Do you love to start your day with music? Do you listen to music while you work (or do homework)? What music reminds you most of your childhood? Tana and Malcolm explore their favorite music, the emotions that come from listening to music, and pop culture music moments.
Do you love to start your day with music? Do you listen to music while you work (or do homework)? What music reminds you most of your childhood? Tana and Malcolm explore their favorite music, the emotions that come from listening to music, and pop culture music moments.
Hi. Hello. How are you doing? I'm
Malcolm:doing all right. I've been, uh, re adding music because I don't know if there was a warning and I just forgot about it or if there wasn't warning, but suddenly, like, I couldn't access my Apple Music at all because I didn't realize you guys canceled the Subscription. Yeah,
Tana:at one point I was like, did Don ever tell Malcolm that he did that? And then I didn't know the, like, when it was gonna I was told
Malcolm:about the YouTube Premium thing, so we could do the YouTube music and stuff, but I didn't realize that, like, I wasn't gonna have time to, like, transfer my stuff over real quick. Oh, sorry. Nah, it's fine. She still has some of my music, Shelby does. Oh, yeah? So, I can at least look at that. But It's kind of made me explore, like, the songs that I really like to try and, like, start rebuilding my thing, and I never realized how much I liked, like, punk music.
Tana:Like punk, punk,
Malcolm:or? Punk, punk rock.
Tana:Like MCR,
Malcolm:Green Day.
Tana:Eh? Violent Femmes. There's, okay, so yeah. So we cancelled Apple bundle stuff. And moving to YouTube Premium.
Malcolm:I'm guessing that means we also don't have Apple TV anymore. Correct. I forgot we even had it, to be honest, so not a Not a huge loss.
Tana:Not a huge loss. I was never willing to get rid of it while Ted Lasso was a thing, but, um, I don't know, there's just not enough on there to make me feel like I really need to keep it. But um, but yeah, I didn't, I didn't do that with my music either, and part of the reason is I was like, you know what, I'd like to kind of rediscover. Start over. Because, I mean, I know which Artists I really like, and I'll, that stuff will obviously get added. The only thing I was a little worried about is that there are some songs I added at different points, but I never quite, I heard it and I just added it. They're like this, the random song. Yeah. And I never quite paid attention to what the title was or the artists. So I'm not going to be able to find it again. I'm actually really terrible about that, about keeping track of, uh, artist names and song
Malcolm:titles. Because people will be like, have you ever heard of this artist before? And I'll be like, nope. And then they'll play like three of the songs. I'm like, I've heard every single one of
Tana:those songs. Yeah. I do that all the time. And, uh, yeah, anyway. Um, so I'm not very good at that, but
Malcolm:yeah, I don't know. I just, I really liked the like fast paced, hard hitting songs, like, uh, Teenagers or. Nah, nah, nah, nah. Nah, nah,
Tana:nah, nah.
Malcolm:That's literally what it's called. Actually, I think it's just called Nah, Nah, Nah. Oh, really? Yeah. It's funny, do you know how, uh, songs will sometimes have, like, the title of the song, and then in parentheses next to the title they'll have some of the lyrics so people can find the song easier? Oh, that's helpful. You didn't know that was
Tana:the I think? I guess I didn't realize that, no. I told you I don't pay attention to song titles. Fair
Malcolm:enough, fair enough. But, uh, the title of the song by MCR is Na Na Na, and then in parentheses it's, it's Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na.
Tana:That's hilarious. That's hilarious. Did you, um, so before we get into this. Like, whatever music you're getting, everything. There was a TikTok video that I ended up going down a rabbit hole of all the stitches. Um. Because, uh, it was a guy going, you can't summon a generation with just a song. And then people were stitching it and being like, oh yeah? And then, you know, so for Gen X, the first one I saw was, uh, Violent Femmes, uh, Blister in the Sun. Um, and it was just like I love that song. And all, all she did was hold up her guitar and strum. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. And then Uh, uh, another Gen X one was, um, oh crap, is it called Let's Go Crazy? It's the Prince song where he starts with Dearly Beloved, you know, all that. And, you know, and those two I instantly was like, You know, I like, sat up like a prairie dog, like, Oh, are we having a meeting? You know? Um, but then they did the one for Millennials. They said, and I loved this, she was like, Ooh, ooh, ooh, I can do it with just one note. And she goes over to a piano and hits the first note of Black Parade. Yup, I was just
Malcolm:about to say that. I was just about to say it's Black Parade. Cause I instantly, cause it's the It is so, like Because Black Parade was one of the first ones I added to my YouTube music. Oh yeah?
