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WoTIdol2024 reactions · WoT Spoilers

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  This is the wheedl of Time Spoilers podcast. Welcome to wat Spoiler's bonus episode.
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  I guess we're going to do something a little different today because wat Con
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  is coming up and I just I don't have brain powers. So what Idle
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  just happened? And I'm going to piggyback off of the energy from What Idle
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  twenty twenty four and show Seth some of the videos because he has not seen
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  any of them yet. No, I managed to just again with the way
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  my work schedule is and with wedding crap, like, the idea of sitting
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  out on the computer and watching a bunch of videos has just been untenable for
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  me. So yeah, this is the first time I've actually had a chance.
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  I've been knowing it's going on, but I have not had a chance
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  to view any of the live streams. I've seen in YouTube a couple of
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  times as I'm scrolling through the titles of them. But I'm like those spoilers
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  left and right, you know, for once, you know, I'm doing
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  the thing that you actually have to do to dodd spoilers, which is just
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  stay off the internet. So here I am now completely unspoiled on any of
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  these except what I can see in the playlist right now. So yeah,
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  so we're going to start with the winner and just work our way backwards.
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  I'm hoping we can get through the top sixteen, but remember there are eighty
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  two of these, so we're not going to get through all of them.
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  We're not even going to get to mine because mine got knocked out early.
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  So you know, maybe we should start. We can start with mine if
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  you want, but then we should start at the winner and work our way
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  backwards. Because the people just turned the fuck up this year. And I
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  came this year very much just coming to play. I was just coming to
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  play. I didn't want to do a whole big thing. But the amount
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  that people stepped it up this year and the amount of just un hinged acting,
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  particularly in the winning entry, really have lit a fire under my ass
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  to go all out next year and to not come to play next year,
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  but to actually like just get into it to a greater degree because just,
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  oh my god, the amount of effort getting put out in these things.
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  I'm like, yeah, I want to play harder. I want to play
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  harder. I'm here for it. I'm here for it next year, Like
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  I said, you know, I'm gonna try and after the wedding, I'm
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  hoping that I'm gonna have a little more time to do things like parodies and
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  be there to support a really awesome Yeah, and like I, video editing
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  is still a thing I'm not into, but I just I want to create
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  a video next year, even if it's not gonna be the most well edited
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  thing. But anyhow, that's enough preamble. There will be a link in
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  the show notes to go to the full playlist. We are gonna tell you
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  what song we're gonna do. We're gonna play it. You should go listen
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  to it on your own time, pause the podcast, go listen to it
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  or watch it, and then come back of the podcast and hit play.
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  And we're going to discuss what Seth thought about it and what my experience was
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  in live chat as it happened, and we'll just talk about it a bit
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  and then move on to the next and we'll do that until we run out
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  of steam, which will be long before the end of the playlist. So,
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  without further ado, Seth, you want to tell us what our first
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  video is going to be? Sure it is going to be unnatural, A
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  wheel of time perer. Oh wait, no, we're doing yours first.
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  I'm not letting you get away with that. Wellle's you tell us which one
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  my video is and door an idiot and video is a misnomer. It's just
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  a song. I didn't do a video. Aside from the required lyric portrayal
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  for accessibility purposes, most of the entries are actual videos. Mine is one
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  of the handful that are just lyrics. While they really weren't that many of
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  them this year, because remember there being a whole category. Yeah, it
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  definitely, I would say it seems to have diminished. The ratio of full
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  productions to just lyrics has definitely shifted, and of full videos. That was
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  part of why I did just the lyrics, was like, like I want
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  to hold down the just lyrics section, but like now I want to make
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  a video because like so many people made such cool videos. But anyhow,
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  yes, and or an idiot that's me coming in at number How do we
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  have a video lost to Ali of all people? Oh Ali, that's cruel.
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  Yeah, everything's not making you can hear I did this on the fifth
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  take rather than the third take. But this is gotwin. Yeah I caught
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  that. Yeah, Paroria. It's the original lyric. I just love to
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  focus on like one particular group, like Caitlin in this case, like when
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  a song really like goes hard on, like yeah, not like on the
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  whole wheel of time. See. I just wrote a nice thing for the
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  bridge because I didn't have anything else. Yeah, this is just a fun
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  little I like to eat of this. I like to eat it this nice.
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  All right, So I gotta quiz you on that, right, So
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  where did the idea come from to do and Dorian idiot instead of American idiot?
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  I mean like just literally the name. I was just like the American
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  idiot and Dooran idiot. It was like, what how can I do this?
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  How can I do this? I want? It took me like three
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  years to come up with the lyrics for that because I really wanted to make
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  it work, but it just I wasn't finding the story for it. But
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  then yeah, I thought like what if it was a punk band in like
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  low Camlin and Gwen is like slumming it with the regular people, and like
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  this is this is how just like punks in an and Or might feel about
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  like the ruling elite. So you know, yeah, I finally figured out
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  the story and then I and then I was able to do a Gwain entry,
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  which I thought was really fun because like, Gowen is not a character
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  that gets a lot of attention and love, and this was not like a
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  skewering of Gwen per se. It was just sort of like a scene setting
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  idiot. But it was just a scene setting. It's like, this is
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  just Gowen before everything. This isn't the Gowin of the books. This is
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  the template upon which the Gowain happens. And it's just like, I mean,
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  we all like Green Day, we're millennials, like, oh yeah yeah,
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  and it's an easy song to sing along to. I kept getting Taker
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  run Riod, who does the sing along at wat Con every year, has
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  been first of all persuaded to do what idol sing along. I advocated for
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  that very aggressively, and then Jen told me specifically, okay, we're doing
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  that. And then after the contest she wrote me and was like, hey,
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  can we do Andoran Idiot? And can we call you up to do
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  it with us? Like fuck yes, So I'm gonna get to do and
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  Oran Idiot live with Taker Rounriod at the wat Cohn sing Along on Saturday,
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  night, and I could not be more excited. I'm actually really excited.
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  The better be a video. Oh, I'm sure there will be. I'm
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  sure there will be because Talker and Riod just they rule in so much.
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  And this song is so singable. It is such a karaoke bal singable like
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  group song. So I'm very excited to do the group sing along with all
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  yall sang an indoor an idiot. Yeah, because after the first lyric,
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  everyone is like, I don't want to be I mean everyone can scream out
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  that line right like it'll be perfect. So I had a fantastic time with
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  that. I initially made it through my first round of voting because I was
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  up against kid Rand, So I went against a child, So that was
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  a great victory. Yes, so much g Kid Rand. And then my
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  next round suppressed. And then my next round I went up against my podcast
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  co host Ali, who did a shot for shot video parody of her song,
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  and I'm like, how am I supposed to even be mad about losing
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  to that? Because she did the extra mile right, I mean we did
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  tribute as a shot for shot parody. I love shot for shot video parodies,
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  and I was like, well, I have to lose, but you
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  know, is a bummer. I was annoyed. It made me very franky
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  about the whole concept of competition. I'm just over here at my autistic anarchist
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  glory just being like, well, we don't even need to compete. Competition
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  is stupid. And of course a bunch of people have told me the competition
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  is the part they enjoy, so like, clearly it's a useful function.
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  But yeah, getting knocked out early is not my favorite. But I think
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  there's a really useful function to it, which is to help people really find
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  the best songs in the bunch. Because there are a lot of songs,
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  and I do love them all, and I love the effort in all of
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  them, but some of them are bops and some of them I just want
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  to listen to over and over again, and it just you know, I
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  don't care who wins, but I love the top sixteen. Right, there's
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  usually a step up in quality at some point. It's been top sixteen,
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  top thirty, on wherever you want to call it, right, you know,
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  the top sixteen is where it's at. Yeah, yeah, where there's
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  this people who clearly have talent, have time, have money, have you
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  know, existing skills, existing skills that they are they're putting in this and
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  it reads a lot of time as professional production, not amateurs having fun,
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  which is what you buy. And I mean, we're even like mid tier.
