624 - Blondie - Call Me

624 - Blondie - Call Me: Chris, Nick, and Andy break down Blondie's "Call Me" from the 1980 American Gigolo soundtrack. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Are you? Yes?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Give it up for Douc Gibbs in the Emerald Live Band,
taking you back a few years. Yes, Welcome to Spooktober.
You're on Pot of Thunder, the recognized symbol of excellence
and rock and roll podcasting, brought to you by Patreon
dot com slash Pot of Thunder. So many tears you

(00:55):
a good kind of tears? Well you won't be shedding
any this month.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
You know that's another story. Hey, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
But hey, t I E. R S Yes on Patreon
dot com slash pot of Thunder. Tell him about it? Hawk,
All right, nothing, you know who I am, but let's
find out together. Bend your knees, put your hands on
my shoulders.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Litz get y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's the conger King of Northwest Indiana. It's your buddy Andy,
America's little brother. Spoken word during the song. This time,
instead of letting it play out.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why not try something new. It's an evolution.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's a new month. I'm a new man. Try new things.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Over there there's a guy I don't know what he's doing.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Rising to his feet. Look out, Jesust.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Things fall. That was a good time to do it,
because we're on the solo camera. Here, ladies and gentlemen
behind me.

Speaker 6 (02:06):
I don't know what's happening, but he's gonna do something.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh looks entered the program. Frank and Nick is in
the house.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Well, it just the spookiest month of the year.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
What do you even call that? I guess some kind
of monster stepping, stiff legged monster stomping across the studio.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
It's one way to put it.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yes, I did.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
That the other day after I had a bad Wendy's.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Couldn't even bend your knees. It would have been disastrous.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
I thought it was because of some only fans video
that you edited gave you a stiff lag.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
No, no, I'm talking just diarrhea exclusively. That's a diarrhea walk.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
That fors does holding it in.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
I think so.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
And you were at Wendy's last week. Yes, this Wendy
is a common inducer of dinon. Got me baconator, Damn
you you're you're way too old to be eating bacon as.
I'm sorry, you gotta you gotta put a stop to that.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
I'll stop and I'm in the ground.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Those will put you there.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
We'll see who wins. It's a battle a l B
versus baconator to the very end. We'll see, Hey, Nick, welcome,
What do you say? Nick?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I see, let's move on to the next guy.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
All right, to Nick's immediate left.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
You on him?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
We got him? God can have it? Da Hen.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Get out of our way.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, you cotrands together to breakout Star of the podcast Medium,
Chris els here. Hell yeah, it's Spooptober. We're gonna get it, y'all.
As we said earlier, we are gonna get it. Possibly
whatever it is, we're gonna find out together. It might
get us, might get us.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Well, we got to explain what's going on here?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Who wants to do that?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
And sure so in past years, well you know, we've
we've toyed around with the premise of what Spooptober is.
I don't have the exact description of what we what
the terms were that we laid out, but you know
it was something that was either perceived to be weird, spooky, scary, odd,
some kind of song. And we chose it individually, not necessarily,

(04:52):
from the listeners submission list that you can access on
patreon dot com slash Pot of Thunder at the very
lowest tier, and.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
It was becoming increasingly, at least from my standpoint, increasingly
difficult to come up with a good pick for Spooktober. Yeah,
so we decided to come at it from a different angle.
What is that angle?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
And the spookiest angle of them all?

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Certainly scary, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's dicey, it's risky. It's going to be an action adventure.
I don't know if it will end in victory or defeat.
But what we're going to do is we're going to
go to the listener's submission list, like we normally do
on non themed months, we will hit the random generator.

(05:42):
And I'm scared to even say this, but the first
option we get we have to choose. No take back sies,
no Bushwicks, no exceptions whatsoever. Right, So, it could be
your band. It could be a band that we've decided
we don't like. It could be a band we all love.

(06:03):
It could be some a band we just did a
song about, and we might have normally pushed it off
for the future.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I don't know. It's a game of pot thunderstand roulette,
it is.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
So if it's on the list, if you added it,
it is in play first pull. We'll see what it is.
No hemming and hawing.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, no options, no options. Yeah, it's just no way out.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah yeah, it's gonna be dangerous. And also I'm not
trying to take that money out of your pocket. But
I know you got some extra. I heard about what
happened at work.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Of all. Congratulations, we all heard about your good fortune.
So the email got sent out to all of us.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
We saw the newsletter, the corporate newsletter about your increase
in pay and responsibility. What we need you to do,
This is the time to do it. Anything you add
to the listener submission list is in play, like we said,
so hey, do whatever, do what you will do. We're

(07:06):
at your mercy.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
How many way up to on there? About fourteen hundreds?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
There's like sixteen hundred and eighty seven.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Shit okay, yeah, let me double check that that's right,
so someone could go on there and spam it.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Actually two more two more were added since I last checked,
So sixteen eighty nine.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
Sorry, you had to plant that seed, didn't you.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Oh, I'm those who would do it were already thinking it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
Well still it shouldn't have You shouldn't have spoken that
out loud.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, let's just get everybody who can submit to spam
and it'll cancel out.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
There you go. Hey, if they're all on Patreon giving
their harder, well it's not really that harder. No, we
saw the responsibilities. It really sounds like the same thing
you were doing. Yeah, you're just you're getting away with murderers,
just a different title.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
But hey, we got it.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
If you've decided to come to patreon dot com slash
pot of Thunder and cough it up, as we say,
spam away, do what you do, do what you will.
It's your game to play. But before we get into that,
we're gonna do that. In a moment, Nick said, I
brought treats, did no utensils necessary? Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Now.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Easy for me to say, because the onus is not
on me to create it. But you can't have in
October of any sort Halloween month without treats each week.
So yeah, it has to have it?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Shall it shall be?

Speaker 2 (08:50):
There's a treaty?

