Speaker 1: 0:48

Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Siddholm, along with my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, Samer Abusalbi. Samer, how are we doing this week?

Speaker 2: 0:58

Doing real well. I'm excited for today's episode because the Oscars were on recently and no one is talking about them. I just kind of felt that actors are missing out on some attention.

Speaker 1: 1:14

Lowest ratings in years. Yeah, there's just nothing notable that happened not at all.

Speaker 2: 1:20

it was really boring, um and and you know we get super awesome mix we just we felt bad and we were like let's do our part to kind of like prop up some talented actors ourselves, right, so this could be the beginning of our very own award show. Oh, that's a great point, yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:37

Yeah, really good point. I mean, of course we're kidding. Obviously, the big news but part of that big news that came out of the Oscars of course we're talking about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage was it got us thinking about multi-talented celebrities? Because obviously, will Smith was known as a rapper as well as an actor. He just won an Oscar and so we decided to make a whole mix out of folks of the same ilk. Unfortunately and I'm glad we're not on a stage announcing this, but Will Smith did not make the mix- he did not.

Speaker 2: 2:12

No, not for a lack of talent or for any reason like that. There's nothing politically motivated here either, like we just there was. Actually there was a lot more than I thought, to be honest. I kind of had a couple of picks early on in my head and then, as I started to think more about it, I was like, oh my gosh, what about this person? What about this person? So there could easily be like a volume two here. It's pretty interesting, pretty interesting just like how many people are either like they were in a band and then got into acting, or you know, there were musicians that got into acting or they're acting and they started a band with a group of people yeah, I agree it was a much bigger list than I anticipated.

Speaker 1: 2:51

I kind of had a few in mind and jotted some things down, but then, yes, as you it, it's like there's a lot of people in this group who are either maybe better known for one or the other. I think that's probably fair to say. In this case, we really tried to focus on people who you probably know just as actors, and then you know here's their music that goes along with it. So I think some of this it'll be pretty familiar to people.

Speaker 2: 3:22

Others it'll be pretty familiar to people.

Speaker 1: 3:23

Others it'll be like what am I listening to? Yeah, I'm glad you said that. I have a couple of questions, all right, well, we're going to start off big. Okay, there's no doubt about this one, but you go with. What Goes Around Comes Around by, of course, justin Timberlake.

Speaker 2: 3:36

Yes, Justin Timberlake, this one, yeah, as you said, no surprises here. He was one of the first people that popped in my mind when I thought about super talented individuals that can sing, that can act, that can do it all you know for each of these, we also were going to say what is our favorite role that they've played. So for me, honestly, it's anytime he's on SNL and then the movie Social Network. I thought he was actually very good in Social Network. It's like a dramatic actor, which is pretty cool. So he played the co-founder of Napster or the founder of Napster in that movie and was kind of egging Mark Zuckerberg on. So we have him to thank for Facebook, really.

Speaker 1: 4:19

So you know, obviously not Justin Timberlake, but the role yeah, justin timberlake would never do something that horrible, I think, to us.

Speaker 2: 4:23

No, he wouldn't um, but hey, follow us on instagram only by facebook that's right.

Speaker 1: 4:28

We do love our instagram followers, so do you stick with us there? But yes, but yeah. So about the song, about the song I.

Speaker 2: 4:36

I really loved the hook of this song, right, like it just immediately gets you um and it continues throughout. Like this, this cool little, almost like arabic sounding, um, like hook it's, it's uh, you know, the interestment instruments here are pretty interesting, but this is like a pretty good song. I imagine in terms of if we ever did like another breakup mix, this would be like the almost the intermediate. You know you're working through your feelings about a breakup. It's all about him talking to someone being like hey, yeah, you know what, like you broke my heart. You're kind of a terrible person, but what comes, you know, goes around, comes around, and the song is split in two where it's like the first section is the what goes around, and then the second section changes and it's like what comes around, and now this person is like lonely and miserable and he's like haha, I told you so it's a pretty awesome song.

