Speaker 1: 0:50

Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix Samer Abu Salbi. Samer, how are we doing this week?

Speaker 2: 0:57

I am doing. Well, I want to give the listeners a little bit of history or context on this recording that we're doing. So it's songs from movies or movies that you know like kind of made a song very popular and I got really excited about doing this because I thought, well, this is going to be great because not only can we talk about music, but we can also talk about movies. About doing this because I thought, well, this is going to be great because not only can we talk about music, but we can also talk about movies. But then I've learned that you and I have very different movie tastes, because I haven't seen a single movie that you featured a song from that is interesting.

Speaker 2: 1:31

Yeah, it might have been a bad idea. I am full of regret.

Speaker 1: 1:37

Well, because I think I'd heard of just about, I think I'd heard of at least all of the movies you put forth. I realized I hadn't seen all of them, but yeah, there weren't any mysteries. But yeah, probably the way we diverge a little bit on music preferences, probably the same would be true of movies. That shouldn't be too shocking, right.

Speaker 2: 1:56

Yeah, I should have known better. Oh well, here we are, but yes, yeah it's, it's summertime, the blockbuster movie time.

Speaker 1: 2:04

There's so many big movies coming out now, so, uh, we thought we'd kind of celebrate that by celebrating some great music that either was written exclusively for or, like, like you said, made popular by a certain movie.

Speaker 2: 2:18

Yeah, and there were a lot to pick from. So this is a good volume one mix for sure.

Speaker 1: 2:24

Yeah, there's going to be plenty of volumes of this, one for sure. So this isn't necessarily a top 12, because there's probably a thousand others.

Speaker 2: 2:34

Absolutely All right. Well with that, let's get rolling. Others Absolutely All right, well with that, let's get rolling.

Speaker 1: 2:38

Song number one is your pick and it is Old Habits Die Hard by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart. Okay, so I haven't even seen this movie, okay. So maybe I should get that out of the way. First, it's from the movie Alfie. Okay, now, the original Alfie was played by Michael Caine and was like 50 years ago, and then they remade it about 15 years ago with Jude Law, and that's where this song came into play. So this song was written for the remake of Alfie with Jude Law.

Speaker 1: 3:09

I just think this is a great song, like. It just came on the radio once and it got like just a smidgen of airplay enough for me to run across it and I was like man, I really like this song, and then realized it was from the movie. So the movie is about, uh, this guy, alfie, who is, you know, some sort of you know lifetime bachelor and sort of goes around and has, you know, heard a lot of women along the way and hurt a lot of people. So that's that's the gist of the film, right, okay. But I just I listened to the song and I was like, wow, this is a really good song and kind of shows off Mick Jagger's voice, like it's not just sort of him posturing, necessarily, I think. I think he sounds great here. And then I also thought it was appropriate, samer, because you host a podcast called Super Awesome you and you're talking all about habits right now.

Speaker 1: 4:00

And I was like well, this hits exactly that. So if you're not, this is a great song. But second, I mean it's a great segue to kind of say hey, everybody should go listen to Super Awesome you and learn a little bit about habits, right?

Speaker 2: 4:13

Yeah, exactly, I just featured the song Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park and I feel like Old Habits Die Hard is also going to be an appropriate one to do as part two of three on my little mini series on habits. But yeah, you're right, like this song, this song grew on me Like the first time I heard I was like I don't know, I'm not really into it. And then I listened to it again I was like, okay, all right, and you, you know. I listened to it a third time and really, yeah, I started to enjoy it. So it did have that effect and I think a big part of that is just Mick Jagger's voice for me, because he's just got a, yeah, such a unique, interesting voice and I've always loved the Rolling Stones, so I think that was like a big part of it. But I had not heard the movie either and in fact I immediately got it confused with Alf, the character from the 90s sitcom. I was like Alf had a movie. Oh, that's great.

Speaker 1: 5:06

But then I was like, oh right, no, alfie, it was a super serious version of the sitcom Alf, so they needed Mick Jagger to write a serious song about it.

Speaker 2: 5:15

Man. The 90s sitcoms are just something special no, alf was from the late 80s yeah, was it really? Oh, yeah, I guess I was watching in the 90s. Yeah, you might have been watching in the in the 90s, but yeah, alf was uh.

