Hey, everybody.
So we are in San Francisco filming
future episodes of the "Art Assignment,"
and we decided to drop in on none other
than Oliver Blank, who you will remember
gave you the assignment to what?
What was it?
To call a number and tell me about the one who got away.
It could be a lost love or a forgotten friendship
or something else entirely.
And many, many, many of you did this.
So I was really overwhelmed just by the volume of calls.
And then in terms of the actual messages that we
were receiving, people-- I think just this sincerity
in the directness which all of the viewers who
took part-- it was really touching,
hearing everyone's story.
It still is touching.
We still get several calls a day.
And I feel really privileged to be able to listen to them.
And I'm really hoping that I can share them as well.
And what you've heard of what's come in,
is it more about individuals?
Or is it more about opportunities?
I think it's mainly about individuals.
There's a lot of lost loves.
And I really appreciate every single call
that comes in for that.
But it's not just that.
There are family members who have passed away,
friends who've moved to other cities or countries.
So it's these shared experiences and shared stories
that, as we go through life, these common experiences
that we all tend to have-- we all
tend to have a one who got away in terms of a love.
We all tend to lose a family member
at some point or another.
And as we grow up, friends, family move away.
People become distant to us.
So it's that connection and that thread
that's been really profound for me to hear.
But what is your role?
You are the recipient of these things.
But it's not-- how much is it directed towards you?
I think for me, the best message
is that they're not talking to me and is not for me
and I feel like a very, very privileged, very lucky
caretaker, or temporary caretaker,
because the intention is to get these messages back out
to the world.
So the plan, if there was, yeah, 10 to 30 responses,
was to compose a short piece of original music.
As soon as I had 100, 200, 300 calls,
I realized what-- I can't compose one piece of music.
Well, I could, but it would take me a long time
to compose a piece of music that was gonna
score beautifully all of these.
So the approach totally had to change.
So it's time to call you to task.
OK.
What are you gonna do?
The plan is to create a short podcast series, maybe roughly
six episodes.
I am going to pick some messages.
It's not the best of the messages,
because there's no best and worst with these.
I'm just going to try and go through and pick some messages
for each episode and score a series of, let's say,
20 minute or so individual episodes
of the one who got away.
So it'll come out at some point this year as a podcast.
Excellent.
I want to thank you for participating in this.
Thank you.
Yes.
It's been really wonderful.
And I can't wait to see what happens with it.
Yeah, thank you.
And thanks to all of the viewers who
took part and are continuing to take part
and shared the number.
It's amazing and completely unexpected.
Tell them to keep calling.
Thank you so much.
Oh, keep calling the number.
Make it on the bottom of the screen now-- here, here.
Yeah.
And sparkles as well.
And now, it's on fire.
Do all of those.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Thank you.