Why did the composer need a dog?
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- čas přidán 17. 02. 2024
- Daniel Peake, Lizzy Skrzypiec and Bill Sunderland ('Escape this Podcast') discuss a question about a composer and his canine.
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"You gotta remember what you put on your Chopin-Lizst." Briliant joke by Lizzy there. 😂
Yep! It's an old classic. I've got a notepad (that's made to look like it's all musical staffs with the lines and clefs) with it at the top.
Unless you have Alexa and a parrot.
In Hungarian liszt means flour - so that's what you put on your Chopin-Liszt.
And to be fair to her Chopin was about 19 months older (and died about 37 years earlier)
You mean Lizzy Mxyzptlk? If you can get her to say her last name backwards she'll disappear into the alternate dimension from whence she came.
The "Chopin Lizst" had no right to be as hilarious as it was.
That's the thing with a good pun or dad joke!
You can buy Shopping Lists like that in souvenir shops here in France.
Tom was really Haydn on those puns.
excellent pun there mate
Bill really got a Handel on that question
@@FrostyButter These are really some of the Mozartful puns I've witnessed in a while, true artistry.
Was he Baching up the wrong tree lol.
That's why the Ken Russell film was called "Lisztomania". I don't remember the dog in the movie, but it was the first film to use Dolby sound.
Which is the namesake of the Phoenix song “Lisztomania”
The first feature film to use Dolby sound (for recording / mixing) was "A Clockwork Orange", released 4 years earlier. "Lisztomania" was possibly the first to be _released_ on Dolby Stereo; I think there were no Dolby-certified theatres when "A Clockwork Orange" was originally released.
Took me a while, because I was still stuck on 'guard dog.' Yes, it's an overly simple answer, but one nobody voiced until Tom said no.
I could see that in a future question, have the answer be overly simple.
"Why was Lenin buried in a glass coffin?"
"Because he was dead."
Love how Bill had no reaction to the Chopin List joke because it’s the kind of joke he would make
I think I got it at 4:50.
Everyone wanted a lock of his hair, so he used the dog's hair.
I came to a similar conclusion at 4:25, but instead that he started losing his hair and was shaving the dog for his wigs.
A looooong sigh on these puns haha
And here I was guessing that he was using the dog's tail as a metronome.
Paul Harvey once did a "Rest of the Story" radio episode about a blue-eyed pop star named "Francis" in the Forties. Girls would chase him with scissors on the train platform to cut a piece of his hair. of course, listeners would assume this referred to a certain Sicilian-American from Hoboken, New Jersey in the 1940s.
The program always ended in a surprise. At the end, Paul let his audience know this was the 1840s, and "Francis" was Franz Liszt.
My somewhat frivolous thought before watching was "for the same reason that the composer of the 1812 overture needed a cannon"
Now I'm just imagining that song with barks instead of cannons, and honestly, it's much cuter.
I had the same thought, that the dog was trained to be a part of the performance in some way
I got close at 2:42 when Bill mentioned fabio hair.
My first thought: Was he balding, so he needed to place a dog on his head as a wig?
😂 Not just the dog's hair, but the entire dog as a hat 😅
That's not Biscuits it's a golf clap
Some are hopin' some are copin' with that chopin.
The Choping List pun took me a second here.
Chopin doesn’t rhyme with coping or hoping.
Kinda refreshing to hear that crazy fans are not a new thing. 😂
Crazy fans are just the intersection between crazy people and celebrities. Celebrities may be a newer concept, but crazy people have existed since the first humans evolved 😅
If you tell your fanbase you don't have a dog you will lose half your fanbase
Unless you have a cat
I think it's more like "if you tell your fanbase you don't like dogs" 😂
He lives in a tiny apartment. He barely has room for himself, let alone, a pet.
The other have cats.
@@mk_rexx But then you only retain the faction of your fanbase who are clearly wrong 😉
this was a REALLY good one. and i love the daily uploads! 😀
my first guess:
He needed a dog because being famous got too stressful so he adopted a dog
my first thought was that he needed an excuse to not get trapped into a societal expectation of having a convo with everyone who would start one with him so the dog was a reason to keep walking 😂
This was actually quite common throughout history. I can't remember who it was, but there was a Horrible Histories sketch about a teenage girl who'd rowed a boat out to an island to rescue people (or something like that anyway) and the press wrote about what she'd done, so lots of people wanted a lock of her hair. She eventually had to decline requests, because she'd run out of hair - if only she'd thought to get a dog!
Eating dinner while watching this is not advised. My keyboard is now in need of a proper cleaning because these puns left me without satisfying punch for my internet piano of letters.
Liszt was famously so virtuosic at piano that people speculated that he'd made a pact with the devil. My first thought was that someone said the only way they'd believe he isn't satanic is if he garnered the trust of a dog..... I don't know, I do music, not theology.
The hardest part of watching this show is the regularity with which they get close enough that I get it but then take a hard right turn for 5 minutes before circling back around
I think I heard this in a Twoset Violin video
My first guess: he used the dog to lick envelopes for responding to fan mail.
