Beautiful Things - Benson Boone

Benson Boone — “Beautiful Things”
Pitchfork Score: 6.4

Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” is the kind of song that sounds like it was carefully engineered to play during the end credits of a Netflix teen drama—specifically the episode where the main character finally kisses their crush, only for it to start raining in cinematic slow motion. Boone’s voice trembles with the sincerity of someone who just discovered his first heartbreak on Tumblr circa 2012, and the production swells like an Imagine Dragons B-side that got baptized in holy water.

Lyrically, Boone circles around the idea of cherishing love before it slips away, which is both touching and about as revolutionary as finding out water is wet. Every line sounds like it was workshopped by a support group for people who cried too hard at The Notebook. “Please don’t take these beautiful things that I’ve got” could be poignant if it didn’t also sound like a panicked plea to a landlord.

The song itself builds toward a dramatic chorus that is supposed to soar, but mostly just floats politely, like a balloon that refuses to fully commit to either rising or popping. It’s polished, safe, and inoffensive—Spotify playlist glue for people who still write Instagram captions about “living in the moment.”

Still, Boone knows his audience, and in that lane, “Beautiful Things” works. It’s heartfelt enough to make teenagers clutch their pillows at 2 a.m., but slick enough to slide onto Top 40 radio without scaring off your mom. Is it groundbreaking? No. But if you need a soundtrack for your next PG-13 existential crisis, Boone has you covered.

Best Fit For: crying in your car after an argument where you definitely weren’t wrong.

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Transcript

00:41.52
Chibbs
This is 1001 Songs That Make You Want to Die, the podcast where we talk about songs so bad it makes you want to scream at yourself in the bathroom mirror for so long that you throw up in the sink.

00:53.20
Bevo
Wow.

00:53.33
Chibbs
just thought,

00:54.39
Mad Dog
ah

00:56.90
Bevo
Is that one um from the from the archives or what?

00:57.48
Mad Dog
Just vomiting through screaming.

01:02.69
Chibbs
just you know it's a funny funny imagery for me

01:04.98
Mad Dog
It's fun.

01:05.02
Bevo
Okay. Yeah.

01:05.98
Mad Dog
Yeah.

01:06.67
Chibbs
Just, there's something ever since I saw Clerks 2, and there's a scene in it where one of the guys beyond the counter pisses a dude off so much about calling Lord of the Rings gay that the guy throws up in in anger.

01:20.69
Mad Dog
Ha ha ha ha ha. ah

01:25.74
Bevo
yeah

01:26.36
Chibbs
And I thought that's such a fucking funny thing to do is to get someone so angry that they vomit.

01:32.66
Mad Dog
Yeah.

01:36.06
Mad Dog
Screaming at yourself.

01:36.18
Bevo
that is funny that is really funny

01:37.31
Chibbs
Yeah.

01:37.50
Mad Dog
yeah

01:38.17
Chibbs
Yeah. um Speaking of vomiting from fury, what are you doing Beautiful Things by Benson Boone.

02:21.53
Chibbs
Yeah. Yep. It's

02:24.15
Mad Dog
Okay.

02:25.87
Chibbs
a popular song.

02:27.94
Bevo
Very, very popular.

02:28.46
Mad Dog
Yep.

02:30.02
Chibbs
Popular Benson Boone.

02:33.25
Mad Dog
Benny Boone.

02:33.30
Bevo
I've got things to say about Benson Boone, but I'm waiting for you to introduce me first.

02:38.08
Chibbs
Yeah. and ah Trusty Beveridge is here.

02:42.21
Bevo
Benson sounds like a dog's name. Benson!

02:46.20
Bevo
Benson Boone sounds like a character that would belong with, like, Yogi Bear and Scooby-Doo.

02:50.08
Chibbs
yeah

02:51.48
Bevo
LAUGHTER

02:53.12
Chibbs
He's a ranger in the in the in a Yogi Bear universe.

02:54.62
Mad Dog
Yeah.

02:58.19
Mad Dog
Benson.

02:58.18
Bevo
Yogi Bear appearing with Benson Boone.

02:59.08
Chibbs
yeah

03:01.97
Mad Dog
It does.

03:02.97
Chibbs
yeah Mad Dog's here.

03:04.75
Mad Dog
Roof!

03:07.05
Chibbs
It was Benson-style dog sound. it's Great. Amazing. Amazing. Gav's not here. He's dead. um Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:16.32
Mad Dog
ah he's dead.

03:19.23
Chibbs
All right, we got lyrics to get in.

03:21.18
Bevo
That's right. Dead serious about going itching and scratchy.

03:22.41
Chibbs
LAUGHTER

03:23.38
Bevo
like So hitting carrot.

03:25.82
Chibbs
ah This is, sorry, ah we were just talking about it off thing, but I went to see Keith Urban last night and Jazz and I both completely forgot that we had tickets to go see Keith Urban on a Wednesday night in the piercing down rain.

03:42.82
Chibbs
um

03:42.93
Bevo
Why did you decide to go and see Benson Boone?

03:45.20
Chibbs
Like, I got a ticket.

03:46.66
Bevo
Keith Urban.

03:47.51
Chibbs
Well, Jazz likes Keith Urban and ah we bought tickets a year ago.

03:47.86
Mad Dog
Bits.

03:50.66
Bevo
Hmm.

03:54.52
Chibbs
like

03:54.91
Bevo
Did Keith bring out um Harry, little Harry on guitar? Oh, I thought he might.

03:58.95
Chibbs
No, I don't think so. um And ah so we we were talking about sort of all day were at work or whatever and just messaging me like, oh, can't wait just to get home and get in the tracksuit pants and we can watch a movie or something. It's going to be so good.

04:16.93
Chibbs
And then I had band practice up in Unandera.

04:18.11
Mad Dog
Oh.

04:19.07
Bevo
Keith Urban's like the fuck you do

04:20.69
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah. I had band practice at Unandera, so I'd finished work, driven to Unandera, done band practice, and then Jazz Messina is like, I have news.

04:32.05
Chibbs
I'm like, what? What? She's like, Keith Urban's tonight. I'm like, Duff Gardens.

04:38.50
Bevo
no

04:40.94
Chibbs
Hurrah!

04:45.14
Mad Dog
a

04:46.16
Bevo
ah

04:48.71
Mad Dog
Yes!

04:51.00
Chibbs
Yeah.

04:51.35
Mad Dog
That is tough gardens.

04:51.48
Bevo
Amazing. Amazing.

04:52.28
Chibbs
yeah

04:54.27
Bevo
My mate, I have a mate that he called me once and he's like, I've got to tell you about this thing that happened. He's like at some job site and it's heaps noisy and he hears the guy trying to drive this tractor and he hears him yell, put it in H. yeah had

05:10.64
Bevo
He had to call me to tell me about it because was so funny.

05:18.94
Bevo
put it in

05:19.80
Chibbs
and

05:20.15
Mad Dog
night

05:21.80
Chibbs
fucking hell yeah i just like it was we were both like oh cool but neither of wanted like to be fucked at all to do it yeah it's one of those yeah it's good it was yeah it was a mad show it was good worth it ah

05:26.52
Bevo
yeah yeah but it was good it was worth it yeah yeah mmm mmm

05:37.50
Chibbs
it was good

05:38.80
Mad Dog
If you've bought tickets a year before, i reckon you don't mind abandoning it that much if you have to.

05:44.21
Chibbs
It was, I think it was a it was a coin toss.

05:47.52
Mad Dog
Yeah, okay.

05:47.75
Bevo
I've abandoned one show like that where I bought tickets and then I just couldn't be bothered the day of.

05:47.96
Chibbs
Yeah.

05:53.03
Chibbs
What was it?

05:53.36
Mad Dog
Yeah.

05:53.35
Bevo
And it was, um, cheap trick, which I had seen him before.

05:57.05
Chibbs
Okay.

05:57.76
Bevo
And there was another band in, in the mix and I just, couldn't be bothered in the end.

06:04.25
Chibbs
Yeah, okay.

06:04.58
Mad Dog
Yeah.

06:04.69
Bevo
I went, fuck it. And i just sold my ticket to someone else. So I actually, I didn't even sell it I said, buy me a t-shirt at the merch desk and that'll, that'll do me.