Tana:And I love that song, but I was like, when I was, yeah, it's, I was like, that is, it is so recognizable from the just one note. Like that is, it is, it really is fantastic. There was one I wanted to ask you about. I can't remember what it was now. But I feel like it was from, like, maybe a, a, a, a TV series or something. I don't know. Um, darn it. I'm gonna have to look that up. Uh,
Malcolm:it was funny, though, as well, because I was looking through, like, the suggested music and stuff like that. And I was like, does it, is it using my Apple Music records or something? Because it's, like, suggesting to me, like, soundtracks from some of my video games that I had on my Apple Music. And then I realized, it's my YouTube. Right? It is suggesting How does it know? Based on the stuff that I
Tana:watch. How does it
Malcolm:know?
Tana:Oh wait, I think it was Secret Tunnel. Secret Tunnel. Yes, that was it. What was that? I don't know. How did you know it
Malcolm:then? Because our friend group does it all the time, but I have no idea what it's from.
Tana:Do you know what it's from, Shelby? What's it from? It's from Avatar. It's from Avatar? How did you not know that? Yeah, that's right. How did you not? I am disappointed. I always forget. You know what's funny is that's actually what I was going to guess, was that it was from Avatar. But I, I, I don't, I don't know. Secret tunnel. Was that um, what's his name saying it? Sokka. Sokka? Yeah.
Malcolm:Probably. No, it wasn't. No? Any of the Derpy stuff I just assume it's Sokka. Shelby knows all. She knows way more about Avatar than I do. Really?
Tana:Who was saying it? Okay, so I don't know if the microphone would have picked her up, but she said it was a villager. And the village was migrating through the secret tunnel? Yeah, it was something like that. Something like that. So, that's funny.
Malcolm:Um. Anything I ever remember from Sokka is when he's high on cactus juice in the desert. Oh
Tana:yeah, you say, mushroom, Friendly
Malcolm:mushroom! Mushy giant friend!
Tana:You walked around saying that for the longest time after you first saw it in an episode. So funny. You walked around the house all the time saying it was so funny. Yeah. So anyway, I find that I, I just, I mean, I just went down a rabbit trail and some of the videos I was like, eh, I think maybe you're, you're summoning a specific. Subset of that generation because it's not because there were like tons with uh, violent femmes. There were tons with Prince. Um, there were several Michael Jackson ones, like, you know what I mean? And actually a few people did the chemical, um, the black parade, uh, the black parade one and yeah, the black
Malcolm:parade is a really good song. But I think Mama is my favorite from that album.
Tana:Mama, we all go to hell. From My Chemical Romance? From
Malcolm:that album, specifically. From that album, specifically. Maybe, maybe from MCR, period, but Mama is a very good song.
Tana:You say Mama and all I can think of is Bohemian Rhapsody. Which was one of the other ones someone did and I was like, okay, which Which generation are you summoning?
Malcolm:Everyone is being summoned. Yes, there were some that
Tana:said, uh, I can summon all four generations and they played the mash theme and I was like, I don't feel like my son would know what that is. I know
Malcolm:the mash theme, but I don't care for it. Well,
Tana:yeah, but you would know it. Fair enough, but that doesn't summon me. I guess more people, yeah, okay, summon. That's the key word.
Malcolm:I just, I was gonna say installed like their video games. Uh, I I added a lot of MCR stuff for the most part, some Daft Punk stuff. Oh of
Tana:course, that's not shocking to me at all.
Malcolm:But yeah, welcome to the Black Parade, teenagers, mama, nah nah nah nah, um, I don't love you. I
Tana:do love the Teenagers song. I do.
Malcolm:I love Teenagers. It's such a good song. I was telling Shelby that MCR is one of the few, like, music groups where I feel like they can consistently with their music, like, make me physically react to music.
Tana:Interesting. Because
Malcolm:I feel like a lot of music I can listen to it. But I feel like anytime I listen to, or most MCR songs, I'm like headbanging to it and like singing along with
Tana:it. You know, it's interesting because I definitely notice a difference in how I'm feeling if I start my day off with music versus if I don't. And, you know, your dad has told me a ton of times, he's like, if you want to listen to music while you're getting ready in the morning, I don't care. Even if I'm still asleep, if I need to go back to sleep, I will go back to sleep. Don't worry about it. But I feel like I just, if he's still sleeping, I'm like, Oh, I don't want to, you know, be disruptive. And, you know, and so a lot of times I don't start my day off. with that. But, oh, I know, I
Malcolm:know this because dad will sometimes not be here on a trip or something or he will go somewhere early in the morning and I'll come upstairs and you're like, music is blasting from upstairs.
Tana:Yeah. I like to start with like, uh, upbeat songs that, you know, I
Malcolm:totally understand. Yeah. It's hard because I always want to listen to songs with lyrics in them. Cause like I said, I really like punk music. It's not usual that punk music doesn't have Lyrics in it. Uh, and, but if I'm working, I feel like I want non lyrical stuff. Yep,
Tana:that's, yep, that is. But the only music. Oh no, I didn't turn my notifications off.
