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Alright, hello. Good morning and welcome everyone to a Friday edition of TBTL. Hey, where's the freaking gabagoo? The show that just might be too beautiful to live. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host.

Wait a minute. Who are you?

Coming to you from the Nest Broadcast Center, high in the sky above Portland, Oregon, where it is shaping up to be 82 degrees today, which I have to say, nothing like a couple of 113 degree days to really reframe your sense of what warm is. I think yesterday was also in the mid-80s, and I had to put on actually a snowsuit, which, you know, looked weird out there on the streets of Portland, but I had to do it. Here we are at episode 3,458 in a collector series.

Let the fun begin.

And we have such a special show in store for you. I just am so excited we can all be here together. I'm so excited about this show. We are going to bring back the TBTL Song of the Summer competition.

Early favorite, by the way, to win it, K-Stross, the Yo-Yo Man, singing some scat songs.

We also have a bunch of other songs, too, that you have submitted, you the tens of listeners, that we will be debuting here so you can hear all of them, so you can vote in an informed way. Speaking of people with a song in their heart We have to welcome the longest running co-bro of the show To the program Maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships

Hey there, mousey mouse

He is Andrew Walsh And he's joining me right now From the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington Good morning, my friend

Between that and Case Trials We just burned through two of the nominees Slow down, Burbank

I have Musica Conchalata queued up right after this Before we get too far into this we have to, of course, welcome somebody who we've missed on this program and somebody who's run this Song of the Summer contest for us before, none other than my actual brother, one DF... God, this drop is way too long. TB, David from The Basement. David, welcome to the program.

Thank you so much. Thank you for letting me out of the basement again. When that sound effect happens, that's the only time I can leave. So thank you for that.

You'll be going straight back soon. Like Ark of the Covenant situation You can only be released when we play that audio Davey, welcome back to the show It's nice to see you It's so lovely to be here The last time we talked to you It was when we were watching the Lord of the Rings movie I gotta tell you, that was a runaway hit And it was because of your Lord of the Rings It wasn't because I was mildly inebriated by the end of the recording It was because your knowledge of Lord of the Rings is really something

Oh, that's wonderfully here I actually, I have not heard it myself because...

Well, you've got to donate at a certain level.

I know, I haven't donated. Being a manager at a Mod Pizza does not pay as well as you might think. But I'm really happy to hear that. Send one over to Dad or something because I know he would probably get a kick out of the loader.

Do you think that Dad knows as much of that loader stuff as you do?

It's like different levels. I know more, I think, about the books and the sort of the general lore. He knows a lot more about, like, the movie production and all the locations and stuff. That was his thing when we were down in New Zealand was, like, mapping out everything. And so he is really amazing at that. He'll spend hours just, like, on Google Maps, just, like, zooming in on little places and posting our own pictures into the Google so that that shows up when people look at those places, which is really cool. But, yeah, it's just different.

Well, let him know if he donates. He'll also be able to listen to his son's talking loader. Is it too late, Andrew, for people to get a hold of that? That was a TBTL-a-thon, a 12 thing. Yes. If people have not gotten it, is that ship sale?

I mean, I guess any, so let me put it this way. Anybody who donated at any level received that or should have received that in their email. Other than David.

Other than David, if they have...

Other than the person who literally carried the entire production.

Well, you've got to earn it. And, yeah, so if you donated at any level and you have not seen that link yet, get at me. Andrew at tbtl.net will get it to you. If you didn't, is your question, Luke, can somebody still donate now and get that? That's above my, I don't know. I mean, do we want to just tear the paywall down? I mean, it seems like maybe that's, is that disloyal, the people who donated to get it?

Probably so. And the other thing is, it sounds like we're going to do this again next year. Are you down for that, D? Absolutely. It was a big hit with people, like this riff track thing, which other podcasts have been doing forever. It was new to us, but very popular with the listeners.

The only, like, it was all positive feedback. And I wasn't even really sure if people were interested in listening to it. It's a long movie, right? And it's a long time to listen to us. All positive feedback, with the exception of some people concerned that I got into the weeds a little bit too much with all of my loader knowledge. and that, like, I needed to dumb it down a little bit and just kind of talk to the everyman. But aside from that, oh, have we run the idea of Grimly the Pleasant by David yet?

Oh, I mean, have you heard that yet, dude?

Oh, absolutely, yeah. What do you think about adding that as a character? Could we somehow make that retroactive canon?

I did actually, for the Lord of the Rings class that I did in college, I had to write, like, an extended fan fiction. And, man, I should have included Grimly the Pleasant.

What did you write in your extended fan fiction?

It was – well, let's get right back into the riff track. It was all about – Let's get into it. That's our new catchphrase on this show. It was about – so, like, the wizards Gandalf and Saruman and stuff. There were originally five wizards that were the Ishtari that were brought to Middle Earth. And so it was Gandalf, Saruman, this guy Radagast, who you see briefly in the Hobbit films, who's just like sort of a wingnut. And then there were these two wizards called the Blue Wizards who Tolkien didn't really write about at all. And so we don't really know. They were just like wandering around Middle Earth. It's possible they were trying to take down Sauron as well, but we don't really know. And so I sort of like fit in that puzzle piece to the best of my ability. I don't think I got, like, an amazing grade on it. What? Really? But it was really fun to write because I just make up all this stuff.

You had to be the star student of that class, though.

Dude. You got to see some of the dorks. Wait. I say very kindly. Of course. I'm one of those dorks.

But wait, so you were not the most hardcore loader person in that college class?

No. I would say we were all around the same level, which was intimidating, but there's also definitely a camaraderie there. And that was sort of fun to, like, be able to not have to water down some of the, like, lore and stuff when talking to people about it. Right.

You didn't have to explain the backstory on everything. Yeah.

Everything didn't have to have, like, five footnotes to it.

What did you have the Blue Wizards doing? Like, were they, like...

They basically, what I had them doing is journeying into Mordor, Sauron Stronghold. This was, like, ages before The Lord of the Rings, and they basically get, like, one of them gets corrupted by Sauron's power, much like Saruman got corrupted by Sauron's power, and then the other one gets, like, trapped in Sauron's tower called Beradur, and he's just, like, trapped there for millennia, and it was... I forget now, but I sort of like tied it all back into some of the events of the Lord of the Rings and of the Hobbit and stuff in a way that seemed like it all fit together. But I don't know.

I'm trying to imagine this college professor getting this paper from you, which I'm sure knowing you, it was very detailed what you wrote and thinking, I'm going to give this a C. It was definitely like a B of some sort.

I see where you went wrong, though. I was thinking as soon as you mentioned the gathering of the wizards, I was like, poker game, man. It's a poker game. All the wizards, it's like very – it's like dialect heavy.

