules being brand new to me and me having heard
(03:09):
cable TV like my whole life, I got it. Like,
to me, it does sound. I mean, I think it's
very odd to have done a style parody of one
specific at Elton John song.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, so I think I could reconcile this more if
the official canon of it were style parody of like
pre nineteen seventy five Elton John, you know, because there's
a I'm no I mean people who know me know this,
and I've talked about it on the show a little bit.
(03:44):
But like I'm a really big Elton John fan. And
my favorite chunk of time in Elton's career is that
three album stretch from a Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across the
Water and Honky Chateau Right, And this is this is
a track off of Honky Chateau Right. And so I
have listened to this this era of Elton John music
(04:07):
so much, said I was just like, I didn't get it,
and I didn't hear it until we did it like
back to back.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And you're listening for it, like you know what I mean, Yeah,
I think you'd hear it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. And so then like I took a step back
from this because there is one of those famous things
that people know about where it out is that like
he took Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album and
he said that he played along with that and that's
kind of what taught him to quote play rock and
(04:40):
roll on an accordion, right, So, like you know that
the fandom and appreciation is there, but I was just
I don't know, I didn't get it. And then I did.
I did what I want to do here where I
was like, okay, musically, I hear a little something about this. Thematically, though,
(05:00):
let's take a look at these things now. I know
we're here to talk about cable TV, so I will
give you the the bird's eye view of what Hercules
sure Well and John is about. It's essentially like the
girl that you want to be with finds herself more
drawn to a cat named Hercules because he's a bigger,
muscly guy that's not quite the dweb that you are right, okay,
(05:25):
And Elton was doing so much to like come across
as like tougher and more macho than he obviously was
that Like in nineteen seventy two, because of this song,
he actually legally when he legally changed his name to
Elton John, he legally changed his name to Elton Hercules John, right,
And it's from this, from this song and kind of saying, well,
(05:47):
if I'm not inherently that way, I'm going to put
this like, I'm going to put this name on myself
to start feeling like that, right, which is kind of
in a in a topsy turvy sort of way, like
Weird Al also did that. He owned the Weird thing,
and he's like, well, if they're going to think this,
I might as well own it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So then you're taking the Hercules thing and flipping it
over to this cable TV. Now what this guy is
doing in cable TV? It starts. I used to think
my life was so empty, used to think life was
passing me by. I was just about ready to curl
up and die. But then I got cable TV, and
(06:31):
I'm like, is this him saying well, you know what,
I may not be the tough guy, but they're just
jealous because I've seen Porky's twenty seven times this week.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Maybe, yeah, that's probably well that we're talking about this
on your show a lot where it's like, you know,
sometimes you're like, am I thinking too deeply into this?
And then probably if where it all heard this maybe
I don't know. If this but a lot of things,
he'd be like, yep, you know what I mean. So
to me, I think that this is one of those
honestests just about how shallow the type of people are
(07:02):
who you know, think their life is solved by more things. Yeah,
you know, like this person can't get any friends, so
they're gonna sit around and just watch like other people
live their lives on TV all day.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That's fair, I mean, Like, but.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Again with weird now that probably is a deeper thing
to it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But like, is this the thing that's like I don't know,
I get to kick out of the things that he
specifically calls out on here too, like you know, talking
about real quality programs, the kind you just can't get
for free, you know, and you know, to that point,
like I don't know, I don't even want to go
down this rabbit hole. If I'm being honest with you,
(07:42):
it's like, what what would be today's equivalent of writing
this song? It's like I've got all the streaming apps
on my TV.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Now, well, there really wouldn't be. There hasn't been like
a revolution. See the thing with KBLECV is it was
like the first real revolution in television since color, you know,
I mean, the closest thing to it. The last time
there was an actual overhaul of television is HDTV. And
(08:12):
here's my thinking on that. So with you know, color,
obviously that was a huge jump forward. With cable TV,
you could equate that to streaming and say, oh, well
there was more available for the first time, But like
cable TV, was a changeover in how the TV was
delivered to you and the quantity of it, where streaming
(08:33):
isn't that Streaming is just like you know, there's just
like it's it's it's using the same lines that your
cable TV uses to get the data to you. So
to me, that's not an overhaul. I mean there is.
And also I would argue most of what's available on
streaming is stuff that already shows twenty four hours a
day elsewhere on regular cable TV. Anyways. You know, like
(08:56):
streaming started out with like a couple of the bigger
ones making there. Like I'm struggling to think of something
the House of Cards from back then, but the House
of Cards, yeah, but I'm thinking I'm trying to think
of something besides with Netflix, I know, Hulu and Amazon
(09:19):
I have their own series along the lines along the
way that we're big, but like, other than that, a
lot of what's on streaming with is stuff that was
already on cable TV anyways. Yeah, yeah, Like I don't
feel like there's a way really, I mean maybe YouTube channels.
Because the point of the song is it's one of
(09:40):
those things where and people have to remember, when this
song came out, the only thing that had really been
set in stone on cable around the time this song
came out was the twenty four hour news cycle had
been invented CNN, and people when cable was invented, there
was not an unlimited amount of stuff where there wasn't
(10:02):
four or five, six hundred channels. The first year that
we had cable, it was thirteen channels.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Wait, he says he's had eighty three channels of ecstasy,
but yes, I.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Mean, none of these My point is none of the
things in this song existed at that time. It's weird
now acting like this stuff is so ridiculous, But eventually
we would have channels for nearly everything that he's listing
off in here, Like, I bet there is a channel
doing some version of everything that he's listening off in here.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, celebrity hockey, the racketball channel. I bet there is
a racketball channel.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
To me, it reminds me of that joke in Dodgeball
where the writing joke through the whole thing is the
O show and there is a no show. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I know, I know it's like life imitating art imitating
life imitating life.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But to me, this song, to me is and it's
very much the same thing today with like TikTok and whatnot.
This is a person whose life has no meaning, but
like the content that's being delivered to them, they've I
don't even think this person believes that this is good stuff.
I think they just want to believe that it's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
It's a quantity. Yeah, I've got so much like the
line that are you bothered by this? Because there there
are some folks out there on the Internet that are
bothered by the line, I've got a satellite dish on
the top of my car so I can watch MTV
while I drive. No, that's not cable TV.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I would ask the people that are irritated with that
how old they are. And I'm not saying that from
a maturity standpoint. That's that's how cable TV was delivered
quite a bit. Like I know people who when I
was a kid had giant Like I'm not talking about
direct TV. I'm talking about like looks like a news station.
