1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Say something. Um, yeah, I 4 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: didn't even say say something funny. I just said say 5 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: something for us. Yeah, it's all right, man. That's good 6 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: quality in a broadcaster to freeze up on the air 7 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: and a professional talker. Yeah, yeah, how you doing. I'm great? Um, 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: I'm good man. This is a fun, goofy little topic 9 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: and we haven't done one like that in a while. 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: This was a fun article written by a guy named 11 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: Charles W. Bryant, a writer for the site. Yeah. I 12 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: will go ahead and say one thing I was disappointed 13 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: in this article, and I would still like to see 14 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: someone tackle this in documentary style. Maybe is the psychology 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: of being a one hit wonder? Oh? Like what it 16 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: does to your psyche? Yeah? Is it better to have 17 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: that one hit and fade away and at least you 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: had that? Or is it better to have never? You know? 19 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: I just I would be real curious to see a 20 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: series of interviews with one hit wonders to see, like 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,559 Speaker 1: how they feel about it. You're saying, is it better 22 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: to have hit and lost than never to have hit 23 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: at all exactly, And I couldn't really find anything on that. 24 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: So I'm sure there's one or two who like listen 25 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: to the podcast and if you do, right in, let 26 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: us know how it is. We're interested. Blue Vega, Yeah, 27 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: least um the fake Loue Vega. So, Chuck, I wanted 28 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: to commend you for this article because you really like 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: this is a tough one for With how stuff works articles, 30 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: we typically take a topic that is, you know, has 31 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: a lot of research done on it, it's very well defined, 32 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: and then we deconstruct it. This one is like I 33 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: looked on the internet and if you type in one 34 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: Hit Wonder, there is like zero scholarly work done on it, 35 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: and for good reason. Yeah. Well, I mean it's interesting 36 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: though too, Like you brought up the psychology of being 37 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: a one. Yeah, they're shouldn't been anyone ever done a 38 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: study like that. There is nothing. It's all just lists. 39 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: And I actually did find one good website. It's called 40 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: um one Hit Wonder central dot com and they have 41 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: everything and you can play like every song they have 42 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,799 Speaker 1: it by year. Who the one hit Wonder was from 43 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: like the sixties to the two thousands, maybe fifties. There 44 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: are some of the greatest songs to me, or some 45 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: of the one hit wonders. And I mean that's the points, Like, 46 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: you know, one hit wonder is just something that everybody 47 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: liked at one time. We just didn't like whatever else 48 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 1: they were making, right, Um, at least as it's a 49 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: large collective group. Anyway, back to me commending you, Um, 50 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: you had to take something that was really amorphous that 51 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: everybody knew and we knew if you got wrong, and 52 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 1: whipping into shape like a definable shape, and you got 53 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: it right. I think you did a great job. So Um. 54 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 1: The first thing you pointed out was that no one 55 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: is certain of the origin of this phrase. That's right, 56 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: but we figured out that it was. It first came 57 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 1: in print nine seven, right. Well that's what phrases done 58 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: work says, and I couldn't find anything to dispute it. 59 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: But a writer there wrote the sentence in July seventy 60 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: about abba instead of becoming what everyone expected a one 61 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: hit wonder, they soon had a string of hits behind them. 62 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: And although the website phrase dot org does say it 63 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: appears to have already been a used phrase, but this 64 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: is the first time they've seen it in print, right, 65 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: and and so, and there actually is like a definition 66 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: for one hit wonder, like there's well, a hit, I 67 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: guess you can find a hit, and then it's got 68 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: to be on the because we're so American centric, has 69 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: to be on the billboard top and then specifically in 70 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: the top forty to be considered a hit. Right, Yeah, 71 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: technically for like when most people like there have been 72 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: books written about one hit wonders and that's usually what 73 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: what they say. Okay, so that wasn't just you or 74 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: anything saying. And I thought it was a great definition. No, 75 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: it's a good definition. But that's the generally held definition. 