Speaker 1: 5:24

I agree this is. This is a fantastic song, really good pick and yeah, it would make a great, great breakup song because you know clearly he's been wronged in some way, shape or form, although I can't imagine outside of the very famous breakup with Britney Spears. I mean, how often has that happened to Justin?

Speaker 2: 5:42

Timberlake right, sure, sure, probably. You know what actors you know. They're just like us. Though, matt, they're just like us that's a great point.

Speaker 1: 5:48

I'm glad that should be a feature in a magazine. I feel like.

Speaker 2: 5:52

I? That would be a great one. I think you just call it like I.

Speaker 1: 5:55

I don't know, we're all people, you know, I think that could be the title we're all people, all right, so let's move on.

Speaker 2: 6:04

Track two you went with. You're no Rock and Roll Fun by Sleater Kinney.

Speaker 1: 6:09

Yeah, so the through line here is Carrie Brownstein.

Speaker 1: 6:13

She is the multi-talented individual in this one. She's the multi-talented individual in this one. She's part of this duo, kind of a rock all-female duo, and then she's also part of a duo with Fred Armisen on the show Portlandia. He's a drummer and I think he's the leader of Seth Myers' Late Night Band, or at least he was the first couple of seasons of that show. I'm not sure I don't watch as much of the late night talk shows as I used to, so I'm not sure if that's still in effect, but he was definitely a part of that.

Speaker 1: 6:52

I like this song. I picked this one out of their catalog, so Slater's come out with like they've had multiple albums. So really, carrie Brownstein was really a musician first and then Fred Armisen just kind of brought her in to do Portlandia and she was brilliant as a comedic actress in that setting as well. So but yeah, this was a cool rock song and I like what they do vocally and and I just like the lyrics. You know, it's kind of a fun thing to say to someone that you're no rock and roll fun yeah, it is a great song, a lot of fun.

Speaker 2: 7:24

It's um kind of like a traditional, not a, not a. Yeah, it's more like popish compared to some of their other songs which are a little bit more punkish.

Speaker 2: 7:33

Yeah, uh so it's a, you know, a little bit more accessible if you're not really into punk, but she's just an amazing comedian actress. You're absolutely right. Same for me it's portlandia I I fell in love with her on portlandia. She is hilarious. Both of them together makes such a great duo. Their skits are can be very outlandish or very real, um and and just hilarious. You've never seen the show. Uh, watch it, I think you'll. You'll enjoy it. There's like six or seven seasons, I think. They're all on netflix. There are some skits that are like for me at least, like just I wanted to skip them, but there's others that you're just in tears laughing. So it's a great, great show.

Speaker 2: 8:09

She's very talented and it's a fun song and it has an it has an amazing bridge to it too. Like it's just like this really cool, this really cool vibe and rock song. It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 1: 8:19

Yeah, and I agree on Portlandia Not everything lands, but I think the majority of it does, and so I think you're going to enjoy it, unless you're from the city of Portland, because I visited there once and a lot of the people there weren't huge fans of the show.

Speaker 2: 8:35

I did discover that I can imagine.

Speaker 1: 8:37

All right, all right. Next up you go with. Why do you let me stay? Why do you let me stay here by she and him?

Speaker 2: 8:45

yes, a good question song actually, to throw back to our, to our question mix. There are a lot of question songs I'm finding, but, um, this one, of course, uh features zoe de chanel and my favorite role I've seen her in is 500 days of summer. Actually, I love that movie. The tragic tale of basically an anxious individual and an avoidant individual getting into a relationship. If you're familiar with those relationship archetypes, that is. That's what that is, um, someone who really wants love and then someone who basically like only wants it up until it's no longer useful to them. And it's rough. It's a great breakup film.

Speaker 2: 9:26

Anyway, let's talk about the music. So this is the first single from them off of their debut album. I really love the sound of her music. Someone described the lyrics as almost like Beatles-esque and I totally agree. I think that's like a perfect read on it. It's just like this cute little love song, kind of like a dreamy rock sound, very nice lyrics and the ending has this fun little part where the instrumentation goes away and the vocals remain and then everything comes back in. You know, typical kind of like crescendo, and it's great. It works really well and she has a beautiful voice.