(11:44):
That's how cable TV was to was delivered to a
lot of places. There was a cable that went from
the the dish to the TV to the house. It
was still like anybody who who thinks that cable TV
is just cable, Like, where do you think the cable's
coming from? You don't have a cable that runs all
(12:05):
the way back to the cable vision place.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
No, I guess you don't.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You know what I'm saying. So now that that satellite
joke is still valid, like it was valid then and
it's still is now, Like.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That's that's fair and reasonable? Yeah, I don't know, Yeah,
I guess I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You have to remember the the you know how, there's
no such thing. You know how a zamboni is a
brand or a jacuzzi is a brand. Yes, so people
will be like when we're coming out of jacuzzi, Oh
you have a jacuzzi. No, that's just a hot tub.
Like right, Cable TV was the title anyone used for
anything that wasn't your three local channels. Okay, so Detroit
(12:48):
was two, four and seven. Anything else you were watching
outside of that was considered cable TV.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Okay, that makes sense because again, like this is the
kind of thing that like I remembered, I don't remember
getting it. I just remember all is having it, you know, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Remember we I didn't. We didn't even have cable TV
when the something came out. And I don't think I
lived in a house with cable TV till I was
I think fourteen, wow. Yeah, And Darryby Super came out
when I was either nine or ten eighty five and
I was ten. Yeah, so I didn't even have cable TV.
So I just just sit and dream if Vicariously lived
(13:24):
through the person in this I remember clearly, like going
to my sister's house and cousin's house were they and
just being like, can I watch any MTV like at all?
Giant surprise, you know, so I would watch whatever I
could there. Yeah, and again when when I did get cable,
we had thirteen channels like it was it was your
(13:45):
local stuff, which in Detroit is two four, seven, twenty
and fifty, so you already had your five that were
you already had, but they were like clear, like you
didn't have to just the antenna and anything was like
and then like MTV whatever, I forget what it was
called before Comedy Central, but Comedy Central was called something.
(14:06):
Oh yeah, I don't that esp like uh, I think
maybe two different espns whatever and ce N like there
was there was just the thirteen channels now because you
gotta remember there's a basic cable and then there was
premium cable and then there was ultra premium cable and
all that almost like streaming tears today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, so speaking of which, you know, there are some
things that you can't scream, stream scream, but.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
There's something there's some things you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You shouldn't scream.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Ever, for example, certain racial things, I would not recommend screaming.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm not about to do that, not on my own show.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Other people show whatever. I don't know that's a good
way to go about that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, it was, but there's some things that you can't
stream without a cable flog.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
In, you know, right, Well, don't even get me. The
whole way the system is said up today makes no
sense whatsoever. Like along what you're saying, Like, so I
have a I have the cable company is giving me
super duper high bandwidth so I can get all this
programming into my house, but then I still need to
use their login to watch like a channel because I
(15:14):
don't have access to the channel without streaming, like what
I know. That's why I'm not mad about like live events.
Moving over to some of the streaming things like the
NFL I think is on everything now and all. I
think it's rather that than have to deal with one
network anymore. Besides, all the networks are horsepoop anyways, they're
all it's all owned by the same three companies. They
(15:35):
just split everything up. And now the way it's evolved now,
like for example, so I don't even know who owns
the price is right. I know it's on the paramount
streaming service, and I know broadcasts on CBS, but I
don't know That doesn't necessarily mean paramount owns prices right,
But anyway, whomever owns Price is Right would have licensed
(15:56):
it for syndication to you know, your local markets and
all that stuff, and then for streaming they have a
deal with whomever. Right now, you have things like to
Be and so on, where in Pluto TV, where there's
just a twenty four hour channel for that because you
don't need the corporation to dilute it and go. Like
(16:18):
for example, for the longest time and it may still be,
USA Network was owned by Comcast. The reason why they
did it is because they wanted other outlets for their
same for the same content without it always having a
broadcast on our one channel. So they just came up
with another channel. They're like, oh, USA Network, right now,
(16:39):
with bandwidth being as unlimited as we as, we don't,
we don't need that anymore. Like you can you can
literally just put out a full twenty four hour channel
of everything and people can just choose what they want
to watch.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, it's like it's what's that phrase, It's like like
selection paralysis, Like there's too many options. Yep, you know,
like I know you and I have a hard time
figuring out what to watch, like at any given moment,
if there's nothing that's actually like on that we want
to see, because we're like, oh, there's just so much.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Ninety percent of that for me comes from the fact
that I have no attention to spen and if I
try to concentrate on something that I and I'm losing
interest in it, I will do one of two things.
I will either look at my phone or fall asleep
or both. And so that can confirm for me, it's
like anything I pick, I'm like, oh, boys, this is
(17:28):
gonna be able to? Am I gonna be able to
That's why I personally, I rely on so much stuff
I've already seen a bunch of times because I already
know everything about it. You know, It's just easier for
me to go that route than like take something new
in and and with our society today too. And I'm
as guilty as this as anyone else. You end up,
it takes you two hours to watch an hour episode
of something because you have to stop every ten minutes ago, Wait,
what'd she say?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Mm hmm, wait.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Why is he doing that? Well? Because of fifteen minutes
ago when she walked in the room and wait, she's
in the room. Yes, you know what I mean. And
I'm I'm coming down on myself about that as well,
but like that's what I mean. Like if I look,
you've seen me do this, I'll go, hey, we should.
Oh no, those episodes are forty minutes long.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, Like no, I get it, I get it. It's
it's like there are some things you know we've did
we make No.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Do you want to hear something depressing that I heard
the other day? That's real? Oh I don't know, do
I There are script doctors in Hollywood now who are
working on like scripts have to pass by them because
they need the shows to be more descriptive because of
the society we're in right now, me included by the way,
(18:32):
I'm bad at this too. So they're now instead of
a woman walking in a room and giving a guy
a look and him dropping it and going, oh, you
know what I've been doing or you know something like that,
now she walks in the room and goes, look at me.
I'm going to tell you with my face how I
feel about this. Like there, and I'm being exaggerated, but
(18:53):
that's There are script doctors in Hollywood that are being
that are going through and making dialogue more descriptive so
that we the idiots me again included I'm not preaching
anybody about this can be buried in our phones. And
know that she walked in the room and gave him
a look mmm like it's it's literally like we have
(19:14):
got to the point of consuming content where we're so
dumb with it that Hollywood is like it turns out
we have to explain it to him.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's gonna be one of those things where in like
whenever society course corrects itself, because it will in like
fifteen years or so, like you just like and I
know we I jokingly mentioned that you would never say
anything racist, like when certain things were acceptable back in
the day, and then like fifteen years later you watch
it and you're like, oh, Joe did a racism there.