76 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: But then that's where it gets really blurry, as we're 77 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: about to find out, right, well, in many ways, I mean, yeah, 78 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: you make a point that there's a lot of one 79 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: hit wonders by that definition. Who are legendary musicians like 80 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: Jimi Hendrix one hit, Janis Joplin one hit, Garth Brooks 81 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: as Chris Gaines. Yeah, that's this only billboard hit. Yeah, 82 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: this is only Billboard top forty hit. Yeah, but he 83 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: had country hits. It just lived on the country top ten. 84 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: But yeah, as in the mainstream top forty. His only 85 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: hit was as Chris Kaines with the Haircut and the 86 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 1: Soul patch Man. That was Yeah, I don't know what 87 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: song that was even I don't need um Beck Yeah, 88 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: the Dead, The Dead, the White Stripes, lou Reid, Iggy 89 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 1: Pop Divo, some like iconic bands and musicians that have 90 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: only had one hit. Um. And then you've got artists 91 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: who never had that hit but are still considered one 92 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: hit wonders. Because what you end up realizing is, despite 93 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: the definition of what a hit is, a one hit 94 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: wonder is something different. It's just an artist and a 95 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: song who captured something for a moment in time. It 96 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it was a top forty hit, right 97 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: like you you say, Um, Wallavoodoo's Mexican Radio. Absolutely, it's 98 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: not a top forty hit. No, but that's definitely a 99 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: hit in the zeitgeist. Did you put it? Absolutely? Who else? 100 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: I'll melt with you Modern English, the Weather Girls, it's 101 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: raining men Like you would say, all of these are 102 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: definitely one hit wonders and none of them had top 103 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: forty hits. Right. So, but sticking to the strict definition, 104 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: um that I mean that still works too. Write like 105 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: the Penguins, Earth Angel. Yeah, in the fifties, right, Um, 106 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: in the sixties you had um Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer, 107 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: but they really spent blue on like there one there 108 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: one thing there, one shot was covered in blue Blue Cheer. 109 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: Did Summertime Blues? Green Tambourine? Remember that song? No, I 110 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:12,239 Speaker 1: didn't mean tambourine. It was very like psychedelic No and 111 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: the Lemon Pipers. You know, it's one of those songs 112 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: where sort of like h in the seventies Argents hold 113 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: your head up, like everybody knows that song. But I 114 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: bet ninety nine people out of a hundred I've never 115 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: heard of the vand Argent. No, they probably think, oh, 116 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: wasn't that the guests who? Or wasn't that Joe Dirt? 117 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: Or yes, that was it? Yeah, I really I never 118 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: saw that movie. What I never saw Joe Dirt? Oh man, 119 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: such a great like keep your Chin up movie is 120 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 1: so good. Like I really can hate David Spade, you 121 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: can hate all of that kind of comedy, but that 122 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: movie has such like it's got heart, It's a cute movie. Well, 123 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: I had friends it's on Netflix streaming. Yeah, I had 124 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: friends that worked on it, and that's where I had 125 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: my Gary Busey insider story. Oh yeah, yeah, I think 126 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: I told you. You You know, he was He was supposed 127 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 1: to play the father and if you'll notice in the 128 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: film he does not play the father. No, it's done 129 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: by one Fred Ward. Yeah. So Gary Busey was on 130 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: set for a day and it didn't work out. He 131 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: made it. Wish I could tell the whole story. He 132 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: made it into Black Sheep with Chris Farley and um, 133 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: David Spade. Yeah, he was like the crazy guy who 134 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: lived in a school bus in the woods. It was 135 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: the part he was born to play exactly. Please don't 136 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: come to our office, Gary buy um. All right. So 137 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: that was the fifty and that's generally when the rock 138 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: era in the fifties is when you people say you 139 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: can start talking about things like one hit wonders, like 140 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: not some guy who had one big band hit in 141 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties, although I'm sure they were there, you 142 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: know that's true. Uh, there's been one song that was 143 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: a one hit wonder for two bands, which is interesting. 144 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's here Funky Town really yeah, Lips incorporated 145 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: eighty and then I don't know if you remember Pseudo Echo. 146 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: They did a version of that in six It was 147 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: a little more electric and upbeat, and that was a 148 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: bona fide top forty hit as well. Seems can't people 149 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: couldn't get enough of Funky Town. I hope whoever wrote 150 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: that like really cast in. Yeah. So the sixties all right, Now, 151 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: the sixties was the green tambour in seventies songs like 152 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. That's a good song. Uh, 153 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: it was in Apollo thirteen one took over the line. 154 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: I I literally wrote Shuggar next to that, what like, 155 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: oh you hate that song? It's pretty bad? Brewer and 156 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: Shipley and then Seasons in the Sun, great song, Terry 157 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: Jack's never heard of the guy No No, no Revy, 158 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: no rev um. And you also make the point that 159 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: the seventies were lousy with disco one hit wonders, And 160 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: in our disco episode we talked about why because it 161 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: was all producer driven rather than artist drive. Exactly. I 162 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: didn't even bother to like list any in here. You know, 163 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: it's you can just name a disco song and there 164 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: you have. The eighties, of course, you had bands like 165 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 1: Soft Cells, Tainted Love and Oh Mickey You're So Fine, 166 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: Tony Basil, Uh, I want Candy by Bow Wow Wow Kajau. 