I was thinking it's more shut up, little man. Yes. These two wizards are just absolutely dragging each other down in a gross – you probably are too young to know about this documentary. But somebody living – I think it was in San Francisco, right, Andrew? Had neighbors who were just in an extremely toxic relationship, these two guys. and they started recording these two guys' argument through the wall, and I think one of them, I don't know if it was his go-to or if he just said it one time, but one of them yelled at the other one, Shut up, little man! Shut up, little man! And the movie is called Shut Up, Little Man. I like the idea of the blue wizards just having that kind of dynamic.

Damn, if I could rewrite it, I would. It's not too late to re-enroll.

A Seinfeld, or maybe like a Seinfeld.

kind of set up with the wizards. You know, one of the wizards is the Jerry character, etc. A lot of opportunities, David. One of the wizards, like, enters every room like Kramer.

That's Radagascar. That's classic Radagascar. His wizard hat flies off and keeps hitting the door jamb. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, well, what we are actually here to do today is to roll out all of the, it's 16, right?

It is, yeah.

16 Song of the Summer nominees. What was the process like for you, Davey, of getting these songs, of listening to them, of winnowing it down?

Well, I created a Gmail account and I guess made the name way too confusing for a show that's entire name is an acronym.

I didn't want us to sound like we were being ungrateful, Dave, because you're doing this like pro bono. In fact, we should probably give you access to the Lord of the Rings riff track. That's all I ask. At this point. This is my donation. This is a lot of time out of your life and we really appreciate it. I will say there was a certain barrier to remembering the email address for the songs.

Was there really? I mean, DFTB is what I'm sort of classically called on this show. And then –

You know, if you actually just – if you type that sound into Gmail, it will send the email right to –

And then Song of the Summer, S-O-T-S. I don't know. it's it felt like it was right uh an expedient way to do it uh apparently it was not but i created the email got tons of um emails i was worried because on the first like probably three or four days there were only there were not a ton of songs being suggested and i was a little worried but that was before the newsletter came out and so the newsletter was released and then it was just like a ton a ton of uh submissions and everyone was so sweet in their email saying that they were so excited that we were doing this again and specifically that i was involved and um really warmed the cockles of my heart um but and there was um a lot of nominations for a few songs which made it really easy to sort of have some front runners and then there were a lot of single nominations and so it was a lot of sort of scanning through different songs sort of researching songs a little bit seeing if they had something interesting attached to them or if they had some sort of attachment to the show or to artists that have been on the show before um and it was really fun it was me and my partner alicia she's like the my sort of authority on music she's like knows all she's introduced me to all of the good music that i've listened to in the past four years. Did Penny play

any kind of role in this? You know, she just sort of sat on the floor panting.

What she usually does, which is sit on the floor, look like an absolute little dingo and just like pants and pants and pants. We call her pants because she is just constantly

This is their daughter, Penny. I should mention to the new listeners to the show. She's 20.

But it was great. We listened to all of the songs and sort of talked about them and i made little notes on them and then um we had thought that it was me you and andrew had sort of been talking about um doing 32 songs which sounded to me like too many songs at first but then i kind of had forgotten whether we had started at 32 or 16 so i was initially putting together 32 songs and it was like just felt like too many songs to be able to spend an adequate amount of time on each song, which I think they're deserving. And there were three Insane

Clown Posse songs in the 32, which

seemed like a lot. Exactly. I had to trim it down to two within the 16. Yeah, obviously. But yeah. Were you going for

catchiness? Like, what were you and Alicia, and to some degree, Penny, what were you kind of listening

for? Definitely catchiness. Also, you know, there's this thing on TikTok of...

I'm listening.

of you know you watch you see certain tiktok videos that are really they're not trying to do anything it's not a person talking in front of the camera it's not someone doing some dance it's just like we sort of call it just like a vibe tiktok and it's just a song and it's pictures either of nature or you know short clips of nature or short clips of the interior of someone's cool eclectic apartment um and so like i was looking for something that to me felt like a vibe like a summer vibe basically that you would see in one of these tiktoks and a couple of the songs are definitely from tiktok or that i have seen pop up a bunch on tiktok i mean that's sort of like a big um that's an influencer of songs for a lot of people and especially during the

pandemic i get excited when i hear a song in real life that i've heard on tiktok it's like i'm listening to a celebrity right i'm like oh levitate duolipa which is also like the most popular song in america i think it's levitating technically all right when i hear a song that i found out about on tiktok out in the wild i feel like somehow i'm in on the ground floor of it which is the silliest thing to think because it's like millions and millions of people are listening to it but yeah but it is a way that i'm that and addy are the main ways i'm getting music these days right but i do think tiktok is

interesting that it is a way to introduce songs in just these very like digestible little clip bits and uh you hear just the part that you want of the song but then when you hear the full song you're getting to like you're almost experiencing it again like you've heard it a thousand times in these tiktoks and you're like wait what is this song actually and then you look it up and then you get to hear the entirety of the song and it's a it feels like it's a whole new experience of that song um and so yeah that happened with several of these um songs but it was it ended up being pretty easy to put them together in the end once i had sort of sorted them in my mind um because again several of them had gotten a bunch of votes which sort of automatically pushes you through to the finalists um and then the ones that hadn't that maybe had only gotten one or two votes that i was having to choose from just listening to them over again they just sort of like fell all into place so now i have all 16 um and i haven't set up the bracket or the matchups yet But it seems like we could do it, you know, basically like a March Madness, one seed versus 16 seed.

Jake in Chicago will be handling that, I presume, Andrew.

My fellow unpaid producer. Exactly.

Did we give Jake access to the Lord of the Rings riff track?

He doesn't deserve it, Luke.

All right. Well, let's do this. Let's take a quick break. And then when we come back, let's start listening to these 16 songs that are going to be in the running for the TBTL Song of the Summer. Stay with us. It's TBTL. is this da baby who is this i i feel like this is definitely a very popular song currently

david this was an actual submission i believe right it was um unfortunately from a few years prior to a few hundred years a few hundred years prior from disqualify was the only thing that would ever disqualify it it was submitted by soron by um by one mary the now former tbtl virgin

so we now have this is confirmation that our friend mary down there in phoenix the one-time tbtl virgin is listening to the show because she's submitting things for the song of the summer Again, Mare, love you. Don't change. This is a little bit outside of the general vibe of the songs for the Song of the Summer. But I love that you're engaging with the programming now and not just the newsletter.

And now we have a theme song, right, David?

Oh, my God. There you go.

Well, and the email was so thoughtful. It was like all of the emails I just talked about. It was very thoughtful towards me and there was no hint of irony in the submission. So I don't know, Mary, if you're just really good at covering your sarcasm or if you thought that this was a song from 2021.

Having gotten a ride from Mary, the former TBTL virgin, from Nora McInerney's house to our hotel so that I could take the Delica van to the Japanese auto shop, I can tell you this. That was a very much an authentic and real submission from Mary. Mary is on her own wavelength, and I love it.

I have now played that song exactly once on YouTube, just in this moment. And already, I swear to God, the first suggested video now on YouTube for me is Who's On First, Abbott and Costello.

