Ep. 111-We Are The World (USA for Africa)

Louie, Ryan and Al heed a certain call as they come together as one to bring you a roundtable discussion about USA for Africa's historical song. "We Are The World."

Episode Transcript

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on that note, Hello and welcometo episode one hundred and eleven of
Throwback Music Video Review Podcast, andtonight we will be reviewing USA for africas
We Are the World. We Arethe World is a charity single originally recorded

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by the supergroup USA for Africa innineteen eighty five. The music video was
directed by Tom Turbovich and it hasone hundred and fifty five million views on
YouTube from USA from Africa's Vivo.Yeah, so, guys, what is
your history with We Are the World? First of all, let's make sure

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we check our ego at the doorhere, because that's true that there's a
big note on our on my doorstephere at a Galdolf line. Gandolf line,
I'm gonna call him gandal off again. I think it's more of a
Quincy Jones thing, right. I'msure it probably originated with did he do
that? But Bob came in andsaid, hey, this isn't about you.
Guys. He did that speech thathe was like half sleep for.

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Yeah, he was like rubbing hisface. You know, he's probably a
nervous tick on his end. Probably, I thought when I was watching them,
like the reading's by language, LikeOkay, he didn't feel like cassad
do his speech. But you know, he's the guy who spearheaded the whole
musicians for Ethiopian Aid. But it'spart of Quincy Jones' brilliance to bring him
kind of get the room to settledown. Yeah, to a man,

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we jump right into it, right, I'm sorry, let's talk about it.
Talk about is eighty four or eightyfour, eighty five, eighty five
January eighty five. Yeah, shit, man fress off fresh off the AMA,
dude, I this was a Iwas still in the field beings.
It was huge obviously. I mean, you got all the biggest singers and
stars that you would see on musicvideos, but they're in one contained in
one room and singing together. Andthen it was an Avengers moment, right

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absolutely. Man, it was endgamefor me. Yeah, it was their
endgame. It was great. Istill remember it and I actually liked the
song, but it did definitely rivalwhich really shouldn't. But at that time
you had like the British acts ofdo they know It's Christmas? And then
you have of course this song friendsof the podcast, and it was so
close together that when it happened andreleased, you know, like got three
months later, it was a hugeevent that was very memorable for a young

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man like myself. So I stillremember it was great. But you know,
it's strange that it's not something thatyou hear in the radio very often.
Huh, they are the world.Yeah, I don't hear. Definitely
not it was. It was popularat that time time, but but yeah,
like you hear do they know It'sChristmas? As a Christmas song?
Every year? You know, Sothat's where they kind yeah, they had
a staying power. But you say, for that song, it's it's very

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for zeitgeist kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I remember it
almost like yesterday. It's crazy becauseit was such a big deal. I
think, of course, my parentsbought the album, and I'm sure my
mom probably sent five bucks or somethingor you know, I'm sure they did
like a donation thing around this time. There's a lot of that stuff.
Do you guys remember, did you? I don't know if you guys were
here yet, you guys probably weren't. There's something called Hands across America.

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Yes, oh I know about it, but I either think yeah, were
you part of that all or no? No, no no, but I
know central part of the movie usno Hands across America. Oh right,
yeah, that's right. But Iremember because like the house that I live
in, you know, I boughtit off my family trust, and we
were around that area. We wereactually on Wittier Boulevard, like on Wittier

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and Montabella Boulevard, and that's wherelike our setup was to like hold hands
with people and like you listen tothe song and you hold hands with everybody.
So that's how we went. Yeah, it's like a it's a big
holding hands across everybody's it's linked up. But who was playing the music?
I have no, I don't remember. It could be a radio DJ for
all Out because I don't even remember. But how when you were there,
Louis, Oh, there there waslike the speakers, they had speakers up.

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Yeah, and how that didn't happenin our circles back? And what
was their jurisdiction. Was it likejust a part of what you're boulevard And
then obviously you can't hear the songanymore, so there's no because they went
to like Pico and then I thinkeverybody has so it was all like linked
up. Yeah, this was likethe early eighties or what. Let me
just let me tell you right now. It was eighty six towns across America.

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Yeah, approximately five point five millionpeople participated, and it was broken
in some places, but it waslike in the Southwest because there's nothing,
but it was in all like thecities there was, it was there.
The chain was still linked us.Pretty cool. But as for me when
this song came out, my brotherhe just got a house in Bullakhan.

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In Bulakhan and this is like easilyabout two hundred miles for the Philippines.
In the Philippines, Yeah, twohundred miles for in Manila from the Manila
from the city. It could becould be less, could be more,
but it's far from my my tenyear old brain can process back then,
and then halfway to like Vegas,it was far. All they was far
and like it was it's far enoughthat like you have to ration water at

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night and there will be a bigsiren telling you to they're going to cut
off water for the evening, soyou better have your water by it.
Then you know, he chose tobuy a house in this area. Yeah
water, But I mean it wasyou know, it was a nice two
bedroom, small bungalow, we kindof type house. It was solid,
you know, it was made ofbrick and that brick like concrete. It
was. It was a nice solidhouse. And but he the thing was
that he had the classic modern equivalentof a record player, but it's still

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the size of a big as TV. Yeah, there was, and him
and his wife they played on theloop we Are the World. Oh they
had the record, they had therector so they played that all the time.
So that song got just like hammeredinto my head. The single,
the single, that's the single.Did you know there was a whole record?
No? No, no, myparents have the single. Yeah.

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And then at the third Star Iwould see hundreds of the singles, right,
I mean when you read the articlesabout this, like a lot of
times families would buy like five copiesand like six copies, so like you
know, it's such a thrift storemainsta you always find it, you know,
absolutely there was Yeah, it wasoverproduced, man, and the want
of brass is like, so,yeah, he had this song on the

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loop and that was the only thingthat will play and it had technologically advancing
up. It would flip over theother side and sure like it would replay
again and stuff, and so youknow, you had this song on the
loop, and that's this is howI always associate that song with. Was
that record player and living in BollaKhan for a little bit, not necessarily
lived there, but like, youknow, I had my cousins, he

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had his kids. You know,they were my same age, and they
you know, they were my essentiallymy playmates. So yeah, we are
the World was a huge thing.And then seeing the music video always constantly
being played and seeing all this megacollection of American acts. In my head,
it's like, oh and Bandy justhappened before. I'm like, in
my head, I was like,oh, you know, that'd be cool

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if they all fought, you know, like, yeah, I was watching
Transformers around that time, the Boxscepticonsand ship whatever you know, so like
the imaginary is like, oh man, the Kenny Rogers like threw down with
with fucking Simon the bond, youknow, but how would Stevie Wonder to
do in a fight against the restof the other Bridge guys at Paul Waller
would kill them all. Yeah,just wipe the floor with like Bob geldup

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right right there as the watcher,just watching the whole thing. So that
was my experiences, you know,with family and we are the world was
hammered. And I loved watching themusic video because it was just like,
I can't believe all this talent,the biggest names of that time was on
hand and for a common cause.And that was my experiences too, with
just the idea of famine or justlike really impoverished people, you know,

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because they're just poor people where Iwas living too, but not at that
state where like you got distended stomachsand flies just randomly flying on your face
and you don't even give a shipbecause that's the least of your worries.
Like yeah, yeah, so,I mean it's horrible, it's you know,
I'm glad Bob Geldof was conscious enoughto want to do something like this
and it really helped a lot ofpeople. Yeah, it really helped a

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lot of people at that time too. I remember a little bit like there
would always be like dissension too whenyou're talking about it, not unlike these
times, like everybody always forgets that. People think, oh, like,
oh this time is terrible. Everybody'sinfighting and no one cares. But I
remember at that time too, peoplesaying like, oh, there's fucking poor
people and hungry people in America.It always be. But some money actually

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went to poor people in America too, Like there was a small like I
think a couple of million bucks wentto famine in America too, and also
for other things too, So itwasn't only in Ethiopia. Yeah, it
wasn't only there, yeah, soyeah, but like apparently the whole famine
there around that time like killed twomillion people, just too million people in
a short span of time probably too, Like yeah, a three year span.

