This week we continue with Part 2 of our bracket of 16 novelty and gimmick songs. The elite eight created last week become four, then two, and ultimately we pick a single champion as the best novelty/gimmick song based on our own unique criteria. Some thoughtful discussion around some pretty terrible songs.
This week we debut a new style of format: the bracket. We take 16 of the most popular novelty and gimmick songs from the past 50 years and put them head to head, eventually reaching a single winner. It's Super Bowl Shuffle versus Pac-Man Fever, Party All the Time versus Rocket Man (the Shatner one) plus many more.
On this week's show we discuss musical instruments...then get distracted and talk about a bunch of other stuff! We start with the Cwrth and glass harmonica, then digress into how easy (or not easy) it was to invent stuff back in the 1700s and how tall would you get if you grew up in zero gravity.
This week we continue our discussion of mascots, focusing on the sports mascots! Why does baseball have 3 mascots with a baseball for a head? Why is the Rockies mascot a triceratops? Is there anything more terrifying than San Diego's new supervillain Boltman?
This week it's all about the corporate mascots as we discuss the unusual ("Hey Kool-Aid!"), the weird (did anyone like Mr. Six?) and the downright helpful (Smokey the Bear, Woodsy Owl and McGruff the Crime Dog).
