Ep. 119-Mr Roboto (Styx)

The time has come at last for Ryan, Louie & Al to discuss Styx's dystopian "Mr. Roboto." Was Kilroy here? Tune in, find out!

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:23):
All Right, Hey, hello, and welcome to episode one hundred
and nineteen of Throwback Music Video Review podcast, and tonight
we will be reviewing mister Robato. Mister Roboto is a
nineteen eighty three song by American rock band Stix, released
as the lead single from their eleventh studio album, kil

(00:47):
Roy Was Here. It was written by singer keyboardist Dennis
De Young. It peaked at number three in the US
Billboard Hot one hundred chart. The five minute and thirty
four second music video was directed by Brian Gibson and
currently has thirty six million views on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
All bots too, right, All.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Bots, Yes, all bots all, mister robatos, thank you for
pumping up my numbers and AD revenue. So, guys, what
is your history with sticks is mister Roboto?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I have nothing, man, except for a couple of songs,
but not really a lot with the band. I see
the band's name all the time. Like I said, you
go thirst for shopping, you get the bods gags. Yeah,
at the super trams you get bread and then you
get sticks.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Right back album, right, the whole albums. Yeah, the one
with like the trees on it.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
But I never never really bought any of them or
even listen to it. But yeah, just a couple songs
I mentioned, the Babe I Love You song. That's a
great song, mister Roboto, of course, was the one you
guys were talking about, Come Sale, say Away. Okay, that one,
I think, but very few, but they kind of came
and went. I mean, at least their music was before
my time really, you know, so it never really kind
of stuck with me.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, this is your eleventh album in nineteen eighty three,
so how about you, guys.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
I have the longest true with this song. So I
think this was probably the first forty five that my
parents ever bought me. Right, So I was five years
old around this time, so remember it is very foggy
on this one. I remember my parents had the album,
but I love the song so much that they bought

(02:22):
me the single because it actually has like a picture
from the video yeah, yeah, with the robot, with the robot,
and I didn't like the album. I don't know if
it's scared me. I just didn't like the art on
the album, like the fool with the trees and stuff.
I was like, this is so gross looking, you know.
So they I remember, they bought me that, and they
would and then we would. I would play it, they would

(02:43):
play it, and then I would move it because I
hated the song except for the oh my God to
mister Robot, to like the beginning, and then I would
go back to the beginning and this in the beginning,
and then I would only I probably wore I still
have the album, it's in my collection.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I probably only wore out the first part of it
because Imbo Coder. I love the vocal coder part, and
for some reason, the rest of the song, I just
didn't like it, but I wanted it. I love that
part so much, and I love the art of the
robot and the races. Yeah, it's so weird, so like
I get these like weird memories of it as a kid.

(03:19):
You know, it's super foggy because I was like five,
so it's it's really really foggy, maybe like maybe a
year before that or around that time. I also had
like surgery, I had like brain searcher. I had like
brain searcher, I had a tumor in my head, and
so a lot of that, Like a lot of my
early memories I remember only like a couple of them,
but like really vivid. There's a couple of memories that

(03:41):
are very vivid. And for some reason, this one's like
super vivid and on you. I think it's like the music.
I think it's like the music thing, you know, like
how music just kind of gets stuck in in your brain.
And then I kind of maybe also has something to
do with my dyslexia too, where I could remember music
a lot more than I could remember a lot of

(04:02):
other things for some reason, my brain, my brain does
work differently, right, So like reading and stuff and like numbers,
they look weird to me, but like music was very
easy for me. Like when I was a kid, I
could like go to a piano and I I could
hit notes, not like I'm a Savanna or anything like that,
but I could play like a basic bassline or something
right right, you know. And I think this was like
just one of those like weird things for where only

(04:23):
that part of the song just really like hit me.
I don't know why it's so weird, and I think
maybe it was like a synthesizer and vocoder thing because
I had the same thing when I was young with
Devo too, and like and then like very like synth bands,
a lot of like analogy synth bands. I maybe I
don't know what it is about. Those sounds just hit
me when I was a kid because that Oxflo like
went into like break dancing and rap because a lot

(04:44):
of that stuff it had a lot of like early
moves on it, and then also like analog drum machines.
So I'm guessing this is my what I'm thinking was
a connection was for some reason that like electronic music,
but like the way that like electricity can go into
an instrument and for some reason and I just created
created sound and yeah yeah, and then that also hits

(05:06):
to like the story guitar and feedback, which I really
kind of like gravitated towards you know, makes sense, so like, yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
A weird story for you.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, it's a weird. It's a very weird, and it's
so weird it's crazy because I don't really like the song,
and I never did even when I was a kid.
I wanted it, but I only wanted it for those
weird parts, you know.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean you gravitated around rocket as well by you
know of course, like yeah, like I mean if kraft work,
if we're surrounded by graft work at that time, that
would have been like you.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, all the early hip hop, right, it's all craft work,
you know. So a lot of that stuff just I
vibed with is really strange, not sort I'm trying to
think say that I'm when I was a kid, I
was just like elitist hardcore indie ship guy.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
It just was it just I just.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Gravitated towards it was weird.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
I heard was born with a scarf, was with the scarf,
Adida shell top, PBR and a Vice magazine under my
under my arm when I went to the restroom.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
It exists yet, but I had one a record collection
magazine on the other song no no, so yeah, it's
it's this is how I have a very weird relationship
with this song and the video because the video was
on MTV and I was an MTV kid, and because
the album art for the forty five was the video,
so it was just weird. I have a weird relationship

(06:30):
with it, and when we're watching it, I was just like, what,
I don't get it. You know, like a lot of
the music that I was when I was young, I'm like, yeah,
I get this. I still love this song completely. And
then this song I'm just like, oh, I remember getting
uncomfortable with the thank you very much sho and the kid.
You know, I was just like, that doesn't flow, you know,
like that's weird, like.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
You, he's very macho, it's very offensive. Yeah, it goes
along with the mask.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
You know. I didn't even get that until like recently,
I'm like, oh wait a minute, this mask is kind
of it's a little weird.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Much. It does created an easiness because remind you know,
like when I was a kid, I had I had
a Buddha piggy bank, but it's a Buddha made a person,
and you know, it was a it was an Asian Buddha,
so it had that smile. It looked like remind of
mister Robotto. And I remember kind of associating that as
well with.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
That you mean, but dying right, the Chevy, Yeah, the
shape ball, the ball with kids with children yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, so like I never were a name, but I
just thought it was Buddha called it Buddha.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
That's what everybody actually, would die, would die? All right,
you've you've seen the video. You saw it in the
Philippines the video you know me either.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
For some reason. Never the song was everywhere though, Yeah,
exactly was it a hit here?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
The video?