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I think that's what that's the statsI saw. Ah, I mean
yeah, like, I mean Icould see why, you know, you
want to create a movement like thisand Bob Geldoff's speech in front of the
world which brings us to a documentary, right yeaheah, So I didn't know
any of that. Let's do thepop quiz first, then we'll get into
the documentary, because I think thedocumentary is very gonna take a big part
of this, all right, becauseit's that's really that's pretty much it.

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Yeah, because the video video,the video is the documentary on steroids.
Right, they go hand in handacross America. So okay, we'll be
right back after these messages for somepop quiz and then we'll talk about the
music video. Okay, let's dothe quiz. All right, have a
quiz and then we have have alightning round after. Okay, all right,
it's time for some pop quiz.Okay, because the pop quiz I

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did for this one is because we'retalking about we are the world. We're
gonna talk about music stars, andI want you to tell me where they
were born. Okay, they mightbe born in America, but they might
be born somewhere else. Okay,all right, we specifically say, let's
say it so America, and wehave to say the what state? You
get to say America? Okay,all right, I'm not going to be
about it. Okay, here wego. Robin Rihanna Fente, also known

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as Rihanna, had the song Umbrella. She was born February twenty nineteen,
eighty eight in this country A UnitedStates, B, Canada, C,
Barbados, D. Trinidad and TobagoTNT. Baby, I woe, that's
just from Trinidad and Tobago. Right, I would say she's from Barbados.

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He seems like a Barbados kind oflady. She is like the Queen of
Barbados. He's yeah, her andBarbados slim. She's from Barbados. Ceaw
correct, right, US territory ornow probably no is it it's British territory.
I think mister Prince Roger Nelson wasborn June seventh, nineteen fifty eight
in this country A, Canada,B England. See the United States are

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de France. He's from Minnesota.I believe, so USA, USA.
You guys are right. I thought, maybe, like you could, thought
he might be a military kid.He's an army bratty. Some of them
are here we go. Madonna LouisChacone born August sixteenth, fifty eight in
this country, England, Italy,United States are friends. I think he's

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she's from Michigan, right, Detroit. I believe I'll go to Italy because
it's just right here. Right,you're correct. In the United States.
She is a virgin from Italy.Virgin Oli was from Man. Here we
go, we're getting a little bitmore contemporary. Aubrey Drake Graham was born
and he's also known as Drake wasborn October twenty fourth, nineteen eighty six

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in this country, United States,A, B, Germany, C,
Canada, D England. He's Canadianbecause he was in the Grassy Junior High
Canadian Yeah version, yeah, okay, see yeah correct. And he has
a huge gamming problem. Oh doeshe he bets all the time. Yeah,
that's crazy degenerate. The singer mi A. Her real name is

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is I don't want to In nineteenseventy five, she was born in this
country A Sri Lanka, b England, CE, India, D. Pakistan.
I believe speaks to me. Ithink she's from Sri Lanka. I
think so, I would say Pakistanbecause we're both wrong. She's from England,
England, London, England. Ididn't know this was a real name.

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Charm Whiz, also known as GeneSimmons August twenty fifth, nineteen forty
nine, born in A the UnitedStates, b England, CE, Israel,
D Germany. Who think this isIsraeli. He's Israeli. Out's crop
my go all right? Yeah,Israel's right. No ery goes by Gene

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Simmons plastic. Here we go,there's a little deep cut. Lou Bega
April thirteen, ninety seventy nine ina United States, b Haiti, Ce,
Colombia or D Germany. His namesfrom Puerto Rico. Please an army
bro. I'm gonna go to Germany. I go to Germany too. Oh

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you got me? Get you tothe Germany? Right? Yeah, yeah,
here we go. Classic sore there. Miss Nelly Kim Furtado born December
second, nineteen seventy eight. Prettyclose star age was. She born in
A England, b India see Canada, r D Panama for caddle. I

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think I think she's like Argentinian likeher. That's where her family's like.
Her name comes from. I'm gonnago with the US, Okay, I
can't go wrong. I'll always gofor the exotic countries. Going to Panama
and they are both wrong. It'sCanada. Oh man, I think she's
Drake's neighbor. Okay, here wego. John Michael Osborne, known as

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Ozzy Osborne, was born December third, nineteen forty eight. Was he born
in A Germany, B, Canada, CE, England, R D United
States. He's English, right,I'm gonna go with C. Yeah.
I think he's English too, butmaybe he got transported there, but got

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he says English. I think he'spretty you thought he would. He took
a crazy train there. I thinkthe crazy train something to you guys?
Are right? O? Yeah?Here we go. Known at the Semitic
Kanye West was born in June eighth, nineteen seventy seven. Is the A
from Romania, B from Germany seefrom the United States, are d Barbados,

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Germany, Army Brad. I thinkhe's from crazy Town. That's where
he's been, crazy Town, Butterfly, the TV show Crazy It's lazy times.
You know. I have no cluebecause I don't care about Kanye,
but I'd go with Ryan's. I'lltack along with Ryan's all right here yeah,
answer here. Wow, you guysare both wrong. It's the United
States. What from Chicago? Shutdown? Baby Army Okay. Baroque Blazzar,

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also known as Freddie Mercury, wasborn September fifth, nineteen forty six.
Is he born in A England,B, United States, C. Tunisia
are dp in. I'm trying tothink back in the old episode. I
think it's Tunisia, right, Tunisia. Yeah, you guys are right,
Tunisia. Yeah. Is a spicestealer or something. He's a moisture farmer.

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Kylie Acumano was born May eighth,nineteen sixty eight. Yeah, okay.
A Australia, B, South Africa, see England or D Canada.
Sure, she's not Australian, youknow, like she has. She gives
me the South Africa vibe, butI would say South Africa just to be
diverse here. Ryan, You're correct, Australia, South Africa in there,

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because she you know, got it. She has a Chartie Throwne vibe.
There's a chappy vibe. Chappin isgoing okay. A Justin Andrew Baber born
March first, nineteen ninety four saidA United States, B Canada, see
England, D Australia. He's aCanadian boy, man, it's Canadian.

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Yeah, I go up to theCanadian projects. Nicki minaj oh, oh
you know this? Oh really doyou? What did we do a little
thing on her? Born on mybirthday, December eighth, in nineteen eighty
two issually from Panama A B UnitedStates. See Trinidad and Tobago are D
Jamaica. You can't split See Trinidadand D two me you gotta be together.