(19:44):
We can't we get right, Like, there's gonna be a
thing where in like fifteen years or so, society is
gonna be like were they dumb? Why is everyone explaining
everything in this show and where all of us are
gonna have to be like, oh, yeah, not we were yep, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
We were dumb, because yeah we were. We're trying like
the human brain can only handle so much. And I
think this is a really good point because what weird
All is doing in this song saying like there's all
this stuff, Like my friends are getting kind of worried.
They think I'm turning into some kind of freak. But
they're just jealous because I've seen Porkys twenty seven times
this week. It's like there's so much that he's just like,
(20:21):
I'm just gonna watch.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, it's all prediction too, like you know this, don't
let me be flipping channels and catch Me if you
can is on the movie with uh Caprio Casino you
I'm don'tkay if I turn on Casino and it's ready,
the part where de Niro explodes at the beginning. Yeah,
I hope we weren't going anywhere, because we're not going
anywhere for three hours now. I'll sit and watch that
(20:43):
same movie again a million times. I've seen million times.
I'll watch it again. Catch Me if you can. There's movies,
so everybody has that, movies like that, everybody has that stuff.
But the point of this song, though, is I think
that the person in there, like I don't think that's
a tongue in cheek line I think the character in
this song really leaves that his friends think that are
jealous of him because of this. And the reason why
(21:05):
I think that is because at the beginning of the Something,
he talks about how he had nothing to live for,
so he probably doesn't really have any friends anyways, and
if he does, he doesn't think they think much of
them to begin with. So he's convincing himself that this
life he's curated for himself is cooler than those friends
that don't want to be his friends anyways.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That makes all the sense in the world. You know
what I'm gonna do right now, I'm going to throw
it over to an ad break and because we'll just
just you know, we'll pay the bills to do what
we do, right, because life is expensive. You gotta pay
for that cable TV.
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Speaker 4 (22:53):
Hey, I'm Hansel Saran from the BFY tw podcast here
with my buddy.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Stevie Hey was up and Augie Hey.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
We're here to first of all, categorically deny the rumors
going around that all we've been doing lately is copying
other podcasts. This is categorically untrue and we deny it completely.
Having said that, please continue to enjoy the beard Al Podcast,
but when you're done, please check out our new project,
the weird Ale Podcast, where we pair an ale with
(23:21):
a weird l song. Pretty sure that hasn't been done before.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And we're back get back of that cat.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah. So one thing I think we would be remiss
if we didn't mention more talking about cable TV. The
song is well one of the The last time we
were here, we were we were joined by uh Jeff
and he mentioned that because we were talking about This
(24:15):
is the Life, and he had mentioned the number twenty
seven in the video for This is the Life, and
then he had said that, you know, cable TV, that's
the first twenty seven in a song in weird Hoose catalog.
So I just think that that's a really cool thing
to bring up, because I so I recently had a
lovely conversation with there was a college radio station in
(24:41):
Wisconsin that earlier in February did a twenty four hour
weird l radio marathon.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Only because there's not twenty seven hours in a day,
you should mention that that should mention one probably would have. They.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I provided them with twenty seven facts about we're now
to use as part of their broadcast, and I love
the earnestness with which they were going, you know, setting
out on this on this venture. Then I got asked
why twenty seven, and I was like, oh, you sweet
(25:22):
summer children. I love that you were asking this because
I have to tell you because now I know but.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I say this line all the time. That's true. I've
literally been aware to Alfaim since before you were born.
I know. I mean, you know, I know all the
lyrics everything off the top of my head of the car.
I never even bothered to think about how many times
twenty seven was in any of the songs until I
met you.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So no, and that's great, And so I said, oh, friends, yeah,
look it up, and then like literally googled it whilst
talking to me, Oh my god, it's everywhere. I'm like,
I know, it's a whole, beautiful, wonderful thing that you
got to make sure that people know about. But to
that point, like, I just love that that kind of
(26:02):
thing still happens that. You know, college students they're like,
you know, we got twenty four hours, we're gonna pick
an artist, and we're gonna pick weird down. I think
that's really really cool.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You know, it's funny. And I think we've talked about
this before, Like I would never use the term like
aged poorly or anything, but like someone of that age
might listen to the song and be like, yeah, because
of the references to like they have the all this
channel all that, they're like, if you're a young person,
now you're like and and yeah, whereas back then we
(26:32):
were all just like, oh, it's ridiculous, that's gonna be
a thing. No, No, it turns out of this there's
a Beverly Hills and a two and OL channel, So
I know it's true. I'm not insulting, by the way.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
No, No, you enjoy watching that from time to time,
you know, we tend to get stuck in the game
show channels, which I'm not mad about.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So I purposely stopped watching an out of two and
Z after Shannon already passed, because it was already hard
enough having Luke Perry have passed and then Shannon, and
it's like, oh, these people are my age. I should
stop watching this show now, you know what I mean? Oh? Yeah,
but you and I have also been rather morose about
uh if we watch seventies episodes of the Presses, right,
(27:10):
we're always like, oh, I bet she's not with us
any Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's the match games hard for that too, because like
you look at that whole panel and you're like.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Oh, no, I'm talking about just no contestants. Yeah you know, yeah,
you see a woman in nineteen seventy five who is
like sixty, she still care. But yes, wonderful things that
cable TV has provided for around thinking about mortality constantly.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah you know, well that's that's kind of what it's
all about.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
One thing about the actual song. So here's the thing
I don't when we get to the rating, that's a
different thing. But I don't in any way dislike this song.
But it never crosses my mind and less I'm listening
to Dare to be stupid. For example, I said to
you the other day, we better put this on the
car a couple of times. It's a song I know,
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and I know as soon as it started, I was like,
oh yeah, I know these layers, you know. But I
had said to you, I don't think i've heard this
song since the day Squeezebox was delivered, however, many years ago,
because when it was delivered, I literally listened to every
record in a row, like straight through, and I probably
haven't listened to cable TV since that day, do you
(28:18):
know what I mean? Yeah, And it's and it's I
don't have anything against the song. It's probably also that
the style parody aspect of it, Like you grew up
at Elton John and I didn't like when I grew
up outon John was good for Camel on the Wind,
A sad song, say so much. And I mean this
is all pre linking, you know, like his eighties stuff.
