Peas and Carrots

And now on,

"What the Hell Happened to Them?"

It's The City Kids.

It's just City Kids, no "the".

Joining us today,

is Laurie Santangelo,

the leader of The City Kids.

So what the hell happened to The City Kids?

You guys were these

like cool, downtown rockers

with, and I'm gonna quote

from your Wikipedia page here,

although it hasn't been updated in

about three years.

Quote, "unusual guitar tunings

with street cred in both the high culture

and low culture worlds." End quote.

Nothing happened to us.

We're still here.

And where is here?

Here is New York.

It's where we've always been.

We're city kids.

I don't know if

you can really say "kids" anymore.

Anyway,

Gordon and I got married.

We started a family,

and that's been our focus for a while.

But we never stopped making music.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

We just hit 30 listeners on this stream.

That is awesome.

Hey, if there are any noobs out there, smash that Subscribe.

We're giving away a free copy of "In The City",

the album by The City Kids.

Although fair warning, it was recorded in 1996.

I'm looking through the comments here

and people think you look great.

For your age.

Thank you.

Yeah, well, people were worried

that you might've gotten fat and old.

After all, you were kind of a style icon

in the '90s, remember?

Ooh, sorry, we gotta go.

I promised to keep these streams under three minutes.

Next week, what the hell happened

to those "Too Shy Shy" hitmakers,

Kajagoogoo!

Remember them?

Bye, Laurie, see ya.

Bye.

Kaja-fricking-googoo.

It's a good song, though.

It is a good song.

Let's do it.

We could occasionally play something from, I don't know,

the last 30 years or so.

There've been one or two good songs since the '90s.

Yeah, says you.

All right, B flat minor.

The original's in E flat minor.

A stickler, all right, E flat minor.

Two, three, four.

Oh, are you gonna pick up Topper?

I ask you to do this like once a month.

Fine.

We can jam some more when you get back.

Eh, forget it, I have homework.

-Hey, Dad? -Yeah?

You wanna pick up Topper?

No, thank you.

Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

Heard that one before.

So how'd it go with the webcast guy?

We have to update our Wikipedia page.

-Hey, Yasmin. -Hi, Joey.

Send Topper out please.

You know, I've been meaning to ask you.

Topper is an unusual name.

Yeah, it is.

So what is it?

Some kind of family name?

Have you ever heard of The Clash?

Their leaders were Joe Strummer and Mick Jones.

That's why I'm Joey and my sister's Mickey.

Uh-huh.

My parents never really expected to have a third kid.

And then, well, this guy showed up.

The Clash's drummer's name was Topper Headon.

Not on their first album.

Topper only became the drummer

on "Give 'em Enough Rope."

That's true.

Joey, Mickey.

Meeting.

Come on, girls.

Family meeting time.

I wish we didn't have to have these dumb family meetings.

They're only dumb if you think they're dumb.

Then they're dumb.

I don't think they're...

Okay, let's just talk about what worked

and what didn't work this week.

I can tell you what didn't work.

This meeting.

Put away the teenage cynicism for a little bit.

You know, we agreed to do this

as a family. -Daddy, I'm tired.

Okay, fine.

We'll just postpone till tomorrow, right?

We'll start a little bit earlier.

-Mm-hmm. -Right before dinner, okay?

Okay.

Okay?

Did you brush your teeth?

Maybe.

Why does it always feel like we're losing?

Because there's one more of them than us.

They're on the power play.

We're just trying to kill the penalty.

A hockey metaphor, nice.

Yeah, well, you marry a Minnesota girl,

you're gonna get a hockey metaphor.

Dad, can you tell us a story?

Okay.

I'm coming.

In a white room

with black curtains

near a station,

silver horses

ran down moonbeams,

How you doing over there?

I'm fine.

I think I'll go to sleep too.

Do you want a story?

No, I'm good.

I'm sorry I yelled at you.

I'm sorry I was an obnoxious teenager.

You remind me so much of your mother.

Do you know that she was only a couple years older

than you are now when we met?

I ever tell you that story?

The one where she was in the warmup band

and she stole you from the headlining band?

No, never heard it.

She was such a badass.

Still is.

I know, Dad.

All right.

Goodnight, sweetheart.

Oh, Dad,

can you turn the stars on for me on your way out?

Yeah, sure.

Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Oh.

Um.

Okay.

Hmm, never heard that before.

Guess it's still working.

Goodnight.

Night.

Where am I?

What's going on?

Peas and carrots.

I'm sorry, what'd you say?

Peas and carrots, peas and carrots.

I don't know what's wrong with you.

Peas and carrots.

Peas and carrots.

Peas and carrots.

Okay, that's good.

I had the strangest dream last night.

Really?

Freud would say that dreams represent our deepest wishes,

what our conscious mind has learned to repress.

Okay, we're gonna try that again.

I'm gonna say, "I had the strangest dream last night"