The Backstory: The guy that connected us all
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Imagine a world with no internet. Head back 30 years or so and you’ll see how the world wide web changed everything about how we communicate, learn, bank, socialize, and entertain ourselves. And we have one kind of geeky guy to thank.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever wonder what it would be like if you didn't have the internet? |
| 0:04.0 | I mean, really, we take it for granted, but it has changed everything about how we live our lives. |
| 0:09.0 | Think about it. |
| 0:10.0 | Online shopping, food delivery, I love both of those. |
| 0:13.0 | Social media, not to mention sending email, paying bills, actually banking in general. |
| 0:19.0 | News, education, entertainment, like music, movies, television, |
| 0:22.8 | are all at our fingertips because of the internet. |
| 0:26.1 | What would our lives be like without it? |
| 0:28.7 | Now consider this. |
| 0:30.0 | The thing that gives us easy access to all of this was developed by one geeky guy who was a train spotter as a little boy. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Patty Steele. |
| 0:43.4 | Tim Berners-Lee, the nerdy kid who gave us the World Wide Web. |
| 0:44.9 | Next on the backstory. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm Mark Seal. |
| 0:49.4 | And I'm Nathan King. |
| 0:51.7 | This is Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli. |
| 0:54.9 | The five families did not want us to shoot that picture. |
| 1:00.1 | Leave the gun, Take the Canoli is based on my co-host Mark's best-selling book of the same title. |
| 1:05.1 | And on this show, we call upon his years of research to help unpack the story behind the godfather's birth from start to finish. |
| 1:06.7 | This is really the first interview I've done in bed. |
| 1:10.3 | We sift through innumerable accounts. |
| 1:12.7 | I see 35 pages, very much. |
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