Episode 90: Iconic Songs in Movies

The State of Movies & The Oscars

• The 2026 Oscars sparked a debate on the quality of modern cinema.
• Best Picture Winner: One Battle After Another was criticized for lacking substance despite its length.
• Preferred Nominees:
  • Begonia: Praised as original and bizarre, with strong performances by Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
  • F1: Considered the most entertaining, with Brad Pitt.
  • Sinners: A horror nominee described as a better version of From Dusk Till Dawn.
• Music Highlight: Ludwig Gorenson's third Oscar win cemented his status as a major film composer.

Iconic Songs in Movies

• Blue Oyster Cult – "Don't Fear the Reaper" (The Stand)
  • Significance: Sets an ominous tone for the miniseries' opening credits, as Patient Zero escapes and unleashes a deadly super flu. The song's title directly foreshadows the coming mass death.
• Run DMC – "Christmas in Hollis" (Die Hard)
  • Significance: A humorous moment where John McClane's limo driver, Argyle, plays the song as "Christmas music," highlighting the film's unconventional holiday setting.
• Alice Cooper – "School's Out" (Dazed and Confused)
  • Significance: The perfect anthem for the last day of school, played over a montage of students celebrating and destroying their binders.
• Clint Mansell – "Lux Aeterna" (Requiem for a Dream)
  • Significance: The film's central musical motif, which intensifies with the characters' descent into drug addiction. It acts as a non-dialogue narrative device, escalating the sense of horror and despair.
• The Doors – "The End" (Apocalypse Now)
  • Significance: Creates a powerful juxtaposition in the opening scene, pairing the song's calm, matter-of-fact delivery with napalm explosions and helicopters, setting a surreal and terrifying tone.
• The Wonders – "That Thing You Do" (That Thing You Do)
  • Significance: The film's entire plot revolves around this fictional hit song, making the music the central character and the driving force of the narrative.

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Transcript

POD - March 16

VIEW RECORDING - 36 mins (No highlights)

@0:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, I'm Well, I don't understand what's happening here.

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@0:05 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I don't know.

@0:05 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We've been recording the whole time.

@0:07 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Maybe. Well, you'll have to edit it.

@0:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, I think I'm going to.

@0:13 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Or you don't have to.

@0:14 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's fine. No, no, I do. I don't want to talk about any of this.

@0:17 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, it's fair.

@0:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Anyways, I'm going to hit this button, I guess. Because Zoom has changed. Anyways, good evening.

@0:33 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Hello.

@0:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We don't know what the hell we're doing. And, you know, it's all good.

@0:39 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Small indie company.

@0:40 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We're like Blizzard Entertainment. We're just a small indie company that has no idea what's going on. If you know, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

@0:47 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Joke's on you if you don't. Sebastian, my friend, how are you this fine evening? are you?

@0:52 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm doing good. Zoom has changed buttons, and I have a lack of buttons here. So I don't understand what's going on.

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@1:00 - skwapich@shaw.ca

This works, it does.

@1:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

If it doesn't, it doesn't.

@1:02 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So... Fair enough.

@1:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's that. So the Oscars were...

@1:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

They were on last night, yes.

@1:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

They were on last night. Did you happen to watch any of the Oscars?

@1:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, I forgot they were on.

@1:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I don't like watching the Oscars. No.

@1:14 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I mean, I will watch them if I'm doing something else. I'll keep them on the background for the most part, but I completely forgot they were on.

I just did not even clue in that they were on for some reason.

@1:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Nobody messaged me to remind me. This is all your fault, everyone, the world. The world. My fault. It's okay.

I didn't watch them either, and this was by choice. Cooper was... My son was very excited to watch them, because he's really big into movies now, and he watches...

He watched all the Best Picture nominees, and all the whole thing. He was like...

@1:44 - skwapich@shaw.ca

How you watched of it?

@1:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, I watched... What was that one called? The One Battle After Another.

@1:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes.

@1:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes. Which won Best Picture? And I don't understand how.

@1:57 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's what I said. I... Like, Deb and I watched No, It's here. And then afterwards, we were like, it's good.

Is it Oscar worthy best picture? I would put F1 over top of that. Sure. To be perfectly honest with phenomenal.

@2:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay. Sean Penn was great.

@2:10 - skwapich@shaw.ca

DiCaprio was great. His daughter was amazing. No with Sean Penn winning best supporting actor. He was amazing in that movie.

@2:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

He that was like, so not Sean Penn. So fine.

@2:18 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@2:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But I found the movie, I thought it, for how long it was, it was lacking substance. Yeah. of story and stuff, like, it was just like, okay, like, yeah, okay.

And then, I don't know. Like, I don't understand how it won best picture. I don't get it.

