June 16, 2025 • 32 mins
We all know about the South Park theme, but were you aware that Les Claypool wrote and performed the theme to Robot Chicken, another long-running animated television program? Probably. We discuss his involvement in the show theme, its inclusion on this record, and Frankie takes the "miscellaneous instrumentation" quiz.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Josh freaky.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
What a couple of dump shits.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
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(00:38):
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I am one of the hosts of Primus Tracks. He
is coming to you from the thirty ninth floor of
Primus Tracks. Towers were robot chickens and animatronic poultry abound.
Frankie Berestein, Hey Joe, Hello listeners. Frankie, we are talking
(01:04):
today about a track that is thirty nine seconds long.
I think that might be a record because we usually
combine the interstitials with the following track, don't I don't
recall doing an hour on Granddad's Little Ditty we could have. Yeah,
pork chop probably deserves the ken Burns treatment or Hail Santa.
(01:27):
We missed an opportunity there. We're making up for it today,
folks by talking about track ten from your of Wales
and Woe release called Robot Chicken. There are other things
we do before we talk about the track. Frankie. One
I wanted to point out is that you can support
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Why would you? You are of discerning taste and you
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(02:10):
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Speaker 3 (02:34):
Is there any continent where they haven't been plastered yet.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Stickers have made their way all over this planet, Frankie,
what we haven't yet seen is one placed right on
the crumbled nose of the sphinx. That is one of
my goals is to get a Primus track sticker there.
Oh yeah, maybe on an Emperor penguin in Antarctica that
would be pretty nice looking. And how about on a
(03:02):
steamship bound for Madagascar.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That was a pretty wrath.
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Those are my three dreams. If you can help accomplish those,
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of support over there, and we have a growing community
over there. Frankie. We've added quite a few new friends recently. Fantastic,
(03:26):
very much so. It's a pleasure knowing you all. And
on top of all that, Frankie, we.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Have miss We told you about the upcoming reissues of
Sailing Disease of Cheese and Pork Soda on corresponding Cheese
Melt and Pork Explosion Vinyl.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Now, the pattern that I've noticed with these reissues since
a few.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Years back is that Each retailer tends to have their
own variant.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Have you noticed that?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And they're all in themed color schemes or skid marks,
but exactly Yeah, these parts are quite interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Each retailer will have their unique skid marks. That's right.
So heads up because Experience Vinyl has a sale in
Disease of Cheese on Cheese Wheale Vinyl LP and Pork
Soda on Canned Ham Vinyl. As you can guess, both
are quite different to the versions that we talked about
(04:36):
a few weeks back.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
These are available from different retailers, but I mentioned Experience
Vinyl because they have the best prices for both, so
I recommend you make your way over there and you
grab them before they're gone.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
If you ever wanted your own flat circle of processed
meat product, I think this is the easiest way to
get it and enjoy it. Any word on the mix
being used for each of these releases, Frankie, I.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Am not sure, but I would venture a Hasardo's guests
and say that Seas of Cheese might be the les
koitpl T thirteen mix, and I'm guessing Pork Soda might
be the same as the playing Vinyl edition that came
out in two thousand and eight and was then reissued
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on twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Our discerning audio files will let us know when they
pick up their copies.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The blurfs on the websites make no mention about any
new mixing or mastering.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Probably a standard reissue then, but they look so cool.
They do look pretty darn cool. I have a couple
pieces of miscellaneous debrief Frankie One, It's a small World,
and I'm not talking about the children's song or the
ride at Disneyland, although I am happy to report that
my mom, when she was a little girl, got stuck
on the Small World ride when she went to Disney
(06:05):
has heard that song for about an hour and a
half straight before they extracted her from the ride, so
she never wants to hear that song again. I say
it's a small world because my wife put up a
new Facebook profile picture and it had both of us
in it, and I was wearing a special shirt and
her cousin replied by asking, is Josh wearing a special shirt?
(06:28):
My wife answered in the affirmatives, said, oh man, we
just met the Special on GM cruise and we love
that band now. Wow, Yes, so they're picking up fans
all throughout my family, my extended family. At this point,
the other piece of miscellaneous debris I want toss out there,
Frankie is our good friend Matt Weineger, producer of Suck
(06:49):
On This, Frizzle Fry, one of the many mad geniuses
in the Great Band.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Bandpole and also Mona Litho Phobos.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Grammy winning pretty So this man, so many titles, so
many great credits to his name. He's a good follow
on Instagram. By the way, at Whiney, he tossed up
a cryptic looking story the other day. Frankie, did you
see it?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, I was intrigued.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It appeared to be different tracks of Lure's guitars, what
I would assume would have been from Frizzle Fry because
he had puppies playing over it. And I asked Matt
if he was getting his wish of remixing Frizzle Fry,
and he said, no, but we have something cooking. What
(07:35):
I did not press further. I have no further information,
but something is cooking and primus Frizzle Fry box set. Frankie,
just throw caution to the wind, let your imagination run wild.
What could it possibly be Frizzle Fry box set. I
don't know. Maybe you remember the frying pans they put out.
(07:57):
Maybe they're gonna groove the vinyl on there so you
can play the vinyl on your record player.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The eight most mix so round sound mix.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
That would be pretty sweet. We don't know what it is.
It's probably a low and slow cook, meaning we won't
get that product for a while. We're gonna have to
wait patiently until it's done. But whatever it might be,
I'm interested.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I don't want to wait for our lives to be
over to hear what they're cooking.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Frankie has thrown down his microphone. He is running to
Matt Weiner's residence and pounding on the front door, and.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'm guessing Matt is probably busy as well.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
With next of Kim Right the second bean Pole release.