06:12.51
Mad Dog
that'll

06:12.78
Chibbs
That'll do me.

06:13.13
Mad Dog
That'll do. Yeah.

06:14.11
Chibbs
That'll do me.

06:14.25
Bevo
Yeah.

06:15.75
Chibbs
All right, Benson. Benson Boone. I imagine Benson Boone is going to fall into the I can't be fucked going to this show ah very soon. Yeah.

06:25.88
Mad Dog
Yeah.

06:26.87
Chibbs
I just think the popularity is not...

06:27.52
Bevo
I have theories about that. We'll get, we'll get into them.

06:29.62
Chibbs
We'll get there. Verse one. Long verse. Long verse.

06:34.31
Bevo
This is the slow um build.

06:37.00
Chibbs
Yeah.

06:37.54
Mad Dog
yeah

06:37.83
Bevo
Yeah.

06:38.61
Chibbs
says, for a while there it was rough but lately i've been doing then the four cold decembers i recall and i see my every month i found a girl my parents love she'll come and no and i think i might have it all and i thank god every day for the girl he set my way but i know the things he gives me he can take away and I hold you every night, and that's a feeling I want to get used to, but there's no man as terrified as a man who stands to lose you.

07:17.04
Chibbs
It's a spiteful God sort of thing that's going on.

07:22.39
Bevo
Yeah.

07:23.87
Chibbs
Yeah.

07:24.54
Bevo
He's right though. um I'm going to hone in on this last line. There's no man as terrified as the man who stands to lose you.

07:32.63
Chibbs
Yeah.

07:32.82
Mad Dog
Terrified.

07:32.97
Bevo
That's especially with current world events at the moment.

07:35.56
Chibbs
Yeah.

07:35.53
Bevo
I feel like that's a bit insensitive.

07:37.59
Chibbs
Could this have fallen into scary month? Yeah.

07:41.55
Bevo
and yeah let's just start now we're here scary month um it's like i know no never mind no won't i won't talk about

07:44.13
Chibbs
yeah Scary month. Yeah.

07:54.78
Chibbs
ah No, never mind.

07:56.92
Mad Dog
think

07:57.75
Chibbs
Never mind

07:58.04
Mad Dog
Never mind.

07:59.19
Bevo
it politics i won't get into politics

08:01.09
Chibbs
mind. I like the... It says... he chucks it in here. I see my family every ma e month. But it's not put in a positive way. It's sort of like...

08:13.27
Bevo
my visitation rights almost.

08:13.43
Chibbs
ah ah yeah every every Every month I have to go and do this family thing.

08:18.72
Bevo
Fourth Sunday of every month.

08:20.71
Chibbs
Yeah.

08:20.96
Mad Dog
Once month.

08:22.04
Chibbs
Fuck.

08:22.18
Mad Dog
hey

08:23.12
Chibbs
And it's just like, well, it's just, I mean, he hasn't specifically said that he really loves this girl.

08:23.21
Mad Dog
And we meet on neutral ground at a Macca's.

08:32.20
Chibbs
His parents do.

08:34.33
Mad Dog
Yeah, that's true.

08:34.36
Bevo
Yeah, that's true. Oh, well, nice.

08:36.06
Chibbs
Yeah.

08:36.75
Bevo
Jinx.

08:37.91
Mad Dog
Good spotting.

08:37.96
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

08:38.85
Mad Dog
yeah

08:39.22
Bevo
Can't talk for the rest of the episode, man, Doug. Oh, shit, I said your name.

08:41.21
Chibbs
yeah

08:45.21
Bevo
You're free.

08:47.86
Mad Dog
Well, wasn't in jail too long there. Yeah.

08:50.08
Chibbs
And and and yeah there's the part of, like, he's not he's not fully used to holding her yet, but he's looking forward to being used to it.

09:07.91
Chibbs
Like, he's like, he's cuddling her.

09:07.93
Bevo
yeah Looking forward to yeah a bit of stability.

09:12.87
Chibbs
He's like,

09:14.53
Mad Dog
Still a bit awkward.

09:14.78
Chibbs
yeah I know my parents love you, but I'm...

09:16.90
Mad Dog
Yeah.

09:19.94
Bevo
Yeah. And she's not staying the night every night. Just every, like I'm, I'm gleaning from this, that she's coming every year now and again.

09:24.11
Chibbs
yeah yeah I imagine she's just giving him shit. It's like, I don't think you like me very much. It's like, I want to get used to this.

09:31.16
Bevo
My parents love you.

09:33.23
Chibbs
And I want to get used to this.

09:34.71
Mad Dog
Yeah.

09:35.52
Chibbs
This is what we're doing right now. love to get used to it.

09:38.32
Bevo
Yeah, cool.

09:39.67
Mad Dog
I'm warming up to this thing, let me tell you.

09:40.90
Chibbs
yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I tell you what, I am fucking terrified that you're going to die. Yeah.

09:49.60
Mad Dog
That'll make things even more awkward. How am I going to explain that to them?

09:51.72
Chibbs
For my parents. Yeah, yeah.

09:56.69
Chibbs
They'll be devastated.

09:58.11
Mad Dog
Yeah.

10:01.63
Bevo
yeah cool

10:01.90
Mad Dog
Oh, Jesus.

10:02.90
Chibbs
and so

10:03.14
Mad Dog
yeah other Otherwise...

10:03.61
Chibbs
It is... I'm sorry, but it is... ah If you listen to the song, it sounds like... It's like, this is... Oh, it's like a love song. It's a really emotional thing. It's like, no, not really.

10:15.65
Chibbs
He hasn't said anything in here that's even mildly, like...

10:19.79
Bevo
It's the step before a love song. It's like the noncommittal.

10:23.53
Chibbs
to middle Yeah, yeah, yeah.

10:26.22
Mad Dog
it's I like the idea of being in love with you.

10:29.34
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

10:29.38
Bevo
Yeah.

10:30.34
Chibbs
It's something I could, I'm sure I could learn to get used to.

10:30.46
Mad Dog
Yeah.

10:34.27
Bevo
Yeah.

10:34.34
Mad Dog
Yeah.

10:34.78
Chibbs
Yeah.

10:35.00
Mad Dog
I can learn to love you.

10:35.16
Bevo
I did want to bring up the, uh, the last four cold Decembers.

10:36.61
Mad Dog
No.

10:38.72
Bevo
That's such an old man thing to say. Yeah.

10:44.87
Bevo
I haven't seen you for the last more cold Decembers.

10:46.87
Chibbs
I'm sorry, look does Does anyone, can you remember how cold last winter was or specifically three winters ago?

10:55.23
Mad Dog
no

10:57.44
Bevo
We'll tell you how hot summer is.

10:57.50
Chibbs
Like, I don't.

10:57.98
Mad Dog
Do you

10:59.61
Chibbs
Yeah, but I can't, I can't specify.

10:59.80
Bevo
that That's memorable.

11:01.81
Chibbs
i can't tell you, you know, 2023 winter though. That was a fucking harsh one.

11:06.93
Bevo
Do you know, ah this I have a theory that American people... like live by the seasons a lot more than we do in Australia. you know, when people say like a song comes out, and they call it the song of the summer or the, you know, that kind of thing.

11:15.23
Mad Dog
reckon they're more defined? Yeah.

11:19.52
Bevo
It's a winter track or whatever. We don't have that here.

11:22.71
Chibbs
Nah.

11:23.26
Mad Dog
Not really.

11:23.30
Bevo
And I think it's because our seasons are a bit more fucked.

11:27.12
Chibbs
They are fucked.

11:27.63
Mad Dog
Yeah.

11:28.30
Bevo
Well, I don't know about you guys, but where you're living, but it's winter now, but it feels like spring.

11:28.50
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah, yeah

11:29.53
Mad Dog
Just like...

11:35.66
Bevo
And it has for the whole winter.

11:36.27
Mad Dog
Yeah.

11:36.82
Bevo
Like I've got jump a jumper on, but like only just.

11:41.01
Chibbs
yeah.

11:41.26
Bevo
It's great.