Speaker 1: 9:59

I agree, it did remind remind me that's what I wrote down is that it was almost something like out of the 50s, the right, just rhythm of it and the sound of it, and then even even lyrically, um, so no, I, I, I'd love this pic. I didn't know. Just on the surface she and him, so this one didn't stand out to me as like, oh, of course, this is zoe deschanel, right, like it just didn't, it just didn't hit my uh, hit my brain that way. But, um, but yeah, she's fantastic new girl is really funny if you haven't seen that sitcom, but for me I like to go with elf.

Speaker 1: 10:31

That's my favorite performance and that's just maybe not entirely her performance. Maybe that's more will ferrell, but but that's probably what I've seen the most. I do want to see 500 days of summer. I've heard that's outstanding it's really good.

Speaker 2: 10:43

Um elf is a great pick because you also get to hear her sing and she saves the christmas that's right, yes, yes, she's sorry spoiler.

Speaker 1: 10:50

Oh goodness, yes, uh, she's. You know you can't come on the show and spoil a 20-year-old movie.

Speaker 2: 10:56

We do it all the time too. It's terrible. We talk about that.

Speaker 1: 11:00

That's the one criticism we get. That's why our rating's not a 5.0 on the app store or on the podcast.

Speaker 2: 11:07

Right, you ruined a 30-year-old movie, 20-year-old movie.

Speaker 1: 11:10

Quit ruining old movies.

Speaker 2: 11:14

So sorry, all right, but yeah, no, yeah, no. Elf is a great, great pick, uh, for for her it's a wonderful movie. That's one of my my go-to christmas films. I watch it almost every year. A lot of fun. All right, let's move on to track four. You went with you didn't know me when by Harry Connick Jr.

Speaker 1: 11:34

Yeah, of course, harry Connick Jr. He's known as an amazing musician. His first album came out when he was like 10 or 11 years old Incredible, yeah, just phenomenal piano player and kind of brought back kind of a big band sound. He did the when Harry Met Sally soundtrack and had a huge, you know quite a bit of success with that one. This is off his album called Red Light, blue Light, and that one's actually kind of originals, but still with the big band sound.

Speaker 1: 12:05

And I love this song in particular because it's just kind of, you know, in any relationship you're all coming from these past experiences and I think it's always funny when it comes up in a relationship like something sort of offbeat that you did in the past that maybe your current self wouldn't have done. But then it's like, yeah, no, I did that once. Yeah, I don't know, I was like 25. Yeah, we were here, we were in Vegas, we just kind of went, whatever. And then it was like, oh, okay, you know, and your partner at that time just wouldn't believe it, and so I just like the sentiment here of you Well, you didn't know me when. Okay.

Speaker 3: 12:44

But Harry Connick.

Speaker 1: 12:44

Jr has done a ton of acting as well. He's done some rom-coms. I'm going to point our listeners to an episode of Cheers, the old sitcom cheers that he did, where he plays woody harrelson's cousin and becomes obsessed with, uh, kirsty alley on the show and uh that's a deep cut.

Speaker 1: 13:04

It's a deep cut, but let me tell you, I mean, he's hilarious like it's not. I mean, that was that was. The show's episode is probably 30 years old, at least now, and um, he's really funny in it and you wouldn't have expected it from harry connick jr certainly not at that time that's awesome, hey, and if you're looking for a place to watch cheers, check out peacock.

Speaker 2: 13:25

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Speaker 1: 13:34

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Speaker 2: 13:36

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Speaker 1: 13:42

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Speaker 3: 13:44

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Speaker 1: 13:50

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Speaker 2: 13:54

But yeah, this is I mean he has an amazing voice a very talented singer. I liken him to, like you know, kind of a Rat Pack sound, more modern day Sinatra, basically Gorgeous voice. I liked him in Will and Grace, so that's kind of where I knew him most. In terms of acting. He played a role in Will and Grace for a couple of recurring episodes. I didn't watch the show a whole lot, but I do remember every now and then he'd make an appearance. So I can't speak too much to it, but I just remember enjoying him being on the show Nice.

