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    God, I love Pop Will Eat Itself.

     

    Any way, I actually like Radio Song but the thing KRS-ONE says at the top has bugged me since the album was new. "I can't find nothing on the radio... Ah, turn to that station." What station? The one that's already on? You don't have to turn to that! Otherwise, how does the person operating the radio know what station? Also who the hell is he telling to change stations when a second ago he was the one failing to find anything?!?!

     

    I’m going to be honest. I thought I actually liked R.E.M until I started listening to this Podcast. It turns out I only liked their singles that got radio play (the songs the true R.E.M fans hate). Which, blows my mind, because I thought I hated U2 until I listened to U Talkin U2 2 Me... turns out the songs that didn’t get radio time I actually like!

     

    I appreciate these podcasts, expanding my musical knowledge. Thank you Scott and Scott!

     

    I'm an "album fan" of REM (up until like, E-Bow the Letter) and I think Stand, Shiny Happy People, What's the Frequency Kenneth and Pop Song 89 are great. I think they're as good at sweet-sounding pop music as they are at metaphysical dirges.

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    Though, I have lived the past 25+ years of my life mistakenly believing that the song he sang was a cover of the much more kid-friendly "Do you Believe in Magic?" (by The Loving Spoonfuls). I don't know why my brain got those wires crossed, but either way, the image of that slick-as-hell Moon Man is one I find very welcome... even if I fully understand the creep-factor. Fuck The Hamburglar - Mac Tonight is the one true McDonald's mascot to me, forever. :D

     

    They did do a commercial to the tune of that song, with a chorus of kids kind of rhapsodizing the whole McDonaldLand Universe.

     

    Do you believe in magic?

    Hamburgers that talk...

    Chicken McNuggets you can take for a walk...

     

    I wish McDonald's would strike up a deal with adult swim to created a David Lynch-produced drama set in McDonaldLand.

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    If you were a kid who was familiar with Mac Tonight, the first time you heard that it was based on a song called "Mack the Knife", it's like "What the fuck does 'Mack the Knife' mean? Why would a knife be named Mack?"

     

    Jake, the folks at Wheat Thins have their heads up their asses. "Everybody's Workin' for the Wheat Thins" has the juice to be a hit on the level of "Mattress City".

     

    I always wanted Pop Secret popcorn to appropriate the Ramones' "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" as "Gimme Gimme Pop Secret." And for McDonald's to dress Hamburglar up like David Bowie and have him sing "Robble Robble" to the tune of "Rebel Rebel."

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    Highly doubtful. Holmes is just as self-centered and annoying on all his podcasts and appearances. If Scott's intention was to have on an annoying guest, well it worked. 100% successful. Now let me hear a CBB episode where one guest doesn't try to derail the entire episode.

     

    That's what I meant. He brought on Pete Holmes as someone whose voice can be just as hair-raising as people said the Pamela Murphy character from the Kristen Schaal episode was, to see if people would call out a male guest's annoyance factor the same way they did that particular female guest. And I'm kidding, mostly, but maybe not?

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    Ok, I love Pete Holmes, but I actually kind of like that the people who find him annoying are speaking up in this thread, becaaaauuuse it occurred to me that maybe Scotty Ock set this up as a social experiment. Remember a couple of Pam Murphy appearances ago where she played the stand-up comic who worked at the Charlie Brown Steakhouse, and the thread started with a lot of comments about that character being annoying, and then Scott jumped in and turned it into a discussion about the potential sexism of people tending to criticize the over-the-top female characters as annoying? Well here's the same performer alongside a not-even-playing-a-character Pete Holmes, and this thread is all about people finding Pete annoying (other than the Butt guy). It looks like Earwolf forum posters are equal-opportunity as far as being annoyed!

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