
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan welcomes back comedians, best friends, and co-hosts of I Need You Guys Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman, to attend another infernal recital of Bot Bops! Elliott’s non-branded digital assistant will regale you with five classic songs in its own cold, inhuman style, name the song for one point and the artist for another point! Keep track of your answers in order to solve the MegaClue! New episodes every Monday. Puzzles in this episode are by Jason Reich. Script by Elliott Kalan. Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.
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Smart. Bless me. So yesterday I decided to expand my vocabulary. So I did what anyone would do. I ate a dictionary. But it really didn't agree with me. And ever since then, I've been belching out three letter words. I'm pretty sure these words all have something in common that's upsetting my tummy, but I cannot figure out what it is. So can you tell me what characteristic these three letter words all share? And those words are Den, sea, sea, can, mad, sin, lax, and bog. Again, these are the words that I've been burping up. Den. See? Can, mad, sin, lax, and bog. Let's find out my dictionary diagnosis on today's episode of Clueless. Clueless. Clueless. I'm clueless. Welcome to Smartless Presents. Clueless, the puzzle podcast you like at the price you love. I'm your host, Elliot Kaelin, and I insist on paying a lot for this muffler. Today we are joined by the co hosts of the Smartless podcast. I need you guys. That's right, it is. Max Silvestri and Gabe Leadman. Max, Gabe, do you know the answer to this episode's opening question? What characteristic is shared by the three letter words den, sea, S, E, A, can, mad, sin, lax, and bog?
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And it's making you ill, huh?
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It is making me ill, though. That's more. That's more. A little bit of a. Oh, that doesn't have to do with it. No, that's not necessarily a place.
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I think I have it, Gabe.
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Okay, go for it.
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I believe that these are all airport codes.
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You're exactly right. These are all three lettered IATA airport codes for major airports. Excellent work. Sometimes. Sometimes when we do a word game, it's not about what the words mean. It's about some other thing about them. And you figured it out. Exactly. Right now all of those airport codes are on the list of the 50 busiest airports in the world based on human passenger traffic, as opposed to based on walrus cargo traffic, which would be a different list of airports. Can you identify the city or the name of the airport for each one? I'm going to go through them. I want you to try to tell Me what these airports are. Okay. I'm going to try to go from easiest to hardest. Or from hardest to easiest, depending on where you live. The first word, lax.
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I think that's going to go ahead and be Los Angeles, folks. Beautiful town, wonderful airport.
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The best part of the city. Don't leave.
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Oh yeah. You want to stay there the whole time? Okay then. Number two. Den.
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Den.
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That's gonna be the famous Illuminati airport. Denver.
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Beautiful airport. Now you don't want a short layover there.
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No, you're gonna want a lot of time to walk around because it's huge and huge.
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It's a very horizontally sprawling type of.
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I believe they still have a dinosaur skeleton there, if you can find it.
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Oh, I gotta get back there and look.
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Time for us to go.
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As a paleontologist, I'm trying to track down each one.
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Just the ones in airports, though.
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Even the ones that have been found and are in airports. Yeah. I'd still like to see it.
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Number three, sea S, E, A. Hmm.
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C. Is that SeaTac? Seattle Tacoma.
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Exactly right. Seattle. Tacoma. I was worried you were gonna forget the Tacoma part of it. A lot of people do. I would ever do that now. Sin. S I N. Sin.
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Ooh, Sin. Is it Sin City? Vegas. I'm kidding. Don't except that it is Singapore.
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I'm gonna get Singapore.
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I'm so close to Singapore.
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You're right, it is Singapore. That's Singapore. Changi Airport in Singapore. Very good. Gotta get there. Next is mad. What airport is mad?
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Mad. Madrid.
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You're right, it's Madrid. Alfo Suarez. Madrid. Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain. Very good.
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Lovely.
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Number six. Bog. Bog. What airport is bog?
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Bogota, Colombia.
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That's right. Bogota, Colombia. El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Colombia. And finally, one last airport. Can. Can. C A N. Can. Can.
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Can.
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Can. Can.
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Yeah.
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You get this airport?