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yes, it was.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
There was a.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Whole thing for it. It was kind of like the
Thriller where they had a whole.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Thing and like we kind of saw a little better.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, and like kil Roy's coming, they were doing all
these things like it was like a big event. In
that pre stuff they showed. They showed like the full
video and then later on they cut it down, but
for the opening event they showed the interesting Yeah, because
I was like, wow, I remember seeing this like this
is remember seeing it like at five or six, you know,
like when I was six.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, that's a totally different memory. But still and the
fact that you guy actually got to see it, that's
I think the robot.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
It was like that kind of weird thing when you
were a kid where it's scary but you want to
see it because you kind of like being scared, so
it was kind of like one of those things. So
it had a weird, profound space.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
In I mean, that's that's amazing though we can actually
get that that this is kind of therapy session. Yeah,
very intense.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
There was a time when I would I would destroy
electronics in my home.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Wearing the mask.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
I would buy KFC and just smash it, not eat it,
just smash it.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
It would taught the robot with the drumstick, right. But
for me my experiences with this, it's the song. I
just remember really liking it because it was so novel
and I love robots, you know, I'm a huge Transformers man.
Still is very disday and gold Bots especially, But just
that the idea of, you know, every time a song
would have a vocoder, I'm you know, I'm sold in

(09:04):
a way, right, And the song was it was heavy
in it, but yeah, it was catchy too for me
as a kid where it's secret secret, I got a secret.
That part it stays with me, man like, But I
don't know. I thought the song was good and I
always wanted to make an industrial version of this song,
but I just like I got lazy.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's a really big song, like it is.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
And I could not. I could not sing like Dennis
that younger and you could do it in a voice.
I could do the robotom voice no problem. And I
can't really get away with trying to sing like you know,
the heavy part, the heavy vocal parts. So I'm just like,
maybe I'll employ an actual singer.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
But but did you know any of their other songs?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Alan just come sail Away?

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Really and you knew it was sticks, I knew it.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Was Stix, But this was definitely the first song I
heard from them, and then I would hear their other songs,
you know, in like seventies classic rock exactly, or but
besides that, like I just thought, you know, the song
was cool, and that was it. It just disappeared my subconscious
to like the late nineties when I started playing instruments
again and I'm like, oh, I had a voeoder, let
me try mister Roboto on this vote coder.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
You know the video you saw like more recent.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
The first time I saw this video was probably like
in the late two thousands. Yeah, same here, you know,
when YouTube became more accessible for for us, and you could.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Just interestingly you think it'd be like included in like
you know in all the video shows that came up
in the nineties, but not really not so much.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Not really because you know, I guess since the band
kind of hated on this song.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
And I think it it got like kind of like
the blackballed this really but really quickly. It kind of
fell off favor as like kind of like a hokey.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Kind of especially with their style, and then the band
to meet us.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Part of the charm though, you know, personally, like I I,
you know, like the fact that they hated because they
tried something different, and this different became their biggest hit.
I think that's amazing.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Do you think this is bigger than Come sail Away?

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah, baby?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh hell really yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
And I think that's part of why it was number three.
Their fan base kind of thought their fan base hated it,
I guess, but they couldn't believe that they this is
what they pivoted to this, you know, yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, but to us, you know, like normies.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, mister, well, because you know it's synth based, right, yeah,
and that's of the time too, so they kind of thought, oh,
these guys are just trying to cash in maybe, you
know what I mean. Yeah, And for a long time
the band. They disowned it. Theydn't they wouldn't play it
when Dennis De Young got kicked out. But now they're
playing it because it's a fan favored everybody looks it. Yeah, exactly,
it's weird.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Right, I mean, we take it master charging you like
eight hundred dollars service charge fans. Better game, mister Roboto
about charges.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Right, because the robots are buying all the tickets and
reselling they were, right.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
So yeah, that's based our histories. We'll be right back
after these messages. All right, Okay, so pop quiz time already.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
All right, all right, here we go. Question number one,
mister Roboto peaked at number three. Al said that earlier
on the Billboard Hot one hundred. This was during the
week of April sixteen, nineteen eighty three. Ession which of
the following song was not in the top five of
that week? Okay, nineteen eighty three, just give you some context.

(12:08):
A come on Eileen by of course Daxy's Mi Night
Runners b Jeopardy by Greg Kinband. Do you guys know
that song?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (12:14):
How does that going on?

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I'm in jeopard y baby baby.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
See Billy Jean My Michael Jackson or d one on one,
Darryl Hall, John.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oates, I'd say Darryl Hall, John Notates.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, not in the top five, not in the final answer.
You're both correct. I never heard wait one even now one.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Maybe maybe I heard it by.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's a good song man great so anyway, Yeah, that's correct.
Come on, Ileen was number two. Jeopardy was number four.
Billy Jane of course number one. All right, all right,
you guys are up a couple of points.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Here, but one on one was not number one.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
That's weird, right, all right?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Seventeen question two.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
In twenty twenty two, Rolling Stone rank the Kilroy was
here as the number fifty on their list of the
fifty greatest concept albums of all Time, which at the
following was voted its number one. Ooh nice, all right.
Concept albums, So you guys are big fanous plan albums
or what? Here's a choice A. Kendrick Lamar's twenty twelve
Good Kid, m aad City, Mad City. I guess yeah.

(13:25):
Choice B Pink Floyd's nineteen seventy nine in the Wall
see Beyonce's twenty sixteen Lemonade, or D David Bowie's nineteen
seventy two The Rise and Fall of Ziggy startis Spiders.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
From Oh, I don't know if it's the Wall or Ziggy.
I'm gonna go with the Wall.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I'm going with the Wall.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
You guys are going with the Wall. Yeah, you both
hit the Wall because it's a Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
What wow, I mean that's a good album.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Pink Floyd was number three, Beyonce was fifteen, Bowie was thirteen.
You know what. Number two was Green Day American idiot.
Look at this is number four, Ray Kwan only built
for Cuban links. And five was the Who's Tommy?

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Who's Tommy? Yeah that's tough. That's tough because to me,
Wall just like iconic. That's why I grab.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
I would think it would automatically just get you know, votes,
you know, right, because.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
I mean it changed the culture. You know, so many,
so many common sayings are.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
And still going strong and all radio play. Man, it's NonStop.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
But I probably have like three on that list. It's like, sure,
oh yeah, Tommy, of course, Tommy a quick one. Well
he's away, all.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Right, you guys ready get your headies on because they're
raging storms in your forecast.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Flooding round all right, So the right I love it.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
I love it all right.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
The song mister B moans the flight of modern man
louis al yep, being oppressed by new technology.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
So today these computers.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's right, I have for you some newly invented gadgets.
All right, technically devices, you're all techys.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Right hold on, let me I have my legal pat
right now, my pencil. Let me write these dings ironically.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
I had AI actually do all the questions.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Okay, there we go.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
She's the human eyed Ryan.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Here's number one.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
All true or false?