@2:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I mean, I watched four of the best pictures so far. Uh, I watched one battle after another F1 sinners and begonia.

@2:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh yeah. I watched begonia too. That was way above. Begonia was awesome. I love, but is it best picture quality?

It's better than one battle after another.

@2:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. There might be a little bit of movie spoilers here for any of you just warning you guys, but, uh, you know, but that was, that was an odd movie, man.

That was like. was. So, it was so good. So bizarre.

@3:02 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm glad Emma Stone did something like that because it, you know, he shaved her head for real in that.

He shaved her head for reals, man.

@3:07 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@3:08 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

On camera.

@3:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@3:10 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And she was great in it. Acting wise. Her, Jesse Plemons, Jesse Plemons is a brother. I see his brother.

The other guy, brother or cousin, whatever.

@3:23 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I don't know.

@3:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Some family member. Anyways, he was awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought it was just then the way it ended, and you're just like, cause I'm not going to say how it ended, but, uh, yeah, that was like, you're like, seriously, they're going here and they literally did.

And I'm like, Oh my God, this is so amazing.

@3:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Like, it was just awesome. Like it just like, yeah.

@3:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Going down the highway and then there's a quick hard left.

@3:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. You didn't know whether he was like for real or if he was just, because the way they are, the, the two main characters, the two male leads in it, they, they're, they're kind of like, you know, conspiracy theorists, but very slow.

@3:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And they, they come off. There's crazy rednecks that- Yes, right out of the gate.

@4:02 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Right, you're just like, okay, well, they kidnapped somebody and they're over the top with it.

@4:08 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And, you know, and she's just playing along for the sake.

@4:12 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But yeah, it is a commentary on things too, right? Oh, it totally is.

@4:18 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It totally is.

@4:20 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@4:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But a lot of people thought Sinners was going to win Best Picture, but horror movies never win Best Picture.

Like I haven't seen Sinners and I'm actually appalled that it was even nominated for Best Picture.

@4:31 - skwapich@shaw.ca

very, it's very good.

@4:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay.

@4:33 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's very good.

@4:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So I know the Oscars is like a popularity contest.

@4:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. The best way to describe Sinners is if you've seen From Dusk Till Dawn, has a similar feel to it, except it was way better, right?

You know how like From Dusk Till Dawn is like two movies. It's like the beginning and then after they find out they're all, it's kind of, Sinners is kind of in the same vein where it's like, there's a slow burn, this foreboding sense that you're getting to something crazy and then.

@4:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay. Okay. It turns, and then you're like, wow, we're in it now.

@5:02 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Interesting. But Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor, and he was phenomenal in Sinners. I don't think Sinners is an Oscar-worthy movie, and some people may disagree with me, but I don't know.

The most entertaining movie out of the four that I've seen so far is honestly F1, and maybe I'm a little biased because it's an action movie.

It's a racing movie. It's got Brad Pitt in it, but I really enjoyed F1. I thought it was fantastic, like really good.

@5:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I need to see F1.

@5:32 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's so good. It's really, really good. Yeah. Outside of that, I haven't seen any of other ones, so I'll get to them eventually.

@5:40 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Then there was one that was like, well, the only one, oh, yeah, no, the kids saw it. was the one train something, we're training.

@5:48 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh, Train Dreams?

@5:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes, and it was Uncle Owen from Episode 1, The Phantom Menace. Young Uncle Owen.

@5:55 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Young Uncle Owen.

@5:57 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Anyways, but that looked really good. But whatever. Yeah, I'll end up watching some of them, I guess. I'm so far behind with movies watching.

@6:05 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I do want to watch Frankenstein. I did start it, and then I'm like, oh, I'm not going to be able to finish it.

So then I turned it off because I didn't want to watch it in two sittings.

@6:14 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. But if you like Guillermo del Toro, it's like it fits right in that style. Yeah, I'm not.

@6:23 - skwapich@shaw.ca

You know, he's got that style, that like dark fantasy style.

@6:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Absolutely.

@6:27 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@6:27 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I haven't seen very many of his movies.

@6:29 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. I haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth.

@6:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No.

@6:32 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh, so good.

@6:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think I'm missing out.

@6:35 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Pan's Labyrinth is a heavy movie, though. It's not. It's not. It's good, though. It's very good. It's very, very good.

It's all in subtitles, too, because it's about the Spanish Inquisition or something. I mean, not the Inquisition, but some sort of Spanish Civil War, I think.

@6:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay.

@6:52 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Don't play me. It's been so long since I've seen that.

@6:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Because that came out quite a while ago, but I haven't seen like the water one, the way of way, whatever it's called.

The one with the Lady of the whatever. Anyways, or the Pacific Rim. I just couldn't do it. Anyways. But Ludwig Gorenson won again.

