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Ready? 2 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:02,120 Voice. 3 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:03,760 Hello. 4 00:00:05,020 --> 00:00:06,120 Now you've tripped off. 5 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:10,340 You had one job to keep your mouth quiet. 6 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:14,420 It was kind of intentional, Michael. 7 00:00:23,860 --> 00:00:26,520 Hello and welcome to We Can't Rewind, We've Gone Too Far. 8 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:32,900 A podcast where a Scotspan, an Irishman and a Bulgarian discuss the worst, silliest and weirdestest fuck music videos. 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:33,740 Hello, I'm Neil. 10 00:00:34,180 --> 00:00:34,680 Hi, I'm Neil. 11 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:35,120 Hi, I'm David. 12 00:00:35,350 --> 00:00:36,640 Do you believe I'm lying down? 13 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:37,240 Well. 14 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:39,200 Uh, not really, no, actually. 15 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:40,640 Are you actually lying down? 16 00:00:40,820 --> 00:00:42,580 Well, I'm sitting on the bed, I'm half reclined. 17 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,620 Just the microphone suspended above your head. 18 00:00:44,780 --> 00:00:48,920 It's actually really, really precariously just balancing. 19 00:00:49,260 --> 00:00:54,760 It's, okay, you know the way cheap mic stands are really like, well, they're not well balanced unless there's a sandbag on them. 20 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:55,080 Yes. 21 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,320 Well, this one here, it's balanced just enough. 22 00:00:57,540 --> 00:00:59,180 And if I move it, it will fall on me. 23 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:03,380 So I'm trying not to touch it, but it's within about six inches to me. 24 00:01:03,740 --> 00:01:06,140 It's good to have an air of danger in your podcasting. 25 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:07,340 Well, it keeps me sharp. 26 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,720 The time for 80s prog rock has finally arrived. 27 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:14,300 We're breaking our rock opera virginity with Mr. Roboto by Styx. 28 00:01:14,780 --> 00:01:18,260 Trust us, no one is less happy about this than us, especially me. 29 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:22,420 Mostly, but not entirely, because the song is neither prog nor rock. 30 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:26,080 And the video is just, well, I guess this is what we're discussing today. 31 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,860 The video itself is directed by Brian Gibson. 32 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,760 The history of the song is definitely there. 33 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,080 It was the opening single of Styx's rock opera album, 34 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:56,220 Kill Roy Was Here, 35 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,820 which itself is named after a famous World War II era graffiti tag. 36 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,180 The album is partially a mockery of the fundamental Christian groups 37 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,260 who led the quote-unquote anti-rock crusades. 38 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:12,360 I am not sure Styx would be my first choice for mocking anyone in the rock world, 39 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:13,980 but here we are. 40 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,440 Watched Styx take doing the robot to its natural conclusion 41 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:18,920 by dressing up as actual robots, 42 00:02:19,260 --> 00:02:19,760 join our hero, 43 00:02:20,060 --> 00:02:20,460 blonde guy, 44 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:21,580 and singer guy 45 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,380 in a dystopic Blade Runner-esque 46 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:24,160 prison break 47 00:02:24,340 --> 00:02:25,620 slash rock opera performance. 48 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:26,500 As it turns out, 49 00:02:26,620 --> 00:02:27,760 I've only discovered this 50 00:02:28,220 --> 00:02:29,020 after writing the intro 51 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:29,760 of the blonde guy. 52 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:30,780 His character name is 53 00:02:30,980 --> 00:02:31,520 Johnny Chance 54 00:02:32,060 --> 00:02:32,880 and he's played by 55 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:33,980 the guitarist Tommy Shaw 56 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,440 and the singer guy 57 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:36,400 is Kilroy. 58 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:37,680 Kilroy himself played 59 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:38,660 by the key wordist 60 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:39,520 Dennis DeYoung. 61 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:40,100 So, 62 00:02:40,580 --> 00:02:40,940 that's the thing. 63 00:02:41,220 --> 00:02:42,100 This video made my 64 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:42,800 fucking head hurt. 65 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:44,740 There's kind of a story 66 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:45,420 running through this 67 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:46,280 which is the video 68 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:47,100 opens with 69 00:02:47,580 --> 00:02:48,100 Johnny Chance, 70 00:02:48,180 --> 00:02:48,760 the blonde guy, 71 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,420 walking into what turns out, according to the Wikipedia, 72 00:02:52,220 --> 00:02:53,660 to be the museum... 73 00:02:53,660 --> 00:02:55,360 Museum of bad taste. 74 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,180 It's the rock museum. 75 00:02:57,620 --> 00:02:59,040 It was the rock museum, apparently. 76 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,700 Because basically I spent half an hour trying to figure out 77 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:03,040 what the fuck was going on in this video, 78 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,660 and I only really learned all this through the Wikipedia afterwards 79 00:03:05,820 --> 00:03:07,680 after putting my head through a fucking brick wall. 80 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:10,560 So he goes into the rock museum, 81 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:12,340 and there's robots kicking about, 82 00:03:12,780 --> 00:03:13,820 and then there's a prison break, 83 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,800 where it seems to be humans imprisoned by robots, 84 00:03:17,380 --> 00:03:21,600 And I think the keyboardist gets out with the help of a robot. 85 00:03:21,810 --> 00:03:22,480 Or is it a robot? 86 00:03:22,930 --> 00:03:24,640 Or is it the singer dressed up as a robot? 87 00:03:25,140 --> 00:03:27,040 Part of what confused me is there's a line, 88 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,060 my heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM. 89 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:37,060 Which made me think, which one is, you know, good lyric, I guess. 90 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,560 But which made me think, oh, is the guy a cyborg? 91 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,220 Yeah, with his parts made in Japan. 92 00:03:42,860 --> 00:03:43,400 Things about that. 93 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,960 So that made me think you might be a cyborg. 94 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,400 but judging by the video, he's just dressed up as a robot. 