167 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: Remember what song I don't remember is that who was? Yeah? 168 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 1: Uh so the eighties was lousy with it, but a 169 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: lot of those songs are great songs, and a lot 170 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: of the artists in the eighties were popular in other countries. Yeah, 171 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: and are known as one hit wonder here in the US. 172 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: Like I was reading an article on I think Cracked 173 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: maybe about one hit wonders and they were saying, like, 174 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: Aha had Take on Me, which was a hit here 175 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: in the United States, but that was it. But they're 176 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: like one of the top fifty grossing bands of all 177 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: time worldwide. Yeah. Well, and Aha falls into another weird category, 178 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: which is a band that's known as a one hit 179 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: wonder who actually had a quieter second hit. Oh really Yeah, 180 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: they had a song called the Sun Always Shines on 181 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: TV that was like a top twenty hit. I think, Wow, 182 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: I don't remember that one. Nobody does. They're good though, 183 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: now they're awesome. Um And then remember right said fred 184 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: I'm Too Sexy huge in England. Yes, like there, I'm 185 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: Too Sexy was actually only hit number two in England. 186 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: They had another one that hit number one, but here 187 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: in the States. I think it hit number one here 188 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 1: and then that was it for right, said Fred. Uh 189 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: the same with Frankie Goes to Hollywood and uh yeah, 190 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 1: they were really big in Europe and Gary Newman. Yeah 191 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: that was a good song though, that song holds up 192 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: the car back and listen to cars. Yeah, that dude 193 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 1: was a good musician. Well, and he was hugely popular 194 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: and still like tours today. Yeah, so he's he's one 195 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: of those guys that's like, please don't call me one. 196 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: I wonder I had a long successful career. Look at 197 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: my house. You know it's a car. No, I think 198 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: it's like a mansion. He lives in his car. It's 199 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: pread feels safest, he can lock all his doors. Uh. 200 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: Falco and oh yeah, Nina, we're really big in German 201 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: speaking countries. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. But you 202 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: know had the ninety nine red balloons Balloons and then 203 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: Falco's rock Me on My Dais. Yeah, huge hit here. 204 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: Like it didn't occur to my young brain that that 205 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: wasn't from the Ama Dais soundtrack, because remember it came 206 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: out at about the same time as the movie, and um, like, 207 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: I just thought it was part of the soundtrack, yeah, 208 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: the movie sound Well the point with this though, is 209 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: that one hit wonder it's sort of a sort of 210 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: a derogatory term to throw on unearnest. So a lot 211 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: of these people are like in America, like you jerks, 212 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: I was huge in Europe or maybe some other country, 213 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: and uh yeah, who cares so much for you? One 214 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: hit the nineties crash Test Dummies, remember those dudes? Well 215 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: that was the song. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right, the macarena, 216 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: even though I don't even like to count that. Um, 217 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: what about Faith No More is epic? Yeah, see that's 218 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: a band that hugely critically popular and had a big 219 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: cult following. But yeah, just the one hit, the epic 220 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: the name of it, right, you want it all, but 221 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: you can't have it? That was I remember here that 222 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: song on the first time. This is the coolest thing 223 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: I've ever heard. Yeah, and that lead singer what's his name, 224 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: Mike something. He's like super respected. He's been another band 225 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: like Mr Uncle. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's a big like 226 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: has a big cult following, and not not among cults, 227 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: even like among people who aren't in cults. All right, 228 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: So that's music. That's an overview. Yeah, you make a 229 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: really good point in this article that, like one hit wonder, 230 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: that derogatory term isn't just um aimed at people only 231 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: in the music industry, although that's where the lion's share 232 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 1: of it is, but it shows up in sports. You 233 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: pointed out a couple of them, a couple of instances. Yeah. Well, 234 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: if you have one hit in baseball, then you've been 235 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: a complete and utter failure. But a couple of guys 236 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: have had one hit and that one hit was a 237 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: home run, which is pretty cool, which is pretty interesting. 