Dude's like super young and he's won his third Oscar. Shifting it over to music.

@7:15 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, there you go.

@7:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You know, he's a force. He's like the new John Williams.

@7:23 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. Yeah, John Williams is getting on in age, right? So it's not like he's gonna...

@7:28 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think John, yeah, I think he's like, he's like 96. He's old. Like, he's ancient. Hey, your light just went out.

@7:35 - skwapich@shaw.ca

What happened?

@7:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I don't know. You turned your light off.

@7:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, I did not.

@7:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay. But tonight, you had the wonderful idea.

@7:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

What the freak?

@7:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Hold on, let me... Okay, we're having technical difficulties.

@7:48 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Hold on, let me...

@7:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, what's he doing?

@7:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I don't know.

@7:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay. I'm gonna hit this button. I hope it doesn't come out super loud, because I'm gonna be very sad.

@7:57 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Okay.

@7:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Thank you, everyone. you. Aha, there we go.

@8:03 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So since we're talking about music and movies, we'll also put on a little classical music. Can you actually see me right now?

@8:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I can see you just fine. You're just...

@8:10 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I'm going to have to reboot Zoom, I'm sorry.

@8:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, jeez, you're going to make me sit here and talk. do it. Okay, go. See ya.

@8:18 - skwapich@shaw.ca

What is going on here?

@8:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So yes, we are having some technical difficulties. Sebastian's going to reboot his stuff, and then I'm just going to sit here and yammer on for a few minutes about, I don't know what.

Well, I'm still here, so... You are still here. We can just keep going. I can see you. Can you see me?

@8:36 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, my entire screen went blank for some reason. Oh, all right then.

@8:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay.

@8:42 - skwapich@shaw.ca

This is odd.

@8:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

This is odd. It's awkward. It's kind of funny in a weird, funny way.

@8:48 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Let me just reboot my computer.

@8:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

sorry. Okay, man. So yeah, so, the state of movies, are movies as good as they used to be? Because I think there's so many reboots and so many remakes and this and that and it's hard to make anything original anymore because, you know, a lot of the stories have been done.

There's always the battles of good and evil, all that. You can only spin it so many ways. So yeah, just something I ponder sometimes of movies really, they peaked, but every year there's something comes out that just blows your mind.

Kind of like Begonia. I highly recommend anyone out there that listens to the show, go watch Begonia. It's wild, it's wacky, the music is goofy, it's, you know, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons was Oscar worthy nominations absolutely for sure.

So yeah, that's all I got to say about that. Sad news. Back to music from Sad News. Phil Campbell of Motorhead passed away on the weekend.

You know, he's only 64 years old. So that's... That's sad. Phil was a great guitar player. Apparently really the nicest guy in the world.

So that's, you know, there's only one left out of sort of the last incarnation of Motorhead. Obviously, Lemmy's gone.

Now Phil and Mickey D is the only one that's still kicking. I got myself in line in a virtual line for Metallica tickets at the Sphere.

I was just looking because I can't afford to buy. I can't afford like $6,000 per ticket kind of thing.

And looks like Seb's coming back. I know.

@10:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I know what happened.

@10:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

What happened?

@10:36 - skwapich@shaw.ca

My Microsoft Edge was because I use Microsoft Edge to log in through Zoom and it went into an update.

And so as soon as it restarted, it says update complete.

@10:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yikes.

@10:47 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So that has to have been what happened. So I'm back.

@10:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Sorry. Welcome back. I was just pontificating about if have movies peaked and is it hard to find anything original now?

@11:00 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Because there's so many reboots, remakes, sequels, let's turn a cartoon into a movie, let's turn it into a cartoon, let's just, Hollywood definitely does like the safe, what should we call it, the safe, oh we need to remake this, or redo this, like Jumanji for example, like they use proven formulas and just recycle them, that's why it's hard to find like an original, like truly original.

@11:29 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Even one battle after another was not original, like it was, no, not really. Begonia, yes, Begonia was very sort of original, odd, I think it's based on a book, I'd like to read the book, if it is based on a book.

@11:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, I think it was too, yeah.

@11:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Anyways, so, before your screen went silly, we're going to talk about movies, or not movies, songs, in movies that...

It's like that you can't think of anything else that could have been in its place. Yeah, like basically the topic is like songs that may not necessarily be written for the movie, or they may have been written for the movie either or, and you can't like it just it just fits so perfectly for that movie.

@12:21 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Like so like you can't you can't see another song or another or sometimes it defines the whole movie, the songs.

@12:29 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It kind of does sometimes.

@12:30 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. Yeah. So I have like the example that I gave you, guess we'll just start.

@12:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think because we both would agree that this song is is it sets the tone.

@12:41 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes.

