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Tony Wheeler ▶ 14:32 · Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017) · Jul 9, 2018

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q How did you come up with, with, with the name Lonely Planet?

A There, there's a story behind that. We, We'd got the book done, you know, we had, we had everything, we had a title for it. It was across Asia on the cheap, but we didn't have a title for the, the publishing house, a name for the publishing house, and we'd been out at a restaurant and drinking too much red wine, and we'd just been to see the rock and roll band on the road film, Mad Dogs and Englishmen. It was Joe Cocker and Leon Russell traveling around the US in the late sixties. It's a great film, and one of the songs in that, that That movie and that, that album is Joe Cocker singing a song called Space Captain, and the first line of the song goes, once while traveling across the sky, this lonely planet caught my eye. And I said to Maureen, I was humming the song, hey, that sounds nice, why don't we call the company Lonely Planet? To which Maureen said,

AI assessment note: “one of the songs... is Joe Cocker singing a song called Space Captain”

Tony Wheeler ▶ 16:48 · Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017) · Jul 9, 2018

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q And at this point, Tony, did you think, this is it? I think this is what we're gonna do.

A No, I, I still think, you know, we, we realized we'd sort of, we'd found a sweet spot. We found, we were doing something that people really liked. But, you know, one of the things I've said a lot over the years is it, it wasn't like your .com or, you know, social media set up these days. They start on one day, and a week later they're worth a billion dollars. Um, that wasn't us at all. We, our business grew very slowly, and I think it was, it was more like the snowball rolling downhill. You've got to keep pushing it at first, and then it starts to develop momentum and starts to get larger as it rolls down the hill.

AI assessment note: “No, I, I still think, you know, we, we realized we'd sort of”

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