95 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,500 So let's just ignore that lyric. 96 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:53,700 Basically, he seems to be breaking in, saving the blonde guy, 97 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,000 and then they go back to the rock museum for some reason. 98 00:03:58,780 --> 00:04:00,160 And these things in a robot's ear. 99 00:04:00,380 --> 00:04:04,440 I didn't really understand the rock museum because, I mean, it didn't really establish it. 100 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,400 It just, I didn't, I didn't pick it up. 101 00:04:06,460 --> 00:04:07,600 It doesn't look like a rock museum. 102 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:08,920 Oh, like a museum to begin with. 103 00:04:08,940 --> 00:04:09,840 I noticed Elvis. 104 00:04:10,140 --> 00:04:11,620 And did you notice Elvis? 105 00:04:11,780 --> 00:04:16,120 I mean, if he's meant to be like a statue, he's like, he's moving his leg really, really 106 00:04:16,140 --> 00:04:16,859 at the very beginning. 107 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:17,620 Oh yeah, that's like 108 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:18,480 right at the beginning 109 00:04:18,660 --> 00:04:19,060 of the background. 110 00:04:19,359 --> 00:04:20,380 I don't know, maybe there's a 111 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:21,500 there's a hidden thing 112 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:22,820 that we're not privy to 113 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:23,660 because we don't know 114 00:04:23,940 --> 00:04:24,980 well, I don't know Styx. 115 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:26,020 This is the problem. 116 00:04:26,020 --> 00:04:27,100 I think Neil, I think you were saying 117 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,720 the album is meant to be 118 00:04:28,780 --> 00:04:30,120 like a concept album or something like that 119 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:31,760 and none of us could be bothered 120 00:04:32,060 --> 00:04:32,800 listening to the whole album 121 00:04:32,980 --> 00:04:33,740 for the sake of the podcast. 122 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:35,180 Yeah, because it's Styx. 123 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:36,300 Why would I ever want to listen 124 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:37,520 to the whole album by fucking Styx? 125 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:37,960 Honestly. 126 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:39,280 Like, I love this podcast 127 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:40,000 but no. 128 00:04:40,820 --> 00:04:42,120 You do anything for... 129 00:04:42,140 --> 00:04:43,520 Love, but I'm not going to do that. 130 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:44,760 I just kind of appreciate 131 00:04:44,860 --> 00:04:46,100 the fact that they all 132 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,320 look like, well, no, I was going to say 133 00:04:48,460 --> 00:04:49,800 proto-daft punk, but probably 134 00:04:50,100 --> 00:04:51,960 daft punk looked at them, they were like 135 00:04:52,260 --> 00:04:53,660 we can do this, but better. 136 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:56,060 They kind of look like daft punk 137 00:04:56,210 --> 00:04:58,220 as designed by racists from the 50s. 138 00:04:58,540 --> 00:04:59,800 Yeah, we're gonna get to the racism. 139 00:05:00,140 --> 00:05:02,340 As far as I can tell, the only reason the robots 140 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:04,260 look like that is because of 141 00:05:04,270 --> 00:05:05,920 the line, parts made in Japan. 142 00:05:06,340 --> 00:05:07,460 It's the only connection I can find. 143 00:05:07,510 --> 00:05:10,580 I mean, the whole song is a fucking racist mess. 144 00:05:10,860 --> 00:05:12,500 Is it? Well, I mean, probably 145 00:05:12,660 --> 00:05:14,180 not intentionally. Oh, well, yeah, 146 00:05:14,820 --> 00:05:16,600 I suppose he's going Mr. Roboto. 147 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:17,640 Yeah. 148 00:05:18,540 --> 00:05:21,280 Which is like a pop culture reference in its own now. 149 00:05:21,340 --> 00:05:23,980 Maybe they just really appreciate Japanese culture. 150 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:24,800 It's possible. 151 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:25,340 It's possible. 152 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,240 To be honest, in the 80s, probably in the 70s, to be honest, 153 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,220 there was a bit of an Asian fetishization. 154 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,860 It's a difficult word to say. 155 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,420 There's a bunch of songs that talk about Japan and like, you know, 156 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,160 talking Japanese, big in Japan. 157 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,840 There was clearly something going on in there. 158 00:05:43,980 --> 00:05:45,140 I don't know why in the 80s. 159 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,280 It was like Japan establishing in the 80s. 160 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,060 Very hardcore industrial power or something. 161 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,480 Remember the line in Back to the Future? 162 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,560 What's the name of the doctor from Back to the Future? 163 00:05:57,020 --> 00:05:58,240 I won't say Brown, but that's not... 164 00:05:58,260 --> 00:05:58,560 Brown. 165 00:05:58,820 --> 00:05:59,720 Yeah, Doc Brown. 166 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:00,580 Doc Brown, yeah. 167 00:06:00,670 --> 00:06:03,560 Yeah, Doc Brown goes, he's pulling apart the car or something like that. 168 00:06:03,980 --> 00:06:05,400 Or he's pulling something apart and he goes, 169 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,060 look, it's made in Japan. 170 00:06:07,290 --> 00:06:09,800 And then Mario McFly goes, all the best stuff's made in Japan. 171 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:12,420 I don't know what the idea was touching with. 172 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,600 oh, Japan made good technology or whatever, 173 00:06:15,860 --> 00:06:17,820 and let's think about them. 174 00:06:18,140 --> 00:06:19,280 That was the starting point, 175 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:20,340 because they did talk about, like, 176 00:06:20,450 --> 00:06:21,920 obviously, like, with parts made in Japan, 177 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:25,380 and the whole, like, Asian vibe 178 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,140 on the design of the robots themselves. 179 00:06:27,820 --> 00:06:30,920 Was that the actual starting point of the whole song? 180 00:06:31,020 --> 00:06:32,600 It's just kind of spiraled into this, 181 00:06:32,780 --> 00:06:35,300 a sort of mildly racist butterfly effect. 182 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:38,920 Don't know actually who the production design 183 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:39,560 of the whole thing was, 184 00:06:39,740 --> 00:06:45,760 But the design of the robots looks a bit like second-hand Cybermen. 185 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:46,660 Yeah, they do look so. 186 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,560 I did actually, I read somewhere who the designer was once. 187 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:50,940 Oh, you actually did research? Nice. 188 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:52,240 Well, I looked at the Wikipedia. 189 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,520 While you're looking at this, I'm going to mute myself and shake something with a cup. 190 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,440 Or maybe I imagined reading it. 191 00:06:58,480 --> 00:06:59,720 Dave, there's no such thing as Wikipedia. 