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Podcasting. Thank you for listening. Welcome. Hi.
Hi. I'm just taking a selfie. Don't mind me. Just put that phone down.
Hi. You like some kind of kid with your phone? Oh my gosh, snapping pics. Crazy.
Oh my goodness. Well, you're in a robe. Losing a bathroom. In a robe.
I feel like I can be in a robe. I feel it fits the theme of today. It fits the theme. I can wear a robe.
I usually I don't like to wear a robe when we record our podcast. Yeah, that's general. I try to get dressed up. Well, this is Ron Prussians.
There's enough of that. Raw capital R capital K W. I don't know. Adele tends to she gets dressed up a little bit.
It's work. I feel like I got a show up to work with my uniform on. She sits erect. Oh, well, I'm going to put my backup right now.
Well, it wasn't a command. I was a little hunched over. Actually, it feels good to have that reminder to sit up straight, tits out, shoulders back. So I have something really special for today.
What's the announcement? Well, I realized today that I'm often my happiest right after I've completed a cover song or a song. After I've completed a piece of music, I am the most happy. And what I like about this podcast and about what we do is that it forces the issue.
So I'm like, I really try to finish something. Give you deadlines. Give me deadlines. It gives me deadlines.
And it shows in my recordings, to be perfectly honest. It's a bit raw. The recordings are raw for sure. You're raw.
I'm raw today. Damn, sure. But yeah, I finished another piece of music today. And I'm pretty excited to share it with you.
And is this sort of your third? You were talking about kind of this, is it trifecta? My trifecta. That's the right word.
I was a triptych. Triptych. Triptych. It's your triangle.
Hat trick. Hat trick. Right? That's a hot thing.
The three part. Lose three part, novelty hit from the 1970s. Special. The third part completed today.
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Learn more by visiting acast.com slash advertise. I had the deepest love for that song in 1974. Mm-hmm. That was an eight year old, I guess.
And hit right around the same time as a convoy in the street. What a joy recreating those three songs. Nobody guessed it. You had put up on Instagram like, hey, I've got one more to do.
Can you guess what it is in my, what'd you call it? Your 70s? My 70s, drive back to my hat track. But what was the genre you were kind of calling it?
It's a novelty. Thank you. You were saying novelty song and nobody got concentrating. Crushing a cultural moment.
These songs, convoy, the street, Kung Fu fighting. They were the culmination of trends that were happening at the time. Kung Fu fighting. People were thinking about it.
Elvis was doing Kung Fu. It was hitting the mainstream. And the movies that people love. Right.
I heard that it was inspired because there were so many Kung Fu movies at the time. Which are amazing, of course. They're so fun to watch. And so many cool fun facts about this one.
And guess. He's got his notebook out. Here's my factual notebook. Mm-hmm.
Look at my thumb. He did. He actually looked his thumb. Okay, here we go.
Where's that thumb back? Carl Douglas. Okay. Caribbean descent.
1974. This is one of the first. What was I saying it? Carl Douglas.
Okay. This was one of the first disco hits. Oh. Popularized dance music.
Yeah. Here's the thing. The song was recorded as a B side. Much like Steams.
No, no, no, no. Hey, hey, hey, good bye. That was also a B side. They recorded the recorded Kung Fu fighting in like something like 10 minutes.
Wow. Like 10 minutes left in the studio. There's a gay man. Bam.
Let's do it. I've got this idea. And then it was switched to the A side. The record.
The A side. Like, whoa. Took a little while, but the disco started to play it. And then it hit and went massive.
Number one. Number one. All those songs. Kung Fu fighting.
Kind of like an earlier version of like what maybe we would know like Gangam style, right? Like, is that what you say? Gangam style. Gangam style.
Where it's like a real dance song is. Stop, stop the presses. What? I got to cover Woopam Gangam style immediately.
Really? Woopam Gangam style. We listened to it the other day. We listened to it the other day.
It was really fun in the kitchen or dancing. Okay. So, can you not move when you hear that? You just don't start shaking.
