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Attack of the Killer Soundtrack: Me and KG · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: Guess who?
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  Speaker 2: It's 10 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Do you care where your parents are?
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  Speaker 3: The following feature has been rated R by the Motion
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  Speaker 3: Picture Association of America.
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  Speaker 4: It is intended for mature audiences and parental discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 5: The Coast Guard.
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  Speaker 1: And the Navy have been alerted and are standing by
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  Speaker 1: on the eastern seaboard.
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  Speaker 3: It continues to burn out of control.
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  Speaker 6: It has been regular.
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  Speaker 7: Every five to ten minutes there has been another convoy
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  Speaker 7: of units, fire companies, paramedics.
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  Speaker 8: A citywide emergency has been declared.
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  Speaker 4: Police officers are still on tactical full alert.
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  Speaker 2: 2,000 National Guardsmen are standing by.
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  Speaker 9: Air defense warning read. It's time for Movie Meltdown's Attack
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  Speaker 9: of the Killers soundtrack.
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  Speaker 2: Live transmission has begun, and we're into the final.
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  Speaker 1: Hour of hell.
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  Speaker 8: What's up? Welcome to Movie Meltdown's Attack of the Killers soundtrack.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Brian, and I'm coming to you live via digital
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  Speaker 8: recording from the outskirts of Lebowski Fest. In fact, you
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  Speaker 8: may be able to hear some of the music going
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  Speaker 8: on at the festival right now. So anyway, as some
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  Speaker 8: of you may already know, if you've been listening for
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  Speaker 8: a while, we've already done an episode from Lebowski Fest
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  Speaker 8: in the previous year, so I felt like we'd already
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  Speaker 8: kind of covered a regular, basic version. And as it
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  Speaker 8: was coming around again, I didn't want to do anything
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  Speaker 8: too similar. But now that we also have this new spin-off,
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  Speaker 8: music-themed show, well, it gives us a whole new way
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  Speaker 8: to address the festivities, and especially if we can work
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  Speaker 8: in a guest. But we'll get to him in a minute.
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  Speaker 8: But first up, Now, if you listen to that episode
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  Speaker 8: from a few years back, it's one of those I
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  Speaker 8: don't normally like to hit the nail squarely on the head.
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  Speaker 8: I like to do things a little different, as we
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  Speaker 8: did last time at Lebowski Fest, talking about something entirely different.
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  Speaker 8: So normally I wouldn't come to something like Lebowski Fest
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  Speaker 8: and then play a song from The Big Lebowski. But
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  Speaker 8: in this circumstance, I'm going to make an exception because,
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  Speaker 8: number one, I do have to admit, The Big Lebowski
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  Speaker 8: has an awesome soundtrack. And number two, I love this song.
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  Speaker 8: Is there any other option? I mean, there's many great
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  Speaker 8: songs on there, but it's all about just dropped in
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  Speaker 8: to see what condition my condition was in.
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  Speaker 3: You're doing all right.
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  Speaker 8: This song is definitely the first time I came in
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  Speaker 8: contact with it, and really the first time I was
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  Speaker 8: exposed to the first edition of Obviously knew of Kenny
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  Speaker 8: Rogers in the past, but didn't even know he'd previously
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  Speaker 8: been in a band. It's one of those things, even
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  Speaker 8: when I was a kid, I was never really into
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  Speaker 8: country music. I mean, since then, I've come to respect
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  Speaker 8: some of the really older stuff. But just, you know,
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  Speaker 8: modern country now, definitely not. And even country when I
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  Speaker 8: was a kid just wasn't really what I was into.
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  Speaker 8: But it was funny. Over at my grandmother's house, there
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  Speaker 8: was this big double album. Yes, vinyl. and it was
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  Speaker 8: like a greatest hits of Kenny Rogers kind of thing,
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  Speaker 8: and I remember always going over there and going through
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  Speaker 8: their record albums, and I would always be fascinated with
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  Speaker 8: that one, and just this guy with the big beard
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  Speaker 8: and the white suit, and I don't know, there was
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  Speaker 8: something about him that seemed kind of cool, and I
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  Speaker 8: do remember listening to it. I remember playing those records
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  Speaker 8: a good amount, probably more than some of the other,
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  Speaker 8: God knows what else they had over there, but I
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  Speaker 8: specifically remember that one. And it was one of those, like,
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  Speaker 8: I think I pieced together why that was so different than,
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  Speaker 8: you know, stuff that would have been lumped in with
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  Speaker 8: that style of music at the time. I think, as
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  Speaker 8: my dad would later refer to it, I liked story songs.
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  Speaker 8: And maybe it's just being a kid, you know, you
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  Speaker 8: like when people tell you stories, or you like reading
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  Speaker 8: storybooks and things like that. So it's like, maybe that's
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  Speaker 8: what appealed to me so much as a kid, because
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  Speaker 8: I think back and like the ones that I remember
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  Speaker 8: so well were stuff like Coward of the County or
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  Speaker 8: Long Arm of the Law. And they were like very
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  Speaker 8: specific stories that he's telling. And, you know, he works
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  Speaker 8: in a musical theme and, you know, it's got, you know,
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  Speaker 8: a chorus along the way. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 8: he's telling a story more than anything else with a
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  Speaker 8: lot of those songs of that era. So I really
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  Speaker 8: do think that's kind of what I was into at
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  Speaker 8: that point. You know, that's what drew me to him. Well,
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  Speaker 8: that and the beard and the awesome suit. So it's
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  Speaker 8: one of those things, even though I wasn't into that
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  Speaker 8: type of music, he was an interesting character and still
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  Speaker 8: continues to be. I've certainly come to disagree with some
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  Speaker 8: of his surgical decisions in more recent years, but aside
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  Speaker 8: from that, musically, he's still pretty entertaining. So with that,
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  Speaker 8: I say we just go ahead and get into the song.