192 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:01,280 Oh, that's disappointing. 193 00:07:01,940 --> 00:07:03,200 Where did I get all my knowledge from? 194 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:12,120 in the 80s was japan starting to become like a non-freeze technology and kicking off again 195 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:18,060 or did it happen earlier oh it was like the 80s yeah it was mostly the 80s like they started in 196 00:07:18,060 --> 00:07:23,900 the 70s but they didn't get it wasn't like the like well-known worldwide until the 80s really 197 00:07:24,420 --> 00:07:30,239 i found it i'll wait till nelly's back from her top secret mission perfect time to fix my mic 198 00:07:30,620 --> 00:07:36,440 did it fall in your face it's very slowly falling and i don't notice it but it just it's sort of just 199 00:07:36,580 --> 00:07:44,020 on top of me it's just slowly looming over you podcast faster it was basically sony panasonic 200 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:52,420 those kind of companies just like i come out with like home video cameras vhs betamax is basically 201 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:59,659 the digital revolution in a way like everything going from like big clunky 70s analog stuff to 202 00:08:00,020 --> 00:08:01,060 like magnetic tape 203 00:08:01,540 --> 00:08:02,480 and then into CDs 204 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:03,040 and stuff like that 205 00:08:03,050 --> 00:08:03,700 in the 90s 206 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:04,280 but it was like 207 00:08:04,380 --> 00:08:05,460 that tape revolution 208 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:06,360 was kind of like 209 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:06,700 from 210 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,140 can Scott hear us? 211 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:09,340 of course Scott 212 00:08:09,450 --> 00:08:10,300 has a brilliant answer 213 00:08:10,370 --> 00:08:10,640 to this 214 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:11,580 and then you had 215 00:08:11,580 --> 00:08:12,800 the game consoles as well 216 00:08:13,820 --> 00:08:14,540 like Nintendo 217 00:08:14,650 --> 00:08:16,260 in the mid to late 80s 218 00:08:16,420 --> 00:08:16,660 as well 219 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:17,600 like you had all that 220 00:08:17,780 --> 00:08:18,040 okay 221 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:19,620 oh she's made it again 222 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:19,960 was that 223 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:20,960 the ween I meant to hear that 224 00:08:22,820 --> 00:08:23,920 Scott from Japanese 225 00:08:24,220 --> 00:08:25,340 historical impact corner 226 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:26,460 getting insider information 227 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:27,560 that's pretty good as well 228 00:08:27,620 --> 00:08:27,800 good 229 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:29,640 I want to hear more 230 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:34,000 Sorry, I was checking with Scott from a Japanese corner. 231 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:35,700 So we heard. 232 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:36,640 Did you hear the whole thing? 233 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:37,539 Because I amused myself. 234 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,500 No, only heard a little bit, but it sounded interesting. 235 00:08:40,740 --> 00:08:41,159 I don't know. 236 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,960 It probably makes sense within the song. 237 00:08:43,300 --> 00:08:45,040 Maybe it's not as racist as we thought it was. 238 00:08:45,180 --> 00:08:46,460 It was just a bit insensitive. 239 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:47,080 Yeah, yeah. 240 00:08:47,300 --> 00:08:50,580 It obviously wasn't intended to be racist, however. 241 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,340 It's just that caricature-y images like that 242 00:08:53,350 --> 00:08:56,380 were obviously a lot more acceptable back then than they are now. 243 00:08:56,460 --> 00:08:59,400 Should we call it a love song towards the Japanese technology? 244 00:08:59,740 --> 00:09:00,200 Sure 245 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,320 Okay I'm calling it this 246 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:09,560 I've got a secret 247 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,280 I've been hiding 248 00:09:12,310 --> 00:09:13,220 Under my skin 249 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,340 My heart is human 250 00:09:16,860 --> 00:09:18,000 My blood is boiling 251 00:09:18,580 --> 00:09:19,500 My brain IBM 252 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,240 So if you see me 253 00:09:23,940 --> 00:09:24,860 Acting strangely 254 00:09:25,460 --> 00:09:26,920 Don't be surprised 255 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:31,400 I'm just a man who needed someone 256 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,540 And someone to hide 257 00:09:33,780 --> 00:09:34,820 To keep me alive 258 00:09:36,740 --> 00:09:38,140 Just keep me alive 259 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaking of the robots, I found the designer. 260 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,560 The robots were designed by Stan Wilson, 261 00:09:45,860 --> 00:09:48,520 who also worked on Jurassic Park, according to Wikipedia. 262 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,120 Stan Wilson, who had become well-known for his work on Jurassic Park, 263 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,060 designed the robot costume and mask, 264 00:09:54,260 --> 00:09:56,300 which are displayed prominently on the cover of the album 265 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,340 Kilroy was here. Did he make the dinosaurs? 266 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,260 The dinosaurs were real so 267 00:10:00,350 --> 00:10:02,260 he must have just designed the cars. 268 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:03,280 Dinosaurs. 269 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:06,340 The general look of the thing 270 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,240 the thing, the video, all 271 00:10:08,380 --> 00:10:10,400 feeds into the fact that I watched Blade Runner last night 272 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,260 which is a happy coincidence but it does 273 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,140 kind of have a bit of a pound shot 274 00:10:14,340 --> 00:10:15,100 Blade Runner looked at. 275 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:18,380 There's even a shot where I think 276 00:10:18,460 --> 00:10:19,620 he's escaping the prison or something 277 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,440 and there's a sort of Blade Runner 278 00:10:22,620 --> 00:10:24,280 flying car sort of 279 00:10:24,820 --> 00:10:25,920 with a searchlight on him. 280 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:28,440 Yeah, no, I get what you mean, but... 281 00:10:28,460 --> 00:10:29,620 It does look kind of cool, 282 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,060 considering that obviously the music videos 283 00:10:32,130 --> 00:10:34,040 would have a lot less budget than a proper film. 284 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:35,160 Does it look good, though? 285 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:36,020 Does it? 286 00:10:36,220 --> 00:10:37,300 It looks okay. 287 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:39,040 I hate the colours. 288 00:10:39,780 --> 00:10:41,400 As in, like, luck thereof. 289 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,580 Everything is blue and grey and black. 290 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:44,720 What's what I'm looking for? 291 00:10:46,340 --> 00:10:47,060 Desaturated monochrome. 292 00:10:47,220 --> 00:10:47,980 Zack Snyder. 