Speaker 1: 14:29

A great pick. Yeah, Harry Connick Jr, there we go All right. Next up, you've got Heartbeat by Childish Gambino.

Speaker 2: 14:37

Yes, of course, donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, who has done a lot of stuff, is both a prolific rapper and now a prolific actor, and he is a tremendous actor and a tremendous rapper. Honestly, I think he really does check the box of multi-talented here. My favorite, of course, is kind of a two-way tie. For television it's the show Community. He's absolutely genius in the show Community and that show itself is just really special. It just ends up kind of being almost like a parody of itself in a way. I don't know. It's really interesting the style that they end up doing where every episode is like a different genre of a TV show. But then for movies, movies, his role in solo in the movie solo I kind of feel he stole the. The film like playing young lando calrissian was like the best part of that movie, hands down, he was amazing.

Speaker 1: 15:29

That's uh, that's a great call. I forgot about solo. Um, yeah, I love community. I I feel like that show is kind of uh, kind of groundbreaking in a lot of ways, just with the way they did things, although it ultimately like kind of wasn't necessarily a huge hit. So I mean, I don't know if you could be groundbreaking and and just never really get off the ground at the same time.

Speaker 2: 15:51

But um, I I think that can happen yeah, I think there's yeah, there's a number of things like that, okay but, you speaking, speaking about the song you know Heartbeat by Childish Gambino.

Speaker 2: 16:00

So this is like one of my favorites of his really heavy beat, really aggressive lyrics. It's kind of just about like an on again, off again relationship where you know he's upset that this other person is dating. He's also dating and they're just like a mess. They don't know what they are dating. He's also dating and they're just like a mess, they don't know what they are. I think the lyrics can can be very relatable if you've ever found yourself in that unfortunate situation where you don't know you know what you are with someone. So this could be almost like a we keep coming back to, like relationships a lot of music are about. It's about relationship. Um, this could be like the pre-breakup right. This is like the. You know you don't know if it's gonna work or not. You're frustrated. You know this could be that that moment, like right before then you, you break out our ultimate get over your mix song um mixtape um, yeah, I love this song.

Speaker 1: 16:46

like the beat is awesome and, uh, yeah, just his lyrics. This almost sounds like something kanye could have pulled off too. Like if you told me, like kanye remade this, kanye, you know, made this song right, I would have been like, yeah, okay, it's a little different, but yeah, I could see that. Yeah, it's just, it's so good I could just listen to this song. This whole album that it's off of is also really good, so definitely definitely worth a listen.

Speaker 2: 17:13

Yeah and I don't know what he's better at acting or rapping, right right, I don't know either exactly.

Speaker 1: 17:19

I mean, you know you're talented when you're sitting there going. That's a real toss-up with this guy. I don't know it really is.

Speaker 2: 17:25

He's just a great performer, no matter what he does. I think that that's what it comes down to. He's also, if you ever like, want to fall down the donald glover rabbit hole and I won't spend too much time on this youtube like videos of him. Whenever he was, I think, at nyu, he did a bunch of like comedic youtube videos and they are hilarious. Like he is is also a very talented comedian. So, again, checks all the boxes. He's great, but, um, let's move on to track six here. It's your pick, of course, and it is, if I could turn back time by the one and only share yeah, I'm just gonna say it to everybody out there, I love this song.

Speaker 1: 18:01

Okay, it's a great song. Yeah, it's an all-timer. Uh, the video, of course, is also iconic, shot on the naval battleship. Uh, she's known, of course, for her fashion and and music, but Cher won an Oscar for the movie Moonstruck, so she's also a pretty good actress. She hasn't done as much acting recently, but in the 80s she did quite a bit of acting. I'm not going with Moonstruck here as far as my standout performance. A couple years prior to that she was in a movie called mask, where eric stoltz plays the titular character, rocky dennis, and she's like a single mom and I think it was a really. I remember watching this when I was younger, but it's still a really good movie and kind of inspirational. So, um, yeah, that's that's what I would point you to if you want to check out some of share's acting work. But yeah, for music, I mean, I don't know if you need to go any further than this one with her catalog.

