Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works
Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.
Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Say something. Um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't even say say something funny. I just said say
Speaker 1: something for us. Yeah, it's all right, man. That's good
Speaker 1: quality in a broadcaster to freeze up on the air
Speaker 1: and a professional talker. Yeah, yeah, how you doing. I'm great? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm good man. This is a fun, goofy little topic
Speaker 1: and we haven't done one like that in a while.
Speaker 1: This was a fun article written by a guy named
Speaker 1: Charles W. Bryant, a writer for the site. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: will go ahead and say one thing I was disappointed
Speaker 1: in this article, and I would still like to see
Speaker 1: someone tackle this in documentary style. Maybe is the psychology
Speaker 1: of being a one hit wonder? Oh? Like what it
Speaker 1: does to your psyche? Yeah? Is it better to have
Speaker 1: that one hit and fade away and at least you
Speaker 1: had that? Or is it better to have never? You know?
Speaker 1: I just I would be real curious to see a
Speaker 1: series of interviews with one hit wonders to see, like
Speaker 1: how they feel about it. You're saying, is it better
Speaker 1: to have hit and lost than never to have hit
Speaker 1: at all exactly, And I couldn't really find anything on that.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure there's one or two who like listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast and if you do, right in, let
Speaker 1: us know how it is. We're interested. Blue Vega, Yeah,
Speaker 1: least um the fake Loue Vega. So, Chuck, I wanted
Speaker 1: to commend you for this article because you really like
Speaker 1: this is a tough one for With how stuff works articles,
Speaker 1: we typically take a topic that is, you know, has
Speaker 1: a lot of research done on it, it's very well defined,
Speaker 1: and then we deconstruct it. This one is like I
Speaker 1: looked on the internet and if you type in one
Speaker 1: Hit Wonder, there is like zero scholarly work done on it,
Speaker 1: and for good reason. Yeah. Well, I mean it's interesting
Speaker 1: though too, Like you brought up the psychology of being
Speaker 1: a one. Yeah, they're shouldn't been anyone ever done a
Speaker 1: study like that. There is nothing. It's all just lists.
Speaker 1: And I actually did find one good website. It's called
Speaker 1: um one Hit Wonder central dot com and they have
Speaker 1: everything and you can play like every song they have
Speaker 1: it by year. Who the one hit Wonder was from
Speaker 1: like the sixties to the two thousands, maybe fifties. There
Speaker 1: are some of the greatest songs to me, or some
Speaker 1: of the one hit wonders. And I mean that's the points, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, one hit wonder is just something that everybody
Speaker 1: liked at one time. We just didn't like whatever else
Speaker 1: they were making, right, Um, at least as it's a
Speaker 1: large collective group. Anyway, back to me commending you, Um,
Speaker 1: you had to take something that was really amorphous that
Speaker 1: everybody knew and we knew if you got wrong, and
Speaker 1: whipping into shape like a definable shape, and you got
Speaker 1: it right. I think you did a great job. So Um.
Speaker 1: The first thing you pointed out was that no one
Speaker 1: is certain of the origin of this phrase. That's right,
Speaker 1: but we figured out that it was. It first came
Speaker 1: in print nine seven, right. Well that's what phrases done
Speaker 1: work says, and I couldn't find anything to dispute it.
Speaker 1: But a writer there wrote the sentence in July seventy
Speaker 1: about abba instead of becoming what everyone expected a one
Speaker 1: hit wonder, they soon had a string of hits behind them.
Speaker 1: And although the website phrase dot org does say it
Speaker 1: appears to have already been a used phrase, but this
Speaker 1: is the first time they've seen it in print, right,
Speaker 1: and and so, and there actually is like a definition
Speaker 1: for one hit wonder, like there's well, a hit, I
Speaker 1: guess you can find a hit, and then it's got
Speaker 1: to be on the because we're so American centric, has
Speaker 1: to be on the billboard top and then specifically in
Speaker 1: the top forty to be considered a hit. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: technically for like when most people like there have been
Speaker 1: books written about one hit wonders and that's usually what
Speaker 1: what they say. Okay, so that wasn't just you or
Speaker 1: anything saying. And I thought it was a great definition. No,
Speaker 1: it's a good definition. But that's the generally held definition.
