00:04I think we all know this song from Rupert Holmes.
00:13I went on a date one time. This is a true story. In college. I'm not sure why she drove
00:20on the date.
00:21She picked me up though. I think she was living off campus and I was living on campus.
00:24Anyway, she picked me up and she played this song on repeat the entire time we were in the car.
00:30On repeat. And I said, she goes, isn't this a great song? Yeah, the first three times.
00:37That would be a little bit much.
00:38Yeah, sorry. Go ahead.
00:39Well, most of us know this as the Pina Colada song.
00:42That's right.
00:43The name of the song is called Escape.
00:45That's right, it is.
00:45Now, the original lyrics Rupert Holmes had put in were, if you like Humphrey Bogart and getting caught in the
00:56rain.
00:57He was a huge Humphrey Bogart fan.
00:59And a lot of his songs on his other albums had a lot of reference to Humphrey Bogart.
01:05Literally at the last minute, he decided to change the lyrics to Pina Colada.
01:11Yes, somebody got in his ear and said, dude, we can't sell this song.
01:14Right, it's Pina Colada.
01:16Bogart, really.
01:17Well, then as the song was being, got so popular, you know, radio stations started playing it,
01:22people were asking for the Pina Colada song.
01:25And nobody, and they couldn't, like, they were, you know, trying to figure out, you know, what's the Pina Colada
01:29song?
01:29Yeah.
01:30Because it was called Escape.
01:32So record companies and his record label made, or radio stations and the record label,
01:37made him change the name to Escape the Pina Colada song because nobody could find it.
01:43And he goes, you're losing money because you won't change the name of the song because nobody can figure out
01:47what it is.
01:47They're like, stop losing money.
01:49Just change the dang name of the song.
01:51So there you go.
01:52I love that.
01:52I'll share it a little bit one more time.
01:53Are you going to hear it again?
01:54All right, we can do that.
01:55If you like Pina Colada.
01:57So much better than Humphrey Bogart.
01:59Getting caught in the rain.
02:01I like that.
02:01I like Humphrey Bogart.
02:02If you're not into yoga.
02:04Why would you put that in the song?
02:06If you have half a brain.
02:07So now you know.
02:08There we go.
02:09Now I do know.
02:09Pina Colada song.
02:09Thank you for that.
02:10All right.
02:11This is kind of super weird.
02:13We all know Tickle Me Elmo.
02:15Yes.
02:16The inventor of Tickle Me Elmo, did you know, was a Unabomber suspect.
02:21Oh, boy.
02:22That's not good.
02:22The FBI talked to him for over six months due to many coincidences that linked him to the Unabomber,
02:31the inventor of Tickle Me Elmo.
02:33Oh, wow.
02:34But obviously he was cleared, but that wasn't until Ted Kaczynski was arrested.
02:39But he was a suspect.
02:41What are you making in there?
02:43Tickle Me Elmo.
02:44Elmo.
02:46You're not making bombs, are you?
02:48No.
02:49No, literally, you can tickle this doll and it will laugh.
02:52Yeah.
02:53Likely story, pal.
02:55There's your car line fun fact.
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