@12:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

For Don't Fear the Reaper. Yeah. In the the stand, the miniseries back in. Yes, that was 19, 1990, 1991.

So, yeah, it kind of the movie just basically starts. The guy gets out, the virus is out, and then Don't Fear the Reaper as he's driving away.

@12:59 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Okay. . Well, he's Patient Zero, and he escapes the complex as the gates are closing, and then the credits roll over the montage of him driving through the countryside, and Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper comes, and unbeknownst to anyone that hasn't read the book or seen the movie, Patient Zero is going to annihilate 99% of the population because of the Captain Tripp's super flu, right?

And so just that horrific situation you have, Don't Fear the Reaper, but the Reaper, which is Patient Zero, or he's going to spread this disease, like, it's just such a great opening.

@13:37 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's perfect.

@13:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, and the tone, it fits the tone of Stephen King so well because it's this ominous, you know, feeling, foreboding feeling that, like, we're in for a long ride here, we're in for an epic ride, so.

Yeah, I just, that's, like, the first thing that I thought of when this topic came about, I'm just, like, it's such an iconic moment for.

Yep. And obviously, Don't Fear the Reaper wasn't written for The Stand.

@14:04 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It was many years before that, right? I wonder if it was written before he wrote the book. I wonder if it was something that he took...

Hey, he's like, I like that song.

@14:14 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I like the content of this song. Maybe.

@14:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

A 1500 page sprawling.

@14:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I lot of writers use music as a basis for their... or at least they put on appropriate atmospherical tones for what they want to write, right?

So, you know...

@14:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And I think it might have been cocaine and cigarettes and alcohol.

@14:37 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's also true, yeah.

@14:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

In the 70s and 80s.

@14:40 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, he did a bit of that in his heyday there.

@14:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Right, so...

@14:44 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Maybe that's why you can do like three or four novels a year, I guess.

@14:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, exactly. I thought of one... This one's kind of goofy, but it was in Die Hard when John McClane gets into the limo.

And he's like, I'm gonna put some Christmas music on. And he puts on Run DMC.

@14:59 - skwapich@shaw.ca

What?

@15:02 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And then he's like, I thought you put it on Christmas music.

@15:05 - skwapich@shaw.ca

He's like, this is Christmas music, man. And it was, yeah, I can't remember the name of the song. Something about Hollis.

What was his name? AJ or something like that?

@15:11 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You're right, AJ.

@15:13 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Argyle.

@15:13 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You're all right, Argyle. Yeah. You're all right, Argyle.

@15:16 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I got the eight part right.

@15:17 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Just remember that when you're signing for the tip. I've seen that movie way too many times.

@15:21 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Christmas movie or not a Christmas movie?

@15:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Absolutely it is.

@15:25 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Bill Lewis has gone on record to say it's not a Christmas movie.

@15:27 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

is a movie. No way it's not.

@15:29 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Dude, goes down on an elevator, which is the chimney, quote, unquote. Come on. And he's Santa saving the family.

@15:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Come on. It's wrapping. has a Christmas tape on his back with the gun. Come on, man. It takes place on Christmas Eve.

@15:42 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Come on. And the second one takes place on Christmas Eve as well.

@15:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Second one's a rough watch. It's not good.

@15:48 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I kind of like it, actually.

@15:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

don't mind it. Try watching it again.

@15:52 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I mean, okay.

@15:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So the first and third one are so much better.

@15:56 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So much better, right? Yes.

@15:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Because we tried watching We Was that last year? Not this past year, but the year before, we wanted to switch it up, because Die Hard is the Christmas Eve tradition in our house, and now that our kids are old enough to watch it, they're allowed to watch with us, but even when the kids were little, they'd be in bed, we'd finish wrapping presents, and we'd watch Die Hard, blah, blah, blah, so now, yeah, but anyways, we tried watching Die Hard 2, and we got 10 minutes in, the kid's like, this sucks, all right?

@16:22 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Ha, ha, well.

@16:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm like, okay, he's like, does it get any better? Do remember the scene in the beginning?

@16:28 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, and the third one.

@16:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And I think we tried the third one, and he's like, this is stupid too, okay?

@16:33 - skwapich@shaw.ca

What? The third one's arguably better than the first one.

@16:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, it's not. It's not even close.

@16:37 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's good, though.

@16:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's good, but it's not better. Maybe not better, but yeah. And then we settled on some dumb Netflix movie with Jason Bateman.

@16:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh, Carry On?

@16:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes, thank you.

@16:48 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I heard it was pretty bad.

@16:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It was so bad. It was just dumb. It was just dumb. Like, it was just dumb. So then this past year, we went back to Die Hard, because it's like, you know what?

@16:58 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Old faithful, baby. Probably. High-tested-and-true, right?