Speaker 1: 5:28

Yeah, I mean he had the habit of always trying to eat the cat of the family that he lived with right right so that was an old habit that died hard. That's why mick jagger wrote this song. He was like that makes sense.

Speaker 2: 5:39

Yeah, why is?

Speaker 1: 5:40

everyone laughing at alf. This is serious, okay don't eat, the cat don't eat the cat oh man, okay, well, yeah, good, glad you eventually enjoyed this one and thought it was about al. This is perfect, all right. So, speaking of okay, this is kind of an all-timer, this next one. And speaking of animals, that's a good segue for this next one. It is Kiss from a Rose, it's by Seal.

Speaker 2: 6:11

Yes, I like that segue. So, yeah, I mean, this was my top of mind pick whenever we were, you know, doing this mix. Um, this was actually a single 94, but then re-released to 95 on the batman forever soundtrack, and that is when it just kind of like blew up and became so popular and went on to like win grammys and a ton of awards and still to this day gets played and lauded for like what a fantastic song this is. It's probably seal's biggest hit, no doubt. Um, I don't know. Like I can't name many other seal songs I can. I can play this one over and over.

Speaker 2: 6:48

Also great for karaoke. It's like a crowd pleaser for karaoke. Like everyone's gonna get really into it. Um, because you know he really does in the song. But yeah, I love like the medieval. But yeah, I love like the medieval instrumentation in this one too. Like that's really unique. Seal's voice is amazing. I also think this has one of the all time like probably misheard lines where he's singing a light hits the gloom on the gray, but I always heard of it as on the grave and I think he did finally say it was on the gray, but for a long time he was just like no, I'm not going to clarify. It's like come on, man, you're singing the song. Why wouldn't you tell us?

Speaker 1: 7:29

Well, and it kind of has like somewhat esoteric lyrics, right. So if you're hearing grave and you're thinking one thing, I think it would help to get a little clarity.

Speaker 2: 7:39

Seal you know I right, yeah, come on, that's all we are, that's all we want, that's all we want um, but yeah, yeah, seals other hit crazy right like that's probably the other big song you've had, yes, besides this one yeah yeah, and what was really interesting reading about this is that he was originally like totally embarrassed by this song and then basically like played it for someone who thought like oh, this is actually pretty great, and convince him to release it up being just this amazing thing like smells, like teen spirit wasn't supposed to be like the lead single, like that was supposed to just be like the oh throwaway song on the on the album and that was like a genre defining.

Speaker 1: 8:25

yeah, you know, music altering song, so incredible so you're saying seal and nirvana have a lot more in common than we think?

Speaker 2: 8:33

I mean, yeah, they do.

Speaker 1: 8:35

You can do a whole podcast about that, um this was from the movie batman and robin uh, which was the first movie and only movie with val kilmer as batman and then jim carrey starred in this one as the riddler and this was when jim carrey was like red hot, like did like ace ventura and just was yeah, he was in everything for a while there. So, um, not a great movie overall. Like Jim Carrey's performance is is pretty good and kind of fits the sort of Tim Burton like stylized, you know atmosphere there. But um, yeah, I don't know I didn't love the Tim Burton produced series of Batman films, like so or I think we're all thankful Christopher Nolan got a hold of the series eventually. Yeah, this is one where I think people know the song, but probably the movie was not as memorable as the song was yeah.

Speaker 2: 9:32

this is probably a unique category where the song's bigger than the movie, for sure.

Speaker 1: 9:36

That could be its own mix probably.

Speaker 2: 9:38

Right, All right, let's move on to track number three. Your next pick A Mighty Wind by the Folksmen.

Speaker 1: 9:45

Yeah, this is the Folksmen Mitch and Mickey and the New Main Street Singers. Those are all fictional folk bands. The movie A Mighty Wind is a Christopher Guest documentary mockumentary, if you will. It's about the 60s.

Speaker 2: 10:00

What's that? Sorry, he did Best in Show right. That's why I know that name.

Speaker 1: 10:04

Yes, that's right. Christopher Guest yeah, he did Best in Show. Waiting for Guffman yeah, there's a whole series of movies that he's done and they all kind of take on a certain genre. They're almost entirely improvised, these movies, and they have a lot of the same actors. Um, they're, they're hilarious, and this one is just amazing.