We know that Derek's working on it. I would imagine
he has brought in his buddies to help him out.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And it's it should come out this year.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
While we are waiting for the forthcoming bean Pole, let's
talk about Robot Chicken. Frankie. Yeah, this one checks in
at thirty nine seconds. It is tracked ten on your
of Wales and Woe release. It of course, is all
Less Claypool. I enjoy the credit in your liner notes
(09:16):
which simply says Less Claypool miscellaneous instrumentation, vocals and the
vocals two words. Quite a simple track. As we know,
this was put together for the Robot Chicken television program.
The market difference in your liner notes, Frankie is that
all the tracks are published by Long Coorn Publishing, which
(09:40):
is Less's publishing entity through VMI. However, this one is
through ten fifty Music, and I would imagine it's because
he sold the tune and it's publishing to the Robot
Chicken people. A third nine second track, Frankie, do we
have a live history or anything we do?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I just wanted to point out before the live history
that Les has said that South Park theme song has
gotten him through airports quickly throughout the years, and I'm
wondering what would happen if he were to pull the
Robot Chicken card instead of the South Park one. So
if somebody asked at the airport, oh, to your musician,
(10:23):
what have you done? What if Lis said I made
the Robot Chicken title track, They'd say, rite this.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Wascer and he'd go into the TSA security room full
cavity search, and I remember him saying that that the
south Park song has gotten him pretty much gotten him through.
They go, oh, you're that guy, awesome head on through. Yeah,
that's it's pretty great. Robot Chicken probably not as notable,
(10:56):
but certainly less was a requested of it. And I
would imagine this was a quid pro quote to a
degree in a sense that Seth Green appeared in Electric
Gabricott in a cameo role unless provided the theme song
for a Robot Chicken around the same time. Yeah, roughly.
(11:16):
And so these guys are doing each other some favors
and having a good time together. What do you got
on this one, Frankie?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Okay, So believe it or not, Robot Chicken has been
performed seven times. We have Chicago on March twenty second,
two thousand and eight. Then we have Outside Lands Festival
on two thousand and eight. We have the House of
Blues in San Diego in two thousand and nine with
the Fungi band Cleveland. Then we have Red Rocks with
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Primus in twenty ten. Then we have stops at Austin,
Texas in twenty eleven, which is a fantastic show by
the way, because it includes Handy Bin Crowler. And then
we have Brooklyn, New York twenty twelve, last known performance
to date, and robot Chicken with Primus came about because
(12:11):
I don't know if you recall that since twenty ten,
Less used to have this tiny keyword on stage with him.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes, so he would walk.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Over there and then he would play robot Chicken.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Worthwhile mentioning that twenty twelve was a minute ago and
there was a vip Q and a where a child
requested Less performed robot Chicken again, and in traditional Claypool fashion,
he replied, I don't even know how that goes, no matter.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How many times he says it. It's funny. Yeah, So
we haven't seen robot Chicken for a while in a
live setting. Lots of teases of it. It would be
a short full performance anyway, But every once in a
while I recall the Outside Lands one because I was
a webcast, and he walked over to that little keyboard
started tapping on it and it sounded like robot Chicken,
and he stopped after about eight seconds and then went
(13:17):
about to the next tune whatever it was, but it
certainly caught my attention. Are you a Robot Chicken viewer, Frankie,
have you seen this program?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I am not a viewer, so would you care to
share your experience with the show.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Certainly, I have to imagine this was upon seeing it
was probably like catnip for less Claypool, being a stop
motion animation fan that he is, That's what this show's
format is. It's stop motion animation. It's chuck full of
all kinds of pop culture parodies and some original content
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and some just unimaginably goofy stuff. And I have to
say it's certainly resonated with me when I first saw
it in two thousand and five, which I believe is
when it premiered. Yes, and so I was. I was
hanging out with my buddies and we put on the
Adult Swim and there was a Robot Chicken. And I
have to say Adult Swim in that time period was
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stacked Venture Brothers, Aquitine, Hunger Force, Robot Chicken. Of course,
Sea Lab twenty twenty one Tom Goes to the Mayor
was pretty funny. So there are a lot of great shows,
and it'd be interspersed with some anime programs that I
didn't really get down with, but the goofball left field
humor of these adult Swim programs was just perfect for
(14:38):
me at the time. So I recall watching the first
few episodes of the first season in two thousand and five,
and I enjoyed it. I found it pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You steel, does your mind go to straight to adult
swim whenever you see a hamburger and a bottle of soda?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Shortly after that show premiered, Frankie, I moved to a
different place and did not have a television and so
I let alone. Cable TV didn't have any of that.
I did not see any more Robot Chicken, and I
never went back to it, even though I've had opportunities
in the intervening years. But I did appreciate it. I
thought it was pretty funny, and I think it gained
(15:26):
more notoriety for a Star Wars special or series of
episodes that they did with the blessing of George Lucas,
as I recall, and some buddies of mine who are
huge Star Wars fans were looking forward to it and
watched it, and I did not attend the screening with them.
