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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If I say the name fran Selenev Stellanovskovich Devi davich Sky,
what does that mean to you?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It means a whole lot. To be honest, I'm so
glad you brought this up.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I have no idea who that is?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
That is? That is one of the It's a female
player on the Global Gym Dodgeball team. Oh cool, Purple Cobras.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Sure, yeah is wait wait wait wait wait wait wait?
Is that the Foreign Exchange dodgeballer that uh, you know,
the guy from the movie Dodgeball. And she puts up
the L on the four ellis for love. You know
what I'm saying. No, he knows what I mean. No, yeah,
that's her name. She wasn't on the team ellis for love.
(00:44):
It was somebody like it was his wife or something.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I thought she was on the team with him. No, no, no,
it was the the guy. He's the geek, but he's
married to the Asian chick. And she's in the stands
watching and he's like, love you, babe, and she like
puts this up, the L on her forehead up like
los her like they would do in the early two thousands,
And they said basically like he's like, oh, it's for
love because he's oblivious to the fact that she actually
hates him. Oh that's part of the comedy.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, yeah, I think I was mixing a few things
together there that I am. I'm it's been a while
since I've seen that movie. Yeah, let me introduce you
to the team Blade Laser Blazer, my fitness consigliere Michel
and fran Stealinovskovich Davidovitchski. Is that the one with the mole?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Ha ha, see I was right.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, it's not the same one. Oh, you were talking
about somebody else speaking of things that are old and
you didn't know you needed back in your life. How
about the renaissance of an oasis? Oasis being the oasis?
Of course, Oasis the band as They have announced a
tour starting next year in the British Isles, inning a
(01:53):
fifteen year hiatus. Of course, Liam and Noel Gallagher now
in their fifties. Eh, there's more than just and stuff there.
They're brothers, and you know, family feuds. Sometimes that doesn't work.
Have you been in a rock band before there, Matt.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
As a matter of fact, I was in a band.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I've been in a couple of bands. It's hard. It's
hard to be in a band, you know why, because
everybody kind of wants a piece of that pie and
you always kind of want call it the disease of more, right,
like you can just never get enough. Like No, I
want to come up with the name for this song. No,
I want to write the lyrics for this one. No
I want to sing this one. No, I think we
should do another verse here, and everybody just pulling and
(02:33):
pulling and polling to the point where unless you have
a good working relationship where you genuinely like each other
as people, that's not going to end well. That's why
so many of the most successful bands have to kick
guys out or kick people loud, or people leave, or
they break up entirely. And you throw in the whole
family bit with Oasis here. I mean, who's to say,
(02:54):
am I right? So, Matt, you excited about the return
of the Wonderwall Boys?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now, I gotta give you my honest answer, not really,
because I'm not usually and I'm not really a big
fan personally. I find his lyrics to be monotone, and
I also find him to generally just be a big grump,
which one. I don't know one. Yeah, I guess they're
both kind of grumps, but maybe they put that behind him.
I don't know, But you know, there are some songs.
(03:22):
There was a song actually from Oasis that I heard
just a couple of months ago that I hadn't previously heard,
and I was like, oh, I like this, and I
usually don't like Oasis, but generally speaking, when an Oasis
song comes on, I changed the channel.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Wow, dang, So this is the opposite for you're like,
I didn't even notice they were gone.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Some guy screeching about Wonderwall No thanks, Hey, I like
Wonderwall is a song Leam Gallagher. He's a he's a
good singer. He's got good vocals. Wonderwall is kind of
one of those songs that you know everybody likes to
like to sing along too, right.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Can I tell you what happens when I hear that
song come on? And he said this it's got a
bay of the day. I say, not.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Today, bub, and I changed the channel. Oh that's what
If I started singing the song, would you do that
to me?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'd say not today, bub, and I changed the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You change the channel? How that is good? How's that
gonna work out?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I might get in trouble.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Not I get you. Today is gonna be today that
they're gonna throw it back to you.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Not today, Bob, change the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You can't just say that we're still on the same channel.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Just try it out everybody out there.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No, don't no, no no, don't change the cha.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Don't tell people to change it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What are you doing over there? I'm not saying this one.
