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.
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:
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’.”
This morning on the show ‘On est tous debout’ on Montreal’s Rouge 107.3 radio was quite a funny one. Patrick Langlois, who is one of the hosts of this program, exchanged his usual spoken voice for a singing voice and alongside his Man Of The Hour co-host, Simple Plan’s Sebastien Lefebvre, performed Simple Plan’s 2012 hit single ‘Summer Paradise’.
For those of you who may be newer to Simple Plan and are wondering who Patrick is… Patrick Langlois is definitely not a singer. Until 2008, Pat used to be Simple Plan’s merch guy, photographer, videographer and tour manager back in the early days of the band and you can even find him in the background of many Simple Plan music videos from the early 2000s. But most of all, even after all these years he’s still one of the dearest friends of the guys in the band. He’s since moved on to do bigger things and is now a full time radio & sometimes also TV host and a pretty well-known personality in Montreal.
Let’s have a look at how well Patrick did with ‘Summer Paradise’ on the video below:
Ever since the release of Simple Plan’s biography ‘Simple Plan: The Official Story’, it has become a widely known fact that Chuck’s parents’ house holds a rather extraordinary amount of Simple Plan memorabilia. And all those year later, it can still manage to reveal something new every now and then – just like we’ve learned just a few days ago when Patrick Langlois, Simple Plan’s former merch guy and photo/videographer, revealed some amazing newly found photos on his Instagram.
Turns out that an old camera was recently found by Chuck’s Dad is their basement, which obviously belonged to Patrick. After getting his hands on this treasure, he found out there was still a film inside: a film that had a number of pictures of the gang from the summer of 2004, when Simple Plan were recording Still Not Getting Any at the Picolo Studios in Montreal with Bob Rock.
Check out Patrick’s retelling of how this treasure was found and what was on it below and definitely make sure to check out the never-seen-before shots of the band in our gallery:
“A couple weeks ago, Chuck found an old camera in his parents basement. He wasn’t sure, but he believed it might be mine. I can’t tell you how happy I was to put my hands on what I thought was a long lost camera. It’s the most old school Canon, bought in the 70’s and gifted to me by my step-mom in the 90’s. It’s the first real camera I ever used, learnt how to shoot with and develop film in school with. When Simple Plan first started, and before digital cameras were everywhere, I had it with me.
Fast forward to 2019: I took the camera Chuck found and brought it to the shop to see if it needed a cleaning when, to my surprise, they found a roll still in it! With NO idea what might be on it, I had it developed. I didn’t have high hopes, as we opened up the camera and surely ruined a few frames, but it was exciting none the less. As you can tell by these shots, the film didn’t age too well all those years- that green tint isn’t a filter. These pictures were taken during summer 2004 at Picolo Studio in Montreal as the guys recorded their second album, “Still Not Getting Any” with Bob Rock. We used to have BBQ’s every week and it seems like that’s the last time I had the camera in my hands. 15 years ago! These pics aren’t good by any photography standards, but I think that it’s great that they even exist!”
– Patrick Langlois –
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