Y.M.C.A. – The Dark Truth Behind The Village People Hit

Everyone knows the YMCA.
Few people have actually thought about it.

This week on 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die, we dive into one of the most recognisable songs ever written — and unpack what’s really going on beneath the disco surface.

We get into the story behind Village People, how the song came together, and why it became a global anthem despite never hitting #1 in the US.

Along the way, we break down the lyrics, the cultural impact, and the interpretations that have followed the song for decades.

And of course, we settle the only question that actually matters…
 Could you beat the Village People in a fight?

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00:00.50
Chibbs
the fuck was that?

00:43.58
Chibbs
Yeah, this is 1001 Songs That Make You Want to Die, the podcast we talk about songs so bad it makes you want to live in a one-room apartment with no furniture and a large bird that is constantly trying to escape.

00:57.75
gav
Nice.

00:59.16
Bevo
You just got to sidle out the door because it's always trying to get out the door.

01:02.55
gav
ah

01:03.90
Bevo
ah

01:04.91
Chibbs
It's just the mental image I have. That's funny. It's like i kind of depressing because...

01:07.24
Bevo
I just let the bird go. and well

01:09.18
Chibbs
Yeah, there's no furniture.

01:09.46
Bevo
Why are you letting, why are you keeping the bird?

01:11.08
Chibbs
So you're in a one room with a door and a large bird that desperately wants to get out.

01:15.19
gav
ah

01:17.11
Bevo
And like, you've just, you've just decided you're responsible for this bird, but like realistically let it go. it's fine.

01:23.29
Mad Dog
Yeah, it's...

01:23.62
gav
I like the implication that it doesn't have a cage either. It's just you and the bird in this fucking thing.

01:26.75
Mad Dog
Yeah.

01:26.76
Bevo
Yeah.

01:26.77
Chibbs
No, it doesn't have cage. It's in the room with you.

01:27.98
gav
It's just, yeah.

01:28.20
Bevo
I'm picturing Big Bird.

01:28.30
Mad Dog
It's frantically flapping around trying to...

01:29.24
Bevo
It's Big Bird from Sesame Street in the room with you.

01:30.58
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, that's it.

01:31.03
Mad Dog
Cassowary.

01:32.52
gav
it's I'll say it's an ostrich or something.

01:32.95
Chibbs
You got it.

01:34.68
gav
it's gonna A cassowary is going to gut you with a kick.

01:35.49
Chibbs
Yeah, you got it.

01:37.45
Mad Dog
Cassowary.

01:39.43
Bevo
It's disco month. again Once again, disco month.

01:42.50
Chibbs
It is Disco Month.

01:42.50
gav
Disco month.

01:44.13
Chibbs
It is Disco Month and you should be following us on all the socials to find out where we are.

01:44.42
gav
Disco month.

01:48.93
gav
Motherfucker.

01:49.59
Chibbs
It's Disco Month.

01:50.34
Bevo
What the fuck is going on?

01:50.87
Chibbs
Get us on our YouTube channel, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook threads and so on.

01:52.31
gav
yeah

01:58.14
gav
Yeah, if you're just listening to this, you can actually watch our our ah devilishly handsome faces on YouTube.

01:58.42
Bevo
Are we on Fred's?

02:04.78
gav
Every episode uploaded weekly.

02:05.59
Chibbs
Correct.

02:07.10
gav
Fantastic.

02:07.93
Chibbs
Weekly, that's it. Now, today's song...

02:09.02
gav
You get to see us all

02:09.10
Bevo
Should someone someone so get the dogs out so we're on feetfinder.com as well?

02:13.24
gav
Oh, can we do that? who's got their Who's got their dogs the closest?

02:15.17
Mad Dog
Ooh, dogs.

02:16.77
Chibbs
Take him for a walk.

02:17.66
gav
ah ah Yeah, i didn't I didn't enjoy that.

02:17.90
Bevo
I'm wearing shoes. I'm wearing shoes right now.

02:19.33
Mad Dog
Oh, look at this.

02:19.42
Chibbs
Oh, fuck. That was fucked.

02:21.11
Mad Dog
Oh, Jesus.

02:21.43
Bevo
Yeah.

02:22.03
Mad Dog
Jesus.

02:22.20
Chibbs
That was bad.

02:24.18
gav
I didn't enjoy that. Anyway, if that if that got you off, let me know in the comments.

02:26.67
Chibbs
Today's song came out in...

02:30.36
Chibbs
it Today's song came out in 1978. It was a massive hit for the village people from their album Cruisin'. The village people are best known for their flamboyant and problematic costumes.

02:38.51
gav
Cruising.

02:42.19
Chibbs
Today we are doing y m c a

03:08.92
Chibbs
Sure is. Sure is fun to stay at the YMCA. And you know what else they do at the YMCA, fellas?

03:12.89
Bevo
ah why

03:15.86
Bevo
I know nothing about the YMC. I'm excited to find out.

03:19.58
Chibbs
They fucking fight.

03:19.86
gav
What else did I do?

03:19.96
Mad Dog
Work out. They fucking fight.

03:22.65
gav
a

03:27.48
Chibbs
Okay.

03:28.24
Mad Dog
I have a feeling Bevo's up today.

03:28.43
Chibbs
Someone's fighting the village people. Okay.

03:30.58
Mad Dog
I have a feeling it's Bevo.

03:30.74
gav
No, Bevo was up last time.

03:32.63
Bevo
Can there be it can it be five of the same person versus the five village people?

03:32.98
gav
Wait. wait

03:37.43
Bevo
Like a clone, five clones?

03:38.06
gav
No, it's...

03:39.02
Chibbs
No, no, no, no. God, no. No, no. Jesus.

03:41.23
Mad Dog
you're taking on the whole gang?

03:41.54
Chibbs
No.

03:41.58
gav
It's a one-on. Yeah.

03:43.45
Bevo
Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

03:44.63
Chibbs
Yeah, 100%.

03:45.09
Bevo
It'd be funny if there was like five of you, one of the, one of you is an Indian, one of you is a cop.

03:45.37
gav
I feel like...

03:45.63
Chibbs
One man versus village people.

03:50.14
Bevo
but

03:51.27
gav
Oh, Yeah, think... right? Yeah, that

03:53.21
Mad Dog
I reckon you should be able to choose which character. Yeah.

03:58.90
Chibbs
No, this is a brawl against all of the village people.

03:59.10
Mad Dog
Anyway.

04:01.72
Bevo
Luck of the draw.

04:05.02
Chibbs
That's what it is.

04:07.48
Bevo
Maybe you can choose your occupation that they haven't chosen to be in the fight.

04:13.50
Chibbs
All right, let's we're spinning the fight wheel. Let's go. spin spin spin spin spin Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin. I am fighting the village people.

04:21.08
gav
Yes!

04:21.50
Bevo
a

04:21.82
Mad Dog
Yes.

04:22.38
Bevo
Ah, good luck.

04:23.80
gav
And you, what will you what what will you, what will you be dressed as?

04:24.00
Bevo
What, what occupation do you have?

04:30.39
Mad Dog
A boxer.

04:30.99
Chibbs
Let's go. Huh? A boxer.

04:32.52
gav
profession is Stalin! Ha!

04:33.48
Chibbs
Yeah.

04:33.85
Bevo
and accident Is there an army guy or something? I think there is an army guy.

04:37.77
Chibbs
I think there's definitely a Navy guy. Yeah.

04:40.63
Mad Dog
Yeah.

04:40.82
Bevo
and Hence the song.

04:41.43
Chibbs
um I'm going to go Stalin.

04:41.76
Mad Dog
Yeah.

04:43.66
Chibbs
Yeah.

04:46.07
Bevo
An occupation.

04:46.17
gav
ah

04:47.16
Bevo
Yeah.

04:47.22
gav
my profession is stalin

04:47.26
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

04:49.23
Mad Dog
Yeah, communist dictator.

04:49.56
Chibbs
ah yeah

04:52.28
Mad Dog
ah study That's a four-year degree.

04:54.26
gav
Oh my God, that is so fucking funny.

04:54.84
Mad Dog
Yeah.

04:55.58
Chibbs
yeah

04:57.06
gav
I actually love the idea of dressing up as Stalin for it.

04:57.24
Chibbs
yeah

05:00.03
gav
Because obviously it's like people have dressed up as Hitler. that that That's a really like really overdone thing in the 2000s.

05:06.62
Chibbs
You don't see people getting cancelled for Stalin impersonations, do you?

05:09.44
gav
That's what I mean. Stalin people would be like, oh fuck, it it's borderline, but what can you do about it? It's like, that's no one's going to hit...

05:16.25
Mad Dog
I wouldn't mind chucking a Pol Pot or a Chairman Mao in there.

05:20.41
gav
I do still...

05:20.76
Mad Dog
Maybe.

05:22.07
gav
like I wear my Pol Pot shirt regularly, but every now and then i realize I'm about to leave the house wearing it. I really have to stop and think about where I'm going and what I'm doing. And if I'm like if i'm hitting a Macca's drive-thru or something, I'm like, yeah, fair game.

05:33.32
gav
Pol Pot can ride. um But if i'm like you know if i'm if i'm swinging if I'm swinging down to like the medical center or something or, like I don't know, going somewhere, if I've got to like go to a pharmacy or something, I'm like, nah.

05:42.59
Bevo
Don't go to the medical center.

05:46.54
gav
I don't know. through the mall with it on, I'm just like...

05:47.38
Bevo
Civilization.

05:49.70
Mad Dog
pharmacy

05:50.87
gav
You got to pick your battles on that shirt.

05:54.88
Mad Dog
okay

05:55.13
gav
Oh, wait.

05:55.38
Chibbs
i'm I'm not...

05:55.57
gav
Have we spoken about how handsome Saddam was?

05:56.38
Chibbs
ah

05:57.45
gav
Have we done this? Have we spoken about this?

05:59.16
Chibbs
Nah, we haven't.

05:59.38
Bevo
Okay, Gavin, let's go.

06:00.18
Chibbs
No. Yeah,

06:00.80
Bevo
Let's keep moving.

06:01.27
gav
No. So, fuck. Yeah, no, Bevo. We are moving in the direction of handsome young Saddam Hussein. Thank you.

06:07.86
Chibbs
he was striking.

06:08.42
gav
we've Yeah, we we we saw a video of him recently.

06:10.52
Chibbs
Man.

06:12.27
gav
I think, did you and me flick that one back and forth, Chibs?

06:13.11
Chibbs
Yeah. You said it to me.

06:14.35
gav
And it was just like, I sent it to Chibs.

06:15.13
Chibbs
You said it to me and just went, this is those tell this should be on a shirt.

06:16.32
gav
I sent it to Chibs. And it was just...

06:17.88
Bevo
Ever since Pornhub got banned in Australia, this is what's happening in the country.

