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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You get a song stuck in your head. I mean
it's pretty simple, like you just got right how what
number one? Oh that happens to you all the time? Yes,
do you currently have one?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Not right now?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yesterday it was that country rap getting tipsy song.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Oh shaboozy, Yeah, yeah, you know what, Yeah, Shaboozy is tipsy.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, a bar song.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I bet that one's I bet that's a pretty popular.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
One right now.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I was trying to think, like I don't have one
right now, Like when I say right now, like today,
I don't know the last one that I had, I do.
I mean it probably was I do know that over
the weekend because they use shaboozie a lot in or
tipsy a lot, like during college football. So I had
game day on this weekend. So I bet at some
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point that popped through my head. But yeah, I would bet.
And by the way, they do say for the most part,
for the most part, it's songs that people like. It's
a song that you've heard recently. They're for the most part,
they are up tempo, catchy songs, or they have long
extended notes.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know which one. They say.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
At the example they gave for long extended notes that
get stuck in people's heads, which I will say, I
don't think has ever been in an earworm for me.
I will always love you by Whitney Houston Wow because
of that long ah. So they'll say that'll get stuck
in yes, sing it, Candy, you got it girl?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
All right?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh no, it's no longer going to be counting. It's
going to be lyrics, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Hold tight one second, Candy, hold on one second for me,
Hold on one thank you, hold on one second.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I can't remember the last one I had. It's been
a while.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I learned yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
There are people that, like I would like, hey, Christian,
will you do favor? Will you find me somebody that
has one? Like right now?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
They do say that when you talk about them, you
tend to get them immediately exactly right.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
No, they do say, like sometimes it's a trigger.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
But to me, that Whitney one's not gonna get suck
in my head now, No, zero, I ever heard that
that the longer a note is held out or sung,
that that sticks in your head.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
They'll say, well, let me go back. I'd love to
talk to someone who has one right now. Like again,
I don't remember the last one it was. I do
remember maybe it was Tipsy from over the weekend that
may have gotten stuck in my head at some point.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And I do like that song. I told you I
want to do something with Shaboozie.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Anyway, the uh, I just remembered my last one?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh what was it? What was?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And well, hold on, let me finish, Let me finish.
They said that sometimes people will get it once a week.
They said a lot of people get an earworm every
single day.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That's kind of a candy.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, it candy kind of alluded to that every single day.
I definitely don't have an earworm every single day.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
No, what does that mean if you have one every
single day?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Nothing like, it's not bad. It's not like they say, like, well,
I'm sorry, go ahead, Diane, what is yours?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Chapel roone?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
That was going to be my example. Oh really, you
can take me hot to go and I have to dance.
That's the worst part. When your earworm has choreography.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I would bet.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I would bet chapel rone is pretty is pretty common
right now the whole catalog, especially not to go.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yes, probably, I would say that's probably.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Up there snapping clap and touch your toes the every day.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That would drive me nuts.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And they say that they happened for and they'll tell
you scientists don't really know or or studiers that's not
what they go by. But people who study it, they
don't really know why it happens. They don't know why
it happens that you bad. No, no, no, nobody.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Said it's bad.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It's it's not like it did something wrong, but they'll
say a lot of times it happens. Number one, when
people start talking about them. Number Two, your mind starts
to wander, and it could be because you're not doing
anything or you're doing something like if somebody is doing
One of the examples they gave is if you're doing
like a puzzle, not not like like literally sitting down
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and doing a jigsaw puzzle, but like if you're working
on like a puzzle or playing solitaire or something like that,
that part of your mind will start to wander. The
part that's not focused on the brain is vast, so
it'll start to focus and then all of a sudden
that part of the brain isn't getting used. But that
part of the brain is what stores the earworms, and
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then it comes.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
There was a video that one of my friends from
college just sent us. Her child just went to pre
K I believe it was first time this past week,
and his teacher sent her a video of the child
just walking here on the playground with a stick, not
really digging, but just sort of feeling his way around,
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and he's humming hot to go oh. And the teachers
thought it was hysterical. But you just and it's mindless activity.