Is this also, would you say Kung Fu fighting in Kong Voy or also in the same vein as like YMCA song? Is that considered a novelty hit too? I don't know. That's really, I think YMCA is just a damn good song.
It is. It wasn't like at the peak of like the popularity of the YMCA. I don't think. I was going to say maybe before you say that.
You don't know because I didn't know that Kung Fu fighting was because it. There was such a blow up of Kung Fu movies. When YMCA happened, I was a regular at the YMCA. I played racquetball.
Yeah. I played a sport. I played a sport. I know it seems so high class.
You could be there doing what all the older generation, well actually older everyone is doing now. What's it called? Pickleball. Racquetball is pretty intense.
Is that where you're like in one room? Oh. Oh, this is so great. Luska.
God, I'm so excited. My body is just giving it up. It's just coming from my toes. All the bad stuff is coming out.
I'm being born at the cleanse. Kung Fu fighting recording the song. Cleanse you. Spending the last two days recording the song has been great.
Oh. Yeah. All right. Well, let's see.
Does our listeners out there think that this is? Are they like, oh, yeah, this is what it is. I can't believe nobody guessed it. That's wild.
That's wild. Not very many people guessed. Let's be honest. It wasn't like I really had a lot of people.
Four people guessed and they were all wrong. There was not a legion of people awaiting this. This is purely thousands of people responding to blowing up. People weren't debating.
There was no Reddit thread about this. Where's Lou Marlagh going next with this novelty coverage version? I have to say, you know, as I was listening to that song there. I was just rocking out again.
I was thinking, gosh, okay, I love season one of Ron Prussians, obviously. But is season two, is season two, let's say, is this going to be, is this like the Godfather part two? Are we just like hitting it? Is this so good, you guys?
Well, hit me maybe one more time was a success. I think Kung Fu fight, I kind of capitalized. I had tried some recording techniques with baby one more time. And this time, you know what?
I went fully digital for this one. I did not dump it onto my my tape recorder and recorded that way. I was like, I'm going to just do this. I'm going to use the tape recorder.
I'm running things through the tape recorder. This is for you, gear-minded people. I'm kind of using the four track as a preamp. Anyway, animals are running through an amplifier.
And I'm also going just, you know what? I'm doing like digital, clean capture too. I wanted this to be a warm embrace. And not so much of a fuzzy embrace, but still a warm embrace.
Well, because disco's definitely warm. It's definitely warm. I love disco so warm. Speaking of YMCA, just to complete my thought about that, I did go to the YMCA all the time when the YMCA song happened.
But I didn't think- Wait, which YMCA in Michigan? No, this would be in Massachusetts. I moved to Massachusetts. I actually went to the YMCA all the time in Michigan too.
But it was right down the street from my house in Westfield. And they had a racquetball. Were you in high school? Yeah, I was in middle school and then high school.
So you, well, I didn't know you were doing anything physical, like active. I thought you were just sitting in your bedroom, poking tapes around. But you were actually out sweating and throwing a racquet around? Who'd you go there with?
It was before I learned to masturbate. I'm a late bloomer in that regard. So that could be it. Oh my gosh.
But I did, I would go out. Great masturbation. And then once you were like, no need for racquetball. Do not disturb.
Door is locked. Sign on. I wish I had a lock on my door when I was a kid. Did you have a lock on your door when you were a kid?
I don't remember. I don't think so. I remember clearly. No, I did not.
I remember clearly. I did not. I did not. I had a dimension of tension.
So wait, who did you play racquetball with? Some people? Why? Some other dudes?
Like, did you know them? Yeah, I kind of knew them from school. We would go after school. Oh, friends.
Kinda, friends. I tell you I had a merciless serve. No one could return my serves. So it was kind of like I was cheating.
Like I figured out this serve that no one could hit back. So I won a lot and it'd be like, you're cheating. It's all about your serve, which is true. I was not an exceptional player other than this serve was probably, we didn't play by any rules.
