Tape 43 - "Mostly 90s One Hit Wonders: the 2000s" - How To Make A Mixtape

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How? Many.
Licks. Now, the making of a good
population tape is a very subtleart.
Many do's and don'ts. First of all, you're using
someone else's poetry to expresshow you feel.
This is a delicate. Thing you got to kick it off
with a killer grab attention, then you got to take it up

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enough. I don't want to know you so then
you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules.
You have a song for weather now.I I do have a weather interest
song just in case we want to talk about the weather.
I don't have any weather things to go over.
You don't have anything to talk about.
I mean, if you got the song, let's talk weather.

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Let's talk weather if you've gota song.
It can be really quick. All right.
OK, Time to talk weather. You can play it in the moment.
Yeah. It's a game changer.
Do you have other shit queued up?
I've got the news intro ready togo too, but hey.
Hold on, the intro is a game changer.

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I just played the weather intro.What's the weather right there,
buddy? Coldest shit still in Chicago.
Hoping that Spring springs itself some point in time
because I'm fucking over it. All right, there you go.
And As for all our listeners whocare, it's hot as balls here
already. Oh, cool.
It's 80° and everything's colored covered in a nice yellow

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layer of pollen that I can visually see.
Jason, what are you doing here? This guy.
Look at this. Guy did he just jump in all
rogue? How did you plan this already?
How did the how the hell did this happen?
I don't know, I didn't even sendhim anything.
You're part of the intro, First time for everything.
And we got special guest Ryan Fancher.
You got a fucking tie. He's got a tie on.

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You don't have anything planned as far as a song for Jason's.
We don't have a song for one this.
Is completely unexpected. I have no idea he was going to
jump over. Here you guys do your thing.
We weren't even shit. Now it's just fucking weird.
It's ruined now, just ruined Jason.
Ruined. Ruined.
Ruined. You do look nice.

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Though you do look dapper as shit.
All right, we'll just sit with Ryan's screen printing materials
in the background. Curator, make a mixtape merch
we're seeing behind the scenes right now.
I love it, I love it. What did you do for Easter?
How'd you celebrate Easter? Do you celebrate?
Did you care about Easter at all?
Did you go? Anywhere.
No, I I just hung out at home. Did you?

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Watch anything. Did I watch?
I mean, I went to back-to-back movies on Friday, so I was kind
of movie. Shit, yeah, both theater movies.
Yo, in the theater? Yeah.
Back-to-back theater movies. Jason Statham.
Yeah, I saw sinners and I saw a working man.
With sinners. Something sinners is it's.
Who is it? I can't remember.
Great job, off to a good start. No, it's got, it's got a bunch

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of, I forget who directed it, but it's got all kinds of really
good reviews. It's got like the best
Metacritic score in for a horrorfilm in like 35 years.
Was it scary? It really shouldn't have that
good of AI mean it was fine likeit was good, but it's not the
best horror film in 35 years. You weren't scared?
Well, they gave everything away in the intro of the movie, so

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there was nothing surprising really that happened.
Poorly executed. And then working man, I I sent
you a because of our conversation with Emily.
How many people did you watch the movie with?
Sinners was full. Oh, OK.
It was sold out and then working, man, I think it's on
its last week. It was just me, just you.

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The whole time. The whole I sent you that video
man in theatre by myself. You sent it to me, but I wasn't
sure if other people came in while you were there.
No, nobody came in. It was an interesting It was a
Jason Statham movie, but it feltlike it was edited by the editor
of The Crow. That's the best way I could
explain it. That sounds.
Great. Which was interesting, but it

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had all the Jason Statham stuff that you would expect.
Yeah, sounds great. Yeah.
What did you do for Easter? I know you made some candy.
I know you made some salad. I was making candy and fruit
salad. Had nice little brunch.
Look get together, you know, little little.
I was making pralines, as they say in Nolens.
They do say that in nolens as wewe covered they.

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Say we covered this last time. Yeah, we did.
Are you serious? Yeah, you were eating them.
You're like, you learned how to make problems from that dude, I
forget his name. Paul, Hair guy.
Excitable Paul. Hairy guy.
Stints of time in between our recordings it's.
Been like over a week man it. Hasn't really.
I mean, come on. Yeah, it has.

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It feels like only yesterday. Do you feel like this is the
weirdest intro we've ever done 'cause we're kind of being?
Watched. Totally thrown off by Jason.
Yeah, coming in, it was just ready for it.
Sideswiping. And he's he's just listening to
us, but not on camera. That makes it weirder all.
Right, let's just let's just getnews out of the way here.

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The fact that you perfectly madea news version of the refused
intro is outstanding. I'm not going to give away my
secrets of how how. You did it.
But I appreciate it. Yeah, when I first heard it on
the Dagan episode, Trump's, that's where it made its debut.
And like, we talked about how like, I sang it and then you

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just did it. You know what?
Forever for every listener that's out there.
If you have any group projects coming up and you want to kind
of coast through your responsibility, but you want
somebody to carry most of the weight and you get half of the
accolades, hire Roderick Dear tosupport you with your project to
where they'll do all the work and you get half the credit.

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I hope that happens. All right.
Music news. You, you you hope that I get
involved in people's school projects.
Yeah, I hope that they hire you for their school projects and
then they get half the credit and you.
Hire me is different if they want to pay me, No, no, I might
be for hire. I'm not doing it for free.
I'm a working mate. Let's like, let's Jason Statham.

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God damn it, get back to the news now.
Jason's watching us. Jack Black yeah has the shortest
ever charting single, granted it's in the UKA 34 second long
song from the Minecraft movie which I've not seen called
Steve's Lava Chicken is in the UK Top 40 right now.
It's only 34 seconds long, LA. La La Lava Chicken.

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Steve's lava chicken. Yes, tasty as hell.
Oh Mama. See, tonight you're ringing the
bell. Crispy and juice and now you're
having a stack. Super spicy.
You've heard all the lore aroundthe Minecraft movie.
Did you play Minecraft? Did you ever play it?
I I've played it a couple, no like just.

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Like, yeah, you've dipped your toe.
Did you know that's the biggest video game of all time?
I did know that. I did know that.
Couldn't believe it was bigger than Call of Duty.
I just had this conversation today.
How was Minecraft bigger than Call of Duty?
I never played Call of Duty but I do know Call of Duty is huge
because of the the like you knowonline community and stuff.
But so is. So is Minecraft though, man.

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There have been more hours of Call of Duty played than there
have in the history of of existence of the world.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Explain that.
Say that again. How can you play something more
hours than have been hours have existed?
Because it's accumulative of allof the people that have played.

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Oh, I see. So, so like five of us are
playing at once for one hour. That's actually five hours.
That's actually five hours, right?
So there have been more hours ofCall of Duty played than there
has been. Don't quote me on this.
This is not a reliable. I'm quote, this is this is the
news segment, man. We're journalists during this
segment. Yeah, but it's movie music news,
not Call of Duty news. Fair.

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I'm quoting you on it regardless.
OK. All right, next piece.
The last autograph that John Lennon never signed before he
died is up for auction. What?
How much do you think the starting bid is?
Just give me your guess. Last autograph John Lennon
signed. He let me, let me tell you what
it is, right? Before he got shot.
Yes, it says for Carl, and I can't read the handwriting, but

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it's like a personalized messageto a guy named Carl.
He signed John Lennon. He drew a little face of himself
and then dated it in 1986. And it's on a record Record
plant studio like invoices sheet.
OK. And it was, I think it was
signed the day he was shot if I remember correctly.
He like literally signed it minutes before he was shot.
I do not have that info at the ready.
OK, let's see. Hold on.

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It says here the he left. The record plant on the stove.
Yeah, 20 minutes. He signed this 20 minutes before
he was shot. Yeah, before he was shot, I'm
going to say starting bid is going to be 650,000.
Jason, I know you're listening. You might as well chime in and
give me give me a bid price right style here.
What do you think? 1.2 million.

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You're both way over. Starting bid is $60,000.
That's too little. That's too few dollars.
You want a bid on it small, you guys want to go in on it, It'll
it'll go up. That's starting bid.
It's going to go up from there. People are going to want that
autograph. OK, here we go.
Call of Duty players have collectively logged a staggering
amount of time in games. Some sources estimate that

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players have spent 25 billion hours playing Call of Duty,
which is the equivalency of 2.85million years.
So not more time than existence,but definitely more times than
humans have been around. More times than humans for sure.
Yeah, for sure. 25 billion hoursof Call of Duty and that means

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Minecraft is more holy shit. Wow and.
Now you're going to look that up, aren't you?
Because you have to know. Because you have to.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's impossible to give an exact
number of total Minecraft hours played.
Whoa. That's what AI says.
Yeah, no, not AI, just the Google machine.
All right, Last Last Music News is kind of an interactive news

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piece. Have you been following
Coachella at all and do you haveany?
Here and there. Coachella stories that you've
read. I don't have any Coachella
stories. Oh, I did hear one Coachella
story. I haven't been following very
much. I saw Travis Scott walk down the
wall. That was a big deal.
Yeah. And then I know that people have
said that Lady Gaga's performance is being renowned as

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like one of the greatest live performances of all time.
Yeah, I guess her set was incredible and she was even
having microphone trouble and just, like played it off like
really well. Gaga's no bullshit, man.
Oh, she's fantastic. So the other one is that green
though The one day that Green Day headlined over Charli XCX
and then at like an after party Charlie wore that.

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Shade was thrown. Thing that said Miss should be
headliner. Yeah, but there's not actual
shade. Like I guess Green Day's been
poking back at her, but it's like, all in fun kind of a
thing. Yeah.
Well, that's good to know. Which is good.
It's good to know. And then the the most recent
one, I guess Dead Mouse just performed really poorly and he
was drunk and he came out, We did see him and he came out and

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apologized for being drunk during his performance and said
it's probably the last time he'll perform at a festival.
How do you feel about that? It's like I think that I he
pioneered genre, you know, propsto Dead Mouse for pioneering a
genre like he pioneered dubstep,didn't he?

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Like he was at the forefront of that.
I don't know, sure. I mean, he definitely was that
like there from the beginning, but I don't know if.
He pioneered dubstep and he's been doing it for a long time.
And I mean, you know, maybe, maybe it's time to hang it up.
But when we saw him, he was terrible.
It was just fucking boring and like.

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We saw we saw him and Skrillex and Marshmallow and like
back-to-back to back years. You see these EDMDJS like and
the shit that they do nowadays and to know that Skrillex or
fucking what's his name, Dead Mouse was kind of at the
forefront for that and he kind of revolutionized it.
So like he, I've used this reference before.