238 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: Who was that? There was a guy named um Chris 239 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: Jellic whose name might recognize for some reason. Yeah, and 240 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: I don't follow the Mets or anything, but I guess 241 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: I just saw that that bit of trivia before that 242 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 1: he had one hit and it was a home run. Yeah. Maybe. 243 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: So there's a guy who didn't have a hit UM 244 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: named Eddie Goodell. He had one plate appearance in a 245 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one game for the Yankees, and he was 246 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: a little person. Oh yeah, and they put him in 247 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: against the St. Louis Browns and he drew four consecutive 248 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: um uh balls and got a walk. Yeah, and his 249 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: jerseys in the Hall of Fame, and it's you can't 250 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: see me doing this right now. I'm rubbing my face. 251 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: His number was one eight. Really yeah, but he was 252 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: I guess you could say a one hit sports wonder. 253 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: It was kind of a fun story until then. Yeah, 254 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: but I mean that's that was his jam, that's what 255 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: he got paid for, and that's I mean, he was 256 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: aware that he was a little person. So off. What 257 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: about the art world, design world. There's a very famous person, 258 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: Harvey Belle, who has the perfect name for what he did. 259 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: Why is it the perfect name, Harvey bell It sounds 260 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: like the creator of the smiley face. Yeah, the iconic 261 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: seventy smiley face. He created that as a marketing campaign. UM. 262 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: It sounded like an internal um morale campaign for State 263 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: UH mutual Life Assurance company UM and it took off. 264 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if the company made the money or what. 265 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: But he was paid two forty bucks for it. And 266 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: he never had another artistic no hit. And I looked 267 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: to see if there were any other artists who were 268 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: considered one hit wondering. I found some, but I didn't 269 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: recognize any of them. I did recognize one Grant would 270 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: the painter of American Gothic. Oh yeah, he painted that 271 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: and was he won all sorts of prizes, became like 272 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: this like caused celeb like all over the art world, 273 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: and the media started digging into his life and realized 274 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: that he was a middle aged bachelor who lived at 275 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: home with his mother and sister and like wanted to 276 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: know more about that, and all of a sudden he 277 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: like just really couldn't handle the the limelight. And it's 278 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: it's a pretty sad story. I think I read an 279 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: article about it on Mental flass. It was worth reading. 280 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: So he never painted again, or I don't think he 281 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: ever kind of went for the Gusto if he didn't 282 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: just stop painting altogether. I don't remember that to the article. Well, 283 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: the art world certainly has a lot of people famous, 284 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: super famous for a single painting, but they may have been, 285 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: you know, very revered in other areas like faith no more. 286 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: That's right, the faith no more of the art world. 287 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: I told just all the scream this last trip to 288 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: New York. Oh yeah, and you were like, yeah, this 289 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: was like I can see what you're talking. I mean, 290 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: like you build something like that up in your head 291 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: see it everywhere, and then just to see the real one. 292 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: It's either going to go one of two ways. You're 293 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: gonna be underwhelmed or amazed. You know, I completely agree, 294 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: And that's been my uh, that's been what's happened to 295 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: me with art, because you know how I feel about art. 296 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: I know, how do you feel about art? I love it? 297 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: What about books? Yeah, um, To Kill a Mockingbird. Yeah, 298 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: that's the one most often cited as the one hit 299 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: wonder because Harperly wrote one book. That's some one of 300 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: those rare ones where I actually think the movie is 301 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: better than the book. And I love the book. It's 302 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: one of my favorite books of all time. And I 303 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: hadn't read it in a while, and I went back 304 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: and read it, and then I watched the movie shortly after. 305 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: I was like, holy cow, the movies better than the book. Yeah, man, 306 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: Gregory Peck, I mean yeah, talk about one of the 307 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: best casting but everybody, like, all of those actors were amazing, 308 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: every single one of them. Yeah. Yeah, that's good stuff. 