@17:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Am I sick and tired of watching Die Hard? Yes.

@17:03 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Like, I've had absolutely enough. Sacrilege.

@17:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, I have. I've seen it 40 billion times, and I'm starting to be able to recite the whole thing, and the kids are like, can you just shut up?

I'm like, no. I cannot just shut up.

@17:14 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Anyways, Tangent City.

@17:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So, yeah. It was Christmas in a Hollow, so that's name of the song. My bad.

@17:20 - skwapich@shaw.ca

The Run DMC song? Yes. I got a good one. Dazed and Confused.

@17:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I know we've talked about this before. We have.

@17:27 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But that iconic, at the very beginning, when Alice Cooper's School's Out plays, it's like an anthem for the entire concept of the movie, which is the last day of school, right?

And it's just that montage of everyone running into the halls, throwing all their stuff out there.

@17:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Did you throw your stuff?

@17:44 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Did you throw your stuff all over the place? Yes, Yes, I did. Get rid of that binder. I never look in that binder again.

That's right. had to buy me a new binder every year, because it was all, I'm like, I don't know.

@17:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I didn't take it with me. Yeah. Someone stole it, Mom. That's it.

@17:57 - skwapich@shaw.ca

We never did that in grade 8, 9, or 10, though. We had that. That was safe for like, I mean, we did it definitely in grade 12.

@18:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, absolutely.

@18:04 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Like, you don't take any of that stuff with you.

@18:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No.

@18:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Or maybe you do.

@18:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I don't know. I didn't. Well, I'm with you. I did not. I'm sure we know people that did.

@18:13 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Do you know how many moldy sandwiches was thrown into the hallway? I'm like, oh, I didn't know there was a sandwich in my locker for the last six months.

@18:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, were you one of those? You were one of those.

@18:21 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I was not. But, I mean, I've seen them go.

@18:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like, I've seen moldy sandwiches in lockers after the fact. Yes, absolutely.

@18:28 - skwapich@shaw.ca

You know what's funny? What?

@18:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Nowadays, like my kids and my kids' friends, they have lockers, but they don't use them. They have their backpack on them all the time.

@18:39 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh, really? Yeah. That's interesting.

@18:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It is. It's weird.

@18:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I guess people probably want their stuff with them instead of like. I guess.

@18:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Is that a problem with people breaking into lockers for kids? I don't think so, but I think in this day and age with all the weird stuff that happens in schools, I'm shocked or love?

@19:00 - skwapich@shaw.ca

To carry their backpacks with them. Yeah, fair.

@19:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Right? I know we don't have that, well, Tumblr Ridge, you know, obviously. That was different.

@19:08 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@19:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But I know I was talking to one of my daughter's friends, he came up from Mission, and he was like, yeah, we can't, we're not allowed to carry our backpacks through school.

Okay.

@19:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@19:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Right?

@19:20 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I get that, yeah.

@19:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I just don't want to carry all that stuff with me. No. What the hell do want to carry all my books for?

Like, your locker is your personal space, right? That's your space, baby.

@19:29 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Unless you share it with somebody. Do your kids share lockers or no?

@19:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No.

@19:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, we didn't share ours.

@19:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

share with each other?

@19:36 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, just in general. no. Right?

@19:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, no.

@19:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Because we had individual lockers for us when we were in high school, right?

@19:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@19:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So, I don't like sharing lockers.

@19:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, they have lockers, but they just, they choose, they have locks, like, we gave them locks, and no.

@19:49 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Nothing, eh?

@19:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Nothing, they just, they both carry all their stuff. I'm like, you guys are weirdos, man.

@19:55 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It just gets heavy, though, isn't it?

@19:57 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Right?

@19:57 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I guess it's different, though, because you have... Yeah. Like, I mean, we didn't, what did we put in our lockers?

Like a backpack, a jacket, our books, lunch. You know, now it's like every kid's got like an iPad or laptop and a cell phone.

Like they're like thousand dollar pieces of equipment. We had like $40 Walkmans.

@20:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like, Hey, those Sony sports Walkmans were good stuff, man. The yellow and green ones. Did you have the yellow one or the green one?

@20:21 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I don't know. I think I remember. I remember I had a CD case carrying case. Those are great for the first week.

And then, then you couldn't listen to see, you have to like carry it like this because it kept skipping.

@20:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@20:36 - skwapich@shaw.ca

They didn't have the anti-skip technology. couldn't do anything with it.

@20:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You could, no, you could walk very gingerly.

@20:40 - skwapich@shaw.ca

on the anti-skip technology.

@20:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

just thought it never worked properly. It didn't.

@20:44 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@20:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You know, that's why tapes were always better.

@20:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@20:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But, uh, okay. So you got days confused. I got that.

@20:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

just think it's an iconic thing.