Speaker 1: 10:26

But this one was unique amongst the films because they produced a whole album. So there's a whole album of of like fictional songs from these bands that never existed that are sung by these actors, and this is kind of the the main theme from a mighty wind, where all of these bands, uh, come together to sing this song. And if you're familiar with like 60s folk music, the lyrics here are just brilliant because they just hit upon every theme of like. There's this perfect, idyllic world. If we would all just come together and the blind will see and the deaf will hear and um, the. The funny thing here is like they they talk at the end. You know the mighty wind they refer to is this mighty wind of change, right?

Speaker 1: 11:10

right they keep saying it's blowing here, it's blowing there and, of course, because it's christopher guest, you guess you get at the very end the twist of it's blowing peace and freedom. It's blowing you and me.

Speaker 2: 11:25

That line killed me. That was the one I was going to bring up. It's so good, yeah, like the little clever innuendo there right at the end, and because also I think like he's so smart to kind of make fun of musicals, because often musicals will have lines in there that you do kind of like tilt your head at, you know, especially like older ones where, like maybe it doesn't translate as well 50 years later.

Speaker 1: 11:51

Right right.

Speaker 2: 11:53

And you're just like wait what are you? Singing about. So I think that I think that was really clever in that regard.

Speaker 1: 12:02

Yeah, the whole movie too. They're so earnest about what they do and what they sing. That's what I love about his movies is that there's never any over jokes, right, right. It's really just these people playing over the top characters that that is funny, but it's because they take themselves so seriously that that that's where the humor is I mean seriously kudos to the actors because I I don't know how they can get through a scene without just dying, like cracking up it.

Speaker 2: 12:30

they're so, so funny. And you're right, it's like so much deadpan, like the delivery is just, it's earnest, like you said, yeah, it's so honest and real. But then you're like these characters are ridiculous and it's so much fun. Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 1: 12:46

All right. Track four you went with. Skyfall by Adele.

Speaker 2: 12:51

Yeah, I had to pick a Bond song and it seems that you did. You had a similar thought later on this mix, which is great. So these, the two songs, are very different from one another. Bond, um, you know, bond tracks have changed over time, same as batman films. Uh, they went from kind of being like cutesy in some ways I I think you know you could argue looking back at them to very dark and very serious so skyfall is definitely in that dark and serious kind of.

Speaker 2: 13:16

You know, daniel Craig is a broken man theme and everything. And this is just one of my favorite that came out recently. It was either this or the Billie Eilish one, which is also excellent. I think her voice also does an amazing job for like a Bond film. But I mean, adele is unbelievable, like she has one of the greatest voice of of this current generation of singers. I'd say um, and I think also it's like it. It is incredible when you think about how big of a crossover hit this one is.

Speaker 2: 13:44

You know, like to make a song for opening credits for a movie is kind of a dated idea, but obviously Bond has just turned that as part of the franchise is like you're gonna get a Bond film but you're also going to get this like massive, massive, like successful song that comes out of it. And so you know it's. It is incredible. And she won best original song at Golden Globes, at Academy Awards and the best song written for visual media at the Grammy. So kudos to Adele, she, she knocked it out of the park Well and she's perfect for the Bond song, right?

Speaker 1: 14:18

So if you're not, you know one who has sat down and watched a lot of James Bond movies the opening sequence, they play the entire song as they're rolling through the credits, and so it was always a big deal. I remember when, like, not only the James Bond movie coming out but, like you said, like the song that comes with it. So it was always kind of this honor when a band would kind of get chosen for a Bond song, and so, yeah, Adele had this one, and you know her voice is incredible, but also just the orchestral background, you know, taking you through this sort of bringing the emotion, you know, bringing that much more emotion to her voice. So, yeah, this was, I think, a perfect fit. Of course, Adele was going to do a Bond song at some point. So I never saw Skyfall the movie, though Did you see the movie?

Speaker 2: 15:06

I did several times. It's probably his best one, Daniel Craig's best Bond film.

Speaker 1: 15:12

I definitely want to watch that one because I've heard it was good.

Speaker 2: 15:15

It was really good. Yeah, I'd rank that one either number one or number two with Casino Royale, and then the others all kind of fall behind back there somewhere, but this one is excellent. All right. Track number five a movie that I've heard a lot about but I have yet to see, although I feel like I should. So the song is the Great Beyond by REM, and the movie, of course is Banned on the Moon.