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He crawled so that everybody else can walk and run.
So good on you Dead Mouse. Hang it up.
You did your thing and just go fucking chill man.
Go drink on the beach. Don't cause problems at fucking
festivals. That's fair.
The other the other the biggest news thing, like if you search
Coachella news, the biggest thing that comes up is the
kneecap stuff. And it's so funny to me because

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like, it's a serious topic. It's very political.
That's not funny. What's funny is that all the
headlines are like Coachella organizers feel are blindsided
by hip hop groups, political, but it's like, I don't know if
you know anything about Kneecap Dawn, but they are literally a
political band. That's what they do.
That they're that's their thing.They're a anti British, anti

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monarchy Irish hip hop group. There's a amazing movie about
them called Kneecap that I recommend people watch.
It's incredible. It's like a dramatized version
of the true story of how the band started starring the actual
band members themselves, which is sick, and it won a bunch of
awards, but they're an incredibly political band, and
that just blows my mind when you're like you.

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And so. You can't be surprised when
they're political like at your SO.
What happened? So I'm assuming they were
political in the performance andpeople got upset about it.
It was, it's, it's, it's Palestine, Israel stuff.
They're very like free Palestine.
They got the crowd chanting stuff and then the organizers
were like, we felt blindsided and it's disgusting.
And all the stuff it's like, youknow, y'all got a political

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lefty band to perform at Coachella and then you're
surprised when they're politicalon stage.
So that, but that's the biggest piece of the news.
Like if you just search Coachella news, that's all that
comes up. No.
Shit. But anyway, so that's the news.
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Mix tape. Normally this is the time where

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we're like, hey, you ready to get this thing started?
You want to get the guests in. I still don't even think.
Is this when we're bringing the guests in?
Is this about when we do it? Yeah, OK.
Yeah. Then I guess we'll bring the
guests in. Jason, wheel your chair back
over. Oh, look at that.
If I wish, I wish it was Jason fitted in YouTube shorts because
that would have been a great one.

(15:39):
Hey, boys. I still post YouTube.
Shorts, thanks for having me. That's all I post now are
shorts. Hey, Jason.
All right, you 2 talk about yourself.
I got to attend to the pasta. Be right back.
So Don said before we started recording, he said I'm going to
have to dip for a couple minutesto take care of some pasta.
That's all he said. OK.
Whatever that means. I'm assuming he's.

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Not really. Impossible.
Right now, so I want to talk to you about something.
OK. Have you done the music news
segment yet? You know damn well that we have
Jason. Have you ever?
Do you have music news that you would like to have?
Music news, Yes. Be my guest.
Have you guys covered the info about the Weezer movie that's

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coming up? We have not.
In fact I just read something about that yesterday for the
first time. But if you know more, please
enlighten me so. The last thing I read is it will
be along the lines of like if you mixed Scott Pilgrim versus
the World with the Weird Al Yankovic movie.
I think we read the same headliner article because that's
what I saw last night. I was laying in bed scrolling

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and I saw something that about the new Weezer movie will be
exactly what you just said, parts.
That also said that Keanu Reevesis set to play the villain in it
fictional. Villain.
He said that he will play John Wick as long as he physically
can do it and as long as the movies keep getting written.

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Which like, props to you. Have you seen a bad John Wick
movie? Not all four of them.
Are new every time It's a universe now.
So I just saw a preview for the new one, which he's in it a
little bit, but it's like a different, it's the John part of
the John Wick universe, but it'sabout a different, like a
different assassin. That's cool.
But yeah, Weezer movie. Interesting Weezer movie.

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I'm indifferent. It'll be fun.
It's probably. I saw their travel to the Blue
Planet show and it was fantastic.
Yeah, I saw Weezer live six months.
Ago and it was good. One of the best shows I've ever
been to. Oh shit, did you hear that the
bass player's wife just killed somebody?
You know it's. Wild here's.

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What happened? Here's what happened.
I have music news on my phone that I save on there throughout
the week so that I'm ready for it, but this time I only have
like one thing on there. So I was like, shit, I got to
look up some music news. So I just went online and looked
up some music news. The one thing I had written in
my notes I didn't talk about, which was that Weezer's bass
players wife killed somebody. She got didn't.

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Yeah. And then he just turned around
in an interview and was like, yeah, I'm excited for Coachella.
That's, that's the right way to do it.
I mean, who wants to talk about your wife killing somebody?
You. I still have this screenshot in
my phone from forever ago on Valentine's Day when Oscar
Pistorius killed his wife. It's like, like my phone
literally says happy Valentine'sDay.
And then the ESPN update says Olympic pair Paralympic athlete,

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double amputee Oscar Pistorius murders wife.
So she didn't, she didn't shoot anybody.
She what I'm reading is that there was a hit and run and she
ran from police but. The person that.
She got shot. She got shot by police.
No fucking way. But I makes it sound like she's

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still alive because it says she's facing charges, so she
must still be alive and Wikipedia does not.
Yes, she's still alive. But yeah, she got shot by
police, apparently. I believe you.
And then Scott Shriner turns around and is like, yeah, that
happened anyway. I think that's the way to do it
though. I mean, what are you going to

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do? Yeah, fair.
I mean, I guess I didn't think about it that way.
I got, I thought it was like, why?
Like, that's wild to just like ignore that.
But I get a fair. Yeah.
What? What are you gonna say?
What are you gonna say? She's being charged with
attempted murder, so it's not like it wasn't just a hit and
run. Like it makes it sound like it
was intentional. Think that's gonna be in the new
Weezer movie, Jason? God I hope so.

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Maybe Counter Reeves is in the car, that's who she hit or
whatever. Segment.
Man, what else you got for us, Jason?
You're the only guest that comeswith stuff.
I brought games, sure. I brought games.
One will be super quick. Has Donnie yet in the episode
said I'll give it a whirl? No, I think so.
Where did you say give it a whirl?
You might have been talking about somebody to listen to

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earlier. On prolines?
Prolines maybe? No, I made those.
I already whirled that. I already whirled it.
Yeah. I whirled that shit.
Well, that's my first game is introducing listeners to the
drinking game of every time, Donnie says.
I'll give it a whirl in an episode if you.
Listen to the first dude go backand listen to like the first 3
episodes of the podcast and count the totalese there.

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Were so many totals. I made a T-shirt that just says
what's the relax, Frank? Frankie say relax, which by the
way, the shirt, the original shirt says Frankie say relax,
not say say Donnie say totally. I designed that shirt and we
never put it out it. Never came out.
Give it a whirl. That's a good one.

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I I'll totally and give it a whirl.
Should be a. Drink.
That's home alone, right? Yeah, for sure.
OK. All right, fair.
Enough. You ever had one of these
macaroni and cheese? I'll give it a whirl.
So that's game one. What do I say that people should
drink too? I've been listening, I haven't
found one yet. You're pretty good.
You're more bullshit. I say every episode about 50

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times because I edit this so I notice myself.
I say somebody else will be talking and I'll go.
I will say, and then I say something.
I go, I will say. I will say I.
Hate it every time I say it. Every time I say I hate myself a
little bit, Roderick. A little.
Bit more I will say. Well, go out of your way.
To drinking game now, yeah. Well, also there's a you could

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probably do I dip my toe. I'll dip my toe in it.
That's another way of getting. Everything at all?
Yeah. You do say that a lot.
Yeah, Yeah. All right, second game, I
brought the same game as I have done in past episodes with you
guys, the overlapping band name game.
Yeah, but I've tweaked it a little bit because I feel like
it's been too difficult, so I'm going to start.

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What the audience hasn't heard is the one that I edit out, the
ones that neither me or Don can get because that's not
interesting. Listening is when you you're
going to. Do better this time a.
Question. And we can't get it.
We just sit there in silence fortwo minutes.
So I cut that out. So yeah.
So. We haven't been great.
At these rod my first time on you and I talked about the band
failure we did. Do you know Blinker the Star?

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I don't think I do. OK, so they are like, yeah, well
it's a multi instrumentalist. His name is Jordan Zadarosny and
he does everything and just putsout music under the name Blinker
the Star. And I recognize the album cover
for August Everywhere. August everywhere.
I've listened to this before because I recognize.

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That is ice sculpture. Yes, it's produced by Ken of
Failure. OK, that name format blank.
The Blank. It's pretty common in music.
There's a lot of bands that havethat format.
Portugal., The Man. You got one rock, give us one.

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1.1 point to done. Oh, you need to think of another
one. Damn it, Portugal.
Think of another. The band, the bike, the blank.
Run the jewels. Oh, good job.
So there are plenty of artists that that is their band name.
There are also 100 million artists that are the the Blank
right? Oh yeah, there's a lot of.

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Cure the Strokes, The Strokes, there's a million of them.
So what I have done for you for today's overlapping band name,
both artists fit that and overlap with the the.
Jesus. Christ, and you're saying this
is going to be easier? Trust me, it's going to be so
much easier. Do you remember how we drove in
the van for four hours when we came up with this podcast idea?

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Jason drives in a van for four hours daily, so that's why we
get. Shot up this.
Gotcha, gotcha. Makes sense.
Everything's making more sense now.
For example, I'm going to take two of their popular songs and
put them together, and you need to tell me what the name of that
overlapping band name would be. OK.
OK, OK, the. Example I'm going to do is if I

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said below the sliding doors andunder the boardwalk that would
be. Is it, is it, is it going to be
that Blinker the star? It's Blinker The Drifters
Blinker the drifted. Oh, see, there it is.
OK. So we both understand how this
is going to go. We understand it, yeah, but hope
the rest of them are easier to have.
A long stints of silence. No, you guys got this.

(24:29):
I know you do OK. Let's give it a whirl.
I've got 11 of them. Oh Christ.
Oh my God, we're. Going to do them rapid fire.
You think too much of us, Jason,but I appreciate that.
You got this. The first one at your funeral.
Here's where the story ends. It stays the day.
You're out of time. Here's where the story ends Is

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by the Sundays, so it'd be savesthe Sundays.
Yeah, that's what I was going tosay.
Who the hell are the Sundays, Jason?
Oh, you know the Sundays. Here's what the story ends is a
huge song from the 90s. OK.
All right. Next one, yeah.
Oh, speaking, it's more music news.
Dave Navarro just got married toa girl way younger than he is.

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Why is he looking up music news right now?
I wasn't looking it up, I just knew that to be true.
He posted it on it today on Instagram and it was like,
you're a creeper. Well, that's interesting because
Dave Navarro is going to come uplater.
All right, next one. What band is King?
For a day tripper. King for a day trippers The
Beatles King for a day Who's king for a day?

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Is that fucking? That's a.
Rain Day song called. Pierce the Pierce The Beatles.
There you go, you got it. Good job, Rod.
Great job, Pierce the Bell and The Beatles.
You got it. All right.
Next one, last one. Chuka Sunrise Kokomo.
That's The Beach Boys, and then what's the first one?