Not a Star Wars guy, Frankie. Really yeah, never really
(15:49):
have been. I've seen episodes four, five, and six, and that's.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
All, Well, you're a Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Fan, right, more of a Trekker, yes, But I.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Never made the crossover to Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
No, never did. And really I've been ignoring Trek for
a while too. So there's like I just finally watched
season three of Picard because season one was terrible. I
heard season two was even worse, and I just didn't
want to watch it. And then I was assured by
multiple Trekkers whose opinions I respect that it was worthwhile,
(16:22):
so I watched.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
There are the films with Chris Pine appreciated within the fan.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Base, That is a great question. I think they are
highly divisive. I enjoy them.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I enjoy them as well. I think they're.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Great, and I think it's I think I enjoy them
because I am not so religiously married to the original
series and I'm okay with an alternate or timeline of
events that's not in the prime universe. There aren't too
many programs I hold sacred Frankie and even Trek anymore.
I just I just think, ah, they're they're screwing it
all up. So what do I care Robot Chicken, though, Frankie,
(16:57):
I guess it is technically still active. I read that
Seth Green announced that there's something coming in twenty twenty
five of Robot Chicken, and I was pleased as punch
that they've produced two hundred twenty episodes on eleven specials.
I was completely unaware how prolific they were with this show,
(17:17):
although I will say the coolest thing I learned about
Robot Chicken is the Mad Scientist is voiced by David Lynch.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Liz had previously contributed music for other shows and films,
but they never found their way to his records. So
why do you think he put rebot Chicken on Whales
and Wool?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I think it was probably composed around the time he
was working on the Whales material and decided to throw
it in. It's a nice interstitial and it certainly works
to space or create space excuse me, between Rubbel and
the Diesel and film Pino Ray. So I think it
just served that purpose and he had it laying around,
(18:05):
So why not have a perfect dozen tracks? I suppose.
I'm just this is all conjecture. Of course, obviously, South
Park didn't make it to a record. Hey all, Josh
jumping in here while editing to acknowledge that, yes, the
South Park theme did make it to the chef Aid record.
I was referring to Les Claypool and Primus Records withhold
(18:26):
your Angry communications and he was then tasked with Robot
Chicken and went for that. I'm sure there were many
others that he refused to record despite being offered, you
are privy, Frankie to a recording that he made for
a show that will remain nameless.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That never were right, Yeah, that is.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That is Pentagon stuff, that's Era fifty one stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, they can't stop us all I've heard tell of it.
I know that you have as well.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh so Seth Green, Frankie, how about Seth Green?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Since? Yeah, since Seth Green on a few films.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, I really only know him as far as films
from Austin Powers two. But I first saw him in
the second episode of The X Files, of course. It's
a really important episode in the series Mythology. He plays
a stoner teenager who sees lights in the sky and
he shows Molder where to go get a good vantage
point for the lights. In the sky above this Army base.
(19:32):
It's funny to go back to that episode and see
him when I watch X Files every so often, that
Austin Powers two and being the voice of I think
it's Chris and family Guy and other than that, haven't
seen him in much else. What do you know him?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Each? Each Chicken lasts about twelve minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, they're nice and short. You could power through two
hundred and twenty episodes pretty fast, Franky. It's stop motion animation.
They take months. Twelve minutes of footage takes ages, as
you know. As our palace Wester Webster Colcord told us,
what a fantastic format. I don't have much else to
say about this track, and it's so short. Actually, I
(20:13):
want to do this, Franki ed, I do want to
play the whole thing. I want to quiz you on
the miscellaneous instrumentation, which is how Less is credited on
this What instruments is Less Claypool playing on the robot
Chicken theme. I will play it, Frankie, and you can
provide your answers. What instruments, Frankie? Do you hear?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Do I hear guitar? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I think I do on the upper register, some kind
of synthesizer. I think that's accurate accordion, accordion. I definitely
that keyboard that he plays on stage from time to time,
that little one, although that's been replaced by the double
decker from the Kings tour that follows him on the
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road all the time. Now percussion, I think I heard
at least a floor tom beat box, beatbox. I also
think you're missing the most obvious instrument. Of course, I
think you found them all, Frankie, although I can't be
certain because it just says miscellaneous instrumentation, and of course
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we may never know, given the secretive recording practices of
one Less Claypool. I have a question for you, Frankie. Sure,
what part of the body is robot Chicken?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That is a great question.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I have an opinion on this, and I'll toss it
out first. I believe that the body part corresponding to
robot Chicken is the appendix. Why do you need one?
To live? Not really meaning? Can you skip this track
and still enjoy of Wales and woe? Absolutely? Is it
(22:31):
nice to have it? Sure it's not excised from you,
and it actually does serve some bit of a purpose.