I'm saying when that song comes on next, it feels great.
Trust me. When they when he starts singing that to
day is gonna be the day, just cut him right
off and say not today, bub and change the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You're such a weird person. I don't know. Like like
when when Tim wall is talking about people being weird,
he you're who he's talking about. No, I am not
his target demo in that conversation. You can say that
all you want to yourself. There's no way you know
what this is?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
How I cope? Okay? There have you ever seen what
is it? I believe it's the kids in the hall?
Oh yeah. The guy who walks outside is in the
skyscraper and he sees people off in the distance and
he just he pinches them with his finger right because
they're off in the horizon, so they're small. That's how
he copes. That's how I cope, cope with what cope
(05:12):
with reality, the harsh reality of being an adult in
this crazy time where things cost an arm and a
leg and a suitcase.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You think Liam Gallagher from like twenty five thirty years
ago is like talking to you in that song. No
you specifically it's gonna be the day, and you say, no,
it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I tell him, not today, Pal, not today, bub sorry today.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
If you're talking to like a twenty one year old
Liam Gallagher like who's on the radio, he has no idea,
you're alive. That's how you cope.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No, it's not. But I don't like the song, and
that is how I change it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Minnesota United FC, which is an MLS team based in
Saint Paul in the Twin Cities. I went up there
and watched the game. They have a big fan area
on one end. It's called the Wonderwall and it's standing only.
It's a it's a cool environment. It's great stadium. Anybody
who likes sporting events with great atmospheres, you should go
to one of these games, MLS games just in general,
(06:01):
but like Minnesota United especially because it's set up that way,
and when they win, it's karaoke Wonderwall, So everybody in
the crowd is singing Wonderwall while the team does you know,
little they do the thing, and then when they get
to the chorus, they do the big old you know,
and everybody cheers and they have smoke bombs that are
(06:22):
going off. So, like I mean, it's you just have
to be there. It changes your perception of the tune.
It's like one of these schools that likes to use
the most overrated song in the history of planet Earth.
Sweet Caroline is one of their anthems. Right, It's just
such a If you're one of those people that like
the Sweet Caroline, you had a great time singing it
(06:43):
once with a bunch of people at a sporting event
or at a party that you had a lot of
fun at or something, this generally horrible song all of
a sudden becomes a really good song to you. And
with both of these songs, I'm not even saying that
Wonderwall is that great of a song, but you look
at both of those tunes, they've grown grassroots wise because
people just like to sing them. It doesn't mean they're good.
(07:04):
It just means people like to sing them. You and me,
we're music guys. So it's a little bit tougher for
us to swallow the fact that Sweet Caroline is one
of the most overplayed pieces of crap songs of all time.
But you know what, Like, I just have to swallow
that because so many people enjoy singing it, even though
it's stupid and it makes no.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Sense, Like the lyrics doesn't make any sense, the.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Whole song doesn't make any sense. I don't even care.
You know what it is, sixteen people on the phones
right now telling me I'm stupid for this. I'm not
budget on this. If I hear Sweet Caroline zero times
the rest of my life, I wouldn't care. I wouldn't
have noticedop bop, that's what it is exactly, And it's
not even part of the song. But I mean the
instrument teases I'm not even like here to like trash
what's his face, Neil Diamond, I'm not even here to
trash that. I think he's a fine musician for his
(07:43):
time frame. I'm just it's a dumb song of all
the things that we could do like Queen did, We
Will rock You with the idea that was a participation song.
They also put shredding guitars and awesome lyrics in there
where you can absolutely rock out and the song lasts
only a couple of minutes. It's a great time. Sweet Caroline.
