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Hey guys, this is Mel. 
If you're listening to this, you

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Hope you enjoy. 
Oh yeah, I was going to quote 

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Paul Simon. 
Oh. 

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About this losing love is like a
window in your heart. 

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Everyone sees you're blown 
apart, everyone sees the wind 

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blow oh, can't you relate to 
that? 

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But yes, today we are talking 
about Paul Simon the singer, the

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1/2 of Simon and Garfunkel and 
solo artist in his own right and

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Carrie Fisher. 
Yes, we are still on the the 

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family tree of Eddie Fisher and 
Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth 

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Taylor and that whole thing. 
But Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon

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have their own love story, you 
know, that deserves its episode 

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even if they weren't related to 
them. 

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And Carrie Fisher of course is 
an actress. 

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She was Princess Leia and Star 
Wars and is also a writer and 

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and many other things. 
Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher. 

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This is this is random, but I 
started feeling like this 

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couple, it was reminding me of 
Jack Antonoff and Lena Dunham. 

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Oh, I feel like that's their 
modern day counterpart because 

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OK, first of all, Paul Simon and
Jack Antonoff, both musicians, 

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both Jewish, both from New 
Jersey originally, I think they 

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both look kind of similar. 
And the women, Carrie Fisher and

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Lena Dunham are both very funny 
and they both have dealt with 

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mental illness. 
Oh, you're right. 

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And rehab and things like that. 
And also both writers, both very

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talented writers and comedic 
writers. 

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And then there's also a Lorde 
connection because if you guys 

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remember, Lorde showed up in the
You know, I'm Jack Antonoff 

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episode. 
Rumors of how she connects. 

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She connects because in her song
Loveless, there's a short clip 

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of someone saying, what is this 
tape? 

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This is my favorite tape, and 
it's Paul Simon. 

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Oh yeah. 
What is this tape? 

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This is my favorite tape, so 
it's kind of a stretch. 

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Oh, I was getting that that 
confused with the Billie Eilish 

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one where it's like Steve. 
Carell, no, But yeah, So, So 

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keep that in mind if you want. 
But if I had to describe this 

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couple in three words, as we do,
I would say indecisive. 

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Oh, oh, yeah. 
Laughter and troubled. 

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Oh. 
OK, you gave us this. 

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You gave us a little sandwich. 
There Yep, this is an on and off

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again relationship, so I'm going
to want to pull up that poll 

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again where we asked people 
about. 

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Yeah, let's see how that. 
How many times it's OK to break 

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up? 
We'll look at it later when 

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maybe when they start to break 
up spoiler, but that does 

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happen. 
Wait, he really did look like 

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Jack Antonoff. 
He's young. 

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I'm looking at it now. 
Yeah. 

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He's a really cute. 
I think he's a little bit better

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looking than Jack Antonoff. 
He is cute. 

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Wait, I think. 
I could have fallen for him. 

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Oh, me too. 
Wait, I think Garfunkel's pretty

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cute too. 
Yeah, he's got that like, wild 

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hair. 
Yeah, but he's a really cute 

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face. 
I mean, OK, I I want to hear 

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about this. 
OK, so who is Paul Simon? 

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He's 1/2 of Simon Garfunkel, the
folk rock duo from the 60s if 

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you forgot who that was or 
something. 

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He he's short as well. 
He is even shorter than Carrie 

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Fisher's father, who we have 
talked about recently, Eddie 

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Fisher. 
Paul Simon is only 5 foot three.

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What? 
I never realized that. 

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Me neither. 
Wow. 

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Well, he stands tall because. 
He's he's little he is AI think 

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very cute New York accent. 
He was born in Newark, NJ but 

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his family moved to Queens. 
So that's where he grew up when 

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he was little. 
And he was born October 13th 

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1941. 
So he's 82 today I think. 

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And his parents were Hungarian, 
Jewish. 

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His father, Louis, or Louis, you
never know how people pronounce 

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that name, was a professor of 
education at City College of New

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York. 
But he also was a double bass 

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player and dance band leader who
performed. 

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So that's probably where Paul 
got his musical influence. 

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And his mother, Belle, was an 
elementary school teacher. 

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His young and Queen's baseball 
and music were very important to

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him. 
And he met Art Garfunkel when he

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was 10 years old. 
And Paul said his relationship 

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recently, he said that his 
relationship with Art is the 

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longest relationship that I had 
in my life. 

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And they began singing together 
at age 13. 

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And their first song together as
teenagers was called Hey 

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Schoolgirl, which came out in 
1957. 

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And it was apparently a 
neighborhood hit. 

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So Paul had learned guitar and 
started writing songs. 

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And they were, you know, 
teenagers already recording 

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music together, which is pretty 
cool. 

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But then Paul went to Queen's 
College, where he majored in 

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English, and Garfunkel went to 
Columbia to study mathematics. 

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So I think during college, they 
kind of stopped recording music 

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together. 
They did graduate from college. 

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Paul graduated in 1963. 
I feel like often on this show, 

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people don't graduate. 
So, yeah, impressive. 

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But during college, Paul had 
continued writing songs all 

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throughout. 
And then he did one semester at 

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Brooklyn Law School, but he 
didn't continue, thank God, 

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because probably wouldn't have 
his beautiful music if he did. 

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So him and Art Garfunkel got 
back to recording music 

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together, and their debut album 
came out in 1964. 

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Called Wednesday Morning, 3:00 
AM. 

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And it wasn't a hit. 
Initially, it really went 

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unnoticed. 
But then about a year later, 

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somebody remixed the song Sound 
of Silence, added like, drums to

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it and a bass, whatever. 
And then that became a hit, and 

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then people revisited the album 
and from there on they became 

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famous. 
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