11:41.31
Chibbs
We had...

11:41.45
Mad Dog
Oh, you reckon it hasn't been cold?

11:41.62
Bevo
It's fun. No, it's been cold, but just not like bitter cold. You know what I mean?

11:47.38
Mad Dog
Yeah, yeah.

11:47.40
Chibbs
Yeah, you're not... You're you're up north, mate.

11:49.07
Bevo
I'm tropical, but you know, its yeah.

11:50.35
Mad Dog
You're in the fucking tropics, Matt.

11:51.97
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

11:52.05
Mad Dog
Yeah.

11:52.70
Bevo
don't know. It's a, yeah.

11:54.96
Chibbs
It's funny. You got to dodge coconuts and stuff.

11:57.27
Bevo
Yeah.

11:57.35
Chibbs
Funny falling out of the trees around you.

11:57.64
Bevo
Yep. Yep.

11:59.38
Mad Dog
I hope...

11:59.66
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah, we had, um I was up in the Southern Highlands last weekend and it was two degrees.

12:00.56
Bevo
Hmm.

12:07.49
Mad Dog
That'll get cold. Yeah.

12:08.81
Chibbs
Yeah. It's fucking cold. Cold as shit.

12:11.03
Mad Dog
Yeah.

12:11.85
Chibbs
Pre-chorus.

12:11.98
Bevo
Isn't it funny? Sorry, just quickly about Australia is that as a country, we're the closest country to Antarctica, but also not that far from the equator.

12:15.38
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:20.02
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:21.97
Bevo
That's a big, that's a big fucking continent.

12:23.14
Chibbs
It's big country.

12:23.40
Mad Dog
They're a big country.

12:26.16
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

12:26.32
Mad Dog
People don't realise.

12:27.61
Chibbs
Big country.

12:27.73
Mad Dog
People don't realise.

12:28.00
Chibbs
And also, you know, 95% inhabitable.

12:34.15
Mad Dog
Yeah.

12:34.17
Bevo
do Yeah. Uninhabitable.

12:34.73
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

12:35.40
Bevo
Yeah.

12:35.93
Mad Dog
Yes.

12:36.77
Chibbs
Yeah, you can't.

12:37.45
Mad Dog
Exactly.

12:38.87
Chibbs
You'd die in 95% of this country if you had to stay out overnight.

12:41.80
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah. It's true.

12:42.76
Mad Dog
Yeah.

12:43.87
Chibbs
Yeah. ah Mad Max, there's a reason it was filmed here.

12:46.26
Mad Dog
It's just camels there. That's it.

12:49.04
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:49.78
Mad Dog
Yeah.

12:49.97
Bevo
true

12:50.07
Chibbs
Pre-chorus. Oh, I hope I don't lose you. Please stay. I want you. need you. God. Don't take these beautiful things that I've got.

13:03.77
Mad Dog
nursing

13:04.51
Chibbs
Has he got jewels?

13:06.01
Bevo
It's just got some kind of like beanie baby collection on his cover.

13:09.00
Chibbs
Is he like, he Alibaba or something?

13:10.11
Bevo
Don't take the beautiful things.

13:13.37
Chibbs
Like, what is this? Is there 40 thieves? like so forty three

13:18.07
Mad Dog
Ali Baba.

13:23.16
Bevo
These beautiful things that I've got.

13:24.94
Mad Dog
ah

13:26.61
Chibbs
Yeah, I just for some reason have the but fucking cave from Aladdin but like in my head. um Yeah, okay, again.

13:36.47
Bevo
It's funny too, because he's he's at no point has he like hinted at any reason that she would leave.

13:37.41
Mad Dog
So is...

13:43.62
Chibbs
no no, no, she's like, I'm happy to say no.

13:45.44
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:45.95
Bevo
Things are going great.

13:48.17
Mad Dog
Look, I'm happy with this arrangement. I'm fine.

13:51.83
Bevo
Yeah.

13:52.00
Chibbs
So I just hope...

13:52.89
Mad Dog
Don't go. Yeah.

13:54.16
Chibbs
I hope I don't lose you. so It's like, I'm not going anywhere. It's like, you know, yeah, it's more, oh, it's one of those nights, isn't it?

13:59.70
Bevo
Yeah. I'm staying the night.

14:01.95
Mad Dog
Yeah.

14:02.52
Bevo
Catching up with your mum and dad tomorrow. Yeah.

14:04.70
Mad Dog
Yeah.

14:05.65
Chibbs
it's one of the It's one of the nights where you stay. Yeah.

14:08.12
Mad Dog
You know I always sleep over before we meet your family again.

14:12.71
Chibbs
ah Monthly family visit.

14:14.09
Mad Dog
Monthly family

14:15.49
Chibbs
um ah Yeah, I don't buy any of it. I don't, put like, I just don't buy that I want you, I need you. And then it's like, oh, God.

14:25.47
Bevo
Yeah.

14:25.93
Mad Dog
visit. So is he imploring that God doesn't take her away?

14:29.83
Chibbs
I think he's just saying, don't don't kill don't kill this woman that I feel like I could get to know better.

14:35.56
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah.

14:36.80
Mad Dog
he's He's begging God to not smite him.

14:37.72
Chibbs
Yeah. that Don't smite him, Benson Boone.

14:41.38
Bevo
yeah

14:42.99
Mad Dog
Yeah.

14:44.32
Bevo
yeah

14:44.49
Mad Dog
Yeah.

14:45.11
Bevo
yeah not to bring a downer on the pod, but I think he did actually have a girlfriend that died.

14:47.89
Chibbs
No, do it.

14:51.56
Mad Dog
Oh, shit.

14:52.46
Bevo
yeah ah Sorry, that's not fact.

14:52.99
Mad Dog
Okay.

14:54.07
Bevo
I don't know. I think that's the case.

14:56.34
Mad Dog
It's not a fact. Yeah.

14:57.66
Bevo
I mean, it might be fact. It's not verified as yet.

15:00.14
Mad Dog
just

15:00.99
Bevo
not verified as of yet

15:01.58
Chibbs
What? Hold on. Hold on.

15:04.29
Mad Dog
That's a big, big thing to throw out.

15:06.27
Chibbs
It is a massive thing.

15:08.07
Bevo
You know when you hear something, but you're like, I haven't done the research.

15:08.82
Chibbs
Um...

15:10.71
Bevo
I've just heard it from ah another person.

15:12.88
Chibbs
Yeah, mate, we've been doing it for five years.

15:13.52
Bevo
Okay. Sorry.

15:15.42
Mad Dog
Yeah. That's what the show is built on. Yeah.

15:19.52
Chibbs
Yeah. um ah No, no, it that is incorrect.

15:22.10
Mad Dog
Okay.

15:26.12
Chibbs
No, he has not had a girlfriend who died.

15:26.45
Bevo
it back.

15:29.24
Bevo
okay sorry

15:30.54
Chibbs
Yeah.

15:31.88
Bevo
i am

15:33.35
Chibbs
yeah

15:33.31
Bevo
take it back

15:34.73
Mad Dog
so So, yeah, he's not, like, writing from experience.

15:39.78
Chibbs
It's kind of, it's a real paranoid delusion of just being like, can't really get myself a girlfriend. God will kill her. Like, what has he done? What the fuck has he done?

15:52.25
Chibbs
Like, is he sacrificing children or something? Like, what the fuck has he done that he's convinced that if I bring anyone close to me, that anyone that stays here more than three nights a week will be fucking cut down in the street?

16:06.29
Mad Dog
This is next level projection.

16:08.20
Chibbs
It is. Yeah.

16:09.19
Mad Dog
Yeah. Yeah.

16:10.77
Chibbs
Maybe he's going to kill her.

16:13.75
Bevo
o

16:14.41
Mad Dog
Okay. Yeah.

16:16.44
Bevo
Let's find out.

16:17.24
Chibbs
could be a murder funnel. I'm telling you, we could have saved this for scary month.

16:21.47
Mad Dog
Okay.

16:22.25
Chibbs
Yeah. ah

16:23.41
Mad Dog
like god All right.

16:24.16
Chibbs
Chorus. Chorus. Please stay I want you. i need you. Oh, God. Don't take these beautiful things that I've got. Oh, he's still banging on about his treasure.

