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I'd only ever seen this one song from the live action Robert Altman Popeye, which is like a notorious disaster.
They went to Malta and built a whole village and then it rained for like a year straight and they couldn't film for months at a time.
But Just they built such a wonderful little world seeing this.
Think Mackey showed me this.
So like picture Mackey singing this song as it's going easy.
But look at this world that that Rob Robert Altman Roger, I can't remember his name, created with with this movie.
See if you can spot Popeye.
This is right?
This is correct?
- How is this not great?
Is this going to get bad?
No, it is great.
Okay.
See if I get this pop up.
Is that what you said?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Is he there yet?
Is he on the screen yet?
Do you know who plays Popeye?
Oh, man.
No, I don't remember.
It's Robin Williams.
It is Robin Williams.
Okay, cool.
Amazing.
Robin Williams with giant prosthetic forearms.
I want you to listen to these lyrics and tell me how good you think these lyrics are.
You see this?
Apparently they recorded all this singing live on set.
So that's cool.
This is like the Chariot album.
This is like the Chariot album.
It's all live.
I think they like redubbed some stuff, but the person who wrote all the music is Harry Nielsen, who's a folk singer from this era that I got confused with Donovan. who's a folk singer from this era that I got So I don't know any of Harry Nilsson's stuff.
I think he had an album called Nilsson Schmilsson that I might have listened to at one point, but I can't tell you.
I can't tell you that, but just listen to these lyrics.
Go back to the beginning where he says, everything is food.
Yeah, it's good.
Everything is food, food, food.
What does that mean?
Everything is food to go.
Everything is food for thought. - For thought. - Everything you'll eat is dumb.
It is food.
Everything is food.
I love this.
Okay, so everything you need is dough.
Yeah, that's great.
That's a good pun.
That's the one good pun in there.
But what do you like?
What does everything is food mean?
What is what is everything is food to go?
What does that mean?
I don't know.
Yeah.
But I like everything is rolling and everything is food for thought.
So, yeah, everything is either food you're eating or something to think about.
I'm with this.
Watching this is like it feels like a slight descent into madness.
It feels like I'm watching humanity devolve.
It does feel a little weird, like things are kind of unraveling.
Everything is meat, meat, meat.
Careful what you put on your feet.
Once it lived on an enemy.
Now it walks along with you.
It could be cool.
Everything is cool. Pause it.
What about those lyrics, Tony?
Everything is meat, meat, meat.
But as we all know, careful what you put on your feet.
Yeah.
Because that could be food.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you, Wendy.
We're back to veganism.
Thank you.
Yeah, think about it.
Your shoes are not just shoes.
They're not just leather.
They can't just take the leather without producing meat.
Everything is meat.
Be careful what you put on your feet, because what that was once lived on an animal.
And what about the energy that animal carried?
And now it's on your feet.
And, you know, your feet are basically access to your entire body, which is why I use those detox pads once a week.
It sounds like I can use that animal's energy to propel me forward with these shoes.
Like, you're not dissuading me at all.
I like that everything is me.
That's not what shoes do.
Shoes don't propel you forward.
Shoes protect your feet.
They protect your feet.
You propel yourself forward.
They just protect your feet.
All right.
Oh, you don't think they have shock absorbers and cushioned soles and spring actions?
And like, why would you why?
Why don't you just go run in sandals, dude?
True, true.
I didn't think about that part.
No, but I like how it's like, everything is meat, careful what you put on your feet, because it could be food.
It's not like, don't wear that because it's an animal.
It's don't wear that because you should be eating it instead.
Why are you wearing it?
You could boil that.
You could boil that and make a delicious little snack.
It's so fucking, the lyrics are just genuinely like, So Robert Altman knew Harry Nilsson.
I was watching extra footage because I bought Popeye so I could watch it and own it.
I figured I'd want to see it more than once.
We watched like the making of stuff and Robert Altman was like, Oh yeah, I knew Harry Nilsson.
So I asked him to do this, the songs and he's like, okay.
And it literally sounds like he wrote all these songs in one night.
Yeah, that's awesome.
So we're going to have a scene where they're going to be eating food.
You say food.
You said food?
Okay, cool.
Got you.
Yeah.
Beat.
Drop beat.
I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
That's Wimpy.
Is this like where we're meeting all the characters seen?
No, that's just like littered throughout.
I don't think that's necessary.
Wimpy is just associated with food, so I think they stuck him in here.
That's Wimpy.
When this part of the movie happened, I pointed at the screen and turned to my girlfriend.
I said, that's Wimpy.
That's Wimpy.
He's the guy who likes the hamburgers.
Because we did see, we have seen like three major characters in the span of seconds.
And they're not like interacting with each other yet.
So that's why I said that.
It's still the beginning of the movie, yeah.
This is like some bad, uh, Christmas carol musical.
Sorry, some bad what?
Like an off brand Christmas carol musical?
Like, the line we just heard was, I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
And then everybody else said, he will gladly pay you Tuesday.
It's like bad musical writing.
It's just like, oh, it's a call and response where it's the same thing.
They just respond with the same thing.
Yeah.
I love it.
So, so lazy.
I feel like this song, like the pace of this song and the lyrical content genuinely feels like a sinkhole sucking me into the earth.
It feels like I'm trying to break free of this song and it's like shackled to both of my ankles.
It's like not changing.
Nothing's happening.
It's the same bad rhymes.
Pizza Lawyer says, yeah, they had to redub Williams because none of the test audiences could understand him.
Robin Williams was hired for this.
I mean, I don't know if he was their first pick, but definitely like one of the reasons he was hired is because of his ad libbing ability.
You know, like how he just ran around the fucking recording booth when he was doing the genie from Aladdin.
Imagine that level of Robin Williams energy, but everything is below his breath because he's muttering like Popeye.
Yep.
That's really funny.
That's really funny.
And like half of what Popeye says is made up words like rizzle frazzle raggle.
So it's it's extremely bizarre.
And then it's all overdubbed like pizza.
It's all overdubbed.
So he's like walking along and you're hearing this like loud muttering It's very funny.
Awesome.
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