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The thunder was an F♯ and went down to a C♯
which is a coincidence...
because this is also a C♯.
Dude, it reacted!
All right, so...
Today, we're watching a video
from Saturday Night Live.
And as we all know, Saturday Night Live...
They're known to be very historically accurate...
portrayers of musical instruments, right?
And so they did it again.
Recently, they came up with a new video
and it's called "The Weird..."
- "The little-" - "The Weird Little Flute."
And it's featuring Kid... Cudi?
Cudi?
Cudi? Cudi?
Kid Cudi!
- I think this video came out recently. - Mhm.
And yeah, we're just gonna watch it together
and see how good it is.
Oh, it's gonna be obviously very good...
- Yeah. - ...and accurate.
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Whey!
What do you even say?
Whey!
Yeah!
I love how every hip-hop song starts with some like...
...random... like, what's that other one- what's that?
ASTRO!
- Yeah! - ASTRO!
- BEETHOVEN! Yeah. - Some words out of nowhere.
PARALLEL OCTAVES!
Mm!
Sorry, can I just go back a bit?
Sorry, I thought-
I thought he was doing a Ling Ling sign.
- Yeah, I thought he was like a Ling Ling fan. - He's just-
- That's not good. That's just pew pew. - What's...
This is shooting.
- Oh! - That's not good.
This is better, guys. This is better.
Say no to pew pew.
- Say yes to Ling Ling. Yeah. - But Ling Ling is good.
What's a brut?
I... actually don't know the "drip drip drip,"
"the 808..."
"Xanned out tempo."
What is a "xan?" What does "xan" mean?
Do you actually not know?
No.
Oh...!
Editor-san, you can decide whether-
We're PG friendly.
- It's like, "Brett has no clue." - Yeah!
Actually had no clue!
Wait, but how do you know about it?
I'm just kidding.
- I don't know. I just know things. - Beep!
I think that's what it means. Xanax, right?
I have no clue.
Whoa...
- Okay. Okay. - Oh man, they're legit musicians.
Oh dude, look at that hand posture.
I don't even think there are keys there, mate.
Look how- Look at the angle to the, like, the lips.
- It's like- - Yeah, 100% accurate.
- Oh, the embouchure, right? - The embouchure is like...
Look, I don't play the flute,
but even I know it's not meant to look like that.
And this guy's hand is just way too close to the mouthpiece.
And they're going different ways as well.
Oh yeah!
Why is one facing this way, one's-
Oh yeah! He's holding it the wrong way.
- Why? I'm so confused. - I didn't even think about it.
Yeah.
- All right, flute is always this way. - Yeah.
The Justin Bieber from Wish...
- is holding it the right direction. - Ha ha ha ha!
Yeah, the Wish version. Yeah...
I can't quite imagine the flute in this setting, too.
Actually, I've noticed...
there seems to be a thing with flute and pop music.
Remember that Bum Bum Tam Tam?
- Yeah! - Yeah.
- Yeah, the twerk, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And there's like the America's Got Talent guy,
- the stripper playing the flute. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ooh...
- Dude, the flute is making a comeback in mainstream culture. - Flute...!
- But I don't know how flautists would feel about it, though. - Yeah, the flautists are like-
- You know, like... - Yeah, the flautists are like-
They're probably like...
"We're getting represented, but uh..."
But hey, who knows?
Dude!
What the heck?
They're just like fully owning it!
And look at their eyes!
But actually, look at the video.
It looks like a legit flautist.
Well, I'm not a flautist, but at least...
in the TV, it looks more accurate.
Yeah.
But then what is this?
Wish Justin Bieber is holding his right hand the wrong way!
How are you gonna press the buttons?
Yeah.
Oh no!
Why are they both bending their knees?
They're doing squats.
Ha, ha!
Dude, that's not even a full flute.
That's like half a flute.
You know what this reminds me of?
Have you seen Anchorman?
Yes.
- Oh... Yeah...! - You know that scene where he's like...
"I'm totally not prepared."
- And just pulls out from his sleeve. Yeah! - And he's whipping out the jazz part.
- Yeah guys, check that out. - It is so good!
I'm not prepared.
I really am not prepared at all.
If I ever saw that happen in a night club,
- Like, this girl is like, "Ooh!" - I would be mind-blown.
And then, the guy just pulls out an actual flute...
And he busts out the tune.
Then I'll be like...