How many times has that song – first of all, what is that song actually called? We were just calling it stripper music, but I don't think we actually even used the term. It's The Stripper by David Rose. We should say, what, adult dancer? I don't think we say stripper anymore. Do we not?

Exotic dancer, maybe? Or is that also a weighted term?

Exotic Dancer seems more okay than Stripper, right? I feel like Stripper is a little judgy sounding. So it's called The Stripper, though.

It's called The Stripper by David Rose.

How many views does that song have?

This particular one has 387,000 views.

Nothing we ever do will have more impact on the culture than whoever decided to put that up on YouTube. Yeah, absolutely. That one version of this song that probably exists in, like, 40 places on YouTube.

Yeah, absolutely.

All right, so that one is not on the list for possible Song of the Summer of Victory. But, David, I guess do you want to just, like, where do you want to start with this?

I guess I'll start at number one.

So this is the one seed.

This got... I want to say four or five votes, which in terms of how many votes we got was like a ton for one. And it's probably a song that most people have heard and definitely a song most people are going to hear. It's very summery sounding.

Andrew, stifle the urge to play the stripper song when David's done talking. That would be actually a pretty sweet burn.

It is Game of Caps. It's actually so it's by Lorde, you know, the New Zealand artist, the Kiwi artist. That we all know and love We did Royals And this song is called Solar Power

I also didn't know Lorde was from New Zealand I thought she was from Australia I bet that happens a lot to folks from New Zealand I mean Linda's actually from New Zealand That's one of the little Power out Linda We've been saying Australia for all these years Incorrectly Alright so here we go with this Lorde song

My cheeks in hot color Over our beaches No shirt, no shoes, only my feet My boy behind me, he's taking pictures He's taking pictures Meet the boys and girls onto the beaches Come on, come on, I'll tell you my secrets I'm kind of like a prettier Jesus Turn it on in a new kind of bright It's solar That is catchy.

Well, so what's interesting about this song, we're getting a finger from Andrew a little more. We've got to listen to Andrew. Andrew's, okay, sorry.

Think three times when you feel it kicking in that.

So, very catchy, obviously. This song just got released. um she lord released it with a music video which is very summer pop it's like her and a bunch of other people on a beach they're all just like hanging out it's very like corona commercial beach vibe um it what's strange about this song is this sort of dynamic chorus that you hear um comes at the very end of the song and only at the very end of the song it's like a two and a half minute uh long song and this is like the last 30 or 45 seconds of the song so the beginning is all lord sort of whisper singing which i'm not generally a fan of um i would describe the sort of most of the song as being um i think what a uh pitchfork writer described as full of air which you could say it's airy which is sort of a nice summary feeling but i think full of air is more yeah that's very pejorative it's got a pejorative um meaning to it i guess but it's also i think it is descriptive of it because it is it's all sort of especially with the way lord is sort of like whispering it feels like it's a build-up to a chorus and then the chorus doesn't quite happen and then finally it happens and it's like this payoff sort of at the end of the song um but some interesting stuff about it the guitar that you hear in the song is um jack antonoff who oh Oh, from Fun. From Fun and one-time spouse of Lena Dunham.

Was he in Bleachers as well?

Bleachers, which I think also just came out with a new album, though we got no submissions for any of their songs, so I'm sure it's garbage.

Bleachers did make a run in the Song of the Summer competition, I think, a few years ago.

Yeah, I Want to Get Better, I think, was the song. And then also some vocals by Claro. I'm not sure how to say that name. she's like a pop artist that works with a lot of um djs and producers and stuff um i think she and like calvin harris have worked on a lot of stuff together um but other vocals by phoebe bridges

which i thought was interesting um phoebe phoebe bridges got me so much cred with adelaide because i've been wearing this paris review hat uh around town just i don't subscribe to the magazine but i do wear the hat because i want people to think i'm smart and then phoebe bridges was wearing it on instagram and then addy was like uh the real heads now she was like screen captain and send it

to me and i was like this is some real cred yeah i thought when i saw that um in the uh in the song production notes i thought that that was very interesting because yeah phoebe bridgers is like not having a moment because i feel like she's been having a moment for several years now but yeah it's like in a special moment for her um but another thing about this song there's some controversy around especially when it gets into the chorus that it is a little too reminiscent of the george michael song um is it freedom 90 oh we've had a conversation about the guys had talked about the dueling freedom extra interesting huh um so i don't know obviously we'll probably be hearing it again i'm sure this song is going to make it pretty far um not to put my finger on

the on the scale but um yeah something to listen for that is is that why it has such that good summer vibe it's because it's taking a little from the genius george michael where i tend to

come down on that kind of stuff is like there are a limited number of chords that exist and i feel like i mean it's very hard to write a catchy song that does not end up using some chords that

someone else has used to write a catchy song very true you know what i'm thinking here though is we should move on to the other song otherwise we're gonna do like two songs today but um we're 160 into the but it's more than the now that you say that i actually very much um kind of lean towards the side of yeah like everybody's hearing things being influenced mixing things up um i'm fine with taking influence from other musicians but it's not just the now that i think about it's not just the chords right it's the he's kind of got this staccato we percussive whispering that then kicks into that freedom i'm not going to sing anymore during the show but like it's actually interesting that it's not just the chorus but it's the transition into the chorus that is kind of similar too but i love it and i think that's great if she was influenced by it is lord like i

know we need to move on but lord at this point is probably what 18 i feel like her first album she was like very young she was like 17 making that album in like her bedroom in new zealand so well

and now she has gone full-blown uh beach babe she's like the cover of this album that the song is from um is her i believe it's her and it's like an under view of her in like a one piece bathing suit and she's got just her she's her booty yeah i was scandalized david i was putting

together a i was putting together a spotify playlist for it and when you make am i allowed I can see you clutching your pearls right now. As a 45-year-old man, it's creepy if I Google this. And at first, you know, when you slide the first song into a Spotify playlist, the image art is just whatever that one song is. And it was just like this big picture of her butt from underneath. And I was like, we need to add some more songs to this playlist. Stat. Yeah. It does scream summer, though, for sure. It does, sure, certainly.

All right. We need to hear the next song. But also, David, I am worried for you because you are right in the path of the air conditioning. And you are also a person who is not carrying around a lot of extra insulation. Are you cold right now?

No. I sweat a lot. So I'm doing just fine.

Well, really, you're a Kelly. Oh, you bet. So, you stink about my mohair. Okay. I just wanted to check in because the AC is blowing right on you.

No, it feels great. So the second song is by Lil Nas X, an artist we all love, I think. And it's called Montero. Um, but, uh, the subheading of it is, um, call me by your name. So, you can hear why it's called Call Me By Your Name. This song is going all around TikTok. I'm sure you've heard it on the radio and on TikTok. It's huge. There was a lot of anticipation leading up to the release of this song. Because I think Lil Nas X, who's very vocal on social media, had been teasing it. had been, had I think just like tweeted a cryptic text basically saying, call me by your name or, or Montero or something like that.