Malcolm:The only music I actually, like, really like to listen to is probably. Lyrical music? Like, I can lis I like video game soundtrack stuff, but a lot of the video game soundtrack stuff is, like, on the more, like, epic side of things. Like, the really It's more epic.
Tana:I don't know how else to describe it. I mean, no, you're right. Epic is actually a good
Malcolm:word. It's, like, when e when it, like Is crescendo the
Tana:right word? When it gets louder?
Malcolm:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and to just, like, something, like Absolutely amazing, where you can like feel the rousing, the rousing ness of it and like, like gets you excited and pumped.
Tana:Yeah, yeah,
Malcolm:yeah. And that's not good for working. Right, yeah. I'm not supposed to be sitting on my chair like, yeah!
Tana:Yeah, I have the same thing. I actually, most of the time when I'm working, I listen to Brown Noise, um, or I listen to RainyCafe. com, uh, they, because they have, um, two sounds you can like, uh, uh, toggle on, on their website. One is rainstorm and two is, um, background chatter of a
Malcolm:cafe. I've, uh, I've actually heard that some of the best music to study too, is video game music because video game music is like psychologically made to keep the player focused on the video game. So if you listen to video game music while doing homework or something, it is, it'll keep you more focused on whatever it is you're doing. That's
Tana:interesting. Well, classical music has always been. And I would say that's sort of where, you know, video game music arises out of. I'm gonna listen
Malcolm:to Ride of the Valkyries while doing
Tana:my math homework. Hey, maybe you will feel, uh, math homework. I'm
Malcolm:just saying something
Tana:random. Maybe, maybe you'll feel, maybe you'll feel, uh, it'll make you feel more confident to finish whatever you're working on. No, but yeah, they've, there's all these studies about how classical music changes your brain and stuff. And so it's always, it's always good. But my problem with that is, uh, I begin Because I studied classical music in my undergrad and I had to pass exams that were like, play a snippet of music. And yeah, I had to be like it was this composer and this work, which as I've told you before, I don't always pay attention.
Malcolm:Out of all the memory tests though, music is probably one of the easiest ones to do it to because music
Tana:really embeds. It really, it really does. But, um, because I had to study all of those, you know, a lot of them, I, I know, like, I know exactly what's coming next, and so I'll hum along, you know, and so even though it doesn't have lyrics, I'll, you know.
Malcolm:what the most obvious thing is to study music to? Gregorian chant.
Tana:Oh, yeah, your dad, uh, your dad does that.
Malcolm:I was joking, but awesome.
Tana:No, he used to, don't you remember that? No. He used to, um. When he was a pastor and would be, you know, studying theology and, and like preparing for a sermon and stuff like that, he'd listen to Gregorian chant. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Or, or then it would branch into other like choral works.
Malcolm:I do think I like more, for the most part, I like more modern Gregorian chant. That's like in video games and such.
Tana:Oh, like, um, Halo? Mm hmm, yeah. Yeah. Well, um,
Malcolm:That soothes my smooth brain. Your smooth brain? It just glides right over the surface. Ha,
Tana:ha, ha, ha. You should brag more about your smooth
Malcolm:brain. I do. To everyone, I do. That's good. Yeah. I'm like, you can feel it. Ha, ha,
Tana:ha. Anyway, back to the classical music. Uh, because I would hum along too much with that stuff, That's when I started doing the rainy cafe thing, because the, the thing I like about it is you can toggle the volume of each of the elements and, and the cafe noises would be too loud and distracting to me. So I would kind of like put those down and I would bring the rainstorm up and it was like a thunderstorm. So
Malcolm:it's like you're sitting outside of a.
Tana:Cafe. Kind of. Yeah. And, and you just hear like the pitter patter of rain. And then every once in a while you'd hear the roll of thunder and, you know, and that is just sort of like a, almost like a white noise kind of a thing. And then I discovered brown noise. And that is literally just like, actually kind of sounds like the, um, the thrumming of the bottom of a waterfall, like water, water kind of. Um, so not quite like static, like a warmer. Sort of, you know, um, and that I don't know what it is about that, but I put that on and all of a sudden my brain goes and focuses.
Malcolm:Oh man, I wish I've tried anything. And I think it's just because I don't really like it too much to the point where it actually distracts me more by having it.
Tana:Wait, which. What? Brown noise. Oh, brown noise.
Malcolm:Anything. Any of the stuff I've tried. Like, brown noise, video game soundtracks. Because video game soundtracks, I'm then guessing what game it's coming from without looking at the thing. So it's not, it's not
Tana:it's a trivia game. Yeah, it's like, what music is this from? Oh my
Malcolm:gosh, that's funny. I'd probably be really good at guessing
Tana:it by now, but I would actually be really curious to hear what different people Because I remember when you were in elementary school Elementary? Junior high? One of the two or both? I was in school. When you were in school, you would, uh You would have the TV on while you're doing homework. And you would say it actually helped you concentrate better. Yeah.
