February 18, 2026 • 47 mins
Ryan, Louie & Al focuses up on our abilities to discuss Foster The People's smash hit, "Houdini." Here, we discuss how it was to be an indie band back in the day, our crush on Julia Garner, and some trivia about the magician in question!
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
All right, hello, and welcome to episode one hundred and
thirty four of Throwback Music Video Review podcast, and tonight
we will be reviewing Houdini by Foster the People Who
DIENI is a song by American indie pop band Foster
the People from their debut studio album Torches. Written by
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the group's front man Mark Foster, the song was first
released as a promotional single exclusively in the UK on
twenty eleven April first April.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Fool's Day.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Song was released as the album's fifth single in America
in May fifteenth of twenty twelve. The music video was
directed by The Daniels and currently has one hundred and
nine million views on YouTube a million million.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I am surprised at the number.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I wonder if it's Spike after they won all those awards.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Probably, but I mean they uploaded years ago too, correct,
So guys.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
What is your history?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
First? I just like hearing you say Andy pop you
know I love it?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, like I die a little bit and I say
those words.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You love pop stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It's good, it's good.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Let's start off with you. You never heard of them?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Zero?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I mean, if you listen to the last episode I
introduced this episode, I didn't even know if this was
the name of the band or name the.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Song it happens how I Pumped Up Kicks.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
No, I have not.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But have you heard it?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now? Researching still knows this. This band and their music
has eluded me.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I'm surprised. Maybe I'm not sure. Maybe we'll try to
prove it later.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I know it's like it's on video games, but they're videos.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I don't play, right, so it yea like, stay it
as far away from Fatter of the people as possibly can. Yeah,
are they in the video game?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm sorry, but yeah, I have never heard of him.
How have you guys heard of them?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's funny because it came out twenty twelve, So when
I first heard it's only been about a year or less.
I was at a Japanese restaurant and it was playing.
I go, man, if I had the talent and the
looks and the you know, I could totally be this band,
but I didn't. But I like this sound. I was like,
I was very interested, and I asked my partner Victoria.
She was like, oh, that's Foster the people like I go, oh,
you know them because I didn't, right, And then she
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kind of schooled me on it.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
She's like, yes, old man, yeah, exactly Desert Generations.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So you know, I would I would look it up.
And then Leo was still a toddler at the time
and he enjoyed listening to it, and then we watched
the video. But that's as far as I got, really
until a few years later when I just kind of
checked out some of their other songs and then this
one came out in the rotation and I was very
impressed with the video, and I never thought about it
until like the last maybe year, like, I'll do this
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when it's my turn for the episodes, right, But it's
really pumped up kicks. That really got me because I
like the way he made that song that we recorded.
It's very catchy. Interestingly, I'm sure you guys know that
the version you hear is the same version that his
demo is, and it's never been changed. It's the very
same month, So that's kind of you know, that's impressive.
The point is he nailed it the very first time, obviously.
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And it's interesting too because that song was they made
like a little website and you know, email us and
we'll send you music, and that's that's the song that
they sent out. Oh and that's how he said. It
just blew up all of a sudden, they were getting
for her emails like my Space days. It wasn't because
it's twenty twelve thirteen, yes, Facebook days. Yeah, but it
was just a website they came up. But anyway, Yeah,
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I really liked that song. That kind of lured me in.
And then just most recently, I was really bummed out
that he ended up marrying Julie gard How my researchers
on Julia Gardner, i'mkidding.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah, that is a heartbreaker, you know, and like
Silver Surfer herself, my heart there too is like I
really liked her shiny of course I still like her.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
She is there's something about her, right, it's no, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Those it's this mysterious size in this curly blond here.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'd never really thought I'd be into curly blond here
until Julie Gardner was the change. Anyways, what is your
experience with Foster?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
To people the same thing, but like with Ryan, you know,
I've heard it, especially like Pumped Up Kicks that was
a big deal. And then at this time, I was
listening to a lot of like indie pop stuff, so
and I was going to a lot of shows. I
never saw them, I don't think so maybe they opened
up for somebody. But I was seeing a lot of bands,
like especially around La a lot of indie bands. I
was playing in band, and so I would, you know,
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go around you would see everybody, and a lot of
the bands kind of started off like in the earlier
two thousands. You would see them playing you know, some
of those same places in the circuits. Yeah, then you
would see them get bigger. So I don't think I've
seen them. Maybe I did. I forget a lot of
a lot of those times.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Opened up with some of the bands.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, it was a blur for a lot of us, right,
or even.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
So, it was a lot of festivals I went to,
Like they play at the OC.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Fair, It'd be like, fuck yeah, fast, I would imagine
they've problem.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Maybe are what's the one the the one that was
on Sunset Boulevard, Sunset Rising, Sunset Rising Egle Rock Music Festival.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It's very possible.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. And they sound very much
like that time too, like a lot of the indie bands.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Matt and Kim and some of the bands that were
kind of they have that kind of poppy, real like
upbeat sound, so very clean sounding, you.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Know, professional.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean they're all everybody's using probably pro tools.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
So before this, I was going to Musician's Institute, so
a lot of that, you know, hanging out with those people.
Those people were all in bands too and stuff like that.
It was like, you know, it was a very in
the music scene. So they would come up, you know,
you'd hear them around them stuff like that too.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
He had a solo album. But what's interesting about him
is he's one of those guys that just really worked
his way up right, you know, like he did all
these odd jobs like what you know, waiting tables, all
that kind of stuff on bartending.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Like one does.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, exactly, and you know it's command to him. Man,
that's pretty cool because he never really gave up his dream.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But I know he beginning.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, he moved to I think Ohio and he was
part of like a choir when he was a kid,
and then he moved back to San Fernando Valley in
my hood and then that's the beginning of everything, I guess,
just entering the Hollywood scene, trying to break in the business.
But what's interesting is he is a jingle writer. For
a long time. He was for a company called mphon
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X or something like that, and they write jingles for
you know, big clients, big corporations. But yeah, he said
that was like a boot camp that helped him make
the catch and nst right, that's what.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's really the kid he can do with seven cars
for kids.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I think he I think he did the general insurance now, No,
I think Shack wrote that. But yeah, Louis mentioned earlier
that he fell into some drugs at one point. You
saw that he was bad from his roommate, right and.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Formula.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, that's terrible.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Is time Like when he first got here around that time,
and then you know when they got big indie and
ala is. It's a weird it's a weird thing. It
was a weird mix of people. There was all these
kind of diy spots in la you couldn't drink at
you know, but you could drink outside or something like that.
But it was a weird mix of like people that
were kind of like trust fund kids that had like
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a lot of money that came from like the West
Side but then moved to like Silver Lake or Echo
Park or at Water you know, and had like places there.
And then also like a lot of more like poor kids,
you know, kind of like us that come from kind
of like the East Side or the South Side. And
it was just like this mix of people and you're
playing and all these bands with different people, and it
was it was really weird. And that old Hollywood was
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still kind of around at that time. So when you're
booking gigs, especially when you first start off in the
early kind of like two thousands, you're looking for gigs
and you'll see like, oh, the cat Club. You know,
you go play Hollywood Boulevard, but you're like an even
no one gives a shit about your music out there.
You know yeah, uh, but you're the roxy the tribute door.
But you're just trying to scrounge gigs up that are
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different than the same di white places that you're playing
all the time with all of your friends, you know.
So you try those things and you figure out like
this is the worst, We're never coming back again. So
then you just kind of stick in that little thing
and then you end up joining with people and then
something happens and some of those people happen and some
of the bands start, you know, moving away and not
moving away but going on tour.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, you start agents, yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
You start you know, seeing some of your the people
that you knew are your bands you played in stuff
like that started getting bigger and bigger, getting signed of
small indie labels and like doing stuff. So it was
it was a really cool time, right, Yeah, it was
a really cool.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah. A lot of richer kids would go there for
the street cred because yeah, you're mixing in with the grit,
you know of like the lower class people. You're not
really but you know what I mean, it's just kind
of like, you know, these people are not They're not
going to be hanging out of the Hollywood clubs or
you know, going to those after parties. They're just going
to hang out in these warehouses or maybe someone's loft
or you know, someone's house, and that's how you network.
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That was the networking was like the cheap version of networking,
you know, and really it's just about partying and making music.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
It was crazy. There would be like young people our age,
really young that will buy a fucking warehouse out, like
buy a whole warehouse and then like build like weird
ramshackle rooms and people would rent them out.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Their friends would be living with them and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
And then you would play shows there. They would have
shows there and it would be like a place, right
and those were all over the place in LA at
that time, and then they were fun. Then there was
the like they spots and it was it was really fun.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, but you know what, it's so happening. But I
think it's it's more kind of like been normalized in
mainstreams where it's like, oh, that's what you guys are
going to do. Back then, it was like word of mouth.
You know, you have to know people to know people
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
But it was such an interest, interesting, interesting mix out
because we would go there and of course, you know,
we're just below working class. We're just working scrabbing jobs
and doing stuff, you know, And we would go to
these lofts and some of our friends would live there.
You would go into the weird loft and there would
be like you had to climb up into a roof
where they built a second story right themselves out. Oh
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so it's all shaky, you can't stand up in places
you be calling. But then you look and everybody has
brand new power Book Imax and like the most expensive
technology in these spots. So they have money, you know,
they want.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
To either like the back then those are like two
thousand dollars in two.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
It's not out of necessity, it's it's a choice symbol.
It's because you're part of this community, right, artistic community,
and that's a good way to networking. And yeah, as
they get older, they start to finally get the jobs
that they know, careers that there they've always been destined to, inherent.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
And then that's where they don't If they don't, you know,
do the bad thing are they're making movies and doing
art or they're doing something else. Then you start to
see them like, oh, you know, I'm going to move
back to the West Side and be rich. It's so
crazy and.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's like, oh, okay, I'm tired of this now and
I'm going to go back to a very mole rich life.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
It's very pulp, common people, you know.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
But it's people like that, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, and it's weird, like a lot of them, like
it looks like they're trying to be act. There's two
like you know, there's always a couple of them that
are like need all the attention to and it's it's
it was such a weird, interesting but fun and cool scene.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, it's just that art.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, you know what I mean, just a bunch of
you know, cast a character.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yea, like just creatives, but also needing some sort of
an audience, needing some sort of attention and having to
you know, like they can't survive without it, is what
I'm trying to say. I think he went like Mark
Foster went through the same thing, Like he would just
like pull out of guitar and start playing at the parties,
you know, and he realized like that's one way to
get like kind of some attention, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So yeah, he talks about and I was listening to
a podcast he was on with the end Mark Foster, Yeah,
and he was talking about how like he felt like
being in a band, are being artists, Like you want
like this attention and you're you know, it must be something,
he says, like it must be something in your life.
