Old Lasagne

[00:01] I need, you know, I don't think I need a palate cleanser here. I need to learn some new things.
[00:05] Coalson, do you have an under Googleables for us this week?
[00:10] Of course I do, sir.
[00:24] Can we do an under Googleables?
[00:26] That was the play. I'm super excited.
[00:28] I told us we had to, sir.
[00:30] So we signed up for it.
[00:34] In the end, it's going to be better and more true than Google can give you.
[00:39] I'd like to shout out Erin Triplett, who is taking my call to arms very seriously.
[00:47] I said, send us in your new Googleable questions.
[00:51] Not all the fans have done it. And I said this before.
[00:54] You know, I think people are just thinking everybody else is going to do it, but they're not.
[00:58] So I want to give Erin Triplett a shout out.
[01:01] She sent in a question which actually is under Googleable.
[01:04] I think she took it very literally and I appreciate this from her.
[01:08] She asked who the kids are in the game of the week jingle,
[01:14] which is something you couldn't just Google and get the correct answer to.
[01:18] I don't know what comes up, but we should maybe try to Google it.
[01:22] I don't know what happens.
[01:23] Wait, can I take a stab at this?
[01:25] Sure, sure.
[01:26] I just assumed that they are—
[01:29] I've just thought the whole time that they are the kids that you just don't take care of.
[01:34] Yeah, sure. They're my children, sure.
[01:39] Yeah, I just assumed that the whole time.
[01:42] Illigitimate. I see them once every couple of months.
[01:46] And force them to do labor.
[01:50] Podcast related duties.
[01:52] Then I'm assuming you're not commenting.
[01:54] Hey, hey, they get a cut of everything I make on this show.
[01:57] A whole lot of zero.
[02:01] No, so that is one of my best friends from North Carolina when I lived in Raleigh.
[02:07] His name is Kevin Wolf and his wife Denise.
[02:11] They have two small—they're not small anymore—
[02:15] two wonderful girls named Scarlett and Clementine.
[02:18] And last time I went to visit them in Raleigh,
[02:21] I said, you know, hey, will you guys help me make this jingle about the game of the week?
[02:26] And they—Scarlett took it very seriously.
[02:30] I said, all you got to do is say game of the week over and over again,
[02:33] and I'll take the best cut of that.
[02:35] And her sister Clementine, who's younger by a couple of few years,
[02:39] just wanted to interrupt her.
[02:41] And I thought it was absolutely hysterical.
[02:43] And so that's where that came from.
[02:45] It's one of my favorite jingles of all time.
[02:47] They're adorable. Shout out to Kevin.
[02:49] So, Kevin Wolf is in Hearts and Daggers,
[02:51] a band that we have put on halftime for multiple times.
[02:55] Just a good dude. I was the best man at his wedding.
[02:58] So, shout out to the Wolf family.
[03:00] And thanks for sending in your question, Aaron.
[03:03] We actually have an under-googable thing that you could Google this week.
[03:08] And I think it's in honor of the season.
[03:11] What's up with Old Ang Zine is the question.
[03:16] What's up with Old Ang Zine?
[03:19] Old Ang Zine or Old Lang Zine?
[03:22] Old Lang Zine.
[03:24] I thought it was old.
[03:26] A-U-L-D.
[03:28] L-A-N-G.
[03:30] S-A-N-G.
[03:33] I think it ends in a G, doesn't it?
[03:35] No. N.
[03:37] I don't know how to spell it.
[03:39] So, okay.
[03:41] It's Old Lang Zine, right?
[03:43] But this brings up lots of questions for me.
[03:47] One, how to spell it.
[03:49] Two, how to pronounce it.
[03:53] Three, what language is it?
[03:56] Four, what does it mean?
[03:59] And then five, how is it useful in the context of a New Year's song?
[04:07] So, there's a lot of layers to this.
[04:10] There are a lot of layers.
[04:12] But I think we can get close because I think we're some smart guys.
[04:16] Okay, so step one, we spelled it.
[04:19] A-U-L-D-L-A-N-G-S.
[04:25] I want to say it's S-Y-N-E.
[04:27] Yeah, I think that's what it is.
[04:28] N-E.
[04:29] Okay.
[04:30] Alright, let's do that.
[04:32] Old Ang Zine.
[04:34] What language is it?
[04:35] Zine.
[04:36] Is it sort of a Z?
[04:38] Zine.
[04:39] Sign.
[04:40] Sign, okay.
[04:41] Sign.
[04:42] And then what language is it?
[04:43] I think it's like a Celtic language or something.
[04:46] Yeah, it's definitely some sort of old English.
[04:49] Old English is what I'm going with for sure.
[04:51] When you say old, that's O-L-D-E, right?
[04:54] Great, exactly.
[04:55] Yee, oldie, okay.
[04:58] So, it's old English or some sort of colony of the old British Empire.
[05:06] So, I like Welsh or Celtic or?
