Ep. 106 skewers Bono’s ISIS-combat comedy plan as Abu Bakir al-Abdadi mocks it, while Senator Shaheen jokes peanut butter is the only working solution—Chris Rock demands Bono be parachuted in instead. The episode pivots to Paul Ryan’s shady presidential denial and Corey Lewandowski’s dodged charges, mocking Trump supporters’ blind loyalty before critiquing Clinton’s racist Republican smear and Sanders’ Wall Street scapegoating. Feminist Christina Hoff Summers dismantles American Girls by Nancy Joe Sales as hysterical, citing improved minority girl education and blaming feminism’s rejection of tradition for campus misconduct, ending with Bing Crosby’s Zing a Little Zong—a jab at modern moral chaos. [Automatically generated summary]
You two frontman Bono testified before a Senate subcommittee this week for some reason.
The rock star, who may or may not also be Phil Collins, told the committee that the way to defeat Islamic terrorist group ISIS was through the magical weapon of laughter.
It's like you speak violence, you speak their language, but you laugh at them when they're goose-stepping down the street, and it takes away their power.
So I'm suggesting that the Senate send in Amy Schumer and Chris Rock and Sasha Baron Cohen.
ISIS leader Abu Bakir al-Abdadi responded to the suggestion saying, quote, we of the Islamic State would be only too happy to welcome Jewish comedian Sasha Baron Cohen.
We are sure we will have many laughs with him.
In fact, tell him we think we can help him get ahead.
Ahead, get it?
Ha ha ha.
You see, we Islamic terrorists can be comical as well, unquote.
The Daily Wire approached Mr. Cohen for a comment on Bono's plan to send him to deal with ISIS, but could only find an empty pair of sneakers and a trail of dust where Mr. Cohen used to be.
Al-Abdadi said he would also be delighted to welcome comedian Amy Schumer, remarking, quote, a sense of humor is a most excellent trait in an infidel whore.
It will allow Ms. Schumer to entertain her master between her other harem duties.
Democrat Senator Gene Shaheen said the Senate subcommittee would take Bono's suggestion under advisement just as soon as they finished considering Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg's plan.
Zuckerberg says he wants to defeat ISIS by, quote, creating a world where understanding and empathy can spread faster than hate.
Senator Shaheen says American scientists have so far managed to create a form of peanut butter that can spread faster than hate, but fast-spreading understanding and empathy are still years away, though both are very tasty with strawberry jam.
Bono and Zuckerberg's comments have raised many questions among thoughtful Americans, such as, how did these two morons get so rich?
Does this mean the Joshua Tree album only sounds kind of deep when you're stoned?
And which one wrote that great soundtrack to Disney's Tarzan?
Next week, the subcommittee will hear ideas on how to deal with Islamic violence from Chris Rock, who says he believes terrorism can only be defeated by fatuous Irish singers.
Rock said, quote, maybe the U.S. should parachute that loudmouth Bono into ISIS territory, and before he goes, he can kiss my black ass.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clavin, and this is the Andrew Clavin Show.
I've always actually kind of liked Bono, but come on.
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So yesterday, this show, it's where the future comes to find out what is going to happen.
This is where yesterday we played Paul Ryan saying that he's not going to be the white knight.
on the dark horse who comes and saves the Republican Party from itself.
So just play a little bit of that clip.
We have too much work to do in the House to allow this speculation to swirl or to have my motivations questioned.
So let me be clear.
I do not want, nor will I accept the nomination for our party.
So let me speak directly to the delegates on this.
If no candidate has a majority on the first ballot, I believe that you should only choose from a person who has actually participated in the primary.
Count me out.
I simply believe that if you want to be the nominee for our party, to be the president, you should actually run for it.
So then he goes on and he says, that's it, end of story, full stop period.
So I joked after the cut.
I said, you know, try to be clear, Paul.
Don't beat around the bush because, you know, there are all these news guys who go out and then say, but what was he really saying?
Today, from the law news, deception experts analyze if Paul Ryan is telling the truth about not running for president.
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And he says, when Speaker of the House Paul Ryan declared categorically, I do not want nor will I accept the nomination of our party.
He certainly seemed to be ruling himself out as the Republican nominee.
But considering the other statements Ryan made in practically the same breath, we are convinced his resolve is open to question.