@20:52 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It is. Well, even in any, like they've used, it's been used so many times in movies, like schools out is just so obviously amazing.

For that kind of scene, unless it's like the 50s, something like that, and obviously it's different.

@21:07 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But that movie has a whole bunch of great songs that fit the specific, like it's hard to just narrow it down to one song, like School's Out is just iconic, is Alice Cooper's most famous song, I think, arguably, and it just fit so well with the theme of the whole movie, right?

But I mean, you can also say Sweet Emotion and Lowrider when they're all driving into like the arcade, whatever.

So, but yeah, I mean, we've talked about that soundtrack before, but yeah, that School's Out moment, just starts the movie, right?

@21:40 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And it just like gives you that great tone. Yep. Yeah, I'm just looking at the soundtrack right now. It's a little rock and roll hoochie-coo, Slow Ride by Foghat at School's Out, Tush by CZ Top, Love Hurts by Nazareth, Stranglehold by Uncle Ted, Cherry Bomb by The Runaways, Lowrider like you referenced to.

Days Gone, Highway Star, Rock and Roll All Night, and Paranoid.

@22:03 - skwapich@shaw.ca

And Sweet Emotion, too.

@22:05 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, it's not on here for whatever reason.

@22:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, I think it's on the second album because they released two soundtrack albums for it. There's another one.

@22:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yep. There's another one. Wow.

@22:14 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yep.

@22:14 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's crazy. But yeah, no, I haven't seen that movie for a long time. Oh, Even More Days of Confused.

Look at this. That's the second one, right? Yeah, Free Ride, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Live in the USA, Why Can't We Be Friends?

@22:26 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, the other songs in the movie that they didn't put in the first disc.

@22:29 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, my God.

@22:30 - skwapich@shaw.ca

They do play Sweet Emotion.

@22:32 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

They do, because I remember that. It's not on this one either.

@22:35 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's what starts the opening credits.

@22:37 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes.

@22:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's at the very beginning of it, right? Yeah. So that actually sets the tone, but Schools Out is more iconic because it's the theme of the entire movie.

I got another one, which is very dark.

@22:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Dark? Uh-oh.

@22:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes. And this is kind of like where I landed on after talking about this.

@22:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Have you seen Requiem for a Dream? No. No. No. No. No. No.

@23:01 - skwapich@shaw.ca

This is a movie that you maybe watch once, and you never watch it again, because it's such an impactful movie, and it's about addiction, right, and the main characters, it's got Marlon Wayans, it's got Jared Leto, when he was a good actor, don't hate me, it's got Ellen Burstein, and Jennifer Garner in it, I believe, Jennifer Garner?

No, Jennifer Connelly, not Garner, Jennifer Colony, the one that's in Top Gun Maverick. And all four of them are addicted to various forms of drug, mostly meth, right?

And there is a song that was written by Clint Mansell, which, the title of it is Lux Aterna.

@23:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, interesting.

@23:44 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes, and I'm going to send you something, just to play.

@23:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oops.

@23:55 - skwapich@shaw.ca

And so, hold on, let me find it, doo doo doo. It's this one, I think. Let me just...

@24:02 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

What's the song called? Oh, Lux Turner.

@24:05 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, but I'll play you the live version with the orchestra on it. Oh, okay. If I'll just send it in chat here real quick.

I should have done this before I restarted my computer, but...

@24:14 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Why?

@24:15 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's no fun. Okay.

@24:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, yeah, Lux Turner in the Kronos Quartet.

@24:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes.

@24:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes. Okay, hold on. Let me pause this amazing classical music.

@24:23 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So, the theme, the motif of this song plays throughout various important parts of the movie, and as the movie reaches its climax, it plays more of the end of it, and so it gets more intense as the movie goes on.

And it, like, it revisits this theme, and it is the ending scene where everything, like, connects at the end, and you see how bad drug use or addiction can really be.

It's playing at its most intense moments of this song, and it's just, it's such an echo of... You know, addiction, I guess.

It's, it's the one thing I remember, well, I remember a lot of things from the movie, but like, it's just once you watch it, and you hear this playing over and over through various scenes, it just stays with you for the rest of your life, really.

@25:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, should I fast forward in the song a bit, or go ahead?

@25:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, you can start it, just play like the first like 30 seconds, and you get the gist of it.

Okay. And then it just intensifies as it goes. So, um, if you are playing it, we can't hear it, or at least I can't hear it.

@25:32 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay.

@25:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Um.

@25:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Why'd that turn off?

@25:37 - skwapich@shaw.ca

The good question. We're having technical difficulties today, mostly from my fault, but.

@25:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We're straight up professionals.

@25:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

The first comment from the movie, uh, on the, on the YouTube page is, it's unbelievable that this score is not nominated for an Oscar.