16:34.72
Chibbs
That was the pre-chorus.

16:36.43
Bevo
Yeah, this is the la this is the this is the shouty version of the Did you happen to get a grab of him yelling?

16:36.49
Chibbs
It's the pre-chorus and the chorus.

16:36.88
Mad Dog
It's...

16:39.25
Chibbs
Ah, okay. So now he's furious about it.

16:42.66
Mad Dog
Yeah.

16:42.77
Chibbs
and Yeah. Okay.

16:44.35
Mad Dog
It's deranged at this point.

16:48.48
Chibbs
I think I had it in that little bit at the start.

16:52.07
Bevo
Yeah, because it's funny to think, like, in the context of the, not out of the context of the song, it's like you're telling someone to stay and then you start going, please!

16:52.48
Chibbs
Yeah.

17:02.92
Bevo
Stay!

17:03.06
Chibbs
yeah

17:05.58
Bevo
Okay, I'll stay.

17:05.76
Chibbs
The, also, he's just, he seems to be worried about his beautiful things that he has.

17:06.66
Bevo
I'll stay.

17:13.08
Chibbs
So is this female one of his possessions?

17:13.38
Bevo
Yeah.

17:16.43
Mad Dog
Mm.

17:17.53
Bevo
One of, yeah.

17:17.86
Mad Dog
Yes.

17:19.25
Chibbs
Yeah.

17:19.38
Mad Dog
One of.

17:19.90
Chibbs
What else does, what other beautiful things does he have that he's worried about losing?

17:20.39
Mad Dog
Yeah.

17:25.03
Mad Dog
Bevo, this is your speciality.

17:26.71
Bevo
Oh, yeah, yeah. um

17:30.79
Bevo
Yeah, he's got the whole set of um the new Disney um pogs that you get from Woolies.

17:40.67
Bevo
and the folder.

17:41.91
Mad Dog
Bogs.

17:41.94
Bevo
yeah

17:43.01
Chibbs
Yeah.

17:43.23
Bevo
This is legit. It's the new thing.

17:45.55
Mad Dog
Are they actually Pogs?

17:45.72
Bevo
They're discs.

17:45.87
Chibbs
Yeah, they're back. They're back in pog form.

17:47.84
Bevo
They're like metal discs.

17:49.39
Chibbs
Yeah.

17:50.15
Bevo
And it's Disneyland characters.

17:50.23
Mad Dog
Oh, okay.

17:51.99
Bevo
He's got the whole set.

17:52.05
Chibbs
um

17:53.58
Mad Dog
Pogs.

17:53.63
Bevo
No, actually, this one came out before recently, so that but can't be at all.

17:54.45
Chibbs
Yeah.

17:57.60
Chibbs
It's not that. Nah. Could be like some sort of, um yeah, puppy sprozzer thing.

17:59.77
Bevo
No. Puppy Surprise. Remember Puppy Surprise?

18:04.09
Mad Dog
Yeah?

18:04.25
Bevo
he bought ah You bought a dog that was pregnant and you didn't know how many puppies it was going to have.

18:09.53
Chibbs
This one's like

18:10.29
Bevo
And they go he got the full five.

18:12.75
Chibbs
so this like, this one's stillborn. Mum, the puppies aren't moving.

18:19.65
Mad Dog
Surprise.

18:19.66
Chibbs
They're not moving.

18:20.83
Mad Dog
A rant.

18:20.82
Chibbs
Three legs.

18:25.33
Bevo
Surprise.

18:25.79
Chibbs
the puppies are

18:27.65
Mad Dog
so

18:28.30
Chibbs
they're not moving

18:29.64
Bevo
You get three in a runt.

18:30.56
Chibbs
but

18:34.46
Mad Dog
ah ru

18:35.54
Chibbs
three legs

18:38.98
Bevo
My puppy surprise ate one of the puppies.

18:44.28
Chibbs
It comes with a syringe so you can put the Hmong one down.

18:51.23
Mad Dog
The Hmong.

18:59.80
Bevo
Oh, man.

19:00.44
Mad Dog
the mon

19:06.33
Chibbs
yeah

19:07.32
Bevo
of

19:07.94
Chibbs
I don't know the technical term that vets use for a Oh, that's you haven't fucking lost that, have you?

19:18.58
Bevo
um While we were talking about um puppy surprise, i was looking up Benson Boone. Turns out he lost his great grandmother, not his girlfriend at 97. So not really.

19:30.08
Bevo
Yeah. I was way off. So I take it back. Sorry.

19:33.25
Mad Dog
Yeah, that's, you it's sad, but different to like a 20-year-old chick.

19:33.33
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

19:37.54
Bevo
Great. 97 is a pretty good run.

19:38.07
Chibbs
Yeah. Also, this better this better not but this better not be about his 97-year-old fucking grandmother.

19:43.39
Bevo
Stay in the night.

19:43.60
Chibbs
It's even more disturbing.

19:44.10
Mad Dog
Yeah.

19:45.57
Chibbs
Yeah. Just...

19:47.00
Mad Dog
She's got to go at some point, mate.

19:47.25
Bevo
Oh, I haven't felt this way for four winters.

19:48.87
Chibbs
yeah but ah

19:49.16
Mad Dog
yeah

19:53.74
Mad Dog
Four score and three years ago.

19:58.62
Chibbs
Verse 2. I found my mind. I'm feeling sane. It's been a while, but I'm finding my faith. If everything's good and it's great, why do I sit and wait till it's gone?

20:13.96
Chibbs
Oh, I'll tell you. I know I've got enough. I've got peace and I've got love, but I'm up at night thinking I just might lose it all.

20:24.99
Mad Dog
Right. This guy i can't enjoy anything.

20:27.67
Bevo
Self-sabotaging.

20:28.26
Chibbs
hey

20:28.83
Bevo
Yeah.

20:29.33
Mad Dog
Yeah.

20:29.89
Chibbs
yeah He doesn't want to feel joy. Yeah.

20:32.95
Mad Dog
Yeah. I found my mind and I'm feeling sane.

20:38.58
Chibbs
Jesus Christ, what was happening before?

20:39.14
Bevo
That's, that's a, that's a, of all the songs we've done up to this point, I don't think anyone's found their mind and felt sane.

20:47.36
Mad Dog
No, they're usually crazy.

20:47.40
Chibbs
No, they're crazy.

20:48.91
Bevo
It's refreshing. Yeah.

20:50.33
Mad Dog
Losing their mind. yeah

20:51.46
Chibbs
yeah um Okay, the chick's gone. Like, he's not singing about a female now at all.

21:01.19
Chibbs
It's just him and what treasures he'll lose.

21:01.39
Bevo
One

21:04.34
Chibbs
His sweet, sweet treasures. it's

21:07.09
Bevo
eye open.

21:07.45
Chibbs
yeah He lays awake at night thinking that someone's going to take his treasures.

21:08.19
Bevo
Treasures.

21:10.98
Mad Dog
Yeah. On a big pile of like Scrooge McDuck coins, just like worrying about people.

21:15.08
Chibbs
Yeah, he's like, he's...

21:15.77
Bevo
yeah

21:18.70
Chibbs
He's there. He never fully goes to sleep. It's just like he's like, ah, ah, jumping.

21:22.15
Mad Dog
one

21:22.37
Bevo
one ah one eye

21:24.13
Chibbs
It just heaps jittery. Yeah. It's wide up. just drinking like fucking like pot of coffee.

21:28.56
Bevo
treasure

21:34.53
Mad Dog
Pouring it straight into the...

21:35.64
Chibbs
try it Straight in. Yeah. Straight in his mouth. Stay awake. So no one takes his nightly treasures. Yeah.

21:43.44
Bevo
treasures it is now please stay

21:45.68
Chibbs
this a pirate song? I don't know what the fuck this is. have no idea. Yeah, um

21:53.55
Mad Dog
But he's also proclaiming he's got peace and love. I don't think you've got peace, bro.

21:58.60
Chibbs
yeah but it doesn't sound like and Peace sounds like a sound night's sleep.