[05:10] Yes, yes, like a Welsh-ish.
[05:12] Welsh-ish.
[05:13] Scottish, Irish.
[05:15] Yeah, one of those.
[05:17] One of those, okay.
[05:19] Okay, what it means, I have no idea.
[05:24] Old probably means old.
[05:27] I'm with you.
[05:28] I like that.
[05:29] I like that.
[05:31] Lang Zine, I have no idea.
[05:34] Well, it may be Italian.
[05:35] It could be an old lasagna.
[05:39] Old lasagna.
[05:41] It could be.
[05:42] Yeah.
[05:43] That's what I always thought it was.
[05:44] Okay.
[05:45] We were just singing about our old lasagna.
[05:47] Sure.
[05:48] The song is, May Old Acquaintance Be Forgot.
[05:51] So, maybe Lang Zine is some sort of?
[05:53] Well, okay.
[05:54] Here's what I-
[05:55] The person I knew.
[05:56] Well, okay.
[05:57] Here's what I'm willing to do, and I don't know if this breaks the rules, but can we
[06:02] look up the lyrics and try to catch the contents of what that means from the lyrics?
[06:08] Is that cheating?
[06:11] That's cheating.
[06:12] That's Googling the phrase.
[06:13] Okay.
[06:14] You can use-
[06:15] Well, no, but I wasn't going to Google that.
[06:16] I was just going to Google the lyrics of the song, because I-
[06:18] It's May Old Acquaintance Be Forgot and Never Brought to Mind.
[06:22] See, that sounds really sad.
[06:26] Something.
[06:27] The rest of the lyrics I think are, you're just kind of-
[06:31] That's what everybody goes with.
[06:39] Yeah, that's the song.
[06:41] Yeah, that's the lyrics, I think.
[06:43] May Old Acquaintance Be Forgot, that sounds bad.
[06:48] Yeah, and Never Brought to Mind.
[06:50] And Never Brought to Mind.
[06:51] Out with the old and with the new.
[06:52] Okay, so that's the idea.
[06:54] Sure, right.
[06:55] So, that's the song, but Old Lang Zine's got to be old and new.
[07:02] Old and-
[07:08] I'm just trying to go with a phrase that would make sense in that song.
[07:12] We decide that old is old.
[07:14] Yes.
[07:16] Yeah.
[07:17] I don't- Exactly, no.
[07:20] I'm going to guess- So, what year did this come out?
[07:25] Oh, this shit is old.
[07:29] This is like medieval, right?
[07:31] Okay, all right, medieval, going medieval on your ass.
[07:34] This is-
[07:37] Yeah, I mean, if our theory is that it's some old Welsh-ish dialect, or Scottish dialect,
[07:48] those things were rampant pre-1800, for sure.
[07:54] Okay, all right, I'm with that.
[07:56] Probably even earlier.
[07:57] I like this, it's like 1600, 1500s.
[08:00] Let's go that way.
[08:01] Let's go super old.
[08:03] And it's a song about moving on and leaving behind the old things that we don't care about
[08:12] and preparing for the new, and Old Lang Zine means old and new.
[08:21] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
[08:25] Okay.
[08:26] Joey, Joey, before he reads it, you got anything?
[08:29] Do you agree or disagree?
[08:31] Something in the middle.
[08:32] Something in the middle.
[08:33] Yeah.
[08:34] So maybe it's not old and new, maybe it's old and medium, old and-
[08:39] Yeah, I think the theme is out with the old and with the new.
[08:48] It's what I'm running with.
[08:53] Okay, all right, what you got, Jason?
[08:56] So it is a poem.
[08:58] Mm, clearly it's not just a poem, it's a song.
[09:01] It's a song by the Scotsman Robert Burns, written in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song.
[09:10] We got the Scottish part, right, ish?
[09:12] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
[09:14] The Welsh may not agree with you.
[09:16] Yeah, yeah.
[09:18] We kind of clumped them all in together, Joey, that's cool.
[09:20] Mm-hmm.
[09:21] Okay, and so the translation is Old Lang Zine or more idiomatically Long Lang ago.
[09:31] Okay.
[09:32] Or days gone by or old times.
[09:34] And a galaxy far, far away.
[09:36] Right, exactly, yeah.
[09:38] And it is traditionally used to bid farewell to the old year, right?
[09:47] Oh, oh.
[09:48] It's also sung at funerals.
[09:49] Funerals, I was going to guess that.
[09:51] I feel like that's where it started, right?
[09:53] Graduations and-
[09:55] We're just bidding farewell to dead people.
[09:57] Mm-hmm, nice.
[10:00] Yeah, exactly.
[10:01] So, and it's, you know, they say it starts with a rhetorical question.
[10:05] You know, is it right that old times be forgotten?
[10:09] Mm-hmm.
[10:10] So it's not for old, it's should old acquaintances be forgotten.
[10:15] Oh, that's a way better song.