And you go out and you want this attention. So
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he performing, you're performing and performing, and you know, sometimes
when you perform, it's good and you get all these praise,
but then when you perform and it's bad, you know,
you can't get the praise anymore, and it's like you
get really deep and low, you know, so it like
it's really weird, this weird wave that you go on,
especially being in Hollywood, coming to Hollywood and doing that,
you know, because.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
And especially performing arts, you know, like you know, stand
up comedy or playing song, singing whatever it is in instruments,
and you.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Start playing like these shows. And then after a while,
like maybe like your band has been playing all these
shows with all these people, and you stop getting more shows,
and then you're like, what's going on? Like do they
not like me anymore? Because there's there's every day there's
a new band starting, and then you know, you know, no, no,
they need to play shows too. You know, they become
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friends with the people that are throwing shows, and then
you know they're already kind of tired of your music
because you've been playing the same songs forever, you know,
So then you know it makes you search like what
do I need to start another band? What am I
doing wrong? Then you start going on this crazy, you
know thing like what am you do? Like I get
shows anymore?
Speaker 6 (12:59):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Plus, if you're already compromised, you know, like mental health wise,
obviously you're going to be going through these roller coaster rides.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Yeah. So even not being famous, just going out and
doing the work every week in the hustle, that also
is a crazy ride too. And it's it's it's interesting.
That was a really really cool time before the smartphones.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Clipt phone era.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, I would say like early to mid two thousands,
all the way up to the black early twenty tens.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I enjoyed. Yeah, I enjoyed that it was not everybody
was on their phone as much. You know, everybody had phones,
but it was mostly texting. Yeah it's her phone calls.
But it wasn't like you know, like researching or one
upping each other with trivia whatever.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
The coolest phone was, like Drew had a sidekick and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Oh yeah that's cool and clips. That's right, this is
the Razor. The black Bear was.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
The coolest phone. Yeah, everybody went, I wish I had one.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I say, still do right?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I had a I had like a monochrome motorola back
in that was like my first like flip phone.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
You go on the internet and it would take forever?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Would it would not? That thing you even go to.
All thing to do is was like please snake. Oh really, yeah,
that's the only thing to do.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I was given a pomp pilot that was kind of fun,
with a little stylist that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, that was beyond me.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Back then, it was really basic. You know, you could
you could have like notes and stuff put on there
and had a little recorder in the microphone. That was
kind of cool, like a PDA. That was like my
introduction to that kind of stuff. Yeah, but it's a
different time, you know, every everything musically, like just the
whole vibe of people and hanging out together.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, I'm sure though those those rich kids already had
the Razor.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Everybody had razors. Yeah, I remember the people that can
afford the.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
LG chocolate or the chocolate.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Anything else about your history with Foster out some history.
F TP have zero history. I have very lowly contributed
to sign in this podcast.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
You're a big fan of the Daniels, right. Did you
like that movie by the.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Way, Yeah, yeah, it's amazing movie.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh yeah, everything every where all at once.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Which is interesting. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I'll be honest with you. I couldn't get through it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, not that I didn't like it, it's it is overstimulating.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I was at home and you know, I was under
the influence, and I thought I would enjoy it, but
I did not. Well, right, it's not that I it's
not that I was not enjoying it, just I thought
I want to do something else. It was. That's the bibe.
It happens to you sometimes when you know it's a
good movie. It's not there's nothing wrong with it, but
I'm like, I want to and then I never get
back to it, is what happened.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, it happens to me a lot here.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I mean, you know my well, yeah, same thing. Yeah,
you're at home.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Well it's like, yeah, it's a good movie, bad day
or bad bad movie, Bad Day. You know. It's like
one of those kind of things.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You know, great way to summarize it. Yeah, it's one
of those.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
It's also too, like I really want to watch this movie,
and then I sit down, I'm like, I don't really
feel like watching a movie right now, but I do it,
and then I'm like, you know what, I can't do
it right now. I got to do something else.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
And then maybe, like down the line, you watch it
again and oh it's actually yeah, you know what I mean.
That happens a lot to me too. Yeah, but well,
maybe I'll get back to it in the next five
years or something. I'll schedule it.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Before their next movie came.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Anyways, Okay, we'll be right backwards. A pop quiz after
these messages. Okay, guys, have some pop quiz.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I gotta pieve for you guys tonight. You guys are
ready to go. Here's number one. The band was originally
supposed to be called this name and I'm about to
give you but people kept miss hearing it as Foster
the People. What was the original name of the band?
You guys ready? Was it Foster the Pupil, Was it
Foster and the People or Cee Imposter the people or
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d Foster the feeble.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Does all sound like those that those year of that
year of names.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I'm gonna say a, all right, Foster the feeble, Foster
the pupil, Oh, Foster the pupil, I mean, Foster the
people like.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Socrates would foster pupils. I say, you're going with the
Foster and the people. Louis, you are wrong. But Alice,
that's very good.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I actually knew that one.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
That's that's a that's a weird thing that he actually well,
he liked the idea of nurturing people, so he kept
he kept foster people. So nice job. His last name
isn't it to Foster? Maybe I never even thought about that,
but he never mentioned that in any of the interviews.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I just knew that this last name was Foster, Like, okay,
he named it after himself, Mark Foster.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Because like I said, oh okay, but he likes the nurturing,
like you know, yeah, that was his inspiration. All right,
good job, All right, here we go number two. As
previously mentioned, Mark Foster of Foster the People work that
more phonics. Leui already knows because he just read it
right now. But it's his jingle writer, right, very very
early in his career out he wrote jingles for prominent
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companies like Muscle Milk because would try that, Cadillac, Brizon,
even my former employer, Bank of America. I believe he
wrote that song non Sufficient Fun.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Overdraft.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I think I wrote that actually. But he also wrote
a jingle for this very popular eighties breakfast. I'm not
calling you in this one, okay, A grape nuts b
not in honey? See golden Crisp can't get or D honey?
Bunches of oats?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Was b again?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That's in honey, not in honey? Yeah, not in honey,
I say, D honey bunches of And you're right, you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Got that one.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
You know that. That's one of my favorites. Too many
bunch of I don't know to be honey.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Grape nuts is a ship cereal, guys. That's not a
hot doesn't it go?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Like?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Oh, the grape nuts?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Remember the Golden Graham's one.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah, the Golden Grounds was good.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You turtle turtles?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yeah, I like the.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I love foglights.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
That's that's homewer doesn't yet a little of that? Right?
All right, guys, get your cape on your top half
and receiving gloves because that's all I have. It's a
time for some magic trivia by way of lightning ground alight?
All right, so here we go. True or false if
the following statements are indeed true about American escapeologist, illusionist,
(19:18):
and stunt performer Ah Damn Vice, known to most as
Harry Hordini. Are you guys ready? Of course? The namesake
of our video who wants to go first? Alright, al
my first victim, You're ready? Tru or false is an
aviation pioneer. In nineteen twenty three, Whodini became the first
person to achieve control flight in Australia, having purchased a
(19:39):
French Voisine biplane and taught himself to fly. True or
false nineteen twenty three.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I'll say false.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Going with false, you are wrong, it's actually true. Yeah,
he's himself. He's an early He is a true renaissance man.
Like he knew a lot about different things and he
actually followed through.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I was like a fake until you make it.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Ah, No, he's not. He's very talented. Let me try
this one. After establishing himself in Europe in the early
nineteen hundreds, Houdini brought over his younger cousin, Leo, a
magician who had worked as his partner during his early career.
Leo soon began performing his cousins tricks under the stage
name Hardini. True or false false. You're going with false? Yes, one.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Leo is the name that's close to you and Hardini
come on, you.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Know, like HARDENI. Oh this is inspired by his brother
who went by harden and his name was Theo. But yeah,
they actually they even had like a fake rivalry so
that they can get like, you know, like drum up
some business. Pretty cool, Pretty cool. But I went with
the Hardinis.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Your magic day when you were at ten. Yeah, the
great Hardini, Great.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Hardin in my little cape, tiny cape out, white gloves,
my secret gloves, eternally bots. Oh man, check this one out.
You guys familiar with the Funk and Wagonal's Dictionary. Yes,
I am holds up my bad side, but my whole
set is all right back in the nineteen twenties. Now.
(21:13):
The word who denies is a verb coined after Houdine
himself and defined by Funk and Wagonal's Dictionary. Has to
release or extricate oneself from confinement. Bonds or similar restraints,
typically by wriggling out. So it's an actual dictionary word.
Who denies, who denies?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I've never heard that's that word in my life. So
I'm gonna go with false.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
He going with false, Then you are wrong because that is.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
A dictionary who denies?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Who denies to escape sense because everybody starts using it
and then he gets added to.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
You guys are missing the point that he was huge cute.
I mean, if you ever see his performances, We've got
thousands of people when bowler hats watching him. Everybody's wearing
a hat, so many bowler hats.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
If you don't, you don't get it.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
No, you can't get it your ticket bol Yeah exactly, Yeah,
checked out. Before finding fame, a young Houdini performed in
dime museums, inside shows, even once being billed as the
Indian Rubberman in a circus due to his abilities to
contort and dislocate joints. True or false? True, this is false.
(22:16):
He was Actually he was a geek. He was a
wild man hanging out with Bradley Cooper. That's correct. Yeah,
he was a he was. He did performance circus, but
as a you guys, remember, Yeah, yeah, what's that movie again?
And he was a geek or wild man, that was
his act. Oh so yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I just knew that he could.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He could unbelievably well. Speaking of that, Louis al this
one's really During World War One? Did you know that
Houdini taught American soldier how to play dad in combat,
to escape or in some cases, surprise attack their enemies
on the front lines by contorting, deforming, and gnarling their
bodies as if to look broken or mortally wounded. True
or false?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I mean I've been wrong all the time. I go
with true in this one.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
You are wrong way he did, though, He did teach
them how to escape handcuffs, cubs and sinking ships. How
do you get out of sinking ships? That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Imagine you're just like all contorted and everything and then
just surprise the German guy.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Like, ah, hey, that's a good idea, right right? I
thought that was a.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Ten year old how to act like fast zombies?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
All right? Louis Buster Keaton's nickname was Buster, right, he
familiar with that. Born Joseph Frank Keaton, he reportedly received
this nickname from famous magician Harry Deney. When the toddler
took a tumble or buster down a flight of stairs unharmed.