Speaker 1: But then that's where it gets really blurry, as we're
Speaker 1: about to find out, right, well, in many ways, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you make a point that there's a lot of one
Speaker 1: hit wonders by that definition. Who are legendary musicians like
Speaker 1: Jimi Hendrix one hit, Janis Joplin one hit, Garth Brooks
Speaker 1: as Chris Gaines. Yeah, that's this only billboard hit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is only Billboard top forty hit. Yeah, but he
Speaker 1: had country hits. It just lived on the country top ten.
Speaker 1: But yeah, as in the mainstream top forty. His only
Speaker 1: hit was as Chris Kaines with the Haircut and the
Speaker 1: Soul patch Man. That was Yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 1: song that was even I don't need um Beck Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Dead, The Dead, the White Stripes, lou Reid, Iggy
Speaker 1: Pop Divo, some like iconic bands and musicians that have
Speaker 1: only had one hit. Um. And then you've got artists
Speaker 1: who never had that hit but are still considered one
Speaker 1: hit wonders. Because what you end up realizing is, despite
Speaker 1: the definition of what a hit is, a one hit
Speaker 1: wonder is something different. It's just an artist and a
Speaker 1: song who captured something for a moment in time. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it was a top forty hit, right
Speaker 1: like you you say, Um, Wallavoodoo's Mexican Radio. Absolutely, it's
Speaker 1: not a top forty hit. No, but that's definitely a
Speaker 1: hit in the zeitgeist. Did you put it? Absolutely? Who else?
Speaker 1: I'll melt with you Modern English, the Weather Girls, it's
Speaker 1: raining men Like you would say, all of these are
Speaker 1: definitely one hit wonders and none of them had top
Speaker 1: forty hits. Right. So, but sticking to the strict definition,
Speaker 1: um that I mean that still works too. Write like
Speaker 1: the Penguins, Earth Angel. Yeah, in the fifties, right, Um,
Speaker 1: in the sixties you had um Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer,
Speaker 1: but they really spent blue on like there one there
Speaker 1: one thing there, one shot was covered in blue Blue Cheer.
Speaker 1: Did Summertime Blues? Green Tambourine? Remember that song? No, I
Speaker 1: didn't mean tambourine. It was very like psychedelic No and
Speaker 1: the Lemon Pipers. You know, it's one of those songs
Speaker 1: where sort of like h in the seventies Argents hold
Speaker 1: your head up, like everybody knows that song. But I
Speaker 1: bet ninety nine people out of a hundred I've never
Speaker 1: heard of the vand Argent. No, they probably think, oh,
Speaker 1: wasn't that the guests who? Or wasn't that Joe Dirt?
Speaker 1: Or yes, that was it? Yeah, I really I never
Speaker 1: saw that movie. What I never saw Joe Dirt? Oh man,
Speaker 1: such a great like keep your Chin up movie is
Speaker 1: so good. Like I really can hate David Spade, you
Speaker 1: can hate all of that kind of comedy, but that
Speaker 1: movie has such like it's got heart, It's a cute movie. Well,
Speaker 1: I had friends it's on Netflix streaming. Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: friends that worked on it, and that's where I had
Speaker 1: my Gary Busey insider story. Oh yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I told you. You You know, he was He was supposed
Speaker 1: to play the father and if you'll notice in the
Speaker 1: film he does not play the father. No, it's done
Speaker 1: by one Fred Ward. Yeah. So Gary Busey was on
Speaker 1: set for a day and it didn't work out. He
Speaker 1: made it. Wish I could tell the whole story. He
Speaker 1: made it into Black Sheep with Chris Farley and um,
Speaker 1: David Spade. Yeah, he was like the crazy guy who
Speaker 1: lived in a school bus in the woods. It was
Speaker 1: the part he was born to play exactly. Please don't
Speaker 1: come to our office, Gary buy um. All right. So
Speaker 1: that was the fifty and that's generally when the rock
Speaker 1: era in the fifties is when you people say you
Speaker 1: can start talking about things like one hit wonders, like
Speaker 1: not some guy who had one big band hit in
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties, although I'm sure they were there, you
Speaker 1: know that's true. Uh, there's been one song that was
Speaker 1: a one hit wonder for two bands, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's here Funky Town really yeah, Lips incorporated
Speaker 1: eighty and then I don't know if you remember Pseudo Echo.
