April 17, 2025 • 38 mins
A little bit of Lou Bega in our life. A little bit of Casey by Kevin’s side. A little bit of chancey, here I am. A little bit divine or is it damned?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Give it a chance, Give it a chance. Give it
a chick. Come morning, Give it a chance. Give it
a chance, give it a chance, give it a chance,
come morning, give it a Do you want to give
it a chance? Give it a chance, give it a chance.
Just give it a boom boom boom boom bootot dot
dot dot dot dot dot.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Is this mombo number five? That's pretty good? We should
win something for that.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I I oh, yeah, like one hundred percent. You name
that tune in a second, but.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That was that. You can't do that alone. That's a comba.
It's a poop poop platter, combo platter. Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's true. That's true. We should have done that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
If you didn't do it so good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We should go on the newly WHT game. Yeah, they
still do that. I hope so, because I think the
structure is really good. You know, where did you where's
the where's the craziest place he made? Whoopee? You know,
and they hold up the sign and it's like, you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Know, supposed to be like, oh, you know, Antigua, but
then she says like, oh my my poo poo on
top of Shack's grave. Ah, And definitely we do want
to say, because this has happened since our last step,
we do want to say rest in power to Shack.
Definitely rest power.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I think you're going to say this has happened before.
We talked about somebody and then they passed. Yo, is
shock kind of die? That's what I'm worried about, Like
if this comes out and then like like like it
happens like at the same time or even you know, whenever,
like whenever he dies, rest in power is Shack gone?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
A die?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Is Shack gonna die?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's for like Pedro and the Lion head Pedro in
the Lion.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Pedro and the Lions and the Lion. Speaking of lions,
Sorry man, lou Bega conquered the air waves. Huh wait.
So that's that's why I started with Mama number five
because I think I wanted to do that as this episode.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So I figured that's what was about to happen. Yeah,
I know your game people don't like a little.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Behind the curtain. Before we started this, we did a
test and we were talking and a bunch of other
songs came out. We just started talking about Dragula, but
just for fun, we love it great. Yeah, no chance
to look for that on Kevin's Patreon dropping. Yeah, Dragula cover.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Rest in Peace to Rob Zombie of course rest in Power.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, he can't wait to die like he loves like
graveyards and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Shack's Grave is a big hit for him too. It's
a little pilgrimage for him and his zombie fam every.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Year, and it's a big grave.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Huge, it's like ten feet.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy that like Custom Caskets. All right,
we were going too dark. Custom Caskets is playing this
week at North six.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, definitely gonna say Custom Caskets split seven inch with
Shack's Grave. All right, Okay, listen, let's be serious because
we're dealing with a very serious and sobering song here.
So let's get get your shit together and I'll do
the same.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Beautiful Yeah, yeah, pleaseful it's true. Mom's number five. And
don't make sure you not to do one, one, two, three,
four or six?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
All right, I have to go. Yeah, definitely don't do
Mambo number six by Rob Zombie, very different tune number
six sixty six, all right, number six six six, that's
the one I want to do, all right, So I
got to look this up on my streaming There it
is ready for me to go. Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
See on the flip flop? All right, A little bit
of money come in my life, A little bit of
hurry come by my side. Right off the top.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I have a question. Is Zippy David's related to math
you David's beause?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh, I get this so much. It's crazy how much
I get this. My character Matthew Davids that one hundred
people know and we rep weekly on the pod. Yeah, yeah,
I like I like bragging like one hundred people know
of this. It might have been more good. It's a good number.
(04:23):
No unrelated, all right, you never knew it well.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Musical talent runs in the larger David's tribe, because Zippy's
one of the three lyricists on this song. Three lyricists,
mm hmm. And I just want to just before we
get into anything else, I just want to point out
that this song was the product of twenty four I
(04:47):
mean kind of one, two, three, four, five six. Then
the three lyricist makes nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,
twenty five people credited credited with Malbo number five.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Do you know why? Is because I think they're listing
all the people from the original sample. Oh well, that's
actually cool. So I think it's a mix, though I
think it's probably still a lot of people in the
Lubaga version. But I think because it's it's originally like
a jazz instrumental.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
See my ignorant ask to know that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And now I just put you on your ass.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
My ignorant, as what's crazy?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I just look. I did a quick Wikipedia search and Loubaga.
Where do you think he's from?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Hmm, this is going to be surprising. I guess right.
Let's say, is he from like Germany? Yes? Do that?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, because I'm looking at so this is this is
why the brass credit is for Aksel Kuhn k you
with a hn. Then the harmonica and harpist is Christopher
with an f koax. Klaus Reichstaller is another brass player,
(06:06):
so I figured, And then there's Eric Ouher. It is
really like the guitarist is go ar b On, Teyner, Bettinger,
Mattias Borst, Steffan Shroop, and then of course Zippy David's.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You got all this from that, but I didn't see that.
But I've in my whole life have been like, how
is this guy that's like Mama Nova is from Germany?
I think that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's incredible. It's really incredible. And also, as a person
who has done a lot of touring.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
In Germany, weirdly knowing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
This now it makes like it's it's kind of actually
like I'm having like the usual suspects experience. It makes
so much sense to me because there's this kind of
like filtration of there's a lot of like kind of like, well,
you know, music is a global language and there's like
(07:03):
a lot of there's definitely stylistic things that happen I've
noticed in Germany that skew towards like dance or hip hop.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But I'm like, oh, this is wild because it's also
still filtered through a very like German sensibility. Sure, and
there's something in retrospect now I'm like, oh, that's what's
going on here.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's like, what's a.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Little off about it is actually that it's being fed
through this like kind of eastern central Eastern European sensibility
of like this is what a mambo would sound like
in the hands of Ein Berliner.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But he it seems that he's got a pretty crazy life.
So he grew up in Germany and then when he
was six, for a couple of years they lived in Italy,
and then he lived back then it was back in
Munich where he was in primary school. As a teenager,
he just traveled to Miami, Florida, where he found inspiration
for the hit single Mambo number five, Welcome to Miami.
(07:59):
He also lived in Uganda for six months.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Global citizen.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, so his mom is from Sicily and his dad
is Ugandan, and he grew up in Germany. Like, he
lived in Germany most of his life. A crazy little
story about our buddy.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Lou didn't know any of that. So his mom was
Sicilian and his dad maybe is hopefully we're not in
a rest in peace situation there. His mom is Sicilian,
dad is Ugandan. Then they but they were living in Germany,
in Munich.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, most of their most of his life, and then
they they you know, he they were in a little
they were in Italy for a little while, then back
to Munich and then yeah, he's been he's he's worldwide
so he's got to see a lot of women and
memorize a lot of names.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But that's true, that's true. I have a question about
one more biographically I've answered. Do we know how the
family almost started to play the song really loudly? Do
we know how the mom and dad met?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I think they were always in each other's life a
little bit. Wow, No, I don't know. Sorry, that was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I think they were always in each other's life a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That is so good. Yeah, the father said flirting is
just like a sport, and the mother said, please set
in the trumpet.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was the first second I was authentically like, is
that on the Wikipedia page that his dad gave him?
That line? Son, flirting is just like a sport. I
could do a lyrical thing if you want, I definitely.
I don't know. This is an interesting We could share
some of our methodology with the chancers. I always read
(09:39):
the lyrics while we listen. That's like a default setting
for me for some reason. And you know, I think
that there's some really wild stuff happening here. Actually, Like,
if I really encourage you, the next time you sit down,
look all right off the top Mambo number five not
(10:00):
really something that's inviting a kind of like undergraduate you know, music,
class lyrical eggs. Jesus, we're not supposed to be like
you're just supposed to give over to its.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Charms, and so the throwback of it. Yeah, and also.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's an earworm or as they would as Louis might say,
an earworm and in Munchen and so you know, I
am just like I'm wondering though what he says here
in the beginning. I just feel like there's a lot
of the setup is kind of wild. So what can
I do? I really beg you my Lord to me?