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  Speaker 8: Once again, hopefully you're familiar with it. If not, welcome
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  Speaker 8: to it. Just dropped in to see what condition my
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  Speaker 8: condition was in by the first edition.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what condition my condition was in.
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  Speaker 7: I woke up this morning with the sun down, shining in.
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  Speaker 7: I found my mind in a brown paper bag.
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  Speaker 8: But then.
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  Speaker 7: I tripped on a cloud and fell.
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  Speaker 11: Eight miles high.
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  Speaker 7: I tore my mind on a jagged sky. I just
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  Speaker 7: dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what condition my condition was in.
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  Speaker 7: I pushed my soul in a deep, dark hole and
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  Speaker 7: then I followed it in. I watched myself crawling out
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  Speaker 7: as I was crawling in. I got up so tight
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  Speaker 7: I couldn't unwind. I saw so much I broke my mind.
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  Speaker 7: I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
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  Speaker 7: was in.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what condition my condition was in.
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  Speaker 7: Someone painted April Fools in pink black letters on a
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  Speaker 7: dead end sign.
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  Speaker 12: I had my.
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  Speaker 7: Foot on the gas as I left the road and
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  Speaker 7: blew out my mind.
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  Speaker 10: Eight miles out of Memphis and I got nowhere.
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  Speaker 7: Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere. I just dropped in
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  Speaker 7: to see what condition my condition was in. I said
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  Speaker 7: I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
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  Speaker 7: was in.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah!
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  Speaker 11: Yeah!
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah!
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  Speaker 8: Oddly enough that song was originally recorded in 1967 by
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  Speaker 8: jerry lee lewis who is another now that one is
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  Speaker 8: one i am into like you know old school rock
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  Speaker 8: and roll i got into and and specifically jerry lee Again,
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  Speaker 8: another movie tie-in, Great Balls of Fire. But after that,
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  Speaker 8: I really sort of got into his whole catalog and
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  Speaker 8: was going back, you know, listening to a lot of
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  Speaker 8: his old stuff. It's funny, I don't remember running across
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  Speaker 8: that one until recently. And it was actually geared specifically
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  Speaker 8: for him originally. And he did record a version of it,
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  Speaker 8: but he rejected it. And it somehow got kicked over
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  Speaker 8: to the first edition. And it actually ended up being
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  Speaker 8: a big hit for them in 1968. And it's still
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  Speaker 8: probably the main thing they're known for. There are very
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  Speaker 8: weird lyrics in there, I'm sure you noticed, and it's
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  Speaker 8: funny to find out that it was meant to reflect
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  Speaker 8: the LSD experience and was intended to be a warning
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  Speaker 8: against the dangers of using LSD. So keep that in mind, kids.
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  Speaker 8: Don't let that happen to you. Certainly it's used very
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  Speaker 8: appropriately in The Big Lebowski, in that very special dream
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  Speaker 8: sequence that Jeff Bridges has.
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  Speaker 7: Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in
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  Speaker 7: sort of sun god robes on a pyramid with a
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  Speaker 7: thousand naked women screaming.
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  Speaker 13: And throwing little pickles at you?
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  Speaker 14: No.
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  Speaker 13: Why am I the only person that has that dream?
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  Speaker 8: Alright, so moving on to the big event for me.
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  Speaker 8: the guest of the episode, and the reason I really
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  Speaker 8: wanted to put this together, once they started putting the
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  Speaker 8: line up, I saw that they were bringing in the
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  Speaker 8: Kyle Gass band, KGB, and he's, I mean, Kyle, you
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  Speaker 8: gotta love Kyle, right? I mean, even if you don't
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  Speaker 8: know that much about him, and the one I thought about,
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  Speaker 8: I was like, well, that would be somebody I would
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  Speaker 8: like to sit down and talk to, because I know
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  Speaker 8: he's He's been acting for years in smaller roles and
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  Speaker 8: like find out how that started. Plus all, you know,
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  Speaker 8: the music career in several bands now and obviously the
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  Speaker 8: big Jack Black tie in. So, yeah, I was definitely
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  Speaker 8: like that's somebody I'd like to sit down and talk to.
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  Speaker 8: And then I was like, well, with him having such
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  Speaker 8: a heavy music influence, it would be really interesting to
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  Speaker 8: have him sit in and give us his killer five.
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  Speaker 8: So we're going to head in now and talk to Kyle,
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  Speaker 8: and we're going to get a little backstory on him
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  Speaker 8: as to how he got into music and movies, and
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  Speaker 8: then we will invite him to give us his killer five.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I like it better.
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  Speaker 9: Much better. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I can get more sweaty balls going.
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  Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Are we rolling? Are we ready?
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  Speaker 8: We are functional.
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  Speaker 15: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So this interview's actually started.
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  Speaker 8: It's ready to go if you are.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't even realize it. That's fantastic, Bri.
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  Speaker 8: We are here with KG himself.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 8: That's one of the first ones I wanted to ask.
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  Speaker 8: How long have you been KG? I mean, not that
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  Speaker 8: it doesn't, you know, apply, but like, It's weird when
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  Speaker 8: you get those kind of nicknames. I've been B in
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  Speaker 8: certain circles my whole damn life. Since I was a
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  Speaker 8: little kid. B. But only certain people call me that.