Speaker 1: They did a version of that in six It was
Speaker 1: a little more electric and upbeat, and that was a
Speaker 1: bona fide top forty hit as well. Seems can't people
Speaker 1: couldn't get enough of Funky Town. I hope whoever wrote
Speaker 1: that like really cast in. Yeah. So the sixties all right, Now,
Speaker 1: the sixties was the green tambour in seventies songs like
Speaker 1: Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. That's a good song. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was in Apollo thirteen one took over the line.
Speaker 1: I I literally wrote Shuggar next to that, what like,
Speaker 1: oh you hate that song? It's pretty bad? Brewer and
Speaker 1: Shipley and then Seasons in the Sun, great song, Terry
Speaker 1: Jack's never heard of the guy No No, no Revy,
Speaker 1: no rev um. And you also make the point that
Speaker 1: the seventies were lousy with disco one hit wonders, And
Speaker 1: in our disco episode we talked about why because it
Speaker 1: was all producer driven rather than artist drive. Exactly. I
Speaker 1: didn't even bother to like list any in here. You know,
Speaker 1: it's you can just name a disco song and there
Speaker 1: you have. The eighties, of course, you had bands like
Speaker 1: Soft Cells, Tainted Love and Oh Mickey You're So Fine,
Speaker 1: Tony Basil, Uh, I want Candy by Bow Wow Wow Kajau.
Speaker 1: Remember what song I don't remember is that who was? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Uh so the eighties was lousy with it, but a
Speaker 1: lot of those songs are great songs, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the artists in the eighties were popular in other countries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and are known as one hit wonder here in the US.
Speaker 1: Like I was reading an article on I think Cracked
Speaker 1: maybe about one hit wonders and they were saying, like,
Speaker 1: Aha had Take on Me, which was a hit here
Speaker 1: in the United States, but that was it. But they're
Speaker 1: like one of the top fifty grossing bands of all
Speaker 1: time worldwide. Yeah. Well, and Aha falls into another weird category,
Speaker 1: which is a band that's known as a one hit
Speaker 1: wonder who actually had a quieter second hit. Oh really Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a song called the Sun Always Shines on
Speaker 1: TV that was like a top twenty hit. I think, Wow,
Speaker 1: I don't remember that one. Nobody does. They're good though,
Speaker 1: now they're awesome. Um And then remember right said fred
Speaker 1: I'm Too Sexy huge in England. Yes, like there, I'm
Speaker 1: Too Sexy was actually only hit number two in England.
Speaker 1: They had another one that hit number one, but here
Speaker 1: in the States. I think it hit number one here
Speaker 1: and then that was it for right, said Fred. Uh
Speaker 1: the same with Frankie Goes to Hollywood and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: they were really big in Europe and Gary Newman. Yeah
Speaker 1: that was a good song though, that song holds up
Speaker 1: the car back and listen to cars. Yeah, that dude
Speaker 1: was a good musician. Well, and he was hugely popular
Speaker 1: and still like tours today. Yeah, so he's he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys that's like, please don't call me one.
Speaker 1: I wonder I had a long successful career. Look at
Speaker 1: my house. You know it's a car. No, I think
Speaker 1: it's like a mansion. He lives in his car. It's
Speaker 1: pread feels safest, he can lock all his doors. Uh.
