Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What do presidential candidates, professional wrestlers and improv comics have in common? Walk on theme music. As the primary season heats up we dig into the history, meaning and controversies of campaign anthems. Also, comedian and guest co-host Chris Duffy shares some of his favorite lyrics with hidden humor. And we time travel with Nate to 1931 to visit late night Harlem jazz clubs. FEATURING Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out? String Quartet No. 19 in C Major K 465 IV Ride Of The Valkyries - Wagner Conducted by George Szell John Williams - The Imperial March Howard Da Silva - Tippacanoe and Tyler Too Oscar Brand - Rockabye Baby Peter Janovsky - Get On The Raft With Taft Woodie Gutherie - This Land is Your Land The Police - Every Breath You Take Tom Petty - Won’t Back Down Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run Metallica - Enter Sandman Mozart String Quartet No15 D Minor K. 421 I. Allegro Moderato Metallica - Master Of Puppets Kelly Clarkson - Stronger Zac Brown Band - Homegrown REM - End of the world Phantom of the Opera (Single Album Version) Carly Simon - You’re So Vain Beck - Devil’s Haircut Brad Paisley - Working On A Tan Quindon Tarver - Free To Wear Sunscreen Neil Young - Rockin’ In The Free World Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein Lil’ Jon - Get Low Lil’ Jon - Snap Your Fingers Rihanna - What’s My Name (ft. Drake) Van Halen - Why Can’t This Be Love Pitbull - Give Me Everything David Guetta - Sexy Bitch (ft. Akon) Don Redman - Song Of The Weeds Don Redman - Shacking the African Sir Mix Alot - Big Butts Nikki Minaj - Anaconda Flo Rida - Low Project Pat - Twerk It Don Redman - Nagasaki Don Redman - Song Of The Weeds Don Redman - The Man From Harlem Don Redman - Gee, Ain’t I Good To You Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Introducing in the red corner at 187 pounds, he hails from Los Angeles, California.
0:05.7	He's not even close to being a midway champion or much of an athlete at all for that matter.
0:10.2	In fact, he could probably stand to lose 10 pounds.
0:12.9	Please welcome Charlie Haroon!
0:18.9	And in the blue corner, weighing in at a measly 143 pounds,
0:23.4	hailing from New York City, New York,
0:25.7	he may have slightly more athletic ability than the red corner,
0:28.9	but certainly less muscle mass.
0:30.7	Please welcome, Christopher!
0:43.2	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:44.4	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding, and I'm comedian Chris Duffy.
0:47.5	So you might be asking where is Nate, our resident musicologist?
0:51.4	Well, he's off finishing his dissertation, so I asked our friend,
0:54.9	comedian Chris Duffy to join us again.
0:56.9	You might remember him from one of our episodes a few weeks ago,
0:59.6	where we recorded a live segment about Max Martin.
1:02.8	Chris is the host of WBUR's You're the Expert, an amazing show where he pairs
1:07.6	comedians with leading scientists to make us laugh and teach us something about the world.
1:12.2	Chris, thanks for being here with us.
1:13.3	Thanks so much for having me, Charlie. I'm so glad to be back.
1:15.3	So much fun.
1:16.1	All right, so let's just get right into it.
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