293 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,200 Oh, man, shots fired. 294 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,820 Well, I mean, am I wrong? 295 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:53,860 I'm not wrong. 296 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:54,340 No, you're not. 297 00:10:54,580 --> 00:10:55,500 Biggest hack in Hollywood. 298 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:55,980 Yes. 299 00:10:56,819 --> 00:10:58,260 if you've ever seen Soccer Punch 300 00:10:58,400 --> 00:10:58,860 was that him? 301 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:00,260 yeah it was him yeah 302 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:02,440 what a bad film 303 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:03,900 it wasn't that good was it? 304 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:05,220 nope 305 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:06,660 it was awful 306 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,140 it would have been fine if it didn't take itself so damn seriously 307 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:11,300 this is the big thing 308 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,560 it ends with an emotional monologue 309 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:14,840 and I was just sitting in the cinema 310 00:11:14,900 --> 00:11:17,000 it's the only time I was sitting in the cinema 311 00:11:17,140 --> 00:11:19,080 and I started counting the speakers on the walls 312 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:20,320 because I was so fucking bored 313 00:11:22,339 --> 00:11:23,620 was it Zack Snyder 314 00:11:23,620 --> 00:11:24,880 who also made Batman boring? 315 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:26,000 yes 316 00:11:26,020 --> 00:11:32,420 Yeah, he managed to suck the emotions out of any single thing he does. 317 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:34,480 Sucker Punch has so many problems. 318 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:40,160 He's like, oh, it's feminist and I'm showing strong female characters. 319 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,680 Bitch, she got fucking the bottomized. 320 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,340 And she was trying to justify her being raped and all this. 321 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:47,180 Can you please not? 322 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,860 Please just sit in the corner and just shut up. 323 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:50,840 Ah, I hate him. 324 00:11:51,420 --> 00:11:51,520 Sorry. 325 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:52,600 Yeah, it was a bad film. 326 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,340 But anyway, I'm kind of intrigued about the rest of the album. 327 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,140 If it is all a concept album about this, 328 00:11:58,310 --> 00:12:01,920 I don't really want to listen to Styx for an hour, 329 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:04,400 but I'm kind of intrigued to what the actual story would be. 330 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:05,660 Well, I think there's a second song, 331 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:08,060 so we can do a bit of research on that. 332 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,240 A second single, I think. 333 00:12:10,380 --> 00:12:11,660 Heavy Metal Poisoning? 334 00:12:12,140 --> 00:12:13,260 Okay, for our listeners at home, 335 00:12:13,380 --> 00:12:15,480 we're now watching Heavy Metal Poisoning by Styx. 336 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,160 It's a bit of, like, Nazi imagery, you know? 337 00:12:18,460 --> 00:12:20,140 That's a fascist moustache I've ever seen. 338 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:21,740 Yeah, it's pretty fascist. 339 00:12:22,020 --> 00:12:22,780 Pashy moustache. 340 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:24,480 Pashy moustache. 341 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,200 Okay, it looks like an evil Freddie Mercury. 342 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:29,880 Okay, so they're burning albums and guitars. 343 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,400 Okay, I guess that's where the whole idea of... 344 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,440 Oh, we're mocking the... 345 00:12:34,540 --> 00:12:38,580 Like the rock-hating Christian fundamentalists or whatever. 346 00:12:39,020 --> 00:12:41,320 Well, it looks kind of like he's an evangelicalist. 347 00:12:41,620 --> 00:12:42,920 That's the idea. 348 00:12:43,260 --> 00:12:46,200 Yeah, I mean, if they had a point to make with the video... 349 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,080 Sorry, with the album. 350 00:12:47,420 --> 00:12:49,700 This video makes it much more obvious. 351 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:51,560 I think to get 352 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:52,800 I'll get the video 353 00:12:52,900 --> 00:12:53,680 you need to watch 354 00:12:53,820 --> 00:12:54,360 the other ones 355 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:55,920 I'm seeing similar links 356 00:12:56,660 --> 00:12:57,140 which is 357 00:12:57,860 --> 00:12:58,200 well 358 00:12:58,440 --> 00:12:59,040 I've just seen Elvis 359 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:00,520 Really? 360 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:01,280 Where? 361 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:01,860 Does it miss? 362 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:02,660 Oh yeah 363 00:13:02,860 --> 00:13:03,400 you're a bit ahead 364 00:13:03,540 --> 00:13:03,960 yeah okay 365 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:04,800 They look like they're 366 00:13:04,940 --> 00:13:05,420 about a storm 367 00:13:05,460 --> 00:13:06,220 of capital building 368 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:07,120 right so okay 369 00:13:07,140 --> 00:13:07,660 we've established 370 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:09,920 that the album 371 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:11,840 is roughly about 372 00:13:13,019 --> 00:13:14,500 so how do the 373 00:13:15,339 --> 00:13:15,740 fundamentalist 374 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:16,700 Christian anti-music 375 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:17,700 people factor into 376 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:18,140 the robots 377 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:18,780 I'm fucking 378 00:13:19,860 --> 00:13:20,260 God 379 00:13:20,819 --> 00:13:22,240 I think we've lost him. 380 00:13:23,420 --> 00:13:23,980 He's lost. 381 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:24,640 He's done. 382 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:27,940 How can it be a concept album that jumps from that to robots? 383 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:29,860 I might have to listen to this fucking album, goddammit. 384 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,900 Like, my best wager is that the connection between the robots 385 00:13:34,540 --> 00:13:37,360 and, say, heavy metal poisoning or whatever they're there, 386 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:43,360 it's like the robots are probably Christian fundamentalists. 387 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:44,980 So they're not literally robots, 388 00:13:45,140 --> 00:13:47,100 they're just humans who don't think for themselves. 389 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:50,660 I mean, allegorically, they're probably that. 390 00:13:51,180 --> 00:13:53,740 They just showed him, like, oh, yeah, literal robots 391 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:55,720 because they're repeating everything or whatever. 392 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:56,980 That's my best wager. 