Speaker 2: 19:01

Yes, I mean, this is like a if we did a mix and maybe we should a sing-along in the shower mix right.

Speaker 2: 19:09

Like songs that are just great to belt it out in the shower. This would be on my mix because it's like just an amazing. You want to, just you just want to yell it. You know, if I could turn yeah, I'm not gonna do it, but it's so good. Chorus is very sing-alongable. It's great karaoke pick as well. Um, great 80s song. I mean, it's again this. This song is like the eight. It's like an 80s time capsule. It's fantastic and she's very talented. I have not seen her act in anything to my knowledge, so I'm gonna have to add some of her movies to my list and and check out her acting ability. This is, um. This is someone that I did not really see too much of in film or in television yeah, like I said, she hasn't done a ton of acting roles like in recent years.

Speaker 1: 19:51

I think she was in the mama mia movies but I I didn't see those, uh, so I can't really speak to that, and obviously those are musicals so I think they had some other singer slash actors in there. But yeah, in the 80s she had a run where she was really just acting and yeah, she did some really good work. So next up you've got the Metal by Tenacious D. So yeah, so Tenacious D.

Speaker 2: 20:17

So yeah, so Tenacious D, of course, featuring the amazing Jack Black, who is another person who I might have to debate. You know what is he more talented at? His music, though, is like it's different right. It's kind of like a. It's as if it's jokey in a way, but it's not so jokey, you know. It's not like a weird al yankovic, because he has a lot of talent. He's a musician and I think this song in particular like especially the last 30 seconds like he really rocks out hard. I actually saw him live in concert once in my life and and that was amazing he puts on such a good show because, again, he's got that like performer genes in him. You know, like some musicians just play their music and it's great, others perform and you feel like you are at an event, and he's definitely one of those people. My favorite movie that I've ever seen him in I am laughing here because it's actually the feature of when he's in a movie that, in the show the Office, they bootlegged and watched.

Speaker 1: 21:12

Oh, that's right, I know exactly what you're talking about, yes, where? Who's the woman in the?

Speaker 2: 21:20

movie. Yes, yes, I'm blanking. It's an older woman, an older actress. It's like Cloris Leachman. I think, yes, yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1: 21:28

I think it's him and Cloris Leachman, you're right, totally made up movie. But it's hysterical and in the episode like yeah, what's his namey? Bernard is trying to like yes, you know, level up his game a little bit, and then he keeps hearing these people talk about that or he thinks they're talking about this movie and he's just right. I don't see that at all like this is yeah, that whole setup is great.

Speaker 2: 21:52

I love that the creators of the office could get jack black to do this kind of thing and that's why I love him is because he does this kind of thing all the time, like he doesn't care what he signs himself up for and it's fantastic. Um, but more more realistically, where he was like featured, as you know, like a main star. School of rock is incredible, great movie. Uh, he's an amazing uh role in in that film. So, love jack black, love the love, the premise of the song that, like all these genres, tried to kill the metal you know, metal rock and they couldn't.

Speaker 1: 22:21

They couldn't do it, yeah going back to what you're saying, you're exactly right, he is. It is very jokey, right and almost kind of satirical what he does, even with that movie in the Office, that sort of fake movie that he did but at the same time he's so talented that he's doing these serious scenes in that movie, or he really knows how to play his instruments, so musically this stuff sounds great. So it's really kind of a funny balance because there's nothing jokey about how talented he is but the output ends up being so, so good to to both you know, watch and listen to, um, but also very entertaining. But for me I like to. Uh, yeah, I love school of rock.