Malcolm:That's what I still do.
Tana:I still do that. And I could not fathom that. So at first I was like, no, like you're just trying to get away with, you know, blah, blah, blah. And then eventually I was like, well, you know, maybe this does work for him. And so I'll just, you know, let him do it. And if it looks like it's starting to cause problems for him in school, then we'll have a talk, you know? But, Yeah, that was just unfathomable to me cause that would be so distracting to me. It would be just so distracting. It's also
Malcolm:not as, or it wasn't as common then to know about like ADHD and. It was common. No, I just meant like what can help certain people with ADHD. But I still do that. I play video games and I watch TV at the same time I play video games. Bothers Shelby to no degree though, because there's too many noises
Tana:going on. Yeah, I don't like the conflict, the conflicting Noises.
Malcolm:Conflicting noises help me so much. Unless, so here's the thing. You're
Tana:wrong. For
Malcolm:competitive games, I like to not have any music on because I want to be able to hear everything, but because I'm concentrating so much on all the noise that's going around in the game, it almost acts as more noise. Versus if I'm just playing a game that's like, I know what I'm doing. I'm not doing anything new. Gotcha. I can just listen to something in the background and the game noise does not bother me at all, and then it's just something else. Because then what I do, is I'm playing a game like Warframe, and I'm doing the same thing that I've done a million times before, and, uh, I, I'm already cuing out the, the sound. Like, I'll still react to the sound, but that's just because it's muscle memory at this point, I know what the sounds relate to. But then I start getting distracted and not doing anything in the game. But then if I listen to something else, the sound keeps It's almost like, uh, people who have, uh, I forget what it's called, but like, where people need to always be, have something in their mouth. Just an
Tana:oral fixation?
Malcolm:Yeah. I kind of have that with, like, listening to things.
Tana:Interesting. You got a hum in your drum?
Malcolm:Still got a
Tana:hum in the drum.
Malcolm:Plays music to drown it out. Uh, no, I do not. Although I do want to watch that
Tana:movie again. And all that took was saying Hum in the drum and now you're or were you already like, I
Malcolm:already wanted to watch it again. So baby driver, that is That's, that must be why I like movies so much that have such a, like, music center to it. Mm-Hmm. like Baby Driver or Guardians of the Galaxy where it has like such a driving force. Mm. No pun intended. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh,
Tana:in, in the movie. Well, I always appreciate when a soundtrack is good. Like, I mean, a good soundtrack, but also it really does. And I have to say, even, uh, what I found really interesting with Reacher, the TV series, not the movies is good. Is I, I always find their song choices to be very interesting. Cause if you just listen to them for the. Like the rhythm and the beat and the kind of song it is. It's, it's still, it's still fine. You're like, that's, this feels like a good song for the scene, but the lyrics are always like right on point. Yeah, which I've never noticed it that much with other things except for, you know, love songs when there's something lovey dovey happening. Like, but you know, like that. Kind of generic and easy.
Malcolm:Some stuff in like Baby Driver, like some of those, some of those were like the music is the driving force. It might be that way, but I know what you're talking
Tana:about. Yeah. Yeah. And then Baby Driver was just, it felt like the music thrusted the movie
Malcolm:forward. I mean, that was the whole point. Yeah. They like, I loved all the scenes where they had to match what they were doing with the beat of the music. Yeah. And Like the gunshots would match like, like the same note or something like that every time.
Tana:I really like when, uh, movies and TV shows incorporate the music into, like, what the people are doing. Not in the way that you just said, but, um, Like it's, It's, it's purposefully part of the, like, uh, scrubs. Do you remember the, uh, good time, the song, good time. I know it starts like, you know, somebody's like flicking the IV line and another person's like tapping a pencil and like, you know what I mean? And he's like looking around like. Why is everybody doing everything in rhythm to the song I'm listening to, you know what I mean? And I've always, I've always loved that scene. And I love when they do that at other places. Or they even have, like, the characters themselves start to do it and then realize, Oh, we're, like, tapping out a beat, you know? Yeah,
Malcolm:I think that's why I've been liking more modern musicals. I think older musicals still were kind of too Boring for me.
Tana:It's true. You just murdered the hearts of an entire generation, Malcolm. There are still a couple. Apologize to your grandmother. There
Malcolm:are still a couple of older ones that are good, but then stuff like Hamilton just soothes my smooth brain once more.
Tana:Hamilton was so good.