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  There's a lot of people who are very much learning skills for the very
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  first time, never having done anything like this, because the chat is so
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  accommodating and the enthusiasm is so over the top and everyone is so kind that
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  there are a lot of people who like genuinely are significantly worse at making the
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  stuff even than us. Like we're mid tier. There's like real professionals,
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  people who actually have tried before, and people who are doing it for the
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  first time. Here's what I'll take credit for our first entry. That first
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  year was just so bad that we really gave people a low bar to getting
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  into it. And it was really important in that first year to make sure
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  that bar was set low enough right that people who are trying for the first
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  time are really willing to come in. So you know, that was a
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  deliberate choice on all. Humiliated myself attempting to sing queen for the first year
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  for you, Yes, that was that was that was for you. Yeah,
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  mm hmm. Yeah, m hmmmm. Definitely how that choice worked out.
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  Definitely how that went. Yeah, that's my story. Yeah, But
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  moving on from the self aggrandizement of having my video be the first one we
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  played, let's go to the actual top sixteen. Yeah, yeah, what
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  you're here for? Let's do you want to go sixteen back? I want
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  to start with the winner and work our way, work our because it's just
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  if you want to talk about to pop and an earworm like I I mean,
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  I don't know, I'm an Imagine dragonsucker, so like the song was
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  gonna win it for me anyway, But yeah, I think we should start
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  with the winner and just so we make sure we get that one in because
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  it's just so good. So this is unnatural by Salia o'neer, who has
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  done a fantastic video every year. She always has really great wordsmithing, really
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  fun video, but she she built on her own success to such a spectacular
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  degree this year. So all right, all right, stop pipping that.
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  It sounds like the song was written right, and Imagine Dragons does really cool
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  lyrics like she's done Lin Manuel Miranda songs for the last two years. So
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  like Imagine Dragons was kind of a walk in the park, but like still,
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  oh my god, and it's so cool. I'm just listening to it.
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  I'm not getting to see the video, right, so I'm getting to
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  appreciate the audio just all on its own without the video. Like I know
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  what the video looks like because I've seen it several times. And I mean,
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  right right, I love her voice. I really love her voice.
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  It's she does a great job with the voice. I mean, and that's
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  not a song I would a otherwise know, Like I guess I'm not an
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  Imagine Dragons fan, right, I love Imagine Dragons, But I mean that
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  was a great song. I love the fame. I know right that Faine
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  got got the video and got like a sympathetic angle, right, like that
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  breakdown where it's like, oh no, like Fane the humanity Wait, I
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  mean it was a bad dark friend who chose that long before all the bad
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  ship still so yeah, And I mean like the unhinged body language, right,
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  like she's like rocking and then like stands up like that was video that
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  was filmed backwards obviously, right, because that the human body looks creepy when
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  it runs backwards. It's just I she did a great one last year about
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  Talmanas, but like there's there's a level of video production that also stepped up.
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  Yeah, the video production was high, and this one by a nose
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  against the next video down because but it's like Salia also was going to win
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  one of these years, like just fantasm also has been like hyping up the
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  community, like on Twitter specifically like around this event, but for like just
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  just fantastic, excellently deserved win. But if you will look at the next
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  video and who's fitted it, you will understand why the vote was down to
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  like the tiniest hair, because this is lesbian nerdy who I mean as every
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  year, I mean one every year she gets close when she automatically gets to
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  like the top eight, top four, but she has not won before.
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  Easily got it, got it, yeah, I mean but just great some
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  of my favorite one more comment about Salia we have now had not so the
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  first two years was a guy with a guitar who won. Second year was
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  a girl with a piano. This year just a singer, Just a singer
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  who did an amazing video with all the acting and that unhinged acting, that
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  unhinge acting. I'm like, well, I want to do unhinged acting.
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  I want to be like Saya Saria is cool. Well, I can do
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  what Salia did. You gotta pick a forsakend, maybe do a little y
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  massage. So I thought that was a nice trend breaker that we now have
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  someone who did not have to play any of the instrumentation in order to win,
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  just singing, writing and then creating an unhinged video. Mmmmm, because
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  I do feel like playing the actual instrument is just like there's people who have
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  learned play instrument and people who haven't, and you're just very clearly like segmenting
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  those. Yeah, and that we have some serious professional musicians in this community,
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  and I love the fact that they share that talent with us. It's
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  great, but it was still nice to see someone who doesn't have that skill
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  win. That was very cool. Anyway, moving on to someone who is
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  going to win one of these years, I'm sure that like or six is
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  gotta be her year because every year she gets close Lesbian nerdy doing I forget
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  the name of the song, but I know it's a Rihanna song. I
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  love that every line mmmmm mmmm, Like what the hell? How do you
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  write a whole song with just quotes? From the wheels you are lesbian nerdy,
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  You're a lesbian nerdy. That was incredible. That was the writing skills
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  there was off the charts, and her singing voice. The editing, yeah,
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  her video editing obviously, just obviously right, I can't. I understood
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  the lyrics so much better not being able to see the words on the screen
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  because that font was very distracting. So like I didn't really like hear the
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  lyrics like fully until now. And it's just like, yeah, god damn,
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  she's an amazing voice, and yeah, just such good lyrics, such
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  good lyrics. Yeah. And this is the thing is we often forget that
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  this is at its core a parody contest. I often forget that I often
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  do not vote for the best parody in terms of writing. I'm often voting
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  for like who had the best pipes or you know, who had the most
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  elaborate video production or whatever it is. I have a very complicated and erratic
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  way of choosing who I vote for. But like, this is supposed to
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  be a parody contest at its core, and like I mean that writing,
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  that writing, that writing, it's fantastic. Yeah, because it was all
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  wrong. And then just and Hers from the show to illustrate, like the
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  journey Moraine goes through is just like I mean, there wasn't even a lesbian
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  already head floating through it normally lesbian actually is in it. Yeah, that
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  show clips, but like I'm not mad about it given how much she focused
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  on Moraine. I mean, honestly, one of my favorite things to come
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  out from the show is ability to show our characters expressing a certain emotion.
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  Right, and the memes and the edit video edits, and like, what
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  I've noticed is all these videos, oh so far, all the two I've
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  seen so far are telling the story from the books. They're not telling the
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  story as it is. Yeah, the show the story beats our books story
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  beats, but they're using show. Yeah. Yeah, that that is a
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  trend that will continue. That these are not the only two who did that.
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  That We are willing to mine the show for anything we want, but
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  aren't necessarily fans of the story. We're not bound by show cannon. You
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  gave us pretty pictures, you made all those beautiful colors and gorgeous costumes.
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  We are going to absolutely do whatever we want with them, right, right,
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  and great actors, right, the amount of cheek oones that this cast
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  has in jaw lines. Yeah. All right, So at this point I
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  don't remember what comes next, so you're going to have to read off the
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  titles and the artists. All right. One power Ballads presents a Wheel of
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  Time parody. Every Sin laid a wreath for you. One power Ballads.
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  This this is every single ladyes, every single maiden. This is Alyssa one
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  power Ballads doing Beyonce. This is fun. This is very fun. Okay,
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  yeah right. The title card is three Maidens of the Spear. You're
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  standing in. Oh yeah, yeah, she got she got the best set.
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  If anyone got Best Set Award, it would have to be her.
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  This is it filmed on site in the waist held this hashtag get conversion,
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  asterisk quality dancing well, the POV maidens kiss the b at the end.
