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Speaker 1: Y s K Selects, I've chosen how one Hit Wonders Work,

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Speaker 1: which originally published in March of two thousand and This

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Speaker 1: is the episode where we help heal the world by

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Speaker 1: pointing out that professional musicians who cracked the top forty

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Say something. Um, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: didn't even say say something funny. I just said say

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Speaker 1: something froze. Yeah, it's all right, man. That's good quality

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Speaker 1: in a broadcaster to freeze up on the air and

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Speaker 1: a professional talker. Yeah yeah, how you doing? Was? Um?

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Speaker 1: I'm good man, I'm This is a fun, goofy little

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Speaker 1: topic and we haven't done one like that in a while.

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Speaker 1: This is a fun article written by a guy named

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Bryant, a writer for the site. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: will go ahead and say one thing I was disappointed

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Speaker 1: psychology of being a one hit wonder? Oh? Like what

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Speaker 1: it does to your psyche? Yeah? Is it better to

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Speaker 1: Blue Vega Yeah, um, the fake Loue Vega. So, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: it's very well defined, and then we deconstruct it. This

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Speaker 1: scholarly work done on it for good reason. Yeah well,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's interesting though too. Like you brought up

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Speaker 1: It's all just lists. And I actually did find one

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