Malcolm:Yeah. But. I think it's because a lot of older musicals were cheesy as
Tana:well. Yeah. I mean, compared to things, I mean, things change in style over the years, right? And so
Malcolm:I only like my musicals at a certain level of cheese. Yeah. And those
Tana:were, I mean, they were very, you know, of that time, they're very, uh, I like family
Malcolm:focused, like high school musical divided by two. Level of cheese.
Tana:High School Musical Divide by two. I don't even know half of High School Musical.
Malcolm:What is that? I just want to hear that. Someone reacts to that out of context as half of. High school musical or a high school musical divided by two level of
Tana:cheese. Yes. Order your pizzas that way from now on. Um, yeah, I, I, I can go for a cheesy musical if that's what I'm in the mood for. Yeah. You know, uh, like I enjoyed some of the Disney, you know, like, uh, camp. Rock? Rock. Thank you. I was like, camp rhythm, camp sound. I couldn't remember the name of it. Uh, like, yeah, like camp rock and the, like high school. I did like, I liked high school musical. I even liked their zombie one, which was so ridiculous, but it was funny. Uh, you know, there's, I, I enjoy those for like what they are. But what I really liked about Hamilton and in the Heights and, uh, things like that, it was, it was taking a different. Approach, you know?
Malcolm:Yeah. Imagine someone pitching to you the idea of taking the, uh, taking that time period and then being like, I'm going to make a rap musical out of it. Oh,
Tana:he's talked about pitching that idea. Everybody thought he was nuts. Like they were just like, he even did an early, I don't know if you've ever seen this video, but he did an early iteration of it at the White House when Obama was president. And even Obama seemed like you're making a musical about. The Founding Fathers, like, you know, because it was, it was just like, it was, it felt like such an absurd idea, you know? Yeah. And then people started listening to it and seeing it and they were like, Whoa, this is good. You know?
Malcolm:Another thing is there's a certain level of like songs or music that people Where you can only identify it with like a show or something like that or like it's a the theme for a show one thing that always comes to mind is the I think it's the songs called it was here for community
Tana:Yeah, that was a good theme song And then, uh, At least it was here. At least it was here. I was going to say, I didn't think that was, yeah, at least it was here. Um, and then there's the, the musical moments that you attach to a song and you can never not think of, like, um, I Want It That Way from Brooklyn Nine Nine. Yes.
Malcolm:And you're like, I want it that way. Ah, chills. Literal chills. It was number five. Number five killed my
Tana:brother. Oh my
Malcolm:god, I forgot
Tana:about that part. Yeah, um. It's so funny because we, we said that last night, right? We, you know, uh, we were singing that and then Rae was like, Now number five. And, uh. Literally, an hour later, I was looking at videos on TikTok, and somebody had that song, and somebody commented, I can't ever hear this song without shouting, Number 5! And I was like, these are my people. And I can't, I can't hear that song anymore without
Malcolm:thinking about Brooklyn Nine Nine. My favorite song from Brooklyn Nine Nine is when Jake is interrogating someone and just starts screaming while strumming.
Tana:That is one
Malcolm:of my favorites, one of my favorite scenes for Brooklyn Nine Nine, just the pure chaotic nature of Jake coming out in that moment. It makes me think of D& D. Like, it just makes me think like someone in D& D's. It's like doing that and rolling an intimidation check or something like that. Oh yeah. Uh. That's funny. One thing I've gotten a lot of my friend group as well to, um, like get stuck in their heads. Cause I think I've showed you this, this music before as well, was the, uh, it was the Fortuna Music. Oh, Fortuna?
Tana:No. The big choral?
Malcolm:No, not Oh Fortuna. No. It's a location called Fortuna. Oh. Um, In Warframe, and it was, it was the, like, mining song.
Tana:Oh, is it the, um,
Malcolm:Bum ba da da da da da da da da. Yeah. I've gotten my, my entire friend group, like, We all
Tana:lift. Yeah. We all lift together. Yeah. Uh, that's, yeah, I actually really liked that song. Like you play, you would play me different video game things over the years and, and usually it would be like the more soundtracky kind of things, like the more, uh, orchestral. And I'd be like, Oh, that's good or whatever. And sometimes you play me a song here or there and I'd be like, what is that? But then that, I was like, I actually really
Malcolm:like this. It is so good. It's really crazy. Uh, the person who, uh, does the music for Warframe is Keith Power, uh, and so he does stuff like Age of Ultron as well. Oh! And, but it's, it's really funny because I've seen so many memes for Warframe where it's like, oh yeah, this video game is a, is a looter shooter and then it like trails off the sentence and then just goes into the, into the music for the game and everyone's like, why is the music for this random game so good for what the game is supposed
Tana:to be? Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of good stuff and that's, you know, that was my original. My bachelor's degree is in music composition, and my original goal was actually to write music for movies. And, at that point There just really wasn't, as far as I was aware, there wasn't a lot of that epic music for video games yet. And I kind of wish
Malcolm:that had been a thing. You know, you mean that, uh, do do do do do do? That's exactly what I was thinking. I was like It wasn't epic music?