True ear fall.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
This is completely.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
True, absolutely named after Houdinium saw all right, here we
go al Boston, September nineteen eleven, Harry Audeney performed a
daring sea monster escape by freeing himself from the carcass
of a giant beach d whale. He was shackled in
handcuffs and leg irons, then sewing inside the carcass, which
was further secured with chains. But wait, there's more than
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most dangerous part wasn't the chains or shackled. It was
the arsenic fumes collected inside, with Houdinia narrowly escaping in
fifteen minutes. True or false?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I'll go with true.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
You are correct, Yeah, we happened.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Huh, that's crazy, crazy, like, oh, how can you even.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Think about these rich like businessmen were kind of like,
I'm challenging him, so he's like, no problem, I'll do it.
But he did it. But he he he, I think
he almost didna.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Back then, before they had their little sexual cabals.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
They write, here's my last one. Louis Houdini was close
friends with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes,
as you know, also collaborated with horror legend HB. Lovecraft,
who ghost wrote stories like Entombed with the Pharaohs for
him because he made movies too. However, Houdini and Doyle
had had a better fallout in the early nineteen hundreds
over Doyle's missing family heirloom, which was a gold pocket
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watch inscribbed to him by his late father during one
of Houdini's sleight of hand tricks performances.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
True or false, So Ludini stole his watch.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
That's what he thinks. Just this sounds like a good
lore story that Huddi would make up to custom drama
to But I'm gonna say false.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'm going with falls. You're correct. It was actually over
spiritualism because you know, yeah, he was Sir Arthur Kunkle
was a big He's just really into that whole thing,
you know, like really believing in it. And they even
started a club I think right the lasted until like
the nineteen fifties. But he was always trying to debunk
all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
That's one of the things I love about who is
like he loved debunking people that were being off other people.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
He even had a cold word for his wife if
she had passed the only way it's something forever whatever
her name, Roosevelt, forever Roosevelt. If they couldn't figure out
that that was their password, then he knew that it
was off. So he had this conversation with his wife,
if you die, and but she did pass away before him.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So yeah, if I die, I'll just tell people, you know,
like it's a scam. If they don't say Fidelia.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That's the cue word right out. You have to say
it in that happywards all right, that's all I've got boys,
all right, Well a lot of it was a.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Fun pop quiz. I missed like all of them for one.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Okay, we'll be an expert back after these messages.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Okay. With the music video for Your Houdeni by Foster
and the people.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Man that totally alluded to me about his last name,
I don't even think about that.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
You never mentioned it, but I assume that's what it was.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, it starts off with the band performing at this
sound stage.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yeah, they're kind of like shooting a video or something, right, right,
They got like a whole Yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Got a got old crew watching them, you know, and
like you know, it's a twenty elevens with with a
haircut of some.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Of the hairstyles.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And I'm like, oh my god, it's like a post
emo scenester haircuts.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Right, yep, yep, that's what you would see at the
clubs or me walking down like you know, Sunset Bar,
Boulevard or Echo Park.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Even here, I would see some people here walking out
of high school with that kind of hairscut.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
It's got like a emo slash indie sleeez gue sleeve.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
That's correct, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Not indie pop though. The sleeve.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
A lightning rig right balls crushes the whole whole band.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
They're like mangoled.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
It's an a bomb exploded there and they're r I
P right dead all right, paramedic right and he says
he looked on the side of the camera and says
that's it.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It's over, man, game over.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It's like interest ain't gonna cover.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
This, No madic count nothing. But unfortunately, though they had
sold out concert the next day, right the theater theater.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
That's capitalism for you, right, Like, no, no on, we
got to get this ship going. You know, they make
the phone call to the executive, right, Well the fixer?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Was he the fixer? I thought it was the I
thought it was the boss of the whole operation.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Well, he's the guy, you know, he makes the decisions
for the team. He has a team that handles this stuff,
but he makes the decisions, I believe.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So it's kind of like the wolf then, Yeah, he's.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
The wolf pretty much right, So he he hasn't.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Ready to just like freaking you know, like keep this band.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Going and make suggesting that this has happened many many times,
and he's always ready right when they go when they
cut to the scene, is it, it's a very like
Asian kind of yeah, right, like the crew is.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Ready to break in his little domain there there's.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Some people playing anything on the corner. So it was
pretty interesting that they did.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That touch Chinese style games happened?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Uh so a team of puppeteers, right, are all addressed?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
These are like the shadow people who those shows in
Japanese theater, right, So like that was very much inspired
by them, right, and that was kind of cool. That
was kind of cool. Spready harnesses on the bands, you know,
very limp. The ricor war doesn't exist in this universe.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Right. Well, look, first of all, they're fresh though, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
But you know from the next day you got to
do your concert.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
But by that time they turn them into and cybernetic.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
But wait a minute, are there two parts? First they
try it out and they do the stuff, and then
they work on they because they perform right before they.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Actually do they they film the music video with.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
The pub They finished the video, you correct, they finished.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
The video, and then they turn them into androids for
the show.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yes, because the show is going to be more it's
going to be more demanding. Yes, exactly that they really
have to cyber lobottomize, cybernetically stitch them all together.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
They have the technology, yea. You know it's all bionic
man and there.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Hey man, that's Hollywood, man, that's Hollywood, the music industry.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
That's right. But they they were getting the facial expressions, right,
you know, they're all working on it, and.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know it's cheaper to actually just cancel the show
get all the technology.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
This is untried technology, right.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Well, the thing is they're already huge, so they got
to keep that going theater.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Are you telling me that a sold out show where
each ticket is probably what eighteen at that time.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's no, they got.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
It was more cost effective to make androids of them.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
They can travel to space and trigleactically. But first of all,
out number one, this is probably the very first show,
and then they were going to go and like yeah
Legs World Tour, you know all these Antarctica probably.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
They're going They're going all over the world.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, they're taking over the world for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Like what justin Timberlick when you got arrested for d
u I or something of his world tour. Yeah, they're
like that guy scale.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
They're gonna make that android money back on T shirt sales.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Alone, that's true.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, foster to people shirts.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, it was pretty cool how they're testing on technology
where they got the cybernetics of the face kind of
in tune as well. But yeah with the song, you know,
the little twitches would trigger along with the song.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You know, nice touches by the Daniels.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
There, they knew what they were doing. Yeah, scene right,
and then they were practicing the dance moves right, and
then even though actually playing the instruments. Yeah, and what
do you ca there's cables where they can like when
they flow and they kind of pull back and they
do some crazy moves.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
The drums. That exploding was really cool. Yeah, and then
they're they're clothes.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Their clothes come off and all of a sudden the
tears right, they're wearing it. I love that part. Man,
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
And they do a little dance number, right, I guess
is this a regular thing on their shows?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
They always do a dance number that.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I'm not sure. I don't think I've never seen them.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Because I mean, now it has to be expected that
they have to do it since the video has one
hundred and nine million views.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Right, probably for this song, right, I would imagine they.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Would do They have to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
They have to drop all the instruments and then just
have robo electronics play play the song.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
But but yeah, the crowd.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Is buying it. They they love it, They fall in
love with the you know, the whole thing there. I
mean it's mostly women too, right, and not knowing that
they're all lifeless corpses being fooled.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I mean, you know, it's a it's a it's a
skating indictment on society, right, you know, just throw any
just throw.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Some meat on there. They'll take it.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's like in front of them, you know it's a lie,
but they'll take it anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's like, ah, we paid nineteen dollars for to take
we love it.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
So it's like the wolf guy is the one who's
the who's orchestrating the whole thing, right, because he's like,
we need this money.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Right, Like in mafia movies, right, there's always that one guy, right,
what do they call them, the the mixer fixer, the
the one that you wouldn't need to call to to
make things work out or how you would want it
to clean things right, problems, make problems go away, Yeah,
clean things up exactly. So, but he was he was
very proud of his work, right. He was just like, yeah,
(32:33):
she's like a and the rest of the crew, right,
A little tear come on.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
That was funny that one guys like I teared.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Up so like he couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Man, that was really funny.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I think that was a choice by the Daniels, like, Okay,
let's hire this one specific guy from the s A G.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
I mean their whole angle is like you know, like
the comedy, right, and it's pretty funny.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I like the.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Facts like Wag the Dog, right, the scam worked, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
The Daniels didn't put themselves in the video as the directors.
They had other people being the directors. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, that's good. And this is before they were even
big too, so that's good.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, this was like am I Shyamalan or Quentin Tarantino.
They'll totally wedge themselves.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, would have been the paramedic or something.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
He would have been the fixer.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And that's the one thing I hate it when directors
would wedge themselves in the movies.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
It breaks my It breaks my you know, believability.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
In the movie.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Hitchcock was always in his but he was always just
a walk caming.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
He never had a line that on two lines like
Hyamalan would do, like, oh he has like a full
fucking scene.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
It's like a whole arc on his character. Huh not already.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
That's that's why I knew the Village was gonna be
a twist because he has to be in it.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I already knew he was going to be in it.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
And there's no way, uh, you know, a guy of
his nationality would be in a.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Sixteen mons, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
So I'm just like I just know, man, like I
already knew what the twist was before walking into theater.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Anyway, you couldn't suspend this belief.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I could not do it.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
That's funny. But speaking of twists, sadly, at the very end,
when they got the green room kind of reminded me
of of the Echo where you go up the stairs
and yeah, so they go up the stairs, right, but
the camera follows. They're celebrating. There's a confetti balloon and
the camera shot ends on them.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
There's the robots just yea pa like the couch. But
everybody's all partying.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right, everyone's having a great time. Yeah. I love that
part too.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, it's kind of sad in a way because you
know they're dead.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
That's that's what kind of that's the punch, right, That's
what you needed. It's it's kind of all just funny.
It's really that statement.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Police report about their death or anything like that, letting
their families, Yeah, letting juliego, and I know I'm available
now he's going on, Like.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
She updates her Space thing status of a single.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Sliding in her DM that means I don't have any social.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Media podcast will slide in her dms.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
But yeah, that's that's that's the little, that's the little,
the ass in the end. So but I like this.
The satire is great, man, you know, I mean the
whole idea of right, but contrast to the lyrics. The
lyrics is all about like being empowered, you know, with
your abilities. But why what is it called Houdini again,
I guess the idea of it's an illusion, the whole Yeah,
(35:19):
an illusion everything is all about, you know. It's like
what you're seeing is not exactly you know, we're just
getting the final product and we're satisfied because we that up,
like we said earlier. But in Rally there's so much
more happening behind the scenes, and in this case it's
a tragic, dark, twisted ending, you know, or story. But yeah,
but the lyrics is mostly about if you've got a
(35:40):
chance to read. It's about like, you know, if your scales,
your talents, like you shouldn't give up. It's a it's
actually very you know, empowering and giving you the ability
to keep going even though sometimes you don't feel like
you're going to be successful.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
I love when the green screen people are controlling them.
