S02E105 - MAIL BAG 2019 (Part 1)
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Summary
On this week's episode of Behind The Beats, we're joined by music director, producer, writer, and director-turned-producer John Singleton. John talks about his early days as a filmmaker and producer in the early days of the UK garage music scene, working with artists like Dizzee Rascal, Dizzy Rascal and more.
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I did a pilot with David Cross in London in 2004.
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And that was when the original pirate material garage music scene was big.
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And Garage was, well, it started with just black kids in the projects in London playing their ringer tones.
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That's why you heard that blip, blip, blip, blip.
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So they play their ringer tones on a loop like blip or video game sounds, right?
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And then they would make these songs and record them, and they'd play them at radio stations, but people wouldn't play the music because it was too weird and lo-fi.
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So they would have pirate stations, and they would listen, like the streets talk about that.
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People would go to make out points and just listen with antennas on their cars, or they'd listen on their roofs of the projects, and they'd listen to these pirate radio stations, and these guys would come in and rap on the beats.
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So I went there to investigate it, and they were very wary of being discovered.
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It was pretty much half black, half white, but definitely lower class, not middle class.
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So the beginning of that film isn't mocking the G-Dog.
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That was the death of Electroclash, too, another movement.
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That was in the early aughts where I was trying to document it, get it written down on paper, you know, so you could have documentaries about it, like punk.
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But they didn't want it documented, and it kind of shattered the whole thing.
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Because they refused to be, you know, stereotyped, typecasted, listed.
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One time I heard a voice message that I left on my wife's phone back then.
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I thought that was a fun trip into the subconscious.
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Well, you can get it on Last FM and ElectroClash fuses Electro Techno-SynthPop New Wave Punk Performance Art.
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Casey Spooner and Warren Fisher put together this band.
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He would do shows where he would like, stop, stop, stop.
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And I said to Casey, I go, I know what that song's about.
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It's about being gay and how you don't have to come out of the closet.
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And he goes, that's not what it means, but that sounds good to me.
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No, he's a quarterback for the Minnesota Saints.
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It's like, technically everything I do is about being gay.
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You're like, dude, I know what the song is about.
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He's like, yeah, everything I do is about being gay.
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I have a butthole for mullets over my ears, and I'm dressed like a cockatoo.
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Even gays are so gay, their eyes become buttholes.
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They're trying to make vaginas all over their face.
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Or when your dick is bruised, as mine was when I tried to lift a kettlebell.
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We're working out, and I tell this black guy the story because we're doing kettlebells.
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He doesn't want to stand in the area where I held a kettlebell up with my foreskin.
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Yeah, if you make them laugh in one area, they'll have to leave that area.
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And I walked, and then they walk away as part of the bit.
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No, this was he didn't want to stand where there was anything remotely penisy.
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You still slip and slide on it like Buster Keaton.
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Welcome back to Dick Flicks, where we review gay porn from a straight perspective.
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This first one is called In and Out in Beverly Hills and features John Stahn, who is a 17-inch dicked porn star who is portraying a homeless man.
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Ryan, shut up, you don't have a deadline Let's turn our eyes to Gavin's mailbag.
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I'll be so depressed if it's more than 14 trillion because I'm trying to exaggerate.
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If it's 15 or 16 trillion, that means that I haven't looked it up in current deficit.
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Public holds the Russian national debt at $17 trillion.
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The public holds the national debt of $17 trillion.
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These are all Caesar 90 Day Fiancé Dosaki's memes.
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Now, you're seeing this a little late, unfortunately, but this was a guy from, I would say this was the week of, the second week of December.
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And it's in the thumbnail if you want to go back over.
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But we talked about a fucking loser who sent $40,000 to Ukraine.
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In the hopes that he can bone a 10, which we all want to do, buddy.
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When his parents divorced, neither one fought for custody.
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You're making jokes about him when he was a kid?
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He was an only child, but still not the favorite.
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He was hit by a fire truck after escaping a burning building.
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When he asked Siri to tell Joke, she turned on the front camera.
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He was the victim of a school shooting, despite being homeschooled.
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I don't have a lot of time to laugh in this world.
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Why did you say you don't have a lot of time to laugh in this world?
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By the way, I paid for you to go get your bloods.
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Did you go and get, well, it's called bloods because they test all kinds of different shit.
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Please teach a thing or two about how to interview someone to Milo.
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He never shuts up and butchered the whole show.
