Eternal Sunshine is about memory. Charlie's upcoming Antkind, too, is about memory. "The Case of the Missing Hit" has absolutely nothing to do with Charlie, but it is an episode of the great ReplyAll podcast, and it happens to deal with memory as well. I think a lot of you would dig it.
A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, completely scrubbed from the internet. PJ takes on the Super Tech Support case.
PJ is one of the show's hosts, and he takes on the job of trying to figure out if this song ever really existed. The episode is fantastic and the conclusion is pretty incredible. Reminds me of Antkind's protagonist, who spends 700 or so pages trying to recall every frame of a movie. The guy in the podcast even goes to the trouble of recreating the entire song, including music and lyrics, himself. And, well...
Vulture calls the episode "instantly legendary" and The Guardian somewhat hysterically wonders if it's the greatest podcast episode ever. I dunno about that. (And don't read those articles yet, cos they'll spoil things.) I'm just putting it here because it's fascinating and amazing and Kaufmanesque.