Speaker 5 (08:51):
What do we got?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
It's an experimental treat it always is we have. I
don't even have a name for it, to be honest
with you. Combination of a few things here. So about
a month ago or so, I made I looked up
a recipe for a crumble like that you put on
top of whatever, not a cobbler necessarily, but a crisp

(09:15):
or something like that, just you know, like a butter brown,
sugar flower kind of a thing, cinnamon, and laid it
out on the pan, you know, and crumbs, and baked
it and did my business with it afterwards.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
And then as long as you didn't do your business.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
On then my wife said, these are these are really good.
I wonder what would happen if you rolled that same
dough into a ball and made a cookie out of it.
So these are crumb topping cookies.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
And old ball roll ball cookies.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
And I I couldn't just.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Leave it at that, of course not. We had not
what Nick Jones does.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
We have tiny apple tree that actually produced some apples
this year, picked some off, diced up a few slices,
put them in, so you kind of have like an
apple crumble cookie of sorts, so many with a little
apple pie spice in it, just for good measure. They're tiny, Yeah,

(10:21):
I diced them up pretty small. I didn't. I didn't.
I knew they weren't going to be very large cookies,
so I didn't want it to be huge slices in there.
So that's what we have, Apple Crisp Cookie. I guess
we'll come.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, Canary cris try it first. If he falls down,
I'll know not to eat it.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yeah, that's very good.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
All right, all right, well, thank you Nick for that.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
See if it's somehow ties to this week's song, I
can only imagine we'll find out together. M all right,
you guys ready for this? Yeah, let's just do it.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
It never will be, but yeah, that's it's like, it's
basically the cage is being lowered over the studio right now. Yeah,
that's what it feels like. All right, they're locking the door.
Oh there's no way out. We gotta climb over, and
none of us are in. None of us are willing
to do that. So we're gonna have to just battle
whatever it is. Probably lose.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
We're putting it off. We got to just jump into.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
It, all right, Nick, pull it.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
All right?

Speaker 2 (11:34):
So you guys saw what's the number three twelve three twelve,
three twelve. I'm gonna look actually yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, I'm not looking at it.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
I'm not gonna get something else.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'm not gonna look at the screen.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
My my reaction is.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Okay, yeah, it could have been could have been worse
coming from you.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh no, yeah, all right, guys, ready, hold on a minute.
Are you doing something over there?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, you're up to something.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Hmmm.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I don't know if I feel relieved from Andy's reaction.
It's hard to tell, hard to tell which way it's
gonna go.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Jackie said, while Chicago's area code, that's true, won two.
Does it mean anything? No, it doesn't mean anything to this. Well,
the title of the song kind of.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Does the artist does not? Okay, and what it's three twelve? Huh?
Probably not the song I'm thinking. Well, Andy actually would
have would have jumped out the jumped out one window,
ran around the block, and jumped back in another window

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if it was the song that I was thinking of.
So never mind, No, no, you got anything over there.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
A minute.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
As Camarado says, cubs are going to the NLDS. That's right,
they won earlier today about it beat the Padres.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
So I don't know, Andy, did you try your cookie? No,
what's the hold up? What are we waiting for? What?
What are we waiting for? Exactly?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Nick Culick asking, so tell me, Andy, what is it
we're waiting for exactly?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
You see, Nick is stuck by a train over on
forty fifth. They redid the road since then just because
of that. Because of that day. They listened to the
culic bridge we call it now that goes over forty
fifth the town listen.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
To that episode. I think I can come up with
something here, so.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Uh it is.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Up?

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Is all right?

Speaker 5 (14:19):
I didn't cobble this ship together because us coming right
at me under this year of the search. But he'll
never get this in a million years, Nick, But who
is the pope in the year three twelve? Cleat us
the second incorrect pope? Miltiades? Yeah, I never would have

(14:42):
m I L T I A D E. S.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Probably the first and only if I had to guess.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, there's there is no number after his name, okay.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
In October three twelve, Constantine defeated Maxentius at the Battle
of Milvian Bridge to become the emperor. He later presented
the pope with a palace with the Palace of Empress Fausta,
where the lateran palace, the papal residence and seat of

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Central Church administration, would be built. Being the first Pope
under Constantine. His pontificate coincided with Constantine's peace to the Church.
I don't know what any of that means, but some
it's been a long time since we did the pope stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, some kind of battle at a bridge though.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
Yeah, Pope Miltiades.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
And the Pope was in the battle.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Really ascertained that.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Maybe back in three twelve it was like Pope Theodore
Roosevelt or something.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
We got a picture of him. It kind of had
a mull going on back and.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Through that hairstyle would would work for him these days
in popular culture.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
No doubt that's happening right now. All the high school
boys it is doing the miltiest the.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah well fashion fashion icon literally an icon that we're
looking at.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
You could pleap. He could be playing right wing for
the Utah Mammoth of the NHL. That hair do that's
their name this year.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Isn't it?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I think so that? What was it last year?

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Hockey club? They change it every year. No, they just
they couldn't come up with a proper name the first year.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Is that unbelievable? You couldn't come up with a name
in time? How do you do don't understand how how
could that happen? Just doesn't make any One guy could
come up with a name. They've probably got a team.
You just say that you're.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
The owner, You decide on a name, You pick a name.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You don't say I'm not sure there's a cutoff day
and that's it.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
That would be like our show called the podcast when
we started and then like three months in, oh, it's
pot of thunder now because we finally came up with
the name Kiss Podcast, Like, how do you how do
you get rolling without a name? It doesn't make any
fucking sense. It's one thing if you have your name
taken away because it's racist.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
But just entering the league, I was like, what are
you talking about? You're talking about football team and the
Washington I know, I was like, what podcast did that
happen to?

Speaker 5 (17:33):
The racism podcast?

Speaker 3 (17:36):
The racist Kiss podcast?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
All that Kiss podcast names were running through my race.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Kissed was the name of it, I believe, Yeah, I
remember that, all right? All right, so you got the
song choice and it sounds like you didn't hate it, no,
and you.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Know it's right between two Caruso brothers.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
So near miss idiots either side.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
But all right, let's turn the microphone over to Chris Jericholl.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
This one's called.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Call Me Off American Jigglow Soundtry Blondie.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
All right, Yeah, yeah, nothing to be scared about here. Yeah,
scary going into it, but yeah, that that could have
been way worse.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Obviously dodged a couple of bullets.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
We did.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
It would only be scary if it was if we
were watching backstage footage of their Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame induction. What did they do? Weren't they Wasn't
it one of the ugliest uh in the rock Hall's
history as far as just a turmoil between vague But

(18:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
I don't remember the exactly I.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Think it even I think it even happened on stage.
Did they perform? No, I don't know if they performed,
And if they did, I think it was one of
those things where it was like kind of like a
CCR thing where Folgerty was like, yeah, we're all on stage,
but me and my band are playing. You guys aren't playing,
And I think there was some sort of drama. Well,

(19:22):
I think there was a lot of drama surrounding there.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Thankfully to the AI overview, which is the new Google
search results. Blondie was inducted into the Rock and Hall
of Fame on March thirteenth, two thousand and six, which
is almost twenty fucking years ago. First of all, it's
crazy at a ceremony in New York City, though former

(19:46):
members Frank and Fonte and Nigel Harrison caused a stir
by appearing on stage and expressing their disappointment at not
being allowed to perform and not being recognized as part
of the induction. Inducted alongside other acts including Black Sabbath,
Miles Davis, and The Sex Pistols. So yeah, the Rock

(20:09):
Hall decides which. You know, most bands have had multiple members,
some numbering in the dozens. The the organizers of the
Rock Hall decide which of those members get to go
in and which don't. And I don't know, what do

(20:31):
you guys think of that? I think that's kind of bogus.
I mean, I get that you might want to limit
it if they had, like, again, two dozen members and
maybe a guy was in the band for three months
or something.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Who does it hurt exactly?