So you know, robot chickens nice to have on the record,
but I could certainly live without it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Great.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Would you like to offer another body part in rebuttal? No,
I agree with you, completely beautiful. If you hold out
your pinky finger, Frankie, that's about the size of your appendix.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I did inquire online recently what purpose a pinky finger has.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it's actually pretty important.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, it certainly help with gripping objects exactly. Yeah, as
well as balancing that grip. One thing I learned is
that much of the strength in your your grip actually
comes from your pinky and your ring fingers. Yeah, and
so that outside of your hand is really important. So
(23:33):
that pinky isn't there to look pretty. It certainly has
a lot of utility. And you can also wear cool
rings on it and they don't get in the way
when you're doing something intricate with your other fingers. Oh,
I got a.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Little piece of tree and an extra piece of trivia
about robot chicken.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh, lay it on us.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
There's a performance I omitted from my rundown October eleventh,
twenty thirteen in Denver. We're talking about a duo the
Twang performance, Let's burst into Robot Chicken, but he stopped
and said, I had no idea how to play this
(24:16):
song anymore, and he only sang that it's a live portion,
and he said it must be a generational thing, referring
to the fact that some audiences are only familiar with
the South Park theme and not with Robot Chicken and vice.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Versa, even though they're less than ten years apart. Yeah,
it could be a generational thing with the it's a
live utterance on this track as well, because my mind
goes straight to Frankenstein.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That was kind of a It was kind of a
novelty at the time to see Less playing a keyboard
on stage.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah. Yeah, Now it's become commonplace with fibety Kings can sparanoil.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
It's interesting because I do recall an interview at some
point where Les said that what made Primus primus was
you had three guys on stage only, and you had drums,
guitar and bass only.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And I do recall him saying, you'd never hear a
keyboard on a Primal song. I guess little by little
he started to expand his vision, and it started with
that little keyboard that he had for Robert Chicken, and
now here we are with that massive keyboard on stage.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I don't see him ditching that anytime soon. So that's
a great catch there, Franky, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It has been really enjoyable. Not only can Sparanoia, but
he's he's also played it on Bob and it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I must have missed that. I don't think I've heard
that he's done.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, he's done the keyboard for Bob and it does
add this extra layer to the songs.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Drop a drop a Dayton location on us and I
will put that in the show notes Bob with.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Keyboard and it's fun to watch because obviously Les stops
playing bass and he plays keyboard.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Can't believe this, Frankie, we actually have a primate's take
for Robo Chicken. Wonderful, amazing. Our good pal Eric and
Australia says the following about Robot Chicken. Cash rules everything
around me. Maybe not the biggest money spinner, but how
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could they not double down after south Park? There you go.
I have to imagine that there was next to no
money for the south Park theme upon recording it, but
that the royalties afterwards were astonishing, and I would imagine
that there was nothing for Robot Chicken at the time,
(27:14):
and the royalties afterwards also nothing in comparison to south Park.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yeah, the royalties for south Park must have been street.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Just an excuse to say that. Yeah, okay, good, Yeah,
those MUCKs were on the same pitch. We have a
few more here. Lots of thoughts on Robot Chickens Skulligan
Val says, love it perfect, dirty drunk little carnival song.
I feel like the absynthe is hitting, just as I've
stumbled onto the Geek Show at this sleazy end of
the Midway. Nice Simon in Australia says, just let Primus
(27:53):
do all the cool TV show intros. They have had
great luck so far. We need a few more now.
Channeling my early twenties as well, says ah Yes, nothing
like falling asleep at the TV on and waking up too.
It's alive unless a creepy and mannic laughs at one
or two in the morning. This show is pure brainrot
(28:13):
and the song fits it. I could not imagine my
early teen through college years without hearing Robot Chicken or
the south Park theme bluring loud from the Old Idiot
Box in the morning, early morning hours, And for so
much of my generation, Lessons influenced and ben ingrained in
their life because of those two themes, and they don't
even know it. Finally, Brooks breaks a bill A novelty
(28:36):
for sure, but I like it. It reminds me a
bit of the DVD menu from Five Gallons. The song
is a lot more fun than the TV show ever was.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
It's a live.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Now that I think about it. It was kind of
hard to pick up the wamola because we're so accustomed
to listening to it the way that it's performed on
the title track with the Frogregate.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I suppose, but he makes so many different sounds with
it that I clocked it right away in two or
three different ways too.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, I can think of Mushroomman the title track. It's
been on other things as well, but here it was
kind of hard to pick up for me. But yeah,
oh interesting, you're blowing up over there. Gatta love Robot
Chicken for sure.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I do want to throw it out there to our listeners. Frankie,
if there is a specific Robot Chicken episode that supersedes
all of them that you feel is the greatest shining
example of the quality of that show. It's fulfilled potential.
Send the name my way. I would be glad to
watch it. There's probably no way I'm going to watch
(29:46):
all two hundred and twenty episodes plus specials, even though
there are twelve minutes apiece, mostly because I probably don't
have access to them with my current subscription lineup. Bitdorn
is my friend. So we have south Park and we
have Robot Chicken. If you, Frankie, could have less End
or Primus reimagine the theme to one television show, what
(30:12):
would it be? Wow?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Frank Sapa actually did the theme song for Duckman, which
is a fantastic avant guard piece of music that I've
always found really cool. And Ler being a huge Sappa aficionado,
I think it would be incredible to hear Primus tackle
(30:35):
something Duckman related.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, taking on the Duckman theme, I like it?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Well about you?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I would like to see Primus rearrange and perform the
theme to The Brady Bunch, Okay, I just think they
could do it and do it well. Think about it
if you hear the prima sized version of the Brady
Bunch theme when they're all in the squares looking at
one another on the screen. How psychotic is that?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Trivia? There's a fun guy for four months from around
twenty ten where you can hear list sing the Flintstones theme.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Now that is a generational thing too, that's when he
was a kid.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
All I can say is nice pulit cleanser, and what
about you.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I think it serves its purpose. It's a nice little appendix.
Robot chicken, you've been tracked. Next time, Frankie, I'll have
a bourbon and coke and we'll go down some primus
history with a legendary character. Primates, primatrons, people of Earth,
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robot chickens everywhere, animatronic poultry, no matter what sort. Thank
you all for listening. Later days, Will the Mace
It's Josh freaky.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
What a couple of dump shits.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
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Don't know if there are any imitators of Primus Tracks
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I am one of the hosts of Primus Tracks. He
is coming to you from the thirty ninth floor of
Primus Tracks. Towers were robot chickens and animatronic poultry abound.