And you hear.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Them, was he doing the choreography?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, the loser, un teach him. Yeah, so the mind,
the mind wanders. It's just kind of again. You could
be focused, but that part of your mind wanders. And
they said for a lot of people that throws them
off because they're like, no, no, no, I'm doing something.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm doing something. Why is that in there? The long note?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I can't think of the only one that comes
to mind because it was in the story is which
has never been ever been an earworm for me neither
Probably it'll get stuck in my head today, but I
can't think of another one that has like a long
drawn out note like that. And then the other one
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is it could be like something that reminds you like
they said either a sound or an event. Now the sound,
and I'll just use a use Tipsy for it where
there's that part of the song where it sounds like
he's stomping. If somebody hears like somebody stomping on wood,
it could trigger you to go to like, oh tipsy,
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or if it ties to something you did, like for example,
what did I have? Oh, I grilled fish last night,
So maybe the next time that I grill fish, I'll
remember Jackie and I arguing about Dave Grohl. So that'll
get me to some Foo Fighter song. So it could
be something off of that.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Now, would you rather have the daily earworm or would
you rather have the same earworm for multiple days?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I don't think I've had it for multiple days.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't think I've ever had it, gone to bed
and woke up and still I'm getting after it.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I don't feel like mine last that long.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I think I can go a day or two.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
With the same one.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Really, I'll tell you what I'm really about now is
because it was used as the example. But now I
can't get Jack Daniels and I got a history out
of my head.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Because I'll be singing shaboozy all day.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well, a lot of people have good examples.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Oh, give me one, give me one, give me one.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well, actually, you mentioned Josh earlier.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Oh what is it? A loser by Beck? I'm kidding Josh,
I like.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
He said, please, please please. Sabrina Carpenter is a constant
earworm for me.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, you know what I could see that, I could
see that I can see that is it? Is it
regular or does he have? I don't want one every day?
My brain can't handle that, at least the people who
never get them. But that's a popular song. There are
people mentioning songs that are so old. Where are what's
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triggering that to pop up in their head on a
regular basis? Give you an example of one of those
Billy Ray ciris. I'm assuming ah he breaky heart?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yes, no, deep cut?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Is it something?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Where there are they on heart medication and they know like, oh,
I have to take my heart medications.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
How I remember?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, And while I'm taking my pills, don't tell my heart.
I don't know. I'm trying to get you there.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Looks like somebody has to choreograph while singing the song
because Kristen's getting after it.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I bet she gets some good ones.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Line six, Hi, Yelli at the morning, Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Hi, who's this? My name is Aleisha, I'm from Merchman.
Yeah you got one. Yeah the YMCA.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
My kid just started daycare there and she.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Didn't know there was a song about it, and so
I played it for her.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And ever since the last week and a half it's.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Been that.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
It's gone to day it.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
All day very good.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I have no I have no fear of that getting
stuck in my head. I have no fear of that.
Thank you man, thank you, thank you. I will say this,
I'd rather it be current than.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Old, so ace of bass would be bad for you?
Well mayeh?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Is that like I'm driving down the freeway and you're like, oh,
there's the sign.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Saw the sign? It opened? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But how did I don't understand how that one comes
into play? Obviously they point out Rick Astley or are
these people saying it gets me to Rick Roll, which
gets me to Foo Fighters and now I'm back fighting
with Jackie because of fish.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Are these people saying when they hear that song, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That it gets stuck? Yes? Maybe I mean that is
part of it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Also, because Tammy writes, I wake up almost every day
with a random song in my head. It may not
say there all day, but there is always a random
one playing in the morning.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
When they wake up. That would drive me nuts.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Do you think that's tied to like the subconscious and dreams?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Do you wake up thinking about a song?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I wake up thinking I hope I make it to
the bathroom. And wow, this one kind of hurts. Like
those are the two things that go through my head,
like I gotta go. I don't wake up with a
song in my head that times. I wake up with
my my sheets soaking wet.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Now I'm now, I got Bruce.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I didn't finish the name. It's that bitch Becky.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
All you heard me say was that bitch?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh? Was I a Mike?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yes, I must be talking about the debate.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
No, that bitch Becky woke up with Forever Young in
her head today Alphaville.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh God, I.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Don't have it cued up. No, I have to find
it here.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
By the way, great song, though, great song. I got
drunk a lot with that song playing in the background.