22:05.47
Bevo
yeah

22:06.22
Mad Dog
Peace means, gee, look at all these beautiful things that I've got.

22:06.34
Chibbs
That's so peaceful.

22:09.79
Mad Dog
I'm pretty fucking happy with that. Let's go to sleep.

22:11.73
Chibbs
And you know what? If they are taken, own, at least I had them at some point to enjoy. There you go.

22:16.77
Bevo
Yeah, better to have loved and lost your treasures.

22:17.22
Mad Dog
Yeah, that's right.

22:20.15
Chibbs
yeah yeah Somebody's a fucking parent and screaming at Efron about losing them. Like, yeah, he's really, really yelling at Efron. I think that's it. I think the rest is just the same shit and over and over again.

22:30.95
Mad Dog
That is it. ah

22:33.34
Chibbs
He just doesn't want his beautiful things to be stolen. Yeah.

22:36.55
Mad Dog
That's it.

22:36.65
Chibbs
Do you reckon just lives in a mansion, like, somewhere, and he just doesn't want to get broken into?

22:41.11
Bevo
Practice these backflips in the...

22:41.73
Chibbs
just it's a it's ah It's about putting the security system up.

22:45.75
Mad Dog
Probably lives in a dodgy neighborhood.

22:46.40
Bevo
Hmm.

22:48.37
Chibbs
Maybe.

22:49.22
Bevo
Probably did when he wrote it.

22:49.49
Mad Dog
ah

22:49.85
Chibbs
Maybe.

22:51.26
Bevo
Doesn't anymore.

22:51.52
Chibbs
Maybe when he wrote it. No, not anymore. ah It was released on the 18th of January 2024. That's 8,187 days after the towers fell.

23:01.29
Bevo
It gets on, doesn't it?

23:01.90
Mad Dog
get Getting a long time ago.

23:02.97
Bevo
gets and Gets away from you.

23:03.26
Chibbs
Tuscan, Tuscan. really does get away from It's written by Benson Boone, Jack LaFrance, and Evan Blair.

23:10.58
Bevo
Jack LaFrance.

23:12.44
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:12.97
Mad Dog
Jack LaFrance.

23:13.00
Chibbs
Jack LaFrance.

23:14.77
Bevo
a

23:15.09
Chibbs
ah

23:15.73
Bevo
What's your name?

23:16.05
Chibbs
yeah

23:16.25
Bevo
Jack LaFrance.

23:17.71
Chibbs
ah

23:21.04
Mad Dog
It's French for that.

23:21.08
Bevo
and

23:22.40
Mad Dog
France. France.

23:23.16
Bevo
It's French for Jack the French.

23:26.25
Chibbs
and jack right

23:29.69
Mad Dog
TZ, yeah. it's fri for that

23:34.57
Chibbs
yeah Jail of France, what is that? Some German?

23:39.46
Bevo
Oh, France. Okay.

23:41.45
Chibbs
France.

23:41.64
Bevo
All right. France.

23:42.62
Chibbs
yeah

23:43.26
Bevo
Yep.

23:43.41
Mad Dog
france

23:43.77
Chibbs
France.

23:44.76
Mad Dog
france

23:46.08
Bevo
F-R-A-N-T-Z-Z.

23:48.60
Chibbs
yeah

23:48.66
Mad Dog
teaed

23:50.16
Chibbs
I read a thing saying that Benson Boom was apparently scouted for American Idol, um and that but he quit after the audition round. um

23:59.73
Bevo
Too good.

23:59.78
Chibbs
ah was he ah Well, apparently it's this bullshit of like, I didn't feel ready for fame. It's like, dude, being on American Idol is not going to guarantee you any fame.

24:07.58
Bevo
yeah

24:09.38
Chibbs
Yeah.

24:09.62
Bevo
The train does not stop.

24:10.17
Mad Dog
Probably a good move in the end.

24:12.10
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah,

24:12.12
Mad Dog
Yeah.

24:12.87
Bevo
You get on that train or you don't.

24:16.23
Chibbs
yeah.

24:16.45
Mad Dog
yeah

24:17.35
Chibbs
Jack LaFrance, he's apparently known as this viral TikTok song creator. This is what he does is make viral songs specifically.

24:27.31
Bevo
Okay. Okay. Yeah.

24:30.48
Chibbs
And then I looked up a list of all of his songs and I don't recognize anything on it except Benson Boone.

24:35.71
Bevo
let me Let me have a look because I'm chronically online.

24:36.20
Chibbs
So, ah yeah, I imagine um I didn't listen to them.

24:39.18
Mad Dog
Serial Hess.

24:41.96
Chibbs
I imagine if I put them on, i'd be like, oh, yeah, that's a TikTok song. You know what I mean But this, yeah, this dude is specifically like set himself up to be the I make TikTok music.

24:45.94
Bevo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

24:46.57
Mad Dog
They're all TikTok. This

24:54.92
Bevo
Music. Yeah, right. idea I don't recognise any either, but same.

24:56.25
Chibbs
Yeah.

24:59.17
Bevo
I reckon I would if I heard them. Yeah.

25:00.79
Chibbs
Yeah.

25:01.37
Mad Dog
is a day and age we live in.

25:01.49
Chibbs
Evan Blair. um Evan Blair ah should in French should be Evan La Producer because um that he performs under the name Evan the Producer.

25:16.80
Bevo
yeah

25:17.77
Chibbs
And has also, he's worked with Lizzo. Yeah.

25:21.72
Bevo
Fuck, she fell off, didn't she?

25:22.32
Mad Dog
Nice.

25:23.67
Chibbs
Well, fuck.

25:24.40
Mad Dog
Lizzo.

25:24.91
Chibbs
We'll get to this.

25:25.14
Bevo
we didn't i don't think we even did.

25:25.71
Chibbs
We'll get to the fall off.

25:26.79
Bevo
Did we do Lizzo in our...

25:29.71
Chibbs
I don't know.

25:30.47
Bevo
She didn't even get to the list.

25:30.78
Mad Dog
I think...

25:34.24
Mad Dog
I think you've done...

25:34.24
Bevo
Plenty of Lizzo songs we could do.

25:35.53
Chibbs
Yeah, we didn't. We didn't. Yeah, but fuck.

25:37.90
Mad Dog
I'll save you the time. ten

25:39.87
Chibbs
yeah I don't know if anyone gives a shit.

25:42.78
Bevo
She was in a Star Wars show for a bit.

25:45.41
Chibbs
What?

25:45.79
Bevo
she was like ah She was like a cameo with Jack Black in an episode of a Star Wars Yeah, that was the end that was the end of it for her.

25:49.75
Chibbs
Oh, fuck. Yeah, right. And then she made all her fat backup dancers fucking shove bananas up their vag or something and then that was the end of her. Yeah.

25:59.21
Bevo
Oh, let's do Lizzo.

25:59.41
Mad Dog
Yeah.

25:59.49
Chibbs
Yeah.

26:02.22
Chibbs
It writes itself. um So, yeah, this this song went huge viral on TikTok like months before release.

26:13.86
Bevo
Yeah, right.

26:15.32
Chibbs
Yeah, it's one of those ones where it's just on TikTok, TikTok, TikTok everywhere, and it's like, what the fuck is this? And it's not even out anywhere. Like, it was just there.

26:23.02
Bevo
yeah

26:23.54
Chibbs
um Now, this might open up a bit more of an idea behind the song, He's a raised Mormon.

26:34.29
Mad Dog
ah

26:34.42
Bevo
o

26:35.17
Mad Dog
Ah.

26:36.23
Chibbs
Yeah.

26:36.45
Mad Dog
So it's a vengeful god.

26:36.78
Bevo
He's refound, he refound his faith, as he said, that's when, um, he's like, I might just go knock on some doors.

26:38.56
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. He...

26:44.81
Bevo
And his girlfriend's like, nah, stay in bed.

26:45.48
Chibbs
Well, he even...

26:46.57
Bevo
And he's like, nah, nah, really got to, I got these beautiful things, the Bible, the word, the word of Jehovah.

26:48.66
Chibbs
I've got to do it.

26:51.35
Chibbs
i'll I'll take my beautiful things if I... but ah That's the beautiful thing. He even attended a semester at Brigham Young University.