Frankie Berestein, Hey Joe, Hello listeners. Frankie, we are talking
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today about a track that is thirty nine seconds long.
I think that might be a record because we usually
combine the interstitials with the following track, don't I don't
recall doing an hour on Granddad's Little Ditty we could have. Yeah,
pork chop probably deserves the ken Burns treatment or Hail Santa.
(01:27):
We missed an opportunity there. We're making up for it today,
folks by talking about track ten from your of Wales
and Woe release called Robot Chicken. There are other things
we do before we talk about the track. Frankie. One
I wanted to point out is that you can support
Primus Tracks in a lot of different ways. The easiest
way listen to the podcast, tell somebody about it, annoy
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them with it, make them question your sanity. Another way
is to let the ads at the end of the
podcast episode. Let them run. I don't know what they say.
I don't care. You probably won't buy the product anyway.
Why would you? You are of discerning taste and you
are not some kind of mushhead who goes out and
buys whatever your buds tell you to buy. As well,
(02:10):
you can go over to Primus Tracks on Instagram and
peep some of our sticker designs designed by Frankie actually
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email me primustrackspot atgmail dot com and I'll send you
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Speaker 3 (02:34):
Is there any continent where they haven't been plastered yet.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Stickers have made their way all over this planet, Frankie,
what we haven't yet seen is one placed right on
the crumbled nose of the sphinx. That is one of
my goals is to get a Primus track sticker there.
Oh yeah, maybe on an Emperor penguin in Antarctica that
would be pretty nice looking. And how about on a
(03:02):
steamship bound for Madagascar.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That was a pretty wrath.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Those are my three dreams. If you can help accomplish those,
you have my eternal gratitude. Of course. The other way
you can support the podcast is by going to Patreon
dot com forward slash Primes tracks. There are many tiers
of support over there, and we have a growing community
over there. Frankie. We've added quite a few new friends recently. Fantastic,
(03:26):
very much so. It's a pleasure knowing you all. And
on top of all that, Frankie, we.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Have miss We told you about the upcoming reissues of
Sailing Disease of Cheese and Pork Soda on corresponding Cheese
Melt and Pork Explosion Vinyl.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Now, the pattern that I've noticed with these reissues since
a few.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Years back is that Each retailer tends to have their
own variant.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Have you noticed that?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And they're all in themed color schemes or skid marks,
but exactly Yeah, these parts are quite interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Each retailer will have their unique skid marks. That's right.
So heads up because Experience Vinyl has a sale in
Disease of Cheese on Cheese Wheale Vinyl LP and Pork
Soda on Canned Ham Vinyl. As you can guess, both
are quite different to the versions that we talked about
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a few weeks back.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
These are available from different retailers, but I mentioned Experience
Vinyl because they have the best prices for both, so
I recommend you make your way over there and you
grab them before they're gone.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
If you ever wanted your own flat circle of processed
meat product, I think this is the easiest way to
get it and enjoy it. Any word on the mix
being used for each of these releases, Frankie, I.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Am not sure, but I would venture a Hasardo's guests
and say that Seas of Cheese might be the les
koitpl T thirteen mix, and I'm guessing Pork Soda might
be the same as the playing Vinyl edition that came
out in two thousand and eight and was then reissued
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on twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Our discerning audio files will let us know when they
pick up their copies.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The blurfs on the websites make no mention about any
new mixing or mastering.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Probably a standard reissue then, but they look so cool.
They do look pretty darn cool. I have a couple
pieces of miscellaneous debrief Frankie One, It's a small World,
and I'm not talking about the children's song or the
ride at Disneyland, although I am happy to report that
my mom, when she was a little girl, got stuck
on the Small World ride when she went to Disney
(06:05):
has heard that song for about an hour and a
half straight before they extracted her from the ride, so
she never wants to hear that song again. I say
it's a small world because my wife put up a
new Facebook profile picture and it had both of us
in it, and I was wearing a special shirt and
her cousin replied by asking, is Josh wearing a special shirt?
(06:28):
My wife answered in the affirmatives, said, oh man, we
just met the Special on GM cruise and we love
that band now. Wow, Yes, so they're picking up fans
all throughout my family, my extended family. At this point,
the other piece of miscellaneous debris I want toss out there,
Frankie is our good friend Matt Weineger, producer of Suck
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On This, Frizzle Fry, one of the many mad geniuses
in the Great Band.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Bandpole and also Mona Litho Phobos.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Grammy winning pretty So this man, so many titles, so
many great credits to his name. He's a good follow
on Instagram. By the way, at Whiney, he tossed up
a cryptic looking story the other day. Frankie, did you
see it?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, I was intrigued.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It appeared to be different tracks of Lure's guitars, what
I would assume would have been from Frizzle Fry because
he had puppies playing over it. And I asked Matt
if he was getting his wish of remixing Frizzle Fry,
and he said, no, but we have something cooking. What
(07:35):
I did not press further. I have no further information,
but something is cooking and primus Frizzle Fry box set. Frankie,
just throw caution to the wind, let your imagination run wild.
What could it possibly be Frizzle Fry box set. I
don't know. Maybe you remember the frying pans they put out.
(07:57):
Maybe they're gonna groove the vinyl on there so you
can play the vinyl on your record player.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The eight most mix so round sound mix.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
That would be pretty sweet. We don't know what it is.
