🥁 Introducing... Stuff Of Legends

Christian O'Connell asks the world's funniest and most interesting people to share their three most treasured items and the stories behind them.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I've been thinking about doing this idea for years.
Because I talk so much every day, there's enough of
me out there. This idea had to be something different
for me and also for you, and I think this
is it. I think the objects contain so much meaning,
they literally hum with meaning. On my left hand, I'm
looking at my wedding ring. I've just been married for

(00:23):
twenty one years. When I proposed to my wife, I
was broke. I'd actually borrow money from her to afford
a wedding suit. It was embarrassing. Our wedding rings together
there were one hundred and fifty dollars. Now over the
last few years, I have offered to upgrade our wedding rings,
but we've kept them because it reminds me of a
time when I didn't have a lot of money. I
had a job I hated, and I was just kind

(00:43):
of sleep walking through my life. And that's what this
podcast is really all about. I've invited some of the
world's funniest and best storytellers to share three treasured objects
from their lives and tell us the stories behind them,
stories they rarely told and ones you've never heard before.
When you said the idea, I thought, that's a really
good idea.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
It is difficult to distill it down into three objects
without just trying to like trick the game to be
like whom birth certificod.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
It actually reveals something, not just to you or to
the people listening, but it revealed things to myself.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I wanted to be Janet Jackson's backup dancer. Whenever Janet
did an emotional song, I may have had tears. I
got to VHS and I was hot, and I could roll.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
A leg, no doubt about it. The guitar and I
think I know the same chords now as I did
when I was.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Fourteen, you know what I mean. I'm Christian O'Connell, and
that's coming up on the stuff of legends.