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-So, "Oh, Hello," has had many lives, sort of.
-Yeah. Stage. -Stage.
[ Both talking at once ]
But, like, the tiny stages and then Broadway stages
and then you can see it on Netflix.
The Broadway show and now -- -The Broadway show, yeah.
-Now a p'dcast.
-Now a p'dcast from George and Gil
of "The Oh, Hello Show," and this is --
It's called "Oh, Hello: The P'dcast,
the Life and Times of Princess Diana, a.k.a. Di Town."
-Yeah, now, Princess Di -- And this is --
You guys are already discussing Princess Diana.
-Diana. Yeah.
-Do you remember --
That was a big deal for you when Princess Diana...
-Well, I think it was a big deal for a lot of people, Seth.
-Yeah, that's true. -She was --
She was England's Rose, and she was the Queen of Hearts.
-I think this is where me
being, like, just a half generation older than you --
Because I remember the wedding. Did you watch the wedding?
-Um, no, I've seen footage of it, obviously,
'cause I'm producing a podcast on her life and death.
-[ Laughs ]
-So -- So, like, I've seen clips of it, old man.
But, no, I was too young to see the wedding,
but I did get up at 5:00 in the morning Chicago time
to watch her funeral.
-Do you -- This was done -- When did you guys do the p'dcast?
-So, we started recording George and Gil
talking to different guests in the fall of 2018.
I remember 'cause the mid-terms were happening,
and we had to vote one day,
And then we had to go do "Oh, Hello: The P'dcast,
the Life and Times of Princess Diana, a.k.a. Di Town."
Available wherever podcasts are streamed?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -But Spotify and Apple.
So, we got a bunch of guests, and we recorded all this stuff,
and we were very excited about it.
Then what happened was the coronavirus hit,
and I think it was after we saw
Bob Dylan's 17-minute song come out.
We thought, "Oh, you don't have to edit so much."
-[ Laughs ] -I really did.
Sonically, it made me re-think editing.
And so we started discussing
that George and Gil could put this out now,
'cause people were essentially begging for it
and, in another sense, they were stuck at home.
-I do -- This is just a total sidebar.
You were the -- I didn't even finish
listening to Bob Dylan's 17-minute song
before I texted you.
-You had the best observation of it.
You said it was like someone reading
a Wikipedia page about John F. Kennedy
and then adding, "Hey, boy."
-[ Laughs ] I do. Yeah.
It's -- One of my favorite Dylan moves
is, like, when he puts dialogue in songs.
And, again, I don't know if this is actually true.
It just seems true to me that he always like...
-♪ Hello, I'm gonna go live in Hyannis Port ♪
♪ Oh, boy, we're going down to Dallas now ♪
It's a lot of, like -- It's a lot of sort of facts.
Things that are technically true.
-But also in order to present the facts and dialogue,
somebody walks in the room and tells a bunch of people.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. -Yeah.
-♪ On the day that it happened, a man ran in and said ♪
♪ He lives in Hyannis Port, but now he is dead ♪
Yeah, that kind of stuff.
That's -- I mean, that was as off-the-cuff as cuff gets.
And that's -- -Ah, it was great.
And it was what we needed in this time, some off-the-cuff.
-I think it was, super early in the quarantine.
But, you know... -Yeah.
[ Laughs ] He should do the extended version now.
-I know. He releases it. He goes, "All right.
You want to hear the 38-minute one?"