It's really funny.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Yeah, That's another thing too, is that how the idea
of being puppets, Like I guess you know, you can
kind of chalk up a lot of the k pop
we've talked about this our episode, which is just manufactured, right.
It's just you know, like everything song style. You know
who's going to be, what role they're going to be
playing in each incarnation of their groups, right, so it's
always it's all act. Now it's on act. But we
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love we love it though. That's how it is.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
It's funny when I first watched this video, when you
first put it on first to watch it, I thought
it was gonna be a band that starts off as
a band and they turned into like a boy band,
you know, like kind of like that because because you've
seen those videos too, and it seemed like it was
but it went went to them.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
And I think that's part that's why the dance is
like kind of almost making fun of the yeah, the
boy band.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
It's manufactured, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Puppet thing even though they were a band, but they
still the moves.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I guess that's the music video for who do You If?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
If if people have seen it, they I think it's
you get it.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
You know, like, yeah, there's idea, there's no, it's just
a funny.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
So yeah, you get the the you know, the the
behind the scenes people be behind the puppet strings right right,
celebrating as your as the actual artists or the front
just right there dead.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
That's what like for a lot of bands too. Sometimes
that happens because the band is performing, you know, they're
all tired, and so everybody else is partying. But then
they have to have to start writing new songs and
getting back to work and going to the studio. But
then the friends and hangers on are the ones that
are doing all the great party right.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Because it's it's work. Yeah, you know, that's like they
dedicated their whole life to do this and they've reached it.
But it doesn't end because like you know, if you stop,
then the next act will be the bigger one, you
know exactly. So it's a tough field you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
To keep that great rolling, especially when just starting out exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
I mean, until you develop enough of a following and
you can afford to have a year.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Off and a bigger catalog, right that can kind of
keep feeding your Yeah, it's like the.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Bank the royalties forever, all right, it's uh, we'll be
right back for some notable YouTube comments. All right, it's
time for some notable you YouTube comments.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Right. First of all, it's all good vibes on the
thing in them and as you were saying earlier, just
kind of to that point, like I didn't really exist
so much the music because we were kind of like,
you know, doing our own thing era, you know, so,
so it was nice to see people very positive and
have a looking back all those years. But this one
by at Parira P E R E I R A
(38:24):
art from seven years ago, says who starts a concert
in the middle of the song? Right? And my last
one out I told you there's nothing happy Valentine's Day.
That's my third one. At one two three h g
W from nine years ago, they said, the moral of
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the story, no matter how good you are at your job,
there's always an Asian bear.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
You're at it all right, guys who dni by FTP?
Would you keep it or would you throw it back?
Speaker 5 (39:00):
I'll go first. Yeah, this is a great video. I
love it. It's really good. I'm glad that I got
to see it.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
You've never seen it.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I've never seen any of their videos. It's weird. Like
the music during this this kind of time, other than
like the regular the bands that I was listening to
before that the two thousands, I really didn't get into
any like either new bands other than the bands that
were we were playing with and a lot of the
India acts that were kind of rotating around it. I
didn't personally want to write listen to too much music
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because I didn't want to steal anybody's music or any
of that.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
So and then also it's a great point.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
You're constantly playing shows, you're constantly practicing, You're you get
like ear fatigue, and you want to listen to audio
books or just silence, are classical, our jazz or.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Something that's something that you're not not into rock.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Music that you're not into, you know, are like you know,
I was listening to probably like a lot of soul
or something like that too, just something completely different than
indie rock, you know, because I was just like tired
of it, not tired of it, but it was just
I was getting it all the time, you know, So
I wasn't. I didn't a lot of these bands I skipped,
they weren't in my review. So but no, this is great.
I love the video, it's so well made, and I
loved all the buy in on everybody.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
And it's a great concept.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Great concept. Yeah, a good video, good concept, good song,
all around good good.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Yeah, the band's good. Yeah, come on, the directors right,
look what they ended up making. Amazing stuff. But yeah,
as for me, definitely, keep I thought it was fun.
I thought I saw it as a very like a
short film. It's really cool, you know, like the little
touches of the fixer and the guy, and it's all
teary eye because of how beautiful it was coming to life,
you know. But you know, but I also like the
(40:35):
other side of the other side of the coin, which
was that dark message of the industry, you know, like
the whole like puppeteering and kind of just manufacturing these acts.
But yeah, I actually like this song. This is one
of my I like this better than the other songs
that are pretty hits from them, like pretty big hits
from them and pumpp kicks. Definitely it's a it's a
banger because that's the one kind of inspired me to
make some more music during that era. But yeah, definitely,
(40:56):
the video is great. I always try to show it
to people who've never seen it, so glad I got
to share it with you guys, all.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Right, yes, and that's for me. Yeah, I could definitely
keep this video too. It's it's fun. The music's not
my vibe, but it's not about the music, the music,
the song. Actually it's just this to me. It's the
story of the video and the way it's you know composed.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
It's yeah, it's about time we had an ncent some
HD into this thing, right.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
A while.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I don't remember the last time we did an HD song,
you know, so so yeah, like it was nice to
actually some ten ADP on this podcast. So yeah, that
was actually nice to see on the screen here. And
it's it's you know, the composition was very good. The
warmness of the shots and just the way that things
are lit. The effects are you know, much to be desired. Now,
some of them didn't age very well, you know, especially
(41:42):
with their whole robo cop We can rebuild the technology
aspects of the music video, but it's still fun.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
I mean, you know, it's it's not to be taken
too seriously.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
And yeah, it's you know, it makes you think too
of how disposable some artists are. Some the links, you know,
your powers that be will do to you and to
your leg see to your body seriously to make another buck.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
It's gonna sadly, it's how about that money?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
It's kind of what they did with Princess Leo or
Peter Koshing in the whole Star Wars movies by c
g eyeing them up. You kind of get that feel
out of this. So yeah, I get that message as well.
So it may it's it's stop provoking if you you know,
if you can get past the fluff and the happiness
and the optimism I guess of the music.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
So yeah, I mean that's one of the reasons why
me and Ryan always have our cell phones on while
you're talking, is because we're recording your voice so we
could use it as AI when when you die, we
can still keep doing the podcast.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Yeah, you're gonna trade on my voice, like says.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
We starting hello tonight, We welcome.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
To to your.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
After this break, well, it's probably gonna be It's probably
gonna explode from all the my stupid laughter throughout the show. Okay, Yeah,
very good triple ceps.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
All right, louis what you got next for us?
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Man?
Speaker 5 (43:04):
I had I have so many videos but the one
that really kept calling me back to do is such
a weird video by such a strange band. And I
remember watching this video and I was just like, what
the hell is this? Who is his band? His band rules,
what's going on? I had to do more research, but
it was back then before the internet, and I I mean,
the internet was around, but it wasn't as like, oh,
(43:25):
I need to look them up on the internet, you know,
it was in that time. It's this is from two
thousand and three, right, like two thousand and two. Really,
but it's by a band called the Electric Six. It's
called Danger High Voltage.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Oh intrigued those six? The Gay Bar guys, Yes, Gay Bar,
Yeah yeah, this is their song that came up before Gaar,
same album.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Okay, well listening guys, you next time.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
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Speaker 4 (44:15):
Were you guys ever into magic the kids.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
And remember that? Remember growing up there was the Magic Shop.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
And yeah, oh did you know that? And there was
I'm not sure if it was s h O P
P E or just a classic s h O P
Magic shop, but my cousin and I would would always
go all the time. Man, it's a little store right
across we was Hugh's Market at the time, right by
Glenn Market right across which is uh Louis old site now,
(44:43):
which was what was it when you worked there?
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (44:45):
Ranch Market north Gate or something like that, right yeah,
Ranch Market, yeh, Superior or by Tape that's owned by
our Armenians. But right across and that little curve across
Arco that area, Oh yeah, it's called the Magic Shop.
And my cousin and I would go and there's like
old magicians and you know, they sell stuff and they
have cool posters and stuff. Man, I missed those days.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
I went in't there once to remind me of like
kind of like the Magic Shop at like Disneyland. Have
you ever went to that one? We're like, yeah, dude,
they'll do a trick for you right there too. It
was really cool. It was like when I was really young.
I was like, man, I don't want to go in there,
but it's kind of scary, like what if they turned
me into a frog.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
I remember bringing some of the tricks in school and stuff,
and actually the owner of my cousin and I, he's like, hey,
you want to go them over and like, mow the
lawn will pay you. You know, until we did that?
Oh really yeah, and then he did some cool magic tricks.
And I remember waking up in the closet, but I
was sure, say.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
For sure think that No, wait a minute, I'm for
sure he dud lead you, right, I think. So.
Speaker 4 (45:36):
I'm trying to erase that kind of magically race out
from my memories. Do you know what? Yes? I do.
I've seen that different drugs at the bike shop.
Speaker 6 (45:46):
You'll take you pictures and you and Ryan's all flexing
a Hey, let's watch this videos, watch this old magic
that was so that episode so fucked up, man, like
even I knew it was like, wait, like something's wrong.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
I was.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
I was as a and fuck and the guys like
that just exist.
Speaker 5 (46:04):
Well, this guy made Ryan's pants disappear.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
I was in his closet. I was mowing the lawn.
All of a sudden, abricabra.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Is fre mode right now, that's right.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
You know what he paid us in magic tricks. That's
awes Yeah, like we get to pick the stuff in
his Where was my my cousin's like maybe like late
sixteen or seventeen or around that time.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
And how old were you?
Speaker 4 (46:27):
It's about ten nine, ten eleven, right.
Speaker 5 (46:29):
Age or magic many Exactly where did he live in
comparison to the shop.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
He lived in the Belinda kind of area. He was
local okay by like just a little bit before Francisquito,
but those homes right there, yeah, right to that area.
So he would go he he went to high school
around there. He would go to work. When out workman,
he turned.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
You guys into his service.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Well, we were we were there all the time. Oh dude.
They had like magic shows on Friday nights. It was fun.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Man's cool.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
It's like an eighties sitcom show where you know, you
go visit there.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
So there's a lot of people shows seeing the magic
shows like.
Speaker 4 (47:03):
Hit like the Magic. The magician and his friends would
would often hang out and and talk shop. You know,
they would talk about the tricks and some old you
know things they've seen before, and things they're doing to
each other, those days are gone, man, they don't exist anymore.