Speaker 1: 15:39

Yeah, so that was about comedian Andy Kaufman and he's played by Jim Carrey in that one. Really, I think if you want to see something, go and watch the documentary. I think it's called when Jim Met Andy and it's about the filming of this movie. And when they filmed this movie Jim Carrey became Andy Kaufman and then refused to break character until they were done filming. And in this documentary they just talk about how he just drove everyone crazy by taking on the persona of Andy Kaufman, because we're not familiar with Andy Kaufman Before the word viral was a thing. He became very popular for these like public kind of stunts and and things where he was kind of joking but no one else was in on the joke, right, yeah, and he put himself in these very dangerous situations, so similar to Christopher Guest stuff. That's not just overtly funny and like kind of pratfallish, right, but it was more just like is this person? It's almost like an early version of borat, right where it's like is this a real?

Speaker 1: 16:46

thing or not, right, you can't quite figure it out. And so the movie kind of, you know, depicts his lifetime. But then, um yeah, jim carrey sort of famously took this on and was like I'm going to become him. So he's like pulling pranks and stuff on the set and and really everyone was just on their last nerve by the time it was, uh, done filming.

Speaker 2: 17:09

That's awesome. Yeah, I I liked the song too. I love the line pushing an elephant up the stairs. To me that was like the song, that, the line that really stuck out out of everything, and I think that that's just a great description sometimes of something we need to do. And I bet the cast and film crew felt that way about working with Jim Carrey on the set. You know, it's like pushing an elephant up the stairs, like he was just very difficult to work with at times while he embodied this role.

Speaker 1: 17:35

So when and you're right the lyrics talk about I'm bending spoons, I'm breaking through, like it's all about kind of doing the impossible a little bit, which is what, yeah, you know, andy Kaufman kind of did, because he was this very one of a kind, and I'd say, still to this day. You know, probably Sacha Baron Cohen might be the closest thing we've gotten to him, but he was just this very one of a kind comedian again in a time with no social media.

Speaker 1: 18:03

So it's like how do you get people sort of on board with these things that you're doing? So, yeah, the song is kind of perfect for who he was. All right, track six. We're going to take a very hard left turn here. It is Earned it by the Weeknd. It's from Fifty Shades of Grey.

Speaker 2: 18:22

Oh, yes, yeah, I mean this is also a song that came to mind for me in terms of just like massive hits from a film series that just continue to get played today, regardless of whether or not you know. Like I bet at some point someone's not going to know that this is from that movie. I think we all know, you know, because it's like we're still part of that generation, but I imagine in a long time it'll still get played because it is an amazing r&b track. Um, but the movie will become less important that you know. That's where it kind of came from.

Speaker 2: 18:51

But yeah, I mean, I think this really showcases the weekend's, I mean, his talent and especially his talent for R&B singing. He had such a smooth voice for it and I think, instrumentally, like this is just, this is like a kind of sexiness in a song, like I hate to put it that way, but like I think it just really does such a good job of that, the mood fits, like I think it's perfect, for this film obviously is all about christian gray and like that whole thing. I ended up actually reading all three books at the time because everyone was so like nuts about it that I thought I was like you know I'm curious, let me let me try the first one. I ended up reading all three. Um they were. They were interesting books, certainly entertaining. Um, they offered at least entertainment value. But yeah, I just think the song is so good and really shows like the weekend's power at R&B.

Speaker 1: 19:41

Yeah, similar to Kiss from a Rose. This is a song I'd heard but like didn't know it was associated with a movie. Oh nice, okay, yeah, I was like, oh, this is just an R&B song, right? And then I was like, oh, okay, it's from Fifty Shades of Grey. Never saw the movie, did not read the books. My wife had read the books, as she described it. They kind of just got progressively worse as you read through the books. So accurate yeah, okay, and.

Speaker 2: 20:07

I also remember somewhat famously.

Speaker 1: 20:09

The actors in Fifty Shades of Grey kind of famously hated each other.

Speaker 2: 20:13

I think, think so, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 20:15

As they filmed these. So, yeah, so I'm glad we got something positive out of this movie, because I really liked this song and I was like, what's this from? And I was like, oh, fifty Shades of Grey huh, never saw that one, but yeah, but yeah. I'm glad we got a. We got a great track out of it.