Like, it's criminal. Yeah, there you go.

@25:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

There you go. There you go.

@25:58 - skwapich@shaw.ca

you go. There you go. There go. If you've seen the movie, you understand how impactful this theme is. There's something very haunting about this track.

@26:18 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Very much so.

@26:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. I mean, just read the comment section, like...

@26:28 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@26:30 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So, yeah, so this theme, this theme right now, the musical theme, just echoes throughout the whole movie, and it starts off somber, melancholy, and then near the end, it just escalates into, like, a big choir, not choir, big orchestra just impacting it, and you're just left with this feeling of, like, horror and disgust, basically, because of the context of the film.

Um, I massively recommend everyone to watch watch Watch it at least one time, just because it's so impactful in terms of like how addiction can lead you down a dark path.

And honestly, it's like, I really don't believe people when they say, oh, I don't have an addictive personality, or I'm not addicted to anything.

I think anyone can be addicted to something, right? It's just a matter of what do we do with that addiction?

And how are we willing to not make it rule our lives, right? Like I've been addicted to video games before, you know, as you know, to a massive level over 20 years ago, but we're never addicted to the thing that we're actually addicted to.

It's taking the place of something that's missing in our lives usually, right? So, you know, for me, for me, video games was a sense of purpose when I didn't have purpose back then, right?

So, yeah. So, but anyways, I urge you like Wrecking for a Dream, don't watch it. But also watch it.

It's... It's... It's a heavy, heavy, heavy movie, but it gives you a lasting impact on it. And honestly, Marlon Wayans, you do not see him in a lot of serious roles.

@28:11 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I was going to say.

@28:12 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But he's very good in that. Very, very good. And so is Jared. I think it's Jared Leto. Let me look at this up real quick here, just so I don't.

But yeah, Ellen. So Ellen Bernstein. Ellen Bernstein, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans.

@28:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Wow.

@28:31 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Christopher McDonald's in it as well.

@28:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And yeah. Interesting.

@28:37 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Very good movie. Yeah, that's Darren Aronofsky, too. OK.

@28:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Now that makes sense.

@28:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

And he also wrote it.

@28:48 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So he makes some good movies.

@28:49 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, he's fantastic. Go ahead.

@28:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You've seen Apocalypse Now, right?

@28:55 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes.

@28:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

A long time ago?

@28:57 - skwapich@shaw.ca

A long time ago.

@29:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Hang on here, because I want to, this isn't working.

@29:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I hear it.

@29:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I can't hear .

@29:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh my God.

@29:11 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I hate technology. Anyways, so the beginning of Apocalypse Now, it's, the opening scene is the end by the doors.

Yeah. the helicopters coming in, flying in, oh my God. It's, you can't, you literally can't play anything else in it.

And of course I can't hear it. So whatever. Screw you, Google. See if I can do it again. Man, we are on fire tonight.

@29:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, we're just learning again.

@29:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's our first day.

@29:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@29:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's our first day. Yeah, but all those sort of 70s is just awesome for that kind of thing. Adding, or even like, well, another one, Forrest Gump.

Well, all the songs of Forrest Gump, but when they're in Vietnam, I'm going to play in Forrest and the Sun by season.

Another, yeah, of course the song's not about war, but whatever.

@30:05 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, the apocalypse now opening is such a juxtaposition to like this calm, this is the end, it's just somebody just being matter-of-fact of it, but yet there's like Napalm and...

@30:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@30:17 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@30:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I need to watch this movie again.

@30:22 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Do you have four hours?

@30:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I have all the time in the world, buddy. Yeah.

@30:26 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Well, I wish... What, it took a year and a half to film or something? Something like went and then they came back and people were like, oh, I was in a new relationship because then I got married.

I'm what happened? I'm like, you were gone for a year and a half filming a movie.

@30:37 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. And even just the explosions with the Napalm and the forest blowing up as I'm watching right now, it's, oh my God.

Yep. Yeah. It definitely sets the tone for the movie. That's tone. Absolutely.

@30:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Man, it's been so long since I've watched that movie.

@30:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, the kid watched it the other day.

@30:56 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's got... What's his name?

@30:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Martin Sheen. Martin Sheen. Martin Brando, Robert Duvall, a couple of Godfather, you know, reuniting, oh yeah, and go think of the music and the Godfather, the Godfather theme.

Come on, man.

@31:12 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, I have one last one.

@31:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

do one last one, and then we'll get the hell out of here.

@31:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

And there's no way this film could have been made without this song, because this song is the movie. It's the Tom Hanks movie, That Thing You Do.

Do you ever see it?

@31:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I did. It was so good.