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  Don't stop it too soon. Magan Dick's Savanna. I think every shot,
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  every video so far has had the blood snow opening scene, the cold open
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  because it's just like the best shot in the whole show, the shirtless r
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  because it's just the story. And then stop dancing and the same rock the
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  shooting range in the background like military testing range. Oh Man, that that
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  to me is the video that looks like they had the most fun filming it.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, since we did tribute and one most fun
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  tribute. Yeah, like that looks like they just had a blast out in
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  the desert, dancing singing along to you know, a well written, well
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  soung song, but a relatively simple one. But like, yeah, just
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  like having a lot of really good references to the Maidens, the good references
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  to yeah, yell, I love that song. Yeah. Alissa is someone
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  who took the hurt difficult feelings from not having her parody Foldy shown the first
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  year and turned it into a whole like YouTube channel of just tons of parodies.
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  Like she just makes feel of time parodies all the time. She has
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  all this experience now actually I don't know if it was the first or the
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  second year, but either way, she like just like did this like retreat
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  and then just exploded with all this creativity. So this is the culmination of
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  her making so many more videos than the rest of us. Yeah, one,
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  power Ballads is really fantastic content. And it was apparently very very hot
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  that day, Like she was not lying about it being one hundred and twelve
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  degrees. Oh, Jesus Christ. I mean, yeah, I got up
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  to one hundred year recently and that was enough for me. Yeah, I
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  went yeah, but yeah, I mean totally and doing a dance number like
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  for maidens dancing this spear because I mean, Beyonce is very danceable. Like
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  that's the point, right, So yeah, really really fun video. Unlessa
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  is definitely gonna win one of these years. Also just it's just a matter
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  of time until she wins unless more talented people keep getting into this, and
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  there's more people who deserve to win every year. It's becoming a problem.
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  It's gonna win. She's one of those years. She's just so talented.
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  And I'm gonna be on a panel a favorite walt Con. If you're coming
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  to wat Con, you will have seen potentially us together on content creation and
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  how it's done. It's gonna be great. The next one, No one
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  fights is hard, Avianda and the wise one and the wise one. That's
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  great, great, No one fights as hard. Audio quality is ridiculous,
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  No, ridiculous. Who said I have an a cappella group that I can
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  get to sing Wheel of Time? Shit? Is it one person or is
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  it time? Beatboxer guy down at the bottom is called Avi or mister Av.
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  I'm not completely sure, okay, And he's organized a WA cappella group.
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  You can message him and become part of the WA cappella group. It's
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  like a thing that exists. Now. Our community is insane, our community
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  that unreasonably talented fandom. Yeah, on reason. And you'll notice down at
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  the bottom right, that's Salia who actually won. So when we were in
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  final four voting, we literally at one point had Salia verse Salia, where
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  it was like, ah, I thought you weren't supposed to do. They
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  expanded the rules about collaboration this year. They wanted more people to be able
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  to collaborate and support each other's various strengths and weaknesses. And so in a
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  walk cappella group, yeah, okay, you can also have your own genuine
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  submission if you are one of eight. Ali and I are definitely talking about
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  doing a collaboration, but also each doing one with our own respective podcasts.
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  And we're gonna need to grill the village council and how how much collaboration we're
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  allowed to get away with just because we have two podcasts. Apiece, Yeah,
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  that one was definitely I just a cappella is so like, it's such
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  an interesting sound. I really like it. And just a little tribute to
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  the Maidens. Yeah, yeah, and again it had more of that footage
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  of the of the flood snow because of course it did, of course,
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  but yeah, and it feels very right for the Maidens. Just this like
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  uplifting, like because like the Maidens do sing right, male I yell,
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  don't sing female ayeal do sing Like this seems like the kind of thing Maidens
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  would sing exactly exactly. This is how they hype themselves up to go into
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  battle, singing these beautiful harmonies like and then and as you them and like
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  and then they're just stabbing ship out of it, these beautiful harmonies and you
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  get like, you know, points docked at the end of the battle,
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  if you like got flat or sharp as you were like cutting your way through
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  shindow. You know, it's all about breath control, remember, sing and
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  stab, sing and stab, breathe on the inhale and you know, retreat
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  exactly exactly. I am part of me wants to try to join walk,
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  join wal capella, but also like I am a mediocre at knowing what to
• 23:38
  and I'm in singer and have a lot of other things going on. So
• 23:44
  oh and here we come to tak Yes, Takaron Riott again. They're gonna
• 23:48
  win one of these years because they always just turn out with such fantastic videos
• 23:53
  and songs and make their own music. It's just it's great, It's great.
• 23:56
  I love them. Hardcore fan freaking candering to the Matt Hatch contingent.
• 24:03
  I mean, does that not always get you up there in the rankings.
• 24:07
  I swear he's like garnered more support for land Fear than would otherwise exists in
• 24:11
  this community. Sure, and this was also his return Idol Finals, was
• 24:15
  him coming back after a six month hiatus. Matt Hatch or Yeah, nice
• 24:22
  song, it's about us. They do well fandom meta phantom, Yeah,
• 24:29
  the singing. Yeah. Now, if this had won, it would be
• 24:30
  another guy playing in a guitar band. It's not just a guy playing a
• 24:34
  guitar fair enough, right, Yeah, this is gonna do ridiculously well.
• 24:42
  It can have lots of good phantoms this year, but this one might be
• 24:45
  the best. Yeah, this one's gonna be. It's gonna be hard for
• 24:49
  us not to just flast this out. We will be fantoming this hardcore especially
• 24:53
  because they wrote it, like they can't stop it. M hm. Delusions
• 25:02
  always cracks me up. I like how it's all the costplays kind of like,
• 25:07
  oh, we're costplaying these various roles. What we do really good meta?
• 25:12
  Yeah, tell me what you think. I mean, that hits me,
• 25:18
  that hits me hard. I'm gonna have a hard you know. It's
• 25:22
  one of those things where it makes me really sad. I'm not going to
• 25:25
  work on this year. Yeah, you know. It's it's like that community
• 25:30
  is so great and I love everybody there. And as much as I get
• 25:33
  incredibly overwhelmed at those cons and can't remember anybody's name in the moment, and
• 25:40
  I always feel guilty because people know me and I don't know them, but
• 25:42
  I still love going and I still love the environment and the people in the
• 25:47
  whole event. I mean, it's just it's probably my favorite thing to do.
