S4 Ep332: The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet & Small Talk Convo Starters
An Acquired Taste Podcast
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5.0 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
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Looking for a good, old-fashioned mystery that you can’t Google your way out of? Bethany is bringing the tale of “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet,” a post-punk song from 1984 that someone in Germany taped off the radio and has been trying to ID since. Have you heard it before? Can you solve this mystery once and for all? Then, since we’re all getting back together - and we’re super rusty at conversation - Kathleen is bringing some unique small talk conversation starters to class! Also, remember: you’re not a doctor unless you’re a doctor.
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THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT:
Panic (TV SHOW) - on Amazon Prime
Harper's Island (TV SHOW) - on Pluto TV
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BETHANY’S SOURCES:
The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGf4liO-KQ&t=2s
Isolated vocals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIQ17E5y53M
Justin Whang’s videos:
ORIGINAL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90JvgNQicp0
UPDATE 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-55pGtFL_o
UPDATE 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vC0a1LlSHw
Alvin Dean voice comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDxKHuydt4c
http://retrodangerzone.com/most-mysterious-song-internet/
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mdi02/til_an_80s_pop_song_has_been_online_since_2002/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/?f=flair_name%3A%22Announcement%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Mysterious_Song_on_the_Internet
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/jgzuxy/about_sim_and_alvin_dean/
Mike Mills cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb9bbvMJ6QM
2 hour loop of song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEtoYO_1uEk
KATHLEEN’S SOURCES:
https://www.gifts.com/blog/conversation-starters
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Absolutely. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That was the weird absolute |
| 0:05.8 | Absolutely. Yeah |
| 0:11.8 | Remiss |
| 0:14.7 | I'm on a new medication and I think it's making me |
| 0:19.1 | I would have been a Ted Bundy victim. Yeah, I had no idea that's so many people out there fault the same way I died |
| 0:25.2 | Hello, now I want a peanut collada and a quiet taste |
| 0:31.7 | Hello, this is an acquired taste podcast. I'm Kathleen Heaney, your attending parties and acting very awkward |
| 0:39.4 | Most of my plants died when I moved. I never feel like making dinner. So I've eaten traitor Joe's cut show a pet |
| 0:46.0 | Bay three nights in a row and I'm Bethany Watson your |
| 0:49.6 | Melatonin requiring coconut yogurt eating. I'm watching Harper's Island and I only have two episodes left |
| 0:57.1 | And so all I'm doing the rest of the day is finishing those two episodes friend |
| 1:01.6 | And every week Bethany and I meet up to discuss our lives with Weird in the world |
| 1:06.2 | And we invite you to join us this week. We're talking about the most mysterious song on the internet come again |
| 1:12.6 | This is a song that people have been trying to figure out who it's by |
| 1:17.4 | Hmm what it's called okay, and what the deal is since |
| 1:22.6 | 2007 roughly okay the song is from the 80s and as of today |
| 1:28.8 | No one has been able to figure out what the hell this song is and we have the full song |
| 1:36.0 | We're gonna talk about it. I love a good musical mystery. Yeah. Yeah, so we're gonna talk about all of that |
| 1:41.2 | What about you Kathleen? What are you talking about? I am talking about small talk icebreakers to help you socialize |
| 1:46.6 | Like a normal human being again Kathleen. I know. I'm so glad you're talking about this because I was thinking last night |
| 1:54.9 | Why is this so hard? Yeah, I know. Why is it so hard to talk to people and it's worse now that we haven't had any practice for over a year |
| 2:04.3 | Well, even on the today's show this morning |
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