(28:40):
That's how I knew it was John. Yeah, you know,
so like even if you told like, okay, so, mister
Pile in many ways sounds like many eras of the
B fifty twos. I mean, it's directly parroting them in
the first two records. But anybody who's ever heard the
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B fifty twos could hear that nod.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's going, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Would have never told you that this was Elton John
until you played the song for me, that you know
what I mean. So, and again, that's not a detrimental
to the song. It's just that that's one of the
reasons why I don't connect to it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I don't think, yeah, because it's it's not as a
lot of the style parodies are very on the nose,
you go aha, right, even the title track of this
particular era.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
We no I'm talking about that. I don't have any
affinity for that era of Elton John. So therefore, I'm
let me put it this way, Twister is in many
ways just there for a lot of people unless you're
me and you listen to Licensed L three thousand times
the year was released. So like, as soon as I
heard Twister, I was like, yes, yep, right, like I would.
(29:44):
I would. I probably have put on Twister a lot
more than I put on cable TV because I don't
have any connection to the thing that it's a style parody.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, I get totally. And another thing about this particular
track and I I don't like beating this dead horse,
but like you have to when you're talking about this album.
This song is fine, but it's on a much weaker
side of a good album. You know, Like, would I
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move things around to put this up earlier? But no,
what would I take off? Would to make it more balanced?
I don't even know. But all I'm getting at is
like the the the instance is few and far between
that I'll say, you know what, I think, I want
to listen to side too of dare to be stupid, right,
And that's just.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
What I'm just trying to get somewhere. Well you know
what I mean if you if you're listening to it
on vinyl and you're like, oh, I really want to
hear the polka, Like I'm not a big fan of
Drop with a needle, Like, okay, well you're gonna have
to listen all side too. Yeah yeah, but yeah, I
know what you mean. Yeah, it's not anything you would
go so yeah, I don't know. It's it's it's so
weird for me because it's not a bad song at all,
but I just never ever ever think to put it
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on right.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I'm the I'm like the purveyor of several weird out
playlists for several different like moods. This is not on
any of them. Yeah, because what are you going to do?
You know, I wouldn't work out to this song.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, so that's that.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I don't know, unless you've had any other points, we
can just get to the rating. We knew this was
going to be a quick episode. Sorry, folks, but don't worry.
I'm going to tell you all this now to talk
about the last track.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
On there to be sure your appetite, you get to.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Quet your appetite for what's about to what's about to
happen here you heard him on the first episode of
twenty twenty five. Our friend Bob will be joining us
in house to talk about hooked on Polkas and I
think I think we're going to be in for a
good conversation because when you get Bob going.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
About weird al yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
It's a good time, and we're talking about a pretty
good polka.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
So this could not be more off topic. But I
just a second ago wet your appetite petition to make
people start spelling that correctly, yeah, instead of and also
while we're at it, can I peak your interest in
people spelling peak the right way. You have not in
any way summit did my interest, So please stop saying
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peak as if it was the top of a mountain.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I think people think that that's the only way to
spell it because I personally sneak peak. When people do
sneak e A K. I'm like, there, no mountain is
ever going to surprise you.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
You know what. One bothered me the other day too,
while we're at it. Someone was telling me about clicks
a group of people and and and I politely replied
to the text conversation with the correct spelling, and I
don't think they got it. Yeah, I mean, it's not
my fault. That's a French word. But anyways, Yeah, yeah,
(32:49):
this My thing is I feel like if we just
go on about this song too long, you're just gonna
be laboring the point like it's unless. I mean, there's
always good feedback that comes in on your episodes, like
maybe this means more to others, but I just I
feel like this is gonna end up being the most
there song to anybody, Like.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's just there, and that's okay. The song is there,
it's fine, it works, it does what it needs to
do and to that point one to twenty seven, I
give it a nineteen.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Oh, I'm way lower.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, this is the lowest rating I think I'll ever
give any word else song. And it's crazy because I
don't dislike it at all. It's like a ten. Okay.
I mean again, I don't there's nothing about this I
don't like. But there's not another word L song I
can think of that I wouldn't put on as much
as I wouldn't put the song on.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Oh oh, that's interesting, okay, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Like it's just there for me, Like I maybe when
we started the other day, I was like, I was like,
oh man, I bet there's stuff that I've Nope, I
remember this exactly how it was. Yeah, you know, like
so yeah, yeah, yeah, I gotta assume. I mean, I'm
saying it now. And of what twelve records to go.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Still yeah eleven. Well I didn't do the first to
self titled, but I don't think that deserves this treatment.
It's a good album, but like we can't go song
by song off of that.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, I'm saying now, I'll be shocked if I have
another song even in close to this as far as
rady really.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh that's it. Well, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Again, I remember I'm a crazy pants who likes everything
even worse. Yeah, everybody yelled at me about that, which
is crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm looking at Poka Party and I'm.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I'm oh, I like Poka Party a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I'm looking forward to our truthless people conversation. Okay, So anyway, ah,
that'll do it for this. I I'm Lauren and I'm
always here, and Russ thank you again for here sometimes
sometimes for being my husband and talking about weird as creeping,
you know, always creeping. Yeah. So but yeah, we'll be
back in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
With Bob, not Bobo, but Bob.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh yeah, not Bobo, even though he is Bob.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
And uh so yeah, have a good time.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Be awesome to each other. Watch cable TV, watch some
cable TV.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, Bye,
Welcome everybody too, yet another episode of the beard All Podcast,
the podcast about two of the greatest things in the world,
beer and weird al And you'll notice by the lack
of can crack. I don't even have.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
A beer today, more like wine alt.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I know, I know it's weird Winekovic. No, is that
a stred though, I'm gonna forget I did that. Hello,
So I'm Lauren. I'm here all the time. And it's
a small room today. Russ, the man who loved the
podcast so much he married the host.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Is here small room for I would argue a small song. Yeah,
this is really nothing to write home about, but it's
still a weird else song. Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And we're gonna do it because this is the next
to last track. It's the penultimate track on the Dare
to Be Stupid album, So we're gonna do our due
diligence and have a little conversation about it. I've also
decided I'm just gonna forego the whole format situation that
I usually do with this, and we're just gonna have
a conversation about the song. And I will take a
little ad break at some point in there to pay
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the bills. But we're not not gonna be anywhere near
a structure today with the what's good what's bad. We
are gonna write it on a scale of one to
twenty seven, but that's fair. Other than that, we're just
gonna have ourselves a conversation about cable TV. So we
were we were out and about this past weekend, and
(01:56):
in preparation for talking about cable TV, we listened to
it several times in the car. And one of the
fun facts I suppose that exists about this song is
that it's a style parody of the song Hercules by
Elton John. Now, this is something that I have known
(02:19):
for a while and like no insomuch as I know
that this is a piece of information that exists and
was confirmed by John Bermuda Schwartz and one of the
ask Bermuda things that that happened. So I'm like, all right,
I'll take this at face value for what it is,
saying like, okay, sure, it's a style parody of Hercules
by Elton John. I never really heard it though, you
(02:43):
know what I mean. So, so, which.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The interesting thing about this was that when you said,
oh yeah, it's supposed to be a style parody of
Hercules by Elton John. I was like, oh, okay, well
I've never heard that song, so I'll check it out.