• 25:51
  And we sort of had a little mini con. I got together with
• 25:53
  some Wheel of Time folks getting ready for my wedding. It's just some friends
• 25:59
  of mine or radio I get to see you in person, as well as
• 26:02
  a few other things, and that we are in fact three dimensional people that
• 26:03
  exist. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it did happen every every year or
• 26:08
  two we actually get together in person. That's more than often to that it's
• 26:11
  every six months. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it just made me
• 26:15
  miss miss the whole community all that much more, right, because it is
• 26:19
  it's a it's a real safe space because I get man. Man, I've
• 26:22
  been going in to work every day and the mask is becoming a little too
• 26:25
  real. Yeah. You know when you start making the bad jokes that your
• 26:30
  coworkers make in earnest that you're like, I don't want to I don't want
• 26:33
  that to be my mindset, but there it is. You know. You
• 26:37
  grind on it forty hours a week. It's very hard not to adapt the
• 26:41
  people you're around, you know. And so I need I need my Tetana
• 26:45
  shot, which is the Wheel of Time fan free cardcore. Yeah, people,
• 26:48
  and this is a nice bomb yeah for that because it's like it's it's
• 26:52
  these are my friends, right like everybody in that video with somebody I knew,
• 26:56
  someone I hung out with, someone I talked to. It all I've
• 27:00
  gotten food with. It's it's like a scrap book of the times we've had
• 27:04
  as a community in so many ways. And yeah, it's it's also funny
• 27:08
  as I watching that video and then suddenly it's like, oh shit, I'm
• 27:11
  in this video too, because there was that one panting shot of the sing
• 27:15
  along from last year, and I recognize my ass. Like I said,
• 27:22
  people, you know, it's a lovely peon to us, and I do
• 27:27
  think that we're all going to be singing that one multiple times at walk and
• 27:30
  we are going to miss you very much because Yeah, as I've been telling
• 27:34
  multiple people today already, like going to Walkcon despite the fact that I have
• 27:41
  to fly to Ohio of all places, like these are my people, Like
• 27:45
  these are my people, and it's worth it to me to get to actually
• 27:48
  be in a space with them for you know, three entire days plus two
• 27:53
  travel days coming in and out like it's it's so it's so good for the
• 27:59
  soul to be there. And yeah, a song like this really emphasizes that
• 28:03
  feeling without you actually having to go to Ohio. You can just watch the
• 28:06
  song and be like, ah for that. Oh, I fully expect,
• 28:15
  like I don't know how the service is going to be, but I need
• 28:18
  you to, like video call me at least a couple of times that weekend
• 28:22
  and be like yes' hi and hold hold me people, and then yes,
• 28:27
  yeah, yes, for sure, Yeah that would be really nice because we
• 28:30
  will all miss you, and I al miss everybody there, so I expect
• 28:37
  at least one at least yes, I'll make sure, yes, yes,
• 28:41
  I'll put it on my list. I will look. I have I have
• 28:44
  an extremely itemized, a tennerary of all the things I need to do because
• 28:48
  autism. I will put that on the list, and ironically it will go
• 28:52
  on a list excellent, ironically excellent. So yeah, next video video is
• 29:02
  the longing part one our time again talking about professional musicians. Yeah yeah,
• 29:08
  and this one is like there's basically two songs in it, like it's a
• 29:12
  thing. Yeah, it's a long one. It's is seven minutes, so
• 29:17
  sit back, prepare to enjoy it. There's so much going on in this
• 29:22
  video. I will have to watch it four or five more times before I
• 29:25
  even can like start to approach. I have not seen everything that's in it
• 29:30
  at all. And this is the second song you're talking about. Yeah,
• 29:34
  yeah, this is just it's incredible. So yeah, that's Jake and Alex.
• 29:41
  I don't have the bandwidth for that. That was amazing on so many
• 29:47
  levels that I do not hear the bandwidth process it, I would need to.
• 29:52
  I mean, it's two songs, first of all. Then there's a
• 29:55
  whole acting thing going on inside of that. There's fifty square around those like
• 30:00
  eight squares, yet so many squares of acting in which things are going on
• 30:04
  in each individual square. I would want to watch the video once for each
• 30:07
  square. Then the lyrics were all interesting, but also complicated in a way
• 30:14
  that I was not able to follow while everything else was going on. I
• 30:18
  don't have the bandwidth to process something like that on my first watch. But
• 30:22
  it was yeah, like in the very literal sense of the word. And
• 30:26
  then like I have a lot of awe for what I just said. The
• 30:30
  professional musicianship is not to be questioned. They have so much going on.
• 30:33
  I couldn't even follow the lyrics without the video. I was still getting lost
• 30:38
  in all the different instruments to listen to and all the different things that were
• 30:42
  just happening. Auditorily, I don't quite get the connection between the two songs.
• 30:48
  It felt kind of weirdly shoehorned together, because I do know the first
• 30:51
  song and it is very much not connected to the second song. But yeah,
• 30:56
  I mean their production value is absurd for sure. I mean I guess
• 31:02
  they just couldn't. One probably want to do one song and one wanted to
• 31:04
  do the other. So they said, well, I mean that does seem
• 31:07
  like the like the most likely scenario. And then they also are teasing what
• 31:11
  they're gonna do next year, right, They're like, oh, yeah,
• 31:14
  we're gonna go to toe onhead next year where nothing happens ever, like so
• 31:18
  you know they're they're gonna do that, I guess, And it feels like
• 31:23
  this is the kind of thing that takes a year to produce. I would
• 31:26
  suspect so. And they did something very similar to this last year. That
• 31:30
  was the one where we got the line where are the girls? Because it
• 31:33
  was like this very surprising, shocking, like death metal riff at the end
• 31:36
  with Matt just screaming where are the girls? It was like amazing. Yeah,
• 31:40
  this year, the takeaway line is the groove is no bar to My
• 31:44
  Call. That is the takeaway line from their song is the groove is no
• 31:48
  bar to My Call? Like, oh my god, it's so good,
• 31:49
  so brilliant, but yeah, it's a lot to take in. It was
• 31:52
  sort of like you just like, how do I even respond to that?
• 31:56
  I just like I just need to watch it again and like posit every five
• 31:59
  so seconds to like check in with what's happening. Like I'm literally this would
• 32:04
  be like a frame by frame type situation where I could like advance a couple
• 32:07
  like three frames and then like look again and see what's going on. So
• 32:10
  so that's that. That was a lot. It's again, they have to
• 32:15
  win one of these years, just because how are they not going to inevitably
• 32:19
  win? Like, ah, if you keep producing that level of quality,
• 32:23
  definitely for sure. Next next one is Party in Flame a Wheel Fall.
• 32:30
  Oh I got this one. I was so sure this one was gonna win.
• 32:32
  I was so sure this one was gonna win. So okay, this
• 32:38
  ranking shit is not how we should do this. We need use tears.
• 32:43
  We really like that one because like we're talking about these top sixteen in no
• 32:50
  way are these would I rank these in the order that we're watching them?
• 32:54
  Uh yeah, yeah, there's I wish they did categories. I've heard other
• 32:59
  people talk about tear systems. I just the sheer like brute like like just
• 33:08
  total elimination down to one, two, and three is just like yeah,
• 33:14
  it's just really hard. I don't like it. It doesn't feel appropriate to
• 33:19
  the talent and the fan base. But the people organizing it have yet to
• 33:22
  take my pointed comments every year's feedback in every year's feedback form seriously, they
• 33:29
  have not responded. I will continue giving them that feedback until the heat death
• 33:31
  of the universe. Maybe someday they'll listen. The pronunciation on this to make
• 33:37
  them rhymes a little tortured but funny, because you can't pronounce them like that
• 33:40
  if you really want to, right, it's just just yeah, it's serve
• 33:45
  a way and obey And she does a really good Miley cyrus too. Yeah.
• 33:52
  Yeah, that was a collaboration. The lyrics were by one person and
• 33:55
  the singing was by another person. Okay, okay, yeah, because the
• 34:01
  writing was awesome, right, Like the lyrics just matched up. Like,
• 34:06
  like I said, those couple of rhymes are a little tortured, but in
• 34:07
  a way that like kind of makes fun of the fact the way we pronounce
• 34:10
  these words anyway, it's a fine head yet tips just the fact that yeah
• 34:15
  pronunciation. Yeah, I was I just was like, there's no way that
• 34:24
  that's not gonna And it came so close. It was in the final sixteen.
• 34:28
  It just you know, came up early in the elimination, So that's
• 34:30
  why it's so far down in the list. I would say, also,
• 34:34
  it doesn't have the video production quality some of the other It's a good video,
• 34:39
  right, like it's a good video home, but it's not like the
• 34:43
  professionally you know, created ones. It's just basically her singing with the right
• 34:47
  and the filter makes it amazing and amazing. The dog, the dog face
• 34:53
  in that in that comic book filter is just so funny. I love the
• 34:58
  dog. Yeah, that was just so much talent and like, you know,
• 35:02
  they hadn't done it, they hadn't entered before, and then they just
• 35:05
  come out swinging with that like wow, and I just and I love how
• 35:08
  like you. At first you're bopping along with Soroth like oh, it's a
• 35:10
  pro suroth song, and you get to the end and it's like, yeah,
• 35:15
  Rja totally had an outrigger plan where he was going to like deconstruct the
• 35:17
  whole Sean Chan bullshit that he had set up, Like that was totally on
• 35:21
  the books, like you're you're the bad guy. You're the bad guy.