People in the modern day post two thousand, I would say,
(08:06):
have gone out of their way to uh, gone out
of their way to make that a participation song. Neil
Diamond didn't want that to be a participation song. He
thought he was writing a song about Sweet Caroline. Well,
it's a dumb song, and people who made it popular
meybe because it's a it's like the They made it
a version of the YMCA instead of you know, like dancing,
you're just like saying the but it's so dumb. Get
(08:28):
out of here with that crap. The Gallagher should do
way better than that. Wonder Wall, so much better than
Sweet Caroline.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
To each his own.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Dan's on her phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten, Dan, what's on your mind? Dude?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Sweet Caroline is actually a chimo song? Was that you listen?
He wrote that about Caroline Kennedy when she was like
eight or ten years old, and if you listen to
the lyrics and you think about an eight or ten
year old girl, it is really freaking creepy.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oo ew uh. All right, so so Dan, let's do it.
You and me. We're canceling Sweet Caroline right now.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
No, I canceled it years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
All right, we're canceling now though for real. Like if
you listened to Sweet Caroline, you're canceled, sporting.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Yeah, canceled out, canceled.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
They have a good day, Bud, Thanks, Ben. I mean
I can't. I don't know. Do you believe that? Do
you think wikipedi would have something on that?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, well, I'm gonna look it up in the break.
But while we do that, how about uh, I don't know.
The fiftieth caller gets a pair of tickets to Reagan.
How's that sound? Yeah? All right, fiftieth collar calls down
four two five five eight eleven ten, four two five, five,
eight eleven ten. You want to see Reagan at Marcus
Majestic Theater to not tomorrow Thursday night, Thursday night. You're
gonna want to call in right now in the fiftieth
(09:39):
dollar will win a pair of tickets on his radio
eleven ten KFAB Whoop em songer on news radio eleven
ten Kfab. He said that this was about like a
young girl, Caroline Kennedy, So I went to Wikipedia, which
I know isn't necessarily one hundred percent truth, but here's
what they say, Matt Case. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Diamond Is provided different explanations for the song's origins. In
two thousand and seven, he said the inspiration was John F.
Kennedy's daughter Caroline, who was eleven years old at the
time it was released. Diamond sang the song at her
fiftieth birthday celebration in two thousand and seven. On December
twenty one, twenty eleven, in an interview on CBS's The
Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of
(10:19):
Caroline as a young child on a horse with her
parents created an image in his mind, and the rest
of the song came together about five years after seeing
the picture. However, in twenty fourteen, Diamond said the song
is actually about his then wife Marcia, but he needed
a three syllable name to fit the melody. So I
guess the question that we all have is sweet Caroline
(10:40):
about a young girl? Or is it about his wife?
And he changed it her name in the song? Oh no, no, no,
that had my stink of the day in it. Anyway, Seriously, Wow,
what a revelation. Who knew? Now we have to go
through the lyrics where it began. I can't begin to
(11:03):
know when, but then I know it's growing strong. No,
was in the spring, and spring became the summer. Who'd
have believe you'd come along?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Hands touching, hands reaching out, touching me, touching you.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
How is this song not canceled? How is it not canceled?
Mat tell me, tell me how we're still singing this
song at live gatherings with people knowing that this is
the meaning? Will you ever hear this song the same?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
No, I'm never gonna hear it again. I'm gonna change
the channel every time it comes on. He doesn't set
you up like Liam Gallagher does in Wonderwall, though. Yeah,
such a perfect setup, that one.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But now I look at the night and it don't
seem so lonely. We fill it up with only two
And when I hurt, hurt and runs off my shoulders.
How can I hurt when holding you? Neil diamonds. What
do you doing?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Tell you?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
This is about Caroline Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This is the wow warm, touching warm, reaching out, touching me,
touching you, and.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Then everybody sings. You can stop at any time. Hey,
it's not me, it's not me. This song has been
according to Jason, which I'm sure Jason the statute of
limitations is gone now, but he says, Carol Sweet Caroline
was a bar song all the way back in the
early nineties when I may or may not have been
using a fake ideed to get into the bar. So
there you go. How about that either way. Wow, that's
(12:34):
pretty crazy.
