Lex Friedman - Oops All Jingles

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I’m Lex Friedman, the host of your daily Lex, the only podcast that you’re listening to right now.

If you recall yesterday, I encouraged you to slow things down to one X on your podcast player because I was sharing jingles.

If you hate jingle sharing episodes, this is not the episode for you because it’s part two of yesterday’s part one, I guess, where I’m going to share more jingles.

So let’s start, of course, with everybody’s favorite jingle, the theme song, your daily Lex.

So as I mentioned yesterday, I’m making a bunch of jingles for my pal Marco as he drives around Canada and then later the U.S.

visiting a bunch of national parks.

I’ve already done his theme song, which I’ve played on the show eons ago, but his show is called Probably Worth Sharing and he’s making all these different recipes in all these different places and I’m making jingles for each video.

So here are a sampling.

Here is a sampling because the sampling is singular, even though it can be.

You get it.

Here is a sampling of those songs.

He’s visiting Bruce Peninsula National Park in his electric truck and he’s making mac and cheese.

It’s Marco Savick, more like Park Go Savick, it’s probably worth sharing in the trees.

A lot of punny recipe names.

For example, he’s making soup at Lake Superior.

He’s putting the soup in Lake Superior, not literally, not literally.

It’s probably worth sharing with Marco Savick.

He’s also going to a place called Rainbow Park.

Here’s the song.

Rainbow Falls Provincial Park.

We’re intentionally here, not here on a lark.

It’s a colorful place.

Here’s a colorful ballad.

Marco’s making a rainbow salad, roasted sweet potato, roasted beets, roasted carrots, can’t wait to eat.

Peanuts, garlic, yogurt, gee whiz.

Also harissa, whatever that is, word.

Probably worth sharing.

What?

Yeah, that song is fun.

One, because I heard Rainbow Provincial Park or whatever it was and thought that should be a rap.

I don’t know why.

And two, because it had an ingredient, harissa, that I was like, yeah, I’m not going to look that up.

I’m just going to sing about how I don’t know what it is, which is exactly what I did.

Anyway, here’s a song that I called PPP because it’s a park that has three P’s in its name.

You’ll get it.

Pinnery Provincial Park, oh, Pinnery Provincial Park, oh, that’s where we’re finding Marco.

It’s the cookbook club, probably worth sharing.

I feel like all these jingles are distinctly me, but they’re all also distinctly different.

Anyway, there’s a lot of provincial parks in Canada.

Here’s another one.

20 kilometers southeast of Kenora, it’s Rushing River Provincial Park.

Let’s put the Russian Rushing River with breakfast sandwiches.

It’s probably worth sharing with Mark.

Oh, Savick.

Sometimes the crux of a song is that a certain place is fun to say.

You can rearrange all the letters in Riding Mountain Muffins to spell uniformity means fun.

I don’t think uniformity means fun, it’s true though, not at all, but none of that really matters because Mark goes in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba, and Manitoba is fun to say.

It’s probably worth sharing.

Manitoba, Manitoba, Manitoba.

Is that jingle too long?

Yes.

Is it totally bonkers?

Also yes.

Here’s one about the grasslands.

Grasslands National Park, Grasslands National Park, it’s one of only two national parks in Saskatchewan.

I’m guessing that’s a fact you want to know.

Anyway, here’s Marko.

Grasslands National Park, it’s probably worth sharing.

I really like that song.

Sometimes he’s going to places that make me think of other songs.

So the song about the Dinosaur Provincial Park might sound slightly familiar.

Dinosaur, Dinosaur, Dinosaur, Gale Caesar Salad.

It’s a Dinosaur Park, it’s a Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park.

Probably worth sharing.

My favorite thing with that one was that Marko said it reminded him of Jurassic Park.

And I was like, Marko, it is simply ripping off Jurassic Park.

The song I wrote for when he’s in Okanagan is maybe the most They Might Be Giants-ish to me.

And I think many of them are They Might Be Giants-ish, which is probably an insult to They Might Be Giants and a compliment to me.

But Okanagan, all I could think about was things Okanagan rhymes with.

Ootahagan, in the toboggan, using your noggin, exploring Okanagan.

Worth sharing.

I really like that one because it’s also bonkers.

Marko’s going to a place called Nanaimo.

I just had to look it up.

But it’s N-A-N-A-I-M-O.

And when I heard that, if you’re listening to modern pop music, there’s G-O-H-O-T-T-O-G-O.

Hot to go.

And it’s the same letter sequence.

So that immediately went in my head.

I didn’t want to parody that song, but I was like, I want to spell out Nanaimo.

I also had to look it up if it was pronounced Nanaimo or Nanaimo.

And it’s Nanaimo, according to YouTube.

Anyway, here’s that song.

N-A-N-A-I-M-O.

Nanaimo, Nanaimo, probably worth sharing.

And that’s just about all the jingles I’ve recorded for Marko so far.

But there are so many more to go.

And Marko had also asked for a song for when he plugs in his Rivian at Tesla Superchargers.

And he said, what if it’s the word Tesla like in the old Sega commercials?

And I don’t want to sing a song about Tesla, because even though I still own two Teslas, I don’t like Elon Musk very much.

I didn’t want to sing Tesla.

So I was like, I’m going to make a song that’s charging your car.

And that’s it.

It’s just charging the car.

And I recorded this.

Spoiler alert, Marko doesn’t like it.

Charging the car.

Marko’s note to me regarding that one was very specifically, I think it’s a little too aggressive.

If you want to go that route, maybe it needs to be a little more like Thunderstruck by ACDC.

I don’t know what that means.

But I got to make that more mellow.

I’m also going to share one more time the same song that ended last yesterday’s episode, last day’s episode, previous episode.

Because Banff is the only other one that I didn’t share that’s already recorded.

So here’s Banff one more time.

Banff, Banff, Birmingham.

Marko’s here.

So let’s get it on.

Probably worth sharing.

Seriously, all I want to do is record jingles.

Anyway, happy Thursday.

Lex.