For the first time in 2021, Sebastien Lefebvre and Patrick Langlois will be back on the internet radio waves to cheer us all up with an hour of good music and classic Seb&Pat banter: their radio show Man Of The Hour comes back today with first episode of season 34 (did you know later this year the show will actually be celebrating its 15th anniversary?).
Check out the teaser the boys released online recently:
And it’s not just the new theme song you can expect from the new season!
According to idobi.com, the popular radio duo will be mixing it up this time with themed episodes. Today’s first episode is titled “How I Met My Co-Host”, where we can expect some awesome throwback stories from the first time Seb and Pat met and how their friendship blossomed over the years.
If you wanna listen to Man Of The Hour live, make sure to tune in to idobi radio right hereat 8pm ET & PT tonight (Wednesday).
For those of you not living in the Western Hemisphere (a.k.a. the Americas), you can download the podcast later on – usually the following day – right to your phone and listen to Pat and Seb on the go. You can do so either via you favorite podcasts app or directly on idobi.com.
Last we heard from Sebastien Lefebvre and Patrick Langlois together was on the last episode of season 32 of their radio show Man Of The Hour back in July. In the last episode, the duo stated that they would be off for two weeks before returning for another season. Unfortunately (we’re guessing) due to the unprecedented situation with David, all members of Simple Plan have disappeared from social media since then and that also meant for Sebastien’s podcast to stay off the air for a while.
With the recent news of Simple Plan coming back online with their new set of regulations that they want to put in place from now on, we’re happy to announce that Man Of The Hour is also finally back this week! Idobi radio has announced so on their social media.
If you like to tune in live, you can listen to Idobi radio this Wednesday at 8pm EST. The show should then also be available as a podcast, usually about a day later.
Are you excited to see what Seb and Pat have been up to in the past three months? We know we are!
In a completely unexpected turn of events, Simple Plan’s 2002 hit single ‘I’m Just A Kid’ recently became viral after thousands of users began using the song in a new trend on the social media platform TikTok. The ‘I’m Just A Kid’ challenge on TikTok lies in recreation of one’s childhood photos in 2020 with a cut to the old photo.
Over the past couple of days – because of this new TikTok trend, Simple Plan’s song has been used on over 680 000 times for more and more recreations of people’s past, as most are stuck in self isolation with nothing on their hands. Overall, the I’m Just A Kid challenge itself has been viewed over 43 million times. According to Sebastien, because of the popularity of ‘I’m Just A Kid’ on TikTok, the song has now also become trending on Spotify.
Simple Plan themselves were very pleasantly surprised with the sudden viral use of their first ever single and shared a few of their favorite TikTok creations on their Instagram [see them here]. Check out what SP had to say about this unexpected viral fame:
“In the midst of all the chaos, craziness and bad news of the last weeks, watching this happen and catch fire has been truly magical for us. It’s definitely a little ironic to go viral in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, but we are so grateful for every family, sibling, kid, parent, couple and animal-owner who’s taking part in the #imjustakidchallenge on @TikTok and sharing these amazing videos.
It’s pretty incredible to watch a song we wrote almost 20 years ago bring people together and make them smile. Thank you for sharing these memories and if you haven’t made one yet, what are you waiting for? We can’t wait to see yours!”
Apart from the tens of thousands of TikTok users, this trend has also become popular amongst many prominent internet stars – including David Dobrik, James Charles or the Dolan twins. But the video that the Simple Plan fans will most likely appreciate the most was done by one of Simple Plan’s best friends, Patrick Langlois (their former photographer, merch guy and webmaster). Patrick decided to hop on this trend just a few days ago – recreating his old picture with Chuck – even in self-isolation. Check it out:
One of the most influential and impactful pop-punk albums of all time, Blink 182’s ‘Enema Of The State’ celebrated 20 years since its release yesterday. It’s of course a known fact that Blink 182 were (and still are) one of the biggest influences on Simple Plan in their early years and due to the fact that since Reset, Chuck and Mark Hoppus knew each other, Simple Plan had Mark Hoppus fall in love with one of their songs (I’d Do Anything) even before it came their debut album was released. That eventually also led to him accepting Simple Plan’s offer to sing on the track.
Blink’s impact on Simple Plan has been massive, so it’s no surprise that yesterday right on the 20th anniversary of ‘Enema Of The State’, Patrick Langlois (Simple Plan’s former tour manager, merch guy and photographer) dug out a couple of 20-year-old photos from May 1999, when him and Chuck got to hang out with Mark Hoppus, after which he actually gave them an advance copy of ‘Enema Of The State’ to listen to two whole weeks before it officially came out.
Check out what Patrick had to say about this album and the impact it had on him:
blink-182’s “Enema of the state” turns 20 today!
The importance this record holds in my life cannot be overstated. It is without a doubt the album I have listened to the most. I know it by heart front to back: every word, every drum fill, every melody.
