Ross Bagdasarian

You know, there are some things that just continue to come back again.

The Seville, the chipmunks.

I mean, who would have thunk that my kids, my kids' kids would be watching the chipmunks now.

Hey, I got to call your attention to something.

Didn't feel quite like Douchebag of the Day territory with just how much everything is on fire and the, the scale at which it is.

But there was something I saw today that made me go, "I think they need to take away social media and/or microphones away from people that work at a lot of these AI companies." Right, 'cause in a now deleted tweet, you have this guy that works for Factory AI saying, "My wife: 'Can you read our baby a book?' Me: 'I can just play an audiobook from my phone.' My wife: 'But then it won't be in your voice.' Me: 'I can train a voice model.' [laughs] Parenting hits different when you work in AI." Y'all, call me David Seville the way I wanna yell, "Alvin!" Though I am kinda glad that he tweeted this, because I think more people need to understand what weirdos are at these companies.

People that day in, day out, give us more examples of them being just disconnected from the human experience.

And he's since deleted the tweet, since most of the world was dunking on him, and he's now trying to play it off as a joke.

Uh, Boston was also nominated there, uh, so they didn't quite work out as well as Boston did.

Uh, number nine, The Chipmunks and David Seville, Christmas Don't Be Late.

Christmas don't be late.

That was a number one song.

The fact that it spent four weeks at number one blew my mind twice.

1958 and 1959.

David Seville was the performing name of this guy named Ross.

He created the Chipmunks' voices by manipulating tape speed, and he performed all the different characters himself.

The winner in 1959 was the Chipmunks song.

by Alvin and the Chipmunks featuring David Seville.

Yeah, believe it or not, that was the Grammy winner in 1959.

In 1960, I'm not going to ask you to guess who did this, John.

Uh, Boston was also nominated there, uh, so they didn't quite work out as well as Boston did.

Uh, number nine, The Chipmunks and David Seville, "Christmas Don't Be Late".

"Christmas don't be late." That was a number one song.

That song spent four weeks at number one.

The fact that it spent four weeks at number one blew my mind twice.

1958 and 1959.

David Seville was the performing name of this guy named Ross.

He created The Chipmunks' voices by manipulating tape speed, and he performed all the different characters himself.

The guy who plays the piano player in Rear Window was...

David Seville, I mean, his real name was Ross Bagdasarian.

That's what he goes by in Rear Window.

But as David Seville, he was the guy, he was the human being with Alvin and the Chipmunks, okay? He was also William Soroyan's nephew.

You know William Soroyan? Yes.

He wrote a famous play called The Time of Your Life.