Speaker 3 (15:15):
If this actual gadget exists. The selfie toasters I've heard
the selfie toaster is capable of searing your face on
a piece of toast or bagel, if you have slightly
chubbed face out, using lazy technology like a printer to
print your face onto the toast. The selfie toaster is
available for wapping seventy dollars.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Who are bargain?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Who wants to go first?

Speaker 4 (15:36):
I'm gonna go. I'll go first.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Go ahead.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
I wanted to say false because I hope it's not true.
But I think it's Trueboy, what do you think?

Speaker 3 (15:44):
I don't have a lot.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
I think it's true.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
You're gonna go with true. Yeah, it's actually true.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Have you seen it?

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, I've seen.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
I didn't believe when I saw it.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
I've seen Jesus face on.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
I've seen that many times. And Mother Mary Mary.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
God tortilla.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I mean they can now put like your selfie in
like a cappuccino, so of course you can do it
with toast.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Here's number two again, it's for both. They don't have
a lot of these. I started to find these. The
mouth pad. The mouth pad it's a dental grade resin
three D printed device that is put on top of
your mouth and turns your tongue into a mouse for
electronic devices. In addition to that, it doubles is a
Bluetooth mouse with PC's, Mac and Android smarts. How their tagline,
can you believe this when you're going down on your

(16:25):
girl but you also want to surf the web?

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Okay? I thought I thought this was real because I
was like, well, this would actually work with a lot
of people with disabilities. But then when you cut the
I was like, I think this is yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's too too whacked out there, man, I think this
is not true.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
You're both wrong, because that is.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Is that the real tagling? No, okay, but Lily, you're right,
it's exactly it's yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
So it's real. You do a what do you call this?
A cast or and then they you know, just like
you go to a dentist. But that's pretty cool actually
because they show how you use it. It's pretty smooth.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
That's nuts.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Yeah, a work that's that's cool.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, all right here at number three, this is the
the Erotic Exercise bike. Gets heard about this one Erotic
a E r O T I C okay, right. The
AEV is a foldable, stationary indoor upright fitness Workout X
bike with eight level resistance armband, complete with LCD monitor
and internal speakers, a pulsating and heat sensor seat to

(17:23):
bring the modern women to complete climactic workouts. True or false.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I've seen that episode of South Park where the bike.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, there's there's also like always suddenly Philadelphia, there's a
bike with the dildoor.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Bike.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
I want to say it's true because I could see that.
I mean, even it seems like a false one that
right made up, but they all sound false, like right up,
So I'm gonna just say this is true, true or false.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
You know, I was at best Buy a few weeks
ago and there was this beautiful massage here, but like that,
like I really wanted. It's two grand, but it would
massage every freaking orifice in your body, even your I
was like, the greatest but massage I've ever got was
from that thing.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
But it didn't But didn't bring you to climax.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
No I didn't. No, No, it takes a lot longer
for me. But I would say this is true because
if that technology is already out in the public, I'm
sure they got something like this.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, you're both wronged. I got you guys, get into
that one, all right, we got killed you guys. One.
Have you guys got one correct in of it?

Speaker 4 (18:32):
We got, yeah, the first first one we both got.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I'm sorry I haven't tried this one. The Swedish company
most cycle Becaus heard of. This one is behind the
world's first pair of reusable airbag jeans. That's right, most
cycle pants can in plate upon impact, softening the blow
of a motorcycle collision, made with water repellent, breathable, and
abrasion resistant fabric.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Okay, so I know that they have backpacks that do
this invest that do this. I haven't heard of the
jeans that do this, but I have a more cuch
a license. I do right scooters, Italian scooters. I'm gonna
say yes, this is true because I could see those
guys getting into this. I don't wear that stuff. I
could see that.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah. I wish our friend Paul was here. He would
he might Yeah, more of the conversation.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
If he doesn't have a pair, he invented a pair.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
I would say true because that sounds like a very
nice safety feature.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
First true as well. Yeah, you're both correct, right, the
most cycle man, I want to get one already. I'm
just blocking it. You know, it's pretty cool. You know what.
It has a CO two cartridge.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, that's that's all the background.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
So eighty eight pounds of pressure. If it hits, it
pops and then it can deflate it again.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
So it's gonna have a pretty cool seven pounds.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Shattered legs, then you have no legs.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I have no legs.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
I have no Alright, try this one. The mechanical arm
known as the Arty Robot Barista, capable of making foamy
beverages such as lattes, cappuccino's, espressos, and even decent latte art.
Just use the app to submit your request and the
machine will get to work from the grinder to the
express a machine, coffee station and the milk frother unless

(20:04):
you want to broad something else. Oh yeah, so that's
you gonna have to look extra for that one.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Then. Okay, I want to say that I've seen this before,
but then if you tell me it's fault that I
and then I just like, but I have for some reason,
I think I saw this and we talked about putting
your face on.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
With Al's prior comment, I'm going this is true.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
You going true.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
I think it's true. I have seen not that machine
for specifically, but I did see a robot making ice cream. Okay,
so I think that's true as well, because it's the
ice cream sea salt more complicated than with it that thing.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
So per your deductions, you are both correct. Yeah, but
if you see this thing, it's it's a crazy like
actual arm. That's like it's pretty good, man, like the
way it makes things, you know, come on, can make
the art.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Like, yeah, what I got to mister espresso, Right.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
We're getting pretty close to us all having bender as
a best friend, right.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Pretty much the exactly just hanging out all.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
I basically got robots surveying me in this place, you know,
with the whole Alexa thing.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, you're very Roboto and you're.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Pretty much transports.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
He's talking is massaging you.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
It is like fucking Brazil.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
And look, I got Metropolis, which is a very huge
inspiration for the mask of mister Roboto.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's the main inspiration.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
You do have like a lot of babyheads in here,
and then multiple cameras and multiple TVs.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Staring at the ceilings.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Though, why are we locked in these chairs?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
You know why, Louis because I'm killed, right.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Maybe this one you guys can get for Christmas. The
Viber belt gets heard of that one, right, It's worn
like a regular belt. The smart device comes with sensor
markers in the strap and buckle that can track your
potential romantic partner's interest level using Bluetooth technology by varying
levels of vibrations. The data can be synchronized to an
app that consolidates and processes all the information based on

(21:52):
the person's height and weight, proximity, natural movement patterns, and
vocal intonations.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
So wait, you're supposed to wear it, you wear yeah,
and then they'll you'll know if someone's interested in you
by the way they're talking.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
To you, or the biometrics and such.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Yes, okay, I'm saying this is false, but this would
help a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
A lot of people could use this.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, I would say it's false.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
You're going with false, you're going with you're both right, Yes, yeah.
It took me a long time.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Right now, it's like a Ryan's delivery. Here's a little
too oh yeah, a little too kind and direct.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
And I was trying to think, like, what's his analog
for this product.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Whether actually it is inspired by a belt that measures
like how much you've eaten? Okay, so like it loosens
like it goes along with Yeah, it's pretty crazy, man.
There's a lot of these things are obviously from actual things.
But would you both agree that true comfort is priceless? Yes?