My second guess: he used the dog to sniff fan mail for poisons/drugs any crazed fans might send to him.
Glad to see I was at least in the “fan mail” neighborhood.
The fans sure were _rabid_
5:30 Bill and I having the same exact realization and reaction at the same exact moment
My first guess was a guard dog. My second guess was that he had a particular crazed fan who happened to be allergic to dogs and that was a deterrent. I am glad the answer was more benign.
I won't enjoy an Andre Rieu concert again without thinking of him as a modern Franz Lizst!
The answer was Haydn in plain sight, but it was quite Satie-sfying when they got it.
Chopin Liszt was an epic level joke tbh. I would love to see these people just do 10 mins of puns while Tom copes with it
Shaving the dog sounds like a euphemism.
I'd heard this one before. Also, Lizst and Chopin were contemporaries, Chopin being born a bit less than 2 years before him, and died young whereas Liszt lived to the age of 74.
Oh totally, I'm led to understand that Liszt was an OG PIIIIMP. I don't know or care how true the legends about him are, I just love his music.
Never thought my knowledge of "Lisztomania" by Phoenix would lead me to knowing more about Liszt than the average person
At last, one I guessed straight away😊
Makes me wonder whether or not the lock of hair Liu Shikun won in 1954 was from the dog. It probably was. Considering the punishment he suffered in Communist China, it would be a bit sadder to think his prize possession wasn’t what he thought it was.
For all those wondering about the Chopin Lizst point, Chopin was indeed about 19 months older (dying 37 years before Liszt)
Captain Saturn lore upgrade!
It probably wasn't a Golden Retriever. The breed was only conceived in the 1860s (Liszt is 1811-1886) and it's unlikely he had one of the first generations.
I knew it right away. I knew because Lord Byron did the same thing.
I'm so early if I ask about a TechDif special maybe Tom might see it
Come for the laughs, the brain teaser, and the chance to pick up a few 'did you knows'
Stay for the long Lizst of puns.
Cool
Possibly an Afghan hound?
Why are none of these comments about how Tom is slowly getting more and more yassified in the thumbnails???
Liszt fans: "Play me a song, Big Piano Hands, play me a song tonight"
Initial thoughts: nothing. But by 3:57, the dog was the same colour as his hair, and would be the scapegoat of having Franz's hair a bit all over the place. Perhaps because he was starting to lose his hair and didn't want it known in order to keep up his glorious appearances.
Results: close with the hair, but missed it being about locks to spare.
Surprised Bach was not mentioned. Or indeed, Beethoven.
Thought I know this immediately , so I went to the end of the video to check. Like reading the end of a book. 😀
I haven't clicked play yet, but my initial answer is "because everyone needs a dog, puppers are the best in every way". I'm sure that's not the answer you're going for, but... try to tell me I'm wrong 😝
*EDIT after watching:* Okay, the correct answer was way more crazy than my idea. Poor, naked puppy.
As a Hungarian, I have no clue smh
Tbh, that really wasn't very many Liszt facts. Barely enough for a Liszticle.
It’s amazing that they’re still finding new Lateral episodes this long after Tom Scott died last Christmas
And those fans who put up the lock they received in their living room and were allergic to dog hair presumably never found out why they couldn't stop sneezing anymore. ;-)
My guess was that his awkward fans were getting overly excited and it was a therapy dog, but I didn't realize this was the 1800's lol and that's a bit too modern an idea.
Golden retrievers weren't recognised as a separate breed until the 20th century, so Liszt couldn't have had one.
I hope in the future this knowledge will be lost and some idiots try to clone him^^
I’m assuming Liszt was quite an intelligent fellow… It never occurred to him to find other humans with similar hair that might be able to help him out??
Regarding lookalikes, there's a kind of tamarin that looks like it has Liszt's hairdo: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztaffe
Can someone explain the pun?
A reference to snoop dog, perhaps?
"Liszt" and "list" are homophones.
which one?
A support dog?
Why wouldn't anyone comment on why is dog was mangy?
Soon, on eBay, hair of famous people. 😆
Why did the composer buy a dog?
Because of the Bach!
*groans*
@@Becky_Cooling *bachs*
At least they only smelled of wet dog. A wet sheep is a way worse time because you never have just one of them
Headline the day after a Lizst-inspired concert riot: MOST WANTED LIZST
Franz Liszt stumbles into a bar.
Bartender: Ah, Mr. Liszt, you look terrible. What's wrong?
Liszt: I'm exhausted. The concert. They were clamoring for souvenirs.
Bartender: Oh, what can I get you?
Liszt: Hair of the dog.
Reply below if you did NOT just google a picture of Lizst... and I still won't believe you.
A golden retriever wouldn't have worked; Lizst had brown (or at best _very dark_ blond) hair at the height of his fame.
Some of the jokes here are so bad they should be taken Bach 😂
Liszt.............hair like a poodle.
He needs a dog for a reason
2:21 No one picked up on Tom's pun here! Not even the CC!