27:02.73
Mad Dog
Briggsie.

27:03.32
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

27:03.50
Mad Dog
Yep.

27:04.49
Chibbs
um

27:05.78
Mad Dog
BYU.

27:06.71
Chibbs
Yeah, hey he has... left the church, apparently, but he doesn't drink alcohol or do drugs, he but he emphasised that this is not a religious mandate, it's a choice.

27:20.43
Bevo
When you leave, um I'm more thinking Jehovah's Witness than Mormon.

27:23.06
Chibbs
Yeah.

27:25.66
Mad Dog
Yeah, he's a Mormon.

27:25.85
Bevo
You said Mormon, didn't you?

27:26.53
Chibbs
Than the Mormons, yeah, yeah.

27:27.83
Mad Dog
Yeah.

27:28.08
Bevo
When you leave the Jehovah's Church, it's bad news for you. Like, you are fucking cut off.

27:35.92
Mad Dog
Oh, excommunicated, you're done.

27:36.00
Chibbs
Oh, yeah.

27:37.23
Bevo
Yeah.

27:37.67
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

27:37.70
Bevo
Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah.

27:39.01
Mad Dog
Yeah.

27:39.67
Chibbs
Yeah, imagine it's the same thing.

27:41.28
Bevo
Yeah.

27:42.40
Mad Dog
I don't know, definitely in the fundamentalists, like the ones that have multiple wives, your you're fucking cut.

27:48.01
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

27:50.06
Mad Dog
I don't know if um his parents are probably just very disappointed in him.

27:51.62
Chibbs
Your average Mormon would care. Yeah.

27:56.14
Bevo
Oh no, they love his girlfriend.

27:56.77
Chibbs
Yeah. Flipping, flipping around on stage.

27:59.15
Mad Dog
Yeah.

28:00.09
Chibbs
Rotting the bull happy.

28:03.27
Mad Dog
You're like a damn fool.

28:04.00
Chibbs
Yeah.

28:05.44
Bevo
Hanging out with Brian May?

28:06.27
Chibbs
three

28:07.82
Mad Dog
yeah

28:08.43
Chibbs
So it not coming out but being on TikTok everywhere, it ended up with 200,000 Spotify pre-saves before it was released. What a way to do it, have a viral song and just be like, just get the pre-saves up.

28:22.97
Chibbs
200,000 people going to get this as soon as it comes out.

28:23.83
Bevo
Yeah, that's interesting.

28:24.93
Chibbs
out Yeah.

28:26.30
Bevo
was he Was he on a label? Do you know?

28:29.88
Chibbs
I would imagine so. Yeah, surely. This is an independent...

28:33.55
Bevo
There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that like, it makes it seem like, um

28:38.64
Chibbs
It's organic, but it's not.

28:39.94
Bevo
yeah, and it's never. But his label, okay, his label is called Night Street.

28:41.88
Chibbs
It never is.

28:42.02
Mad Dog
Mm-hmm.

28:44.25
Bevo
And I think it's a Warner subsidiary, maybe.

28:46.69
Chibbs
Yeah, okay. He recorded it Paramount or something, so I don't know. Yeah, Yeah.

28:57.59
Chibbs
Oh, I thought this was funny just for a stupid, stupid reason, but critics compared Boone's delivery to Lewis Capaldi and Dean Lewis, and I'm like, they're two names that have Lewis in the name, and and they just go...

29:12.37
Bevo
Thank you.

29:15.67
Chibbs
ah I imagine it's like critics being like, like ah Lewis Capaldi and Dean Lewis.

29:23.05
Bevo
And lewis Louis Armstrong and

29:23.13
Mad Dog
you know that You know that Lewis guy? You mean Lewis Capaldi?

29:27.76
Bevo
and a

29:27.93
Mad Dog
Or Dean Lewis?

29:28.44
Chibbs
the fuck is Dean Lewis?

29:28.56
Bevo
King Louis.

29:29.93
Chibbs
Yeah.

29:30.12
Bevo
King Louis, you know, that orangutan that's always looking for fire.

29:32.58
Mad Dog
Yeah.

29:36.53
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

29:37.70
Mad Dog
King louis

29:40.40
Chibbs
you i want to be

29:46.16
Bevo
It was hassling me to find out how to make a fire.

29:46.52
Chibbs
ah yeah Let me out of your temple, you stupid monkey.

29:56.35
Bevo
Stop scatting

29:57.82
Chibbs
yeah

29:58.52
Mad Dog
Thank you.

30:00.62
Chibbs
It's produced by Evan, the producer. ah Recorded at Paramount Studios.

30:04.34
Bevo
at me. Imagine imagined like a party in Hollywood. It's like, Evan, the producer, meet Tyler, the creator.

30:11.68
Chibbs
ah who bu bu but

30:16.14
Bevo
Why do birds suddenly appear?

30:16.31
Chibbs
um

30:21.02
Chibbs
It's the same studio as Blink-182, NXS, The Offspring, No Doubt, Fallout Boy have all recorded albums there. Apparently he laid over 30 vocal tracks for the chorus.

30:31.36
Bevo
Yeah, we've heard that before for Black Eyed Peas.

30:33.60
Chibbs
like, what? what That was, yeah, they said 50. 50.

30:36.71
Bevo
Let me tell you, me me and some mates did like some Beatles covers over COVID just for fun. And we did the song Because, which is famously three part harmony, triple tracked.

30:42.27
Chibbs
Yeah.

30:48.41
Bevo
that's nine voices.

30:48.98
Chibbs
Okay.

30:49.81
Bevo
And I did that and it distorted like crazy. It's nine.

30:54.20
Chibbs
It's diminishing returns after a certain amount of layers. Like, that's ridiculous.

30:59.01
Mad Dog
Yeah, it's enough already.

31:00.27
Chibbs
Yeah.

31:00.26
Bevo
You'd have to turn them down so much.

31:00.45
Mad Dog
Yeah.

31:02.41
Chibbs
So much. They'd hardly be there at all. Yeah.

31:04.61
Bevo
Daddy.

31:05.13
Chibbs
Why you would say that's even a thing to do it. But yeah, this is kind of cool though. He left um intentional vocal imperfections in so that it sounded more raw and emotional, which it does.

31:18.51
Chibbs
It doesn't sound like a real typical major label pop release.

31:20.89
Mad Dog
Yeah.

31:24.61
Bevo
Yeah, nothing that's like ear turning, but.

31:24.87
Chibbs
Yeah.

31:25.84
Mad Dog
yeah

31:28.34
Chibbs
No, no, it's not like I sung them wrong.

31:29.44
Bevo
can You can hear the emotion in it.

31:30.73
Chibbs
but I'm not in key.

31:32.25
Bevo
Yeah.

31:37.01
Chibbs
ah Not feeding them, singing out of key. um Yeah, but and I think that's definitely something that happened there. um Now, is there a video? Did you watch the video? Do you want me to do the video?

31:50.96
Bevo
I wanted to talk about the video. I didn't do a like a summary as per, but you can still play the stinger.

31:56.94
Chibbs
Well, let's go.

32:12.32
Bevo
Actually, I've got Miles here and he loves this song, so i'm going to talk to him. What do you think about Benson Boone, Beautiful Things?

32:20.05
Bevo
You've got to talk. I don't like it. Good stuff.

32:25.41
Mad Dog
Nice. Okay.

32:26.28
Chibbs
There you go, yeah.

32:26.35
Bevo
All right. Off you go.

32:27.74
Mad Dog
Very good.

32:28.94
Chibbs
I'd give that. That's the most insightful um like commentary we've had so far.

32:35.50
Bevo
Yeah. um So what have you got for the video?

32:39.42
Chibbs
Oh, ah he looks like he's in some sort of Mormon heaven and he's screaming at the sky.

32:48.41
Bevo
I just, so the the gist of the video is they're getting up on top of a, a Mesa in the desert or a butte.

32:55.59
Chibbs
Oh,

32:56.32
Bevo
And, um, but the, the show that's spending a lot of time showing them carrying the stuff to the top.

33:04.83
Chibbs
ah fuck.