Speaker 2: 20:35

Yeah, absolutely All right, we had to have Bruce on here. I mean, he's done everything, so of course he's done a song for a movie, and it is the Wrestler by Bruce Springsteen.

Speaker 1: 20:46

Yeah, from the movie the Wrestler. He's written three songs specifically from movies. Streets of Philadelphia from the movie Philadelphia, won him an Oscar. Dead man Walking, again from a movie of the same name that one he was nominated him an Oscar. Dead man Walking, again from a movie the same name that one he was nominated for an Oscar but lost. This one he won a Golden Globe for but then was not even nominated for an Oscar, which was kind of a surprise move. Rude, it is rude, it is, he's the boss, okay, yeah, if you're not familiar with the movie, it stars Mickey Rourke as an aging professional wrestler and kind of shows all the struggles that come with that profession. I believe Mickey Rourke was nominated as a result of his performance in this movie, but the song depicts this. You know, just very sad scenarios where these, you know things are trying, they're trying to get a smile out of this person, even though they are this very broken person, right and and it's just perfect.

Speaker 1: 21:45

if I grew up watching a lot of professional wrestling and as a lot of the kind of stars I watched growing up have aged and then this movie came out, I it was like the perfect intersection, because it really is exactly like that. Like these guys sacrifice kind of their lives and their bodies going from town to town and they're just trying to entertain, because that's what professional wrestling is, but they end up with just all sorts of physical problems and sometimes family problems. And so Bruce does a great job in this, in the song, of just capturing that, even if you're not necessarily a professional wrestling fan.

Speaker 2: 22:22

Yeah, I didn't really know a lot of that context, but you're absolutely right, like that song does a really good job at it and I you know he sings it perfectly well, as he always does. The other thing that really made me amazed is that he just like wrote this after a concert at giant stadium and gave it to them for free. Like he just kind of like whipped this together on his guitar and was like yeah, y'all can have this one for free. I just think like what a career.

Speaker 1: 22:53

What hey, sam? Or today, on your lunch break, go ahead and write me a song. Okay, you just knock that out.

Speaker 2: 22:59

You got it. It's going to be terrible, but I will write it, okay, thank you.

Speaker 1: 23:03

Thank you. All right, let's keep this emotional train going, because I feel like this stretch of song is a little emotional. See you Again. By Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth.

Speaker 2: 23:15

Yeah, I mean, I think we recently brought back up I mentioned, songs from Fast and Furious and how like they're all so good and high energy, and then we remembered that, like, this song exists. So I had to put this song on here because this, honestly, might be one of the saddest songs like ever period, and then certainly much sadder given the context of the death of Paul Walker on, you know, from the Fast and Furious film, yeah, I believe, like the opening lines are actually written from the perspective of Vin Diesel, as if he, like he tried to imagine what would Vin Diesel write a text to Paul Walker, you know like what? What would be written in that text message? Or something like that. And so, you know, he was like, oh, what a long day it's been, but I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.

Speaker 2: 23:55

This kind of really like warm way of thinking, like, yeah, you're gone, but I'm going to see you again and you know, speaking that this isn't like the last time that they'll ever speak, which is really sweet. But, yeah, this song is really good. I think it's really powerful and it was made for the Fast and Furious films which, like you, wouldn't expect such a, such an emotional song to come out of such ridiculous films that just keep getting more and more ridiculous as they go. So yeah, great song.

Speaker 1: 24:25

Agreed. Yeah, great song. Like we joke a lot on this on this show, about the Fast and Furious movies. You're right, they just get ridiculous. But this is a really poignant moment in Furious Seven, where they have the cars kind of pull up each other and then kind of go in different directions while this song is playing. And, um, yeah, I mean honestly, if you've ever lost a friend, like this song kind of hits you. Yes, like it is a great song for that, even if you're not into the fast and furious movies. Um, so I was like, yeah, this I mean feel like this has to be on here I agree.

Speaker 2: 25:01

Yeah, definitely had to put this on here. All right track. Nine, the other bond film song, a very different vibe from skyfall, and billy eilish's bond song this is live and let die by paul mccartney and wings yeah, I'm glad you had the same thought of like a James Bond song, because I immediately my mind went to that.

Speaker 1: 25:22

But I had like five choices I was going through. I thought about Skyfall, I thought about Live and Let Die. Obviously I picked that one. View to a Kill is a Duran Duran song from the 80s which sounds very 80s like. But yeah, I picked this one because it was, I guess, a big deal when Paul McCartney agreed to do a Bond song.

