Request Line: On The Clock

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

ROGER GOODELL: …and so I handed him a six-game suspension! Ha ha ha ha! Isn’t that hilarious?

PRODUCER: [appearing horrified] I’m not sure that skipping a mandatory league seminar to take your mother to a chemotherapy session really qualifies as…

GOODELL: [sips coffee, interrupts] So we’re good to go?

PRODUCER: [checks wristwatch] Yep, just ten seconds and we’re live. Ready?

GOODELL: Damn skippy.

PRODUCER: [counts it off]

GOODELL: Good afternoon, and welcome to “Request Line”!  I’m Roger Goodell and…[punches talkback button]…hey, are you hearing anything funny going on?

PRODUCER: Um, no your levels look fine.

GOODELL: Oh, good, cause I thought I was catching some static.

PRODUCER:

GOODELL: Ha ha, get it? Static? Like the way they always give me a hard time at the draft?

PRODUCER: Oh.  Right.  Very amusing.

GOODELL: Okay, so as you know the NFL draft is right around the corner, where dreams are made (and then later ground up into dust and mixed with tears to form a fine paste of CTE and permanent debilitating injuries). Every team is under pressure to make the right choice, and they only have a few minutes to make up their minds.  In honor of that, today’s theme is “On The Clock” – we’re looking for songs about being under the gun, running out of time, having to make a decision, having to hurry. Looks like we’ve got our first caller.  You’ve reached Request Line, what song would you like to hear?

CALLER 1: BOOOOO!

GOODELL: [tries to laugh it off] Ho ho, just like the draft.  What can I play for you?

CALLER 1: BOOOOOO!

GOODELL: Okay, okay, very funny.  What song would you…

CALLER 1: Baba-BOOOOOOOOOOO-ey!

GOODELL: [hangs up] Well, that got old fast.  Let’s try another one.  [punches button]

CALLER 2: Hello?

GOODELL: Hello, you’re on the air.

CALLER 2: Oh, cool!  So I had a question about the theme.

GOODELL: Shoot.

CALLER 2: So when you say “running out of time” do you mean like real time, or fake time?

GOODELL: Fake time?

CALLER 2: Yeah, fake time like that bullshit number you claimed for running the forty.

GOODELL: Hey now…

CALLER 2: YOU’RE A LIAR AND YOUR FORTY TIME IS A FRAUD!

GOODELL: [hangs up] God damn jackasses.

PRODUCER: [punches talkback button] Please don’t swear on the air.

GOODELL: But he just…

PRODUCER: We’re not responsible for the callers.  The FCC only fines us when the deejays do it.

GOODELL: Okay, let’s try this one last time. [punches button] Hello, what can I play for you?

CALLER 3: Oh, hi! So I was hoping I could get in a request for a DOUBLE SHOT.

GOODELL: A double shot?

PRODUCER: It’s when you play two songs in a row – basically two requests.

GOODELL: I don’t know…

CALLER 3: But you haven’t even heard my requests yet!

GOODELL: [glances at the PRODUCER, who nods enthusiastically] All right, let’s hear what you’ve got.

CALLER 3: My first request is for “Out of Touch” by Hall and Oates.

GOODELL: [pleasantly surprised] Yeah…yeah, we can play that.  Sounds good.  And what’s your second request?

CALLER 3: I request that you go fuck yourself.

GOODELL: [hangs up] Why did I even agree to do this?

 

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theeWeeBabySeamus

OH yeah? Take this, boyo!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej3Wo3SwoXg

theeWeeBabySeamus

Nice.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Admittedly, this doesn’t fit perfectly. But it’s got time in the title so I’m posting it mostly just to screw around with ballsofsteel. Hehehe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4

Don T

From the Lollipop Pop Dept.: Hombres G – El tiempo no es mi amigo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9e0NARek6bs

Don T

Je je. Un doble. Hombres G – Un minuto nada más
Sax at the end = certified 80s artifact
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WrQEezKQs_I

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

In the middle of a 1 am Seroquel haze about two months ago, this came up on YouTube autoplay.