- Whoa... Whoa! - Bro, respect!
- Whoa! - Dude...
Pretty epic. Editor, can you make us like,
come out of violin f-holes?
- That proves they're actual musicians. - Yeah.
Wherever they go, they have their flutes.
- They need to practice on the go, right? - Yeah.
You know I've actually done that before.
I'd practice on a bus.
Really!?
Yeah, just like very quietly 'cause I'm like...
"I have a f***ing audition coming up."
And so I just pulled out my violin.
I would just be like, gently finger-
I wouldn't be playing out loud, but I'd be like...
- Actually no, I've done that too. - Yeah.
...on a train.
- Yeah, exactly, right? - I still remember like, I was like...
- Like, crunching noise when I played. - Yeah, yeah, yeah!
It was so last minute in the morning, I was like...
"Sh**! I haven't practiced enough!"
- Nah, dude, musicians are hardcore. - Yeah. Yes.
That's true though. They're living it.
That's why they're probably seen as the weird-little-flute dude.
Yeah.
- These guys are practicing all the time. - Yeah.
Wait, but that's not even a flute, is it?
Bro, it looks like a bubble tea recyclable metal straw.
Dude, that's a huge *** straw!
Dude, you can get a lot of bubbles on that.
- Yeah! - A lot of pearls in that.
OHH!
Sacrilegious!
Dude, that's actually Anchorman.
Eddy: You know how he blew the fire?
So sacrilegious that it's become
i n t e r e s t i n g !
That party would be so lit.
Dude, I'd go to a flute party.
Everyone's just like waving their little flutes around...
- Drdrrrdrdrr! - ...in the party.
Dude, that would be so sick.
Oh dude!
They're in the car! Of course!
Every music video has a car, I swear.
That's the golden formula.
If we ever make a music video,
do we need to get a car as well?
Actually what type of car will we get?
Toyota?
Yeah, ha ha ha! Yeah, probably.
Wait, is that Eminem?
Actually no, I don't think it's Eminem.
It's Eminem from Wish.
Yeah, it's all Wish.
This whole version is Wish.
- The flutes are also Wish. - Yeah.
- "Rappers love their little flutes?" - Dude...
The rappers are coming for flute gang!
Flute gang, how do you feel about that?
Comment in the comment section below.
All right, I mean that's true.
You gotta clean it.
But does it look like that?
I don't know. It looks like a toilet cleaner.
- I don't think that's what the flute cleansers looks like. - What is that?
I'm pretty sure it's meant to be more like...
- Towel, like... Cloths. - Cloth thing, like,
- the ones you wipe your glasses with. - Yeah.
I also don't know if they would make that face when they clean it.
"Tiny ******* case."
That's a huge case!
Dude, that's not the case for flute.
That looks like a double bass bow case or something.
- Usually the flute, you split it into parts... like that. - It's like a smaller box, right?
- And piccolo's like that. - Yeah.
Flute's like that.
That one's like this.
It's like wider than his body.
- Guys, get your facts right! - Inaccurate!
Now that's true.
- Musicians love putting stickers on their instrument cases. - Yeah.
Have you seen Brett's case?
I'm gonna get it...
Violin, violin, violin...
- Yeah, guys! - Look at that, guys!
Check out TwoSet Apparel.
"Violin Gang."
Dude, I love this.
It makes my case look really like... pretty.
Love it!
There you go, guys.
Check it out.
So that's right. They understand.
"Something can be difficult,"
"so I practice like Thibodeau?"
Who is Thibodeau?
I have no clue.
Well, it's true.
If It's difficult, you have to practice.
- It is true. Mm... - That's what we got there.
- It's 100% true. - Mm... Yeah.
I mean, yeah, the notes go very high.
Yeah, but it's not good to get high too often.
Because it's actually quite straining on your ears
for a piccolo player.
Especially if you're a 2nd violin player.
- Oh, I can testify. Yeah, I- - Sit right in front of the piccolo, right?
At the back of the 2nd violin section, when they go...
"DRRRR!!!"
- It's like, ugh!! - Ugh...!
I think I've lost a bit of hearing since then.
The piccolo is a very difficult instrument to play.
- It is. - The last movement of Beethoven 5...
has a crazy...
- I just know every time I looked back at piccolo, - Piccolo, yeah.
their faces were always red.
They're holding like a long note.
Eddy: Oh, that's the hardest!