@31:36 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes. So, but like, they wanted to write a movie about like 50s music, I guess, or 60s music. I can't remember when it was based in, but like, you don't have that movie unless you have that song, because it's literally about that number one hit song, you know, one hit one.

@31:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Do. That Thing You Do, right?

@31:56 - skwapich@shaw.ca

And so I have to wonder if the song was written. Thing You For the movie, or if they're like, well, we need to find a hit song for this.

Like, you could say the same thing about Rockstar and Mark Wahlberg's song that he sings, Shout or something, Shout at the Devil, I guess it's called.

@32:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm not sure.

@32:13 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's a while since I watched Rockstar, but like that thing you do, you don't have that movie unless you have that hit song.

And it's like, it revolves so much about that one specific song. That thing. Yeah, there you go.

@32:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, it's by a band called the 64. 64, yeah.

@32:37 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So there you go.

@32:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So by The Wonders.

@32:40 - skwapich@shaw.ca

The Wonders.

@32:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Wonders.

@32:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Liv Tyler's in it. forgot that she's in it.

@32:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Liv Tyler. Oh yeah, she is.

@32:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Absolutely. Steve Zahn. Or Steve Zane.

@32:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, Steve Zahn, one of the band members.

@32:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Charlize Theron is in it. Wow. Giovanni Ribsby's in it. Um, Kevin Pollack's in it. Man. It's got a pretty good cast.

That was a Colin Hanks is in it. Well, son, Bryan Cranston's in it.

@33:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Jeez.

@33:08 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, that was a good movie, actually. It was a really good movie. 96? 96, yeah, when it came out.

I remember, I think we were working in video stores back then.

@33:17 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, you know what?

@33:18 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I think we were. Yeah, but that was like, that's an easy one for me, but like, yeah, it just, it makes the whole song.

It makes the whole movie, basically. So, yeah.

@33:28 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's millions of others, right? Like there's, you know, millions. There's the one with Doolin Banjos, if you want to go a little on the dark side of things in, oh, what's that movie?

Oh, God. Christopher Walken and about the rednecks that, oh, God. Uh-oh, my camera went all funky.

@33:54 - skwapich@shaw.ca

You knocked it.

@33:57 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, my God. Why can't I think of that movie? my my camera. Yeah. Oh boy. I'm a loser.

@34:03 - skwapich@shaw.ca

You're not, but that's fine. Catch me if you can.

@34:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I don't know. just looking at movies. It's from the 70s, man. It's the one. Yeah, there's like inbred stuff and the campers like get kidnapped.

@34:16 - skwapich@shaw.ca

From 70s?

@34:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, man.

@34:17 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh, I don't know, man. This is going back. The Sentinel, Kojak, Annie Hall.

@34:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No.

@34:24 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Roseland, the Deer Hunter.

@34:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Deer Hunter.

@34:27 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Deer Hunter.

@34:28 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Pretty sure it's the Deer Hunter.

@34:29 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I don't think I've ever seen it.

@34:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think it's a Deer Hunter. Yeah, maybe.

@34:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, that's the one with Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in it.

@34:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Like in the wilderness, basically. Yeah.

@34:42 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Meryl Streep's in it as well. I've never seen it. I saw it a A lot of some of your friends have already changed.

Or it's a Vietnam War one.

@34:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I should watch it. You should.

@34:53 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I'm exposing myself right now.

@34:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's okay. Like. Crystal Walken.

@35:00 - skwapich@shaw.ca

He's great actor, man.

@35:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

He is. He hit that uncomfortable piece of metal off his you-know-what for five years to bring it home to you.

Sorry, a little Pulp Fiction for you.

@35:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Love it.

@35:10 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

The watch. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he was a deer hunter. Or I could be thinking of something totally different and I'm just, whatever.

@35:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Anyways, but there's millions of songs and millions of movies that make movies even better. Yeah. mean, the other one that I think of right at the top of my mind is Danger Zone for Top Gun.

Like, obviously, like that sets the whole tone for the movie.

@35:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

else.

@35:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But I don't think- Yeah, I don't think that hits as much as like something from like Requiem for a Dream, which is the theme echoes throughout the whole movie and stuff like that.

@35:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No.

@35:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Maybe it does. I don't know.

@35:46 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And there's always- No, he's on my mind. No. There's always this too.

@35:53 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Ugh.

@35:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Right.

@35:55 - skwapich@shaw.ca

One of your favorite movies.

@35:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

One of my favorite movies.

@35:57 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@35:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think we'll end on this note. Great song, great movie.

@36:02 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Rest in peace, Rob Reiner.

@36:04 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Gone too soon.

@36:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's tragic. We'll leave you with this, and I guess we'll see you guys next week.

@36:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

On the flip-flop. Now I gotta figure out how to turn this off. I really don't like what they've done.

What the is going on?