The FBI's Quest to Understand 'Louie, Louie'

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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	Oh yeah, you know what that sound means.
0:29.2	Oh
0:49.0	bopрудe
0:58.8	feed
1:02.9	wait is produce just fry I'm
1:06.2	know large King Salman this is
1:09.3	here we are
1:15.5	CPU
1:17.3	a
1:19.3	but no why are we playing
1:21.3	Louis Louis today because you
1:23.3	see Ben Louis Louis has a bit
1:25.3	of a sorted past the song this
1:28.3	version in particular by the
1:30.3	King's man in that it was
1:32.3	investigated by none of the
1:34.3	then the federal bureau of
1:35.3	investigation for being
1:37.3	potentially obscene and if you
1:39.3	couldn't tell by our rambling
1:41.3	sing along the beginning of the
1:42.3	show this is kind of a bit of a
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