So we brought that up on streaming, and you were
kind of like, I don't really hear it, and the
Hercules being brand new to me and me having heard
(03:09):
cable TV like my whole life, I got it. Like,
to me, it does sound. I mean, I think it's
very odd to have done a style parody of one
specific at Elton John song.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, so I think I could reconcile this more if
the official canon of it were style parody of like
pre nineteen seventy five Elton John, you know, because there's
a I'm no I mean people who know me know this,
and I've talked about it on the show a little bit.
(03:44):
But like I'm a really big Elton John fan. And
my favorite chunk of time in Elton's career is that
three album stretch from a Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across the
Water and Honky Chateau Right, And this is this is
a track off of Honky Chateau Right. And so I
have listened to this this era of Elton John music
(04:07):
so much, said I was just like, I didn't get it,
and I didn't hear it until we did it like
back to back.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And you're listening for it, like you know what I mean, Yeah,
I think you'd hear it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. And so then like I took a step back
from this because there is one of those famous things
that people know about where it out is that like
he took Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album and
he said that he played along with that and that's
kind of what taught him to quote play rock and
(04:40):
roll on an accordion, right, So, like you know that
the fandom and appreciation is there, but I was just
I don't know, I didn't get it. And then I did.
I did what I want to do here where I
was like, okay, musically, I hear a little something about this. Thematically, though,
(05:00):
let's take a look at these things now. I know
we're here to talk about cable TV, so I will
give you the the bird's eye view of what Hercules
sure Well and John is about. It's essentially like the
girl that you want to be with finds herself more
drawn to a cat named Hercules because he's a bigger,
muscly guy that's not quite the dweb that you are right, okay,
(05:25):
And Elton was doing so much to like come across
as like tougher and more macho than he obviously was
that Like in nineteen seventy two, because of this song,
he actually legally when he legally changed his name to
Elton John, he legally changed his name to Elton Hercules John, right,
And it's from this, from this song and kind of saying, well,
(05:47):
if I'm not inherently that way, I'm going to put
this like, I'm going to put this name on myself
to start feeling like that, right, which is kind of
in a in a topsy turvy sort of way, like
Weird Al also did that. He owned the Weird thing,
and he's like, well, if they're going to think this,
I might as well own it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So then you're taking the Hercules thing and flipping it
over to this cable TV. Now what this guy is
doing in cable TV? It starts. I used to think
my life was so empty, used to think life was
passing me by. I was just about ready to curl
up and die. But then I got cable TV, and
(06:31):
I'm like, is this him saying well, you know what,
I may not be the tough guy, but they're just
jealous because I've seen Porky's twenty seven times this week.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Maybe, yeah, that's probably well that we're talking about this
on your show a lot where it's like, you know,
sometimes you're like, am I thinking too deeply into this?
And then probably if where it all heard this maybe
I don't know. If this but a lot of things,
he'd be like, yep, you know what I mean. So
to me, I think that this is one of those
honestests just about how shallow the type of people are
(07:02):
who you know, think their life is solved by more things. Yeah,
you know, like this person can't get any friends, so
they're gonna sit around and just watch like other people
live their lives on TV all day.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That's fair, I mean, Like, but.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Again with weird now that probably is a deeper thing
to it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But like, is this the thing that's like I don't know,
I get to kick out of the things that he
specifically calls out on here too, like you know, talking
about real quality programs, the kind you just can't get
for free, you know, and you know, to that point,
like I don't know, I don't even want to go
down this rabbit hole. If I'm being honest with you,
(07:42):
it's like, what what would be today's equivalent of writing
this song? It's like I've got all the streaming apps
on my TV.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Now, well, there really wouldn't be. There hasn't been like
a revolution. See the thing with KBLECV is it was
like the first real revolution in television since color, you know,
I mean, the closest thing to it. The last time
there was an actual overhaul of television is HDTV. And
(08:12):
here's my thinking on that. So with you know, color,
obviously that was a huge jump forward. With cable TV,
you could equate that to streaming and say, oh, well
there was more available for the first time, But like
cable TV, was a changeover in how the TV was
delivered to you and the quantity of it, where streaming
(08:33):
isn't that Streaming is just like you know, there's just
like it's it's it's using the same lines that your
cable TV uses to get the data to you. So
to me, that's not an overhaul. I mean there is.
And also I would argue most of what's available on
streaming is stuff that already shows twenty four hours a
day elsewhere on regular cable TV. Anyways. You know, like
(08:56):
streaming started out with like a couple of the bigger
ones making there. Like I'm struggling to think of something
the House of Cards from back then, but the House
of Cards, yeah, but I'm thinking I'm trying to think
of something besides with Netflix, I know, Hulu and Amazon
(09:19):
I have their own series along the lines along the
way that we're big, but like, other than that, a
lot of what's on streaming with is stuff that was
already on cable TV anyways. Yeah, yeah, Like I don't
feel like there's a way really, I mean maybe YouTube channels.
Because the point of the song is it's one of
(09:40):
those things where and people have to remember, when this
song came out, the only thing that had really been
set in stone on cable around the time this song
came out was the twenty four hour news cycle had
been invented CNN, and people when cable was invented, there
was not an unlimited amount of stuff where there wasn't
(10:02):
four or five, six hundred channels. The first year that
we had cable, it was thirteen channels.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Wait, he says he's had eighty three channels of ecstasy,
but yes, I.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Mean, none of these My point is none of the
things in this song existed at that time. It's weird
now acting like this stuff is so ridiculous, But eventually
we would have channels for nearly everything that he's listing
off in here, Like, I bet there is a channel
doing some version of everything that he's listening off in here.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, celebrity hockey, the racketball channel. I bet there is
a racketball channel.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
To me, it reminds me of that joke in Dodgeball
where the writing joke through the whole thing is the
O show and there is a no show. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I know, I know it's like life imitating art imitating
life imitating life.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But to me, this song, to me is and it's
very much the same thing today with like TikTok and whatnot.