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  Speaker 8: So I was like, how long and in what circumstances
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  Speaker 8: have you been KG?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a tenacious D thing. I think Jack
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  Speaker 2: started calling me that early. But it becomes so familiar
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  Speaker 2: that if someone calls me KG, then I realize that
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  Speaker 2: they're actually not that close. It's like when someone says
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  Speaker 2: your name. That's right, Brian. That has a weird air
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  Speaker 2: of formality to it. So when someone says KG, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's probably a fan or something.
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  Speaker 8: You don't know me. Leave me alone.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. Kind of.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I guess to get into the music end of it,
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  Speaker 8: how early on did you get into the guitar scene?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there was a guitar laying around the house that
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone sort of took a crack at. And
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  Speaker 2: I started playing flute early and then picked up the
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  Speaker 2: guitar around 11 or 12 and enjoyed.
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  Speaker 8: Was it something that was still just for fun? Or
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  Speaker 8: was it serious enough that you thought, I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: turn this into a career?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. You know, that definitely, I mean, definitely for
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  Speaker 2: fun when you're 12 years old. It's just like you
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  Speaker 2: want to figure out. And then I actually got into
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  Speaker 2: kind of classical guitar and then started getting into jazz. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just playing for fun. But then at some point I
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  Speaker 2: had kind of a career strategy where I really, I just,
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  Speaker 2: I never wanted to work in an office or kind
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  Speaker 2: of have a straight job. And it just almost terrified
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  Speaker 2: me to the point it was a good kind of motivator.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought, well, I knew I wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: an actor. And then the music was kind of my
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  Speaker 2: plan B. Like, well, if I get good enough, I
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  Speaker 2: could play like bar bands or something and just eke
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  Speaker 2: out a living. But anything would be better. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like Kinko's. Working at Kinko's is kind of the
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  Speaker 2: nightmare scenario. Anything I could do to avoid that.
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  Speaker 8: But eventually they'll make you a manager.
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  Speaker 2: You get keys and everything.
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  Speaker 8: Keys. But I don't know. It's one of those, you
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  Speaker 8: can never tell when, you know, some people use that
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  Speaker 8: as their plan for life. You mentioned acting. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: what led you to acting, and then how did you
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  Speaker 8: end up?
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  Speaker 2: I know exactly what happened to acting was first grade,
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  Speaker 2: we did a play called Stuck in the Chimney, and
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  Speaker 2: I played the lead role of Santa. Santa gets stuck
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  Speaker 2: in the chimney because he had too many cookies. Lead
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  Speaker 2: role already. Yeah, no, I know. And I remember getting
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  Speaker 2: the part and being excited. And then, of course, performing.
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  Speaker 2: I got some laughs. And then I was really hooked.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I think this is my destiny. I have to.
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  Speaker 2: And then I thought, yeah, this is going to work.
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  Speaker 2: And then all through school, I would just do the acting.
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  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, it was a music and acting kind of.
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  Speaker 2: emphasis and also my i have two older brothers and
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  Speaker 2: they were more kind of math science guys yeah and
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  Speaker 2: so i think it was also a way to kind
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  Speaker 2: of break away from that and i didn't have any
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  Speaker 2: aptitude anyway so i was like i was always i
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  Speaker 2: always thought it's it was easier for me because there
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  Speaker 2: really isn't a backup plan after the arts it's just
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  Speaker 2: like it's always a good fall i have to do
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  Speaker 2: it and a great quote that always kind of motivated
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  Speaker 2: me was um george burns the uh the iconic comedian
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  Speaker 2: said I would rather fail at show business than any
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  Speaker 2: other business. I thought, yeah, I'll fail at this. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great way to go out.
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  Speaker 8: If you're going to fail, show business, that's the way.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course, as things work out, too, it
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  Speaker 2: was like acting, you know, sporadic, but definitely hard to
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  Speaker 2: make a living. And then, of course, once the music
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  Speaker 2: started hitting a little bit, then the acting got better.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, wait, but why are you hiring me now
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  Speaker 2: because I'm doing music? It didn't make any sense to me,
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  Speaker 2: but now it kind of does.
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  Speaker 8: It all kind of hits that groove and then everything
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  Speaker 8: starts working.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I was going to do early, like as far
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  Speaker 8: as acting, what did you fall in with that group
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  Speaker 8: of actors? I've seen it kind of listed and one
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  Speaker 8: of which being Tim Robbins. Is that something that actually happened?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we went to, um, uh, we all went
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  Speaker 2: to UCLA in the early eighties. Oh my God, I'm old. And, um, 90s, 2000s.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We'll, we'll go 90s. Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: 90s.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, But yeah, I went to school at the same
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  Speaker 2: time in the theater department and it was very much, well,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be theater artists and change the world
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  Speaker 2: with our political theater, I guess. So we started a
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  Speaker 2: group called the Actors Gang and worked in that for
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  Speaker 2: like 10 years after college. And yeah, it was great.
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  Speaker 2: And then met Jack through the Actors Gang. There was
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  Speaker 2: kind of a UCLA pipeline to the Actors Gang and
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  Speaker 2: so Jack came in kind of second generation and then
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  Speaker 2: we met up.
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  Speaker 8: And you're like oh this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah he was you know everyone kind of could
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  Speaker 2: tell like oh that that kid's really he's crazy and
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  Speaker 2: talented you know and it wasn't and he had a
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  Speaker 2: great voice and I was like and I had sort
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  Speaker 2: of thought about um I'd played in two-man groups I
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  Speaker 2: kind of like the Everly Brothers Simon and Garfunkel uh
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  Speaker 2: model and so I was kind of looking and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't I knew I wasn't like a singer-songwriter um guy
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  Speaker 2: and i was also kind of more of a comedic
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  Speaker 2: actor and so i knew there was an angle there
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  Speaker 2: and and also the movie spinal tap it was very
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  Speaker 2: inspirational where it was like oh i get it that's
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  Speaker 2: you know you take the genre and and so yeah
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  Speaker 2: it all kind of mixed in a stew and then
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah the d came out.