06:20.66
gav
This, this if you if you thought you'd seen all the handsome dictators you could have seen, check this guy out.

06:25.53
Chibbs
Check out a young Sadam.

06:26.54
gav
I know that it that really grainy hanging footage of him didn't look very flattering, but you should have seen him in his younger day, man. He was a good looking guy.

06:34.30
Chibbs
Bevo does have a shirt of Sadam's last hiding spot.

06:35.25
gav
Oh,

06:38.46
Bevo
I think I kept that actually.

06:38.87
gav
it's a good shirt.

06:39.74
Bevo
It's survived a few culls, even though I've never worn it.

06:41.41
Chibbs
I hope you fucking kept it.

06:41.78
gav
ah

06:42.61
Bevo
Yeah.

06:42.97
gav
ah ah Is it the one with the outline of him where it's heaps janky?

06:47.19
Bevo
No, it's a crazy froggy in the bunker.

06:47.55
Chibbs
it's just a crazy frog sitting in his bunker.

06:49.18
Mad Dog
Actually, him in a hole.

06:50.10
Chibbs
it kind of Yeah.

06:50.30
Mad Dog
Yeah.

06:50.42
gav
Oh, okay. Yeah, nice. That's good. That's that's a quality shirt.

06:53.53
Chibbs
I'm not confident I can beat any of the village people, let alone all of them at the same time.

06:53.63
Bevo
They're pretty fit. They're pretty fit looking, aren't they?

06:57.61
Chibbs
Like,

06:57.88
gav
ah Yeah, no, it's it's it's not happening.

07:01.14
Chibbs
their cardio has got to be way better than mine. They're dancing, like, day and night.

07:04.96
Bevo
Yeah.

07:05.14
gav
They've got...

07:06.00
Bevo
Yeah.

07:06.51
Chibbs
Yeah.

07:07.06
Bevo
Some of them are shirtless.

07:07.27
gav
They've absolutely got that Coke strength too.

07:09.88
Chibbs
i um Oh, God, big time, big time.

07:09.94
Mad Dog
Yeah. Mad coat strength.

07:12.54
Bevo
Yeah.

07:13.24
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm going to die. the ah I don't know if I'm the first person.

07:17.90
gav
Oh, sorry. Six of them. There's six of it. Six on one.

07:21.05
Chibbs
i don't know if I'd be the first person in history to be killed by village people, but um I might be their last.

07:26.46
Bevo
Time will tell.

07:26.86
gav
fuck.

07:28.28
Chibbs
Yeah.

07:30.81
Chibbs
But, yeah, yeah.

07:31.26
gav
oh fuck

07:34.78
Chibbs
Yeah, okay.

07:35.57
Bevo
Good.

07:36.92
Chibbs
um Lyrics. Let's do the lyrics here. Verse one.

07:40.11
Mad Dog
Yeah.

07:41.27
Chibbs
Young man, there's no need to feel down. i said, young man pick yourself off the ground. I said, young man, because you're in a new town.

07:52.43
Chibbs
There's no need to be unhappy. Young man, there's a place you can go, I said. Young man, when you're short on your dough, you can stay there and I'm sure you will find many ways to have a good time.

08:10.84
gav
Okay.

08:12.12
Bevo
The mental image of this is like some bums just fucking sprawled out on the ground.

08:12.28
Mad Dog
All righty.

08:17.26
Bevo
He's walked up and he's gone.

08:17.69
gav
ah

08:19.19
Bevo
Let me tell you about this place you can go. Help him. Get him up at least.

08:24.25
Chibbs
Yeah. The

08:25.69
gav
I think that's exactly what's happened. Like, yeah, that's that that's it. um why ah So he's referring to going to the YMCA. do we Do we know what that stands for?

08:36.53
gav
Is anyone familiar with what...

08:36.82
Chibbs
the bio c i yeah the YMCA is the Young Men's Christian Association.

08:43.59
gav
Christian Association.

08:45.94
Chibbs
It's a worldwide organisation...

08:46.49
Bevo
I'll tell you what I associate Christians with.

08:46.52
gav
is this song?

08:49.60
Bevo
and It's not young.

08:50.10
Chibbs
Yeah, I know.

08:51.45
Bevo
Wait, it is young, man.

08:51.66
Chibbs
Worldwide organisation that aims to spread Christian values via the development of one's physical health. However, it has been alternately interpreted as a gay place to be for hookups.

09:04.62
gav
good, good.

09:05.56
Mad Dog
Gay.

09:06.81
gav
Yeah, I was like, i' i was unless I'd fully misinterpreted it I thought the song was about hooking up with with other with other men. But good to know that I was spot on with that.

09:16.97
gav
That's exactly what it's about.

09:17.56
Chibbs
yeah Yeah, that's right. But they do it in a Christian manner.

09:18.68
Bevo
I genuinely thought it was just like this nice PSA about somewhere to go.

09:24.79
gav
Yeah, it's somewhere to go if you want your dick sucked.

09:27.96
Bevo
okay

09:28.49
Chibbs
it's the I just thought, that yeah, I thought the YMCA, I've always thought it's like the PCYC, like it has basketball courts in there and ah a gym and a boxing ring.

09:34.81
Bevo
Yeah. Same, same, same.

09:36.15
Mad Dog
It is.

09:36.76
Bevo
Yeah.

09:37.94
gav
Yeah.

09:38.13
Chibbs
And that is pretty much what it is.

09:39.35
Mad Dog
It is, yeah.

09:39.69
Chibbs
But it also has to do with Christianity.

09:40.22
Bevo
Yeah.

09:42.62
Bevo
Yeah. it's like It'd be like us having, it's fun to stay at Wollongong Youth Centre.

09:43.48
Mad Dog
I didn't know about the Christian element of it.

09:47.67
Mad Dog
Yeah, yeah.

09:49.21
Chibbs
this

09:50.10
Mad Dog
Yeah, didn't know it had a Christian element to it because there you go.

09:50.74
Chibbs
Yeah, that's right.

09:53.30
Bevo
Yeah.

09:54.37
Mad Dog
Yeah.

09:54.58
Chibbs
No. It's written by French DJ Jacques Morali and Victor Edward Willis, who is the singer of The Village People.

10:02.71
Mad Dog
Is it?

10:03.97
Chibbs
Yeah.

10:04.66
gav
So I don't think it was. I think that the French fuck managed to sneak his name into the writing credits and steal a bunch of money off them.

10:12.44
Chibbs
no No, that's a separate that's a separate French fuck. so So, yeah, ja there was

10:16.30
gav
Oh, sorry. How many French fucks are involved in this song? I apologize for jumping in early.

10:21.34
Chibbs
yeah there was a DJ Jacques.

10:25.63
Mad Dog
Jack.

10:25.66
Chibbs
He had a business partner.

10:25.81
Mad Dog
Jack.

10:27.96
Chibbs
ah can't remember what his name was, something.

10:28.63
gav
okay.

10:28.90
Bevo
DJ Jacques.

10:29.05
gav
Okay. ah

10:32.15
Chibbs
That yeah originally got his name, originally got his name onto the songwriting credits and everything, but it wasn't until maybe 2015 or something.

10:33.14
Mad Dog
raise your

10:40.95
gav
Like recently, right?

10:41.96
Chibbs
There was a big lawsuit and he finally got his name, wiped off it and yeah.

10:42.07
gav
Yeah, yeah.

10:47.41
Chibbs
Yeah, he actually had nothing to do with it.

10:48.21
Bevo
Wow.

10:49.14
Chibbs
Just shenanigan seveny shenanigans,

10:49.30
Bevo
Still fighting over the YMCA.

10:49.34
gav
Yeah.

10:52.34
Chibbs
Yeah. ah Do you know how many members of the Village People they've been, if you had to guess?

10:58.07
gav
ah

10:59.90
Chibbs
Take a guess, take guess.

11:00.02
gav
Well, i split I saw just then there was six of them.

11:00.17
Mad Dog
24. Oh, close.

11:02.98
gav
So let's say that. Fuck. I'm going to bake dozen. Let's say 13 them.

11:08.50
Chibbs
Okay, what do you reckon, Benway?

11:08.52
Bevo
I'm going to say 20. Yeah, 20.

11:11.00
Chibbs
27 members.

11:12.06
Bevo
Wow.

11:12.06
gav
Holy shit.

11:12.25
Mad Dog
oh close

11:13.37
Chibbs
There has been 27 individual members of the Village People.

11:13.88
Bevo
How can you have, you mentioned briefly before, one of them is the lead singer. what ah What are the other guys doing?

11:18.94
Chibbs
Yeah. They go, young man!

11:21.50
gav
Dancing, I think. Wow.

11:23.06
Bevo
Dancing?

11:24.16
Chibbs
Yeah.

11:25.88
Bevo
They do the hands.

11:26.17
Chibbs
Yeah, it's all his.

11:26.93
Bevo
Yeah.

11:27.74
gav
ah

11:29.24
Chibbs
Well, the thing is, the lead singer, like he was only in it for a small period of time and he left for ages and then came back. fairly recently, after the lawsuit.

11:39.64
gav
well

11:40.41
Bevo
Donald Trump made it famous again.

11:40.89
Chibbs
Yeah.

11:42.71
Mad Dog
Recently,

11:42.83
Chibbs
Yeah, Trumpy brought it back. Yeah. Yeah, like, after the lawsuit in 2015, he rejoined the village people.

11:45.82
Mad Dog
like after 50 years.

11:49.91
Chibbs
Yeah.

11:50.67
gav
That's nuts.

11:51.13
Mad Dog
Yeah, right.

11:51.21
Bevo
It's time. He's just sitting at his desk.

11:52.44
Chibbs
Yeah.

11:52.60
gav
ah

11:52.81
Bevo
and He's like, it's time.

11:53.37
Mad Dog
Yeah.

11:56.28
Bevo
The people, the people need the village.

11:57.98
Mad Dog
yeah

11:58.78
gav
ah

11:58.90
Mad Dog
Puts the Indian headdress back on.

12:01.04
Bevo
Yeah.

12:03.19
gav
ah

12:03.32
Chibbs
The chorus goes, it's fun to stay at the YMCA. It's fun to stay at the YMCA. They have everything for young men to enjoy.

12:14.20
Chibbs
you can hang out with all the boys. It's fun to stay at the YMCA. It's fun to stay at the YMCA. You can get yourself clean. You can have a good meal.

12:24.79
Chibbs
You can do whatever you feel.

12:29.39
Mad Dog
It's not a place you can stay, is it?

12:29.48
Bevo
I feel like christian Christian values don't really um like to let you do whatever you feel.

12:29.66
gav
you can have it.

12:33.84
Chibbs
I didn't think you could live there.

12:36.02
Mad Dog
I thought it was just a gymnasium, really.