Wasn't this also very close to the time that he publicly came out?

Yes. So he came out with another song called Closure, which I guess was sort of his public come out song, even though his Grammys outfit would lead one to believe.

Well, that's what I wrote on Twitter. He was wearing a, like, would appear to be like assless pink chaps. An incredible outfit. I was shocked and hurt to find out that this is a person who is, in fact, gay.

But the music video for this song is pretty intense. It's a very graphic, demonic depiction of just all sorts of very highly sexualized, homoerotic stuff. Obviously, like a commentary on suppression of homoeroticism. And I read an NPR piece specifically about someone saying basically like as a black person who was gay growing up in the church and stuff, all of this like demonic imagery was something that was very triggering but also like enlightening to like see this black man.

And this young black man dressed, like, very scantily and just, like, shaking his thing and not giving one heck about it. And so it's a really interesting music video. And I think it's a really interesting move on this moment that the country is having.

Also, I think just interesting that Lil Nas X clearly has more than just Old Town Road in the, you know. In the arsenal. In the cupboard, in the quiver, as it were. Right. Because, you know, that was such a huge hit, but it was such a weird song that he, you know, worked really hard to get on TikTok to create dances around. But obviously the guy has a lot of talent and really has a sort of a sense for these things.

Yeah, clearly. And, yeah, I'm happy to see it. And it looks like he's going to be coming out with an entire album under the name Montero, which I guess is his first name is actually Montero.

His government name is not Lil Nas X?

No, surprisingly. But, yeah, I'm excited to see what the rest of the album holds.

I don't want to diminish the artistic value of what he's doing with the juxtaposition of the kind of Satan or hellish imagery with the homoeroticism and everything. It's definitely like self-expression, but I also think he is so, so goddamn smart with the way he is basically trolling the right and like getting so much free press. And, like, I'm pretty sure this video where he's, like, giving a lap dance to the devil, amongst other things, like, came out around the same time, though, he, you know, kind of purposely caused the controversy by putting blood—didn't he put blood in shoes? Wasn't that whole thing a mess?

It was the same people that did the art project where you could control one of those weird Boston Dynamics robots. That same outfit released these, like, knockoff Nikes that allegedly had blood in the shoe. that was associated with Lil Nas X.

And he just owns the headlines by doing that. And again, I'm not trying to take away from the artistic expression that he's clearly showing as well, but I just think he's so smart. It reminds me of Madonna in the 80s, sort of, by being both super creative and also getting the headlines and the popularity.

Yes, we are definitely lucky to have him. All right, next up.

We are now two-sixteenths of the way. Mm-hmm, okay.

So the next up is John Batiste Who has been the leader of the house band For Stephen Colbert For years, however long Stephen's been doing that show And the song is called Freedom Not Freedom 90

When I move my body just like this I don't know why but I feel like freedom I hear a song that takes me back And I let go with so much freedom I'm on it Cause it's my freedom

I love how you talk You speak in my language

Wow, that's good.

Oh, yeah. So just like funk and soul for days. It's so good.

this guy is I think I said this on the show before like maybe when he was winning the Oscar for yeah writing the music for soul and his speech was just like they should take the speech that John Batiste gave when winning the Oscar and like I don't know turn it into a shot that we can give to people right after they get the vaccine it is just the distilled essence of what being a good human is

it was so great yes every time he taught like Stephen Colbert loves So talk to him as all talk show hosts love talking to their house band. And John Batiste always has something really funny and enlightening to say. And weird. Yeah.

Like it's never the thing that you thought he was going to say, but it always just kind of is like in its own way a little profound, I guess.

And the music video for this is really cool. It's John sort of leading a marching band around New Orleans. I guess like the Seventh Ward is sort of most of where the music video is taking place. he's in like a pink suit he's very like looks very debonair and um yeah it's really it's a really really good summer jam um and i know he just came out with a new album as well um i'm blanking on what that's called it might actually be called freedom um that might be the name of the album but it's getting really good reviews so i'm surprised that um the next song here comes

from paul schaefer so a lot of band leaders on the list okay i was trying to tell that was a bad

joke because it wasn't better than me it was not a bad joke what where you what you heard my brain doing was trying to remember who jimmy kimmel's band leader which is cleto and the cleatones

i would never i was trying to make a cleto and the cleatones joke

i could or doc severinson oh my god is doc severinson did mary submit doc severinson

the tonight show band we love you mary i always talk about a good joke grenade is when you tell a joke and then everybody pauses for a moment and then erupts into laughter when they get the joke this was the opposite this was just like i don't know like the pinch or something i threw it out there and it never exploded okay what's next on the list david uh it's because i'm not i wasn't

smart enough to get it um or older the next one um i actually got several submissions for this song and it's in two different versions of the song so Andrew I hope you picked the version that I put on the list because there's an English version um and then there's also a Japanese version and I found the um Japanese version got and the English version actually got the same amount of votes but the Japanese version was the sound of it the sound of this artist's voice um it's by this artist called Steady Holiday um and let's just listen to it because the sound of the voice is like enchanting.

i love steady holiday it's great right this is one of the only musicians i think the only

musician that i was literally introduced to via a uh instagram ad like i was just scrolling through the thing for what um for her new single which at the time was tangerine and it was um and she's like she's got this very like bright kind of visual aesthetic that really appeals to me she's a very striking young woman as well and so i was like scrolling and there was some like um just kind of music visual thing of her peeling a tangerine while her song played and i was like oh yeah you

Did you play this for a music for your weekend?

I think I did a while back. That was the song Tangerine. This is the first I'm hearing of this. I mean, I want to get on the Steady Holiday bandwagon ASAP.

Yeah, the music video for this song actually is her eating a bunch of sandwiches, which is also just like funny and interesting to watch.

That's a mukbang, right? You guys know about that? No. I know that sounds like a little edgy, but no, like there's a whole, I'm not saying this is what Steady Holiday is doing, But there's a whole genre online of people just eating lots of food. It's called a mukbang.

Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know if she's fully doing that with a sandwich.

The one I saw, and David, I'm not trying to correct you here. The one I saw was it was one of those visual like music visualizations where it was just like a 10 second loop that was just like looped over and over. Almost like a gif of her taking a bite of a sandwich, one bite, and then smiling really big and then throwing it away. And then it's just kind of looped over and over and over again.

OK. Yeah. That would make sense why it seemed like she was eating a bunch of sandwiches.

Can we tell what kind of sandwich it was?

White bread. Yeah. To me, it looked like a peanut butter and jelly because you couldn't see any meat or lettuce or cheese hanging out. Yep. I agree.

I think the game of the summer is to eat three spoonfuls of peanut butter and then try to wrap Savage by Megan Thee Stallion.

Done. I can do it. I ate almost an entire jar of peanut butter last night just with a spoon.

But then did you try to wrap Stallion?

I do it every night. It's my nightly ritual.

You're ahead of the curve.