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I'm doing a great. Pachuca Sunrise Band.
Pachuca, Sunrise Beach Boys. No idea.
Minus The Bear. Oh my God, it is Minus The Bear.
And The Beach Boys. So it'd be minus The Beach Boys.
Is that on ORSO or whatever the in so sell or so?

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God damn it. See, the problem is I'm bad at
song titles. I don't know if you know some
titles. Cough syrup.
Our lips are sealed. The go go's as our lips are
sealed. I know the second band every
time. I know the second band every
time. It's, I know it, but.

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Young The Giant. Don.
Young The Giant. And the go, go, go, go's young.
That's enough. All right, that's good.
All right. Great job.
One more, one more, one more, one more so.
You can tie. I think I'm the only one that's
gotten 1. You're the only one.
All the young dudes come out andplay.
Mott, the offspring. Yes.

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Roderick wins, Good job. Roderick's the big winner.
Great job. That was the easiest one by far,
yeah. Good job bro.
Bro, man, I know you're a competitive guy Don, so this
might stick under your skin. I don't know, but I'm I think
I'm undefeated on Jason episode.No, that's fine.

(27:21):
I'm undefeated. That's good.
No, that's OK. I would take pride in it except
that again, what the listeners don't hear is how bad we are at
these games. Yeah, for sure.
You're only going to put in the two that you.
Put in like one or two that we got wrong for sure, but nice.
All right, Jason, what's the theme?

(27:41):
The theme for this mixtape is one hit wonders of the 90s colon
the 2000s. Great.
Do that, Rob Parvilla. Well delivered, Do you?
Think he still listens? No, he's got.
But if he is. He's had a lot of time off to
listen. If we if he is, we love to rob.
Plenty of fucking time off, that's for sure.
And then lastly, well, two things.

(28:02):
One, we kind of addressed it when you popped in.
But Jason, you look. You look dapper.
You look. So much.
Today and I I appreciate you dressing up for the occasion.
Some people still see podcastingas an occasion.
I also dressed up for the occasion, you guys.
Oh nice. See that?
What did you dress up? We can do. 8500.
Yeah. You, but you're a third time

(28:24):
guest now, which means that you should be able to tell us the
rules at this point. There's only there's only two,
three time guests at this point.Yeah, you're only the second.
I'm the third. No, you're the second.
I'm the second. Oh yeah, great.
Well, let me go over the rules of this mixtape for you guys.
You want to have a killer opening track.
Each song should flow into the next.

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You want to have a good balance and variety.
The tape should tell a story. The theme cannot be too obvious
or too obscure. You can't do the same artist
twice, and the closing track should leave an impression.
Well done. Well, can.
We from the for going forward because Jason's got a bit of a
radio announcer voice. Can we play that at 2 times

(29:08):
speed for the rules? Oh, Hunter, I can absolutely
just play that back from now on.Let's just do that.
Doesn't mind the voice being used.
Yeah, let's get. That shit up and let's move that
shit. Forward and do it like 2 times
speed. I'll just play that sucker in
line on the recordings, like like I did the the weather intro
and we'll be good to go. Nice.
First, second or third, Jason? I would like to go.

(29:31):
First great fucking list of songs.
I got a great fucking list of songs.
I'm so excited for him. Just don't even let him answer.
Just interrupt him. He's excited.
He's. Going to go first.
Jason's veteran enough to know that you go first, but I got a
great fucking list of songs. So here's why there is one pick
that I'm a little concerned, a kiss that you guys might have as
well. And I want to make sure I get a.

(29:53):
Couple. I'm worried about a couple.
So it's me. It's Jason, Me, Don.
Let's see how many I got, 123456789 I have 10 so I got
plenty of backups. What's that face?
Roderick I? Got a weird e-mail?
What's that sad fish face that you got?
You don't even. You don't need to worry about
it. I got a weird e-mail.
Can we make that sad fish face that you just made our next
sticker? Sad fish face.

(30:15):
Yeah, you had a serious case of sad fish face.
That's. Unfish like a Yeah, like a
frown. Can you read like?
A pouty like a pouty face like alike that.
Yeah, but. It was a perfect sad fish.
Lots. Of fish face.
Yeah, it was pretty interesting.Hi, Jason.
What? Do you got Jason?
Kick this bitch off. Happy to my first pick I'm going

(30:35):
to see if you guys can figure out who it is before I get to
it. OK go.
This song is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being
the shortest song to be in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart.
This person. Wait, hold on Rod, do you have
it yet? It's not the Jack Black song
because that's only Top 40. That's not 2000.
OK, shortest song to make another top ten.
OK this. Person studied music at the

(30:57):
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and was
handpicked by Paul McCartney to study under him.
The song was improvised and recorded in a single take.
No, this is 1987. The song that I thought it was
was 1987. OK, so no, I don't have that.
The song I'm kicking it off withis United States of Whatever by
Liam Lynch and. This chick comes up to me and

(31:17):
she's all like, hey, got you that dude.
I'm like, yeah, whatever, too late.
I'm, I'm at the pool hall and this girl comes up and she's all
like, I'm like, yeah, whatever, cuz this is my United States or.

(31:38):
Whatever, that's a great song. Yes, one of my favorites.
I'll be honest with you, Jason, I never even knew who did this
song. I just knew this song, you know
what I mean? Like it just was.
It is one of those things for sure.
And I guess that's sometimes part of being a one hit wonder,
but I honestly had no idea who Liam Lynch was.
I didn't even watch videos of this, this guy or whatever.

(32:00):
So Liam Lynch is a stage name. The guy is from the states even
though he studied in in the UK. His name is William Nerdist and
he was the Co creator of the Syphil and Ollie show on MTV
back in the late 90s. You guys remember Syphil and
Ollie? I do remember the sock.
Puppets. The sock puppets, yeah.
So that is where the song made its debut.

(32:20):
The song appeared in season 1 ofSyphil and Ali.
The 2003 album is where he finally put it out on his own.
The album is called Fake Songs. After this, he went on to direct
like a bunch of music videos. He did music videos for the Foo
Fighters, Tenacious D, Queens ofthe Stone Age, No doubt they
might be giants. He directed the Tenacious D

(32:43):
movie The Pick of Destiny. Great fucking movie.
He wrote all of the music in thecartoon Clone High.
You guys remember Clone High? Clone Heist so good it came back
recently. And also Bill Lawrence was a
director on most of that. The dude from scriptures, yeah.
And real quick, in an interview,Liam once talked about how the

(33:07):
only reason I brought this up isbecause Portis Head is involved.
He was once told by Portis Head that they watched Syphil and Ali
on repeat during the tour of their self-titled album because
that was the only thing that made them laugh on the tour bus
while they were out touring for that album.
You would need anything to make you laugh if you spend all day

(33:28):
being in the band format. Being important.
Jesus Christ. So he directed, Yeah, it was OK.
So he man, he directed all the stuff because there it looks
like they're Jack Black's even either a Co writer or featured
on some of these songs on the same album.
Yeah, yeah. And he did some of the he wrote
some of the music for School of Rock as well.
Oh awesome. Yeah, no good for him.

(33:49):
I'll. Be honest, I didn't.
I assume the song was earlier than the 2000s too.
This song sounds like a song that's been around since like
the 80s. To me.
Oh, totally. Yeah, the way it's recorded,
that sound and everything. I am going to go to the other
system. Your first choice.
Your first choice. Yeah, I'm going.
Announce that you're going first.
Announce that you're going first.

(34:11):
What do? You mean first?
I didn't go. Jason already went.
Announce that you're going with your first song.
My first song. Yeah, great job.
I'm going to go the other side of the globe here, and if I were
to tell you that this band's name was an abbreviation for
This Girl Likes That Girl. T.A.T.u.
It is, it is tattoo and something she said.

(34:32):
You said. Yep, all the things she said.

(34:57):
Nice. That's a great one.
Hit wonder. Great one that made a resurgence
not that long ago. I mean, it's kind of, I mean,
it's still a jam. Like I've been listening to it
in preparation for this, like choosing my songs.
I'm like, I actually like this song.
Like the story of the band's notvery good.
Why not? And by good, I just could.
It's like, it's just exploitative.
Like they it was, they were bothin a girl group, A Russian girl

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group. And then some music producer
wanted some music producer, saw some Swedish movie about a
lesbian couple and was like, I want to make a band that's a
female duo that are lesbians. I think that's going to sell.
Like that's literally what happened.
They held auditions and these two who were in like either the
same or different like pop groups, they got it.

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And they're not even maybe they are like I don't know if they're
gay or not, but they weren't a couple.
And it became like the thing like that.
They were a couple. That was the whole like that's
why the band got that name. It was.
They literally is like a. What is?
What is the? Acronymic aviation of a t.A.T.u.
But it's Russian for it's like aRussian slang term for tat.

(36:02):
I can't say it, dude. I don't speak Russian, but it's
like an abbreviated version of aRussian phrase that means this
girl loves that girl, which is, I think, I don't know if that's
derogatory, if that's just like a idiom for for gay women.
But but anyway, there's that whole thing like they kissed on
the MTV Music Awards and they like leaned into the rumors of
them being a couple and stuff and they weren't and they
weren't. It's very exploitative toward

(36:23):
them, which is a bummer. But musically it was really
interesting to do like a pop, a women's pop group that was like
industrial, you know what I mean?
Like because this was like snabbing westward God lives
underwater era. Like, you know.

(36:56):
Totally. Who does the music?
Do we know who does the music? Is it like anybody famous that
does the music? If you don't know, it's not a
big deal. But like do.
We know like, no, I don't know. OK, I mean like here I'm looking
on Spotify, it says like Trevor Horn is the is the composer and
producer. Like is that dude like a famous
DJ or anything like that? He was.
What did he do your. Fuck, he was in dress.

(37:17):
He was the bass player for yes, OK.
Wow. So that fucker played
roundabout, which is impressive,yeah.
For sure. I mean, he was also in the
buggles. Poor Trevor Horn's wife died in
2014. But yeah, I think this is one of
those few Like I was, you know, I was in high school at this
time. I was very rooted and I was like

(37:37):
into punk. I was everything sucked.
But for some reason, I, I even then, I remember liking this
song. I thought it was corny.
I remember thinking a little bitof it was corny.
Did you have? Bangs.
You always ask if I had bangs, dude.
Like bangs. Thing was, when I was in
college, you forget. How old I am?
Hold on a second. You can't say I always do
anything if I've done it twice. Multiple times. 3 times.

(38:00):
Three times asked if you have bangs.
There are 42 fucking episodes ofthis podcast.
Multiple. 500 songs and I've maybe assessed if you had bangs
twice. Multiple times you've asked me
about. Fucking bangs.
No bangs. No, All right, We've gone over
this. Dude, maybe you remembered.
But I just remember like I was actually into like, like Snake

(38:23):
River conspiracy. I made you.
I made you. I made you.
I. Made you.
I made you. I made you.