It's probably a low and slow cook, meaning we won't
get that product for a while. We're gonna have to
wait patiently until it's done. But whatever it might be,
I'm interested.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I don't want to wait for our lives to be
over to hear what they're cooking.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Frankie has thrown down his microphone. He is running to
Matt Weiner's residence and pounding on the front door, and.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'm guessing Matt is probably busy as well.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
With next of Kim Right the second bean Pole release.
We know that Derek's working on it. I would imagine
he has brought in his buddies to help him out.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And it's it should come out this year.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
While we are waiting for the forthcoming bean Pole, let's
talk about Robot Chicken. Frankie. Yeah, this one checks in
at thirty nine seconds. It is tracked ten on your
of Wales and Woe release. It of course, is all
Less Claypool. I enjoy the credit in your liner notes
(09:16):
which simply says Less Claypool miscellaneous instrumentation, vocals and the
vocals two words. Quite a simple track. As we know,
this was put together for the Robot Chicken television program.
The market difference in your liner notes, Frankie is that
all the tracks are published by Long Coorn Publishing, which
(09:40):
is Less's publishing entity through VMI. However, this one is
through ten fifty Music, and I would imagine it's because
he sold the tune and it's publishing to the Robot
Chicken people. A third nine second track, Frankie, do we
have a live history or anything we do?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I just wanted to point out before the live history
that Les has said that South Park theme song has
gotten him through airports quickly throughout the years, and I'm
wondering what would happen if he were to pull the
Robot Chicken card instead of the South Park one. So
if somebody asked at the airport, oh, to your musician,
(10:23):
what have you done? What if Lis said I made
the Robot Chicken title track, They'd say, rite this.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Wascer and he'd go into the TSA security room full
cavity search, and I remember him saying that that the
south Park song has gotten him pretty much gotten him through.
They go, oh, you're that guy, awesome head on through. Yeah,
that's it's pretty great. Robot Chicken probably not as notable,
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but certainly less was a requested of it. And I
would imagine this was a quid pro quote to a
degree in a sense that Seth Green appeared in Electric
Gabricott in a cameo role unless provided the theme song
for a Robot Chicken around the same time. Yeah, roughly.
(11:16):
And so these guys are doing each other some favors
and having a good time together. What do you got
on this one, Frankie?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Okay, So believe it or not, Robot Chicken has been
performed seven times. We have Chicago on March twenty second,
two thousand and eight. Then we have Outside Lands Festival
on two thousand and eight. We have the House of
Blues in San Diego in two thousand and nine with
the Fungi band Cleveland. Then we have Red Rocks with
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Primus in twenty ten. Then we have stops at Austin,
Texas in twenty eleven, which is a fantastic show by
the way, because it includes Handy Bin Crowler. And then
we have Brooklyn, New York twenty twelve, last known performance
to date, and robot Chicken with Primus came about because
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I don't know if you recall that since twenty ten,
Less used to have this tiny keyword on stage with him.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes, so he would walk.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Over there and then he would play robot Chicken.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Worthwhile mentioning that twenty twelve was a minute ago and
there was a vip Q and a where a child
requested Less performed robot Chicken again, and in traditional Claypool fashion,
he replied, I don't even know how that goes, no matter.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How many times he says it. It's funny. Yeah, So
we haven't seen robot Chicken for a while in a
live setting. Lots of teases of it. It would be
a short full performance anyway, But every once in a
while I recall the Outside Lands one because I was
a webcast, and he walked over to that little keyboard
started tapping on it and it sounded like robot Chicken,
and he stopped after about eight seconds and then went
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about to the next tune whatever it was, but it
certainly caught my attention. Are you a Robot Chicken viewer, Frankie,
have you seen this program?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I am not a viewer, so would you care to
share your experience with the show.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Certainly, I have to imagine this was upon seeing it
was probably like catnip for less Claypool, being a stop
motion animation fan that he is, That's what this show's
format is. It's stop motion animation. It's chuck full of
all kinds of pop culture parodies and some original content
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and some just unimaginably goofy stuff. And I have to
say it's certainly resonated with me when I first saw
it in two thousand and five, which I believe is
when it premiered. Yes, and so I was. I was
hanging out with my buddies and we put on the
Adult Swim and there was a Robot Chicken. And I
have to say Adult Swim in that time period was
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stacked Venture Brothers, Aquitine, Hunger Force, Robot Chicken. Of course,
Sea Lab twenty twenty one Tom Goes to the Mayor
was pretty funny. So there are a lot of great shows,
and it'd be interspersed with some anime programs that I
didn't really get down with, but the goofball left field
humor of these adult Swim programs was just perfect for
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me at the time. So I recall watching the first
few episodes of the first season in two thousand and five,
and I enjoyed it. I found it pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You steel, does your mind go to straight to adult
swim whenever you see a hamburger and a bottle of soda?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Shortly after that show premiered, Frankie, I moved to a
different place and did not have a television and so
I let alone. Cable TV didn't have any of that.
I did not see any more Robot Chicken, and I
never went back to it, even though I've had opportunities
in the intervening years. But I did appreciate it. I
thought it was pretty funny, and I think it gained
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more notoriety for a Star Wars special or series of
episodes that they did with the blessing of George Lucas,
as I recall, and some buddies of mine who are
huge Star Wars fans were looking forward to it and
watched it, and I did not attend the screening with them.