Speaker 2: 25:43

Right, he did the song and it's.

Speaker 1: 25:47

it's great and when you think about, you know, a Bond movie, you can absolutely see sort of an action sequence going along with all the musical changes in this one, and it's a great song, just on its own guns, and roses redid it later. But yeah, I mean, this was just. I don't know that this was the one I ultimately landed on, but definitely could have picked Skyfall or any number of a of a handful of other songs, for you know my, my bond film pick.

Speaker 2: 26:17

Yeah, I just was like so kind of amazed at how different of a vibe it is. I you know so many years have gone between this one. This was the first Roger Moore film and then you know there have been many bonds in between. And what I thought also was really interesting is that they recorded this one with like a live orchestra in a very large room and I think that actually adds to the musical quality of it, because it has like a frantic energy and there are a lot of shifts and you can kind of get that feel that they're like literally in a huge room with a large orchestra. They're like all right, let's do this. You know I hit record everyone, everyone to your places.

Speaker 2: 26:54

It has that energy to it, and I think that's another reason why it's like such a popular song for a, a bond film, and one that you know kind of has long-standing history okay, we can't talk about movies from film without including something from an animated film.

Speaker 1: 27:09

So you hit that, hit that mark here with.

Speaker 2: 27:12

You've got a friend in me by randy newman yeah, I mean also because we recently featured randy newman on on a recent episode and so Randy Newman was top of mind and obviously this is, for me at least, like you know, the number one Randy Newman song. Especially just growing up, watching the Toy Story films, which have been around for like over 20 years at this point I think maybe even 25 years or something ridiculous like that, which is wild, because, you know, having having that be introduced in our lifetime, it's like oh yeah, didn't that just come out? It's like, nope, they're up to like toy story 17 and he's now the old man from up.

Speaker 2: 27:49

that's uh, that's the whole, that's the whole universe they've created. Um, but yes, I think this is such a cute song and, other than the fact it was made for this film, I think on its own it's just. It is a beautiful song about friendship and I think the song itself just sounds like friendship, like it's got this little whimsy to it and it just sounds really nice. It's got very cute lyrics and I think it's one that you know. If you've got a good friend, you can kind of reminisce to all the fun you've had together with this person while listening to this song.

Speaker 1: 28:27

Yeah, similar to See you Again, right, it's one of these songs where it's like you associate it with the movie and maybe it lessens it a little bit, right. But when you really listen to it it's just great. And you're right, it's just a perfect song about friendship. Yeah, I mean you talk about how long these movies have been around. I mean, I think I don't even know if I saw toy story before I had kids, just because I was just like a single adult when it came out.

Speaker 1: 28:53

Sure, and did not get around to see it. And then and then, years later, I took my kids to see toy story 4 and we were kicked out of the movie theater.

Speaker 2: 29:01

So so there you know, I don't know, I guess it comes full circle maybe that's awesome. You're not allowed to throw things at the screen, Matt. That's why they kicked you out and your kids had to suffer. You got to learn.

Speaker 1: 29:16

I wasn't happy with some of the choices the actors made. That's all that's all I'll say Okay.

Speaker 2: 29:23

All right, well, listen, I don't want to fight about this any longer. It just takes us to track number 11, just the all time. And may she rest in peace. Tina Turner, the song I Don't Want to Fight.

Speaker 1: 29:34

Yeah, so this was an original song she wrote for the movie treatment of her life called what's Love Got to do with it, which came out, I think, in the early 90s, which is wild to think that it's like 30 years prior to her passing. There was this biopic, uh done about her life. Um, and if you're not familiar with her story, I mean she was originally a duo with her then husband, ike turn Turner, and sort of shot up to fame. But you know they had this awful relationship, uh, where Ike Turner was abusing her and, um, that's what the movie kind of takes you through is their relationship. And then she walks away from him at the end and obviously her career continues to soar while while his kind of falls by the wayside. Um, and it's funny because at the end he's very much like you're nothing without me. They talk about having this sort of complicated divorce, but she's like you can take everything, I just want my name and she walks away and just sort of rebuilds her career from there and it just takes off.