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  Speaker 8: Was jack just like that, that early? Because even his
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  Speaker 8: early performances, you can kind of see he's already found
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  Speaker 8: that groove. I mean, as early as when you met him,
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  Speaker 8: was he already sort of in that mode?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a force of nature. He's just a highly
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  Speaker 2: creative and very funny. I mean, obviously, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: say Jack's very funny, but I mean, just hanging with Jack,
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  Speaker 2: he just has a great sense of humor and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we go on tour and he's just, A magnetic, expansive,
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  Speaker 2: highly creative, comedic genius, really. I mean, I'm still laughing
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  Speaker 2: at him, you know, like 30 years later. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 8: Do you balance him out? Are you the ying to
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  Speaker 8: the yang?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think there is a tendency to
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  Speaker 2: kind of analyze it when something's working like that. I
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  Speaker 2: guess there is something to it. It seems weird to
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  Speaker 2: me that I would be the straight man. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the emphasis was just I want the act to work.
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  Speaker 2: I want it to work. So it's like, okay, Jack
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  Speaker 2: does that. You play to your strengths. Like, okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: good at guitar and kind of maybe underplaying things. And
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  Speaker 2: Jack is a very, you know, huge, huge personality. And
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  Speaker 2: so he's, he's kind of the front guy. And, and
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  Speaker 2: so it just sort of evolves. I mean, you don't
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  Speaker 2: really like, okay, I'm going to be the strength man.
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  Speaker 8: Map it out.
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  Speaker 2: Map it out. It's very kind of, you know, we're,
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  Speaker 2: I think even more organic than most, we kind of
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: just use what, what's happening and, and kind of bring
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: it on stage and kind of find the truth and,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, go from there.
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: I did want to hit a couple of the early, like, movies.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: I mean, I guess knowing Tim, is that what led
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: to Jacob's Ladder? That seemed like an odd choice to
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: get thrown into in the middle of, you know, just
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: getting into acting.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was, we were actually, we were actually doing
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a play with the actress gang at the Public Theater
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: in New York, and that's where they were shooting. And
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Tim got us all auditions, and I just kind of
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: snagged a little part. In Jacob's Ladder.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: It's the Adrian line, too. What was he, as far
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: as that set?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, Adrian. Well, he was very much against any sort of... acting.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I remember I think he gave me some notes like,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: stop acting. What are you doing? And I was like, oh,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: my God, I'm sorry. Don't do anything. But he did Flashdance,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I think, didn't he?
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Everything kind of looked like a commercial thing. Yeah. Back then.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Fatal attraction. Every scene had like a lot of fog
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: in it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: It had that kind of like Top Gun look to it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: He's very visual. Sometimes it's a little overdone, but I.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely... Now it looks kind of dated, I think.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You can go, oh.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: Probably that. But I still feel like that movie was
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: very like.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: It was sort of groundbreaking at the time. A lot
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: of the weird visual tricks that he was doing like
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: during those weird kind of... trippy sequences as we find
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: out as the movie goes along like i think they
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: started copying them in so many horror movies it wasn't
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: even like straight horror but like it seems like all
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: of the bad horror movies that came out in the
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: next you know 15 years after that were kind of
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: stealing shots from him from.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah no doubt yeah he was quite a stylist for sure.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: Definitely uh and then brain dead what.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Brain dead was actually i believe my first movie yeah
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: i think that was the first time it was uh
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: It was a Roger Corman, and once again, a writer,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I forget his name now. Oh, God, what is his
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: name now? That's so funny. But he wrote Carnage, which
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: was the play that we did at the Public Theater,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: and he did Braindead, and, you know, he used us all. And, yeah,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: it was kind of a great way to break in.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: You know, it's sort of a famous, you know, the
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Roger Corman B-movie thing was very kind of time-honored in Hollywood,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of people started out there.
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: Roger's a genius. We've had him on the show. He's amazing.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: And he's so calm about everything.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: He cracked his own code. He's like, I'll just make
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: these movies for as little as I can. That's the thing.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: If you can make a movie for cheap enough, it
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: will make money. Yeah.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: I mean, he was always a good businessman, but he
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: still had some pretty good visual style in the stuff
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: that he directed. By the time he became a producer,
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: he was just business. But his 60s stuff were visually
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: pretty interesting.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: What do you recommend? What's his best movie?
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: He did a lot of those Poe ones with, like,
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: Vincent Price. He did some of those.
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: Oh, did he?
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Those were, yeah. And he would get into, like, working in,
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: especially once he hit and crossed over into the color,
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: he started doing the crazy, like, color schemes. But, like,
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: even his, like, older, like, early 60s stuff. There's like
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: The Wasp Woman, which sounds really schlocky. Actually, if you
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: get into it, she's like a really smart businesswoman to
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: be that early to have a female lead and have
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: her be kind of empowered. It's pretty progressive for him.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: He had some good stuff. He's an interesting director.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: It's time for the Kill of Five.
