Speaker 1: I Am all In.
Speaker 2: I Am all In with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast Everybody.
Speaker 1: Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one eleven productions,
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio, Heart Media, I Heart Podcast pop Culture, Season six,
Speaker 1: Episode eighteen, The Real Paul Anka.
Speaker 3: Can I get you? Wait? Before that? Sorry? Can I
Speaker 3: give you some breaking news?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 3: Guess who's booked on this here? I am all in podcast,
Speaker 3: The Real Paul Anka, the Real Paul Ankle, the Real
Speaker 3: Paul Anka. Yes, we will be taping it in a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: This is huge. I have been boning up on paul
Speaker 1: Anka history for the last three days. I am so
Speaker 1: excited to interview this man. What a legend, the.
Speaker 3: Real Paul Anka. What if we like tease that and
Speaker 3: then we just interviewed a dog. We're not interviewing a dog. Dog.
Speaker 1: That's the extent of the interview. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and probably my biggest interview yet. I mean, just I
Speaker 1: don't know, okay.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, wait a minute, Marion Ross
Speaker 4: talking the guy who wrote My.
Speaker 3: Way, Pretty good? Pretty good?
Speaker 1: We're talking about the guy who wrote the theme music
Speaker 1: to the Tonight show.
Speaker 3: Sally.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we're talking about the guy who wrote all
Speaker 1: of these hit songs Puppy Love, put your Head on
Speaker 1: My show when he was a teenager.
Speaker 3: So many songs that he used in happy days, but
Speaker 3: your head, oh mush.
Speaker 1: There is no comparison to Paul Anka. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 3: I disagree. Sally Struthers to me is even as big
Speaker 3: as an icon, just saying close, thank you, thank you
Speaker 3: for mind fine fine. Jason Bateman's father in law will
Speaker 3: be here with all.
Speaker 1: The badass Anka Okay, I'm.
Speaker 3: That note in the opening scene, more like Paul's rory,
Speaker 3: Hey you okay? So weird dream, weird, weird dream, weirder
Speaker 3: than the one where you step into a boxing ring
Speaker 3: and your hands are all suddenly giant cream puffs, weirder, scarier.
Speaker 3: Let's hear it. Well, I was home and was finishing
Speaker 3: up my usual morning routine, you know, coffee, shower, and
Speaker 3: then picture this. I take paul Anka for a walk.
Speaker 3: You walk paul Anka every day? What is weird about that?
Speaker 3: Not the dog paul Anka, the real Paul Anka. Paul
Speaker 3: Anca is a legendary singer, songwriter, and actor. He is
Speaker 3: best known for his hits Diana, Lonely Boy, put your
Speaker 3: head on my shoulder and having my baby. Oh that
Speaker 3: she's having my baby.
Speaker 1: Having my baby.
Speaker 3: A remix of put your head on my Shoulder is
Speaker 3: currently trending on TikTok with over half a million videos made. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I got a bit of that up immediately. I'm
Speaker 3: not wrong. It's a bit of a thirst trap. But oh,
Speaker 3: I can't wait. Did you know? Well, yes they did,
Speaker 3: because I've mentioned it many times. Paul Anka is the
Speaker 3: father in law of actor Jason Bateman, who is married
Speaker 3: to Amanda Ankah. They have been married since two thousand
Speaker 3: and one.
Speaker 1: All Right, Caesar chases Luke down the street to confirm
Speaker 1: his itinerary. While Luke's gone, Caesar, we need to confirm
Speaker 1: the itinerary, Luke, as we've done a thousand times before. Sure,
Speaker 1: let's confirm it, Caesar. Today it's the kids math contest
Speaker 1: in Newark. In my day, you learn two plus two
Speaker 1: and you stay at home. Today they got contests go
Speaker 1: on the road like their metallic are. Metallica is an
Speaker 1: iconic heavy metal band that formed in nineteen eighty one
Speaker 1: by guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars ulric I just
Speaker 1: watched the video of them of their Moscow show unbelievable.
Speaker 1: There were so many people there and they were so happy.
Speaker 1: The band has been immensely popular for over thirty years.
Speaker 1: His credit was bringing a heavy metal genre to mainstream America?
Speaker 1: Did you know? Metallica traveled to New York in a
Speaker 1: stolen you haul to record their first album?
Speaker 5: So in that same scene, Caesar is still panicking and
Speaker 5: Caesar says, hey, day six, if you're cel Dies, is
Speaker 5: there a phone in Gettysburg? I can reach you at
Speaker 5: Luke says yeah, the one Grant used to call Lincoln
Speaker 5: numbers in the book. Caesar goes, oh good, he's a
Speaker 5: funny man. Today he's Jerry Lewis. Jerry Lewis was an
Speaker 5: American comedian who was famously nicknamed the King of Comedy.