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
All right, hello, and welcome to episode one hundred and
thirty four of Throwback Music Video Review podcast, and tonight
we will be reviewing Houdini by Foster the People Who
DIENI is a song by American indie pop band Foster
the People from their debut studio album Torches. Written by
(00:52):
the group's front man Mark Foster, the song was first
released as a promotional single exclusively in the UK on
twenty eleven April first April.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Fool's Day.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Song was released as the album's fifth single in America
in May fifteenth of twenty twelve. The music video was
directed by The Daniels and currently has one hundred and
nine million views on YouTube a million million.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I am surprised at the number.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I wonder if it's Spike after they won all those awards.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Probably, but I mean they uploaded years ago too, correct,
So guys.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
What is your history?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
First? I just like hearing you say Andy pop you
know I love it?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, like I die a little bit and I say
those words.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You love pop stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It's good, it's good.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Let's start off with you. You never heard of them?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Zero?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I mean, if you listen to the last episode I
introduced this episode, I didn't even know if this was
the name of the band or name the.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Song it happens how I Pumped Up Kicks.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
No, I have not.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But have you heard it?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now? Researching still knows this. This band and their music
has eluded me.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I'm surprised. Maybe I'm not sure. Maybe we'll try to
prove it later.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I know it's like it's on video games, but they're videos.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I don't play, right, so it yea like, stay it
as far away from Fatter of the people as possibly can. Yeah,
are they in the video game?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm sorry, but yeah, I have never heard of him.
How have you guys heard of them?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's funny because it came out twenty twelve, So when
I first heard it's only been about a year or less.
I was at a Japanese restaurant and it was playing.
I go, man, if I had the talent and the
looks and the you know, I could totally be this band,
but I didn't. But I like this sound. I was like,
I was very interested, and I asked my partner Victoria.
She was like, oh, that's Foster the people like I go, oh,
you know them because I didn't, right, And then she
(02:37):
kind of schooled me on it.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
She's like, yes, old man, yeah, exactly Desert Generations.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
So you know, I would I would look it up.
And then Leo was still a toddler at the time
and he enjoyed listening to it, and then we watched
the video. But that's as far as I got, really
until a few years later when I just kind of
checked out some of their other songs and then this
one came out in the rotation and I was very
impressed with the video, and I never thought about it
until like the last maybe year, like, I'll do this
(03:03):
when it's my turn for the episodes, right, But it's
really pumped up kicks. That really got me because I
like the way he made that song that we recorded.
It's very catchy. Interestingly, I'm sure you guys know that
the version you hear is the same version that his
demo is, and it's never been changed. It's the very
same month, So that's kind of you know, that's impressive.
The point is he nailed it the very first time, obviously.
(03:24):
And it's interesting too because that song was they made
like a little website and you know, email us and
we'll send you music, and that's that's the song that
they sent out. Oh and that's how he said. It
just blew up all of a sudden, they were getting
for her emails like my Space days. It wasn't because
it's twenty twelve thirteen, yes, Facebook days. Yeah, but it
was just a website they came up. But anyway, Yeah,
(03:44):
I really liked that song. That kind of lured me in.
And then just most recently, I was really bummed out
that he ended up marrying Julie gard How my researchers
on Julia Gardner, i'mkidding.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah, that is a heartbreaker, you know, and like
Silver Surfer herself, my heart there too is like I
really liked her shiny of course I still like her.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
She is there's something about her, right, it's no, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Those it's this mysterious size in this curly blond here.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'd never really thought I'd be into curly blond here
until Julie Gardner was the change. Anyways, what is your
experience with Foster?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
To people the same thing, but like with Ryan, you know,
I've heard it, especially like Pumped Up Kicks that was
a big deal. And then at this time, I was
listening to a lot of like indie pop stuff, so
and I was going to a lot of shows. I
never saw them, I don't think so maybe they opened
up for somebody. But I was seeing a lot of bands,
like especially around La a lot of indie bands. I
was playing in band, and so I would, you know,
(04:41):
go around you would see everybody, and a lot of
the bands kind of started off like in the earlier
two thousands. You would see them playing you know, some
of those same places in the circuits. Yeah, then you
would see them get bigger. So I don't think I've
seen them. Maybe I did. I forget a lot of
a lot of those times.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Opened up with some of the bands.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, it was a blur for a lot of us, right,
or even.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
So, it was a lot of festivals I went to,
Like they play at the OC.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Fair, It'd be like, fuck yeah, fast, I would imagine
they've problem.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Maybe are what's the one the the one that was
on Sunset Boulevard, Sunset Rising, Sunset Rising Egle Rock Music Festival.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It's very possible.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. And they sound very much
like that time too, like a lot of the indie bands.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Matt and Kim and some of the bands that were
kind of they have that kind of poppy, real like
upbeat sound, so very clean sounding, you.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Know, professional.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean they're all everybody's using probably pro tools.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
So before this, I was going to Musician's Institute, so
a lot of that, you know, hanging out with those people.
Those people were all in bands too and stuff like that.
It was like, you know, it was a very in
the music scene. So they would come up, you know,
you'd hear them around them stuff like that too.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
He had a solo album. But what's interesting about him
is he's one of those guys that just really worked
his way up right, you know, like he did all
these odd jobs like what you know, waiting tables, all
that kind of stuff on bartending.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Like one does.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, exactly, and you know it's command to him. Man,
that's pretty cool because he never really gave up his dream.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But I know he beginning.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, he moved to I think Ohio and he was
part of like a choir when he was a kid,
and then he moved back to San Fernando Valley in
my hood and then that's the beginning of everything, I guess,
just entering the Hollywood scene, trying to break in the business.
But what's interesting is he is a jingle writer. For
a long time. He was for a company called mphon
(06:25):
X or something like that, and they write jingles for
you know, big clients, big corporations. But yeah, he said
that was like a boot camp that helped him make
the catch and nst right, that's what.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's really the kid he can do with seven cars
for kids.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I think he I think he did the general insurance now, No,
I think Shack wrote that. But yeah, Louis mentioned earlier
that he fell into some drugs at one point. You
saw that he was bad from his roommate, right and.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Formula.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, that's terrible.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Is time Like when he first got here around that time,
and then you know when they got big indie and
ala is. It's a weird it's a weird thing. It
was a weird mix of people. There was all these
kind of diy spots in la you couldn't drink at
you know, but you could drink outside or something like that.
But it was a weird mix of like people that
were kind of like trust fund kids that had like
(07:20):
a lot of money that came from like the West
Side but then moved to like Silver Lake or Echo
Park or at Water you know, and had like places there.
And then also like a lot of more like poor kids,
you know, kind of like us that come from kind
of like the East Side or the South Side. And
it was just like this mix of people and you're
playing and all these bands with different people, and it
was it was really weird. And that old Hollywood was
(07:42):
still kind of around at that time. So when you're
booking gigs, especially when you first start off in the
early kind of like two thousands, you're looking for gigs
and you'll see like, oh, the cat Club. You know,
you go play Hollywood Boulevard, but you're like an even
no one gives a shit about your music out there.
You know yeah, uh, but you're the roxy the tribute door.
But you're just trying to scrounge gigs up that are
(08:05):
different than the same di white places that you're playing
all the time with all of your friends, you know.
So you try those things and you figure out like
this is the worst, We're never coming back again. So
then you just kind of stick in that little thing
and then you end up joining with people and then
something happens and some of those people happen and some
of the bands start, you know, moving away and not
moving away but going on tour.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, you start agents, yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
You start you know, seeing some of your the people
that you knew are your bands you played in stuff
like that started getting bigger and bigger, getting signed of
small indie labels and like doing stuff. So it was
it was a really cool time, right, Yeah, it was
a really cool.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah. A lot of richer kids would go there for
the street cred because yeah, you're mixing in with the grit,
you know of like the lower class people. You're not
really but you know what I mean, it's just kind
of like, you know, these people are not They're not
going to be hanging out of the Hollywood clubs or
you know, going to those after parties. They're just going
to hang out in these warehouses or maybe someone's loft
or you know, someone's house, and that's how you network.
(08:59):
That was the networking was like the cheap version of networking,
you know, and really it's just about partying and making music.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
It was crazy. There would be like young people our age,
really young that will buy a fucking warehouse out, like
buy a whole warehouse and then like build like weird
ramshackle rooms and people would rent them out.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Their friends would be living with them and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
And then you would play shows there. They would have
shows there and it would be like a place, right
and those were all over the place in LA at
that time, and then they were fun. Then there was
the like they spots and it was it was really fun.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, but you know what, it's so happening. But I
think it's it's more kind of like been normalized in
mainstreams where it's like, oh, that's what you guys are
going to do. Back then, it was like word of mouth.
You know, you have to know people to know people
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
But it was such an interest, interesting, interesting mix out
because we would go there and of course, you know,
we're just below working class. We're just working scrabbing jobs
and doing stuff, you know, And we would go to
these lofts and some of our friends would live there.
You would go into the weird loft and there would
be like you had to climb up into a roof
where they built a second story right themselves out. Oh
(10:00):
so it's all shaky, you can't stand up in places
you be calling. But then you look and everybody has
brand new power Book Imax and like the most expensive
technology in these spots. So they have money, you know,
they want.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
To either like the back then those are like two
thousand dollars in two.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
It's not out of necessity, it's it's a choice symbol.
It's because you're part of this community, right, artistic community,
and that's a good way to networking. And yeah, as
they get older, they start to finally get the jobs
that they know, careers that there they've always been destined to, inherent.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
And then that's where they don't If they don't, you know,
do the bad thing are they're making movies and doing
art or they're doing something else. Then you start to
see them like, oh, you know, I'm going to move
back to the West Side and be rich. It's so
crazy and.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's like, oh, okay, I'm tired of this now and
I'm going to go back to a very mole rich life.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
It's very pulp, common people, you know.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
But it's people like that, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, and it's weird, like a lot of them, like
it looks like they're trying to be act. There's two
like you know, there's always a couple of them that
are like need all the attention to and it's it's
it was such a weird, interesting but fun and cool scene.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, it's just that art.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, you know what I mean, just a bunch of
you know, cast a character.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yea, like just creatives, but also needing some sort of
an audience, needing some sort of attention and having to
you know, like they can't survive without it, is what
I'm trying to say. I think he went like Mark
Foster went through the same thing, Like he would just
like pull out of guitar and start playing at the parties,
you know, and he realized like that's one way to
get like kind of some attention, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So yeah, he talks about and I was listening to
a podcast he was on with the end Mark Foster, Yeah,
and he was talking about how like he felt like
being in a band, are being artists, Like you want
like this attention and you're you know, it must be something,
he says, like it must be something in your life.
