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OK, so who is Eric Clapton? 

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You know, we talked about him. 
He's a great guitarist, but what

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else? 
And I just want to say for my 

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sources in case anybody wants to
know or you want more 

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information, I watched the Eric 
Clapton Life and 12 bars 

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documentary. 
I used the George Harrison the 

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Reluctant Beatle by Norman, 
Philip Norman book excerpts from

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Wonderful Tonight by Patty Boyd 
and Eric Clapton, the 

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autobiography and some other 
online sources. 

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OK, so Eric Clapton, I I would 
say that he is a man, or at 

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least he was when he was young. 
He was a man obsessed, OK, like 

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obsessed with the guitar and 
it's impressive like his brain, 

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I would say was completely 
synced with the fret board. 

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Like he knew every single sound 
that was possible. 

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Like wherever he put his finger 
in, it's it's very impressive. 

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And I do think that to be that 
good. 

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He was very obsessed in like a 
whiplash Black Swan kind of way.

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Yeah. 
And I mean, this is me just 

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inferring. 
I don't know him, but it just 

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seems that way. 
And I think that he brought that

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obsession to his love life as 
well. 

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And obsession is a concept that 
I have always been interested 

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in. 
And I like movies and stories 

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about people that are obsessed, 
especially with love too. 

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Like I enjoy reading about 
people that have these like over

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the top declarations of love, 
even though in real life maybe I

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would be kind of worded out by 
it. 

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I don't know why that is. 
I think maybe. 

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I mean, I have felt obsessed 
with people before. 

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So I think seeing somebody 
express that is, yeah, exciting 

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to me. 
How would? 

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You like define obsessed like 
there's like different levels of

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it, of course. 
Yeah, just. 

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Like you've never been like Joe.
Level. 

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With anybody from. 
You. 

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Goldberg I. 
Mean. 

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But you've been obsessed with, 
like, Robert Pattinson, Like, 

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yeah, idolizing someone. 
Yeah. 

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And I would even say like guys I
liked in high school or 

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whatever, I would say I was 
obsessed with. 

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I wouldn't really express it, 
but I would think about them all

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the time, you know, writing my 
journal and stuff and be like 

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pining. 
And I know that's something. 

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It was embarrassing. 
Yeah, I like sometimes like when

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I really would like a guy would 
think about them all the time 

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and. 
Yeah. 

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But then thinking like am I 
obsessed and obsessed if like 

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has a negative connotation? 
And then feeling like, Oh my 

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God, am I crazy? 
Because I like, yeah, keep 

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thinking about this person 
non-stop. 

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Yes. 
So I feel kind of a little solid

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reading about, like, Eric 
Clapton being so obsessed 'cause

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I don't think I've gone as far 
as him or anything, but it's 

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like, comforting in a weird way.
But we'll get into it. 

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Yeah. 
It's very human. 

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I've even wanted to cover like, 
Napoleon, for instance. 

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And I know he's like a 
problematic historic figure, but

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like, he was, I would say, 
obsessed with his wife. 

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And like, the letters he wrote 
were just like, absurd. 

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And I, I don't know. 
I love reading stuff like that. 

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But anyway, Eric Clapton, He was
born March 30th, 1945 in Ripley,

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Surrey, England. 
Coming up, why do you go? 

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Oh, he's. 
Coming up, he's birthday boy, 

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birthday mom. 
Who else's birthday? 

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Maybe when he's actually comes 
out it will be past his 

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birthday, I don't know. 
But anyway, happy birthday. 

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Happy. 
Birthday Eric Clapton. 

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He is actually two years younger
than George and one year younger

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than Patty and all all three of 
them were born sort of around 

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the same time of year. 
Like George was February, Patty 

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and Eric were both March. 
So I find that interesting. 

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When Eric was nine years old, he
learned that his older sister, 

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who lived in Canada, was 
actually his mother. 

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Hasn't this happened before on 
our show? 

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I don't. 
Know has it I? 

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Don't know, I feel like it was 
John Lennon. 

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No, it was that his mom, like, 
lived closer than he thought. 

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But someone, oh, Priscilla, 
Elvis's wife, she thought her 

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adopted dad was her real dad 
until she was like, 13 or 

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something. 
Her dad had died. 

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But yeah, Eric's mother had been
a teenager when she had him, and

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they just decided it would be 
better if he thought his 

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grandmother was his mom. 
Wow. 

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Would you guys do that? 
Yeah, you will. 

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What? 
No poll. 

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Question 4% said yeah. 
If your. 

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Teenage daughter got pregnant, 
would you be agreeable to 

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pretending like the child was 
yours if she said mom? 

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Please no. 
OK, I. 

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Think our mom would say yes? 
My mom would say yes. 

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My mom had said she'd be happy 
to do that. 

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I. 
Literally. 

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I wouldn't do it though. 
I think it would be tough for 

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the child to learn the truth of 
it. 

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Yeah, it was really hard for him
when his real mom came back to 

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England from Canada. 
She had two more kids with her. 

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And, you know, it was told to 
him like, she's actually your 

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mom. 
And, you know, he felt like his 

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whole life was a lie. 
And he, I was also thinking 

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about, like, gosh, how would you
deal with this at school? 

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Like, you know, some kids might 
know your mom and like, maybe 

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you wouldn't tell them, but then
it would feel like you have a 

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secret. 
I don't know. 

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I feel like it'd be so intense. 
But he asked his mother if she 

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was going to be his mom now, and
she said no, it's going to stay 

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the way it was. 
And Eric felt extremely rejected

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and abandoned by her. 
Like his whole world was upside 

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down. 
I feel like this really 

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profoundly affected him for the 
rest of his life. 

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I don't know if you know the 
answer or not, but did he treat 

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his half brothers as like 
cousins or like I? 

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Don't know. 
I don't know about when he's 

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older, but when he was younger, 
I don't think they had that much

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of a relationship. 
I know he went to visit them at 

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some point when he was a 
teenager and he really felt like

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he didn't fit in at all. 
I was just about to say that 

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Eric was sort of. 
What so nieces and nephews? 

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I was for some reason, very 
confused. 

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Not cousins. 
Nieces and nephews, yeah. 

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Yeah, so he would have thought 
those were his sister's kids, 

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but they were his. 
Siblings half. 

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Siblings. 
But you know who this happened 

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to? 
Sorry, I looked it up 'cause I 

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couldn't help myself. 
Not someone we covered, but Ted 

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Bundy. 
Oh. 

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My God. 
Harry, not someone we covered. 

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Yeah, Jack Nicholson, so the. 
Same thing. 

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Had this happened to him too? 
Who? 

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John Nicholson. 
Wow. 

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OK, I prefer the John Nicholson 
example. 

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