#937 - Dance Monkey Dance
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What is the opening banter about Japanese lager and the summer vibe?
Punners and dribbles, we are brought to you by our good friends at Four Pines and the weather's warm. It's hot, baby. It's hot. The sun's shining, and the days are getting longer and longer. And I mean, I've got to be honest with you, we were discussing this last uh, we were discussing this the other day about last year on grand final day. We were upstairs at the stain, absolute pearl of a day, just knocking back, frosting.
Japanese lagers. Just Japanese lager after Japanese lager in the most sensational weather. And when I arrived this morning, Tom, the weather was similar. And I've got to be honest with you, I've had Japanese lagers on the mind all day.
Make smart decisions this time of year, punished and dribblers. Go to your bottle of, go to your bars and pubs and whatever. And if they're the you you tell them to get the Japanese lager on if it's not there and if it is, then you have one off the wood.
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You are listening to the Halloween Sport Podcast.
They say, oh my god, I see the way you shine
It's probably gonna take him down.
I was back in the Now I beg to see you dead just one more time. Sinto, sin tu sinto en And I'm not high.
Now I'm back to see you dance just one more day. Soy, say, kiss, come, kiss, come, kiss, go me. Chose and I two. Fucking track.
Sh lad. Three and a half billion streams, that's it. That's got. It's a lot. Um it then drops significantly down. To our next song of a hundred and sixty six million. I d it's not nothing. But like not
awesome.
Three and a half billion. We dropped down to a hundred and sixty six million, not nothing. Almost a hundred and sixty seven million if I'm being if I'm rounding up. Round up. Then drops down. Twenty seven million. We got another five hundred million for another one. Good numbers. She's got some huge numbers. Huge numbers. But like the difference between billions and millions is a lot, right?
I'm not gonna sit here and critique other work that she's put out. No,
that's not what we do. I'm just looking at raw numbers.
But like I remember Going to see Bruce Springsteen. The boss. The boss. In the Hunter Valley. Yeah. And when singers get to that s a certain age, all right, or a certain vintage, they like to go, Yeah, I know that you like my seventies stuff. Yeah. But how about my twenty ten stuff? Yeah. To which the crowd Responds With a lack of enthusiasm. Because a lot of people sitting there going, I have not heard this song. Yeah. Unfortunately for artists, they like to think that um they can stand beyond their best work. But the reality is you can't.
Well but like or She had an eleven it's like eleven minutes set, apparently.
Needs to be in there.
You've only like y again, I'm just looking at the disc oscography, whatever it is, like you gotta ha in eleven minutes, which may be where Again, not knocking or other work. I'm saying the totality of the bangers probably caps out at about eleven minutes. Respectfully. Maybe throwing one that no one's heard. Like you can play gone, gone, gone, favor, fly away, dance with me, cloudy day, never seen the rain, dance monkey. Like what are we talking about? No, it's a lot of things. And you want a million Australian rugby league dollars and you're not gonna play the monkey song?
Gotta play the monkeys. Lost
touch with the common man.
Lost touch with the common man.
What what happened to Busker? What happened to Tones and I on the fucking street corner just busking for a dollar, dude? What the fuck happened to that?
What happened to what happened to giving the people what they want?
Now, Tob has got something here. In 2022, she famously, and famous it was, claimed in a radio interview that she loathed her biggest song, Dance Monkey, and dreaded singing it. But I don't want to just try chase that song. I loathe that song a lot of the time. She told Nova. A lot of times I don't want to sing it. I'm not going to write another song like it. You would fucking See You'd do sickening things to write another song that was that big. I just want to tell people how to do that. See, I can't I can't hack that. That's
ungrateful.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening banter about Japanese lager and the summer vibe?
0:00–13:03
2
Why does Tones and I refuse to perform the ‘Dance Monkey’ song?
13:03–24:35
3
How do the hosts compare streaming numbers and discuss the impact of big hits?
24:35–35:28
4
What are the key points of the NRL trade‑off market discussion for November?
35:28–46:01
5
Why is proper pipe management important and what are the ‘three Ps’?
46:01–57:20
6
What health advice do the hosts give about sleep, exercise and vitamins?
57:20–1:08:56
7
What is the story behind the boxing match between Gal and Nelson?
1:08:56–1:12:20
8
Why are the hosts excited about submitting a courtroom sketch to the Archibald Prize?
1:12:20–1:12:32