It's like, what does the man have to do?
You know, he'd have to confess, yes, I killed a man in Reno just to watch him die.
I'd like to come on with my two prostitute friends and announce that I don't want to know.
I mean, what on earth does he have to say?
All right, the news is a self-generating machine.
It's going to cover whatever it wants to cover.
There is a lot of news.
The Clavenless weekend is closing in on us, like almost like one of those walls in the old serials.
Remember, the hero would get caught between the crushing walls that we're going to pin it.
That's the Clavenless weekend is coming.
And there's all this news we're not going to get to control with our minds.
For instance, probably as we're speaking, the Palm Beach County state attorney, that's the prosecutor, is going to hold a news conference.
And the word is he's going to announce that he's not going to prosecute Corey Lewandowski for tugging on Michelle Fields.
So that's kind of interesting.
I don't know if that's going to happen, but that's what everybody says he's going to say.
And I don't know why he would be holding a news conference otherwise.
He says it's going to be about this.
Really interesting, I was reading, I first saw this in the New York Times today, and it said, a former newspaper, and it said, Mr. Lewandowski called Ms. Fields delusional and posted on Twitter that he had never touched her, but security video provided to the police department showed Mr. Lewandowski grabbing Ms. Fields by the arm and pulling her away from Mr. Trump.
So the New York Times, which only used to be a newspaper, sees what everybody can see on this tape.
And I've said it's not a big deal.
If they had apologized, if Breitbart hadn't thrown her under the bus, it would never have been a big story.
But once again, the New York Times is being granted legitimacy.
This is the same video that Sean Hannity says he watched 800 times and couldn't see anything.
That Judge Janine goes on and says, I don't say, you know, I've been hit by a camera in the head and it bounced right off me.
You know, it's like, okay.
You know, you can say it's no big deal, but you can't say it didn't happen.
You can't say it's not there.
And if we saw the bruises afterwards.
So the new, you know, this is the thing, this Trump delusion is giving the New York Times and the mainstream media back the legitimacy that they gave away by not honestly covering the Obama administration.
It really, it really is depressing.
I mean, at this point, some of these Trump supporters, and it's not his supporters that I blame, but some of them, some of them, if Donald Trump was caught eating children, they'd be like, you know, well, there's a lot of protein in children, you know?
Like Abraham Lincoln saw a child once.
Isn't that the same thing?
All right.
So the New York primary is next week.
That's the other thing that's coming up.
Oh, and there's also, oh, and there's a debate tonight in Brooklyn between Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
This is the debate Sanders has been egging her on.
And she, of course, doesn't want to because anytime she comes out of her house, her poll ratings drop.
27,000 people showed up to hear Bernie Sanders yesterday at a rally.
27,000 people.
I mean, that's insane to listen to Bernie Sanders condemn Wall Street to condemn Wall Street.
It is in New York.
Without Wall Street, there is no New York.
No New York.
I mean, without Wall Street, there's just this kind of like New York shape where New York used to be.
I mean, what do they think this, you know, he's, oh, those are terrible, you know, people on Wall Street.
The guys on Wall Street, and I, you know, I know there's some bad guys on Wall Street, but the guys on Wall Street are the guys who donate all the money to the charter schools in New York, the art museums in New York, the churches, the temples, the charities, all that stuff.
It's like, feel the burn, feel the burn.
We're going to burn up our charities.
We're going to burn up our charter schools.
What are they talking about?
You know, I'm reading The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
I saw the movie, and I liked the movie.
The movie was enjoyable, but it annoyed me that the entire onus for the 2008 crash was put on the back of Wall Street.
Now, Wall Street did some insane things.
They did insane things.
There were all these bad housing loans, right?
And so they wrapped them up in these, they hid them in these bonds.
So nobody knew that they were buying these horrible loans.
And all the moody's and all those rating agencies kept going, yeah, AAA, AAA, triple A. You go like, what do you mean, a triple A?
Well, it's AAA, you know, something.
I don't know, maybe AAA risk or something.
I don't know what it is.
So they were selling this stuff, and it got bigger and bigger and bigger until people were buying bets on the bonds that were covering these crappy loans.
But he never mentions in the book, and he never mentions in the movie, why the banks were making these loans.