You know what, that song reminds me of sex on
the beach, not having it bring it? Yeah, I don't
know why, but that song reminds me of sex on
the beach.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Are you sure it's Alphaville?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah? Why who else sang forever Young?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh God?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
This every day this is in your head.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I would kill myself. No the Alphaville song.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
No, that's not it.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Okay, that's rot.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Let me look for it, look for it, Okay, I
have it ready?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Go.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, yes, for.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
That case, she'd probably never sad Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know who else? You used to drink a ton
of sex on.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The beach to this handicap Vince, I haven't couldn't wait,
you're only watching this. I swear to God if this
gets stuck in my head, I swear that God will.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Be angry, though it could be.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh God, what a horrible song? Why would you ever
get a rod horrible? Yes it is, Yes, Elliott, you're
gonna get Rod Stewart unless it's Young Turks because I'm
dancing on the hood of your car and you're gonna
get young Turks.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Okay, but what else?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Here we go?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Great song, great song. I hope this gets stuck in
my head. Many song sounds.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
A little David sit right now?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
The song the.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Pocket somehow, some way, it's gotta get.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I can't where am I going?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Why would just get stuck in anybody? No, it's not,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It is, but I don't need to hear it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But I don't want old song stuck in my head.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Then stop thinking about sir.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Oh, Maggie, Ma, Maggie, No, no, no, although you know
what Maggie may is slow?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You know the song that just popped in my head
for being a slow old song? Pink Houses? Oh God,
I know right? Or is it small town house?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Faster than?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I Will always love you the Remember that song is
just for the long that's just for the long note
which there are no other examples of line eight.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Hi, Elliott the morning?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Is this me?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah? Hi?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Who's this? Hi?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Amanda calling from Tyson's corner?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And by the way, I haven't even gotten to the
best part of this study. Yes, Amanda, what can I
do for you?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I've had a random song stuck in my head, the
theme song to Malcolm in the Middle, don't know why
You're not the boss of me now?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And it's driving me crazy?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
How long?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Wait? How long has that been stuck in your head?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
At least three or four days.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Oh my god, do you always? Do you feel like
you always have an earworm?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, they said that's common, that's common. I don't. Thank God,
Thank God, You're lucky. All right, very good, Thank you, ma'am.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
From Hugh. Like the other listener, I have a song
in my head every morning until I hit the shower.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Say which one was today?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Does not? From danielle O MG. I woke up in
the middle of the night or from sleeping with a
different song playing in my head every morning when I
was pregnant. Oh, Hugh, you.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Got a bun of me of it? Oh and now
I can't think of it now that I think back,
I think the last earworm that I had, But now
I can't think of the I can't think of the
I'm singing it in my head, but I can't think
of the title.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
It was a Morgan Wallin song.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
God damn it very heavy on up bag country right now,
God damn it.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I can't think of it. Bad, No big deal.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
We're all better for it.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
The line eight Hi Elliott the morning, Hi, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Campbell?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
John Mellencamp, Get out of my head? Yes Campbell, Yes,
what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But as a.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Parent, we wake up singing, don't talk about Bruno and
have to play it to get it out of our head.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
All right, very good, very good, thank you, ma'am. Yes, Tyler,
with this, do earworms start as a kid?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh yeah, definitely, you think they do. Yeah, I have
a video of a four year old singing Chapel Road
to prove that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh that's true. That's true anyway.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yes, but with this read I guess this is research
or study whatever it was. Yes, where there were there
are new ideas or theories on ways to help you
remove the airworm.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That's the best part of the study.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's the best part of the study, the recommend because
forever what have you heard?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What have you heard?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
To actually listen to it?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
No, no, no, no, that makes it worse. That makes
it worse.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Try to replace it with something else.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yes, yes, I mean I thought this was Diane's tick
from back in the day.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh yeah, no, that's it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
But what is what is the one everybody goes to
if you want to break a song in your head?