Speaker 5 (20:45):
It does?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
And what storage medium is so scarce that they can't
put twenty four guys names instead of six.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
Now, you're right, put them all entirely correct. If you
are another way, passive, aggressive way to take shots at
bands to exert their you know, their influence. So, for
lack of a better term, to remind the bands that
we're making this decision and we decide how it's going

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to be and just put everybody.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
It's where do the names go? Is it a plaque?
Is it in a database? I don't even know. You
know how many how many rows there are an nxcel
file countless? It's no problem, there's no although you could
get that whole issue where it says there are no
rose left and you have to delete it, and it doesn't.
It's a whole I've never made it that far. It's yeah,

(21:37):
I never knew that exists.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Has an old version, it has a trial version of
Excel or something.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Andy, what are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I don't know what. It's hard to say because, like
you said, if a guy was in the band before
the first record or something, you know, like, oh he was,
he was with us when we were playing clubs, but
we didn't do anything.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
But along those lines with the Chili Peppers, wasn't a
guy who fit that exact description. Make it in and
Navarro who was not included or like some of the
other Jack now Jack Irons, Mutt.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
He Jack Irons.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, but it was those two guys that were on
the first record whose names escape me now when it
wasn't hell L and Jack, it was two other guys.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
And they were both in.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, they were in.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
And Navarro not even knowledge that was part of the band.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Why not put everybody? Who what if it's a band
that's a Hall of Fame band, Who's to say that
during their formative club years a guy who was in
the band for a year or something or a few
months didn't have some sort of in agree.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Just put it, put it on there. I mean put
remember that the band's ever had. Therefore, Matt Cameron will
be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame about
sixteen times. Why not?

Speaker 5 (22:56):
And I'm no I'm certainly no Blondie expert, but I
know the name Nigel Harrison. I know he was a member, like,
if not an original member, he was on like the
iconic Parallel Lines albums and stuff like that. Why would
he Why was he excluded? I have no idea, but

(23:17):
I think it's bullshit, And I'm gonna side with those
guys for getting up on stage and causing a scene.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I'm all for that.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, that really should happen more at the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame, because otherwise, when do you hear
about it when you're supposed to be outraged by some
of the selections of the nominees.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yeah, you don't hear.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
I think it's by design. That's just me. That's just
me the impression that I'm getting. And when Steve Miller
gets it to the microphone, that's the only time you
hear anything about the rock Holmn's what I mean. Really, Yeah,
what is there to get excited about? That's true.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I don't care unless someone acts a fool, that's it. Yeah,
But it all goes according to plan and there's no drama.
It's not very interesting.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
I totally agree. Maybe that's what they're going for, to
try and drama up that kind of drama and it worked.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Kiss fans talked more about it when Kiss got in
because Kiss didn't play than if they did play.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's probably true.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Tony Griggs had it pissed off Paul Stanley that the
only the original four could get.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
In sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, which that is completely outrageous,
totally what ten guys have been kissed? You can't let
ten guys in.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Especially for how long some of those guys exact Eric
Singer's got the longest tenure out of any other member.

Speaker 5 (24:45):
Eric Carr, Bruce Kulick, limit excluded. They were throughout the
eighties and like it or not, kiss was still pretty
damn popular in the eighties anyway, but Blondie landed on Blondie.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
This song came out nineteen eighty. I will admit, I'm
I mean, I was only it's still I'll admit very much,
just familiar with the big hits, but just things, bits

(25:21):
and pieces of things that I've heard about the band,
how like influential they were, how huge they were. I
worked with a guy from the UK and he told
me when he was a teenager, every guy he knew
had de Wi Harry posters. Yeah, in the UK, in
the UK particularly, I guess like they just were crazy

(25:44):
for this band, and particularly the front woman. I guess,
at least according to what I've heard. I'm sure we
have a few listeners who can verify or shoot that down, but.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
Well, they were a part of that whole CBGB scene
that included the Ramones, included television, included talking heads. Go
down the list and you know, just those bands that
I've listed, completely different musical styles, but all came from
the same scene, same network of venues in New York City,

(26:24):
so highly influential. And yeah, you know, late seventies young
men were way into Debbie Harry. So yeah, in the
parallel lines each of the beat those were huge albums.
And then this soundtrack placement for American Jigelow.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
So this is the theme.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh yeah, credit not an album track, I guess, or
did it appear on a subsequent.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
It looks like it came out on a subsequent album
from what Andy's pulled out.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
No, it looks like they put it out as a single.
That's oh all right, yeah, but yeah it was. That
was It's your release and then obviously on Greatest Hits
and stuff later. But yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
It was performed on the Muppet Show.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
That's a that's an interesting juxtaposition from the American Jigglo
to the Muppet Show casting a wide net in terms
of who you're trying to appeal to.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Well, Muppet Show was I'd say for adults for the
most part, right, the original show.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, but whenever you have the Muppet characters, it's going
to draw kids in.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Though I don't know. I think they might be one
of those franchises that it appeals to people of previous generations.
And I don't know that kids these days that you
could really put out anything Muppets and they're really gonna
bat and eye.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
I don't think they care. I think now it's a
grown up thing.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
I think, well, yeah, but back in the Muppets started
on Sesame Street, which was a kid show by nature,
so so maybe they were trying to branch out into
the adult audience and maybe it captured that. But still,
if you have characters from Sesame Street, kids are going
to be paying attention to it.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Back then, Well I could be wrong here and we
might be getting too specific, But weren't they separate characters
that were supposed to be for primetime TV instead of
I mean, there were still Puppets or whatever, but they
weren't the same characters that were on.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
I think they well they made appearance on Sesame Street. Yeah, yeah,
and yeah it was all the same people working on both.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I knew that, but yeah, they were like they was
Kermit and stuff that was more well and if you've
if you've ever seen the old.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Commercials, have you ever watched those? They it was black
and white commercials from like the sixties. Oh, I've seen
all that. Jim Jim Henson was commissioned to do these
coffee commercials, I think, and they're all puppets, but extremely violent.
I went to really just out there surprising that there's something.

(29:11):
They wrote him a blank check as far as content goes.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
He did some psychedelic stuff too, like experimental films. I
went to this Jim Henson film festival one time. Really
a bunch of them. I don't know what I'm talking about.
Kermit was definitely on Sesame Street. I'm thinking the other
characters though, like I think they all Ernie. Well they were,
but they weren't on They didn't cross over.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Right, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah, yeah, Well they're all about cameos. I guess, so
a lot of cameos. Yeah, all right, except I don't
think Cameo ever did a cameo, and was he not
welcome them uppets? I don't know, but started gofund me whatever.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
I think Cameo was an original guest on Race Kissed.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
He broke the color bearer?