I mean, why they were making these loans.
Do you think they just woke up one day?
You think some banker, I mean, you know how exciting bankers are.
You think some guy just got up, put on his pinstripe suit and nodded his tie and said, you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to loan some money to people who can't pay it back.
What a day this is going to be.
You know, I'm tired.
I'm tired of playing it safe, buddy.
I'm just going to get out there.
You know, my wife is getting bored.
I'm going to really go out there and give some bad loans.
They did it because the government told them they had to.
They shamed them.
They kept saying, oh, you're not loaning to black people, which wasn't true.
They just weren't loaning to people who couldn't pay it back, some of whom were black.
So they still talk about it.
They still talk about redlining.
They throw this off.
They were redlining, redlining, drawing a red line around people who couldn't pay back their loans and not loaning to them.
And the government shamed them into doing it.
And they said they had those agencies that were kind of sub-government, not quite government agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
And they said, basically, we'll protect your loans.
We'll protect your loans.
So they started giving loans to people who couldn't pay it back.
See, no, we like black people.
Whatever, whatever color they are.
As long as they can't pay it back, we'll give them money.
And then Wall Street took that.
So when George W. Bush said, you ought to stop doing this, Barney Frank, who was in the House committee that was controlling this, Barney Frank said, I'll roll the dice.
I'll roll the dice.
Okay.
Chris Dodd was taking sweetheart loans in the Senate.
Was taking sweetheart loans so they could get influence with these mortgage lenders.
When the economy collapsed, who wrote the reform bill?
Chris Dodd and Barney Frank.
These two guys who should have been carted off to prison.
And Barney Frank was saying, well, this is the free market that did this.
It's the free market.
They didn't say, I didn't hear anybody in the free market saying, let's roll the dice.
It was Barney Frank.
It was the government who did it.
And, you know, they just leave this out completely out of it.
Now, in the Wall Street Journal today, it says it's been a rough few weeks for President Obama's signature reform of American finance.
Guess what?
Deep cracks are appearing in the foundations of the Dodd-Frank law.
How could it be?
How could it be that the reform law written by the guys who caused the crisis is going down the drain?
A federal judge has knocked down a major decision for Mr. Obama's Financial Stability Oversight Council, and a federal appeals court panel is questioning the constitutionality of Mr. Obama's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
On Wednesday, regulators officially declared that most of the nation's banking giants are still too big and too complicated to fail.
That's why when they fail, when they make these bad bets, when the government forces them to make these bad bets and they fail, the government has to bail them out.
If they don't bail them out, they drag us all down with them, you know, because they're too big.
They're too big.
They're not regulated properly.
So that's what's happening on the Bernie Sanders side.
On the Hillary side, she's come up with a great new strategy.
She's accusing Republicans of racism.
No one on the left has ever thought of this before.
This is a genuine innovation.
The Hillary Clinton think tank, working nights and weekends, came up with this idea.
How are we going to defeat the Republic?
I know, I know, we'll accuse them of racism.
Play the second cut.
First, she says, first, she says there's been a lot of advances.
This is a speech she made celebrating Jackie Robinson.
She says they've made a lot of advances, including Barack Obama being elected president.
But then in the last few years, there's been a lot of racial tension, but there's no connection between those two things.
Whose fault is it?
Whose fault?
It's the Republicans, of course.
So play the second cut.
I don't know how you would connect.
No, no, no, no.
I'm sorry, Hillary, not Bill.
When the frontrunner for the Republican nomination was asked in a national television interview to disavow David Duke and other white supremacists supporting his campaign, he played coy.
This is the same Donald Trump who led the insidious birther movement to delegitimize President Obama.
He has called Mexican immigrants rapists and murderers.
He wants to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, and the list goes on.
And not to be outdone by his primary rival, Ted Cruz would treat Muslim Americans like criminals and religiously profile their neighborhoods.
So ugly currents that lurk just below the surface of our politics have burst into the open.
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
And once again, by the way, once again, just not to, you know, rag on Donald Trump too much, but everything Hillary said about Trump was true, and everything she said about Cruz was nonsense.
I mean, that's the problem.
Again, you know, that Trump, Trump is the avatar of what the left says about us.
It's like all those false charges they made.