- Yeah. - I don't know. Respect to all the wind players.
Hm, I wonder why!
There's a Beethoven poster in the back.
Dude, there's a Beethoven-
Dude, I love these guys!
"Not the first, but you don't care!"
Okay, but usually there's no 4 chairs for flute, right?
- Rarely... Is it like, 2? - Usually there's-
- 2 flutes, and 1 piccolo if the piece requires. - Yes.
Occasionally, you will have 4.
- 4. Rarely, rarely. - But... yeah.
It's like special occasion.
"...better than us. Stephanie Giannopoulos!"
That's like a Greek name.
Well, the funny thing is that is totally the-
- a name I would expect from a good flautist, right? - Yes! Oh! Oh!
We do know!
No, no, but there's a flautist I know!
- And then we know of a Greek cellist, her last name was like... - A cellist called *stutters*
Something...poulos.
- It was very similar to that. - Simopoulos.
- Whoa! - Ooh!
I know this is just a skit, but I feel sorry for that flute.
Are you ready for a bigger cringe?
What?
Imagine you use your violin bow.
OH...!
You're done.
The bow would SNAP!
How does that even work?
In my professional orchestra back in the day,
there was this guy with an afro...
who would scratch his afro with his violin bow.
He was the only guy that would do it.
He would be like...
playing, playing... and be like...
-Yeah! Don't do that, guys. - I'm like, "Bro."
Don't do it.
He does it in rehearsal. He doesn't do it in concert.
- 'Cause like, the oils from your hair will ruin the- - Ugh!
- It's not good. - It's not good for your hair.
- Don't do it, guys. - Yeah.
I mean, it's true that they always have to
take our violins away from us at the airport.
Actually, not every country, but in America.
They always be like...
"This one has to go in this lane."
And we would be like...
- "Bye, babies!" - Well, I'm always keeping my eye on it.
- I'm like, "Don't touch it." - Yeah.
- And they put it not the belt like, upside down. - And then... they put it this way.
It's so annoying!
I swear to god, 90% of the time, they put it this way.
And you're just like...
- "I hope my strap inside the case is solid." - Holds. Yeah.
It doesn't fall the violin. It's not hitting the bow.
- Bro, you're offending both my identities at the same time. - Okay.
That's not how chopsticks work.
- That's not how a musical instrument works. - And also how he's eating-
I mean, I know he's holding it.
But the whole idea of having two chopsticks sticking out
- Oh, that's sacrilegious. Yeah. - is like a funeral in Japan.
I thought they were gonna say like...
They put the flute underneath her nose.
And if she's breathing, she'll make a sound.
I mean, I would too.
- If I woke up, there's like two dudes and a flute. - Yeah.
Guys!
You guys have been sitting here for like 4 hours.
Ye, we just being like chillin' over.
No, actually you haven't.
Look at the security footage.
- Oh my- Oh my... - Oh, dude...!
Just a usual day, you know.
Yeah, at music shop.
Every customer they have is always just in their own world.
- Just trash the violins. - Yeah.
Listen, you have to buy something or leave.
In that case...
Did he just throw the flutes?
Are they recorders?
- Yeah, dude! Th- - Oh, they're record- ha ha!
Recorders, bro...!
They're just like silver recorders spray-painted or something.
- You know why? - Why?
It's too expensive.
80 dollars?
Uh... No, I think they cost a lot more.
I mean, violins go for about $300,000.
The best flutes are like the gold flutes.
- Yes! - I think they're like, 50 grand?
Yeah, yeah, actually.
And they sound beautiful.
Oh, Muramatsu! That's the one.
- 24 karat gold. - Whoa!
'Cause the gold actually makes it sound better.
30 grand.
Oh, there you go!
So much cheaper than violins.
So jealous.
But it's not $80 though.
Yeah, it's definitely not $80.
I don't know what they're getting like...
$80 might be a premium recorder.
Just kidding! Just kidding!
I was gonna say that's a Wish flute.
- Yeah, it's a Wish flute. - It's a Wish flute.
$80 Wish flute.
That's not 80 dollars.
Eddy: Yes! Stephanie-
Oh dude, he dropped the flute!
Oh dude, Stephanie's in it!
FLUTE!!
All right, flute gang.
What do you think of this video?
Is it interesting, or is it sacrilegious?
Comment below and uh...
Don't do this.
Do this.
Go practice.