• 35:22
  It's just it's such a funny ending. So it's just such a funny like
• 35:28
  ending to the song because you think it's just pro siroth. And then it's
• 35:30
  like, that's why I think, like both, that's a better bop than
• 35:37
  I think. So that's gonna stick in my head better than some of the
• 35:38
  other songs I've heard, and it's got better story to it than some of
• 35:45
  the other songs I've heard because it got the so I think, I think,
• 35:47
  I think it wins out in those two categories. It just doesn't quite
• 35:51
  have the video production of some ones. Yeah, totally, because we have
• 35:53
  a wide range of talents in this fandom and they are not evenly distributed.
• 36:00
  Right right, right, right, all right, next, all right,
• 36:04
  now we're ah, helloly the song that beat me? This is what I
• 36:07
  love this. Tell me, tell me I shouldn't have lost to this again.
• 36:12
  This is a shot for shot remake video. There's a video parody on
• 36:15
  top of everything. Before I watch it, I will tell you that you
• 36:17
  should not have lost in this. After I watch it, I might have
• 36:21
  some true I appreciate that I'm and enjoyed it for a few more minutes.
• 36:22
  While we watched this, so far, all I see is someone's face and
• 36:30
  the word hello on screen. I don't find that to be at all compelling
• 36:32
  compared to yours. So I think we're we're. We can just write off
• 36:36
  the rest of this video. All right, sorry Allie, this long's not
• 36:46
  real. Yeah, I just finished it. It is. This is great
• 36:53
  because I know she just finished up that run of books in the podcast,
• 36:58
  so Alo from the other Side is perfect. Oh man, the call outs
• 37:07
  and the song are so good. Gender dynamics of ninety nine are great.
• 37:16
  God, and her physical comedy is really fucking funny too, like every shot
• 37:22
  gratuitous rift are you the hair dryer part? Okay? Not yet before?
• 37:34
  Yeah? No, there it is the way it just dips into screen back
• 37:37
  out again. There's a little blooper you have to watch too. Yeah.
• 37:43
  In the Knife of Dreams, yeah, is completely anal about you cannot dog
• 37:51
  your dad please the book spine, like his books need to be perfect.
• 37:55
  So yeah, when when he threw the book, everyone in their server was
• 37:58
  like, oh, what did God say? Yeah? So yeah, tell
• 38:07
  it's okay. I deserve to lose. I deserve to lose. Going up,
• 38:09
  I guess that, like I mean belting, like my god, Yeah,
• 38:17
  she took a nailed so I would drunk in a group. I am
• 38:23
  not doing a dell for widle, like just amazing pipes. And yeah,
• 38:29
  her commentary like three or four depending on who you ask in this community.
• 38:36
  Just like every line just zing zing zing yeah as every every single line was
• 38:43
  great, Every single line had a hit to it. Once again, Ali
• 38:46
  is incredible. So when she said that she wanted to collaborate with me for
• 38:50
  next year, I got very excited. And I'm not gonna talk about what
• 38:52
  we're talking about, but I'll just say she's not slowing down. So yeah,
• 39:00
  I was. I was very proud to lose to that. My my
• 39:02
  podcast co host is very talented. Thank you other podcast. Oh okay,
• 39:09
  okay, okay, again, you're talented in very different ways. You do
• 39:13
  not have those talents? No, no, I do not. No live
• 39:19
  lyric me. Wow, where did that word come from? I was gonna
• 39:22
  say lyrically and rhythmically, I have very I'm not as talented, so I
• 39:28
  can do some lyrics. I feel like I've come up with some good lyrics,
• 39:30
  you know, just substituting and stuff like that. But like, yeah,
• 39:35
  no, I'm not. I'm not the wordsmith that some of these people
• 39:37
  are. The vocal smith. She is a screenwriter. That is her job.
• 39:43
  She's she does the words professionally. I do the machines. It does
• 39:46
  not apply to this sort of talent show quite so well. That's eight eight
• 39:51
  videos. We are halfway through, all right. Origin of Thirsty the Clown.
• 40:08
  Oh my god, Oh my god. His his videos are always memorable,
• 40:14
  which I get. This is another one where the singer is not the
• 40:16
  author of the lyrics. The singer is not at all a fan of real
• 40:20
  of time, just puts on the drag and does the performance. Because you
• 40:23
  don't need to know. We have time to make this kind of a performance
• 40:28
  possible. So, oh my god, enjoy Thirsty's absolute nonsense. Origin of
• 40:30
  Love has to be one of my favorite songs of all time. By the
• 40:34
  way, I don't know if you know that I love head winging the Angry
• 40:36
  Inch as a movie showed it to never if I could sing this in karaoke
• 40:42
  in a heartbeat, I would do this in karaoke. Familiar I'm bad,
• 40:45
  I'm bad, Millennial. The original story works so fucking well. I'm so
• 40:49
  impressed with this idea, Like I am just absolutely like I know exactly how
• 40:53
  this story is going to go down because the parallels are there, and I'm
• 40:58
  so excited for it. Happy and Grendal to be the one to sing this
• 41:06
  is just so perfect. The guy said that I love when the fan speed
• 41:15
  gets turned up. All right, that might be my new favorite. Like,
• 41:22
  that's absolutely insane that I put that number one, absolutely easily above anything
• 41:29
  else. I had to get voted back in as a wild card, actually
• 41:31
  got knocked out of the initial voting on the preliminary nights and got wild card
• 41:35
  voted back in. I forget, it's all a blur. Oh no,
• 41:38
  it lost to Blind Brad's submission. I forget what song he did, but
• 41:44
  I remember that I voted for Blind Brad thinking that it was kind of like,
• 41:47
  you know, I want to make sure that everyone gets enough of votes,
• 41:50
  and then it ended up being really close and that song lost. And
• 41:54
  yeah, So the author of that is Tran Fear, a trans man who
• 41:59
  I talked to at Waltcon and we ended up he had to remind me like
• 42:07
  months later because we were very drunk when we talked about this, but he
• 42:09
  ended up interviewing me for an academic paper he's working on about transreadings of the
• 42:17
  wheel of time, specifically because you know, identify as non binary, and
• 42:22
  I have strong opinions about binary, about the gender binary specifically informed b wheel
• 42:25
  of time. So I was like, I need to give you my internal
• 42:29
  gender dissertation because we have time. Is the whole framework for how I understand
• 42:34
  why I do not vibe with the binary. So we had a great conversation,
• 42:37
  and as far as I know, he's still looking for people to interview.
• 42:39
  So if anyone out there has that perspective and wants to talk about it,
• 42:45
  send me a message. I will get you in touch with someone who
• 42:46
  wants to talk to you about it. Well. And I find Hedwig such
• 42:50
  an interesting topic, especially when compared to someone like Helima, which I noticed
• 42:52
  they didn't use right, because in a lot of ways, Hedwig and Helima
• 42:59
  have an incredibly parallel story, right, because they were both men. Hadwig
• 43:04
  was a cross dressing man but still a man, not a trans person,
• 43:08
  right, who involuntarily had their penis removed in order to get out of Russia.
• 43:15
  I've heard this story like to that degree before, I've never actually watched
• 43:17
  the movie or I'm not familiar with it, right, So, and it's
• 43:22
  but right, and that's sort of the and then of course, like a
• 43:24
  few years later the Wall falls a nineteen eighty four, the Berlin wallfalls,
• 43:29
  and Hedwig is like, why did I go through all this when I would
• 43:32
  have just like if I waited a couple of years, I could have just
• 43:35
  left. What the fuck you said? Eighty four? But what was it?