Tana:No, like, you know, it was, it was Wow. Wow, blah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It wasn't like, yeah. And
Malcolm:man, even the music sounded pixelated for
Tana:those. That's what I was thinking. I was like eight bit music for eight bit graphics.
Malcolm:the, I mean, it probably helps psychologically. Yeah.
Tana:Fits right. Yeah. You're not gonna have like this big orchestral thing while
Malcolm:you're, now I'm think of doing now I'm thinking of like, oh, Fortuna playing while playing Mario or something like that.
Tana:Mario's plights. Oh my gosh. Yeah, and I kind of wish that had been a thing that I was aware of, or, see, I don't know, I don't know at what point in video game evolution that became a thing. And
Malcolm:Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if it was Halo. When did Halo come out?
Tana:2001. Well then, it wasn't too long after I graduated, but I, you know, I played video games and then when I was younger and then in high school, I got busy with, you know, musicals and newspaper and choir and you know, volleyball and I never, I wasn't playing. So I missed whatever evolution that was until like, you know, I was getting into stuff. Well you, but then also things were getting into the mainstream to be aware, you know, and I kind of wish I had known about that cause I feel like maybe I would have. Tried to stick with it and done something because that feels more manageable for some reason than a movie. I don't know why, but it's probably not. I don't know. But I also don't have the easy access to, uh, uh, equipment and software that people have today. You know, I had to write my senior thesis. Out by hand on staff paper, and then I had to write all the individual, I had to have the full piece for the conductor, and then I had to write the individual parts for each instrument. I
Malcolm:was just thinking about that. I was like, I
Tana:still have You were just thinking about writing that?
Malcolm:No. I still have all of my homework that I had to write out in like, Google. And my Google Drive still, and I'll probably always have it for the rest of my life, and that weirds me out that I'm going to be able to, at any point I want to, look at my middle school to high school homework. I mean, I could, but I mean, every once in a while there's been projects or something that I've wanted to pull up and, like, show people, or, like, actually expand upon. That's more rare, but
Tana:Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. I just got the warning the other day. It was just like, your Google drive is getting pretty full. And, uh, or it may have been Gmail. I don't know, but I'm always like, Oh, I'll keep this just in case, which is a lot easier to do digitally. Like in your house, you only have so much room, your house, your apartment, wherever you live. There's only so much you can keep, you know, I know there are people who. Really challenge that but you know, but digitally it's almost like oh, I just keep this just in case and so You know when I first got started in career world You know, you'd have to delete. Sounds like a really
Malcolm:depressing
Tana:Alternative reality
Malcolm:I was thinking like amusement park.
Tana:Ride the subway!
Malcolm:Do you think you're getting to the other end of the park? No, this is the main ride.
Tana:So there'll be buses and Ubers. Walk through the halls of filing cabinets. Yes. Oh, maybe you have to dodge them, like the drawers are coming jotting out. I was
Malcolm:thinking more like Hall of Mirrors.
Tana:Oh, oh, no. It could actually be a haunted house, uh, you know, house of horrors kind of thing where it's like, okay now you have to dodge your chatty co worker. Anyway, uh
Malcolm:House of broken careers.
Tana:There'd just, at some point, there'd just be like, Watch the sadness unfurl, or whatever. And it'd just be like, and a mirror opens up, and you're just looking into it.
Malcolm:No, but it's one of those mirrors that like, make the middle half of your body look bigger. Yeah. Than it actually
Tana:is. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Like it's middle age. I don't even remember. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Malcolm:Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Tana:Man, so depressing. If you didn't
Malcolm:react to it, everything would have been fine, but now you've reacted to it. Oh,
Tana:gosh. Yeah. Actually, I had the really depressing thought. Somebody said something about middle age the other day and I was like, Oh, I hate being called middle age. And I thought, Oh, dang. If this is my middle age, I'd actually live a really long life. And so I was like, I'm past halfway through my life. And I was just, it was like a very depressing thought. You're having an existential crisis. Oh, I've been having an existential crisis for the last two years. I feel like everything, like everything happened all at once. And my body betrayed me. And like, yeah. Getting old sucks!
Malcolm:Anyways, another part Yeah, I don't remember what I was talking about. About YouTube
Tana:music.
Malcolm:Besides all this depressing career world shit.
Tana:I'm just gonna go cry in a corner.
Malcolm:But there's actually been a lot of creators on YouTube that will come out with stuff, but it won't be on Apple Music. And so now I can add all of those things to my YouTube music. Technically it's a video still, but it'll still play it as if it was just audio. So. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them did. Like NerdOut, who makes songs about video
Tana:games. Oh yeah, I know you like that.