To answer your questions: the video is NSFW and Laia Manzanares. You’re welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzrzS1Ag_g

King Hippo

c’est magnifique!

theeWeeBabySeamus

My apologies.
I’ll show myself out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

Don T

Having to hurry, eh?
The Hives – Come On!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HoBr4x-hF_M

Don T

A double!
The Hives Introduce the Metric System of Time
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1_pG0wUmAcE

King Hippo
Don T

IT WAS RIGHT THERE! What a catch.

SonOfSpam

Freshman year at high school…morning announcements, the vice-principal let us all know that there were discount coupons at the school office to see “Rio Speedwagon” at Irvine Meadows.

We had a good chuckle at old man (can’t remember his name…let’s say…) Johnson’s expense.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Stupid Sexy Vice Principal “Johnson”!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

I haven’t read back yet, so apologies to whomever’s toes I’m about to step on here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8

SonOfSpam

How bout a song about time dilation? See, the guys in the rocket were gone for a year, but they came back to a much older Earth because they were traveling near light speed, and…eh, just listen to rocket scientist Brian May explain it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8kGMfXaFU

LemonJello

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theeWeeBabySeamus

CALLER 2: Yeah, fake time like that bullshit number you claimed for running the forty.

LMFAO

yeah right

I’ve been a fan of this band for about….45 years. New wave years before there was such a thing. Even with the curious moustache choices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMCip83GZ4

SonOfSpam

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LemonJello
yeah right

From one of the greatest debut albums ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UaDlZr_Crs

yeah right

I can double shot that up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Wn5kvqb6o

yeah right

That’s pretty…curious.

LemonJello

Weird…maybe.

SonOfSpam
LemonJello

Aaaaaannnnddddd THERE’S the rabbit hole I’m going down for my Friday afternoon.

yeah right

It’s also listenable unlike the original.

King Hippo

This isn’t quite as on the nose as Digital, but still fits, and the original 1978 recording deserves seeing…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mpZUPPTyjo

Senor Weaselo

Holy shit, I found a full orchestral recording.
/This has been your pretentious “modern Classical” post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh-o3udImy8

SonOfSpam

Stewart Copeland is very underrated, or maybe just undermentioned? Whatever, this is insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4DWwrJ8Vc8

SonOfSpam

Kind of on the nose, but Muse is good and dramatic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2IuJPh6h_A

yeah right
ArmedandHammered

Aren’t we all on the clock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg

King Hippo

Holy Mother of Fuck, how did I forget this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnWYALFPCw

ArmedandHammered

I look forward to someone telling Goodell “No time left for you”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqeSUAlI5uI

ArmedandHammered

Something you don’t want to let the clock run out on ya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is83WB7Ue1Y

yeah right
LemonJello
King Hippo

I shit you not, I will blast this and sing along every time it comes on First Wave.

Cuntler

This one works, too. It’s gonna getcha, it’s gonna getcha, it’s gonna getcha . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1Qe2m8oOA

King Hippo

Scotchy will be mad I beat him to it. But that’s what he gets for working on Jeebus Snuff Film Day ,, smh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkLOg252KRE

litre_cola
King Hippo

oh goddamnit, close the thread. PERFECT.

litre_cola

Loved this era of brit rock, then I heard it filtering into teevee over here, uggh.

King Hippo

these guys and Kaiser Chiefs were big around same time, really enjoyed both

LemonJello

Fun Fact: A Kaiser Chief is a whole KC BBQ pork butt on a kaiser roll, and one of Coach Reid’s favorite snacks.

King Hippo

FUN FACT: Hippo thought they were the Kaiser Chefs for an embarrassingly long time…

yeah right

Remember Nitzer Ebb? Same era.

litre_cola
LemonJello

Runnin’ with the devil, it’s touch and go…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRsXvZiiNNY

Senor Weaselo

Fun fact: “Touch and Go” was used for a MNF promo!

nomonkeyfun

Also Larry Nasser’s favorite song.

LemonJello
LemonJello

Agreed.
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Cuntler

This song sucks, but it fits the theme:

DO THE HUSTLE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0xVLGssnwU

Cuntler
Cuntler
ballsofsteelandfury

The Hall and Oates ending was sublime.