(38:47):
And stabbing westward and stuff like that.
So like, I actually kind of dug this.
But then yeah, it's weird that it got as big as it did.
But then again, like, Marilyn Manson was huge at this time.
And this was like pop meets thatkind of right, like 9 Inch
Nails, Manson industrial stuff. So anyway, it's big hit.
It was huge. And they were together.

(39:09):
Like they still performed and put out albums until like 2011,
but no shit. Yeah, I guess they've done some
reunion shows too. But to and to be fair, I I'll
call out. We've got some comments on past
one hit wonders episodes about like how we define it, which it
is a Lib. There is some kind of like where
you draw the lines can move. Cause like they weren't one hit

(39:30):
wonders in parts of the world, right?
They were one hit wonders in theUS, which.
Is. Here's the way you can define
it. If the next song on the album
has the second most listens to on Spotify then they're a
fucking one hit wonder. Yeah, because the people, yeah,
for sure, people are just listening to the album and then.
Yeah, and then the second song comes on.

(39:50):
Can I go now? Because I'm busy here making my
way downtown. I'm walking fast, faces past and
I'm homebound because 1000 Milesby Vanessa Carlton.

(40:14):
Make them away downtown, walkingfast faces, passing them
homebound and like we have just making my way.
Making away is the ultimate 2001hit Wonder So good Albums 2002

(40:35):
she played on the she played a piano on the back of the
flatbed. Such a good video.
Such a good video. This was iconic.
This was a huge deal for like a while.
There's videos of ponies walk into the song.
I had a huge crush on Vanessa Carlton.
So did the singer of Third Eye Blind, Did he?
They were married. You know, the legend is she's
never confirmed nor denied this.She's been very coy.

(40:56):
But the legend about the song isthat she when she was at where'd
she go to school? Juilliard, one of those big art
schools that she had a huge crush on somebody who's now like
a A list actor, like a huge actor.
And that's what the song is about.
And she's never said who it was.Oh well, it definitely wasn't
the singer of Third Eye Blind. No, that guy's an asshole,
Steven. Whatever.

(41:17):
Yeah. Steven Jenkins, he's.
It sucks, but yeah, this is one of those songs that will earworm
itself in you for forever. Like you'll you'll sing this
song for the next three months. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's
fantastic. And it had that.
It had that whole white girl, white girls thing too.
Oh yeah. When Terry, Terry Crews sang it.

(41:38):
Oh, that's right. Yeah.
So you guys want to know who therumor is?
Like the prevailing theory on who who the crush was.
Hell yeah, I want to do that. Glenn Howerton, right?
Yeah. Always Always sunny from the
sun. Oh no shit.
Dennis from Always Sunny, they were at Juilliard at the same
time. They had classes together.
That's the rumor. Nobody knows but right.

(42:01):
Like the whole Atlantis Morris, that Dave Coulier thing.
I. Thought that.
Was confirmed, Does that still rumor?
Confirm that I think neither of them have confirmed or denied
it. Do you guys watch the great The
Great North cartoon? It's like the Bob's Burgers
guys, I think. No.
It's another Fox cartoon. So it's it's about this family
that lives up in Alaska. But the girl, the daughter,

(42:23):
she's like a teenager or like maybe like 13-4.
I think she's in high school. 14.
The Northern Lights form into Alanis Morissette and Alanis
Morissette is her spirit guide and she has conversations with
this like dreamy Alanis Morissette.
And it's actually voiced by Alanis.
Morissette And that's fantastic.It's.
So weird and random and funny and it's in like almost every

(42:45):
episode like. Actually.
Great. I'm gonna watch it.
Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, I remember that she dated
that dude from Third Eye Blind for a while.
And like, he did an episode of Scrubs, he did an episode of
Cribs where he was walking around her house.
He wasn't actually in his own house.
And that was like the big deal. So yeah, yeah, round in the

(43:07):
corner for a billion lessons, 909 hundred million lessons.
How obsessed I was with this song for a while.
I don't know why this it wasn't on my list, Don.
You'll never believe what her second song is on her top most
listened to songs. Well, I will is.
It like an acoustic version of 1000 miles.
No, it's not. I thought it was going to be the

(43:28):
song after 1000 Miles, but it's the first song off that album,
so it's all the people that started the album and like, oh,
this is pretty good. Can I listen to 1000 Miles?
Well, her second most plays though is an acoustic version of
1000. Miles, yeah, for sure.
Good pick what you got, Jason. My next pick is a Swedish
alternative rock band Is this. Going to be obscure again like

(43:50):
the first episode damn it. We kicked it off with the song.
The top 30 in the Billboard alt charts I'm getting #28 on the
mainstream rock tracks in July of 2001.
The song is called I'm Stupid, Don't Worry About Me by Prime
STH. Do.

(44:34):
You guys know this song, these guys.
Prime STH. Maybe I'm stupid.
STH. So in Sweden they are known as
Prime, but here in North Americathere was already like a
Canadian artist known as Prime. So they went by Prime STH here.
And the STH represents Stockholm.

(44:56):
It's like a little nod to their homeland.
Their 2000 album Underneath the Surface, This song played on Q1
O1 back in the day in Chicago. And I went out and bought the
album and I am here to tell you this is like one of the most
underrated albums of the 2000s. It is for anybody that likes

(45:17):
just straight across alternativemusic.
Hey Rod, they're rounding out at1396 monthly listeners.
So. Something tells me that the
listeners of How to Make a Mixtape is probably higher than
the listeners of Prime STH rightnow.
At least I hope that's the case.Jesus Christ, it doesn't get any

(45:40):
more obscure than that. Here's what you need to stop
doing is using Spotify as a basis for how popular song was
before Spotify. It got played on the radio a lot
in 2001, but like, people aren'tgoing to know it now.
I don't know man, there was a lot of shit played on the radio
in 2001 that has more than 1300 monthly listeners.

(46:04):
This album is fantastic, and it has been reviewed by multiple
people, including Dave Connolly at allmusic.com, who said
Underneath the Surface succeeds as well as it does by channeling
what is initially self-directed anger into the speakers, purging
the painful emotion with power, more chords in driving rhythms.
Fortunately, these bitter pills have just enough, just the right

(46:26):
amount of candy coating, suggesting that some people are
most happy when they're unhappy.And I thought that was.
You know, you know what else came on 2001?
Toxicity. You know how many times I heard
Chop suey on fucking on Q1 O1? Probably around 1.6 billion for
their 22 million monthly listeners.
So sell me again on your 1300 monthly listener band, Jason.

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Rod, we've talked about Cave In in the past.
If you like Cave In, you would like this Prime STH album.
I promise you I. This might be recency bias but
his voice sounds a lot like the guy from Fuel.
Because I've been. I was listening to a lot of Fuel
for like 2 episodes ago. His voice reminds me a lot of

(47:10):
the guy from Fuel and their music reminds me of Our Lady
Peace. They're, they're, they're

(47:35):
similar artists. Yeah.
All, all 18 listeners in Mexico City that listen to this band,
we can send them an e-mail. We can collectively send all 18
of them an e-mail and let them know that Jason's a big fan.
Please do. Doesn't get much more obscure.
I want to take this opportunity because this, you know, and this

(47:55):
kind of fits because you're you're, you know, more obscure
bands than anybody I know personally.
Oh my God, I'm blushing. There was a.
Band that I listened to in the 2000 No, sorry.
This album came out in 1997. It's finally on Spotify.
But it wasn't for years. I couldn't find it on YouTube.
I couldn't find it on Spotify orApple Music.

(48:15):
It was nowhere. I had the CD when I was in high
school. The band was called Fat FAT and
their big song was called Downtime.

(48:38):
Now I remember watching the video in like 120 minutes and
Don just so you know, Fat has 451 monthly listener.
Jesus Christ. But they were like rap rock.
But then the choruses sounded like 4 part harmonies, almost
like a boy band over like Hard Rock.

(48:58):
Yeah, it was really. But anyway, so I just.
I'm writing that down. I'm.
Impressed that I have an obscurealt rock band from the 90s that
you didn't know about. I feel.
I feel honoured. What year of release?
Their I think their only album came out in 1997.
When you type in fat on Spotify they don't even fucking come up.
In the music video, I just watched the music video for this
earlier. It's got a great music video.

(49:19):
Yeah, it's got these. Got some pretty fucking early
2000s hair, I'll tell you that. Definitely.
Yeah, the whole thing. Looks like the dude from Static
X right after that. Don't ask him anything about his
bangs, Ronald throws. Better not.
Better not. What am I going to go with what
might get stolen here? Probably nothing.
All right, I'm going to go with.I'm going to take it off by The

(49:41):
Donnas. Anything that.
I want you on. The floor.

(50:02):
Oh no, that's a great call. Yeah, and it was on my list.
They, this song was everywhere. The singer is from Bloomington
IN where we're at the school. So I don't know why I know that.
I just know that. And well, they, she moved to
California. They, because they all these all
The Donnas met in high school. They, they're all the, they were
all in the same grade. They went to high school
together. That's where the band formed.

(50:24):
I mean, they were around like ifyou listen to like pop punk and
stuff like you knew The Donnas. So you know, it's not like they
weren't a known band. But in terms of actually having
like a commercial hit, I mean, there's it was it was take it
off. The song was everywhere.
It was in Sony commercial and fucking movies and just
absolutely everywhere. And it it kind of kicked ass.

(50:46):
And there's this thing that happened from like 1999 to, I
would say like 2003 maybe, wherethere was a lot of rock and pop
rock and pop punk that was like 70s inspired, but still pop punk
and pop rock, you know what I'm saying?
Like totally. And I mean, and I'm not even
talking about like The Jets thatwere straight up like the Jet
and the Vine, like those bands that were like straight up

(51:06):
ripping off 70's rock. I'm talking about like stuff
like this, like The Donnas. Actually, the Vines were a
little more like The Donnas, where it's like, yeah, it's
modern. It's current rock.
It's got a modern thing going on, but there's some kind of
like reference to the 70s here. They're dressing like it's the
70s. Yeah, The Donnas were fucking
great. American hi-fi was kind of like
that, if you guys remember them.And like, yeah, some of that

(51:27):
kind of stuff. But yeah, I don't know.
The Donnas yeah, they were they were just great and they they
kind of like had their moment inthe sun and then I mean they
they again, they can kind of like tattoo.
They were banned until 2012 but went on a lot of tours with a
lot of really awesome bands but never really had any other big
influential. Songs they had a great chapter.
I I've talked about it before and I I listened to it as a

(51:49):
result to Rob Parvilla. But have you guys either
listened to or read with your eyes or your ears the sellout
book that covers like the launchof like the pop punk thing.
Have you guys listen to that book?
Jason, do you have any books at all?
Yeah, yeah. I haven't listened to that one.
Please move it to the top of anyof your lists to hear the story
about like these bands kind of like moving from indie labels

(52:10):
into majors, like at the insurgents of that style of
music. And like you get to hear about
like, I think like the shit. I don't have which chapter it
was, but like they talk about somebody that gets shit on just
so hard. Jawbreaker.
Yes, that's what it is. Thank you.
I know a lot about that book from people like you and other

(52:31):
people who have read it and talked about it.
Yeah. God, it's so good, man.
I, I couldn't, I couldn't suggest it more.
If you grew up in the late 90s to early 2000s of music, then
that is the perfect place to live.
That's the perfect way to listento.
Yeah, I mean, they were like, I'm assuming you say you're
saying that because they were ona major label.
So they're like one of those like picked up by major labels
and this dropped. Yeah, they were on.