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: Well, to cross over into the music, this is one
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: of the big music episodes here. And we do our segment,
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: so I just have people pick five songs that have
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: been featured in movies or really kind of heavily influenced
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: the movie that they're in. So I guess just wanted
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: to have you pick some of your favorites or stuff
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: that you thought was sort of influential or however you
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: want to go about it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I loved, I think there was definitely just a great
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: period in motion pictures, the early 70s, I think was
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: really a great time. And I was thinking of Harold
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and Maude when Cat Stevens did the whole soundtrack. And
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: it's so effective when they did that, you know, just
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: to have, it was kind of a, I don't know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: it just became like a character in the movie.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Well, if you want to sing out, sing out. And
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: if you want to be free, be free. There's a
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: million things to be. You know that there are. And
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: if you want to live high, live high. And if
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: you want to live low, live low.
• 24:11
  Speaker 15: There's a million ways to go.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: You know that there are. You can do what you want.
• 24:23
  Speaker 15: The opportunity's on And if you find a new way.
• 24:30
  Speaker 13: You can do it today.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: You can make it all true And you can make
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: it undue You see Ah, it's easy Ah, you only
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: need to know Well if you want to say yes,
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: say yes And if you want to say no, say
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: no Cause there's a million ways to go You know
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: that there are And if you want to be me,
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: be me And if you want to be you, be.
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: You Cause there's a million things to do You know
• 25:18
  Speaker 15: that there are You can do what you want The
• 25:27
  Speaker 15: opportunity's on And if you find a new way You
• 25:34
  Speaker 15: can do it today You can make it all true.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: And you can make it undue You see.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Ah, it's easy Ah, you own me me to know
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: well if you want to sing out sing out and
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: if you want to be free be free cause there's
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: a million things to be you know that there are
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: you know that there are you know that there are
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: you know that there are you know that there are.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I loved all those songs, and I loved The Graduate,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Simon and Garfunkel. Once again, they pretty much did the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: soundtrack for the movie and Mrs. Robinson, and they just
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: worked together just famously.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ And it's to you, Mrs.
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: Robinson Jesus loves you.
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: More than you.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Will know Whoa.
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: Whoa, whoa.
• 27:20
  Speaker 13: God bless you, please, Mrs.
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: Robinson.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Heaven holds a place for.
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: Those who pray. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey.
• 27:36
  Speaker 16: We'd like to know a little bit about you for
• 27:41
  Speaker 16: our lives. We'd like to help you learn to help yourself.
• 27:48
  Speaker 16: Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes. Stroll
• 27:55
  Speaker 16: around the grounds until you feel at home.
• 27:59
  Speaker 13: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
• 28:02
  Speaker 16: Jesus loves you more than you will know.
• 28:05
  Speaker 12: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: God bless you, please, Mrs.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Robinson Heaven holds a place for those who pray Hey.
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: Hey, hey Hey, hey, hey.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Hide it in a hiding place where no one.
• 28:26
  Speaker 13: Ever goes Put it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: In your pantry with your cupcakes.
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: It's a little secret, just the Robinson's.
• 28:41
  Speaker 11: Are there Most of.
• 28:45
  Speaker 16: All, you've got to hide it from the kids Cuckoo, ca-choo, Mrs.
• 28:50
  Speaker 13: Robinson Jesus loves.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: You more than you will know Whoa, whoa, whoa God
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson Cap'n holds the place for
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: those who pray.
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon.
• 29:21
  Speaker 16: Going to a candidate's debate. Laugh about it, shout about
• 29:30
  Speaker 16: it when you've got to choose.
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: Every way you look at the shoes.
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: Where have you gone?
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: What's that you say, Mrs.
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: Robinson?
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Joe DiMaggio has nothing on the way.
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: Hey, hey, hey Plastics.
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: It's interesting when artists do that. You only see that
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: every once in a while when the director will pair
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: themselves with a musical artist and have them do the
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: entire soundtrack. Sometimes they'll compose the score or sometimes they'll
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: just do singer-songwriter stuff.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I was thinking more of the singer-songwriter and that brought
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: to mind Eddie Vedder's Into the Wild, which I thought
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: once again was really effective. Just to have one visionary
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: guy I'm into the songs.
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: A fan of him on both ends in his band
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: and in that solo. He's very different in his solos.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I actually prefer, I think, the solo stuff.
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: The ukulele stuff?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. I like when he goes small.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I like when he goes small.
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: That's cool.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Really, really great guy, too. I've had a chance to
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: hang with Eddie a few times, and he's quite a
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: magnanimous individual.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:28
  Speaker 17: When I walk beside her I am the better man.
• 31:35
  Speaker 18: When I look to leave her I always stagger back again.
• 31:42
  Speaker 17: Once I built an ivory tower So I could worship from.
• 31:46
  Speaker 18: Above When I climbed down to be set free She
• 31:52
  Speaker 18: took me in again.
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: There's a beat A big hot sun beating.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: On the big people in a big hot world.
• 32:08
  Speaker 18: When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at
• 32:13
  Speaker 18: my feet.
• 32:15
  Speaker 17: When I see her pin her charm, she just throws
• 32:19
  Speaker 17: it back at me.
• 32:22
  Speaker 18: Once I dug in her grave to find a better land.
• 32:29
  Speaker 17: She just smiled and laughed at me and took her
• 32:32
  Speaker 17: bruise back again.
• 32:33
  Speaker 19: There's a big, a big hard sun beating on the
• 32:41
  Speaker 19: big people in the big hard world.
• 32:48
  Speaker 11: Oh, there's a big, When.
• 33:06
  Speaker 17: I go to cross that river, she is comfort by
• 33:13
  Speaker 17: my side.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: When I try to.
• 33:16
  Speaker 17: Understand, she just opens up her hands.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: .
• 33:25
  Speaker 11: .
• 33:27
  Speaker 13: Once I stood to lose.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Her When I saw what I had.
