Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Coming up first, we have Adam Carolla's show, 1882, featuring Adam's longtime buddy, Alex Serrato, Gina Grad, and Brian Bishop from 2016.
Special guest today, my buddy Alex. He's here to tell a story or two. I'll get into that in a second. First, good day, Gina Graff.
Good day to you.
Handball Brian. This is really fun. Oh, that's Ray.
That is Ray.
All right, so my buddy Alex in from out of town. Now, remember I talk about I have a successful friend, and I say he's an attorney, he's the smart one, and then there's all my other friends.
There's everybody else.
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Chapter 2: How does Alex's story about Ray unfold?
I've told a lot of stories about Ray where Alex was actually present. And I said, most of these stories sound like some sort of yarns that have been passed on from a village elder. And they keep getting inflated as they go along.
Not impossible, but implausible.
Right. If only that were true. There's one in particular where I explained that Alex, who would always buy Ray a hamburger, but it wasn't just a hamburger. It was a double king cheese, a fat burger, and then he would... Fair is fair. He would add on fries and a shake and stuff.
But we were driving home, and Alex experienced something from Ray, who was in the front seat because he rode permanent shotgun.
Experienced something.
But I just want to make sure not only if you guys know I'm not using any hyperbole when I tell you these stories about Ray, but also that I just want to check my own memory of it. So and it's very vivid for me. But Alex, you tell me.
We were driving back to school from lunch. As Adam said, I was buying for Ray for the thousandth time. And as usual, Ray was on the one hand very appreciative but also very demanding. Sure, a hamburger would be great, but you got a double king cheese, so how come I don't get a double king cheese? And explaining to Ray that I was the one buying sort of made a difference there.
It just didn't resonate. It was a young Bernie Sanders. And we're driving back in my car, which normally would not be noteworthy, but it is a hard top. And all of a sudden, I feel as if... VW Rabbit four-door. Silver, as I recall. With a red interior, which was about to be fouled. And all of a sudden, it was obvious that the car had sprung some sort of leak from the roof.
And I realized that Ray, who is sitting in the passenger seat, has, as usual, decided it would be a perfectly appropriate thing to do to pee on somebody. And that somebody was me. And what... Now, you see a lot of PSAs about distracted driving.
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Chapter 3: What humorous incidents are shared involving Ray?
Ray was in no such hurry ever in his life.
Did you go back to school covered in pee?
You know, when you put it that way, it makes me think that maybe I didn't make the best of decisions. But yes, I did.
Wow. Good student. Do you think your experiences with Ray made you a better lawyer?
Understand the insane better.
It made me a better parent. I don't know that it made me a better lawyer if only because my kids, as ornery as they can sometimes be, could never get to a – you just look at them. It's like, hey, nice try, Scooter.
You know Ray.
Yeah.
You know Ray.
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Chapter 4: How do the hosts reflect on their past experiences?
Duchess, the dog.
The beagle. The beagle. The ottoman. Yes.
Did you ever go to Adam's house?
I went to the... The Adam space. The carport? The Adam houses. I think I was allowed in the kitchen once, but it wasn't as if Adam's mother or father were forbidding us from coming in. Adam just made it pretty clear. Trust me, you just don't want to go in there. There is no Danish. There is no Danish. No, the Danish used to be in the –
Bread basket or like the little bread hutch and it had to keep being moved because – and Ray in that sense was like a German shepherd. He was going to find it. It was a German shepherd in a Jewish house and he was on the hunt and – That was part of the genesis later for DTR. Yeah, Don't Tell Ray. From when I was born.
Yeah, and also in Glorious Bastards with Christoph Waltz where he'd come in and go, if you want to look for Danish, you have to think like an old hopper. Or a Jew. Danish hiding under the floorboards. Quietly. Yeah, Alex, there's something that Alex doesn't know. I'm going to tell Alex about a story that he doesn't know that sort of changed my life.
But you can tell me, Alex, if you have any recollection of this, because we've never discussed it after the incident, but it was life-changing. Story I've never shared, Brian. Let's hear it.
You've heard them all a million times. You can run it by me and I'll tell you.
All right, so we figured out that the Ray Whiz after the Fat Burger is exactly as I've described it.
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Chapter 5: What musical influences shaped the early years of Hanson?
You are my candy girl. And you got me wanting you. And the best part is... Did that cross over into a little bit gay at that moment just now? That was gay. It crossed over into a little bit bi.
And then it went back to gay. You were worried about it. You're like straight and then we broke into sugar. Yeah.
Well, it's... And by the way, if you've ever had a crush on a girl or Teresa, a girl, and... And you've been in love, and it's like beginning, and you've got that song going through your head while you're riding your bicycle when you're 15 or something. It's like nothing.
It sounds like how a crush feels.
Yeah. It's just such a pure, straight pop song.
You sure got it.
Oh, honey, honey. You are my candy girl. Yeah, do it. And you got me wanting you.
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Chapter 6: How did Hanson navigate the challenges of the music industry?
Nice.
See, I want to see you do a music video where it's just you in the car. Just driving, talking about it. Just singing.
Just singing. No, singing this. But what I was trying to say was that a lot of what we do is really quite, the process is the same. I mean, it's like we've lived on tour buses and toured the world. I mean, in our second record, kind of record company mergers craziness happened. Well, it's not helpful for them.
There were a lot of political things, and then we ended up starting our own record company on our third record.
Because the second record ended up ultimately being released by a hip-hop label, which was kind of complicated.
Something about Jay-Z's record label releasing Hanson Records, it wasn't quite a connection.
Sure. There are many things that you could accuse Hanson of being. Hip-hop was not necessarily one of those things. But we've spent the last 10 years really doing what we feel is what any band should do, make records you're super proud of, and also really sort of own everything. We're controlling.
Whether it's the songs, writing the songs, controlling the masters, our merchandise, our website, and kind of cultivating a really strong connection with our fans. And so then, you know, it's like anything.
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Chapter 7: What was the impact of the song 'Mmmbop' on Hanson’s career?
Every once in a while you hit sort of cultural, you know, your roller coaster like strikes a chord at the right time. Sure. And, you know, a song kind of becomes a little bit more of a hit and then the song gets played on MTV. But in the meantime, you're creating something that is this business. It's your ongoing. It's your life. It's your music. And it's your fans.
It's about your fans. How did it get started? Where's everyone from? We're all from Oklahoma.
Well, the brother thing, you know.
Sure, we got that.
Well, technically we didn't meet in the womb. We met after the womb.
But you were the last one in it, right?
Yes, I was. Hand me down. Did people hand you instruments?
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Chapter 8: How has the music industry changed since Hanson’s rise to fame?
Was the family musical?
Our folks did drama in high school and college. Our dad is like a CPA that took ballet and stuff like that, random weird stuff. It was just a combination.
It was very... But you know what that made me hear? You probably didn't lose all your money because your dad's an accountant.
No, we were very smart about that. He was dancing for his future.
Yeah.
He was doing his plies and thinking about dollar signs.
Well, it was just a joke.
Our mom actually went to North Texas State as a vocal major. And that's actually a really well-known music school. And so she's a singer, and our dad, we joke, is a frustrated poet. And so somehow or another, we ended up being songwriters and singers. The way it started, and we've told this story many times, but it's essentially we heard, you know, we had it in the jeans, I guess.
The jean pool was there. Sure. We heard classic rock and roll, and there was a compilation of songs from the late 50s that we sort of had high exposure to because we spent a year... Our dad at the time worked for an oil contractor that took him to Latin America, and we all moved to South America for a year.
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