When You Hear THAT Song

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And how about that banger of a think song from the Pepper Spray singers? Always good to have them bring the jams for us. From what I can hear of it anyhow. You know, as you know, if you listen to the pod, I have Crohn's disease and one of the things that does happen to me sometimes is I lose the hearing in my left ear. It's. It's it's hard to explain. The doctors have not been able to explain it to me, at least from what I hear on the right side. And the thing is, it just, you know, woke up at 3am and had my ear wouldn't pop. And I spent the entire three o'clock hour trying to like pop and clear and normally it just it will, you know, it does. It's just not. And this is a problem that I've had before. I don't know what to tell you. I've spoken to the doctors about this and, you know, I am. I'm anemic currently, so I do need some iron, need some blood pumping and, you know, hopefully once I get that here soon, I'll be able to hear again. But man, right now I'll tell you what, I am only hearing you out of the right side. And it is, it messes with you. It messes with the, with the equilibrium. That's for damn sure. So we're going to give it our best Johnny. We, there's no stop to this baby. This train just keeps on moving whether you can hear on the right, on the left, out of both. Or if you're just reading along, I guess. This train just keeps on going. Oh, well, boy does it suck. But today's episode, we've got something that I know you, everybody has dealt with. And that's not hearing loss. No, this is the quite opposite. This is something you've listened to. Something that you've heard. Okay. It's something that's very powerful. So it's very dangerous. And that's hearing a song for the first time and immediately deciding that's who you are now. You know, you ever heard just, you've heard a song and you're like, this is it. I've never felt more attached to a song ever in my life. This is me. Suddenly, it's not just music. It's your personality. It's your identity. It can become your whole brand at some point. And for the next two weeks, you're basically a walking Spotify playlist with just the one track on it. I had that happen to me, guys. That song is radio by the Alkaline Trio. And let me tell you something. It was a feeling of familiarity that you can only have with something special. Like I was listening to it. It just, it was one of those things where you played a song and I don't even remember what song I played, but it was on Spotify. And then once that song was done playing, you know, it started generating a playlist of songs that it thinks I will like or like artists or whatever. And radio comes on. And I instantly had this feeling of. I know this song, but I didn't know this song. Like I felt like I freaking wrote the song. Like I just wanted to sing along, but I didn't know the words. And my brain just couldn't handle easing into it. Like I had to have it all at once. Like my brain was like, Oh, this is the greatest thing I've ever created. Cancel everything. No plans. Cancel everything. Responsibilities are relevant. You have a personality before this song. Not anymore. It is radio. And now I'm just the guy walking around screaming. If you've heard the song. Thanks, Johnny. But this is it. This is my entire contribution to society now is like listening to this song and talking about this song. And then the song isn't even what this episode's about. This episode is just about that feeling, you know, that feeling of hearing something, seeing something and just knowing. You want that just injected straight into your veins as bad as I need iron right now. That's how bad you need that song. Just injected into your veins. That first listen, man. That first listen is magical. You don't know when it's coming. Like you're just not ready for it. You're just going about your life. And you're like, all right, new song starts. Never heard of it before. I'll give it a try. Here you see the title. I don't know this one. I don't know this one. Four minutes and 40 seconds later, I'm staring into space like I just saw a ghost. Like I just where has the song been my whole life? And then immediately, why hasn't anybody told me about this? Like it's somebody's fault. Like it's everybody's fault, frankly. This song came out 26 years ago. People have been enjoying it, living their normal lives. And I just discovered it like it's like I found fire. So I immediately, I do what we everybody should do, right? I immediately send the song to my main group chat. That's with Kyle and Eric. I said it to them. And of course, Kyle's been listening to this shit since middle school. The disappointment I had in not knowing this song for the past 20 years, I know could be felt through that text. And the blame, the blame I wanted to put on him. Then comes the loop. You don't listen to the song once. No, no, no. You listen to it over and over and over again. You even listen to the song so many times you start noticing things that aren't even real. He's like, you hear that? No. Exactly. That's what makes it brilliant. He just start creating instruments that are in the song parts of the the symphony within. It's beautiful. You're in your car playing in a repeat. Like you're just studying for an exam. You just have to know every single moment by the 10th listen, you're singing along by the 20th listen, you're performing it by the 30th listen. I'm