Malcolm:I don't like, I actually don't like most of their stuff. A lot of the stuff just sounds, because it's usually iterations of songs that already exist. Just changing the lyrics or whatever. Into video games. Some of them are just absolutely amazing though. And then most of them are just kind of eh. Because they come out with so many of them, so. Yeah. But, uh, there's a couple like funny ones I listen to, like Tom Cardy. It was really funny, but then I've always wanted to have The Great Day by Lonely Island that I think was like, I don't know
Tana:why, but today seems like it's gonna be a great day. That
Malcolm:one? It is only on YouTube, and so that was, that was my first thought when I had YouTube music was that I am putting that on my And on my album, or
Tana:on my playlist. Do we still have the picture of that hanging inside the cabinet? No, I gotta see. You're gonna go look. I think I put that, didn't I put that out for your trip, your tour of UT, like that day? It's the picture of Andy Samberg from that video for Great Day. And it says, I don't know why, but I think it's gonna be a great day. And I'm pretty sure I put it out for Malcolm's College. It's
Malcolm:still there. Well, not anymore. I just
Tana:pulled it off. Aw man, it probably won't stick anymore now. Nah, I'll put
Malcolm:it back on. I never It is so crinkled now, though.
Tana:I never took it down. So anytime somebody opens that cabinet to throw something in the trash can, that's what they see.
Malcolm:I've never thought about all of my new friends since then. But I've opened that cabinet and I've seen that. I've never thought about that before.
Tana:Yeah, that's funny. I never even thought about putting like goofy stuff like that. And they're, Oh, I could probably even put, although it might be on Apple music. Um, there's some like scenes from movies that the people in the movie are singing, like Pitch Perfect. Yeah.
Malcolm:Some of them they do. Some of them they don't. I think something as popular as Pitch Perfect probably
Tana:would. Probably has like a soundtrack with it. Yeah,
Malcolm:but there are a lot of movies or such that aren't as popular as Pitch Perfect. That's also like literally a song movie. So it'd be kind of weird if they didn't. There was one, oh, there's some game trailers. There's a lot of game trailers, and since they're just trailers, they're never put up on, like, Apple Music or anything, but it'll be a variation of the song that's playing, and it's just, like, sounds amazing, because, like, they'll, they'll edit certain parts of it to be, like, louder or lower or, like, extend a part of the song or shorten a part of the song, and so it sounds really good. And so now that's something I'm gonna have to go through and, and find. Cause there's, there was so many times where I'd be looking it up and nobody would have like, posted it or anything so that I can try to get it on there, but. Yeah. That's cool. A lot of trailers. So I'll probably start
Tana:doing that. I totally forgot that we had made this change to YouTube Premium. And so I haven't, I hadn't put together the music yet, but also I was watching a couple videos on YouTube and I was like, wow, none of these have commercials. That's so rare.
Malcolm:That was Shelby's. Shelby's realization was that the other day she was watching stuff and she's like, I haven't seen a commercial in a while. Oh, yeah,
Tana:that's exactly, that is like exactly what I did. And it like genuinely, because every once in a while, I'll watch something and it won't have a commercial. And I'm like, that's strange that it doesn't have a commercial. How did that happen? You know? And yeah,
Malcolm:it used to be before YouTube premium that creators got to choose when The YouTube ads came in and then YouTube started losing a lot of money because everyone started doing sponsorships. And so then that's when they started doing ads no matter what, which a lot of people hated, obviously. Sure. And then they did YouTube premium so people can pay to not have
Tana:ads. Yeah. I actually don't mind that as a, you know, tiered Kind of thing, like I know that Windows, I think it makes sense.
Malcolm:I think, YouTube Premium is definitely one of those things where at first it wasn't really worth it, but now at this point, it is so worth it. Cause like, you get some free movies, you get YouTube music, you get Uh, you get to watch YouTube and you can send your phone to sleep and it won't just stop
Tana:the sound. Yeah, that's one of the things that used to annoy
Malcolm:me. It's like such a specific thing, but it's like one of those things where you've done it before and then it annoys you that it doesn't continue playing. Uh, and no ads. So, it's pretty good. Yeah,
Tana:it doesn't, it doesn't seem too excessively expensive. But I have to tell you This podcast is brought to you by Um, just speaking of subscriptions, I just learned this the other day, I can't believe I just learned this, but Did you know that certain cars have subscriptions? Yeah. Like for features. Yep. That is such bullshit. Like the The stuff exists in the car, but you can't use it, but you can't use it unless you pay a subscription. Everything has subscriptions now. It's so dumb. And the,
Malcolm:um, that's why I hate so many programs nowadays too. Cause there's so many programs that you used to be able to just buy and then you have the program forever. Oh yeah. But now there's so many programs or websites or something that offer a service. Yeah.