33:04.98
Bevo
And I just feel so bad for the drummer.

33:05.47
Chibbs
That'll be pain in the ass.

33:06.73
Bevo
Cause it's like, one guy's got a symbol. One guy's got a Tom, but it's like, this is going to be three trips.

33:12.41
Chibbs
Yeah, you're going to get back.

33:13.31
Bevo
Easily.

33:13.41
Chibbs
april pool Yeah, 100%.

33:14.60
Bevo
And then, and then there's like, he's got the microphone with the cable.

33:15.12
Chibbs
hundred percent

33:19.29
Bevo
It's like, where's the cable going? Did you bring a speaker not? And where's the speaker plugging in?

33:28.17
Chibbs
Yeah. And then it's like ah fact the roadie, he's got a generator on his back.

33:33.62
Bevo
yeah So the sound up there is like...

33:34.43
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. but but but bu but bu but but bu bu bu but

33:40.81
Bevo
um Also, this ah this is what I want to talk about is that the sound of this song is like a band song and the band playing looks like a band, but it just it's called Benson Boone.

33:48.92
Mad Dog
Yep. Mm-hmm.

33:50.97
Chibbs
yeah

33:54.49
Bevo
And it's such a product of this this era.

33:54.83
Chibbs
Yeah.

33:56.49
Bevo
It's like, this should be a band.

33:58.57
Chibbs
should be a band, but it's not a band, because bands don't sell.

34:00.35
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, yeah.

34:03.24
Chibbs
Yep, 100%.

34:03.37
Mad Dog
yep

34:04.01
Bevo
And everything about it is banned except for the name Benson Boone.

34:09.25
Chibbs
Although Benson Boone could be the name of a band.

34:11.94
Bevo
Totally. Yeah.

34:13.16
Chibbs
Yeah.

34:13.40
Bevo
Yogi Bear and Benson Boone.

34:15.33
Chibbs
Yeah. It's directed by Gilbert Trejo, who is the son of duny Danny Trejo. You know the actor, Danny Trejo?

34:20.94
Bevo
Hmm. Yeah.

34:22.61
Mad Dog
Oh

34:22.93
Chibbs
Yeah, he's like It's like, get me a mean-looking Mexican. All right, I'll get Denny Trey on.

34:28.72
Mad Dog
yeah.

34:30.77
Chibbs
Yeah. um It is shot in Utah. There you

34:36.58
Mad Dog
It did look like that.

34:37.62
Chibbs
So Mormon heaven.

34:38.04
Bevo
Yeah, well, that's where you get your Mises.

34:43.06
Chibbs
That's where you get him.

34:44.27
Mad Dog
That's where you get your beauts.

34:44.40
Bevo
Yeah.

34:45.06
Chibbs
Yeah. Do you have a Boone set list, Memo? Oh!

34:48.45
Bevo
I do. Play the

34:57.21
Bevo
All righty. July 18th, 2025, at the Hippodrome de Longchamp, Paris, France. Paris.

35:03.81
Chibbs
wondering if LaFrance, Jacko LaFrance, he lives there.

35:05.79
Mad Dog
shit Jacko.

35:07.15
Bevo
he yeah He was just hanging out there.

35:07.67
Mad Dog
Yeah.

35:08.95
Bevo
Just typical. 13 songs, no encores. It's just a straight up 13 song set.

35:15.27
Chibbs
Love that. Love it.

35:16.98
Bevo
Yeah. Where would you play Beautiful Thangs?

35:22.70
Chibbs
Last.

35:23.75
Mad Dog
Yeah, I'm going, oh, shit. Just to be different.

35:25.84
Bevo
You can say last. Let's just say last. You can do it.

35:27.74
Mad Dog
Oh, okay. Last.

35:29.85
Bevo
if you If you feel it in your heart to say last, then I'm not going to hold it against you. Because he does play it last. You're right.

35:36.55
Mad Dog
Yeah. I was going to go second last, but I knew it was last.

35:37.68
Chibbs
Yeah.

35:40.35
Chibbs
Yeah, how would it not be?

35:40.48
Bevo
On you in my heart.

35:42.26
Mad Dog
Yeah.

35:42.47
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

35:44.03
Bevo
yeah

35:44.14
Mad Dog
Yeah.

35:44.73
Bevo
Cool.

35:44.89
Chibbs
Last.

35:45.04
Mad Dog
Yeah.

35:45.39
Chibbs
What else would you fucking

35:45.72
Bevo
Yeah.

35:47.75
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Um... Well, that was easy.

35:56.95
Chibbs
It debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. It's his highest US chart position. Number one in the UK, Ireland, Norway, and New Zealand. They fucking love it in Scandinavia.

36:08.70
Chibbs
Certified platinum in the US, UK, and several European countries within months. And it became one of the most streamed songs globally of 2024. Yeah.

36:18.44
Bevo
Yeah, it's hard to avoid this one. Just a quick YouTube comment here. He is the new Bruce Springsteen.

36:24.45
Chibbs
No, he's not.

36:25.48
Mad Dog
Jesus. That's not what I don't think so at all.

36:27.69
Bevo
and don't know about that don't agree with that.

36:28.01
Chibbs
No, he's not. so While we're talking legacy here, i think this is a good discussion to have where Benson Boone, we sort of spoke about this in our chat during the week, of saying how quick the rise and fall of a superstar is.

36:38.87
Bevo
Hmm.

36:44.02
Bevo
Well, he did, was it Lollapalooza? And he got up, Brian May got up on stage with him and he did Bohemian Rhapsody.

36:47.24
Chibbs
Yeah.

36:50.75
Chibbs
Yeah.

36:51.14
Bevo
And I don't think he killed it. It was like a riot.

36:52.56
Chibbs
Yeah.

36:54.75
Chibbs
It was fine.

36:55.02
Bevo
And um that's the last we've heard of Benson Boone, except for Dom Littrich doing the backflips on Instagram.

37:01.61
Chibbs
becoming more famous than Benson Boone.

37:03.72
Bevo
Yeah.

37:03.89
Chibbs
um The thing is, like, he released a new album not long ago, ah month ago, and he got panned.

37:09.27
Bevo
Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.

37:13.45
Chibbs
like Like, it did not receive a good review from anyone.

37:17.64
Bevo
Yeah, right.

37:18.22
Chibbs
They went, this is absolute trash.

37:18.62
Bevo
Interesting.

37:20.50
Chibbs
trash

37:21.25
Bevo
I miss that.

37:21.31
Chibbs
absolute trash

37:22.35
Mad Dog
Trash.

37:23.95
Chibbs
And ah don't even think the album that it this song's on was reviewed well, but this was a popular song. And so he's sort of like a one-hit wonder that got this gimmick thing of wearing a jumpsuit and doing a backflip at the Grammys and playing Lollapalooza.

37:41.27
Bevo
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like the like the like the label put ah too much money in it to it to like bow out. So they just got to see it through.

37:56.58
Chibbs
The what?

37:57.85
Bevo
ah So I think I just cut out you there.

38:01.31
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You cut it out for a sec.

38:03.27
Bevo
Yeah, was saying the label put too much money into it to like back out now. So they just got to see it through.

38:08.12
Chibbs
Yeah.

38:18.35
Chibbs
Yeah, 100%. They're like, we've already done we've already paid for the Grammy spot. We've paid for this spot at the festival, this and this and this.

38:25.96
Mad Dog
yeah

38:26.41
Chibbs
But the the albums are paying. The albums are no good. I don't think he's got the goods to back any of it up. And I don't think we'll hear from him ever again. so it's a good time to do Benson Boone because I think he's done.

38:38.57
Mad Dog
Oh, you reckon?

38:39.31
Chibbs
Yeah.

38:39.34
Bevo
I don't know.

38:39.89
Mad Dog
Yeah.

38:40.05
Bevo
we'll We'll see. we'll see

38:41.35
Chibbs
He's done. He's done. We're done here.

38:46.09
Mad Dog
That's enough already.

38:46.89
Chibbs
Yeah, but let's find out if he can live for the rest of his life.

38:47.40
Mad Dog
Yeah.

39:00.77
Chibbs
What do you think Benson Boone is worth in 2025, Okay, Bevo? Bevo?