(10:36):
Flirting is just like a sport. There's something in here
that it's like anything fly, it's all good. Let me
dump it. What's going on there? Let you dump And
also like this the thing about praying for help, because
flirting is just like a sport. Yeah, this is really
where I'm like, oh right, this dude's a German dude
(11:01):
writing English lyrics.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So can I do it? I really beg you my
Lord to me? Flirting is just like a sport.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That was almost like the brand. Yeah, Yakov smearnoff a
little bit too. That is good.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I have to I can I do like I have
to take to keep my German and my Russian enough
for mixing.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's hard, dude, it's hard. It's a hard rain's going
to fall. But I do feel like I wonder what
he means when he says anything fly, it's all good,
let me dump it. Does he mean, like, is he
fast forwarding to the end of the relationship where he
wants to He's like, oh wow, I need to hit
(11:42):
it and then I need to dump it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Anything fly. To me, flirting is just like a sport, right,
and yeah, fly it's all good. Let me dump it.
It's like a sport. Yeah, anything anything fly right, anything,
I'll do anything. It's all good. And then let me
dump it. And like please said in the trumpet it,
I don't know what he means by that, but maybe
it move move on to the next one.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, I think Trumpet's one of the names.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And it's a trumpet trumpet in sport. I don't really
put together that much, but maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
When Diaz, who's the closer for the current closer for
the New York Mets, when he enters the game, there
is a famous trumpet solo that gets played, So maybe
there's a pre cog situation. This is minority report pre cog.
He saw that, but he was also thinking about Oh no.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I thought they let the pre cogs go at the end.
Well they did, but spoilers, minority reports, spoiler.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
One of them became Louis b Global sit And so
I think the thing, I think, the thing that we
also need to know is it's not capitalized. But maybe
when he says, please send in the trumpet. Of course
with the arrangement, that's when we get hit with the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But also maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Maybe the trump that's the name, like a nickname, one
of the little.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Bits, one of his little bits.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, like maybe like Rita's the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Even please set in the trumpet, right like that even
feels a little German too. Please set it an easy trump.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I will say on my streaming platform of choice, it
does say please send in the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh okay, that's better. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at genius,
which I guess isn't that much of a genius. Shots fired,
Shots fired. I like Pama and Rita and then Zach continue,
you know what, are getting sweet out.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I will just say I must stay deep because talk
is cheap. N I like Angela Pamela, Sandra and Rita,
and as I continue, you know, they're getting sweeter. So
that's cool because he's like he's finding more and more
sweetness as he plows through these little bits. But but
(14:04):
that's kind of fucked in a reverse way, Like Angela
is cool, but Pamela is even cooler, but Sandra's even cooler,
and read is even cooler. And then if I go
into the chorus, first of all, Angela is nowhere to
be found, Pamela is nowhere to be found. Sandra comes
after Monica. Wait, Sandra comes after readers. All right, So
(14:25):
Sandra is sweeter, Mary's even sweeter than Sandra, Jessic is
even sweeter than Mary, and you, the listener are sweetest
of all. Robert Duval Anyway, I guess what I'm trying
to say is these are chaotic lyrics, even for a
(14:48):
pop confection. I'm finding them chaotic.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, no, I agree, And but I will say we
haven't even like kind of said this, like say it,
do you how do you feel about this song? Like
you finished the song, how do you feel like while
you were listening to it? I can't really tell if
you if you feel favorable towards it based on compared
to other other tracks we've done, like where does this?
Where does this fall? For you?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It's fine. I don't have like strong to be a
cobby totally honest with you. Yeah, first of all, I
mean about anything. I can be totally honest with you
about like anything.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Dude, I do that bodies, I'll keep that secret.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't have strong feelings about this song any of
the direction and listening back to it. What's kind of
nice is to be like, I think this is a
perfectly rated cultural phenomenon, is it. Look I've never heard
this played somewhere by somebody. I've never had somebody be like, yo, dude,
have you heard this and then like play it for me.
I've never heard somebody passionately defend it. I've never heard
(15:53):
anybody be like, yo, you know what's actually like a
really there's like a lot going on in that you
haven't like there areeople who would say that about like
Nickelback or Creed.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Or Spice Girls. You know, there's like, you know, there's
times that there's a song like telling giving you everything
all the joy, like songs like that where I'm like,
I will break that down and talk about how much
I like those verses and the whole song. There's like
an instrumental break like this isn't you're right, this is
not one of those like guilty pleasure. You know what,
(16:25):
if you really listen, it's not like one of those.
It's not.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
No, And it also feels like there's something to be said.
And I don't know if we've really had one of
these before. There's something to be said to me, for like,
if you put this song on in any social like
large social gathering, right like if like I don't know,
if you if this came on during like an inning
break in a baseball game, people would just like bop around,
(16:54):
like do a little stupid dance in their seats. If
you were at at gera or if you were at
like a bar mitzvah, or if you're like.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Thank you for the thank you then accents, Yeah, yeah,
you are. You have better accents than me. Well, I
don't know if that's If there's a contest after this episode,
right now, you're you're winning.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Wow. And and also please put in the comment section,
whose accents do you find the most appealing and closest
to the source materials? But no at the end of
the day, push comes to shove. If you put this
on at or if you put it on at a
Catholic wedding, or if you put it on the bar
(17:36):
mitzvah or any kind of or if you just like
put it on, like like if six people just materialize,
like let's say, like Monica, Rita, Erica, Tina, Sandra, Mary
and Jessica all materialized in my grip right now, right,
which will be sweet time six for ok D. But
if they all want to realize not a bad Monday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And you're only having a little bit of their Yeah,
it's like a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't need all of it, that's.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
What That's kind of cool. He's caught.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Sorry, So what I mean is dat all dance? We'd
all sing. It would be great. So when this was on,
I was listening to it, I was moving around to
But also I just by the way you just led
me to this.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You can, you can.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You can feed up man of fish. But if teach
him to fish, you'll.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Fish your water, your water, the water, the fish.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
He's coming out right up top and he's saying like
I don't need all of it.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I can't handle all of it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No, I can't handle all of Monica, all of Erica,
all of Rita. Tina can't marry so much to handle,
but I could handle.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
A little bit, a little bit. The word I.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Entitled for this song was mambo number five. Just this
coach Scotch est in parent.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
This is reminding me of something, and I figured out
what it is. Okay, I want to performing for you.
It's true that Mavis and Sybil have ways that are
win and Prudence and Gwendolen set your heart spinning, Phoebe's delightful,
maud Is disarming, Janice, Felicia, Lydia charming, Cynthia's dashing, Vivian
sweet Stephanie smashing Priscilla a treat, Veronica, Mellicent, Agnes and
(19:15):
Jane convivial company time and again. Dorcas and Phyllis and
Glynnis are sorts. I'll agree our three jolly good sports.
But cream of the crop, tip of the top is
Mary Poppins, and there we stop. Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
First of all, and I encourage you at home chancers,
because you are if you're at home, if you're in
the car, if you're on the bus, if you're with Monica,
A little round of applause.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Wow, yeah, I read that whole thing, but you also
read it.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, if you I don't know if you can see,
I don't know if you but if you are locked in.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
If you know, but I just read that off the dome.