I also happen to have been there when the band chose to have their album release party in Montreal. Chuck and I had ran into Mark, Tom and Travis at a college show in Albany a few weeks earlier, so when they came in town to record a live show for MusiquePlus and then hold an autograph session at Foufounes Électriques, they invited us both to come along.
I was 18 years old, had loved the band since day one (I still have a “blink” Cheshire Cat CD, before the 182) and here I was being invited to join the band at dinner. I still remember my now friend Jonathan Bergeron’s face from Universal when he realized everyone that was coming and who he had to pay for dinner 🤣
The date was May 19th 1999 and Mark gave Chuck an advance copy of Enema so by June 1st we already knew it by heart.
I will die saying that this is my favorite album. Happy birthday EOTS!
– Patrick Langlois –
After Patrick, Chuck later also joined him in celebrations of also his favorite album ever with a series of Instagram Stories, in which he added:
This record came out 20 years ago today and it completely changed my life. Thank you, Mark, Tom and Travis. This photo was taken on May 19th 1999, the night I actually heard the album for the 1st time. Mark gave me an advance copy and I raced home to listen to it. I knew instantly that my world had forever changed. Thank you, Mark, Tom and Travis for the incredible music and for always being so kind and generous to me and Simple Plan. Forever grateful. And Enema Of The State is still my favorite album of all time!
And thank you Patrick for digging up these photos!
– Chuck Comeau –
And you can now check out the forementioned photos of Chuck and Patrick with Mark Hoppus, from May 19th 1999, in our gallery:
On this week’s Man Of The Hour show, Patrick and Sebastien delved into the history of Simple Plan by Patrick pulling out a story from the very very early days of Simple Plan, a story that has been a legend for quite a while. Yes, the ‘One-legged duck’ story.
Now, you may recall the legend that Mark Hoppus from blink-182 once tried to convince Simple Plan to choose the name ‘One-legged duck’ and in fact we even had Chuck, Pierre and Seb confirm this ‘legend’ to be true in our 2015 SimplePlan.cz interview from Antwerp [rewatch it here!]. But how exactly did this attempt at baptizing the band this somewhat extraordinary name come about? That’s where Patrick’s story comes in.
By the way, during the course of the story, you’ll see Patrick using mostly the name ‘Three-legged duck’ since he himself wasn’t sure if the duck was to be one or three-legged, but since the legend so far has exclusively been about ‘One-legged duck’, we’re gonna stick with that.
If you haven’t listened to the latest Man Of The Hour episode, you can do so below as well as you can read the story of how Simple Plan got almost named ‘One-legged duck’, as told by Patrick Langlois:
Patrick: “When I was 19 years old, I used to always go see blink-182 shows as long as they were in like a 6-hour radius from Montreal. The legend goes… It’s not a legend, it’s an actual true story.. I went to see blink-182 in Albany and my buddy Chuck tagged along. We went to the show in Albany, it was like a college show and so, there weren’t like many people there and we ended up backstage, hanging out the boys from blink-182 with Mark, with Tom and with Travis. And Chuck had his like one claim to “fame” to Mark that his old band Reset had played shows with blink-182. So he was like ‘Hey, I don’t know if you remember me..’ And that’s kind of [how] we get backstage, we end up chilling with Mark, who’s got nothing better to do and through that forms this like tiny little friendship between Simple Plan and blink-182.
Now fast-forward to a year later, blink-182 are playing every single day of the Warped Tour, Enema Of The State has just dropped in June and we end up backstage again. I’m with Chuck, we end up sitting on the bus, Chuck plays Mark some Simple Plan demos.. And at this point in time, the band isn’t even baptized yet. It’s not called Simple Plan. As per legend again, you may have read this, if you know your Simple Plan history quite well, like on old demos, you guys would write ‘Touchdown’. And so Mark is like: ‘Oh you guys don’t have a band name yet?’ And he tried really hard for good like 5-10 minutes to convince Chuck to call the band ‘Three-legged-duck’.”
Seb: “Yes!”
Patrick: “Did you know this story?”
Seb: “Wait, was it ‘One-legged-duck’ or ‘Three-legged-duck’?”
Patrick: “One or three!”
Seb: “Odd number of legs on a duck. Yes. I know this.”
Patrick: “I believe it’s ‘Three-legged-duck’.. And Chuck is like, you know, wants to be polite: ‘Oh yeah, that’s kind of cool..’ But I guess [he] doesn’t love it.”
Seb: “And obviously that’s why Mark keeps going. Cause he sees Chuck.”
Patrick: “And Mark is like ‘Yeah, yeah, keep going, ‘Three-legged-duck’. Someone needs to call their band name ‘Three-legged-duck’! What a cool band name!’ And that didn’t happen but Mark Hoppus tried to convince Simple Plan to be baptized ‘Three-legged-duck’.”
Seb: “That would’ve been great.”
– Man Of The Hour (s28e08) –
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