But anyway, a little bit about Steady Holiday. Her name is actually Andrea Babinski. She goes by Dre as well, which is super cool. She's from L.A. She actually worked with Dusty Rhodes and the River Band.

Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream, The Wrestler.

I'm not sure. There's another Dusty Rhodes out there. Friend of Paul Schaefer's, David.

There was a wrestler in my era called Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream. And I always liked him because he was very out of shape, and I was like, anybody can be part of this wrestling, this WWF wrestling experience if Dusty Rhodes' The American Dream can be a part of it.

Yeah, well, he found a river band and then also Andrea Babinski, but she also worked with Dr. Dog, which I thought was cool because Dr. Dog's having, like, a big resurgence on TikTok. Yeah, what's the song that they're using?

It's like a Where Does the Time Go? Where Does the Time Go? Oh, God, gets to me every time.

Yeah, it's a real heart-wrencher. Yeah, but that's number four. Number five.

I'm making David look at a picture of Dusty Rhodes' The American Dream here at my— Oh, wow. Here in the Nest Broadcast Center. All right. Is he the Vogelbach of wrestling?

He really is. Quite so. I mean, like—

Honestly, it could be Vocalbox's dad.

So the next one is a huge personal favorite of mine. This, not, again, to put my finger on the pulse, but this is like a big song of the summer for me, which is Doja Cat featuring SZA, which is Kiss Me More, which I'm sure you guys have heard.

Principle, baby, hold me, cause I like the way it blew, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

the radio edit yes i feel like cuffing something it's not what they say on the tiktok meme

that's not how the tiktok goes yeah this is got it all over tiktok for the past like four months um yeah basically since the song she says hugging something oh no i'm glad we cut that out um but yeah it's like people are loving this song um especially on tiktok because doja cat has been huge uh on tiktok and sizza is another huge artist sizza's from um top top dog entertainment which is the same um label that uh has had kendrick lamar and schoolboy q and like all of these j-rock all of these like big uh west coast rap artists and sizza was sort of brought up in that um in that uh production team and so she's having like a huge moment she has a couple other songs that are big on tiktok but this song is just feels like uh the perfect merging of these incredible women in hip-hop and in r&b who are like both having this huge moment and are now uh together and um yeah people will know doja cat from she had this album called hot pink which came out a couple years ago like every single one of those songs is like a classic she has a song say so

which everyone loves didn't she originally do a song called bitch i'm a cow it's that was like

Which is called Moo.

It was a viral hit, which seemed like it was sort of a joke song, but she obviously had a lot of music behind her.

Yes, it's a joke song that slaps. Alicia, my partner, again, she's the authority of all music. She showed me Doja Cat years ago. I was like, what is this?

When I saw that video, though, I was like, this is a very funny thing, but it didn't seem to me like a person who was going to go on to have a very legitimate music career.

Yeah, she likes, much like Lil Nas X, she likes sort of doing weird outlandish things in her videos just to sort of stir up stuff. But yeah, that one is a big, big one for me. Yeah, but next is another huge one. This one got like five nominations as well. It is BTS. And the song is Butter. Oh, yeah.

Need no usher to remind me you got it bad Ain't no other that can sweep you up like a rubber Straight up, I got you Making you fall like that Break it down When I look in the mirror I melt your heart and you too I got this superstar glow so To the blue light Side step right left to my beat

High like the moon rock with me baby these kids are charming it's not usually it's not my wheelhouse but i get it i watched the video

i get it also there are a lot more of them than i thought how many people yeah there are seven

members um it's just like pure bubblegum pop like i i do i don't necessarily go in for k-pop at all um they're a k-pop group uh but i definitely understand the appeal of a song like this um there are seven members three of them uh rap on their songs and then four of them are uh the vocalists they are all like very glammed up um yeah i was interested when i watched yeah i was

when i watched the video though it was like the their look was i guess not i'd heard about them a ton because they're like probably the most popular like band in the world maybe arguably at this point but i'd never really seen them i know they were on snl and stuff but the video yeah i was like their look their look to me and again this is i'm an old they looked it was very glammed up and it was almost like a bunch of people who'd had a certain amount of work done which is weird because they're probably like 20 um and i don't think they've had work done but the aesthetic of it was was again a bit surprising to me but you can't deny the catchiness of the tune yeah for sure uh yeah that one's definitely

going to be blasting out of a lot of people's windows this summer uh next is a song by japanese breakfast who i think people are pretty familiar with um and the song is called be sweet

Caught up in my feelings All the things that are true Fantasized, you left me behind And I'm turned back, running for you Make it up to me, you know it's better Make it up to me, you know it's better Be sweet to me, baby I wanna believe in you I wanna believe

It's great. It's just like a good just a good chill, wholesome feeling summer jam right there.

I have to say too, this is Michelle Zahner who plays Under Japanese Breakfast. Her book, Crying in H Mart it's like a memoir and it's about her mom getting sick and passing away is Maybe one of my favorite books Or at least one of the best books I've read in like probably A couple years Highly recommend Crying in H1

Did you interview her?

Yes Have I ever read a book When it wasn't a signed reading Andrew? Yes I had to because we were interviewing her But she was also like fabulous to talk to And is an amazing musician And also a really good writer From not far from here Actually from Oregon

Oh, yeah. I think Eugene maybe is where she was residing for a bit. Yeah, but also from South Korea. So we've got like back-to-back artists from South Korea on the list. We've got a lot of international influence in this song of the summer, which I love. I think that's like a really important thing because it's summer for everyone. I was getting submissions from people all over the world. Nice.

Yeah, I was going to mention that, David, around this part of as I was kind of like looking over your list yesterday, I'm like listening to these. I'm like, oh, this is and I don't know if this speaks to your curating or just like what's in the air or our listenership. But like, yeah, really diverse. Like we don't have like one like, I don't know, John Mayer on here. Like, I don't know what a typical white guy is. I also get John Mayer. I've really come around on John Mayer, by the way.

Yeah, you did.

So I don't know.

John, there's this thing that's popped up on TikTok of John Mayer dressing up like a bear, so you can't tell it's John Mayer, and going to people that are tailgating before his concert. And he keeps saying, are you guys here to see John Mayer?

And it's making everyone so mad.

And I think it's a pretty funny meta joke. I love that, yeah.

That sounds like a Kyle Mooney sketch.

It really does. I love it. You know the Slammers?

Well, up next is about as American as it can get, Waxahachie. with Lilacs.

And if my bones are made of delicate sugar I won't end up anywhere good without you I won't end up anywhere good without you

This is your jam, Luke.

I don't know how the listeners and you and Alicia, David, picked one song off of this album, St. Cloud, because it's just front to back for me is just like one hit after another.

Yeah, and that was the issue was like, I swear, there were like 10 different nominations for different Waxahachie songs. And this one just stood out to me the most because this one, and unfortunately this is a song from last year, but I feel like because we didn't have a real summer at all because of the pandemic, it still qualifies. But this one specifically to me was like, this was mine and Alicia's jam. We love it. Just the imagery in the song is like so pretty.