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Can we get this airport can? I mean, I don't think Canary Islands is huge. I don't think.
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Yeah.
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I don't think Canada has only one airport.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It would be very funny if they did, though. And it's right in the middle. Can.
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Like, I mean, I don't think it would be the airport in the south of France.
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No. Maybe, you know, for one week a year.
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Okay.
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Uh huh.
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Would you like me to tell you the answer? Would you like to not hit on it yet? You're right that it's an international airport. Okay. That's right. Cannes is, as you were probably just about to say, Guangzhou. Bayun International Airport in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. So you were so close. You were so close. Of course you were so close, but you did great. You got six out of seven. That was almost all the airports. You are true world travelers.
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Listeners at home, did you get the answers? If so, that's great. You just want a free trip to wherever you are already going today. But don't pack your bags yet because we're about to play today's main game. It's botbops.
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Botbops.
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I am the bot and these are my bops.
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Botbops.
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So, as the song has told you, that's the bot. These are going to be her bops in botbops. We help to usher in the singularity by asking our clueless bot to sing the lyrics to various songs in its inimitable voice. It's actually not. It's very easy to imitate. You can do it on your phone. It's the opposite of inimitable. Out. Imitable. Your job is to identify the name of the song and the artist who originally performed it. Are you ready to artificially rock?
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Hell yeah.
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Yeah. Let's do it then.
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Let's do it. Take it away, Bot.
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Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime and never let go till we're gone Love was when I loved you One true time I'd hold two in my life will always Blank, blank, near, far wherever you are I believe that the blank does blank, blank.
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It's just too beautiful to cut off. I mean, what a. What a voice.
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I think you have to say this one, Gabe.
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I think it's My Heart Will Go on by Celine Dion. And that was actually her demo, right?
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That was the original. Those are bot.
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Yeah.
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Is Gabe right? Is that the Bop.
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My Heart Will Go on by Celine Dion, which sounds great.
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Before they bring in the orchestration, everything like that. That's what it always sounds like. That's what the song always sounds like at first. Yeah.
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The flute wasn't there yet. That was the most.
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That's what really lifts it. Yeah. All right. Bop, please Give us your second bop.
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Won't you come see about me I'll be alone Dancing, you know it, baby Tell me your troubles and doubts Giving everything inside and out N Love's strange so real in the dark Think of the tender things that we were working on Slow change may pull us apart when the light gets into your heart, baby Blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank.
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Okay, I think I got it. It was the 17th blank. Now, this is taking me back to another film, a beautiful film that is. Don't yout Forget About Me from the Breakfast Club soundtrack, which was sang by a musical artist.
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Would the musical artist have a name or something that I don't think people.
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Refer to it as? No, no, no, I don't think so.
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By Anonymous.
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But yeah, I. No, I don't have it.
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By the activist group Anonymous.
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Yeah.
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By Huey Lewis and the Belinda Carliles. For fear, Tears for fears.
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Are they right about this, Bot? Yeah.
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Was that right?
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Don't you Forget About Me by Simple Minds.
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I would not have landed on Simple Minds.
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You know, I just saw them live last night. It's so crazy.
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And they didn't play that.
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No, they were focusing on the new stuff, which I actually like better.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'll give you half points for that. But that's great. You got. Or one point rather than two? It doesn't matter. The points don't matter, Bot, to you. Good point. It's easy for me to say that. Bot, please give us bop number three.
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His palms are sweaty Knees weak arms are heavy there's vomit on his sweater already, mom spaghetti. He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down the whole crowd goes so loud he opens his mouth but the words won't come out he's choking. How Everybody's jokin now the clock's run out Time's up, over.
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I think we got this.
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You do?
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Uh huh. Yeah.
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There's so many songs about mom's spaghetti that I'm just sort of like. I have a top 10.
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People write songs about love, they write songs about sadness, and they write songs about mom's spaghetti. Those are the three main subjects.
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Now, which of those won an Oscar?
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I think this is Lose Yourself by M and M's.
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Is that the bop?
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Lose Yourself by Eminem.
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I'm gonna give you full credit even though you use the plural. The plural of Eminem's.