Whistle the yeah, yeah you whistled, the Andy Griffith, the yeah,
that's not it.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I mean I don't know. Maybe that does work for.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Something that before, maybe because I heard it from the basement.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
They say, there are two ways.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
The third is to go listen to the song, but
that just seems like it would reinforce it to me.
There's two ways, they say, and again these are just
researchers that are doing it that they found to be
the most effective ways to get rid of it. One,
go talk to a stranger or somebody that you don't
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know that well.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Because you have to like really activate your brain.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
They said that it breaks the part of your brain.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Again, this is all this all comes down to brain
work where it's stored gets thrown off by having to
use that part of your brain to talk to a stranger.
If you go talk to somebody you know, you could
almost still kind of not zone out, but you don't
have to use your full brain. Go introduce yourself to
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a stranger or somebody that you really don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah, give it a shot. Go go
and you play the part the stranger. Okay, she's not
a stranger, I know her, but just okay, it's a
it's a role you were born to play. You're acting
like you don't know Elliott.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Hi, I'm Elliott.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh, hi Diane, nice to meet you.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Perfect. Thanks, It's gone all right.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
For you.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Good.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Are you ready for the other one?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Though?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And this one makes no sense to me at all,
and the researchers don't explain it. I want someone to
try it, whether it's it's Candy with Tipsy, whoever with
uh with Chapel Roan, I don't care me with small
town or you said, or pink Houses?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
And again, it's not whistled the Andy Griffith theme song.
As a matter of fact, they almost dispute that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
In here, but the whistling here.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
The yeah, they almost dispute that in here and say
that that, based on research doesn't really work.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
But you know what does?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Just saying you know what does just gave me a
new earworm, not of you know what does?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But you know who is rod carew.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So now I've got the Hankkah song stuck in my head.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
No, chew a piece of gum.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Because that's also activating something.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It has to because it's all brainwork.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Chewing a piece of gum, they say, is the most
successful way to blow an earworm.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
So here we go.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Don't mind if I pop in a little big red
right now, gone gone, don't even need it.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Phil has had Dave Matthews bands and don't Drink the
Water in my head for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I am so sorry, sir.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I didn't even hear it played somewhere. It just popped
in my head and it is still there. So Phil
needs to either find gum or find strength.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Find a stranger, absolutely and do it fast. Get that
out of your head.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Meanwhile, Alex writes, I have felt so seen the last
couple of mornings earworm every single day, and I'm an Audi.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
So there you go. Problem solved.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Although now I am obsessed with people who wake up
with a song.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
In their head.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, I have never heard it.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Is it like a dream where everybody does? You just
don't pay it. No, I would remember if I woke
up with a song running in my head, not wake
up with my sheets.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So can we the uh? I hate it, but.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
There be it must be a continuation from those last
moments of your your dream like state.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Could be.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, no, it could be. Maybe that's why I don't
because I don't remember my dreams.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Or the other day I met Sammy higher. When I
woke up, I remembered meeting Sammy. We just didn't sing together.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Right, But did you wake up this morning singing mastequila?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I take that over.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
The forever, Young Anything anything, Rod, story, Hi Ellie in
the morning, real quick?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, Hi? Who's this?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
This is Patrick. Listen.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
There's another trick to get rid of these earworms as well.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What's that place with your brains? Just like if you
repeat in your head any word that is pronounced the
same way.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Backward, like mad or mom or whatever, like so a
palindrome civic?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, So if I repeat a palindrome over and over again,
it makes me think of the earworm.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It'll it'll think you won't, you won't think of it,
It'll go away. Listen, who am I to? Are you now?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The researchers didn't point that out, but I could see
maybe where that works. Although I would just be so
easy saying civic civic, civic. I was born in a
small town, like, I could see where my mind would
start to wander at that point. But you know what, listen,
maybe it works. Maybe it works. Introduce yourself to a
stranger who knows.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I thought he was suggesting to say like TOAs Makila
oh Man, I totally forgot what song I was singing.