• 43:37
  One? Yeah, I did. It is a famous book. But
• 43:40
  the Wall fell in ninety Yes, the Wall fell in ninety one. Sorry
• 43:45
  so, but like, yeah, basically you know how we gets out of
• 43:47
  out of Russia, comes to America, but sacrifices this huge thing, right,
• 43:52
  this like very important thing to them. It's not like they get surgery
• 43:55
  and receive you know, a gender reassign at surgery. This is just removal,
• 44:02
  just to get just take it off, to get out a and and
• 44:07
  the way that parallels Helima, right, who is this man who is has
• 44:14
  his genitals in this case transition, but is put in a woman's body even
• 44:17
  though they never wanted to be or intended to be. Right, but Helena
• 44:22
  is just too so Granda, Yeah, and you know there's there's some issues
• 44:29
  there. We'll go grand now, but I think it would have been really
• 44:30
  interesting to redo this and and change the singer to Helema and see how they
• 44:37
  would have changed the lyrics and how that would have changed the song. But
• 44:42
  do the same concept in the same song, just with Halima as singer.
• 44:45
  Well, if we decided we want to start doing just our own like non
• 44:49
  contest parodies, I mean, there's no reason we couldn't do our own take.
• 44:53
  This is too good, though I would never I would never want to
• 44:55
  like try and do a slight variation of it. That's yes, yes,
• 45:01
  absolutely absolutely, But you know, I mean the balloops, can we can
• 45:06
  we just a moment for the balloops. They're just the blues, the whole
• 45:10
  cross dress, the grend All costuming is just the intensity because Grandall is the
• 45:19
  drag queen aeus of them. I mean maybe as Moodian would go like full
• 45:22
  eightieses like hair band, but yeah, just the over the top. This
• 45:28
  is so perfect for Grandal, and she knows all the things about the about
• 45:32
  the age of Legends, so like that all feels right coming from her.
• 45:36
  And yeah, it's one of those ones where it's like I don't know the
• 45:37
  original, but this is clearly a fantastic rendition and I love it so much
• 45:45
  because I have to understand, like gosh, we talked about this, But
• 45:47
  I grew up in what is probably the South you can consider the South right
• 45:52
  for most of my life, and it wasn't exposed to a lot of shall
• 45:55
  we say, diversity in my life, and so going to college was sort
• 46:00
  of a very much awakening for me in terms of things that I knew existed
• 46:05
  but had never experienced or been around people who had experienced, and so sort
• 46:07
  of being shown headweight in The Angry Inch was my first reel foray into Wait,
• 46:12
  gender is not a binary like my first reel, and so like this,
• 46:16
  I have a lot of fondness for the most of this movie, even
• 46:19
  though I mean some people find there's certain parts of it that don't age the
• 46:22
  best because it's not fully defining. I don't know, it feels like because
• 46:28
  it's operating in a time when we just didn't have the terms that we have
• 46:30
  now. And definitely so there's a piece of art from the middle of a
• 46:34
  conversation. How dare it? Yeah? Exactly right right, right, right,
• 46:37
  right right. So it's one of those things where it's like you have
• 46:39
  to understand that and understand that, like it's in the middle of the conversation
• 46:44
  and it's not where we are today in that conversation. But for me,
• 46:47
  I just I find it to be a very important archive of things that I
• 46:51
  care about and know about and sort of the first time I went oh,
• 46:57
  oh that's awesome, that's very cool. Yeah, yeah, it was,
• 47:02
  you know, because the weal of time had always done that, but it's
• 47:06
  it was more of a real world, right, sort of pushing me into
• 47:07
  really understanding actually grounding it in the world that you had some ability to interact
• 47:13
  with exactly there is no channeling in your world, but there is a USSR.
• 47:16
  Well there was, I mean there wasn't by the time that you were
• 47:19
  watching this, but like you existed in a world where the USSR was real.
• 47:23
  Yeah, and I remember the Fall of the exactly exactly like that is
• 47:29
  that around? Yeah, yeah, you know, and that and that this
• 47:32
  person had to escape that and then ended up kind of bitter that it happened.
• 47:37
  You know, they gave up all this stuff when they could have just
• 47:39
  waited. And it's it's like that gambling Right, what's what's that movie?
• 47:43
  I think it's the mist right with this movie? Okay, so the movie
• 47:47
  goes on, it's a horror movie, right, this guy. Anyone who
• 47:50
  goes out into the mist, leaves a building is murdered horribly by monsters,
• 47:54
  right, Like that's the premise, right, And this family survives, and
• 47:58
  they really they get to the end end of the movie and they're in a
• 48:01
  car and it's out of gas and there's nowhere to go and nothing to do.
• 48:06
  And so in order to prevent horrible death by monsters, the father kills
• 48:09
  his whole family day, right, And as he goes to kill himself,
• 48:14
  the gun fails and he gives himself up to the monsters, and instead of
• 48:17
  the monsters, the US Army comes walking through, having pushed back everybody.
• 48:22
  And so if he just waited, and at the end of the movie,
• 48:24
  right, if he just waited five minutes, his family would be alive and
• 48:29
  happful, you know that sort of Yeah? Anyway, Yeah, that's that's
• 48:32
  rough. Living through tumultuous times is difficult, and you make choices, right,
• 48:37
  You make choices based on the best information you have, and sometimes you're
• 48:42
  wrong and you have you make terrible choices based on that information. Yea.
• 48:45
  Even just little choices like should I get on this train or not can like
• 48:50
  lead to like getting out of poland or not right right, yeah, okay,
• 48:59
  yeah yeah, because you can't see the future. We don't know,
• 49:00
  yeah exactly, Like my ancestors bounced like a good long while before shit got
• 49:06
  hairy. But also like they saw the writing on the wall and were like,
• 49:10
  seems like a good time to leave before it gets hard to leave.
• 49:15
  We're just we're gonna get out like a whole generation ahead of the shit that's
• 49:19
  coming. And then there were other people who like waited one week too long
• 49:22
  and just that was too much, right, But like these were all decisions
• 49:25
  made blindly in the dark, having no idea how long it was gonna be
• 49:30
  before this inevitable storm broke. I always wonder how long what signs were missing?
• 49:36
  Not a lot. If you bother to listen to the academics, we're
• 49:39
  pretty well well aware of all the signs that are happening right now. We've
• 49:45
  gone a very clearly articulated path following a very well understood playbook, according to
• 49:51
  what the what the book said, I mean, the academics are all tearing
• 49:54
  their hair out, being like, do you not see, well, we're
• 49:58
  not missing anything except for you know, the cohesion and political will to do
• 50:01
  anything about it to the next song. The next song, Okay, so
• 50:09
  obviously I have feelings about that. Moving on. Ye oh yeah, this
• 50:20
  one Recoy again, Bailfire, Wheel of Time, Parent by Bonfire by a
• 50:27
  Childish Campino nailed this one. Yeah. Recoy last year did this really creepy
• 50:36
  song called Little Boxes and it was just really creepy, And there was a
• 50:39
  little cameo of little Boxes in Salia's video when she talked about boxing up.
