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Hope you enjoy. Oh yeah, I was going to quote
Paul Simon. Oh.
About this losing love is like a window in your heart.
Everyone sees you're blown apart, everyone sees the wind
blow oh, can't you relate to that?
But yes, today we are talking about Paul Simon the singer, the
1/2 of Simon and Garfunkel and solo artist in his own right and
Carrie Fisher. Yes, we are still on the the
family tree of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth
Taylor and that whole thing. But Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon
have their own love story, you know, that deserves its episode
even if they weren't related to them.
And Carrie Fisher of course is an actress.
She was Princess Leia and Star Wars and is also a writer and
and many other things. Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher.
This is this is random, but I started feeling like this
couple, it was reminding me of Jack Antonoff and Lena Dunham.
Oh, I feel like that's their modern day counterpart because
OK, first of all, Paul Simon and Jack Antonoff, both musicians,
both Jewish, both from New Jersey originally, I think they
both look kind of similar. And the women, Carrie Fisher and
Lena Dunham are both very funny and they both have dealt with
mental illness. Oh, you're right.
And rehab and things like that. And also both writers, both very
talented writers and comedic writers.
And then there's also a Lorde connection because if you guys
remember, Lorde showed up in the You know, I'm Jack Antonoff
episode. Rumors of how she connects.
She connects because in her song Loveless, there's a short clip
of someone saying, what is this tape?
This is my favorite tape, and it's Paul Simon.
Oh yeah. What is this tape?
This is my favorite tape, so it's kind of a stretch.
Oh, I was getting that that confused with the Billie Eilish
one where it's like Steve. Carell, no, But yeah, So, So
keep that in mind if you want. But if I had to describe this
couple in three words, as we do, I would say indecisive.
Oh, oh, yeah. Laughter and troubled.
Oh. OK, you gave us this.
You gave us a little sandwich. There Yep, this is an on and off
again relationship, so I'm going to want to pull up that poll
again where we asked people about.
Yeah, let's see how that. How many times it's OK to break
up? We'll look at it later when
maybe when they start to break up spoiler, but that does
happen. Wait, he really did look like
Jack Antonoff. He's young.
I'm looking at it now. Yeah.
He's a really cute. I think he's a little bit better
looking than Jack Antonoff. He is cute.
Wait, I think. I could have fallen for him.
Oh, me too. Wait, I think Garfunkel's pretty
cute too. Yeah, he's got that like, wild
hair. Yeah, but he's a really cute
face. I mean, OK, I I want to hear
about this. OK, so who is Paul Simon?
He's 1/2 of Simon Garfunkel, the folk rock duo from the 60s if
you forgot who that was or something.
He he's short as well. He is even shorter than Carrie
Fisher's father, who we have talked about recently, Eddie
Fisher. Paul Simon is only 5 foot three.
What? I never realized that.
Me neither. Wow.
Well, he stands tall because. He's he's little he is AI think
very cute New York accent. He was born in Newark, NJ but
his family moved to Queens. So that's where he grew up when
he was little. And he was born October 13th
1941. So he's 82 today I think.
And his parents were Hungarian, Jewish.
His father, Louis, or Louis, you never know how people pronounce
that name, was a professor of education at City College of New
York. But he also was a double bass
player and dance band leader who performed.
So that's probably where Paul got his musical influence.
And his mother, Belle, was an elementary school teacher.
His young and Queen's baseball and music were very important to
him. And he met Art Garfunkel when he
was 10 years old. And Paul said his relationship
recently, he said that his relationship with Art is the
longest relationship that I had in my life.
And they began singing together at age 13.
And their first song together as teenagers was called Hey
Schoolgirl, which came out in 1957.
And it was apparently a neighborhood hit.
So Paul had learned guitar and started writing songs.
And they were, you know, teenagers already recording
music together, which is pretty cool.
But then Paul went to Queen's College, where he majored in
English, and Garfunkel went to Columbia to study mathematics.
So I think during college, they kind of stopped recording music
together. They did graduate from college.
Paul graduated in 1963. I feel like often on this show,
people don't graduate. So, yeah, impressive.
But during college, Paul had continued writing songs all
throughout. And then he did one semester at
Brooklyn Law School, but he didn't continue, thank God,
because probably wouldn't have his beautiful music if he did.
So him and Art Garfunkel got back to recording music
together, and their debut album came out in 1964.
Called Wednesday Morning, 3:00 AM.
And it wasn't a hit. Initially, it really went
unnoticed. But then about a year later,
somebody remixed the song Sound of Silence, added like, drums to
it and a bass, whatever. And then that became a hit, and
then people revisited the album and from there on they became
famous. All right, I will have to stop
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