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Absolutely, Well, if so, then the well not that price.
Didn't buy that chair.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
It wasn't true comfort yet. But you know what's crazy
about that chair. It's a it's a zero gravity massage here, right,
It literally flip you like like ninety five degrees.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Like, wow, that's for your blood too.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, so to take a circulation and it would like,
oh my god, the massage, the way massage your arms
is crazy.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
The thing about this story that Al was talking about
this chair because he told it to me before too,
So this chair had an impact. This chair had a
mister robotic impact on a like the record had an
impact on how much.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Is it grand? We can do a little fundraiser from
the podcast.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah yeah, buy me a coffee, guys, buy me a couchy.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
We start a Patreon just for El's chair.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Wow, this could actually go along with your with that
purchase because the amagami ham haam. You guys heard of
this one? No, yeah, this one's right for you. It
might look like a small plush catter dog, but it's
robotic inards mean, it can give you a light chump
when you need a little reassurance, Like all you need
to do is put your finger in its mouth. And
since there's nothing worse than uninspiring chewing, the Amagammi ham

(23:55):
ham relies on a set of hamg rhythms. Make sure
it's nibble patterns and get too repetitive. It's like a
comfort thing.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
You know this is fake and you wrote that you're Jesius.
You're a genius, my friend, because I'm gonna say that's true.
And if you fake me on that you're amazing, that.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Has to be true because that is a very Japanese thing,
is it.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yes, Wow, it's actually true.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yeah, right, you're still amazing.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
So cute. You see one of those things. I gotta
look it out and they changed the picture. It's it's
just for comfort, you.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Know, and the fake dog or whatever it just lays there.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's just a little thing like that with a mouth over.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
It's just a massage your finger and.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
I'm sure other people use so Hello.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
And finally, gentlemen, this is something I just bought recently,
The Advantage sex tech device. It's called Advantage helps improve
man's sexual performance when you've had one drink too many.
Otherwise known as whiskey, you guys, fill in the blank.
The weirable patch is designed to be fitted between the
scrotum and a during intercourse. Okay, I think that's correct

(25:04):
that at the press of a button on the smartphone
app controlled by the where it can stimulate the urge
to ejaculate and improve sexual aberformance.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Tain't misbehaving.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Uh, that's right, you know how you can?

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Right, So it's like one of those things that they
put into like like a horse or something, right, and
it makes them like ejaculated. Perhaps, Yeah, yeah, it's like
a a prod thingy.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Too much technology, indeed, that is if that isn't supply
of the modern man.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
I'm gonna say it this is fake because it doesn't
give you a heart on it just makes you come right, Okay,
and like.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
I guess you'd have to after a few at I have.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
A lot of questions. Could you just like orgasm when
you're not aroused? This is I'm sure you don't have
these tech.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Well, i'll tell you next.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
I'll tell you next day.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Do you work tech on this? Could I call you?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I'm in the r yeah, the beta testing.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Okay, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say this is false.
But I could see this.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, it's false advantage. What's wrong with you?

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I'll deviate from because we'll be gonna been aligned. I'll
say this is.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
True, and he gets teaming up. Actually this is false.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, good for you, Louis, it is for me.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
That's it. There's so many, so many weird ones.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Man, imagine you have this right, this this thing exists,
and you use it while you're just you don't last
that that would be weird crazy.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
The thing is like the girl think you're weirdo, that's true.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's like what do you what is that a nicotine badger?

Speaker 2 (26:45):
You have to explain it. There goes your days like
for overs. It's done? All right? So is that that's
the pop quiz? Oh? It's fun.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
It's hard to tell sometimes, huh because even for me
when I was reading all these different ones, tons and tons, man,
the all right?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Talk about the music video?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Oh you said who directed it? Right? Brian Gibson? Brian, Yeah,
passed away two thousand and four, but he directed a
bunch of full length movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I's I'm sure,
what's love got to do with it? Poultry guys too,
polter guys too. Still crazy, still crazy.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
And he was like executive producer for Freda and yeah
he is a pretty log is definitely in the industry.
And then a lot of videos too. He did tons
of videos, videos and stuff too.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
And that's the thing is that what I got from
this video when I first see you, because I never
saw the actual ten minute you know, special presentation for
it featurettes. Yeah, it was just like it splices from
this and it felt like, man, this guy was a
big time video director, like movie director. Eventually like what
did and then watching the ten minuting like okay, now
see his vision? You know, I just thought that the

(27:44):
video compared to the ten minute thing was just edited weird.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Oh yeah, well you have to think about like there
no Michael Jackson where you can pull off a thriller,
you know, a nice thirty four you know what I'm saying.
They tried, Yeah, but so they had to kind of
wheel it down to you know, solid four or five minutes.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Also too, isn't as they're not Michael Jackson.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
They're not even feature yeah, Dennis Young.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, so they's not.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
It's not like they have to feature the robot and
you know, the one singer and then the other party
the longer the pre movie video whatever. You see more
of the art direction and all that kind of Yeah,
you see. And it looks very like we were talking
about Aliens and Blade Runner.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Very it's like a legit movie.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
I was into it. I was buying it, you know.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, they spent one million dollars for this ten minute thing, and.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
The acting was good.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
I'll give you yeah, I was. I was surprised that
Dennis the Young but apparently he has a you.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Know yeah, yeah, he's one of those that it is natural.
But again, so it starts off the setting is like
a not too distant future, right, kind of a dystopian.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Well you see this trailer of light, right, and you
see the this this some rock or like R. O. C. K.
Kilroy or this is that was it again? What was
his name?