Speaker 1: Falco and oh yeah, Nina, we're really big in German
Speaker 1: speaking countries. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. But you
Speaker 1: know had the ninety nine red balloons Balloons and then
Speaker 1: Falco's rock Me on My Dais. Yeah, huge hit here.
Speaker 1: Like it didn't occur to my young brain that that
Speaker 1: wasn't from the Ama Dais soundtrack, because remember it came
Speaker 1: out at about the same time as the movie, and um, like,
Speaker 1: I just thought it was part of the soundtrack, yeah,
Speaker 1: the movie sound Well the point with this though, is
Speaker 1: that one hit wonder it's sort of a sort of
Speaker 1: a derogatory term to throw on unearnest. So a lot
Speaker 1: of these people are like in America, like you jerks,
Speaker 1: I was huge in Europe or maybe some other country,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, who cares so much for you? One
Speaker 1: hit the nineties crash Test Dummies, remember those dudes? Well
Speaker 1: that was the song. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right, the macarena,
Speaker 1: even though I don't even like to count that. Um,
Speaker 1: what about Faith No More is epic? Yeah, see that's
Speaker 1: a band that hugely critically popular and had a big
Speaker 1: cult following. But yeah, just the one hit, the epic
Speaker 1: the name of it, right, you want it all, but
Speaker 1: you can't have it? That was I remember here that
Speaker 1: song on the first time. This is the coolest thing
Speaker 1: I've ever heard. Yeah, and that lead singer what's his name,
Speaker 1: Mike something. He's like super respected. He's been another band
Speaker 1: like Mr Uncle. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's a big like
Speaker 1: has a big cult following, and not not among cults,
Speaker 1: even like among people who aren't in cults. All right,
Speaker 1: So that's music. That's an overview. Yeah, you make a
Speaker 1: really good point in this article that, like one hit wonder,
Speaker 1: that derogatory term isn't just um aimed at people only
Speaker 1: in the music industry, although that's where the lion's share
Speaker 1: of it is, but it shows up in sports. You
Speaker 1: pointed out a couple of them, a couple of instances. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: if you have one hit in baseball, then you've been
Speaker 1: a complete and utter failure. But a couple of guys
Speaker 1: have had one hit and that one hit was a
Speaker 1: home run, which is pretty cool, which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: Who was that? There was a guy named um Chris
Speaker 1: Jellic whose name might recognize for some reason. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I don't follow the Mets or anything, but I guess
Speaker 1: I just saw that that bit of trivia before that
Speaker 1: he had one hit and it was a home run. Yeah. Maybe.
Speaker 1: So there's a guy who didn't have a hit UM
Speaker 1: named Eddie Goodell. He had one plate appearance in a
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one game for the Yankees, and he was
Speaker 1: a little person. Oh yeah, and they put him in
Speaker 1: against the St. Louis Browns and he drew four consecutive
Speaker 1: um uh balls and got a walk. Yeah, and his
Speaker 1: jerseys in the Hall of Fame, and it's you can't
Speaker 1: see me doing this right now. I'm rubbing my face.
Speaker 1: His number was one eight. Really yeah, but he was
Speaker 1: I guess you could say a one hit sports wonder.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a fun story until then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean that's that was his jam, that's what
Speaker 1: he got paid for, and that's I mean, he was
Speaker 1: aware that he was a little person. So off. What
Speaker 1: about the art world, design world. There's a very famous person,
Speaker 1: Harvey Belle, who has the perfect name for what he did.
Speaker 1: Why is it the perfect name, Harvey bell It sounds
Speaker 1: like the creator of the smiley face. Yeah, the iconic
Speaker 1: seventy smiley face. He created that as a marketing campaign. UM.
Speaker 1: It sounded like an internal um morale campaign for State
Speaker 1: UH mutual Life Assurance company UM and it took off.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the company made the money or what.