Speaker 5 (30:01):
He did it did. That's when they finally changed their format.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
It's called the apology episode.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Yes, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Won't say what kiss podcast they became, but I don't
know of them, all of them making it just Yeah,
there's about fifty of them. Huh, fix it to your
favorite one.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, Jackie's confirming Muppets and Sesame shout our separate entities.
Only Kermit crossed over.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Okay, okay, yes, but the the aesthetic of these fucking
puppets on Sesame Street carries over to the primetime show.
Kids are going to follow that. Okay, that's what I'm saying.
This is becoming a distortion of what I'm trying to

(30:49):
get across along the lines of my whole books rand,
which nobody has ever understood. I'm not even going to
get into it because it's a running joke, and fully
board with that aspect of it. But the original intent
of my statement completely gone into the vapor. So that

(31:11):
thus ended the debate on the fucking moppets.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Okay, all right, okay, let's take a quick commercial break.
Oh you know what, Before we do that, let me
read who this came from? And what Yes, this is
from Dave Cranston, Hello Dave. Dave says, just a huge
hit from one of the defining artists of the era.
Small Type Bad Eyes spent six weeks at number one,

(31:37):
and it's also a pretty classic eighties film that put
Richard Gear on the map.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Six weeks at number one. Huh, I didn't know my Sharona,
let any other song on there?

Speaker 2 (31:48):
What was it for your birth year?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Huh yeah, I mean that's my understanding. The year I
was born, everybody was my Sharona crazy. I guess call
Me bumped it.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
You know it's there fifty two weeks and a year, So.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
All right, let's take a quick commercial break and we'll
be right back with call Me.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
I guess. I don't know if the word iconic. Just
the beat from the get go, you immediately know what
it is. Yeah, it's there's only one. There are songs
that have a similar sort of driving quality to it that,
but it's like there's you. As soon as you hear it,
you know, oh, yes, this is this song. There's nothing

(32:45):
else right away, nothing else that you say, oh yeah,
it sounds like that song. This could be that. No, No,
this is for sure the one and only song that
sounds like this, absolutely and just it has. And I've
never seen American jigglow. Yeah, I never saw it either.
I mean, I mean, I don't know if.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
Shit about Richard Gear still don't.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
I never got Richard Gear.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
Yes, he's had some iconic roles this one officer and
a gentleman, pretty woman and whatever, but I don't know
he's he's he's kind of like Kevin Costner in my eyes,
just not not a good actor from what I can tell,
just just you know, good looking guy, you know, placed

(33:37):
and distart him by the people who pull those strings.
But in terms of like actual acting talent, I never
discerned any from him. But you know, I've done enough
for ranting about Hollywood. Stretching back to the pre show
live stream, So what are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Tony Griggs said, who is more boring? Richard Gear a Costner?

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Uh, that's a good question.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
More boring? I don't know, Yeah, I guess I guess
the word boring. Could I was gonna try to defend
Costner been in some great movies, but is he a
particularly electrifying presence? Maybe not? I think I would say

(34:27):
behind the scenes, he's he's worked on some.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Yeah yellow Stone or something that the series that have
put him back on the map. But in terms of
like just acting ability, there's none, I mean nothing there.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
You don't get al Pacino esque outbursts out of Kevin Costner. No,
he's he's always pretty I can't. I mean, I haven't
seen all of his movies, but he's pretty much the
even keel character at all times.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Right, it's ours. I know I've seen maybe four, and
I think that he's pretty much the same character in all.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
Four, especially if all four are his four Baseball movies,
which I don't know if he's done at least three,
probably probably more.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
I've seen two. I think what are the there was the.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
Boulder for Love of the Game, Field of Dreams.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
I've seen there's probably another one, yeah, and Dances with Wolves?

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Those are the baseball movie.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
Yes, what's the movie with Anthony Quinn where he's banging
his wife And I'm totally blanking on the title. But
if you dislike Kevin Costner as much as I do,
that movie is entertaining because he gets the shit kicked
out of him for that movie. It's worth it. Just

(35:51):
to see that scene completely. Maybe somebody in the chatt
will come up with the title. But Anthony Quinn is
in it, and whenever I see it on I'm like,
I hope it's around the time when he gets the
fucking shit kicked out of him, because I will watch
that sequence every time.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Every time I hear the name Anthony Quinn, I think
of the same thing. Andy, and I have a friend
who said that Anthony Quinn and one of his relatives
grew up in the same village in Greece. I looked
it up. Anthony Quinn's from Mexico.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Yeah, he just played Zora by the Greek.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, but he's from Mexico.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
Yeah he is.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
I don't know if you've spent time in Greece, but
he's from Mexico.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
Oh, and the movie is Revenge. I just thought of that.
If you ever come across it about midway through, you're
gonna want to tune in because he gets fucked up
in a bad way, and it's because it's him. It's entertaining.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
So he probably liked the big chill. Also for his role,
well he does.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
He doesn't actually appear in the movie. I mean, maybe
that hair brushing scene at the beginning.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
But he's deceased, right, Yeah, he's.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
The guy who commits suicide before the movie started, but
he doesn't actually appear in the movie.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Well that's it sounds like Desperate Housewives actually going on here.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Same storyline, is it? I don't even know. Yeah, the
lady commits suicide and then it's her narrating from beyond.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
I never knew that. Why were you watching Desperate house.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Her season was hot, hot, hot show. Everybody talking about it,
so so you checked it out. I used to talk
with the lady that I worked with about it. It
was I was in my twenties and she was nearing
retirement age. She was into it, and we would talk
about Desperate Housewives. Huge show.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
Now hot obviously in terms of popularity, but hot in
terms of sexiness.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Well, I mean, well, I'm asking you. I watched Well,
I mean it was all it was all good looking
people on it. If that's what you mean, Sure.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah, that's true. You had Uh it was Langloria was
in it.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, it was. It was all all hand picks and.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
From Beverly Hills. Ninja what was her name? I can't
shared a broiling hot in Beverly Hills Ninja. I mean, like,
off the chart hot, one of the hottest women in
film history in Beverly Hills Ninja of all movies.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
What a place to be.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
One of many reasons to watch that movie. It's another
brilliant low brow comedy. I like that. That's my favorite
Farley film by far it is. It blows away the
Tommy Boy and the Black Sheep for me. Okay, Ninja
all the way.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Your favorite Chris rock movie as well.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
I guess so that's probably the only one. He's pretty
good in a dramatic role in New Jack City there,
does a good job in that.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
All right, let's get back to call me.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Uh lyrically, I was trying to follow it there. It's
about color medior color Yep, what was I missed? Uh
the line leading right up to.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
The chorus I know where you're coming from.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
Oh that's all it was.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Okay, come up off your color chart, I know where
you're coming from.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
The coloring motif here, I.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Mean, it's pretty cool lyrics, but I yeah, I don't know.
I guess is that just sort of a I'll be
what you want me to be, color me your color,
I'll be your favorite color whatever. It might be, I
would say, so.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Yeah, just a different way of putting it. Nice turns
of phrase.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Yeah, so there's a so there's a bit of desperation.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
A little bit.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Yeah, mhmm.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Color Me Your Color Chris Camarados has color Me of
Your Color was also one of the lyrics that got
Race kissed.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
He beat me to it. I was actually thinking that
same thing.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah. Oh, and Jeff Stroup said that the first time
you heard this song was from the album Chipmunk Punk
by the Chipmunks. I think that's for me too. Maybe
I remember that.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
I got to look up what else is there? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (41:01):
See, that's this is this is I'm finding this highly
amusing that this song became a staple on Chipmunks and
Muppets releases and it originally tied to a movie about
a fucking jigglo. Well that was because that was one