That's really fine. The slame off the dome. I just
read that.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, wow, great pull. So you thought that as you
were listening this time through, you were like, what does
this remind me of? That's incredible. What a kaleidoscopic view
into your brain. That's awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I knew it was like there was something that was
like with all these names, it's like it's like bringing
up something and it's such a it's a small part
in Mary Poppins that Bert just goes off with the penguins.
You knew what it was like.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
But when you when it started to sort of percolate
in your brain, you were like, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, Dick van Dyke has that really great slash going
back to accents. Yeah, bad British accent. Yeah, so like
you know, like, so I couldn't like that was what
was clinching it. It was I think maybe it was
just all the amalgamation of talking about accents and talking
about the names so good that it just sort of
like and I don't know, that just came popped into
my brain.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I think we have some research to do to find
out if that was in the in the mix for
Louis Zippy and sorry, who's the third lyricist?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I'll reach out to the German consulate.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, they'll know third lyricist was by the way.
Oh no, they give compositions, so it might just been
Louis Bega and Zippy David's for lyrics. So maybe I.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Think Zippy and Louis did this.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I think Zippy might be like centrally involved. He wasn't
a producer though. That was Yen's Jonas Arn Gore de
Fact and Frank Leo.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And does it say what album this is off of,
because I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I think it's off a little bit of mambo.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's right. And you know what a second album is called.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
A lot more of mambo.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Nope, Ladies and Gentlemen. That's it. It's called Ladies and gentlemen.
And that's how he starts his song.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Domin Jaron Wait, Ladies and gentlemen. I don't think. Look,
I gotta be honest with you. I'm not ashamed to
admit this. I didn't know any Louis Bega record after
this one, or even song did he didn't. He has
a song called Buena Makarena.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Whoa he does?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
He has a song called Scatman John. Well, you did
a record with Scatman, John? Is that like, I'm the
scat Man? Is that that? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I must know? Yeah, it must be.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We're veering if Scatman and hat Man, which is Scatman
and Louis Bega, if we're that's making me veer into
like what's our chocolate rain homies name Taison Day territorism.
I started to get a little sad, Like, once I
see Scatman and hat Man, there's something about that that
makes me a little worried. I start to feel a
little sad.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I didn't realize he his seven albums, including one that
came out in twenty twenty one called Nineties Cruiser.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it's called It's and it's like a strong anti
vax vibe on that one. Sorry, it's not true.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It might be true.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know. Also, sometimes if I look at the
pictures of his album covers, quickly it looks like Latter
Day Perry Farrell. Like I can't say if I don't
see the face, but just the hat and like the
kind of desk he's wearing. I'm like, is that a
Jane's Addiction record? Yeah, there are records up to twenty
twenty one, but like Mombo number five, so this was
a number three single in the United States.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Should we change the podcast and just do a different
lou Bega song from these deep cut albums every single
episode today? No, okay, for the next maybe this is a.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Series for the next month, we have Louis Bega Month.
That would actually be a great thing for whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Just to tag the end of an episode with another
Vega song to check out.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, and also I feel like we could pick an
artist and do like a multi like a like a
chances if you're interested in that, if you'd like to
hear like.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Four Yeah, reach out to the German consulate.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Reach out to the German cons ask if it's okay,
ask for permission. These are tenuous times. We don't want
to step anywhere in the wrong direction. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I have to tell you this that I We've had
a lot of artists. I have to if I can
be honest.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, yeah, I've got bodies who do kill. Sorry go.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So we've done a lot of artists. I think I'm
more curious about another lou Bega song than any other artists,
like other material, because what could another song even sound like?
This one is so unique, it's so driven by the sample,
and it's so in this like what I can't even
imagine unless it's just all this sort of This is
(24:21):
also sort of part of the swing, Yes, that swing comeback? Right,
we haven't talked about that, right, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Right, it was ninety nine. It was the tail end
of whatever that Yeah, what was that movie ninety six
or something ninety seven?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, But then there was also songs right like and
I think everything was a little influenced, like Skat came back,
like oh oh the cherry Pop and Daddy Squirrelnut Zippers
cherry Yeah, yeah, squirrel nuts Zippers. Yeah, what a name?
Cherry pop and Daddy's amaze me uncomfortable, yes, but I'm
saying out loud it was, but squirrel Nut Zippers was
arguably much better name when you're coming from that, yeah, yeah,
(24:54):
And then there was also like yeah swing, oh the
gap commercial.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, oh my god. And I also know, like I
I that's when I'm a college student nineteen ninety seven
to two thousand and one, people would go swing dancing. Yeah,
like that was a thing and that you know, cool,
It seems like it was fun, people enjoy themselves. I
never attended one of those, but that was like an
activity that like young, Yeah, like that was like a
thing that wasn't weird for a bunch of like people
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in their early twenties to be at some club in
Manhattan like swing dancing. So I do think you're right,
this is I didn't kind of place that this is
kind of in that timeline and certainly in that world.
I think it's funny that we're like, I can't even
imagine what another Louis Begas song would sound like, and
it's like all we'd literally have to do is mess
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play on one of the four hundred options currently staring
at me. But I'm never gonna know. The other thing
is I think why you're having that experience with this
particular artist. I'm thinking about maybe with the exception of
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like some of the novelty stuff we've done, like one
eight seven seven Cars for Kids. Even Wright said Fred.
They had Don't Talk Just Kiss, which was like, maybe
not a top ten single, but I bet that was
a top forty single. That was probably like a lower thirty,
you know, like that was a hit. It was on MTV.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Certainly, the one hit wonder always gets an attempt at
a second.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
One, right, So that makes me wonder if I just
missed his completely because that song was too big for
them to not try to capitalize on a second song.
But I have no cultural recollection whatsoever of a second movie.
And he was nominated for a fucking Grammy for this song.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I think when you when you swing, swing in such
a stylistic way, you know, it gets the attention of
the academy. Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It's like it's like I've heard said from people I
know who are in the mix in the bids.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, you're really your whole body shutter to say it.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
No, that's like, no one sees this. I don't think,
do you guys see this yet? No, we don't show
this to people.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, little clip, I'm saying, release them, release her email.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Release the tapes, release her emails, take the case files
and these VIDs, these VIDs gotta be up there, no,
I think, and by her emails of course, I mean
Candice Cameron.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I want to see I want to set.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Emails. No, I was going to say, it's often said
that the awards are given out not for the best acting,
but for the most acting, right, you know what I'm saying.
So I think in this case, you know, it could
be I don't know, maybe it's like.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
This is this is showing out. He was showing out.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's mad safe, oh yo, it's there's nothing dangerous about
this ship. Dude, I never seen I've never been afraid
of Louis Bega. Yeah for a fucking second, dude, And
I feel that way now, like he can't fucking scare me.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh look, punj he even though you know, it's interesting
because like when I first was thinking of this song,
I was like, does it hold up? Is he gonna
get is he gonna get weird? Because it's a song
about like I need a little bit of these girls.
I mean it's a little weird. Yeah yeah, but like
it's not crazy weird. Yeah, it could be crazy weird.
(28:27):
Yeah yeah, of this era too, like you could get
away with so much. And I actually think like it's
it's it's right on the line. It's also just like
I think this still plays at block parties.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's what I mean. That's what I was saying. That's
what I meant in all seriousness earlier. Is that I
that's that's a mark of something that definitely for me
is squarely in the chance category. Like it's become like
YMCA or something or whatever. It's become like one of
those songs that it's just like, yeah, anyone, if you
have this on somewhere where there's a lot ar group
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of people doing so, you only hear it there. That's
the only place I don't hear it. That's totally true.