Speaker 3 (28:52):
His real name is Robert Orrin Charles Kilroy. There you go,
otherwise known as rock right.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, so he's walking in this museum, the music museum, right, yeah,
but but.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
It's a rock and roll right, but it's like the
weirdest basic Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
They had a Jimmy Hendrix one there, which the.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Video skit Jimmy Hendricks.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
But they had the Elvis one there, and then he
walked in the main stage, which was the you know
basically where a lot of video.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Right, it's a museum where there's the three Pinnacles of
rock history. It's Jimmy Hendrix, it's Elvis and it sticks.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Right, we're probably that you should go in Kroner orders, right,
Elvis for then Jimmy but they.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Kill they got the seventies Elvis is the thing.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
No, that was fifties Elvis. The seventies Elvis. Wait, that
was bad Elvis.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Right, yeah, the song is Elvis, but the look, the.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Look was bad.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's Vegas Elvis.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Do you think Stan Winston designed the Elvis statue to
or Now?

Speaker 2 (29:42):
I guess I would say so.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
But the Elvis voice was really his?

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Right?

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Or do you think it was a knockoff? Guy?

Speaker 4 (29:47):
It sounded like not Jimmy Hendricks, Jimmy Hedrick, was someone
else doing voice?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh yeah, Jimmy Hendricks.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Let's do some drugs, drugs, drug whatever?

Speaker 4 (29:59):
He says, Oh no, I'm sorry stan Winston only he
only designed.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
The rope, but not the backdrops.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
And no, he only did the ships and stuff like
that look very alien. Yeah yeah, so he's like, no,
just just put me for the robot. I don't want
to I don't want anything to do.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
I got I got Terminator to do. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
I got iron Man money coming to me. He's pretty
super iron Man in Jurassic Park. Money coming pretty soon.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
But the the young guy, the young blonde guy, who's
the band members, I believe chance, Yeah, he's one of
the singers, right, yeah, well so in the story, his
name is Jonathan Chance, right, and he's like a secretly
a musician who's trying to bring back rock and roll.
That's why he's trying to sabotage that whole thing that
was happening.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
He's like a part of the underground. Is he the
guy who's who's who's tagging on everything with the.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Correct that laser the laser tager. They're so they're going
against the majority for musical morality, right, the MMM and
the the guy and the what was he he's kind
of screen yeah, the big brother guy, doctor Everett Righteous,
the mustache guy. Yeah, and he's actually played by the
guitarist James Young.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
This's got in the band.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
They're ang in the band, that's right.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
But man I could go for some doctor Wright. Just chicken, right,
that's the food of the future, right, see like d
r f Z.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
But you know we don't get that in the video. Actually, yeah,
we don't get that. We're a reference of the KFC
in the in the featurette the movie piece, right, they
when they actually see what the prisoners, prisoners are fed
by the roboto's this nice little two piece meal.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
So there were the prequel to the video. Is all
this that we're talking about right now?

Speaker 3 (31:29):
You know album like it's from beginning to end, there's
a story that's being told, and mister Roboto is really
pretty much the you listen to.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
The rest of the album, right, and is there like
a prison song and.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Now there's like the end of the night when there's
there's it's theme. It's thematic, but not necessarily it's not
very direct. Maybe the lyrics because you have to maybe
read it, but not not necessarily the you know what
you get from the songs, right, So he's there to
bring music back, right, and then the first scene is
is the you.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Could Yeah, he arrives mister Roberto right punk right.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
So the thing the choreography.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
World around the world, you.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Know the guy like I don't know if you researched
the choreographer, and it's just like I just thought, like, man,
the choreography here and this the same guy who choreograph
high school musical three and and this is what he
was coming up with back then.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
I think he was just trying. It's mostly like how
the robot would move, not so much like the actual
because you're right, it's kind of clumsy, righty.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
It's clumsy. They can't They're not insane. They're really off,
you know, and like what kind of digital programming was this?

Speaker 3 (32:30):
That's true?

Speaker 4 (32:31):
I mean he was in the feature it before he
was able to trick the robot and easily, right, yeah,
pretty easily, I guess.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
I guess the robots are pretty stupid.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
They're just doing any any job, right and the way
I just wants to do as he says.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
They're not T one thousands, like they're like T tens
maybe or something like that.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
T point one.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
And I feel like they're not intuitive. They don't really
grow as like an AI like would continue to grow,
you know, like intellectual.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
And the weird part is about the robots is that
they look pretty menacing but pretty nice.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
You're pretty pleasant, right yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
They're just programmed, you know, just zeros in one, so
they have no.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
They remind you to get your hair cut, they bring
you chicken.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
You know.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's like I feel like as a prisoner, and they're
kind of like the main guards right there. Yeah, it's
to kind of confuse you, Like they're calming and nice,
but then you look, you know what I'm saying like that,
like in a human way, like your reaction would.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Be by them.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
They make them humanoid to make you comfortable.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
But then there's they got me then exactly, I am
totally like prime for their.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
This would have been shaving your hand right now, take
me to your robot leaders.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
I will do your bidding the human race for robots.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Sorry, guys can podcast robots in the house.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
But you get the main robota right turns into your
main man.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Yeah, well, I mean this makes the feature, helps the
video make sense because yeah, like what.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Because for me, it's like, yeah, I was hating on
his video throughout like ever since i've seen it, because
this is stupid. What the fuck's going on here? Is
just the editing's all weird. They can't dance together. But
seeing the context now and like okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
You can piece a little bit of it from the lyrics,
but from the video straightforward. Let's say you saw the
first couple of times, what's happening just a future world
and there's robots, Yeah, and they're just.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Dancing around all stupid and you know, and they're theatrical.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, it's all like stage.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right, and I think I was overthinking it I was like, oh,
he's turning into the robots, so he now he's going
to become like a follower, like I didn't wasn't Oh wait,
he's actually wearing the robots.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah, it's hard to tell right when he actually he
overtakes one of the robots, righteah, and he it's a shell.
Then he wears it and kind of like escapes that way.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, he uses to escape hard because you know, you
don't really see that the horizon, you know, that main
city in the back there, Like he's longing to go there, right,
to escape this this dystopian power grid place, the kind
of movie Uglies that came out of Netflix not too
long ago, okay, where it's like the ugly people are
situated in this it's not a prison, but it's a

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city of like, you know, not traditionally like attractive people,
even though they are attracted by our standers, radio people
and podcasts, radio voice and basically like you know, oh
but you you can schedule yourself to go to this
this you know, utopia of beautiful people. You can get
yourself made up and and you know and like genetically

