Michael Andrews

She was traveling on United Airlines Flight 175, which had flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Michael Andrews worked for the financial firm Canter Fitzgerald in the North Tower.

While he was not a musician himself, he was connected to the music journalism industry as being the brother of Gene Jammin, who was the circulation director for Billboard magazine at the time.

In the aftermath, MTV and VH1 stopped playing music videos and instead played news reports from CBS News.

Ironically enough, an iteration of the character that I very publicly said that I don't particularly like.

But there is one scene, and I've talked about this in so many podcasts so many times and so many times with Michael Andrews.

It is literally the scene where Optimus transforms and reveals himself to Sam and Michaela.

Are you Samuel James Witwicky, descendant of Archibald Witwicky?

Max, without any further ado, what is your number one? Gary Jules.

Before we talk Gary Jules, we must also mention Michael Andrews, because confession time, I had no idea that Michael Andrews was involved in the song because I've only ever heard Gary Jules attached to the song.

And not only was Michael Andrews involved in it, he's the reason the song exists today.

So let's get into this, shall we? This is from the Donnie Darko soundtrack released in 2002.

Michael Andrews, at 1.2 million monthly listeners, also known by the stage name Elgin Park, is an American multi-instrumental musician, producer, and film score composer.

In 2001, director Richard Kelly commissioned Andrews to score the cult classic Donnie Darko.

Andrews has scored numerous major films, including Me and You and Everyone We Know, Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, Bridesmaids, Bad Neighbors, and The Big Sick.

Gary Jules, also at 1.2 million monthly listeners, is an acclaimed American singer-songwriter, best known for his haunting stripped-down cover of the Cheers for Fear song Mad World, recorded alongside his childhood friend and composer, Michael Andrews, for the 2001 cult classic film Donnie Darko.

May we all find something to light this darkest hour.

That was written by my good friend and podcast co-host Michael Andrews.

As we all know by now, Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime in Transformers, has died at the age of 85.

The theater-trained Canadian also created sounds for King Kong and The Predator and portrayed Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh's pal.

I also did a fair amount of that during 2 Mics 2 Furious where we were talking about Transformers Animated.

Uh, being a first-time watcher, I hadn't seen Transformers Animated before we did that project, uh, me and Michael Andrews.

I, I had the opportunity as we were going episode by episode to speculate about things that would never happen or interpret lines of dialogue to mean things that they were never intended to, or really get into vocal inflections and, and thinking about what that actually means and extracting depth that probably wasn't actually there, but that I, I enjoyed, uh, interpreting and thinking about.

That's what I'm doing here with this line from Unicron Knowing what the outcome of this movie is going to be, knowing what Hot Rod is going to do with the Matrix and what it means for Unicron, I can hear the desperation in his voice.