You will hear it, like if they're trying to kill
time when yeah, I keep thinking of baseball for some reason,
when like the manager's coming out to talk to the
relief pitcher or something.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, they're like, don't don't exactly, and they'll show people.
I'm like, but I'm picturing like me getting on my
commute to work. I'm like sitting on the Jay train
and I'm putting choosing to put on Mamo number when
it's not on a playlist. I'm choosing Mamo number five,
and I'm just like by myself with my headphones do
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that's actually, will you do that on your way home today?
I think I will. I think I have to know.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I want to know what it feels like. I want
to know I love it, like yeah, yeah, but I wait.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
One other thing I want to say that real quick,
is that when I was in college, maybe like after
I think it was after college, like I was going
to bars with a friend, and you know, there was
this thing that a couple of years later mulaney touched upon,
which was like going to a bar and playing a
song like twenty times. Yes, it's like something that people did, right,
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But like he told that story, I forget what even
what the song was. I can't kind of can't remember
what it was. But before that had before that had
come out, we had done that with this song we
put We went to a bar in green Point and
like this like old this like old polish, like dive bar. Yeah,
and we put on mom but number five like twenty times,
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and we were just like enjoying, like looking around seeing
people's faces. It just played over and over again. After
like six, the bartender just came off and like turned
it off and like put on his own music. It
was like a really fun. It was just like a
nice like yeah, it's like a rite of passage to
do that totally such and it's such a good song
for it too, because for maybe like two times it
will slip through because it sounds like it's just it's
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it's the still going. Yeah. By the fifth time, you're like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
This is on purpose and I cannot abide it any further.
I feel like, also, I'm not I really mean this,
this could be something in our research further. You know
how there's been like certain military operations that were like
you know where the US government or a different government
is like using songs to torture political prisoners or whatever.
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I really genuinely think that there was some story where
this was one of the ones they like play it
like ear splitting volume and just like loop it for
like seven hours or something like that. I definitely know
that was the thing in the late eighties with other songs,
like there was like Guns and Rows something like that
that they came Yeah, I had to do with like
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something with Panama and Uel Noriega whatever that was. They
like were like playing that so loud that like, which
is really crazy to actually consider. But I think Mombo
number five was one of those things to at some point,
which is funny because it really that actually is a
fascinating thing, and you're what you're talking about kind of
speaks to it where something that is this is like
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a benign and pleasant noise to be happening in the
background somewhere, but that in when you like string it
together that way, it can become literally tortuous, like there's
an experience of it being like this needs to stop
right now. Yes, and its insistence might be part of that.
(32:18):
I just before, on our way down as we land
the plane, I think you're right. I actually don't think,
especially given the topicality. I don't think it's It's not
like a quote problematic lyric in a way in ways
it could be, or certainly not in like capital letter ways.
It is a little bit more like garbled nonsensical verse lyrics, though,
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like the I just want to walk through the first verse.
He just counts to five, one, two, three, four, five
or five. Everybody in the car, come on, let's ride.
That's fine to the liquor store around the corner. The
boys say they want some gin and juice, giving a
shout out to the ubiquitous snoop nineties hip hop West Coast,
the whole thing. But I really don't want to you're
bust like I have last week. I am officially now
(33:02):
where there's the first lyric. I don't understand what that means.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Is that a phrase I've been maybe like a busting
his gut or maybe he doesn't want to hangover.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Maybe or maybe he's gonna Maybe it's like a beer bust,
like it's prohibition.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's prohibition. Oh yeah, because it is a throwback.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I don't want to go to the liquor store. I
don't want any gingers. I don't want a beer bust.
I had that last week. Yeah, and then I must
stay deep because talk is cheap. I like Angela, Pamela,
Sandra and Rita.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Wait wait, I must go deep because like I must
stay deep, stay deep. Talk is cheap.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I like Angela.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I love someone being like hard like talk is cheap.
But anyway, I like girls.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That you like that, because that's actually that could live
in a character that you do. The way you just
did that, it was instantly embodied like the kind of
like yeah, like kind of like the sharpness, but then
also kind of like but anyway, I must.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Stay deep eight cheap, I like computers, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
It's funny because recently this is so anyway, we're not
giving it a chance on the basis of its lyrics.
Its lyrics also aren't like necessarily offensive. They're more like
I'm like bemused by them. They're like, I know, you
know what this you know what else?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
This is? This is Taco Putting on the Rits totally.
If you're blue and you don't know what, yeah, like
it's it is, it is. It's like that's that did
this first? Too? Like a sort of intentional throwback, like
an eighties throwback. Yes, in the past, but like I
might give Taco Putting on the Rits more credit, although
that's like a cover I guess in some ways. But
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then like put through the eighties filed you know the eighties, Yeah, reimagining. Yeah,
but this is kind of that. But then I think
this does take it farther because I think the original
is probably an instrumental and he added all this, did.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You know it was a sample based song? I had
no idea. I didn't know the original sample at all.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I think if if, if it was on a multiple
choice I definitely would have answered correctly that it that
it's like based on a sample, because I think what
else would it be? Right?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah, I mean it's not I get that, I get that,
I get, but I guess I didn't choice. You know,
I got twenty five chance even if I know nothing.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Well, it's reads PILM and it's a phone of friends.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That I'd have found you because you knew because I'm
I mean, look, we're coming near what is usually we're
chancey a clock. So is there anything you feel like
we haven't touched on or do you feel like we've been?
I think ultimately for me, it's like it's got a
skew chance because there's nothing about it that's like for
what it is. It's exactly what it's supposed to be.
(35:50):
It's not trying to be anything else, and it executes
the mission ably, and it also it's fun and funny.
H And also it seems like this dude is not
taking himself seriously at all, which may be its best
best asset.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I think our biggest critique is lyrics. And even so,
when when I will hear this song at a you know,
a swim party or.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Something, yeah about me?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, yeah, I will not. I will it still won't
affect me. I will still enjoy it the same amount
that I did.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I will sit there at the swim party completely impassive
and show no fucking feeling when this song comes on. Dude,
I'm unaffected.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I like it more or less. I like Angelo, I
like I like girls.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Honestly, Angela is cool, but she's not even top ten.
Sweetness Mary Poppins' is number one. Yeah, yeah, number one sweetest.
And at the end of the day, Push comes to shove,
Louis Begas shouts for having music into twenty twenty one.
Sorry about the anti vax stuff, and I also sorry to
hear that you passed as a result. So all, at
the end of this sep, we do want to say
rest in power to Louis Begat knows as he's life, live,
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in power, live and piss And oh.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
My gosh, I just realized his birth name is David
the Bega, that Balla Mezzi Ballamesi, so his middle name
is Libga, so he went by lou Bega. Love it Bega.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Creativity bounds And also I think at the very at
the end of the day, when Push comes to shove,
what I'd love to hear next is Scatman and hat Man.
So that may have to be okay because Scatman's his
own app, but it makes sense that they would have
been like, we should team up. It's like when Daredevil's
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in a Spider Man comic?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Can you do that? Can you do the lou Bega song?
That don't don.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
If it's if it's that's what it is, If that's
what it is. If that's what it is, kes, If
that's what it is, you give me five cheeze, I'll
get me five thousand. You give me back five Yeah,
I'll get five. Yeah, I get five back, So you
get forty nine ninety five? What was it?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
It was something like that you were getting. I think
you're gett money from my heart is really what I
think was going in there.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah, I think I'm getting five gs. Then you're getting
five that's the contract. I gotta go back and listen.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
All right, Well, chancers, hope you enjoyed that EP. But
if you didn't, I don't know. We did the best
we could. Doggie Pushcubs to Shelf. You was conceived in love?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
What I like? Girls? Just give it
Give it a chance, Give it a chance. Give it
a chick. Come morning, Give it a chance. Give it
a chance, give it a chance, give it a chance,
come morning, give it a Do you want to give
it a chance? Give it a chance, give it a chance.