And you go out and you want this attention. So
(11:56):
he performing, you're performing and performing, and you know, sometimes
when you perform, it's good and you get all these praise,
but then when you perform and it's bad, you know,
you can't get the praise anymore, and it's like you
get really deep and low, you know, so it like
it's really weird, this weird wave that you go on,
especially being in Hollywood, coming to Hollywood and doing that,
you know, because.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
And especially performing arts, you know, like you know, stand
up comedy or playing song, singing whatever it is in instruments,
and you.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Start playing like these shows. And then after a while,
like maybe like your band has been playing all these
shows with all these people, and you stop getting more shows,
and then you're like, what's going on? Like do they
not like me anymore? Because there's there's every day there's
a new band starting, and then you know, you know, no, no,
they need to play shows too. You know, they become
(12:43):
friends with the people that are throwing shows, and then
you know they're already kind of tired of your music
because you've been playing the same songs forever, you know,
So then you know it makes you search like what
do I need to start another band? What am I
doing wrong? Then you start going on this crazy, you
know thing like what am you do? Like I get
shows anymore?
Speaker 6 (12:59):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Plus, if you're already compromised, you know, like mental health wise,
obviously you're going to be going through these roller coaster rides.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Yeah. So even not being famous, just going out and
doing the work every week in the hustle, that also
is a crazy ride too. And it's it's it's interesting.
That was a really really cool time before the smartphones.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Clipt phone era.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, I would say like early to mid two thousands,
all the way up to the black early twenty tens.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I enjoyed. Yeah, I enjoyed that it was not everybody
was on their phone as much. You know, everybody had phones,
but it was mostly texting. Yeah it's her phone calls.
But it wasn't like you know, like researching or one
upping each other with trivia whatever.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
The coolest phone was, like Drew had a sidekick and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Oh yeah that's cool and clips. That's right, this is
the Razor. The black Bear was.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
The coolest phone. Yeah, everybody went, I wish I had one.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I say, still do right?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I had a I had like a monochrome motorola back
in that was like my first like flip phone.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
You go on the internet and it would take forever?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Would it would not? That thing you even go to.
All thing to do is was like please snake. Oh really, yeah,
that's the only thing to do.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I was given a pomp pilot that was kind of fun,
with a little stylist that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, that was beyond me.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Back then, it was really basic. You know, you could
you could have like notes and stuff put on there
and had a little recorder in the microphone. That was
kind of cool, like a PDA. That was like my
introduction to that kind of stuff. Yeah, but it's a
different time, you know, every everything musically, like just the
whole vibe of people and hanging out together.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, I'm sure though those those rich kids already had
the Razor.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Everybody had razors. Yeah, I remember the people that can
afford the.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
LG chocolate or the chocolate.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Anything else about your history with Foster out some history.
F TP have zero history. I have very lowly contributed
to sign in this podcast.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
You're a big fan of the Daniels, right. Did you
like that movie by the.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Way, Yeah, yeah, it's amazing movie.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh yeah, everything every where all at once.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Which is interesting. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I'll be honest with you. I couldn't get through it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, not that I didn't like it, it's it is overstimulating.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I was at home and you know, I was under
the influence, and I thought I would enjoy it, but
I did not. Well, right, it's not that I it's
not that I was not enjoying it, just I thought
I want to do something else. It was. That's the bibe.
It happens to you sometimes when you know it's a
good movie. It's not there's nothing wrong with it, but
I'm like, I want to and then I never get
back to it, is what happened.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, it happens to me a lot here.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I mean, you know my well, yeah, same thing. Yeah,
you're at home.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Well it's like, yeah, it's a good movie, bad day
or bad bad movie, Bad Day. You know. It's like
one of those kind of things.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You know, great way to summarize it. Yeah, it's one
of those.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
It's also too, like I really want to watch this movie,
and then I sit down, I'm like, I don't really
feel like watching a movie right now, but I do it,
and then I'm like, you know what, I can't do
it right now. I got to do something else.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
And then maybe, like down the line, you watch it
again and oh it's actually yeah, you know what I mean.
That happens a lot to me too. Yeah, but well,
maybe I'll get back to it in the next five
years or something. I'll schedule it.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Before their next movie came.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Anyways, Okay, we'll be right backwards. A pop quiz after
these messages. Okay, guys, have some pop quiz.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I gotta pieve for you guys tonight. You guys are
ready to go. Here's number one. The band was originally
supposed to be called this name and I'm about to
give you but people kept miss hearing it as Foster
the People. What was the original name of the band?
You guys ready? Was it Foster the Pupil, Was it
Foster and the People or Cee Imposter the people or
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d Foster the feeble.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Does all sound like those that those year of that
year of names.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I'm gonna say a, all right, Foster the feeble, Foster
the pupil, Oh, Foster the pupil, I mean, Foster the
people like.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Socrates would foster pupils. I say, you're going with the
Foster and the people. Louis, you are wrong. But Alice,
that's very good.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I actually knew that one.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
That's that's a that's a weird thing that he actually well,
he liked the idea of nurturing people, so he kept
he kept foster people. So nice job. His last name
isn't it to Foster? Maybe I never even thought about that,
but he never mentioned that in any of the interviews.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I just knew that this last name was Foster, Like, okay,
he named it after himself, Mark Foster.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Because like I said, oh okay, but he likes the nurturing,
like you know, yeah, that was his inspiration. All right,
good job, All right, here we go number two. As
previously mentioned, Mark Foster of Foster the People work that
more phonics. Leui already knows because he just read it
right now. But it's his jingle writer, right, very very
early in his career out he wrote jingles for prominent
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companies like Muscle Milk because would try that, Cadillac, Brizon,
even my former employer, Bank of America. I believe he
wrote that song non Sufficient Fun.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Overdraft.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I think I wrote that actually. But he also wrote
a jingle for this very popular eighties breakfast. I'm not
calling you in this one, okay, A grape nuts b
not in honey? See golden Crisp can't get or D honey?
Bunches of oats?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Was b again?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That's in honey, not in honey? Yeah, not in honey,
I say, D honey bunches of And you're right, you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Got that one.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
You know that. That's one of my favorites. Too many
bunch of I don't know to be honey.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Grape nuts is a ship cereal, guys. That's not a
hot doesn't it go?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Like?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Oh, the grape nuts?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Remember the Golden Graham's one.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah, the Golden Grounds was good.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You turtle turtles?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yeah, I like the.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I love foglights.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
That's that's homewer doesn't yet a little of that? Right?
All right, guys, get your cape on your top half
and receiving gloves because that's all I have. It's a
time for some magic trivia by way of lightning ground alight?
All right, so here we go. True or false if
the following statements are indeed true about American escapeologist, illusionist,
(19:18):
and stunt performer Ah Damn Vice, known to most as
Harry Hordini. Are you guys ready? Of course? The namesake
of our video who wants to go first? Alright, al
my first victim, You're ready? Tru or false is an
aviation pioneer. In nineteen twenty three, Whodini became the first
person to achieve control flight in Australia, having purchased a
(19:39):
French Voisine biplane and taught himself to fly. True or
false nineteen twenty three.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I'll say false.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Going with false, you are wrong, it's actually true. Yeah,
he's himself. He's an early He is a true renaissance man.
Like he knew a lot about different things and he
actually followed through.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I was like a fake until you make it.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Ah, No, he's not. He's very talented. Let me try
this one. After establishing himself in Europe in the early
nineteen hundreds, Houdini brought over his younger cousin, Leo, a
magician who had worked as his partner during his early career.
Leo soon began performing his cousins tricks under the stage
name Hardini. True or false false. You're going with false? Yes, one.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Leo is the name that's close to you and Hardini
come on, you.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Know, like HARDENI. Oh this is inspired by his brother
who went by harden and his name was Theo. But yeah,
they actually they even had like a fake rivalry so
that they can get like, you know, like drum up
some business. Pretty cool, Pretty cool. But I went with
the Hardinis.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Your magic day when you were at ten. Yeah, the
great Hardini, Great.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Hardin in my little cape, tiny cape out, white gloves,
my secret gloves, eternally bots. Oh man, check this one out.
You guys familiar with the Funk and Wagonal's Dictionary. Yes,
I am holds up my bad side, but my whole
set is all right back in the nineteen twenties. Now.
(21:13):
The word who denies is a verb coined after Houdine
himself and defined by Funk and Wagonal's Dictionary. Has to
release or extricate oneself from confinement. Bonds or similar restraints,
typically by wriggling out. So it's an actual dictionary word.
Who denies, who denies?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I've never heard that's that word in my life. So
I'm gonna go with false.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
He going with false, Then you are wrong because that is.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
A dictionary who denies?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Who denies to escape sense because everybody starts using it
and then he gets added to.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
You guys are missing the point that he was huge cute.
I mean, if you ever see his performances, We've got
thousands of people when bowler hats watching him. Everybody's wearing
a hat, so many bowler hats.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
If you don't, you don't get it.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
No, you can't get it your ticket bol Yeah exactly, Yeah,
checked out. Before finding fame, a young Houdini performed in
dime museums, inside shows, even once being billed as the
Indian Rubberman in a circus due to his abilities to
contort and dislocate joints. True or false? True, this is false.
(22:16):
He was Actually he was a geek. He was a
wild man hanging out with Bradley Cooper. That's correct. Yeah,
he was a he was. He did performance circus, but
as a you guys, remember, Yeah, yeah, what's that movie again?
And he was a geek or wild man, that was
his act. Oh so yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I just knew that he could.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He could unbelievably well. Speaking of that, Louis al this
one's really During World War One? Did you know that
Houdini taught American soldier how to play dad in combat,
to escape or in some cases, surprise attack their enemies
on the front lines by contorting, deforming, and gnarling their
bodies as if to look broken or mortally wounded. True
or false?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I mean I've been wrong all the time. I go
with true in this one.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
You are wrong way he did, though, He did teach
them how to escape handcuffs, cubs and sinking ships. How
do you get out of sinking ships? That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Imagine you're just like all contorted and everything and then
just surprise the German guy.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Like, ah, hey, that's a good idea, right right? I
thought that was a.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Ten year old how to act like fast zombies?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
All right? Louis Buster Keaton's nickname was Buster, right, he
familiar with that. Born Joseph Frank Keaton, he reportedly received
this nickname from famous magician Harry Deney. When the toddler
took a tumble or buster down a flight of stairs unharmed.