(35:27):
kind of yeah, kind of like the thing. But you know,
I think that's kind of like I got a few
vibes from.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
So when the video starts and he's singing, that's just
not that's not supposed to be kind of real. That's
just the video right at the end is like where
it goes back into like reality.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Right because he it was just a vehicle for him
to sing, you know, really so, and that's another thing.
At first, you don't really know if he's he's been
in prison, you know what I'm saying. So, you know,
it's it's kind of unclear except when they were there's
a scene in the actual video where they're holding them
down and they're kind of like monitoring his idols or something.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah, when he's he's not singing, then he sings all
of a sudden.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, well that's the one where he's like that, the
little breakdown on the song.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
So I guess you can kind of, you know, deduce
from that that that he's incapacitated by the Roboto's right, And.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
Is that supposed to be like him remembering prison or
that's happening in real life in that museum.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
I think it's kind of showing what his life is like,
what it was exactly, Like.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
He's telling the story to this, to this how he
gets out of it to let him know like, hey,
this is happening, I'm with you, I got this suit.
Let's do some ship.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Because the the young guy that's rebelling, he's trying to
bring back rock and roll. But I don't think his
target was really to free kill Roy.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
You know, he didn't even know about it.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
I didn't even really know about He know who he
was from the past because he's one of the three pillars.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
But well, he went there to go probably tag that
place up right, and then he was going to go
and like stare at the Stagium like man like if
they could come only come back. And then he's like, well, ship,
it's really you.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah, and let us not forget that he scrambled their
system and he was able to show right old footage,
all the footages of the bad Rock and he's aware,
but he doesn't it's not like he's trying to, you know,
specifically save him himself.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah, it's all on that ten minute video. That's what
kind of inspired kill Roy Kilroy to get out right,
to escape and take on the mister Roboto that was
trying to you know, shape there's hope.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Right, yeah, he saw, he saw that there's somebody out there,
there's a resistance.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
This is exactly yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
And actually that ten minute video also starts with people
burning guitars and this massive tire fire.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
As you hear the doctor, right, yeah, doctor righteous.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Yeah. The rest of the rest of the world is like, yeah,
flak rock and roll. They're they're all Nazi fighter.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Right, yeah, exactly, cool boy.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
They're burning the books, burning the guitars. But then he's like,
wait a minute, have you ever seen the movie Rogue one?
There is a chance there's hope.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
There's a new hope.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
You know. It's the classic anti establishment and.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Especially when we're talking about this, how it's like a
lot of these things came out in the eighties, you know,
like the Big.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
I could see, I could see why people turned on
this video because this was already happening in the eighties
with like Brazil and like in better forms and everybody
just thinking, oh, this is just you know, well, like
I guess.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Brazil came out two years later, but right.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
But there was already like things like this, yeah, oh
for sure, for sure. The first Terminator, right, came out
already or.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Around the same time.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Three, three four, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, Terminator. You know, many Twilight Zone episodes were kind
of like this already when Sticks was hot Rod starting
was already doing Night Gallery.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
I guess like in the seventies, there's a lot of
like Omega Man stuff.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Oh, Logan's Run, Logan's Run.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
There's already things happening. Uh what is it West Warst World.
There's already things kind of happening.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
In the Green Clock or Orange even no, there you go,
there you go, yeah, how of course space honestly, but yeah, yeah,
so there's already a lot of a basis to go
through to go with on. You know, you think lad
Runner came out eighty two.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
There you go, there you But do you think people
were kind of like they couldn't really like marry the
two because it's like a weird opera, but then it's futuristic,
you know, I mean like it's it was kind of
a hard yeah, hard sell put together, right because for
their fan base.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Oh true, it's.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
The fan base. He throws off your fan base. And
then also the people that are about the resistance about
this kind of things are like into like punk rocking
and stuff that's not that's not on it like in
the main you know, genre stuff, you know, so I
could see it. It's just kind of in the middle
where just two different everybody's gonna hate it, Like, no

(39:39):
one's gonna it's not gonna find it.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
It's like, what what you guys are doing this? It's
kind of weird, you know, too many people I would imagine.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yeah exactly. And then like the people who are anti
establishment are gonna be like, man, this is just like
stick they say we can come go sail. It comes outway,
you know, like it like there's.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Some yacht rock man.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Yeah, Like they're just kind of like riding the wave.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I can.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
See why I was hated on and and it broke
the band apart, you know, this was their last like
the original members original band members.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
And then after this he the singer the kill Roy.
He looks like a lot older than the other singer guy.
That guy looks so young, and it's so weird that
they've been around for so long. Maybe I wonder if
it was like there was like a weird like age
thing where he kind of took over the band and
then they're like, hey, you know, because.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
He wrote most of the songs on the album, and
obviously this one the biggest hit. He wrote it too,
So they you think he was kind of outgrowing the
band because you know, he's the only one really featured, right,
Like you're saying, the band is just in the back
in the dark.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
I wonder if there was already tension, I.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Would imagine it seems like it, and this one kind
of propelled him in more into the forefront, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
And then I mean, yeah, it's basically like his keyboard
playing that was like that too, is so upron you know,
up there. But I mean the song with the band throwing,
with the guitars, the drums and everything, it's it's a
great to me personally, Like, I think the composition the
song is amazing.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
I think the double vocals are really good too.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yeah. So the mixture of rock and electronics and the
sci fi voe coders, Yeah, you know, I thought that
was very novel. Definitely one of the best rock votecoders
I've heard. It's it's iconic look.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
It's almost like electro rock. You know, it's got that
feel early early beginnings of it. But how does it
it just really he escapes finally and he does face
to face with the chance, right, the guy that's rebelling,
and then just as he was about to confront him,
he reveals that he's killed. Like, yeah, I'm the one
because I imagine he saw his his old footage playing, right. Yeah,

(41:32):
so he thought, okay, so maybe he knows who he is.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
He's a fan.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, this guy's gonna you know, I can I can
hook up with this guy.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Yeah, we're gonna start a revolution, right, which would have
been a cool I mean, this is my if that
dude would have fucking shot the.

Speaker 6 (41:44):
Robot and then the mask and he's like, oh, good
guy that I love, and then essentially he kills rock
and roll right, Oh man, missed opportunity the Mike will
I am years ago.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
That's an old, old reference for the show went directly
with a hardcore fans, be a great time enough at last.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah it's not fair, but yeah, so you.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Have to watch that other one.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
To have highly recommend it as a company.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Yeah, and unfortunately it's one of those videos that you
have to do some homework and to actually appreciate.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
It correct lately because you get more insight and really
what's going on.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Yeah, you have to watch that special.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
It's total like, hey, man, you know my favorite song
is uh, mister Roboto. And then someone says that song
sucks and you're like, well, have you watched the prequel
to I mean, you really need to watch the prequel
to it to get it.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
I don't think you've seen.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
You're holding your kind.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
At a vinyl record store that only takes cash. It tells.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Sometimes people die from the.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
Because they mix it right. Old man got went blind.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah, it's gonna have to like I'm sorry man, like, yeah,
the video is bad, but you got to see this
to really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Bro change your mind.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
It's like the classic wait till the drums come in man.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
So the ending it ends on a happy no, like there.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Not for the band because.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
That's sad for that kid who really likes Well, that
kid would be bumped too, because he's like, oh wait
a minute, you guys broke up after this exactly.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
I guess the What inspired Dennis the Young to write
the song?