12:36.34
gav
Yeah.

12:38.90
Chibbs
Yeah, like what, they put the gym mats out at night and let you sleep?

12:42.36
gav
but Everyone has it a lock-in. They have a little lock-in. All the fellas having a kip on the floor of the YMCA.

12:49.69
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:51.18
gav
That's cute. um Yeah, I feel like

12:52.62
Bevo
I'm still, I'm still back on the the singer having the Indian headdress up on his wall and he just keeps looking at it.

12:57.78
Mad Dog
yes Yeah.

12:59.06
gav
a

12:59.13
Bevo
Not today.

13:00.08
Mad Dog
50 years.

13:00.44
Bevo
Not to today.

13:00.62
Chibbs
It's the biopic?

13:00.70
gav
Gets out of bed.

13:02.14
Bevo
Yeah.

13:02.49
gav
yeah

13:03.03
Chibbs
The Village People biopic.

13:03.22
Bevo
It's called, it's called, it takes a village.

13:03.35
gav
ah

13:03.48
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:05.50
Bevo
Yeah.

13:06.17
Chibbs
Yeah.

13:06.50
Bevo
Yeah.

13:07.04
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:07.14
Bevo
Piano single note.

13:08.06
Chibbs
yeah

13:08.06
gav
It takes a village, people.

13:08.22
Mad Dog
ah

13:10.84
Chibbs
You get those, I'll see I get AI to do it. You know, you get like those haunting slow versions of an upbeat song and they use them for that.

13:16.22
Bevo
Yeah. No.

13:16.82
gav
Yes.

13:18.44
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah. It's just like, boom it's fun to stay at the boom.

13:21.18
Bevo
Young man.

13:26.30
Chibbs
Why? Yeah.

13:30.94
Chibbs
yeah

13:31.77
gav
i Fuck AI. I'm going to cover that. That sounds dope.

13:34.81
Chibbs
ah

13:36.89
Bevo
i think I met that.

13:36.89
Chibbs
Get gothic country, YMCA.

13:37.45
Bevo
You know, you know how you our Trump, you know, Donald Trump loves playing this song at all these, um what you call rallies and shit?

13:39.42
gav
Gothic Country YMCA. Fuck yes.

13:45.53
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:47.66
Chibbs
There's just something hilarious about this coming on at those rallies.

13:47.77
Bevo
And if they ever do his,

13:48.09
Mad Dog
Rally.

13:50.84
Bevo
Yeah.

13:51.10
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:51.56
Bevo
it's But like, yeah, if he ever has like the biopic, it's going to be the piano the soft piano version of the YMCA over here.

13:51.60
Mad Dog
It's just

13:51.64
Chibbs
Yeah. yeah if

13:58.13
Bevo
I'm like, they all said I couldn't do it. Ding. Ding.

14:03.38
gav
maybe they'll Maybe they'll license my um gothic country version and and I'll make some fucking money.

14:04.09
Bevo
Young man.

14:08.73
Chibbs
Yeah, that's right. you Get into that. Verse two. Young man, are you listening to me? i said, young man, what do you want to be?

14:15.38
Bevo
i

14:18.68
Chibbs
i said, young man, you can make real your dreams. but you've But you've got to know this one thing. no man does it all by himself, I said.

14:31.77
Chibbs
Young man, put your pride on the shelf and just go there to the YMCA. I'm sure they can help you today.

14:42.39
gav
So I'm still picturing the...

14:42.42
Mad Dog
This escalated.

14:42.49
Chibbs
he really has found a bum.

14:44.44
gav
Yeah, that's what I'm still picturing the bum and he's just like...

14:45.96
Bevo
Yeah.

14:46.92
gav
He's grabbing by the scruff of his shirt on the ground.

14:47.18
Bevo
He's down in the ground.

14:48.72
gav
and Did you hear what I said?

14:51.02
Bevo
He's like fucking drugged out. Are you listening to me, certain

14:53.83
gav
God.

14:54.58
Chibbs
Yeah.

14:54.74
gav
He's like...

14:55.54
Chibbs
He's straight dead it's like, you know what you need?

14:55.83
gav
ah

14:57.66
Chibbs
Fucking dribble a basketball up and down a court.

15:01.85
gav
ah

15:02.84
Mad Dog
You can make world your dreams.

15:05.21
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

15:05.27
gav
oh my god he's like

15:06.25
Chibbs
Shoot a couple of free throws.

15:06.74
Bevo
Also, he's...

15:08.13
Chibbs
That'll get you off the crack.

15:08.15
gav
The last thing, the last person whose dreams need to be real is the junkie you fucking lady. It's suck my dreams are a huge pile of heroin.

15:14.48
Bevo
He's also being told by...

15:14.92
Chibbs
A junkie's dream is just more drugs.

15:15.48
Bevo
an

15:17.53
gav
Yeah.

15:17.88
Chibbs
Yeah.

15:18.09
gav
Oh, man.

15:19.46
Bevo
He's also being told off by the American Indian guy with no shirt on. Young man.

15:27.67
Chibbs
like, are you pretending to be a police officer?

15:27.70
gav
oh but

15:28.06
Bevo
what

15:33.10
Chibbs
You can't really arrest me.

15:35.54
Mad Dog
What's your name and badge number?

15:36.14
Chibbs
I like to think that he he has a ah fake cop car. Like he's fucking pulling people over and and just giving them absolute tirades about the YMCA.

15:40.66
gav
Wow. Yeah.

15:47.55
Chibbs
Yeah.

15:48.34
gav
ah

15:48.50
Chibbs
yes so ah it It actually, ah it's number it was number seven on VH1's list of 100 greatest dance songs of the 20th century.

15:59.86
Chibbs
Number seven.

16:01.34
Bevo
It's pretty catchy, you've got to admit.

16:02.62
Chibbs
Top ten.

16:02.86
Bevo
It's pretty good.

16:04.47
Chibbs
And in 2020, YBSA was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and selected, how's this, by the Library of Congress so ah for...

16:04.95
gav
yeah

16:15.20
gav
preservation in the fucking

16:15.53
Chibbs
For...

16:15.65
Bevo
It's significant, yeah.

16:16.82
Chibbs
Yeah, for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

16:24.89
Bevo
Well, how many other songs have that dance?

16:25.08
Chibbs
Yeah.

16:28.02
Bevo
Like spelling out the name of the song.

16:28.66
gav
hu none no other song no other song makes you spell out ymca

16:29.98
Bevo
It's pretty iconic.

16:30.57
Mad Dog
Really?

16:31.46
Bevo
Yeah. I showed my son this one. showed my son this one this afternoon because I was listening to it and he was doing the dance by the end of the song. He's five.

16:41.58
Mad Dog
Yeah.

16:41.59
Chibbs
He fucking just loved it.

16:42.90
Bevo
Iconic.

16:43.39
Chibbs
Loved it.

16:43.48
gav
So i I showed my two and a half year old and we me and Lauren were both doing YMCA and we're trying to get him to join in he was just yelling, no, I don't like that.

16:43.81
Bevo
Hmm.

16:51.32
gav
No.

16:52.66
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

16:53.78
gav
And we did it 16.

16:54.10
Chibbs
I'm straight. Straight as an arrow.

16:55.51
gav
ah You will be gay, son.

16:56.66
Chibbs
the Kinsey.

16:58.39
Bevo
Check the shirt.

16:59.26
gav
her

17:00.70
Chibbs
ah

17:00.86
Mad Dog
The Kinsey scale, put to the test.

17:00.89
Bevo
front

17:01.18
gav
No, no, no son of mine.

17:02.32
Bevo
Check the front of my shirt.

17:03.86
gav
No son of mine will be a one on the Kinsey scale.

17:07.13
Chibbs
off the off the kinsey

17:09.40
Mad Dog
Off.

17:12.70
Chibbs
ah

17:13.08
Mad Dog
The Kinsey scale.

17:13.56
gav
Oh my God.

17:13.73
Bevo
That's a good time to plug the shirts, actually, while we're here.

17:16.02
Chibbs
Yeah, that's a good idea.

17:16.50
gav
Oh yeah. Good shout.

17:17.34
Chibbs
yeah chuck Hit the link in all of our social buyers.

17:17.66
gav
Good shout.

17:20.28
Chibbs
Go to the merch store. Get yourself an off-the-kinsey-scale shirt or an I'm-between-sensei shirt. Another good one.

17:30.21
gav
Oh fuck.

17:31.16
Mad Dog
I'm between senseis.

17:31.67
Bevo
um yeah We might even why didn you come up with a shirt tonight.

17:31.93
gav
Oh, I'm between sets.

17:32.32
Mad Dog
Insane clown

17:33.51
gav
He's right. Yeah. Maybe, maybe that's a shirt.

17:35.19
Bevo
You never know.

17:35.38
Chibbs
You never know.

17:36.58
gav
Maybe that's a shirt.

17:38.88
Chibbs
I'm going to have to make one Uncle Famine.

17:39.04
Mad Dog
privilege.

17:41.51
Chibbs
He's going to have to be a shirt. That's going to have to be a shirt.

17:43.28
Mad Dog
Oh, shit.

17:43.47
Bevo
Yeah.

17:43.70
gav
That's so niche.

17:44.69
Bevo
Yeah.

17:44.98
gav
Fuck, that's niche.

17:46.06
Chibbs
There's also so Insane Clown privilege Privilege is on there.

17:48.85
gav
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's there.

17:49.18
Chibbs
That's sure it's on there.

17:49.94
Mad Dog
and saint clon privilege

17:50.20
Bevo
right yeah

17:50.37
gav
That's up there.

17:50.42
Chibbs
know that's it Yeah. Yeah. um

17:55.58
gav
maybe Maybe my s Saddam shirt.

17:55.74
Mad Dog
um shit

17:57.02
gav
I'll make my own little page off the side of our main page that'll be Gavin's shirt, so it'll just be Saddam.

18:01.82
Chibbs
if you say a yeah If you see If you see small square in the bottom bottom right-hand corner, click that.

18:03.06
Bevo
under the controversial tab.

18:03.21
gav
Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha.

18:09.80
Chibbs
It'll take you to the dark web.

18:11.87
Bevo
That's an Easter egg on the website.

18:12.07
gav
The dark web link.

18:12.50
Chibbs
That is a tall window and you can get Saddam or Pot T-shirt.

18:13.95
gav
Stalin.

18:14.17
Bevo
Yeah.

18:14.21
gav
Oh, fuck.

18:18.09
Chibbs
Verse 3 goes, young man, was once in your shoes,

18:20.50
Bevo
if you type If you type up, down, up, down, left, left, right, right, A, B, A, B, start, then you get the secret part of the website.

18:22.34
gav
olli ha ah little little little

18:29.47
Chibbs
I said.