This was not like regulated. This was like free form smack. You can free form your whole life. Yeah, it's another free form thing.
I haven't been actually. Yeah. Lou Barlow, free form since 1967. Six.
Six. Oops. Oopsie-doo-see. You're 77.
Got my husband's grip. You're wrong. You were in 1977. You were 66.
You were 66. Good old 66. Yeah, 66. A spirit of 66.
A summer of 66. Hot summer. Lou Barlow bursting into this world free form. Oh crap.
I was going to say something and then oh, I was going to say to our listeners, maybe you don't know that Lou Barlow is actually pretty competitive. And when it comes to sports, he's also maybe this would be a surprise to you. He can be pretty good. There's some athletic ability in your fam, runs through the fam.
Who else is kind of a closet jock? Who? Jay Mascis. I don't really.
He's a skier. He's a skier, but he also likes basketball. He likes basketball. He likes basketball.
He likes basketball. He's good. I think of you as like a closet jock. But you, maybe, tell me if you knew that already, everyone.
But you know what, Lou is really good at? Bowling. So you have a good arm. You have a good arm.
I'm okay, bowling. No, you're a great bowler. Thank you, honey. And you have really cool style when you do what I have to say.
My dad. You'll be hot when you bowl. My dad had style when you bowl. I can see that.
I mean, your dad also, he's got a good physical presence the way he would move himself right. He was also athletic. He was very athletic. I came from athletic families, both sides.
Yeah. My mother's father was actually a minor league baseball player. So cool. And while there's also professional like ballet dancers.
Oh, yeah, my cousins. Amazing. Yeah. I got a fairly big family.
And there's a real activity. There's a... They're moving their bodies. There is like a...
Just like Kung Fu fighting. My brother, Holland, did Judo when we were younger. And I would go to his Judo tournaments. It's not Kung Fu, but it's like more like wrestling, I think.
So they were like, they made physical contact? Yeah. It was like wrestling. Yeah.
I think I got scared. It's safer than Karate, right? Or is it the same? I don't know.
Yeah. I did not. Yeah, I should have done that. I should have really researched it.
Okay, we'll find out. So I could have put it in my big book of facts because if I start talking about it right now, it will not be the facts. True. I mean, Kung Fu, is that even like a real term?
Okay. Well, don't... Are you looking it up? Should I look it up?
Let's see here. No, maybe. Okay. Kung Fu versus...
Kung Fu. Karate. Okay. Let's see here.
That was my own. I added that little thing. Okay. Well, I don't know if this is going to tell me the difference, but this is a martial arts website and it says Karate versus Kung Fu, which one is superior?
Both are forms of martial art. Okay. The age old question. I didn't know this was an age old question.
In which one is superior? That's something of a personal preference. I'm reading off of a website. Oh, God.
I'm so bored already. Are you bored? I was interested. Okay.
Well, basically, it says your karate is a form of martial art that is conducted without the use of weapons and was initially developed in Japan. And then, hey, what many someone wants to know? What was Kung Fu that? I would like to know.
Yeah. Okay. Kung Fu consists of many different fighting styles blended together in one, which is why most people will argue that Kung Fu is superior. Oh.
That's interesting. So Kung Fu is kind of like a blend of different styles, fighting styles. And so maybe it's considered more complex. Maybe.
Yeah. Maybe that's also why like Kung Fu movies are really popular because it's sort of very macho then, right? To be able to do all these different things. Oh, no.
I just remember. Yeah. It's kind of like the Bruce Lee time. Yes.
Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Kung Fu movies when you were little. I can kill you without a gun.
Yeah. Well, your hands or your feet. You don't want to hear me tell you. You're the one with a fact notebook.
I can't have facts. You can have facts. Okay. You're just minor boring.
I love your facts. No, come on. Seriously. We exchanged quote unquote facts all day long, you and me.
We're on the mic here. This is the show. Oh, sorry. We're recording.