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Huh. I believe it's that oneT and T baby Trinidad and Tomaco.
You got the right. Here wego known Al Cook. Moby Richard
Melvin Hall was born September eleventh,nineteen sixty five. September eleventh. That's
kind of fishy in A. Australia, B, South Africa, C Norway

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are the United States galaxy? Ithink right? Moby's from the US.
He's American, He's from America.He told all about it. Do you
know that I'm American? I informedyou that I'm American. We shared some
pictures of America. Okay, nextquestion, lightning wrap. Okay, so

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I'm gonna tell you because we're gonnawe're talking about we are the world and
it was it was offered aid,you know, so we' I'm going to
talk about nonprofits. I'm going togive you eleven nonprofits and you tell me
if they're real or if they're faithNo. Okay, larious results who answered
the question right? Last? Youguys both did right? Yeah, okay,

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yeah, us a mobe Okay,I'll go to with my left for
the right on. Here we go. International Canine Driving Society five oh one
c A offers comprehensive training programs forcanine companions who drive visually impaired individuals.
The i d c S offers resourceswith driving lessons, instruction, seminars,
licensing, and support services to carryout daily tasks. Is that a real

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organization or fake dogs are driving?The dogs are driving? Are helping our
happing navigate? Yeah? Oh shit, I want to see. And also
these could be another country too.I don't know. I'm gonna go with
yeah. I think that's just no, that's completely fake, right, come
on drive? That would be onInstagram reels every fucking day. I'm talking
about me on TikTok every day seeingdogs fucking drive. I have a pretty
cute little pause. I too.I'd love to see a roll with that's

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an actual thing, but now hittingit like Cavy, his tail is on
the thing. You can throw acord off with four all four limbs.
Okay, here we go. Ryanwith his on all the time, I
was like I was happy to getright with my fake one. Here we
go out all right. Magic Aidis a five oh one c a nonprofit

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organization. Magic Aid the organization andprogram that uses magic to improve the hospitalization
experience for pediatric patients, page patients, and encourages the delivery of compassionate healthcare.
That sounds amazing. Yes, that'strue. That is true. Yeah,
what's his name, David Copperfields.It might be he has one.
It's for hands, slide of handwork, Like, so people who got disabled

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can't use your hands very well theyteach. Yeah, exactly, slid across
America. That sounds like some kindof fake no profit. That the first
tax All right, right, herewe go. Microsoft Suite for the Elderly
nonprofit. The m STE is anonprofit organization that provides modern resources for seniors
to incorporate exile word and MS teamsinto their daily lives. Sounds really enough.

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I'm gonna go with yes, that'sright. Like, man, it
sounds amazing two times, so it'snot like it should be there, right,
Bill Gates, won't bet it happenlike I'm too too busy flying within.
It's actually a good, real thingthat you can actually start exactly,
that's perfect here we go, olall right. Micro All Capitals is a

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nonprofit organization that builds six foot tallmuseums that are installed in public spaces such
as transit hubs, community centers,and hospital waiting rooms. Each museum explores
a topic through interactive displays such asholograms, videos, and three D print
sculptures. So this non profit makessix foot tall museums. I'm kind of

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in the business. I would knowabout these things. Never heard of them.
They don't exist. That is real. It's really got chee Dodge.
What do you know what cities they'rein. I don't know, but like
I saw the pictures. They're prettycool. That sounds cool. I've seen
like installments like an airports and stuff. I'm thinking like maybe that would be
it, but that might be it, or like never, like at the
end of Zoolander when he makes alittle they may get little tiny library for

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ants for ads. Yeah, it'spretty much. That is a music.
It's just spreading art. Yeah,just spreading art, and there's like interactive
things with it too. Ryan.The International Society for Copier Artists the ISCA
is a nonprofit group funded by LouiseNederland in nineteen eighty one, intended to
promote the works of photo copy artistswho use copiers, copy machines, and

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cameras with scanners in order to printoriginal, experimental, signed, limited edition
compositions. The I s C aadvocate for the recognition of copier art as
a legitimate form of art. Sothat's a nonprofit. Yeah, that they're
just trying to like get the artmovement out of people who use copiers as
a start funding and be noticed.But a very ship here. But I'm

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gonna go with yeah, I thinkthis is real. That is real.
Yes, it's still going on.You think it says wasn't so I don't
know if it still is. Butit's a great idea a genre. Me
back then that was that was anew that was a new cutting edge technology
copiers. But everything's coming back,so it's I could easily go people.
Well I remember like punk rock flyers. I mean you can go now you

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can go to an art show ofold punk rock flyers and those are all
copy art. Well, think aboutall the psychedelic sixties. That's a classic.
Yeah, all right, Yeah,here we go out The Hip Hop
cop Caucus. The h HC isa national nonprofit organization in the United States
which aims to promote political activision foryoung US voters using hip hop music and
culture. I believe in this causeI want to say it's real. It

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is real, all right, yeahRyan. The Balloon Federation of America the
BFA is a five oh one threec nonprofit organization group for the advocation of
lighter than air aviation that include hotair balloons and gas balloons. I'm gonna
have to go with real. Thatis real, yeah, really, Like,
I mean, yeah, there's alot that's like a whole hobby scene,

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right, Yeah. Did I havean actual album as well that we're
trying to get aid for their hotair ow Stammers for Steampunk is a group
of professionals in the field of STEMwho organize steampunk events in order to promote
socializing a learning experience in old timeyEnglish setting. I'll say, true,
it's fake, totally. You madethat up, right? What did you

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have in mind? What are theygonna do? It's I was just thinking
of like STEM, like a STEMorganization. I'm like, oh, steampunk
stem steampunks, and I'm thinking they'relike steampunk people would be into like STEM
things, like you know, sciences, Like totally trick out with this one,
Ryan. The American Association for NudeRecreation exists to protect, promote,
and provide and preserve nude recreation.Up right there, nodding, I'm gonna

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say good by nudest naturalists from policiesand local, state, and federal government
that interfere with the rights to enjoyclothing free recreation inappropriate settings. A man,
man, I think it's real.That is real, completely real.
Wow, that's a whole movement,I believe. Yeah, where did he
Basically, I don't know. Ididn't. I didn't get teaching someone.
Do you want to get travel?I did. There's like there was an

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observer. One of the pink panthersis like a whole Like he goes to
like the Newist colony. It's sorun right al The Creator Connection. In
a world where dogs and cats areknown as loyal pets, other pets,
like guinea pigs are often left defendfor themselves. Creator Connection Pigs. They
started in two thousand and four tomake sure that no guinea pig gets left
behind. The rescue and rehabilitation takesand neglected and abuse guinea pigs wait necessary.

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They nurse them back to health andthen find them a loving home.
To this day, they've helped itto save over fifteen hundred guinea pigs.
Is that really fifteen under it?Ah? Man? I love me some
guinea pigs. Fucking adorable. I'dlove to own one if they were so
loud. Greater connection, Creator connection. I don't think it's real. That's

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completely realized. Got you sorted lastweek? How many guinea pigs are in
America? Though? Tens of thousands? All right, we have two more.
A sour one would say, righthere we go. This is right
up your ally. Helping Hands monkeyhandlers, similar to dugskies, are known
to make great service animals. Helpinghands Monkey Helpers for the Disabled INK has

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been training monkeys to help people leadindependent lives with a new purpose caring for
their service animals. This charity takescare of all the monkeys, training,
nutritional needs and medical needs for theirentire life. And it's here in the
US. It's here in the UnitedStatescess. No, that is completely true.
It is. That's a real thing. Promote sanctioned. Wow, they

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have to be trained and sanctioned,and then they help people with disabilities to
helper Monkey. There you go out. Here's the last one. The Tall
Club International Foundation. This organization focuseson promoting causes that benefit special needs of
exceptionally tall people. They aim tohelp kids to greater heights by providing scholarships

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scholarships for young men and women ofa certain height. If you meet their
height requirements and you are under twentyone years old, you can apply for
one of their many scholarships as youenter your first year of college. I'm
sure I'd love to think this istrue. Yeah, I still go,
yeah, this is completely true.Wow, So it was a certain height.

