Hey guys, this is Mel. If you're listening to this, you are about to hear a super special sneak peek of our latest bonus episode. But fair warning, this is just a sneak peek. Don't hurt us. It's totally optional to subscribe, but if you're interested, you can check out our Patreon by searching Significant lovers. Patreon Online. Hope you enjoy. OK, so who is Eric Clapton? You know, we talked about him. He's a great guitarist, but what
else? And I just want to say for my sources in case anybody wants to know or you want more information, I watched the Eric Clapton Life and 12 bars documentary. I used the George Harrison the Reluctant Beatle by Norman, Philip Norman book excerpts from Wonderful Tonight by Patty Boyd and Eric Clapton, the autobiography and some other online sources. OK, so Eric Clapton, I I would say that he is a man, or at
least he was when he was young. He was a man obsessed, OK, like obsessed with the guitar and it's impressive like his brain, I would say was completely synced with the fret board. Like he knew every single sound that was possible. Like wherever he put his finger in, it's it's very impressive. And I do think that to be that good. He was very obsessed in like a whiplash Black Swan kind of way. Yeah. And I mean, this is me just inferring. I don't know him, but it just
seems that way. And I think that he brought that obsession to his love life as well. And obsession is a concept that I have always been interested in. And I like movies and stories about people that are obsessed, especially with love too. Like I enjoy reading about people that have these like over the top declarations of love, even though in real life maybe I would be kind of worded out by it. I don't know why that is. I think maybe. I mean, I have felt obsessed with people before.
So I think seeing somebody express that is, yeah, exciting to me. How would? You like define obsessed like there's like different levels of it, of course. Yeah, just. Like you've never been like Joe. Level. With anybody from. You. Goldberg I. Mean. But you've been obsessed with, like, Robert Pattinson, Like, yeah, idolizing someone. Yeah. And I would even say like guys I liked in high school or whatever, I would say I was obsessed with.
I wouldn't really express it, but I would think about them all the time, you know, writing my journal and stuff and be like pining. And I know that's something. It was embarrassing. Yeah, I like sometimes like when I really would like a guy would think about them all the time and. Yeah. But then thinking like am I obsessed and obsessed if like has a negative connotation? And then feeling like, Oh my God, am I crazy? Because I like, yeah, keep thinking about this person non-stop.
Yes. So I feel kind of a little solid reading about, like, Eric Clapton being so obsessed 'cause I don't think I've gone as far as him or anything, but it's like, comforting in a weird way. But we'll get into it. Yeah. It's very human. I've even wanted to cover like, Napoleon, for instance. And I know he's like a problematic historic figure, but like, he was, I would say, obsessed with his wife. And like, the letters he wrote were just like, absurd.
And I, I don't know. I love reading stuff like that. But anyway, Eric Clapton, He was born March 30th, 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, England. Coming up, why do you go? Oh, he's. Coming up, he's birthday boy, birthday mom. Who else's birthday? Maybe when he's actually comes out it will be past his birthday, I don't know. But anyway, happy birthday. Happy. Birthday Eric Clapton.
He is actually two years younger than George and one year younger than Patty and all all three of them were born sort of around the same time of year. Like George was February, Patty and Eric were both March. So I find that interesting. When Eric was nine years old, he learned that his older sister, who lived in Canada, was actually his mother. Hasn't this happened before on our show? I don't. Know has it I? Don't know, I feel like it was John Lennon.
No, it was that his mom, like, lived closer than he thought. But someone, oh, Priscilla, Elvis's wife, she thought her adopted dad was her real dad until she was like, 13 or something. Her dad had died. But yeah, Eric's mother had been a teenager when she had him, and they just decided it would be better if he thought his grandmother was his mom. Wow. Would you guys do that? Yeah, you will. What? No poll. Question 4% said yeah. If your.
Teenage daughter got pregnant, would you be agreeable to pretending like the child was yours if she said mom? Please no. OK, I. Think our mom would say yes? My mom would say yes. My mom had said she'd be happy to do that. I. Literally. I wouldn't do it though. I think it would be tough for the child to learn the truth of it. Yeah, it was really hard for him when his real mom came back to England from Canada. She had two more kids with her.
And, you know, it was told to him like, she's actually your mom. And, you know, he felt like his whole life was a lie. And he, I was also thinking about, like, gosh, how would you deal with this at school? Like, you know, some kids might know your mom and like, maybe you wouldn't tell them, but then it would feel like you have a secret. I don't know. I feel like it'd be so intense. But he asked his mother if she was going to be his mom now, and she said no, it's going to stay
the way it was. And Eric felt extremely rejected and abandoned by her. Like his whole world was upside down. I feel like this really profoundly affected him for the rest of his life. I don't know if you know the answer or not, but did he treat his half brothers as like cousins or like I? Don't know. I don't know about when he's older, but when he was younger, I don't think they had that much
of a relationship. I know he went to visit them at some point when he was a teenager and he really felt like he didn't fit in at all. I was just about to say that Eric was sort of. What so nieces and nephews? I was for some reason, very confused. Not cousins. Nieces and nephews, yeah. Yeah, so he would have thought those were his sister's kids, but they were his. Siblings half. Siblings. But you know who this happened to? Sorry, I looked it up 'cause I
couldn't help myself. Not someone we covered, but Ted Bundy. Oh. My God. Harry, not someone we covered. Yeah, Jack Nicholson, so the. Same thing. Had this happened to him too? Who? John Nicholson. Wow. OK, I prefer the John Nicholson example. All right, I will have to stop the episode right there. Thank you so much for listening to the teaser. If you want to hear the full episode and many other bonus episodes, you can find them on Patreon.
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