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Punch Up The Jam

'With Arms Wide Open' by Creed (w/ Markiplier)

Punch Up The Jam

Headgum

Music, Comedy, Music Commentary

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

With Ahms Wahd O-PAHNN. Why would we ever want to punch up this beloved song about daddy issues?? Evan and Andrew interrogate YouTube legend Markiplier (Mark Fischbach) about his childhood connection to this sensitive but rockin' tune. Many groundbreaking ideas and questions come to the surface: How NOT to do your album art photoshop, Why does Scott Stapp sing like a muppet, How does Andrew have a certain musical Spidey Sense, Why did Scott Stapp fight another rock band and have an orgy with Kid Rock?

Guest: Markiplier

Walk-in music: 'Silence Kid' by Pavement; 'Spaceship Superstar' by Prism; 'Homeworld (The Ladder)' by Yes.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a headgema region.

0:03.3

When I first listened to it on the bus, I heard it on the bus.

0:09.1

That's why it's a bus song to me.

0:11.3

And you know, you got the bus speakers crackly audio.

0:14.2

It's terrible.

0:15.2

It's echoed multiple times because it's like multiple speakers along the whole bus.

0:19.6

You're getting this weird big metal box feel to it.

0:23.0

I didn't even know what it meant at first, you know, when I first first started.

0:26.2

I got to hear about what a bus song is when we get really get started.

0:29.7

We did not have bus songs, we did not ride the school bus.

0:32.6

Oh really?

0:33.6

We walked to school our entire school career.

0:35.9

Oh wow.

0:36.9

And so I never, I didn't have this.

0:37.9

It also sounds like you had a nicer bus.

0:39.7

Our bus did not have speakers.

0:41.3

I mean, nice bus.

0:42.8

I don't know if you would call it a nice bus.

0:44.3

I don't think any bus is nice when it comes to a school bus.

0:47.9

To be clear, we're talking about a conventional school bus, the yellow bus, the blue ber,

0:53.8

fake leather plethora seats, a crusty old chrome driving yelling at you.

0:59.4

You got to save this for the podcast.

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