Not a Star Wars guy, Frankie. Really yeah, never really
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have been. I've seen episodes four, five, and six, and that's.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
All, Well, you're a Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Fan, right, more of a Trekker, yes, But I.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Never made the crossover to Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
No, never did. And really I've been ignoring Trek for
a while too. So there's like I just finally watched
season three of Picard because season one was terrible. I
heard season two was even worse, and I just didn't
want to watch it. And then I was assured by
multiple Trekkers whose opinions I respect that it was worthwhile,
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so I watched.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
There are the films with Chris Pine appreciated within the fan.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Base, That is a great question. I think they are
highly divisive. I enjoy them.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I enjoy them as well. I think they're.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Great, and I think it's I think I enjoy them
because I am not so religiously married to the original
series and I'm okay with an alternate or timeline of
events that's not in the prime universe. There aren't too
many programs I hold sacred Frankie and even Trek anymore.
I just I just think, ah, they're they're screwing it
all up. So what do I care Robot Chicken, though, Frankie,
(16:57):
I guess it is technically still active. I read that
Seth Green announced that there's something coming in twenty twenty
five of Robot Chicken, and I was pleased as punch
that they've produced two hundred twenty episodes on eleven specials.
I was completely unaware how prolific they were with this show,
(17:17):
although I will say the coolest thing I learned about
Robot Chicken is the Mad Scientist is voiced by David Lynch.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Liz had previously contributed music for other shows and films,
but they never found their way to his records. So
why do you think he put rebot Chicken on Whales
and Wool?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I think it was probably composed around the time he
was working on the Whales material and decided to throw
it in. It's a nice interstitial and it certainly works
to space or create space excuse me, between Rubbel and
the Diesel and film Pino Ray. So I think it
just served that purpose and he had it laying around,
(18:05):
So why not have a perfect dozen tracks? I suppose.
I'm just this is all conjecture. Of course, obviously, South
Park didn't make it to a record. Hey all, Josh
jumping in here while editing to acknowledge that, yes, the
South Park theme did make it to the chef Aid record.
I was referring to Les Claypool and Primus Records withhold
(18:26):
your Angry communications and he was then tasked with Robot
Chicken and went for that. I'm sure there were many
others that he refused to record despite being offered, you
are privy, Frankie to a recording that he made for
a show that will remain nameless.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That never were right, Yeah, that is.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That is Pentagon stuff, that's Era fifty one stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, they can't stop us all I've heard tell of it.
I know that you have as well.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh so Seth Green, Frankie, how about Seth Green?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Since? Yeah, since Seth Green on a few films.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, I really only know him as far as films
from Austin Powers two. But I first saw him in
the second episode of The X Files, of course. It's
a really important episode in the series Mythology. He plays
a stoner teenager who sees lights in the sky and
he shows Molder where to go get a good vantage
point for the lights. In the sky above this Army base.
(19:32):
It's funny to go back to that episode and see
him when I watch X Files every so often, that
Austin Powers two and being the voice of I think
it's Chris and family Guy and other than that, haven't
seen him in much else. What do you know him?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Each? Each Chicken lasts about twelve minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, they're nice and short. You could power through two
hundred and twenty episodes pretty fast, Franky. It's stop motion animation.
They take months. Twelve minutes of footage takes ages, as
you know. As our palace Wester Webster Colcord told us,
what a fantastic format. I don't have much else to
say about this track, and it's so short. Actually, I
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want to do this, Franki ed, I do want to
play the whole thing. I want to quiz you on
the miscellaneous instrumentation, which is how Less is credited on
this What instruments is Less Claypool playing on the robot
Chicken theme. I will play it, Frankie, and you can
provide your answers. What instruments, Frankie? Do you hear?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Do I hear guitar? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I think I do on the upper register, some kind
of synthesizer. I think that's accurate accordion, accordion. I definitely
that keyboard that he plays on stage from time to time,
that little one, although that's been replaced by the double
decker from the Kings tour that follows him on the
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road all the time. Now percussion, I think I heard
at least a floor tom beat box, beatbox. I also
think you're missing the most obvious instrument. Of course, I
think you found them all, Frankie, although I can't be
certain because it just says miscellaneous instrumentation, and of course
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we may never know, given the secretive recording practices of
one Less Claypool. I have a question for you, Frankie. Sure,
what part of the body is robot Chicken?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That is a great question.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I have an opinion on this, and I'll toss it
out first. I believe that the body part corresponding to
robot Chicken is the appendix. Why do you need one?
To live? Not really meaning? Can you skip this track
and still enjoy of Wales and woe? Absolutely? Is it
(22:31):
nice to have it? Sure it's not excised from you,
and it actually does serve some bit of a purpose.