It's as if all those false charges they made gathered together and took shape and became Donald Trump, like some kind of special effect in a movie, you know.
And now, once again, just as he legitimizes the New York Times after years of their dishonesty, he legitimizes those claims, those claims of racism, which have been false all along.
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Okay, so a couple of weeks ago, I read this book, American Girls, and it's about this kind of idea that American girls are in crisis.
They're living on social media.
They are, you know, 13-year-old girls are being induced to send naked pictures of themselves to boys who don't care about them, then post the pictures online, call them sluts and bully them.
Their sex lives have just become kind of being used by boys at parties.
They never go out on dates.
They never, nothing happens to them, except they kind of are used by these guys who then make fun of them and toss them away.
They're either called prudes or called sluts.
I tried to get the author of this book to come on.
She wouldn't do it.
She was, I won't call her a coward, but she's not here.
But I thought I would talk to one of my favorite feminists, Christina Hoff Summers.
I'll bring her on.
Hi.
How are you doing, Christine?
Hi, how are you?
I am so thrilled to meet you.
I have been an enormous fan of yours for years.
I discovered your book, Who Stole Feminism, in a bookstore in the back of Shakespeare and Company in New York back in the 90s.
And it was buried away.
And I thought, that's an interesting title.
And so I pulled it out and started reading it, bought it, took it home.
I thought it was absolutely terrific.
I came home one day, and my wife was interviewing you.
She was a freelance writer at the time.
She was interviewing you, and I was shouting in the background, tell her I love her.
She's so great.
She's so great.
Let me just tell folks a little bit about you.
You are a former philosophy professor, a resident scholar at AEI.
Are you still at AEI?
You are.
Yes.
Yes.
And you do this wonderful video series, a video blog called The Factual Feminist, which is just terrific, which counters a lot of the blithering loudmouthery that comes out from the left with actual facts, which is amazing.
And that's what I love so much about Who Stole Feminism.
And you can be found at Twitter at at CH Summers.
That's S-O-M-M-E-R-S C-H Summers on Twitter.
So did you read this book, This American Girls, by Nancy Joe Sales?
I did.
I read it on a flight.
I was out at Stanford day before yesterday debating the wage gap.
I argued it was a myth.
And I read the book, and it was triggering.
You have to go to your safe place.
I needed a safe place because it was just this faux sociology, manufacturing a crisis.
And stipulate, one can be worried about girls online.
We can be worried about everyone online because we all do it too much and it may be addling our brains.
But this was just worst case example of sort of hyping a few bad stories and then weaving it in with some anecdotes and generating a crisis.
A false crisis.
And you feel it's false, completely false.
I mean, if you were speaking to this author, you would just say there's not a crisis.
If I have a girl, if I'm raising a girl, I don't have to be terrified.
Here are some inconvenient facts.
The current generation, especially girls, the millennials, I mean, there's much to complain about in terms of their hypersensitivity and, you know, on the campus, it's not all of them, but a fair number of them are, you know, problematic on the campus when it comes to free speech and hypersensitivity.
But compared to previous generations, they're by almost every metric of problem, they are very low.
There's less alcoholism, there's less drug abuse, there's less teenage pregnancy.
I mean, she's not able to cite any real statistics.
So she just went sort of cherry-picking and found studies that show things like, you know, there's an epidemic of girls getting plastic surgery so they look good in selfies.
Well, I would like to see the research to back that up.
It's preposterous.
So that's what we're dealing with.
You know, she mentions you in the book.
She mentions you and dismisses you.
She quotes you in a Newsweek article, and she says, Newsweek didn't let its readers know that Summers was the author of the anti-feminist polemic, The War Against Boys.
Great book, by the way, The War Against Boys.
They didn't let him know.
And that's it.
She just dismisses you because you're a so-called anti-feminist.
You're not, right?
You describe yourself as a certain kind of feminist, isn't that right?
A classical equality of opportunity feminist.
I want for women what I want for everyone, fair treatment, dignity, liberty.
Yeah, of course.
But I draw the line at today's sort of victim-obsessed feminism, this narrative that women are victims, men are pernicious predators, women are from Venus, men are from hell.
I'm just tired of that.
And I've been writing it.
That one is actually true, though.
There's a grain of truth in it all.