(41:21):
of the things that was you know, was edgy about
the song is its connection to this movie about you know,
male prostitution. I mean that movie was kind of edgy
at the time, you know, the subject matter of it,
even though I don't know, I've seen parts of it
and just it didn't seem like anything crazy to me,

(41:44):
But I think just the word jigglo and the subject
matter freaked a lot of people out back in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah, some I might have to listen to this album
Chipmunk Punk. Yeah, i'mn have to punch it up later.
It's got starts off with a cars song, it goes
into a Nack song.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Is it available on that's a good question.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Two NAC songs. This song's on it. You may be
right by Billy Joel. I would like to hear that.
Let's see. I wonder if if I can jam on
it on the way home. It'll be nice.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
It's like, I mean, if you think about it, they
have what those kids bop albums, they there's some songs
that they probably have to clean up on there. Probably
in some ways. I mean sure Uptown Funk is on
there talking about talking about yeah, you know on Chipmunk Punk.
Well probably on that Chipmunk Punk they probably made him

(42:48):
even even edgier than before.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
But Alvin was having intercourse with Theodore's girlfriend in the
vocal Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Yeah. They did their uh smoking mirrors to the public
to sell the album, and everybody bought it. I don't
get it. I'm buying this. Did you hear what happened?

Speaker 5 (43:13):
That was? All right?

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Show my hands in the chat? How many people? He said?

Speaker 5 (43:17):
The promotional sticker on the outside cell of ade said,
you realize that the singer begged the drubber's girlfriend during
one of these songs?

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Right right, Well, let's see I got five bucks? How
much you guys.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
Lining up to Let's pull can't keep copies of the stock?
Telling lies to people.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Reminds me of when I worked at the record store.
Just it made me laugh. The one time I was
showing a guy a CD that that he asked for,
and uh, it just it was like a compilation disc
and it had just, you know, a woman with a
hardly any clothing on, and he shows it to his buddy, goes,

(44:01):
I might have to buy this. Look at those.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Boobs there, you go, Look at those boobs.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
Cover art moved a lot of album bad.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
I'm just saying, well, man, if you look at goes
back to like the fifties and sixties, you had just
any plain looking guy whose album it was, and he's
got three women surrounding him and they're all smiling and
having a good time. Yeah, it's it's been part of
the formula for a long time.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
Not anymore because it cover art is a little avatars
that nobody pays attention to anyway.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
So yeah, I guess now it would be what like
a live performance on the Grammys. Is where you go
for your.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
Yeah, for your outrage, no or rock and Roll Hall
of Fame induction ceremonies.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Are you just accidentally release a picture of your genitals
on social media?

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (44:56):
There you go. Is that what happens now? I don't know,
thinking what will people do now?

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Or you've hit your wagon the young Blood, which everybody's
doing nowadays.

Speaker 7 (45:08):
Yeah, that's a whole other conversation.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Every week. I think he's getting in. He's getting inducted.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
This year as a member of Blondie.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Apparently, I think so he's getting inducted.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
Noel Nigel Harrison excluded. But it's been discovered that young
Blood was in Blondie, so putting him in as a
member of Blondie.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Don't be surprised if they they fast track him in.

Speaker 5 (45:37):
Yeah, well, I'll bet you they chew horn him into
one of the performances this year's induction.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
I would assume so yeah, I'm sure his phone's bringing
off the hook.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
All right, let's keep going.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
Nick playing air drums over there. Their drummer, Clem Burke,
died fairly recently.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
I remember that.

Speaker 5 (46:18):
One of the top drummers of the of the era,
no doubt about it. I mean, huge, hugely respected in
drum circles. You know, Like I said, the whole band
they had, they had that. They had that dirty punk
edge of the CBGB scene and then you know, parlay

(46:39):
that and some pop success. But they had a legitimate
edge to them at the outset.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yeah, And I was just thinking on one of the
other few songs that I know by them is very
similar lyrical content, and that's on the telephone. I'm here,
call me basically say the same thing. So it worked

(47:09):
for him, apparently. I'm hoping she's the girl waiting for
you to call her.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
I mean, yeah, that's my favorite cover on def Leppards.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yeah, it's a great one for sure.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
Oh yeah, it's awesome. They do a great job of that.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
I hope great.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
I hope Jackie's joking in the chat you said young
Blood is doing the Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny.

Speaker 5 (47:31):
Now, well, Bad Bunny is he's in, but it wouldn't
surprise me.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
I hope you're kidding, but you might not be.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
It could happen for all we know.

Speaker 5 (47:42):
It wouldn't surprise me at all.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
I don't even know who Bad Bunny is.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
Puerto Rican DJ rapper, multi media star. He's hosting sn
L premiere this week.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Is it a guy? Yeah, okay, I didn't know. I
thought he's the right Yeah. I thought it was would
be a female based on the name.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
That's that's how he's a fella. He wrestled at WrestleMania
years ago, dabbled in wrestling.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
Okay, did a good job, and two was on an
early episode of Race Kissed.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Didn't go well.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
So as expected?

Speaker 5 (48:21):
Yeah, I don't know why ednybody expected Eddie episode of
Race kiss to go well, but who knows.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
You know, surprised there was more than one.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
Yeah, mm hmmm, let's keep going.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
Now, the chipmunks are delivering that set of lyrics. How's
that happening? How's that going over?