393 00:13:57,140 --> 00:13:59,000 I'm pulling stuff out of my ass. 394 00:13:59,360 --> 00:13:59,560 I bet. 395 00:14:00,020 --> 00:14:03,060 Although there is a scene where he seems to be 396 00:14:03,060 --> 00:14:04,280 on some sort of operating table. 397 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:04,840 Yeah. 398 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,120 Which once again has given me kind of Cybermany vibes 399 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,080 where they're like, are they about to turn him into a robot? 400 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,180 Are they brainwashing him to not like music or whatever? 401 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:14,980 But he escapes. 402 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,640 He escapes and he runs onto the stage slash museum slash whatever 403 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:20,760 and then turns into a robot, I think. 404 00:14:21,180 --> 00:14:21,960 The evil robot. 405 00:14:22,380 --> 00:14:22,460 No. 406 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,480 It's just the idea that it's a conceptual album 407 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,820 and the opening track is like a synth-pop song. 408 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,440 And one of the other, like, three or four whatever music videos, 409 00:14:33,660 --> 00:14:36,980 they released from that allegedly a conceptual album. 410 00:14:37,180 --> 00:14:38,600 It's kind of a heavy metal song. 411 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:42,600 How do you go from synth-pop to heavy metal in a single album? 412 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:49,140 I did read that basically it's kind of a bit of a David Bowie situation where he's playing a character playing the song. 413 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:58,340 So maybe that's what's going on with the full album is like each or maybe not each, but like this song and heavy metal are two different fictional bands within the album. 414 00:14:59,200 --> 00:14:59,400 Huh? 415 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,660 Neil, are you confused? Because I'm very confused. 416 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,620 I, I, yes. I'm going to say yes. 417 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,280 It just feels like one of those videos that is trying so hard to say stuff. 418 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,640 And the moment you try to hold on to the things it's trying to say, 419 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,720 it just falls apart because it's just air. 420 00:15:19,140 --> 00:15:21,360 It's like chips for McDonald's. 421 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:22,540 It's just air. 422 00:15:22,580 --> 00:15:47,260 I'm not a robot without emotions. I'm not what you see. I've come to help you with your problems so we can be free. I'm not a hero. I'm not a savior. Forget what you know. I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control. 423 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,440 Beyond my control 424 00:15:51,260 --> 00:15:52,520 Beyond me control 425 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:54,920 Just reading from the Wikipedia here. 426 00:15:54,930 --> 00:15:57,120 The song tells part of the story of 427 00:15:57,630 --> 00:15:59,500 Robert Orrin Charles Kilroy, 428 00:15:59,660 --> 00:16:00,440 brackets from rock. 429 00:16:00,630 --> 00:16:01,660 In the rock opera, 430 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:02,500 Kilroy was here. 431 00:16:02,510 --> 00:16:04,180 The song is performed by Kilroy 432 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:07,060 as played by the keyboardist Danny DeYoung, 433 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:08,200 a rock and roll performer 434 00:16:08,270 --> 00:16:09,800 who was placed in a futuristic prison 435 00:16:09,940 --> 00:16:10,880 for rock and roll misfits 436 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:12,660 by the anti-rock and roll group 437 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,400 Majority for Musical Mortality 438 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:15,280 and its founder, 439 00:16:15,790 --> 00:16:17,400 Dr. Evett Righteous. 440 00:16:18,140 --> 00:16:19,340 played by guitarist James Young. 441 00:16:19,750 --> 00:16:20,980 Dr. Hadaway. 442 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,560 Just let's call him Dr. Hadaway. 443 00:16:22,910 --> 00:16:23,540 Dr. Hadaway. 444 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,340 Well, this is the other thing. 445 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,500 This is the second robot-related video 446 00:16:29,590 --> 00:16:30,140 that we've watched. 447 00:16:30,330 --> 00:16:31,400 I can't believe I'm going to say this, 448 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:32,880 but the Hadaway video is better. 449 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:34,620 I loved the Hadaway video. 450 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:36,700 Do you think, though, 451 00:16:36,820 --> 00:16:38,560 that they are using the same technology 452 00:16:38,740 --> 00:16:40,140 that Hadaway invented in his lab 453 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:41,320 to create these robots? 454 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:42,920 I refuse to believe that Hadaway 455 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:43,800 deliberately did this, 456 00:16:44,060 --> 00:16:45,920 but I think they may have taken his technology 457 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,340 and turned it into something evil. 458 00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:50,240 The Roboto is a model of robot which does mean you. 459 00:16:50,330 --> 00:16:53,700 Jobs in prison, Kira escapes the prison, overpowering Roboto prison guard. 460 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:59,160 Okay, so we have the Roboto, which is a model of robot. 461 00:16:59,980 --> 00:17:00,740 Okay, hold on. 462 00:17:01,090 --> 00:17:03,480 So is it... 463 00:17:04,860 --> 00:17:05,920 Did it just... 464 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,160 Yes? 465 00:17:07,780 --> 00:17:12,379 Did they create a name to just make it sound a bit more Japanese, so they can also, like... 466 00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:14,300 It certainly seems that way. 467 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,620 So the Roboto is only one model. 468 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,220 So I wonder what model 469 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:19,280 Hadway's robot was. 470 00:17:19,620 --> 00:17:20,180 Machine and mensch. 471 00:17:20,670 --> 00:17:20,959 Oh yeah. 472 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:23,939 So these aren't machine and mensch, these are Roboto's. 473 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,100 Oh god, this is so bad. 474 00:17:27,339 --> 00:17:28,079 Clarifies it. 475 00:17:29,460 --> 00:17:31,040 Crystal Claire, sleep well tonight. 476 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:31,480 Yes. 477 00:17:34,180 --> 00:17:34,980 Okay, okay, okay. 478 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:36,160 Focus there, focus. 479 00:17:36,770 --> 00:17:38,360 Okay, so from what you said, 480 00:17:39,380 --> 00:17:41,020 the Roboto is a model of 481 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:42,899 robot which does many 482 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:44,980 job's in the prison, but then it's also 483 00:17:45,190 --> 00:17:47,080 prison guard. Is the prison guard a menial 484 00:17:47,260 --> 00:17:49,060 job? I don't think it is. I wouldn't say so. I think 485 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,020 that these robots really need to talk to their 486 00:17:51,150 --> 00:17:53,160 union representatives. Yeah, what the fuck? 487 00:17:53,580 --> 00:17:55,220 That doesn't sound like a menial task 488 00:17:55,230 --> 00:17:56,980 to me. I'm starting to think of like, we are the 489 00:17:57,180 --> 00:17:59,160 buddies in the story. Robots are 490 00:17:59,330 --> 00:18:00,840 like, not... Well, 491 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:03,280 here's another part that adds to the confusion. 