18:31.54
gav
oh fuck

18:31.62
Chibbs
verseary he goes young man i was once in your shoes i said I was down and out with the blues. I felt no man cared if I were alive.

18:43.22
Chibbs
I felt the whole world was so jive. That's when someone came up to me and said, young man, take a walk up the street. It's a place they call the YMCA.

18:54.87
Chibbs
They can start you back on your way.

18:58.97
gav
god

18:59.42
Mad Dog
Okay.

19:00.25
Bevo
So he's just um it's just this long... Is it a Ponzi scheme? No, it can't be a Ponzi scheme.

19:06.44
Chibbs
No, well, yeah. all christian I think Christianity christianity is a Ponzi scheme, so yes.

19:07.74
Bevo
It's some kind of scheme. that

19:10.90
Mad Dog
a Ponzi scheme.

19:11.42
gav
ah That might be a shirt.

19:14.10
Chibbs
so

19:14.78
Bevo
Yeah, so you turn up to the wall

19:15.06
Mad Dog
but

19:16.09
gav
that's in my That's in my controversial tab. Yeah.

19:19.00
Bevo
you turn up to the Y and it's just like, now you have to get someone else in.

19:19.83
Chibbs
well

19:22.68
Bevo
You can't escape until you get someone else in.

19:23.70
gav
Yeah. you yeah

19:24.87
Bevo
Yeah.

19:26.41
Chibbs
It's the movie It Follows, but instead of someone coming to kill you, it's a village person getting you to sign up to a gym.

19:32.23
Bevo
It's a nice little basketball court.

19:33.43
Chibbs
Fucking hell. Another shirt. Another shirt. Yes.

19:37.94
gav
Oh my God.

19:39.48
Chibbs
fucking hell

19:39.57
gav
I like He's done it again.

19:39.61
Mad Dog
What Insane Clown Ponzi? It's

19:43.80
Chibbs
a ah another shirt

19:47.65
gav
He's fucking done it again.

19:48.18
Chibbs
another shirt yes

19:51.51
gav
is that why there's so many juggalos?

19:51.99
Mad Dog
so...

19:53.31
gav
Is that why there's so many fucking juggalos?

20:00.70
gav
ah ah It's just like a pyramid of juggalo masks. Is that the shirt?

20:10.82
Bevo
That's why you're here, Mad Dog. That's why.

20:12.76
gav
fuck.

20:13.88
Mad Dog
Every now and then.

20:14.30
gav
I was like, silent for 15 minutes, then drops absolute fucking fire.

20:18.98
Mad Dog
Jesus. Oh.

20:19.92
Chibbs
We're going to have a whole ICP range if we get a big lawsuit.

20:22.52
gav
oh no

20:26.69
Chibbs
It's just like, I am after some ICP merch.

20:27.22
Mad Dog
ah skin

20:29.33
Chibbs
What's this? but What's this?

20:33.83
Chibbs
It's like they've just replaced the word posse in all of these shirts with something else.

20:34.27
gav
Oh, fuck.

20:34.30
Mad Dog
on

20:37.11
gav
yeah

20:40.02
gav
Oh, man.

20:41.33
Chibbs
Yeah, YMCA...

20:41.37
gav
I like young man, I was once in your shoes. It kind of implies that kind of it sounds like he might have finally noticed that guy laying on the ground has stolen his shoes.

20:45.27
Bevo
you

20:50.42
gav
Like at some point.

20:50.61
Chibbs
Or he donated them to Goodwill years ago and went, hey, I so remember those.

20:52.89
gav
but Yeah. it's Hey, i was I was once in those shoes.

20:56.85
Chibbs
Yeah.

20:57.24
gav
Yeah.

20:57.91
Chibbs
and You've got my shoes. you Give me back my shoes, you bastard.

21:00.41
gav
Give me back my fuck and fuck off the YMCA in your bare feet.

21:05.30
Bevo
I also so like that he said, take a walk up the street.

21:06.04
Chibbs
It...

21:07.02
Bevo
So the YMCA is only up the road. He's just passed out a little too soon.

21:11.09
Chibbs
You can see it.

21:11.56
gav
shot up at the back

21:14.02
Chibbs
It's like, don't you think I would have gone to the fucking YMCA if I wanted to?

21:14.51
Bevo
I

21:16.52
gav
of the YMCA and then left.

21:17.42
Chibbs
do i can see it. I can see it from where I shot up.

21:19.47
Bevo
don't know.

21:21.08
gav
but

21:22.46
Mad Dog
Thank you.

21:23.74
gav
i stood up out the back of the w sea and then left

21:26.84
Chibbs
I stumbled here. This as far as I got, but I was there.

21:30.77
gav
Ha ha ha ha ha.

21:31.80
Chibbs
Yeah, I got fucked in the ass and I shot up and now I'm here.

21:34.49
gav
Ha ha ha ha ha.

21:39.91
Chibbs
YMCA, it's still one of the biggest hits, like, ever, ever.

21:49.35
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah. What?

21:50.39
Chibbs
And it was it topped, like, charts all over the world, but never in the US. it kept getting hit It kept getting stuck at number two because another song would come out, two songs that kept it off the number one um spot on Billboard,

21:58.15
Bevo
Hmm.

22:07.97
Bevo
78 is it?

22:09.91
Chibbs
Yeah, is that what I said?

22:11.42
Bevo
I think so. Sultan's a swing maybe?

22:12.69
Chibbs
I'd have to scroll up. We know how we feel about scrolling up. 78. It got held off the number one point by Rod Stewart's Do You Think I'm Sexy?

22:24.17
Bevo
Oh yeah.

22:24.60
Mad Dog
Oh, really?

22:25.62
Bevo
na na na na

22:26.07
Chibbs
And La Freak.

22:28.87
Mad Dog
Man,

22:29.14
Chibbs
Yeah.

22:29.73
Bevo
Left makes good.

22:30.23
Chibbs
Yeah. If you have to know the other than a

22:34.17
Mad Dog
you think I'm sexy?

22:34.20
gav
yeah

22:40.22
Chibbs
son. Let's do it.

22:40.28
Bevo
i Good.

22:42.17
Chibbs
um You know but um a song that I fucking really like? It's the it's by The Faces, which was Rod Stewart. Ooh La La by The Faces.

22:51.74
Bevo
Oh, that's great.

22:53.37
Chibbs
What a fucking good song that is.

22:53.75
Bevo
Yeah.

22:54.01
gav
How does it go? don't know if I know that one. I don't know if know

22:56.00
Bevo
Ichiku Park, I think it's called or something. Is like the subtitle, maybe?

22:59.48
Chibbs
What?

22:59.94
Bevo
Yeah.

23:00.60
Chibbs
I don't know. Yeah, possibly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

23:03.87
gav
it.

23:03.90
Bevo
Yeah.

23:04.01
gav
I'll have check. drop drop Drop the link.

23:04.40
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:05.19
gav
Drop the link. I'll check it out.

23:06.06
Chibbs
Hey, it might be a live. Might be a live.

23:07.91
Bevo
Oh no, sorry, that's a different song.

23:08.18
gav
Ooh, all right, I'll keep an eye.

23:10.24
Chibbs
It's that good.

23:10.28
Bevo
It's a great song, yeah.

23:11.86
Chibbs
Yeah. ah Upon the song's release, the YMCA threatened to sue the band over trademark infringement, but ultimately settled with the composers out of court.

23:17.02
gav
ah

23:21.94
Chibbs
So still was like, I want some money though for that, but then later expressed pride.

23:24.81
gav
Pissed off about it, yeah.

23:26.49
Bevo
This is the best advertisement for the YMCA of all time.

23:28.47
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:29.75
gav
Yeah, what the fuck?

23:29.85
Chibbs
yeah like Now they express pride in regarding the song's purpose as a tribute to the organisation. It's like, do you think anyone would fucking know about the, what was it?

23:40.42
Chibbs
Youth Men Christian Association?

23:41.50
Mad Dog
Young men's Christian...

23:42.65
Bevo
she was like Yeah.

23:43.35
gav
Yeah, fuck.

23:43.67
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:44.15
gav
This is absolute.

23:44.82
Bevo
It'd be like putting out a song.

23:45.07
gav
That was.

23:45.98
Bevo
It'd be like putting out a song going, it's fun to eat some McDonald's.

23:50.39
Chibbs
ah

23:51.64
Bevo
And then McDonald's be like, no, fuck that.

23:51.86
Chibbs
And them suing you.

23:54.10
gav
I have that song.

23:54.30
Bevo
We don't want people to know McDonald's.

23:54.49
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:55.67
gav
Oh, man.

23:57.80
Bevo
Yeah.

24:02.28
Chibbs
The post-chorus goes, YMCA, it's fun to stay at the YMCA. Young man, young man, there's no need to feel down. Young man, young man, get yourself off the ground. There you go.

24:13.59
Chibbs
Still on the ground.

24:13.98
Mad Dog
Not too much content.

24:14.00
gav
Yeah. Nice.

24:15.55
Chibbs
He's still on the ground.

24:15.70
Mad Dog
Yeah.

24:16.09
gav
Sorry.

24:16.15
Chibbs
oh the ah Yeah, they're great.

24:16.41
gav
That just reminded me, I could i forgot the, um you know, there's a band called the postal service. Do you know this story? the

24:22.87
Bevo
Yeah.

24:22.91
Chibbs
Yeah, dude from Death Cab.

24:23.61
gav
Yeah.

24:23.67
Bevo
Familiar.

24:24.09
Chibbs
Yes!

24:24.73
gav
Yeah. Yeah. um They got sued by the postal service in the U S and, and it was like a big deal.

24:25.91
Mad Dog
Oh.

24:28.92
Bevo
Oh, right.

24:29.02
Chibbs
Yes!

24:31.29
Mad Dog
Mad.

24:31.45
gav
They were like, you can't just have our fucking name. And they were like, come on, man, just the postal service. And it was like a bit of a thing. And they, they settled.

24:37.77
Mad Dog
The federal government suing...

24:39.74
gav
va

24:40.10
Chibbs
Yeah.

24:40.73
gav
They settled the case by saying, if the Postal Service agree to come and play the Postal Service's Christmas party, we'll drop the suit.

24:47.74
Bevo
ah

24:48.38
Mad Dog
Really?

24:48.47
Bevo
yeah It's so wholesome.

24:48.57
Chibbs
but

24:49.79
gav
Yep. And then the po the Postal Service went and played for the Postal Service.

24:50.84
Chibbs
yeah

24:54.62
gav
and And they were like, yay, good job.

24:55.85
Bevo
Nice.

24:57.26
gav
And that was that. They dropped the suit. It was all good.

24:58.63
Bevo
Got the suit.

24:58.94
Mad Dog
That is the most American thing I've ever heard.

24:58.97
gav
End of the performance.