Just give it a boom boom boom boom bootot dot
dot dot dot dot dot.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Is this mombo number five? That's pretty good? We should
win something for that.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I I oh, yeah, like one hundred percent. You name
that tune in a second, but.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That was that. You can't do that alone. That's a comba.
It's a poop poop platter, combo platter. Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's true. That's true. We should have done that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
If you didn't do it so good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We should go on the newly WHT game. Yeah, they
still do that. I hope so, because I think the
structure is really good. You know, where did you where's
the where's the craziest place he made? Whoopee? You know,
and they hold up the sign and it's like, you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Know, supposed to be like, oh, you know, Antigua, but
then she says like, oh my my poo poo on
top of Shack's grave. Ah, And definitely we do want
to say, because this has happened since our last step,
we do want to say rest in power to Shack.
Definitely rest power.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I think you're going to say this has happened before.
We talked about somebody and then they passed. Yo, is
shock kind of die? That's what I'm worried about, Like
if this comes out and then like like like it
happens like at the same time or even you know, whenever,
like whenever he dies, rest in power is Shack gone?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
A die?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Is Shack gonna die?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's for like Pedro and the Lion head Pedro in
the Lion.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Pedro and the Lions and the Lion. Speaking of lions,
Sorry man, lou Bega conquered the air waves. Huh wait.
So that's that's why I started with Mama number five
because I think I wanted to do that as this episode.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So I figured that's what was about to happen. Yeah,
I know your game people don't like a little.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Behind the curtain. Before we started this, we did a
test and we were talking and a bunch of other
songs came out. We just started talking about Dragula, but
just for fun, we love it great. Yeah, no chance
to look for that on Kevin's Patreon dropping. Yeah, Dragula cover.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Rest in Peace to Rob Zombie of course rest in Power.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, he can't wait to die like he loves like
graveyards and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Shack's Grave is a big hit for him too. It's
a little pilgrimage for him and his zombie fam every.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Year, and it's a big grave.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Huge, it's like ten feet.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy that like Custom Caskets. All right,
we were going too dark. Custom Caskets is playing this
week at North six.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, definitely gonna say Custom Caskets split seven inch with
Shack's Grave. All right, Okay, listen, let's be serious because
we're dealing with a very serious and sobering song here.
So let's get get your shit together and I'll do
the same.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Beautiful Yeah, yeah, pleaseful it's true. Mom's number five. And
don't make sure you not to do one, one, two, three,
four or six?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
All right, I have to go. Yeah, definitely don't do
Mambo number six by Rob Zombie, very different tune number
six sixty six, all right, number six six six, that's
the one I want to do, all right, So I
got to look this up on my streaming There it
is ready for me to go. Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
See on the flip flop? All right, A little bit
of money come in my life, A little bit of
hurry come by my side. Right off the top.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I have a question. Is Zippy David's related to math
you David's beause?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh, I get this so much. It's crazy how much
I get this. My character Matthew Davids that one hundred
people know and we rep weekly on the pod. Yeah, yeah,
I like I like bragging like one hundred people know
of this. It might have been more good. It's a good number.
(04:23):
No unrelated, all right, you never knew it well.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Musical talent runs in the larger David's tribe, because Zippy's
one of the three lyricists on this song. Three lyricists,
mm hmm. And I just want to just before we
get into anything else, I just want to point out
that this song was the product of twenty four I
(04:47):
mean kind of one, two, three, four, five six. Then
the three lyricist makes nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,
twenty five people credited credited with Malbo number five.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Do you know why? Is because I think they're listing
all the people from the original sample. Oh well, that's
actually cool. So I think it's a mix, though I
think it's probably still a lot of people in the
Lubaga version. But I think because it's it's originally like
a jazz instrumental.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
See my ignorant ask to know that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And now I just put you on your ass.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
My ignorant, as what's crazy?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I just look. I did a quick Wikipedia search and Loubaga.
Where do you think he's from?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Hmm, this is going to be surprising. I guess right.
Let's say, is he from like Germany? Yes? Do that?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, because I'm looking at so this is this is
why the brass credit is for Aksel Kuhn k you
with a hn. Then the harmonica and harpist is Christopher
with an f koax. Klaus Reichstaller is another brass player,
(06:06):
so I figured, And then there's Eric Ouher. It is
really like the guitarist is go ar b On, Teyner, Bettinger,
Mattias Borst, Steffan Shroop, and then of course Zippy David's.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You got all this from that, but I didn't see that.
But I've in my whole life have been like, how
is this guy that's like Mama Nova is from Germany?
I think that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's incredible. It's really incredible. And also, as a person
who has done a lot of touring.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
In Germany, weirdly knowing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
This now it makes like it's it's kind of actually
like I'm having like the usual suspects experience. It makes
so much sense to me because there's this kind of
like filtration of there's a lot of like kind of like, well,
you know, music is a global language and there's like
(07:03):
a lot of there's definitely stylistic things that happen I've
noticed in Germany that skew towards like dance or hip hop.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But I'm like, oh, this is wild because it's also
still filtered through a very like German sensibility. Sure, and
there's something in retrospect now I'm like, oh, that's what's
going on here.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's like, what's a.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Little off about it is actually that it's being fed
through this like kind of eastern central Eastern European sensibility
of like this is what a mambo would sound like
in the hands of Ein Berliner.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But he it seems that he's got a pretty crazy life.
So he grew up in Germany and then when he
was six, for a couple of years they lived in Italy,
and then he lived back then it was back in
Munich where he was in primary school. As a teenager,
he just traveled to Miami, Florida, where he found inspiration
for the hit single Mambo number five, Welcome to Miami.
(07:59):
He also lived in Uganda for six months.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Global citizen.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, so his mom is from Sicily and his dad
is Ugandan, and he grew up in Germany. Like, he
lived in Germany most of his life. A crazy little
story about our buddy.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Lou didn't know any of that. So his mom was
Sicilian and his dad maybe is hopefully we're not in
a rest in peace situation there. His mom is Sicilian,
dad is Ugandan. Then they but they were living in Germany,
in Munich.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, most of their most of his life, and then
they they you know, he they were in a little
they were in Italy for a little while, then back
to Munich and then yeah, he's been he's he's worldwide
so he's got to see a lot of women and
memorize a lot of names.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But that's true, that's true. I have a question about
one more biographically I've answered. Do we know how the
family almost started to play the song really loudly? Do
we know how the mom and dad met?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I think they were always in each other's life a
little bit. Wow, No, I don't know. Sorry, that was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I think they were always in each other's life a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That is so good. Yeah, the father said flirting is
just like a sport, and the mother said, please set
in the trumpet.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was the first second I was authentically like, is
that on the Wikipedia page that his dad gave him?
That line? Son, flirting is just like a sport. I
could do a lyrical thing if you want, I definitely.
I don't know. This is an interesting We could share
some of our methodology with the chancers. I always read
(09:39):
the lyrics while we listen. That's like a default setting
for me for some reason. And you know, I think
that there's some really wild stuff happening here. Actually, Like,
if I really encourage you, the next time you sit down,
look all right off the top Mambo number five not
(10:00):
really something that's inviting a kind of like undergraduate you know, music,
class lyrical eggs. Jesus, we're not supposed to be like
you're just supposed to give over to its.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Charms, and so the throwback of it. Yeah, and also.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's an earworm or as they would as Louis might say,
an earworm and in Munchen and so you know, I
am just like I'm wondering though what he says here
in the beginning. I just feel like there's a lot
of the setup is kind of wild. So what can
I do? I really beg you my Lord to me?
