People Are Still Having WHAT?! | S4 E6

[00:00:05] Speaker A: Well, hey, everyone. Welcome to what I listened to this week. We're back. We've got Melanie here. Hi. And Eric's here and Sergio's here. But we've got John this week. So Molly, Molly's covering pnz and so she seated her seat to, to John so that he could join us this month. So we're excited to see you. Hi. Welcome back. As always, we will start with a round of what is new and good. And so, John, since we haven't seen you in a while, what's new and good? [00:00:38] Speaker B: Just in my life in general. [00:00:39] Speaker A: Yeah, just in general. What's happening? [00:00:42] Speaker B: I've been working on. I'm doing a lot of films right now. I just finished one, editing another, editing another one. And then I've written another one that we're going to film. So that's, that's crazy for me to have it. Have all these things backed up. And so that's, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. [00:01:01] Speaker A: Are any of them about the spider? [00:01:03] Speaker B: Oh, no. But I did look back on the spider episode because it came up like in my social media feed. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:11] Speaker B: One year ago today, I saw this scene of my spider and it made me sad because it reminded me that I thought that that spider would have laid a zillion eggs in my side view mirror and I would have all the babies this year and we could bond. There were no little baby spiders. I think it was too dry for them. [00:01:31] Speaker A: Sad. Any sneak peek on what your films are about? You have to be tight lipped. [00:01:38] Speaker B: Yeah. The studios prevent me from saying anything. One of them is kind of a reaction to Sundance. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Oh. [00:01:48] Speaker C: And a positive or negative, it's a bit of a reaction. [00:01:52] Speaker B: It's a little poke in the eye. But they won't, they will not notice. And another one, you would have to. When you see it and somebody said, what's John's new film about? You'll be like, I don't know. You know, it has, I think all these great moments and it all fits together, but there's no neat way to explain it. But the Sundance one is pretty, is pretty clear with what's going on with that. And then the other one was about a fish that comes out of a toilet and attacks a guy in the bathtub. [00:02:28] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:02:29] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:02:29] Speaker B: It's called the Mighty Steelhead and it's shot on film. 16 millimeter. [00:02:34] Speaker D: Oh, wow. [00:02:35] Speaker B: So it's my first actually film project. [00:02:37] Speaker A: You have a prop fish or is this like our animals harmed? [00:02:42] Speaker B: I went to H Mart, which is the Asian. [00:02:46] Speaker A: I Love H Mart. [00:02:47] Speaker B: You ever go to the seafood section? [00:02:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:49] Speaker B: It's crazy. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:51] Speaker B: You're like, wow, this fish is like 1 inch wide and 13ft long. You're just like this crate. It's called a belt fish or whatever. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:01] Speaker B: But I bought a. All the fish heads in Boulder were. I went. I mean, I drove around, looked at all the trout and stuff, but they were all glassy eyed and looking not good. Not like a live fish. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:14] Speaker B: So I went to H Mart and then I found this salmon head, enormous salmon head. And it looked so good. But then when we opened up the packaging, we realized that somebody with that amazing sushi knife had laid that head in two. So it just falls into. So I don't know what you would do with such a thing. It wasn't cheap. It was like 11 bucks for the head. But we really did put it to work. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Nice. [00:03:43] Speaker C: Do you sew it together or. [00:03:47] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. What we found out because the fish is a character and with the fish puppetry that was engaged, you know, used in my film, that with a fish's head cut in half, you can actually. It's kind of gross, but you can actually manipulate the eye from the inside. [00:04:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:04:08] Speaker B: So the fish can look at people. So you. The fish's eye can just like start tracking while people talk. So. [00:04:15] Speaker C: Wow. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Anyway, you asked. [00:04:18] Speaker A: I love it. I'm so excited to see this. Do you ever see. Have you ever seen that Subreddit diy. But it's wh y. I feel like this fish head. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that's perfect. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Whatever the puppet is would go on that. [00:04:30] Speaker B: It's only 90 seconds long. We could watch it when we're done. You. [00:04:32] Speaker A: Eric, I'm so excited for this. [00:04:35] Speaker B: Y. [00:04:36] Speaker A: And I'm assuming you're submitting that to Sundance as well. [00:04:39] Speaker B: No, not to Sundance. There's a. There's sort of an anti Sundance festival in Boulder called Trauma. [00:04:46] Speaker A: Okay. [00:04:46] Speaker B: And I submitted it there and I will learn at the end of this month, which is quick approaching. If we're accepted. Accepted by Trauma, it wouldn't get as Sundance. Sundance has to be about, I don't know, struggle about, like somebody who has, like no hands and no feet and climbed Everest and, you know, and fought wolves off and it was very heartfelt and personal. [00:05:14] Speaker A: Yeah, sounds right. [00:05:16] Speaker C: Yeah, sounds like a Sundance. [00:05:18] Speaker A: And is also a musician who sounds like Bob Dylan, right? Yeah. [00:05:23] Speaker D: Bob Dylan in the 80s. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Bob Dylan in the 80s. [00:05:25] Speaker D: Unintelligible. [00:05:26] Speaker B: Yeah, unintelligible. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Interesting. Well, that's exciting. I'm excited to Watch. [00:05:32] Speaker B: There you go. [00:05:33] Speaker A: I can't wait. Cool. Well, Eric, what's new and good with you? Any raw fish stories? [00:05:38] Speaker D: No, but I will say that in the last two weeks, I've seen a couple of the best movies of the year. The first was the Invite, which is so good. So, so excellent. And only four characters. Edward Norton, Penelope Cruz, Seth Rogen, and Olivia Wilde. Directed by Olivia Wilde. Shot on film, A real story for grownups and just excellent. And John has seen it. [00:06:09] Speaker B: Blew me away. [00:06:10] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. And it's just wonderful. And I saw the Odyssey, and that is big and has just everything. And despite all the subreddits that are denigrating the casting, it's a wonderful, wonderful movie. So good that I might see it again this weekend. [00:06:32] Speaker A: Nice. Is it subreddits or is it, like, the right, the conservative right that's denigrating the whole thing? Both. Okay. [00:06:40] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:06:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:42] Speaker D: But worth seeing. [00:06:43] Speaker A: Did you see it in whatever. Did you go to, like, the Denver place that had the IMAX or anything? The IMAX thing? [00:06:49] Speaker D: No, I just saw it in the regular screen, but the crowd, everybody loved it. [00:06:56] Speaker A: Is it long? [00:06:57] Speaker D: It's almost three hours. [00:06:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:00] Speaker D: But it doesn't drag at all. [00:07:01] Speaker A: Okay. I just want movies to go back [00:07:03] Speaker C: to being 90 minutes or have an intermission. They should just have an intermission. [00:07:06] Speaker D: Just an intermission. Intermission would have helped. [00:07:09] Speaker B: It's three hours and 800 pounds. That's how much it weighs. And it broke the projector. So they had to refund everyone in Denver. [00:07:17] Speaker C: Colorado Springs. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Right. [00:07:18] Speaker B: No endeavor. [00:07:19] Speaker C: Oh, was it in Denver? [00:07:20] Speaker A: Oh, like the one. Because there's two in Colorado that have the, like. [00:07:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:24] Speaker A: The ability to show it or whatever. [00:07:25] Speaker B: And one Denver one had to refund everybody because they didn't anticipate that it would weigh that much. [00:07:31] Speaker D: And it's still down. [00:07:33] Speaker B: Still down. [00:07:34] Speaker D: So down. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Wow. [00:07:36] Speaker D: Yeah. But definitely worthwhile. [00:07:38] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:38] Speaker D: So to the best. [00:07:39] Speaker A: I'm sort of like, everybody's seeing it. I don't really care, but I'm sure I'll see it eventually. [00:07:46] Speaker B: See the invite. [00:07:47] Speaker A: I kind of want to, like, reread it before I see it. [00:07:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:51] Speaker D: See the invite. [00:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I actually saw it. The invite was on one of those, like, you know, lists of, like, best movies of 2026. And I always, like, read through all of those, and that one sounded like I was like, ooh, this sounds interesting. I would like to see that one. So I have heard of that one and, like, seen. Read a couple small articles on it. So good to hear your endorsement. I like that. Awesome. What's new and good with you, Sergio? Have you seen the Odyssey yet? I was wondering. [00:08:19] Speaker C: No, I'm looking to go to an imax. I was going to go check out the ones in Loveland, but I, I can only book it up to like a week in advance and they're all, it's all sold out because I was going to let whoever wants to go, you know, I just buy a bunch of tickets, but. So I'm going to have to keep waiting because I feel like it's worth it, I would think to see it in a larger aspect ratio, but I don't know. You saw it in the standard aspect ratio again or the. Yeah. Not IMAX aspect ratio. [00:08:52] Speaker D: It's very carefully filmed. [00:08:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:55] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean it does also feel like one of those movies that you should probably see, but you can see it in two months. [00:09:02] Speaker C: Yeah, I figured it's still going to be in the theater in a month or so, I think, but. [00:09:07] Speaker A: And like, there's probably not a lot of spoilers. Everybody knows what happened. [00:09:10] Speaker E: Yeah, right. [00:09:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of like the Titanic. It was like, what do we think [00:09:14] Speaker D: is going to happen 3,000 years? You haven't seen Earth. [00:09:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I did. I did write my senator when the Titanic came out and talked about how Hollywood. This was such a travesty that we had a chance to remake history and this time it was going to make it. And then I complained about something like 1200 extras dying during the making of this film. And I got a letter back like, thank you. We're always interested in your opinion. Sincerely, Mark. You don't. Whoever it was, Tim Worth, I can't remember but [00:09:52] Speaker A: that's an important thing to write here. Congress critters about. [00:09:55] Speaker B: Let them know. [00:09:59] Speaker C: Trying to think what else. No, I've not seen that. Mostly been xeriscaping our lawn. Front lawn. It's mostly done. And then we had a car run into our yard over the weekend and hit our electric pedestal. That was a fun, fun time. But they didn't do too much damage so we fixed a little bit. I don't know. Now I'm going to install security cameras in our. In front of our house. Cuz I didn't have footage of it. [00:10:24] Speaker B: No, they were gone. They left. [00:10:26] Speaker C: Yeah. And hit some other houses along the way and cops started. Yeah. Speeding and. And then when one of the cops came, we're like, oh, you know, how's you doing? He's like, oh, another night in Lawont. [00:10:37] Speaker F: That's. [00:10:38] Speaker C: That's kind of true. [00:10:38] Speaker B: What was it Friday or Saturday night there. [00:10:43] Speaker C: Saturday night, yeah. Yeah. And at like 10:30 is. [00:10:48] Speaker D: Wow. [00:10:49] Speaker