• 34:00
  Speaker 18: Done Bound down and flew away The hours of her
• 34:19
  Speaker 18: garden and her sun So I tried to warn her
• 34:25
  Speaker 18: I turned to see her weep Forty days and forty
• 34:31
  Speaker 18: nights And it's still coming down, babe There's a big,
• 34:37
  Speaker 18: a big hard sun Beating on the big people In the.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Big hard world Hard as a pig A big.
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: Hard son Beating on the big people.
• 35:11
  Speaker 13: I need a bit more.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Trouble And now, before the next show starts, let's enjoy
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: an intermission. You'll find our snack bar chock full of
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: good things to eat and drink. Tasty, tempting hot dogs,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: thirst-quenching soft drinks, fresh, crunchy popcorn, a complete assortment of
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: delicious candy, and a full line of cigarettes. You've plenty
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: of time, so visit the snack bar now.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: From the creative genius of Roger Corman, who brought to
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: the screen Edgar Allan Poe's most shocking horror tales, comes
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the ultimate in blood-chilling screen experiences, The Terror, starring the
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: incomparable Boris Karloff.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: You think I'm mad, don't you?
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: In the role he was born to play, The Terror,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: bedeviled by his own mad, all-consuming passions.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: With my own hands, I killed her.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: The Terror.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: His evil, mystic powers go beyond man's wildest imaginings.
• 37:27
  Speaker 13: If he resists, kill him.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: American International presents The Terror, starring Boris Karloff, dean of
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: all horror demons, in this, his most demanding terrorization, The Terror,
• 37:42
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• 37:44
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• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Dave, I do not get superheroes.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I don't get you. What the.
• 38:20
  Speaker 20: Towerbot here. Well, the meatbags were going to say that
• 38:24
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• 38:27
  Speaker 20: try Tower of Technobabble at www.toweroftechnobabble.com. Then this started. Well,
• 38:36
  Speaker 20: it's up to you. I'm gonna get my taser and
• 38:38
  Speaker 20: put a stop to this.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Towerbot out.
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: Okay, monkeys.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: It's nap time.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: I made it for $ 30, 000 in two days and a night.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: This is Roger Corman, and you're listening to Movie Meltdown.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: It's part of your problem, you know.
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: You haven't seen enough movies.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: All of life's riddles are.
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: Answered in the movies.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Now, on with the show.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: Well, it's one louder, isn't it?
• 39:30
  Speaker 20: It's not ten You see most most blokes gonna be
• 39:33
  Speaker 20: playing at ten you're on ten here all the way
• 39:35
  Speaker 20: up all the way up You know the way up
• 39:37
  Speaker 20: you're on ten on your guitar.
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: Where can you go from there?
• 39:40
  Speaker 20: Well, I don't know where exactly what we.
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: Do is if we need that extra Push over the cliff.
• 39:47
  Speaker 12: You know what we do?
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: Put it up to 11. Exactly.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: One louder. Why don't you just make 10 louder and
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: make 10 be the top number and make that a
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: little louder?
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: These go to 11.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know what counts, but the spinal tap for
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: me was huge.
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: Any specific?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Well, Hell Hole was a big one.
• 40:28
  Speaker 21: I ain't got no future I ain't got no past
• 40:36
  Speaker 21: And I don't think I ever.
• 40:40
  Speaker 11: Can The floor.
• 40:44
  Speaker 21: Is filthy The walls are thin The wind is howling
• 40:49
  Speaker 21: in my face The lights are beating I'm.
• 40:55
  Speaker 14: Losing ground Can't see the jargon.
• 41:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah!
• 41:30
  Speaker 21: I roll the jet stream I hit the top.
• 41:34
  Speaker 11: I hear it's taking lots of tails.
• 41:38
  Speaker 14: The sun is dropping The food's too hot The kitchen's
• 41:43
  Speaker 14: stinking full of snails The tax is gone The butler
• 41:49
  Speaker 14: quit The.
• 41:51
  Speaker 13: Same way to be a man.
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: I'm going back Yeah. Yeah.
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: So that, I guess, is about four. Oh, that's about four.
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: Do we got one more to round this out?
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I just want to send, I guess, tonight I'm
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: going to rock you.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Girl, it's a great big world, but there's only one
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: of me.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: You can't touch me cause I cost too much.
• 43:47
  Speaker 11: Tonight I'm gonna rock you.
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: Tonight I'm gonna rock you.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: Tonight I'm gonna rock you.
• 43:53
  Speaker 11: Tonight I'm gonna rock you.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Tonight. You're sweet, but you're.
• 44:06
  Speaker 14: Just four feet and you still got your baby teeth.
• 44:12
  Speaker 11: We'll be right back.
• 45:12
  Speaker 21: Take off, we've got another drop of seed in the.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: House Next day we'll be on our way But tonight
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: we're gonna rock it.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Tonight we're gonna rock it Tonight we're gonna rock it
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Tonight we're gonna rock it.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Tonight It was just hugely influential for me. I mean,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: I can remember wanting to see it, going to the
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: theater and just sort of like, oh my God, these
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: guys have done what you wished you could do. It's like, wow.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's, it almost kind of ruined me in
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: a way because like, oh my God, how you can't
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: do it any better.
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: Well, and I mean, as far as again, back to groundbreaking, like,
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: I mean, that was mockumentary when nobody knew what that was. Like,
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: so many decades before people started doing that regularly.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 84, I believe.
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, Rob Reiner, now, nobody really pays much
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: attention to him, but at the time, I mean, that
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: was amazing. And I think probably on both ends, you know, he...