309 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: She wrote, um, the one book, and she worked on 310 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: a second for a while called The Long Good Vibe, 311 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: but shelved it. Then in the nineteen eighties, she started 312 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: another book and never finished that one either, And I 313 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: guess she just procrastinated. I think she just I don't know. 314 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone has an answer why she 315 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: never wrote again. Same with the Sallenger, Yeah, Catching the Rye. 316 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 1: That was it, except he wrote short stories too, But 317 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: I mean, I think he never published another novel and 318 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: I will never know. And John Kennedy Toole, sure, Confederacy 319 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 1: dunce is, how often do you think about that book 320 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: just in your normal life? How? I don't know, Almost never? Maybe, yeah, 321 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 1: a couple of times a year, maybe when it's like 322 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 1: a movie be in the works that never happens. I 323 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: was thinking about that movie or that book yesterday and 324 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: I hadn't read this article yet. Have you read it? No? Yeah, 325 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: it's good. It's like I think a lot of people 326 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: have these expectations because it's known as his like genius 327 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: work after this guy committed suicide, and it is really good. 328 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: But um, I don't think it's like one of the 329 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 1: greatest books of all time or anything. Yeah, so what 330 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: happened to him? Do you know? No? I I just 331 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 1: I've never read the book. I don't know much about it. 332 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: I know it's kind of like a wacky Southern gothic Yeah, yeah, 333 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: um kind of novel he lived with his aunts, I think, 334 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: or something like yeah, this crazy character in Louisiana that 335 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: it's always grabbed my attention because it's just like a 336 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: perfect title. And then the guy's name is perfect as well, 337 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: John Kennedy tool yea or the character his the author 338 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: got you, well, he killed himself. He was clearly now 339 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: suffered some sort of mental illness and um, could not 340 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 1: get published and that drove him to eventually commits suicide 341 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,479 Speaker 1: in nineteen nine. And then his mother made it her 342 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: life's work to get it published and did so. And 343 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 1: then his second book was published in the On Bible 344 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: I think in six and that was made to a movie. 345 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: So he's not a one hit wonder then, well Neon 346 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 1: Bible wasn't a huge hit, but but yeah, I would 347 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: say he's a one hit wonder. Um. And you also 348 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: bring up movies too, man. Yeah, and on books again. 349 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: Sylvia Plath is on here for the bell Jar. I 350 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: kind of wish I hadn't put that in here because 351 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: she was a well known poet. That's why I hadn't 352 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: mentioned it, you know. But she did write the one book, 353 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: and then would she do stick her head in the 354 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: oven or something. I don't know how she killed herself. 355 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: I think Virginia Wolf drowned herself, right, Sylvia Plath on 356 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: herself on herself? I think did she? That sounds right. 357 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: I remember that scene in Wonder Boys where Toby McGuire 358 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: rattles off the famous celebrity suicides. It was really great. 359 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: That was a great movie. Joseph Heller with Catch twenty two. Yeah, 360 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: that's certainly a one hit wonder um. So yeah, movies, um, 361 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: I mean there more directors and actors that you could 362 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: even mention that had one hit, but legit super super hits, 363 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: people like Michael is it Chimino or Samino? Samino? I think, 364 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: although if it's if you're speaking in the Italian, it 365 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: would be Chimino. Uh. He did The Deer Hunter, of course, 366 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: one Best Picture in four other Academy Awards. Did he? Huh? 367 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: Did he? Mal? That's what they tell him when they're 368 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: like making them play Russian Roulette? Did he? Yeah, except 369 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: they probably scream it. Yeah. Yeah, that scene was so intent. 370 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: I saw that very young, really young to be seeing 371 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: that movie in retrospect it made an impression on you. Yeah, huge? 372 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: Um but yeah. He famously made Heaven's Gate Um as 373 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: his follow up, which was one of the notorious disasters 374 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: along with Ishtar. Was it like water World Skate Warren 375 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: Baby movie too? Or is that Heven Can Wait? He 376 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: was in Heaven Ken Waite and his Star, So what 377 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: about Heavens? What was that about? Yeah? I think it 378 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: was a western if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, and it 379 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: was just a notorious failure and a very expensive one. 380 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: And then Tomino never He made a few other movies, 381 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: but you haven't heard of many of them. He did 382 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: Year of the Dragon was like with Mickey Rourke, which 383 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: the only other like notable movie that was supposed to 384 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: be a good one. Yeah, but it was far from 385 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: a hit, you know what I'm saying. And then my favorite, uh, 386 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: Steve Gordon one of my favorite movies of all time. 387 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: I have not seen it. You didn't see Arthur. Not 388 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: only have I not seen the original Arthur, I haven't 389 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: seen the remake that includes our friend Hodgeman as a 390 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 1: candy store manager believer. That was terrible, by the way, 391 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: not Hosman's bit, not Hodgement was great, but the remake 392 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: was really bad, and it was so sad because Arthur 393 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 