C: Yeah. All the tires apparently were flat. I don't know, it's. [00:10:53] Speaker B: They still got away. [00:10:55] Speaker C: Still got away from what? I know. But I have a case number. I have to check in on it. Let's see. Went to Santa Fe couple weeks ago. That was fun. Drove through Taos on the way back. It was neat. [00:11:10] Speaker B: And then. [00:11:11] Speaker C: Yeah. Been watching movies. I think my favorite so far this year has been Obsession. [00:11:16] Speaker B: It's great. [00:11:17] Speaker C: It's really good. [00:11:18] Speaker B: So good. [00:11:19] Speaker C: Although I really did like, send help. Hokum is really good. All the horror movies this year have been excellent. [00:11:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:28] Speaker C: Yeah. But I have some others on my list. Backrooms. And I'm gonna watch Kate. I've been watching the Cape Fear TV show on Apple tv. [00:11:36] Speaker B: What'd you think? [00:11:37] Speaker C: I'm, like, working my way through it, but I want to see the. The movie. So I have. [00:11:43] Speaker D: Which version? [00:11:44] Speaker C: I have both to see. The 62. Yeah. And then we've been watching Twin Peaks, Alexa. So we just finished season one of Twin Peaks, which is awesome. [00:11:57] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:11:57] Speaker C: I've never seen that show before. [00:11:58] Speaker A: Go down the rabbit hole. [00:12:01] Speaker C: Yeah. We're loving it, so it's really fun. So anyway, yeah, it's kind of what we've been up to, you know. [00:12:06] Speaker A: A movie I watched recently for the first time was Romancing the Stone. [00:12:11] Speaker B: Wow. [00:12:11] Speaker A: And I was like, oh, man, that's pretty great. Oh, man, what a classic. And 90 minutes. [00:12:19] Speaker B: There you go. Yep. [00:12:22] Speaker A: But I had never seen it. But yeah, it's. What was that, like, 80? [00:12:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:27] Speaker A: Four, 85. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Cheerful. One, two. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. I just. I don't know, it was. It's like just that. I don't know, 80s cheese. I don't know. It's. It was great and it was funny and it was like, I don't know, not like. Yeah, your typical, like, romance, whatever. [00:12:46] Speaker B: It was a huge movie. When it came. [00:12:47] Speaker D: It was. [00:12:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I believe it. Yeah. I was like, listening to another podcast and the. The hosts were like, you know what movie really holds up? [00:12:55] Speaker B: Wow. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Romancing the Stone. And I was like, I haven't watched that yet. And then. Yeah, we watched it a couple weeks ago. It was so great. It was like one of those things where I was like, still thinking about it the next day. [00:13:05] Speaker B: Right. [00:13:06] Speaker A: Which is, you know, that's something, I guess. [00:13:09] Speaker F: List. [00:13:09] Speaker A: Yeah, you should. It's. It's just. Yeah. It's a classic. I don't get the Michael Douglas, like, thing though. Like the Michael Douglas attraction yeah, that's. That's, like, sort of what I'm picking up on is, like, he was. He was. Was such a huge. But, like, as a. As a, like, heterosexual woman, I. I don't understand it. Like, I look at him and I go. I don't get the appeal. You know what I mean? [00:13:33] Speaker B: People just wanted to use him to get to his dad. [00:13:40] Speaker D: His dad was an old man then. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. [00:13:43] Speaker A: Anyway, I was just like, I don't know. I don't know about this, but whatever. Otherwise, it was great. It was great. Um. Yeah. New and good with me. Nothing really that exciting. I did a bike race on Sunday. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Nice. [00:13:54] Speaker A: And I didn't die. Even though it was super hot. It was like, 90. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Wow. [00:13:57] Speaker A: Yeah, 90. [00:13:58] Speaker B: Brutal. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Somewhere between 95 and 97 when I crossed the finish line. [00:14:02] Speaker B: Bad air. [00:14:03] Speaker A: The air was not great. It was not as bad as it, like, could have been, but it was not. It was not great. So. But, yeah, didn't die. Had a lot of fun, did it? Done. [00:14:13] Speaker D: Cool. [00:14:14] Speaker A: Moving on. So, yeah, that's. I'm just excited that it's. It's over with and it's, like, one less thing for me to, like, have going in the cause. I didn't, like, really train that hard for it either, unlike last year, so I was a little anxious about it, but it was fine and it was fun. So, yeah, otherwise. Yeah, nothing that exciting. [00:14:33] Speaker D: So. [00:14:36] Speaker A: Cool. All right, let's get into the music. This is a music podcast, not a movies podcast. I'm sorry, guys. [00:14:43] Speaker C: Also say, I'm glad Spain won. Oh, my God, I forgot that's what I've been up to the last month was. Yeah, that is almost every single World cup game. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:53] Speaker A: I talked to. All of my web developers at work are in Argentina, and I was talking to one of them yesterday, and I was like, I'm sorry for your loss. And the conspiracy theories just start rolling out. [00:15:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:15:08] Speaker A: Apparently the Internet's full of it. I don't know, because I am not in that corner of the Internet that [00:15:12] Speaker B: is soccer, but of. [00:15:14] Speaker C: Against. Against Argentina. Like, it was like that there. [00:15:18] Speaker A: There was a conspiracy to, like, get them to lose. Like, it was fixed. [00:15:22] Speaker B: It was rigged the other way around. [00:15:24] Speaker A: And I was like, I don't know. Yeah, I agree. I was rooting for Spain as well, because it's just like, come on, you guys won last time. [00:15:35] Speaker B: And in the way they behaved at the end. Oh, my God. Just like, now I hate you guys right now. I'm so happy. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Now everybody's actively rooting against you the Yank. The. [00:15:45] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:15:46] Speaker A: Of the national. Of the international soccer. [00:15:49] Speaker B: He was cool. He just sat back. Yeah. [00:15:52] Speaker C: Watched. Yeah. [00:15:53] Speaker B: But the other ones. [00:15:54] Speaker D: Oh, my God. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:56] Speaker B: One shot on goal. Is that what they had? [00:15:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:59] Speaker C: In 120 minutes. [00:16:00] Speaker B: So it's a conspiracy, right? [00:16:02] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:16:03] Speaker A: Look at the stats. I don't know. [00:16:04] Speaker B: It should have been five. Nothing, right? They lucked out. [00:16:08] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Yeah. It was funny because somebody asked me, they're like, who do you think's going to win? And I'm like, well, probably Argentina. Because it's like, it's Argentina. And then they were like, well, they didn't. I was like, anyway. But yeah, okay. All right, now let's do music. [00:16:22] Speaker C: We can do a. Start a soccer podcast later. All right. The first song on the list is called My Only by Laia Benjamin. [00:16:34] Speaker A: It's. I think it's Lakisha. [00:16:35] Speaker C: Lakisha. [00:16:36] Speaker A: Oops. [00:16:36] Speaker C: Lakisha Benjamin and Sean Jones. [00:19:48] Speaker E: Sa. [00:22:32] Speaker C: That was My Only by Lakeisha Benjamin and Sean Jones. [00:22:37] Speaker D: Don't know what which is which, but classic quintet sound. Really good musicianship. I liked it a lot. So who's. Who? [00:22:51] Speaker A: Lakeisha is the band leader and the saxophone. Alto saxophone player. And it's off of her latest album. I don't know who Sean is. I'm not sure. 100% sure. That was my guess. I didn't look at, like, the credits on the song, but I was gonna guess trumpet player, given the arrangement of the tune. [00:23:13] Speaker D: Yeah. But very classic. [00:23:15] Speaker A: I don't know his name. Yeah. [00:23:19] Speaker C: Sounded familiar but not familiar at the same time. [00:23:22] Speaker A: Oh, that's a good. I feel like that's a good way to describe it. [00:23:24] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Because it's like. It does kind of have, like that classic structure and sound, but it's got some elements to it that are not classic. [00:23:33] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:23:34] Speaker B: I think the last time I was here, you had a Pat Metheny. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, probably. [00:23:39] Speaker B: And it. There was, for some reason, remind me. Tiny bit, but a tiny bit, but not at all. I mean, the bass line, maybe. And I just felt, yeah, maybe. But I really liked it. Yeah. [00:23:56] Speaker C: I thought the solos were great there. I think maybe a minute or two when there was, like, so much going on at the same time. And I was like, okay, what's happening here? I don't know if I like that part of it, but maybe I just need another lesson or be in a better jazz mood. [00:24:13] Speaker A: Better jazz. Yeah. Yeah. So Lakeisha Benjamin is. Yes. Alto sax player. Bandleader. I think she started playing with Clark Terry back in the day. She's from New York. But she also toured with like Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott and like played instrumentals for some of their stuff as well. But. But yeah, now she mostly does jazz. But like, this album's interesting because it's. I mean this song sounds like pretty kind of classic. Classic in a way. There's like some sort of like non classic elements woven in. Some like samples and stuff that are kind of interesting. But like some of the other tracks on this album, like there's some like spoken word stuff like over music that's kind of interesting. There's a lot of like just kind of different sounding stuff. It's not all like straightforward jazz or whatever. But yeah, I. Yeah, I just heard this on the radio, like driving home one morning and I like. It was one of those ones where I could like kind of hear it and then I turned it up because I was like, ooh, that sounds really good. And it just kind of caught me. I love the solos in it. They're so good. Like what Eric was saying, the music musicianship is apparent when you listen to it. It's really, really great. Yeah. Actually I shared this. I think I shared this at. With some of my co workers maybe and somebody was saying that they got snarky puppy vibes from some of it, which I could kind of. I can kind of hear that too. So. And I know I brought. Or no, Eric brought Snarky Puppy at some point. Yeah, I think. [00:25:58] Speaker D: But you brought us. [00:25:59] Speaker A: Oh, right. That's right. I brought. Yeah, like the spin off group with the, with the drummers. Like that wasn't too long ago, maybe like a month ago or six weeks ago. Yeah. So anyway. Yeah, that's my song. [00:26:13] Speaker C: There were some like hip hop samples in there maybe or like that, like. [00:26:17] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I think, I think at least a couple. One or two of the tracks on this album I think has some like hip hop woven into it too. [00:26:25] Speaker C: Okay. [00:26:26] Speaker A: It's pretty interesting. It's a good album. I think. It just came out this year and she's been nominated for a bunch of Grammys too. Like a ton. I don't. Can't remember. I think she might have won one maybe for her last album or a song on her last album. [00:26:39] Speaker B: But yeah, I thought listening to it, I thought about driving through the city at night and I think it'd be the perfect place to listen to. [00:26:50] Speaker A: Yeah. In the city. Yeah. No, that's. That's good. That's solid. That's a good point. It does have that vibe for sure. Yeah. [00:26:59] Speaker C: Put in your next film when you're driving. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:02] Speaker A: Right, yeah. [00:27:03] Speaker B: See if I can license that. Yeah, yeah, I'll rip it off. [00:27:10] Speaker A: Cool. [00:27:11] Speaker C: All right. On to. Thanks for bringing that, Naomi. All right, this next song, whoever chose it wants to kill me with how to say this title. [00:27:21] Speaker D: That's John. I know. It's Johnny. [00:27:24] Speaker C: All right. Presen colinen si ne ninki usol. No idea. Is that how you say it? [00:27:32] Speaker B: I tried. I looked up how to say it. [00:27:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:35] Speaker B: And it was. It was impossible. [00:27:37] Speaker C: This looks like a Spanish tongue twister. [00:27:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it's Italian. [00:27:41] Speaker C: Oh, it's Italian. Okay. Present Colin by Adriano Celentano. [00:27:50] Speaker D: Yep. [00:27:50] Speaker C: Okay. [00:27:51] Speaker D: Okay. [00:27:52] Speaker C: All right, here we go for this one. [00:27:53] Speaker B: There we go. [00:27:56] Speaker C: Reason Cole n you the cold maze and calling. All right. [00:28:35] Speaker E: Winner saying the shoes now will hold building scene in a horrible. Maybe get the color boss dying well it's the same age you can't be seen you never tell me this year you come and not choose not so horrible this game. All but liver sustain light is shoes ago my man you would cast to the match called the raid girls over Sunday. Say [00:29:28] Speaker F: all right. [00:29:51] Speaker D: Go. [00:30:07] Speaker E: And feel. Unicorn made say one piece in combination I choose on. [00:30:17] Speaker D: All right. [00:30:44] Speaker F: All right. [00:31:11] Speaker A: Sam. [00:31:47] Speaker C: I don't even. I'm not even gonna try. That's a song. A long song title by Adriano Celentano. [00:31:56] Speaker A: I have a use case for this song. This is what I was picturing the whole time. So the spider. [00:32:02] Speaker D: Oh, [00:32:04] Speaker A: he's sitting on your. Your mirror. And you're, like, driving one of those, like, shitty roads in Colorado. Like, the cement block roads where, like, you hit. You hit the thing. Every, like, kind of 17th going west kind of is like that as you're going into hygiene. And so, like. But he's, like, kind of bouncing on the mirror and he's got, like, a hat on. Probably I'm picturing a cowboy hat, but it could be any kind of hat. And he's kind of like, riding with the sun, like, going in the background. And like, every time you, like, hit one of those things is like when one of the, like, drum beat drops. But it's like his cruising song. I don't know what the hell it's about, but, like, that's. [00:32:42] Speaker B: I think that's what it was. [00:32:43] Speaker A: That's what I'm picturing is, like, spider, like, kind of cruising. And like, maybe it's like all the things that he's seeing on the drive. That's your film. Boom. [00:32:52] Speaker B: It is. [00:32:52] Speaker A: I expect credits in the ending, but [00:32:56] Speaker D: very good script by producer credit. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Yeah, producer credit. Please. That's what I was picturing the whole time. [00:33:05] Speaker B: Creative. Creative credit. [00:33:06] Speaker A: But I have a lot of questions, but I don't know. Eric, do you want to say? I have so many questions. [00:33:12] Speaker D: John and I were talking about it [00:33:13] Speaker B: before, but maybe we should let Sergio go next. [00:33:15] Speaker A: Yes, we should, because Eric has. Inside. [00:33:17] Speaker B: We talked about it. [00:33:18] Speaker C: Oh, inside scoop. Oh, shit. Oops. That's against the tequila. [00:33:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it's fine. [00:33:26] Speaker C: I honestly did not. I did not know what to expect. I did not expect this at all. It's kind of like genre mashing. And I really enjoyed it, though. I was imagining Eddington, the movie Eddington, or, like, some modern cowboys or. I don't know, just. Yeah, that was a wild ride. I really liked it. I don't know what else to say about it. And I'm also very confused. [00:33:52] Speaker B: It'll get. It'll get wilder in a second. [00:33:55] Speaker D: Yeah, John and I were talking about it before we got here, and it's just gibberish. [00:34:03] Speaker A: Yeah, that's sort of what I assume. [00:34:05] Speaker B: Total gibberish. [00:34:07] Speaker A: My thought was like, they took a bunch of words and then just took out a couple of letters out of the words, and then they were. That's how they, like, came up with what to say. But. [00:34:14] Speaker B: Well, he's an Italian singer who couldn't learn English, and this is what English sounds like to him. And it's been in a couple films. Like, they had it. Well, they had it in a Fargo TV series. They also. In the Winter Olympics this year in Italy. They all came out dancing to it, the Italian team. And it was. It was pretty amazing, but it's just complete gibberish. And he said, that's what English sounds like to me. He can't learn it. And. And the. Yeah, but it. But it charted in Europe. It was. Was a big hit in Europe and is still. Still around. Still gets popped into soundtracks here and there. [00:35:00] Speaker A: I want to, like, see somebody sing along to it. [00:35:02] Speaker B: You should. You've got to see the music video for this. [00:35:05] Speaker D: Oh, there's. [00:35:06] Speaker B: There's a video of a guy singing it. He's like a teacher in class. Just starts, and the kids are all with him on it. So it's pretty good. [00:35:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Because I feel like the. I would love to see. Does he perform this live? Does he sing it the same way every time? Is like. [00:35:26] Speaker B: Good question. I don't know. Because I don't think you can even write it down. [00:35:30] Speaker A: Right. Because that's sort of like my interpretation. Like, the second you hear it, you're like, yeah, this is. This is not a language. [00:35:38] Speaker B: I heard it described as 80s Bob Dylan. [00:35:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Who could understand what he was. [00:35:49] Speaker A: No, I agree. It's like 80s Bob Dylan trying to do like an Elvis impression. [00:35:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:57] Speaker C: Is the whole album like this? [00:36:00] Speaker B: Just this one song. [00:36:01] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Just this one song. [00:36:03] Speaker C: Everything else. [00:36:04] Speaker B: That's probably the most famous thing he has ever done. [00:36:06] Speaker D: Wow. Huh. I would think he retired on this one. [00:36:12] Speaker B: We have to pay a heavy royalty to him for using it. [00:36:15] Speaker E: Right. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's wild. What a. What an interesting thing. When did it. When did he record it? [00:36:22] Speaker B: It's like 72. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Okay. [00:36:24] Speaker D: Wow. Yeah, you can hear those segments that sound a lot like English. [00:36:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:31] Speaker B: Like a word. I'm kind of familiar with that word. [00:36:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Where you're like, wait a minute, is it. Is it like a real language? And then you're like, no, it's not. It can't be. [00:36:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:41] Speaker C: Actually it reminded also of Twin Peaks when in season one where you see the red room when they're speaking backwards a little bit like that. And I was like, yeah. Is he taking speaking Italian backwards? [00:36:53] Speaker B: Maybe. Well, imagine writing. You know, you're writing lyrics, you're trying to rhyme, but the words don't need to rhyme, just the sounds. [00:37:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:02] Speaker D: Right. [00:37:02] Speaker B: So. [00:37:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:37:04] Speaker C: Wow. [00:37:05] Speaker A: Man. Wild. That's really interesting. That's an interesting one, John. [00:37:10] Speaker B: It's a strange one. [00:37:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:12] Speaker B: It's like my latest film. [00:37:13] Speaker E: Totally. [00:37:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, you know when you make the spider movie. [00:37:17] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:37:18] Speaker A: You've got a soundtrack for the. For the driving scenes. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Spider movie is going to be three hours long on 70 millimeters. [00:37:26] Speaker C: Knocks no, I'm stopping. [00:37:28] Speaker B: And it's only going to be a side view mirror. [00:37:31] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's all about him trying to get home. [00:37:33] Speaker B: That's right. Sometimes he's eating a yellow jacket. Yep. Hanging on for dear life. [00:37:41] Speaker A: Just trying to get home to his lady. Cool. All right, well, what's next? [00:37:47] Speaker C: All right, next. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Good luck topping that. [00:37:50] Speaker C: Well, next song. I hope no one gets offended by this one. This song is titled People Are still having Sex by Latour. Has anyone heard this song? [00:38:03] Speaker B: Nope. [00:38:03] Speaker A: No, I know Latour, but I don't know if I've heard. I've had another song. [00:38:07] Speaker C: All right, well, here we go. People are so having sex by Latour. [00:38:40] Speaker A: Hello, lover. And now I'm another. And now I'm another. [00:39:06] Speaker F: Have you noticed that people are still having sex? All the denouncement had absolutely no effect. Parents and counselors constantly scorned them. But people are still having sex and nothing seems to stop them. [00:39:26] Speaker A: Hello, lover. [00:39:34] Speaker F: Hello, lover do you realize that people are still having sex? They've been told not to Perhaps they They are perplexed when you see them holding hands they're making future plans to engage in the activity do you understand me? People are still having sex Lust keeps on lurking Nothing makes them stop this aids things not working People are still having sex it's been going on for quite a while Perhaps it's quite fashionable it hasn't gone out of style. It's a fact that people are still having sex it's rather obvious it's just what one expects the evidence is all around that everyone in every town has had it one time or another in their life at this very moment people are still having sex In a downtown condo or street in the projects Although you can't see them or hear their breathing sounds Someone in this world old is having sex right now People are still having sex People are still having sex People are still having sex [00:41:19] Speaker B: People [00:41:20] Speaker F: are still having sex. [00:41:36] Speaker A: Sam. [00:42:09] Speaker B: Sex, sex, sex, sex. [00:42:40] Speaker F: People are still having sex Lust keeps on lurking Nothing makes them stop this AIDS things not working People are still having sex it's been going on for quite a while Perhaps it's quite fashionable it hasn't gone out of style People are still having sex People are still having sex People are still having sex People are still having sex Sex [00:43:29] Speaker C: that was People Are Still Having Sex. If you didn't catch the title, is [00:43:34] Speaker A: that what it's called? Are We Sure? [00:43:36] Speaker C: I'm pretty sure. By Latour. [00:43:39] Speaker B: Latour. [00:43:42] Speaker D: Wow. [00:43:43] Speaker A: The first thing I thought of was I danced to a lot of jock jams when I was in elementary school. And this is like the song that they couldn't have us dance to. We were like seven years old. It was like, this is the one where they were like, you can play everything on the CD for the warm up. Except for this one. [00:44:03] Speaker D: Is that 80s? [00:44:05] Speaker C: It came out in 91. [00:44:06] Speaker B: Wow. [00:44:06] Speaker C: 90, 91. [00:44:08] Speaker A: Yeah. That would have been like prime. Prime dance class time for me too. Jock jams. [00:44:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:14] Speaker A: It's funny because when you said it, I was like, I feel like I might know this song. [00:44:18] Speaker D: Huh? [00:44:18] Speaker A: And it kind of sounded a little bit familiar, but it might just be because it's like, so vaguely reminiscent of. Of other jock tubes. [00:44:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:28] Speaker A: It was all over the place. Like, why was there Toccata and fugue? Like 3/4 of the way the song. I feel like it could have just benefited from, like, more early 90s sampling. Like, why are we sampling organ and piano? But. Or I think it was maybe Harpsichord. [00:44:46] Speaker D: The second one, it had that sort of house vibe. [00:44:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:49] Speaker D: But it was also just weird. It sounded to me like obscure British group that nobody will know called