So let's talk about, though, the whole thing about sex online.
Certainly, the porn seems to be, I mean, you can't look up a word without stumbling into porn.
I've heard stories about young boys who can no longer have sex with real women because of watching porn.
Some of the pictures in the book talks about this.
Some of the images are very violent.
Do you feel, and you know, I worked on a hotline with teenagers and did hear stories about girls being bullied, girls being induced into sending naked pictures of themselves and then having them spread around.
Absolutely.
And I have talked to educators who have said that the old idea that women were protecting themselves from men, that women, that in other words, a man had to sort of convince a girl to go to bed with them, to go out with them, all those, all that's gone.
Do you feel that there's any truth to that?
There's truth to it.
And I'm rather glad that I raised two boys before social media because it's, you know, you don't know what your child's exposed to.
And in previous generations, you could more or less control it.
And, you know, maybe they'd go to someone's house and see, you know, a dad's Playboy or something.
But exposure to, you know, very, very, you know, graphic pornography, it's now the easiest thing in the world for a kid to do.
So, but how much we have to worry about it?
I don't know.
I mean, the thing is, people immediately get hysterical.
I have seen some research that suggests that, you know, there's a small percentage of kids that are obsessed with it, but overall, kids are sort of numb to it.
So we just don't know.
It doesn't seem like a good thing.
I would be worried I wouldn't have every control I could on social media so my child couldn't access pornography.
But kids are very resilient and we underestimate that.
And really what bothered me in Nancy Sales' book about American girls is that there were such caricatures of children, especially the boys, but even the girls.
They were one-dimensional little victims, kind of preyed upon.
And girls are complicated and various.
And we want to look how well are they doing in school?
Far better than the boys.
And, you know, more kids are going to college than ever before.
We're seeing now improvements in the education of sort of African-American and Hispanic girls that sociologists are at a loss to explain this surge of young women.
The odds, the rate of Hispanic girls and black girls going to college is higher than white boys.
This is a huge change.
There's so much good news for girls, not necessarily a lot for boys.
So these are the things, you know, I'd rather, there was a book that gave us an accurate depiction of the complexity of kids' lives.
There is the social media, they're on it too much, no one denies that, but how harmful will it be?
And she puts it into this, as I said, this sort of neurotic victim feminist.
She looks at the world through that prism.
So it's all kind of predictable.
So a lot of blather.
I invited her on to talk to me and promised that I would be friendly and nice, but she wouldn't come.
And what I wanted to ask her is this.
I'm not a feminist.
I'm an individualist, which basically falls into all the things that you just said.
I want everybody to do whatever they want.
Probably that too.
Yeah.
You know, I want everyone to do what they're capable of doing, what they want to do.
But it seems to me that feminism has caused a lot of the things that Nancy Sales is talking about in the sense that when you teach, it has elevated what are masculine values, values of earning, values of the workplace, values of working outside the home, values of not taking care of your children, of not having children.
And so young boys who used to respect girls as different, as being different, as having different set of values, now look at them as just kind of usable versions of themselves.
Yeah, one of the guys.
Yeah.
And that doesn't seem very healthy for girls, it seems to me.
No, it's very interesting you say that because I agree with a lot of it.
I think that even what we're seeing on campus with this hysteria around the rape culture, there's very little evidence that there's an epidemic of rape.
But there is an epidemic of just ungentlemanly behavior and girls being sort of treated like one of the guys and let's hook up.
And it's almost as if they had the hookup culture and another name for it is the rape culture.
So, you know, it's just and the only way young women could fight it, they couldn't appeal to the differences between men and women.
You're not allowed to do that anymore.
They couldn't appeal to traditions of male gallantry and sort of chivalry.
That's gone.
And the only thing they have now is taking everyone into sex court at school and having the deans manage their sex lives.
It's ridiculous.
That solution is ridiculous.
It's almost as if they want the law to replace the values that they threw out.
Right, which just doesn't work.
As a philosophy professor, one of my favorite philosophers, Edmund Burke, pointed out how much better it is to have these traditions of civility in the mores and manners of a society.
If you don't have that and you're going to use law, then it's a very blunt instrument and it's not nearly as effective.
So I think as feminists, we let, you know, people did feel women felt chivalry and gallantry and so forth, that it was sexist.