25:01.42
Mad Dog
Just like straight to litigation and it ends then it just ends up with like, you know what?

25:04.37
Bevo
Yeah.

25:04.44
Chibbs
yeah

25:06.23
Bevo
Happy ending.

25:07.90
gav
into the performance

25:09.14
Mad Dog
Come to the Christmas party and we'll call it square. Yeah.

25:12.33
Bevo
Yeah.

25:13.50
Mad Dog
Drop the lawsuit.

25:13.53
Chibbs
So i the way I got introduced to the postal service, when I had a recording studio, this band came in and they were um they they recorded three songs and two of the songs were fucking terrible.

25:27.70
Chibbs
Terrible. And then they had this third song that I'm like, that is unbelievable.

25:29.23
gav
Maven, shame.

25:34.17
Chibbs
That song is a fucking hit. That's what that is. They never told me it was a fucking cover. Like they never told me that's a...

25:39.32
Bevo
ah

25:39.80
gav
Oh, No.

25:39.96
Bevo
that

25:41.21
Chibbs
Yeah, and um the district sleeps alone or whatever.

25:41.42
gav
nay

25:44.73
gav
Oh, the district sleeps alone tonight. Fucking hell. That song is brilliant.

25:47.22
Chibbs
Okay, so like, ah yeah, and I'd never heard of the Postal Service at all and they did a cover of that and I'm like, that song's unreal.

25:48.60
gav
ah

25:51.42
gav
Yeah.

25:55.41
Chibbs
Like, just fucking release that.

25:56.31
gav
I was the one not leaving.

25:56.85
Chibbs
The other two aren't good. That one's very good.

25:58.70
gav
Fuck.

25:59.29
Chibbs
And and they I don't know if it's because I was sort of saying how good that one was and compared to the other one.

25:59.38
gav
Yeah.

26:04.21
Chibbs
They never told me it was fucking cover. It was years later that I heard the Postal Service and went,

26:06.48
gav
That's so funny.

26:10.01
Chibbs
that was a fucking cover. Those cunts.

26:11.93
gav
That's so funny.

26:12.06
Mad Dog
ah

26:12.29
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

26:12.76
Bevo
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

26:14.14
Chibbs
Yeah.

26:14.86
gav
That's so fucking funny.

26:15.29
Mad Dog
They let you they let you think

26:16.50
gav
um

26:17.71
Chibbs
They let me think it was theirs.

26:17.88
gav
What's that? Is that what that song's called even?

26:18.94
Chibbs
Yeah.

26:19.96
gav
i can't remember. Anyway, oh good that's a fucking good song.

26:22.55
Chibbs
on September 1991. 1991.

26:27.19
Bevo
e

26:28.70
Chibbs
They performed in front of people in Sydney, Australia as part of the pre-game entertainment for the NRL grand final.

26:43.74
Bevo
Nothing says and NRL like the village people.

26:45.82
Chibbs
NRL grand final pregame, village people doing YMCA.

26:48.15
Bevo
that Well, with members, they probably

26:51.48
gav
That's...

26:51.58
Chibbs
Yep.

26:52.56
gav
That's a wild choice. I mean, sick, but also wild choice.

26:57.94
Chibbs
Yeah, well, so you could have honestly got a village people tribute act and just be like, yeah, it's coming at you.

27:02.97
gav
Yeah, for the... Yeah. I mean, especially we're talking 91, like these days, like 30, fuck, whatever it is, 34 years later.

27:06.12
Chibbs
I don't, I,

27:12.51
Chibbs
Yeah.

27:12.69
gav
that's a that like That's a big show now. But early 90s NRL was not like, that that is not the world stage.

27:17.79
Chibbs
Sure, I'm sure. but I mean, and that's Winfield. Is that Winfield ads in the in the trial line?

27:23.48
gav
It would have made fucking straight up ah hundred percent hundred percent bunnies would have been fucking sponsored by Smith's Crisps, I'm pretty sure at that point in time.

27:26.71
Chibbs
Yeah.

27:32.23
Bevo
Thank you.

27:33.02
gav
Or like,

27:33.36
Chibbs
There you go.

27:34.52
gav
Like, it's so fun looking back at the vintage jerseys because you realize how low stakes all the sponsors were. It's like that will be sponsored by a specific milk brand and shit.

27:45.56
gav
And it's just like, fuck, man.

27:45.66
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

27:47.16
gav
The NRL used to be fuck all, eh? Like, for years it was fuck all. Now it's like massive.

27:53.91
Chibbs
Now it's just, it's run by gambling companies. um In 1985, two months before Mikhail Gorbachev became premier, it's the Soviet...

27:57.30
gav
Yeah, that's exactly it.

28:04.53
Mad Dog
Gorbachev.

28:06.31
Bevo
Yes.

28:06.38
gav
Alright.

28:07.75
Mad Dog
Gorbachev.

28:07.91
Chibbs
the soap The Soviet Communist Party's youth wing distributed a secret blacklist of artists and songs to bureaucrats. The list included, among many others, the village people, as their songs were considered ideologically harmful.

28:22.84
Chibbs
This list categorised the village people's music as violent.

28:29.53
Bevo
ah yes

28:33.59
Bevo
violent fancy turning your life around

28:34.74
gav
This the least violent song I may have ever heard.

28:35.38
Chibbs
Yeah. To be fair, though, it is about it is about a Christian organisation and the Soviets were not fond of organised religion.

28:45.27
gav
mean, fair.

28:47.38
Mad Dog
Very true.

28:47.54
gav
Yeah.

28:48.70
Chibbs
Yeah?

28:48.71
gav
That'll do it. Yep. Yep.

28:51.71
Chibbs
I think all the lyrics.

28:53.43
gav
Yeah, that's the size of it.

28:53.46
Bevo
that is all lyrics

28:54.71
gav
That outro's a doozy.

28:55.52
Chibbs
Oh,

29:00.28
Chibbs
Worst lyric.

29:00.34
gav
Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.

29:02.15
Chibbs
Nominate the worst lyric from YMCA. um And let's see if we can actually agree on it. Now, there was one here that was just worded like Yoda, and I'm trying to find...

29:14.90
Mad Dog
yes Yeah.

29:14.90
gav
ah The one about dreams.

29:15.03
Bevo
ah yeah yeah yeah yeah but Yeah.

29:16.08
gav
The one about dream make real your dreams.

29:17.52
Mad Dog
You can make real your dreams.

29:20.12
Chibbs
Yeah, is that the one?

29:21.50
gav
ah That's 100% the one.

29:22.26
Chibbs
Like, is that the worst fucking lyric in this song? Where is it?

29:25.25
Bevo
I've been scanning this thing the whole time trying to find another lyric, but.

29:25.71
Chibbs
Why can't I find it?

29:25.85
gav
i I will say I have another contender.

29:27.61
Chibbs
Young man, you can make real your dreams.

29:32.02
gav
i Look, i fully expect that i will you know relent because this isn't as bad, but I do think that the whole like, there's no need to feel down, pick yourself off the ground, there's no need to be unhappy, has very much overtones of like, have have you just tried not being depressed?

29:51.13
Bevo
yeah not Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just try smiling a bit more.

29:52.71
gav
It's just like...

29:52.92
Mad Dog
Yeah.

29:54.55
gav
so Some cunts in the gut having the worst day of his life.

29:55.10
Chibbs
Maybe if you smiled once in a while. so

29:57.87
gav
That's what I mean. Some cunts in the gut are having the worst day of his life and these big grinning Christians just like, just be happy, a no need to be unhappy.

30:03.70
Bevo
Yeah, yeah. There's no need. There's no need to be unhappy. It's like, you don't know.

30:07.61
Mad Dog
Yeah.

30:07.81
gav
Like, oh, thanks.

30:07.91
Bevo
Shit.

30:08.50
Mad Dog
I don't know you from a bar of soap.

30:09.85
gav
Thanks, pal. Suddenly I'm so fucking happy.

30:11.74
Mad Dog
Yeah.

30:12.15
Chibbs
Thank you, American Indian.

30:13.61
gav
Yeah. Yeah.

30:14.58
Mad Dog
Yeah.

30:14.84
Chibbs
yeah

30:15.77
gav
ah

30:17.11
Chibbs
Thank you, Navy officer.

30:17.56
gav
yeah

30:19.00
Mad Dog
Thanks, Chief.

30:19.45
gav
ah

30:21.12
Mad Dog
Yeah.

30:23.26
gav
Oh my God. um So yeah, that that's my contender.

30:24.95
Chibbs
Yeah, I think just... i Yeah.

30:26.34
gav
But yeah, I think your the the Yoda lyric is a genuinely worse lyric.

30:30.13
Chibbs
Mine is worded poorly.

30:31.45
Bevo
Yeah, I agree with Chibs on that.

30:32.10
gav
It's a bad it's a bad lyric. It is.

30:34.49
Bevo
yeah It's the worst in a not a bad bunch, really.

30:35.03
gav
yeah

30:38.17
gav
Yeah.

30:38.58
Mad Dog
Sure. sure

30:38.85
gav
What's the fuck?

30:39.21
Chibbs
It's...

30:39.61
gav
Who's actually... Okay, so... ah Where are we? Young man, what do you want to be? I said young... oh sorry. It's the fucking... did Does it not rhyme? Anyway, young man, you can make real your dreams.

30:53.89
gav
Yeah.

30:54.26
Chibbs
Yeah, it doesn't rhyme with anything.

30:54.80
gav
That's the size of it. No, it's... i kind of... i was trying to do the setup then I was like, there's no setup.

30:59.58
Bevo
Yeah. could You could do like young man, you could make your dreams real.

31:01.12
gav
It's just...

31:04.39
Bevo
It's like, you still get away

31:04.54
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

31:04.76
gav
Yeah, exactly.

31:05.18
Mad Dog
Yeah, it's not it's not rhyming with anything.

31:05.70
Chibbs
It's like...

31:07.91
Mad Dog
Like there's no reason to word it that way.

31:10.14
gav
Yeah, yeah that's that I thought that's why they did it, but looking at it now and just never got back to it.

31:10.84
Chibbs
No, it's like they fucked it in the vocal booth. He fucked it in the vocal booth and i went...

31:15.58
Bevo
and it.

31:18.63
Chibbs
It's too much tape.

31:21.11
Mad Dog
yeah

31:22.10
gav
ah ah

31:22.37
Chibbs
You've done it now.

31:23.51
gav
ah

31:24.98
Bevo
And it could rhyme with, you can have a good meal.

31:25.30
gav
of like

31:25.48
Chibbs
You've done it now.

31:27.61
Bevo
you You could make your dreams real.

31:28.60
Mad Dog
yeah

31:30.67
Bevo
Yeah, anyway.

31:30.74
Chibbs
Yeah.