• 46:33
  Speaker 8: probably made a lot of people want to join bands,
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: and at the same time made people kind of want
• 46:37
  Speaker 8: to be filmmakers.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: I never thought of that. Was that the first sort
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: of mockumentary?
• 46:41
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: I mean, it kind of. I mean, there was probably something.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: We're so used to the form now.
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Now I think about it. But yeah, it definitely just hit.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: It was just perfect. It was just perfect. And it's,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: once again, time is the true test, and it really
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: is timeless. I mean, you watch it today, and it
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: holds up perfectly.
• 47:00
  Speaker 9: Definitely.
• 47:01
  Speaker 12: Well.
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: The only other just while we're on the music one
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: thing I had to ask because I have I've seen
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: you guys before and it was it was one of
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: those actually a whole group of us got together and
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: we went and we got our tickets we had to
• 47:14
  Speaker 8: buy them for the real band you guys were opening
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: for unfortunately so people are always questioned when I tell
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: them I've been to a Kid Rock show yeah what
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: was it like touring with Kid Rock well I.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Mean this was before I knew he was a grody
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: republican yeah I.
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: Don't think he told anybody at that point.
• 47:34
  Speaker 13: No.
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: He was busy being a fake redneck.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Is he a fake redneck?
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: I think he came from money, and it's funny. All
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: of his songs are straight out the trailer park.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: He's a trustafarian as well. But you know what? Bobby
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: is his real name, and couldn't have been a nicer dude. Yeah.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Couldn't have been a nicer dude.
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't really... And I don't think anyone
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: stands up and talks about they're a big fan of
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Kid Rock, but... But yeah, he was a great guy.
• 48:02
  Speaker 8: It was an interesting dynamic, too, because he, I mean,
• 48:05
  Speaker 8: he was, that was kind of the height of his,
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: you know, he was probably hitting downhill after that album.
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: So he was, that was sort of the height of
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: his career.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was huge.
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: He was, yeah. And, like, seeing him, he had a
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: massive set. It was, again, a trailer park he built
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: on stage.
• 48:20
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: And it was just, like, huge and had the pyrotechnics
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: and had, like, all kinds of stuff going on.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: And, like, a Bud Light sign, too.
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, of course. Got to work that in there.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Well, it's not really of course. You have to take
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: the money and basically sell beer.
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: I'm sure he would have gladly taken a Bud Light.
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: Early enough, he probably would have taken one as a trade,
• 48:39
  Speaker 8: you know. That's my payment. I get this neon sign
• 48:42
  Speaker 8: that says Bud on it.
• 48:43
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: And then to juxtapose that with you guys, as you
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: walk out, it was just you and the guitar and
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: Jack and a mic. You had no set with you.
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: You brought no other.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Well, when you're opening, you don't really bring a set
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: I've still seen people that do a little something extra
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: or even bring other members into the band. It was
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: just you guys, and you walked out.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely been part of our... Sort of our.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Our shtick, what have you. It's just two guys, two acoustics,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: and then, you know, we bring in.
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: I'd say so, because that's the thing. We went to
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: see you guys, and that's where the money was spent,
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: as far as I'm concerned. We sort of hung around
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: and watched Kid Rock, but it was paled in comparison.
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: It was kind of sad.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Brian. That's awfully nice of you to say.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: Do you have any new projects you want to tell
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: people about, as far as on any front, I guess?
• 49:40
  Speaker 8: You've got a lot of different stuff.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Well, the KGB, of course, is what we're doing right now.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: We just came out with our debut album, Go to
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Kyle Gass Band. uh.com somewhere or facebook or something and
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: look us up and also the big thing we got
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: in the d world is we're doing a comedy festival
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: at the santa monica pier october 19th and uh we've
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: been trying to get this together for a couple years
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: now and it's finally it's finally happening and uh We're
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: just super excited about it. We have an amazing lineup.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: It's us and Mr. Show and Tim and Eric. And
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: we've got the Mighty Boosh.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, just to
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: name a few. And it's just kind of an epic,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: epic lineup. And I think it's really, really going to
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: be a special day.
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: That's an impressive lineup. And when is that?
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: October 19th. Santa Monica Pier.
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: Cool.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Festival Supreme.
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: Is there anywhere online to tell people to go?
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Go to festivalsupreme.com.
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: And your website? You want to plug that too?
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Kyle Gas Band.
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Everything's available on Googles. Barney Googles.
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: Finds everything.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, it does. What did we do before that?
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: I don't know. I kind of think sometimes. I'm like,
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: I don't think we could run the world without the
• 51:04
  Speaker 8: internet now.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: But we could. Well, we couldn't now.
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: Not anymore, yeah.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: No, not anymore. People would freak out.
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: Like, what?
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: It's funny.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: Somebody posted recently, they were talking about writers, and they
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: were like, oh, writers probably got so much more work
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: done before there was an internet to also be connected
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: to when you're supposed.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: To be writing.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: I think writers always wait until the last minute.
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Probably all artists.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: How's this going?
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: Pretty good. We've, we've had an amazing lineup of guests
• 51:34
  Speaker 8: over the years and we've, we've, yeah, we've, we're, we're still,
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: it's so hard finding the audience for that same reason though.
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: It's like, we've got, you know, the hardcore people that
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: have always been there, but like finding new people is like,
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: it's just, there's so much out there now.
• 51:47
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: You're fighting to get, which, you know, it's true in
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: every part of the arts.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: Every band. There's a million other bands. Every movie. There's
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: 40 other people making a movie kind of like yours.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: There's just too many people. And it's time to really
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: thin the herd.
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: We need a war. Isn't that what they say? You
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: need a good war to thin out the herd.