Did I tell you that when I was doing that Flaming Lips story about the Bubble concert. Waxahachie, Katie Crutchfield, and Kevin Morby, her partner, were in one of the bubbles. And we filmed them, and I didn't even realize it was them. And then Addie texted me, oh, they're on Instagram talking about being in one of the bubbles. And I had interviewed both of them for Livewire, and it was probably good I didn't know they were there, because I would have been geeked. I would have been up to them.

up against their bubble, pounding on it, being like, Sing one of your songs!

Which they probably didn't want to do, because they were at a Flaming Lips concert.

So that song's not brand new. I didn't realize that that was okay to add those to the list. If that's the case, I have a song I'd like to add myself. When was Schubert dipped?

But I felt like there was, I had to give some exception. Of course. Because a lot of people were saying in their nominations, like, this was i know this is a year late but also we didn't really get one last year so you know you got to add in i support that yeah and it's just too it's too good to pass up yes and also like i

don't know when this came out exactly but it's in the spirit like um because sometimes it just takes a while sometimes an album is a little bit of a slow burn for the culture too like if people

are like just jamming to this this summer then amen there there hasn't been one time where i've played this album for somebody and it has not become their go-to album like i've probably played it for i don't know 10 people and then i will hear them playing it you know like at their house and

they're like oh yeah this is like my favorite album it just it's yeah it's that good sort of americana feeling vibe that summer uh is is about for a lot of people um so we're actually now halfway halfway through the list um the next is a song by um this artist jen champion and oyster kids and the song is called Love Nobody

David, is this a collaboration or is that one like kind of act,

Gen Champion and the Oyster Kids?

No, so Gen Champion is one person. That's the voice you hear. And I think Oyster Kids is the producer. And their name is Andrew Eapin. Okay. They're both L.A.-based. The music video for this song is actually just like them driving through LA and then sort of the lyrics. It's more of a lyric video than a music video. But it's good. The way I feel about this song and also that Steady Holiday song is it feels almost like Tegan and Sarah. It's got that sort of like richness in the vocals of like you get sort of an echoeyness in those female vocals. And it's just, like, it's very soothing sound and also, like, good poppiness. Yeah.

Yeah. I've not heard the song before, but I'm digging it. I will say this next song on your list, I'm not trying to rush it, but I just noticed I wanted to say this was, I think this is the only song on this list that was a Music for Your Weekend contribution from a listener. Do you remember this, Luke? I'm not trying to step on your toes here, David, but this is that Remy Wolf song, Luke, that we talked about. And I think you were already familiar with Remy as well. Maybe you read her book and interviewed her. I don't remember.

I did not. But remember the thing was the listener said, play the live version. Don't play the studio version. And I was telling you, I think, after the show that I actually am a fan of the studio version.

And this is the studio version we have dialed up here, I think.

I'm glad that people get to hear this.

It was this specific song? Well, I don't know, actually. Yeah.

This song got released a few weeks ago, or at least that's how she released it. but yeah it's called Liz it's by Remy Wolf

let's take a listen yeah because we haven't heard the studio version on this show yet

she's a sexy little mama

just like her daddy taught her she don't seem the same since she working on the corner Hope she don't fade away Hope she find another lover And it was less, less

She taught me how to live But it was less, less She taught me how to give It was less, less She taught me how to live

That voice, just incredible.

So good. that classic palo alto sound well so actually finally so remy wolf um a lot of people know her

from uh this song that was really famous on tiktok photo id um which a lot of people were using but she actually uh what got her start on

idol she was a contestant on american idol wow like six or seven years ago when she was in high school um and since then has sort of gotten to work with a lot of huge artists um i think like beck was like a huge fan of her and sort of like took her under his wing um and yeah she yeah that voice is amazing she does a lot of really bizarre things with her music videos um the music video for uh this song photo id um which is sort of her most popular song is just like very uncanny valley um but like purposefully so uh you'll see this i guess with a lot of artists nowadays um and we talked about it with little mazx and with with doja cat where it's like they're really just trying to do something way outside of the box so that it catches on and you know uh gets them more attention be that positive or negative attention um no one's doing

videos like where it's just the person singing the song no one's doing like um uh jack and diane right john cougar mellencamp where he's just in a field singing the song right that would not that

would not make an impression these days but apparently she had been performing this song live for years and years and so it was like a big time fan favorite and she just released it recently as a studio version because she wanted to give some fan give some fan play that song is really good yeah it's a jam it's been stuck in my head for a while now uh and then so next up number 11 is this group the chemical brothers um which apparently have been around for a long time

which i didn't know yeah i thought you were being mildly sarcastic that's like this is a generational thing like those those guys are like pretty um established in like me and andrew's generation

right yeah they must go back to the 90s right i feel like yeah i think they were they were formed

in 89 is what it says but they that the name of that group sounds like um to me it sounds like whatever that uh dj duo of brothers was i forget what their names were too there's so many mothers brothers no but there's so many like producers who like are doing house music and stuff i just assume that this was some um you know feed me or whatever oh feed them with teeth feed them with

teeth or some sort of uh yeah chemical brothers were really big or i feel like around the time fat boy slim was doing his thing and dj tricky i see so yeah they do still have sort of an electro

um kind of vibe to them and especially this song uh which is called the darkness that you fear

yeah and i want to say something about i feel every day when i turn on the mic to do this show when we a lot of that's on me um this is one of those songs that is obviously building to Kind of a big beat drop So I had to cut in Like maybe somewhat awkwardly On this one And I want to make you guys A promise Getting my glow stick I realize I'm the type of guy Who would let it build Right up to the beat And then stop it immediately And don't think that I wasn't tempted to do that Or maybe insert

I'd cut to the stripper

The stripper by David Rose But let's just get That foolishness out of the way It's just a concept I will play this We have to name it

So that you don't do it

That's right And I will indeed Let the beat drop

Let your heart see the colors all around you And the darkness that you fear will disappear And the darkness that you fear will disappear And the darkness that you fear will disappear I'll be loving you, yes I will I'll be loving you I'll be loving you, yes I will

I'll be loving you I'll be loving you, yes I will I'll be loving you

i gotta tell you like one of these years that we were uh at sasquatch i think i was like kind of had weasel my way on the side stage of maybe it was like skrillex or it might have been feed them with teeth and like say what you will about this music when you have like i don't know 3 000 people throwing the their glow sticks in the air or just like all vibing with when the beat drops

that's like a powerful experience yes well and what i like about this one is it's not a skrillex drop it's not like you know it's like it's exclusively used for like depends ads and other

things it's amazing to hear the what do you call that what's that style that like dubstep that like hear dubstep in commercials for things that just feel not dubsteppy uh but what what

what it stood out to me about the song is during the whole build it really feels like it's like a daft punk song in fact there's like certain chord progressions in it that are exactly from this song called touch which was on random excess memories the last album that daft punk did and i think they included this um that song in their like outro video that they did you know where they were like walking in the desert breaking yeah that's that song it's called touch and um yeah the whole like synthy like i don't know how to uh describe the chord progression but it was really cool and it really reminded me of that and um and yeah the drop is not too much there's so there's those drops that are too dubsteppy or too intense that i think are only good for if you're in a glow stick rave um but this one does feel just like a like it's definitely building to something but the build the build's almost better than the actual drop to me um luke i don't know if you have

a plan for this and I don't want to step on your toes here but we got about five more songs to get through we probably have a second break coming up here should we maybe pause here for a second and if we have an ad to go in there it can go in and if not well then we just have a little beat of silence and we're back

with the final by the way the Chemical Brothers were originally called the Dust Brothers but there was another band the Dusty Rhodes Brothers yeah the American Dream I'm just reading this off of Wikipedia there was another band called the Dust Brothers, so they had to change their name to Chemical Brothers. That's what Wikipedia says.

