Minion Death Cult - BUTT FEST 2000 - Bowling Rock Vol. 2 (preview)
Aired: 2023-02-16
Duration: 04:46


=== Hawaiian Shirts and Beer (04:06) ===

[00:00:00]  Oh, there's the...
[00:00:05]  Yeah, they're like the suit.
[00:00:08]  Super Bowl halftime show is real big fish.
[00:00:11]  Basketball fucking sucks.
[00:00:13]  They're a house band.
[00:00:16]  Yeah.
[00:00:16]  Yeah, fuck that.
[00:00:18]  At least two of them were wearing Hawaiian shirts.
[00:00:21]  You know what I got to say?
[00:00:23]  I think they look cooler than I remember them looking.
[00:00:26]  Like some of them look like legit like mods, you know?
[00:00:29]  Had the little bowl haircut and their little, you know, so maybe they were like more legit than I remember them being.
[00:00:36]  I don't dislike Real Big Fish.
[00:00:38]  I think Real Big Fish is super fun.
[00:00:40]  I love this song.
[00:00:42]  It's just called Beer.
[00:00:43]  It's like, uh, you know, I think I'll have myself a beer.
[00:00:48]  Pretty good, but Bowling Rock, it's Bowling Rock.
[00:00:51]  It's a song about beer with horns in it and guys wearing Hawaiian.
[00:00:55]  It's like, what's, you know, just another American pastime, beer and, and pretending to be Hawaiian.
[00:01:02]  You know, these are all very like American throwback because the Hawaiian thing is also goes back to Elvis.
[00:01:11]  Elvis had a Hawaiian connection.
[00:01:15]  What was his, was he?
[00:01:15]  Through his movies, right?
[00:01:17]  He just played in movies a lot where he was stationed in Hawaii.
[00:01:19]  Was he stationed?
[00:01:20]  Yeah.
[00:01:21]  I think he played in a couple movies where he was stationed in Hawaii.
[00:01:23]  I mean, he has that song, you know, Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaiian.
[00:01:28]  Yeah.
[00:01:29]  Yeah.
[00:01:29]  He's a- On goes.
[00:01:31]  All part of that Hawaiian culture.
[00:01:33]  Man, I think we're finding the through line.
[00:01:37]  When did bowling become a past?
[00:01:39]  That's like 1950s, right?
[00:01:41]  So it's all around the same time?
[00:01:43]  I don't know.
[00:01:44]  Also, arguably, bowling is one of the few things that has remained, like, predominantly white.
[00:01:54]  Like, it's one of the only sports that hasn't been, like, you know, I think most of the champions are still going to be of Anglo descent.
[00:02:05]  So that's kind of interesting to think about.
[00:02:07]  I haven't looked in a long time, but I will say, and this is just on my end, that like, when you go to league night, it is not all white, is what I'm trying to say.
[00:02:23]  Like every season.
[00:02:26]  Everybody I knew that was in a league was black.
[00:02:31]  Friends of mine, and they would just go crazy.
[00:02:34]  But I think you're probably right about... Oh no, black people bowl, I'm just saying professionally.
[00:02:41]  Like, I'm just saying, like, but like, for instance, like the best black bowler I'm aware of is Mookie Betts, who's also one of the best baseball players in the world.
[00:02:49]  So like, he just plays professional baseball instead.
[00:02:51]  Yeah.
[00:02:52]  That video of him picking up that, is he picking up a split or he's picking up a spare or something?
[00:02:57]  It's cool.
[00:02:57]  Yeah.
[00:02:58]  It's real casual.
[00:02:59]  Okay.
[00:03:00]  But then when you think of the legend, you think of, uh, who do you think you are?
[00:03:03]  I am like, that's, That's a goaded white man with all the sauce right there.
[00:03:09]  And that's bowling culture to me.
[00:03:10]  Who do you think you are?
[00:03:12]  I am.
[00:03:13]  I don't know that.
[00:03:14]  Is that a bowling reference?
[00:03:16]  Yeah, this guy like gets his bowl his perfect game and looks in the camera and says that.
[00:03:22]  Okay.
[00:03:22]  Do you think you are?
[00:03:24]  I am.
[00:03:24]  He's like, no one can fuck with me.
[00:03:27]  He's so stoked.
[00:03:29]  He's a legend.
[00:03:30]  So apparently the Automatic pin setter was introduced to bowling in the 1950s and 60s, which made bowling of, you know, obviously much more believable sport recreation to play.
[00:03:44]  So, yeah, all wrapped up in that 1950s culture.
[00:03:49]  Let's look at the rest of Basketball's soundtrack.

=== Disgusting Bands Debate (00:54) ===

[00:03:56]  Because there's a couple names on here I want to point out to you guys.
[00:04:01]  Not all of these are Bowling Rock in my mind.
[00:04:03]  See, they have Cherry Poppin' Daddies on here, which is...
[00:04:08]  Too sick to be Bowling Rock?
[00:04:10]  Like, Cherry Pop and Daddy's are, like, too disgusting to be Bowling Rock.
[00:04:14]  Oh, yeah.
[00:04:15]  Yeah.
[00:04:16]  Yeah, I think so.
[00:04:16]  Like, even... They're not chill.
[00:04:18]  Like, Voodoo Glow Skulls is disgusting, but, like, in a good way, you know?
[00:04:22]  Like, scary, kind of.
[00:04:25]  Yeah.
[00:04:26]  But Squirrel Nut Zippers, still kind of gross, still kind of disgusting.
[00:04:31]  Yeah.
[00:04:32]  Not as fun-loving.
[00:04:33]  But a name popped out at me, and that name was Goldfinger.
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