(52:52):
They didn't do anything. So yeah, it does say they they
were inspired by the Ramones, the Runaways, ACDC, Bachman,
Turner OverDrive and Kiss. I'm like Yep, I.
I. I hear all that stuff.
So really, really badass group and they were on fucking Guitar
Hero and I played a lot of Guitar Hero, so.

(53:12):
Yeah. Yeah, great job.
Awesome, my turn. Yep, for some reason every time
I pull up Wikipedia on my computer it immediately takes me
to blood, sweat and tears from apast episode.
I don't know why, but I'm not mad about it.
But my song is going to be California by Phantom Planet.
California. And I'll be shocked if that's

(53:51):
like there is the more time we throw songs out there.
It's like, shit, I wish I would have had that one.
I wish I would have had taken off by the Dallas.
But leave it to like, I think itwas the Hills or one of those
fucking girls. I shouldn't say girls.
One of those like it was the OC.That this was the theme song
too. It was the OC.

(54:12):
Yeah, and it was just like, that's all it took.
And then like that, well, I guess that and Jason
Schwartzman, who was the drummerfor him originally, but like
this album was so good and like they were probably part of the
the band insurgents, like the the the strokes, the vines, the
Hives, the Von Bondy's, the you know, but they didn't.

(54:33):
They were Phantom Planet and they were so good.
And like there were a couple others around the same time.
Like, do you guys, do you guys ever listen to Rooney?

(54:56):
Of course. Yeah, I mean, they were, they
were literally on the OC. They like performed live.
Did they club on that show? I.
Didn't watch the OC but like that was another one.
Like that was just like that whole insurgents, like kind of
surf rock like but also like, I guess just western hipster rock.
It was almost like roots. It was almost like California
rock. It's almost like it's own genre.

(55:17):
It's like this coastal, like allthe influence of like beach
culture and hippie culture and the mountains and folk music and
like Laurel Canyon, all the stuff like melted together in
this like kind of California genre of indie rock Dawn and
dead on. That's what like the OC kind of
centered around like the Rooneysand the Phantom Planets and they
they stretched into other indie stuff.
But it was that like California indie thing and you're dead on

(55:39):
like it like Rooney. And this was like the soundtrack
for that. Stuff.
Do you guys know the thrills? You ever heard of them?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, probably.
Same. Yeah, yeah, same thing.
But great example of a one hit wonder.
California 158,000,000 Streams next song 3 million.
Is it always on my mind? Is that the next one?
No, it's not. It's the OC theme.

(56:01):
It's off of the OC compilation album that actually the next
song that isn't California is Lonely Day.
Another great song from that album, Always on My Mind and
Lonely Day. Yeah, there's a good album.
The album was called The Guest and then there was like a
special edition of The Guest that had another blue cover.
Am I talking crazier? Do you any guys remember this?

(56:22):
So the first one had an orange cover.
Like there was orange in the background or it said their
band's name and the title in. Orange.
Yeah, it's a black and white picture of the band sitting on
stairs outside of a building. Totally.
Oh, this actually has the other three songs after the album,
because the album is one through12 and then it starts over with

(56:43):
track 1 and that's the guest, which was on a second CD of this
release. It was really cool when they did
it back in the time back in the day, but this is a great album.
One of my favorites. I don't.
So the the album cover I remember from this was the one
with all the cartoon drawings and stuff on it.
I don't know that one. I think that's the album after.

(57:04):
That it says the guest though when I Google it.
The Guest is the album that thiswas on came out in 2002.
California's the first song on the album.
No, not that. So not that I not the one in
2004. That's the self-titled 1 Jason.
And you're right, but this, it'slike the same artist did a
version of the guest album cover.
I see. It's kind of like that, but it
has a big white eagle in the middle.

(57:25):
Yeah, like a hawk or something that says Phantom play.
That's the one I remember. I don't know if it was like some
special edition or like a limited one or whatever, but
that's the one I remember listening to.
D Is there a song? Like I know there are other
songs in this that fit this, butI would argue that this song is
more closely associated with thetelevision show than any other
songs ever been associated with.Like I know there's other shows

(57:47):
that have had intro songs but this is so like.
No, I got it. It's Natasha Bedingfield and
that was The Hills, totally. That was the.
You would know the song in a second maybe.
It's maybe it's what you becauseI never watched, I've never seen
a single episode. It doesn't matter, as soon as
you hear the song you'll know what it is.
The song is unwritten and that does have over a billion
streams. Of course I know it's on.

(58:08):
Natasha Bedingfield was the theme song to The Hills, and
that song is probably a slightlybigger TV song than Phantom
Planet. It's not what was a bigger TV
song. It just feels like the
association, like you. You don't think there's people
that hear this and don't have anassociation with The Hills?
Natasha Bedingfield, Yeah. I'm sure that I bet there are
and I don't, but I don't think there's anybody that hears

(58:29):
California by Phantom Planet doesn't have an association with
the OCI. Never watched the OCI see.
What I'm seeing? You see what?
I'm saying. It's a great I hear what you're
saying or I see what you're saying.
Do you see? What do you see?
The words that are coming out ofmy mouth?
Yeah, I do. I do.
I see. I see and hear them.
I'm. Gonna have to clean off my I'm
at monitor here from all the spit.
I might as go as far as to say that I feel them.

(58:51):
Oh, fantastic. Yeah, well, let me know if you
can smell them. And then we've got fucking.
Would the only one stronger be the theme song from friends?
Fuck yeah. Jason, God damn it.
Great call. Yeah, they're all brands.
Yeah, Yep, Good job. All right, Jason, what artist
that has 600 month, 600 monthly listeners are you going to bring

(59:12):
us up to now? I'm about to tell you, yeah.
Can't wait. This band is from Fort Worth,
TX. OK, this is from their 2001
album called Bully and the reason that a lot of people
might not know about them is that RCA, the record label,
dropped them two weeks after they released the album and the
song is called Hello and the band is called Sugar Bomb.

(59:55):
How many monthly lessons do theyhave?
I didn't look it up yet. I didn't look it up yet, but I
can only imagine. Six times more than the last
one. 10,000. Not quite that many, but.
So say what you want, but this song peaked at #34 on the
Billboard Adult Top 40. This album cover looks familiar.

(01:00:15):
And Billboard Magazine put out aspecial double issue on December
29th, 2001 where they allowed the Billboard writers and
editors to pick their best albums of the year.
And Jeff Mayfield, who was the director of the charts, put this
album at #8 for the year and said the band's name is silly,

(01:00:37):
as is the cover art. But my does it rock.
I read that and I laughed so hard at that.
My does it rock. So I wanted to give him props
there. Hello doesn't have a music
video, but you may know it if you know the 2002 films Van
Wilder and Orange County becauseit appears in both of those in

(01:01:01):
the movies. I.
Know both those movies? So do you know the scene at the
end of Van Wilder when he. Oh, God, what is happening?
Tara is like, walking out of a cloud of smoke towards him, and
he realizes that they're going to be together and he, like,
kisses her at the end of the movie.
Yeah. This is the song that's playing
in that scene in Van Wilder. You would think that even with

(01:01:22):
its association with a movie as popular as Van Wilder, it would
still be more popular than it is.
And it's still so fucking obscure.
But that's the thing that's likethe the time difference there
between this is pre Spotify likewho I have the CDN.
So we went over this. Jason Toxicity was pre Spotify

(01:01:44):
right? And System of a Down has a
billion streams I. Just wanted to go to that well
one more time. I'm done.
I won't bring it up again. Well, you've inspired me.
I might actually go to that welllater now.
This good? This band is who sings Stacey's
mom founds Wayne. Founds A Wayne.
Founds A Wayne this. Is Fountains Of Wayne.
That's who this band is. Except Fountains Of Wayne just
did it better. They are pop punk at its finest,

(01:02:06):
for sure. Yeah, Daniel Carville, who is
the guitarist and vocalist, said.
The sweetness of sugar and the chaos of a bomb fits our music
personalities, and that's how they came up with sugar.
I got to say that's corny as fuck.
I'm sorry. I can't stand by and listen to
that be his explanation for the band name.
Sounds like he asked his like first grade daughter to explain

(01:02:28):
the band name and she was like, well, you're sweet like sugar,
but you're, you're rough like a you're you explode like a bomb
when you play your music, Dad. That's the best.
Impression I've. Ever heard of a first grade
daughter? Best first grade daughter
impression I've ever heard. Hey Ryan, can you go grab Nora
and have her explain? Sugar bomb for kids?
Right. Yeah, I mean, this is good.

(01:02:50):
Like this. This is total, like superchunk,
like powerpop. You know, you're spinning my
mind in all kinds of random directions.
Now there was this band I listento called Sucker Punch.
There's 2 bands called Sucker Punch.
It's probably not the one you'rethinking of.
It's. Probably neither of them.
It's not the one with the exclamation.
Please, let's see where the listener son of a bitch I'll be.

(01:03:11):
Damn Well hold on a second, hangon a second.
Number one most listened to Cityfor Sugar Bomb.
What do you guys think it is? Is it Chicago?
Chicago, IL 148 listens and thatis Jason every time I'm a. 147.
Exclusively Jason. Oh, that is so funny.
All right, 148 listeners a month.

(01:03:31):
OK, Roderick, over to you. What do you have?
Well, I'm going to audible. I'm going to save it for my last
one, but just to play the diplomat here, I think I'm going
to pull a Jason and and go with an obscure one later that
although I just looked at it andtheir biggest hit has 1.4
million plays, which is more than either of those.
No sugar bones got 1.4 million on Hello.
OK, fair enough. All right.
But I am gonna go with an actuallike, massive hit first.

(01:03:56):
OK, so let's get some hip hop inhere.
So if I if I, I'm gonna give youthe artist's name and I want you
guys to see if you can tell me the song because I didn't know
and. This one is obscure, no?
No, no, it's not. Oh, OK.
Well, the artist is, I think, Huey.
Have you ever heard of the rapper Huey?
Oh yeah, is it time to shake that laffy taffy?
Nope, that's close. That's not Huey.