I don't know if you know this. I mean earlier in this episode, I debuted my cover of Kung Fu fighting my tribute. It's a tribute. It's actually more of a tribute.
It's a tribute. Showbiz. I felt like an entertainer. I felt like an entertainer doing that.
I kind of almost can see you like floating in a beautiful music video of like tribute version of it. It'd be so cool. Where's the budget? Where's the budget?
I think it's the whole Kung Fu fighting thing is totally played out. It was all in that Kung Fu Panda thing. Jack Black. No, did Jack Black also covered this song guys?
He is C-Lo. I mean, huge names in the entertainment business. They've already covered Kung Fu fighting. It's already out there.
Nobody needs to know this. Well, this is for you and me. And are people who listen to Rotten Precious, we've got the fans and they're ready for it. Thank you.
You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to cover this album that I was going to post on our sub-set. Yes, heck yeah. Our little family general sub-set.
I'm adding Kung Fu fighting to that collection to make a 17-song collection. Cause 17's your favorite number. 17's my favorite number. What was I thinking?
Thinking I could release an album with only 16 songs on it. Are you sure you should do that one? The Kung Fu fighting? Yes.
Cause this isn't season two. Are you sure? Because Kung, Convoy and the streak are also on it and I think they should be together. You put them on it?
Yes. Well, aren't they from season? Okay. I've decided not to segregate it by seasons.
Why? I think Kung Fu fighting slips in under the wire. So I'm doing that one. That one's going to be because I wanted to do 17 songs and I want it to be with Kung Boy in the streak.
You want it to be what you want it to be. Okay. I want it. You want it.
He wants it that way. He wants it that way. Oops. And it turns out we fucked up.
It wasn't in sync. It was the Backstreet Boys. Not in sync. I said it was in sync.
No, I think I said it. Did you? Possibly. Oh.
You know, if you didn't say it then you thought it too. I definitely did. Is that really the Backstreet Boys? I don't know.
I want it that way. It's that way. Tell me why. Oh, it is the Backstreet Boys.
I don't really know the Backstreet Boys. I'm not like up on them. I think I was more of an in sync because, wait, okay, I was like Justin Timberlake. Was he in the Backstreet Boys?
No, he was an in sync. Okay. Anyway, I want it that way. Oh, and then somebody said something.
What? Oh, okay. Get your lips on the mic. Get my lips on the mic.
Okay. Okay. Oh my goodness, guys. So this was recorded in Stockholm.
Are you? Are you talking about the Backstreet Boys right now? Yes, I'm talking about it that way. Is there a signature song?
Right. And that's what I was talking about during the beginning of the time. Yes, exactly. Sweetish.
Right. Right. Right. Right.
Right. Right. Right. Right.
That's what I'm talking about. Is that you said that it was Swedish songwriters, right? Yes. You know what's interesting?
Okay. We'll never mind. We'll talk about this later. What's interesting?
But I'm looking at the Wikipedia for I Want It That Way. There's a lot to know about that song. You do? I do.
I don't know if I like that one. I think I do get really hung up on that one being like the I want it that way. I keep going like what? What are we talking about, guys?
Backstreet Boys. So they must have been kind of like boy bands at the same time. The Backstreet Boys in NSYNC. Yes.
They were battling it out. Okay. Okay. I feel like when I was younger and it was new kids on the block, it was just like new kids on the block.
They ruled. Yeah. I mean, there was other boy bands. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you too over here.
Bell Biv Devo. Oh God. I love them. Bell Biv Devo.
Hey, hey, hey. What was the band they came from? Um, it's, it's... Uh, they were...
Was that, uh, new addition or...? I dunno. No, new addition. That was a...
That was a... Hey, really from Massachusetts? Boston. Bell Biv Devo was from Boston.
Yes. Yes, they were from New Edition. I was right. We'll right.
We were right. Cause I love New Edition. That's bad. And Bell Biv Devo.
Me. Keep on going. Thank you. This is the end of the episode.
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