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They have to be like like sevensix, Yeah, you have to
be not like like a senior inhigh school ready to graduate. Huh,
and you probably have to be likeyeah, means because I'm sure it is
hard for even tall people just tokind of navigate through ship. They tall
people rule the world over and yougot to remember that that's true, and
that is all. That's a goodpop quiz there. It really got my

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brain going. I feel like allof them are real. Like I've burned
out and now I can't do thepodcast anymore. Guys, started brain.
It's hard to make up the fakewith some of the real ones are the
Monkey in the Counter Country. Iwas like, God, truth is stranger
in fiction, right, exactly,That's not what the music video for We
Are the World. It's funny becausewe didn't even watch the music video before

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we even prep this show because weneed to. It's the it's embedded in
our DNA are right. It's moreimportantly that documentaredy doctor. I mean,
let's just talk about kind of thehow the inception of it in the ongoing
would happen, because the video isjust them singing actual but the actual like
guts and the machine, the machinationsof this whole thing is is way more

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fascinating. So it was really quicklisteners. If you've never seen the Netflix
documentary The Greatest Night of Pop,I believe is the actual title of it.
And again it's the behind the scenes, the stories, and there's an
actual YouTube video as well, adocumentary as well that you can find on
YouTube. That was the official documentarythat's like hosted by Jane Fonda. I

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don't know if you saw that oneI saw as a kid. Yeah,
yeah, it was like on thevhs you could buy the VHR, right,
and I think that was the VHSthe VHS, and it did paralleled
a lot of the scenes too inthere from you know, the Netflix one,
but there's a lot more behind thescenes in the Netflix one then.
But what's interesting about this is thatit's all in hindsight, right, rather
than you know that in the moment, Yeah, forty years of past so
and then now let's talk about you. And not like it was anything like

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a big reveals or any secret,but it was just interesting to kind of
get to realize like all these people. And not only that, but it
was the night of the AMA Awards, which was huge during that I don't
know that was that was the natureof thing as far as like as they
were saying, it was a logisticalnight, mayor to get the only way
mega stars in one roof. Andthen as especially with other artists touring,

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you know, and then they reallywanted to get like Springsteen aboard. Luckily
he was at the end of hisNorth American tour, so like they flew
him fresh out of his tour fromlike the other side of the country.
Before before we get into that,let's talk about let's give the man some
respect. Harry Belafonte was the seedof this whole thing, right, right,
So he's the one that ended upcalling up his manager, who ended
up calling like Quincy Jones or somethinglike that, right, and called yeah,

(28:30):
and then fundraiser guy, and thenthat got everything kind of rolling.
And I think once that seed waskind of it's it's pretty like amazing how
that seed was set, and everybodyjust got rolling. Leon and Richie was
like, I'm on, we're going. And it stems from civil rights movement,
you know of the US back inthe fifties and sixties, right,
yeah, yeah. And there waseven footage of him speaking in front of

(28:51):
during the I think the million millionMan March, right, He's in front
of like the reflecting pool right therein Washington, and he's talking about how
artists is very place of very importantrole in society and he's right, yeah,
exactly. They reveal, like,you know, the truth to everybody.
I think that's the beauty of theWhat made this happen was that there
was enough older musicians that were likepart of that whole like kind of now,

(29:14):
that were like part of that motownthing, that experienced a lot of
that kind of civil rights stuff,and then some of the younger ones who
were able to who kind of like, you know, are more forward thinking
in their politics, are not forwardthinking but kind of like more you know,
aggressive progressive thinking. So you neededthose kind of people to get those
people right, and those people werethe huge stars at the time, and
then you could get those other onthose other people, you know, like

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if you know, Quincy Jones callsyou, and then Michael Jackson calls you,
right, and then you pick thatphone, it's like yeah, and
then Ray Charles, Diana Ross andyou know, Smokey Romison. These guys
are like what all the all theeighties artists listened to when they were kids,
you know, and it was like, oh, yeah, of course
we're going to be there. BobDylan's going to be there. Yeah,
come on, you could be here. Yeah, you didn't see there too.

(29:57):
We could talk about the vm Athing which is in saying ama,
I mean ama, like fucking LionelRichie he hosted that. That's crazy.
I didn't. Yeah, like Iremember watching that too as a kid and
thinking, like, you know,my line of Richie one awards. He
was saying, this is outrageous becausehe won so many awards. He just
keeps repeating that little catchphrase. ButI completely forgot that he hosted that thing,

(30:19):
and I didn't know that until watchjust next to documentary that after this
he has to go, he hasto do this and before that, keep
everyone in line. Before that,the two weeks leading up to it,
he was writing the song with MichaelJackson right and waiting for Stevie wanted to
come help, and he never showedup. Take a little bit to get
there. He even said, Imean, you watch documentary. He talked

(30:40):
about like we're just kind of likehanging around. We couldn't really write anything.
It really didn't start writing it tillike crunch time when they had like
a couple of days ago, andMichael Jesson forgone. The AMA is just
so he can keep getting you know, like phoning the song. Yeah,
And it's amazing when you hear whatMichael Jackson wrote just with vocals, It's
like what, yeah, what?Yeah? He sketched it with his own

(31:03):
voice because apparently he can't play aninstrument. He doesn't play instruments, but
his voice as his instrument. Yeah, he does. And he overlays each
track, right, It's like orchestratingit through layers, and then he brings
in background singers to do parts too. That like it's crazy, it's it's
insane, you know that he usedthe I mean, Quincy Jones employed the
same thriller band to do We Arethe World. Oh really it's the same.

(31:27):
It's the same musician station. Yeah, all in all, Yeah,
they were paid from Toto, right, I think they're the same musicians,
was it? Well, those guysare all like the Sessions guys. Yeah,
yeah, this is all volunteer work. None of them got paid.
Nobody got even the crew guys.That's what they talk about. None of
them got paid. I mean,that would probably never happen now, right,

(31:48):
a host. Let's say the Oscarsjust came in and Jimmy Kimmel is
the one who who hosted it,right, and let's say he won Best
Actor, Like they wouldn't. Theywould never have the host. Who's gonna
win. He swept those awards,He won a bunch of war. They
would never have the host because LionelRichie and that can't slow down album man
like that. He dominated eighty fivean American pop music scene. And yeah,
you can't imagine, like let's say, yeah, yeah, sweeping the

(32:12):
Oscars. And then I was likelike, oh, I got to do
an Avengers movie and I hosted theevent too, you know, like crazy,
and then the movie's gonna come outin two weeks. That's why the
credit goes to lyonland Rich. No, hell yeah, dude, that dude,
I don't understand. He probably wentwent home and slept for like two
days. Yeah, like I meanlike he was. They were saying that
he was delirious when he got tothe astual recording session with A M Studios.

(32:34):
But he also talks about how he'slike he's a night person, you
know. Everything he had was anight for him. I heard that he
dances on the ceiling and it waswhat a feeling. It's quite a feeling
too. But I really like hisuh, his demeanor. Man, he
was laid back. He's like affable. He's making everybody laugh, right story,
And that was part of his job, is keep everyone in line,
you know, in a way,and like there was in his own chars

(32:55):
right his own well, because itlooked like everybody everybody there looked so uncomfortable,
right They apparently they were without theirmanagers, you know, or handlers
and the like. Here you gothrow in the room all their partners.
If you're not a musician, thenyou have to leave. Yeah, it
so amazing me. The LaToya Jacksonmade it in here, nothing had nothing

(33:16):
sister, right, I mean Ididn't say the Jackson five. They're all
there, Yeah, they're all there, But like l toy, I'm like,
she get here. Jenna Jacks shouldhave been here, she was in
different strokes. At least she's shouldhave singing courier. Did she She was
a year later? But that's crazy, Like I can't even imagine that.
You could see like people were likewanted to leave, Like it seemed like

(33:37):
way Jennings wanted to get the fuckout of it. I thin like you
that's the stuff that they didn't putin the video, where like you see
the people were like, I don'tknow, I think my job, you
know, like Bob Dylan who's like, I don't think I could sing you
to this, you know. Likeaside from that, but there's also the
you know, the lighting guy whowas there. Interviewed him and he's saying,
yeah, we got these five wattbulbs like they guess came from the

(33:59):
A M as they probably you know, it's getting ripe. You know,
people sweat he's Grand Funk Rail andit's late, right. They probably had
a couple, they probably got hada couple of drinks at the sure,
probably couple like that party going andthey're all wearing like jackets. Yeah,
they're getting films, so they stillhave to look nice. And do you
have to sound to you ready?You know, like imagine Bruce Springsteen off

(34:21):
the like of his tourist exasts fromthe plane and it's like we all growling,
right therefore, so we're talking aboutthis before, But who's the guy
who was like the pre producer whoactually put them all on their voice their
voice little pods. He's like theranger, right, the ranger, Yeah,
the guy who arranged it. Heknew that the rangers of the people's
voices, and like how that guyshould win a million dollars Quincy Jones's sidement

(34:43):
like like second right hand man.I think I forgot his name. My
apologies, but yeah, like StevieWonder brought in a couple of at open
women as well after the thing,and you know, and they thank them,
and that touched a lot of people, touched like Diana Ross apparently a
lot too. Diana Ross didn't wantto leave. Yeah, at the end
of that was like the most amazingmoment in her life at that time.