Speaker 1: But he was paid two forty bucks for it. And
Speaker 1: he never had another artistic no hit. And I looked
Speaker 1: to see if there were any other artists who were
Speaker 1: considered one hit wondering. I found some, but I didn't
Speaker 1: recognize any of them. I did recognize one Grant would
Speaker 1: the painter of American Gothic. Oh yeah, he painted that
Speaker 1: and was he won all sorts of prizes, became like
Speaker 1: this like caused celeb like all over the art world,
Speaker 1: and the media started digging into his life and realized
Speaker 1: that he was a middle aged bachelor who lived at
Speaker 1: home with his mother and sister and like wanted to
Speaker 1: know more about that, and all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: like just really couldn't handle the the limelight. And it's
Speaker 1: it's a pretty sad story. I think I read an
Speaker 1: article about it on Mental flass. It was worth reading.
Speaker 1: So he never painted again, or I don't think he
Speaker 1: ever kind of went for the Gusto if he didn't
Speaker 1: just stop painting altogether. I don't remember that to the article. Well,
Speaker 1: the art world certainly has a lot of people famous,
Speaker 1: super famous for a single painting, but they may have been,
Speaker 1: you know, very revered in other areas like faith no more.
Speaker 1: That's right, the faith no more of the art world.
Speaker 1: I told just all the scream this last trip to
Speaker 1: New York. Oh yeah, and you were like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: was like I can see what you're talking. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you build something like that up in your head
Speaker 1: see it everywhere, and then just to see the real one.
Speaker 1: It's either going to go one of two ways. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be underwhelmed or amazed. You know, I completely agree,
Speaker 1: And that's been my uh, that's been what's happened to
Speaker 1: me with art, because you know how I feel about art.
Speaker 1: I know, how do you feel about art? I love it?
Speaker 1: What about books? Yeah, um, To Kill a Mockingbird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the one most often cited as the one hit
Speaker 1: wonder because Harperly wrote one book. That's some one of
Speaker 1: those rare ones where I actually think the movie is
Speaker 1: better than the book. And I love the book. It's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite books of all time. And I
Speaker 1: hadn't read it in a while, and I went back
Speaker 1: and read it, and then I watched the movie shortly after.
Speaker 1: I was like, holy cow, the movies better than the book. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: Gregory Peck, I mean yeah, talk about one of the
Speaker 1: best casting but everybody, like, all of those actors were amazing,
Speaker 1: every single one of them. Yeah. Yeah, that's good stuff.
Speaker 1: She wrote, um, the one book, and she worked on
Speaker 1: a second for a while called The Long Good Vibe,
Speaker 1: but shelved it. Then in the nineteen eighties, she started
Speaker 1: another book and never finished that one either, And I
Speaker 1: guess she just procrastinated. I think she just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone has an answer why she
Speaker 1: never wrote again. Same with the Sallenger, Yeah, Catching the Rye.
Speaker 1: That was it, except he wrote short stories too, But
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he never published another novel and
Speaker 1: I will never know. And John Kennedy Toole, sure, Confederacy
Speaker 1: dunce is, how often do you think about that book
Speaker 1: just in your normal life? How? I don't know, Almost never? Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of times a year, maybe when it's like
Speaker 1: a movie be in the works that never happens. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about that movie or that book yesterday and
Speaker 1: I hadn't read this article yet. Have you read it? No? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good. It's like I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: have these expectations because it's known as his like genius
Speaker 1: work after this guy committed suicide, and it is really good.
Speaker 1: But um, I don't think it's like one of the
Speaker 1: greatest books of all time or anything. Yeah, so what
Speaker 1: happened to him? Do you know? No? I I just
Speaker 1: I've never read the book. I don't know much about it.
Speaker 1: I know it's kind of like a wacky Southern gothic Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: um kind of novel he lived with his aunts, I think,
Speaker 1: or something like yeah, this crazy character in Louisiana that
Speaker 1: it's always grabbed my attention because it's just like a
Speaker 1: perfect title. And then the guy's name is perfect as well,
Speaker 1: John Kennedy tool yea or the character his the author
Speaker 1: got you, well, he killed himself. He was clearly now
Speaker 1: suffered some sort of mental illness and um, could not
Speaker 1: get published and that drove him to eventually commits suicide
Speaker 1: in nineteen nine. And then his mother made it her
Speaker 1: life's work to get it published and did so. And
Speaker 1: then his second book was published in the On Bible
Speaker 1: I think in six and that was made to a movie.
