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Kim Komando Today

The man behind Yahoo's famous yodel

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In the '90s, Wylie Gustafson recorded a yodel heard 'round the world: The famous "Ya-hoo-ooo" no doubt stuck in your head every time you read the company's name. He was paid just a few hundred dollars to record that famous clip ... until he sued Yahoo. Kim and Wylie talk about his iconic voice and the Super Bowl ad that kicked off his battle to get what he was owed.

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0:00.0

Kim Commando, Kim Commando, she's a lady, she's a lady, she's a lady who we love.

0:08.6

Welcome to Commando on Demand Insider with Kim Commando, your fast-paced weekly update straight from Kim's desk to your ears.

0:15.6

I'm Mike James, and there are several types of yodeling.

0:19.3

Now, why are we talking about yodeling during a digital lifestyle podcast?

0:24.9

Well, it's all going to come together here in just a few moments.

0:28.1

First of all, there's good old cowboy yodeling.

0:42.5

There's also traditional German yodeling. Jule even has her own yodel.

0:57.3

There's even something called Northern Montana yodling. How does all this come together with the digital lifestyle?

1:32.1

As he does from the stage, here's Wiley Gustafson to explain.

1:36.3

Back in 1996, I came up with a little three-note yodel for a small company.

1:42.3

Then they were very small.

1:47.0

They were named Yahoo they still are small startup company and they still named Yahoo and they had the three

1:51.1

notes that they made pretty famous they go like this you may have heard those three notes.

2:04.4

They're my only hit.

2:07.1

It's a short song, but a successful song.

2:10.0

But we wrote a song about it.

2:11.2

It's called The Yodlin Thule.

2:12.7

It goes just like this.

2:15.9

So today, we talked to Wiley and his amazing story of how he became the Yahoo Yoller.

2:24.5

He eventually sued the company and then he went to work for the company at one point.

2:29.9

The whole story is coming up next on Commando on Demand.

2:33.5

And by the way, this is not the Kim Commando show.

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