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I think he had some help.
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Yeah, I love. What I like about the bot is her phrasing is so unique. It's so individual poetry.
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She's not like any great hip hop artist. The cadence is unique. One on one.
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Exactly. All right, bop. Give us bop number four.
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Now blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank. No, I never felt like this before Yes, I swear it's the truth and I owe it all to you Right. Cause blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank.
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Yeah. So what a beautiful song. And it.
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Especially in this version.
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I. Yeah, I like how it was not a duet. Yeah, that was.
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That's the amazing thing about modern technology. They can do both parts.
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Yeah, right. That was I've had the Time of My Life by two musical artists on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack was, I believe their full name. Did you need their legal name? Because they were the recording artists from.
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Yeah. By Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Beals. Yeah, that's who sung.
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Jennifer Beals. We're so sorry. Jennifer Grey, literally.
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Oh, I'm thinking of Flashdance. Sorry.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I like that you're not apologizing to the performers of songs you can't remember.
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They're thrilled.
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Well, let's find out if you're right. Bot. Whose bop is it and what bop is that?
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I've had the Time of My Life by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes.
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Now what's kind of screwed up there is that Medley is a collection of songs, not a last name.
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Yeah.
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This time it gets to be both. Yeah, that's the wonderful thing about words.
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It's also how nickels taste.
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Yeah.
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Medley. Yeah, there's the three. The three definitions under medley in the dictionary.
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Yeah.
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We have one more bop for you. Bot give us our final bop of the game.
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Well now I get low and I get high and if I can't get either, I really try. Got the wings of heaven on my shoes. I'm a dancin man and I just can't lose, you know. It's alright, it's okay. I'll live to see another day. We can try to understand the New York Times effect on man. Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother. You're blank blank blank. Feel the city breakin and everybody shakin and we're blank blank blank blank blank blank. Ah ha ha ha. Blank blank blank blank blank blank.
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Ha ha ha.
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Blank blank blank.
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Okay.
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Beautiful.
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I go. Is that Dancing in the Streets by, you know, David Bowie and his friend Mick Jagger? Maybe.
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I was gonna. I thought it was the Ghostbusters song, but yeah, I think you're right. Gay.
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Are those the words to that song?
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Only one way to find out. If that's your answer, then bot tell us if that's the bop.
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Stayin Alive, bye Bee Gees.
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No. Got it.
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Stayin Alive by the Bees.
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Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees. Now I go. Those are the words to that?
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Those are the words. You didn't recognize the lyrics? Ha ha ha ha. Ahaha.
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Right. Well I mean right now it makes sense.
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It was only while doing this game that I learned that they name check the New York Times in the song Stand out.
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Do not remember that. That's what made me think maybe it was Bowie. Now I go okay, great. That's great. That's great. Those are crazy words to that song. And then the other thing is, that might be the only song so far where like there was some like real magic lost.
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You think? All the rest of it was just the rest of them.
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Really?
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Yeah, really Help in the Robo cover.
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But these are my bops.
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Well, you did great. Out of a possible 10 points, one for the song and one for the performer, you got, let's see, two, four, five, six. Six points. So not bad. That's all right. But there's one thing you can do finally to save the day. To stop the computers from rising up and crushing humanity. And that's if you can wield our secret weapon, the Mega clue.
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Mega clue question.
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So for this mega clue, I need you to tell me what is the common theme that connects all these songs? And can you name another song in that same category or theme? Would you like me to remind you what the songs were?
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Yes, please.
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They were My Heart Will Go on by Celine Dion. Don't yout Forget About Me by Simple Minds, Lose Yourself by Eminem, I've had the Time of My Life by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. And Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees. What is the common theme that connects all of these songs?
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Sounds like these are anthems of survival.
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Survival.
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Survival.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I don't know if the Breakfast Club one matches that, but.
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What's the Breakfast Club one again?
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Don't yout Forget About Me. That's more of a legacy thing.
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Yeah.
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But anyway, I think I want you.
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To think less about the content of these songs and more about the use of these songs.
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Okay. They're all soundtracks. They're all songs from soundtracks.