You get a song stuck in your head. I mean
it's pretty simple, like you just got right how what
number one? Oh that happens to you all the time? Yes,
do you currently have one?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Not right now?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yesterday it was that country rap getting tipsy song.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Oh shaboozy, Yeah, yeah, you know what, Yeah, Shaboozy is tipsy.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, a bar song.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I bet that one's I bet that's a pretty popular.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
One right now.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I was trying to think, like I don't have one
right now, Like when I say right now, like today,
I don't know the last one that I had, I do.
I mean it probably was I do know that over
the weekend because they use shaboozie a lot in or
tipsy a lot, like during college football. So I had
game day on this weekend. So I bet at some
(00:56):
point that popped through my head. But yeah, I would bet.
And by the way, they do say for the most part,
for the most part, it's songs that people like. It's
a song that you've heard recently. They're for the most part,
they are up tempo, catchy songs, or they have long
extended notes.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know which one. They say.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
At the example they gave for long extended notes that
get stuck in people's heads, which I will say, I
don't think has ever been in an earworm for me.
I will always love you by Whitney Houston Wow because
of that long ah. So they'll say that'll get stuck
in yes, sing it, Candy, you got it girl?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
All right?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh no, it's no longer going to be counting. It's
going to be lyrics, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Hold tight one second, Candy, hold on one second for me,
Hold on one thank you, hold on one second.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I can't remember the last one I had. It's been
a while.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I learned yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
There are people that, like I would like, hey, Christian,
will you do favor? Will you find me somebody that
has one? Like right now?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
They do say that when you talk about them, you
tend to get them immediately exactly right.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
No, they do say, like sometimes it's a trigger.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
But to me, that Whitney one's not gonna get suck
in my head now, No, zero, I ever heard that
that the longer a note is held out or sung,
that that sticks in your head.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
They'll say, well, let me go back. I'd love to
talk to someone who has one right now. Like again,
I don't remember the last one it was. I do
remember maybe it was Tipsy from over the weekend that
may have gotten stuck in my head at some point.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And I do like that song. I told you I
want to do something with Shaboozie.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Anyway, the uh, I just remembered my last one?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh what was it? What was?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And well, hold on, let me finish, Let me finish.
They said that sometimes people will get it once a week.
They said a lot of people get an earworm every
single day.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That's kind of a candy.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, it candy kind of alluded to that every single day.
I definitely don't have an earworm every single day.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
No, what does that mean if you have one every
single day?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Nothing like, it's not bad. It's not like they say, like, well,
I'm sorry, go ahead, Diane, what is yours?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Chapel roone?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
That was going to be my example. Oh really, you
can take me hot to go and I have to dance.
That's the worst part. When your earworm has choreography.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I would bet.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I would bet chapel rone is pretty is pretty common
right now the whole catalog, especially not to go.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yes, probably, I would say that's probably.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Up there snapping clap and touch your toes the every day.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That would drive me nuts.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And they say that they happened for and they'll tell
you scientists don't really know or or studiers that's not
what they go by. But people who study it, they
don't really know why it happens. They don't know why
it happens that you bad. No, no, no, nobody.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Said it's bad.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It's it's not like it did something wrong, but they'll
say a lot of times it happens. Number one, when
people start talking about them. Number Two, your mind starts
to wander, and it could be because you're not doing
anything or you're doing something like if somebody is doing
One of the examples they gave is if you're doing
like a puzzle, not not like like literally sitting down
(04:16):
and doing a jigsaw puzzle, but like if you're working
on like a puzzle or playing solitaire or something like that,
that part of your mind will start to wander. The
part that's not focused on the brain is vast, so
it'll start to focus and then all of a sudden
that part of the brain isn't getting used. But that
part of the brain is what stores the earworms, and
(04:37):
then it comes.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
There was a video that one of my friends from
college just sent us. Her child just went to pre
K I believe it was first time this past week,
and his teacher sent her a video of the child
just walking here on the playground with a stick, not
really digging, but just sort of feeling his way around,
(04:58):
and he's humming hot to go oh. And the teachers
thought it was hysterical. But you just and it's mindless activity.