True ear fall.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
This is completely.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
True, absolutely named after Houdinium saw all right, here we
go al Boston, September nineteen eleven, Harry Audeney performed a
daring sea monster escape by freeing himself from the carcass
of a giant beach d whale. He was shackled in
handcuffs and leg irons, then sewing inside the carcass, which
was further secured with chains. But wait, there's more than
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most dangerous part wasn't the chains or shackled. It was
the arsenic fumes collected inside, with Houdinia narrowly escaping in
fifteen minutes. True or false?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I'll go with true.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
You are correct, Yeah, we happened.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Huh, that's crazy, crazy, like, oh, how can you even.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Think about these rich like businessmen were kind of like,
I'm challenging him, so he's like, no problem, I'll do it.
But he did it. But he he he, I think
he almost didna.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Back then, before they had their little sexual cabals.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
They write, here's my last one. Louis Houdini was close
friends with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes,
as you know, also collaborated with horror legend HB. Lovecraft,
who ghost wrote stories like Entombed with the Pharaohs for
him because he made movies too. However, Houdini and Doyle
had had a better fallout in the early nineteen hundreds
over Doyle's missing family heirloom, which was a gold pocket
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watch inscribbed to him by his late father during one
of Houdini's sleight of hand tricks performances.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
True or false, So Ludini stole his watch.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
That's what he thinks. Just this sounds like a good
lore story that Huddi would make up to custom drama
to But I'm gonna say false.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'm going with falls. You're correct. It was actually over
spiritualism because you know, yeah, he was Sir Arthur Kunkle
was a big He's just really into that whole thing,
you know, like really believing in it. And they even
started a club I think right the lasted until like
the nineteen fifties. But he was always trying to debunk
all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
That's one of the things I love about who is
like he loved debunking people that were being off other people.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
He even had a cold word for his wife if
she had passed the only way it's something forever whatever
her name, Roosevelt, forever Roosevelt. If they couldn't figure out
that that was their password, then he knew that it
was off. So he had this conversation with his wife,
if you die, and but she did pass away before him.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So yeah, if I die, I'll just tell people, you know,
like it's a scam. If they don't say Fidelia.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That's the cue word right out. You have to say
it in that happywards all right, that's all I've got boys,
all right, Well a lot of it was a.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Fun pop quiz. I missed like all of them for one.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Okay, we'll be an expert back after these messages.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Okay. With the music video for Your Houdeni by Foster
and the people.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Man that totally alluded to me about his last name,
I don't even think about that.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
You never mentioned it, but I assume that's what it was.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, it starts off with the band performing at this
sound stage.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yeah, they're kind of like shooting a video or something, right, right,
They got like a whole Yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Got a got old crew watching them, you know, and
like you know, it's a twenty elevens with with a
haircut of some.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Of the hairstyles.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And I'm like, oh my god, it's like a post
emo scenester haircuts.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Right, yep, yep, that's what you would see at the
clubs or me walking down like you know, Sunset Bar,
Boulevard or Echo Park.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Even here, I would see some people here walking out
of high school with that kind of hairscut.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
It's got like a emo slash indie sleeez gue sleeve.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
That's correct, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Not indie pop though. The sleeve.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
A lightning rig right balls crushes the whole whole band.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
They're like mangoled.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
It's an a bomb exploded there and they're r I
P right dead all right, paramedic right and he says
he looked on the side of the camera and says
that's it.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It's over, man, game over.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It's like interest ain't gonna cover.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
This, No madic count nothing. But unfortunately, though they had
sold out concert the next day, right the theater theater.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
That's capitalism for you, right, Like, no, no on, we
got to get this ship going. You know, they make
the phone call to the executive, right, Well the fixer?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Was he the fixer? I thought it was the I
thought it was the boss of the whole operation.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Well, he's the guy, you know, he makes the decisions
for the team. He has a team that handles this stuff,
but he makes the decisions, I believe.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So it's kind of like the wolf then, Yeah, he's.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
The wolf pretty much right, So he he hasn't.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Ready to just like freaking you know, like keep this band.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Going and make suggesting that this has happened many many times,
and he's always ready right when they go when they
cut to the scene, is it, it's a very like
Asian kind of yeah, right, like the crew is.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Ready to break in his little domain there there's.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Some people playing anything on the corner. So it was
pretty interesting that they did.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That touch Chinese style games happened?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Uh so a team of puppeteers, right, are all addressed?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
These are like the shadow people who those shows in
Japanese theater, right, So like that was very much inspired
by them, right, and that was kind of cool. That
was kind of cool. Spready harnesses on the bands, you know,
very limp. The ricor war doesn't exist in this universe.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Right. Well, look, first of all, they're fresh though, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
But you know from the next day you got to
do your concert.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
But by that time they turn them into and cybernetic.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
But wait a minute, are there two parts? First they
try it out and they do the stuff, and then
they work on they because they perform right before they.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Actually do they they film the music video with.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
The pub They finished the video, you correct, they finished.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
The video, and then they turn them into androids for
the show.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yes, because the show is going to be more it's
going to be more demanding. Yes, exactly that they really
have to cyber lobottomize, cybernetically stitch them all together.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
They have the technology, yea. You know it's all bionic
man and there.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Hey man, that's Hollywood, man, that's Hollywood, the music industry.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
That's right. But they they were getting the facial expressions, right,
you know, they're all working on it, and.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know it's cheaper to actually just cancel the show
get all the technology.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
This is untried technology, right.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Well, the thing is they're already huge, so they got
to keep that going theater.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Are you telling me that a sold out show where
each ticket is probably what eighteen at that time.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's no, they got.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
It was more cost effective to make androids of them.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
They can travel to space and trigleactically. But first of all,
out number one, this is probably the very first show,
and then they were going to go and like yeah
Legs World Tour, you know all these Antarctica probably.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
They're going They're going all over the world.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, they're taking over the world for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Like what justin Timberlick when you got arrested for d
u I or something of his world tour. Yeah, they're
like that guy scale.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
They're gonna make that android money back on T shirt sales.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Alone, that's true.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, foster to people shirts.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, it was pretty cool how they're testing on technology
where they got the cybernetics of the face kind of
in tune as well. But yeah with the song, you know,
the little twitches would trigger along with the song.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You know, nice touches by the Daniels.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
There, they knew what they were doing. Yeah, scene right,
and then they were practicing the dance moves right, and
then even though actually playing the instruments. Yeah, and what
do you ca there's cables where they can like when
they flow and they kind of pull back and they
do some crazy moves.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
The drums. That exploding was really cool. Yeah, and then
they're they're clothes.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Their clothes come off and all of a sudden the
tears right, they're wearing it. I love that part. Man,
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
And they do a little dance number, right, I guess
is this a regular thing on their shows?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
They always do a dance number that.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
I'm not sure. I don't think I've never seen them.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Because I mean, now it has to be expected that
they have to do it since the video has one
hundred and nine million views.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Right, probably for this song, right, I would imagine they.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Would do They have to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
They have to drop all the instruments and then just
have robo electronics play play the song.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
But but yeah, the crowd.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Is buying it. They they love it, They fall in
love with the you know, the whole thing there. I
mean it's mostly women too, right, and not knowing that
they're all lifeless corpses being fooled.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I mean, you know, it's a it's a it's a
skating indictment on society, right, you know, just throw any
just throw.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Some meat on there. They'll take it.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's like in front of them, you know it's a lie,
but they'll take it anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's like, ah, we paid nineteen dollars for to take
we love it.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
So it's like the wolf guy is the one who's
the who's orchestrating the whole thing, right, because he's like,
we need this money.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Right, Like in mafia movies, right, there's always that one guy, right,
what do they call them, the the mixer fixer, the
the one that you wouldn't need to call to to
make things work out or how you would want it
to clean things right, problems, make problems go away, Yeah,
clean things up exactly. So, but he was he was
very proud of his work, right. He was just like, yeah,
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she's like a and the rest of the crew, right,
A little tear come on.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
That was funny that one guys like I teared.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Up so like he couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Man, that was really funny.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I think that was a choice by the Daniels, like, Okay,
let's hire this one specific guy from the s A G.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
I mean their whole angle is like you know, like
the comedy, right, and it's pretty funny.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I like the.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Facts like Wag the Dog, right, the scam worked, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
The Daniels didn't put themselves in the video as the directors.
They had other people being the directors. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, that's good. And this is before they were even
big too, so that's good.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, this was like am I Shyamalan or Quentin Tarantino.
They'll totally wedge themselves.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, would have been the paramedic or something.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
He would have been the fixer.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And that's the one thing I hate it when directors
would wedge themselves in the movies.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
It breaks my It breaks my you know, believability.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
In the movie.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Hitchcock was always in his but he was always just
a walk caming.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
He never had a line that on two lines like
Hyamalan would do, like, oh he has like a full
fucking scene.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
It's like a whole arc on his character. Huh not already.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
That's that's why I knew the Village was gonna be
a twist because he has to be in it.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I already knew he was going to be in it.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
And there's no way, uh, you know, a guy of
his nationality would be in a.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Sixteen mons, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
So I'm just like I just know, man, like I
already knew what the twist was before walking into theater.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Anyway, you couldn't suspend this belief.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I could not do it.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
That's funny. But speaking of twists, sadly, at the very end,
when they got the green room kind of reminded me
of of the Echo where you go up the stairs
and yeah, so they go up the stairs, right, but
the camera follows. They're celebrating. There's a confetti balloon and
the camera shot ends on them.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
There's the robots just yea pa like the couch. But
everybody's all partying.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right, everyone's having a great time. Yeah. I love that
part too.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, it's kind of sad in a way because you
know they're dead.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
That's that's what kind of that's the punch, right, That's
what you needed. It's it's kind of all just funny.
It's really that statement.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Police report about their death or anything like that, letting
their families, Yeah, letting juliego, and I know I'm available
now he's going on, Like.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
She updates her Space thing status of a single.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Sliding in her DM that means I don't have any social.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Media podcast will slide in her dms.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
But yeah, that's that's that's the little, that's the little,
the ass in the end. So but I like this.
The satire is great, man, you know, I mean the
whole idea of right, but contrast to the lyrics. The
lyrics is all about like being empowered, you know, with
your abilities. But why what is it called Houdini again,
I guess the idea of it's an illusion, the whole Yeah,
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an illusion everything is all about, you know. It's like
what you're seeing is not exactly you know, we're just
getting the final product and we're satisfied because we that up,
like we said earlier. But in Rally there's so much
more happening behind the scenes, and in this case it's
a tragic, dark, twisted ending, you know, or story. But yeah,
but the lyrics is mostly about if you've got a
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chance to read. It's about like, you know, if your scales,
your talents, like you shouldn't give up. It's a it's
actually very you know, empowering and giving you the ability
to keep going even though sometimes you don't feel like
you're going to be successful.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
I love when the green screen people are controlling them.
