"Mambo No. 5"

Published Apr 17, 2025, 7:00 AM

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?

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.

Is this mombo number five? That's pretty good? We should win something for that.

I I oh, yeah, like one hundred percent. You name that tune in a second, but.

That was that. You can't do that alone. That's a comba. It's a poop poop platter, combo platter. Baby.

That's true. That's true. We should have done that.

If you didn't do it so good.

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.

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.

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?

A die?

Is Shack gonna die?

That's for like Pedro and the Lion head Pedro in the Lion.

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.

So I figured that's what was about to happen. Yeah, I know your game people don't like a little.

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.

Rest in Peace to Rob Zombie of course rest in Power.

Yeah, he can't wait to die like he loves like graveyards and stuff.

Shack's Grave is a big hit for him too. It's a little pilgrimage for him and his zombie fam every.

Year, and it's a big grave.

Huge, it's like ten feet.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

I have a question. Is Zippy David's related to math you David's beause?

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. No unrelated, all right, you never knew it well.

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 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.

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.

See my ignorant ask to know that.

And now I just put you on your ass.

My ignorant, as what's crazy?

I just look. I did a quick Wikipedia search and Loubaga. Where do you think he's from?

Hmm, this is going to be surprising. I guess right. Let's say, is he from like Germany? Yes? Do that?

Yeah?

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, 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.

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.

It's incredible. It's really incredible. And also, as a person who has done a lot of touring.

In Germany, weirdly knowing.

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 a lot of there's definitely stylistic things that happen I've noticed in Germany that skew towards like dance or hip hop.

Oh yeah, yeah.

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.

It's like, what's a.

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.

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. He also lived in Uganda for six months.

Global citizen.

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.

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.

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.

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?

I think they were always in each other's life a little bit. Wow, No, I don't know. Sorry, that was beautiful.

I think they were always in each other's life a little bit.

That is so good. Yeah, the father said flirting is just like a sport, and the mother said, please set in the trumpet.

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 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 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.

Charms, and so the throwback of it. Yeah, and also.

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? 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 writing English lyrics.

So can I do it? I really beg you my Lord to me? Flirting is just like a sport.

That was almost like the brand. Yeah, Yakov smearnoff a little bit too. That is good.

I have to I can I do like I have to take to keep my German and my Russian enough for mixing.

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 it and then I need to dump it.

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.

Yeah, I think Trumpet's one of the names.

And it's a trumpet trumpet in sport. I don't really put together that much, but maybe.

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.

I thought they let the pre cogs go at the end. Well they did, but spoilers, minority reports, spoiler.

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.

But also maybe.

Maybe the trump that's the name, like a nickname, one of the little.

Bits, one of his little bits.

Yeah, like maybe like Rita's the trumpet.

Even please set in the trumpet, right like that even feels a little German too. Please set it an easy trump.

I will say on my streaming platform of choice, it does say please send in the trumpet.

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.

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 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 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 pop confection. I'm finding them chaotic.

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?

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.

Dude, I do that bodies, I'll keep that secret.

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 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.

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, if you really listen, it's not like one of those. It's not.

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, 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.

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.

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 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.

And you're only having a little bit of their Yeah, it's like a little bit.

I don't need all of it, that's.

What That's kind of cool. He's caught.

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.

You can, you can.

You can feed up man of fish. But if teach him to fish, you'll.

Fish your water, your water, the water, the fish.

He's coming out right up top and he's saying like I don't need all of it.

I can't handle all of it.

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.

A little bit, a little bit. The word I.

Entitled for this song was mambo number five. Just this coach Scotch est in parent.

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 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.

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.

Wow, yeah, I read that whole thing, but you also read it.

Yeah, if you I don't know if you can see, I don't know if you but if you are locked in.

If you know, but I just read that off the dome. That's really fine. The slame off the dome. I just read that.

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.

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.

But when you when it started to sort of percolate in your brain, you were like, that's what it is.

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.

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?

I'll reach out to the German consulate.

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.

Think Zippy and Louis did this.

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.

And does it say what album this is off of, because I'm about to tell you.

I think it's off a little bit of mambo.

That's right. And you know what a second album is called.

A lot more of mambo.

Nope, Ladies and Gentlemen. That's it. It's called Ladies and gentlemen. And that's how he starts his song.

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.

Whoa he does?

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?

I must know? Yeah, it must be.

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.

I didn't realize he his seven albums, including one that came out in twenty twenty one called Nineties Cruiser.

Yeah, it's called It's and it's like a strong anti vax vibe on that one. Sorry, it's not true.

It might be true.

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.

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.

Series for the next month, we have Louis Bega Month. That would actually be a great thing for whatever.

Just to tag the end of an episode with another Vega song to check out.

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.

Four Yeah, reach out to the German consulate.

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.

I have to tell you this that I We've had a lot of artists. I have to if I can be honest.

Yeah, yeah, I've got bodies who do kill. Sorry go.

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 also sort of part of the swing, Yes, that swing comeback? Right, we haven't talked about that, right, Yeah, it was.

Right, it was ninety nine. It was the tail end of whatever that Yeah, what was that movie ninety six or something ninety seven?

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, And then there was also like yeah swing, oh the gap commercial.

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 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 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 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.

Certainly, the one hit wonder always gets an attempt at a second.

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.

I think when you when you swing, swing in such a stylistic way, you know, it gets the attention of the academy. Mmmm.

It's like it's like I've heard said from people I know who are in the mix in the bids.

Yeah, you're really your whole body shutter to say it.

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.

Yeah, little clip, I'm saying, release them, release her email.

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.

I want to see I want to set.

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.

This is this is showing out. He was showing out.

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.

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. 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.

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 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.

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 that's actually, will you do that on your way home today? I think I will. I think I have to know.

I want to know what it feels like. I want to know I love it, like yeah, yeah, but I wait.

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, 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, 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 it's the still going. Yeah. By the fifth time, you're like, Okay.

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. 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 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 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. 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, 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 where there's the first lyric. I don't understand what that means. I don't know.

Is that a phrase I've been maybe like a busting his gut or maybe he doesn't want to hangover.

Maybe or maybe he's gonna Maybe it's like a beer bust, like it's prohibition.

It's prohibition. Oh yeah, because it is a throwback.

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.

Wait wait, I must go deep because like I must stay deep, stay deep. Talk is cheap.

I like Angela.

I love someone being like hard like talk is cheap. But anyway, I like girls.

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.

Stay deep eight cheap, I like computers, right, yeah, exactly.

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?

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 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.

You know it was a sample based song? I had no idea. I didn't know the original sample at all.

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?

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.

Well, it's reads PILM and it's a phone of friends.

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. 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.

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.

Something, yeah about me?

Yeah, yeah, I will not. I will it still won't affect me. I will still enjoy it the same amount that I did.

I will sit there at the swim party completely impassive and show no fucking feeling when this song comes on. Dude, I'm unaffected.

I like it more or less. I like Angelo, I like I like girls.

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, in power, live and piss And oh.

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.

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 in a Spider Man comic?

Can you do that? Can you do the lou Bega song? That don't don.

Okay?

Right?

Greg?

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?

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.

Yeah, I think I'm getting five gs. Then you're getting five that's the contract. I gotta go back and listen.

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?

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