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This is, he's referring to the Nick Fuentes episode.
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It would have been much better if you did it and other big guests in the future.
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You should be a black wrap hairdo where it goes from bald to normal hair in a very slow progress up the side of your head.
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I had an idea, too, because these right versus left are so expensive.
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I could book the venue from like 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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And then I just do people I like, like Larry Barnes, Walter Wade champion of the world.
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The owner of the comedy seller is a really fascinating, interesting dude who's not a knee-jerk level.
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Today, the term fade more flexibly means disgrace.
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Ryan should be a disgrace, so he's not a disgrace.
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David, on the show today, when you showed that Thanos thing, you said this is an old story, by the way, so I should probably go deeper into the emails.
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You said Trump isn't pompous at all, but I found a couple videos that prove you wrong.
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This country, our country, and one thing I have to say.
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They have tremendous relationships in the Muslim community.
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And the people that I know in the Muslim community agree with me.
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There was a recent mass shooting in San Bernardino.
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You have said that guns should be carried to fight back.
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You know, can I just interrupt this thing for a second?
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You know what's funny about New Yorkers is your status in this city is defined by your view.
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And obviously the best view to get is the view of Central Park.
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And I think other people would just see his view right there and go, like in Cleveland, it just means you're in a tall building and you're looking out.
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And it's like being in a car town, like what I would imagine Detroit was in the 60s and seeing someone in a Ford galaxy or something.
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It gets brainwashed into you because I'm not a big view guy.
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But like when I went to Peter Thiel's house, the billionaire, he's on one of those skyscrapers and you look out and you can see way down, you see all of Central Park.
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I've never heard you say, look at this view or appreciate your surroundings.
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My favorite place to be in the world is a dive bar where you're just staring at a pile of booze with a mirror above it, and then whatever's on the TV is fucking garbage.
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So it's like a soccer game I don't give a shit about, a home improvement show, a real estate show, and then like the news or the weather.
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And the bartender I'm talking to at Dive Bars is always a hideous old man.
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If you look at California, nobody had guns except the bad guys.
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If you have three or four people like me, I have the right to carry.
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If you have people like me in that room and somebody starts shooting, I guarantee you, we're going down shooting.
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I saw this with George W. Bush, too, with his Texan accent.
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Americans are ashamed of the New York Dot Tofkai accent, because that's dummies.
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And they're ashamed of the fucking Southern accent because those are just stupid rednecks.
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And I'm smart because I went to NYU NYU part of the 1% The 1%.
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I want to see Trump shooting a gun so bad and smoking a cigarette.
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This has never occurred to me before right now.
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What made you think that I wouldn't have a gun in my sock?
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Presidents who carried guns unless president to carry gun.
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The internet really does have everything in the world.
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You were horny this morning, but you got stressed out with work and you won't be horny again until 7 p.m.
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There's a lot on your mind and it is making your boner go.
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Oh, dude, I know this is a cliche and this is ancient news.
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But my wife was snoring the other night, so I went upstairs to the guest room.
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And then I went downstairs and I go, we got to do something about the snoring.
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And she goes, okay, I'm just congested or something.
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That day, she had three ads for snoring devices on her Instagram.
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I know you've heard this before, but when it really happens to you.
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By the way, I've skipped a whole bunch because those previous ones were too recent.
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Just thought these videos might be cool to watch in a GOML.
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The first one is an experiment by girls where they all have to guess each other's weight and there is only one obese one.
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The second one is about a girl dating four neck beer.
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So today I gathered eight women together for a little social experiment.
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I don't know that it's about to get a little uncomfortable.
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Well, it's hard to gauge their exact height, but I'm assuming that the chick on the far right is like 5'11.
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The one next to her, the fatty next to her, is like 150.
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The dumpy one with the dumpy black girl with the Beyoncé hair, she's like 200 pounds.
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And then the black one next to her, this is so easy, right?
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No, once they make their numbers, then they get to her.
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Share insecurity is when you're marrying a guy named Sonny and you don't think you can sing very well.
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It would be so weird because you'd be on top of her and then you just feel these arms.
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Well, she wouldn't be anywhere near me, first of all.
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No, that's a chick who took tons of testosterone.
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Do you guys ever judge people based on how they're doing?
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God, women and liberals, which are the same thing, are so slow at doing stuff.
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Like, go to the thing where they showed all the weights.
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People just listening to audio must be confused here.
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I thought she actually didn't break 120, but you know.