This is a person whose life has no meaning, but
like the content that's being delivered to them, they've I
don't even think this person believes that this is good stuff.
I think they just want to believe that it's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
It's a quantity. Yeah, I've got so much like the
line that are you bothered by this? Because there there
are some folks out there on the Internet that are
bothered by the line, I've got a satellite dish on
the top of my car so I can watch MTV
while I drive. No, that's not cable TV.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I would ask the people that are irritated with that
how old they are. And I'm not saying that from
a maturity standpoint. That's that's how cable TV was delivered
quite a bit. Like I know people who when I
was a kid had giant Like I'm not talking about
direct TV. I'm talking about like looks like a news station.
(11:44):
That's how cable TV was to was delivered to a
lot of places. There was a cable that went from
the the dish to the TV to the house. It
was still like anybody who who thinks that cable TV
is just cable, Like, where do you think the cable's
coming from? You don't have a cable that runs all
(12:05):
the way back to the cable vision place.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
No, I guess you don't.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You know what I'm saying. So now that that satellite
joke is still valid, like it was valid then and
it's still is now, Like.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That's that's fair and reasonable? Yeah, I don't know, Yeah,
I guess I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You have to remember the the you know how, there's
no such thing. You know how a zamboni is a
brand or a jacuzzi is a brand. Yes, so people
will be like when we're coming out of jacuzzi, Oh
you have a jacuzzi. No, that's just a hot tub.
Like right, Cable TV was the title anyone used for
anything that wasn't your three local channels. Okay, so Detroit
(12:48):
was two, four and seven. Anything else you were watching
outside of that was considered cable TV.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Okay, that makes sense because again, like this is the
kind of thing that like I remembered, I don't remember
getting it. I just remember all is having it, you know, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Remember we I didn't. We didn't even have cable TV
when the something came out. And I don't think I
lived in a house with cable TV till I was
I think fourteen, wow. Yeah, And Darryby Super came out
when I was either nine or ten eighty five and
I was ten. Yeah, so I didn't even have cable TV.
So I just just sit and dream if Vicariously lived
(13:24):
through the person in this I remember clearly, like going
to my sister's house and cousin's house were they and
just being like, can I watch any MTV like at all?
Giant surprise, you know, so I would watch whatever I
could there. Yeah, and again when when I did get cable,
we had thirteen channels like it was it was your
(13:45):
local stuff, which in Detroit is two four, seven, twenty
and fifty, so you already had your five that were
you already had, but they were like clear, like you
didn't have to just the antenna and anything was like
and then like MTV whatever, I forget what it was
called before Comedy Central, but Comedy Central was called something.
(14:06):
Oh yeah, I don't that esp like uh, I think
maybe two different espns whatever and ce N like there
was there was just the thirteen channels now because you
gotta remember there's a basic cable and then there was
premium cable and then there was ultra premium cable and
all that almost like streaming tears today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, so speaking of which, you know, there are some
things that you can't scream, stream scream, but.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
There's something there's some things you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You shouldn't scream.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Ever, for example, certain racial things, I would not recommend screaming.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'm not about to do that, not on my own show.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Other people show whatever. I don't know that's a good
way to go about that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, it was, but there's some things that you can't
stream without a cable flog.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
In, you know, right, Well, don't even get me. The
whole way the system is said up today makes no
sense whatsoever. Like along what you're saying, Like, so I
have a I have the cable company is giving me
super duper high bandwidth so I can get all this
programming into my house, but then I still need to
use their login to watch like a channel because I
(15:14):
don't have access to the channel without streaming, like what
I know. That's why I'm not mad about like live events.
Moving over to some of the streaming things like the
NFL I think is on everything now and all. I
think it's rather that than have to deal with one
network anymore. Besides, all the networks are horsepoop anyways, they're
all it's all owned by the same three companies. They
(15:35):
just split everything up. And now the way it's evolved now,
like for example, so I don't even know who owns
the price is right. I know it's on the paramount
streaming service, and I know broadcasts on CBS, but I
don't know That doesn't necessarily mean paramount owns prices right,
But anyway, whomever owns Price is Right would have licensed
(15:56):
it for syndication to you know, your local markets and
all that stuff, and then for streaming they have a
deal with whomever. Right now, you have things like to
Be and so on, where in Pluto TV, where there's
just a twenty four hour channel for that because you
don't need the corporation to dilute it and go. Like
(16:18):
for example, for the longest time and it may still be,
USA Network was owned by Comcast. The reason why they
did it is because they wanted other outlets for their
same for the same content without it always having a
broadcast on our one channel. So they just came up
with another channel. They're like, oh, USA Network, right now,
(16:39):
with bandwidth being as unlimited as we as, we don't,
we don't need that anymore. Like you can you can
literally just put out a full twenty four hour channel
of everything and people can just choose what they want
to watch.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, it's like it's what's that phrase, It's like like
selection paralysis, Like there's too many options. Yep, you know,
like I know you and I have a hard time
figuring out what to watch, like at any given moment,
if there's nothing that's actually like on that we want
to see, because we're like, oh, there's just so much.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Ninety percent of that for me comes from the fact
that I have no attention to spen and if I
try to concentrate on something that I and I'm losing
interest in it, I will do one of two things.
I will either look at my phone or fall asleep
or both. And so that can confirm for me, it's
like anything I pick, I'm like, oh, boys, this is
(17:28):
gonna be able to? Am I gonna be able to
That's why I personally, I rely on so much stuff
I've already seen a bunch of times because I already
know everything about it. You know, It's just easier for
me to go that route than like take something new
in and and with our society today too. And I'm
as guilty as this as anyone else. You end up,
it takes you two hours to watch an hour episode
of something because you have to stop every ten minutes ago, Wait,
what'd she say?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Mm hmm, wait.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Why is he doing that? Well? Because of fifteen minutes
ago when she walked in the room and wait, she's
in the room. Yes, you know what I mean. And
I'm I'm coming down on myself about that as well,
but like that's what I mean. Like if I look,
you've seen me do this, I'll go, hey, we should.