• 50:45
  The dragon behind her was the little Boxes. But yeah, then totally went
• 50:51
  away on a way harder level this year than Little Boxes last year, Like
• 50:57
  the duty like a mountain range just one of my favorite lines ever because geology
• 51:04
  nice. Nice, Yeah, and this one goes hard on Rand, Like
• 51:07
  I feel like we've been doing a lot of like other characters now and it's
• 51:08
  nice to see like just a Rand sometimes, Like I want to remind people
• 51:14
  the books are about Rand. I know, there's the whole line it's not
• 51:16
  about him, it's about everybody else. But the reason when you have to
• 51:20
  say it's not about Rand, it's not sure. Yeah, yeah, there
• 51:25
  was. There was a lot of sad boy Ran songs, but I'm guessing
• 51:28
  we're going to find those in like the middle of the rankings because so many
• 51:30
  of the interesting characters are who ended up getting voted high up. But I
• 51:35
  bet as we get into the more middle section right right, like you know
• 51:38
  songs seventeen onward, I think you'll find there's a lot more sad boy rand
• 51:43
  songs. Oh but yeah, I really liked a lot of the of the
• 51:47
  references in this one. Dude, you like a mountain range. I think
• 51:52
  that's another one. I'm gonna have to go back and just play it slowly
• 51:54
  to actually read and comprehend the lyrics because there was so much to it.
• 51:59
  It did it well, went by so fast that I'm still I'm like,
• 52:01
  wait, trying to get Yeah. Yeah, I'm not familiar with the original.
• 52:05
  I just know that I like childish Cambino songs in general, but nonetheless
• 52:07
  yet very very I really enjoyed that upgrade from Little Boxes, Shamel's Secret one,
• 52:16
  I forget Scendario Yeah, yeah, Sindaria, Yeah, a shame secret.
• 52:21
  Yeah. This was fun, suspatulous the whole He's not a dark one,
• 52:30
  He's just the dude. Another song. I really loved the original Love
• 52:36
  the Nights again, dude. The end is great. There there was a
• 52:46
  lot of like white auja represent in the chat when that came up, because
• 52:52
  if you made it to the final sixteen, your whole video got shown.
• 52:55
  Like that's really like the only material prize is if you make it to top
• 53:00
  sixteen, your whole video will get shown. Then, Yeah, the chat
• 53:07
  definitely melted down with white ouch of pread. Yeah, And I feel like
• 53:13
  these songs are always fall into a couple of categories. There's the one where
• 53:15
  the chorus is the majority of the song and there's like a couple of connecting
• 53:21
  lines, but really it's just the chorus that gets repeated a couple of times.
• 53:23
  I feel like this falls in that category, whereas some of the more
• 53:25
  rap songs or some of the more lyrical ones like Alleys, the lyrics are
• 53:30
  able to vary a little bit more over the course of the song, and
• 53:34
  I I think I like that category of song more simply because there's more storytelling
• 53:38
  potential. But sometimes these are right, this is joppable, this is danceable.
• 53:44
  This can get stuck in your head in a different way. Yeah,
• 53:46
  exactly exactly, because you're like all you need to memorize is those three or
• 53:50
  four lines, and then it's like, yeah, this is a bop.
• 53:52
  I can sing along to this, I can. I can enjoy the hell
• 53:54
  out of that. Yeah, And it's making kind of like one point right,
• 53:58
  like Sean Mayel's just guy, and then there's a couple of lines around
• 54:00
  that, but it's not really doing much more than that, right. And
• 54:05
  I've always I've looked at that, and when we've tried to make videos,
• 54:07
  I've always like tried to do ones that are more lyrical, so there's more
• 54:13
  ins and outs, more storytelling, Beau. That's where I feel like my
• 54:15
  abilities lie is like adding the storytelling and creating that sort of thing. Whereas
• 54:20
  whereas the simple ones need to be better produced. They need to be high
• 54:23
  quality audio, interesting video, and something you want to sing along with,
• 54:29
  so you've got to have good pipes. It's Patuss in this case. Where's
• 54:32
  a lot of the more storytelling ones, you know, the Bob Dylan ones,
• 54:35
  you can be like, ah, just docking the Dylan you know.
• 54:39
  Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting how people choose their songs. I mean definitely
• 54:43
  like watching all the entries and trying to figure like what songs of my singing
• 54:45
  repertoire like fit in these different bins and how I do them. It's like
• 54:50
  it makes me want to start a channel just full of parodies, just so
• 54:52
  I can do all the ideas, you know, the parody channel. Yeah,
• 54:57
  it makes me want to do it. It'd be so much work.
• 54:59
  I do not have that kind of time, but I feel like the time
• 55:02
  and I and I just I don't have the I do. But I have
• 55:08
  to go learn to sing, right, Like I have to like do a
• 55:12
  whole musical thing, like everything from singing to music, to instruments to editing.
• 55:20
  All of that, I feel like is a skill on its own,
• 55:22
  and I don't feel like I have a I have a couple of pieces.
• 55:25
  I have family with a couple other pieces, but I have other things I
• 55:30
  need to be working on. Yeah, this doesn't be the bills unfortunately,
• 55:35
  doing parodies because that contest is fun because then you get to other people provide
• 55:40
  all this cool art and you just get to daydream about what you could have
• 55:43
  done if you had all the time in the world. Okay, all the
• 55:45
  time in the world. The next one is Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Time
• 55:50
  and guid by Penny Penny. Yeah there's two. Yeah, this is fun,
• 55:54
  all right, there we got another song I had never heard before.
• 55:57
  I like using the map, I know the song original, sure, for
• 56:00
  sure. I really like the editing and the use of the clip art and
• 56:04
  the way she's using the various layers of images to create story and her hair.
• 56:10
  I love her And the costume is great though. Yeah she's an the
• 56:15
  Soldier boy. Oh okay, gotcha. I don't know why I can't.
• 56:19
  I never think of the Ashman jacket as having gold buttons. I think that's
• 56:22
  what throws me off. Always forget in the middle of that. Wow,
• 56:32
  so unexpected, such tight harmonies. Yeah, kid Rand got a cameo,
• 56:42
  Yes, but that is but that the child is kid Rand, but yes,
• 56:45
  yes, the character is all he actually had his own entry Kid Rand
• 56:50
  does later on. But yeah, he's a cameo there, which is very
• 56:52
  very cute. That was very cute. That was great, the universing use
• 56:57
  of song like talk about oldies right, going way back and pulling from some
• 57:00
  some real swing music. But yeah, that was That's fun. And like
• 57:05
  you said, just yeah, top talent, top editing. Tight harmonies like
• 57:08
  those are not easy harmonies to do, Like I would be terrified to try
• 57:12
  to do something that tight. And I'll take your word on that one close
• 57:16
  together, which is just so like, if you fuck that up, you
• 57:20
  you are train wrecking the sound, right, you know, it's like it
• 57:22
  is precision or bust with that sort of thing. So yeah, just fantastic
• 57:29
  performance. I love everything about that video. It's just I'm just dancing in
• 57:32
  my chair. It's so fun. Rode I was twelve, so we've got
• 57:42
  four more halfway through this, so that's three quarters of the way. They're
• 57:45
  Kevin God, damn fucking Kevin. This is Kevin, so yeah, Kevin
• 57:49
  with the Dragon anonymous versus mister Dice. Sorry Kevin, I love you,
• 57:52
  but fuck you. Uh I want to go. You got you. We're
• 57:58
  doing top sixteen, That's what it is. This is a wow card thing
• 58:00
  because people have are inside Kevin Okay, Kevin okay, ken I know what,
• 58:16
  I know what I know both incredibly tight lyrics, really weird and somehow
• 58:22
  also very low effort. Kevin what only Kevin only Kevin? I I love
• 58:31
  it right right when I lost my wild card vote and this got in,
• 58:37
  I I just Kevin, I love you, man, but what the fuck.
• 58:46
  I'll have the mix one. Oh my god, remind me who did
• 58:51
  this? Mags Magsican the Audrey wrote she says, performed by Audrey Rosing.
• 59:00
  Okay, yeah, yeah, fan Servicembie, but it's from Barbie. But
• 59:07
  this is the song from Barbie in that beautiful delicate tone. Mm mm hmmm.