[10:18] It's way less sad.
[10:20] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
[10:22] Yeah, so we were a little bit off.
[10:24] I mean, it's much more recent than I thought.
[10:28] But I think in general we nailed it.
[10:31] It was scotch, it's scotch.
[10:33] Yeah, yeah.
[10:34] And it's bidding farewell to the-
[10:38] yeah, bidding farewell to the old and questioning about how we take the next step.
[10:45] So do you want to hear the lyrics?
[10:47] Yes, I would love to hear the lyrics.
[10:49] Because no one has ever known the lyrics because they always hum them.
[10:53] Just Bob Burns did, just him.
[10:56] Okay, so here's the poem, I believe.
[10:58] Oh, the poem.
[10:59] The original.
[11:00] Okay, should old acquaintance be forgot and never thought upon,
[11:04] the flames of love extinguished and fully passed and gone,
[11:09] is thy sweet heart now grown so cold that loving breast of thine
[11:14] that thou canst never once reflect on old lying thine?
[11:19] Oh, that's more of a hurt lover poem there.
[11:24] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
[11:25] Interesting.
[11:27] I like it.
[11:28] Always comes back to that.
[11:29] Yeah, exactly.
[11:30] You get your heart broken, you gotta write me a poem.
[11:33] Sing me a song.
[11:35] A manuscript of old lying thine is held in the permanent collection of the Lilly Library
[11:41] at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
[11:43] What?
[11:44] All right, I'm going to go visit it.
[11:46] I'll let you know.
[11:47] With the glass of scotch and the thoughts of ex-girlfriends or something?
[11:52] Sure, sure.
[11:54] Hey, man.
[11:57] Always good to do it the new year.
[11:59] Mm-hmm.
[12:00] And as always, everything comes back to Indiana.
[12:04] That's right.
[12:05] Just like the Van Ausdales.
[12:07] Yeah.
[12:08] That's right.
[12:09] Okay, this is what I got.
[12:12] I got the twin Van Ausdales, you know, mascots.
[12:18] Their theme song will be Lil' Lang Syne.
[12:20] It'll be good.
[12:23] Okay.
[12:24] I like it.
[12:26] Yeah, you know, the only thing this makes me think of is I watched
[12:32] National Lampoon Christmas Vacation last night.
[12:34] Oh, me too.
[12:35] Which is a classic.
[12:36] I love it.
[12:37] And I just think it's so hysterical that they finished the movie with,
[12:41] instead of a Christmas song or Old Ang Syne,
[12:44] they finish it with the national anthem.
[12:48] It's just so classically well done.
[12:51] So shout out to Christmas Vacation.
[12:54] I didn't watch all the way to the end, but that's hilarious.
[12:56] They also do when they say the prayer before Christmas Day.
[13:01] It's the Pledge of Allegiance.
[13:02] It's the Pledge of Allegiance.
[13:05] So at the very end, the crazy Aunt Betty or whatever she goes,
[13:10] play ball, you know.
[13:14] And fun fact, I was looking at fun facts about that.
[13:18] That actress was the original voice of Betty Boop.
[13:22] Oh, I saw that too somehow.
[13:24] What?
[13:25] And that was her last film that she ever made.
[13:28] She was quite the looker.
[13:30] She was.
[13:31] And had quite the voice.
[13:35] Yeah.
[13:36] Shout out to Betty Boop.
[13:37] What's the actress's name?
[13:39] I don't know.
[13:40] Okay, good work.
[13:44] It's May something.
[13:46] I don't think that's true.
[13:48] No.
[13:52] I don't think that's true.
[13:56] I don't have anything better, but should we talk about...
[14:00] It is May.
[14:01] May Questell.
[14:02] Is it?
[14:03] Yep.
[14:04] Oh.
[14:07] John remembered something from Googling it.
[14:09] See, the only way I actually remember stuff is by saying it on this podcast.
[14:12] So now I remember.
[14:14] This is your body of work you leave behind.
[14:18] That's right.
[14:19] It's my journal.
[14:23] Okay.
[14:24] I apologize to whoever listens to this in the future.
[14:30] Some sort of children or grandchildren that see this is my journal.
[14:34] My apologies.
[14:35] Yeah.
[14:36] It's some poor PhD student that's doing a dissertation on the weird phenomenon that was podcasts from 2008 to...
[14:46] We apologize that you had to get 211 episodes in, buddy.
[14:50] Just turn it off.
[14:53] Should old acquaintance be forgot?
[14:55] In this case, yes, probably.
[14:57] Tell that to the professor.
[15:05] Well, let's get our game of the week discussed and get on to our New Year's parties.
[15:12] Shout out to the wolves.
[15:15] Game of the week.
[15:16] Game of the week.
[15:17] Game of the week.
[15:18] Game of the week.
[15:19] Game of the week.
[15:20] Game of the week.
[15:22] No, it's not.
[15:23] No, it's not.