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Though?

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Right, Ryan, you researched that one. What inspired to write
Sir Roboto? Oh he did?

Speaker 3 (43:26):
No? No tell me maybe?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Oh yeah. He wrote this track after watching an episode
of Frontline on PBS.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Really now I didn't catch what what again? It was
an episode.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
About an automotive plant with just one employee. The plant
was fully automated and dark, no lights. The robusts didn't
need them, only the human employee did. He was horrified
because this level of automation would put people in Chicago
and Detroit out of work, Uncles, neighbors, people he grew
up with. That's when he wrote the versus the Problems
Playing to See, et cetera, because too much technology of

(43:57):
this magnitude can put people out of a job.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
But you know what, overall the video in the song,
it's it's kind of like predicted, you know, over run
over on a technolog I mean you know what I'm saying, like, yeah, hey,
I everything, yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Everything automn I mean automations, like you know, it's it's
not going down.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Yeah, I mean it's we're getting there. Like just like
you know, we have to do our own groceries or
you check out yourself fast food joints, right, you just
you know, you do your own thing pretty much everything,
you know.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah, basically, like the low level jobs are being phased out, right,
So did.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
You see you need robotos? To do the medial jobs,
and you have to pay him.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Did you see that the that he didn't wear the
robot suit. He's not the singer inside. It's not him,
it's a it's an actor.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
It's a miam oh min man, right, Robert Gilford who
was the mim in the suit. Interesting, and this is
another weird fact that makes stuff his job particular. Yeah,
the forty five single that we discussed at the beginning
is edited differently. There's a longer synth intro and they
actually cut off a part of this at the end

(45:00):
in order to put that synth intro. So there's a
longer synth intro on the forty five mix. So that
makes sense that I was like that, and then I
would listen to it. Once the song came in, I
would go back, go back, go back. This is actually
making a lot more sense.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Now you should go home right now and play it.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
I'm gonna go to my listen to it.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Yeah, do some more homework. Yeah, okay, so any more
to add about the music video? Kids? That's it all right, Okay,
we'll be right back for some notable YouTube comments. Okay,
it's time for the notable YouTube comments.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
All right, all right, this is by Zeno Griff, Zeno Griff.
I don't know seven nine, two years ago, they said.
Came home one day after school many years ago, and
stepdad gave me a big hug, told me thank you.
I didn't know why. He thanked me for leaving my
radio out. Sorry. He thanked me for leaving my radio

(45:57):
and called me. Called in in one backstage ticket to
sticks concert, got grass seats. Dad came back with tears
in his eyes. Showed us the band at the time,
which was the nineties, signed both first and last names
on his eight track cassette from the band great concert.
This is in the nineties, I guess, yeah, yeah, that's
showed in the band.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
Wow, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah, you guys brought it eight tracked.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
No, it's funny right his og one? All right, This
one's by Baba twenty nine hincks seven These things from
a year ago, says my cousin was in the same
talent show as me. I did a Cyndi Lauper sing
with a bunch of girls. We rocked. My cousin did
this song with a Frankenstein mask on while dancing like
a robot. He got a standing ovation. He won the contest.

(46:40):
I love it. People were like, I guess this is
when it hit songs and everybody wanted Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
I think kids liked this song a lot.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
I think so too, Yeah, especially seeing the video.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
And then this one Beatlebum five three six from a
year ago said, this has been my dad's ringtone for
over twenty years. All right, my last one by glitzer
Land the year ago set. I remember being in high
school when this came out. We had this song nailed
down at lunch, using the lunch tables as drums. We
were lucky enough to have some real vocal talent spurring
on some damn near magical moments, with about thirty to

(47:11):
fifty people eventually joining in daily what it got very
loud until teachers put a stop to it from being
so disruptive to the classes not on break yet. I
really hope someone somewhere has a recording it somewhere. We
did the same thing with some queen songs and a
few others, but nothing quite as perfect as mister Roboto,
since far more people joined in with stomping out the
bass and drums along with the super easy lyrics. I'm

(47:32):
sure it sounded better to us kids than it wouldn't
any critic. But it was still magic.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Wait, this is in the eighties, you think, excell yeah, wow, yeah,
I mean would you do that?

Speaker 3 (47:41):
I mean this would seem like it would be in
the eighties.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Right, because I don't remember anyone being into mister rob Junior.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
I never really. It was in the big thing that's
kind of cool on like lunchtime, everybody's.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
Kind of joining in robotoing out.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
That would have gone viral today, right, Yes, it was
a flash mob. Try say that's all of it?

Speaker 2 (47:56):
All right, guys, mister roboto by stick, would you keep
it or would you throw it back?

Speaker 4 (48:02):
You guys go for his own?

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Well, I chose it. I've always been fascinated by the video.
But you know what, I was a little bit on
the fence because you know, there's some racism racism involved,
and I thought, yeah, it's a little dice.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
You know, we watched the new version. There's no more.
Thank you Mary very much.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah, even the way that he would say the lines.
But you know, overall, after actually listening to Dennis the
young interviews of him from podcasts is like a very
cool dude, look super happy. He was he's not even
upset about like this band still doing the songs. No,
there's no hard feelings. If they wanted to get back,
I'll totally down to it, even with what's his name Gallan, Yeah,
even with him like all together doing it. He's like,

(48:38):
I'm down for that. So he's really still tight with them,
like as far as he said he talks with them.
But seeing that that movie FEATURETTE, I thought that was cool.
Kind of gave a lot more context. Yeah, and explains
a lot, right, But yeah, and I love the sci
fi stuff. It's weird enough where it's kind of like,
you know, it's it's kind of gets inside your head
a little bit. But I like the idea of you know,

(48:59):
the AI take you over and just robots because we're
kind of here now. But yeah, I'm gonna keep.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Are gonna be all be in prison pretty soon. And
Ian Musk gets his AI robots computer go ahead, but
that's it.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Yeah, definitely, Yeah, but Elon must does that.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Though.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
For me, I was so ready to throw this video
back because I just thought it was it was too dark,
right that the big quality of what was given to us,
and and just the out of sync robots that's supposed
to be a choreography involved, and I thought it was tacky.
The singers a little I don't know, historyonic, especially that
part where he yells at the mister robot goes ah,

(49:39):
that goes out, but it was so comical. I'm like, explode.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Springs coming out.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
I mean, like, you know, Louis brought up earlier he
reminds him of Tenacious D. You know, the way the
song is structured, because there's that one in the Tenacious
D movie where he blew the guy's head off by
singing in the micro the guy just like explodes, and
like you should have done that with this one. But anyway,
getting back, I just thought just it felt like very mishmashed.