(10:36):
Flirting is just like a sport. There's something in here
that it's like anything fly, it's all good. Let me
dump it. What's going on there? Let you dump And
also like this the thing about praying for help, because
flirting is just like a sport. Yeah, this is really
where I'm like, oh right, this dude's a German dude
(11:01):
writing English lyrics.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So can I do it? I really beg you my
Lord to me? Flirting is just like a sport.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That was almost like the brand. Yeah, Yakov smearnoff a
little bit too. That is good.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I have to I can I do like I have
to take to keep my German and my Russian enough
for mixing.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's hard, dude, it's hard. It's a hard rain's going
to fall. But I do feel like I wonder what
he means when he says anything fly, it's all good,
let me dump it. Does he mean, like, is he
fast forwarding to the end of the relationship where he
wants to He's like, oh wow, I need to hit
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it and then I need to dump it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Anything fly. To me, flirting is just like a sport, right,
and yeah, fly it's all good. Let me dump it.
It's like a sport. Yeah, anything anything fly right, anything,
I'll do anything. It's all good. And then let me
dump it. And like please said in the trumpet it,
I don't know what he means by that, but maybe
it move move on to the next one.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, I think Trumpet's one of the names.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And it's a trumpet trumpet in sport. I don't really
put together that much, but maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
When Diaz, who's the closer for the current closer for
the New York Mets, when he enters the game, there
is a famous trumpet solo that gets played, So maybe
there's a pre cog situation. This is minority report pre cog.
He saw that, but he was also thinking about Oh no.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I thought they let the pre cogs go at the end.
Well they did, but spoilers, minority reports, spoiler.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
One of them became Louis b Global sit And so
I think the thing, I think, the thing that we
also need to know is it's not capitalized. But maybe
when he says, please send in the trumpet. Of course
with the arrangement, that's when we get hit with the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But also maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Maybe the trump that's the name, like a nickname, one
of the little.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Bits, one of his little bits.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, like maybe like Rita's the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Even please set in the trumpet, right like that even
feels a little German too. Please set it an easy trump.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I will say on my streaming platform of choice, it
does say please send in the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Oh okay, that's better. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at genius,
which I guess isn't that much of a genius. Shots fired,
Shots fired. I like Pama and Rita and then Zach continue,
you know what, are getting sweet out.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I will just say I must stay deep because talk
is cheap. N I like Angela Pamela, Sandra and Rita,
and as I continue, you know, they're getting sweeter. So
that's cool because he's like he's finding more and more
sweetness as he plows through these little bits. But but
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that's kind of fucked in a reverse way, Like Angela
is cool, but Pamela is even cooler, but Sandra's even cooler,
and read is even cooler. And then if I go
into the chorus, first of all, Angela is nowhere to
be found, Pamela is nowhere to be found. Sandra comes
after Monica. Wait, Sandra comes after readers. All right, So
(14:25):
Sandra is sweeter, Mary's even sweeter than Sandra, Jessic is
even sweeter than Mary, and you, the listener are sweetest
of all. Robert Duval Anyway, I guess what I'm trying
to say is these are chaotic lyrics, even for a
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pop confection. I'm finding them chaotic.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, no, I agree, And but I will say we
haven't even like kind of said this, like say it,
do you how do you feel about this song? Like
you finished the song, how do you feel like while
you were listening to it? I can't really tell if
you if you feel favorable towards it based on compared
to other other tracks we've done, like where does this?
Where does this fall? For you?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It's fine. I don't have like strong to be a
cobby totally honest with you. Yeah, first of all, I
mean about anything. I can be totally honest with you
about like anything.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Dude, I do that bodies, I'll keep that secret.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't have strong feelings about this song any of
the direction and listening back to it. What's kind of
nice is to be like, I think this is a
perfectly rated cultural phenomenon, is it. Look I've never heard
this played somewhere by somebody. I've never had somebody be like, yo, dude,
have you heard this and then like play it for me.
I've never heard somebody passionately defend it. I've never heard
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anybody be like, yo, you know what's actually like a
really there's like a lot going on in that you
haven't like there areeople who would say that about like
Nickelback or Creed.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Or Spice Girls. You know, there's like, you know, there's
times that there's a song like telling giving you everything
all the joy, like songs like that where I'm like,
I will break that down and talk about how much
I like those verses and the whole song. There's like
an instrumental break like this isn't you're right, this is
not one of those like guilty pleasure. You know what,
(16:25):
if you really listen, it's not like one of those.
It's not.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
No, And it also feels like there's something to be said.
And I don't know if we've really had one of
these before. There's something to be said to me, for like,
if you put this song on in any social like
large social gathering, right like if like I don't know,
if you if this came on during like an inning
break in a baseball game, people would just like bop around,
(16:54):
like do a little stupid dance in their seats. If
you were at at gera or if you were at
like a bar mitzvah, or if you're like.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Thank you for the thank you then accents, Yeah, yeah,
you are. You have better accents than me. Well, I
don't know if that's If there's a contest after this episode,
right now, you're you're winning.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Wow. And and also please put in the comment section,
whose accents do you find the most appealing and closest
to the source materials? But no at the end of
the day, push comes to shove. If you put this
on at or if you put it on at a
Catholic wedding, or if you put it on the bar
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mitzvah or any kind of or if you just like
put it on, like like if six people just materialize,
like let's say, like Monica, Rita, Erica, Tina, Sandra, Mary
and Jessica all materialized in my grip right now, right,
which will be sweet time six for ok D. But
if they all want to realize not a bad Monday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And you're only having a little bit of their Yeah,
it's like a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I don't need all of it, that's.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
What That's kind of cool. He's caught.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Sorry, So what I mean is dat all dance? We'd
all sing. It would be great. So when this was on,
I was listening to it, I was moving around to
But also I just by the way you just led
me to this.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You can, you can.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You can feed up man of fish. But if teach
him to fish, you'll.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Fish your water, your water, the water, the fish.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
He's coming out right up top and he's saying like
I don't need all of it.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I can't handle all of it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No, I can't handle all of Monica, all of Erica,
all of Rita. Tina can't marry so much to handle,
but I could handle.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
A little bit, a little bit. The word I.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Entitled for this song was mambo number five. Just this
coach Scotch est in parent.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
This is reminding me of something, and I figured out
what it is. Okay, I want to performing for you.
It's true that Mavis and Sybil have ways that are
win and Prudence and Gwendolen set your heart spinning, Phoebe's delightful,
maud Is disarming, Janice, Felicia, Lydia charming, Cynthia's dashing, Vivian
sweet Stephanie smashing Priscilla a treat, Veronica, Mellicent, Agnes and
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Jane convivial company time and again. Dorcas and Phyllis and
Glynnis are sorts. I'll agree our three jolly good sports.
But cream of the crop, tip of the top is
Mary Poppins, and there we stop. Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
First of all, and I encourage you at home chancers,
because you are if you're at home, if you're in
the car, if you're on the bus, if you're with Monica,
A little round of applause.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Wow, yeah, I read that whole thing, but you also
read it.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, if you I don't know if you can see,
I don't know if you but if you are locked in.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
If you know, but I just read that off the dome.
That's really fine. The slame off the dome. I just
read that.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, wow, great pull. So you thought that as you
were listening this time through, you were like, what does
this remind me of? That's incredible. What a kaleidoscopic view
into your brain. That's awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I knew it was like there was something that was
like with all these names, it's like it's like bringing
up something and it's such a it's a small part
in Mary Poppins that Bert just goes off with the penguins.
