Crash Test Dummies

I am a producer and audio engineer for an NPR and PBS station here in Southwest Florida, and we have this other show called three song stories where we tell people's biography through music the guests will come in and they'll pick three songs that every time they listen to these songs they immediately get transported back to a time and place that they have a significant story associated with it right it could be anything it'd be a a funny little anecdotes or it could be like a super serious like uh instrumental story to their lives or it could be whatever I want to ask you, off the top of your head, do you have one song story you're willing to share?

There's a band called Crash Test Dummies, and they sang a song called...

That's it.

I think that's the name of the song, right? And he's very, it's a very deep song, right? It's actually, the song has a lot of like storytelling to it.

And it's about like, kids in school and like some of the shame they go through and uh some like darker stories about like a kid that's part of a cult or whatever it's like uh the storytelling is intense right like a kid crashes and his hair goes from black to black bright white yeah there's multiple stories Every time I hear that song, one, I love the song.

It's really nice.

I think Crash Test Dummies are actually a pretty decent band.

But two, I'm reminded of my first what I would consider like real girlfriend.

It was one of my introductions to The Smiths.

How about Crash Test Dummies? That was later.

[laughs]

Which one?

Crash Test Dummies.

Oh, yeah, Cra- yeah.

There you go.

Because at least the first, at least the first messed up kid got in a car crash and then it turned his hair into bright white.

Uh, uh, how, when did you discover you could do that and do that really well?

The first thing was, um, would've been, I don't know if you remember The Crash Test Dummies, uh, like the early '90s.

Yeah.

Mm, mm, mm, mm.

but, like-

...

they, they, they had done...

Yeah, Crash Test Dummies.

Yeah.

[laughs]

Well, it's, it's interesting, um, that, you know, when you, when you talk about, uh, milestone episodes, I mean, I think most people know that I had a show that, that we, we capped at 160, and I had like all these big visions as well.

And, um, my, my 100th episode was Brad Roberts from the Crash Test Dummies, and it was...

He was sick, and he did a great job, but it was like, um, it was kind of not...

I didn't get what I wanted out of it.