• 59:20
  Yeah. The cosplay, the dolls, the audio quality, her lyrics
• 59:24
  are all amazing. That was really really with being the Barbie song and playing
• 59:30
  with the dolls. Just I didn't even think about that, but that that
• 59:36
  makes Yeah, it's not necessarily my favorite song to say a long yeah,
• 59:42
  yeah, I mean it's a ballad like yeah, it's about yeah, but
• 59:46
  like then are you familiar with the original, Yeah, yeah, I just
• 59:51
  does such a justice to the tone of the original and then the cost play
• 59:55
  and I just yeah, just yeah again not great for a singer long around
• 1:00:00
  the drunken circle, but like just a fantastic execution. And what she did
• 1:00:07
  is she told the story of land start to finish, right, like that
• 1:00:10
  was basically what that was was the entire like this is land fear. And
• 1:00:15
  I have a soft spot for those songs that are like take do like a
• 1:00:20
  character study because like we did those forsaken character study episodes, remember like always
• 1:00:25
  finish, I mean someday, right, do we have account of how many
• 1:00:32
  we have left? You guys got half way ish plus, so yeah,
• 1:00:40
  and I think, didn't you and I do one or two? We might
• 1:00:43
  have? But yeah, yeah, it's it's very cool how she actually tells
• 1:00:46
  the whole last story from start to finish and then walks away at the end.
• 1:00:52
  It's great. It's great and very very low budget but not low effort,
• 1:00:57
  right right. The feelings made it made you bad for Land here in
• 1:01:01
  a way that like, yeah, it's just like because like and there is
• 1:01:07
  that certain sympathy for Land, fear of like she bored into the dark ones
• 1:01:13
  prison and like I had loved this Lewis Theren and like ended up in this
• 1:01:17
  position where, yeah, she didn't make all the right choices, but man,
• 1:01:22
  it feels like if she'd made just a few better choices, she could
• 1:01:27
  have been an amazing right, right, it's hard not to mourn for her
• 1:01:30
  and be like what could have been? And that wistful song with those delicate
• 1:01:35
  vocals, it's just like, h yeah, I feel for Land fair now.
• 1:01:38
  But don't forget to think she carefully didn't mention that at this point,
• 1:01:43
  So yeah, there is that and I'm like, why did she drill into
• 1:01:47
  the board? Right? She thought she could get loose there and back if
• 1:01:51
  she triple PhD or whatever. Yeah? Probably all right, who's next?
• 1:01:58
  Uh? Next? I read all Night? I forget by seeing so Jesus
• 1:02:07
  Christ because I hear it called out on live stream and they're like pretty active
• 1:02:12
  in the community, and I just I hung out in like a thousand hours
• 1:02:15
  of live stream. That's how gotcha another fan tribute. That video reminds me
• 1:02:23
  how good the animated are and how much they are true to the books in
• 1:02:29
  a way that the live action, the use of the origin stuff was really
• 1:02:34
  inspired for that one. Yeah, then the whole read all night like I
• 1:02:38
  did right when these books came out. I always wanted. That's all I
• 1:02:43
  did was read the next one is for me, I guess, rather than
• 1:02:46
  sleep through work. But yeah, I still I don't think there's anything else
• 1:02:51
  like that that I loved as much as Yeah, it's a really good phantom.
• 1:02:54
  We're definitely going to be singing that in group because just that chorus I
• 1:02:59
  read all it's all your heart into it. Yeah, and just those pipes
• 1:03:05
  like Sean Stoney, I recall, I don't recall every video that she's done.
• 1:03:12
  But I remember last year was disturbed Sound of Silence, the disturbed version
• 1:03:17
  of Sound of Silence but like turned into a Hinderstap song. It was awesome,
• 1:03:21
  but it was very soft and like whispery and creepy because it was you
• 1:03:24
  know, like I mean, it's disturbed, but it's disturbed doing Sound of
• 1:03:28
  Silence. That was the parody. This just belting like Wall of Sound.
• 1:03:34
  Was like, wow, that's just the range, the range on this singer.
• 1:03:40
  Fantastic, very very good. Yeah. No, that one that one
• 1:03:45
  happened might hit me in the feels, right if you want to say,
• 1:03:49
  like I was like burging on tears on that one, right, Like literally
• 1:03:52
  could feel that that welling up that you get when something really hazy. I
• 1:03:58
  feel seen it's that yeah, because I did. I mean that's I mean
• 1:04:01
  the reading all night, it's you know again, it makes me go,
• 1:04:04
  do I have any original experiences? Or am I just like a copy of
• 1:04:08
  a copy of a copy of the internet learning where you have the place where
• 1:04:11
  you learn. You've never had original experience? Right? Has anyone ever Yes,
• 1:04:16
  yes, someone else has done that. I promise you there were seven
• 1:04:19
  billion people. It's wild. How how that feeling can hit eight billion?
• 1:04:24
  How many people are on the planet the east to eight or or we crossed
• 1:04:28
  eight recently? I forget Jesus Christ a lot. Yeah, are we gonna
• 1:04:32
  supposed to plateau around thirteen eleven? But yeah, the plateau is somewhere past
• 1:04:38
  ten, but before fifteen. It'd be fine if we stopped hoarding wealth for
• 1:04:43
  like a few people. But we stop hoarding wealth for those people, I
• 1:04:46
  might not be able to hoard well. And I don't know if that's acceptable.
• 1:04:50
  Existential dread a side. Do we have more videos to watch? We
• 1:04:54
  have one final video, and please edit that down essential. I'm a little
• 1:05:00
  more hopefully hopeful. We're saying hopeful, all right, last video, Final
• 1:05:05
  final video. Stabby Girl. Yes, yes, always love their work.
• 1:05:14
  And you know, Barbie Girl also one of my favorite songs. I love
• 1:05:18
  the Yeah, come on kill somebody. That's fantastic. That's a great catch
• 1:05:23
  line. Yeah, chop I yeel great reference. Definitely a niche, niche
• 1:05:30
  reference, deep deep in the wheel of time. Nice that that is high
• 1:05:36
  on the fun scale. That is what I would say. She looks like
• 1:05:40
  she has so much fun making it. And the little Todd draws animations off
• 1:05:44
  to the side, like mm, those those have to honestly, yeah,
• 1:05:49
  my favorite videos the ones with just like someone had fun making them, right,
• 1:05:54
  Like, maybe not my favorite songs, but of my favorite videos for
• 1:05:57
  sure, because my favorite songs are still the ones that are just amazing,
• 1:06:00
  right like, but the videos where people are just having fun, like yeah
• 1:06:02
  and just to make cha fai yeel into that in that bubbly like silly space.
• 1:06:08
  It's just it's so perfect mood matching, right because it's it was kind
• 1:06:13
  of making fun of cho Yeah it's try hard. Yeah, yeah, it
• 1:06:17
  was like it was kind of like the I was going for with Godwin and
• 1:06:20
  indoor. An idiot was like, you know, this is like we all
• 1:06:25
  love this song, but like, let's be real about the mood here.
• 1:06:28
  You know, I love it all right now we have to start talking about
• 1:06:33
  our parodies for extion, I know, right right. Yeah, So with
• 1:06:38
  that, I think we should end this recording because we've now lasted over two
• 1:06:42
  hours. I hope that we can come back and watch like another sixteen at
• 1:06:45
  some point. They obviously get weirder and wilder from here, because this was
• 1:06:49
  the top sixteen that got voted up out of eighty two, but at least
• 1:06:55
  forty five minutes of those two hours are just gone from Simon. Oh yeah,
• 1:06:58
  for sure, it's going to be a great length for ORD. But
• 1:07:00
  you know, as far as our brain power goes, I hope everyone enjoyed
• 1:07:04
  that little bonus episode to un't make my edit job easier this week. So
• 1:07:11
  thank you for your patience. We'll get back to your regularly scheduled podcast content
• 1:07:15
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• 1:08:45
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