I did not know that. From Manchester. Yes, indeed. The next one is also one that you might have heard on TikTok, and this one is a real groove. More of a groove? A little bit of a groove. It's by this artist called, that calls himself Kamau, or Kamau? It's K-A-M- A-U-U. And then the song is called Mango.

I don't want nothing but you Getting what you need Even if it ain't from me Cause I love you And what love is Never selfish End of service Cause I love you And what love is David, did you say that you were familiar with these artists

before this popped up as a submission?

Yeah, with this specific one, yeah. Or I was familiar with this artist. artist he came out with um some other mixtapes he's very sort of like uh afro influenced i think um a lot of like northern african sounds is in a lot of his like early mixtapes this is a little more sort of like what you would expect as far as funk and groove that we're hearing nowadays yeah sort of like classic soul type of stuff um and then the other artist the female voice you hear is adeline who i don't really know who um who that artist is at all but um yeah just like a new york based uh group and um yeah it's been making the rounds on tiktok uh the guy i guess actually this this um this kamau guy he went to the pratt institute so he's very into film and stuff like that so the music video is pretty cool as well what are this equation for both of you

what are what are people doing with this music on tiktok is like one song lends itself to one kind of meme that people keep on riffing on or could this just be used as background on anything

and just catches fire i actually haven't seen this song memefied so davy you might have a better sense of it of this specific song but i can talk to the larger topic it's hard because all of the

tiktoks that i watch are curated through my partner yeah she is the the knower of all cool things and so i have heard it basically um a lot of the like the sort of vibe the vibe check ones that i've seen of like people with cool fits on or people you know uh roller skating down some cool area in san francisco and this song is playing it's like it's it's more of a vibe type of type of song rather than like a like dance like no one's doing like a choreographed dance or songs

that where the lyrics plays into the joke right so that i feel like cuffing someone song uh the way it's used on tiktok a lot is somebody they'll have like a text on the screen about like when they're like a person who they're interested in is wearing a certain kind of outfit or right when you know their partner does all the dishes right and the punchline is i feel like cuffing something

but with the other or uh or thought shit by megan the stallion which alicia was insistent that i put on the list even though no one nominated it she's allowed to nominate it well i didn't think um that that would be a good look for tbtl as a brand for it gets complicated

around certain songs that have messaging that is totally i think appropriate for the people putting the message out there right but it gets a little dicey when we as a bunch of whites are then presenting it and as a bunch of dudes are presenting it like that's when it starts to

get a little bit complicated yes uh and so the next one is a band that uh is a band that i think a lot of people that was last summer uh gus stop suggesting whack we can't play it uh is a band that i think um a lot of people have heard of glass animals um and they came out with a new

song called heat waves they were on the list a couple years ago too probably yeah they've been

they've been kicking it around for a while yeah so as you said david this song is called heat waves

Sometimes all I think about is you Late nights in the middle of June E-Way's been freaking me out Can't make you happier now Sometimes all I think about is you Late nights in the middle of June E-Way's been freaking me out Can't make you happier now Usually I put something on TV You know, I don't want to say negative things about anybody on this list,

but I do sort of feel like them coming out singing specifically about June and Heatwaves, this is a group of musicians that are trying so hard to win the TBTL song of the summer that I feel like they've heard about this, they want the TBTL bump, and they're playing to the refs a little bit too much.

Later in the song, they actually say, we want to win the TBTL song of the summer, which is like, thirst much, Glass Animals?

I should have queued up that part. I don't have it here in front of me. For some reason, I cut that part out. But yeah, aside from that, it's a nice song.

Yeah, it is definitely a jam. The music video is the lead singer, this guy, Dave Bailey, and he's just walking through East London with a speaker on a cart behind him and he's just like singing and blasting the song and i apparently it's like very hot uh while he's doing the music video um to me there's this thing of like these white dude bands and speaking as a white dude of these like white dude indie bands that will put a lot of like 808 and bass behind their just like regular indie songs is a thing that um the group the neighborhood has done a lot they did that song sweater weather and it just got it has a sound to me that i i don't know this is not necessarily one that i'm pulling for but i i understand the appeal it's literally called heat waves um which is very summery but to me it feels a little like down like it's not necessarily the the summer slap and hit that i want to hear but that's my person that's my editorial note that's interesting because like

the lyrics all kidding aside are obviously dead on about summer but i know what you mean it doesn't have it's not infused with that um that summer feeling as much right uh so that was number 13

number 14 is uh this song by this artist named ravina and the song is called tweety

If you wanna ride, we can ride, we can ride all night Hold it down, hold it down If you really need time I won't lie, I won't lie, I Watch for me If you wanna ride, we can ride Till we see the sun rise Hold it down, hold it down If you really need time I won't lie, I won't lie, I

Watch for me That seems like a sultry summer night to me.

Yeah, this is this Indian American artist from Queens named Ravina. And yeah, she's been kicking around. A lot of her music is described as plant girl vibes. that's a thing yeah that's like a big tiktok thing um of yeah these women who uh love playing music for their plants um yeah ravina aurora is her full name um she yeah she's just got i really like a lot of the instrumentation in a lot of her songs but a lot of them are sort of like a more down tempo this one's got a little more you can hear the like the kick drum and stuff in there but yeah to me this

is very like chill summer like this is more of more of a vibe should i be playing more music for

that one plant that addy gave me i wonder if i'm missing an opportunity go for it yeah you got the

sonos all set up i know is alicia it's yeah oh yeah alicia's big time plant girl vibes for sure

check the gram you'll see yeah that's why i asked by the way the plant is responding poorly to the howard stern show turns out ronnie moving to las vegas is not exactly causing the plant to thrive shout out to p fletch for whom that is the only person who gets that reference that's great uh

yeah so we're getting near the end um the second to last song is by this group called the knox um who have been kicking around for a little bit they do a lot of like groovy sort of funk stuff um the song is called all about you and it's actually featuring foster the people

I knew the lyrics were all about you because that's the name of the song, But I couldn't tell what they were saying all about you So I looked up the lyrics Did you guys know what they're saying What all about you I became all about you It was very satisfying for me to finally scratch that itch I became all about you Okay that's the second time I sang Now I'm done

David probably has this on his dazzling DEET list But did you note why they're called the Nox

No I didn't I've actually known about the Nox for a while They had this song called Classic Which was sort of making the rounds a few years ago But I didn't know why they're called the Knox.