Heaven 17. Heaven 17 did a song called Crushed by the Wheels Industry [00:45:09] Speaker B: while having sex. [00:45:12] Speaker D: And they did this whole anti fascist industrial thing. And it sounded like that, except it was talking about people still having sex. So it was weird. I kind of liked it. [00:45:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it was like, oh, remember the early 90s? [00:45:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:31] Speaker A: It made me a little nostalgic. [00:45:34] Speaker B: I thought the vocals were really good. I liked that spoken word sort of announcement. [00:45:39] Speaker A: Very Jock Jams. [00:45:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, Yeah. [00:45:43] Speaker A: I liked the beat. I just didn't like the organ in the harpsichord part. I was just like, no, pick something else from the sample menu. You've got all these choices. Pick that one instead. [00:45:58] Speaker D: The reason I thought it was 80s is because they were talking about AIDS. [00:46:02] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:46:03] Speaker B: But it was early 90s. [00:46:04] Speaker A: It was early 90s. [00:46:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:06] Speaker A: I was thinking now, I was like, does Gen Z know about the AIDS crisis? Like, probably not. [00:46:12] Speaker B: They're not having sex, though, right? I mean, isn't that what they say? They're just not. [00:46:17] Speaker C: Jen's Made. That's the name of the next song. [00:46:20] Speaker A: People are still having sex. [00:46:23] Speaker B: They only have it once. [00:46:26] Speaker D: They don't like it, they don't do it again. [00:46:28] Speaker A: Just, like, feel bad for the person in the club when the song comes on. And, like, they're the ones who are not having sex and they're like, oh, yeah, not me. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Yeah. They're looking up at the townhouses. It's all going on up there. [00:46:46] Speaker D: Yep. [00:46:47] Speaker A: It's also just, like, kind of funny to think about this song coming out in the club and everybody's dancing and it's just like, wait a minute, what are we dancing to? Yeah, interesting. [00:46:57] Speaker D: What am I here for? Right. [00:46:59] Speaker A: Yeah. Right. [00:47:00] Speaker C: Yeah. I heard the song on the radio on 1023 Indy 1023 at night. And I was like, what is this? And I thought it was AI. I was like, oh, they're playing an AI song. What? And then I was like, oh, shit. No, it's from the 90s. [00:47:13] Speaker B: Wow. [00:47:14] Speaker C: And, yeah, this. I wasn't paying attention to the vocals until I was. I was like, okay. But, yeah, it was written, you know, I brought notes today. [00:47:24] Speaker A: All right. [00:47:25] Speaker B: Wow. [00:47:25] Speaker C: So, yeah, it was A song was written and performed by William Latour. Released In March of 1991, it reached number one on both the US and Canadian dance charts and peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number 15 on the UK singles chart. Latour spent 11 years as a production director in radio, starring as a DJ in Phoenix before moving to Chicago. The song almost took off by accident. A Detroit radio station got a cassette copy and started playing it, and it quickly became the station's most requested track. The controversy, which you could probably imagine is it was one of the first club dance tracks to talk openly about the AIDS epidemic. Latour said the reaction was about 95% positive, with the rest negative, specifically because the lyrics mention aids. So that key line about comparing lust to a health crisis that isn't working as a deterrent had to be changed for radio airplay to a softer, safe sex reference instead. And then I guess someone even asked, like, if it was even allowed to be broadcast. But let's see, it was. Figure skater Tanya Harding used it as her performance. [00:48:49] Speaker B: Wow. [00:48:49] Speaker C: Music in the 1992 Winter Olympics, huh? And there's a. Yeah. Memorable break in the track, featuring an organ riff that many listeners have noted sounds like Box Toccata. People have long wondered whether that classical sounding melody is an actual sample or an original composition. [00:49:10] Speaker B: That's. [00:49:11] Speaker C: That's the fun. That's all I know. That's all I have. [00:49:14] Speaker D: Wow. [00:49:16] Speaker C: Only one album and I listened to the entire thing. It was. [00:49:20] Speaker D: It's. [00:49:20] Speaker C: I mean, it's EDM focused, 90s EDM. But it's a fun. It's a fun play if you want to listen to some old school. [00:49:28] Speaker B: So he's a DJ and he has that trained voice. [00:49:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes sense. I want to watch this Tanya Harding performance. I want to do [00:49:41] Speaker B: skating around with a baseball bat in her hand. [00:49:46] Speaker A: Why? [00:49:51] Speaker D: Cool. All right. [00:49:52] Speaker C: The last song of the evening is called Facil Batiste by John Batiste. Here we go. [00:51:57] Speaker F: Sa. [00:54:57] Speaker C: That was facile batiste by john batiste. It reminded me of, like, a. Like a toy music box or like a ballerina. I got, like, that vibe and that sound from it. For some reason, [00:55:17] Speaker B: I just kept thinking of his fingers, you know, and he's going. He's doing it. And how some of the keys were perfect, but he's throwing discordant notes in there that are just kind of almost. There's some discordancy in there. And it was. It was just so cool. And then there was one point, like, if I listen to it again, it seemed like it, like, is something. Like, if you were an amazing piano player, like, he was. He would sit down and start playing that, and then you would just start taking and going somewhere else. Because he did start to do something Different. Which is like, whoa. That is. Keep going with that, you know? But I thought. Yeah. [00:55:59] Speaker D: Mel, do you know what. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:01] Speaker D: Piano Concerto. That is. [00:56:02] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think what I was sort of torn between, like, this is driving me crazy, because I know how it's supposed to go and, like, how, like, unbelievably creative it is, too, at the same time to be able to do that. I mean, I think what's really interesting is, like, I feel like a lot of time not. I don't want to. I guess I don't really want to generalize, but I feel like a lot of times you have piano players that's, like, you either play classical music or you, like, play pop or jazz or something like that. There's not, like, often a lot of crossover. So a lot of, like, piano players are maybe trained classically, but then they kind of, like, Boop. By Seal and then they go to something else. And I think what's kind of interesting is that it's like, it's taking something that's so well known that so many people know and just so effortless, effortlessly turning it into something original. Like, it doesn't sound forced at all. [00:56:59] Speaker B: No. [00:57:00] Speaker A: And I think, like, my brain was kind of, like. It just kept stumbling because it was, like, expecting what was coming next, which I think, for somebody who knows the concerto is, like, that's cool, right? Cause it's, like, total. Like, your brain is just, like, jumping around. For somebody who maybe doesn't know it, it probably just. It sounds like an awesome, really cool virtuoso piano piece. But I think, yeah, for me, it was like. It almost had me, like, hanging on every note because I was like, what is he gonna do with the next section? Or whatever? Which I think is kind of cool. And it did make it really kind of original. And I don't know how much of that is really out there. I don't know how many people are, [00:57:43] Speaker D: like, anybody who's doing it now. [00:57:46] Speaker A: Doing that now. [00:57:47] Speaker D: Yeah, this album has a lot of that. [00:57:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I feel like I saw his CBS Sunday Morning interview where he was talking about this album maybe. Cause I think I remember him maybe talking about some of this stuff. [00:58:01] Speaker C: Did it just come out, or is that new? [00:58:03] Speaker D: No, it's fairly new, but within the last year anyway. [00:58:09] Speaker A: The one thing that kind of made me a little crazy is you can hear the, like, pedal dampener. [00:58:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:58:14] Speaker A: In the recording, it's like, that's such a minor thing. But, like, I don't know. For some reason, I just kept being like, I Wish I didn't hear that. [00:58:23] Speaker B: I did think that it sound. It didn't sound like one of these amazing pianos. [00:58:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:31] Speaker B: Sounded like the piano my music teacher had in high school, you know, just the upright, you know. [00:58:38] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm curious. Maybe it wasn't the dampener, maybe it was something else. I don't know. That's what it sounded like to me. But yeah. I wonder what piano he recorded on. [00:58:48] Speaker D: Yeah, dunno. [00:58:49] Speaker A: It's definitely. Yeah, it didn't sound like. Yeah, like one of those, like big concert steinways that you might hear. Anyway, maybe it was a kawaii. I don't know. Now I'm curious. Anyway, sorry, Eric, go ahead, you can talk about your song. [00:59:05] Speaker D: John Batiste, musical genius, Juilliard trained bandleader for Stephen Colbert. Got freed from that and is doing sort of remarkable stuff, promoting New Orleans style music and has the ability to do this crossover stuff and is sort of blowing up really big right now on tour. And he's just an amazing musician. [00:59:36] Speaker A: Yeah. It's interesting because the title of the song does not mean like easy. [00:59:41] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:59:42] Speaker A: So is it. I just wonder like what that means, like what. What the interpretation is of that. [00:59:49] Speaker D: Yeah. Don't know. But something to find out. But anyway, he's got an album of this stuff and it's pretty remarkable. [00:59:57] Speaker A: Yeah. I want to listen to more of this. [00:59:59] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:00:00] Speaker A: I follow his wife Salika quite a bit because she. She's a cancer survivor. Um, and like she has her whole. She has like a whole following, like book she's written and stuff. But when I worked at a cancer hospital, we like tried to book her for a talk once. So I've like, followed her a lot. There's. Their story is very sweet and sort of what he. How he supported her through her treatment and everything. But. Yeah, this is a good one. I like it. I haven't. I. Yeah, I think I saw that. I think it was maybe when this album came out, that CBS Sunday morning interview. Remember him sitting at the piano, like noodling around while they were interviewing him? Yeah. [01:00:48] Speaker D: And I saw him a few weeks ago doing a house concert in somebody's backyard in upstate New York. [01:00:57] Speaker A: Wow. [01:00:57] Speaker D: And it was like, whoa, what did you pay for that? [01:01:00] Speaker A: Yeah, how do I get that lined up? How much does that cost? Right. One of my co workers, like randomly recently was telling me he was looking into booking Jack Johnson for. [01:01:13] Speaker B: Wow. [01:01:13] Speaker A: Like an anniversary. And it like was not. It was like 15 grand. Like it wasn't as much as like you would think it would be or whatever. [01:01:22] Speaker B: Jack Johnson needs something to do. [01:01:25] Speaker C: Yeah, well, they can just get. What was that band? That was. [01:01:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he's buddies with G Love. [01:01:29] Speaker D: G Love. [01:01:29] Speaker C: We just get G Love again. [01:01:31] Speaker B: Wow. Wow. [01:01:32] Speaker A: Same stuff. Cool. Thanks, Eric. Thanks, everybody for the great music tonight. Should we do a plug for the podcast fundraiser? [01:01:42] Speaker C: Oh, sure. Yes. [01:01:43] Speaker D: Yes. [01:01:44] Speaker C: If you're listening, we're doing a podcast fundraiser trying to raise 24,000. We're currently at 55% of the way there, so we'd love your support to upgrade this room so we can move upstairs and help amplify more local voices. And yeah, we'd love your support. You can go check out lawnmowerpublicmedia.org podcast studio fundraiser. We can include the link in the YouTube video. 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