If I say the name fran Selenev Stellanovskovich Devi davich Sky,
what does that mean to you?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It means a whole lot. To be honest, I'm so
glad you brought this up.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I have no idea who that is?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
That is? That is one of the It's a female
player on the Global Gym Dodgeball team. Oh cool, Purple Cobras.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Sure, yeah is wait wait wait wait wait wait wait?
Is that the Foreign Exchange dodgeballer that uh, you know,
the guy from the movie Dodgeball. And she puts up
the L on the four ellis for love. You know
what I'm saying. No, he knows what I mean. No, yeah,
that's her name. She wasn't on the team ellis for love.
(00:44):
It was somebody like it was his wife or something.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I thought she was on the team with him. No, no, no,
it was the the guy. He's the geek, but he's
married to the Asian chick. And she's in the stands
watching and he's like, love you, babe, and she like
puts this up, the L on her forehead up like
los her like they would do in the early two thousands,
And they said basically like he's like, oh, it's for
love because he's oblivious to the fact that she actually
hates him. Oh that's part of the comedy.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, yeah, I think I was mixing a few things
together there that I am. I'm it's been a while
since I've seen that movie. Yeah, let me introduce you
to the team Blade Laser Blazer, my fitness consigliere Michel
and fran Stealinovskovich Davidovitchski. Is that the one with the mole?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Ha ha, see I was right.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, it's not the same one. Oh, you were talking
about somebody else speaking of things that are old and
you didn't know you needed back in your life. How
about the renaissance of an oasis? Oasis being the oasis?
Of course, Oasis the band as They have announced a
tour starting next year in the British Isles, inning a
(01:53):
fifteen year hiatus. Of course, Liam and Noel Gallagher now
in their fifties. Eh, there's more than just and stuff there.
They're brothers, and you know, family feuds. Sometimes that doesn't work.
Have you been in a rock band before there, Matt.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
As a matter of fact, I was in a band.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I've been in a couple of bands. It's hard. It's
hard to be in a band, you know why, because
everybody kind of wants a piece of that pie and
you always kind of want call it the disease of more, right,
like you can just never get enough. Like No, I
want to come up with the name for this song. No,
I want to write the lyrics for this one. No
I want to sing this one. No, I think we
should do another verse here, and everybody just pulling and
(02:33):
pulling and polling to the point where unless you have
a good working relationship where you genuinely like each other
as people, that's not going to end well. That's why
so many of the most successful bands have to kick
guys out or kick people loud, or people leave, or
they break up entirely. And you throw in the whole
family bit with Oasis here. I mean, who's to say,
(02:54):
am I right? So, Matt, you excited about the return
of the Wonderwall Boys?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now, I gotta give you my honest answer, not really,
because I'm not usually and I'm not really a big
fan personally. I find his lyrics to be monotone, and
I also find him to generally just be a big grump,
which one. I don't know one. Yeah, I guess they're
both kind of grumps, but maybe they put that behind him.
I don't know, But you know, there are some songs.
(03:22):
There was a song actually from Oasis that I heard
just a couple of months ago that I hadn't previously heard,
and I was like, oh, I like this, and I
usually don't like Oasis, but generally speaking, when an Oasis
song comes on, I changed the channel.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Wow, dang, So this is the opposite for you're like,
I didn't even notice they were gone.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Some guy screeching about Wonderwall No thanks, Hey, I like
Wonderwall is a song Leam Gallagher. He's a he's a
good singer. He's got good vocals. Wonderwall is kind of
one of those songs that you know everybody likes to
like to sing along too, right.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Can I tell you what happens when I hear that
song come on? And he said this it's got a
bay of the day. I say, not.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Today, bub, and I changed the channel. Oh that's what
If I started singing the song, would you do that
to me?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'd say not today, bub, and I changed the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You change the channel? How that is good? How's that
gonna work out?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I might get in trouble.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Not I get you. Today is gonna be today that
they're gonna throw it back to you.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Not today, Bob, change the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You can't just say that we're still on the same channel.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Just try it out everybody out there.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No, don't no, no no, don't change the cha.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Don't tell people to change it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What are you doing over there? I'm not saying this one.
