🦁 We Just Learnt What The Lion King's Opening Lyrics Actually Mean

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast, I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Going to play you a very very famous piece of music.
And when you hear this, it's very hard not to
get absolute chills. It's from a very famous movie as well.
The film is The Lion King and this is the
birth of the baby Simba and the symbolism of being
raised into the air. You know this song?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, the months.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's goosebump material, isn't it. It's easy to a little
bit weepy to hear it.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's a big deal. It's a big deal about it.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, it is a big deal. Well, there's a podcast
called one fifty four that celebrates language, culture, and heritage
of all the African nations, and just recently a man
called learn More Janassi was a guest on this podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's his name.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Often in African nations people can have names like gracious
or goodfellow. You know that they have those kinds of
character traits his name, So this was a learn More
Gennassi and he has broken down what this song actually means.
Prepared to be stunned.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, what does it mean? Look, there's a lion, Oh
my god, joking, there's a lion. My god, there's a lion.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
That's it. That's it, and that's not that's not a joke.
They are the lyrics for that very being. Look, it's
a lion as holds up baby Simba Sky.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Because you would be saying that you have monkey and
you're holding a baby lion, only it's small. Hold up
more fast and that scar scar is a piece of work.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well interesting though, because what an interesting translation. I wonder
if learn More Gennassi would be able to translate this
me rob travel, I earn more, get back to us.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
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