492 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:05,060 There's one point where he's thanking the robot 493 00:18:05,370 --> 00:18:07,100 in the lyrics. Thank you for breaking me 494 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,120 free, you know that stuff. But is he referring to 495 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:10,960 Kilroy, I think, 496 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:13,620 But is Kilroy the evil robot the singer? 497 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:15,460 Okay, is he referring to the singer 498 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,640 dressed as a robot, or is he referring 499 00:18:17,730 --> 00:18:18,680 to a robot that helped him? 500 00:18:18,890 --> 00:18:19,240 Who cares? 501 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:23,560 Unfortunately I do, I don't know why. 502 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:27,700 Okay, should we 503 00:18:28,070 --> 00:18:29,780 like, go back to the lyrics 504 00:18:30,260 --> 00:18:31,620 and do them line by line? 505 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,000 Is that going to help? Oh, why not? 506 00:18:33,580 --> 00:18:34,520 It's called from Japanese Corner. 507 00:18:35,140 --> 00:18:35,500 Konnichiwa. 508 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:36,860 Genki. 509 00:18:38,020 --> 00:18:38,380 Thanks. 510 00:18:39,980 --> 00:18:41,240 How is mister in Japanese? 511 00:18:41,780 --> 00:18:42,280 Can you hear me? 512 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:42,800 Yes. 513 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,440 The actual Japanese, as Nelly has posted there, 514 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:51,600 the word mister is a romanization of the word mister 515 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,080 because there is no word mister in Japanese. 516 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:54,820 They use different honorifics. 517 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,620 So it would actually be double-added, 518 00:18:58,660 --> 00:19:01,240 but mister is, there's no word mister in Japanese, 519 00:19:01,580 --> 00:19:03,400 so they've just taken the word mister 520 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:05,900 and romanized it into Japanese characters. 521 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:09,080 So it's actually like M-I-S-U-T-A, mister. 522 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:10,580 there's no word 523 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:11,600 like that in Japanese 524 00:19:11,850 --> 00:19:12,840 that is an English word 525 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:13,780 that is being pronounced 526 00:19:13,910 --> 00:19:14,340 in Japanese 527 00:19:14,780 --> 00:19:15,120 ah okay 528 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:15,420 yeah 529 00:19:15,540 --> 00:19:16,400 so they've just kind of 530 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:17,420 shoved it in for the effect 531 00:19:17,460 --> 00:19:18,060 yeah they've been like 532 00:19:18,180 --> 00:19:18,920 what is the word 533 00:19:19,110 --> 00:19:19,620 mister in Japanese 534 00:19:19,980 --> 00:19:20,600 and then it's come out 535 00:19:20,610 --> 00:19:20,860 with that 536 00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:21,120 and they go 537 00:19:21,220 --> 00:19:21,640 okay cool 538 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,200 without having the knowledge 539 00:19:23,350 --> 00:19:23,640 to go 540 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:24,400 there's no word 541 00:19:24,510 --> 00:19:25,080 mister in Japanese 542 00:19:25,690 --> 00:19:25,780 language 543 00:19:26,180 --> 00:19:26,960 because they have 544 00:19:27,130 --> 00:19:28,040 different honorifics 545 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:29,340 depending on your station 546 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:30,360 so sometimes it's 547 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:30,680 san 548 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:31,600 sometimes it's sama 549 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:32,500 depending on like 550 00:19:32,550 --> 00:19:33,160 your relationship 551 00:19:33,270 --> 00:19:33,700 to the person 552 00:19:33,940 --> 00:19:34,920 rather than mister 553 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:35,900 cool that clarifies that 554 00:19:35,940 --> 00:19:36,820 this is why he's a teacher 555 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:37,600 because he can actually 556 00:19:37,780 --> 00:19:38,080 explain shit 557 00:19:38,180 --> 00:19:39,100 thank you Scott 558 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:40,920 from Japanese linguistics corner. 559 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,000 What corner will we have next week? 560 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:43,480 Find out. 561 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:45,980 So we're going back to the lyrics. 562 00:19:46,250 --> 00:19:49,200 Okay, so which part of the lyrics confuses you, Dave? 563 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,280 Maybe we can work through it together. 564 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:54,720 Sorry. 565 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:56,740 Mainly verse two. 566 00:19:57,660 --> 00:19:58,340 I've got a secret. 567 00:19:58,820 --> 00:19:59,940 I've been hiding under my skin. 568 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:00,620 My heart is human. 569 00:20:00,710 --> 00:20:01,460 My blood is boiling. 570 00:20:01,660 --> 00:20:02,320 My brain, IBM. 571 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:03,300 If you see me, 572 00:20:03,450 --> 00:20:04,540 so if you see me acting strangely, 573 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:05,300 don't be surprised. 574 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:06,840 I'm just a man who needed someone 575 00:20:07,060 --> 00:20:07,740 and somewhere to hide 576 00:20:08,050 --> 00:20:08,660 to keep me alive, 577 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,200 to keep me alive, somewhere to hide, keep me alive. 578 00:20:10,340 --> 00:20:11,220 That makes it sound... 579 00:20:11,580 --> 00:20:14,660 Well, even the two half of the lyrics make it sound different, actually. 580 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:15,960 Because I'm like, does that... 581 00:20:16,620 --> 00:20:17,180 I don't know. 582 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,460 It just gives me a bit of, like, data vibes, 583 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,980 like human body kind of, but IBM brain. 584 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,200 It's just a man. 585 00:20:25,460 --> 00:20:27,560 He's just a special man who needs someone, 586 00:20:27,740 --> 00:20:30,260 somewhere to hide, to keep me alive. 587 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:33,120 He's just a man with parts from Japan. 588 00:20:35,580 --> 00:20:36,260 I hate this. 589 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,180 Then verse three is that I'm not a robot without emotions. 590 00:20:40,540 --> 00:20:41,260 I'm not what you see. 591 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,320 So that suggests that he looks like a robot. 592 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,040 I've come to help you with your problems so we can be free. 593 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:46,920 I'm not a hero. 594 00:20:47,060 --> 00:20:47,560 I'm not a saver. 595 00:20:47,750 --> 00:20:48,320 Forget what you know. 596 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,480 I'm just a man whose circumstances were beyond his control. 597 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:54,380 So he's an unwilling participant in the robot army thing. 