Thanks for Everything, Bing

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🗓️ 23 November 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Get in the holiday mood with this look at how Bing Crosby contributed to the rise of Silicon Valley (really).

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0:00.0	Hey, Brooke.
0:01.6	Hey, Alana.
0:02.5	How you doing?
0:03.7	All right.
0:04.7	You?
0:05.4	Pretty good.
0:06.3	Putting out this pod extra right now.
0:08.3	Right.
0:08.7	You want to know what it is?
0:09.7	I kind of do, yeah.
0:11.6	Well, it's a Thanksgiving podcast extra, and I don't want to hear any more news.
0:18.2	Okay.
0:18.5	I just want to get in the mood.
0:19.9	You know, you're the boss. We don't actually have to give anybody more news. Okay. I just want to get in the mood. You know, you're the boss. We don't actually
0:22.4	have to give anybody any news. Well, in that case, how about Bing Crosby? Let's do it. Let's do it.
0:33.0	Enjoy. Back in the early days of radio, the nation's biggest singing stars came from vaudeville where volume
0:41.0	was prized and emotion was delivered with a jackhammer i've been away from you a long time
0:47.4	i never thought i'd miss you so and then ruddy valley came, the first crooner.
0:54.9	Way soon this morning, I come knocking at your door.
1:01.2	Managing to achieve something like intimacy, even when singing through his famous megaphone.
1:07.1	He was, in fact, a mega star.
1:09.7	But the nation's most enduring, its biggest and best crooner was definitely Bing.
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