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Just what you mean to me.

Hey, everybody.

This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Popchart History.

Welcome to The Bridge.

I'm talking.

I'm telling me that you. Good love and love it. The Bridge.

That's the B.G.'s Jive Talking, a number one hit in the summer of 1975.

We're playing this song not only as a final callback to our latest episode, which is about the Brothers Gibb, but also because this song was written while Barry Gibb was crossing a bridge

in Miami, Florida. As I described in the episode, the rhythm of the slats on the Julia

Tuttle Causeway connecting Miami to Biscayne Bay made its way into this irresistible

single. In the BG's career, this hit was a bridge to the Gibbs' new phase as disco kings.

And as always, these mini episodes bridge are full-length monthly episodes,

and give us a chance to catch up with our listeners and enjoy some trivia.

This month, I'm delighted to be joined by a Slate podcasting Lumin, host of the Daily Podcast, The Gist, my friend, Mike Peska.

Hello, Mike.

Well, thank you for having me, Chris.

Now, I have a follow-up question here.

Shoot.

Can we forensically go back to Jive talking and find out if they were speeding over the Julia Tuttle Causeway? Can we isolate the rate of speed? So it's interesting you mentioned that because I have heard that the rhythm that the BGs

use at the beginning of drive talk in clearly indicates they were speeding over the bridge because

it only makes that tricka, tricka sound if you go above the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit.

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