39:05.77
Mad Dog
Jesus, it's so hard, eh?

39:11.15
Mad Dog
Five mil?

39:12.47
Chibbs
okay be

39:14.07
Bevo
Say eight.

39:16.10
Chibbs
Five. Doggy's got it.

39:17.30
Mad Dog
Yes.

39:17.37
Bevo
Oh, nice. Well done.

39:18.91
Chibbs
Fucking dead on.

39:19.26
Mad Dog
Nice.

39:20.33
Chibbs
Dead on. Dead on.

39:20.72
Mad Dog
All right. I'm starting go all right with this.

39:22.32
Bevo
He's starting to hone in, hey.

39:23.50
Mad Dog
Yeah.

39:24.11
Chibbs
He really is, isn't he?

39:24.40
Mad Dog
Yeah.

39:25.39
Chibbs
Yeah. um So he should be all right.

39:26.94
Mad Dog
Yeah.

39:27.31
Chibbs
Fuck. Like, he's not going to make any more money, but.

39:29.04
Bevo
You start walking down the street, you're like 200,000, three mil.

39:32.45
Chibbs
yeah

39:33.05
Mad Dog
yeah

39:33.65
Bevo
just You just know.

39:35.47
Chibbs
Just no. Yeah, I don't think he's going to make any more money. So hopefully you can invest that properly and, you know, sort of live off it comfortably enough.

39:44.75
Mad Dog
is done.

39:45.78
Chibbs
He's done. He's done. Let's write this shit.

40:00.45
Chibbs
Are we going to write it out of like...

40:05.61
Bevo
Beautiful things.

40:05.77
Chibbs
how many if you

40:06.29
Bevo
Yeah.

40:06.58
Chibbs
How many beautiful things were stolen? so

40:08.76
Mad Dog
yeah yes

40:10.36
Bevo
Yeah.

40:11.00
Chibbs
yeah he He only had 10 things that he was worried about and they were all stolen.

40:15.50
Bevo
Yeah.

40:17.17
Mad Dog
which is horrible yeah

40:18.35
Chibbs
Horrible. So that's 10.

40:19.39
Bevo
yeah

40:20.93
Chibbs
Everything is stolen and you die. One thing's stolen. You can live with nine things. Nine of your beautiful things is enough to keep you going. What do you give this out of 10, Bevo?

40:32.68
Chibbs
but

40:33.96
Bevo
I think this is a pretty decent one-hi one hit wonder, as you said. and Time will tell if he he backs it up.

40:40.39
Chibbs
He won't.

40:40.59
Bevo
Like I said, ah feel like this should have been a band.

40:44.22
Chibbs
Yeah.

40:44.51
Bevo
the thing I think the thing that doesn't get me about Benson Boone is that there's nothing about him that makes him stand out from anything else.

40:54.09
Chibbs
He tried a jumpsuit. He tried it.

40:55.99
Bevo
Yeah, the backflips. I want to hear the music. I want something musical that keeps me coming back to Benson, but it's just it's it's a bit generic.

41:02.52
Chibbs
Yeah.

41:05.52
Bevo
But this song's pretty good and I like it, so I'm going to say like three out of ten.

41:11.10
Chibbs
Yeah, okay. Fair enough. Doggy?

41:14.64
Mad Dog
ah Yeah. I hear it pretty often these days being in the wedding game.

41:21.13
Bevo
ah yeah.

41:22.45
Chibbs
Is this a wedding song?

41:22.41
Bevo
Does it go off?

41:23.29
Chibbs
Is this a wedding song?

41:25.04
Mad Dog
Yeah, people like um First Dance kind of thing.

41:28.54
Chibbs
Really? Fuck, it's about someone who kind of likes something, but not as much as his possessions.

41:29.23
Bevo
rud First dance.

41:29.58
Mad Dog
Yeah.

41:36.49
Mad Dog
ah just Yeah. Just, you know, it's it's not unheard of, so it's the worst for any songs.

41:39.58
Bevo
Yeah, there's worse wedding songs, isn't there?

41:41.84
Chibbs
With or without you is always a good one. Yeah. Yeah.

41:44.64
Bevo
Every breath you take. yeah

41:46.04
Chibbs
yeah

41:46.79
Mad Dog
um so But, yeah, I'm similar to Bevo. I kind of like it. um But not, you know, not really interested in any Boone follow-ups.

41:59.15
Mad Dog
But I appreciate this for what it is. Yeah, give us a two.

42:01.45
Chibbs
yeah

42:04.89
Chibbs
Yeah. I'm the same. Fuck. ah Give me a one-hit wonder from time to time, especially if it's got instruments on it. Fucking bring bring that on.

42:12.47
Bevo
Yeah, it's like it's a rock song, really, isn't it?

42:14.45
Chibbs
Yeah, know.

42:14.67
Mad Dog
Yeah.

42:15.14
Chibbs
It's just like, fuck, yeah. remember when first heard I'm like, fuck, this is – they're instruments. There's people playing this.

42:21.02
Bevo
that?

42:21.16
Chibbs
Holy shit.

42:22.20
Bevo
No.

42:23.20
Chibbs
It's rocking. And they're fucking rocking out.

42:24.76
Bevo
Is this rock and or Yeah.

42:25.27
Chibbs
And and he's he's yelling. And I'm like, hell yeah, let's do it.

42:29.27
Bevo
yeah

42:29.41
Chibbs
And then I've also been like, I'm also not interested in hearing anything else you have to do.

42:34.13
Mad Dog
Yeah, this is it.

42:34.49
Chibbs
So this is really a one-hit wonder. And I give it a one. I think it's fucking great.

42:38.55
Bevo
Nice.

42:38.69
Mad Dog
Yeah, nice.

42:38.91
Bevo
Yeah.

42:39.29
Chibbs
Yeah.

42:39.59
Bevo
So I want to hear what makes you distinctive Benson.

42:39.73
Mad Dog
Okay. I

42:41.90
Bevo
And so far this is, yeah,

42:43.75
Chibbs
Yeah. You let him Bevo down. Yeah.

42:46.74
Bevo
let me, don't let me down.

42:46.99
Mad Dog
wonder what Gav would have given it. I'm assuming this is a one for Gav.

42:51.20
Chibbs
I don't think so. and I don't know. Gav could have gone completely opposite on this.

42:55.90
Mad Dog
Yeah.

42:56.32
Chibbs
I have no idea.

42:56.66
Bevo
I can't, I can't imagine Gavin not liking this, but

43:00.49
Chibbs
ah don't know. It's got to normally have someone getting stabbed or tied up or something in it before it really gets his juices flowing.

43:07.00
Bevo
wonder if he could respond to my message if I message him right now and say, that's all right.

43:11.70
Chibbs
but What do you give Ben some boons?

43:13.06
Mad Dog
What do you give Benson Boone? Yeah.

43:16.78
Bevo
That's all right.

43:17.14
Mad Dog
um

43:17.21
Bevo
We'll probably run out time before.

43:17.65
Mad Dog
He'll go low. He'll go low for sure.

43:20.64
Chibbs
Yeah, he will go there.

43:20.87
Bevo
and need both hands to type.

43:21.71
Mad Dog
Yeah.

43:21.91
Bevo
You guys keep talking. I'll see if I can get them in time.

43:25.08
Chibbs
Well, I don't have anything else to talk about.

43:26.69
Mad Dog
Yeah, I reckon that's the end of the episode.

43:29.55
Chibbs
No, really wanted to do it. I really wanted to finish it right now.

43:31.90
Mad Dog
Yeah.

43:32.62
Chibbs
Yeah. I mean, hey, I'm going to play.

43:34.00
Bevo
Well, countdown's on.

43:35.05
Chibbs
I'm going to say countdown is on. Countdown is on. um Thank you, fellas. Everybody else is going. Fuck yourself.

43:44.12
Bevo
Fuck your beautiful things.

43:46.11
Mad Dog
Yeah.

44:18.72
Chibbs
Gavin ran out of time. Fucking dickhead.

44:20.10
Bevo
Yep, too late.

44:20.49
Mad Dog
Yeah.

44:20.94
Bevo
Sorry.