pretty much a part of the band now. And what sucks is Matt Schema, the singer of Fracklein Trio is someone I actively avoided out of spite. Like Schema. All right. So he took over for Tom DeLong and Blink-22 and Tom left the band if you didn't know. So I held that for no reason, just stupidity. I held that against Schema. Tom's the one that left the band, but I held it against Schema for no reason of his own. And I just never got into those other Blink records or even Alkaline Trio. I just held it against him. Then Tom comes back to the band and then I started listening to Schema stuff. So I listened to all the old blank. I started listening to a little Alkaline Trio. I missed out, dude. And I'm, and Johnny, I'm ready to acknowledge that I was wrong. I should have been listening to it all along and I should have appreciated Matt Schema for the awesome songwriter and musician that he is. I look forward to seeing him play live this year. I just, I did, I did hold that against him. I feel really, really bad about it. Once you get through that, it's now then it's the personality shift. This is where things get really weird because now the song starts affecting like how I act, like you ever change your entire vibe because of one song. You start walking different, talking different. You're looking at the window more just just thinking, just visualizing, thinking about that song. Even if there's nothing out there, you're just staring dramatically at a gas station parking lot. Like, yeah, this song gets me. Like, you don't even know what the song means yet, but it gets you. You start dressing like the song. Like, I don't know how you dress like a song, but I've tried. Trust me. I've tried to just completely flip my whole wardrobe and be like, this is it. Like suddenly you need a jacket. You're just going to wear a jacket everywhere you go, even though it's Nebraska and the humidity at 72 is enough to wear shorts. I don't care. This is a jacket song. I walk with a limp now. No reason to walk with a limp. But man, this song fucks. Yeah. It's a feeling like no other. Of course, you got to force it on to others. You can't just sit on this all by yourself. You got to become that person. You know, the one the one where you constantly say, you have to hear this. Your text of people links. I mean, that was literally the first thing I did was send the link to Kyle Nair. Yeah, listen to this. If they don't respond, I always follow up with the, did you listen? Then you got to follow up with. So what do you think you got? We have to talk about the song. Did it change your life? Like it changed mine. Thing is, if they don't convert, if they don't have the back and forth, you're certainly harassing people about music and that's, you don't want to be that guy. But that's what happens when you just, you have this feeling. You're like one step away from just showing up their house and just like sit down, we're going to do this together. And then they listen to it. Like, yeah, it's good. What do they good? Good? This song changed to him as a person for the next 14 days and you're giving me good people who are on the flip side of this. If you were engaging here with somebody who has just had their life completely changed by a song and they asked you to listen to it, give them more than good. Okay. Just we don't need, you don't need to be the topic of discussion and at their therapy session. Because you said the song was, yeah, it's good. There's more to it than this. Okay. It goes deep. This brings us to this last weekend. Okay. It's been a little trip in Chicago. So I'm out there, my brother Kyle, we're at this record shop. And apparently, apparently the record store that we were at, had the alkaline trio vinyl that this song's on. Kyle saw it. He looked at it. He made eye contact with it. And he said nothing. He said nothing. But he definitely said something at dinner an hour or two later. He goes, oh yeah, they had that vinyl back in the store. He said, oh yeah, they had that vinyl back there. I'm asking him what he bought. And all they had that alkaline trio radio. Well, excuse me. You mean to tell me while I was inside the building, breathing the same air as this vinyl, we just walked away. Like that's not a missed opportunity, dude. That's a crime. That's a felony in at least three states. And I don't know which ones, but it felt wrong. Like you ever miss out on something that just ruins your entire day. So I'm sitting there at dinner, hungry as hell. And I'm like, I could have had the, I could have had this record. Like this song has changed my life right. It is my life right now. And I don't own it. Instant regret. Kyle claims he didn't know where I was to tell me, but here's the thing. This record store was like the size of a small apartment. So he was close enough. He could have smelled my farts like that. He had to have known where I was at in the building. It wouldn't have taken much to look up. So this dinner was at Geodanos in Chicago. So we're out the restaurant thinking about the vinyl, but then the food arrives. And that's when the vibe changes just a little bit because I just had the most amazing Italian beef sandwich I have ever had in my life. Like you ever watch the show, the bear and the bears restaurant, you know, it's the beef store, you know, he's got the, he's got the little sandwich, a drive up window or walk up window or whatever. Incredible sandwich. I could only imagine this taste. Like