I'm saying when that song comes on next, it feels great.
Trust me. When they when he starts singing that to
day is gonna be the day, just cut him right
off and say not today, bub and change the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You're such a weird person. I don't know. Like like
when when Tim wall is talking about people being weird,
he you're who he's talking about. No, I am not
his target demo in that conversation. You can say that
all you want to yourself. There's no way you know
what this is?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
How I cope? Okay? There have you ever seen what
is it? I believe it's the kids in the hall?
Oh yeah. The guy who walks outside is in the
skyscraper and he sees people off in the distance and
he just he pinches them with his finger right because
they're off in the horizon, so they're small. That's how
he copes. That's how I cope, cope with what cope
(05:12):
with reality, the harsh reality of being an adult in
this crazy time where things cost an arm and a
leg and a suitcase.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You think Liam Gallagher from like twenty five thirty years
ago is like talking to you in that song. No
you specifically it's gonna be the day, and you say, no,
it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I tell him, not today, Pal, not today, bub sorry today.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
If you're talking to like a twenty one year old
Liam Gallagher like who's on the radio, he has no idea,
you're alive. That's how you cope.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No, it's not. But I don't like the song, and
that is how I change it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Minnesota United FC, which is an MLS team based in
Saint Paul in the Twin Cities. I went up there
and watched the game. They have a big fan area
on one end. It's called the Wonderwall and it's standing only.
It's a it's a cool environment. It's great stadium. Anybody
who likes sporting events with great atmospheres, you should go
to one of these games, MLS games just in general,
(06:01):
but like Minnesota United especially because it's set up that way,
and when they win, it's karaoke Wonderwall, So everybody in
the crowd is singing Wonderwall while the team does you know,
little they do the thing, and then when they get
to the chorus, they do the big old you know,
and everybody cheers and they have smoke bombs that are
(06:22):
going off. So, like I mean, it's you just have
to be there. It changes your perception of the tune.
It's like one of these schools that likes to use
the most overrated song in the history of planet Earth.
Sweet Caroline is one of their anthems. Right, It's just
such a If you're one of those people that like
the Sweet Caroline, you had a great time singing it
(06:43):
once with a bunch of people at a sporting event
or at a party that you had a lot of
fun at or something, this generally horrible song all of
a sudden becomes a really good song to you. And
with both of these songs, I'm not even saying that
Wonderwall is that great of a song, but you look
at both of those tunes, they've grown grassroots wise because
people just like to sing them. It doesn't mean they're good.
(07:04):
It just means people like to sing them. You and me,
we're music guys. So it's a little bit tougher for
us to swallow the fact that Sweet Caroline is one
of the most overplayed pieces of crap songs of all time.
But you know what, Like, I just have to swallow
that because so many people enjoy singing it, even though
it's stupid and it makes no.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Sense, Like the lyrics doesn't make any sense, the.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Whole song doesn't make any sense. I don't even care.
You know what it is, sixteen people on the phones
right now telling me I'm stupid for this. I'm not
budget on this. If I hear Sweet Caroline zero times
the rest of my life, I wouldn't care. I wouldn't
have noticedop bop, that's what it is exactly, And it's
not even part of the song. But I mean the
instrument teases I'm not even like here to like trash
what's his face, Neil Diamond, I'm not even here to
trash that. I think he's a fine musician for his
(07:43):
time frame. I'm just it's a dumb song of all
the things that we could do like Queen did, We
Will rock You with the idea that was a participation song.
They also put shredding guitars and awesome lyrics in there
where you can absolutely rock out and the song lasts
only a couple of minutes. It's a great time. Sweet Caroline.
