CLASSIC: The FBI's Quest to Understand "Louie, Louie"

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Kingsmen's cover of "Louie, Louie" is one of the world's most famously unintelligible songs -- and this haunted the FBI. In this episode, Ben and Noel recount the evolution of "Louie, Louie", as well as Uncle Sam's insanely thorough (and hilariously unsuccessful) attempt to figure out the song's lyrics. The guys also rack up some extra credit with their special guest Christopher Hassiotis, who introduces them to the wide, wide world of "Louie, Louie" cover songs across multiple musical genres.

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0:00.0	Louie, Louie.
0:02.2	Bah,
0:02.7	blah,
0:03.7	la la la la ba.
0:05.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:06.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:07.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:07.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:09.3	All right, so the FBI is super
0:12.4	weird
0:14.0	about some things, right?
0:15.7	They're very smart.
0:17.1	They're very accomplished.
0:18.6	They make a lot of lists.
0:20.1	And they also have a myopic focus at times on pop culture.
0:26.4	Noel, you and I were just sort of doing a, I would say, a rendition of a song by the Kingsman called Louis, Louis.
0:36.2	Yeah.
0:36.5	And the aforementioned FBI was often looking for the enemies, I guess, of these
0:42.4	United States and places that might seem a little odd, including popular music.
0:47.2	So we're going to hear a bunch of examples of the song, Louis, Louis, in this special episode
0:52.0	where Christopher Osiotis is not only here in spirit,
0:54.6	but here in the flesh.
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