31:31.17
Mad Dog
Yeah. Yeah.

31:32.28
Chibbs
Okay.

31:32.50
Mad Dog
Anyway, weird.

31:32.68
Chibbs
So, yeah, we got that. Is that worst? Worst lyric?

31:35.45
gav
Yeah, that's the worst lyric.

31:36.30
Bevo
Sounds it.

31:36.39
Mad Dog
I think so.

31:36.62
Chibbs
All right.

31:40.34
Chibbs
yeah There you go.

31:42.47
gav
I love the gun sounds, man.

31:43.06
Chibbs
He shoots himself in the street.

31:43.89
gav
So good. ah

31:45.43
Bevo
crowd cheering as well at the same time.

31:45.46
Chibbs
Okay. Yeah.

31:48.33
Chibbs
All right, let's play game.

31:51.64
gav
ah

32:00.83
Chibbs
we're going to play one.

32:00.88
gav
That's a good stinger, man. That's a good fucking stinger.

32:02.26
Chibbs
play Play one has to stay.

32:04.41
Mad Dog
Mad.

32:05.73
Chibbs
We'll spin the wheel and see who is playing one has to stay today.

32:06.51
Bevo
I hope it's me.

32:09.43
Chibbs
As long as it's not me.

32:09.71
Bevo
Can the person who got in last time be barred so that everyone gets a

32:13.26
gav
That's a good, that's a good, shit or if it does pick the one from last time, they have to nominate someone else. They have to relinquish. Cause i don't know if you, but i don't know if chips can be asked to type into the fucking thing.

32:23.17
Chibbs
Who did it last time?

32:24.63
Bevo
Mad dog.

32:24.73
gav
Me. Oh, wait, was it?

32:26.20
Bevo
ah did Oh, yeah, right. Sorry. Yeah, you did, Gavin. Sorry, my mistake.

32:29.93
gav
Yeah.

32:30.36
Chibbs
ah It's Bevo.

32:32.67
Bevo
Yes.

32:32.79
gav
Sick.

32:33.12
Chibbs
Host wheel is fun.

32:33.98
gav
a

32:35.72
Chibbs
It's Bevo. was the all All of that was unnecessary.

32:36.86
Bevo
All right.

32:38.22
Chibbs
All that conversation was unnecessary.

32:41.82
Bevo
Is this not the whole podcast unnecessary?

32:41.98
Chibbs
yeah ah ah is it unnecessary for me to drink my own urine um okay here let's make real our dreams here are hits bevo from 1978.

32:44.18
Bevo
Really?

32:45.08
Mad Dog
but What is necessary?

32:46.14
gav
Why are we here?

32:49.55
Bevo
we

32:51.26
gav
ah

32:51.54
Mad Dog
um

32:52.79
Bevo
can we just make real our dreams, please?

32:56.15
gav
Just make real your dreams.

32:59.44
Chibbs
only one sorry only one sorry

33:06.14
Chibbs
There you go.

33:06.65
gav
ah

33:06.96
Chibbs
Why not have to stay? All right. You ready? no You're not feeling any pressure?

33:13.37
Bevo
none whatsoever

33:14.90
gav
No, he's like he's a man who's confident with his tastes.

33:15.13
Chibbs
Okay.

33:17.38
gav
I've always loved that about Bevo.

33:17.67
Chibbs
Great.

33:18.66
gav
They might not be good tastes, but he's confident with them.

33:21.53
Chibbs
I think this is hard.

33:21.63
Bevo
confident about them yeah okay yeah right it's grace grace yep love grace

33:22.45
Chibbs
I think this is a hard one. But I know what he's going to end on. I know what he's going pick.

33:28.25
Chibbs
Staying Alive by the Bee Gees or Grease by Frankie Valli?

33:33.78
gav
Oh, fuck.

33:35.37
Chibbs
Grease is staying? right. Bye, Bee Gees. See you later. Okay. Grease by Frankie Valli.

33:44.49
Bevo
Yeah.

33:44.82
Chibbs
Just the way you are by Billy Joel.

33:48.02
gav
Oh, fuck.

33:49.09
Bevo
Oh, I really, really like grace.

33:51.16
gav
Fuck.

33:53.17
Bevo
Billy Joel's the best, but that's, that is a grace. Oh man.

33:57.30
Mad Dog
a great song.

33:58.94
gav
This segment goes for 45 minutes now.

34:01.06
Chibbs
Come on.

34:01.33
Bevo
It's grace.

34:01.34
Chibbs
Come on, doggies.

34:02.01
Bevo
It's grace.

34:02.14
Chibbs
Sing it for us.

34:02.65
Bevo
It's grace. It's grace.

34:04.11
Mad Dog
Oh.

34:04.70
Chibbs
Oh, Billy's gone.

34:04.79
gav
Oh, no, you've broken Mad Dog's heart.

34:06.18
Chibbs
Billy's gone.

34:06.67
Bevo
Yeah.

34:06.83
gav
You've broken Mad Dog's fucking heart.

34:08.43
Mad Dog
Oh, go change it.

34:10.87
Bevo
Oh, great song. Great song. But I love Grease a lot.

34:12.86
Chibbs
Okay.

34:12.92
gav
To try...

34:13.35
Bevo
I like this one a it fan anything

34:14.22
gav
Sing it like Shrek. To try and please me, you've never let me down.

34:18.14
Bevo
Yeah.

34:18.33
Chibbs
Okay, we've got Grease by Frankie Valli YMCA by the Village People.

34:25.32
Bevo
Yeah,

34:28.74
Bevo
Grease.

34:30.31
Chibbs
Grease!

34:30.65
Bevo
It's the word that you heard.

34:31.65
Mad Dog
loves grace.

34:32.33
Bevo
It's got mood.

34:32.66
Chibbs
Frankie Valli's still there.

34:33.08
gav
just...

34:34.22
Bevo
It's got a feeling.

34:34.23
Chibbs
Okay, let's go. Grace or Take a Chance on Me by ABBA.

34:39.70
gav
Oh, ho, ho, ho.

34:40.84
Mad Dog
Yeah, look

34:40.95
Bevo
home take a chance on me.

34:44.73
Mad Dog
ah look at him.

34:44.95
Bevo
So much that I want to do when i let I'm alone with you.

34:45.44
Chibbs
Oh, see you later, Grace!

34:47.62
gav
Wow.

34:47.83
Chibbs
Grace is gone.

34:48.32
gav
Wow.

34:49.05
Bevo
it's magic.

34:50.01
Chibbs
so Can I do this? Can I just do my impersonation of the start of Grace, the intro?

34:55.38
gav
Go on.

34:56.09
Chibbs
You guys do this.

35:01.90
Chibbs
That's it. Yeah, yeah.

35:03.16
gav
ah ah

35:04.54
Bevo
millionaire war it It's a close race there.

35:05.59
Chibbs
And how good is it?

35:07.06
Bevo
I really like take a chance on me too. Yeah. Good song.

35:10.70
Mad Dog
It's good song.

35:11.16
Chibbs
Okay. See you later, Frankie Valli. He's gone. He's gone. Okay. We have Take a Chance Me by ABBA or Everyone's a Winner by Hot Chocolate.

35:19.42
Bevo
That is, that's hard too. I'm still going with ABBA, but everyone's a winner's great.

35:23.06
Chibbs
oh

35:23.86
Bevo
too

35:24.42
Chibbs
Oh! Hot Chocolate. That's two. Two in a row, Hot Chocolate have made it

35:28.27
Bevo
Too hot chocolates. Yeah. Yeah.

35:29.34
Chibbs
Yeah.

35:29.93
Bevo
That's disco month for you.

35:30.23
gav
shit ha Yeah,

35:31.48
Chibbs
And hot Hot Chocolate almost won. Almost won. Gavin's won, I'm pretty sure.

35:36.12
Bevo
Like any other, any other, like.

35:36.41
gav
they're up there.

35:38.25
Chibbs
Everyone's a winner, baby!

35:38.59
Bevo
Yeah.

35:39.68
Mad Dog
When a baby drops the light.

35:41.27
Chibbs
What a... What a song. Yeah, what a song.

35:43.67
gav
Fuck, that riff.

35:43.80
Chibbs
What a song.

35:44.66
gav
That riff is fucking all time.

35:46.87
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

35:47.17
Bevo
Yeah, it's Take

35:48.50
Chibbs
Okay. Take a Chance on Me by ABBA or Who Are You by The Who?

35:55.00
Bevo
take a Chance on Me.

35:55.32
gav
fuck.

35:55.92
Bevo
I love The Who. They're one of my favorite bands, but it's Take a Chance on Me.

35:56.79
Chibbs
ah

35:57.30
gav
Fuck. the

36:02.20
Chibbs
ah

36:03.28
Bevo
Yeah, they're all great.

36:04.98
Chibbs
yeah oh fuck what a song i mean yeah it's a it's a damn shame that yeah that they're yeah

36:06.55
gav
Fuck, that song kicks ass, man.

36:10.30
Bevo
yeah they all they' all drive

36:12.54
gav
Yeah, this is a tough one. This is a tough one. I'm glad it's Bevo, not me.

36:15.61
Bevo
um I'm almost regretting getting rid of Grease, actually, but um I'll stand by my men.

36:18.98
Chibbs
oh take a chance on me still there take a chance on me or is this love by bob marley and the whalers

36:24.44
Bevo
Nah, fuck that. Yeah. I like Bob Marley, but yeah, not as much as Abba. Abba.

36:31.73
Chibbs
Take a chance on me or Roxanne by the police. Yeah.

36:35.99
gav
What do you think?

36:36.02
Mad Dog
oh

36:36.18
Bevo
Oh, Roxanne. Roxanne.

36:37.59
Chibbs
Oh

36:39.21
Bevo
One my favorite things in Roxanne, if we're talking about it, is he does this like, it's a harmony that's so close together that it sounds like two things that are just slightly slipping out of tune with each other the chorus, in the Roxanne, Roxanne.

36:50.68
Chibbs
yeah.

36:53.62
Chibbs
ah yeah

36:53.85
Bevo
Love that. So good. All of these songs I could, yeah.

36:55.25
Mad Dog
It's crazy.

36:56.31
Bevo
ah Some of my favorite songs of all time, but yeah,

36:58.04
Chibbs
None of these aren't bad songs. That's why it's a challenge.

37:01.43
Bevo
Roxanne.

37:01.85
gav
What do you think? what do you think

37:02.63
Chibbs
Rox... Abba's gone.

37:04.95
Bevo
Abba's gone. Roxanne.

37:06.27
Chibbs
Abba's gone.

37:06.42
gav
Oh, Roxanne.

37:07.47
Bevo
Yeah.

37:08.04
gav
Hell yeah. I would have done the same, honestly.

37:10.87
Chibbs
Roxanne by the police or September by earth, wind and fire.

