Very Optimistic

Now Hear This | May 6, 2010
In this hour of Now Hear This, we hear how South Park creator Matt Stone was rescued from heartbreak by the Velvet Fog, we’ll relive our arena rock fantasies way downtown, and we’ll find the woman responsible for all those soda pop jingles that get stuck in your head.

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