Speaker 3 (49:01):
I'm sure they changed it. I don't they mind. They
might not have.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
You have to look it up.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I'm just curious about designer sheets.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
We designer everything was the ship back in the day,
designer jeans for starters and just go down the list.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Members only sheets back then.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
Sergio Valente, Gloria Vanderbilt, Jeorde Ash Sassoon. Remember the Rangers
posed in Satsoon jeans and ads. Do you guys remember that?

Speaker 3 (49:33):
I think what was brought up on the podcast we
talked it.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
I looked it up.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
I don't remember it.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
Ron Duge Greshner Esposito squeezed himself into a pair of
fucking Sassoon jeans.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
Hilarious, great shit. I mean, if you're an athlete like
that and you get a crazy proposal, you're doing it right.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Especially yeah, especially if it's with teammates, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:59):
There was a fourth. I can't remember the other one,
but it was Greshner ended up marrying Carol Alt for
Christ's sake.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
It worked out one of the first athlete supermodel hookups
of all time.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
So according to what I'm looking at on the Alvin
and the Chipmunks wiki, they did not change any of
the lyrics of this song, so delivered as is edgy Man.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Alvin didn't care, No, they were fine with it. It's just
you know, the management.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Whatever, what do I know it was a different time.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
Yeah, you say, I can't protect kids from rolling around
in designer sheet. So again, I have brought probably a
staple of the playlist on Epstein Island at some point.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
I'm sure. I'm sure you're right. I haven't seen American Jigglow.
All I know is Richard Gear was in it and
it's about a jigglow.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Yeah, that's all I got.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
But if this song is the theme, is this from
the perspective of Richard Gear's character, then that.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
Sort of No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Necessarily Okay, I wonder.

Speaker 5 (51:16):
Because I want to say it's it seems like it's both.
But I want to say that the plot of the
movie is someone falls in love with the jiglow one
of his customers.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
It could be way off on that, but I don't know.
It's just would be kind of a disconnect of a
woman delivering the the vocal and having it coming from
the jigoloist point of view. Not strange things.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
I've never seen either, But isn't that pretty woman basically.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Kind of in reverse?

Speaker 2 (51:51):
I just flipped it.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Over someone for higher and then it goes farther than
it's supposed to Yeah, and Deuce Bigelow and Duce Bigelo.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
There you go. Yeah, the only the trifecta movies.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
So I wonder if Deuced Bigelo has scenes that are
parodies of American Jiggalo.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
I have no idea. I wonder if the song isn't it.
It's been a while since I've seen it. Yeah, I
probably never will again, but why not? You should watch it? Right,
First one's funny, one's second one was an absolute abomination.
Second one's pretty bad.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
Unbelievably you recommend the first one I've never seen.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Yeah, first one's funny.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
All right.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
I sent you guys a gift from the first one today.
When Amy Poehler's shouting ball hair.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
At the mid Okay, that's I did not know.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
That's one of Andy's go to phrase for well over
twenty years.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
And it's originated with that movie. Let's keep going.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
I don't know what kiama me. What language is that Japanese? Maybe?
Or is that.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
It looks like the next the next passage we're getting
is all in the same language. Maybe it's Italian. It
says it's Italian meaning call me.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
Okay, there you go, that's it.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Yeah, I could see that being the name of a
tea place around here, right, Chai mommy, Chai mommy.

Speaker 5 (54:04):
I can see it being the name of a variation
of salami like Genoah, Chia mommy, hard all the salami
very variations. Yeah, I'm gonna call deli is all day tomorrow,
do you know mean Chia mommy salami in stock Hello.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Hello, Howard's call them? Yeah, they got it. One place,
I argue with that guy in the spectrum who works
there for fucking thirty minutes. You were getting a situation.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
With that guy. No, it's nothing. It's when I talk
about a situation, so it's that confrontation. But there's one
guy who worked there. He will talk your fucking ear
off for thirty minutes. And you didn't even ask any
questions at all.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Okay, I thought you meant this. This guy's fighting with
people in there.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
No, he's just like, you know, we've got this going on,
We've got the cookout this weekend, and.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Is it Filipe or whatever.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
I don't think it's actually Felipe, but somebody who works there,
and like whenever he launches into something, you'd see the
the lady is at the cash register.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Rolling their eyes, like, well, this guy shut up, you know.
Apparently no was the answer.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
The answer is no, I've been drawn into that. Twenty
minutes later, I'm like, can I leave now?

Speaker 3 (55:31):
I have to go. Yeah, my wife is in the car.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
The steaks I've picked out of already spoiled room temperature.

Speaker 7 (55:39):
Right, very cool musically like great.

Speaker 5 (56:34):
Musicians, and very cool.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Like the whole bridge part didn't feel like a like, well,
we have to have a bridge because we have to.
It seemed like a very natural, like it was going
somewhere else. Very just very interesting, very I again, I
know of the song, I've heard it, but never sat
down and actually listened to it intently. But yeah, a lot,

(57:01):
a lot more, I guess, not maybe not complicated, but
just just the arrangement. There's more to it than I expected.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Well, and you go through their catalog, all sorts of
interesting musical things going on, from the Heart of Glass
to Rapture, and you know, go down the list of
and that's just the top level stuff. I'm sure there's
some very interesting deep cuts there as.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Well, and interesting tidbit. I guess. The musicians on the
Chipmunk Punk album Ringers, all of them like guitar, lead, guitar,
rhythm guitar, bassed, drums, keyboards, all played with a lot
of people and I checked all five of the musicians

(57:55):
on it. I played with James Taylor. Oh wow, they
all have James Taylor in common. Possibly other people. But yeah,
I mean, like it's funny how they'll have they'll have
those albums where it's creatively not it's not gonna paled

(58:22):
like Sergeant Pepper or something like that. But but you
get these people who are just the tippy top people
who are sought after. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
No, they didn't want to waste any studio time with
people who didn't know what they were doing. I'm sure
it was all right, we got money for this, We're
going to bang it out, bring in the pros, and
let's get this done.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Yeah, it's that.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
The California Rais and Get Out with an Album was
all like Motown covers, and that was the label that
ended up signing n w A, which is picked it
in the Straight Out of Compton movie. But really, yeah,
I remember that album came across the desk at the
college newspaper I had. Each term, we had an intern

(59:14):
who would come around and work on each desk on
the paper and whoever my intern was that week, Actually
I know who it is. It's my friend who's the
biggest Queen fan.

Speaker 6 (59:26):
I know.

Speaker 5 (59:27):
I made her review the California Raisins album and put
it in the paper. But yeah, they event that was
the same label that eventually signed it signed nw A.
What was that priority I think or something like that. Okay, yeah, wow,
but yeah, that's that's that's that's a whole sequence in

(59:50):
the movie Straight out of Compton, which is a great
movie anyway.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
I mean, let's let's face a California Raisins were as
hot as Desperate Housewives there. They were huge.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
There was Motown covers, you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Know, Yeah, the toys at hard Ease, I.

Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
Think, yeah, brilliant marketing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Uh if I'm not if I'm not mistaken. I mean
we're talking like early mid eighties when they came out.
Michael Jackson was involved, was he really? Yeah? I think
he had something to do with something with like the
choreography in the videos or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
They couldn't have got a lower person. They had to
go right to the top.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
I don't know, but yeah, he apparently was associated with him.
So again, they're not playing around with in the mid eighties,
who was bigger than that? Yeah, nobody. Hulk Hogan, Michael
Jackson straight.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
Out of Compton, once reviewed on Race kissed, I didn't
like the movie for some reason.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
I can't put my finger on it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
But the host said I could say that, quoting NWA.

Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
Yeah, there you go, it's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
I don't know how many times they asked each other
what it stood for on that episode.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
They couldn't get past the first let They only got
the first over and over. I don't know what kind
of show this isn't well, let's continue written by clement A. Bozowski,

(01:02:05):
which would be Clem Burke, Wi, Harry Giorgio Gim Moroder.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
I don't I'm sure he's another one of them. Yeah,
but I don't know everybody's name here.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
But yeah, man, that Clem could play the drums, huh.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
Yeah, and that's not even the real showcase for him.
He certainly on stage he cut loose a lot. You know,
one of those guys who clearly influenced by the classic
jazz drummers. Yeah, yeah, he's got those loose wrists.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
I just said. His whole style rooted in that, which
is sadly something that's just gone by the wayside over time.
But that was one of the best things about early
rock is that you know, all those guys were all
the drummers were influenced by you know, Gene Krupas and

(01:02:58):
the Buddy rich As the world.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Yeah, for sure, Jerry Kurrn said, Spuds mackenzie was on
Priority Records. Now, at first I'm like, oh, that's just
an eighties joke, but at this point, who knows?

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
It might be accurate. Well, everybody had an album, That's
what I mean. Yeah, did he put out an album?

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
I may have. I recall learning in school at a
recording class, they had a guy who an engineer. He
engineered a lot of stuff for years and years, and
he said he recorded Walter Payton's album. I'm like, I
didn't know he had one, and he said, well, it
never got released, but apparently everybody went in and at

(01:03:39):
least recorded an album. Why is Walter Payton's album not
there's anything wrong with it?

Speaker 5 (01:03:48):
You know it or not? Get a hold of let
Race Kissed to have the exclusive release of it. As
they try to mend fences and with their former reputation
behind them.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
They didn't change the name of the podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Well you know, you got there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
You know it's true.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
I can't just throw that away.

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Yea, as Valley going to just start from scratch.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Come on, your audience isn't going to follow you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
No, they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
It doesn't matter, same people, new name, They're not following you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
So everybody says when molly Crue had booted Neil and
brought John Krabbi, they're like, they should have called themselves
something else. Why so they could have played even smaller
venues to even fewer people. Absolutely not, it's not happening.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Yep. Jackie said that the third writer, that Georgio Moroder,
was a big disco guy.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Well, there you go. I looked him up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
It says he is an Italian composer dubbed the father
of disco.

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
Wow, okay, so there you go. It's Planner.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
So two people from Blondie and the father of disco.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Well, I mean it's nineteen eighty. I mean, I think
a lot of people had distaste for disco, but this
had uh oh, I.

Speaker 5 (01:05:12):
Had a beat, disco vibes.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
And it had a bit of a beat to it.
But it wasn't a disco song, so pretty interesting. Collaboration
worked out wonderfully.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
Yeah for sure. I mean, well, listen, I was a
cognizant of what was going on in the world at
that time, massive head, I mean, what was We talked
about another one recently. I can't remember what it was,
but you could not escape call me it was. It
was everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
All right, Well, it's time for me to vote because
I chose this song on the first pool and Gunpoint.
I had Gunpoint here in Spooktober from Dave Cranston, and
I'm giving it a sweet surrender.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Me and kind of like what Nick said. I'm gonna
steal pretty much Nick's thoughts before he gives them. But
it's a song I've heard a million times. It's always
been there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
You hear it in commercials or movies or whatever, Monk's albums,
walking into stores at you know, concertain event, wherever you are.
You just hear it in your life, you do. It's
the first time I've sat down and listened to it.
Always enjoyed it, but I never listened to it like this,
And it's more like it's a little more raw than
I remembered the guitar and bass playing along with the

(01:06:41):
drumming together. It's got more edge to it than I remembered.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Like I said, you're always going to get that element
with Blondie just because of where they came from, and
it just you know, it became huge pop stars, but
they never lost that that grittiness of the you know,
mid to late seventies. I don't even know if you
even necessarily necessarily call it a punk scene because there's

(01:07:09):
so much diversity going on there, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
Yeah, that's I don't know, that's a whole conversation in itself.
It is is it merely the fashion or is it
more of a philosophy of Well, I think it had
all of that. I mean, kind of doing what you
want and what anybody else thinks, you know, be damned.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
But I think that the common threat is all those
bands early on especially all had that raw edge to
them that kind of unified them.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
For sure. Nick got to give it a sweet surrender. Well, yeah,
I was trying to think of there's a quality to
her voice. I mean, she kicks it up, you know,
especially during the chorus, but during the verse, there's a
quality to her voice that I was trying to think,

(01:08:03):
what does it remind me of? Because there's like it's
musically it's up tempo, it's pretty aggressive but her but
then she's just kind of almost crooning notes over it,
and it reminded me of and not that I know
much material by this band, but it factors into Chicago.

(01:08:28):
It reminds me a little bit of the delivery that
the singer of the Smoking Popes would put out, which
I guess is kind of what from Morrissy in a way.
I think, So it's I'm no idea, I have no
hypothesis on that, but it's just something that I was
trying to think of. What does it remind me of
when you've got the kind of faster music and then

(01:08:50):
you're and it's just there's a certain range to a
certain like mid range, like I don't know, I couldn't
classify it as what type of voice, not tenor necessarily,
but maybe that's interesting. Yeah, it just it reminded me
of that. But yeah, that that middle section really I

(01:09:16):
thought it was just going to be quick and just
kind of get back into it, but they they kind
of stretched it out and kept going further with it,
and that that impressed me musically because I hadn't really
ever listened to the song that carefully. So I think
if anybody out there is a big Blondie fan, I'm

(01:09:38):
when I hear a band like this from this era,
I'm always interested in. Okay, I want to find a
pro shot live show on YouTube from like their prime
or just before their prime. Oh maybe just before this era,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Jerry Kern said that middle section was cut out of
the radio you edit.