Speaker 1: 23:05

I also he was in the cable guy and I think that might have been his film debut. I don't know if you remember that one with jim carrey, but he's vaguely. He's matthew broderick's friend who's kind of on to jim carrey and he's. He's maybe on screen less than five minutes, but it's like just kind of he's. He's both serious but kind of funny at the same time, which I think is just very foretelling for the rest of his career.

Speaker 1: 23:27

But he right right but yeah it's pretty good. That's a. That's an obscure one to check out too.

Speaker 3: 23:38

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Speaker 2: 24:22

Yeah, that's a good one, A good call out. I vaguely remember that film. I just want to, before we move on to track eight, call out these two lines that I love from this um, punk rock tried to kill the metal, but they failed as they were smite to the ground. Anytime you get to use the verb smite in your, in your lyrics, i'm'm here for it. It's great, all right. Track eight, so familiar by the very familiar Steve Martin and Eddie Brickell.

Speaker 1: 24:50

Yeah, steve Martin, he's a comedy legend. Of course. He was the first comedian to sell out arenas back in the 70s. But did you know? He was also an amazing banjo player, right, and he's toured the country playing the banjo. He even did it once on Saturday Night Live and I remember watching it, thinking it was some sort of bit, but instead it was just him and a band and they played a song and I was like, oh okay, now here he gets some help from the brilliant Edie Brickell for just a really nice song here.

Speaker 1: 25:24

That I mean, and his whole album, because he's got a full band behind him and then he's done more than one album with Edie Brickell. But so on his own album he does the vocals a lot of times and vocally he's not great. But you bring in someone like Edie brickell and it really ramps it up. So I picked this song. I thought it was great. I I love everything steve martin's done. You know, from an old school perspective, uh, the jerk is kind of my go-to. But, um, if you, if you've got hulu, you should check out only murders in the building, which is a new show that they're one season in and it comes back this summer and it's just brilliant and it's about podcasting, so you'll also appreciate that.

Speaker 2: 26:09

Yes, great call out. Yeah, that's a really fun show. I showed it to my parents on my last trip and they loved it. I think, like most people did, it's very well done. But yeah, steve Martin banjo player Very, very talented banjo player's it's awesome. I can always use more banjo in my life. I love the instrument like it's just something that immediately like makes me happy to hear it. Like again, there's I can't imagine a sad banjo song. I would really struggle to to find one. If you know one, send it my way.

Speaker 1: 26:38

I'd be very curious I was gonna say I think it'd be hard to be in a bad mood listening to someone play the banjo, right.

Speaker 2: 26:45

And, of course, because everything in my life is the Office related, I think about the scene where Andy Bernard and Dwight Schrute have a guitar and banjo off in the break room singing John Denver's song, take Me Home, john Edwards song, take Me Home, and then they just break into this like beautiful song, where they just start, you know, riffing on it and then Toby breaks up because it's too loud. But love that scene.

Speaker 1: 27:10

Yeah, no, great call there for sure. All right, next up you've got. Are you that Somebody by Aaliyah?

Speaker 2: 27:19

Yes, aaliyah, the amazingly talented uh who tragically died way too young. I can just imagine that she would have continued just being so, so, so great. Her music is incredible. This song in particular, um, is actually recorded for dr doolittle.

Speaker 2: 27:36

Um, like the movie with with, I believe, eddie murphy yeah, yeah and it's like what an incredible song to go with, like kind of a silly movie at the time, right, um um alia, of course, also an actress, um, I know her most from the movie romeo must die, um, featuring uh, jet lee. Is is kind of the main, you know one of the main actors in that but amazing film. I remember watching the theaters and just loving it. Soundtrack was great. Again, she's so talented. I love this song. This is just R&B perfection. Her voice is amazing and the beat is really good. The only comment I would have is the baby voices that are mixed in throughout the song are a little weird.

Speaker 1: 28:16

Yes, I remember that they're a little weird. Yeah, but you're right.

Speaker 2: 28:20

I don't hate it. You know it's like it's weird, but it works.