People in the modern day post two thousand, I would say,
(08:06):
have gone out of their way to uh, gone out
of their way to make that a participation song. Neil
Diamond didn't want that to be a participation song. He
thought he was writing a song about Sweet Caroline. Well,
it's a dumb song, and people who made it popular
meybe because it's a it's like the They made it
a version of the YMCA instead of you know, like dancing,
you're just like saying the but it's so dumb. Get
(08:28):
out of here with that crap. The Gallagher should do
way better than that. Wonder Wall, so much better than
Sweet Caroline.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
To each his own.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Dan's on her phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten, Dan, what's on your mind? Dude?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Sweet Caroline is actually a chimo song? Was that you listen?
He wrote that about Caroline Kennedy when she was like
eight or ten years old, and if you listen to
the lyrics and you think about an eight or ten
year old girl, it is really freaking creepy.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oo ew uh. All right, so so Dan, let's do it.
You and me. We're canceling Sweet Caroline right now.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
No, I canceled it years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
All right, we're canceling now though for real. Like if
you listened to Sweet Caroline, you're canceled, sporting.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Yeah, canceled out, canceled.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
They have a good day, Bud, Thanks, Ben. I mean
I can't. I don't know. Do you believe that? Do
you think wikipedi would have something on that?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, well, I'm gonna look it up in the break.
But while we do that, how about uh, I don't know.
The fiftieth caller gets a pair of tickets to Reagan.
How's that sound? Yeah? All right, fiftieth collar calls down
four two five five eight eleven ten, four two five, five,
eight eleven ten. You want to see Reagan at Marcus
Majestic Theater to not tomorrow Thursday night, Thursday night. You're
gonna want to call in right now in the fiftieth
(09:39):
dollar will win a pair of tickets on his radio
eleven ten KFAB Whoop em songer on news radio eleven
ten Kfab. He said that this was about like a
young girl, Caroline Kennedy, So I went to Wikipedia, which
I know isn't necessarily one hundred percent truth, but here's
what they say, Matt Case. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Diamond Is provided different explanations for the song's origins. In
two thousand and seven, he said the inspiration was John F.
Kennedy's daughter Caroline, who was eleven years old at the
time it was released. Diamond sang the song at her
fiftieth birthday celebration in two thousand and seven. On December
twenty one, twenty eleven, in an interview on CBS's The
Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of
(10:19):
Caroline as a young child on a horse with her
parents created an image in his mind, and the rest
of the song came together about five years after seeing
the picture. However, in twenty fourteen, Diamond said the song
is actually about his then wife Marcia, but he needed
a three syllable name to fit the melody. So I
guess the question that we all have is sweet Caroline
(10:40):
about a young girl? Or is it about his wife?
And he changed it her name in the song? Oh no, no, no,
that had my stink of the day in it. Anyway, Seriously, Wow,
what a revelation. Who knew? Now we have to go
through the lyrics where it began. I can't begin to
(11:03):
know when, but then I know it's growing strong. No,
was in the spring, and spring became the summer. Who'd
have believe you'd come along?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Hands touching, hands reaching out, touching me, touching you.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
How is this song not canceled? How is it not canceled?
Mat tell me, tell me how we're still singing this
song at live gatherings with people knowing that this is
the meaning? Will you ever hear this song the same?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
No, I'm never gonna hear it again. I'm gonna change
the channel every time it comes on. He doesn't set
you up like Liam Gallagher does in Wonderwall, though. Yeah,
such a perfect setup, that one.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But now I look at the night and it don't
seem so lonely. We fill it up with only two
And when I hurt, hurt and runs off my shoulders.
How can I hurt when holding you? Neil diamonds. What
do you doing?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Tell you?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
This is about Caroline Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This is the wow warm, touching warm, reaching out, touching me,
touching you, and.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Then everybody sings. You can stop at any time. Hey,
it's not me, it's not me. This song has been
according to Jason, which I'm sure Jason the statute of
limitations is gone now, but he says, Carol Sweet Caroline
was a bar song all the way back in the
early nineties when I may or may not have been
using a fake ideed to get into the bar. So
there you go. How about that either way. Wow, that's
(12:34):
pretty crazy.
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