This episode contains explicit language.

You're listening to the smooth stylings of Patrick Charles Eugene Pat Boone,

pop star of the 1950s, host of the Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, maybe the whitest, squareest rock musician of all time.

In 1997, Pat Boone put out an album covering among others Judas Priest, Metallica,

Ozzy Osborne, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple.

On the front of the album, Pat Boone looks up maniacally or at least as maniacally as he can,

wearing only a black leather vest.

You can find the whole thing on YouTube.

In a metal mood, no more Mr. Nysky.

I mean, all great songs that he's chosen, impeccable.

Pat Boone performed an act of cultural appropriation, outrageous cultural appropriation.

A square white guy, a middle-aged crooner, walked in and shamelessly appropriated the heavy metal cannon.

Here's my question. What should we make of that fact?

How should we feel about in a metal mood?

So I asked my friend Dave Hill.

Dave is a metal-efficient auto, league guitarist for valley lodge and witch-taint,

maybe the most metal band name ever.

If you root around the internet, you can find some videos we've done together over the years,

which have literally hundreds of likes.

We go to the same coffee shop. Say hello to Dave.

Well, the devil's interval is the beginning of metal basically.

It's the flat at fifth.

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