Speaker 1: So he's not a one hit wonder then, well Neon
Speaker 1: Bible wasn't a huge hit, but but yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say he's a one hit wonder. Um. And you also
Speaker 1: bring up movies too, man. Yeah, and on books again.
Speaker 1: Sylvia Plath is on here for the bell Jar. I
Speaker 1: kind of wish I hadn't put that in here because
Speaker 1: she was a well known poet. That's why I hadn't
Speaker 1: mentioned it, you know. But she did write the one book,
Speaker 1: and then would she do stick her head in the
Speaker 1: oven or something. I don't know how she killed herself.
Speaker 1: I think Virginia Wolf drowned herself, right, Sylvia Plath on
Speaker 1: herself on herself? I think did she? That sounds right.
Speaker 1: I remember that scene in Wonder Boys where Toby McGuire
Speaker 1: rattles off the famous celebrity suicides. It was really great.
Speaker 1: That was a great movie. Joseph Heller with Catch twenty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's certainly a one hit wonder um. So yeah, movies, um,
Speaker 1: I mean there more directors and actors that you could
Speaker 1: even mention that had one hit, but legit super super hits,
Speaker 1: people like Michael is it Chimino or Samino? Samino? I think,
Speaker 1: although if it's if you're speaking in the Italian, it
Speaker 1: would be Chimino. Uh. He did The Deer Hunter, of course,
Speaker 1: one Best Picture in four other Academy Awards. Did he? Huh?
Speaker 1: Did he? Mal? That's what they tell him when they're
Speaker 1: like making them play Russian Roulette? Did he? Yeah, except
Speaker 1: they probably scream it. Yeah. Yeah, that scene was so intent.
Speaker 1: I saw that very young, really young to be seeing
Speaker 1: that movie in retrospect it made an impression on you. Yeah, huge?
Speaker 1: Um but yeah. He famously made Heaven's Gate Um as
Speaker 1: his follow up, which was one of the notorious disasters
Speaker 1: along with Ishtar. Was it like water World Skate Warren
Speaker 1: Baby movie too? Or is that Heven Can Wait? He
Speaker 1: was in Heaven Ken Waite and his Star, So what
Speaker 1: about Heavens? What was that about? Yeah? I think it
Speaker 1: was a western if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was just a notorious failure and a very expensive one.
Speaker 1: And then Tomino never He made a few other movies,
Speaker 1: but you haven't heard of many of them. He did
Speaker 1: Year of the Dragon was like with Mickey Rourke, which
Speaker 1: the only other like notable movie that was supposed to
Speaker 1: be a good one. Yeah, but it was far from
Speaker 1: a hit, you know what I'm saying. And then my favorite, uh,
Speaker 1: Steve Gordon one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1: I have not seen it. You didn't see Arthur. Not
Speaker 1: only have I not seen the original Arthur, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the remake that includes our friend Hodgeman as a
Speaker 1: candy store manager believer. That was terrible, by the way,
Speaker 1: not Hosman's bit, not Hodgement was great, but the remake
Speaker 1: was really bad, and it was so sad because Arthur
Speaker 1: is one of the movies that I hold very very
Speaker 1: dear to me. And Steve Gordon wrote and directed it
Speaker 1: and then died after when it was the only movie
Speaker 1: he ever made by his own hand. No, I think
Speaker 1: he had a heart attack or something and died young
Speaker 1: but young ish. Uh. And it was just so like
Speaker 1: it was a gut wrenching experience watching the remake for me.