(35:05):
I should say that's cool. Youknow. During the making of Michael was
pretty kind of stepping back. Hewas chill man, you know what I'm
saying. He didn't really like kindof he hang out talk to everyone.
He looked very uncomfortable to you.Yeah, because why I think when remember
he was he wanted to back offbecause they thought it was overexposure not only
writing singing, but also being inthe video. So yeah, that's a
little too much. But everybody knewwithout him it wouldn't really work. He

(35:27):
also seemed kind of hesitant to writethe song. Yeah, he brought a
lot of legitimacy to course the thing. I mean, but when we're watching,
you know, when they show everybody, when everybody arrived, he was
just kind of like he said,highly, Yeah, he wasn't really like
everybody else. Always been in hisnature though, you know, it's like
he's kind of a clean freak andwell not unlike Print who had all these
weird demands. He comes out aslike the jerk throughout all this, right,

(35:50):
I remember that too. I sawthat Amas he had that big ass
bodyguard with him, you know,and like my inquisitive ten year old mind,
it's like, who's this whole cokingguy? And but yeah, and
apparently she was dragged in just kindof as a lure for Prince Do to
go there. That's kind of sad, right. She even is kind of
bummed about her. She's like,you know, they just used me for
to try to get to Prince.But I mean, I mean she left,

(36:14):
right, she ended up leaving.Now, she was there, she
was throughout, she finished her thing, she finished you know, it's just
part of the chorus with Dan Ackroydand you know she's an acroy duty.
But she also won uh an awardthat night too, But she she did,
she performed an award right and shegot you know, she got the
crowd going to yeah. Yeah,so it's kind of it was kind of

(36:35):
disrespectful. I was like, that'skind of a yeah, that is messed
up though, Like I mean,but I don't know, maybe that's how
she felt, but maybe she shedoes have a legitimate claim to be there
because she's tied in with Prince.But I don't know. But Prince was
just socially awkward, but he's busyplaying basketball with Charlie Murphy. No,
he said he would come, buthe wanted his own room, and they're
like no. And then he askedher he could play guitar and they're like

(36:57):
no, Like, yeah, soloin this separate room, Like do you
see the sign on our door?Check your ego, motherfucker. But how
weird would it have been, likePrince in that group of people, right,
Wow, there are some weird onesin there. No, yeah,
I mean Bob Dylan and yeah thereare some some some weird so but yeah,
like Hugh Lewis took over his linesthough, huh, and and he
nailed it. He brought the hebrought the funk. Yeah, just believe,

(37:22):
Like, wow, man, that'sthe power of love. For me,
it's like a it's like a state. Brothers from the early nineties are
like a Gartland, like a boardtruck added exactly. Imagine imagine the universe,
the parallel universe where it was Princesinging next to Michael Jackson, you

(37:43):
know, mind going that was they'venever really been in the same room together.
Well, that's the thing, likewhen you think about I guess the
jaxaposition of the voice of his voiceand Michael Jackson makes sense. Yeah,
it worked. I mean, butyou could also see Prince because you know,
he has another kind of Michael jacksonyvoice, soulful kind of low high
voice that he could have. Itwould have fitted into. It just would
have been a completely different verse.You know. I think Jones would have

(38:05):
slotted him in a different part ofthe verse. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I would think so too. Eitherhe would have been but apparently it
was supposed to be next to MichaelYeah. Yeah, well the thing with
the Prince's voice, he's too sexy, Yeah, he would have he wouldn't
really go and the would he dohis kiss voice? Yeah exactly, or
with the dove's cry voice. Yeah, that's the thing. You don't know
what he's to do, and itwould have been too sexy, Like you
would have been like, no,we got too much money, because everybody's

(38:25):
sending on their sex money. Yeah, it's like it's gonna be an orgy
at the set that they bring islandsand pearls along in us over like,
I mean, they just totally jiltedMadonna. Madonna as well, yeah,
like they didn't even invite her apparently, And that's kind of weird and he
was big. Remember one of oneof his assistants, Ken Craigan's assistants wanted

(38:46):
Madonna, but he wanted Sidney Lauperand said, and uh ended up.
You know, obviously Sidney Lauper thatwas that showed up. So it would
have worked out either way. Yeah, I mean they were cool. They
were like a you know, likethe same level at that time. I
guess, yeah, like Sydney Opperwas huge everywhere, and so it was
Madonna and they kind of had thesame as quirky aesthetic. Madonna wasn't in

(39:07):
there well I guess like a virginkind of. Yeah, Like I didn't
feel that way for Cindy. Well, like Madonna, she also has that
like Prince sex appeal thing that isdoesn't make too much sense for this,
you know, like I could sheprobably would have been amazing, but like
still, like I understand the sexappeal thing not working for this, you
know, right? And or arethose artists willing to drop that or at

(39:28):
least kind of alter it just forthe song and maybe maybe not, and
that's why why they felt uncomfortable participants. And then also Cyndi Lauper has a
very unique voice, which is goodto stand out in all those different voices
where Madonna's voice is because they're justlike a normal voice. It's a normal
singing voice, you know. It'smore about her stage presence and that,
yeah, her persona that she putsout other than just her voice, you

(39:51):
know exactly. So I could seethem saying like, no, we want
to get that. We want alittle quirk in this, you know,
and we want someone to belt somethingout with rasp, you know, which
that's what Sidney Lapper is. I'msure that madonn would have brought all the
jewelry and clinkiness that was funny andher jewelry, but I mean her hers
Madonna was all over, had allsorts of flares on her. Her solo

(40:12):
does have a very memorable part ofthe song. Yeah, not unlike the
Kim you know, like you know, like and like Kim Carnes, right,
like she's kind of like not alot of people know Kim Carnes nowadays,
but she was, wasn't she inthe Ghostbusters? Like who are you
going to call her? She waspart of that that team too, right,
and but she only did when weand that was it. That was
her line when we and then standto get her as one she was part

(40:35):
of the whole group of vocalists singingthat part. But like Kim Carnes though,
you know, like she was knownfor Betty Davis's eyes and she's got
that raspy and then yeah, butshe had a prominent part in the video
with Sidney Lauper though she's like rightthere next to her, you know,
with her dominant blonde hair. Thatwas an interesting mix. You know,
we never did get to talk aboutthis artist, but me and right have
a checkered past with this artist thatmade auad of that actual verse in this

(40:58):
one is James Ingram, Joe,this one's guy. I didn't know until
I started going through the musician like, oh shoot, Jane's Ingram, you
know, just one guy just once. What line does he sing? It
is in the beginning. I thinkhe follows Kenny Rogers lining. Okay,

(41:21):
you know who's also in this whenI was when I looked it up,
it was Jeffrey Osborne, you know, you know Jeffrey Osborne wings Is he
there? He's one of the people. Yeah, I confuse him. James
Ingram and Peeble brysonould have been likejust because they kind of have the same
category and he was local deliveries.He was working on fire during the recording,

