Armed with his trusty Anker, YHC rolled up to The Stage to a solid crew that included the newly minted Lil’ Cuz and an FNG from Cardinal’s parish in Chackbay (which was somewhat overdue for the king of EH-ing). After a lengthy disclaimer and a warmup of the usual, Anker was fired up, and YHC explained the culture of epic movies back in the day. When a big budget movie came out, everyone saw it dozens of times, quoted it for years, and it defined culture for decades. Though that happens more rarely these days given the glut of video media produced, YHC though it important to dive into one of the greatest epics of the 90’s, Forrest Gump.
Using highlights from the soundtrack, we took a trip with Tom Hanks through the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, with a different exercise for each song (each played to the end, Paradox) as follows:
* Hound Dog: Mountain climbers for the duration, 2 Carolina Dry Docks on “hound dog”
* Walk Right in: Imperial Walker’s for the duration, prisoner squats on “sit right down”
* Land of 1000 dances: Q calls different core exercises (cuz of all the dances), 100’s on “Na-nas”
* Blowing in the wind: burpees for the duration, rest on refrain (How many burpees must a man throw down, before he can break for oxygen? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind…)
* Fortunate Son: Chinooks for the duration, genuflection on “It ain’t me”
* California Dreaming: SSH for the duration, Bonnie Blairs on “California dreaming” (2:1–you know, cuz she’s a speed skater…on ice…”on such a winter’s day”)
* For what it’s worth: side plank, Mission Impossible plank for refrain, then switch sides (elbows in, Montana!)
* Volunteers of America: bear crawl in a circle, switch to crab walk at “revolution” (once per refrain)
* Let’s get together: Partner 1, back plank, feet on the back of Partner 2 who’s high planking, switch on refrain
* Turn Turn Turn: wife pleasers, switch to J-Los on “Turn, Turn, Turn”, then back to wife pleasers, etc. (required some Q tweaking to even it out).
The Pax enjoyed commentary comparing the lack of creativity in lyrics from the 50’s and early 60’s to Lil’ John’s “Turn Down for What” as well as Lil’ Cuz’s rookie realization that songs used in beatdowns are forever ruined and have to henceforth be removed from all playlists. Thankfully, most of these weren’t on any of his playlists.
Count-off and name-off, including the naming of the FNG, which required an explanation as to how F3 names work, though Paradox wasn’t there for the standard example, so Enron had to suffice.
Welcome to the crew, Super Fun! Excellent work, especially in having to approach a group of strange, middle-aged men standing in a circle in the dark and letting another man put his beefy, sweaty legs on your back. Looking forward to seeing you out there Saturday!
COT and Lil’ Cuz prayed us out.
Thanks for posting, gents! It’s an honor to be joined by you in the gloom!
SYITG,
Goose