(01:04:17):
Is it time to pop lock and drop?It it is time to pop lock and
drop it Don Well done. It was between that and Laffy
Taffy. Tooth that tank up mommy make it
roll once you pop pop lock it for me girl get low with your
Mama gave it to you baby girl let it show once you pop drop it
for me. Maybe we can roll Oh pop lock

(01:04:38):
and drop it, stop lock and drop it, Stop, lock and drop.
It pop lock and drop it and I decided to go with pop lock and
drop it because I liked it better.
But yeah dude, no D4L is laffy taffy.
OK, my bad. But yeah, let's pop lock and

(01:04:59):
drop it. I knew nothing about Huey other
than I know other than the song obviously, but I love that he
didn't have a different hip hop name.
He just went by Huey. But his name wasn't Huey.
His name is Lawrence. So I don't know where Huey comes
from but. AKA Baby Huey maybe that big
ass. That big ass cartoon fucking

(01:05:21):
duck. Wasn't there a Baby Huey duck?
No, it was. It was Huey, Dewey and Louie.
It was Donald. There's.
A. There's a baby.
There's a. Duck dressed as a baby his.
Name is Huey. Huey.
OK, Baby Huey. I hope it was Huey, Dewey and
Louie. I hope it was a trio at one
point. And then he just went solo.
That's the story I'm gonna tell myself.
But yeah, I mean, he this song was huge and he tour he with a

(01:05:45):
bunch of other big acts and thenhad a couple features that
weren't huge and then didn't really do much else, put out
some more music but didn't get big and any sad news.
But he got shot in 2020 and theydon't know by who or what
happened. Is he alive?
Nope. Oh shit, he was dead.
Yep. Oh fuck, Rod.
Passed away at 32. I didn't know when I picked the

(01:06:05):
song dude. I was just doing my due
diligence and my research, but. I guess.
At least he gave us pop lock anddrop it.
Which? Also spawned a great dance
craze. Here's what's crazy is that I am
looking at Huey's top five most played songs and Disney
Christmas it's the most wonderful time of the year is
number four of his top five played songs and I don't know

(01:06:28):
what role he plays in that song it's.
It's Huey and Lily. It's not.
Fucking Huey Dewey and Lily Rod God damn it Lil Lil Huey is a
duck. He is that is on this side that
happens a lot on like Spotify and Apple Music, where like
bands get miss miss fucking labeled as different things.

(01:06:52):
Yeah, but that's not Disney. That's Paramount, Huey.
And Disney was Huey, Dewey and Louie.
That's. I understand.
God damn it. Huey's rapper name, also known
as Baby Huey, is this duck. OK, I got you.
I feel you. But I'm talking about but you
said this Christmas song is a Disney song.
That's why I. Yeah, the Christmas song is.
Probably Huey from Huey, Dewey and Louie on that song because
it's Disney. I wonder if that's true.

(01:07:13):
Hold on. Let me start and go to the
artist. Yeah, you're right.
Dewey and Louie are the other two artists credited on that
song. Vindicated.
Also, just so you know, it was Daisy Duck.
But why does it land in Huey therapper's top four song?
Let's hope you don't just like scroll through the tracks and
then The Dirty version of Pop Lock and Drop It comes on.

(01:07:35):
I don't know, but I hope his next of kin is getting some sort
of like payment like like 15 cent checks for it's the most
it's the most wonderful time of the year being associated with
him. Hugh.
Dewey and Louis wait a minute. That means that you can look up
Dewey as an artist. You can.
Just so you know, Jason Dewey ofHuey, Dewey and Louie has

(01:07:56):
double, actually more than double the amount of listeners
monthly then both of your last two artists put together.
Put together. Dewey himself has 21,838.
Wow. Damn.
Is he DUEY or Dewey? DEWEW and also Louis has 32,561

(01:08:21):
monthly list. How come they have different
amounts if they're on the same song?
It's wild, Yeah. But anyway, I think I the last
thing I would say is I think Huey came up in that like Nellie
Wake because he's from Missouri.So I think there was this like
wave of like Midwest hip hop andMidwest rappers like getting
signed following Nellie, which kind of makes sense to me.
But like, there was, you know, there's that whole like pop and

(01:08:43):
lock thing resurgence that happened, yeah, in the 2000s in
this. Number one, listening city.
Do Do we in Chicago just listen to more music than the rest?
You're a big city dude. It's going to be ULU, New York
or LA for most new. York and LA are not in the top
five. It's Aust, Dallas, Houston,
Atlanta and Charlotte. Well.
He's that's what I'm saying. He's a Midwest rapper though, so
that makes sense to me. OK, but.

(01:09:06):
I don't agree. It does seem like Chicago, you
guys do you guys do listen to a lot of music.
Well, listen to a lot of music, all right?
Is it my turn? Yes.
This song recently had another big Speaking of resurgences,
this song recently exploded within the last few months
because footage leaked of these dudes making this song for the
first time and then performing it for the first time at the

(01:09:27):
frat. And it is MGMT and the song is
kids. Oh.
Nice. Oh man, if if you're going to
bust his chops for the obscurity, though.
Are you going to say that they're not a one hit wonder?
I you could definitely argue that they're not a one hit
wonder man. I would.
I could see that like electric. Fields and electric field and
time to pretend they had three singles on that record.

(01:09:48):
All right then do you want to scrap it and I'll give you a
different. One, let's veto it.
Get it out of here. I will say not a one hit wonder.
All right, we're going to kick it off the list.
That's fine. All right, it's off the list.
Then you can't argue with me that Edward Sharp in the
magnetic zeros and home is not aone hit wonder.

(01:10:23):
I would never argue that, because it absolutely is.
And what sucks is that I guess this is in the realm of Jason
music, where the rest of that album is fantastic, but they
were like kind of at the beginning of that folk music
Insurgents in 2009. That album came out pretty late,
so like the Mumford and Sons? Fuck I wish I had more at the
front of my head of those. The.
Lumineers. The Lumineers.

(01:10:44):
Thank you very much, Rod. Yeah, I think they were.
They were amongst that, but theyjust didn't breakthrough the way
that the other ones did. Like The Lumineers broke through
the the Mumford and Sons broke through, but Edward Sharpe and
the Magnetic Zeros did not. Yeah, which?
Is a bummer there's this song was so massive though it was
everywhere. So many like I feel like it was

(01:11:04):
in so many car commercials. Is that what did them in?
Maybe. I don't know.
That's a good. That's a good question.
I think there was a tiny. They did a Tiny Desk Concert,
though. I remember watching them do it.
Yeah. Edward Sharpe and the Magnet
Zeros at a Tiny Desk Concert. I'm.
Gonna have to give that a whirl.In 2013, and this song was fun
there because they're so like, it's all like there's people

(01:11:25):
shouting things everywhere. There's like 13 members in the
band. Way too many people.
And that was when the Tiny Desk was even tinier, like they
hadn't moved some of those shelves yet.
And so they're really like, on top of each other, yeah.
So here's what I'm pretty sure is true with regards to that
song. Do you guys remember in the last
season of The Office, Dwight is dating like another farmer's

(01:11:49):
daughter for like 6 episodes? Yeah, that chick is in the band.
No shit. I'm 99%.
Really. So her she would be Nora
Kirkpatrick, the accordion player.
Accordion, keyboard and vocals. Possibly if you go on IMDb, the
episode titled The Farm in the last season should have her

(01:12:11):
listed. Christ, man, how do you just
have that? No, we don't confirm things,
Jason, on this podcast. She was in five episodes of The
Office in 2013. Her name was Esther.
Brugger, Esther Kruger. Yep, that's it.
Esther Brugger Yeah, we just. Throw out.
No, we just throw out. Yeah, we just throw things and.
Act like they're true, and sometimes they are.

(01:12:33):
And sometimes you. Sometimes, yeah, sometimes you
say Benny Goodman when you mean Glenn Miller and get called out.
Yeah, just that. Happened.
That happened. But either way, back to the
song, this whole album is reallyfucking good.
This song is very good. Definitely a one hit wonder and

(01:12:54):
one of those bands, just so you know, 6,000,000 monthly
listeners, still a one hit wonder.
It's a couple more than. 1300, their hit has a billion plays
so. Yeah, that's true.
Do you think they're working? They're probably not working
right. I love AI, love a whistle track,
by the way. Like if there's too many of
them, it would get a really fucking annoying.
So I'm glad there's not that many of them.

(01:13:15):
But like when a good one comes out, there's like a good like
whistle line in it. I'm a fan.
Yeah, I'm a fan. I have a playlist that I used
one of my trivia nights that was10 songs that all feature
whistling and this wasn't there.I feel like Rye would love to go

(01:13:39):
to your trivia nights. I would love to go to your
trivia nights. One of my all time was was Sissy
Neck by Beck on there. Because one of my all time
favorites. Added to the list.
Well then it should be missing out.

(01:14:00):
Jason's final pick hitting the home run.
What do you got so you remember?Also, you're still on my phone
is Gizmo, and I couldn't find you for like several minutes
today when I was getting ready to text you to confirm that we
were still on. And I'm like Jason Kellen.
It's it's Jason, like weird. And I'm scrolling through the
Jason. I'm like, oh, wait, he's in
there. It's Gizmo.
That's right. Gizmo makes way more sense.
So previous episode that I was on with you guys, we talked

(01:14:23):
about the band talk show and remember how we talked about
that was like Stone Temple Pilots, but they couldn't get
Scott Weiland, so they got somebody else and there was a
lot of hubbub around that. This next band is the same exact
situation, but it has to do withJane's Addiction instead of
Stone Temple Pilots. So it's Dave, Navarro, Chris and
Steven who are three members of Jane's Addiction and the former

(01:14:45):
MTVVJ named Steve Isaacs. The song is called Fucking Why
Cry? Jesse yeah.
No, not Jesse. The song is called Why Cry by
The Panic Channel. Know them in all 2006.

(01:15:17):
No, I remember, I swear I remember the the whole like
Perry leaving or Perry and them not getting along and them doing
something else. It's like I remember this
happened. So this was their Yeah, this was
their third breakup. They broke up in 2004 and Perry
went and did his own thing and the guys got together with
Steve, made this one album. It's called 1.