And perhaps some of it was, but I think there was a reason that civilization developed a code of protectiveness towards women because the bedrock truth is that women, on average, are weaker than men.
Right.
And men can hurt women.
And more easily, physically, certainly.
Women can get back psychologically.
We have a lot of there.
I know.
Believe me.
I'm not sure it's that uneven, the battle of the sexes.
But I also feel like chivalry sort of was an acknowledgement of respect to a set of values that maybe the culture didn't reward financially as much as it did male values.
And it was sort of saying, yes, we understand that these values are also worthwhile.
I have to ask you, I'm going to have to let you go.
I'm running out of time.
I hope you'll come back another time.
But I want to ask you one question.
Your blog, The Factual Feminists, is terrific, and everybody should check it out on YouTube.
That's the best place to find it, right?
Is YouTube?
YouTube, The Factual Feminist.
Whole playlist.
42 videos correcting us.
It's just great stuff.
And you can also be found on Twitter at CH Summers, S-O-M-M-E-R-S.
Do you ever despair?
I mean, the noise, the noise that comes out of the left is so overwhelming that facts, I mean, you saw it yesterday with the equal pay thing.
You're out fighting against it.
But of course, if you turn on TV, all three networks are covering it as if it were absolutely true.
Do you ever despair of the facts beating back this empire of lies?
Occasionally.
I have a more or less sunny disposition.
I'm optimistic.
But just the other day at Stanford, I met so many students who were fighting the forces of unreason on campus and all the trigger warnings and the safe spaces and the hysteria.
And they were very much in the minority.
So now, I don't think the majority of kids are part of this very repressive, intolerant little movement on campus.
The majority are just kind of silent bystanders.
And then there's this active group.
But I worry about the power of reason to prevail.
And I'm just, and now it's almost as if they can, there's no basis, for example, most of these feminist fictoids, factoids, but they've been repeated so often and they're echoed in the media, they're almost beyond rational analysis.
So they can control what the truth is, except that it's not true.
It's demoralizing sometimes.
Yeah.
Well, you're not alone.
You're not alone.
I feel that.
Zing A Little Zong00:02:51
Christina, thank you so much for coming on.
I hope you will come back.
It's a pleasure talking to you.
Christina Hoffman.
It's a pleasure talking to you.
I love your show.
Thank you very much.
I'll talk to you again.
Okay, bye-bye.
The factual feminist.
I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but if you go on and look at it on YouTube, she is just terrific.
Christina Hoff Summers.
All week long, stuff I like has been bad movies that are good.
So we always like to end with some music.
So I want to find a bad song that's good.
This is from a movie called Just For You, a Bing Crosby musical that is a bad musical that's good.
I love this.
It has some great, great bad songs that are great.
This one was nominated for an Academy Award.
It's called Zing a Little Zong.
And it took me, the lyrics go like this.
Zing a little Zong with me.
I know we're not beside the Zeider Z, but when you're zitting by the side of me, I want to zing a little zong.
It took me a long time to figure out what the hell this was about.
But the Zeiter Z is a bay off the Netherlands, so they're speaking in a Dutch accent.
They're singing in a Dutch accent.
So here it is.
It's Ben Crosby with the beautiful Jane Wyman, or as we call her, the first Mrs. Reagan, singing Zing a Little Song from Just For You, 1952.
Zing, zing, zilly, zing, zing, zing, zing.
You got it?
You got it and gone.
And, uh...
A zing, zing, zing a little song with me.
I know we're not beside the sider z, but when you're sitting by the side of me, I want to sing a little song.
A zing, zum, zantamantal melody.
About a chapel or an apple tree.
About a couple living happily.
And I'll be glad to sing along.
It ain't the season that has me kinda silly.
You really are a dolly, a dolly and a dilly.
You got a reason to cuddle sort of close to me.
And we can do a very clever bit of close.
Aha, money, his zing, zing, zing.
It's getting late, my pets.
We got a most important date to set.
I'm sure that we could make a great duet.
And we could sing a little love song all night long.
You grab the melody and I'll take some of the open spouse.
Sing a little song.
You can turn it on there.
Sing a little song.
A great song.
The movie also has the wonderful song, She's Arriving on the 1010 from 1010, Tennessee.