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Well, when you're short, there's not a lot of you, as you may have noticed when you look in the mirror.
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It must be like having a black name and constantly spelling stuff all the time.
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Rachel with a Y. So they have another group, I think.
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Yeah, I was initially drawn to my partner because we're both the same height.
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If you ever kill yourself, you should safety pin this email to your jacket.
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I would only kill myself to shame that person and do that.
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Don't bring your stupid, boring millennial friends on.
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By the way, you know the problem with this show is we didn't leave ourselves enough room to do other shit.
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But we have like some Christmas episodes banked.
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But we don't, I realize, like, say you go to jail.
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I don't have a plan B. And I want to shoot so much shit.
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Presidents who carried guns and last president to carry a gun in the office, Cedd Roosevelt, Joy Eisenhower, and Ronald Wilson Reagan and more.
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So in this clip, Joe Biden calls this audience member at 155.
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This is after spending 90 seconds berating him like the villain of an 80s ski resort movie.
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Apparently, Joe couldn't stop thinking about how chunky the guy was, and the word fat just appeared in the sentence.
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And this guy has sent us this video without the video in it.
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No one has said my son has done anything wrong, and I did not an answer.
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Your son knows nothing about mining yet was making $50 a month as a consultant at a Ukrainian mining firm.
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He's doing this whole speech, and then there's a woman dancing in the background, the back right.
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It's funny, you can always spot the Italians in the audience, can't you?
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Hey, whoa, what's this guy over here talking away?
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But you and me, we're going to talk about that.
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We got guns shooting each other, flapping around like a bird.
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No, it's supposed to be at 155, but I'm sure there's a million recordings of this, so the odds of it being 155 are pretty low.
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Well, that's a really bad quality one, frankly.
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But yeah, that's interesting that he said fat look.
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That's sort of like, remember that guy who we had on the other show?
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Look, the reason I'm running is because I've been around a long time and I know more than most people know.
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No one has said my son has done anything wrong.
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You said I set up my son to work in an oil company.
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Okay, I'm not going to get in an argument with you, man.
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Remember that guy we had on the show a long time ago?
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That video we were watching where he's interviewing the girl from.
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Dude, you can't run a country if you can't run your own mouth.
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Let me just tell you how many emails we get a day.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 23, 21, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 67.
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So this guy just sends us a clip of some drunk chick.
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I was watching Goodfells the other day, and they say Johnny two times because he said everything twice.
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You should be baking cookies for your grandchildren.
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And this is called How to Get a Crack Head Off Your Motherfucking Front Porch.
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Why are the poorest named dollar billions and have tattoos that say cash with a dollar sign?
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And this type of shit you got to deal with in a trap.
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y'all saying 60 degrees Wouldn't it be cool to sit and transcribe this and try to formulate, you know, her point?
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Frankly, trying to walk by, trying to do my best.
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Especially when people are confronted with data that contradicts their belief, they tend to become more than fashion their beliefs.
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So you can tell them the truth, but they're not interested.
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Let's see, buddy, the best thing on one of the goddamn people.
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I've been listening to this shit since about two in the fucking morning.
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This strategy is also effective against punk rock hoes that will not get off your dick.
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It's a sketch show, a comedy sketch show from Britain.
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And this particular clip, they're making fun of Scots in England who won't shut up about Scotland.
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No, in Scotland, the weather's very, very pleasant indeed.
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Whereas down here in England, it's quite to the contrary.
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How old were I heard old Jerry popped his clogs the other night?
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Poor old bunny Armstrong Miller popped his clogs last night.
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Yeah, I guess you take your clogs off when you die.
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If I died, I would never want it to be expressed as I could do my clogs.
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I didn't know you could put it in your top suit pocket.
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Thankfully, it was very quick, but poor Joyce is in a terrible stool.
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Can you hide me so I can see his pocket for a second?
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Oh, so it's attached to a button that's on his lapel.
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I mean, after all, they've been married for what, 40, 45 years?
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Do you have another, these other two guys where they sit there and look at the paper at a club, like a country club, and they're looking at, they just look at celebrities in the newspaper and they go, this guy, this chap, Prince Andrew, has he a queer?
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And then he has a red mark and he just circles and then writes queer.
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Andy's on television and I just think he's a probable queer, wouldn't you agree?
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I mean, he sounds like a queer, and he looks like queer.
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Andy's on television and I just think he's a probable queer, wouldn't you agree?