(01:15:40):
Is the singer and anything else he?
Is he was in a band previously called something with Sky in the
name? I can't.
I'd never heard of his previous band.
Sky Sky cycle. Sky Cycle I did find in 2006 for
three years on MTV. In 2006 I found

(01:16:02):
onlineslantmagazine.com. Brian Schiller reviewed he sang
the album's praises minus Y cry,calling it simply distant from
the rest of the album in an overproduced single that comes off
as whiny and weak in comparison to the rest of the track.
And I bring that up because I listened to the rest of the
album and I have to disagree. I actually think the song is

(01:16:23):
probably the best one on the album.
The other ones are good, but I've always been drawn to the
song and. If how many times, how many
times did you listen this month,Jason?
Maybe 50? Did you listen about 50 times
for the 50 listens that were in Chicago this month?
They may have been me, yeah. OK, got it.
All right. Cool.
Between that and going on YouTube and watching this music

(01:16:44):
video so got it earlier today. I wanted to watch the music
video one last time before we recorded and I noticed at the
bottom of the screen when you scrub through the music video it
will highlight the most replayedsection of the music video and
it is a scene that has boobs in it.

(01:17:09):
People are just scrolling through.
People are people are just rewinding to the boob so they
can see them over and over againand they're not even real.
It's the music video cuts back and forth between the band
performing the song in this woman making this giant mural by
like, throwing paint buckets at the wall.
And at one point, she's like painting a naked woman and she's
painting her boobs. And that's the part that is the

(01:17:30):
most watched in the music video.Back in the day, so Roderick and
I worked for the same company for a long time and back in the
day the company we worked for sold swimsuits and somebody that
I talked to that was like in charge of the website said the
most looked up item on our website was swimsuits.
I just picture a bunch of 13 year old boys just being so
stoked to look up girls in swimsuits.
That's really funny. That's so good, but it's a great

(01:17:54):
song. I don't.
I don't know if you guys have heard it or not, but I highly
recommend it. Can't throw great out in that
title. It's a song.
I don't know this. I don't, I don't.
This doesn't sound familiar, andI nobody might have just been
thinking about when Dave Navarrojoined Red Hot Chili Peppers.
That might be what I was thinking of because I forgot
that that was the thing that happened too.

(01:18:16):
That was a weird time. That was one hot minute.
That was a weird time. One hot minute Yeah, 95 This is
a. Worse version of Hinder it's.
A better version. I hate hinder.
It's the worst. I I've only I've only heard half
of a song, but I would say that this is better than Hinder, but
I don't for sure half a song. Generous.
All right. Well, two, two things that are

(01:18:36):
making me change here. One, fuck it.
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna lean into.
I'm gonna take Jason side and just go fuck the weirdest heist.
But also my other, my real, whatwas originally going to be my
choice was kind of indie rock, and I feel like we've too much
indie rock on here already. So.
Oh. We crossed the 500 song mark.
Did you know that? Did we talk about that?
We crossed the 500 song mark, Yeah.

(01:18:57):
We had 504 songs after the last album or the last album last
mixtape. So, well, that's awesome.
Congratulations. Hey, congratulations 5. 100 and.
3. Songs.
My bad. So this is a band I discovered
in the Meijer CD section. Do you guys have Meyer in
Illinois? Yeah, we do.
So they still. Have Ben's pretzels and Meyer.

(01:19:17):
Yeah, so they, I would go to their CD section, they would
have like on both, there's a aisle and on both sides there'd
be a listening station. And every like month they would
put like 5 new albums on the listening station.
It's very first time hinder. This was this album was on there
and I listened to it and I bought it and I listened to this
album like crazy. This band's actually from
Chicago. They're called Caviar.
Oh, I know the song. And the song is Tangerine

(01:19:39):
Speedo. Please give me a towel.

(01:20:04):
Hell yeah it is. Not my not even close to my
favorite song on this record, but it was their single.
Is going on. What the fuck is going on with
this episode? I'm just leaning into it dude.
I'm just leaning into this. Christ.
Fantastic choice, Rod continue. It's got 2 million plays, Don
OK, I mean, I I don't know, it'sit's this weird like I don't

(01:20:25):
know how to describe this band. A lot of interesting, like
Brazilian, like samba samples and world music samples in their
music, but then they're kind of just like a rock band and so
their choruses are very power pop, very super chunk, but even
heavier. Dude looks like he wants to be
an Oasis, like the singer. I don't know, like they're just

(01:20:45):
different and interesting and this I listen to this album, the
self-titled album like crazy. When I was in high school, they
did put out a couple or I think one more album that I don't
really know anything about to behonest with you.
They they're, they were on a major label.
There's probably 1,000,000 bandsback then on a major label.
I mean, they were on the Gone in60 Seconds soundtrack.
They sure were. We got the song.

(01:21:06):
Probably doesn't sound like thatthough.
Like, you know what I mean? Like doesn't.
It's not like fucking it's not. Like what, Rod?
It's not like what? What are you trying?
To say I had a very, I had a very nose.
I was, I was going to say something that's bad.
Oh who? Who sang Click click boom?
Because I feel like that's probably in the gone 62nd
sentence. Who did sing Click click Boom?
Was that saliva? It's not.

(01:21:37):
Yeah. Saliva.
What's saliva? They should be on this playlist.
Don. You should pick saliva next.
Fuck. It can I just get recognition
for the fact that I fucking pulled saliva out.
That's. Great, I love that you put
saliva. Click boom Hey Jason.
Saliva Monthly Listeners 3.5 million monthly listeners for
saliva. Caviar was on island, so they

(01:22:00):
were on a major label and I don't know they were the
originally they were they were in a different band called Fig
Dish. If either of you knew that band
because you're both Chicago Chicago locals every.
Single dude in this band looks exactly how you'd think they
would look. Except they're, except if you
showed me that photo, I'd be like, oh, they're from like

(01:22:20):
Bristol or they're from fucking Manchester.
Like nothing about them looks Chicago.
Like I know this dude on the left.
The very left. Yeah, the guy that looks like a
small, like a frightened child in like an 1800s painting.
I'm also like 90% certain this song played over the credits in
the original Charlie's Angels movie.

(01:22:43):
Oh, I can totally. See.
Gotta go. Hey guys, I got pasta on the
stove. I gotta go.
Oh. Shit, Jesus Christ, great
choice. If if people if people are into
like the powerpop thing, like the 2000 powerpop thing though,
I would actually recommend this record.
This song is kind of corny. It comes off as like a novelty
song which makes sense why it's so big because it got played in

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movies and stuff. But like the Good Times are
over, An OK Nightmare are bettersongs.
Sugarless is a better song, but Caviar Island obscure.
Yep. Great choice.
All right, go big. Go give us a billion player.
Deal who let the dogs out by thefucking Baja man.
Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out?

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But the party was nice. The party was pumping and
everybody have. It was on my list.
It was on my list. It was on my.
List done. Who let the dogs out?
Motherfucker by the Baja men. If that's at the closer to this
mix tape then I don't know what is.

(01:23:57):
I have AI have a mixed CD like aburn CD that I still own to this
day and I don't own very many. It's this 2000 summer mix and
that shit opens with who let thedogs out.
You better believe that that CD opens with Who Let the Dogs Out.
I would hope so. I really wanted to and it also
has blue by Eiffel 65 on it, which I really want to know.
That came out in 1999. You looked too. 1999,

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absolutely. Yeah, not that many Baja men.
Well, I mean there's a shit loadof Baja men, but I think in the
album there was only three. But now like if you look at the
shot of the band 2468, there's 9Baja men.
Wow. I don't know how there's so many
Baja men. Just that statement on how

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there's so many Baja men. The Baja men have no limit. 1.4
million monthly listeners. This one came out in 2000 before
Spotify. Right there, Yeah, you win.
Who did the original version of the song?
The Baha Men. No, there's no.
There's like a whole thing abouthow this is like a.
It's not, it's not quite a cover, but it was.

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This is like an interpolation ofanother song.
I'm not familiar, and to pay homage to our last two episodes
ago, just so you know, the Baha Men Who Let the Dogs Out is on
the Shrek soundtrack, and I knowthe Shrek.
Soundtrack it's. Actually, it's actually best
years of our lives. It's not Who let the dogs out

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the. Song was originally released in
98 entitled Doggy by Trinidadiancalypso artist Anselm Douglas.

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And then was covered by Bahaman.So this is technically a cover,
but obviously way bigger. Way bigger than.
Who knew? I'm pretty sure it's on the
Rugrats in Paris soundtrack. I guess Roderick at this point.
I knew because I'm pretty sure this was on.
Was this not on the Rob Harvillatalk about this on something?
How do I know this? Do you know this from do?

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You prefer hit? Was it from Mike's podcast?
You wanted to hit it? Might be from You wanted to hit
shut out, you wanted to. Hit sense I would think they
would. Mike Smith.
The Anthem. The Anslem Douglas version is on
here if you want to listen to it.
It's got 26,000 plays done. That's still more than any of
Jason's people. That's the That's less than the

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quantity of all four of Jason's contributions.
Here's what I'm hoping for this episode in the comments section.
I'm hoping to get some love fromat least one other listener.
Well, there's. Only 49 that I'm in Chicago.
So again, like I said, we can e-mail all 50 people and it
wouldn't take that much time. So yeah, let's hope that we that

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you can e-mail all of your friends that listen to this one
band. It's like watching my two
brothers fight this. Is like.
You, I don't know. What's really funny is that if
you look at the Baja Men, similar artists, the Crazy Frog
is one of them. That weird creepy blue fucking

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frog thing. Oh my God, I hate that thing.
So just so you know, the Crazy Frog, 2.4 million monthly
listeners, the Crazy Frog song itself, 221 million streams.
Wow. God, what a awful, awful song.
What a horrible time, an amazingtime in music at the same time,
but like, how did this exist? What the crazy frog or the?

(01:27:43):
Yeah, this, this the crazy frog Baja man.
Fine. Like, you know, you got your
Macarenes, you got your Who let the dogs out, you got your blue
Dabba DS. Like that shit happens.
But what? About your What about your
hamster dances by Hampton the hamster that also.
Came out absolutely not a fan ofthat either.
And then and then all the all the Scion commercials that spun
off of that. Hold on, can we go down the

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hamster dance rabbit hole for a second?
That has 28 million streams and has 200,000 million the monthly
or 200,000 monthly listeners, way more than any of Jesus.
Picks. I love the hamster dance.
I actually wish that's an honorable mention of mine.
My honorable mention is the Hamster Dance by Hampton the
Hampton the Hamster. It's just it's the tune of the

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of the fucking rooster from I picked that on the Disney song.
That's that's the it's the melody from the the rooster in
Robin Hood. What's the fucking name of that
song? I don't know.
What a day, Gollywood, a day. No, it's that was a different
song. No, that's the song.
Lolly Gollywood a day. I'm telling you, it's a

(01:28:46):
different song. This one's called Whistle,
Whistle check or something like that.
Or whistle. Oh.
You're right. Something but anyway it's the
same and they just speed it up. They just speed it up and said
it's a hamster. That's OK.
And had somebody sing it and it sounds like it sounds just like
the rednecks to me. It sounds just like rednecks.
The. Hamster, you show Hampton some
fucking respect, Roderick. 3rd here's third song on this album

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is called Even Hamsters Fall in Love.
Does Huey, Dewey or Louie appearon it as a feature?
I don't see any. Hampton Hamster is the main
artist. He's the main artist.
Yeah, he. Also doesn't cover.
Thank God I'm a country boy. Yeah, and Deck the Halls and
Jingle Bells. Yeah.
Wow. This this came out.