(41:42):
right, Oh you're thinking of alJiro. I'm sorry. He was
like fucking coked down or something.And when he was singing Dale for Contribute
for what I be finally just wantedto kick his head and everybody looks so
uncomfortable. They were singing great though, amazing, they're on keen and it
started you can tell the pros.It started off like kind of weird and
then everybody just kind of came inlike okay, now it's better. Yeah,

(42:05):
I mean, you know, likethere's a lot of tension. It
helps, he's everyone, but Bellafontewas just like, motherfuckers, I want
to streets here and a million manmarch, you ass But he was at
he's a little wired, right,he was very wired. Yeah. But
who do you think, though,is the most jarring of the singing here
in the music video or the world, Bob Bob Dylan. Well, because

(42:30):
you saw how uncomfortable he was.It was I got to the point when
I was when I first watched,I saw twice in the first watch,
I was like I even felt likeI feel bad for him. Yeh yeah,
because you know like that kind oflike he wants with his beautiful jacket,
he just wants to shrink into podcast. Well that's the thing like Bob
Dylan, I mean he he doesgreat with what he does, you know,

(42:52):
but he's not a collapse. He'snot kind of he's not like necessarily
like a belter like singer, youknow, like he his vocal stylings,
he does. He does Bob Dylansongs, you know, he doesn't do
other things or he does what hecut through his songs. I think he
was like having like almost imposter syndromethere with all these people who were like
almost like church singer, you know, like who could sing like a fucking

(43:14):
who can sing anything? Ye whocan sing anything? And he just range
yeah and he does his thing.And I think when they finally told him,
he just do your thing. Man, like Stevie Wonder helped him,
uh with did he line on?Oh he had? Yeah? Yeah.
Yeah. That's the thing is isStevie Wonder is such a good mimic,
which is amazing. He could mimicanybody's voice. So he sat down on

(43:34):
the piano with him and he justtold him sing it this way, this
way, and he did it inhis exact voice, right, and he's
crazy about Stevie Wonder. Yeah,he's a mimic. Wow, I mean
that's just crazy, Like, yeah, his sense is elevated and he just
kind of trained him and then hewas then he felt comfortable. Oh wait,
yeah, I could do that.Stevie Wonder saying I could do that,
Like I could do that. Itmade him feel comfortab yeah. Yeah.

(43:54):
And Stevie Wonder he was what likefourteen years old or eleven years old
when he first started, Like hewas really young when he first started.
So you know that probably Bob Dylanlistened to him when he was like a
kid, you know, like hewas older him or Bob Dylan. Stevie
Wonder's probably older really, Oh Ithought they would be about same age.
But yeah, Bob Dylan's born inthe forties. He's born in nineteen forty.

(44:16):
Stevie Winters pob like Bob Dylan cameout before Stevie Wonders. Is this
thing though, wasn't he Bob Dylanwas, Yeah, he was born in
the forties. Stevie Winter was bornlike in the early fifties. Maybe Stevie
Wonder was just maybe like more popular, like he got started earlier. I
mean he's yeah, I mean nineteenfifty Stevie Wonder. Yeah, that was
like nineteen forty. I say,if that Eddie Eddie Murphy was supposed to

(44:38):
be part of the thing too,right, But you were correct, Ryan,
nineteen forty one, forty one.There you go. But how old
is Timothy Scharlamagne good to play?He's gonna play Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan.
He looked like him, didn't thatKate Blanchet to play him too?
Oh? That, yeah, Batman, but he's only going to play him,
and that we are in the worldtraveling will Berry's past that area.

(45:02):
But yeah, Like to me,it's a I remember even as a kid,
like whoa that that caught me outof No, it was Bruce Springsteen
coming in. Oh that's another crazything too, like all the soufl voice
and all of a sudden he's thebackbone of America to him there with greasy
hands. He just worked on somenineteen fifty Chevy and he's like, what

(45:24):
we're gonna sing? And then youcan't have it? None of that eighteen
hours at the Steel now he justthe Glory Days bro. He weren't a
twelve our shifted the steel mill.He protested at the Baker's Union rally,
and then he came in to singand he got set up by his shitty
friends by Todd Berry. Sorry,oh yeah, that's right about dan Akherd.

(45:45):
I don't understand why he was He'sa blues brother, Ryan, I
get it. What's what? Whydid he invented the blues? You know,
they needed him to be there,like he was invited, you know,
everybody was invited, but like theyneed early. I think he's one
of the guys they brought in becausethey were like, hey man, maybe
we need a comedian there to likeentertain and it's the Hollywood connection probably or

(46:06):
or you know, like they triedto get Parker Junior, but he's too
busy and so they prob know.I think they brought in like they brought
him into like and but they don'tknow that comedians are usually serious when they're
not being filmed, you know,and he's just kind of there with his
glasses on. But he's a musiciantoo, talking about ghost blow jobs or
something. You know. The storywe talked about that right completely forgot that
Dan Ackroyd was it was in herein you know, he did have a

(46:29):
recording he recorded the Doctor Demento songthat he for his movie Doctor. Then
Weirdlse should have been in there.We're as usually already back back then,
especially didn't do his own you knowparody. Who else would have been during
that era or even groups musical acts, Divo Hall Notes, they didn't.
They didn't talk about or no Hallof Notes, no Divo trying to was
in here. I know I'm sayingthey didn't really talk about them or to

(46:52):
them all. I say, Oh, I know that Diana Ross was fell
in love with Darren Hall and he'slike he tried to get his autograph.
Yeah, doctor, he's a blueeyed soul man. What are their Americans?
That would have fit the waitresses?I don't know they know what boys
like though Americans? Americans. Okay, we're gonna in an university like some

(47:13):
alternative. Well, Rick Springfield shouldhave been here. There you go,
there you go, Rick Springfield,Rick Springfield should have been here. The
cars, cars, yeah, thecars. The New York bands, Twist's
sisters should have been some of themetal, the hair band, That's what
I'm saying they're huge hair bands.Yeah if run DMC would have been cool,
right yeah, no hip hop Aerosmith, right Aerosmith? Yeah, well,

(47:34):
BC Boys boys not big enough.I mean depeche Mode didn't make it
for band Aids, so they werealready kind of big. Bootsy Collins should
have made it. Yeah, Parliamentfunk, but they're all like I think
they were. I think Parliament first, Wind and Fire should have been there.
Oh yeah, I love like aChoka con right dood right the time.
You know, Frank Zappa even throwthem in there. But they're smart,

(47:57):
kind of like nobody's going to playinstruments. Yeah we're going to get
as session guy. But whatever thespears of influence that Quincy Jones had to
that's the thing with White Net,it's the Quincy Jones of it all.
And then also they wanted people thatweren't like the song's already written, we
just need you to it. Yeah, we don't want to, because you
could see like people were trying tochange the song and they're like, come

(48:19):
on, man, like yeah,Stevie Wonder wanted to add like heally and
then they're like it's not even soa Heli people that are you know,
I don't speak that langue. Yeah, okayings again, yeah, hey wait
a minute, but he came back. He came back, He came back.
Apparently they did him dirty in thedocumentary because they they didn't didn't say

(48:39):
that he came back. You're leftto believe that, like a temper tantrum.
Yeah, I took some notes here, some like uh notable, one
drama, some drama like hey,well Lewis, you know, he feels
very fortunate because he got to singPrince's line right and talk about an imposter
syndrome, you know, him beingthere. But he nailed it right,
He nailed it pretty good. Andhe's like, yeah, he Lewis was

(49:00):
supposed to be there, to bejust part of the chorus, but he
got his line because Princeton show up. Describing his good fortune to be part
of the project, Lewis said,I was a lucky son of bitch to
be there. Thank god I hada lot of hit records because I wouldn't
have been there any other way.And he spent most of his session next
to Michael Jackson, and Lewis recallsthat Quincy Jones called Michael Jackson smelly because