And you hear.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Them, was he doing the choreography?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, the loser, un teach him. Yeah, so the mind,
the mind wanders. It's just kind of again. You could
be focused, but that part of your mind wanders. And
they said for a lot of people that throws them
off because they're like, no, no, no, I'm doing something.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm doing something. Why is that in there? The long note?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I can't think of the only one that comes
to mind because it was in the story is which
has never been ever been an earworm for me neither
Probably it'll get stuck in my head today, but I
can't think of another one that has like a long
drawn out note like that. And then the other one
(05:50):
is it could be like something that reminds you like
they said either a sound or an event. Now the sound,
and I'll just use a use Tipsy for it where
there's that part of the song where it sounds like
he's stomping. If somebody hears like somebody stomping on wood,
it could trigger you to go to like, oh tipsy,
(06:12):
or if it ties to something you did, like for example,
what did I have? Oh, I grilled fish last night,
So maybe the next time that I grill fish, I'll
remember Jackie and I arguing about Dave Grohl. So that'll
get me to some Foo Fighter song. So it could
be something off of that.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Now, would you rather have the daily earworm or would
you rather have the same earworm for multiple days?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I don't think I've had it for multiple days.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't think I've ever had it, gone to bed
and woke up and still I'm getting after it.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I don't feel like mine last that long.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I think I can go a day or two.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
With the same one.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Really, I'll tell you what I'm really about now is
because it was used as the example. But now I
can't get Jack Daniels and I got a history out
of my head.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Because I'll be singing shaboozy all day.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well, a lot of people have good examples.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Oh, give me one, give me one, give me one.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well, actually, you mentioned Josh earlier.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Oh what is it? A loser by Beck? I'm kidding Josh,
I like.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
He said, please, please please. Sabrina Carpenter is a constant
earworm for me.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, you know what I could see that, I could
see that I can see that is it? Is it
regular or does he have? I don't want one every day?
My brain can't handle that, at least the people who
never get them. But that's a popular song. There are
people mentioning songs that are so old. Where are what's
(08:01):
triggering that to pop up in their head on a
regular basis? Give you an example of one of those
Billy Ray ciris. I'm assuming ah he breaky heart?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yes, no, deep cut?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Is it something?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Where there are they on heart medication and they know like, oh,
I have to take my heart medications.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
How I remember?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, And while I'm taking my pills, don't tell my heart.
I don't know. I'm trying to get you there.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Looks like somebody has to choreograph while singing the song
because Kristen's getting after it.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I bet she gets some good ones.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Line six, Hi, Yelli at the morning, Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Hi, who's this? My name is Aleisha, I'm from Merchman.
Yeah you got one. Yeah the YMCA.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
My kid just started daycare there and she.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Didn't know there was a song about it, and so
I played it for her.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And ever since the last week and a half it's.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Been that.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
It's gone to day it.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
All day very good.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I have no I have no fear of that getting
stuck in my head. I have no fear of that.
Thank you man, thank you, thank you. I will say this,
I'd rather it be current than.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Old, so ace of bass would be bad for you?
Well mayeh?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Is that like I'm driving down the freeway and you're like, oh,
there's the sign.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Saw the sign? It opened? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But how did I don't understand how that one comes
into play? Obviously they point out Rick Astley or are
these people saying it gets me to Rick Roll, which
gets me to Foo Fighters and now I'm back fighting
with Jackie because of fish.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Are these people saying when they hear that song, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That it gets stuck? Yes? Maybe I mean that is
part of it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Also, because Tammy writes, I wake up almost every day
with a random song in my head. It may not
say there all day, but there is always a random
one playing in the morning.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
When they wake up. That would drive me nuts.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Do you think that's tied to like the subconscious and dreams?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Do you wake up thinking about a song?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I wake up thinking I hope I make it to
the bathroom. And wow, this one kind of hurts. Like
those are the two things that go through my head,
like I gotta go. I don't wake up with a
song in my head that times. I wake up with
my my sheets soaking wet.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Now I'm now, I got Bruce.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I didn't finish the name. It's that bitch Becky.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
All you heard me say was that bitch?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh? Was I a Mike?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yes, I must be talking about the debate.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
No, that bitch Becky woke up with Forever Young in
her head today Alphaville.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh God, I.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Don't have it cued up. No, I have to find
it here.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
By the way, great song, though, great song. I got
drunk a lot with that song playing in the background.