Speaker 1: 30:41

So it's actually I think it's a great movie, and this song is just perfect for sort of exhibiting this broken relationship and how she's just like I don't want to do this anymore. Right, like on top of the fact that she's the one getting abused, but it's also just she expresses this kind of weariness, but also how, you know, there used to be some positive things in this relationship, but now it's like nope, I'm done with this.

Speaker 2: 31:08

Like all it is is just negativity and fighting yeah, no, her story really is incredible, um, and what she went on to do and and make such an enormous name for herself. The other thing that made me happy about listening to this song again is it reminded me that this was also on my, on my parents like mix that they would listen to all the time.

Speaker 1: 31:29

So you just got another one.

Speaker 2: 31:30

We got a bingo you gotta, you gotta bingo. Long time listeners will know that they're. Ever. Since the start of the show there have been songs that appear that remind me of being in the car with my parents that they had like this cd or mixtapes that they would listen to on repeat all the time. So this was on there, so we got another one. It's always exciting when that happens nice, nice.

Speaker 1: 31:51

All right, let's bring this one home. Track 12 your last pick, mrs robinson, by simon and garfunkel yeah, I think this was.

Speaker 2: 31:59

I'm pretty sure we've talked about this song, um, on a previous mix. It may have been something from the 60s, like a 60s mixtape, but I had to include it again. It's from the film the Graduate, which is also like a top 10 movie for me. I absolutely love Dustin Hoffman in that film and I just like the weirdness of the movie. It's great. But you know, the thing that really makes me laugh about this song is how it came to be like the song for the Graduate.

Speaker 2: 32:23

The creators of the movie were looking for, you know, a song to go along with it, and they love Simon and Garfunkel's music and they were like, hey, can you write us a song? And I'm pretty sure it was that. Simon and Garfunkel were like, well, we were going to write the song, mrs Roosevelt, about Eleanor Roosevelt, and but you know, know we could literally just swap out roosevelt for robinson, because it's the exact same number of syllables and it works in the song. And so they're like, great, we're done. Here's your song, similar to kind of. You know it's almost in the same category as like bruce, just like you know, knocking a song out 30 minutes after after finishing a concert. They're just kind of like yeah, whatever, just you know knocking a song out 30 minutes after after finishing a concert. They're just kind of like yeah, whatever, just you know, find and replace roosevelt with robinson, let's call it a day it's like in modern times.

Speaker 1: 33:11

It would be like as if an assignment was due today and it's like guys, remember, we asked you to write that song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we got it. We got it. I'll just send it over. Right now it's on my home computer. Let me get back home. Yeah, yeah, here you go guys, yeah, just quick find and replace. Okay, just drop in Robinson. All right, there you go, guys. Yep, we're good.

Speaker 2: 33:42

These lyrics don't fit, but I love that you titled it. Mrs Robinson, this is great, right? Yeah, I know, because, like you know, the movies is like about Dustin Hoffman's character who's like young, just out of college, who starts dating this older woman and then ends up dating and trying to marry his daughter, or sorry, her daughter, which is very strange and bizarre and it's like, again, just an interesting film. But you know, she's like a board, kind of socialite and this I feel like again, is pretty clearly Mrs Roosevelt and her life. Like I think, especially verse three, you know, sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon going to the candidates debate. Laugh about a shot about it when you've got to choose. You know, it's like.

Speaker 1: 34:28

I don, you know, it's like I don't. I didn't imagine that this woman in the movie is going to any candidates debate, um. But you know it's fine, it works. It's never quite matched up, yeah right. Well, and interestingly, it was not eligible for the oscars the year it was released, and part of it is because I think it was not purely written for the. It was like this technicality, it was not purely written for the movie, it was like a song released with the movie or something like that.

Speaker 1: 34:47

but I don't know, for some reason that relationship ended up making it like not eligible to win an oscar, because I I was certain this would have won the oscar. But all right, um, all right. There you have it. It's another super awesome mix for your collection, this time Music from movies that, some of which you may have seen, some of which you just heard of, but, you know, probably worth checking out and go to the movies this summer. Right, like you can go to the movies again. So check out some of the blockbusters. I think there's a lot of fun movies coming out. Coming out and, you know, while you're maybe thinking about whether they're good or bad, go ahead and give us a five-star review. While you're listening to the show here, samra and I will get to work on our next mix. So, for Samra, this is Matt and we'll see you next time.