• 52:04
  Speaker 15: Maybe a plague.
• 52:05
  Speaker 8: Oh, zombies.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: There you go. Zombie plague. Well, dude, thanks so much
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: for having me.
• 52:10
  Speaker 8: Thank you for sitting in with us. Yeah, it's been
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: a lot of fun.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man.
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: Alright, we are back. And once again, I would like
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: to say thank you to Kyle for sitting in as
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: our special guest this week. Really interesting picks, too, as
• 52:35
  Speaker 8: far as songs. I mean, you kind of saw those
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: last ones coming, but the earlier ones, yeah, I didn't
• 52:41
  Speaker 8: really know where he would go. So that's kind of
• 52:43
  Speaker 8: why I like doing these things that are a little off.
• 52:45
  Speaker 8: You know, just having movie discussions with people or having
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: them pick songs. You sort of get a little insight
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: that maybe you wouldn't get just your standard interview. I
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: think you get something extra in something like that where
• 52:57
  Speaker 8: you actually just have a normal conversation and talk about
• 53:00
  Speaker 8: what movies you like or what music you listen to.
• 53:03
  Speaker 8: So that was definitely true with Kyle and I wanted
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: to thank him once again for sitting in. The stuff
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: he's got in the works, go to festivalsupreme.com and check
• 53:11
  Speaker 8: that out in October. And just in general, go to thekylegasband.com
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: to see what he's got in the works as far
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: as where he'll be playing next. And once again, we
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: would like to say thanks to Lebowski Fest for letting
• 53:23
  Speaker 8: me hang around and talk to Kyle and just loiter
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: around here on the outskirts of the festival. So they
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: are at lebowskifest.com, and definitely you don't have to be
• 53:34
  Speaker 8: here to experience it. They have branched out. It is
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: amazing what this thing has grown into. You could never
• 53:42
  Speaker 8: imagine just pitching the idea of what this festival is
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: and then watching how it's grown over the years. I
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: did a basic count, and they have gone to 22
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: different cities.
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: To do this festival that that I mean it's it's
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: amazing how much it has grown and how many different
• 54:01
  Speaker 8: people they've involved over the years and just it's it's
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: an impressive feat to have put this together from nothing
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: from just an idea that they had and decided to
• 54:10
  Speaker 8: throw together with their friends and now so many years
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: later it's just gotten bigger and bigger and the following
• 54:14
  Speaker 8: continues to grow so if you're one of those people
• 54:18
  Speaker 8: or interested in becoming one of those people it is LebowskiFest.com
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: and go see what they've got in the works.
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: Are you done?
• 54:25
  Speaker 8: All right, so I think that will wrap up this episode.
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: But we will go out once again. I mean, we
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: have to pay tribute to the man who sat in
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: with us this episode. And of course, with a song
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: from their movie. I mean, when you're a band and
• 54:38
  Speaker 8: they give you your own movie, you got to make
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: that happen. So yeah, we are going to play one
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: from Pick of Destiny. And we'll just go out with
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: the title track. I think that seems to represent it
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: just fine. So thanks once again to Kyle. And with that,
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: I will remind you once again, get a life. We'll
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: provide the soundtrack.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Because it's a play.
• 54:56
  Speaker 9: A distance.
• 55:07
  Speaker 13: In Venice Beach, there was a man named Cage.
• 55:13
  Speaker 9: When he was busking, he was.
• 55:15
  Speaker 11: Out of the rage.
• 55:17
  Speaker 9: He met the tables and it taught him well.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: All the techniques that were developed in hell.
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: Cocked push-ups and the power slide.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Stick simulation, now there's nowhere to hide.
• 55:31
  Speaker 13: They formed a band, they named Tenacious Tenacious. And then
• 55:36
  Speaker 13: they got to pick a destiny.
• 55:38
  Speaker 11: Cause it's the best.
• 55:41
  Speaker 13: A destiny child.
• 55:42
  Speaker 11: You know it will be rocking.
• 55:44
  Speaker 15: Cause it's fucking insane.
• 55:46
  Speaker 11: Cause it's the best.
• 55:48
  Speaker 13: A destiny child.
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: Artistic grooves are better than a chicken chow mein.
• 55:53
  Speaker 13: Cause he who is sleazy is easy to please. And
• 55:57
  Speaker 13: she who is juicy must be loosey goosey. And he
• 56:01
  Speaker 13: who is groovy The wizard and the demon had a
• 56:10
  Speaker 13: battle royale.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: The demon almost killed him with an evil kapow.
• 56:15
  Speaker 13: But then he broke.
• 56:17
  Speaker 8: His tooth and thus the demon set out.
• 56:19
  Speaker 11: It's a play.
• 56:21
  Speaker 13: A destiny child. You know it will be right. You
• 56:31
  Speaker 13: know our movie's better than a citizen came.
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: Cause he who's a geezer must live.
• 56:36
  Speaker 11: In my freezer.
• 56:38
  Speaker 13: And she who is stocky is full of malarkey.
• 56:41
  Speaker 11: And he who is.
• 56:42
  Speaker 13: Goofy must be in my movie.
• 56:44
  Speaker 11: So count on me.
• 57:00
  Speaker 7: Your hygiene's fairly good, right?
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: I try to control.
• 57:05
  Speaker 13: Myself a little bit.
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: This episode is a production of Movie Meltdown.
• 57:55
  Speaker 9: Produced and edited by The Oddity Studios. With opening music
• 57:58
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• 58:01
  Speaker 9: or support the show, email producer at moviemeltdown.com.
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: Aloha!
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Aloha! Talk hard!