Episode #123 - "Funky Dingbat" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Ice Cube Has The Best Words"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim beer (Dirk, Otto and Bob)
• Bob "I'm Gonna Kill Somebody" Koski is in the house!
• Welcomes and usual opening business and a lot of mop-up. 
• Rumor that X-23 will be in the next Wolverine movie.
• Rumor that Maisie Williams (Arya on Game of Thrones) will be in a New Mutants movie.
• Emilia Clarke is out of any future Terminator movies.
• King of the Universe James Cameron won't try to compete with Star Wars.
• They're making a Three's Company movie. Otto freestyles a much better plot.
• Dirk has an idea for a Will Smith movie.
• Referenced: The scene from Jersey Girl Otto mentioned:
  
• Daisy Ridley and J.J. Abrams are teaming up again.
• J.J. Abrams says that Harrison Ford breaking his leg made Star Wars: The Force Awakens a better movie.
• Blade Runner sequel has its release date moved up a few weeks.
• Robert Downey Jr. will appear in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
• Joss Whedon is still emo over comments he made when Avengers: Age of Ultron was released.
• Terminally-aggrieved Verge hack makes the predictable whiny noises about ScarJo in Ghost in the Shell.
• The Wachowski Brothers are now both Sisters.
• Referenced: Rex Harrison totally not "yellowface" look in Anna and the King of Siam:
  
• Referenced: Maurissa Tancharoen's tune from Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog commentary:
  
• Why not any Star Trek Beyond trailer or news at CinemaCon.
• The passing of Prince.
• First Music Break: Prince, "My Name Is Prince" and "Ronnie Talk To Russia". (Sorry, not listen links because of Prince's militant takedown strategy.)
• Record Store Day reflections. (Read: Dirk bashes vinyl. Again.)
• The characteristics of Technicolor and what that has to do with black vinyl car seats. (Hey, it's called Random Access Talk for a reason!)
• Fact Check: Why do Bedouins where black in the desert?
• The Traveling Wilburys catalog is finally coming to streaming.
• Scientific analysis of Freddie Mercury's voice attempts to explain his awesomeness.
• Referenced: Otto's tales of DJ glory on Episode #61 - "Bob-Lo Bloods & Crips"
• Referenced: Prince: The Glory Years Unauthorized (Amazon Prime Video link)
• Bob busts out "Rapper's Delight."
• Second Music Break: Prince, "Housequake" and "Sign O the Times"
• Discussion of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and all the drama surrounding it with plenty of audio clips.
• Referenced:  De La Soul's "A Little Bit of Soap"
• Gene Simmons and N.W.A. traded barbs.
• The tension between Steve Miller and the Black Keys (who disavowed their participation immediately) and Miller's post-show comments.
• Referenced: Sheena Easton's boobilicious video (the first shot sets the tone):
  
• Third Music Break: Prince, "I Feel For You", "When You Were Mine", and "I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man"
• Why you can't stream Prince to mourn his passing. Related: How streaming exclusives encourage piracy.
• How we found out about Prince's passing.
• Referenced: What Dirk thinks of when someone says they have a theory:
  
• Referenced: Kevin Smith's epic tale of attempting to make a documentary for Prince:
  
  
• Referenced: Bob's first appearances on Culture Vultures - Episode #22 - "Radio Blah Blah" and Episode #23 - "Electric Boogaloo: The Quickening".
• Bob gets his tap shoes out to prepare to dance on the grave of iHeart Media and explains how they killed quality radio.
• Referenced: The credits tag that Bob's tossing of papers reminded Otto of:
  
• Metallica's manager says YouTube is the devil.
• Referenced: Markiplier's YouTube channel and The Dirk & McHatin Show video review of Doomsday:
  
• Referenced: Details on the FM radio chip in many smartphones which isn't enabled.
• Fact Check: This was the show for two weeks.
• Fourth Music Break: Prince, "Partyman" and "Tamborine"
• Rock is dead and Axl and Slash can't save it.
• Kendall Jenner at Coachella:
  
• Axl Rose filling in for Brian Johnson of AC/DC.
• Ac?DC vocalist Brian Johnson's letter to fans.
• SF Weekly: There is such a thing as too loud, so TURN IT DOWN.
• MTV actually considering putting music on?
• Netflix is adding more HDR content.
• A news update about Prince's death. (No link because it's irrelevant now that more facts are known.) 
• The trailers for the new David Spade movie which Dirk still won't see because Adam Sandler:
  
  ...and the new Matt Damon ShakiCam® actioner, Jason Bourne:
  
• RIP: Doris Roberts; Joanie Laurer (aka WWE's Chyna), Negativland founder, Richard Lyons.
  
• Referenced: The WWF panda shirt Dirk mentions...
  
  ...and another one he found finding the other one:
  
• Referenced: The Negativland track using Casey Kasem's freakout:
  
• A real-time simulation of the Titanic's sinking.
• A kid found Thor's wallet and returned it.
• The Futurama video with equal numbers of thumbs up and down.
• Hermione's father is doing OK.
• Dirk's cousin Rachel is engaged. Mazel tov! 

Unused Alternate Titles: "Thank You, Defective Trojans" or "All That Is Co-Host" or "Third-Most Cultural Vulture" or "The Power of Bob" or "Brazilian or Full Bush" or "5 Broke Girls" or "Will Smith Is Boopa Poopa" or "I'll Watch My Dog!" or "Bruce Jenner's House Party" or "My Fair Rady" or "Evil Gringos of AmeriKKKa" or "Peking Envy" or "The Arabic Billy Dee Williams" or "Cingular Animal to Verizon Animal" or "Not All English People Are Ricky Gervais" or "Who Else Lives In Kansas City? God!" or "My Inner Ogre" or "They Will Hate You For Free" or "Gangsta of Love" or "Who's Splinter In This Dojo?" or "She's The Queen of England, Not Arkansas" or "Schadenfreudelicious" or "The Hot Chick At The Gang-Bang" or "Harper Woods Albinos Represent!" or "The Wayward Son Carrying On"