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
Yeah, really, that would make sense for it just to
get more mileage on radio.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
But it is only three nine interesting, yeah, but you
know it's still too long.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
Still pretty long for a pop single.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
So yeah, if anybody out there can recommend a life show,
I'm sure there is one out there, all right, Chris.

Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
Oh yeah, Sweet Surrender for me?

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
Yeah. I mean. Parallel Lines was an album that you know,
I talk about all the time, the stoner older brothers
on the block who had all the albums that we
rifled through and listened to when they weren't around and stuff,
and Parallel Lines by Blondie was one that made its

(01:10:59):
way into several of those collections, and it always was
like stood out because it was, you know, unlike all
the other stuff that was that they were listening to.
But you know, Blondie was huge, massively popular. This was
a huge hit. Deborah Harry was almost on par with

(01:11:21):
Fairy Fawcet in terms of like being a sex symbol
in the late seventies early eighties easily. So you know,
you throw all those things together and then toss in
the father of disco and you just got a you know,
recipe for massive success. And that's what you had here.

(01:11:43):
And yeah, it's quality stuff. Never bothered with the movie,
but you know, you always you can't disassociate it from
the movie. But yeah, great, great stuff. Iconic band and
iconic front woman. Go down the list.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
All right, well, look where we find ourselves.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
I got a question for you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
Paul Stanley wants to know if Call Me is a
rock and roll Boner classic. I was voted by the
three rock and roll boners in this room.

Speaker 5 (01:12:34):
Hm. Hm, my vote is in.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
My vote is my votes in. I want to do
the same order.

Speaker 5 (01:12:47):
Sure, all right, rock roll boner?

Speaker 8 (01:12:57):
Oh yeah, yes, wow.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
Was Honestly, if you had me put money down and say,
what would any song from this month make it to
that yeah, I would say maybe not because we don't
know what we're going to get at all.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
It's a real crapshoot.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
So but yeah, Andy struck Gold. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:13:37):
And there's been some criticism on social specifically from one
Colin Taco Bell, that we've been, apparently in his estimation,
cavalierly handing out rock and roll boner status. This is
not in that category undisputed class from an undisputed iconic band.

(01:14:05):
You know, you got to acknowledge greatness when it comes
your way, and this is it. YEP.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
I can't argue with that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
If you disagree with us, we're sorry Colin.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Colin probably feels the same way about this one.

Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
You would think, so. I mean, I don't know anybody
who would have an issue with it. The only issue
would be it's their biggest hit. Therefore, you know, maybe
it's too commercial or whatever, but you can't put it
down just just for the song craft and also who
is delivering it. A great band in the history of rock.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
So how do you guys feel about a new segment?
I like it for just this month. I like it, Okay,
I've taken it upon myself. Don't ask me why love
the idea to come up with original, made them up
myself Halloween jokes.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
All right, Yes, I love this idea, so.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
Or as it will be henceforth known if it if
it goes past this week, the jokes come out at night.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
All right, the jokes, the joke.

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
Now, where are we sourcing these jokes from?

Speaker 3 (01:15:33):
Made them? Made them?

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:15:34):
You made them up?

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Made them up?

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
How many are we getting tonight to and is that
two each week?

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
Yes? Okay, I have a whole list of not saying
not saying people should be expecting. Well, I don't know,
we'll just get.

Speaker 5 (01:15:51):
Rid of don't under sill, just let the people.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
Decide, Okay, So, uh, I'm just gonna go randomly on
my little list that I made here. Okay, how do
you prevent getting shocked by a skeleton? Hmmm, I don't know.
Don't put your finger in his sockets? Are well?

Speaker 5 (01:16:24):
Since I feel like I should have guessed that one.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
Since, uh, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna roll with the
reaction there and see if I can double down on it.
Why did the zombie buy a refrigerator to store his leftovers? Hmmm,
I don't know. Don't ask why or else you're gonna
hear the punchline. Yeah, I can't think of it. Because

(01:16:51):
a mind is a terrible thing to waste. What are
you going to do? Thank you? Well? Well, did you
oaks come out next week? I don't know. I hope
they do. I don't know. It's all it depends on
the reaction.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
I think it's a good segment for this month.

Speaker 5 (01:17:11):
Yeah, I'm good with it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
Well, yeah, I guess we can close it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
Segment good. The jokes not so much.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
But hey, whether they're good or not, I will guarantee
you they are completely was.

Speaker 5 (01:17:23):
The last one?

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Again?

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
Read the whole thing?

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
Why Why did the zombie buy a refrigerator? It's a store?
Is leftovers because of mine is a terrible thing to waste.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
All right, Yeah, I guess I kind of gets.

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
Well, you know, people can use these at gatherings. Maybe
at work. There you go, you're putting up folloween decorations
at work? Yeah, tell your buddy. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
I can't remember which of my kids has it, but
one of them got this coloring book and each page
it's a Halloween coloring book. Each page has a joke.
But they are for sure worse than both of those jokes,
so you might have something here, Nick, Well, you might
be able to put these together, compile them in a
coloring book, sell it on Amazon.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Perhaps the jokes will come out next week.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
All right, well, until next time the joke all right, well,
thank you Dave Cranston for your mission the bullet there.

Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
We'll see if we get Bucky again the next week
or two.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
For Chris's hostage situation next.

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
Week scary, I'm not going to sleep well for the
next week.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
And hey, if you want to be like Dave, go
to patreon dot com slash pot of Thunder and you
can get access to the listeners submission list at the
lowest tier. Along with every clip we play on the show,
I'll have to add the jokes come out theme on there,
so you can make it your ring tone and original

(01:19:06):
music from our bands from our past, everything. You can
have it all, so you're gonna love it. We'll see
you there, will you will, And I think that'll do
it for this week here on Spooctober first episode of
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
But like we said, we'll be back next.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Week with Chris is selection that you put on the
listeners submission list. So until next time, bye, We'll get
in a bird.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
Are you ready for hit it?

Speaker 9 (01:20:10):
Bought a beautiful pumpkin from a second hand store.

Speaker 10 (01:20:15):
Didn't know how to play it, but he knew for
sure that one pumpkin felt good in his hands.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
Then ted wong.

Speaker 10 (01:20:27):
To understand that one pumpkin slung way down load was
one way ticket, only one way to go, So he
starts spooking.

Speaker 9 (01:20:41):
They ain't never gonna stop, gotta keep on spooking. Someday
gonna they get to the top. And being spooked, Toba
Hero got pumpkins in his eyes. He just spoke, Tobo Hero,
come alive tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:21:01):
And man, it is not well, not well. He needs
an intervention.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Thank you, Bob Caruso.

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
You gotta admire the commitment.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Yeah,