Tana:That's the subscription service instead. The thing that blew my mind was the person was like, Oh yeah, I have to, uh, pay a subscription for my heated seats. And I'm like, if they're able to heat Yeah, that's so weird. It's in the car, like that mechanism is available in the car. Yeah, like it should just come. And I was reading, so I started looking it up and I was reading an article about it and they were, they were positing in the article that some of this stuff might go away because they're like, their point was, yeah, they're because some people were like, Oh yeah, and I paid off my car, but I still have to pay the subscription. And their point was like, there's no feasible reason why a car company should be doing this. Like there's nothing, it doesn't cost them more. For you to run the heated seats in a car you already bought from them. Yeah. You know, and
Malcolm:there are a couple, uh, a couple of websites that I am subscribed, not subscribed to. I own not the website, but I own like my account that is now a legacy. Account because I bought it forever ago for like 5 and now it's like 5 a month subscription, but since I bought, bought it so long ago, it doesn't.
Tana:We have a legacy. Our Disney is a legacy subscription. Uh, it's still a monthly subscription, but when we signed up right when it came available and we signed up for the bundle of Disney, Hulu and ESPN 3. Espen. Which. I didn't realize we still had, and I don't think your dad did either, so like, I think he would have been able to watch some games that you wanted to watch. I thought
Malcolm:we had it, but he always said we didn't, so I was like,
Tana:okay. Yeah, so we have all three, and I was looking at pricing the other day, cause I was like, well, what if we got rid of this part? What if we got rid of Hulu? How much would Disney Plus be? And, you know, I was looking at all that, and it's like Unless we're really just not going to use Hulu, which I use. Um, I'm going
Malcolm:to use it to watch Shogun.
Tana:Oh, um, yeah, it's, it's not worth it for us to get rid of it because then if we wanted to sign back up with the bundle, it'll cost way more. Yep. And. In fact, just signing up to have Hulu, I don't think they even offer ESPN, they either don't even offer ESPN 3 anymore, or it would be more just to have Hulu and Disney than to have all three like we do now. So, uh, yeah, so I was, I was really confused when I was looking at the packages because I was like, none of these are the package we have. And then I looked and saw our account was like legacy, you know, whatever. So, yeah, so I probably won't be getting into that. I have a lot of legacy accounts. I don't know. Like I said, there are some subscriptions that make sense to me. Like this, the YouTube premium makes sense. Uh, there are other, other ones that make sense. Like because there's people who continually work on code and to keep something updated or whatever. But the BS of a car, like that just, I can't get over it. I cannot get over it. Yeah. You, you own it. If you, Even if you have a loan, like the money has gone to the dealer, you're paying the bank back for it. You know? So, you own it. Why should you have to pay a subscription for this thing? It just reeks of corporate greed, you know? Amen. Yeah. So, I can understand stuff like, uh, there's those roadside assistance things. Like, you have a subscription for that because they provide a service, you know, or a subscription for SiriusXM. Like, that's a Yeah, you know, but heated seats? I
Malcolm:can't get over it! Anyways
Tana:Yeah, I'd actually,
Malcolm:I'd actually recommend, um, I haven't used it much, but It seems like it's pretty well priced for what it is. And honestly, Apple stuff is not that good in my opinion. So, I know
Tana:you've never
Malcolm:liked it. The Apple music app isn't the greatest.
Tana:Uh, I like Apple products. I like the, the phone, the iPad, the computers, blah, blah, blah. But, um, and Apple music was fine.
Malcolm:I think Apple music and Apple podcast is like, okay for what it is, but there's clearly better apps.
Tana:You think? Yeah. You know what, I didn't even think about it. I don't know if our Apple bundle included the podcasts. I don't know.
Malcolm:I don't know. I actually think Apple podcast is fine to use as, uh, like as a user, but using it as a creator sucks. Apple podcast sucks as a platform for a creator because Apple does everything completely separate from everyone, which is why I do not like Apple. And so, therefore, it's like, I have to re upload everything separately.
Tana:That's so interesting because I, uh, well, you know, I use Buzzsprout for ours and I don't, I mean, it just, it just connects to everything, including Apple. So it might've just
Malcolm:been in the past, I don't know, but I've always had to manually change stuff in Apple, in Apple podcasts.
Tana:You know, it could also be whoever you're subscribed through. Might be. You know, I, I have no idea. I have no idea. I've never had a problem. So, but anyway, we're out of time. Do you have any music to play us off? Oh, actually you do. Go post
Malcolm:me. What? Like future me, not, not post me on like socials or something. Oh yeah, that's what I thought. No, like.
Tana:Yeah, you'll have some music added to this, so let that play you out. Yes, great.
Malcolm:Okay. Bye.