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Cast of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts & Matt Lowe & & & Lea DeLaria
Daniel Rojas & Michelle Gonzalez
Cast of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts & & John Hodgman & GZA
Cast of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts & Sterling K. Brown
Kittie Harloe
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Daniel Rojas
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Daniel Rojas
Daniel Rojas
Daniel Rojas
In “The Astronomers in Turtlenecks”, the fifth episode of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeast, the show’s protagonists try to bluff their way past the pack of eggheaded but fearsome Newton Wolves to gain access to a powerful telescope they hope will help them find Kipo’s people.
“Newton Wolves Rap” rep...
[Intro: GZA as Bad Billions]
Y'know what?
[Verse: GZA as Bad Billions; John Hodgman as Good Billions]
All life started with the Big Bang
An explosion so great from which we all sprang
The universe dispersed mass
Traversing space as time passed
Space expanding mad fast
Stars made of light and gas
The cosmos with billions of stars, gleaming
These are the events that brought us wolves into being
[Chorus]
Newton! Newton!
[Verse 2: GZA as Bad Billions; John Hodgman as Good Billions]
Now you know our name
And you know we trained
To wax poetic refrain
With our superior brains
Evolution's changed
Our instincts remain
To wax poetic refrain
With our superior brains
For years we ask how
But we should ask why?
Below a canopy of nebulas in the sky
Orbiting matter inspiring thoughts
And in this perfect vacuum our pale blue dot!
[Chorus]
Newtons!
Newton!
Newton!
Newton!
[Verse 3: GZA as Bad Billions]
Newton Wolves explain
The knowledge we gained
To wax poetic refrain
With our superior brains
Evolution's changed
Our instincts remain
To wax poetic refrain
With our superior brains
[Verse 4: GZA as Bad Billions; John Hodgman as Good Billions]
Protons
Neutrons
Folding together like a futon
Colliding in poem like a perfect storm
Creating galaxies and planets
Like the one that we're on!
We're talking 'bout Earth, ya'll
[Verse 5: GZA as Bad Billions; John Hodgman as Good Billions]
Alright, now it's time to break it down
With every kind of star that's ever been classified!
We talking giants
Subgiants
Red giants
Blue giants
Luminous giants
Very luminous supergiants
And less luminous supergiants
Pulsar, neutron star
When they rotate together that's a binary star
Class W, Class O, Class L, Class F
Do we have any other stars?
Oh, most def'
[Chorus]
Newton! Newton!
[Verse 6: John Hodgman as Good Billions]
Red dwarf
White dwarf
Brown dwarfs are fun
If you want to see a Yellow dwarf, look to our sun
[Outro: GZA as Bad Billions & John Hodgman as Good Billions]
But don't look at the sun!
Oh, no. Don't do that
That's everything we learned about the known universe
THE END!
Newton Wolves Rap was written by Daniel Rojas & Myke Brown.
Cast of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts released Newton Wolves Rap on Fri Jan 10 2020.
John Hodgeman told Fatherly
I had zero hands in crafting Billions… Actually, I’m one of two wolves named Billions, the other played of course, by my brother in animation and my idol in real life GZA from Wu-Tang Clan. It was a very strange experience to portray his wolf brother. All I knew going in...