You knew what it was like.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
But when you when it started to sort of percolate
in your brain, you were like, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, Dick van Dyke has that really great slash going
back to accents. Yeah, bad British accent. Yeah, so like
you know, like, so I couldn't like that was what
was clinching it. It was I think maybe it was
just all the amalgamation of talking about accents and talking
about the names so good that it just sort of
like and I don't know, that just came popped into
my brain.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I think we have some research to do to find
out if that was in the in the mix for
Louis Zippy and sorry, who's the third lyricist?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I'll reach out to the German consulate.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, they'll know third lyricist was by the way.
Oh no, they give compositions, so it might just been
Louis Bega and Zippy David's for lyrics. So maybe I.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Think Zippy and Louis did this.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I think Zippy might be like centrally involved. He wasn't
a producer though. That was Yen's Jonas Arn Gore de
Fact and Frank Leo.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And does it say what album this is off of,
because I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I think it's off a little bit of mambo.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's right. And you know what a second album is called.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
A lot more of mambo.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Nope, Ladies and Gentlemen. That's it. It's called Ladies and gentlemen.
And that's how he starts his song.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Domin Jaron Wait, Ladies and gentlemen. I don't think. Look,
I gotta be honest with you. I'm not ashamed to
admit this. I didn't know any Louis Bega record after
this one, or even song did he didn't. He has
a song called Buena Makarena.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Whoa he does?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
He has a song called Scatman John. Well, you did
a record with Scatman, John? Is that like, I'm the
scat Man? Is that that? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I must know? Yeah, it must be.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We're veering if Scatman and hat Man, which is Scatman
and Louis Bega, if we're that's making me veer into
like what's our chocolate rain homies name Taison Day territorism.
I started to get a little sad, Like, once I
see Scatman and hat Man, there's something about that that
makes me a little worried. I start to feel a
little sad.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I didn't realize he his seven albums, including one that
came out in twenty twenty one called Nineties Cruiser.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it's called It's and it's like a strong anti
vax vibe on that one. Sorry, it's not true.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It might be true.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know. Also, sometimes if I look at the
pictures of his album covers, quickly it looks like Latter
Day Perry Farrell. Like I can't say if I don't
see the face, but just the hat and like the
kind of desk he's wearing. I'm like, is that a
Jane's Addiction record? Yeah, there are records up to twenty
twenty one, but like Mombo number five, so this was
a number three single in the United States.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Should we change the podcast and just do a different
lou Bega song from these deep cut albums every single
episode today? No, okay, for the next maybe this is a.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Series for the next month, we have Louis Bega Month.
That would actually be a great thing for whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Just to tag the end of an episode with another
Vega song to check out.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, and also I feel like we could pick an
artist and do like a multi like a like a
chances if you're interested in that, if you'd like to
hear like.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Four Yeah, reach out to the German consulate.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Reach out to the German cons ask if it's okay,
ask for permission. These are tenuous times. We don't want
to step anywhere in the wrong direction. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I have to tell you this that I We've had
a lot of artists. I have to if I can
be honest.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, yeah, I've got bodies who do kill. Sorry go.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So we've done a lot of artists. I think I'm
more curious about another lou Bega song than any other artists,
like other material, because what could another song even sound like?
This one is so unique, it's so driven by the sample,
and it's so in this like what I can't even
imagine unless it's just all this sort of This is
(24:21):
also sort of part of the swing, Yes, that swing comeback? Right,
we haven't talked about that, right, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Right, it was ninety nine. It was the tail end
of whatever that Yeah, what was that movie ninety six
or something ninety seven?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, But then there was also songs right like and
I think everything was a little influenced, like Skat came back,
like oh oh the cherry Pop and Daddy Squirrelnut Zippers
cherry Yeah, yeah, squirrel nuts Zippers. Yeah, what a name?
Cherry pop and Daddy's amaze me uncomfortable, yes, but I'm
saying out loud it was, but squirrel Nut Zippers was
arguably much better name when you're coming from that, yeah, yeah,
(24:54):
And then there was also like yeah swing, oh the
gap commercial.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, oh my god. And I also know, like I
I that's when I'm a college student nineteen ninety seven
to two thousand and one, people would go swing dancing. Yeah,
like that was a thing and that you know, cool,
It seems like it was fun, people enjoy themselves. I
never attended one of those, but that was like an
activity that like young, Yeah, like that was like a
thing that wasn't weird for a bunch of like people
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in their early twenties to be at some club in
Manhattan like swing dancing. So I do think you're right,
this is I didn't kind of place that this is
kind of in that timeline and certainly in that world.
I think it's funny that we're like, I can't even
imagine what another Louis Begas song would sound like, and
it's like all we'd literally have to do is mess
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play on one of the four hundred options currently staring
at me. But I'm never gonna know. The other thing
is I think why you're having that experience with this
particular artist. I'm thinking about maybe with the exception of
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like some of the novelty stuff we've done, like one
eight seven seven Cars for Kids. Even Wright said Fred.
They had Don't Talk Just Kiss, which was like, maybe
not a top ten single, but I bet that was
a top forty single. That was probably like a lower thirty,
you know, like that was a hit. It was on MTV.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Certainly, the one hit wonder always gets an attempt at
a second.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
One, right, So that makes me wonder if I just
missed his completely because that song was too big for
them to not try to capitalize on a second song.
But I have no cultural recollection whatsoever of a second movie.
And he was nominated for a fucking Grammy for this song.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I think when you when you swing, swing in such
a stylistic way, you know, it gets the attention of
the academy. Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It's like it's like I've heard said from people I
know who are in the mix in the bids.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, you're really your whole body shutter to say it.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
No, that's like, no one sees this. I don't think,
do you guys see this yet? No, we don't show
this to people.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, little clip, I'm saying, release them, release her email.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Release the tapes, release her emails, take the case files
and these VIDs, these VIDs gotta be up there, no,
I think, and by her emails of course, I mean
Candice Cameron.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I want to see I want to set.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Emails. No, I was going to say, it's often said
that the awards are given out not for the best acting,
but for the most acting, right, you know what I'm saying.
So I think in this case, you know, it could
be I don't know, maybe it's like.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
This is this is showing out. He was showing out.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's mad safe, oh yo, it's there's nothing dangerous about
this ship. Dude, I never seen I've never been afraid
of Louis Bega. Yeah for a fucking second, dude, And
I feel that way now, like he can't fucking scare me.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh look, punj he even though you know, it's interesting
because like when I first was thinking of this song,
I was like, does it hold up? Is he gonna
get is he gonna get weird? Because it's a song
about like I need a little bit of these girls.
I mean it's a little weird. Yeah yeah, but like
it's not crazy weird. Yeah, it could be crazy weird.
(28:27):
Yeah yeah, of this era too, like you could get
away with so much. And I actually think like it's
it's it's right on the line. It's also just like
I think this still plays at block parties.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's what I mean. That's what I was saying. That's
what I meant in all seriousness earlier. Is that I
that's that's a mark of something that definitely for me
is squarely in the chance category. Like it's become like
YMCA or something or whatever. It's become like one of
those songs that it's just like, yeah, anyone, if you
have this on somewhere where there's a lot ar group
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of people doing so, you only hear it there. That's
the only place I don't hear it. That's totally true.
You will hear it, like if they're trying to kill
time when yeah, I keep thinking of baseball for some reason,
when like the manager's coming out to talk to the
relief pitcher or something.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, they're like, don't don't exactly, and they'll show people.