Speaker 1: Why did you watch it? Like, for example, I think
Speaker 1: Red Dawn is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1: There's not a chance that I will ever see the
Speaker 1: remake of Red Dawn. Well, I'm not either, And I
Speaker 1: learned after Arthur. So yeah, so that's the one that
Speaker 1: taught you the lesson. Yeah, I'm not gonna watch anything
Speaker 1: that was really precious to me if they rebooted or
Speaker 1: remake it again. Never again. It sounds like Hodgeman tell
Speaker 1: you a valuable lesson. Yeah. And I like Russell Brand,
Speaker 1: you know, and I thought, you know, they made Helen
Speaker 1: Mirre and John Gielgood's character and was just enough of
Speaker 1: a spin and I was like, well, that's could be interesting.
Speaker 1: But then everything about the movie was just some new
Speaker 1: little spin to make it different. And it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's make the man a woman. Let's make the the
Speaker 1: white guy Puerto Rican, you know, and it was like
Speaker 1: Louis Guzman. It was just it was bad, so bad.
Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah, Well that's it for Arthur. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about Arthur, you can
Speaker 1: type that word in this search part. Isn't that what
Speaker 1: this podcast is about? I forgot it? Arthur One hit wonders,
Speaker 1: study more. That's what it was. You should read this
Speaker 1: article by Chuck. It's a good one. Um. You can
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Speaker 1: my now wife Elizabeth to listen. Unfortunately, she's always insists
Speaker 1: that you two are stoners and that you're ritty repartee
Speaker 1: is contrived, that's so far off. She makes me change
Speaker 1: over to this American life for radio lab great shows.
Speaker 1: What's your podcast? I download to fill the time between
Speaker 1: stuff you should know releases. I've repeatedly informed her that
Speaker 1: you guys are not stoners. You've done frequent podcasts on
Speaker 1: the ill effects of drugs, and this is not convinced her.
Speaker 1: Still listen within me. When you read letters during listener
Speaker 1: mail about couples who enjoy listening together, that's so sad.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, one pair even became engaged during
Speaker 1: a listener mail segment. Yeah, we don't know about that yet.
Speaker 1: I'm not vouching for that. Um. It recently struck me
Speaker 1: that perhaps if you were to give Elizabeth a shout
Speaker 1: out at the end of the show, she might be
Speaker 1: impressed enough to become a fan as well. You could
Speaker 1: say hi to Elizabeth at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: You'd be contributing to my marital bliss. So wait a second, way, second,
Speaker 1: you realize what's going on here. We're being manipulated, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to to say hey to somebody who doesn't even like us.
Speaker 1: I know, I feel like there should be some money
Speaker 1: exchange for this. Well, no, I feel instead of saying
Speaker 1: hi to Elizabeth, she needs to get a tongue lashing
Speaker 1: for these baseless accusations of us sitting around like in
Speaker 1: a garage, smoking marijuana, woking marijuana and just like talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's b s. That's someone who's never listened to the show.
Speaker 1: We have banter. We might go off on tangents and
Speaker 1: we might say like five million times in a sentence,
Speaker 1: but we're not sitting around smoking weed just rambling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just relaxed. A lot of work goes into the show.
Speaker 1: So Elizabeth mellow out, dude, Yeah, seriously, maybe you need
Speaker 1: to go in the garage. Not maybe. So Anyway, this
Speaker 1: guy's a neurologist and he said the alien hand syndrome
Speaker 1: part struck close to his heart. Awesome and devon. If
Speaker 1: this doesn't do it, then Elizabeth, you can just go
Speaker 1: listen to this American Life and Radio. Let her hang
Speaker 1: out with ire A Glass, and I'm sorry for your
Speaker 1: marriage because it is clearly clearly headed in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: I think we had her until just that last things
Speaker 1: right there. No, she's great on Churchill partial to man Um.
Speaker 1: We'll find out. Let us know, Devon, will you if
Speaker 1: you want us to say something specific to somebody you know? Um,
Speaker 1: we very well might do it if you ask it.
Speaker 1: Might we have before? Um. You can tweet to us
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