Oh no, those episodes are forty minutes long.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, Like no, I get it, I get it. It's
it's like there are some things you know we've did
we make No.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Do you want to hear something depressing that I heard
the other day? That's real? Oh I don't know, do
I There are script doctors in Hollywood now who are
working on like scripts have to pass by them because
they need the shows to be more descriptive because of
the society we're in right now, me included by the way,
(18:32):
I'm bad at this too. So they're now instead of
a woman walking in a room and giving a guy
a look and him dropping it and going, oh, you
know what I've been doing or you know something like that,
now she walks in the room and goes, look at me.
I'm going to tell you with my face how I
feel about this. Like there, and I'm being exaggerated, but
(18:53):
that's There are script doctors in Hollywood that are being
that are going through and making dialogue more descriptive so
that we the idiots me again included I'm not preaching
anybody about this can be buried in our phones. And
know that she walked in the room and gave him
a look mmm like it's it's literally like we have
(19:14):
got to the point of consuming content where we're so
dumb with it that Hollywood is like it turns out
we have to explain it to him.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's gonna be one of those things where in like
whenever society course corrects itself, because it will in like
fifteen years or so, like you just like and I
know we I jokingly mentioned that you would never say
anything racist, like when certain things were acceptable back in
the day, and then like fifteen years later you watch
it and you're like, oh, Joe did a racism there.
(19:44):
We can't we get right, Like, there's gonna be a
thing where in like fifteen years or so, society is
gonna be like were they dumb? Why is everyone explaining
everything in this show and where all of us are
gonna have to be like, oh, yeah, not we were yep, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
We were dumb, because yeah we were. We're trying like
the human brain can only handle so much. And I
think this is a really good point because what weird
All is doing in this song saying like there's all
this stuff, Like my friends are getting kind of worried.
They think I'm turning into some kind of freak. But
they're just jealous because I've seen Porkys twenty seven times
this week. It's like there's so much that he's just like,
(20:21):
I'm just gonna watch.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, it's all prediction too, like you know this, don't
let me be flipping channels and catch Me if you
can is on the movie with uh Caprio Casino you
I'm don'tkay if I turn on Casino and it's ready,
the part where de Niro explodes at the beginning. Yeah,
I hope we weren't going anywhere, because we're not going
anywhere for three hours now. I'll sit and watch that
(20:43):
same movie again a million times. I've seen million times.
I'll watch it again. Catch Me if you can. There's movies,
so everybody has that, movies like that, everybody has that stuff.
But the point of this song, though, is I think
that the person in there, like I don't think that's
a tongue in cheek line I think the character in
this song really leaves that his friends think that are
jealous of him because of this. And the reason why
(21:05):
I think that is because at the beginning of the Something,
he talks about how he had nothing to live for,
so he probably doesn't really have any friends anyways, and
if he does, he doesn't think they think much of
them to begin with. So he's convincing himself that this
life he's curated for himself is cooler than those friends
that don't want to be his friends anyways.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That makes all the sense in the world. You know
what I'm gonna do right now, I'm going to throw
it over to an ad break and because we'll just
just you know, we'll pay the bills to do what
we do, right, because life is expensive. You gotta pay
for that cable TV.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
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we explore the fast realms of geekdom, from the latest
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We've got you covered. Join me for insightful reviews, hilarious discussions,
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Speaker 4 (22:53):
Hey, I'm Hansel Saran from the BFY tw podcast here
with my buddy.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Stevie Hey was up and Augie Hey.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
We're here to first of all, categorically deny the rumors
going around that all we've been doing lately is copying
other podcasts. This is categorically untrue and we deny it completely.
Having said that, please continue to enjoy the beard Al Podcast,
but when you're done, please check out our new project,
the weird Ale Podcast, where we pair an ale with
(23:21):
a weird l song. Pretty sure that hasn't been done before.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And we're back get back of that cat.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah. So one thing I think we would be remiss
if we didn't mention more talking about cable TV. The
song is well one of the The last time we
were here, we were we were joined by uh Jeff
and he mentioned that because we were talking about This
(24:15):
is the Life, and he had mentioned the number twenty
seven in the video for This is the Life, and
then he had said that, you know, cable TV, that's
the first twenty seven in a song in weird Hoose catalog.
So I just think that that's a really cool thing
to bring up, because I so I recently had a
lovely conversation with there was a college radio station in
(24:41):
Wisconsin that earlier in February did a twenty four hour
weird l radio marathon.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Only because there's not twenty seven hours in a day,
you should mention that that should mention one probably would have. They.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I provided them with twenty seven facts about we're now
to use as part of their broadcast, and I love
the earnestness with which they were going, you know, setting
out on this on this venture. Then I got asked
why twenty seven, and I was like, oh, you sweet
(25:22):
summer children. I love that you were asking this because
I have to tell you because now I know but.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I say this line all the time. That's true. I've
literally been aware to Alfaim since before you were born.
I know. I mean, you know, I know all the
lyrics everything off the top of my head of the car.
I never even bothered to think about how many times
twenty seven was in any of the songs until I
met you.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So no, and that's great, And so I said, oh, friends, yeah,
look it up, and then like literally googled it whilst
talking to me, Oh my god, it's everywhere. I'm like,
I know, it's a whole, beautiful, wonderful thing that you
got to make sure that people know about. But to
that point, like, I just love that that kind of
(26:02):
thing still happens that. You know, college students they're like,
you know, we got twenty four hours, we're gonna pick
an artist, and we're gonna pick weird down. I think
that's really really cool.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You know, it's funny. And I think we've talked about
this before, Like I would never use the term like
aged poorly or anything, but like someone of that age
might listen to the song and be like, yeah, because
of the references to like they have the all this
channel all that, they're like, if you're a young person,
now you're like and and yeah, whereas back then we
(26:32):
were all just like, oh, it's ridiculous, that's gonna be
a thing. No, No, it turns out of this there's
a Beverly Hills and a two and OL channel, So
I know it's true. I'm not insulting, by the way.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
No, No, you enjoy watching that from time to time,
you know, we tend to get stuck in the game
show channels, which I'm not mad about.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So I purposely stopped watching an out of two and
Z after Shannon already passed, because it was already hard
enough having Luke Perry have passed and then Shannon, and
it's like, oh, these people are my age. I should
stop watching this show now, you know what I mean? Oh? Yeah,
but you and I have also been rather morose about
uh if we watch seventies episodes of the Presses, right,
(27:10):
we're always like, oh, I bet she's not with us
any Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's the match games hard for that too, because like
you look at that whole panel and you're like.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Oh, no, I'm talking about just no contestants. Yeah you know, yeah,
you see a woman in nineteen seventy five who is
like sixty, she still care. But yes, wonderful things that
cable TV has provided for around thinking about mortality constantly.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah you know, well that's that's kind of what it's
all about.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
One thing about the actual song. So here's the thing
I don't when we get to the rating, that's a
different thing. But I don't in any way dislike this song.