598 00:20:55,260 --> 00:21:01,420 So he was a cyborg, but not like cyber man, but doesn't want to be. 599 00:21:01,630 --> 00:21:03,360 He was not completely. 600 00:21:03,860 --> 00:21:05,640 Wasn't that the plot from a Doctor Who episode? 601 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:06,640 Sounds like it would be. 602 00:21:06,780 --> 00:21:10,020 Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto, for doing the job nobody wants. Yikes. 603 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:16,360 I kind of interpreted jobs no wanted as just like they were using the robots to do like menial labor and stuff like that. 604 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,540 Cool, but where are the humans then in all this? 605 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,560 Which is why it doesn't make any sense, because the humans seem to be fighting the robots, 606 00:21:23,780 --> 00:21:27,360 but if the robots are doing menial labor for them, why are they fighting them? 607 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,820 Oh, hold on. The problem's plain to see. Too much technology. 608 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:34,620 Machines to save our lives. Machines to dehumanize? 609 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,800 Kind of reminds me of the plot of Total Annihilation, 610 00:21:37,010 --> 00:21:37,880 if you ever played that. 611 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:39,840 I have not played Total Annihilation, no. 612 00:21:39,980 --> 00:21:41,900 Basically, people wind up converting, 613 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,940 getting converted to robots, 614 00:21:44,340 --> 00:21:46,260 but then the people who've been turned into robots 615 00:21:46,820 --> 00:21:49,580 start fighting the people who don't want to get turned into robots. 616 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:51,220 So maybe that's what's going on. 617 00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:52,220 I'm still confused about that. 618 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,060 Machines to save our lives, machines dehumanise. 619 00:21:57,180 --> 00:21:59,980 Is it just like all those machines, they do both? 620 00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:04,060 Through whatever they're doing with the machines to save the humans, 621 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,300 Maybe they're losing their humanity in the process. 622 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,640 Maybe they need some cybernetic enhancement 623 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,560 to survive whatever's going on in the world. 624 00:22:10,740 --> 00:22:12,420 But what has that to do with the lyrics? 625 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:14,820 I give up. 626 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,100 Shall we move on? 627 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:19,840 I'm sorry, yes, I give up. 628 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:21,280 I think we've got plenty of... 629 00:22:22,860 --> 00:22:23,920 Yeah, I'm sorry, guys. 630 00:22:24,260 --> 00:22:25,080 I can't... 631 00:22:25,820 --> 00:22:26,880 What episode are we up to? 632 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:27,620 16? 633 00:22:28,220 --> 00:22:29,920 Episode 16 has officially broken us. 634 00:22:31,140 --> 00:22:31,940 Hope you enjoyed. 635 00:22:32,580 --> 00:22:35,540 And now we need to stand in a quiet room for half an hour. 636 00:22:35,940 --> 00:22:36,160 Bye. 637 00:22:36,940 --> 00:22:40,120 We'll be back once we get our cybernetic enhancements installed, 638 00:22:41,340 --> 00:22:43,040 which may or may not remove our humanity, 639 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,000 or may or may not make as menial fucking slave robots, 640 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,580 and may or may not cause some sort of uprising in a prison break. 641 00:22:49,980 --> 00:22:51,660 And why does it all end in them going to a gig? 642 00:22:52,060 --> 00:22:55,020 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, Dave. I don't know. 643 00:22:55,310 --> 00:22:55,760 I don't know. 644 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:56,860 Okay, okay, let's do it. 645 00:22:57,110 --> 00:22:58,140 Instant dad before we move on. 646 00:22:58,420 --> 00:22:58,740 What? 647 00:22:59,100 --> 00:22:59,400 No. 648 00:23:02,540 --> 00:23:03,580 I'm just not. 649 00:23:04,420 --> 00:23:05,320 I'm just not. 650 00:23:16,140 --> 00:23:18,880 I am not a fan of rock opera, sticks, and this song. 651 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,180 This video is a dullest dishwasher, which matches the song perfectly. 652 00:23:22,460 --> 00:23:25,520 This song almost had me for a split second, with its dystopian themes, 653 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:27,980 and what almost felt like Nodes the Blade Runner. 654 00:23:28,170 --> 00:23:30,980 Two things I love, but it didn't deliver, and ultimately fell flat. 655 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,780 It's repetitive. It's very dark and does nothing for me. 656 00:23:34,010 --> 00:23:35,180 I won't be singing this in the shower. 657 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,200 As you can tell by the mental breakdown I've just had during this episode, 658 00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:39,700 this video made my fucking head hurt. 659 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,880 It's a decent looking sort of Blade Runner ripoff, like Neil was saying. 660 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:49,280 The leading man seems to put in quite a good performance as a flamboyant rock opera frontman. 661 00:23:49,540 --> 00:23:52,200 But I couldn't for the life of me figure out what the fuck was going on. 662 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,300 Despite having an explanation on Wikipedia, it still doesn't fucking add up. 663 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,640 Picture me as the meme of the guy with all the red string and the board 664 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:00,860 trying to work out a conspiracy. 665 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,340 and going slowly mental. 666 00:24:02,660 --> 00:24:04,840 That's what I... 667 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:04,880 Yeah. 668 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,340 I've never been a fan of sticks, 669 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,360 but this song is particularly bad. 670 00:24:09,580 --> 00:24:10,480 Although the video, 671 00:24:10,900 --> 00:24:12,320 in my humble opinion at least, 672 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:13,280 deserves to be in the 673 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:14,540 so bad is good category, 674 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:16,540 nothing is really redeemable 675 00:24:16,980 --> 00:24:18,700 and overall it can be viewed 676 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,920 as a pretty racially insensitive video 677 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:22,920 by our modern standards. 678 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:24,140 Although to be fair, 679 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,880 so can for a lot of other songs 680 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:26,580 from this era, 681 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,920 turning Japanese and looking at you, 682 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,420 but the cheese is so stringy. 683 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:32,780 You almost can't avert your eyes. 684 00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:33,840 However you should. 685 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:34,740 This sucks ass. 686 00:24:35,660 --> 00:24:38,180 So my favourite moment is the cool 687 00:24:39,179 --> 00:24:42,680 matte painting slash model at 3 minutes 25 seconds. 