🎧Episode 144: Billy Joel at the Movies, Snarky Puppy Firepower & A Celebrity Pop Detour

<p>Episode 144 starts with another trip to the movies, moves into some serious instrumental muscle, and eventually reaches a recording that forces Curtis to reopen the <strong>Sonic Holocaust</strong> file.</p><p>Jonathan continues his soundtrack streak with <strong>Billy Joel</strong>, digging up a movie song that sounds unmistakably like him while living a little outside the part of his catalog most people know. Curtis follows with <strong>Snarky Puppy</strong>, where the grooves get heavier, the musicianship gets ridiculous, and keeping track of exactly what everyone is doing becomes part of the fun.</p><p>Then the categories take over. Jonathan introduces <strong>Needed The Money</strong>, featuring <strong>Robbie Dupree</strong> in a musical situation that raises a very reasonable question: <em>How did this happen?</em> Curtis counters with <strong>Sonic Holocaust</strong>, turning to an enormously famous actor who decided that conquering movies and comedy apparently wasn’t enough.</p><p>A movie-song curiosity, modern jazz-fusion fireworks, a suspicious career choice, and one celebrity recording that must be heard to be believed—Episode 144 rewards anyone willing to follow the show down a few strange musical side roads.</p><p><br></p><p>Curtis Gross is a self-employed video editor.</p><p>Jonathan Workman is an adult learning consultant based in Wichita, KS.</p><p>---</p><p>Make sure you are subscribed to Why Is This So Hard For You. Type Why Is This So Hard For You in your podcast provider, hit that subscription button, and leave us a five-star review. This will make it easier for other podcast listeners to find the podcast.</p><p>---</p><p>The intro music is the first 30 seconds of the Ornette Coleman tune &quot;Song X&quot; fed into AI software that attempts to output the song to a solo piano transcription. The outro music is the first 30 seconds of Sonny Rollins&#39; version of the tune &quot;St. Thomas&quot; fed into the same software.</p>