1: is one of the movies that I hold very very 394 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: dear to me. And Steve Gordon wrote and directed it 395 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 1: and then died after when it was the only movie 396 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: he ever made by his own hand. No, I think 397 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: he had a heart attack or something and died young 398 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: but young ish. Uh. And it was just so like 399 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 1: it was a gut wrenching experience watching the remake for me. 400 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: Why did you watch it? Like, for example, I think 401 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,880 Speaker 1: Red Dawn is one of my favorite movies of all time. 402 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: There's not a chance that I will ever see the 403 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: remake of Red Dawn. Well, I'm not either, And I 404 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: learned after Arthur. So yeah, so that's the one that 405 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: taught you the lesson. Yeah, I'm not gonna watch anything 406 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 1: that was really precious to me if they rebooted or 407 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: remake it again. Never again. It sounds like Hodgeman tell 408 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 1: you a valuable lesson. Yeah. And I like Russell Brand, 409 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 1: you know, and I thought, you know, they made Helen 410 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: Mirre and John Gielgood's character and was just enough of 411 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: a spin and I was like, well, that's could be interesting. 412 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: But then everything about the movie was just some new 413 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: little spin to make it different. And it was like, hey, 414 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: let's make the man a woman. Let's make the the 415 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: white guy Puerto Rican, you know, and it was like 416 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: Louis Guzman. It was just it was bad, so bad. 417 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah, Well that's it for Arthur. Yeah. Um, 418 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about Arthur, you can 419 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: type that word in this search part. Isn't that what 420 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: this podcast is about? I forgot it? Arthur One hit wonders, 421 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 1: study more. That's what it was. You should read this 422 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: article by Chuck. It's a good one. Um. You can 423 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: type one hit wonders in the search bar how stuff 424 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: works dot Com and it will bring up this article again. Uh, 425 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: commendable article. Thanks uh and I said commendable. So it's 426 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: time for word from our sponsor. Just starts so much star. 427 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: Now it's time for listening her mail Josh, I'm gonna 428 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: call this. Uh, We're gonna give this guy's wife a 429 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: tongue of my shoe. Oh jeez, what you do you'll see? Uh. 430 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: Dudes have been an avid listener since shortly after its inception. 431 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan, especially enjoy listening to it while 432 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: I'm stressed out. That always assumes the my nerves tack 433 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: her your banter. Over the years, I've tried to convince 434 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: my now wife Elizabeth to listen. Unfortunately, she's always insists 435 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: that you two are stoners and that you're ritty repartee 436 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: is contrived, that's so far off. She makes me change 437 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 1: over to this American life for radio lab great shows. 438 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: What's your podcast? I download to fill the time between 439 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: stuff you should know releases. I've repeatedly informed her that 440 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: you guys are not stoners. You've done frequent podcasts on 441 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 1: the ill effects of drugs, and this is not convinced her. 442 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 1: Still listen within me. When you read letters during listener 443 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: mail about couples who enjoy listening together, that's so sad. 444 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, one pair even became engaged during 445 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: a listener mail segment. Yeah, we don't know about that yet. 446 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: I'm not vouching for that. Um. It recently struck me 447 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: that perhaps if you were to give Elizabeth a shout 448 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: out at the end of the show, she might be 449 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: impressed enough to become a fan as well. You could 450 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: say hi to Elizabeth at the end of the show. 451 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: You'd be contributing to my marital bliss. So wait a second, way, second, 452 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: you realize what's going on here. We're being manipulated, Yeah, 453 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: to to say hey to somebody who doesn't even like us. 454 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: I know, I feel like there should be some money 455 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: exchange for this. Well, no, I feel instead of saying 456 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: hi to Elizabeth, she needs to get a tongue lashing 457 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 1: for these baseless accusations of us sitting around like in 458 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 1: a garage, smoking marijuana, woking marijuana and just like talking. Yeah, 459 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: that's b s. That's someone who's never listened to the show. 460 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 1: We have banter. We might go off on tangents and 461 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: we might say like five million times in a sentence, 462 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: but we're not sitting around smoking weed just rambling. Yeah, 463 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 1: we're just relaxed. A lot of work goes into the show. 464 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: So Elizabeth mellow out, dude, Yeah, seriously, maybe you need 465 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: to go in the garage. Not maybe. So Anyway, this 466 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: guy's a neurologist and he said the alien hand syndrome 467 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: part struck close to his heart. Awesome and devon. If 468 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: this doesn't do it, then Elizabeth, you can just go 469 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: listen to this American Life and Radio. 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