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Show Me The Meaning! – A Wisecrack Movie Podcast

BONUS – Fight Club Interview with John King from the Dust Brothers

Show Me The Meaning! – A Wisecrack Movie Podcast

Wisecrack

Comedy, Education, Tv & Film

4.8 β€’ 1.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Join us as we interview John King of the Dust Brothers, who scored Fight Club’s soundtrack. His other credits include working with Beck, Tenacious D, Hanson, and The Beastie Boys. Other Wisecrack Podcasts! Blackstage: https://wscrk.com/blackstage The Maze (Westworld): https://wscrk.com/ituTheMaze The Squanch (Rick and Morty): http://wscrk.com/WisecrackPodcast Respect Our Authoritah! (South Park): http://wscrk.com/ituRoAWC Thug Notes: Get Lit: http://wscrk.com/ituGetLit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Welcome to our extra segment that we're doing for our Fight Club

0:07.2

podcast. We have in studio right now John King of the Dust Brothers so not only

0:12.0

did John do the music for Fight Club, but he also has worked

0:15.8

with Beck, Tenacious D, Hansen, and the Beastie Boys. So, John, thank you for joining us.

0:21.6

How you doing?

0:22.6

Good. Welcome. a long lasting hit that seems to only get more and more relevant but the music and the

0:35.4

soundtracks seems to be something that everyone had when they were a kid and listened to.

0:39.6

How much is this a feather in your cap in terms of like is this what you feel like you'll be remembered by or how is this rank in your like

0:46.3

when you look at all your work your discography yeah I never have this in my head like I know it is a feather I love my feathers but right it's got Paul's boutique in there dude I mean shit I mean

0:58.8

I mean way up there when I think about like, you know, what things really had a lot of impact, I would think Paul's

1:07.6

boutique because it gets recognized so much.

1:10.7

I think O'Dlei and I think Odelea and I think M-Bop because it was just so huge and affected so many people.

1:19.0

Right. Well I guess I was meaning like more in terms of your film work.

1:23.0

Yeah, I mean Fight Club is the greatest film work I did.

1:27.6

I haven't done that much, but you know songs get used all the time.

1:30.8

I had a couple songs used in Baby Driver and that was really fun to see like

1:36.4

the white dudes roll up in their C28 or whatever they were in, bustusting young MC.

1:45.0

It sounded so good in the theater actually.

1:47.8

I was like, damn.

1:50.3

So back then, so these days, you see a lot of movies that are being scored with digital music

1:56.4

You know of like all the Atticus Ross movies and even the Johnny Greenwood stuff

2:01.0

But was this relatively new? Was this a kind of a novel thing

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