688 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:44,480 That's pretty much it. 689 00:24:44,820 --> 00:24:46,780 That's the bit where he's coming out of the prison 690 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,120 and the airplane things looking for him, isn't it? 691 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:49,640 Yeah. 692 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,540 I still can't figure out whether it's a model or a matte painting. 693 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:54,700 I think it might be matte painting, 694 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:55,360 but it looks pretty nice. 695 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:56,160 It's really well done. 696 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,700 It's hard to tell in our 240p YouTube video, 697 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,360 but yeah, it was pretty cool. 698 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,340 I did appreciate that 699 00:25:01,820 --> 00:25:02,940 and my worst moment is 700 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:03,640 just the general 701 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:05,300 fetishisation of 702 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:06,160 Japanese culture 703 00:25:06,420 --> 00:25:07,440 my favourite moment 704 00:25:07,580 --> 00:25:08,860 was four minutes in 705 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:09,700 after whatever 706 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:10,460 has happened 707 00:25:10,540 --> 00:25:10,860 has happened 708 00:25:11,380 --> 00:25:12,220 the lead singer 709 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:13,440 screams in a 710 00:25:13,620 --> 00:25:14,320 blazing falsetto 711 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:15,000 into a clearly 712 00:25:15,260 --> 00:25:15,900 unhappy robot 713 00:25:16,060 --> 00:25:17,120 and you just see 714 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:17,820 the robot eventually 715 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:18,360 just sort of 716 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:18,980 swat him off 717 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:19,540 like a fly 718 00:25:19,660 --> 00:25:20,340 I find that hilarious 719 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:21,540 and the worst moment 720 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:22,360 was two minutes 721 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:22,960 ten seconds 722 00:25:23,340 --> 00:25:24,140 a disappointing 723 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:24,920 lack of commitment 724 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:25,660 to doing the robot 725 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:26,480 because he kind of 726 00:25:26,620 --> 00:25:27,200 starts doing the robot 727 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:27,780 but he just does 728 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:28,580 one arm movement 729 00:25:28,780 --> 00:25:29,479 and then stops 730 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,000 I'm actually doing the robot right now 731 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,120 but yeah he didn't commit to doing the robot 732 00:25:33,430 --> 00:25:34,060 which is just funny 733 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,060 Favourite parts, theme is Nelly 734 00:25:36,380 --> 00:25:37,980 that one scene got me excited 735 00:25:38,580 --> 00:25:40,640 but it lasted for what like 736 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:41,960 four seconds and then 737 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:43,620 disappointment afterwards 738 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:44,840 The worst part? 739 00:25:45,090 --> 00:25:46,300 Oh the song was too long 740 00:25:47,140 --> 00:25:47,920 Simple as that 741 00:25:49,220 --> 00:25:51,100 I think at the four 742 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,600 four and a half, five minutes 743 00:25:53,230 --> 00:25:54,100 I think it could have cut a minute 744 00:25:54,340 --> 00:25:57,160 The thing is at the end interesting stuff started to happen 745 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,939 so that should have been in 746 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:00,900 before that cut 747 00:26:01,780 --> 00:26:02,480 so yeah 748 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:03,200 it was too long 749 00:26:03,380 --> 00:26:03,780 and the ending 750 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:04,380 should have been 751 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:05,520 a minute before 752 00:26:05,620 --> 00:26:06,600 the end of the actual song 753 00:26:07,380 --> 00:26:08,280 the shorter version 754 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:08,540 I mean 755 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:09,220 total side rant 756 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:09,900 but I think I mentioned 757 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:10,340 this earlier 758 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:10,940 but I watched 759 00:26:11,220 --> 00:26:12,540 the first Blade Runner 760 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:13,400 for the first time 761 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:14,360 in like 10 years 762 00:26:14,820 --> 00:26:15,140 last night 763 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:15,800 oh my god 764 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:16,800 what a fucking good film 765 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:17,660 it's good isn't it 766 00:26:17,780 --> 00:26:19,120 I know everyone knows that 767 00:26:19,220 --> 00:26:20,180 it's so morally grey 768 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:20,640 I love it 769 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:21,400 yeah we watched 770 00:26:21,620 --> 00:26:22,240 occasionally every 771 00:26:22,380 --> 00:26:23,640 like once a year 772 00:26:23,820 --> 00:26:24,180 or so 773 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:25,240 that's in 2001 774 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:26,660 I or no for this video 775 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:28,920 no 776 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,040 it's a no 777 00:26:32,180 --> 00:26:33,900 from the very depth of my soul 778 00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:36,140 from the depths of my soul 779 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:37,880 to you listeners who can email us 780 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,680 at gone2farcast at gmail.com 781 00:26:39,980 --> 00:26:41,660 we'd love to hear your thoughts on any recommendations 782 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,760 for videos, look at the show notes 783 00:26:43,980 --> 00:26:45,540 for links to Instagram 784 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:46,800 and email 785 00:26:47,660 --> 00:26:48,620 and all that jazz twitter 786 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:55,400 are you ok? 787 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:56,740 if you're enjoying the podcast 788 00:26:56,780 --> 00:27:00,880 Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your podcast player of choice. 789 00:27:01,740 --> 00:27:05,900 If you enjoyed the podcast, please send a bad review to my report to make a strictly 790 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:07,160 bad video in song. 791 00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:07,980 Say goodbye, everyone. 792 00:27:08,580 --> 00:27:09,060 Bye. 793 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,000 Goodbye, everyone. 794 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:10,760 Bye. 795 00:27:13,820 --> 00:27:14,400 And cut. 796 00:27:15,940 --> 00:27:16,460 That did. 797 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:18,460 Oh, God. 798 00:27:18,660 --> 00:27:19,720 Yeah, that one nearly broke me. 799 00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:20,640 Fucking hell.