Speaker 1: 28:25

Didn't kill the song. But, I agree with you just from like a hip hop perspective. When this comes on, it's got such a familiar beat. Everybody knows the song, even now, even though this is probably coming up on 20 years old as far as the length of time that this song came out, about how long she's been gone, but yeah, she was incredible.

Speaker 1: 28:46

I actually didn't see Romeo Must Die, but I kind of found it. I think it's on one of the streaming services, so I'm going to go back and watch that one Because, yeah, from a musical perspective she was outstanding, so I have no doubt she could act as well. Um, yeah, so great pick thank you all.

Speaker 2: 29:06

Right track 10 we go with mathematics by most f? Aka yassine bay.

Speaker 1: 29:13

Yeah, that's right, he's now just being known as yassine bay uh, which threw me off a little bit when I was looking up his imdb page, because Mos Def does not come up at all.

Speaker 2: 29:24

Right.

Speaker 1: 29:25

But yeah, as Mos Def, he did so much great work. This is off of his first album and I just really like this song. I think it's just really well written and it's got a great beat. From an acting perspective, he did a run on Dexter, but I kind of call him out for the movie the Italian Child, which was a remake, starring Mark Wahlberg and Ed Norton's in there too, and Charlize Theron, so a lot of heavy hitters in this movie. But I just think that's such a great movie, a really fun movie. There's been rumors of a sequel for forever, but but it's never come to pass. So, um, but yeah, uh, you know, in all of his work as a rapper is really good and he's brought the same kind of talent and energy to his acting I agree.

Speaker 2: 30:14

Yeah, this is um great song. I love the lyrics, very, very powerful, kind of protested nature, you know, talking about the realities of, you know, some of the darker sides of our culture. And this one line really stood out to me that I love. He's like why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret, the million other straws underneath it. It's all mathematics and I just think that's so powerful because we often, you know, we only ever think about the trigger moments, you know, like oh, it was, like it was an overnight, this or it was the one straw that broke the camel's back, and we never think about the fact that it's like a lifetime building up to an event like that. So I just thought that was such a powerful kind of call out in his lyrics here. Really great song for me. Also, I picked Italian Job, which is a wonderful movie. It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 1: 31:07

That's the. That's the exact line I wrote down. Actually, I didn't reference it, but that was the one that I was like oh, that's a great line. Yeah, that's a good one. Um, all right, your last pick. You went with kings and queens by 30 seconds to mars yes, of course, featuring jared leto.

Speaker 2: 31:18

Um, this was a late edition. I'd completely forgotten that. Of course, jared Leto has a pretty big history in music, so this was, you know, one of his bands Kings, kings and Queens excuse me 32nd to Mars. I loved this song. Whenever it came out.

Speaker 2: 31:34

I used to put it on one of my, on several of my running mixes, because I think this makes for like a really good kind of run home song because it just has this like really kind of slow lead in and then this epic build up and then kind of this like shouting and where you just like crank the speed up on the treadmill and just fly. You know, if you're outdoors you just push through whatever you could. And a great, great rock song I love. You know the lyrics here are just basically speaking about, you know, kind of like a hopeful future. He mentions like that's kind of what he was referring to Explore I'll quote explore the triumphant feeling of human possibilities. Explored the triumphant feeling of human possibilities. And I think you get that in the mood of the song because it does just kind of have this like feel of wanting to again build up and and promise a better tomorrow and and whatever that might be for you, I think the the mood of the song really speaks to it.

Speaker 2: 32:32

So, in terms of acting, I mean Jared Leto has done a lot. I'm currently watching the show we Crashed and I I love it. I think he's actually pretty good playing um Adam Newman, the co founder, or the founder co-founder of of WeWork, and what a disaster that ended up being Um. So, yeah, it's, it's pretty fun he's. I think he's pretty talented. He's a great actor. He does a lot of different things.