You know what, that song reminds me of sex on
the beach, not having it bring it? Yeah, I don't
know why, but that song reminds me of sex on
the beach.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Are you sure it's Alphaville?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah? Why who else sang forever Young?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh God?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
This every day this is in your head.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I would kill myself. No the Alphaville song.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
No, that's not it.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Okay, that's rot.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Let me look for it, look for it, Okay, I
have it ready?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Go.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, yes, for.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
That case, she'd probably never sad Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know who else? You used to drink a ton
of sex on.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The beach to this handicap Vince, I haven't couldn't wait,
you're only watching this. I swear to God if this
gets stuck in my head, I swear that God will.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Be angry, though it could be.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh God, what a horrible song? Why would you ever
get a rod horrible? Yes it is, Yes, Elliott, you're
gonna get Rod Stewart unless it's Young Turks because I'm
dancing on the hood of your car and you're gonna
get young Turks.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Okay, but what else?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Here we go?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Great song, great song. I hope this gets stuck in
my head. Many song sounds.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
A little David sit right now?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
The song the.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Pocket somehow, some way, it's gotta get.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I can't where am I going?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Why would just get stuck in anybody? No, it's not,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It is, but I don't need to hear it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But I don't want old song stuck in my head.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Then stop thinking about sir.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Oh, Maggie, Ma, Maggie, No, no, no, although you know
what Maggie may is slow?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You know the song that just popped in my head
for being a slow old song? Pink Houses? Oh God,
I know right? Or is it small town house?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Faster than?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I Will always love you the Remember that song is
just for the long that's just for the long note
which there are no other examples of line eight.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Hi, Elliott the morning?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Is this me?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah? Hi?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Who's this? Hi?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Amanda calling from Tyson's corner?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And by the way, I haven't even gotten to the
best part of this study. Yes, Amanda, what can I
do for you?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I've had a random song stuck in my head, the
theme song to Malcolm in the Middle, don't know why
You're not the boss of me now?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And it's driving me crazy?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
How long?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Wait? How long has that been stuck in your head?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
At least three or four days.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Oh my god, do you always? Do you feel like
you always have an earworm?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, they said that's common, that's common. I don't. Thank God,
Thank God, You're lucky. All right, very good, Thank you, ma'am.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
From Hugh. Like the other listener, I have a song
in my head every morning until I hit the shower.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Say which one was today?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Does not? From danielle O MG. I woke up in
the middle of the night or from sleeping with a
different song playing in my head every morning when I
was pregnant. Oh, Hugh, you.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Got a bun of me of it? Oh and now
I can't think of it now that I think back,
I think the last earworm that I had, But now
I can't think of the I can't think of the
I'm singing it in my head, but I can't think
of the title.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
It was a Morgan Wallin song.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
God damn it very heavy on up bag country right now,
God damn it.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I can't think of it. Bad, No big deal.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
We're all better for it.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
The line eight Hi Elliott the morning, Hi, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Campbell?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
John Mellencamp, Get out of my head? Yes Campbell, Yes,
what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But as a.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Parent, we wake up singing, don't talk about Bruno and
have to play it to get it out of our head.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
All right, very good, very good, thank you, ma'am. Yes, Tyler,
with this, do earworms start as a kid?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh yeah, definitely, you think they do. Yeah, I have
a video of a four year old singing Chapel Road
to prove that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh that's true. That's true anyway.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yes, but with this read I guess this is research
or study whatever it was. Yes, where there were there
are new ideas or theories on ways to help you
remove the airworm.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That's the best part of the study.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's the best part of the study, the recommend because
forever what have you heard?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What have you heard?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
To actually listen to it?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
No, no, no, no, that makes it worse. That makes
it worse.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Try to replace it with something else.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yes, yes, I mean I thought this was Diane's tick
from back in the day.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh yeah, no, that's it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
But what is what is the one everybody goes to
if you want to break a song in your head?