It's really funny.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Yeah, That's another thing too, is that how the idea
of being puppets, Like I guess you know, you can
kind of chalk up a lot of the k pop
we've talked about this our episode, which is just manufactured, right.
It's just you know, like everything song style. You know
who's going to be, what role they're going to be
playing in each incarnation of their groups, right, so it's
always it's all act. Now it's on act. But we
(36:17):
love we love it though. That's how it is.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
It's funny when I first watched this video, when you
first put it on first to watch it, I thought
it was gonna be a band that starts off as
a band and they turned into like a boy band,
you know, like kind of like that because because you've
seen those videos too, and it seemed like it was
but it went went to them.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
And I think that's part that's why the dance is
like kind of almost making fun of the yeah, the
boy band.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
It's manufactured, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Puppet thing even though they were a band, but they
still the moves.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I guess that's the music video for who do You If?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
If if people have seen it, they I think it's
you get it.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
You know, like, yeah, there's idea, there's no, it's just
a funny.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
So yeah, you get the the you know, the the
behind the scenes people be behind the puppet strings right right,
celebrating as your as the actual artists or the front
just right there dead.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
That's what like for a lot of bands too. Sometimes
that happens because the band is performing, you know, they're
all tired, and so everybody else is partying. But then
they have to have to start writing new songs and
getting back to work and going to the studio. But
then the friends and hangers on are the ones that
are doing all the great party right.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Because it's it's work. Yeah, you know, that's like they
dedicated their whole life to do this and they've reached it.
But it doesn't end because like you know, if you stop,
then the next act will be the bigger one, you
know exactly. So it's a tough field you.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
To keep that great rolling, especially when just starting out exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
I mean, until you develop enough of a following and
you can afford to have a year.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Off and a bigger catalog, right that can kind of
keep feeding your Yeah, it's like the.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Bank the royalties forever, all right, it's uh, we'll be
right back for some notable YouTube comments. All right, it's
time for some notable you YouTube comments.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Right. First of all, it's all good vibes on the
thing in them and as you were saying earlier, just
kind of to that point, like I didn't really exist
so much the music because we were kind of like,
you know, doing our own thing era, you know, so,
so it was nice to see people very positive and
have a looking back all those years. But this one
by at Parira P E R E I R A
(38:24):
art from seven years ago, says who starts a concert
in the middle of the song? Right? And my last
one out I told you there's nothing happy Valentine's Day.
That's my third one. At one two three h g
W from nine years ago, they said, the moral of
(38:47):
the story, no matter how good you are at your job,
there's always an Asian bear.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
You're at it all right, guys who dni by FTP?
Would you keep it or would you throw it back?
Speaker 5 (39:00):
I'll go first. Yeah, this is a great video. I
love it. It's really good. I'm glad that I got
to see it.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
You've never seen it.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I've never seen any of their videos. It's weird. Like
the music during this this kind of time, other than
like the regular the bands that I was listening to
before that the two thousands, I really didn't get into
any like either new bands other than the bands that
were we were playing with and a lot of the
India acts that were kind of rotating around it. I
didn't personally want to write listen to too much music
(39:27):
because I didn't want to steal anybody's music or any
of that.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
So and then also it's a great point.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
You're constantly playing shows, you're constantly practicing, You're you get
like ear fatigue, and you want to listen to audio
books or just silence, are classical, our jazz or.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Something that's something that you're not not into rock.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Music that you're not into, you know, are like you know,
I was listening to probably like a lot of soul
or something like that too, just something completely different than
indie rock, you know, because I was just like tired
of it, not tired of it, but it was just
I was getting it all the time, you know, So
I wasn't. I didn't a lot of these bands I skipped,
they weren't in my review. So but no, this is great.
I love the video, it's so well made, and I
loved all the buy in on everybody.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
And it's a great concept.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Great concept. Yeah, a good video, good concept, good song,
all around good good.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Yeah, the band's good. Yeah, come on, the directors right,
look what they ended up making. Amazing stuff. But yeah,
as for me, definitely, keep I thought it was fun.
I thought I saw it as a very like a
short film. It's really cool, you know, like the little
touches of the fixer and the guy, and it's all
teary eye because of how beautiful it was coming to life,
you know. But you know, but I also like the
(40:35):
other side of the other side of the coin, which
was that dark message of the industry, you know, like
the whole like puppeteering and kind of just manufacturing these acts.
But yeah, I actually like this song. This is one
of my I like this better than the other songs
that are pretty hits from them, like pretty big hits
from them and pumpp kicks. Definitely it's a it's a
banger because that's the one kind of inspired me to
make some more music during that era. But yeah, definitely,
(40:56):
the video is great. I always try to show it
to people who've never seen it, so glad I got
to share it with you guys, all.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Right, yes, and that's for me. Yeah, I could definitely
keep this video too. It's it's fun. The music's not
my vibe, but it's not about the music, the music,
the song. Actually it's just this to me. It's the
story of the video and the way it's you know composed.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
It's yeah, it's about time we had an ncent some
HD into this thing, right.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
A while.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I don't remember the last time we did an HD song,
you know, so so yeah, like it was nice to
actually some ten ADP on this podcast. So yeah, that
was actually nice to see on the screen here. And
it's it's you know, the composition was very good. The
warmness of the shots and just the way that things
are lit. The effects are you know, much to be desired. Now,
some of them didn't age very well, you know, especially
(41:42):
with their whole robo cop We can rebuild the technology
aspects of the music video, but it's still fun.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
I mean, you know, it's it's not to be taken
too seriously.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
And yeah, it's you know, it makes you think too
of how disposable some artists are. Some the links, you know,
your powers that be will do to you and to
your leg see to your body seriously to make another buck.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
It's gonna sadly, it's how about that money?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
It's kind of what they did with Princess Leo or
Peter Koshing in the whole Star Wars movies by c
g eyeing them up. You kind of get that feel
out of this. So yeah, I get that message as well.
So it may it's it's stop provoking if you you know,
if you can get past the fluff and the happiness
and the optimism I guess of the music.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
So yeah, I mean that's one of the reasons why
me and Ryan always have our cell phones on while
you're talking, is because we're recording your voice so we
could use it as AI when when you die, we
can still keep doing the podcast.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Yeah, you're gonna trade on my voice, like says.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
We starting hello tonight, We welcome.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
To to your.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
After this break, well, it's probably gonna be It's probably
gonna explode from all the my stupid laughter throughout the show. Okay, Yeah,
very good triple ceps.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
All right, louis what you got next for us?
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Man?
Speaker 5 (43:04):
I had I have so many videos but the one
that really kept calling me back to do is such
a weird video by such a strange band. And I
remember watching this video and I was just like, what
the hell is this? Who is his band? His band rules,
what's going on? I had to do more research, but
it was back then before the internet, and I I mean,
the internet was around, but it wasn't as like, oh,
(43:25):
I need to look them up on the internet, you know,
it was in that time. It's this is from two
thousand and three, right, like two thousand and two. Really,
but it's by a band called the Electric Six. It's
called Danger High Voltage.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Oh intrigued those six? The Gay Bar guys, Yes, Gay Bar,
Yeah yeah, this is their song that came up before Gaar,
same album.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Okay, well listening guys, you next time.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
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Speaker 4 (44:15):
Were you guys ever into magic the kids.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
And remember that? Remember growing up there was the Magic Shop.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
And yeah, oh did you know that? And there was
I'm not sure if it was s h O P
P E or just a classic s h O P
Magic shop, but my cousin and I would would always
go all the time. Man, it's a little store right
across we was Hugh's Market at the time, right by
Glenn Market right across which is uh Louis old site now,
(44:43):
which was what was it when you worked there?
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (44:45):
Ranch Market north Gate or something like that, right yeah,
Ranch Market, yeh, Superior or by Tape that's owned by
our Armenians. But right across and that little curve across
Arco that area, Oh yeah, it's called the Magic Shop.
And my cousin and I would go and there's like
old magicians and you know, they sell stuff and they
have cool posters and stuff. Man, I missed those days.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
I went in't there once to remind me of like
kind of like the Magic Shop at like Disneyland. Have
you ever went to that one? We're like, yeah, dude,
they'll do a trick for you right there too. It
was really cool. It was like when I was really young.
I was like, man, I don't want to go in there,
but it's kind of scary, like what if they turned
me into a frog.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
I remember bringing some of the tricks in school and stuff,
and actually the owner of my cousin and I, he's like, hey,
you want to go them over and like, mow the
lawn will pay you. You know, until we did that?
Oh really yeah, and then he did some cool magic tricks.
And I remember waking up in the closet, but I
was sure, say.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
For sure think that No, wait a minute, I'm for
sure he dud lead you, right, I think. So.
Speaker 4 (45:36):
I'm trying to erase that kind of magically race out
from my memories. Do you know what? Yes? I do.
I've seen that different drugs at the bike shop.
Speaker 6 (45:46):
You'll take you pictures and you and Ryan's all flexing
a Hey, let's watch this videos, watch this old magic
that was so that episode so fucked up, man, like
even I knew it was like, wait, like something's wrong.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
I was.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
I was as a and fuck and the guys like
that just exist.
Speaker 5 (46:04):
Well, this guy made Ryan's pants disappear.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
I was in his closet. I was mowing the lawn.
All of a sudden, abricabra.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Is fre mode right now, that's right.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
You know what he paid us in magic tricks. That's
awes Yeah, like we get to pick the stuff in
his Where was my my cousin's like maybe like late
sixteen or seventeen or around that time.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
And how old were you?
Speaker 4 (46:27):
It's about ten nine, ten eleven, right.
Speaker 5 (46:29):
Age or magic many Exactly where did he live in
comparison to the shop.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
He lived in the Belinda kind of area. He was
local okay by like just a little bit before Francisquito,
but those homes right there, yeah, right to that area.
So he would go he he went to high school
around there. He would go to work. When out workman,
he turned.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
You guys into his service.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Well, we were we were there all the time. Oh dude.
They had like magic shows on Friday nights. It was fun.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Man's cool.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
It's like an eighties sitcom show where you know, you
go visit there.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
So there's a lot of people shows seeing the magic
shows like.
Speaker 4 (47:03):
Hit like the Magic. The magician and his friends would
would often hang out and and talk shop. You know,
they would talk about the tricks and some old you
know things they've seen before, and things they're doing to
each other, those days are gone, man, they don't exist anymore.
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