(49:21):
he's always so clean. Oh thatwas his nickname since his little kid,
Helly. Yeah, that's funny.When they said it was getting ripe in
there. Yeah, it was aline Grand Funk Railroad. I can imagine
like smelling I don't know, likeDiana Ross or or like one of the
Jackson's with all the crazy leather andthe they're wearing all that stuff and yeah,
yeah, then they're drinking and eatingYeah, like fucking Budweiser right there

(49:45):
with you, Lewis right. Interestingthey didn't show anybody there's like what do
you call that? The crafts likea green room, you know, yeah,
like you think they would have like, you know, people just kind
of taking out. I'm sure theyhad something there break and studios always have
kitchens, yeah, big studios likethat, so they probably had her fridge
full of or catered somehow, right, Like I I'm sure someone had coke.
I'm sure. Plan there they're like, hey, good sign. I'm
sure. I'm sure Lionel Richie wason something to to fucking be that,

(50:07):
to host a show and then freakingcorral everybody to this thing and sing the
opening line. It's crazy, butit means remarkable still kind of kind of
almost a positive story for drugs youthink about it. But anyway, question
for what of you guys, ifyou have to be in an environment,
would you go for the band Aidsetting or we are the World setting?
If you guys were invited, youcan only go to one session recording I

(50:30):
was invited to. Yeah, yeah, you're invited, but you can only
go to one as long as I'min a separate room. Now, it
doesn't matter. You want, youcan film the part of the crew,
you know, but unpaid of course, which studio? Which studio session?
Would you would you go to?I gotta look at the names of band
Aid again, Okay, Banana RamaMan, Well, I know, Paul

(50:50):
Weller, Paul Weller at all.That's that's it. It's a clincher for
Louis. I guess feel like I'llfit more with USA for Africa, right,
I think I'll be more relaxed environmentfor me. I think I would
go to I think I would goI think I would go to the I
mean, come on, boy,George, George, Michael H. Madure,
Bono Sting, Simon Lebon, theSimon Labon of it all. Paul

(51:14):
McCartney, Paul Weller, Jody Wattley, come on, man, Martin Camp,
the Cray Brother, the original Craig, John Taylor alone, man,
come on, you have a drinkof John Taylor lines with John Taylor.
All right, Well, let mesee who else I would cool in the
gangs there too. Oh, that'sright that he showed up to that Andy

(51:34):
Taylor, all of drown drawn wasall right? Nick Rhodes, Gary Camp,
Midge Year. I don't know Collinsman. It matters what age you
asked me, because if I wasa little kid, I would said,
of course, Michael Jackson, no, no now now, and then as
as we stand, and then Iprobably wouldn't be here today, a pretty
good kid, Michael, come withmy WOU would have been me, Bubbles.

(51:59):
It would have been on the FortFarris wheel two hours a day,
big strangled by a python. Ohthere you are, met Corey Fellman,
Bubbles. You guys don't dance out? Yeah, So I gotta be with
Team USA or Team band Aid.I think I'd probably go Team USA because

(52:20):
I my one of my big goalsin life is to meet Smoking Robinson,
So I would probably be that justpiercing Blue lies. He's to be a
fucking ass. But he's nice toeverybody else. It's always like that,
exactly, man, so that I'lljust go hang out with Whaley and Jenny,
don't just drink Budweisers all night.But but you know, like it's
probably the nicest guy in there isfucking Bruce Springstey and Kenny Loggins. They

(52:43):
seem to be the nicest guys.It seems like Bruce Springs being would give
you the most attention. Yeah,but after like ten minutes, he'd be
like, I gotta go, Igotta go. Oh in Quincy Jones,
meaning I think it would be America. I want to meet Quincy Johnson.
I mean, come on, man, he recorded with everybody, He did
everything for the motown. You know, who would you where would you go?

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I'm sorry, I gotta go bandAid man because there's just a lot
of bands that I love. Iknow another one, you know, I
gotta go with the Patient on thisone. I was gonna be Sandwich George
and I would hang up with yeah, with George, My George Michael and
boy George George Sandwich. But likeDavid Bowie was there, dude, me,
come on, what if? Onlylike Cliff Richards want to hang out

(53:25):
with you the whole you just talkingabout the young ones. I can chill
with that, you know, likewhen Neil was there, right, Neil
brought in his own are Like Bonojust NonStop talks to you the whole there.
He just wants to talk, Okay, anything else talking about about the

(53:45):
the music video any any Yeah,the bout Gallow speech was kind of cool,
was really cool. Yeah, Ithink that's what kind of everybody finally
bought in, right, But Icould see. But it's to me,
it's like what I learned out ofthis thing is just the grueling way to
construct a song in a time crunch. That's crazy to me. I mean
there's songs that we've become universally loved, like if You Leave that was recorded

(54:06):
in twenty four hours, right,you know by OMD. You know things
like that. When I think aboutsongs like yeah, yeah, you know,
I don't really know. But asa kid, I did not know
that s Bill took twenty four hoursin the studio. That's a long time
to sit there. But this isjust the five guys. Five guys,
right or three or four and someyou know guys. But this is like
it's crazy that they yeah up thewazoo and I don't know how what band

(54:30):
Aid's logistics were, either like thatthey have more time than the USA for
Africa did or because of all theseor they were more laid back over there.
And I think it's oneay shoot alsobecause they can only get everybody for
one day. But I think theyI think they got all this stuff and
then they reworked it took them alittle bit more longer to produce the song.
I think they had more like aproduction. But yeah, but you

(54:51):
know, Quincy Jones, though he'sprobably a fish in he's a jazz guy
and he's like, let's get itand let's get all these and yeah,
let's get take put it through themeat grinder and make juicee burger out of
this. He's he's probably old school, so he's like, let's get it
as perfect so I don't have todo too much stuff to it. Where
I bet you in England they dida little bit more salt and pepper on
this. I mean as a song, I think I think We Are the

(55:13):
World is a better song compared todo they know It's Christmas, it's a
Christmas song. It gave it thatlongevity that we are the world didn't get,
you know, some of the lyricsand do they know it's Christmas times
are a little weird, right bleak. There's slies in the face, there's
like it's very British. I think, yeah, it's acceptable. I mean,

(55:34):
do you think Joey Division would havebeen Curtis even a part of you
think New Order would be there?Strange they're huge. Yeah, maybe the
client I can't make the car Trippmeant from Manchester, but maybe they were
like one of those bands is like, man, fuck Bob Geldov, you
know that there's a lot of thoselike yeah, yeah, they're like talking
shit about other eighties people, likeyou know, they're like because noone checked

(55:55):
their egos at the door, rightyeah, Bob Geldof, he's Mondays that
guy Blue were like Manchester only youknow, let's do something with the UK
subs ada. But yeah, basicallythat's that covers it, you know,
and that's the music video. We'llbe right back after these messages. Okay,

(56:15):
it's time for the notable YouTube comments. These were the worst of the
worst YouTube comments. Not bad,it's just all the same stuff. It's
people putting the times in where thedifferent singers show up. Millions of those.
Yeah, a lot of the samething, just like you know,
oh this is so great, youknow, really no personal stuff. So

(56:36):
the stuff that I pulled out waskind of a little bit more of the
personal stuff. Okay, here wego, loot life. I'm glad Prince
didn't make it. He is partalways hit Hard. According to the Netflix
documentary, Huey Lewis took Prince's part. Also, Cindi Lauper's part is just
amazing, so raw, so powerful, plus Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen combo.
It was also very nice to seepeople support Bob Dylan in order to

(57:00):
get him to sink his part.They did do a really good job.
Malch follow I think that is thebest part of this song is the matching
vocals thing. Yeah, it's likethe do you know it's Christmas time?
There's not as many soulos in thatone, right, not really. And
the thing is that you say,for Akara has the better singers bar none,
no, no, even dispute aboutit, yeah, talent wise and