Speaker 5: He was known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage,
Speaker 5: and radio, and he was originally paired up with Dean
Speaker 5: Martin in nineteen forty six, forming the famed comedy team
Speaker 5: of Martin and Lewis. Did you know? He taught a
Speaker 5: film directing class at usc and George Lucas and Steven
Speaker 5: Spielberg were two of his students.
Speaker 1: Wow, I did not know though, cool. That is cool.
Speaker 1: Who's up, Suzannuel, Yep, I'll do this one.
Speaker 6: April is using mnemonic devices to help Luke remember the
Speaker 6: names of people who are going on the field trip,
Speaker 6: April says, and those are your fellow groups, the what
Speaker 6: grown ups? You never saw the original Star Trek, Luke says, Oh, yes, graps,
Speaker 6: Yes I did. Star Trek is a science fiction TV
Speaker 6: series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of
Speaker 6: the starship USS Enterprise and its crew. The original series
Speaker 6: was released in nineteen sixty six and aired until nineteen
Speaker 6: sixty nine. Following the original series, there are a total
Speaker 6: of twelve television series that make up the Star Trek
Speaker 6: franchise and several films, and has become a cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 1: Did you know?
Speaker 6: In the original series, William Shatner requested his name in
Speaker 6: the opening credits be ten percent larger in size than
Speaker 6: those of his co stars Leonard ny Mooy And.
Speaker 3: That's classic, you know, William Shatner is about to turn
Speaker 3: ninety three years old coming out And also, somebody in
Speaker 3: Gilmour Girls World love Star Trek because it's probably one
Speaker 3: of the most referenced shows yeah, Bimckawa references Scott, do
Speaker 3: you want to finish us off?
Speaker 1: I do. In the same scene, April continues to introduce
Speaker 1: names to Luke. April the one in the chords is
Speaker 1: our math teacher, mister Munster. A good guy, he's little nerdy,
Speaker 1: likes to wow. It's Chris Rock impersonation. It's borderline racist.
Speaker 1: Chris Rock is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He
Speaker 1: first gain notoriety in the nineties is part of Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live Cast. He's been in such movies as Matta Gascar,
Speaker 1: Grown Up, Spiral, and the Televison show Everybody Hates Chris.
Speaker 1: Did you Know? In twenty sixteen, he signed a forty
Speaker 1: million dollar contract with Netflix to stream two live stand
Speaker 1: up comedy specially.
Speaker 3: Netflix Exist in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah they did.
Speaker 6: That may have been when you still could also eat.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He is also known as the person who was on
Speaker 1: the receiving end of the smack Heard Round the World
Speaker 1: delivered by Will Smith at the What was that the Oscars? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I was like what what just saw that?
Speaker 1: And it's been really good for Will Smith because his
Speaker 1: career has just taken off since then.
Speaker 3: Can we do the put your head on my shoulder
Speaker 3: TikTok trend and Tara, we got to get that. You
Speaker 3: have to like send away Scott. You could do it.
Speaker 3: I have an idea for it. I have an idea
Speaker 3: for it. Scott does it like he does it as
Speaker 3: that and then he turns into Luke. I think we
Speaker 3: could do it. I think we could make you a
Speaker 3: viral sensation.
Speaker 1: Already, Am, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: Oh god, someone's gonna talk about my wheezing laugh.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do it? You want
Speaker 1: me to stand in the You don't have to do anything.
Speaker 3: Right now, but Tara is going to explain it to you.
Speaker 3: We're going to have it ready for paul Anka. I
Speaker 3: mean I have to like show like, show you a video.
Speaker 3: I'll text TikTok yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I just meant like it's easier to show you that.
Speaker 1: As you consider viral, what would the numbers be on
Speaker 1: like a million?
Speaker 3: You went viral with your song, You've gone viral.
Speaker 1: I have a video that's got four million likes.
Speaker 3: That's viral.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I have one that has two point eight million.
Speaker 3: You're viral, dude. We're just going to make you viral more.
Speaker 3: Get ready, I'm going to continue your viral streak.
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Great. It's going to take some work, though. You're gonna
Speaker 3: have to Your wife's going to have to help us.
Speaker 1: Oh, she she will do it.
Speaker 3: She's gonna have to shoot you in the doorway of.
Speaker 1: Don long as she gets a producer credit.
Speaker 3: She can't, we'll tagger, We'll tag her for sure. We'll
Speaker 3: send her a mug to right.
Speaker 1: No, that's she'd just go be over the moon. As
Speaker 1: long as they chanel on it. She'll love it.
Speaker 3: Oh, she's got good taste, good job, good pop culture.
Speaker 7: All right, guys, that's going to be in next episode,
Speaker 7: Season six, episode nineteen, I get a sidekick out of you.
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