Lake Street Dive: I Love The '90s

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

All right everybody, let's welcome back Lake Street Dive.

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EISENBERG: It is time for your challenge. All right, you've divided yourself into teams. Rachel and Mike, Bridgette and McDuck. Why this configuration?

BRIDGET KEARNEY: Rachel was the first one to call Mike Calabrese as her teammate.

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MIKE OLSON: Bridget and I have a gang called The Boring Twins.

EISENBERG: OK, it's going to be an interesting matchup. We don't know how it's going to go. Now we ask...

OLSON: We do.

EISENBERG: ...Our VIPs to provide a prize for the final winner, our champion of our Ask Me One More" final round at the end show. And you guys provided something great - your favorite food items that you can all purchase at one place, which is a gas station, which is what happens when you tour. We asked you what kind of game you wanted, and you requested a music game, which I think is a very bold choice.

JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: Yeah, you know, if you mess this up, then this is basically what you do for a living, so people are going to...

RACHAEL PRICE: It's going to be really embarrassing, yeah.

COULTON: People are going to say, what's wrong with this? Why would I listen to their music if they don't even, you know - no, it's going to be great. Here's what I'm concerned about though is, you know, we asked you what kind of music you knew about and you said well, it could be the Beatles, it could be '90s music. And I heard one of you saying earlier, why did we pick '90s music? Because the quiz is about '90s music.

PRICE: It's pretty much, like, just Michael Calabrese is going to guess everyone right.

COULTON: Well, Mike you're going to enjoy this game. The rest of you are going to have a hard time. I'm going to sing some '90s hits with the lyrics slightly changed.

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COULTON: You have to ring in and give me the original lyrics.

OLSON: Oh Jesus.

PRICE: Wow.

EISENBERG: Yeah, yeah.

PRICE: Wowzers.

COULTON: Since you are musicians, I assume you'll be singing them and everyone will be disappointed if you don't.

PRICE: Oh my God.

COULTON: Here we go. (Singing) Said if you want to call me baby, just go ahead now and if you'd like to tell me maybe, just go ahead now. And if you want to buy me flowers, just go ahead now and if you like to take cold showers, just go ahead now.

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COULTON: Oh my goodness, Bridget and McDuck.

KEARNEY: (Singing) If you'd like to call me baby, just go ahead now.

I have to do more? (Singing) If you'd like to talk for hours, just go ahead now.

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EISENBERG: It was funny because I was watching - Bridget, I was watching you sing-along. And then you mouthed and if you'd like to talk for hours while he did that. And I saw your eyes go wait a second, not right.

COULTON: And you guys were so worried, look at you. Here we go. (Singing) I'll make love to you like you want me to. And I'll hold you tight, baby, all through the night I'll make love to you when you want me to. And I will not let go 'til your cheeks turn blue.

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COULTON: Mike and Rachel.

PRICE: (Singing) And I will not let go 'til you - until you tell me to.

COULTON: That's correct, that's correct.

PRICE: Thank you.

COULTON: Did you think...

PRICE: It's been awhile.

COULTON: ...I was going to penalize you for saying until when it was actually 'til?

PRICE: I needed to be precise. I love that band.

COULTON: That's a professional right there. I appreciate that. (Singing) Believe in me. Help me believe in anything 'cause we want to be someone who believes. Mr. Jones and me, tell each other fairy tales and we stare at the beautiful women. She's looking at you, oh no no, she's watching TV.

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COULTON: Yes, Mike and Rachel?

MIKE CALABRESE: (Singing)Oh no, no, she's looking at me.

COULTON: Yeah, you got it.

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CALABRESE: In your face.

EISENBERG: You guys are competitive as it turns out.

COULTON: It's pretty intense up here.

EISENBERG: Just Mike's competitive.

CALABRESE: You're going to get a bag of socks, jerk.

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COULTON: All right, this is your last clue. (Singing) And I don't want the world to see me 'cause I don't think that they'd understand. When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to stop with the spam. I just want you to stop you want to hug my pet lamb. I just want you to pump up the jam.

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COULTON: Bridget and McDuck.

KEARNEY: (Singing) I just want you to know who I am.

COULTON: Yeah, that's right.

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EISENBERG: The buzzer technique was astounding.

COULTON: And they were working it, they were working it. Art Chung, who won this battle of the band?

ART CHUNG: We don't want to break up this band on tour. It was a tie.

CALABRESE: I was hoping for "MmmBop."

EISENBERG: And we will give you a prize, something you can add to your game on the tour bus - some ASK ME ANOTHER Rubik's cubes. Let's hear it for our VIPs, Lake Street Dive.

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LAKE STREET DIVE: (Singing) I bought this camera to take pictures of my love. Now that he's gone, I don't have anybody to take pictures of. Along some highway is a pretty good subject. I'm going to make myself make use of this thing. I'm taking landscapes, I'm taking still lifes, I'm taking bad self-portraits of a lonely woman. I bought this camera to take pictures of my love. Now that he's gone I don't know what to do with this stuff. I don't care about time or money. I just never thought that I'd be through with this love. Stuck taking landscapes, stuck taking still lifes, stuck making sculptures. I'm out here taking bad self-portraits of a lonely woman, bad self-portraits of a lonely girl, sad self-portraits, oh, of a lonely woman.

EISENBERG: Lake Street Dive, everybody, one more time.

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