Learn it word for word, and when you’ve done e back." So the guy gives him an old tape recorder. A seasoned pitcher isn’t going to just give up their secrets to some rando. I will be really good at what he does.īen: Turns out.outdoor market product pitching is a pretty insular scene. So I went home, told my friend, I said, that guy needs to hire me. Could you teach me to do it? And maybe I could come and work for you?" Well he literally flicked me off. So I walk over to him and I say, "hey," I said, "you know, mister," I said, "you know, I think I would be good at this. And I was like, this guy's making a lot of money. And every time he finished his speech, people were giving him ten pound notes.
And I'm watching I'm counting how many he's selling because he's right opposite me and he's doing the same thing. And I saw this guy selling these car washes and he's doing this speech, which I later found out was a pitch.
Sully : But I went to this market to help him out and opposite me, opposite my friend's stand was this guy selling this car was called the Amazing WashMatik. Where all kinds of people sell all kinds of stuff. Sully: I was just dossing – it's an English word – with no, I was just, you know, flailing in the wind, rudderless at 20 years old, like really actually thinking, what am I going to do with myself? A friend of mine got a speeding ticket and he asked me to take care of his market stall.Īmory: This is a stall in an outdoor market. He’d just landed home in the rainy UK after spending a few years in Hawaii.
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Most people, it ends up being Sully or Anthony.Īmory: In the early 90s, when Sully was 20 years old, he was trying to figure out how to move from his salad days to adulthood. And the gift of the gab was when I was saying something that people actually thought was somewhat worth listening to.īen: We’ll say Anthony Sullivan.has the gift of gab. I think verbal diarrhea was when people didn't like what I had to say. And his frenemy won’t shut up.Īnthony Sullivan: I was told as a kid that I had the gift of the gab and verbal diarrhea. And he won’t shut up.īen: This is the story of a hero who is no longer with us.Īmory: But his nemesis is, eh, really more like frenemy. One is no longer with us, but still around.in his own way.Īmory Sivertson: The other one is definitely still with us. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.īen Brock Johnson: This is a story about two men. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio.
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This episode looks at the complicated but surprisingly wholesome life of high-octane TV pitchman Billy Mays, who went from the face of OxiClean to a face of the afterlife in an unlikely meme.Īnybody old enough to remember life before cutting the cord has probably seen the work of TV pitchman Billy Mays. Each week they're dropping the untold story of iconic internet memes and the unsung heroes who found viral fame-sometimes even after they're gone. We thought you might be interested in what our friends at WBUR's Endless Thread are up to this season.
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