I'm like, but I'm picturing like me getting on my
commute to work. I'm like sitting on the Jay train
and I'm putting choosing to put on Mamo number when
it's not on a playlist. I'm choosing Mamo number five,
and I'm just like by myself with my headphones do
(29:38):
that's actually, will you do that on your way home today?
I think I will. I think I have to know.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I want to know what it feels like. I want
to know I love it, like yeah, yeah, but I wait.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
One other thing I want to say that real quick,
is that when I was in college, maybe like after
I think it was after college, like I was going
to bars with a friend, and you know, there was
this thing that a couple of years later mulaney touched upon,
which was like going to a bar and playing a
song like twenty times. Yes, it's like something that people did, right,
(30:09):
But like he told that story, I forget what even
what the song was. I can't kind of can't remember
what it was. But before that had before that had
come out, we had done that with this song we
put We went to a bar in green Point and
like this like old this like old polish, like dive bar. Yeah,
and we put on mom but number five like twenty times,
(30:29):
and we were just like enjoying, like looking around seeing
people's faces. It just played over and over again. After
like six, the bartender just came off and like turned
it off and like put on his own music. It
was like a really fun. It was just like a
nice like yeah, it's like a rite of passage to
do that totally such and it's such a good song
for it too, because for maybe like two times it
will slip through because it sounds like it's just it's
(30:50):
it's the still going. Yeah. By the fifth time, you're like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
This is on purpose and I cannot abide it any further.
I feel like, also, I'm not I really mean this,
this could be something in our research further. You know
how there's been like certain military operations that were like
you know where the US government or a different government
is like using songs to torture political prisoners or whatever.
(31:16):
I really genuinely think that there was some story where
this was one of the ones they like play it
like ear splitting volume and just like loop it for
like seven hours or something like that. I definitely know
that was the thing in the late eighties with other songs,
like there was like Guns and Rows something like that
that they came Yeah, I had to do with like
(31:37):
something with Panama and Uel Noriega whatever that was. They
like were like playing that so loud that like, which
is really crazy to actually consider. But I think Mombo
number five was one of those things to at some point,
which is funny because it really that actually is a
fascinating thing, and you're what you're talking about kind of
speaks to it where something that is this is like
(31:57):
a benign and pleasant noise to be happening in the
background somewhere, but that in when you like string it
together that way, it can become literally tortuous, like there's
an experience of it being like this needs to stop
right now. Yes, and its insistence might be part of that.
(32:18):
I just before, on our way down as we land
the plane, I think you're right. I actually don't think,
especially given the topicality. I don't think it's It's not
like a quote problematic lyric in a way in ways
it could be, or certainly not in like capital letter ways.
It is a little bit more like garbled nonsensical verse lyrics, though,
(32:40):
like the I just want to walk through the first verse.
He just counts to five, one, two, three, four, five
or five. Everybody in the car, come on, let's ride.
That's fine to the liquor store around the corner. The
boys say they want some gin and juice, giving a
shout out to the ubiquitous snoop nineties hip hop West Coast,
the whole thing. But I really don't want to you're
bust like I have last week. I am officially now
(33:02):
where there's the first lyric. I don't understand what that means.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Is that a phrase I've been maybe like a busting
his gut or maybe he doesn't want to hangover.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Maybe or maybe he's gonna Maybe it's like a beer bust,
like it's prohibition.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's prohibition. Oh yeah, because it is a throwback.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I don't want to go to the liquor store. I
don't want any gingers. I don't want a beer bust.
I had that last week. Yeah, and then I must
stay deep because talk is cheap. I like Angela, Pamela,
Sandra and Rita.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Wait wait, I must go deep because like I must
stay deep, stay deep. Talk is cheap.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I like Angela.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I love someone being like hard like talk is cheap.
But anyway, I like girls.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That you like that, because that's actually that could live
in a character that you do. The way you just
did that, it was instantly embodied like the kind of
like yeah, like kind of like the sharpness, but then
also kind of like but anyway, I must.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Stay deep eight cheap, I like computers, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
It's funny because recently this is so anyway, we're not
giving it a chance on the basis of its lyrics.
Its lyrics also aren't like necessarily offensive. They're more like
I'm like bemused by them. They're like, I know, you
know what this you know what else?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
This is? This is Taco Putting on the Rits totally.
If you're blue and you don't know what, yeah, like
it's it is, it is. It's like that's that did
this first? Too? Like a sort of intentional throwback, like
an eighties throwback. Yes, in the past, but like I
might give Taco Putting on the Rits more credit, although
that's like a cover I guess in some ways. But
(34:47):
then like put through the eighties filed you know the eighties, Yeah, reimagining. Yeah,
but this is kind of that. But then I think
this does take it farther because I think the original
is probably an instrumental and he added all this, did.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
You know it was a sample based song? I had
no idea. I didn't know the original sample at all.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I think if if, if it was on a multiple
choice I definitely would have answered correctly that it that
it's like based on a sample, because I think what
else would it be? Right?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah, I mean it's not I get that, I get that,
I get, but I guess I didn't choice. You know,
I got twenty five chance even if I know nothing.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Well, it's reads PILM and it's a phone of friends.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That I'd have found you because you knew because I'm
I mean, look, we're coming near what is usually we're
chancey a clock. So is there anything you feel like
we haven't touched on or do you feel like we've been?
I think ultimately for me, it's like it's got a
skew chance because there's nothing about it that's like for
what it is. It's exactly what it's supposed to be.
(35:50):
It's not trying to be anything else, and it executes
the mission ably, and it also it's fun and funny.
H And also it seems like this dude is not
taking himself seriously at all, which may be its best
best asset.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I think our biggest critique is lyrics. And even so,
when when I will hear this song at a you know,
a swim party or.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Something, yeah about me?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, yeah, I will not. I will it still won't
affect me. I will still enjoy it the same amount
that I did.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I will sit there at the swim party completely impassive
and show no fucking feeling when this song comes on. Dude,
I'm unaffected.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I like it more or less. I like Angelo, I
like I like girls.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Honestly, Angela is cool, but she's not even top ten.
Sweetness Mary Poppins' is number one. Yeah, yeah, number one sweetest.
And at the end of the day, Push comes to shove,
Louis Begas shouts for having music into twenty twenty one.
Sorry about the anti vax stuff, and I also sorry to
hear that you passed as a result. So all, at
the end of this sep, we do want to say
rest in power to Louis Begat knows as he's life, live,
(36:57):
in power, live and piss And oh.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
My gosh, I just realized his birth name is David
the Bega, that Balla Mezzi Ballamesi, so his middle name
is Libga, so he went by lou Bega. Love it Bega.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Creativity bounds And also I think at the very at
the end of the day, when Push comes to shove,
what I'd love to hear next is Scatman and hat Man.
So that may have to be okay because Scatman's his
own app, but it makes sense that they would have
been like, we should team up. It's like when Daredevil's
(37:35):
in a Spider Man comic?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Can you do that? Can you do the lou Bega song?
That don't don.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
If it's if it's that's what it is, If that's
what it is. If that's what it is, kes, If
that's what it is, you give me five cheeze, I'll
get me five thousand. You give me back five Yeah,
I'll get five. Yeah, I get five back, So you
get forty nine ninety five? What was it?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
It was something like that you were getting. I think
you're gett money from my heart is really what I
think was going in there.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah, I think I'm getting five gs. Then you're getting
five that's the contract. I gotta go back and listen.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
All right, Well, chancers, hope you enjoyed that EP. But
if you didn't, I don't know. We did the best
we could. Doggie Pushcubs to Shelf. You was conceived in love?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
What I like? Girls? Just give it
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