#158 The Case of the Missing Hit

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, completely scrubbed from the internet. PJ takes on the Super Tech Support case. Further Listening: Christian Lee Hutson’s music : https://open.spotify.com/track/3g8nKpXsQtXv0lcN4UGVGs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimla, this is reply all.
0:06.6	I'm PJ vote.
0:07.6	And I'm Alex school.
0:11.2	So Alex, I'm going to tell you a story that I think you sort of remember but maybe
0:17.7	don't know all the details of.
0:19.4	Okay.
0:20.4	So last spring, I went to a therapist because I was having a hard time with a bunch of
0:25.2	stuff.
0:26.2	And I was complaining to this therapist and I was like, yeah, I'm just like so obsessed
0:29.1	with this.
0:30.1	I can't say something about this.
0:31.5	And the therapist said something to me that no therapist ever said before.
0:34.4	He was like, have you ever considered the idea that you might have OCD?
0:37.7	Yes, I do remember this.
0:39.4	And at the time, I was like, I definitely don't like whatever else is going on with me.
0:44.2	I definitely don't have OCD.
0:45.6	Like, there's no part of my life that's about compulsive neatness or order.
0:49.8	Like I might like walking pig pen.
0:52.0	I can attest to the truthfulness of that statement.
0:54.9	But what the guy said, he was like, well, there's a kind of OCD called pure O where you don't
1:00.0	really have noticeable visible compulsions instead, you're just extremely, extremely obsessive.
1:05.3	Okay.
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