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Yeah, there's so much fucking hilarious shit out there that people have forgotten.
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Like Strangers with Candy, I highly recommend you revisit those shows.
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And another wonderful show that's on now on Netflix is You Have to Leave, You Gotta Leave.
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Like there's some shit sketched there because Netflix is concerned with political correctness and affirmative action.
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So they don't have the meritocracy of true humor with most of their shows.
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It's this guy who knows all the SNL casts, but he wasn't hired at SNL because he's too ugly.
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And I have to admit, I didn't bother looking at this show because I saw his face and it looked ugly and my subconscious said, yeah.
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I typed in you got to leave and nothing popped up here.
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Your toilet can't suck them down and you feel sick to your stomach.
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Has this ever happened to you when he starts out with a normal thing about two contractors come to your place?
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And then it keeps going and going until it's they replace your toilet with another toilet that has an opening only this big.
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They're jumping on the furniture and then you want to join them, but they won't let you.
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And when you go in there to help him, he just pulls it out easily and laughs because his foot wasn't stuck.
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And then they get really serious and say it's turbo time.
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And they both start running around the house as fast as they can and jumping over the couches.
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But when you try and jump in, they yell at you and they say, you're not part of the turbo team.
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Until you're part of this turbo team, walk slowly.
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So you go lay down to be by yourself and read your art books.
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But then the next day you went into the bathroom and it looked like to read your art books.
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I feel like we used to have more chicks writing in and calling in.
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We probably shamed one pretty hard, so then they were like, well, I'm not going to try.
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I sure was mean to that old lady at Grand Center.
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How did you feel when I was calling that old lady a cunt at Grand Central?
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Just mildly uncomfortable, but I was like, I had nothing to say.
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She looked at me and I was like, I'm not even here.
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I'm a Spanish teacher, chick, and love you and Ryan and your show.
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I try to put in some Gavin humor in my ninth grade classes.
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I also tell the students that they need to get over it when I joke to them.
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Actually, it's impossible to get fired as a teacher, especially if you're Hispanic.
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You have a lot of Gen Zers that love you, like me.
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My fiancé rolls his eyes and my girl crush on y'all.
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And I wore my clown world Shirt during superhero t-shirt day.
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It's pronounced symbos, but you're handicapped, so I'll let it go.
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45 minutes, 40, 50, 40, 40 minutes, 40, 45 minutes, 40 minutes.
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We should make these two shows today and tomorrow.
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The mailbag shows, 40, 40, 40, 40, 45, 40, 40, 45 minutes, 40, 40, 40 and 50.
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I'm assuming the spectrum of looks is like a bell curve.
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I think if we answer these questions, people can be a lot more precise in their ratings.
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I know there is an art to this, but there has to be a good amount of science too.
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I'm going to go tell you the science of this, but I have to use my gut because there are people that say you should see 110 and 11 a lifetime and the bell curve is an entire life.
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There's others that say the bell curve is a month and you should see 11, 110 a month, and then like say we see a thousand people a month, you're going to see like 400 fives.
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I'm going to say that the bell curve goes over the span of a year.
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And you should see one 10 a year and one one a year.
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Like, do you mandatorily have to see a one or typically you should see a one?
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Like when you see a six, you know what a six is.
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So that should sort of tell you what a 10 is, right?
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And then you could just mark on your calendar, I've seen, if you see three tens a month, that's possible.
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See, now you get into, well, what if you live, like, what if you're Terry Richardson and you photograph models for a living?
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Is your bell curve, your bell curve might be a day at that point?
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And the fun thing about the one to tens is you, I'm talking about it now like I'm talking about guitar solos.
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But when you go out onto the street, you, you look at a girl or a man and you go, seven, 4.6.
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So it's sort of like me picking up a guitar and going, I don't, what is this?
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That sounded like a corny blues sitting on the front porch solo.
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So I'm sorry, Jimmy Page is so corny while you're playing fucking Blues Traveler over there with Hootie and the Blowfish.
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Well, the thing is, once you're a guitarist, you can kind of judge guitarists that otherwise would be legends or whatever.
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And I do know the answer in my bones, but I don't know.
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Let's just for now say you should see a 10 a year.
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And I live in New York City, by the way, where we are replete with fucking knockouts.
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A 10 is a woman where you would, as I said in the previous episode, kill your whole family on Christmas Day to have her, and it would be worth it.
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And there's only a certain amount of people there and you will never.