37:14.26
Bevo
new

37:15.77
gav
fuck.

37:17.05
Mad Dog
Wow.

37:17.88
Bevo
It's Roxanne still.

37:18.79
Chibbs
Do you remember?

37:20.38
Bevo
i love, I love that song too, but yeah, it's Roxanne. Roxanne.

37:23.49
gav
Oh, I would have gone Earth, Wind, Fire there, I think.

37:24.73
Chibbs
Oh... Okay, and this is this is where I know what wins.

37:26.59
gav
I couldn't.

37:30.14
Chibbs
Like, it's a shame that Bevo got this because it was always to going to be an obvious winner. That's what it is.

37:35.19
Bevo
Yeah.

37:36.18
Chibbs
It is Roxanne by The Police or What A Fool Belize by the Doobie Brothers.

37:41.97
Bevo
Yeah, it's lot of foolable leaves.

37:43.32
Chibbs
Yeah, of course it fucking is.

37:43.67
Bevo
example

37:44.38
gav
ah

37:45.50
Bevo
so

37:45.56
Chibbs
Of course it is.

37:47.42
Bevo
long got My favorite part of that song is when it goes, it's like, ah watch ingo and it's the fucking hi-hat. did did Listen to it again.

37:58.33
Bevo
That's going be one of my live songs actually coming up. So...

38:00.92
gav
ah Sick.

38:00.97
Chibbs
There you go.

38:01.62
Bevo
ready about this

38:01.85
Chibbs
There you go.

38:03.10
gav
Nice one.

38:03.22
Chibbs
Okay, there you go. There's it one. The Doobie Brothers.

38:05.30
Bevo
Anybody else?

38:06.31
Chibbs
What a full believes.

38:06.58
Bevo
would jump ditter ti di what's nugo

38:10.21
Chibbs
As I put that list together, I went, if Bevo wins, I'd know that Doobie Brothers song is going to be the winner. So, no matter.

38:15.66
Bevo
That's it. But like the difference between all those songs is like B's dick. I could have gone either way for any any of them.

38:21.59
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, there's bees dicks.

38:22.91
Bevo
They're all amazing. some

38:23.95
Chibbs
Yeah. They're tiny little bees dicks.

38:25.17
Bevo
Great year for music.

38:27.06
gav
Tiny, tiny beast dicks.

38:27.37
Bevo
Yeah.

38:31.19
Mad Dog
Seek or not.

38:31.42
gav
All right.

38:33.40
Chibbs
Conspiracy here about YMCA is the data collection before data existed theory.

38:35.40
gav
Oh,

38:40.98
gav
oh

38:41.27
Bevo
ah

38:42.46
gav
I'm here for it.

38:43.13
Bevo
Okay, all right, let's lock in.

38:43.48
gav
What do we got?

38:43.54
Chibbs
Have you heard this?

38:44.86
gav
i haven't, but I'm fully invested.

38:45.02
Chibbs
Have you heard this? Okay, this is a pretty new one.

38:46.54
gav
Fully invested. Okay.

38:49.28
Chibbs
It's been popping up on Reddit.

38:49.84
gav
Okay.

38:52.60
Chibbs
The idea is that the YMCA

38:53.42
Bevo
was that? Relative.

38:57.75
Chibbs
was one of the first global examples of mass synchronized behavior driven by media. Crowds across the world all doing the exact same movements on cue to the same audio trigger.

39:08.73
Chibbs
It's like a Manchurian candidate situation here.

39:10.20
Bevo
Like a dance, some kind of dance.

39:12.09
Chibbs
Yeah.

39:12.31
gav
a Okay.

39:13.82
Bevo
it period

39:14.24
Chibbs
Acted as a live experiment ah for behavioral mimicry. showed how easily large groups can be coordinated into without direct instruction and became early proof of concept for things like flash mobs, viral trends, even algorithm driven behavior.

39:35.61
Mad Dog
All

39:36.43
Bevo
or could just be a catchy dance with some letters.

39:38.56
gav
Catchy fucking song with a dance.

39:44.60
gav
corner

39:46.74
Chibbs
All right, let's see.

39:47.68
Mad Dog
right.

39:55.67
Chibbs
What is the fight result between me and all six members of the village people in 1976?

39:59.19
gav
oh

40:01.56
Bevo
Can we just hang on?

40:01.90
Chibbs
Yep. Yep. um

40:04.18
Bevo
What, what do we got? Just, we didn't really go through it. What do we got? We got the construction worker, the cop, the in American Indian motorbike guy, army guy, cowboy.

40:10.08
Mad Dog
cop, motorbike rider.

40:10.20
Chibbs
yep yeah Yeah, Motorbike Man.

40:19.61
Chibbs
Yeah.

40:20.09
gav
Bikie?

40:20.38
Bevo
all of them.

40:21.53
gav
Like there's ah the leather clad guy?

40:21.94
Bevo
That's motorbike man.

40:22.16
Mad Dog
Yeah, bikey guy.

40:22.58
Chibbs
Yeah, Motorbike Man.

40:22.98
Bevo
Yeah.

40:23.62
Chibbs
Motorbike Man, yeah, yeah.

40:23.64
Mad Dog
Yeah.

40:23.70
gav
Oh, sorry, I missed you saying metabye guy.

40:23.99
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's it.

40:26.33
Chibbs
yeah yeah i'm gonna die

40:30.34
gav
cops Did d cops ever wear those tight...

40:31.16
Mad Dog
You're getting fucked up.

40:31.48
Bevo
Yeah. You're dead. Yeah.

40:33.56
gav
Did cops ever wear those tight, like, tan-coloured...

40:36.25
Mad Dog
Like, jobpers.

40:39.36
gav
Like the little tights?

40:39.70
Bevo
The jumpsuit. Yeah.

40:41.72
gav
No, it's just tights. He's got a white collared shirt on and, like, tan-coloured tights and a leather jacket.

40:46.13
Mad Dog
Yeah. They're like jockey pants. yay jo the job pis Yeah.

40:49.46
gav
Yeah, that's what I mean. I just don't know if Is that like...

40:52.65
Mad Dog
Yeah.

40:52.89
gav
Did cops ever wear that shit?

40:54.71
Chibbs
um

40:54.79
gav
Because would have been so easy to kick him in the fucking balls.

40:57.37
Chibbs
Yeah, like you remember like those 70s cop shows like Chips and stuff like that. They're all wearing like weird shit like that.

41:01.82
Bevo
yeah

41:01.92
Mad Dog
Chips.

41:02.10
gav
Yeah.

41:03.94
Mad Dog
Chips.

41:03.97
Chibbs
and and um that um Can you imagine how many how much police corruption there would have been back then, Gav, and how easy it would have been to get away with any of it?

41:11.06
Mad Dog
Oh.

41:11.45
gav
Oh, shit. Yeah. They would have been literally murdering junkies in the fucking projects and just been like, na carry on.

41:13.98
Mad Dog
Fucking earth.

41:20.05
Bevo
What?

41:21.62
gav
Yeah. Different times.

41:23.03
Chibbs
So it plays out like this. I charge i charge in. Probably drop one early. Yeah.

41:29.17
Bevo
thank You Dax.

41:30.39
gav
Can I ask?

41:30.58
Bevo
what

41:30.83
gav
Can I ask?

41:30.97
Chibbs
and Yeah.

41:31.79
gav
who's Who's the one you drop early?

41:31.96
Bevo
your dax

41:33.23
gav
Who do you go for?

41:33.82
Chibbs
Let's say yeah

41:34.03
gav
If you're going in swinging, if you're going in swinging, who are you swinging on?

41:36.28
Chibbs
um um Who was? Construction worker.

41:43.79
gav
Oh, it wouldn't have been my pick, but okay. I like it.

41:45.82
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Or the cowboy.

41:47.59
Bevo
We're going Cowboy. Yeah, Cowboy seems like an easy target.

41:48.79
gav
The cowboy for sure.

41:49.38
Chibbs
Or the cowboy. Yeah.

41:51.15
gav
It's the cowboy.

41:51.51
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

41:53.04
Bevo
Last jaw Cowboy.

41:53.54
Chibbs
It's like, you're not in you're not in your correct era anymore. but You're not fighting like 1976.

41:56.79
gav
Yeah, you, and the world has passed you.

41:57.24
Bevo
yeah

41:58.88
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

41:59.22
gav
the The world has passed you by gunslinger.

41:59.32
Chibbs
Yeah. yeah

42:02.46
Bevo
He does, in ah in ah in a team of sort of odd combinations, of the Cowboy does seem the most out of place, doesn't he?

42:02.46
Chibbs
yeah

42:10.81
gav
Yeah.

42:11.29
Chibbs
you think he's just like into rodeo or he's a time traveling cowboy from what?

42:11.85
gav
Oh, for sure.

42:16.12
gav
ha

42:17.67
Bevo
1898.

42:17.82
Chibbs
1800. Yeah.

42:18.19
Bevo
It's the army guys.

42:18.38
gav
He's Roland Duchesne.

42:19.41
Bevo
Yeah.

42:19.86
Chibbs
yeah

42:20.66
gav
Yeah, no, it's good.

42:21.58
Chibbs
Uh, yeah. But then after that, the biker and construction worker a problem. They're big enough to absorb contact and slow me down.

42:27.54
Bevo
the army guys

42:29.54
Chibbs
Once they grab hold the rest pile in, even if half of them don't know what they're doing, it doesn't matter. Chibs is swinging, but he's getting overwhelmed from all angles.

42:39.74
Chibbs
Yeah.

42:40.28
gav
yeah

42:42.20
Chibbs
Yeah, it just says six six blokes is too many. The village people win. Yeah.

42:46.67
Bevo
Yeah.

42:47.48
gav
Maybe this is a this is ah this is a closed loop in time.

42:48.26
Bevo
Just the army guy.

42:51.56
gav
Chibs gets the shit beaten out of him. He's laying on the ground. Then the village people walk past and lean down and say, young man, there's un place you there's no need to be down.

42:55.29
Bevo
Recruit him. Handing him the train conductor outfit at the same time.

42:59.72
gav
I said, young pick yourself off the ground.

43:02.22
Bevo
Yeah.

43:03.90
gav
and we And the cycle begins again.

43:04.50
Bevo
is the handing him the train conductor outfit at the same

43:13.43
gav
a Welcome.

43:16.82
Chibbs
All right, let's give our one-sentence verdict on YMCA's village people.

43:17.17
gav
ah

43:23.78
Chibbs
i've got I've got one here.

43:24.47
gav
you you you You promised me there'd be a gunshot in this before the fucking...

43:28.50
Chibbs
ah yeah Imagine one. My one-sentence verdict is they work hard and they play hard.

43:39.22
gav
yeah

43:40.74
Bevo
Who's next?