But it never crosses my mind and less I'm listening
to Dare to be stupid. For example, I said to
you the other day, we better put this on the
car a couple of times. It's a song I know,
(27:57):
and I know as soon as it started, I was like,
oh yeah, I know these layers, you know. But I
had said to you, I don't think i've heard this
song since the day Squeezebox was delivered, however, many years ago,
because when it was delivered, I literally listened to every
record in a row, like straight through, and I probably
haven't listened to cable TV since that day, do you
(28:18):
know what I mean? Yeah, And it's and it's I
don't have anything against the song. It's probably also that
the style parody aspect of it, Like you grew up
at Elton John and I didn't like when I grew
up outon John was good for Camel on the Wind,
A sad song, say so much. And I mean this
is all pre linking, you know, like his eighties stuff.
(28:40):
That's how I knew it was John. Yeah, you know,
so like even if you told like, okay, so, mister
Pile in many ways sounds like many eras of the
B fifty twos. I mean, it's directly parroting them in
the first two records. But anybody who's ever heard the
(29:00):
B fifty twos could hear that nod.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's going, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Would have never told you that this was Elton John
until you played the song for me, that you know
what I mean. So, and again, that's not a detrimental
to the song. It's just that that's one of the
reasons why I don't connect to it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I don't think, yeah, because it's it's not as a
lot of the style parodies are very on the nose,
you go aha, right, even the title track of this
particular era.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
We no I'm talking about that. I don't have any
affinity for that era of Elton John. So therefore, I'm
let me put it this way, Twister is in many
ways just there for a lot of people unless you're
me and you listen to Licensed L three thousand times
the year was released. So like, as soon as I
heard Twister, I was like, yes, yep, right, like I would.
(29:44):
I would. I probably have put on Twister a lot
more than I put on cable TV because I don't
have any connection to the thing that it's a style parody.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, I get totally. And another thing about this particular
track and I I don't like beating this dead horse,
but like you have to when you're talking about this album.
This song is fine, but it's on a much weaker
side of a good album. You know, Like, would I
(30:14):
move things around to put this up earlier? But no,
what would I take off? Would to make it more balanced?
I don't even know. But all I'm getting at is
like the the the instance is few and far between
that I'll say, you know what, I think, I want
to listen to side too of dare to be stupid, right,
And that's just.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
What I'm just trying to get somewhere. Well you know
what I mean if you if you're listening to it
on vinyl and you're like, oh, I really want to
hear the polka, Like I'm not a big fan of
Drop with a needle, Like, okay, well you're gonna have
to listen all side too. Yeah yeah, but yeah, I
know what you mean. Yeah, it's not anything you would
go so yeah, I don't know. It's it's it's so
weird for me because it's not a bad song at all,
but I just never ever ever think to put it
(30:53):
on right.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I'm the I'm like the purveyor of several weird out
playlists for several different like moods. This is not on
any of them. Yeah, because what are you going to do?
You know, I wouldn't work out to this song.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, so that's that.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I don't know, unless you've had any other points, we
can just get to the rating. We knew this was
going to be a quick episode. Sorry, folks, but don't worry.
I'm going to tell you all this now to talk
about the last track.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
On there to be sure your appetite, you get to.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Quet your appetite for what's about to what's about to
happen here you heard him on the first episode of
twenty twenty five. Our friend Bob will be joining us
in house to talk about hooked on Polkas and I
think I think we're going to be in for a
good conversation because when you get Bob going.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
About weird al yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
It's a good time, and we're talking about a pretty
good polka.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
So this could not be more off topic. But I
just a second ago wet your appetite petition to make
people start spelling that correctly, yeah, instead of and also
while we're at it, can I peak your interest in
people spelling peak the right way. You have not in
any way summit did my interest, So please stop saying
(32:12):
peak as if it was the top of a mountain.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I think people think that that's the only way to
spell it because I personally sneak peak. When people do
sneak e A K. I'm like, there, no mountain is
ever going to surprise you.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
You know what. One bothered me the other day too,
while we're at it. Someone was telling me about clicks
a group of people and and and I politely replied
to the text conversation with the correct spelling, and I
don't think they got it. Yeah, I mean, it's not
my fault. That's a French word. But anyways, Yeah, yeah,
(32:49):
this My thing is I feel like if we just
go on about this song too long, you're just gonna
be laboring the point like it's unless. I mean, there's
always good feedback that comes in on your episodes, like
maybe this means more to others, but I just I
feel like this is gonna end up being the most
there song to anybody, Like.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's just there, and that's okay. The song is there,
it's fine, it works, it does what it needs to
do and to that point one to twenty seven, I
give it a nineteen.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Oh, I'm way lower.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, this is the lowest rating I think I'll ever
give any word else song. And it's crazy because I
don't dislike it at all. It's like a ten. Okay.
I mean again, I don't there's nothing about this I
don't like. But there's not another word L song I
can think of that I wouldn't put on as much
as I wouldn't put the song on.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Oh oh, that's interesting, okay, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Like it's just there for me, Like I maybe when
we started the other day, I was like, I was like,
oh man, I bet there's stuff that I've Nope, I
remember this exactly how it was. Yeah, you know, like
so yeah, yeah, yeah, I gotta assume. I mean, I'm
saying it now. And of what twelve records to go.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Still yeah eleven. Well I didn't do the first to
self titled, but I don't think that deserves this treatment.
It's a good album, but like we can't go song
by song off of that.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, I'm saying now, I'll be shocked if I have
another song even in close to this as far as
rady really.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh that's it. Well, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Again, I remember I'm a crazy pants who likes everything
even worse. Yeah, everybody yelled at me about that, which
is crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm looking at Poka Party and I'm.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I'm oh, I like Poka Party a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I'm looking forward to our truthless people conversation. Okay, So anyway, ah,
that'll do it for this. I I'm Lauren and I'm
always here, and Russ thank you again for here sometimes
sometimes for being my husband and talking about weird as creeping,
you know, always creeping. Yeah. So but yeah, we'll be
back in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
With Bob, not Bobo, but Bob.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh yeah, not Bobo, even though he is Bob.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
And uh so yeah, have a good time.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Be awesome to each other. Watch cable TV, watch some
cable TV.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, Bye,
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