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I see. Can you name another one that's like that? Another song?
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Has there ever been another song in a Lion King? I Just Can't Wait To Be King.
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Sure.
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Wow.
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I'll give it to you. These are all songs that were made famous being in movies as movie themes.
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I see.
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My Heart Will Go on from Titanic. Don't you Forget About Me from the Breakfast Club, lose yourself from 8 mile. I've had the Time of My Life from Dirty Dancing and Staying Alive from Saturday Night Fever. And you're right. I Just Can't Wait To Be King is, of course, best associated with the Lion King. Even though we hear it all the time, it's in words from that context. Yeah.
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Yeah. Every time they get a Slam Dunkin basketball, they play it and you're like, what is this from?
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It's like, oh, I forgot that was in a movie. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Jonathan Taylor Thomas sang this. Wow.
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It's crazy. Listen.
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Well, you think part of it.
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Listeners at home, did you do as well as Gabe and Max? If not, that's okay. You're only human. Or are you bum, bum, bum. Dramatic. Well, this has been a really fun episode. I hope you've had a great time, but I've had to use the bathroom for the past 15 minutes. So before I do permanent damage to my kidneys, I. Let's bring this show to a close. First, I'd like to thank Max and Gabe. Gabe and Max. Whatever order you say your names in, you're a shining example for America's youth to look up to. Thank you for that. Thank you for providing that for me.
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Thank you for recognizing it.
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Yes. Finally. It should have been recognized a long time ago. It took me to do it. And I'd like to thank you, the listener, for telling us you listened to today's episode, even if you didn't and you're just trying to make us feel good. Still tell us that even if it's not true, we really appreciate it. We're very fragile. We'll have more Smartless Presents Clueless for you next week. Until then, I'm your host, Elliot Kaelin, reminding you I need you to work a double shift this weekend. No excuses.
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You have been listening to Smartless Presents Clueless, a Smartless media production in association with Sirius xm. Your host is Elliot Kaelin, who also writes our scripts. Today's contestants were Gabe Liebman and Max Silvestri. Check out I need u guys anywhere you get your podcasts. Your producer, editor and engineer is Devin Tory Bryant, who is me. I also write all the music and sound effects. Today's puzzles were written by Jason Reich. Talent producer is Ann Harri. Associate Producer Maddie McCann Social Media Producer Tommy Galgano. Executive producers are Elliot Kaelin, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman. Executive producers for Smartless Media are Richard Corson and Bernie Kaminski. Remember to follow, subscribe, rate and review the show. It really helps. That's all for now. We will see you again for more.
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Smart Bless.
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This rapid-fire, puzzle-filled episode tests guest co-hosts Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman on two main challenges: identifying the common link in a set of mysterious three-letter words, and playing “Bot Bops”—a game in which an AI “bot” recites pop song lyrics in robotic style, prompting the guests to guess the song title and performer. With humorous banter and plenty of playfulness, Elliott leads the way as Max and Gabe aim to best this episode’s puzzles and prove themselves as true ClueLess champs.
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Solution Discovery:
Max: “I believe that these are all airport codes.” [02:13]
Elliott confirms: “These are all three-lettered IATA airport codes for major airports. Excellent work.” [02:16]
The hosts then attempt to match each code to the respective airports (with plenty of comedy and digressions):
Highlights:
On LAX:
On DEN (Denver):
On CAN:
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Elliott introduces “Bot Bops”: the AI bot reads lyrics in its monotone style. The guests must identify the song and the original artist. Points are awarded for correct guesses.
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[10:50–11:43]
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Score Recap:
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Challenge:
Elliott: “I need you to tell me, what is the common theme that connects all of these songs? And can you name another song in that same category or theme?” [16:11]
The episode maintains the series’ signature blend of clever wordplay, casual irreverence, and inside-joke humor. The guests and host riff constantly (sometimes digressing or throwing out ridiculous guesses), but ultimately return to the challenges with good-natured competitiveness and self-deprecating laughs.
For fans of playful trivia, quick wit, and pop-culture deep cuts, this episode is a fast-moving treat.