(50:07):
You know, it was scrambled all over the place. They're
trying to see up a narrative but I can't find it.
But now seeing the ten minute feature really just put
everything together for me. So yeah, it's a weird half
Sea score. Like, you know, I'll keep it with the
content knowing everything right, but as it is for you know,
a person who just stumbles upon this, this is tacky.

(50:28):
It's pretty bad. So but I don't know, like, yeah,
since I know everything now and the band's cool. The
music school it did inspire me, would you know synthesizers
as well, like just appreciate them more.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Yeah, music making is amazing though, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Yeah, I liked it. To me, it's my favorite work
of theirs. Yeah, and I like the cheesy seventies you know,
soft rock too, so I don't know. Yeah, I'm keeping
this one.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Too, two keeps as for me, Yeah, I'm during this
video back. You need a prequel to explain your video,
that's true. That's true throw back when the prequel is
better than the video. I that's very caustiously because the

(51:10):
way that he does his Three Stooges routines to the
robots is kind of come on, But that first part
reminds me of like lethal weapons, sort of where what's
his name acts kind of like the Three Stooges sometimes, Gibson. Yeah, yeah,
And that always was kind of cringey to me, you know,
but I think I always felt kind of weird about
this video. I think, I'm I'm. This is probably more

(51:31):
of me, myself, my childhood, love it hate.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
It should be in like track one and Louis Therapy,
but it just makes no sense.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Terrible it's so dark and.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Yeah, again the composition.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
Was just I can't. White people love this video. It
makes total sense, you know, but for me, I just
I can't do it.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Yeah, the chuck, it's creepy.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
I did like the way that the robot moved in
in the prison scenes, like all the robots moving in
the prison was kind of cool. I was like, hey,
these guys got it down pretty good, right, But when
the video came on, the video.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Part, yeah, a little light show, A little light show
it was. It was, yeah, I mean weird.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
How in the movie? Yeah, they were good.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Yeah, they're really good.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
But you know the part of it is you hear
their voice's and that kind of.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
That was a live show too, and to me that
even better.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Yeah, I could see that being like a really cool
like one of those B movies that like is so
bad that it's good, Like.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yeah, a musical like Xanda Do. Actually a choreographer was
a choreographer Xanda Dou.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
Yeah, see that makes a ton of sense. I mean
they spend a lot of money. They got the right people,
which is good for them, you know, kudos to them
for doing that. They got good art direction, they got
good people to do it a good director and stuff
like that, but I really think it's the band bringing
in probably their love for like the seventies, Rock was
like kind of already over.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
You know, I was dying.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
You know.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
They're trying to do like a queen thing, you know, yeah,
and it was already kind of I guess Journey is
there kind of like their analog at the time, right,
who would they came up together? Deep purple maybe, but
like Journeys, the one that was people still sing those
songs that right, you know, just stop.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Believing, you know, it's arena.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
That arena. Rock was kind of like their competitors, right.
They weren't really competing against like Duran Duran and there
were there was like a Journey kind of like those
kind of they're.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Going to Yes route with the program.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Yeah, I could see what they were doing stuff like that,
but yeah, I just never clicked for me. You know,
if I see this video on, I changed it all
the time, like I can't do it. That's probably more
of a me thing, you know than them or anybody else.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
There's gonna have like clear ass dreams of the mister
robots something.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
What's the sleep all weekend?

Speaker 3 (53:40):
The Midnight's showing and everybody dresses up and they didn't rock.
So it's kind of it could be I could see
this being something.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
This was a rocky horbit. It would be you know
what I mean, rat.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Right, people dressing up like that, different characters and then
singing along right, and then acting out totally.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
Yeah, there's some like weird like fifties bad boys, but
they're in the seventies, you know, in the eighties was
so in love with the fifties. I could see all
that kind of stuff happening, and then hey, maybe they
should be a musical too. I'm surprised there wasn't.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
I think, well maybe not just the kind of I'm
sure the idea show, I think is just presented that
way like that live.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Show version that we watched. It was really cool.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Yeah, that's actually from just theirs concerts, right, it wasn't
even a Broadway play or something, because it's set up
like that. Yes, you got props, like real props, sets, Yeah,
real sets, and it's only him. Yeah, it's just him
and the other singer.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
That's what I was saying that the band probably got like, ah, man,
this is.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Yeah, you've got the craft for mannequins of the band
in there.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
It was weird and sure they got a little Yeah,
the band was probably like yeah, they didn't want it
to go that direction. And then they're kind of faded out,
you know, they're gone.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Yeah, they're not needed anymore. It's a total way to
end your band is to do something like that. Yeah, like,
oh no, we only need the stingers for this part
of the concert.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yeah, yeah, how lonely. All right. So it's now leaning
towards October. It's time does spooky halloweens heson?

Speaker 4 (55:04):
You know, do I have to do a spooky one?
Doesn't have to be like yeah, I don't have a
spooky one. I mean, unless we stop it.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
We will have soon a spooky Halloween music video coming soon,
but just the warning.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
So I'm gonna do the spookiest video that was ever made.
It's a little song by the band steal My Sunshine. Yes,
in the spookiest state of Sunny Florida and Scaring Florida.
Now I'm gonna do lyn Still sun This is kind

(55:38):
of something.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Let's go record the next episode.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
It's done for Louise.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Yeah, they will steal your sunshine.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
It is about mister burns right something.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Yeah, all right, so that's uh yeah one twenty you
will steal your sunshine. Thank you for listening and we'll
see you next time. I made a rhyme.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Nice.

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Speaker 3 (56:32):
See yes, right, oh yeah, oh all those things.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
So did you know that when you if you go
to Cees, the bottom floor is the porn is the
porn convention?

Speaker 4 (56:44):
You for guessing that on the got a point bottom.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Floor, bottom floor porn. I remember I had a co
worker and she had a boyfriend or at that time,
and she said, oh yeah, he's going to spend the
weekend in Vegas to go to the Electronic convention. I'm like,
oh okay. She was so innocent, you know, like she
has no she had no fucking clue.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
She thought it's like universal remote, saying, like the new
cell phones.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Maybe it's the chair, right.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
He's going there to buy the advantage. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
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