Apparently, it refers to the early days in their career when neighbors would knock on their door for playing their music too loudly. Oh, I love it.

Yeah, they grew up in NYC, I guess. I'm not sure what neighborhood. But, yeah, everyone knows about Foster the People. But the Knox is – everyone should also look up the song Classic. It should have been Song of the Summer five years ago or whenever it came out. That's also a groovy jam, which brings us to the last song on the list. we really did it we blew through really blew through nap time

honestly we have done longer shows with way less useful content than this we're only at the 75 minute mark this is actually good efficiency D

you know that's my job that's why you brought me here and didn't pay me anything

so the last song considering sharing that loader file with you

the last song is very near and dear to the TBTL to the TBTL brand And TBTL Friends, The Smittens is the group. This was brought to us by David Zacharias. Zacharias? I'm so sorry, David. Zacharias? Nobody knows. We'll never know. You're an incredible artist and really good at music as well.

I've been saying his last name for over 10 years, and I've never gotten it right. It's not even that hard, but it perplexes me.

But this was like a very – the only problem is people are going to have a hard time finding this song because we got sort of an early exclusive view of it from David. So the song is called Wanna Go Dancing, in parentheses, So Far Away.

And I want to say, David, I have just been emailing with David. This is breaking news on TBTL. This is on Spotify. This is like, as of right now, this is like three hours old on Spotify. So you can find it. Wanna Go Dancing by The Smith.

People say this show isn't on the bleeding end.

Come on, man.

We're breaking bands right here.

do you remember or was it a dream am i pretending the way that it seemed or am i only only wishing that you feel the same way if i could only only only get the guts to say so far six feet away last time i saw you from across the street and i think you didn't recognize me so i kept going going going kept walking my way while i was knowing knowing knowing i was just And so far you've got five, six feet away. And so far you've got five, six feet away. And heart beat, skip it. It's intermittent, it's hot black fire. Water on the ice, skip it.

sizzle it's kind of quizzical i'm gonna get you like a dream catch up this is so extremely my shit i mean i love it they are self-identified as twee and they are definitely leaning into that i'm loving it i'm hearing some six feet away references feels relevant to my life over the

last 14 months yeah it just feels like the type of song you would like you're you're just in a park somewhere and there's like a band playing and you're just having a drink and you walk by

and you're like you guys are good how do you pronounce your last name david's like that's a

weird question no but david was very sheepish about even nominating this song uh he was like i don't want to you know blow smoke up my own tush but um is that what he said that's actually

a big thing that's a homeopathic thing that people are doing now i have a pot for the neti pot for

that um but i'm really glad he suggested it because i think it really rounds out the um the list and it's just like dang good song as well yeah it's just really the perfect um summary song he also nominated another one from this album that they're coming out with um which i am blinking on what that other song was called but yeah everyone should check it out once once the whole album is

up on it's high time that a band who has played on my front porch at one time also wins the song of the summer that's right competition i'm just saying that's right so that's it that's all 16 that's all 16 that's it folks wow do it david all right um so what's the uh what are the directions for the listeners now that they've heard all 16 songs is this a thing that we're gonna have up at tbtl.net at some point like what are people gonna do with this information yes i am assuming

it will be um up on tbtl at some point we got to figure out all the all the behind the scenes stuff um i was just really focused on getting getting these great songs injected right into the ear

holes of everyone absolutely you did a great job with that davy thank you so go yeah go start

listening to these songs um i'm sure walsh has a playlist up on spotify already i'm gonna try to my best to get a playlist out on apple music you not have spotify do you want to just can i give you my login sure yeah i don't know spotify has never really uh done it for me i used to have a

family thing because i am like the last person using pandora i thought and everyone's like spotify it makes so much more sense but i just have not fully i mean i have it but i don't it's

not my go-to this is a burbank trait no i for me it's just apple music because that makes it easier when i have like imported songs that are not on the streaming services when you've imported songs

you want to not be able to have access to, Apple Music is the way to go.

Apple Music is the only way that I am able to have access to them. So that was my reason.

Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to get the Spotify playlist up in public pretty close to the time this show posts. So if you search for TBTL Song of the Summer 2021, you should be able to find it or email me if you need the link on Spotify. David, take your time with the Apple playlist and just let us know when it's available. I don't know if we're going to have a special page for this on tbtl.net but we might go along um the lines of what we did with the drops of stupider where i can put the polling um like the the voting on each day's uh show page but um we'll probably unveil that at some point next week because david you and i have to figure out kind of well how people can vote on these things i don't remember we have to talk to jake in chicago and explain why we're not running through him and then like and then he's going to want his money and his loader link it's going to get complicated but i think we can uh say that voting will begin at

some point next week all right davy thank you so much for wrangling all of this and for picking the 16 and also thanks to alicia and again to some degree penny uh for helping out with this

that was awesome yeah yeah thank you um for asking me again i was literally like before you'd asked me i was i was thinking about it i was really wanting to do this um i have over the last year not done any radio stuff and i've really wanted to get back into some sort of uh radio production

and if you're not able to do that the sound editing tbtl will do but uh it felt really good

to um put in time and effort into something that felt like it was work related but was not uh some dumb mod pizza crap well again peace and love peace and love no no okay well no Don't go to Mod Pizza. He said what he said.

He said what he said. Wow. Hey, I was wondering, could we go out with that Dr. Dog song? Since we've used all of the Song of the Summer nominees, that Where Did the Time Go?

Yeah, I think it's Where Did the Time Go. Yeah, I think that's what the name of it is.

That song, I mean, I really love Dr. From Philadelphia, PA, by the way.

Ah.

Repping hard for the 215.

What up, Dr. Dog?

I really, really like this song, and I wasn't familiar with it, even though I like Dr. Dog. So maybe we can go out with that on this. here a Friday. David, we're leaving this microphone in place. So this is the official DFTB microphone at the Nest Broadcast Center. Sponsored by Theragun. Yeah, the chair is like a director's chair. I feel very professional. I've got to get you a better chair. I'm sorry. No, I love it. We'll have you back to do the next round of this. Andrew, thank you as well. Thanks everybody for listening and being part of this whole thing. Have a great weekend. Go Mariners. It's not the water and please remember no mountain too tall. And good luck to all. Starting to fly See how the hands go Waving goodbye And you know I get so forgetful When I look in your eyes Now she's walking backwards to a parade And I'm stuck in the shadow Like in the shade There ain't no way to sweep up

The mess that we made

She gets dressed up like a pillow So she's always in bed Power out