So you know, robot chickens nice to have on the record,
but I could certainly live without it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Great.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Would you like to offer another body part in rebuttal? No,
I agree with you, completely beautiful. If you hold out
your pinky finger, Frankie, that's about the size of your appendix.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I did inquire online recently what purpose a pinky finger has.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it's actually pretty important.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, it certainly help with gripping objects exactly. Yeah, as
well as balancing that grip. One thing I learned is
that much of the strength in your your grip actually
comes from your pinky and your ring fingers. Yeah, and
so that outside of your hand is really important. So
(23:33):
that pinky isn't there to look pretty. It certainly has
a lot of utility. And you can also wear cool
rings on it and they don't get in the way
when you're doing something intricate with your other fingers. Oh,
I got a.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Little piece of tree and an extra piece of trivia
about robot chicken.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh, lay it on us.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
There's a performance I omitted from my rundown October eleventh,
twenty thirteen in Denver. We're talking about a duo the
Twang performance, Let's burst into Robot Chicken, but he stopped
and said, I had no idea how to play this
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song anymore, and he only sang that it's a live portion,
and he said it must be a generational thing, referring
to the fact that some audiences are only familiar with
the South Park theme and not with Robot Chicken and vice.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Versa, even though they're less than ten years apart. Yeah,
it could be a generational thing with the it's a
live utterance on this track as well, because my mind
goes straight to Frankenstein.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That was kind of a It was kind of a
novelty at the time to see Less playing a keyboard
on stage.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah. Yeah, Now it's become commonplace with fibety Kings can sparanoil.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
It's interesting because I do recall an interview at some
point where Les said that what made Primus primus was
you had three guys on stage only, and you had drums,
guitar and bass only.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And I do recall him saying, you'd never hear a
keyboard on a Primal song. I guess little by little
he started to expand his vision, and it started with
that little keyboard that he had for Robert Chicken, and
now here we are with that massive keyboard on stage.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I don't see him ditching that anytime soon. So that's
a great catch there, Franky, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It has been really enjoyable. Not only can Sparanoia, but
he's he's also played it on Bob and it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I must have missed that. I don't think I've heard
that he's done.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, he's done the keyboard for Bob and it does
add this extra layer to the songs.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Drop a drop a Dayton location on us and I
will put that in the show notes Bob with.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Keyboard and it's fun to watch because obviously Les stops
playing bass and he plays keyboard.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Can't believe this, Frankie, we actually have a primate's take
for Robo Chicken. Wonderful, amazing. Our good pal Eric and
Australia says the following about Robot Chicken. Cash rules everything
around me. Maybe not the biggest money spinner, but how
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could they not double down after south Park? There you go.
I have to imagine that there was next to no
money for the south Park theme upon recording it, but
that the royalties afterwards were astonishing, and I would imagine
that there was nothing for Robot Chicken at the time,
(27:14):
and the royalties afterwards also nothing in comparison to south Park.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yeah, the royalties for south Park must have been street.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Just an excuse to say that. Yeah, okay, good, Yeah,
those MUCKs were on the same pitch. We have a
few more here. Lots of thoughts on Robot Chickens Skulligan
Val says, love it perfect, dirty drunk little carnival song.
I feel like the absynthe is hitting, just as I've
stumbled onto the Geek Show at this sleazy end of
the Midway. Nice Simon in Australia says, just let Primus
(27:53):
do all the cool TV show intros. They have had
great luck so far. We need a few more now.
Channeling my early twenties as well, says ah Yes, nothing
like falling asleep at the TV on and waking up too.
It's alive unless a creepy and mannic laughs at one
or two in the morning. This show is pure brainrot
(28:13):
and the song fits it. I could not imagine my
early teen through college years without hearing Robot Chicken or
the south Park theme bluring loud from the Old Idiot
Box in the morning, early morning hours, And for so
much of my generation, Lessons influenced and ben ingrained in
their life because of those two themes, and they don't
even know it. Finally, Brooks breaks a bill A novelty
(28:36):
for sure, but I like it. It reminds me a
bit of the DVD menu from Five Gallons. The song
is a lot more fun than the TV show ever was.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
It's a live.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Now that I think about it. It was kind of
hard to pick up the wamola because we're so accustomed
to listening to it the way that it's performed on
the title track with the Frogregate.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I suppose, but he makes so many different sounds with
it that I clocked it right away in two or
three different ways too.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, I can think of Mushroomman the title track. It's
been on other things as well, but here it was
kind of hard to pick up for me. But yeah,
oh interesting, you're blowing up over there. Gatta love Robot
Chicken for sure.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I do want to throw it out there to our listeners. Frankie,
if there is a specific Robot Chicken episode that supersedes
all of them that you feel is the greatest shining
example of the quality of that show. It's fulfilled potential.
Send the name my way. I would be glad to
watch it. There's probably no way I'm going to watch
(29:46):
all two hundred and twenty episodes plus specials, even though
there are twelve minutes apiece, mostly because I probably don't
have access to them with my current subscription lineup. Bitdorn
is my friend. So we have south Park and we
have Robot Chicken. If you, Frankie, could have less End
or Primus reimagine the theme to one television show, what
(30:12):
would it be? Wow?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Frank Sapa actually did the theme song for Duckman, which
is a fantastic avant guard piece of music that I've
always found really cool. And Ler being a huge Sappa aficionado,
I think it would be incredible to hear Primus tackle
(30:35):
something Duckman related.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, taking on the Duckman theme, I like it?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Well about you?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I would like to see Primus rearrange and perform the
theme to The Brady Bunch, Okay, I just think they
could do it and do it well. Think about it
if you hear the prima sized version of the Brady
Bunch theme when they're all in the squares looking at
one another on the screen. How psychotic is that?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Trivia? There's a fun guy for four months from around
twenty ten where you can hear list sing the Flintstones theme.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Now that is a generational thing too, that's when he
was a kid.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
All I can say is nice pulit cleanser, and what
about you.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I think it serves its purpose. It's a nice little appendix.
Robot chicken, you've been tracked. Next time, Frankie, I'll have
a bourbon and coke and we'll go down some primus
history with a legendary character. Primates, primatrons, people of Earth,
(31:48):
robot chickens everywhere, animatronic poultry, no matter what sort. Thank
you all for listening. Later days, Will the Mace
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