Whistle the yeah, yeah you whistled, the Andy Griffith, the yeah,
that's not it.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I mean I don't know. Maybe that does work for.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Something that before, maybe because I heard it from the basement.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
They say, there are two ways.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
The third is to go listen to the song, but
that just seems like it would reinforce it to me.
There's two ways, they say, and again these are just
researchers that are doing it that they found to be
the most effective ways to get rid of it. One,
go talk to a stranger or somebody that you don't
(17:20):
know that well.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Because you have to like really activate your brain.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
They said that it breaks the part of your brain.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Again, this is all this all comes down to brain
work where it's stored gets thrown off by having to
use that part of your brain to talk to a stranger.
If you go talk to somebody you know, you could
almost still kind of not zone out, but you don't
have to use your full brain. Go introduce yourself to
(17:47):
a stranger or somebody that you really don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah, give it a shot. Go go
and you play the part the stranger. Okay, she's not
a stranger, I know her, but just okay, it's a
it's a role you were born to play. You're acting
like you don't know Elliott.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Hi, I'm Elliott.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh, hi Diane, nice to meet you.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Perfect. Thanks, It's gone all right.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
For you.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Good.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Are you ready for the other one?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Though?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And this one makes no sense to me at all,
and the researchers don't explain it. I want someone to
try it, whether it's it's Candy with Tipsy, whoever with
uh with Chapel Roan, I don't care me with small
town or you said, or pink Houses?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
And again, it's not whistled the Andy Griffith theme song.
As a matter of fact, they almost dispute that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
In here, but the whistling here.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
The yeah, they almost dispute that in here and say
that that, based on research doesn't really work.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
But you know what does?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Just saying you know what does just gave me a
new earworm, not of you know what does?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But you know who is rod carew.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So now I've got the Hankkah song stuck in my head.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
No, chew a piece of gum.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Because that's also activating something.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It has to because it's all brainwork.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Chewing a piece of gum, they say, is the most
successful way to blow an earworm.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
So here we go.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Don't mind if I pop in a little big red
right now, gone gone, don't even need it.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Phil has had Dave Matthews bands and don't Drink the
Water in my head for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I am so sorry, sir.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I didn't even hear it played somewhere. It just popped
in my head and it is still there. So Phil
needs to either find gum or find strength.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Find a stranger, absolutely and do it fast. Get that
out of your head.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Meanwhile, Alex writes, I have felt so seen the last
couple of mornings earworm every single day, and I'm an Audi.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
So there you go. Problem solved.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Although now I am obsessed with people who wake up
with a song.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
In their head.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, I have never heard it.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Is it like a dream where everybody does? You just
don't pay it. No, I would remember if I woke
up with a song running in my head, not wake
up with my sheets.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So can we the uh? I hate it, but.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
There be it must be a continuation from those last
moments of your your dream like state.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Could be.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, no, it could be. Maybe that's why I don't
because I don't remember my dreams.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Or the other day I met Sammy higher. When I
woke up, I remembered meeting Sammy. We just didn't sing together.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Right, But did you wake up this morning singing mastequila?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I take that over.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
The forever, Young Anything anything, Rod, story, Hi Ellie in
the morning, real quick?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, Hi? Who's this?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
This is Patrick. Listen.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
There's another trick to get rid of these earworms as well.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What's that place with your brains? Just like if you
repeat in your head any word that is pronounced the
same way.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Backward, like mad or mom or whatever, like so a
palindrome civic?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, So if I repeat a palindrome over and over again,
it makes me think of the earworm.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It'll it'll think you won't, you won't think of it,
It'll go away. Listen, who am I to? Are you now?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The researchers didn't point that out, but I could see
maybe where that works. Although I would just be so
easy saying civic civic, civic. I was born in a
small town, like, I could see where my mind would
start to wander at that point. But you know what, listen,
maybe it works. Maybe it works. Introduce yourself to a
stranger who knows.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I thought he was suggesting to say like TOAs Makila
oh Man, I totally forgot what song I was singing.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
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