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This came out on Boom Boom Tang Records.
When, when, even when we do bestcovers, I'm going to do think
out. I'm a Country Boy by Hampton the
Hamster. That's covers better than the
original. I wonder if the crazy frog
covers anything. Yep, never mind.
Crazy. 5. 1st We are the Champions.

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I think I've heard this thing. God I'm a country boy.
This hamster version before. Dude, I honestly think I've
heard this song before. Hold on, I'm listening to the
Crazy Frog cover. We are the Champions right now.
All right? Fucking Hey Jason, what are your
audible? Mentions this has gone in a
really weird direction. But I did not expect any of
this. Shit show.
I have two. We brought him up earlier, but

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Flavor of the Week by American Hi-fi.
Great song. That just thought about it too,
yeah. The only thing that weirds me
out is I don't like songs that use proper nouns in the lyrics.
And when he says she's he's 2 stone Nintendo.
Nintendo like makes my skin crawl.
Makes me feel like my shirts. I'm backwards.
Actually. I don't like proper nouns and
songs. Interesting, that's interesting.

(01:30:34):
I got do do you guys remember this is relevant to American
hi-fi? Do you remember when you would
go to like your local karma or whatever your your CD warehouse
or or whatever your record storewas and somebody would have
stuck some probably some St. team kids stuck a bunch of free
sampler CDs somewhere like on the counter.
You can just take. I I had some good ones over the

(01:30:54):
years. Like I had an American records
one that had like God, God lovesunderwater and Danzig and KMFDM
and Johnny Cash and shit, reallygood shit.
But I had this one that was justtwo songs and I don't know why
but it was flavor of the flavor of the week was weaker Month
week flavor of the week by American I Fi and I should have
known this artist earlier Dawn because it was click click boom

(01:31:15):
or tick tick boom or whatever itis by fucking saliva.
Those are the 2 songs on the sample.
CD That's a great sample I. Had no idea why.
Maybe on the same label, I don'tknow.
Yeah, what the hell. Even my other honorable mention
is a band called Magnified and the song is called Stand in
Traffic. Super obscure but very good

(01:31:37):
song. More obscure than the other
ones. Oh.
For sure, I actually couldn't find anything about this band
when I spent hours on Google looking for it.
Can. We find Magnified on Spotify.
Yeah, yeah, the song is there and I recommend you give it a
whirl because it's very good. I had.
Hang on a second Rod don't want to just make sure we don't blaze

(01:32:00):
past this one really quick. How many monthly listeners does
magnified have? Jason don't answer on Spotify
Roderick if you haven't list looked it up.
I. Haven't looked.
How many monthly listeners does Magnified have?
I think it's double digits. 475.475, yeah, it's pretty generous
of you because they have 56. Shit.

(01:32:21):
Three people in New York, three people in San Francisco, two
people in Austin, TX, two peoplein Alexandria, and two people in
Auckland, New Zealand. That's all of the listeners.
Are you done busting his chops now?
I guess. Go ahead, Rodrick, what do you
got? I had, I also had Baja men on
here right. So I had Boys of Summer by The

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Ataris. Oh, not a one hit.
Well, I love that band. Absolutely a one hit.
I mean, we like we like them, dude.
Because they had another hit. Look it up on Spotify.
'Cause I had another hit, they had another hit.
There it was in this diary. Yes they did.
It just wasn't as big. 16,000,000 monthly play or
16,000,000 plays in this diary. Dude Edward Sharp and the

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Magnetic Zeros had like 5 songs over 20 million plays and he put
them as a one hit wonder. All right.
They're absolutely what we listen to The Ataris.
That's why you're you're being Jason Cover.
You're like, well, I listen to the band all.
Right, well, I it's fine they're.
Great. Well, that's why I didn't pick
it, because it's a cover and I've I've picked The Ataris
before. And plus, like, that dude wants
to fight you. That dude fucking hates you.

(01:33:27):
Chris, Chris and I have beef. He doesn't know we have beef,
but we have beef. Yeah, that dude fucking hates.
He has beef with me, I have no problem with him.
I don't blame him for hating you, you fucking drew him as a
sad puppet. Which we never shared that by
the way. Also, could that be our next
sticker? Him as a puppet.
Or draw us as puppets in the same thing.

(01:33:47):
I'd rather just be him. Put him a little in the back.
And then I had 1234 by Feist. It is kind of an Edward Sharpe
thing, right? Like she was big in the indie
world and people listened to her.
But like, in terms of like mainstream hit, it was 1234.
Wisha boom was kind of big but not really it only.

(01:34:07):
Yeah, I had, I had somebody similar with LaRue.
Yeah. It's like put Bulletproof as one
of my songs that was. Weird, like they only had one
mainstream hit but they were bigin the in like the underground
and so they still have a lot of listeners and stuff.
So I can't. I can't wait for the unluckies
and I can't wait to put the fucking the Screaming Frog on

(01:34:28):
this mix tape for the unlucky motherfucker.
I can't. I hope, I hope to high hell that
I get that choice for this one when we do the randoms.
And I'm going to put the Screaming Frog on that bitch.
So good. All right, before you read these
off, I literally why we're recording this.
We got a. Do I not get to do my fucking
honorable mentions? Oh shit, you do.
Sorry. Thanks, so he just gave one

(01:34:49):
fucking frog apparently. No, I was just going to shout
out Evan to Evan Thomas because he just ordered a shirt from us
while. Yeah, which one is the Zath
Metal one? Oh yeah, Prisoner mixtapes.
OK, so I had For honorable mentions, I had a bunch.
I had LaRue Bulletproof. I had Crazy by Gnarls Barkley,
but can't talk about Cee Lo. This is the one that we.

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Had before. I know I wanted to put Party
Hard by Andrew W.K on there really bad.
Yeah, I don't know. Is that a one wonder though?
Name another Andrew W.K song. I know, right?
New York. City.
Let's get the the other one withparty in the title.
Yeah, I would still say. And then I was going to do dance
by Justice. Actually DANCE by Justice.

(01:35:31):
Oh shit. Yeah, I guess that would have
been like I'm a I'm a justice fan.
Like I I like Justice slot. But yeah, I guess that would be.
And then if I was going the obscure route, the really
obscure route, I would have gonean artist named Chester French.
Are you guys familiar, Jason? I'm surprised you don't know
Chester French. And.
Then the song is She Loves Everybody.
That was one that came off of a sample 8000 monthly listeners,

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so still double all, you know, all the same quantity as all of
Jason's picks put together. But She Loves Everybody was the
song. They were like a weird kind of
indie rock duo. They're really good.
That would have been my obscure.This sounds this sounds like
something I would listen to done.
Chester French. Yeah, the.
Album. So the album cover that you see

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on Spotify is not the album cover.
Their album cover was originallylike a condom package and it was
like oh man, this is like risquealbum artwork.
They sound like dance pop zombies.
Did you get to his voice yet? He's got a Really.
Cool boy zombies not like the the undead.
Did you get to his voice? Yeah, yeah.

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That's when it started to sound like the zombies.
Like he sounds like the dude from the zombies.
I like it. Yeah, that's it.
That's my honorable mentions. I just thought you're in some
kind. Of hurry.
Well, I just wanted to recognizeEvan and so I already did it.
OK, got it. Came through while we were
recording. Thanks Evan, Thought I'd give
him a shot out. Appreciate it.
Fire out the list. Yeah.
I got this if you want. Oh.

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That'd be a first. Give Don a break, that'd be a
first. How nice of you.
United States of Whatever by Liam Lynch.
All the things she said by t.A.T.u.
Is it t.A.T.u or tattoo? It's it's meant, it's meant for
Americans to say tattoo. OK, is what I tattoo.
Yeah. 1000 Miles by Vanessa Carlton.
I'm stupid. Don't Worry About Me by Prime

(01:37:19):
STH. Take It Off by The Donnas.
California by Phantom Planet. Hello by Sugar Bomb, Pop Lock
and Drop it by Huey Home by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic
Zeros. Why Cry by The Panic Channel,
Tangerine, Speedo by Caviar, andWho Let the Dogs out by the Baha

(01:37:40):
Men? Fucking love that.
Who let the dogs out is on here.Absolutely, that's the opener.
And real quick, if I said the song was pumped up kicks just
what I needed, that would be. Foster the.
Cars. Kinks.
You. You got it together.
Foster the cars. Cars.
Oh, that's how we finished it, Rod.

(01:38:02):
We got it together. You got it together.
Great job. We got it together.
Can you do like the the more youknow sound boon Ding Doon Ding
right at the end when when we got it together.
Don, sorry, I'm I'm in, I'm in rabbit hole mode like you like
for some reason that band I'd never heard of that you just
said. Chester French.
Sparked just sparked a bunch of like neurons in my brain and now

(01:38:24):
I'm like, oh, remember CSS, Oh, remember Octopus Project?
Like, oh, remember all these like indie dance groups?
Yeah, in the 2000's, the gossip.Oh, remember the guy?
Like now my brain is just. There's gonna be a problem.
I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight because my brain is.
I hope you I hope you listen to so much good music tonight.
That's a good problem to have. How to?

(01:38:47):
Make a mix tape. Thanks for coming back, Jason.
Thanks for having me. Second, third time, guys, I'm
going to eat some pasta. For future reference, whenever
you think a game's going to be really easy for me and Don, and
you've dumbed it down for us, you don't realize how dumb we
are and you have to dumb it downmore.
That's true. Make it So here's what I'm going
to do the next time you guys have me on, I'm just going to
bring a stack of CDs and I'm going to hold it up in front of

(01:39:08):
me and then just all you have todo is tell me what the great.
Is that a good blanket? You need to do.
You need to find as many albums as you can that have no type on
the cover. That'd be a fun actually game
for trivia of like, here's a cover with no topography on it
and they have to. Ask who it is, for example.
Black Album. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(01:39:29):
That's great. Yeah, yeah.
I'm on it. All right, this was.
Fun. This was fun.
Go eat. Go eat your pasta, Jason.
Get out of Ryan's basement, everybody.
Good episode, good mixtape. Order a piece of merch just like
Evan did. Be like Evan order a piece of
merch How to make a mixtape.com.By the way, did you watch Evan's
Instagram story where he was playing refused for his

(01:39:51):
daughter? For his daughter in the car.
I sure fucking did. Very cute.
Fantastic. Very cute, not a big.
Fantastic. Yeah, she didn't seem to hate
it. I think she was trying to be
nice to her dad. All right dudes, till next time.
All right.

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