43:40.98
gav
yeah um

43:42.69
Bevo
sit gun I've got...

43:43.95
gav
I'll go, ah you can you can take the village out of the people, but you can't take the people out of the village.

43:44.32
Bevo
I've got...

43:50.83
Bevo
Why am I so into this?

43:54.33
Bevo
ah go um why am i so into this

43:59.08
gav
ha ha.

43:59.58
Chibbs
Make it a dance move.

43:59.68
gav
Ha ha ha.

44:01.10
Chibbs
Doggy.

44:01.56
gav
Ha ha ha.

44:03.26
Mad Dog
ah Yes, sorry.

44:05.72
Chibbs
Your one sentence verdict.

44:07.54
gav
Ha ha ha. Come on, doggy.

44:10.05
Mad Dog
One sentence verdict. um I find it fun to stay in this place.

44:18.68
Bevo
it comma um Just that on that stinger, it sounds like the Pixies almost.

44:28.06
gav
Yeah, a little bit. little bit Yeah, Frank Black about to start speaking Spanish.

44:31.87
Chibbs
Yep.

44:32.92
Bevo
if man is fine.

44:35.47
Chibbs
All right, let's write this shit.

44:48.28
Chibbs
Okay, what are we going roll it out of here?

44:51.53
gav
Oh, God. um how many How many feet from the front door of the YMCA did you collapse?

44:56.79
Bevo
close to the i am yeah

44:56.89
gav
You do whatever you feel.

44:57.34
Chibbs
did he Did he nod out?

45:01.23
Bevo
How much fun do you have staying at the YMCA?

45:03.16
Chibbs
yeah

45:03.63
Bevo
He's a junkie.

45:06.55
Chibbs
ten Ten, you have no fun because you die.

45:07.39
Mad Dog
Yeah.

45:09.18
Bevo
this One, you get yourself clean, you have a good meal.

45:12.79
Mad Dog
but

45:14.74
gav
yeah yeah you do whatever you feel

45:15.48
Chibbs
Yeah.

45:15.90
Mad Dog
yeah

45:17.30
Chibbs
Yeah, have one, yeah, clean and sober, walk out the next day feeling glorious.

45:21.11
gav
ah

45:23.35
Chibbs
Ten, you ten years stay a junkie at the shut-in of the YMCA on the gym mat and die of exposure overnight.

45:24.02
gav
yeah

45:31.44
gav
Oh, fuck.

45:33.11
Chibbs
Yeah.

45:37.68
Chibbs
What do you give this out of 10, Bevo?

45:38.04
gav
look

45:38.92
Chibbs
Unbelievable. Yeah.

45:40.79
Bevo
um I was going to talk about this at the start and I know we don't like to talk too much politics in this, but I feel like Donald Trump has ruined this song in the same way that you can't have a Hitler mustache anymore.

45:51.64
gav
ah

45:52.70
Bevo
Years from now, it'll be like, oh, you can't, you can't play that song. So, but it is great. And the baseline is fucking swinging.

46:00.57
Chibbs
i believe

46:01.04
Bevo
It's good.

46:01.75
Chibbs
yeah

46:02.01
Bevo
Unbelievable. bo du boom boom boom boom ah So between those two things, they're pulling each other in either direction. So I'm going to give four out of 10 crazy frog four.

46:11.46
Chibbs
Oh, ring-a-ding-ding, bam-bam, crazy frog, Gavin.

46:15.67
gav
um yeah I guess I just don't watch as much Donald Trump rally footage as Bevo because i am like I'm familiar that he's played this song at rallies but i don't think I've ever like

46:24.81
Chibbs
He's got a great dance to it. He's got a great dance to it.

46:26.33
Bevo
ah Yeah, he jacks off two dicks at the same time while he listens to her.

46:29.69
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's double-dicking.

46:30.20
gav
I mean, umm I'm, I love that.

46:31.34
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah.

46:32.57
Chibbs
Yeah.

46:33.42
gav
I love that. um

46:34.39
Chibbs
Yeah.

46:35.48
gav
Yeah. No, it's, it's a fucking great song. I don't think I've had any sort of like, um my taint hasn't been tainted by the, by the, by the, by the Trump man. ah Let's go. I'm going to give it a two. It's a good fucking song.

46:47.16
Chibbs
Yeah, it's fun to stay at the YMCA. Doggy?

46:49.46
gav
It is. It is.

46:51.16
Mad Dog
Yeah, look, my my one sentence line is it's fun. I find it a fun place to stay. I'm not a disco fan, but, you know, i do...

46:57.75
Bevo
you said last time that you're not a disco fan as well.

47:02.70
gav
That's fair. I wouldn't call myself a disco fan either, but this song is a bit of a a gem of the era.

47:07.90
Mad Dog
It's an anomaly, yeah. ah

47:09.30
gav
Yeah.

47:09.56
Bevo
if sixteen

47:09.70
gav
Yeah.

47:09.82
Mad Dog
And I hear it on a semi-regular basis um in my...

47:12.72
gav
It would.

47:14.07
Mad Dog
Yeah, so...

47:14.20
Bevo
At my job at the YMCA. I make the meals.

47:17.24
Chibbs
but As a counsellor at the Young Men's Christian Association.

47:17.37
gav
a

47:20.12
Mad Dog
i

47:22.65
gav
As a massive junkie.

47:22.71
Mad Dog
I mentor young men.

47:24.28
Bevo
i ah i make the meals

47:24.54
Mad Dog
Yeah.

47:24.73
gav
correct

47:24.91
Chibbs
They're not as good as they say. Oh, all right.

47:26.62
gav
ah

47:27.06
Mad Dog
um not

47:27.83
Chibbs
ah they're not as good as they say

47:28.57
gav
I am the meals.

47:31.41
Bevo
I make the sensory toys for them to do whatever they feel.

47:34.74
Mad Dog
There's very little meat in these gym mats. um No, it's good. um Yeah, 3.5. Yeah.

47:44.60
Bevo
Nice.

47:45.46
gav
It's getting decimal with it. Yeah.

47:46.97
Chibbs
Yeah.

47:47.16
gav
We should have had her on.

47:47.19
Mad Dog
there

47:47.53
Chibbs
i um

47:48.22
gav
Fuck

47:49.40
Chibbs
Look, it's the ultimate upbeat song, isn't it? it's it

47:52.94
Bevo
It's hard to resist, isn't it?

47:53.11
gav
yeah.

47:53.56
Mad Dog
It is actually.

47:54.23
Chibbs
And um it's funny because when I told Jazz we were doing YMCA, she went on a tirade about how much she hates this song.

47:54.40
Mad Dog
yeah

48:00.76
Chibbs
It's just like...

48:00.80
Bevo
Oh, really? Why didn't we get her on this?

48:01.68
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah. It's the worst song.

48:03.13
gav
we should add her on

48:03.72
Chibbs
I can't think of anything worse than having to think about this, like hearing this over and over again. I'm like, I don't listen to YNCA that much, but when it comes on, I feel like I'm instantly having a good time.

48:08.06
Bevo
Really?

48:12.84
Chibbs
and And now I'm saying that now and she will hear it, but in the car when I was telling her, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

48:13.37
gav
fuck yeah fuck yeah

48:13.43
Bevo
Yeah. You can feel it as visible.

48:20.07
Chibbs
Okay.

48:20.66
Bevo
e

48:20.92
gav
yeah any jazz Jazz listening at home in in his mind at the time he was like this bitch is crazy laughing laughing laughing

48:23.18
Bevo
That's how it's fun.

48:27.96
Chibbs
But I did have this mental image that made me sort of laugh a little bit out loud where um I was thinking of a really like depressed person about to like hang themselves, but through the wall they can hear YMCA's playing and they're going to kill themselves to the sound of YMCA.

48:43.85
Bevo
No, it's

48:50.87
gav
I thought you were going to say didn't they?

48:51.27
Chibbs
That's funny.

48:52.31
gav
And then they stopped, but I'm just picturing them like tapping.

48:54.49
Chibbs
No, it's just funny to be like, you reckon you'd go through with it?

48:56.44
gav
was like...

48:57.47
Chibbs
Do you reckon you'd go through with it you could hear?

48:57.94
Bevo
yeah which would you to quickly

49:00.82
Chibbs
and ah that

49:02.14
Bevo
would you quickly do the motions what before you've been doing the hands?

49:02.97
Chibbs
da so

49:05.70
Bevo
ji

49:06.42
gav
I was going to say, I feel like I'm picturing like the end of an Irvine Welsh film though, but like, it's like the, the, the, the shot pans from the top down.

49:09.90
Bevo
Sadly. a a

49:15.57
gav
He's pulling the noose over his head. The camera's panning down. gets to his feet. He's standing on the stool, tapping along to the YMCA as he kicks, as he kicks the stool and, and scene.

49:25.11
Chibbs
As he kicks it out. ah

49:28.35
gav
Yeah.

49:28.70
Chibbs
And scene.

49:29.27
gav
correct

49:29.78
Mad Dog
Thank you.

49:30.58
Chibbs
ah That's amazing. Thanks, fellas.

49:34.43
Bevo
Get

49:34.51
Chibbs
Make sure you're following us on socials. Subscribe on YouTube. Tell all your friends about it. Leave a review if you listen to Apple Podcasts. Let's hear this song on a digital bong.

49:43.26
gav
Buy a shirt! Buy a fucking...

49:44.25
Chibbs
why it out.

49:44.66
gav
go Get a fucking shirt up in this bitch!

49:47.52
Chibbs
Let's go.

49:48.49
Bevo
this my camera.

49:48.66
Chibbs
Are you going to play along?

49:50.26
Bevo
Yeah, can you, hang on, let me I need a stand for this thing.

49:51.26
gav
Yeah, he's playing. He's got set up. He needs a stand.

49:53.91
Bevo
Yeah, go for it, go for it.

49:55.75
gav
We're going be able to see that you're not wearing any panties.

50:08.89
gav
Ha ha ha!

50:16.22
Bevo
working.

50:17.99
Mad Dog
ha ha ha. Ha ha Ha ha ha.

50:18.40
Chibbs
Ah, shit.

50:19.03
Mad Dog
Ha ha

50:19.71
gav
Oh, okay. Keep it rolling.

50:20.28
Chibbs
yeah

50:20.72
gav
Keep it rolling. Bev, I need to hear this.

50:22.16
Bevo
Do it again.

50:22.64
gav
I need to fucking hear it.

50:24.22
Bevo
Do it again.

50:24.89
gav
No, no, no. Don't play it again. Just hit us with the melody. Go on.

50:31.58
Mad Dog
ha. ha ha Ha ha. ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha

50:34.84
gav
Now that's, that's the audio that I hang myself to for sure.

50:39.87
Mad Dog
Ha ha