(57:21):
everything. You know, probably thebest singer and you say in band Aid
is like George Michael. I thinkboy George too. Yeah, boy George
was, but like he only canmaintain one octave kind of thing, you
know, he's on one kind oflike no, no's range kind of range.
Yeah, he's he's like a likea soul singer range, like blue
white soul. I guess so.But like, but at least what if

(57:43):
applied to the whole band aids?Yeah, I mean he does have he
just has to belt it. Sothat's the thing if you if you're I've
never heard, I've never held himbelt, you know, except for like
oh tumble for yeah, that's like, that's all. That's all you.
Tony Hadley didn't have a line inthe you know what, he can fuck
it rocket, but he did not. He didn't have a prominent singing part
of that. They were sick.Yeah, he was robbed. The craze

(58:05):
robbed him. The British one.You could tell they were parting hard,
like yeah, that's big playing thatwas big. They were coked. We
were all parting hard. Admittedly,no party this one. I didn't.
I'm sorry I didn't get the namefor this one. But I don't remember
much in today's fast paced days.But I'll tell you what I vividly remember
nineteen eighty five, my second gradeteacher sitting us in a circle to sing

(58:30):
along to this song. Ah Wow. We would first stand recite the Plagio
Allegiance to start every day. Thenshe was cittizen in a circle, walk
around to the record player and startplaying this song. We would all sing
it together in harmony. It wasbeautiful. God, I cherish and missed
those moments. We were living insome of the best times of our life
and didn't even know it. Bythe way, twenty five years later,

(58:52):
I married her niece and then heput this like happy face emoji. I
love it Loi's notes, So theactual notes, it's just pretty that way.
I'm like, oh, that's evenfunnier. It's awesome. Twenty five
years I'm still in the cult.Yeah, that's twenty five years, and

(59:12):
my life is thin or not oblaged. That have made it in that more
nineties version of We Had the Worldlike fifteen of that time, but they
did have it We Are the Worldtwenty five Yeah, exactly. Autitude artists.
Apparently that wasn't very popular. Thatwas the guy from the Black Eyed
Piece, right, Yeah, wellI am, and he ended up getting
busted for stealing money for some otherrelief thing that he did for like Haiti

(59:32):
or I think that's what happened.Here we go the second one. No
glitter, no autitude, no mumblewrap, just pure talent and soul.
I'm pitted them for l because youknow he eats mumble rap. That's why
this version will never get old.The newer version is just a mere shade
of this masterpiece. Amen, amthere you go, old hands hands across

(59:58):
the That's that's the Internet's voice aboutthat topic. Okay, then we are
the world. Would you keep itor would you throw it back? Holy?
Holy? Yeah, it's funny becausewe didn't even watch the video,
so I'm kind of thinking back.The video was just the song, right,
I mean they just sang and youkind of showed them I mean what
the song stood for. Of course, man, I mean I gotta keep

(01:00:21):
it because it did leave an indeliblemark in my childhood, like remembering seeing
all those huge stars that you wouldonly see their music videos, but together
in one room. That was kindof cool. But it really topped it
off with this documentary. I reallyenjoyed. It was fun. I love
lyon Richie's storytelling. I think he'spretty funny, you know, like his
his style and the way he kindof brought the documentary together. But the
song, man, it's unforgettable.I feel like it's one of those It's

(01:00:45):
a very well written song that youhear it the first time and it's kind
of just it's weird, right,It kind of stays with it because the
way they wrote it, you know, like it's like the hook, the
course, everything just they wanted tocompose kind of like an anthem anthemy.
Yeah right, and then now thatthat's mentioned, I was it makes peracs
that's true. So yeah, man. Overall, so it's a it's a
great keepe I mean, all theurts and it's pretty cool man, right,

(01:01:07):
But yeah, it's good. Ilike it. No, man,
this is a keeper more so thedocumentary. I mean, the video is
pretty much just stuff from the documentary, but there are these like moments in
your life that you remember, right, So it's like the Berlin Wall falling,
the Challenger explosion and like stuff likethis and hands across it, and
you know, it's just like theseare just weird things that I'll remember from

(01:01:30):
the eighties that were like holy shit, like that happened. That's crazy,
you know, like it's just acrazy thing. And I mean they try
to do it, you know alittle bit later and it didn't really work
out too good, you know.So yeah, just one of those weird
memories that you have as a kidthat's like, wow, it's weird,
Like you know, you buy therecord, and the record the money went,
you know to that too, soyou had everybody had a part in

(01:01:53):
it, you know, so itwas kind of cool and everybody was listening
to it and it was it waskind of a weird cohesive with for everybody.
It was unity. Yeah. Yeah. Like as for me, I'm
throwing it right now, just kidding. I'm definitely keeping this one. It's
it's a it's a landmark moment onmy childhood. This yeah, this whole

(01:02:13):
Avengers Assemble moment of musicians. Itwas. It was mind blowing for me
back then, you know, andI was fresh off my Thurller high,
you know, like I love everybodylove Michael Jays, so of course,
I you know, like Michael Jacksonwas a line of Richie and then what
Tina tur and then what Cyndi Lauperand like what Bruce brastein you know,
fresh off dancing. Yeah, likelike fresh off dancing with with Courtney Cox

(01:02:36):
on stage, you know, like, what the hell's it going on?
Oh my gosh, Kenny Loggin's footloosing in the air. Like it was
just to me, it was likea sensory overload. I just remember seeing
the music video first time and thatwas just like I can't believe this is
happening. Yeah. Yeah, Likeit was just impactful because I've never seen
anything like that in my life.And then all of a sudden, you
know, like Live Aid happened afew months later for the same cause,
and and that just like galvanized everything. And know there's Live AID in America

(01:03:00):
and Live AID in England and afew artists from this one showed up in
the Philadelphia show and then they sangwe Are the World to To. It
was the last song they had.Like Dion Warwick, you know, which
which we didn't talk about Deon Warwickextubly, you know, like she was
kind of DV right kind of likeI mean, yeah, she was in

(01:03:20):
the she was in the Netflix documentaryas well. I don't know much about
Dion Warwick, but you know,I just remember a lot when the Psychic
Network in the nineties. Right.But just the news I just learned about
her not too long ago was shetook a lot of opposition in a lot
of hip hop because of the misogynisticlyrics that she would hear. And she
invited I think Doctor Dre and SnoopDogg to her house and they came and

(01:03:44):
they asked her like, okay,like you know a problem in your lyrics,
you know, like when you callme a bitch to my face and
they can't say it, And theysay that that was the most gangster things
they've ever felt in their lives,and that was that's fucking bad ass,
like a Deon war mad. Butanyway, so yeah, yeah, Warwick's
part of the whole Philadelphia show LionelRichie and you know, Michael Jackson wasn't

(01:04:05):
available because of other commitments. Butanyway, Yeah, this is a landmark
moment in history, really definitely musichistory. Also raised a lot of money,
man raised, yeah, is stillraising money now, you know,
they're still fun. I mean yeah, it made like sixty million back in
nineteen eighty five, which is equivalentof twenty fifteen million dollars now. It's

(01:04:26):
a lot of money. Yeah,definitely keepers, triple keeps, triple keeps.
So in closing, that concludes theepisode. So, oh, what
you got for us next week?If you had a Bob Dylan at the
comfortable, just make it. I'llnever skip a moment to do a Bob
Dylan personation if it's opportunity, it'salso what's you gonna do? Okay,

(01:04:51):
we've we've been stuck in nineteen eightyfive the past few episodes. I need
to snap out of it. Jumpabout ten years later. We'll be doing
portous Heads Sour Time. Damn,nobody loves men. So for our next
episode, we're doing port Shead SourTime. They've been playing there recently again
really the singer Oh yeah Tharty touringor something like in England. Yeah,

(01:05:15):
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