that sandwich, like it just, it had to. So incredible. Perfect mix with bell peppers and spicy peppers. Juicy, messy. You got to dip that baby in aju. You need like eight napkins and a backup t-shirt. The sandwich did not have a good taste. The sandwich didn't just feed me. It healed me from the wound of not having radio on vinyl for at least five minutes. I could totally live in bliss without knowing I didn't have that vinyl. I mean, that's how good the sandwich is. Like the sandwich is competing with the song. Like it was, it was a back and forth. I had two obsessions. This was when I could hear out of both ears. I had one that had the sandwich in one ear and I had the radio in the other ear. So now I'm like, do I, do I go back to the vinyl shop? Do I get this record or I order another sandwich? I mean, honestly, perfection would have been both. Pure happiness. This is the kind of beef that you dream of and are desperate to find once you get back home. I'm going to try every beef in Omaha until I find one of the comparison to your Dono's. I mean, it was that freaking good. All weekend. Just dreaming about getting this beef. Support for the show comes from public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On public, you can build a multi asset portfolio of stocks, bonds, options, crypto, and now generated assets, which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with AI. It all starts with your prompt from renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers, growing revenue over 20% year over year. 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This episode of laugh with me, Jeremy Odom is brought to you by the Italian beef sandwich, not a brand, not a chain, just the sandwich, because sometimes food is so good, it just doesn't need marketing. It just needs a warning label caution may change life expectations permanently. Let me explain something. You ever eat something so good, it ruins every other version of that food forever. That's this sandwich. Before this, I thought I liked sandwiches. I didn't. I was in a relationship with sandwiches. This, this is marriage. This is a commitment. This is me looking at every future meal. Like, yeah, but isn't Italian beef? Because if it's not, what are we even doing here? This sandwich has everything. Juicy beef, perfect bread. That magical moment where it's somehow both soggy and still holding together like it has a stronger work ethic than your manager. Oh, you take one bite and suddenly you understand things about yourself. You weren't ready to face. Well, I've been settling, not just for food, for everything. Your job, your hobbies, your personality. This sandwich is a wake up call. Italian beef sandwich, because you deserve something better than whatever you were eating before. Side effects may include ordering a second one immediately, judging other people's food choices, googling how to move closer to the sandwich, calling your family just to say you don't understand. And the biggest side effect of all, you will never trust the menu again, because now you know that's possible and nothing else measures up. I tell you beef sandwich, it's not just a meal. It's a turning point. But this is the peak. This is when the song fully takes over your life now. You wake up thinking about it. You go to sleep with it playing and I do. You accidentally start quoting lyrics in normal conversation. Somebody's like, how's your day going? You and you and I and I respond with I've got a big fat fucking bone to pick with you, my darling. Like they're like, okay, just wanted to know what coffee you wanted. You just don't hear anything else. Every other song is now garbage. Like Spotify tries to play something else and you're just like, no, we don't do that anymore. We're a radio only household. But eventually, eventually it fades. Not completely, but slowly. You'll start listening to other songs again. You regain your personality. You remember who you once were before the song. It does stay with you, though. It becomes one of those songs. The ones you go back to years later and go, oh, yeah, this one. And then suddenly you're back. There's just something very special and get very weird about that couple of weeks. It instantly becomes like a checkpoint in life, like a core memory of sorts. Any time I want to remember it. I just turned on radio by Alclan Trio. So if you're in that phase right now, where one song has taken over your entire existence, just embrace it. Tell everybody, be annoying, send the link. Listen to it 40 times in a row, because honestly, that's one of the best parts about music. But if you do happen to see that vinyl in a record shop, freaking buy it immediately and don't trust your brother to tell you about it later. Thank you, Johnny. That's what he did to me was criminal. Criminal. If you guys, I don't know, maybe some of you are listening to have that song, have that feeling right now, maybe you're in the midst of your two week run with a song. I don't know that I'm ready for another one. So if you're in that mix, don't send it to me. I know I just told you, send the link. Tell everybody, don't tell me I'm. I'm just not ready. Like I'm, I'm still feeling the effects of radio. Like I'm trying to think of it. I'm still trying to figure out how to go back and get that record. I'm just kidding. Gotta tell me what is the song? I'm ready to. Let it laugh with me. 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