Speaker 1: 32:53

Well and amazingly with him. What I found with this I was he's been a part of, he's been doing 30 seconds to mars almost as long as we've known him as an actor. You know, like he really kind of did these things concurrently, uh, in the same ways like donald glover did with childish gambino, um, in that you know it's hard to kind of separate the two. I think he's definitely more well known, uh, for his acting, and another oscar winner that made our list here, um, but yeah, I I agree with you about this song in particular, because I think you could drop the lyrics and just listening to this as an instrumental and you'd still get that same energy and that same feel from it. So, yeah, great pick. I really liked this song and of course, I mean Jared Leto is quite the actor. So, pretty good, pretty good find there, awesome, all right.

Speaker 2: 33:41

So pretty good find there. Awesome All right track 12,. Last one you went with Sun City by Artists United Against Apartheid, and I just want to note here that there are 55 musicians recorded on this one song, which is amazing. So tell me about this pick, and tell me about one in particular.

Speaker 1: 34:01

Well, I just decided to throw a blanket and I'm like well, one of these guys was an actor, right?

Speaker 1: 34:06

so I just picked one of these songs from the 80s no, so this group actually was spearheaded and this is the person I'm going to focus on okay, by stephen van zandt, aka miami steve, little ste Stevie from the E Street Band. Okay, bruce Springsteen's main man next to him, who also played Silvio on the Sopranos Nice, so he was on every episode of the Sopranos, he did that entire run and he's also part of the E Street Band, so he's had a pretty good life. But in the 80s.

Speaker 1: 34:39

So apartheid, for those that don't know, was this institutional practice in South Africa that kept all the races separate. And in the 80s this developer decided to. You know, as a result of this apartheid practice, every country was like, okay, well, we're cutting you off. South Africa, like, culturally, there were a lot of economic sanctions, all these things. Africa, like culturally, there were a lot of economic sanctions, all these things. Well, what this one developer did is he found this state that was technically independent from the rest of South Africa and he built this resort there called Sun City and he would just pay, he would just overpay these entertainers to come to Sun City and play, because it's like, well, you're not actually in South Africa. So it's kind of this loophole.

Speaker 1: 35:22

And famously, the Beach Boys and Queen were two of the more famous artists to go and play at Sun City, and Stephen Van Zandt didn't like that. A number of artists didn't like that either, and so they put together this group and, like you said, there were 55 musicians that came together on this track to declare that they're not going to play Sun City. And for when this came out, it was pretty interesting. I mean, it's a very 80s sounding song, but you've got rappers on here and you've got rock stars on here, so it's a really cool collaboration and something that didn't happen too often at the time when this song was made.

Speaker 1: 36:02

But of course, springsteen makes an appearance, bono makes an appearance. I'm sure if you have the list in front of you you can run through so many others. But yeah, I thought it was a cool song to call out. But also, uh, not just put another bruce springsteen in the e street band song on here, but something that stephen van zandt was a little bit more at the forefront of here but something that Stephen Van Zandt was a little bit more at the forefront of.

Speaker 2: 36:27

Yeah, that's really. It's really interesting background on that song that I also discovered in my research and Apartheid was awful If you actually want to learn more about it from like a pretty interesting perspective. Trevor Noah's book Born a Crime. He talks a lot about growing up in South Africa during the times of apartheid and the title itself, born a Crime, is actually, you know, referencing his own life, because he was born to a Swiss father and a South African mother and technically it was illegal for him to have been born because they weren't supposed to have children together. So really, really amazing book. He is hilarious, I mean. Trevor Noah is great and you do gain a lot of like historical knowledge of what life was like there. So really great pick, really interesting and it is. It's always fun to have such a large list of people that will lend their voice and put a recording together. It's pretty cool, right.

Speaker 1: 37:16

All right. Well, there you have it. Another super awesome mix for your collection, definitely, definitely. You know, we referenced our instagram feed earlier at super awesome mix, so let us know, like we said, we found a lot more individuals who both acted and came up, came up big in the music world as well, so let us know if we missed one. And I don't know, there may be a volume two somewhere down the line. But yes, in in the meantime, we'll get to work on another super awesome mix. And so, for stammer, this is matt and we'll see you next time.